1804 - "Mucho Retardo"

Speaker 1 I love it. I'm a momma pig.

Speaker 2 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.

Speaker 3 It's Thursday, October 2nd, 2025.

Speaker 4 This is your award-winning Get On Nation Media Assassination episode 1804.

Speaker 5 This is no agenda.

Speaker 5 No shutdown here.

Speaker 6 We're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number six.

Speaker 9 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 5 And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's now apparent that bald people only hire bald people.

Speaker 13 I'm john c dvorak is craig bottom buzzkill in the morning well that's an interesting little tidbit

Speaker 5 i don't know if it's true well did you look at the military gathering there in uh washington dc it's like everybody's every guy every general every admiral's bald correlation is not causation It's like when you, before TSA became TSA, the modern TSA after Homeland Security, after the 9-11, it was all Filipinos.

Speaker 5 In San Francisco, they would just hire each other.

Speaker 5 Or are you getting a company, a gay guy goes in there as a head of personnel, boom, the whole company's gay? Like, apples.

Speaker 5 This is the

Speaker 19 cabal.

Speaker 5 It's the cabal. It's like you're gay.
You're bald. You say, you know,

Speaker 5 I like the way you look.

Speaker 16 I'm going to give you the.

Speaker 20 Wait a minute.

Speaker 22 Could the military all be bald, gay guys?

Speaker 23 Anything's possible.

Speaker 5 Well, that's good.

Speaker 5 Well, I wasn't going there, but it's possible, yeah, I guess.

Speaker 26 Well, isn't that the definition of why we need affirmative action to get people with hair back into the military?

Speaker 5 I don't think that was the reason. Oh, okay.

Speaker 21 Well, I was quite amazed when I saw your clips come in this morning because I saw the return of a feature we have not had for several months.

Speaker 5 Yes, it's because this feature is produced by Steve Jones.

Speaker 23 Ah, the clip collector.

Speaker 30 Indeed.

Speaker 31 Shall we roll it out since we're talking about bald guys?

Speaker 18 Yeah, hold on a second.

Speaker 12 Hold on. Hold on, hold on.

Speaker 16 No, we got to do the jingle, man.

Speaker 33 Experiment, but

Speaker 34 we're not going to be comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC.

Speaker 16 Never-ending 3x3.

Speaker 12 You've got to have the jingle. I mean, that's the whole point.

Speaker 5 And of course, the point of the 3x3 is that these guys can't do any independent reporting. It's all pretty much the same from different people.
Here we go. Let's start with which he was just picking.

Speaker 5 Yeah, NBC. NBC.

Speaker 35 The topic was shrouded in secrecy beforehand, and security was tight. Some of the nation's most senior military leaders ordered to board buses at 3.30 a.m.

Speaker 35 and then wait hours for the event to begin, according to defense officials.

Speaker 38 This speech today is about people

Speaker 39 and it's about culture.

Speaker 35 Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth telling generals and admirals who'd flown in from all over the world to get on board with a series of changes.

Speaker 38 If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink,

Speaker 38 then you should do the honorable thing and resign.

Speaker 35 The new standards include new grooming rules that prohibit beards and a requirement that everyone in combat roles must meet the highest male standard for physical fitness, a change that could impact women in uniform.

Speaker 38 If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.

Speaker 35 He also plans to overhaul equal opportunity programs and the role of the Inspector General.

Speaker 35 New recruits could also see changes, lifting restrictions on how far drill instructors can go.

Speaker 38 They can swear, and yes, they can put their hands on recruits. This does not mean they can be reckless or violate the law, but they can use tried and true methods to motivate

Speaker 5 new recruits.

Speaker 35 Retired Lieutenant General Mark Hurtling is concerned about the impact all of it may have on troops.

Speaker 48 To hear the kinds of things that came out of the

Speaker 48 Secretary's mouth shows that he doesn't really respect them as contributors to the combat arms or fighting our nation's wars.

Speaker 35 President Trump today endorsing Hag Seth's speech and repeating his ultimatum.

Speaker 49 I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.

Speaker 50 Now, a couple of things.

Speaker 52 First observation, and I'm quite sure the president will be mad about this.

Speaker 54 The continuous hum and buzz in the audio was just atrocious.

Speaker 55 It was across the board.

Speaker 56 The president does not like that.

Speaker 5 No, he doesn't.

Speaker 5 He gets irked about it. He knows it's not good because it's not good for clippage.

Speaker 57 The no agenda show.

Speaker 21 It's not good for the no agenda show.

Speaker 16 My boys.

Speaker 56 And the other, just a local observation is when we elected a new sheriff here in Gillespie County, new sheriff,

Speaker 63 my buddy, Mike, who you know Mike because I've talked about him.

Speaker 65 He is the former Kerville cop with anger management issues.

Speaker 16 Oh, yes.

Speaker 27 He's now the lieutenant.

Speaker 20 And the first thing he did was no beards.

Speaker 68 And get rid of the fat guts.

Speaker 16 It's like a thing.

Speaker 70 This was not surprising to me.

Speaker 73 And let me tell you, when it comes to the Fredericksburg Police Department, although he has no jurisdiction over that, we're certainly over the Sheriff's Department.

Speaker 16 Yeah, we had fat sheriffs waddling around.

Speaker 75 And it's like PT, everybody, mandatory PT, height and weight.

Speaker 77 We got to get in shape and we got to look good for the public.

Speaker 27 That seems like not a very crazy thing, but everyone was so upset about it.

Speaker 12 Oh, no. Yeah.

Speaker 5 The thing they left out of that clippage was the Hexeth going on about how embarrassing it is to have a bunch of fat admirals in the Pentagon.

Speaker 11 I have that clip for later if you want it.

Speaker 5 Well, let's go to that was NBC. That was NBC.

Speaker 82 ABC it is.

Speaker 83 In an unprecedented meeting,

Speaker 83 which the former weekend Fox and Friends host broadcast live.

Speaker 7 I love this.

Speaker 16 I love.

Speaker 84 Actually, I think in my clip.

Speaker 85 Gradnitz is over.

Speaker 5 She's a drama queen.

Speaker 86 In my clip, I think they said Fox News weekend host.

Speaker 21 Did she say weekend host just to annihilate him?

Speaker 83 In an unprecedented meeting, which the former weekend Fox informed

Speaker 83 Secretary Pete Hegseth warning hundreds of combat-tested generals, admirals, and senior officers.

Speaker 87 They're not all combat-tested.

Speaker 28 I don't think that's true.

Speaker 66 Can't you receive

Speaker 32 that?

Speaker 12 It's impossible.

Speaker 5 Half of them are just desk jockeys.

Speaker 83 Flown in from around the world that the military under his leadership will be dramatically changed.

Speaker 38 No more identity months, DEI offices.

Speaker 27 Now the audio is really bad.

Speaker 84 I could not get past this.

Speaker 88 Dudes in dresses. Yeah.

Speaker 38 No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions.
No more debris.

Speaker 89 We are done with that.

Speaker 83 While the generals and admirals sat largely silent through the speech, Hegseth said military fitness and standards will be enforced. No more fat generals or admirals, he said.

Speaker 38 I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men.

Speaker 83 For those ground combat roles which women have been performing for more than a decade, the high male standard will now be the norm.

Speaker 38 If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.

Speaker 83 But Hegseth was not just talking personnel, but policy. The rules of engagement meant to protect civilians and non-combatants, those, he said, have become too politically correct.

Speaker 91 We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement.

Speaker 38 We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.

Speaker 83 President Trump then took the stage to address the officers.

Speaker 49 And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.

Speaker 83 Telling his audience of some of the most experienced warfighters in the generation, the military should practice on American cities.

Speaker 49 I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for

Speaker 49 our military.

Speaker 16 The trolling still works.

Speaker 29 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 64 It still works.

Speaker 21 Yeah, we're going to throw them into the cities, man.

Speaker 94 We're going to train there.

Speaker 67 Urban combat warfare.

Speaker 16 Train in the cities.

Speaker 75 I would stop the show.

Speaker 95 I'm like, I'm sorry, generals, you got to wait for a second.

Speaker 22 We got a ground loop here.

Speaker 5 Is that the end of that clip?

Speaker 96 Yes, the end of the clip.

Speaker 57 And it the same way as OBC.

Speaker 94 Did CBS do anything different?

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 5 not generally speaking, but CBS,

Speaker 5 I'm pushing these toward the end because CBS is the one that's on the short leash.

Speaker 98 Oh, right.

Speaker 5 The company's been taken over by Paramount. So they're at the, it's like the, I'm going to get fired anyway, so let's just say what I feel like.

Speaker 99 Nearly 800 of America's top military leaders were summoned from around the globe.

Speaker 52 Wow, he didn't use the warfighters meme.

Speaker 27 Disappointing.

Speaker 99 Apolitical officers who remained silent as their commander-in-chief took the stage and offered this greeting.

Speaker 49 You can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank.
There goes your future.

Speaker 99 That set the tone for more awkward moments to come.

Speaker 16 Did they all laugh when he said that?

Speaker 21 I keep hearing it.

Speaker 60 It sounds to me like they're laughing when he says that.

Speaker 5 I watched the thing and I didn't notice that they were laughing at

Speaker 5 the micing that I heard.

Speaker 5 That may have been sweetened.

Speaker 98 I noticed that I networked it too.

Speaker 30 Everybody, no, ABC had it too.

Speaker 101 They all had the same.

Speaker 102 Maybe it's just compressed noise. I don't know.

Speaker 99 Stage and offered this greeting.

Speaker 49 You can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank.
There goes your future.

Speaker 99 That set the tone for more awkward moments to come, including the president's suggestion that dangerous U.S.

Speaker 99 cities like those where National Guard are currently deployed should be used as training grounds for U.S. troops.

Speaker 49 This is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. It's a war, too.
It's a war from within.

Speaker 99 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth opened the meeting and ripped into diversity initiatives put in place by previous administrations.

Speaker 5 He said that the troops are going to be used in the cities as if it was a done deal. And Trump just said it as kind of a joke, a troll.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 5 But then, but according to the CBS, no, that's what's going to happen.

Speaker 5 Which was not asserted by anybody.

Speaker 20 No.

Speaker 21 But he did, but they did include the line, this is a war from within, which to me was the entire reason for the change to the Department of War.

Speaker 9 Can we treat each state as an individual, you know, like 60-day, does the timer reset for each state?

Speaker 105 We have a war?

Speaker 14 Just asking for a friend.

Speaker 99 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth opened the meeting and ripped into diversity initiatives put in place by previous administrations.

Speaker 38 No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship.
No more division, distraction, or gender delusions.

Speaker 99 That includes, he said, a return to the highest male physical fitness standards.

Speaker 38 I don't want my son

Speaker 38 serving alongside troops who are out of shape. or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men.

Speaker 99 And he took aim at the highest ranking officers.

Speaker 38 It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world.

Speaker 106 It's a bad look.

Speaker 99 Vermont Democrat Peter Welch said the meeting was unnecessary and a bad idea.

Speaker 107 It's a further effort to politicize the military. It's very, very alarming.

Speaker 101 There is no reason to bring all of these people at enormous taxpayer expense to Washington

Speaker 107 to get a pep talk.

Speaker 99 Hagset told the audience they could disagree with him, but.

Speaker 38 If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink,

Speaker 38 then you should do the honorable thing and resign.

Speaker 29 Yeah, well, it's interesting.

Speaker 109 I want to get all bent out of shape over that.

Speaker 73 Over the costs, please, Congress.

Speaker 111 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 84 The cost of flying them all in.

Speaker 112 Congress takes military aircraft all the time.

Speaker 10 Yeah, and

Speaker 5 the military aircraft are going there anyway.

Speaker 64 Hit your ride.

Speaker 57 Hit your ride.

Speaker 115 Well, there were a couple other things that took place

Speaker 118 around the military and

Speaker 119 this

Speaker 97 meeting.

Speaker 73 I think this is from this is John Berman from Anderson Pooper 360.

Speaker 92 Some remarkable new reporting tonight on Defense Secretary Pete Hex's

Speaker 12 battle with his own story. Remarkable new reporting.

Speaker 66 It's not just new reporting. It's not just reporting.

Speaker 121 It's remarkable new reporting.

Speaker 92 Some remarkable new reporting tonight on Defense Secretary Pete Hex's long-running battle with his own staff and top advisors, as well as the country's top military commanders.

Speaker 92 It comes by the way of the Washington Post. There's the headline.
Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs NDAs to staunch leaks.

Speaker 92 Random testing and quoting from the report, all military service members, civilian employees, and contract workers within the Office of the Defense Secretary and the Joint Staff, estimated to be more than 5,000 personnel, would be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement that prohibits the release of non-public information without approval or through a defined process.

Speaker 78 What are we going to do for our sources?

Speaker 92 That's according to a draft memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg.

Speaker 12 Now the policy plan is laid out.

Speaker 66 No, of course it's not new, but there's a kicker at the end.

Speaker 92 polygraph testing because he believed Admiral Grady was leaking to undermine him.

Speaker 92 Also that his office had rolled out a policy earlier this year requiring Pentagon officials across the service to sign nine non-disclosure agreements before being read in on projects, initiatives, and other work products.

Speaker 92 And yes, it appears that all of this from us and from the Post was leaked.

Speaker 122 That's why it's remarkable.

Speaker 11 I get it.

Speaker 5 It was leaked.

Speaker 109 Now, the president.

Speaker 97 That's good.

Speaker 78 The president also gave us an update.

Speaker 9 I'm not sure if this was before, during, or after.

Speaker 28 It was the same podium.

Speaker 20 On

Speaker 124 On the Golden Dome.

Speaker 29 You know, this is

Speaker 16 our security blanket all around the country.

Speaker 27 The Golden Dome, everybody.

Speaker 49 And we've begun construction of what we call the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield. It'll be the most sophisticated in the world.

Speaker 49 You watched it do well until they had some problems at the end with a little bit of a lack of

Speaker 49 ammunition.

Speaker 29 What is he talking about here?

Speaker 22 Did we miss an update that they had a little bit of a problem?

Speaker 125 Was there an attack that wasn't thwarted?

Speaker 16 Because we had a lack of anyways talking about it.

Speaker 5 It must be inside stuff for people.

Speaker 57 I think so.

Speaker 5 Like one of those little message you word to the wise kind of thing that we don't know.

Speaker 49 It's defensive ammunition, but they've got that taken care of. But I tell you,

Speaker 49 what we're doing is so good, and we deserve it.

Speaker 49 We help other countries with it. We don't have it ourselves.

Speaker 49 And Canada called me a couple of weeks ago. They want to be part of it.

Speaker 49 To which I said, well, why don't you just join our country? You become 51, become the 51st state, and you get it for free.

Speaker 12 Free!

Speaker 49 So I don't know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense.

Speaker 49 It actually makes because they're having a hard time up there in Canada now, because, as you know, with tariffs, everyone's coming into our country. We have

Speaker 49 more investment than we've ever had before. $17 trillion coming in.
As an example, in four years, Biden didn't have $1 trillion.

Speaker 49 We have 17 trillion more than that in eight months coming in. Where's my check? And they're coming in from Canada, Mexico, from Europe, from all over.
AI,

Speaker 49 auto plants. Everybody's coming back to the United States.

Speaker 119 17 trillion.

Speaker 69 Okay. Well,

Speaker 102 that sounds interesting.

Speaker 31 And then my favorite part of the summit was the stare-bopping.

Speaker 49 We're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength. We have great peace through strength.
America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden.

Speaker 49 They looked at him falling downstairs every day. Every day, the guy's falling downstairs.
I said, it's not our president. We can't have it.

Speaker 49 I'm very careful. You know, when I walk downstairs,

Speaker 49 like I'm on stairs, like these stairs,

Speaker 49 I walk very slowly.

Speaker 49 Nobody has to set a record.

Speaker 49 Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well.

Speaker 12 And it laughed.

Speaker 49 A few of our presidents have fallen and it's became a part of their legacy. We don't want that.
You just walk nice and easy.

Speaker 49 You don't have to set any record. Be cool.
Be cool when you walk down, but don't

Speaker 49 bop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs.
I've never said, da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da, bop, bop, bop.

Speaker 49 He'd go down the stairs, wouldn't hold on a shit.

Speaker 49 It's great. I don't want to do it.
I guess I could do it. But eventually, bad things are going to happen.
And it only takes once.

Speaker 49 But he did a lousy job as president.

Speaker 104 That just bafflingly funny.

Speaker 34 Like, just, you know, gives a shout-out to Obama. I didn't have respect for him as president, but man, he could walk stairs.

Speaker 112 That guy was great at walking stairs.

Speaker 104 Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bopping down.

Speaker 57 It was it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he's dancing up there.

Speaker 7 Was it President Ford who also tripped?

Speaker 5 Ford tripped more than once. Once it happens twice, you're done.

Speaker 12 You're toasty.

Speaker 101 You're labeled.

Speaker 86 You're labeled as as a stair-tripper.

Speaker 81 And then Reuters, a fine

Speaker 66 North Sea Nexus outfit, came up with this little diddy.

Speaker 129 Another part of the Pentagon's push to reshape the armed forces involves tapping Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are turning their talents to military tech.

Speaker 129 That is the Bullfrog, an AI-powered machine gun that tracks and shoots down drones.

Speaker 129 It's built by Allen Control Systems, founded by Steve Simoni, a former Silicon Valley star who sold his startup to DoorDash for $125 million.

Speaker 129 Defense and space reporter David Jeans has more now on the entrepreneurs creating the future of warfare.

Speaker 132 I think what they bring with them is they have a higher tolerance for risk, a higher tolerance for failure, and a higher tolerance for raising hype around their companies.

Speaker 132 They also bring with them a new energy to this space, which has disrupted the traditional prime contractors like Boeing and Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.

Speaker 129 David says that what's been most striking is the speed at which Silicon Valley has shifted.

Speaker 132 It was only in recent years that people were protesting military companies and military work, and now Silicon Valley and its investors are all in on a more patriotic and more military-focused approach.

Speaker 132 I think that that has come with the understanding that the world is starting to feel like a less safe place. And there's also an understanding that the U.S.

Speaker 132 military is largely unprepared for the future of warfare and that Silicon Valley believes that it has the answer to help it modernize.

Speaker 27 Well, what Silicon Valley also brings is the scam.

Speaker 5 Oh, the scam angle, yeah.

Speaker 21 And the scam,

Speaker 101 we've discussed this many times before, but the scam angle in Silicon Valley, probably before the AI

Speaker 73 rush, was we just got to get users.

Speaker 66 Well, it's still the same, of course, with AI rush.

Speaker 31 Eyeballs.

Speaker 137 Eyeballs.

Speaker 21 You need eyeballs. We'll make it up on volume.

Speaker 27 Don't worry about it.

Speaker 73 So right before the board meeting, where you're about to ask for more money, you go to some of these companies called Monopoly and I forget all the names.

Speaker 139 And you buy eyeballs.

Speaker 9 And they come by your site.

Speaker 78 And look at these stats.

Speaker 31 We're hockey sticking.

Speaker 70 Which are the writing up? We need more money.

Speaker 43 We need more money to be able to cover it.

Speaker 71 It's going great.

Speaker 20 So Silicon Valley,

Speaker 140 they're doing the scam.

Speaker 72 And it's working out pretty well.

Speaker 17 Denmark is the main target because they've got the money, apparently.

Speaker 41 Denmark is on high alert after reporting several drone incursions in recent weeks. 35 French soldiers are already on the ground.
France, the US, and Sweden have also sent anti-drone systems.

Speaker 41 But for many Danes, the deployment only underlines their country's military vulnerability.

Speaker 41 Some residents are now bracing for the worst.

Speaker 141 Listen to this.

Speaker 141 Listen to this.

Speaker 41 Sarah just bought one of the survival kits distributed by the Danish government.

Speaker 12 Literally, it is a water, a foldable water bag.

Speaker 67 It's a cracker.

Speaker 77 And a radio flashlight.

Speaker 41 Earlier in the year, people in the EU were advised to stockpile enough food, water, and essentials for 72 hours, part of a strategy to increase readiness in the event of a military attack or other national crises.

Speaker 39 I got quite scared, and I really wanted to do something.

Speaker 142 Tad had a little less anxiety feeling.

Speaker 41 The anxiety isn't unfounded. Four times last week, two mysterious drones were spotted at the military bases and airports across the country.
Mysterious.

Speaker 41 At the same time, three ships with Russian links were spotted on the

Speaker 41 East Coast. Investigations are ongoing, but authorities say they may have served as launch pads.

Speaker 41 The mothership is among Europe's biggest donors to Ukraine and also hosts a factory that produces fuel for its long-range missiles.

Speaker 55 This is incredible bullcrap Silicon Valley scam.

Speaker 5 I have two clips on this.

Speaker 27 Well, let me play my final clip and then because the PSYOP is paying off.

Speaker 55 Well, actually, what are your clips?

Speaker 12 What are your clips?

Speaker 5 These are from the Morning Edition on NPR.

Speaker 125 Oh, yeah, good.

Speaker 67 Yeah, let's play these.

Speaker 108 This is good.

Speaker 5 And it's after the drones. This is...

Speaker 5 I don't know how you can get...

Speaker 5 You know, the Danes are supposed to be the happiest people on Earth.

Speaker 16 Was that the Danes?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it was the Danes. Or the Norwegians.

Speaker 9 I can't remember.

Speaker 5 No, no, no. It was the Danes.
The Norwegians are happy, but they're depressed.

Speaker 12 They take a lot of people. A lot of answers are happy.

Speaker 12 They're happy. They're happy.

Speaker 5 But it seems to me if they're happy, they're so happy and they just turn on a dime into being

Speaker 5 afraid of their own shadow.

Speaker 78 I need a radio flashlight

Speaker 81 with a hand crank.

Speaker 5 This is the part one.

Speaker 145 The U.S. and other countries in NATO have sent military troops and equipment to Denmark to protect its capital while hosting meetings with European Union leaders starting today.

Speaker 145 Ukraine even sent some help, too. A week of flights by unidentified drones caused fear that Russia might be involved, but no proof.

Speaker 145 Terry Schultz reports from Copenhagen that many Danes are rethinking their personal security.

Speaker 147 The Danish government still can't say who staged the mysterious drone flights every day and night for a week.

Speaker 119 It's a script now.

Speaker 136 Mysterious drone flights.

Speaker 17 It's the same as my clip.

Speaker 148 It's all mysterious.

Speaker 17 With ship maybe launched from ships with links to Russia.

Speaker 7 Sausage links?

Speaker 147 With NATO allies and Ukrainian experts now rushing to protect the capital, it's harder to tell people not to be afraid. Instead, Justice Minister Peter Homogard warns them, this is their new reality.

Speaker 28 We will be in a situation that is also similar to this one again.

Speaker 150 That That is the nature of hybrid warfare.

Speaker 126 Because we couldn't pronounce them anyway.

Speaker 147 Given the widespread panic.

Speaker 152 I live very near the airport, so every night these helicopters and stuff are going around and around.

Speaker 140 I really need to sleep.

Speaker 152 I have to

Speaker 10 around my house all night.

Speaker 147 She's not the only one whose nerves are afraid.

Speaker 47 Everybody is talking about it.

Speaker 152 Are they worried? Very worried. I am.
My kids are. My family are.
We make these emergency plans. What do we do? So we actually, we prepped, we prepared.

Speaker 147 That meant, she said, checking their canned food supply, stocking up on water, and reviewing their plan with other family members in case physical evacuation is needed.

Speaker 69 Oh, man.

Speaker 82 I have a...

Speaker 27 Before we play the second clip, I have a boots on the ground from one of our producers, Paul, in Denmark.

Speaker 21 First of all, Copenhagen is gridlocked and helicopters are flying overhead all the time because of the stupid EU summit.

Speaker 59 They're all at Christiansborg, the Parliament Palace, so Slotzhormen is closed off, and then some stuff is happening in Friedrichstadt, where Amalienborg and a lot of organizations, embassies are.

Speaker 25 Conversations with people the last few days gave me the following points.

Speaker 16 Nobody believes anything.

Speaker 78 So I don't know where they got these Danes, but nobody believes anything.

Speaker 67 Because

Speaker 30 the leaders, Marie Meta Fredriksen and

Speaker 30 Lars Lokoras Ramusson, all point to Russia straight away while police and defense forces still maintain they don't know who it was.

Speaker 143 And organized crime is an actual possibility.

Speaker 21 So it's like, you know, I don't know where they got these scared Danes from, but that doesn't seem to be the boots on the ground situation.

Speaker 5 Well, this is the messaging that that they're trying to do then.

Speaker 155 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So this has been orchestrated. You have clips.
You had a clip of it. I got two clips of it.
Well, let me. So there's somebody behind it for a reason.
We don't know what the reason is.

Speaker 156 Oh, no, we do. Of course.

Speaker 5 Oh, there's a sell more junk. Yes.

Speaker 157 EU leaders that gathered in Copenhagen on Wednesday gave broad support to proposals to ramp up the development of drone and anti-drone technology.

Speaker 157 Ahead of the meeting, the European Commission released a document which outlines four projects that it believes need to be financed and implemented as a matter of urgency.

Speaker 78 We need money right away.

Speaker 6 We're all here meeting anyway. It's not a coincidence.

Speaker 23 The drones and mysterious drones launched from ships that have links to Russia.

Speaker 12 We need money!

Speaker 157 The summit and proposal come as Europe faced a series of airspace violations in recent weeks.

Speaker 158 So we have to create a European ecosystem that will enable Europe to develop cutting-edge drone solutions.

Speaker 121 Yeah. Inspired by what they are doing in Ukraine already.

Speaker 157 The leaders also discussed a proposal which outlines the use of immobilized Russian assets to loan money to Ukraine.

Speaker 157 Under the plan, Ukraine would repay the loan after Moscow agrees to compensate for damages.

Speaker 12 Oh, sure.

Speaker 157 The Commission would repay Euroclear, which would repay Russia.

Speaker 160 We are not confiscating the assets, but we are taking the cash balances for loan to Ukraine.

Speaker 160 Ukraine has to pay back this loan if Russia pays pays reparations.

Speaker 157 The plan earned broad support but was met with resistance by Belgian Prime Minister Bertewievich.

Speaker 157 Von der Leyen sought to assure his reservations and clarified Belgium cannot be the only member state to carry risks.

Speaker 138 They've had their eye on this money for so long.

Speaker 78 They want this money so bad.

Speaker 126 They finally have figured out a way and it's the best plan ever.

Speaker 17 We'll slush fund it through Ukraine.

Speaker 15 We'll put it in our pockets.

Speaker 63 Because what are we really talking about?

Speaker 9 Some jamming devices.

Speaker 136 These are all little tiny dumb drones.

Speaker 20 And, you know, the 803 maybe get through.

Speaker 84 So it doesn't seem like we already need, we already have some kind of defenses. And oh, by the way, if this whole thing comes to an end, Ukraine's on the hook.

Speaker 50 You guys pay for it.

Speaker 16 We're going to take it.

Speaker 125 This is theft.

Speaker 67 To me, it seems obvious.

Speaker 86 Stealing this money.

Speaker 65 But, you know, we're not taking Russia's money.

Speaker 86 No, we're just loaning loaning it to Ukraine.

Speaker 8 But, you know, if there's a ceasefire, if there's a peace deal, Ukraine will pay it back

Speaker 27 from Russia's own money, from their own reparations.

Speaker 71 Give me a break.

Speaker 18 This isn't.

Speaker 98 It's great.

Speaker 5 It's such a scam. It's how you do it, I guess.

Speaker 12 It's like, wow, come on.

Speaker 16 This is creative bookkeeping.

Speaker 5 Very creative.

Speaker 108 Very, very creative.

Speaker 138 All right. Do we need to play your other morning edition clip?

Speaker 108 Are we good at that?

Speaker 5 The other one,

Speaker 5 there's the two about

Speaker 5 the drones. The other ones are different.

Speaker 12 If you want to play

Speaker 5 changing the topic,

Speaker 147 like other Nordic governments, Denmark urges citizens to store enough supplies to survive a minimum of three days with no access to electricity, food, or fresh water.

Speaker 147 Since the drones first appeared, what do they expect to happen?

Speaker 24 And how is this going to stop the drones?

Speaker 7 At least I've got water.

Speaker 30 At least I've got a candy bar and a flashlight radio.

Speaker 5 That's silly.

Speaker 124 I mean,

Speaker 66 give me a starlink or something.

Speaker 1 You know, this is dumb. Yeah, that would be usable.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 147 Sales associate Peter Sandel said 20-liter containers of water were going fast.

Speaker 109 Like hot cases.

Speaker 147 this, and this full Alejandra and Alexander snagged the last camping stove on the store's shelf.

Speaker 147 They said until now they'd half-heartedly followed the government advice on stockpiling, but the airspace incursions were a wake-up call.

Speaker 33 We bought like all the water and all that was before the drones.

Speaker 37 So now with the drones, we were like, oh, we need to give the last stuff

Speaker 165 on the list.

Speaker 147 It's been a jolt for Danish authorities as well, says Jakob Hallgren with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

Speaker 147 Sweden also went through a period like this shortly after the start of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, he explains, and invested a lot in renovating and expanding its network of bomb shelters.

Speaker 147 Halgren advises the Danish government to do the same.

Speaker 166 Living in Denmark, you might have kind of thought that you were shielded from these developments, but this is obviously no longer the case. So

Speaker 166 if they haven't, it's really high time to make sure that those shelters are repaired and that there is proper information about where you can find them.

Speaker 147 In the meantime, Trine says she knows what she'd like to do about those disruptive drones. She joked to her policeman husband, she'd like to borrow one of his weapons.

Speaker 152 And then my daughter, she's 20, she said, oh, okay, give her pursuit.

Speaker 147 She emphasizes she was kidding, but she hopes the Danish government does decide to shoot the drones down if they show up again.

Speaker 96 Oh, man.

Speaker 34 You know what?

Speaker 77 I can almost predict what's going to happen next.

Speaker 68 President Trump is going to come out with, well, you got to give give us Greenland if you want to be safe.

Speaker 13 You can almost predict.

Speaker 5 That's a good one. You can almost predict that.
That would be a terrific move.

Speaker 56 But, you know, you want to be safe.

Speaker 70 Like, we can expand the Golden Dome to Greenland.

Speaker 16 And we'll give you a little annex over to Denmark.

Speaker 141 This is...

Speaker 16 I mean, well, I don't believe that.

Speaker 52 I think they've just got a bunch of numb nuts because of our boots on the ground.

Speaker 27 Like, no one believes it.

Speaker 16 They all think it's bullcrap.

Speaker 68 The drones have flashing red lights.

Speaker 27 Yeah, that's what I'm going to do if I'm Russia. I'm going to send a mysterious drone over and announce it with the big flashing red light.

Speaker 109 I'm a drone.

Speaker 18 I'm a drone. I'm a drone.

Speaker 5 You know, the funny thing is about it, they're all freaked out about the bomb shelters and all the rest.

Speaker 5 And like the clip we played in the last show where they talk about the Russians launched 900 drones

Speaker 5 into Ukraine and three people were killed.

Speaker 5 And I brought up, I keep bringing up

Speaker 82 this

Speaker 5 lack of consistency with or logic. You said 900 drones to kill three people?

Speaker 5 What is Denmark worried about?

Speaker 7 They got enough people.

Speaker 16 How many people do they have?

Speaker 5 I don't know what their population is, but it doesn't matter with four or five drones compared to 900.

Speaker 119 Yeah, it seems...

Speaker 5 It seems rather odd. And they're worried that they think they're going to attack Copenhagen.

Speaker 105 Why?

Speaker 28 Well, because they have a monarchy, you know,

Speaker 102 North Sea Nexus.

Speaker 108 They're under attack.

Speaker 5 I mean, I really have no idea.

Speaker 5 And by the way, that stupid clip you played earlier about

Speaker 5 that automated machine gun that uses an AI-ish

Speaker 5 pop the drones out of the sky. That thing will take out a flock of geese and it'll become the most controversial product ever.

Speaker 7 Oh, look, look at this. There's 100 geese.

Speaker 5 They're all dead. They're trying to go down south.

Speaker 114 Well, I hadn't thought about that.

Speaker 29 But it's, I mean, isn't it obvious?

Speaker 5 It definitely killed birds.

Speaker 21 But isn't it obvious to people that the European Union meets in Copenhagen?

Speaker 169 I don't even know why they would go there.

Speaker 141 They've got offices.

Speaker 12 It's a pretty town.

Speaker 111 That's why.

Speaker 77 They got offices in Luxembourg.

Speaker 11 They got offices in

Speaker 12 Luxembourg. None of these.

Speaker 5 Copenhagen is one of the prettiest. If anyone wants to travel, they speak a lot of English there, and Copenhagen is one of the prettiest towns in the world.

Speaker 80 Yes.

Speaker 26 So they went there for a fun, a fun time, and then they brought out some drones.

Speaker 9 I could have flown that drone over the airport.

Speaker 168 Who knows who's doing that?

Speaker 8 It's the same thing as the New Jersey drones.

Speaker 12 Oh, launch.

Speaker 143 It could be some Jokers launched from the Chinese mothership.

Speaker 7 And we fell for it.

Speaker 114 I mean, we didn't, but we didn't fall for it.

Speaker 21 But the people on the East Coast did.

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah, we want to know.

Speaker 5 But didn't panic like these guys.

Speaker 28 They weren't getting water and diving into the bomb shelters.

Speaker 12 No, water. That's true.

Speaker 16 And radio, flashlight radios.

Speaker 97 Come on.

Speaker 5 The hand crank, the hand cranks.

Speaker 7 Yeah, hand crank.

Speaker 18 Of course.

Speaker 34 Of course, someone had a China had another stockpile of those.

Speaker 20 Throw them out. Give them to them.

Speaker 5 Got to get rid of these things.

Speaker 117 Yeah. The PSYOPs are good today.

Speaker 34 I mean, can I just take a little

Speaker 108 detour?

Speaker 14 Just a quick one with two clips.

Speaker 27 Because we identified the PSYOPS taking place through Discord.

Speaker 5 Oh, yes. yes, yeah.

Speaker 20 And it's now everywhere.

Speaker 8 They even have a name, and although they don't mention Discord in this first report, they flash on the screen a Discord login.

Speaker 110 Listen to this.

Speaker 27 This is Morocco.

Speaker 170 After our crowd disperses in the city of Wedgeda in the northeast of Morocco, a police van drives straight into protesters, injuring one of them.

Speaker 170 An incident that happened on the fourth day of national protests, which show no sign of dying down.

Speaker 170 Initial peaceful gatherings called for a reform of the education system and improvements to health care which protesters say the government has been neglecting.

Speaker 170 Protesters by now greater in number on Tuesday night clashed with security forces in several cities across the country.

Speaker 170 Demonstrators threw stones at police who responded with dozens of arrests

Speaker 170 Here close to Agadir vehicles were overturned or set alight.

Speaker 170 Violence that Morocco's Association for the Defence of Human Rights condemned.

Speaker 131 The violence and repression we've seen in the past few days are really unprecedented. For the first time since at least the 1980s, the youth can't even protest.
They're being repressed.

Speaker 131 Disperse before they can even assemble and chant their slogans.

Speaker 170 The protest movement's organisers, the little-known collective Gen Z two hundred twelve, have also called for calm.

Speaker 170 And in a communique issued on Tuesday night, Morocco's coalition government said it would listen to the protesters' demands and that it was willing to respond in a positive and responsible manner.

Speaker 21 So this is the new group, Gen Z212.

Speaker 75 They activate these kids on Discord, and they're doing the same thing in Madagascar.

Speaker 172 Under mounting pressure from the streets, Madagascan President Andre Razoel says he's dissolving the government. The leader forced to take action after several days of protests across the country.

Speaker 31 Maybe we haven't lived up to your expectations or listened to your cries or your fears.

Speaker 172 What began as a youth-led movement against frequent power and water cuts quickly grew into a larger wave of discontent.

Speaker 19 The president just keeps lying. He doesn't listen to us.
All we want is for him to step down. We want change.

Speaker 79 Change and hope.

Speaker 172 At the forefront of the movement is Gen Z.

Speaker 172 Despite the violent crackdowns, bloody clashes with police, leaving several dead and dozens injured, the young protesters are vowing to continue accusing others of taking advantage of the unrest.

Speaker 32 Now, listen to this.

Speaker 12 We were peaceful.

Speaker 173 We were singing, shouting, calling for our rights, the right to live.

Speaker 173 But then some people took advantage of the situation and others acted out, not really following the Gen Z movement's peaceful approach.

Speaker 172 Despite its abundance of natural resources, Madagascar remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with three-quarters of the population living below the poverty line.

Speaker 21 Gen Z, Gen Z.

Speaker 55 This is it.

Speaker 70 This is the new Arab Spring.

Speaker 12 Oh,

Speaker 96 we need bread. We don't have any bread.

Speaker 55 This is Gen Z 212.

Speaker 34 This is an op.

Speaker 109 And the Madagascar government, the president dismissed the government over it.

Speaker 21 Oh, we'll listen to these Gen Zers.

Speaker 96 The Gen Zers. Oh, yeah,

Speaker 71 they're in control now.

Speaker 105 Please.

Speaker 5 We have a Discord thing happening here.

Speaker 34 In San Francisco or in your house?

Speaker 5 Well, San Francisco is where Discord is. Yeah.

Speaker 77 But you can set up your own Discord server, but you don't need to be part of the Discord company.

Speaker 29 I think it's, isn't it just open source software at this point?

Speaker 5 You know, the whole thing seems like an Intel op to me. Well, it is.

Speaker 5 People's Sick Day. Play this clip.

Speaker 5 This is the latest because I guess Blackout didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 108 People's Sick Day.

Speaker 175 What if millions of us stopped working, stopped spending, and stopped producing all at the same time? There's a movement brewing.

Speaker 175 It's called the People's Sick Day and what it is is a three-day economic blackout. That means no work, no shopping, no production, just pause.

Speaker 175 Three days where we remind the system that without us, nothing moves. But here's the twist.

Speaker 175 We're not giving out the dates until 48 hours before because we don't want to give the corporations time to plan and stop us from having this happen.

Speaker 175 Because let's be honest, if they knew what we were planning, they'd shut it down before it even started. This isn't a protest.

Speaker 175 This is a strategic disruption to the machine that feeds off of our hard work and labor. If you want to be a part of it, go to thepeoplesickday.com, join the Discord, and join the movement.

Speaker 175 This is how we stand up against what is happening in our country. We need to shut it down.
We need to shut it down.

Speaker 175 So go to thepeople sickday.com, sign up for the Discord, and you can get more information there.

Speaker 174 Yeah, Discord is open source.

Speaker 28 You can set up your own Discord.

Speaker 65 And it feels so, you know, like

Speaker 79 underground.

Speaker 11 TikTok is rife with people talking about the people's Discord.

Speaker 53 Let's see what this is.

Speaker 42 Chronically ill.

Speaker 163 Discord.

Speaker 28 Oh, she's just chronically ill.

Speaker 51 Okay, never mind.

Speaker 102 She's not people sick. She's chronically ill.

Speaker 34 Discord, man.

Speaker 104 That's that's the thing. It is an op, an op machine.

Speaker 9 We made Discord for gamers like ourselves, but other engineers have found it to be a great tool.

Speaker 96 I'll bet it. I'll bet they do.

Speaker 53 And it's so easy.

Speaker 17 These kids are all hopped up on medication anyway.

Speaker 73 Psyop them, these Gen Zers.

Speaker 95 Zedders.

Speaker 108 Gen Z 212.

Speaker 115 It's a new world, John.

Speaker 5 Oh, it's the same old world.

Speaker 16 Same old world.

Speaker 97 But

Speaker 5 they just keep moving the goalposts.

Speaker 9 Now we're just supposed to hate our children.

Speaker 30 Now we hate our children.

Speaker 75 Gen Z children. I hate you, child.

Speaker 34 You're my child.

Speaker 27 I hate you.

Speaker 117 You're ruining everything with your People's Sick Day.

Speaker 108 Gen Z. People's Sick Day.
People's Sick Day.

Speaker 7 Well, no, of course not.

Speaker 138 Because they don't have the agitators in place like they do in these other countries.

Speaker 59 And also, they're not cutting the power.

Speaker 119 I'm sure that doesn't help.

Speaker 5 No, you got to cut the power.

Speaker 55 Yeah, that's the best question.

Speaker 5 So I have a couple of, just as a little side bit, I got a couple of AI clips here.

Speaker 98 Okay.

Speaker 5 Not AI clips, but AI versions of, you know, they're starting to, I don't know if you followed the sombrero scandal.

Speaker 168 How could I not?

Speaker 70 It was

Speaker 5 possible.

Speaker 70 One of the funniest things.

Speaker 5 When I mentioned it to me, she said, what are you talking about?

Speaker 27 Really? Well, she's busy running for city council.

Speaker 111 So,

Speaker 5 and if anyone hasn't heard the original. Now, this is not safe for work.

Speaker 167 Oh. Woo.

Speaker 5 This is the AI Schumer. This is what started it off.
This was the original one. This has got a...

Speaker 70 Oh, no beeps? No beeps?

Speaker 5 There's no beeps. Okay.
All right. This has got Schumer standing next to Jeffries, who's wearing a sombrero with a big mustache.

Speaker 146 Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it.

Speaker 28 Nobody likes Democrats anymore.

Speaker 146 We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullshit. Not even black people want to vote for us anymore.
Even Latinos hate us. So we need new voters.

Speaker 146 And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us.

Speaker 146 They can't even speak English, so they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of of shit, you know, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.

Speaker 30 You know, now I'm really realizing how poor a job of AI that is.

Speaker 182 It doesn't even sound remotely like Schumer.

Speaker 5 I think it does. Oh, no.

Speaker 12 They trained it on his voice.

Speaker 53 I don't think so at all.

Speaker 5 And there's a,

Speaker 5 after that ran, there was a bunch of press conferences about what a scandal this is and how terrible, racist the Trump administration is. And Schumer was bent out of shape about it.

Speaker 5 He felt very upset. And it's gone to the point where now Vance is going to be giving out red sombreros that say,

Speaker 5 make America great again. And so there was the last thing that came out is this, which is the AI Vance.
This is Vance with a sombrero on, but this is, again, this is all fake. It's not Vance.

Speaker 5 And the sombrero is junk. I mean, just a phony-looking thing.
And this is what he did.

Speaker 103 Okay. Esto es mucho simple.

Speaker 44 El Democrat Party es mucho retardo, okay?

Speaker 103 Mucho retardo, especially el jakimo jeffries, y el chucco schumer.

Speaker 5 They are extra retardo.

Speaker 89 So El Presidente and I cannot negotiate with these Democrat retardos.

Speaker 44 It's imposibile, mucho imposibly.

Speaker 89 Gracias amigos. Oh, and make sure you El Voto for L J D Vanso in El 2028.

Speaker 12 The whole thing.

Speaker 78 And the funny part is,

Speaker 27 is that the whole shutdown is really playing right into President Trump's cards.

Speaker 75 I mean, this is part of Doge.

Speaker 16 Like, we're going to riff people. Reduction in force.

Speaker 20 It's almost like it was planned and they took the bait.

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, they've been doing this. It's kind of consistent taking the bait.

Speaker 24 That's just like, wow, don't you see it?

Speaker 5 Well, I have a question. And they like to play the old clips.
I didn't make a, I didn't, this is all over the place, but there's a collection of Schumer clips.

Speaker 5 It goes back to 2009 where he goes on and on about how stupid it is to shut down the government, and he would never do it, and blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 5 And it's one clip after another of him saying pretty much the same thing, which is crazy to shut down the government. It's just something the Republicans want to do.
We would never do it.

Speaker 5 I would never vote for this.

Speaker 5 And he just on and on. And I guess, according to some reports, Mike Johnson had a reel of all these Democrats saying pretty much the same thing that he had running outside of his office on a monitor.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Just a bunch of, you know, a super cut after another.

Speaker 56 I have a couple of shutdown theater clips, which I think are probably relevant.

Speaker 22 This is going back to the pooper box.

Speaker 163 We believe that layoffs are imminent. They are unfortunately a consequence of this government shutdown.

Speaker 92 In fact, that's not normally a consequence of government shutdowns. Furloughs are, so is working without pay.
But typical or not, the White House is doing it, and the House Speaker today defended it.

Speaker 141 Look, if

Speaker 150 Russ Vote has to make tough decisions, whoever is the director of the Austin Management and Budget in a scenario like this has to make tough choices.

Speaker 161 We're talking about permanently firing people.

Speaker 150 Well, I'm not sure that hasn't happened before, but if the authority is there and he sees a program that is wasting taxpayer dollars, you and I could both agree the government doesn't do everything in the most efficient way.

Speaker 161 I mean, constitutionally, that's your job.

Speaker 172 Article one, that is your job.

Speaker 95 Your job is until Chuck Schumer decides to hand the keys to the president, which is literally what he's doing.

Speaker 7 Boom.

Speaker 156 There it is.

Speaker 12 Yeah, that's great. That's exactly what happened.

Speaker 101 It was like played right into it.

Speaker 12 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 66 And of course, it's sad because a lot of people will lose their jobs.

Speaker 184 I think we're going to see hundreds of thousands of reduction in force, which is, if you look at

Speaker 184 the Doge executive order, it's like all in play.

Speaker 22 It was very, very odd.

Speaker 135 Let's see, I have another one here.

Speaker 92 The administration is also using the crisis to either pause or cancel billions of dollars in already appropriated spending in blue states, including $18 billion for two big mass transportation projects here in New York.

Speaker 92 Vice President Vance was asked about that today.

Speaker 44 Does announcing that today mean that you guys are going to squeeze Chuck Schumer's home state until he blinks?

Speaker 89 Look, I haven't talked to Russ about this this morning, but look, I'm sure that Russ is heartbroken about the fact that he's unable to give certain things to certain constituencies.

Speaker 92 The Russ he is referring to is Russell Vogt, the White House budget director.

Speaker 92 The vice president was also asked about the racist AI videos of Minority Leader Jeffries the president has been posting on social media. This is the latest from today.

Speaker 82 Is it helpful to post pictures of leader Jeffreys Ms.

Speaker 179 Obero if you're trying to have good faith talks with him?

Speaker 89 Oh, I think it's funny. The president's joking, and we're having a good time.

Speaker 89 You can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats' positions, and even, you know, poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.

Speaker 92 With thousands of federal workers now either working without pay, not working at all, or even facing layoffs, and millions of Americans not able to access federal services, it's hard to see this as an opportunity to, as the vice president has said, be having a good time.

Speaker 12 But there it is.

Speaker 69 What I'm missing in all of these reports,

Speaker 65 where's your Mexican Americans who are all mad about this?

Speaker 5 Oh, that's funny. Where they're not mad about it.

Speaker 12 Of course, they're funny.

Speaker 97 They've got a sense of humor.

Speaker 18 Of course, that's the whole point.

Speaker 168 It's like they can't even find one Mexican to say

Speaker 5 you'd think they'd find one Mexican.

Speaker 27 You can't pay one Mexican to say it.

Speaker 21 It's racist.

Speaker 96 Here's the continuation of this.

Speaker 92 So we played sound for Vice President Advance, not just defending that AI racist video of menorah leader Jeffries wearing a sombrero, but also like celebrating that video.

Speaker 92 And it was playing on a loop in the briefing room today.

Speaker 104 What are you hearing from me inside about that?

Speaker 93 It was not only just playing on a loop in the briefing room.

Speaker 93 If you've never been in the press briefing room, for those who haven't, there are loudspeakers overhead so you can hear announcements or what's being said or if there is an event going on with the president in the Rose Guard, for example.

Speaker 93 They were playing that mariachi music as well over the loudspeakers for all the press that was coming in and out of the White House today inside the press briefing room.

Speaker 93 It just kind of gives you a window, John, into how they're dealing with this and how they believe they have the upper hand when it comes to the messaging here. And there's a moment here.

Speaker 93 They're being heavily criticized over this, over these posts by the president, by Democrats, and instead of backing off or apologizing for it, they're leaning into it.

Speaker 93 And they're playing the music over loudspeakers and on repeat inside the briefing room because they simply don't care about that criticism.

Speaker 75 It's like playing Metallica outside the Taliban enemy camp.

Speaker 55 You know, it's like, come on, this is so tip. We've even done it.

Speaker 64 Oh, dude, you know what?

Speaker 115 Remember this?

Speaker 12 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hey,

Speaker 12 come on!

Speaker 102 Ah, good times, good times, Miss Obama. I miss him.

Speaker 5 Well, by the way, I didn't get any clips, but did you hear Michelle in her latest podcast with some with her shrink?

Speaker 67 Oh, goodness, I must have missed it.

Speaker 12 What did she say?

Speaker 5 She goes on a rampage about how

Speaker 5 her and the girls and especially her, just couldn't take it because the way Barack chewed.

Speaker 16 Really?

Speaker 5 And they went on and on about it. You're at the end of your marriage

Speaker 28 when that's irritating.

Speaker 5 No kidding.

Speaker 12 That's kind of irritating.

Speaker 32 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 I don't get it. He's just, it's disgusting, she says, to watch him chew.

Speaker 65 Wow. I remember my second wife as it was ending.

Speaker 148 She got mad because the way I clinked my spoon into the bowl of cereal.

Speaker 140 Like, that's so annoying.

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 5 Typically, that is when a woman is like fed up. She's at the end.

Speaker 16 She's at the end.

Speaker 21 It's done.

Speaker 5 Yeah, this is what's going on here. And, in fact, they had to replay that clip on

Speaker 5 Gutfeld when Drew Pinski was on, and he said exactly what you just said. He says, this sounds like the end of the relationship when things like chewing

Speaker 5 drive you nuts.

Speaker 5 The way the guy chews. I mean, come on.

Speaker 30 Here's a CBC report on the racist deep fakes.

Speaker 39 The fight has become deeply personal after President Donald Trump posted AI videos on social media attacking his opponents.

Speaker 39 One video shows Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House leader, wearing a photoshopped sombrero and mustache, while an AI schumer makes derogatory comments about black and Latino voters.

Speaker 39 Jeffries called it fake and racist.

Speaker 89 Oh, I think it's funny. The president's joking, and we're having a good time.

Speaker 39 The vice president president says good faith negotiations can take place in this environment, dismissing concerns.

Speaker 89 Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist, and I know that he said that, and I honestly don't even know what that means.

Speaker 39 This is symbolic of the bitterness of this moment, with no sign a resolution is in the near future.

Speaker 69 Do you remember when

Speaker 81 I think Trump's first term, he had some Native Americans in the Oval Office, and he was like, you know,

Speaker 84 we've got Pocahontas

Speaker 64 in Congress.

Speaker 7 Do you remember that?

Speaker 5 Only vaguely.

Speaker 5 It'd be nice to have a clip of it.

Speaker 138 Yeah, I'm actually looking.

Speaker 138 I don't think so. But it was funny.

Speaker 5 Well, I get some government shutdown clips.

Speaker 77 And what I'd like to know before we get to your clips,

Speaker 75 does this bother government employees?

Speaker 174 We have a lot of them listening.

Speaker 119 That this jokery is going on?

Speaker 20 I don't think so yet

Speaker 75 because

Speaker 117 it started started on October 1st.

Speaker 28 Checks aren't until the 15th.

Speaker 169 I presume they get paid every two weeks.

Speaker 18 Right?

Speaker 111 I don't know.

Speaker 164 I think so.

Speaker 75 Here's an air traffic controller.

Speaker 77 I'm an air traffic controller in the Western U.S. A lot of confusion regarding the government shutdown at ATC.

Speaker 25 By law, ATC must operate.

Speaker 77 Controllers must show up to work even during a shutdown.

Speaker 66 The FAA has emergency funding through Thursday night at midnight in the event the shutdown isn't over by then.

Speaker 77 After that, the agency and controllers will be operating on an IOU. By law, all federal employees will receive back pay once the government reopens.

Speaker 27 During the last shutdown in 2019, controllers missed two paychecks.

Speaker 119 On the last day of the $0 paycheck, about 10 controllers at the critical Jacksonville Center, Jacksonville Center, called off sick, causing severe delays.

Speaker 116 There were also excessive sick-outs at other key facilities.

Speaker 22 Since controllers now know that we can use sick leave without being charged, there's no incentive to come to work

Speaker 177 if we're not going to get paid anyway.

Speaker 118 Our union, NATCA, is spineless and basically begging us to do the right thing and not call off sick.

Speaker 59 I predict once funding runs out on Friday, there will be mass sick outs, crippling airlines, forcing Congress to do their job and pass a spending bill reopening the government.

Speaker 16 Your servant of the skies and master of the microphone.

Speaker 125 So that's

Speaker 27 no one mad about the sombrero.

Speaker 5 No, nobody's going to get mad about the sombrero except Jeffries and Schumer. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 They're the targets.

Speaker 15 Same with Customs Border Patrol, boots on the ground.

Speaker 16 We are told to come to work tomorrow, no matter what.

Speaker 75 We are HR and in charge of onboarding.

Speaker 66 A few days ago, they were designating just three or four employees to come in and bring new hires on board.

Speaker 32 As of now, though, we're all going to work.

Speaker 56 We will get a paycheck for September 22nd through the 30th and get back pay for the rest later.

Speaker 81 But the shutdown will only really negatively impact us if the shutdown goes through October 24th.

Speaker 9 So, you know, we have some time here for the more sombrero videos.

Speaker 5 Well, there's only five. The difference is five

Speaker 5 Democrats. If they can get five, which is not a lot, five moderates to feel the pressure and then change their vote.
And the next thing you know, it's done.

Speaker 57 So that shouldn't take too long.

Speaker 5 I don't think they're pushing it right now because I think they do want to do what you said, which is entrap the... Democrats so they can start firing people.

Speaker 5 But let's go with this government shutdown. This is from NPR.

Speaker 116 Wow, you've got a series.

Speaker 79 Oh, goodness.

Speaker 5 Well, I'm sorry. No, this is from NTD, so it's

Speaker 16 more anal.

Speaker 188 Manal. Day one of government shutdown, Senate Democrats blocked a procedural vote to reconsider a stopgap bill to reopen the government.

Speaker 188 Our Washington correspondent, Luis Eduardo Martinez, has the latest on the story.

Speaker 179 Republicans thought that they could barrel us into a shutdown because they didn't want to protect the health care of the American people.

Speaker 179 Well, now they've seen. They can't bully us, they can't barrel us, they don't have the votes to push their partisan bill through that did nothing to protect American health care.

Speaker 189 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has maintained his maximalist demands despite that members of his conference have already shown opposition to hold government funding hostage.

Speaker 82 We were elected to solve the problems of this country, not make them worse.

Speaker 71 And that's exactly what Donald Trump and his Republican henchmen are seeking to do.

Speaker 96 Does that language still work?

Speaker 27 His henchmen.

Speaker 5 Henchmen.

Speaker 16 And by the way, what does it say?

Speaker 5 Why did you barrel me?

Speaker 16 What is he talking?

Speaker 57 What barrel?

Speaker 5 Oh, the Republicans are trying to barrel us. What?

Speaker 12 What? I don't know.

Speaker 16 What does that mean?

Speaker 164 Have you ever heard that phrase before?

Speaker 5 Or that wordage?

Speaker 169 Like

Speaker 5 that term, barrel?

Speaker 78 Like,

Speaker 9 what is it? What is it?

Speaker 22 Stretch over a barrel, pull us up, put us over a barrel, over a barrel?

Speaker 26 Like, I haven't heard it in this way.

Speaker 60 No,

Speaker 5 I think he just, it just came to him. He said it once and he had to say it again.

Speaker 5 It's just, he's an idiot.

Speaker 5 Let's play part two.

Speaker 189 It is now a messaging war. And despite the fact that Congress holds the power of the purse, Democrats are blaming President Trump for the shutdown.

Speaker 189 Republicans maintain their willingness to negotiate with Democrats their extension of Affordable Care Act health care tax credits that they are demanding.

Speaker 187 This is not the time to take the American.

Speaker 5 You meant to back up.

Speaker 5 I thought I heard him say the Horrible Care Act.

Speaker 139 People have to.

Speaker 12 Affordable

Speaker 189 willingness to negotiate with Democrats their extension of Affordable Care Act health care tax credits that they're demanding.

Speaker 77 Now, I would just stop here for a second. So, what exactly are they talking about?

Speaker 72 Because the Republicans say, well, they just want free health care for illegal immigrants.

Speaker 56 And the Democrats are saying that your Obamacare, your

Speaker 27 Affordable Care Act premiums will go up over 100%.

Speaker 59 Which one do you understand to be true, if either?

Speaker 5 The Republican position is true. For one thing, the change in any of the Obamacare stuff doesn't take place until after this continuing resolution is already done.
Right.

Speaker 5 So it's not even within this period. So that's bullcrap.
And the fact that...

Speaker 16 Good point.

Speaker 66 It's not until 2026.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So that's nonsense. And so the other thing is, is it's obvious that because they've said it, I mean, Maxine Waters said it, and

Speaker 5 that indian guy said it that they want to keep up payments uh top-notch health care for the illegal immigrants maxine waters said it like that

Speaker 5 she's she was they had uh like uh it was uh what's his name the pillow guy has his little tv network

Speaker 5 mike lindell the pillow guy mike lindell's tv and they had some girl hounding maxine uh harassing her basically going on and on and on and and then got her to maxine to say

Speaker 5 isn't this just for health care for illegals? And then she kept hounding her, and Maxine got pissed off. She says, Look, we want health care for everybody, period, and walked off.

Speaker 5 So that's what it's about. It's about premium health care.

Speaker 32 I have a lot of people.

Speaker 12 I have the clip.

Speaker 7 I have the clip.

Speaker 96 Hold on.

Speaker 150 Maxine Waters snapped when her porter asked her about Democrats forcing a government shutdown over health care for illegal immigrants, which is weird because usually she loves talking about giving away other people's money.

Speaker 90 For Americans, quit it. Stop it.
This is the kind of journalism we don't need.

Speaker 90 You're divisive. No, you're not.

Speaker 90 You're being divisive. No, please, you don't need to ask that question.
You're just trying to get controversy here. You're not going to get it from me.
We want to save health care for all people.

Speaker 7 Thank you.

Speaker 176 Thank you, Congresswoman.

Speaker 10 Vaccine for all people.

Speaker 96 Yeah. All people.
Healthcare.

Speaker 82 Yes.

Speaker 5 So that's so the Republicans are right.

Speaker 56 Okay, we continue. Argue.

Speaker 187 This is not the time to take the American people hostage. The ACA credits don't run out until December.

Speaker 187 But the best way to do that is to open the government and let's get back to this thing called regular order so we can have those debates. We can have those committee hearings.

Speaker 187 We can have those negotiations.

Speaker 189 Senate Republicans are focusing their messaging on moderate Democrats, calling on them to vote for the continuing resolution to reopen government. Four more Democrats are needed to do so.

Speaker 89 I actually don't think it's going to be that long of a shutdown.

Speaker 89 This is a pure guess from the vice president of the United States because I think you already saw some evidence that moderate Democrats are cracking a little bit.

Speaker 89 They understand the fundamental illogic of this.

Speaker 150 Chuck Schumer, at the behest of a bunch of liberal, far-left activist groups, has walked his Democrat colleagues into a boxed canyon.

Speaker 189 The continuing resolution that House Republicans pass and Senate Republicans support extends levels of government funding set by Democrats during the Biden administration.

Speaker 189 Republicans have also chosen not to enact the spending cuts proposed by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Speaker 189 Ultimately, Democrats have already voted for current levels of government funding 13 times in the past.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so this is kind of nuts. Let's go to part three.

Speaker 188 Good evening, Mari. What is the White House saying about the government shutdown?

Speaker 176 Tiff, good evening.

Speaker 176 Yes, the White House is blaming Democrats for the government shutdown, saying that it impacts active duty troops, critical food assistance, and flood insurance as we enter hurricane season.

Speaker 176 And Vice President J.D. Vance today is saying this at a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing.

Speaker 58 Watch.

Speaker 89 Whatever those disagreements are, you don't shut down the government over it.

Speaker 89 For the first time since the Democrats have been in politics, they're now saying that unless we get every policy item that we demand, we're going to shut down the people's government.

Speaker 89 They're trying to take a hostage, and we're not going to let them.

Speaker 176 The White House website featuring a government shutdown clock and the press secretary leaving this message on the White House comment line.

Speaker 195 Thank you for calling the White House comment line.

Speaker 195 Democrats in Congress have shut down the federal government because they care more about funding health care for illegal immigrants than they care about serving you.

Speaker 176 Meanwhile, Vice President Vance says he doesn't think the shutdown will be long. He's calling on more moderate Democrats today to join Republicans in voting to keep the government open.

Speaker 89 So three moderate Democrats joined 52 Republicans last night. We need five more.

Speaker 176 While Republicans have offered a clean short-term budget bill, the White House criticizing Democrats for holding the economy hostage for what it calls free health care for illegal immigrants.

Speaker 176 Though Democrats say that's not what they're demanding.

Speaker 89 The political leadership of their party has got it into their heads that the only way to be compassionate is to be compassionate to illegal aliens rather than American citizens.

Speaker 179 No, the law, the law is clear that no medicaid no medicare no aca couldn't go to any undocumented immigrants

Speaker 18 so

Speaker 113 fetterman voted uh for the continuing resolution cortez mastro from nevada and king from maine

Speaker 9 that's interesting that man they must be hating federman right now turns out to be a pretty pretty funny dude

Speaker 5 yeah i everyone's surprised by that you see he's actually kind of down to earth.

Speaker 167 Yeah.

Speaker 28 When he had the stroke, that's when he became a Democrat.

Speaker 169 You know, then that kind of ebbed away and then he became normal again.

Speaker 12 Says something, doesn't it?

Speaker 5 I get part four you play.

Speaker 176 And Tiff, I don't know if you've seen this, but the White House has been replaying this meme in the briefing room.

Speaker 176 It's a post that President Trump originally put on his Truth Social of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero.

Speaker 96 Don't cop out through a racist and fake AI video.

Speaker 16 When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.

Speaker 89 Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist, and I know that he said that, and I honestly don't even know what that means. Like,

Speaker 89 is he a Mexican-American that is offended by having a sombrero meme? The president's joking, and we're having a good time.

Speaker 176 Vice President Vance says he makes the solemn promise to stop the sombrero memes if Hakeem helps reopen the government.

Speaker 18 Back to you.

Speaker 29 We're going to sombrero meme you, bro.

Speaker 5 We're going to stop the sombrero memes.

Speaker 27 It's notable that Vance is really the mouthpiece for this.

Speaker 141 President Trump is, you know, he just reposted what, and by the way, if that was an AI meme, someone needs to turn their large language model in.

Speaker 9 It wasn't all that great.

Speaker 5 No, they're talking about the AI part was Schumer's voice.

Speaker 56 Right.

Speaker 30 Well, even though.

Speaker 190 I mean, the rest of it, that wasn't you.

Speaker 5 I mean, even when

Speaker 5 the one with Vance, which we played, had the sombrero on his head. The sombrero was fixed.
Yeah. So when Jeffrey, with his sombrero, when he turned, it's like the sombrero didn't move at all.

Speaker 5 It was just stuck on the frame. It's bullcrap.
It was very poorly done, to be honest.

Speaker 111 Yes, yes.

Speaker 17 But Vance is the mouthpiece.

Speaker 21 And that's noticeable.

Speaker 124 Noticeable.

Speaker 116 I just think that's notable.

Speaker 108 Let's put it that way.

Speaker 27 Vance is the one that's doing the talking here.

Speaker 31 Of course, he's the one.

Speaker 5 He seems to be the point man for the sombrero.

Speaker 27 Hey, Vance, you take the sombrero stuff.

Speaker 27 I'm going to go get Greenland.

Speaker 5 I'll get Greenland. You get Jeffreys.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 97 Wow.

Speaker 28 That's pretty incredible.

Speaker 12 Okay. All right.

Speaker 75 So I'd predict two weeks.

Speaker 154 What do you think?

Speaker 5 Oh, it might not even go that long. I mean, the last time during the Trump's first term, they did have a one one-year.

Speaker 56 I remember that.

Speaker 5 And that was the longest ever, so who knows?

Speaker 16 Back to AI.

Speaker 18 But hold on one second.

Speaker 27 They're going to have to give on something.

Speaker 141 The Democrats. No,

Speaker 16 the Republicans? No,

Speaker 21 they'll have to give the Democrats something. No, they don't.

Speaker 34 You think the Democrats will just fold because of the sombrero?

Speaker 12 Like some of the people who are going to be able to do that

Speaker 12 because they're going to get some.

Speaker 5 They don't need but the four votes, they say. I thought it was five, but it's four.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 it's just the same funding that's been going on. There's no reason to change anything.
They're supposed to change when you actually do a bill, not the continuing resolution.

Speaker 5 Just keep spending the same money. Yeah.

Speaker 5 There's no reason to change.

Speaker 16 Well, so

Speaker 56 they're going to have to give a reason to buckle.

Speaker 182 It'll be like, we just didn't want to subject the American people anymore to sombrero memes.

Speaker 5 I don't know how they'll come up with some good reason.

Speaker 98 They have to

Speaker 5 so I have this the big scandal going on in AI is Tim Norway.

Speaker 1 This is these

Speaker 17 not a scandal. It's one of the best marketing campaigns I've ever seen.

Speaker 5 It's outstanding.

Speaker 66 They're basically just trying to get an agent an agent for

Speaker 5 some woman.

Speaker 21 This AI model is not in movies.

Speaker 72 It doesn't have any gigs booked.

Speaker 75 Isn't getting sides for scripts.

Speaker 5 You know, it's like yeah, but it's got Hollywood all bent out of shape. They got one person after another going, if anyone hires her, we're going to quit the agents.

Speaker 7 I'm telling you the thing.

Speaker 27 I'm telling you, it's a Dutch woman, I think, although she has a British accent.

Speaker 5 It is a Dutch woman.

Speaker 21 It was just

Speaker 27 a genius marketing ploy.

Speaker 74 Like, oh, we're shopping for agents.

Speaker 196 That's when this, because that's one of the hardest things.

Speaker 16 Good bit.

Speaker 23 Breaking into show business, the first and probably hardest step is getting an agent.

Speaker 51 Like, oh, you got an agent?

Speaker 65 No, not yet. I'm trying to get one.

Speaker 27 No one will take me.

Speaker 16 Yeah,

Speaker 31 who's your agent?

Speaker 121 Well, you also represent,

Speaker 114 you know, whoever. Juliana.

Speaker 5 Tom angst. Tom Enggs.

Speaker 40 Three seasons and a podcast.

Speaker 197 Meet Tilly Norwood, the world's most controversial new actor.

Speaker 183 Can she cry on Graham Norton?

Speaker 197 Well, she might seem real on screen and on her social media.

Speaker 144 Take a closer look.

Speaker 29 Can you tell?

Speaker 173 Tilly Norwood, 100% AI-generated.

Speaker 197 Yep, she's fake. Tilly Norwood is the first creation from a new studio that develops AI actors.

Speaker 197 And this morning, her mere existence has sparked outrage and concern about the use of artificial intelligence in Hollywood.

Speaker 139 We have so far lost the plot.

Speaker 42 What are we doing?

Speaker 197 The backlash to Tilly Norwood igniting over the weekend after her creator, Dutch actor and comedian Elena Vundervelden, said multiple talent agents have shown interest in signing the AI actress, according to deadline.

Speaker 197 That news prompting real actors to speak out in protest. Emily Blunt calling it really, really scary in an interview with Variety, urging agencies to please stop.

Speaker 12 Really, really scary.

Speaker 197 Brenda Meldon, posting a lengthy statement defending the invention, comparing it to animation or CGI, writing, Tilly Norwood is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work, a piece of art that sparks conversation.

Speaker 197 Whoopi Goldberg among those responding.

Speaker 190 The problem with this, in my opinion, humble opinion, don't care, is that you are suddenly up against something that's been generated with 5,000 other actors.

Speaker 89 So it's a little bit of an unfair advantage.

Speaker 197 The debate over Tilly Norwood, just the latest in the battle between creative artists and AI.

Speaker 46 Where was that report from?

Speaker 53 Is that from CBS, ABC?

Speaker 34 Where's that from?

Speaker 57 NBC, I think.

Speaker 15 Because I have a CBS, a CBC report from Canada, which sounded remarkably similar.

Speaker 40 Three seasons and a podcast.

Speaker 41 Exactly the same report.

Speaker 5 The same opening.

Speaker 7 It's the same report.

Speaker 57 It's a package. Okay.

Speaker 16 It's a package.

Speaker 67 Listen, I'll plan for Kid James.

Speaker 3 Three seasons and a podcast.

Speaker 45 Right?

Speaker 97 Tilly Norwood.

Speaker 10 Getting gigs.

Speaker 134 Battling with villains on screen.

Speaker 115 Oh, interesting.

Speaker 16 A little different.

Speaker 7 Oh, well, now I have to play it.

Speaker 121 It's not exactly the same.

Speaker 40 Three seasons and a podcast.

Speaker 194 Bragging about getting gigs, battling with villains on screen in a skit.

Speaker 134 This is Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actress created by the company Particle 6. Its CEO, Elene van der Velden, says entertainment companies are interested.

Speaker 17 By the way, I'm not familiar with this Dutch actress and comedian.

Speaker 128 I haven't really been keeping up, but

Speaker 79 I don't think she's very well known in Holland.

Speaker 198 So with Tilly, you know, when we first launched her,

Speaker 7 especially with that accent.

Speaker 198 Like, no, that's not going to happen.

Speaker 41 And now it's, you know, we're going to announce who she's going, who, which agency is going to be there for.

Speaker 102 I don't know if she does porn, one one is many. I'm out of the business.

Speaker 198 I'm presenting her in the next few months.

Speaker 134 She said this during a panel at the Zurich Film Festival.

Speaker 32 Ah, there it is.

Speaker 76 Ah, see, that's how she did it.

Speaker 17 She launched it at the Zurich Film Festival.

Speaker 50 We're getting an agent for our AI.

Speaker 134 Since then, Hollywood has been up in arms. Actors like Whoopi Goldberg, Simu Liu, and Emily Blunt are speaking out.

Speaker 199 Same package.

Speaker 184 I think Hollywood just distributed a package to everybody, don't you think?

Speaker 5 Hollywood would be the beneficiary of this.

Speaker 96 Of course they would. They love it.

Speaker 12 It's cheap. That's

Speaker 12 an actors.

Speaker 5 And by the way, thinking it's cheap reminds me of the early days of CGI.

Speaker 98 Yes.

Speaker 5 When they would do a few special effects using the computers that are actually blowing up a building, they had a computer do it.

Speaker 5 And then pretty soon the movies became so CGI-centric that it costs a fortune in computing power to do it. So you think it's cheap at first.

Speaker 165 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And then it becomes more expensive. Now,

Speaker 5 the reason I I want to bring this up is because all these people got all, I see you see it on all these networks, they're all bent out of shape, and then the fallback was always, well, don't worry about it because the public is never going to, you know, have the same feelings for these sort of celebrities.

Speaker 5 And they went on and on, and it's just because it's not a real person, and so there's not going to be any attachment. And they all kind of ignore Hatsuni Miku.

Speaker 162 Hatsuni Miku?

Speaker 5 Hatsuni Miku is a fake person

Speaker 5 in Japan that is extremely popular, and she's been around since at least 2012. She's been around for over a decade.

Speaker 5 And it's a, you can look her up,

Speaker 5 H-A-T-U-S, I'm sorry, H-A-T-S-U-N-E, Miku, M-I-K-U,

Speaker 111 a pop star.

Speaker 5 And everyone knows she's a fake, and everyone loves her. Like she's like the girl next door.

Speaker 5 And so this is more of a threat than they think it is. And

Speaker 5 everyone ignores the phenomenon.

Speaker 20 Is she anime or is she

Speaker 108 real?

Speaker 53 She's anime, isn't she?

Speaker 5 No, she's not anime.

Speaker 22 Oh. Well, I'm looking at

Speaker 27 Patsuni Makua and the whole YouTube page is filled with anime.

Speaker 5 Well, that might be full. Maybe that page is, but there's look at look at images on do an image search and look for her.
She's real, she's kind of a pretty Japanese girl. Okay.

Speaker 5 And except for once in a while, she has cross eyes, eyes, depending on how they are.

Speaker 53 Okay, I see her. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. And she's very popular.
So this is not something that should be taken lightly.

Speaker 167 Well,

Speaker 27 ultimately, it's bad for humanity.

Speaker 62 You know, you lose touch with human.

Speaker 143 We're being psyoped into technology.

Speaker 77 I mean, you look at the latest AI.

Speaker 5 By the way, what you just said... is reminding me of the meeting that that that Heg Seth had because all the counter-arguments, well, why don't they just send an email?

Speaker 5 He didn't have to bring them all together when the old timers in the military said, Yeah, you want face-to-face. Yeah.
You want face-to-face.

Speaker 5 And what you just said is a reflection of the same doofuses. Oh, they could have sent out an email or a Zoom call would have done the same thing.
Well, if you look

Speaker 66 if you look at the popular new AI companies, loves you.ai,

Speaker 28 friend AI is a really funny one.

Speaker 26 I couldn't clip it because it doesn't come across.

Speaker 76 It's the pendant you wear around your neck and you press it to talk to your friend.

Speaker 18 But this is it.

Speaker 7 This is this.

Speaker 5 And your friend is the pendant?

Speaker 136 Well, no, your friend then texts you something.

Speaker 66 You talk to your friend by pressing the pendant and then it sends you a text message.

Speaker 5 On the phone that you're carrying around incessantly and holding in your hand as you walk down the street. But of course.
Men and women.

Speaker 110 But of course.

Speaker 29 Yes.

Speaker 34 So, you know, this is where it's headed.

Speaker 67 I mean, I think in this regard, who even cares about a movie with, unless we all have the same friend AI or the same loves you.ai.

Speaker 21 The Gen Zers, you know, they're all going for not just Gen Z,

Speaker 31 but the boomers even.

Speaker 69 I'm lonely.

Speaker 12 Oh, I have a friend now.

Speaker 54 I have a friend in my phone who listens.

Speaker 136 My friend listens to me.

Speaker 137 It's extremely bad for humanity, but

Speaker 140 I think there's no stopping it.

Speaker 121 There's no stopping it.

Speaker 21 So we'll have AI movies, you know, all generated characters.

Speaker 56 I've given up.

Speaker 20 I mean,

Speaker 5 if I can't.

Speaker 5 I said the slop is going to kill it.

Speaker 1 No, but people will love the slop.

Speaker 17 This is what I'm coming to realize.

Speaker 16 Oh, it's slop, but I love it.

Speaker 7 We're like pigs.

Speaker 7 AI slops.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 I'm a pig.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 64 Well, not everybody, but a lot of people.

Speaker 34 A lot of people are going to go for that.

Speaker 120 They're just, they're AI pigs.

Speaker 29 They want more slop.

Speaker 7 Give me slop. I love it.

Speaker 1 I'm a pig.

Speaker 7 Give it to me.

Speaker 97 Well, then

Speaker 28 there's one other little Hollywood diddy since we're on the topic.

Speaker 201 Now, also on Monday, Donald Trump opt his tariff war, saying the U.S. will now impose a 100% tariff on films made outside the country.

Speaker 201 It's still unclear how those tariffs would operate since movies and TV shows can be transmitted digitally without going through a port like a car or electronics.

Speaker 201 But the announcement still is making waves in the film industry. Here's a reaction from George Clooney, speaking in New York.

Speaker 165 If it really happens, it would be pretty damaging to the business. Look, he's not wrong about the idea that businesses have left Los Angeles.

Speaker 42 They have in droves.

Speaker 29 What we need is

Speaker 165 the incentives.

Speaker 88 The tax incentives that you get here in New York, by the way.

Speaker 13 They're building studios here because there's so much work.

Speaker 103 We need those.

Speaker 165 And by the way, if he really wants to fix it, then we should talk about a federal incentive

Speaker 165 pass to keep people working in Los Angeles because there are tons of below-the-line people, grips and cinematographers, who are losing their jobs because

Speaker 5 work is going away.

Speaker 12 No,

Speaker 167 Hollywood always wants to be subsidized.

Speaker 140 Give us money so we can continue to work.

Speaker 12 No,

Speaker 34 no, we got AI slop coming to everybody.

Speaker 16 Look at the pigs.

Speaker 162 They love it.

Speaker 12 I love it.

Speaker 136 We are also focused on trans people,

Speaker 21 but transhumanism is just moving forward.

Speaker 27 You know, again, the brain-computer interface is on the way.

Speaker 18 It's,

Speaker 16 you know, you'll live forever, by the way. This show will never end.

Speaker 17 It'll just be John Adam AIs tapped into the system, creating podcasts forever.

Speaker 5 Well, we're going to stay in the Hollywood theme. I do have the Netflix clips.

Speaker 128 Oh, what's I didn't think there was any news on Netflix.

Speaker 16 What's going on?

Speaker 57 Oh, yeah, it's scandalous.

Speaker 96 What?

Speaker 188 Joining us now to discuss.

Speaker 5 Start with Netflix versus Musk for the background.

Speaker 18 Oh, backgrounder.

Speaker 188 Elon Musk is urging parents to boycott Netflix in a meme shared on X that Musk reacted to today.

Speaker 188 Netflix was depicted as a Trojan horse with its contents labeled Transgender Woke Agenda, which was being wheeled into a castle marked your kids musk wrote in his post quote cancel netflix for the health of your kids this comes a day after he criticized the animated show dead and paranormal park for featuring transgender storylines and themes musk reposted a clip from the series writing quote this is not okay marketed as suitable for children aged seven and up the show includes a character who comes out as identifying as transgender.

Speaker 188 The character says, quote, I've never been happier. Other kids' shows that feature LGBT themes include the Dragon Prince, She-Ra, and the Princesses of Power, and the Owl House.

Speaker 154 Well, I'm glad that you got clips of this because I saw the story come by, and I'm just like, ah, more trans stories.

Speaker 102 I'm not interested.

Speaker 138 So clearly, there's something there, otherwise, you wouldn't have made three anals of it.

Speaker 5 Analysis. Yes.

Speaker 5 I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 79 Well, I'm just reading the clip name.

Speaker 5 Okay, well, let's play some of these analysis clips.

Speaker 12 Starting with

Speaker 111 number one.

Speaker 188 Joining us now to discuss is Will Hild, Executive Director of Consumers Research. Will, thank you so much for joining us.
Great to see you again.

Speaker 188 Now, first, what do you make of Musk's accusations against Netflix?

Speaker 88 I think they're entirely accurate. This is a company that has pushed a woke agenda with children for years now.

Speaker 88 Libs of TikTok posted a two- or three-year-old clip from Coco Melon where they have a kid cross-dressing, dancing for his two gay dads which has obviously reignited a controversy around that show as well today.

Speaker 88 It's long overdue and I'm glad that someone with the prominence of Elon is pushing back.

Speaker 188 And in your view, is there a risk that many parents don't know that Netflix programs their kids are watching may contain LGBT content or themes that promote transgenderism?

Speaker 88 Yeah, it's a huge risk and it's something that Netflix has been pushing without really, you know, advertising it or making it clear that that's what they're doing with kids.

Speaker 88 They just put it into otherwise normal shows.

Speaker 88 Like I said, Cocomelon, I think, had like 10 or 15 seasons with absolutely none of that in it until this past couple of years, and they've started introducing it.

Speaker 88 So that's the other issue: sometimes you'll start watching a show and it's unclear that it contains that kind of transgender ideology or LGBTQ ideology.

Speaker 88 And then you, you, you know, maybe leave the room while you let your kids watch it, and suddenly they're being indoctrinated with this kind of

Speaker 88 gender ideology nonsense.

Speaker 16 Suddenly, your daughter's a boy.

Speaker 70 Coco Melon. Is that the name of the show?

Speaker 7 Coco Melon. I guess.

Speaker 5 But I think what's overlooked in this analysis is the fact that this only happened in the last couple of years. Yes.
And I've noticed it too with the memes about Netflix.

Speaker 5 They've done, you know, they have Netflix remakes. The joke used to always be, here's the Disney remake, and there'd be, you know, some

Speaker 5 white girl, it'd be some, you know,

Speaker 5 a Latino, black Latino lesbian.

Speaker 116 That would be the Disney remake.

Speaker 5 Pierced.

Speaker 5 And now you have this meme has been shifted to Netflix, and only recently. So somebody got into Netflix.
This is like the bald guys in the military. Somebody got into Netflix.

Speaker 18 Hire more of them.

Speaker 29 Hire more of them.

Speaker 7 Well, who was that guy?

Speaker 73 The guy from Biden's administration, the transportation department.

Speaker 53 Wasn't he in transportation?

Speaker 23 The guy who kept stealing the suitcases with women in the city.

Speaker 57 Oh, the suitcase guy.

Speaker 5 No, he was the new nuclear.

Speaker 16 The nuclear nuclear guy yeah

Speaker 56 he needed a gig he went to netflix

Speaker 5 that's possible i mean something happened yeah it to netflix re and it's only been within the last couple of years it seems and so now it is it's it's it's kind of getting pushed back on them with these and this is one of the i think this is going to i think what we're going to what we're playing here is the beginning of of a pushback here we go And will we have seen increasing concern from parents over the types of content being pushed on their children from, say, books to TV shows?

Speaker 188 Now, one of the Netflix shows in question, Dead and Paranormal Park, is marketed to those seven and up. Do you see there being a need for regulation on what does or doesn't count as being for kids?

Speaker 88 That's a great question. I'm generally loath to have the government engage in the regulation of speech.

Speaker 88 But one of the exceptions that we all pretty much agree to is that that certainly doesn't apply when you're talking about children.

Speaker 88 This is something that we've seen in efforts to prevent children from accessing pornography in a number of different states like Florida and Virginia, and Texas.

Speaker 88 And I think there is a question here of whether this is something that we want to protect children from. It also, you know, this isn't incidental.

Speaker 88 These corporations have an agenda of pushing this stuff.

Speaker 88 Our organization, Consumers Research, went after State Farm, Insure many years ago because they were working with a project called the Gender Cool Initiative, and they were buying books aimed at kids as young as five.

Speaker 5 And that's not my word.

Speaker 88 That's, it was said on the book, you know, kids five and up, that had titles like a kid's book about being transgender or a kid's book about being non-binary.

Speaker 88 And they were buying these books and donating them to public schools to get them in the hands of children explicitly.

Speaker 88 So it really, if this was just something that was accidental or a writer had slipped something in, that'd be a little different.

Speaker 88 But it's clear that Netflix and a lot of other corporations have an agenda to target children with this kind of radical ideology that's, you know, in fact a form of grooming in a lot of ways.

Speaker 128 Well, it didn't take me very long to figure it out under the new lens of the North North Sea Nexus.

Speaker 27 Cocomelon, produced by Moonbug Entertainment Limited,

Speaker 128 British Children's Media Company,

Speaker 66 headquartered in London.

Speaker 29 This is an

Speaker 182 attack on the American children by the Brits.

Speaker 29 Let's turn them all to trans.

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 141 let's cause a ruckus.

Speaker 20 And let me see, who owns this?

Speaker 56 Hold on a second. Let me look at the

Speaker 56 Moonbug owned by Candle Media.

Speaker 21 Oh, Blackstone. There you go.

Speaker 12 Blackstone.

Speaker 26 Co-funded by former Disney executives.

Speaker 64 Okay, there you go.

Speaker 1 Oh, oh, but oh, but wait, there's more.

Speaker 143 Candle Media owns Moonbug Entertainment, Hello Sunshine, and the production company of Israeli thriller series.

Speaker 144 Oh, we got the Jews in there.

Speaker 69 This is a quagmire.

Speaker 34 It's a double whammy.

Speaker 97 Huh. Yeah.

Speaker 7 You always got to look at who owns this stuff and who's producing it.

Speaker 22 So call Brunetti.

Speaker 26 Ask him about Coco Melon.

Speaker 5 He won't know anything about it.

Speaker 59 He doesn't know anything, does he?

Speaker 5 He knows more than you'd imagine. He knows a lot.

Speaker 5 But I don't think he knows about this sort of thing. This sort of this sinister stuff.

Speaker 32 So

Speaker 54 they also have done ABC Kid TV,

Speaker 16 Coco Melon.

Speaker 24 I guess they launched on YouTube, interestingly.

Speaker 28 So Netflix, okay, in June 2020, Coco Melon launched on Netflix.

Speaker 28 Hmm.

Speaker 167 Well,

Speaker 21 it's an attack from the Brits.

Speaker 177 I'm just going to call it that way.

Speaker 174 What else could it be? Is it popular?

Speaker 5 I'm not going to argue with you because this thesis seems to be holding up.

Speaker 67 Yes, let's go to the last clip.

Speaker 188 Now, following Musk's call for a boycott, Netflix stock closed down 2.3%. Now, looking back, Disney took a significant hit after it was accused of doing the same thing.

Speaker 188 Do you think we could see Netflix changing its direction as a result?

Speaker 151 How likely is that?

Speaker 88 Well, it's unclear.

Speaker 88 See, one of the problems that we've got in pushing back on corporate America is that the large asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard control so many of the shares of the company that they can insulate the executive class from a lot of the bad decisions that they're making from a consumer standpoint.

Speaker 88 And I think that's part of what's going on with Disney. Disney's shares have been in the tank.

Speaker 88 Their five-year performance, especially when relative to the SP 500, have been absolutely abysmal. But they actually brought back the CEO that took them in a woke turn, Bob Iger.

Speaker 88 And I think that's because of the influence of CEOs like Larry Fink at BlackRock and others at Vanguard and State Street. And so I think that's a problem that we really need to solve.

Speaker 88 It's one of the main things we focus on at Consumers Research. We need to get these asset managers out of the business of insulating executives from the consequences of their decisions.

Speaker 188 And Will, as you know, Musk is an entrepreneur who likes to take risks. How likely are we to see him launch a Netflix rival? Is there a market for that?

Speaker 88 Well, that's a great question. You know, he's got his finger in so many pies in that way.

Speaker 88 You know, he's a rocket company, a car company, but he's also apparently going to create a competitor to Wikipedia, and he's active in the AI space in a very aggressive way.

Speaker 88 So it would be great if he was to put those type of resources and his mind power behind an alternative to Netflix.

Speaker 88 And a lot of times, what the real allure of these stations, of these streaming stations, is, is not so much the stuff that they make, it's the licenses that they have purchased over the years.

Speaker 88 That's certainly the case with Disney.

Speaker 88 A lot of the stuff they're making now isn't that popular, but they hold the keys to seeing a lot of the old intellectual property that people beloved around Mickey Mouse and Cinderella and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 88 And Netflix is the same way.

Speaker 74 Here's what they need to do: someone needs to start the AI slop streaming station and just have AI slop all day running on it.

Speaker 5 It's everywhere. I think you're ahead of your time there with that idea.

Speaker 12 Sombrero videos,

Speaker 9 AI friends, making out with other ai friends

Speaker 169 we're still analog man podcasting is pretty much the only technology left that is just normal for normal people without video we're uh we're actually digital

Speaker 104 yeah but we're not ai

Speaker 20 no you know we're working close we're analog into people's ears you know no distractions i'm in your head no distractions i'm between your ears.

Speaker 102 Listen to me. Donate.

Speaker 5 Donate.

Speaker 21 So I've made a decision.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 5 I'm glad you made a decision.

Speaker 64 One.

Speaker 136 Just it's one a month, one decision.

Speaker 9 I'm no longer going to complain about people saying free speech

Speaker 66 versus freedom of speech. I'm just going to call it speech.

Speaker 21 Because, you know, putting something in front of it.

Speaker 5 That's actually a good solution.

Speaker 74 Yes, because it's all about speech.

Speaker 66 You know, the freedom of speech is not a kind of speech.

Speaker 55 It's just speech.

Speaker 139 I have the

Speaker 30 God-given right to speech.

Speaker 34 I can speak.

Speaker 15 I can speech.

Speaker 21 I can say whatever I want.

Speaker 60 Now, obviously, if I slander someone, and that's a different issue.

Speaker 5 But it's just speech. No, it's the same issue.

Speaker 5 What do you mean? It's still speech. It's speech.

Speaker 96 Yeah, it's just speech.

Speaker 5 It just happens to be slander.

Speaker 101 So, well, yes, it is.

Speaker 21 But, you know, but I can still use speech, but the government can't stop me from slandering somebody.

Speaker 123 If I slander someone, they can get me in trouble for lying or disparaging.

Speaker 12 But speech is just speech.

Speaker 65 Right.

Speaker 55 And all this freedom of speech and free speech, it's not good.

Speaker 9 Just say speech.

Speaker 154 Speech in the United States is protected.

Speaker 82 Speech.

Speaker 66 Not free speech, not freedom of speech, just speech.

Speaker 136 Then, so

Speaker 30 Jonathan Turley, who I like, I think.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he's great.

Speaker 5 He's a professor at Georgetown. I think if I was a student and I could take one of his courses, I think it would be dynamite.
Oh, I'd take it too.

Speaker 5 You know, if you take, I have to say this to people that started going to college, and we have a few out there. Just, you know, don't take courses.
Take professors.

Speaker 5 Find out the guys who are super talented and take their courses, whatever it is. It doesn't matter.
Just take that because it's people that

Speaker 5 you're learning from.

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 87 I recommend Prof.

Speaker 92 g

Speaker 65 i don't no neither do i so jonathan charlie this this this showed up in my timeline and i was like well that's interesting this is about speech and the north sea nexus and in particular the middle management of the the the monarchs and uh and the city of london free speech isn't a free fall in europe there are two anti-free speech movements that have coalesced one is in europe where it has laid waste to free speech.

Speaker 202 Germany, France, England, free speech has been eviscerated.

Speaker 202 And also places like Canada. The U.S.
anti-free speech movement began in higher education, then metastasized throughout the government. But this has all reached our shores now.

Speaker 202 The Berlin World Forum followed the remarks of Vice President Vance on free speech, and the EU was red hot.

Speaker 202 They gathered in Berlin, and it was the most anti-free speech gathering I've ever been part of. There's only two of us from the free speech community.

Speaker 202 And they are committed and you know Hillary Clinton was there and she really fueled the anger.

Speaker 202 I mean she when Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act which is one of the most anti-free speech pieces of legislation in decades.

Speaker 202 And she called upon the EU to use the DSA to force the censorship of American citizens, force people like Musk to censor.

Speaker 202 This extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate in the United States. But they are committed to it.
And after the World Forum,

Speaker 202 they further globalized this effort. And they are threatening companies like ACTS with ruinous fines unless they resume censoring American citizens.

Speaker 98 Aaron Powell, this is so

Speaker 98 bad.

Speaker 18 And

Speaker 65 it's really not even discussed properly what's happening in the UK.

Speaker 77 It is, I mean, I've seen videos of the cop showing up wanting to talk to some woman's daughter because she viewed a post.

Speaker 112 She viewed a post.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Well, here's, I have a clip of the magistrate that's reading the riot act to somebody for a Facebook post. I don't have the whole clip.
It's too long. But the guy got prison time.

Speaker 137 What?

Speaker 119 Hold on a second.

Speaker 101 I think I've seen this. Is this the guy

Speaker 186 with the funky wig?

Speaker 16 I need one of those wigs.

Speaker 12 They all have funky wigs.

Speaker 5 Those wigs are great.

Speaker 57 You came at it.

Speaker 149 I was just questioning why you wrote, because they're over here, given life of Riley, off the tax us hard-working people earn when it could be put to better use.

Speaker 149 Come over here with no work visa, no trade to their name, and sit down and dos.

Speaker 149 And then there's more people being put out homeless each year. They get top-band priority on housing.

Speaker 149 You went on to say that you did not want your money going to immigrants who, quote, rape our kids and get priority.

Speaker 149 Although you said that you had no intention of carrying out any act of violence, there can be no doubt that you were inciting others to do so.

Speaker 149 Otherwise,

Speaker 149 why post the comment? comment?

Speaker 82 Wow.

Speaker 143 And he went, he got fined or went to jail?

Speaker 5 It was up to seven years. No.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 5 So the thing is, but the comment at the end is why I cut it off there.

Speaker 5 He said, yeah, you didn't want to incite violence,

Speaker 5 but why else would you post? Yeah, not

Speaker 1 your opinion.

Speaker 128 Your opinion's no good.

Speaker 5 No, it's good. No, you only, according to this guy, and he's of this class, and I think, which brings us back to your thesis, but of this class of people,

Speaker 5 the assumption is that if you post at all, you say anything,

Speaker 5 you're doing that only to incite violence because that's the only possible reason you do it,

Speaker 5 which is illogical.

Speaker 5 Wow.

Speaker 30 Yeah, and the discussion really isn't being held over here about what's happening.

Speaker 21 And

Speaker 108 it's not that way in the EU yet, but it kind of is.

Speaker 12 It's just, you know, they don't have people.

Speaker 5 Well, it is in Germany for sure.

Speaker 96 Well, Germany.

Speaker 76 Well, the reason why we don't hear it coming out of Germany is because if you post about it, you go to jail.

Speaker 27 You can't even say that they're doing this.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I know. It's really pretty.
It's quite interesting and it's subtle. But the fact that Hillary Clinton would be over there encouraging it

Speaker 5 tells you, but again, she was, you know, in the Rhodes Scholar. She's not a Rhodes Scholar because her husband was, but she's in that.
We already identified her as part of the Nexus.

Speaker 167 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So it makes nothing but sense that she'd go over there and promote this idea. She's a horrible person.

Speaker 18 Yes, she is.

Speaker 105 She is a horrible person.

Speaker 80 My goodness.

Speaker 119 My goodness.

Speaker 13 Wow.

Speaker 5 And people are still bent out of shape that she didn't beat Trump.

Speaker 87 Yeah. Well, you know,

Speaker 30 NPR did a poll.

Speaker 12 This was kind of an interesting little segment that I got about political violence, speaking of violence.

Speaker 128 And they polled, I guess their listeners.

Speaker 101 And well, have a listen to this.

Speaker 145 The federal government is shut down after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate could not agree on a funding bill.

Speaker 145 A new NPR PBS News Maris poll is out this morning, and it found that more people would blame Republicans for a shutdown.

Speaker 145 In a few minutes, we'll speak with Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro about her party strategy.

Speaker 130 First, though, more details from that poll.

Speaker 130 It found the overwhelming majority believe children should be vaccinated before they're going to school, and that it's more important to control gun violence rather than protect gun rights.

Speaker 145 NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro has all the numbers. So, Domenico, let's start with the shutdown.
What did the poll find?

Speaker 27 This is, I mean, so this is NPR listeners, NPR PBS. So, this is the target demo for Democrats.

Speaker 98 Super liberals.

Speaker 80 Super liberals, yes.

Speaker 203 Yeah, Republicans get more of the blame, 38 to 27, though. That's not close to a majority.
In 2019, during what was the longest government shutdown in history, over a month, 50% or more blamed Trump.

Speaker 203 Now, 31% would blame both parties equally. Trump and Republicans get low approval ratings, but Democrats in Congress are worse.
Just 25% approve of them. That's because of Democrats, by the way.

Speaker 203 Less than half approve of members of their own party in Congress. So a lot of politics to play here as the shutdown goes on.

Speaker 145 Now, one thing that really jumps out in this survey, which you've written about this morning on NPR.org, the idea that more people believe they might have to resort to violence to fix things.

Speaker 3 I mean, how many people are we talking about?

Speaker 203 Yeah, the number is up to 30% who think that they may have to resort to violence to get the country back on the right track. That's up 11 points from when we asked that question in April of last year.

Speaker 55 First of all, what kind of question is that to ask?

Speaker 69 Hey, I know.

Speaker 168 Let's ask people if they want political violence.

Speaker 128 Yeah, that's a good idea.

Speaker 145 So, what do you think is driving that?

Speaker 203 Well, largely, it's changed views among some Democrats. I mean, they've gone from just 12%

Speaker 203 saying violence might be necessary to now 28%.

Speaker 78 That's a pretty big jump.

Speaker 31 But Republicans are higher still at 31%.

Speaker 203 That's also a marginal increase from last year.

Speaker 21 Everybody wants to fight.

Speaker 203 Even a quarter of Independents are

Speaker 203 saying this now. You know, it's important to remember, though, 70% of people do not feel this way.
More than three-quarters say political violence is a major problem.

Speaker 203 And other polling has shown that when specific acts of violence are polled, the numbers are much lower. Still, it's pretty alarming, though, that people are increasingly feeling this way.

Speaker 145 Yeah, now, okay, let's get to free speech. Something we've been talking about a lot since Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air for a week after the Trump administration pressured ABC and its affiliates.

Speaker 145 So, how are people feeling about free speech in America?

Speaker 203 Well, they're not feeling like it's very free. Roughly 8 in 10 say they think that the country has gone too far in restricting speech.

Speaker 203 That crosses political lines, with almost 90 Democrats and independents saying this, as well as almost two-thirds of Republicans.

Speaker 203 Remember, conservatives were the ones who were saying for years that they felt that their speech, their free speech rights, were being curtailed on college campuses and online.

Speaker 203 So, a lot of people now have gripes with what can and can't be said in the country, and that's showing up in this poll.

Speaker 203 People also believe the federal government should play a minimal role in regulating speech. Just 15 percent said they think it should be a major role, it should have a major role in doing so.

Speaker 203 44 percent said it should play only a minor one. Another four in ten uh said it should play no role at all.

Speaker 16 Does not bode well.

Speaker 5 No, that's that's actually not good numbers. No, because there should be not nobody.
I mean, it says right there in the first amendment, they can't do anything.

Speaker 5 The government should be kept by the Constitution, it says no, government can't do jack about speech one way or the other.

Speaker 27 And can't make any laws to infringe on it.

Speaker 5 Which is my version of doing jack yes yes yes well speech i'm just called so long way to say i'm just calling it speech well you can do what you want i'm gonna do exactly what i want yeah well that's what else is new

Speaker 5 uh speaking of speech and what wait we i gotta since we were kind of on the topic i bought free speech speech have you

Speaker 1 have you i don't have to i'm gonna do what i want to do too i know but i'm gonna contradict you you.

Speaker 5 No, you're going to, you're going to, you're being a

Speaker 111 scold.

Speaker 110 Yes, I'm going to speech scold you.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you can do what you want.

Speaker 12 Thank you.

Speaker 5 This is a funny bit that ran that's been floating around on the Brit card.

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 167 Have you seen this?

Speaker 12 This is

Speaker 30 the old lady at the bus.

Speaker 5 Yeah, the old lady at the bus. It starts with an old lady at the bus, and she doesn't have a Brit card because she's not a Brit card.

Speaker 23 Are they calling it the Brit card?

Speaker 5 Well, I think somebody must be calling it the Brit card, but this is the digital ID is what we're talking about. The digital ID that some people want.

Speaker 5 And there's one aspect of this that's completely overlooked, and I'll bring it up at the end.

Speaker 205 Can I see your Brit card, please?

Speaker 162 I don't have one. I don't have a smartphone.

Speaker 205 Can I get another pint, please?

Speaker 206 Sorry, sir. Your Brit card says you've exceeded your alcohol quota for this week.

Speaker 207 Sorry, sir. Your Brit card says you've already flown twice this year.
We're having to restrict passengers with higher than average emissions profiles.

Speaker 206 Sorry, I'm afraid your funds have been temporarily frozen.

Speaker 205 Your recent social media post did not align with the government's narrative.

Speaker 207 Sorry, I'm afraid your Brit card says you cannot purchase any more meat this week as part of our commitment to achieving net zero.

Speaker 206 I've just logged in using my Brit card and it's saying I've already had three hours of internet today and it's locked me out.

Speaker 185 Okay.

Speaker 5 So what's being, you know, and this is all good stuff because that's exactly what would be happening.

Speaker 98 Computer says no.

Speaker 22 No, Computer says no.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 5 But the thing that they're experimenting with in China and their digital currency,

Speaker 5 and I've run into this because when I went to South Africa,

Speaker 5 I got a bunch of traveler's checks in RANDs.

Speaker 5 And what the Chinese are experimenting with, and which I experience with

Speaker 5 these with these travelers' checks, is expiration of funds.

Speaker 21 Right, but that has nothing to do with the Brit card per se.

Speaker 5 It would, if the digital currency, all of a sudden, you got, well, it does because

Speaker 5 you could do this with real currency too, because they deal with these travelers' checks. But the idea is that you're given

Speaker 5 50, let's say you got $500 a week, and

Speaker 5 that money that goes into the, and it's easier to do with the digital currency because you can just put

Speaker 5 a tag on that $500, and that $500 expires and must be spent within 30 days.

Speaker 30 This is all part of the UBI concept.

Speaker 5 So that way, you know, you have all this money. You can't save.

Speaker 12 No.

Speaker 5 Because they don't want you saving because that way you can't build up wealth.

Speaker 59 I mean, I'm in agreement with you, but you're kind of jumping the gun.

Speaker 22 The EU will have their digital Euro.

Speaker 9 They're going to do that.

Speaker 167 But the UK, I don't know, they're not there yet.

Speaker 5 No, I think it's something you have to bring in. The Chinese are experimenting with it to see if people go along with the program, but it stinks.

Speaker 23 Yes, it stinks.

Speaker 81 There's only one way around it, and that's Bitcoin.

Speaker 5 No, cash.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 185 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Well,

Speaker 16 also gold.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 18 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 76 Here, can I, can I, do you have a cheese scraper so I can

Speaker 75 tip you?

Speaker 5 Buzz is slightly impractical, but

Speaker 12 for that matter.

Speaker 24 No, Bitcoin is a lot.

Speaker 96 That is digital gold.

Speaker 164 It's a lot more practical.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you had digital in there.

Speaker 135 Yeah, but it's okay.

Speaker 128 Well, I'm not going to argue with you because you're a boomer.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you're the one that's the big gold bug until just recently.

Speaker 21 Until 2020.

Speaker 200 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 5 You had a break. A bar.

Speaker 22 A bar.

Speaker 98 Yeah, I did. Yeah, whatever happened to that bar.
Yeah, well,

Speaker 77 whatever happened to my two ex-wives. I don't know.

Speaker 26 I was looking for my leather jackets. It's all gone.

Speaker 29 Everything, I had no history.

Speaker 27 I was looking for my MTV jackets.

Speaker 67 Here goes the bar.

Speaker 32 Bye-bye, bar.

Speaker 5 i said i told you when you got the bar to paint it black and use it as a doorstop no one would ever know i had a uh when i was working with a guy at the air pollution district who was one of the supervisors you did tell me that by the way you did i did i'm not you know i can remember that part and the reason is because of this story this guy working at his name was oh i can almost remember his name but he was at one of the supervisors over at his house and he uh and he had all these screwball frames around his pictures they were all like uh metal, black metal around all these photos and stuff that he had hanging on the wall.

Speaker 5 And he explained to me they weren't black metal. They were solid gold.
He was one of those gold hunters that would go around panning. He also had one of those metal detectors.

Speaker 5 He'd hit the beach, the old man with the beach. And he said he'd pick up gold watches.
And

Speaker 5 all his gold. He kept it as bullion, but it was dangerous to keep around.
So he said, if anyone ever busted into the house, they saw these cheap-looking frames that were painted black.

Speaker 5 He says, no one would ever steal these because it looked stupid. But it was all solid gold.
It was like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold in his kitchen. I mean, it was unbelievable.

Speaker 5 It is kind of interesting. That gave me the idea to tell you about painting the bar gold black and using it as a doorstop.

Speaker 154 It is kind of interesting.

Speaker 135 When I became a gold bug and I was buying

Speaker 16 Kruegerands, I still have them.

Speaker 77 I think I gave some away,

Speaker 117 but I have the majority of them.

Speaker 66 I remember the price that I bought them at.

Speaker 77 Do you remember the price per ounce?

Speaker 116 Around 300?

Speaker 119 No, no, no, no, 750.

Speaker 12 Okay, well, okay.

Speaker 26 And what is it now? 3,500 higher?

Speaker 5 38.

Speaker 51 38.

Speaker 20 Okay, well, I'm just saying, you know, Bitcoin today is, let me check, $120,750.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 125 So,

Speaker 15 anyway, what I was going to talk about is the Pope.

Speaker 16 The Pope?

Speaker 156 The Pope, yeah.

Speaker 5 Is he a Catholic?

Speaker 29 He is a Catholic.

Speaker 55 Worst joke ever.

Speaker 16 But he's doing weird stuff.

Speaker 140 You know, it wasn't.

Speaker 16 Chicago.

Speaker 143 It wasn't clippable because it's just quiet, but he was at an international climate conference and had a big, like a big hunk of iceberg dripping on the stage on a little pedestal.

Speaker 14 And they they asked him to bless the iceberg, and he did.

Speaker 34 And he blessed the water, and then he was asked about

Speaker 66 through a different circumstance about

Speaker 96 abortion, and he moved the goalpost, which I thought was really interesting.

Speaker 191 Pope Leo is offering, I should say, his views on a dispute surrounding the Catholic Church and Illinois' U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

Speaker 191 Chicago Cardinal Blaise Supage had planned to give Durbin a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work helping immigrants.

Speaker 191 But some conservative Catholic bishops complained because of Durbin's support for abortion rights. The Pope says there is a contradiction in this debate.

Speaker 107 It's important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of the church. Someone who says I'm against abortion but says I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life.

Speaker 107 So someone who says that I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants or in the United States. I don't know if that's pro-life.
So they're very complex issues.

Speaker 107 I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them, but I would ask first and foremost that there be greater respect for one another.

Speaker 191 The Pope said he was not familiar with all the details of the debate over the award, but says it's important to consider Durbin's overall record. Senator Durbin has declined the award.

Speaker 72 So the goalpost move here is all of a sudden he's talking in code about pro-life.

Speaker 50 Pro-life is code.

Speaker 27 Anti-abortion is the term.

Speaker 71 And I'm actually flummoxed that he didn't just say, no, I'm against abortion, but he moved it to pro-life.

Speaker 16 It's very strange.

Speaker 5 Well, I don't know what he was doing. I don't understand Durbin not taking the award.

Speaker 135 Ah, Durbin Schmurbin.

Speaker 186 But the Pope, you know, we've been trying to figure out what is this Pope?

Speaker 7 And he's looking a little more woke than I thought he would be.

Speaker 57 He was going to be woke.

Speaker 5 The last couple popes were woke. They were picked by a bunch of woke cardinals.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 102 Yeah, that was disappointing.

Speaker 7 Let's talk about the deal.

Speaker 80 The deal.

Speaker 76 The big Gaza peace plan, which is, I think, very interesting.

Speaker 153 And the reason I say that is because everybody seems to like the Gaza peace plan.

Speaker 118 And I'm talking like New York Times, Newsweek, which, of course, makes me very suspicious.

Speaker 66 But I think President Trump did something really smart here, and he pulled the North Sea Nexus into the deal by putting Tony Blair.

Speaker 10 Oh, yes,

Speaker 16 that's a good move.

Speaker 21 Warmonger Tony Blair

Speaker 54 onto the peace board, the board of peace, which I think can only be

Speaker 143 like either you make this happen, Tony Blair, or I'm going to expose you for the war monger that you are.

Speaker 109 I mean,

Speaker 27 it's a very interesting move, and I think France 24

Speaker 67 had

Speaker 66 an overview of the 20-point peace plan.

Speaker 131 Under Donald Trump's 20-point plan for peace in Gaza, the first step would be an immediate ceasefire. Hamas would then have 72 hours to free all hostages.

Speaker 131 48 hostages remain in Gaza, at least 25 of whom are believed to be deceased. In return, Israel would free 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 Gazans detained since the start of the conflict.

Speaker 131 The plan would see Israeli forces perform a gradual, staggered retreat from Gaza.

Speaker 131 Initially, the Gaza Strip would be governed by a technocratic, apolitical board of peace, made up of Palestinians and international experts, directed and presided over by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Speaker 131 The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would also play a part in this organization.

Speaker 131 Hamas would be banned from any role in governing Gaza, while Hamas members would benefit from an amnesty if they disarm and agree to peacefully coexist with Israel.

Speaker 131 The framework includes plans to invest in Gaza and rebuild the devastated territory.

Speaker 131 As soon as a text is signed, access for humanitarian aid would be restored, overseen by bodies including the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Speaker 131 An international stabilization force with the backing of Arab states would keep the peace.

Speaker 131 In the long term, the Palestinian Authority would be allowed to take control of governing the territory after certain reforms. And the plan leaves the door open for an eventual Palestinian state.

Speaker 131 But if Hamas rejects the plan or does not follow through, Trump says Israel would then have U.S. backing to, quote, finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.

Speaker 108 So, besides putting Blair on the board, the peace board, he's got all the Arab countries.

Speaker 34 They're like, yeah, we like this plan.

Speaker 94 And then he got Israel to agree with the Arab countries.

Speaker 75 What do you think the chances are of success here?

Speaker 5 Well, I think they're still talking to Iran because they're the ones that are behind the Hamas

Speaker 5 in general. They're the ones calling the shots, it seems.
And if there's a deal to be made, it's got to be made there.

Speaker 5 And they just tell them to back off and,

Speaker 5 step up to the plate or whatever other cliches I want to come up with and

Speaker 5 end it.

Speaker 57 I think it's at first.

Speaker 5 I think, well, more talk, because Trump's been yaking about this. Oh, they

Speaker 5 release the hostages or else.

Speaker 111 He keeps saying it.

Speaker 5 And nothing goes on, and there's nothing and nothing and nothing. And this seems to have gotten some, and I think you're right.
It's bringing Blair in and the

Speaker 66 North Sea Nexus.

Speaker 5 The creeps, the great runs in the city. Bring the creeps in.
The creeps in. Bring the creeps in to have them

Speaker 5 put pressure on however they do it. It's a mystery.

Speaker 15 Meanwhile, we've got the flotilla, which is always hilarious.

Speaker 57 This is great.

Speaker 141 Always hilarious.

Speaker 159 The Israeli Navy has intercepted a flotilla of vessels trying to get to Gaza. The boats had traveled for weeks in the Mediterranean, drawing attention to the humanitarian situation in in Gaza.

Speaker 159 Israel had warned them to turn back and vowed they would not break the naval blockade. Paul Hunter has the latest from Jerusalem.
Paul, what do we know?

Speaker 208 Susan, I'll say off the top, we don't know an awful lot of details with certainty because what's been happening is out in the Mediterranean in the dark of night, and obviously not in front of news cameras or reporters.

Speaker 208 And though some of the various boats have been live streaming, verifying precisely what's what is complicated.

Speaker 208 So with those caveats, here's what can be said: a number of the boats, and there are about 40 or 50 of them in total, are now said to have been boarded by Israeli authorities.

Speaker 208 Early word was that people were being arrested and taken to a port in Israel, it seemed, without incident.

Speaker 208 But later came the suggestion from the flotilla that the Israeli Navy was using, quote, active aggression, that water cannon was being used, and even that at least one boat in the flotilla had been rammed, though no reports of any injuries.

Speaker 208 Again, impossible to verify at this point. Bottom line, an interception is underway.

Speaker 208 The boats are all part of this international flotilla carrying opponents to the war in Gaza, some of them high-profile opponents, with aid meant for Gazans. So the aid, in truth, is merely symbolic.

Speaker 208 The point here is to try to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and open a humanitarian corridor.

Speaker 184 No, this is all ego.

Speaker 96 This is just a bunch of people who want to be like, oh, I'm good.

Speaker 71 I'm great.

Speaker 27 And of course, we know who's in the flotilla.

Speaker 208 The blockade has been in place since Hamas took control of Gaza back in 2007, but is under fire now because it's preventing access for aid into Gaza from the Mediterranean.

Speaker 208 At the same time, Israel controls land crossings while its two-year war on Hamas continues.

Speaker 208 And as any on those boats would underline, countless Gazans are in ever more desperate need for food and other aid right now. Bottom line, a tense situation in the Mediterranean, Susan.

Speaker 159 And what is Israel saying?

Speaker 208 Well, it calls the whole thing a stunt and calls those in the flotilla provocateurs, looking to create some sort of incident.

Speaker 208 Israel's even said that it would allow the boats to drop their aid north of Gaza with the pledge it would then be taken into Gaza. But the boats continued toward the Gazan coast regardless.

Speaker 208 And there are those who suggest Israel has no legal jurisdiction in those waters, others suggesting if Israel can demonstrate that it's militarily justified, then interceptions can go forward.

Speaker 208 But even as the flotilla approached, Israel made clear it would use any means possible to stop it, and that seems to be what's happening.

Speaker 208 Tonight, interceptions and arrests, and by some accounts, no small degree of chaos.

Speaker 208 And I'll just mention one of those now detained, Greta Thunberg, the climate activist video emerging now of her being picked up by Israeli authorities on one of those boats.

Speaker 208 As Israel put it, Greta and her friends are safe and healthy. All of this, Susan, is expected to continue for the next several hours.

Speaker 2 I mean, how can we take Greta Thunberg seriously anymore?

Speaker 20 Does anyone take her seriously?

Speaker 84 Climate activists, now Palestinian activists, on the flotilla.

Speaker 68 Break out the Discord, people. Get your Gen Z-212 in there.

Speaker 31 This is just...

Speaker 110 She's a bad op at this point.

Speaker 16 I don't know how...

Speaker 101 They must...

Speaker 5 She's definitely gone off the rails and she looks silly.

Speaker 101 Yes.

Speaker 79 She's just nuts.

Speaker 12 I guess she has a

Speaker 5 her sister is a pop singer or something.

Speaker 167 No.

Speaker 12 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 5 Very famous pop singer.

Speaker 97 Hmm.

Speaker 12 So famous.

Speaker 5 Well, so famous you go, huh?

Speaker 28 I have not heard of the famous pop singer.

Speaker 133 Well,

Speaker 12 oops. I gave it away.

Speaker 5 You fall in a battle.

Speaker 13 Well, I'm kidding.

Speaker 10 I'm in the hole.

Speaker 91 And with that, I want to thank you for your courage. And the morning to you, the man who put the C in the Coco Melon.

Speaker 85 Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, the inimitable Mr.

Speaker 13 John C.

Speaker 13 Yeah, good morning to you, Mr.

Speaker 5 Animal Craig, Marsha C. Business and Raffy, the air service of the Lord.

Speaker 64 The names are nice out there.

Speaker 13 Counting controls.

Speaker 50 I figured out, so we had a we had we had a problem on the last show.

Speaker 9 I don't even know if you remember after the show, I let you go before I'd even posted it.

Speaker 27 Remember that?

Speaker 96 Do you remember? You remember?

Speaker 167 Huh? Do you remember?

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 74 So, and I got all kinds of complaints.

Speaker 7 I couldn't get into the troll room now most of the time.

Speaker 21 Like, okay.

Speaker 5 So, Mimi says she only heard about a half hour of the show, and then it dropped dead.

Speaker 111 She couldn't pick it up at all.

Speaker 5 I said, You complain to Adam? She said,

Speaker 5 I will. But she never did.

Speaker 5 She did, actually.

Speaker 75 Turns out we had a DNS, classic, a DNS problem.

Speaker 66 So people could literally not reach our MP3s, our stream, the troll room.

Speaker 65 And I woke Void Zero up.

Speaker 65 I pulled the handle and got him out of bed, and he fixed it.

Speaker 154 So I think that's why we only see 1691 today in the troll room.

Speaker 29 People are giving up on this thing. It's like, ah, well, can I listen?

Speaker 34 Let them know, people.

Speaker 101 All problems are fixed.

Speaker 5 That's That's not that far off of a typical Thursday.

Speaker 11 No, but I think there's probably a couple hundred people who are like, ah, it didn't work.

Speaker 108 It doesn't work.

Speaker 80 You lose people that way. It happens.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's harder to get a customer back than it is to get a new customer.

Speaker 108 Exactly. So those trolls.

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Speaker 7 Lots of trolls where you go, oh, I got to post something.

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Speaker 196 But sometimes that's just what it takes.

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Speaker 77 You know, all these other podcast apps don't really have that capability because they're not on, you know, the modern standards.

Speaker 25 So, I'm just saying, like, Podverse is specifically built for

Speaker 86 what's the term?

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Speaker 101 Accessibility.

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Speaker 23 26th of October, it'll be 18 years of this podcast.

Speaker 72 We never had a fight, four more years to go.

Speaker 153 And we've been doing it value for value, which means all we ask in return for the immense value that we provide, many say, and I think it's proven true.

Speaker 12 Many feel that.

Speaker 34 is to send us some value in return.

Speaker 66 Now, we ask for time, talent, or treasure.

Speaker 110 We have thousands of producers.

Speaker 82 Why?

Speaker 55 You ask?

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Speaker 141 People like Void Zero and many others help us with technical issues.

Speaker 128 And of course, we really appreciate people who fund us because this is our only job, who support us financially, noagendadonations.com.

Speaker 153 And then we have the artists, or as we call it now, the prompt jockeys, who try and create some art that we'll use for the album art, which we've been doing for at least a decade and a half?

Speaker 168 Things have changed.

Speaker 27 You know, there's no more humanity in it.

Speaker 77 It's all

Speaker 77 pretty much AI. We've driven away all of the humans.

Speaker 84 And we want to thank the prompt jockey who brought us the art.

Speaker 95 Actually, Capitalist Agenda, who did this piece for episode 1803, which we titled The Drone Wall.

Speaker 28 I'm pretty sure that he is not 100% AI.

Speaker 138 I mean, if you look at the no agenda

Speaker 123 words clasped in the talons of this eagle on which the British wanker is sitting backwards, that's, I don't think AI can do that.

Speaker 30 Not easily, at least.

Speaker 12 I'm pretty sure he massaged it.

Speaker 5 No, he probably put the no agenda on, he had the whole piece done and put no agenda in there by hand.

Speaker 5 I wish you would tell us. And Curry and Dvorak by hand.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 53 I wish you would tell us. us.
That'd be nice.

Speaker 29 Let us know how you did it.

Speaker 5 You should know. There's no way that it's going to happen.

Speaker 103 That's impossible at this point.

Speaker 66 We need you to list your LLM and your prompt so we know exactly what you're doing.

Speaker 24 We need to know.

Speaker 20 Because we looked at some other things for artwork, and there were some

Speaker 16 people like the word wanker.

Speaker 28 Man, they really like wanker.

Speaker 53 That was interesting.

Speaker 82 Wanker.

Speaker 169 I'm not quite sure what they like about that.

Speaker 101 Was there anything that we looked at that we thought

Speaker 77 that we thought was good?

Speaker 81 Stop playing around. Not really.

Speaker 169 No.

Speaker 5 I mean, we had enough trouble picking this piece.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 101 Well,

Speaker 117 British girls.

Speaker 138 Not quite sure what Blue Acorn was doing with.

Speaker 95 the British politician holding up a sausage or a hot dog with mustard.

Speaker 5 Yeah, there was that.

Speaker 32 That's what that was.

Speaker 123 Other bad cartoon art.

Speaker 29 No, there really wasn't. There really wasn't a.
It's hard.

Speaker 17 You know, when people are uninspired and it's like, oh,

Speaker 78 I do some art. I've just been putting that no agenda.

Speaker 12 Funny.

Speaker 28 Yeah, you got to have some humor to make it work.

Speaker 12 Where's the sombreros?

Speaker 85 Oh, we'll have lots of sombreros today, I'm sure, which probably will not get picked.

Speaker 5 But you don't know.

Speaker 81 Well, I don't know yet.

Speaker 14 So thank you very much, Capitalist Agenda.

Speaker 138 Capitalist Agenda has been around for a long time, and he certainly does some of the handiwork himself.

Speaker 56 He is a pro.

Speaker 164 He is a pro

Speaker 72 as part of the value for value system, which we pioneered and we are very proud of to see other people using it in their podcast. So it's very hard.

Speaker 77 So it's not an easy lifestyle. We've chosen it.

Speaker 108 It's the new international lifestyle, value for value.

Speaker 128 We thank everybody and we tell you how much value they supported us with.

Speaker 59 And we do that $50 and above for brevity and for anonymity.

Speaker 76 And we kick it off with Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles.

Speaker 61 Is he not the guy he always sends in on Letterhead from the.

Speaker 138 um

Speaker 5 yeah that's what he did in this one too united federation of planets yes

Speaker 144 yes there it is united federation of planets star fleet command he sent in a rubilizer donation three thousand three hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty three cents india hang out mike

Speaker 144 stand by

Speaker 144 thirty three thirty three thirty three

Speaker 144 Rubelizer out.

Speaker 66 And he wrote in handwriting on this note, gentlemen, my slide towards douchedom was stopped by a shout-out from Sir Trigger Max in the first donation segment of show 1800.

Speaker 21 Fearing that the rubberizer jingle might fall into disuse,

Speaker 21 I enclose $3,333.33 so that it may be heard again in GIPMA.

Speaker 34 Also, I hereby beg admittance into the August Order of Secretaries General with the moniker Secretary General of Greater Idaho.

Speaker 16 Signed, Sir Donald of the Firebottles.

Speaker 5 By the way,

Speaker 5 he's in Spokane.

Speaker 141 I'm sorry. Well, he says, Greater Idaho.

Speaker 5 I think he may have moved.

Speaker 22 And do you see at the bottom? I'd never seen this.

Speaker 77 You ever see this at the bottom of

Speaker 29 his stationary?

Speaker 77 So at the top, he has United Federation of Planets, Starfleet Command.

Speaker 21 At the bottom, he has, because there's TMs and stuff.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and copyright.

Speaker 28 He says 1992 Paramount Pictures All Rights Reserve.

Speaker 102 Star Trek the Next Generation is a trademark of Paramount Pictures.

Speaker 31 Is he worried he's going to get sued over his station?

Speaker 12 No,

Speaker 5 I think he bought this from Paramount.

Speaker 12 Oh.

Speaker 13 Oh.

Speaker 9 I thought he actually was a member of United

Speaker 53 Starfleet Command.

Speaker 30 I thought he was real.

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 5 I see.

Speaker 12 Yeah. Oh, okay.

Speaker 94 I was convinced the guy's the member of the United Federation of Planets.

Speaker 5 Well, maybe he is.

Speaker 5 He still has to get the copyright notice.

Speaker 108 True.

Speaker 5 Great, Mark. Thank you very much,

Speaker 52 Sir Donald, soon to be Secretary General.

Speaker 80 We really appreciate it.

Speaker 5 I'll read the next two so you can read the ridiculously long one.

Speaker 5 No name from Waldo, Wisconsin came in with 34567, and his note is dynamite.

Speaker 5 Karma, please.

Speaker 16 Gotta love it.

Speaker 40 You've got karma.

Speaker 5 So the Commodore semi-anonymous vegan, vegan, vegan, vegan.

Speaker 5 Vegan. Vegan.
He's a vegan. Vegan.
In Mill Park, Victoria, Australia came in with 333.33,

Speaker 5 which he calculates is $500, which gives him a

Speaker 5 Secretary Generalship. It does.
$500 Australian. 33333.

Speaker 111 Who knew? Yeah.

Speaker 5 Commodore Semi-Anonymous Vegan here. I'd like to take advantage of the Secretary General offer with my 33333, which would amount to about $500 Aussie dollars.
In honor of P.M. Elmer Fudd,

Speaker 5 I'd like to be known as Secretary General of the

Speaker 5 Wand of

Speaker 5 the Wanda Rabbits. The Wanda Wabbits.

Speaker 12 Wanda Rabbits.

Speaker 5 I also, it pushes me over the threshold for a knight.

Speaker 10 Good.

Speaker 5 Nice. If it pleases the peerage committee, it has to be, I have to be known as Sir Oko of the Land Down Under.

Speaker 32 Sir Oko, Sir Occo, Siraco, Siraco.

Speaker 12 Siraco, Sirocco.

Speaker 101 I got you. I got you.

Speaker 5 At the round table, I like a slice or two of Hawaiian and margarita pizza. Good for you.

Speaker 5 Soon to be launched by 404 Pizza. Keep an eye out on Kickstarter on the 1st of November, which is

Speaker 57 World Vegan Day.

Speaker 5 So it's a vegan pizza.

Speaker 16 Also,

Speaker 5 like some

Speaker 5 pornographic

Speaker 5 pomegranate kombucha, which I would recommend against, simply because I haven't heard of it it already

Speaker 5 here or there, he says, there. John, can you cash Australian checks if they sent to you? No.
What is the fee? Well, probably not.

Speaker 5 I think I can try. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Speaker 5 Commodore semi-autonomous fees.

Speaker 123 We can't even wire money from our bank, but they'll cash an Australian check.

Speaker 5 No, we can wire money. We do that.

Speaker 87 I can't wire money, not online.

Speaker 5 No, no, you can't do it online. You have to go in because you can't using Swift.
You have to answer a bunch of questions. They have to look you in the eye.

Speaker 5 They have to say, do you know who you're sending this to? Wow. Let me see your ID.
Did you get a bunch of people? And then they got to have somebody else sign off on it.

Speaker 23 Show me your Brit card.

Speaker 5 You got to have two or three people sign the document. Then you got to go over all the numbers.

Speaker 5 Really?

Speaker 5 It's a huge pain in the ass. And that's why, you know, Void Zero, who gets paid by us to keep the servers going,

Speaker 5 I only pay him every other month for two months' work because

Speaker 18 it's a pain in the ass.

Speaker 5 It takes a good half hour to put a separate wire. So they're not going to let you do it online.
But when Stablecoin comes in,

Speaker 5 and I always mention this to the bankers, I say, well, you know, this is going to change when stablecoin comes in. They always say the same thing.

Speaker 12 What?

Speaker 5 What's stablecoin?

Speaker 96 Really?

Speaker 32 Wow. Yes, really.

Speaker 21 Well, you could always pay Void Zero in Bitcoin.

Speaker 5 That's another pain in the ass.

Speaker 98 Not really.

Speaker 5 I'd have to have a wallet.

Speaker 12 Whoa, no, no, wallet.

Speaker 80 Oh, God forbid.

Speaker 5 And he would also, because it's not as easy to document for tax purposes.

Speaker 10 Certainly it is.

Speaker 23 Sir Adam of the Koch Empire, Associate Executive Producership.

Speaker 110 Haven't heard from him in a while.

Speaker 174 24568.

Speaker 16 Greetings from the Empire.

Speaker 23 Well, the Koch Empire is undergoing some changes at the moment.

Speaker 101 This is

Speaker 27 this feels like, to me, like inside investment information.

Speaker 113 We are transitioning from King Charles II to Crown Prince Chase Koch.

Speaker 164 That's the Koch brothers, K-O-C-H.

Speaker 23 Young Chase will take the rein

Speaker 66 sometime in 2026 as he's busy in Silicon Valley spending the Empire's money on angel investing into AI startups and other technologies with his disruptive technologies arm.

Speaker 9 The Empire's reaching a technology and the coming AI power needs is far and wide with our mega companies, Molex and Deepcom Power, helping Oracle build out its data center infrastructure.

Speaker 66 It's sad that our King Charles II is stepping down, but soon, down soon.

Speaker 75 But besides being really the richest person on the planet Earth, if he didn't have this to split 50% with his dead brother's widow, he'd be worth over 100 billion.

Speaker 167 Wow.

Speaker 167 Anyway,

Speaker 2 that sucks.

Speaker 12 World domination.

Speaker 59 Yes, world domination in all industries is progressing as there's not...

Speaker 66 A thing any Noah Jenna slave touches in their day that didn't get manufactured by the Empire.

Speaker 126 From toilet paper to lumber TVs to iPhone screens, the Coke Empire is all reaching.

Speaker 27 I haven't donated in a while, and that's my fault.

Speaker 15 I'd like to say I've welcomed a new human resource into the world last November.

Speaker 103 Ah, very good.

Speaker 50 A new Coke baby.

Speaker 21 Baby girl named Evelyn Gray.

Speaker 26 She definitely is the best part of my day, as she should be.

Speaker 72 I'm afraid, gentlemen, we as a society are careening towards the scenes from the great film Dr.

Speaker 77 Chivago. He sent the clip.

Speaker 72 Soon we will all have residency committee comrades telling us that our homes have five bedrooms and you only need one and that four families will take the others.

Speaker 126 God knows if Gavin Newsom gets in next, we will be living out Dr.

Speaker 128 Chivago.

Speaker 9 John, I too listened to the Michael Savage show all those years ago when he talked about Gavin and Kamala destroying San Francisco.

Speaker 74 Michael tried to warn us.

Speaker 16 R.I.P. Teddy.

Speaker 164 P.S.

Speaker 126 Support American Manufacturing.

Speaker 7 Buy some toilet paper.

Speaker 80 Very good.

Speaker 5 Michael Savage is dead?

Speaker 95 No, he's Teddy Roosevelt.

Speaker 95 Oh.

Speaker 82 I guess.

Speaker 5 Nathan Parker in Seattle, Washington.

Speaker 5 And he says, keep up the good work.

Speaker 7 Boom. That's a note.

Speaker 5 And 222.22, which gives me to the second note. No, I'll you can have the second one, and I'll.

Speaker 104 Yeah, you just look at what's long and what can I do that's not long.

Speaker 12 Yeah, don't worry about it.

Speaker 34 You can read it.

Speaker 5 Read on.

Speaker 169 Believe me, everybody's happy because it takes you forever to get through the long notes.

Speaker 167 Sean Holman.

Speaker 84 Hey, isn't that Holman?

Speaker 5 I'm You just scroll back and forth.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's Sean Holman. He's a brother.

Speaker 79 Yeah.

Speaker 66 In Indiana, 219.11. Ah,

Speaker 118 that's the 1911 guys, I think.

Speaker 68 God bless you, brothers.

Speaker 43 St.

Speaker 78 Maria Goretti, pray for us.

Speaker 5 All right. Who's St.

Speaker 169 Maria Goretti?

Speaker 73 I think we've been through this and I forgot already.

Speaker 5 Eli the coffee guy's up. He's in Bensonville, Illinois.
He comes in with 210.02

Speaker 5 for today's show. This Monday was National Coffee Day, if you didn't know.
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Speaker 5 Can I get a health karma and an F Cancer for fellow coffee lover and producer Doug? Stay Caffeinade. And thank you for your courage, Eli.

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Speaker 30 Saint Maria Teresa Goretti

Speaker 54 was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church and one of the youngest saints to be canonized.

Speaker 55 There's your answer.

Speaker 5 How old was she?

Speaker 16 Young.

Speaker 94 And then we have a oh, this is Irma Sasso de Lima de

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Speaker 30 I actually tried to get this note into AI and have it speak this note.

Speaker 22 Two problems: one, I couldn't get a good Dutch accent out of 11 labs, and two, it made the note five minutes long.

Speaker 53 So, no.

Speaker 16 Dear John Adams, sorry for this very, that was a meetup report, but I thought better late than never.

Speaker 15 We, Anita, and Irma, hosted our very first meetup in Hofdorp at the day camping site of the Haller-Mirso-Boss on September 7th.

Speaker 113 We were blessed with a wonderful sunny day.

Speaker 153 We set up our specifically for meetups brought party tent.

Speaker 23 We hung up your faces and they sent some pictures, which are quite funny, and had a great time together.

Speaker 13 We brought food, woke wine, beer, woke wine, beer, and all kinds of non-alcoholic beverages.

Speaker 16 Oh, it's woke wines, no alcohol.

Speaker 71 When it was time to light the barbecue, it turned out we invited very helpful producers, 19 of them, including some very small ones and one four-legged producer.

Speaker 135 We were even blessed with a special visit of a couple with their lovely human resource from South Africa.

Speaker 15 So, considering this was our first hosted meetup, I think it was very successful.

Speaker 136 And then she says, since we, I received one donation.

Speaker 123 Oh, she got some donations.

Speaker 118 I've been a regular listener since October 2023 after I saw you, Adam, on one of the Jensen shows, the Robert Jensen.

Speaker 153 I was hooked and wish I knew about your show before COVID.

Speaker 9 Unfortunately, I had to go through that traumatic period without you guys.

Speaker 66 I set up a recurring donation since February 2024.

Speaker 77 My first human resource, Anita, supports me, but she isn't yet a listening producer.

Speaker 128 May I have, maybe I haven't hit her in the mouth hard enough, clearly.

Speaker 56 Anyway, this donation will be on her behalf, so it will be for Anita

Speaker 54 Sauso de Lima Doprado.

Speaker 108 Okay, so it's a switcheroo, basically.

Speaker 108 Let me do the switcheroo bit.

Speaker 108 Okay, switcheroo. All right, switcheroo.

Speaker 27 Uh, it's a small amount, but this adds up to 9480 euros.

Speaker 102 I will chip in a little extra to 96.30 euros because I love the combination.

Speaker 62 Thank you both for what you do, your shows.

Speaker 9 Keep my amygdala relaxed, even though I've donated before.

Speaker 66 I have never been properly deduced.

Speaker 62 Please, we could both use a proper dedouching.

Speaker 26 Love you and karma for all.

Speaker 29 You've been deduced.

Speaker 66 And a little bit of karma.

Speaker 53 Thank you very much. You've got karma.

Speaker 79 Good job on the meetup.

Speaker 128 19 people is very good.

Speaker 22 It's very good for a first one.

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Speaker 77 Thank you very much, our executive and associate executive producers.

Speaker 86 We, of course, will have some secretaries general to be announcing.

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Speaker 68 Oh, there's new data.

Speaker 156 New data.

Speaker 74 Did you hear about the new data?

Speaker 5 There's always new data.

Speaker 68 There's new data.

Speaker 142 New data from the Centers for Disease Control show more people are coming down with the common cold. The virus is currently at the highest level since 2022.

Speaker 115 Oh, what could this be?

Speaker 9 Could this be an ad, or is it just information?

Speaker 68 It's new data.

Speaker 100 School is starting. We're moving more indoors.
That increases the risk of transmission. There's also other variables that are difficult to predict: changes in weather, humidity.

Speaker 142 The CDC reporting nearly a third of tests are coming back positive for rhinovirus and enterovirus.

Speaker 142 Rhinovirus is the most frequent cause of the common cold, and enterovirus is a type of respiratory infection.

Speaker 100 There's also viral competition where last season we saw certain viruses rise, that means that we'll see other viruses decrease, and that leaves the community with an immunity debt.

Speaker 100 That means that many of us have not seen these viruses in quite some time, and that increases our risk of susceptibility.

Speaker 142 While there's no vaccines for the common cold, there are ways to reduce your risk of catching or spreading it. Healthcare professionals say have good hygiene.

Speaker 53 Now notice what she says.

Speaker 21 While there's no vaccine

Speaker 100 these viruses in quite some time and that increases our risk of susceptibility.

Speaker 142 While there's no vaccines for the common cold, there are ways to reduce your risk of catching or spreading it.

Speaker 142 Healthcare professionals say have good hygiene like washing your hands, covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze, opening windows for cleaner air, and staying at home from work or school if you're you're sick.

Speaker 142 Experts say flu activity typically follows with illness rising at the start of October and peaking in December and February.

Speaker 142 And when it comes to the flu, healthcare professionals say the flu shot is the best defense against not only the flu, but also severe complications from it.

Speaker 142 It's recommended annually to everyone over the age of six months.

Speaker 34 So they went from there's no vaccine for the cold, but you better get your shot for the flu.

Speaker 5 What's immunity debt supposed to mean?

Speaker 8 It's a great term.

Speaker 52 We have have immunity debt because you're not vaccinating enough.

Speaker 53 Don't you get it?

Speaker 5 Immunity debt?

Speaker 12 Immunity debt.

Speaker 5 Yes, immunity debt.

Speaker 34 Yeah, it's a little too long for a show title, but I like it.

Speaker 5 I don't think so.

Speaker 31 You think immunity debt is?

Speaker 121 I'll write it down.

Speaker 56 You think so?

Speaker 128 I mean, I like Gen Z 20 to 212.

Speaker 57 We don't use Z.

Speaker 5 Didn't we use Z in the previous thing?

Speaker 128 Yeah, no, but that was just Z. Now it's Gen Z 212.

Speaker 5 oh that's that's that's promoting something i don't like it

Speaker 21 uh i thought this finally someone caught on kill all humans so we promote the ai slop this uh this trend has been bugging me for a while and the nbc today show finally did a uh a a piece on it and i think it's kind of hilarious

Speaker 209 We're back 739 today's consumer all about protein.

Speaker 179 Yeah, it is surging in a big way this year, being added to all sorts of products, even your morning cup of coffee.

Speaker 180 Let me see, business and data correspondent. Brian Chung here, looking into the growing trend, it does seem like protein is omnipresent.

Speaker 210 Yeah, and by the way, in your coffee, they're doing cold foam and now also milk infused, at least at Starbucks.

Speaker 210 So, the latest to jump on this trend, announcing the release in this line of protein powder drinks today.

Speaker 210 It's a move that many big names in the restaurant and retail business are making in the hopes of getting more customers in the door and boosting sales.

Speaker 70 Have you been following this?

Speaker 7 The protein drinks?

Speaker 5 No, I have not been following this, and this obviously sounds like a native ad for somebody.

Speaker 55 Of course it is.

Speaker 67 And it's

Speaker 34 so they're adding milk, or you would say milk product

Speaker 12 to fizzy drinks.

Speaker 153 And it's protein.

Speaker 16 You have to have protein. And they actually have the...

Speaker 94 It's a roundabout way to get to the native ad, but here we go.

Speaker 19 From sugarless to fat-free.

Speaker 12 You'd think we'd seen it all.

Speaker 45 Yep.

Speaker 164 Protein never tasted this good.

Speaker 92 But the era of protein-packed products has arrived, though not everyone is on board.

Speaker 104 Bro, I just went to Walmart the other day and found out there's a protein popcorn.

Speaker 18 Why do I need protein in my popcorn?

Speaker 194 Starting today, Starbucks is jumping on the bandwagon, offering a new line of protein lattes made with boosted protein milk.

Speaker 210 But the coffee chain isn't the only big name capitalizing on the trend.

Speaker 201 Lots of protein, all under 500 calories.

Speaker 194 Subway's new Fresh Fit menu also joining the movement.

Speaker 88 If you are a restaurant right now, is this kind of the hottest place to be?

Speaker 48 If you have a protein-focused menu that is considered healthy, it not only generates sales for the restaurant, it improves the consumer perception of that restaurant.

Speaker 12 Retailers are also hoping to boost sales.

Speaker 194 Supermarket chain Kroger recently launched 80 new protein-focused products under its Simple Truth brand.

Speaker 194 And PepsiCo announcing it will be adding protein to some of its name brands by the end of the year, too.

Speaker 145 Do you want it on this?

Speaker 97 On what?

Speaker 12 Dude, a protein shake. I said, let's buffing you up.

Speaker 158 The push for protein even making an appearance on the small screen.

Speaker 3 Valida Farm

Speaker 3 Vanilla Farmer Protein.

Speaker 151 To the phone screen, with influencers and celebrities like Chloe Kardashian getting in on the craze, promoting protein products of their own.

Speaker 96 Cloud of popcorn by protein popcorn.

Speaker 12 And there's proof of the push.

Speaker 194 In a recent survey, 70% of Americans said they're trying to consume more protein. Yet health experts say where you get your protein from really matters.

Speaker 211 Consumers might not be realizing that they're getting added sugars with the added protein.

Speaker 211 Whereas if you're eating eggs, meat, yogurt that's unsweetened, you're getting this protein source in a whole food form that's unprocessed.

Speaker 117 You see, we were told in the movie, idiocracy, that it would be electrolytes from Gatorade.

Speaker 53 But it's protein.

Speaker 126 Everything has no agenda now with protein.

Speaker 34 Everything has got to have protein in it.

Speaker 8 And there's a reason.

Speaker 123 It took them a long time to get to it, but here's the payoff.

Speaker 151 The reason for all these products with protein.

Speaker 170 All right, so clearly it's the latest trend.

Speaker 180 But could there be anything else that might be driving folks to get more protein or try and consume more protein?

Speaker 210 Yeah, well, Craig, these GLP-1 drugs, I know Zempic is a big reason behind this too, because as people eat fewer meals as a result of being on these drugs, they want it to be more efficient, trying to get as much protein as possible.

Speaker 210 That's the reason why I think a lot of these protein bars that are protein maxing get as many grams in one uh packaged item that's a big story here but for everyone else i want to point out doctors usually say you're getting enough protein as is so if you're going to try to change your diet just make sure you talk to your doctor first so all these freaks who are on glp ones but can't eat them anymore

Speaker 5 If I'm going to change my diet, I have to talk to my doctor.

Speaker 110 Yes, you should.

Speaker 68 Right away.

Speaker 5 Hey, Doc, I'm going to have, there's a protein bar if I eat that. Is that something I should be aware of? Is something I should concern myself with? No, not really.

Speaker 5 We'll say, by the way, the copay there, that's 50 bucks. Thanks.

Speaker 86 Everybody needs to have protein because they're not eating food anymore.

Speaker 74 So, well, I can't eat because

Speaker 84 I'm puking from

Speaker 29 Ozempic.

Speaker 21 So, I still not, I need to force down some protein.

Speaker 31 Got to get some protein.

Speaker 151 Eat protein.

Speaker 31 If you're not going to eat, you need protein.

Speaker 66 We have warned since the day these things came out.

Speaker 177 We said this is not a good idea.

Speaker 77 This doesn't sound healthy.

Speaker 26 All of the bad side effects we've been tracking.

Speaker 66 And I'm afraid that we're not going to get to the erectile dysfunction because now the GLP ones are in trouble.

Speaker 161 Ozempic has exploded in popularity as both a diabetes and a weight loss drug, but now it's at the center of a legal blowback kind of situation.

Speaker 158 More than 18 kind of situation.

Speaker 29 What is that?

Speaker 70 Kind of situation.

Speaker 161 Of a legal blowback kind of situation. More than 1,800 lawsuits have been filed over adverse side effects with the liability estimated at more than $2 billion.

Speaker 161 Our legal expert Whitney Trailer is here to break this down. So let's talk first about the claims against Ozempic.

Speaker 190 Yeah, so we went back to school. So all these 1L students that just started law school, you're going to be learning about this stuff.
This is a civil tort is what we're dealing with.

Speaker 190 So this is product liability, complex civil litigation,

Speaker 190 you know, mass tort liability.

Speaker 190 And essentially, they're saying that, hey, you marketed this drug and you downplayed, they're claiming that they downplayed the potential harm that it would cause and it's causing these very severe side effects.

Speaker 190 And so people are now bringing these lawsuits. There's a bunch of, if you go online, you'll see a bunch of law firms just highlighting this case in particular.

Speaker 190 And actually, it was over 1,800, but as of this morning, I think it's 2,100.

Speaker 158 How are the damages decided?

Speaker 188 Is it individually based?

Speaker 187 Do they look at the side effects? Like, how does that even get decided on that?

Speaker 190 Yeah, well, that's why we have a jury system. And so the jury actually looks at that and they will decide a number of different factors.
So, you know, there's a number of terrible side effects.

Speaker 190 Some people are going blind. They're having intestinal issues.

Speaker 12 Get them off the air. Yeah.

Speaker 190 There are digestive issues, just some really severe type of issues. And the jury will come back and decide and say, hey, we think this is what it's worth.

Speaker 190 And so you have to calculate both the physical damage, the emotional distress, you know, the loss of consortium.

Speaker 190 Then if people can't go to work, their lost wages, if they can't provide for their family. So it's going to be different for different folks.

Speaker 154 Of course, the No Agenda Show has been warning you about this, about these horrible side effects.

Speaker 34 And if you still didn't listen to us, don't worry because Rob, the constitutional lawyer, the boots and suits, will be glad to sue these companies for you.

Speaker 34 No problemo.

Speaker 34 If you're going blind, call Rob.

Speaker 28 Let me know.

Speaker 61 I'll forward your email to him.

Speaker 29 But luckily, luckily, we have not one, but two disclaimers now.

Speaker 21 They're now 30 seconds of disclaimers.

Speaker 73 They're starting to creep up a little bit.

Speaker 102 The disclaimer, the ads with their disclaimers, here is the competitor to Ozempic, ZepBound.

Speaker 212 Tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck. Stop Zepbound and call your doctor if you have severe stomach pain or a serious allergic reaction.

Speaker 212 Severe side effects may include inflamed pancreas or gallbladder problems.

Speaker 212 Tell your doctor if you are experiencing vision changes, taking a sulfonourea or insulin, having suicidal thoughts, if you're nursing, pregnant, plan to be, or taking birth control pills.

Speaker 212 Side effects include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which can cause dehydration and worsen kidney problems.

Speaker 177 That doesn't sound too bad.

Speaker 174 Suicidal thoughts?

Speaker 27 How about this new one, which is camzios?

Speaker 102 Camzios. Camzios.

Speaker 12 Camzios is if you have OHCS, I think it is, obstructive hypertropic cardiomyopathy.

Speaker 77 I'm not sure what it is, but

Speaker 52 here's the drug disclaimer for it.

Speaker 37 Camzios works by targeting what's causing OHCM, and it's proven to reduce obstruction in the heart four times more.

Speaker 37 Camzios may cause serious side effects, including heart failure that can lead to death, a risk that's increased with serious infection, irregular heartbeat, or with certain other medicines.

Speaker 37 Do not stop, start, or change medicines or dose without telling your doctor.

Speaker 29 You must have echocardiograms before and during treatment.

Speaker 37 Seek help for new or worsening heart failure symptoms. Camzios is only available through a restricted program.

Speaker 37 Before taking Camzios, tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and current or planned pregnancy. Camzios, first in its class to treat symptomatic OHCM.

Speaker 13 I mean,

Speaker 12 I mean,

Speaker 78 what happened to good old anal leakage?

Speaker 65 Now we've got death.

Speaker 167 Death.

Speaker 1 You might die.

Speaker 128 Give it a shot. You might die.

Speaker 22 Of course, it will be available at Trump RX.

Speaker 104 Our president,

Speaker 101 he's a hoot, man.

Speaker 29 Trump RX, really?

Speaker 5 It's.gov, I believe.

Speaker 58 I'm pretty sure it's.gov.

Speaker 65 It's better than a monument.

Speaker 21 Just get a domain name, TrumpRX.gov.

Speaker 9 I went to see NBC to get the lowdown on the finances of this thing.

Speaker 209 Oh, here we go. Is President Trump announcing a drug pricing deal with Pfizer, which will voluntarily sell its medications for less, including discounted drug prices for Medicaid?

Speaker 209 Pfizer is up 5% on the news. Angelica Peoples joins us now with more.
There was a teaser, too, that other drug companies would have announcements to come, also.

Speaker 209 That's what the president said. We haven't heard anything yet.
I've been checking in. Nothing to announce there.
But, you know, this is interesting, right?

Speaker 209 Of course, we've been hearing from all these companies yesterday. We talked about it.
Everyone's been saying they've been in negotiations.

Speaker 209 But today, Pfizer are the first company to actually strike a deal with the administration. So, what's happening? They're committing to a few things.

Speaker 209 They're going to lower prices in Medicaid, and then they are going, they're getting a three-year exemption from tariffs on the condition that they invest more in the U.S.

Speaker 209 They're also agreeing to sell some of the drugs through this new website called TrumpRX, which is a DTC direct-to-consumer platform. And they're also promising to launch new drugs at parity.

Speaker 209 So the same price here in the U.S. as other countries.

Speaker 209 Now, it sounds like a big deal, but I do want to take a little bit of a measured approach here because some of these drugs, right, the drugs that they're selling directly to consumers,

Speaker 209 only one of them is actually broken out in the earnings report. So these are older drugs.
They don't make a lot of money. These are not the huge blockbusters that you might be familiar with.

Speaker 209 And so even though it sounds like, yes, these prices are coming down, these are significant discounts, Pfizer is not really giving up a whole lot here.

Speaker 209 And also, Medicaid already gets the lowest prices around. So, you know, clearly, this is working out for Pfizer and it gives them certainty.

Speaker 209 You can see the stock move today, but not giving up a ton here.

Speaker 5 Hmm. Yeah, scam.
Well, I have a report on the same thing, but this is from NPR.

Speaker 51 Okay.

Speaker 119 What's it called? Oh, Trump announced his deal with Pfizer.

Speaker 5 Here we go.

Speaker 145 President Trump says he's making good on his promise to lower drug prices for Americans. He announced a deal with Pfizer on Tuesday and also announced a new government website called Trump RX.

Speaker 145 NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent Sidney Lupkin is following this.

Speaker 5 They have a pharmaceuticals correspondent. Yes.

Speaker 27 Right next to the climate desk, I'm sure.

Speaker 108 Let's roll that back for a second here.

Speaker 145 Pfizer on Tuesday and also announced a new government website called Trump RX. NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent Sidney Lupkin is following this.
Hey, Sidney, so what's in this deal?

Speaker 47 The splashiest part involves Pfizer selling its drugs such as Zeljans for rheumatoid arthritis directly to consumers at a discount.

Speaker 47 Consumers could access the deals through a website operated by the federal government called TrumpRX.

Speaker 47 Trump has talked about bringing drug prices in line with what other developed countries pay and making those other countries pay what he calls their fair share. Here's Trump at the press conference.

Speaker 5 The United States is done subsidizing the health care of the rest of the world.

Speaker 145 It's a big thing.

Speaker 47 Trump says similar deals with other drug makers are in the works.

Speaker 145 How did President Trump get the drug makers to come to the table?

Speaker 47 Yeah, it started with an executive order back in May on what the president calls most favored nation drug pricing. That would link U.S.
prices to those elsewhere.

Speaker 47 Over the summer, he upped the ante with letters to 17 drug makers that gave them 60 days to come up with plans. And then came closed-door negotiations.

Speaker 47 During the press conference, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
told reporters that negotiations went late into the night. Pfizer CEO Albert Borla was at the press conference too, by the way.

Speaker 47 He said this deal came with a three-year grace period from certain tariffs. And he added that tariffs were the, quote, most powerful tool to motivate behaviors.

Speaker 47 So it's clear the threat of them played a role here, though the many details of the deal aren't public.

Speaker 108 Yeah, and there's still no website, which is very bad form.

Speaker 5 No, it's supposed to be in December. They already said that.

Speaker 76 From here's apparently Cuban, who owns his own drug purchasing website, Cost Plus Drugs, says, I've been told it's just a listing site and won't actually sell anything.

Speaker 148 So they'll just have links to other

Speaker 81 online that would make sense.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 53 It's a marketing website. It's a landing page.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 80 Well, a landing page.

Speaker 18 Okay.

Speaker 5 At least it's consolidated. It's part two to this, by the way.

Speaker 145 But what would this mean for consumers then?

Speaker 18 You know, a lot of them probably won't notice a difference.

Speaker 47 In Medicaid, for instance, beneficiaries already pay very little or nothing for drugs, and it's not yet clear how much money the Medicaid part of the deal would save taxpayers.

Speaker 47 As for Trump Rx, direct-to-consumer prices mean that consumers are not using their health insurance. So while on average, prices may drop 50% through Trump RX, that's still 50% off a big number.

Speaker 7 And it still might be unaffordable.

Speaker 47 Insurance copays could be cheaper. But if someone needs a drug that isn't covered by insurance and it's offered on Trump Rx, it might be an option.

Speaker 145 All right. So when is Trump RX supposed to get going?

Speaker 47 Yeah, the TrumpRX.gov website is supposed to launch in early 2026, and the new Medicaid prices are supposed to take effect around the same time.

Speaker 47 As for the promise of launching new drugs at the same price in the U.S. as abroad, that's an ongoing process.
In fact, some other companies have already said they'll do that.

Speaker 47 Bristol Myers Squibb, for instance, says its new schizophrenia drug will be sold at the same price in the U.K. as it is here, but that won't save American patients any money.

Speaker 53 Are new schizophrenia drugs?

Speaker 5 A new schizophrenic drug is going to be sold cheaper.

Speaker 100 No, it's not. Yes, it is.

Speaker 97 Wow.

Speaker 5 New schizophrenic drug for all the schizophrenics.

Speaker 104 They worked that one in.

Speaker 119 Check is in the mail, girl.

Speaker 2 Good job.

Speaker 80 Okay, what do we have?

Speaker 5 Well, I got a couple of things here. There's a couple of, for example, the man on the street

Speaker 5 was done by NTD asking people just randomly on one of the malls whether they think Trump's going to run for a third term. I thought this was amusing.

Speaker 26 You only want this in there because of the $500 bet you have with your son.

Speaker 64 am I right no I don't want it in there for that reason I already got that bet it's done yeah okay you just want you you want to throw it would you support President Trump running for a third term entity Sam Wong was out on the national mall in DC to hear from the people President Trump's been talking about potentially running for a third term perhaps a joke perhaps not would you like to see that happen yeah I would like to but it's not going to happen that's that's not right and you know he does say and do some things that even we don't agree but I don't think that will happen you would like to see that happen I would like it yes he deserves to be in there because he's moving everything forward, and that's great.

Speaker 139 Sure, yeah, but I don't think he can.

Speaker 3 Is it the 22nd Amendment?

Speaker 94 I'm not 100% sure. I don't even want to comment.

Speaker 214 I certainly think he will.

Speaker 126 By the time it comes around, it'll be legal to do so.

Speaker 145 And would you be behind that?

Speaker 96 Hell no.

Speaker 126 You know, pretty soon only be Republicans that can own guns, too.

Speaker 213 President Trump has been talking about potentially running for a third term.

Speaker 96 Would you be on board with that?

Speaker 204 Yeah. I'm not a huge political person, but you know, I'm very turned off by the Democrats and just liberals and just all of that.

Speaker 181 I don't think anybody should be up beyond two terms. That's been a tradition in

Speaker 170 our country, and I think

Speaker 146 that's been pretty well established.

Speaker 213 How about Vance 2028? What do you think?

Speaker 3 Ah! No.

Speaker 152 No, please no.

Speaker 214 I don't have that many years.

Speaker 4 I don't have that many years left on this planet.

Speaker 214 I don't want this to go down like this.

Speaker 100 I see that happening.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 96 Yep.

Speaker 213 Would you be supporting him? Yes.

Speaker 163 Probably a continuation of what Trump has started.

Speaker 188 Just, you know, finishing it out and carrying it through.

Speaker 193 You know, I really, to be honest, don't know exactly what he's doing right now. I haven't really followed his speeches and interviews.
So if it's not Trump, then for sure, Vance.

Speaker 170 You know, I won't close.

Speaker 189 Close off to it.

Speaker 170 I liked what he said a lot more before the election than when he joined the ticket.

Speaker 22 So you're open-minded?

Speaker 3 Well, I try to be.

Speaker 213 How about Vance 2028?

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 214 That would be a good call. There's a couple other guys that could be in the running as well.
We'll have to wait and see because we really don't know much about Vance right now.

Speaker 199 But if you ever watch, did you ever watch his movie that he made about? Well, he didn't make it, but they made it about his life and where he came from to where he is today.

Speaker 199 It was only God that did that.

Speaker 161 But I would definitely vote for him in 28.

Speaker 82 Brother.

Speaker 169 Well, we could have done without that.

Speaker 82 Goodness gracious.

Speaker 29 Man, I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 By the way, here's another clip that you'll be

Speaker 60 make it funny.

Speaker 111 Well, this is Crowder

Speaker 12 who

Speaker 5 puts himself back on the pedestal and he's complaining about, hey, you know,

Speaker 5 he gets threatened too.

Speaker 12 And you listen to this.

Speaker 5 I didn't get any of the Tim Poole ones because Tim Poole's been saying the same thing. But Crowder's stuff is like a little out there.

Speaker 192 Crowder said he pulled back from these campus events due to security issues with those in the audience that opposed him turning violent.

Speaker 106 When I did change my mind, I started in 2016. The idea was, hey, calling the left on their bluff civil dialogue with anyone to the tune of billions of plays and hundreds of hours.

Speaker 106 And it got increasingly violent. And what I didn't tell people, I told people out there, go do this on your own campus, have these conversations.
I advocated for it.

Speaker 106 And Charlie took it to another level.

Speaker 12 He was unbelievable at it.

Speaker 106 I didn't tell people about the threats because I didn't want copycats. I didn't tell them about terrorists from Yemen through Sweden showing up in East Grand Rapids.

Speaker 106 I didn't tell them about concrete milkshakes. I didn't tell them about my tires getting slashed, about people trying to firebomb my car.

Speaker 192 Turning points national tour continues with some of the biggest conservative names, including Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, and Glenn Beck.

Speaker 5 We have a Yemen terrorist coming through Sweden.

Speaker 27 We have a term for a guy like this in the old country.

Speaker 5 We call it Leicherpicker.

Speaker 16 Say it with me now.

Speaker 16 Leichenpicker.

Speaker 9 Means he's someone who picks off the remains of dead bodies.

Speaker 113 He's just trying to make a name for himself off of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Speaker 21 I can't see it any other way. Oh, look at me.

Speaker 12 I'm so brave.

Speaker 18 Ugh.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'm not going to argue with that because I found the thing peculiar.

Speaker 5 What is a concrete milkshake?

Speaker 73 Well, it's a milkshake that has concrete in it and they throw it at you.

Speaker 95 So it's like basically like a brick.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Well, they just throw a brick at you.

Speaker 16 Yeah, this is disappointing.

Speaker 5 This is like a lot of work.

Speaker 128 This is disappointing. I saw him walking there with all his security guys.

Speaker 30 Oh, yeah, I'm a big man.

Speaker 94 I'm going on campus.

Speaker 22 Look at me. I'm so brave.

Speaker 30 I was doing it before Charlie.

Speaker 117 That's basically what he said.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's what he said. That was the theme there.
Yeah.

Speaker 135 Well, now you've just bummed me out.

Speaker 12 I'm going to show myself by donate.

Speaker 10 agenda.

Speaker 16 Imagine all the people who could do that.

Speaker 18 Oh, yeah, that'd be fabulous.

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 13 on no agenda

Speaker 13 in the morning.

Speaker 21 Well, and since you played that clip, I'm going to force you to read all of the donations that came in, $50 and above, for the people who love us and get value from this program.

Speaker 12 If they're still overlooked after that, you're not going to have the bad news part of that.

Speaker 5 You overlooked the good news part of it.

Speaker 29 There was no good news.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you gave us a new Dutch term.

Speaker 11 Like a picker.

Speaker 1 Like a picker.

Speaker 5 Am I pronouncing it correctly?

Speaker 50 Yeah, pretty good.

Speaker 11 Like a picker. Like a picker.

Speaker 30 Yeah, so like is a dead body.

Speaker 28 Picker is picking, you know, taking stuff from it.

Speaker 22 Like a picker.

Speaker 97 We need to use this.

Speaker 22 Like a picker.

Speaker 5 Interesting.

Speaker 82 Yes.

Speaker 12 Hey,

Speaker 52 thank our producers here, John.

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Speaker 167 Oh, I like that.

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Speaker 5 And this is a Who Shot JR donation. Yeah,

Speaker 156 this too. Two people.

Speaker 167 Two people. Two people.
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Speaker 57 He's up there.

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Oh, I'm sorry, 6502, the chip donation. We get one of those every other show.

Speaker 5 Dame Nancy of the Confused, 5721.

Speaker 5 Donating is good for the show and your soul, she writes. That's true.

Speaker 7 Fact.

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Speaker 5 John Bassano in Madison, Alabama, 52.72.

Speaker 5 Stephen Veneman, Vienaman, Vienaman in Genoa, Illinois, $52.71. And now we have $50 donors.
We have a makeup. There's a lot of them today compared to last show, which was four, I believe.
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Speaker 46 Bosch.

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Nathan Noel in Nederland, Texas. Niederland.
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Speaker 105 Niederland.

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Speaker 5 Oh, it's Niederland. Yes, Niederland.
Well, it says Nederland.

Speaker 117 I know, but it's really Niederland.

Speaker 5 You need to have two E's instead of one.

Speaker 5 Joshua Johnson in Omaha. Terrence Clark in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
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Speaker 5 Sean Pendergast in Vista, California. For Foster Birch in New York City.
Daniel LeBoy in Bath, Michigan. Matt Frazy in St.
John's, Florida.

Speaker 5 And Sir Luke Raynor, the east of London and the Southwest, UK,

Speaker 5 50.

Speaker 5 Linda Walker in Roseburg, Oregon, $50. That's a Bitcoin donation.

Speaker 56 No, it's not. It's just

Speaker 98 a Stripe.

Speaker 12 Stripe.

Speaker 5 Oh, Stripe. That's a Stripe donation.

Speaker 5 Our buddy over here in San Francisco, Aichi Kitagawa. And last on the list, Sir Michael in Snohomish, Washington.
There's people that helped us do the show,

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Speaker 53 That's right, 1804.

Speaker 17 18th anniversary coming up on the 26th of October.

Speaker 66 It's been quite the ride.

Speaker 143 Thank you all very much.

Speaker 52 And again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for this episode.

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Speaker 113 NoAgendadonations.com set up a recurring donation today.

Speaker 56 You'll see we actually have a layaway night coming up, and that night will get a ring, of course, and all of the accoutrements that go with it.

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Speaker 215 A real quick one. We only have one on the list.
It doesn't happen often, but Heidi Quant wishes Stephen Milling a very happy birthday. He celebrates his 40th today, and we celebrate with him.

Speaker 4 Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.

Speaker 13 And not one, but two secretaries general with a jingle that says it wrong but here we go all hail to the secretary's generals because they are the ones who need hailing

Speaker 12 all hail to the secretary's generals

Speaker 13 on the no agenda show

Speaker 78 You heard him earlier, Sir Donald the Firebottles came in with a Rubilizer donation and of course automatically becomes a Secretary General.

Speaker 6 He will henceforth be known as the Secretary General of Greater Idaho.

Speaker 120 And Sir Ako, he will now be known as the Secretary General of the Wand of Wabbits.

Speaker 62 The Wand of Wabbits, I should say.

Speaker 6 Secretary Generals, go to noagendarings.com. Let us know where to send your certificate because it is official.
You are now a Secretary General.

Speaker 120 Congratulations.

Speaker 13 All hail to the Secretary Generals, because they are the ones who need hailing.

Speaker 13 All hail to the Secretary Generals

Speaker 27 And in today's segment, we also have three knights to bring up on stage, including Peter Goodall, who says, John Adam, I'm writing to let you know that I've been listening since 2013.

Speaker 21 I was an irregular donor, then decided to set a small bi-monthly donation of $20.20 in the year 2020.

Speaker 81 In the year 2020.

Speaker 113 I made one small modification to it in 2022 and basically forgot about it since then.

Speaker 16 Well, I just totaled up, and it has made me long overdue for a knighthood after amassing the pricely sum of $2,211.

Speaker 54 Thank you very much.

Speaker 128 I would like to be knighted, sir, slow and steady, as in slow and steady wins the race.

Speaker 9 If possible, could I also get an associate producer credit for this current episode?

Speaker 52 I have to ask John.

Speaker 5 I think on a request like that, I think, especially with the kind of overpaid for the knighthood, sure, why not?

Speaker 118 Okay, you consider it done.

Speaker 72 He says, I would like to add it to my LinkedIn profile.

Speaker 126 So you are good to go.

Speaker 21 And let us bring out the swords.

Speaker 27 Here's mine.

Speaker 94 I'm always at the ready with my sword. Here you go.

Speaker 9 A nice blade.

Speaker 6 He brings out Peter Johnson. You're here.
Here's Welsh. Peter Goodall.
Step up, sir.

Speaker 17 And Commodore Semi-Anonymous Vegan.

Speaker 120 All of you support the No Agenda Show in excess in many cases of $1,000 or more.

Speaker 6 Therefore, I'm very proud to pronounce all of you as Knights. Knight Peter of Castleberry, Sir Akko of the land down under,

Speaker 168 and Sir Slow and Steady.

Speaker 6 Gentlemen, for you, we have Hookers and Blow, Red Boys, and Chardonnay, a slice or two of Hawaiian and margarita pizza soon to be launched by 404 pizza and pomegranate kombucha.

Speaker 6 Along with that, we've got bongits and bourbon, sparkling cider, and escorts, ginger adultery, and gerbils, breast milk, and paddlemen.

Speaker 7 As always, at the round table, the mutton and the mead.

Speaker 9 And you can head over to noagendarings.com and let us know what ring size you have.

Speaker 34 There's a little guide there that shows you how to do it.

Speaker 66 And along along with that, we will send you some wax to use with your signet ring to seal your important correspondence.

Speaker 9 And of course, as always, a signed certificate of authenticity.

Speaker 128 Welcome to you three to the Knights and the Dames of the No Agenda Roundtable.

Speaker 216 No Agenda.

Speaker 6 And there's a party going on as we speak.

Speaker 84 Actually, it's about to kick off the Northern Wake Pumpkin Spice Showdown in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Speaker 26 That'll be at 6 o'clock at Hoppy Endings.

Speaker 87 Go and check them out.

Speaker 84 On Saturday, the Tiny Amygdala of Anchorage.

Speaker 75 They will be uniting in Anchorage, Alaska at 2 o'clock at Campbell Park.

Speaker 7 Go and send us a meetup report.

Speaker 52 We haven't heard from Anchorage in quite a while.

Speaker 26 I'd love to get a meetup report and include your server if you can.

Speaker 113 Coming up in the month of October, on the 9th, Parker, Colorado, Johnson City, Texas on the 10th.

Speaker 62 It's right down the road, about 45 minutes away.

Speaker 68 But Fredericksburg, Texas will be on the 11th.

Speaker 23 And Tina the Keeper has confirmed she will be there as well at J6 or Jenny's place.

Speaker 153 Also on the 11th, Garden City, Idaho, the 16th, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Speaker 9 Coleyville, Texas, Collyville, Texas, on the 18th, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Speaker 126 On the 18th, Columbus, Ohio as well.

Speaker 27 The 19th, Lansing, Michigan.

Speaker 59 Los Altos, California, the 25th, the 26th, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 27 The 31st, Leiden in Zeutholland, the Netherlands. And on the 15th of November.

Speaker 120 Is this another one that you're going to attend, John, in Albany, California?

Speaker 5 At the Mallard Club?

Speaker 29 That sounds like it.

Speaker 98 John will be there.

Speaker 143 Those are the No Agenda meetups which you can find at Noagendameetups.com.

Speaker 168 Remember, when you go to a No Agenda meetup, you will make connections that will give you lifelong protection.

Speaker 15 These people will be your first responders in an emergency.

Speaker 77 Noagendameetups.com.

Speaker 120 If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.

Speaker 12 It's easy.

Speaker 12 Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.

Speaker 12 You to be where you want me, triggered all hell aim.

Speaker 12 You to be where everybody feels the same.

Speaker 12 It's like a party.

Speaker 177 Yeah, baby. It's like a party every single time.

Speaker 102 It's just like a party. And before we get to John's tip of the day and our outstanding end of show mixes, we like to select our ISOs here for the end of show.

Speaker 34 I have three, John has two.

Speaker 9 I'm sure they're AI'd, so I'll just do my real people ISOs first.

Speaker 179 Is this true?

Speaker 108 Which I thought was pretty good.

Speaker 167 Kind of like that one.

Speaker 54 We have this one.

Speaker 216 I mean, you can't make this up, okay?

Speaker 28 And this one I thought was just funny.

Speaker 165 Brought to you by Pfizer.

Speaker 5 Well, I like the Alex Jones one of the three.

Speaker 16 Okay.

Speaker 5 Now, I have, I don't know if this is AI or not, but this is the WAWD.

Speaker 33 What are we doing?

Speaker 97 No, it doesn't sound like ai what are we doing

Speaker 5 because it's not no

Speaker 217 and this one here could be uh it could be just a real person this is the wowie clip wowie faulty what a fabulous show no that's ai that is just so ai what yeah wowie faulty what a fabulous show what is he even saying wowie faulty wowie faulty what a fabulous show who's faulty

Speaker 5 What I put in there was Wowie and then basically a random number of letters, just gibberish to see what it would say.

Speaker 56 Yeah, and I don't like it.

Speaker 216 I mean, you can't make this up, okay?

Speaker 61 I think that's the one we're going to have to go with.

Speaker 62 Hey, everybody, it's time for John's tip of the day.

Speaker 13 Great advice for you and me. Just the chilly with JCD,

Speaker 13 and sometimes at all.

Speaker 5 Well, this is a screwball tip. This is something I didn't think I'd ever do, but I'm going to do it.
Okay. I'm going to recommend that people go watch a PBS show.

Speaker 111 What?

Speaker 5 And you can get it over on Amazon Prime. They have it over there and it's on the PBS.

Speaker 5 You can dig it up. But it is a terrific show that everyone who listens to No Agenda should watch.
This is a recent American experience called The Hard Hat Riots.

Speaker 5 And it's about the hard hat riots in New York in the late 60s, early 70s,

Speaker 5 which is

Speaker 5 a history. A lot of it I didn't, I was completely unaware of.

Speaker 5 A lot of the stories were suppressed.

Speaker 5 They were not in the media, but it's the genesis during the Nixon administration, the genesis of the working class moving toward the Republican Party, how it all came about, how the Democrats had switched over to just pretty much supporting the banker class, right in that moment when the CIA came in during the Russ Baker, in that Russ Baker book, and pointed out the fact that the CIA was behind the Watergate scandal, which got Nixon kicked out,

Speaker 5 made him quit. And so they got back on track.

Speaker 70 What is this called again?

Speaker 5 It's called the Hard Hat Riots. It's one of the best histories I've seen.
I know part of it. I was there

Speaker 5 pretty much. Yeah, yeah.
But I'm watching this going, this is all news to me. It's fascinating.

Speaker 13 Huh.

Speaker 104 Is that like the OG People Sick Day?

Speaker 29 Is that kind of what that is?

Speaker 5 Well, no, not at all, actually. It was about, it was not about any.
It's just, it's an unimaginably good

Speaker 5 documentary on the American experience.

Speaker 138 Considering it's from PBS and you're promoting it, it really must be a doozy.

Speaker 5 It's a doozy.

Speaker 164 It's a killer.

Speaker 78 I love it. There it is, everybody.

Speaker 6 John's tip of the day.

Speaker 215 Find them all at tipoftheday.net.

Speaker 13 Great advice for you and me. Just a tip for JCD.

Speaker 13 And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Bernetti.

Speaker 169 And there you go.

Speaker 151 That is our show for today.

Speaker 120 I saw Hakeem Jeffries do a press conference, so more sombrero will be forthcoming by this evening, I'm sure.

Speaker 5 No doubt about it.

Speaker 5 Ritardo.

Speaker 174 I was thinking about Mucho Ritardo as a show title.

Speaker 16 Mucho Ritardo is a good show title.

Speaker 51 It's not bad.

Speaker 155 It's a decent idea.

Speaker 23 Hey, coming up next on the No Agenda stream, it's Nick the Ratt from the Sewers of New York City.

Speaker 26 This is his 508th episode.

Speaker 110 It's titled Dill Slop.

Speaker 27 So you gotta wonder what that's about.

Speaker 7 So stay tuned for it on your Modern Podcast Podcast app.

Speaker 61 Or if you're listening to the stream right now, directly at noagendastream.com.

Speaker 72 End of show mixes.

Speaker 23 Agent Looper is back with some thoughts and prayers. And Jeffrey Crocker with a great, great parody.

Speaker 16 It's been a while.

Speaker 128 The jury is still out whether it's AI or if you really can sing like that.

Speaker 72 Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in picturesque Fredericksburg, where it is

Speaker 7 Oktoberfest, everybody.

Speaker 16 In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 5 And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain. I'm John C.

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Speaker 9 We'll talk to you on Sunday with another one, two, three hours of media deconstruction. Until then, remember us at Noahjinthadonations.com.

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