1815 - "Attunement"

Speaker 1 That's not interesting.

Speaker 3 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.

Speaker 4 It's Sunday, November 9th, 2025. This is your award-winning Get One Nation Media Assassination episode 1815.

Speaker 5 This is no agenda.

Speaker 4 Providing our public service and 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 Christy Noam's in trouble, I'm John C. Dvorak.

Speaker 9 It's Craig Bottom Buzzkill.

Speaker 10 Why is she in trouble?

Speaker 11 What has she done?

Speaker 5 Oh, she bought jets without engines.

Speaker 7 Without engines? Oh, no.

Speaker 14 Do you have a clip of this incredibly interesting story?

Speaker 5 I don't have a clip because it just showed up this morning in the feed, and it's an article on. I'll just read you the headline from The Guardian.
DHS head

Speaker 5 reportedly, just a head, by the way.

Speaker 16 Just a head.

Speaker 5 Reportedly authorized purchase of 10 engineless Spirit Airlines planes that the airline didn't own.

Speaker 17 Oh, that sounds like something horribly bad.

Speaker 9 Sounds like who?

Speaker 20 What kind of a story is this?

Speaker 21 Well, now

Speaker 24 it is not abnormal to purchase an airframe and engine separately, depending on what you're doing.

Speaker 28 It's not completely, I mean, they are separate items.

Speaker 29 They have separate

Speaker 17 time between overhaul and everything.

Speaker 13 So that's not crazy.

Speaker 33 It's not crazy.

Speaker 5 No, what's crazy is Spirit

Speaker 5 supposedly authored the purchase of the Spirit Airlines planes that Spirit Airline didn't own. How does that work?

Speaker 17 I don't know.

Speaker 21 Where did you find this? What news is that?

Speaker 9 The Guardian.

Speaker 5 The Guardian.

Speaker 5 They're trying to make a smear out of it.

Speaker 15 The Guardian.

Speaker 5 The Guardian is a word.

Speaker 35 Sorry, she can't fly them anyway anyway.

Speaker 36 We're shutting down, baby. We're shutting down everything.

Speaker 31 We're shutting it down.

Speaker 37 Shutting it down.

Speaker 38 This is not good.

Speaker 39 In fact, this really is kind of a problem.

Speaker 5 You think?

Speaker 41 The shutdown. I've had this is a little.

Speaker 42 Yeah, here's a little update.

Speaker 43 Chaos in U.S. airports with delayed flights and endless queues at security control.

Speaker 43 The government shutdown has not just left severe stock shortages, but some 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 security agents working unpaid.

Speaker 43 The Federal Aviation Administration decided to stabilize the situation by cutting 10% of air traffic across 40 airports, which could further affect travelers.

Speaker 43 Airlines have 36 hours to slash flights after the U.S. Transportation Secretary announced cuts to transport hubs across 24 states.

Speaker 43 Among them are the busiest airports like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas.

Speaker 45 There'll be frustration.

Speaker 46 We are working with the airlines.

Speaker 47 They're going to work with passengers. But in the end, our sole role is to make sure that we keep this airspace as safe as possible.

Speaker 43 The FAA's reduction plan, which excludes international flights, will begin at a 4% cut on Friday before escalating to a 10% cut next week.

Speaker 43 While airlines like Delta Air and American Airlines moved to reassure panicked passengers by offering refunds, the White House took a different different approach.

Speaker 43 President Trump stated on Thursday that despite the reduced air traffic, it is still safe for Americans to fly.

Speaker 12 So if they actually get to next Friday with 10%,

Speaker 53 that will be chaos.

Speaker 25 And the main reason is

Speaker 54 our system doesn't allow for that type of reduction.

Speaker 59 You can't get the crews to the next airport.

Speaker 37 So they can take the next it's it'll screw up everything, absolutely everything.

Speaker 61 um

Speaker 13 which is interesting because the way that uh your gal uh katie porter there in california because this is all

Speaker 15 yeah

Speaker 31 this is this is all uh politics of course uh and we'll get into it katie porter who i guess she's no longer in the running did she did she cancel herself out of becoming governor of california i thought you said that some other uh person was the lead now that she uh she had screwed it up i've never said any of this thing of the sort oh that's odd.

Speaker 5 And the election is not till next year, so it's just, you know, you've got

Speaker 5 plenty of runway here.

Speaker 71 Woo!

Speaker 11 I see what you did there.

Speaker 21 She should work at MSNBC. It's great.

Speaker 73 So here is Katie Porter

Speaker 24 either grossly misunderstanding what's going on or perhaps lying.

Speaker 75 Here's a question for Donald Trump as he forces airlines to cancel thousands and thousands of flights.

Speaker 20 Okay, so I don't think the president is forcing any airline The president hasn't canceled jets.

Speaker 77 Okay, let's keep it going.

Speaker 75 Why is he starting first with the commercial planes that we all use to go visit our families or get where we need to for work?

Speaker 75 Every day, thousands of private jets take off, carrying CEOs, billionaires, and the 1%,

Speaker 75 and they take up the work of the air traffic control system, too.

Speaker 75 Wouldn't it make more sense to cancel the planes that carry the fewest passengers first? It's just another example of who Donald Trump really cares about, and it isn't us.

Speaker 79 So, first of all, of all the people I know who own private jets or fly private, a lot of them are Democrats.

Speaker 40 Maybe the majority.

Speaker 5 I would guess the majority. Everyone I know who has a private plane or, well, actually, they tend to not have them anymore.
They're in pools.

Speaker 34 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 80 Yes, of course,

Speaker 9 who fly privately.

Speaker 5 Democrats.

Speaker 81 Rich Democrats.

Speaker 84 But what is happening here is they are because of air traffic controllers and TSA agents calling in sick, and I can't blame them.

Speaker 86 And in order to keep the airspace safe, they had to reduce IFR traffic, so that's instrument traffic

Speaker 59 to airports around the country.

Speaker 89 What they actually did, one of the, in the first, you know, the first pool, we've got Newark, JFK, we've got Dallas, Fort Worth, we've got Los Angeles,

Speaker 5 San Francisco, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle,

Speaker 5 Portland, everybody.

Speaker 9 Everybody.

Speaker 13 But they also did that to Teterboro.

Speaker 12 And

Speaker 32 I thought that was a good move because Teterboro is the

Speaker 92 private plane airport for the tri-state area, mainly for New York.

Speaker 59 That is probably one of the busiest for jet travel of billionaires.

Speaker 35 So, you know, I think everyone kind of gets affected equally.

Speaker 94 And I thought that was a good one to put Titi Burrow into the mix because maybe, maybe someone would call the Democrats and say, hey, dude, I can't land my G5, baby.

Speaker 64 Stop this. Knock it off.

Speaker 97 So she's just a liar.

Speaker 9 She's a horrible person.

Speaker 98 She's not a good person.

Speaker 5 No, and she looks like a horrible person. The more she puts herself out there, like in that tweet,

Speaker 5 the less likely she loses votes. She's making a huge mistake.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 94 Well, as I told you, she's not going to be the governor.

Speaker 99 I already told you that. Remember?

Speaker 69 Told you.

Speaker 5 No, I don't remember you telling me that.

Speaker 100 I didn't tell you that.

Speaker 35 So now we have a new development.

Speaker 100 Just to reiterate the situation.

Speaker 5 Before you leave that topic, let's go to the,

Speaker 5 I have some ATC reports.

Speaker 31 Oh, I didn't.

Speaker 102 Yes, you do.

Speaker 26 I actually didn't even look at your list today.

Speaker 31 Well, you should. Well,

Speaker 35 hey, you know what?

Speaker 11 Can I just say something right off the bat?

Speaker 16 You sound grumpy today.

Speaker 36 You sound grumpy today.

Speaker 5 Well, yeah, because you right immediately passed over my clips.

Speaker 103 No, you sounded grumpy before you even said hit it.

Speaker 5 I know you. Oh, okay.
You can go ahead and try your psychological torture, which all the women have observed over the years and then notice.

Speaker 11 I'm gaslighting him again.

Speaker 20 There you go, ladies.

Speaker 5 Psychological torture.

Speaker 5 That's what I'm calling it.

Speaker 13 Psychological torture. PTA.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 76 Yes. I see.

Speaker 5 So you have two.

Speaker 23 Actually, I have a three.

Speaker 15 You have three clips.

Speaker 20 You have three.

Speaker 105 I do.

Speaker 5 The simple one is from NPR, and then there's a two-parter from PBS,

Speaker 5 all, you know, all slanted.

Speaker 9 Oh, good.

Speaker 5 Because it's Trump's fault.

Speaker 71 And it's just, I don't know.

Speaker 5 It's hard to

Speaker 5 do these clips with

Speaker 5 these outlets.

Speaker 32 With these liars.

Speaker 38 Yeah, the national

Speaker 9 NPR.

Speaker 106 More than 1,400 flights around the country have been canceled after the Trump administration ordered airports to cut flights as the FAA deals with a shortage of air traffic controllers who are working without pay.

Speaker 106 The FAA says the flights at 40 airports will be cut 10% on a phase-in basis as the government shutdown now on its 39th day continues.

Speaker 106 Nick DeLuCanal has more from the Charlotte Douglas Airport in Charlotte.

Speaker 108 Inside the Charlotte Terminal here, Jessica Lamuccio and her one-year-old daughter are trying to rebook after their flight to Manchester, New Hampshire was canceled, leaving them scrambling to get to a family wedding.

Speaker 43 It just makes it more complicated, right?

Speaker 112 Especially with her, just to figure out, like, what's our plan? How long do we stay here? How long do you wait it out? If you book again, is it going to get canceled again?

Speaker 108 The Charlotte Airport says this morning's ground stop, which lasted about an hour, was caused by staffing issues in the air traffic control tower.

Speaker 5 Huh? Well, there you go. I like the little nat pop of the baby.
Yeah.

Speaker 20 You hear that in there? Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of.

Speaker 13 Wait until we get to the Thanksgiving turkey nat pops.

Speaker 5 They're going going crazy crazy my favorite my favorite one which i don't have which was on a local news story was these people from australia trying to get back to australia so they're in san francisco and their flight is leaving tonight today or tomorrow to australia but it's in los angeles and the connecting flight has been cancelled yeah that's the problem well hop in the car

Speaker 28 drive fast

Speaker 5 Well, you know, it depends on the date.

Speaker 5 You can actually make it to L.A. from San Francisco in a rental

Speaker 5 and do a drop-off at the airport.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And you could probably do that within eight hours. Yeah.

Speaker 46 That's my suggestion.

Speaker 5 But they'd be on the wrong side of the road.

Speaker 114 Ah.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 9 Woo!

Speaker 5 There you go. Okay, here we go.
This is the PBS reporting.

Speaker 66 More national public media.

Speaker 68 I can't wait to hear it.

Speaker 115 On the second day of reduced flights at 40 airports, the aviation data company Sirium said nearly 4% of flights were canceled, and about 2.5% have been canceled for tomorrow.

Speaker 115 Randy Babbitt was FAA administrator in the Obama administration. Mr.
Babbitt, is this working or are reduced flights reduced?

Speaker 5 So they bring, you know, they, you know, how they book people. So they get, what can we, we got to get somebody in here that maybe can slam the Trump administrator.
Let's get Obama guys.

Speaker 5 But it didn't work out because the Obama guy's pretty reasonable.

Speaker 117 Oh, no.

Speaker 71 Normal guy. Oh, no.

Speaker 115 Randy Randy Babbitt was FAA administrator in the Obama administration. Mr.
Babbitt, is this working? Are reduced flights reducing delays?

Speaker 118 No, they're reducing the flights for the primary purpose and a good purpose of making the system safe. They're suffering a loss of controllers at the various stations.
They're not interchangeable.

Speaker 118 And to ensure the system operates safely, you just have to reduce traffic down to the level of the number of controllers you can put up.

Speaker 115 Is this sustainable?

Speaker 118 No, it's actually going to continue to accelerate in the wrong direction.

Speaker 118 The longer we ask people to work without a paycheck, the longer we ask people to work 10, 12, 14-hour shifts, you just can't sustain that. People are calling in sick.
They're tired.

Speaker 118 It's an intense job. The controllers are well trained, and there's a lot of stress in that job, and you can't keep doing it.

Speaker 118 We have the staffing levels where they were for a good reason, and we're not achieving that level of controllers

Speaker 118 on site and on their stations.

Speaker 115 I want to go back to the point you made about controllers not being interchangeable. It's not that you can sort of see how many controllers are working nationwide.

Speaker 115 It depends on each airport, each air traffic control center.

Speaker 118 Oh, absolutely. There's a big difference between being an en-route controller or a tower controller or an approach control

Speaker 118 person.

Speaker 118 Those are different jobs, and they're not interchangeable. Someone who's working in route cannot go the next morning and be in the Richmond Tower.

Speaker 118 You know, it takes months of training to make those transitions.

Speaker 67 That was a good comment from a troll in the troll room.

Speaker 18 Like, the answer should be from the U.S.

Speaker 14 officials, like the president and who's our boy there at the FAA?

Speaker 30 What's his name?

Speaker 97 Duffy. Duffy, yeah.

Speaker 5 Department of Transportation.

Speaker 98 Yes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 Should say,

Speaker 121 well, this is a preview of what socialism is like.

Speaker 104 Just say that. Whether it's true or not, just say it.

Speaker 20 Just say it.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 5 That's a good bit. Okay, troll guy.

Speaker 10 Everyone's a good one.

Speaker 123 Any of them flying anyway.

Speaker 27 Well, this is a preview of socialism.

Speaker 21 So your socialist representatives are making this happen.

Speaker 9 So

Speaker 21 this is what New York can look forward to.

Speaker 124 No flights.

Speaker 5 Okay, part two of this kind of little tidbit.

Speaker 115 Controllers, are you talking about how they're sort of being stressed now, no pay, many of them having to call out to work other jobs to get pay. They were already stressed.

Speaker 115 Even before this began, the system was already stressed, wasn't it?

Speaker 118 Yes. We're still recovering post-COVID.
You know, they let, like a lot of companies did, they let people go because the system was only operating at 30%

Speaker 118 at the peak of COVID. But you don't just call them back.

Speaker 118 A lot of them are early retired. And second, if you have to hire them, it takes several years to train a controller to be fully up to speed and be able to go into the different control positions.

Speaker 115 Former FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, thank you very much.

Speaker 118 Oh, thank you. Good luck.

Speaker 9 I like his voice.

Speaker 5 He's got a great voice.

Speaker 80 Yeah, he should do a podcast.

Speaker 20 That would be

Speaker 9 a follow-up career.

Speaker 5 He should. He's got a better voice than I do.
So,

Speaker 5 they've never mentioned, of course, they had, yeah, their traffic was way down during COVID, but they also laid people off who refused to get the vax.

Speaker 16 Well, why would they do that now?

Speaker 20 That doesn't behoove anybody.

Speaker 5 Don't think they would mention that because it's a fact.

Speaker 12 I needed this guy.

Speaker 27 Where's my guy here?

Speaker 9 Oh, good lord.

Speaker 27 Yeah, that's my guy.

Speaker 9 I need that guy.

Speaker 5 You know, you're doing that psych constantly now.

Speaker 80 Because it is kind of exasperating.

Speaker 12 And the thing is, it's always a healthcare.

Speaker 73 No, this is about insurance companies who are basically banks.

Speaker 14 And all I know is that throughout my life, I have heard that in Congress, you just no one discusses health, no one discusses insurance, period. You don't mess with the insurance companies.

Speaker 5 Am I it's out of control. We used to be tough on insurance.

Speaker 5 It was a point of fact that in like states like California, it has an insurance commissioner. They're supposed, they crack down on

Speaker 5 illegal. Oh, let's just raise it because we can.
Oh, no there's no competition let's just gouge everybody and too bad if they don't like to pay it what are they gonna do well

Speaker 130 this is interesting that you bring up California specifically because I got an I think you got an email too this morning from one of our producers who emailed

Speaker 70 I got it from Jay from the back office and he had he had called the crowd health outfit that we've been talking about First of all, he says, it was amazing.

Speaker 27 I got someone with an American accent calling me back.

Speaker 17 He was blown away by that.

Speaker 5 But that would be a big deal.

Speaker 9 He's like, whoa, what just happened?

Speaker 21 He says, it turns out, well, he says it's, he says, I can't, I can't do that.

Speaker 36 Well, he can, but I said, I can't do it in California because, and I don't know if this is true, apparently it's illegal in California to be without health care.

Speaker 5 I don't know that to be true or not.

Speaker 126 And that you have to pay a $900 annual fine if you don't have health care in California.

Speaker 5 I don't know this.

Speaker 135 Well, this is what our producer said.

Speaker 5 And apparently that's what I didn't get the note. Oh, well, you were copying it.
I mean, I got the note. I probably got the note, but I didn't read it this morning.
I was just doing it.

Speaker 136 No, I understand.

Speaker 136 I'm not.

Speaker 53 I'll look into it.

Speaker 27 I'm not psychologically torturing you. I'm just

Speaker 9 reading a note.

Speaker 5 Since we're talking along these lines, we have to play this clip. This is a woman.
By the way, there's tons of these clips with different kinds of stories.

Speaker 5 And I'm going to start collecting them because I like them.

Speaker 5 And it's disgusting. It's a disgusting.
This is the anecdote clip.

Speaker 5 These are disgusting stories. And you talked about it.
I've talked about it. We all talk about it.
But it's still disgusting.

Speaker 112 So I don't normally jump on that insurance, health insurance is a scam, but today it is absolutely a scam. And I swear it's fraud.

Speaker 137 I need an MRI on my back because I hurt my back.

Speaker 112 My clinic sent it over to a hospital. They ran it through my insurance.

Speaker 112 They called me and said, hey, your portion portion of it that you're gonna have to pay after insurance is fifty one hundred dollars for this mri so i'm like wow okay i was like you know before we do that like just wait you know because i'm like fifty one hundred dollars just seems wild i called another place who was also waiting for my insurance to go through to see how much it was going to be my insurance was still on hold with them but i asked them hey if i just cash pay this how much is it going to cost for this MRI 35 and they're like well if you just want to cash pay it not run anything through insurance it's $700 and so I'm like sounds a lot better than $5,100.

Speaker 112 So I called the original hospital back and said, hey, if I don't run this through insurance, what is the cost if I just decide to self-pay it since I know the other place is $700?

Speaker 112 The lady's like, I'll rerun it under you being self-pay and I'll call you back with your total. So a few minutes go by, the lady calls me back and she goes, hey, I talked to my supervisor.

Speaker 112 Since you have insurance, we are not going to let you self-pay it.

Speaker 16 So we won't give you that number.

Speaker 112 How is that not a scam? Isn't it my choice if I want to self-pay something versus running it through my insurance?

Speaker 112 How I should get to decide that, not you, but they're like, nope, since you have insurance and you've already done it that way, we are not going to allow you to self-pay it.

Speaker 112 And I think that's because they probably were going to give me a self-pay price, kind of like the other place, maybe a $700, maybe up to $1,300, still way less than $5,100 that it was going to make me pay.

Speaker 112 And I just think, like, what if, you know, somebody wouldn't, like, what if I wouldn't have called around and I would have been stuck with this $5,100 bill?

Speaker 11 Insurance is such a rip-off.

Speaker 112 I don't know how in the world this hospital is telling me that I now can't self-pay it. What does it matter?

Speaker 112 I'm going to go to the other place, but I don't know how this hospital is allowed to now tell me, hey, yeah, you can't self-pay something if you have already had us run it through your insurance.

Speaker 9 I haven't even had it yet.

Speaker 113 Yeah.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 14 And I'll remind all of the socialists out there that having lived under the fabulous, fantastic five-pound a visit national health care system in the United Kingdom.

Speaker 85 The choice was, and Christina needed an MRI on her knee because it popped out a couple of times.

Speaker 14 The choice was,

Speaker 68 oh, of course, of course, the national health care system, the NHS, it's our pride and joy.

Speaker 60 In 18 months, you can get your MRI.

Speaker 92 And I call up the MRI place, they say, and I say, hey, can I just come to you and pay directly?

Speaker 102 Well, of course.

Speaker 36 I go there. There's no one there.

Speaker 64 No one.

Speaker 13 No one. I pay cash.
Good to go.

Speaker 5 It's and so there was no one there.

Speaker 17 No one was there.

Speaker 12 I think that while we were doing the show, I believe.

Speaker 97 We may have discussed it.

Speaker 5 I vaguely remember this story. You've told it at least twice.

Speaker 41 Yeah, I'll have to look it up and being at.io.

Speaker 5 But the point is, is no one was there. I think it was part of it this time.

Speaker 15 No one was there.

Speaker 5 In other words, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 5 So they put you on the 18-month waiting list on purpose to torture you. Yes.

Speaker 13 Talk about torture, psychological torture.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Well, it's more than psychological in this case. But you got a bad knee, you know.

Speaker 130 But the whole point is that insurance companies, they're just banks, right?

Speaker 35 I mean, is it or.

Speaker 5 But the question about this last anecdote is

Speaker 5 the insurance company plus her $5,100, how much money is the hospital getting?

Speaker 65 Oh, they're getting $700.

Speaker 27 They're getting $700.

Speaker 12 The insurance company takes the rest. This is why they all want to go outside of the system.

Speaker 41 This is why you can go to any doctor, any healthcare provider, and say, what's your deal for cash?

Speaker 9 And they will say, oh, you'll see them go, oh, thank you.

Speaker 130 We don't have to do all those forms.

Speaker 32 This is great.

Speaker 86 Yeah, here's your price.

Speaker 60 Because they don't want, they have to fight.

Speaker 133 They have to fight with the insurance company to get their measly 700 bucks, which is what it was in the first place.

Speaker 146 It's theft.

Speaker 13 And the media branding it as healthcare, which is healthcare, and politicians, healthcare, well, healthcare, well, healthcare.

Speaker 9 It's not healthcare.

Speaker 77 It's theft.

Speaker 31 And the whole shutdown, and this is what, this is the irksome part, is while they keep talking about healthcare, healthcare, is

Speaker 73 this subsidy for

Speaker 87 the insurance company/slash financial institutions.

Speaker 68 Let's call it that.

Speaker 21 Warren Buffett, by the way.

Speaker 27 Can we just say Warren Buffett?

Speaker 87 Isn't he the big insurance guy?

Speaker 5 He's got a lot of insurance companies, although

Speaker 5 he's going heavily. He's moving his finances heavily into cash.
Yes.

Speaker 27 But by the way, Warren Buffett, Democrat, private jet,

Speaker 117 Omaha.

Speaker 9 Exactly. The Oracle of Omaha.

Speaker 10 But the whole point is it's

Speaker 148 big finance that is in this game and the politicians, and I'm sure that the payoff, if we really go and look and if we go to opensecrets.org.

Speaker 5 Well, no, it's all these Democrats are loaded to the gills with the

Speaker 84 Democrats.

Speaker 9 Republicans.

Speaker 5 Oh, no, Republicans, too, obviously.

Speaker 37 And the reason, and this is why the Republicans, they don't want to, and you'll disagree with me, they don't want to use the nuclear option and the filibuster to open up the country again because they will get penalized by their backers as well.

Speaker 116 So they don't want to do it.

Speaker 27 I don't want to lose my money, you know, my re-election campaign, my million dollars to get me on the committee.

Speaker 11 The whole thing, the people should, I think we need pitchforks.

Speaker 95 It's time,

Speaker 131 pitchforks, pitchforks, and AR-15s.

Speaker 146 Seriously.

Speaker 87 And so, President Trump, he sees this.

Speaker 147 He's already tried to convince the Republicans, hey, just do it.

Speaker 119 You'll be a hero.

Speaker 129 If you got, no, no, no.

Speaker 68 You only need five Democrats to vote yes.

Speaker 89 And they would be heroes.

Speaker 35 No, no, you can't get them to do that either.

Speaker 68 So the president, he just goes, he's starting his own nuclear option campaign, as he posted today on Truth Social.

Speaker 151 President Trump is out with a proposal on health care would eliminate Obamacare and send money directly to people to buy their own health care.

Speaker 151 My question for you, Senator: do you support President Trump's plan to eliminate Obamacare and send money directly to the people?

Speaker 152 Well, his statement wasn't to eliminate Obamacare. His statement was very clear.
It was, why are we sending money to insurance companies?

Speaker 152 Right now, the Democratic proposal they put out, and Chuck Schumer put out this past week, was let's continue to send billions of dollars to insurance companies and hope insurance companies will bring down premiums.

Speaker 152 That's not worked. That's not worked for years now.
You go back to Obamacare when it was first released, it was it's going to bring down rates 25%.

Speaker 152 Can anyone tell me that their rates have gone down 25% anywhere in this? And so the president's proposal was pretty straightforward. Stop sending money just to insurance companies.
Hope it's better.

Speaker 152 Give Americans freedom of choice. If we're going to allow subsidies to get out there, give them to people, not to insurance companies.

Speaker 151 You're saying something really interesting. I want to make sure I understand.

Speaker 7 Whoa.

Speaker 11 She said

Speaker 5 he's not saying anything. This is like, this is as bad as that's a great question.

Speaker 136 You're saying something interesting there.

Speaker 5 He said nothing interesting.

Speaker 90 We need to come up with a better interlude.

Speaker 9 That's not interesting.

Speaker 1 That's not interesting.

Speaker 152 Give Americans freedom of choice. If we're going to allow subsidies to get out there, give them to people, not to insurance companies.

Speaker 151 You're saying something really interesting. I want to make sure I understand.

Speaker 151 Is the Republican proposal not to repeal Obamacare, which has been the long-held position?

Speaker 152 Yeah, right now, Obamacare is health care in America. What Democrats did 15 years ago was they radically changed all health care in America.
They moved all physicians under hospitals.

Speaker 152 They changed all the reimbursement programs. They shifted everything in.
So it is healthcare in America. So the challenge is what we have now has to be fixed.

Speaker 35 Oh, yeah. It was only Democrats.

Speaker 105 Okay, sure.

Speaker 46 It was only Democrats.

Speaker 17 You're all in on it.

Speaker 131 Hillary Clinton tried this the first time around the Clinton administration.

Speaker 42 This theft game was always the plan.

Speaker 36 Always.

Speaker 133 And it's just so much money.

Speaker 36 What do you think? It is

Speaker 94 hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Speaker 86 It's got to be.

Speaker 5 It It all goes right into the insurance companies.

Speaker 93 Finance companies.

Speaker 36 Warren Buffett.

Speaker 51 What's his stock price at?

Speaker 21 What's his stock price?

Speaker 131 $147,000 a share?

Speaker 11 Something like that, right?

Speaker 20 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 20 I know.

Speaker 10 And who's there?

Speaker 9 Oh, all the rich people.

Speaker 20 Oh, he's the oracle.

Speaker 125 Sure.

Speaker 51 She also talked to Hakeem Jeffries about this.

Speaker 151 Leader Jeffries, President Trump floated what he believes is a potential solution to this online. Let me read it to you.

Speaker 151 He says, quote, I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the hundreds of billions of dollars currently being sent to money-sucking insurance companies in order to save the bad health care provided by Obamacare be sent directly to the people so that they can purchase their own much better health care.

Speaker 151 Would you ever support giving subsidies directly to the American people instead of Obamacare?

Speaker 58 Yes, I think that's an interesting question.

Speaker 76 Interesting.

Speaker 156 We have a broken health care system, but the Affordable Care Act has been part of actually providing health insurance to tens of millions of Americans.

Speaker 156 Of course, there's always opportunity to improve current policy that exists.

Speaker 156 But Republicans aren't operating in good faith as it relates to doing anything to actually make health care more affordable. And we've seen that repeatedly over the last several weeks.

Speaker 156 Now, if Donald Trump is changing his tune and is actually willing to sit down and negotiate a bipartisan path forward, of course we are interested in doing that.

Speaker 156 We've been been making that point for the last several weeks.

Speaker 151 What do you make of that proposal online, though? Does it sound like he's interested in doing that?

Speaker 156 I mean, it's hard to take these online things seriously. There's no actual legislation.
There's no text. There's no policy documents to be able to review.

Speaker 156 If that exists, if that somehow materializes and manifests itself in the next day or so, we look forward to reviewing it in good faith.

Speaker 80 It seems like parties are rather far apart at this point doesn't seem like anyone's getting any closer

Speaker 15 you know uh

Speaker 5 well i mean one side is i mean the

Speaker 5 the republicans want to open the government the democrats don't and they think they have and they call it leverage and they think they've got the republicans over a barrel and they think they can get the money back to their insurance buddies because the insurance buddies have all paid the way, you know, for most of these Democrats to get in office and stay in office, as you just said.

Speaker 5 And so they're doing the best they can to get this over.

Speaker 5 And then they got this latest with one of these guys, I forgot which one of the congressmen said, well, now that we've won in the blue states, we won our governorships.

Speaker 5 Now we have to make sure that people don't think we're going to knuckle under to the Republicans. We're tough guys now.

Speaker 5 So being tough guys, we got to

Speaker 5 stay the course. So

Speaker 5 I don't know.

Speaker 68 I just have to, but I just want to say again, I mean, you say it's a non-star, never going to happen, but Republicans also have a one-second solution to this.

Speaker 90 I mean, just say, okay, we're just done with the

Speaker 90 filibuster rule, and then we open it back up.

Speaker 66 Republicans can also do it.

Speaker 76 It's all political.

Speaker 58 They think it's bad because, well, then the Democrats can use it.

Speaker 94 Okay.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 5 to get the filibuster across the line, they're still going to have to get the Democrats because it's still 60 votes.

Speaker 27 That's not true.

Speaker 105 I looked this up.

Speaker 5 No, it is true.

Speaker 27 I don't think so. I believe it.

Speaker 5 It is true. Absolutely.

Speaker 146 Okay. I looked it up.

Speaker 76 I looked it up.

Speaker 60 And

Speaker 13 the nuclear option

Speaker 84 The nuclear option is a procedural workaround to bypass the two-thirds cloture requirement and change the rules with a lower threshold.

Speaker 68 It involves raising a point of order.

Speaker 53 And if the presiding officer rules against it, appealing that ruling, overriding the president's officer, requires only a simple majority.

Speaker 27 That's the nuclear option.

Speaker 26 As I understand it.

Speaker 5 Okay. Well, I mean, it's possible that what you read there is exactly right.
And

Speaker 5 that would do the trick, but it's not my understanding.

Speaker 5 And the way they present it, at least the way I heard it, is that you still need the 60 votes and Democrats will vote for it, knowing that it's going to benefit them in the end, and they can still vote against the final proposal and look like the good guys.

Speaker 88 Well, and they have actually

Speaker 13 used this method in the past to eliminate certain parts of filibuster in 2013

Speaker 68 for most executive and judicial nominations.

Speaker 26 And that was the Democrats.

Speaker 25 And in 2017

Speaker 90 to expand, to extend.

Speaker 5 Well, it's still in play, by the way, for those processes. That still exists.

Speaker 130 What do you mean?

Speaker 5 Well, they put it in 2013, 2017, whatever the dates were you had.

Speaker 5 That is still in play. You still don't need 60 votes to pass a court guy.

Speaker 27 But that's what I mean.

Speaker 14 So they use this same thing.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they use it, but once it went in play, it stayed in play.

Speaker 125 Yes, of course it does.

Speaker 67 That's the point.

Speaker 135 So it's all just, it's a power game.

Speaker 97 No matter which way you look at it, it's a power game.

Speaker 33 It's not what the people are doing.

Speaker 5 All I know is it's hurting the show.

Speaker 77 It is. It's definitely hurting the show.

Speaker 5 no no doubt and then and i think president no we have a lot of government workers that can't afford to donate to the show no and i have a lot of people that are you know affected by the downturn in the government work yes i know

Speaker 160 buckle down bear down on it brother tighten the belt no agenda shows in trouble

Speaker 15 with every with every trouble but with everybody else

Speaker 143 it's not good no i understand hence your mood this morning i get you i got you

Speaker 130 um The president, though, I think, is making a mistake.

Speaker 143 No, it was really the Republicans running for governor and for different

Speaker 85 state positions who all ran on

Speaker 116 woke and the border and did not run on the president's economic plan, which is pretty clear if you see what he's doing, bringing back manufacturing, doing deals, getting investments in.

Speaker 85 But they didn't.

Speaker 94 They ran on, you know, those guys have trannies.

Speaker 129 And

Speaker 5 they really, really, that was that works on the national level.

Speaker 27 That was a political mistake because right at the moment when people are starting to feel it, they're sending the wrong message.

Speaker 160 Democrats go, we'll give it to you.

Speaker 77 It's no problem.

Speaker 114 We'll freeze the rents, free buses, government grocery stores.

Speaker 60 So now the president has an affordability problem.

Speaker 13 Affordability.

Speaker 164 And the Democrat media,

Speaker 157 well, the Democrat influence and occupied media mainstream, they are using it to an extreme.

Speaker 27 So when I hear this little supercut of the president, he knows it too.

Speaker 45 It's no good if we do a great job and you don't talk about it. And I don't think they talk about it enough.
You know, they have this new word called affordability and they don't talk about it enough.

Speaker 45 The reason I don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows that it's far less expensive under Trump.

Speaker 45 So I don't want to hear about the affordability because right now we're much less. It was a conjump.
Affordability, they call it. But we just lost an election.
They said based on affordability.

Speaker 45 You know, I saw that they kept talking about affordability. So we talk about affordability.
We should be talking about it because they talk about affordability.

Speaker 45 The affordability is much better with the Republicans. We are the ones that have done great on affordability.
So we are the victors on affordability.

Speaker 129 So no one cares when the president says that.

Speaker 27 They're looking at their wallet and going, no, something's wrong.

Speaker 87 It's not affordable.

Speaker 133 And NBC/slash MSNBC,

Speaker 133 when are they going to be MS now?

Speaker 130 I can't come soon enough.

Speaker 5 November 15th.

Speaker 163 They set a trap.

Speaker 127 They set a trap for him, and he walked right into it.

Speaker 92 Here's the setup.

Speaker 165 Well, I haven't heard that. You're telling me who you with? Who are you with? I have NBC News, sir.
Fake news. NBC.

Speaker 165 Your fake news. What a.

Speaker 165 NBC has gone down the tubes along with most of the rest of them.

Speaker 165 Well, they feel better about our country right now, other than the shutdown, obviously, which is caused by the Democrats, could be ended by the Democrats in two minutes. They feel much better.

Speaker 165 We have more jobs. We just set a record on jobs.
You do know that. We have more investment in our country than any country in history.

Speaker 165 We're over $18 trillion as of this moment, and we're going to be maybe at $20 trillion or $21 trillion by the time I finish up my first year.

Speaker 165 And there's been no country, China, no country in the world that's done anywhere even close to that number.

Speaker 165 Your friend Biden, as an example, in four years was less than a trillion. We'll be at 21 trillion in one year.
So there's no country that was even close to that.

Speaker 165 And our country was a laughing stock all over the world. We have more jobs.
We have more potential than any other country. And frankly, we're the hottest country right now.

Speaker 165 Victor said to me before, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of it.
We'll have $20, $21 trillion invested. We We have auto plants pouring back in.
We have AI pouring back in.

Speaker 165 We're leading China in AI by a lot. We're leading everybody in every category.
There's no category that we're in second place.

Speaker 165 So I just heard this yesterday that Walmart said that the Thanksgiving was 25% more expensive, 25% more expensive under Biden. That's a big, to me,

Speaker 165 that's a big number because Walmart's respected. I mean, Walmart is Walmart, and they're giving you prices.
So that would mean that the whole

Speaker 165 series of pricing and costs, the groceries and everything else, it was a conjob.

Speaker 9 It was a conjob.

Speaker 165 Affordability, they call it, was a conjob by the Democrats. The Democrats are good at a few things, cheating on elections and conning people with facts that aren't true.

Speaker 144 So

Speaker 27 he walks right into the Walmart trap.

Speaker 132 He should have known that Walmart is a bunch of crazy crazy Democrats who are setting him up.

Speaker 77 Because if you listen to the full question,

Speaker 14 it was about Walmart.

Speaker 47 And he goes off and

Speaker 102 it's all true.

Speaker 157 All this investment, of course, but it's not going into people's pockets for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 68 Here's the setup paid off in this case by Jen Psaki.

Speaker 139 And it is cheaper, but it also contains less.

Speaker 168 As it were,

Speaker 166 I haven't heard that. You're telling me Who are you with?

Speaker 122 Who are you with?

Speaker 139 NBC News, sir. The fake news.

Speaker 9 NBC News.

Speaker 9 You're fake news.

Speaker 169 That's right.

Speaker 170 The Walmart Thanksgiving meal that Trump has been touting as proof positive that he has made the country more affordable is cheaper this year

Speaker 170 because it has less stuff, like a lot less stuff. I mean, for days now, Trump has been pushing the fact that the pre-packaged Walmart Thanksgiving dinner is 25% cheaper than it was last year.

Speaker 170 But he has been conveniently ignoring the fact that this year's Walmart Thanksgiving package is missing a bunch of items it had last year.

Speaker 170 Like onions, celery, sweet potatoes, chicken broth, seasoning, muffin mix, marshmallows, whipped topping, and pecan pie. I mean, those are all pretty key, delicious parts of Thanksgiving, right?

Speaker 170 The meal also downgraded certain items, like swapping Hawaiian rolls for cheaper dinner rolls.

Speaker 171 So yeah, surprise, surprise. His claim is completely misleading.

Speaker 170 But he was pushing this whole Thanksgiving meal narrative for a reason. I mean, since Democrats swept Tuesday's election, the right has all of a sudden woken up to America's affordability crisis.

Speaker 38 I think this was a trap set by Walmart. They went, Mr.

Speaker 5 President, it's great.

Speaker 27 It's great.

Speaker 87 It's 25% cheaper. And people are going to get their packages and they're going to open up and like, what is this?

Speaker 27 I'm like, tiny Tim here.

Speaker 149 I think it was a purposeful trap.

Speaker 126 I mean, you telling me?

Speaker 13 that Jem Saki's team went to Walmart.

Speaker 27 Oh, let's go investigate the package.

Speaker 12 Oh, there's no purpose.

Speaker 5 I'm not going to say that you're wrong about that, but I don't think the impact is the way you're making it out. Nobody listens to Jen Saki.
She's got zero ratings.

Speaker 133 She is just, I'm just, this is, I said, this is an example of the NBC payoff.

Speaker 66 I think you're going to see this because he's been saying this for a week.

Speaker 29 Oh, it's cheaper. It's cheaper.

Speaker 21 I think they set him up. You watch.

Speaker 35 You're going to have, don't know, NBC nightly news.

Speaker 10 Oh, the Walmart.

Speaker 5 If it shows up on nightly news, then I'm totally agreeing.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 27 I think it was a setup.

Speaker 95 I think

Speaker 148 he was too prideful.

Speaker 93 He wasn't on watch.

Speaker 5 He's missed a lot of things. He's busy.

Speaker 12 Yeah, he is busy.

Speaker 31 That's true.

Speaker 87 And, of course, we've got to sneak in some other things here.

Speaker 127 But I think this is an opportunity.

Speaker 120 This is ABC.

Speaker 5 Well, I will say that I'm going back on this. on what you said because the question was about walmart specifically to trigger the walmart reaction, and then Sake follows up.
But again,

Speaker 5 it's small potatoes because it's like nobody listens to nobody watches her show or her.

Speaker 149 But I don't, this is just happening.

Speaker 9 I think we're going to be able to do that.

Speaker 5 Okay, well, I'm just saying it's just that they could have

Speaker 5 been better.

Speaker 5 Like if it was rolled out by

Speaker 5 Saki step.

Speaker 32 Let's see.

Speaker 10 Skip the Saki.

Speaker 5 It would have been better.

Speaker 68 Well, ABC's on it, but they have a different bent.

Speaker 155 This morning, with less than three weeks until Thanksgiving, new concern that turkey and egg prices could rise once again.

Speaker 12 That's because...

Speaker 9 Nat pop of the week, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 155 Concerned that turkey and egg prices could rise once again.

Speaker 155 That's because bird flu cases are rising again as more wild birds head south. Within the last month.

Speaker 77 Bird flu cases are rising again.

Speaker 5 That's news to me.

Speaker 68 Yeah, well, they're tying it into Walmart.

Speaker 24 Don't worry.

Speaker 155 That's because bird flu cases are rising again as more wild birds head south.

Speaker 155 Within the last month, nearly 70 poultry flocks nationwide have been hit with the virus, killing more than three and a half million turkeys, chicken, and ducks.

Speaker 10 Hold on a second.

Speaker 94 Shouldn't we just open up

Speaker 27 shooting at wild birds then?

Speaker 35 Isn't that the solution?

Speaker 46 Shouldn't we all just be in our backyards and just shooting any birds that go over?

Speaker 77 Solve the problem?

Speaker 27 I mean, there's enough guns.

Speaker 44 Are really the carrier for the avian influenza virus, especially migratory waterfowl.

Speaker 155 Experts fear the government shutdown and staff cuts at the CDC and agriculture department could weaken the federal response.

Speaker 155 One virologist telling NPR a network of researchers used to be in constant contact with federal agencies to monitor cases, but she says that communication has been scaled back, saying, we're not in a great position for monitoring things.

Speaker 155 I'm finding myself in a very uncomfortable place. The number of turkeys in the U.S.
has already dropped to its lowest size in nearly 40 years.

Speaker 155 With limited supply, wholesale turkey prices are up 75% in the last year. Retail prices up about 25%.

Speaker 155 Egg prices may also suffer, but there are Thanksgiving deals to be had. Walmart says it's lowering the cost of its Thanksgiving meal bundle by 25% this year.

Speaker 155 And Target is offering a Thanksgiving dinner for four for just 20 bucks.

Speaker 52 Yeah, you wait.

Speaker 37 You wait until we're gonna have it's gonna be well.

Speaker 5 They didn't say anything about this shrinkage, shrinkflation on the Walmart.

Speaker 166 Not yet.

Speaker 150 I think we're going to see the Thanksgiving reports, and it's going to be sad children going,

Speaker 10 mommy, what's this? There's no marshmallows in my sweet potatoes.

Speaker 77 Where's my pecan pie?

Speaker 24 I'm sorry, tiny Tim.

Speaker 12 Sorry, tiny Tim.

Speaker 132 That's President Trump.

Speaker 58 He shrunk your Thanksgiving Day package.

Speaker 166 You know,

Speaker 5 I don't want to

Speaker 5 move these things

Speaker 5 into place because of this like a grand conspiracy, like you're saying it. But that brings me to this bird test nonsense because it involves birds.

Speaker 41 I got it again.

Speaker 5 It's that time of year. Oh, Astra, I have one of those around here somewhere, too.

Speaker 12 It's that time of year.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I got to go find myself.

Speaker 109 I just found mine.

Speaker 5 I got to find mine. Okay.

Speaker 77 All right. Yes.

Speaker 105 Bird test.

Speaker 105 So

Speaker 5 I didn't make this connection that because the birds, birds, birds, turkeys, turkey dinner, and then there's this stupid, the stupidest story that I've heard on PBS forever.

Speaker 5 I don't know if you're even aware about the bird test.

Speaker 136 I'm not sure.

Speaker 31 I don't know.

Speaker 5 Well, I got some clips about it. It's ridiculous, but here it is.
Bird test.

Speaker 115 One of the latest relationship tests on social media to go viral is the bird theory.

Speaker 44 Looks so cute.

Speaker 115 It starts with a casual comment.

Speaker 174 You know when you were inside I saw a really pretty bird?

Speaker 175 A bird? I saw a bird today.

Speaker 115 I saw a bird today.

Speaker 174 I forgot to tell you that I saw a bird today.

Speaker 116 A bird?

Speaker 115 The test is how the partner responds. Wait, I saw a blue jay the other day too.

Speaker 176 No, literally I saw one on my run.

Speaker 115 Do they engage pointed beak, rounded beak, or not?

Speaker 118 Why are you telling them that?

Speaker 115 These tests have racked up millions of views.

Speaker 115 They're based on a theory developed by couples researcher John Gottman about the importance of engaging engaging with partners when looking for a connection. But what do they really tell us?

Speaker 115 Alexandra Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, and the host of a podcast called Reimagining Love. Alexandra, how valuable is this test?

Speaker 115 What does it really reveal?

Speaker 177 You know, these tests come and go. And I tell you what, this one is particularly sneaky because it does have Gottman's research behind it.

Speaker 177 And there's a wish that all of our relationships could boil down to one little test like that. So, although there's validity, it's putting too much weight in one little micro moment.

Speaker 145 Wow.

Speaker 10 Folks, this is a four-parter from PBS

Speaker 87 about some test to see if you should divorce your spouse based upon how they answer the question or a statement that you make about a bird that you saw.

Speaker 5 I saw a bird. Yeah, so what?

Speaker 20 Did you shoot it? Divorcing you.

Speaker 36 Did you shoot it?

Speaker 20 It might have bird flow.

Speaker 9 Wow.

Speaker 143 And it has science behind it, apparently.

Speaker 5 Yes, this guy. Look at this guy up this John Gottlieb character.
He's like the most gosh-awful looking person there is. I mean, it's one of those, you know, very ugly, ugly effer.

Speaker 46 Perfect face for science.

Speaker 5 And it's just like, okay.

Speaker 5 But

Speaker 5 I guess it caught on on TikTok. This is the kind of thing that we, as oldsters, we can't kind of keep up because it's going too fast for us.

Speaker 178 This is your boomer moment, people.

Speaker 9 All right, here we go.

Speaker 5 So I had to extract this from PBS and made a whole segment out of it. And by the way, this is not the whole thing.
It goes on and on and on, but here's his part two, which is the yuck part of it.

Speaker 115 Well, tell us about Gottman's theory. Tell us about that.

Speaker 177 What Gottman says is that romantic relationships are not made up of the grand sweeping gesture, you know, the rose petals on the bed and all of the sort of fairy tale ideas that we grow up with.

Speaker 177 In fact, romantic relationships, the healthy ones, are made up of a series of thousands and thousands and millions of micro moments of connection that build trust and safety and authenticity between partners.

Speaker 177 That's what this test is about. It's a bid for connection.

Speaker 115 You know, the New York Times calls this social media's relationship yardstick du jour. And you talked about how these come and go.
Why are we so drawn to this?

Speaker 177 We're drawn to it because there are few things in our lives that make us feel quite as vulnerable as our intimate relationships do. The stakes are high.

Speaker 177 The consequence of losing the person that we love, you know, through a breakup, through divorce, certainly through death, those consequences are very, very big. You know, we risk heartbreak.

Speaker 177 And so I think we are forever looking for evidence. to the to answer the question are we okay you know are we okay are you with me do you have my back do you see me

Speaker 62 hold on please tell me you have a clip of the actual test and how it works because I can't wait to try this right after the.

Speaker 73 In fact, I might call Tina during the show.

Speaker 105 It's simple.

Speaker 5 It's this, you say I saw a bird, and then you get the reaction of the other person, which it goes on. They kind of explain it.
Let it play out.

Speaker 11 But the only, here, we'll do it.

Speaker 59 This is how two people who have been together in a relationship for 18 years

Speaker 29 do this test.

Speaker 68 Go ahead, John.

Speaker 128 Ask me.

Speaker 9 Well,

Speaker 5 in fact, I have this plan for the end.

Speaker 125 Oh, okay. All right.

Speaker 115 And what's the motivation for people to put these online and have strangers discuss them?

Speaker 177 Well, John, here's where the rubber hits the road.

Speaker 177 I do think that, especially in these scenarios we're seeing where people have taped their partner without their consent, you know, that's a kind of boundary violation.

Speaker 111 And I think this is tempted.

Speaker 126 What's the boundary violation?

Speaker 36 I don't know.

Speaker 5 Oh, taping someone without their consent.

Speaker 5 You know, the way the kids do with the cameras with their little phone, you bring your phone out and you record someone.

Speaker 90 But I'm going to use this.

Speaker 80 Darling, that's a boundary violation.

Speaker 5 It's a boundary violation.

Speaker 177 Where people have taped their partner without their consent. You know, that's a kind of boundary violation.

Speaker 177 And I think that if somebody is tempted to test their partner in this way, the first step is to check in with themselves. You know, what is what's going on here?

Speaker 177 And I think we really have normalized that we sort of live live these two lives. We live the flesh and blood life of ours and we live this online life.
So I think we really have normalized.

Speaker 177 It seems kind of, you know, ordinary or no big deal right now to be showing little windows into our world online. But I think it's a problem, and I think we ought to be careful.

Speaker 115 This does show a willingness to sort of let the other partner's world in, something that they value in the world they found interesting. Does that tell us anything?

Speaker 177 Absolutely. Absolutely.

Speaker 177 It feels really good

Speaker 177 when we notice something or we raise something and our partner turns toward us.

Speaker 82 Is she in a relationship currently?

Speaker 5 No, she's a single mom at best.

Speaker 177 Instead of

Speaker 177 looking at their phone and saying, uh-huh, or not responding at all, it's really painful. Those breaks in connection are really painful for us.

Speaker 177 Those moments of attunement where our partner turns their attention toward us feel really good. So there, there's that's where the validity is.

Speaker 177 The validity is that our desire to connect with our partner in these small, seemingly insignificant ways.

Speaker 177 Those matter, it makes sense that people want you know to have the partner ask follow-up questions about this little bird that we saw.

Speaker 93 I, so, okay.

Speaker 180 Um, first of all, the term attunement is a possible show title.

Speaker 5 This is attunement, okay. Put it on the list.
Okay, we see,

Speaker 5 I think there was the last clip.

Speaker 56 No, no, no, no, there's a there's a bird test for retort clip.

Speaker 5 Yes, that's what we're going to do. The test.
You're going to ask me. I found a script for how to answer this correctly, so you pass the test.

Speaker 33 Well, I know the answer is.

Speaker 5 And it is clip, and don't play it. It's clip four, but this is what you're going to ask me what you saw a bird, and then you play clip four because that will be my answer.

Speaker 87 Okay, and then you're going to ask me the question, and I'll give my answer.

Speaker 113 Okay?

Speaker 5 Can we play?

Speaker 5 Ask me, then play okay.

Speaker 9 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 103 I ask you and then I hit the clip for.

Speaker 80 Okay.

Speaker 135 Now, am I supposed to?

Speaker 67 Isn't it just a statement?

Speaker 35 Like, I saw a bird today.

Speaker 136 Isn't that?

Speaker 80 I'm not supposed to ask a question. Right, right.

Speaker 21 Okay.

Speaker 67 Could you pretend to be on your phone for a second?

Speaker 13 Because I think that's part of the

Speaker 5 phone. Okay.

Speaker 12 I saw a bird today.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 74 Everybody's talking about the bird, but bird, bird, bird.

Speaker 77 Yes.

Speaker 120 The bird is the word. Yes.

Speaker 5 Question for you. Yes.
Name that group.

Speaker 103 Everybody's talking about the birds.

Speaker 56 It's the surfers?

Speaker 2 The trash men. The trash men.

Speaker 95 Ah!

Speaker 24 I should have known.

Speaker 5 Okay. And it was based on another song called

Speaker 5 Birds the Word. Yes.

Speaker 5 By another group. Name that group.

Speaker 102 You've got me.

Speaker 5 The Rivingtons.

Speaker 32 Very good.

Speaker 12 Is that available on 78?

Speaker 5 No, but I'll tell you, everyone should go look up the Trash Man presentation of Birds the Word

Speaker 5 or Surfer Birds.

Speaker 2 Surfer Bird.

Speaker 117 That's where I was confused.

Speaker 5 On YouTube and watch this guy. And then you realize where Mick Jagger got all his moves.

Speaker 64 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 126 Okay, so now I'll be on my phone and then you say, I saw a bird today.

Speaker 9 Okay, here we go.

Speaker 182 Hold on, hold on.

Speaker 27 Let me get on my phone.

Speaker 60 Okay, I'm on my phone.

Speaker 5 I saw a bird today.

Speaker 12 Hey, man, birds aren't real.

Speaker 33 That's that's reasonable.

Speaker 12 That's my answer right there.

Speaker 9 Everybody knows birds aren't real, they're spy drones.

Speaker 77 So, I have seen people

Speaker 133 do a version of this, and it's and really what's if I understand this

Speaker 12 abbreviated version of this very long report that was apparently on public broadcast broadcast systems.

Speaker 5 He was.

Speaker 129 And this is noticeable,

Speaker 59 especially if you're in a group setting

Speaker 25 where someone is on their phone and you'd be talking,

Speaker 57 or even if it's just two people and they're texting something.

Speaker 68 It's typically if they're texting.

Speaker 60 And, you know, they will,

Speaker 58 it's interesting to see they'll actually be, you might have seen this yourself with the kids.

Speaker 158 Maybe, maybe not.

Speaker 26 You probably forbid phones at the table.

Speaker 5 No, I bitch about it a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 59 Then they will answer you, but it'll be when they have a break in their typing.

Speaker 29 So it's like a delayed response.

Speaker 92 They hear that.

Speaker 5 Well, that's an interesting. You're right.
I've seen this happen.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 14 It's a delayed response.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you say something, they're still typing, and they can't lose the train of the train of thumb typing. Yes.
And then once they finish and you see them finish, then they say something. Yeah.

Speaker 68 That's what it is.

Speaker 14 And so some people will say something like, ooh, we almost crashed, you know, just to see if if their friend, partner, spouse, whatever is listening, which of course they aren't.

Speaker 85 They are, they're hearing, but they're not listening.

Speaker 184 And this is

Speaker 111 the.

Speaker 5 But I blame the, there's only one reason. In fact, the whole bird test, the whole thing is really all about one thing, which is the addiction to the phone.

Speaker 27 Phones, yeah, that's what it is.

Speaker 20 So,

Speaker 20 okay.

Speaker 133 You know, I'm against this.

Speaker 47 I think it's a bad idea.

Speaker 109 What?

Speaker 87 I'm against tricking.

Speaker 160 it.

Speaker 59 This is a boundary violation.

Speaker 5 Oh, you're against the tricking,

Speaker 5 the tricking

Speaker 5 of the concept itself.

Speaker 94 I mean, you might, why don't you just say, I saw a bird.

Speaker 9 Why don't you just say, hey, you suck?

Speaker 94 You know, you could say whatever you want because the whole intent is to make the other person feel crappy because they, what?

Speaker 105 You say, what?

Speaker 145 I saw a bird.

Speaker 87 Oh, and just, and then, of course, the follow-up is, you are listening.

Speaker 68 I mean, that's pretty much what this is about.

Speaker 5 Wow, that's a pretty good shout.

Speaker 66 It's not a good,

Speaker 27 it's not a, it's not a good, it's a

Speaker 12 boundary violation.

Speaker 180 You should have an adult conversation and say, hey, you know, when we're talking, let's just put the phones down.

Speaker 31 That's it.

Speaker 5 How about just grabbing the phone out of their hands and stomach?

Speaker 60 Should stomping it on the floor.

Speaker 182 Wow. Wow.

Speaker 135 That's well.

Speaker 35 You know?

Speaker 5 It was basically a double shaggy dog story.

Speaker 17 Yeah, no, I like it.

Speaker 53 I like that.

Speaker 90 Bringing in

Speaker 4 the

Speaker 29 surfing bird was good.

Speaker 12 It is, unfortunately, that time of the year again.

Speaker 126 Do you know what time it is?

Speaker 10 You know what time it is?

Speaker 39 You don't know what time it is, do you?

Speaker 5 You don't know. It's taco time.

Speaker 32 I wish.

Speaker 148 It's cop time.

Speaker 113 Cop, cop, cop time.

Speaker 5 Oh, brother.

Speaker 5 You've got clips from this.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 19 yes.

Speaker 16 Well, it's not so lawyers.

Speaker 57 I have a set-up clip from the opening of COP30.

Speaker 11 All the elites are in Brazil. Woo!

Speaker 186 Party time.

Speaker 71 Let's fly our jets down to Britain.

Speaker 5 You can have a lot of party time. Brazil is the place to be.

Speaker 188 The president of Brazil, Lula Da Silva, greeted heads of state from all over the world as they arrived for the UN's COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon.

Speaker 188 The leaders from the planet's three biggest polluters, China, the U.S., and India, were nowhere to be seen.

Speaker 188 In his opening address, Lula urged countries to actively fight against climate disinformation.

Speaker 153 That's the theme for this year's COP30.

Speaker 87 It's climate disinformation, which, funny enough, is coming from themselves.

Speaker 110 Extremist forces fabricate fake news to obtain electoral gains and imprison future generations in an outdated model that perpetuates social and economic inequalities and environmental degradation.

Speaker 188 A message echoed by French President Emmanuel Macon.

Speaker 190 Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris agenda, and therefore our collective security.

Speaker 188 But it's a tough sell when the leader of one of the world's largest carbon emitters, Donald Trump, is the source of that disinformation, calling climate change a hoax and a conjob and refusing to send anyone to the meeting.

Speaker 188 For its part, China will send its deputy prime minister. While Argentina's president, a Trump ally, has also boycotted the summit.

Speaker 188 In his speech, the UN Secretary General tore into countries for their failure to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a key aim of the 2015 climate summit in Paris.

Speaker 173 Every fraction of a degree means more hangar.

Speaker 4 Displacement.

Speaker 77 You got to listen to what he says.

Speaker 94 Every fraction of a degree.

Speaker 188 2015 climate summit in Paris.

Speaker 19 Every fraction of a degree means more hunger, displacement, and loss, especially for those least responsible.

Speaker 187 It's horrible, every fraction of a degree.

Speaker 123 Now we know that there's a scandal brewing in Denmark, but that doesn't matter because it's COP 30.

Speaker 82 We've got to promote killing the cows, man.

Speaker 138 As climate change worsens and fossil fuels run out, finding new green energy sources is of the essence.

Speaker 62 Oh, wait, this isn't the cows clip.

Speaker 27 This is even funnier.

Speaker 62 You, as a chemist/slash industrialist, will like this gambit.

Speaker 138 The world's first large-scale e-methanol facility in Casa, Denmark,

Speaker 137 to foster the green transition.

Speaker 31 E-methanol.

Speaker 35 Do you know what e-methanol is?

Speaker 5 E-methanol.

Speaker 5 I'm trying to come up with environmentally friendly ethanol.

Speaker 21 Yes, and how would you make e-methololol?

Speaker 68 How would you make e-methanol? This is great.

Speaker 5 I would stick a tube up a cow's butt.

Speaker 192 That would.

Speaker 26 No, that's wrong.

Speaker 138 E-methanol is made using renewable energy by splitting a water atom with an electrolyzer and then combining the pure hydrogen in a reactor tower with biogenic carbon dioxide.

Speaker 138 European Energy, the company that co-owns the facility, intends for e-methanol to be a green alternative to traditional methanol.

Speaker 148 So they're doing hydrolysis with solar panels.

Speaker 157 Yeah, hydrolysis with solar panels and windmills, and then some cow burps and oh, it's really good.

Speaker 193 This report proves it.

Speaker 138 Made with fossil fuels.

Speaker 49 The world market today is 100 million tons of methanol.

Speaker 194 And part of the consumers of that want to green their supply chain. So it can be in shipping for fuel, which is actually new for methanol.
There's even an additional use of methanol.

Speaker 138 Decarbonizing the shipping sector, which has grown to account for about 3% of global emissions, is a focus for global leaders and an issue set to be discussed at COP30 in Belém, Brazil on Monday.

Speaker 138 E-methanol could help green the industry by replacing the large amount of fossil fuels used by vessels to transport cargo across the globe.

Speaker 138 European Energy's CEO, Eric Anderson, says the company expects price parity with fossil fuels by 2030.

Speaker 138 Even so, the facility's current e-methanol production capacity is 40,000 tons annually, a ways away from replacing the 100 million ton global market for methanol-producing fossil fuels.

Speaker 67 40,000 tons, but we only need 100 million thousand tons by 20, we can make it, boys.

Speaker 66 We'll be able to make it.

Speaker 37 No worries.

Speaker 27 Crank up the windmills.

Speaker 107 Because, of course, what's happening now is now that COP30 is taking place, this is the money summit.

Speaker 37 This is where everybody puts their proposals in.

Speaker 46 I need some money for my research.

Speaker 39 I need some money for my e-methanol.

Speaker 123 It's a big money suck.

Speaker 87 And here's the killing the cows clip.

Speaker 198 When cows eat, the the grass ferments in their stomachs and produces methane.

Speaker 197 Methane is over 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere in the short term.

Speaker 198 A single cow can release more than 100 kilos of methane a year.

Speaker 9 Now, multiply that by the world's billion cows, and the number gets wild.

Speaker 140 Due to climate change.

Speaker 160 The number gets wild, everybody.

Speaker 8 Wild.

Speaker 196 But scientists are testing fixes like seaweed feed, which in some trials has cut methane by up to 80%.

Speaker 196 Garlic additives have also been found to change a cow's gut microbes and reduce gas production.

Speaker 24 Oh, get to the point. Get to the point you really want to sell us.

Speaker 9 And then there are even cow vaccines designed to block methane-making microbes in the stomach.

Speaker 196 If these solutions scale up, the payoff could be massive. Dead cows.
Because cutting methane from livestock is one of the fastest ways to slow global warming. Releasing wind can be pretty funny, sure.

Speaker 79 But from cows, they are no laughing matter.

Speaker 27 I mean, yes, this will work.

Speaker 9 This will absolutely work.

Speaker 160 If you kill the cows with your silly vaccine, there will be less methane in the atmosphere.

Speaker 146 Absolutely.

Speaker 28 So that's the vaccine, guys.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 5 where I'm sitting in this office,

Speaker 5 I have an overview of a freeway. Yeah.

Speaker 5 And there are thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of cars that go by,

Speaker 5 all pumping out, you know, a moderate amount of CO2 out the tailpipe. Yes.

Speaker 5 And I'm thinking, I haven't seen a cow for months. But yet, somehow, the cows are going to be responsive.
This is a bunch of vegan meat haters

Speaker 5 blaming the cows for climate change when there's no such thing as bullcrap.

Speaker 123 No, this is the vaccine people trying to make money right now.

Speaker 5 Oh, there's that too. Okay, you have a combination,

Speaker 5 the lethal combination of vegans and vaxxers it's unbelievable won't they just give the vaccines to the vegans

Speaker 56 now there's a solution that i saw a bird today

Speaker 128 everybody's talking about the bird okay so if you're a scientist how i i need more money for my research i need i need more money for my research I must come up with a term that gets me money for my research.

Speaker 178 Put it into a report for me, please.

Speaker 199 2025 has not been a good year for glaciers. A series of reports all appear to confirm that climate change is melting these bodies of ice at an alarming rate.

Speaker 199 Since 2000, the world has lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice from mountain glaciers. Signs of melting evident here on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Messine.

Speaker 27 Now, see if

Speaker 130 you can spot the term this scientist is going to use to get more money for research.

Speaker 201 We have observed over the years that the glacier is slowing down, and this is a sign that there is less

Speaker 143 input of mass to the glacier from snowfall.

Speaker 199 Now, scientists are rushing to recover the glacier.

Speaker 9 Now you'll hear it.

Speaker 188 Don't worry.

Speaker 199 rainfall, volcanic eruptions, and other climate events.

Speaker 181 So the point is that because the glaciers are melting,

Speaker 5 we're losing history.

Speaker 66 Yes, we're losing critical data.

Speaker 143 But what can happen

Speaker 204 as the warming progresses, you will have very hot summers even up there, very hot, meaning above the melting point of ice, which means that water can percolate into the fern, that's the compacted snow that is on top of the firm ice, and therefore contaminate the climate signals.

Speaker 199 It's a critical mission to secure the fern.

Speaker 129 It's the climate signals, John.

Speaker 12 Climate is, we're losing climate signals.

Speaker 5 You kind of put a Boeing right after the word you wanted me to identify.

Speaker 58 Yeah, I kind of did that.

Speaker 17 Yes, kind of did that.

Speaker 130 It's the climate signals.

Speaker 37 But you know what?

Speaker 87 Let's get Japan in on this scam because they're there.

Speaker 57 Everyone's at the COP 30 except for America, Russia, and China.

Speaker 5 ARC. And India.

Speaker 164 Oh, India.

Speaker 90 I think India sent a dude, though.

Speaker 27 I think they sent a dude, a representative,

Speaker 59 climate dude.

Speaker 143 They might have sent somebody.

Speaker 133 And I think China also sent a dude, but an insignificant dude.

Speaker 95 Because, you know,

Speaker 162 all the bigwigs are there.

Speaker 95 Anyway, Japan,

Speaker 67 we got a problem with climate change.

Speaker 49 Holes in walls.

Speaker 202 Chairs scattered about.

Speaker 202 Refrigerator doors ripped from their hinges. This is the aftermath of a bear probably looking for food in a hot spring onsen in northern Japan.
The authorities have killed it.

Speaker 5 And they have to speak like this when they talk about, oh, oh, we're talking about climate, so we have to be quiet.

Speaker 98 It's very, very serious business.

Speaker 60 You know, this is about death of the entire planet.

Speaker 202 Northern Japan. The authorities killed it soon after the inn's owner called the authorities.
This 68-year-old was taken by surprise when he opened his garage and he found a bear sitting inside.

Speaker 139 A bear!

Speaker 188 I thought

Speaker 188 it's over for me.

Speaker 202 This is how I'm going to die.

Speaker 5 I thought that I was going to be killed by that bear.

Speaker 202 This map shows the number of non-fatal bear attacks in yellow and bear attack deaths in red, with a stark uptick in October.

Speaker 68 We've got a bear attack map going,

Speaker 202 a record setting 13 people have died in bear attacks since April, more than doubling the previous record set in 2023. More than 100 people have been wounded in attacks across the country.

Speaker 202 According to experts, a warming climate has produced an abundance of food for bears in the mountains, creating an ideal environment for them to thrive.

Speaker 140 Due to climate change.

Speaker 23 Unbelievable.

Speaker 11 You're going to be killed with this for the next week.

Speaker 5 I think what's interesting to me is that at the same time they're reporting, even though not all the networks are doing it, they're reporting that because of this cold snap that's coming in from the Arctic that's going to hit us

Speaker 5 this week, it's hitting us now. A lot of people aren't listening to the show because of it.

Speaker 62 It's called the. Isn't it?

Speaker 60 No, it's not the bomb. It's the.

Speaker 5 No, it's something else. But

Speaker 5 whatever it is, they're now predicting 200-year records are going to be broken for all-time lows. How does that work?

Speaker 94 Yeah, well, it's due to

Speaker 140 climate change.

Speaker 126 Climate change.

Speaker 159 Don't you understand anything?

Speaker 126 And then amidst all of this,

Speaker 32 the people who actually get it right, they're going out of business.

Speaker 172 After more than two centuries, the Farmer's Almanac announcing it is ending production after the 2026 edition.

Speaker 172 That's after it releases. The publication says rising costs and a changing media landscape made it impossible to keep going.
The website will also slowly shut down, along with its social media posts.

Speaker 172 Staff say they're thankful for the support that they've had over the years and they are proud of the legacy they leave behind.

Speaker 76 This is a travesty.

Speaker 5 Yeah, now that you mention it.

Speaker 126 The Farmer's Almanac was

Speaker 5 the last time you bought a copy.

Speaker 1 Probably

Speaker 5 there was a reason. This is what happens when people neglect things like the Farmer's Almanac or even the No Agenda Show for that matter.

Speaker 5 And they just take it for granted. Oh, there it is.
Yeah, it's predicting the weather again. And there you have it.
No, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 5 And there they go out of business because you didn't buy a copy well i feel really bad now you should

Speaker 25 what uh let me see what the let me see uh because i think yeah there's a 20 so we should buy the 20 if everyone en masse buys the 2026 almanac

Speaker 94 they might be able to keep the website going

Speaker 5 well i think we should all buy a copy let me see four dollars and 79 cents people it's cheap no wonder they went out of business it should have been eight bucks by now well the real problem is that they only release it.

Speaker 42 They didn't release it.

Speaker 21 Did they release it every year?

Speaker 9 The Farmers Almanac? They did? Yeah.

Speaker 16 I guess.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they should have had Farmers Almanac monthly.

Speaker 39 Well, their website is no good.

Speaker 30 I mean, they should have

Speaker 21 done V for V, baby.

Speaker 76 They should have done value for value.

Speaker 37 But yeah, you're right.

Speaker 11 Your point is well made is because everyone just kind of expected the news to tell us what the Farmers Almanac said, and we didn't support them.

Speaker 205 Me Me included.

Speaker 90 I stick my hand to my own breast, me included.

Speaker 26 Now they're going away.

Speaker 36 And who are the people behind it?

Speaker 23 Yeah, they're a lot of work.

Speaker 5 They're FAA controllers.

Speaker 36 Was it farmers?

Speaker 5 I think it was a farmer involved.

Speaker 9 Asking for a friend.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 23 So, yeah, so

Speaker 162 we'll be absolutely obliterated with this nonsense for the next

Speaker 29 week, at least at least

Speaker 5 so i have some ice couple ice clips uh yeah the ice thing is uh i i do have some local boots on the ground stuff about the ice stuff oh good well let's get to that right these clips are interesting this is the wild ice uh this is a kick this wild ice app they've got some apps they're using and everyone's stunned by these apps that yeah all the state things crazy crazy things in this app that like you know uh do facial recognition and it's just a scandal.

Speaker 190 As Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Speaker 5 Oh, I forgot. Yeah, it says SS on there, means Scott Simon.

Speaker 10 Well, how, I mean, oh, okay.

Speaker 68 Is that now the code?

Speaker 5 Is that the? Yeah, I'm sorry. I should have.

Speaker 5 I've been doing this for a while with the code, but I forgot to tell you the code.

Speaker 179 Suffering suckatash. I'm Scott.

Speaker 5 Sorry. That's my fault.

Speaker 190 Simon. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, strives to deport more immigrants, it is increasing its surveillance tools.

Speaker 190 Critics warn these new technologies can violate privacy and civil liberties. Andres Jude Joffey Block joins us now.
Jude, thanks so much for being with us.

Speaker 11 Jude, thank you.

Speaker 190 What are some of the tools that ICE agents are using these days?

Speaker 175 Well, they've got new contracts to monitor social media and help find people's locations. Do you want to overrun us and poison us and take our families and kill us?

Speaker 175 ICE has also revived a contract with a company called Paragon Solutions, which is known for making spyware that can hack into cell phones. We're all gonna die!

Speaker 175 But one big thing that's new is an app ICE and Border Patrol agents have in the field. Social media videos show they're using it to scan people's faces during encounters on the street.

Speaker 206 No way, are you an idiot?

Speaker 175 In an attempt to identify them and figure out if they're deportable.

Speaker 190 Jude, how does this app work?

Speaker 137 Well, there's still a lot that's unknown.

Speaker 175 But one of these videos that was first recorded by 404 Media was shot outside of Chicago, and you see Border Patrol agents approaching two young people.

Speaker 195 Keep your nerves, relax.

Speaker 9 If you just tell me that you were recording here and give me an ID, you'd be good.

Speaker 175 The young man filming the encounter says he doesn't have ID, and then the agent turns to his colleague and asks, Can you do facials? Can you do facial?

Speaker 43 He says.

Speaker 175 And his colleague pulls out his phone and holds it up and appears to scan his face, though it's possibly he took a photo.

Speaker 175 The video was posted by someone claiming to be the cousin of one of the boys who was stopped.

Speaker 175 The poster didn't respond to a request about the post, but NPR was able to verify exactly where it was taken.

Speaker 175 We did get a statement from ICE, and they didn't answer questions about this app, but said, nothing new here.

Speaker 175 For years, law enforcement across the nation has leveraged technological innovations to fight crime.

Speaker 145 Yeah, I do have a problem with this.

Speaker 24 I mean, we can make fun of it,

Speaker 46 but we do live in a constitutional republic where papers please, and if you don't give your papers, you get a facial

Speaker 109 is not cool.

Speaker 143 I'm against that.

Speaker 192 I don't care what's going on.

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, they have the, you know, they ask for your driver's license all the time. You have to have a like,

Speaker 5 you know, you have to have real ID to get on a plane.

Speaker 129 Yes, I know.

Speaker 5 And then somebody's got a guy in front of you that you want to deport. You want to make sure, boy, I think my voice is

Speaker 5 falling apart.

Speaker 187 You're choking up.

Speaker 5 I'm not choking up. I'm choked.

Speaker 5 And so they take a picture of the guy's face and it shows up as who it is. I mean,

Speaker 5 we've been primed for this. If you watch

Speaker 5 television mysteries and dramas over the last 45 years.

Speaker 68 I know we've been primed for it.

Speaker 80 Here's the problem.

Speaker 5 And they do it on Facebook.

Speaker 64 Yeah, that's the problem.

Speaker 93 You should not have a Facebook profile.

Speaker 31 This is problem number one.

Speaker 5 I don't even have a Facebook account, do you?

Speaker 90 No, I gave mine up at least 11 years ago.

Speaker 70 At least.

Speaker 87 And people still, it's amazing that people still send me, hey, you got to see this post.

Speaker 12 And it's Facebook.

Speaker 80 And I can't see the post.

Speaker 5 Actually, you know, recently, I don't know when this started.

Speaker 67 Sometimes you can.

Speaker 53 You got to click the Facebook login thing, but then if you scroll, then right away it pops up.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah, if you scroll, but if it's just a video,

Speaker 9 you can see that you watch it.

Speaker 16 That's true.

Speaker 81 That's true.

Speaker 17 Anyway, we'll play the second clip and then

Speaker 5 the second clip hasn't got no gimmicks in it. No gimmicks.

Speaker 53 It's gimmick-free.

Speaker 46 Sure, do we know if this technology, except for Scott Simon, which is gimmick by itself?

Speaker 190 Sure, do we know if this technology can be used to identify essentially everybody, U.S. citizens?

Speaker 175 Well, a group of Democratic senators has been trying to get answers to that question and others about this app since September, but haven't gotten them from ICE.

Speaker 175 They've called on ICE to stop using this technology and reiterated that demand on Monday. My colleague Martin Costi spoke to Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey.

Speaker 208 This type of on-demand surveillance is harrowing, and it should put all of us on guard. It chills speech, it erodes privacy, it ultimately undermines our democracy.

Speaker 175 He expressed concern that this tool could be used against people who criticize the government or protesters.

Speaker 190 What safeguards exist to try to ensure that these technologies are not abused?

Speaker 175 Well, I asked that to ICE and DHS, and we didn't hear back.

Speaker 175 I also spoke with legal and privacy experts who told me that our current legal and regulatory framework just isn't robust enough to ensure that these kinds of new tools are used with the appropriate oversight and accountability that's really needed.

Speaker 175 Emily Tucker is with Georgetown Law School's Center on Privacy and Technology.

Speaker 138 Immigration powers are being used to justify mass surveillance of everybody.

Speaker 175 And she says it's a mistake to think this doesn't affect every one of us.

Speaker 12 Okay, so my opinion remains the same.

Speaker 125 And yes, I'm okay with tools, tools for immigration, but here's the problem.

Speaker 17 So this needs to be very clear who can use this and under what circumstances.

Speaker 70 So if you're pulled over,

Speaker 68 then showing your driver's license, which you don't even have to hand off, I don't think technically, you can just hold it against the glass.

Speaker 91 But you can also.

Speaker 5 Try doing that in in Texas.

Speaker 68 It will work in Texas.

Speaker 56 It will work in Texas.

Speaker 5 Just give me your license. What difference does it make?

Speaker 119 Yeah, listen, you have less road ahead of you than you have behind you, but there's a lot of young people.

Speaker 59 I don't want them living in a society where cops just come up to you and just scan your face to see who you are.

Speaker 136 I don't want that.

Speaker 30 I don't.

Speaker 68 Now, what's the problem with the immigration enforcement right now in our sleepy little town of Fredericksburg?

Speaker 85 20 minutes, 15 minutes up the road, we have Boot Ranch.

Speaker 53 Boot Ranch. You should look it up.

Speaker 102 Boot Ranch.

Speaker 77 Poor house?

Speaker 68 No, Boot Ranch is a gated community.

Speaker 80 I don't know how many houses, a lot of houses.

Speaker 68 You cannot buy a house there for under $2 million.

Speaker 26 Most of them are $3 to $7 million.

Speaker 5 It's crazy.

Speaker 181 They got private golf course and everything.

Speaker 68 It's fine.

Speaker 144 Perfect.

Speaker 27 But they have maid service.

Speaker 97 And this is how I know about it.

Speaker 67 Because the maids stopped showing up.

Speaker 129 You know why?

Speaker 92 Because ICE came into Fredericksburg and they're not looking for criminals.

Speaker 89 They're just looking for numbers.

Speaker 37 Like,

Speaker 37 we got to have numbers.

Speaker 13 We have quotas. We got to arrest people.

Speaker 10 And yeah, guess what?

Speaker 25 A lot of the maids who have been here maybe 20 years, they've been arrested and deported.

Speaker 27 So they're not just. kicking out criminals.

Speaker 5 They're not technically arrested.

Speaker 37 No,

Speaker 37 what do you mean?

Speaker 84 They were taken into custody.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but that's different than being arrested.

Speaker 97 Oh, be a dick about it.

Speaker 129 You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 No, I'm not being a dick about it. I'm just trying to, words matter.
You're the one that says that all the time.

Speaker 46 So they have been deported.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 128 And

Speaker 17 yes, they were here illegally, but this is no longer just looking for criminals.

Speaker 55 There are ICE patrols.

Speaker 27 I understand why people get freaked out about this, particularly in Boot Ranch, because who's going to clean their homes?

Speaker 12 I mean, this is a real problem.

Speaker 76 Poor people. Yeah.

Speaker 20 But,

Speaker 90 you know, it's gotten a little bit beyond we're kicking out criminals.

Speaker 68 They're just doing quotas now.

Speaker 51 Chicago, I don't know.

Speaker 27 But when you're in Fredericksburg trolling for

Speaker 12 cleaners, which, yeah, you're going to find a lot of that.

Speaker 87 And yes, they should be replaced by American citizens.

Speaker 24 But, you know, when you're just walking around and face scanning everybody, it's, eh,

Speaker 85 I don't like it.

Speaker 5 Well, you should be like this woman then.

Speaker 5 This is the talk anti-Constitution Zed Gen Zetter.

Speaker 210 All right, here's my hot take of today.

Speaker 210 I don't think that a society governed by a document that was written in the 1700s by a bunch of drunk white guys in their 20s who couldn't even conceive of the existence of the majority of the United States of America should be used to this day.

Speaker 210 And I don't think that we are going to have a successful society until we get rid of the thing and restart. Because the founding fathers could not have conceived of my existence.

Speaker 174 They just could not have.

Speaker 11 They couldn't conceive of it. Their brains would have exploded.

Speaker 174 So how could that document possibly serve me?

Speaker 111 How could it?

Speaker 210 We need a new one. We need to restart.

Speaker 11 We need to start over.

Speaker 211 This one's trash.

Speaker 210 We need to revamp it and get a new one.

Speaker 59 Well, going from what I said to what she says and saying I should be like her is rude and just uncalled for.

Speaker 46 There's no psychological.

Speaker 85 It's okay because I'm not a baby like you and whine about it i just tell you

Speaker 5 and by the way i just tell you straight up and by the way

Speaker 5 they the founding fathers were aware of people like her

Speaker 5 yeah they were called witches

Speaker 77 i was right there with you but this but all of this um

Speaker 30 facial recognition and uh digital identity This is really happening.

Speaker 90 Although in France, they're kind of downplaying it right now because there was a bit of a fruckus.

Speaker 114 I got a Euro News debunk report, although sounds like it could kind of happen anyway.

Speaker 203 A claim is circulating online that France is entering an era of total traceability, amid allegations that the country's digital ID will be directly tied to personal social media accounts.

Speaker 203 This post on X says that the measure would, on paper, allow authorities to fight against the bad guys, but that unofficially it would be one more step towards a society where words and opinions are policed.

Speaker 203 It attaches a video of Paul Medy, a member of the French parliament and of President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party, giving an interview in which he says that the measure would prevent complete anonymity online to help tackle impunity for online harassment and other illegality.

Speaker 203 However, the caption is wrong.

Speaker 203 While French MPs did consider linking the digital ID to citizen social media, these proposals were rejected, and the country is not currently poised to introduce the measure.

Speaker 203 The idea first emerged in 2023 as part of the discussion on the law aimed at securing and regulating the digital space or SREN law.

Speaker 203 At the time, MIDI and others tabled an amendment that would have required a certification by a state-approved third party, such as the Digital ID, when creating new accounts on social media.

Speaker 203 The video of MIDI attached to the social media post is from an interview with French radio station RTL at around the time that politicians were discussing the proposed amendment.

Speaker 20 So it's not new.

Speaker 203 Ultimately, the amendment faced fierce opposition and was withdrawn. And the final law came into force in May 2024 without the measure linking digital IDs with social media accounts.

Speaker 203 As things stand, the digital ID can be used to verify someone's age when creating a social media account, for example.

Speaker 203 But you're not required to do so, and the digital ID is not automatically linked to your social media accounts.

Speaker 46 Yeah, I give them one year before that's required in Europe.

Speaker 85 One year max.

Speaker 51 That is definitely happening because they have the digital ID.

Speaker 121 Everybody's got digital ID in Europe.

Speaker 47 And the Brit card

Speaker 68 is going to be tied to it.

Speaker 5 I wish I now

Speaker 5 irked that I didn't get this clip of this French woman who's floating around, attractive lady, floating around telling people to, some guy got arrested in France for posting, just getting like England, posting pictures of a bunch of migrants just hanging around, you know, the bakery and, you know, harassing ladies

Speaker 5 and got thrown in jail, this guy, for posting it. And so she came out with a video saying we got to start posting this stuff because it's bull crap and what's going on.

Speaker 5 But digital ID and facial recognition out of the blue is different.

Speaker 56 Yeah,

Speaker 56 it's different.

Speaker 14 But it's all going to be tied together.

Speaker 161 Palantir, man, don't you know?

Speaker 95 Don't you know Palantir?

Speaker 81 Palantir's going to do us. Palantir,

Speaker 182 Elon Musk, Palantir,

Speaker 20 Peter Thiel.

Speaker 136 They're all going to kill us.

Speaker 38 And they mind.

Speaker 27 They just might.

Speaker 5 Packers will save the day.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 11 Meanwhile,

Speaker 126 oh boy, we've got another drone scaring people in Brussels.

Speaker 126 They're showing video, literally a drone with red blinking lights saying, I'm a drone. I'm a drone.

Speaker 212 Brussels Zavantam Airport is still feeling the aftershock of Tuesday's drone sightings, which forced the city's main airport to close and left dozens of flights grounded.

Speaker 212 The country's defense minister told local media that the incident appeared to be carried out by professionals intent on destabilizing the country.

Speaker 212 Departing and arriving flights were

Speaker 21 professionals.

Speaker 38 I mean, I don't understand.

Speaker 12 Someone flies a drone with a red flashing light.

Speaker 16 It's not a Reaper Dough drone.

Speaker 12 It's just a drone flying around the airport, which should, of course be completely illegal.

Speaker 5 Jokers are some teenagers.

Speaker 133 Yeah, but the payoff is in the report.

Speaker 212 Intent on destabilizing the country, all departing and arriving flights were temporarily suspended, forcing hundreds of passengers to spend the night at the airport.

Speaker 212 Liege Airport, used principally as a cargo hub, was also closed due to drone sightings on Tuesday.

Speaker 212 Both airports have now reopened, but officials have warned that disruptions are expected to continue and that passengers should be prepared for delays.

Speaker 212 Both NATO and the European Union have been on high alert recently following a string of airspace violations thought to be carried out by Russia.

Speaker 64 Of course, it's Russia.

Speaker 74 Of course, it's Russia.

Speaker 129 But this is no longer drones.

Speaker 5 This is a red flashing light, that's why.

Speaker 129 Yes, but it's no longer drones.

Speaker 13 It is hybrid.

Speaker 76 This is what we call this.

Speaker 119 This is hybrid.

Speaker 13 It's hybrid.

Speaker 66 And when you're talking hybrid, there is no one better but Mark Ritter Rutter to come in and tell you about the hybrid.

Speaker 191 Well, you know, when it comes to hybrid, and the word is a bit strange, it's a very strange word. Because on the hybrid, we have seen assassination attempts.
We have seen the in

Speaker 135 assassination attempts.

Speaker 131 John, have you seen an assassination attempt in the hybrid?

Speaker 9 Who was

Speaker 12 except for Trump and Charlie Kirk?

Speaker 27 Was not an attempt, was the real one.

Speaker 191 In some countries, the jamming of commercial airplanes.

Speaker 187 What jamming of commercial

Speaker 104 vest planes were commercial were jammed?

Speaker 89 Which ones?

Speaker 12 Oh, Ursula's.

Speaker 71 Okay.

Speaker 191 Which could pose great risks, of course, to

Speaker 191 commercial aviation. Yes.
We assume an attack on the NHS in the United Kingdom.

Speaker 124 What attack on the NHS in the United Kingdom?

Speaker 36 I don't have the report. Do you know it?

Speaker 5 Can I ask a question? Yes.

Speaker 5 How

Speaker 5 we have people that can hit a target at,

Speaker 5 oh, I don't know, 600 yards with a scope and a laser uh spotting um

Speaker 5 gear

Speaker 5 why can't we just shoot the why don't we have just one sharpshooter at the airport these things aren't that high up they're not at 30 000 feet you are missing the points man and just shoot the drone i don't understand why these they let these drones fly around but we might need to make the people scared don't you understand this to make the people scared so i don't like the word hybrid to do it.

Speaker 9 I do, I love it.

Speaker 191 Okay,

Speaker 191 it is the accepted language.

Speaker 77 Okay, it is the word, we're just gonna use the bird is the word, we use the hybrid.

Speaker 191 Clearly, this is something where, within NATO and within our allies, we are working extremely actively to make sure that

Speaker 187 we are on the case, people.

Speaker 149 NATO is good.

Speaker 159 Get your money ready, get your tax money ready, it's all good.

Speaker 191 We counter whatever is necessary. I mean, you take, for example, the situation

Speaker 191 Christmas time last year when the undersea sea cable was cut

Speaker 191 between Estonia and Finland we immediately launched Baltic Century

Speaker 191 and that was launched to make

Speaker 191 sure that we would be able to use in the latest technologies etc to to counter what happened there so sometimes it is big what we do sometimes it is smaller sometimes you cannot see it

Speaker 36 sometimes sometimes it is invisible what we do with your money it's complete don't worry it's good what we're doing with your tax money.

Speaker 20 It's invisible.

Speaker 191 But we are working very hard collectively to make sure that we defend against any threat, including hybrid threats.

Speaker 81 And Russia.

Speaker 12 And Russia. It's always about Russia.

Speaker 9 Oh, man, these guys.

Speaker 64 So, Orban Orban

Speaker 26 was at the White House, the President of Hungary.

Speaker 35 And

Speaker 76 this was really interesting

Speaker 27 because I'm confused now.

Speaker 73 What power does the president have?

Speaker 37 Because Hungary is a part of the EU, no?

Speaker 13 Yes, they're part of the EU.

Speaker 100 They are an EU country.

Speaker 5 And NATO, too.

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 36 So, but somehow the President of the United States has jurisdiction over their use of Russian oil.

Speaker 31 I'm a little confused about this.

Speaker 52 It was smiles and compliments as U.S. President Trump welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Speaker 52 Meeting in Washington, the two men discussed economic cooperation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Speaker 52 And just weeks after imposing what Trump called tremendous sanctions on Russian oil and gas, the U.S. President has given Hungary a one-year exemption.

Speaker 52 Orban, who's a long-time Trump ally and critic of Western support for Ukraine, made his case and welcomed the decision.

Speaker 154 It is not possible to secure Hungary's energy supply

Speaker 154 and to provide affordable energy to Hungarian families and businesses if sanctions continue to be imposed on two key pipelines.

Speaker 154 We looked at the issue and we asked the President to lift the sanctions.

Speaker 9 We asked for two pipelines pipelines to be exempted from all sanctions.

Speaker 52 International Monetary Fund figures show Hungary relied on Russia for 74% of its gas and 86% of its oil in 2024.

Speaker 52 It warned that an EU-wide cut-off of Russian natural gas alone could force output losses in Hungary exceeding 4% of GDP.

Speaker 52 Trump agreed that Hungary needed reprieve from the sanctions because of its landlocked position.

Speaker 52 He also accused other European countries of buying Russian oil and gas for years.

Speaker 45 country. But they don't have sea.

Speaker 122 They don't have the ports.

Speaker 45 And so they have a difficult problem. But when you look at what's happened with Europe, many of those countries don't have those problems.
And they buy a lot of oil and gas from Russia.

Speaker 45 And as they know, I'm very disturbed by that because we're helping them.

Speaker 52 Shortly before Friday's exemption announcement, Ukraine's President Zelensky said they cannot let Russia profit from energy and said they would find a way to ensure no Russian oil was in Europe.

Speaker 73 How does the President of the United States get to exempt

Speaker 38 Hungary from

Speaker 157 taking Russian energy through the pipelines?

Speaker 60 Is that our policy?

Speaker 15 That's our sanctions.

Speaker 37 Well, no, but Europe has sanctions.

Speaker 90 We don't have sanctions on Europe other than we'll put tariffs on you.

Speaker 68 Is it an exemption from our tariffs on that what Hungarian salami?

Speaker 34 What do we get from Hungary?

Speaker 5 What do we get from Hungary?

Speaker 9 Yeah, that's a good question.

Speaker 158 There's got to be something from Hungary that we're going to be able to do.

Speaker 5 We probably get something from him, you know.

Speaker 5 It's just that we're running the show. I don't know, you know, this is not a shock to you.

Speaker 76 I was just curious.

Speaker 5 Maybe the Israelis told us to do this.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 90 Hey, Scott Besson was on with George Stephanopoulos this morning.

Speaker 26 And I thought it was kind of a fun exchange.

Speaker 146 Because Scott Besson, he can get in people's faces.

Speaker 95 Have you noticed this?

Speaker 5 He does it

Speaker 5 with his own style.

Speaker 5 He's a stylizer.

Speaker 5 He's a stylist.

Speaker 5 He does it very, he's very calm.

Speaker 9 He's a stylist.

Speaker 5 He's a stylist in more ways than one. And he's quite calm and he's sharp-witted.
And

Speaker 20 yeah,

Speaker 5 I think I like Rubio's style the best.

Speaker 85 Yes, yeah, but Rubio wasn't on the morning shows.

Speaker 5 Yeah, no, Rubio's been out of the picture for a while for some reason.

Speaker 97 And for sure, while he's going to, oh, well, while you're talking about that,

Speaker 97 Rubio, the stands are back in the picture.

Speaker 29 The stands.

Speaker 116 The stands. The stands?

Speaker 87 The stands. Yeah, the stands.

Speaker 116 Stands? Yeah, the stands.

Speaker 87 Kazakhstan.

Speaker 5 Tajikistan. Oh, the stands.

Speaker 116 The stands.

Speaker 32 And this is a great little clip.

Speaker 202 Well, I've just, several issues were on the table at the summit between U.S. and several Central Asian heads of state.

Speaker 202 Among them, rare earth minerals, the sale of Boeing airplanes, and the Abraham Accords. U.S.

Speaker 202 President Donald Trump announced soon after that Kazakhstan, the largest country in the region, would join them.

Speaker 45 This evening, I'm also delighted to report that Kazakhstan has officially agreed.

Speaker 121 What country, Mr. President?

Speaker 51 Kazakhstan, dude.

Speaker 77 You heard me.

Speaker 73 Kazakhstan is joining in.

Speaker 45 Delighted to report that Kazakhstan has officially agreed, and that's official now, as of about

Speaker 45 15 minutes ago. A tremendous country with a tremendous leader

Speaker 45 has officially joined the Abraham Accords.

Speaker 202 At first glance, the move seems hollow. Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel for decades.

Speaker 202 A contrast to countries such as Morocco and Bahrain that only opened them up as part of the accords.

Speaker 202 For his part, the Kazakh president said that before the summit, such cooperation would yield economic dividends.

Speaker 202 After the meeting, he expressed his willingness to maintain strong relations with Washington.

Speaker 167 My political will to seize all those unique opportunities, and I have no doubts that we have a very bright future as it comes to our bilateral cooperation.

Speaker 202 It could also be that Central Asian countries in the meeting, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to their abundance of rare earth minerals, are sandwiched in between Russia and China, and the U.S.

Speaker 202 is vying for favor over its adversaries. U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced visits to those countries in 2026.

Speaker 12 Rubio's going to the stands.

Speaker 5 Oh, he should go to the newest stand.

Speaker 116 What's the newest stand?

Speaker 5 New Yorkist stand.

Speaker 136 New Yorkistan.

Speaker 26 I had a boots on the ground

Speaker 181 report from W

Speaker 120 let me see W ABC, I think.

Speaker 136 Let me see.

Speaker 120 Yes, ABC, New York.

Speaker 37 This is the voters boots on the ground in Astoria, Queens.

Speaker 17 This is

Speaker 143 Mamdani's home turf.

Speaker 213 It looked like a New Year's Eve party, but this was an election night celebration.

Speaker 213 This is citizen app video of overjoyed Zorin Mamdani supporters who filled 24th Avenue in Astoria last night to mark the historic results of a groundbreaking victory.

Speaker 213 Young voters energized by the campaign promises of a 34-year-old Muslim state assemblyman born in Uganda hit the streets to mark the dawn of a new era in New York City.

Speaker 12 That's great.

Speaker 17 We've got to remember that rundown.

Speaker 12 Hold on, let me hear it again.

Speaker 213 Young voters energized by the campaign promises of a 34-year-old Muslim state assemblyman born in Uganda hit the streets to mark the dawn of a new era in New York City politics.

Speaker 52 I think that it's really amazing that we have like a nose ring.

Speaker 137 A movement that

Speaker 169 everyone was excited about that was able to prevail over something that we were all really worried about.

Speaker 213 Mom Dani supporters crowded the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden to watch the election night returns. Returns that quickly confirm what pre-election polls reveal time and time again.

Speaker 213 A sizable lead for the frontrunner, who saw winning projections about an hour after the polls closed.

Speaker 213 In Momdani's home district this morning, the excitement and energy of last night's epic win looms large. Astoria resident Hannah Lieberman is also a small business owner.

Speaker 214 I really like that he wasn't bought by anyone.

Speaker 214 I think those kinds of grassroots campaigns are so inspiring and what we need.

Speaker 215 I mean, I think the big thing is having better access to housing, expanding the ability, the availability of housing, and some of the rent control that they can pursue.

Speaker 68 Affordability, Mr.

Speaker 143 President.

Speaker 207 Affordability.

Speaker 120 That's what did it.

Speaker 5 So we got a note from one of our more famous executive producers.

Speaker 23 Oh,

Speaker 5 that one. In the business, Brunetti.

Speaker 145 Yeah. Oh, that guy.
Yes.

Speaker 5 So a subject, Mira Nair. Nair, N-A-I-R, Mira Nair.

Speaker 23 Mira Nair?

Speaker 20 Mira Nair? Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 59 You know who she is? No.

Speaker 5 She is the famous Hollywood director who's

Speaker 5 Brunette's, who's Mondami's mom.

Speaker 5 And he writes this note.

Speaker 5 Haven't heard much in the press about her or mention of her on the show. Okay.
No.

Speaker 5 I noticed that too. She's a sought-after director after Monsoon wedding.
Don't know what the angle is, but there seems to be something here considering it's not getting much, if any, play.

Speaker 5 If anything, maybe that's why Mondami is good with his TikTok videos, question mark. Not saying she has anything to do with making them,

Speaker 5 but maybe

Speaker 5 just odd that she hasn't been made.

Speaker 5 Just odd, more hasn't been made of her being his mom or the lack of attention to it, especially everyone seems to be love everything Hollywood.

Speaker 5 Now, so I went back and looked at his videos, the really good ones, like the Valentine's Day one and the one he's on the street. Two things I noticed.
One, he uses a Hollywood movie-style microphone.

Speaker 5 He doesn't use a normal microphone. This is equipment gear from, you know, this guy's extended.
They're like a shotgun mic. They're used, people hold them underneath the actor.

Speaker 40 What you're saying, he's not using a DGI mic with a big fuzzy thing on it.

Speaker 5 He's not using a DGI mic. He's not using any normal mic that you would use if you were doing Man on the Street stuff.

Speaker 5 It's a Hollywood movie mic that nobody uses. So it's gear.

Speaker 5 And if you watch his videos, there are three and four camera shoots.

Speaker 5 They're beautifully edited.

Speaker 5 Overlays and all kinds of fade-ins, fade-outs. It's slick.

Speaker 5 It looks like the old TV show Homicide, Life on the Streets. The shaky cam comes and goes.
And there's a shot of him talking to somebody with the camera crew, part of the camera crew behind him.

Speaker 5 And you see two people next to each other. One guy with extremely high-end gear, and another woman right next to him filming with

Speaker 5 an iPhone next to each other. So you can intersperse their slick look with the shaky cam look or with the iPhone look.

Speaker 5 And you go back and you look at these and think of them as being produced by Hollywood. You go, oh, yeah.

Speaker 9 Duh. Yeah.

Speaker 5 And so this was rigged.

Speaker 9 This was people were

Speaker 5 scammed.

Speaker 53 Scammed.

Speaker 32 That's not rigged. That's great.

Speaker 5 that's smart oh it is great i mean if you look back on it as professionally done they are slick

Speaker 5 it but it's a scam they people have gotten taken to the cleaners in new york by this guy and his mom she's been what what hold on a second you mean hollywood style production has has convinced people of something has tricked people you don't say

Speaker 5 i know i was stunned stunned shocked well shocked i said clearly clearly brunetti should have been producing Andrew Cuomo's videos.

Speaker 36 What a misser.

Speaker 5 Cuomo did have some videos that come out at the end that were all done by AI.

Speaker 27 His AI videos, yeah, they were pretty funny. His AI videos were.

Speaker 5 They were very funny, but it was a little too little, too late.

Speaker 66 But Cuomo has no personality.

Speaker 25 And what the first lady said, the first nose ring said, is exactly what went down.

Speaker 12 Well, at least there's someone we could get behind.

Speaker 100 He's our age.

Speaker 42 He's, you know,

Speaker 36 not really.

Speaker 67 Something, something rent freeze.

Speaker 12 Okay, whatever.

Speaker 53 Yeah, something, something free.

Speaker 9 Something, something free.

Speaker 5 Something, something, something, something, free. Fast buses.

Speaker 31 Yeah, something free.

Speaker 89 And he's young. He's attractive.

Speaker 164 He's got cool videos.

Speaker 66 And then they've got the sex accus, you know, the

Speaker 92 guy accused of sexual abuse.

Speaker 94 Creepy, creepy old guy.

Speaker 77 That's what it was.

Speaker 159 There was just no candidates.

Speaker 9 No candidates.

Speaker 5 Well, they had plenty of opportunities to bring up candidates. The Republicans gave up on the city.

Speaker 12 Well, you can't blame them.

Speaker 5 And then the Democrats had a bunch of stiffs.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. So this kid comes in with his

Speaker 5 professional

Speaker 191 video.

Speaker 116 Steven Sliva.

Speaker 149 I mean, man, the amount of archive footage, but it's still, it's not what people don't want to see.

Speaker 67 Guys coming in, kicking ass, cleaning up the subways.

Speaker 27 No, they want free.

Speaker 21 That's just the new,

Speaker 93 that's what these millennials want, free.

Speaker 90 I can't afford to live here.

Speaker 68 Have you considered moving somewhere else?

Speaker 9 No, I want to live in New York.

Speaker 1 I want to live here.

Speaker 20 We've got bodegas.

Speaker 5 I want you to pay for it.

Speaker 2 We've got bodegas.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 27 I'm telling you, I'm very much looking forward to the day when

Speaker 33 daughter number three says, I'm a little short this month.

Speaker 36 I'm like, call your boy at City Hall, Mom Domi. Call him.

Speaker 5 Yeah, she voted for him.

Speaker 21 She definitely did.

Speaker 111 Yeah, she was.

Speaker 5 But who else is she going to vote for?

Speaker 90 She was sending us memes.

Speaker 13 I love her dearly.

Speaker 39 And we can have our disagreements.

Speaker 26 That's what I love so much about her.

Speaker 17 She doesn't go all nuclear.

Speaker 39 She's just grown up in that regard.

Speaker 22 She sent, it was a meme.

Speaker 39 It was like a pride flag shaped like a gun pointing at someone's.

Speaker 60 I think it was, was it maybe even a Trump head? Let me see.

Speaker 23 No.

Speaker 40 So it was

Speaker 9 an arm.

Speaker 29 I should send this to you for the newsletter.

Speaker 47 It was an arm with a gun pointed at a black silhouetted head, not looking like anybody, that head really, who was bent forward.

Speaker 46 So the gun's at the back of the head and it's pride colors and says, now put the pronouns back in email.

Speaker 55 And this is exactly what they care about.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I had a, oh man, I didn't get that clip. Another one I passed on

Speaker 5 of some

Speaker 5 TikToker going nuts about how great it is that woke is back.

Speaker 5 I don't know if you saw that one.

Speaker 23 No, no, no.

Speaker 164 Gee, it didn't hit my news feed.

Speaker 23 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 All right.

Speaker 39 So let's go to Besant because Besant's a grown-up and he's funny and he's sparring with Stephanopoulos and throwing stuff in his face.

Speaker 76 It was cute.

Speaker 78 And we were joined now by the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson. Mr.
Besson, thank you for joining us this morning. We've just tried to.

Speaker 5 Before you play this, hold on. You know, I'm surprised that Stephanopoulos is a little more humorful and

Speaker 5 quick-witted and

Speaker 5 has funny material because you know he's married to a comedian.

Speaker 89 I did not know this.

Speaker 76 Who is she?

Speaker 166 Oh, I can't remember her name.

Speaker 31 Who is he?

Speaker 2 I'm sorry. No, it's his son.

Speaker 216 I messed up the punchline.

Speaker 5 That would have been funny. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 16 You blew it.

Speaker 5 We can,

Speaker 5 you know, we can do it in post.

Speaker 113 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So I can't remember her name, but she used to be on a lot of stuff. She's mostly a skit comic.

Speaker 20 And

Speaker 9 she is Allie Wentworth.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Allie Wentworth. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Hmm.

Speaker 49 What is she? And she's

Speaker 16 very,

Speaker 5 like all female comedians, she must be tough at the dinner table insofar as you know, having the one-line or the retort. Wow, she's a little bit more.

Speaker 20 And you'd think he'd pick up something.

Speaker 27 She was on In Living Color, which was

Speaker 5 one of the actresses.

Speaker 9 Wow.

Speaker 130 She did impressions of Cher, Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Princess Diana, Brooke Shields, Sharon Stone.

Speaker 4 Huh.

Speaker 59 It's interesting.

Speaker 47 It has one of those cute faces, but because she's a comedian, every picture makes her look odd.

Speaker 30 You know, she has to make a face.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 68 They met on a blind date in 2001.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 59 It's Mary Stephanopoulos.

Speaker 68 She must have been blind.

Speaker 178 November. Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 20 You got one in.

Speaker 9 You got one in.

Speaker 9 Hold on.

Speaker 117 I'm back. I'm back.

Speaker 8 I'm back, everybody.

Speaker 135 Blindly. Back to Besson.

Speaker 78 And we're joined now by the Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. Mr.
Besson, thank you for joining us this morning. We've just heard about all these impacts from the government shutdown right now.

Speaker 78 Are we starting to see a permanent impact on the economy?

Speaker 48 Sure, George. And good to be with you.

Speaker 67 And he's already got something ready.

Speaker 27 You know, good to be with you.

Speaker 124 And, you know, it's possible that that tough at the dinner table that he and

Speaker 22 what's her name?

Speaker 31 I forgot her name already.

Speaker 9 Wentworth.

Speaker 5 Wentworth. Alliance Wentworth.
They're like,

Speaker 59 you got to get this Besson.

Speaker 54 You got to get him.

Speaker 58 You got to get him good.

Speaker 24 I'll get you some one-liners.

Speaker 89 But Besson came prepared.

Speaker 48 We've seen an impact on the economy from day one, but it's getting worse and worse.

Speaker 48 We had a fantastic economy under President Trump the past two quarters, and now there are estimates that the economy, economic growth for this quarter could be cut by as much as half if the shutdown continues.

Speaker 48 And what your correspondent didn't talk about there, George, was there's, of course, the human cost, and we're going to have the busiest travel day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 48 And, you know, Americans should look to five Democratic senators to come across the aisle to open that. But on the other side, there's also cargo is being slowed down.

Speaker 48 So, you know, we could end up with shortages, whether it's in our supply chains, whether it's for the holidays.

Speaker 48 So, you know, cargo and people are both being slowed down here, and that's for safety's sake, George.

Speaker 55 Okay, so he kept his powder dry.

Speaker 78 President continues to post about ending the filibuster.

Speaker 78 Is that the best way to end the shutdown right now? Is that what the administration's position is?

Speaker 48 No, George,

Speaker 48 the best way to do it, and look, you were involved in a lot of these in the 90s, and

Speaker 48 you basically called the Republicans terrorists, and

Speaker 48 you said that it is not the responsible party that keeps the government closed.

Speaker 9 Wow.

Speaker 37 No way, it gets better.

Speaker 119 It gets better.

Speaker 48 And so, what we need is five brave, moderate Democratic senators to cross the aisle because right now it is 52 to three, 52 to 3. Five Democrats can cross the aisle and reopen the government.

Speaker 48 That's the best way to do it, George.

Speaker 78 I can disagree with you about the history there, but we don't need a history lesson right now.

Speaker 49 George, if you want to... George, no, no, no, George.
George,

Speaker 78 let's talk about what's happening right now.

Speaker 49 If you want, I've got all your quotes here. I've got all your quotes here.
I am sure it is.

Speaker 49 I'm sure you do. And

Speaker 7 let's talk about the situation.

Speaker 49 I read your book.

Speaker 48 So you got one purchase on Amazon this week, and that's very much what you said. The best way is for five Democratic senators to come across the aisle.

Speaker 48 What are we on vote 13, 14, 15? Mike Johnson got the reopening out of the House very quickly. And

Speaker 48 what's changed since the spring, George, is Chuck Schumer's poll numbers.

Speaker 48 He had a clean, continuing resolution in the spring. And why are Democrats doing this now, George? Again, you've been involved with this.

Speaker 48 Explain what's changed.

Speaker 48 Senator Chris Murphy gave the game away this week when he said, well,

Speaker 48 now it's our advantage to keep the government closed. They have turned the American people into pawns.

Speaker 12 I feel that Besant is really running the tables on Stephanopoulos with this one.

Speaker 42 Pulling up his books, saying this, is what you said when you called the Republicans terrorists.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Stephanophilus is not very good at defending himself. He starts to

Speaker 5 yeah, exactly. Stumbles, he fumbles, he stutters, he tries to push back.
He doesn't take, he never takes the guy on. No, no.

Speaker 5 If he was any good, he would say, yes, this in the past, I have said that you're correct. In fact, you can quote me if you want.
But the way I see it now, it's different. No, you should just say that.

Speaker 5 But it's all you have have to say.

Speaker 77 They should just say,

Speaker 5 what I just said is all you have to say.

Speaker 5 And then the guy with the best report, because Besson always had this rehearsed, the best he could say was, well, what's different about it? And then

Speaker 5 if Stephanophilus was keeping up, he said, there's a lot different about it.

Speaker 5 It's a different circumstance.

Speaker 5 They pulled the plug with a very,

Speaker 5 there was a pushback against the big, beautiful bill, which was something they didn't want. And then he could start to bore him with bull crap.
crap, and then Bessett would have to back off.

Speaker 5 Bessett could lose this, but no, he knows that Stepanopoulos is lousy.

Speaker 76 All he could have had to say was, I saw a bird today.

Speaker 9 It would have been six.

Speaker 78 The president has also come forward with a new proposal overnight saying it's time instead to do away with Obamacare instead to have the money go directly to the people.

Speaker 194 Do you have a formal proposal to do that?

Speaker 48 We don't have a formal proposal, but what I have noticed over time is that the Democrats give all these bills the Orwellian names, the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, Patriot Act, Republicans.

Speaker 48 And we end up with just the opposite. You know, the Affordable Care Act has become unaffordable, and the Inflation Reduction Act set off the greatest inflation in 50 years.

Speaker 2 He was well prepared for this.

Speaker 78 Well, I'm a little confused because the President has been posting about that overnight and into this morning, but you're not proposing that to the Senate right now.

Speaker 48 We're not proposing it to the Senate right now. No.

Speaker 78 Then why is the President posting about it?

Speaker 70 Because he's trolling you, George.

Speaker 48 George,

Speaker 48 the President's posting about it, but again, we have got to get the government reopened before we do this. We are not going to negotiate with

Speaker 48 the Democrats until they reopen the government. It's very simple.
Reopen the government, then we can have a discussion.

Speaker 68 By the way, the word around town on the shutdown, and when I say the word around town, you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 9 Yeah?

Speaker 129 90 days.

Speaker 27 What? 90 days.

Speaker 5 Okay, so that's good news. That means it won't be 90 days.

Speaker 87 That's funny because that's the first thing I said.

Speaker 103 Oh, well, it'll be over next week then.

Speaker 90 Yeah, that's the word around town.

Speaker 27 That's the whisper number.

Speaker 90 Oh, no,

Speaker 88 and it goes like this.

Speaker 53 Yeah, it's going to be the Trump's going to keep it shut down for 90 days so he can really find out what we really need to pay and get rid of all the other stuff we don't need to pay for.

Speaker 5 The problem, of course, with the 90 days theory is that that's way past Thanksgiving. People, even though the comedian's joke of the day, all of them are using the same line.

Speaker 5 And Bill Maher even used it on his monologue, which is that, oh, Thanksgiving, we're not going to be able to travel, so we won't have to see our lousy relatives. This is good news, not bad news.

Speaker 71 Oh, yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 So that's the joke.

Speaker 5 And he, uh,

Speaker 5 the fact is that there's enough weak-kneed Democrats that are moderates that are going to be worried and are going to have to, because they're going to take it up to 20%.

Speaker 5 And like you said, which has not been discussed, the fact is you can't just knock it down 10 or 20% without causing scheduling issues across the board, making things terrible.

Speaker 5 Oh, it's going to be horrible. So

Speaker 5 the might as well shut down the whole system.

Speaker 160 And by the way,

Speaker 135 that shuts down cargo.

Speaker 90 It shuts down Amazon.

Speaker 20 It shuts down every ship.

Speaker 68 Hey, and explain this to me just while we're on the topic.

Speaker 92 So our UPS guy, I know all our people.

Speaker 26 I know our mail, our mail carrier.

Speaker 59 I know the UPS guy.

Speaker 60 I know them all because it's the same people.

Speaker 41 So he drops off a package for Tina.

Speaker 90 And he's got another guy with him with like

Speaker 95 an orange vest on.

Speaker 12 All he missed was a hard hat and a clipboard.

Speaker 35 I'm like, what is this going on?

Speaker 119 He rings the bell.

Speaker 37 hey, how are you doing, UPS guy?

Speaker 87 He says, hey, good. Yeah, I just want to introduce you to this guy.

Speaker 37 For the holidays, we have a lot of civilians.

Speaker 17 It was funny.

Speaker 70 He said, civilians.

Speaker 5 He said civilians. He said civilians.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 27 Well, that means he won't have the full uniform, but he'll have the vest on.

Speaker 60 I saw the vest had it was an orange, you know, reflective vest.

Speaker 120 It had UPS on it.

Speaker 184 He said, and they'll just be in there.

Speaker 41 So basically, a DoorDash guy.

Speaker 27 It was an older gentleman.

Speaker 102 He actually had his head bowed a little bit.

Speaker 12 I was like, hey, hey, civilian.

Speaker 186 How you doing?

Speaker 82 Hey, civilian. How you doing?

Speaker 12 I shook his hand.

Speaker 68 He said, yeah, I just want you to know that, you know, so if you see someone with a regular car driving up, you don't get freaked out.

Speaker 14 You have to say that in Texas because we come out guns blazing, dogs loose.

Speaker 61 And I just thought it was interesting.

Speaker 129 Didn't they fire like 30,000 people and now they're hiring civilians

Speaker 68 to jump in for the Christmas rush?

Speaker 5 I don't know what's going.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 27 Anyway, final clip from Besant.

Speaker 90 I'm skipping over everything, and now we go to the dividend.

Speaker 178 Everybody gets money.

Speaker 78 Do you have a proposal, a formal proposal to give a $2,000 dividend to every American?

Speaker 48 I haven't spoken to the President about this yet, but

Speaker 48 the $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George.

Speaker 48 It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the President's agenda.

Speaker 48 No tax on TIPs, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, no deductibility of auto loans. So, you know, those are substantial deductions that, you know, are being financed in the tax bill.

Speaker 35 I want a check.

Speaker 20 Oh, that's chicken.

Speaker 5 That's exactly what he said. He gave it away.

Speaker 5 You're not getting a check. That's what you're getting.

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 134 I want a check.

Speaker 5 You're getting a deduction on your

Speaker 15 loan for your car.

Speaker 23 That's good.

Speaker 87 I want a check with President Trump's face on it and his signature, happy, smiling.

Speaker 38 Here you go, citizen.

Speaker 68 Here's $2,000.

Speaker 9 That's what I want.

Speaker 5 Good promotion.

Speaker 98 Well, that's what he should be doing.

Speaker 30 You know, because we're taking in billions and trillions and gazillions of money.

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 39 So, anyway, I sincerely hope because you're right.

Speaker 13 A lot of our producers work in government.

Speaker 37 And I have to say, most of them are pretty upbeat still because, of course, course, they're no agenda listeners and they were prepared.

Speaker 128 They saved some money because they, oh, this is probably going to happen somewhere down the road.

Speaker 25 So they made sure they had contingency to run this

Speaker 85 when this happened.

Speaker 12 But

Speaker 60 it's hurting a lot of people.

Speaker 13 It's getting real now.

Speaker 163 And boy,

Speaker 27 by this coming Friday, when we're up to 10%,

Speaker 84 I think you're pretty much going to see passenger travel at a standstill.

Speaker 5 You know, you did the right thing by not traveling.

Speaker 113 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 68 Yeah. We canceled our vacation.

Speaker 95 And Tina's immediately like, oh, we can do this.

Speaker 80 We can go here. We can go there.

Speaker 23 I need a new MacBook.

Speaker 9 Like, what?

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 5 She doesn't need any Mac. Take a vacation.
I got an idea.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Take a vacation in Dallas.

Speaker 74 Dallas is a great town.

Speaker 68 We actually have discussed that about going up to Dallas because Dallas has this new, now, what was it called?

Speaker 5 How far is it to drive to Dallas for you? Five hours.

Speaker 76 About five hours. That's not that bad.

Speaker 5 It's like me going to Reno.

Speaker 30 I'm trying to think the name of this.

Speaker 58 They have this new thing called Cosm.

Speaker 120 COSM Dallas, C-O-S-M dot-com.

Speaker 128 And

Speaker 130 you can, well, you can see sports games there.

Speaker 133 It's kind of like a miniature

Speaker 11 sphere in Vegas,

Speaker 54 only it's much smaller.

Speaker 27 It's for a couple hundred people.

Speaker 68 And you can see they have a couple of movies that you can see, and they have games.

Speaker 25 I think The Matrix is playing.

Speaker 67 They have a special version of it.

Speaker 87 It's a complete immersive experience.

Speaker 69 And with the games, I'm not, as you know, not a sports ball guy.

Speaker 17 But man, I mean,

Speaker 14 they have you literally sitting on the 50-yard line, and then it switches, and the whole thing swivels around and then you're behind the goalposts and then you're

Speaker 5 looking at it now.

Speaker 142 It's super cool.

Speaker 17 My buddy Vic told me about this.

Speaker 136 I'm like, wow.

Speaker 9 You should go to this.

Speaker 36 I might go to it.

Speaker 95 We might go.

Speaker 5 There's a couple great hotels in Dallas you can spend the night.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I could. Yeah, and there's some good restaurants in Dallas.

Speaker 34 Yes.

Speaker 5 The only problem with Dallas, in my opinion, is the people that live there.

Speaker 55 No, they're fun to watch. They got high hair.

Speaker 5 They're arrogant.

Speaker 5 they think that dallas is the greatest place in the world they wouldn't live anyplace else ever and wouldn't even consider it yeah they're self-absorbed a lot of pretty girls and they're all self-absorbed and they're all dallas girls what what i'm what i've always liked about dallas you go in the restaurant it's it's much more i mean we're white we're a white town you go to dallas there's just all kinds of good-looking people of all colors.

Speaker 26 You immediately realize, wow, we live in a really white town in Fredericksburg.

Speaker 116 It's enjoyable.

Speaker 35 And I got friends up there.

Speaker 36 So, you're right, maybe we'll do that.

Speaker 95 We might.

Speaker 12 I'll have a boots on the ground from Dallas. Woo!

Speaker 23 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 186 Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage.

Speaker 82 Say in the morning to you, the man who put President Trump's picture on the $2,000 check.

Speaker 77 Say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr.

Speaker 10 John C.

Speaker 10 Davore.

Speaker 5 Yeah, in the morning, you miss your in the morning on the ship's sea boost of the graphic and the air sevens in the water names and nights out there.

Speaker 7 In the morning to the trolls in the troll room, stop right counting.

Speaker 12 1930, still a little bit low, but we're crawling back.

Speaker 53 We had a lot of DNS issues and stuff for a while there. And I think a lot of people, oh, oh, I'm just going to give up.
Just going to give up.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Yeah, it happens.

Speaker 5 Mimi's complained a couple of times about right in the middle of the show, it goes to a different show and then comes back.

Speaker 103 Well, that's a network issue.

Speaker 127 It's amazing any of this stuff works at all, man.

Speaker 5 I'm really I know I always say that when I say it, she says, You're right.

Speaker 68 Yeah, when you remind people of that, you say, remember when you used to call me from a week?

Speaker 5 Hey, we're doing this over

Speaker 5 the internet. I'm in California, he's in Texas, we don't have much latency.

Speaker 33 No, almost none.

Speaker 9 If any, almost none.

Speaker 5 No, not with the the system we're using. And we have a,

Speaker 5 and it works.

Speaker 32 It works.

Speaker 12 Do you remember?

Speaker 5 You can do it for three hours or plus. Well, actually, more than three hours, unfortunately, but it was just long.

Speaker 166 Uninterrupted.

Speaker 12 Yak, yak, yak.

Speaker 77 Yak, yak, yak.

Speaker 161 And, and, and, I, fidelity's good.

Speaker 62 I used to have a whole 19-inch rack filled with gear and wires and patch cables,

Speaker 24 and now it's just one box, it's got it all in there.

Speaker 40 The same names.

Speaker 87 I used to have 19-inch rack thing, amphex,

Speaker 68 you know, Amphex used Apex, I'm sorry, Apex used to have the Apex.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that was the big bottom.

Speaker 146 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 62 The Apex Big Bottom.

Speaker 17 I still have the Big Bottom 19-inch.

Speaker 9 I have the big bottom.

Speaker 5 I have one of them in the classroom.

Speaker 100 We got big bottoms.

Speaker 17 Yes.

Speaker 181 I had my Warsanus sound processor.

Speaker 12 I mean, all kinds of stuff we did.

Speaker 27 And now, I mean, it's amazing.

Speaker 10 It's amazing.

Speaker 12 I remember.

Speaker 5 Back in the day. And what do you remember there, Jeb?

Speaker 68 Back in the mid-90s when I had

Speaker 17 Think New Ideas, my company, we were going all over the country.

Speaker 193 And I mean, then, you didn't have Zoom.

Speaker 21 You needed to pitch something to Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch. You went to St.
Louis.

Speaker 77 You got on a plane.

Speaker 49 Granted,

Speaker 39 there was no TSA.

Speaker 207 You just walked to the gate.

Speaker 88 It was fine.

Speaker 40 You got to go through that little metal, the couple of ladies standing there with wands.

Speaker 36 Let me wand you.

Speaker 113 Okay.

Speaker 39 You threw your keys in the little box.

Speaker 53 Okay, fine.

Speaker 60 Yep. Yeah, wand you.

Speaker 100 And then you just walk to the gate.

Speaker 102 But you need to do a pitch.

Speaker 62 You had to fly places.

Speaker 27 And now we just do Zoom.

Speaker 12 Zoom, baby. Just Zoom.

Speaker 73 You do a pitch on Zoom.

Speaker 135 It's fantastic.

Speaker 141 So this is when Christina was four or five years old.

Speaker 26 And I got one of the first video telephones.

Speaker 17 Man, I wish I still had it.

Speaker 136 And I don't even remember what it was, what brand it was, but it was a white phone.

Speaker 69 It had a receiver, you pick up the receiver, you know, push buttons to call, and it had a little screen on it, which would tilt up, and then you'd connect to the phone on the other end, and then you'd get like one frame per every three seconds, like, hey, it's that,

Speaker 6 at, at the,

Speaker 73 now it's just, now it's just a FaceTime,

Speaker 35 right from the palm of your hand.

Speaker 116 People don't realize.

Speaker 9 This is amazing.

Speaker 10 Now you want a song.

Speaker 77 You just say, give me a song.

Speaker 36 Your phone gives you a song.

Speaker 36 Or you say, hey, make me some art.

Speaker 116 Now, strangely enough, you still have to have some funny in you to tell the computer what to do, but at least you can do it.

Speaker 36 Hey, just give me some art.

Speaker 9 And that's the world we live in.

Speaker 59 Appreciate it.

Speaker 68 You know, I was looking, this is your bonus content.

Speaker 57 I was looking at the cost of running my own AI model at home, because the biggest problem with, you know, as we discussed on the last episode, is getting consistency.

Speaker 85 So, if I wanted to clone my voice and have it consistently sound the same after some tweaking of the model

Speaker 25 and training,

Speaker 26 you can do that, but not when you're in a cloud-type scenario where you might be hitting another machine or literally the temperature changes in the data center.

Speaker 56 I mean, there's all kinds of variables that make it impossible for these cloud-based AI models to consistently deliver you the same results.

Speaker 68 I mean, you can type in the same prompt, you'll get something different every single time.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you will.

Speaker 68 And now, I've been watching a lot of these YouTubers, and they've got

Speaker 40 huge NVIDIA

Speaker 12 stacks.

Speaker 17 They're doing

Speaker 90 comparisons with the top-end NVIDIA

Speaker 162 GPU and the

Speaker 30 Mac

Speaker 188 G, G, what is it, the

Speaker 5 M4

Speaker 153 Super Pro,

Speaker 120 which has 512 gigs of RAM, which you can use for either CPU or GPU.

Speaker 120 And the results are very similar to what you get out of ChatGPT or Grok.

Speaker 6 The cost,

Speaker 107 $10,000 to $15,000.

Speaker 5 That's actually not that bad.

Speaker 35 I know, but

Speaker 148 is that what this is costing?

Speaker 68 Like to have Adam Vibecode at home, are they running like a $10,000 install for me?

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 27 No wonder they're going, they're going out.

Speaker 143 I mean, well, they're not going to go.

Speaker 5 They're not going broke. That's the joke of it.

Speaker 95 Yeah, because people keep shoveling money in.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's a Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 116 It's amazing.

Speaker 5 It's a Ponzi scheme. They always work.

Speaker 20 Well, until they don't.

Speaker 34 Until they don't.

Speaker 9 Until they don't, yeah.

Speaker 39 Well, and I see there's a big discussion now about, well, Sam Altman is basically saying we're too big to fail. So, you know, if

Speaker 39 NVIDIA, well, NVIDIA is okay, but

Speaker 85 if OpenAI starts to stumble, can't get money, then maybe just go to the government and say, well, you know, Mr. Trump and Mr.

Speaker 27 President, this is, you know, we're in a race.

Speaker 5 Yeah, the problem with that theory is simple.

Speaker 5 Elon Musk.

Speaker 5 Because Elon Musk has got Trump's here. Trump is going to say, what do you think about

Speaker 5 these guys too big to fail? Elon Musk, who has a feud with the Chat GPT guys, are going to say, no, let him sink.

Speaker 105 Who cares?

Speaker 87 Here's the bonus clip since we're talking about him.

Speaker 64 Love him or hate him.

Speaker 44 Elon Musk boldly goes where others don't dare in space, inserting himself into politics and social media with his takeover and rebrand of Twitter as X.

Speaker 217 He's had just as many failures as he

Speaker 217 has had successes.

Speaker 44 His latest success, convincing 75% of Tesla shareholders to approve a record $1 trillion pay package.

Speaker 44 $1 million is a big pile of cash, the equivalent of nearly a century of work for the average human. $1 billion is a hefty pile and the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
$1 trillion,

Speaker 44 one with 12 zeros, think of it as row upon row of bills, filling a football field completely.

Speaker 44 The monster payout is contingent on Tesla's autonomous vehicles, robo-taxis, and and humanoid robots, all seeing incredible success. Profit needs to skyrocket along with Tesla's stock.

Speaker 217 The fact that one in four shareholders wanted to go in another direction, I think, is telling. There was some concern that Elon Musk might quit as CEO if he didn't get what he wanted.

Speaker 44 An endorsement of Elon's ability to steer the EV maker, even as sales and profit tumble.

Speaker 217 It was a referendum on the very future of technology.

Speaker 44 A vote of confidence in Musk's vision for the future of robotics and AI. Analysts say this record compensation sets a precedent, pushing other tech CEOs to ask for more.

Speaker 44 The deal was so controversial that even the Pope weighed in, voicing concern about rising income inequality at a time when many warned the AI bubble could come crashing down.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 5 What a publicity stunt. That's great.

Speaker 5 He's not getting a nickel.

Speaker 5 And this guy, by the way, if you hear the word, there's two words I always look at as code. Telling.
Oh, it's telling. It's telling.
It's telling. Telling.
It's code for your left-winger.

Speaker 5 Chilling is another one. If you see that, anyone using it, oh, it's chilling.
Oh,

Speaker 5 what he did was chilling. Left-wing code.
These are communists.

Speaker 161 You know,

Speaker 24 increasingly, good Texas boys, good friends of mine, who drive trucks, trucks,

Speaker 5 like

Speaker 12 a periodontist, a dentist.

Speaker 91 He's a good friend of mine, born and raised in tech, one in El Paso, one here in Fredericksburg, sixth-generation Fredericksburg German.

Speaker 27 He lives on the compound with a family, 400-acre ranch, buying Teslas.

Speaker 93 And they're kind of like, ah, yeah, I know, I bought a Tesla.

Speaker 146 I'm like, what?

Speaker 113 What?

Speaker 36 Are you a communist?

Speaker 35 What are you doing?

Speaker 5 I said, you're buying battery cars?

Speaker 90 And they say, yeah, I got to admit, I just really like being able to drink that extra beer and have the car drive me home.

Speaker 133 These things are outrageous.

Speaker 24 They do indeed drive you complete self-drive, no hands on the wheel, no touching it every 30 seconds.

Speaker 53 They drive you all the way home.

Speaker 148 It is compelling, I have to say.

Speaker 5 What? Are you going to get one so you can have a beer?

Speaker 5 No. How about this for an idea? Don't drink and drive.

Speaker 76 Hello?

Speaker 32 I think it's cheaper to get a driver.

Speaker 12 That's my like, once you.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and those Teslas are expensive. Yeah.

Speaker 160 Once you get a guy with a hat to drive you, that's cheaper.

Speaker 5 I got Robert. If this garage blows up, you'll know the reason why.

Speaker 93 I'm just amazed.

Speaker 39 Well, you know, Elon Musk is now saying, oh, the next Tesla might fly.

Speaker 148 If he builds a car that flies, I'm in.

Speaker 5 Yeah, okay. He said this about the,

Speaker 5 what you were referring to there as the Roadster 2.

Speaker 56 The Roadster 2, yes.

Speaker 5 Which some people have already put their down payment on for 200 grand or whatever it is.

Speaker 5 And yes, he made that.

Speaker 5 This guy is a master of promotion.

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 And, you know, he's seen as an industrialist and all these other things, and he's smart. He's not a dumb guy.

Speaker 5 But his real skill is in promotion, and he does it like falling off a log. It's so easy for him.
The trillion-dollar deal and gets the Pope to say something. Give me a bro.

Speaker 5 What's the Pope got to do with it?

Speaker 13 I would love the Pope to say, what is up with this podcast?

Speaker 39 There's on no agenda.

Speaker 8 This is this is, please, Pope, please.

Speaker 9 Please. I beg of you, say that.

Speaker 27 Yeah. No, he is the master.

Speaker 85 There's so many flying car scams out there.

Speaker 27 And, and yeah, sure, they'll fly for 20 minutes.

Speaker 9 You can't go

Speaker 5 to the electric because it would, it may it's compounded by the fact that he's electric only. Yeah.

Speaker 5 This is so the thing: if it gets in the air, I mean, maybe you can fly over a traffic jam and land again and get back on the road.

Speaker 16 Maybe that would do it.

Speaker 133 And you always have when these Tesla guys said, did you go to Dallas and your Tesla?

Speaker 21 Yeah, I did.

Speaker 12 How did it go?

Speaker 161 It went great.

Speaker 55 I said, did you have coffee?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I loved, you know, we had like, you know, 30 minutes of coffee break.

Speaker 14 Oh, because you were charging?

Speaker 5 Brunetti drove his cyber truck

Speaker 13 to Hollywood.

Speaker 68 Yeah, he must have stopped along the way.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he has a long story. Yeah, he did a couple of times, and apparently, they have it set up.
The truck itself sets you up so you can have these short stops along the way.

Speaker 25 Yeah, you just get a little the navigator tells you 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, 10 minutes there, like a douche.

Speaker 91 Listen, get Alex, get yourself a Corvette, you know, maybe a maybe get a 67, you know, cool-looking one.

Speaker 5 Actually, the newest Corvettes are the coolest-looking ones. The mid-engines, the brand engines, the new ones.

Speaker 39 Yeah, the mid-engines, they're beautiful.

Speaker 34 They're just gorgeous.

Speaker 80 But I'm talking to a movie guy, a Hollywood guy.

Speaker 162 Get yourself a 67 Corvette red with that white panel on the side and have her put a little bit of a little bit of a girl.

Speaker 5 So you're thinking 57 with the white panels.

Speaker 9 I'm sorry, 57.

Speaker 18 You're right.

Speaker 47 Get a scarf for Alex.

Speaker 92 You know, her head's in a scarf.

Speaker 130 The scarf is flying.

Speaker 24 You've got your shades on.

Speaker 85 James Bay.

Speaker 5 Jane Bay. Her scarf gets caught in the wheels and

Speaker 13 she has her head

Speaker 9 pulled off.

Speaker 5 A lot of publicity.

Speaker 27 Well, that is true.

Speaker 14 That would be good for his next movie.

Speaker 98 Hollywood producer, wife, killed in freak action.

Speaker 117 Killed in the Corvette.

Speaker 207 In the Corvette.

Speaker 161 But that's romantic.

Speaker 126 Driving that ugly box and stopping 10 minutes everywhere along the road, that is the antithesis of America, my friend.

Speaker 39 That is not who we are.

Speaker 76 You tell him. I'm going to tell him.

Speaker 160 I may take a vacation out to the ranch.

Speaker 27 But, you know, if

Speaker 41 I drove my buddy's Tesla, it would take me three weeks.

Speaker 20 It'd take you three weeks to get there for sure.

Speaker 65 All right.

Speaker 135 So back to the AI.

Speaker 41 Of course, this is a value-for-value podcast.

Speaker 181 And I do want to mention that you probably want to try out one of those modern podcast apps.

Speaker 68 Podcast Guru is my daily driver.

Speaker 162 I really love it.

Speaker 68 Just as one of them, you can find it at podcastapps.com.

Speaker 22 And there's great strides being made.

Speaker 17 They're doing more with value for value now.

Speaker 84 Strides, it's called strides.

Speaker 16 Hey, strides. Strides.

Speaker 17 It's strides.

Speaker 55 It's value for value.

Speaker 84 You can boost us.

Speaker 100 You can boost right into the show.

Speaker 46 And it shows up through Stripe.

Speaker 17 You can leave a message even that should work. We'll get the money.
Maybe the message.

Speaker 26 Send us an email to make sure.

Speaker 61 Um,

Speaker 126 and um, and uh, this uh it's groovy, so get one of those.

Speaker 14 Don't buy a Tesla, boost the show.

Speaker 149 And value for value,

Speaker 42 uh, V for V, also known as vaccines for vegans, but we say value for value.

Speaker 120 That means whatever value you get out of the show, just send it back to us.

Speaker 93 You can do it with time, talent, or treasure. Now, the talent, we do have a lot of talented people.

Speaker 18 In fact, the artwork for episode 1814,

Speaker 26 hold on a second, let me get my nashownotes.com.

Speaker 47 We titled that Needle Drop, which a lot of people thought was very funny.

Speaker 26 And that I explained for 20 minutes what that was.

Speaker 46 And I think some people appreciated it because they didn't know what needle drop was or

Speaker 14 taping your spouse as a boundary violation.

Speaker 39 Who knows what taping is anymore?

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's true. Now, by the way, the needle drop thing came up in the dinner conversation.
And

Speaker 5 when you said, the first thing it came up was like, oh, it's so silent you could hear a needle drop.

Speaker 9 Oh, interesting.

Speaker 30 But that's pin.

Speaker 27 That's a pin drop.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I realize it's a pin. That's what the saying is, but that's the first thing that came to mind.
Really?

Speaker 54 They didn't think about a vinyl disc?

Speaker 5 Not immediately. Well, actually, then they once I explained it, they'd say, oh, yeah, that's what we were thinking about.

Speaker 36 It needed explaining.

Speaker 24 That's the point.

Speaker 98 Right there. Needed explaining.

Speaker 68 So the artwork, which is always very important, noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload all of your AI slopes came to us from Nessworks, a real artist.

Speaker 14 And this was an artist at work.

Speaker 143 I don't know what tools he used, but this GigaChad with the vinyl and then the C prompt go-to toe tapper.

Speaker 22 The way the robot GigaChad was positioned in front of the No Agenda letters.

Speaker 16 This is high-quality work here.

Speaker 26 I don't think this was 100% AI.

Speaker 31 Do you?

Speaker 5 No, not at all.

Speaker 193 It may not, in fact, it may be zero.

Speaker 5 There's no way that AI could even come close to this to wanting that thing at the top, go to toe tapper. That's AI is never going to produce that.
It'd be misspelled.

Speaker 160 By the way, getmojams.com, everybody.

Speaker 68 It's up and running. Getmojams.com.

Speaker 60 All your AI slop all the time.

Speaker 87 24-7, end of show mixes, AI slop.

Speaker 5 Soon it will be the place to get your AI music.

Speaker 47 so uh go to toe tapper was perfect that that was the deal clincher right there

Speaker 5 yeah that was perfect and nestworks thank you thank you brother good job uh let me just see what else was there that we looked at at the generator let's take a quick little i like the piece next to it the slop thing from uh coach joe but it was not going to be used because you couldn't read anything on it but i thought it was a cute piece we didn't talk about it i used the dawn of a better day from jeffree ray yeah

Speaker 27 Which one for the newsletter?

Speaker 13 With the New York or with the sunrise?

Speaker 5 The New York with the sunrise in the back.

Speaker 20 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 67 It was very orange, of course.

Speaker 157 It's Jeffree Ray.

Speaker 14 If you see orange, you don't think Trump is.

Speaker 158 It wasn't that bad.

Speaker 5 It didn't bother me so much.

Speaker 133 Even the letters are orange. This should be.

Speaker 5 Jeffree Ray also did the Tucker 2, and the letters are white. He's actually got white in there somehow.

Speaker 12 Yeah, but look how washed out that thing is.

Speaker 55 What, Tucker 2? Tucker 2.

Speaker 36 It's washed out.

Speaker 5 It doesn't look washed out to me. That might be you.

Speaker 5 We obviously have to remind people that you're colorblind.

Speaker 68 That's washed up.

Speaker 136 That's not washed out. Washed up.
It's not washed out.

Speaker 26 You have to understand that's the email I get at least once a day.

Speaker 13 Oh, you washed up, VJ.

Speaker 59 Luckily, Mossad is paying the bills.

Speaker 5 You should say, yes, I shower daily.

Speaker 17 Luckily, Mossad is paying the bills.

Speaker 23 We're all good.

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Speaker 90 In fact, man, we got where's our intelligence money?

Speaker 5 We haven't seen that for a while.

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Yeah, that's probably

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Speaker 25 Short, well, it would have been a short donation segment if some people hadn't sent in long notes.

Speaker 5 I will say that he sent this in a while back. 1031.
Notice the date.

Speaker 128 Oh, yes.

Speaker 14 What is up with that?

Speaker 9 Well,

Speaker 5 we've gone back and forth.

Speaker 5 How come this hasn't shown up? He's wanted this to show up forever. So here we are, November

Speaker 5 6th or 7th, 8th, 9th. It took over a week, week and a half or something, or I guess a week.

Speaker 9 Was it a check?

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Speaker 5 It was a check and two notes. He has a second note, which you may have a copy of, but it wasn't meant to be read.

Speaker 30 I don't have a second note.

Speaker 5 No, I don't. No, I should have.
You should have said, got a copy. Sorry.

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Speaker 5 L O E S is a is a female's name in Holland?

Speaker 145 Luce.

Speaker 53 Luce is a female name.

Speaker 37 Hilo is a name. L-O-E-S.

Speaker 5 Loose.

Speaker 29 Loose, yes.

Speaker 46 That's a very, very female Dutch name.

Speaker 68 Loose.

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Speaker 27 Dear Adam and John, I'm listening to your show since the end of 2018 after being hit in the mouth for many, many times by my husband.

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Speaker 211 Missa, how much?

Speaker 54 You know, I should say that all Dutch people know this, that whenever you

Speaker 136 visit someone from a Dutchman or someone who grew up in Holland, who no longer lives in the country, you have to bring Dutch licorice with you.

Speaker 26 And the other day,

Speaker 68 someone sent me four bags of Dutch licorice.

Speaker 105 It's like crack.

Speaker 68 Most Americans hate it.

Speaker 46 It's salty black licorice, but oh, man,

Speaker 98 it's so good.

Speaker 5 It's like a Vegeta. Marm meat.

Speaker 5 Marmite. Marmite.
Marmite.

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Speaker 2 It's salty and terrible.

Speaker 53 You know, it's wonderful.

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Speaker 5 Yeah, salty and terrible.

Speaker 5 If you're going to bring something in from Holland, tell them to bring in some of the Dutch absinthe.

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Speaker 26 Those are some of my favorites.

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Speaker 5 Another late stage boomer here who absolutely loves it when you two launch into boomer talk.

Speaker 12 Oh, they were winning.

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Speaker 5 It's always spot on and never fails to crack me up.

Speaker 5 I've been on board since around episode 200 and truly appreciate the twice weekly dose of sanity.

Speaker 5 My human resource spanned three generations, millennial gen x, gen alpha. And let me tell you,

Speaker 5 now let me tell you, much of what you say about the younger generation rings true in my own HR department. The good news is,

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Indiana next week for the India and a tri-state short and long

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Okay, he goes on and on.

Speaker 68 They sent a lot of lead downrange at pumpkins.

Speaker 37 That's what their meetup was.

Speaker 36 It was a

Speaker 5 shooting.

Speaker 5 Shooting. You said that's what it was.

Speaker 68 Yeah, shooting at pumpkins.

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Excellent stuff. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 And then he wraps it up with,

Speaker 5 I can't read because it's off the spreadsheet.

Speaker 46 He says, we even got droned again at the end of a great photo group.

Speaker 62 Great group photo.

Speaker 68 The perfect wrap-up to an awesome meetup. Finally, could you add my youngest, Lucy, to the birthday list?

Speaker 46 She turned 11 last Friday. I believe she's on there.

Speaker 136 So no worries.

Speaker 84 Then we have Nathan Parker from Seattle, Washington, 222.22.

Speaker 178 A row of ducks. No notes.

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Speaker 5 Eli the coffee guy. As the government shutdown drags into November, which it has done, delays are everywhere from airports to food stamps plus the paychecks of the federal workforce.

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Speaker 176 I'm donating because I spent $17

Speaker 87 on an eight-part series that Sean Ryan put out.

Speaker 12 He's charging money now?

Speaker 5 I don't know what he's talking about.

Speaker 70 We know who Sean Ryan is.

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Speaker 80 He's a Sean Ryan podcast.

Speaker 117 He's a big, big, he's a former CIA million.

Speaker 9 Oh, that guy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I know who it is.

Speaker 26 Seems like a nice guy.

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Speaker 17 But he's charging money.

Speaker 87 So $17 on an eight-part series that Sean Ryan put out.

Speaker 9 Here's the kicker.

Speaker 12 I should have saved my money and sent it to you guys.

Speaker 5 You should have.

Speaker 12 Though it was about psyops and had good info in it, it seemed like the series was a psyop itself.

Speaker 105 Probably was.

Speaker 160 It was a radio lab type of audio-only stress fest.

Speaker 3 Psyop? Wow!

Speaker 6 Radio lab.

Speaker 17 Something like that, I guess.

Speaker 127 Listening to no agenda, I get the same deconstruction with none of the stress.

Speaker 76 Thanks, says Sir Q of Eastland County.

Speaker 183 No, thank you very much, brother.

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Speaker 94 And that wraps up our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1815 in our 19th year of the best podcast in the universe.

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Speaker 49 Our formula is this:

Speaker 48 we go out, we hit people in the mouth.

Speaker 48 Oh my gosh, can you see that? Just

Speaker 48 sleep.

Speaker 5 Shut up. I have a series of clips.

Speaker 9 Oh, a series.

Speaker 5 About...

Speaker 5 This came out last year.

Speaker 5 And I don't know why we haven't played these clips.

Speaker 5 This is about the Hillary bribe.

Speaker 55 Wait, is this the Overstock CEO?

Speaker 146 Yeah. We've played this.

Speaker 5 I don't remember playing it. I would have remembered this.

Speaker 27 Oh, no.

Speaker 27 Okay. I don't want you to think I'm mean to you.

Speaker 5 Well, you are mean to me, but that's beside the point. Can you look it up and see if we played these?

Speaker 13 Yes, of course we played these.

Speaker 27 What's the guy's name again?

Speaker 5 Uh, Patrick Bryce.

Speaker 218 No, it's not Bryce.

Speaker 17 I think it's Bryce.

Speaker 26 No, it's not Patrick Bryce.

Speaker 5 Well, it's Patrick something.

Speaker 2 Byrne, Patrick Byrne, Byrne, Patrick Byrne, exactly.

Speaker 5 That's what I said.

Speaker 97 Patrick Byrne.

Speaker 60 Okay.

Speaker 26 I can find it for you.

Speaker 5 This will be good because then I don't have to play these.

Speaker 81 Hillary. Let me do the search.

Speaker 128 Is Patrick and Hillary.

Speaker 207 Here it is. I have.

Speaker 136 This is a long time ago, actually.

Speaker 7 Let's see. Stop that now.

Speaker 204 And first thing she's going to do today, she becomes president, is she's going to send her goons over to the FBI.

Speaker 64 Remember this?

Speaker 12 Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 74 This is from.

Speaker 5 What was the date on this then?

Speaker 57 November 1st, 2020.

Speaker 5 That's interesting because the problem I have with it,

Speaker 5 I'm wondering if it's the same clips because he talks about the Durham report

Speaker 5 in these clips. And

Speaker 5 this could be a reiteration of what he's doing.

Speaker 9 It could be overitorial.

Speaker 12 Let's do it then because it's still working.

Speaker 5 Well, I don't know. You know, I hate to play repetitive clips.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 5 it's like five years ago.

Speaker 99 Let me just summarize.

Speaker 40 This is where he was given,

Speaker 29 he was supposed to give Hillary a bribe.

Speaker 189 She actually took the money, and then she went down the elevator, and he went in the elevator, and then the FBI.

Speaker 5 There's no elevator talking this way.

Speaker 39 And then the FBI says, no, no, we're not talking about it.

Speaker 13 It's over.

Speaker 13 You got to forget this ever happened.

Speaker 5 I think this is a repeat of the old story, so I don't think we need to play it. But again, it's five years old.
It might be worth playing again to remind people. But I'm going to say no.
Okay.

Speaker 53 Well, I'll go on your no.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 But people can look it up. You just go to YouTube and

Speaker 5 Hillary Bribe. I thought it was a disgusting tale.
And sorry, I didn't remember. Let's go to Tariff Doom.
How about that for an idea?

Speaker 5 Tariff doom? And you said, since you like the way I spell tariff, I made sure to spell it even better.

Speaker 179 It's been over seven months.

Speaker 179 Ah,

Speaker 122 there's no SS.

Speaker 5 No, it's because the SS came earlier, so you're not going to play that same jingle again, so I just reneged on the second SS.

Speaker 190 It's been over seven months since President Trump enacted those sweeping duties on goods from nearly every country. And one of the questions before the Supreme Court this week, who's paying them?

Speaker 190 And Paris Juliana Kim joins us. Juliana, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 10 Happy to be here.

Speaker 50 Have we seen retail prices change in the past seven months?

Speaker 169 So far, prices have gone up, you know, for coffee, clothing, furniture, things that are almost exclusively imported.

Speaker 169 But interestingly, only about 20% of the tariff burden has actually made it to retail prices.

Speaker 169 That's according to Erica York, an analyst at the Tax Foundation, a group that advocates for simplifying the tax code.

Speaker 169 She told me companies probably had stockpiles of products before tariffs hit, and also a lot of businesses held off changing prices while there was some uncertainty around tariff rates.

Speaker 169 But that strategy is beginning to change, and companies are starting to pass higher costs to the consumer. Economists say that's going to become more common in the months ahead.

Speaker 190 What could costs look like in the next year?

Speaker 169 So there's some different numbers floating around. The Tax Foundation estimates that if tariffs stay in place throughout next year, a household could face an average burden of $1,600.

Speaker 169 I also asked this question to Ken Smeters, the faculty director at the Penn Morton budget model, and he estimates that existing tariffs could tack on as much as 1% to your average spending.

Speaker 169 So if you spend $50,000 a year, that's an extra $500.

Speaker 169 Keep in mind, prices are just one part of the story. You know, tariffs can also lead companies to slow hiring or cut wages, which isn't good news for an already weakening job market.

Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 5 Well, there's a couple of things we're going to have to come to grips with.

Speaker 5 These high tariffs and reestablishing American manufacturing is not going to save the consumer money.

Speaker 5 The Chinese can produce products and have them shipped over here cheaper than we're ever going to be able to make the product, no matter how good we are.

Speaker 5 So, I mean, we should, but we, nobody wants to admit this and they're faulting Trump.

Speaker 5 I mean, it's more important to have the jobs over here and suffer a little bit so you know so your your bird, you know, your little bird house you bought at Joann's or wherever you got this thing is, you know, you got for a buck and a half.

Speaker 5 It's going to cost you $250.

Speaker 5 I mean, it's fine. It's just going to but this idea that things are going to be cheaper when we're cutting off the supply of cheap junk is unlikely.

Speaker 16 Part two.

Speaker 190 Of course, exit polls from Cube Racers this week show that the cost of living and the economy are the biggest concerns for voters.

Speaker 194 How do you think tariffs have played into that?

Speaker 169 Tariffs have pushed prices higher, but for the most part, the increases have been fairly modest. That being said, many Americans are struggling with inflation fatigue.

Speaker 169 I spoke to Michelle Florio, a paraprofessional in New Jersey, and she says she's held off buying a new car and a mattress because tariffs have made them too expensive, and even her holiday plans are changing.

Speaker 204 I have been giving baked goods as gifts for 53 years, and now I don't know.

Speaker 15 But, wait a minute, baked goods?

Speaker 5 She makes baked goods as gifts, but now she doesn't know.

Speaker 9 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe I can't make them because of the tariffs.

Speaker 74 What has the tariffs got to do?

Speaker 5 See, this is the problem I'm having with the Democrats and this bullcrap.

Speaker 5 They extend it to something like baked goods.

Speaker 98 Yeah,

Speaker 80 it's bad.

Speaker 5 Oh, I'm making baked goods. I don't know if I can make the baked goods anymore because the tariffs are

Speaker 5 flour so expensive. It's made somewhere.
I don't know where I'm getting it.

Speaker 54 That's bull crap.

Speaker 97 I've been watching the quad screen and I've been seeing this developing story, and it is worth discussing for a moment.

Speaker 174 Breaking news to bring you about the BBC. The BBC chairman has announced that both the Director General Tim Davey and the new CEO, Deborah Tenes, are to resign.
Let's bring you more on that story.

Speaker 174 Our cultural reporter, Nor Nanji, is with me here. So, tell us about the background to this and about the resignation statements.

Speaker 221 Yeah, that's right. Really significant news that's just come to us in the last few minutes.

Speaker 221 So, both the BBC's Director General, Tim Davey, but also Deborah Tenes, who is the CEO of News, both resigning. We've just had that, as I say, in the last few minutes.

Speaker 27 Okay, well, that was a useless report, but I know what this is about because I'm looking at all the news.

Speaker 53 This is over the BBC Panorama episode where they edited Trump together to make it look like he was telling the January 6th protesters to go fight like hell and go storm the Capitol.

Speaker 54 Did you do you know anything about this story? This is amazing.

Speaker 5 No, I have no idea about this, but that is scandalous.

Speaker 12 And so the director and the CEO have resigned.

Speaker 57 I have a clip of the controversy.

Speaker 46 I actually had it from,

Speaker 14 I think maybe two shows ago.

Speaker 222 Here, check it out. Well, it's the biggest story in town.
It turns out American President Donald Trump was onto something.

Speaker 45 Where are you from?

Speaker 48 BBC.

Speaker 165 Here's another beauty.

Speaker 48 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 222 Well, that criticism of the BBC and John Sopol, he was talking to there, apparently was well-founded because the so-called impartial and accurate public service broadcaster is nothing but

Speaker 37 nobody no, Mr.

Speaker 139 President?

Speaker 222 Because tonight, the BBC is facing serious questions over its credibility after the Daily Telegraph exposed a panorama segment that heavily doctored a speech by the American president in 2021, hours before the infamous January 6th Capitol riot.

Speaker 222 As you're about to hear, the corporation spliced together two quotes one hour apart to make it seem like he encouraged an insurrection.

Speaker 200 They played the following clip.

Speaker 45 We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you.

Speaker 206 And we fight.

Speaker 5 We fight like hell.

Speaker 201 But Trump didn't, in fact, say this at all.

Speaker 188 The BBC spliced together two clips that took place 54 minutes apart.

Speaker 201 So let's go through it again.

Speaker 45 We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you.

Speaker 188 Now, see there, between between Capitol and and,

Speaker 203 that's a cut.

Speaker 201 Here's what Trump actually said.

Speaker 45 We're going to walk down to the Capitol

Speaker 206 and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

Speaker 201 It's different. It wasn't until nearly an hour later that he then said the second part of the BBC's version.

Speaker 45 We're going to walk down to the Capitol.

Speaker 181 Now they're fast-forwarding an hour.

Speaker 206 And we fight. We fight like hell.

Speaker 160 So that's the scandal.

Speaker 145 And wow.

Speaker 104 The North Sea Nexus under attack.

Speaker 21 Look at what's happened.

Speaker 80 We got the prince stripped of his title.

Speaker 176 We've got the ambassador wrapped up in the Epstein affair, gone.

Speaker 88 What's his face? Yep.

Speaker 85 And now

Speaker 120 the director and the CEO of the BBC resigning over this.

Speaker 76 This is pretty big.

Speaker 5 That is big.

Speaker 13 Man, I'm glad we caught this on our show day.

Speaker 46 Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 20 You know,

Speaker 5 this kind of dubious editing took place on Friday. I don't have clips.

Speaker 5 On the

Speaker 5 News Hour

Speaker 5 because everybody's in a tizzy.

Speaker 5 Everybody's in a tizzy over the Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes interview,

Speaker 5 which we played a couple of. The guy at the Heritage Foundation got into trouble

Speaker 5 and got kind of booted from, you know, being accepted as a, I don't know, conservative operation. I don't know what the deal is.

Speaker 74 Did he get kicked out of the Heritage?

Speaker 5 No, he did.

Speaker 5 They asked him to resign, but he wouldn't. And all he said was, I didn't, you know, but apparently he said it out of the blue.
It wasn't, and I'm not even sure that's true.

Speaker 5 But he says, I think that Nick Fuente's doing Carlson is fine because they were just having a conversation that they they both wanted to have.

Speaker 5 And the reason for the conversation initially, according to Tucker, was they were having an online beef with each other. And so

Speaker 5 let's put it on the

Speaker 5 beef

Speaker 5 face to face like you and I do all the time.

Speaker 36 But this is exactly the op that I was talking about.

Speaker 62 So the other side is now retaliating.

Speaker 27 And this is the neocon side.

Speaker 68 And they're retaliating against this guy who you said was too weak and would never be able to kick Lindsey Graham out.

Speaker 68 I'm not saying that that's not true, but that is exactly the response you would expect that going after that guy.

Speaker 5 And so the latest thing is,

Speaker 5 I think it was today or yesterday, or yesterday, probably yesterday, the day before, Ben Shapiro shows up on CNN

Speaker 5 on Jake Tapper's show to condemn Tucker.

Speaker 132 Wow, he's going into the enemy camp.

Speaker 5 Calling him a racist, which is like, you know,

Speaker 5 boy. I mean, Shapiro is sketchy.
We have to remember that he hated Trump.

Speaker 5 We went through the whole thing in the last show.

Speaker 5 But then the one that really got me, though, was on Friday on PBS News Hour, the woman there, Amina Blah, whatever her name is, who's got not a good stage name because I can't remember her name, she did a whole thing, an entire segment on Nick Fuentes

Speaker 5 and on Tucker. And she said, here's some of the stuff he said.

Speaker 5 And they took clips from the Tucker show out of context, completely out of context.

Speaker 23 Wow.

Speaker 5 Every one of them was out of context.

Speaker 5 The whole thing about his misogyny, and they played the out of context clips that we had in context.

Speaker 5 We had ours were in context as usual, and theirs were out of context to make me sound like an idiot. And then they condemned Tucker.

Speaker 9 So there's all kinds of, and Ferwenty's, does he have a publicist?

Speaker 5 This guy's getting more publicity

Speaker 5 than anybody I know.

Speaker 11 Well,

Speaker 147 he's the perfect

Speaker 147 the perfect poster child for the moment.

Speaker 76 It's perfect.

Speaker 21 It's a perfect kid. It's perfect.

Speaker 12 It is a lot of material, a lot of very inflammatory material.

Speaker 62 You know,

Speaker 5 the podosphere is still buzzing.

Speaker 53 Still buzzing.

Speaker 3 Everyone's all a buzz. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 98 Go on on each other's podcasts.

Speaker 5 But this idea of taking stuff out of context context and rejiggering it to make your point

Speaker 5 is not acceptable.

Speaker 57 I would like someone to edit Adam and John out of context and make a really funny bit.

Speaker 9 Something we could play.

Speaker 5 Somebody, the guy, if you're a humorist, you could probably make it very amusing.

Speaker 37 Yeah, we'd like to.

Speaker 5 Especially if you can take an hour out of the conversation and drop some bomb in from the end, like the BBC did.

Speaker 209 Yeah, wow. That's fantastic.

Speaker 192 I mean,

Speaker 95 that's, you know, who could be next?

Speaker 12 With all of this happening,

Speaker 54 and by the way, we don't really have much on it, but of course, we have Brennan supposedly getting subpoenaed and

Speaker 120 Lisa Page

Speaker 218 and her boyfriend, whatever his name was.

Speaker 12 You know, people are going to go down.

Speaker 12 Well, now I know you're skeptical, but this Arctic Frost is still hanging in there.

Speaker 29 And of course, we also have, this was big news from the Blaze,

Speaker 14 which is quite interesting.

Speaker 104 One of his reporters did a gate analysis

Speaker 5 on the January 6th pipe bomber.

Speaker 68 Have you been following this story?

Speaker 5 I've been trying to. They can't seem, you know, the pipe bomber was a op.

Speaker 5 of some sort.

Speaker 83 Yes, a former Capitol Police cop who worked for the CIA.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 104 But I like that they did gate analysis.

Speaker 5 I don't know what a gate analysis is.

Speaker 92 Your gait, someone's gait, how they walk, their gate.

Speaker 5 Oh, the gate, O-G-A-I-T.

Speaker 104 Yes, the gate analysis.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah, gate analysis.

Speaker 166 You know,

Speaker 5 I could spot Biden a mile away.

Speaker 105 Well, so exactly.

Speaker 77 So the first thing is, I think I said right away, that's a woman.

Speaker 38 That's a woman who's walking with that hoodie.

Speaker 64 So, wow, I got that one.

Speaker 46 But they have other video of her, and they did some AI analysis.

Speaker 104 And the AI gate analysis analysis shows 94% match between the January 6th pipe bomber and an ex-Capitol police cop who works for the CIA.

Speaker 103 I want to see a gate analysis on that law, daddy longlegs skipping over the lawn.

Speaker 11 Skipping over the lawn to the helicopter.

Speaker 20 Give me a gate analysis.

Speaker 5 I don't even know what do you do you need a gate analysis? I mean, come on. The guy's legs were five inches longer than Biden's.
He didn't, you know, didn't have that back and forth kind of thing.

Speaker 180 Man, the gate analysis.

Speaker 73 I want a gate.

Speaker 77 Get it in it. Grok.

Speaker 160 Grok, give me a gate analysis.

Speaker 58 This is fantastic. Stuff.

Speaker 5 And this, by the way, this was an about, which brings me to another interesting, another, another interesting point because I'm so interesting.

Speaker 5 There was a story, if you remember, about three weeks ago, Biden, who's supposedly dying of all kinds of, you know, he's like a wreck.

Speaker 146 Oh, he rang the bell.

Speaker 150 He's cancer-free.

Speaker 5 I didn't know that.

Speaker 33 He is. That's what they say.

Speaker 16 Oh, brother.

Speaker 5 Okay, well, well, whatever the case, during his cancer moment, supposedly he and Obama were at the same restaurant. You remember this story? It was about

Speaker 12 several months ago.

Speaker 27 Yes.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and they were at the same restaurant, and Obama never went to talk to him.

Speaker 5 And it was like, oh, Obama's a jerk because he wouldn't eat the vice president, his old buddy is there, and he wouldn't even say hello.

Speaker 5 And everyone monitored this, and Biden was in the front outside, and I guess in the outdoor eating, and he's eating with somebody.

Speaker 166 And

Speaker 5 the reason he never went and talked to him because it wasn't Biden.

Speaker 94 It was some other, it was Daddy Longlegs.

Speaker 5 It was the Daddy Longlegs guy.

Speaker 5 What's he going to talk to him about?

Speaker 12 I got nothing to say, ma'am.

Speaker 187 I got to get back to my basketball game.

Speaker 88 I got a pickup game I got to get to.

Speaker 122 And he knew it.

Speaker 5 And so, what was no reason to talk to him? So that's the explanation for this. It's not because Biden, I mean, Obama might be a jerk, but I don't think that,

Speaker 5 but he knows enough to do, you know, public stuff.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Wow.

Speaker 125 Wow.

Speaker 205 This, there's that, you know, you're skeptical on Arctic Frost.

Speaker 55 Yes, I agree with you.

Speaker 5 No, I'm not skeptical of Arctic Frost. I'm skeptical that they're going to take action that's going to be meaningful.

Speaker 2 I think they are.

Speaker 205 I think that, and it's not Congress.

Speaker 27 Who gives a crap about Congress? I'm talking about a Department of Justice.

Speaker 148 You got A.G. Barbie.

Speaker 5 Let me remind me who's the head of the Department of Justice. A.G.
Barbie.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. And what has she done so far?

Speaker 31 Hang in there.

Speaker 12 I have a feeling.

Speaker 35 I just feel on my water.

Speaker 11 My water tells me something's coming.

Speaker 9 Your water.

Speaker 5 Is this some new thing that you picked up from the five Brians?

Speaker 13 It's a Dutchism.

Speaker 104 No, it's not from Pastor Jimmy and the Five Brians.

Speaker 62 In Holland, we say, Ikfulutama Water.

Speaker 53 I feel it on my water.

Speaker 12 I don't know where it comes from.

Speaker 218 I have no idea.

Speaker 40 It's a Dutch-ism.

Speaker 40 Huh.

Speaker 68 Should we look into the etymology?

Speaker 5 No, I don't think you need to, but I think we should document some of these.

Speaker 77 It's a book.

Speaker 186 It's a giblet.

Speaker 2 It's a giblet.

Speaker 120 There's a giblet in there somewhere.

Speaker 9 All right.

Speaker 77 Well, wait, go back.

Speaker 5 If you feel it in your water, that sums up.

Speaker 20 We would feel it in our bones.

Speaker 5 Our bones.

Speaker 149 Right.

Speaker 104 Well, the Dutch feel it in their water because they live underwater, practically.

Speaker 11 I don't know why they say it.

Speaker 80 This is true.

Speaker 94 I have this feeling, and and it could be hopium.

Speaker 56 I'll be the first to admit.

Speaker 88 I have this feeling that they all pulled back on the Epstein stuff because that's the big bomb that's coming.

Speaker 87 I know it sounds crazy.

Speaker 5 Well, no, I've no hole.

Speaker 5 I'm not going to deny the possibility they're going to, but the Epstein thing is just going to be the release of the documents.

Speaker 5 And in fact, there was a report that they have one guy that's supposed to be.

Speaker 5 Oh, this is ridiculous. This was on,

Speaker 5 I think it was PBS. They said,

Speaker 5 oh, they're worried that, you know,

Speaker 5 Mike Johnson's not bringing Congress back.

Speaker 12 Because of Epstein, the Epstein, yeah.

Speaker 5 Because of the Epstein files, because they've got this one guy they're going to have to, you know, he's going to come in. He's the new Democrat.
They're going to change.

Speaker 5 He's going to add one more vote to getting the Epstein files released.

Speaker 5 Well, this guy's coming in eventually.

Speaker 162 Yeah.

Speaker 105 By the way, that's bullcrap.

Speaker 5 But I think you're right. The Epstein files may be a bad.

Speaker 116 I'm going to pause this coming.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and I think they're going to push it off as far as they can closest to the midterms. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 46 That's when you want to do it.

Speaker 160 By the way, Void Zero correctly corrects me.

Speaker 162 He says

Speaker 97 the term is actually ikful metewater.

Speaker 68 But I think it's often shortened to water.

Speaker 62 So I feel it on my tea water.

Speaker 39 Ah. So that may be like.

Speaker 5 That makes it even more obscure.

Speaker 5 What tea water?

Speaker 65 I don't know.

Speaker 9 I can't help you there.

Speaker 12 Void, what is that from, man?

Speaker 31 Explain.

Speaker 5 It's got to be like reading the tea leaves.

Speaker 54 Might, maybe, maybe something like that.

Speaker 12 I do have a quick series of three clips to wind this up

Speaker 18 as this will enrage everybody.

Speaker 157 You know what?

Speaker 54 I'm not going to do it. I'm going to save these.

Speaker 42 I'll save these.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait. What are they about?

Speaker 30 Cancer.

Speaker 5 Oh, you don't want to do cancer.

Speaker 162 No, it's like the

Speaker 87 every stroke in cancer is blamed on alcohol.

Speaker 119 It couldn't be anything.

Speaker 5 Oh, sure.

Speaker 117 Couldn't be.

Speaker 94 And it couldn't be.

Speaker 103 And it was going to be one of those.

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 77 And then I have two.

Speaker 5 I have a couple of, I have a funny rant we can finish with.

Speaker 54 If you got something funny, let's finish with something funny.

Speaker 5 This is the, this is, I think her name is Megan. She's getting really famous online for, she's a black, very blunt.
There's a little cussing going on in this one for people.

Speaker 128 Warning.

Speaker 5 She's a black woman who just a tell-it-like it is type. And she goes off on the trans,

Speaker 5 you know, the bathroom. Ever since this thing happened at the gym.

Speaker 166 Oh,

Speaker 12 oh, yeah, but they kicked her out instead of the dude.

Speaker 5 Yeah, now I don't know what this is. I don't think this is the same woman, but this woman has been making a fuss and she goes off.
She goes off, and here it is.

Speaker 170 So, let me start this off with: I lost my housing, I lost my food stamps.

Speaker 142 Um, no, no, no, wrong one, wrong one, okay.

Speaker 5 That's the food stamp woman. The one we're looking at is black woman on Tyron Tyron's rants.

Speaker 163 Oh, I'm sorry, oops, hold on, Tyrants, tyrants, okay.

Speaker 199 So, I have a PSA announcement.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 223 So I am a woman.

Speaker 45 Okay. Uteris, cooch,

Speaker 122 ovaries, all night.

Speaker 223 Okay.

Speaker 9 So I am a woman.

Speaker 223 Okay.

Speaker 223 And I'm telling you, we don't want y'all asses in our bathroom.

Speaker 223 Okay?

Speaker 224 I don't give a damn if you feel like a woman, if you've always felt like a woman,

Speaker 224 if you think you're a woman, if you think you look like a woman, if you're feminine, if you act more like a woman than women do, and all this other shit, I'm telling you what it is, hoe.

Speaker 139 We do not want your asses,

Speaker 96 your dick, your beans, your balls, testicles.

Speaker 223 We don't want y'all in our bathroom. Okay? You understand what I'm telling you? I don't care how you feel.

Speaker 146 I don't care what you think.

Speaker 5 I don't care about human rights, civil rights,

Speaker 224 rights of transition, of transformation, whatever it is.

Speaker 168 I don't give a damn.

Speaker 4 Stay y'all asses out of women's spaces. That's it.

Speaker 4 Let's stop discussing it. Okay? It's not up for discussion.

Speaker 97 Do not go into the woman's bathroom.

Speaker 111 Okay?

Speaker 9 Now that's it. Alright?

Speaker 9 Okay?

Speaker 224 Just take your ass into the all-gender bathroom or the men's bathroom.

Speaker 9 Or go pee in the bush.

Speaker 9 We don't give a damn.

Speaker 169 Just don't bring your ass into the woman's bathroom.

Speaker 74 Okay, we got that?

Speaker 7 Okay, family.

Speaker 11 I'm gonna show my soul by donating to no agenda.

Speaker 9 Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 9 on no agenda

Speaker 9 in the morning.

Speaker 15 Wow, and so

Speaker 34 yeah, isn't that great?

Speaker 5 Wow, yeah, that she's she's phenomenal. So, we have the people that donated, which is down to like a total of very few people

Speaker 5 that have contributed to today's show, but we do have a few of them, and Adam's going to read them off.

Speaker 98 Yes,

Speaker 14 after I, you know, I was so consumed with

Speaker 183 that woman that I need to set up a few things here.

Speaker 26 I'm almost ready.

Speaker 91 Because typically when we'd hit this segment, you'd start reading and then I'd set up the thing.

Speaker 27 And I'm done.

Speaker 38 Okay, there we go.

Speaker 46 Yes, I'm going to thank the donors $50 and above.

Speaker 26 And as John said, it'll go pretty quickly.

Speaker 160 Valerie Steensland from Kirkland, Washington, $105.35.

Speaker 46 And she says she'll write a real note when her next $100 moves her to be

Speaker 120 to what I get to be after Damewood.

Speaker 101 We look forward to that.

Speaker 12 Kevin McLaughlin, boom, we're already at 8008, Concord, North Carolina.

Speaker 5 Right away.

Speaker 73 He says, B Laos Deo.

Speaker 12 No, not Bilaos. Laos Deo.

Speaker 42 B is part of the boob.

Speaker 27 Laos Deo, which translates to praise be God, be to God, inscribed on the top of the Washington Monument facing east towards the rising sun.

Speaker 57 Miguel Goncalves from London.

Speaker 218 Hey, there's a Londoner who's still alive, 6969.

Speaker 41 He says he's very fascinated about our debates about AI and whether there's space in your publishing company for books.

Speaker 127 Is a question for you, John?

Speaker 5 Oh, I sent it off to Jay. She's the publisher.

Speaker 80 She's the publisher.

Speaker 27 Okay, so you're in the system.

Speaker 30 Your submission has been taken into

Speaker 22 consideration.

Speaker 77 Sertin

Speaker 27 from Arnold, Maryland, 6008.

Speaker 12 That's a crazy boob.

Speaker 68 Lopsided boob donation and douchebag call out for Steve.

Speaker 4 Douchebag.

Speaker 185 Friend of Papa Chew.

Speaker 27 Further small boobs from Grayson Insurance in Auraro, Aurora, Colorado.

Speaker 149 Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona.

Speaker 12 And we have Irma Sousaso de Lima de Prado from Alsmere in the Netherlands.

Speaker 55 Birthday donation, $56 plus feeds.

Speaker 94 Fees, would you please read my email?

Speaker 12 Thank you. I just did.

Speaker 26 Irma Sauso de Lima de Prado.

Speaker 5 No other email.

Speaker 17 No other email received.

Speaker 207 Okay.

Speaker 183 Then we have, ah, I got a note about this. He wanted me to mention his night name, which is Sir Fred Pound Forge.

Speaker 25 All right, did that one right from Muncie, Indiana, 5623.

Speaker 27 Brittany Miller, Trinidad, Colorado, 52.72.

Speaker 55 I'm sure these are 50s plus fees.

Speaker 41 Bradley Bowlman from Duluth, Minnesota, 52.18.

Speaker 68 Haven't seen something from Duluth in a long time.

Speaker 67 51 from Josiah Thomas and Ankeny, Iowa.

Speaker 93 And bad idea supply, $50.50.

Speaker 12 50s are here.

Speaker 160 Jacob Rotrummel from Decatur, Illinois.

Speaker 68 Stephen Ray from Spokane, Washington.

Speaker 93 Edward Mazurich from Memphis, Tennessee.

Speaker 160 M.

Speaker 192 Todd Allen in Harriman, Utah.

Speaker 134 Roderick Brown from Mermaid.

Speaker 47 What is P.E.

Speaker 30 in Canada?

Speaker 33 Prince Edward Island.

Speaker 81 Prince Edward Island.

Speaker 101 Ah, of course I should have known.

Speaker 86 We have Renee Knich from Utrecht in the Netherlands, Carrie Jackson from Watertown, Tennessee, and Viscountess Knight from Edmonds, Washington.

Speaker 83 Very short list.

Speaker 103 We hope that we can do better.

Speaker 47 We are here as a public service.

Speaker 160 Don't let us go the way of the Farmers Almanac, people.

Speaker 120 That would be pretty sad.

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Speaker 189 She turns 27 on the 9th.

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Speaker 219 Title changes.

Speaker 219 Turn and face the slaves.

Speaker 219 Changes.

Speaker 219 Don't wanna be a douchebag.

Speaker 7 Not a douchebag.

Speaker 185 Not by a long shot.

Speaker 12 We have Sir Kevin Keeper of the Spee now upgrading his title with that beautiful rubberizer donation.

Speaker 46 He becomes Sir Kevin Keeper of the Spee Secretary General and the Duke of Portland.

Speaker 219 And not just that, but he also will be the recipient today of the No Agenda International Peace Prize as received by the President of these United States and by the team Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

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Speaker 92 Secretary General, and Duke of Portland.

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Speaker 149 We have exactly one meetup taking place on Tuesday.

Speaker 148 That will be the Everything is an Op meetup, OKC, 6 o'clock at the Collective Kitchen and Cocktails in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Speaker 189 And then

Speaker 14 that's for this week.

Speaker 13 The rest of this month, on the 15th, Colleville, Texas, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Albany, California.

Speaker 160 Get John out of the house.

Speaker 41 That should be a good one.

Speaker 77 Central, Ohio, Zurich, Switzerland.

Speaker 87 Please send us your meetup reports, everybody, especially on the 22nd, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Speaker 21 Send us a meetup report. Include your server.

Speaker 93 Wilmington, Wilmington, California on the 22nd, Burlington, Kentucky.

Speaker 54 We have Spokane, Washington on the 27th, and Wageninger Gelderland in the Netherlands on November 29th.

Speaker 46 Those are your No Agenda meetups. Go to noagendametups.com.

Speaker 180 That's where you can find all of them listed in handy format, calendar, or list.

Speaker 133 And if you can't find me near you, start one yourself.

Speaker 84 It's easy.

Speaker 185 Connection is protection at a no-agenda meetup. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.

Speaker 185 You wanna be where you won't be triggered on hell lame.

Speaker 185 You wanna be where everybody feels the same.

Speaker 185 It's like a party.

Speaker 176 And we do have our end of show mixes coming up.

Speaker 27 Half AI slop and half homemade.

Speaker 103 It's interesting how when you start introducing a lot of slop that the homemade people say, ah, I can beat that.

Speaker 102 And they're pretty good, I have to admit.

Speaker 68 Time for the ISOs.

Speaker 84 These are the clips that one clip that will be chosen at the very end of the show to send you off into the rest of your Sunday or Monday, whenever you're listening to this show.

Speaker 38 I only have one today.

Speaker 31 You have two, so I will play my one and we'll see if it's a contender.

Speaker 220 Okay, bye. I'll just do my own show.

Speaker 9 Kind of

Speaker 5 nasty sounding.

Speaker 163 Well, it's Candace.

Speaker 81 I expect.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 220 okay, bye. I'll just do my own show.

Speaker 5 Okay, well, now I know that. It's not quite up to the snuff of Alex Jones.

Speaker 15 No, no.

Speaker 5 Here's a Scott Simon one, SS Thanks.

Speaker 50 Thanks so much.

Speaker 9 I was short.

Speaker 50 Thanks so much.

Speaker 56 It's a little short. It's a little good.

Speaker 5 Okay, well, let's go with the old standby.

Speaker 182 Holy moly, that was beyond great.

Speaker 186 Of course, that is always a winner.

Speaker 100 AI to the rescue.

Speaker 219 Time and tip of the day.

Speaker 7 Great master, you and me. Just the chip with JCD

Speaker 7 and sometimes Adam.

Speaker 5 Okay, there's a pro tip.

Speaker 9 Pro tip. Pro tip.

Speaker 5 People with dogs.

Speaker 5 I don't know if anyone noticed this that if you have dogs.

Speaker 29 You got dogs.

Speaker 5 They stink.

Speaker 9 Dogs stink.

Speaker 17 Our dog is stinking right now. This is good.

Speaker 42 I'm very excited about this tip because Phoebe is stinking.

Speaker 146 Stevie? No, it's Phoebe.

Speaker 5 Oh, Phoebe. Phoebe.
I thought you said Stevie.

Speaker 16 I got a little sibilance going on.

Speaker 81 No, that's my teeth.

Speaker 81 No, it's my teeth.

Speaker 87 It's a combination of my teeth and your hearing.

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 105 What?

Speaker 161 The older we get, the more artifacts will be introduced into the show.

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 71 Hey, John, how are donations?

Speaker 9 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 5 Odor side.

Speaker 2 Odor side.

Speaker 20 K-O-E kennel odor.

Speaker 5 This is from the, we have a kennel. Yes.
So you need this product. It makes 64 gallons.
You get the liquid.

Speaker 5 It's an odor eliminator.

Speaker 5 It's called K-O-E,

Speaker 5 which stands for Kennel Odor Eliminator. And it's for kennels, but it's also good for home.

Speaker 5 Cage

Speaker 5 runs, cages runs, anything. It's a non-enzymatic formula, fresh scent.
It smells like apricots, actually. Amazon has it as Amazon's choice for making your dog area smell better now and

Speaker 5 do you spread this on the dog or in the house no no no it just is it's a you you get a mop and you get a bucket of water and you put this in there and you mop around you just mop everything with it oh no i'm not gonna yeah you mop up no but the set that's you if you want to hey give the dog a bath okay yeah this is what you're you're looking for dog bath stuff this is not for dog bath stuff this is this is for the area that you get the dog in the car to.

Speaker 5 The car stinks.

Speaker 166 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 You got the dog in a, you got a kennel. You got some place in a dog cage.
It stinks. You use this, K-O-E.
Amazon has it. It's available everywhere.

Speaker 80 Interesting.

Speaker 160 By the way, breaking news from Dreb Scott.

Speaker 12 Breaking. Hashtag breaking.

Speaker 11 Three alarms.

Speaker 71 Three

Speaker 11 revolving lights.

Speaker 73 Breaking, breaking news.

Speaker 68 A senior Democratic senator says there are enough Democratic votes poised to end the 40-day government shutdown.

Speaker 193 Sorry for the breaking. Couldn't resist.

Speaker 2 All right. It's breaking.
It's breaking.

Speaker 12 It's all breaking.

Speaker 5 You know, Horowitz and I predicted the 10th.

Speaker 65 Really?

Speaker 35 That will be tomorrow.

Speaker 94 I mean, do we have a prop?

Speaker 149 Can we do it?

Speaker 147 Are there prop bets on this?

Speaker 81 It's got to be prop bet.

Speaker 166 I'm sure there's tons of it.

Speaker 16 There's got to be a prop bet.

Speaker 77 Well,

Speaker 62 they have to do so.

Speaker 46 We need news to cover up the BBC director.

Speaker 133 We need some news. The North Sea Nexus is looking for some good points.

Speaker 12 The calls went out.

Speaker 46 Oh, we got to stop people thinking that our news is fake.

Speaker 121 Come on, guys, vote against it.

Speaker 23 Wow.

Speaker 162 That would be good.

Speaker 28 Well, it would be nice. It has to.
It has to.

Speaker 68 If it goes to Friday, your Christmas gifts are not coming from Amazon.

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, there's a lot of pressure.

Speaker 10 It's a pressure cooker.

Speaker 183 We got a real pressure cooker going on here, everybody.

Speaker 186 That is John's tip of the day.

Speaker 160 Find them all at tipoftheday.net.

Speaker 7 Green masks for you and me, just the tip with JCD

Speaker 9 and sometimes Adam.

Speaker 167 Created by Dana Bernetti. Yeah, that's it, everybody.

Speaker 13 We conclude our broadcast day.

Speaker 5 Remember, we do not conform to the way of the world.

Speaker 92 No, sir.

Speaker 76 What are you laughing about?

Speaker 33 What does that even mean?

Speaker 133 Some people, if you know, you know.

Speaker 85 If you know, you know.

Speaker 37 Oh, I love that you reacted that way.

Speaker 162 That's funny.

Speaker 77 Of course, we will return on Thursday, one day before chaos, or a couple days after everything calms down and gets back to normal again.

Speaker 36 And then what will we be outraged about? Candace Owens, please tell me.

Speaker 186 I need something to get freaked out about.

Speaker 20 And you're right.

Speaker 164 Once we knew the 90 Days was out in the Potosphere and the Fredericksburg area, we knew that it was going to end soon.

Speaker 160 Hey, Great end of show mixes: two real dudes, Deez Laughs and Sir Michael Anthony, followed by Bonnold Crabtree, an MVP with some AI slop.

Speaker 133 Hear them all at gitmojams.com.

Speaker 82 Until Thursday, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in the morning, everybody.

Speaker 193 I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 5 And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're finally having our summer. I'm John C.
Dvorak.

Speaker 77 We come back on Thursday. Until then, please remember us at noagendadonations.com.

Speaker 186 We've got Nitirak from the sewer up next after the end of show mix.

Speaker 122 South Thursday, adiospofoso, hooey-hoo-eye, and suck.

Speaker 3 Adam Curry, John C. DeVoe.

Speaker 113 Whoa, what was that?

Speaker 137 Well, they're well, yes, they are a major source, and I can tell you that in the Situation Room, I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone.

Speaker 9 Canada's got a big drug problem, even in their own cities.

Speaker 49 Go walk around

Speaker 9 Toronto and see what it's like, and you'll see that it's a big problem.

Speaker 168 And frankly, we have intelligence that Mexican cartels operate in Canada as well.

Speaker 225 Please don't wanna dot. Please, big man, you're in your 50s and gotta stop.

Speaker 225 Please don't wanna six. Stop saying the six, shawls.
We need a fix. City has been lost.
Citizens have paid the cost. Talent undeniable.
Crying unnecessary like moss.

Speaker 225 Posing like you can't afford the lifestyle that you live. Going live on IG telling on yourself and your kids.
Can't hold information in your head. Leaking like a sieve.
Call it what it is.

Speaker 225 Trying, not if you really tried.

Speaker 168 I mean, if you never really tried, then you've never really lived.

Speaker 191 Hate to say it, look around, what is really going down?

Speaker 225 Miners mouthing the lyrics to sexy red and pound town. Grooming kids done right out in the open.

Speaker 225 Giving your kids this green years younger and you're hoping.

Speaker 168 There's no intervoping.

Speaker 225 Kids are messed up in life, but that's not a joke, man. I'm not joking.

Speaker 225 Now your kids are messed up for life, and that's not a joke. I mean, joking.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 This This is a hatred, this is the next number one.

Speaker 4 Needle drop.

Speaker 113 Needle trowel.

Speaker 113 Scratch the record. Needle drop.

Speaker 7 Needle trowel.

Speaker 7 Scratch the record. Back in the day.
Back in the day. You ruined the groove.
You ruined the grooves. Needle drop.

Speaker 7 Scratch the record.

Speaker 9 Pick up the little grooves in this vinyl.

Speaker 99 Scratching the record. Pick up the little grooves.

Speaker 99 This is a hat. This is the next number one.

Speaker 99 Needle, needle, needle, needle, needle, needle, needle in an arm. Needle drop.
Needle drop.

Speaker 99 Scratch the record.

Speaker 122 I'm sorry I asked.

Speaker 16 Yeah, well, you did ask.

Speaker 6 In the morning

Speaker 6 fat lady.

Speaker 6 Test, test, test, test the moon.

Speaker 6 Hey! Wake up! It's the lawn!

Speaker 6 Adam and John are at the speaker door! Ba-da-ba-da-ba-knocking so loud that you can't ignore. Ba-da-ba-da-ba-slap-free deconstruction that you adore.

Speaker 139 Thanks to all of the wonderful producers of the show. Adam Curry likes his slaughter music straight from Gizmo.

Speaker 139 I'm about to O Deonke Gawat coffee, but the show's about to start, so I'ma put it on the street.

Speaker 4 Everything

Speaker 4 from underneath the dome, from the river to the sea, from the cradle to the tomb. We don't discriminate, but a bus talk shit, don't snowflake out, things about to get loose.

Speaker 4 Shut up, slave, or I'll hit you in the mouth.

Speaker 11 Freckles scratch it up, slave, I'm finna smack you in your mouth.

Speaker 4 No agentic GPT, propagating positivity. Oh my god, I like, can't believe I'm a part of group seven.

Speaker 20 She knew I was special, and it feels good to be validated.

Speaker 20 Good God, I've lost my bed pill.

Speaker 20 I'm blowing up the boats on the Caribbean

Speaker 20 Not with a little fizzle, but with an explosive missile

Speaker 20 Gonna burn the hall, sink the druggies boats they sent

Speaker 20 Cause the voyage I was on was never gonna end

Speaker 20 Yeah, I'm blowing up the boats Let the wreckage drift away.

Speaker 20 No turning back to what defied me yesterday.

Speaker 20 When the smoke clears out, I'll see the open sea.

Speaker 20 A clean, slate harbor, finally just for me.

Speaker 226 Watch the scraps fly, hear the loud final sound of every criminal hitting the ground. It's a terrifying freedom, an echoing peace, a brand new navigation that will never cease.

Speaker 226 The world is wider than the waters they sail. When the drug life is gone, you know you cannot fail.

Speaker 132 I'm blowing up the boats on the Caribbean Sea tonight.

Speaker 4 Not with dynamite, but with an explosive light.

Speaker 4 Gonna burn the ballast, sink the druggies boats they've sent. Cause the voyage I was on was never gonna end.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm blowing up the boats.

Speaker 4 Let the wreck

Speaker 4 the best podcast in the universe

Speaker 9 to Vorak.org slash n a

Speaker 182 holy moly that was beyond great