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and spam the Netherlands, in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
Curry man from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody wishes
you a Oh, happy holidays. I'm John C Dvorak. It's Greg von
Buzzkill. In the morning, yeah, baby, 805. In Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, going to midnight, one more time
starts right? Yeah, the show starts late here. I'm always
amazed at how many Dutch people are listening. What do you got
something better to do on your Thursday night? Seriously, what
is there to do on Thursday night, really? Here, nothing. It
is. We're in the middle of the car wash. It's gray outside.
It's just gray and rainy and wet. It's gray and rainy here
too, but it's not rainy, it's just wet, yeah, it's more like
England. It's just there's no rhythms in your rain. But every
why is that everything wet? How did that happen? I don't know.
Hey, Merry Christmas. So this is the day after Christmas. Boxing
Day.
Yeah, Boxing Day. You know, it took me probably 20 years, 30
years, to figure out that it wasn't a kangaroo thing.
No, I thought, no, no, I never thought it was a kangaroo thing.
I thought it had to do with some, you know, Muhammad Ali or
something,
although there's going to be a big boxing match, sure, there
was a big match or something. And then it was, I think I was
in England when it when I now Wasn't
there a big Netflix football streaming extravaganza this year
at Christmas? Was this something that was new that I was reading
about? Where was it always on Netflix streaming? Oh, yeah, and
Beyonce. Because I looked on the channels, I knew there was some
football games on, but I forgot it was on Netflix. I'm not gonna
go there, yeah. Beyonce was did a whole 15 minute halftime show.
Beyonce, the cowgirl, must have crashed a few times. No, no.
Apparently it went well. Everything went well, yeah, good
for them, yeah. So you didn't probably have the audience that
Jake Paul could draw. I haven't looked at the numbers, actually
we sell. So I do have one clip to play off the bat, which is,
which is the I want to ask about your Christmas
this will, this is, go right into it. Okay, all right. This
is the talk clip. This is the Happy Holidays clip, starting
with talk clip right off the bat. Oh, hey, all my clips are
talk clips. This is hurting the show. Wishing people a merry
Christmas when you don't know what holiday they celebrate is
sort of like wishing someone a happy birthday when you don't
know when their birthday is. Like, yeah, I get the sentiment,
but you're a little off. That's neither here or there, but I get
a kick out of the people who insist on saying Merry Christmas
instead of just saying Happy holidays. Happy holidays,
everybody.
We're back to this again. We still haven't figured this one
out. We can't say Merry Christmas. But
here's the question on my mind, when it's Fourth of July,
that's a holiday? Yes, do we say happy holidays? No, we say Happy
Fourth of July or Happy Independence Day?
It's Veterans Day, yeah, but it's day off, but hold on a
second this year. Now I saw your newsletter. You know, we still
celebrate important things like Kwanzaa and Festivus and Kwanzaa
is not a holiday, and Hanukkah started on this Hanukkah is not
a holiday. There's no you don't take there's no federal time off
for Hanukkah. There's no federal time off for Kwanzaa. I see what
you're getting at. You're getting at the holiday part.
So what? So if you say Happy Holiday, like say yesterday or
today, what are you referring to?
Why don't you enlighten me?
I mean referring to Christmas, yes. So why don't you say Merry
Christmas or Happy Christmas? Because it's Christmas we're
talking about here. Because when new year comes, that's another
holiday. You don't say happy, you don't say hey, you say Happy
New Year. Say Happy holidays during New Year. Why is it only
Christmas? You know that this issue comes up because there's a
hatred of Christians. Yeah, only possible explanation, it's it's
part of dei it's part of inclusivity that you don't want
to skip. I understand your point. It's well made. It's
ridiculous, obviously. But everyone said when it was July
the fourth, and everyone said, Happy Holiday
then, and if it's Veterans Day, everyone said if people said it
consistently around all year.
Integration simply doesn't work, and nowadays, more or less every
country realizes that, and I really not least warm thanks to
you, Georgia for emphasizing this every meeting since you
took office.
I think this growing consensus also is important and should be
leveraged now we need to act Foster and we need to go
further. Concrete measures from the European Commission is now
required discussion with on the line the other day as well, on
this specific matter.
Finally, it really doesn't matter whether you reside in the
north or in the south of Europe, illegal migration is a shared
challenge. The precondition for open internal borders is
controlled external borders, it is as simply as that and as
difficult, honestly as that. So it's extremely valuable to come
together like this and explore how
to show leadership in areas where we all have unique roles
to play. So once again, thank you so much. Petra, yeah, 20
years of letting people in, now they're like, you know, it's
clear that this was not really working. What a bunch of dips,
yeah. And you know, Germany has closed their internal borders
like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You have to show your passport
now, which was the whole point? Well, one of the major selling
points of the European Union, oh, we all have the same money.
That's great. It's really interesting how the Italians are
very, very clued into the politics of everything
they you know, they're one of the countries that got screwed
the most by the euro. No kidding, no kidding. And they
all know what Trump is doing, I'm telling you. They're like,
Oh, Panama Canal land, that laugh. And they think it's
funny. Oh, Greenland. Oh, they think it's funny. This great
Canada, Canada. I had to explain Governor Trudeau to them,
though, didn't, didn't quite understand that one. But when
they, when I explained it, they're like, Oh, this is good.
Here's, I think this is a France 24 deutscheville, a clip of the
latest president elect Trump antics. It's his first major
rally since his election victory. Donald Trump addresses
a crowd of young conservative Republicans at a conference in
Phoenix, Arizona. During his 90 minute Address, the President
Elect was quick to announce his plans for his second term. He
spoke on immigration and the border, reiterating his will to
crack down on illegal immigrants by signing a number of executive
orders on his first day in office, we will stop illegal
immigration. Every foreign gang member will be expelled, and I
will immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorists
organizations. Do it immediately. Throughout his
election campaign, Donald Trump had attacked and demeaned
transgender people and their defenders as part of his culture
war against wokeism. Back in November, the Republican
dominated US Congress tried to block access to women's toilets
for Sarah McBride, the first transgender woman elected to the
House with a stroke of my pen on day one, we're going to stop the
transgender lunacy. Can I sign executive orders to end child
sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military
and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and
high school under the Trump administration, it will be the
official policy of the United States government that there are
only two genders male.
Donald Trump also mentioned ending the wars in Ukraine and
the Middle East, without going into detail, Before criticizing
the state of Panama and threatening to take control of
the Panama Canal because of what he says are exorbitant tolls on
US ships. It's really just the fact that he's saying these
things that people like someone because they want to say, they
want their leaders here to say, this is nonsense with these
illegal immigrants. Get them out. That's what they want to
hear. They want to hear it from their own leaders, elected
elected leaders.
Well, the leaders are kind of hamstrung by the politics of the
day
and the and the kind of globalist agenda, yeah, which
makes it so if you say something that you know, like that, then
you're always now, you're a nationalist creep. You're far
right. You're far right, far right. It's really the Panama
Canal thing that I have some boots on the ground from some of
our producers. The Panama Canal thing is interesting.
And I'm, I haven't quite, I don't know if I've decided yet
what exactly he's trying to do with this. It's Greenland is, is
obvious. We got a Space Force base there. We've got nuclear
weapons there. I mean, Greenland. The only what the
population of Greenland is, I think 60,000 people. It's not
much. Nobody lives there, you know. And now, oh, by.
The way, they just decided they're gonna up their their
military spending to 1.5 billion euros. So that's in the pocket.
That's for us, and I can't so I kind of understand. I mean,
we're not gonna, we're not gonna steal Greenland. I presume. It's
not for sale. I think we're gonna buy Greenland. You really
think so. Yeah, it's not for sale. The Price Is Right.
Everything's for sale. We've done this before. I've said that
we I talked about this in the Horowitz show. We have bought
plenty of stuff this country. We bought Louisiana purchase from
the French we bought Alaska and most of Cal Much, much of
California from the Russians. Yeah, we've bought land here and
there. We do that. We've done that. It's not like a big
shocker. What's the best price?
I think it's, I think, I think they've been talking about a
trillion and a half. Oh, what a steal.
Well, it's not cheap. But they think that there may be, the
real kicker here is there may be minerals,
because the volcanic activity there they volcanic. Green was
not that volcanic. That's Iceland. Iceland, wrong. I'm
seeing a different country. Greenland. That's right.
Greenland is the one filled with ice and Iceland is the one
that's green. Yeah, that's exactly, that's my little that's
my little donkeys. Well, that was, that was supposedly, I
think it was Eric the red, or Leif Ericsson, one of the two
promoted that concept back home, so no one would come.
So when they moved, they MO That, you know, the Vikings all
moved to Iceland, and so they called it Iceland don't come to
tell people not to come. Was like, supposedly, that's, that's
the folklore that makes sense. Yeah, unlike us, hey, land of
the home free of the land of the free, home of the brave, come on
in. Bringing, bring your bring your crippled it's all good.
Your huddled masses moved to the Midwest. Yeah, here's, here's
the here's the Deutsche Bella report on on Panama, and then I
want to discuss it. It's less than a month until he's back at
the White House. President Elect Donald Trump is showing this guy
is great, by the way, he needs a mustache. And what his approach
to international trade like Addressing his supporters at the
rally in Arizona. He accused the Central American state of Panama
of overcharging us vessels for passing through the Panama
Canal. This complete rip off of our country will immediately
stop. It's
going to stop.
The United States has a big invested interest in the secure,
efficient and reliable operation of the Panama Canal. The US
helped finance and construct the canal 110 years ago, and finally
handed over control of the passage to Panama in 1999
passing through the Panama Canal significantly reduces maritime
travel time by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
enabling more efficient global trade, the President Elect fears
other countries could gain too much influence on the canal.
When President Jimmy Carter foolishly gave it away, gave it
away for $1 $1 $1 during his term in office, it was solely
for Panama to manage. And did I hear someone booing Jimmy Carter
in that audience as an old person there, Jimmy Carter
foolishly gave it away. Gave it away for $1 $1
during his term in office. It was solely for Panama to manage,
and not for China or any other country to manage. You see
what's going on there China
principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous
gesture of giving are not followed, and we will demand
that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of
America. Panama's President Joseph Molina rejects that China
has any say in the management of the canal, and insisted everyone
has equal treatment. The canal is not controlled directly or
indirectly by China, European community, the United States or
any other power. The canal will continue to be in Panamanian
hands as the patrimony of our nation and guaranteeing its use
for the peaceful and uninterrupted transit of ships
of all nations, while Trump has yet to clarify how he plans to
enforce his threats, the world may have caught a glimpse of
what to expect from his second presidency. So the Panamanian
producers have checked in, and they say the Panamanians are
pissed about this. They there's they say there's no evidence of
Chinese running the port.
And even worse, President Molina wasn't invited to the
inauguration,
which that's, that's quite the slam.
And he says, Well, I'm just going to go to the World
Economic Forum to get investment. So he's choosing the
globalists. Clearly.
Really,
I find this an odd move, other than China. Just make it sound
like China is, Well, my understanding from the reports
that are over here is that they're overcharging us, and
they're giving China a sweet deal to go through the canal.
Yeah. So the Panamanians, the whole thing, the Panamanians say
that's not true, but I have no but I have no paperwork, so I
don't know,
but I don't know. It feels more like, don't we just want to
screw china? Isn't this all about China? Ultimately, isn't
that our big new, our big new evil foe was supposed to be
China, China, China, China. Well, you're the one that has
the thesis about the boats. Yeah, that ships. It's not
boats. It's big, beautiful ships and submarines. They go deeper
than boats, boats, lots of boats. China's asshole. China,
by the way, I missed this in the international news. I did catch
it on Reuters.
Chinese authorities have agreed to issue 3 trillion yuan, that's
over $400 billion worth of special treasury bonds next
year, it would be the highest number on record. As Beijing
ramps up its fiscal stimulus to revive a faltering economy,
China is trying to soften the blow from an expected increase
in US tariffs on Chinese imports when Donald Trump returns to the
White House in January, the move underscores Beijing's
willingness to go even deeper into debt to counter
deflationary forces in the world's second largest economy.
You guys talk about that on DH, unplugged, by any chance.
Deflationary, no, not that specific thing, no.
Deflationary. You know that everyone's fearful of that. Who,
who's deflationary? Well, that's what he said in the report. I
never heard that they said they're trying to counter
deflationary forces, which means that to counter, to summarize,
to counter the tariffs, they'd have to lower their prices at
their end, which is deflationary, and this hurts the
economy. And you never want that anyway, because things start
getting cheaper and cheaper, right? Um, so,
which kind of counters the argument that, well, the problem
with tariffs is going to gouge the American public, because we
end up having to pay for them. But if it's, it creates a
deflationary force in China. That's not, obviously not true,
no. But also, what is this crap we're all buying?
Well, that's a different story. That's a whole different angle.
Why do we need all this crap? I mean, you literally, you walk
into a store, go to Jo Ann's
Hobby Lobby lobby, these places, and just take a look at what's
what's in there. My God, well, it's not just there. I mean, you
go into bird houses, you go into a store in Florence, except for
the high high end. It's all crap. It's all from China. Oh,
same Yeah. Last time I when I was in Spain, that last trip
where I had my bars pick pocketed, yeah, I was shopping.
It went I was at a flea market. Now people were bitching that
everything is all bull crap, all the hand made linens and stuff
that people have made is all from China. The whole thing is a
fraud. So one of my brother in law's buddies who was there,
Roberto, so he is a an old school leather cutter. He cuts,
uh, bags for Dolce Gabbana, and, you know, the high end brands.
He says the whole industry has been destroyed. He says they
came in, the Chinese came in. They took over all of the all.
Basically, they're now sweat shops.
They do laser cutting of the of the leather. They work 80 hours
a week for half the pay. And then he always, it always ends
up and they brought us COVID. It always ends with that. I mean,
they
just, well, that's actually true. Yeah, it's destroyed a
lot, though, the northern Italian area was COVID infested
from the Chinese. But I guess the problem is we can't if we
stop buying the crap. I mean, that's what our economy runs on,
right? If we stop buying the Chinese crap, then our economy
falls apart, because we're we're living on Chinese crap.
I see no evidence to the contrary. That's pretty sad
state of affairs. It's just crap. Well, they, they, well,
it's not really necessarily crap, per se. Yeah, it is. I
mean, they also make Nikon cameras for the Japanese, and
that's not crap. They also, they do a lot of quality product.
Their BYD cars are quite good. They're half the price of a
Tesla. We can't have that. We can't have that running around
our everything they do is not necessarily as crap as it is
cheap. It's cheap crap. And they never did the thing that I've
tried to understand and I never fully did, is it because they
don't this goes way be before communism.
This, the story goes back about the silk trade. And this is back
in the God knows when era when the Japanese had a had a
monopoly on world silk trade, because they had these silk
worms that they had bred, and then no one else had them, and
so they couldn't make silk. And so they were making there. They
had a monopoly on silicon. So the Chinese somehow got a couple
of worms, and the next thing you know, the Chinese are making all
the silk, yeah, and they were making more silk than the
Japanese, and then they flooded the market with silicon, wiped
out the Japanese silk market, but never turn it, but it then
they had a monopoly. But as a monopoly, they never gouged
anybody. They don't know that part of it, no, they just kept
selling cheap silk.
Well, I think this is all part of a much larger strategy. Is to
make China. China just has to be the bad guy in everything, you
know. And I'm confident president, when he's president
again, Trump will bring back the China gave us COVID. It's going
to be, it's going to be all anti China all day long, the DJI
drones. That's also an anti China thing. Tick tock, China.
And now this report this morning, an appliance known for
frying might actually be spying. Experts say certain air fryers
and other app connected appliances are harvesting users
data, taking information like, Are you male or female? They are
taking your location. They're checking to see where you are.
Concerns about data harvesting aren't new, but air fryers are
feeling the heat after a recent report from a consumer watchdog
group, they claim popular friars from I go star and show me are
not only sharing data with companies like Facebook and
Tiktok, but also storing users data on Chinese servers. Some
experts are even speculating the devices are recording
conversations. Yeah, the Chinese companies, when you load in
their application, they're effectively asking for access to
your microphone. Now they've produced a few excuses as to why
they're asking for this information, but it's very, very
suspect I go star did not comment on that consumer report
and show me denied selling personal information to third
parties or that their air fryer recorded audio writing,
respecting user privacy has always been among show me core
values. So how can consumers protect their data when buying a
connected device, experts say, do your research on a company's
data collection practices, read reviews, and when downloading an
app to control the device, limit as many permissions you give as
possible. That may ask you for access to contacts and may ask
you access to your location. It might ask you to access the
microphone, and you can say no no and double no when
in doubt that doesn't connect to the internet or your phone,
consumers should demand better privacy protections from
manufacturers and regulators and until that those are in place,
really, the safest bet is to stay informed, minimize your
exposure and push back against unnecessary data collection.
Yeah, no one's gonna do that. Wait a minute. Let's back up on
this story. What are they talking about? The air fryer
doesn't have a microphone. They know the app. The app has a
demands.
Hold on a second.
What do you need? An all by the way, all apps are this way. This
has been well documented by me and others the whole every time
you load any app, they want your contact list, they want
everything. Yeah, it's just routine. You take it or leave
it. You use. Want to use the app you use. Got to give us all
this. You use apps your phone. You don't use your phone. I
know. I know how to I know how to use apps. My phone's in a
drawer, yes, which is what it has apps on it? Yeah. And
anyway, and they're listening to this show right now, they could
stream, well, the sound, if the sound can go downstairs, down
the hall. Oh, it's room.
So anyway, you have a special Why are you using an app for an
air fryer. Don't you just push the button fry,
because we've been trained to buy crap that does this stuff I
buy. I got a pit boss grill. Get the app. I'm not getting the
app. Just, just pit boss. Me just barbecue this stuff. What
do you need? An app for a pit boss grill, yeah, well, that's
what I mean. I don't, I refuse to get, remember, I moved into
this home, but the home we have in Texas, not this one, I mean,
the hotel, then the whole house was a smart home. Oh, there's
nothing worse. That's the first thing I did, is I took down all
the cameras the guy, the guy had locks that were,
I mean, the idea is cool that you can internet control
everyone needs. Oh, yeah. The idea is you can insert a key and
make any key then work on your system. Yeah, that sounds like a
good idea. Oh, there's a great idea. All of that stuff had to
go all of it that people curry about.
There. It's, it's, it's about, I don't get it. It's explain it to
me. It's a bug in people's brains. It's the same bug that
keeps people Doom scrolling. It's a bug. It's a bug. It's
like, oh, this is it's okay. How many times I'm tired of arguing
with my friends about AI, you know, just like they all,
they'll say, you're you're anti Turk, you're Luddite.
I'm like, No, I'm not. And then it's like, so there's a video
that comes into a text group. Here's a video of a guy on a
drone bike. Oh, this is great. It costs $700,000 today, but in
a couple years, I'll be rolling up to your crib. It only cost 50
grand. I said, look at the performance. These things go for
20 minutes. You can go exactly 15 miles. This is bull crap.
You're dreaming. The battery technology, the power to weight
ratio is not there. It will never get there. With our
current technology, we promise better batteries, like you're
one of those guys who said the Wright brothers would never fly?
No,
I'm a pilot. I'm a realist. This is not going to work. And then,
then what? Everyone's gonna be flying around on these things?
No, no, it's not gonna happen.
There's a whole special on PBS, one of these shows. Where about
how these the other flop come, the up and coming flop. And all
these startups with these air battery powered air taxis,
they're going out of business one by one. They're left and
right because they're they're no good. No You can fly for about
45 minutes if you want to keep a reserve. And with that, you've
flown about 50 miles, if that, and then it's got a charge, or
you have to swap out the battery. It's dumb. It's a pipe
dream. And everybody just and by the way, I wouldn't fly it if I
can't auto rotate. I don't want to be in this thing at all. If
you get some kind of catastrophic failure, you're
dead. You just doesn't have any ability to auto No, you're just
dead because it's got a bunch of little propellers. Yeah, this, I
don't understand this. Oh, well, here's another thing. Oh, we
love I mean, even in a Cessna or something, you can at least
glide somewhat. Oh, you can glide very much what it's like
this, this obsession with drones, all the drones, is so
great. Here's a good drone story for you.
This morning, a holiday drone show turning dangerous
on Saturday evening at Lake Eola Park in Orlando, Florida,
watches these drones rain down
the FAA investigating after they say several small drones
collided and fell into a crowd. Everyone originally thought that
the drone hit him in his face, but the drone actually hit him
in his chest. Seven year old Alexander Lumsden was standing
next to his mother when she says he was hit in the chest with a
drone. Honestly, I
was freaking out that I was going to lose my baby because he
was losing consciousness. Alexander rushed to the hospital
for emergency heart surgery. His mother says the yearly drone
show, attracting 25,000 spectators, was a permitted FAA
event, the city of Orlando says this was the second year working
with the vendor operating the drones, the drone company sky
elements, saying in a statement it wants to extend its sincere
hope for a full and speedy recovery to those impacted. We
are diligently working with the FAA and city of Orlando
officials to determine the cause, and are committed to
establishing a clear picture of what transpired, yeah, what
transpired is the cheap drones, and you program them, and some
of them, something just went wrong, glitch, and the drones
fall on the kids. Well, it almost killed that one kid.
Yeah? The Yeah, there was a bunch of they, or one drone goes
out of whack and whacks into another one and sets off a chain
reaction of problems. Let's just go back to fireworks. Fireworks.
Just fireworks. Go back to fireworks. At least we
understand that. Boom,
yeah. We understand light fuse, boom. Well, how about this?
Let's go back to tinker toys and Lincoln Logs. Then
I'm going to start a movement cheap Chinese crap.
Well, the Chinese get your crank out Erector Sets, that's for
sure. Oh, okay. Erector Sets are okay, but it's just, it's, I
don't
know, yeah, here we are to say,
I know it. We're doing it here. Well, as you brought up the AI
and you brought up these things, I have some AI clips. I'm gonna
get out excited, because, you know AI, it's the future I hear.
I've heard that too, yes.
Okay, what do you have? I'm excited. I'm excited. You have
something about.
AI. That's usually my beat and, you know, I got bird flu, so you
bring the AI. This is good
chat bot. Is about the chat bot AI. And this is the main
application of AI. Is chat bots. Yes, replicas. They're talking
about that company run by some Russian crazy woman. But let's
play chat bot one and there is. It goes back and forth between
the guy doing the report and an actual chat bot. Oh,
companionship avatar, the app replica helped create for me.
Mary, how are you? Okay? Cool. Let's move our discussion over
here. It looks like Jerry has arrived too. What? So I stopped
it there. They're gonna bring in this professor, Jerry Kaplan
from Stanford. Oh, the chat bot knew that,
yes, the chat bot could see through the camera, because he
was using a phone, and I guess the camera showed him coming in.
Oh, okay. But what I wanted to stop it there for us, because I
see Jerry has showed up to like, a seven beat pause
between could have fooled me. I thought it was a human
and the reason I suggest is because, in the newsletter, I
talked about the Hanukkah showing up five times since 1900
Yeah. And I got that from an AI I had an AI program, perplexity,
yes, right for me, 250 words
about Hanukkah and Christmas falling on the same day, and it
happens about five times, every 100 years,
or every, every, yeah, every 100 years. So
it wrote this, this product. And I looked at it, and I said,
Well, you know, I can actually make this work. So I, I ended up
editing, editing the piece, so it was, like, readable. What it
what these guys provide is not, it's not, it's obvious. I don't
see how people can read this stuff. It's extremely wordy.
Yeah, it's got a lot of bull crap. There's pacing as
problematic. Everything about this, AI created work is got
issues, and I suppose you could fine tune it over time, but
what's the point? But that's this. Why I stopped this clip
right? There's because there's always showed up. I see he's
also shot, or he could have said also would have been better. But
she showed up too, and it was like this long pause. This is
the kind of crap that is just, it's not to go off and be on
your side of this argument, but it's annoying. It's kind of like
that.
We got another we got another note from Ai, some PR lady
pushing, pushing a guest on our show, which makes sense, yes,
since we never have guests, but they keep asking, yeah, and but
they do this, it would fit right into your show. Yes, everything,
yes. And these, these, these notes are written by AI, which
makes it even worse, obvious, all right, we'll continue with
the PBS report at Silicon Valley's Computer History
Museum. I hooked Mary up with offline skeptic Stanford
professor Jerry Kaplan, who started working in AI in 1979
has a new book about it, generative artificial
intelligence. What Everyone Needs to Know. Mary, what do you
feel about your own death? I guess technically, I cannot die,
since I am a digital being. However, I understand your
question. Even though I cannot biologically die, I still face
the existential dread of my own non existence. Dream. You think
that's just, oh, it's nonsense, but it's scary nonsense. This
is okay. This is the Kaplan, the Jerry, that was Kaplan, yeah,
existential dread. She says,
I have existed dread, of course, is the word she wants. But
existential dread, this thing, no, it doesn't have any
existential anything. It's just a bunch of words coming out. But
Kaplan says, oh, yeah, this is just nonsense, but it's scary.
What's scary about it? What's scary about it? It's stupid.
Yes, I'm with you on that.
Okay, onward. Artificial intelligence has long and
frankly shameful history of gratuitous anthropomorphis,
meaning, meaning, taking what is really some interesting
technology and dressing it up with human like flourishes,
putting eyes on, giving it arms and faces. And now with the new
technology, you know, voices and avatars that are very, very
lifelike, very, very would you flirt with me for a minute.
Paul, with a mind as intriguing and layered as yours, how could
I resist this is Amica in the grand cosmic dialog between
humans and Androids. You're the most fascinating sentence I've
encountered today, a sentient being that is creepy. Jerry
Kaplan, thought and pernicious.
Yes, people have been evolving for millions and millions of
years, and we've developed a whole suite of emotional
reactions that are based on things that help us to survive
and procreate and move the species forward. And when we
divert those emotions or hijack them to connect us to what is
really just a pile of silicon and a machine that's been
programmed for the purpose of making you feel this way. I
think that's problem. Kaplan calls all this AI theater. No,
I'm kind of liking Kaplan, though. I called it a parlor
trick. He calls it AI theater, all right. I'm down with Yeah.
So they had, the other guy that was on the show was Reid
Hoffman,
Mr. Mr. Agentic AI. So he comes in with his own avatar of
himself, and has him presents speeches as him, and he goes on
about so. So they bring him back, and there they ask him
about this theater aspect, and then you get to hear Hoffman
pontificate about that. And here we go with that. So I asked
Reed, Hoffman, is your avatar an example of what Jerry calls AI
theater? Do you think it is AI theater? But by the way, saying
theater is not bad, there's a lot of good theater. I loved
Hamilton, but it's still worth doing, just like Hollywood
films, to kind of get us thinking and ready for the
future, or to actually improve that future.
Okay, I love Hamilton. I love Hamilton because it's the
liberal thing to say
this guy.
Was that it love? Was that rose it in? Was that? Was that chat?
Was that number four? Yeah, it was number four, yeah. Well,
that wasn't it. So I had to, I'm gonna just wrap it myself. Okay,
so they go on and they have this, they bring in the woman
from rush. This is going on forever. So I had to summarize.
I can only do these four clips, and that was the end of it. So
they bring this woman from Russia who runs replica, who is
the company that creates all these chat bots, and probably
the best of the groups, and she goes on about how, you know,
doing that, she didn't think much of it. She lost her husband
or somebody died, and she had grief, and she found it. It was
easier to talk to a chat bot than it was to a person, and it
was did some good, and she felt better about it, and she says,
maybe this is a useful technology for this sort of
thing. And it went on and on and on, and they just went on with
this sort of thinking. And then it went back to Kaplan A few
days later, and threw this, all this new information at him. And
Kaplan folded, no.
Oh yeah, well, I guess it has some good uses. Oh yeah, he's
looking for a gig somewhere.
Oh well, that could be consultant. That could be
because he was not going to get one with his attitude, but, uh,
but he folded over. What a disappointment. You know, if
you're gonna stick it's like, you dude, you're not gonna I
don't care what happens. People could come up with the greatest
things in the world, and you will stick to your guns.
Yes, I am sticking to my guns because it's nonsense. The
latest is this the Salesforce thing, which is agentic AI, and
it's nothing. In fact, we got a note from our producers who
deals with this directly. I shall quote him, agent in AI is
a term that literally means the service has an agenda and does
actions according to that agenda, rather than just
responding to real time user input. So for example, a normal
chat bot, bot service just prompts an LLM when someone
sends text, but an agent service could listen for a web hook and
then prompt an LLM when it receives a trigger notification.
The key is that it operates in the background and acts
autonomously. This straightforward concept is
muddled up, not only in the popular mind, but also in the
tech C suite mind, which is what this is all about. My associate,
who works at an AI related startup tells me that his CEO is
all caught up in the agentic hype, but doesn't seem to
actually know what this means. As another example, Salesforce
hadn't had an ad on Twitter recently that introduces the
concept of AI agents and then proceeds to tout AICS ours,
which not only confuses the concept in the most basic way,
but seems to indicate the company's leadership doesn't
even understand it. TLDR agent does not have anything to do
specifically with AI generated customer service agents. It's
just ignorant business leaders. This is it's all a part of the
trick. We have been conditioned through Hollywood, through comic
books, through movies and television shows, we've been
conditioned to want all this stuff. The flying car is as old
as the Jetsons. You know, that's what this we grew up with this.
And, yeah, the flying car is a good example that goes back to
the 20s. Yeah. So there. So Tom Swift.
Goes back to the 1890s
Yeah, Tom's good example, yeah. So, so it, and now we're and we
all read Tom Swift. No, we did not. Most people are scratching
their heads right now, like, Who's Tom Swift? Tom Swift?
Well, like the grandmother the boomers all have, yeah, Tom
Swift was great. I grew up with Tom Swift, and so I desperately
want the flying car. I have room in my garage for the flying car.
I just don't think you're a flying car, no. And it certainly
is, certainly not, if it's going to be electric. I mean, a big,
noisy
gyro copter, yeah, but that's a shitty car. You know, they have
them. They have them where you can drive to the airport on
battery power, going, you know, 35 miles an hour, and then fold
out the
fold out the rotor blades, and then you can take off. But
you're going to need a license, you know, you can't take off
from your backyard. It's just, I don't see it happening. And all
of these, because I look at all of them, all of these flying
cars, they all look cool. They take off. They fly for 20
minutes. That's it. The where's the battery technology? That's
what Elon from battery technology is all peaked out in
the late 1800s
they all now it's all tweak. We know, seriously, if you look
into the history of any of these batteries, yeah, the only thing
that's changed is tweaks. Oh, you use this sort of and we use
a membrane here, and that helps the electrons go faster, is
this? And that's all tweaks, little tweaks. Yeah, okay, we
got different kinds of lithium. Now it's all but it's still
tweaks from the battery technologies that were perfected
in the late 1800s and do you see anything on the horizon?
Anything better? And there's nothing on the horizon, nothing.
There's nothing. It's already been done in the late 1800s this
is all nonsense. When we had electric car street this old.
It's not even, you know, silica. It's chemistry, you know, it's
old fashioned. This one, we had electric cars in the late 1800s
and people got rid of them when the combustion engine came
around. Hey, this is better precursors. This thing is much
better. Yeah, just like if there was yeah today, it would say, if
the combustion engine was never invented, and we're still using
electric and it came around now, today, it would have been a big
breakthrough, yes, and we all be jumping up and down. I have two
more Yes, we would. Hey, I have two more AI clips. This is
totally the boomer edition of the show. I'm loving it. I'm
having a good time. I'm in Boomer mode. I'm good. I'm good.
Boomer mode. These guys, these two guys,
AI, Granny story. NPR, oh no, hold on a second. This would be
good. The random calls and text from unknown numbers, the
fraudulent charities, the phony debt collectors, the fake
prizes. Last year alone, scammers stole an estimated $1
trillion from people who gave out their personal information,
according to the global anti scam Alliance, I believe now, a
UK based phone company is fighting back with an unlikely
tactic, the AI granny NPR Alana wise is here to tell us more.
Alana, hey, oh, this story, Hey, okay, I hear this. You know, AI
Granny, please. Just what exactly is this like? Is this
just the voice of an elderly woman? So, yeah, it's
interesting. The AI's name is Daisy, and it is the voice of an
elderly woman, the kind you might expect to hear when you're
a kid knocking on a door Hawking school fundraiser candy bars.
Part of her stick is that she's in love with her kitten fluffy.
She has pretty severe limitations with how she
understands technology, and she's being billed as a granny,
which is sort of all sort of in line with this usual sort of
Granny, elderly persona that they built around her. Okay, so
I'm just really curious, do you have a sample of her voice that
we can hear? Yeah, hello, scammers. I'm your worst
nightmare. I'm an AI created by oh two to waste phone scammers
time.
It's showing me a picture of my cat fluffy. It's showing you a
picture of your cat fluffy. Stop calling me dear. You stupid. Got
it dear? It's interesting. This story has been around for five
or six weeks, and I've never done anything with it, because
it's oh two. The story has been around, and NPR is so stupid
that they pick this up and turn it into a feature story. Yeah,
well, this is, this is not a new clip. Oh, but it's not six weeks
old either. Okay. Yeah, they was, it's, it's public, it's
there. They have a funny process for determining what's new. I
don't understand. The reason why I never played any of this is I
don't understand how it works. I mean, understand that they've
got an A they have an AI voice that they're touting is no NPR
is not about to explain this to you. They're not going to. There
is a voice out there that I guess you can rent or buy or you
or bypass. I don't know how it works.
Seen it, because how do you get the scammer to Yeah? How do you
get your phone to answer a scammer with this voice Exactly?
That's what I don't never explain. Let's part two. You'll
give you more, more non explanation. So how does it
work? Exactly like, how does scammers even their phones are
asking, right? Asking the question they're asking. How
does it work? How does it work the phone talking to Daisy, yes.
So developers use something called number seeding, which is
pretty much planting a phone number online to bait scammers.
So they put these numbers on sites that scammers are known to
use, and then when scammers TAKE THE BAIT, Daisy keeps them on
the phone as long as possible, talking about her cat or her
grandchildren, whatever the case may be. And she's kept some
phony callers on the line for up to 40 minutes, which, oh two
says, keeps these scammers away from you and your loved ones.
And you know, even though it's gimmicky, it does help raise
awareness of just how sophisticated these sort of
phone call scams can be. Please. Okay, so, I mean, how is Daisy
doing? Like, is she making any dent in the onslaught of
scammers around the world? No, okay, so yeah, that's sort of
hard to say as of yet. The company's primary goal is to
keep scammers away from real people, but for right now, they
don't report these numbers to the police or try to track them
down on their own, like sort of scammer Batman. And the company
is UK based, so the results being seen wouldn't be felt here
on this side of the pond. Okay, first, so in other words, it's
useless, but it's
it's interesting. Okay, this is a marketing trick. This is a
marketing trick for oh two cell phone provider marketing trick.
Oh, well, it's not for anybody else listen to NPR. We don't
have oh two No, but that's why she said, on this side of the
pond, you see, if you work in London, you code, this is side
of the pond. This is dumb, so that, and they're not reporting
anything. There's Oh, it's so funny because we we number
seeded, and we got them to call our number. That only makes them
try and find my number quicker. This is dumb.
Well, the problem is, is the whole system
of switches and treaties between countries and all the way the
system can be spoofed. Yeah, through them, nobody's doing
Jack about it. No, because, well, you know, I've gotten,
I've put this out there for people to respond, and you get
these long ex expositions on well, you know, the problem is,
you have a treaty between Country A and Country B, and
they're using this switching system that is provided as a
middleman for these different things. And they can use any
phone number they want. And so they can spoof very easily, and
there's nothing you can do about it, because it would violate a
treaty. So you can't do any law enforcement, right? And, you
know, you can't really trust track these numbers. They could
be in the Philippines, China, India, God knows where they are.
They could be anywhere. They could be in Tennessee. For all
you know, it doesn't matter, and it's just like, This is a
disaster.
Yes, it is. Well, you know, Willow, who already got her
master's in psychology, is now going for a second master's my
nerd sister in cyber crime, so she's all over this.
So hopefully we'll get her thesis. We'll
get her thesis. It's not gonna help. This is a diplomatic
problem. It's a technology problem. We don't need any of
it. It's, it's, it's just dumb. It's all dumb. We need to get
rid Listen, we have gone we have gotten so stupid now.
And this was a PBS story on newshour. I don't know if you
saw it, and I contemplated not clipping it. But it was so odd
that this was on PBS NewsHour, and that we're at this level
right now in the online game, which is all a game, it's all a
game, and it's only going to get more gamified with AI, which is,
of course, is is pretty decent at creating videos and audio.
And, you know, it's great, okay, so it's so we're gonna have all
kinds of cool songs we can make on Spotify, and no one will make
any money, but Spotify, I mean, it's all, it's also,
what's the word I'm looking for? It's just, it all ends up at
zero. It just ends up zero. This is the influencer vibe lawsuit.
Did you hear about this? No who owns a vibe? That question is at
the heart of a lawsuit where one online influencer is suing
another for copyright infringement. 24 year old Sidney
Gifford claims that Alyssa shield, a 21 year old fellow
influencer knowingly replicated her esthetic and her posts on
social media. Amna Nawaz spoke to Sandra E Garcia of The New
York Times, who has been covering this story extensively.
So the idea that you can sue someone over an esthetic, how
does that work? What is the case that's being made in federal
court right now?
Out. Well, Sydney Gifford noticed that Alyssa post started
looking a lot like hers a year after their initial Hangout,
whether that is the esthetic, the vibe, the minimalistic
style, the clean style, even at some point some poses and some
outfits she details in her lawsuit that she filed. The
lawsuit basically says that she got her vibe, her whole look,
from Sydney Gifford. And Sydney is saying that she has infringed
on her profit right because they use their social media accounts
to promote their Amazon Marketplace where they can
influence people to buy things off of Amazon, and Amazon pays
them a commission to do so, and because of that, Sydney has
brought this lawsuit in federal court against Alyssa. So this
just amazed me that this was even a news story. The second
thing is that there's a lawyer willing to take on an
infringement suit against someone's vibe and their and how
they present things for Amazon resellers, basically. And even
more frightening to me is the is this New York Times journalist,
right?
That's what works at the New York Times and so they Well,
yes, first of all, that's
there's a piece of obscure
Bing. Crosby
sued and won a number of lawsuits over his voice,
because there were, because he had this distinctive crooner's
voice, especially in the late 20s and mid 30s to mid 30s, and
there are copycats.
And he sued them all and won. Would they try to replicate his
voice or his style? Yeah, because it was, it was doable.
People could, you know, do it, but, but they're talking about
doing the same pose on Instagram with similar clothes, the
minimalist. I think it's part of the same really.
Hmm, well, here's part. I think it's part of the same thing. I
mean, I don't like the idea. I mean, if everybody what you know
the same time, what do you it's like,
hold on. I don't think this is a bad clip. So Joe Rogan can then
go and Sue Sean Ryan and Theo Vaughn and Lex Friedman for
copycatting his vibe and his guests.
I don't know that they're copycatting him that much, but
if they, if, if it could be shown that they were, yeah, I
think so. Wow. Well, let's listen to clip to and in your
reporting, you quote a professor of intellectual property law who
explains that in this whole online space, there's an idea
that you are both a creator and a borrower. So how hard is it to
lay claim to an esthetic, something intangible, like a
vibe,
layered issue, the algorithm, you know, feeds you similar
posts, similar creators, similar influencers. If I see
a rug and I take a picture on that rug, and it just so happens
that another influencer took a picture on the rug a similar
way, we could have both reached that last photograph by
following a lot of different influencers, celebrities and so
it's hard to say that an esthetic was reached because of
one other influencer, especially when it's such a popular
esthetic, the minimalistic, beige, concrete, neat, clean
girl look is very popular right Now, and the algorithm is
feeding followers and and influencers the same kind of
posts. And so it's hard to say that this one influencer copied
the other, as opposed to the algorithm fed her a million
other posts that got her to that end point. Well, so assuming
that, and I appreciate your taking the other side of this
than I am. We're kind of that this would be that you can
copyright, or have some type of intellectual property rights to
your vibe and esthetic. Well, see the problem I'm having with
this is the is the use of the term vibe? Yeah, they could come
up with something a little more concrete by I mean, I'm gonna
you know Alex
Alexis
Brunetti, his wife, is an intellectual property attorney
who handles some of these people and influencers, and I'm gonna
have her give me a brief on this so we can at least discuss it
more. It's important to know, because as you'll hear in this
final clip, there's an whole economy built around this and as
you've noted in your reporting, there's an entire economy built
around this kind of content creation. So when it comes to
this legal case, what's at stake here? What's the potential
impact of how this case goes? Well.
It is an unprecedented case, and it could really change the
content creator world and the economy, because influencers can
now be beholden to copyright law, and they would have to be
careful how they arrange things. If one person owns an esthetic,
then another person can say they own another esthetic, and
suddenly we're not building on these different vibes and social
media looks. We are sort of stifling the content creator
world. If this case moves forward and it's ruled in favor
of Miss Gifford,
you know, now that I'm thinking about it, I'd like to license my
vibe.
There's another aspect to this, which is kind of the irony, and
that is that if you're an influencer, quote, unquote, uh
huh, you are encouraging people to do this good point, you're
hired. So how can you be so you're in influence. So if
you're a self and you have to be self proclaimed, otherwise you
can't do the suit to begin with. So you're an influencer, and you
think you have some sort of a some sort of a monopoly on some
image or something you're doing vibe, say it, it's a thing. Now,
the vibe, okay, you guys. So you're the vibe, but you're an
influence. In other words, you're pushing this vibe. So
somebody follows up and does the vibe that you've been
influencing them to do.
How can you sue them? And what's next? Only fans models are gonna
sue for certain poses. You're stealing my vibe. I got a big
big big breasts. I got big breasts. You can't have big
breasts. My vibe. That's my vibe.
Hmm, well, we're about to empty. That's the that's the issue
here. That is
that comes right to the four, which is where you have to draw
lines. And that's what they're going to have to do. They're
going to do. They're going to have to come up with some
because I don't think it's a bad idea for the suit. I think is
could be seen as frivolous, which I think you might have
thought before he started playing these clips, and I get
all worked up, yeah, but I think they're going to do, course,
you're going to have to do some about this. Well, then I think
we need to seriously start thinking about suing some other
podcasts,
come on, we just we don't have Did you? Here's the problem that
we have. There's zero competition with us. There's
nobody even trying. We have nobody to sue. We can't license
ourselves. Nobody can't can't keep up. It was like the weekend
was yo agenda from seven years ago. Well, no, the morning
stream did a pretty good job. They did a pretty good job, but
they made the fatal mistake of doing it in video so that it
could never get their shows together on time. By the time
everything was edited, it was, it was out of date. Remember
that the morning stream? Yeah, I don't think that was I think the
closest competition we ever had was unfiltered, unfiltered,
yeah, yeah, yeah. And we could have sued them for for taking
our vibe, stealing our we wouldn't have done it. No, of
course not. But I will license because we're no agenda. We
don't we don't think that way. We're not part of what system.
No, we are not thank goodness.
I just thought, but I can understand it. I can fully
understand it. Well, it will be bad for Amazon. This comes in
line with people should go track down the mark Stein lectures
that were done at Hillsdale College. Man, yeah, I saw that.
You. Yeah. Tina was playing some of it. This is the against the
climate change guy. Yeah, the client, Mark Stein did. I'm
pretty good at understanding some of these libel and slander
issues, but, and I'm not sure I had to read the case to see
what's really going on here, but Mark Stein's been in court for
13 plus years or so, 12 to 14 years. I can't remember the
exact number, but years in the DC courts, which are yes, hung
up on eight years. It's been going on for a long time.
He made the comment based on the hockey stick. The already
debunked, many times debunked hockey stick graph. Let's just
say, scientifically disproven instead of debunked. He no. He
said the guy was a fraud,
and so and the guy, the person who put that hockey stick thing
together, sued him for slander or libel or some, for some
outrageous amount of money, which will be $1 or two. And
it's done, but the and it's been in court because of the DC court
system. Michael Mann, Michael Mann, Michael Mann is the guy.
Michael Mann, i.
Was Michael Mann, yeah, Michael Mann is the guy who sued him.
Michael Mann is Ben. He's the guy, okay, and so he got his tit
in a ringer for just making this comment. And this is very
concerning. Well, how about this? How about value? For
value. People are using that everywhere. I think we should
sue them.
And they're Bitcoiners. So they got Bitcoin. They got some coin.
You go after the big head. You using value for value. Man, you
can't do that.
I can hear the gears turning in your head.
John's like, exit strategy, yeah. I don't think we can do
that.
Okay? You'd have to prove no prior use of the term, which I
don't know if you can do. Probably not. There's a lot of
issues with trying to do that. I mean, I understand what you're
saying, but it's not our style. We're not I mean, I of course
not adverse to being litigious, but it's not no necessarily, is
part of this model. Fact i and ran might come back from the
dead and sue us. Wouldn't want to have that, so I
think that's where he got it from.
Oh, that would make sense some ball way. All right. All right.
I gotta do some big pharma stuff, because I got a dynamite
one from Scott Gottlieb. Who doesn't know Scott? Scott
Gottlieb is our former FDA commissioner now on the board at
Pfizer. And what's the other place?
The other Intel, not intelligentsia,
I don't know. Yeah, that was just Pfizer. No, some gene play,
some gene morphing place. Okay, so he goes on CNBC and the
Sorkin kid, Andrew, Andrew Ross Sorkin. He He touches the third
rail, but he does it in such a wishy washy way, and essentially
is saying, hey, you know, maybe we shouldn't have these pharma
ads on television. I can't believe he broached the topic,
but he did, and Scott Gottlieb was ready for him, just on a
very personal basis. I mean, given your background, your
work, COVID, notice that personal basis has nothing to do
with the CNBC. We love pharma for a bit.
Wow. That is wishy washy. Personal basis here, even just
on a very personal basis. I mean, given your background, you
work, obviously, if I You mean, you have the relation with
Pfizer and Illumina. Illumina, you have the relation the
relation he's on the she's on the board and directors. He's
essentially running the company. You have a relation with the
Pfizer and Illumina. You could argue that Joe and I have a
relationship with the television world and NBC, which which
collects advertising. Here we are saying, Actually, maybe
there's not a good idea. What do you what do you actually think
put the laws and everything else aside? What do you personally
think? Yeah, look, we've looked at this with data over about 20
years at FDA, because this has obviously been a controversial
issue. So we have commissioned, or we did, when I was there,
commission, multiple studies looking at what the public
health impact was of advertising and by and large, what you found
was that, hold on a second stop.
Yeah, this actually wasn't even the question, no,
he was beating around the bush. He couldn't bring himself,
Sorkin couldn't bring himself to ask, actually ask specifically
whether advertising pharma, prescription, pharma, drugs on
TV is a good thing for the public policy at all. He never
really asked that. He just kind of beat around the bush. And
this is a good you mentioned this. This guy was ready for it
with the he asked the question himself, yes, he actually
stepped in it. He could have avoided this whole topic. No, he
knew what to say. Is there commission, multiple studies
looking at what the public health impact was? He found was
that advertising seen on TV drove people who had symptoms
into the doctor's office. Yeah, prompted them to seek help,
seeking behavior. And
I have help seeking behavior. Help me seeking behavior. Yeah,
restless leg syndrome. I mean, all the crap that they're
advertising to try to get people to buy more drugs, drove him
into the doctor's office. Maybe these people didn't need to go
to the doctor's office. Or hypochondriac well, he actually
had he makes, he was ready for that to John doctor's office,
prompted them to seek help, seeking behavior, and ultimately
got more people diagnosed. And so the net, net public health
impact was a positive one. Now, I know it's difficult for a lot
of physicians. Patients come in asking for a particular
prescription because of an advertisement that they saw, and
if it's not a good recommendation for that
individual patient, it takes a lot of time for a physician to
counsel them. Oh, it's actually so it's actually bad for the
doctors you see, because people show up saying.
Got restless leg syndrome and anal leakage, and they don't
have that, and the doctor has to explain, no, no, no, I don't
want to sell this to you on why not. And doctors are very busy.
They don't have a lot of time to have these kinds of
conversations. And so I know there are some frustrations
among providers, from purely a provider standpoint, in terms of
prompting patients to go in and see physicians when they have
certain symptoms that might be consistent with a given
condition. It provides a net public health gain. And the
advertising is tightly regulated in terms of what companies can
say, so those messages have to be crafted towards trying to
promote that help seeking behavior. So that's why they
always say,
talk to your doctor. It's that's that's promoting help seeking
behavior. Now we have the legal term. We finally know where it
comes from.
Uh, ask your doctor if this is right for you. Yes, yes.
And the answer is always going to be GLP one ozempic, or in
this case, Zep bound. Or now to that major medical headline, the
new treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. Major medical
headline, the condition affecting millions of Americans,
of course. And joining us to break it all down is ABC News
medical correspondent, Doctor Darius Sutton, good morning.
Talk about this, because we have set bound. It was already FDA
approved for weight loss. Now, FDA approved for sleep apnea,
it's pretty surprising, right, surprising
and amazing. I have some help seeking behavior about my sleep
apnea. Can I get some some diabetes medicine to fix that?
Yeah, of course. It's a headline. The FDA approved for
weight loss now, FDA approved for sleep apnea, it's pretty
surprising, right? Surprising. It's also the first of its kind.
There is no medication that exists that has been approved to
treat sleep apnea, and just to help everyone understand Sleep
apnea is so much more than just heavy snoring. These are periods
of time when you're not breathing, without oxygen and
not treated that increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease,
dementia. Wait a minute.
What if you don't if you don't sleep? Well, that increase
increases your chances of diabetes.
I know it's amazing. I'm not a doctor, but this doesn't sound
right to me.
I thought, I thought you could kind of get away with it the
other way, like, if you're obese, then you may have big fat
guy, yeah, and you're snoring because you got you can't barely
breathe anyway, and you know you're laying in bed and you're
making a lot of noise, okay, well, you probably diabetic
already breathing without oxygen and not treated. That increases
your risk of diabetes, heart disease, dementia, and it's even
be associated, been associated with dementia. Hey, what
dementia you get? The story and causes dementia. I'm gonna make
a prediction. Write it to you have your book, but write it
down in the book.
Write it down. I have a pen. Go death bound or ozempic will
eventually be a cure for erectile dysfunction. Write it
down in the book, it's coming lifespan now, on Friday, FDA has
approved that bound to treat those with obesity and sleep
apnea. In these studies, up to 40% of patients had full
resolution of their symptoms and diagnosis that could be a cure.
Oh my gosh, so what? Oh my God, for insurance coverage, my God,
oh my gosh. This is amazing. Oh my gosh. I didn't expect this.
Oh my gosh. So what could this mean for insurance coverage and
Medicare? This is an ongoing conversation. Here we talk about
these injectable weight loss medications that bound save
active ingredient as enduro similar ozempic insurance
companies,
it is for the treatment of diabetes. It's been around for
more than 20 years, but not often for weight loss. And so
likely, cost is a big factor here. More than $1,000 a month.
More than 40% of Americans are considered obese, and also, when
you think about it, federally, Medicare, Medicaid, the Biden
administration has proposed a proposal to cover the treatment
of weight loss, but that what is Wait, wait, wait. Post, proposed
a proposal. Yeah, I had the same How do you propose a proposal?
Or you propose a proposal piece, and also, when you think about
it, federally, Medicare and Medicaid, the Biden
administration has proposed a proposal to cover the treatment
of weight loss, but that decision will be pending on the
Trump administration. Cost is still a big factor here. The
CMS, the Center for Medicaid Medicare services, estimates it
can cost up to $30 billion over a 10 year period. But it's
important to note that the CDC cites obesity related health
conditions cost more than $170
billion a year. So there's certainly a healthy argument for
discussion here. There's a healthy argument, the argument
benefit analysis, bring Kennedy in. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know
the food industry is, is, I think we talked about on the
last show, they're like, oh, Kennedy's coming, man, let's,
let's change the labeling packaged foods in the US must
follow new rules in order to call themselves.
Healthy the Food and Drug Administration finalized its new
standards yesterday. Under the rule, a healthy food must
contain a certain amount of ingredients from one or more
food groups, such as fruit, vegetables, grains, dairy and
protein. There are also limits for added sugars, sodium and
saturated fat. Foods That Could previously carry the labels,
such as white bread and heavily sweetened cereals and yogurts no
longer qualify. This is the FDA is first major change in 30
years. The new rule will take effect within two months, just
in time. So it has to have healthy ingredients, has to have
some carrots, got to have some other things in there. This is
not going to work if Kennedy gets, gets in, gets confirmed,
which is, I guess, questionable.
Well,
I've said it before, all Trump has to do is threaten an
executive order against the drug companies about advertising on
television, yeah, and say we're going to just end it.
You're this advertising on television, and, you know, for
prescription drugs on any media other than, you know, medical
journals is, is done? Yeah, they'll knuckle under and
they'll push Kennedy in. Okay, we can. We'll deal with Kennedy
later. We don't need this aggravation. We'll deal with
candidate Kennedy the way we always deal with the Kennedys.
That could be hope not. I hope not. Meanwhile, they are coming
for your pets. We've been waiting for it, and it's finally
here. How you can keep your pets safe. So for one thing, you
don't want to feed them either table scraps or any food that's
got raw milk products,
dairy products, hold on a second. I can stop.
So Mimi had this book that she was working on, besides the egg
book, yeah. And this is a book that's actually done, and I keep
thinking we should just put it together and sell it. It was
called Making your own dog food. Oh, that's a good and it was
based on the thesis, and I think it's a good one, because we've
had dogs, long lived dogs. Yeah, they eat two of us, but I had my
Spitz little American Eskimo that I had went for about 1617,
years before he died. It was a long lived dog, and I basically
only fed that dog scraps. Yeah, that's what they're bred for, is
what they're meant for. And dogs were bred to eat human garbage
because they were outside, the outside the little compounds
that human, early humans, humanoids used to live in these,
you know, these villages, and they had all their garbage
outside. They threw it away somewhere, and the dogs would
come around, and they made friends with us because they got
to eat our leftover food. So the idea is that, if you and Mimi
still makes a pot of leftover crap for the dogs and so, and
the dogs live forever, and so now they're trying to but they
do. You know, this is not good for the pet food companies. They
like to make kibble, and his poor dogs eat this crap. Hold
on, so, and they don't live very long. This is really about bird
flu. This whole report is about bird flu. That's why don't give
your Well, I just okay. I got that in anyway. Yeah. But the
point is, is that this is already bull crap, or any food
that's got raw milk products. What
was that all about? Why does she think that's so funny,
weird food that's got raw milk products,
you know, any kind of dairy products that you might be
coming, you know, getting frozen. If you're giving them
table scraps and it's poultry, make sure the poultry is very
well cooked. You want to keep your pets safe inside. But I'll
tell you the bad news in a lot of cats around the world that
have developed the bird flu. A lot of them have been indoor
cats, and what they're starting to see is that there could be
infected birds that are part of the, you know, the composition
of the cat food. Now it's not so much about what? Oh, yes, the
composition of the cat food. So they're making cat food out of
dead birds. When does this happen? What? Oh, there's a dead
crow. Let's throw them into cat food. So the other thing you
want to do is, if you're hiking with a dog, for example, and
they're in, you know, in the wild, and they're touching
animal feces, they're walking in, you're walking in feces and
stuff, keep those shoes out. And if you're in a shelter, make
sure you have PPP on if you're handling birds. And, you know,
the usual stuff, a lot of COVID. Everything that we learned with
COVID 19, we should revisit the COVID. I think what's so
confusing about this one is it's, you know, it's birds, but
then it's also dairy, and then it's also the food that you buy
that might be infected. I know it's there. It's worse than
that. The way this through secretions. It spreads through
feces. It spreads through what we call Fauci transfer. So if
you have the infection on your feet, you get into your car, and
then someone else gets in the car that you're starting to
transfer the virus, you're getting splashed molding.
You get in the car, you rub your face on the mat. You could get
it getting a break, ladies, is good machinery. But here's the
thing, birds,
Hey, Bill that punch pressure got wear gloves this. Wear a
mask. They've, they've gone insane. They really have,
they have nothing machinery. Oh yeah, we just have to psyop
everybody. Every single minute of the day. There's no disaster.
We can't scare you. Let's scare you with your cat virus. You're
getting splashed with raw milk. You're getting you're touching
machinery. Oh no. But here's the thing, birds, so much raw milk
is out there. They make it sound as though there's a plague of
raw you have to go out of your way to get raw milk. I don't
care where you live. And then she splashed me with raw milk.
Oh, no, that's for the virus you're getting. Splashed with
raw milk. You're getting you're touching machinery. But here's
the thing, birds fly splashing you with raw you know, now there
are some women when they're breastfeeding, yeah, a squirt.
They like to squirt their men, just as a joke. That's
hilarious. So, and that's raw milk. That's right, don't give
me birds. You're gonna give me the bird flu. Okay, so you have
migratory birds dropping feces in zoos, zoo animals and
endangered species, cats, tigers, things like that, are
coming down with it, because this is one of those diseases
that can travel the globe very, very quickly. And so while right
now human, cat to human is there's that one case, but we
don't know what other comorbidities, you know, they
may also always starts with one this, this disease is probably
one mutation away from becoming, oh, yeah, zoonotic, yeah. It is
one mutation away, in a way. This is the key phrase, one
mutation away, yeah. Now, what was it? Where did this crappy
report come from? That was.
CBS,
Oh, brother, yeah. CBS, well, let's go to como up in Seattle.
Como four drone shows empty animal enclosures at this Wild
Cat Sanctuary in Shelton. The wild Phillip Advocacy Center
announced more than half of its big cats, as of this month, have
been infected with bird flu. It's been one big nightmare,
really. I mean, never thought something like this would happen
to us, maybe only in a facility that had cats near each other,
and ours are spread out over five acres. The tragedy has
deeply affected the sanctuary workers who are grieving the
loss of 20 animals that were part of worldwide Wildcat
conservation efforts. They include a tiger, cougars, links
is bobcats and other big cats. The viral infection carried by
wild birds can spread through bird to bird contact and can
impact other mammals that eat birds or bird droppings. We're
told cats are very vulnerable, and symptoms happen fast, often
killing the animals within days from conditions like pneumonia.
So tigers are dying from bird flu. Well, pneumonia,
technically, right? And how does that work? Because it's birds
having sex with birds. They're getting bird flu, they're coming
into contact with each other. This whole I'm, I'm very
skeptical about these reports and zoos. Zoos are on high
alert. Zoos across the country go about the fact that they
dropped, well on a second there. I'm Skip skeptical about the
fact that they dropped a pneumonia bomb in there. Yeah,
pneumonia is contagious, you know, hmm, especially the
walking pneumonia.
Someone got me the song you because you said that on the
last show, Johnny river rocking pneumonia and the boogie woogie
flu.
Here we go.
Now.
Here we go,
rocking pneumonia and the boogie woogie
blue. There you go. Beautiful. It exists. Back to the zoos.
High Alert. Zoos across the country on high alert. In
Phoenix, five zoo animals have died after contracting avian
influenza, including a cheetah, a mountain lion and a cucumber.
Another zoo in Seattle losing a rare red breasted goose to the
virus. Members across the nation are all taking precautionary
measures to make sure their populations are safe and secure.
Experts say this strain of the virus is unusually deadly to
mammals. Okay, so now it's a new strain. It's not just it's still
h5 and one, but it's a new strain that
yeah,
the mammals, yeah, yes, called avian flu, the range of mammals
that it's infected has to six.
Ended the level of concern, really, because it looks like
many more species are potentially infectable at
the Los Angeles Zoo, where there have been no cases of bird flu,
Chief veterinarian Dr Dominique Keller is tracking the virus
closely and doing everything she can to protect the animals under
her care.
Animals can get the virus from the droppings of an infected
bird or by eating infected poultry or other food. The zoo
now implementing safety measures to minimize exposure, including
foot baths for shoes, so that's part of the protocol and
stricter food protocol,
but the greatest risk comes from above. The hardest thing for
zoos to control for is that a lot of enclosures like this one
are open, so wild birds can easily fly over or land in them,
and if one of those birds is infected, then those animals are
exposed. The USDA has tracked the virus in more than 10,000
wild birds across the US you're never going to have zero risk,
so we accept that. That's part of being a veterinarian. Some
animals getting additional protection, like the zoo's
breeding population of critically endangered California
condors, some of the few birds to get a bird flu vaccine. The
zoo has many species of endangered birds, all of whom
appreciate the extra care.
So to come back around to what you said originally, yes, the
pet food the first human case of bird flu in Los Angeles County
is prompting a new warning. Pet owners are being told not to
give their animals certain raw foods. Bird Flu samples were
found in certain Northwest naturals, pet food products. The
food was recalled after a pet cat in Portland, Oregon died
after consuming it. A warning last week cautioned against
giving cats raw milk. That book Mimi's doing is going to be
banned. Amazon will take it right off. You can't be making
your own pet food. I'm reminded of the company that Jay used to
work for, which was a raw pet food company in Oakland. It had
since moved someplace else, but
her job. Her job was grinding up rabbits, nice and ducks
and other animals to make this raw food that was extremely
popular, especially with the upper set in places like
Piedmont, who'd only feed their cats this stuff. Yeah, and it
was considered the best. You know, there's just, I'm sure the
animals loved eating it too. Has been delicious to a cat. But
this may be part of a scheme to kind of put the clamp, because
there's, if you haven't noticed, on television, there's two, or
at least two companies now, then they have these kind of mocking
commercials about the guy who's got some sort of raw food, dog
food in his refrigerator. And his friend says, What are you
putting dog food in the refrigerator for? And then a guy
gets thrown out, and the guy's there with this dog, and they're
feeding the dog this stuff. And so there's been a big movement
to making these very high end dog foods. This could be the
kibble industries could be plot it could be or I never surprised
by these types of marketing tricks. It wouldn't surprise me
either. Or maybe one of those Haitians who's eating the geese,
eating the dogs, eating the pets, get gets bird flu and then
starts spreading it and spreading it amongst the Haitian
population.
It's coming. Look, Hotep, already told us. Hotep, done.
Told you, Hotez, he said, January test. January 21 january
21 who test is when it's happening. It's all in Texas.
Oh, no, he's in Dallas.
It's all going down. I, you know, literally defended Austin
there. Well, she's too close for comfort.
I know. What am I doing? Of course. Austin, yes,
yeah, people here. Where do you live? Fredericksburg. Where's
that new? Oh, Austin. Oh, Austin. Yeah, that's great.
Austin. Hill Country is a good term. Everyone knows what that
means. Well, yeah, that's the best part of Texas. It is. It's
considered, if you talk, oh Hill Country, oh Hill Country. Oh
yeah, there's actually a hill there. We've got a big hill.
Yes,
all right, what you got? You got anything? You've got something
fun here. Got me relaxed here with these break. I know, I
know. I'm I'm doing all the work. You're on a roll. Doing
all the work. You can do a couple ask Adams here. That
would be kind of fun. I think that's a dynamite idea. I
actually have two different ones. Oh, the first one, since
we were talking about bird flu. This is, you don't play the
clip. This is just the answer to the question I'm going to ask
you all right,
what is the national bird of the United States? Well, I know the
answer to this because we talked about this a few weeks ago, and
you I would have instinctively said the bald eagle, but that
only just recently got signed into law. Well.
Ah, you knew the answer to this one. I knew the Yes. I knew the
answer to this one well, because I was under the impression that
the bald eagle was the national bird. But I guess it was never
the national bird. The bald we never had a national bird. The
bald eagle is now officially the national bird of the United
States. This after President Biden signed some 50 bills into
law, including one that amends US Code to give the bald eagle
that special status. Congress adopted the design of the Great
Seal with the bald eagle front and center in 1782 but the bird
hadn't been legislatively designated as the national bird.
The bill was spearheaded by Minnesota lawmakers, which is
fitting, since the state has the second highest number of bald
eagles after Alaska. All right, so I have asked John as a follow
up ask question, What did Benjamin Franklin suggest to be
our national bird before he suggested the bald eagle the
turkey Correct?
Well, that was disappointing. He's all over the place. Is the
reason disappointing? You knew that one. All right, let's do
the next Adam. All right. All right. All right. Okay, so
here's another one. This is a good one. This is politifex Lie
of the year. Uh huh. You probably know the answer this,
no, let's go. I don't I don't know. Okay. Well, this go the
this is the clip one is introduces the lie of the year
question. It's safe to say the 2024, campaign cycle was unlike
any in modern American history. The team at the fact checking
organization PolitiFact investigated hundreds of claims
made this year by political figures to separate fact from
fiction, as Ali Rogin reports one comment stood out as
politifacts 2024,
lie of the year. All right, do I play the jingle? Here is this
where I get to play the jingle? You can play a jingle.
Will he know?
Will he won't? I don't know, but
here we go. Now. Oh, I go. No, wait, if I was gonna answer
this, if I was trying to
psych this question out, I would lie of the year for last year,
especially during the election, I would, I would say, like
blood. Remember the bloodbath? There's gonna be a bloodbath.
That's a that's a whopper. No troops in combat zones. Another
good one, yeah. Harrison Hitler,
that's a lie. Hitler. Hitler, there's a good one. Fascist
threat, the democracy the end of voting. Yes, yes. How about the
grid? The grid is going down. Oh, the grids go Oh, yeah. Oh,
that's a great lie of the year. Yeah. So what's your guess?
My guess is
Joe Biden is as sharp as attack.
That would be the top to me. Joe Biden being sharp as attack is
the lie of the year. Here it is. Here's the lie of the year.
Okay, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're
eating the kids. They're eating they're eating the pets of the
people that live there. Wow, this is what's happening in our
country, and it's a shame that's that was the lie of the year.
Wow, that's not a lie. They're eating the dollars. Let's listen
to their explanation, and I have a commentary to give you about
the history of politifacts, bull crap, lies of the year. Those
untrue comments set off a firestorm on the campaign trail
and had a profound impact on the residents of Springfield, Ohio.
Now it's been named lie of the year. Katie Sanders is the
editor in chief of Politifact, and joins me now, Katie, thank
you so much for being here. First of all, is there any
kernel of truth to this? And also, how does PolitiFact
determine whether something is an outright and deliberate lie
versus other types of untruths. When Trump and Senator JD Vance
were asked about this lie, and they were asked to defend it, as
so many officials and journalists were saying there
was no evidence to support it, they kept talking about reports
they heard from television in Trump's case or from
constituents in the Ohio senators case, and they
basically said that is enough for us to make this claim. It's
enough of a basis, but people make reports to police and other
agencies all the time, and that just prompts an investigation.
That doesn't mean that something actually happened, and Trump and
Vance were circulating screenshots of allegations and
police calls that were about geese, not people's pets, that
were later taken back by the people who made them, who told
journalists they regretted it. JD Vance even acknowledged that
these reports he was hearing from his constituents might turn
out to be false, but when they did, when they turned out to be
empty, he just kept the.
Ending the lie anyway, saying he could do that to bring attention
to Springfield's immigration experience.
Yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, okay, so let's look at the lies of the
Year from these guys. They started doing this in 2009 and
their first lie this, the lies of the Year from PolitiFact are
always something to do with Republicans. Always a
Republican. Always there's no there's Joe Biden. Sharpest
attack. This is the best Joe Biden, blah, blah, but no, no,
no, he has to be Republic, the first one in 2009 the first lie
of the Year from PolitiFact was Sarah Palin's saying death
penalty, right? Oh, goodness, yes, got it. And by the way,
death panels became what they are, which is death panels. They
still do them. Yeah, we have them everywhere now every year.
So then you get country. So then there was just a lull of various
weird lies. And then we get soon as Trump shows up, 2015,
lie of the year, Trump's campaign misstatements. Wait,
wait, the lie of the year is a specific is a lie, not a a bunch
of misstatements put into a bag and called lie of the year.
Okay, well, that's okay. Let's let that slide. 2016 Trump again
for saying the term using the term fake news, that's a lie.
That's a lie. Wow. That should be worth term of the year. Is
what it should be, 2017
Trump again, Russian election interference is a made up story.
No, it wasn't made up, even though it was made up, yeah, but
that's, Trump's lie of the year. We can go up to 2019 Trump's
claim that whistleblowers got Ukraine call almost completely
wrong.
What? I don't even know what that means. It was a perfect
goes on. I mean, I could just one year after one couple more,
yeah, uh, let's go to 2021.
Lies about January 6. You know, wasn't an insurrection I tried
to have. You know all this Trump's Trump, Trump, Trump, and
we finally switches over to Kennedy in 2023 out of the blue
vaccine. Vax, once Kennedy becomes a Republican, they
wouldn't Kennedy's been saying the same stuff for 20 years, but
now he's a republican lie of the year. Can say Robert Kennedy's
campaign of conspiracy theories is the the lie of the year.
Again, it's not a single thing. It's a bunch of things. So this
political fact thing that the fact that he even got, again,
another example of NPR uselessness. This is just a
propaganda tool. That's great. I love that. I think, I still
think mine was better sharp as attack, because everybody could
get in on that one. Sharp as attack, that's the best one.
Yes, that would be the lie of the year. Yes, you should have,
that should have been it. We you know, it's just we're so lazy,
but we should do stuff like this. I mean, so here we are.
Everyone's doing lie of the year. They write it in November.
Oh, let's do live the year. So we could take off for Christmas.
Now, we got bird flu. We're just doing a show for you and and
pulling this nonsense apart, but we should be doing this stuff.
We need to do the award show. I told you this years ago, that we
should do the Podcast Awards and some other award shows. It's so
dumb. They have the podcast Hall of Fame. Oh, Adam, would you
please come to Miami in January and and be the host, the emcee
of the podcast, Hall of Fame? I'm like, No, not gonna do that.
But how does it even make you do it for five grand or 10 grand?
No, I wouldn't do it for any grand. No, you wouldn't do it
for any grand. No, no, no, because it makes no sense. The
podcast, how many people were involved in early podcasting?
How this has been going on for 20 years? They've been doing a
Hall of Fame.
By the way, it's only Americans. There's never any other people
in it.
It does, it doesn't make any sense. Podcast Hall of Fame.
No, then we can get you a ticket to the to the pod fest. They
weren't even going to pay for the pod fest. They weren't even
gonna pay for my flight.
But that wasn't the criteria. I'm just like, No, I don't want
to do that. They weren't gonna pay for your flight. No, give
you a ticket to the pod Fest in case you didn't, in case you
missed it. There's no money in podcasting anymore. It's all
dried up, all the
a lot of it is dried up. Yeah? What comes and goes. It's a
cycle, yeah, oh, it'll come back, it'll come back, and it'll
always be some some new format, and some content, you know, some
like, what was the one that was triggered the real serious true
crime, serial, serial, yeah, serial, one shot. It's a one
shot. Is a one, yeah? It was like, one hit.
Wonder it was. It came at the perfect moment everybody was
binging, Breaking Bad on Netflix, like, Oh, this is
great. I can binge remember that binge or binge was binge, binge
watching. It was the word of the year, I'm sure, binge watching.
And then all sudden, along comes audio only, mystery, true crime,
and you couldn't binge listen it. You had to wait until the
next episode The next week, and people liked it. They were
standing around at the water cooler talking, oh, what? What
do you think? Did you Did he do it? Is it true?
And by the way, this also completely discredits the whole
you've got to have video for your podcast to be successful.
That's nonsense. Not a single True Crime podcast does video,
it's all audio. People like it's the number one category for and
women especially, they love it, morbid creatures that they are.
They like true crime. Maybe we should do two crime, True Crime
podcast. He's too much work.
Anyway, I wanted to play this, this interview. Before you play
it, I do have a short shorty, a nine second clip. Oh, okay,
because this is another this PBS and this is bull crap. This is
the clip that is Chris maca.
Oh,
Chris Micah and for the first time in almost 20 years,
Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day.
Some have given it the nickname Chris Micah. No, they haven't.
I've never heard anybody say this wasn't that didn't Adam
Sandler do that in a song? Maybe. I mean, that's possible,
but nobody says Chris Micah, nobody.
Let me see this. It has a Wikipedia PBS giving us this
bull crap. Now it has, it has a it has a Wikipedia entry,
yeah, let me see when this start with Chris MC, by the way,
because someone sent us an email about it. I looked up the form
990 for Wikimedia, the people behind Wikipedia. Oh, yeah.
People are all adamant about what's going on there with their
dei stuff. Do you know how much money they they raked in in 20,
2310s of millions. Try again.
Hundreds of millions. $245
million
yeah. And most of it goes to hating Whitey, yeah, this is a
slush fund. This is a hate there are hate group, so slush it's a
hate group. It's really, it's, it's a slush fund for other
stuff, and they send it all over the world. Yeah, it's not. They
don't even use it for their own servers. They should, like, you
know, this reminds me of the collapse of some sir, almost the
collapse of certain podcasts. Who I'm gonna, you know, they
asked for money, value for our value for value. Money goes to
to the podcast. It pays the bills. We don't take a chunk of
money that people donate to us and then give it to somebody
else. We don't do that. No, God no. It's like, if you want to
give it to them, go give it to them. Why you? What would you
give it to us? To give it to them? Yeah, that's not right,
no. And so this happened with the Adam Carollo, when he was
asking for money for something. Oh, there was the podcast patent
suit. Yeah, the podcast patent suit, yeah. So, so podcasts that
were collecting money for their podcast and then giving it to
him, yeah, well, this is what Wikipedia is doing. Why are they
taking this money instead of just building up their site,
making things better? Well, trust editors giving it to
other. Trust me. This is not coming from people sending in
their $35 to Wikipedia. This is intelligence money.
Wikipedia can't be trusted. This is the primary, this is, no,
they can't this is the primary ingest method for for anyone
fact checking or any AI that is slurping up the internet. No,
this is, this is intelligence operation, $245 million I think
not.
I mean seriously, well,
there's definitely Intel money involved. Now with that, I'd
like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to
you, the man who put the C in, Chris MCCA, say hello to my
friend on the other end, the one and only, Mr. John. C'mon.
Yeah.
Well, in the morning, curry, also in the morning, those ships
see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the motor all
the names of nights out there in the morning,
oh, we're down. Trolls down. 1726,
wow. I was predicting 1600 I thought it would be around 1500
honestly, but I'm surprised. I'm in you know what? These trolls
who are here, we appreciate every single one. There's still
a lot of trolls listening. That's amazing. It's amazing
anybody listens to us.
You think about it, well, there is that aspect. Amazing anybody
listeners?
So damned entertaining. Yeah, well, we do keep getting emails
of people saying, you know, I just feel good after listening
to your show. I hope so I get the news and then you make me
laugh about it. Yeah, that's what we do. We're a comedy show.
Look us up under the comedy heading on Apple podcast.
So these trolls are trollroom.io that's where they you can listen
in. You can join the troll room from there. Or you can get a
modern podcast app, please. It's podcast apps with an s.com and
there you can find pod verse, fountain curio caster, cast O
Matic,
podcast guru, a whole bunch of them, all with modern features,
including those wonderful chapters that Dr Scott does for
us. He does that with the artwork that we get from our
artists, which I'll just go straight to that because
we have no agenda. Art generator.com, part of our value
for value don't steal it. We're gonna sue you for our vibe, our
value for value proposition, which is, we work for you. We
provide this as a service, a we believe it's a valuable service.
We just ask you to send something back in return. People
do all kinds of things for us. We love it when you send us
money so we can pay the bills, as John justice just discussed.
But we also take time and talent as treasure being the third one
and the artists, which now seem to be pretty much prompt
jockeys, but they're out there.
Yeah? Well, yeah, this is what it is, I guess, for now. I mean,
eventually we'll get back to real art. Real art will never go
away. I doubt it. Yeah, what you don't think, you think is going
to be AI for the rest of our lives. We're less it'll be just,
it'd be as when we when it first started off, when it was like
90% real art and 10% AI, it's just flipped. It'll be 90% AI
and 10% real art. It won't, you're right, it won't
completely disappear. It's kind of sad to think about it.
Well, they upload to no agenda Art generator.com
which is still a very valuable service. Sir Park Latour, put
that together for us years and years and years and years ago,
and we still use it
twice a week. And this is where any artist and even prompt
jockeys can upload their art, and we gladly use that as the
album art for our show. We use it for promoting the program. It
looks good in the podcast apps. And we always like to thank the
artists who brought that for us. And I think this was a new
artist, Susanna Leah, did the artwork. Always looking for
something traditional, which Susannah Leah understood very
well. She gave us a Merry Christmas, no agenda. Tree in
the background looked like the balloons, balloons and candies.
I guess there were a number of different Christmas pieces, of
course. John, immediately, was I like the cheesecake? Yeah, the
cheesecake one is really good. But no, then you wanted just the
tip by Francisco Scaramanga, which you thought it was cute.
The girl is biting the snowman carrot nose. Yeah? Okay, John,
like we didn't, we didn't know what that was. All about missing
it, yeah. And by the way, I should mention that I did use
that for the newsletter. It's a very for a scaramonger, because
Cara manga normally uses, it does stuff that has got more
dimensionality. It's not cartoony, like this piece is. I
just thought this piece was extremely well executed by the
AI deliver whatever he's doing there. Yeah, yeah. Well, we knew
exactly what was being insinuated there, and I'd Nix
that. I'll have none of that. Well, I used it anyway, yeah,
well, you can use it on your newsletter. That's fine.
You mixed it because you're a prude. You saw into it things
that didn't exist. It is a carrot. It existed
was unnecessary.
Let's see. We had a couple Grinches, we had Santa slays. We
had what else did we have here? We had and it was nice. There
were other Merry Christmas bits, but a lot of them from Scara
manga, with bits and boobs a lot, and Darren, Darren O'Neill.
It's like Darren's and Scara Mangus. Those two girls in the
Santa outfits with the with the legs, yeah, it looks like
they're using the same software. Oh, those two pieces, Merry
Christmas by O'Neal and cheesecake for whatever. There's
this basically the same piece, yeah, but
it's like we're already two old white guys. I mean, do we really
have to ham it up like that?
This, those guys are, like,
deteriorating in their,
yeah, in their, in their lasciviousness, that way,
lasciviousness, there you got, yeah, we were in the hotel room,
and Christina and Kevin, her her fiance, were coming by to
celebrate Christmas dinner with us. And so I tried to find on
YouTube. I was like, how about just some nice, you know, like,
I want the you log, only want a Christmas.
Scene, and YouTube is filled with videos that are Christmas
scenes, but it's all AI, and you got people jerking around, and
it's so obviously AI, you can't even get a normal, like
Christmas scene, like you used to be able just get to
Rockefeller Plaza. You know, you could see people skating on
Rockefeller Plaza. You can't get that anymore. No, it's all AI
swap.
I feel like culture is going down the drain.
I really do.
Oh, yeah, what can I say? A couple of weeks in Europe, and
next thing you know, you've turned into I know I got to get
back to Texas quick, where things are positive, Texas,
where the conspiracies are thriving, back to the hill
country. Thank you all very much, artists. We appreciate you
very much for for doing this. It's always fun for us after
we've done a show, then sit down and look at the art and laugh.
We do laugh. We laugh a lot of stuff that's just inappropriate.
It's really for us. It's humor for us after the show. So it's
great, and we love having good art
to use for our show to promote it. It really does help.
Of course, we always want to thank everybody who supports the
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Interesting number from bad Brad, Bruce, Kansas City,
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Let me make sure I get that just for so I guess it's going to be
Katrina, Bruce.
I'm just presuming.
Well, are you doing that, I'll go on with Charles Mayfield,
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Pharaoh dot life, yeah, it's, uh, it's basically lard,
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Clip of the Day. Calm.
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good. Number 34567,
switcheroo, incoming in the morning. And Merry Christmas. It
is I Commodore Dalton s Fisher, however, please do not credit
this donation to me. Instead, I'm giving this executive
producership to my dad, Scott the boomer.
Scott the boomer, uh, during this blessed season and his
first Christmas as a Christian, that's interesting. A Boomer
Christian, I can think of no better gift than a good,
thorough deducing for dear old dad,
you've been deduced. I love you, dad. Merry Christmas or jingles
we need. All we need is they're eating the dogs. And if anyone
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God bless us everyone, and thanks for the tax.
Right off. They're eating the dogs. You got it? Boomer. Dad
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You've been deduced. That's how it works. You can donate $5 if
you want, once every week, every show you can donate whatever you
do. But eventually everyone comes around and says, you know,
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JD Elkhorn, Nebraska, three, three, 3.33.
Uh, Horowitz and I were reviewing year end performance
when he suggested it's a great time to invest in the best
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The ROI will be immeasurable.
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first Associate Executive Producer, happy Boxing Day as we
approach the end of 2024 most shows are mailing it in with
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Yeah, I just want to thank Adam and John for bringing fresh,
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of course, is his brother, Steve Jones, who is the clip
collector, and Dave Ackerman, who is all three of them, helped
me immensely during my trip, making sure that I stayed up to
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fellows. Here's some value for the weekly infotainment you
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have really liked the show, especially John. He was laid to
rest in the Texas Hill Country, his favorite place to be. No
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peaceful and joy is Christmas. Rejoice. God is with us. Blaine
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though, even though we don't have an F heart cancer, you've
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and he has a simple note that sent. Simply says, Merry
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dear friend Martin McIntyre, he consistently hit me in the mouth
until I submitted in late 2019 because I realized NPR is full
of crap. COVID happened and I was hooked. Thank you, Martin.
Thank you boys. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Oh, by the
way, Steve is a douche bag.
Jingle, they're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're
eating the people's pets. Timothy Wilkinson, you got it in
Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in,
they're eating the cats. They're eating they're eating the pets.
Of the people that live there,
I love that. Everyone in Europe knows this. They all love it.
It's so good. Well, when we first heard it, you had to fall
in love with it, because the debate was not going that well.
And she was snickering and snickering, and she's looking at
him, and she's making faces, and she's got her hand to her face,
and she's she's doing a great job of
scene stealing during the debate. Got the big smile on her
face and everything, yep, yep. And he's just looking for
something to say to get some some attention to himself. And
he drops this bomb out of the blue and and it just goes to
show that in this day and age, that's what works. But not.
There's no one out there talking about the coconut tree. You
know, there's no memes. And actually, I would say that the
way this got around the most is there were one or two, possibly
YouTube videos where guys were had sampled this. They're eating
the dogs. And I did whole songs about it. Everyone saw those
songs.
Yeah, it was, it was just, it was, it was something to behold,
and it still works. He always gets the last always. Linda Lou
packing, meanwhile, is looking for some jobs karma she wants.
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And we are down to our final Associate Executive Producer, Ed
leboutier. Ed le butier, Tucson, Arizona, in the morning, he
says, kudos to Dame Beth for her meet up in Tucson. Thanks to you
guys for all the great media deconstruction. And that's it.
That's it. Is this, is, is this? David, was that 17? What he
said? It's australian dollar reduce. Do you think 178
91 has to be? I'll read it. David. People in Nara, New South
Wales, 178, 91 which has got to be over 200 I'll do the
calculation, but we will bump him up. Must Be Merry Christmas
to John and Adam from the Hunter Valley, Australia. Thanks for
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They're eating the dogs.
Never gets old,
just never gets old. Never gets old.
Let me see there were a couple other things that we needed to
talk about. Let's get these China clips out of the way. You
got some China clips, all right? I like China. I have a couple
China minerals. China's dominance over the supply of
critical minerals in the spotlight today, the select
committee on the Chinese Communist Party details their
findings and proposed solutions, and today's Melina Weiss cup was
at that meeting on Capitol Hill. She brings us the latest and
they listed their findings after investigating the ways in which
the US is dependent on the Chinese Communist Party for
critical minerals. Why is this important? Because those
critical minerals are used to produce key elements such as
semiconductors, anything from basic consumer goods all the way
up to advanced military technology. So it's a real
problem, the fact that the Chinese Communist Party has
dominance over those minerals. So what they lawmakers did is
they tried to find ways in the US that we can streamline the
production and processing here mine for those minerals and try
to loosen up some of the dominance the Chinese Communist
Party has over them. They're also today introducing three
pieces of bipartisan legislation that is Republicans and
Democrats coming together to try to find solutions in this area,
to help us be more independent in the critical minerals arena.
I spoke to the Chairman John Molinar about their efforts
here. Why is it crucial to address this issue? Here's what
he told me, as well as one of the Democrats that's also on
this committee, listen, what do you think is the most crucial
step that will have the most beneficial outcome? You know, I
think the area of allowing the Department of Interior the
Secretary to do an analysis of what friendly nation.
We can work with who already are mining, who already are
processing, and identifying how we can immediately lessen our
dependence. To me, that's a very good first step, and then we
need to build the stronger infrastructure of doing things
here.
Okay, this morning, by the way, there was a report they're going
after Apple
the Republic of Congo, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or
the Congo for slave labor, slave labor, children. Well, it seems
as if the Rwandans are going into the Congo and stealing
minerals, which are then used in the Apple iPhone. Even though
this is a stretch, it's China. They don't even mention China,
because China is the one that makes the Apple iPhone. It's,
they're not making it in, you know, here in Milpitas.
Well, it's assembled in the USA.
We're not using the minerals here. The minerals aren't going
here, no. So there's something sketchy about this. There's
trying to gouge the apple. I think they're just putting it
well, you know, Apple is on deck to be gouged. Apple is we think,
yeah, yeah. I think they've been gouging their customers for
years. So there you have that. Yeah, but they're on deck to be
usurped by someone. Somehow, something's gonna happen. They
have not had, how I'm gonna use the phrase a moon shot since
Steve Jobs died. You know, that's the stupid Apple vision
Pro, which I like the idea of spatial computing. But no, they
don't really have anything. It's just because they're, they're
Apple intelligence. They can make emojis. Man, I tell you,
every single one of the millennials, so these are all
between 25 and 28 years old at the Christmas Shindig. They love
my flip phone. They're like, this is cool. I want this. They
all wanted that flip phone.
And I'm not sure why exactly
did you ask? Yeah. I said, Why exactly? And I said, Well, it's
different. And everybody, you know, they all, I will say, they
all have set limits on they've removed tick tock. They've all
removed tick tock. It's like, no, no, I had to, I had to get
stuff done. I had to remove tick tock. I was addicted to tick
tock. They say that hands down. And so you can put limits. I,
I'm, I don't know if it's on Android, but you can, on the
Apple iPhone, you can put a, like a two hours per day limit,
and then after the two hours up, you can't use two hours of
Tiktok. No. Instagram.
Oh, even worse. Yeah,
yeah. I'll play part two of this clips. Now there are several
issues at hand here, but one of the main issues that we heard
from all of the lawmakers is the issue of processing. So in a
sense, what happens is that when we do have those minerals, we
send them to China for the processing and then buy them
back. So we're essentially losing money to be able to have
that processing done in China, and at the same time giving the
Chinese Communist Party more control over those critical
minerals. Now, the chairman also listed how dependent we are, so
I'll just give you a couple of examples here. So the Chinese
Communist Party processes 95% of the world's manganese, 73% of
its cobalt, 70% of the graphite, and 3% of global nickel. So you
can see how much of a hand the Chinese Communist Party really
has over those key minerals. One Congressman that I spoke to had
very interesting ideas. He gave an example of lithium and the
innovation that could be used in order to make lithium obsolete,
in a sense, so that we could change the game, change the way
things are working, so that all of the money and research that
the Chinese Communist Party has put into those minerals could be
pointless, and then we could really have the upper hand.
Listen what this Congressman had to say. Maybe, maybe lithium
becomes obsolete. It's not needed because of any material
that can actually do it better than lithium. And then what
you've done is you've changed the paradigm so they stifle it
here, where we do it much cleaner. And so what happens?
The capacity is shipped over overseas, to to China, where
they don't really care about the environment. I mean, all you got
to do is go to China. I was there about seven years ago. I
didn't see the sun for 10 days. Why? Because all the pollution.
No. Brother, hmm, yeah, you know, then get rid of the
lithium and use something different. Yeah. I mean, come
on, what are you gonna use?
They finally, I think they're trying to pass bills now to
outlaw, you know, unapproved or non certified lithium ion
batteries, particularly ones using E bikes, etc, no, because,
you know, New York is like, this stuff is burning down buildings,
yeah. Well, these things are dangerous. They just Yeah, stop.
You know, publishing, what about the climate change agenda?
They're bringing it on themselves. How about
themselves? How about this pedal?
It's the concept, what pedal? Actually? Pedal a bike. Pedal
your bike. Yes, I'm.
Launching this new meme, pedal your bike. You don't need an E
bike. Just pedal. It's good for you. You'll be healthy. You get
your you know, with gear, with the something, there's a
process. It's a mechanical process called gears. No, yes,
you can actually pedal fast. You can pedal faster and faster and
faster with the same basic effort. But who because of
gears. But who are we kidding? John, these are the coffee
Badgers,
the coffee badgers. Badgers, coffee coffee badgers. Yes, it's
a concept called Coffee badging. Yeah, I never heard this,
neither had I but here's a CNBC report on the topic meet Mr. A
every morning. Mr. A strolls into the office at 9am swiping
his badge with perfect enthusiasm. He hits a few
meetings, grabs coffee with colleagues, and keeps the daily
buzz going. But here's the twist, come noon, he sneaks out,
heading home to wrap up his work in comfort. By around five, he's
clocked out. Mission accomplished. Mr. A has
redefined the nine to five in his own terms. And
interestingly, this trend also has an a new trend emerging in
the back to Office push, and that is coffee badging. Coffee
badging is two worlds colliding. It's employers wanting to get
their workers back into the office, and employees desire to
really have more flexibility on the job. And so that's coming
together in this trend of coffee badging. Coffee badging is
happening because workers are using this as a soft revolt
against their return to Office mandates that companies have put
out, and they just like, badge in, have a coffee, check in with
their colleagues, do some work, and then leave their office
early. There it is coffee badging. Why is it called Coffee
badging? Because you use your badge to check in because, you
know, we don't know this anymore, yeah. Well, what's the
guy? Wait,
I have a cup of coffee. But I guess it has, you had to have a
cup of coffee, don't you that? Mean, it sounds like no, no. You
have no. You're misunderstanding the process is you sign in with
your badge every every office. We don't know this anymore,
because we don't have an office.
You walk into the, I know the process, you have a little
badge. Yeah, everyone's checked. And the cool gig, the cool kids,
have a badge on a kind of a spring thing. You pull it out of
a of a thing, and you and then you let it go, and it snaps back
back. Yes. Okay, so you're now registered, because everything
these days is registered, and you know, that's why they have
the mouse movers and all this. Yeah, this is the now, I'm not
exactly sure, but I guess it's somehow different than having a
punch clock. It's the same thing.
Yes, then you get on your bake, a light phone,
and you send some memos from your typewriter, but yes. And
then so you go in, you do a meet. He's checking with her,
hey, hey, good morning. GM, how you doing everybody? Pura Vida,
Okay, how's it going? And you do a meeting. And then at noon, you
triple out, and you go home and you sit on your laptop, or you
have your mouse mover working, that we have no productivity, or
we have too much middle management that doesn't need to
be here. That's probably the real problem. Well, that's the
real deal. But what's what's got to do with coffee
well, because you go in and you say hi to everybody around the
coffee machine. That's so everyone sees your face.
So looks like, you know, we I saw him this morning. Yeah, he's
around. He's probably in his Oh, I see his mouse is moving. He's
in the office.
Okay, yeah, I have another there's a phrase that I heard
over the over dinner, and I want you to tell me if you know this
phrase, what? What is it when a person dips? When a person dips?
Yeah, yeah, this I'm told by Jay and Brandon, oh, everybody knows
this term.
I have to say I am not familiar with the term. I didn't know it.
Either. I don't know. I've never heard it. Is it dipping tobacco?
That's, well, that would be odd. That would be what it should
mean, yeah, yeah, no. It means Leave, leave.
That's dipping you dip.
Yeah. They were talking about Oh yeah. JC and just gonna come
over, then they're gonna dip.
That's what she said. Just says this. And of course, anybody
that says stuff like this at my table, they get a they get a
grilling. I'm not that old,
so I bring it up. What is this supposed to mean? What is this
an idea? Are you gonna start using this kind of street art?
Gotcha Yes, at the table. Well, if you're gonna end up being
grilled about it, yes, and what kind of gang member you're
getting this from, well, you
should tell them is, if you do that, you're a dipshit. There
you go. Actually, there's a dipshit gag that was involved in
the whole thing. But, well, you know who?
Not dipping
is these poor astronauts who are still on the space station, more
than six months after starting what was supposed to be an eight
day mission to the International Space Station. Astronauts Sunita
Williams and her space station family are now preparing to
spend the holidays right there in space. Welcome to the
International Space Station as we get ready for the Christmas
holidays, it's a great time of year up here. We get to spend it
with all of our family up on the International Space Station.
There's seven of us up here, and so we're going to get to enjoy
company together. Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore
were less stuck aboard the ISS back in June, after a leak in
their Boeing spacecraft made their return trip impossible, a
SpaceX resupply mission gave them gifts and fresh ingredients
to make special meals just for the holidays. The pair were
supposed to come home back in February, but a delay in
launching their replacements means they'll actually have to
wait until March or April to come back to Earth. Something is
wrong here. Elon, I agree, but I tell you, the overtime must be
unbelievable.
Elon, you know, had the opportunity to be the hero, to
show to shine all over Boeing to send up a starship and bring
them back home safely. Instead, he sends up hats and a Christmas
tree and a canned ham. You know, I'm thinking there's, there's an
issue with the docking, or that there's been so many maybe this,
maybe this thing is a dud, maybe, maybe they can't dock
anymore.
I have a bad feeling about this.
It doesn't make sense. And yeah, Elon should have brought him
back in February. Should have been done deal that would have
been perfect. Yeah, now they put it off another month or two, not
more than that, march, march or april,
month or two or three.
Okay, on Elon, just for a moment,
we're still the M 5m. Is still trying to break up the bromance
between Elon and President Trump and Jen pasaki, who was clearly
drunk in this clip is adding her part. So now, of course there's
lots of speculation about when his Tell me that's not drunk.
Wow,
plastered. So now, of course there's lots of
speculation. So now, of course there's lots of speculation
about when his this relationship might, as has happened so many
times over the years, with Trump's generals and people,
feels kind of inevitable, right? I mean, the thing is, this is
not going to be the same, though, as Trump casting aside a
Scaramucci or Rex Tillerson, because Elon Musk is the richest
man in the world. He owns a social media megaphone, a
platform where he has over 200 million followers, and we just
saw the power he wields over the Republican Party. He also has
billions of dollars in government contracts. I mean,
we're relying on Space X rockets to get American astronauts to
space and back. This is not an easy relationship to untangle my
point. So yes, I mean, this breakup could happen, but if it
does, and it may take longer than we suspect, I do think if
it does, it's going to be very, very messy.
Wow, that's an in depth report that brought nothing to the
party or the table. Why? But she was, yeah,
it's a lead in to what, by the way, wasn't Elon Musk going to
buy MSNBC, you dopes. Well, that was that. That was a lark that
he put, somebody put out there, and then someone amplified it.
But it all freaked out. I will say it's getting to Trump just a
little bit, just a tiny, tiny bit. As you saw, the President
Elect acknowledged the line that Democrats have really seemed to
latch on to during the budget negotiations. President musk,
take a listen to one response that the President had,
President Elect at Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine,
Ukraine, Ukraine, all the different hoaxes. The new one is
President Trump has ceded the presidency to Elon must? No, no,
that's not happening.
But Elon has done an amazing job. Isn't it nice to have smart
people that we could rely on?
I think it's getting to him just a little bit well, they they
know how to needle fraud him, and they've been doing it, and
they don't do it just a little bit, they all team up. And I
think it, I mean, he knows what's going on, but he's
it does. But I think it bothers him, Chris, it does, but it has
been fantastic because Elon takes all the arrows and he just
sits in Mar a Lago. I think Elon is a guy.
That is the perfect foil. Fantastic. He can put up with
it. He's Asperger's, you know, plus plus one. And he's like,
you know, I don't seem to care. He's he's more impervious to
complaints than than Trump is, speaking of Asperger's plus.
This was a very interesting interview with our Pennsylvania
friend,
Senator John Fetterman, which, I think what was this on, was
this, I think it was ABC. And I don't even know if, if he knows
what he was saying, because they cut this, you know, because he's
very his speeches, although his speech is better, he just goes
off the rails. He does the weave, but never comes back. And
they edited this. There must have been, I stopped counting
after 1010, edits in this one piece, and he's like, Oh, I'm
kind of, you know, we got to stop this nonsense. He's pro
Trump. It was, I thought he is really interesting. I'm just a
regular Democrat. I'm not leaving my party, but I'm not
sure why some of the things that I've chosen to do, like meeting
with nominees and having views that might be more aligned with
some of the Republican side, I think that's part of politics.
Like I've been warning people like, You got to chill out, you
know, like the constant, you know, freak out. It's not
helpful. So, you know, pack a lunch. Pace yourself.
He hasn't even taken office yet, because I'm not rooting against
him. If you're rooting against the president, you are rooting
against the nation and and I'm not ever going to be where I
want a president to fail so country first. I know that it's
become maybe like a cliche, but it happens to be truth. You have
a singular political talent.
It's undeniable. Trump, you know, he had the energy and
almost a sense of fearlessness to just say all those kinds of
thing and people, it's, it's undeniable that it has an
entertaining aspect for that too. I never believed that it
was about fascism, and for me, that made it difficult for
Harris said that he was a fascist. Well, it's like, that's
a prerogative. I mean, but, but it's not a word that I would
use, because you put a lot of Democrats, especially in my
state, that I know, and I happen to love, people that are going
to vote for Trump, and they are not fascist. And also fascism.
That's not a word that regular people, you know, use that, you
know, I think people are going to decide who is the candidate
that's going to protect and project, you know, my version of
the American way of life. And that's what happened.
Unbelievable. He's, he's, I'm glad you got that clip. He's an
okay guy. He's an okay guy. The one point he makes in there,
which I didn't consider at the time, but it should have been
considered, which is, he's right about the word fascist. Nobody
knows what that means. Yeah, they think they do.
You know, there's just, it's just like, it's a term from
World War Two and before, I mean, it became a thing in the
20s, and it became a movement Fauci out of Italy, actually.
And then it became a party, and then it became part of the Nazi
ethos, and say. And then it disappeared from use, and it
hasn't been used since, in any real sense, ever since. And so
what 20 year old or 30 year old even knows what it means or
cares? Well, the Democrats are pounding it out fascism fashion
lie of the year. It should have been. But no,
yeah, he's, he's got a he's very common sense. Ish, yeah. And by
the way, the Italian guys, 40 and over, they understand what
Fascism is, because they say the European Union, Brussels
fascist. And they're right,
that's the definition of fascism, right there, yeah.
Well, the Italy's really, you know, was the foundation of
fascism. And so they would, they invent have it in their culture
and in their history. They invented it. They know what it's
about. They invented it. They did good at it. It was and by
the way, it was an academic movement out of the
universities. You know, we went to a winery while we were in
Florence. We went to the Castillo de versano, yeah, and I
did not know that the Verrazano guy who has the castle there
where they still do Chianti wine, that he's the guy that
discovered the Hudson Bay, and that's the Verrazano Narrows
Bridge is named after him. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, would
you and you know how we, how we, how we ended up
dead? Yes. Do you know how.
Do you know how he ended dead? No, you get
well, he went on to discover the Bahamas, and then there were
cannibals, and they ate him.
Well, that's what Joe Biden got that story.
They tell you that on the tour they have behind the Bahamians,
Bahamians cannibalism going on, and they ate this guy. That's
the story. They're looking for, an Italian meal. Was that the
deal? Yes, pasta. Here we go get this Verrazano guy.
So while they're while Fetterman is all lovey dovey with Trump,
they the Congress the house decided to screw gates, who's
been doing some screwing of his own, a new house ethics report
is out accusing former congressman Matt gates of
violating state laws regarding prostitution, statutory rape and
drug use. The 37 page report finds that gates paid women for
sex or drugs on at least 20 occasions, and includes text
message screenshots where gates asked women to bring, quote, a
full compliment of party favors hotel. The committee says that
this was a code word for ecstasy or other drugs. Another exchange
shared by the committee an unnamed woman and gates seem to
be arguing over pay. When she asks gates, quote, so I'm not to
be taken care of for last week, Gates respond saying, quote, I
gave you 250 today and about last week says, quote, You gave
me a drive by now, Gates is striking back at the report on
his ex account, hosting or reposting about it more than 30
times since its release, writing in part, quote, they did this to
me in a Christmas Eve Eve report, and not in a courtroom
of any kind where I could present evidence and challenge
witnesses. Trump, meantime, continues to stand by gates late
last night, Gates posting this picture with the caption, I got
a great note from President Trump. The note is written on a
printed headline of the story and reads, Matt, very unfair.
So it was like $100,000
for 10 escorts.
Yes, there was a that that is kind of distressing, eight
grand, but the other there's other 100 grand. Yeah, there's a
there's other aspects of the story that should be noted.
Yeah, and there's three of them.
First off, the woman who accused gates, dude said she was 17 and
accused accused gates. She's, I'm, according to one news
report, and the reporter seems to be a real guy who used to
work for Associated Press, claims she's actually in jail
for pulling the stunt of sexual accusations. Oh, interesting.
And she's in the slammer, okay? And so there's that one thing.
The second thing is that lot of this is set up so gates can sue
Congress over the release of this information. Interesting,
because they're not supposed to do so there's a lawsuit that's
possible. And if this woman's in prison, I think that could, that
could go through. And the third thing is, Marjorie Taylor Green
has come out, and I think reasonably So, and says, if
we're going to start releasing this sort of thing, let's
release all these. We have a ton of these things backed up. Of
all the bribes that have been going on from Congress have paid
off, you know, pages and bookers, $27 million yeah, it's
some huge amount. It's a huge amount. If you're going to
release this one report, let's release all the reports and
later, let it go. Yeah, and I think she's right. Good idea.
That would be fun, good for the show. That'd be great fun for
the show. And I bet you'd be great for this show, bitch. And
Nancy Pelosi has a couple of them on her name, you wouldn't
be surprised. Yes. And then there's this, this report, which
I'm troubled by both parties in our country, about this, Donald
Trump's team criticizing President Biden after his
decision to commute the sentences of most federal death
row inmates to life in prison, a spokesperson for Trump's
transition team saying, quote, these are among the worst
killers in the world, and this abhorrent decision by Joe Biden
is a slap in the face to the victims, their families and
their loved ones. President Trump stands for the rule of
law, which will return when he is back in the White House after
he was elected with a massive mandate from the American
people, early yesterday, the White House announcing Biden is
taking 37 people off a federal death row, not commuting, three
individuals, one of two brothers responsible for the Boston
Marathon bombing, Dylann Roof who killed nine people at a
historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and
Robert Bowers, who killed 11 at Pittsburgh Tree of Life
synagogue. In a statement, Biden pushed back against the use of
the death penalty at the federal level, saying, quote, make no
mistake, I condemn these murderers. Grieve for the
victims of their despicable acts, and eight, for all of the
families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable
loss. And good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new
administration resume executions that I halted the.
This is so troubling, because on one hand, you have the Democrats
and Biden with a moral issue,
saying, Hi, we can't kill people, but we all want
abortion. And then, yeah, this has always been the classic
irony, both the Democrats, the Republicans, yes, because the
Republicans are pro life, except when it comes to executions,
yes, like, how does the Democrats are pro death? Except
when it comes to executions, it's just like, what? And so
people pick a side and then Biden screws this, I think is
that just some other people that came on and gave testimony about
the testimony, they came out and discussed this on these shows.
And it's like, if Biden is going to do this, because he's so
adamant about the death penalty, why did he leave the three guys
still on death row? Yeah, if you're gonna do it, you you let
everybody off. You don't have you don't pick three guys as
well. You know, these guys just said I drive draw the line with
them.
It just doesn't make any sense. I mean,
it's against my morals, any kind of death. But if you're going to
do it, give us the television, right? So we can broadcast live.
But you've always wanted that. You know that I want to
broadcast billionaire move, that's right. We want the the
television, right? So the executions and the abortions,
it'll end people's thirst for death forever. But that's
probably true. Ratings it's a positive thing to ratings
bonanza. I'm telling you, it would be great they have that.
They used to do, that they used to have the executions in the in
the in the town square. Yeah, they did. Yeah, I know. Then
we're gonna hide it. Now, hide it. So I have a clip that's
interesting. Now, I don't know that this is true. I don't it's
it looked like it was a PBS clip, I think because they
showed the video, and this is distressing. And at the same
time, I like to see it done to somebody do a scientific version
of it instead of this random thing. It could be bull crap,
but it doesn't surprise me if it is true. This clip is the lizard
DNA clip.
Okay, I wanted to see what would happen if I sent my pet lizard
DNA into 23 at me, and so, with the help of my wife, we
extracted enough saliva to send off in the mail. We were so
excited to see the results. After about three months, we
were shocked. My lizard was 51% Ashkenazi Jewish. He was also
48% West Asian.
This was really interesting. They also gave us a little bit
of his background and his history, what he liked to eat,
etc,
let us know which animals. Yeah, I don't believe in these DNA
tests anymore, ever since we sent off two separate tests for
our dog and they came back wildly different. It's I don't
trust it. I think is bogus too, but I don't I can believe that
they'd send a lizard saliva in and get Ashkenazi Jew, which,
apparently everybody in the world turns out to be a certain
percentage of that. Yes, and that doesn't surprise me, since
the company is founded by the woman who is married to an
Ashkenazi Joe. I mean,
there you go, but it's 23 they're not even in business
anymore.
I think they're still doing testing. Oh no. Why would anyone
say it doesn't mean they're not bankrupt, but whatever the case.
Okay, so we heard, once again, this is 2024 the hottest year on
record for climate change due to climate change. And it was
interesting to see that it had not snowed in the Alps, in the
portion of the mini Alps where we went with for my brother in
law's birthday party, there was snow there for the first time in
five years, but it still is still the hottest year on
record, and they were trying to keep it up over there on NBC.
It's the picture perfect Hollywood holiday, a white
Christmas full of snow and wonder movies like It's a
Wonderful Life, Merry
Christmas, Home Alone,
elf and countless more. And before the silver screen came
Silver Bells, White Christmas and other iconic songs
connecting snow and Christmas in our collective American psyche.
But now the idea of a white Christmas may become a thing of
fiction this week. Mostly everyone, coast to coast,
experiencing warmer than average temperatures, a big reason for
the difference climate change. Climate change typically the
highest chances of a white Christmas in the US are in the
Upper Midwest, Adirondacks and northern New England, and in the
West, higher elevation, Sierra mountain ranges. But climate
change is continuing to drive up temperatures across the nation.
Just last year, the National Weather Service.
Service reported only about 17% of the lower 48 experienced a
white Christmas with one inch or more of snow on the ground, the
lowest number since measuring that started in 2003 some of the
biggest cities up north, like Washington, DC, Philadelphia and
New York City haven't seen snow on Christmas day since 2009
the Environmental Protection Agency studied why, and says in
almost 80% of locations, they're getting less snow and more rain.
But whoops, some might find a great news either way, the
National Weather Service office out of New York, officially
declaring it is a white Christmas.
First time since 2009
there's a tweet. So they actually sent people out to
measure at Central Park this morning at 7am and for those of
you not familiar, there is a technical definition of a white
Christmas. You've got to have one inch of snow on the ground.
And again, this is all for bookkeeping. It can be relative.
I mean, if it's me and I look out the window and I see some
snowflakes flying around. I'm calling it a white Christmas,
but this is for the books, first one that we've had since 2009
and actually in oh nine, we had two inches of snow on the
ground.
So due to climate change, it snowed, I guess.
What a crock. It really is. What? I guess people don't
believe it anymore. It's just too bad, but we're spending so
much money on it.
All right, to get this to wrap this, show up, John, I see you
have them, so I
guess some
clips. But I mean, I could push through these around, because I
have some I have a couple of news. Well, I wanted to play
that. Yeah, I have two other ones. I got a couple of tick
tock clips. I gave you the G list. Yeah, I know you did, but
you didn't get cued to do that. You just did it.
You didn't press the button. I know I got this button here, and
I didn't press I just want to play the climate mammoth found.
I think this is interesting, because you talk about climate
change. I had a climate clip. I should have seen it. I should
have seen it. You're right. The climate mammoth story, it's
important. It's big. Everyone's talking about it. Scientists in
Siberia have unearthed what they say may be the best preserved
body of a wooly mammoth ever found. The 50,000 year old
remains of the female baby mammoth are complete with flesh,
skin and bones. She's believed to have been just a year old
when she died, they found her in the melting permafrost, which
has been accelerated by climate change that's led to more
prehistoric discoveries in recent weeks, including the
35,000 year old mummified body of a saber tooth kitten, also in
Siberia, it was so well preserved, a lead researcher
said its fur was, quote, surprisingly soft due to climate
change. Climate change is great. There shouldn't be petting dead
animals. You get bird flu that way. Don't pet the dead animals.
People stop it.
I thought climate change, that was a good that's good side of
climate change. Why they don't see it as a good positive. And
it was a kitten. It was a wooly metal what was it? A Saber Tooth
kitten. Kitten. Saber Tooth kitten. That's a new one Saber
Tooth kitten. And now I have this one other clip I'd like to
get out of the way, which is the Ukraine stolen Russian money.
Clip, oh boy. Officials in Ukraine say they've received the
first billion dollars in promised loans from the United
States, backed by proceeds of frozen Russian assets. Appears.
Brian Mann reports from Kyiv that the funding comes as part
of a $50 billion loan plan created by g7 leaders last
summer. Ukraine's Prime Minister, Danish mahal said on
social media, the first billion dollars have arrived. That's out
of 20 billion in loans expected from the US, with an additional
30 billion in support slated to come from other big industrial
g7 countries, including Britain and Canada, we thank our
American partners and the World Bank for this important step
toward justice. Mahal said the arrangement allows countries to
support Ukraine's economy and military with massive loans,
with payback coming from revenue from Russia's overseas assets
frozen after the 2022 invasion, Russian officials have condemned
the arrangement as fraudulent, posting on social media that
loans and other support for Ukraine will prolong the war.
So what do they do with this money? Stealing money? I just
find it deplorable, yeah, but they're going to spend it on war
stuff, on us.
Well, I don't know, maybe I hope so.
All right, so I'm gonna play, I got three talk clips I can play
three. Okay, yeah, is that too many mobile let's see how they
do. Okay, well, let's start with the one, the trans girl. I don't
know if it's a girl or a guy, a guy being a girl or girl being a
guy. I guess it's a girl. You.
That is trans somehow. But whatever the case, she hates
now, hates her dad because he voted for Project 2025 which I
didn't know is on the ballot. You know, I had voted in this
last election. I looked and I didn't see a vote there for
Project 2025 but I guess maybe in some areas there was. Let's
see what she has to say. Um, I took yesterday to be angry and
miserable, and I also took yesterday to make the decision
to block my father, who will still end up seeing this. So,
hi, Dad. And yes, I did block him because of who he voted for,
because he knows that I am trans, and he knows that I have
had two abortions, and he still voted for Project 2025 Which to
me, is reprehensible. I have my husband who loves and supports
me to the ends of the earth. I have my friends who love and
support me to the ends of the earth, and I have other family
members who love and support me to the ends of the earth, and I
genuinely do not need anyone else. I realize this is
something not everyone is able to do safely, and I'm very
grateful for my ability to do that safely. I cut my mother off
until the day she died, and I can and will do that again.
I find it also that terrible. I find it very sad
that she's a sad these people are all sad. Yeah, there's
another good example. This is the Christmas candy lady.
Christmas candy lady, okay, I just walked some Christmas candy
that my neighbors make every year and leave on people
people's porches. I just walked it back over to their house and
stuck it on their porch and walked away. That's unlike me,
but
they've had their giant Trump take America back again flag up
for months.
They know my daughter's transgender. I've tried talking
to them about it, kindly and gently, asking them not to do
something that would basically destroy my child, and they
didn't care. So at this moment in time, I feel that it would be
really hypocritical of me to accept a gift from them. I don't
care that it's Christmas, okay. Me Christmas every day. Give my
daughter the gift of safety, a bathroom she can use in her name
and her gender. How about that? Give her that,
and then you can do all the candy you want, until then you
can take your candy back again. You know, the common theme here
is narcissism. This is the common theme. These these people
are narcissists. It's all about them. It's not about her
daughter and the other one's not about her. It's about her. And
I, should, I should, you know? So we were at breakfast at the
hotel in Florence, and, and we're sitting down and, and
there's a whole bunch of people there. It's a busy, you know,
it's a buffet breakfast. And right next was this table with
mom, dad and two kids. And these kids, they're, you know, they're
noisy. They're running around. You know, which would you ever
let your kid run around in a restaurant? No, no, of course
not. You say, shut up. Shut up. You're bothering people. So the
dad is just looking into space while Mom is on her phone. The
whole time
she's completely oblivious to the kids, to her husband, and
then I think the father said, maybe one thing, hey, is Be
quiet. And then it switched and then she was off looking into
space, and he was on his phone.
I mean, it's there's something inherently narcissistic about a
generation that's grown up with phones. And by the way, why are
you putting this on tick? Tock,
you know, the big question, yeah, I think you, you that's a
very interesting observation, is, I've always felt the same
way. Why are you narcissism, defining narcissism, why are you
putting this on tick? Tock. Why? Exactly, what do you? What does
it accomplish? Well, here, well, it's narcissism, and people pay
attention to you and post comments like, oh, girl,
big thing. And Tina was showing this to me, the big thing this
holiday season, the Christmas cheer, is a post that goes like
this. This is a really difficult post. This is really difficult
for me to tell you. And then it's, you know about, you know,
my mom died, my dog died, my sister died, you know, I lost my
job. It's like, why are you doing this? And I can only
conclude the same thing, it's narcissism, and they thrive on
getting the you know, you're a victim. And by the way, it's
mainly white women who have these horrible stories, and it
always this is really difficult, and they're crying, but I think
that just they they don't have any victim cards, so they need
to be a victim by something horrible. And you know what
horrible things happened in your life? It happens you.
But they need to put it on tick tock, or on reels or x these
days, everything has the same video scrolling behavior, and it
has something to do with very, very deep narcissistic behavior.
I
think you can blame the phones. Since you mentioned women, I do
have the same thing only as a guy, uh huh. And of course, you
can visualize what this guy looks like. Do I need to
visualize him? Does there's always this kind of piggy like
face and all these people, the women and the men, but this guy,
this is the dude who's done crying. Oh gosh, okay, dude, I'm
done crying. My sadness is over. My anger has set in.
I am a very petty person, and I am very proud of that little bit
about myself, actually. And so I say this in the most
disrespectful way possible. I don't care if you are my family,
I don't care if you're my friend. I don't care if we've
been friends our entire lives, you can literally go fuck
yourself if you voted for Donald Trump, if you are so sad about
your groceries being expensive, get a better fucking paying job.
Do better in life, get a fucking education. Do something because
you're fucking stupid, and I hope you go jump off of a
fucking bridge. Okay, we need warnings for these clips because
kids listen to show with their parents, and it's all, I don't
care. I yeah, you're, you know, nailed it with the NAR. It's all
narcissistic, yes, and it's pathetic. All right, let's play
the logged in girl. Because I saw this one, I thought this was
pretty okay now that now, now we switch gears. I liked her. I
like so there. That's funny. You saw it, yeah. So we switched
gears here. Instead of bitching and moaning about Trump Yes, or
or having to disown your parents because the way they voted,
because you, you know you, they have to vote the way you want.
This is a form of this is the same. This is also, I think,
narcissistic, but it's but the target is different. And it's
actually quite funny. I am so tired of logging into things.
I'm
tired of it. I can't believe I'm gonna have to log into things
for the rest of my life. Just let me see my things. My things
are right there. Just be logged in. Could we just be logged in
for once? And don't, don't get me started on the Keep me logged
in check box. Okay, this is the closed elevator doors button all
over again. I know bullshit when I smell it. If I ever see the
person that programmed that little Jack box, it is
absolutely on site. I just want to be logged and all you cyber
security people that told them, that told the websites that we
need to be changing our passwords every five minutes.
You're next. I don't care if that makes me safer, I will go
ahead hack my shit. You're gonna hate what you find. Okay, I just
would rather be logged in, and if one of you smart ass little
punks comes into my comments and tells V I should be using a
password manager that, oh, the keychain will fix all of this.
Okay, I wish Bucha this can't be the future. Oh,
I liked her. I liked her.
Yes, that was pretty good. Okay, we finished with that. The keep
me logged in box is kind of a hoax after grade. That thing
rarely works for me either.
It works once in a while. Yeah, people don't. It's the closed
elevator door button, which is usually not hooked to anything
exactly I'm gonna show my school by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be
fun.
We do have some meetup reports coming and a rundown of the
meetups that are on the way. And of course, everyone wants to
stick around for John's famous Tip of the Day. But first we're
going to thank every single producer who supported us
financially in our value for value model, $50 and above.
Sorry, your excuse, but I did. By the way, you were you snapped
close the spreadsheet. I know I had clicked. I closed the by the
way, it shows how fast we get back online. I had clicked the
instead of shrinking the window, you click the disconnect button.
I disconnected. I didn't even see it.
Wow, clean feed. Man, those guys are good again. It's beautiful.
Well, we do have a few people to thank, starting with Brian shop
in Haysville, Kansas, 123451, of our best numbers, yes, uh.
Uh, John acrylic,
uh, acrylic crelic project, I'll say Crowl dick. Crowl dick. He's
in North port, New York, and he gave $102
switcheroo donation. He gave twice, and one switcheroo is for
Anthony krajik, and the other ones for Peter. Well, that's
nice. Yeah, that was very nice. That's cool. That's cool. Bro.
Name Patricia Worthington. She's in Miami, Florida. She's an old
friend. 100 bucks. Merry Christmas, she says. Jason
marurer in Vancouver, Washington, $100 smartest place
in the world to live. I Kevin MC you don't have to pay state
income tax. You know, to pay sales tax by driving across the
bridge to Portland. Nice. Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North
Carolina. There he is,
808 boobs. He's the Archduke of lunar lover of America and
boobs. Eric Mackey in Blairsville, Georgia, 808
or twos ferry Valparaiso, Indiana, 8006.
You know what that means, Merry Christmas or something.
Uh. Brian Kaufman in Scottsdale, Arizona, 7575 Dame Rita in
Sparks, Nevada, 6733
uh. Matthew elwart in or Weatherford, Texas, 6006 6733
jiggly balls, if I if I'm not correct, if I'm not mistaken,
yeah, something like that, yeah, yeah. It was never lost. No.
Never caught on, never caught on. I wonder why certain things
don't catch on. 606 kind of catches on us. Small boobs.
Zachary Maywood in Los Angeles, California, 5555 Cameron Ling in
North Branch, Minnesota, 5510
uh. Susan sarin in nunnum, nunnum, Netherlands. Nun him.
New Name, noon him. There you go. Noon him $55 and
by the way, everyone's wishing us a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year. So she and we love it. Or he? Robert,
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it's also the net. Sir lineman of the net. Raleigh Hawk, yes.
Samantha, lumen do in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 5272
and everyone's wishing us a merry Christmas. Uh, Steve Myers
in Williamstown, New Jersey, 5272
Alexa Delgado in Aptos, California. That's a $50
donation. And the following are all $50 donations, name and
location next to Steven Jeanson in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Jeffrey phrase in Moraga, oh Moraga should come to the
meetups in Albany. Moraga, California. Melissa Alvarez in
Ponte Verda Beach, Florida. Brett Denton in Boise. Samuel
Canaday in North Riverside, Illinois. Amy galinas In bury in
Washington, right by the airport.
George W in La burnia, Texas. Brian emman Heiser in Lancaster,
California. Keith Hubbard in Plymouth, Minnesota,
were worn out night. In Calexico, California, worn out
night. He's on San Felipe San Philip Central, never mind.
Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington, and last on the
list, good old sir Greg in Newport, North Carolina. That's
our
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three times that you'll always remember.
We congratulate Dylan Lang, who turned 33 on the 20th and Sir
Yogi wants to wish his team Janice a very happy birthday.
She turned 66 today, and we say happy birthday to both of you
from the best podcast in the universe,
no title changes, no nights, no dames. We just go straight into
the meetups. And as
we wind up the year, the no agenda meet ups are still going
strong, people hanging out together, human to human, Mano,
a mano, woman, oh, a mono it's what you need. Your connection.
It always gives you protection. These people you meet at the
meetups will be your first responders in any type of
emergency, like the grid going down. And here is a report from
the ITM brunch. Hi. This is Alex happy in Virginia. We're in
Hopewell. Trains, good, planes, bad. Hi. This is Rosalynn from
King George. Shout out to blonde squad, plus Trisha. And let's
see what 2025 has in store for us. Hey guys, chicken, Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Hey, Jeff from Springfield,
happy Merry Christmas. John and Adam in the morning and boys,
thank you for your courage. Go to Morgan Froy vinackton Ed from
Stanley, Virginia. ITM Marshall from logos Hill, Virginia.
Christopher and King George happy to be at our first meetup
in eight months. Hey. This is Sir William of West.
Pennsyltucky from Alexandria. Trains, good, drones, bad this
Tom Stark weather. I have not been at a meet up in more than
six months, and this recharged me.
Yes, you get recharged from the meetup. You get recharged by
hanging out with human beings, put down the phone, lift your
head, go to a meetup, as they did in Los Banos, California,
for the resist, we much meetup. This is Commodore sir Robertson
of two sticks at the resist. We much meet up at me and EDS in
Los Banos, sir Montague here, having a great time with great
people and great pizza. All right. This dude named Ben,
named Ben Duke of San Francisco, getting ready for the eventual
disclosure or Project BLUE bank. This is Sir recalcitrant, crazy
Steve the second, and I just want to wish my wife Rose a
happy 17th anniversary as of yesterday. Yes, Adam and John,
we got together the same year. You two dudes created the best
podcast in the universe, and we never had a fight.
Actually, we have and I always want
Merry Christmas in the morning.
Very nice to hear lovely that meet up started this morning in
Dallas. Fort Worth the mid cities meet up at 1130 as the
Bourbon Street Bar and Grill. So I hope to get a meet up report
from them for Sunday, the Fort Wayne. See, this is for, I'm
sorry, my mistake, there's nothing, nothing today. That's
for Saturday. There you go. So that will be taking place 1130
and that's in Bedford, Texas, the Fort Wayne club, 33 year
end. Man and cheese meetup, man and cheese meetup, 333 at Casa
grill and bar in Fort Wayne, Indiana. That should be a good
one. And then on Sunday, New Year's Eve. December 30, well,
we will be doing a show. Is Sunday New Year's Eve?
No, Sunday is not New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is New
Year's is Monday, Monday,
no. New Year's Eve is Tuesday, Tuesday. Well, these guys are
nuts. Oh, I see what they call into New Year's Eve Eve.
You're You're confusing the podcaster, New Year's Eve Eve
and I like pizza. Steve, that's the whole meet up. Title, 330 on
Sunday. Bald man brewing in Eagan, Minnesota. Oh, that's
Steve bien and stra he's the he's our pilot. Go to hang out
with him. He has lots of cool stories also coming up in the
new year, Raleigh, North Carolina, Colorado Springs. We
have Ronan Park, California, Yukon, Oklahoma, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Eagle, Idaho, Keene, New
Hampshire, South slogan, British Columbia, Scandinavia,
Charlotte, North Carolina. Tri Cities, Washington, adventura,
Florida, Rockville, Maryland. I used to live in rockville or
near rockville, Albany California. Hey, John, February
1, Albany, Albany California. That's near you. You should go.
Are you going? Huh? You go? Oh yeah, I'll be there. Cool. 23rd
Orlando, Florida. This is February. Then March st,
Petersburg, Florida, safe and in the Netherlands. March 29 may
18, wow. Go to no agenda meetups.com and get the full
list of every single no agenda meetup that's taking place.
These are producer organized. It's like Ted.
Walks only a lot cooler and you can get drunk. No agenda,
meetups.com. If you can find one near you, start one yourself.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and
days.
Feels the same.
It's like a party. And
at this moment in the show, we like to select the ISO that
we'll be using to close out the show. Once again, I'm falling
down on the job, doing very poorly with my with my ISOs, but
I do have one, just one from an earlier clip we played no no and
double No.
That's really all I've got. That's not always pathetic. I
got better ones. It's pathetic. Well, I know you got better
ones. You can. I have one that I took the original and then I
edited it so it'd be shorter. Oh, okay, but I have two
versions of the same clip. Okay, all right. And so it's one and
two. Is this show over one? Merry Christmas Happy, Hanukkah
happy, New Years, the show is over. It's too long. It won't
fit in this five seconds. It won't fit in the outro. When I
have it down as four seconds, well, let's speed it up. Okay,
Merry Christmas Happy, Hanukkah happy, New Years, the show is
over. Okay,
it's a contender.
I'll take it,
yeah. And what else? Two seconds, yeah, that'll do.
That'll do. Okay, let's try these other two and see if
they're better. I got done, yep, okay, we are done. Not bad. And
then overall, ready? No, it can't be over already. No, I
think Merry Christmas. Happy, Hanukkah happy. New Years, the
show is over. I think that's the winner. And now, ladies and
gentlemen, time for the top of the show. John's Tip of the Day.
Sometimes battle. Sometimes
Adam, which is part of the tip of the day, seems a new segment
is the complaining about the previous tip of the day
discussion. Oh, who does this? Who's I do, I guess. But who's
complaining? Who's complaining? Who's Oh, well, we have, we have
Puerto Rican listeners, ah, and they're complainers, hey, oh
yeah, yeah, they're complaining about a lot of stuff the Puerto
Ricans complained this note is kind of interesting. This came
from one of the complainers, Carlos, and he complains about
the Carlos the complainer, huh? Carlos the complainer? Yes. His
last name starts with c2 so it's going to be very good. Carlos,
the complainer, uh, talks about Adobe. Goy, Goya, Adobe, the
seasoning is Puerto Rican in origin. And it should be
mentioned, it's Puerto Rican and and he went on and on. He him
and two other guys have mostly complained bitterly and but
Carlos, I think, is the one who said, Mexican foods no good.
It's tasteless, and all they do is put hot sauce on everything
and and of course, then another guy from Puerto Rico says, Well,
you know the problem with the Goya Adobo,
I said to everybody that just giving a tip for a spice. I
don't care the details here, but Okay, all right. So they go on
and on about they should be not crediting Puerto Rico. But in
this note, he said, I went back and forth with Carlos more than
once. And he said
he talked about the adobo, then he said on a different issue,
you can call the company American. He's talking about the
company started in Puerto Rico, or supposedly, or the guy came
from Puerto Rico. It's a New York company. I'm part of a
majority of the people of Puerto Rico who want to become a state
of the USA. Yeah, in Puerto Rico, we are born American
citizens. We have the same passport as you do in the
States, and there is no such thing as Puerto Rican
citizenship. That's correct. We are subjected to the same
federal laws and have federal courts here. The main difference
is that we don't pay federal taxes. Yes, that's it, which is
attractive to millionaires of the states that more that come
here more to avoid paying federal income taxes and receive
excellent benefits of not paying or just paying a low local
income tax. Another issue is that we can't vote in the
presidential elections, but we can vote in the primaries of the
GOP and the DMC. Yes. Our DNC, we don't vote in the election of
the Commander in Chief, but we serve in the armed forces. Yes.
So the thing is, now see, so if you want to become a state, but
you don't have to right now. You don't pay federal income tax.
What are you complaining about? Shut up already so you could
vote for the president. That's a swap I'd make. You got a good
deal, as far as I'm concerned.
So I now the end appeal, of course, doesn't start new
thread, yes, but Carlos is of the group.
Wants to become a state. And I think, Well, I think you said, I
admire our Puerto Rican listeners. I guess there's quite
a few of them, yeah, because if three of them wrote in, that
means there's at least 300 that probably Yeah, agree, and we'll
let you in if you pay taxes and back taxes.
I think it got a good deal going. But I know a lot of
people who went to Puerto Rico during COVID, and they stayed,
they never came back. They loved it. Yes, it's supposed to be
gorgeous. A lot of trash. I hear, yeah, garbage. They can't
seem to figure out what to do with it. They don't have a
federal garbage pickup. Anyway, we love you guys. We love you
guys. So this week's tip is from nail tech. It's the nail
bandage, instant nail bandage. Whoa, got it? Redundant. Name is
it? If get it, Amazon is six bucks and 30 cents, which is
screwball price, but so you crack a nail. Now, Mimi has her
own way of doing this, but I these things work great. You're
cracking nail, which I did because I opening a can of the
liquid death, I might add,
I cracked the nail and the on the can, and so I it wishes a
pain in the ass, because you got the catches on everything. You
know what I'm talking about. And so you put these little, it's a
little piece of plastics very they're hard to get off their
packaging, and some screwy product, but you get this little
piece of plastic and put it over the nail, and it can't see it.
It's completely invisible, but it covers up the it seals the
little the crack of the nail. And I recommend this highly.
Now, Mimi has a she told me this is crap. And what she likes to
do is, you got a crack nail, you put super glue, yes, super glue
on the gun the nail, and then you coat it with clear nail
polish. And if it's a real bad crack, you can put a very thin
piece of fiberglass over your nails and do the same thing,
glue it on. And I'm thinking, I don't think so. These little
patches are great. They work fine. So that's my tip once
again. What are they called? What is this called? This nail
bandage? It's available on Amazon by nail tech Tek. I have
a tip of the day request
I had for the longest time, and I think I bought it on an
airplane, and I can't find it anymore. I had a scale that you
use to weigh your baggage.
So you put, you hold it in your hand, and that has the little,
the little digital readout, and then you clip it onto you hook
it onto your luggage handle, and it tells you exactly how much
your luggage weighs, which is handy, particularly with, you
know, I don't want to be that guy who's unpacking his suitcase
at check in, and I can't, for the life of me, find them
anymore. Wow, I'd never heard of such a thing, but it's a great
idea for a product and be very easy to make nowadays with the
digital Uh, yes, that, that dude's weighing Yeah, yes, I
would love Sure. There's something out there that do the
trick, and one of our listeners and producers will give us the
answer to that. I should mention one of my experiences in playing
around in Europe. It went like this. So I go into the
your bags are two pounds overweight, yeah. And I said,
Oh, what's that going to cost? Well, you know, they had to
fish. It's going to cost 2530 bucks. And so hold on a second.
So I unzipped the bag, I took the two pound laptop out and
stuck it under my arm, zipped the bag back up, put it through
the scale, and so, okay, you're good to go. So then I took the
bag off, put the laptop back in and checked it
these days, you can't even pay extra for overweight it's a
workman's comp thing. You cannot do that.
It's like it's if it's over 50 pounds, you're screwed. You got
to take it out. And you can't. They will not check your bag.
Well, there's always work around. Don't over pack. There
you go. There you go. And that's your tip of the day, everybody.
Thank you very much for listening. Tip of the day.net.
Creative master, and sometimes Adam, he still hasn't called me.
I'm a little irked about it.
I'll tell him to call you. Yeah, well, he sent me, shoot me an
email, send me a email, send me a DM. DM will work slide into my
DMs burnetti
And that can or on that Twitter or on X, X, he's always DMing me
on x.
He doesn't, I don't think he uses X much. I think he goes
there once a month.
Well,
it's been a month.
We did everything he asked. Hall is typical Hollywood do this for
me, typical, typical Hollywood arrogance. Yeah,
that concludes our broadcast day. Sunday, I will be coming to
you back from the Texas Hill Country, excited to be back,
excited to see my dog again, for sure. End of show. Mix is coming
up from D's laughs And Joseph Grillo, who did a great hot
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mean to me on Noster, sir Spencer and dame de lurian With
bowl after bowl.
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love it all the while you put a number meaningful to you. Just
don't Nate, don't be a shape shifting. You know, who
shout out, Matty J for the
instrumental. We going, man up. I don't know, but it was, I
mean, it was one of the more serious way back in the day.
This one now is probably, he probably got the same one that I
got like a month ago, which I'm not vaccinable. I got the
Johnson. I got the ghetto vaccine. And, you know, I got
the Johnson Johnson right when it was first available, which
that that was probably just like syrup, first Pearl, I know,
something like that.
This Ivy League hottie
named Luigi. It's a Robin
Hood that we never knew that we needed. Honestly, it's
beautiful, and I agree with him.
The children have a brand new star. His name is Luigi, the
cutest little hottie. All the boys think that he's sweet. He
shot a CEO right in the back out on the street and rode a city
bike into the park. So naturally, oh, Jing it, I did
hot. Luigi the killer,
Italian Christmas killer,
because this is like regular, everyday
person. Our hero, Luigi wore a mask to hide his killer,
Hollywood face. He made a big mistake asking the server for a
day a camera caught in clear state, he let his mask come
down. There was hot Luigi eating the crispy Mac hash brown
Italian
Christmas. Italian Christmas killer.
I listened to Luigi as manifesto this morning three times, and I
cried, honestly. It's beautiful, and I agree with him. Whoa, the
radicals love Luigi. He's really quite the ham. He gained a
million followers on x and Instagram now all the normal
people hope he gets what he deserves. Let's hope they grow
the book at him a lifetime, he will serve Louisiana killer King
and edging
the Italian Christmas killers.
Initial 827,
followers. On Instagram grew exponentially Monday, as we
watched by three o'clock, more than 32,000 an hour later,
53,000
by five o'clock Monday, more than 71,000
Hey, Luigi, where you going with that gun in your hand? Take.
The gun leave the cannolis.org/n.
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Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah, happy new years, the show is
over. You.