That's not interesting.
Adam Currie, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, November 9th, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gimbal Nation media
assassination episode 1815.
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Providing our public service.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
6.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Currie.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where Kristi Noem's
in trouble, I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Why is she in trouble?
What has she done?
Oh, she bought jets without engines.
Without engines?
Oh no!
Do you have a clip of this incredibly
interesting story?
No, I don't have a clip because it
just showed up this morning in the feed.
And it's an article on, I'll just read
you the headline from The Guardian.
DHS head, reportedly, just the head by the
way.
Just the head.
Reportedly authorized purchase of 10 engineless Spirit Airlines
planes that the airline didn't own.
Oh, that sounds like something horribly bad.
Sounds like, what kind of a story is
this?
It is not abnormal to purchase an airframe
and engine separately depending on what you're doing.
It's not completely, I mean they are separate
items.
They have separate time between overhaul and everything.
So it's not crazy.
It's not crazy.
No, what's crazy is Spirit supposedly authored the
purchase of the Spirit Airlines planes that Spirit
Airlines didn't own.
How does that work?
I don't know.
Where did you find this?
It's The Guardian.
They're trying to make a smear out of
it.
The Guardian.
The Guardian is the worst.
She can't fly them anyway.
We're shutting down baby!
We're shutting down everything!
We're shutting it down!
Shutting it down.
This is not good.
In fact, this really is kind of a
problem.
You think?
The shutdown.
Well, it is if you want to travel.
Yeah, here's a little update.
Chaos in U.S. airports with delayed flights
and endless queues at security control.
The government shutdown has not just left severe
staff shortages, but some 13,000 air traffic
controllers and 50,000 security agents working unpaid.
The Federal Aviation Administration decided to stabilize the
situation by cutting 10% of air traffic
across 40 airports, which could further affect travelers.
Airlines have 36 hours to slash flights after
the U.S. Transportation Secretary announced cuts to
transport hubs across 24 states.
Among them are the busiest airports like New
York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas.
There'll be frustration.
We are working with the airlines.
They're going to work with passengers.
But in the end, our sole role is
to make sure that we keep this airspace
as safe as possible.
The FAA's reduction plan, which excludes international flights,
will begin at a 4% cut on
Friday before escalating to a 10% cut
next week.
While airlines like Delta Air and American Airlines
moved to reassure panicked passengers by offering refunds,
the White House took a different approach.
President Trump stated on Thursday that despite the
reduced air traffic, it is still safe for
Americans to fly.
Yeah.
So if they actually get to next Friday
with 10%, that will be chaos.
And the main reason is our system doesn't
allow for that type of reduction.
You can't get the crews to the next
airport, so they can take the next.
It'll screw up everything.
Absolutely everything.
Which is interesting because the way that your
gal, Katie Porter there in California, because this
is all politics, of course, and we'll get
into it.
Katie Porter, I guess she's no longer in
the running.
Did she cancel herself out of becoming governor
of California?
I thought you said that some other person
was the lead now, that she had screwed
it up.
I've never said any of this thing of
the sort.
Oh, that's odd.
And the next is not till next year.
So it's just, you know, you've got plenty
of runway here.
Oh, I see what you did there.
You should work at MSNBC.
It's great.
So here is Katie Porter, either grossly misunderstanding
what's going on or perhaps lying.
Here's a question for Donald Trump, as he
forces airlines to cancel thousands and thousands of
flights.
Okay, so I don't think the president is
forcing any airlines to cancel any flights.
Okay, let's keep it going.
Why is he starting first with the commercial
planes that we all use to go visit
our families or get where we need to
for work?
Every day, thousands of private jets take off
carrying CEOs, billionaires, and the 1%.
And they take up the work of the
air traffic control system too.
Wouldn't it make more sense to cancel the
planes that carry the fewest passengers first?
It's just another example of who Donald Trump
really cares about.
And it isn't us.
So first of all, of all the people
I know who own private jets or fly
private, a lot of them are Democrats.
Maybe the majority.
I would guess the majority.
Everyone I know who has a private plane,
well, actually, they tend to not have them
anymore.
They're in pools.
Yes, of course.
Who fly private?
Democrats.
But what is happening here is because of
air traffic controllers and TSA agents calling in
sick, and I can't blame them, in order
to keep the airspace safe, they had to
reduce IFR traffic, so that's instrument traffic, to
airports around the country.
What they actually did in the first pool,
we've got Newark, JFK, we've got Dallas-Fort
Worth, we've got Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland,
Seattle, New York, Portland, everybody.
But they also did that to Teterboro.
And I thought that was a good move,
because Teterboro is the private plane airport for
the tri-state area, mainly for New York.
That is probably one of the busiest for
jet travel of billionaires.
So, you know, I think everyone kind of
gets affected equally.
And I thought that was a good one
to put Teterboro into the mix, because maybe,
maybe, someone would call the Democrats and say,
hey, dude, I can't land my G5, baby!
Stop this, knock it off!
So, she's just a liar.
She's a horrible person.
She's not a good person.
No, and she looks like a horrible person.
The more she puts herself out there, like
in that tweet, the less likely...
She loses votes.
She's making a huge mistake.
Yeah, well, as I told you, she's not
going to be the governor.
I already told you that.
Remember?
Told you.
No, I don't remember you telling me that.
I didn't tell you that.
So now we have a new development, just
to reiterate the situation.
Before you leave that topic, let's go to
the...
I have some ATC reports.
Oh, I didn't...
Yes, you do.
I actually didn't even look at your list
today.
Well, you should.
You know what?
Can I just say something right off the
bat?
You sound grumpy today.
Well, yeah, because you immediately passed over my
clips.
No, you sounded grumpy before you even said,
hit it.
I know you.
Oh, okay, you can go ahead and try
your psychological torture, which all the women have
observed over the years and have noticed.
I'm gaslighting him again.
There you go, ladies.
Psychological torture.
That's what I'm calling it.
Psychological torture.
Okay, yes.
You have three clips.
I do.
The simple one is from NPR and then
there's a two-parter from PBS.
All, you know, all slanted.
Oh, good.
Because it's Trump's fault and it's just, I
don't know, it's hard to do these clips
with these outlets.
With these liars.
Let's go with NPR.
More than 1,400 flights around the country
have been canceled after the Trump administration ordered
airports to cut flights as the FAA deals
with a shortage of air traffic controllers who
are working without pay.
The FAA says the flights at 40 airports
will be cut 10% on a phase
-in basis as the government shutdown, now on
its 39th day, continues.
Nick Delucanal has more from the Charlotte Douglas
Airport in Charlotte.
Inside the Charlotte terminal here, Jessica Lamuscio and
her one-year-old daughter are trying to
rebook after their flight to Manchester, New Hampshire
was canceled, leaving them scrambling to get to
a family wedding.
It just makes it more complicated, right, especially
with her, just to figure out what's our
plan?
How long do we stay here?
How long do you wait it out?
If you book again, is it going to
get canceled again?
The Charlotte airport says this morning's ground stop,
which lasted about an hour, was caused by
staffing issues in the air traffic control tower.
Well, there you go.
I like the little nat pop of the
baby.
Did you hear that in there?
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of wait until
we get to the Thanksgiving turkey nat pops.
They're going crazy.
Crazy.
My favorite one, which I don't have, which
was on a local news story, was these
people from Australia trying to get back to
Australia.
So they're in San Francisco and their flight
is leaving today or tomorrow to Australia, but
it's in Los Angeles and the connecting flight
has been canceled.
Well, hop in the car.
Drive fast.
Well, you know, it depends on the date.
You can actually make it to LA from
San Francisco in a rental and do a
drop-off at the airport, and you could
probably do that within eight hours.
Yeah, that's my suggestion.
But they'd be on the wrong side of
the road.
Ah!
Okay.
Woo!
There you go.
Okay, here we go.
This is the PBS reporting.
More national public media.
I can't wait to hear it.
On the second day of reduced flights at
40 airports, the aviation data company Sirium said
nearly 4% of flights were canceled, and
about 2.5% have been canceled for
tomorrow.
Randy Babbitt was FAA administrator in the Obama
administration.
Mr. Babbitt, is this working?
Are reduced flights reducing delays?
Okay, stop, stop a second.
So they bring, you know, you know how
they book people.
We gotta get somebody in here that maybe
can slam the Trump administration.
Let's get Obama guys.
But it didn't work out because the Obama
guy's pretty reasonable.
He's just a normal guy.
Randy Babbitt was FAA administrator in the Obama
administration.
Mr. Babbitt, is this working?
Are reduced flights reducing delays?
No, they're reducing the flights for the primary
purpose and a good purpose of making the
system safe.
They're suffering a loss of controllers at the
various stations.
They're not interchangeable.
And to ensure the system operates safely, you
just have to reduce traffic down to the
level of the number of controllers you can
put up.
Is this sustainable?
No, it's actually gonna continue to accelerate in
the wrong direction.
The longer we ask people to work without
a paycheck, the longer we ask people to
work 10, 12, 14 hour shifts.
You just can't sustain that.
People are calling in sick.
They're tired.
It's an intense job.
The controllers are well trained.
And there's a lot of stress in that
job.
And you can't keep doing it.
You know, we have the staffing levels where
they were for a good reason.
And we're not achieving that level of controllers
on site and on their stations.
I want to go back to the point
you made about controllers not being interchangeable.
It's not that you can sort of see
how many controllers are working nationwide.
It depends on each airport, each air traffic
control center.
Oh, absolutely.
There's a big difference between being an in
-route controller or a tower controller or an
approach control person.
Those are different jobs.
And they're not interchangeable.
Someone who's working in-route cannot go the
next morning and be in the Richmond Tower.
You know, it takes months of training to
make those transitions.
That was a good comment from a troll
in the troll room.
Like, the answer should be from the U
.S. officials like the president and who's our
boy there at the FAA?
What's his name?
Duffy?
Duffy, yeah.
Department of Transportation.
Well, this is a preview of what socialism
is like.
Just say that.
Whether it's true or not, just say it.
Just say it.
That's a good bit.
Okay, troll guy.
Well, this is a preview of socialism, so
your socialist representatives are making this happen, so
this is what New York can look forward
to.
No flights.
Okay, part two of this is kind of
his little tidbit.
Controllers, you're talking about how they're sort of
being stressed now.
No pay.
Many of them having to call out to
work other jobs to get pay.
They were already stressed.
Even before this began, the system was already
stressed, wasn't it?
Yes.
We're still recovering post-COVID.
You know, like a lot of companies did,
they let people go because the system was
only operating at 30% at the peak
of COVID.
But you don't just call them back.
A lot of them are already retired.
And second, if you have to hire them,
it takes several years to train a controller
to be fully up to speed and be
able to go into the different control positions.
Former FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, thank you very
much.
Oh, thank you.
Good luck.
I like his voice.
He's got a great voice.
He should do a podcast.
That would be a great follow-up.
He should.
He's got a better voice than I do.
So the they never mentioned, of course, they
had, yeah, the traffic was way down during
COVID, but they also laid people off who
refused to get the vax.
Well, why would they do that now?
That doesn't behoove anybody.
You don't think they would mention that because
it's a fact?
Ah.
I was like, I needed this guy.
Where's my guy here?
Oh, good lord.
Yeah, that's my guy.
You know, you're doing this constantly now.
Because it is kind of exasperating.
And the thing is, it's always a health
care, no, this is about insurance companies who
are basically banks and all I know is
that throughout my life, I have heard that
in Congress you just, no one discusses health,
no one discusses insurance, period.
You don't mess with the insurance companies.
It's out of control.
We used to be tough on insurance.
It was a point of fact that in
states like California that has an insurance commissioner,
they crack down on illegal, oh, let's just
raise it because we can.
There's no competition, let's just gouge everybody and
too bad if they don't like to pay
it, what are they going to do?
This is interesting that you bring up California
specifically because I think you got an email
too this morning from one of our producers
who emailed, I got it from Jay from
the back office and he had called the
crowd health outfit that we've been talking about.
First of all, he says, it was amazing.
I got someone with an American accent calling
me back.
He was blown away by that.
That would be a big deal.
He's like, whoa, what just happened?
He says, it turns out, well, he says,
I can't do that.
Well, he can, but he says, I can't
do it in California because, and I don't
know if this is true, apparently it's illegal
in California to be without healthcare?
I don't know that to be true or
not.
And that you have to pay a $900
annual fine if you don't have healthcare in
California?
I don't know this.
Well, this is what our producers said.
I didn't get the note.
Oh, well, you were copying.
I probably got the note, but I didn't
read it this morning.
I understand.
I'll look into it.
I'm not psychologically torturing you.
You're psychologically trying to torture me.
Just reading a note.
Since we're talking along these lines, you have
to play this clip.
By the way, there's tons of these clips
with different kinds of stories, and I'm going
to start collecting them because I like them.
And it's disgusting.
It's a disgusting, this is the anecdote clip.
These are disgusting stories, and you talked about
it, I've talked about it, we all talk
about it, but it's still disgusting.
So I don't normally jump on that insurance,
health insurance is a scam, but today it
is absolutely a scam and I swear it's
fraud.
I need an MRI on my back because
I hurt my back.
My clinic sent it over to a hospital.
They ran it through my insurance.
They called me and said, your portion of
it that you're going to have to pay
after insurance is $5,100 for this MRI.
So I'm like, wow, okay.
Before we do that, just wait.
$5,100 just seems wild.
I called another place who was also waiting
for my insurance to go through to see
how much it was going to be.
My insurance was still on hold with them,
but I asked them, if I just cash
pay this, how much is it going to
cost for this MRI?
$35.
And they're like, well, if you just want
to cash pay it, not run anything through
insurance, it's $700.
So I'm like, sounds a lot better than
$5,100.
So I called the original hospital back and
said, hey, if I don't run this through
insurance, what is the cost if I just
decide to self-pay it since I know
the other place is $700?
The lady's like, I'll rerun it under you
being self-pay and I'll call you back
with your total.
So a few minutes go by, the lady
calls me back and she goes, hey, I
talked to my supervisor, since you have insurance,
we are not going to let you self
-pay it, so we won't give you that
number.
How is that not a scam?
Isn't it my choice if I want to
self-pay something versus running it through my
insurance?
I should get to decide that, not you,
but they're like, nope, since you have insurance
and you've already done it that way, we
are not going to allow you to self
-pay it.
And I think that's because they probably were
going to give me a self-pay price,
kind of like the other place, maybe $700,
maybe up to $1,300, still way less
than $5,100 that it was going to
make me pay.
And I just think what if I wouldn't
have called around and I would have been
stuck with this $5,100 bill?
Insurance is such a rip-off.
I don't know how in the world this
hospital is telling me that I now can't
self-pay it.
What is it, Matt?
I'm going to go to the other place,
but I don't know how this hospital is
allowed to now tell me, hey, yeah, you
can't self-pay something if you have already
had us run it through your insurance.
I haven't even had it yet.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'll remind all of the socialists out
there that having lived under the fabulous, fantastic,
£5 a visit national healthcare system in the
United Kingdom, the choice was, and Christina needed
an MRI on her knee because it popped
out a couple times, the choice was, oh,
of course, of course the national healthcare system,
the NHS, it's our pride and joy.
In 18 months you can get your MRI.
And I call up the MRI place, and
I say, hey, can I just come to
you and pay directly?
Well, of course.
I go there, there's no one there.
No one.
I pay cash, good to go.
It's, and so...
There was no one there?
No one was there.
I think that, well, we were doing the
show, I believe.
We may have discussed it back then.
I vaguely remember this story.
You've told it at least twice.
Yeah, I'll have to look it up at
bingit.io. But the point is, is no
one was there.
No one was there.
In other words, yeah, whatever, you know.
So they put you on the 18-month
waiting list on purpose to torture you.
Yes.
Talk about torture.
Psychological torture.
Yeah.
Well, it's more than psychological in this case.
You got a bad knee, you know.
But the whole point is that insurance companies,
they're just banks, right?
I mean, is it or...
Well, the question about this last anecdote is
the insurance company plus her $5,100, how
much money is the hospital getting?
Oh, they're getting $700.
They're getting $700.
The insurance company takes the rest.
This is why they all want to go
outside of the system.
This is why you can go to any
doctor, any healthcare provider, and say, what's your
deal for cash?
And they will say, oh.
You'll see them go, oh, thank you.
We don't have to do all those forms.
This is great.
Yeah, here's your price.
Because they don't want, they have to fight.
They have to fight with the insurance company
to get their measly $700, which is what
it was in the first place.
It's theft.
And the media branding it as healthcare, this
is healthcare, and politicians, healthcare.
Well, healthcare, it's not healthcare.
It's theft.
And the whole shutdown, and this is what,
this is the irksome part, is while they
keep talking about healthcare, healthcare, is this was,
this subsidy for the insurance company slash financial
institution.
Let's call it that.
Warren Buffett, by the way.
Can we just say Warren Buffett?
Isn't he the big insurance guy?
He's got a lot of insurance companies, although
he's going heavily, he's moving his finances heavily
into cash.
Yes.
But, by the way, Warren Buffett, Democrat, private
jet, Omaha.
Exactly.
The Oracle of Omaha.
But the whole point is it's big finance
that is in this game, and the politicians,
and I'm sure that the payoff, if we
really go and look, and if we go
to opensecrets.org, I'll see.
No, all these Democrats are loaded to the
gills with the financing from these guys.
Not just the Democrats.
Republicans too.
Republicans too, obviously.
And the reason, and this is why the
Republicans, they don't want to, and you'll disagree
with me, they don't want to use the
nuclear option and end the filibuster to open
up the country again because they will get
penalized by their backers as well.
So they don't want to do it.
I don't want to lose my money, you
know, my re-election campaign, my million dollars
to get me on the committee.
The whole thing that people should, I think
we need pitchforks this time.
Pitchforks.
Pitchforks and AR-15s.
Seriously.
And so President Trump, he sees this, he's
already tried to convince the Republicans, hey, just
do it, you'll be a hero if you
go, no, no, no.
You only need five Democrats to vote yes.
And they would be heroes.
No, no, you can't get them to do
that either.
So the president, he just goes, he's starting
his own nuclear option campaign as he posted
today on Truth Social.
President Trump is out with a proposal on
healthcare, would eliminate Obamacare and send money directly
to people to buy their own healthcare.
My question for you, Senator, do you support
President Trump's plan to eliminate Obamacare and send
money directly to the people?
His statement wasn't to eliminate Obamacare.
His statement was very clear.
It was, why are we sending money to
insurance companies?
Right now, the Democrat proposal they put out,
which Chuck Schumer put out this past week
was, let's continue to send billions of dollars
to insurance companies and hope insurance companies will
bring down premiums.
That's not worked.
That's not worked for years now.
You go back to Obamacare when it was
first released, it was, it's going to bring
down rates 25%.
Can anyone tell me that their rates have
gone down 25% anywhere in this?
And so the president's proposal was pretty straightforward.
Stop sending money just to insurance companies.
Hope it gets better.
Give Americans freedom of choice.
If we're going to allow subsidies to get
out there, get them to people, not to
insurance companies.
You're saying something really interesting.
I want to make sure I understand.
Whoa!
Stop!
He said, he's not saying anything.
This is like, this is as bad as
the, that's a great question.
You're saying something interesting there.
He said nothing interesting.
We need to come up with a better
interlude.
That's not interesting.
Give Americans freedom of choice.
If we're going to allow subsidies to get
out there, get them to people, not to
insurance companies.
You're saying something really interesting.
I want to make sure I understand.
Is the Republican proposal not to repeal Obamacare,
which has been the long-held position?
Yeah, right now, Obamacare is healthcare in America.
What Democrats did 15 years ago was they
radically changed all healthcare in America.
They moved all physicians under hospitals.
They changed all the reimbursement programs.
They shifted everything in.
So, it is healthcare in America.
So, the challenge is what we have now
has to be fixed.
It was only Democrats.
Okay, sure.
It was only Democrats.
You're all in on it.
Hillary Clinton tried this the first time around
the Clinton administration.
They all, this theft game was always the
plan.
Always.
And it's just so much money.
What do you think it is?
Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a
year.
It's got to be.
It goes right into the insurance companies.
Finance companies.
Warren Buffett.
What's his stock price at?
What's his stock price?
$147,000 a share?
Something like that, right?
Yeah, I know.
Quite that.
I know.
Who's there?
All the rich people.
He's the oracle.
Sure.
She also talked to Hakeem Jeffries about this.
Leader Jeffries, President Trump floated what he believes
is a potential solution to this online.
Let me read it to you.
He says, quote, I am recommending to Senate
Republicans that the hundreds of billions of dollars
currently being sent to money-sucking insurance companies
in order to save the bad healthcare provided
by Obamacare be sent directly to the people
so that they can purchase their own much
better healthcare.
Would you ever support giving subsidies directly to
the American people instead of Obamacare?
Yes.
I think that's an interesting question.
We have a broken healthcare system.
But the Affordable Care Act has been part
of actually providing health insurance to tens of
millions of Americans.
Of course, there's always opportunity to improve current
policy that exists.
But Republicans aren't operating in good faith as
it relates to doing anything to actually make
healthcare more affordable.
And we've seen that repeatedly over the last
several weeks.
Now, if Donald Trump is changing his tune
and is actually willing to sit down and
negotiate a bipartisan path forward, of course we
are interested in doing that.
We've been making that point for the last
several weeks.
What do you make of that proposal online,
though?
Does it sound like he's interested in doing
that?
I mean, it's hard to take these online
things seriously.
There's no actual legislation.
There's no text.
There's no policy documents to be able to
review.
If that exists, if that somehow materializes and
manifests itself in the next day or so,
we look forward to reviewing it in good
faith.
It seems like parties are rather far apart
at this point.
It doesn't seem like anyone's getting any closer.
You know?
Well, I mean, one side is the Republicans
want to open the government.
The Democrats don't.
And they call it leverage.
And they think they've got the Republicans over
a barrel and they think they can get
the money back to their insurance buddies because
the insurance buddies have all paid the way
for most of these Democrats to get in
office and stay in office, as you just
said.
And so they're doing the best they can
to get this over.
And then they got this latest with one
of these guys.
I forgot which one of the congressmen said,
well, now that we've won in the blue
states, we won our governorships.
Now we have to make sure that people
don't think we're going to knuckle under to
the Republicans.
We're tough guys now.
So being tough guys, we got to stay
the course.
So I don't know.
But I just want to say again, I
mean, you say it's a non-starter never
going to happen, but Republicans also have a
one second solution to this.
I mean, just say, okay, we're just done
with the filibuster rule, and then we open
it back up.
Republicans can also do it.
It's all political.
They think it's bad because, well, then the
Democrats can use it.
Okay.
To get the filibuster across the line, they're
still going to have to get the Democrats
because it's still that new 60 votes.
That's not true.
I looked this up.
No, it is true.
I don't think so.
It is true.
Absolutely.
Okay.
I looked it up.
And the nuclear option the nuclear option is
a procedural workaround to bypass the two-thirds
cloture requirement and change the rules with a
lower threshold.
It involves raising a point of order.
And if the presiding officer rules against it,
appealing that ruling, overriding the president's officer requires
only a simple majority.
That's the nuclear option as I understand it.
Okay.
Well, I mean, it's possible that what you
read there is exactly right.
And that would do the trick, but it's
not my understanding.
And the way they present it, at least
the way I heard it, is that you
still need the 60 votes, and Democrats will
vote for it, knowing that it's going to
benefit them in the end, and they can
still vote against the final proposal and look
like the good guys.
Well, and they have actually used this method
in the past to eliminate certain parts of
filibuster in 2013 for most executive and judicial
nominations, and in 2017 that was the Democrats,
and in 2017 to extend Well, it's still
in play, by the way, for those processes
that still exists.
What do you mean?
Well, they put it in 2013, 2017, whatever
the dates were you had, that is still
in play.
You still don't need 60 votes to pass
a court guide.
But that's what I mean.
So they use the same Yeah, they use
it, but once it went in play, it
stayed in play.
Yes, of course it does.
That's the point.
So it's all just, it's a power game.
No matter which way you look at it,
it's a power game.
Well, I know it's hurting the show.
It is.
It's definitely hurting the show.
No doubt.
And then I think President Trump...
No, we have a lot of government workers
that can't afford to donate to the show.
We have a lot of people that are
affected by the downturn in the government work.
Yes.
I know.
Buckle down.
Bear down on it, brother.
Tighten your belt.
No agenda show's in trouble.
With every...
Not in trouble, but it's not good.
It's not good.
Hence your mood this morning.
I getcha.
I gotcha.
The president, though, I think is making a
mistake.
Now, it was really the Republicans running for
governor and for different state positions who all
ran on woke and the border and did
not run on the president's economic plan, which
is pretty clear if you see what he's
doing, bringing back manufacturing, doing deals, getting investments
in.
But they didn't.
They ran on yeah, those guys have trannies
and...
That works on the national level.
Yeah, it was a political mistake because right
at the moment when people were starting to
feel it, they're sending the wrong message.
Democrats go, we'll give it to you.
Yeah, it's no problem.
We'll freeze the rents and free buses, government
grocery stores.
So now the president has an affordability problem.
Affordability.
And the Democrat media, well, the Democrat-influenced
and occupied media, mainstream, they are using it
to an extreme.
So when I hear this little supercut of
the president, he knows it too.
It's no good if we do a great
job and you don't talk about it.
And I don't think they talk about it
enough.
They have this new word called affordability and
they don't talk about it enough.
The reason I don't want to talk about
affordability is because everybody knows that it's far
less expensive under Trump.
So I don't want to hear about the
affordability because right now we're much less.
It was a conjob, affordability they call it.
But we just lost an election, they said,
based on affordability.
You know, I saw that they kept talking
about affordability.
So we talk about affordability.
We should be talking about it because they
talk about affordability.
The affordability is much better with the Republicans.
We are the ones that have done great
on affordability.
So we are the victors on affordability.
So no one cares when the president says
that.
They're looking at their wallet and going, no,
something's wrong.
It's not affordable.
And NBC slash MSNBC, when are they going
to be MS now?
I can't come soon enough.
November 15th.
They set a trap.
They set a trap for him and he
walked right into it.
Here's the setup.
Well, I haven't heard that.
You're telling me.
Who are you with?
Fake news.
You're fake news.
NBC's gone down the tubes along with most
of the rest of them.
Well, they feel better about our country right
now, other than the shutdown obviously, which is
caused by the Democrats.
Could be ended by the Democrats in two
minutes.
They feel much better.
We have more jobs.
We just set a record on jobs.
You do know that we have more investment
in our country than any country in history.
We're over $18 trillion as of this moment,
and we're going to be maybe a 20
or 21 trillion by the time I finish
up my first year.
And there's been no country, China, no country
in the world that's done anywhere even close
to that number.
Your friend Biden, as an example, in four
years was less than a trillion.
We'll be at 21 trillion in one year.
So there's no country that was even close
to that.
And our country was a laughing stock all
over the world.
We have more jobs.
We have more potential than any other country.
And frankly, we're the hottest country right now.
Victor said to me before, we're the hottest
country anywhere in the world.
Think of it.
We'll have 2021 trillion dollars invested.
We have auto plants pouring back in.
We have AI pouring back in.
We're leading China in AI by a lot.
We're leading everybody in every category.
There's no category that we're in second place.
So I just heard this yesterday that Walmart
said that the Thanksgiving was 25% more
expensive under Biden.
To me, that's a big number because Walmart's
respected.
I mean, Walmart is Walmart.
And they're giving you prices.
So that would mean that the whole series
of pricing and costs, you know, the groceries
and everything else, it was a con job.
Affordability, they call it, was a con job
by the Democrats.
The Democrats are good at a few things,
cheating on elections and conning people with facts
that aren't true.
So he walks right into the Walmart trap.
He should have known that Walmart is a
bunch of crazy Democrats who are setting him
up because if you listen to the full
question, it was about Walmart.
And he goes off, and it's all true,
all this investment, of course, but it's not
going into people's pockets for Thanksgiving.
Here's the setup, paid off in this case
by Jen Psaki.
Since you brought up the Walmart Thanksgiving meal,
and it is cheaper, but it also contains
less.
Well, I haven't heard that.
You're telling me.
Who are you with?
I'm with NBC News, sir.
Fake news.
NBC.
You're fake news.
That's right.
The Walmart Thanksgiving meal that Trump has been
touting as proof positive that he has made
the country more affordable is cheaper this year
because it has less stuff, like a lot
less stuff.
I mean, for days now, Trump has been
pushing the fact that the prepackaged Walmart Thanksgiving
dinner is 25% cheaper than it was
last year.
But he has been conveniently ignoring the fact
that this year's Walmart Thanksgiving package is missing
a bunch of items it had last year,
like onions, celery, sweet potatoes, chicken broth, seasoning,
muffin mix, marshmallows, whipped topping, and pecan pie.
I mean, those are all pretty key, delicious
parts of Thanksgiving, right?
The meal also downgraded certain items, like swapping
Hawaiian rolls for cheaper dinner rolls.
So, yeah, surprise, surprise.
His claim is completely misleading.
But he was pushing this whole Thanksgiving meal
narrative for a reason.
I mean, since Democrats swept Tuesday's election, the
right has all of a sudden woken up
to America's affordability crisis.
I think this was a trap set by
Walmart.
They went, Mr. President, it's great.
It's great.
It's 25% cheaper.
And people are going to get their packages
and then they'll open up and like, what
is this?
I'm like Tiny Tim here.
I think it was a purposeful trap.
I mean, you're telling me that Jen Psaki's
team went to Walmart.
Oh, let's go investigate the package.
Oh, there's no pecan pie.
I'm not going to say that you're wrong
about that, but I don't think the impact
is the way you're making it out.
Nobody listens to Jen Psaki.
She's got zero ratings.
She is just...
I said this is an example of the
NBC payoff.
I think you're going to see this, because
he's been saying this for a week.
Oh, it's cheaper.
It's cheaper.
I think they set him up.
You watch.
You're going to have NBC nightly news.
Oh, the Walmart packages.
If it shows up on nightly news, then
I'm totally agree.
All right.
I think it was a setup.
I think he was too prideful.
He wasn't on watch.
He's missed a lot of things.
He's busy.
Yeah, he is busy.
That's true.
And of course, we've got to sneak in
some other things here.
But I think this is an opportunity.
This is ABC.
Well, I will say that I'm going back
on this, on what you said, because the
question was about Walmart specifically to trigger the
Walmart reaction, and then Psaki follows up.
But again, it's small potatoes, because it's like
nobody listens to Jen.
Nobody watches her show or her.
This is just happening.
I think we...
Okay, well, I'm just saying it's just that
they could have been...
If it was rolled out by NBC, they
skipped the Psaki step.
It would have been better.
ABC's on it, but they have a different
bent.
This morning, with less than three weeks until
Thanksgiving, new concern that turkey and egg prices
could rise once again.
That's because...
Nat pop of the week, ladies and gentlemen.
And that turkey and egg prices could rise
once again.
That's because bird flu cases are rising again,
as more wild birds head south.
What?
Bird flu cases are rising again.
This is news to me.
Yeah, well, they're tying it into Walmart.
Don't worry.
That's because bird flu cases are rising again,
as more wild birds head south.
Within the last month, nearly 70 poultry flocks
nationwide have been hit with the virus, killing
more than 3.5 million turkeys, chicken, and
ducks.
Hold on a second.
Shouldn't we just open up shooting at wild
birds then?
Isn't that the solution?
Shouldn't we all just be in our backyards
and just shoot any birds that go over?
Solve the problem?
There's enough guns.
Shoot all the birds.
Wild birds are really the carrier for the
avian influenza virus, especially migratory waterfowl.
Experts fear the government shutdown and staff cuts
at the CDC and Agriculture Department could weaken
the federal response.
One virologist telling NPR, a network of researchers
used to be in constant contact with federal
agencies to monitor cases, but she says that
communication has been scaled back, saying, we're not
in a great position for monitoring things.
I'm finding myself in a very uncomfortable place.
The number of turkeys in the U.S.
has already dropped to its lowest size in
nearly 40 years.
With limited supply, wholesale turkey prices are up
75% in the last year.
Retail prices up about 25%.
Egg prices may also suffer, but there are
Thanksgiving deals to be had.
Walmart says it's lowering the cost of its
Thanksgiving meal bundle by 25% this year.
And Target is offering a Thanksgiving dinner for
four for just 20 bucks.
Yeah, you wait.
You wait until we're going to have, it's
going to be.
Well, they didn't say anything about the shrinkage,
shrinklation on the Walmart.
Not yet.
I think we're going to see the Thanksgiving
reports and it's going to be sad children
going, Mommy, what's this?
There's no marshmallows in my sweet potatoes.
Where's my pecan pie?
I'm sorry, Tiny Tim.
That's President Trump.
He shrunk your Thanksgiving Day package.
You know, I don't want to move these
things into place because of this grand conspiracy
like you're saying.
But that brings me to this bird test
nonsense because it involves birds.
I got it again.
It's that time of year.
Oh, I have one of those around here
somewhere, too.
It's that time of year.
I got to go find my...
I just found mine.
I got to find mine.
All right, yes, bird test.
So I didn't make this connection that because
birds, birds, birds, turkeys, turkey dinner, and then
there's this stupid, the stupidest story that I've
heard on PBS forever.
I don't know if you're even aware about
the bird test.
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
Well, I got some clips about it.
It's ridiculous.
But here it is.
One of the latest relationship tests on social
media to go viral is the bird theory.
It starts with a casual comment.
You know, when you were inside, I saw
a really pretty bird.
A bird?
I saw a bird today.
I forgot to tell you that I saw
a bird today.
The test is how the partner responds.
Wait, I saw a blue jay the other
day, too.
No, literally, I saw one on my run.
Do they engage pointed beak, rounded beak, or
not?
Why are you telling them that?
These tests have racked up millions of views.
They're based on a theory developed by couples
researcher John Gottman about the importance of engaging
with partners when looking for a connection.
But what do they really tell us?
Alexandra Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist, an
adjunct professor at Northwestern University, and the host
of a podcast called Reimagining Love.
Alexandra, how valuable is this test?
What does it really reveal?
You know, these tests come and go, and
I tell you what, this one is particularly
sneaky because it does have Gottman's research behind
it.
And there's a wish that all of our
relationships could boil down to one little test
like that.
So although there's validity, it's putting too much
weight in one little micro moment.
Wow!
Folks, this is a four-parter from PBS
about some tests to see if you should
divorce your spouse based upon how they answer
the question or a statement that you make
about a bird that you saw.
I saw a bird.
Yeah, so what?
I'm divorcing you!
Did you shoot it?
It might have bird flow.
Wow!
And it has science behind it, apparently.
Yes, this guy, look at this guy, this
John Gottlieb character.
He's like the most gosh-awful-looking person
there is.
I mean, he's one of those, you know,
very ugly, ugly effer.
Perfect face for science.
And it's just like, okay.
But I guess it caught on on TikTok.
This is the kind of thing that we,
as oldsters, we can't keep up because it's
going too fast for us.
This is your boomer moment, people.
All right, here we go.
So I had to extract this from PBS
and made a whole segment out of it.
By the way, this is not the whole
thing.
It goes on and on and on.
This is part two, which is the yuck
part of it.
Well, tell us about Gottman's theory.
Tell us about that.
What Gottman says is that romantic relationships are
not made up of the grand sweeping gesture,
you know, the rose petals on the bed
and all of the sort of fairytale ideas
that we grow up with.
In fact, romantic relationships, the healthy ones, are
made up of a series of thousands and
thousands and millions of micro-moments of connection
that build trust and safety and authenticity between
partners.
That's what this test is about.
It's a bid for connection.
You know, the New York Times calls this
social media's relationship yardstick du jour.
And you talked about how these come and
go.
Why are we so drawn to this?
We're drawn to it because there are a
few things in our lives that make us
feel quite as vulnerable as our intimate relationships
do.
The stakes are high.
The consequence of losing the person that we
love, you know, through a breakup, through divorce,
certainly through death, those consequences are very, very
big.
You know, we risk heartbreak.
And so I think we are forever looking
for evidence to answer the question, are we
okay?
You know, are we okay?
Are you with me?
Do you have my back?
Do you see me?
Do I matter to you?
I saw a bird.
Hold on.
Please tell me you have a clip of
the actual test and how it works because
I can't wait to try this right after
the...
In fact, I might call Tina during the
show.
It's simple.
It's just you say, I saw a bird.
And then you get the reaction of the
other person.
It goes on.
They kind of explain it.
Let it play out.
But the only...
Here, we'll do it.
This is how two people who have been
together in a relationship for 18 years do
this test.
Go ahead, John.
Ask me.
In fact, I have this planned for the
end.
Oh, okay.
All right.
And what is the motivation for people to
put these online and have strangers discuss it?
Well, John, here's where the rubber hits the
road.
I do think that, especially in these scenarios
we're seeing where people have taped their partner
without their consent.
That's a kind of boundary violation.
What?
What's the boundary violation?
Taping someone without their consent.
You know, the way the kids do it,
the cameras with their little phone.
You bring your phone out and you record
someone.
But I'm going to use this.
Darling, that's a boundary violation.
It's a boundary violation.
People have taped their partner without their consent.
That's a kind of boundary violation.
I think that if somebody is tempted to
test their partner in this way, the first
step is to check in with themselves.
What's going on here?
We really have normalized that we live these
two lives.
We live the flesh and blood life of
ours and we live this online life.
I think we really have normalized it.
It seems kind of, you know, ordinary or
no big deal right now to be showing
little windows into our world online.
But I think it's a problem and I
think we ought to be careful.
This does show a willingness to sort of
let the other partner's world in, something that
they value in the world, they found interesting.
Does that tell us anything?
Absolutely.
It feels really good when we notice something
or we raise something and our partner turns
toward us.
Is she in a relationship currently?
No, she's a single mom at best.
Instead of, you know, looking at their phone
and saying uh-huh or not responding at
all.
It's really painful.
Those breaks in connection are really painful for
us.
Those moments of attunement where our partner turns
their attention toward us feel really good.
That's where the validity is.
The validity is that our desire to connect
with our partner in these small, seemingly insignificant
ways, those matter.
It makes sense that people want, you know,
to have the partner ask follow-up questions
about this little bird that we saw.
First of all, the term attunement is a
possible show title.
This is attunement.
Okay, put it on the list.
I think that was the last clip.
No, there's a bird test for retort clip.
Yes, that's what we're going to do the
test.
You're going to ask me I found a
script for how to answer this correctly so
you pass the test.
Well, I know the answer too.
Don't play it.
It's clip 4.
You're going to ask me you saw a
bird and then you play clip 4 because
that will be my answer.
Then you're going to ask me the question
and I'll give my answer.
Okay?
Can we play?
Ask me to play.
Okay.
I ask you and then I hit clip
4.
Now, isn't it just a statement like, I
saw a bird today.
I'm not supposed to ask a question.
Could you pretend to be on your phone
for a second because I think that's part
of the test.
I'm on the phone.
I saw a bird today.
I saw a bird
today.
Everybody's talking about the bird.
Bird, bird, bird.
The bird is the word.
Yes.
Question for you.
Yes.
Name that group.
Everybody's talking about the birds.
It's the surfers?
...
Trashman.
I should have known.
Okay.
And it was based on another song called
Birds of the Word.
Yes.
But by another group.
Name that group.
You've got me.
The Rivingtons.
Very good.
Is that available on 78?
No, but I'll tell you everyone should go
look up the Trashman presentation of Birds of
the Word or Surfer Bird on YouTube and
watch this guy.
And then you realize where Mick Jagger got
all his moves.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so now I'll be on my phone
and then you say, I saw a bird
today.
Hold on, let me get on my phone.
Okay, I'm on my phone.
I saw a bird today.
Hey man, birds aren't real.
That's reasonable.
That's my answer right there.
Everybody knows birds aren't real.
They're spy drones.
So I have seen people do a version
of this and it's, and really what's, if
I understand this abbreviated version of this very
long report that was apparently on public broadcast
systems.
He was.
And this is noticeable, especially if in a
group setting where someone is on their phone
and you'd be talking and, or even if
it's just two people and they're texting something.
It's typical if they're texting and you know
they will, it's interesting to see they'll actually
be, you might have seen this yourself with
the kids, maybe, maybe not.
You probably forbid phones at the table.
No, I bitch about it a lot.
Yeah, then they will answer you but it'll
be when they have a break in their
typing.
So it's like a delayed response.
They hear what they're saying.
Oh, that's an interesting, you're right.
I've seen this happen.
Yeah, it's a delayed response.
Yeah, they're, you say something, they're still typing
and they can't lose the train of, the
train of thumb typing.
Yes.
And then once they finish and you see
them finish, then they say something.
Yeah, that's what it is.
And, and so some people will say something
like, oh, we almost crashed.
You know, just to see if their friend,
partner, spouse, whatever is listening, which of course
they aren't.
They are, they're hearing, but they're not listening.
And this is, I blame, there's only one
reason.
In fact, the whole bird test, the whole
thing is really, it's all about one thing,
which is the addiction to the phone.
Phones, yeah, that's what it is.
So, okay, you know, I'm against this.
I think it's a bad idea.
What?
I'm against tricking, this is a boundary violation.
Oh, you're against the tricking, the tricking concept
itself.
I mean, you might, why don't you just
say, I saw a bird.
Why don't you just say, hey, you suck.
You know, you can say whatever you want,
because the whole intent is to make the
other person feel crappy because they, what?
You say what?
I saw a bird.
You know, oh, and just, and then of
course the follow up is, you weren't I
mean, that that's pretty much what this is
about.
It's, well, it's a pretty good shout.
It's not, it's not a good, it's not
a, it's not a good, it's, it's a
boundary, boundary violation.
You should have an adult conversation and say,
hey, you know, when we're talking, you know,
let's just put the phones down.
That's it.
How about just grabbing the phone out of
their hands and stomping it on the floor?
Wow.
That that's well, you know, it's basically a
double shaggy dog story.
Yeah, no, I like it.
I like that.
Bring it in the, the, uh, the surf
and surf and bird was good.
It is unfortunately that time of the year
again.
Do you know what time it is?
You know what time it is?
You don't know what time it is.
Do you?
You don't go time.
Yeah.
I wish it's cop time.
Cop, brother.
You've got clips from this.
Oh yes.
Well, it's not so much yours.
It's not.
So I'd have a setup clip from the
opening of cop 30.
All the elites are in Brazil.
Woo.
Party time.
Let's fly our jets.
They all flew in their private jets and
you can have a lot of party time
to Brazil is the place to be party
town central.
The president of Brazil, Lula da Silva greeted
heads of state from all over the world
as they arrived for the UN's cop 30
climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon.
The leaders from the planet's three biggest polluters,
China, the U.
S.
And India were nowhere to be seen.
In his opening address, Lula urged countries to
actively fight against climate disinformation.
That's the theme for this year's cop 30.
It's climate disinformation, which, funny enough, is coming
from themselves.
Extremist forces fabricate fake news to obtain electoral
gains and imprison future generations in an outdated
model that perpetuates social and economic inequalities and
environmental degradation.
A message echoed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris
agenda and therefore our collective security.
But it's a tough sell when the leader
of one of the world's largest carbon emitters,
Donald Trump, is the source of that disinformation,
climate change, a hoax and a con job
and refusing to send anyone to the meeting.
For its part, China will send its deputy
prime minister, while Argentina's president, a Trump ally,
has also boycotted the summit.
In his speech, the U.
N.
Secretary General tore into countries for their failure
to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius,
a key aim of the 2015 climate summit
in Paris.
Every fraction of a degree means more hunger,
displacement and loss.
You gotta listen to what he says.
Every fraction of a degree 2015 climate summit
in Paris.
Every fraction of a degree means more hunger,
displacement and loss, especially for those least responsible.
It's horrible.
Every fraction of a degree to climate change.
Now we know that there's a scandal brewing
in Denmark, but that doesn't matter because it's
cop 30.
We've got to promote killing the cows, man.
As climate change worsens and fossil fuels run
out, finding new green energy sources is of
the essence.
Oh, wait, this isn't the cows clip.
This is even funnier.
The U.
S.
A.
Chemists slash industrialists will like this gambit.
The world's first large scale e methanol facility
in Casa Denmark is trying to foster the
green transition.
E methanol.
Do you know what e methanol is?
E methanol.
Uh, I'm trying to come up with environmentally
friendly ethanol.
Yes.
And how would you make or methanol?
How would you make e methanol?
This is great.
I was stick a tube up a cow's
butt.
That was no, that's wrong.
E methanol is made using renewable energy by
splitting a water atom with an electrolyzer and
then combining the pure hydrogen and a reactor
tower with biogenic carbon dioxide.
European Energy, the company that co owns the
facility, intends for e methanol to be a
green alternative to traditional methanol.
So they're doing hydrolysis with solar panels, hydrolysis
with solar panels and windmills and then some
cow burps.
And oh, it's really good.
This report proves it with fossil fuels.
The world market today is 100 million tons
of methanol.
And part of the consumers of that wants
to green their supply chain.
So it can be in shipping for fuel,
which is actually new for methanol, even an
additional use of methanol.
Decarbonizing the shipping sector, which has grown to
account for about 3% of global emissions,
is a focus for global leaders and an
issue set to be discussed at COP 30
in Belém, Brazil on Monday.
E methanol could help green the industry by
replacing the large amount of fossil fuels used
by vessels to transport cargo across the globe.
European Energy CEO Eric Anderson says the company
expects price parity with fossil fuels by 2030.
Even so, the facility's current e methanol production
capacity is 40,000 tons annually, a ways
away from replacing the 100 million ton global
market for methanol.
40,000 tons, but we only need 100
million thousand tons by by 2030.
We can make it boys will be able
to make it no worries.
Bring and crank up the windmills.
Because of course what's happening now is now
that COP 30 is taking place.
This is the money summit.
This is where everybody puts their proposals in.
I need some money for my research.
I need some money for my e methanol.
It's a big money suck.
And here's the killing the cows clip.
When cows eat the grass ferments in their
stomachs and produces methane.
Methane is over 80 times stronger than carbon
dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere in
the short term.
A single cow can release more than 100
kilos of methane a year now multiplied by
the world's billion cows and the number gets
wild due to climate change.
The number gets wild everybody.
But scientists are testing fixes like seaweed feed,
which in some trials has cut methane by
up to 80% garlic additives have also
been found to change a cow's gut microbes
and reduce gas production.
So get to the point get to the
point you really want to sell us.
And then there are even cow vaccines to
block methane making microbes in the stomach solutions
scale up the payoff could be massive dead
cows cutting methane from livestock is one of
the fastest ways to slow global warming.
releasing wind can be pretty funny.
Sure.
But from cows, they are no laughing matter.
I mean, yes, this will work.
This will absolutely work.
If you kill the cows with your silly
vaccine, there will be less methane in the
in the atmosphere.
Absolutely.
So that that's the vaccine guys.
So I'm so I since I'm where I'm
sitting in this office, you see, I have
an overview of a freeway.
Yeah.
And there are 1000s and 1000s and 1000s
and 1000s and 1000s of cars that go
by all pumping out, you know, moderate amount
of co2 out the tailpipe.
Yes.
And I'm thinking I haven't seen a cow
for months.
But yet somehow the cows are going to
be response.
This is a bunch of vegan meat haters.
Yes.
blaming the cows for no change when there's
no such thing as bullcrap.
No, this is the vaccine people trying to
make money, right?
There's that too.
Okay, we have a combination of lethal cons
of the lethal combination of vegans and vaxxers.
It's unbelievable want to just give the vaccines
to the vegans.
There's a solution that I saw a bird
today.
Everybody's talking about the bird.
Okay.
So if you're a scientist, how I need
more money for my research.
I need I need more money for my
research.
I must come up with a term that
gets me money for my research.
Put it into a report for me, please.
2025 has not been a good year for
glaciers.
A series of reports all appear to confirm
that climate change is melting these bodies of
ice at an alarming rate.
Since 2000.
The world has lost more than 7 trillion
tons of ice from mountain glaciers.
Signs of melting evident here on the Italian
side of the mont blanc.
Now see if you can if you can
spot the term the scientists is going to
use to get more money for research.
We have observed over the years is that
the glacier is slowing down.
And this is a sign that there is
less input of mass to the glacier from
snowfall.
Now scientists are rushing to recover.
Don't worry.
Where the ice has created a natural archive
full of important information about rainfall, volcanic eruptions,
and other climate events.
So the point is that because the glaciers
are melting, we're losing it.
We're losing history.
Yes, we're losing critical data.
But what can happen as the warming progresses,
he will have very hot summers even up
there will very hot meaning above the melting
point of ice, which means that water can
percolate into the firm, that's the compacted snow
that is on top of the of the
firm ice, and and therefore contaminate the climate
signals.
It's a critical mission to secure the first
the climate signals john climates is we're losing
climate put a Boeing right after the word
you wanted me to identify.
Yeah, I kind of did that.
Yes, kind of did that.
It's the climate signals.
But you know what, let's get Japan in
on this scam because they're there.
Everyone's at the COP 30 except for America,
Russia and China, arc and India.
Oh, India.
I think India sent a dude though.
I think they sent a dude a representative
climate represent climate dude.
And I sent somebody and I think China
also sent a dude, but an insignificant dude.
Because you know, all the all the big
wigs are there.
Anyway, Japan.
Ah, we got a problem with climate change,
holes in walls, chairs scattered about refrigerator doors
ripped from their hinges.
This is the aftermath of a bear probably
looking for food in a hot spring onsen
in northern Japan.
The authority like this all the time at
the climate summit.
Is it a library?
And they have to speak like this when
they talk about Oh, oh, we're talking about
climate.
So we have to be quiet.
It's very, very serious business.
You know, this is about death of the
entire planets.
But in Japan, the authorities killed it soon
after the ins owner called the authorities.
This 68 year old was taken by surprise
when he opened his garage and he found
a bear sitting inside a bear.
It's over for me.
This is how I'm going to die.
I thought that I was going to be
killed by that bear.
This map shows the number of non fatal
bear attacks in yellow and bear attack deaths
in red.
With a stark uptick in October.
We've got a bear attack map going bleep
bleep bleep bleep bleep.
A record setting 13 people have died in
bear attacks since April, more than doubling the
previous record set in 2023.
More than 100 people have been wounded in
attacks across the country.
According to experts, a warming climate has produced
an abundance of food for bears in the
mountains, creating an ideal environment for them to
thrive due to climate change.
It's all climate change.
Everything is believable.
You're gonna be killed with this for the
next week.
I think the way it was interesting to
me is that the same time they're reporting,
even though not all the networks are doing
it, they're reporting that because of this cold
snap that's coming in from the Arctic, that's
gonna hit us, you know, this week is
hitting us now.
A lot of people aren't listening to what
it's called.
The isn't it?
No, it's not the bomb.
It's the now something else.
But whatever it's whatever it is, they've now
predicting 200 year records are gonna be broken
for all time lows.
How does that work?
Well, it's due to climate change, climate change.
Don't you understand anything?
And then amidst all of this, the people
who actually get it right, they're going out
of business.
After more than two centuries, the farmers almanac
announcing it is ending production after the 2026
edition.
That's after it releases.
The publication says rising costs and a changing
media landscape made it impossible to keep going.
The website will also slowly shut down along
with its social media posts.
Staff say they're thankful for the sport that
they've had over the years, and they are
proud of the legacy they leave behind.
This is a travesty.
Yeah, not to mention it.
The farmers almanac was it was the last
time you bought what copy?
Probably there's reason.
This is what happens when when people neglect
things like the farmers almanac or even the
no agenda show for that matter.
Yeah.
And they just take it for granted.
Oh, there it is.
Yeah, it's predicting the weather again.
And there you have it.
No, blah, blah, blah.
And there they go out of business because
you didn't buy a copy.
Well, I feel really bad now.
You should.
What?
Let me see what?
Let me see.
Because I think, yeah, there's a 20.
So we should buy the 20.
If everyone on mass buys the 2026 almanac,
they might be able to keep the website
going.
Well, I think we should all buy a
copy.
Let me see.
$4.79 people.
It's cheap.
No wonder they went out of business.
It should have been eight bucks by now.
Well, the real problem is that they only
released they didn't release it.
Did that risk every year?
The farmers?
Yeah, they did.
Yeah.
Yeah, they should have farmers almanac monthly.
Well, their website is no good.
I mean, they should have done V for
V, baby.
They should have value for value.
But yeah, you're right.
Your point is well made is because everyone
just kind of expected the news to tell
us what the farmers almanac said.
And we didn't support them.
I mean, me included.
I stick my hand on my own breasts.
Me included.
Now they're going away.
And who are the people behind it?
Work?
They're they're FAA controllers.
Was it farmers?
There was a farmer involved.
Asking for a friend.
Yeah.
So yeah, so that will be will be
absolutely obliterated with this nonsense for the next
next next week, at least at least.
So some ice couple ice clips.
Yeah, the ice thing is I do have
some local boots on the ground stuff about
the ice stuff.
Oh, good.
Well, let's get to that.
Right.
These clips are interesting.
This is the wild ice.
There's a kick.
This wild ice app to get some apps
they're using.
And everyone was stunned by these apps.
Yeah.
Oh, this thing's crazy, crazy things in this
app that like, you know, do facial recognition.
And it's just a scandal as immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
I forgot.
Yeah, it says SS on there means Scott
Simon.
Well, how I mean, okay, that is that
now the code?
Is that the I'm sorry, I should have.
I've been doing this for a while with
the code, but I forgot to tell you
the suffering succotash.
I'm Scott.
Sorry, that's my fault.
Simon, as immigration and Customs Enforcement or ice
strive to deport more immigrants, it is increasing
its surveillance tools.
Critics warn these new technologies can violate privacy
and civil liberties.
And as Jude Jaffe block joins us now,
Jude, thanks so much for being with us.
Thank you.
What are some of the tools that ice
agents are using these days?
Well, they've got new contracts to monitor social
media and help find people's locations.
He wanted to overrun us and poison us
and take our families.
I says also revived a contract with a
company called Paragon Solutions, which is known for
making spyware that can hack into cell phones.
We're all gonna die.
But one big thing that's new is an
app ice and Border Patrol agents have in
the field.
Social media videos show they're using it to
scan people's faces during encounters on the street.
No way.
Are you an idiot?
In an attempt to identify them and figure
out if they're deportable.
Jude, how does this app work?
Well, there's still a lot that's unknown.
But one of these videos that was first
reported by 404 media was shot outside of
Chicago, and you see Border Patrol agents approaching
two young people.
Young man filming the encounter says he doesn't
have I.
D.
And then the agent turns to his colleague
and asks, Can you do facial?
Can you do facial?
He says, and his colleague pulls out his
phone and holds it up and appears to
scan his face, though it's possibly took a
photo.
The video was posted by someone claiming to
be the cousin of one of the boys
who was stopped.
The poster didn't respond to a request about
the post, but NPR was able to verify
exactly what the video was about.
It was a video of a young man
who was taken.
We did get a statement from ice, and
they didn't answer questions about this app, but
said nothing new here.
For years, law enforcement across the nation has
leveraged technological innovations to fight crime.
Yeah, I do have a problem with this.
I mean, we could make fun of it,
but we do live in a constitutional republic
where papers please.
And if you don't give your papers, you
get a facial is not cool.
I'm against that.
I don't care what's going on.
Yeah, well, they have the, you know, you
ask for your driver's license all the time.
You have to have a light.
You know, you have to have real I.
D.
To get a plane.
Yes, I know.
And then somebody's got a guy in front
of you that you want to deport.
You want to I think my voice you're
choking up, man.
You're falling apart.
You're choking up, not choking up.
I'm choked.
And so they take a picture of the
guy's face and it shows up as who
it is.
I mean, we've been watching.
We've been primed for this.
If you watch television mysteries and dramas over
the last five years, we've been primed for
it.
Here's the problem.
And they do it on Facebook.
Yeah, that's the problem.
It's like you should not have a Facebook
profile.
This is problem number one.
I don't even have a Facebook account.
Do you?
No, I gave mine up at least 11
years ago.
At least.
And people still it's it's amazing that people
still send me, hey, you got to see
this post.
And it's Facebook.
And I can't see the post was actually,
you know, recently, I don't know when this
started.
Sometimes you can you got to click the
Facebook login thing.
But then if you scroll, then right away
pops up.
Oh, yeah, if you scroll, but if it's
just a video, you can see it.
That's true.
Anyway, we'll play the second clip.
And then the second clip hasn't got no
gimmicks.
It is no gimmicks.
It's gimmick free.
Do we know if this technology except for
Scott Simon, which is gimmick by itself?
Do we know if this technology can be
used to identify essentially everybody?
U.S. citizens?
Well, a group of Democratic senators has been
trying to get answers to that question and
others about this app since September, but haven't
gotten them from ice.
They've called on ice to stop using this
technology and reiterated that demand.
On Monday, my colleague Martin Casti spoke to
Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey.
This type of on demand surveillance is harrowing
and it should put all of us on
guard.
It chills speech.
It erodes privacy.
It ultimately undermines our democracy.
He expressed concern that this tool could be
used against people who criticize the government or
protesters.
What safeguards exist to try to ensure that
these technologies are not abused?
Well, I asked that to ice and DHS
and we didn't hear back.
I also spoke with legal and privacy experts
who told me that our current legal and
regulatory framework just isn't robust enough to ensure
that these kinds of new tools are used
with the appropriate oversight and accountability that's really
needed.
Emily Tucker is with Georgetown Law School Center
on Privacy and Technology.
Immigration powers are being used to justify mass
surveillance of everybody.
And she says it's a mistake to think
this doesn't affect every one of us.
Okay, so my opinion remains the same.
And yes, I'm okay with tools, tools for
immigration, but there's here's the process.
This needs to be very clear who can
use this and under what circumstances.
Just so if you're pulled over, then showing
your driver's license, which you don't even have
to hand off, I don't think technically you
can just hold it against the glass.
But you can also try doing that in
Texas.
It will work in Texas.
Just give them your license.
What difference does it make?
Yeah, listen, you have less road ahead of
you than you have behind you.
But there's a lot of young people.
I don't want them living in a society
where cops just come up to you and
just scan your face to see who you
are.
I don't want that.
I don't.
Now, what's the problem with the immigration enforcement
right now in our sleepy little town of
Fredericksburg?
20 minutes, 15 minutes up the road, we
have boot ranch, boot ranch, you should look
it up, boot ranch, poor house.
No boot ranch is a gated community.
I don't know how many houses a lot
of houses that you cannot buy a house
there for under $2 million.
Most of them are three to $7 million.
It's crazy.
They got private golf course and everything.
It's fine.
But it's perfect.
But they have maid service.
And this is how I know about it.
Because the maids stop showing up.
You know why?
Because ICE came into Fredericksburg and they're not
looking for criminals.
They're just looking for numbers.
Like we got to have numbers.
We have quotas.
We got to arrest people.
And yeah, guess what?
A lot of the maids who have been
here maybe 20 years, they've been arrested and
deported.
So they're not just kicking out.
They weren't technically arrested.
No, they wouldn't.
What do you mean they were taken into
custody?
Yeah, but that's different than being arrested.
Oh, be a dick about it.
You know what I mean?
No, I'm not being a dick about him.
He's trying to your words matter.
You're the one that says that all the
time.
So they have been deported.
Yeah.
And yes, they were here illegally.
But this is no longer just looking for
criminals.
There's there are ICE patrols.
I understand why people get freaked out about
this, particularly in Boot Ranch, because who's going
to clean their homes?
And this is a real problem.
Poor people.
Yeah.
But, you know, it's it's gotten a little
bit beyond we're kicking out criminals.
They're just doing quotas now.
Chicago, I don't know.
But when you're in Fredericksburg trolling for for
cleaners, which Yeah, you're going to find a
lot of that.
And yes, they should be replaced by American
citizens.
But, you know, when you're just walking around
and face scanning everybody, it's I don't like
it.
Well, you should be like this woman, then.
This is the talk anti-constitution said Jen
Zetter.
All right, here's my hot take of today.
I don't think that a society governed by
a document that was written in the seventeen
hundreds by a bunch of drunk white guys
in their 20s who couldn't even conceive of
the existence of the majority of the United
States of America should be used to this
day.
And I don't think that we are going
to have a successful society until we get
rid of the thing and restart because the
founding fathers could not have conceived of my
existence.
They just could not have.
They couldn't conceive of it.
Their brains would have exploded.
So how could that document possibly serve me?
How could it?
We need a new one.
We need to restart.
We need to start over.
This one's trash.
We need to revamp it and get a
new one.
Well, going from what I said to what
she says and saying I should be like
her is rude and just uncalled for.
There's no psychological.
That's OK, because I'm not a baby like
you and whine about it.
I just tell you.
And by the way, I just tell you
straight up.
And by the way, they the founding fathers
were aware of people like her.
Yeah, they were called witches.
I was right there with you.
But this but all of this facial recognition
and digital identity, this is really happening.
Although in France, they're kind of downplaying it
right now because there was a bit of
a fracas.
I got a Euronews debunk report, although sounds
like it could kind of happen anyway.
A claim is circulating online that France is
entering an era of total traceability amid allegations
that the country's digital ID will be directly
tied to personal social media accounts.
This post on X says that the measure
would on paper allow authorities to fight against
the bad guys, but that unofficially it would
be one more step towards a society where
words and opinions are policed.
It attaches a video of Paul Midi, a
member of the French Parliament and of President
Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party, giving an interview in
which he says that the measure would prevent
complete anonymity online to help tackle impunity for
online harassment and other illegality.
However, the caption is wrong.
While French MPs did consider linking the digital
ID to citizen social media, these proposals were
rejected, and the country is not currently poised
to introduce the measure.
The idea first emerged in 2023, as part
of the discussion on the law aimed at
securing and regulating the digital space or SREN
law.
At the time, Midi and others tabled an
amendment that would have required a certification by
a state-approved third party, such as the
digital ID, when creating new accounts on social
media.
The video of Midi attached to the social
media post is from an interview with French
radio station RTL.
It's around the time that politicians were discussing
the proposed amendment, so it's not new.
Ultimately, the amendment faced fierce opposition and was
withdrawn, and the final law came into force
in May 2024 without the measure linking digital
IDs with social media accounts.
As things stand, the digital ID can be
used to verify someone's age when creating a
social media account, for example, but you're not
required to do so, and the digital ID
is not automatically linked to your social media
accounts.
Yeah, I give them one year before that's
required in Europe.
One year max.
That is definitely happening, because they have the
digital ID.
Everybody's got digital ID in Europe, and the
BRIT card, it's going to be tied to
it.
I wish I'd, now I'm irked that I
didn't get this clip of this French woman
who's floating around, attractive lady, floating around telling
people to, some guy got arrested in France
for posting, this is getting like England, posting
pictures of a bunch of migrants just hanging
around, you know, the bakery and, you know,
harassing ladies, and got thrown in jail, this
guy, for posting it.
And so she came out with a video
saying we got to start posting this stuff,
because it's bullcrap what's going on.
But digital ID and facial recognition out of
the blue is different.
Yeah, it's different, but it's all going to
be tied together.
Palantir, man, don't you know, don't you know
Palantir?
Palantir's going to do it.
Palantir, Elon Musk or Palantir, Peter Thiel, they're
all going to kill us.
And they might, they just might.
Hackers will save the day.
Okay.
Meanwhile, oh boy, we've got another drone scaring
people in Brussels.
They're showing video, literally a drone with red
blinking lights saying, I'm a drone.
I'm a drone.
Brussels Zaventem airport is still feeling the aftershock
of Tuesday's drone sightings, which forced the city's
main airport to close and left dozens of
flights grounded.
The country's defense minister told local media that
the incident appeared to be carried out by
professionals intent on destabilizing the country.
All departing and arriving flights Professionals.
I mean, I don't understand a drone.
Someone's flies a drone with a red flashing
light.
It's not, it's not a Reaper drone.
It's just a drone flying around the airport,
which should of course be completely illegal.
Jokers is some teenagers.
Yeah, but the payoff is in the report.
Intent on destabilizing the country.
All departing and arriving flights were temporarily suspended,
forcing hundreds of passengers to spend the night
at the airport, Lees airport used principally as
a cargo hub was also closed due to
drone sightings on Tuesday.
Both airports have now reopened, but officials have
warned that disruptions are expected to continue and
that passengers should be prepared for delays.
Both NATO and the European Union have been
on high alert recently following a string of
airspace violations thought to be carried out by
Russia.
Of course it's Russia, but this is Russia,
but this is no longer drones, a red
flashing light.
That's why.
Yes, but it's no longer drones.
It's hybrid.
This is what we call this.
This is hybrid.
It's hybrid.
And when you're talking hybrid, there is no
one better.
But Mark Ritter to come in and tell
you about the hybrid.
Well, you know, when it comes to two
hybrids and the word is a bit strange,
it's a very strange word.
Because on the hybrid, we have seen assassination
attempts.
We have seen the assassination attempts at John.
Have you seen an assassination attempt in a
hybrid?
Who was except for Trump and Charlie Kirk
was not an attempt was the real one.
In some countries, the jamming of commercial airplanes,
jamming of commercial planes with commercial ever jammed.
Which ones?
Oh, Ursula's.
Okay.
Which could pose great risks, of course, commercial
aviation.
Yes.
We assume an attack on the NHS in
the United Kingdom.
What attack on the NHS in the United
Kingdom?
I don't have the report.
Do you know it?
Can I ask a question?
Yes.
We have people that can hit a target
at, oh, I don't know, 600 yards, you
know, with a scope and the laser spotting
gear.
Why can't we just shoot?
Why don't we have just one sharpshooter at
the airport?
These things aren't that high up.
They're not at 30,000 feet.
You are missing the point, man.
And just shoot the drone.
I don't understand why they let these drones
fly around.
We might need to make the people scared.
Don't you understand this to make the people
scared?
So I don't like the word hybrids.
I do.
I love it.
Okay.
It is.
It is the, uh, uh, it is the
accepted language.
Okay.
It is the birds.
We're just going to, the bird is the
birds.
We use the hybrids.
Clearly, this is something where within NATO and
within our allies, we are working extremely actively
to make sure that.
Oh yes.
We are on the case.
People, NATO is good.
Get your money ready.
Get your tax money ready.
It's all good.
We counter whatever is necessary.
I mean, you take, for example, the situation,
uh, Christmas time last year when the undersea
seacale was cut between Estonia and Finland, we
immediately launched a Baltic Sentry.
And that was launched to make sure that
we would be able to use in the
latest technologies, et cetera, to, to counter what
happened there.
So sometimes it is big, what we do.
Sometimes it is smaller.
Sometimes you cannot see it.
Sometimes it is invisible what we do with
your money.
It's complete.
Don't worry.
It's good.
What we're doing with your tax money.
It's invisible.
But we are working very hard collectively to
make sure that we defend against any threat,
including hybrid threats.
And Russia.
It's always about Russia.
Oh man, these guys.
So Orban, Orban was at the white house,
the president of Hungary.
And this was, this was really interesting because
I'm confused now.
What power does the president have?
Because Hungary is a part of the EU,
no?
Yes.
They're part of the EU.
They are an EU country.
And NATO too.
Yes.
So, but somehow the president of the United
States has jurisdiction over their use of Russian
oil.
I'm a little confused about this.
It was smiles and compliments as U.S.
president Trump welcomed Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.
Meeting in Washington, the two men discussed economic
cooperation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
And just weeks after imposing what Trump called
tremendous sanctions on Russian oil and gas, the
U.S. president has given Hungary a one
-year exemption.
Orban, who's a longtime Trump ally and critic
of Western support for Ukraine, made his case
and welcomed the decision.
It is not possible to secure Hungary's energy
supply and to provide affordable energy to Hungarian
families and businesses if sanctions continue to be
imposed on two key pipelines.
We looked at the issue and we asked
the president to lift the sanctions.
We asked for two pipelines to be exempted
from all sanctions.
International monetary fund figures show Hungary relied on
Russia for 74 percent of its gas and
86 percent of its oil in 2024.
It warned that an EU-wide cutoff of
Russian natural gas alone could force output losses
in Hungary exceeding four percent of GDP.
Trump agreed that Hungary needed reprieve from the
sanctions because of its landlocked position.
He also accused other European countries of buying
Russian oil and gas for years.
It's a great country.
It's a big country, but they don't have
sea.
They don't have the ports.
And so they have a difficult problem.
But when you look at what's happened with
Europe, many of those countries, they don't have
those problems.
And they buy a lot of oil and
gas from Russia.
And as they know, I'm very disturbed by
that because we're helping them.
Shortly before Friday's exemption announcement, Ukraine's President Zelensky
said they cannot let Russia profit from energy
and said they would find a way to
ensure no Russian oil was in Europe.
How does the president of the United States
get to exempt Hungary from from taking Russian
energy through the pipelines?
Is that our sanctions?
Well, no, but Europe has sanctions.
We don't have sanctions on Europe other than
we'll put tariffs on you.
Is it is it exemption from our tariffs
on that?
What, Hungarian salami?
What do we get?
What do we get from Hungary?
Yeah, that's a good question.
There's got to be something from Hungary.
Probably get something from them, you know.
It's just that we run in the show.
I don't know.
You know, this is not a shock to
you.
I was just I was just curious.
It's like maybe the Israelis told us to
do this.
Yeah.
Hey, Scott Besant was on with George Stephanopoulos
this morning.
And I thought it was kind of a
fun exchange.
Because Scott Besant, he can he can get
in people's faces.
Have you noticed this?
He does it in his own with his
own style.
It's a he's a stylizer.
He had a stylist.
He does it.
He's very calm.
He's a stylist.
She's a stylist in more ways than one.
And he's quite calm and he's sharp witted.
And yeah, I think I think I like
Rubio style the best.
Yes.
Yeah.
Rubio wasn't on the morning shows.
It was Rubio's been out of the picture
for a while for some reason.
And for sure.
Well, he's going to.
Oh, well, while you're talking about that, the
Rubio, the stands are back in the picture.
The stands.
Yeah.
The stands.
Yeah.
The stands.
Kazakhstan.
Tajikistan stands.
The stands.
And this this is a great little clip.
Well, I've just several issues were on the
table at the summit between U.S. and
several Central Asian heads of state, among them
rare earth minerals, the sale of Boeing airplanes
and the Abraham Accords.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced soon after
that Kazakhstan, the largest country in the region,
would join them this evening.
I'm also delighted to report that Kazakhstan has
officially agreed.
What country, Mr. President?
Kazakhstan, dude, you heard me.
Kazakhstan is joining in.
Delighted to report that Kazakhstan has officially agreed.
And that's official now.
As of about 15 minutes ago, a tremendous
country with a tremendous leader has officially joined
the Abraham Accords.
At first glance, the move seems hollow.
Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel for
decades, a contrast to countries such as Morocco
and Bahrain that only opened them up as
part of the accords.
For his part, the Kazakh president said that
before the summit, such cooperation would yield economic
dividends.
After the meeting, he expressed his willingness to
maintain strong relations with Washington.
My political will to seize all those unique
opportunities, and I have no doubts that we
have a very bright future as it comes
to our bilateral cooperation.
It could also be that Central Asian countries
in the meeting, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and
Kyrgyzstan, in addition to their abundance of rare
earth minerals, are sandwiched in between Russia and
China, and the U.S. is vying for
favor over its adversaries.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has
announced visits to those countries in 2026.
Rubio's going to the stands.
Oh, he should go to the newest stand.
What's the newest stand?
New York-istan.
I had a boots on the ground report
from W, let me see, WABC, I think.
Let me see.
Yes, ABC New York.
This is the voters, boots on the ground
in Astoria, Queens.
This is Mamdani's home turf.
It looked like a New Year's Eve party,
but this was an election night celebration.
This is citizen app video of overjoyed Zorin
Mamdani supporters who filled 24th Avenue in Astoria
last night to mark the historic results of
a groundbreaking victory.
Young voters, energized by the campaign promises of
a 34-year-old Muslim state assemblyman born
in Uganda, hit the streets to mark the
dawn of a new era.
That's great.
We've got to remember that rundown.
Hold on, let me hear it again.
Young voters, energized by the campaign promises of
a 34-year-old Muslim state assemblyman born
in Uganda, hit the streets to mark the
dawn of a new era in New York
City politics.
I think that it's really amazing that we
have like a nose ring, a movement that
everyone was excited about that was able to
prevail over something that we were all really
worried about.
Mamdani supporters crowded the bohemian hall and beer
garden to watch the election night returns, returns
that quickly confirm what pre-election polls reveal
time and time again.
A sizable lead for the front runner who
saw winning projections about an hour after the
polls closed.
In Mamdani's home district this morning, the excitement
and energy of last night's epic win looms
large.
Astoria resident Hannah Lieberman is also a small
business owner.
I really like that he wasn't bought by
anyone.
I think like those kinds of grassroots campaigns
are so inspiring and what we need.
I mean, I think the big thing is
having better access to housing, expanding the availability
of housing and some of the rent control
that they can pursue.
Affordability, Mr. President.
Affordability.
That's what did it.
So we got a note from one of
our more famous executive producers.
Oh, that was in the business.
Brunetti.
Yeah.
Oh, that guy.
Yes.
So a subject, Mira Nair, Nair, N-A
-I-R, Mira Nair.
Mira Nair.
Yeah.
You know who she is?
No.
She is the famous Hollywood director who's Brunetti's,
who's Mamdani's mom.
And he writes this note, haven't heard much
in the press about her or mention of
her on the show.
Okay.
No, we noticed that too.
She's a sought after director after Monsoon Wedding.
Don't know what the angle is, but there
seems to be something here considering it's not
getting much, if any, play.
If anything, maybe that's why Mamdani is good
with his TikTok videos, question mark.
Not saying she has anything to do with
making them, but maybe.
Just odd that she hasn't been mentioned.
Just odd more hasn't been made of her
being his mom or the lack of attention
to it, especially everyone seems to be love
everything Hollywood.
Now, so I went back and looked at
his videos, the really good ones, like the
Valentine's Day one, and the one he's on
the street.
Two things I noticed.
One, he uses a Hollywood movie style microphone.
He doesn't use a normal microphone.
This is equipment gear from, you know, they're
extended or like a shotgun mic.
They're used, people hold them underneath the actor.
Wait a minute.
What you're saying, he's not using a DJI
mic with a big fuzzy thing on it?
He's not using a DJI mic.
He's not using any normal mic that you
would use if you were doing man on
the street stuff.
It's a Hollywood movie mic that nobody uses.
So his gear.
And if you watch his videos, there are
three and four camera shoots.
They're beautifully edited.
Overlays and all kinds of fade ins, fade
outs.
It's slick.
It looks like the old TV show, Homicide,
Life on the Streets.
The shaky cam comes and goes.
And there's a shot of him talking to
somebody with the camera crew.
Part of the camera crew behind him, and
you see two people next to each other.
One guy with extremely high-end gear and
another woman right next to him filming with
an iPhone next to each other.
So you can intersperse the slick look with
the shaky cam look or with the iPhone
look.
And you go back and look at these
and think of them as being produced by
Hollywood.
You go, oh yeah, duh.
And so this was rigged.
People were scammed.
Rigged?
That's not rigged.
That's great.
That's smart.
Oh, it is great.
I mean, if you look back on it
as professionally done, they are slick.
But it's a scam.
People have gotten taken to the cleaners in
New York by this guy and his mom.
Hold on a second.
You mean Hollywood-style production has convinced people
of something, has tricked people?
You don't say.
I know.
I was stunned.
Stunned.
Shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.
Clearly, Brunetti should have been producing Andrew Cuomo's
videos.
What a misser.
Cuomo did have some videos that came out
at the end that were all done by
AI.
His AI videos, yeah, they were pretty funny.
His AI videos.
They were very funny, but it was a
little too little too late.
But Cuomo has no personality.
And what the first lady said, the first
nose ring said, is exactly what went down.
Well, at least there's someone we could get
behind.
He's our age.
He's, you know, they're not really, something, something,
rent-free.
Okay, whatever.
Yeah, something, something, rent-free.
Something, something, free.
Something, free, fast buses.
Yeah, something free.
And he's young.
He's attractive.
He's got cool videos.
And then they've got the sex, you know,
the guy accused of sexual abuse.
Creepy, creepy old guy.
That's what it was.
There was just no candidates.
No candidates.
Well, they had plenty of opportunities to bring
up candidates.
The Republicans gave up on the city.
Well, you can't blame them.
And then the Democrats had a bunch of
stiffs.
Yeah, yeah.
So this kid comes in with his professionally
produced videos.
But even Sliva, I mean, man, the amount
of archive footage, but it's still, it's not
what people, people want, don't want to see
guys coming in, kicking ass, cleaning up the
subways.
No, they want free.
That's just, that's what these millennials want, free.
I can't afford to live here.
Have you considered booming somewhere else?
No, I want to live in New York.
I want to live here.
We've got bodegas.
I don't want you to pay for it.
We've got bodegas.
Yeah.
I am, I'm telling you, I'm very much
looking forward to the day when daughter number
three says, ah, I'm a little short this
month.
I'm like, call your boy.
It's city hall.
Mom, Tommy, call him.
Yeah.
She voted for him.
She definitely did.
Yeah.
She was.
But who else you're going to vote for?
She, she was sending us memes.
I love her dearly and we can, we
can have our disagreements.
That's what I love so much about her.
Uh, she doesn't go all nuclear, you know,
she just grown up in that regard.
She sent a, it was a meme.
It was like a, a pride flag with
in shape, like a gun pointing at someone's,
I think it was, was it maybe even
a Trump head?
Let me see.
Um, no.
Uh, so it was, uh, an arm.
I should, I should send this to you
for the newsletter.
It was an arm with a gun pointed
at a black silhouetted head, not looking like
anybody that had really who's bent forward.
So the guns at the back of the
head and it's pride colors and says, now
put the pronouns back in email.
And this is exactly what they care about.
Yeah.
I had a, Oh man, I didn't get
that clip.
Another one I passed on, uh, of some
tech talker going nuts about how great it
is that woke his back.
None of you saw that.
No, no, no.
I G didn't hit my newsfeed.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's go to Besant because Besant's a grown
up and he's funny and he's sparring with
Stephanopoulos and throwing stuff in his face.
It was cute.
And we're joined now by the treasury secretary,
Scott Besant.
Mr. Besant, thank you for joining us this
morning.
We've just tried to play this.
Hold on.
You know, I'm surprised as Stephanopoulos is a
little more humorful and, uh, and quick witted
and says, and has funny material because you
know, he's married to a comedian.
I did not know this.
Who is she?
Oh, I can't remember.
Who is he?
I'm sorry.
I messed up the punchline.
That would have been funny.
Yeah, you're right.
You blew it.
Uh, we can judge, you know, we can
do it in post.
Um, so, uh, I can't remember her name,
but she used to be on a lot
of stuff.
She's, um, mostly a skit comic.
Her name is Allie Wentworth.
Yeah.
Allie Wentworth.
Yeah.
Hmm.
And she's very, like all female comedians, she
must be tough at the dinner table.
And so far as, you know, having the
one niner, the retort pick up something she
was on in living color, which was, uh,
yes, she was one of the actresses.
Wow.
She did impressions of Cher, Amy Fisher, Hillary
Clinton, princess Diana, Brooke Shields, Sharon Stone.
Huh.
It's interesting.
He has one of those cute faces because,
but because she's a comedian, every picture makes
her look odd.
You know, she has to make a face.
Yeah.
Um, they met on a blind date in
2001.
Yeah.
It's a Mary Stephanopoulos.
She must've been blind.
November.
Yeah, there it is.
You got one in, you got one in.
I'm back.
I'm back, everybody.
Finally.
Back to Besson.
And we're joined now by the treasury secretary,
Scott Besson.
Mr. Besson, thank you for joining us this
morning.
We've just heard about all these impacts from
government shutdown right now.
Are we starting to see, see a permanent
impact on the economy?
Uh, sure, George.
And good, good to be with you.
And he's already got something ready.
You know, good to be with you.
And you know, it's possible that, that tough
at the dinner table that he, and, uh,
and what's her name.
I forgot her name already.
Uh, Wentworth alley Wentworth.
They're like, ah, you got to get this
best and you got to get him.
You got to get him good.
I'll get you some one lines, but Besson
came prepared.
We've seen an impact on the economy from
day one, but it's getting worse and worse.
Uh, we had a fantastic economy under president
Trump the past two quarters.
And now there are estimates that the economy,
uh, economic growth for this quarter could be
cut by as much as half if the
shutdown continues.
And what's your correspondent didn't talk about there,
George was there's of course the human costs
and we're going to have the busiest travel
day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving.
And you know, Americans should look to five
democratic senators to come across the aisle to
open that.
But on the other side, there's also cargo
is being slowed down.
So, you know, we could end up with
a shortages, whether it's in our supply chains,
whether it's for the holidays.
So, you know, cargo and people are both
being slowed down here and that's for safety
sake, George.
Okay.
So he kept his powder dry.
President continues to post about ending the filibuster.
Is that, is that the best way to
the end of shutdown right now?
Is that what the administration position is?
No, George, the best, the best way to
do it.
And look, you were involved in a lot
of these in the nineties.
And you basically called the Republicans terrorist.
And you said that it is not the
responsible party that keeps the government close.
Wow.
Oh wait, it gets better.
It gets better.
And so what we need is five brave,
moderate democratic senators to cross the aisle because
right now it is 52 to 3, 52
to 3, five Democrats can cross the aisle
and reopen the government.
That's the best way to do it, George.
I can disagree with you about the history
there, but we don't have a history lesson
right now.
Let's talk about, let's talk about what's happening
right now.
I've got all your quotes here.
I am sure.
I'm sure you do.
But let's talk about the situation.
So you got one, one purchase on Amazon
this week.
And that's very much what you said.
The best way is for five democratic senators
to come across the aisle.
What are we on vote 13, 14, 15.
Mike Johnson got the reopening out of the
house very quickly.
And what's changed since the spring, George, is
Chuck Schumer's poll numbers.
He had a clean continuing resolution in the
spring.
And why are Democrats doing this now, George?
Again, you've been involved with this.
Explain what's changed.
Senator Chris Murphy gave the game away this
week when he said, well, now it's our
advantage to keep the government closed.
They have turned the American people into pawns.
I feel the best of just really running
the tables on Stephanopoulos with this one.
You know, pulling up his books, saying this
is what you said when you called the
Republicans terrorists.
Yes, Stephanopoulos is not very good at defending
himself.
He starts to.
Yeah, exactly.
Stumbles.
He fumbles.
He stutters.
He tries to push back.
He doesn't take.
He never takes the guy on.
No, no, he would.
If he was any good, he would say,
yes, this in the past, I have said
that you're correct.
In fact, you can quote me if you
want.
But the way I see it now, it's
different.
No, it's all you have to say.
You just say they were what I said
is all you have to say.
And then the guy with the best report,
because best and always you had this rehearsed.
The best he could say was, well, what's
different about it?
And then if Stephanopoulos was keeping up, he
said, there's a lot different about it.
It's a different circumstance.
We were they pulled the plug with a
very there's a pushback against the big, beautiful
bill, which was something they didn't want.
And then he could start to bore him
with bullcrap.
And then Bessett would have to back up.
Bessett could lose this.
But no, he knows that Stephanopoulos is lousy.
All he had to say was, I saw
a bird today.
President has also come forward with a new
proposal overnight saying it's time instead to do
away with Obamacare and said to have the
money go directly to the people.
Do you have a formal proposal to do
that?
We don't have a formal proposal.
But what I have noticed over time is
that the Democrats give all these bills or
Orwellian names, the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation
Reduction Act, Patriot Act, Republicans, and we end
up with just the opposite.
The Affordable Care Act has become unaffordable.
And the Inflation Reduction Act set off the
greatest inflation in 50 years.
He was well prepared for this.
Well, I'm a little confused because the president
been posting about that overnight and into this
morning.
But you're not proposing that to the Senate
right now.
We're not proposing it to the Senate right
now.
No.
Then why is the president posting about it?
Because he's trolling you, George.
George, the president's posting about it.
But again, we have got to get the
government reopened before we do this.
We are not going to negotiate with-
Terrorists.
The Democrats until they reopen the government.
It's very simple.
Reopen the government, then we can have a
discussion.
By the way, the word around town on
the shutdown, and when I say the word
around town, you know what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
90 days.
What?
90 days.
Okay, so that's good news.
That means it won't be 90 days.
That's funny because that's the first thing I
said.
Oh, well, it'll be over next week then.
Yeah, that's the word around town.
That's the whisper number.
Oh, no.
And it goes like this.
Uh, yeah, it's going to be the Trump's
going to keep it shut down for 90
days so he can really find out what
we really need to pay and get rid
of all the other stuff we don't need
to pay for.
Yeah.
The problem, of course, with the 90 days
theory is that that's way past Thanksgiving.
People, even though the comedians joke of the
day, all of them are using the same
line.
Bill Maher even used it on his monologue,
which is that, oh, Thanksgiving, we're not going
to be able to travel, so we won't
have to see our lousy relatives.
This is good news, not bad news.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So that's the joke.
And the fact is that there's enough weak
-kneed Democrats that are moderates that are going
to be worried and are going to have
to because they're going to take it up
to 20 percent.
And like you said, which has not been
discussed, the fact is you can't just knock
it down 10 or 20 percent without causing
scheduling issues across the board, making things terrible.
Oh, it's going to be horrible.
So you so demise will shut down the
whole system.
And and by the way, that shuts that
shuts down cargo.
It shuts down Amazon.
It shuts down everything.
Hey, and explain this to me just while
we're on the topic.
So our UPS guy, I know our people,
I know our mail, our mail carrier.
I know the UPS guy.
I know them all because it's the same
people.
So he drops off a package for and
he's got another guy with him with a
with like an orange vest on with, you
know, all he missed was a hard hat
and a clipboard.
Like, what's this going on?
He rings the bell.
Hey, how are you doing, UPS guy?
He said, hey, good.
Yeah, I just want to introduce you to
this guy for the holidays.
We have a lot of civilians.
It's funny.
He said civilians.
Yeah.
Well, that means he won't have the full
uniform, but he'll have the vest on.
I saw the vest.
It was a orange reflective vest that had
UPS on it.
He said, and they'll just be in there.
So basically a door dash guy was an
older gentleman.
He actually had his head bowed a little
bit.
I was like, hey, hey, civilian, how are
you?
Hey, civilian, how are you doing?
I shook his hand.
Yeah, I just want you to know that,
you know, so if you see someone with
a regular car driving up, you don't get
freaked out.
You come out guns blazing, dogs loose.
I just thought it was interesting.
Didn't they fire like 30,000 people, and
now they're hiring civilians to jump in for
the Christmas rush?
I don't know what's going on.
Okay.
Anyway, final clip from Besant.
I'm skipping over everything.
And now we go to the dividend.
Everybody gets money.
Do you have a proposal, a formal proposal
to give a $2,000 dividend to every
American?
I haven't spoken to the president about this
yet.
But the $2,000 dividend could come in
lots of forms, in lots of ways, George.
It could be just the tax decreases that
we are seeing on the president's agenda.
No tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto
loans.
So, you know, those are substantial deductions that,
you know, are being financed in the tax
bill.
I want a check.
No, that's chicken.
That's exactly what he said.
He gave it away.
You're not getting a check.
That's what you're getting.
Yeah, I want a check.
You're getting a deduction on your loan for
your car.
That's no good.
I want a check with President Trump's face
on it and his signature, happy smiling.
Here you go, citizen.
Here's $2,000.
That's what I want.
Yeah, that would be a good promotion.
Well, that's what he should be doing, you
know, because we're taking in billions and trillions
and gazillions of money.
So anyway, I sincerely hope, because you're right,
a lot of our producers work in government.
And I have to say, most of them
are pretty upbeat still because, of course, they're
no agenda listeners and they were prepared.
You know, they save some money because they,
huh, this is probably going to happen somewhere
down the road.
So they made sure they had, you know,
contingency to run this when this happened.
But it's, you know, it's hurting a lot
of people.
It's getting real now.
And boy, it's by this coming Friday when
we're up to 10 percent, I think you're
pretty much going to see passenger travel at
a standstill.
I, you know, you did the right thing
by not traveling.
Yeah.
We canceled our vacation.
And Tina's immediately like, oh, we can do
this.
We can go here.
We can go there.
I need a new MacBook.
Like what?
What?
She doesn't need to take a vacation.
I got an idea.
Yeah.
Take a vacation in Dallas.
Dallas is a great town.
We actually have discussed that about going up
to Dallas because Dallas has this new.
Now, what was it called?
How far is it to drive to Dallas
for you?
Five hours.
About five.
That's not that bad.
It's like me going to Reno.
I'm trying to think the name of this.
They have this new thing called Cosm.
Cosm Dallas, C-O-S-M dot com.
And you can well, you can see sports
games there.
It's kind of like a miniature sphere in
Vegas.
Only it's much smaller for a couple hundred
people.
And you can see they have a couple
of movies that you can see and they
have games.
I think the Matrix is playing.
They have a special version of it.
It's a complete immersive experience.
And with the games, I'm not, as you
know, not a sports ball guy, but man,
I mean, they have you literally sitting on
the 50 yard line and the switches and
the whole thing swivels around and then you're
behind the goalposts and then you're in.
I'm looking at it now.
It's super cool.
My buddy Vic told me about this.
I'm like, wow, you should go to this.
I might go to it.
We might go spend it.
You go to the.
There's a couple of great hotels in Dallas.
You can spend the night.
Yeah, I could.
And there's some good restaurants in Dallas.
Yes.
The only problem with Dallas, in my opinion,
is the people that live there.
No, they're fun to watch.
They got high hair.
They're arrogant.
They think that Dallas is the greatest place
in the world.
They wouldn't live anyplace else ever.
I wouldn't even consider it.
Yeah.
They're self absorbed.
A lot of pretty girls and they're all
self absorbed and they're all Dallas girls.
What I've always liked about Dallas, you go
in the restaurant.
It's much more.
I mean, we're white.
We're a white town.
You go to Dallas.
There's just all kinds of good looking people
of all colors.
You immediately realize, wow, we live in a
really white town in Fredericksburg.
It's enjoyable.
And I got friends up there.
So you're right.
Maybe we'll do that.
We might have a boots on the ground
from Dallas.
Yeah.
Hey, with that, I want to thank you
for your courage.
In the morning to you, the man who
put president Trump's picture on the $2,000
check.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end.
Mr. John C.
Yeah.
In the morning, he was in the morning.
I should see most of the in the
morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Stop right now.
1930 still a little bit low, but we're,
we're crawling back.
We had a lot of a DNS issues
and stuff for a while there.
And I think a lot of people are
just going to give up.
It's going to give up.
Yeah.
It happens.
Mimi's complained a couple of times about right
in the show.
It goes to a different show and then
comes back.
Well, that's a network issue.
It's amazing.
Any of this stuff works at all, man.
I'm really, I know.
I always say that when I say it,
she says, you're right.
Yeah.
When you, when you remind people of that
and say, remember when you used to call
me from a roof, Hey, we're doing this
over, over the internet.
I'm in California.
He's in Texas.
We don't have much latency.
Almost none.
No, not with the system we're using.
And we have a, uh, and it works.
It works.
Do you remember do it for three hours
or plot?
Uh, actually more than three hours, unfortunately, but
it was just long.
Uninterrupted yak, yak, yak, yak, yak.
And, and, and fidelity's good.
I used to have a whole 19 inch
rack filled with gear and wires and patch
cables.
And now it's just one box.
It's got it all in there.
The same names I used to have 19
inch rack thing.
Ampex.
Yeah.
Ampex used Apex.
I'm sorry.
Apex used to have, yeah, that was a
big bottom.
Yeah.
Yes.
Right.
The Apex big, but I still have the
big bottom 19.
I have the big bottom.
I have, I have one of them in
the closet.
We got big bottoms.
Yes.
I had my Warsanis, uh, sound processor.
Uh, I mean, all kinds of stuff we
did.
And now, I mean, it's amazing.
It's amazing.
I remember back in, what do you remember
there, Jim?
Back in the mid nineties, when I had,
we had the think new ideas, my company,
we were going all over the country.
And I mean, then you didn't have zoom.
You don't, you needed to pitch something to
Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch.
You went to St. Louis, you got on
a plane granted.
There was no TSA.
You just walked to the gate and there
was fine.
You, you got to go through that little
metal, a couple of ladies standing there with,
with wands.
Let me wand you.
Okay.
You threw your keys in a, in a
little box.
Okay.
Yep.
Yeah.
Wand you.
Uh, and then you just walked to the
gate, but you need to do pitch.
You had to fly places and now we
just do zoom, zoom, baby, just zoom.
You do a pitch on zoom is fantastic.
So this is when Christina was four or
five years old.
And I got one of the first video
telephones, man, I wish I still had it.
And I don't even remember what it was,
what brand it was, but it was a,
it was a white phone.
It had a receiver.
I pick up the receiver, you know, push
buttons to call.
And it had a little screen on it,
which had tilt up.
And then you'd connect to the phone on
the other end.
And then you'd get like one frame per
every three seconds.
Like, Hey, it's dad.
Now it's just as general.
It's just a FaceTime right from the palm
of your hand.
If people don't realize this is amazing.
Now you want a song.
You just say, give me a song.
Your phone gives you a song or you
say, Hey, make me some art.
Now, strangely enough, you still have to have
some funny in you to tell the computer
what to do, but at least you can
do it.
Hey, just give me some art.
That's the world we live in.
Appreciate it.
You know, I was looking, this is your
bonus content.
I was looking at the cost of running
my own AI model at home because the
biggest problem with, you know, as, as we
discussed on the last episode is getting consistency.
So if I wanted to clone my voice
and have it consistently sound the same after
some tweaking of the model and training, you
can do that, but not when you're in
a cloud type scenario where you might be
hitting another machine or literally the temperature changes
in the data center.
I mean, there's all kinds of variables that
make it impossible for these cloud-based AI
models to consistently deliver you the same results.
I mean, you can type in the same
prompt.
You'll get something different every single time.
Yeah, you will.
And now I've been watching a lot of
these YouTubers and they've got, they've got huge
Nvidia stacks.
They're doing comparisons with the top end Nvidia
GPU and the, the Mac G, what is
it?
The M4 Super Pro, which has 512 gigs
of RAM, which you can use for either
CPU or GPU.
And the results are very similar to what
you get out of ChatGPT or Grok.
The cost, $10,000 to $15,000.
That's actually not that bad.
I know, but is it, so is that
what this is costing?
Like to have Adam Vibecode at home, are
they running like a $10,000 install for
me?
Yeah.
No wonder they're going, they're going out.
I mean, well, they're not going broke.
They're not going broke.
That's the joke of it.
Yeah.
Cause people keep shoveling money in.
Yeah.
It's a Ponzi scheme.
It's amazing.
It's a Ponzi scheme.
They always work.
Well, until they don't.
Until they don't.
Yeah.
Well, and, and I see there's a big
discussion now about, well, Sam Altman is basically
saying we're too big to fail.
So, you know, if, if Nvidia, well Nvidia
is okay, but if chat, if open AI
starts to stumble, can't get money, then maybe
just go to the government and say, well,
you know, Mr. Trump and Mr. President, this
is a, you know, this we're in a
race.
Yeah.
The problem with that theory is, is simple.
Elon Musk.
Cause Elon Musk has got Trump's here.
Trump is going to say, what do you
think about these guys too big to fail?
Elon Musk, who has a feud with the
chat GPT guys is going to say, no,
let him sink.
Who cares?
Here's the bonus clip.
Since we're talking about him, love him or
hate him.
Elon Musk boldly goes where others don't dare
in space, inserting himself into politics and social
media with his takeover and rebrand of Twitter
as X he's had just as many failures
as he has had successes.
His latest success convincing 75% of Tesla
shareholders to approve a record $1 trillion pay
package.
$1 million is a big pile of cash.
The equivalent of nearly a century of work
for the average human 1 billion is a
hefty pile.
And the number of stars in our Milky
way galaxy $1 trillion, one with 12 zeros.
Think of it as row upon row of
bills, filling a football field completely.
The monster payout is contingent on Tesla's autonomous
vehicles, robo taxis, and humanoid robots, all seeing
incredible success.
Profit needs to skyrocket along with Tesla stock.
The fact that one in four shareholders wanted
to go in another direction, I think is
telling.
There was some concern that Elon Musk might
quit as CEO if he didn't get what
he wanted.
An endorsement of Elon's ability to steer the
EV maker, even as sales and profit tumble.
It was a referendum on the very future
of technology.
A vote of confidence in Musk's vision for
the future of robotics and AI.
Analysts say this record compensation sets a precedent,
pushing other tech CEOs to ask for more.
The deal was so controversial that even the
Pope weighed in voicing concern about rising income
inequality at a time when many warned the
AI bubble could come crashing down.
Yeah, what a publicity stunt.
That's great.
He's not getting a nickel.
And in this guy, by the way, if
you hear the word, there's two words I
always look at as a code.
Telling.
Oh, it's telling.
It's telling.
Telling.
It's called for your left winger.
Chilling is another one.
If you see that, anyone using it.
Oh, it's chilling.
Oh, what he did was chilling.
Left wing code.
These are communists.
You know, increasingly good Texas boys, good friends
of mine who drive trucks, trucks like a
periodontist, a dentist.
These are good friends of mine.
Born and raised in one in El Paso,
one here in Fredericksburg.
Sixth generation Fredericksburg German.
He lives on the compound with a family,
400 acre ranch, buying Teslas.
And they're kind of like, oh yeah, I
bought a Tesla.
I'm like, what?
Are you a communist?
What are you doing?
He said, you're buying battery cars?
And they say, yeah, I got to admit,
I just really like being able to drink
that extra beer and have the car drive
me home.
These things are outrageous.
They do indeed drive you complete self-drive,
no hands on the wheel, no touching it
every 30 seconds.
They drive you all the way home.
It's, it is compelling.
I have to say.
What are you going to get one so
you can have a beer?
How about this for an idea?
Don't drink and drive.
Hello?
I think it's cheaper to get a driver.
That's my, I'm like, yeah, and those Teslas
are expensive.
Yeah.
Once you get a guy with a hat
to drive you, that's cheaper.
I got Robert's garage blows up.
You'll know the reason why.
I'm just, I'm just amazed.
I'm amazed.
Well, you know, Elon Musk is now saying,
oh, the next Tesla might fly.
If he builds a car that flies, I'm
in.
Yeah.
Okay.
He said this about that.
What you were referring to there is the
Roadster 2.
The Roadster 2.
Yes.
At which some people have already put their
down payment on for 200 grand or whatever
it is.
And yes, he made that he, this guy
is a master of promotion.
Oh yeah.
And you know, he's seen as an industrialist
and all these other things and he's smart.
He's not a dumb guy, but, but his
real skill is in promotion and he does
it like falling off a log.
It's so easy for him.
The trillion dollar deal and gets the Pope
to say something.
Give me a, what's the Pope got to
do with it?
I would love the Pope to say, what
is up with this podcast?
There's on no agenda.
This is, this is, please Pope, please, please.
I beg of you say that.
Yeah, no, he is the master.
There's so many flying car scams out there
and, and yeah, sure.
They'll fly for 20 minutes.
You can't go anywhere.
Yeah, it has to be electric because it
would, it may, it's compounded by the fact
that he's electric only.
Yeah.
This is the problem.
If it gets in the air, I mean,
maybe a good, you can fly over a
traffic jam and land again and get back
on the road.
Maybe that, that would do it.
And you always, when these Tesla guys said,
have you, did you go to Dallas in
your Tesla?
Yeah, I did.
Well, how did it go?
It went great.
I said, did you have coffee?
Yeah, I love, you know, we had like,
you know, 30 minutes of coffee break on,
Oh, because you were charging.
Brunetti drove his cyber truck to Hollywood.
Yeah.
He must've stopped along the way.
Yeah.
He has a long story.
Yeah, he did a couple of times and
apparently they have it set up.
The, the truck itself sets you up so
you can have these short stops along the
way.
Yeah.
The navigator tells you 10 minutes here, 10
minutes there, 10 minutes there.
Like, like a douche.
Get, get, get your, get, listen, get Alex,
get yourself a Corvette, you know, maybe a,
maybe get a 67, you know, cool looking
one.
Actually the newest Corvettes are the coolest looking
ones.
The mid-engines are beautiful.
Yeah.
The mid-engines are beautiful, but they're just
gorgeous.
But I'm talking to a movie guy, a
Hollywood guy, get yourself a 67 Corvette red
with that white panel on the side and
have her put it.
Well, you're thinking 57 with the white panel.
I'm sorry, 57.
You're right.
Get a scarf for Alex.
You know, her head's in the scarf.
The scarf is flying.
You got your shades on James Dean.
Her scarf gets caught in the wheels and
she, and she has her head.
No, a lot of publicity.
Well, that is true.
That would be good for his next movie.
Hollywood producer, wife killed in freak accident.
Killed in the Corvette.
In the Corvette.
But that's romantic.
Driving that ugly box and stopping 10 minutes
everywhere along the road.
That is the antithesis of America, my friend.
That is not who we are.
You tell him.
I'm going to tell him.
I may have to, I may take a
vacation out to the ranch, but you know,
if I drove, if I drove my buddy's
Tesla, it would take me three weeks.
It'd take you three weeks to get there
for sure.
All right.
So back to the AI.
Of course, this is a value for value
podcast.
And I do want to mention that you
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Podcast gurus is my daily driver.
I really love it.
Just as one of them that you can
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And there's great strides being made.
They're doing more with value for value.
Now strides, it's called strides.
Hey, strides, it's strides.
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You can boost us.
You can boost right into the show.
It shows up through Stripe.
You can leave a message even.
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But we say value for value.
That means whatever value you get out of
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You can do it with time, talent, or
treasure.
Now the talent, we do have a lot
of talented people.
In fact, the artwork for episode 1814.
Hold on a second.
Let me get my shownotes.com.
We titled that Needle Drop, which a lot
of people thought was very funny.
And then I explained for 20 minutes what
that was.
And I think some people appreciated it because
they didn't know what needle drop was.
Or taping your spouse as a boundary violation.
Who knows what taping is anymore?
Yeah, that's true.
Now, by the way, the needle drop thing
came up at the dinner conversation.
And when you said the first thing that
came up was like, oh, it's so silent,
you could hear a needle drop.
Oh, interesting.
But that's a pin.
That's a pin drop.
Yeah, I realize it's a pin.
That's what they're saying is.
But that's the first thing that came to
mind.
Really?
They didn't think about a vinyl disc?
Not immediately.
Well, actually, then once I explained it, they'd
say, oh, yeah, that's what we were thinking.
It needed explaining.
That's the point.
Right there.
It needs explaining.
So the artwork, which is always very important.
No agenda.
Artgenerator.com is where you can upload all
of your AI slop.
Came to us from Nestworks, a real artist.
And this was an artist at work.
I don't know what tools he used, but
this Gigachad with the vinyl and then the
C prompt go to toe tapper.
The way the robot Gigachad was positioned in
front of the no agenda letters.
This is high quality work here.
I don't think this was 100 percent A
.I. Do you?
No, not at all.
It may not.
In fact, it may be zero way that
I could even come close to this.
The one thing that thing at the top
go to toe tapper, this is never going
to produce that and be misspelled.
By the way, Gitmo jams dot com, everybody,
it's up and running.
Gitmo jams dot com.
All your A.I. slop all the time.
Twenty four, seven end of show mixes A
.I. slop soon.
It will be the place to get your
A.I. music.
So go to toe tapper was perfect.
That was the deal clincher right there.
Yeah, that was perfect.
And Nestworks.
Thank you.
Thank you, brother.
Good job.
Let me just see what else was there
that we looked at that generated.
Let's take a quick little.
I like the piece next to the slop
thing from Coach Joe, but it was not
going to be used because you couldn't read
anything on it.
But I thought it was a cute piece.
We didn't talk about it.
I use the dawn of a better day
from Jeffrey Ray.
Yeah.
Which one for the newsletter with the New
York or with the sunrise?
The New York with the sunrise in the
back.
Yeah.
It was very orange.
Of course, it's Jeffrey Ray.
You know, we see orange.
You don't think Trump wasn't that bad.
It didn't bother me so much.
Even the letters are orange.
This should be why you like Jeffrey Ray
also did the Tucker two and the letters
are white.
She's actually a white in there somehow.
But look how washed out that thing is.
What Tucker to Tucker to it's washed out.
It doesn't look washed out to me.
That may be you.
We have to remind people that you're colorblind.
That's washed up.
That's not washed.
That's washed up.
Not washed out.
You have to understand.
That's the email I get at least once
a day.
You washed up, Vijay.
Luckily, Mossad is paying.
You should say, yes, I shower daily.
Luckily, Mossad is paying the bills.
We're all good.
Yeah, we're not paying the bills.
We're not.
We're not good.
In fact, man, we got we got worse.
Our intelligence money.
We haven't seen that for a while.
No, no, I don't know.
Well, they're all furloughed.
No.
Oh, yeah, they're probably all.
Yeah, that's probably that's the problem.
That's the problem.
So keep keep trying, everybody.
Once again, it still takes creative thought, good
ideas.
I don't care what tool you use.
Good ideas result in good products.
And there were some some.
Now, there weren't a lot of good ideas,
honestly.
Just a few.
No, this piece one.
One hands down, hands down.
So now we go to the treasure portion
of our value for value model.
This is where we thank everybody.
Fifty dollars and above.
So we're very transparent.
Can't get more transparent than that.
And we tell you exactly who sent it
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And we have a special segment for those
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In that case, we'll we'll thank you.
Of course, we'll read your note as a
thanks.
And we will also give you an official
Hollywood title.
You, too, can be just like Brunetti and
be an associate executive producer of the best
podcast in the universe.
Now, you can't be Brunetti because if you're
three hundred dollars and we become an executive
producer, that's a much bigger deal than Brunetti.
And you can even stand next to him
proudly at IMDb Dotcom.
And we will read your note.
So right off the bat, saving, saving our
bacon, literally saving our bacon is Sir Kevin
Keeper of the Spee, which I think is
his dog from Portland, Oregon.
He comes in with a rubberizer boost.
India.
Stand by.
Thirty three.
Rubberizer out.
That's right.
He comes in with three thousand three hundred
and thirty three dollars and thirty four cents,
which is one extra penny.
Which let me see what he says here.
ITM Goods, sirs.
With this rubberizer donation duly modified by one
penny.
There it is.
One penny to observe all proper and official
customs.
I would like to hereby be known as
Sir Kevin Keeper of the Spee, Secretary General
and Duke of Portland.
You got it.
Title change, everything all set.
And he also gets an international peace prize
with your blessings as always.
Long live payments sent by by.
What is this?
Square.
What does it say here, John?
I have to look at it.
Long live payments sent by.
We look forward.
Long live his payment by squirk, by squire,
it says.
Squire.
OK.
Long live notes of brevity.
Oh, yes.
And long live with no agenda.
Your humble servant, producer Sir Kevin Keeper of
the Speed.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Kevin.
Really appreciate it.
This was needed, as you'll hear.
Short.
Well, it would have been a short donation
segment if some people hadn't sent in long
notes.
The I will say that he sent this
in a while back.
1031.
Notice the date.
Oh, yes.
What is up with that?
Well.
It's been good.
We've got good back and forth.
Where's how come this hasn't shown up?
He's wanted this to show up forever.
So here we are.
November 6th or 7th, 8th, 8th, 9th.
It took over a week, week and a
half or something.
I guess a week.
Was there a check?
Yeah.
Oh, OK.
Was a check in two notes.
He has a second note, which you may
have a copy of, but it wasn't meant
to be read.
I don't have a second.
No, no, I don't know.
I should have just got a copy.
Sorry.
Don't have it.
Was it personal?
Oh, I was just saying what a great
guy I am.
You you're mean to me.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's personal, obviously.
So it was something like that.
Oh, so this next note is a request
for me to read it in my best.
Mark, this is your note to read because
he wants you to read it as Mark
Rutte.
I think it's a she.
She is Loes van Opzeland-Kolhoff from Heilo
in the Netherlands.
333.33. L-O-E-S is a
female's name in Holland.
Loes.
Loes is a female name.
Heilo is.
L-O-E-S.
Loes.
Yes, that's a very, very female Dutch name.
Loes.
Hoi, Adam.
Please read this in your best Mark Rutte
voice.
Dear Adam and John, I'm listening to your
show since the end of 2018 after being
hit in the mouth for many, many times
by my husband.
Oh, it hurts.
You have been the voice of reason and
kept me sane during the vape wars.
I worked in a vape shop.
A vape shop?
That is amazing that you worked in the
vape shop.
That is fantastic.
She goes on to say, I wanted to
be a dame for my 40th birthday on
the 9th of November.
Please put me on the birthday list.
But inflation and other financial setbacks don't make,
didn't make it possible.
It's possible now, ain't it?
Yes, it's very good.
Still, I wanted to donate.
You give me a lot of value, more
than I can ever pay you back.
Every time I doubted if I should donate
it, I saw a lot of 33s, 1111s,
8008s coming by the supermarket I work.
So the universe is telling me to donate.
So please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
Jingles.
Vape wars.
Look at that use.
And it's true.
Please give my husband, Pelosi, jobs karma.
He starts a new job in January and
a travel karma for us because we're going
to visit friends in America during Christmas.
Four more years.
Grootjes, grootjes, from Luz.
Hey, Luz, tell me where you're going to
be.
Are you going to be anywhere near Texas?
I will come to see you.
That would be fun.
And bring some Dutch licorice, please.
Oh, my gosh.
Can you see that juice?
That's true.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You know, I should say that all Dutch
people know this, that whenever you visit someone
from a Dutchman or someone who grew up
in Holland, who no longer lives in the
country, you have to bring Dutch licorice with
you.
And the other day, someone sent me four
bags of Dutch licorice.
It's like crack.
I most Americans hate it.
It's salty black licorice.
But, oh, man, it's so good.
It's like Vegeta, Marmite, Marmite, Marmite.
Yeah, it's like Vegeta, Marmite.
It's salty and terrible.
No, it's wonderful.
It's so good.
Yeah.
Salty.
Especially if you're going to bring something in
from Holland.
Tell them to bring in some of the
Dutch absinthe.
Those are some of my favorites.
Switcheroo from the Indy meetup.
$300 came in and this is the longest
note ever.
And I'm not sure that they want us
to read this whole note.
But it's a switcheroo to Sir Ohio Bloke
from the Buckeye State checking in.
Another late stage boomer here who absolutely loves
it when you two launch into boomer talk.
Oh, they were winning.
Winning.
It's always spot on and never fails to
crack me up.
I've been on board since around episode 200
and truly appreciate the twice weekly dose of
sanity.
My human resource span three generations, millennial, Gen
X, Gen Alpha.
And let me tell you, let me tell
you much of what you say about the
younger generation rings true in my own HR
department.
The good news is, the good news is,
all of mine can read an analog clock.
Yeah.
And know how to use a tape measure.
So there's still hope out there.
Make the short hope over to the short
hope.
The short hop over to the New England.
Northeast.
Northeast, Indiana next week.
And he's New England to me.
Indiana next week for the Indy and a
tri-state short and long barrel safety meetup.
Brought along Sir son of a bloke for
another one of my Gen Z sons.
Okay, it goes on and on.
Sent a lot of lead downrange at pumpkins.
That's that's what their meetup was.
It was a shooting.
Yeah.
Shooting at pumpkins.
I love it.
But I love it.
And he goes on per J.C.D.'s
tip, I tracked down some old Crow 86
or it's actually just Crow 86 to throw
into the raffle.
Excellent stuff.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then he wraps it up with I
can't read because it's off the spreadsheet.
He says we even got droned again at
the end of a great photo group.
A great group photo.
The perfect wrap up to an awesome meetup.
Finally, could you add my youngest Lucy to
the birthday list?
She turned 11 last Friday.
I believe she's on there.
So no worries.
They were with Nathan Parker from Seattle, Washington
222.22. A row of ducks.
No note.
So double up karma for Nathan Parker.
You've got karma.
Eli, the coffee guy, as the government shutdown
drags into November, which it has done, delays
are everywhere from airports to food stamps, plus
the paychecks of the federal workforce.
At least coffee deliveries are still running on
time.
So far, yes, so far.
Order now.
So this is a good go at coffee
roasters.
I'd come use code I.T.M. 20
for 20 percent off your order.
Stay caffeinated, says Eli, the coffee guy.
P.S. Can you add the United States
Marine Corps to the birthday list on 1110?
Happy two hundred and fiftieth.
Semper Fi.
Sir Q checks in from Cisco, Texas.
Two hundred and ten dollars and sixty cents.
I'm donating because I spent 17 dollars on
an eight part series that Sean Ryan put
out.
He's charging money now.
I don't know what he's talking about.
We know Sean Ryan is.
The name rings a bell, but I don't
know who he is.
Sean Ryan podcast.
He's a he's a big, big he's a
former CIA mill.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know who it is.
Seems like a nice guy.
Yeah, probably is.
But he's charging money.
So 17 dollars on an eight part series
that Sean Ryan put out.
Here's the kicker.
I should have saved my money and sent
it to you guys.
You should have.
Though it was about psyops and had good
info in it, it seemed like the series
was a psyop itself.
Probably was.
It was a Radiolab type of audio only
stress fest.
Sean Ryan show.
Psyop.
Radiolab.
Something like that, I guess.
Listening to no agenda, I get the same
deconstruction with none of the stress.
Thanks, says Sir Q of Eastland County.
Thank you very much, brother.
Interesting little Patkin.
She's in Lakewood, Colorado, wants jobs, karma and
rights for a competitive edge with a resume
that gets results.
Go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive
resume and job search needs.
That's ImageMakersInc with a K and work with
Linda Liu, duchess of jobs and writer of
winning resumes.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Karma.
And then finally on our list, we have
200 dollars that came in in some Bitcoin
through the strike, which you can find at
noagendadonations.com.
There's no no name, no note.
You got to you got to send us
a note.
And it should be just put subject line
donation.
Yeah.
Bitcoin donation might even might even well, then
we can we can match it.
So you will get a double up karma.
Thank you, Bitcoiner.
You've got karma.
And that wraps up our executive and associate
executive producers for episode one thousand eight hundred
and fifteen in our 19th year of the
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Oh, my gosh.
Can you see that juice?
Shut up.
I have a series of clips.
Oh, a series.
About this came out last year.
No, it's not.
I don't know why we haven't played these
clips.
Don't tell about the Hillary bribe.
What is this?
The overstock CEO?
Yeah.
We've played this.
I don't remember playing it.
I would have remembered this.
Oh, no.
OK.
I don't want you to think I'm mean
to you.
Well, you are mean to me, but that's
beside the point.
Can you look it up and see if
we played these?
Yes, of course.
We played these.
What's the guy's name again?
Patrick Bryce.
No, it's not Bryce.
Yeah, I think it's Bryce.
No, it's not Patrick Bryce.
Well, it's Patrick something.
Burn.
Patrick Burn.
Burn.
Patrick Burn.
Exactly.
That's what I said.
Patrick Burn.
OK, I can find it for you.
This will be good because then I don't
have to play these.
Hillary.
Let me do the searches.
Patrick and Hillary.
Here it is.
I have this is a long time ago,
actually.
Let's see.
Stop that now.
And first thing she's going to do when
she becomes president is she's going to send
her goons over to the FBI.
Remember this?
Yeah.
We put this is from what was the
date on this then?
November 1st, 2020.
That's interesting because the problem I have with
it.
I'm wondering is the same clips because he
talks about the Durham report in these clips
and he died.
This could be a reiteration of what could
be.
Let's do with them because it's still.
Well, I don't know.
You know, I hate to play repetitive.
Well, let me let me just five years.
Let me just summarize.
This is where he was given.
He was supposed to give Hillary a bribe.
She actually took the money and then she
went down the elevator and he went in
the elevator and then the FBI.
There's no elevator talking this.
Oh, and then the FBI says, no, no,
we're not talking about it.
It's over.
You got to forget this ever happened.
I think this is a repeat of the
old story.
So I don't think we need to play
it.
But again, it's five years old.
It might be worth playing again to remind
people.
But I'm going to say no.
OK, well, I'll go on your no.
Yeah.
But people can look it up.
Just go to YouTube and Hillary bribe.
I thought it was a disgusting tale.
And sorry, I didn't remember.
Let's go to tariff doom.
How about that for an idea?
Tariff doom.
And you said since you like the way
I spell tariff, I made sure to spell
it even better.
It's been over seven months.
There's no SS.
No, it's because the SS came earlier, so
you're not going to play that same jingle
again.
So I just reneged on the second SS.
It's been over seven months since President Trump
enacted those sweeping duties on goods from nearly
every country.
And one of the questions before the Supreme
Court this week, who's paying them?
And there's Juliana Kim joins us.
Juliana, thanks for being with us.
Happy to be here.
Have we seen retail prices change in the
past seven months?
So far, prices have gone up, you know,
for coffee, clothing, furniture, things that are almost
exclusively imported.
But interestingly, only about 20 percent of the
tariff burden has actually made it to retail
prices.
That's according to Erica York, an analyst at
Tax Foundation, a group that advocates for simplifying
the tax code.
She told me companies probably had stockpiles of
products before tariffs hit, and also a lot
of businesses held off changing prices while there
was some uncertainty around tariff rates.
But that strategy is beginning to change, and
companies are starting to pass higher costs to
the consumer.
Economists say that's going to become more common
in the months ahead.
What could cost look like in the tax
foundation estimates that if tariffs stay in place
throughout next year, a household could face an
average burden of sixteen hundred dollars.
I also asked this question to Ken Smetters,
the faculty director at the Penn Wharton budget
model, and he estimates that existing tariffs could
tack on as much as one percent to
your average spending.
So if you spend fifty thousand dollars a
year, that's an extra five hundred dollars.
Keep in mind, prices are just one part
of the story.
You know, tariffs can also lead companies to
slow hiring or cut wages, which isn't good
news for an already weakening job market.
Okay, this was a couple of things we're
going to have to come to grips with.
These high tariffs and reestablishing American manufacturing is
not going to save the consumer money.
The Chinese can produce products and have them
shipped over here cheaper than we're ever going
to be able to make the product, no
matter how good we are.
So, I mean, but nobody wants to admit
this.
And if they're faulting Trump, I mean, it's
more important to have the jobs over here
and suffer a little bit.
So, you know, so your bird, you know,
your little birdhouse you bought at Joanne's or
wherever you got this thing is, you know,
you got for a buck and a half
is going to cost you 250.
I mean, it's fine.
You're just going to.
But this idea that things are going to
be cheaper when we're cutting off the supply
of cheap junk is unlikely.
Part two.
Of course, exit polls from key races this
week show that the cost of living and
the economy are the biggest concerns for voters.
How do you think tariffs have played into
that?
Tariffs have pushed prices higher, but for the
most part, the increases have been fairly modest.
That being said, many Americans are struggling with
inflation fatigue.
I spoke to Michelle Florio, a paraprofessional in
New Jersey, and she says she's held off
buying a new car and a mattress because
tariffs have made them too expensive.
And even her holiday plans are changing.
I have been giving baked goods as gifts
for 53 years and now I don't know.
But wait a minute, baked goods.
She makes baked goods as gifts, but now
she doesn't know.
I don't know.
Maybe I can't make because of the tariffs.
What is the terrorist got to do?
So this is the problem I'm having with
the Democrats in this bullcrap.
They extend it to something like baked goods.
Yes, it's bad.
Oh, I'm making baked goods.
I don't know if I can make the
baked goods anymore because of tariffs.
Oh, flour is so expensive.
It's made somewhere.
I don't know where I'm getting it.
That's bullcrap.
I've been watching the quad screen and I've
been seeing this developing story and it is
worth discussing for a moment.
Breaking news to bring you about the BBC.
The BBC chairman has announced that both the
director general, Tim Davey, and the new CEO,
Debra Tennis, are to resign.
Let's bring you more on that story.
Our cultural reporter, Noor Nanji, is with me
here.
So tell us about the background to this
and about the resignation statements.
Yeah, that's right.
Really significant news that's just come to us
in the last few minutes.
So both the BBC's director general, Tim Davey,
but also Debra Tennis, who is the CEO
of News, both resigning.
We've just had that, as I say, in
the last few minutes.
OK, well, that was a useless report.
But I know what this is about because
I'm looking at all the news.
This is over the BBC Panorama episode where
they edited Trump together to make it look
like he was telling the January 6 protesters
to go fight like hell and go storm
the Capitol.
Did you know anything about this story?
This is amazing.
No, I have no idea about this, but
that is scandalous.
And so the director and the CEO have
resigned.
I have a clip of the controversy.
I actually had it from, I think, maybe
two shows ago.
Here, check it out.
Well, it's the biggest story in town.
It turns out American President Donald Trump was
onto something.
Where are you from?
BBC.
Here's another beauty.
Well, that criticism of the BBC and John
Sopel, he was talking to there, apparently was
well-founded because the so-called impartial and
accurate public service broadcaster is nothing but.
You are fake news.
Sir, can you stay categorically that nobody...
No, Mr. President...
Because tonight the BBC is facing serious questions
over its credibility after the Daily Telegraph exposed
a Panorama segment that heavily doctored a speech
by the American President in 2021, hours before
the infamous January the 6th Capitol riot.
As you're about to hear, the corporation spliced
together two quotes one hour apart to make
it seem like he encouraged an insurrection.
They played the following clip.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol
and I'll be there with you and we
fight.
We fight like hell.
But Trump didn't, in fact, say this at
all.
The BBC spliced together two clips that took
place 54 minutes apart.
So let's go through it again.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol
and I'll be there with you.
Now, see there, between Capitol and and, that's
a cut.
Here's what Trump actually said.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol
and we're going to cheer on our brave
senators and congressmen and women.
It's different.
It wasn't until nearly an hour later that
he then said the second part of the
BBC's version.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol.
Now they're fast forwarding an hour.
And we fight.
We fight like hell.
So that's the scandal.
And wow, the North Sea Nexus under attack.
Look at what's happened.
We got the prince stripped of his title.
We've got the ambassador wrapped up in the
Epstein affair gone.
What's his face?
Yep.
And now the the director and the CEO
of the BBC resigning over this.
This is this is pretty big.
That is big.
Man, I'm glad we caught this on our
show day.
Thanks for doing this kind of dubious editing
took place on Friday.
I don't have clips on the news hour
because everybody's in a tizzy.
Everybody's in a tizzy over the Tucker Carlson,
Nick Fuentes interview, which we goodness, which we
played a couple of the guy at the
Heritage Foundation got into trouble and got kind
of booted from, you know, being accepted as
a I don't know, conservative operation.
I don't know what the deal is.
Did he get kicked out of the Heritage?
No, he did.
There was they asked him to resign, but
he wouldn't.
And all he said was I didn't, you
know, but apparently said it out of the
blue.
It wasn't.
And I'm not even sure that's true.
But he says, I think that Nick Fuentes
doing Carlson is fine because they were just
having a conversation that they both wanted to
have.
And the reason for the conversation initially, according
to Tucker, was they were having an online
beef with each other.
And so let's let's put it on the
let's have the beef.
But, you know, face to face like you
and I do all the time.
This is exactly the the op that I
was talking about.
So the other side is now retaliating.
And this is the neocon side.
And they're retaliating against this guy who you
said was too weak and would never be
able to kick Lindsey Graham out.
I'm not saying that that's not true.
But that is exactly the response you would
expect that going after that guy.
And so the latest thing is, I think
it was today or yesterday or yesterday, probably
yesterday, the day before Ben Shapiro shows up
on CNN.
On Jake Tapper show to condemn Tucker.
Wow.
He's going into the into the enemy camp.
Calling him a racist, which is like, you
know, boy, Shapiro is sketchy.
We have to remember that he hated Trump.
It was, you know, we went to the
whole thing in the last show.
But then the one that really got me,
though, was on on Friday on PBS NewsHour.
The woman there, Amina, blah, blah, blah, whatever
her name is, who's got a not a
good stage name because I can't remember her
name.
She did a whole thing, an entire segment
on Nick Fuentes.
And on Tucker, and she said, here's some
of the stuff he said on.
And they took clips from the Tucker show
out of context, completely out of context.
Wow.
Every one of them was out of context.
The whole thing about his misogyny, and they
play the out of context clips that we
we had in context.
We had ours were in context, as usual.
And those were out of context or make
me sound like an idiot.
And then they condemned Tucker.
So there's all kinds of and Fuentes.
Does he have a publicist?
This guy's getting more publicity than anybody I
know.
Well, he's he's the perfect the perfect poster
child for the moment.
It's perfect.
It's a perfect kid.
It's perfect.
It is a lot of material, a lot
of very inflammatory material.
And the podcast, the podosphere is still buzzing,
still buzzing.
Everyone's all a buzz.
Go on each other's podcasts.
But this idea of taking stuff out of
context and rejiggering it to make.
Yes.
Your point.
I would like not acceptable.
I would like someone to edit Adam and
John out of context and make a really
funny bit.
Something we can play.
You get somebody the guy.
If you're a humorist, you could probably make
it very amusing.
Yeah, we'd like to take that.
If you especially if you can take an
hour out of the conversation and drop some
bomb in from the end, like the BBC
did.
Wow.
That's fantastic.
I mean, that's, you know, who could be
next?
Who I with all of this happening and
and by the way, we don't really have
much on it.
But of course, we have Brennan supposedly getting
subpoenaed and Lisa, Lisa Page and her boyfriend,
whatever his name was, you know, people are
going to go down.
There's this.
Well, now I know you're skeptical, but this
arctic frost is still hanging in there.
And of course, we also have this was
big news from the blaze, which is quite
interesting.
One of his reporters did a gate analysis
on the January six pipe bomber.
Have you been following this story?
I've been trying to.
They can't seem, you know, that this the
pipe bomber was a bop of some sort.
Yes.
A former Capitol Police cop who worked for
the CIA.
Yeah.
But I like that they did gate analysis.
I don't know what a gate analysis is.
Your gate, someone's gate, how they walk their
gate.
Oh, the gate.
Oh, G.A.I.T. Yes.
The gate analysis.
Oh, yeah.
Gate.
And now that, you know, if you could,
I could spot Biden a mile away.
Well, so exactly.
So the first thing is, I think I
said right away, that's a woman.
That's a woman who's walking with that hoodie.
So, wow, I got that one.
But they have other video of her and
they did some analysis and the gate analysis
shows 94 percent match between the January six
pipe bomber and an ex-Capitol Police cop
who works for the CIA.
I want to see a gate analysis on
that.
Daddy, long legs skip over the lawn, go
there, skipping over the lawn to the helicopter.
Give me a gate analysis.
I don't even know.
Do you need a gate analysis?
I mean, come on.
The guy's legs were five inches longer than
Biden's.
He didn't, you know, didn't have that back
and forth.
I demand a gate analysis.
I want a gate.
Get it in it.
Grok, Grok, give me a gate analysis.
This is fantastic stuff.
And this, by the way, this was, which
brings me to another interesting, another, another interesting
point, because I'm so interesting.
The there was a story, if you remember,
about three weeks ago, Biden, who's supposedly dying
of all kinds of, you know, he's like
a wreck.
Oh, he rang the bell.
He's cancer free.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, he is.
That's what they say, brother.
OK, well, whatever the case during his cancer
moment, supposedly he and Obama were at the
same restaurant.
You remember this story?
It was about, yeah, several months ago.
Yes.
Yeah.
And they were at the same restaurant and
Obama never went to talk to him.
And it was like, oh, Obama's a jerk
because he wouldn't need the vice president.
His old buddy is there and he wouldn't
even say hello.
And they everyone monitored this.
And Biden was in the front outside in
the I guess in the outdoor eating and
he's eating with somebody.
And and the reason he never went and
talked to him because it wasn't Biden.
It was some other.
It was Daddy Longlegs.
It was the Daddy Longlegs guy.
What's he going to talk to him about?
I got nothing to say, ma'am.
I got to get back to my basketball
game.
I got a I got a pickup game.
I got to get to.
And he knew it.
And so what was the no reason to
talk to him?
So that's the explanation for this is not
because by I mean, Obama might be a
jerk, but I don't think that because he
knows enough to do public stuff.
Yeah.
Wow.
This there's you know, you're skeptical on Arctic
Frost.
Yes, I agree with you.
No, I'm not.
I'm not skeptical Arctic.
I'm skeptical that they're going to take action.
That's going to be meaningful.
I think they are.
I think that and it's not Congress who
gives a crap about Congress.
I'm talking about a Department of Justice.
You got A.G. Barbie.
Yes, yes.
Let me remind me who's the head of
the Department of Justice.
A.G. Barbie.
Yeah.
And what has she done so far?
Hang in there.
I have a feeling.
I just feel in my water.
My water tells me something's coming.
This is a new thing that you picked
up from the five Brian's.
It's a Dutchism.
No, it's not.
It's not from Pastor Jimmy and the five
Brian's in Holland.
We say, I feel it on my water.
I don't know where it comes from.
I have no idea.
It's a Dutchism.
Should we look into the etymology?
No, I don't think you need to, but
I think we should document some of these.
I need it's a book.
It's a giblet.
There's a giblet in there somewhere.
All right.
Well, wait, go back.
If you feel in your being your water,
that something's up.
We would feel it in our bones, our
bones.
Right.
Well, the Dutch feel in their water because
they live underwater.
Practically.
I don't know why they say this is
true.
They fool the dumb of Arthur.
I have this feeling and it could be
hopium.
I'll be the first to admit.
I have this feeling that they all pulled
back on the Epstein stuff because that's the
big bomb that's coming.
I know it sounds crazy.
No, I'm not going to deny the possibility
they're going to.
But the Epstein thing is just going to
be the release of the documents.
And in fact, there was a report that
they have one guy that's supposed to be
that this is ridiculous.
This was on I think it was PBS.
They said, oh, they're worried that, you know,
they Mike Johnson's not bringing Congress back because
of Epstein, Epstein, because the Epstein files, because
they got this one guy they're going to
have to, you know, he's going to come
in.
He's the new Democrat.
They're going to change.
He's going to add one more vote to
getting the Epstein files released.
Well, this guy's coming in eventually.
Yeah.
Oh, by the way, but I think you're
right.
The Epstein files may be abroad.
Yeah.
And I think they're going to push it
off as far as they can closest to
the midterms.
Yeah, of course.
That's when you want to do it.
By the way, void zero correctly corrects me.
He says the the the term is actually
full of them with Dave Arthur.
But I think it's often shortened to water.
So I feel it on my tea water.
Ah, so that may be like that makes
it even more obscure.
What tea water?
I don't know.
I can't help you there.
Void.
What is that from, man?
Explain.
It's got to be like reading the tea
leaves.
My maybe maybe something like that.
I do have a quick series of three
clips to wind this up as this will
enrage every.
You know what?
I'm not going to.
I'm going to save these.
I'll save these.
Go away.
What are they about that cancer?
Oh, you don't want to know.
It's like every stroke and cancer is blamed
on alcohol.
It couldn't be anything else.
Couldn't be.
And it couldn't be.
And it was going to be one of
those.
What now?
And then I have two.
I have a couple of I have a
funny rant we can finish with.
If you got something funny, let's finish with
something funny.
This is the this is I think her
name is Megan.
She's getting really famous online for she's a
black.
Very blunt is a little cussing going on
in this one for people.
Warning.
She's a black woman who just tell it
like it is type.
And she goes off on the trans, you
know, the bathrooms.
Ever since this thing happened at the gym.
Oh, yeah.
But they kicked her out instead of the
dude.
Yeah.
Now, I don't know what this is.
I don't think is the same woman.
But this woman has been making a fuss
and she goes off.
She goes off.
And here it is.
So let me start this off with I
lost my housing.
I lost my food stamps.
No, no, no.
Wrong one.
OK, that's the food stamp woman.
The one we look at is black woman
on tire.
Tyrants rants.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oops.
Tyrants.
OK, so I have a PSA announcement.
OK, so I am a woman.
OK, uterus coach ovaries all night.
OK, so I am a woman.
OK, and I'm telling you, we don't want
your asses in our bathroom.
OK, I don't give a damn.
If you feel like a woman, if you've
always felt like a woman, if you think
you are a woman, if you think you
look like a woman, if you're feminine, if
you act more like a woman than women
do and all this other shit.
I'm telling you what it is.
So we do not want your asses, your
your dick, your beans, your your balls, testicles.
We don't want y'all in our bathroom.
OK, you understand what I'm telling you?
I don't care how you feel.
I don't care what you think.
I don't care about human rights, civil rights,
rights of transition, of transformation, whatever it is.
I don't give a damn.
Stay your asses out of women's spaces.
That's it.
Let's let's stop discussing it.
OK, it's not up for discussion.
Don't do not go into the woman's bathroom.
OK, that's it.
All right.
OK, just take your ass into the all
gender bathroom or the men's bathroom or go
pee in the bush.
We don't give a damn.
Just don't bring your ass into the woman's
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International Peace Prize as received by the President
of the United States and by the team,
Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner.
That prize goes to none other than Sir
Kevin Keeper of the Speed, Secretary General and
Duke of Portland.
The man has more titles than he can
fit on a business card.
Congratulations.
And thank you very much for supporting your
best podcast in the universe.
We have exactly one meetup taking place on
Tuesday.
That will be the Everything Is An Op
Meetup, OKC, six o'clock at the Collective
Kitchen and Cocktails in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
And then that's for this week.
The rest of this month on the 15th,
Colleyville, Texas, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Albany, California.
Get John out of the house.
That should be a good one.
Central Ohio, Zurich, Switzerland.
Please send us your meetup reports, everybody, especially
on the 22nd, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Send us a meetup report, include your server.
Wilmington, California on the 22nd, Burlington, Kentucky.
We have Spokane, Washington on the 27th and
Wageningen, Gelderland in the Netherlands on November 29th.
Those are your No Agenda Meetups.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
That's where you can find all of them
listed in handy format, calendar or list.
And if you can't find one near you,
start one yourself.
It's easy.
Connection is protection at a No Agenda Meetup.
And we do have our end of show
mixes coming up.
Half AI slop and half homemade.
It's interesting how when you start introducing a
lot of slop that the homemade people say,
I can beat that.
And they're pretty good.
I have to admit.
Time for the ISOs.
These are the clips that with one clip
that will be chosen at the very end
of the show to send you off into
the rest of your Sunday or Monday whenever
you're listening to this show.
I only have one today.
You have two.
So I will play my one and we'll
see if it's a contender.
Okay, bye.
I'll just do my own show.
Kind of nasty sounding.
Well, it's Candace.
I expect.
Oh, okay.
Bye.
I'll just do my own show.
Okay.
Well, now I know that it's not quite
up to the snuff of Alex Jones.
No, no.
Here's a Scott Simon one.
S.S. Thanks.
Thanks so much.
Oh, sure.
Thanks so much.
It's a little short.
Okay, well, let's go with the old standby.
Holy moly.
That was beyond great.
Of course.
That is always a winner.
A.I. to the rescue.
Time for tip of the day.
Okay, as a pro tip.
Pro tip.
I'll be with dogs.
I don't know if anyone notices that we
have dogs.
You got dogs.
They stink.
Dogs stink.
Our dog is stinking right now.
This is good.
I'm very excited about this tip because Phoebe
is stinking.
Stevie?
No, Phoebe.
Oh, Phoebe.
I thought you said Stevie.
You're getting a little sibilance going on.
No, that's my teeth.
No, it's my teeth.
It's a combination of my teeth and your
hearing.
What?
The older we get, the more artifacts will
be introduced into the show.
Odor side.
K.O.E. Kennel odor.
This is from the we have a kennel.
Yes.
So you need this product.
This makes 64 gallons.
You get the liquid.
It's an odor eliminator.
It's called K.O.E., which stands for
kennel odor eliminator.
And it's for kennels, but it's also good
for home, cage runs, cages runs, anything.
It's a non-enzymatic formula, fresh scent.
It smells like apricots, actually.
Amazon has it as Amazon's choice for making
your dog area smell better.
Do you spread this on the dog or
in the house?
No, no, no.
You get a mop and you get a
bucket of water and you put this in
there and you mop around.
You just mop everything with it.
Oh, no.
I'm not going to do that.
Mop up.
Hey, give the dog a bath.
OK, yeah, this is what you're looking for.
Dog bath stuff.
This is not for dog bath.
This is for the area that you get
the dog in the car to the car
stinks.
Oh, yeah.
You got a dog and you got a
kennel.
You got some place in the dog cage.
It stinks.
You use this K.O.E. Amazon has
it.
It's available everywhere.
Interesting.
By the way, breaking news from Dreb Scott.
Breaking hashtag breaking three alarms.
Three, three revolving lights.
Breaking, breaking news.
A senior Democratic senator says there are enough
Democratic votes poised to end the 40 day
government shutdown.
Sorry for the breaking.
Couldn't resist.
All right.
It's breaking.
It's all breaking.
You know, Horowitz and I predicted the 10th.
Really?
That will be tomorrow.
I mean, do we have a prop?
Can we do it?
Are there profits on?
This has got to be profit.
I'm sure there's got to be a profit.
Well, they have to.
They have to do so.
We need news to cover up the BBC
director.
We need some news.
The North Sea Nexus is looking for a
good point.
The calls went out.
Oh, we got to stop people thinking that
our news is fake.
Come on, guys.
Vote against it.
Wow.
That would be good.
Well, it'd be nice.
It has to.
If it goes to Friday, your Christmas gifts
are not coming from Amazon.
Yeah, well, there's a lot of pressure.
It's a pressure cooker.
We got a real pressure cooker going on
here, everybody.
That is John's tip of the day.
Find them all at tipoftheday.net.
Yeah, that's it, everybody.
We conclude our broadcast day.
Remember, we do not conform to the way
of the world.
No, sir.
What are you laughing about?
What does that even mean?
Some people.
If you know, you know.
Oh, I love that you reacted that way.
That's funny.
Of course, we will return on Thursday, one
day before chaos, or a couple days after
everything calms down and gets back to normal
again.
And then what will we be outraged about?
Candace Owens, please tell me.
I need something to get freaked out about.
And you're right.
Once we knew the 90 days was out
in the potosphere and the Fredericksburg area, we
knew that it was going to end soon.
Hey, great end of show mix is two
real dudes, Deez Laffs and Sir Michael Anthony,
followed by Bonald Crabtree and MVP with some
A.I. Slop.
Hear them all at gitmojams.com.
Until Thursday.
Coming to you from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're finally
having our summer.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
We come back on Thursday.
Until then, please remember us at noagendadonations.com.
We've got Nick Dirac from the sewer up
next after the end of show mix.
Until Thursday.
Adios, mofos, hui hui and such.
Adam Curry.
John C.
Dvorak.
Whoa, what was that?
Well, yes, they are a major source.
And I can tell you that in the
Situation Room, I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs
in Canada that the law enforcement folks were
leaving alone.
Canada's got a big drug problem, even in
their own cities.
They'll walk around Toronto and see what it's
like.
And you'll see that it is a big
problem.
And frankly, we have intelligence that Mexican cartels
operate in Canada as well.
That's not a joke.
I'm being joking.
Yeah.
Scratch the record.
Back in the day.
Ruin the groove.
Ruin the grooves.
Scratch the record.
Pick up the little grooves in this vinyl.
Scratching the record.
Pick up the little grooves.
This is a hit.
This is the next number one.
Needle.
Needle in an arm.
Little drop.
Needle drop.
Scratch the record.
I'm sorry I asked.
Yeah, well, you did ask.
In the morning.
Fat lady.
Test, test, test, test the moon.
Hey, wake up.
It's the moon.
Adam and John are at the speaker door.
Knocking so loud that you can't ignore.
Slop-free deconstruction that you adore.
Thanks to all of the wonderful producers of
the show.
Adam Curry likes his live music straight from
Gizmo.
I'm about to OD on gigawatt coffee.
But the show's about to start, so I'm
gonna put it on the stream.
Everything origin from underneath the dome.
From the river to the sea.
From the cradle to the tomb.
We don't discriminate.
None of us talk shit.
Don't snowflake out.
Shut up, slave, or I'll hit you in
the mouth.
I can scratch it up, slave.
I'm finna smack you in your mouth.
No agentic GPT.
Propagating positivity.
Oh my god.
I, like, can't believe I'm a part of
group seven.
I knew I was special, and it feels
good to be validated.
I'm blowing up the boats on the Caribbean.
A little fizzle, but with an explosive missile.
Gonna burn the hall, sink the druggies' boats,
they said.
Cause the voyage I was on was never
gonna end.
Yeah, I'm blowing up the boats.
Let the wreckage drift away.
No turning back to what defied me yesterday.
When the smoke clears out, I'll see the
open sea.
A clean slate harbor, finally just for me.
Watch the scraps fly.
Hear the loud final sound of every criminal
hit in the ground.
It's a terrifying freedom, an echoing peace.
A brand new navigation that will never cease.
The world is wider than the waters they
sail.
When the drug life is gone, you know
you cannot fail.
I'm blowing up the boats on the Caribbean
Sea tonight.
Not with dynamite, but with an explosive light.
Gonna burn the ballast, sink the druggies' boats,
they said.
Cause the voyage I was on was never
gonna end.
Yeah, I'm blowing up the boats.
Let the wreck.
The best podcast in the universe.
Adios, mofo.
Dvorak.org slash NA.
Holy moly, that was beyond great.