I should mention, dogs do not dance.
Adam Curry, John C.
Devorah.
It's Sunday, January 25th, 2026.
This is your award-winning People Nation Media
Assassination episode 1837.
This is no agenda.
Hunker Down!
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas hill country, here in FEMA Region No.
6.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we can
tell that the weather's hurting the show.
I'm John C.
Devorah.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yes, people couldn't get outside to mail a
check.
It's horrible, I tell you.
It's horrible.
Ah, it doesn't matter.
Hey, it wasn't as bad, and it is
bad.
Well, okay, well, yes, okay.
We should explain to people outside the country.
Yeah, well, I think this is international news.
Yeah, we have a big storm in the
middle of the country.
Yeah.
Here, it's kind of chilly.
Here, it's 60.
Oh, shiver me timbers.
Yeah.
So, it is, I think it's about 25
right now.
It's cold.
Yeah, for us, well, yeah, I think it
was 14 or 16 last night.
Too cold.
Yeah, but last night is when we got
freezing rain mixed with snow, and so it's
just packed.
It's just packed on top of everything, so
we can't drive.
We can't even get down our driveway.
We could slide down the driveway, but we
can't drive.
So, you're stuck there.
Yeah, kind of stuck, but we're ready for
it.
So, without rating the supermarkets, how much food,
because everyone rated the supermarkets.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
How much food do you think the average
person has in their house already that they
could hold out with?
You mean actual food or peanut butter?
Yeah, food in the house.
Or peanut butter, what counts as food?
I count that.
Oh, I think if people really looked at
what they have, they probably have enough for
two weeks.
That's what I'm thinking.
Yeah, we were thinking about it.
If you have a big freezer, you can
probably go longer.
Oh, no, we could go two months if
we're just doing stuff from the freezer because
we do the big, you know, we get
the big shipment from K&C Cattle.
But even at a certain point, we could
eat the dog's food because she has that
farmer's dog stuff.
I'd eat that, and then we just eat
the dog.
So I think we could go for a
couple of months.
Dog's looking at me right now like, what
did you just say?
What?
What did you just say?
No.
Yeah.
And funny enough, lots of power went out
in Fredericksburg, but not at our place.
Once again, the generator is not used.
That's the reason you buy it.
The minute you get it, it never flips
on.
It's just not necessary.
It's amazing.
It really is amazing.
But yeah, and it's weird.
Like, my buddy Dave in Alabama, it's 50
degrees.
It's like this thing went right around Alabama.
It's the weirdest thing.
Yeah, it went kind of, it's a funny
pattern.
It's very strange.
What I haven't heard, though.
Global warming.
Proof.
I haven't heard that for sure.
But I haven't heard the extreme weather event.
That's typically what they roll out.
I think it's diminishing.
The whole, in fact.
I think they're realizing that people are getting
sick of hearing it.
Yeah.
I think I had a clip about this
somewhere.
I thought I had.
While you're looking for that, I do have
the weather report from NPR.
You can play that.
Let's see.
Weather report.
Storm update.
Oh, storm.
Storm update.
A massive winter storm is sweeping through a
huge swath of the country.
From the southwest, heading to the mid-Atlantic,
and then up through the northeast this weekend.
With heavy snow and ice possible.
Freezing rain and sleet is also expected in
many states.
That could bring down trees onto power lines,
leading to widespread power outages.
Already thousands are without power in the southwest.
National Weather Service meteorologist Josh Weiss.
So if people lose power, people can't get
out of their homes because snow and ice
is covering the roadways.
They could be stuck for several days without
the ability to get warm.
And it's going to be so cold.
We've got sub-zero wind chills that may
reach as far south as Dallas, Memphis, and
Raleigh, North Carolina.
And all points north of there.
So people are trapped due to heavy snowfall
and damaging freezing rain.
This cold is going to linger all of
next week, making a dangerous situation truly life
-threatening.
Thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed
because of the storm.
Mimi texted me.
She texts me about three times a year.
Usually one is, OK, time to do taxes.
And then this is the first time this
year.
She's like, oh, Max Velocity says it's going
to be bad.
She loves Max.
Yeah, she called me last.
She says, oh, you think he's going to
be OK?
I appreciate her concern.
She doesn't text me like, are you going
to be OK?
Just said, Max Velocity says you're going to
die.
Here it comes.
Max Velocity.
He's fun to watch.
Because I'm always saying, I've watched him a
couple of times.
But he's a little too intense for my
taste.
A little?
OK.
He's way too intense for my taste.
And Mimi's just in love with this guy.
And she thinks his reports are so dynamite.
But they have nothing to do with anything
she's doing.
He's covering the Midwest mostly.
She's just a weather junkie.
So who cares?
She's a weather junkie.
I mean, I know people like this.
She's a weather junkie.
There are people who just, you know, there's
a, on the YouTube TV, there's a quad
squeen.
I keep saying squeen.
It's a squeen.
Stop me.
I like the squeen.
I like the quad squeen.
That's what it's called now.
Quad screen of Weather Channel, Fox Weather.
There's two other ones.
And I'm sure people watch that all day
long.
Oh, weather.
Weather.
Whoa.
Look.
Weather.
Holy mackerel.
Do you see the size of that hail
in Oklahoma?
Ooh.
Size of a softball.
It's a form of disaster tourism.
You know, virtual disaster tourism.
Because he always has the storm chasers.
And the storm chasers are now chasing snow.
Yeah, we're in the snow right now.
We're driving.
It's snowy.
Yep, it's cold.
Back to you, Max.
Anyway, I'm sure we will survive.
If we don't get any more precipitation, we
should be okay.
I found my climate change things at the
end of this clip.
Because coming on the heels of the national
security strategy is the new United States defense
plan, which is just as stunning.
34 pages to outline the Pentagon's new national
defense strategy and tell allies they need to
handle their own security.
The defense blueprint reinforces Trump's America First philosophy,
making that clear from its opening line.
For too long, the U.S. government neglected,
even rejected, putting Americans and their concrete interests
first.
Its primary concern is now security of the
U.S. homeland and western hemisphere, including narco
-trafficking and immigration.
It's a break from the 2022 report under
the Biden administration, where China was described as
the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U
.S. national security.
Now China is priority number two, and the
report says the U.S. should deter Beijing
through strength, not confrontation.
Our goal in doing so is not to
dominate China, nor is it to strangle or
humiliate them.
Rather, our goal is simple, to prevent anyone,
including China, from being able to dominate us
or our allies.
There's no mention of Taiwan in the report,
despite U.S. intelligence believing China aims to
take the island by force in the next
year.
As for the rest of the region, the
document hints at a reduction of U.S.
presence in the Korean peninsula, saying Seoul is
capable of taking primary responsibility for deterring North
Korea with more limited U.S. support.
The message is clear.
The U.S.'s allies will be expected to
shoulder more of their own defense.
That applies to Europe, too.
Russia, which appears 89 times in the 2022
report, is now largely in the background and
dubbed a persistent but manageable threat to NATO's
eastern members, despite its ongoing war in Ukraine.
And while climate change featured heavily in the
2022 report as a transboundary threat, four years
on, it's not mentioned at all.
I think they put that music in there
to hijack the Europeans' nervous system.
It's very annoying.
Where did you get that clip?
France 24.
France 24, I think it's either that or...
Yeah, France 24.
Geez, and they produced it?
That's weird.
Oh, they do that all the time.
It's horrible.
They're going down the tubes.
I mean, Euronews has got African dudes reading
it, which kind of makes sense, considering the
population makeup of Europe these days, to be
honest about it.
So, China slips to number two.
What was number one?
I couldn't figure it out.
Number one is Merca.
Merca first, the Western Hemisphere.
But the European allies got to pull their
own weight.
We don't care.
Yeah.
It was kind of good.
I like the pivoting a little bit away
from China.
Just in related news, you hear about the
Chinese top guy in the military?
Yeah, they kicked him out.
Him and another guy.
There's hardly anyone left in that committee anymore.
Zheng Youxia was once the president's most trusted
military general, his second in command.
He's now been placed under formal investigation, accused
of grave violations of discipline and violations of
the law, though the defense ministry has provided
no details of the alleged misconduct.
The drastic move lays bare major fractures within
the military's most senior ranks.
The 75-year-old is one of just
a few leading officers with combat experience.
He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1968,
fought in China's war in Vietnam, and climbed
the ranks to become Xi's most important ally
in modernizing the PLA, often taking to the
international stage.
We hope to communicate with the armed forces
of various countries and will continue to deepen
China-Russia relations.
Another member of the Central Military Commission, Liu
Zhenli, has also been placed under investigation by
China's ruling Communist Party.
Together, they were the two remaining leaders of
its armed forces, who had survived previous purges
after eight top generals were expelled back in
October.
Man, they're really doing something.
Eight, so ten guys in total?
This latest crackdown leaves Xi Jinping in sole
operational control of the PLA, further consolidating his
grip over the armed forces.
Probes can last months or even years.
Most are detained, found guilty, and removed from
their positions in the party.
Guilty of what?
Guilty?
They're not telling us.
They never tell us anything.
They just tell them they're found guilty.
They probably are guilty of something.
The Chinese have a tendency to be corrupt.
Well, I think I know what it might
be.
This is like 20 more seconds.
Listen to the very end here.
More than 200,000 officials have been expelled
since Xi came to power in 2012, part
of a broad anti-corruption drive to root
out graft.
But it's also viewed by many as a
way to ensure loyalty and make the military
more combat ready.
In recent years, China has ramped up military
drills around Taiwan, and the US government says
Xi has ordered the PLA to prepare to
seize the island by force by 2027.
I think that's it.
I think these guys leaked the plans about
2027.
We were hearing about that almost a year
ago, the 2027.
I think it was even longer than that.
Yeah, 2027.
Oh, that's when it's going to happen, 2027.
Get ready for China.
And I guess we're going to be ready
to make our own chips by 2027.
Will we?
Seems like you need.
I mean, that Samsung plant is, I don't
think that's operational, the one up in Taylor,
Texas.
Yeah, but that's not the same as the
two-nanometer process they're using at Taiwan Semiconductor.
They're so ahead of the game, it's ridiculous.
Of course, we'd allow that to happen.
How long would it take for us to
replicate what we need?
Well, it's all, you know, it's not their
gear.
That's the thing that's good.
You know, it's Dutch gear.
The etching is Dutch.
We can buy, no, TSML is the...
No, ASML.
ASML, yeah, those guys.
That's the Dutch guys.
They would, they can, you know, we can,
we basically tell them what to do.
They don't just sell their stuff to anyone,
otherwise the Chinese would have it.
And so we just say, okay, you got
to build a place.
The problem is that the TSMC, there's a
lot too many letters here.
The TSMC guys, they tried, I think, made
a couple of advances toward building or setting
up shop in the USA, but determined that
our people are too stupid.
Well, they're too stupid at the prices they
pay.
Ah, that would be it.
Because we got smart people, but, you know,
you don't get them for pennies on the
dollar.
Well, somebody needs to start making some RAM,
man.
The RAM prices are nuts.
RAM is funny, yeah.
We got to make some RAM.
Yeah, that'll change quick.
Well, how?
By the AI collapse.
That'll do it.
AI collapse, everything goes great.
We'll all be desoldering chips.
Look, I got some RAM.
You'll have a 22-terabyte solid-state drive.
Hey, man, I think Linux this Sunday, one
week from now, the show will run on
Linux.
What?
Yeah, I think so.
I got really far.
I got the Roadcaster working.
I was blown away.
I didn't think it was going to be
possible.
You can thank me.
Because you put a timeline on it.
You got me all stressed out.
Like, I got to prove this.
I can do this.
Yeah, you're always trying to show off.
Well, it's not about show.
I read somewhere that Linux desktop now is
close to 18% of all desktops.
No.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I mean, I read it.
It doesn't mean it's true.
It could be.
I think it'd be nice if it was,
you know, half.
People are so sick of Windows.
And it's really just the stuff getting in
the way.
It's the pop-up.
It's the ads.
It's the, you know, oh, you want to
use this?
Well, you got to put it on the
cloud.
Get a cloud account.
I think that people are just sick of
it.
And it sucks.
It's slow.
It's sluggish.
Well, one of the problems, in my perception,
is that Windows always had the comparative.
It was always Windows versus Mac.
And with Windows, you felt you had some
control.
Really?
Yeah, because with Mac, it would put things
in files.
It would assume you're an idiot and just
move things into certain places.
And sometimes you couldn't find things.
You didn't know where they were.
That's gotten really bad with the iOS, with
the iPad stuff.
Tina is continuously, like, I mean, she goes
into the closet and pulls out my old
MacBook Pro, I think, from at least eight
years ago because she can't get Microsoft Word
to function properly on her iPad.
And she has a keyboard that goes with
it, which doesn't have an escape key, of
course.
What?
Yeah.
It does not have an escape key.
Yeah, Apple would pull that stunt.
Yeah, it reminds me of Texas Instruments when
they came out with one of their computers,
and they had the keys that were supposed
to be there weren't there.
Why is there no shift key?
What am I supposed to do?
No S key.
What are we doing?
There's a lot of stuff.
But with Windows, and you felt you had
a little more control, Linux is ultimately very
control-oriented for the user.
You want to move a file from A
to B, it's like, okay.
It's not questioning you all the time or
automatically doing stuff, like the Windows in this
cloud, this cloud thing, this stuff, I'm looking
for something and where is it?
They moved it to the cloud for some
unknown reason.
It's up there in the cloud.
Well, you have two documents folders when you
first start up Windows.
I didn't realize this.
You got like a cloud document, and that's
the default.
It's like, what?
Where did everything go?
Oh, it's in a separate document folder.
Yeah, so this is all, this is from,
I think, this is because Mac people came
over and started working for Microsoft.
The whole idea of Macintosh was to make
it so he's brain dead.
Well, I'll tell you this, 365, which is
their office suite, was down last week for,
I think, 36 hours.
All corporate email was basically dead.
I mean, I was getting bounces from Marriott
.com.
That's not good.
Now, everyone trusts all these companies with all
of their stuff.
Oh, yeah, put it, the cloud.
I remember the cloud, the cloud, put it
on the cloud.
Oh, it's great, the cloud.
But what happened with the cloud, Dave Jones
is actually telling me this, because he does
IT for an accounting firm.
He says the whole idea was that you
were moving CapEx to OpEx.
But these days, you have to take a
full year subscription to even really get any
kind of deal.
So, you know, it's not even really an
OpEx anymore.
And they keep, you know, increasing prices, removing
features that are now a separate tier.
You know, it's just, you do something, like
the AI companies are great at this.
You do something in your tier, and then
all of a sudden it's like, well, you
can wait for a week until we have
a GPU free, or you can upgrade to
$200.
Not everybody knows that CapEx is capital expenditure
versus operating expenses.
I think we have the most intelligent people
in the universe.
We have a lot of Zeds that think
it's Florida ounces.
Well, okay, so the capital expenditure is an
important point, because in the new tax ruling,
all these companies that are building factories, we
hear, we hear, we hear.
Yeah, I've heard that they're doing it.
I've heard.
Trillions.
The reason why they are doing it is
that they will be allowed to write off
all capital expenditures in one year instead of
amortizing that over, what is it, seven years?
Except for, I don't think the oil guys
get that kind of deal.
For some reason, the oil guys didn't get
that deal.
I don't know why.
The oil guys have a deal, a real
deal.
Not according to the oil baron.
He's feeling pretty screwed these days.
Well, but by their standards.
Oh, that's what I always tell them.
Boo hoo with your ranches.
I don't feel that bad.
I mean, come on, people.
I don't feel that bad.
But yeah, I'm excited.
Just getting the Rodecaster and all three of
its USB interfaces to work was astounding.
That was the part that I thought was
really not going to be easy.
You should productize some of it and sell
it back as drivers to Rode, the guys
who never give you anything for free.
Screw them.
Those guys, you're so right.
They give every YouTuber a free gear.
Oh, we got this new box.
Send it to that YouTuber.
They never send anything.
Never, never.
I don't get it.
Yeah, that's why you should sell them.
I'm not going to sell.
I'm going to open source my stuff.
I'm not going to sell it.
Oh.
Hey, I want to give back to the
world.
I'm at a stage in my life where
I care about giving back.
You're giving back to Rode.
I'm not giving back.
The people who screw you out of free
gear.
You must give your enemy to drink and
to eat and be like pouring hot coals
on their head.
What are you, a communist now?
I'm not a communist.
You're a communist.
I am not a communist.
How dare you?
Someone got really bent out of shape the
other day because you called me a bigot,
and they thought that was really a horrible,
horrible thing to say.
That's because I try to throw the term
in every so often to familiarize people with
what it actually means.
People always think it's racial.
I forget what the context.
He had a different context for it but
did not like it.
No, I understand when I call you a
bigot, and I've done it more than once
on the show, it's based on the definition
of bigotry.
You'd be, for example, adhering to something very
minuscule and minor, and you think everything that's
against your basic thoughts is bad, and that
is bigoted by definition.
Is it really now?
Let's read the definition of bigotry.
Why don't you bring it up?
Okay.
The definition of bigotry.
Now, of course, this is Merriam-Webster.
It's the first one.
A narrow-minded person who obstinately adheres to
their own opinions and prejudices, especially one who
strongly and unfairly dislikes or feels hatred towards
others based on their group membership.
I'm not a bigot like that.
No, you're not a bigot like that, but
that's the secondary meaning.
The initial meaning is you are, in many
ways.
Narrow-minded person who obstinately adheres to their
own opinions and prejudices.
You have a lot of opinions that you
adhere to obstinately.
You are the biggest bigot if that's the
definition.
You could call me one in certain circumstances,
and you'd be correct.
Yes, but I don't do that.
You're doing it right now.
I didn't call you a bigot.
No, no, you're being obstinate.
Oh, okay.
Well, it's all right.
It's hard to be right all the time.
It's just hard.
Speaking of that, I just want to— See,
there you go.
That's what I'm talking about here.
I just wanted to mention.
So this guy gets all bent out of
shape because I used the word properly.
I'm sorry.
Hey, I'm not complaining.
I just came up.
This reminds me of the word niggardly.
Well, yeah.
You bring that up.
I mean, I don't even do that one.
But that's a very—it means cheap.
Well, let's just stick with this for one
second because we get emails frequently.
I would say ever since we just disagreed
with the libertarian narrative and now widespread narrative
that Israel controls everything in America.
But it's interesting because people—we have a different—
I know.
The logic—and by the way, what you're saying,
the logic of that thought that Israel compares
or— Controls.
Israel controls.
I'm sorry.
Israel controls everything in America is so ludicrous.
It's ludicrous.
But yet people are all in on it.
And it's baffling to us.
So—but even—like Trump.
And we got an interesting—I got an interesting
email about this.
Like Trump is like—let me see if I
have that email.
Here's our cold weather show, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, we got some other stuff to talk
about.
But people say, you're such fans.
You're like licking his ass.
On and on and on and on.
And I'm like, first of all, we have
an opinion.
And sometimes he's funny.
And we laugh.
He can be very funny.
Yeah.
And we often—you more than I—say, you know,
he's not going to do anything.
That's not going to happen.
Because it's not going to happen.
But here's—this is from Jason.
He says, as an avid libertarian slash anarcho
-capitalist, I thought I'd give you a quick
explanation about Judge Napolitano, Scott Horton, and Dave
Smith, and the rest of our libertarian crew.
And by the way, everyone goes through a
period of libertarianism.
This is like the—this is very much like
college women who go through their small— their
small period of being a lesbian.
Let's just analyze it that way.
Wow.
It's true we don't like Trump or his
foreign policy.
I think this is because I said Judge
Napolitano just hates Trump.
But I also said—well, no, let me read
on.
Many of us aren't fans of ICE and
other federal agencies, but we're quite sincere.
Well, I don't doubt that.
We don't like the Democrats either and see
them as hypocrites who are just as much
in love with government power domestically and American
mercantilism abroad as Republicans are.
We like Ron Paul and Thomas Massey because
they oppose American hegemony and support a return
to the Jeffersonian values of an agrarian republic
that stays at home and minds its own
business.
And I'll just insert here, you will hear
in today's show why that is not possible.
I know you guys mostly respond to media
rather than taking philosophical stances, but it's quite
frustrating to listen to some of it as
it feels like you're mocking our viewpoint without
really understanding why we believe what we believe.
And then he throws in some Christian stuff,
which is supposed to convince me.
I just wanted to get that off my
chest.
OK, so here's the point I was making
is that when you have the same libertarians,
I'm talking about these podcasters, I'm not talking
about you or anybody else in particular, but
we have podcasters who say, oh, it's going
to go to war with Iran.
It's going to go to war with Venezuela.
And when Trump doesn't do it, they never
say, wow, that was cool.
He didn't do it.
Maybe there's hope.
That would that's my point.
It's the hypocrisy of it, because ultimately you're
not libertarians, you're Trump haters.
That's the point.
And what is this?
That's good.
It's true.
Or at least these podcasters.
And I don't care how many hours of
video Scott Horton has or how many books
he's written about anti-war or war or
whatever, whatever.
But I live in the here and now.
So it's just, you know, chill out.
You know, you can have you.
I'm happy you find that your opinions.
I just have a different worldview.
And the people get all bent out of
shape and all they've got is a fanboy
shekels.
Come on.
It's just wait until they hear that we're
doing an Israel trip in March.
They'll really flip out.
I'm going to do a show from Israel.
I hope they get good connectivity there.
Oh, yeah, I do.
So regarding ice, I know I always get
your clips early in the morning.
So I had some of my own analysis.
But I think we should start with stuff
you have because you've got stuff.
What do I do?
Minnesota.
Oh, yeah, I do have a bunch of
Minnesota because once again, we're all actually I'll
kick it off with one thing.
I'll just kick it off.
Where is it?
We're all Zapruder.
Once again, we're all Zapruder, everybody.
Yep.
Here we go.
Aaron Burnett.
What do you see in all of this
so far from the information that we have
from the video you've watched from the responses
we've gotten from DHS and from Mr. Bovino?
Well, I mean, obviously, Aaron, at the core
of it, you have an unbelievable tragedy where
it appears that a potentially unarmed person was
essentially assassinated by horrible law enforcement tactics.
Horrible.
Dramatically escalated the situation.
But, you know, they're just there are so
many questions here at the at the absolute
core of lethal force training in the FBI
Academy.
This is Andrew McCabe, by the way.
At this horrible Trump hater.
Yeah.
He's anti-American.
He's a terrible person.
Why would anyone even put him on a
show?
He's disgraced.
CNN, baby.
Lethal force training in the FBI Academy at
in the Academy at Glencoe, Georgia.
Did you hear the potentially unarmed piece there?
I heard that.
You mean the guy with the nine millimeter?
You talking about that guy?
Border Patrol folks go through.
You are taught from the very beginning that
if you are in if you use your
weapon, you have to be able to, after
the fact, articulate exactly why you perceived an
imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.
And so the question now is, when are
we going to hear that articulation?
What is the reason that these officers or
a single officer?
We don't know how many people shot.
Believe they were an imminent threat of death
by this person who was by all every
video we've seen on the ground with anywhere
from four to five officers on top of
him at the same time.
Nowhere in these videos do you see a
weapon in this man's hand.
So again, this is the Zapruder effect that
we in America love so much.
We love analyzing video.
Yeah.
This reminds me of the of the Jack
my favorite, which is the Jacqueline Kennedy shot
JFK in the head.
Yeah.
If you look at that film just right.
Oh, yeah.
The driver to shot him and everything.
And this goes on forever and ever.
And of course, we only have more and
more of this with with video and video
can be very deceptive in in on either
side.
Same same movie, two different screens.
You can look at something one way and
get get something out of it.
And but it's red meat for the M5M
and for podcasters, apparently, because this is all
we can talk about.
I mean, it's no different from Charlie Kirk.
What, 30 out six was from above below.
Was it his microphone explode?
This will go on.
And I find it tedious and boring.
I mean, obviously, we've got didn't find it
so tedious.
You didn't want to record that particular moment.
Well, no, I do that for effect.
I am a show business person after all.
Come on.
All right.
But I have some thoughts on the whole
thing, but I'd like to like you to
do your.
OK, I'm sure you have some thoughts on
the whole thing.
So let's play these Minnesota shooting.
Now, I had two versions of this.
I had the short one, which I want
to play.
The short one is all from NPR.
The short one, because there's a little tidbit
in here that I thought was funny, which
is not mentioned at all in the long
form, which which is new MN shooter NPR.
Minnesota officials identified the person shot and killed
today in Minneapolis as Alex Jeffrey Pretty.
As NPR's Meg Anderson reports, he was the
second person killed by federal immigration agents in
less than three weeks.
In a news conference with city officials, U
.S. senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith named
Pretty as the shooting victim.
They said Pretty was a 37 year old
ICU nurse, a U.S. citizen and a
Minneapolis resident.
U.S. Senator Tina Smith.
The Trump administration has already called Alex Pretty
a domestic terrorist.
He was a nurse.
She stressed that if this can happen in
Minnesota, it can happen in any community in
the country.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Mayor Jacob
Frye requested that the governor deploy National Guard
members to support Minneapolis police officers.
Guard members will wear yellow safety vests to
distinguish them from other entities on the ground.
OK.
Yes.
So the yellow safety vest got my attention.
Oh, yeah.
This is people.
Those people are directing traffic.
So you're going to have the yellow safety
vests, which is just going to cause nothing
but yellow.
Yellow safety vest is, in my opinion, seeing
that most of these protests are organized operations,
maybe by civilians.
But that's that's someone who's a key figure.
You're a leader.
You're a you're a person who has a
point person.
I don't think you just put on the
yellow safety vest.
It's just my opinion.
I don't know anything about this guy.
Did he?
I don't think.
No, no.
The yellow safety vest is what they're going
to make the National Guard wear.
Oh, that'll confuse everybody.
They'll confuse the protesters.
Well, there's also it has a bunch of
symbolism to this yellow for one thing, which
is a surrender.
Yeah.
And it's also the yellow vest movement is.
Yes.
Reminiscent of that little bit in France.
And these guys are going to be like,
if I'm a National Guard guy wearing like
my normal, my normal fatigues, I'm going to
look like a doofus wearing this stupid yellow
vest.
So, you know, the whole thing is funny.
They left that out of the long form.
And I thought that was kind of weird,
weird to do.
But OK, because the long form was on
forever.
Let's start with the Minnesota shooting long form.
This is more of an analysis than the
other report.
For the second time this month, federal immigration
agents in Minneapolis have shot and killed someone.
It happened this morning outside a donut shop
where protesters quickly gathered.
This latest killing has put an already tense
city further on edge.
And today, the Trump administration and local officials
are trading accusations about who is to blame.
NPR's Jennifer Ludden is in Minneapolis and has
been following all of this.
Hi, Jennifer.
Hi, Sarah.
First, Jennifer, what do we know so far
about what exactly happened this morning?
Well, the Department of Homeland Security says there
is an investigation with more information to come.
But the immigration agent commanding this operation called
the shooting self-defense.
Gregory Bovino told reporters that agents were pursuing
an undocumented immigrant wanted for violent assault.
And then another person who was armed approached
the officers and resisted when they tried to
disarm him.
Here's Bovino.
This looks like a situation where an individual
wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law
enforcement.
Then about 200 rioters arrived at the scene
and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement.
But there is a bystander video that shows
multiple federal agents, looks like at least six,
wrestling someone on the ground, striking him.
And then you hear multiple shots fired.
It sounds like at least 10 rounds in
just a few seconds.
And it is not clear from the video
if the man killed had brandished or reached
for any weapon.
Now, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says
the man killed was a 37-year-old
white male, U.S. citizen, U.S. citizen,
U.S. citizen with no criminal record and
a lawful permit to carry a gun.
His family has identified him to the Associated
Press as Alex Preddy.
They say he was an intensive care nurse
at the VA who was upset at the
ICE surge here.
And his family says he had protested after
an agent fatally shot another person, Renee Good,
in her car earlier this month.
I just need to interject one quick thing
here because this, you won't hear this.
It's not discussed anywhere.
This is like, you know, it's like, was
he a bad guy?
Did the cops kill him?
This is back and forth.
It's endless.
If you physically interpose yourself with law enforcement,
that by itself is a federal crime.
Done.
So all bets are off at that point,
whether you're armed or not.
And I think it's bull crap that he
was there.
He was going to commit mass murder.
I think that's bull crap.
And I think it's weak on behalf of
Christine Noem, how she categorizes all this.
The fact is they were on an operation.
And, you know, Obama deported three million people.
I guess he just did it in the
middle of the night quietly.
I doubt that.
But there were no protests that I can
remember.
No.
There were only protests about kids in cages.
Oh, wait.
Yeah, that was Obama.
That's Obama too.
We got blamed for it.
But if you put yourself, which he did,
if you put yourself, you block a federal
agent, that is a crime.
Now, not a crime that an agent can
shoot someone over and then you go to
the next, you know, to the next phase
of it.
But that already is the problem right there.
And this comes from a different place altogether.
But there's just no—I've not heard anyone say
that at all.
It's somehow this— They don't want to say
it because it doesn't fit the narrative of
a bunch of nasty ICE guys.
Yeah.
That are out there trying to, you know,
they're trying to—one of the terms was they
were murdering people left and right.
I can't remember how it went.
What's amazing— Sound like they're homicidal maniacs.
There's more people killed in Oakland in the
last three weeks than there has been in
Minnesota.
What I find fascinating is the constant ongoing
from the M5M particularly.
Well, he was—he had a concealed weapon.
He was legally licensed to carry it.
This is the first time I've heard that
this was a good thing.
Oh, it's good.
It's good.
Yeah, what happened to the old anti-guns
narrative?
No, not in this case.
These guys can't make up their minds.
They're just subversive.
Yes.
The media is subversive.
Mm-hmm.
We just have to admit it.
All right.
Part two.
Onward.
Now, the Border Patrol commander mentioned, quote, rioters
at the scene.
You were at the scene.
What happened after the shooting?
Yes, an MPR producer and I went there
as word was spreading.
Lots of people were streaming in to see
and to protest.
There were dozens of people across several blocks.
I did not see rioting.
Local police officers used multiple rounds of tear
gas to try and disperse the crowd.
They say, look, it's a crime scene.
Now, Linda Gottlieb was among those there.
She was standing a few feet from a
line of local police officers in full face
masks and riot gear.
She's a health care worker and is frustrated
and upset about this weeks-long federal surge.
They're trying to have the narrative be that
the people are the aggressors.
But we have seen on video and we've
heard people testify to the fact that, no,
they are being illegally detained and assaulted and
sustaining injuries.
And this is absolutely counter to everything our
country stands for.
Our country stands for the First Amendment, which
is the right to peaceably assemble, which, by
the way, in constitutional law, even local government
can determine where and at what time.
Peaceably assembling is not walking around in the
streets and blowing air horns and whistles and
throwing stuff at them.
It's just not.
I'll add that just yesterday there were thousands
of people filling downtown streets here in a
very peaceful rally, demanding that some 3,000
federal immigration agents leave their city.
Now, Jennifer, the Trump administration has been quick
to denounce the man who was killed, calling
him a, quote, domestic terrorist, blaming the shooting
on local and state officials.
What are those Minnesota officials saying?
You know, we've heard outrage and frustration from
them.
Governor Tim Walz says the federal government cannot
be trusted to handle the investigation.
The State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says DHS
is blocking its investigators from the scene.
And remember, DHS said it's not even investigating
the agent who shot and killed Renee Good
earlier.
Here's Governor Walz today.
We continue to hear and we heard it
from the vice president that these folks can
do whatever they want.
They can have full immunity.
And what I'm telling you is they will
not.
There will be justice to Minnesotans.
Now, it seems like you're allowing your peaceably
assembled constituents do whatever they want.
Yeah.
This is so good for Walz.
So good for him.
Wow.
It's almost a godsend for him.
For now.
They have to, that guy should be arrested.
Probably.
They haven't arrested anybody.
I mean, they just don't, like this church
thing with the Don Lemon thing, which I
have some thoughts on, by the way.
I know you have some thoughts on it.
I do have a completely different thesis than
everybody else.
But the, it's like the Don Lemon thing.
Okay, so they arrested three people, the ringleaders,
basically.
And there was another 20 or 30 people.
Why aren't they getting arrested?
It was the same violation of the FACE
Act.
Why don't they pick them all up?
The funny thing about the FACE Act is
it was written initially to keep church people
away from abortion clinics.
It's amazing to see this flip-flop then
used by the church people on the abortion
crazies.
Well, the funny thing is about that FACE
Act, when it was proposed by the Democrats,
the Republicans thought it was a bit much.
It was so lopsided.
And so the Democrats agreed to allow the
mention of churches in the act as a
quid pro quo.
Okay, we'll give you the abortion clinics.
You've got to give us the churches.
And so it went through that way.
And now it's being turned on its head.
But that's still beside the point.
Where's the other arrests?
Oh, I'm in complete agreement with you.
It's trespassing.
They should be arrested for trespassing.
They should be arrested for the FACE Act,
which is a lot stronger than trespassing.
I'm just saying, at minimum, is what I
said, for trespassing.
I don't know.
I mean, they're too busy doing other stuff.
There's very busy days.
They're too busy not arresting people.
Oh, can we?
No, they're not going to arrest him either.
So let's, was that the third clip?
No, that was the second.
No, the third one is short.
Is that some kind of kicker?
A little kicker.
Walz says the state is creating a log
of evidence for possible future prosecution of immigration
agents.
And how worried, quickly, are people about things
escalating?
You know, there's concern.
Governor Walz has activated the Minnesota National Guard
to help local police with protests.
Meanwhile, President Trump has accused him and the
mayor of inciting insurrection.
That's meaningful because he's repeatedly threatened to invoke
the Insurrection Act and has put about 2
,000 active duty military soldiers on standby for
possible deployment to Minnesota.
NPR's Jennifer Ludden, thank you.
And I think this is really what they
want.
They really want Trump to deploy National Guard
or federal troops or whatever it is.
They want to have militarization so that they
can really go into the 2026 election with
their message.
Right.
One of our producers.
Which is why they should start arresting people
because they're not going to win the 26
elections anyway.
One of our producers, David Atima, I think
he's a knight.
He had a very good catch from episode
1836.
Funny enough, one of your clips, the David
Brooks clip, regarding Minnesota.
And listen to what David Brooks said in
that clip, which I don't know.
I don't think either of us, we didn't
discuss it.
I certainly didn't catch it first go around.
And I've long thought if Americans see deportations
of respectable families, they will finally rebel against
this regime.
And not just the progressives and not just
Democrats, but normal people who are like, what
the heck is going on here?
Not just liberals and Democrats, but normal people.
I thought that was an outstanding catch.
Wow.
Yes, that's a 10 pointer.
That's a slam dunk.
That's a game winner.
That is a terrific catch.
How did we miss that?
I think it's because we both heard regime
and we're like, oh, yeah, we're focused on
the regime.
Let's listen.
And this, again, is why video is destructive
to analysis.
And I've long thought if Americans see deportations
of respectable families, they will finally rebel against
this regime.
And not just the progressives and not just
Democrats, but normal people who are like, what
the heck is going on here?
Normal people, normal people, not the crazy progressives.
Wow.
So allow me to play a few clips
here.
The first one, another great observation.
And this does come from black tick tock,
but it's it's not your typical tick tock
video.
It is an in-car recorded video.
So, you know, it's official.
An excellent point here.
You know why you're not seeing a lot
of black people out there protesting against ICE?
You know why you're seeing predominantly white people
only at these events?
It's because back in 2020, the Democrats utilized
the black demographic to go out and riot
and act a fool.
And they said, oh, if you just elect
us, we'll give you reparations and we'll force
the police to wear body cameras and all
these wonderful, amazing things.
Right.
So black people showed up like we are
known to do.
And we voted up and down for one
side of the aisle.
And what do we get for it?
Nothing, as usual, because many of us never
learn.
But now here in 2026, we're seeing individuals
who were slavishly devoted to the Democrat Party.
Now they're seeing the Democrats over their entire
four years in office under Joe Biden.
They went out of their way to ingratiate
themselves to illegal immigrants.
And they sometimes prioritized illegal immigrants, even in
black communities, ahead of black American citizens.
And black people are sitting there saying, wait,
you said you're going to give us reparations,
you're going to give us X, Y and
Z.
We got nothing for it.
So the silver lining is a lot of
people are waking up and realizing the Democrats
are only courting their next prospective voting bloc.
They want to exploit illegal immigrants for an
entire generation, much like they exploited the black
community for the previous several generations.
And they're daring you to call them out
on that and see it for what it
is.
So if you're wondering why you only see
predominantly white liberals out here acting a fool,
rioting and protesting against ICE, it's because ICE
is threatening their ability to cater to that
next demographic that they desperately want to lock
in for an entire generation.
Exactly, exactly what's going on here.
Dead people be damned.
They do not care.
You know, I went back and I looked
up the Iliad because we were laughing about
it.
So just to reiterate, Iliad Gonzales, this is
1999.
There's a front page everywhere.
Before smartphones and people were still blogging.
We didn't have the social media, barely blogging,
I might say.
What kind of blogs were there at the
time?
Was Blogger a thing?
It was the early blogs.
Blogger was out there.
Yeah, Blogger.
And a couple of these systems.
And splashed across the front pages of all
newspapers.
You go look it up.
Iliad Gonzales, this five-year-old kid.
And there is what we would today call,
it didn't exist then, an ICE agent with
a submachine gun sticking in this five-year
-old kid's face.
His eyes are bugged out wide.
Yeah, it's great.
I mean, it was just outrageous.
I looked this up.
What happened was, this was the big election
between Bush and Gore.
And they wanted to get the Cuban-American
voting bloc.
And so this was, this happened.
The Republicans did.
Oh, yeah, the Republicans.
Exactly.
This was right before the election.
All these things, it always happens when it's
elections.
And then you just want to make one
side or the other look bad.
And if it can get a five-year
-old kid, like we've seen this kid with
a little rabbit hat.
I mean, it's heartbreaking, of course.
It's a heartbreaker, yeah.
It's a total heartbreaker.
You're looking at this.
Poor little kid.
Yes, of course it's horrible.
It is meant to tug at the heartstrings
and think the other side is evil.
But we can't blame ICE or the protesters
because what's really happened here is you have
two things.
You have people obstructing law enforcement.
And then you have the local officials, the
local leaders, I just say the blind leading
the blind, telling them to get out on
the street.
Put your body on the line.
And continuously making this law enforcement, what truly
is law enforcement, but it turns into a
complete mayhem when people are told go out
and protest against them.
Let's look at the core issue.
The core issue is lost in this.
And I did just a little mini supercut
because we have been told what is happening
over and over and over again.
And I think because our president usually speaks
in some parables that we can't even decipher.
Although it's true.
And sometimes like what is the guy trying
to tell me here?
But this is what he has said for
the past 10 years as a candidate and
as president.
Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records
ordered deported from our country are tonight roaming
free to threaten peaceful citizens.
They are being released by the tens of
thousands into our communities with no regard for
the impact on public safety or resources.
They're poisoning the blood of our country.
That's what they've done.
They poison mental institutions and prisons all over
the world.
Not just in South America, not just the
three or four countries that we think about,
but all over the world.
They're coming into our country from Africa, from
Asia, all over the world.
They're pouring into our country.
Nobody's even looking at them.
They just come in.
As I've said many times, the Maduro regime
emptied out their prisons, sent their worst and
most violent monsters into the United States to
steal American lives.
And they came from mental institutions and insane
asylums.
They came from prisons and jails.
They sent from their mental institutions.
They sent from their jails, prisons.
They were drug dealers.
They were drug kingpins.
They sent everybody bad into the United States.
We will begin removing the more than two
million criminal illegal immigrants from the country.
Deport all criminal aliens and dismantle every last
criminal gang and cartel threatening our citizens.
Drug dealers, gang heads, gang members.
Right, so right away in the troll room,
Trump is a dog whistling piece of shit.
Okay, exactly, because his parables are not understood.
I came across an interview with Peter Schweitzer.
He has a new book out.
Peter Schweitzer we know from Clinton Cash, which
I know I read.
You might have read it too, which was
really good, very detailed.
He's written a number of these books.
I'm pretty sure he's a spook or was,
you know, George Washington University, Young America Foundation.
The kind of information he has is kind
of spook-adjacent.
St. Cross College, this is a spook school.
So I'm pretty sure he's a spook or
former spook or spook-adjacent, but he does
have information.
And he's written this new book called, titled
The Invisible Coup.
And he takes us back to when, what
the Trump, what the Trump, what the Trump
is talking about is actually true.
I think it should be the Trump.
We're going to call him the Trump from
now on.
Listen to this.
Back in 1980, the Mariel boat left.
And a lot of people that were around
will remember that the United States was flooded
with Cuban refugees.
And Jimmy Carter.
These were the Cuban boat people that came.
Remember, they were, they were floating.
They were coming over on everything.
On inner tubes, all kinds of stuff.
When this first started developing said, you know,
we're a compassionate country, which is true.
We're going to welcome them with open arms.
And Fidel Castro told his top aides, well,
we're going to fill their arms with excrement.
He used a different word.
And this was really the first modern example
of weaponized immigration, because what Fidel Castro recognized
was we can actually attack the United States
by sending them criminals, people that are mentally
ill, but also people that are going to
set up criminal networks, drug networks inside the
United States.
And so what we thought was a sort
of random humanitarian event was actually a targeted
attack.
And I quote from a government panel that
later looked at the Mariel boat lift and
concluded that it was probably the third most
lethal foreign attack on the United States.
Besides Pearl Harbor and 9-11, the Mariel
boat lift was probably the third most lethal
attack.
So I already got his book and he's
very detailed with his sources, where it's all
coming from.
But it's not all that hidden.
Now he gives us the Sao Paulo forum
and who's involved in that.
And this became a template for a lot
of modern Latin American leaders.
In the summer of 1980, when this was
unfolding, Fidel Castro goes to Nicaragua to meet
with Sandinista leaders.
And there's a young revolutionary there named Lula,
who later today is the president of Brazil.
And he sets up an entity called the
Sao Paulo forum with Fidel Castro, which includes
progressive leaders from across Latin America and in
the United States, the Democratic Socialists of America,
which is Bernie Sanders and the OCC group.
And the Sao Paulo forum has weaponized immigration
against us today.
And that includes the Marina Party of Mexico
and Petro, the leader of Colombia and a
whole host of other countries who have adopted
this as their strategy to defeat the United
States.
Enter Mexico, who has quite the plan, apparently.
And I always thought of Mexico in the
context of, OK, you've got kind of this
hapless government and it's corrupt.
And they're kind of glad for mass migration
because now they don't have to feed their
own people.
The reality is, in their own words, they
view immigration very differently.
But this is from a government report.
This is a report written by one of
President Scheinbaum's top aides in December of 2024.
We already know that the Mexican population in
the United States reaches thirty nine point nine
million.
We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.
That's from December of twenty twenty four.
Here's a powerful senator who's also a member
of the Marina Party, who sits on the
National Defense Committee, which is the most powerful
committee in the Mexican Senate.
We Mexicans are in our territories, California, Nevada,
Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado
and Wyoming.
We're going to take back the territory that
was stolen from us.
They have actually created a network and infrastructure
inside the United States.
And this infrastructure, this includes Mexican government officials
inside the United States who are organizing violent
protests like those that hit Los Angeles, those
that are in Minneapolis.
And they are actively participating in our politics.
They are working to elect Democrats who are
sympathetic, a foreign government to elect Democrats who
are sympathetic to them on immigration and working
to defeat President Trump through Mexican consulates that
are across the United States.
I don't doubt this at all.
It sounds completely plausible.
Yeah, that's why the Mexican flag is always
prevalent at these things.
Exactly.
And here's a little.
You get a clue, people.
What are you?
Why are these guys flying a Mexican flag
in Los Angeles?
Come on.
Here's a little bonus clip.
Mexico has a reputation for being kind of
a sleepy, corrupt government and people don't take
them seriously.
I think we should.
Mexico has 53 consulates in the United States.
Fifty three.
In contrast, the two other countries with the
most are China and the United Kingdom with
six and seven.
So I don't doubt that the Trump is
telling the truth, but he he speaks it.
So, I mean, he just he's so repetitive
that I was like, yeah, whatever.
Where are they?
My cleaning lady doesn't seem to be dangerous.
But I completely believe that all these different
countries have indeed emptied their jails and there's
insane asylums.
And well, when they could send people over,
I don't doubt that at all.
And he says, well, maybe two million of
them, quite possibly.
And then this is the final clip.
This is just an extra bonus.
This is a quote from twenty twenty three
that I think lays out the fact that
they want this to be silence.
Again, this is from twenty twenty three.
The head of the Mexican news agency, which
is like their sort of associated press.
He says, quote, We are quietly carrying out
the reconquest of our territories in the US
taken from us in 1848.
The reconquest of the Aztec territory is silent.
And the day that the gringos realize this,
their diabolical fundamentalism will become macabre.
In other words, we need to keep this
quiet.
We don't want to talk about it publicly
because when the gringos, as he says, find
out, they're going to be really, really angry
about it.
So we need to recognize what's going on,
have an honest conversation about it.
There are dozens of these quotes in the
book for Mexican officials.
And we go through and name the Mexican
government officials who were at the center of
the L.A. riots last year who are
manipulating our politics.
Yeah, I think the Trump is right.
And this is what ICE is going after,
after these elements that have infiltrated our country.
He's right.
But I, I just kind of glossed over
it, too, like, whatever.
I've heard it a million times.
Where are they?
But the fact that they have colluded with
the Democrat Party, certainly in the Los Angeles,
quote, unquote, riots.
If you see the organization, it doesn't surprise
me at all.
So stuck in the crosshairs of this is
law enforcement and citizens who really have been
told they're doing the right thing.
You are you're compassionate, you're empathetic, and you're
a good person.
And liberals love being good persons in general.
And but this is an actual battle.
And I'm I can't wait to see what
Schweitzer what else Schweitzer has in his book,
because I'll bet there's a lot more to
this.
Yeah, I got to read this thing.
Right.
I know.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
So, you know, tragedy of foolishness.
And blood guilt, the way I see it,
between foolish people who have been told who
somehow believe that it's their right to peacefully
protest, which is not peaceably assemble.
Yes.
And they're being told by their actual elected
representatives what to do.
And those representatives, in turn, are taking apparently
taking commands from other countries because, hey, we'll.
They should arrest Walls and that Frye guy,
a guy's an idiot.
Yeah, they should, because people are going to
get hurt.
But they're not going to arrest.
I mean, they're going to arrest a ringleader,
which brings me to the Don Lemon thing.
I just want to get this out of
the way.
Don Lemon, which you made a point of,
you know, we didn't talk about it, but
I'm going to talk about it.
As far as I can tell, looking at
the just the way it went down, Don
Lemon is a CIA for the FBI.
There's no doubt in my mind about this
as in confidential informant informant.
And he's probably getting paid because the way
he set up that woman who organized the
church invasion was so obvious.
He did a long interview with her.
She just basically convinced I'm sorry, confessed on
camera everything.
She was going to do all the illegal
action, everything in between.
You even had a name for the operation,
Operation Pull Up, which I still can't figure
out.
But, yeah, good point.
And so he got that on tape and
then he went in there and he made
a fool of himself.
And and then he then they put the
indictment or the arrest warrants out for three
individuals.
And they left and included it for actually
because Don Lemon was on it.
And the judge refused to indict or have
Don Lemon arrested.
Yes.
Well, this was a major screw up because
when you have a CIA, he gets caught
up in it.
He gets arrested.
That's the idea.
You don't want to make it appear.
And the judge who let him go, his
wife works for AG, the attorney general of
Minnesota.
Nice catch, Ellison.
And so she probably thought, well, you know,
hey, he's working for the actually working for
the FBI.
Oh, OK.
I won't arrest him because I want to
give him a break.
Not knowing the playbook, Pam Bondi has to
fly.
She says, I'm flying to Minnesota.
She's got to literally fly out there and
she can't do it over the phone.
She has to fly through and read this
guy, the riot act, why he screwed up,
because Lemon has to be arrested.
Otherwise, otherwise is blown or his covers blown.
And it is blown as far as I'm
concerned already.
Yeah.
But his his whole game was being being,
you know, he needs money.
And the giveaway was when he was.
He does.
Honey, I'm going to I got to take
this gig, honey.
I'm sorry.
I just have to.
Oh, you know, you know the type of
guy he is.
He's one of those guys who thinks it's
cool.
Yeah, of course.
And so he would.
So he's so he gets gets himself involved
in this whole thing.
But the giveaway was a clip you played
on another show that was him.
And this is a clip that I thought
about getting.
But I hate these people.
This is the I've had it podcast of
the putty faced woman.
I talked about her in the newsletter.
Yes.
Jennifer Welch.
And she has Don Lemon on.
And Lemon's going on and on about what
happened.
Oh, and he says and he uses the
term my producers.
Yes.
My what is a guy who is a
podcaster that need that indicates multiple people, my
producers.
And, you know, you might want an engineer,
you know, or something.
There's different kinds of you're going to go
a solo and do what he's doing.
You don't need producers, but his producers, his
handlers, one of them is obviously the FBI
guy.
This is so phony.
But poor Don Lemon.
Now it's going to have to be good
because you will probably arrest him to try
to make make amends.
And then they're going to have to decide
what are we going to do with him?
Will Don, you'll get a slap on the
wrist, maybe.
But maybe Don can say, hey, you know,
if you put me in jail for four
months at some really lush place, I might
meet somebody.
No, no.
It would be it would go like this.
It would be I have street cred.
I can do a lot of better job.
Do you want to hear?
I have that clip if you want to
hear it.
The play that clip.
Yeah, here we go.
And there's a certain degree of entitlement.
I think people who are, you know, in
religious groups like that, it's not the type
of Christianity that I practice, but I think
that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes
from a supremacy, a white supremacy.
And they think that this country was built
for them, that it is a Christian country.
When actually we left England because we wanted
religious freedom.
It's religious freedom.
But only if you're a Christian and only
if you're a white male, pretty much.
And so, yeah, I absolutely 100 percent.
But it's an intimidation tactic.
And, you know, I said, I don't understand
how I've become the face of it when
I was a journalist.
I do understand that I'm the biggest name
there.
And I'm also as I was on with
my producers this morning, you and Kylie talk
all the time.
My producers were saying, I said, how did
I become the face of this?
And my producers said, Don, you're a gay
black man in America.
I take some some kind of pleasure in
knowing that you are listening to me and
Pastor Jimmy and yelling at the podcast.
No, shaking my fist.
Like he's an FBI informant.
Don't you guys see that?
It's an FBI CI.
CI.
So this will play out in some way.
It's already, as far as I'm concerned, the
cover's blown.
But nobody else is seeing this.
Obviously, they wouldn't be all upset.
All the podcast industrial complexes all over it
because, you know, Don Lemon, they hate him,
which is perfect cover.
Oh, and all the the podcast pastors.
Yeah, they've totally they've totally whiffed on that.
I actually have a short clip of the
attorney general, Keith Ellison.
I don't remember what's on it, but it's
only 30 seconds.
The protest is fundamental to American society.
This country started in a protest.
And, you know, it's freedom of expression.
People have a right to lift up their
voices and make their peace.
And none of us are immune from the
voice of the of the public.
So I quite honestly, I think that you
got the First Amendment, freedom of religion and
the freedom of the First Amendment, freedom of
expression.
No.
And I think that, you know, it's just
I think it's just something to live with
in a society.
He breaks up there.
Well, that's terrible.
Yeah.
That's why I didn't play it, I guess.
Yeah.
There's something fishy about that guy, too.
I mean, that's not even a jurist who's
speaking there.
I mean, our country started with the protest.
Mm.
OK.
I don't think so.
I guess tossing the tea over the there's
a violent protest.
Yeah.
But but that's why we put together a
bill of rights and what and this is
not about.
And I hate it when people in law
say, well, we have these rights.
Now, those the amendments are telling.
No, you hate is when they say the
government is allowed these rights.
Yes.
Well, well, you know, the government conferred.
Yes.
Yeah.
You have these.
Of course it's bad.
Like this is your little sliver of what
you may do.
No, no.
This is what the government may not stop
you from doing.
And that the that always does irk me.
But that's just an education system.
I think you have nailed it on this.
And you're right.
They really screwed up by not at least
detaining him overnight.
I mean, even that would have given him
enough street cred to talk about.
He had to use a toilet paper roll
as a pillow.
Yeah.
All the good stuff.
That happened to a friend of mine, a
pilot.
He flew to Cancun for New Year's with
his wife.
And he has his own plane.
And, you know, here in Texas, we have
a flight bag.
Just throw the flight bag in.
And, you know, it's got your your iPad,
your chart charts anymore.
But, you know, like a backup radio, just
your flight back.
And so on the way out as he's
leaving, which is when and he has a
small turboprop.
So not a not a private jet or
anything.
But this was the moment when everyone with
a private jet just decided to leave.
So they had extra security.
He puts his bag on the belt and
he sees all these guys coming around.
They're looking at the bag and and he
left his handgun in it.
So he gets arrested.
And of course, they're, you know.
Wait a minute.
Stop.
He's on a he's got a private plane
and they're they're checking his luggage.
Handbag.
Yeah.
On the way out of the airport at
the at the private airfield terminal.
Yeah.
I've never heard of such a thing.
Oh, it's happened to me in Switzerland.
No, it definitely happens for international flights.
They want to make sure you're not smuggling
drugs out or this all.
OK.
All right.
OK.
You know, it's private plane terminal.
And so he has his little nine millimeter
in there.
And they're like, what do you where did
you buy this?
Who did you get this from?
He's like, why would I buy a gun
in Mexico when I can buy one at
Kmart?
He was detained for 48 hours and literally
in a cell.
So that ruined his vacation.
Oh, yeah.
How about his wife who had to just
figure out how to get home on a
commercial flight?
Oh, the horrors.
And I think he wound up paying because,
you know, the consulate got involved and they
got him a lawyer.
And he had to pay twenty four thousand
dollars to the lawyer, most of which was
given out to people in bribes to get
him out.
Mexico.
And here we're just like, yeah, whatever.
We'll protect you.
Just a little contrast there.
Yeah, I'd say that's more than a little
contrast.
And he's leaving the country.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Yeah, I got a good one.
And I was like, you didn't call me.
I can't believe you didn't call.
We got robbed the constitutional lawyer.
We've got we got people around.
You know, we got people we can call.
We know people.
I just wanted to play it straight.
Could have had you out in two hours,
man.
So I want to straighten something out from
the last show.
We got your buddy Scott Simpson coming up
to talk about the tree explosions.
Suffer and succotash.
I'm Scott Simon.
Is there anything people can do to.
No, no, not that one.
Hold on.
I'm sorry.
That's the second.
That's part two.
I just see Scott Simon tree protection.
Yeah.
Try it.
You're going to love this.
Sorry.
I caught Simon.
OK, I got you.
The trees don't really explode, do they?
That term of an exploding tree is kind
of a sensationalized headline that gets a lot
of attention.
By the way, I was talking to Tina
about this who grew up in Indiana.
She said never.
It was 10 degrees, eight degrees.
She says she has never, ever heard of
this exploding tree phenomenon.
It's new to me as well.
In reality, the more appropriate term would be
cracking tree.
When it gets cold enough, the sap inside
a tree will actually freeze.
Most of the time, it's a liquid that
has all sorts of sugars and things dissolved
inside it.
When that sap reaches that critical freezing temperature,
which is usually well below 32 degrees, it
will expand.
Just like water will expand when it freezes,
the sap is mostly water and the sap
expands.
This puts tremendous pressure on the inside of
the tree.
If the tree is physically unable to handle
that pressure, it cracks.
That's how it reduces the pressure on the
inside of the tree.
This usually does not kill the tree, but
it can be a safety hazard.
If these large cracks appear in trees that
are around people or buildings or vehicles, an
arborist should look at this tree and determine
if it is a safety hazard.
What's the sound like?
As you can imagine, it takes a lot
of pressure to cause wood to crack.
It would not be uncommon to hear a
large cracking sound, a large popping sound, that
almost sounds like a gunshot.
But it is actually the wood physically cracking.
Any kind of tree is more vulnerable than
another.
Maple trees get most of the attention, given
how common they are and how susceptible they
are to cracking.
Most hardwood trees that lose their leaves in
the winter will crack if it gets cold
enough.
Conifers such as pine trees or spruce trees
can also crack as well.
When the temperature gets down to about minus
20, that's when the sap freezes and you
get this cracking occurring.
That's really cold, isn't it?
The upper Midwest gets these cold temperatures every
few years.
So trees are used to this.
They handle it.
They may have a physical deformation, but they
probably will live through it.
This is interesting.
We have maple guys in Gitmo Nation who
do maple syrup.
You've received maple syrup from them.
So have I.
Yeah, I love maple syrup.
Email me and say, I've never seen this.
We've got maple trees.
Yeah, well, this is a guy who is
some sort of an expert.
But I mean, maybe it doesn't get cold
enough where the maple trees are.
It has to be below 20, minus 20.
Minus 20.
Oh, that's OK.
That's very cold.
And now we play the second piece here.
Yeah, this is just kind of a follow
up.
Is there anything people can do to avoid
their trees cracking?
Realistically, the most practical thing for a homeowner
with a small tree to do is wrap
the tree with tree wrap.
It's sort of like painter's tape or duct
tape that you wrap around the base of
the tree up to the first set of
lower branches.
This can help provide some insulation and hopefully
reduce the likelihood that that small tree is
going to reach that critical temperature at which
it cracks.
Bill McNee of the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, we wish you and your colleagues and
everyone in Wisconsin a good weekend.
Thanks so much, sir.
Thank you for having me.
The more I think about it, I think
lots of these videos that were going around
might have been just AI generated.
You think?
It wouldn't be surprising, would it?
I'd say half the stuff I'm seeing nowadays
is AI generated.
Well, funny you bring that up.
Here to explain CBS News, my last correspondent,
Kelly O'Brien.
I was going to say, I should mention,
dogs do not dance.
OK?
Just note that.
Are you sure?
Pretty sure they don't dance.
They don't dance.
Here to explain CBS News, Money Watch correspondent,
Kelly O'Grady.
Kelly, good morning.
So what is driving this push to clean
up this AI content and then what protections
are out there that YouTube will put in
place?
So, I mean, there's just been an explosion
of that low quality content, as you said.
To the extent that over a million YouTube
channels each day in December used AI technology
in creating those videos.
Technology.
So it is a lot.
And that creates a number of issues.
One, you have viewer trust issues.
You've got these deep fake videos that look
really real and people don't know if they
are.
And so that also leads to the platform
becoming low quality as a whole, potentially.
And all of those AI slot videos sort
of crowding out legitimate creators trying to make
a living, trying to bring us good content.
And that's, by the way, it's not good
for advertisers or brands either.
No company wants an ad running next to
a bad AI video.
You ask about protections.
YouTube specifically does require any creator that has
created an AI generated video to say so.
Their tool specifically, if you use a video
or you create a video using their tools,
there is a label that comes up.
A label there so you know.
Exactly.
And then in general, the algorithm tries to
down rank low quality content.
It doesn't always work.
And it often comes down to people having
to do this when things are evolving so
quickly.
Yeah.
I'm happy.
The number one progenitor of AI is screwing
themselves.
I completely agree.
I mean, you scroll through YouTube looking for
something.
First of all, all the images look like
our art.
You know, everything except for the cartoony ones.
It's all AI generated labels, you know, the
poster images.
Everything looks the same.
If it looks AI, you're going to presume
it's AI.
And then you play it.
And how many times, I don't know if
you've had this, where you're watching this video
and after three minutes, you're like, wait a
minute.
This is just stock footage rotating with a
voiceover.
There's nothing coming up here.
Yeah, I've had that happen.
It's quite annoying.
And it takes minutes.
It's almost like done on purpose as a
joke.
Oh, no.
My favorite thing is wait till the end.
Oh, yeah, wait till the end.
And there is nothing that happens.
Nothing just goes on and just ends.
You won't believe what happens.
Wait till the end of this video.
It's going to be great.
Because that used to mean something like five
years ago.
Wait for it.
And right on the heels of this, of
course, we have something called the Defiance Act.
And it has a celebrity at the forefront
of promoting this act with just a hilarious
side connotation in my book.
Paris Hilton was on Capitol Hill yesterday pushing
for the passing of the Defiance Act.
And it would allow victims of sexually explicit
AI-generated deepfakes to take legal action against
the creators and distributors of that content.
Hilton spoke about the impact a leaked sex
tape had on her life.
She spoke about the fears that girls and
women who could potentially become victims of the
AI pornography.
The bill is championed by New York Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
So what I find just amazing in this
is that the impact the leaked sex tape,
which she filmed herself, had for Paris Hilton
was she became globally famous.
Just like Kim Kardashian.
I mean, they probably want this act passed
so that no other women can get up
into their level of fame.
This is crazy.
Well, that's an interesting analysis.
I mean, she didn't need money being a
Hilton heir, but she became just the thing.
And this kind of attention, the first thing
that got my attention in this attention grab
was they now have the opportunity to sue
the creators.
The creators are anonymous.
They're like hackers and guys who live in
the basement and the kind of crazy guys
and some smart guys and everybody in between
who can do these AI things.
They do them and they slip stream them
into the system where they get passed around
by other people.
And you can't.
How are we going to sue?
Whoever posted it, probably if you post it
on YouTube.
I mean.
It's going to have to be you can't
track down any half the people that are
on YouTube.
You can't track down anybody on TikTok.
Well, I don't know.
Things have changed.
Terms of service change.
It's the deal is done.
An estimated 180 million TikTok users in the
U.S. had been waiting anxiously for the
fate of the app to be determined.
It had been banned by a 2024 law
signed by then President Joe Biden that came
into effect in January 2025.
The law bans social media apps linked to
foreign governments like China from being available in
U.S. app stores.
But on taking office, President Trump signed a
series of executive orders providing for a delay
in enforcing the law to allow time for
U.S. investors to negotiate a deal with
a Chinese parent company.
President Trump acknowledged that users of the TikTok
app had played a significant role in his
election victory.
Essentially, with TikTok, I have the right to
either sell it or close it.
And Vice President J.D. Vance also played
a role in pushing for a deal.
Of course, we're going to keep on working
at it.
But this deal really does mean that Americans
can use TikTok, but actually use it with
more confidence than they had in the past
because their data is going to be secure
and it's not going to be used.
Oh, I can use it with more confidence.
Confidence of what?
I'm watching dancing dogs and fat chicks falling
on a on a balanced beam and all
this other.
What are they talking about?
I'm only watching it for the amusement.
That Americans can use TikTok, but actually use
it with more confidence than they had in
the past because their data is going to
be secure and it's not going to be
used as a propaganda weapon against our fellow
citizens.
Full details of the deal are still to
be revealed.
The parent company, ByteDance, will still control a
fifth of TikTok equity, but it will be
joined by U.S. tech company Oracle, a
private equity firm, Silver Lake, and the Emirati
-backed investment firm, MGX.
Oracle is owned by Trump supporter Larry Ellison,
who had previously accused the platform of being
pro-Palestinian.
Oracle will manage TikTok's data security, algorithm and
cloud computing, essentially moving control into U.S.
hands.
Yeah, we're going to see dancing Israelis now
on the balance beam.
So, you know, all I learned from that
report, because I have never seen a pro
-Palestinian TikTok ever.
No.
All I got from that report is that
the algo has determined that Larry Ellison is
on TikTok looking for Palestinian material.
Bingo.
And he finds one, he goes, oh my
God, let me look at it again and
again.
And then next thing you know, he's getting
tons of it.
Let me share it.
I got to share it.
I got to share it with my group.
He's sharing it.
So now Larry, the tech genius, has decided
that that's all TikTok is because he doesn't
understand it at all.
Is that what I'm being told?
That's what I'm being told.
Well, the terms and conditions have changed.
Interesting that there is a Middle Eastern co
-owner of this because, of course, you know,
we have to have confidence that it's not
China who has our data.
The language of the new policy I'm reading
from The New York Times was more sweeping.
It said TikTok would use the data collected
from users and third parties to show customized
ads and other sponsored content, both on TikTok
and on other websites.
This is exactly what they accused China of
doing.
Users can adjust their advertising permissions in the
app?
Sure.
Yeah, right.
So this was always about, and it kind
of backfired because it was Google.
Google and Facebook, they hated this because it
was taking their lunch, their lunch money.
It was billions of dollars.
And now, and I'm sure these guys, I'm
sure they'll run it into the ground.
There's no vision behind it.
You know, that's fine.
Yeah, they will.
You're right.
Yeah, I don't see it.
They're always right.
They have all this stuff.
Boots on the ground from one of our
Department of War producers, anonymous for obvious reasons,
wants to provide some quick feedback after attempting
to use the Department of War's Gen AI.
Now, do we recall what this Gen AI
was supposed to do?
I don't recall, but I do.
I do recall it, but I don't recall
what it's supposed to do.
Well, it was going to help with operations.
Oh, yeah.
It was going to be a lifesaver.
Yeah.
So he says right now, still the only
LLM implemented is Gemini.
Grok, ChatGPT and Claude are not accessible yet.
So we tried a couple of different things.
He says the military has probably the largest
corpus of data to pull from.
So my first attempt, I figured I should
be able to get Gemini to format a
standard naval letter, considering there's plenty of information
to pull from.
Nope.
In fact, the amount of time it took
me to generate a simple message in official
formatting with multiple prompts attempting to correct it
took me well beyond the time span of
just creating one from scratch.
Right.
This is notable because this is the case
with most AI.
Second, I knew this was a long shot,
but I had a brag sheet for recognizing
someone for their service during the quarter, as
we call them, sailor, soldier, NCO, et cetera,
of the quarter.
Packages have a standard format.
The brag sheet has the relevant data points
to input.
In theory, it should have just plugged and
played what was needed.
Instead, repeat of above.
Last attempt, a real-world case, operational planning.
This was a very simple test.
I grabbed grid coordinates for a known area
that could support one of our rotary wing
platforms, that's helicopters, for a landing zone and
prompted, would these grid coordinates support CV22 land
zone?
I presume that's an Osprey.
What I got was generic information about theorized
capability, but no recommendation because it couldn't assess
the area.
While we have individuals that specifically do this
analysis.
I had to do this site assessment previously
in my career for offhand work, for on
-the-fly medevac landing zones, LZs, landing zones,
on public plan to support training cycles.
Not a big ask, but if it can't
do this basic task, I doubt it can
do anything very complex.
So, these are three of the things that
were promised that would take the Department of
War into the next century of technology.
And it cannot do it.
It did, it took it into the next
century.
That is the next century, hello.
There is some exciting news for both you
and I.
This kind of goes along with my idea
that AI, or whatever you want to call
this, is really great when decentralized, when you
can have it at home.
Enter QUEN3, Q-U-E-N-3-T
-T-S.
This is from the Chinese.
They have open-sourced a very lightweight model,
which does exactly what 11 Labs does.
And you can run it on home computer
stuff.
And there is a GitHub, you can download
it, you can download the models.
And I've tried it.
Give me the name of it again.
QUEN?
That's the, what's the big Chinese Amazon?
What's the Chinese Amazon?
I don't know.
Yeah, you do.
The big...
T-MU?
No, no, no.
To me, it's T-MU.
The big one you buy all the crap
on.
SHI-MU?
No, no.
SHEN?
No, not T-MU.
The one that had the guy who got
kicked out.
Oh, okay.
I can't remember the name.
Alibaba.
Yeah, Alibaba director.
Low-T.
Instababa.
It was Low-T.
Q-U-E-N-3-T-T-S.
They have a little example.
You can run it on one of their
cloud servers.
I like it.
It's a catchy name.
No, it's not.
It's horrible.
It's a catchy name, yeah.
QUEN-3-T-T-S.
Yeah, that's it.
I'll be loading this up on my Linux
system.
Oh, it runs on Linux?
You can run it on...
I think you can run it on almost
anything.
It's easiest to run it on Linux, yeah.
Because, you know, you have that open web,
open UI, whatever.
You can load all the open source models
on.
But it's good.
It's really surprising.
And you can also sample your own voice.
So that's what I'll be trying.
That's what I've been wanting to do with
11 Labs, but I only use the free
version.
They won't let me do the free version.
No, 11 Labs costs you like $199 a
month to do that.
I'm still not paying.
No, but you're going to use this and
you're going to love it.
You sound correct, sir.
This has John C.
Dvorak written all over it.
I find this fascinating.
This is exactly the problem these guys have.
They're all trying to make all these goodies
for everybody, and meanwhile, the China is just
like, you have this for free.
They're screwing with these guys.
They really are.
It's good.
Well, if it's as good as you say.
I think I've only seen, I've only done
the demo.
I'll get my Spuds Oakley voice.
I'll take it from 11 Labs and give
it to this system.
I can get it for free.
I can have it read a book.
Well, let me give you an example.
I think they have.
First of all, 11 Labs is a terrific
product, so I'm not going to demean them.
Except they just don't need to pay hundreds
of dollars a year for anything.
For a little gag.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
You don't need that.
I can't find the.
I'll have to find the.
I'll just load it.
I'm going to load it and we're going
to test it.
Hugging face demo.
Here we go on hugging face.
Okay.
Give me some text.
Not too long, just because it's a demo.
Give me something for it to say.
Okay.
Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of their country.
Okay.
Now, describe the voice.
Just describe it.
The tone.
A husky female lesbian.
Husky female lesbian.
Okay.
Any particular intonation?
With a lisp.
Okay.
I'm going to generate the audio.
Zero GPU queue waiting for a GPU to
become available.
Successfully acquired a GPU.
This is exciting.
We've acquired a zero GPU GPU.
I'm not quite sure what that means.
The progress bar is moving to the left.
I see a waveform starting to appear.
Processing 17, 19, 20 seconds of 26.3
seconds.
This is so exciting, John.
We're about to hear your husky female lesbian
with a lisp.
Here we go.
Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of their country.
No lisp, but it wasn't bad.
It was close.
Yeah.
Now, let me just.
It was a nice husky voice.
Speaking excitedly.
Maybe we need to add the.
Yeah, do that.
Oh, I got an error.
Oh, you reached your quota.
Create pro account.
You didn't register.
The Chinese are the same as every other
Silicon Valley company.
Yeah, they're the same douche bags as all
the other software people.
Why not?
I only generated two of these while testing
it before the show, and then I reached
my quota.
Thanks, hugging face.
I'll give it a shot.
I'll load it up, and we'll have some
fun with it in a week from now.
We'll have some fun.
All right.
Let's see.
I haven't asked Adam for a little side
trip here.
All right.
All right, everybody.
It's time to ask Adam.
All right.
What do we have?
I want to preface this by talking.
This is from the CBS Evening News.
And Barry Weiss is under nothing but relentless
attack, including from your buddy, Megan Kelly, who
called her a lesbian.
What?
Tina, how come you haven't?
Tina should have told me this.
She's always on that tip.
She knows all this stuff.
I'm surprised.
So Barry Weiss is under attack.
And there's a good article in The Ringer.
People just look up The Ringer and find
it.
Either search for Barry Weiss or CBS News.
How about Tony Ducapole, who everyone doesn't like
him either, because he's too kind of a
wimp.
Isn't he the guy that introduced Candace and
her beard?
Yeah.
According to Megan Kelly, and this is secondhand,
because this was written in this article.
She says that Ducapole was picked as the
anchor because that's a lesbian's ideal of a
man.
Really?
Yeah.
Because it went on.
It's quite funny.
But they go on and on.
I actually think he does a good job,
to be honest about it.
I think he's fine.
He's as good as Tom Yamas.
Yeah.
And some of these other guys.
He just has to look pretty.
Just look pretty and read the prompters.
It's not all that hard.
Yeah.
That's basically right.
But the problem that's not correctable is the
staff, the infrastructure.
I've said this.
We've said this on the show.
It's kind of a theme.
Don't hire woke people, because once they get
in your organization, they contaminate it and ruin
it.
Yeah.
It's a problem.
And so it's the writing in the back
rooms and the reporters that are all a
bunch of Democrats that are in there, and
you can't get rid of them overnight.
You never will.
And so here's this report.
So this becomes an Ask Adam, because it's
so stupid.
This is Ask Adam.
This is about the murder rate.
And this is the question.
Murders dropped by more than 20 percent last
year, down to what may be the lowest
murder rate in more than a century, according
to a new study.
The Council on Criminal Justice says it crunched
numbers in 40 large cities and found that
carjackings and shoplifting are also down.
And the cause?
Mostly it's Adam.
Answer the question, go.
So my question is, the cause of the
drop of the carjackings and murder rate?
What is the cause?
Don't forget, this is a hundred years.
Oh.
A hundred years of murders.
I know the answer.
They're down.
I know the answer.
Okay.
Climate change.
That, almost.
Almost.
Hold on.
And the cause?
Mostly it says a return to normal after
the pandemic.
Close enough.
Yeah.
COVID, wait a minute.
COVID was a hundred years ago.
Is that what they're telling us?
So a hundred years ago, after COVID, it's
gone down because of the end of COVID.
Are you kidding me?
What kind of analysis, what logic is it?
Where's the logic?
They said a hundred years, not five.
It should have been climate change.
It would have been much better news.
Climate change would have been a better, actually
would have been a better answer than that.
Yeah.
Well, while we're doing fun stuff, picked up
a Politico interview with the gay general Patton,
known as Scott Besant.
We had a conversation about his script writing,
that someone had written these scripts for him.
You know, if someone's writing scripts, they're giving
him one-liners and he's good at remembering.
Listen.
Some of the European leaders have gotten criticism
from Democrats, people like Gavin Newsom.
Cardi is actually one of the few people
that Newsom has praised.
He said he brought knee pads for some
of the other European leaders that he thinks
have been too accommodating to the president.
I think Gavin Newsom may be cracking up
with some of these things he's saying.
I think he may be in over his
hairdo.
And being on the national stage is very
different than being governor of California with no
signature achievements.
But to say strange things like, President Trump
is a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
What the hell does that mean?
You know, I could say Gavin Newsom is
a brontosaurus with a brain the size of
a walnut.
And if he brought the knee pads, maybe
that was for his meeting with Alex Soros.
I don't know.
Yeah.
The knee pads thing is going to haunt
him forever.
Yeah, but the memes are already out there.
But to have Scott Besant say this, it's
just, it's entertaining.
No, there's something particularly, yes.
It's actually, it's an amplification of the insult
just by the fact that it's Besant, who's
a kind of a milquetoast guy that's got
all these zingers.
Are you kidding me?
In that interview, I didn't clip it.
He says, hey, I'm just a kid from
South Carolina.
He says, I learned to fend for myself.
I kind of believe that.
He just grew up to be kind of,
this whole persona says royal family, not like
I'm going to insult you with a knee
pad retort.
It's just, it's something funny about it.
Yeah, South Carolinians are, you know, when the
Civil War broke out, South Carolina was one
of the succession of states that really was
pushing for a monarchy.
Oh, really?
Yeah, they've always been somewhat regal.
The South Carolinians are regal.
They have a regality that is unparalleled in
the entire country.
Yeah, having been there a couple of times,
I can see that.
They like their little palaces there.
They got those houses, man.
Some of them were just amazing.
We have another one from Scott Besant, although
not as lewd.
This is about Alberta.
Look, Alberta is a wealth of natural resources,
but they won't let them build a pipeline
to the Pacific.
I think we should let them come down
into the U.S. And Alberta is a
natural partner for the U.S. They have
great resources.
The Albertans are very independent people.
Rumors that they may have a referendum on
whether they want to stay in Canada or
not.
Yeah, well, it's not just a rumor.
They say rumors?
Yeah, he said rumor.
That's not a rumor.
No, it's not a rumor at all.
But it may not have been Davos.
That may have been earlier.
But still, the sign-up for the referendum
has been going on for a couple of
weeks now.
I just do have another, because Davos is
kind of wrapped up and just looking at
some, just trolling for some material here.
Bill Gates.
This is so on brand for what he
says here.
It was just mind-blowing that he still
gets away with this.
So the AI is entering into the health
system, but not just into the health system.
It's all the way down to the level
of the patient.
So the patient is able to talk in
their local language and describe what's going on.
And so in order to make this a
reality, to see what works, what doesn't work,
we're thrilled that OpenAI and the Gates Foundation
are committing an initiative called Horizon 1000, where
we'll go into a thousand primary health care
clinics in Africa.
And the goal is to make...
He's like, whatever we can do, let's test
it on the black people over there.
In Africa.
Much higher quality and if possible, twice as
efficient as it is today.
Taking away the paperwork that needs to be
done, organizing the resources, so the patient knows
what's available and when to come for their
appointment.
So there's all sorts of things can be
improved.
So it's basically a chat bot.
You know, Rwanda is a great partner for
the Gates Foundation.
Yeah, oh yeah.
We got lots of cadavers from Rwanda to
test.
And a lot of things.
And so we're thrilled that that's actually the
first country that this work will go into.
We'll certainly also, over time, work in Kenya,
South Africa, Nigeria.
And you have different systems that we have
to connect into.
Although not this initiative, there's obviously a lot
going on in India as well.
And so over the next couple of years,
I would expect developing world health may even
get ahead of rich world because the need
is so great.
And the governments are embracing this and making
sure that it's moving at full speed.
So basically, you go in, the chat bot
says, oh, you need a shot.
Clearly, just stick your arm in here.
We'll give you a shot.
This guy is a ghoul.
He's a total ghoul.
And while we're leaving the World Health Organization,
your state is reentering.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the state
is joining the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak
Alert and Response Network.
There's more.
The announcement comes a day after the U
.S. formally withdrew from the WHO and is
the latest move by Newsom to move California
away from federal health policy.
But wait, this is your state.
This is what your money is going to
be spent on.
And meanwhile, according to an expenditure line item
in the governor's proposed 2026-27 state budget,
the governor is requesting $33,000 for a
self-portrait.
No details on who's going to be painting
that portrait or where it's going to be
displayed.
The full budget is pegged at about $348
billion.
Okay, so two things.
One, $348 billion.
And self-portrait?
Is he going to pay himself?
That's what I said.
That makes no sense.
That'd be a stick figure.
But it'd be, you know, he needs $33
,000.
So he's going to paint himself.
So obviously that was not misreported.
Yeah.
But as usual.
Hilarious.
Just hilarious.
It is funny.
Yeah.
Let's see.
What else?
Do you want to hear Elon from Davos?
He was there?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
I saw him.
Yeah, with Fink.
Fink.
Who was quick to point out everywhere, I'm
interim, co-chair.
Just interim.
I'm only interim.
I'm not part of the World Economic Forum.
I'm just interim.
He had to keep saying it everywhere.
Sticking his finger up.
Interim.
So he's got...
So he's the guy running it right now.
He's running it, yeah.
He got the other guy kicked out so
he could take it over so they could
do some deals.
It's all about the deals.
BlackRock deals worldwide.
Yeah, it's all about the deals, of course.
And so he's going to...
Yeah, he's in tight with Trump.
Him and Trump are buddies.
In fact, one of the overlooked details about
his...
Their friend, even though he's a Democrat, Fink.
Jewish, by the way.
Make sure to note that.
Yes.
Troll room, take note.
Take note, troll room.
So Fink is the guy who actually bought
C.K. Hutchinson's ports all over the world
through BlackRock.
And that includes Rotterdam, by the way.
He owns half of Rotterdam's ports now.
Really?
Well, he's in the drug trade then.
And he is the one that made the
Panama deal go through.
He's the one who bought the ports from
the Chinese with BlackRock, which made it easy
so Trump didn't have to make a big
fuss or go to war or anything.
So Trump and him are in bed as
pals.
And as a favorite of Trump, he's the
one who told Newsom he had to cancel
his speech at Davos and he could be
interviewed or something else.
But he got booted out, got pissed off
about it.
That's why he was so irked about the
knee pads and everything else because he thought
that he's being railroaded, which he was, because
he shouldn't be there in the first place.
He's the governor of California.
What's he doing at Davos?
Third largest economy in the world.
Fourth.
And so there is a falling fast.
He said third though.
Well, he's wrong.
And so you end up with this craziness
going on between Fink and Trump which is
not really being noticed enough.
That's good.
I didn't know that he had basically done
the Panama deal.
Yeah.
Oh, that's very interesting.
Of course, it's our money.
Isn't it the U.S. government money?
Whatever.
You can assure it's not Fink's money.
No, it's not his.
So Elon is at Davos.
And I have to say Elon is underwhelming.
He doesn't have a good rap anymore.
The stuff he says is like, okay, whatever.
And he and all these AI guys, whether
it's him or whether it's Altman, it's a
milieu, it's a clique, it's creepy.
And you're right.
It's anti-climatic.
It lacks charisma.
Lacks charisma.
They all are looking up to the left,
you know.
What is that in NLP if your eyes
look up to the left?
You're trying to visualize something.
You're dreaming.
You're in a dream world.
Talk like difficult because, you know, I'm a
genius.
What a start.
I mean, the way you think of it
is that if you have a large number
of humanoid robots, the economic output is the
average productivity per robot times the number of
robots.
Wow.
Let's listen to that calculation again.
Wait, I got to listen to that.
That was so dumb.
Large number of humanoid robots.
The economic output is.
The economic output of a large number of
humanoid robots is.
The average productivity per robot times the number
of robots.
No.
Say it's not so.
I never would have come up with that
calculation.
Right.
And actually my prediction is in the benign
scenario.
Benign scenario.
That we will.
The robots.
We will actually make so many robots in
AI that they will actually saturate all human
needs.
Meaning you won't be able to even think
of something to ask the robot for.
Yes.
I have something.
Could you please do this podcast for us?
That would be very helpful.
Humanoid robot.
At a certain point.
Like there will be such an abundance of
goods and services.
Because my prediction is there'll be more robots
than people.
But how do you then have human purpose
in that scenario?
Yeah.
I mean, you know, there was nothing's perfect,
you know.
Kill all humans.
Human purpose to kill all robots.
But I mean, it is a necessary.
Listen to this.
Like you can't have both.
You can't have work that has to be
done and amazing abundance for all.
What?
Because if it's work that has to be
done and only some people can do it,
then you can't have abundance.
It's narrow.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We'll wait for it.
It's coming at the end.
And can I say something?
Yeah, of course.
He always underperforms in front of art.
He's not one.
He's like most people.
Supposedly, they can't perform in front of an
audience.
He's not a theater kid.
He's good on one on one interviews when
he's with somebody.
And he can focus on them and skewer
him.
But when he's playing to a large audience,
he's always like this.
He's not good.
He should even do it.
Well, this is a one on one panel
between him and.
Yeah, but there's a bunch of people watching
it.
Yeah.
Well, listen to his vision.
You can't have abundance.
It's narrow.
Exactly.
So.
But if you have billions of humanoid robots,
I think there will be.
I think I think everyone on Earth is
going to have one.
I'm going to want one because you wouldn't
want a robot to.
All right.
What do you think his examples are of
what the robot what our robots of the
future will do?
Well, what they should do, they do the
dishes and vacuum the floor and they run
errands and they scratch your back.
You know, it's very safe.
Watch over your kids.
Take care of your pets.
Two of the joys in life.
Yeah.
Is why you want the robots are supposed
to free you up so you can do
that activity.
I want to play with my pet.
I want to play with the dog and
you want to, you know, tumble around with
the kids.
Sure.
Here comes the worst one.
If you have elderly parents.
A lot of friends of mine said they
have elderly parents.
It's very difficult to take care of them.
Expenses.
Yeah.
Oh, you know what?
Kill the elder.
Have the robot kill your parents.
There you go.
Now you're being realistic.
It's expensive and it's expensive and they just
aren't enough people to take care of the
enough young people to take care of the
old people.
Wait a minute.
If we have robots, then yes, we can
have the young people taking care of the
old people.
It's by the way, it's enjoyable for the
old people.
And for young people, they might learn something
like don't let the robots take over.
This is.
Yeah.
We teach him something.
Right.
Yeah.
You know, when I was a kid, they
didn't have robots.
I almost expected him to say, you know,
the robot will know when you're out of
milk in the fridge and it'll order new
milk for you.
That's coming.
Well, that would be what I would expect.
And with that, before our children kill us,
I want to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man
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This is what makes the show, of course,
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Obviously, he knew what he was doing when
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I like the piece a lot.
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I also like T-Rex Trump, which I
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People are back.
Scaramanga.
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Once you start singling people out, the ones
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Yeah, they go away.
Which is the way it should be, by
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He's doing stuff.
I think he's trying to get into the
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It takes time.
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I see a Parker Pauly showed up today.
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Our formula is this.
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mouth.
I have two Ukraine clips that we can
get out of the way and keep up
with that a bit.
Okay.
One is an analysis from Colonel McGregor, but
the first one I want to play is
the Ukraine update.
This is from yesterday in NPR.
U.S. officials say progress was made in
trilateral talks with Russia and Ukraine to end
Moscow's nearly four-year-long war.
NPR's Tamara Keith reports.
The U.S. team spoke to reporters after
two days of meetings in Abu Dhabi with
high-level delegations from Ukraine and Russia.
They said just getting them to the table
to talk is a big step and, quote,
the conversations were very respectful.
Even if there were no significant breakthroughs, they
said having everyone in the same room was
progress after months of at times frustrating shuttle
diplomacy.
Major sticking points remain, including how territory will
be divided up and the terms of de
-escalation if there is a deal.
The officials say the next meeting has already
been set for a week from now, in
Abu Dhabi.
Meanwhile, Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles
at Ukraine's two largest cities as the talks
went on.
This is NPR News.
Did you hear Zelensky at Davos?
Oh, I don't know if I had.
Did you have it?
Yeah, I have a Minute 10 report.
It's kind of funny because, well, you'll hear
it in this clip.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Europe in his
address at a forum in Davos for their
inaction, describing it as a lost continent.
In his scathing critique, Zelensky says Europe is
stuck in an endless cycle of failing to
defend itself or decisively supporting Ukraine, likening the
situation to the U.S. film Groundhog Day.
What about the ceasefire itself?
Who can help make it happen?
Europe loves to discuss the future but avoids
taking action today, action that defines the future.
Why can't President Trump stop tankers from the
Shadow Fleet and seize oil, but Europe doesn't?
Russian oil is being transported right along European
shores.
That oil funds the war against Ukraine.
That oil helps destabilize Europe.
So Russian oil must be stopped and confiscated
and sold for Europe's benefit.
Why not?
Ask Donald Trump to discuss the latest on
the ground and ongoing peace efforts.
I think Trump literally gave him a piece
of paper, say this.
He had a meeting with the Trump and
then he said, hey, these Europeans, they're still
taking Russian oil from ghost ships.
They're funding the war against us.
Hmm.
Yeah, you know, what you said was kind
of offhanded.
But I think you actually might be correct.
I wasn't it wasn't that offhanded.
I mean, when I heard the report, I'm
like, well, that's obvious why he said that.
Trump said, don't don't screw it up, man.
Say this.
Those guys suck in Europe.
They suck.
Yeah, they suck.
Well, he's not wrong.
No.
All right.
Well, so we go to Colonel McGregor.
He's got this show, you know, and doesn't
answer your calls.
No, no.
But he'll do anybody else's podcast.
But he won't do an interview with us
because, you know, we're we're just the best.
You might ask a real question.
But but he does have an interesting little
screed type of analysis here that is worth
listening to.
President Trump doesn't seem to want to kill
the bad ideas.
You know, he's he's got his own set
of bad ideas.
He could have gone into NATO and said,
listen, this is over.
The United States will not support war with
Russia.
We want to normalize our relations with Russia.
We want to do business with Russia.
Russia is not interested in conquering Europe.
So sit down, shut up and get on
board with us.
And if you're not going to get on
board with us, that's fine.
Then get on another ship because we're not
sailing the war.
He could have done that.
Yeah.
He done it.
No, he hasn't.
And then he looks look at a place
like Kiev under this man, Zelensky.
So Lensky is a defeated regime.
Ukraine has been defeated, if not destroyed.
Shut up.
We're going to sort this out and you're
going to live with what we come up
with.
People had common sense 100, 200 years ago
when they settled these wars.
They took that position.
But again, when did they do that?
They did it after the Napoleonic Wars because
they'd seen millions of people die.
They'd seen cities and towns destroyed.
They didn't want that anymore.
It took 100 years to forget it and
go back to Oregon in 1914.
No, that's from a historical standpoint.
Pretty good.
Yeah.
Want the Europeans?
They're nuts.
Well, along those lines, a little long, a
little over two minutes.
I know.
Well, if you get tired of it, then
we can stop.
Why do you ever get to this two
minute rule?
I don't remember us ever establishing it, but
we have.
I like 1.30 myself.
In fact, I prefer one.
But I use the two minute rule and
I always feel crappy when I look and
it comes out at 2.05. Yeah.
Well, that's exactly why I'm prefacing it by
saying I feel that you're apologizing in advance.
Yeah.
I feel it's too long.
But generally speaking, if it's too long, it's
usually good.
Well, you don't like the guy.
So it might be.
But on the periphery of Davos, there's all
these other little institutions and interviews.
You know, it's kind of like the Academy
Awards in a way.
You go to this tent, you do an
interview there, you go to that tent and
or you've got to talk to E!
Entertainment.
Does E!
Entertainment, they go belly up?
Are they gone?
Is that still around?
Not that I know of.
Is it still around?
E!
News, I think, is folded.
But the network is still around.
I think they still have a mic on
the red carpet.
I have to look into it now.
So I do.
I think we both do this.
I'm always cutting out pauses, particularly the like
France 24.
They leave long pauses whenever someone's being translated.
They always start with and the voice comes
over what I was trying to say.
I cut out all the waka taka waka.
Cut that out.
Yeah, it's annoying.
You know, it doesn't do anything.
I leave a snippet.
Yeah.
About that much.
So this is Yanis Varoufakis.
Roll eyes now.
He.
Now, what's interesting about him and this is
in his wheelhouse and this is not one
of those A.I. videos that I get
tricked into a couple of weeks ago.
This is him on stage being interviewed.
He was the finance minister later, I think,
prime minister, but the finance minister of Greece
when Europe when we had the euro crisis
and they blamed it all on Greece and
they knew it was so bad that Dutch
people were refusing to go to Greek restaurants.
That's how crazy Europe is.
But the Greeks screwed us, man.
So we're not going to support that.
Right.
Yeah.
Don't you remember that?
No, I don't remember.
I'm not going to Greek restaurant.
Oh, yeah.
I could probably look it up on Bing
it and find it.
Yeah.
They wouldn't go to Greek restaurants and everyone
hated like, why are we in the north
suffering for you in the south?
It was the pigs, Portugal, Italy, Greece and
Spain.
Remember it now?
The pigs.
I remember the pigs.
Yeah, the pigs.
And so the IMF swooped in with I
want to say Goldman Sachs, probably a couple
of other the big banks.
And they said, all right, ruin the place.
They ruined it and gave them austerity.
So Varoufakis has a bone to pick.
And he is explaining why the European Union
is cooked toast and will not work and
is bound to fail.
Europe made a grievous error in 1992 by
creating a federal money.
The idea was to create a monetary federation
and then on top of that, build a
political union.
But there was a Cambridge economist, Nicholas Cowder,
who in 1970, the new statesman warned Europeans
against doing this.
He said, if you make the mistake of
creating a monetary union as a first stepping
stone towards a political union, you will fail
because the monetary union will create an almighty
economic crisis that will poison the well of
any further consolidation, and then it will be
impossible to consolidate.
We had a chance with the euro crisis
to create a political union that goes along
with the monetary union.
We failed.
We failed dismally.
Instead we created new forms of rolling over
the debts and consolidating that which cannot be
consolidated.
Then we had the pandemic, which was another
great opportunity.
The result of these failures and this delay
is a complete political fragmentation.
Ten years ago, fifteen years ago, there was
Angela Merkel.
She was my greater political opponent.
I had many clashes with her.
But at least she had the political capital
to bring Europe together.
By delaying all this time, spending fifteen years
not investing at all, zero net investment in
the European Union, as a result of the
mishandling of the inevitable euro crisis, Germany is
deindustrializing.
So now Germany is renationalizing its policies.
The single market is finished, so the Brexit
discussion is gone, because there is not even
a single market.
Only on paper there is a single market
now.
So this fragmentation means that you can see
Trump appears.
Trump loathes the European Union.
He hates the European Union much more than
he hates China, for reasons of his own.
And what is Europe doing?
They are running around like headless chickens.
They are putting forward a preposterous military Keynesianism,
which is neither necessary nor feasible.
Europe does not have the capacity to create
a military-industrial complex.
It will never have the capacity.
If you want, we can discuss why.
So this is why I'm saying, with pain
in my heart, that Europe is simply slipping
into irrelevance.
Yeah, I think he's right.
Are you going to let that go longer?
You liked it, huh?
Huh, interesting.
Yeah.
I would like to hear his conversation about
why they can't create a military-industrial complex.
Well, they don't have power anymore in Germany
to even make steel.
You mean literal electricity when you say power?
Yes, actual electricity is off the table.
I still see those videos of them imploding
their nuclear plants.
Dopes.
And they're doubling down.
You know, what did I have here?
I got a note.
Here, Amsterdam.
Amsterdam.
Now, they do have a nut job mayor,
but Amsterdam is banning advertising of fossil fuels
and meat.
So you may not long...
You may no longer advertise air travel, cruises,
combustion vehicles, McDonald's, because they can't show a
hamburger.
Yeah.
How do people elect people like this?
Well, what happens is it's just like the
bigger parliament.
They have to put together a coalition.
So they have...
The mayor is from GroenLinks, which is green
left.
I've never heard a better description for a
party ever.
The green lefties and the party for animals.
So they have to get something.
So basically the environmentalist plus PETA.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Environmentalist plus PETA.
Yeah.
So they're banning that.
Yeah.
It's a mess.
That brings me to a clip that I
wonder...
I don't know if this is legit.
I can't document it, but I'm going to
have to start.
As you recall, five years ago, we used
to do Prime Minister Question Time as a
regular issue on the show.
Yes.
And this comes from that.
Supposedly, I don't know if this is AI
or not, but I believe it to be
real.
And this is a green member of the
UK parliament asking a question, which is a
very simple question that could be easily answered.
It's probably reasonable.
But Starmer goes off the deep end and
condemns the Green Party instead of answering the
question with any real foundation.
But try playing it.
For decades, our rivers, lakes, and seas have
paid the price of a failing system.
So the water white paper is a welcome
first step in beginning to set things right.
What is she talking about here?
It's hard to get into.
She's talking about water pollution based on farming
practices, which contribute to rivers and streams being
polluted by chemicals.
That's helpful.
For decades, our rivers, lakes, and seas have
paid the price of a failing system.
So the water white paper is a welcome
first step in beginning to set things right.
But there's a glaring gap.
Agricultural pollution contributes 40% of the pollution
in our waterways, but merits only one single
page in this white paper.
Can the PM tell me why on earth
this is the case?
And when he will start working with farmers
to support river-friendly farming practices and treat
agricultural pollution as seriously as sewage pollution?
We inherited a real mess on water and
we're taking the most effective and far-reaching
measures to deal with it.
But I have to say, as someone who
stood to lead her party, I wonder what
she makes of how her leader is responding
to this global uncertainty.
Because what he's saying is this is the
time, this is the moment to withdraw from
NATO.
This is the time to kick the US
out of our military bases.
This is the time to negotiate, hear this,
with Putin to give up our nuclear deterrent.
I'm sure Putin will be very quick on
the line for that one.
It's as reckless and irresponsible as their plan
to legalize heroin and crack cocaine.
That's the Green Party now.
High on drugs, soft on Putin.
Wow.
What a moron.
There's no reason for him to do that.
No.
I wonder what the context was if they
were talking about Putin.
I'm going to have to start watching PMQT
again.
Well, I'm glad you brought up British Parliament
because I also have a clip from British
Parliament.
This is Lord Young and he is part
of the Free Speech Union, so whenever he
talks, no one's there, which is kind of
funny when you think about it.
That's typical.
And there's a law that he and his
Free Speech Union take exception to.
My Lords, I declare my interest as the
Director of the Free Speech Union and I
congratulate the four new members on their excellent
speeches.
I want to draw your Lordships' House attention
to just one section of the Employment Rights
Act and its impact on the hospitality sector,
namely Section 21, which extends the liability of
employers for the harassment of their employees to
third parties.
From October of this year, employers will have
a duty to protect their workers from third
parties.
I should make clear that we're not talking
about third-party sexual harassment, which they were
already liable for, but third-party non-sexual
harassment.
And what does that mean for the hospitality
sector?
It means employers will have to take all
reasonable steps, those are the words in the
Act, to protect their employees from harassment by
customers.
That might not sound too onerous until you
factor in that harassment includes indirect harassment, which
has been defined by the Employment Tribunal as
including overheard conversations, remarks, comments, jokes, that an
employee may find offensive or upsetting in virtue
of their protected characteristics.
And it's for that reason that the Free
Speech Union has been referring to Section 21
as the banter ban.
The banter ban.
So if your customers say...
Oh my God, did I hear what I
heard?
Yes, you did.
You heard what you heard.
So if someone...
In other words, they want to ban people
from mumbling.
Yes.
Or if you make a little joke and
the staff is offended by your joke and
they call that the banter...
I think they should call this the Noodle
Boy Offense Ban.
Noodle Boy, yeah.
Also known as Noobob.
I mean, this is how you destroy a
country.
But wait!
We have our own little problems here at
home.
My friend sent me this this morning from
the Harvard, T.H. Chan...
What was that?
It was a squeak.
You got a mouse in your pocket?
Yeah.
This is from the Harvard, T.H. Chan
School of Public Health that Chan is...
I think it's Zuckerberg's wife, isn't it?
Didn't they put the money in?
Oh, that could be, yeah.
I think so.
Thanks to research led by Harvard, T.H.
Chan School of Public Health, the American Psychiatric
Association, APA, has added a new term, a
new mental disorder into their Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, also known as DSM.
This is the handbook for classifying and diagnosing
mental health conditions used by mental health care
providers around the country.
Are you ready for it?
No.
The new...
I'll wait until you're ready.
No, I'm ready.
So this is the new condition, mental health
condition.
Moral injury.
And I will give you the description of
moral injury.
It is psychological harm incurred from committing, witnessing,
or being subject to actions that violate one's
moral code.
That is now a mental condition.
Moral injury.
Well, that explains a lot.
And you can now get meds for it,
I guess.
Well, of course.
Moral injury.
The DSM should be outlawed.
That thing is just a...
It's just a license to give people SSRIs.
Drugs.
Drugs, yeah.
SSRIs for everything.
Nuts.
Hey, you're going to love this.
Your theory about the emergency that prompted the
return of our astronauts from the International Space
Station, would you like to reiterate your theory?
Yes.
There was a pregnancy caused in space and
they couldn't take a chance on it.
They couldn't give birth in space because there's
no...
The right doctors aren't up there or anything.
They had to shut...
They're not supposed to have sex, as far
as I know, and get pregnant up there,
but she did.
This woman.
That's why she was part of the team.
They hustled them all back to the United
States quietly to take care of the problem.
So...
Let her have a baby.
So we have not been told who had
the medical emergency because, of course, we wouldn't
want to violate HIPAA laws.
Oh, no.
And by the way, there's three males and
one female that came back.
Mm-hmm.
So here are two NASA astronauts who are
talking about this incident and they really are
so happy that the equipment on board was
there to diagnose the issue and get these
astronauts home quickly.
I think you'll be interested in what they
say.
The ultrasound technology has gotten better on planet
Earth and we've taken that into space and
having a portable ultrasound machine helped us in
this situation.
We were able to take a look at
things that we had and didn't have.
So when we had this emergency, the ultrasound
machine came in super handy.
So I'd recommend a portable ultrasound machine in
the future for sure for all space flights.
It really helped.
NASA made all the right decisions.
In my opinion, this is a really excellent
example of risk analysis and decision-making and
I'm very proud of the decision they made.
But sometimes things happen and surprises happen and
the team was ready and that was like
Xena said.
Preparation was super important.
An ultrasound machine.
Yeah.
You know, being a future grandfather, I love
the ultrasound pictures and the videos and the
heartbeat and everything.
And that's ultrasonic technology.
And it was the right gear to have
on board.
John, I think you have nailed it, my
friend.
Oh, I'm absolutely convinced I nailed it.
But there could be someone with a tumor.
Ultrasound's good for that too.
They can weasel out.
But the way the woman in that particular
clip you played, the way that woman, the
female, was so gleeful.
They did the right thing.
They got her home to have her baby
is all she didn't say.
But she might as well have said it.
It seems to me just to confer the
or to confirm, not confer, but confirm the
speculation.
It's so good.
I just love it.
But why don't they just tell us?
That's because then we have this whole other,
you know, then it's a workspace.
Then you have the how do you fucking
space problem.
Okay.
Not a problem, but the questions.
Because we all want to know.
Then it becomes a topic of discussion that
nobody wants to have.
We all want to know.
Were they floating around at the time?
how do you do it?
You know, were they spinning maybe in the
void?
I mean, just too many.
It brings up too many.
They don't want it at a press conference.
They don't want Carolyn Levitt trying to explain
it.
Well, the way I understand it.
All right.
I've got one more for you.
This is one of my personal gripes.
And of course, people are sending me clips
now about it.
This is Olof Aeronautics Model A.
Part electric road car, part flying car.
It's currently in testing and closely watched by
the FAA under its airworthiness certificate.
Olof can land on any surface anywhere and
take off from any surface anywhere.
There does not need to be built any
kind of heliports, vertiparts or anything like that.
Olof co-founder Jim Duchovny says he has
3,500 pre-orders at 300,000 a
pop and production is underway.
But some experts say flying cars are not
ready for public roadways and skies due to
regulations and new product headwinds.
Currently, the FAA would require a pilot's license,
which is expensive and time consuming.
Flying cars need to be light but also
meet road worthiness testing standards.
Some believe there are better technologies, namely air
taxis, which are like smaller helicopters and they
cost roughly the same as the Olof Model
A.
Duchovny acknowledges air taxis are a competitor but
says his main rivals are leading EV companies.
We're trying to make exactly the same or
similar car as Tesla, Lucid and Rivian but
with the capability of vertically taking off and
flying.
NASA and the FAA are working on the
framework of advanced air mobility.
The concepts being evaluated include the creation of
corridors for air taxis, drones and commercial flights,
noise, travel times, infrastructure, future airspace and of
course safety.
Duchovny though is still bullish on his startup
company.
I do think we'll actually have a majority
of the cars with some kind of flying
capabilities.
I heard the number 33 in there.
Oh yeah.
So a couple things about this, because I've
been following this one very closely.
This is ALEF, A-L-E-F dot
A-R-O, A-E-R-O.
I would like you to take a look
at this because you'll recognize the car.
This is basically a go-kart with bicycle
wheels that they've put a...
Give me the spelling again.
A-L-E-F dot A-R-O,
A-E-R-O.
When you see it you'll go, oh yeah,
this thing.
And they have this constant video of this.
It's almost like a really rickety thing with
these bicycle tires and it lifts off and
it jumps over a Tesla cyber truck and
then lands.
This is the technology that they have.
So there's no person in it.
It's a fiberglass body around a very small
frame with these little teeny weeny tires.
I don't even know if you can get
over 40 miles an hour with it on
the road.
In fact, they never show it driving.
They only show it doing this little hop.
A couple things.
This company keeps touting that they have an
airworthiness certificate.
They are allowed to test at an airfield.
It's not like, oh, it's airworthy, you can
go and fly it wherever you want.
No.
It's a lie.
It looks like a turd.
Yes, it is a turd.
The other thing is, they always keep saying,
it got 3,500 people already pre-ordered.
If you look at the website, you can
order...
33 was the number.
You missed it.
3,300.
You can buy a place in line for
$150.
It's not like people put down $300,000.
This is a scam operation with a flying
turd that you can't even sit in.
They keep bringing this guy up.
I don't know why they keep calling it
the first flying car.
There's been so many of these things.
It's crazy.
Now, I am kind of bullish on this
new battery technology, which we talked about, the
Donut Lab.
I don't know if you had a chance
to look at it.
Yeah, I looked into it.
I did get one of our engineers who
has looked into it.
He says, I'll just read his note.
He says, I used to work in a
PC board factory in Santa Clara back in
82, 83.
I'm an Army radio maintenance technician.
Also worked for Sony building TV studios.
He says, the way this would work, and
the way he understands it, you use the
same techniques as making IC chips, placing billions
of tiny capacitors in a small space.
Due to their size and chemical properties, they
would act like a mix between a battery
and a super capacitor, which you mentioned.
They would be quite easy to produce and
would pack a lot of energy into a
small package.
What caught my eye was their test rig.
In my mind, the whole battery would melt,
including the cables and connectors, if that much
amperage was fed in.
There's always resistance that turns into heat.
The BYD engineer, it's all from his website,
said you cannot have all those properties in
the battery at the same time.
You always have to drop out on one
of them.
It's physics.
For me, it's the heat, but with a
clever battery management system, it might work.
Think of the PCM style LED drivers.
I wonder what JCD has to say about
this.
There's no capacitance of any sort, because they
make a point of saying it's a battery,
not a hybrid capacitor battery or anything like
that, so that's bull crap.
It turns out that there's a company out
of Finland called Nordic Nano.
They developed a technology, which they sold to
these guys, which is a battery technology that
uses a lot of very high end graphene
and nanotubes and all sorts of titanium oxide
to coat the nanotubes, and it does apparently
can produce all these numbers and may or
may not be manufacturable.
I think the manufacturability is the issue here,
but there's some possibility that all this is
true.
I think, as I read an interview with
the Fin guy as well, and they basically
said, the one thing the Finns don't do
is lie.
They don't.
They drink a lot.
Yes, we
do have a few more people to thank
for the show.
1837, I believe is the number.
Adam will read the $50 and up right
to the max.
Not that many of them, and we'll go
from there.
Terry Wentz.
Thank you, Terry.
$130 from Langley, Washington.
William Durkin, Greenville, South Carolina, with 123.45.
We love it when you do stuff like
that.
Dakota Walker.
$119.93. And that is a belated birthday
donation, so we'll have that on the list.
Hey, coming in from Japan, Mayumi Akiyama with
kanji characters, so I can't tell where.
I don't know where that is.
I mean, come on.
Hold on, maybe...
Come on, Jay.
I mean, you could have at least...
Jay should be able to translate that.
I mean, look, here's what I'm going to
do.
I'm going to literally copy and paste that.
Hold on.
I'm going to copy and paste that into
my robot.
We just call it Robots here, the No
Agenda show.
So copy, paste that.
Okay.
Copy and paste the other one.
Because the kanji comes through fine, which is...
Okay, so robot translate.
While it's doing that, I will continue reading.
Wait, wait, it took that long?
Is it already taking time?
Oh, yeah.
It's burning cycles.
I'm getting tense.
Oh, here it is.
Tatori-shi city.
Tatori city.
In Tatori prefecture.
Which is in the Shugoku region of Honshu.
It's the coast.
Oh, Honshu province.
It's the coast of the sea of Japan,
which is, as we know, a protectorate of
Sir Mark and Dame Astrid.
Thank you, Mayumi.
McDermott-Connor.
Estero, Florida.
$100.
Oh, by the way, Mayumi is also $100.
Great show, says McDermott.
Keep up the good work.
Kenneth Sear, Sire, Shady Shores, Texas.
$99.
Adrian Grabe, Austin, Texas, which we can't drive
to right now because we've been told it's
dangerous on 290.
$88, $88.
And there's Sir Kevin McLaughlin, the Archiduna of
Luke.
Of Luna.
He is the lover of America and boobs
in Concord, North Carolina.
And he says, donation for boobs.
God bless America and boobs.
Sir Deep Thought, Lexington, Minnesota.
Also a boob donation.
$0.8008. Boobs for my birthday.
Started my 46th trip around the sun on
show day, January 25th.
Yes, Jason Shepard, Trinidad, Colorado.
$76.80. Douglas Mook in Cochranton, Pennsylvania.
$75.
Sir Wayne Larcombe in Sunny Banks Hills.
That's in Queensland, Australia.
Admitted to the birthday list for my birthday
on January 26th.
I've been notating and listening since 2011.
Keep up the great work.
Chad Hewitt, Folsom, California.
Where the jail is.
$66.40. Matthew Elward, Weatherford, Texas.
Small boobs, $6.006. Surprise, night of astonishment.
Yukon, Oklahoma, $54.44. Diana Grilly Camden, Junction
City, Ohio.
$51.50. Nelson NAF.
I wonder if it's NAF.
Odivelas, Portugal.
Just turned 51 on Saturday, January 24th.
Nelson from Odivelas, Portugal.
Alex Delgado, Aptos, California.
These are the 50s.
He sends us $50.
George Wuchet from La Vernia, Texas.
$50.
Danielle Grossenbacher in Mesa, Arizona.
$50.
Darren Schwarzenstruber.
These are cool names.
We got the Grossenbacher and the Schwarzenbacher.
Simpsonville, South Carolina.
First time donating.
You've been de-douched.
Waiting for the ice storm to arrive.
Stay safe.
Priscilla Rubio, Norwalk, California.
$50.
And finally Ari Kuna in Woodstock, Georgia.
$50.
We thank these producers and of course our
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And they all get their titles.
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Okay.
We have a long list today.
Dakota Walker celebrated on the 13th.
David Kekta, happy birthday to Tammy Mack.
40-something on January 23rd.
Bill Durkin has a couple of birthday wishes.
His sister Beth White, she celebrated on the
24th.
His nephew Patrick White, also on the 24th.
And what do you know?
Bill himself celebrated on the 24th.
Nelson Knapp turned 51 yesterday as well.
Sir Deep Thought turns 46 today.
Mom and Dad wish Jacqueline Wednesday Myers.
There we go.
She'll be turning 2 years old today.
Happy birthday from your Uncle Adam and Uncle
John.
Jason, happy birthday to Brittany Miller celebrating their
7th anniversary of her 39th birthday today.
And finally, Sir Wayne Larkholm celebrates his birthday
tomorrow on January 26th.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best
Podcast in the Universe!
It's your birthday, yeah!
We have no title changes, nights, dames, nothing
at all.
By the way, that birthday list is very
long which means a lot of people have
sex in mid-April In space.
Well, in space, if they can.
In mid-April which is around Easter, and
I guess it's interesting that there's so many.
I mean, today's a record breaker, 10 people.
I always try to have sex at least
in April as well.
It's a low T.
I don't know anybody named April so I
can't do that.
No Agenda Meetups!
It's always like a party, the No Agenda
Meetups, and of course the meetups take place
worldwide.
You definitely want to go to at least
one of these in your lifetime, I guarantee
you.
Once you've gone to one, you will want
to go to more, probably with the same
group.
We do have a cancellation.
Sunday was supposed to be the Indie NA
Shill Shiny New Year Meetup at 3 o
'clock.
Is that today?
Yes.
That has been cancelled due to weather.
Obviously Indie.
That would have meant the Blind Owl Brewery.
They hope to reorganize it for Thursday.
So keep checking noagendameetups.com to find out
if that happens or not.
On Thursday itself, the North Georgia quarterly meetup
takes place at 6 o'clock at Cherry
Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia.
And Sir Bob will be organizing that.
And we did have that Sao Paulo, Brazil
meetup and we got a meetup report.
In the morning, Adam and John, Augusto de
Britalian, based in Berlin, now here in Sao
Paulo, my hometown.
And I met this gentleman, American gentleman, living
here in Sao Paulo.
I'm assuming his gender.
It's a he.
And we had interesting open conversations about many
topics.
And now about the pronunciation of two special
words in Portuguese.
One is Cachaca.
And the other one is the state.
It's Bahia.
And that's it, gentlemen.
Thank you for your courage and for more
years.
Sounds like it was a small meetup, but
two people makes a meetup.
And we love getting those meetup reports.
So we're expecting some from the following meetups
which will take place on the 31st.
Oakland, California and Wilmington, California, two in Cali.
Then in February, Keyport, New Jersey on the
1st.
Indianapolis, Indiana on the 1st as well.
Mount Laurel, New Jersey on the 8th.
Eagle, Idaho on the 14th.
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania on the 15th.
Charlotte, North Carolina on the 19th.
And Coleyville, Texas on February 21st.
I'm sure more will pop up.
Go to noagentomeetups.com.
You can find all of the meetups that
are listed.
We go all the way through May right
now.
And if you can't find one near you,
here's an idea.
Start one yourself.
People will come.
We'll announce it.
Send us a meetup report.
It's a lot of fun for the family
and for the kids.
Noagentomeetups.com.
Always fun, always a party.
You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
That's right, everybody.
It's a party.
We've got John's tip of the day coming
up.
I'm a little bit bummed because Tina wasn't
able to go to Costco to get your
last tip of the day, which sounded like
a good El Cheapo wine right up my
alley.
It was really good, actually.
I'm sure it is.
Now, before we do anything, though, we have
to choose our end of show ISO, which
we do in this segment of the show.
I think I've come with some good ones
for today.
Here we go.
For four more years and possibly far beyond.
That's Heather.
That's done by your voice.
That's Heather.
That's Heather from the Dark Horse podcast.
You know Heather.
For four more years and possibly far beyond.
Okay.
Here's another one.
This isn't easy to do.
Okay.
I think that's also a candidate.
And this one, this may just take the
cake.
They'll never be able to replace these guys
with AI.
Okay, I'm going to go into an abeyance
mode and push mine off.
Really?
And give you that last one.
Really?
Wow.
They'll never be able to replace these guys
with AI.
There it is.
And before we even get to it, it's
time for John's tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
And yeah, after doing all these expensive, even
though I did that, I tried to back
it off with the cheap wine.
That's a amazingly good product.
I should get some more.
Wine, some other inexpensive items, free things.
I had to go, I'm trying to go
down scale after being condemned for the $1
,000 television set.
We'll never live that one down, will we?
Well, you know, it's still a great product.
It is.
What am I going to say?
It is.
And people have to buy TV sets, so
there you go.
So let's go down to something that costs
a couple of bucks.
And this is one of, we have a
number of people out there that help me
with these tips and they suggest things.
They suggested this, and this is actually a
pretty good little guy, a little product.
This is the, people should all have one
of these sticks, or even a three-pack
of these Tide Oxy stain sticks.
They're called Tide Stain Remover for Clothes Go
-To Pen.
We have it.
Instant Spot Remover for Clothes Travel in Pocket
Size.
We have it.
$2.34 from Amazon and elsewhere.
I concur with this tip because I'm known
around here as Mr. Spot.
Oh, Mr. Spot.
Yes, I am always getting food on my
clothes.
I'm the guy that, you know, oh, I
made this spaghetti.
Oh, man.
What?
So, yes, Tina has these in massive quantities
and they are quite good at removing spots.
So this is the Tide Stain Remover for
Pen.
Are these available in Europe, Australia, and other
places around the world?
I think they're available most places.
It's a very hot product.
Tide has done a pretty good job.
It's a hot product, everybody.
You know, I got a, I had a
meeting long ago, I think it's with Procter
& Gamble, whoever owns Tide, it's either Procter
& Gamble or the other guys, and I
got a long lecture about, I'll just mention
it, a long lecture about detergents and toothpastes
and all the rest of it from these
guys, you know, the company men.
And they went on and on about how
the reason that you should only buy liquid
detergent is because they made all the good
powder detergent illegal because you had to have
a certain phosphorus content in there to make
it work well.
And if you buy Mexican detergent, you can
get the good old-fashioned powdered detergent, but
otherwise you can only get any cleaning power.
It has to be liquid.
And I've always made note of that little
tidbit, and some other stuff they told me.
It's a hot product, everybody.
Hot product, hot!
It's probably owned by BlackRock.
That's John's tip of the day!
Created by Dana Burnetti.
Alright, that will do it.
noagendafund.com tipoftheday.net.
End of show mixes.
We've got some slop.
We got MVP.
Can I make a comment on the end
of show mixes?
Yeah.
Because I've been moaning about this one voice
that I keep hearing that does the Broadway
tunes, and I realize who it was.
Who is it?
Who they're stealing from.
It's a voice that is kind of, the
way I describe it is it's kind of
thin, but it's pleasant, and always on tune,
it's always keyed up properly, and there's nothing
wrong with it.
It's Steve Lawrence, of Steve Lawrence and Edie
Gourmet, mixed in with a little Mel Tormé.
And that's coming right up, along with Dee's
Laughs, and a banger, a slap and slop
end of show mix.
Also from MVP, getmojams.com After the show,
live on the screen, we've got Upbeat 66,
Salty Cray, I'm bringing you the pod, I
mean, the Value for Value music show, there
you go.
And we're coming to you here from Fredericksburg,
Texas, heart of the Texas Hill Country.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we ain't
got no frost, I'm John C.
Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday.
Remember us, noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos, a hooey hooey, and
such.
...talking about MAGA with a wink and a
flare, and the Clintons laughed at his wedding
feast.
He was toast of the town, to say
the least.
Though it's a flip-flop phenomenon, can't you
see?
From a Democrat darling to the GOP, one
day you're posing for the paparazzi lens, the
next day you're losing all your Hollywood friends.
The ink on the check was a shade
of blue, but the tie turned red and
the bridge burned too.
Yeah, it's a flip-flop phenomenon.
...
The cameras are still rolling, but the audience
has changed.
Same man in the spotlight, but the seating's
rearranged.
Trump is the president, and they all are
deranged.
...
Inappropriate hugging scares me away What's going on
with all these lies?
What's going on with all these lies?
I just want to multiply Don't even know
the reason why Get paid and give it
to the next guy Oh my, oh my,
oh my, oh my Some people can't even
spell oh my Yours, your, and your, oh
why?
Can't even get the apostrophe right Adult kids
don't even know how to write Kids listening
to their parents fight Trauma, trauma, trauma, right?
Incandescent bedroom light Flickering all day and night
Flickering at 8 feet height Signals going in
my eyes Come on man, you riding slow
Pick it up or I got to go
Don't pretend that you don't see the lows
Waiting there for you to fold Yes, I'm
getting old Yes, I want to be bold
Yes, I got no hold This month is
really, really cold Don't give up on the
future, man Just stick to the written plan
We can do it, I know we can
At least you're not in Iran But come
on man, don't you understand?
Nothing's changed, it's the same old plan Bombs
away and then let's plan Oh man, oh
man Make money, handle fist I need that,
you need this Then you piss, then I
piss Then it becomes a pissing contest Yes,
I said it No, I don't regret it
In the morning writing raps They telling me
the song is stacked Ladies and gentlemen of
the No Agenda Gitmo Nation We are pleased
to bring Jenna Boy, Jenna Ready
for Value
for value Thank you for your service Perform
your The
best podcast in the universe Adios, mofo Dvorak
.org Slash NA They'll never be able to
replace these guys With AI Oh my god
Did I hear what I heard?
What am I, what a chopped liver?
You know, when I was a kid They
didn't have robots Kill all humans I'm watching
Dancing Dogs