1712 - "Data Plateau"

Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. Thursday, November 14, 2024, this is your award -winning Kid Von Nation media assassination episode 1712. This is no agenda. Putting Post-its on the good gear, and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas snow country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. Man from Northern Silicon Valley, well, I'm still working on it. I'm John C. Dvorak. Working on your opening or just working on it?

I had I had a convoluted I think was just a bit too long and I just couldn't pull it off. I'm sorry. Hey I'll tell you what it is. Oh okay here we go we get a post a post opening joke. Yeah I so I've been working on some on some new material. I've been working on a spice mix it's a commercial product a spice mix that brings out the flavors brings forward the flavors of meat and vegetables and I'm calling it the seasoning of reveal.

Yeah you can ridicule me all you want but until you can show me where the 15 million Democrat voters went I think we have a season of reveal. That is your season of reveal right there 15 million people are dead. They disappeared. They just disappeared. Hey good news this is it the post get your post-its note get your post -it notes ready. Starting December 2nd we can bid on production equipment gym offices and vehicles from Infowars. Yeah I heard this. Kind of sad.

Yeah well maybe Elon will just buy it all up and give it back to him. Well this this auction by the way does not include the intellectual property which has already been purchased. And we have breaking news that just came in four minutes ago from the Associated Press. Remember we told you how Alex Jones's Infowars site was going up for auction yesterday in order to pay the 1.5 billion dollars he owes Sandy Hook families for claiming that shooting was a hoax.

I'm leading up to this because we now found out who bought Infowars. It is the satirical news outlet The Onion. They bought it at a bankruptcy auction. Again that's according to the relatives of Sandy Hook victims who spoke to the Associated Press. That's all we know at this point. We don't know how much The Onion bought Infowars for or if there were any other terms or anything else with the deal that we know of. Forgive me I'm thinking of the word any other catastrophes of that contract.

The sale price again was not immediately disclosed. But again the satirical news outlet The Onion has bought Alex Jones Infowars site. Okay a couple things. I would have bought Infowars.com. Do they even exist anymore? Well they're trying to exist. They're trying to combat the Babylon Bee with a little bit of news. Well I have real news if you're gonna do breaking news and this is something we must get out of the way. And now back to real news. No it's not real news in that regard.

This is the six week cycle. I have it. The FBI. This just came out. It's breaking. Breaking this hour. I'm sorry. Breaking this hour. Breaking this hour. FBI Houston has arrested a man accused of attempting to provide material support for the terror group ISIS. The agency is telling us. We learned this about five minutes ago but we are scooping up more information now. The agency is now telling us that the 28 year old suspect admitted to planning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

That's all that we know right now. We know that details are coming out. We'll continue to do our due diligence as journalists and ask great questions. Hey how do you do journalism? We will continue at this hour breaking this hour to ask great questions. Continue to do our due diligence as journalists and ask great questions. Oh that's it. I want to share with you now the FBI statement. Please. A quote.

FBI Houston special agent in charge Douglas Williams announces the arrest of 28 year old Anas Saeed. He is accused of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and by his own admission planning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil all from his apartment in Far West Houston. Oh no. The suspect has admitted to researching how to conduct an attack on local military recruiting centers. Google search. Offering his home a safe sanctuary to ISIS operatives.

Bragging he would commit a 9-11 style attack if he had the resources. A plane. Attempting to produce ISIS propaganda. More as we get it on the story. Be afraid. Be afraid everybody. Be very afraid because they're here. Wow. Dynamite. Wow. He researched and he told the FBI you know if I can if I can get a plane a 9-11 style attack. What nonsense is this? They're trying to get some extra bonus money before time runs out. Unbelievable.

Before that you know you know Trump is doing a real like a typical business reorg thing with the FBI. He built a new building and then it's like okay here's the new building you guys in this old building you're not going over. It's like that's that's what you do in a it's a perfect business turnaround. I never thought about it in that regard but it's exactly right. You know this is a classic business turnaround a pivot.

Yeah 10 guys you can go over and by the way we've wired it the way we want it wired now. So we can hear everything we need to hear. Here's your new building. So obvious. This is these guys are disgusting. Some schmuck. They probably wait until we see the the indictment. We'll get the the report like well you know we had we were talking to him for a couple of months told him to do some Google searches.

He said if only I could get an airplane a 737 57 you know I could probably crash it into a building. Oh God. Let it end. Let it end. I just found it interesting because I didn't do the math on it because it just came out this morning but I figure six weeks ago there was whatever. Oh yeah yeah what was the last six weeks like? I probably have it on a second. Six week cycle. Was that hmm that was well yeah September 30th. Is that six weeks? Holy crap it's exactly six weeks.

It's always exactly six weeks that's the joke. Six weeks ago. He first caught the attention of the FBI because of jihadist oriented messages he posted on social media. Same guy. Same guy. It's unbelievable. We're on to you FBI. We're on to you. And nobody else cares. You know I was I was just there's there's a lot of different things to discuss. Of course the appointments.

I think what is most interesting is the total befuddlement and in a way looking at the ratings that is a big story of course. The collapse of the mainstream media. At least the cable news let's put it that way. And if I just wrote some stuff down. Well you should write you should tell people you know I don't think everyone knows this you should give them some background on the collapse of these shows.

Okay CNN will be axing top stars in layoffs that will see hundreds fired as ratings continue to tank. Headline. My favorite CNN host Chris Wallace leaving network after three years to explore possible full-time podcasting career. Right get out before you get fired. Comcast to put MSNBC and Oprah's oxygen networks up for sale in cable sell-off as they force them to reimagine reimagine their news operations. MSNBC ratings. Morning Joe down 39.6. That's the first hour. Second hour 36.9 percent.

Andrea Mitchell. The Mitchell report 39.7 percent down. Ari Melber. Did anyone ever watch him in the first place? Down almost 50 percent. Joy Reid down 54.6. All in with Chris Hayes down 47. I mean it's it's a bloodbath. And with the cord cutting going on it's just it's just not happening. There's you know the the carriage fees are going away and these you know highly paid stars. Anderson Cooper makes 20 million reportedly. Aaron Burnett makes six million reportedly.

And the Caitlin woman makes three million dollars a year. She's new. How did how did she get into that gig? She got I want her agent. That's really good. So I just wrote down a couple of things because why are they befuddled? Why are they befuddled? Well they're befuddled. What? How could this happen? Let's just look at a second what what the the establishment including the mainstream legacy MSM 5M media.

We had the lawfare, the SCOTUS insurrection, booking Trump, the huge fines, Department of Justice attacks, the home raid. We had celebrity endorsements everywhere. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable how I mean Joy Reid still can't believe it.

I think it's important to say that you know anyone who has experienced or been in the United States for any period of time and experienced this country's history and knows it cannot have believed that it would be easy to elect a woman president let alone a woman of color. Let's just be clear. Nothing that was true yesterday about how flawlessly this campaign was run is not true now. I mean this really was an historic, flawlessly run campaign. Queen Latifah never endorses anyone.

She had every prominent celebrity voice. She had the Taylor Swifties. She had the Swifties. She had the Beehive. You could not have run a better campaign in that short period of time and I think that's still true. I mean it's unbelievable. She had the Swifties. She had the Beehive. She had I mean Queen Latifah never endorses anybody. Okay so we had the celebrity endorsements. Let's remember the algo and search manipulation. The autocomplete on Google search. All of that was manipulated.

Multiple assassination attempts and then the media came out with he incited an insurrection. He's racist. He's a rapist. He's mentally ill. He favors only the rich. Misogynist. Don't forget that. Misogynist. Thank you. He'll take away your rights. He's gonna be a dictator. He's gonna rip up the Constitution. We'll use the military against the American people. Hates gays, trans, women and they's. Project 2025. Hitler. We can't believe that the guy won. What is wrong with the American people?

Actually to be honest about it with that laundry list I'm surprised he won myself let alone swept. It's just unbelievable. It does tell you something. It tells you that the media has lost its mojo. Even if you listen to Charlemagne the God. The voice of black America. Charlemagne the God. Who is also just he's just befuddled by the demographics of it. What do you make of the the demographics here? I mean Trump got one out of every three voters of color.

No. When you say color you mean like black, brown. Like Kamala people. Oh well I think that you know people have on different issues that they care about and I think that there's nobody out there that's a single issue voter. I think some of this is a backlash to race and gender and identity politics. Most people they just care about keeping food on a on a table and keeping a roof over their head and I think sometimes people forget about that.

I think that they forget about you know the working class and I for whatever reason Donald Trump speaks to the grievances for whatever reason class in a real way and I keep telling folks people will forget what you did. They'll forget what you said but they'll never forget how you made them feel and when you go back to 2020 even though it was a pandemic and it was COVID. Yeah. People don't care. All they know is they got the stimulus checks with his name on it and that's what they remember.

Oh that did it. People think about that when you have conversations with folks they'd be like I remember how 2020 felt and they think that they're gonna feel that you know in this in this next this next term. People were burning the envelopes you remember that when the checks came in with Trump's signature on it. They didn't burn the checks mind you. Just the envelopes. I don't know where you're going with this but I do have some clips on demographics that I have. Sure sure.

The NPR was freaked out about the same exact topic. They're befuddled. And they're befuddled and so they brought this they brought these clips are not this is I got five clips but they're not like they don't flow from clip to clip they're each pretty standalone and interesting the this is one of the one of those specials they do in the echo chamber.

They brought in three Democrat strategists including Paul Beglia who seemed to be the odd man out because he was the old guy and the other two people were just younger one was black and one was just some gay guy and they were they were pushing their agendas. Just the gay guy. Rando. Rando gay guy couldn't figure it out. Why other gay guys voted for Trump.

They are trying to discuss how this came about and none of them except and Paul Beglia kind of loses it at the end which will be the last clip but they you can hear within the discussion what the problem really is and the fact that they're going to die on a hill and it's gonna be you'll hear what it is quickly this is demographics befuddlement NPR be the first clip let me ask for as long as I've been covering politics 20 years or so Democrats have preached demographics is destiny believing that

as the country gets less white it will move left this election showed that to be false so what replaces that as the new paradigm the vision of where the party goes from here so Adrian Paul what's the new paradigm yeah I mean I this idea that demographics is destiny I think was never real I think that the the challenge for us right now I think I agree with what lead about the sort of vacuum that has been left in communities in terms of that

vacuum being filled with misinformation disinformation outright lies in propaganda you know we think about what is the new paradigm when you have real conversations with people and not just sort of gloss over and have knee-jerk reactions I think that we're sort of seeing right now in the post-mortem that's happening about you know have we gone too far did we go too far left I think the Democrats need to decide what they are fighting for and they need to fight for those things

I want you to jump in Paul she really didn't say much there her comments the whole time is we have to have a conversation we have to have a conversation meeting we need a meeting so she's the meeting conversation by the way that when I was even when I was a Democrat the idea that demographics are is the future because once we get rid of these damn whitey's we're gonna be you know take it over the place will be great and so that so this guy who's hosting this is quite reasonable

but nobody else is it's quite funny so we can this one is now the it's got the ad sign instead of a tube it's the Wow clip I think that Democrats need a both-and approach around delivering real economic results to working-class Americans and not shying away from real societal changes that are happening around us that we can't just pivot away from we need to humanize trans Americans we need to contextualize trans Americans we need to do the same thing that we did

in the struggle for gay rights which is fight these battles and persuade not just an election season but in the years before election season and I think we lost to the oldest playbook in human history which is divide and conquer and one place I would push back on Paul is that Democrats also need we're too conflict diverse we're trying to be everyone everything to everyone we need to create villains you know part of the thing is the Democrats have gotten too close to the

boardrooms of uber and Facebook and Wall Street Oh some of the groceries companies and we need to take on those villains otherwise the Republicans will create and manufacture villains every single time so the corporations the corporations that clothed and fetus or villains yes and we have to support the trans now this is interesting to me right so whatever that is gay rights wait he went from you know went from get you we the way we did gay rights is now has to be moved

to trans trans rights yes we have to the trans Maoist agenda is is I've determined that's the hill they're gonna die on Wow they they need to contextualize trans is what he said yeah they're trans they're going to the Democrat Party is going to die on the trans Maoist Hill I've heard it and I believe me I listen to a lot of NPR and PBS a lesser extent on PBS but they they're all in on the here's what we did wrong well is this that the other was a misogyny there wasn't

good communication there was a bunch of racism that said and if we just focus on trans it's absolutely incredible to me but let's go to the third clip which is the racism clip does the other complaint the last time Democrats were in the wilderness for 12 years Ronald Reagan for eight years followed by George HW Bush Bill Clinton got back into power by saying it's the economy stupid we're gonna attack to the center is the same answer gonna work for Democrats four years from

now two years from now no no yes and Adrian no no I don't think that we're in a fundamentally different world than we were then again I would say to stop the clip this is that one that woman again she says we're in a fundamental you have to remember her own words this is another problem that they have there's a the fundamentally different world is the trans world but that but she's but she's kind of carries it to racism now if we're in a

fundamentally different world listen to her final conclusion when she raps okay I don't think that we're in a fundamentally different world than we were then again I would say to Walid's point like the country has changed right not just in terms of its complexion and we have to address the issues that are fundamentally dividing Americans and that is not just the economy you know we can't as a country we are incapable unable unwilling to address the sort of central issues that have created our

inability to get to a more perfect Union and that is absolutely racism the Democratic Party absolutely cannot run away from that and I know that for myself and my community we've been dealing with this for a very long time oh wait a minute is she black does she represent her community the black community I guess mm-hmm but she did you hear that little phrase it there what she said what did she say play it again play the end here the Democratic Party absolutely

cannot run away from that and I know that for myself and my community we've been dealing with this for a very long time we've been dealing with dealing this wait a minute she just said it's fundamentally changed don't bring their whole comment with its fundamentally changed but then it falls back to we were dealing this was very very long time so she's probably a consultant oh yeah well she'd know they're all consultant yeah and so they all come in with their own consulting bent

and it's like I'm black I'm a consultant for racism for the Democrats I'm gay I'm a consultant for trans for that which by the way is it almost an oxymoron because they are not in the same community certainly not gay men and trans this is dumb these people are stupid well let's go to clip for things I think what I'm frustrated with is there's been all this talk this past week of about about how Democrats need to abandon the woke part of their party

and very little talk about abandoning the billionaires who are part of their party who are harming our ability to speak in terms of class warriors and not just cultural warriors and the Elon Musk and they managed to do it but they are running they are running a campaign based on again the oldest playbook which is Elon Musk is somehow a victim of American democracy rather than a success story of how the economy and democracy works for people like him and so I feel so

ashamed that the Democrats were unprepared for the onslaught of what was going to be attacks on the lines of migration the border transgender Americans when we when we knew this was coming years ago and yet we didn't develop a strategy to explain to the American people what this was designed to do which was to help elect Republicans and people like Elon Musk and get them more power oh my goodness now the interesting new term that was introduced here besides electing Elon Musk for something

I don't know what he's talking about there transgender Americans yeah I heard that too it's like Mexican Americans or Jewish Americans as transgender Americans as a category yes people are gonna die on this hill well they're gonna die that's for sure so so if so this is the last clip so Baglia who's it was the old Democrat used to work for the Clinton administration he's fed up with listening to this and he goes off on him this is the last clip he goes off on him but at the same time you

can hear him it's in there it's subtle but he pulls back on certain things he knows will alienate this new group and so he kind of he couches he does couching is a way except for except for he's a wimp now bait Paul Baglia who's a guy who's pretty much a clone of Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC they're very similar personalities and they just go after they hate Republicans to an extreme but this situation this at the near the end of this I don't know a half hour of discussion and he just

gets irked and blasts these people but at the same time he you can hear him not really you know completely closing the door on him I'm smiling because not only do we not explain it we rub their noses in it if they dare use the wrong word I'm sorry there is a woke sensorious preachy elitism in our movement and we got a flush that you don't go to someone who's busting his ass at seven bucks an hour and tell him he's privileged just because his skin is white I'm sorry you don't

do that if you if you not if you want to get his vote okay and I'm not naive I understand there's racism and prejudice in this country I've got to build bridges to those folks I want to reach out to him and what the easier way to do that is on these economic crises that they're all facing irrespective of race gender and religion Wow Wow but there's a lot of the lot of these consultants are saying this they're saying you've got to stop with the woke stuff it doesn't work so he

had that right how many bet you can hear him backing off on it though yeah oh yeah tell me that please tell me that that I can get a longer version of this on NPR plus on the plus bundle bundle bundle what do you think we have a bundle do you hear our bundle no I didn't hear okay so does this sound like you you love no agendas podcast you wish you could get more of your favorite show and you want to support no agendas mission to create the best podcast to

the universe if all that sounds appealing and it's time to sign up for the no agenda plus bundle just send your cash bunch of losers it sounds pretty much like an NPR ad whoever did that did a good job Jeffrey Crocker I'm so but I find it somewhat encouraging that I'm hearing Neil we had I think we had a consultant on the last show where she said the same thing you got to stop calling brown people Latin X you got to stop with this nonsense because it's condescending and now you're right

oh no now we have transgender Americans another category instead of just Americans yeah now it's you know American yeah in fact it's a good point they've added categories instead of backing off on this politics yeah adding more added a new category 60 minutes took a little different tact and we're very serious about what's going on here with Arizona called last night Donald Trump swept all seven swing states for in six of them flipped from Joe Biden's column in 2020 so far the president-elect

has won just over 50% of the popular vote and he made gains in key demographics including the young Latino the young and women Republicans took the Senate and are on track to control the house Tuesday more than 80% of all the nation's counties move toward the right the shift is decisive and leaves Democrats arguing over how they misread the people to understand what just happened we went to Pennsylvania one of the places that made all the difference Oh all the different well

it's very serious John this is the show okay the shift is apparent and it's always ultimately in America whether you're black American brown American red American gay American trans American it's always about the eggs for 25 years Chris Borick has been conducting one of the leading polls of Pennsylvania voters he's a professor of political science at Muhlenberg College next to Northampton County it was an Obama County then it was a Trump County then it was a

Biden County and in 2024 it once again is a Trump County how did Trump win it's a great question you know first of all I think he had the wins on his side here from talking to voters they're not in a great mood they're not in a good place there's lots of good things happening in Northampton County the economy's good but they're feeling things in their lives that really trouble them housing prices here grocery prices I can't tell you how many times when I've

talked to people about elections this year they referenced eggs and the price of eggs too many eggs calm perfect yeah I have one more clip here but the issue with trans is much less of and the Republican Party played this very well it's much less about if if you know all right you know so you've let some some person who is licensed by the Association of Pediatrics and you know who are stand to lose their license if I don't go with the flow of oh you're depressed you're a boy little girl

that's one thing and America's like well you know okay but when you put boys into girls sports that's the line that's the limit it was it was so stupid and we said so we kept saying this is dumb that Americans will not stand for that hey my girls shouldn't be competing against this dude no matter what you say you know and you know this and that we just this this analyzes for a second because we you're right we have been talking about this for it since I think Leah Thomas or before

yes and it's like it's such an obvious thing and we had there's the pictures that I think number of years ago there are these pictures that big black dude the guy's a monster running track and field all muscled up big guy running track and field with women in the NCAA saying oh you know he identifies as a girl so he should be a girl yeah and then and then if I think the worst part was the hordes of mostly Democrats defending the practice and then one other thing which it was just

abhorrent is the tranny story our come on come on you know it was dumb this just stupid but anyway according to CBS it's about the eggs too many eggs calm egg prices doubled and featured on the menu of discontent at the Nazareth diner near Bethlehem no one sees a sunny side to inflation high interest rates and housing prices the average tab here in 2020 was $24 now it's 38 and that's the election in an eggshell obviously because the food cost and for a family

of like four people five people I have them come in and say oh my god I spent a hundred dollars with with the tip for breakfast that's easy which it is yeah 730 we open 730 to 10 Ross Workheiser was a waitress 25 years ago now she runs the place my mother used to always say gotta vote Democrat you know they're for the poor people you grew up in a Democratic household yes but you just voted for Donald Trump yes inflation is down by more than half interest rates are falling mortgage

rates are falling wages are going up are you not feeling I don't feel it no I don't feel it I don't feel it at all everybody I talked to it and nobody's wages went up but we had four years of this I mean four years gas was super high yes it just went down now but what the past four three and a half years it was up so their analysis is it's the price of eggs and yeah that is very important and Trump spoke to that constantly specifically it's like oh come on there was there's one other issue at

play and I'm in a way a little a little disappointed but you know I'm Mike my good friends in text groups they're just like who is this friends of mine like guys who should know better and I call them out on it and they still do it and it's funny and what yeah and one of the things is I can't believe they spent them to give Oprah million dollars you know like and four million dollars for private jets you know when you're running the greatest show on earth which the presidential election

is that's what you do please don't go look at what Trump spent it was half the half the amount of money but you know that's what the you know Oprah put to get we saw the show and she put out a studio studio audience you know what I don't even think it was it in her own town I don't think it was no idea where it was I know that you build this in like $100,000 to call her daddy you know no it was 500 whatever it's either way but you know it's like what that's what you do

in a presidential campaign who cares but this is a big problem here's a this is a boy well I just to defend the people that are on the other side of this argument nobody you're right and I think it's absolutely especially you have a billion dollars to spend but how do you have a billion dollars to spend and then go over budget by 220 million I mean that's what was shocking that's pretty interesting Tina told me that Trump offered to pay that did I see that somewhere yeah that keeps going around

I haven't heard it I mean I've heard about him supposedly I think it I still think it's tongue-in-cheek yeah well I think anyway so the Cuomo kid had this Democrat bundler on so she's someone who collects a lot of money and yes this woman yeah I did this by the way before you play that this woman is the Asian woman yes yes yes she China doll she's a China doll she looks porcelain yeah she's got one of those looks but she had I'm dubious about this about why would you

come on and and well it's news play like this news nation what do you expect what am I thinking never mind just ignore what I said and although Oprah says she wasn't paid a cent by Harris the campaign did pay her company a million dollars to produce Oprah star-studded town hall wasn't that pain and the Harris team reportedly spent six figures to build that set I told you about on that call her daddy podcast I could have a built a set for half a mill I told

you about on that call her daddy podcast that call her daddy podcast that's a little bit of envy in your voice Chris you know which I got her hundreds of thousands of views but I mean I don't know that it was cost-effective and then you got Eminem then you got Beyonce so let's talk to somebody who lives oh what about Eminem and you know there's a war they pay Beyonce a million dollars there's no evidence of that there and the FEC filings there's a bunch of evidence of it you know

a million dollars for Beyonce no they don't have the exact numbers for they have bundles of money that went to different talent agencies so you can't tell okay all right how come no one wanted an endorsement from the pod father in the podcast election what is wrong with you people I'm always bringing this topic up you don't have to do it you can stop okay got Eminem then you got Beyonce so let's talk to somebody who lived it okay and is speaking out now with her own concerns Lindy Lee joining us

now Lindy thank you very much for taking the opportunity what do you think of these allegations of what Oprah I mean either they paid the production company or they didn't I've never heard of people getting paid for endorsements paying to perform maybe maybe but usually they give it but do you believe it I it's not a matter of believing it's literally in the report and she can deny it however much she wants to but it says Harper Productions on the FEC report I really

don't know how you get around that it's her company and she may not have gotten paid personally as a person but it paid her company so I think this is a matter of semantics and she got paid and it's just if my donors had known beforehand that the money would be dispersed this way I do not think they would have given you know it's it's a sacred trust these people a lot of my donors have worked hard all their lives and again these are everyday Americans around the country I didn't just

deal with big donors I also fundraise on grassroots donors who gave $25 as I mentioned I did something called geeks and nerds for Harris people are giving like ten to fifteen dollars these are people you know you know hold on a second she did that geeks and nerds with Wonder Woman I wonder how much money she got paid that way I didn't hear what you said oh she said I did something called geeks and nerds for Harris and that was the Wonder Woman hosts and nerds that was the Wonder Woman hosted

webinar does zoom call right and so did she do that for free that's a good question I probably not $25 as I mentioned I did something called geeks and nerds for Harris people are giving like ten to fifteen dollars these are people you know some people are living paycheck to paycheck so it's a sacred trust for them to give money to a campaign it is our utmost responsibility to use that money in a responsible manner and to not treat it as OPM which is

other people's money if we can't handle campaign money the right way how can taxpayers how can Americans possibly trust us that we would handle taxpayer money the right way all right well gee now I just go back to your point that you get a pot full of money you you spend it the way you think is wisely spent if you know he had to buy endorsements which is kind of low when you could probably get him for free if you tried hard enough you you know get better people yeah you know

spring spring scene is going what people got paid sure he is I'm going to Canada so there's something about there's something about her whining about this which is if I give 25 bucks to the Harris campaign and she gives that 25 bucks to Beyonce or she gives that 25 bucks to Oprah Ogilvy to be right do an ad yeah yeah what's the difference what's the difference I mean the Beyonce if somebody thinks the Beyonce's going on and on about something is going to be

more valuable than the advertisement that yeah so I just wonder this woman is just it seems like in like a well the counter agent or she's like a yeah I mean she first of all she just doesn't look trustworthy period second she's on Cuomo show so okay but your point is exactly right it's like that's how the thing is they all believe still still for some reason even though it didn't work with Hillary Clinton that celebrities matter news flash at this hour breaking celebrities

don't matter in people's lives they haven't mattered for quite a long time I think the MTV Music Awards were on did we miss that I mean this is this is the level of you know non we not caring nobody nobody cares anymore it's just it's it's not that important the whole industry the gossip industries is is not a maybe TMZ is pro that's okay yeah you just made a good excellent point look at the magazine whatever happened to the gossip industry that used to be so important we used to have had

a hopper we used to have the archer army army archer whatever his name was and all these different people that would do gossip gossip gossip and all that's left now is page six on the New York Times and I'm or the New York Post and I'll tell you the truth when I go I look at page six every once in a while which is the gossip of the country and I don't recognize any names on there it's like it's an embarrassment I think that's my embarrassed maybe I'm not know the gossiping

and look at the magazines at checkout they're very thin and it's always someone with cancer it is it's always there oh he's got cancer no it's not funny but that is pretty much funny but it's like that's true but the gossip industry sold out to entertainment by just hyping people up for movie ticket sales oh they're in a fight oh they're doing it's like when when that movie came out and it was what's her name she's married to Ryan Gosling and she had a movie come out recently and she was like

oh this is a great girls night out movie and Gosling is like and by the way it's a pretty good movie movies this and it's it's really about it's about abuse and rape it's it's a it's a that sounds terrific yeah and so then the gossip industry is like oh well you know there's a spat going on between them and the whole thing was so obviously set up just to just to you know make generate ticket sales generate ticket sales the other thing the gossip industry sold out to is the fashion

industry what are you wearing who are you wearing oh this is beautiful oh what go to our 360 cam that's they sold out they sold themselves out like a whores anyway it's no it was any different before no no it was always to move ticket sales no but they'd move to the fashion industry well the fashion thing yeah does seem yes yeah well five I mean they've always oh I'm wearing a Dior you know you're wearing a Valentino Ford who are you wearing who are you wearing well can't you see Tom

Ford on my back here hey Tom Ford is hanging on to me so there's all kinds of shifts going on and people are rage quitting Twitter hi everyone I have loved connecting with all of you on Twitter and then on X for all of these years but it's time for me to leave the platform that it was a place for in case you didn't know this is Don Lemon for honest debate I saw this but he's leaving the platform to do what and by the way somebody pointed out his last tweet

he tweets three more times after this transparency and free speech but I now feel it does not serve that purpose in addition starting this Friday November 15th X is implementing new terms of service which among other things states that quote all disputes be brought exclusively in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant County Texas and what's so new about this quote the full terms of service can be found on my written statement or on the

X website now as the Washington Post recently reported on X's decision to change the terms this quote ensures that such lawsuits will be heard in courthouses that are a hub for conservatives which experts say could make it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and punish critics I think that speaks for itself you can find me on YouTube at the Don Lemon show or on tik-tok and Facebook at Don Lemon and and on Instagram and blue sky at Don Lemon official I

hope you will join me there so this is the big shift everybody's moving to blue sky some X users jumping ship to a new platform called blue sky you might have heard of it in the past week or so the open source social media platform says they've seen an influx of over 1 million users in the past week bringing their total to 15 million users so still low but a good start many of those fleeing are fleeing X after the election they're unhappy that owner Elon Musk used that platform to support

president-elect Trump now blue sky was originally created by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019 it's been around for a while but it was recently open to everyone so it had to be invite only for many years now it's open to everyone the decentralized platform lets you post texts photos and more you can also better customize what you see and it's easy to take your data and move to another platform later my initial thought on this is that yes people are going to it is it as big as something like

threads or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter no but it's growing there's a lot of sort of momentum behind it and it looks just like Twitter I was gonna say as someone who's just kind of tiptoeing with it and trying to figure out if I want to make the switch I think one of the things that people are concerned about on X is all the bots and like if you say anything you're like inundated comments and stuff like that and so my question is does that exist on blue sky as well so

there's a lot of controls to help you see exactly what you want to see and to cut out some of that stuff okay so they just have a lot of controls and they have these algorithm lists you can like you know I'm still checking it out but it seems like you can tweak it a lot more I gotta say where did you get that commercial that's KTLA 5 in Los Angeles let me um let me just say something about blue sky I knew about blue sky before it was launched one of our producers worked on it it was the

secret Jack Dorsey project one of our I met him one of our producers in South Carolina meet up and he told me all about it and yeah it is open source you can set you set up your own server it's not like doing a mastodon but I got an invite very early on I don't have you ever been on blue sky nah no it is tranny central I mean oh really oh from day one oh that's interesting because of Dorsey's kind of his background you didn't have much to do with it at that point but it was all just

all these woke people and just you know trans rights flags everywhere and like okay interesting yeah so and but this is not a bad development I feel that's perfect you know go where you want to go and be I agree with people you want to be with what you will find over there as far as I know maybe that's changed but there's no algorithmic presentation of content so it's it does not have them then yes this is the same thing was doomed it's the same thing with Nostra Nostra great idea not

technically I'm just gonna say I don't think it's all that great you know because you have an identity that is cryptographically provable and no one can steal your identity okay of the 40 or the 40,000 people that are on there it's not that great you know they keep saying oh this is Nostra is fantastic because you know it's censorship resistant yeah no one wants to be on there because again there's no algorithm and if there's no algorithm it's there's no excitement you don't

get juiced up about stuff that is the secret to these addictive and I say that in air quotes addictive social media networks is you have to have the algorithm otherwise people will get bored of it and even on those short little YouTube has a series of these clips now that they do it's cool I don't even like tick-tock like clips shorts yeah and you get on one of the one of the threads mm-hmm and they're all very similar and like there'll be like most different kinds of most of their

tick-tock videos just put on YouTube it's true they stole but this is good I see this is good people so people are now getting sick of it you know we already saw that you know people are leaving subscriptions on YouTube and they're doing other things that they're they're gonna find other things to do in their life and as the news cable news outlets diminish severely and they move to I guess only pure opinion there'll be little there's just no money gonna be left

for news it won't be that interesting to keep these stuff like X I think it's kept alive by news clips you know there's still you'll still get a joy read that is funny and you but that's gonna get old too but at a certain point how much more laughing can you do about the libs melting down uh-huh if people will get bored so it's just it's in not the way we do it no no and that's mainly because we don't have video that's the best part you know ironically you might be right I back to the topic I

can bring it up the ask Adam oh hold on a second Oh the question go all right now the thing is now the thing about ask at this ask Adam is this is a cheap trick to get into a some more analysis okay because it's pretty off the wall now this is the one of course you plays ask Adam Q and then I'll ask you the question okay here we go when vice president Kamala Harris was campaigning for the presidency she landed on a signature line she landed on a signature line

okay okay what was it well there's a couple do you did you just fall out of a coconut tree yeah but it's probably we're not going back we're moving forward it is Wow this is funny cuz I when I when I heard this I might what came to my mind there was joy well that's not a signature line that that's that's just a word well we're both wrong or unburdened by what has been we're both wrong and you're wrong still continue to be wrong so now you want to play answer plus

plus okay when vice president Kamala Harris was campaigning for the presidency she landed on a signature line this summer at the Democratic National Convention it was everywhere in the pump-up video set to Beyonce really across posters in the audience and in speech when we fight we win after speech because as we've all these known in Texas when the new channels and animals when we fight we win after speech and as the next president of the United States always says when we fight and

this election the Democrats fight was pretty good they successfully ditched their unpopular presumptive nominee they raised a billion dollars with record-breaking speed they reached tens of millions of people with their massive door knocking and phone banking operations but the win of course never came and since then we've seen another law of politics take shape when you don't win you fight amongst yourselves the finger-pointing began the morning

after the election Democratic representative Ritchie Torres from New York said that quote Donald Trump has no greater friends than the far left look if the goal is to win elections on Twitter then you should embrace movements like defund the police but if the goal is to win elections in the real world where it matters then you have to appeal to working -class people of color who historically have been the base of the Democratic Party that's him on MSNBC well this is very interesting since

we both were wrong about about what the signature line was and it goes to show that in popular dish there the Democrat Party is divorced from understanding popular culture because if I if I asked my 28 year old and I said what do you think she'll say coconut tree she might say we're not going back she might even say freedom but I don't freedom I do not think that in popular culture anyone would say when we fight we win sorry see y'all see y'all yeah I was kind of surprised

I agree with all that and the irony of course to what you just said which is that they don't understand popular cultures they're the ones wrapped up in Hollywood but then again Hollywood doesn't seem to understand popular culture either with the results the box-office results they get with some of their good ideas yeah great ideas so here's a part two of this this this kind of cheat that I did meanwhile former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who was instrumental in convincing President

Biden to step aside suggested in a New York Times interview that he should have thrown the nomination open earlier had the president gotten out sooner there may have been other candidates in the race Kamala I think still would have won but she may have been stronger having taken her case to the public sooner Pramila Jayapal the Washington congresswoman who leads the Progressive Caucus says Democrats didn't do enough to distinguish themselves from Trump we don't offer a

different option he is a billionaire yes but we also surrounded ourselves with billionaires and we allowed corporate interests to dictate policy she's speaking there to NPR member station KUOW in Seattle we have to stand up for who we are and I'm not sure we totally know as a party who we are consider this after a resounding defeat the Democratic Party has to figure out where it goes next and the struggle over its future is already underway oh well that is interesting I have a

follow-up clip to that specifically about Pelosi because she has also lost her standing and when I say lost your standing I mean the ladies from the view don't even like you about Nancy Pelosi Oh child Oh child she must have been absent the day in kindergarten where they did the lesson if you've got nothing good to say don't say anything at all I I mean why Nancy why I find this so unproductive so nasty so unnecessary it's like she wants to make sure that people know it wasn't her she has

no blame in this I said Biden should have gotten out earlier I said there shouldn't have been a primary don't blame me I think it's really unseemly and you know frankly it's done with yeah right these criticisms against Biden look we're not we will never know if the result would have been different had Biden stepped off earlier what we do know is that Biden is in there for the next two and a half months and this is what I'm gonna tell Joe Joe since

they're talking smack about you anyways you know what baby pardon hunter yeah pardon hunter because basically America just pardoned a criminal yes it was convicted yes of felonies yes America yes a man who pardoned Jared Kushner's father he's probably gonna pardon some of the folks from January 6 those insurrection those you know what it's your son he probably wouldn't have been prosecuted if his last name wasn't Biden baby you got two and a half months I'm

good with you pardoning hunter which brings us to much-needed analysis of the Trump Biden meeting this is where you say I have the clip and in fact I have a clip or two President Biden met at the White House today with President-elect Donald Trump as NPR's Tamara Keith reports they both emphasized a desire to have a smooth transition with cameras on them the two presidents shook hands Biden said his administration would do everything it could to make sure Trump had what it

needed for a smooth transition well thank you very much and politics is tough and it's many cases not a very nice world but it is a nice world today and I appreciate it very much a transition that's so smooth it'll be as smooth as it can get Melania Trump didn't come to Washington for the visit but first lady Jill Biden gave the former president a handwritten letter to deliver to his wife so first things first when we see the picture of Trump and Biden

walking down the little corridor there to the Oval Office Trump being six feet three Biden being six feet zero Biden is taller than Trump by at least an inch if not an inch and a half now the the answer from the answer is well he's wearing orthopedic shoes okay so there's four four inches no for each Trump not meet with the real Joe Biden in my opinion that was daddy long legs the guy who was all jacked and can run and and was speaking in the Rose Garden all all excited all

jacked up and I don't what I would have hoped is that he got to speak with the actual Joe Biden who then would say hey here's the skeletons here she's out to get you here's what you need to look out for pardon hunter that would have been fine but they they psyops this that was not Joe Biden I'm going but we don't know who he met with for the two hours that were closed no we don't we don't but I mean he he was with that guy I mean they must have done like a switcheroo in one door out

the other door oh hey here I am I'm Joe it was it was so hot you cannot you don't think that's possible yeah but I mean these were these I cannot stand the boy is orthopedic shoes it's not four and a half inches four and a half inches got longer legs that's the problem yes yes and his gate is different so I'm hoping that I mean the biting that they saw that he didn't show enough of this by the way I find that to be of course not we can't have I have to know I'm talking about biting at

the beach go the recent shots where he almost fell on his ass a couple times trying to walk in sand just trying to walk yeah no mm-hmm they'd really minimize that I'm surprised and and I'm sure it's already did lectures over so why would you care now anyway two hours I mean huh to a CBC had a report I'll play this it'll lead us into something else I think with broad smiles and a handshake u

.s. president Joe Biden and president-elect Donald Trump sat side-by-side in the Oval Office and put on a rare display of civility in their face-to-face Trump barely acknowledged the bitterness of their past politics is tough and it's many cases not a very nice world but it is a nice world today that's especially true for those in Trump's immediate orbit like the Republicans in Congress who greeted him with a hero's welcome it's nice to win other wins for the Republicans the

House of Representatives and a new Senate majority leader John Toon of South Dakota also included in a stream of new appointments today Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and Florida Congressman Matt Gates who was the subject of a US Justice Department investigation as Attorney General but to what extent Trump's bold new agenda was discussed White House Press Secretary Corinne Jean-Pierre gave few details look they met for more than two hours the length of

the meeting tells you that they had an in-depth conversation on an array of issues with that much-anticipated meeting wrapping without a hitch Trump is now one step closer into his steady march back to the White House I love the little subtle Nazi smear he's one step closer to his march into the White House he's goose stepping his way in by the way I want to congratulate everybody on Mastodon thank you thanks to you and your memes America was saved I am so

appreciative of that what would we have done without your frog memes we would not have won we would not have won Donald Trump is forever grateful so I think we should discuss some of these appointments you did a pretty good rundown on on the newsletter which ended in typical Dvorak trolling fashion by saying and nothing's gonna change it's true it's like well I think that was awkward talking about Vivek and Max suck which one max max Macintosh computers suck it was reminiscent of an

old-school column yeah it was good well nothing's gonna well with date with the government officials doge okay this is bull I need to say something first of all I'm sick of doge I'm sick of it it's and I think it's borderline illegal if he holds any dogecoin I think there's issues because he's pumping he's pumping an asset by doing this and everybody knows it also I disagree I don't think everybody knows it enough people know it I mean he did this on Saturday

Night Live and he's always pumping doge and that and that should put that dog the stupid dog okay doge all right ha ha ha ha ha we get the joke and now he's posting AI memes you know computer -generated pictures of him and he looks all badass like pride comes before a great fall Elon be very careful with I do it well you know you're gonna have to make up your mind if his pride comes before a fall or if he's if he's an intelligence asset and if psyop a walking psyop

it's got to be one or the other can't when when did I say he was a walking side oh I thought you were in the camp of him being a psyop no I said he's no good I never saw okay well that's different I never said he was a walking psyop he said he's no good but what I think he wants is he wants X to be the everything app all payments run through X it's it's going to turn into a news app that you can already see it it will be where every and it's already he categorizes it

as a news app it'll be for your news if that social media is over people are not interested anymore maybe in four years something will spark up again but they really that people just want to what's going on and they won't even care if it's real or not that's funny that's great you know what's happened I'll just check in on X actually that's you I think you made a point there again which is shocking oh thanks is that people don't care if the information is accurate if you know all these little

details about everything like in the bus let's go back to the Bay of Pigs the Castro situation if you can just alter all the details and you know once I say you know half the details are completely wrong and half of them are right or just ever you flip it it doesn't make any difference it's like the Gulf of Tompkins it was like okay we found I was a bunch of bullcrap but what difference does it make so and I'll reiterate my stance on Elon he's a phony he is a front

man for all these organizations he's they've got real NASA real Space Force people running SpaceX there's real car people running Tesla you know all of these other little things that fall apart no one ever talks about you know a boring company and the flamethrower and all I have to mention something I know if you caught this but Trump and I think he you know he did it as though he was joking but I'm not completely convinced of it he made the comment because Elon is in hanging out in Mar-a-Lago

he's always uncle now to the kids oh he says he can't get rid of him yes now there you go and you know I follow the his his jet you know there's a guy he got kicked off of X of course but he still has a Mastodon account and Elon's always on the plane and he's always on X so and then he's at Mar-a-Lago he's not running anything so in that regard he's just a phony he didn't invent Tesla didn't invent SpaceX oh and oh boy the rocket came back go to Mars go to the moon impress

me and then with this Department of Governmental Efficiency it's gonna be Vivec I made that claim in the news, I was gonna be Vivec the two trillion I stand corrected no no I'd want to be very clear about the scale I want to be very clear about the scale that we're thinking here we're not thinking small we're playing big here because we have a once-in-a-generation mandate right now the American people have voted for drastic reform of the government and our federal

government is broken really no secret that is a fourth branch of government the administrative state that makes most of the rules that creates a federal bureaucracy that's hampering our economy so what do we want to do we want to go in and slash and burn that bureaucracy to help Americans stimulate the economy and to restore self-governance against Sean the people we elect to run the government they're not even the ones who run the government anymore

it's these unelected bureaucrats Republican politicians have talked about fixing this for a long time not with a lot of progress so I do think it's gonna take a couple of outsiders you know and I have built a great friendship over the last year we're working together intensely and we're not gonna stop till we get the job done yeah so yeah no I'm sure they can they can trim to two trillion dollars the first time I heard about the Republicans in particular and I only

I wasn't around but the first time I heard about this was that Herbert Hoover when he became president before the economic collapse of the 30s yeah I think was called the Hoover Commission I could be wrong about that but he set up shop to do the exact same thing because back then in the late 20s the government was too big and need to be trimmed and then and then Bill Clinton came along and there's a speech that's going around from 1996 where he comes out and he says we've got it you

know government's too damn big we got to start trimming it down and it went from I think the figure was at the time the budget was just around a trillion out seven this has been going on forever it never does anything except it's just it's just bullcrap the this was the indeed the Hoover Commission which was the Commission on organization of the executive branch of the government and also known as koa big I think Doge is much better than koa big and Truman actually

used the reorganization act of 1949 to implement the recommendations so they could only make recommendations of the Hoover Commission real or I'm reading from Wikipedia in case you wondered reorganization plans issued under the act could be nullified by a concurrent resolution enacted by both chambers of commerce so it didn't have a lot of a lot of girth to it probably but yes I think you're right the idea of doing this is a very tall order it'll be great they'll make some changes I'm sure

let's go through some of these other by the way it will just be recommendations they have no power to do anything I'm in agreement with you but let's I have I have Doge clips if you want to just get them out of the way sure when I call them Doge knowing that it would attract your attention I'm so attracted to your clips this is NPR is trying to explain it one Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of governmental efficiency or Doge he named two of his most prominent allies from

the business world to lead Doge Elon Musk the CEO of space but just a point of order the pronunciation of Doge is about the shit coin known as Doge otherwise it'd be Doge or something so the fact that it's Doge is completely connects it to that so I just don't like it X and Tesla and Vivek Ramaswamy an entrepreneur who ran against Trump for the Republican nomination earlier this year Doge is getting a lot of attention but a lot about it is unclear here to tell us what we do know is

NPR political correspondent Daniel Kurtzleben hey Daniel hey Elsa let's do this what do we know so far about Doge we know very little but we can glean some information from the statement Trump put out about it for example it is not clear if Trump envisioned Doge as an official governmental department and creating that would require an act of Congress right but what we do know is that Trump said Musk and Ramaswamy would be providing guidance from as he put it outside of government so

presumably question mark they are not intended to be government officials huh but that raises more questions because if this is an outside Commission somehow how is it funded if it's taxpayer how does that work and how big is it if it's somehow maybe funded from outside of government wouldn't there be conflicts of interest but then there's one more important important point here which is that whatever cuts Doge ends up recommending Musk and Ramaswamy can't cut anything

Congress has the budget power exactly exactly yes no one thinks about this I'm glad you have these clips is it NPR even though they are spot on the role right now NPR be after the election has just calmed down they're not doing propaganda they're trying to explain things to the public which is what they're supposed to do and I think they're doing a decent job if you notice Elon Musk I'm going to cut all funding to NPR 4% that they get from government we don't all right yes because they're woke

they're no good all right all right all right those two calm down okay so do we know anything about what Musk and Ramaswamy priorities might be in short cutting but that's about it Ramaswamy said during his primary campaign for president he that he wanted to cut the federal workforce by 75% yeah meanwhile Musk said during Trump's October campaign rally at Madison Square Garden he wants to cut government spending by two trillion dollars now both of those would be massive if they somehow happen

two trillion dollars is around one-third of total government spending per year that would be very hard to cut without slashing the biggest government spending programs like Medicare and Social Security which Trump has said he would not cut so it's unclear how that would work likewise cutting three quarters of the federal workforce is a lot and keep in mind there are federal workers all over the country including in red states so it's not as if GOP members of Congress would be gung-ho about

cutting a bunch of jobs but here's something important we don't know what the top priority of this Commission is the statement about it talks a lot about cutting the federal workforce but also talks about spending those two are not equivalent the federal workforce is such a small part of government spending as of 2022 that workforce received around 270 billion in compensation government spending total is 6.5 trillion so it's hard to put a dent in that by cutting workers it's a gimmick this whole

Doge thing is a gimmick how does this new department or non department I don't know what to call this yet play into what we know about Trump's other ambitions for his second term I mean in brief it'll it aligns with something he did the at the end of his last term which is called schedule F the basic idea is to recategorize federal workers replace people in career positions with political appointees Biden rescinded that but he could do that again cutting a lot of workers

but the big question to me is Trump's fiscal plans this could save some money but he wants a bunch of tax cuts exactly and so deficits could go up as they did the last time he was president that is in Pierce Daniel Kurtzleben thank you Daniel so one of the people not really talked about in this storm of appointees is RFK jr. we don't know exactly what what his position will be but I think the effect of him saying we're going to make America healthy again is already having an effect as this

came out on good morning America this morning Kraft Heinz says it's pulling lunchables from the national school lunch program it comes after consumer reports urged the government to drop the product from school lunches entirely we found relatively high doses of lead cadmium or both in all of them and most also had phthalates which is a chemical used to make plastic that had been linked to a host of health problems Kraft Heinz bet big on its push

to get lunchables into schools modifying the product to comply with federal guidelines touting lunchables as a way schools could cut costs but nutrition advocates criticized offering processed branded foods in schools and Kraft says the demand never materialized it's the latest school lunch idea to face challenges we also need to significantly change the quality of food that kids are getting at school as first lady Michelle Obama made improving nutrition

a priority resulting in new standards in 2010 studies showed the standards help lower childhood obesity but many schools said the costs were too high and one study found students were throwing away 60% of vegetables and 40% of fruits the Trump administration rolled back the regulations in 2018 but now with Robert F Kennedy expected to play a major role in the nation's health care more changes could be on the way I'll get processed food out of school lunch immediately about a half the

school lunch program goes to process food we're creating diabetes problem in our our kids by giving them food that's poison Kraft Heinz says lunchables meets all safety standards so craft is smart like I would better cut this right away we don't want any bad but let's let's be good guys here oh there's lead in there the lead in cadmium process crap and they know it and I think this is this is a good development let's talk about some of the other like let's talk

about some of the other appointees do you want to you have clips I'm sure I have clips kind of naming them naming and shaming yeah well you name and shame and you do a clip and then I'll do a clip okay well let's go where are my clips where are Trump chooses let's start with this one well let's do the long form when they we have a bunch of people all jump jumbled together as Trump chooses long form in PR okay Trump is moving at a rapid clip announcing personnel picks for

his new administration and some of them I think what we could safely call shock nominee Wow did you hear how she sounded there no did you cue me in it again hold on a second let me get the get the clip here listen listen and tell me it's not the same same lady I think what we could safely call shock oh there's no winning it doesn't be the same person doing voiceover and it's her yes oh there's no winning new administration and some of them I think what we could safely call

shock nomination Wow there was Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary then there's former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney General we're gonna be talking about these pics for weeks to come they all lack relevant management experience but they have the most important qualification of all which is loyalty to Trump and a willingness to execute on his vision and all this is in line with Trump's

lessons learned from the first time in office when he surrounded himself with people who were generally very well qualified for their jobs but who ultimately stood in the way of the norms busting things that Trump was trying to do excellent okay that's good long form it has no secrets let's just all hold hands and by the way that's a great catch it's her it's her possibly a certain woman doing voices for the that was American dad yes maybe she is little side gig okay

let's start with Gaetz let's just go with Gaetz because he is by far the most controversial we have Democrats and Republicans who were befuddled by this choice do you have any Gaetz clips I have them just the announcement of it but I do and I could have gotten some clips from it was one of the I think it was Nicole Wallace don't worry I have some clips don't worry I guess okay where's your Gaetz clip well the Gaetz clip is in here it's a Trump chooses Rubio and Gabbard here Trump chooses

Gaetz got it NPR president-elect Trump floored some Senate Republicans today for Attorney General some pairs Deirdre Walsh reports Trump opted for a loyalist with a national reputation as a disruptor to help him overhaul the Justice Department Trump's pick for Attorney General Florida Republican Matt Gaetz set off shockwaves among Senate Republicans he's a top Trump loyalist and a conservative firebrand he was the member who led to the removal of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over a

year ago and part of their public feud was over a House ethics investigation about allegations about Gaetz possibly involved in sex trafficking the Justice Department investigated that and did not bring any charges but there's still a House ethics investigation so I'll play my first clip and then we'll discuss this is Caitlin the three million dollar woman over there at CNN with George Conway and his view on Gaetz as pick my legal sources are here a pair

of former federal prosecutors and Ellie Honig and Elliot Williams and also the conservative attorney who was once actually if you can remember that far back considered by Trump to be his solicitor general the number three at the Justice Department now outspoken Trump critic George Conway that was a very long introduction George yes your thoughts I you know everybody's like shocked surprised there's nothing surprising about this this is Matt Gaetz in a lot of ways is the

perfect attorney general for Donald Trump okay I mean we have a criminal convicted criminal who's a president who has been adjudicated to engage in sexual abuse so why not select a guy who is loyal to him and who wants to seek revenge in the same way Donald Trump does and who is you know it was it was accused of sex sex trafficking it's he's the perfect choice so I don't know why everybody's surprised all right your thoughts I have another clip but your thoughts

on Matt Gaetz as attorney general well when I was watching Nicole Wallace have she had Swalwell on right and Swalwell well it's interesting because I've seen Swalwell clip not clips now a couple of for a couple days he's showing up he's got a new agent or something he's showing up in a lot of clips and he's who sounds of extremely reasonable and he said that everyone's all bent out of shape about Gaetz and of course we remember that he got Kevin McCarthy kicked out

of the house and Kevin McCarthy goes around now on a different Fox shows calling it calling Gaetz a pedophile yeah now calls him a pedophile bit of an issue and yes I would say and so Swalwell says this is bullcrap the whole thing is just a setup so he can't he won't get confirmed by the Senate and he goes on it says you guys are all freaked out about nothing because it's not gonna happen which you know may might be true but I didn't think much of it one way or the

other until they had the Senate whip the new Senate whip whip whip whip guy on this morning's John Roberts show and he says that when they brought up Gaetz he was like in his Republican he's hemming and hawing in a very awkward way because he was asked point-blank are you as a senator just gonna just approve all these things just so you know just across the board or you're gonna give a careful thought or you some and the guy was hemming and hawing in a very awkward way which makes me

think of that Swalwell may be corrected Gaetz just won't get approved I have that's possible and it doesn't really matter I have a thought based upon another clip with the three million dollar woman listen to this pick for Attorney General is confirmed by the Senate of course a big if tonight they will have a long to-do list including ending weaponized government Trump's words protecting the border dismantling criminal organizations rooting out corruption at the Justice Department

and fighting crime and I have new reporting tonight on who Trump may install in the second highest position there at the DOJ I'm told Trump is seriously considering naming his lead attorney that you may recognize from his criminal cases who represents him there Todd Blanche to serve as the next Deputy Attorney General though I should note tonight nothing has been finalized this is now I'm seeing a pattern I'm seeing a pattern with what President Trump is doing he has Elon as the as the

the guy out front and Vivek is gonna be tasked with actually rolling up his sleeves and going in Matt Gaetz is the lightning rod he's perfect because all Trump has to say is hey Matt what's that in your mouth I mean he's that guy is so compromised the real guy is Todd Blanche this guy is he's the one your Deputy Attorney General you've got power you've got a lot of power this guy was in this he was a United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York he's a real New

Yorker guy he's been you know he's done racketeering public corruption this is a serious lawyer he's born in 74 so he's a you know 50 this is the guy this is the guy who's gonna change a lot of things and Matt Gaetz is just a distraction it doesn't matter who is put in there as long as there's compromise I'm telling you Matt Gaetz is easy Matt do this no I don't feel like it what's that in your mouth oh I'm sorry yeah I got the yeah we had those pictures I think

Todd Blanche is the guy to watch he's the guy that's gonna and who is the Deputy Attorney General under Merrick Garland do you know no no I don't either no one ever talks about him you think that guy doesn't have some real clout can't do something I'm pretty sure he does well during the peer previous era when you had some of those creeps struck struck whatever his name is that was FBI it was FBI oh that was FBI but it was still the second it was an underling it was a second

level yeah that was doing all the damage they can they have a lot of power they can do a lot of things so I think I like that I like the theory Matt you take this you set up a straw man and you have some some real nasty assholes underneath I don't think that's true with the with the border guy guy well let's do the border guy do you have a clip of the border guy I do not okay I have a clip of the I've got two clips of the border guy this is CBC so it's international news

and well I'll play that one second hold on where is where's my guy here oh here we go this guy Democrats are already preparing to push back on former president Trump's planned migrant deportation program Massachusetts governor Maura Healey is already declaring that her state will not comply if the Trump administration requested would the Massachusetts State Police assist in mass deportations no absolutely not every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens

to protect our residents and protect our states and certainly to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law but the president elects newly named borders are Tom Homan says he won't be stopped by sanctuary cities or states what I've seen I've seen these some of these Democratic governors say they're gonna stand in the way they're going they're going to make it hard for us well I know a suggestion if you're not gonna help us get the hell out of the way we're gonna do it so if we can't get

assistance from New York City and I may have to double the number of raises we send in New York City because we're going to do the job we're going to the job without you or with you and Homan defended the president elects deportation plan saying that it puts our national security first president Trump has made it clear we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats first during the country legally you shouldn't feel comfortable absolutely

not I won't feel comfortable if I'm in the country illegally you shouldn't be comfortable either because when you enter this country legally you have committed a crime you are a criminal and you're not off the table and I think this is great I mean I don't even care if the guy does it I just want to hear him say he does it every day all day long I'm gonna do it get out of the way he's perfect and oh it's it's essential casting yes congratulations the baby is now a US citizen

it's frankly ridiculous that was president-elect Trump five years ago expressing his desire to end birthright citizenship a 14th Amendment right guaranteeing anyone born on US soil US citizenship and as we inch closer to the beginning of his next administration it appears Trump may move forward with ending that right and I talked to immigration attorney Ernesto Walsh who says he could be successful in doing so could you see there being any legal challenges to this oh

absolutely without question it'll be challenged and now at the end of the day whether it'll be something that they'll be allowed to remove or not it's more likely that they will be able to pull this benefit Walsh says it likely wouldn't be applied retroactively meaning no one would lose citizenship if they were born here and Walsh says all of Trump's immigration proposals will take time to implement it's important to understand that the courts are severely backlogged

and so with even the most aggressive spirit that President Trump may have it still logistically takes time in order to be able to do things and I think this is one of the reasons why we see the private prison stock soaring on Wall Street yeah that was a good pick we should have had that one one last one on the on our new bulldog before you go on I do have to make one comment which is the this 14th Amendment thing the way they they presented as though it's oh my god

we had this 14th Amendment is this a violation of rights do you have to remember the 14th Amendment which was acted in 1868 was done to protect the birthrights of American slaves that were freed that's the only way it wasn't for so some people could come in the ground and have a baby right it's interpretation of the law as usual the Board of Bulldog is also putting Candinavia on notice with Joe Biden's time in the White House rapidly running out and US President-elect

Donald Trump naming his new team of top officials at a furious pace Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland today chaired a meeting of the federal government's newly reactivated Cabinet Committee on Canada -US relations but that relationship looks almost certain to become more complicated on a number of fronts one of Trump's key promises has been to carry out mass deportations of migrants who have entered the US mainly via Mexico but in an interview this week Tom Homan Trump's

newly appointed border czar put Canada on notice over its border it's an extreme national security national security vulnerability on northern border it's one of the things I'll tackle some of them in the world human smuggling has risen sharply across the Canada-US border particularly between Eastern Quebec New York and Vermont the US Border Patrol says it encountered more than 19,000 people crossing in this area between October 2023 and October of this year Homan fears criminals

or terrorists could make their way into America via this route and he wants more enforcement on both sides yeah and look there has to be President Trump had to work with the Prime Minister Trudeau and said look you need to enforce what immigration laws you have because this is a gateway get out you dirty Canadians get out get out of here the border Bulldogs on the case this isn't aside from something that was said in that clip they're going they make a big point

of this too it's like Trump is appointing people at a breakneck rate breakneck speed a fast clip fast clip so it seems to me Trump's been running for this job for at least a year that it's it just seems to me that if you're if you're going to run for president and then become president January 6 or whatever you get with the 20th 20th 20 the 20th that's not another riot the riot is on the 6th after the right on the 6th you get put in as president in the 20th the

wouldn't you have your cabinet and everything all your ducks in a row like six months before you even started your campaign wouldn't you have everybody lined up ready to would you like this job that job the other job it just seems to me well he hasn't lined up and I know yeah but it's only part of why you just roll out the entire cabinet in one day I mean I don't see why this has to be dragged out like this even though they say well breakneck it's it's flip I think it's

slow it's my understanding the way President Trump does these things he has a big list and he puts a whole bunch of people on it and he floats that around because he wants to get feedback from people it's almost like choosing the right UFC fighter you know to who's gonna bring in the biggest crowd what you know he has he has all kinds of show business done that six months ago well cuz he has recess appointments that he's trying to get no but no I'm just saying the list to pass the

list around could have been done well you know I don't know maybe because he got shot I don't know there's all kinds of stuff going on he was find a whole thing peculiar he was focusing on running and I know that the press secretary I know several people who were on the list including my neighbor I don't know if I ever brought that up but she was on the list she was in Mar-a-Lago for yeah you actually have discussed it for a week and I'm I'm delighted to hear that

okay no I'm not better Alina ha ha ha is going to be the spokeshole which is great she's the thing she's a lawyer she's cute that's what you want well if you just want a cute spokesman that's all you need it's all you need and I and I also think she's not gonna do something every single day I think maybe once a week maybe every I don't think they're gonna do he's learned from that mistake anyway let's move on to another interesting pick I'll set you up Hegseth's announcement coming as the

Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump transition team is considering a draft of an executive order that would create a panel of retired military personnel empowered to review and recommend the removal of three and four star generals that order is still a draft but it's also in line with previous comments from Hegseth echoing Trump's claims that the military is being undermined it's one thing to have DEI inside your corporation or inside your university it's a whole

nother thing to have it inside the 101st Airborne you can move to a different state if you want to go to a different school or if you want a different tax rate we only have one military and if the military goes woke then it is less equipped to fight the wars that needs to fight I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles it hasn't made us more effective hasn't made us more lethal has made fighting more complicated we've all served with women and they're great it's just

our institutions don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally not traditionally over human history men in those positions are more capable okay so he's anti-di DEI your thoughts on Pete Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense well this is the one I think maybe the most controversial of the picks mainly because they keep the left and the crappy media keeps calling him a Fox host when he's actually he is a Fox host but so is it you know so are a lot of

different people I mean there's like coaches that go on and do John Brennan's MSNBC host yes but the thing is he's a two -time decorated Afghanistan Iraq War vet both both of them two bronze stars it's been running or veterans organizations he's a buff guy the guy's buffed and tatted up and he's a kind of a interesting character he has no I don't think it's a bad idea to have somebody that is this adamant picked and he probably is qualified to do something but

he's not he doesn't have a background of a bureaucrat and he can't you know I don't see how it's somebody like that can run the Pentagon but taking your step and saying who's gonna be under him I do it him being the front man for somebody else that we don't know who it is yes this is the format I think would make it all work fine and they do to also at the same time learn the ropes because the way I see it I think he's probably a great guy smart I've seen him talking because goes on all these

shows he handles himself well and he's a Fox News host hello he can do that he could do a great job of being the front man for somebody who knew the ropes of the bureaucracy and how it operates which is something you just can't walk into I mean I've worked in a bureaucracy myself a government bureaucracy and it's it's daunting and I don't see how you just don't take charge of the Pentagon the one that can't even get audited out of the blue with

no experience running a crazy organization like that so it's I think now I'm gonna relent and go with it he's he's not a bad pick if you put the right guy under him yes and so I agree we don't yet have information on who the deputy deputy Secretary of Defense would be but Pete has all the right ideas and he is I would say read in on the strategy and he knows how to talk about it he knows how to sell it as witnessed by him on the Sean Ryan podcast the Pentagon is in the book the exact amount

of years but in the past X number of years 10 12 15 the Pentagon has a perfect record in all of its war games against China we lose every time inside the Pentagon war games we know what our real capability you see we didn't even get to this part of the war on warriors I mean the military-industrial complex the way we procure weapon systems you know we're always the way our system works the way our bureaucratic system works where the speed of weapons

procurement works we're always a decade behind in fighting the last war whereas China there we have a we have you know what Rumsfeld say you go to the war of the army you have we have the army China's building an army specifically dedicated to defeating the United States of America that is that is their strategic outset take hypersonic missiles so if our whole if our whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe and

yeah we have a nuclear triad and all of that but a big part of it and if you know 15 hypersonic missiles can take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict what does that look like yeah I mean and and when they're if they've already got us by the balls economically which you pointed out very well with our grid culturally there's plenty of elite capture going on around the globe I mean and then microchips and everything why do they want Taiwan they want to corner the

market completely on the technological future we can't even drive our cars without the stuff we need out of China these days I mean they they have a full spectrum long-term view of not just regional but global domination and we are we have our heads up our asses Pete knows exactly how to sell China he's going to be perfect as Secretary of Defense it's perfect whoever runs it underneath him we don't know yeah he's perfect that would be more money spent oh well yes

in fact which is gonna have to be done because the way things are going is going to I mean I still think 2026 is gonna be a economic finally yeah and we need that we need the 2026 economic crash and then we're gonna rebuild it the best way to rebuild an economic crash between between two countries because China also has economic issues is to pretend we got war let's build some and then we need hypersonic missiles we still need big beautiful ships and subs

that go deeper than anyone else's boots on the ground from one of a senior airman in the United States Air Force I work maintenance on b-52s and you guys are talking about China on the last episode I have some insight on what they tell us about the upcoming conflict we made new aircraft maintenance units also known as AMU's that are now bomber generation squadrons with the intent to have them ready to go as quickly as possible for upcoming missions and conflicts on China

they tell us constantly to stay ready for the upcoming conflict that it will be sooner rather than later we are sending birds all over the world as an act of deterrence we are expecting sometime between 25 26 to start a conflict as they believe that China will take Taiwan soon since they have a lowering birth rates and the population is diminishing and the time to act is now next boots on the ground Lockheed Martin sitting here in real time at my Lockheed Martin all

hands meeting same guy I mentioned in my last boots on the ground correspondence was on stage same China warning a new face is on the stage now decorated female marine heavy lift pilot she is going deep on the China rhetoric pushing heavy marine recruitment goals to be ready for wait for it 2027 China issues it's far from behind the scenes now out in the open and the Trump appointments line up with this perfectly I do believe he says you guys nailed this one this is this is a setup and to me

and I think you probably agree China's in on it we're not gonna blow up China they're not gonna blow up America we need each other we're mutually beneficial and certainly in how we gonna how we gonna dig ourselves out of this economic problem we have well we need something to build I'm not gonna build computers and I will build computers but computers are the problem with computers are they're naturally cheaper as time goes by yeah you need isn't it's a deflationary product it's no

good you need hypersonic missiles and it's gonna be great it's gonna be great and by the way I think that Colorado now did Colorado vote completely Democrat as expected yes Colorado you're out of the game with a second Trump term comes a renewed fight over a permanent headquarters for US Space Command Alabama congressman Mike Rogers telling his home state on a radio talk show Monday he expects the president -elect to order Space Command to relocate from

Colorado Springs to Huntsville as soon as he takes office those comments reigniting the years-long fight over the command's permanent home US Senator John Higginlooper saying Colorado Springs is the best place for Space Command because it's already at work here congressman Doug Lamborn raising security concerns quote as the world becomes more dangerous we cannot afford any lapse in combat readiness the Colorado Springs chamber estimates the area would lose out on 450

million annually serves you right Colorado okay and by the way this is not a new phenomenon this is what Bill Clinton did yep when he pulled the super collider which was being was probably almost 10 minutes from being finished monstrous product that would have that sir it was essentially CERN that we would have here in the United States and he just pulled the plug on it because Texas voted Republican I'm going to take the lead on the last two controversial or interesting appointments this

would be Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and this a waltz character who will be Director of National Intelligence this clip says it all I want to start this evening with CNN's Jim Schuette who is joining me on the phone on this breaking news Jim I just want to first get your take on hearing that it doesn't appear this is formal yet but but if Trump is leaning in this direction and that is what all of our sourcing is indicating at this hour significance of a Marco Rubio as a Trump

pick for Secretary of State would be in your view for one very much Caitlyn puts China at the center of Trump's foreign policy the combination of Rubio and waltz both of whom are big China hawks Rubio's portfolio in China goes back years he's drawn attention to China's trade practices he's pushed for restrictions on selling advanced technology to China he's highlighted China's mass incarceration and forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well as China's intelligence gathering inside

this country so he has a deep and long resume on China and listen shouldn't be surprising given that Trump himself of course it has made China a target both of his national security policy but also with economic policy the discussions during the campaign of imposing significant tariffs on Chinese goods and this would bring to his team a Rubio and a waltz to individuals with history there and focus on China is it becoming clear to everybody what's going on it's we can we can predict

everything we can predict it all we've been doing this China it's China and that's why Rubio was chosen he's perfect and if he gets out of line a Marco what's that in your mouth we know you were probably got plenty of photos you were a dancer we I mean dancer mm-hmm yeah he was mm-hmm mm-hmm any more thoughts on those no I think that there was I think there was another angle to this which is the which I have to which I did bring up at the newsletter I

think I said it pretty succinctly there which is Cenk Uygur's thesis what was that again which a shank it's not that I listen to a show all the time but I have to say his ranting of recently has been quite entertaining and he claims that Rubio and waltz and one I think one other person were all put in because there were there were is Israel Hawks and there was at the behest of the huge amount of money that was invested into the Trump campaign by Miriam Adelson ah yeah yeah I do

remember that now yeah and so he says that no one's talking about that and these these pics had you had to pick some Israel pro-israel Hawks to assuage her assuage her now I don't like this waltz guy what's his Rubio I think you're right Rubio is controllable because of the what the photos what's waltz his first name Oh Mike yeah it's Mike yeah okay he is a he's just a he's like the Holman type guy he's a grumpy looking prick who I have mixed feelings about so I'm not a big

fan of his but again it's like if he's gonna be the director and he's not the DNI he's the security oh it's it Tulsi's DNI and he's the national security adviser is that the idea is national security national security adviser is usually a spook my uncle was national security adviser to Bush yeah that's well they have spooky they're very spooky in some way or other that's for sure it's a spook job and so this guy and he I think he was a spook and they have to then we have to see

the guy they're gonna head up to CIA who is another guy I don't care for he was the old DNI guy and we might as well discuss Tulsi as the DNI person I think that's a good pick she's gotta have BS she's suspicious I like Tulsi I have everybody likes Tulsi that's that's it even better I mean nobody doesn't like her that's as good and it's not like Bolton I mean everything Bolton was creepy at least Tulsi's we like her you know Tulsi she's great what was Bolton's job I thought he

was no I don't think so I think it was just a just a dipshit did it in the White House of something or other now what I'm a DIW what's that dipshit in the White House yeah to give some credence to your 2026 prediction there's new evidence that Americans are drowning in debt credit card balances hit a new record high between July and September more than 1 trillion dollars and total household debt which includes credit cards student and car loans and mortgages also broke

a record on the bright side wages are now rising at a faster pace and debt so things aren't all that great yet and what you think may be the catalyst is of course a major portion a major part of Trump's appeal to some technology sectors including myself Bitcoin is nearing $90,000 in fact it's up about 30% since November 5th traders are betting on Trump's promises to be a crypto president by lowering regulation and ushering in a crypto friendly Congress reporter Hannah Lang

has been looking into what kinds of changes the industry expects from the new administration the crypto industry is broadly expecting that the Trump administration will be more lax on enforcement and overall take a very different approach than the current SEC where they've claimed that most crypto tokens are securities and need to be registered as such and provide disclosures to investors the crypto industry disagrees with that sentiment so they

claim that they've had difficulty really lifting some of the guardrails in place so there are some people in the industry that are hopeful that with the Republican majority in the Senate and probably the house as well it really enables legislation to be passed through a reconciliation where you could see a crypto bill kind of tacked on to a larger spending or tax bill that could pass kind of in a fast-tracked way with a simple majority since the election Bitcoin actually blew through 93

,000 hit 94,000 back down again I think somewhere eight high 87 I did reach out to the former New York banker a skeptic of Bitcoin and I said how about that Bitcoin his reply the more real it gets the sooner they will crush it okay he's probably that's an interesting take yeah just giving you the inside info no I'm biased but he said crush they will crush it so well you know I'm still waiting for Goldman Sachs to collapse I think he had that on his list too and that was

a couple years ago been waiting no I think the I still have a feeling that Trump's love of the stable coin that that is his way of printing money because if I understand how the stable coin works there the tether is probably the biggest USD T is the biggest stable coin now and or the biggest buyer of treasuries and other debt instruments to back their stable coin which is one for one with the US dollar and it's a great way to print money it's like oh whatever works you got you guys

if you just buy our debt and then turn that into dollars that we can use digitally and that's what I expect Elon to use I expect him to use stable coin not doge doge doge I think he'll use a stable coin I think there's a real pot and that that is an interesting thing that is not being discussed an interesting strategy to print up more money on top of money you already printed without it really being printing money somehow if that makes a good luck well no thank you print print thank

you well that's always been your theory we need to print more I have I've never said that oh you oh in the past on this show you said oh we should print hundreds of billions of dollars yes you have well find me somebody out there find a clip of me saying exactly what he said what what do you think you said what do I never said anything along these lines I played the clip where Milton Friedman goes on and on about how they stopped the inflation during the Civil War in some

areas where they're just printing money they just stopped the presses and everything calmed down hmm my recollection is that in you want to hear what you want to hear okay I guess I have another quest I just have recollections of you saying that you thought we should be printing a lot more money maybe I don't recall it saying that myself yeah the pretty good recollection of crazy comments okay well people being it dot IO everybody it's out there somewhere I had to work yeah

I will accept if I'm wrong that is yes I know I may have discussed a modern monetary theory and through that that in as an overall comment but it's nothing I'd recommend okay but I had years ago we discussed MMT which was was a big thing at the time and luckily that's what gone by the wayside no I just unless you like high-priced $5 gallon wait well what I say $6 a gallon gasoline which is gonna go up in California for me I know I'm just I'm baffled because I thought

that was still kind of your your idea that we should have been printing a lot more money I don't know why I think that you hate me no I love you that's not true you know that why would I hate you without you I have cash too which makes it even worse hold cash I have Bitcoin so what can you eat yeah you'd be I still think you'd have been better off with gold now now my gold bar to get taken away a long time ago I still had it I have coins I have coins I got Kruger and

Wow there you go there's a shot from the bow of the past and with that I'd like to thank you for your courage say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in China say hello to my friend on the other end who I do love the morning to you Mr. M, Curran and Mary, Schiff, Seed, Boots, and Graffiti, and the Air Subs, and the Water, Dames and Knights out there, in the morning to the Trolls, and the Troll Room, here we go!

so we should be at 1,800 for a Thursday is that correct is that what I'm yeah 2196 so we're just shy of 22 so we're almost 400 above the average troll rate and you know why no why because people want to hear our opinion you know they always want to hear our opinions but why today I mean I opinion we did kind of well it's obvious because everyone's talking out of their butthole all over the place for sure that's all you hear that's that is the the culture war economy is

in high gear everybody has opinions everything whoa we shouldn't have this guy John Thune, Rhino, everyone's all should have been Rick Scott no we just try to keep calm carry on see what's going on it's okay remember after the show is over go outside it's beautiful outside he's here in Texas smell some fresh air it's America some fresh air there is a feeling of freedom in the air John a feeling of freedom yes well if you go outside yeah yes that's where the freedom

is you can smell it in Texas it smells like freedom everywhere how does it smell in California do you smell freedom in the air no I don't smell anything in the air it's clean it's ocean spray yeah cranberry mmm my favorite hey those trolls are in the troll room troll room dot IO they listen live on the stream what are you drinking I heard you I heard you crack it no I didn't know it was me moving the mic oh I thought you I thought I heard her thought of carbonation escaping

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that's right they've all tapped into podcast index org so that your favorite show will not go away and of course this consolidation happening once again in the podcast industry and I think oh yes I think I can tell you what the strategy is here but we'll play this 45 second clip and it comes from Spotify first let's start with Spotify take an aim at YouTube they want to be the place where you watch video podcasts the company held their annual now playing event and

announced two big moves first it will start paying podcast creators who get lots of views what and it will let paying subscribers watch video podcasts without ads but keep in mind that does not include what's called host reads those are the ads that hosts read themselves that are built into the shows now according to Edison research YouTube is the top place for podcasts with 31% of weekly listeners Spotify has 27% Apple podcasts surprised to me 15% share video podcasts are particularly

popular and continue to grow cheap production yeah that's exactly what it's all about so this report is bullshit so they mix up metaphors of oh most people listen to podcasts on YouTube and then listen on Spotify I only fit no no people listen to podcasts the number one is still Apple where they actually listen when you have Spotify courting podcasters to do video well boy we need more of that to do video and then pay them that's an ad based strategy this is how

people get the platforms and when you upload video they disconnect your video from your RSS feed this is very important for people to understand so never mind I guess so you will have no control over your feed no control over your broadcast mechanism this is a bad idea the same with YouTube your favorite YouTube podcasters will go away when advertisers start complaining again so this is the cycle it's of course it's a cycle and and we'll go through it again and we'll still be

here our little podcast will still be here still be here doing what we do yeah I'm complaining about not enough donation we'll be doing host reads for Linda Lou but we're not doing host reads ever well we do for little impact yeah but that's not really a host read we're just reading the donation no Eli the coffee guy exactly and they're dead there what they're doing is they're gaming the system yep and getting away with it because the promise is that if you write a note we will cut it down if

it's ridiculously long but if you write a note and your donations over 200 bucks we will read the note and if the note happens to be promotional toward the company or a person that provided the money but so be it but it's not like and it's not like that we put his time aside in the middle of this show and go on and on about some product we don't have we don't have thing ever we don't have meetings about the your read and we don't exactly yeah nobody can do that it's

like you can't read you can't read depends on the day I mean sometimes I don't have my enunciations not correct because I didn't get enough sleep who cares you're coughing all the time like today I am coughing today it's if that's the freedom in the air I'm breathing in too much freedom it's making me cough so yes get a modern podcast that podcast apps calm and remember that we are value for value this is 17 years we're still here value for value is where it's at yeah okay so we don't get

Rogan money we don't even we don't even get a set built for us like call her like that call her daddy podcast as Chris Cuomo said but you know what we have our integrity job I can just see you rolling your eyes the difference between us and them is we're a public service yes we serve the people we do and unlike NPR we're not in a bundle not a plus bundle no we're just there we're there on the feed you can get it however you want we don't care copy it send it to other people people used to put

it you know we had a Ramsey he used to put shows on CDs and pass them out everywhere now people like what's this what's this thing what am I gonna do with this thing I still have boxes in the garage of no agenda CDs you can throw it to throw these they make nice frisbees you know there was some football team I'm trying to think which one it is because I saw the guy I didn't realize they did this but I it's one of the southern team one of the teams in Texas and when the team comes out the

football team comes out on the field everybody throws tacos or not tacos tacos tortillas it really is a tortilla will fly like a frisbee if you toss it just right and so the oldest and all these tortillas are flying all over the place that's kind of cool it's really funny is that the Texas tacos that team no wasn't it's not the Texas Longhorns it's some it's I don't think it's Texas Tech I'm not sure which team it is but it's one of these teams I'll find somebody in the in the troll

room might if their football fans would know troll room is not so helpful they're funny they're not very you know they're not sport I mean they're at home they're many of them don't know what football is well so we had a football segment on the previous episode which was about foot football ie soccer in America and I was questioning why this Tel Aviv team was playing Amsterdam it turns out there is a big tournament there is a big UEFA Cup or whatever but no I keep my eye on the troll like

anyone saying anything nothing that's because it's nobody cares about but then but then they'll send me emails and I'm and I'm on Twitter on Twitter hey curry hey curry like dude my name's Adam where were you do you can just give me information I'm happy to correct it people get like it's the same guy it is really only one person who does it over and over and over again by the way JCD calling anyone a shut -in is pot meat kettle I'm I don't know I'm just reading they're trolling they're trolling

so part of the value for value actually there's three parts it would time talent and treasure we appreciate all three of those no matter how you can support the show it is great when you promote the show it is great when you support it through your treasure it's fantastic if you can do something to help us out I had a back-and-forth with Tante Neal one of our Dutch masters because we're going to talk about the art in a moment and she's she confirmed my worst fear

she said I am reluctant to submit anymore because all the art looks so slick and I and you know she is she's a top winner in our in our list of artists yeah she's one of the top top winners and so she hasn't submitted for a while and she says well because I look at the art page and it's also slick and I can't do stuff that fast and so I figure I just I'll never win and I wanted to assure our Dutch masters particularly that it's not about slick slick is not what wins with no agent look at

us slick slick is not what we know slick is no good no if slick is slick sucks you know why why cuz it's slick yes we want known fact especially in modern the modern era we want slickest slop there you go we want humor you know and Tante Neal is one of those artists who gets us and she gets the humor and she gets the yeah she can be she can be quite amusing now I I am there in this thread there were some conversations going on and said well you know I use it as a tool so I

can do part of this and you know use some AI for this and so may have that's fair but still slick does not beat out a great conceit as we used to say in the business which I thought was just concept in a snooty way but the conceit of the art so that's what we're looking for and we didn't really have great conceit on the last episode we we chose kube the boobs no agenda wastebuster obviously AI except maybe for the letters AI is not very good if you say put no agenda in a piece of art it comes

up with the oddest things at least the AI is that I've used I don't really care so we wound up with the no agenda wastebuster was a pretty piece but it a little cheesecake II it was okay but but if you looked at everything if we just go down the list of what was there was a bad submissions yeah the submissions were were they were not nobody had any nothing was triggered artists need to be triggered oh I have an idea they need that kind of triggering and we I guess the

show so you're saying it's our problem now and we're at fault is that what I think so I honestly do well no there were people got the triggers like the demilitarized zone but that was just in concert bloggers stop with the round pieces of art we're not gonna do them Oh Trump on the phone oh that's great no I would say Trump on the phone is pretty lame yeah it's it's the lamest of all a point yeah and then why why bother submitting it yeah you just you just vomiting the AI

slop everywhere you know we we hesitated for a moment on scaramangos reserved for my Trump voting husband but at this point we're like and by the way wait wait Trump on the phone that this is like an old landline phone Trump's got cell phones he knows how to use them but see then he puts the title in on the phone with Zelensky oh so I should I put that underneath so people understand the art this is a piece of art of Trump on the phone with Zelensky ah can you tell you

know the piece I use for the newsletter yeah was the giant elephant and the small donkey yeah done by clip custodian yeah now that's totally AI yes it's politically it's a little too political for me but I can see I can but I liked it it was political but you know but we're a political show in many ways and that was a political piece of art it was different it has has a nice look to our comedy like the elephant we're a comedy show where did you get political from political comedy

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I don't think we did anything about it maybe we played a clip about the FEMA worker who had sent text messages avoid all the houses with the Trump flags yes did we did we play a clip of that did we play any clip I think so but the thing is not as you mentioned I had a clip I could have captured and I didn't watch the show to do it but I'm gonna go back and get it she would turn to she came on to one of the Fox shows and I didn't get it right well I saw her

on the Roland Martin podcast I can't believe I watched the Roland Martin podcast but I saw a clip and it kind of caught my eye and then I said you know let me listen she seemed like a very reasonable person let me see what is going on so the story as it was told is FEMA workers were ignoring any home in the in Florida I think it was during the hurricane that had a Trump flag and this is an outrage and you know of course that it was presented a director of FEMA did I don't know as a director

of FEMA so she is on the Roland Martin podcast and there's three entities that are going to be discussed I'm gonna try and set this up one is FEMA itself one is the company that she works for in her civilian life called Avernath we'll get to that and the third is and as of as of this moment for me unknown entity which is a contractor to FEMA who actually sends people like her out into the field so what I quickly realized as I'm listening to this interview and again she seemed very

reasonable and she seemed quite hurt by what had happened is that these FEMA people of which she is one they are not rushing in with you know to save you or you know that they are literally only there to take your name and address and to register you so this is not like a FEMA rescue worker coming in with a with a backhoe and digging you out or anything like that this is a a group of people who are called up sent out to go and read at some point I think she called it canvassing which was kind of

odd I don't know if I have in the clip but to register you possibly so you can get your 750 dollars they don't have any police protection they just go from door-to-door and say how many people live here what are you okay what do you need do you need money what's the situation kind of looks at the scenario and so what happens is and and she actually said that this has happened in the past with with like Biden sign so it's not necessarily Trump but a lot of people like

what do you hear why do you want my name and address get out of here you government shill and that can get kind of heated and so they are told by their supervisors who work for this third company who supposedly then take that information and give it to FEMA I'm not quite sure why it's very typical this is something for Rebecca and Elon let's get rid of these consultants or these contracting firms in the middle who are just get FEMA out there please and if you're walking up a street and you

know there's three houses in a row they're like get out of here you know drain the swamp all kinds of stuff like that then they're like okay we mark that down and we say this is not a good street to go on the people are hostile and in some cases it would be in the past it would be there'll be some political signs it could just be a whole street or as she is required to write down the people with Trump signs are not very friendly to us so here's the first clip of this woman with and she's been

fired from FEMA and she's also been fired from her civilian job I was notified after I demoted the next morning they told me verbally I was fired but they never provided me anything in writing stating that I was fired they all alleged that these actions were made on my own recognizes and that it was for my own political advances however if you look at the record there is what we call a community trend and unfortunately it just so happened that the political hostility that

was encountered by my team and I was on two different teams during this deployment they just so happened to have the Trump campaign signage FEMA always preaches avoidance first and then de-escalation so this is not isolated this is a colossal event of avoidance not just in the state of Florida but you will find avoidance in the Carolinas senior leadership will lie to you and tell you that they do not know but if you ask the DSA crew leads and specialists what they are

experiencing in the field they will tell you demand for FEMA to give you those incident reports they will substantiate what is happening to us in the field it's interesting to see the trolls already saying she's a Democrat idiot no no something else is going on here and here is again her explaining listen carefully it's only a minute what she is actually doing and who else is doing this registering so okay so you said so explain what this chart here is so you sent us

this map that has these dots on it so what does this actually mean so what that means is that shows you every home in that area each dot is a home okay and that home that dot gives you intel of if I was able to register that person if I was only giving them resources if I wasn't able to access the process the property there's all kind of things on in that data for that one dot so when someone says that oh there was at least 20 homes missed or we didn't do this or we didn't do that we

have to put that into context because this was a breach from a partnering company that FEMA hired the surge capacity team which are usually just TSA workers they took it upon themselves to say we want to go and register these homes knowing that it is hostile and it could possibly endanger the rest of the team so because they they didn't get what they wanted they went and sent this information out and misled the people that we just bypassed these homes we we omitted these

homes for safety precautions not because of political plight like no one cares about that we want to make sure people can register so this is where I got interested I'm like really so FEMA sends as contracts another company which apparently also contracts TSA employees so you already know what level you need these are not people coming to save you these are people to do a very specific task as she says registering getting data these dots represent data on these homes and that data does

not go directly to FEMA it goes to this third party and they are the ones who leaked out this information about her and basically put it on her and as I heard about her actual job sting things started to come into view at home I have a regular job like everyone else I have an executive position I take care of things there for that job I'm in contract with them on their terms and then for FEMA I work as a reservist so my time for them is on call based on deployments

orders that I receive so not only were you fired from FEMA your civilian so your other job with Avanath you mean you've been fired from that job too they actually did that in writing yes first of all what kind of company is this I've never heard of it it is a property management company they are nationwide I am a regional manager well I was a regional manager for that property I took care of their portfolios for various different acquisitions within it this is all

because of FEMA's doing they allowed a partnering company to leak internal communication and then relinquish all of my personal contact information so they don't then FEMA didn't just put jeopardize me they also put my own company that I work for at home in jeopardy because all this information is on LinkedIn okay so now I'm thinking what exactly is this company that she works for it's not really a property management company in the traditional sense of the

word it is Avanath Kappa excuse me freedom I want to make sure you knew what I was doing it's freedom in the air Avanath Capital Management they special so they raise hundreds of millions of dollars to go out and buy properties they specialize in something that I'd never heard before and this is where I want producers who actually know about this stuff to help us something called NOAH N -O-A-H this is an acronym for naturally occurring affordable housing so natural occurring affordable

housing is housing that these these guys buy up particularly when these properties have been flooded and then they turn them into section 8 housing or they can just make it very low rent for a so-called affordable housing once you have the affordable housing then you can get all kinds of zoning done with local governments and my assertion is that this company in the middle is in the job of in the business of taking this data and I'm not sure exactly what she registered

probably the state of the home the state of the dam how many people are living there maybe she gets some information how much they make how many people live there I think the reason why they put it all on her is because there's a scam going on here where this company in the middle gets the data sends it off to Avanath because she knows how to do this she knows how to assess properties and what properties are how what damage there is etc and I think there is some kind of scam

going on with this company in the middle that gets this data and then helps these guys go target their acquisitions I don't know for sure but I never heard of naturally occurring affordable housing and just my my spidey sense went tingling like crazy so if anybody has in any information I would love to hear about interesting you know what I mean and they and we're talking 675 million dollars their last capital raise to go and buy stuff well isn't that in coincidental coincidence that

you've got a cool ink eating yes that you've got all these properties that have been flooded they send out people who know how to assess these properties not save you know they go out to assess properties here's 750 bucks let me get some information from you so if anyone knows and there's a there's a lot of a lot of angry people about this whole Noah stuff that it really is some kind of real estate scam and you know these guys are investment company they're not a port they're not a management no

but Avanath takes a holistic approach to its strategy of acquiring and redeveloping affordable workforce and primary rental housing in addition to investing in the physical assets Avanath invests in community-based services and activities blah blah blah blah blah but then if you go look at the you see there you know they're the Noah part Avanath concentrates on these rental sectors affordable housing tax credit project based section 8 and

other rent restricted properties generally targeting residents at 40% to 80% of area median income and naturally occurring affordable housing which is not a it's just an acronym it's not a government acronym as far as I can tell which are properties that up that upgraded to serve the needs of affordable residents but how does something become naturally occurring well typically by flood hmm that's all I've got and I hope we have some we have we well I don't think you have to hope

too much what do you mean I have a lot of hope I have a lot of faith in our producers no we have I so I said we have someone that's very knowledgeable about this that listens to this show oh and you're gonna say oh yeah there's been going on and I have the dad this is 1953 when Eisenhower did this it'll be something like that I mean like what are you talking about how dumb are you this way I'm okay with that I'm okay with that it's just everything about me went oh this stinks cuz you know you

the vision we were given is look at this horrible person she hates Trump she's black she hates Trump and she just yeah that's exactly right you're you're that's exactly what the impression that you got from the social media and it seems purposeful because of this company well it was leaker information rile people up I don't think it was anything to cover up anything how about a couple of Ukraine clips who can catch up with that oh gee I'm so happy about that let's it's

it since these will be a few of our last because it's all coming to an end one phone call and this thing is done in 24 hours I'm ready I'm ready let's close it out let's close out Ukraine we're ready so I have the I have two clips and the reason I want to play these at all because I have climate clips to which I'd rather play but we need to do climate clips too but there's a kicker here so we have to play these this is a Ukraine update this is in the rush on Wednesday launching its first

missile attack on keys since August that's according to Ukrainian officials who say the attack involved strategic bombers and ballistic missiles bombers elderly women and small children taking shelter in an underground metro station the key of region is always suffering kids can't go to school when drones are flying and when there are missile attacks we are seeking shelter the scale of the strikes and extent of any damage we're not immediately clear no casualties have been reported so

far and in DC on Wednesday president-elect Trump met with President Biden after the meeting the White House suggested Trump should consider the Russia-Ukraine conflict to be one of the most serious global security threats as he returns to office you have an ongoing war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine representing a larger threat to European security and therefore global security and the White House also defended the aid it has sent to Ukraine saying the US

also profits from it these aren't just dollars that we're picking up and shipping over to another country their dollars we're investing here in the United States in American jobs producing American weapons that we sent to Ukraine this comes as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was in Brussels on Wednesday to make sure Ukraine continues receiving aid from the US Blinken says aiding Ukraine could have two possible outcomes ensuring that Ukraine has the money the munitions and the

mobilized forces to fight effectively in 2025 or to be able to negotiate a peace from a position of strength he added that the Biden administration will make sure to send all Ukraine aid allocated by Congress before January 20th all right I have thoughts but you have a kicker so I don't want to spoil it in case my thoughts is the kicker okay play the click on Wednesday Ukraine's Prime Minister announced that the country received a 1 .3 billion dollar grant from the US saying

that Ukraine will direct these funds toward essential humanitarian and social programs now okay now they're getting their dissolved loans all benefits us and then all of a sudden we give it we a grant is free money I heard that the total amount that's still left is eight billion dollars is you know they're gonna have to dump it they gotta spend it spend it spend it and then the clip I wanted which I didn't get was Jake Sullivan saying just to remind you this is

not going to Ukraine this is going to our military contractors so they can make weapons for Ukraine well that was kind of indicated in the first clip yes all right okay well that thing's ending it's all about China let's go to climate change I'm very excited about well this is about the new meetup yes I thought we just ended a cop another another one started right away yeah well we had the biodiversity diversity oh that's whatever okay I keep getting confused having too many

of these meetings now we have so that was cop 16 biodiversity cop this is a different cop this is cop 29 in Baku yes here we go an annual global climate conference is underway in Azerbaijan the priority is money money money money to help the places hit hardest by climate change NPR is Michael copy to the climate change people all over the world face catastrophic threats from climate change the president of this year's United Nations meeting

Mokhtar Babaev put the spotlight on developing countries whether you see them or not people are suffering in the shadows they're dying in the dark and they need more than compassion hold on a second just for that alone I'm giving you a clip of the day that is yeah that's great the guy is a poet he's a poet they're dying in the dark in the dark dying in the dark they're in the dog no they're suffering in the shadows they're dying in the dark nations

meeting Mokhtar Babaev put the spotlight is great helping countries whether you see them or not people are suffering in the shadows they're dying in the dark and they need more than compassion suffer this guy is an alliteration nut job suffering in the shadows dying in the dark developing nations don't bear much responsibility for the climate pollution that's raising global temperature climate pollution they're getting hit with some of the worst impacts like more extreme heat waves and

flooding from torrential rain some wealthy countries that built their economies using fossil fuels promised more than a decade ago to help their poor neighbors pay to cut climate pollution and prepare for weather risks leaders at this year's climate talks are under pressure to come up with a new funding target that's a lot more ambitious than the last one which was set at a hundred billion dollars a year these numbers may sound big but there are nothing

compared to cost of inaction it's not clear where the money will come from did he say coastal erection what is going on here coastal erections cost a lot they sound big but they are nothing compared to cost of inaction but it's not clear where the money will come from the UN said recently that developing countries need around 215 billion dollars every year in this decade alone to adapt to climate impacts that doesn't count the cost of

cutting climate pollution or compensating developing countries for losses and damage they're already suffering no brother okay that's so it just gets worse all that this is all about this all they talk about is money money money money money money money money money and we have to it's our money anyway let's go Gaston Brown the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda called for wealthier nations to provide grant Barbuda where's Barbuda where's Barbuda it's somewhere in the ocean

Barbuda you've heard of it in Barbuda called for wealthier nations to provide grants not loans so that climate initiatives don't add more debt or countries wealthy polluting countries are seeking to shift responsibility onto elusive private capital instead of ensuring decisive government action to reduce and disincentivize emissions wealthy governments say they can't pay for global climate efforts on their own and that world leaders need to find ways to encourage

more investment from the private sector UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said countries could raise more money by taxing polluting industries like shipping aviation and fossil fuel production and he said changes in organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund could help funnel more private investment to developing countries the resources available may seem insufficient but they can be multiplied with a meaningful change in all the multilateral system works

big sums require big change okay so they're talking about 200 billion a year for all these different operations listen to this last little short clip dozens of developing countries are calling for the new funding target to be set at more than a trillion dollars a year that's ten times more than the previous commitment which wealthy countries were slow to deliver in the first place what a trillion dollars a year well I can tell you why because there's a destination for this money they didn't

really talk about it did they didn't really say what the money was for except for coastal erections however I found a little ditty about this COP 29 and I know what they're trying to do this COP 29 continues in Azerbaijan's capital Baku the middle corridor is gaining attention this key trade route offers a faster more cost-effective alternative to traditional sea shipping have you heard of the middle corridor nope okay the middle corridor is an important

logistical project it's a strategic bridge between Europe and Asia this trade corridor will significantly benefit regional countries by enhancing trade and boosting economic growth the middle corridor road yes the middle corridor is the is the basically the train track from China to Europe yeah it's a Belt and Road yes change the name of it the well this yeah this is the middle corridor of the Belt and Road stand by let's listen to the rest it will

also foster greater connectivity promote regional cooperation and create new opportunities for investment and development but it's not just about global trade with the aim of reducing carbon footprints and assessing the reduction of carbon emissions the middle corridor is also central to the region's green transition the main goal is to present the enterprise as environmentally friendly with its potential on green infrastructure and eco-friendly practices and caucuses the middle

corridor is not just a trade route it's a pathway for the future of sustainable global trade projects will be developed in cooperation between countries along the middle corridor and they will be able to implement actions to reduce carbon emissions COP 29 is an important place for these talks so this train track which they say is more green than shipping goes right through Kazakhstan two routes in fact through Kazakhstan which is where this this whole thing is being held this is a scam a total

scam this is all about completing the Belt and Road trade route from China to Europe yeah so they Chinese can inundate Europe with Chinese product cheaper Chinese products and they can make in Europe and guess where it enters Europe Ukraine hmm one other interesting note about this was the delegation from well listen the UN climate summit the annual event where the world comes together to wring their hands in despair to give grand speeches and nothing of

real value we're talking about the COP climate summit this year it's the 29th edition the COP 29 it's being held in Azerbaijan while the big nations are missing there is one surprising inclusion the Taliban are attending COP 29 Azerbaijan gave them observer status they're not a full-fledged delegation because the United Nations has not officially recognized this regime but it seems like an attempt by Azerbaijan to legitimize the Taliban and they're using the UN climate summit

to do this which discredits the summit even further not only is it a useless event it is now also a vehicle to normalize ties with the Taliban this year's climate summit will be remembered for this for allowing the Taliban it's a terrorist summit now the Taliban is at the COP 29 explain that to me I have no explanation I mean no one's gonna give him money meanwhile oh maybe unless they would they want to route do the train to route through their Afghanistan could

be that would be a different route meanwhile NPR just sits here at home and terrorizes our children and grandchildren about climate change a new study shows many young people report feeling anxious about climate change as Rebecca Rettel Meyer with member station WSKG reports some universities are working to help students deal with the realities of the data reality over 50% of youth in the realities of the data John listen to NPR shameful with the realities of the data over 50% of youth in

the United States are very or extremely worried about climate change that's according to a recent study published in the scientific journal the Lancet but there are ways to help young people cope Cornell University professor Michael exactly it's so important when we ever when we do talk about climate change to provide solutions the answers what can I do Hoffman is one of several professors around talking about it reframing how he teaches climate change to put solutions and

emotions at the center he says his goal is to remind students there is hope for NPR news I'm Rebecca Rettel Meyer in Ithaca New York don't worry kids there's hope vote for Trump due to climate change believable yeah well you see we've seen this for the for years and years these poor hapless preteens crying about the end of the globe and all the rest of it and yeah nothing changed really I have meanwhile we're getting snowstorms in England prematurely this year I've as far

as I can tell don't tell anybody I have two final clips for today's program and they are about AI surprise surprise oh well you took up to get the gauntlet that I dropped last show I am I am ready to we're gonna have to start calling it the articles are coming out Bloomberg is talking about it everybody's talking about AI's data plateau despite efforts to throw more computing chips more data and more energy at training these large language models improvements have leveled off some

experts now say they've even run out of accessible data on the Internet to train these AI and now as our tech correspondent Anna Tong reports the possible solution could be an opportunity to reshuffle the industry's biggest players hold on a second is that guy doing the announcing right there is he some character from the Simpsons Reuters it's Reuters they're boring terrible people I'm sorry they're just boring the possible solution could be an opportunity to reshuffle the

industry's biggest players so Anna how are AI companies trying to get past this plateau until now all the focus has been on when the AI companies are taking these vast amounts of data and they're using the AI chips to crunch the data to train these models and now what's happening is that companies are shifting focus to making the model better when it's actually being used as opposed to when it's learning on the vast amount of data so if you use chat GPT now well

you'll notice is that when you're asking me at a question it's just basically trying to predict the next word and whichever word they think is most statistically likely to be it'll just spit it out at you in this new world they are basically coming up with a bunch of responses and then it's using some sort of reasoning technique to then pick which path to go down so the new models are actually much much slower and that's because they have to kind of consider all

the potential answers before they go down a path doesn't sound very promising there's no more human data to train the models with it's slowing down this is not good so does this new approach address some of those challenges around energy use data needs chip manufacturing etc yeah so I think it's unclear how this actually changes energy usage because in this new paradigm we're not spending as much energy on the pre-training phase but we're spending a lot more energy on the inference phase so

it may turn out we're just using the same amount of compute power or even more what I do think it definitely has an impact on is the types of chips that will be in demand so NVIDIA is now the world's most valuable company and that is thanks to just the insatiable demand that AI companies have for their chips however with this new paradigm in inference you can use a lot of more different types of chips and they can be widely distributed around the world which opens up the door to a lot

more competitors to NVIDIA oh oh oh more competitors to NVIDIA well unless she names names I'm not sure what she's talking about hmm one of my buddies had a company show up at his door at his ranch and said we want to buy your ranch name your price he likes his ranch didn't really want to get rid of his ranch but his ranch is right near huge transformer with gobs and gobs of power and this is a company that builds data centers and then flips them right away new a data center

flipping company yeah yeah I said sell quick sell it sell it maybe if they name your price kind of thing yeah then you can buy it back for pennies on the dollar later probably now I was just sent this clip from episode 441 of the no agenda show this is from 2012 you might have to contextualize it for us just so we understand what you actually meant what do we need to do to fix to fix yeah we need to pump in about ten trillion dollars of phony baloney printed money into

the system and probably another ten in about two or three more years and then we're still gonna have an economic collapse in 2017 okay that's what we need to do we need to print more money I'm telling you I mean I'm the only guy in the block saying this but I am and there's other economists will say it Bernanke print more money and it's like it's not causing inflation but I think you said it yeah I was being facetious as hell I took it as truth okay I didn't know what I

was so I heard it wrong I didn't know the comedic stylings of you yet it was 2012 it was early yes well you won't find any other examples find something newer I was very clear this is the problem with sarcasm I've always thought that Tucker Carlson that was sarcastic by the way it was a Tucker Carlson says so much sarcastic material yeah take it out of context like somebody just did then you don't know sound like an idiot oh I'm not trying to make you sound like an idiot no no I'm

not talking I'm not saying you did I'm just saying that's how the sarcasm works hmm if you use it too much yes you end up getting burned by it well let this be a listen we have to stop with the Sark we actually last decade or so I have been a big proponent of being careful about sarcasm because people will use it like that that's a good point it's a good point all right then let's just do one final one just to lighten the mood and then we can thank some people

Mattel may be hoping for a little magic this week to help make a packaging problem go away the toy company apologizing for a misprint on packages of its collection of dolls for the upcoming wicked film the dolls packaging was supposed to show the URL of wicked movie.com which would take customers to a website dedicated to the upcoming feature film based on the hit Broadway musical but instead a misprint led the packaging to show a similar yet incorrect URL for an adult film website

leading to customers posting about the typo on social media you know this is not a misprint we know exactly how this went it should have been wicked movie.com they just put on the sticker put on the packaging wicked.com and by the way all the reports what you just said all the reports none of them will mention the name of the quote-unquote misprinted website it is wicked

.com and as far as I can tell it's a it's not like a typical porn site it's you can buy basically lesbian movies of girls who are not really lesbians because let's be honest they don't look like that but this is this is I did not check out this site but I'm glad you did I know I've got to take a look at this I'm like oh this is a this is not porn this is just like you know they got covers that could be in your video store if any I mean this is so typical corporate like everyone

went oh yeah this is good yeah wicked is great and everyone assumed that they had the URL and they just all went forward with it and no one bothered to check. No one did any copyright copy editing. Well but then to say it's a fact -checking nobody does that anymore fact-checkers fact -checking is dead.

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Michigan 123 45 Cisco Bram in Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Ida Holland 101 70 vert fuller or wort vert it's gotta be vert in Batavia New York 100 yes in a note you want to take a look at that note and see there's anything in there we should read yeah let me take a look what wort said wort said that's sir short for nothing by the way John Adam thank you for what you this is a nice little one nice little piece of papers got here thank you for what you

do and for reading the note of the Vietnam vet passing my brotherhood is quickly leaving around leaving around me hmm please give all my Vietnam vets karma yeah yeah my brother is quickly oh he's brotherhood oh yes of course there the where is our good old sergeant by the way I don't know he's probably still around I hope please change my knight name from sir diet to short for nothing the treasure is just because thank you brother sir short for nothing Kevin McLaughlin's up

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you can do it all at no agenda donations calm here's the karma as requested thank you so much you've got karma no agenda donations calm shortlist for that as well but Tim jr. wishes his dad Tim senior a happy birthday he turned 64 on November 10th sir Craig Allen celebrated on the 14th that is today happy birthday sir Craig sir Stuart turning 60 on November 26 and Richard Dominelli that's happy birthday to Dame Lydia Terry congratulations for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe

and we do have two title changes sir Stuart now becomes sir Stuart the angry accountant Baron of Milford I'll read parts of his note in a moment and sir Craig Allen becomes baronet sir Craig Allen thank you both for your support and your uppage on the peerage ladder of the no agenda show there it is that's just what is it again just the regular old seltzer with polar seltzer polar seltzer time to welcome our doctors of education in climate change studies thank you very

much for attending our no agenda courses you have done quite well and we are very proud to hand out doctors of education to Rick Bunch and sir Craig Allen I'm getting there I'm getting there I'm feeling better about it I'm feeling better about it so sir Stuart had a make-good and he said greetings from England to celebrate my upcoming 60th birthday on the 26th of November and the 25 years of marriage my wonderful wife Michelle on the 27th of November I would like to apply to become a doctor of

education and have donated the appropriate fee of $1,000 plus fees to enable the application to go smoothly subject to your kind approval I would also like to thank you for giving me a wonderful dose of jobs Trump karma when I was awarded a Commodore certificate for show 1700 this has resulted in me being offered a wonderful new education role which the doctor will be very helpful in boosting my academic credentials and for my daughter Lucy is now finally secured an excellent part-time

role to build her CV and work experience after months of Noah disappointment no agenda jobs karma clearly is the most powerful force in the universe and he also gives us credit for helping get President Trump elected I don't know about that thank you very much it wasn't for us then we have a layaway a night note from Rick for Naval he says I procrastinated writing to claim my knighthood status for some time I've been on the $4 week value for value program going back

to 2016 and I will reach baronet status on Christmas Day 2025 I was going to wait until then to collect my dual status but during the last program a segment was presented that merits attention during the show you played a clip of Nigel Farage singing the praises of the no agenda so yourself and his eminence John C Dvorak while hearing the clip my thoughts went to isn't this cool Nigel is fan of the show you then immediately gave proper notice that this was a

paid endorsement I was pretty much gobsmacked this was an incredibly clear lesson that is more likely than not how most endorsements go at 67 I'm no spring chicken to find myself in the situation was to say the least jarring well thank you for bringing this up Rick and some other people have decided to give money to celebrities to promote no agenda please don't do that anymore support the show not celebrities this is this isn't you know it was funny when it was Nigel Farage

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email and I mean it just that becomes unreadable have you ever seen that happen where someone copy paste a word doc and it just gets all these control characters you were seeing that I thought I don't know that people that know what they're doing ever do that well it happened twice sent the same record so I could not read and don't do it it was even weirder and I said even displaying you said it I heard that yes when I when I did reply my email program couldn't even find the reply

to address it just had an empty field it was the it was the oddest thing maybe it was a spam no no no it said like meetup report anyway today there is a report spam yeah the Central Colorado election hangover meetup is it six o'clock man you guys still drinking at O'Malley's pub Palmer Lake Colorado on Saturday the Dallas Fort Worth mid-cities meetup that's 1130 in the morning sir nerdworks is organizing the bourbon street bar and grill in Bedford Texas also on

Saturday the shrunken amygdala support group meets at 2 o'clock at Taft's brewporium in Cincinnati Ohio the Treasure Valley meet up 3 o 'clock on Saturday at Heritage Social Club in Garden City Idaho the Texas Hill Country post -election freak-off happy hour 330 that's in in Bernie huh Bernie that's right down the road pure country oh man I think we I don't think we I think we have something on Saturday I'll check the feral housewife organizing that one all aboard flight of the

no agenda number 57 that's right Leo Bravo organizing in Fulton California at the Santa Fe Cafe on Saturday the Minnesota wellness check wellness check for 30 at O'Brien's public house in Shakopee Minnesota Alexandria's Virginia new location meet up five o'clock the spooks meet at the lost dog cafe in Alexandria Virginia and Sunday our next show day the Ocala glass bottom boat tour meetup hey this is the Florida people the Reiki princess these meetups are

amazing they're big there's always a theme you have to RSVP to get details to go to no agenda meetups at 1230 the glass boat bottom meetup so I guess they've got a glass boat and that's in Ocala Florida that should be a fun just have a glass boat bottom well that's possible the Reiki princess though she does the shoot ups and all kinds of fun stuff the Black Hills no agenda meetup in South Dakota spearfish to be exact that crow peak brewing three o 'clock on Sunday oh my goodness a lot

two more the too many eggs Keene New Hampshire meet up 333 p.m. Mimi says hey that's great margaritas Keene Keene New Hampshire too many eggs meet up and the land of the morning calm meet up at 7 o'clock in burger and pasta in Korea in Busan Korea mr. that would be great mr.

tygoo is organizing there imagine going to Korea and like ah what are we gonna do bug and pasta okay that sounds perfect hey send us a meetup report we look forward to it there Oh November 21st Elzonte El Salvador we need meetup reports people these are good let me see if we have any other foreign places light in the Netherlands December 12th saving term the Netherlands that's March meetups are usually pretty popular yes so I'd love to hear from I want to hear from

all the meetups of course Elzonte El Salvador be great and a Busan Korea fantastic no agenda meetups calm as we can find out all the information about these meetups get details and if you can't find the meetup near you fret not my friend just start one yourself it's easy and always a party I have I don't know how this happened but I have so many end-of-show ISOs it's just not okay it's not okay but I have one or two you you think are super winners you should just play those

yeah okay well here we go hello it's me no it's not that's not you hello that's not you that's just like me it's Dell big tree hello and then we have this one kind of bittersweet this one that's all they got folks it's kind of sad for Alex there we have enjoy sponsor free listening or it's a totally new way to support what you love no that's what I got do you like to sponsor free listening in that group I think sponsor free is is a possible contender yes okay well I

have a boy I have four okay including a rerun which I'm gonna keep playing until you pick it okay because you told me to okay start with dying they are dying in the dark pretty good pretty good pretty good they're dying in the dark that should be kept as an evergreen yes dying in the dark is eating the dogs it's up there then we have the evergreen Oy vey Oy vey such a podcast yeah that's by request yes run on good we've just been on a run of really good shows lately

who said that somebody on an NPR oh okay well that makes sense and the last one thank you thank you I think they are dying in the dark dying in the dark is it man there's just no two ways about it it's good all right but you have to keep that one around as an evergreen people can request dying in the dark and remembering the dogs and remember on Sunday we have a double tip of the day but right now it is time for these singular tip John's tip of the day Oh okay this is kind of an elitist

but I want to get it all about the jingle still playing man I just step on I like to bring it I like to met him yeah but it we couldn't we couldn't hear you I like this oh that's that's producers fault oh this elitist tip elitist tip I noticed by the way I went to Costco and they had a 95 right the front a 95 inch LCD which is big yeah for 1,400 bucks and it was by that third-rate come TC wire some crazy company and it would they claim to be OLED but it was like

faded and I didn't think much of it the point I'm trying to make here is that if you're gonna buy a flat-screen TV consider in OLED by LG electronics I bought one of these a couple years ago the thing doesn't weigh but three pounds and 60 inches it's got the screen is so thin and it's bright and it has 100 % viewing angle there is not one angle it's not like an LCD where if you go off off axis it starts to could kind of go away and to the point where if you go way off axis you

can't see the screen these have a hundred percent viewing angle right to the edge mmm OLED from LG is a and they're expensive that's why it's elitist but they're worth every penny and they have HDR that's dynamite which is the height the high and high and you use this to watch YouTube TV yeah is that an HD is a HDR YouTube TV well HDR is a high dynamic range right does YouTube so there's not everybody will broadcast in high dynamic range even when they do well when they do 4k how about

but not too many screens can handle the high dynamic range to the extent that these OLEDs do does Pluto have a high dynamic range not that I know of how about but I bet the over-the-air channels have some high dynamic range there must be one or two high HDR over-the-air channels no I haven't seen one yet so I get it I get my high dynamic range from from either movies that are put on Netflix or all there's a lot of stuff on YouTube TV that has high dynamic

range a lot of sports sporting events it's a killer oh so you don't get any blurring it just it looks good just no other the blurring is more a function of the of the resolution the high dynamic range just gives you the depth of color so it has the gamuts is bigger and it's just a killer I love hearing you talk about this stuff you used to do this a lot I think even on silk now what was the what was the show we did at MeVio I did a bunch of shows on me now the one that you

did the the one that we that we bought from from those other oh cranky geek cranky geeks yeah yeah you would talk about stuff like that I miss that instead of OLED okay so this is a Costco this this item well then no LG brand is everywhere and the LG has they have the regular LCD stuff but they have their OLED screens and look at this thickness of these things that made by I mean Sony makes it all LED and so does this other company but the ones that are that

have been doing nothing but these for a long time is LG electronics there is stunning sets they're definitely worth the investment and that ladies gentlemen is John C Dvorak's tip of the day go buy an LG and sometimes yes on Sunday we will have a double tip I got a great one I'm very excited to share this tip with you I think you'll like it you'll even want this tip you're like I gotta get me some of that tip I guarantee it which means you just need to tune in on

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