1793 - "Retribution"

It's a Glowing in the Dark's a giveaway. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, August 24th, 2025. This is your award-winning give-a-nation media assassination episode 1793. This is no agenda. Weaponizing everything again. Broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA region number 6. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where Abrego Garcia wasn't mistakenly sent to El Salvador. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's quite in the morning.

I like the whole Uganda gamut myself. I think that's pretty funny. I have some clips on this and it's quite ironic but first I want to make this. This was on Fox this morning and they all say this. Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man, the Maryland dad. Oh yeah, Maryland man. Yes. Maryland was Maryland dad at first. Yes. Maryland father. Maryland father. Father from Maryland. Yes. So they keep saying, and this was on Fox, mistakenly sent to El Salvadorian prison.

Oh, I'm outraged that Fox would have something wrong. Please. It all sucks. It all sucks. They all use this adverb. This is the same thing with Trump falsely claimed that the elections were rigged. This is an adverb you throw at the beginning. This is not reporting. This is propaganda. Well now, I need to clutch my pearls. You should. I think the main... Has MSNBC changed to MSNOW yet? Ms. Now? When does that happen? I can't wait to see the logo change. I don't know.

I think it has to be taken over or somebody has to cut a ribbon. Cut a ribbon. Is a ribbon cutting involved? Yeah. I wonder... I got two clips. Abrego Garcia PBS. Alright, here we go. Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia say the Department of Homeland Security has told them that the government plans to deport their client to Uganda. El Salvador National reunited with his family in Maryland last night after being released from a Tennessee jail.

He's awaiting trial on human smuggling charges to which he's pleaded not guilty. Today has been a very special day because, thank God, I am back with family after more than 160 days and I would like to thank all the people who have been supporting me because after such a long time I am realizing that many people have been by my side. DHS ordered Abrego Garcia to report by Monday to an ICE removal office in Baltimore.

That came after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for pleading guilty. Alright. The whole thing was they're going to make their lives miserable and he's not going to plead guilty to this smuggling. No, why should he? In exchange, they'd ship him to Costa Rica but no, they said, okay, if you're not going to do that, we're going to send you. They do a deal with Uganda. This is the best part. This is hilarious. We have been doing business with Uganda.

We do a lot of business. Well, we're going to do business with human people. The Brits wanted to do this with Rwanda and they never pulled it off but I think we might actually send a couple of dudes to Uganda. This is going to teach them a lesson but there's a very strange irony to this which makes it funny at least to me. This is the other clip. This is the clip from the BBC.

A man who was wrongly deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador has been told by US immigration officials that he may now be expelled to Uganda within days. On Friday, Kilmar Abrigo Garcia was freed from a Tennessee jail where he had been held since his return to the United States. Earlier, Kampala said it had struck a deal with Washington to accept deportees from third countries provided they had no criminal record.

No. So the joke is that because he won't have a criminal record, they can deport him there. They can deport him there but if he pled guilty, they couldn't. This is a great catch-22. We have been doing business with Uganda. We've been doing all kinds, including sending a lot of C-130s. I happen to know since it might be someone in my circle who is an international arms dealer and sends them. Yes, the international arms dealer here in Fredericksburg continues, so they're military.

I mean, this is how it works. This is how arms dealing works. The US wants to sell or has all these C-130 transport planes and Uganda wants to buy one. So there's an intermediary and it'll go through France and so they send it to France, which is a friend of ours, but they don't really send it to France. They just register it in France for an hour and then Uganda buys it through the French entity and then it can be shipped over legally.

The great thing about it is that there's an endless demand for these C-130s and this is the truth as he has told me, that the pilots of these C-130s in Uganda keep crashing them because they learn how to fly on YouTube. This YouTube videos, that's how they learn how to fly them. So it's a great bit. What a great business. I know. Guys can't fly the planes, you got to buy another one. The Ugandans don't seem to care. Oh, we need another one. So anyway, so now what is going to happen to this guy?

Is he now finally going to go or I mean all the Canadian media is like there he is, he's embracing his child and it's so good to be home. What happened to his wife? She was out and about. Didn't she have a complaint against him for beating her? Yeah, two complaints of beating her. But you know, if you're going to hang out with guys like that, you expect to be beat. Yeah, I guess. But this is a farce. It's funny.

You know, it's totally funny, especially with all these people in Maryland, the governor and the lawyers and everybody and all the activists that want to save this guy because he was wrongly sent to El Salvador and now he's going to be wrongly I don't know how they come up with this, but sent to Uganda. The Uganda thing is a gem. Yeah. What's going to happen, he's going to end up pleading out and they're going to ship him off to Costa Rica back in the country.

Well, Costa Rica is nice this time of year. It's not that bad. It's pretty good most of the year. Alright, so I'd like to jump into the Bolton thing. Was that Thursday when they were raiding his home? Was that Friday morning? That was probably Friday. I think it was Friday. Yeah, so everyone's in a tizzy about this. We go to ABC with your buddy, Jonathan Karl. John Bolton arrived home Friday afternoon just moments after FBI agents carried boxes out of his house.

Four FBI agents were still inside. What were they looking for? They had been in there for nearly an hour. This was one of the interesting things about it. There's three reports. One that he was there the whole time, unlike Trump and Mar-a-Lago. I like to make that comparison. The second one was he wasn't there at all, never was. And the third one is this report which he was there half the time. Just one foot in, one foot out. Can anyone get it straight?

Well, no. They had been in there for nearly eight hours. Sources telling ABC News the search was related to allegations that Bolton is in possession of classified records. I'm not a fan of John Bolton. He's a real son of a lowlife. Not a smart guy. But he could be a very unpatriotic guy. We're going to find out. Bolton's Maryland home and also his Washington, D .C. office were approved by two separate federal judges. Trump insisted he knew nothing about the search.

I purposely don't want to really get involved in it. I'm not a fan of John Bolton. I thought he was a sleazebag, actually. I'll find out about it. But if you believe the news, which I do, I guess his house was raided today. But my house was raided also called Mar -a-Lago. Minutes after federal agents descended upon Bolton's home, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on social media, quote, no one is above the law. FBI agents on mission. But what exactly is that mission?

Enforcing the law or retribution? The big R word. This is what everyone likes talking about. Retribution. That's right. The president is just so mad about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Remember there was another raid? Who was in someone's house and CNN had been called in advance? That's Stone. Oh, Roger Stone. Roger Stone's house. It's like the new version of elite swapping. Swatting, I'm sorry. Elite swatting.

You know, people get swatted all the time, but now it's like, hey, I think I'll have the FBI raid his house. Yeah, it's cool. It's retribution. Right here on this show two weeks ago, John Bolton harshly criticized President Trump. He said Trump was presiding over a quote, retribution presidency.

Twelve days later, the FBI showed up at his office and his home. This is it now. Retribution presidency. The new R word. This week's show starts right now. I'm not a fan of John Bolton. I thought he was a sleazebag actually. The FBI targets President Trump's former national security advisor. Are you worried that they're going to come after you in some way? I think it is a retribution presidency. Good morning. Welcome to this week.

In a moment we'll get to the stunning developments coming into the weekend with FBI agents swarming around the home and office of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton. But first, the context. This didn't happen in a vacuum. John Bolton is on a long list of Trump critics who are now facing the wrath of President Trump and his Justice Department. Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemies I just love how they have no information. And it may very well be retribution.

I'm sure there's a part of that. But I just love how they just make it up as they go along. Well, this is clearly retribution. This is obvious. Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemies, real and perceived, belong in prison. He has said that about former Presidents Obama and Biden. About former FBI Director James Comey and former Special Counsel Jack Smith. All of whom have been threatened with criminal prosecution.

So have former Trump administration officials Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs. New York Attorney General Letitia James and Senator Adam Schiff. Those last two have been targeted by Ed Martin. He's the head of what the Trump Justice Department calls the Weaponization Working Group. Last week Martin stood outside of Tish James' home in Brooklyn, New York and posed for pictures dressed in a trench coat. Yes, very sinister. What is going on with our country? What's going on with the media? Well, yes.

That's a fair point. That's exactly it. The only guy who actually had something kind of, something to say with some content, which was quite surprising, but I think he's probably right, was Michael Cohen, of all people. Former Trump lawyer, and he was on MSNOW. What we have here is the Trump team, the DOJ going through, for example, the book, The Room Where It All Happened, which I actually had read while I was in solitary confinement.

You know, when you're in solitary confinement, I'm pretty sure you don't get a book to read. Because that solitary confinement is the SHU, Special Housing Unit. I think the whole point is you don't get a book to read, or am I wrong? I have no idea. Well, according to my sources. But I would think that you were right. Yeah. Because solitary confinement is not the book reading club. No, it's supposed to make you crazy, not the book reading club.

Which I actually had read while I was in solitary confinement. And they've noticed that there are many aspects of this book that appear to be of national security importance. And that's what I believe that they predicated this raid upon. I also believe that there's no doubt that he will be indicted. They will find documents once they go through, for example, his computer. They'll find the manuscript.

They'll see emails going back and forth between John Bolton, his people, as well as maybe the attorney that reviewed it for legal ease and for questions. I believe that he needs to lawyer up. And very much like what happened to, years ago, Reality Winner. That's a name that nobody talks about anymore. One document that was about Russian election interference, ultimately had her incarcerated. She was a whistleblower. Had her incarcerated for years.

And I predict that John Bolton is going to suffer the same consequence. Oh, man. That would be so funny. Well, of course, once you get into someone's computer, especially someone like Bolton, you're going to find all kinds of stuff. The military contacts I have all say... He kept handling classified documents. But the question is, what? I did a little research, too. Hold on. My research is I called somebody. I texted, hey, you got any... That was my research.

A couple of people emphasized that Bolton was a stick-up-his-ass type character who would never even think of having any sort of secret documents around the house that they'd be able to collect. Oh, okay. I was also told that he was... Nobody likes him. And he was... When he was the head of the National Security Advisor to Trump, Trump never listened to him. Ever. Yeah, but Trump did hire him. Yeah, but why? Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, Trump hired a whole bunch of screwballs during that first term because he was advised to. So there's that element. And then you start looking at what Bongino wrote. Bongino also posted something which indicated that this was not about top-secret documents or anything that might be listed in the book. There's some sense that he was... He may have committed some sort of treasonous act or even... Yeah. Yeah. It just keeps getting funnier. And so this...

Because you know and I know, because we generally know people not as extreme as this character, but generally speaking people with computers, they don't know how things are backed up. This even took place during the early era with Reagan when they were doing the Iran -Contra stuff and all these emails that were going back and forth and then deleted were backed up. They were available. a guy like this is not a computer guy. He's going to leave stuff on his machine.

And I've always said that the reason for the terabyte drive, once that was invented, was just so that way it could accumulate evidence against you. Because you'd never clean it up. No, the terabyte drive is to store the Bitcoin blockchain. We all know that's the reason for it. And so the point is that this guy may be in big trouble. Well, I wonder what they're saying down at the club. I don't know. You know, the fart sniffing club in New York. I'm still trying to get confirmation on that.

You never will. Just the M5M just makes me laugh these days. You know, I'll walk by and I'm like, OK, I'll probably get that story. But it's all so dumb. It's just on repeat over and over again. And MSNOW, I'm just going to get used to saying it. Yeah, you might as well. MSNOW. Unless they back off. Or we say Ms. Now. Ms. Now. Ms. Now. They got that guy who's the president of the Washington Correspondents Association. He does the morning show on Sundays. All he can do is rant and rave.

It's contentless. That's what it is. Contentless. Yeah. Nothing has content. It's because they got all these hours to fill. Yeah. Even when CNN used to have that one station which became HLN and it was just headline news. And they had that one woman who kept reading the news all day. It was pretty much an hour of news repeated with maybe some updates every hour. There's only an hour's worth of content a day.

That they have to fill 24 hours with so they jack in some people to talk about it endlessly. So they've created these 24 hour networks that there's nothing to talk about for 24 hours every single day. But there's plenty to clip and it's all over social media. Oh, outrage. Look at this outrage. Although I see that kind of, it is ever since Rachel Maddow cut back her hours and Jen Psaki went to pretty much non -time. I don't even know when she's on anymore. There's no gaffs.

The only thing, and gosh I really wish I could have gotten original. Did you see the tweet going around, the post on X, of the AP Gwen, I want to say it was Gwen Dyer, I think her name is. Yeah, she was trying to read a simple copy and she couldn't do it. This was posted by Tim Pool. Yeah, and I want that original so bad because that would be fun to, because you can't really play it. Yeah, instead of having somebody laughing over it while they're playing it. Yeah, I agree.

I looked for it, I went on the podcast feeds because it looked like it came from a podcast feed. I'm sure they removed it. But it was interesting because I think even we forget sometimes. Explain what it is to people that didn't get a shot at it. So it was an hourly report from Associated Press and she's reading the copy and these news reports are very staccato explaining exactly how it goes and then President Trump, without evidence, this kind of stuff.

But she couldn't get one sentence straight and she kept doing what we call pick-ups. Let me see if I can give an example. Let me just grab a rando news headline. And so she would be, let's see, I'm just going to grab something. Here we go. Pritzker said in a statement, the state of Illinois at this time has received no request or outreach from the federal government. So she was doing all those pick-ups. She could not get through a sentence without having to pick it up.

And I can just see the sound engineer rolling his eye, his or her eyes, like, oh, I've got to edit all this stuff together. It's going to be a nightmare. You've got to make it sound like she can actually talk. But it was just fun. I mean, I'm sure they're not making the hundreds of thousands of dollars that some of the NPR morning show people are, but I'm sure she's doing just fine. And it's like, oh, man, she really is just only a voice. That person could be replaced by AI.

That would actually be an improvement. It would save money. Yeah. We got a lot of boots on the ground about apprenticeships. I don't know if you received any, but we were talking about apprenticeships. This was following on the news that plumbers now can make $150,000 a year. And I just wanted to share a couple of these because this is very interesting. I wish you would. Gents, I was one of the youngsters who took up a lot of Gen Zers, by the way, in their late 20s.

I was one of the youngsters who took up the call for skilled tradesmen. I can confirm that after finishing an electrical apprenticeship, so there are apprenticeships, the jobs are plentiful and everywhere. And as a journeyman wireman now training apprentices, there's a lot of young cats joining the trade straight out of high school. Young cats. How is this new? But it is. But we were pretty convinced that there were no more apprenticeships. That's the astounding thing.

I'm still not convinced it's that prevalent. Well, in the morning, this is from Tommy Breakfluid. You discussed apprenticeships on the last show. I wanted to tell you about my experience with apprenticeships. I graduated from my CNC machining apprenticeship about two years ago. I can't speak for other states, but in Michigan, they're really starting to become more popular.

Apprenticeships are regulated by the Department of Labor and they require you to work a total of 8,000 hours, which is about four years, and take classes at trade school or college. In all the classes I took, about 90 % of the class were also apprentices from other shops. Lately in my shop, we've been getting a ton of new apprentices straight from high school.

And then he goes through this, quite a whole thing about how the trade schools were really good, but everybody he said, the trade school I went to in high school was fine. They taught the basics, but the college classes I took were terrible. I learned everything. Most of the classes were teaching because I did it every day. The machining teacher didn't even have that much experience or even machining. He was only a couple years older than me.

My shop one time hired one with a degree in machining from the same school. He knew absolutely nothing about machining. So not only are they turning out people with worthless degrees, but when they do actual apprenticeships, they don't teach anything. And then here's Alabama for Plumbers since we were talking about it.

Listening to today's show, I want to inform you all of the school we've created in our county, Baldwin County in Alabama, that teaches kids, or whoever, the trades in replacement of traditional college. It bypasses apprenticeships. BaldwinPrep.com And then this is my favorite from the anonymous controller. I'd like to bring the NA family a notice about air traffic control job availability. There's currently an open off-the-street hiring for air traffic controllers.

Now before I read what he says, let's listen to the report from the M5N. The Federal Aviation Administration is working to fill more than 3,000 air traffic controller jobs to end a decades long shortage. Now to help, the FAA has expanded its on-site training by nearly 30%, but the expectations and pressure are high, as reporter Pete Mantine found out when he toured the training academy in Oklahoma City.

This is a rare inside look at the epicenter of ending a chronic shortage of air traffic controllers that's burning out workers and delaying flights nationwide. Here at the Federal Aviation Administration's Controller Academy in Oklahoma City, students spend months in classrooms and simulators before moving to on-the-job training at towers and radar facilities that are struggling to retain talent. How bad is the shortage of air traffic controllers in the U.S. right now?

It's at a full-blown staffing crisis. The latest estimates say the FAA is short 3,000 air traffic controllers. The newest moves by the Trump Administration include slashing the time candidates wait to be accepted here and giving them pay bonuses when they reach key training milestones. We're thinking creatively on how we can supercharge air traffic control. Changes are working with the FAA just announcing enrollment here is now the highest it has ever been.

The FAA says it rejects 90% of applicants and of the students who do get in 35% wash out. I don't know if this news report doesn't want anyone to apply but here's our anonymous controller and he or she says the requirements are pretty basic ages between 18 and 31 U.S. citizen, job history of three plus consecutive years or any higher education degree, clean criminal record, English speaking although I can tell you stories where that has been ignored.

For those interested in making a career off of not letting dots crash into each other on a video game screen, making good money, full government pension, retirement, full health care benefits should apply. The process is enduring as nothing moves fast in the government regardless of what Duffy, that's our FAA Administrator, claims. Go to usajobs.gov, create a profile, build your resume or on the website and apply to air traffic control posting.

Air traffic controllers are still in desperate need with the Biden administration's action in conjunction with the worthless pathetic union during COVID. P.S. this is not intended to take away business from Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes. We appreciate that. So there's a real gig and I bet you it's fun. It looks fun to me but I mean again, if this podcasting thing doesn't work out, I'm in. You should go to become an air traffic controller. I'd be doing a podcast.

November 277, Bravo 5. How you doing everybody? Good to see you. Don't crash into that dot on my screen, please. We could do it. Yeah, just like that. Yeah. So I'm happy to hear that. This gives me hope, this Gen Z, something happened, Gen Z flipped around, they started to get their act together. Gen Z is being underrated. There's a bunch of articles trying to explain this and that with Gen Z. A lot of it's bullcrap. But I saw at the table the other day JC pointed out something.

He says that according to the stats that the Gen Z men are all, they're coming up as Republicans. But the Gen Z women weren't but now they are. Because they're like, might as well get with the program here. He says that the curve has just gone, all of a sudden taken a nosedive for the women and they're all becoming Republicans too. The whole entire Gen Z is going to be a Republican voting bloc. So what can we do to thwart that? The Democrats are thinking.

I don't know what, they don't know it's happening and the Democrats are still under the assumption that if you're young You gotta be trans. Well besides that. They're thinking if you're young you're going to vote Democrat because it's an idealistic, the idealism of the Democrats is more appealing than the conservativism of the Republicans. And so the youth will always vote Democrat. So they don't think this is anything that's worth worrying about. Well I'm seeing it.

I mean I'm seeing it around here in Fredericksburg. And I'm talking 25, 26 year olds and they're even giving up social media. The horrors. Well that would be a good idea. Well it would be a fantastic start. I just wonder is this an organic change? Is this something that just happens as a cycle? You and I have witnessed four or five generational cycles. As far as I'm concerned everything's a cycle so it's probably some sort of cycle. It's a new one though.

I don't know what where it fits into the scheme of things. It's just got to be backlash. Backlash against looking at their Millennials and going that kind of sucks. Well there's definitely an element of that because they do not get along with the Millennials. Yes. It makes me kind of happy. I like it. I feel good about it.

And also as I think you have a clip as well as was obvious to us we've got a crime bill coming and President Trump is reacting to the many calls I guess on social media, I've seen them, to clean up other cities besides Washington D.C. Chicago's on deck. President Trump says the Windy City could be next as part of his federal crime crackdown. His comments coming the same day the Pentagon started ordering National Guard troops in Washington D .C. to carry firearms.

People in Chicago Mr. Vice President are screaming for us to come. The President claims crime in Chicago is out of control. Now when he says Mr. Vice President does that mean J.D. Vance told him or is he looking to just have someone in the room to back him up or is Vance the one who's on X looking at this stuff because I've seen it. What do you think that is? Vance in this situation I think it was just a prop. Only in this situation? He's a prop in a lot of situations but this is one of them.

This is one of them, yes. Washington D.C. to carry firearms. People in Chicago, Mr. Vice President are screaming for us to come. The President claims crime in Chicago is out of control but city data shows violent crime trending down including homicides dropping more than 30%. There's that 30% number again. Isn't that interesting? It's like the Democrats who run these cities just respond in the same way and of course no numbers. 30% of what? 30% of what?

I mean I listen to Darren O'Neill and he does whenever he does Planet Ridge with Larry he always does the Chicago shooting report and it's I don't think I've heard it under double digits ever. Just from the weekend how many people were shot in Chicago? But city data shows violent crime trending down including homicides dropping more than 30% this year.

Mayor Brandon Johnson claims even though the Trump administration cut federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S. the city's investments in housing, community safety, and education are having a positive effect. What we're doing in Chicago is actually working. Again, 32% reduction in homicides. That's not something to just blink at. Now, is there more work to be done? Notice the homicides. Well, you know, less people died from the shooting.

There's other people maimed and full of holes. But it's good. We're trending down. Absolutely. So let's continue to do the work that's working. Johnson says he is taking Trump's threats. Do the work that's working? Yes. That's a political term. Do the work that's working. Absolutely. So let's continue to do the work that's working. Johnson says he is taking Trump's threats seriously something Alderman Brian Hopkins echoes.

Both feel deploying troops would only increase tensions, not solve anything. If he really wants to help Chicago's law enforcement problem, he should give us a federal homeland security grant so we could hire 2 ,000 police officers, Chicagoans, who know our city. Trump's order to send hundreds of troops to Los Angeles is currently at the center of a legal challenge. It's likely the same would happen if he tried to do this with Chicago.

Johnson says they'll leave no stones unturned, including legal action if it comes to it. We will use every single tool available to stop this president from disrupting the lives of Chicagoans. The president says after Chicago, he's looking to New York and L.A. Now, what do you know about the legality of this? Can the president do this? It's not legal. The whole thing is a bluff. Yeah. And the dumb Democrats are buying into it and they think something's going to happen.

And this is all about the 2026 midterms, and Trump's going to be able to walk away saying, well, we wanted to do this, we wanted to do that, but they were defending crime and they were lying about the crime. They're documenting left and right, especially those police associations, the unions, documenting that the cops aren't doing their job when it comes to reporting correctly.

There's one guy that's been floating around in D.C. and he's been on Waters and all the other shows, and he says the cops are, you know, the guy, some kid gets shot, is attempted murder, but they send him to the hospital as an incident. They don't report it as such. So the numbers are, and people are going into the computers and faking the numbers. So all these numbers are bogus and they're documenting that. They're documenting the fact that the crime has actually gone up, not down.

And then they're going to point the finger at the Democrats. You want more crime? Vote for the Democrats in 2026. You're going to get more crime because that's what they're doing. This is just, he's not going into Chicago with the troops. It's just an idle threat. So you're telling me that the police in these cities today are fudging the numbers?

Well, one guy was put on suspension in D.C. for it, and he was a fairly well-known lieutenant, I think, was his rank, and they talked about him because his superiors, the guys running the city, the commissioners and everyone else, this was in The Wire, by the way, this idea. Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right, it was, season one, absolutely. Yeah, it was in The Wire because this is what goes on in these big cities when they're trying to make their numbers look good.

They phony up the numbers and oh, it's down, it's down, vote us in again. And it's all lies and they're starting to document this to an extreme. And, I mean, the amount of bullcrap in terms of the reporting is well-known because they changed some ways of doing the reporting to the FBI and we had this so -called downturn in crime. It hasn't happened. This is nonsense and they're going to document enough of it to keep the Democrats from getting votes. You know why they get away with this?

And I think you're right. I mean, we saw it here in Gillespie County with the previous sheriff. We got a new sheriff. There's a new sheriff in town, Sheriff Ayala. But the previous sheriff, he would never report to the newspaper. We have a newspaper on Wednesdays only. Would never report the actual things that they were doing and they weren't possibly even doing that much of it because we're a tourist destination. So, oh, we can't have that. We can't report on the drugs in Fredericksburg.

We can't report on that. We can't report on all the people driving around drunk because that's what happens in an open carry, open container city. State? No, we're not an open container state. I thought all of Texas you could drive around with an open beer. No. That's not what I was told. You can't drive around anywhere with an open beer. You can walk on the street in Fredericksburg. It's only one of six cities. Can somebody from Texas back me up on this? You cannot drive around with an...

I'm from Texas. I'm not going to back you up because you're wrong. Yeah, but you're not from Texas. You're in Texas. I've been here 15 years. You cannot drive around with an open container of alcohol in your vehicle. Beer. Beer either. No. You can have a gun. Eh. But, you know, there's no more local news. There's no city desk guy, you know, who's going in and knocking on doors and saying, hey, we're going down to be listening to the police scanner.

Can't even listen to the police scanner anymore. It's all digital. That's the problem. There's no more local reporting. That's why everyone gets away with everything. There's no city hall reporter. Maybe Chicago has one. The rest just sit at WGN and read the press releases. Wouldn't you say? Yes, that's what you do. Yeah, but we have this thing called podcast, people. We got blogs. We got Substack. Get out there and start reporting on stuff. Well, that one guy.

Who's the guy who reports on the Chicago, on the shootings? It's very popular. I don't know if it's a... I think it's a blog. We've talked about it at some point. No, I don't remember. Well, there's so many. You do full-time job reporting on the shootings in Chicago. Yeah. Let me see. What's about Chicago? Somebody knows that. Anyway, what do you have on this? Well, I have a couple of things. I have the... There's been a lot of the Democrats going on and on about DC crime.

I picked this up from NTD. The Democrats are saying there was no crime. People are upset that they hate Trump for doing this and they hate him for... Because there's no real crime in DC. It's not that bad. I live here, they say. It goes on and on. NTD has a... This is clips DC crime, man on the street. Okay. And just a little more than a week into the federal takeover of DC police, the Trump administration unveils data showing a large number of arrests happening in high-crime neighborhoods.

What do residents in those areas make of the crackdown? NTD's Sam Wong was out in DC's Anacostia neighborhood to hear from the people. Do you feel safe being out here? Oh, absolutely. You know, other than the presence of the law enforcement, everything is, you know, as it always has been. There has not been any altercations as it was in the past. We're here shooting almost every other night, sometimes every week.

You know, sometimes there's... I mean, when I say shooting, I mean they shooting all day, broad daylight, sometimes at nighttime mostly. What you do here in the daytime. Have you noticed an increase of law enforcement presence around here? Yes, sir. I have noticed a lot more increase, but it's a shame that it takes Donald Trump to bring all these people in for all the police to come outside and do their jobs, actually. This is actually my first experience with this, the law enforcement.

And man, it's cool. That doesn't bother me, them being around here. If you're doing what you're supposed to do, guess what? Hey, they're doing the right thing. Heyjackass.com. That's the website. That's the guy who reports on. Heyjackass. August. Shot and killed, 24. Shot and wounded, 156. Total shot, 180. Total homicides, 26. Last week, shot and killed, eight. Shot and wounded, 37. Total shot, 45. Total homicides, eight. Year to date, shot and killed in Chicago, 229. Shot and wounded, 1,056.

Total shot, 1,285. Total homicides, 275. The guy's got graphs, got all kinds of stuff. He's got merch. He's got merch. He's got merch. With spent shell casings. The heyjackass.com. Yeah. So, that's the kind of stuff that we need. And the people need to talk about these things. Hey, I'm going to put it in the show notes. Heyjackass.com. It's a good one. Okay. I think we've covered that enough. Okay. What else you got then? Well, I got some TikTok clips, but first of all... Really? Really?

You're going to start off in the first hour with TikTok? Okay. I'm going to push that off to the second half. I do have, you know, Taylor Swift finally came on a podcast. Hold on, everybody. And now, back to you. Yes, on her boyfriend's podcast. Kelsey's podcast. She came on to plug her album, and somebody... This is a good kind of compressed version. This is not safe for work, by the way, for anyone out there that's got kids. But listen to Taylor. This is kind of a surprise.

Thanks for having me. This is my first podcast. This is amazing. Thank you for coming on. What took you so long to jump on podcasts? You know what? I just... I was waiting for you guys to invite me. This is my favorite podcast. Okay, so let's jump into the nitty-gritty. Who do you think is the sexiest man alive today? It can be Travis or it can be anyone else. Who is the sexiest man, in your opinion? I mean, honestly, and I'm sorry, baby, that you're going to have to hear this.

I honestly think President Trump is the sexiest motherfucker alive. I mean, hot damn that man is hot. I totally agree. That is a sexy beast right there. But aren't you a Democrat? You know what? Fuck the DNC. You heard me. Fuck these woke-ass liberals telling us Joe Biden was sharp as a tack. The man was fucking retarded. And why the hell did they lock us down during COVID? Whoops. I guess we lost the signal there. Can you guys hear me? Yeah. AI, of course. Very funny. What?

The sad part is I had never listened to the Kelsey Brothers podcast. They're actually not bad as podcasters go. I was quite impressed with them. You know, it was better than that AI version of it for sure. Well, I thought this AI version, which counters the one you played last show. Yes. And so if you're going to play them, I'm playing them. Yeah, no, that's fine. I'm totally okay with that. Anything but the TikTok ladies.

Let's go to the UK with some UK anti-migrant action to follow up on our flags thing from last show. Yes, raising the colours movement. Anti-migrant protests have taken place in about a dozen towns and cities in the UK focused on the use of hotels to accommodate asylum seekers. In Liverpool, more than 400 people joined a march calling for migrants to be deported. In several locations, there were counter rallies by anti-racism protesters.

Our political correspondent Ian Watson says migration is proving a difficult subject for the Labour government. The concern over asylum hotels has put a renewed focus on Labour's records since they came to office. I think the other problem which the current Labour government has is this.

Some of their MPs are telling me that in areas which are traditionally ones which they would win at a general election, some people are now becoming so concerned about migration, especially the small boat crossings, that they're not listening to the party on other issues and they're facing some regional and national elections next May and they're very concerned that unless they make greater progress on this issue, they'll start losing support to other parties.

It's interesting the BBC takes it purely to politics, not about the outrage of the people who pay their salary through a forced payment. The television payment scheme I think is what it's called, which is one of the oddest things they have in the UK. I don't think a lot of people realise what it is, you should explain it. It's a licence you have to buy to watch TV. Yes, I think I actually have it. I had a...

And they float around the neighbourhoods with these trucks with giant antennas on them because the signal comes off of a TV even though it's a receiver. And so if they spot, they'll go by your house if you don't have a licence and they'll just aim this dish at you and then if they sense there's a television in the house, they will fine you. Regardless of what you use your television for, if you have it, and it is done by... Because the tuner gives off a signal, that's the problem.

But also you can't buy it unless you buy a television from the guy on the street corner like it's crack. You have to register your name because I live there, I went through it. And it's not cheap, it's like $150 a year I think. Yeah, it's not cheap, that's true. And I'm not even sure what the genesis of this is. I think it was because they didn't want it to be a straight up tax coming out of the tax tax receipts. I thought originally it was designed to pay for the BBC.

No, it is specifically designed to pay for the BBC. The reason they didn't want it to be a tax is so that it wouldn't be a political football like, I don't know, corporations for public broadcasting. So that that couldn't happen. What happened here could not happen to the BBC. In contrast to that, well not really contrast, but this is the Euronews short report about it. Protesters took to the streets across the UK on Saturday to demonstrate against hotels housing asylum seekers in Liverpool.

Crowds could be seen carrying the St. George's Cross and Union Jack flags. Police could be seen leading people away from the abolish asylum system protest, a term coined by right-wing political parties. Demonstrations were also set to take place in other cities including Bristol, Newcastle and London. This week a temporary injunction blocked housing asylum seekers in a hotel on the outskirts of London, reigniting the debate. Counter protests were also held.

So we got a boots on the ground from Peter. Here he is. Here in the UK it's worse than you and John think. Almost everyone I speak to with a decent job, business and family is despondent. That's a good word. Wow. What does despondent mean? It's depressed. It's the kind of depression that is the hang dog type depression. Oh, I feel so bad. They think the third world takeover is inevitable.

Every town now has half a dozen vape shops, Turkish barbers and shawarma takeaways with no customers and big mercs outside. The housing market is stalled. I've heard this from a number of people. There are eight houses for sale on our small village high street. None have sold for months. Five years ago they would have gone within a month. Everything has gone up in price. Food inflation is out of control. Highest electricity prices in the world.

Property taxes jacked up and taxes on home value and inheritance are threatened. Investors are putting their money abroad and in the city of London mergers and IPOs have flat lined. UK companies are listing in the US rather than the London Stock Exchange. I speak to so many people who want out. I've never heard so many people who are looking for places to get their family and money out of the UK. We certainly are. Right.

I'm going back to the garage where I'm laying down the keel for Mayflower 2. He wants to be a plumber in America. Come on over Peter. We can use plumbers. We should have special visa for plumbers. One of our producers sent in a note mentioning that Satan is probably Amy Pope. You mean from the UN? The International Organization for Migration. Which is an operation we should revisit once in a while. I looked up Amy Pope. She worked for Clinton. She worked for Obama.

I mean she worked for Hillary Clinton. She worked for Obama. She worked for Biden. She was in charge. She was the real border czar that opened the borders it looks like. Try to find anything. She doesn't have a wiki entry except in Deutschland. Oh really? Yeah. The wiki page is in German. Even though she's in America I don't get that. She does have a sketchy she's not sketchy in her education or anything but she's part of the Chatham House which is a nice 6th front in the UK.

Chatham House and some other spooky operations she's got some connections to. Obviously a bad actor. It's all funded by us. Why does the American public put up with this? Why are we dropping our money into these organizations that are all centered at the UN? When I was a kid when I was a kid we used to have a pharmacy in Albany and this is during the Berkeley era and when there was protests and all this stuff going on.

There was right wingers and they had all these bumper stickers on the window and one of them was always get the US out of the UN or get the UN out of the US and it actually was done in such a way as to get the United Nations, get the UN out of United States. It was some pun. It was a bumper sticker and everyone always thought what a silly group of people these Birchers.

There's a John Birch Society bookstore about three doors down and we always thought that they were kind of nutty but looking back on it they were ahead of their time. The way I see it now was I a buffoon back in the day, I guess so. Okay, so you bring up an interesting point first. We have discussed Amy Pope quite a bit I'll play a shorter clip from last year. She is the head honcho at the International Office of Migration.

We just finished an incredible day and a half for the International Dialogue for Migration. We had singing, we had dancing, we had artwork and we had extraordinarily thoughtful conversation about the impact of climate change on human mobility. Now as we move toward COP28 it is critical that we put all of these ideas into action. Action that enables people who are impacted by climate change to find better solutions.

Whether they're already on the move, whether they're looking for options to stay at home, or whether they need new opportunities because climate change will cause their own options to disappear. The time for action is now and IOM can't wait to be part of it. Okay, so there's a lot of clips, a lot of it is about climate change and so when we look at the climate change organization, because people always By the way, it is the international organization, not office. What did I say, office?

Yeah, it's got 20,000 people, big office. But that's the point. What has grown over not 10, not 20, not 30, but probably 60 years. It started in the 50s. The climate, okay, 70 years. The group of climate scientists and climate people who are just getting billions of dollars to waffle on about climate change.

So, we had a couple of producers who sent in notes like, well, you know, the true evil is the BlackRock, the Rand Corporation, you know, there's all these layers of headquarters in all different places and everybody wants to blame a group. And of course, my favorite, the Rothschilds, Soros. You can go on and on forever blaming individuals, Obama, Biden, Clinton's. We have good and evil in the world, that's just a fact.

But the only, because you said it, the only people you can truly blame is ourselves. Because we just sit around and puke on social media about how they're no good, they're doing this, they're doing that. Go run for your local school board, your city council, for, you know, your state house or senate. I agree. You should stop your complaining and let the podcasters do the work for you. Well, we're actually doing something. We do highlight this.

COVID is when a lot of people woke up, but then they still default back to Fauci, World Health Organization, WEF, Davos. Get off your blessed assurance and go do something about it. You're allowing yourself to be treated as a doormat. And social media is perfect. It's perfect. Everybody, oh, I feel much better now. I posted that. I trolled him. That's right, I've left a comment. No, you're doing nothing. This idea of doing this kind of public complaining predates modern social media.

You'd find the same thing in the old -fashioned, you know, AOL chat room. Of course. It's just people just bitch and moan and do nothing. Yes, that's exactly it. Well, they should leave it to the professionals. Well, we are professional bitches and moaners, but I think we did help a lot of people resist in whatever. There's no doubt about it. Resist against, you know, the COVID measures to at least have an idea of what was going on.

And we all really failed in many different ways, but we need to take these lessons and stop pointing fingers at groups. Every single No Agenda Telegram group is filled with this. The Dutch are the worst. Oh, I love them, but I lurk. I see what you're doing. Oh, look at that guy. Oh, look at this article about that guy. That's bullcrap, man. That's just bullcrap. Oh, it's the elites. There they go. The elites are doing it. You're doing nothing. It's your own fault. You are to blame.

That's what the problem is. Alright, I'll stop preaching now. Because people need to wake up. Do something. There's plenty of stuff you can do. I was part of the screw-it-up generation. I was having a good time in the 80s. Hey, man, I'm making bank. I'm at MTV. I'm on the radio. School board, loser. Couldn't get a better gig. Yeah, and so maybe the Gen Zers are you know, look what they're doing. They're homesteading. They're moving out of the cities. They're homeschooling. Yes, they are.

Yes, I get tons of emails. The farmer's wife, she's got 17 kids at home. She's taking care of them. Gives them a little bit of an injection with the No Agenda show. But okay, you can listen to this and check it out. This will give you an idea. And the Brits, God bless them, they're finally saying no. No, no, no, no. We don't want this. Now, it's going to be a tough nut to crack over there because you know, if you look at the video of those reports, the cops are busting heads and rousting people.

So your wake-up call came at the beginning of 2020. If you didn't take that as your wake -up call, and so you can point to as many people as you want, but you need to be pointing at yourself. Yeah, well, I'm going to be pointing at Amy Pope. Okay, oh boy, Amy Pope. She's just a symptom of the overall problem. These are lawless, faithless, ghoulish people who are in it for all of the wrong—they're in it for pride, for greed, for jealousy, you know, position, stature.

I think you might be wrong on that. They might be sincere. No. No, I don't think so. I think you always underestimate sincerity. Well, regardless. The answer, it lies within everybody themselves. Use that stupid phone of yours to organize somebody and go do something. Have you ever really shown up somewhere and said, hey, we're sick of this? Have you ever been a part of that? I'm not talking about, hey, hey, ho, ho, Trump has got to go.

I mean, like, really showing up at a meeting where it matters. And not just— it's like the—there's the one, I think he's a pastor, the black guy who goes to the school board meetings, and he'll read from the in the school. Oh, yeah, that guy. He's great. But that's what I'm saying. He's great. Yeah, it's great for social media. Oh, man, I can't believe they pulled that guy out of there. But why don't you run for the school board? Do something real. All right. I'm done. I've said it.

You said that already. Yeah, that's why I stopped. I said it. How about a moment for African news? What? Dude, we're going to have the lowest troll room numbers ever. This is a short clip. It's less than a minute. Or maybe it's a minute. Niger—unfortunately it says Niferia, but it means Nigeria gangs. Have you heard about this? I know there's— No, I don't know about this. I know something else about Nigeria, but let's get this first.

The Nigerian military says it's carried out an airstrike on a bandit camp in Katsina State in an operation to rescue dozens of kidnapped victims. Lack of security has remained a serious problem in much of Nigeria despite a promise by the government to tackle the issue. More from David Bamford. Reports say 76 people were able to escape as a result of the airstrike. One child died during the rescue.

The military operation on Friday evening took place at a location known as Powah Hill, from where the criminal gang has been raiding local communities. Last week they shot dead 30 civilians in a mosque in the town of Malumfashi, and 20 others were killed in surrounding villages. The gangs kidnapped people for ransom, an exact retribution on communities that do not pay. Wow. Sounds great there, Nigeria. Yep. I saw a list of the richest black— no, the list of the world's black billionaires.

So black being just skin color, not necessarily black American. Yeah, black. 70% from Nigeria. Probably all scammers. Well, I think I got an email from at least five of them. But yeah, billionaires. I had no idea. A couple of them live in the States. I think one or two live in the UK. But the Nigerians, man, they know how to do it. Yeah. Scammers.

In fact, you know that the Nigerian scam where they used to make all kinds of money just sending notes out to people is legal in Nigeria and is considered part of their GDP. I know they consider it part of their GDP, but I didn't know that it was just super legal. Yeah. What's illegal about it? Scam. Well, they're scamming other people, so I guess that's good. Yeah, they're not scamming their own. Let's check in with what's happening with Ukraine and with Russia.

I would say it's always good to start it off with a little bit of our buddy. Yes, I know you've been waiting for it. Rita? Because, you know, he's trying to keep it all together there. He's trying to keep everybody in line, which means he's trying to help President Trump get the trilat together, or at least a bilat, which seems kind of improbable now. But he's also trying to keep all the Europeans happy and trying to keep Zelensky happy, and he's talking out of his butthole.

Clearly, Ukraine and NATO, the US, Europe, Ukraine, NATO, we are all working extremely well together. Oh, really? We are working perfectly together. As I mentioned, we have, jointly with Ukraine, an organization in Poland to capture all the lessons. Oh, we capture all the lessons. We are documenting it. We're taking copious notes of what happened. From this terrible war. Terrible, terrible war.

And to understand what it means for all the NATO plans in the future, for Ukraine itself, for the build-up of its armed forces in the future, what lessons we can learn. We have to command in Wiesbaden. How about this? Don't poke the bear. From which we organized together with Ukraine all the support for Ukraine in this war from NATO allies. Here we go. What is this support?

We are heavily involved in making sure that the Ukrainian armed forces, also longer term, will be as interoperable as possible of the highest standards compared with NATO. This is a sales talk, which means interoperable means you can only have our NATO bullets and weapons. We have the comprehensive assistance package. We have this new initiative, thanks to President Trump. Ah, buy our stuff.

By buying from American stockpiles from the US military lethal weapons and of course air defense systems and interceptors to be paid for by the Europeans directly being delivered to Ukraine. So NATO... So, it's a great system. America sells it to Europe. Europe pays for it, but it goes straight to Ukraine. It's dynamite, people. What? An irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO? That can't be true. So, don't worry. You're going to get into NATO. It's all going to happen.

Not now, maybe never, but we put a little NATO flag here. You're coming. It'll be good. My word. So, here is France 24. Hopes are dim for the Putin-Zelensky Peace Summit. And nowhere in sight, the Ukrainian President Zelensky is saying Russia doesn't want that. He spoke as he met with NATO Chief Mark Rutter to talk about security guarantees for Ukraine. The Russians will try to do something else now to avoid a meeting. The issue is not just the meeting.

The issue is that they don't want to end the war. A bilateral meeting is one of the components of how to end the war. We're going to see if Putin and Zelensky will be working together. It's like oil and vinegar, a little bit. President Trump on Friday said in the Oval Office that the next two weeks would be crucial. What are the two ways you can go at the end of two weeks then? Well, then I'm going to make a decision as to what we do. And it's going to be a very important decision.

And that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both, or do we do nothing and say it's your fight? Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, meanwhile, said in an interview to U.S. media that there would be no Putin-Zelensky meeting because a presidential agenda had not been set. And this agenda is not ready at all. So, clearly the Europeans are telling Zelensky to chill out. And the unthinkable has happened.

President Trump has said, you know, I don't think we'll give those nutjobs any lethal weapons, any long-range weapons right now because that could turn out really bad for the whole process. Which, as we know, is only about President Trump wanting a Nobel Peace Prize. That's what this ultimately is all about. We all know that. So, let's listen to Jonathan Karl again on ABC this week. By the way, with General Petraeus.

So, when they pull a guy like that out, I'm thinking military-industrial complex is worried about the current status. Let me get to something else that President Trump said this week. This is a post on social media. He wrote, in part, it is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invader's country. It's like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning. It is like that with Ukraine and Russia.

He went on to say that it was Biden that wouldn't let Zelensky, wouldn't let Ukraine attack into Russia. First of all, what's your take on what the President was intending to say there? It's a very valid observation. It's spot on, and interestingly, as we learned in a story overnight, it's contrary to the Pentagon policy. This is another case where it appears that the Pentagon is carrying out policies that conflict with President Trump's inclination.

Now, I can understand why they would limit the use of certain long-range systems against Russia when they think that Russia might still be willing to make a deal, but that should be very clear not to be the case at this moment, and I hope that there will be a review of that policy. Indeed, that was exactly what the Biden administration did in the past.

They were overly sensitive endlessly about how Russia might react to something that they provide to Ukraine, and they were restricting the use of the Army Technical Missile System and others. I hope that that will get a review in the White House and therefore a change in the Pentagon. Yeah, we've got to kill some Russians, man. Come on. We need long-range stuff. Get it going, brother.

This is a Wall Street Journal report overnight you're referring to saying that the Pentagon has been blocking Ukraine's use of those long-range missiles inside Russian territory. Obviously, the Ukrainian military has been using drone attacks which are far less lethal. But let me get your sense of the human cost of this war because I know this is something you've spoken about, and I find- Listen to these numbers. Astounding. Upwards of 20,000 just on the Russian side getting killed every month.

In a matter of just a few months, a greater death toll than the entire U .S. death toll in the Vietnam War. I mean, it's kind of hard to imagine. It's staggering, Jonathan. Again, as someone who had five combat commands as a general officer and wrote letters of condolence to America's mothers and fathers almost every single night of those commands. He's not talking about Vietnam. He's talking about Iraq, I guess? I don't know what he's talking about. I like the way they talk about generalities.

They should mention that the numbers that killed in Vietnam were 50,000. It's a number. Everyone knows what it is. It's not a huge number. It's not like a massive number. It's not like 20,000 a month. It's staggering, Jonathan.

Again, as someone who had five combat commands as a general officer and wrote letters of condolence to America's mothers and fathers almost every single night of those commands, I can't fathom, I can't process, if you will, understand the magnitude of the losses on the Russian side. It's now estimated that over 1,060,000 Russians have been killed or wounded in this war. Of those, well over 500,000 have been so seriously wounded or killed that they couldn't even return to the front lines.

This has to have, over time- I think the dead in the 500,000 number probably couldn't return to the front line. Yeah, I didn't think so. A very, very substantial impact on the ability of Russia just to find a civilian workforce as well. In fact, it's reported that they were actually looking in Africa for women who can actually replace some of the men in Russia in various industries.

And of course we've seen they've also tapped North Korean military soldiers fighting on the ground in Ukraine, quite extraordinary. And again, you have to go to Telegram to see pretty much any of this death and devastation and destruction of soldiers on both sides. The Ukrainian numbers are staggering. It's just noteworthy, again, that the M5M never shows any of this. Ever. Ever. Why is that? Is that because we don't want to disrupt the arms sales? Is that part of it? Boom. What do you think?

That would be the only reason I can think of. Yeah, well, that's a pretty good reason. We don't want people actually outraged about this war. We don't want that. No, in fact, we want, according to Petraeus, we want to send some deep missiles into Russia to make it worse. Yeah, because that's a great idea. And then just to add some more humor on top of it all, we have some arrests in the pipeline bombing. Yeah, it's the sailboat guys again.

This is what it looked like in the Baltic Sea in September of 2022 following an international act of sabotage. Gas bubbling up from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, results of a well-coordinated attack. On Thursday, almost three years later, authorities in Germany announced an arrest. After three years of meticulous detective work, it's truly an impressive investigative success.

The explosions were so powerful they registered as seismic activity along the gas pipelines which run from Russia to Germany and came just months after Russia launched its full scale war against Ukraine. German prosecutors identified the suspect as Serhii K, a Ukrainian national, saying he had been taken into custody in a seaside resort on Italy's east coast.

Investigators say the suspect helped coordinate the bombing, carried out by divers who charted a sailboat from a German port using fake IDs and licenses and planted explosive devices along the underwater pipelines. The pipelines were not operational at the time. Because of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Germany refused to use Nord Stream 2, and Russia itself had cut off gas from Nord Stream 1 in apparent retaliation for Europe's support for Kiev.

Ukraine has denied any involvement in the act of sabotage, and despite the nationality of the suspect, German prosecutors said the arrest demonstrated continued support for Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine and we will continue to stand with Ukraine. What is important to me is that we are a country governed by the rule of law, and that we thoroughly investigate crimes committed within... Huh? I'm sorry, I just laugh when they always throw in the rule of law thing. Well, yeah, but it's Ukraine...

Cross it in there. It's Ukrainians they arrested, there's another Ukrainian they're going to arrest. But we stand behind Ukraine, because they don't, you know, I'm sure they were just... Because they're good guys. Rogue elements, yes. Support for Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine, and we will continue to stand with Ukraine. What is important to me is that we are a country governed by the rule of law, and that we thoroughly investigate crimes committed within our jurisdiction.

German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for another Ukrainian man last seen in Poland. The suspect in custody is expected to be transferred to Germany to face criminal charges, and possibly a trial. By the way, for this whole conflict, I think the obvious solution, if you want to reduce the deaths and the killing, just send in the DC police, they can bring it down by 30%. Those guys are awesome. Yeah, overnight. And the Chicago police, they'll take care of it.

Yeah. So, that's what's going on there. Yeah, so that's going nowhere. No. Did we really expect it to go anywhere? They don't want it to stop. They don't want it to stop. No, and we also have the Chinese that would like to see it continue. I don't know why they'd want it...

The more I think about that theory, which was on the last show, the guy going on about China, is that I don't know if the Chinese really want us, the US, to be ramping up our military systems to the point where we can get to overproduction, because somebody else is paying for it, we're not giving it away anymore, and making it profitable. I don't know if that's such a good idea for them. No. Well, in general, war is always good for somebody, just usually not the people.

No, of course not, because they always get killed. It's the downside of wars, people get killed. A lot. Did I have anything else on that? I had... Yeah, it was interesting, there was a Russian, there was a lot of reporting in foreign publications, but it went nowhere here. Russian strike hits US-owned factory. Did you even hear about this? No, I didn't even hear about this.

Well, so that's the headline, but when you dive into it, it's a Singaporean American multinational that makes toasters and other stuff, and they have a factory in Ukraine, cheap labor, obviously, and something hit one of their factories. No one was killed. I don't think anyone was even hurt. But they really, the European press really tried to ramp that up, but for some reason it didn't go anywhere. Zelensky even talked about, last night, Russian armor set one of its insane anti-records.

They targeted civilian infrastructure facilities. American-owned enterprise Zakoparita. Yeah. Supported by American investment. Okay. They make toasters. Yeah, that's what they make. I looked into it. They make toasters. No one cares about that. Toasters. This is an interesting clip. This is about, we can switch topics, I think. Yeah, sure. Because I have nothing on the Ukraine thing. I do have some Gaza stuff that might be worth talking about. Okay. It's Gaza 1 PBS.

It's been another deadly day in Gaza. Officials there say at least 33 people have been killed by Israeli strikes and shootings. That's right. Ignore the hundreds of thousands in Russia and Ukraine. Ignore that 33. Well, I thought that once I heard the 33, I said, okay, so this report is somewhat, this has to be bogus as a signal. 33, okay, our thesis is that there's something up every time this comes up. The signal has gone out. Yes, the signal has gone out, yes.

I took the rest of the report kind of like, okay, what are they getting at here? Here we go. Among them were Palestinians who were sheltering in tents and who were seeking scarce food. It comes a day after a UN backed group that monitors food crises declared that a half million Palestinians living in the Gaza City area are in the grips of a potentially life-threatening man-made famine.

What's more, the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, projects that by the end of September, famine will spread to much of the rest of Gaza. Earlier, I spoke with Chris McIntosh, Oxfam's humanitarian response advisor in Gaza. He's in Gaza City. Right now in Gaza, what we're seeing is exactly what we were predicting for months, ever since the imposition of the blockade at the beginning of March.

And in that time, very few trucks have gotten in, very limited amounts of food. So what we're seeing is people that are gaunt, people that are drawn in the face, and they're bony. Without trying to downplay the devastation in Gaza, this is bullcrap. This is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world, Oxfam, with the UN. Where's the White Helmets who are going to stage something? That's coming. Oh, it has to be coming. They've already been trying it.

They've been trying it with all kinds of photos, and oh, look at this child starving to death. So we have here, this PBS, this is from yesterday, actually, and they have the Oxfam guy, and there's nobody that's going to be on the other side of this discussion, by the way. As usual, PBS and NPR, one-sided discussion with a point of view that's expressed, and no matter what you do, it's expressed and expressed and expressed.

And this kind of contradicts the photos we've seen of the trucks that are backed up that the UN won't let in. The UN's got something to do with the famine, but they're not going to talk about that. This whole thing, that's why the 33 was a trigger for me, because I can't believe anything anybody's telling us about Gaza or anything, really.

Or, well, anything in general, but this in particular is very sketchy in every way, and so now we have the third clip, which is, this goes on, this guy's on, by the way, for 20 minutes. Wait, wait. So he's on for 20 minutes yakking away about one thing or another, so they finally throw in a little counter-argument to see what happens. They don't bring anybody else on to debate him or say anything about it, and so this is the way it ends up.

Prime Minister Netanyahu called the report an outright lie. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said, tons of food has gone into Gaza, but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent, sold it on the black market. What do you say to that? I say that couldn't be further from the truth, John.

And just to use basic metrics to get the point across here, prior to the blockade being imposed at the beginning of March, there were approximately 600 trucks being brought into Gaza every day, and now we're looking at one -sixth of that. Okay. Is that what he's looking at, or did he count? Ten trucks a day is what he says. So this is kind of, what bothers me about this, this is bad reporting. You can't bring an Oxfam guy in to just say whatever propaganda he wants to say. Well, he wants money.

It's fundraising for Oxfam. Yeah, it's a fundraiser, but why does PBS do this? Why don't they have some... Give the public what they supposedly they're supposed to do, which is a balanced report, and put somebody on that says the opposite. Because they know that they'll get lots of coverage on that podcast, which is the only coverage they get is when you bring up their clips. Let's check out the UN, because they have their own agenda, and they're pushing it very hard.

Instead, it risks undermining security and fuels further violence and instability, taking us further away from peace. The plan seeks to build over 3,000 homes for Israeli settlers. All such settlements built in the West Bank, occupied since 1967, are considered illegal under international law, and this is no exception. Calls to scrap the plans were echoed by the UN Secretary-General.

The decision by the Israeli authorities to expand illegal settlement construction, which would divide the West Bank, must be reversed. All settlement construction is a violation of international law. The project, known as E1, would effectively block the establishment of a Palestinian state. It would cut the north of the West Bank off from the south, preventing the development in the center connecting Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

This is the goal of the ultranationalist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich. He's the driving force of this project, and is urging the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to formally annex the West Bank. Yeah, it's going to be nasty there. It's going to be nasty for a while longer. And then you've got all these countries saying, oh, we have to have a Palestinian state. We recognize it. We recognize it. Where were they in 1967?

I would say that the Israelis... I think there's a propaganda war between the left and the queers for Palestine, which is part of the left. And the Israelis... And the Israelis are losing the propaganda war. They're doing a piss-poor job of promoting their position. Agreed. And I see no resolution to this. I mean, everybody's taking the side of the Hamas side, basically. But what I don't understand is they run the media. How come they can't do a better job?

Yeah. It just proves that they don't run the media. They should be doing a much better job. Yeah, they do a better job. They don't run the media. That's a joke. They have some influence, maybe. I don't even know if they have that. They don't run Hollywood anymore, really. Not like in the good old days in the 30s. No. When you had all these characters that were all Jewish. They gave that up. No, it's a mess. And the Israelis have nobody to blame but themselves.

They could have taken this a lot of different ways and they could have propagandized it better. And like some people say, why don't they release the footage of the brutality of that October 8th... 7th. 7th invasion. Well, they have. But it won't get shown anywhere. Remember the the Toronto International Film Festival.

They blocked the documentary saying that they could not show this documentary at the Toronto Film Festival unless the makers of the documentary got permission from the Palestinians to use their likeness. Another victory for the Palestinians. Yes. I thought that was a funny one. That's an interesting way to do it. A little bit of climate change. At first I thought, wow, this is interesting. This is good news. Egypt has found a sunken city that's been covered for 2,000 years.

But then they have to take it into a negative direction for me. A statue is hoisted from the Mediterranean as Egyptian archaeologists and divers work together to recover relics from the seabed in Alexandria. Unfortunately, we have incomplete pieces. The head is missing, or the leg. And we also found a statue of a sphinx and another statue that appears to be a royal dress.

Archaeologists say the relics were found at the site of a sunken city in the waters of Abu Qir Bay, which may have been an extension of the ancient city of Canopa, a prominent center during the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Roman Empire. Their contract with UNESCO means they're only extracting some of the artifacts from the ruins. The rest will remain in the depths. This find confirms that this place was a complete residential city. The part we are in was a port.

These artifacts confirm the study that says that Alexandria was submerged by water as a result of a major earthquake or tsunami. This is why all the statues are missing the head and feet, which are the weakest parts of the statue. Alexandria is home to countless historic treasures, but Egypt's second city is at risk of succumbing to the same waters that claimed Canopus.

The city is especially vulnerable to climate change, climate change, climate change, and rising sea levels, sinking by more than three millimeters every year. There it is, climate change, climate change. Yep, we turned something good into something very negative. Let's take something negative and make it even worse. How about flesh-eating bacteria? Flesh-eating bacteria is spreading to more beaches.

The Vibrio vulnificus bacteria is usually found in beaches along the Gulf Coast, but the eastern seaboard is now seeing an uptick in cases. Experts think climate change is helping the germs spread north. Eating undercooked shellfish is one way to get infected. Another is through cuts, including... Yes, climate change or eating uncooked shellfish. Okay. ...is one way to get infected. Another is through cuts, including from ear piercings and tattoos.

Multiple surgeries, sometimes even amputation, is necessary to treat an infection. They had to do ten surgeries on my leg, and then I had to learn to walk again. Cooking your seafood thoroughly, avoiding eating undercooked or raw shellfish, and avoiding the waters that contain this organism are really paramount to preventing infections. Most infections are typically reported from May to October.

A push to place warning signs at beaches with the most risk was thwarted by businesses who feared they'd lose money if tourists were scared away. This report was very confusing to me. Well, I'll tell you one thing I'm confused about immediately is this is a flesh-eating bacteria that you get into an open sore and it goes nuts. What's that got to do with eating raw... Yes, that's my point. Are you going to get it in your stomach? I mean, what is that? It doesn't make any sense.

Well, the two people they had on, and it was pretty horrific, the guy's leg looked like it was just a disaster. They're talking about don't eat uncooked shellfish, but the whole report was, oh, the beach and the bad people who don't want to talk about it on the beach. Ah! And have you heard about the radioactive shrimp? I have heard about the radioactive shrimp, and they're selling it at Walmart. Yes, they are. Or they were. Apparently irradiated with cesium-137.

The FDA issuing a warning about more possible radioactive shrimp. The shrimp was sold under several brand names in nine states by a company called Southwind Foods. The only Midwest state affected is Minnesota. Those shrimp were all sold between July 17th and August 8th. Customers should throw out the shrimp or return to the store for a refund. So far, no one's gotten sick, but it comes just days after Walmart's Great Value brand frozen shrimp was recalled for that same reason.

So, nowhere, not a single report, because they come out of, I think, Indonesia. How did the shrimp get radiation? It's like... Surely they asked the question. No! Nowhere! ABC, George Stephanopoulos, everyone, oh, don't eat the shrimp, it's cesium-137. Where does cesium-137 come from? It's obviously a byproduct of something. It's not like caches of it that I know of. Let's take a look. Go ask your buddy there. Very good point. I will ask my buddy right now. Where does cesium-137 come from?

Easy-137 comes from Psalm 137. Not easy-137. What is she saying? She said easy-137. No, no, no. It's a song? Cesium-137. It's radiation. Where does that come from? Cesium-137 is mostly a byproduct of nuclear fission, so you'd find it coming from nuclear reactors when uranium or plutonium splits. It's also released during nuclear weapons testing or accidents, like Chernobyl or Fukushima. Naturally, it's super rare, basically nonexistent in the environment without human activity.

It's a radioactive isotope emits beta and gamma radiation and has a half-life of about 30 years. That's why it's a big deal in waste management and contamination. There you go. So it's from some reactor someplace that's leaking. In Indonesia? Hmm. Where did it come from? Thailand? I don't think they're using nuclear power there. But that's what bothers me about the report. This could be out of the Fukushima area. It could also just be a competitor launching something into the atmosphere.

We don't know. We just don't know. Well, shrimp. I know. That's why if you looked at the tip of the day, you'd find that little Geiger counter. I would take that to the store. And check my shrimp. Check the shrimp before you buy it. Scan your shrimp, people. And I like the way they say what hasn't caused anyone to get ill. If you ingest a radioactive substance like that, it kills you over time. It's nothing that you get ill about. It makes you glow in the dark, but you'll be okay.

Glowing in the dark is a giveaway. We do know. This is good news. We now know for sure that President Trump did nothing bad with Epstein. We have proof because Ghislaine said so. Buried inside more than 300 pages from interviews conducted last month, Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, clears U .S. President Donald Trump of any involvement. I never saw the President in any type of massage setting.

I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody in the time that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects. The interview conducted by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was released Friday in the quote, interest of transparency. The materials show Maxwell Epstein's longtime associate repeatedly showering Trump with praise, denying that she had observed him engaged in any form of sexual behavior.

Have you ever observed President Trump receive a massage? Never. The timing of the release raises questions. The administration had been scrambling to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an early refusal to disclose records from the sex trafficking case. The way this administration has responded makes it feel like a cover up. The case has drawn intense public scrutiny because of Epstein's ties to high profile figures including

Prince Andrew and former U.S. President Bill Clinton. In the transcripts, Maxwell denied seeing Clinton act inappropriately, and she also spoke glowingly of Prince Andrew. After the interview, Maxwell was moved to a minimum security prison camp in Texas. There she continues to serve a 20-year sentence, convicted four years ago on allegations that she lured team girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. Nah, didn't see anything. Not with Clinton, not with Prince Andrew, not with President Trump.

There's nothing. It's all good. Yeah, of course that brought up nothing but speculators that say, yeah, she's just trying to get a pardon or a clemency or some damn thing. She's lying. She's a liar. But it would have been better if she said, oh, I saw some stuff with Bill Clinton or, well, you know, Prince Andrew, but she didn't. So that's what makes it interesting and somewhat laughable to me. I mean... She let everyone off the hook. Yeah, Prince Andrew, we know that he was up to no good.

I mean... Well, maybe she didn't notice. I mean, there's also the women who were the ones that pointed the finger at her. So she was the real bad actor in this whole thing. She was the one that recruited all the girls. So I don't know. Well, we don't know. That's it. Nobody knows nothing. Nobody knows nothing. That's exactly right. But we could do a 10-hour podcast about it like everybody else is doing.

Yeah, well, I think that you have that clip, I have one clip that's even shorter and probably useless by comparison, so we'll skip it. That's how we're going to do it. Oh, come on. It's PBS. We might as well. All right, play it. President Trump supporters say he's been cleared of any suspicion by the transcript and recording of Ghislaine Maxwell's interview. Wait a minute. President Trump supporters? Is there a rally somewhere that I missed? Like, Trump is innocent. Hey, hey, ho, ho.

Trump is innocent. Let Maxwell go. President Trump supporters say he's been cleared of any suspicion by the transcript and recording of Ghislaine Maxwell's interview with the Deputy Attorney General. The woman who was Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend characterized the president, a one-time friend of Epstein's, as a gentleman and said she never saw him engage in any kind of sexual misconduct. President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me.

And I just want to say that I find, I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him. And I've always liked him. That is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him. Shortly after the interview, Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was transferred to a minimum security prison camp. She's seeking a presidential pardon. You're right. Just as nonsense as mine. Isn't that good? Yeah, this is going to be the end.

Well, they're going to release a bunch of documents now or something. Oh, they released 30,000 documents and the Democrats are saying, hey, we've already seen these documents. They've probably got binders that said, Epstein files. White binder. Yeah, we're not going to know anything. Yeah, that white binder was the worst.

So there's somewhat of a discussion they're trying to make a headway with and PBS, of course, is pushing back on it because they are big supporters of the idea of mail -in ballots. I got a three-part clip here because Trump has turned against mail-in ballots for obvious reasons because this has to do with 2020 and his false claims. This is going to be interesting because this actually does reveal the fact that Trump really can't do too much without Congress's help here.

With control of Congress at stake in next year's midterm elections, President Trump is doubling down on efforts to end mail-in voting. In the 2024 election, nearly 30% of Americans who cast their ballots did it by mail. Despite a multi-million dollar Republican drive to encourage supporters to vote by mail last year, the president says it's a fraud. We as a Republican party are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots.

We're going to start with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they're corrupt. He also said that the United States is just about the only country in the world that uses them. Rick Hasen is a professor of law and political science at UCLA. He's also the author of A Real Right to Vote, How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.

Rick, I want to begin by parsing some of what we just heard from the president. He says that just about the only country in the world that uses them is the United States. Is that true? No, it's not true. It's used around the world and lots of other democracies, including in Canada and the United Kingdom and Germany. He says he's going to issue an executive order to end mail-in ballots. Is that within his powers?

So, no. First of all, an executive order is an order to the executive branch as to how to carry out the laws. It's not a royal edict. You can't just decree that we don't have mail-in balloting anymore. The Constitution says that each state gets to set its own rules for running elections. In Article I, Section 4, it lets Congress override those rules as to congressional elections.

Congress also sometimes acts under its powers, for example, to enforce the 15th Amendment to bar race discrimination in voting. The president's job is to take care that the laws passed by Congress are faithfully executed. So, he's got a lot of powers in terms of how the federal government might interact with states, but it's primarily states that are running elections, and he has no direct authority over how elections are going to be conducted.

Well, that was a poor reading of Article I, Section 4, but as far as I'm concerned, the states have the authority to regulate times, places and manner of elections. I don't see how even Congress can do anything. Well, he goes on and explains how they can. Well, that counters what he said on Truth Social. He said the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes.

They must do what the federal government as represented by the president of the United States tells them. That's just a fiction. That's not how things work. The Constitution does say that Congress can override. So, if Congress passed a law tomorrow that either outlawed or mandated mail-in balloting, that law would probably be upheld as applied to congressional elections. Couldn't be applied to state or local elections because the power only extends to congressional elections.

But the president doesn't have the power. States are more than agents. States, and this goes back to the founding, states were the primary actors that administered elections. There wasn't agreement to have national election administration the way it is in most other countries today. And that diversity of how elections are run, it makes for some confusion sometimes, but it can be a strength against an executive that's trying to impose its will, as we see the president trying to do here.

He says he's doing this because he wants to make sure there's no fraud. We've had a long experience with mail-in ballots in Oregon for about 25 years. It's the only way you can vote. What's the record of fraud and corruption in these things? You're right that there are some states including Oregon, Washington, Utah, and lots of where mail -in balloting is the primary way that voting is conducted. There are lots of states like California where I am, where many people vote by mail.

There are some states where mail-in balloting is not all that common. It did increase during COVID because people didn't want to go to polling places. What we do know is that the president in 2020 in the midst of the COVID pandemic when he was running against Joe Biden railed against mail-in balloting, said that it was fraudulent. There were tons of investigations.

There were 60 plus lawsuits challenging the election on fraud grounds, and there was no evidence of any fraud related to mail-in ballots that could have affected the election anywhere in the United States. Notice the way he put that. No evidence? No evidence of any fraud that could have affected the election? Oh, yeah. That's the standard line. Which means it was fraud. I have to rescind my previous comment.

The full text of Article I, Section 4 The Times places a manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof. But, big but, the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations except as to the places of choosing senators. And choosing is spelled C-H-U-S -I-N-G. Choosing. Choosing. So, I guess Congress can change that. Well, if that's true, why don't they do it? Because it behooves no one.

We can't do our shenanigans if we change. You can't do it because there's exactly shenanigans. On all sides.

It's been captured, and there's studies that were done in the 60s and 70s about mail -in ballots, which were discussed a bit back in 2020, but then they were, nobody wants to talk about it anymore, and these were done by Democrats showing that mail-in ballots was very easily corrupt, a corruptible system, that you do the ballot harvesting, and you people just get the blank ballots, you can put anyone's name on them, no one does any checking to any extreme. The whole thing is, it is a scam.

Yeah, and that's why they don't want to change it. In Oregon and Washington, two of the most Democrat-run states, completely captured by the party. Well, let me, allow me to ask you this question. Why in three clips, because we have a third, of PBS, did no one do what we just did? Read the actual piece of the Constitution where, I mean, even I can understand this language, Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations. Well, I mean, not by executive order, for sure.

But why don't they just read that and tell us, why? Because, they don't want, they want, they have a perspective that why don't they have a guy on, for example, along with this character, who has maybe a different opinion about this. Then what good would this be for the show? It would be useless. They'd have something that people would be... Well, who's propagating the bit? You can stop with that bit anytime you want.

There are sometimes small locales where there is election fraud, and it sometimes does occur with mail-in ballots, but not on the kind of scale that the president's talking about. In his social media post, he talked about getting rid of voting machines as well, and it's not clear what machines he's talking about.

I don't know what he has in mind, not only about what powers he thinks he has, but what exactly he thinks he wants to do, since Republicans in states like Arizona and Florida rely very heavily on mail-in balloting to get out the votes of their own supporters. This morning, the Texas legislature sent Governor Abbott there the newly drawn maps. They're trying to pick up Republican seats in the House. Do mail-in ballots favor one party over another?

Historically, Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to use mail-in ballots, in part because people who are older, richer, and whiter tend to move less, and those are people who tend to use mail-in balloting more.

In more recent years, Democrats have achieved parity and in some places exceeded Republican use of vote-by-mail, in part because Democrats realized that if they pushed early voting, they could kind of bank their votes and then they don't have to worry about as many people on election day. I would say that if the president had not been putting out all of these negative tweets and other statements about mail-in balloting deriding it, you'd see both Democrats and Republicans using it more and more.

We do know that in 2024, an election that Donald Trump won, Republican voters expressed much more confidence in the election process and much more support for vote-by-mail. In 2024, the president was not really so against vote-by-mail, but now he's back on this, and so we'll see where it goes. I don't remember that. Yeah, I do. You do? That's true. I don't remember that. I do. Okay. He made a big fuss about it. That he thought mail-in ballots were good?

No, he said, he didn't say they were good per se, but he said we should all be doing mail-in voting, make sure the Republicans get their votes in before the election itself. I thought it was early voting, not mail -in, but early voting. Mail-in was specifically mentioned. I'll take your word for it. But here, Trump on mail-in voting from Dadaist 2020, that doesn't count. No, that's when he hated it. Yeah, I don't think we have any clips of it, though.

Probably not, because it was not interesting. Let's play the Texas thing so we get the Texas new map on PBS, a little short clip. A redrawn Texas congressional map is on its way to Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his signature. The Texas State Senate approved the map early this morning in an 18 to 11 party -line vote. Republicans designed the map in hopes of winning five additional House seats in next year's midterm elections.

Republicans have a slim majority in the House, where there are now 219 Republicans, 212 Democrats, and four vacancies. Yep, well, we did that. Everything, of course, about that is kind of the boring thing. It's like, you get a general election, like, oh, I can breathe now, and then within six months, it's all about the midterms, and then from the midterms, it'll be for the... That's all that news is. News is all about politics. Voting and elections. Politics and war. Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Yeah, politics and war. Yeah, that's pretty much it. We need more famine, disease, pestilence. That's another thing that's being left out. Although I think the flesh-eating bacteria counts for that. We have a deal with the European Union. Looks like that happened on Thursday, last show day. The European Union and the United States are moving from trade intentions to implementation. On Thursday, the two partners published a joint statement setting out new customs duties.

The text provides for a maximum duty of... Hold on, stop. Did you see this clip? Is he petting a cat? No, this is Euronews. They have the worst guy reading the news. This is the only guy they have reading... And Euronews generally used to be pretty good, and now they have some African guy reading their news. I don't know why. It's been setting out new customs duties. The text provides for a maximum duty of 15% on a large proportion of EU

exports to the U.S. Once again, the European Commission is defending this compromise, which has been the subject of much criticism. Let me say this clearly. The alternative, a trade war with sky-high tariffs and political escalation helps no one. It hurts jobs, it hurts growth, and it damages businesses across both the EU and the U.S. We have a good deal! And this is not theoretical, as nearly 5 million European jobs, including many in SMEs, would be at risk. This deal avoids that path.

It's interesting how, in the U.S., the general comment about tariffs is, it's only going to hurt us! We don't need tariffs! But the Europeans are like, you know, these tariffs could really hurt 5 million jobs. You never really know where the pain is. I'm trying to figure this out. I have a clip that relates to that, what you just said. OK. Which is something I mentioned on the show. I'm sorry, the newsletter. It says, well, it's kind of misspelled, but confused tariff commentary on PBS.

Confused tariff. And if you're expecting a package from overseas, it may be delayed because of confusion of President Trump's decision to stop exempting small value imports from tariffs. European postal services, like UK's Royal Mail and DHL, are suspending shipments until they get more information and clarity about the rule. With the exemption gone, all imports will be subject to the tariff that's imposed on the country of origin.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol says that last year, more than a million packages with goods worth $65 billion were sent under the exemption. Before we discuss, I have the Euronews version of this confusion. Several European countries will be halting their postal services to the U.S. after Donald Trump scrapped a tax exemption on low import goods worth less than $800 or 688 euros last month.

The White House said it is aiming to combat illegal and abusive practices such as the importation of illegal drugs into the United States. Letters and small parcels under $100 or 85 euro will not be affected. The UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland will temporarily suspend services as of next week while Belgium already stopped shipping packages to the U.S. on Friday.

Trump's announcement comes after the U.S. and the European Union agreed on a new trade deal, ending months of uncertainty. So they kind of explained it, but all the headlines like, oh, they're stopping all services to America. No one really goes into the de minimis conversation, which I know you know about. What? What part of it? Oh, well, that the de minimis exemption has been deleted. It went away mainly from China. It wasn't deleted, it was lowered. Yeah, lowered to $100, from $800 to $100.

Yeah, so I'm getting nothing but 10 emails a day from Timu and Xian saying, come on, buy this, because if you look at their stuff, it's all $5, $6, $10. Right. I think most of the stuff that was brought in, they just figure, okay, so I buy a $10 sweater from Timu or some whatever other piece of junk, by the way, this stuff never fits right. It says one thing is made with another. It's junk, junk.

But I buy a $10 piece of junk and then I buy another $10 piece of junk and then another, then I buy up to $700 worth of, or let's say $10 ,000 worth of junk, $10 at a time, and 10 to 100 different parcels, and it still comes through.

The joke of this is that if you send something, prior to all of this, if you send something to the European Union, like, I don't know, a ring, or in the case of Curry and the Keeper, a couple of glasses, we've had people wind up paying €50 import tax on something as small as that. That's the big joke. They know exactly what it is because they have those regulations themselves. I think it's good. What are you ordering this, Tim? I don't think it's good.

Nobody should be paying $50 for two glasses. No. My point is, it's good that we're doing this. Screw those guys. Yeah, no, I agree with that. $65 billion. But the other thing is, the thing that is baffling to me is that what you just described is the way it always worked here. When some package came in with a custom sticker on it, you paid the duty yourself at the post office. Let's find out when, let's find out what Democrat, Chinese, kiss-ass president or Congress did this.

When did the U.S. de minimis tax of $800 go into effect? Okay, let's see. Why don't you ask your executive? Oh, this is interesting. No. It was part of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015. Hello! Who was the president in 2015? Obama? Yes. That's right. Prior to the TFTE, the de minimis... What if he has shares in Timu? The de minimis threshold was $200. The increase to $800 allowed goods valued at or below this amount to enter the U .S. duty-free.

So that was his parting, you know, parting... well, I'm sure it wasn't just Obama, obviously. It was Congress. Well, there you go. So that was great. Man, I'm going to look into that. I'm going to see who sponsored that. Someone was on the take for that. You think? Yeah. Someone was on the take. What? Let's see who the sponsor was. The sponsor was... that should be in the log. It should be one Democrat and one Republican. And if Lindsey Graham's name shows up, I won't be surprised.

Let me see who it was. Or Swalwell. It was a sponsor. Patrick Tiberi from Ohio. Republican. There you go. There you go. Republican. Well, I'm sure he's living comfortably. Additional sponsors? Mr. Brady of Texas? Oh, it was a pure Republican bill. Look at these guys. Yeah, one of your Texans, too. Douchebags. All of them. All of them. All of them were douches. Also, we struck a deal with Canada, and this was Big Talker Carney who buckled. What happened to Elbows Up? Huh? Elbows Up?

Oh, Elbows Down, Mr. Carney. Your critics are going to say that this is an Elbows Down approach, that you're backing down to Trump. What are you gaining by dropping these tariffs? Let's be clear. We have the best deal of anyone in the world right now. We have the lowest tariff rate on average, a little over 5.5% versus that 16% average for the world, and in many cases much higher. We have that confirmed in the executive order of the president a few weeks ago.

It's important that we preserve that. We are matching something the Americans have done here first, and it's very significant. It's unique. We get the benefit. The second thing is, and I'll take your analogy, and I have played some hockey over the years, and there is a time in a game, in a big game, and this is a big game, when you go hard in the corners, your elbow's up. The time in a game where you drop the gloves in the first period and just send a message.

And we've done that pretty uniquely in the world. But there's also a time in a game where you want the puck, you want a stick handle, you want a pass, you want to put the puck in the net. And we're moving later into the game, and we're at that time in the game. He did actually play ice hockey for Harvard, strangely enough. Well, that's the worst sports analogy I've ever heard in my life. Well, that's the Canadians, man. So, anyway, I think there's all kinds of different things.

Also for Europe with steel, there's still 50 % tariffs after a certain quota. So, in general, I think President Trump is doing a good job for us. Now, my buddy who does small machine CDC parts, I think we talked about it. I'm sure we did. He says, it's going to suck because it costs more for us. We have to use American steel for these parts and American aluminum. It's much more expensive. It'll take a few years before that price comes down.

But, and I know you remember this, he said, everything we ordered from China, 40% was defective. Yeah, junk. Yeah, it was just junk. So, in general, I think in the long term, it'll be good. I'd rather be here than the UK, I'll tell you that. Yes, they are in trouble. Yeah, they are. Okay, anything else you got on your list? Because I have a couple of just short clips. No, what I think we should do is I'll play a lead-in to your favorite segment.

Hold on. The White House appears to have a case of FOMO when it comes to TikTok and its 170 million users. That could explain why it's just launched an official account on the Chinese-owned social media platform less than a month before President Trump is set to ban it. A 2024 data protection law required TikTok to stop operating in January unless its owner, ByteDance, sold off its U.S. operations.

Trump once called the spread of TikTok a national emergency and has said the app's data collection could give China access to Americans' personal information. During his first term, he signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the app, but he went on to use TikTok extensively during last year's presidential campaign and has since extended the deadline for the sell-off several times. It's currently set to come into force on September 17th. You know, you're going to be in real trouble.

Now Reels is caught up and so is If they block TikTok Half the TikTok clips aren't even TikTok anymore. What are you even going to do? I mean, you'll lose your One America Now gig. Again, like I said, half the clips aren't even TikTok anymore and they're the same maniacs yakking into a camera. And by the way, talking about yakking into a camera, what is this? You might know the answer to this because it's been bugging me.

There's a lot of these video podcasters, they're holding a little square microphone with a dead cat on it. A dead kitten. It's a little square thing and it's like a portable mic and it doesn't have wires. And they're holding, waving it around in this microphone and I've seen it over and over again and I can't, I don't know what it is, who makes it and it sounds decent. Well, I'm glad you asked.

This is from, the reason why is because they are giving them free and it is from my favorite company who has never sent me anything even though I have spoken positively about their products. Rode. Rode, that's right. That's the Rode microphone. Do they make this stupid looking thing? By the way, I think it's idiotic. It records on device even. Oh, it's an on device recorder. That's interesting. Well, it's wireless and on device. Does both. Yeah. Well, it's a little square. It looks dumb.

I know, especially when they clip it on somebody. It's like a big. Oh God, that is horrible. Big giant square. Big giant thing. It's got the dead kitten on it too which makes it worse. Yeah, I know. But it sounds good. Sounds good for sure. Yeah, it does seem to sound good but it's just like, I've been seeing it over and over again. So I got three clips. They're all the same, you know, ranting women that have lost their minds over one thing or another. Let's start with the bigoted hater girl.

It's usually a swipe left too because we all know what that usually means now. I think the fact- Don't want to date Trump voters. Women don't want to date Trump voters. Men who love Donald Trump struggle on the dating- Oh, 100%. If we see a man who says he's conservative it is an automatic swipe left. It does not matter what he looks like. And me personally at this point, if I see a man listed as moderate as well, it's usually a swipe left too because we all know what that usually means now.

I think the fact that conservative men absolutely refuse to listen to women when we try to explain to them why we don't want to date conservative men and then they choose to proceed to be conservative and then immediately complain that they're confused as to why women don't want to date them and they don't know why is an ironic perfect embodiment of like the lack of critical thinking and self - awareness.

You know, like the ability to step outside of your own experience and listen to others that the conservative party embodies as a whole making a lot of women like me not want to date them.

And a lot of this is trending in the news right now because the conservative party is about to launch their new dating app called The Right Stuff in which I'm willing to bet every penny that I've ever made that the usership of this app is going to be about 90% men and 10 % women with Lynn as the second part of their name. And I know the immediate complaint is always y'all are so close minded to anything which embodies a lot of irony coming from the right alone, but that's not true.

One of my best friends used to be moderate and our friendship ended for different reasons kind of but a lot of his close friends were conservative men. So anytime. Oh, that's how it ends. Yeah, just kind of gets cut off. So this is a woman's do bitches about self- awareness and she's obviously not self -aware she's a chatterbox. Yeah. Yeah. Wonders why, you know, I like the fact that most of these women self-identify. They got the nose ring or they got some other some other adornment.

If I recall she was no looker because I think I've seen this clip. She was mad like a seven maybe. Well, I didn't rate her in one way or the other. When you bring these clips, you need to give me a number. I'll give her a six. Okay. You're a six on the Dvorak scale. So then we get the leftists. I got two clips here. Leftists that are on to promote their perspective on things. And this is a this group is going to be leftist. They're going to be left in the lurch.

Well, now I presume these are Gen Z women. Sounds like. No, these are mostly really. No, no, no, not that. Well, maybe I think they're borderline on millennial. But they could be the Gen Z's before they start to fall into the conservative camp. Exactly. That's what's happening. They're looking at their own generation and these are the stragglers. These are the ones that haven't gotten the memo yet. This is not where you want to be.

Well, they're definitely stragglers and they, you know, I guess it's one way of looking at it. Okay, here we go. One getting crushed by capitalism is like so cringe, but it's like it's happening to me and like I got a PhD from Berkeley and We already understand the problem. A PhD from Berkeley. I can't get a job to save my life. Like I got a soil biology PhD and what kind of what kind of PhD? Soil biology. Soil biology. Is there a big market for soil biologists?

According to her, no. I mean, maybe in the Corn Belt.

Like I got a soil biology PhD and like now I'm a tutor and a babysitter and a dog sitter and like part of that is because like I don't want to like move to some random place in the middle of nowhere but like another half is like they cut all the funding for science and like the biotech market is just like absolutely cratered and like I have long COVID so it's difficult for me to work like a full time job and just like I got on here to rant a little bit, but like oh my god, like what do we do?

I just have to work. I just gotta work. Yes. She doesn't want to move to where the jobs are though. That's the problem. She doesn't want to move to where soil biology is. Well, it turns out she got a bunch of grief for this report and she came out with a second posting. Oh, but there's a series. A follow-up. Yes. And she comes out and admits what really is going on with her and it brings up the ironies of today's modern age, especially in the ironies of the Democrat Party.

If you listen to this, this is her comeback. I know not many right-wingers get this, but as a leftist, I really don't want a job. Like, I know that people make fun of leftists for not wanting a job, but like I'm really one of them. I just... Come on, this is not real. This is not a sincere person who says this. This is not possible. I believe it to be. It's the same woman that just went on their other rant. It could be a fake, but I'm liking it.

I can't stand the idea of having to work and I don't understand why right-wingers want to work either. Like, they... On social media, does she like a lot of posts? Because it sure sounds like it. Like, like, like, like. And I don't understand why right-wingers want to work either. Like, they are slaves to their masters low -key and they love it and they eat it up. But when someone like me says, like, I don't want to work in the middle of nowhere, everybody's mad at me.

And it's pretty obvious that you're a little bit, like, cucked, if you know what I mean. By your circumstances and maybe I am too. But I'm into that. So... Okay. Alright. Wow. So, I think that whether there's truth to this or not, there is an element of if I don't want to really work, I should just be given a free ride. I already worked. I got my PhD in soil science. And what comes to mind is the Democrat Party, who likes these people.

The Democrat Party used to be the party of the working class. And now, all of a sudden, you're a right-winger if you like to work? Yeah, well, these parties flip all the time throughout history. Remember, it was the Democrats who were racist, and then somehow it was the Republicans who were racist. Well, somehow they were accused of being racist, but the Democrats are still racist. This is correct. Yeah. Well, anyway, that's my contribution to the good of society.

Yes, that's a very sad state of affairs. I hope you had a nice, strong cup of tea after watching that. You must protect your own mind from the virus that these people propagate on social media. Like, like. And with that, I want to thank you very much for your courage. The man who put the C in the CNC parts from China. Say hello to my friend on the other end, will you, Mr. John C. DeMora! And good morning to you, Mr. Adam Crenshaw. And all the dames and knights out there.

Yeah, I think people heard the message that the stream issues have been resolved. 2125. We're getting closer to our old numbers. This is good news. And we still are in the dog days of summer. Is school back in session? Is school back? Are people back at school? Yeah. They just went back to school. Like last week. When I was a kid, we went after Labor Day or whatever the holiday is in September. It was in September. And we didn't get... And we quit, I think, before the 15th of June.

All the way to the second week of September. It was summertime. And the teachers were always, oh, those teachers, they get a hold. Look at all the time they get off. Yeah. How come the teachers aren't up in arms about this? They should be. They should be very mad. I have no idea. Maybe they figure they get another month of checks. I don't know. Well, anyway, it's good to have you Trolls here.

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We're not on Spotify. And people seem to not have a problem with that. Like, OK, it's not on Spotify. I'll just use a different app. Spotify are no good. We don't want to be a part of that cabal. They are evil. But we are somehow on the iHeart app. Are we? Yeah. Did you submit us to the iHeart app? We're on Podbean. That's what I like. I'll have to take a look and see if we're on Podbean. That is kind of a necessity. We have to be on Podbean to be an official podcast.

Value for Value is the way we've been operating on this program. It'll be 18 years in October and episode 1800 coming up in seven short episodes. Do we have a date yet? Do you know the date of our 1800th episode? Just look at the calendar. You can figure it out. That's why I asked you. I haven't done that yet. When it gets to show 1798. Then we'll start thinking. It should be next week, plus one show. Value for Value means that you don't have to listen to ads. Oh, man.

I was listening to radio the other day. I don't understand. It's all ads. I like country music. Hello there, buddy. It's not quite what country music is anymore. In fact, country music is not like Merle Haggard anymore. It's unlistenable. No wonder people just listen to a playlist. Why would you listen to music radio just in general? Stop for ads. 20 minutes to an hour. No. You know what's really annoying about these ads on these radio stations? Well?

They pretty much all use the same generalized clock. Oh, yeah. The ads all hit at the same time. It comes to an ad segment. You change channels. Ad, ad, ad. Channel, channel, channel. Ads, ads, ads, ads. There's no moment of relaxation. It's all ads. When I was working at the legendary WHTZ Z100 in New York under the guidance of Michael Scott Shannon, who invented the Z Morning Zoo. He invented the zoo? Oh, yeah. He's credited. I believe he did. I've always wondered who did that.

It was in New York? The first zoo was in New York? No, no. I think he started it in Jacksonville, Florida, I think that's where he was first. Yeah, I heard it was started in Florida. And there's still some zoo shows in Florida. If you go down there in the morning, driving around. W-A-P-E, the big ape, everybody. Good morning. My daddy was a beetle. It's always the same. You got at least two guys yakking at each other. And then there's a girl who's part of it and she makes snide comments.

And then there's a sports guy and then there's a gay guy who does entertainment news. Correct. And there's always a wacky guy who calls up. Here's Mr. Leonard in his lime green pinto. Hey, morning, Scott. I'm here in my lime green pinto. Yes, there will be one guy who calls in, and he can usually do voices, and he calls in as Clinton or he calls in as Trump. And that guy calls ten radio stations every morning, and he deals with every single one of them.

Anyway. What Scott Shannon had, because of that clock format, and it really went to 46 past the hour. That was the big thing. Go 46 past the hour, then you'd have about five, six minutes of ads, and then you wanted to come out of that block with the biggest monster hit you could play. This is before internet, children. Well, the internet was around, but there was no streaming. And he had four light bulbs in the studio. Old school light bulbs. One was for PLJ 95.5, one was for WBLS.

I forget who the two others were. Maybe... I don't remember. So you would see the light bulbs come on when the other stations went into commercials, and the trick was you wanted to be out of commercials into the monster hit before those other light bulbs went off. That's how competitive it was. That's interesting. You've never told that story before. No, I haven't. Well, the more you know. That's an interesting trick. The more you know.

Oh, the other trick was the radio ratings were done, and I think they're all done by Nielsen now, but back in the day, they were done by a company called Arbitron. Right, Arbitron. And Arbitron, they mainly did diaries. So they would have, you know, a hundred or a thousand families, and you would keep a diary of what you listened to throughout the day. So whenever the Arbitron diaries went out, Scott Shannon would do a promotion with these cheap wristwatches called Armitron.

And so it would be like, if you call it 100, you'll win an Arbitron watch! The idea was people were thinking, Arbitron, Arbitron, Arbitron, and so they would remember a Z100, they would associate it with Arbitron whenever they had to fill out the diary. It's a scam, I tell you. Wow! That is admirable marketing. Scott Shannon, man, the guy's a genius. Yeah, well, that's why he made good money, too. Now, unlike Scott Shannon, we just ask people to support us with your hard-earned cash.

We don't want to have to think about tricks like that. Can you imagine? Downloads, everybody! Subscribe using the Apple podcast app so it auto-downloads and we can trick our advertisers into thinking that we had more people listening. That is true. So, no. Instead of that, we just ask you to send us whatever you think the show was worth to you. If you get something out of it, if you learned something, maybe there was something that you heard and was a good investment tip, or you stayed alive.

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There's more than ever. Anybody can participate at noagendaartgenerator.com. And we want to thank Digital2112man who brought us the artwork for episode 1792, the snappy title of Maloney in the Middle, which I kind of did like. And this was a very happy piece of art. Back to school, noagenda, backs to school, vaccination, a happy little school kid just smiling as the nurse jabs a needle into the kid's arm. It's a very, very happy moment.

We thought it was not ghoulish enough to be vetoed, but yet... Well, you didn't like it at first. No, I still... It's not my favorite, but there wasn't much else. What did I like? I liked the plumber butt, but no, we're not going to do that. There's something else. You liked the corn. Saluting corn. Yes, corn scription didn't make sense, although we talked about conscription. I said something else. It wasn't corn scription, I don't think. But I just thought that was a cute piece of art.

You didn't like it. Comicstreetblogger came in with a corrected version of You're a Body Double. Yeah, good luck, pal. After you failed the first time, we're not going to use it. It was too late anyway. And there was some apprentice stuff, Eloni Maloney, lots of thermosol. I kind of liked the trade school guy with the toilet plunger. He didn't really like that. Right. You liked that one. That's the one I think you picked right off the bat. Yeah, but why didn't you like it? It was a mess.

Yes, it was an AI mess. And so just looking at what we had, yeah, I think looking at all the pros and cons, the back-to-school vaccination was just cute and funny enough that it worked. No one threw bricks at me on the street, so. Did you get any comments? Do you look at your X timeline when we post the show? Sometimes. And? Did you see any comments about it? No. Okay, well, there you go. A reasonable job. Digital2112 man is all over this thing now. He's just like, he's just going for broke.

He's not even listening to the show. He's like, oh yeah, it's up there. Oh yeah, I like this. Oh yeah, I've got it. I'll prompt this one. I'll prompt this one. Thank you, Digital2112 man, for the artwork for episode 1792. We also thank all of our treasure supporters who support us. $50 and above. We will always mention your name or whatever alias you want to use. And as a special good deal, just like Hollywood, you'll see the credits on Hollywood movies and productions.

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So we went to a one-star restaurant which was not close to being one-star in quality, which irked me. I'm sorry. Because I know what a one-star restaurant should be like and this was not a one-star restaurant by any, we're talking about Michelin stars. So he has a pair of those glasses that takes videos. Oh, how lame is that? Well, he didn't have them on for long. He put them on the dorkiest looking things and the worst part about it is that there's a little light that lights up.

It's like, I'm a dick. Is it a pulse? Yeah, the light is flashing code, Morse code, I'm a dick. I'm a dick, I'm a dick, I'm a dick. I'm recording you, I'm a dick. Wow. So he had those glasses and I didn't even ask whose brand they were. I'm sure it's Facebook. It's Meta stuff. I'm pretty sure Meta has them. So that's what he's spending his money on. Well, anyway, I told him, I replied, I said, no, you're just a cheapskate. You just don't want to donate real money.

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So it means roundabout. Sir Q-U-Tus. Secretary General of Parker County. And I'd like to be Sir Render Not with a K. Secretary General of Broken Supply Chains. This is a big one. We have a big ceremony now for our secretary generals. Oh, you have it? Of course. Hey, I do production on this show, of course. Please. I didn't know you were ready to do that one already. Of course. I'm stunned. I'm taking it back. I have that. Oh, jeez. What do you mean, oh jeez? Come on, man. I got my...

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Well, Margaret Brennan had him on, and it was in response to, I guess, the Friday, was it I think it just went kaboomy, kablooey. Wasn't there a record close for the Dow Jones? Yeah. And it was all based on this. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used Friday's speech to signal the central bank is open to cutting interest rates ahead of its next decision in September. The baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.

Powell, whose term as chair expires next May, has faced intense pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates. He spoke today about continued economic uncertainty over the administration's immigration and tariff policies. This year, the economy has faced new challenges. Significantly higher tariffs across our trading partners are remaking the global trading system. Tighter immigration policy has led to an abrupt slowdown in labor force growth.

President Trump backed off previous threats to fire Powell, but is now targeting another Fed board member, Lisa Cook. What she did was abandon her, so I'll fire her if she doesn't resign. Cook was appointed to the Fed's Board of Governors by former President Biden. This week, a Trump administration official accused her of mortgage fraud and called for an investigation. In a statement, Cook says she has no intention of stepping down.

I love how this monumental sentence by Powell, first I'm going to cut rates. And then of course, Trump bad because someone else one of her colleagues accused her of mortgage fraud, which sounds pretty much par for the course, I guess. So Margaret Brennan had this Muhammad Al-Aryan guy on. I guess he's a big bond dude according to the trolls in the know. And here's what he had to say. We turn now to the US economy.

Muhammad Al-Aryan is the chief economic advisor at Allianz and he joins us this morning from Greenwich, Connecticut. Good morning to you. It's from Allianz in Connecticut. Good morning, Margaret. So we saw the Federal Reserve chair signal on Friday that the Fed is going to, as expected, begin lowering rates very soon. But he's also cited slowing economic growth and a cooling job market. So why then did the financial markets rally? What is with the laugh tale, Margaret? That's not needed.

Because he finally pivoted to the risk that matters most for the US economy right now. By construct, the Fed has to deliver two things. Maximum employment and price stability. And the Fed is looking at slightly higher inflation and a weakening labor market. And what Powell finally did, and many of us feel he should have done this earlier, is he said the risk to the employment side is higher than the risk to the inflation side. And therefore an interest rate cut is warranted.

As you know, many of us felt he should have cut last month. Sounds like he's a Trump guy. I don't even know why she has him on. He's saying what the president has been saying for a long time. The Fed chair said significantly higher tariffs are remaking the entire global trade system. Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth. And there are big tax and regulation changes you can't quite quantify at this point. But it's a lot of uncertainty.

Since economists have to build off of models and data, how do you predict where we're going if basically he's saying, throw out your models? She's laughing again. Did you notice that she said it was a self-contradictory statement. She says the slower migration or no migration is creating a tighter labor market. Is that what she said? Yes, something was just completely wrong. Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth. Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth.

So Powell is worried about labor slowdown. Is labor growth slowed because of the lack of cheap labor? Does that make sense? Cheap illegal labor. Illegal labor is ruining the country. Yeah, I think so. So one of the problems is he hasn't looked forward enough. He's been very data dependent and therefore he has tended to be late.

Look, there is something promising in our future and that is productivity enhancement that comes from exciting innovation in AI and life sciences and robotics and other areas. We just have to manage a challenging few months in the period ahead. And if that challenge is mishandled, we will not be able to get the opportunities that we have that offset a lot of structural headwinds and that includes high debt and high deficits. What? She's like, I don't know. So what does this mean, John?

Does this mean we'll be printing money again? What does this mean? It doesn't mean anything. It's just blathers. Typical financial stuff. They just talk, talk, talk. You know, anything that benefits the markets, the stock market specifically, is great. So there's an interesting... One of the big AI product companies that provides... I don't know if I'm allowed to say who this is. Alright, I'll say it.

But it's a company that is very heavily into AI and they decided to eat their own dog food, which is an old term that used to be used in Silicon Valley. Did they use AI for their company balance sheet? No. They decided to take 1,000 people that work there and have them study their use of AI to see what effect it had on productivity. And it probably degraded productivity. No, it did nothing. Nothing at all? Nothing at all. One way or the other. And you got this from Buzzkill Jr.?

Yeah. You don't have to say it. So nothing at all happened. And so the CEO is concerned about this. It's like, what's the point? And so more studies are expected from different companies to see what kind of... If AI... Because it's, oh, yeah, use AI, you can increase your productivity. And it shows, I think it does increase productivity with, for example, our artists. But it doesn't mean that it's good.

No. But if we were a commercial operation and we were looking for commercial viable art, we would pretty much say no to everybody. So they would have to go back and do it anyway. Well, anyway, something's amiss. And he says that this is why Altman came out with his commentary about, well, you know, maybe we've gone too far, there's a bubble, blah, blah, blah.

Because he doesn't want to get blamed for when it finally starts to appear that AI is a dud insofar as really being of use in terms of productivity. I mean, it's fun. It's very fun. It's fun. You have fun with it more than anybody. I've got lots of fun. It's fun, but it's not productive necessarily. And it's going to be a... He's now my son who's an AI. He's on board with your thinking. Which is the end is near. AI winter is coming. But I also... What's his timeline?

Did he give you a timeline on when he thinks it's going to happen? I threw back at him his own thoughts earlier about jumping the shark and after jumping the shark, you have a period of time, a two or three year period before it actually anything really is. It's just a marker. And I said, when is it jump the shark that you're going to get the marker you're always talking about? And so he can't. So he doesn't have it? It's not happening tomorrow. Let's put it that way.

No, it won't happen tomorrow. It will happen when... He says three years. It'll happen when people actually have to pay the actual cost of this stuff. That's when it's going to happen. And I think open AI is starting to show those signs where $200 a month and you still get limited on chat GPT-5 and it's getting pricey now. There is one other AI story that I just wanted to put on your radar because you also watch YouTube from time to time.

There's a lot of YouTubers who are claiming and circumstantial evidence shows it that when they upload video to the YouTubes that what comes back excuse me, what comes back appears to be AI upscaled is what they're saying. And what it really means is everything looks kind of AI-ish. You know, it's like enhanced, hair looks more enhanced. It looks kind of, you know how Scaramangas videos look kind of slick and slimy and then glossy. You know what I mean, right? AI has a certain look.

There's a look. And they're all saying they're AI upscaling. What I think is happening is that YouTube has had to, or Google has had to change so much of their architecture to do all this generative AI stuff that they've had to take all of their YouTube encoding machines and make them AI generative friendly just to be able to handle the load. And they're like, well, screw it. We'll just make everything look that way. I would have a different take. What's your take?

That somebody a bean counter said, can we make these files smaller and look better? Well, it's the same thing. Yeah, I know, but it's for a different reason. The reason is it's overhead. No, no, it's the same reason. We needed the machine, so just do it all this way. So let's shrink these things and make them look good. Shrunk. So the file size is smaller. And we can free up some space on our drives. Hey, man, our drive's getting full here. Let's free up some space. AI, all that stuff.

Let's just go for it. We can do it. We can do it. Yeah. All right. I'll keep my eye on that. I haven't really caught him in the wild. I have not seen any evidence of this, but I don't watch enough, I guess. No, neither do I. This was interesting. There's some DEI stuff. This was kind of an interesting take. This is, I believe, I'm not sure which network this is from. Target CEO now plans to step down after struggling to turn around weak sales.

Brian Cornell announced today that he would leave the position on February 1st after 11 years at the helm. He will be replaced by Target's chief operating officer. The change in leadership comes at the same time Target reported another quarter of sluggish results. The company has seen flat or declining sales in eight out of the past ten quarters. The retail giant was the target of a nationwide boycott several months ago after backtracking on its DEI initiatives.

So this report leads me to believe that people are not going to Target because they got rid of their back to school rainbow stuff. I think this is true. And I've always been, on the DHM Plug Show, I've always condemned Target for being too woke and ruining the business, and the CEO has to quit. And I've been saying this for years, and now these guys quit. It'll be interesting to see what happens. Although he didn't really fully quit.

He's been boosted to chairman of the board, and they brought in his COO as the new CEO, so it's probably going to be the same, I'm guessing. But, you know, everybody's handled this poorly except Costco. Costco is the only operation that avoided this dilemma, which is what we have here at Target, by Costco saying, we're not changing any of our DEI policies. We're going to stay the course. They don't really have any DEI policies, so they're just this bull crap.

They barely have any people working on the floor. They have people, but they don't have that many. Yeah, they're handing out snacks. Would you like a cracker?

So they did the best job of it by saying they're not changing anything, and so a bunch of these pressure groups, and there's one group in particular, a new one that just came around, I don't know, I don't have a clip of him, but a new guy who's in the footsteps of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's another guy, another pastor, and he's the one creating, going to create a he's creating boycotts against Target and the old extortion scam that works. It's good. It works. It's a great gig. It's great.

Well, the other DEI news was President Trump and the Smithsonian. This country cannot be woke because woke is broke, wrote U.S. President Donald Trump on his website, TruthSocial Tuesday. The latest target in his administration's culture war? The Smithsonian Institution, which encompasses 21 museums, 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo,

mostly located in Washington, D.C. The museums throughout Washington, but all over the country, are essentially the last remaining segment of woke. The Smithsonian is out of control, for everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future. Traditionally, the Smithsonian has operated with independence.

The administration first targeted the historic educational institution in a 27 March executive order, which sought to rid it of a so-called divisive race-centered ideology. On August 12th, the White House sent a letter to the institution announcing its intentions to start the process by formal review. Tuesday, Trump said his lawyers would begin.

We are not going to allow this to happen, and I've instructed my attorneys to go through the museums and start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities where tremendous progress has been made. This is not the first time the Trump administration has attempted to purge policies and ideas it deems too progressive or favoring minorities.

A 20 January executive order took aim at DEI, or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in the government, universities, and across the nation. Just nine days later, the Smithsonian Institution announced it would end its Office of Diversity. How much money? You know, art can be anything, and I'm fine. Do whatever you want when it comes to art, but when it's... Well, the Smithsonian's not really an art museum. No, no. But they receive over a billion dollars in federal grants.

Yeah, they're all upset. I have a clip that you have to look up in the database. It's from show 90. It's the Smithsonian supercut. And it has to do with everybody bitching and moaning about what Trump wants to do with the Smithsonian, and this is a bunch of people. Everyone's against it because, you know, heaven forbid that we change and make the story a positive story. I learned in history class that this is how authoritarians operate.

They take over the arts, they take over the culture, they take over the museums. Purging history and pill-free museums is pretty high up on the autocratic checklist. I'd be worried about the Black Lives Matter exhibit. Others would say this sounds like a Stalinist purge. All of these things together hearken to a lot of people, to the kind of countries that Vladimir Putin would feel very comfortable. This has just kind of a Soviet feel to it, a Stalinist feel to it.

Yeah. Well, all I saw was, and that was in the New York Times, they were very upset about the painting of, it was like a black trans woman as the Statue of Liberty. Yeah, there you go. All right. Yeah. A black trans woman as the Statue of Liberty. Oh yeah, with the torches, some flowers, and yeah. Typical kind of stuff. Entertaining, but yeah. It's out of control. Yeah, it is a little bit out of control. I have a couple of clips. I got the, I want to play this clip.

This is what galls me personally because I'm the one, I am the writer in the late 80s who uncovered the fact that it was Seuss who invented, Dr. Seuss who invented the word nerd in 1950 in a book that he wrote called If I Ran the Zoo. I think we've talked about this on the show.

Yeah. Yeah, we have, and it used to be nerd was always assumed before I wrote about this, and it got good coverage, and it changed a bunch of dictionaries, because before I wrote about this, it was always said, well, it's, it was a diminution of the term ne'er do well. Ah, yes, I remember this. And that was nerd, but no, it wasn't it at all. It was this, this looking, this nerdy character, this nerd character that was in the book who looked exactly like a AI guy back in the day called McCarthy.

It looked just like him. So, NPR decides to do a rundown on this. Of course, I have, I get zero credit, and they assume that this is, they leave a lot of good stuff out.

Of course, I'm, you know, I don't expect to get credit from NPR for doing anything, as you never even get credit for inventing podcasting, and it's rare that you get invited anywhere, but this is a common complaint that we have, the two of us, about people, their memory, and all the rest of it, and so I found this very irritating to listen to this nerd report on NPR. What comes to mind when you think of a nerd? Steve Urkel from Family Matters, maybe? Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory?

Well, you might be able to picture a nerd, but the history of the word itself is less clear. For our latest Word of the Week feature, we nerd out on some etymology. Here's NPR's Joe Hernandez. Nerds. Nerds. Nerds. Nerds! What is a nerd? The movie Revenge of the Nerds was released in 1984 and pitted some brainy college students against their jock tormentors. It solidified the nerd stereotype.

By that point, though, the word had been around for decades, but nobody's exactly sure where it came from. Adam Aleksic is a linguist and a content creator who goes by the name the etymology nerd. I've been making videos as the etymology nerd for a while, and so it's my job to know what the etymology of nerd is. But the problem is that it's a little bit obscure. Perhaps the first known instance of nerd appearing in print was in the 1950 Dr. Seuss book, If I Ran the Zoo.

According to the online etymology dictionary, it potentially developed from the 1940s word nerd, an alteration of the word nut that meant a, quote, stupid or crazy person. Aleksic says if Seuss actually came up with the word, it's what linguists call a nonce formation, meaning it was created for one purpose and then reused. So if Dr. Seuss did coin the word nerd, he's probably going off other words like nerd, which was around, or nuts, or it just sounds like something that could be a nerd.

And then he goes with it, and then other people are like, yeah, that sounds like a nerd. Let's go with it. In the 70s and 80s, nerds were all over film and TV. And then toward the turn of the millennium, they started becoming kind of cool. Pop culture historian and author Matthew Klickstein says things like the 90s independent film movement and rock bands wearing thick rimmed glasses started making the weirdos, the misfits, the outsiders, the nerds, the geeks, cool.

Okay, so what exactly, what's the credit that you want? That I'm the one who found a Dr. Seuss reference. I even talked to Seuss and his associates about it with a phone call because he was alive at the time, and they were unaware of the fact that he's the one who coined the word. I want an email writing campaign.

I want everybody to write NPR and tell them that you are very disappointed in their non-accreditation of historian columnist John C. Dvorak that they did not credit him in this article and you demand, demand a correction. Yeah, and they're going to do what they do, which is ignore anybody's notes. You're just wasting your time. I just found it annoying. I'm with you. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm highly annoyed for you even.

In fact, to this day, we still be thinking it came from someplace else until I dug it up, and it took a little work. I think we should have a new word. Let's bring back some old words. How about square? Square man. He's a square man. How about drip? My mom used that a lot. Drip. Drip's still a good word. He's a drip. Yep, drip. We can use drip. Yeah, I would say Adam Schiff would be a drip. He's a big drip. All right, one more. Five-minute warning here. Well, what do we got?

Well, you're the one with the clips. I have a few left. Okay, well, we got the ... I don't want to do that. Here. This is a good one. This is kind of a politically correct. They're still in Germany. They can't get over it. Here's Germany. They changed the name of a street. They did? Because it's racist. Sorry. Because it's racist. The street name in Berlin has officially been changed after campaigners successfully argued that the original version was racist.

Morenstrasse translates as Moor Street, referring to slaves brought to Germany in the 18th century. Here's our Europe regional editor, Paul Moss. The word Moor was used for the people of North Africa. It was how Shakespeare described Othello. But in Germany, Moor was a derogatory term for African slaves. And the presence of a Morenstrasse in the middle of Berlin was long a cause for complaint.

The local council agreed to change the name five years ago, but some locals wanted the original retained. Now, following a long political and legal battle, the name has been changed to Anton Wilhelm Amorstrasse, after the first African philosopher to teach at a German university. Moorstrasse. You know, the Dutch have a treat. Usually comes in a pack of eight, I want to say. And it's kind of marshmallow covered with chocolate on a little cracker. And it looks a bit like a mini boob.

Are you familiar with this? No, I've never seen it. So you bite into it, it's nice chocolate with kind of a marshmallow-y, you know, it's not really a marshmallow, marshmallow-y. And when I was growing up, they were called Negerzoene, which means Negro kisses. Well, obviously that had to change throughout the years. And you know what they're called? Moorkoopa. Moorheads. So, that shouldn't take too long before they have to change that.

Now that the Moorstrasse... I never thought of Moor as anything other than a black person from North Africa that was populating different parts of Europe. And they were called the Moors. It wasn't derogatory, it was just a comment, it was a description. And then Shakespeare used it. But I guess in Germany it was derogatory. We don't know that. That could be bullcrap. The Germans are off the rails. I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that.

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It'll be up there soon. I can't wait to see how beautiful these are going to be. Go there. noagenderings.com. Let us know what ring size you gentlemen want, and we'll send it off to you with some sticks of wax because they are signet rings, and that enables you to seal your important correspondence in grand fashion and style. And as always, all rings are accompanied of a Certificate of Authenticity. Not just a place to find the first responders in an emergency.

You can get connection there that will always give you protection with these people. And you know what? Instead of just hanging out, talking about the show, talk about what you can do to make your community better, to change things, to take away the elite's power. You can do it. I'm sure the local 5-1-12, the Austin people, can do a fine job because they do a lot of cool things, including the float meet. We have Sir Ducifer here with his report. Alright, this is Sir Ducifer.

We are on the San Marcos River. This is the meetup report. In the morning. This is Sir Doug. We're having a wonderful time, thanks to No Agenda. Alright, so it's kid-friendly, not kid-approved. This is Brendan from local 5-1-12 saying in the morning. Butt up is something we say when we hit the low parts of the river. Butt up! Alright, this is Sir Ducifer. We're at Ivar's River Pub and this is the second half of the meetup report. This is Ditch Walker. Great time.

This is Brendan from local 5-1-12 saying in the morning. We had a great time on the river. In the morning, this is Dean Shanarchy. Connection is protection. In the morning, this is Baron Serotonin. In the morning, Baron Chris of North Austin. Hello, citizens and slaves. This is Baron Scott thanking my co-host Rob Ducifer for taking over the float portion for me in the morning. This is Patrick Dew from Lumberton, Texas. I just want to let you know that the vibe here is quite chill.

It's a little too chill for my taste. I don't see enough people angry, enough people slamming tables, turning things over, demanding justice. Alright, we had a few kids here. A little human resources. It was a lot of fun. Alright, I'm John Zabinden and we're at Ivar's River Pub. How are we today? Good, good. Light drinking, light drinking. Good barbecue food in the morning. We're about to go hit the chutes. Alright, there you go. They got the server in there. Very nice.

McKinney, they had their meetup. Let's hear the report. So what was the name of this meetup? McKinney Media Mockery. I'm Sir Joe. Sir Chris of Saxxy. Sir Shwetty. Here's our server. You just want me to say in the morning? You got it. There you go. In the morning. In the morning. And what's your name? Bianca. Bianca McSwiggins. Excellent. Excellent. Alright, people getting their servers involved. This is going to catch fire people. Northeast Ohio. Bring it on in.

Hey guys, I'm at the Northeast Ohio. Sorry it's been so long meetup. I'm going to pass the mic around. This is Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake. This is Sir Real Estate at the Northeast Ohio meetup. I'm sure my wife said something very lovely about me. In the morning. This is Sir Joby Juan. Leave Dave Smith alone. This is Audrey. In the morning. Hey, this is Nick from Medina. In the morning. This is Tracy Previn from Cleveland, Ohio. In the morning. This is Sir Christopher of Macedonia.

Meetup report. Meetup report. No agenda is still king, but Bitcoin is the prince. Meetup report. We had a wonderful time. A lot of conversations. Great people. Loved the people. Everyone is great. Everyone's looking at me right now. I'm going to go into my spiel, but not for longer. Wonderful time. In the morning. This is Miss B, the bag lady, and Sir NMNFT is handing out In the morning. Tell me you don't want to be a part of something like that.

You can be a part of that by going to noagenda meetups.com. There's a meetup taking place as we speak in Carmel, Indiana. That is the Outback Steakhouse Beef Tallow meetup. That is Outback Steakhouse in Carmel, Indiana. Still to come in this month, the Los Angeles Flight No. 66 of the Noah Jenner's. Leo Bravo hosting that on the 30th, and Medford Lakes, New Jersey on the 31st.

We still have Madison, Alabama, Houston, Texas, Hofdorp, Noord, Holland, the Netherlands, South Slocan, British Columbia, Keyport, New Jersey, Oakland, California, Tilburg, Noord, Brabant, the Netherlands again. No, that's a different Netherlands. Wow, there's so many groups. And October 11th right here in Fredericksburg, Texas. That'll be a fun one I will be attending. I hope to drag the keeper along with me. Noah Jenner meetups. This is where you get your connection. It gives you protection.

You can start one yourself if you don't have one near you. Go to NoahJennerMeetups.com. Always easy and always a party. If I recall, this is where we do the end of Show ISO. If I recall, you had two you were keeping in abeyance from the last show. You have three, I see. Three. Yeah, I do. All right. Well, let's start with yours. Which one do you want? Well, let's start with the one, the new one, which is taken from, I thought this was interesting. This is therapy.

Will they save you money on therapy, do you think? Kind of muddy. Muddy. Yeah, it is muddy. Okay, well then we'll go to the abeyance ones. All right, yeah. We have Amazing. That was amazing. Okay, not bad. Not bad. There's Sleep. Do these guys ever sleep? Great show. Wow. I can beat that. I can beat that. Not with this one, though. I think everybody loved it, all right? I think the one that beats it is this one. Donate to the best podcast in the universe. Huh? Come on. I couldn't understand it.

You couldn't understand it? It was something about the best podcast in the universe. What was the beginning? Donate to the best podcast in the universe. Okay, I'm in. There we go. He's not only in, he has your tip of the day. Ladies and gentlemen, stand by. Here he is, John C. Dvorak. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JC Green. And sometimes Adam. So here's a cooking, not a cooking product, but a salad product I think is salad. Salad product. And it is pumpkin seed oil.

It's a seed oil. It's going to kill you. It's expeller extracted. You want the good stuff so it won't kill you. But pumpkin seed oil, you can not have it if you don't want it, but I discovered it, didn't discover it. It was foisted upon me when on a visit to Slovenia, of all places, where it's used constantly in all the salad bars and all over town, they always have a jar of this pumpkin seed oil that they put on everything.

Mostly on salads, like there's a normal salad dressing and you add some pumpkin seed oil. And I was told there, and you can look this up, it might be true, that it prevents prostate cancer. And so pumpkin seed oil, which you can get, you can get it from various sources that carry a lot of different kinds of variety of oils, and you can also buy it on Amazon. You don't want the pumpkin seed tablets or anything like that.

You want the oil so you can use it for the following recipe, which is perfect for this tomato season. We're in tomato season right now, right in the middle of the tomato season. Take and get the ripest tomato you can and slice it, put it across the plate and salt it with some fleur de sel and then use pretty much equal amounts of balsamic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil, which looks like balsamic vinegar. It's a dark toasted oil, so it's a dark oil.

And just the combination of balsamic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil and the salt and the tomato, absolute killer. Hey, tomato season, most people just go to the supermarket and they see tomatoes all the time. Is it tomato season for American tomatoes? Yeah, for our tomatoes. The good fresh ones you want to get at the farmer's market. You don't want to buy grocery store tomatoes. They're no good. Got that Bill Gates wax on it.

You go to a farmer's market, everyone's got a farmer's market, especially down in the south, there's tons of them, where you can get the super fresh tomatoes that are just picked off the vine or grow some tomatoes yourself. Do you recommend a particular type of tomato for this? One of the best tomatoes that generally grows well everywhere is an ace. Ace tomato? It has a good tomato flavor. It's not an heirloom by any means, but it's a good tomato.

beefsteaks and all the rest of them are all good. They're tasty, especially if they come out right. But this pumpkin seed oil and balsamic vinegar on a tomato right now is dynamite. There it is, ladies and gentlemen, your tip of the day. Get them all at tipoftheday.net. Wow. Now I'm going to go get me an ace tomato at the HEB. I'm sure they have them, or maybe not. You never know. I do love it when you do food tips. I think that's a good way to do it. People love the food tips.

People always love food tips. You should do a book about this stuff. Maybe a book about vinegar. It's coming. Yeah, I know it is. Stay tuned to your noagenda stream, noagenda.stream, trollroom.io if you want to hang out. If you're already listening on a modern podcast app, you're in good luck because it's coming right up after we shut down our broadcast stream. Mere Mortals, the book reviews. World Building on Steroids, Fellowship of the Ring. It's a book review from Kyron.

Kyron and the gang there at the Mere Mortals. You will not regret it. And if Shownet mixes, we have Robin Breedfeld, we have Mel O'Dee, and we have Tom Starkweather. And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, which will soon be the location of the meetup on the, well, 11th of October. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Thursday with more media deconstruction just for you.

Remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios mofos, a hooey hooey, and such. Clip of the day. Clip of the day. That's a clip of the day. Clip of the day. Good one. That's a clip of the day. I'm gonna give you a clip of the day. Clip of the day for pulling this one out. Clip of the day. That's a clip of the day. Clip of the day. Clip of the day for pulling this one out. Good one. I'm gonna give you a clip of the day. Clip of the day. That's a good one. Clip of the day.

That's a clip of the day. Clip of the day. That's a good one. I'm gonna give you a clip of the day. Clip of the day. Good one. Clip of the day, man. That's a clip of the day. Clip of the day. Give yourself a clip of the day for pulling this one out. I'm gonna give you a clip of the day. Are you hiding? You're not hiding anything. Pull back to the American people.

And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump's MAGA supporters apparently believe, then Congress should actually work hard to try to uncover the truth for the American people. He's dead, he's done. Epstein died from suicide, Epstein died from suicide. Epstein didn't kill himself, Epstein died from suicide. Jeffrey Epstein conducted a conference called Confronting Gravity.

I don't know who Jeffrey Epstein was, but I'll absolutely bet money that he was the product of at least one or more elements of the intelligence community. The CIA, the FBI, those are all ours. And there was Geeks, there were all these guys, and I guess Epstein was there. So I could have had the opportunity to meet Epstein and say, well, what a creep, or whatever I said. I don't know, I probably wouldn't have said anything. Epstein died from suicide, Epstein died from suicide.

Epstein didn't kill himself, Epstein died from suicide. He's dead, he's gone. Criminal, criminal, look, look, wait. Criminal, criminal, look, look, look, wait. Criminal, criminal, look, look, look, wait. You're elitist for a minute. Where's my ice cream? Ah, thank you. I'll give them a B+. I appreciate a bit more fire and spice. There's an audience beyond the Senate. And that is John Bolton's politicization of the intelligence he got on Cuba and on other issues.

Why would we want someone with that lack of credibility? I can't understand. Clearly, that's what John Bolton represents. He would tell in a captivating way that the public would watch the most pernicious part of the president's scheme. And his love of conspiracy theories. Partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, the credulous boomer rube demo. Criminal, criminal, look, look, look, wait. Conspiracy theories. Criminal, criminal, look, look, look, wait.

Criminal, criminal, look, look, look, wait. I think at the end of the day, it all boils down to this. Rick, that was a good one. I needed that. Donate to the best podcast in the universe.