1826 - "Sauerkraut Kid"

It's got a big knob! Adam Currie, John C. Dvorak It's Thursday, December 18th, 2025. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1826. This is no agenda. The 6 Week Cycle is back! And we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning. Everybody, I'm Adam Currie. And from Northern Silicon Valley where the oil refineries are leaving California, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning!

Well, that wasn't spectacular news. We know they're leaving. It sucks. California sucks. No one wants to be there anymore except you. Yeah, I love it here. For some reason. I see on the quad screens as we speak, President Trump has reclassified marijuana. As what? As good for your breakfast. He did this with an executive order? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, kids. Well, you know. He's such a teetotaler. I just thought he'd be neutral on the whole thing. Hey, kids, vote for me. Vote for me. Weed. Free weed.

Free weed, kids. That's the only thing I can think of. Well, look, RFK Jr.'s there. So it's about, you know, the medicinal properties and goodness of marijuana. Which I can attest to. Yeah, you can. For well over, I think, for 47 years, I felt very good from smoking weed. But I got real productive once I stopped. It's pretty amazing how that works. Huh. Yeah, I got- Shocker. I got super productive. You know, I have this quad screen. Do you ever watch the quad screen on YouTube TV?

Yeah. So they make it hard to find. It's always- You can put them together. If you look at the bottom of the menus, you can make your own quad screens. Oh, well, I've tried to do that. Yeah, I've done a number of times. But that option only showed up once. And I like the Fox, CNN, MSNOW, BBC screen. But, you know, they'll put it seven levels down. So you got to scroll down. And then sometimes they'll mix it up. Like, oh, here, try some sports quad screens. Well, most of it's sports quad screen.

Yeah, but- That's where it came from. But I like the news quad. I think it's because they don't want me to do it. They don't- Because it's probably it's four streams. Maybe it's- Yeah, of course it is. They hate me. They hate me because of it. That Curry guy keeps using this little feature we got here. That's Google. By the way, I got a cool scam call from Google. You got a scam call from- It wasn't from Google. Yes, so my phone rang.

It showed up as Google in the screen, which I thought was- Yeah, it says Google, right? It says Google, yeah. And of course, right away I knew this can never be Google because Google doesn't call anybody ever. Ever. And you can't call them. No. So I answered it. And it's a machine saying, you know, we have an illegal login from Toronto. If this was you, you can hang up. If it wasn't you, press one. I'm in a good mood. One. A representative will call you back. Okay. Ooh, that's a plus.

And so maybe a minute later, I get a call also from a 650 number, which the first one was 650 as well. But this didn't have, didn't say Google. So that was a little minus point. And I'm kicking myself. I should have recorded it. A very well-spoken young lady on the phone. And she was from Google safety and security team. And, you know, we, we see this, this login. Was that you? I said, no, it wasn't from Toronto. And she had my phone number. And she had my, my adamacurry.com email address.

There's the dossier and everybody. And it floats around. So they all have it. So don't be, nobody should ever be surprised that they have your address. So I just, no, of course not. So I just wanted to see how far we could go. But it was, it was not like some Indian chappie, you know, it was a, sounded like a white woman. It wasn't some Indian guy named Steve. No, no, no. And she was very pleasant as we understand Mr. Curry. And yeah, we, we, let's get this resolved.

And I said, well, did they get my password? She says, no, they didn't get your password. Cause I see you have a two, two factor authentication on your account. Okay. So, well, good. Thanks. Thanks for keeping me safe. See, the only thing we need to do is we need to, because this person keeps opening tickets in our trouble ticket system. We need you to close it out. Oh, okay. This is a good one. I haven't, I've not, this is a, this is a very creative. So where, uh, how do I do that?

I want you to go to the following, uh, address sites. It's always here. Here we go. Hello sites.google.com slash close dash ticket. I'm like, and I say to her, yeah, but that's just where you can host a public website on, on Google. I mean, that, that doesn't sound very official. I said, did you type it in and say, yeah, I did. Okay. Now can you close the ticket? I said, I can't say, Oh, why not say I have a login screen. Just log in. I'm like, that doesn't seem like a good idea, ma'am.

Like if this is just a public website, then you might capture my email address and my password. I like the use of sites.google.com. Cause it does. Cause if you're naive about it, it gives you confidence because it's got google.com in there, even though it's like some, I said, I said, well, you know, maybe you should show me that you're really from Google. Well, I just sent you an email, uh, with your code. So I look at my email. There's a, from no dash reply at google .com. Okay. It's spoofed.

I didn't look at the headers, but I knew it was spoofed. Um, and no link to do anything with it. I said, okay, I got a code. Uh, I said, now can you close out the ticket with that? Cause yeah, but I'm not going to log into sites.google.com. Uh, and, and I said, what, what email address did you send this to, to adammccurry .com? I said, that's not my Google email, my Gmail address. Well, yes, it is. I said, no. Yes, you have your site hosted, uh, by Google workspace.

Okay. So now she's in deep water because I don't, obviously. And in fact, I'm been very careful never to link my adammccurry.com to Gmail or anything like that. Um, I said, but it's not, yes, it is. She's arguing with me now. Yes. Your site is hosted by Google workspace. I see the MX record. Whoa, now that's sophisticated. I said, so you, yes, I see the MX record has our email servers. Now this is not true. And I, I read her the MX record as I pull it up. I said, you know what?

Um, I'll, I'll make it, I'll make it okay with you. Just send me an email from you at a google.com email address, not Gmail or Google. And then I'd be more inclined to believe you. At that point we're 15, 20 minutes in, she hung up. But she just hung up. Yes. Oh, you just disconnected. Didn't even say she probably kicked herself for talking to you at all. Didn't say you a-hole or anything. So I like it when they cuss you out. Yeah, no, she, she just gave up.

But, but in general, I'd say it's pretty sophisticated. From a confidence. That sounds pretty good. Yeah. From like that, from a confidence. And I like the sites that Google, like the excellent, excellent work. Yeah, good work foiled again. But man, it just shows you how crap everything is. It really, everything sucks. The whole internet, everything just blows. It always has. It's gotten worse. Beginning of Usenet since they banned advertising. Here we go. Started with Usenet.

They let advertisers in. That's where it all started. Oh man. So we have a couple things we can, we can address right off the bat. I would suggest either, since you have a three by three, maybe we should start with, with Wiles. Because I think that's. Yeah, this is kind of cute. This is Susie Wiles. Let me, let me play the jingle first. I have thoughts about this too. I'm sure you do. Cause I do too. Everybody does. Everybody's got thoughts. And the thing is, is like, was this a plan?

Was this done on purpose? Was Susie Wiles naive? Because everybody goes around the table saying, well, she should have known better than to talk to Vanity Fair. They're out to, they're just a bunch of screw balls that hate Republicans. And she shouldn't have done the interview. And then somebody else brings up, well, she got, she did 11 interviews. It wasn't just one. No, it was almost a year. I think she was talking to him. So she's yakking away for a while.

And then, and then nobody stabbed her in the back after the thing came out, which was Kelly McEnany said that most remarkable thing was typically when they, when somebody is, is wounded in one of these hit pieces that there, a bunch of stuff starts showing up about, you know, people behind the scenes say, yeah, she's worse than that. If you buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. And none of that occurred. So she thought that was pretty good. Which makes me think the whole thing is an op.

And then you had come back lines from

both J.D. Vance and Trump that were stunners. Yeah. And I mean, Trump's was the best, but J.D. Vance's little thing on conspiracy theories is fabulous. Well, can I just frame this for a moment? Because it's Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair. The editor, global editorial director, Mark Guiducci, Guiducci. Yes. Guiducci. Born in America, but educated in London, considers himself to be British-Polish as part of his, his background.

He has the global mandate for the, as global editorial director and under Guiducci's leadership, Vanity Fair has leaned back into its roots as the primary chronicler of British monarchy for an American audience. The Royal Watch tradition. Where did you get that quote? From Google. Oh, well, that's okay. So yes, I can appreciate that. North Sea Nexus. Yeah. Hit job. Total hit. But remember, he's under Anna Wintour's oversight. Who is the chief? She's the worst.

She's the one who turned, Teen Vogue became a Marxist magazine. They had to fold it finally. LGBTQ nut job magazine. Well, mostly, but Marxist. They actually had articles on why Marxism is good in Teen Vogue. But this is, to me, this is a typical North Sea Nexus hit job. Yeah, but I don't think it worked. No, but a long game though. Long game. Yeah, it's just one of those things. You throw this stuff, you just start, you pile on.

But so the media, they kind of, or the mainstream three by three people, they come, you know, they're not totally in the bag for it. But it's semi-balanced. But let's listen to, let's listen to these three networks talk about the same thing, starting with ABC. She is President Trump's most powerful and trusted aide, more comfortable behind the scenes than in the spotlight. Suzy likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you. The ice baby. We call her the ice baby.

But tonight, White House Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles pulling back the curtain in an extraordinary series of interviews with Vanity Fair. Wiles, who says her father was an alcoholic, describes her boss, the president, as having an alcoholic's personality, noting that Trump, who does not drink, operates with the view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing. Zero. Nothing. Wiles also has choice words for Vice President

J.D. Vance. Discussing the push to release the FBI files into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Wiles says Vance has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. Vance today responding. Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. Wiles also points a finger at Attorney General Pam Bondi. Wow, they didn't play the whole bit where he said he talked about the different conspiracy theories. That's shoddy. No, the whole bit where he goes on on Biden.

He gave him an opportunity to go off. Yeah. It was momentous. And the networks, of course, gave him the - No, no, we're not going to play that. We can't play that. They're not going to play that. Wiles also points a finger at Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying Bondi completely whiffed her handling of demands to release the files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wiles telling Vanity Fair there is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn't on Bondi's desk.

She does acknowledge the president himself is in the Epstein files, but not doing anything awful. She says the two men were sort of young, single playboys together. I never went to the island, and Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. She also says this claim about Clinton is not true. Wiles telling Vanity Fair there is no evidence Clinton ever visited Epstein's private island.

And David Wiles also acknowledges that the president has sought retribution against some of his enemies, saying, quote, when there's an opportunity, he will go for it. Tonight, Wiles calls the article a disingenuously framed hit piece, though she doesn't deny saying these things. It warrants mentioning that Chris Whipple, Chris Whipple. Whipple, who did this article, he literally wrote the book on previous chiefs of staff.

So I think there was probably a little bit of pride or ego something going on there with Susie Wiles. You know, I forget what the book is called, but he went back and interviewed like 20 different chiefs of staff for presidents. And it was it was a well-received book. So, you know, he came with credentials. He had credentials, but doesn't mean even the most credentialed journalist will do a hit piece for money. Of course. That's what you do. Yes, you do it. I do it. You did it.

You did it all the time. Well, you are you were the Mac hit man. I'm the Mac again. I'm going to shoot those Mac Mac. I was hired to to to do nasty pieces. That's what I'm saying. A big on the masthead of that magazine said anti editor. Yes. How many people have ever held that title? You are an amazing man. Oh, yeah, it's astonishing. We'll move alphabetical order.

We go to CBS. Susie Wiles offered a stunning assessment of the central characters in the White House, starting with her boss, saying President Trump has an alcoholics personality. A notable comment from the daughter of NFL and CBS sports legend Pat Summerall, who famously struggled with alcohol. Wiles says Trump has a view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing. Zero. Nothing. As for Vice President Vance, Wiles says he's been a conspiracy theorist for a decade.

Exactly the same in Pennsylvania. Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. Wiles also had words for Elon Musk, she called an avowed ketamine user an odd, odd duck. It's mostly just a lot of hard work. And she said she was initially aghast when Musk dismantled USAID as part of his cost cutting Doge program. No rational person could think the USAID process was a good one, she said.

Nobody. On the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that has dogged the White House, Wiles said the president wasn't telling the truth when he accused former President Bill Clinton of visiting the convicted sex offenders' private island. There's no evidence, she said. The president was wrong about that. The White House today tried to discredit author Chris Whipple, who says he conducted 11 interviews with Wiles over the course of a year.

This is, unfortunately, another example of disingenuous reporting, where you have a reporter who took the chief of staff's words wildly out of context, did not include the context those conversations were had within. Wiles also pointed to moments where she tried unsuccessfully to change the president's mind. She urged him not to pardon the most violent offenders during the January 6th insurrection, to hold off on imposing massive tariffs on U

.S. allies this past spring, and to end his score settling against critics after 90 days in office. Wiles, who's popular across the administration and close with the president, called the article a, quote, disingenuously framed hit piece. And what does the president make of all this? Well, he told the New York Post this afternoon, quote, she's done a fantastic job. So as a former hit, hit man, hit piece writer, hired, hired gun, how does this work?

Do you, is, do they just really pull quotes out of context? Because I can see where she might have said, well, J.D. Vance is a conspiracy theorist, but man, he's been right a couple of times. Is that how it's done? You just take that piece and you put that in? Yeah, you just, it's selective. Editing. Citation. It's very common. I mean, I had a hit piece done on me. And I know why. I've been doing pieces on you for 18 years. Yeah, but you're no good at it.

Tell us about the, this is another story. I don't know. Tell us about the hit piece. I had written a very nasty remark, some nasty remarks about Negroponte. No, not that Negroponte, the one that was running the MIT Media Lab. Nicholas Negroponte. Nicholas. I wrote a scathing article about the whole lab being a big phony baloney operation. And I put it, it was in the Deck Professional, a very minor magazine that, you know, very only the aficionados read.

And Negroponte ended up at some position or other at Wired. And I remember that. And I remember that, yeah. So to get back at me, he had Paulina Borsuk do a hit piece on me. And what was the hit piece? What did it say? Well, Paulina could never pull it off. I took, I wined and dined her. I took her to a, she's a vegan or vegetarian. I took her to a vegetarian restaurant to talk over some of this stuff. I just, I did, I can put on a charm offensive.

But did you know she was going to write a hit piece? No, it was, she was, she, I think she hinted at me that she was, she was writing a hit piece. Well, that's not right. No, no, it was, it was, it didn't work out. And they try and the piece was, it was semi-successful in a couple of moments, but it didn't get, didn't do it. It didn't, it was, it's actually became a pretty complimentary profile. Let me guess. It's like, he was wrong about the mouse. He was wrong about the iPad. He's no good.

It was, it wasn't like, it was similar, but it was, but it was in what they ran it as a, as a profile and wired. And they brought it, they brought out a photographer to make me look like an idiot. He wanted me to do something. And I, by the way, this is for anybody who wants a profile done. Put on the clown nose. It'll be great.

For anybody out there, you know this more than anybody probably, but you have to, when you're having your photo taken for some article or something, do not let the photographer badger you into stupid stuff. Just say no. Why don't you hold this, this mouse upside down. It'll look great in the shot. Can you stick your tongue out? Yeah. Oh, there's a, there's another good one. Yes. Can you stick your tongue out? Look really surprised. So, so, so I avoided that part of it. I said, no, good for you.

And so the East, I still got, he still got a funny picture of me, but it was okay. I, if I actually, actually it was so interesting. The photo I had them send me a copy. So, um, all right, back, back to the hit piece from vanity fair. So this, so yes, it's very easy to do. It's, you know, it doesn't take a, if you're going to do 11 interviews, you can get more than enough material to do a beautiful hit piece. They never needed to do a hit piece on you.

Just rerun the YouTube video of you trying to put that IBM PC back together. That's my favorite is a PS2. It should work. Hold on a second. I just need a screwdriver and a solder and a soldering iron. I can do this. It should fit. No, they all snapped back into place. It was dynamite. Except that one. It's a great clip. Hey, if that's all that you did wrong, you know, beside the mouse and iPad thing, I'll give you another story about me.

So David Renson, who used to do these profiles, he used to be the writer for playboy magazine. And somehow along the lines, when I was cranking out all these books, Renson got, I was targeted to be profiled by PC magazine. I'm not bad. I'm sorry by playboy in this 40 questions. They had some gimmicky thing called 20 questions or something. I forgot what it was years ago. It's like, you think you're going to be the main interview, but you're not.

I don't know what, it doesn't matter because Renson comes over and we ended up talking about writing and all kinds of stuff. And eventually it turns out, which I told him, I said, I'm actually kind of boring for this sort of article. You're not going to, it's not going to be very good. And he, he agreed. He agreed. I never got, never got written up and it was fine with me. All right. I got some clips on this too. So let's play NBC and see if they had the same story. Same story, same clip.

Okay. Tonight there's remarkably revealing comments about president Trump from his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, a relationship so close, the president recently suggested she's part of the family. Do you know Susie Trump? Sometimes referred to Susie Wiles, Susie Trump. But tonight she's facing new scrutiny for a series of interviews with Vanity Fair about criticism. The president is targeting perceived political enemies.

Wiles says, I don't think he wakes up thinking about retribution, but when there's an opportunity, he will go for it. She also says president Trump, who does not drink, has an alcoholic's personality adding he operates with a view that there's nothing he can't do calling herself an expert in big personalities. Tonight, president Trump saying he agrees with her telling the New York post. He has a possessive and addictive type personality. I'm fortunate I'm not a drinker.

Praising Wiles saying, I don't read Vanity Fair, but she's done a fantastic job. Then there's the vice president who Wiles describes as a conspiracy theorist for a decade. Vance today brushing it off. Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. And by the way, Susie and I have joked in private and public about that for a long time.

And she contradicts the president's claim Bill Clinton visited Jeffrey Epstein's island saying there is no evidence those visits. No evidence. Acknowledging the president was wrong about that. Wiles tonight is strongly pushing back against the article, calling it a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest president, White House staff and cabinet in history. Adding significant context was disregarded to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative.

So first, I want to play some of those actual JD Vance quotes because they were funny. And of course, no one picked it up. But here's his full answer. They literally cut this part out in that NBC piece. Well, first of all, if Susie is like, I'll trust what you said. I haven't looked at the article. I, of course, have heard about it. But conspiracy theorists. That was very slick. I think that's very slick what he said there. Because most of them say, I haven't read the article.

Which, of course, he has. But instead, he says, I'm familiar with it. I haven't read the article. I'm a busy man. I'm vice president. But I, of course, I'm familiar with it. That is the way you address that. Instead of saying, I poured over and over my cornflakes, which, you know, he did. Because, of course, he did. Like, I'll trust what you said. I haven't looked at the article. I, of course, have heard about it. But conspiracy theorists. Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist.

But I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. Yeah. Crowd goes wild. And by the way, Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time. For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask three-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic. That we should actually let them develop some language skills.

You know, I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job. And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents. So, at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it.

And that's my understanding. It was good. That was excellent. Yeah, I thought it was very good. But of course, that never saw the light of day. Who cares? Jen Psaki had an interesting comment in her... Anyone watch that show? Do we even know when it's on? Pretty much. The only people who watch the show are gut-filled. Well, here we go. Let me start with this. There is a little-known tradition in Washington.

Whenever a new administration takes office, the new president's incoming chief of staff has dinner with all the previous chiefs of staff. Usually, one of them hosts it at their house or at a restaurant or whatever it may be. And chiefs of staff from both parties attend. And they all do this so that they can offer advice to the new incoming chief of staff on how to prepare for the role. It's kind of a nice tradition through multiple different administrations of both parties.

Everyone on MSNBC, you'll hear a couple more. They all sound sick. There's a bug going around at NBC. They all sound sick. You'll hear... It could be. It would make sense. Yeah, they're all sick. And when Trump won the election last year, his new chief of staff, Susie Wiles, reportedly attended one of those dinners too. They each went around the table giving her tips, as they normally do, for how to do the job.

And when they got to Trump's first chief of staff, Ryan Priebus, he had just one piece of advice for Susie Wiles. Just one. He told her, quote, don't talk to Whipple. Yeah. Well, there you go. She was warned. She was warned. Now, I have to add... Don't talk to Whipple. Now, that is funny. Yeah, it's very funny. I have to add, at the behest of the troll room, we have to say that Susie Wiles worked for Netanyahu.

So it's possible she's a Mossad agent and is trying single-handedly to bring down the president. Just have to mention that. So don't talk to Whipple. Well, the person who did talk to Whipple is our own British agent, Anderson Cooper. Joining me now is Chris Whipple in his first broadcast interview since his two-part Vanity Fair piece landed. He's also the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Gatekeepers. It landed like a lead balloon.

The White House chiefs of staff define every presidency. Chris, thanks for being with us. Great to be here. A lot to talk about. First of all, of all the things Susie Wiles told you, what surprised you the most? You know, Anderson, this was one of those cases as a reporter in your career when lightning strikes. And it was astonishing to me the extent to which she was unguarded and freewheeling on the record all the time.

I've covered, as you know, I wrote a book about the Biden White House where everybody was on deep background requiring quote approval. Quite the opposite in this case. Susie Wiles in 11 interviews over 11 months. That's how many? There were 11 interviews over 11 months. 11 in-depth interviews in which she was on the record. Everything in the article was on the record. Were you recording every interview? I recorded every interview. Even ones that were on the phone.

There was one where she was doing laundry, apparently. Yeah, everything is on tape. Did she know this was for Vanity Fair? Did she think this was for a long -term book that you were doing? She knew I was working on a book at the outset. When I told her that Vanity Fair had agreed to do a piece, to publish a piece, she was all in and enthusiastic about it. Okay, so show some transparency from the Trump White House. I'm doing laundry. You can talk to me, Whipple. No problem. Why?

Because she is legendarily averse to being out front. That's why I say that this was lightning striking. It's amazing to me. First of all, I think that she is the most fascinating person in American politics. Not only because she ran a brilliant campaign and brought Trump back from the dead to win the 2024 election. She's the first female White House chief of staff. But in addition, she's kind of the Greta Garbo of White House chiefs.

She's never on camera, rarely on camera, hardly ever gives interviews. And yet she did. I think it's because all I can tell you is what she told me. She felt the Trump 1.0 had been unfairly covered. That Trump was vilified. During the first administration. The first administration. She wanted a fair hearing. And I think she thought she would get one. Yeah, she thought she would get one. She thought she would get one. Yes. Now, in this next clip, he slips up and the truth comes out.

Here's the fascinating thing. And that is not only is there this amazing 11 month journey that I document of Susie Wiles through this whole period, but it really goes all the way back to her childhood and her famous father, Pat Summerall, who was an alcoholic. She organized interventions with her mother to get treatment for him. He was sober for 21 years. But she learned how to deal with difficult men.

It is a fascinating data point that, I mean, I certainly didn't know about her, that, you know, adult children of people who grew up with alcoholics are, I mean, she's in sort of the perfect job. I mean, it sort of makes sense that what she learned as a little girl and throughout her life dealing with him. And Trump is owning it. Trump is wearing it, in effect, as a kind of badge of honor. He's saying what she meant when she said that he has an alcoholic's personality is not that he's a drinker.

We know that he's not, but that he has this grandiose personality. He believes that there is nothing, as she put it, nothing. That he doesn't think he can do. She is saying Susie Wiles pushed back on the story on social media, saying, quote, significant context was disregarded. Actually, so that was a funny bit, but that wasn't the clip with the slip up. It's the last one here, and you'll hear it. Here's the fascinating thing, and that is not only is there. Wait, isn't that the same clip?

Wait a minute. That doesn't make sense. This is so good. She is saying Susie Wiles pushed back about saying stuff. Crap. Maybe it's in this one. One of the things the White House is saying, things were taken out of context. Wildly out of context was the quote of Leavitt. Are things taken out of context? Because some of the quotes are, they're tight. I mean, they're just everything. What does that even mean in writer speak? Some of the quotes, they're tight. What does that mean?

It doesn't mean anything. Okay. Are things taken out of context? Because some of the quotes are, they're tight. I mean, they're just, it's like. Everything is, was scrupulously in context. And I got to tell you the giveaway when you're a journalist and you hear the target, the subject. There it is. Beautiful. If you're going for a hit job, you don't have a subject. You have a target. Yeah. He admits it. He admits it right there. Yeah. You caught that.

You get, in fact, you get a borderline clip of the day for catching that. That's beautiful. All right, let's finish this clip. It was out of taking out of context because some of the quotes are, they're tight. I mean, they're just, it's like. Everything is, was scrupulously in context.

And I got to tell you the giveaway when you're a journalist and you hear the target, the subject saying, talking about things like context and omissions, you know, you're on the right track because there isn't a single fact or a single assertion that they've challenged in the piece. It really reminds me of the Watergate days when Ben Bradley said, talked about non-denial denials. This is the ultimate non-denial. They're not really attacking. Well, I never, I absolutely never said that, although.

All right, you give us some context on this. The non-denial, I looked it up, the non-denial denial. Is that some kind of, what's the term? I have no idea. This is all news to me. I mean, what he's saying there, you know, yes, if somebody, if you say, well, I think that really sucks. But then again, it might not suck. And then the quote is, that really sucks. Yeah, I did say that. And so you can't deny it.

But the non-denial denial to whatever the hell that phrase is, you could say it's out of context because I also said, I also said, but sometimes it doesn't suck or whatever. I mean, this is the kind of thing when you take selective quotations and you just pull them. This is why sarcasm is a bad idea on podcasts or even in conversation or anywhere where you're being interviewed to say something sarcastic. They'll take the sarcastic bit.

They'll just take the remark and then without the sarcastic tone, if it's played flat, I mean, Tucker Carlson has all kinds of good quotes. If you don't know, if they're taken out of context and they're not played as sarcasm. I can't do it. I can't do it. If they're taken as a direct quote rather than sarcasm, it can make you sound terrible, like a terrible person. Let's finish this clip. Susie Wiles did at one point say that she denied saying that Elon Musk is an avowed ketamine user.

You then apparently, according to the report, you played a tape for the New York Times, which confirmed that quote. It's on tape, as is every assertion that Susie made. And as you know, I interviewed the inner circle as well. I talked to J.D. Vance. I talked to Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller and others. All of it taped, all of it on the record. And the giveaway is that they haven't been able to challenge a single fact.

Are you surprised that the president is not, apparently, it seems, but at least publicly, not angry with Wiles? Well, here's the other thing. As you say, it's not very often that you get an endorsement of your quotation from the president. You know, he... The alcoholic personality. Yeah, he evidently wears that as a badge of honor. Yes. Wonderful. I hate to do this, but it is worth it for the entertainment purposes. I'm sorry. Here's your warning.

At the tone, a clip from The View will be played. Shelter in place. Well, Susie Wiles calls the article, quote, disingenuously framed, hit piece, with significant context disregarded. Context? But what was she thinking? Was she ready to do this? When they asked the first question and you knew it was a question that was hit piece, why did you answer it? I know. One thing that I forgot to add, she called Elon Musk an odd duck and an avowed ketamine user. He sleeps in a sleeping bag.

But then she added that she has no personal knowledge of the ketamine use, but she did call him an avowed ketamine user. He's a multi-trillionaire and he sleeps in a sleeping bag. Because he's an odd duck. He's a very odd duck. I would agree with that assessment. Is there something wrong with sleeping in a sleeping bag? Well, no. I guess, fine, whatever. I'm just curious. If that's what he wants to do, who am I to judge? He's a kabillionaire. You know, it's a very expensive sleeping bag.

They just, you know, she has also... Were they not prepped? Were they not prepped for this? I mean, they don't seem to have any details. They don't have good jokes that go with it. I mean, this is a scripted show. I'm kind of surprised. It seems like they weren't in on the gaff. Yeah, they obviously weren't read in on anything. And they're just winging it. And it's not good. No, it's not good at all. Then they're picking on poor Musk. Odd duck, yeah, gee, that's horrible.

What a thing to say about someone. He sleeps in a sleeping bag. He sleeps in a sleeping bag. You know, they used to talk about Steve Jobs, the ascetic, who had this big mansion in Woodside that was empty. And he walked around barefoot. Yeah, crazy. And that was it. Let the world know that there is an adult in the room. Yeah. That was also with this. She let the see, I think it was strategic in a different way. I think she's trying to help him clean up his act.

Because if she says, well, you know, it was just boys having fun, just like, um, really? You know, oh, it was just, you know, this one didn't do what she was supposed to do. And this one didn't. But I'm on top of it all. I'm watching it all. I just think you're just trying to clean it up for them. She says that it's interesting point. She made that her father was an alcoholic. And she understands the personality of an alcoholic. So that's why she says he has an alcoholic personality.

But he doesn't drink. He has a narcissistic disorder. That is really what he had. But he responded to it. He was not offended by it. No, he made it. He also had an alcoholic brother. I think he got what she was saying. He understood what she was saying. OK, they're off. They're not in the game anymore. They're out. This sounds like this was a targeted, well done, long game. It acknowledged hit piece because Susie Wiles was the target. So what I think that I think it was played both ways.

I think Susie Wiles was aware of the situation, as mentioned by the earlier clip where she was told not to talk to this guy. And the thing was kind of a setup because there's a bunch of setup lines in there. And I think one of them, the most important one is, yeah, Trump, Trump doesn't. He says it's not true. But if he's given the opportunity to take revenge on somebody, he does it, which is an open threat to anyone who wants to go after Trump because he says he's not into revenge.

But there it is. He's into revenge. So you better beware. I think that was a message that was purposely put in there. And I think a lot of the stuff in there was purposely put in. He thinks he can do anything because he's in other words, he can try anything. I think it was I think the whole thing was a scam. I think she was part of it. She would she's smart. Everyone says she's something of a genius in this regard. She played Whipple.

And the whole thing is a benefit to Trump at the end of the day. There's lines that by J.D. Vance was almost prepared in advance. Yeah. Yeah. Good point. Even though he didn't read the article. Yeah, we didn't have to because they already told him what was going to happen. This is they're going to go after you advance for being a conspiracy theory. Here's your lines.

So it was really a switcheroo where they all went now and Whipple is probably like, ah, he's going to call me a horrible person and my star will rise. And that was like Whipple who? Yeah, it's possible. It is possible because some of the information in there was a bit threatening to the enemies. So last night, the president spoke to the nation. I couldn't watch it. I tried watching it. I got through about five minutes. I said, this is just another just another another.

So for so forth and so on speech, I've heard it before. Well, there was some preamble that is that is interesting. As Tucker continues his worldwide podcast tour. He was on with Judge Knapp. Oh, God. There's a comedy. She brings those old Fox buddies because, you know, Judge Knapp, Napolitano was working there when Tucker was there. So here's a short exchange that that I caught yesterday. I was like, hmm, interesting. Is Trump going to start a war in Venezuela? I don't know.

I don't know when this program airs, the one that we're on right now. Well, we're we're live now and then it'll be posted immediately. So right now is I don't know the answer. I I've certainly been on the phone a lot about it. I have no power. I'm a podcaster, but I'm very interested. And here's what I know so far, which is that members of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming and it'll be announced in the address to the nation tonight at nine o'clock by the president.

Who knows, by the way, if that will actually happen? I don't know. And I never want to overstate what I know, which is pretty limited in general. But a member of Congress told me that this morning. OK, so let's just summarize. The word is out. The president is going to announce war with Venezuela tonight. That's why he asked for a network cut in. And this network cut in was significant on CBS. They were running the season finale of Survivor. You know, it's kind of a big deal.

Yeah, it's a good time to do it. Yeah. So for Trump, I mean, if you want to screw over CBS. So the question is, was this one of those? Let's tell a few selective people this or maybe one. Let's see who where it leaks out. Because I think it was done on purpose, not for not to see who who did it, who lets it leak out. You definitely tell Tucker. But I think it was to get the audience to listen to the Trump spiel. I agree that it was it was a what was a pre pre promotion. Promote.

What do you call it? The promo. Sue's bait and switches what it was. But it was pre recorded, obviously. And and I think it was like, OK, Mr. President, they're probably not going to give you more than 20 minutes before they realize you're not going to announce war against Venezuela. So you got to talk. Yeah, that's what was so short. Talk fast. Talk to the whole line. You made an unbelievable point there. Whenever have we seen Trump talk 15 minutes? Never, never.

He'd go two hours if you give him a shot at it. Yeah, and it was. You're right. That's exactly what happened. They're going to give you, you know, they're going to kill you here after after 15 minutes, making a 15 minute promotional speech and get out. I think he made it 17. That's pretty much how far he got. 17 minutes. So it was, you know, Biden sucks. We're great. We're great. It sucks. We're great.

And we're giving seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars as a bonus to every everyone in the Department of War. Well, that was nice. Yeah, that was cute. That was cute. Cute. Cute. And don't worry, because everything's going to be great, which did we get the CPI print today? Because that's the way I took it is, oh, inflation must be doing OK. Let me see. Let me see. I think it's around two point nine three. So that's down. That's down. It's not that down. Economists see a lot of OK. All right.

Hold on a second. Two point seven and two point six. Well below expectations. He knew it. He knew what was coming. So, yeah, well, that number is just a number. Of course, it's just it's all bullcrap. Money's not even real. The birds aren't real. Everything's fake. Hello. Yeah. But just stick to our script, man. OK, we just like just roll with it. That's how this is, how this operates. Inflation is below three percent for the first time. Trump did it. He knew it.

He knew that number was like right at the beginning. Trump had the line, which always bothers me when he does this. He says that inflation under Biden was the worst in 40 years, maybe the worst in history, maybe, which is like anybody who's older than I don't know what was the late 70s. During the 70s, when the market stock market crashed in 69, it was in the 1970s. 20 percent. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I remember in 19, you see, we bought a house in New Jersey in 1991, I think.

No, maybe 1990. I was paying, I think, 10 percent interest on my mortgage. And that was low interest rates on mortgages went to 18 to 21 percent by the end of the Carter administration. Yes. So, yeah, I don't like that either. So I was like, but when he says maybe, OK, that's. Yeah, but he knows better. He was there for the inflation. He was there for the crash of 32. What are you talking about? He was there for all of it. He's been around. So he has to stop doing that.

So then we get the just sticking with the North Sea Nexus for a moment. Then we get the blockade because we're not going to war. But what are we doing? Welcome back to live now from Fox. I'm Shauna Calafi with some breaking news. I only chose her because she actually read part of his truth post from President Trump. He is ordering a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro. This is a post from President Trump on Truth Social.

Just a short while ago, he said Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America. It will only get bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before. Until such time as they return to the United States of America, all of the oil, land and other assets that they previously stole from us.

The illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from the stolen oil fields to finance themselves drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder and kidnapping for the theft of our assets and many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling and human trafficking. The Venezuelan regime has been designated a foreign terrorist organization. So I just want to add some context to this because people forget things. And, you know, you do a show like this for almost two decades.

You remember stuff like the horrible things Michelle Reiner said. We'll talk about that later. Ten years ago, Maduro nationalized our oil companies, refinery that they had there, the drills, the rigs, the oil, everything. They took everything. Took it. And that was Chavez who did that. Yes. But we've been fighting that for 10 years saying, hey, give us our stuff back. I think that was Chevron.

And, of course, just a little bit under a year ago, Maduro said, yeah, we're taking Esquibo, the very oil rich segment of Guyana. And they're saying, hey, this is ours. But, of course, it's not because the licenses and the quote unquote ownership of the oil is for Exxon. So when he says, give me back our oil, land and other assets. Yeah, that's absolutely true. But people forget this. Meanwhile, play this clip. U.N. sides with Venezuela. Yeah, this is good.

The U.N. Secretary General has called for the de-escalation of tensions between the U .S. and Venezuela. António Guterres made the comment after a phone call with President Maduro. Yeah, yeah. Well, they're very forgetful. But, of course, he called them out in the in the national strategic security document saying we're not listening to global organizations anymore. I think they take that to heart. That's you, people.

Then, you know, just to stick with it, you know, we've we've got to we've got to get Mexico. We've got to get those guys. We got it. We got to anywhere there's British money. We got to cut it off. That's why today I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country. With this historic executive order I will sign today, we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is. No bomb does what this is doing.

Two hundred to three hundred thousand people die every year that we know of. So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. Ah, he loves saying that. Let's hear the two sides of the argument. First, from Fox News. That's why today- Oops. Fentanyl's been a major problem in the United States, not only the illegal flow of it into the country, but another concern that isn't mentioned as much, using the substance in some sort of weapon.

The Trump administration is now classifying this stuff as an actual weapon of mass destruction. Will that be enough to stop it? When you're working in the Department of Defense on weapons of mass destruction, was there any evidence of that possibly happening or any sort of group getting the capability to happen? That's the first time I've heard of something like that. John, the example, actually, there is a real world example.

In 2002, Chechen terrorists seized a crowded theater and threatened to execute hundreds of hostages in Russia. Well, the security forces, the Russian security forces, they didn't want to engage with 40 well -armed terrorists. So what they decided to do was pump a fentanyl analog into the theater's ventilation system, which incapacitated nearly everyone inside the theater. They stormed the building, they shot unconscious terrorists, and they brought out a bunch of hostages.

But in the aftermath, there were 130 hostages that died because of the fentanyl that was blasted through the ventilation system. And so that demonstrates the potency of it. And so that was an aerialized form. Subsequently, I should point out that the Chemical Weapons Convention has said, hey, you can't use aerialization of fentanyl for law enforcement purposes. But it has been done. So that's an example, John. Shoot. May I remember that? Do you remember that movie theater?

But I didn't realize that many people died from the fentanyl. Oh, yeah. I like the idea that the Russians came in and they found the terrorists unconscious. Shot them, shot them. That's the way they do business. Let's go to CNN here. Earlier today, President Trump made an unprecedented declaration. He's taking what he calls a war on drugs and drug traffickers to the next level. According to the CDC, there were more than 80,000 overdose deaths in 2024 alone.

And synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, continue to play a role in the majority of those deaths. All right, Ellie, to you. Does this executive order give the president more power to do more than he's already doing that Congress has not actually approved these boat strikes? No, it is completely meaningless. It's symbolic. Federal law describes what a weapon of mass destruction is.

Generally, it has to be an incendiary device, something that blows up, something that shoots, something that disseminates poison, that kind of thing. If you commit a crime involving a weapon of mass destruction, there's very serious penalties involved. Could be life in prison, could be death if someone dies. But the president saying drugs or fentanyl are now weapons of mass destruction has zero, zero legal impact. It's up to judges. It's up to the parties on a case -by-case basis.

It's an interesting argument. It doesn't meet the definition. But it's like if the president declared that a slingshot is a firearm, it doesn't make it a firearm for legal purposes. It would have to be, Congress would have to change the statute, right? So a judge couldn't just say fentanyl is a weapon because you said- You somehow could shoehorn it into the definition. This kind of reminds me of, you know, saying that COVID-19 vaccine is actually a vaccine. Yes, change the law.

No, just change Merriam-Webster. That's how you do it. I thought this was an interesting case. I looked up 18 U.S. Code 2332a.

And a weapon of mass destruction is defined as destructive devices, any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas, including bombs, grenades, or rockets, chemical weapons, any weapon designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, biological weapons, any weapon involving a biological agent, toxin, or delivery system. And then there's radiological and nuclear weapons.

I think you can make an argument that seeing as 80,000 people a year die from it, that it is a weapon of mass destruction. I'm all in. I think that's, you know, I think that's valid. It's very creative. Which brings us to the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Oh boy, the six-week cycle is back. Four alleged members of an extremist group suspected of planning five bombing attacks on New Year's Eve in Los Angeles and Orange Counties are now in custody. Hey, stop the camera. Stopping.

This reminds me, wasn't there supposed to be some sort of an event last Monday that all these podcasters, the sneer and smear podcast group? Yes, the 9-11 style attacks, multi-cities. Yeah. Wasn't that supposed to be like a couple days ago? Yeah. Are you still there? Yeah. Okay, I'm still here. Where's all these attacks? I guess it wasn't true. Zachary Page, Tina Chen Ting, and Dante Anthony Gaffield appeared in federal court Monday.

These bombs were to blow up at the same time on midnight this New Year's Eve. The plan stated that the IEDs would be complex pipe bombs. It included instructions on how to manufacture the bombs and contained guidance on how to avoid leaving evidence behind that could be traced back to them. Video released by the FBI shows the four suspects on Friday at a remote campsite in the Lucerne Valley in the Southern Mojave Desert.

Investigators say the suspects brought bomb making materials to the desert to rehearse their planned action. Investigators say they found PVC pipes, suspected potassium nitrate, charcoal, sulfur powder, and other elements. They were arrested shortly after this video was taken. The four subjects are members of a radical faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front. At this point, they show video, a picture of a couple of hand-drawn signs that say... Yeah, I saw the signs. Death to America.

Down with fascism. First of all, let's make people need to know Turtle Island is some reference to the entire body of North America that was considered, called Turtle Island by some indigenous folks back in some historic era. Well, if you saw the pictures of these people who are arrested, they look like the kind of people who would thank the indigenous people that we can stand here and make bombs on your sacred grounds. Of course, that's what you want. Yeah, that's the way it looks.

And by the way, before you continue, I knew when I was an air pollution inspector, there was a guy that ran a chemical company in Oakland. I'm not going to mention his name, but he was a part of a big club of guys that would go to the Mojave Desert with explosives and blow shit up. They loved it. And he had photos. He showed me his album because they like to take pictures of this. Here's like a 55 Buick. Look at this. And here's after we blew it up with 10 sticks of dynamite.

And it was like a hobby. So it's not surprising that there was people... This is where you do it, out in the middle of nowhere, Mojave Desert. You blow stuff up. Well, there's a little bit more. It's the American way. There's a little bit more to the case. A violent homegrown anti-government group. Carol and her co-defendants, Zachary Page, led the effort to obtain and build the bombs and to recruit others to join in their plot.

The suspects have been charged with conspiracy in possession of an unregistered destructive device. Officials would not release any information about the target locations, only saying they are logistics companies engaged in interstate and commerce. These threats are sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation. Again, the FBI saying that if these would have been successful, they would have been coordinated IED bombing attacks on New Year's Eve. OK, so this is horse manure.

And I read the affidavit. It's all right there. So they've been tracking these people since December 6th. And they had a confidential human informant who was already in the group, already showing the feds the signal messages. They had an undercover law enforcement officer in the group. Yeah, that's what you do. So they all go out to the desert with PVC pipe, OK, plastic. They're going to put their own explosives together. Now, you've done this, too. You get some ammonium nitrate.

You get some fertilizer. You get some some charcoal, some sulfur. I've never done this, by the way. I have. I have. You sure you have. And I do. When I went to the University of California, I was in chemical engineering. The first thing a professor would just came up in a conversation like when I was a freshman. He says, how many fingers you got? Is that the number you want to keep? And I never made an explosive. What we used to do back in the old country.

When I lived in the in the farm farmland south of Amsterdam is we get fertilizer and sugar and then you put water and you make a water solution, you dip paper in it. And then you make flash flashpaper. Oh, yeah, it was fantastic to do that. That's different. Well, but but we also did some other stuff with pipes, obviously, but not PVC pipe. And they had no caps. They literally had the affidavit says they had no caps, no cap for the PVC pipe. So what kind of bomb are you making?

Well, they couldn't charge him on making a bomb. So instead, possession of an unregistered destructive device. They didn't register their device. This is bull crap. The thing that bothers me the most is the fear mongering from the FBI. And we saved you, America. This would have been bad. Oh, it would have been five buildings just blown to smithereens. Well, stay safe. Stay vigilant. If you see something, say something. This I hate that. How about how about you? I do. I'm sick of it.

How about you do your job? And because you are government, you know, we appreciate it. It's great that you keep us safe and then just go home and have a beer. And then the next day, go after some other Turtle Island group. There's no reason to do this big. Well, stop the presses breaking news. We all could have been blown to smithereens, especially after all the Red Green Alliance, ISIS, ISIS in America, Al Qaeda, Muslims, Islam. It's sickening.

It keeps everybody on edge during the happiest time of the year. What is it? Pissing into the wind is what you're doing here. I'm making people aware of why this is being done. Oh, we've been bitching and moaning. This is never going to change. The FBI's got they have their marching orders. There's a memo unless somebody goes into the FBI and changes the memo that set this up, whatever, many years ago, because it's good for business. It brings the newbies in.

You can show them the ropes on how to infiltrate and do other things. It's good business. Then you make a big fuss about it so the newbies can say. So you point to the newbies and look what happened. This is the results of your good work. We got everybody all riled up saying this is the way you do it. It's how everybody is kept on edge and afraid and cowering and suspicious of each other. It sucks. I know you're all in, but I'm against it. I'm a podcaster, I can stick my mind.

Egyptian airplanes. Come on, man. Well, that brings us to a Candace Owens clip. Oh, goodness. Really? We've never had one before. I want to play the clip. This explains a lot. OK, let me see. I know all you guys want to know what happened during my meeting with Erica. So here it goes. We met in Nashville because I didn't want to fly anywhere and have my plane shut down by Israel. So I told her to come here instead. She gets here. And first thing she does is she gives me some homemade cookies.

And I'm like, bitch, I ain't eating those poison chocolate chip cookies. She tried to poison me. Anyway, I'm still alive after almost dying from the poisoned Israeli cookies. And we start talking. Then you're not going to believe what happened next. The waiter asks us if we want something to drink, but he's wearing the Star of David. So I'm like, I ain't about to drink no poisons lemonade from you. You Mossad agent. So anyway, I almost die again from Israeli lemonade poisoning.

And Erica is like, I'll just have some water, please. Which is obviously code for you better kill this bitch right now. Am I right? So we talk and we talk and she tells me I'm acting crazy or whatever. So I asked her to show me pictures of her of when she was younger. And she's like, why? So I'm like, oh, my God, she doesn't have any. So I just discovered she's actually a man. And I'm now talking to this man who is probably an Israeli spy sent here to kill me. So I just I get up.

I go to the bathroom. I dig a hole under the shitter like El Chapo. And I finally made it back to tell you guys the story and get paid millions by YouTube to keep you guys stupid and against Trump and turning point because I'm just a piece of shit like that. Anyway, thank you for your views, retards. That's not bad. That's that AI is pretty good. The real thing is almost as nutty. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, get ready. I am telling you, get ready. We have an explosive episode today.

Actually, I should say it's a non explosive episode, and you'll see why we're going to jump right into this, because after yesterday's episode, we were contacted by a variety of people with information. And it's time to state unequivocally that the steel neck quotation did not come from the surgeon. Okay, not only that, but it's odd that federal agents were, I would say, too involved at the hospital. When I tell you this story, your jaw is going to hit the floor.

We also have never before seen photos of the vehicle, I know I sound like a fed here, that Charlie was transported in to the hospital when they were trying to save his life. I'm telling you, my perspective is that all these leads are ramping up. The reason for that is because the general public is actually not receptive to what is very clearly a military grade psychological operation, complete with influencers and bodied activity on social media. We're so let down. It's over.

I'm never watching the show ever again. Candace took money. The people can see what you're doing, feds. They can see it. I can see it. And now we're gonna, you know, gotta go max today. Welcome back to Candace. So my takeaway from this, which was not AI, is that so the feds have mounted a military grade psychological operation against Candace and bots and influencers are saying she sucks. That's the takeaway from that. I, you know, that AI that I played. Yeah. I think it's part of the operation.

Oh, of course it is. But yeah, I see. I see it the same way. There's an there's an op to discredit and get rid of Candace Owens to put her not killer as she likes to sideliner permanently. And I think Tucker knows this because he doesn't want to get sidelined. And he this is so interesting. He didn't. I think Tucker's in on a lot of this stuff. I don't think he can be sidelined. Well, he's well, I don't trust. Listen to this, because this is the second time he's done this.

It was and he did like an eight minute interview with the Doha Morning Show, whatever it was. It's Doha this morning, everybody. Welcome to the desert. How are you doing? How's your oil stocks? Listen to what he says about Trump in this, but I left this beginning in because the lady says something kind of interesting. Do you feel you make quite you've made quite a few trips here, but he made quite a few trips here, quite a few trips. Does Tucker visit Doha a lot to get get his checks?

Something changed in the way you feel in the last couple of years. Do you feel I feel that I'm 56? My children are grown. I have an obligation from my perspective to tell the truth. In indecency and kindness, by the way, telling the truth does not mean people are pointing out their love. You know, there are obvious sins. No, telling the truth means telling the truth in love. What do you think is true? By the way, I've been wrong many times. I supported the Iraq war. OK, I've been wrong.

And I know that I've been wrong and I know that I will be wrong again. So I'm not claiming I have a monopoly on the truth. What I'm saying is, as an American citizen, I have a right to say what I think and I'm going to period, period. He always he does that a lot. I'm an American citizen. I have the right to say what I feel like I want to say, and that's it. I'm an American citizen, period.

How could this fight to reshape the American right possibly define how the U.S. engages with the Middle East? Could it potentially change everything? The president of the United States recently sided in public with an Arab country over Israel. Israel bombed Doha. Qatar is one of our most important allies in the region. Our largest air base is in this country, Qatar. Qatar hosts Hamas at the request of the United States government and the Israeli government for more than 10 years.

And Israel bombed a meeting here in Qatar in order to short circuit Donald Trump's peace process. This was an attack not just on Qatar, but on America. Donald Trump saw it that way. He said he saw it that way. And he forced the Israelis to apologize to the government of Qatar. Nothing like that has ever happened. There's never been a situation where the U .S. president publicly took the side of an Arab country over Israel. That just happened. That is a huge change. That is a seminal change.

What are its long-term effects? I can only guess. But we've never seen that before. This seems to be the message he wants to convey. So that kind of gives me pause as to where is he in this big podcaster thing, which also Go ahead. Also brings to mind this call that Trump brings Netanyahu into the Oval Office of the meeting, wherever they do that meeting. And he has Benjamin Netanyahu. Hey, he signs your checks, bro. You better get his name right.

So he brings him in and humiliates him in public, makes him make a public phone call to the Qataris apologizing for the bombing. This is bullcrap. This whole thing was rigged. It was set up for whatever reason to make Trump a certain, give him a certain gravitas with the Arabs and who knows what else. But this was this is nonsense if we are to believe it. Because this would never really happen. All of this that is happening, and it really has been going on for a while.

Nick Fuentes, I was aware of him years ago. And I know that you think he's a pro, and I'm not going to disagree. I cannot disagree with you on that. But he's something else. He is a punk rock podcaster. And I say this because everything he does is like punk rock. Punk rock, you know, the Sex Pistols, you know. I know exactly what you mean. Screw the Queen, you know, kicking down. Believe it or not, I was a punk rock fan during the era of the number of these bands. Oh, yeah?

What was your favorite punk rock band? Oh, it was the one band that, damn it, I can think of the name in a second. Peter, Paul and Mary? Yes, Peter, Paul and Mary. I especially like Mary when she ripped off her bra. Well, you had the Ramones. You had the Sex Pistols. You had, well, there you go. There's my knowledge. No, you don't have any. But no, there's one group that I really thought was fantastic. But I'd have to think about it. Anyway, it's a long time ago. But he's a punk rock kid.

And what he's doing is he's going against what was the one thing you could never say? Israel, no good. Jews, no good. Boom, there's Fuentes. I want to be with white people, not with black people. Boom, Fuentes. Women suck. Boom, Fuentes. It's punk rock podcasting. And I'm getting it now because this is all part of audience capture. And I was watching Dave Smith, part of the problem, because I do watch this stuff. You know, I try to stay informed. I try to figure out what is going on.

Why are these people so strange to me? Because, you know, we're boomers. I'm not officially a Gen X, face of Gen X, but call me a boomer. Dave Smith actually admitted it. He admitted audience capture. And here it is. You know, like a lot of us are kind of, you know, me and you and I think Candace and Tucker and like a lot of other people, essentially, the relationship here is us and the audience. We got to make something that the audience likes, and then we do well.

And if we make something the audience doesn't like, it won't do as well. There you go. That's exactly what you're doing. So if the audience says, yeah, Israel bad, you're going to do that. I don't even know if it's based on principles with these people. It's audience capture. And we don't do that. We don't do it. Yeah, we don't. No, we don't. We don't. We don't bother.

Well, it takes us out of our strike zone is deconstructing the media, looking for little tidbits, like the word, using the word target, target, subject and stuff like that. And that fascinates everybody at all times. But we don't, we're not a, like I use it in the newsletter, this phrase. Which is the sneer and smear type of podcast and the grievance type of podcast that just is designed to get audience just to do audience capture.

Yeah. And we don't, we don't qualify in either one of those categories. That's for sure. Well, we also don't count on YouTube money. We don't count on YouTube money. We don't need any of that stuff. We want to actually give you our opinions, which are often counter to the popular narrative. And people get really upset, really upset. Even just me calling Dave Smith. I called him out. Hey, John, we called out Dave Smith. Woo. That will get people upset. It's, it's amazing.

And we're like, okay, be upset then. It's fine. I'm not donating. Okay. They say don't donate people who say that never donate anyway. No, that's true. As we speak, the European commission, all 27 heads of the states of the European union are locked in a room and they're not coming out until they have a deal until they have a deal about stealing the Russian money and giving that to Ukraine. I have a couple of clips myself. Okay. Yeah. I'd love to hear your clips. Let's do your clips first.

You weren't prepared. Okay. No, I wasn't prepared because you jumped right into the topic. You said I have a couple of clips. And when you say that, I figure you, you got clips. Well, continue with your presentation as you figure out your clips. Here is the, uh, the, the, I think she's the foreign minister caught us. And she went in front of the microphones. You know, people are coming out from time to time from the meeting, like, oh, it's a tough meeting. Oh, you know, you gotta do stuff.

And it looks like we have, um, we have appeased Brussels or Belgium's issues with stealing the money and letting them take the rap for it. Then of course we have the discussions on the reparations loan. Now, um, the proposals that we have been working on, uh, also addressing Belgium's concerns. I think, uh, to go for the legislative proposal means that we all take the risk because it's a European proposal. So the risk and the burden is shared, uh, equally.

So, um, I think, uh, the issues that, uh, Belgium has raised, we have also addressed. So I hope that we get this over the finishing line. Um, Putin is banking. The finishing line shouldn't give them that. I understand Belgium is under a lot of pressure from, um, Russia, uh, from a European, uh, countries, but also from United States. And in order to get off that pressure, actually we should have a European proposal. Then Belgium will just abide by the law.

And, and, you know, whoever has any concerns can, you know, go to court against the European Union. But I think the fundamental issue is that Russia is causing the damage in Ukraine. So they should also be responsible for the reparations. And this reparations loan is based, uh, on that very idea. So let me get this straight. The very Russia that just last week you were saying, and all nodding in agreement to NATO's secretary general, Mark Rutte, Russia sees us as next, we're next.

Get under your beds, get your three-day emergency kits ready. Now, all of a sudden you're saying, well, you can just sue all of us then in the European Union cart, go ahead and sue us. What is it? Are you afraid that they're going to come and bomb you for their money that you stole? Or do you think they're just going to file a lawsuit? That's a good point. It's ridiculous. I think the clips I'm referring to are these Ukraine clips and I have three of them. Let me play one more money clip.

Okay. So this is Keir Starmer. Just to show you that we're tough guys here. We're going to steal some Russian money. Watch me do it. The United Kingdom issued a license to allow the funds from the sale of Chelsea football club to be transferred to humanitarian causes in Ukraine. Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich sold Chelsea in 2022 under pressure from the British government. The funds from the sale have since then been frozen.

UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now allowing him to use the money, but only to help Ukraine. Under the new license, proceeds must be directed to humanitarian causes in Ukraine, but future gains may be spent more broadly on victims of conflicts worldwide. The UK sanctioned Abramovich in a crackdown on Russian oligarchs after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which had triggered the rushed sale of the English Premier League football club.

The UK government has now promised to establish a foundation to disperse the funds headed by the former head of UNICEF UK. This is the worst idea ever. I have the, I have three better clips than that from the BBC. Okay. This is the Abramovich series. This is not the Ukraine ones. This, since you changed it kind of to Abramovich, because this has to be discussed. You're right. This is, Abramovich will kill you. He will kill you.

Well, not only that, but it's like, at the same time, you, you, if you're going to let the guy into the country to begin with, to invest in stuff. Yeah. Spend his money. And then he wants to, and then you force him to sell his stuff and then you steal his money. Are you kidding me? Three billion dollars worth. That's insane. So here we go. The Abramovich, it's called the Abramovich fiasco.

The British government is stepping up pressure on the Russian oligarch and former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich. If so, if you steal something from the store, you can just say, I'm stepping up pressure on your store. This is very interesting. Over a financial pledge he made when he was forced to sell the football club. Back in 2022, Mr. Abramovich promised all the money he made from the sale would be used to benefit victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

But the funds still haven't been released because of a disagreement on how they should be used. Now, the government is threatening to take legal action against him. This was Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking in Parliament. My message to Abramovich is this. The clock is ticking. Honor the commitment that you made and pay up now. And if you don't, we're prepared to go to court. So every penny reaches those whose lives have been torn apart by Putin's illegal war.

Yes, we need to buy more homes in Europe. Take his money. Wow. It's astonishing to me they're going to steal this guy's money. And I think what he was referring to is if he made any profit on the sale, not to all the money, which is what they're trying to go for. But what they're just trying to go for some money. This way you would get just how much money you got. It's now ours. And we're going to spend it over here because you because you, Abramovich, the owner of the Chelsea Football Club.

You are responsible for Ukraine. Yeah. Anyway, so part two. Our political correspondent, Harry Farley, has been telling me more about the background to this row and why it's gone on for so long. When Roman Abramovich sold Chelsea Football Club, he made two and a half billion pounds. But that was frozen. That money was frozen in the UK because of British sanctions on Russian business people and representatives around the world. And so that money is frozen. It is stuck.

Roman Abramovich cannot access it himself. And he previously said he would be happy for that money to be used for all victims of the war. Now, that is something that the British government doesn't agree with. It wants that money to be used for humanitarian purposes, for Ukrainian victims of the war. And they're concerned that Mr Abramovich wants it to go to both sides, so meaning Russians could also benefit. That is the essence of the dispute.

Because this money is technically still Mr Abramovich's, even though he cannot access it, there has been this stalemate ever since 2022. And this is really the latest iteration of the government stepping up its pressure on Mr Abramovich, showing signs of irritation. But of course, irritation in itself doesn't release that money. Yeah. I mean, is there any indication that Roman Abramovich is actually going to give this money over to Ukraine? Not at the moment, to be honest.

The UK government is threatening legal action. The UK government is saying that Mr Abramovich needs to honour that commitment that he made. They're saying that they'd be prepared to take this to court. And the next steps, as it were, is Mr Abramovich has 90 days to respond, and after which the UK government could, at that point, take this to court. We haven't actually heard from Mr Abramovich or his representatives today, so we don't know if there is any shift in his position.

But at the moment, at least, this is just threats and, I suppose, a toughening of language from British ministers. Hold on a second. So did they take it or not? It sounded like Starmer was saying, we're taking your money and it's done. And this makes it sound like there's still some mechanisms. Yeah, they don't. In other words, they haven't taken it yet. Let's play the last part. This is from yesterday.

Of course, there's about to be an EU summit where leaders are going to be urged to agree to use Russia's frozen assets to give money to Ukraine and give them a huge loan. Yeah, there is going to be exactly that summit.

And there was over the weekend, towards the end of last week, some pretty confident noises coming from people I was speaking to in government, government officials, believing that this could be a real moment and a real turning point where those frozen Russian assets across Europe, most of which are actually held in Belgium, could be released and given to Ukraine. There is less optimism now, I am sensing. We'll find out the details tomorrow.

But certainly the sort of the excitement, this is going to be a big breakthrough. Obviously, this has been talked about for months and months. The excitement that tomorrow could be a breakthrough, I think, is waning slightly. And there seems to be a little bit more opposition and hesitation, because it is a, legally very complicated to release these frozen assets and spend them on fighting, on giving them to Ukraine in order to fight Russia.

The legal complexity is one aspect, and there is also political concern that Russia could then sue the countries who are holding these funds. Again, what happened to, he's going to come and invade us and kill us? Oh, yeah, that's a good point. He can sue us, he can just sue us. But what got me on that clip was the fact that they're excited about stealing the money. Yes, very excited. Oh, I mean, oh, we're going to steal the money. This is great. It makes you feel good, makes you feel like a man.

It shows you what a bunch of corrupt pricks are running these countries in Europe. They're criminals. Yes. Hello. Gambling. Don't look at our capital. There's no criminals there. Never, never happened. Let's listen. Okay, so I can play my, I got my three Ukraine clips. I think it'll be the, I can't talk about this any after this. This is the, we'll start with the Ukraine update. This is a BBC clip.

Ukraine's President Zelensky is called on allies to show Russia that it's pointless to continue with its war. Pointless. He was speaking ahead of a European leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday, where they'll decide what to do with more than $200 billion of frozen Russian assets. Reports say Washington has been pressuring European leaders not to use the money to help Ukraine. Vladimir Putin has again insisted he will achieve all of his expansionist goals in Ukraine.

He said Russia would liberate what he called its historic lands by military force or diplomacy. Yeah, this is kind of a meme in the British circles is expansionist goals. Yeah, yeah. Expansionists, revisionists, you know. Which is supposedly Russian, you know, part of early Russia. People have to remember that where was modern Russia founded? Yes, you mentioned that in the last show, it was in Kiev. Or, I'm sorry, KIEV! I want some chicken Kiev!

So that's where it was, that's where the modern Russia was founded in Kiev. And so now you're just Putin's puppet talking about revisionists. Well, let's go with the Ukraine finale. Over recent months and days, European leaders have been warning that Russia poses a threat to the security of Europe, despite ongoing peace negotiations in Ukraine. On Tuesday, European countries closest to Russia called on the EU to prioritise defending their borders.

Today, Vladimir Putin dismissed that as hysteria, but he says Russia will take Ukraine by military means unless Kyiv and its allies do more to engage with US peace proposals. Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg sent this report from Moscow. Is Vladimir Putin ready for peace? Does he accept the need for compromise? It doesn't sound like it. President Putin told military chiefs that the goals of his special military operation would be achieved.

Referring to Ukraine, Mr Putin said, if the adversary and its foreign patrons do not want to have a substantive discussion, then Russia will liberate its historic lands on the battlefield. Historic lands? That is a reference to Ukrainian territory Moscow claims to have annexed. They've forgotten their history too, even when they're trying to make fun of it. And he says at the very end, the last three words, he says, claims to have annexed. Yes, claim. They didn't annex it, they claimed.

Anytime, by the way, people out there, this is one of our deconstruction tips. The use of the word claims is loaded and bullcrap. I mean, it should be he says, but the fact that he claims to have annexed means it's, you know, in the mind, in your brain, it puts in a notion that this is not true or it's dubious or the guy's a bad person or what claims. So let's go to the second clip. He called for the expansion of a security buffer zone. In other words, to seize even more Ukrainian land.

His tone was defiant, belligerent and regarding European leaders, abrasive. Everyone thought that in a short amount of time they could destroy Russia, President Putin said, and the European swine immediately joined the work of the previous US administration in the hope of profiting from the collapse of Russia. Vladimir Putin claims, claims, claims, claims he does want peace. But his comments suggest that's peace on his terms.

Over nearly four years of war, his army has suffered huge losses on the battlefield. And yet, Mr. Putin speaks positively about what has transpired. He claimed today that thanks to the special military operation, Russia had restored its status as a fully sovereign country. Steve Rosenberg. Yes. Excellent. Jew. Okay. That's a good one. Yeah. Claims, claims, claims, claims, claims. I mean, this is terrible. These guys are no, well, there's a new player that has entered the field.

Our new player is a blaze Florence met Metro welly Metro Metro welly. I think, uh, she is the new head of MI six. And she's kind of cute actually, in a, in a spooky kind of way. Uh, blaze BLA ISE Florence Metro welly, M E T R E W E L. I just look up MI six chief. Interesting family background. Her dad, Constantine Metro welly was born as Constantine Dobrofsky. And he was the son of a Nazi collaborator, uh, who operated in Oblast, the Nazi occupied Ukrainian Soviet socialist Republic in 1943.

So do you think she has skin in the game just from a, from a background that looks like a spook? Are you kidding me? Yeah, she's a, she's a total spook, but you know, she's from the, from the Nazi party heritage. You know, of course we can't, uh, as Tucker would say, we don't punish children for what their parents did. No, of course not.

But it is just interesting, interesting tidbit because maybe she heard around the Christmas tree, you know, like, uh, Putin, bad Russia, bad everybody, bad Hitler. Good. I don't know what she heard, but she came out and she did about an eight minute statement. And I pulled a couple of clips. I'm going to break with tradition and I won't give you a global threat tool, but I will focus here on Putin's Russia. We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive expansionist and revisionist Russia.

There it is. Expansionist and revisionist Russia, the scourge seeking to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO. I find it harrowing that hundreds of thousands have died with the toll mounting every day because of Putin's historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population. But Putin should be in no doubt. Our support is enduring.

The pressure we apply on Ukraine's behalf will be sustained because it is fundamental, not just to European sovereignty and security, but to global stability. Okay, so Miss New Spike, Spook, Spike, Spook. I don't know why she did this, but this turned into a recruitment video saying, you know, we need more people in the MI6. We need Spooks and a very specific kind of Spook. And many of our trolls in the troll room qualify.

Our world is being remade and for the first time we are all at the heart of it. My service must now operate in this new context too. Not just expert on hostile states, terrorism, proliferation and more, but also fluent in technology, able to anticipate the second and third order effects of advances that reshape the world in minutes, not months.

And as China will be a central part of the global transformation taking place this century, it's essential that we, as MI6, continue to inform the government's understanding of China's rise and the implications for UK national security. Mastery of technology will infuse everything we do, not just in our labs, but in the field, in our trade craft, and even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer.

We will become as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages. What? What? Python? Hey, ma'am, get a clue, girl. Rust is the new language. What are you talking about? Python. Python. Python. Python. Python. There's fluent in code. We need to speak Python. We'll become as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages.

Under my leadership, MI6 will continue to attract Britain's best. Hey, I'm a vibe coder in Python. Does that count? We need vibe coders at MI6, people. Linguists and data scientists, case officers and engineers, behavioral experts and technologists. We need people who walk in the shoes and get in the heads of our adversaries. We need people who think differently, challenge assumptions and act decisively. All can thrive and make a difference at MI6. Call 1-800-PYTHON-MI6.

I just found that to be odd that she's recruiting Python programmers. Python. Python. Python. And listen to this 22 seconds and tell me if you think she's talking about the CIA. So we will work with our agents and we will continue to engage directly and with respect with states and organizations currently working against us. Away from the glare of the media, we will use MI6's convening power wherever we can to make a material different, bringing parties together to defuse tensions.

What do you think? When she said parties working against us? Yeah. I don't know if they're... She ends it with to end tensions. Well, of course there's tension. We all know what you're doing. Well, I have to believe that they're clueless about this. And the reason I say... So I had a chat with the telegraph... Really? MI6 is doing most of the PSYOPs on Candace Owens. Yeah, but I don't think that they're clued into... I'm not convinced that they're completely clued in with what Trump's up to.

Really? They're that dumb? Well, this brings me to a conversation I had with our columnist buddy at the Telegraph, which is UK's most honest newspaper. I had a chat with Doug Orlovsky. He wasn't even with the Register before? Yeah, he was a Register guy. And he said that he admires the nexus arguments that we've been making. He actually listens to the show. Oh, hey, Orlovsky. Andrew, how you doing, buddy? And so he says, but he says that they're so stupid that there's no way that this is...

They're just too dumb to do anything. He says, you have no idea how stupid ruling classes are here. And I said, yeah, well, the fact that we can figure out what they're up to shows how stupid they are. I think it's just a confirmation that we're right. Yeah. And the counter argument to him was he couldn't... He couldn't counter. No, of course he can't. Because so it's like, you know, so we have to assume there's a stupidity level and a naivete at some point.

And this woman doesn't look like a brainiac and she says Python. You made my point. If you're talking, we need Python, which may somehow be related to AI. Someone told her all this AI stuff, it's all written in Python. So we need Python coders. Okay. I'll do a call up for Python coders. Fine. Yeah. I'll get my, what's that thing called? My PyCharm IDE. I'll get that all rocking. Yeah. I'm ready. I'm ready, both. Who are we hitting first? Who's their first adversary?

On the other side of the equation is UK air chief Marshall. I think that means he's in charge of the air force. I have no idea. Yeah. And this guy's name is Sir Richard Knighton. And here's what he said. Perhaps the most obvious impact on all of us will be the cost of building resilience. Sons and daughters, colleagues, veterans will all have a part to play, to build, to serve, and if necessary, to fight. And more families will know what sacrifice for our nation means. Oh yeah.

That's going over real big in England. What? What? You want us to fight who? Fight what? What? War? Huh? No, no, no, no, no, no, son. We're not going to do that. There's not a single British kid who wants to do this. Remember when this kicked off, there are all these TikTok videos. I'm not fighting. They're not going to fight. I got other things to do. And in Germany, where they just reinstated the registration for voluntary service, whoa, the kids there aren't having it either.

Early December in Berlin, instead of being in class, thousands of young Germans are out on the streets protesting the return of military service. For this generation about to reach adulthood, the countdown has already started. From January onwards, young men like Reuben and Eva must register for potential military service. I think it's outrageous that I can't even decide for myself whether I'm going to the front or not. Young people were hit the hardest by COVID -19. Noodle boy.

As a sauerkraut kid. Young people were hit the hardest by COVID -19 and by all sorts of state decisions. And now on top of that, they want to send us to war. It's nonsense. Berlin has voted to reintroduce voluntary military service, but with a clause that worries youngsters most. If recruitment numbers fall short, conscription becomes compulsory again. Across the country, it's all hands to the pumps. Anti-conscription committees have sprung up, like here in Munich. My sign says, form committees.

Say no to mobilisation for war. For Tim and his friends, who stage agitprop events and rallies, stopping re-militarisation is now urgent. I don't want Germany to be involved in another war, or even to be able to start one. That's exactly where this return, or rather reactivation, of conscription will lead. So yeah, they're not like American kids. I'm gonna get them ragheads. Towelheads, here we come. Watch out, Saddam. No, it's like, uh-uh. It's ridiculous. I can't believe it.

They want me to go fight. I can't even choose if I want to die. I can't even choose where I want to go. Yeah. Noodle boy. No, sauerkraut kid. That's the new one. That's the German noodle boy. Sauerkraut kid. That's what he is. So yeah, no one. But Europe, see, this is the thing. The Europeans don't even, first of all, everybody's tuned out. No one's listening to this nonsense.

All they know is there's rovers and Bentleys and high-end vehicles parked on sidewalks with Ukrainian license plates, occupying homes that they can't rent. That's what the kids care about, because that's the reality of the situation. And they're sick of that. They're like, eh, what is this? And they're tuned out. They're not listening to all this nonsense. It's like, I can't even get a home to rent if I want one. So they're not listening.

And now, all of a sudden, it's like, hey, all that stuff you haven't been paying attention to, well, now you got to go. Cannon fodder. Yeah, cannon fodder. Cannon fodder. They realize it, yeah. It's sad. It's sad, sad, sad. And I just don't see a rosy future for the European Union. Just doesn't sound like... Well, I never saw a rosy future for them personally. Well, the whole thing was kind of a strange idea to begin with, but yeah. It was done, and it was only done to fight us.

The whole reason for the European Union from the get-go was to create a economic system that had less problems with moving goods from in-between countries and being able to consolidate an operation that can compete with the United States. Yeah. And so now they've... And it turns out that China was the real problem. Yes. And now they're doing the Mercure agreement. I think it's called Mercure, where they're opening up a trade with some South American countries and all the farmers are like, what?

Because if those guys can use fertilizer, we can't. They can shoot up their cattle with anything that we can't. And so now we're going to be importing food from other countries. They're truly nuts. It's bad. Christina's going to be arriving here. She'll be here about 6.30 tonight. I'm going to work on these kids for a week. Don't go back. Don't go back. They're going to go back anyway. That's my guess. But they'll be, you know... Okay, I got a couple of clips that go to domestic stuff.

I want to get the Reiner stuff out of the way. We didn't talk about it in the last show. We didn't want to. Yeah. But more importantly, is this Brown shooting? Yes. And I thought from the get-go that it was a targeted shooting of the Republican girl. I don't know anything about the Republican girl. Two people died. One of them was the head of the... the vice president of the Republican club at Brown University. And there's probably five Republicans at Brown University.

And none of them are my family members because all my cousins went to Brown. Well, it's all Democrats and all liberals. It's all progressives now. It's super tards. All of them. I love them, but they're tards. So you end up with this woman killed. And so it seemed like a targeted killing. And there's a room full of 20 to 60 people. And the guy comes in and yells something and then shoots her. And then some other guy gets shot. And then he peppers the place and nicks 11 other people.

And not one person can say what he said. I know what he said. Okay, let's go. 11 people shot. Wait a minute. Kill the Republican fascist is what he said. Is that what he said? That's my guess. Oh, okay. Now, this is... I still have to set it up. This is Jesse Waters. And he brought on a guy who is a... First, he gives a little overview of the incompetence of the investigation. And then brings in a guy who... Part two, the second clip brings in a guy who's a profiler. So part one...

11 people shot, two dead. One was the most prominent Republican on campus. And we don't have any answers or videos or pictures. We don't know what he shouted, if he had an accomplice, the size of his gun, the number of witnesses, where he is, how he got out. And the people trying to ask questions are getting told, shut up, by the Rhode Island senator. For people who have no idea what they're talking about, to offer their stupid and ill -informed views about what happened all over the Internet.

So I would please, just from a law enforcement perspective, ask anyone who sees this to just shut up. They're asking for the public's help, but they're telling us to shut up. They arrested the wrong guy, got no video, and didn't even know if the brown cop cars had dashcams. They're in no position to lecture anybody. This is completely unacceptable, the whole thing. Obvious Mossad. So they bring this guy in, and this just makes my point.

But the incompetence of this investigation and this guy, the chief of police's Perez character, the whole thing is hilarious, as far as I'm concerned. But this is the part that I'm absolutely convinced that this was a hit job on this woman. Retired FBI criminal profile, James Fitzgerald. Do you have a theory on this case? Was this a crime of opportunity? This was a soft target, guy goes in, comes out, and that's it.

Kind of mad at the school, or was he going in there to kill a specific individual? Yeah, in my earliest media hit on Monday morning, that's what I said. And as soon as I saw the name of Ms. Cook, who was the vice president of the Republican club, I just couldn't rule that out. I look at this as a profiler. I've been on many task forces over the years, anthrax and the murder of a DEA agent, two professors murdered at Dartmouth College at their home.

And we have to walk in with every single option. Was someone specifically targeted? And to me, it's more than a coincidence that this young woman was killed, who happens to be one of the few probably representatives of the Republican side of the House in that particular, very far left university. Something isn't right there. And Jesse, before anything else, I'm also a forensic linguist. What the heck did that guy yell when he walked in the door?

There's such a thing as ear witness evidence, not just eyewitness, ear witness. Somebody has to know. And if it comes out later that the Brown people, the Brown University or the province PD is holding back what this person said because it wasn't politically correct, that's going to be really, really a problem. Yeah, that's going to that's going to have legal repercussions. And that's where it stands. Well, that's that's a better theory than I've heard.

I just see a lot of people posting about how they don't know anything. And it was DEI guys and all kinds of nonsense. I don't know. It's all sad. It's always sad. Real Casper milquetoast is the mayor to the whole thing is pretty funny. Well, it is sad, but it's also I think I have the first one of the season. It did not come from Wal-Mart. Burlington, are you familiar with Burlington? Burlington Factory. Burlington.

Well, they have they have a chain of the train company now, Burlington Department Stores. I think it is. I've never seen one. I don't think they're in California, but they are the first this year. First sighting of the Secret Santa. An anonymous Santa has been performing Christmas miracles by paying off layaway accounts at a Burlington near Wilmington down in Delaware. I just love this story.

The man, he spent about eight thousand dollars paying off 50 accounts with balances ranging from thirty eight dollars to hundreds of dollars. He then walked out of the store, refused to be recognized for his generosity. And this man has apparently been quietly paying off these layaways for twenty five years. He agreed to go on the record if he could remain anonymous. OK, there you go. It's still not the big the big store that I want.

But Burlington has has won this year as the first Secret Santa layaway promotion. I would I would give them the score. They win. I think they win. Yeah. Yeah. They did it. The timing was good. They got it out there. You heard it. Yeah. Well, you're on this show now. Here we go. I always go. I do have Google Alerts set up. I'm always like, is there a Secret Santa? That's a good. Well, the new thing is influencers, which I'm sure can also be paid like an influencer goes in and pay.

But but they're but they're not paying because the influencers, they're not going to do anything anonymous. Hello. No, that's not good for your influencer score. So they go to the exit of the store and say, hey, here's a grand go pay off your layaway. Yeah, it's a couple thousand dollars. Look at me. Like and subscribe. Smash that like button. Like you smash the button. Speaking of, you know, Tina and I, we love our Christmas movies and really. Yeah, we do.

And Netflix and Amazon have flooded the zone with crap, with wow. There are a couple of good ones. We've enjoyed a few, but I'd say about 75 percent. We know the story. We know it's going to be romantic love interest. But the actors, they look like they failed at gay porn. It's really unbelievable. Every single time you can now you can just look at the icon like, no, we're not going to watch that. This is some guy who failed at the gay porn industry.

And now he's acting in these Christmas movies. But Kiefer Sutherland has a good one out, Tinseltown, which is cute. But also most of them are in London. They're all in London for some reason. And it's the most unbelievable thing you've ever seen. Not a single Muslim on the street. Oh, it's so pretty. It's London. It'll nice there. Christmas time is all all kinds of white people walking around with packages and holiday cheer. No Muslims. Come on, Netflix. Come on.

They're trying to bullshit you big time. OK, well, speaking of this, I got to be able to talk about that sort of thing. So you brought it up. This is the Oscars. Did you hear about this? It's funny. I was just about to play my Oscars clip. So we'll play yours from the BBC. The Oscars are to be streamed on YouTube from twenty twenty nine after the tech firm outbid traditional broadcasters. It will be free for more than two billion global users. Here's the CBS version a little bit longer.

The biggest night in Hollywood is on the move. The Oscars are leaving ABC and linear TV in twenty twenty eight to start streaming on YouTube in twenty twenty nine through twenty thirty three. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it struck this deal, which includes the red carpet to allow the Oscars to reach the largest worldwide audience possible. The Oscars have aired on ABC for half a century and YouTube declined to tell us how much they paid for these rights.

But ABC had been paying about one hundred million dollars a year. Now, the shift reflects the way viewers are consuming content nowadays and underlines the dominance of YouTube, which is owned by Google. Well, there's really a couple of things at play here that I think are worth a short discussion. The first is no linear timeline. You know, this is this is a big deal that you don't have to hit the news, you know, like, oh, we're running late. Oh, hurry up, everybody. Oh, we cut this.

We cut that so they can just run for hours and hours, which, of course, is also the downside, because which is going to happen. Yeah, it's going to be even more boring than ever. Yes. And by the way, I should mention that her actual use of the term linear TV. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I thought it was interesting because they're now making they're they're making the cut. This is like a moment in time where, OK, there's two things here.

We got linear TV that's different and we have our, you know, the Internet stuff. Well, the difference and I noticed this so much, you know, like a buddy of mine has a morning show here and he had to fill in for the next host. Her husband was sick or whatever. And he says, hey, can I call you for a hit? He he was making a joke, but we both think it's kind of not funny. And, you know, so then we have to talk in between the commercial breaks. I hate it. It's like you can't you feel rushed.

You can't just say something. And I'm constantly being barraged by Dutch television shows and radio show. Hey, when you when you happen to be in Holland, we want you to come on our show. It's like, no, no, I'm not going to sit there and have to be rushed because we got oh, we got sorry. I got to cut you off. We got to go. Oh, end of the show sucks. It's like this podcast. Imagine like, oh, John, we got to oh, oh, we're two minutes over time. It's already three o'clock.

We already missed the affiliates. We missed the news at the top of the hour. Oh, no. But about the commercials. No, all of that. It's it's annoying. And just how television people in general are. Yeah, we want to. We want to interview you. And OK, well, that's fine. I'll do an interview. Yes. So we'll have Babette and she'll call you tomorrow for the pre-interview. It's a pre-interview. Yeah, it's like, no, no, I don't do. But but everybody does the pre-interview.

I'm not doing your pre-interview. I'm not interested. Let's have it be spontaneous. Oh, oh, no. Can't have that. I kind of understand the position about that if they don't know you, because some people just can't carry a spontaneous interview. That's a problem. Yeah. And by the way, just to plug something, I'm on the late I'll be on the latest great America show I did. Oh, how did that go? I did a one hour hit hit. And I thought it went well. I got to plug the show quite a bit.

We talked a little bit about your theories and my theories and our theories. And they were there. It was a good it was moved along. It was a good conversation. Those two guys are pretty good. They're great. They're great. Yeah, they've gotten. Yeah, they are our disciples. Graham and Grimes. Graham and Grimes. They are our disciples. Yeah, they are big fans of the show. Yeah, we have we have bred them. They've been bred out of the no agenda Gitmo nation soil. That's where they've come from.

I'm very proud of them. It's like millennial media offensive. It's right. No, I and I and I gave him a nod by talking about hockey for a few minutes before you did that. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Something you got to do if you're talking to Canadians. Hey, you switch from from from sumo to hockey. You are so multi talented.

Got a note from Rob, the constitutional lawyer this morning about two newly unsealed lawsuits in California, which allege that meta meta knowingly connected sexual predators with kids knowingly. It's a new day. There's a predator. What are we going to do with him? This little Joyce over there, a little 12 year old that says put him up, put him together. Pretty much pretty much the predator posed as young girls and persuaded teenage boys to send sexually explicit photos.

This, of course, is part of the seven, six, four. Once the predators had the photos in hand, they'd spring the trap and sextort the teen boys by threatening to send the pics to their friends and family. These two boys, two boys ended up killing themselves and now their parents are suing. But a meta allegedly knew that it's here comes a driven follower suggestion engine. Do you think that's on a paper somewhere? What you got both?

You both got the AI driven follower suggestion engine, at least give it an acronym ad for Sue as a hunting ground for sexual predators. But instead of taking simple safety precautions, it purportedly called in its growth team, which estimated that safety precautions would cost one point five million users a year. So the AI driven recommendations allegedly the Pinto can. But how do you how do you figure out because of the exploding gas tank?

Yeah. And they had they did a calculation saying, yeah, we better paying. It's better that they die and we give them the two million bucks as opposed to doing the read the retooling. So instead of losing one point five million teen users a year from their platform, not from life, the AI driven recommendations allegedly continued affecting some two million child accounts in three months of these. Twenty two percent resulted in follow requests.

Moreover, while AI is adept at connecting people is allegedly not good at stopping sextortion once it begins, according to the suit, reporting mechanisms are broken and meta refuses to act. Which brings me to several notes we received from people who were appalled that we were laughing about this. Yes, I got that. But before you go there, I want to mention one thing. Why don't they just try to find these guys and arrest them? Why would suing matter? Why don't you try to find the 760?

Is it does it take a genius to track down somebody? You know, are they are they that good? Come on. Well, according to Dame Chaos Pixie, the husband to Dame Chaos Pixie, I'm sorry, every one of the 15 nationwide FBI offices has at least two of these cases that they're working. The group loves to prey on tweens and teens. Yeah, OK. We understand how it works.

I read almost daily the reports where spurned exes threaten to share nudes or scammers try to get money out of victims by threatening the same. The seven, six, four victims are not the same thing. OK, so it's easy to mock the victims of exes and scammers. These kids are actual victims. But the thing is, we were talking about digital ID as the obvious solution to this. And maybe that was my retort to the note, which is what Kash Patel himself has pretty much said.

I think it behooves the FBI to not pick these people up immediately because they they want digital ID. And by the way, I know a good point. In other words, sit on the investigation so we can make it worse so we can then get our way, get our way. Exactly. And I'll just say I know a lot of kids, teenagers up to driving age who do not have a phone and all the parents are not going to give my kid a phone. OK. And you know what? These kids actually stand out there. I think they're smarter.

They have better communication skills. They're doing better with the opposite sex because they hang out at group meetings like church. Crazy. And the only thing that some of them have, most of them have, is they get an Apple Watch, which they can text with. And the parents lock down all of the other apps, which I think is decent. It's reasonable. You can't go crazy texting on your on your your Apple Watch can only send a mom. Hey, mom, can you pick me up? You know, that's it.

And they do stuff together. They play golf, all kinds of outdoor activities. Yes. Golfing is big in Texas. Golfing is big everywhere. Yeah. So, you know, the real the parents are the problem. That's that's the problem. They just. Yeah. The parents are on the phone half the time. Oh, it's the best example for your kid. Yeah. They're on the phone all the time. The parents are on the phone scrolling. I can't tell you how many people have almost. These guys are walking down the street.

I don't get it. You're walking down the street reading your phone. You're not even looking up. You know, I once while you want to kind of move just to a certain view, you were seeing the guy. Here he comes. He's walking or a girl. One, it doesn't matter. The sex is irrelevant. Now they're walking up the street. They're looking at their phone, boom, boom, and walking along.

You just want to walk in a certain way and just kind of walk in front of them and then then stop as if you've been standing there and let them walk right into you. You do this on a regular basis. I do as much as I can. We got a note. From one, I think he's Gen X. Both you and John seem to be befuddled by dudes not wanting chicks. Allow me to enlighten you. Yes, actually, we are right. Allow me to enlighten you both. We do, but they're out of reach due to their expectations.

Well, there's this issue. Yeah, I think it's real. Young men are shifting more trad body count matters and the women have unrealistic and entitled requirements. The rules of six are a thing. Yeah, he says for the boomers. OK, I've heard of what the rules I read. I read six feet tall, six pack abs, six figure salary and younger men might have six pack abs. I think was was also a six inch. Oh, no. For me, that was the real. That's the original six.

For me, he says I'm twice divorced, 52 year old male, and it's gross. It's why most men have checked out using the Internet for anything to. I thought it was your Gen X, your Gen X if you're 52. I think so. Yeah, you have to be. I guess so. It's why most men have just checked out using the Internet for anything other than a hookup is dead, not because of bots, but because of the poison. My last GF was a grad student. Plot twist.

I know I've been moderately successful and now I think maybe a mate a little bit more mature. Hell, no. These old bats are more entitled than the younger ones. The wine hasn't aged gracefully. It's soured. Not a one off opening reply to a comment about this or that online. How much do you make? First question. Yeah, I think this is this happened in the past 10 years, particularly when the pendulum swung so hard the other way that, in fact, I think there's EEOC lawsuits coming.

White men were discriminated against in business, in schools. You couldn't get a job. Welcome to that. You just introduced the op. I did send you a. Yeah, I got it. I put it in the show. Yeah, this is there's an op going on and I don't know what the point of it is, but I went back and forth to Brunetti on this because he's I sent him because, you know, he's he's your deconstruction partner now. No, he's a guy. Yeah. Well, when you take it, when you take your break and he's coming on.

So, no, he he didn't see it as an op and. I'm seeing it as an op because here's how so far here's how the op is gone. It started with Matt Taibbi promoting that article, which is in the show notes. It's an article in Compaq magazine where a white guy is moaning and groaning about whites were being screwed. And and so that went to Gutfeld. And it couldn't.

The reason I went back and forth with Brunetti is because out of the blue, Brunetti sent me, although he'd read the article from Compaq, he sent me a presentation on Instagram, which appeared out of the blue almost at the same time of a whole slide deck going on. And I'm very professionally done on Insta. Bang, bang, bang. Here's what's going on. Here's what's going on. So I've gotten four. And if if this shows up, you actually gave me number five because you brought it up.

But if this shows up on the Today Show, then 60 Minutes and here and there, there's an op underlying it. I don't know what the point of it is. But it's something going on. I find it interesting that the most privileged white male with hot model wife is the one who's interested in this issue with a million with millions in the bank. Who's this Brunetti? Well, he's not interested. That's the point I'm trying to make here. He didn't think he still would. He'd argue it's not an op.

I'm just full of crap. Oh, I see. I see. And I'm seeing I'm already seeing it as an op. And he doesn't see he only saw the couple of things I'm going to see a bunch of it. And then you brought it up. So whether it's whether it's an op or not, the point I wanted to make is I think women have really they're the ones that were not not necessarily intentional, but just I think intentional. Well, I'm not going with the coincident unintentionality aspect to any.

No, I mean, they were elevated like crazy and told told that you shouldn't have children do your career. And now exactly as this note says, these women are 30. They're super privileged. They're lonely. All these tick tock women, you realize that all the tick tock women you are playing on the show are lonely. They're lonely, lonely, lonely. Because let's face it, if you have a man in your life, you're not on tick tock like that, except for Candace. But and that's dubious. Yeah, very dubious.

So these are lonely women who use filters and all kinds of stuff to make them look good because everyone else does because I need to look as good as the next person. And it's been very destructive. So, you know, I think it used to be just fashion magazines that women had to live up to. Now it's everybody and they've been elevated like you. You're the boss girl. You go, girl. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

So well, there's a lot of them that think highly of themselves and they you take one look at him and you say, why do you think highly of yourself? You look like crap. And with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the crap in the way the girl looks. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John. In the morning to the troll. What happened to you? I lost your sound effects in the morning to the trolls.

Now we're dead in the water, man. We're dead in the 1495. We're dead. We're dead. We're dead. I tell you, of course, if I had 1495 people show up at my door, I'd feel different about it. But that's it for the troll room. They're listening. Or if he had 1400 people donating for today's show. Dream on, baby. That's not the life of a value for value podcaster. No, sir. Nope. We just have to depend on not capturing the audience, just speaking our mind. You know why? Because we're Americans, period.

I'm practicing my Tucker rant. I'm an American. I will speak my mind. I don't, I don't bow down to anybody, period. And that keeps us in the, in the, in a lower tax bracket, for sure. These trolls are listening, probably at noagendastream.com. You can also, from there, you can log into the troll room. They may be listening. A lot of them are on the modern podcast apps. This is so much fun. Modern podcast apps. You can get one at podcastapps.com. And we have this live feature.

A lot of these shows are live. When Darren goes live, rock and roll pre -show. When Planet Rage goes live, everyone's doing this live stuff. And it's in the same app. It's like, it's like an awakening. Oh, I can get a live show. And on demand, yes, within 90 seconds of publishing, you'll see it show up in your modern podcast app. So as far as- But what would be a modern podcast app? Podverse, Fountain, TrueFans, Podcast Guru. Well, let's look at podcastapps.com. Podcastapps.com.

And let me tell you, there's a lot of them. So TrueFans, Podverse, Podcast Guru, Castamatic, Fountain, Ellen Beat, CurioCaster, Podcast Addict, PodLP. There's a lot of them. Yeah, PodLP is for the old, this big in South American Africa, the flip phones, the cheap Chinese things. Yeah, there's a ton of them. PocketCast. I don't know if PocketTest does live yet. But there's, I mean, there's a lot. Those are the ones that do the live stuff. There's a lot. There's a lot.

Yeah, it's an amazing little thing we've done here. We've saved podcasting. Saved it from the evil empire. And since- Maybe you'll get your Peabody award. Oh, I doubt it. You know what? I don't. I would refuse it. Like Kanye, I'd be like, I'm going to flush it down the toilet if they send one to me. We do this show, Value for Value, which - Flush it down the toilet. Yeah, clog the toilet again.

We do the show, Value for Value, which we pioneered years ago, knowing that audience capture was not our game. We also never really wanted to have any kind of conversation with advertisers because it's a pain in the butt. You know, if you have some kind of product and you want to support us and you got to mention your product, we'll talk about it. And if we like it, we'll say we like it. If we don't, we'll just like, okay, thanks. No, some of the stuff we can't check.

Like we don't- We don't know. We're not near Martel Hardware. We have not checked Martel Hardware. Correct. I'm sure he seems like a good guy. Yeah, seems like a very good guy. Although, according to him, you blocked him. You blocked his email. Yeah, I said that. I noticed. You have no idea what people get. So your email server returns a message and has a little traffic light with the red illuminated, like you've been blocked for unspecified, for spam or language, language, language.

Usually for language, yeah. If you cuss me out in the email, it will get through. Oh, there you go. No, that eliminates 40% of your email. That's not a bad idea. No, not at all. You can support the show. Time, talent, treasure is what we accept. Time and talent, you know, giving us a boots on the ground report, organizing a meetup, helping us out in any kind of production way. We're still looking for a great idea for a Christmas show. We've had a couple.

Some interesting ones, like I would love to hear some producer notes. I can't imagine I have to figure out which producer notes to put in. That's still good. Someone like Red Book Show. Okay, where were you in 2024? We did the Red Book Show. And I appreciate that everyone's thinking about it. What was the other one? Tips of the day. I don't think we have enough tips. Yeah, there's not that many. No, it's not enough. What was it? Oh, election predictions. Well, that'll be a 25-minute show.

That's no good. We've only had a few elections. Four? Are we on our fourth? Let me see. Obama. Obama. Trump. Biden. Trump. We've had five. Two Obamas, two Obamas. We caught both of them, I think, didn't we? Yeah. Yeah, we had two Obamas. We caught two Obamas. Trump. Trump. Two Trumps. Biden. Biden and Trump. So that's five. Five. Five elections. We got to hang our hats off, man. It's getting crazy. It's an epoch. Okay. It's the fifth turning.

One of the ways you can support us is by making artwork or prompting away on the latest model, whatever you got. And it's just amazing. I don't know how he does it, but Darren O'Neill has mastered AI. He also was a funny guy. I mean, he understands the wishes of the taskmaster. You know, you want to have something that pertains to what's talked about in the show.

You want to make it look kind of quirky or funny or you just want to, you know, or something that even if people don't know what's in the show, they go like, oh, that's interesting. And he did the, this was the MUK Ultra Show, 1825. He did a bunch of drones getting caught up in their fiber optic cables and looking all scared about it. And he's like, yeah, he nailed it. He just, he totally gets it. And most people don't, which is sad. And then they get mad. Like, I know ScareManga's mad.

He's mad. I'm leaving the competition. Did he say that to someone else privately? Which of course that person immediately sent me a copy of it. Of course, that's what we do. That's what the moles are for. And the reason I haven't been mentioned. Our tentacles are everywhere. He says the reason I haven't been mentioned in months. So let's mention it. He's been mentioned more than a few times in months. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. No mentioned.

These, he's just like, you know, you're not picking my art. Well, because it's, it's always the same. It's always, yeah. It's always a cleavage. It's always, yeah, you're right. It's always the same. I was like, okay. Let's look at his last, last submissions. I don't think he's submitted recently. He hasn't submitted for a while. What does he expect? Let me see. He's leaving the competition. Let me see. Am I getting, I'm going to get in trouble for even saying that. Yeah, it was too late.

Cause my, in my, in my informant, the, your informants, you got your informant in trouble. I just burned by, I just burned my source. Burn your source. Here, let's look under artists. Hold on a second. Let me see. Artists. All right. Uh, Darren, Dan, Dan Martin. Wow. He's not, he's not, where he's not even on the list. Where is he? There he is. Scaramanga. Scaramanga. 427 submitted. Last one submitted December 11th. Okay. He did the, yeah. December 11th. He did the Pocky rice dog. Not funny.

Okay. AI is dumb. Not funny. Read a book with, you know, kiss on the boat. But since we're going to be slamming again, let me get it. Bring up the art. The last one I liked was the Frenchie assassin, but you didn't like it because it had Brigitte Macron as a, as a monkey, as a monkey on the wall. So it turns out that Scaramanga is only good at one thing. It's cheesecake and he's really good at it. But when he tries to do something else, he's just mediocre.

I mean, I'm not trying to be mean or anything. Yeah, you are. You're very mean to him, but I think it's justified considering that he's quit. He's quit the competition. He's, he's, he's left, he's left the cult. His little Pocky rice thing is kind of cute. I liked it, but he didn't like it. There was something better at the time. There was just something better. I don't know what it was. Trump with a bone in his mouth is no good. Wrestling raccoons, you know, has potential.

He's just barely missing. You know what? The cartoonish things, I'm over it. Jeffrey Rhea, I'm just over it. You gotta be a lot better to do a cartoonish thing. That model sucks. And let me see what else. I like Joy Burglar, which is another Darren O'Neill piece. He didn't like it. It was okay. I wasn't going to fight you on it. Yeah, that's it. I see lots of Menorahs for today. We should put a Hanukkah Menorah on the artwork. Let's see everyone go insane. No, they'll go nuts.

Oh no. Oh no. See, I told you. They got a dreidel. So anyway, thank you, Darren O'Neill. Great job as always, brother. We appreciate you. Appreciate you doing the rock and roll pre -show every Thursday and Sunday as well before we go live. It's always a great way to get into the mood. Now we want to thank... I have no evidence that he complains. Darren never complains. He's not a complainer. He's not. So now we start by thanking all of our supporters, $50 and above.

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Okay. Onward, Dylan, Dylan, good old Dylan Lange, or Lange in, what is it, Chilliwack, Chilliwack, BC, Canada? Yeah, it looks like it. Chilliwack. I think I may have even been there. Dear Crackpot and Buzzkill, I appreciate all the hard work you guys do. I never miss an episode and always listen to the full episode, even the donation segments, which I'm now in. This donation puts me past the threshold to be a No Agenda Night of the Roundtable. I'd like to be known as Sir Dill Pickle.

Also, please add me to the birthday list. I turn 34 on December 20th. No jiggles, no karma. It says jiggles. No jiggles given. No jiggles, no karma. Thanks for all you do. Cheers, Dylan Lange from Chilliwack, British Columbia. P.S., shout out to Tony Lange. Oh, okay. Jeremy Brogan is next from Amherst, Ohio. Associate Executive Producership for him. $222.37 he sent in a note. ITM Gents, Merry Christmas. I hope this message finds you well.

Row of ducks plus bank fees plus Georgia font for my boy JCD. It is actually very nice. It's very readable. A belated happy birthday to my keeper, Laura. She celebrated on December 5th. Suffering Succotash, please. Oh, I didn't see that request. Scott Simon. Okay, here we go. Suffering Succotash, please. And whatever karma would be appropriate for a human resource about to propose. Oh, thank you for your attention to this matter. Five to eight more years.

Jeremy Brogan, Amherst, Ohio. Suffering Succotash. I'm Scott Simon. You've got karma. Sir, my amygdala, my amygdala. Sir, amygdala. I think it's sirmygdala. Just sirmygdala. In Mineola, Florida. $222. This is the row of ducks. Duck a rose. Hi, guys. I'm working on my exit strategy. I designed a nerdy product for engineers and others who regularly need to connect between... Convert. Convert. Convert. Convert. Between millimeters and inches. It's a calculator with a big knob and a bright...

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.net slash mmcalculator. Stipix. Stipix.net. All right. Stipix. Go check it out. Thanks for taking a look. I have a small inventory listed for sale, and I would be delighted to make many more if there's interest. Best of all, I set up a tab for comments, so I'm ready for feedback, constructive and otherwise. Thanks again, Sean Sermigdala. And then we got a note from Luke Cumberland from Oxford, Missouri. I don't know if I can even understand what to read here.

He says, in the morning, please bear with me. Initiating value for value protocol. Introducing AELA, a system dedicated to achieving computational continuity, safety, and coherence via algorithmic governance. Whoa. It is my pleasure to help produce your dynamite show. I'm preoccupied with superpositions. Conceptually, for instance, one, a set, not a spectrum containing everything between O and 2.

We can learn a lot from that set of infinite probabilities, namely observation resolves the set into reality. So preoccupied when a magnetohydrodynamic system occurred to me. Does he have a website for this? You know, I was driving back from Austin yesterday. This is one of those guys who's going to invent a time machine. Or zero point energy. Well, same thing. Well, he says, so what does he have now? I don't understand what it is.

First public iteration of this work is the AELA dissonance modulator browser extension. Okay. So A-A-E-L-L-A dissonance modulator browser extension function. It grants user a volumetric control axis, enforcing constraints on web chaos. It actively measures and suppresses dissonance entropy, auto collapsing, distracting feeds and animation, and clickbait headlines for a low dissonance online experience. He has a GitHub coming. Okay. Well, let me know when. And he has a VPN protocol coming too.

Let me know. And I'll gladly mention it on the show, whatever website you have. But this is a bit like yesterday I was driving back from Austin. A lot of traffic. And I'm like, oh, it's a new day. Where'd you go to Austin? I have my hair cut. My girl. Okay. You know, get the latest. Did you learn anything at the barber? No, nothing. Nothing. No, she can't talk about stuff anymore because, you know, they were afraid she was turning MAGA. So now we can't talk. Because they don't poison you there.

They might have. I don't know. But so I flip on Joe Rogan because he's got, again, he just had him on. What's that guy from Black Horse? Black Dark Horse? I don't know. Come on. You know, one of the brothers. One of the brothers. I don't know. The brother. The black guy? No. With Heather. He's with Heather. With Heather. Oh, Weinstein. Weinstein. Thank you. Weinstein. The thin one or the big one? The big one. What's his name? Oh, he had the big one on. He had the big one on.

Yeah. That's Eric. The Eric Weinstein. Yes. Is that Eric? Yes. Yeah. Eric's the big one. Well, the biologist. No, no. The biologist is the other Weinstein. The skinny one. Eric is the mathematician who works with Peter Thiel. He's a big fat guy. No, the big head. No, no. And he's the guy who kept begging to be Joe Rogan's friend on one of his shows. Yeah. Okay. So it's Brent. Brent. Brett? Brett. Is it Brett? Brett. If we're a mess. We're terrible.

And he's like, yeah, I asked to come back on because I have something really important. And then he went, oh, he, it was like another media whore. Oh, it was, it was the worst. I mean, I love Joe, but it was the worst. And I tried to stick after 44, 45, maybe almost an hour. And he's talking about how evolution happens. And this it's a solution, not just a fold. And I'm like, my eyes like, oh man, this is the worst idea.

Joe, I think Joe thought he had like some kind of major breakthrough, scientific breakthrough. It was like every time it was every five minutes, like my, so my hypothesis is what I'm putting on the table. I'm like, oh no, I could tell. I think Joe was irritated. Oh man. Anyway, Luke Cumberland, your note was very similar to that Joe Rogan episode. So send me a link to your browser extension. You're up next. Oh, I'm sorry. I was, I was hypnotized by that fascinating story. Eli, the coffee guy.

Wow. I get him. And you know where he's from? Yes. Bensonville, Illinois. That's right. With all the doom and gloom clogging up the news cycle, ISIS back in, back in rotation, war with Venezuela and now apparently razor blades showing up. Oh, bonus clip. Did I, I think I clipped that. Do you have the razor blade clip? I think I do. Hold on a second. It's showing up in Walmart bread. Yes, I have it here.

Lots of new information we're learning this morning about razor blades that were shoved into loaves of bread at two Walmart locations here in Biloxi. And we're also learning this morning that this has been going on for more than a week and it has taken Walmart apparently more than 10 days to contact police about this issue. Also new this morning, we're receiving pictures. Check these out that were sent to us from a viewer who purchased a loaf of bread. Let me bring you up to speed on this.

Yesterday, Monday, Biloxi police around noon received a call from Walmart here on the Walmart superstore that managers have been receiving complaints from customers finding razors in their bread. When workers in the deli went to inspect loaves of bread, they found even more razor blades. A Biloxi police officer showed up and took a report. A little while later, Biloxi police was called again, this time from the neighborhood Walmart on Pass Road in Biloxi.

And they reported the same thing, finding razors shoved into loaves of bread. This morning, investigators are combing through surveillance video, trying to find the person responsible for shoving these razor blades. And we're also learning that this has been going on for at least more than a week now. Can you still buy razor blades for, for, for your shick memory? And you had that thing, you, you twist the handle and then the claw opens up and you put the razor blade in. Do they still?

Yeah, I think you can. Hmm. And they're used for scraping. I mean, this razor blazing deal. Yeah. I'm thinking, I'm thinking it was probably some other kind of razor blade, not a safety razor as they used to know. Anyway, there, there you go. Bonus clip in the, uh, in the donation segment. Well, I think you cut open a loaf of bread and find an elect like electric razor in there. Okay. Be kind of cool. All right, Marty.

Uh, the holiday season, Christmas came early code bond Gino, by the way, did you hear about what's happening? Yeah, he's back. Code bond. Gino's coming back. No bond. Gino's quitting. Yeah. And that means code bond. Gino is coming back. Oh yes. Code bunch. He'll be back. So the guy's in less than a year. Yeah. He's less than a year and he quits the job. He couldn't handle it. No, because it's actual work. It's office work. Not like opposed to podcasting.

Yeah. Hey, he thought, you know, he's like, wow, it's going to be cool. I'm going to be a deputy, a director of the FBI. What, what, this is a desk. Where's the mic. What, where's, what are these files? I'm supposed to, what am I supposed to do with all these pilot files? TPS reports. Oh no. TPS report. Exactly. Well, I appreciate him for serving. I'm sure it was a rough time. Oh, I had to be miserable. Of course it was miserable. Once again, proving that podcasting is the wave of the future.

Just as deputy, uh, just as just ask a deputy director, Dan. Oh, okay. It's a reference to bond. Gino still no agenda is the best podcasting universe. No matter what bond Gino says the best hosts and the best discount codes in the game. So with gigawatt or visit gigawatt coffee roasters .com and use the code itm 20 for 20% off your order. Merry Christmas. Stay caffeinated. Eli, the coffee guy jingles ISIS in America and go podcasting. I'm going to get the next one.

So you can see if you can fix your problem from your last Linda Lou pack. Can I just mention something? We do have new Sharptons for people who I have a new Sharpton for people who want to request sharp. And I was like, I want to hear sharp and I have new Sharpton that I'd like to share. Here we go. Oops. Not that one. Give the world a gay Santa Claus. God almighty. God almighty. God almighty. Leave out the cookies and the milk this Christmas Eve for a holly jolly homosexual. God almighty.

There you go. That's AI. No, it's actually from a movie. It is. And it's him. Yeah. So that's from a script. I don't know if it's the same. Feels good. Michael Benevento in Yonkers. Yonkers. Yonkers. Yonkers. Yonkers. Too many people from Yonkers. When you're an arm monk, you go to Yonkers, man. You go to Yonkers to shop. That's what you do. You go to Yonkers. You go Yonkers. Yes. 200 bucks. He has no note that we can find. And so he gets to double up karma. He sure does. You've got karma.

And then winding it up for our executive and associate executive producers. There she is. Linda Lou Patkin from Castle Rock, Colorado. Two hundred dollars. She's here every single show. We love you, Linda Lou Patkin. And she wants jobs, karma and has a good idea. She says, why don't you give the gift of a resume that gets results this Christmas season? Go to Image Makers Inc. Dot com for all of your executive resume and job search needs.

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All I know about Finland is they just bought a whole bunch of F-35s from us. No, they had to apologize to all the Asian countries. Listen to this. Oh, brother clip. Oh, my second. Oh, brother. The Finnish prime minister has apologized to citizens of Japan, China and South Korea for offensive squinting gestures made by three politicians from his governing coalition. What were they doing squinting and doing a Chinese accent? No, no. Yeah. Yeah. So he had to apologize for the country.

This must be this. I've got I got to figure this one out. Hey, by the way, Gen Zeds, you're looking for a job. You're looking to get paid good money. Want to live in a nice community where they're eating the dogs no more. I was going to face a problem that could trickle down to you and what you purchased today. I went to Columbus to talk to Governor Mike DeWine about what will soon be a giant hole in the workforce in Springfield. We talked about other things, too.

But in about a month, the government's going to change the status of Haitians working there in that community from legal to illegal. That's about 10000 workers gone. I asked if the governor has appealed to the White House. He tells me he's talked to everyone who will listen. These people who are currently legal, who came here legally, they will be their status will change and they'll no longer be legal when that happens. All those employers will no longer be able to employ them.

And so that one day all of them are going to be unemployed. And these companies are going to have start scrambling, trying to figure out how are we going to make our production? They're eating the dog. This issue, you'll recall, was a big one during the presidential election. I had to put that in. Yeah. So before one starts crying, TPS, temporary protective status. That's right. It's time to go home now. You've been protected. You go home. We have lots of people who want jobs, I presume.

Or are we all now too arrogant? We don't want to work in a factory because that's what we're going to get. That's what it's going to be. And there'll be good paying union jobs. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know what they're going to do. They got this. Now they have the Somalians. They're going to have to do something about them. There's a lot of them that are in the same circumstance.

Yeah. And now they're starting to make a real fuss about Ilan Omar actually probably being illegally entered under the became a she married her brother. She is actually sillier than that. They had to get her brother out there. Her brother's gay. Oh, have you heard the whole story about this? No. Gee, my eyes must have glazed over. Her brother's gay and Somalia was having an anti-gay crusade and they had to get him out of the country. So they found a guy with this.

They found a guy with a name in England that she ended up marrying technically and then changed her brother's name to that guy's name, brought him over as though they were married and then never divorced her first husband. The whole thing is such a disaster. It's complete fraud. And she should be. She should be deported. Deported. She should. I'm telling you, this is going to this is going to begin. They're going to tar and feather, run her out on a railroad. Deporter, you watch.

This is going to be a big deal. And it starts to because Trump already hinted at it. And yeah, no, he wouldn't. Retribution. He wouldn't have said it if he didn't if he didn't know something. That's kind of like the Reiner thing that, you know, I'm I'm kind of trying to place this because what he posted about the murder of Rob and Reiner and his and his wife, you know, in fact, I have a have a clip here. Hold on a second. Here it is, Reiner, this. Here we go.

A number of Republicans have denounced your statement, denounced social after the murder of Reiner. Do you stand by that post? Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He said he liked he knew it was false. In fact, it's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia. You know, the Russia hoax. He was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself in career wise.

He became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all. And I had to really think about this because. You know, he posted kind of like he was deranged, made people crazy and rest in peace at the end or something like that. And everyone's like, oh, you can't do this. Like, you know, I can't ask you because, you know, he's Trump is 80. But I can see where when you're 80, you're like you have a different view of death. Like, OK, he's dead.

You know that Trump doesn't seem to have a problem with death. And he's somewhat sympathetic, but he he did. Right. But he didn't virtue signal. And I kind of have respect. He doesn't do that. I kind of have. Yeah, he doesn't do that. And I wrote an essay on this in the last newsletter. I'm just thinking of blowing it out as a sub stack thing because I have so many Rob Reiner screen. You should do you should do a little thread emoji on X and post it in fifteen hundred posts.

Yeah, I'm not going to do that. One, although one slash 20. Although now that you mention it, it's a funny idea. But Rob Reiner had nothing but hateful, daily hateful posts about Trump. And I have one of them exemplified on the newsletter, which was one of the an example of about six days in a row where he's just bitching and moaning. And it was was relentless for for the entire time Trump was stepped down the escalator or came down the escalator. And it never ended.

And it was just it was unconscionable. And I don't see why Trump should. It was both of them. It was Michelle as well. They were calling him Hitler and fascist and Hitler. A lot of Hitler from her. A lot of that still doesn't mean that I like them being killed, but it was it shouldn't have been killed. To me, it was like, OK, so it was honest. I'll give him that. But didn't feel he didn't feel good about it. How did you feel? I didn't it didn't bother me one way or the other.

It was very Trumpian. It's not it was like was it a shock to anybody that Trump was like nonplussed about the whole thing and would say something like this? Well, I think people are like he could have gone off the deep end and said there was a couple of assholes. I'm glad they're dead. That's what I think he wanted to say. I think that's what he said. That's what he said. But he didn't say it directly. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it was now said, well, it's not right.

Well, the thing that bothers me is that is they tried to pull this off. I don't think they accomplished much, but they try to say, well, you Republicans are hypocrites if they let Trump get away with this, when they were when they were making such a fuss about people celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, which I also mentioned in this column. And no, because Trump was directly targeted to people who are celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.

Charlie Kirk wasn't directing nasty tweets at them for years on end. No, no. So this is a false equivalency, which they love to pull out of the hat every chance they get. Hold on. I have a joy, joy, read the joy, the joy, read show. Is this an old clip? Let me see. Trump's response was to crap all over Rob Reiner. Oh, she has a podcast now. Oh, you don't know that. Yeah. Here it is. He was a terrible thing. Terrible for America. Russia, Russia, Russia and dumb Trump bullshit.

So this has caused even Republicans to say, whoa, that's too much. You know, you can call a reporter piggy. We're down with it. You can say you can grab a woman by the P word. We're cool with it. You can even like actually grab Eugene Carroll by the P word and get adjudicated as a sexual assault or abuser. We're good with that. We're going to commit 37 felony counts. You can rob New York. You can take classified documents home and put them in your shower, in a tacky shower.

You can do all of those things. We don't care what you do. You can do anything you want when you're starting to let you do it. You're Donald Trump. You're a star to us. You can do anything. You can call women fat, ugly, anything you want. You can call all Somalis, you know, garbage, anything you want. Go after anybody you want. But not our not not a Hollywood star. We actually lie. Not not not this. The people inside MAGA who are closest to the MAGA base, they see Trump up close.

They know that he is faltering cognitively. They see his cankles swelling up to the size of an elephant's feet, other than except that he's not as delightful as an elephant. He's the opposite. They can smell his diaper full on many occasions and have multiple times a day. They see him wandering around seemingly unaware of where he is at times, not knowing what city he's in, sometimes rambling, answering questions with complete non sequiturs.

We've heard on this program with medical experts saying that he's definitely in cognitive decline, maybe dementia. Experts, experts. I haven't seen the experts. Well, terrible. She's definitely part of the problem. By the way, I just have to say because I have we have a listener, black female listener, and she sent me a note like a week ago, says, are you going to play any clips from Nicki Minaj talking good about Trump or do you only play black women who are insane and mad?

And as I'm playing them like, yeah, it's pretty much true. But I'd ask. I said it's funnier. I said, can you please send me a link? She says it's all over X. Well, like if you're not even going to send me a link to your favorite Nicki Minaj clip, then, you know, do better. And yeah, and she also Minaj has a then they're now claiming she has a crush on Jesse Waters, which is part of it. Oh, that's good. I like that. So they so gut felt had on.

He likes to bring on George Santos, the phony congressman who, you know, got kicked out of Congress and then spent a couple of days in jail afterwards. Yeah. That Trump commuted his sentence. Yeah. And he brings Santos on. Santos had an interesting thing to say about it because he was part of a program of a bill. He put a bill together, which most like Crockett never done this called the Minaj Act. And it had to do with.

Yes. But he says that he says, I don't know what the fuss is about about Minaj being a MAGA because she voted for it. It was well known to everybody that was involved with her or newer. She voted for Romney. She's been a Republican for a while. So what? Yeah, right. Yeah. No, I think she just says you're only playing clips of black women who are mad. Well, of course, what does it look like? There's nothing there's nothing entertaining about this.

Nikki, Nikki, Nikki, Nikki, Mirage, Mirage, Nikki Mirage saying anything is cognizant. Who cares? There you go. And there it is. Yeah. All right. What do we have? Anything else we need to talk about? Let's get these two grinder clips out of the way. These are backgrounders from the BBC. And I thought they'd be more objective than American reports. Okay. I see rundown BBC and rundown three BBC, but no rundown to unless. Yes, there is no two.

Okay. A number of Republicans have denounced your statement. This is the same clip I had. Yeah. It was part of the report. Well, after the murder of a little baby. Okay. I got it. Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He said he liked he knew it was false. In fact, it's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia. You know, it was the Russia hoax. He was one of the people behind it.

I think he hurt himself in career wise. He became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all. All right. There was nothing different than that. My clip from that clip. Well, that sucks. Yeah. Okay, well, let's play three then. On North America correspondent Peter Bowes was there. Another Brit. It was a very brief appearance by Nick Reiner. He sat at the front of what is a very large courtroom in this downtown LA courthouse.

He was mostly expressionless. He had a blank look on his face. He listened to his lawyer, Alan Jackson, who have just heard from asking the judge to adjourn the hearing until January the 7th to allow more time to prepare the case. Mr. Jackson later said that there were complex and serious issues that needed to be carefully examined. Normally at a first appearance, a defendant will get the opportunity to enter a plea guilty or not guilty. That did not happen.

He was asked by the judge whether he understood that the hearing was being adjourned. And he replied, yes, your honor, before soon being taken away back to jail to await the next hearing. And prosecutors in this case have raised the possibility of the death sentence, haven't they? They have. If he is eventually found guilty at a jury trial, he could face either life without the possibility of parole or indeed the death sentence.

Although the prosecution have said that they have not yet decided whether they would pursue that option. It's interesting that California hasn't executed anyone for almost 20 years. Capital punishment remains legal here, but the current governor, Gavin Newsom, has issued a moratorium on the death penalty, which halted all executions from 2019. And we heard from his lawyer, Alan Jackson, just then. And this is a man who is very used to these high profile cases. Oh, yeah.

He is a veteran Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, a defense lawyer now widely known for handling these high profile complex cases like this one. In the past, he's represented celebrities Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey to name two. He has seen the courtroom. This is interesting from both sides. Now he is a defense lawyer, but previously he was a federal prosecutor. He was a senior Los Angeles County District Attorney.

And if he has a reputation for anything, it is his very persistent style of cross -examination. You know, when I first read the president's response, I thought, man, he must know something. Maybe he already knows that the kids like you guys are so horrible, I'm going to kill you. But then I thought, man, maybe not. What do you I mean, it's a complicated case. I mean, is this not I mean, this is all stuff. This is all propaganda because this Jackson guy is one of those.

Somebody pointed out, he says the best friend of a defense attorney is a continuance. And he's already got a couple of stalling tactics in there. It's going to take forever to get this thing underway. He wants to be on TV. He wants to be on TV. He's going to be on TV a lot. He's dope. But how did he even get hired? Nobody knows that. They don't know who's paying him. This question has come up.

You know, this guy is the hottest attorney, the hottest defense attorney in L.A. and he's somehow not right away. He's the guy without any moment of hesitation. He shows up immediately. How's that work? Well, maybe the kid didn't do it. Maybe the kid didn't do it. So we have to ignore the bloody room at the motel and the. Well, he might have been there, but maybe he didn't do it. Maybe he didn't do it. But if he gets convicted, here's the prop bed of the century.

Death, death, death penalty or no death penalty. I don't think that's a good prop bed. It's going to be one. It's going to be one. It will be. But I don't think that's the good that that better be that. Everyone will say no. I think. Well, which is where you want a prop beds. You want to be lopsided. Exactly. Exactly. But there will be a I will get a memo from a bed age. What is it called? The online bed age? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, yeah, he said they will send me a note.

I'm on the mailing list for the prop. That's me, too. Yeah. And so I'll get that. We'll read them when they come out. People can put their money down, waste their money. So you agree with me that it's a great prop bet because it'll be lopsided. So there's an agreement. Well, I'm not going to I mean, I'm not a big fan of the whole prop phenomenon. But really, everyone seems to be a trillion dollar marketplace. It is a huge because it's you know, it's it's compelling.

I mean, can't we do our own prop bets? We well, I think I don't see why not. I mean, we'd be pretty good at it. You know, I mean, I mean, first of all, how do you make money as a prop bed company? I'm thinking you make it as you work on the middle. So there's there's some sort of it's an arbitrage game. I forget. It's too much work of our. It is too much work. You have to know what you're doing. You have to be a statistician to do it. Right. And even get the podcast awards together.

So when there's not going to be any coming to expect things to happen overnight, that's your problem. I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah. Well, that leads us to the last of our donation segment, the second donation segment, where we talk about the or we mentioned the people and thank the people who donated fifty dollars or more.

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Well, he says he's not Poland. No, he says he's owner Slovakia. I'm sorry. Heard from a fellow producer from Poland donating and show 1825. So I had to top him. Not my first donation. Never deduced. Jakub Palak, Slovakia. You've been deduced. There's a buddy, Eric Hockel from Millrose, Deutschland 104, Jennifer Williams in Cunard, Texas, 100. Barry Bonavace in Elkton, Florida, 100. Sir Johnny Bananas, Fowler, Indiana, 100. Kevin McLaughlin, Concord, North Carolina.

He always comes in with 8008 donation. He says, I love boobs in the U .S. Constitution. Krista and Stephen Hutto, both coming in with 75 dollars. Krista needs a deducing. You've been deduced. Do you know Krista yourself? No, she sent in a very long note. It was so long as like four pages or three pages at least. And it's a very entertaining note that I read. And she is a she sent us some patches. Oh. And I'm thinking these patches are pretty cool. What kind of patches are they?

It's like no agenda patches. Oh, wow. It's like military patches, only they say no agenda and stuff on them. I said this is really it's like a challenge coin, but it's a patch. I want my patch. She sent one for you. Yeah. OK. Yes. And it's yours got damaged. I should have said that I got a very nice Christmas package from the folks over at Live 365 Soundstack, you know, Ricky Thomas, Ricky Thomas. She's a producer. And it was different kinds of coffee and included in it gigawatt coffee.

Well, that taste. Yeah. Well, that means that they sent out Christmas packages to all of their business relations with gigawatt coffee in there. So I love hearing that. I love it when people succeed. Yeah. You you love it when you get more free coffee and that don't I don't do it for the free coffee. I don't know. I don't mind it. It's good coffee. Donna Crawford switcheroo for her smoking hot husband, Commodore Kirk Crawford of the South Bay. He turned sixty one.

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My husband, George, and I would love to invite to know agenda community, Adam John, executive producer Dana Burnett to join us at the magical two month window of the grape harvest in Mount Pico. And they'll they'll we'll we will learn from the locals, the locals, the locals how to make Tsipouro. Discover Nagoska, a grape you find won't find anywhere else. And she suggests maybe Dana could help us make a film about our charming Greek village, the Gormanissa project dot com. G-O-U-M-E-N-I-S -S-A.

That's the town. Gormanissa. Gormanissa is how you pronounce it. Great idea. I'll have I'll have Burnetti fuel up the jet. We'll be there soon. Don't count on the on the movie. He's stingy like that. He's stingy like that. Fifty Shades of Grappa. There you go. There's an idea. Oh, thank you, chat room. No, that was me. Thank you. You know, good. Good try, Marty. Ox Otherix in Buffalo, New York, 50. And we wind it out with Jason Maurer in Vancouver, Washington, 50 dollars.

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I can't remember. Was it? Is that the one we did in Austin? The big one? I think the meetups began with the Hot Pockets Tour. Ah, yes. Okay. So that is a long time ago. Yeah. So maybe the first one was at our Dame there in Virginia. I'm thinking. Wherever the Hot Pockets Tour started is where it started. Well, there's one taking place today and they are all over the world. It's a global phenomenon. No Agenda producers get together, chat, hang out, learn about each other's skills. Some date.

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So now we are at the end of show ISO's, which we always like to compete to see which little bit we should end the show with, which is always kind of fun. I don't know. Do people there's no competition. Let's just hold hands and tell a secret. Since I have four and I'm going to win, I'm going to play my four first. Here we go. It was really great. And the performances were fantastic. OK, I'll try my next one. This is this is bonkers. I don't like that one. How about this one?

And it takes balls, the weight and heft of anvils to pursue this. And I think this is a good clip. It's too long. It's too long. It's too long. This one, I think, is a wow. Adam and John hit it out of the park again. Compete with that, Dvorak. Well, I actually have the same clip damn near. This is ISO home run. Really? How is it? That show was a home run. Wow. Adam and John hit it out of the park again. I think that is a so you're now moving into my territory. You're poaching as usual.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tick tock clips are next. You already started those. OK, let's start with. Let's go. How about bonus bonus bonus? Wow. Give these two guys a bonus. I like I'm already removing mine. I like that one a lot. OK, then we go to the two. I have two variations on the exact same clip. OK, here comes with different intimate weight. Let's do number two first. What a great show. Where is our Peabody Award? OK, try one. What a great show. Where is our Peabody Award? Nothing beats.

Wow. Give these two guys a bonus. That's the winner. Hey, everybody, it's time for John's coveted tip of the day. Just to see. And sometimes. OK, first, I have a mea culpa to to correct the record on the knife, the whatever that knife was that we had. Yes, Chinese. Oh, no. Which is OK, because it's still a folded knife. The Chinese have taken the Japanese. That's why it's cheap. That's right. Although I saw the price went up to seventy five dollars on Amazon. Suddenly it's normally seventy five.

I think we sold out of the sale price ones. I said just I was one. Yeah, you had to get them right away. So I did. Seventy five is still cheap because that's a two hundred fifty dollar plus knife if it was Japanese. But it is. And I should have. I shouldn't. I probably knew this. But the pattern, the classic pattern that you get on the knife from dipping in water and pulling the blade so much that's on there is it's like they've toned it down. I think the Japanese emphasize it.

So they put dye or something to make it look really or really stands out. But it's still a killer knife. I got a number of notes from people telling me to make sure I correct the record on the origin of this. All right. All right. All right. So this is the eggnog recipe this time. Oh, don't tell me this is the Ben and Jerry's get drunk. No, no, no, no. This is a real eggnog recipe. And I'm going to read right from it. And this comes from this is one of the 20 eggnog recipes or tend to.

I don't know how many there are in the too many eggs dot com. Go to too many eggs dot com and download the PDF. Oh, you got it. You got in trouble. Well, how do I get in trouble? Well, Mimi's like you're talking about eggnog. You didn't promote my book. Well, no, she never said that. I'm just promoting the book. But they but there's plenty of eggnog recipes, including one somebody sent me from Alton Brown, who can't cook, by the way, for the aged eggnog, which is also in the cookbook.

But this is not the age. This is the regular make an eggnog the hard way. I'm going to just read it. You can. You can take tape this or you can just download. Have you tried this recipe? You just. Mimi has. Mimi has. OK. And she's done all these egg recipes. But the recipe is in the show notes. I'm going to read it and I'm going to read her writing. She wrote it says many people don't like raw egg eggnog. That's what I would have. It's too late and it's too late for an aged eggnog.

I give you the cooked eggnog, an extravagant drink for the upper class. Winter eggs are an expensive luxury. Typically, the eggnog toast was as she goes on. Here's the classic basic warm eggnog recipe. Six eggs beaten. One quarter cup sugar. One quarter cup or one quarter teaspoon of salt. One cinnamon stick. Four cups of milk or milk and cream. One teaspoon of vanilla extract. A quarter teaspoon of nutmeg. A quarter teaspoon of all spice. Massive addition of some alcohol before serving.

Stir nutmeg in as a garnish. It is. Here we go. In a saucepan, mix the beaten egg, salt, cinnamon stick and two cups of milk. Heat over low heat, ideally in a double boiler. But on the stove directly, if you are careful, stir constantly until the mixture gets to 160. Do not allow the milk to boil. Mixture will thicken slightly. Remove from heat. Stir in remaining milk and the vanilla extract. Stir in ground nutmeg and all spice. Pour into a container and refrigerate overnight.

Then you can add your booze. There's your recipe. I know if it's the tip of the day, but that's what everyone wanted. Mainly you. I didn't need to hear you tell me how to make it. I've got the word doc right here in the show notes. Eggnog is good. Maybe he told me to do it. She's got a knife to my throat, people. Go make this eggnog because that's what happened. We know what happened. There it is. Find it with noagendafund.com, tipoftheday.net.

That is too many eggs.com, everybody, because I don't want to get in trouble. You know, the women of the No Agenda show, they don't mess around. They want you to promote their stuff. We're doing it. All right, everybody. That is it. Excuse me. Hairball. Let me see. Coming up next on your No Agenda stream, we have, oh, there it is. You don't want to tune out. Grimerica, episode number 740 with your co-host John C. DeVorek of the No Agenda show. It'll be rolling out right after this.

Well worth hanging around. End of show mix is from MVP, and we've got a spam call because everything sucks on the Internet. You'll like that one a lot. And I'm getting ready for the kids to arrive. It should be fun. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where the lights are all Christmassy and cute. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. DeVorek.

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