1829 - "Zoomerwaffen"

Hello! Hello! Adam Curry. John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, December 28th, 2025. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 1829. This is no agenda. With Africa news you can use. And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA region number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Brothers Silicon Valley, we hope everybody had a happy Christmas. I'm John C. Dvorak. In the morning... Yeah, merry Christmas. We already went through this.

Happy Christmas. That's what the British say, by the way. They say happy Christmas. Happy Christmas to you. So what's wrong with happy Christmas? We already went through this on the Christmas show. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just un-American. What's so American about merry? That's just what we do. We do merry Christmas. I think we do merry holidays. I just brought the old joke back. Yeah, yeah, I know. I know. But, you know, I hear people saying it in the shops.

Merry New Year's. Okay, I'm going with that. I'll go with that. Happy holidays. I don't want to offend everybody. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Did you say, who was it that just posted a video about Kwanzaa? It was a newsome. Whatever happened to Kwanzaa? Kwanzaa used to be great. They're pushing it. They're pushing the Kwanzaa on us again, John. Yeah, I didn't notice a lot of people celebrating Hanukkah this year. Borowitz did.

Oh, yeah, no, the Jews celebrated, but they didn't post about it because it's not worth it. It's not worth the aggravation. It's not worth the aggravation, exactly. Actually, that's a good point. You're right. I didn't hear too many. It's usually Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and now they just dropped to Hanukkah. Yeah, I mean, we had a menorah art that we didn't post out of fear, out of fear for backlash. I don't know if it was out of fear for backlash, but it could have been.

I blame Nick Fuentes. Yeah, he's definitely partially responsible. It's the punk rock podcasters, man. That's what they do. Rock against religion. Look at us. We're so bold. I expect him to put a safety pin through his ear pretty soon. I don't see that. I've been studying this guy. He's not to extol the virtues of Nick Fuentes, but I'll say this. I think he's a consummate pro. If you can listen to him for three hours, he never flubs. He never says uh. He never says um. I heard him say um once.

Oh, wow. He never says uh. He never says um. He doesn't stammer. He doesn't stutter. He doesn't stammer like I do. Well, if he can run the board, then there you go. I can retire you and Nick Fuentes can do the show. I'm happy. He uses an EV20 and knows how to use it correctly. He's got an EV20 and knows how to work it. He's got a terrific voice that's very understandable. He is unbelievably talented. I think he's the best podcaster working right now, even though I think he's controversial.

Wait a minute. We're the best podcast in the universe. No, I'm talking about an individual, one of those guys who does the solos. Solo guy. Solo guy. Okay. No, he's the best podcast. We're the best podcast. Hello. Yes, he's the best soliloquist. He's really unbelievable. He's a white, and he's not a white supremacist. He's a white pride, and I consider that different. But anyway, this is beside the point. He's also tricky. No, he's very tricky. He's the one that nobody can figure out.

Everybody else kind of knows what these other folks are doing. I can figure this guy out. I know. Do you want to roll right into it, or do you want to do African news? We have African news. We have so much African news, it hurts. I'm going to push the Fuentes thing until we get to African news next. I could have put a presentation together. I have three clips just to show you how he operates, how he does his thing. He's so good. But to give you a briefing, right now

he has gone hard against J.D. Vance. Oh. Well, wait a minute. That is what most people are shilling for in the North Sea Nexus podosphere. Yeah. They all want J.D. to be the next president. Even if it hurts Trump, J.D., J .D. Okay. He's hard against Vance, but he's going to prove his worth, he thinks, or he hopes, because he's going to go extremely hard in 2026 against Vivek Ramaswamy. Who cares? Well, he's testing himself with Vivek. Well, do you want to do these clips or not?

Yeah, I'm going to do the clips. I'm just trying to give you a briefing on the background, because what happened was— Briefing on background. Briefing on background. So he called Vance's wife a jeet. Oh, man. Which I didn't even know what that meant. I had to look it up and do a little research. It's awesome. So he calls her a jeet. So Vance comes out, and as vice president of the United States, tells him to eat shit. You can talk about your wife. No one really cares about your wife. No, wait.

I have to set this clip. You gave me a clear, audible clue. I said it in such a way that I could see you. But let me finish. How long have we been doing this? Too long. Yeah. And you are correct on that last cue. But he does—I'm going to give you a three-parter here. This is a classic Nick Fuentes. Part one, he starts you off by creating a doubt in your mind, and then he does his long soliloquy, and then he does a follow-up, which is even better. This guy is slick. Here we go.

You can talk about your wife. No one really cares about your wife. No one cares about any of that. We want to know, are we getting an immigration moratorium? Will you restrain Israel? And what the fuck does Peter Thiel have on you? And what is your relationship with him and Elon? That's what we want to know. You can save the bitching about your wife. No one cares about your wife. Okay, she's pretty. She's gorgeous. Your kids look great. Whatever. No one cares. Okay, you did the tough guy shtick.

You stood by your woman. Good for you. Now, we want to know. And we want to know because this guy is being foisted upon us. I've never seen anything like this ever. Well, you're only 12, so it doesn't surprise me. Well, he has seen this before. This is the key to his presentation. He starts off with what I would consider a false premise to put a little piece of doubt in the mind and open the mind of the listener so he can then rant at them. Well, yeah.

But the way he describes it, he's never seen anyone just foisted on us ever. Did Barack Obama come to mind? There's a guy who came out of nowhere. Next thing you know, he's president of the United States. That doesn't come to mind. Clinton came out of Arkansas, out of the blue. He was literally 12. Well, maybe he was, but the point is that he sets you up. Yeah. Because Hillary Clinton's another one out of the blue. Who hasn't come out of the blue except Reagan?

John, this is the perfect Zuma Waffen rage bait where you talk about Israel, Palantir. You like Zuma Waffen? I do. Thank you. The Zuma Waffen. That is our new term. The Zuma Waffen, yes. He is part of the Zuma Waffen. Okay, so he's opened you up just a little bit, just enough to do the rant, which is the long part. This is like in journalism, this would be the nut graph, only he makes it really long.

And he usually repeats things three times in different ways, much like a broadcaster, like a Jim Rome or anybody. He's very professional at this. Limbaugh used to do the same thing. I put him in that category, and here he goes. I've never seen anything like this, ever. First of all, this administration's not doing so hot. Let's get that straight. The war in Ukraine is still going on. The war in the Middle East is about to get started again. We don't have mass deportations. We don't have a wall.

The economy's not going so great. Epstein files just came out because Congress made you release them. And yet everyone is telling us already you got to vote for J.D. Vance. Well, time out. This administration's not going well, and he's the vice president. We're not even a year in. They already want us voting in the next one. Think about how crazy that is. It's not even a year in. It is 2025 still, and they've already got us thinking, oh, we've got to vote in 2028.

It's 2025. Oh, I'll be 14. And you suck. This administration sucks. So not only do you already want us thinking about the next one, this one isn't even going well. You think we're ready for more? We're not even finished with this, and this is a pile of shit. We've been eating shit for a year, and they're ready to blow through any kind of a primary. Trump has been on the ballot three times. It's unprecedented in modern history that you have something like this.

Trump was on the ballot in 16, 20, 24. 28 is the first Republican election since 2012 that Trump was not on the ballot.

It should be wide open for us to decide where we're going to go after this. And not only are they telling us, well, you've got to get ready to vote again in the next cycle. They're telling us a decision has been made already. It's Vance. Turning Point is telling us. Tucker is telling us. Elon is telling us. Everyone is already telling us Vance is the guy. No one chills J.D. Vance more than Tucker Carlson, and that's really weird. Turning Point, Erica, has crowned Vance the next president.

They've all crowned him next president. Who even is this guy? You're right. Not a single or. And he'll never. He doesn't. He's unbelievable. And he just picks one one topic. I mean, this is. You know, in a way, he's he has a limbo type quality to him, too. No limbo is definitely in the mix. You know, I would throw him back. I would say that if this guy was if back in the day, he's like he's like a 50s Democrat in his mentality. Archie Bunker. Yes, he's Archie Bunker.

But without without with more with a Republican slant. Yeah. But it's like he has he would have he would have been Edward R. Murrow. I'm totally convinced of it. Yeah. And you'd have the Fuentes Awards. You'd be getting. Oh, yeah. Did you get you're up for the Fuentes? No, I didn't get a Fuentes this year. I guess. What kind of spick name is that? So he has a. So he has the chops. And so so he finishes. That was the net graph.

So he goes after the guy and then and then to top it, the little icing on the cake is at the end in this third part when he does these things in triples, which is the way to go. He he just throws in some discrepant facts to confuse you further. And they're all explainable. But the way he way he pieces them in and this is the third and last clip. It's just it's just a bunch of rando things that are just, oh, yeah, there's something. There's something wrong. Here we go.

Before he was VP, he was a senator for two years. Before that, he was a never Trumper. Before that, his name wasn't even Vance. It was Hamel. He didn't even start going by Vance until 2014. Who even is this guy? So not only do they want us. OK, this administration blows. Get ready to vote for the next one. And we already have a nominee, even though it's the first time in 16 years we're going to have a wide open primary. And it's going to be this guy that no one even knows who he is.

And if you don't like that, well, you're a problem to be eliminated, which is effectively what they've told me. It's good. Yeah, it's entertaining. Oh, he's very entertaining. He's super entertaining. Yeah. And he's funny. He does bits. He does schtick. And the thing is, he's not wrong about Vance. He's not wrong about TPUSA and Tucker and others. And, yeah, he's exactly right about, well, this was Peter Thiel's guy. And, of course, we know that Peter Thiel is responsible for killing us.

I mean, that's obvious. Palantir. Palantir. Gaza. Killing people. Even though we know how weak Palantir really is. Stuff doesn't really work. He doesn't have the North Sea nexus down. No, he needs that. He needs that. He's got kind of a slickness to him and professionalism that is so high-end that it's as though he had some training. Somebody had to have trained him. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't know.

You can be a natural, and I've seen it, but this guy's over the top when it comes to if he's a natural. Anyway. Definitely, people should check him out. Luckily, the Algos picked up a new hero on the scene, which I hope you saw it, because your algorithm on X is probably still crazy women. Yeah. And now I'm getting a lot of cooking videos. Cheese. Just put some cheese. Oh, look at that nice melted cheese. Everything. I've got fudge with cheese.

I'm beginning to think these are done by the Dairy Council. Well, we have a new hero, Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley was dominating the Algos, for me at least, and for Tina and for other people. Like, have you seen this guy? Nick Shirley has been going around Minneapolis to all of the child care and health care facilities run by Somalians. Nick Shirley's not a new actor. He's been doing this sort of thing for quite a while. That's not what I said. I said we have a new hero. He's a new hero.

He's a new hero. It's funny you say this, because who just told me about Nick Shirley the same way you're, like, doing now to the audience? My wife Mimi calls. Have you seen this guy, Nick Shirley? So it's like, yes. Yes, he's a hero. A list of all of the health care companies. Loads of them right here. We want health care. Yes, we'd like to speak about getting health care here. Why can't I get health care here? This is the strangest place I've ever been to get health care.

Just a bunch of different places. Health care here. Health care right here. Another health care company right here. There are three health care companies inside of this building right here in this room of 7C. Now we have another Helping Hands. Home Care LLC. Another health care company. Present Help right here. We're looking for the best rates of health care here inside this building, because we have so many options. Who can we talk about getting the best health care? I don't know. No? Sorry.

All right. We will not get any health care here. David, this is one of the stranger places I've ever been. Literally, health care every door you go to, yet nobody will give you a rate. How much money do you think has been funneled through this building? Every year, I would say 50 to 60 million at least. This is what you wanted. No one's talking about this. And, of course, the mainstream media is still not talking about it.

It's astonishing to me that the mainstream media has avoided this topic like the plague. Well, because it will make so many Democrats look bad. That's the only thing I can come up with. I don't see any other reason besides the fact that Trump, you know, whatever, Trump, the quad screens are all Trump and Zelensky this morning. I have clips on that. I'm getting close to my – I'm going to be able to do Zelensky. Really? You want to give it a shot? You want to give it a shot?

No, I know, because it's one of those things that's funny about trying to do voices. You do the same thing with your Ruta. Ruta, yes. You need a trigger. Okay. And my trigger is a phrase that I lost a copy of. What's the phrase that pays, John? I can't remember. If I hear it, I can do it and go right into it, but I can't. So it's coming. It's coming for the 2026 season. So I have a couple of different outlets regarding the strike on Nigeria. All of them get one thing right.

None of them have the full story, which is, I mean, not really surprising, of course. Let's start with the BBC. President Trump has been making some bold claims following the Christmas Day strikes he ordered against the Islamic State group in northwest Nigeria. Like the attacks on Iran's nuclear sites earlier this year, Mr. Trump has declared that the U.S. military has decimated its targets, in this case, IS camps.

It's not yet clear how many people were killed, but U.S. and Nigerian officials said that fighters were among the dead. The Nigerians said that there were no civilian casualties. Mr. Trump told the Politico news website that the operation, which was agreed with the Nigerian military, was planned for Wednesday, but he chose to delay by a day so he could give the IS fighters a Christmas present, as he put it. I love the Christmas present line.

Here's NBC. Oh, Nat Pops. Yeah, see, BBC, you're boring. You got to spice it up. You got to get missile launches. You got to get war sounds. Your reports are no good. Tonight, the first images of American missiles launching from a U.S. Navy ship, killing multiple Islamist militants in Nigeria, according to the president, who posted about the surprise Christmas Day attack after repeatedly warning terror groups that if the slaughter of Christians did not stop, there would be hell to pay.

And I'm going to jump into that one particular little psyop in a moment. Nigeria's government now confirming it worked directly with the United States to carry out the mission. But the foreign minister also pushing back against President Trump's claim that Christians alone are being targeted by the Islamic State. This is not about religion. It is about Nigerians, innocent civilians and the wider region as a whole.

The strikes come just one day after the president thanked U.S. troops on Christmas Eve for last week's attack against ISIS in Syria. It was a big attack and you really did a big job. I know you will continue to show no mercy. You can't show mercy because they show no mercy to us. In recent weeks, the U.S. military has launched strikes against ISIS targets in Nigeria, Syria and Somalia, seized oil tankers off Venezuela and earlier this year hit Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions inside Iran.

Back in Florida, President Trump is expected to host President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday. The Ukrainian leader announcing today the two will discuss security guarantees and saying a U.S. negotiated peace deal with Russia is now 90 percent ready. Even as the Kremlin continues to hammer Ukraine, launching new strikes through Christmas. So every report was like this. Every single report was like, well, Trump said it was Christians. The Nigerian said it's not.

But they all missed what this what's really going on here. So first the PSYOP. This has been going on for well over a year, maybe longer. They're killing Christians in Nigeria. They're killing Christians in Nigeria. I obviously was interested. And when you go and look, they're actually killing more Muslims than Christians in Nigeria. The so-called ISIS fighters. But when I saw the news of the strikes, let me see the northwest.

Do you just off the top of your head, do you know where Boko Haram operates? The northeast, the northeast. Exactly. So why is he shooting missiles at the northwest? Well, the answer came to us with the gold price on Friday, which skyrocketed along with silver. But also you might want to take a look at lithium. What what was bombed or what was targeted, whatever you want to call it, were the the rebel groups who are protecting the illegal mining operations.

Nigeria themselves hate this because they're losing out on probably $10 billion a year easy on mining of gold and lithium. And who do you think buys all that gold and lithium? China. This is a move against China. This is a move against the rare earths. There's a whole bunch of benefits. One, Christians go, yeah, Trump. I'm sorry to tell you, fellow brothers and sisters, that's not the primary reason for this attack.

If the reason at all, this is only about minerals and natural resources that Nigeria has, that China is getting on the cheap. It's to cut them off. That's all that it is. Complete gold mining and lithium, big on lithium. And I'm not quite sure exactly how silver fits into it, but, you know, silver has been kind of manipulated for 40, 50 years, I guess. But that's what happened. And you saw the spike in price right away. So none of this has and no one's talking about it. I don't understand.

Are they all working for China? They don't want to say it. I think there is an element of that. Now that you mention it, there are some Chinese influencers and in the media. There's no doubt about that. And I will say this. I watched Al Jazeera's report on this. Do you have a clip? And they said they did not. And they had three guys, one guy from the Council on Foreign Relations, all black guys from Africa and all experts. And they were pretty good. And they said, no, it's bullcrap.

This is religious. He says, and the reason they're killing all the Muslims and the Christians and anybody else is because it's an Islamist group. Two parts of the country, these Islamists mostly, and that's that. And to say it's not religious is bullcrap. They also said that the Nigerian people are happy that the United States got involved and started bombing the place. And the government thought it was great. And the government invited them to do it.

So that kind of flies in the face of what everyone might want to think. But I think you're totally correct. Totally. Hello. Hello. He said it. What happened? You can't argue. That's what we do. And any chance we have to cut China off at the knees, even though Trump doesn't get a lot of credit for it from any corner. No. It's always a good thing. And there was a second shoe that dropped on this. Hold on a second. I have it here. Where was it? No, I'll find that. Hold on.

Let me just listen to CBS. Let's see what they had to say. Do they have a nut pop? The U.S. military fired more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Nigeria. And why are they even calling him ISIS? I mean, isn't that supposed to be in the savant? I have no idea. This is just branding for some reason. Just call him ISIS. That might be it. Yeah, branding. The U.S. military fired more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Nigeria.

And the timing was deliberate, President Trump told a radio interviewer. They said hit them on Christmas Day. It'll be a Christmas present. We hit ISIS. It was terrible. They're butchers. People could be seen carrying debris away from one target site. The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated multiple ISIS militants were killed. Trump warned last month the U.S. would go into Nigeria with guns a-blazing if the government failed to protect Christians from ISIS attacks.

They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. We're not going to allow that to happen. But Nigeria denied those accusations. So far this year, nearly 12,000 people have been killed. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd. Violence by insurgent groups, criminals, and others in Nigeria doesn't just target Christians. It also targets Muslims.

And where and when these strikes occur will certainly be scrutinized by analysts to see who exactly is hit and whether the violence stops. Nigeria's foreign minister said his government provided the U.S. military with intelligence before the strikes. We have been working closely with the Americans, with other countries, to combat terrorism, to stop the death of innocent Nigerians. Both the U.S. and Nigeria have signaled more strikes could follow. All right, so it's like a threefer, you know?

You get one, you get the Christians are happy. Yeah, I'm telling you. Christian broadcast news, you know, all of the Christian news outlets. Yeah, they're all jacked. It's all jacked about this. And I'm just saying, no, I'm sorry. I think it's a fourfer. Give me your threefer and I'll add one to it. Okay, so the next one is screw China out of their resources, which they are not obtaining in a good way. I mean, they are in effect sponsoring these groups.

And for these groups, kidnapping girls, which really happens more in the northeast, but they've kidnapped people from churches and from schools in the northwest. It's a business model. It's been that way for decades. Let's see, anyone of any value there? Okay, we're going to kidnap and get some money. So that's your twofer. The threefer is the gold price, which I think benefits the whole stable coin strategy, which is supposedly going to start around the second week of January.

And I think maybe a fourth. Am I at three or four yet? You're at three. So somehow the silver thing is funny because it completely screws everything, particularly solar panels, EVs, the cheap EVs from China. I saw like the prices in the U .S. were $79 at close on Friday, but in Shanghai, $85. They're so desperate, and just everyone's trying to get silver all of a sudden. Do you have any view on that? No, not at all.

But I'll tell you the other little extra bonus is by sending those missiles into that area, they get to soften up the soil a little bit, making it easier. Better mining. It'd be easier to mine. Yeah. Send two extra missiles right here. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It costs more than dynamite, but it's at the U.S. taxpayer's expense. But the lithium, watch the lithium prices. So it's an interesting time. There's a lot of interesting things happening, but no one is reporting on it properly.

They're not even reporting on the Somali scammers. They don't report on anything. The media is shot. So I tried really hard looking for anything about the redacted documents from the Epstein files. And as far as I could tell, I could not find a single M5M resource or news report that gave us this. This is just a 30-second YouTuber telling us. I'm at justice.gov where all the Epstein files are being held. And there's a lot of different files that have been redacted.

So you can go ahead and scroll down until you get to a redacted area. Here's a redacted area right here. Guess what? If you want to look at these files, all you've got to do is copy it and paste it into Microsoft Word. And guess what? All the files are unredacted. There it is. So go back to justice.org, find all those files, and start unredacting before they figure out how to stop you. So no one is reporting on that. And it works? It's been reported on Fox. I heard it. Oh, you did?

Well, I have a feeling we still have a number of these reporters who are part of the agency, and they're not allowed to look at these documents. I think you're dead on. Wow. Again. What is going on here? Totally. It's Christmas after Christmas. So here, we got into a conversation at the dinner table about this. You know, everybody's an expert. Because when the Doge guys came in, they fired a bunch of people, and they canceled a bunch of software licenses. This would be the gossip mill.

They canceled a bunch of software licenses and started using the free Adobe Acrobat instead of the one you pay for. I like that theory. Which doesn't redact properly. Yeah, I like that theory, but no. My comeback to that was, and nobody could argue against it, which is, so you don't think they did this on purpose. Boom. Exactly. I think you're right. Of course they did this on purpose. Of course. That was the whole point. Absolutely. Everyone's like, they're so stupid. No, they're not.

I know they're so stupid. No, they're not. They're so stupid as the way to play it. That's perfect. Yes. And you get all kinds of extra info and extra ditties that show up. And most of them are useless, by the way. The stuff that I've seen unredacted is junk. And then my favorite story. More than one million files, more files potentially related to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have just surfaced, according to the Justice Department. I love the term dead pedophile. Somehow the justice...

The dead pedophile. Oh, I didn't pick up on that. It used to be financier. Now it's the dead pedophile. Related to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have just surfaced, according to the Justice Department. They say the new trove originating from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI may take, quote, a few more weeks to comb through and release to the public.

As the department scrambles to find more volunteer prosecutors over the holidays to help redact the newly discovered files. Now, remember, by law, the Justice Department was supposed to release everything it had a week ago today. So far, we've seen tens of thousands of documents over a few sporadic releases, including pictures of former President Bill Clinton, emails that mentioned Donald Trump's...

President Donald Trump's name on the Epstein jet flight log and an FBI email exchange that indicates there are 10 other co-conspirators. President Trump weighed in with another stim-winding Christmas tirade, saying he, quote, was actually the only one who did drop Epstein and long before it became fashionable to do so. Trump added the Democrats and some Republicans who pushed for the release will see their, quote, friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationally tarnished.

He then signed off with, enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas. Starting off, I'm sorry, that's just a very interesting way to end that. No, he means it. Hello? Idiots. Yes, absolutely. And these new documents, I have a feeling they'll also be copyable. Just, you know, I like JC's theory. That's, it's cute. Well, they didn't want to pay for that. They just used the free Adobe version. Yeah, that's not how government works at all. They pay the extra super premium plus they do.

I got to just throw money away. This was uncovered, though I did. I didn't hear about this. This is from the Canadian broadcast news. Two years after Canadian Peter Nygaard was convicted on four counts of sexual assault. The former fashion mogul is making headlines again, named in documents released by American officials as it discloses more files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Peter Nygaard's name appeared in an April 2020 letter sent by the Department of Justice to authorities in the UK seeking to interview the man previously known as Prince Andrew. The letter reads, in part, the investigation has revealed that on at least one occasion, Prince Andrew traveled to Nygaard Key in the Bahamas. Nygaard Key. See, this guy had his own island. This gets interesting. A location where Nygaard is believed to have trafficked minor and adult female victims.

I've counseled over around 50 survivors of Peter Nygaard in the last five years. And some of them had certainly mentioned seeing him, seeing the former Prince Andrew at Nygaard Key in the Bahamas. So I wasn't surprised. Two other Canadian women appear in FBI intake documents accused of grooming potential victims, though not by name, identified only as a Serbian-Canadian lingerie model and a French-Canadian aspiring model. Any piece of evidence has to be confirmed. You can't assume it to be true.

You can't. We don't have a conclusion, for instance, that the president was involved directly in Epstein's crimes. But there's suspicion. And that's how investigations work. The latest release of 30,000 documents, the most voluminous to date, contained many mentions of the U.S. president, but did not link Trump to any of Epstein's crimes. So let's start with that guy who actually has been convicted, had his own island. Prince Andrew was at his island. But it's Trump. Let's go back to Trump.

Trump, Trump, Trump. Meanwhile, there's actual work being done on actual pedophiles. Good evening, everybody. I'm Rup Raj. We begin with a disturbing case involving prominent Metro Detroit professionals arrested on child pornography charges. They include a Detroit-area doctor and attorney who are both in federal court today. Let's get live to Fox News' Charlie Lankton in Detroit with the new details.

And, Charlie, I think you said in the tease some of these details are so sickening, so gross, they're hard to even repeat. In fact, I can't even say some of this stuff on television. I'm holding up three of the criminal complaints against three very prominent, a doctor, a lawyer and a psychotherapist, all from the Metro Detroit area. Why am I yelling? Well, why not? But they got caught up in an FBI sting that actually got them arrested in Toledo.

And what they found when they raided their houses, 155 images of child porn, including movies and pictures of the most disgusting things that you really can think of. And there may very well be more. Now, two of the three were in court today. Hold on a second. You know the little neuro-linguistic programming, the thing you just heard? Which one? They're made very well. Oh, yeah. Well, there's some, yes. But it's not, that's not what he was saying.

This is, there may be very, there may be well, there may be more. Yes. I mean, but what you heard was they were made well. Oh, let me listen again. Things that you really can think of, and they're made very well. Oh, I see. You're thinking high quality. High quality is what he's saying. That's the neuro-linguistic programming message.

Wow. More. Now, two of the three were in court today, in federal court behind me, for what's called a detention hearing, meaning that the feds thought these people were so bad they should be denied bond. One of them said, okay, I'll stay in jail. The other one said, let's have a hearing. The judge said, no, you're staying in jail. Why? In part because some of the bad stuff that came out.

And this is, and I'm really playing this just to make the point that everyone yelling about Epstein, they don't really care about the kids. They just care about Trump or, you know, whoever's being blackmailed. They don't actually care about what's actually happening to toddlers. Toddlers.

According to the criminal complaint, encrypted phone messages showed 45-year-old Joshua Ronenbaum was an English teacher in Japan who invited 10- and 12-year-olds to get naked with him and play with their, well, you get the message. The FBI seized his phone, which showed 155 images, including a toddler being sexually molested by an adult man and numerous conversations discussing his sexual interest in children.

And then Jeremy Brian Takom, 51 years old, who lived at the same Palmer Woods address with Ronenbaum. The FBI seized his phone that contained an exchange with an undercover agent, something like this. Wish we could find a kiddo and have our way. Take him to a motel and molest him. F yes, brother. Are you free tomorrow? Any more clips? Six additional clips were sent showing an adult man sexually assaulting a toddler.

And finally, Lincoln Erickson, Dr. Erickson, is a medical doctor who lives in Farmington Hills. The complaint indicates that he's currently on probation for domestic violence for an incident in 2024. His phone indicates he discussed plans to travel to Thailand to sexually abuse children. And the details about his friend, who is a father to a three-year-old who Erickson allegedly sexually abused, forcing the three-year -old to perform a sex act. Where is the outrage? There's no outrage over this.

Where's the story? I never heard any of this. Just came out. Yeah, no, because it's all bullcrap. People, you don't care. You just are sucked up into a swirling pool of poop of innuendo and QAnon. Because it was really Q that started this, if I recall. And it was the Democrats. It was all Democrats. And they were sending kids in wayfared boxes and kids, kids, kids, everything kids. Kids in wayfared, that's right. Yeah, I forgot about that one.

But when actual horrible crime, and these guys should be killed. Right, did you do it yet? Dead. Dead. No, I have no problem saying that. But no, that's not the game. Israel, Mossad. What ever happened to Nambla? They're probably still around. Nope. I haven't checked. I looked them up. No, they folded. Oh, they did? Yep. Well, then you know what happened. Yeah, they became Democrat Party members. I'm sorry. It's the best I can do.

All right, I'm going to do one little quick series here just because I predicted it. However, he hasn't quite said the phrase yet. But we knew they were coming. The president saying the collection of ships is called the Golden Fleet and will become the quote flagship of the American naval fleet. Now the Navy has created a website named after the fleet. It gives people the opportunity to look at specs of the ships. As you know, we're desperately in need of ships.

Our ships are, some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete. And we're going to go the exact opposite direction. The website states the ships will be up to 880 feet long, reach over 30 knots and require a crew of anywhere from 650 to 850 people. The ships will also have hypersonic weapons, state of the art electric rail guns and high powered lasers. U.S. Senator Mark Warner says he disagrees with the project.

The one thing the Navy had decided didn't need more big ships because of the threats from drones. It needed more small, mobile, faster, deployable ships. Some Navy officials have estimated the first ship will cost $10 billion to design and build. It's a price tag. Retired Navy admiral and founder of the National Security Leaders for America, Michael Smith, tells 13 News Now the Navy can't afford. I just don't know how he's going to be able to pay for it.

I think if the first part of that sentence was I'm committed to doubling the Navy's budget and delivering the Golden Fleet, I think that would have been a realistic first statement to make. The president has also told reporters he expects the first ships to be built in the next two and a half years. Smith also calls that timeline unrealistic. My concern is with this president, you have to deliver in the time he's saying. And so there are going to be so many mistakes made.

No, no, it's not about mistakes. It's about one big, huge, corrupt business known as the military industrial complex, who somehow the lawmakers and money spenders who hold the purse strings decided to give even more to the military industrial complex than President Trump even wanted. So it's now up to just shy of a trillion dollars. But here is what the president also said, which, of course, didn't make the news.

We'll be discussing the the pay to executives where they're making 45 and 50 million dollars a year and not being able to build quickly. They're going to make that kind of money. They have to build quickly. Again, we make the best equipment in the world, but they don't make them fast enough. And we're going to be also discussing dividends. We want the dividends to go into the creation of production facilities. So we'll be talking about all capex dividends and the pay.

We're also going to be talking about buybacks. They spend so much money on buyback. They want to buy back their stock. I don't want them to buy back their stock. I want them to put the money in plant and equipment so they can build these planes fast, rapidly, like immediately. Yeah, exactly. Stop with your buyback. Stop enriching people like yourselves and get down to business. There's a substacker that's an ex-spook. He went on about this. Isn't that an oxymoron, substacker and spook?

Maybe, close to it. And he made the assertion that they've decided they're not going to do any of this. They're going to keep pocketing the money as best they can. And they're going to just wait out Trump's three years. And they're not going to build one ship. You're never going to see a ship out of this deal. Well, we'll see. You know, he's doing the same with the insurance companies. He had another stand up with all the drug manufacturers, going to make them cheap, going to make them cheaper.

It'll be cheaper for us, but it won't be $88. But I guess it's going to have to even out between other countries. But then another thing that wasn't really discussed was this. I'm going to call a meeting. It could be in Florida this coming week or it could be back in the White House the first week, not the second or third week. I'm going to call a meeting of the big insurance companies that have gotten so rich by receiving money and really much far, far more money than they're entitled to.

And I have a feeling maybe if they would act like these incredible, brilliant, responsible citizens behind me, people that love our country. And they love the world. I mean, frankly, they love these are international companies for the most part. I'm going to call a meeting of the insurance companies. I'm going to see if they get their price down, to put it very bluntly. And I think that is a very big statement.

And what happened here is the biggest statement of all, because nobody thought a thing like this was possible. So where are all the Luigi fans? Yeah, this is great. This is what Luigi is going to jail for. No, no. Nick Fuentes is great. Candace, she's just asking questions. That's the best part. Just asking questions. Just asking questions. No, Zuma Waffen, you are welcome here at the No Agenda Show. We'll help you understand what's really going on in your world. The information is out there.

You're just being lured away by shiny objects, trinkets, to go and watch something else. And that's something else in the two instances you mentioned, Fuentes and Owens. They're long talkers. Yes. Those are hours and hours a day. It's unbelievable. You can really chew up a lot of your time. But again, it's the clips. It's all about the clips. I don't think I've ever watched the full Fuentes episode. I mean, is he on YouTube only? I don't know. No, no. Rumble. Rumble. But I see the clips.

You know, that's funny because I've only watched full episodes. I've never seen the clips. I watched the full episodes to look for the um or the uh. Yeah, it's not there. Not there. It's just horrifying how good he is. Yeah. So that's why I call on the Zuma Waffen. You are good here. We'll take care of you. Don't worry. This is where you want to be. Listen to your uncles. You can learn something. Now, let's play. I have a couple of series here that are kind of interesting.

They're going out of their way. It seems the powers that be, and in this case NPR, to start trying to reconstruct in advance of Trump getting kicked out or getting Trump three years from now or whenever. To rebuild USAID. This is a disaster. Weren't they getting money from USAID as well? I'm sure there's some backdoor from USAID to NPR. Oh, absolutely. There has to be.

But the USAID is a money laundering operation, a worldwide money laundering operation for everybody, for the intelligence agencies, for all kinds of slush funds. Mainly. Mainly. And it goes to the NGOs and that's where the laundering takes place. So they're going to go out of their way now, NPR, to try to turn the ship around and show what a bad idea this was and everything in between. And here we go with the USAID. Wait, wait, wait. Before we start, have we seen any, is Africa now dead of AIDS?

According to this report, yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. I stand corrected. It's been a cataclysmic year in global. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey. You keep doing this. I have a code. See NPR-SS? Okay. Well, all right. You have a good point there. I didn't recognize the code. Suffer and succotash. Suffotash. I'm Scott Simon. It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell. In January, the Trump administration. Did he say in global hell? Yeah, this is the leverage they're going to use to promote USAID.

Wait, global health or global hell? It sounded like he said global hell. He says it fine. Yeah, he screws it up. You're right. Global hell. It's been a cataclysmic year in global hell. In January, the Trump administration. He said hell. He says hell. He says hell. I heard it. It's a cataclysmic year in global hell. In January, the Trump administration froze billions of dollars in foreign assistance funds. Then it dismantled the United States Agency for International Development.

These actions had ripple effects all around the world and changed how the U.S. approaches foreign aid. NPR global health correspondent Fatma Tanis has been covering the story for the past year. Joins us in her studio. Fatma, thanks so much for being with us. Thanks for having me, Scott. Take us back to the beginning of 2025. How did this shakeup to USAID programs begin? Well, it was really chaotic. He switches here to USAID. I love that. Oh, I missed it. Well done. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.

USAID to USAID. Take us back to the beginning of 2025. How did this shakeup to USAID programs begin? Well, it was really chaotic, Scott. Hundreds of agency staff were put on leave. The USAID website was taken down in the middle of the night on a Saturday. In the middle of the night? And thousands of programs that provided critical health services and poverty solutions and more were terminated. And this all happened within a matter of a few weeks. And what did the administration do?

Hey, what are poverty solutions? I like that. Poverty solutions. Poverty solution. Alcohol. Poverty solutions. I'd like to be in charge of that department. That was the end of that clip? Yeah, it ended funny, but that was the end of the clip. It did end funny. It was something I did wrong. Okay, well, let's go on to clip two. And what did the administration do? You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan support. Yeah, he brings it. What did the administration do?

It was a funny ending. It didn't make any sense. And he drops it in. He says, what did the administration do? She never really says when he asks it again. That's a very screwy report. I'm sorry. I could have done a better job of segwaying it, play it on. And why did the administration do that? You know, foreign aid has historically had bipartisan support. It saves lives and has been generally seen as a way for America to wield influence and build goodwill.

But the Trump administration saw it differently, that the way America was doing foreign aid was ineffective and wasteful. USAID in particular was viewed as far left and irredeemable. It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people or reproductive health and climate solutions were seen as part of a woke. She just did a woke lineup of epic proportion. I just need to hear that again. Irredeemable. It's programs that provided support for LGBTQ people.

Support for LGBTQ people or reproductive health. Reproductive health. Read abortions. And climate solutions. Climate solutions, which I think is part of poverty solutions. This is wonderful. Yes, it's a liquid. It's great. Seen as part of a woke agenda that taxpayers shouldn't be funding. Here's Max Primerack with the Conservative Heritage Foundation. He previously held several senior roles at USAID.

A lot of the aid programs that we were doing were not always tied to our foreign policy objectives. And by subsuming the aid agencies, you can better align with our national interests and also with our values. So the administration shut down USAID and moved a handful of the parts they wanted to keep, like humanitarian relief and a few hundred staff, under the State Department. Let's talk about the effects. Secretary of State Rubio said in May that no one died as a result of the cuts.

Is that true? Unfortunately, no. NPR interviewed a mother in Nigeria. Her son had sickle cell anemia. And he began running a fever. But the clinic that they usually went to, funded by USAID, had been closed. And the boy died the next day. OK. So tell me she has a few more examples than one boy with sickle cell anemia. She's got another example. Because of the cruelty. This is, by the way, a big theme for Trump. They like to use the word cruel. It's cruel.

The cruelty of Trump has resulted in a boy in Nigeria. By the way, there are homeless all over San Francisco. They're dropping dead in the streets in Los Angeles. We have shootings in Oakland. But there's a boy in Nigeria who died because of Trump's cruelty. Yes. Wow. That's the troll room. I want to see the death certificate. We want proof. You're sick. The funny thing that the troll room brought up, it actually may be bull crap. Yeah. She has another example coming up.

OK. And the boy died the next day. A doctor who treated the child before said he would have likely survived if he had received care. We also know that many people lost access to drugs that treated diseases like HIV AIDS. And in countries torn by conflict, many malnourished children lost access to therapeutic protein-filled foods. But we don't know the full scale of lives lost. And that's because aid groups are no longer on the ground able to track what's going on.

You went to Uganda to report on how people there were trying to live with the cuts. What did you see? Well, the LGBTQ people are in trouble, of course. Yeah, I was there in August. And, you know, locals and officials were still grappling with the ripple effects, not just on health care, but local economies, too, because so many people lost their jobs with aid groups.

In one rural area in southwest Uganda, we learned that there were only four ambulances for the 200,000 people who lived there compared to eight ambulances before. And that's because the U.S. was funding the drivers and the fuel for those ambulances. Well, what? America first, people. Where's my America first people cheering on the nonsense that we were funding?

So so they were it was our fault, the cruelty of Trump, that four ambulances in Uganda are no longer no longer have their ambulances must still be there. They didn't dissolve. But there's four ambulances there, but they don't have a driver because nobody can afford to pay the driver and they can't afford the fuel without our money, without U.S. taxpayers money. Does this our country?

I need to reiterate that the international arms dealer, my friend here in Fredericksburg, that he has an ongoing pipeline of C-130 aircraft that the U.S. government sells to Uganda. They're not cheap. Certainly, a couple of ambulances worth and they and he has to keep supplying them because they all learn how to fly on YouTube. So how is it our fault? It's true. It's true. I keep crashing into hangars and stuff. Oh, I learned how to fly on YouTube.

Yeah, but no, no, no, no. It's the it's Trump's cruelty that stopped that. They only have four ambulances. It's their own decisions that they're making to buy aircraft and take their pilots on YouTube. So it's Trump's fault. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the U.S. I think is was there another fourth clip, fourth clip wraps it. It's just one example of how thorough and extensive USAID used to be. So she did it. Let's hear that again. It's just one example of how thorough and extensive USAID used to be.

It's so thorough and extensive. How many hundreds of billions of dollars did we stop flowing from USAID? I don't know. I can't remember the number. It's a big number. Big number. So what's the future of U.S. foreign aid look like? It's looking different. Instead of funding aid organizations to do health work around the world, the administration is now working directly with governments and faith based groups. Their focus so far has been on Africa.

The State Department announced several agreements with nine African countries. In total, the U.S. is going to be investing eight billion in the health sectors of those countries to help fight diseases. And those governments are expected to chip in as well. As part of the deal, the U.S. wants more opportunities for American businesses and access to minerals.

Now, global health experts are cautioning that in the year ahead, the challenge is going to be doing more with less as millions of lives could be on the line. And Pierre Sputmatanis, thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks so much. Millions of lives. Millions of lives. Well, Rubio came out and said, he said, we're not going to fund NGOs anymore. And that's ridiculous because he knows. And certainly the State Department knows.

It doesn't take a genius to figure this, that these guys are just taking us through. We're going to help you out. We're going to give you global hell. Hell. He said global hell. I'm sticking with it. I'm going to give you global hell. But we want some minerals, which is a much better deal than the Chinese are giving you. Much better. So, we can build more AI chips for the data centers. Speaking of. So, we had that MIT scientist who was killed.

And somehow the guy who did the Brown shootings was blamed for it. Although, have you seen any photographic or video evidence that he was there? That he did that? It feels just like, I don't know, something is off with that. Yeah, I'd say. So, the MIT scientist was working with, I have the name of the company somewhere. It's a fusion guy. Fusion guy, yes. But it was one of the three, there are three main companies that are poised to supposedly provide a fusion reactor.

I think you used the right word. Supposedly. Yeah. Yeah. This is quantum computing. This is in the same league as quantum computing the way I see it. Well, I watched a couple of videos on these companies. Yeah, the videos are great. The videos. It works terrific in a video. This technology, it's killer. Well, we got this announcement on pretty much the same day. Tonight, President Trump predicting pricing. I'm sorry, that's not the one. Oops. How did I? Wait, wait, wait. It's here.

This is the one. This is Devin Nunes, who is the CEO of Trump Media, which is now- Right, which just did a big merger. Yes. Now, I spent a lot of time in Congress working on nuclear power. Unfortunately, legislation that I proposed 20 years ago didn't pass because the Congress decided that they should invest in windmills and solar panels. However, there was a company called TAE, the one that we're merging with, that actually continued to invest.

So families like Chuck Schwab's family, investors like Stanley Druckenmiller, Google, Chevron, many others continue to invest in TAE. So this is private money, not government money. But for a quarter century, they've amassed the best scientists that the world has to offer, and they've produced enough. They've built five generations of the reactor. And now we're stepping in, folding them into our company so that we can help them build their first reactor. So this is a fusion reactor. It's clean.

It's one that can—the first one will be up to 50 megawatts. The future ones will be somewhere between 350 to 500. Now, what does that mean? Wow. That means these are big enough to replace pretty much or add to the existing power generation that we have in this country. It's a good size. Now, look. Look. Now, look. When this is done, and I don't say this lightly, this will be the most important discovery and invention since the first Manhattan Project.

So the professor was working— Wait, wait, wait. What was the second Manhattan Project? Well, this will be the second Manhattan Project. Oh, I see what you're saying. I don't know. It's Nunes. So Lorero was working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build SPARC, and SPARC is supposed to start operations in 2026. And I just can't get beyond the coincidence of this guy getting iced. Yeah, I can't either.

There's also a system being put—a plant being built right now in Washington State from Microsoft using yet another fusion trick, technology supposedly that supposedly works, supposedly, supposedly, that uses helium-3 and deuterium somehow, and it causes the people who say, look at the—I did a lot of reading on this. So the idea, as I understand it, the idea is that you can almost pretty much use saltwater, seawater, and then helium comes out of it.

You can use the helium to create steam, and in the video that I watched, the TAA video, they're saying, oh, no, we can convert that straight to electricity somehow. Uh-huh. No. Whatever you said was just nonsense. Well, I'm just telling you it was in the video. Yeah, the video is nonsense then if it talks about turning seawater and using seawater because you can get some helium out of it.

It's almost—getting helium-3 is a pain in the ass apparently, and then any of the deuterium fusion reactors supposedly is, again, you know, it just—listen, I'm just reading what the critics say.

The problem with deuterium is that, yeah, it will fuse with helium-3 and form a 90-million-degree temperature for a small amount of time, but deuterium also fuses with deuterium, and when it does that, a bunch of neutrons are released, and now you have a radiation problem, and the neutron release in the reactor will just melt the reactor. The whole thing's a disaster. It seems that this technology has not been proven to work anywhere.

And it's really cool the way they contain plasma in a tube, and the plasma has to spin around, and the problem is keeping the plasma in there. Oh, yeah, and the guy that got killed at MIT, what was his specialty? Plasma. Plasma. Mm-hmm. So there's one other company out there. I think it's the ZAP. I think it's ZAP, who would do the Z-pinch. I think there's one more scientist who has to die for the theory to be—I have a feeling that they may be closer than we think or than we think is possible.

Yes, the fusion has been talked about for a long, long time. I think it's certainly—somehow I feel it's more likely that this is happening than quantum, which you might have noticed is everywhere now. The pivot to quantum is happening, and I predicted it would happen, which means AI is just not panning out the way they expected it to. Well, by panning out, you mean profitable. Well, how about productive-wise? It's not productive. It's productive for social media.

It's great for newsletters and for art and funny videos, but it's not panned out to be productive in the workplace. No, not at all. And it's not profitable. In fact, it's counterproductive when you think about what you just said. How about this? How about this? Let's just break it down. Maybe, maybe this is just the next hype that they're kickstarting. Because why else—it was like, oh, Trump, you know, he's a conflict of interest with the data centers. Yeah. It's his kids running it, I guess.

Nunes. It doesn't matter who's running it. This will just be the next thing, because what is the power—what is the problem with AI right now is power. So as long as everyone's out—oh, we're almost there. 2026. Oh, it could be—little glitch, 2027. This could be an enormous addition to the GDP now that we're kind of, you know, the data center deals are starting to slow down. The big guys with the money are like, we don't want to put any more money in the data centers.

Hyperscalers, which is another word for builders of data centers. This could just be the next hype, you know, just to keep the train rolling. We have to keep it rolling. AI is now 90% of our GDP. That's not true. Well, that sure seems like it. Well, 90% of the mind share, maybe. That and GLP-1. I mean, that's all we have. We have AI and Ozempic. Welcome to America. And Apple phones. That's about it. But, I mean, I'm hopeful because it would be fantastic. Think about it.

Think about the changes that would happen if Fusion actually came about. That would be amazing. How about showing me one example of where it works at all? Well, on the video. You can see it on the video. Actually, it was like a 45-minute video from the company itself. Not once did they show, hey, it's working. Look at the meter. Look at the power coming out. They didn't show that at all in 45 minutes of talking about their product. That's because it doesn't work. Could it work?

I mean, it might work someday. Somebody might come up with a good idea or something. Well, what is the problem? What is the main problem with it? It costs more energy to get it to get going than it delivers. Okay, because you've got to fire up the plasmatron. The plasma, you've got to control this. And that costs money to extract the H3, in the case of the helium ones. It costs money to get the deuterium. That doesn't come in, you know, it's not bottled by Coca-Cola.

I mean, it's something you have to develop. How do you make that? I have no idea, but it's not cheap. That costs money. And it costs money for the other stuff. It costs money to get the plasma going. It costs money to build the plant. And then when you turn on the power to make it, so it creates power, it costs more money to create than it's worth. That's the problem. It's negative. It's got negative numbers all over the place.

So it's not, it's a loser until somebody figures something out and they haven't done it. Oh, well, back to zero point energy, I guess. I just can't get beyond it. I can't get beyond that guy. That guy getting killed the minute this TAE merger takes place, folded them in, which I don't like that term. I'm not sure what you're talking about. But that Trump media is for one thing and one thing only. It's a money gobbling machine. It's beyond me whether you, well, yeah.

If you know what you're doing, you got some good creative bookkeepers and you got a few other guys that know how to set. It's a creative. Five salesmen and two creative bookkeepers and you got a company that'll make billions. It's an accretive acquisition. That's what you have to say at Wall Street. It's accretive. Oh, really? Yes. It's accretive to the balance sheet. The good news is we have the best producers in the universe.

No doubt we have someone out there working infusion who can give us the straight answer and the details on what's really happening. We probably do have somebody working infusion. Of course we do. You're going to say the same thing. Well. We wish. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not a good idea if more goes into it. It would be a great thing if we could get it to work. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Okay. Well, that's disappointing. Well, it's just, it could be completely wrong. I may be out of touch.

But they didn't have to kill the guy then. If it doesn't work, someone believes it works. How about that? There's Devin Nunes, I'm sure, is like, oh yeah, that's going to work. Someone believes quantum computing works. Yeah, no, you're right about that. Some people believe, and maybe, you know what? Maybe that guy was the guy I'm talking about who needs to, he has the little, that one piece of knowledge that would make it work.

And so that's the guy you want to kill to keep it from ever coming to fruition because you're the, because you're the oil companies. Yeah. The one I love the most is the quantum computing people. Quantum's going to break Bitcoin. Like, okay, which Bitcoin is not encrypted. It's your wallet that's encrypted. But if quantum can decrypt Bitcoin wallets, you got a much bigger problem on your hands because they can decrypt your bank login, everything. It's the same encryption.

No, no, no. Quantum's going to do all that. Okay. All right. All right. We'll just have to wait for it. I don't know why that became an important element to quantum. Oh, it's the people who are short Bitcoin. Hello. Maybe that. I don't know what it is. It's easy. It's easy. But it's a, it's a something. Okay. It'll solve some sort of problem that no one can solve, I guess. What, quantum? I'm not sure what the real appeal of quantum is. Oh, I can tell you exactly what it is.

It's going to give you the right ad at the right time for the right product. That's always been the sell. Or it's going to tell you that the milk in your fridge is out and it will order it for you automatically. Yeah. Call the repairman. So, I just want to talk about Europe for a second with Ukraine, since we do have Zelensky now at Mar-a-Lago. We have, let's see, we have a couple of things here. Let's just a little catch up from NBC.

In the Ukrainian capital, the sound of drones once again buzzing across the night sky. Buzzing. Buzzing. As Russian strikes pounded Kiev. Pounding. Killing at least one person and injuring more than 20, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia launching a massive barrage of more than 500 drones and missiles. Massive. Just hours before the Ukrainian leader is set to meet with President Trump in Florida. On his way to the US, Zelensky's stopping in Canada for a meeting with Prime Minister Karny.

And tomorrow I will have a very important and very constructive meeting with President Trump. Peace talks are slowly inching forward. The Nat Pops are great. Constructive meeting with President Trump. Peace talks are slowly inching forward. Is he shooting it up in the Oval Office? No, no, it's in Canada, right there in Karny's office. He's shooting it up there. Oh, they're shooting it up Karny's office? I hope a very important and very constructive meeting with President Trump.

Peace talks are slowly inching forward. The main sticking point remains territory. Moscow is looking for full control of the Donbass region in the east. Vladimir Putin saying tonight that if Ukraine doesn't want to resolve the conflict peacefully, then Russia would resolve all its goals by force. Zelensky has said any compromises on territory should be decided by the Ukrainian people in a vote and that his country needs US security guarantees in any peace deal.

Trump telling Politico on Friday the Ukrainian leader doesn't have anything until I approve it. Back in Ukraine, another day spent sifting through debris. We are begging the whole world, says this woman, let there be an end to all this for the sake of our children. So I thought it was interesting that first, you know, Zelensky's coming to Mar-a-Lago and then all of a sudden, you know, over the weekend, well, he's going to stop off in Canada.

And I should mention something, because I followed at least five or six of these reports and they all go out of their way to mention the stop off in Canada. Oh, and it wasn't just to talk with Carney. No, it was to talk to a bunch of some other stooges from representative of Europe. And there was a meeting. This was a pre-meeting meeting. This was a yes. OK, what do I need to know here? I got to deal with Trump again. Tiny dancer, here's what you do. We're going to tell you exactly what to do.

Let's get the the the true analysis from our guy, Andrew Rassoulis. He's our guy. He's our guy. Andrew Rassoulis. And we'll talk first about the stop in Canada. Our thoughts on that. At least the initial press press conference with Carney and Zelensky. It was quick. Yeah, difficult times. I mean, and then sort of fast moving time.

So the main event will be tomorrow, of course, in in Florida, Mar-a-Lago when Zelensky meets Trump to kind of finalize the sort of Ukrainian slash European proposal that they're going to give to Trump. And if Trump likes it, he'll give it to the Russians and we go there. The Halifax meeting is a stopover. It's important. It's a coordinating meeting between Canada and also the European Union. That's also being held with the Coalition of the Willing, which is being held right now on video.

So it's important. But it's a stepstone to the main event tomorrow afternoon. And, of course, the question is, whatever the Coalition of the Willing come up with, will they will the Russians accept it? So is this essentially these two meetings just to get everybody on the same page before they hear from Trump? Yeah, it's fine tuning. It's actually to give Zelensky more backing as he goes to see Trump at Mar-a -Lago. And, you know, Trump's not going to be an easy sell.

Trump has already said that, you know, he's going to look at what Zelensky gives him. But if he doesn't like it, he's not signing off on it. So that's the kind of atmosphere that Zelensky is walking into. And then even beyond that, are there any odds that Russia will say yes to this?

No. I mean, the odds are they will say no. They will negotiate maybe, but they will say no. There's a lot of things in this thing, like about the Russians pulling back from the Donetsk area, equal amounts of Ukrainians. I doubt the Russians will accept that one. And there's a lot of the uncertainties about the Coalition of the Willing in terms of guarantees. Will that mean legally Article 5 type? But will it mean troops on the ground in Ukraine?

That part, if it's in the package and we haven't seen the full package, I would think the Russians would be very opposed to that part. So all I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of things the Russians have said they will be constructive. That means they will probably counter-propose something, as opposed to just shut it down. I love the whole Article 5-like guarantees. It's like, well, this is almost like a Bentley. It's not quite. It's like a Bentley.

It's like a Bentley. It's Article 5-like guarantees, which already, I think it's Article 6, says, you know, Article 5 says an attack on one is attack on all. I think it's Article 6 that says, and then if you want, you can do something about it. It's not a given. So it'll be less than a given by calling it Article 5-like. And meanwhile, Canada, more of your tax money. And just quickly before we go, one question about the spending that the Prime Minister announced today, $2.5 billion.

How will that be allocated? How does it help Ukraine? Yeah, it's going to international funds like the IMF and the World Bank and others. It's not a direct transfer to Ukrainians. And I think that's actually wise, given that Ukraine is going through a lot of corruption issues right now. So there's a question of where's the money going inside Ukraine. But also I think that the other question is, you know, what's Canada going to get back for this?

Canada's poured in quite a lot, many billions, in terms of Ukraine's economic situation. So is Canadian industry going to benefit by this in the longer term? Because Ukraine is on the precipice of bankruptcy. The European Union bailed them out with a two-year loan. But they were going to go bankrupt in April. So these things have to be watched very carefully, I think.

So the bank loan from the frozen Russian assets, seen internationally as theft, resulted in the Belgian Prime Minister, Bart de Wever, who of course, you know, he said, hey, you can't really do this. This is a problem. You have to give us Article 5-like guarantees so Russia doesn't come over here and kill us all for taking the money. Well, he just stepped it up. He said, this is such a good deal, we won.

The immobilized assets will be kept immobilized and will ultimately be used to repair the damage Russia has caused to its unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine. I think nobody in the European family wants to see that money returned to Moscow. But we're going to return to the original philosophy. It is going to be used to repair the damage that Russia has caused in Ukraine. So I think Ukraine has won.

They have their finance, and they still have the perspective of getting reparation money. I think Europe has won. Perspective. And financial stability has certainly won. We've all won. Ukraine won. Europe won. It's a win-win. Now, I'm going to play two clips from Yanis Varoufakis. I know you don't like the guy. I haven't heard about him for a while. Well, he's been doing his own podcast, soliloquy style, where he's really reading his own script off camera, which looks kind of odd.

I always find that creepy. Oh, yeah. Get a prompter. Stop for one second. So off-camera reads, I don't even know when they became popular, but they started showing up in maybe the late 80s, and they became more and more used, more and more. Alex Jones uses them a little bit. Candice Owens does it. I mean, it's the second shot. It's the shot where you see someone reading, but you see them from the side. Yeah. And I call it an off-camera read. Who are they reading to?

They're reading to the other camera, which is the one that represents the audience. But so now we're seeing him as a third party, so an interloper from the side. I find it disturbing. I don't like it. That's art, John. Either talk to me. It's art. That's the problem. That's what they think it is. It's art. If you're talking to me on camera, I want you talking to me, not over to the left, over to some guy. Where's that? Who's she talking to? Well, that ship has sailed.

That's sailed with the Dutch windmill tilt and with the jump cut, which are all pioneered in the 80s and 90s, primarily by MTV. And then Ze Frank. Ze Frank. Remember Ze Frank? Zay Frank? Ze Frank? And they usually, when you're in a studio, they always called it exactly what you say, dutching the camera. Yes. Or they say you're shooting over the axis. All of the things we learn in film school have been just cast aside.

Anyway, he's not reading off-camera the way you describe, his camera is next to his monitor instead of where it should be, right in front of his monitor. Okay, I got it. All right, I'm sorry. I got carried away with my complaint. I've been wanting to get it off my chest. Your complaint has been registered. Then we will send it to the Austin Film School. Yes, please do that.

So Giannis, he does know a lot about European finance because he was the finance minister and later prime minister of Greece when the International Monetary Fund screwed them. Over. Into severe austerity. Zoomer often listen up. We've been around. This happened when you were three, but it was bad news in Greece. It was really, really bad. This is how the international finance system works.

So he gives us a little rundown in two clips of the retaliation that Russia, the retaliatory measures, measures as you would say, that Russia has taken against the EU. And trust me when I say you haven't heard this anywhere. And it's quite severe. Russia announced that all remaining energy exports to Europe. I'm sorry. Start with this one first. Within 48 hours, Russia announced the nationalization of all European corporate assets on Russian territory. BP's stake in Rosneft.

$14 billion gone nationalized. Shell's Russian operations. $3 billion seized. Total energies projects. $4 billion confiscated. Societe Generale's banking operations taken over. German automotive plants. Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes facilities worth billions. Nationalized pharmaceutical operations. Food processing facilities. Retail chains. Infrastructure projects. Intellectual property. Everything European companies owned in Russia was suddenly Russian state property.

The total value exceeded $120 billion. More than the EU had seized. European boardrooms erupted in chaos. Shareholders demanded answers. Stock prices plummeted. Insurance companies faced massive claims. But this was just the opening move. Didn't hear about that, did you? We've won, everybody. We're winners. Okay, clip of the day right there. Why do I not know this? I don't know. I know, because the mainstream media, they've stopped doing their job. A long time ago. A long time ago.

Well, at least 18 years ago we started this show. It already was 10 years past due. Now listen to the second thing, and I checked the exchange rate, and it checks out. Russia announced that all remaining energy exports to Europe would now be priced exclusively in rubles or yuan. No euros accepted. This was different from previous energy threats. Russia wasn't cutting supply. That would hurt their own revenues. Instead, they were forcing a currency choice.

European countries that wanted Russian gas or oil had to acquire rubles or yuan first. This meant going through Russian or Chinese financial intermediaries, paying fees, accepting exchange rate risk, losing transparency on pricing. But the real impact was psychological and systemic. By refusing euros, Russia was making a statement, your currency is no longer acceptable to us.

The euro, which Europeans assumed was a global reserve currency that anyone would accept, was being rejected by a major commodity exporter. This had cascading effects. Countries that needed Russian energy had to hold ruble reserves. This meant selling euros to buy rubles. Euro selling pressure increased. The ruble, which Western sanctions were supposed to destroy, strengthened. The currency that was supposed to be worthless became necessary for European energy security.

China benefited enormously. Countries buying Russian energy and yuan had to acquire yuan first. This accelerated yuan internationalization at the expense of the euro. The European Central Bank watched helplessly as energy importers dumped euros for rubles and yuan, weakening the euro and importing inflation through currency depreciation. Yeah. Go look at the ruble USD or the ruble euro chart. It happened exactly as he just said it. Boom. 40% up. Everyone's now got to buy rubles.

This is weakening the euro. Well, it's strengthening the ruble, really, in first case. But the craziest thing, and I got this from Sir Gene, our duke here in Texas, that the whole Ukraine strategy, or really the Russia strategy, was written up in a single document by the Rand Corporation. Titled, Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground. And I'm not going to read it. I'll put it in the show notes. People can look at it. I confirmed it. What year?

2019. Okay. And it's still on their website. Just a couple of items from the index, a table of contents. Let's see. Hinder petroleum exports. Reduce natural gas exports. Hinder pipeline expansions. Impose sanctions. Enhance Russian brain drain. Provide lethal aid to Ukraine. Increase support to the Syrian rebels. Promote regime change in Belarus. Exploit tensions in the South Caucasus. Reduce Russian influence in Central Asia. Challenge Russian presence in Moldova. The whole thing.

It's almost like they followed it step by step. Increase U.S. and NATO land forces in Europe. Increase NATO exercises in Europe. Withdraw from the INF Treaty. Invest in new capabilities to manipulate Russian risk perceptions. You know, and they're still trying it. Oh, I got an idea. Guys, Reuters. This is a Reuters report. I'm 99% certain it's an AI voice. Here, read this.

And a Reuters exclusive has shown that Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former air base in eastern Belarus. That's according to two U.S. researchers who have been studying satellite imagery. It's a development that could bolster Russia's ability to deliver missiles across Europe. We're going to kill you. Oh, the Russians are coming. It's unbelievable. That is a good one. And the Europeans are like, yeah, man, hey, Russia. That's no good.

We got to be careful. According to two randos who study satellite imagery. Give me a break. It's good. It's great. It's fantastic. I got to love it. Got to love it. I think that's it for Europe. So the European companies. That is it for Europe. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. How do you come back from this? Except first, one, you got to give the money back. They're going to have to give the money back. They're really counting. I mean, we'll see what comes out of the Mar-a-Lago talks.

Nothing? Probably not. Sadly, probably not. Oh, I want you to get into whatever you want to do next. But something happened. A report came out from CBS. I have been predicting this for a long time. And finally, here it is. Ladies, the free ride is over. And now you're telling me that you're going to charge me $1,199 or whatever it is to return items. Are you out of your mind? Hassle-free online returns may be a thing of the past.

Most major retailers are now charging customers to return items even if they're unopened and in perfect condition. Who wants to lose money, especially not in this time and in this economy? $850 billion. That's how much Americans will return to the stores this year. Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy. That doesn't sound right. $850 million. I don't know about billion. $850 billion? No. $50 billion. That's how much Americans will return to the stores this year.

Nearly 20% of the stuff we buy online just ends up in the return pile. Return fee? Macy's now charges $999 for mail-in returns. TJ Maxx and Marshalls charge $1,199. Other stores, including J.Crew, Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, and Zara all now charge fees between $4 and $8. It can now cost as much as $45 to return certain electronics at Best Buy. Amazon, too, has tightened its policy, charging some customers unless they use its box-free, in -person drop-off option.

Merchants now are under a tremendous amount of cost pressure. They're really trying to offset some of the costs that they face in returns by asking shoppers to share some of the burden. David Sobey co-founded his company, Happy Returns, that uses these AI robots to help make returns easier. Is there any way to avoid these fees? Well, the best way to avoid them is just to read the retailer's return policy before you check out in the first place.

I've been seeing this coming down Broadway for a long time. Women, in particular, will order 15 items of clothing and return 10, 11. They'll try them on. No, I don't like it. Try it on. No, I don't like it. And I've always said, how can these stores accept that? This just becomes shopping at home. And now they're going to start charging return fees. Well, this is basically what you would do at a retail store, especially a woman.

She would go in and go to a dress rack and grab, like, seven dresses and go into this changing room and try all of them on. And then, you know, turn around and look at herself and then go back and not buy any of them and then go take another seven in. And so they figure this is the analog of doing that exact same thing, but instead of being at the store where you're putting it back on the rack, you are having to go through this rigmarole.

Yep. And I don't know how they can put – I don't know how the system can work with that. It can't, clearly. But it's going to change behavior because I just see it everywhere. I don't know. I mean, Tina does it, too. I told her this morning. They start charging. What? Yeah. They start charging for returns. Oh, $9? Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if that's per item or per box that you ship. It's probably per item. Oof. Yeah. So that's going to end that. It's going to bring people back to the mall.

Back to brick and mortar. It's going to change behavior. You're right. Because it's too expensive. Yeah. Or maybe order them like that but then return them in person. I think that's probably where it'll wind up. Return them in person. So then you have to have a store to return them to. You can't do that with Amazon. No. They have their drop places, their drop boxes, according to that report. So we'll see. That's still going to cost money.

They have to recharge you to drop it off in one of those little cubicles at the grocery store. I've seen those. Oh. Is that where you pick up your scratch -offs? Scratch and sniff? What are you talking about? Your scratch-off. You have lottery tickets, man. Your scratch-offs. You know, I have the same chance of winning whether or not I buy a ticket. What is this untitled clip you have? I love seeing those. It's actually—that's not a mistake. It's just a—it just got in there.

I should have taken it off. It doesn't mean anything. Okay. I do have an AmFest—kind of an interesting clip from this, you know, the America First big meetup. It was during our show day off. Not America First. It's the America Fest. America Fest. America First. America First. Yeah. The TV—the big turning point in USA. There were like 35,000, 40,000 people were there. Well, I heard 30,000, but it was a lot of people. Everybody showed up, and it was like a big— Well, everybody was mad.

We had—what's his face? What's the little weasel man? Fast talker? Ben Shapiro. Shapiro. Ben Shapiro calling people out. He saw his way in big controversy. Oh, yes. A million dollars from the Jew money, the shekels, and all he did is rag on Candace and everybody else and Tucker. And I think there was a lot more going on at AmFest, but those were the highlights.

I think you summarized it, but I thought that this little report, which added a tidbit I did not know, and I thought—and I have to agree. This is a woman, a British woman, called the Warwick Report. She's one of these—she's online. She's more of a blogger than a podcaster or a video blogger. And she's very good at what she does, and she gets in and out of these things. And she went to this one, and she found something at AmFest that is kind of disturbing. Are you ready for my AmFest recap?

This is going to piss a few people off. I was not invited, and I was not paid to go. At the last minute, I applied as independent media, pulled a few strings, made a few calls, and got approved. AmFest day two, I arrive and immediately feel the vibes are off. Not only did it feel as if I'd walked into a tense, blurry proxy war, but attendees were looking each other up and down with suspicion. We all saw speakers like Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly go after each other.

Quite frankly, that was rather embarrassing, and the left are laughing at conservatives. The House is divided against itself and cannot stand. And what's the division? One simple but loaded question. Are you pro-America or pro-Israel? You'd think the answer was obvious. We were at AmericaFest, but the nuances were palpable. Several activities and events seemed in bad taste. For example, the tent replica.

Yes, there was a replica of the tent Charlie was publicly executed in for people to take selfies in. Now that doesn't sit right with me. The public's online takeaway of the event is rather telling, and they have every right to question what's going on. As someone who was physically there, I can attest that there was something seriously off. There needs to be a ceasefire of the friendly fire in the conservative movement.

Traitors must be removed from power, and we should focus on the enemy that is trying to destroy the UK, America, and the West in general. However, I must say that I did meet an interesting group of people there, and the networking was fantastic. Hmm. So there was a tent that was a replica of where Charlie was shot, so you can go have a picture taken? What? Well, that may just be their standard TPUSA tent. That's maybe just how she's categorizing it. I don't know. Look, let's just face one thing.

TPUSA, the organization, its main mission was to register voters and to activate them when necessary. Because you can scream and yell and say Trump or Biden, whatever you want to say, but if someone isn't registered in time, they can't vote. TPUSA is a voter registration organization. And then, of course, an activation, as Mo would say, an activation organization to get you going at the right moment. So you go vote because you're already registered.

You don't have to go through a two -step process. So everyone who was there is there to get people involved in all these tents and everything. It's always to register. You need to register to vote. Yeah, it's important. I'll register to vote. And once you're registered, then we're going to activate you. They're kind of doing things out of sequence now because they're pre-activating. And I think it's true. J.D. Vance, that's what they're doing now.

And that may or may not be with approval of the president, but it seems like that's all that it's about. And all the other stuff is just, it's noise. It's just noise. Oh, and Alex Jones is involved. Alex Jones, he's, Candace, you were wrong. Got to call that out. I read all the documents, been doing this for 20 years. Candace, you're wrong. I love you, but no, I got to call it out when you're wrong. I love you. I love Candace. I love Candace. But when she's wrong, she's wrong.

Got to call it out in my car while I'm driving. It's insane. And at this point, it's just idolatry, just being in the mix. Dave Rubin jumps in. I know, the whole podcasting industrial complex, which I blame on you, by the way. It's totally my fault. It's out of control. It's Candyland, everybody. We're in Candyland. That's where we're at. So you were talking about, the clip before was about liars. I have to play this series, and it'll be my last real series for today. Oh, you got a series, huh?

This is a series. Well, these have all been series. I do a lot of series. I don't know why. Because that's what we do. We do series so that we can tell the kids. So we can bitch and moan. We can bitch and moan in our own way. No, we want the kids. We want the kids to learn something from us. Ultimately, that's what we are. We are teachers. Don't laugh. We're teachers. We are teachers. We're educators. So this is Brooks. Okay, I take it back. We're just bitching and moaning.

We're not teachers at all. This is Brooks on the PBS NewsHour, which nobody who listens to this podcast watches, ever. So Brooks goes off. Brooks, I've now determined, is actually, he's supposed to be a, you know, this is my main complaint for the, over the years, I'll do it again. PBS does not have balanced coverage of anything. So they put two people on to argue with each other, but they are both in 100% agreement. I'm a lefty. I'm more of a lefty. That's the argument is how left can you be?

Hey, these clips are loud. They're really modulated. Did you clip these? Yeah, I did. I did give them a, yeah. I'm looking at the waveforms. These are maxed out. I'm looking at the waveform. I try to do this with my clips. Why? Why? All I'm doing is potting them down. You'll be potting them. You'll be having some fun with these. So they don't have Capehart on. So the two of them can't agree with each other. They brought some woman on who's, it's not even worth, I clipped none of her.

I just wanted to clip Brooks to make a point about Brooks being not only a left winger, but he's a New York Times columnist who is going to blatantly lie. President Trump's return to the White House has seen several significant changes from his first term, turning this into a consequential year for the presidency and for the country. So to reflect on it all, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Atkins' store.

That's David Brooks of the New York Times and Kimberly Atkins' store of the Boston Globe. Jonathan Capehart is away. Welcome to you both. Thank you for being here. David, one of the biggest questions at the starting of this year is what Trump 2 .0 was going to look like compared to the first version. And we have now seen a year of it, an incredibly aggressive flexing of executive authority. When you look back on this year, what really stands out to you? Yeah, I tell two stories.

The first is that since 1945, the American establishment, if you want to put it that way, has built a series of institutions. Things like the Western Alliance, NATO, the Department of Justice, USAID. And all of those things have been hollowed out over the last year. The Department of Justice? The Department of Justice. That's new? He put that in there. He said specifically. That's new? The Department of Justice. Let me just read a little segment here. Oh, you've done. You've done. You've done.

You've got the documents. Yeah. On February 19th, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice. In 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill into law on June 22nd, 1870. What does that have to do in 1945, 1946? Well, it's hollowed out, man. It's hollowed out. It's like an empty eggshell. But you did notice he got the little thing in there about USAID.

Yes. Of course, because PBS, I think you nailed it when you said that they were getting money from USAID. Sure. Under the table. Whatever. Probably not even under the table. Probably through an NGO. So we start off with a blatant lie about the Department of Justice, but it gets worse. It doesn't get worse before another clip or two. It gets worse. John C. DuBois, he's got all the documents. And so we've seen a great decline in state capacity. He knows their globalist agenda.

You have to worry about if we're a nation in decline, because China is investing in science. They're investing in technologies. They're kicking our butts. And so the decline, this has been a tragedy, an error of historic proportions. They're kicking our butts. Is there a lie in there somewhere? No, not yet. Well, it's the fact that the Chinese are kicking our butts in AI. Okay. So then we have this next clip, which is actually a WTF clip.

This proves to me that this guy represents conservatives about as much as Hillary Clinton. Earlier this spring, David, you remember you called for or arguing that all of these little protests, pushbacks that are happening against the Trump administration were insufficient for what you're diagnosing. And you called for a civic, a collective civic action. I don't think I'm breaking any news to you that I don't think that that has happened.

Yeah, no. Yeah, I mean, I was reading all these lefty revolutionaries and I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's go get them. I think it has not happened. What in the world? So he's reading alternate and God knows what other left wing publications routinely. And he's getting all worked up saying, yeah, yeah, let's go. David Brooks reading all those alternate. Okay, we get it. You can you're getting your I would say you're five percent. You're really close.

The reason why is because I've had the flu for the past two days. And that's why I'm overdoing it. And what I say really close. I'm talking about his being able to do Alex Jones in a couple of moments back. Yes, I had it moments ago. He nailed at least five or six words that sounded exactly right. So now you're I know if you're trying to get my attention. Yeah, but you yes, you've got it. Okay, thank you. But can you sustain it without your cold? No, I can't. It's not a cold. It's the flu, man.

It's the flu. I'm jacked up on all kinds of meds right now. You didn't even know that. No, you don't because you don't have that. You're good at you cover up sickness somehow over a microphone, especially mental. I've been talking like this. Well, the way I see it, I can't breathe through my nose. I'm just going to have to blow a couple of times. If you don't mind. No, I refilter. I refilter. When I sat down, I got to refilter. So I'm going to keep this filter, though. All right.

Let's go to the last clip. Do you want to get it out of your system? Let me try again. Josh Dvorak. Now I can't do it. Okay, well, you have to work on it more. I'm glad I didn't. I'm glad I didn't try my Zelinsky. So this is the part. This is the end of it. And he just drops a bunch of bombs in here at the end. Lies. The second thing that's happened is there has been such a decay of moral norms that it's hard for any institution to say, no, we are going to stand up for this.

You are not going to talk about Rob Reiner the way you did. You're not going to use the racial language that is on the present now. And it's hard to articulate when the corrosion is not only in our laws, but in our minds, in our language. That's a hard thing to challenge. But I'm hopeful in the long term it'll happen. In the 1890s, we had a civic renaissance. We had the creation of the Boys and Girls Clubs. We had the creation of the NAACP, the unions, the Sierra Club.

All these civic organizations were created by a group of people who said, we can't go on this way. And once you had the civic institutions, then in around 1900, you had the progressive movement. Wait a minute. Wasn't the Sierra Club, weren't those the population bomb people like kill everybody? No, they were just conservationists, which is not a new operation. Now, he said in the 1890s, we had the NAACP, the Sierra Club, and the Boys and Girls Club. Let's go over the facts. Here we go.

He's got the documents. Boys Club. There was no Boys and Girls Club. Let's make this clear. There was no Boys and Girls Clubs in the United States. Was there a Girls Club? There may have been, but the girls usually joined the Girl Scouts. The Boys and Girls Club came about in 1990, not 1890. In fact, the Boys Club was first founded by women, actually, curiously, in 1860, which is not 1890. It was then nationally organized in 1906, not 1890.

And then it was reformed in 1930, in the 30s and the 40s, not 1890. Oh, well, let's go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was formed, according to him, in the 1890s. The NAACP was formed in 1909 by people like W.E.B. Du Bois. This was not 1890. The Sierra Club was indeed founded in 1890, but that's a conservationist group. It's not a political group.

And then we take it to the end, which he says labor unions, which were actually founded, the first, the founding of the National Labor Union was in 1866, not 1890. And there's plenty of examples of unions that were formed. The Knights of Labor was in 1869. And then the Great Railroad Strike, which was a union-inspired strike, 1877. This guy is a liar. He works for the New York Times, and he spews bullshit on PBS, which people lap up like lapdogs. It's pathetic.

So does this end the clips on the No Agenda show of the PBS NewsHour, since it's all lies? Can it? Can it possibly mean the end? Could this be a New Year's resolution? Let's hope so. All right. Let's do a little bit of Trump derangement syndrome before the break. This was a fine example, which is going to cost somebody a lot of money. To the index, and what was meant to be a celebration is now a controversy. The Kennedy Center canceled its annual Christmas Eve jazz concert.

The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says he called off the performance in the wake of President Trump adding his own name to the arts institution. Many legal scholars say Trump's move violates the law. You know, Chuck Redd has been doing this Christmas concert since 1890, and now all of a sudden he decides to cancel? 1890. That's, you know, Grinnell is the president, which is perfect for the job. Remember Grinnell? He was ambassador. He's the gay guy. He was... Oh, yeah, I do remember him.

He's the gay ambassador. Yeah, he is perfect for the job. That's true. Yes, and I think he then was, for a moment there, he was national security advisor, I think. I had to look him up. I like him. He's a good looking man. Good guy. Handsome man. Very handsome man. And so this Chuck Redd decides to cancel a day before the concert. That's going to cost you money. That's going to cost... Someone has to pay for that, because ticket sales, everything's already done. That's just a...

That's a career killing move as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, for political purposes. Yeah, I was like, what do you care, man? What do you care? Trump put his name above JFK. This is a Bloomberg podcast called The Balance of Power. You can already imagine what this is like. I think it's audio only. Thank the Lord. No, it's on TV. It's on TV too? I'm pretty sure it is, yeah. Well, here they are complaining about Trump. Incredible reporting today in the New York Times.

If you've not seen this story, they spend time in the Oval like no one has, cataloging each inch. And all of the changes that have taken place over the last year, there have been a lot of them, by the way. The flags are abundant. We've got the gold framed copy of the Declaration of Independence. Gold statuette of an eagle flying over the Constitution arrived last month near the flags behind the desk. A wooden box with a red button. You know, that's the Diet Coke button. That's different.

It's not gold. But the question of whether the gold is real, also acknowledged. When you look at all the frames that are in the mirrors and the photos, some thought that this was just cheap plastic. No, the White House says that while the underlying materials are made of plaster or metal, they are covered in real gold leaf. A craftsman from Florida travels to the White House on the weekends to gild, gild, gild parts of the Oval Office by hand. What is the problem?

I mean, I'm not that much of a guru. I do that myself at the house. Yeah, with gold spray paint. No, you can get gold leaf. It's actually relative. It's not as cheap as it used to be. Are you gilding stuff? I've gilded stuff. I'm not doing it as we speak. Could you gild my microphone? You want to spray it. You want to spray it. You don't want to gild it. How do you gild? Is gild done by painting? Or how do you gild?

No, no. There's a sticky undersurface and you lay a piece of gold leaf over it and press it down and over the bumps and little things and get it so it's all pushed in there. So it's one gold leaf at a time. It's only one atom thick, which is crazy. One atom? Oh, man. Yeah, gold can be one atom thick and still be gold. Is that the stuff the high-end chefs put on the food? Yeah, exactly. That's the stuff you can eat? Exactly the same stuff. You can eat it?

Yes, you can because there's really not that much to it. I've eaten it. It's just a line of atoms. You're probably not getting enough gold to do anything. I mean, there's not much gold. I've eaten gold in my day. Most people have. If you go to a high-end restaurant over the years, at some point, someone will bring out a gateau that has a piece of gold leaf on the top. And foam. Foam. Foam is so passe. It's ridiculous. Oh, foam. It's still a thing. Yeah, well, maybe where you are.

Let me clue you in about foam. The foam. I've always loved the foam. And so these guys didn't stop. Do you know about the peephole? Oh, brother. This is fascinating. You know about the peephole in the outer oval? Most people don't know about this. There was a peephole that until quite recently would allow staff to just check on the meeting to see what's going on in there. Make sure the president's all right. You're going to walk in. You know what you're walking in on.

Trump has blocked the peephole with new mirrors. If the door is now closed, they cannot see what is happening in the room. Oh, God. I'll have what she's having. He's blocked the peephole. I can't believe that's also on television. That's crazy. Well, on television, they have it. It's a very small box, and it's surrounded by nothing but stock market information flying all over the place. Right, right, right. It's not really a television show. Yeah, I know.

Exactly. Well, John, with that fine news of the peephole being blocked, I think it is time to thank you for your courage. The man who put the sea in Candyland. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora. Yeah. Good morning. Chips and sea boots on the ground, feeding the airships in the water, all the dames and knights out there. And the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Hold on. Let me count you. There we go. There we go.

Okay. We're at 1838. That's not bad for a holiday weekend. It's good to have everybody here. Now, 1,838 trolls are listening live to this podcast, and we are a podcast. We're just a podcast. You can do other things while listening to this podcast. We are an OG podcast. And genuine. A pod, as some would say. The pod. Well, you shouldn't be saying it. You've rejected that moniker. Yes. Yes, I have. So you can be driving while you're listening to this. You could be walking the dog.

You could be doing chores. You're washing the dishes. Walking around. You can be gardening. Gardening. All kinds of wonderful activities. In fact, we encourage that you're outside when you listen to this podcast. Just walking around, laughing to yourself. So people think you're nuts. It's perfect. And you recognize each other on the street. Oh, you're listening to the best podcast? Yeah, I'm listening. ITM. ITM, everybody. When did that happen the other day? You got an ITM?

I got an ITM out of the blue. Oh, from a pastor. We were talking to a pastor. One of the Bryans? No, not one of the five Bryans. No, this is for Godcaster. And the pastor says, ITM. I'm like, holy moly. ITM. There we go. A man of the cloth. Of many different cloths. And, of course, if you have a modern podcast app. And, by the way, PodVerse is working on a new version, which is going to be amazing. PodVerse 2.0. I mean, Mitch is... Well, the new version of PodVerse. I mean, what?

What's it going to do? I mean, it's hard to explain, but it's really going to help you find new podcasts, find music. We have value for value music. Did you hear about the music hack? It's interesting you bring that up. Yes. And it's not a hack. It's just a great idea. It's a download. I think it's... What is it? Anna... Anna's blog. No, not... Yeah, it is. Anna's blog. They backed up Spotify and they're making... All of it. Well, I think 90% pretty much... I thought it was all of it.

We archived around 86 million files representing 99 .6% of listens. 300 terabyte in total size. And, of course, they're putting this all on torrents. And so you can already get the metadata. I've never even heard of Anna's blog. But if you want to get a book... They're hackers. They do a lot. Anna's blog has been in business. Nobody knows anything about them. But they're the ones who have the giant libraries that they've stolen. I'm going to use the word stolen.

They have downloaded all kinds of stuff. They're very important to the underground community for information archiving. Well, you like downloading movies. No, I don't. I pay for everything I view. I'm sorry. Yes, you're right. You pay for everything you do. But there's lots of people who like downloading movies. But they have books. I'll bet you your books are on here. You wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. So it's kind of a super hack because I can see people putting together...

They even have some kind of their own player, if I understood correctly. So in essence, you can load up the metadata in their player. And then you can access the files from the torrents in your player. And it'll just kind of work like Spotify. Yeah. Yeah. I mean... I can't see how that helps the stock. Well, it depends. If it gets kind of the scale of Napster, it'll be very interesting to see what happens. But basically, the musicians aren't really losing any money.

I mean, no one's making money. They're not making any money anyway. Yeah. So in a way, it's kind of fun. I mean, I don't condone stealing. But, you know, I just like the idea that they just sat there and had all of these machines just screaming, grinding away and taking it. Saving everything. I like that. Just something radical about it that I like. Of course, with podcasts... This was at the dinner table conversation, too. A couple of things to note.

One, I also posted this on X, this little hack. And the notes I got back from typically my followers go, So what? This is not WAV files. Everybody knows if you're going to save stuff, you got to save it in WAV. You got to save full... Lossless, lossless audio. Lossless, lossless. Lossless. Lossless. And so I got that. And so then you also had the... Which is what... You've heard it. No one cares. No one cares about quality anymore. That went out the window a long time ago. That's what I said.

That's what came up at the dinner table. J.C. says, well, he only downloaded it. It's 160K. And I said, which is more than adequate for today. It's not 128 or 64. This podcast is 96. Yeah, we're 96. We're 96, man. We don't care. It's great. And I started doing that for file size, but now it became part of our sound. It is literally part... Our sound is fine. People would say we have great sound and we're doing it at 96.

Yeah, well, that's because you get a little bit of artifacts when you do it at 96. It adds a little more crunch to it, which I enjoy. It's almost like over-modulating onto magnetic tape. That's also part of sound. I'm a sound designer, Chuck. Yeah, you're... I'm a sound designer. It's designed for earbuds. But, yeah, so that was the only pushback you got. It was not Wave, not Wave. Go talk to Neil Young with his failed Wave product. Remember that? Yeah. It was a good idea, but no one cared.

Nobody cared. Once MP3s came in and Napster, and you could be sharing with your friends, it was fantastic. Man, I loved those days. The sales of CDs were at their absolute peak. Yes, because everyone was... During Napster, because you could hear music you never thought of, because Napster had a recommendation engine. No, no, it wasn't the recommendation engine. It was you got a file and then you go look at the guy's drive. What else you got in here? Yeah, right. Well, it was a...

Exploration system. Okay. But it basically was a kind of a handmade version of recommendation. It was beautiful. Because what you do, you hear some music from some guy, and you say, what else is this guy like? You go look at his files, and you say, oh, I never heard of this band. You download it. Wow, these guys are good. I'm going to buy their album. But think about how good that was as a discovery mechanism versus what you get on Apple Music or Spotify. Which sucks. There is the left.

It sucks. Oh, you might also like this. No, I like rooting around in the guy's hard drive. Oh, look at that. He's got 78s. This is John. This is John's drive. That would be me. What? He's got all this cool... Oh, he's got entire radio dramas. It was all kinds of fun stuff. We got to bring that back. That was super fun. Now, Anna's blog. Bring that back. That's what people want. Yeah, the internet got ruined by apps. Apps. Got to have an app. So anyway, get one of those modern podcast apps.

And apparently, Podverse 2.0 will help you find perfect podcasts. Podcastapps.com is where you can find all of them. And these are the ones that also automatically will give you a bat signal when your favorite podcast goes live, which is what we do with the No Agenda show, which is really the only way to do it because you have a built-in studio audience and it's just more fun. There's more energy. It's great, which is great. Face it. What else?

I guess we'll talk about the Christmas special, which Donald Winkler put together for us. I got a lot of positive feedback on this. Did you get any feedback at all from people? None whatsoever. None. Hmm. Well, I like the art that I chose, even though we had... Even the art that we chose. Yeah, but did you not like my choice? It was much better. No, it was an executive decision you made. Yes, I... Wisely, because that's a terrific piece of art. I called an audible.

You called an audible and you nailed it. Baron Darren O'Neill created a piece of art, which, and they had two of them, and one kind of hid the pretty blonde's face. But I opted for just a... She looks a bit like my mom, honestly. That's how my mom looked back in the 50s, 50s, and 60s. That was a very typical American look. Wouldn't you agree? Yeah. No, she's a pretty... For AI, it created a very pretty... That's a pretty face. Pretty face. Pretty classic face.

Yeah. And I even got... I got comments on that, people saying, I like how Adam and John just don't care. They'll just put a pretty... Don't care? What are you talking about? They'll just put a pretty blonde in the picture. He's a pretty blonde. This is, we do care. Hello? It's just the opposite. Because we know a pretty blonde sells. Come on, let's be real. It's money in the bank, people. A pretty blonde always sells.

And she was holding up a No Agenda Christmas book by Currie and Dvorak as curated by Sir Donald Winkler. It was a little small, but I decided to go with it anyway. It was fine. Darren is a master. He's a master, I tell you. I don't know how he does it, but... And of course, he doesn't do anything else. I think his wife works. I'm pretty sure. Hold on to that one, Darren. Whatever she says, do the chores. Don't change anything. Don't change anything. It's a gem.

There were, of course, a lot of pieces of art that were uploaded to noagendaartgenerator.com. We should probably just take a quick look. And let me see. There was a lot of Christmas art. There was a lot of redacted naughty and nice lists. You used the Jeffrey Rhea Christmas special artwork, which was a nice piece, which Jeffrey did. It was a tree, stylized tree with the letters. Do you think that was AI? Absolutely. Yeah? Well, it was good prompting done. And then there was just a ton of...

Well, okay, there's Darren's. Some stockings. I don't know. It's just... Oh, yeah. Very funny blue acorn with the sweater puppies. Okay, yeah, I'm not going to choose that. Yeah, that was kind of cute. The one you wanted, the actual cheesecake, because that's what we discussed by Darren in honor of Scaramanga, which I was... Well, I didn't... No, I don't think that's true. I think that's the one we decided on. No. Oh, the Christmas cheesecake by Scaramanga? I think so. No, by Darren.

Oh, there's a better one by Scaramanga, but it's ridiculous. Not usable. As long as you mention him, that's all that matters. He just wants to be mentioned. Yeah, well, I just mentioned it, so he's got his mention. He's got a girl with big breasts. So we're always looking for something fun, something that... But I don't really see anything yet, except another butt from a comic strip blogger. He's always showing the butts. I don't know.

I think there's still room, people, to swoop in and get the art for this episode. It's part of the value for value model, is how it works, is you give us your time, your talent, and treasure in return for the outstanding podcast that we deliver twice a week for 18 years. We just keep on delivering. We're just delivering. Are you tired of our delivery yet? Because it's never going to stop. We're going to keep on delivering for more years, or a thousand more years. Depends. Johnson Newsletter.

Yeah, you saw that. I did see that, yes. Inside joke, everybody. So we always thank our financial donors, value for value supporters, $50 and above. It's nice to hear your name called out. It's even nicer when you get a credit for it, like an official Hollywood credit, which we do with our executive and associate executive producers. That's $200 and above. And we'll read your note for an associate or an executive, $300 and above. But once again, thanks to Sir Donald Winkler.

He is a full-on producer, and was credited as such in episode 1828. We really appreciate what he did. And we will be needing, of course, more best ofs, special shows for this coming year. There's always stuff going on. So we appreciate whenever someone puts something like that together for us. Now to start with our first executive producer for this week, just as we wind up the year, the last one for this year. Paul Lincolns comes in from Lansville, Pennsylvania, with a cool $1,000.

And he says, see attached note. It's a dame for his mom and his dad. So I'm going to read that now. He says, ITM John and Adam. My name is Paul Lincolns. My mom, Rose, made an instantite donation in May when I graduated from Thaddeus Stevens College, earning my associate degree in welding technology. I remember this kid. I know, because whenever we get someone who's doing something actually productive like welding, we're the first. Like welding.

Everyone can use a welder, by the way, in their Rolodex. Yes, we're always the first one to say yes. We approve that career move. And he says, I scored my first job, and now I get to sew with metal for a living. It's a welding term. I sew metal. She hit me in the mouth in 2020, and this show has been the best amygdala -shrinking bonding experience for us. This is also my chance to make an incident donation for her. My gift to you, Ma. Although it might be late, Merry Christmas.

I would like my knight name to be Sir Mama's Boy of the Arc Welders, and my mom's to be Dame Rosie Posey of the Flower Child. At the round table, we would like best Texas brisket and ice cold beer. This is also a reply to the quote John read in episode 1768. Please read the following. Mom, though through our struggles in this insanity -inducing world, you, Dad, and I have always stood strong together. You tell me I light up your day, while you guys brighten my universe. Oh, this is so sweet.

I could never have asked for better parents who have taught me so much in life. I am proud to be your son. I love you so much. And now I'd like a noodle gun and a goat scream followed by health and jobs karma for jingles. That is a beautiful note and a beautiful gift. I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my noodle gun. You racist piece of shit. I got my pasta glock locked and loaded. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yeah! Karma.

Then we go on, and you're gonna have to read this note because it blew out my spreadsheet, and I can mouse around it, but my mouse dropped dead in the last segment. Okay, hold on. And so I'm recharging it as we speak. Oh, you don't just put in, uh... No, my mouse's battery is rechargeable. Yeah, there's no batteries in it. Oh. Oh, I like to just put battery kind in. That's my favorite. Yeah, I do, too, if situation. This is from Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga. Hold on a second.

Baba Yaga, because you have some requests here. I didn't have set. Okay. Let me get the Pelosi. Okay. So difficult. I don't have Pelosi. Hello from Baba Yaga in Littleton, New Hampshire. This is $500. Ooh, the witch has been active out there in the world. She is dancing upon the earth on bony legs with her rusty metal teeth, eternally chomping and clanging. With bottomless hunger, she feasts on the world's children as they laugh and frolic into her waiting oven with nary a complaint or outcry.

Oh, how she shrieks in delight how easily they come, how easily they are seduced into her whimsical hut sitting high on scaly old chicken feet. Oh, how lucky she is to have an endless stream of food that comes right into her home. And as the world turns, she cackles and creaks on. I'm not sure why that came out there, but it's an interesting little bit. I very much appreciated your media deconstruction since COVID times.

I will forever turn a big bloodshot eye of skepticism toward any and all major news developments spewed from the grassy mouths of the foul new ghouls, thanks in part to your program. Please deduce me. You've been deduced. And call out my dad, Rick, as a major douchebag. Douchebag. Wow. Rick. Can you give a shout-out to my ultra-mega-awesome Main Street business community here in northern New Hampshire, the Woodcocks? And please check out my art and store at babayagaville.com.

That's babayagaville, B-A-B-A-Y-A -G-A-V-I-L.com. Check that out. Thank you and a happy 2026 to you both. You deserve the world and more. And as Jingles, he wants chemtrails. I didn't have any of that. Somehow I missed this entire note. Chemtrails, yes. And what else does he want? Pelosi, shut up. From Zach in the great North Beast, Baba Yaga, Littleton, New Hampshire. Chemtrails. We will not shut up. No, that wasn't Pelosi. Hold on a second. Where's Pelosi? Here's Pelosi. Shut up.

I knew I had it. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. The Baron of Old Bay is in Willamington, Delaware, and he came in with $343 and says, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. I'm donating to help John and Adam enjoy a well-deserved Christmas break from the show. What is on the menu this Christmas, asks the Baron of Old Bay, who finishes off with cheers. What did you have this Christmas? Our Christmas dinner is coming up. Mimi sent me a text. Hey, Merry Christmas.

I said, Merry Christmas for whenever you're going to celebrate. Tuesday? Yes, we had tamales. What? Tamales, yeah. Do you have a tamale? You made the tamales or you bought some commercial tamales from a local? No, one of our Mexican friends made tamales for us. They're a pain in the butt to make. I wouldn't make them. Yeah. So, yeah, they were dynamite. Also, I had some of Sir Patrick Scoble's Shine Nog, which he gave me when I saw him here in Texas, which is moonshine egg nog.

He would have access to such a thing. I would not recommend drinking it at 10 a.m. like I did because, man, I got hammered. Sir Scobie, Charlotte, North Carolina, 333.33. These, by the way, of course, are combined donations for the Christmas episode and today's episode. And he wants to hear George Bush send your cast and says, Merry Christmas, gentlemen. JCD's tip of the day for egg nog recipe warrants mention of another egg nog recipe in the Too Many Eggs cookbook, George Washington's recipe.

GW loved his distilled spirits and included copious amounts in his egg nog, supposedly to get sloshed with his holiday guests. This is the third year in a row I've used the recipe. It's always a hit with family and friends as both a drink and a topic of conversation. So this is the egg nog that Mimi has in the book. Is that why? Is this what he's saying? Yeah, yeah, it's in there. Thank you, John and Adam, for another year of superb media deconstruction and an overall outstanding product.

Fellow producers, join in to support the best podcast in the universe. John and Adam deserve that holiday bonus, says Sir Scobie, Duke of the Piedmont. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash. Boom. Yeah, which brings us to Joe Henning, who is in Flower Mound. He's our Flower Mound guy. $333.33. Hold on one second while I bring this note up to the proper size. The notes are a little fuzzy today. Yeah, it's interesting. You noticed that.

Yeah, I thought it was my eyes, but no, it's the notes. It's the camera. She probably had smudge on her lens. Gents, thank you for your awesome show. I just love it. Please consider my first-time donation at $333 .33 and give me a de-douching. You've been de-douched. I'm wondering if you could put the word out. I'm looking for a CNC machine shop. A CNC machine shop to buy in the following areas.

He wants to buy a machine shop in either North Texas, anywhere in North Texas, Austin, San Antonio, Wisconsin, Denver, or Colorado Springs. Anybody selling their machine shop? CDC machine, CNC machine shop. What does that mean? That's a computer-assisted CNC. My target SDE or EBITDA range of $650 ,000 to $1 million. It's EBITDA, EBITDA. EBITDA. Hello. Interested parties or anyone who might know of something, please call or text me at, and he's got a number. I'm just going to read it out.

You can play it back if you want to call him. 262-623-2294. They can also email me at joe at techwork, T-E-K-W-E-R-K .com. John or Adam, please spell out the email. In addition to me, I just did that. Regards, Joe Henning. Wow. He's using this show to do mergers and acquisitions. No agenda. We're here for your M&A. Love it. Let me see. That brings us to Dame Cheryl from Pinedale, Wyoming, 333, and she also sent in a note. Then she says, good day, gentlemen. I hope this finds you well.

Thank you for breaking down all the latest news around the world, some of which is quite terrifying and downright mad. But coming from your voices, I can take it. You make me laugh, and for that, I am grateful. Happy Christmas. Happy New Year. Cheers to 2026, says Dame Cheryl, cowgirl of the Wind River Range in Boulder, Wyoming. She says, P.S., can you guess this font? Now, that's one for you, John. Oh, I'm not on the note. Oh, well, that's too bad. I'll go. I'll go. I'll go. It's on this page.

I'm going to say this is Geneva. Geneva. Whatever you say. It's Vienna. Whatever you say. Whatever. Let's take a look. Okay. Can you guess this font? It looks like Times New Roman to me. Okay. I'll take it. All right. Onward. Okay, now I've got to go back. Since I haven't got a mouse, it makes it that much more difficult. But we've got Waterworks Plumbing. Okay, now this is a donation from Waterworks Plumbing in Minnesota. $250 is no note, but I'll give them a double up.

Karma, before you do that, there's something, I think there was a run, like there was an overload or something at PayPal. So people who sent in last-minute donations after the newsletter, they all ended at 3 .30, even though a number of them came in, including Gigawatt Coffee, Dame Astrid, a whole bunch of 60-buck donations. Some of them will be missed. So if you get your donation missed on today's show, send us a note. If you had something to say, and we will read it in a future show.

I mean, there was so many people were donating to the show that it clogged up the pipes? No, so many people were using PayPal. It wasn't anything to do with our show, but all I know is that I kept downloading the spreadsheet, and it ended at 3 o'clock yesterday when there were donations still coming in, and I waited and waited and waited. I waited until midnight to go to bed. It still said 3.30 or whatever the time was.

And so everything that came in after that, it either had to be put in by hand or it was going to be missed. Okay, so send us a note, and here's a double up Karma. You've got... Karma. For Waterworks Plumbing LLC. Patrick Brown from Fairfax, Virginia, also $250 and no note, so we'll give him a double up Karma as well. You've got... Karma. And in the same... In the same vein, Michael Raimondi in Hollis, New Hampshire, $250 double up Karma. You've got... Karma.

And coming in with 242, we've seen that number before. It's Christopher Graves in Mount Ockham, California. Happy holidays, John. Mount Ockham is in El Dorado wine country, not far from the Shingle Springs. Pick up some shingles. Well, we may have run out of eggnog fudge, by the way, dynamite. We can say we had 100 plus producers participate in our ITM 10 plus 10, bringing in an additional donation of $1,131.30 from these brave knights and dames. No eggnog fudge?

Well, we were inspired by Gigawatt Coffee and made an amazing chocolate mocha fudge for the new year. Shop littlejohnscandies.com and use ITM 10 plus 10, you spell that P-L-U-S, through January 10th. No jingles, just jingle bells. All right, thank you very much. It's an outstanding product. I love showing it to people and saying, they've been doing this from 19... They've been supporting Noah Jenner since 1924 and making this fudge. And it's a hit.

Everybody who eats this fudge just falls in love with it. North Idaho Sanity Brigade in Post Falls, Idaho. 23456, a favorite. On behalf of the North Idaho Sanity Brigade, here's another crowdfunded donation, courtesy of our Christmas meetup. We have continued our once a week broadcast of North Idaho, our hyperlocal podcast, deconstructing the mainstream of the Idaho panhandle, noidshow.com. It's a good podcast. They took my advice to heart. They're doing a hyperlocal podcast.

To reiterate what we asserted when we last donated, every region needs its own Noah Jenner. Adam, can you give us an update on the Noah Jenner hyperlocal podcast network you proposed? Yes. So far, you're the only ones. But when we have more, we'll have a network. If you don't want to do it anymore, perhaps we'll reach out to Tom Green. Blow, blow. Blow, blow. Please play What's That in Your Mouth, the crowdchant version, if we have it. We do. It comes from them, so of course I have it.

Oh, he's doing self-promotion. That's good. All signed off is Sir Scott the Jew and the North Idaho Sanity Brigade. What's that in your mouth? There you go. Sir Rosas, associate executive producer for this episode, 2-2-2, a row of ducks, and he sent in a note. Greetings, podosphere heroes. Please accept my humble donation and shout out to my lovely girlfriend's hand-cut vintage tin jewelry shop, No Remnants. Each piece is unique, being hand-cut from vintage and upcycled biscuit and tea tins.

She also has the history of every tin listed on her website, where they were manufactured, what they were used for. She also accepts custom projects. If you have an item you'd like created into custom jewelry. No Agenda producers, please check out najewelry.shop or noremnants.com. Oh, that's some good marketing right there. najewelry.shop or noremnants.com. I've also included a pair for each of your wives. Oh, I didn't see you come in. Yeah, no, we have. Have you seen it? Are they nice?

They're nice. I gave them to Jay. Did you wrap it up and say Merry Christmas? No, she's the one who opened the box. I hope you have a happy Christmas, Uncle Adam and Uncle John. Sir Rosas, Knight of Show 1000. And he adds there at the end, I might be a baronet, but I'll get it sorted for the next donation. Perfect. Thank you very much. Dean Astrid came in from Tokyo. From Tokyo, 22026. They're John and Adam. You always will be the best, all caps. The Christmas special was much fun.

And hearing Sir Chris's and Sir Felix's songs. I didn't know they were. Yeah, they were in there. Brought us a real tear to my eyes. Thank you to Sir Donald Winkler for putting it together. You're all such geniuses. Wishing you, the keepers, all the lovely people in the back office and all the fantastic producers around the world a happy new year to celebrate somewhere around the 10th of January, perhaps. That's your date. You're referring to me, I think. I believe so.

Dame Astrid and Sir Mark, Duchess and Archduke of Japan and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea. Thank you, Dame Astrid. Yeah, thanks. James Story from Lower Hutt, Stokes. Stokes Valley? Let me see. Yeah, Stokes Valley in New Zealand. Yeah. That's our only New Zealand. It's funny because I had a New Zealand clip about... 50 shows ago. No, there's a show. I have a clip, I think, on today's show.

But there's a big exodus and they're bitching and moaning in New Zealand about all the people leaving to move to Australia. Well, hold on. Is that a bonus clip? Well, if it's on the list, let's see. I don't see any... I don't see it. Yeah, we take... Regan Boag, Rusky Bloggers. I don't think you put it in. No, it's too bad. Would have been fun. Would have been. He says, $220. Merry Christmas, gents. Thank you for your hard work this year. Best regards, Sir James Story from New Zealand.

Thank you very much. And... Okay, lost word. Oh, Eli the Coffee Guy is up. He's in Bentonville, Illinois. $212.28. 20... It says 28. Yeah, today's the 28th. 2-12-28. Oh, I thought it was the... Okay, yeah, you're right. What am I thinking? Happy New Year. We made it through 2025 and what a wild ride it's been. We've kicked things off Joe Biden. We kicked things off Joe Biden as president. I don't know how that wording works, but okay. I think he means we kicked things off with Joe Biden.

With, maybe. Yeah, ISIS on Bourbon Street and a special forces operator self-immolating in front of Trump building in Vegas. Wow, forgot about that one. Forgot about all of that. Yeah, I forgot about the guy who lit himself. And somehow with everything... That's interesting. And somehow with everything else that followed, it already feels like ancient history. Or forgettable history. This is because time is... Elon and big balls, Charlie Kirk, Katy Perry coming out as Trudeau's beard.

And that's barely a highlight reel. You know, I think time is compressing. Time is accelerating. Something's happening. It must be three-eye vision, whatever that comet is that's coming towards us. Now we're sitting on the precipice of 2026 as the old Chinese saying goes. May you live in interesting times. Mission accomplished. Here's wishing everyone a peaceful and enjoyable new year to that end. Here it comes. To that end, new year, new coffee.

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Yeah, that was good. Thank you. Thank you all very much. It was a nice Christmas giving. Don't you all feel good about it? You should. You should feel very good. Because when you give, it always comes back to you. It always does. It's amazing how it works. I have to find the clip list. I have two little things I'd like to discuss here. Okay. I've been looking up some. So, I came up with this term, limbic capitalism. Limbic capitalism. You came up with the term or you ran into the term?

Well, I came up with it, but I'm sure that it's been used before. I have a feeling. And limbic capitalism is basically everything you see online. It's your news feed. This porn is limbic. Limbic being the brainstem. But also ultra-processed foods qualify under limbic capitalism. In essence, everything people are making money on these days is limbic capitalism. The number one being gambling. And I've been talking to a lot of the Zuma Waffen. And they all say, oh, yeah. It's out of control.

And the young people are so happy. Oh, I won 25 bucks. Because it's not even about the money. It's just about that innate, natural dopamine. It's either dopamine or in some cases cortisol if you lose. It's all these things that your body needs to have these reactions. But they're just being created artificially. Mainly by Silicon Valley companies. And NPR had a report about sports betting. And it was done by... Suffer and Succotash. I'm Scott Simon. Now it's time for sports.

A world series to cherish. An NFL dynasty deflates. Plus, what sport didn't have a gambling scandal in 2025? Sports writer Howard Bryant joins us. Howard, thanks for being with us. Hello, Scott. One gambling scandal after another in sports this year. From the NBA, Major League Baseball, college basketball. Players suspended for gambling and having bets on certain occurrences in the game. Which is how I'll describe prop bets. In the year ahead, do fans need to ask, can I trust what I'm seeing?

This day was coming. And I think that the sports leagues had taken the position that I never agreed with. I never quite understood it. These players make so much money. That they would not risk the adrenaline rush that comes with gambling. And we've seen that not to be the case. We've seen that Major League Baseball with Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase are involved in a scandal. They may never play again. We've seen the Jonte Porter in the NBA. Now the Chauncey Billups and Terry Rougier case.

And the attitude has been that, well, essentially the leagues are going to take the money. The commercials are everywhere. I mean media is funded by DraftKings and FanDuel and the rest of it. And then the players take the fall. And so the more you watch these games with your high-definition televisions and the controversial calls. Especially in the NFL and the NBA. The more you begin to wonder, are you watching a legitimate contest? And that is the death knell for sports.

So the question is really going to be, are you going to trust what you're watching? Or are we simply going to watch these athletes be the ones who individually get bounced out of the game. And the game maintains its legitimacy. I think it's a very, very difficult balance. And I think 2025 really showed that. You're a sports ball guy, John. How do you feel about it? Is it ruining sports? It can. I think it's not good. I think gambling should be discouraged.

And the fact that these guys are all in bed. ESPN now has ESPN Bet. They talk about DraftKings. But ESPN Bet is like an operation run out of ESPN. The NFL and both the NFL and the NBA. I'm not sure about Major League Baseball. But I know those two operations have done deals. So they're in bed with the gamblers. It's just like everybody, it's all the gamblers. It's gambler, gambler, gambler. And they push it and push it and push it.

They got whole shows on ESPN about the betting lines and what you should be betting on. They have a couple of women in particular that I have watched on ESPN Bet, one of their shows, who are quite good at this. And it's all a lot of prop bets. I think you should go with this. It's disgusting. Here's Scott Simon choking up over it. But there was a historically great World Series. Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in a series that twisted, turned, and set records. I love that.

I love that he left that in. He choked on his own spit. Those guys all have cough buttons at that facility. It was perfect. This is Scott Simon. Scott Shyman at his best. Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in a series that twisted, turned, and set records over seven games. See, I'm choked up. You are. You're reclaimed. It's incredible, Scott. I mean, that is the thing that we love about the games.

Every time there's a scandal, whether it's steroids, whether it's gambling, when the game is played at its best, people come to it, and they love it, and it reminds them of all the reasons why they got hooked in the first place, when their team wins. It is that reminder of the power of what sports brings for us. You know, so I was looking into this limbic capitalism, and to be fair about it, it was Gemini that came up with the term. I'm like, oh, I made up a term because it was my prompt.

And I'm like, how can the No Agenda show benefit from limbic capitalism? That was my prompt. And I think I'm glad the way you're, I like the way you think. And it said, well, the No Agenda show is, in fact, the antithesis of limbic capitalism. I'm like, yeah, I guess you're kind of right about that. But it had a suggestion for us. It had a limbic capitalism suggestion. And who doesn't?

It was to randomly choose a below $50 donor to receive a special knighthood, thereby spurring people on to gamble on the show. I can hear your wheels crunching. But I did like how it said that we are the antithesis of limbic capitalism, which is true. Limbic capitalism hacks the system by offering super stimuli that trigger rewards more intensely and frequently than nature ever intended.

Over time, this bypasses the brain's executive function of self-control, leading to habit formation, compulsion, and eventually addiction. Oh, there you go. There you go. That's it. That's it. Not good. We are addictive, but not for your limbic. Not for that reason. We don't want to do that. In fact, now I should mention it. No, we don't. Definitely out. We are amygdala capitalism. That's what we are. Ha ha. Well, talking about getting sick, I have the... Getting sick. I got the Rinvoke ad.

What? Rinvoke? What is Rinvoke? Rinvoke is one of these drugs, and this is the contraindications and all the bad things that can happen to you from using Rinvoke. And lasting steroid-free remission. Check, check, and check. Rinvoke can lower ability to fight infections. Before treatment, test for TB and do blood work. Serious infections, blood clots, some fatal. Cancers including lymphoma and skin. Serious allergic reactions, GI tears, death, heart attack, and stroke occurred.

CV event risk increases in age 50 plus with a heart disease risk factor. Tell your doctor if you've had these events, infection, Hep B or C, smoked, are pregnant, or planning. Don't take if allergic or have an infection. Put UC and Crohn's in check. Oh, it's for Crohn's disease? Yeah. Oh, wow.

And I think what they're doing, because I can't prove this, because I didn't get the other clip, but I think they have, they rattle off all these dangerous things that can happen, different, for the same companies, the same drug, but they have a different ad and they have a different list. Oh, interesting. Just a way to get around, I think, a way to get around the rules.

So I've been searching for you, actually not really searching, I've had my eye out, because you were looking for a fourth or fifth vector in this particular story. And it's from Reuters. Again, I'm pretty sure Reuters is using AI voices. Yeah, you said that. I said it, I'm saying it again, because when you listen to it, it sounds like it. Were you not on the lookout for EEOC stories? Yeah, I believe so. Here we go.

Under the Trump administration, the EEOC is ramping up scrutiny of corporate diversity programs. It's already opening inquiries into how companies handle sex and race in hiring and promotions. Our race and justice correspondent, David Hud-Nuno, spoke with Lucas and explains what's... Tell me this isn't AI. You know, I'm not convinced of it. The pauses are too lengthy. If someone did this read, I'd be like, go and read it again. It's too lengthy. So those priorities boil down to four buckets.

One of them is attacking all forms of race discrimination, which includes diversity, equity, and inclusion -related race and sex discrimination. The second is dealing with religious liberty issues that spans the gamut of antisemitism to COVID -19 vaccine mandates. And then the third is gender identity and focusing on women's sex-based rights.

And then the fourth is national origin discrimination, which in her view is protecting American workers regardless of their race, which is a shift in the EEOC's mission, which used to protect workers against discrimination in the sort of traditional sense. And so this conservative view of civil rights is a massive pivot for the agency that has huge ramifications for companies, for employees, et cetera. Please tell me this is part of what you wanted to hear because it was so boring.

No, not at all. It was so boring to me. Hey, we have a... No, you purposely picked a very boring, useless clip. No, I didn't. This is your way of getting back at me. No, no, I was trying to help you. I was trying to help you. We have the president and Zelensky on the quad screens. How are they doing? Are they fighting? Are they punching each other? Are they shaking hands as you're putting your hand on this guy's shoulder and towering over him? They're at lecterns.

They're at lecterns with American... Well, let's listen in, shall we? Let's have a quick listen. Get something done, and if there's something that comes up, I'd speak. But otherwise, I don't think there's any reason to. In your mind, sir, what are the thorniest issues still unresolved? Well, I think the land you're talking about, some of that land discontent. All right, they resolve nothing. Of course not. This is just bullcrap. Okay, I got a last series I'm going to do today.

All right, let me guess. This is from the BBC, World Service is about rusky bloggers and podcasters in the training centers around the world. They're training these Russians. They're going to be attacking us with the bots and the bloggers and the podcasters. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. So we can be Putin's puppet once again? Can we go to these training centers? Is there money involved? If there was money involved, we'd be there already.

Well, after Russian forces invaded and captured large parts of eastern Ukraine over three years ago now, the Kremlin tightly controlled any information about life in Ukraine's occupied regions. But in recent months, one source of information has come from pro-Russian bloggers and content creators. Their videos about life under occupation have gathered thousands of online followers. The BBC's James Beardsworth has the story.

Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, hundreds of content creators are making slick, professional-looking videos celebrating life under Russian occupation. Mariupol is becoming better and better every day. Its changes are literally shocking, says 23-year -old content creator Maria Chushkina, one of hundreds of channels run by often young, attractive men and women, which broadcast pro-Russian content from occupied Ukraine to tens of thousands of followers. Oh, this is great.

So instead of what's probably true, that these people are happy, because Ukraine was killing them previously, now they're just shills for Russia? I have no... You know, the validity of this story is somewhat baffling to me. I don't know if it's true or these people are just a bunch of propagandists. But it's interesting, and I would expect something like... This is, like, a good use of the medium if you're a propaganda outlet. I'm just fascinated by the story.

I don't know whether any of it's true. But here's the thing. They're speaking in Russian. It's not like they're talking to American audiences or European audiences. Yeah, no, it's for local consumption, yeah. I like how this particular British North Sea Nexus reporter says young, young. It's like H. H, that's another thing. There's a certain type of Brit that says H. H. H? Yeah, instead of H, they say H. H. Yes, H. It's code. No, one of my helicopter instructors was a Brit.

He says, just land over there on the H. I'm like, what's the H? The H. What's the H? The H over there, the H. Oh, you mean the H? Yes, the H. Young, young H. H, young H. One of those creators is Elizaveta Churyakova, a 21-year-old from Mariupol. Despite her city being almost completely flattened by Russia's invasion of... H speech. ...three years ago, Elizaveta now posts pro-Russian content, posing in front of the Russian flag and celebrating the Kremlin's rebuild of her city.

I asked her why she began making her videos. She is voiced by one of my colleagues, as she didn't want her voice to be broadcast. To be honest, I always want to create a content even before all the famous events. And when everything changed, I saw that my city was often presented on the internet as a ghost town. And I wanted to show the reality that we are living, not what is sometimes written in the news.

The bloggers carefully choreographed their videos, often showing newly built apartment blocks, shops and restaurants built by Russia, but rarely mentioning the death and destruction caused by the war, or who started it in the first place. Elisaveta told me more about how she believes her city has changed since Russia's arrival. There is a feeling that the city is coming to life, that the constant internal tension that used to be in the background has gone.

Like many other content creators in the region, Elisaveta learned how to make her eye-catching content at the Donbass Media Center. The center offers free, vocational video making courses to people under 25. Pavel Khodbovsky is a blogger and teacher at the school. The Donbass Media Center is a school of bloggers. A few hundred people have studied here. In Donetsk, in Lugansk, in Mariupol and one in Malitopol.

It's very cool, because somebody needs to say what is happening in our region in order to tell, let's say, residents of Britain or France, so that when they watch the content, they understand that their government, or the Ukrainian government, is trying to sell them something that is far from the truth. Ilya Yablokov is an excellent blogger and teacher at the Donbass Media Center. He is an expert on Russian disinformation at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

He has been monitoring these schools. They've created this network of media centers, propaganda outlets, let's put it that way, that aggregate information, but also produce it on an industrial scale. If you look at the pictures, you see absolutely regular boys and girls. These guys are being trained to spread the message about the war in Donbass, or rather the peace in the Donbass. I put those claims to Elisaveta. I just live in my city and show my reality.

I'm a patriot of my country, but this is not about work or promoting interest. Videos posted by the Donbass Media Center show hundreds of teenagers doing presentations about what they call Russia's new regions, with prizes, including trips to Moscow, for the most successful students. Wow. Maybe we could hand out Donbass Media Center diplomas. That's actually not a bad idea. The Russians have, in the earlier report that you played, they've absconded with all the nationalized everything and IP.

That's right. So IP, that means they've given up IP. So the IP, which is the Donbass Media Center, is now public domain. There you go. So we could give a degree from there. Well, I think there's one last clip. For some of the millions forced to flee, like former Mariupol resident Alena Kildeshova, the content, which she says often appears on her social media feed, is just another cruel reminder of a home she knows she may never be able to return to. How dare they?

There were dead bodies all around the streets and now they are saying that Mariupol is in bloom. I can't understand how the city can be blooming on blood and rebels. That report from James Beardsworth there. Well, I'm not going to hire James Beardsworth, who says, what kind of English are they speaking over there? You know, I've had, I had a conversation with Andrew Olowski recently over the phone, basically.

And the English is, a lot of these English guys, it's getting harder and harder to understand. And I noticed this when I was writing at PCMag UK over the years, I was there probably there for a decade. So I'd go to England at least twice a year. And I was there and it was just, I just started noticing that the English is harder and harder and harder to understand. Yeah. Yeah. It must have been BBC Regional. I have no idea. It was BBC World Service, you said? It was World Service.

Yeah, that was World Service. But it doesn't mean it wasn't an original report they just repurposed. It's the Christmas Bee Team. That's what it is. Christmas Bee Team. I got three clips left in a series. This is, I just thought it was interesting. It is from NPR. This is about South America and how South America is loving Trump and is shifting right. Several countries in the South. Wait, wait, where'd this come from? NPR. And they say South America loves Trump? Oh yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, they say a lot of things. Well, of course it's all bad, obviously. It's not good. Several countries. It didn't make sense. No, it's not good. In South America elected conservative and even far right leaders in 2025. The goal here is to bring security and stability to the hemisphere, to the region, the region we live in, which has not received enough attention. For more, we go now to NPR Correspondence. Which you, by the way, called it.

You called it that Rubio was going to be doing this. Rubio was focusing on South America and there he is in the clip. It's all his fault, of course. And he is. He's Trump's a little minion in South America. For more, we go now to NPR Correspondent Kerry Kahn in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thanks for being here, Kerry. Hello, Daniel. Hello. Hello. So let's start just talking about this big turn to the right in the region. Overwhelmingly, voters are concerned about crime, violence and security.

And in the case of Chile, also illegal immigration. That to me is the significant shift in the landscape here. When the left took power, the major emphasis back then was economic inequality, social issues, the environment. Now it's safety. And the left just has not come through with either effective policies to combat the organized crime, violence or credible promises that they're going to do something better. And the right has really straightforward, tough on crime plans and slogans.

And I'm not commenting on the quality of the rights proposals. All I'm saying is that they are resonating better with voters. Is great. Our hemisphere. This is exactly what we want. We wanted to turn against the communist, socialist morals and values that have destroyed everything. And they can't stand it.

OK, so what are what are some of those measures get tough on crime like those made infamous in El Salvador, the mano dura iron fist policies that are just being emulated everywhere, bringing the military to patrol the streets, sound familiar, build maximum security prisons, toughen sentences. And in many places, the population is more than willing to curb civil rights to combat that crime. Also, many just want to crack down on illegal immigration.

Remember, nearly eight million people have fled the authoritarian rule of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. And most have stayed here in this region. And the right has deftly conflated and merged the high crime fears and illegal immigration sound familiar, like with the recent win in Chile by the ultra conservative there. He pledged to build fences, even dig huge ditches along the border, as well as start mass deportations of migrants. Does sound familiar.

Wow. Which sounds a lot like Trump's pledges here in the U.S. Diaries. Yes. No surprise that Trump's policies get a very warm reception, and they're being mirrored here to among conservative voters and anti left voters. His military intervention against Venezuela and drug traffickers is very popular. Trump's also stepped in for many of his favorite candidates and his allies.

There was that 20 billion dollar bailout for Argentina's far right libertarian president Javier Millet that came right before he was facing a tough midterm election. And Trump pledges support for the new right leaders in Bolivia and in Chile. And the populist anti crime rhetoric is really working. Some have even coined it with a new term security populism. Will Freeman of the Council on Foreign Relations was talking to me about that.

It's not surprising that this is gaining so much popularity, given how powerful and rich organized crime groups have become here. Yes. Killing fishermen is very popular in South America. It's amazing. But here it's a big problem. They're like, yeah, kill those fishermen. Why are these crime groups becoming so powerful right now? I mean, hasn't organized crime been a problem for a long time in Latin America? But they're richer than ever. Wait, wait.

Sure. How do you answer it when you ask me something? Sure. You know, it just makes. Sure. Sure. Sure. Well, it was it was it was a leading question. Let's hear it again. Why are these crime groups becoming so powerful right now? He answers his own question by saying, I mean, hasn't organized crime been a problem for a long time in Latin America? Sure. But they're richer than ever. They're making billions and not just from drugs, but migrant trafficking and increasingly illegal gold trafficking.

Gold prices are soaring right now. Now listen to the example that's coming up. And so is demand for drugs in the US and Europe and especially cocaine. It's on the rise. The use in the US, but cocaine use is at an all time high in Europe. And so is coca production. And that happens mainly in Colombia. So most cocaine smuggling and transportation goes through Ecuador.

And I just spent a lot of time there this year and I spent time with this one banana farmer and I just want to tell you a little bit about him. He battles extortion and kidnapping attempts by the cartels. He told me this one story that has stuck with me so much. He was visiting friends in Europe and they were all partying and someone pulled out cocaine and he said he was just floored. He told them, don't you know what that has done? Your consumption has done to my country.

And he said the people at the party just could not connect the dots with him. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. You're partying. You're partying. It's killing my country. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. By the way, we're closer to a deal than ever, according to the quad screen. Closer than ever to a deal. Closer than ever. We are. So that means what? It means nothing. It means absolutely zip. 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 fab. Yeah, on No Agenda. In the morning. And talking about meaning zip, Adam's going to zip through the list of donors above $50. But last two shows, it'll take a little while and here he comes. Is it really going to take a while? Is it that long? Is it that long? It's 30 more than usual. Okay, well, here we go. Where's my spreadsheet? Here's the spreadsheet. Here we go. Christopher Gaya, Dallas, Texas, 133.33. Jim Buell

in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, 125.25. Lorraine Converse, Edmond, Oklahoma, 12345. We see what he did there. Same goes for Dame Brazen Bird from Edmond, Oklahoma. Wait a minute. That's the same. Edmond, Oklahoma, 12345. Interesting. Wants a health karma for our friend, Dave, who survived a cardiac event and a jobs karma from my daughter, Grace Ann, who has been job searching for over seven months. I suggest giving Linda Liu, the Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes, a call. I will do that at the end.

Zadok Brown, the third, 105.35. Mahalo. Ward Detweiler, spots, location unknown, 105.35, and he said, a lot of people are saying this, Merry Christmas, you filthy animals. That was part of our special. $100 from Ian Fields, parts unknown, Alice Bradley in Knoxville, Tennessee, Jacqueline Lentz in Muskego, Wisconsin, Deanna M. Evie in Pacific City, Oregon, Joshua Chartier in Riddleton, Tennessee, and Anonymous in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

And there's Kevin McLaughlin, the Archduke of Luna and lover of boobs. Merry Christmas, he says, with his 8008. He's in Concord, North Carolina. Robert Ludwig, Nevada, Iowa, with a boob donation. Herb Lamb, Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8008. Boob from him as well. And a second on form, Kevin McLaughlin, the Archduke of Luna and lover of boobs. He did it for both shows. Thank you. Brian Kaufman. That's nice. Yes, it is nice. Brian Kaufman, Scottsdale, Arizona, 75.75, which is 69.69 plus fees.

Greg Hartlaub in Cincinnati, Ohio, 75.75 from Fat Dad BMX, North Little Rock, Arkansas. I haven't heard from him in a while. Thank you very much. Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio, 72.72. John Alberini, Parts Unknown, 70.26. Victoria and James in West Orange, New Jersey, right near where I used to live, Verona, Montclair, $70.23. Dame Becky Arlington, Washington, 69.69. Semper Pici, LLC, in Sharerville, Indiana, 68.86. Nice palindrome. Strike.

Thank you, Bitcoiner, 66.74. Robert Sourin, Nunheim, Nunheim, Nunheim, Nederland, 65. Marco Masse, Parts Unknown, 63.31. Matthew Elwert in Weatherford, Texas, small boob, 6.006. Dame Liberty Mom in Vista, California, small boob for her, or from her, 6.006. Christopher Witzel, Spirit Lake, Idaho. That is also a small boob, 6.006. Tim Heasel, Hanford, California, 58.09, which is double nickels on the dime plus fees. Thank you for mentioning that. Preston Price, 55.55. He's from Woodstock, Georgia.

Jim Caslin in Buda, Texas, 55. Hakon Andersen in Portland, Oregon, 52.72. Jonathan Dennison, Parts Unknown, 52.72. Nathan Gwynn, Jackson, Tennessee, 52.72. Baron Henry of Outpost West, Ranchos Palos Verdes, California, 52.42. Cameron Ling, or Ling, North Branch, Minnesota, 52.21. Forrest Martin with the palindrome, 50.05, Parts Unknown. John Carini, Port St. Lucie in Florida, 50 .01. Noah McDonald, Traverse City, Michigan, 50. These are all 50s.

Alex Delgado, Aptos, California. George Wuschit in La Vernia, Texas. Mitchell Goheen in Silver Spring, Maryland. Lindsey Christensen in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Michael Biscagli in Staten Island. Oh, Staten Island, how you doing? That's New York. Brian Gately in Bayville, New Jersey. Scott Van Gelder in Centerville, Massachusetts. Benjamin Ryan in Alliance, Ohio. Richard Gardner, Parts Unknown. Aaron Weissgerber in Bend, Oregon. Laura Bertolini in Mobile, Alabama.

Stephen Jaffe in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California. No name, Christmas bonus, thank you. Salt Lake City, Utah. Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington. Michael Myers in Diamond Head, Missouri. Mississippi. Mississippi, thank you. Laura Bertolini comes in again with $50. Thank you for both shows, Automatic. And Stephen Jaffe rounds it out with $50 from Ranchos Palos Verdes in California. A nice list, thank you all very much for supporting us through the Christmas holiday. It's highly appreciated.

Of course, it's value for value, which means whatever you get out of the show, you just send it back to us. That is the value that we deserve. As long as you send something, we're totally happy with that. And of course, we never mention anyone under 50 for reasons of anonymity. We thank you all very much for your 49.99s, your 33s, your 11s, your 12 .12s, your 3s, your 4s, whatever it is, it is value for value. Thank you very much. And support the show. Go to noagendadonations.com.

Support us with any amount, any time you wish. In fact, you can set up a sustaining, recurring donation, any amount, any frequency. noagendadonations.com. ♪ It's a bad thing, bad thing ♪ ♪ On No Agenda ♪ Strangely enough, a very short list. David Kekta, also known as Melo-D, happy birthday to his awesome stepdaughter, Bella Green. She turned 24 on December 18th. And Sir Donald of Calgary, as we heard earlier, celebrated his birthday on December 27th. That was yesterday.

We say happy birthday on behalf of everybody here, the staff and management of the best podcast in the universe. ♪ It's a bad thing, yeah ♪ ♪ Title changes, turning faces late ♪ ♪ Nice changes, don't wanna be a douchebag ♪ Well, he's been around for a long time, so no chance of him being a douchebag. And he said he'd figure out the numbers, but it is the honor system. We trust you.

Sir Donald of Calgary, double night is what he called it, but we just call you a baronet here on the No Agenda peerage ladder, which I think is still available somewhere. Maybe noagendapeerage.net or something like that. It's out there somewhere. Congratulations and thank you very much for your support, sir. And we do have one of the final awardees of a No Agenda Peace Prize, thanks to his very peacemaking, peace-loving donation of $1,000, because that's all you need to do to receive this prize.

Paul Lincolns, you are now an official recipient of the No Agenda Peace Prize. Please go to noagendarings.com and make sure that you send us an address where to send this very handsome and very authentic-looking. It's Nobel Peace Prize-like is what it is, but it's an official Peace Prize. It looks exactly the same. I should mention and make a correction here on you. For peerage, it's dvorak.org slash peerage.htm. And is that an updated list? Yes, this list has always been there.

We haven't changed the peerage around. Oh, no, but I thought there was a list. No, no, a list of people. Yes. I thought you meant a list of the various levels. No, so let me correct you on your correction on me. Okay. You're corrected. Thank you. Hey, I forgot to give the jobs karma that was requested early on. Let me do that right now. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. And we do have one dame and one knight to bring into the No Agenda round table.

If you can bring out your blade, that'll be just the deal. Yeah, right here. That's beautiful. Perfect, very much. Thank you. Paul Lincolns and Rose, please step up on the podium. Both of you support the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000 or more. I'm therefore very, very proud to pronounce the K-D as Serp Mama's Boy of the Arc Welders and Dame Rosie Posey of the Flower Child. These are great names. For you, of course, we have Hookers and Blow, Red Boys, and Chardonnay.

We've got the best Texas brisket and ice cold beer on tap as requested. Along with that, we've got Ruben S. Ruben and Rose, Geishas and Sake, Vodka and Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, Nestor's, Gin, Dirt and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Mablam, or if you so please, we've got the Mutton and the Mead. Congratulations to both of you. The last Dame and Knight of 2025. You get a beautiful Knight or Dame ring. Go to noagenderrings.com. You can see them right there.

Let us know what your ring size is. We'll get it off to you as soon as possible. In the package, you will find some wax. You can use that to seal your important correspondence. And of course, as always, a certificate of authenticity. And thank you both for supporting the No Agenda Show, value for value, and becoming Knight and Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable. No Agenda Meetups. Yeah, baby, it's always a party. Yeah, baby, it's always a party.

And it doesn't matter if it's vacation time, summertime, wintertime, springtime. There's always meetups taking place. You can find them all at noagendameetups.com. Here is Scott the Jew with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade Meetup, the Christmas extravaganza. Here at the Christmas extravaganza with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade. Why wouldn't it be Sir Scott the Jew, your host for the evening? This is Jason here at Trails End Brewery.

I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Jack from Post Falls here, where we're not thinking of a white nationalist Christmas. Good morning. This is Brian, a spook in the federal government from Post Falls. Sick of all the renouncing and the denouncing, I wanted to do a good old-fashioned announcing. So I would like to announce the No ID Hyperlocal podcast for Northern Idaho. It has been announced.

We have the gold-digging cowgirl here just wishing Adam and John and the whole No Agenda family a Merry Christmas and many blessings in 2026. Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles here, Secretary General of Greater Idaho, even though that is not what it says on my Secretary General Certificate. Hey guys, my name's Megan McElmore. I'm working at Trails End Brewery and it was such a pleasure serving these guys again. It was so fun. Hey guys, who is the original Podfather?

Tom Green. Tom Green is the Podfather. You people are horrible. Do you hear what they said? Tom Green. Tom Green. That's not right? You guys suck. When did that happen? I have no idea. I don't know. It doesn't matter to me. I mean, Adam Carolla I thought was bad enough. Now it's Tom Green. He keeps shifting around. Hey, Leo Bravo. We all know, we all know. We're not idiots. Leo Bravo had his, gosh, this must be number 70 by now up there in Los Angeles.

Pretty wet, but they still had their meetup. Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number 70 at Brewery X in Anaheim. Here's the phone for some greetings from our friends. Adam and John, Shabbat Shalom. We're here at the meetup with Leo at Brewery X. Thanks for your courage. I love we got one guy who was actually Scott the Jew and then we got this guy doing Shabbat Shalom. It's fantastic. ITM, Dames by your friends. ITM, Sir Mainframe of the 7th Fleet here.

Defender of the Archduke and Duchess of Japan and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea. Chilling with Bravo Meister in SoCal. Hi Adam and John. I'm Noemi from Philippines. This is Leo Kim Fopop wishing you a happy festivus, Merry Christmas and Gregorian calendar new year. Hey guys, good to be here. Good to be at Brewery X finally once again. Adios mofo. Hello fellow listeners. This is Sean at Brewery X with Leo Bravo. Supporting no agenda. I kill bugs for a living so you don't have to.

In the morning, this is Lady Chinaka of California. Don't give up on us Adam. We love Cali. And by the way, this is how the Tucker laugh goes. Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. I'm so happy to finally be here with the ACJCD crew. Thank you for having me. In the morning, this is Angie from the ranch here at Brewery X. It's a great time. Come on down. We all bust our tables so you heard from the servers. Hey Adam and John, it's Steve surviving. I'm out here in California visiting Leo and friends.

Coming out from Wyoming. This is Becky saying to the loom motherfuckers. In the morning. There's always one cusser in the bunch, isn't there? Also got a note from Shannon Summers, the Fort Wayne Club 33 Navidad post Christmas meetup. They had a six pack, five regulars and a fellow traveler, aka a newbie visiting from Arkansas. And he's had a great meetup. So it didn't provide a report, a audio report, but did provide a written report. So I wanted to give you that.

These are the no agenda meetups. There's one taking place on Tuesday. That's the 30th, the Tri-State Propagation version 1.0. Gert House in Evansville, Indiana. You need to RSVP for that. It may be at Gert's actual house. And then we have a bunch coming up in January. Santa Rosa, California, Raleigh, North Carolina, Berg en Dal in the Netherlands, Alpharetta, Georgia, Oakland, California, Los Altos, California. Many more meetups to be found at noagendameetups .com.

This is the place where you go to get connection. It always gives you protection. These are your first responders in an emergency. Go to one. You will never stop. You will keep going to them. They're a lot of fun. And you will meet children from other lands. Noagendameetups.com. It's easy and always a party.

♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days ♪ ♪ You wanna be where you want to be ♪ ♪ Drink it all, hell's a flame ♪ ♪ You wanna be where everybody feels the same ♪ ♪ Just like a party ♪ All right, everybody. Just like a party. We do have end of show mixes, a heavy metal ditty from Baron Darin coming up. He did that because John wanted to hear a different kind of voice on the A .I. Slop song. So you got that. And this is where we also... Oh, of course.

I should mention anything would be better than the Pogues. People say it's the best Christmas song ever. I'm like, no. It stinks. It stinks. Well, that's not what it is. It's a No Agenda Happy New Year song is what it is. And it's good. And we got some MVP with some big, beautiful ships and scary weather. It's all slop and it's all good. You'll love it. End of show ISOs, which you always choose here in this very moment.

This is always the man versus the machine where John prompts his way to victory and I just get real people. So I'm going to play mine first. Here's the first. They nailed it. I like it. I know you do. How about this one? We know what we're doing. We got the documents. I like this one too. Blah, bitty, blah, bitty, blah. Okay, so I'll delete those two and this one's still in the running. They nailed it. That's in the running. Yeah, it's not bad. All right. What do you got? I have a real one.

I always put a real one in when I can. I got where, I got, I think this would be great. This is the wherever. Wherever you get your podcasts. Huh? No. It's a perfect ending, no? No, no, no, no. Okay, let's go with great. Great show, again and as usual. No, no. You need to come up with better ones. Okay, let's try this one. This at least has a message. Donate. Well, that was a show to remember. So, donate. It's just not grabbing me. All right, you can win this one.

I will win this one and we'll play it later after John's tip of the day. ♪ Great advice for you and me ♪ ♪ Just a tip with JCB and sometimes Adam. ♪ Last one, last one of the year. Oh, yeah, well, this is the time to clean up the mess that these storms are creating and a lot of people have blackberries. Blackberries? Blackberries, you ever heard of any blackberries in your yard? A lot of people do. Yeah, well, okay. They're invasive. Well, in Texas, I don't think you can grow berries.

No. But much of the country. We grow shrooms. You need these gloves. These are hand-landy, rose-pruning gloves for men and women. Long, thorn-proof gardening gloves made out of pigskin. They're gauntlets. Best garden gifts and tools for a gardener. They're only, they're about 17 bucks. They have different styles, but they're gauntlets. These giant gloves that go over your forearms and they got pigskin.

You can pull stuff out of the ground that's got thorns and it's good for roses and specifically blackberries. Oh, so these go all the way up to your elbow? Yeah, pretty much. Oh, that's good. You can get all cut up. Yeah, well, I used to work in the rose nursery as a kid in Holland. Well, you, these gloves is what you wanted. We did, we had bare hands. Bare hands. And that sucked. And our arms were completely scratched from. Yeah, no, this will keep that from happening.

Yeah, well, I'm not going back. They're cheap. I'm a podcaster. I'm not a rose picker. I'm a podcaster. That's an interesting one. You know, I gave Tina the knife tip of the day for Christmas. Yeah. And as a gag, I gave her the gloves that you recommended, the chain mail gloves. The chain mail gloves, yeah. Yes. It's not a gag, it's actually a good idea, but it's a little insulting. Have you ever seen a lefty cut something with a big sharp knife?

It makes me cringe to think about a lefty cutting anything. There you go, everybody. It's John's tip of the day. Find it all at noagendafund.com and tipoftheday .net. Well, there it is. The last show of 2025. We will be working on your New Year's Day. All is quiet on New Year's Day, but we will be working for you because there may be peace in Ukraine, closer than ever. Don Bass demilitarized zone still not worked out. Yeah, surprise, surprise.

Hey, just to wind up your Christmas joyous spirit week, Nick the Rat is next with his Christmas, what does he call this show? It's the Merry Predictions. Oh boy. When the rats are predicting things, it's time to jump ship. That's all I know. So thank you once again for being here. Trolls, noagendastream.com. Thank you to our producers. Thank you to the producers who supported us financially. It is all highly appreciated.

Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country where it's still kind of Christmassy. It's Fredericksburg, Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak. Baron Daron O'Neill coming up in the end of show mixes and two back to backs from MVP. We'll be back on Thursday. Please join us. And as always, remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, hui, hui, and such. Hit it!

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