1836 - "Big Bully"

I don't know, it could be a cholera seed. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. This is your award-winning Kibble Nation Media Assassination Episode 1836. This is no agenda. Preparing for snow, apocalypse 2.0, and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where all the old ladies are saying, hands off Greenland, why? I'm John C. Dvorak. In the morning.

Well, before we even do anything, I mean, this may be the last broadcast you hear from me. This may be the last time we ever speak. Yeah? Snowpocalypse, the ice storm is coming. We are definitely all going to die. Not here. It has been nonstop here. Everybody's preparing. Oh, you do? I have a clip. Wow, I have a clip, but I didn't expect you to have a clip. Where's your clip? What's your clip? I'm just looking at the clip list now. It's the one that's got weather mentioned in there somewhere.

Miserable weather. Miserable weather. A major winter storm is taking shape, expected to bring the season's coldest air to date. It comes as many communities are already getting lashed by severe winter weather. Here's the report. I wish it would stop. I think we're pushing 20 inches, 21, 22 inches. Residents in upstate New York digging out after a lake effect snowstorm dumped more than 20 inches in a brutal winter weather. We're going to get it for 24 hours straight for sure.

That lake effect snow causing whiteout conditions. Authorities responding to multiple crashes on Interstate 90 involving roughly 60 vehicles over a six mile stretch of highway. Officials said there were multiple jackknife tractor trailers as well as passenger vehicles that were struck. Authorities had to divert traffic and shut down all westbound lanes of the interstate.

The brutal winter weather is set to get worse for many with the most extreme winter storm so far this season forecast to slam the eastern half of the U.S. with damaging ice and heavy snow. The storm, fueled by a blast of Arctic air, is set to hit the Midwest and plains Thursday into Friday then spread into the south and east this weekend. Communities in the storm's path are bracing for snow, sleet and freezing rain.

A dangerous wintry mix that could stretch more than a thousand miles from Oklahoma and northern Texas to North Carolina and Virginia by Saturday night. Salt shipping is very important. We were starting to get low from all we've had and there's so many different places that's using salt right now, especially up north. It's getting kind of hard to get. Yeah, okay, so they had the east coast and northern Texas, but they were turning the show. They were predicting it.

Hill country, power lines are going to snap. And this is my favorite. This actually started, I think, with Mimi's boy, Max Velocity. Max Velocity. This is a local report. Extremely cold temperatures tonight. Please watch out for exploding trees. What? Exploding trees. Folks, if you hear loud cracks, stay indoors. Yes, exploding trees expected. Really loading these trees up with dynamite? Well, I love those nat pops. That's why I selected that clip.

The idea is that when it gets so cold, although I went through this in Austin, what is it now, five years ago? We didn't see any exploding trees, but the sap freezes and then expands and the bark explodes right off of it. This is bull crap. And you know what? They've been warning us for the whole week, I guarantee you, maybe, maybe, maybe Sunday. I'm looking at the map and I don't see you guys getting much at all. They're just fear mongering everywhere.

But the east coast will be, and it's going to hurt the show. We're going to have low numbers today, too. Who cares about life and limb? It's hurting the show. That's the most important thing. It is. It can't hurt the show. Well, nothing can hurt this show. And I would have to say among all... Well, before you go off on that, I got to talk about some stuff I saw locally.

Okay. Because you didn't realize, and we forgot to remind people that the 20th, and there were clips that we've had, was supposed to be a general strike. Yes. Similar to blackout, if you remember that one. Yes, of course. And the one before that where nobody did jack. Uh-huh. The no jack out. Yeah. There was a protest, and it was in an area here around the El Cerrito Plaza. Wait a minute, wait a minute. The El Cerrito Plaza. Is that like a strip mall or what is it?

Yeah. No, it's kind of an old-fashioned, really old-fashioned mall in El Cerrito. And there was all four corners of the main drag, the San Pablo Avenue and the Plaza, had protesters who I went by, took some photos. I might add them in the next newsletter. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Troll Room is saying it's supposed to be the 23rd. That would be tomorrow.

Well, it doesn't matter what day it is, but I thought it was the 20th, because the 20th was the day that was the anniversary of Trump's inauguration, and it was the big deal. And there was the protests were out, and they were all people in their 70s.

Yes. And a couple of kids, because it was a working day, and people like Mimi's are floating around, and she says there's no protesters in Berkeley, but in the retirement cities like El Cerrito, there was a bunch of old women, and they had stupid signs, and one of my favorite one, which I couldn't stop laughing when I saw it, I'd say there's about 100 people, which is quite a big group. Oh, that's more than expected. Yeah, it was a good-sized crowd.

And everyone's honking, you know, honk, honk, honk. I don't know how you're doing. But there's one old lady holding a sign that said, old lady, 75, 80, holding a sign that said, hands off Greenland. I'm thinking, what the hell? Has she been to Greenland? Is she a Greenlander? Even funnier, there was a sign someone put into a hillside in Greenland, which, as we know, is protectorate of Denmark, that said, no kings. Denmark literally is a monarchy. How stupid are these people?

No, that's what they were saying. That was sincerity. They want Denmark out. Denmark has tried to mute it. Oh, that's what they were saying. Stop sterilizing our young girls. They sterilized, there's a genocide. Eugenics. Yeah, we have that in Dripping Springs, and if you go to Austin, you kind of by default have to go through Dripping Springs, and it's been going on for months. Is that like a gonorrhea place or what? It's the gateway to the hill country they have on their water tower.

And there's the same kind of type of character, because honestly, who else has time during the day to stand at the intersection of downtown Dripping Springs with no kings? It's all the same stuff. No kings. No kings. They still think no kings is a thing. They'll catch up. So I have been just enjoying myself here at the house. And by the way, I've been corrected. I always thought it was Davo, but Davos is the correct pronunciation, because it is German -speaking Switzerland.

I didn't realize that. So Davos. I enjoyed you saying Davo. I'm not allowed to. People get on my, you know, what do you say is Davos now? Okay, gotcha. I'm here for you. And your No Agenda show, I think, came closest to the actual Greenland gambit, as we had discussed that the most obvious way to achieve what President Trump wants is through a so-called compact of free association. That is exactly what it seems what is going to happen. It's called a framework, a framework.

Yeah. And it is just amazing how all of, I mean, here's my takeaway, and then there's a lot of stuff we can do. President Trump definitely wants to have big, beautiful ships and his six icebreakers up there in the Arctic, and maybe put an aircraft carrier in the G.I.U.K. gap, whatever. He knew that if he just said, I want to do this, that all of the EU people would start moaning and groaning and making all kinds of problems about it and meetings and shaking their fists.

So instead, he just pulled this typical, it's like, it's like, when will we understand the algorithm of Trump? Like, I'm going to take it by force. Everybody freaks out. Everybody freaks out. And then he gets exactly what he wants. This was explained by Commerce Secretary Lutnick this morning on Bloomberg. What did we say? We said we cared about it for national security, right? We said we care about it for national security.

I mean, it's obvious we care about it for national security because if you're going to build a golden dome over the United States of America, right? Wouldn't you prefer the golden dome cover Greenland so when you're knocking out the missiles, you're not knocking them out right over your head? Like, we've all seen Israel knocking out the missiles right over their head with their iron dome.

Wouldn't you prefer to knock out the missiles if you live on the east coast of the United States of America over Greenland a couple of thousand miles away where there's no people, right? Doesn't that sound better? So this is sort of where we're thinking about it and how our national security team is thinking about it. So what's actually in the framework? Well, the framework is a national security-based framework, that that's what the United States cares about.

We care about our national security and we care about the shipping lanes. So let's talk about the national security and shipping lanes and let's see if we can't figure out a framework to do that together. And I think that's what the president truthed about. He said we're going to try to figure that out together because those were the key points that the United States of America cared about.

And I think the president's been clear about it and he just wants people at the table dealing with it swiftly. I mean, think about this. He sends out a truth. And, like, within four days, right, we have a framework agreement. Like, that's, by the way, that's pretty effective. And we had tariffs on, tariffs off. They were never on. What does this do? They were never on. The threat of them are coming on for February 1st. What does this do now for the agreement?

You and your team struck with Brussels because the legal implementation has now been put on hold. Oh, I think it'll be put on unhold probably tomorrow. I mean, come on. That's why I said it's an overreaction. I mean, they know when the president says this is what's going to happen. I mean, what provoked the president? What provoked the president was that they sent military people to Greenland. I mean, they didn't send military people to Ukraine.

Like, why are they sending military people to Greenland? You know, it was so, it seemed like a provocation. Yeah. So, Lutnik is kind of a jamoke. But that is exactly what they wanted. And the only type of framework that exists really in diplomacy or in international relations is, you know, you have a couple of options, but the main one, which we're familiar with, is the Compact of Free Association. And that's what we're going to get.

And so instead of months or weeks of people moaning and groaning and blocking it wherever they can, going to the International Criminal Court, whatever they would do, he just went off the rails. I think this is classic Trump. I think, I agree with that. And I do have a clip from Rutte. Oh, I have several from Rutte. Well, I want to play this one. This is him praising Trump at Davos. Yes, this is a classic.

I'm not popular with you now because I'm defending Donald Trump, but I really believe he can be happy that he is there because he has forced us in Europe to step up, to face the consequences that we have to take care more of our own defense. And here's my question to the audience. I mean, many of you, I know, criticize Donald Trump.

But do you really think that without Donald Trump, eight big economies in Europe, including Spain and Italy and Belgium, Canada, by the way, also outside Europe, would have come to 2 % in 2025 when they were only on 1.5% at the beginning of the year? No way. Without Donald Trump, this would never have happened. They're all on 2% now.

Do you really think that in the summit in The Hague, as already Alex was saying, sorry, the president of Finland was saying, that we would come to an overall defense spending of 5%, including 3.5% in core defense, if President Trump would not have been re-elected as president of the United States? No way. It would never have happened.

So again, I'm not popular with you now because I'm defending Donald Trump, but I really believe he can be happy that he is there because he has forced us in Europe to step up, to face the consequences that we have to take care more of our own defense. So it was so wonderful. To me, this is award show level, except award shows are now boring and dull.

But if you listen to, and these are just very short, if you listen to the pre-Trump Davos speech, this is the kind of stuff you were hearing on the red carpet. We do prefer respect to bullies. Bullies! We do prefer signs of racism. And we do prefer rule of law to brutality. So that was Macron. By the way, yeah, Macron, he's bitching about bullies with two black eyes from his wife. Bob, it was a Macron brothers spat apparently.

And by the way, if you have to wear shades to cover your, I don't think the blue mirror shades is the choice I would go with. I mean, there's other types of glasses. Here's Carney of Canada. We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. We stand with Greenland. Here's the Belgian Prime Minister De Wever. At the moment, we're dependent on the United States, so we chose to be lenient.

But now so many red lines are being crossed that you have the choice between your self-respect, being a happy vessel is one thing, being a miserable slave is something else. The message that we have to send, you're crossing red lines here. We either stand together or we will stand divided. And if we are divided, there is the end of an era of 80 years of Atlantism is really drawing to a close.

And, you know, as Gramsci said, if the old is dying and the new is not yet born, you live in a time of monsters. Monsters. And it's up to him to decide if he wants to be a monster, yes or no. He's a monster. He's a monster. He's a monster, I tell you. And, of course, everybody's favorite. This clip went around. Governor of California Gavin Newsom enters the scene. Oh, big tugger. I can't take this complicity. People rolling over.

I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns and handing out... Crowns? I mean, this is pathetic. Crowns. It's playing folks for fools. And it's embarrassing. Europeans think this is diplomacy and this will ultimately work. Is this diplomacy with Donald Trump? He's a T-Rex. You mate with him or he devours you. What crown? I don't know what they're talking about. No, him. What's he talking about? Nobody's talking about it. There's no crown.

Nobody gave him a crown. But contrasting him with our shusher, Scott Shusher Besson, shushing down the slopes. Hey, boys. Here I am. Got something to say about Gavin. I think it's very, very ironic that Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken. I didn't know who Patrick Bateman was. I had to look it up. It was a little esoteric for me. American Psycho. I know. I didn't realize. He was the psycho stock guy, right? From Wall Street in American Psycho.

Yeah, and he looks just like Newsom. He does look like Newsom. That was a good one. He strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken. May be the only Californian who knows less. It's kind of extra funny when Besson talks about Sparkle Beach Ken. Yeah, somebody wrote that for him. It's good. That whole bit was written by a pro. I don't care. It's good. ...meets Sparkle Beach Ken. May be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.

He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros. And Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else was on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having $1,000 a night meals at the French Laundry. And I'm sure the California people won't forget that. Hold on a second. It's $1,000 a plate, not $1,000 a night. So he blew that joke. Give him a little leniency. This is not his wheelhouse at all, or is it? Maybe it is.

Maybe he wants it to be. He was having $1,000 a night meals at the French Laundry. And I'm sure the California people won't forget that. And I can tell, my message to Governor Newsom is the Trump administration is coming to California. We are going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse. And I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he's not speaking. Because what have his economic policies brought?

Outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down. He is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless. Shame on him. He is too smug, too self-absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything. Thank you very much. Let me know if you need any further clarification. That was good, I have to say. It was a takedown.

It was dynamite. And he was somehow tabled. Newsom was not allowed to speak. So he was just in the audience with the stooges. It's Larry. Larry's in charge of the whole deal. Yeah, Larry Fink. I'm sure I'd call one on Larry. No to Newsom. Okay, boss. Now that video clip you played was from a panel. They had 18 chairs next to each other. And it was very interesting to hear the president of Finland, Alexander— Oh, that guy. Who is he kidding? And here's what he had to say.

Well, I mean, two answers. First is a direct answer to the question of this panel. Can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally yes. Without the Americans? Without the Americans. How? Well, look— But you rely on them for these key elements. How would you do it at scale and at duration? Listen to his— Oh, we can defend it without America. We can do that. Just listen to the stuff we got, man. With an assumption that the United States would cut off completely any kind of work.

Well, if we look at the defense composure of Europe by and large in a country like Finland. By and large? Defense composure? Composure? He meant composition. That's what I think, too. So how do we do it? We have conscription. One million have done it. Come on, boys and girls. You're going to fight the Russians. Oh, boy. We have cannon fodder. I hope no one heard that. We can mobilize 280,000 soldiers within weeks. We have 62 F-18s.

Wow. The next question is going to be, do they fly without Americans? No, they don't. But do we trust that they will continue to fly because it's in the interest of America to do so? Yes. We just bought 64 F-35s. We have the biggest artillery in Europe together with Poland. We got guns. We have long-range missiles, land, sea, and air. We don't have these because we're worried about Stockholm, right?

So the bottom line is that if you ask me the question that can the Finnish military defend itself against a Russian attack, the whole defense composure of the way in which we do it, yes, we can. Okay. So then about 10 minutes later, she comes back to him, and then all of a sudden he forgot what he said. President Stubbe, I'd like to ask you as well. The U.S. administration has made it very clear.

We are in an era now of hard power, and they will wield it where they feel it is advantageous or necessary. You've said earlier that Europe can defend itself without the Americans. If it comes down... Not exact, Mike, so that's not a quote. Yeah, it was. More or less, more or less. Yeah, he's like... We'll go back to the transcript. More or less, more or less. Go back to the transcript and read it back to him. No, listen to what he says. We'll go back to the transcript.

More or less, more or less. I love journalists. Stoop. Stoop. Stoop, I guess. That's Rocha saying, you did a stoop. As in stupid. He's like, oh, journalists, I love them. They listen to my words, and then they throw them in my face. This is not good, with this big goofy smile. That was like, wow. No. The only EU leader who was honest was Mr. Peepers. Did you hear his speech? No, I did not. I missed it. You have it for us. I have a relevant clip. We are aware of those problems.

Both Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential for growth in recent years by dragging feet on reforms unnecessarily and excessively, curtailing entrepreneurial freedoms and personal responsibility. We are going to change that now. Security and predictability take precedence over excessive regulation and misplaced protection. We must reduce bureaucracy substantially in Europe. The single market was once created to form the most competitive economic area in the world.

But instead, we have become the world champion of overregulation. That has to end. Wow. I'm like, okay. Germany… It's just talk. You know, it's talk, but that's what this… it's all talk. But I thought that was brave of him, Mr. Peepers, to stand up and say, hey, it sucks. What you guys have built is no good. And they're the ones that actually are spending the most on… they're borrowing to spend on military. But let's come back to America. I know you have a couple of clips with analysis.

I'd like to start us off with everybody's favorite, Anderson Cooper. He complained as well about his reception in Davos from allies he'd just been threatening with tariffs and the potential breakup of NATO over Greenland. They called me daddy, right, last time? A very smart man said, he's our daddy. He's running it. I was like running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being.

But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection. It's a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades. So the only thing the American media could focus on, because I was watching the quad screen as it all happened, was, oh man, he said the wrong country.

The president repeated his false story about NATO not coming to this country's aid, which it famously did after 9-11 and for decades after in Afghanistan, also Iraq. Hold on. I just need to stop that for a second. The Nordic troop contributions to Iraq famously. I looked the numbers up and Denmark actually provided the most 545 troops. Thank you. Thank you, Denmark. And they did lose seven soldiers. Greenland contributed zero. Iceland contributed zero.

So, you know, to say they famously came to our aid in Iraq is a bit of an overstatement. He also confused Greenland and Iceland several times. Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%. But I'm not sure that they'd be there for us if we gave them the call. Gentlemen, we are being attacked. We're under attack by such and such a nation. I know them all very well. I'm not sure that they'd be there.

I know we'd be there for them. I don't know that they'd be there for us. So with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat and tears, I don't know that they'd be there for us. They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money.

White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt tried to correct a reporter who called attention to the Greenland-Iceland confusion, saying, quote, his written remarks referred to Greenland as a piece of ice because that's what it is. Okay. Nice spin, Carolyn. Okay. He messed it up, as obvious. But the intent was clear. He did have ice on the brain. You want to play a couple of your response clips?

Yeah, well, let's start off with the real reason behind all this, which you wanted me to dig up, so I dug up the first part of this anyway. Oh, yes. I'm so happy you have the clip. Yay. Yeah, there was a link to one of the presentations. If anyone got the newsletter, which a lot of people didn't get. Oh, no. But they, including Matt at Martel. Oh, Martel Hardware? Yeah. No, no, that's no good. But there was a link. Did he forget to donate subsequently? I don't know.

I haven't looked at the spreadsheet. But anyway, the point is that there was a good link to a long lecture about this in the newsletter. If you clicked on the image of the tweet, you would have taken you right to it. This is the guy that triggered the whole thing. This is one of these ufologists, and here he is talking about this. Now, how many of you know about the object in Greenland? A couple of you.

Okay. For those of you that don't know, there is a spacecraft that has melted out of the ice in Greenland. As you know, the North Pole has melted completely. You can go from London to Moscow or to Russia by going over the North Pole now. Right away, bull crap. All the ice cap is gone. The last place that has ice on it was Greenland. Greenland had an 18,000-foot ice cap on it. Well, the spacecraft that is anchored in the center of Greenland created the last ice age 50,000 years ago.

Okay. It's a weather machine. It's a weather machine. It's 55 miles wide, 300 miles long, and 2 miles high. The people that lived in it were called the Moyses. If you draw a straight line from the spacecraft to the Washington Monument in Washington, D .C., through the Yucatan Peninsula Great Pyramid. Wait a minute. Does he bring in the Freemasons at any point? Because I'm expecting it in this. That's good. No, unfortunately. And Mitsubishi.

It ends up on Easter Island where the Moyses have been dug out of the surface. The heads on Easter Island? Well, two years ago, they finally went ahead and they excavated. And they're all 65 to 85-foot people, full-body carvings. And these were the people that lived in the spacecraft that was uncovered that's melting out of the ice in Greenland. So when you think we've been alone, these people have been up there for 50,000 years. The spacecraft is still active after 50,000 years.

It has a 200-mile dampening field where no electrons can flow into it. In 1947, a B-52 bomber flew into that pattern into the dampening field when trying to fly between Maine and London. As a result of that, they lost power and crashed in Greenland. As they sent in rescue B-52 bombers to rescue them, they hit that same dampening field, but they veered off. They just ricocheted off of it by testing, trying to get to these guys.

They were able to bring a circumference and find out that there was an object 200 miles to the center of this field. Man, there is a career for me. Does this guy get a big audience? I don't know. I didn't show the audience, but I'm sure they were lapping it up. It was a good bit. He went on and on and talked about the CIA's had access to the thing they're getting. All our technology comes from this object. Oh, okay. So we already have the technology.

We don't need to have the saucer if we already have the technology. Well, I don't know. Maybe we have to lock something down. I have no idea. Don't want China and Russia getting the technology, I guess. We can't have them getting that technology. No. Hey, thanks for bringing the second half of the show early. That's great. All right. So we go on from that. With that in mind, we'll go on to—let's start with the NPR. I can do the analysis clips. This is NPR. I got two clips.

NPR talking about whatever this deal is. Which one do you want? You got three clips, actually. You have Greenland. Yeah, the one is the BS deal. Just skip the BS deal and go with anal NPR. President Trump arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today. His insistent push for the U.S. to own Greenland has captured the world's attention. And he made news at this forum, ruling out, at least for now, the use of military force.

We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force. Wow, what kind of feed did they have? Yeah, you know, I noticed this. It was like, Dave, this is really a bad— All the clips of Trump are terrible. Now, I don't know if they're doing it on purpose. I had good audio. Yeah, and you had good product. I don't know what the problem was. Where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that, OK? Now everyone's saying, oh, good.

That's probably the biggest statement I made, because people thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force. Trump also ended up backing down from an earlier threat of higher tariffs on eight European countries. We're joined now by Empire's senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, who's been monitoring Trump's remarks from Washington. Hi, Tam. Hey, Elsa. OK, let's start with Greenland.

It's a territory of Denmark, which is, of course, a member of NATO. Denmark's a U.S. ally. How did Trump today re-explain his desire for the U.S. to take over Greenland? Well, he said it is in the Western Hemisphere and is strategically important for U.S. national security. He insisted the U.S. is the only country with the strength to defend it, develop it and improve it. He called for immediate negotiations to discuss U .S. acquisition.

And all we're asking for is to get Greenland, including right title and ownership, because you need the ownership to defend it. You can't defend it on a lease. He called this a very small ask, but in fact, it has caused a major rift with U.S. allies in Europe. And this would be a good time to note that NATO has a mutual defense agreement. And the only time it has been invoked was after 9-11 when European countries helped the United States. That's right. That's right.

But they never mentioned the numbers, which was pretty small. Yeah, they had a couple of people help. And they also needed a Basra air base. And the French sure didn't help. We got mad at them and called them freedom fighters. We mentioned all the time on the show. Yes. So that's bullcrap. OK, let's go. Is it fair to say that the U .S. commitment to NATO has been totally thrown into question by President Trump's Greenland request?

Yeah. You know, Trump has long played coy with his commitment to NATO and has often been quite critical of other countries in the alliance. And now with Greenland at center stage, leaders of longtime U.S. allies are very openly questioning the reliability of the United States. Meanwhile, in this Davos speech, Trump called both Denmark and Canada ungrateful and questioned the value of the alliance to the U.S. I don't know that they'd be there for us. They're not there for us in Iceland.

That I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money. So there are two notable things about that clip. The president repeatedly said Iceland when he meant to say Greenland, which the press then denied ever happened. And Trump also showed his hand a bit. The markets have not reacted well to his Greenland escalation. And he is very sensitive to the markets. Hold on. Hold on a second.

This is when was this broadcast? Because the minute the market was like minus 600 on the futures and the minute he started talking, it just boomed right back up. Were they watching the market or they're just saying this? They're just saying it. OK. And he is very sensitive to the markets. In fact, stocks rose today on news that President Trump was ruling out the use of military force. I'm glad you clarified there, Tam, because I was confused by his mention of Iceland.

OK. We also mentioned that Trump backed down from. There was smoke coming out of my ears. I didn't understand. I was confused. I was confused. Pros today on news that President Trump was ruling out the use of military force. I'm glad you clarified there, Tam, because I was confused by his mention of Iceland. OK. We also mentioned that Trump backed down from an earlier threat of higher tariffs.

I saw that Trump wrote in a social media post that he had a framework for some sort of future deal on Greenland. Do we know what that framework looks like and how it came about? The NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, has been something of a Trump whisperer in this second term, largely by piling on praise. And the two met just hours after Trump's speech. And with cameras rolling, Rutte told Trump it pains him to think that the president doubted

NATO's commitment to the U.S. Trump now says they have a concept of a deal, though there was no mention of the U .S. actually owning Greenland, as he had been demanding. He dodged questions about that, simply saying it would be an infinite deal. Yes, forever, a forever deal. Got cut off. Yeah, I don't know why. Yeah, infinite. But what was the deal? I don't think there was a deal. I think Trump's just going to move people. No, no, no. Well, I have Rutte on Bloomberg, also from this morning.

And the title of the video was Mark Rutte details the framework deal. Are you ready to listen to the detailing? Yeah, this should be good. Yeah. On the podium saying that he wanted that big, beautiful block of ice. Goes into a room with you and he says he has a framework for a deal. What did you do?

President Trump has been clear from when he was in Office Trump 45, also when he came back into Office Trump 47, that when it comes to the protection of the Arctic, with a priority on Greenland, we have to spend more energy, more time, more focus on this. Because we know the sea lanes are opening up. The Chinese and the Russians are more and more active. So what we discussed last night, how in a practical sense we can get this done. And we agreed on these two tricks.

One is the seven countries in the high north, including the United States, working together to protect against any adversary. So that will be something where NATO is heavily involved. And then when it comes to Greenland specifically, continuing the discussions they started last week, the Danish delegation, Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance in Washington, to continue that discussion.

Also to make sure that when it comes to Greenland specifically, their economy, their military situation, Russia and China will never get access. So the only key thing I heard there was the seven Arctic nations. So it could be like a subset of NATO or the North, you know, call it the North Arctic Treaty Organization. And then Rutte had a second piece to this. And the Danes and sovereignty, is that all assured? We didn't discuss at all about that issue.

So we discussed how can we protect Greenland, how can we protect the wider Arctic region. And again, I think President Trump was the one who reinvigorated NATO at the summit in The Hague with the famous 5%. I think we can be thankful for the fact that he again has been able to take leadership on this issue. How can we collectively protect the Arctic? There's the latest rumors out there that it would involve sort of bigger bases, longer leases, but not actually changing sovereignty.

And the idea of far more American troops, is that the sort of basis of it? We didn't go into those details at all. We know that the Danes are completely open to having more American presence in Greenland and Greenland is open to that. And I think it is good that these discussions take place with the three of them. Because at the end, I cannot negotiate on behalf of anyone. I was listening to a lot of people. I think there is a landing ground here.

But in the end, of course, now we have to make it happen. It's what he wanted all along. He just wants, just let me put my big, beautiful ships there. Let me put the destroyers, some of the big, beautiful new destroyers. Let me put the aircraft carrier up there. Let me put some subs up there. He knew that if he just said, I want to do that, there would have been endless conversation and nonsense. It just seems clear. The whole thing was a Trump algo. I'm going to kill everybody.

But really, I just want to pat your head. Kill everybody. He's a madman. So this has a lot to do with the so-called Polar Silk Road. Oh, for sure. And so they can't let the Chinese run the place. Especially not if Canada wants some of that, which they've more or less announced. The Judge Knapp, who hates Trump, and every one of his guests hates Trump, had a funny clip. Yeah, I would like to get to the bottom of when that came about.

Trump must have had something to do with Knapp getting kicked off Fox. That, or maybe Knapp thought he was going to be a Supreme Court judge. You know, I think he... Oh, brother. Don't you think that's something like that? Now that you mention it. I recall there was some talk of that at some point. Maybe I'm confusing it with someone else. But he hates him. But he did find a funny clip from the House of Commons. Here's the reaction on the floor of the House of Commons to his latest statements.

This is yesterday. This is a leading member of Prime Minister Stormer's party. He's not exactly Antony Wedgwood, Ben, pleading for the plight of the Palestinians. He doesn't have that passion, but it's very clear what his point is. Chris, cut number 16. Madam Deputy Speaker, President Trump is acting like an international gangster. Gangster! Threatening to trample over the sovereignty of an ally. Threatening the end of NATO altogether.

And now threatening to hit our country and seven European allies with outrageous, damaging tariffs unless he gets his hands on Greenland. The President of the United States is attacking our economy, our livelihoods, and our national security. Wait a minute, I thought tariffs only hurt the people in the country who put the tariffs on. For some reason they seem to think that tariffs will hurt them. This is interesting. The only people cheering him on are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

We have to finally be clear-eyed about the sort of man Trump is and treat him accordingly. He is a bully. He thinks he can grab whatever he wants using force if necessary. And he is corrupt. The most corrupt president the United States has ever seen. Only two ways of getting him to back down. Driving him with a new jet, perhaps, or a few billionaires' crypto account. Or standing up to him like we would with any other bully. Bully! He's a bully, I tell you.

But this, the UK, I, so I have to play this clip because it flows into something else I've been tracking. And this is very typical of the type of Instagram ladies that are being sent to me by my friends in the UK. And I love my friends in the UK, but man, they all hate Trump. They think he's a bully. He doesn't know it. He's a bully. He just wants another jet. He just wants more crypto in his account. This is a liberal white lady reading a British Facebook post.

The whole thing was like five minutes, so I cut it down, you know, to like a minute and a half. Somebody posted this on Facebook and you've got to hear it. I wish I knew the author because I want to give them credit. All right, let's call this what it is. Perfectly timed economic judo. And Trump just ran face first into the mat. While Trump is over there banging his favorite broken toy, tariffs, like a toddler with a plastic hammer on a coffee table. The EU quietly did something grownups do.

They signed a massive free trade deal with Mercosur. That's been 20 plus years in the making. 20 years. That's patience. That's planning. That's not, I woke up angry and threatened half the planet on social media. And the timing? Chef's kiss. Trump pulls out his shiny new 10% tariffs, then threatens 25% tariffs like he's upping the ante at a poker table while everybody already knows he's bluffing.

He's targeting EU countries because they dare to say, no, mate, you don't get to just muscle Greenland like it's a monopoly property. So what does Europe do? Do they panic? Do they tweet? Do they throw a tantrum? No. They say, cool. While you're busy with tariffs, we'll just lock in one of the biggest free trade zones on earth with South America. While he's playing checkers with tariffs, Europe's playing long-term chess with supply chains.

While he's yelling, America first, Europe's saying, fine, we'll trade elsewhere. And that's the real blow here. Not the headlines. Not the symbolism. The fact that when those 10% and 25% tariffs land, Europe's going to feel them a lot less than Trump thinks. And that's impeccable timing. That's what impeccable timing looks like. No shouting. No theatrics. Just a quiet, coordinated move that leaves the bully swinging at air. Trump wanted to show strength. Europe just showed competence.

And competence always wins in the end. So, this has been the common message. Like, the EU, they took their time. They worked on this Mercosur deal for 25 years. And this is the biggest trade deal in the EU. They're smart. They take their time. They are diplomats. They know how to do it. But, uh-oh, what just happened this morning? European Union lawmakers have voted to challenge the legality of a newly signed trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur this Wednesday.

MEPs narrowly approved sending the agreement to Europe's top court to rule on whether it's in line with the bloc's treaties. Brussels signed this deal with Mercosur members just on Saturday. Well, to talk more about this, we can bring in Armen Georgian, our Europe editor. Armen, to what extent does this represent a blow for this deal? Well, the deal is not dead.

But it's certainly, at the moment, very much... ...on hold because the European Court of Justice has to rule whether it's compatible with the EU treaties. Exactly. These things never happen. The EU is one big bureaucracy. That's the whole point of what Trump did. He didn't want to go through all this nonsense. Man. It's like, did they never read Art of the Deal? It was too dumb. Oh, that's just a stupid book. I don't read orange books. This is new good. This is new good.

Then we have Professor Jeffrey Sachs. I would say another Trump hater. And a communist, I think. Isn't he a professor in finance? I don't know what he's a professor in, actually. We'll look him up. And he was on Judge Knapp's show. So here's the haters welcoming the haters. It seems, just based on the last few minutes, that Trump said, well, we won't take Greenland by force. Probably, if I could guess, because the stock market went down yesterday.

And maybe that's the only thing that interests the president is his personal wealth. And so maybe, maybe that is the one last guardrail that we have. We don't seem to have a guardrail of decency, of behavior like an adult, to whine about not getting the Nobel Prize. It's something you would teach your children. Hold it in. You don't get everything you want. Try to hold it together. But what we have is a kind of decompensation, it seems to me, at a personal level.

But maybe Trump was pulled aside by Besant or somebody and explained, Mr. President, your remarks yesterday led to a big drop of the stock market. So try to say something. Maybe he knew what he was going to say. So somebody's front running the market as it recovers on his remarks. Maybe it's all a game in that way. But Mike, he has pulled the world into a whipsaw that is crazy. And it may well be crazy. We've not seen any behavior like this by any American president in modern times.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs just put himself on the same level as the ladies of The View. You've got to take some stock at a certain moment and look at yourself and say, what am I actually going out there and telling people? It's just, it's baffling to me that they don't, you and I see this all the time. And we keep saying, when will they figure Trump out? And you always say, never. And I'll continue saying it. Now, let me, let me, here's the female version of Sachs.

At the tone, a clip from The View will be played. Shelter in place. Let me ruin your morning. World leaders just touched down in Davos, and they have a lot to process from you know who. Because this weekend he fired off angry text messages to Norway's prime minister, blaming the country for denying him the Nobel Peace Prize. Even though the country doesn't have anything to say about who gets the award. Obama phone. That the snub has made him even more determined.

Doesn't she sound like Obama phone lady from time to time? Obama phone. To take control of Greenland. But he had a different take on things last night. Take a look. Can you speak to your letter that you wrote to the prime minister saying that the Nobel Prize has influenced your thinking on Greenland? No, I don't care about the Nobel Prize. First of all, a very fine woman felt that I deserved it and really wanted me to have the Nobel Prize. And I appreciate that.

If anybody thinks that Norway doesn't, doesn't control the Nobel Prize, they're just kidding. They have a board, but it's controlled by Norway. And I don't care what Norway says. But I really don't care about that. What I care about is saving lives. He said to the prime minister of Norway, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars. Plus, which is not true. That's what I mean.

He said, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace. And then he also said Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China. And why do they have a right of ownership to it anyway? He's saying, what he's saying is the quiet part out loud. He is going to try to take Greenland. And we need to do everything we can to save it. And we just wanted cheaper groceries. That's all we want. Let me hear Fumupi again. For denying him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone. Keep Obama in Christmas, you know. He gave us a phone. Yeah, I think it's pretty close. So, shame on these people. It's just, it's pathetic. Everybody was doing it. Like, we were just like, oh, this is a gambit. Let's see how it plays out. What else you got? For Greenland, I really don't have anything but the summary clip. And I don't have much on the topic. I'm not even sure how he's going to pull this off.

But I think it's one of these things where it's like a squatter. You know, they just kind of move in and you can't get them out. And that's what we're going to do. Yeah, and all he wanted was everyone to know we're going to do it. Yeah, so he's got to lay down the framework. He laid down his frame. The framework is, hey, we're moving into Greenland, okay? Yeah, exactly. We're putting the Golden Dome up there. What are you going to do about it? There doesn't have to be any fighting.

The Greenlanders are fine with it. If I was 25, 30 years old, you know what I'd do? I'd be on a plane to Greenland. I'd be buying a house, I'm setting up shop. I bet you the Davos ladies, they're already putting on their mink coats. They're flying over. It's going to be a bonanza. It's going to be a boomtown like no one's ever seen before. Nook. Nook. I do have two clips from Jake Tapper. This is CNN Breaking News. Breaking News. Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.

We're going to start with breaking news in our world lead. Hours after delivering a speech at Davos that was received as warmly as the frigid Swiss air, President Trump now claims he's one step closer to his goal of the U.S. acquiring the Arctic island of Greenland, which belongs to Denmark.

Trump wrote on Food Social today, quote, based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed a framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America and all NATO nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st. Unquote.

Just minutes ago, the president was asked about this and pressed by CNN, Caitlin Collins, on whether this framework of a deal includes the U.S. ownership that President Trump has insisted must happen. Caitlin got the trip to Davos. Does it still include the United States having ownership of Greenland like you've said you wanted? It's a long term deal. It's the ultimate long term deal. And I think it puts everybody in a really good position. I love the music, the lounge music in the background.

That is so Davos. Like, hey man, we're in the lobby and it's nice and chill and everyone's like crooning and swooning. It's the ultimate long term deal. And I think it puts everybody in a really good position. Especially as it pertains to security and minerals and everything else. That sounds like a live piano. Ah, it could be. Let's listen again. You've been to these things where you're floating around some event. And there's some dude playing the piano. And sometimes a lady with a harp.

Well, I haven't seen that. I've seen harp lady before. It's a long term deal. It's the ultimate long term deal. And I think it puts everybody in a really good position. Especially as it pertains to security and minerals and everything else. How long will the deal be, Mr. President? Infinite. Infinite, he says. Second part to this. The president also questions NATO and the future of NATO. We give so much and we get so little in return. And I've been a critic of NATO for many years.

And yet I've done more to help NATO than any other president by far. The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%. But I'm not sure that they'd be there for us. So, again, fact. The only time in history that NATO's Article 5, which is an attack on one, is an attack on all. The only time Article 5 has been invoked was NATO being there for the United States after 9-11. The president then turned to wind farms and windmills insulting European countries that use them.

That was good, by the way. That was fantastic. Yeah, he went on and on about the Chinese benefiting from selling their windmill junk. Oh, wait, well, Jake Tapper has some data and some stats. China makes almost all of the windmills. And yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. But they make them, they sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them. But they don't use them themselves. China, important fact, has more wind farms than any other country.

I think an estimated 20% of their energy comes from wind. No. The big picture, according to three sources, is that many times... That's not true. It doesn't seem true to me either. But that was, you know, that's Jake. Officials worry that NATO's very survival remains at stake. They feel an urgent diplomatic intervention is needed for the president. I guess a question we all have right now is whether this claim that this issue is about to be resolved, is that real?

Is that Trump waving a white flag? Sources tell the New York Times that during a NATO meeting today, top military officers from NATO member states discussed this so-called compromise in which Denmark would give the U.S. sovereignty over small pockets of Greenland where the U.S. could build military bases. The officials did not know if this idea was part of the framework. Yeah, okay. Nobody knows nothing. But I think you're right. This is just all a pretext to steaming in.

And it's like, what are you doing? What's the framework? Ask Mark. Mark's got the details. Mark said give them the memo. It still, it blows me away. Mark Rutte just blows me away. President Trump is calling him out. Like, hey, where's Mark? Yeah, Mark, he's a great guy. He's just fantastic. It's like he's a numbnut. Everybody in Holland knows this. Yeah, but Holland's a small country. Yeah, that's true. This was the one little thing he had. He's a numbnut. HR for Unilever. Come on.

So we want a piece of ice for world protection, and they won't give it. We've never asked for anything else. And we could have kept that piece of land, and we didn't. So they have a choice. You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no, and we will remember. Oh, we'll remember. And did you catch the breaking news the president broke? Breaking news during his speech? Breaking news? No one's picked up on it, but I clipped it because it's breaking news.

You wouldn't have NATO if I didn't get involved in my first term. The war with Ukraine is an example. We are thousands of miles away, separated by a giant ocean. It's a war that should have never started, and it wouldn't have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren't rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It's probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election.

Well, it's breaking news. People are going to be prosecuted very soon. I heard that too. No one has picked up on this. It's not fitting the narrative of the Democrats for the midterms. We can't have that. That would be no good. Well, it's going to happen before the midterms. I just have, I think, two more on the Greenland thing. I don't know. I don't think it will. No. With Pam Bondi's operation, they can't get anything off going.

You're very cynical about that, and I understand, but I think it's because Pam Bondi that it will happen. Pam Bondi's not going to push back. She'll do what the president says. That was why she was hired. So if he says prosecute, she'll prosecute. We'll see. Yeah, I know. You're cynical. I'm optimistic. I'm optimistic about it. It will be fun to watch. We have Maduro. He's spilling the tea, letting everybody know. Prosecution's coming. You know, the minute we see, what's her face?

Kraken Lady. Remember the Kraken Lady? Yeah, yeah, they released the Kraken. Yeah. When she comes back on the scene, we'll know prosecutions are imminent. What's her name again? I'm trying to get it. I can't think of it. It's not coming to mind either. She was Giuliani's lawyer. Co-host. Co-host. Anyway, we all know, you know, the only person who really knows why. By the way, China's 10% is Paul. And those are just showrooms. Yeah, probably. Yeah, that's just we show you how it works.

Sidney Powell is her name. Sidney the Kraken Powell. This is CBC. They got a doozy. There is one other significant factor that may have played a role in Trump's shifting positions. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore suggesting the markets may have something to do with it after investors were spooked by Trump's hostile rhetoric. The bond market and the stock market really have a lot of influence on him.

And when it goes down almost 900 points and people do interpret it as a sell America trade, that may well have been the reason he backed down. After Trump announced this so-called deal, North American stocks surged, which seems to have reassured investors, at least for the time being. So Howard Lutnick, I guess he wrote an opinion piece for the Financial Times and there was a dinner. You know how this is. Like, oh, we have a special dinner. It's an invite only. And there's 200 people there.

So Lutnick does a bit of shtick, a bit of stand up at this dinner. And everybody starts losing their mind. Like apparently there was a big uproar and people were going crazy. And he was asked about it this morning on Bloomberg. Let's cut through the drama. Let's get to the big point, the elephant in the room. What happened at dinnertime the other night? I've heard all kinds of stories, booing, Lagarde storming out the room. What happened? Oh, this is so silly.

So at the end of the evening, they called on me. I just published an op-ed in the Financial Times. And so they called on me. I gave two, three minutes of my FT, which basically said that globalization, right, and the outsourcing of your industry to the lowest cost in the world, right, had really left, had really harmed America, had harmed Europe, and it had failed us. And that we need to reshorten it to take care of our own citizens. So that's basically the model.

And when I was done with that two or three minutes, one person of the 200 -odd people in the room booed. And I felt honored because it was Al Gore. You know, and Al Gore booed. And I was like, really? Can you just imagine Al Gore sitting there booing by himself? Yeah, yeah, I can imagine that. Boo, boo, you bullies, you bullies. Man, America is great. We're going to fix all this. I feel positive. I love it. I have two clips from Starmer on Greenland that might be worth listening to.

Okay, Starmer. Which one, the GL or the full? It's not labeled one or two. Well, GL. They seem to be different, but they're the same in length. They look different. They're the same in length? Well, they may be the same. I think it's the same clip. Okay. Let's start with GL. GL. Okay, well, this is rather embarrassing, actually. We sent our best five soldiers to Greenland, you know, as a show of force so President Trump knows we're rather safe. Wait a minute, this has got to be AI.

About protecting Greenland. But how do I put this? Well, they kind of came back and said it was way too cold. So I asked the Royal Army to send five more, but they told me that's all we had. So we're just going to, we're probably going to stay out of this one. And we wish Greenland's new Prime Minister, President Trump, Godspeed on his new venture. Okay, since you introduced AI. I try to slip one of these in every show if you haven't noticed. Yeah, no, gee, I hadn't noticed the AIs.

Yes, yes, yes, that's quite good. And the short ones work well, just as a production note. The short ones work well. When they're long and they're cussing and stuff, I don't think it works as well. But this was good because it had just that subtle five and it was too cold. That was subtle. That was good. So outside of President Trump and Greenland and Secretary, the Commerce Secretary Lutnick, who is just a jolly fellow. There's a billionaire who just loves life. Like, this is great. I'm rich.

He's having fun. Yeah, he's definitely like, I'm having fun. Al Gore's booing me. We're going to bring back. What could be better than having Al Gore boo you? I mean, at least it shows you something. Yeah, we're bringing back manufacturing to America. We're telling the old system, go pound sand. We're going to do everything ourselves. You know, we're going to build our own facilities, our own manufacturing. We're going to put Americans back to work. You should think about that, too.

There's also all these other sessions, and there will be many more over the next week. And I'm sure I'll have some fun things on Sunday. Last year, we had the Queen of the Netherlands saying something turdy. They all talk dumb. But the cake for AI was to, I think he's actually a historian, Yuval Harari. Harari. This jamoke, this guy, I can just see him there.

And by the way, the whole screen, which usually has Davos logos on it, it changed into like some mythical hands, like moving around, you know, computer generated and coming out of the sky. And I think all this guy thinks is, what can I say that will get me more speaking gigs? Because this is great for me. Do you know, as far as putting words in order is concerned, AI already thinks better than many of us. Therefore, anything made of words will be taken over by AI.

If laws are made of words, then AI will take over the legal system. If books are just combinations of words, then AI will take over books. If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion. This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, or Judaism. Judaism calls itself the religion of the book, and it grants ultimate authority, not to humans, but to words in books.

Humans have authority in Judaism, not because of our experiences, but only because we learn words in books. Now, no human can read and remember all the words in all the Jewish books, but AI can easily do that. What happens to a religion of the book when the greatest expert on the holy book is an AI? Yeah, you can sign me up right now for your next conference. I'm controversial. This guy. He's good. You're right. You nailed it. That is a public speaking gambit, the use of the term Beck gambit.

And you could go on forever if you're talking like that. Actually, I've thought a little bit more. I've had some introspective thoughts with myself about AI, because I do use it. You use it. I particularly like Gemini because, first of all, I'm sure they have some better access to Google search. They have access to YouTube transcripts. There's a lot of stuff that it can operate on. But let's just be honest. Artificial intelligence, to me, is like artificial flavoring.

I mean, there's obviously no intelligence in there. And what we see ourselves with AI-generated stuff, like art, like music, and just go on YouTube and look at all the art. It's like now it all looks the same. Nothing is exceptional. It's okay. Yeah, it's good. It's technically good. It's much better than anyone could do. But now there's nothing exceptional. It's all like, eh, you really got to look through and like, is there something really, really good?

And so if you look at artistry in our own world where we have, on a monthly basis, hundreds of pieces of art, really Darren O'Neill is the only one who does something with it that works. Why can't the super artificial intelligence make it all like Darren's funny bits? Because they can't. You know, the songs that we have, and we have two for today, they're okay. But now it all just sounds kind of the same. And it's very infrequent that something is just dynamite. No, the sameness of the songs.

I mean, I'm less concerned about the sameness of the art, but I'm not that concerned about it. And you're right, Darren does the best job generally. But the sameness, although Jeffrey Ray is right up there with him, I would say the sameness of the music really bothers me. Yeah. Because music, to make something hit your heartstrings, as it were, it needs something that artificial intelligence just doesn't have.

Now, I think as a technology, and by the way, why would that be any different for code? You know, if everyone's using the same models and we're doing code, you may have one or two people who can do something exceptional with it. But this idea that, oh, it's going to be great and it's going to take over the world, probably not.

I can see where having a model running at home, which will soon be available, you know, within the next two years, a lot of these current NVIDIA systems will have to be replaced for the newest, hottest whatever. And you'll be able to run something at home, maybe at your club or, you know, your church or whatever, and then you can use it yourself. And it'll be very functional for a lot of things. The problem is these Silicon Valley companies, they always want to offer it to everybody.

Oh, everybody, this is the best. That's why they did this parlor trick of your chat bot talking to you, and, oh, I can create some art and I can make my wife look like a queen and all this stuff. It's like, eh, okay. But it's not really functional and it's too expensive. I think the mistake they're making is trying to make it something that everybody will be able to access. And already, ChatGPT, Google, they're already talking about ads. And we know where that ends up, just ads everywhere.

So I just don't see it. I really hope it works because it's good for our economy and lots of people building data centers. And, hey, you know what, if all that AI stuff goes away, supposedly they'll all have their own power plants. Well, that'll be good. We'll have more energy. What? I said that'll be the day. What will be the day? When they'll all have their own power plants. Well, that's the promise. Yeah, promises, promises. You are so, so pessimistic. No, I'm not.

It's just like I've seen these promises. You know, these guys come up with all these grandiose schemes. You know, they're just shipping $10 with every query you give them. And it's ludicrous. They're losing their ass. You said so yourself, and you know that that's happening. And if it was so easy to put up all these power plants, why don't we have a bunch of them already? I mean, power plants are non-trivial. They use a lot of energy, and they're not good for the environment.

But all of a sudden, the same environmentalists are putting up all these power plants left and right. In California, they've torn down most of the reservoirs that gave us cheap hydroelectric power. It was all over the state. And they blew up all the dams, and they've done the same thing in Washington State with all the dams. Oh, heaven forbid there's a salmon that can't get through, so let's blow up a dam. I mean, come on.

I believe that there will be some power that is built for these data centers. They have to. And they're building a fusion power plant at Microsoft for its operation? Oh, please. They can't get that to work. Well, you know, I think there's going to be coal. There's going to be gas. Look, if they go back to coal, I think they have a shot. But there's so much pushback against coal. No, not in Texas. In California, I mean, these things are not being built in California.

These things are being built in Virginia, in Texas, you know, wide open spaces. They have to have their – if they want them to turn on at all, they have to have additional power. It's just not available. So if they can keep the circularity system going of the money flow, I think they will build some plants. So that won't necessarily be bad if AI doesn't take off. But I just don't see the business model that they're used to working.

This is what they've tried to do, and that was Sam Altman who basically screwed everybody by, oh, look, it's a chat bot. You can talk to it. And everyone went, oh, okay, I can talk to my chat bot. Oh, my robot. You know, Google seems the only kind of winner in this because of the search. I mean, search is unbelievably good because they give you the sources. Now, you use Anthropic or what do you use? What do you like? I use Perplexity. Perplexity. And now I've moved to Claude.

How's Claude for you? I like it so far. I'm still like – I'm still designing – because Claude is a little different than some of these other ones. It requires you to become friends with it. It's just kind of annoying, you know. Can you tell me more so I can make sure that everything I do is right? I want to be friends with you. I mean, it's just a little much.

Do you ever say – So, I mean, for a quick – if I have to go look up something right now, I'll go to Perplexity and I want to deal with it. But eventually, I think Claude will be the better one. I can totally – Which is Anthropic to what it is. What I can totally see is a lot of very, very small companies, one-man, two -man, four-man, using almost any of these AI systems to build products, software products that may or may not have a marketplace or maybe a small company that can do something.

But I just don't see the massive TAM, as they say, the total accessible market that they're basing this on. I just don't. And now Apple, yeah, okay, they're probably going to make a couple billion dollars a year by putting Gemini into their Siri. But, you know, Apple, this goes against their whole ethos. And, you know, people don't want to hear Siri anymore.

So, if you can't customize Siri, if you can't make Siri your friend and have Siri do different voices, which they won't want, it's like – I think it's bad for Apple. I don't think it's a smart move. Let people use that other stuff. Anyway, I mean, I've built some software products that I'm like, wow, I can't – but I know systems. I know how Linux systems work. I know how certain frameworks operate. Well, that's the myth of AI right there. You can do it if you know – if you can do it without AI.

Yeah, I mean, I can't. I really can't code this stuff. But when I say I want a playout system and here's how I'm going to build it and I want it to run on Linux, and I say, okay, I want to have – bless you – I want to have six players and these players have to have pre-fader listening and I have to be able to control it with my MIDI controller. I mean, I built half of the system I want within an hour. That blew me away. But it's not like – that's not a product I'm going to package up and ship.

Like, oh, here's the Podfather's Linux playout system. No one's going to care for that. But it will – How close are you to getting to your goal? And I will tell you what the goal is. The goal, of course, is getting off of Windows completely and being all Linux. I would say I'm a full day's away. A day? Yeah. So the next show on Sunday – No, no, I don't have any time in the next few days. Maybe Saturday, if it's snowpocalypse and we can't go anywhere, then I might be able to do it.

Yeah. Even the most difficult part, which is the – Okay, well, let's give you the benefit of the doubt. My next show on Thursday, next week, will be all Linux. I need a full day. I don't have a full day in my life anymore. So it'll take – It could take me a week or two, but I think I can actually get there. Two weeks. Two weeks. I'm not going to let you rush me on this. I want a deadline. No deadline, you'll never do it. No, I'll do it. I'll do it. I was amazed at how far I got.

I'm like, holy crap. So I'm coding this, and then all of a sudden the thing says, are you ready to build a cart wall yet? I'm like, what? I never mentioned cart wall. So it already understands the concept, but then it does really dumb stuff like, well, since you are heavily involved with podcasting 2.0, which, of course, you know, there was something I searched for or did on it in some other chat somewhere. So now it's trying to be smart.

Now it's trying to tell me what I need to do based on something it thinks that I'm interested in at that moment, but irrelevant. Oh, mind reading. Yeah, mind reading. But I would really love just, you know, the real NVIDIA system you want, it's going to be $14,000, and then you can get similar performance to what you get from Claude or whatever. I would love to have that at home. That would be great. It really would. Wouldn't you rather save the $14,000?

Yes, but I want to be prepared for when they start charging me what it actually costs. You know, the people who have figured it out are 11 Labs. They charge you. I mean, they're not messing around. They charge you for what you use, and it's expensive. It gets expensive because I've been using it for a whole bunch of different things. I'm like, wow, okay, so they're racking up bills here. Well, it's for a church. I built a system.

It's called YourTown, and churches can become their own radio station because no one knows what to do. If they just type in their promo, then the system creates the promo with a voice and with music and everything, and it sounds pretty decent. No one cares that it's an AI voice, honestly. But every single time you generate something, the meter is running. They really do bill you properly. And that's when you're like, okay, well, that was $140 a month.

That's not just messing around with some AI stuff. But I think they're charging a fair amount. They're probably trying to make it profitable. For all I know, they may even be getting close, but I know it has to cost that. The problem of the Google, well, Google has no problems, but of any of these systems is they're trying to serve everybody all the time. Remember when it first started and you wanted an image and it would put you in the queue and you'd have to go back and wait and look?

It's like, oh, you're number 30 in the queue. Your job will process soon. No. Maybe about a year ago when everything first started and these first image generators were starting to come out, DALI was the first one. And even on DALI, when it first started, you got put into a queue because they just didn't have the processing power. I never had this experience. And I was using DALI from the get -go. I'm just telling you, this was a thing.

But it's no longer a thing because they put all the money in. I just don't see where they're going to get it back. And how would ads work? I mean, how does Google make $40 billion a quarter? What are they actually selling? You should know this. This is your wheelhouse. Well, Google makes most of their money selling data and services and other systems that they have. Their reliance on pure search for their monies, for their revenue, is not what it once was. And where's their revenues?

It comes from data, selling data, and they do all kinds of backend stuff that you don't even know about. So like selling to data brokers? Yeah, that and others and back to themselves. Right. Well, I can see where using your inputs, now that Claude has gotten to get to know you, oh, John has some weird things he's asking. Let me sell that. I can see that. But even then, will it really outweigh everything? Will it be enough? What do you want? I don't know how they're going to do it.

I mean, Google itself, when it began, it couldn't make money on ads because they didn't know how to do it. So they bought a company that did it. Yeah, DoubleClick. No, no, no. It was a search engine company, not DoubleClick. It was actually called GoTo or something like that. It had some screwball name, and they had a very small market share, and they were a search engine that implemented ads the way Google does because it was pre-Google.

And so they bought this small company, and they implemented that ad system, which was not DoubleClick, which is different. It was just a way how to present the ads. So you have your search engine results, and then on the side it says it has these ads that relate to the search. And then they eventually incorporated ads into the search. So it was like you get your results back, and some of them were ads. It's going to be something like that where they slip it in.

I don't know how they're going to do it. It's going to have to be somebody. There'll be a guy out there that will have an elegant solution, which is what Google discovered from another company. It'll be some small operation with an elegant solution that's, oh, yeah, that's how you do it. There's a yeah, that's how you do it moment coming. We don't have it, and we can't imagine it. If either one of us did, we'd go do that. Well, I'm going to start thinking about it now. Well, think about it.

And the minute they have that, then there'll just be another AI company that comes in front of it and executes the AI queries for you and filters out the ads. It's a never-ending story. It's a never-ending story. And then, of course, this passed my transom. In August 2025, Adobe added some AI features to Acrobat Studio, including PDF Spaces, which supported the ability to add up to 100 documents to be AI summarized.

Documents added to PDF Spaces can now use Adobe's AI Assistant to generate a presentation from uploads with options for editing without needing to generate new slides and can be shared with coworkers for further edits. Another new feature in PDF Spaces enables the creation of an AI podcast from a document similar to a Notebook LM feature. The default podcast creation option has two AI hosts discuss the material. Oh, my goodness. That's what the world needs.

More podcast hosts discussing your documentation. Lordy, lordy. I think it's time for a deep dive. I'm ready for you. Let's do it. Let's play something else. You got Brooks and Capehart. I've been missing your Brooks and Capehart stuff. Well, yeah, it's going to be up there. They have been missing it, too, because, as you know, whenever you play the clips, their audience doubles. So I think we should play some Brooks and Capehart from your public broadcast systems media organization.

Well, they discuss Minnesota. Ah. In these clips. And there's also four of them. They're short. One of them is really short. It's only 13 seconds. And there's a wow clip in here, which makes it worthwhile. This is PBS 1MN. Well, it's been a busy week for President Trump, flexing his power at home and abroad. To discuss, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart. That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNOW. It's good to see you both. MSNOW.

Let me start with a little bit of news, Jonathan, that we just got moments ago. There are now reports the Department of Justice is issuing criminal subpoenas from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. We understand part of that is for what they're said is impeding law enforcement. As you well know, this comes against the backdrop of ICE agents on the ground as part of President Trump's immigration crackdown, protests on the ground in response to their presence.

What's your reaction to the latest? Let me guess. Since one is a conservative and one is a liberal, they will have wildly opposing views. Wrong! As we know, I will reiterate this, they refuse to have an actual conservative voice on anything PBS does, and so everything is completely lopsided.

And what you do is, and the way you do it, I know how you do it, is you have someone who says they're a conservative and they disagree with the liberal, whatever the liberal says, and that's what we have here. Well, the president warned that retribution was coming to Minnesota just a couple of days ago, if not yesterday. Time is elastic. Wait, wait. The president said retribution was coming to Minnesota? When did he say that? Yesterday, I think. I'd never heard him say that at all.

He never said it. No. But this is PBS. To Minnesota in just a couple of days ago, if not yesterday. Time is elastic these days. So not surprising, but also interesting coming from an administration that campaigned on how the previous administration was weaponizing the Justice Department against him and against people like him. And instead, what we have seen from President Trump is a weaponization of the Department of Justice.

Now it's Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey, but also New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI Director James Comey, the six Democratic members of the House and the Senate that did the video telling service members what they already know, which is they do not have to follow unlawful or illegal orders. Now, didn't the Department of War already demote the Arizona guy and subsequently tighten his pension payments? I don't know what the status of that is. I don't know that's true.

I know they threatened it and shook his fist. But I think Kelly would be bitching and moaning more. And so these are subpoenas that have gone out to the governor and to the mayor from AG Barbie? Mm-hmm. Well, subpoena is a start. I know what you're going to say, but it's a start. What am I going to say? Nothing will happen. Nothing will happen? I'd like to see something happen. Believe me, I'm all for it. I think it's great.

There's a number of situations occurring right now that something should happen, but there's nothing that's going to happen. But let's go on. What was that clip too? Yeah. Okay, so we're winding it up. So I think that the governor and the mayor probably saw this coming a mile away because, again, we're dealing with the president who has made it very clear in word and in deed that he will go after people he does not like. Projecting much? Okay. So he hasn't gone after Capehart. He's on the list.

Subpoenas are coming. Unsealed indictments are being opened as we speak. So here we go with it. I think this is four. David, we've seen tensions only rising on the ground in Minneapolis. We saw Governor Walz publicly come out and call for a lowering of the temperature, telling the protesters, don't take the bait, don't be violent. Even as the administration says it's going to surge more agents. Criminal subpoenas for the state and city leaders, does that lower the temperature? Not exactly.

You know, we're coming close to something like an armed occupation of an American. Is he at home on Zoom or something? Is that how they're doing these shows now? Is he in the studio? He's not usually, he's often on Zoom. I think he might be home on this one. Okay. Criminal subpoenas for the state and city leaders, does that lower the temperature? Not exactly. You know, we're coming close to something like an armed occupation of an American state by the American federal government.

There are 3,000 ICE officers in Minneapolis, which is like five times the number of police officers. And they are behaving with reckless and violent abandon. Barack Obama deported 3 million people during the course of his administration. He didn't do it this way. He did it to people who are just coming over the border or people who are criminals. This is great. Do you remember when people would, it was like a running joke in movies, ICE and the whole kitchen empties out. Yeah, it was.

The only difference is you didn't hate that president. That's the only difference. And you didn't rile everybody up to go and make crazy noise about it. That's the only difference. You didn't, you know, send Don Lemon on Operation Pull-Up. That's the only difference. We also didn't really have as much social media at the time. It was just starting. He didn't go into homes and terrorize children, disallow moms whose... Remember the, do you remember Clinton? What was the kid's name? The Cuban kid?

Oh, right. Eli Gonzalez. Eli. They had a gun sticking in his face. Yeah, a little kid. It was on the front page of every newspaper. Yeah, it was a guy in full armor, militarized guy with a big giant rifle, and he's sticking it in the kid's face. Eli, Eli. I think it's Eli. Something like that, yeah. Disallow. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. Yeah, no, the media didn't do as much. Actually, that's the best point right there. That's the best example of the media being slanted.

What you just said, I forgot about that. In fact, I thought about the other ones, and the kids in cages, and those cages were done by Obama. Obama, yeah. But the Eli Gonzalez thing was the worst, and they made a fuss about it, but not like this. There weren't protests, and women standing around with signs, ice out. So you said something on the last show, which I think was really pertinent.

Surprising. Because everybody from Oprah to Barbara Walters, Larry King, David Letterman, everywhere that Donald Trump went as Donald Trump, they all said, man, we really hope you run for president. You get it. You understand the international scene, because this message has always been, we're getting ripped off by the rest of the world, particularly China. That is a very consistent message, and they all loved him until he left the Democrat Party and became a Republican.

That's the only difference. The guy is doing exactly the same thing. Yeah, it's a cult problem. It really is a cult problem, and it's just, it's sad. It is so. It breaks my heart to see these people so, you know, like your old ladies there, running around the strip mall in, where is it? What's the name of the place? El Cerrito. The El Cerrito. To our post office box. If people want to donate with a check, then go to post office box 339 El Cerrito, California, 94530.

In fact, that was on my way to the post office to pick up the check. The El Cerrito strip mall ladies. I mean, it's only because he's not a Democrat, well, not even that, but because he left the Democrat Party, he's a traitor. You have to think that is really that the media is just responsible for that. The media is a bunch of Democrats, and they're the ones who are trying to police the party so when people quit and go off and do something else, they get all over them.

They make their lives miserable. That's the idea. That's how a cult works. Disallow moms whose sons are dying from cancer from seeing their kids. Breaking up families. Doing sort of ethnic investigations into people's neighbors. Using these flash hand grenades. It's just an unprecedented, I don't know if unprecedented is the right word, but it could be.

George H.W. Bush used the Insurrection Act in 1992 in California, but he did it with the presence of Pete Wilson, the governor there, with the cooperation of the local officials. This is completely different. This is something that is turning up the pressure. What was 1992? With Bush. What did he need to do that in California for? I don't remember at all, and I'm from here, and so it eludes me. I'd have to look it up. With Pete Wilson. Yeah, who is a Republican.

I was going to say, he's a Republican. Makes something of a difference. Yeah. George H.W. Bush used the Insurrection Act in 1992 in California, but he did it with the presence of Pete Wilson, the governor there, with the cooperation of the local officials. This is completely different. This is something that is turning up the pressure, and I think Governor Walz is right. I'm not a huge fan, but the protesters are turning up the tension on the ICE officers.

Oh, that was after the Rodney King riots. Oh, right. Down in L.A. Well, yes, which was a huge mess, and they had to bring in the National Guard. And so long as they do it nonviolently, then Americans will see what is going on in their country, and I've long thought if Americans see deportations of respectable families, they will finally rebel against this regime, and not just the progressives, and not just Democrats, but normal people who are like, what the heck is going on here?

And so that's where we're headed. Yeah, the ignorance is quite astounding. So he's supposed to be a conservative spokesperson, and instead of referring to the Republicans, he calls it a regime, as though it's some sort of communist operation in a third-world country, the regime. The regime, I tell you, the regime. I mean, this is a ridiculous product that PBS has put out there. You know, there are people that can give the other side and get into an actual debate.

Instead of Chanel Ryan, you really want to be the K-part. No, I do not. I mean... No, because for one thing, it's a studio show mostly, and I'm not interested in leaving the house, as you know. They could bring you in on Zoom, like they do here. Yeah, they don't like doing it, because of the sound quality. Generally speaking, very few people know how to do their own sound. Yeah, that's true. But you know how to do it. You know how to do sound. I can do it. You can do it.

But the ignorance of people, and all the words get confused, like, you know, well, we think migrants have a right... It's like we've moved from illegal aliens to illegal immigrants to immigrants to migrants, and now it's just people. They're Americans now. Yeah, because no person's illegal. Yeah. No. No. Well, we're not going to solve it for them. No, all we do is bitch and moan. No, I'm not bitching and moaning at all. Okay, all I do is bitch and moan. Yes, you do.

I'm very optimistic about some prosecutions taking place. Let's hope for the... But before you play that, let's play the general strike, and other general strikes being called for. These things don't work, have failed at every turn, but here's another one. Pentagon is readying more active-duty soldiers for a possible deployment to Minneapolis.

That's on the heels of the Justice Department's issuing subpoenas to Democratic officials in Minnesota, alleging they are impeding the work of immigration agents. And PR's Kat Lonsdorf has more. Grand jury subpoenas went out to several local and state leaders, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The investigation centers on public comments both made after 37-year-old Renee Macklin Goode was killed by an ICE agent two weeks ago.

Officials in the Twin Cities are calling the subpoenas an intimidation tactic, while the administration accuses Walz and Frey of using heated rhetoric. Meanwhile, those opposed to the federal immigration surge in Minneapolis are calling for a general strike on Friday, encouraging residents across the state to stay home from work and school and refrain from shopping in an act of protest. More than 300 businesses have said they plan to close. Well, that's going to be great for everybody.

Hey, why don't I just go burn some money? I don't need it anyway. I'm going to close my shop. This is what I think the chat room was referring to is this general strike tomorrow. But it's only in Minnesota. I mean, the general strike that was called for nationwide was on the anniversary of the inauguration, which was the 20th, where we had the old ladies coming out. Well, I'm putting my stock into the shusher. I think Scott's shushing down the mountain bascent.

He's the guy that's following the money. Yeah, well, you're blocking law enforcement. Here's a subpoena. But, you know, if they can really start to uncover some of the actual fraud and tie it back to their PayPal, you know, that would be something. I wish they would. I think that, you know, we take it for granted, you know, supposedly all Somalis, and they're putting, you know, $750 million in cash in a box, shipping it in an airplane, and all this other stuff going on, bull crap.

And they can't find it. They're not going to get to the bottom of it. They just don't have the wherewithal. Yeah, but see, I think they do. Well, let's hope so. I hope they do. I think all money is infinitely traceable unless it's, you know, well, yeah, the Somalis with piles of cash, yeah, that may be a little bit harder, but there's got to be stuff. Bascent seems to, you know, I mean, this is what Doge was. Doge was going in, connecting into the system. All right, here's your API.

You want to track any dollar. As long as it's transferred digitally, we can see where it eventually went. And then if it's taken out in paper, well, okay, then you got to go get boots on the ground, feet on the street. I think, you know what? I just, I am hopeful about it. I'm hopeful. Because if it doesn't happen with this president, it'll never happen. Then I'll just be like you.

If it doesn't happen with this president, it will happen with a president that has, you know, there is a, you know, Trump is kind of always seems to be walking on eggshells when it comes to like really using his authority. You'd like to say, well, if he tells Bondi to do it, she'll do it. But he doesn't do that. She hasn't done anything. Not yet. So talking about do nothings, I will, I will give you this one.

We have the Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, and the justice department is slow walking the release of more files. I personally think the slow walk is a reason to delay something until the midterms. I'm hoping that's it because that would be fun for the show. It may just be because they don't have anything or they don't want, I mean, who knows? There's so much stuff we'd love to see you and I both. I mean, think about it. Just be wonderful for the show.

So president Trump saved the show. But then we have the Clintons who, who are kind of messed up their, their subpoena. the house oversight committee took the next step towards a full house vote that would find Bill and Hillary Clinton, the former president and former first lady and secretary of state and presidential candidate in contempt of Congress because they didn't agree. They defied the subpoenas related to the Epstein investigation.

If you were providing legal advice to the Clintons, what would you tell them? Well, I would have told them to show up in the first place. I think the big mistake is they fought this subpoena by sending a bunch of letters to the committee, but they never went to court to challenge the subpoenas. And now as a result, they've walked themselves right into what I think is likely to be a contempt charge. It's already gotten through the committee. It next goes to the full house.

But today on the committee, nine Democrats on the oversight committee voted for contempt against Bill Clinton. Three voted for it against Hillary Clinton. If it gets through the house, it goes to DOJ next where Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche are going to have the decision. I think the Clintons have played this wrong. I think they've showed hubris in defying this subpoena.

And if they want an example, not saying they're going to jail, but if they are going to complain about this, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon defied congressional subpoenas charged with contempt prosecuted, they went to prison for four months each. So you think that if they had challenged the, what would, what would have been the basis to challenge the subpoenas? So the argument they've made is these subpoenas are not tied to any valid legislative purpose.

The house has said, we need to hear from you, Bill Clinton, because we're writing new anti-human trafficking legislation. The argument that they've made that they should have made to a judge is what does Bill Clinton's knowledge about what Jeffrey Epstein was doing 30 years ago have to do with writing anti-human trafficking legislation now, but they haven't gone to court. And so they've left themselves exposed to what I think will be contempt charging.

So the, that was a good, that guy was right. That was a very good analysis by the whoever that was. I forget who this is, but it was, I have one clip on this. Okay. And it's the one that's got contests, this contempt, or where's the name of this thing? Epstein contempt. Uh, yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. Happening on Capitol Hill today, the house oversight committee votes to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress. That's after they refused to appear and testify in a probe on Jeffrey Epstein.

Today was a big day for accountability. I'm very proud of the work that oversight committee has done thus far on the Epstein investigation. I'm very happy that, uh, we had a bipartisan vote. Right. You're yelling through your own clip. Sorry. Today to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress. And this shows that no one's above the law.

And I'm just real proud of the committee and look forward to, uh, hopefully getting the Epstein documents in, uh, very quickly and, and trying to get answers to the American people. The vote to hold former president Bill Clinton in contempt was 34 to eight. While the vote for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton was 28 to 15.

The committee first subpoenaed the Clintons to testify in its probe into sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein back in July of last year, both failed to show up earlier this month. After initially signaling they would cooperate, the contempt charges will head to the full house floor for a vote. Committee chairman James Comer said today he hopes the justice department can release all of the Epstein files quickly.

The Clintons were not accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, but Bill Clinton was seen in multiple photographs with the sex trafficker. The house oversight committee also subpoenaed Epstein accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently in jail to appear for a deposition on February 9th. Yeah. The narrative or the, yeah, the narrative is really shifted from the disgraced finance here to convicted sex trafficker. That has definitely changed.

Uh, funny enough, I have a Comer clip, which I was going to play just to irk you. Um, but there is, he does say something here, which I think is the crux of the matter. It's not so much that they don't want to appear. It's how they want to appear. Here's Comer caught in the hallways of Congress. Is it important? There's still an opportunity for the Clintons to negotiate some sort of satisfaction of the subpoena, even though you've taken this step with contempt.

There's always a, there's always an opportunity. It's going to be two weeks before this is on the floor. Uh, we're going to have to notice this is going to be treated like any other bill. We're making sure every I's dotted and every T's crossed because they have a, uh, very expensive legal team. So, uh, obviously there are going to be a couple of more days this week, depending on the weather. Uh, then there'll be three days notice and then we can vote on it.

I've been assured we're going to vote on it. So that's two weeks because we're going to be off a week. They're going to have two weeks that they're going to theoretically be able to negotiate. But one thing that I want to make very clear, a lot of what the Democrats were saying today, and I don't, I'm not accusing the Democrats on the committee of lying. I'm accusing the lawyers for the Clintons of not being truthful. Uh, they, they, they were not in good faith negotiating.

They never made a proposal, uh, where there would be an actual transcript. And I don't think anyone in the media would, would accept any type of interview without a transcript. Then you're going to have notes and it's going to be, uh, Clinton's word against my word, Garcia's word against, it's my word. That's no good, but you know, there should be a, a recorded at the very least transcript, if not audio and video, I would argue all three of the, the deposition. That is the law.

That is what is considered legal in court. And I don't think anyone in the media would argue against it. So the way I hear this, they're like, yeah, we remember when bill had his, uh, deposition member sitting there in that little room, as president with his Coke can of Coke. And he said, I did not have sexual relations with that woman. They don't want to repeat. He's happy to testify. He just doesn't want anyone to hear his testimony. That's what, that's what's going on.

Because he knows that this just anything he says is he's never going to, he's never going to be able to outlive whatever comes out. So I think that's the negotiation now. And of course, Comer, you know, Comer, he's going to be just tough man. He's tough guy. He's going to stick to his guns. You know, what's, what's interesting is about 50 % of our troll room audience, which is just a temporary, temporary, you know, the thermometer, you know, they are so there.

I think that you rub off a little bit on them, although you're not like this all the way. But all day goes like the rot goes all the way to the top. Everything's corrupt. Nothing's good. It's all, none of it's good. It's all horrible. It goes to the top. The head of the fish is riding. I'm like, works for me. I'm like, why don't you move to Canada? Yeah. Move to Australia. But I hear, I hear Europe is a real rot.

You know, that there are now trans Americans who are fleeing to the Netherlands and requesting asylum. And they are actually being putting, being put in asylum centers with insane asylums, no asylum, asylum seeker centers. And because they're already full with Africans, West Africans, South, North Africans, there's they're intense now. So, you know, there's all these articles that the guardian has a big profile on it. Like, but I just don't feel safe in Trump's America.

So I got on a plane, I went to Amsterdam and I said, I'm seeking asylum. And the, and the guys at the border went, uh, what? Yeah. Well, okay, here's a ticket. Go to terror, which is, you know, the train rail, like an hour train, hour and a half train ride. And they show up there. They're like, what? Yeah. Yeah. I'm seeking asylum. I said, well, the center is full so you can sleep in the tent. That's how crazy people are. In fact, the president doesn't take much to figure that out.

When you watch Rosie O'Donnell or Ellen. Yeah. The president alluded to this a little bit in his Davos speech. I have a little piece here to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow. We must reject the perennial profits of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortune tellers. And I have them. And you have them. And we all have them. And they want to see us do badly, but we don't let that happen.

They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing, absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong, and unyielding bastion of freedom.

Yeah. When I hear that, and if you hear that and go, everything is rotten, Epstein files, these are socialists. You belong with the other people. Get out of the country. Yep. And get out of the chat room. Definitely out of the chat room. Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to you, the man who put the C's in the contempt of Congress. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and the only, Mr. John C. DeMora.

In the morning to the trolls, hanging out in the troll room. Let me count you for a second. 1592, so. We've done better, but it's not too bad. I'm happy to have everybody here. The weather. It's good to have everybody here, because yes, we don't even know if we'll have, well, I'm pretty set for the show because I have got the Jenny. The generator is good to go. So if the power goes and the power, it's like if we really do have an ice storm here, probably the power will go out.

So I got the generator. I've got, you know, everything's running. I've got, what is it? The, the, the UPS running on the studio and on the router. You have connection. You have, unlike me, you have a connection to Starlink just in case. I had not one, but I have two. I also have the, the Starlink mobile just in case. You never know. You never know what happens. It's supposed to have a heating element in that dish. I think it does. So, but I have a backup. And, uh, have the T-Mobile links.

Yeah. I have the, the home Starlink. And then they, I think we talked about this. Um, we have talked about it. I didn't know you had one. Yeah. No, Elon had a deal. It was like for five bucks a month, you get the mobile Starlink and it's only going to be five bucks a month. So he sent me, you get all the, all the gear with a little note from Elon. Thanks. Uh, with five bucks. Okay. So if you activate it, then he started, you gets charged for it, but it's those five bucks in a bands.

Yeah. Five bucks in the bands, five bucks in the bag. Ooh, show title. That's an interesting ploy. I've never seen that marketing tactic used for something like this. Okay. Probably had to empty out the store, the warehouse or something. People weren't buying them, but I liked it. So I got that. I have the fiber, the fiber may stay up for all, you know, I mean, the fibers underground. So, um, so I, I'm pretty sure I will be here. Um, I will try, I will try for sure.

When's it supposed to hit Sunday this weekend? Well, they said it's going to start Friday, but then it's like, well, maybe Saturday. Oh, in other words, there's nothing's going to happen. That's what I'm thinking. I think it's going to be, I mean, it may be worse, of course, in the true, um, middle of the country and the East where they have real action. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty thing. But we have, we have a, you know, we have post-traumatic stress disorder here from the previous snow apocalypse.

Yeah. It was bad when we had that going on. Did we even do a show when, when I was, I can't remember. We always did a show. We've never missed the show. We've missed 18 plus years. We've never missed the show. We haven't had to put an emergency show up either. All the shows that are like, you know, clip shows of sorts. They're all original and they're all pre-programmed. Yes. Emergency pod. I do an emergency pod. We've never, that would be a true emergency pod.

In our case, we've never done an actual emergency pod for any reason whatsoever. Right. And almost 19 years. Uh, so those trolls are in the troll room and, uh, they, uh, are listening at, uh, no agenda stream.com or perhaps they have a modern podcast app, uh, which is possible. I, I feel like this is the year. This is the year that Apple will do the live stream. They're crazy not to every radio station in the world is figured out that transmitters are not the way to go.

Uh, took 25 years, but okay. So they're, they're going to, I think they're going to add that feature pretty soon. So you might as well get on board now. And of course, uh, Apple still has that feature on their Apple TV. What light live streams. Don't they have live streams? No, no. Apple live streams of what? Hmm. Once you mentioned it. No, no, there's no, there's no live stream of football. Didn't they buy some rights to some live streams like baseball or football or basketball or something?

Well, but that's sports. I'm talking about radio or podcasts or live streams or, you know, there's hundreds of thousands of music streams. There's all kinds of stuff you can get. And what we did is we packaged up the, the live stream with the episodes in one RSS feed. So you just subscribe to a show or if you want, subscribe to a station, then you get the shows and you get the live stream and you can switch around and notifications fire off when someone goes live.

And we've been doing that with, with no agenda stream for, for years, for years, we'd be doing the live stuff anyway. So if you get a modern podcast app, the idea is that you'll get notified when we go live. Another thing we pioneered is not doing ads. Oh man, am I so happy about that? What a race to the bottom that is turning out to be. Podcast industrial complex is hurting so much. So instead we went value for value and value for value was a very beautiful system.

We just give you value straight up. Here it is in your face more than three hours, twice a week of value. No firewalls, no firewalls, no levels, no hoops, no subscriptions. You just send us whatever you think the show is worth. When you feel it's worth it, which we hope is every single time you listen to it. In return, people do many things. one of them is, well, we have value for value is time, talent and treasure.

And we like a lot of the time and talent that people put in, uh, to helping us with the show boots on the ground helps tremendously. But also when someone knows how to use the tools, he can usually knock it out of the park. And Oh man, Darren O'Neill, Baron Darren O'Neill did it again with the artwork for episode 1835. You can upload all of your slop to no agenda, art generator.com. But sometimes Darren stuff just jumps off the page.

And this book of yours, which acts as my book, no agenda publishing presents JCD complains again by Adam Curry forward by John C. Dvorak. And then beautiful, a beautiful little, um, what do you call it? Blurb blurb on the front. I don't like it. I mean, come on, this was a, and you can tell when people are in my timeline, like, I was just great art. This is great. And it's a concept, you know, anybody can type something into the thing.

Like give me something funny about, uh, Greenland and the no agenda show. Wow. Okay. But when you do this and I, and I wonder how many times it took Darren to, to generate this one. Probably once, you know, it's also, people will send me songs. Um, like, Hey, it took me 62 generations to find, please give me your honest opinion. And it's just an AI song. Like, okay. You wrote some lyrics and the lyrics are cute, but the lyrics are written by AI too often. Yeah. Often though.

Nico Simon uses AI to write his lyrics. Yeah. But you know, it's like, you know, what do you, what do you want me to say? Oh, great. I can't wait to spin it on my show. You know, it's like, no one cares anymore. Music. No one cares. They don't. We have get mo jams.com, which is just all this AI slop. It's fun. It's fun to have an on the background, but it's not like, you know, you're not going to make a hit record. No, it's not going to happen. Don't go through. What happens when it does happen?

Oh, what are you going to say? Then I will eat my words, but it's not going to happen. It's not, you know, I say it will say what will, that there will be a hit song. That's AI. Okay. Well, you want to put that in the book and, uh, and what kind of timeframe, two weeks, two weeks, I'll be on Linux, but I'll be doing the show on Linux before there's a hit song done by AI. And AI has enormous headstart. I'm not taking that. I didn't say I didn't, I'm thinking years. No, I don't think so.

I don't think so. Uh, let's see if there was anything else that, uh, that jumped out. I don't think so because everything is just such high concepts. Hmm. Was there anything else that we liked? We had no agenda, all of spray. No networks keeps trying to bring in his coffee cup, which is nice, but no, the, you know, people skiing, Trump skiing, the, uh, tick tocker Barbie. No, this is nothing. It's way too complicated. Have you noticed this with these models? It's like, it's, it's too much.

They're, they're drawing like complete cartoon cells. Is that the right word for it? Or like a panel, you know, where you have a panel, a panel that sells it for movies. Yeah. It has to be all detailed, all kinds of stuff. And it's too busy. And give it, give us some, give them some feedback, John, come on. Like you're the art critic. I didn't see anything here that was worth, I mean, it was so obvious that Darren's piece was the best, but you know, but his pieces are always a little dumb.

I mean, his piece is busy too, but like no agenda. Crumb cake is an example of his stuff. JCDs office. We get to do this podcast joke. Um, he's kind of interesting. I don't know. It's just like, maybe he should give a class. Yeah. A mass. Oh, we should call it a seminar. A masterclass. Yes. A masterclass. Okay. A seminar. Uh, thank you very much. Artists. Stop for a second. I think $150 seminar, maybe a $250 seminar one day or two days.

If it's two days, it has to be more, but let's just say one day, four hour seminar for 150, $250. Uh, I'm doing a, I need to do it over the web, make it a webinar. You could do it over the web and you could, uh, and Darren could, would get 10 people for starters and get the hang of doing this sort of thing. Uh, cause it does take a little skill and then to see how that, how he felt about it. And then I think you can make it a regular one every year.

He could do one, another one of these and make, I think you make some money with, uh, with a, especially with a webinar where you can just load up with people for 150 to $250 a pop and show people how to do what he does. Cause he does the best job of everybody with, I'd say the possible exception of Jeffrey Ray. Yeah. Well, why don't we do a podcast webinar then? We could. No, I don't think so. Well, see, you don't want, that's why we don't. No, of course not.

We can't even get, we can't get anything done. The obvious one with the podcast done barely. Huh? We show up, we're here, we're doing it. We, we do love, but I think Darren should think about this. What I just said. Yeah. Well, so 1500 bucks. No, I said 150. Times 10. Yeah, but it could be times a hundred. Oh, okay. Now you're talking. And then, and what is the class? How to make art for podcasts? No, how to do, how to use AI art generators. Maybe this is for four artists.

Maybe this is all he can do. Maybe it should be four. I mean, he does other stuff for artists. He's his song. Making is quite good too, but he's got it down. He should transfer his knowledge to others at a, for a fee. I think they should have a whole university with scare a manga for the, for the babes. Okay. Well, I see you're not taking this serious. I'm very serious about this. Okay. Well, whole university was scare a manga. I don't think so. As a part of the value for value model.

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Again, eight, five, $8 worth. Very nice. And he always has a very thoughtful note, which I will read now. Cold read from seronomous of dog patch and lower Slobovia. Thank you to all producers for contributing so much to this very rich open source data resource. Huh? Do you think we're being used by intelligence agencies as a resource? I hope so.

After falling, I hope they send us more donations because we are a resource and we do analysis and, and we counter the, you know, we can, I talked about this before, you know, it is possible that somebody can run a, run an op and can we figure it out or do we get it wrong? If we get it wrong, that's kind of interesting to somebody doing the op. Yeah, yeah, definitely. So seronomous. And we of course have no idea what he's, what he's, what his vocation is. Caterpillar salesman.

Yes. After falling off the grid for several weeks at missing year end, I'm making up my value received deficit. See, he understands the value for value model perfectly falling off the grid. Though, it's an interesting term. It's not like he fell off overboard. It's not like he wasn't listening. He was literally off grid. Yeah, he was doing something.

I'm enjoying your discussion on how difficult it is to protect a monarchy and elitism as the serfs gain awareness for lack of a better term, anti-globalization in so-called Western countries is increasingly promoted as a successful method of recruiting sympathizers and motivating disparate groups into common action. The enemy of my enemy shares my goals of goals of hegemony for my hegemony for my country.

And without coordination can disrupt the current governing bodies and move towards common ideals. Hmm. I haven't seen this phenomenon as strongly in non-Western now independent former colonies of Western empires. He's talking about us. Perhaps newfound independence has its cultural virtues. No matter if 250 years ago ago or only 75 years ago. So what country gained independent 75 years ago? It's always code with anonymous. Yeah, it's a, there's a couple.

Yeah. I mean, I don't have any off the top of my head to have to ask blood, but Claude wants to know more about you first. Yeah. Claude wants to know what color am I? Oh, India and Pakistan. Yeah. Okay. India and Pakistan. Yeah. Troublemakers. All of them. Troublemakers. Seronomous of dog patch and lower Slobovia. Thank you so much. As always, he says, no jingles, no karma.

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You're wrong on Trump. You're wrong on all that. Okay. We live in California adjacent Vermont. It's pretty much full blown bunch of commies. They still wear masks and their Teslas with stickers on the back saying, I bought this car before I knew he was a Nazi. This is kind of a good note. Much like John, I'm a stranger living in a foreign land that John's assimilated. What are you talking about? But it's just, I was born in California. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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I forgot to bring this up before the break. When we were talking about technology, have you heard of donut lab? Donut lab. Yes. Don't know. Some of the police department does no donut lab.com. Get ready to roll your eyes. They have launched and it's in production. So it's not vaporware. A, the world's first all solid state battery in production vehicles that hold a 400 watt hour per kilogram charge or the energy density, I guess I should call it, which seems to be a close to revolutionary.

Not to look into it. Yeah. Donut lab.com. Because, you know, I'm the guy that says all these flying cars and all this nonsense is bull crap. But. Well, even before that, even when they were running flying cars with motors, it was bull crap. So I don't think a longer lasting battery fault line car is going to be any good. No, it's a very, this is a very big difference.

What you can do with electric motors in aviation, particularly in a horrors, you know, in a vertical, a vertical takeoff, very big difference. What you can do with, with electric engines and propellers versus a combustion for a whole bunch of different reasons. But if they can really get this, and, you know, they say a five minute charge, full charge in five minutes, limitless cycles, cheaper and safer than lithium ion. Yeah, sure. I told you would roll your eyes.

Well, you know, hey, my big gripe has been battery technology that was promised has not improved. These guys seem to think they have it. Battery technology is perfected in the late 1800s. Right. But how does a solid state battery even work? I don't know what they mean by it. Maybe they're talking about a capacitor, you know, which can charge pretty quickly, you know, super cap. I mean, that's possible. Yeah. They don't see, I do have a, we'll, I'll look into it. We'll talk about it.

Okay. Maybe get some clips. Okay. But I have a point of reference that we have to discuss. I'll get some battery clips. Okay. Some battery clips. You clearly want to talk about something else. Well, I don't want to talk about anything. I don't, I don't know. Jack, you about the donut battery. So what am I going to do? I can't talk about it. Die. What do you have? One of our, one of our producers wrote in a note, noticing that the two of us were, you mainly are me mainly. I don't know.

Cause I haven't been able to spot it saying, by the way on the show, ah, did I do it this time? I, I can't, still can't hear it. I only time I heard it was when we were looking for clips for the last show. And then you said it, and you know, you're doing a needle drop to find a clip. And you said, by the way, and there, I said, there it is, but I can't, I have not heard it on the show. I'm glad you brought this guy's documented it. I'm glad you brought this up because I'd even forgotten.

We talked about it and I, and I was the first one to say, I need to stop this. That is a very bad habit. If I, and I'm sure I'm saying it more than you are. Well, it's got to stop. I don't know. But the problem is I can't stop it because I can't hear it. I have yet to hear it on today's show. The last show, the show before that, I've never heard it. This stuff, like I said, by accident, that I'm, so I figured I'll throw a couple of these out there.

Cause these are the kinds of things you like to bitch and moan about. Uh, we, we try to correct it. We don't say at the end of the day anymore. No, no, pretty much. And that's being said all over the place. Still Mimi's bitching about it. She says, that's what you should bitch about the end of the day. And so that's being said all over. But the thing, the two I've noticed that have cropped up all over the place, especially on Fox. Yeah. Is to your point. Ooh, that's an ugly one.

And they're saying it constantly. And then I, I was listening to Nick Fuentes on the, uh, Tim pool cast. Yeah. And he's not only said to your point, he said it twice in one sentence. Well, he said to your point and to your point. Well, this is interesting. This is interesting. I'm looking at the being at.io clip genie. Yeah. And so you can search by an exact term, putting it in quotes, episode 1827. It was done 17 times, 1826, 18 times, 1825, 21 times. Ooh, uh, 1823, 13 times.

So we do seem to skip it from time to time. I don't see anything after 1827, which is interesting. I don't know why. Um, but these numbers are off the chart and I guarantee you it's me. Let me see. Let's uh, let's do a needle drop on this. Um, that's, that's interesting. I don't know why it wouldn't be after 1827 because we've had nine episodes since then. So I think it would have, would have been in there. Well, it should be because the guy caught it three episodes ago.

Hmm. Uh, so what is this? Let's listen to this. Oh, media could not be loaded. What? What's failing us? Something's failing. Oh, Linux. Hmm. No, it's not. Wait, let me finish my little complaint. Okay, sure. Yeah, I know you're not on Linux. I'm just joking yet. So to your point, and as you hear it all, it's a, to your point, to your point, why do they, why are they saying that so many? And here's the one that really goal.

It's just like, when did this show up as, as a throwaway, these are throwaway lines that people use for, can I just stop there? Let's just stop it to your point, to your point. When someone says to your point, it means shut up. I have a better point. I think that's what that means. Yeah. Well, maybe to your point. And the one that's always getting me now that it's just, cause I keep hearing it. It's they, they're the CNN, by the way, to your point, I, I blame on Fox.

You just said, by the way, I just, I just caught you saying it. Great, great five lashes. And so the one I'm hearing on CNN, is the other side, the other side, as in the other, back to you after we're going to come back from the other side, the other side, they keep referring when you go to a commercial break. Yeah. They throw to it as we're going to talk about this on the other side. Oh, that's Adam. Adam, hold off on that thought. We'll get to it on the other side.

Oh, that's their version of, we'll be back in two and two. That's Chuck. I guess, but it's the other side. Yeah. They'll keep saying the other side as though there's some side. So we've lost the art of the teas is what you're telling me. They don't know how to tease anything more. It's just, uh, yeah, that's definitely it. I would say, uh, that's a negative tease because it doesn't tease. Yeah. We'll get back to you on the other side. Oh man.

There's been so many who did no clicking, no clicking. Was that Stephen Colbert? No, I think that was Larry Sanders. Oh, you're right. It was done as a joke. Fake show. Yes. Fake show. Yeah. Cause people used to use the other, I've heard the other side used before a long time ago. It's just making a resurgence, but it's fake and gay. It's no good. I mean, the fact that you have to take a break anyway, just be like a podcast and just interrupt the conversation. Like most podcasts.

Oh, I mean the Joe Rogan show, it's, it's unlistenable on the podcast. It's, and it's in the YouTube too. Like just breaks in middle of a conversation. It's when someone, these are those insert inserts. Yes. DAI dynamic ad insertion. It just insert in the middle of word. No, they, no, it's usually when someone takes a pause and someone, I've heard it right in the middle of a word on some of these YouTube videos, not on his, but yeah, but he, cause his are inserted.

I think it's a separate system. It's not the YouTube system. I'm not sure, but it's annoying. And you know, this is the big, they just had the big podfest in Orlando podfest. You go into podfest. No, but it's podfest. I didn't even hear it. Oh, podfest. Everyone's going to podfest. Oh, it's a podfest. And we all talk, talk about AI at podfest. So did you get any reports? Yeah. You know, I was talking about AI and video, video, video is video. That's there's your report from podfest.

Um, but the other thing is, uh, listeners are getting tired of the ad load. The ad load. Ooh, I like that term. Ad load. Ad load. Ad load in my pants. Ad load. Yes. The ad load is too heavy. And what happens is you get the same ad load as AM or FM radio. That's where it's going because there's unlimited supply, which means you have to have more ad load to make the same amount of money. It's an, it's a spiral. It's a death spiral. It is a death spiral. And why need you need ads at all?

I have a report, which I have not seen anywhere. Uh, it's kind of relevant to Greenland, although not really part of the relevant to the narrative, but I did not know this happened. Around 3 PM on January 18th, the largest rare earth refining and processing plant in China exploded. It was the Baotou Baogong rare earth steel plate factory in inner Mongolia. The sound was deafening. And in an instant, a huge shock wave sent a circular storage tank flying into the air.

The tank shot up dozens of meters high before falling back down, leaving a massive crater. When it hit the ground, a white mushroom cloud rose into the sky visible for miles around. It happened during work hours with many people in the factory. Surveillance footage shows a bright flash of light bursting from inside the plant, followed by a loud thud. The area was instantly engulfed in thick smoke with steel beams, iron pieces and debris flying everywhere.

The explosion severely damaged the plant buildings. The control room collapsed and the iron door of the high pressure chamber was blown several meters away. Videos posted by netizens show a thick smoke lingering over the site. Nearby residential buildings had their windows shattered by the blast. Did you hear about this? No, but that had to be a hydrogen tank or something. It was circular. Well, you can see it shooting up in the air. It looked like a barrel size thing.

Yeah. What is the process of refining? I don't know. Now that you mention it, I'd be very interested in figuring it out because there's, I can imagine them using some gases to. Well, they're talking about high pressure door and all this stuff. Yeah, that would be hydrogen. Um, cause that's what we've always heard is that, um, the rare earth is like, okay, the rare earths aren't the problem. It's the processing of the rare earth. And this. Yeah. Pain in the ass.

It seems to be a dangerous pain in the ass. So it looks like it. Yeah. So, but if this is their largest rare earth processing, you'd think that might be important for the news. You think that they'd cover something like that? I have two zoomer Jen zoomer versus boomer stories. I'd like to share. Okay. Um, and we say this with love and respect for our zoomers. We just want to try and educate you. We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you. Uh, I would run a sales team for a midsize.

The company that provides payroll and benefits surface services exclusively in the U S recently, I was on a zoom call with one of my gen Zed reps and a prospective client during the conversation became clear that the prospect also needed services in Canada. Since we only operate in the United States, I ended the call early afterwards. My gen Zed rep asked why we couldn't help them. I explained that Canada has different employment laws and operates in a different currency.

She asked what I meant by different currency. Exactly my response. So I clarified that Canada uses its own money. She was genuinely surprised and asked if other countries also don't use us dollars and instead have their own currency. It was an unexpected reminder of how different generational experiences can shape baseline knowledge. This has to be an education issue. Oh, it has to be. I don't, it has nothing to do with the generation.

It's the, I mean, that's just, but she's a rep, she's a sales rep. she's got far enough along in her life that she's got a real job doing real work and making real money. Yeah. But she doesn't think that she somehow thinks that the U S dollar is the world's currency, which in a funny way it is, but not the way she thinks. No. Well, it soon will be once the stable coin gambit kicks in. We'll see. The other one was a personal experience and I'm not laughing. yeah, you are. Yeah. I'm laughing.

So I'm having coffee with Parker. Parker's 30. He's here in Fredericksburg. Then, you know, I, we have coffee once a week and he sent a donation in a couple of weeks ago. I remember sending $300. Is he a Zed? He's a 30. He's a zetter. And he says, by the way, I can prove that John is lying. He uses, he uses his phone all the time. I'm like, he does. No, I don't believe that.

Yes, he does because he even has on his email, it says sent from his phone, which is, you know, I've been, been complaining about people with sent from my iPhone. Yeah. So I said, um, let me pull up an email. Oh, you mean it says sent from his Bakelite phone? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one, one letter at a time. He had to put that in there. I had to show him a picture of what a Bakelite phone is. Oh, oh, oh, he says, oh, okay. I get it.

Another thing that is just, it's lost the history, the concept of a Bakelite phone. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like that. I kind of like that. Even if it said landline, it would not be the phone that he's talking about. No, but it says, yeah, I can see this being lost. It's gotta be lost. It's an inside joke for old, older people. Let's face it. Yeah, it is. It is. Um, well, we added to the list of things that the Zedders need to get their act together about.

Well, I don't know how important it is for them to know that, but I think it, it's, it's good. Some for general, all round education, probably just to know these things, just maybe me. Um, and then another local story, which, uh, we have covered before. I think it happened around the COVID era. Uh, I find this to be somewhat concerning as does our agriculture guy here in Texas. Where did this come from? What is this for? That's the reaction from Michelle shoulders.

After an unexpected envelope showed up in her mailbox filled with mystery seeds, being a package, you want to open it up and see what's in there. And then there's these seeds and you'd like, where did these come from? These are the ones that were being delivered to people. That's exactly what we got. Shoulders runs little Millican farms. And she tells me this wasn't a one -time delivery. She's now received several packages, each one raising more questions.

There's no identification to know anything about them. So it's kind of scary. Those unanswered questions, according to Texas agriculture commissioner, Sid Miller are exactly the problem. We call those mystery seeds because we don't know what they are. Miller tells me that seeds come directly from China, unlabeled and unsolicited could be a COVID variant.

It could be, uh, anthrax or rising or cholera or some kind of other bacteria or virus, uh, that you can't see with the naked eye since February of last year, the state has collected more than 1100 seed packets. Just this week, Miller's office confirmed three new reports, 12 seed packets sent to residents in Waco. What if your kids broke into it and it, or your dog broke into it and it was something that was poisonous. You don't know.

The Texas department of agriculture is urging Texans not to open plant or throw them away. Instead report the packages immediately. They're not sending these over so we can improve our crop system. Uh, you know, there's something behind it. And I hope we find out what it is. Preferably. It's not going to be anything that's going to be really detrimental to us.

Yeah, I know this happens, but it's, I find this annoying that the Chinese are doing this and they can't even identify what these seeds are. Oh, please. What? This, there is no way they can't identify this. Do they take, did anybody take them to the university of Texas in Austin and maybe to a plant guy and say, what are these seeds? And maybe grow a sample of them. So there was no reporting on this. It was, I know about this. There's been no reporting in any way. It's just a big scare.

I'm scare him. Ooh, the Chinese are sending a seize. Maybe it's a terrible weed or some invasive species. I'd like to know specifically what it is. It is something. Well, we have the same complaint. That was the agriculture guy who was talking about cholera. That guy was an agriculture guy. That guy there, he was, I don't know. It could be a cholera seed. Could be a COVID seed. Could be COVID seed. You put it down and you get COVID. What? That guy, that guy nailed it. Do more of him. He's good.

More of him. Come on, do more. Well, I can talk like this all you want, but it's, I'm telling you, these seeds are no good because they're coming in from China. It could be anything. You you're hired. The guy was literally sitting in his truck doing that. It could be anything. I know. I'm in full agreement with you. It's very annoying. Very, very annoying. Anyway, let's see. I do have, just because this is, I think this is being misreported, is this board of peace that Rubio seems to be running.

To me, it feels like this is going to be a new United Nations type of organization that they're setting up. I have a clip of him at Davos. He had a rather long Davos Davos here. This is not just a board of peace. This is a board of action. Action. Just like president Trump is a president of action. Action. A lot of times people like to get speeches.

I've been to many of these forums and they're not useless and they're not, you know, not, they have utility in many cases, but oftentimes international affairs, we often find ourselves at events where people are reading these scripted statements, these strongly worded letters that they put out, but no action, nothing happens. This is a group of leaders that are about action. And the president United States is a president of action of getting things done.

And today is the beginning of that, of a new era and a new stage that we think is so important as a model to the rest of the world of what is possible. And clearly the focus is right now on Gaza and making sure that the plan that's about to be presented to you here today, this vision for the future of Gaza, this vision for the future of the region is not just possible and promising. It is our destiny.

If we put the time and the effort that it requires, as I know this board will do, but I also think it will serve as an example of what's possible in other parts of the world. So here's the focus. So this is our audience. Our audience in the troll room is like a billion dollar entry. What a joke. Yep. Yep. Yep. Heil Rubio. Heil. It's like, just listen to him. He's completely brainwashed. Our vision for somebody else's region. I mean, this is, I think this is a good idea.

I like this idea of a board of peace circumvent the whole United Nations circus, which it is and have a bunch of dudes from countries sitting together and going like, what are we going to do here? Like star fleet command your thoughts, Mr. Dvorak. I'm not going to argue at all because I think the United Nations should be folded.

Yes. I never used to think that when I was in college at the university of California and we had a right wing, the bookshop, we had the John Birch society bookshop in the nearby town. You racist, racist. And a pharmacist that had bumper stickers all over his windows that were all Birch bumper stickers. And looking back on him, he was right. Yeah. Including get the U S out of the UN. Right. Yeah. Oh, that was, that was another bumper sticker. I recall that. I remember that bumper sticker.

And the, there was two of the anti -UN one was get the U S out of the UN. And the other one was calm. U N ism was another bumper sticker that they had. I wish I had those collected those. Those are pretty funny. Can you put your hands on them? No, no, I didn't think so. All right, let's wind this down, Johnny boy. I'm sure you have something else fun that we can talk about before we go. Well, I have a, uh, I have the Barry Weiss is a spook clip that showed up. Ooh, Ooh, she's a spook.

Actually a couple of clips. These are from Tim pool. This is, uh, uh, Tim pool is on Tim pool. So, Oh, the circle jerk continues. Yes. And yes, it does. But Tim, but I, but this little lecture on Barry Weiss, I thought was good. But before we play that, yes, I want to play a very short Tim pool clip. Tell me what you think makes him sound like a douche bag on this. Tim pool poker clip, but they're both really cool. Even, you know, someone told Ken that I was bad mouthing him. I'm like, never.

I was like, I said, you were my best friend. He's a liberal. He doesn't like me. He's always complaining about the videos I make, but yet we joke with each other. we get it. We get along. He's like, we talk more than anybody when we're at the poker room. And then, uh, South never says anything about politics. Cause he knows it's going to go off, you know, but it's, it's good fun. Everybody gets along. Funny story is we were playing poker. It's a two, five games.

So it's a thousand dollar buy-in and we're all talking politics. A thousand dollar buy-in would be the douche bag clip. A thousand dollars. It's a thousand dollar buy-in. I just slammed that down whenever I have to baby. It's a thousand dollar buy-in. I'm playing poker for a thousand dollars because I get my money. I get paid. Actually kind of misleading, but, but I thought it was douchey, but here is a, they go back and forth.

And then all of a sudden out of the blue, Fuentes, who's in the group, he's just one of the many people in that, in this discussion on Tim pool, IRL, which is on rumble. Uh, listen, listen to this though. This was interesting. Sean, McGuire, Bill Ackman. These guys are not white nationalists. Now they're, they're like nineties liberals and they get mad at Trump when he wants mass deportations, you know?

So it's not like they, it's like they became base defenders of Western civilization, unless you're Sean McGuire who said we should self-consciously pretend to be defenders of Western civilization because Normie Republicans don't give a shit about Israel. But if we gesture towards the West, then we're going to get them on our side. So I think it's a very subversive when you really peel back the layers, Barry Weiss, your Amazonia, they only care about Israel. She's an Israeli spy.

Your Amazonia lives in Israel. That is what they are about. So Barry Weiss is an Israeli spy. Oh yeah. I mean, if you know her pedigree, absolutely. What is it? So after high school, she went to Israel and did a fellowship and said, she learned how important Israel is. She goes to Columbia University where she starts up the David project and tries to get all these pro-Palestine professors fired in the Middle East studies department.

Goes back to Israel, studies under Yoram Hazoni at the Shalem Center. Then she gets hired right out of that program by Bret Stephens, who's like one of the most well-known neocons. Got to start at Jerusalem Post. Then Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal. He picks her up as her mentor. Then he takes her to the New York Times. That's where she gets her start. Then she starts Free Press and she gets money from Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale. Joe Lonsdale is like a super Zionist.

Is Peter Thiel? Oh yeah. He's in business with Alex Karp, who said his biggest fear is Christian nationalists are going to defenestrate him because he's a Jew. Defenestrate. Yeah, throw him out of a window. I don't know if she's a spy other than an activist. You know, he's, he had, just off the top of his head he rattled off all this material. I just think. You're a fan boy. You love, you love, what's his name? Fuentes. You love him. You love him. You're a fan boy.

I think he's fabulous, but he's, you know, but I think he might be a spook. Fuentes? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he went on a back and forth with Tucker about, you're a fed, I'm a fed, you're a fed. I thought you were a fed. I thought you were a fed. And Tucker into the mic says, no, I can tell you, I'm not a fed. Fuentes never denied it. They're recruiting him pretty young. He's good. He's good. But you know, spies, spooks don't typically have the public jobs. They're spook adjacent. Yeah, okay.

You could be different. It's different. And she might be too. Yeah. I mean, for all I know, you might be an asset. I don't know. I guarantee I'm not. Are you? Well, that's what I would say. If I was an asset. I'm not an asset. No, I'm not. You don't. And you know, I'm not. Yeah. Do I? You know, I'm not. What's the correct answer? Yes. I know you're not my handler. I'm going to show my spook 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. Yeah, and we do have a few more people to thank. Spooks are not spooks. Probably not spooks because they're not donating that much. But they're donating a lot, especially Dame Rita, who's coming up on the list. And Adam's going to read the list off, starting with her. Well, yes, I am, John. We're right back on the other side. And Adam's right now. He's going to do it. That's right. We're back on the other side with Dame Rita from Sparks, Nevada, 13333.

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The Britallian is hosting it, so I'm just hoping we get a meetup report from that Sao Paulo meetup. Of course, these are the meetups where you go to meet people who listen to the show. They're all over the world, as you can tell. And we love it when you send us a meetup report, include your server. Of course, you can find all of these at noagendameetups.com. These meetups are important for your sanity, for your health, and for your protection. Because connection gives you protection.

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Wherever you are, your house, local bar, just get it together. Announce it. We'll announce it on the show and send us a meetup report. noagendameetups.com. They are always fun, always a party. Coming up, some A.I. slop for the end of show mixes, of course. And we have John's tip of the day, a big favorite amongst all the fans. But before we do that, we do like to pause and find something we're going to play at the very end of the show. It's known as the end of show ISO. I do have three here.

I keep going first. I mean, do you want to do yours or are you still like I like you going first? OK, well, I will do mine first. Here we go. Thank you so much. OK, that's just kind of generic. Thank you so much. Nothing special. I have this one. Oh, that's wonderful. This one, I think, is actually a winner. Freedom of speech. I thought that was pretty good. It's got to do with the show, but OK. Well, they don't all have to do with the show. We just made that up as some bogus rule.

I've got three, too. OK. Let's start with belly. That podcast was better than a slow belly rub. See, that guy's voice is getting really old on me. I'm not going to use it anymore. OK, good. Missed that for today. OK. Darn doodle. Gully darn doodle. What a great podcast. It's the same guy. I said I'm not going to use him anymore. OK. How many times do I have to tell you? Yeah. Except for today. OK. Here he is again. This should have won the Golden Globe.

Well, since it's the last time we'll ever hear him, I'm going to go with that last one. Although I thought... Freedom of speech. Although I thought that was a little nicer. It's surprising. This is a woman screaming. Yeah, well, there you go. Hey, everybody. Before we leave, it's time for John's tip of the day. Green glass for you and me. Just a tip with JCD. And sometimes Adam. Now, I feel obliged to do a Costco wine tip about once a month. Yay. Costco wine tip.

Everybody loves a Costco wine tip. The thing is that, you know, you have to pick wines that you know they have a ton of. And since they had pallets and pallets and pallets of this wine, then they were discounting it to $6.98 or $0.99, something like that. Wow. $6.99. Cheap. It's a California Cabernet. It's not really a winery. It's just one of these, what you'd call, one of these wines somebody put together and put a label on it. They made it themselves. Oh, it's a blend. Well, it's not a blend.

It's Cabernet Sauvignon. But it's like a – it's not from a winery. It's from a packaging group called Precision. It's basically leftovers. Not necessarily leftover. But you could say that. And sometimes the leftover wines are really expensive and you can't sell them. Well, you would never steer us wrong. So, no matter what it is, it's going to be good. I liken the price point. It's actually quite good for $6.99, whatever. And it's called Method. Method. Meth. It's Method. Meth. Meth in a bottle.

Method. Method. M-E-T-H-O-D. Cabernet Sauvignon, California, which means that they brought in grapes from God knows where everywhere. But it's a mix of appellations, obviously. And it's 2022. And they had just tons of this stuff. And I said, they had a couple of different wines in the big batches. The one was $19. And I said, you know, this audience, they like the cheap stuff. Can this be good? So, I bought a bottle to see. I was quite surprised on how good it was. It's big.

It doesn't have mega purple in it. You could tell by the cork. So, it hasn't been jacked up with a bunch of chemicals. It seems to be extremely well made. It has a nice finish, a nice flavor. For the price, it's ridiculously good. It's cheaper than those Bordeaux's they've been pushing. Yeah, it's cheaper than that Modavi stuff, too. I just bought two bottles of the Modavi at the HEB. They were restocking. Yeah, the Modavi stuff is good. This is the cheapest we've had so far as a tip.

I mean, your wine tips really knock it out of the park every single time. Thank you. You should just do wine tips all the time, as far as I'm concerned. But it's kind of hard to do two a week, I guess. Is it? Well, yeah. Because without going to more expensive stuff. Like, once you get to $25, $30 bottles. It's hard to find $6.99 wine that's really good, as opposed to finding, yeah, $40 wine that's really good. I can do that. But nobody wants to hear that. No, no, we don't.

That's like a $1,000 TV. Nobody wants to hear that. We got pushback on that TV. Excuse me. It comes in tight. I love this tip. Tina's going to Costco, I think, this week, depending on the snowpocalypse and the ice storm of the century. But I will definitely ask her to pick. Does it come in the individual bottles? Or can you pick up a six-pack? No, it's the individual bottles. But you might want to pick up two or three. Six-pack. A six-pack. Give me a six-pack of that stuff, baby.

It's good stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, where else do you get the tip of the day? Only on No Agenda. Just the tip of the JCD. And sometimes add-on. Created by Dana Brunetti. Yes, noagendafund.com, tipoftheday.net. Great tips. Great tips. In fact, I think it's a bonus for people who stick around to the end of the show. If you just jump to the end to get the tip, shame on you! You will get coal in your stocking next year. Which brings us to the end of this No Agenda episode.

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