1838 - "Coup Afoot"

Summary

No Agenda Show – Episode 1838: “Coup Afoot”

January 29, 2026 – Hosted by Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak

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Episode Overview

In this densely packed episode, Adam and John deconstruct the week’s media, exploring manipulations within TV news, the Minneapolis unrest, the political heat around ICE, and the ongoing cultural, geopolitical, and technological shenanigans shaping public perception. They touch on persistent themes: fear-mongering in mainstream news, the humor and perils of AI tools, influencer economics, political polarization, and wry insights about America’s social, tech, and political climate.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Production & AI Tool Struggles

• John laments his near-migration to Linux for production, explaining pitfalls with Audacity and Hindenburg Pro’s recent “deterioration.”
  • “I want to be free, Man Libre. I want to be free of the corporate overlords.” (John, 03:18)
• Talk of open-source AI voice tools versus paid services like 11labs:
  • “Once you get your five voices and try to swap one of them out is like pulling teeth.” (Adam, 05:43)
• The duo jests about the endless stream of well-meant but convoluted tech answers from their circles.

2. Media Deconstruction: The “Three By Three” Network News Openers

• John revives his classic comparison of TV news “teasers” from NBC, CBS, and ABC, focusing on production tone, melodramatic delivery, and what’s chosen versus what’s omitted.
  • NBC “wins” for suspenseful vibrance; CBS is “sabotaging” itself with lackluster presentation; ABC is forgettable middle-ground.
• Memorable quote:
  • “We're all gonna die. Airplanes are crashing. Your pipes are bursting. Pretty was a horrible man 11 days before. But puppies got saved. I'm telling you, in America, puppies rule the roost.” (John, 17:29)
• The hosts highlight how fear—storms, violence, disease—is the daily emotional hook of mainstream news.

3. Minneapolis Unrest & “Color Revolution” Rhetoric

• Adam pushes back on claims that it’s a “color revolution,” arguing the unrest is a localized, well-funded agitation drawing on the same networks as BLM.
• Skepticism towards crisis actor narratives and the recycling of protest tactics.
  • “It's not a color revolution. You can't do a color revolution in America that easily. Minneapolis has... activated people.” (Adam, 26:50)
• Discussion of public being “spun up” by both disinformation and fear, and how that’s rapidly becoming the official explanation for every event.

4. ICE, Congress, and the Language of Incitement

• Deep dives into semantics in news reporting—how verb choice (“blasting,” “fixated on”) shapes narratives around figures like Trump and Ilhan Omar.
• Adam and John notice overt insinuations:
  • “So he said something just hours before the assault, which to me is insinuating Trump motivated someone to do something.” (Adam, 43:08)
• Clips of escalating political rhetoric (Nuremberg trials, threats against Trump) and Democrats’ performative outrage.
• Political gameplay with ICE budget and shutdown: the narrative is less about immigration than using ICE as a proxy for “Trump hate.”

5. Influencers, Audience Capture, and Agency

• The phenomenon of social media followers demanding their influencers take political positions; “audience capture” and its effect on creators’ mental health.
• Adam playfully ponders a new business: becoming the government’s middlemen for distributing influencer dollars.
  • “We take the money from the government and dole it out... We could be the middlemen. We take a normal 20% cut.” (Adam, 59:02)

6. Media Fear-Mongering: The New Virus Teaser

• NBC’s exaggerated “Nipah virus” coverage (“two cases in India”) treated as pandemic-level news, revealing the endless cycle of fear-mongering.
• Memorable quote:
  • “It’s spreading fear. It is spreading fear through your news media. That’s what they do.” (Adam, 68:25)

7. Tech & Social Media Lawsuits: “Cigarettes For The Eyes”

• Coverage of lawsuits against social media platforms for alleged addictiveness and mental health harms, compared to past tobacco litigation.
• John and Adam mock the claim:
  • “Cigarettes for the eyes!” (77:08)

8. Geopolitics: Iran, Iraq, China, Ukraine

• Quick hits on U.S.–Iran tension, anti-U.S. billboards in Tehran, skepticism of war hype, and U.S. election meddling accusations in Iraq.
• John's theory: the recent Chinese military reshuffle might have been “coup prevention.”
  • “I think there was a coup afoot.” (John, 99:09)

9. Cultural & Social Observations

• Jokes about crisis actors, influencer burnout, and audience capture.
• Candace Owens’ malapropisms and the viral clip of an Arizona GOP figure connecting “the Jews” to everything.
• Nicki Minaj’s public support for Trump and Kanye’s staged apology.
• The “Doomsday Clock” and the cyclical nature of cultural and advertising fads.

10. Listener Support & Community

• Extended segment thanking donors and new knights/dames.
• Meetup announcements and banter about social meetups’ importance in maintaining the No Agenda “nation.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Mainstream News Teasers:
  “If you’re not glued to the set after that, you don’t know what you’re doing.” (Adam, 17:48)
• On Media Fear-Mongering:
  “This is what they do. That’s all that they have. Fear. Fear. Fear. Yes. Make it all fear. That’s the whole idea.” (Adam, 69:25)
• On Political Rhetoric:
  “[They say] There should be something equivalent to the Nuremberg Trial when this is all over. Once we’re back in power—which we will be—we’re going to hang you.” (Scott Galloway clip, 39:15)
• On Social Media Lawsuits:
  “The company recognized that, in a sense, they were cigarettes for the eyes.” (Lawyer on CBS report, 77:03)
• On Conspiracies:
  “I can’t get into the conspiracies like I used to. I’m just like, no.” (Adam, 29:55)

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• Linux/Production woes – 00:39–03:40
• AI voices/tools rant – 04:28–06:45
• “Three by Three” News Teasers Breakdown – 12:01–24:00
• Minneapolis/Color Revolution Discussion – 25:57–34:58
• Crisis actor skepticism – 31:17–32:40
• Incitement in media coverage of Omar/Trump – 41:51–44:40
• Influencers, audience capture, government ad dollars – 55:07–62:02
• NBC’s virus fear-mongering – 66:02–69:25
• Tech lawsuits and “cigarettes for the eyes” – 76:06–78:03
• Iran, geopolitics, military armada talk – 92:15–97:31
• China “coup afoot” theory – 99:00–101:04
• Listener/Donor segment (including birthdays, new knights) – 131:13–169:32
• Meetup Announcements – 170:01–172:35
• End-of-show mix and tips – 173:12–177:06

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Tone and Style

• Witty, sardonic, and sarcastic: The exchanges are laced with jabs at media, tech, government, and even themselves.
• Language: Retains the original’s blend of irreverence with bursts of insight.
• Attribution: Adam and John maintain distinct voices: Adam as the Texas-based ex-MTV “Podfather,” John as the “old curmudgeon” from Silicon Valley.

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Final Note

This episode offers a rich, sprawling take on the week’s narratives, revealing how media and power broker stories are manufactured, how conspiracy and cynicism have saturated modern discourse, and how real connections (e.g., No Agenda meetups) counteract propaganda and divisiveness.

For more, visit:

• noagendashow.net
• noagendameetups.com
• noagendadonations.com

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“…But puppies got saved. I’m telling you, in America, puppies rule the roost! …” (John, 17:29)

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Transcript

[A]

Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak, it's Thursday, January 29, 2026.

[B]

This is your award winning Gibbonation Media Assassination Episode 1838.

[A]

This is no agenda.

[B]

Observing the ops and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA region number six in the morning everybody.

[A]

I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I have to tell you, I'll be at the Oakland meetup this Saturday. Thanks for asking. I'm John C. Dvorak.

[B]

It's Crackbot and Buz. Oh man, I was so close this morning.

[A]

To what?

[B]

To doing the show on Linux.

[A]

I was wondering, I.

[B]

So close. But when I sat down this morning to. Because I've been using it for the past couple of days, the production workflow for me, because I use Hindenburg Pro to do clips using Audacity. What did they do to that program?

[A]

It's been slowly deteriorating.

[B]

They screwed.

[A]

You have to have an old version.

[B]

I don't, I. Well, I didn't know there was an older. I mean I don't know if there's older versions available, but you can't scrub properly, you know, because when I'm, when I'm doing scrub, so you have the, you have the clip and then you hit a key and then it plays forward and you can hit another key and it goes faster or you hit the shift key and it goes slower and then you can hit an in point and an out point and then X and then you cut it. And I mean I go super fast. This was a factor.

[A]

Why is it called scrub?

[B]

Because it's analogous to the old scrubbing of the tapes across the head.

[A]

Scrub, Vroom.

[B]

Like that. Surely you've heard of this term scrubbing?

[A]

No, never.

[B]

So there was that and then Audacity, just like, oh, I'm just going to crash. Okay, I can't. So now I have to find something.

[A]

I'm just going to crash.

[B]

Yeah, it's like I'm just going to crash.

[A]

It's like your old buddy from college.

[B]

Exactly. I'm just going to crash here. I'm just not going to work. And then. So I'm like production wise, I'm just not there. The playout system is good. I was ready to use that, but I just could not get into a production flow and I know everyone's going to tell me, oh, you should use Reaper. Just run it on wine.

[A]

Okay, run on wine. There you go. That's what you should do.

[B]

So I've got to find, if I don't have the right tools Then I can't do it. But the. The playout system was working pretty well.

[A]

How close are you?

[B]

Well, I mean, it's really just fixing the recording and editing and I think I'll be there, I think. I don't know. It's quite amazing.

[A]

Why do you have to do the recording and you're not doing any recording and editing during the show?

[B]

No, but I mean, you want to.

[A]

Switch completely over, so you only have to. You don't want to even boot the Windows box.

[B]

Exactly. No, it's a separate. This is a whole. No, I don't want to be on the Windows box at all.

[A]

At all.

[B]

I want to be free, Man Libre. I want to be free of the corporate overlords.

[A]

Well, I was mentioning that I want to. I'm going to be at the Oakland Meetup, which should be at Violeta's in Oakland. The pizza place?

[B]

Yes.

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On Saturday.

[B]

Well, that's related.

[A]

And so people should think about donating.

[B]

Oh, I see. I'm sorry. I'm thinking about Linux. You're thinking about donating. Okay.

[A]

Yeah, well, there's two things going on at the same time. Your little toying with your little computer is one thing, but I did.

[B]

I think I did get the robot working. Let me check. Robot, Are you there? Can you hear me? Are you working?

[C]

Yes, I'm here and working.

[A]

I can hear you clearly. Slowly.

[B]

Well, give her a break. Okay, are you ready?

[A]

Is she on the Linux box? Is that what you're talking to?

[C]

I'm always ready. What's on your mind?

[B]

Are you on the Linux box? Are you ready to go?

[C]

I'm in AI operating from the cloud. And yes, I'm ready for whatever you need.

[B]

Okay, well, so whenever we need her, she's there. Now.

[A]

What happened to her in the meantime? Was she gone?

[B]

She was on vacation. She was dating the Grok agent.

[A]

She sounds nicer.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, I actually. I also tried to load that Open source thing. Yeah, that. That didn't work out so well. Remember the open source version of 11 labs?

[A]

Yeah, the one you were going on and on about.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I have not succeeded in getting that working yet. You know, you get it all installed and it says I can't find the gpu. Well, I don't have a gpu.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

Oh, well, okay. And then we'll have to do some RAM and convert it to the cpu and I gave up. But we'll get there. We'll get there, we'll get there. I know you're disappointed because you just want to make Your end of show isos with my bot. I got you. We'll get there.

[A]

Well, I'm not unhappy with the 11 labs, except it's so limiting. I can choose from five voices. And then here's the other thing to swap. They have a library of thousands of voices, but if you got the free version, you get to use five of them.

[B]

You get to use the dinky ones.

[A]

And you can swap them out. Yeah, but once you get your five voices and try to swap one of them out as like pulling teeth. It's like, okay, well I want to put this one. Well, okay, well maybe it gives you a wrong screen and then you don't have the right sliders. And what happened to my sliders? And then it's like one thing after another.

[B]

It's amazing. This AI stuff is so. It's. And now everyone's sending me this. You got to try this Claude bot. Cloud bot, man. You got to get a cloud bot. So a Claude bot apparently is an open source program that you run on a computer. You know, just run it on any computer and.

[A]

Yeah, no, I've. The guys that you're portraying here are very familiar to me.

[B]

Oh, yes. Do you know them? They're my friends.

[A]

Just do this, just do that. Oh, why don't you do this? This. It's just so easy.

[B]

It'll work, no problem. You know, the Claude bot and so you can tell the cl it'll be like your friend and your Claude bot will do.

[A]

All this stuff is already too much of a friend.

[B]

Well, this is C, L, A, W, D. Claude.

[A]

Oh, another Claude. Oh, we got Claude and Claude.

[B]

Well, the Claude bot communicates with your other AI accounts and, and then it puts a really friendly face on it. And, and you can say, hey, you know, make a reply to this email. Can you imagine? You imagine how that's going to work out in. Oh yeah, you use this. You know, you might need a $200 a month account, but you're going to love it. Yeah, I don't think so.

[A]

200 bucks a month?

[B]

Yeah, because of the amount of cycles a month. Yes, yes.

[A]

You want the $2400 a year so you can have something. Do a crappy email.

[B]

I can get that.

[A]

You could be far easier. You could do it yourself. You can hire somebody for 24. A couple $24,000 a year. I can hire some somebody.

[B]

2400.

[A]

Lois, can you quickly, you know, hello, hello. The 2400 would be great.

[B]

It's 2400, not 24,000.

[A]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[B]

Well, but I think we can get some Somalis for that. No problem.

[A]

2400. I can still get an Indian. I can have it done remotely. I can have two Indians welcome. Two Indians working in Bombay for 2400.

[B]

Welcome to the racist no agenda show, everybody. And by the way, John, I appreciate racist.

[A]

I'm going with them. Globalism.

[B]

I appreciate you, neighbor. This is the new thing now in Minneapolis when you're out there protesting. Hey, neighbor. I appreciate you, neighbor. I appreciate you being here.

[A]

I noticed this because there was your.

[B]

Not my buddy. I got no buddies.

[A]

It's true. I'm trying to be nice. Your buddy James o' Keefe, who almost got killed.

[B]

Oh, they got a threat. He didn't almost get killed.

[A]

Well, it was cute. It was cute. But whatever the case was, he was being called neighbor. And I could see. You see that it's going on some sort of code.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's what used to be comrade. Now we just say neighbor.

[A]

Yeah. Wow.

[B]

Hello. I caught that one.

[A]

I caught that one right away. Yeah, you're right. Exactly, comrade.

[B]

Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Hey, comrade. And, well, comrade Bruce is. Is all over this. I don't know if you heard it yet, but here's a quickie report. More than 30 years after Bruce Springsteen won an Oscar for his song Streets.

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Of Philadelphia, he has written a version called Streets of Minneapolis.

[B]

I hear your voiceteen says it's dedicated to quote the people of Minneapolis, our.

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Innocent immigrant neighbors, and in memory of.

[B]

Alex Preddy and Renee Goode.

[A]

Pretty good.

[B]

You gotta. You gotta listen to a little bit of this song. Because even just the first.

[A]

When did he become a communist?

[B]

Oh, once he met Patty Scalfa, as far as I'm concerned. Listen to this. You just gotta listen to the first version of Flame fought fire and ice.

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Neathan occupiers boots.

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King Trump's private army from the Trump. King for King Trump's private army.

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Trump.

[B]

Yeah. King Trump's private army. Listen again. This is great. City of flame fought fire and ice.

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Neath an occupier's boots.

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King Trump's private army from the dhs, guns belted to their coats Came to.

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Minneapolis to enforce the law or so their story goes.

[B]

Oh, brother. Against smoking. You know, it's. This is the worst thing that I think he could have done. He was already kind of out of. Just off the reservation. He's living in Los Angeles still. I think that's what happened to him. No offense. Angelenos.

[A]

Is that where he's living?

[B]

Yeah. I believe so. I think he moved to Los Angeles like 10 years ago.

[A]

He's the guy from Jersey. Why would a guy from Jersey move to Los Angeles?

[B]

Because all the cool people are there, man. That's where you hang out. Hey, you know what? He might even do an appearance on the Grammys this, this Sunday. Wouldn't that be great?

[A]

I hope he sings that song.

[B]

Yeah, me too. Me too. Absolutely.

[A]

I don't think they'd let him.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, are you kidding? Of course they will.

[A]

Well, you know that. I don't know because the way it seems, if you're having the meeting, it's like, well, can we go that far? You think? Wow, first fuck Trump. Well, yeah, but can we go that far? It's maybe it's a little too much. I can see him backing off of it.

[B]

It's on CBS, I think, isn't it? Is it cbs?

[A]

Oh, CBS has lost control. Oh, hold on, let's see.

[B]

Wait, let's see if the robot knows. Hold on a second. What network does the Grammy Awards air on this weekend?

[C]

The Grammy Awards are typically broadcast on cbs.

[A]

That didn't tell us that. The answer.

[B]

That's not an answer. Stupid robot. Yeah.

[A]

Well, that brings me to a three by three.

[B]

Oh, everybody, here we go. Three by three. Are you ready? Experiment by jcb. Well, let's compare hearing stories from abc, CBS and NBC. The never ending. That's right. We got the top three news networks. We got. Do you have that new guy? The new guy on the CBS Dokopol. Is that his name? Dok.

[A]

So he. So, so these. I used to do this, if you remember, about five, six years ago. I used to do these every so often. This is the three or three of the openers.

[B]

Oh yes.

[A]

The lively teasing open.

[B]

Yes. With Nat Pops and all kinds of groovy stuff.

[A]

Yeah, they got, they got the whole thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, I got the three networks openers from yesterday. It's all the news stories that they think's important. They don't talk about it. I got an Iraq clip that's no one's reporting on from ntd. I got a bunch of clips on today's shows. None of them will be in these teasers. No, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna explain what, what you're gonna hear. There's if. And you can look at the length of each of the teasers.

[B]

Yeah, I'm looking. NBC is the longest, CBS is the shortest. And ABC is right in the middle.

[A]

Right. And that's. And the quality matches that.

[B]

What the longer the lower the quality.

[A]

No, the longer, the better the quality, the higher production values.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

The long two minute tease, which is what it is. Yeah, by NBC, is well produced. You know, you got NBC Universal, they got their Hollywood people doing, you know, they get, they get the showbiz pizzazz. I'm telling you the story in advance.

[B]

By the way, official term. The showbiz pizzazz. Yes. You don't know, you don't know what scrub means, but you know pizzazz. Okay.

[A]

Pizzazz.

[B]

Pizzazz, baby.

[A]

Yeah. And so I also know the word bellotto.

[B]

Yes, we know. I know that word too.

[A]

Yeah, you would. So you, you have that and then you have cbs. I'm sorry, then abc, which came in second. It's not as good. It doesn't have as much pizzazz. It doesn't have as much production value. They're kind of. But they do have Disney behind them. So there is some show biz pizzazz.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But, but, but they're phoning it in.

[B]

Okay, so who do we.

[A]

They just don't really.

[B]

Who do we phone?

[A]

It's just, they don't have. And then, and then last. They're sabotaging this show.

[B]

Abc.

[A]

CBS is last.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

No, ABC is faxing it in, but it's still got a little zing. But CBS is, there's nothing they don't have. It's just not even, they're not even trying. Paramount either doesn't know what they're doing or, or they're, or the. I think it's the staff of, of CBS News. I think CBS News organization is sabotaging their shows so they can embarrass and Barry Weiss. And Barry Weiss, yes. So I will start with the best one which is a real teaser, a genuine old fashioned tease that gets you into the news, into the mood.

[B]

In the mood.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All right.

[A]

NBC. Are unfolding across the south. Hundreds of thousands without power in dangerously cold weather. The are sliding off an icy road, piling up in a ditch. An arena roof collapsing under heavy snow. Power crews hanging from a helicopter to restore electricity and pipes bursting inside the home of a family. We into restore electricity and pipes bursting inside the home of a family. We introduced you to to last night. How they're surviving. Plus attacking a bomb cyclone the areas.

[B]

That could see even more snow.

[A]

The new video just in showing ICU nurse Alex Preddy in an altercation with federal officers days before he was killed. Plus the two officers involved in the deadly shooting now placed on leave. And the attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. What we just learned was sprayed on her. Also tonight, the man accused of murdering his wife saw so he could be with the family's au pair testifying in his own defense. You'll see that husband take the stand. What he told the jury. FBI agents raiding a Georgia election center. What we're learning about the connection to the president's claims about the 2020 election. NBC News exclusive. The Runway close call. A Southwest jet nearly colliding with a private plane. You'll hear the frantic call inside the control tower that prevented disaster. Growing virus concerns. US Health officials monitoring an infectious outbreak overseas. Deadlier than Covid airport. Screening passengers. What we're learning. Wild U haul chase thieves taking police on a daring pursuit through L. A. Ditching their van and diving right into a getaway car. And there's good news tonight. Puppies rescued from a raging house fire. And the dog finding his forever home with the firefighter that saved him. Nightly news starts right now.

[B]

Wow.

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Nightly news with Tom Yamas.

[C]

We're all gonna die.

[B]

I mean, they, they saved me at the end with the puppy story. That is classic. Could not be any but any better.

[A]

You do dynamite.

[B]

We're all gonna die. Airplanes are crashing. Your pipes are bursting. Pretty was a horrible man 11 days before. But puppies got saved. It's a. I'm telling you, in America, puppies rule the roost. That's why we have the sad puppy. Puppies are good.

[A]

So you heard the best of the best. And NBC nails it. I mean, if you, if you're not glued to the set after that, you don't know what you're doing.

[B]

Okay, I'm pissed. I missed it. I can't believe I didn't watch Tom Yamas give me the puppy story. This is great stuff.

[A]

So Tom Yamis wins the award for best of the best.

[B]

And by the way, the, the, the tension music is good.

[A]

Tension music is dynamite. It's well produced. This is the way you're. If you're going to do this on network television, you might as well do it right.

[B]

Yeah, that I agree. That's how you do it. Yes.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So now I feel all, all jacked up now.

[A]

Yeah, well, you're not going to feel that way for much longer. Okay, so we're going to go to David Muir and the faxing it and they have the right idea, but they don't have the, they don't have the energy. David Muir seems like he's ready to quit the business. I mean, the whole thing. He's not like Tommy Amos who's all jacked up. And it's like, it's like a, it's like a watered down. I don't know, what else do we want to talk about?

[B]

David Muir is too busy primping and looking at his muscles, making sure.

[A]

Yeah, he's a primper. Yeah, we know that. Here we go. A Coast Guard cutter on the frozen Hudson river in New York City. Lee Goldberg is watching this new storm. He has the forecast tonight. This evening, the FBI raiding the election office in Fulton County, Georgia, after President Trump lost in 2020. Then asking elections officials in Georgia to find 11,780 votes. What are the FBI agents looking for now? What ABC News has learned tonight.

[B]

This evening, the husband and father accused.

[A]

Of having an affair with his au pair and then murdering his wife and a man the husband allegedly arranged to come to the house. What that husband said on the stand today. Tonight, the hall of Fame backlash. Head coach Bill Belichick snubbed on his first football hall of fame ballot. Six Super bowl victories with the Patriots eight in all. What Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, LeBron James are all saying tonight and ESPN and what they've learned about the reasoning behind the decision decision. Tonight, the high speed police chase through Los Angeles. Suspects accused of loading a U Haul with stolen property. Then another car they were in will have the latest. A town on edge dangling a landslide, leaving a community in danger of falling over a cliff. News tonight about Bruce Willis, what his wife is now sharing at America Strong. Tonight, take a close look at this snowplow right here. Clearing the way on the highway for an ambulance right behind what that plow driver did. You have to see this tonight?

[B]

Yeah, gotta see it. Gotta watch it. I'm David Muir. I'm HOT News World headquarters in New York. This is World News Tonight with David Muir. This must still work. I mean, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. It's like, I mean, we all.

[A]

There's the enthusiasm. They had the one good story in there besides why, why are they talking about the coach? So what? But the one good story, they did have a picture of this hillside that's collapsing all these homes right on the edge of falling over a cliff.

[B]

But very no Nat Pops. There was no. I heard a little Pops.

[A]

No dogs.

[B]

Well, they did have Bruce Willis in there. So there's Bruce.

[A]

But that's kind of, that's like cringy.

[B]

That's your sad puppy story. That's your, that's your sad puppy story.

[A]

If it is cringy. Do people watch this? Do people watch this?

[B]

Would feel Bad John. Do people watch this still? Do they still watch these?

[A]

Oh, ye. Yeah. There's tens of millions. Oh, my God. So, okay, so that was to compare to NBC. That stinks. But let's go to the real, the real Clinker. This is a piece of crap. It's short. It's only, it's like it's half the length of the NBC one and it's, it's boring. They have, their heart's not in it at all. But I think this is sabotage. They're sabotaging CBS News.

[B]

Good to be with you.

[A]

I'm Tony decopol.

[B]

The breaking news right now, another winter storm on the way. When and where it will hit and.

[A]

The dangerous cold snap that just won't quit.

[B]

Millions under cold weather alerts tonight. Wind chills could reach 20 below. Rob Marciano will have it all. Also developing tonight, the attack on Congresswoman.

[A]

Ilhan Omar sprayed by a man with a syringe.

[B]

What we know about the suspect and the reaction from the White House tonight.

[A]

Also, President Trump promotes the new South.

[B]

So called Trump accounts for kids.

[A]

We're giving them ownership of America's future.

[B]

No. The US Government will kick in the first thousand dollars. Who else can contribute and how much? Kelly o' grady. Tonight on what you need to know. I'm not a scientist. Now we're moving on to Cincinnati. T E A M as in team and the hall of Fame. Mystery, outrage and confusion as former Patriots.

[A]

Coach Bill Belichick is snubbed by the.

[B]

NFL hall of Fame. Someone, anyone, explain it to me.

[A]

From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Tony decouple.

[B]

Now, the first thing I'd do if we were consultants. Get rid of that voice at the end.

[A]

No, I think, I think a sexy female voice at the end would be cool.

[B]

Anything that rather.

[A]

Why don't they use female voices for that particular intro?

[B]

Because they're misogynistic.

[A]

There's a number of voiceover women out there who have these.

[B]

Sorry. They hate women.

[A]

They hate women. Yeah, they're Barry Weiss. Yeah, well, she's running the place.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But there's a number of female voiceover women out there that have terrific voices. I mean, they're just fabulous. And they're not exploited enough. Enough. They're not. And they should be. And they would appreciate the work, believe me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So that ends. There's no puppy story. There's no good news story. They end on the sour thing about the coach. You notice NBC didn't even put the coach story in there.

[B]

And even I got the coach story. I'm like, oh, I got Sportsball News. Here's something I kind of understand.

[A]

Yeah, it's easy enough to understand, but it's not, like, teaseworthy, it seems to me. I mean, every. Anyone who's a sports fan. No, here's the problem. Anyone who's a sports fan's all over this.

[B]

Well, it's about the prop bets.

[A]

Yeah. And they're all over it. Everyone who's a sports fan. Believe me, including myself, we know everything there is to know about this particular situation. I didn't know from every perspective already.

[B]

So you have problem not just with the presentation, but the editorial is below par.

[A]

Well, that was just the presentation of the tease.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The fact that they're teasing a story about this coach, about Belichick, is not. Should not be in the tease line that. I mean, the ones that NBC did, they didn't do it because it's. Because it's not. Because there's. Nobody's gonna. Oh, what I gotta hear that? No one's gonna. No one's drawn to that story. If you're a sports fan that. Who would be drawn to the story because you already know the story.

[B]

I'm with you from. Yeah. They could have thrown the snowplow in front of the ambulance in there. That's a good story.

[A]

There's a bunch of good stuff. They could. And CBS had very little extra material. It was just lame.

[B]

Well, local news.

[A]

The point is that this is what's going on. NBC is going to dominate the situation in the future if this continues.

[B]

Local news from Fredericksburg. Once we could finally get out of our homes, we could not go to the only supermarket we have here. H E B. Because the ceiling was about to collapse, was bulging down. Oh, yeah.

[A]

Wow. Yeah. Really?

[B]

Yeah. And then. And so now on the text groups, you know, this ice storm was not an accident. It was done on purpose.

[A]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[B]

Like, I'm like, okay, for what reason?

[A]

Yeah, what's.

[B]

What's the reason? It's like, so Minneapolis. So Minneapolis. Let's just talk about this for a moment. So everywhere, everybody's talking about, ah, well, I was a Green Beret. And we use these exact same tactics in Fallujah. And we did this in the Maidan. This is not a color revolution. This is what everyone's saying. No, this is the same group that did Black Lives Matter in Minneapolis. George Floyd. There may be one or two new nonprofits. They're not NGOs. Everyone's NGOs. Now. There's some nonprofits. They're well funded. It comes from different government pots. National Endowment for Democracy is the one who just got refunded, which is, I think, a mistake. But everyone's talking about color revolution.

[A]

Yeah, I noticed.

[B]

It's not a color revolution. You can't do a color revolution in America that easily. It's just not going to happen. It's Minneapolis. Minneapolis has. They've activated people and, man, they have activated people, and it's. It's. It's painful to watch.

[A]

Yeah, I want you to talk about that. But before you veer off of the ice storm story, which you just did, I was done. There's a big thaw coming tomorrow in your neck of the woods. I understand. It's going to be like 55 or something.

[B]

Oh, no, we're going up to 80. But we get our swim trunks ready, going back into the pool.

[A]

So is it icy now?

[B]

No, no, it's already.

[A]

It's already thawing out.

[B]

That was thawing out Tuesday. We couldn't get down our driveway Tuesday because it's on the back side of the house. So we would have just slid all the way.

[A]

You were frozen in Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. That's it. Three days. Which is what I predicted, by the way.

[B]

Saturday, Sunday. Four days. Really?

[A]

Okay, four days. Well, that's a lot.

[B]

Yeah, it's. I love my wife. It's easy. We had a good time. It was.

[A]

The dog liked the cold weather, I guess.

[B]

Oh, this dog loves this. Like, this is like her culture. She goes jump around. But it wasn't all. It was not all that bad. It was. And, you know, I talked to my buddy, the sheriff lieutenant, you know, the. The former Kerrville cop with anger management issues.

[A]

Nothing like a cop with anger management issues.

[B]

He's now the lieutenant.

[A]

Yes, sir. What else do you want?

[B]

He's the lieutenant at sheriff's office. Because I said, you know, how's it. Yeah, I said, it's not that bad. We did have two tractor trailers, jackknife tip over on 87, which is. Is a real problem for traffic. But, no, everything was relatively calm. I was pleasantly surprised. You know, we kept it all together and, you know.

[A]

Never lost your power.

[B]

I never lost power once. Some friends of ours went out for about an hour.

[A]

You would have if you hadn't bought that Generac.

[B]

Oh, then it would have been freezing. The Generac saved the day by not letting the power go. But that's also C Tech. They did a lot of. That's our co op electric company. They did a Lot of upgrades a couple months ago. So I think they got smart. It's a co op. Of course, it's not like, you know, some government things. This is owned by the people, man. The people demand better service and we got it. So I'm very happy. That was good. Anything else about?

[A]

No, I just wanted to get everyone up to speed.

[B]

Yeah. But the thing, the thing that is just everything now is the government did.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The government did this. Yeah. This is not on accident. But why? Why did they do this?

[A]

Well, it just did.

[B]

But you can.

[A]

Because they're messing with you, man.

[B]

Yeah, they're messing with. I am getting so old and jaded like you. It's not funny anymore. Like, I can't get. I can't get anything.

[A]

It's funny. So you can't be getting like me.

[B]

I can't get into the. Into the conspiracies like I used to. I'm just like, no.

[A]

Oh, yeah. This is true. And this is ruined. This is bad.

[B]

It's ruining the show.

[A]

Yeah, it's hurting the show. It has, I genuinely believe, has hurt the show as. Just as the bomb cyclone is going to hurt donations, which is why I'm going to Oakland. I'll be at. The speeds are bring your envelopes, bring Jay's books to give to Violet.

[B]

Like, he's like. He's a bride at a Jewish wedding. Stick those envelopes on the back. On his back. Come on, people. Hook him up. Hook him up. Do your best.

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

And last night we had dinner with some friends, like an early dinner, AARP time, you know, 5 o'. Clock. And like. Yeah. At Friedhelms, man. It's the best. It's great. That's our Bavarian. Bavarian place. I hear the. The fried catfish is phenomenal.

[A]

It's just. Is it?

[B]

Oh, yes, it is.

[A]

It's a fried catfish is a fabulous dish. I. I try to cook it every so often when I have enough, when I feel like loading up the frying oil because it makes a mess. The frying oil is hard to reuse it and you get a bunch of grime all over the. It's a messy thing to cook. But. But catfish is perfect. It's just an amazingly delicious product. Fried. Deep fat fried.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

With batter.

[B]

Yep. Very good. So, you know, and then it's like, okay, tell me about crisis actors. I'm like, was that guy a crisis actor? Did he really get killed? I said, yeah, he's really dead. Believe me, he's really dead. Yeah. But he showed up at 5. These are people who Agitate, or they get activated to agitate. It happens all the time. It's like, hey, look, I can't explain the astronauts from the Challenger who show up everywhere and you're looking the same with the same name. I don't know what that's about. But crisis actors, I have to withdraw a little bit from that. And you know, everyone's like, but, you know, they got $16 million from the government. And yeah.

[A]

To back you up on this. People who are totally into this kind of thinking do a lot of homework. They spend a lot of time online. And if there are crisis actors involved, they have documented it. There will be pictures of, oh, this woman is here, she's here, she's there, she's here. And there's a number of them that have been documented.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

But if they're not documented, because we know there's enough people out there to do the documentation, then we have to assume they're not crisis actors.

[B]

No. And also, you know, it's like, there's another Adam Curry out there. And I keep getting emails inviting me to speak at these conferences.

[A]

What is he known for?

[B]

He's known for. For Aliens and Zero. I think someone's stolen my old identity.

[A]

I think it was you.

[B]

No. And for Zero Point Energy. And these are big conferences, too. Really big. And like, hey, it was good seeing you. And I'm like, I don't know why they're emailing me. I mean, I can understand Adam telling.

[A]

Me, you'll do that. You do this speech for. For $12,000. 12.

[B]

This new exit Strategy by Dvorak. I'm gonna go talk about aliens.

[A]

For 12 grand, I'm gonna go back and talk about aliens. And they're gonna say, you look a little different than when I met you at the other.

[B]

What's with the Tourette's? I didn't notice that the first time around someone emailed me, said, do you know that you're actually neurodivergent? Say yes. Is there money in it for me? Is there some grant I can get for being neurodiver divergent? No. Okay. Then I just used to be called the Ticket. Then it became Tourette's, and now it's neurodivergent. I don't need any help. So anyway, what's happening in Minneapolis is not a color revolution. And people. It's just. No, it's not. It is some people who are very, very, very confused about the law, about the restrictions of the First Amendment, about responsibility of yourself. If you want to film somebody or if you want to carry a gun, you know this. You have to actually be. Be more restrictive of yourself if you're carrying a weapon legally. There's all kinds of stuff that, you know, it's like people have taken the stupid pill. It's really quite amazing. And everyone's so jacked up about it. It's like, yeah, this is really bad, but we saw this already, and this is kind of tame compared to blm.

[A]

Oh, yeah, it's very tame.

[B]

BLM was much, much worse, but it's.

[A]

The same, and it was all over the country.

[B]

Yeah. And that. And that color revolution didn't work either. And actually, this is. Let me see. I have this here. Let me see.

[A]

Well, it did work for the women who collected all those dough and bought a bunch of property.

[B]

Oh, well, yes, yes, the BLM ladies. That's true. That's true. Let me see. I had. Where is this? What is this under. Oh, yeah, I've got it here. So two clips I'm going to play. The first one is. Yeah, so do you remember Molly Ringwald, the actress?

[A]

Yeah, Molly Ringwald, the redheaded actress.

[B]

Yeah. So now she wears a do rag, and. Yeah, she's wearing a doo rag. She doesn't do this very often, but I do. And this is a narrative, so I'm just gonna lay out the narrative so you can. So you can understand what people are doing. And, you know, we might even discuss, you know, this. We had this great article you and I were reading about how this all started with phones, particularly with women. Really has really, really has affected women. It goes far beyond phones. I mean, it's algorithms, it's fashion, it's all of entertainment, but this is the result of it.

[C]

I don't spend a lot of time doing this, talking to you like this, unless I'm, I don't know, recommending a foundation or telling you, I guess she.

[B]

Does a lot of makeup videos. She's selling makeup now. Molly Ringwald. So unless she's recommending a foundation or.

[C]

Telling you to get your kids vaccinated against meningitis, but I feel like I can't stay silent, and neither should you. There's something horrible, horrible going on in our country right now. And we have one of the greatest countries, had one of the greatest countries in the world. And I've always been so proud to be an American, but right now, this is a fascist government. It's not becoming a fascist government. It is a fascist government, and ICE is brutalizing people. And I don't care how you identify. If You're a Democrat, if you're a Republican, if you're Independent, if you don't like to be political at all, it doesn't matter. You have to look at what kind of country you want to live in. And I don't think that I need to remind you, you know, I'll just give a little history lesson here, quick.

[A]

But here we go.

[C]

You know, if you look at what happened in France, where I lived for. For, you know, a few years in my 20s, you know, they were taken over by the Nazis. They were invaded. They were taking over, and a lot of people. A lot of people collaborated. And then there were people that did not collaborate and were part of the resistance. Eventually, they got their country back, and those people who collaborated were found to be criminal.

[B]

Aha. So here's where the narrative starts.

[A]

I'm just going to back you up a little more on this. I don't have clips, but I will tell you that I could have had clip after clip after clip of not anyone of her statue. I don't know, she's not famous anymore.

[B]

But her makeup skills.

[A]

But just a bunch of these ladies on the. Screaming at the TikTok, all threatening. They're threatening everybody who voted for Trump, basically with the same theme.

[B]

Well, she's saying something a little different. She's saying the collaborators were found guilty.

[A]

Yeah. This is. No, this is what they're all saying.

[B]

Okay, well, so now let's go to my favorite hate. Listen, just short, short, short. So I. I won't torture you.

[A]

I had. So I. There was a clip I wanted to get from this.

[B]

Well, here it is. We. I know this is the clip you want. This is pivot. Scott and Cara, What I'm suggesting is. And again, I've struggled with this my whole life, the difference between being right and being effective. And we're angry, and I get it. Protesting is powerful. Promising them that there will be an accountability. And I've said this. I think there should be something equivalent to the Nuremberg Trial. This is all over. And to make it clear that once we're back in power, which we will be, this is going to happen. And the statute of limitations on murder is zero. Never. Nuremberg trials. There you go.

[A]

Yeah. This guy, by the way, lives in London.

[B]

Yeah, he does most of the time. Here is a Democrat candidate for Ohio Attorney General. Ellie.

[A]

Oh, this is a. Is this the guy?

[B]

Yeah. Elliot Forehand. Here we go.

[A]

Yeah. I'm glad. You know, you got. You. You're taking all the clips I wished I had made.

[B]

You got to get up early, man.

[A]

No, it's not about that. The reason was I, I once I film my clip list, I stop.

[B]

You're done. Yes, that's. You're, you're like, you're like cbs, like, man, it's done. I don't need the puppy story.

[A]

No, not that. More like abc.

[B]

Oh, okay. Here we go. Hi, this is Elliot Forhan, candidate for Ohio Attorney General. I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump. I mean I'm going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in a sentence duly executed, of capital punishment. That is what I mean when I say that I'm going to kill Donald Trump. I'm gonna kill him. Yeah. That's borderline, I think, to say that.

[A]

I think it's beyond borderline. I think it's illegal. I think they should arrest this guy immediately. He said that what he said is illegal.

[B]

Well, he qualified it. That he was going to qualify.

[A]

Doesn't mean anything. Oh, I qualified it. Oh, I'm just joking. Let me tell you what I. Let me tell you a scenario that could happen here and I'll pay anybody to do it, but I'm just joking. No, no, this is. You can. That's not an excuse for. There's a statutes about this. You cannot do this. This guy should be arrested by the Secret Service immediately and killed. Well, I mean, that would ideally. But no.

[B]

Hey, I appreciate you, neighbor. So the violent threats against lawmakers is happening more and more here. Scott McFarlane to explain.

[A]

Police tell CBS News Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has recently been the victim of a particularly large number of threats. President Trump has fixated on her blasting her regularly, including in these remarks in Iowa.

[B]

What kind of news reporting in this? Blasting her with a Super Soaker. I mean, can we use a different. What's the verb? Maybe it's just, it feels.

[A]

Criticizing, I think would be a good one. Which would be more accurate.

[B]

Yeah, but no, because what is blasting.

[A]

Blasting has. That's the problem, you know, since this is what we're supposed to do is deconstruct these things.

[B]

That's what we're doing.

[A]

Blasting has intonate or it has a lot of double. It's got meanings, other meanings than just. And it's not, it's not journalistic.

[B]

No, no, that's. Thank you. That's my point. But this is CBS Evening News.

[A]

Blasting President Trump has fixated on her. Blasting her regularly, including in these remarks in Iowa just hours before last night's assault. They have to show that they can love our country.

[B]

This is tricky what they do, but this is very tricky. So he said something just hours before the assault, which to me is insinuating Trump motivated someone to do something.

[A]

You're right. Blasting her regularly, including in these remarks in Iowa just hours before last night's assault. They have to show that they can love our country. They have to be proud.

[B]

Blasting her.

[A]

Not like Ilhan Omar, Trump later claimed.

[B]

Where's the blast?

[A]

Where's the blast?

[B]

Where's the blast? That's a blast.

[A]

Parks in Iowa just hours before last night's assault. They have to show that they can love our country. They have to be proud. Not like Ilhan Omar, Trump later claimed without evidence. Omar, conspiracy theory. Trump supporters have since latched onto.

[B]

What did he. Let's see what he said.

[A]

Michael Sullivan.

[B]

No, he didn't say it.

[A]

It's U.S. capitol Police. Chief, we are confident this actually was a criminal act because there's a lot of conspiracy theories about this being staged. I've received no information that indicates that the assault on Omar comes amid a growing wave of threats against members of Congress.

[B]

I don't care who does the attacking or the disrupting. That's wrong. And it's also illegal.

[A]

The U.S. capitol Police launched nearly 15,000 threat investigations last year, 5,000 more than the year before, including just days ago when Florida Democrat Maxwell Frost says he was punched in the face while at an event in Utah. And former Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the subject of scorn from Trump, says she received a death threat on the day she resigned.

[B]

Again insinuating Trump is responsible.

[A]

Yes. Clear insinuation.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Sharpen, increase tempo and wait, stop. It was a clear insinuation when in fact, Marjorie Taylor Greene was always a loose cannon that was attracting these sorts of. These sorts of weirdos that would hate on her. And you loved her with or without Trump being on. Even when she was on Trump's side and they were buddies, this was going on.

[B]

And just the fact that we're even doing this breakdown of this news report means that I'll be getting emails.

[A]

Oh, man.

[B]

If you're a Trump fanboy, why don't you just kiss his ass more, man?

[A]

Yeah, you will.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And you deserve it.

[B]

I know.

[A]

Death threat on the day she resigned. So what do you attribute that sharpen, increase tempo and pace of events that evoke strong emotion? I don't know. That I've seen anything like it in.

[B]

My 30 years in law enforcement. And Scott, I understand you're following some additional breaking news tonight out of Georgia. The FBI searching the Fulton county election office. What do we know about that?

[A]

Yeah, Local officials in Atlanta say the search is related to the 2020 election results. The county clerk's office has possession of the 2020 ballots, and that's where the FBI agents were seen. Tony, President Trump continues to make baseless claims about winning Georgia in 2020.

[B]

So that very interesting that you catch.

[A]

That because why don't they just say claims?

[B]

Well, no, that is, that is, that is the memo went out and it's just all baseless here. Witness the CNN report of this with some hokey music, of course.

[C]

So we are learning more details about down in Fulton county, where we have learned that the FBI is serving a search warrant at the county's election offices. The FBI confirming this is connected to an ongoing investigation. And a source tells CNN that this is part of an effort by the Justice Department to seize election records and allegations of a voter fraud back in the 2020 election. Now, the Atlanta metro area has been centerpiece of President Trump's baseless allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Another important piece of context here is that in the first Trump administration, when he first started making these claims, his Justice Department, then led by Bill Barr, looked into this and didn't find enough evidence to pursue a full blown investigation. The Justice Department has sued the county to try to get these records. That litigation is ongoing. So it is notable that, that now they have gone to a judge and gotten a search warrant to pursue these records.

[B]

So I know, I know a business guy in Florida who has funded a lot of people looking into Georgia. I think this, I think they've got something. I really do.

[A]

Well, here's what I agree with you. And I think it goes this way. They've already done the investigation to a point. And then somebody, a whistleblower, somebody behind the scenes says, did you guys ever look at this? And this and this, because this is really what they're doing. They're not doing what you think. Yeah, they did this.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

I mean, for example, they have this kind of corruption up in, up in Washington state. And Mimi's political, so she's gone on to some of it.

[B]

Mimi, political what?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, she is. And so she found that what they, what they, how they're rigging their elections is they, they have, it's all mail in, in Washington state. So it's very easily corruptible yes. And they take teams of people that go to all the sanitariums and old folks homes and all. They just teams and teams. That's why. Oh the older people are. They vote more.

[B]

No sign here.

[A]

They're in. They're in. They're in nursing homes and a team of people go in there with their bat with ballots and they have them sign them and they pre filled out. Okay, what I should do, I'll sign it. What is it? Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so they sign off on all these and they in hundreds and thousands and maybe tens of thousands of votes. Just enough to flip things. And there's something in Georgia that took place that's similar to this kind of scam. Would it. Which is what it is. And it's like the kind of thing I remember hearing about when I was in high school and they were bitching about the south and how the Democrats would. Would go door to door to black people's house and make them sign ballots. And it's very. And then they stuff them in a ballot box. This has been going on forever. This is corruption and it has to be rooted out.

[B]

Yes. I think they're gonna. This. They will actually do something. I think that's happening. There was something. I think. Oh, I have another guy. Well, let me just stay with with ICE for a second because now. And the prop bets are in. By the way, you can get your prop bet in if the government's gonna partially shut down on Saturday. But there's something really stupid with what the Democrats are doing. In fact, Chuck Schumer specifically in the Senate about this shutdown. This is just a report to get us into the mood.

[C]

After initial hopes of a bipartisan compromise to approve government spending, a partial US Government shutdown is looking more and more likely. Democratic senators say they will not approve a budget bill for the Department of Homeland Security after federal agents that it employs fatally shot a second US Citizen in Minneapolis over the weekend.

[A]

The DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ice. I will vote no. Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.

[C]

The DHS spending bill is part of a larger package that outlines funding for other government agencies. Republican Republicans will need some Democratic support to pass it before existing funding expires on January 31st. Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democratic senator from Nevada and one of the possible swing voters, said she would not support the legislation without changes to how Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is operated. Meanwhile, Washington Senator Patty Murray, who had been pushing her colleagues to vote for the spending package, reversed her stance, saying federal agents cannot murder people in broad daylight and face zero consequences. She also called for the DHS budget bill to be split off from the larger funding package in which $64.4 billion is appropriated for homeland security, including $10 billion for ICE. However, even splitting off this segment wouldn't avoid a shutdown for sure. The House, which is currently on recess, would have to return to pass the funding package if it's changed, and then send the legislation back to the Senate. Senate for approval before the January 31st deadline.

[B]

Okay, so she doesn't get it entirely right in this report. And here's the problem. We have people who work at dhs, and interestingly enough, one of the guys who shot Preddy was Customs and Border Patrol. He wasn't even ice. But the so called one big beautiful bill has a separate appro. This pass done has a separate appropriation for 75 billion for ICE, specifically this mini bus, as they're calling it. Even though it's huge. You know, if they, even if they ripped it up right now, the 75 billion for ICE is already inappropriated, etc. The, the crazy thing is that what this minibus does is they want to. If they would pass it, it would set the annual ICE operating budget at 10 billion. So right now they could take 35 billion, 50 billion, whatever they want. This they now want to stop would actually mandate body cameras. They are, in fact, trying to stop something that gives them more oversight over ice, but will never defund ice. So it's just a political mind game that they're playing, has nothing to do with ICE at all. It's just all hate Trump. Even the protests. I don't hear anybody talking about immigrants. All I hear is ice, ice. It's all about ice. And just whenever you hear ice, think Trump. That's it. All these people who are saying they, you know, the Gestapo, it's just Gestapo. It's all. It's all about Trump. They really just hate the guy.

[A]

But not even really as much about Trump as it is 2016.

[B]

Well, that's what I mean.

[A]

20, 26, midterms.

[B]

Yeah, well, you heard, you heard Scott there from Pivot. Once we get back in power, and we will, Those words should scare you when someone talks like that. Okay, so you mean if you win the midterm elections, if your party wins the midterm elections. He equates that to when we get back in power, and we will, we're going to hang you. Nuremberg trials. Who's the crazy person?

[A]

He's nuts.

[B]

Yes. That to me is more frightening than anything.

[A]

But the, you know. But going back to Molly Ringwald.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

That is so pathetic. That that is a person who's got serious issues. She should really be in a facility.

[B]

Well, she's selling makeup on Instagram, you know, so, you know, I can understand. And even if you just look at Instagram, there's all these. It's so sad to see people who, I guess they make money as being influencers with lots of follow and, you know, some of them do cooking tips. John, you know them, you know, put some cheese on it. Lots of. Tina tried to make something from Instagram.

[A]

She did.

[B]

Let me do a little detour. She says, I'm going to try this cottage cheese pizza crust.

[A]

Oh, I bet.

[B]

She says, didn't turn out the way it looked on Instagram. Said, no, of course it's cottage cheese. She ate it though, I'll give her that. I'll give her that. The people who are on Instagram who have, you know, they have their followers for whatever they do woodworking, you know, leather stuff, you know, leather, you know, stitching.

[A]

Yeah, needlework.

[B]

Needlework. They're all being forced. This is your audience capture. They're all being forced. Well, you have to take a stand. You got to say something, I'm unfollowing you. And then of course they take a stand like, yes, this is horrible, I'm against this. And then, you know, it's like people like, I'm not following you for a political opinion. I'm following you for the cottage cheese crust. It's like, no, it's just big. No, no, no, no. Now on the other hand, this is a possible exit strategy for us. I was quite interested by this. Although we don't do video, this is our ever enduring problem. We really have to do video because there's money in there. There's money in doing video and being an influencer. I caught this on Planet Money on npr, which has turned into some kind of vocal fry up talk fest. I don't remember.

[A]

No, it's terrible. The show. I can't even watch it anymore. You know, you don't watch it, say, listen to it.

[B]

Yeah. So here's their report.

[C]

All right, so my indicator of the week is $100 million. That is how much the Trump administration has set aside to spend on a one year so called wartime recruitment strategy to hire more Immigration and Customs Enforcement workers. So this is all according to a document that the Washington Post got a hold of it says that immigration officials plan to flood the market with millions of dollars worth of social media ads and to pay Pro ICE social media influencers and other online creators to normalize and humanize careers at ICE through storytelling.

[B]

And live the same. Yeah, storytelling.

[C]

That's quote. Well, they're already making these. Right? I mean I've seen footage of videographers trailing after agents and then they put together these slick videos and post them on social media. So I think it's. Some of it's already happening.

[B]

Right.

[C]

The Washington Post couldn't confirm whether this strategy has been implemented or how much of this strategy, but it certainly seems to coincide with ads and ad campaigns and social media content that we're seeing online. Apparently at least $8 million of the $100 million is supposed to be spent on this influencer program. They say that they are particularly interested in veterans, former agents and Pro ICE creators. And like. The idea behind recruiting influencers, according to this document, is to build trust through authentic peer to peer messaging. So they want to reach people with like a big Gen Z and millennial following and apparently also people who are tactical lifestyle enthusiasts.

[B]

Woo. That's us. Tactical lifestyle enthusiasts.

[A]

That's us.

[B]

It's a hundred million dollars they've got for this.

[A]

Well, that's 92. 92 million. They already spent eight. Yes, if you listen to the report. 92 left in the pot.

[B]

Let's see if we can do it. There are some deliverables. We have to do the right thing.

[A]

Deliverables. Now we' getting back to the game.

[C]

I mean this is the kind of language, you know, like build trust through authentic peer to peer messaging. This is language that I'm used to hearing from the advertising industry when they talk about working with influencers. But how unusual is it for the government to be recruiting influencers in this way? I mean this is where you reach people these days. Right. And like marketing organizations. So the Biden administration.

[B]

So after you've made my cottage cheese pizza crust. Let me tell you about ice. This is a. This is a great place to work.

[C]

Also did recruit influencers for its own.

[A]

Hold on. I have a meta idea that would actually work.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Because. And be more profitable.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Which is. And gets us off the. Off the video.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Middlemen. Agents.

[B]

Oh, agents. Yes.

[A]

We take the money from the government and dole it out.

[B]

Trolls. Send me an email. Adammcurry.com if you've got what it takes to be an influencer, we will hook you up.

[A]

And we also track down the Influencers that are kind of naive about what's going on and that there's free money.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And we just say, hey, here's the deal. You want to do this? We'll give you like 50 grand, right. We'll give you 50 grand right now if you get started. And it'd be doling out that kind of money. You know, most of these guys are on there. They'll take 50, 50 grands. A lot. And so we could be that, we can be that team. We can be the same. We don't change. It's still Korean Dvorak, you know, consulting group. Yeah. But we are now agents. And we're. And we're. We have cred. We have enough, you know, it's not like we're slouches.

[B]

We have cred.

[A]

So the government would say, well, these guys know what they're doing. They know what they're talking about, you in particular. And so we could just nail it. We could. We could be the middlemen. We take a normal 20% cut and.

[B]

But we'll have to take meetings with.

[A]

Them, not necessarily with the government.

[B]

Yeah, you got to do a meeting with the government.

[A]

Oh, yeah, well, you can do that. Everyone wants to meet Adam Curry. What's your hair looking like? Oh, what happened to your hair? Oh, you poor guy. What did you. You're not going to go here like, oh, well, it's. Well, he's. Good meeting you. Anyway.

[B]

I autograph for my mom, who.

[A]

Used to watch you a couple autographs for the guy's mom.

[B]

I get that all the time. My mom loves you. I'm like, could you load up the 9 millimeter?

[A]

There's techies involved. I can do that. But for the normal, you know, old MTV folks with moms that need autographs, you'd be right. Perfect.

[B]

Yeah. Rock and roll.

[A]

Thinking about the millions that are involved in this deal, you would do it. And we can still do the show.

[B]

It's great. Once a week instead of twice. Yeah, perfect. Could still do the show.

[A]

But anyway, we can use the show. We can tell this. And I'm going to give this out in advance so people will recognize it when it actually happens. We will plug, just casually plug the people that are getting the money through us from the government. There are podcasts. Hey, you know, hey, did you see Jenny Jones's podcast the other day?

[B]

Well, it's not. That's not for podcast. The thing is, they're not asking, okay.

[A]

She's like, not a podcast. She's an influence. You know, I have to Say she is. There are influencers out there, but she's one of the best.

[B]

And they'll get tons of traffic and.

[A]

Likes whether they get traffic or not. It's part of the deal. We don't care about the. The numbers. At end of the day, you said Tim. I'm saying yes, yes, but we don't care about the numbers. We care about the deal. Anyway.

[B]

Yeah, anyway. I find it all incredibly sad what's taking place. It's. The whole thing is. Is messed up. It's. It's spinning people up. They're all focused on one thing. And again, people are missing.

[A]

They're gr. Molly Ringwald is this dumb woman.

[B]

I'm not talking about Molly. I'm talking about our own.

[A]

By her conversation. Because she was so dead serious about this.

[B]

Well, I mean, Bruce Springsteen kind of irked me, to be honest about it. That's the one that. That's the one that got me.

[A]

But you know, people are really just a blatant communist.

[B]

Yes. But with a lot of money. I'll just say this is not a color revolution. The country is not falling when it's not over. It's a political operation done by professionals. There's no doubt about it. But it seems pretty contained to Minneapolis. I. I just haven't seen anything spark up anywhere else. So I don't know if this doesn't seem to be a good network, if they want to do. Because you have to do it in multiple cities at the same time. You've got to.

[A]

Well, they have to have cooperation with local police.

[B]

Yes, well, they're not.

[A]

Have a bunch of wimpy local police. The police chief, who's not even from Minnesota.

[B]

Not going to get that.

[A]

That you're not going to get. You got it in Minnesota. That's about it.

[B]

Right.

[A]

You might go ahead, get it in la. LA could do this.

[B]

Yeah, but. But LA is. Well, they tried that.

[A]

Sorry, LA is already over. It's past tense.

[B]

Yeah, it's where Bruce Springsteen lives. There you go. There you go. Let me see if I had anything else. You know, I guess on the last show we were talking about how this unfortunate guy Preddy, that he was. He was carrying a concealed weapon legally. And I'm like, okay, where's everyone now about. About guns and gun control?

[A]

Yes, yes.

[B]

Well, the View came up with it.

[C]

If we have to endure conversations about guns after every school shooting and kids being shot and how we need good people with guns. Well, Alex Preddy was a good guy with a gun and we see how that turned out for him. But I think if one more person talks about the gun and not having the right, it's going to really piss me off because there was no movement after any school shooting. There are a lot of people like myself that believe in the second Amendment, responsible gun ownership. Every state right now we have everything from Idaho, who has the weakest guns. You could just kind of walk in and they'll give you one. That's a joke. But. And California has the strongest laws. I'd like to see everyone get on board with more reasonable, responsible gun laws. Like, if this is the time, if we're going to now throw it all out the window on one Second Amendment right. Because it doesn't suit the narrative. Let's have real conversation about responsible gun ownership because people seem open to it now.

[B]

So I don't know. Is Sarah Haynes the. The token conservative on the show? Show?

[A]

No, she's not actually. The token conservative is the one that's sitting next to Whoopi, as I, as I recall, the blonde.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

No, Sarah Haynes is a. Is. You used to work for the Trump administration as a Pete, one of the. In the PR and the press.

[B]

Oh, well, there you go. There you go.

[A]

And she turned on Trump, Defected.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And so she became.

[B]

Hates Trump. Yes.

[A]

But she also. She does. But I think underneath it all, she's not as nutty as the rest of us.

[B]

Not yet.

[A]

What?

[B]

Not yet.

[A]

Not yet.

[B]

They'll grind her down.

[A]

But she. Because I can see her bristle once in a while. But she's not the token. Technically. I think it's that blonde who's. I can't even remember her name. She never speaks up.

[B]

Oh. So.

[A]

Okay, well, I got to ask Adam, if you want to change topics.

[B]

Oh, yes.

[A]

You know, because it came up. The new virus, the killer virus.

[B]

Hold on.

[A]

That NBC is promoting.

[B]

Hold on. I see. This is. I completely was not ready for it. Here we go. All right. You have a question.

[A]

I guess it's in the. It's kind of in the clip. This is the discussion of the new virus that is just going nuts. Health and Sorry. Yep. And this is the one they're talking about on. That was teased on the NBC teaser.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And this is. I'm going to play just at the beginning of the clip, and then I have the question for you. And then we can play the clip whole.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Health officials in the US Tonight are.

[B]

Oh, wait a minute. Which one am I? The.

[A]

The one that doesn't say answer.

[B]

Well, they're both 57 seconds. Okay. They're Different. I. I can see it. They're different.

[A]

Health officials in the US Tonight are monitoring a deadly virus that is spreading overseas. Spreading overseas. Airports in Southeast Asia are now heightening their airport screenings. Raf Sanchez is following this from London for us. And Raf, what more do we know? So, Tom, airports across the region are stepping up their screening for what's known as the Nipah virus. This is a far more deadly virus than Covid. It has a fatality rate of between 40 and 75%, according to the World Health Organization. Now, it's us. Usually carried by fruit bats, and human to human transmission seems to be rare, but there is no vaccine at this point, which is why these two cases in India are being taken so seriously. The Indian Ministry of Health says it's been doing contact tracing and it believes the virus is contained. And the CDC says it is monitoring the situation and it stands ready to assist if needed. Tom. Keeping a close eye on that one. All right, Raf. We thank you.

[B]

Thank you. When we return.

[A]

Okay, so I screwed that up.

[B]

Hold on, hold on. I told you you screwed this up. I told you it was too long.

[A]

Yeah, it screwed it up.

[B]

Well, let me do the jingle.

[A]

Answer the question. Well, you heard the answer in there, but I'm going to ask anyway. What is. It's spreading. It's spreading. You know, this. This horrible Nipah virus is spreading. How many cases, you know, was the question?

[B]

Two people in India. India.

[A]

Two people in India. So how is that spreading?

[B]

It's spreading fear. It is spreading fear through your news media. That's what they do. That's what they're paid to do. And they love it. It's good.

[A]

I think what they're trying to do here is they're trying to keep it in mind. There's a pandemic around the corner. You know, the last pandemic. We have to remember that this COVID pandemic, which is dubious whether it was a genuine one or not. Really. It was on the heels of the 1917 Spanish flu pandemic, which is the only real pandemic we've had, and that was a hundred years ago. So every hundred years we have something that is a real pandemic, assuming Covid was. And so we're not going to see another one for a hundred years. I mean, who are they kidding here with this pandemic. Pandemic. Pandemic. That could happen any minute.

[B]

Minute. Well, they're not kidding you, that's for sure. No, yeah, but. But it.

[A]

You.

[C]

You.

[B]

We. We played the whole. We Played the teasers. This is what they do. That's all that they have. It's just fear. Fear. Fear, Fear. Fear. Yes. Make it all fear. It's just fear. That's the whole, that's the whole idea. And it to a degree, it works on, on all kinds of people. This is what I'm trying to tell you. It's like I hear people. I'm trying to tell you, man.

[A]

Keep trying to tell me that, Adam. You never know. I might, I might get through eventually.

[B]

You might eventually know what I'm.

[A]

Okay, so let's go to Florida and listen to a city council having a meeting where they're discussing some sort on Florida local access. This is the Anita Dicket clip.

[B]

Hold on. Oh, okay.

[A]

Key Florida station of counties.

[B]

Waves in opposition. Pamela Birch Fort Florida State conference of NAACP branches. Waves in opposition. Anita Dick is an opponent. Waves in opposition. Holden Hiscock is also an opponent.

[A]

Waves in opposition. Jimmy only Jimmy.

[B]

Florida. Well, how come those people never donate to our show?

[A]

The Holden Hitchcock.

[B]

How we're all 15 years old in America. It's great.

[A]

It was. Unfortunately, I didn't do the clip the way if you saw it visually.

[B]

No, no, you got, no, you got a clip of the day. That was good.

[A]

Oh, thank you. It's about time. So when he, when he says a needed dick, there's actually a long pause and he looks up and gives a dirty look at everybody around him and then goes back to Reading. And then he says the Hitchcock joke. Yeah, hold. Holden Hitchcock.

[B]

Let's listen again. Pamela Birch Fort Florida State conference of NAACP branches. Waves in opposition. Anita Dick is an opponent. Waves in opposition. Holden Hiscock is also an opponent. God.

[A]

Waves in opposition. Jimm Only Jimmy. Yeah. Florida.

[B]

I'm sure he had a last name, but you just decided not to use it. Jimmy Only Jimmy. Oh, man. Holden Hiscock. That's, that is good. It's good. It's good. That's the kind that. That's who America used to be. No, no, no, no. We're all out there, 16 degrees, moaning.

[A]

And groaning about fascism.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I just want to thank everybody and it is everybody who wrote to us to say, hey man, exploding trees are real. And so I, I, I concede. Yes. They're not exploding, of course, but the. Yes. I guess bark does burst from time to time. But every, everyone had a, had an opinion on this and was all un. Universal. Yes. Yes. Trees explode.

[A]

You may have seen the videos appearing to show trees exploding under the constraints of the cold.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And I've seen This one as well. But what is crackually happening here?

[B]

But generally what you're gonna get is.

[A]

Wood separating, creating the frost crack. It's not really gonna explode like people are saying. The appropriately named Zachary Froster is a certified arborist. He also runs his own tree care business.

[B]

That's my name, Zachary Froster, in Muskegon County.

[A]

What you got is the wood on the outside is getting colder than the inside. It's creating a bunch of pressure on the inside. And that tree has to release that pressure, which creates the crack in the wood. He showed us one tree in his backyard that has slowly opened up over the years. He says the separation does make a.

[B]

Sound, but it's not the kind of.

[A]

Explosion you may have seen online. No, it'll make a gunshot sound when it cracks. It'll sound. You'll hear it.

[B]

All right, okay. We believe you. It's all true. Although some of those videos were definitely AI. But.

[A]

Yeah, that's what you do.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Have you seen the latest Amelia video?

[B]

No, I have not. Is it good?

[A]

They're, you know, they're. They're now they're doing real short things. She's in a boxing ring with Starmer, and she just beats the crap out of.

[B]

Is he wearing a bikini?

[A]

No, he's wearing Patronics.

[B]

He looks like a boxer. Okay.

[A]

That would have been funnier.

[B]

Yeah. So we got the latest update from the. We got the Bulletin from the Atomic Scientists. This happens, I think it is, every year. We don't catch it every year, but we have been tracking this probably almost every year for the 18 plus years in the existence of this show. And it is now even worse than ever.

[C]

Thank you for joining us today. My name is Alexandra Bell, and I am the President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It is the determination of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board that humanity has not made sufficient progress on the existential risks that endanger us all. We thus move the clock forward. The Doomsday Clock is a tool for communicating how close we are to destroying the world with technologies of our own making. The risks we face from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies are all growing. Every second counts, and we are running out of time. It is a hard truth, but this is our reality. It is now 85 seconds to midnight. This is the closest the world has ever been to midnight.

[B]

I am a robot. 85 seconds. So that's. But that's. Isn't that a minute and 15 seconds? Why does she say 85 seconds? I thought that was kind of Bizarre because you say it's two minutes before midnight.

[A]

A minute and 25 seconds. Not 15.

[B]

It'S 85. So it's. Yes, a minute 25. I'm sorry. It's like they're already. This is already a thing that doesn't work anymore. The doomsday clock was, I think, a big thing in the 70s, maybe.

[A]

Maybe. Yeah. 70s. The same thing with the population bomb.

[B]

Yeah. And now it's like, oh, it's 85 seconds to midnight. The clock is ticking. We have not done enough. Well, they're trying to do it in Los Angeles. They're trying to save humanity.

[C]

Access is easy, and social media users can get sucked in for hours scrolling. But some families say it could turn deadly. In this case, nearly suicide.

[B]

These companies have been orchestrating an addiction crime crisis in our country and actually the world.

[C]

Mark Lanier says big tech companies deliberately built their platforms to addict users. At the center of this case is now 19 years old. She's identified in court documents as KGM, and she's suing some of the biggest tech companies, including Meta, the parent companies of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. She alleges these popular platforms were harming her mental health and contributing to depression, anxiety, and body image issues. Her attorney says features like infinite scrolling, autoplay, constant notifications, and recommended algorithms kept her hooked for nearly a decade. This is the first time these kind of claims will be decided by a jury. Legal experts say the case is being compared to the early tobacco lawsuits of the 90s, raising the question of whether tech companies knew their product could be harmful and failed to act.

[B]

The company recognized that, in a sense, they were. They were cigarettes for the eyes. What?

[C]

The company denied yelling.

[B]

I love that cigarettes for the eyes wasn't it. Didn't Dave Letterman have some. Howard Stern have a guy and who could blow smoke out of his eyes? Remember that?

[A]

Yes. There are people that can do stuff like that. Who was the. I think it's. I think it was. Who's the magician out of Texas?

[B]

Who's magician? Me. Oh, Brushwood, Copperfield.

[A]

Brian Brushwood. I think Brian Brushwood can run a. Can run a.

[B]

Who are you? Hey, man, I'm the Texas comedian who had a magician who had a vasectomy. All right, According to the no agenda.

[A]

You run a well. But which brings me. Before I could run.

[B]

Let me. Let me finish.

[A]

Dental floss through his eyeball.

[B]

Yeah, that's nice. The company recognized that, in a sense, that they were cigarettes for the eyes.

[C]

The companies strongly deny the allegations, arguing there's no clinical diagnosis or social media addiction. Adding the apps have safety features built in for teens. Representatives of these media giants are also relying on Section 230 of the Communications Decency act, which generally shields platforms from liability. Either way, this trial could shape how social media platforms are designed and how children use them. Them.

[B]

This case is not ultimately about money. This case is about responsibility. Of course it is.

[A]

It's not about money. Well, then why. Yeah, what's the point?

[B]

I think the poison pill they're going to use if they. If they ever get anywhere with this is going to be what we talked about on the last show. Moral injury. Yeah, that's now. That's in the DSM now. It's. It is a mental condition.

[A]

Maybe the whole thing was a scheme.

[B]

Wouldn't surprise me. Set it up as moral injury. I have moral injury. And you don't have to. You can be anywhere on any spectrum to get morally. I get moral injury just listening to you. I'm going to file a law.

[A]

Yeah, you do. And I take full responsibility.

[B]

Yeah, well, you heard it here first. That'll be $10 million for the moral injury I suffered at your hands.

[A]

Yeah. Well, I'm going to countersue.

[B]

Okay. Meanwhile, although for some reason not really the top of the news, it wasn't. I don't think it was any of the three by threes. You know, the new owners of TikTok have taken over. I'm not even quite sure who's actually managing it. We only know about the. The shareholders. I'm not. Do you have any idea who's running it?

[A]

There was some guy named. And he's. I can't remember his name, but he. There is a person, I think Fuentes, I think, is the one who brought him up because he's Jewish. Of course. Just Fuentes.

[B]

No. Yeah. Everyone says it's Ellison. Ellison. Ellison. Ellison is.

[A]

It's Ellison. Is. Is. Yeah. But the guy running TikTok, these. There's this CEO.

[B]

Oh, well, it's Mossad. So Mossad is running TikTok.

[A]

And that would be. Right.

[B]

And they.

[A]

That's exactly it.

[B]

And they suck at it.

[C]

TikTok's new American owner is apologizing to thousands of users after reported issues with the video sharing app over the weekend. There were more than 600,000 reports of glitches. The company says the issues were because of a power outage at U.S. data center that the company uses. Content creators are also noticing bugs, slower load times and zero views on videos. The company says it will be back to full capacity.

[A]

Soon.

[B]

And that's the outrage. I have no views.

[A]

Yeah, that's the outrage. You're right.

[B]

Oh, yeah. The previous owners would just. Oh, you got a million views.

[A]

Put phony numbers, believe me. Make everybody feel good. That's. That's a little trick that they, you know, that should be employed. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're really popular.

[B]

It's doing great. Yeah. And they didn't get that part.

[A]

I want to do an aside. Since I mentioned Brian Brushwood and you went on and on about the vasectomy.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Which is personal. I don't think we should be discussing it. You brought it up, but it was brought up at the dinner table, not Brian Brushwood. But it was brought up at the dinner table by JC because, you know, he's at the age. He's in his 30s, I guess, and he. But he's noticing. He says that he knows people that have had vasectomies and they immediately lose their sense of humor.

[B]

Hmm. All that. Yeah, that's.

[A]

I just thought I'd throw that out there because it's one of the elements. Because my thinking was they all end up looking like old lesbians, but. Which is, you know, bad enough, but losing your sense of humor can't be good.

[B]

Well, we have producers out there who have. Who have had vasectomies.

[A]

Or maybe if we start getting notes from them saying, that's not funny, then we know. Then we know the answer.

[C]

All.

[A]

All caps.

[B]

So there was a big rumor going around in. In Europe. You know, Europe has done all these. The eu, I should say, has done this big deal with India. Actually, let me just play that clip for a second, because it. It does have to do with this. Here we go. Big deal. India and the EU began talking about a trade deal nearly 20 years ago. Now they say they have one prime minister, distinguished friend.

[C]

We did it.

[B]

We did it.

[C]

Delivered all deals. We are creating a market of 2 billion people. And this is the tale of two giants. Second and third, fourth largest economies, said.

[B]

The lady who's 4 foot 9.

[C]

Two giants who choose partnership in a true win win fashion.

[B]

The Indian Prime Minister sees the deal as a new blueprint for shared prosperity in an increasingly uncertain world. We are seeing a lot of turmoil.

[A]

Today in the global order.

[B]

At such a time, the partnership between India and the European Union will strengthen stability in international. India is one of the world's largest textile exporters, with around one sixth of its annual product heading to the EU worth more than $7 billion each year. Annual trade between India and the EU represents more than $214 billion.

[A]

Many European exports are in the form.

[B]

Of chemicals, machinery and pharmaceuticals. Tariffs on all will be radically reduced with its the next 10 years. But those on cars will drop the most down to as little as 10% for an annual limit of around 250,000 vehicles. Germany's motor manufacturers say this represents a competitive boost for them.

[A]

Our ministers say it's a great opportunity for growth.

[B]

So the big thing. Yeah, whatever the big thing is a hundred thousand tech workers. Workers will be allowed to come into the EU now. A hundred thousand Indian Indian tech workers. Which is, I mean which is a nightmare. It is, it's a bad idea. You know we've, we've gone through that. We're still struggling with it in America. If you, if you look at all these scam companies that they have, they got like a thousand Indian guys and, and there's all these immigration paper schemes they do so they can stay longer and as long as they. Then they have a company who's vouching for them. The whole thing is messed up. And I have to say they're very racist. Very. They don't want to hire white men, women, even lower class Indians. They just hate.

[A]

No, no, they have to be in the right cast.

[B]

Yeah, they have to be in the right cast. So this immediately launched, although this is the debunk from Euronews which. But this is how it's playing out. Oh, we're going to have a competitor to X. It'll be all European. It's going to be great. Claims are spreading online like wildfire that.

[A]

The European Union is setting up its.

[B]

Own social media platform to rival X. These posts have spread primarily on X itself, some with thousands of views and say that taxpayers money will be used.

[A]

To set up W as an alternative.

[B]

To Elon Musk's platform. Some posts describe it as a state run censorship platform that has received funding from the European Executive. But these claims are misleading.

[A]

A European Commission spokesperson told the Cube that the EU is not launching, funding or operating any social media platform. There is no EU backed project called.

[B]

W. So what then is W according to its CEO Anna Zeita, is a privately owned social media startup including incorporated in Sweden, funded by private investors mainly from the Nordics.

[A]

W will be hosted on European servers.

[B]

Limit ownership to European investors and operate under the DSA. False claims about EU involvement spread after a group of 54 MEPs urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to build European social media and back alternatives to the main platforms.

[A]

This was in the wake of multiple.

[B]

Multiple scandals involving Elon Musk's ex, including.

[A]

Pornographic material and the amplification of false conspiracy.

[B]

The letter, which. Yeah, that's. Well, that's a typical Euro news report. Yeah.

[A]

Where's the word? I haven't seen any porn on Twitter ever.

[B]

And that's also.

[A]

I mean, I'm sure it's there, but I can't find it. I've been looking.

[B]

If you search, you don't find looking.

[A]

You can find it when you're looking.

[B]

Elon Musk decks including pornographic material and.

[A]

Amplification of false conspiracy.

[B]

The letter, which is in no way binding, has no connection to W, which.

[A]

Is not an EU initiative. A recent European Parliament resolution calls for more technological sovereignty in areas like cloud computing and AI.

[B]

But it does propose creating a new.

[A]

EU social media platform.

[B]

W plans a gradual rolling out this year using passport and selfie verification to check the identities of its users. So here's the thing, they've got all this heat, all this talk about bottom. I can't find it. I can't find W. W dot com.

[A]

Look at. I think they're gonna do a social network look up blue curry. Blue curry, as in, you know, the spicy dish blue curry. I'm just kidding. You don't have to look it up.

[B]

You know, I'm. There is a. There are. Blue curry. Yes. A Bahamian artist living and working in London. So, you know, the things that are wrong with this is like you can do. You can. You don't need investors. You can use Mastodon, you can use Blue Cry. You know, there's all these different alternatives. The European Union people need to stand up to these nuts. This really is this.

[A]

Yeah. Talk about fascists.

[B]

Yes, yes. Well, listen to this. This is from the UK GB News. I'm saying it so you know, it's slanted, but this, this takes it. Good evening. A convicted terrorist is standing for election in Birmingham Shahid, but was convicted in Yemen in 1999 for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen, an Anglican church and a hotel. Now, he claims to have been wrongly convicted, saying that the charges were not terrorism related and he was forced into signing a confession. He was reportedly linked to an armed Islamist jihadi group of radicals who kidnapped 16 Westerners in 1998. They were accused during the criminal proceedings of being sent to Yemen by this guy. He is the hook handed hate cleric, the former preacher of London's Finsbury park mosque who was found guilty of 11 charges, charges of terrorism and kidnapping in a Manhattan court. He's currently being sentenced to two life sentences plus 100 years with no possibility of parole. In America. In the early 1990s, Shahid, who is standing for election in Birmingham's Sparkhill Ward, apparently travelled to Bosnia as an aid worker and then just stayed and joined the Foreign Fighters Brigade of the Bosnian Army.

[A]

Army.

[B]

Before that, he had been jailed in Birmingham for violence and was in trouble regularly through the 1980s, linked to his role in the notorious Lynx gang. According to reports in the Birmingham Mail, he has openly encouraged the city's Muslim youth to work out at the gym and learn to fight in readiness for potential attacks, and urged Muslims to stand together and hold their ground against people of other faiths who he describes as disbelievers. Yeah, well, there's. There's GB News freaking everybody out in the uk. Yeah, this. They're men of fighting age and they're training in the gym, Going to the.

[A]

Gym and they're going to beat you up.

[B]

Wsocial eu. Well, that's.

[A]

You found it finally.

[B]

Well, the troll room found it for me. That's snappy. Trust your feedback.

[A]

Wait, W Sec.

[B]

No W Social. Wso.

[A]

Wsocial eu.

[B]

Yes. I would have done W. EU if it was available.

[A]

Well, they probably can't get W. Eu. Why don't you just put that in there, see what you come up with. W. Eu.

[B]

So listen to this. Trust your feed. We believe in the need for a global trusted social media platform, owned, run and hosted in Europe. Europe W is built on verified human users, transparency, privacy and free speech, like free beer. We want to build W together with you.

[A]

How's that going to work in the uk?

[B]

Beta access will be rolled out gradually starting in March.

[A]

Only for beta. You have to be a beta.

[B]

Yes. For betas only.

[A]

Or as they say, beta.

[B]

Beta. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I signed up. I did not get a confirmation email, but I signed up. Signed up. But it's global. It's not just for the eu, it's global. So that.

[C]

Global.

[B]

Yeah, it's global.

[A]

I have one unreported story that nobody's reporting on in any of the mainstream, and I thought I'd at least get it out of the way early.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And it's under unreported is where you'd.

[B]

Expect it to be. And in another development, the United States is apparently keeping a close eye on the upcoming elections in Iraq.

[A]

President Trump posted on Truth Social that if former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al.

[B]

Maliki is elected, then the US will, quote, no longer help Iraq. Trump added that under Al Maliki's former leadership, the country descended into poverty and total chaos. Al Maliki, who was recently nominated by the country's dominant political party, responded by saying, quote, we refused reject the blatant American interference in Iraq's internal affairs and consider it a violation of its sovereignty. Jason Perry, NTD News that got a little bit of coverage, but, yeah, of course not.

[A]

Well, you heard about it.

[B]

Okay, we gotta have the Zapruder film running over and over again on the quad screen. But that said, all of a sudden, and this just happened without. I didn't get a notification. Iran opened up. The Internet is reconnected. Everything's back to normal. CNN is on the scene doing man on the Street. And hilarious results because it's exactly what we've always heard from our Iranians. Iran's leadership is sending a very strong and defiant message to the United this guy is in Iran states.

[A]

And specifically, of course, to the Trump administration.

[B]

You could see it here on this gigantic poster on Revolution Square in central Tehran.

[A]

The message on this massive poster is.

[B]

If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind, obviously, meaning if the United States attacks Iran, Iran will retaliate in a massive way, which could, of course, lead to a major military confrontation.

[A]

Between the United States and Iran.

[B]

And that's also something that's on the minds of many of the people that we've been speaking to here as well. I'm not sure what to say.

[C]

I think they're all collaborating with one.

[B]

Another against the interest of the Iranian people.

[A]

I don't think Trump dares to attack.

[B]

He's more bluffing. All this, of course, comes as President Trump weighs his options on what to do next. The US has pulled together a substantial military force here in this region, but the Iranians also say they've replenished their stockpiles of ballistic missiles and are ready.

[A]

To hit back hard anytime now.

[B]

Of course, all this comes in the wake of those large protests that happened here in Iran in the early part of January. And when you're out on the streets.

[A]

Here, you can see that there are.

[B]

People who are still traumatized by what happened then. There were lots of people out there in the streets. When I had to leave home, I don't know what to say, but the situation was very bad. Now that the Internet connection is restored.

[A]

We only now know.

[B]

So we've got the late. Sorry for the audio. We've got the lady on the street saying, I think they're all just colluding with each other, the Americans and the Iranian leadership. Which is what? Yeah, that's what I think too consistently. But I'm just kind of missing the, you know, the, the videos, the horrible video. Like real videos, not the ones that were from Egypt from five years ago or whatever. You know this. The reports are 30, 40,000 people slaughtered. How come we're not seeing that video?

[A]

Yeah, where's our videos? Everyone's got a phone cam, so everyone.

[B]

The whole thing is very sus, as the kids would say.

[A]

Sus.

[B]

Sus. Yeah, it's sus as in suspect. Sus.

[A]

Oh, sus.

[B]

Sus. Yes. Sus.

[A]

It's hard to say the whole word here.

[B]

We have. Well, that's as the kids say. I qualified it. Here's the France 24 report about the Armando.

[C]

With anti US messaging on billboards and in headlines on Iranian newspapers, tensions are simmering amid threats of a US Attack on Iran. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump again renewed his warnings, referring to a US Naval strike group that is now in Middle east waters. Trump said the fleet was larger than one sent to Venezuela before the kidnapping of that country's president. He called on Iran to negotiate a, quote, fair and equitable deal, mentioning no nuclear weapons weapons. Trump suggested that if there was no response, the next attack would be far worse than last year's US Strikes on Iran. Under Operation Midnight Hammer, the Iranian mission to the United nations hit out at the threat on social media, saying Iran stands ready for dialogue based on mutual respect and interests. But if pushed, it will defend itself and respond like never before. Speaking at the UN later, China warned against what it called military adventurism in Iran. Earlier this month, Trump pulled back from threats of military action over Tehran's deadly crackdown against anti government demonstrations, claiming the regime had reversed a decision to hang hundreds of protesters. And amid pleas from Gulf nations to de escalate. Last week, though, Washington said it was sending a massive fleet to the region just in case. Analysts say U.S. options include strikes on military facilities facilities or targeted hits against the leadership under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a full scale bid to bring down the regime. Meanwhile in Europe, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday that the Iranian government's days were numbered. The EU is expected to sign off on a first volley of sanctions over the deadly crackdown this Thursday. There are also discussions to add Iran's Revolutionary Guards to the bloc's terrorist list.

[B]

So when the president says, or when the news says that they're sending a giant fleet, an armada to the region. So where is that? The Gulf of Oman? The Persian Gulf? Qatar?

[A]

I'm thinking the same Thing, where is this.

[B]

Where's going to be Arabian Sea? Just going to be sitting out there. Iran. I mean. Yeah. They have.

[A]

Has anybody identified exactly where it's going? Well, where it's going to be positioned? I haven't heard that. We don't even know that there's a fleet being moved at all.

[B]

No. And so that kind of comes back to the lady on the street and people who we know have said this consistently. American and the Iranian leadership, they do this all the time. They're doing stuff together.

[A]

Yeah, that would be the cafe chat in. In most of the Middle East.

[B]

I'm just like, where, where are they sending this? Where are. You know, what's that water off of Baku. Baku, Azerbaijan.

[A]

I'm thinking where the gate?

[B]

That's the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea. Well, you can't get Caspian. I think the gate sea.

[A]

Where the gate. Where's that gate? There's a star.

[B]

Oh, yeah. The, the Gulf of Aden.

[A]

Yeah. It's supposed to be. You know what comes out of that?

[B]

Yeah. Fish. Yes. When the, when the porthole opens up, that's when the fish come out.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Fish.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

To feed us.

[B]

But even then it's like, okay, I guess. Yes. Well, we have Navy boys and girls. Let us know are you underway? Are you full steam underway?

[A]

No, they probably can't tell us. I'm not even.

[B]

Yes, they can. Yes, they can. Yes, they can.

[A]

Well, they know what they can do and what they can't.

[B]

So I've been thinking about these. About the Chinese military guys. I think that.

[A]

Who's they?

[B]

The Chinese military guys who were kicked out by Xi.

[A]

No, you said they're thinking about.

[B]

I've been thinking, I said. Well, I meant to say.

[A]

Oh, you said. You, you, you're thinking about it.

[B]

I know it's dangerous. I'm thinking. I think that there might have been a coup. I think. Sorry, a coup? I think there was a coup afoot.

[A]

Where?

[B]

In China?

[A]

Oh, you mean in China. That's why they got rid of all those generals out of the blue?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

These were top coup afoot. Yes. I never thought of that, but I. You might be right. What else? Why else would they do that? And it would be the military would pull the coup. Yeah, because that's what they do in these guys.

[B]

Top guys too.

[A]

And they're top guys.

[B]

I got a minute long report, y'.

[A]

All. Just weeks after holding war games that encircled Taiwan, which alarmed the island's government, China announced it's investigating its most seen senior uniformed military officer, General Zhang Yuzhao. Second in command of China's military behind.

[B]

President Xi Jinping, along with Lu Zhengli.

[A]

Another general, are suspected of serious violations of discipline and law.

[B]

The University of Toronto's Lynette Ong says.

[A]

Following the recent dismissal of other generals, the probes could be about loyalty. I think president is trying to consolidate power.

[B]

Zhang is one of the few Chinese.

[A]

Officers with combat experience, and his father marched with Mao Zedong, making him part of an elite. Former ambassador to China says it appears Zhang always saw himself as equal to Xi, who holds more power than even Chairman Mao did. It shows that Xi is not as powerful as people may think. Taiwan's defense minister says the country is closely monitoring the changes in China's military. China views Taiwan as a breakaway province, and Xi previously pledged reunification and has not ruled out using the military. Military to achieve it.

[B]

I think they're just throwing the Taiwan thing in just for effect, but I.

[A]

It just feels like the Taiwan would be a distraction to keep you. Oh, yeah. Taiwan, Taiwan, Taiwan. Instead of thinking what's really going on, which was a attempted or a suspected or a plot.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Feels that he got wind of because there's always, you know, you got too many people, you know, got to keep it to three or four guys max and hope that none of them are.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Not easy. Not easy. Especially with a guy like Xi, who's just a complete. He's kind of paranoid. He gets rid of people real fast.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But I can see being the second in command and with this guy who's never going to die, who took. Who changed the rules and said, no, I'm going to be the premier forever. It would be irksome.

[B]

If we look at ark. I'm still hoping that ARK comes together. America, Russia, China, China. Now President Putin has said, you know, I'm kind of all in on that board of peace. Billion dollars, no problem. Ask the Europeans for it. They're holding our money for us. It's the funniest thing.

[A]

Is that what he did? Really?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

That took a lot of work.

[B]

Yeah, we're good. We already. We are ready to direct $1 billion to this new structure. He says, we got some frozen assets over there. Ask the Europeans to send it over. I'll sign the check.

[A]

Cute. Very cute. Well, I have a Ukraine update that talks about this. Not about that, but about what's going on.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

The U.S. continues efforts to end the fighting between Russia and Ukraine. Both President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are praising the ongoing progress. NTD's international correspondent Arian Posdar has more.

[B]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted this video on X on Wednesday, praising post war recovery plans that are being developed with the U.S. zelenskyy says work with the American side is progressing actively. I thank the envoys of the President of the United States for their constructive approach in the negotiations. Just on Tuesday, President Trump also praised the progress that's being made to end.

[A]

The Russia Ukraine war. We're looking at some very good things happening on Ukraine and Russia.

[B]

Very good things. Very good. Very good things are happening on Ukraine and Russia. And the Kremlin on Wednesday saying Zelensky is being invited to visit Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. We have never declined and will not decline such contact. The main thing is that these contacts are well prepared. If Zelensky is truly ready for a meeting, we invite him to Moscow and guarantee his safety.

[A]

The Kremlin official added that Putin already.

[B]

Discussed the possible meeting with Zelensky during phone calls with Trump.

[A]

Meanwhile, the fighting in Ukraine continues.

[B]

Ukrainian officials report strikes on various cities across the country. A monastery in Odessa came under attack on Wednesday.

[A]

Another attack also damaged port infrastructure in the Odessa region. Officials say three people were hurt in the strikes. And in Kiev, a couple died in an overnight attack.

[B]

According to Zelensky, the couple was at home with their daughter during the attack. Yeah, everything I see, the Ukrainian people are sick of Zelensky. They're sick of the war. They're so done with it.

[A]

Yeah, they should be. Of course, it's not going anywhere for this, them. And by the way, if Zelensky takes the meeting in Moscow, you said by.

[B]

The way, I just caught this one.

[A]

Ah, thank you. Yeah, I'm going to have a lot of trouble breaking that.

[B]

Well, we need a different phrase. We need to program something else.

[A]

Well, if I could program myself to say something different, I will, but I. And I've thought about it. But if Zelensky takes the meeting in Moscow, I advise him going by train.

[B]

Yeah, could be one of those unfortunate.

[A]

Kim Jong Un has got the right idea.

[B]

Trains. Trains, yeah. Well, this gives me the opportunity to check in with our boy Mark Rutte.

[C]

He's a man constantly treading a delicate line between Donald Trump and Europe. But NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte swung largely in the favor of the US as he addressed the European Parliament in Brussels on the Monday.

[B]

If anyone thinks here again that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US Keep on dreaming, keep on dreaming. Keep on dreaming. You will be Just run over. You can't. We can't. We can't each other. You need each other.

[C]

Strong words.

[B]

I think you need us more than we need you. I'm just saying.

[C]

Warning for Europe, but also a stress on mutual dependence. As a Dutchman at the head of the military alliance between the US, Canada and 30 European countries, Rutte has been central to calming transatlantic tensions since Trump's renewed threats to annex Greenland, a semi autonomous territory of Denmark. Dubbed the Trump Whisperer. Rutte has been carefully cultivating his relationship with Trump before taking.

[B]

Then they go into the whole daddy thing a bit. But there is some news on, on Greenland and it seems like the framework is coming into view.

[C]

It's been one week since the US President abruptly announced that the framework of a deal had been reached with the head of NATO over the semi autonomous territory of Greenland.

[A]

I think it's a really good deal.

[C]

For everybody and the details are still scarce. But one thing both Greenland and Denmark's leaders have reiterated is that sovereignty remains a red line.

[B]

There's no need for us to acquire, acquire Greenland in order to accommodate the security concerns. We have a defence agreement for 51. We are open to discuss whether there should be any amendments.

[C]

Since 1951, under the Defence of Greenland treaty, Washington has had near unlimited access to the territory to construct military facilities in coordination with Danish authorities. According to the New York Times, citing anonymous diplomats, the framework could include an updated pact to effectively create pockets of American soil in the territory. This would give the US greater control over the land to assist Donald Trump's plans for a Golden Dome missile defence program. NATO has also been discussing a so called Arctic sentry, a new mission in the region similar to those in the Baltic Sea and on Europe's eastern flank. That would dial up the alliance's defence.

[B]

So that's a good idea just.

[A]

Well, at the very beginning it says an agreement with NATO. NATO doesn't own Greenland.

[B]

But that's, that's just France 24 for.

[A]

No, that's what I've heard before. They keep talking about an agreement with NATO.

[B]

No, that's wishful thinking, but I like the idea. Just like embassies, if you're in a US embassy, you are on US soil. So we could just create all these cool embassy like green zones in Greenland. Hey, how about that? That are American soil and we give those 57,000 people a crust. They all seem to be on the edge of the beach there, you know, it's where all those homes are. Yeah, they're all kind of in one spot.

[A]

So, yeah, because it's in one spot where they can huddle up and fish and fish and.

[B]

And then you expand the 1951 agreement. That's probably what it was all along. He just wanted to make it, you know, this part of the deal. Yell, yell, yell, oh, I want the. I want the moon. I want everything. And then, hey, you know what? The moon. When are those guys going?

[A]

Aren't they going, I got an Artemis clip. Play it.

[B]

Oh, oh, good. Okay, Artemis. I'm excited. Here we go.

[C]

The Artemis 2 mission is getting closer and closer.

[A]

And now NASA says is your chance to orbit the moon with the astronauts.

[C]

Well, kind of. Your name can.

[A]

Anyway, along with the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft, there's going to be.

[C]

An SD card and your name could be on it.

[A]

The mission may launch in early February. That all depends on whether the vehicle.

[B]

And the crew are ready and the.

[C]

Weather, you know, the forecast.

[A]

It's pretty easy to submit your [e-mail].

[C]

Or the name of that X you never ever want to see again.

[B]

Where was that? That was npr.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, boy.

[A]

I like the horrible laugh.

[B]

An SD card. I mean, let's. How about one of those you're have.

[A]

An SD card on. I mean, they used to carry a whole, a whole car, whatever that vehicle.

[B]

The lunar rover, that dune buggy, huge.

[A]

Dune buggy on these things. And now they can only barely get an SD card on.

[B]

How can't we send one of those 22 terabyte drives with all the no agenda shows on it and all the jingles and everything? So the, the, you know, the green.

[A]

We don't need. But I don't even need it.

[B]

I need.

[A]

We're under a terabyte for all that stuff. 22 terabytes. You could put a lot of good stuff.

[B]

Well, we have producers who have stuff to add. You know, we could create an open repository probably.

[A]

The drive's probably too heavy for the mission.

[B]

Oh, man. Yeah, the moon. But they're not even landing on the moon, are they? Aren't they going?

[A]

No, not this time. Not this time.

[B]

No.

[A]

Yeah, they're going to flip around it.

[B]

Which is the furthest in space anyone's ever been. That's how, that's how they're billing it because.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know how that works, but that's what they're saying.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so they're going to flip around and come. Which means they still have to go through the Van Allen belts, which is one of the issues.

[B]

That's an issue.

[A]

And so we'll find out about that if they do it. And I don't know, we'll see.

[B]

Well, I always have to remember when Elon Musk launched his, his roadster into space with the, with the spacesuit guy in it.

[A]

Yeah. With the, with the dummy. With the crash dummy.

[B]

Yeah. And then he says, I know it looks like, well, at, at the time we didn't have A.I. we called it CGI. Says, I know it looks like CGI, but it's, it's real, man. It's real. It's really up there. Where is that thing?

[A]

Well, that's a good question. I think it's probably gone into the deep space.

[B]

It borders on a great question.

[A]

It borders on a great question, but it's not because there's no such thing.

[B]

Anyway, before we take a break and have a very short thank you for a couple of people who supported the show today, following along with what you pegged right away with the prediction markets. Washington is under the loop on these.

[C]

Websites like Polymarket and Kalshi. Gambling or betting or purchasing contracts on political events is becoming increasingly more popular. As I mentioned in my story, people are betting on when the White House briefing will start, what the press secretary will say. They're betting on geopolitical events. They're betting on legislation. There's an active bet right now about whether or not the government will shut down this weekend. So as that becomes more and more prevalent, people who are in Washington are uniquely positioned to potentially misuse information that they have access to to profit on these websites, which is why advocates and experts are saying there need to be more rules in place.

[B]

One of the most fascinating parts of your piece was the revelation that there are two places in Washington where these prediction sites are inaccessible and one where it is. Where are these locations? And does the, does that reveal to you there are fears of a possible new form of insider trading as you alluded to? Right.

[C]

So as you said, there are at least two places in Washington where access to Polymarket and Kalshi is blocked on the Internet. And that would be the White House press WI Fi and the briefing room that reporters use and the WI Fi in the House of Representatives that reporters and other other members of people who are there use. And that would really seem to suggest a sort of a way awareness in the wake of all this sort of discussion about betting on what's happening in the briefing room. The White House has been sort of quiet. But the fact that they blocked Polymarket and Couch on the White House would suggest that they sense the potential for Some sort of a problem.

[B]

Can't you just use your cell phone? They have to. Why are people on the White House? Wi Fi is the last thing I would connect to. We got to get into point. We got to get into this prediction markets. I think we could make a killing. I want to bet on.

[A]

Well, we'd definitely be good at it.

[B]

Yeah, I want to bet on the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest.

[A]

Oh, we get those long. Yeah, the way you make a killing with the long shots. Surefire long shot. That's the kicker.

[B]

You know, everyone's doing law, filing lawsuits about X. This is the problem. This. This is just gambling for kids. These predictions.

[A]

Before we jump to that, I have a clip that could take us right into the donations.

[B]

Can I do something beforehand? Because it was a good idea. I want to ask the robot where Elon Musk's roadster is.

[A]

Yes, why don't you do that?

[B]

Okay, robot, what is the current location of Elon Musk's roadster and spaceman that he sent into space years ago?

[C]

That roadster with Starman in the driver's seat, is currently in a heliocentric orbit, essentially orbiting the sun. You can actually track its approximate location on websites that provide real time simulations of its path. It's quite a journey.

[A]

Well, okay, that was so it's melted.

[B]

It's underwhelming. This is underwhelming. Ants. This robot's no good. Good.

[A]

The robot's no good.

[B]

It's no good. All right, what do we have?

[A]

I have a good. Lead us right into the donation. This is the old. Now, this is an interesting clip. This is floating around. This is an old coot. Yes, actually, I clipped it twice. Old farts. The other one, Same clip.

[B]

Same clip.

[A]

And it sounds like it was done in the 40s or something, but in fact, this is a re. Because based on the information he provides, this is some old fart that's on. On TikTok with this commentary, which I thought was. Was relevant. We wanted to see the brain, so somebody invented the mri, wanted to see bones, invented the X ray, wanted to.

[B]

See babies in the womb.

[A]

Ultrasound, Hell, we got CAT scans, PET scans, 3D imaging.

[B]

We got machines that can look through.

[A]

Clothes at the airport. We got satellites that can read a license plate from space. They can print organs.

[B]

Now they can do remote surgery with.

[A]

A robot sitting in another state.

[B]

So would somebody please explain to me.

[A]

Why my doctor's gotta stick his finger up my ass?

[B]

And with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the coup that's afoot. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John c. D.

[A]

Morning. You see anchoring sea with some graphene the air subs in the water in the names and nights out there in.

[B]

The morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let me count you.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

1,536. Okay. By the way, the robot could have just said, where's. Where's the teslaroadster.com the troll room is better than the robots.

[A]

It's not good.

[B]

Good. No. But that's. And this is the Gemini. I'm. I'm tapped into the Gemini API right now, and it's just. It's also disappointing. You guys talk about that? Did you do a DH unplug this week? I haven't listened yet.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, Every week.

[B]

Yeah. And. And what. What did. What was Andrew saying about the AI trade? What does he think? Is it going to blow up soon? What's. What's the. What's the thinking?

[A]

There's no evidence it's going to blow up soon.

[B]

Well, how about the dollar? The dollar went down, like.

[A]

Yeah, it went down, but, you know, everyone's, I think a little overdoing. That's. I look at it. What is it today? It's like a buck 19. Europe versus the year round one. What is it, 120?

[B]

Around 120. Yeah, it's around.

[A]

Well, it was 119 last I saw. And a penny's a big deal.

[B]

I heard Trump say I can make it go up and down like a yo yo whenever I want. I'm not sure he can, but he said. Said that.

[A]

I don't remember him saying that.

[B]

Yeah, I should have clipped it. Yeah, yeah, he said. And he's just good. I like it. I like the dollar like this. All those other countries were always devaluing, and now without saying it, we've done it, I guess. How do you devalue? Just by printing money or you say it?

[A]

Huh? Yeah, well, you do it by printing money.

[B]

Yeah, well, you know, all the. Everyone's out there now. Oh, oh, it's gonna collapse. We're gonna have a collapse.

[A]

Yeah, well, there's going to be a. There's always going to be a collapse. So you can say that. Yeah, you can say it all the time. Eventually be right. Yeah.

[B]

And with gold. Gold, gold, man, we should have gotten in that gold advertising a long time again ago.

[A]

Yeah, should have.

[B]

I mean, we could have gotten paid in gold, you know, think. Or silver. What's silver?

[A]

I know. Somebody had a gold bar once.

[B]

No, don't start. All right, everybody. Thank tuning in, you trolls. They're [e-mail] there's always something live going on at noagendastream.com, which is just dynamite. And if you use the modern podcast app, and there are many who have this [e-mail] when you subscribe, like if you're following Planet Rage, of course you follow the no Agenda show. When we go live, when those guys go live, boom, you get a notification. I think it's like Tuesday or Wednesday. Whenever they do that, I'm usually walking the dog. Like, oh, they're live. Boom. I listen. And if I'm tired of listening to them and I want to get the podcast, the minute it's like 90 seconds after we upload the show, boom. It's available on those apps. That's the kind of app you want. Don't settle for less from some of those Silicon Valley companies who just can't do what we're doing because we're agile. Value for value is the name of the game for us. Which means. Means we give you the show. Been doing it for over 18 years. We give you the entire program. We don't have any restrictions. It's no premium content somewhere else. We're not available on fast. This is a new acronym I learned fast.

[A]

What, what's fast?

[B]

Fast. It's free ad supported television. Supposedly this is. They're really picking up the fasts. So that's Pluto.

[A]

Wait, wait. Free ad supported television? That's different than broadcast television. How?

[B]

Because it's streaming. It's only streaming. It's not broadcast.

[A]

But it's the same thing, basically, is that it's ads.

[B]

Look, I'm just giving you some information from. From. From out there in the world. This is what it's called. And now you're arguing about whether it's broadcast or not. That's not the point.

[A]

No, I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing they make it as was like a. Some like a great new idea. Golly, no one's ever thought of this before.

[B]

Well, the reason I bring it up is because more and more people are giving. I mean, this is what I'm hearing that are thinking or are actively starting to give up their subscriptions to one or more of the many subscriptions they have.

[A]

A.

[B]

And this is a complaint you and I have, because there's nothing good on it anymore. And if you want to see old muck, you Might as well just get to be. Or Pluto. Pluto. And just watch that and deal with the ads. It's. We've come full circle. I mean, come on. Has there been anything good on any of these streamers lately? We talk about it after the show. That's by the way. Here's a. We are giving you a behind the scenes look after the show, after we've had all of this fantastic.

[A]

We grouse at each other.

[B]

We grouse like, what are you watching? There's nothing good. There's nothing. There's no.

[A]

Well, I brought Brunetti into the conversation as best I could. Could. And he can't find anything except he says Turan is kind of worth watching. So I tried watching it.

[B]

Unwatchable.

[A]

It's kind of unwatchable. It's a little. I don't mind the. Here's the problem I have with some of these things like Turan, which is a Apple TV show. And I've had it with other shows too at. When you get older and I. By older, I mean anybody over 40. Suspense is annoying.

[B]

You're right. Another. I mean it must be the low T because ever since I got my T measured and I'm low, I'm like, suspense is annoying. Everything's annoying. It's just no good.

[A]

I don't see how low T would affect annoyance. But I will say that it's annoying. I mean. And good. Super good suspense. People like Alfred Hitchcock actually unfortunately made it popular, but nobody can do it as well as he does. So it. So it's annoying. They. Nobody. It's like a farce. Farces are very difficult to pull off as a. As a dramatic.

[B]

Give an example of a farce.

[A]

A farce is tip. The Frasier show was mostly farce.

[B]

Yeah. Farce.

[A]

And a farce is typically a misunderstanding taken to a maximum level limit. And the. The great farces that were produced on Broadway, they tend to come out of England. England is the great farcers.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And they get. For people who like to see mother farcers.

[B]

They're the mother of all farcers. The mother there are.

[A]

And the. The two great ones are noises off for people like go. Ever see it on. Ever get to see it on Broadway? Noises off is one of them. And was something with my wife. Follow your wife.

[B]

Isn't it? Also a lot of those. And the British shows do this a lot where the. The coming in and out of doors. The next person comes in and they misunderstood it and then they leave and another person that's a farce. Yeah.

[A]

And a lot of doors opening and closing. A run for your wife is a really good one. That's where a guy who's a bigamist ends up in the hospital and his two wives come to see him, but never at the same time. Quiet. And he's trying to keep him from showing up. It's a very good farce. Run for your w. Wife. And there's a bunch of them. There's probably. Probably when I go to London, which I don't do anymore, but when I used to go all the time.

[B]

It's been 10 years.

[A]

I would always see a farce.

[B]

You won't even be allowed in anymore. They'll at the border be like, oh, Dvorak.

[A]

They don't let anybody. Land of lurk. And Michael Savage will.

[B]

Wait, what was our nickname for her?

[A]

And it was McGillicuddy or something.

[B]

Eva McGillicuddy. I'll remember it now. Eva McGillicuddy. Anyway, yeah, so you know people. And eventually they're all going to get sick of watching the podcasts on YouTube. It's a cycle. We've been. It takes about six, seven years. We're now in year three, year two.

[A]

And there is an advertising cycle, too, that you and I both know of because we've seen it collapse at least twice.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And it's due for a third collapse.

[B]

Yes. And we're due for a third awakening. All these things are happening. The season of reveal is upon us, ladies and gentlemen.

[A]

Yeah, sure.

[B]

Value for value can be return. The value can be returned to us in many ways. Time, talent, or treasure. And we always thank our supporters, our financial supporters, who are critical. Critical for our mission. And it doesn't take much. It can be just five bucks a show or whatever value you get out of it, send it back to us. If you're spending two, three hours listening to us, you must be getting something out of it.

[A]

Just think of it as a cup of Frappuccino.

[B]

Not even Frappuccino.

[A]

That's all we expect. It's just a cup of coffee.

[B]

And I might want to point out that even with inflation. Inflation and the devaluation of the dollar, we have never changed the level ratio for becoming a knight. We've never changed it.

[A]

No.

[B]

You know, it's worth about 600 bucks now.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. That's a deal.

[B]

20 years. 18 years. Yeah, it's a deal. It's a deal. He said it's a deal, man. It's a deal and a steal. Exactly. Of course. Time, talent, treasure. We talked about the Treasure. Treasure. Time and talent done in many different ways. So for instance, you're going to a meetup this Saturday.

[A]

Oakland.

[B]

Oakland. It's a perfect example of people putting together a meetup. You know, you got to organize, you got to make sure people are coming and it's appreciated. These are things that help the show. Always help the show. Particularly if you treat John like a bride at a Jewish wedding and stick envelopes full of cash to his back with scotch tape. We recommend gaffer. And then there's art. And this is interesting for today's episode or actually episode 1837 which we titled moral injury lawsuits are coming. Darren O' Neill just nailed it once again with the no Agenda Cosmic Barrier condom. Which because it didn't have kind of like a circular impression in it, I think it took everybody maybe three or four seconds to realize what they were looking, looking at. But when we saw this and we just like, we just cracked up. And Darren sent us the actual prompts and what he went through to create this art. And I thought this was interesting to communicate to the potential artists out there or prompters. Here was his prompt, the I and I'm surprised at how simple this was. Was square.

[A]

Yeah, his prompts are pretty simple. I've gotten them from him every so often when I want one square aspect.

[B]

Ratio, photorealistic product mock up and then all caps. No agenda Space condom produced by the Curry and Dvorak Co. Made especially for no gravity fornication. Make the packaging vibrant and space themed to which he got from ChatGPT where he's making this. Apparently, apparently I can't generate or generate. I can't create or generate sexual content or imagery for someone under 18 including product concepts centered on sex or explicit activity. If you have another design idea that's non sexual like a parody space cadet sci fi snack or humorous no agenda space product, I'm happy to help bring that to life. And then Darren gets into an actual conversation, an argument. Argument with his butt. Well, but, but I'm, I'm. I'm 55 and this thing keeps on coming back. No, I believe you. I'm genuinely sorry for the friction this creates. It's not about me doubting you, Darren. This specific chat session is operate operating under a teen safe mode flack flag which hard locks certain categories. And so Darren had to go around it and then he said, just make it no Agenda Zero G Safety sleeve. No Agenda Orbital wrapper. No Agenda Space Protector. No Agenda Cosmic Barrier. And somehow he got it, he got it to work. But what's kind of weird is that he had this whole conversation. I put it in the show notes. This whole conversation with the chatbot. I'm getting a little concerned about it, Darren. I mean, this stuff could reel you in.

[A]

He's producing quality product.

[B]

Yeah, but he's talking to it like it's a human.

[A]

Well, it thinks it is.

[B]

It does not think. Does not.

[A]

No, it doesn't think. It is. It's programmed to behave that way. Yes, it's bogus.

[B]

It is.

[A]

And he's had. But he has to deal with it because this is like. This is like, you know, it's like a nut that you can't get to fit on the screw on the threads. It won't fit because the wrong.

[B]

Something's wrong.

[A]

You got to force it on.

[B]

Oh, Darren said that's what ChatGPT suggested. Okay. Well, anyway, you know what, Darren? It worked. It was good.

[A]

If you.

[B]

And I'm sure you couldn't do the little round circle impression thing, that would have violated its terms.

[A]

You could have done that by Photoshop if you pull.

[B]

Oh, please. No one's going to do any. No one's doing any extra work.

[A]

Yeah, somebody could.

[B]

I think we had a no agenda. Art Generator.com is where you can upload your prompted beauties. Let me see. Was there anything else we liked?

[A]

That was pretty much I like something. I think Jeffrey Raya did I use for the newsletter. I can't find. I'm looking for it. Or Blue Acorn.

[B]

Blue Acorn's doing stuff again.

[A]

Blue Acorn really cranking it up because he, you know, he wasn't mentioned.

[B]

He hates Darren the way I see. Right. Yeah. If we don't mention. All right, so let's mention comics or blogger. Rocket Boy. Jeffrey. Ria. I don't see Scaramanga. Didn't mention him. So Scaramanga.

[A]

That was a Scaramanga piece I used for the newsletter.

[B]

Yes, Right. Yes. The Snow Games. Yeah. That was a good piece.

[A]

Very good piece.

[B]

I don't think. Was that uploaded when we were looking for.

[A]

I don't know. I don't think so. Because I would have noticed it.

[B]

Yeah, I don't think.

[A]

I was kind of surprised when I saw it. I don't see it now. I mean, it came and went. I don't know.

[B]

No, I see it. I see it on the right hand. Hand side. Anyway, noagendaartgenerator.com the value is right there in the prompting. Thank you so much. And now, as we thank everyone $50 and above, we start with our Executive and associate executive producers. We are, after all, Hollywood guys and we like to give these credits out because they're real and they are something that you can keep forever. They last your lifetime. You can ensconce this, you can eternalize [e-mail] in fact, eternalize. I said internalize. Eternalize [e-mail] it might have already been done for you. Interestingly, some friend of the show seems to be doing this for people, but that's. We're okay with that, I guess. Although people like to maintain their own accounts. And of course you can put it on your social media profile and your LinkedIn. You can call yourself a producer, a podcast producer. You might get gigs out of it. Side hustle.

[A]

It sounds good.

[B]

$200 or above gets you an associate executive producer credit and we will read your note. $300 and above and executive producer credit and we also read your note and there's no note to read for our top exec today. Chris Moore from Indianapolis, Indiana comes in with $590 no notes. So if you want to send that for the next show, we'll read it. Chris. In the meantime, you get a double up. Karma.

[A]

You've got.

[C]

Karma.

[A]

And you can take this one from Dalton.

[B]

Why? I don't want to take.

[A]

I can't read it. It's. I won't. It just doesn't. It's no good.

[B]

I have the same problem. Okay. I am one of your many Zoomer listeners. I'm an older Zoomer, 28 years old.

[A]

We love the Zoomers.

[B]

We love the Zeds who listen, are smart and they're here to get educated. And they know that. Yeah, we're, you know, we talk about Bakelite phones, but you're going to learn something that you will learn. You will learn things that are good for your in this world.

[A]

I believe so.

[B]

And this Zoomer has not missed an episode in almost 12 years. So he started listening when he was 16. After listening to Sunday Show, I felt compelled to donate and to say this. Congratulations. The stupid ass clip of Scott Simon talking about exploding trees is the single worst clip you have ever played on the no Agenda show. Yes.

[A]

Nice.

[B]

Yes. The premise of the clip is asinine, but here are some Scott Simon journalistic gems. I think you missed one. Scott asks what a cracking tree sounds like. The guy says it sounds like a large cracking sound. I can't believe we didn't catch that. 2. Scott asks if any trees crack more than others. The guy says maple trees, hardwood trees, and conifer trees in Other words, all trees.

[A]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[B]

Then the guy says, this only happens if the temperature is under minus 20 degrees. Scott says, that's pretty cold, isn't it? Wow, what a journalist. Thanks, Scott Simon. Truly, NPR is America's national treasure.

[A]

Have his own podcast.

[B]

He makes around $450,000 a year. By the way, he says, I hate this clip. It is a prime example of how listening to the media actually makes you dumber. Good thing no one listens to NPR but you two. Everyone's just watching TikTok and Instagram. And if your blue collar company still isn't posting high enough quality content on social media. Oh, here we go. Check out fishermultimedia.com oh, he slips in. He slips in. A side hustle. We scratch, shoot and edit and post all of your content for you so you don't have have to. Hey, here's an idea. Here's an idea. Why don't you do some of that for the no Agenda show? Now he says he does lawn care. Landscapers, roofers, plumbers, contractors. We got you covered. We made over 117 posts with at least 1 million views each, all organically. We're based in Phoenix where we travel nationwide to shoot video, visit fisher multimedia.com or email dolphins. How about.

[A]

Yeah, give us a bone.

[B]

Yeah, let's do that. That, please. By the way, he becomes a knight today, which I'm so happy to hear it was $369.12.

[A]

Well, he's spot on with the, with the deconstruction of Scott Simon.

[B]

And I would say, you know, we enjoy the products of people who have plugs as executive and associate executive producers. If you're any good, you won't even have to plug. We'll do. We'll talk about it. So, I mean, I know John hates that.

[A]

We talk about a lot of stuff.

[B]

We talk about lots of. We like the. If we like a product, we'll tell. So if you got this service, looking forward to it. He says, please play the Scott Simon jingle for me to celebrate my knighting. And please order me some PlayStation 2 and P.T. scott's for the roundtable. God bless, gents. The show has never been better.

[A]

Suffer and succotash.

[B]

I'm Scott. Simon. All right. Dynamite.

[A]

Good. All right. Then we go to Alex Pellegrino in Franklin, Tennessee, the Hub of Tennessee. $350. There's no note here, so we'll give him a double up. Karma.

[B]

Pretty sure I know, Alex.

[A]

You've got.

[C]

Karma.

[A]

I'll get the next one too, because that one was too short. I'm going to go to Bill Taos or Daos possibly in Pasadena, California. 333.33. And he rebelize. Aristocrats. Bill Taos, whatever. Rebelize. I don't know what he said saying there. That's what it came in as a note. So. Oh, hi, Bill.

[B]

Oh, I see what you did. Okay, that was really funny, John. So now. So now I get to read this long note again. That's why.

[A]

That's.

[B]

I'll take two in a row. I'm a nice guy. I'll just do two. No problem. Because you know that. There it is. Christine from Raleigh, N.C. 333.33. And she says, hi, Adam. I work at a large venue in Raleigh, North Carolina as a ticket taker. So when many folks come through my lane this weekend who were sitting in section 333, I knew it was assigned to donate. That's how it works.

[A]

Ah.

[B]

I'm also a professional event planner. I sent you an email inviting you to come to North Carolina. I didn't receive a spot response. So maybe if there's some money attached to the invitation, it helps. Plane tickets, money, hotel room, it will carry more weight. Please come to North Carolina. Carolina. I've been listening to the show since.

[A]

What are you going to do there? What she wants you to do.

[B]

I can't remember this email, so I shall have to send it to me again. I've attended many meetups since then. Y' all have a lot of loyal listeners here and I'm surprised at how many I've. I've met that have been listening since day one. I would love to work with you and the many folks here in our great community to plan and host the good old Southern shindig. You know, Tina and I would be happy to come to North Carolina. Carolina in the summer. Let's do it in the summer.

[A]

I think spring and fall is better, but we're going to be band as dynamite. As long as it includes whole pig barbecue.

[B]

Yes, that is a whole hog. Whole hog. That is a must. I'm hoping all the infamous North Carolina knights and dames and those aspiring to be who donate and listen regularly will consider this an invitation as well. Thank you for your courage, Christine in North Carolina. And if you want her contact details, you can email us and we'll give them to you. If you're looking for an event planner and. Yeah, well, let's send me another email. Christina, I have no, I can't Remember it. So I guess I didn't see it, but thank you, Tina And I do always try to at least go to another state once a year for one of the meetups. You do all the meetups? Local, as much as we can, but it would be fun. North Carolina, we've done South Carolina. Let's do North Carolina.

[A]

Raleigh's a good area too.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Meanwhile, also in North Carolina and Carboro, which I have no idea where that is. Sir Arie, $300. Sir Arie here. Love the show. Please play the shape shifting Jews and some relationship karma, which is much needed and appreciated. Please. Thank you for your courage.

[C]

You've got karma.

[B]

And we're at Linda Lupack in Castle Rock, Colorado. We know what she wants. Jobs, karma. It's always the same and for a reason. Because for a competitive edge with a resume that gets results, you can just go to Imagemakers Inc. It's for all of your executive resume and job search needs. That is ImageMakers Inc. With a K. And work with Linda Liu. She's the duchess of jobs and writer of winning resumes. One of our daughters, she works in this program. I think she's like a forest ranger now or something in Illinois. And I think it's only a two year thing and she's been there a year. And so the company said, all right, everybody, we want you to write your resume and we've hired this company who will then review it and send it back. What do you think happened?

[A]

They sent it to AI.

[B]

Exactly. They said they just literally charged this company money, took the resumes that these young people wrote, ran it through Chad, GPT, whatever it spit out, they sent it back and said, look, this is much better.

[C]

Better.

[B]

Can you believe that nonsense?

[A]

Yeah, I can believe it.

[B]

Go to ImageMakers Inc.com if you want resumes that get results. Best from Linda Lou.

[C]

Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs Karma.

[A]

Consultants.

[B]

Oh, that was it. That was the last one.

[A]

That was it. Yeah, you hit the bottom right there. That was a quickie. We didn't get a lot of support this show.

[B]

No, we didn'. But we will continue because hopefully I'll.

[A]

Get a couple more of those silver coins at the meetup. The ones Baron of San Francisco and somebody else always gives me a silver coin. I think they're going to probably hold on to them now.

[B]

Well, the ones we got, we got them at like, because I remember we got some donated. And you, I think you sent my half. Yeah, they've doubled in value by now. Was it 100 I think they're more.

[A]

Than that right now. I think silver's up to over 110.

[B]

What is, what is going on with that? Will that just keep, Is there, is there a top to this train?

[A]

Well, it turns out, if you want to know the story, yes, of course. Although it was explained on Horowitz.

[B]

Yeah, I hadn't listened yet.

[A]

You should listen. So they discovered there's a new patent by Samsung that is employing silver into the anode to make a silver carbon anode, I think is what it is for, for electric batteries for lithium ion that doesn't produce dendrites. And it's the dendrites, which is the little crystalline formations that take place in a battery structure that crack the battery and they, or catch the battery on fire or they make or hurt the battery's life and all the rest of it. So this thing will take a charge now, a high, high speed charge without making dendrites. It'll last longer if it goes through a thousands more cycles and it doesn't wear out so fast. It's a killer and it's going to chew. And people started doing the calculation on how much silver is going to be needed just for the lithium ion technology using these anodes. And the number was like, well, that's a little more than the supply that's currently available. And wait a minute, there's a huge shortfall. Now all these guys are doing calculations on bank of America and JP Morgan who have both shorted to death silver.

[B]

But they already went long. Didn't they all flip to, they've been.

[A]

Trying to buy back, but they can't buy back fast enough because there's not enough supply. And so they, so they created this ridiculous situation where it's like, it's a sense of realization, oh my God, the silver has been manipulated, purposely manipulated, but manipulated on the downside. And now that everyone's coming to this realization and all the shorts have to cover and everything in between, between it could. People are expecting it to go to $400. But I don't want to discourage anyone from giving me a silver coin at current prices.

[B]

That's interesting because, you know, Max Kaiser has been saying this for at least 10 years. He was saying, you know, silver, you know, we need to create a run on silver that'll ruin, I think, I don't know.

[A]

Well, we could, we. This is not a run on silver. This is a calculation that was done and everyone looks at the numbers and say, we haven't got enough silver for, for what they're they're proposing here. We need to get more silver into this. It's not like a. It's not like a run on silver. It's a new technology. I think that's the. Was the last straw that. That's this battery thing. It was the last straw that broke the camel's back. And now silver is like, wait a minute.

[B]

Were you.

[A]

Okay, well, let's rethink this. And boom. Now silver's way up there that.

[B]

I keep looking at that donut lab battery and someone said. Sent me a video of this guy. He was at maybe CES or some type of conference talking about the battery. Yeah, I saw him, but then he sent me another video. The same guy also is running some kind of AI company that has real intelligence. I'm like, oh, okay. All right.

[A]

Yeah, Something fishy about this guy.

[B]

About that guy. Hey, thank you very much, executive and associate executive producer. We thanking the rest of our supporters for today. $50 and above in our second. Congratulations with your credits.

[A]

Our formula is this.

[B]

We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Shut up, slave.

[A]

Shut up, slave.

[B]

Yeah, maybe we should go digging for silver. Maybe there's some silver. The mines that we can find. We gotta buy us a silver mine or something.

[A]

Yeah, something. I have a drunk or not drunk clip.

[B]

Okay, where's your clip chick?

[A]

Drunk or not drunk sounds she could. Might. Maybe she's not drunk.

[B]

Okay, we'll find out.

[C]

Another Friday night question for the chat. Should. Should broke men be allowed to date? Allowed is a doing a lot of work. My mom is literally listening to this on TikTok Live right now. This has not been something I've been pondering, but I want to know what y' all think. It was hilarious listening because somebody, some woman was like, oh, you know, if he doesn't have any money, we'll just build him up. You know, we'll just build up his confidence, get him some skills. And someone was like, this ain't build a bear.

[B]

What is this?

[C]

Another man was like, oh, they ain't got no money. They can't get into the game and play all four quarters. Just tremendous commentary. But chat, let me know, what do you think? Allowed is kind of a crazy thing, but should you date if you don't have any money? Men.

[B]

No, not drunk. You know what she sounds like? Was she white or black? This lady?

[A]

She's a white girl, and I think she's drunk.

[B]

Did you see Nicki Minaj?

[A]

No. I've heard about this. The clip where she goes off on how great Trump is Or which one?

[B]

Yes, yes. Well, first let's hear Trump going off on how great she is. This was during the Trump accounts announcement. Actually, I think that's only 30 seconds. Let me play the Trump account announcement.

[C]

President Donald Trump is urging families to sign up for the so called Trump accounts when they file their 2025 income tax returns. The President joined Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, CEO and investors at an all day summit today in Washington. The accounts are set to become active in July. Under President Trump's signature tax and spending legislation, the federal government will deposit $1,000 for every baby born between 2025 and 2028.

[B]

It's like all these different people are jumping in. Like the dells are given 500 per baby.

[A]

Maybe.

[B]

Did I hear JP Morgan might be doing something?

[A]

Yeah, I heard this too. That everyone's going, I'll top it. I'll top it off for you.

[B]

There's no. But it's not tax deductible. It's not a gift in that regard.

[A]

It's not a grant.

[B]

No. What is the benefit? What is the benefit? Is there a financial benefit or is it just.

[A]

It supposedly goes into an account that accrues cruise.

[B]

Yeah, but that's for the baby, not for the person who puts it in.

[A]

Yeah, it's for the baby.

[B]

Yeah, but is it, is these, is there any benefit for the people giving the money other than just being nobody's good.

[A]

Good person. What. We're also pleased. My daughter, she went crazy when she heard that this was. I want to go. You know, she happens to be in the wrong state right now for that. But when she heard that there's a certain person that's here who's the greatest and most successful female rapper in history. Nicki Minaj.

[B]

Nicki Minaj. Come on. You know.

[A]

And Nikki makes a lot of cash. Not as much as Michael Dell. Not quite. Not as much, but that's okay. But Nikki makes a lot of, lot of money and she's continuously stepping up. She's investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Trump accounts to support the children and really, really the children of her incredible fans. That's great. Focus on that. Why should you give to somebody else's fans? Give to your fans. I like that. But. And I just think she's great. You know, I've been hearing so much over the years because I didn't know Nikki and I've been hearing over the years she's a big Trump supporter and a Trump fan and she took a little heat on occasion. Her community isn't Necessarily. I tell you, we did pretty damn well with that, with your community. As we, as we say there, there's.

[B]

An 80 year old white man trying to save black people.

[A]

Your community, Your community. But Nikki has been an unbelievable supporter. She gets more, she gets almost as much as Mr. Wonderful over here. He's been another one too. Wonderful. But I'd like to ask you to come up. Nikki, come on up.

[B]

All right, so she comes on up and, and now I'm fulfilling a, a wish from a couple of our female producers who said, do you only play black women clips when they're mad and crazy? I said, well, that's a good point. So here you go.

[A]

I play very few black women clips who are mad and retarded and crazy. You're the one that plays the Obama phone. That's what they're talking about.

[B]

That would, that would been, that would have been better. Let me see. So if we, Where's Trump here? Okay, so there we go.

[A]

She gets more, she gets almost as much as Mr. Wonderful over here. He's been another one. It's been so good. But I'd like to ask you to come up. Nikki, come on up.

[B]

Everybody in Cleveland, low minority got Obama fault.

[C]

Keep Obama in president United States. He gave us a phone.

[B]

No, that was not Nicki Minaj. Here's Nicki Minaj.

[C]

Hello. Well, I don't know what to say, but I will say that I am.

[A]

Did you hear that? She's hyperventilating. She's actually, she's nervous. She's taken.

[B]

She's nervous.

[A]

Yeah. She's with the president and she, she's now and it's a little, not as different. And so she's, she's hyperventilating that she's nervous. That's funny.

[B]

Yeah, but, but she regains her composure quickly.

[C]

Well, I don't know what to say, but I will say I am probably the president's number one fan and that's not going to change. And the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more and it's going to motivate all of us to support him more. We're not going to let them get away with bullying him. And you know, the smear campaigns, it's.

[A]

Not going to work.

[C]

Okay. He has a lot of, of force behind him and God is protecting him.

[B]

There you go. And Natalie got two communities in one got the black people and the Christians with Nicki Minaj. Right on Nicki. I thought that was the whole thing is just sounds good. It's fun that everyone's jumping in on it.

[A]

I'm glad that she's taking a step side and doesn't sound like Molly Ringwald.

[B]

Jeez. Speaking of music artists, Kanye west is now apologizing.

[C]

Yay. Formerly Kanye west apologized for his anti Semitic remarks and other behavior in a full page ad he bought in the Wall Street Journal. He said he, quote, lost touch with reality, regrets his actions, and is not a nice Nazi or anti Semite. Ye also apologized to the black community and said his wife encouraged him to get help. After hitting rock bottom. He says he now follows a treatment plan for his bipolar disorder, including medication, therapy and clean living. And of course, the timing is always a purpose. The apology comes ahead of his new album, Bully, which is set to drop soon.

[B]

Plug for the album dropping. I said the album's drop. First of all, it's dropping.

[A]

Picking it up. Pick up. Hey, what is that you drop. Pick it up. So I, since we're on black people.

[B]

Well, I was on musicians, but okay. And, and, and, and anti Semites. But okay, you want to. Because I, you know, I can stay.

[A]

With the anti Semites. As an anti Semite.

[B]

Well, I got.

[A]

But you know, they're going, they're going after Candace.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, they are.

[A]

Because she can't pronounce words and she keeps making these mistakes. She getting like. I'm thinking, well, maybe we can resubstitute her stuff for Reverend Al's, which is not quite as silly because it's usually single words. And this one here, somebody put the on this website.

[B]

Oh, this is the compilation.

[A]

No, it's a compilation of one word. She's trying to say. Compartmentalize. Compartmentalize. Now you can say compartmentalize. Yeah, compartment. Compartmentalize. That and you can say it. And after you listen to this, you will never be able to say it again because she keeps pronouncing in some crazy way. And so it becomes what you're going to hear.

[C]

We want the CEO and the chairman of Turning Point USA to answer.

[B]

Okay, okay.

[C]

You got. If you can't compromise, then I don't see how you're going to be able to. We don't like them. We don't agree with the industries they went into too. We all of that can be true, but you have to be able to compromise that when you are looking at a case for long before this ever broke out between her and Justin Baldani, that we have to compromise. Blake Lively is not a good person or Donald Trump from the Hashtag me too. Movement. It is very important to compromise how you feel about somebody personally from how you are compartmentalized to compromise. That. So compromise. Compromise. Compared to compromise.

[A]

Compromise.

[B]

That's so low. I mean, I was compromised. Okay, now I have to say it that way. Compromise.

[A]

It's hard to go back to compartmentalize.

[B]

Well, I know you got this clip as well. I just had to play it because it was just so, so crazy. Speaking of Turning Point usa, this. I know you yelled at the person who sent this clip to us, but I'm like, oh, I'm going to clip that. That's good. This is the Arizona RNC Committee woman. And this has to be. Liz Harris is her name. And this has to be from a couple years ago, I'm thinking, because she talks about TP USA as if Charlie Kirk is still alive. So maybe a year ago, but just so, you know, almost odd, baby, all of it.

[A]

The other very delicate thing we have.

[C]

Going on is all stuff with Israel now.

[A]

Failor is Jewish. Gregor is Jewish.

[C]

Like, when I say Jewish, I mean, like, not. They're. They're very Jewish, meaning very gold. There's so many names I can throw.

[A]

Out that I do believe.

[B]

I do believe.

[C]

When we believe at Turning Point and we look at. We look at all. All of this.

[A]

I do see Mo. I see. I see there again, there's.

[C]

There's so many other things and where. I'm connecting dots.

[B]

I'm connecting dots.

[C]

I think Alex Jones is controlled by them. Charlie Kirk's controlled by them.

[B]

There you go.

[C]

Steve Bannon.

[B]

I see Bannon.

[C]

I can't believe nobody's killed me. I really can't.

[B]

That's the best.

[C]

I have no idea why. Because God is protecting right now.

[B]

There's a lot of people.

[C]

Gets to do anything unless God gives it permission.

[B]

I'm with you, Liz. I mean, I've already had people show up to my door from what I've exposed, but I'm still alive to be alive, man. John, we're. We're lucky to be alive, you know, with all the things we've exposed. Shape shift.

[A]

Yeah, but we do it from a. We do it from an objective. We're so objective in the middle of everything that we don't draw attention to ourselves because we're not taking political positions.

[B]

No, the reason.

[A]

We're just showing what a bunch of boneheads everyone is. And everyone. That includes, you know, stupid stuff. Trump. By the way, I did catch a Trump clip. I think it's on here.

[B]

I think the reason is because we don't do video. If you do video, that's when people clip you and you get more. Get mocked.

[A]

Maybe. Yeah, we probably. Well, we're, we are og. By the way, Trump used the word the term OG recently. Oh no, we're OG podcasters, which is an audio format that was developed low. Largely by you. Yes, the originator.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's include videos. This YouTube is. It requires all kinds of. It costs more.

[B]

Yes, yes. We're trying to keep costs low, like running.

[A]

So here. Yeah, we have to especially with today's donations.

[B]

Trying to run stuff on Linux, you know, so we don't have to pay for.

[A]

Yeah, you're running stuff on this. How bad it's gotten Linux.

[B]

It's supposed to be an upgrade I'm working on. All right, what's your, what's your Trump clip?

[A]

This. Unfortunately I spelled Trump Trump. Yeah, but this is a, this is a little subtlety that I caught. I had to like what. Wait, wait a minute. So just play this clip and then I'll. We'll talk about it. Most administrations achieve. Oh, wait, stop the clip. This is from. He's now he's got a new speech he's rolling out every city once a week. This is his Iowa speech. He's, this is his initial version. He's going to be developing material, stand up material and we'll, as it goes along, about, I'd say six or seven weeks into it since it's kind of like, you know, workshopping it. He will have some, some good jokes.

[B]

Oh, he's, he's, he's doing the comedy circuit.

[A]

He's, he's, he's doing the comedy circuit. So in about five, I think in about five weeks, about, about a month from now, we'll be able to clip stuff that's funny most administrations achieve in four years or eight years. And we've done a lot. I've recently introduced my plan to repair the damage of the unaffordable Affordable Care act, the worst disaster which now costs many families more than a mortgage. If you look it's number came out bigger cost than a mortgage and it's bad health care. Obamacare was created to make insurance companies rich with government subsidies. I want all that money that gets paid to the insurance companies to get paid directly to the people. That's all I want.

[B]

And what the Unaffordable Care act has been saying that. That for weeks.

[A]

Has he. Because I, this is the first time I noticed he slips it in as though that's the term for it.

[B]

It's but he's been doing that for a long time.

[A]

Okay. I just. I haven't caught it, I guess. Imagine all the people who could do that.

[B]

Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.

[A]

Buffaloed buffalo.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Boy, you do have a few people to thank. Despite my ignoring Trump saying unaffordable care act, which is funny. Yeah, we have a few people to thank. $50 and up. And Adam's going to read them off one by one and see if he can see the difference between Mississippi and Missouri.

[B]

Oh, okay. Sir hugger of kitties comes in at the top of this list. 123.45. And he says more cat memes, brings more hugs, hug more kitties. And health karma from my aunt. Yes. Soon to be from the free state of Alberta. And for my dad, whose name is Albert. Coincidence? Gambling. Okay. Danielle Williams, Mount Shasta, California. Also 123.45. Birthday call out for Jessica Jerry's, I think. January 30th. Thank you, John Adam. We appreciate your analysis, though. Thank you. Eric Hochul from Melrose deutschland. Moo rose Deutschland. 103. Bart offering from Dordrecht in the Netherlands. 100 he says, Fridays and Mondays I wake up happy because a new show is waiting. Saturdays and Tuesdays, I finished listening leftovers. He's. He's happy. God bless both of you guys. Thank you for your sublime productions. Sir Woody, the. What is he, the Phantom? Madison, New Jersey. Hundred dollars. He has a birthday on January 29th. That's today. Happy birthday. Darren Curry related, perhaps. Huntington Beach, California. 100. Chris Rink in Austin, Texas, with the boob donation. 8.0.0 8. John Carney from Canton, Georgia, also with the boob donation. Hey, wait a minute. I'm missing. I'm missing.

[A]

Yes, I noticing this too.

[B]

Oh, where is our Archduke of Luna?

[A]

Well, you know, he's going to be doing it every show, so something was a glitch. There's a glitch in this.

[B]

Well, we hope. I hope he's. He's okay.

[A]

No, he's fine. We'll hear from him on the next show.

[B]

Anonymous is in Monrovia, Liberia, Washington, and wants to deduce you've been de douched. I've been listening since episode one.

[A]

West Africa, not Washington.

[B]

It says W. Oh, you're. You're right. Liberia. No. Western Australia.

[A]

No.

[B]

What is wa.

[A]

Africa.

[B]

West Africa. Africa.

[A]

Yeah. Liberia. Very famous place.

[B]

Oh, it's like. Okay, but you understand that that comes under the state column. So this is my confusion. You can.

[A]

Yeah, the Liberia is the state, which is A country.

[B]

But you could be a little nicer about it.

[A]

No, I'm just saying. No, you're West Africa, not West Australia. It's just the only reason I say this because right at the top there, he mentions that you read the deduching, but you didn't see the West Africa.

[B]

Okay, you're a backseat donation driver.

[A]

That's what I'm. I'm a backseat Dr. Driver. This. This is what you used to do to me.

[B]

Except I read them faster than you. I just made.

[A]

Yeah, well, I'm not going to deny that, but after having two cataract surgeries.

[B]

Oh, oh. I'm playing the tiny violin. Anonymous from Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. There you go. He's been listening since episode one and was just tired of being a douchebag.

[A]

Well, I think, you know, we need. Where are our African listeners?

[B]

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[A]

Poor girl.

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There you go.

[A]

What the quant? The Crown.

[B]

Yeah, the Crown. Yeah. Well, we've watched. We're in like a historical thing. So the Crown. Yeah. Charles, man, that guy, he never loved her. He never loved her. He loved.

[A]

He was a douchebag. Douchebag.

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Yeah. They are taking place everywhere, important ones coming up this weekend. But first we have one today which kicks off at 6 o'. Clock. It is. It is the North Georgia Quarterly Meetup at Cherry Street Brewing, Alpharetta, Georgia. And then on Saturday up in the Los Angeles area, Flight of the no agendas, number 71 already 11 in the morning at Marina Cafe in Wilmington, California. Leo Bravo always does a great job, has a great turnout. And then we have the Northern Silicon Valley get John out of the house meetup. That'll be at 3:33pm Pizzeria Violeta, Prescott Market, Oakland, California. And John will be there himself. Are you bringing the family? Is Jay coming? Is Jason.

[A]

Jay's gonna be up north. And J.C. well, I don't know, maybe Brandon might show up.

[B]

Do you have a chaperone? Are you just going by yourself? Do you have a bodyguard? You need a bodyguard, man. You need someone to.

[A]

To look out for Alaska.

[B]

You need a handler. You need a handler.

[A]

A handler. You know, you had a need that.

[B]

Either Sunday, which is February 1st, this is the Climate Change Alert. This is the change meetup, the Indy NA still shiny New Year meetup. That'll be at St Joseph's Brewery and Public house in Indianapolis, Indiana. That's Dame Maria and Sir Marcus Greenwood. That got canceled due to weather, but it's rescheduled. Also on Sunday, the Central Jersey meetup. We drink and we know things. Maybe addition, that is 3 o' clock and that will be at 3. BR Distill Distillery in Keyport, New Jersey. Many more coming up this month. Let me see, we got Raleigh, we got Mount Laurel, it's New Jersey. Eagle, Idaho, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Longview, Texas, Charlotte, North Carolina again, of course, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Coleyville, Texas, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Francisco, California. That's just February. They go all the way through May and Beyond. Go to NoaGenDameetups.com you can find them all over the globe, no matter where you are. And the good news is it's free. Doesn't cost anything. You can list [e-mail] if you can't find one in your town, in your burg, in your city, in your country, hello, Africa. We're looking at you. Start one yourself. Noagendameetups.com Very easy and guaranteed. Always a party.

[A]

It's like a party.

[B]

Yeah. Now we have John's tip of the day coming up. We have some pretty nice end of show mixes, some semi toe tappers for you. And we always like to play a couple of end of show isos here for you. This is the continuing. Are these the same thing? No, continuing contest that John and I have. It is man against the machine. John is still using his free account on 11 labs. Let's see you put these in abeyance, I think because mine just killed last. Last show. So do you want to hear mine?

[A]

Good one.

[B]

Do you want to hear mine again or do you want.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, go for it.

[B]

And that's what makes sense. No, I think these, one of these next two is a possibility. Oh, that's very beautiful. Thank you.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

It's our buddy Scott. One more from him. Wow, that's amazing. Come on.

[A]

I got that same one.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Wow. Yeah, yeah. Play ISO. Amazing.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, we have.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

How about that? That's amazing. Well, I think that would have to be the one.

[A]

No, it doesn't.

[B]

Your other ones are 4 seconds. They're too long.

[A]

Okay, let's go. That was the. For the first joint pick.

[B]

It's a joint pick, everybody. And you'll hear it. But first, John's tip of the day.

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And sometimes Adam. All right. I'm kind of family forced to promote this product. My wife is. I think a lot of women are obsessed with pressure Washington washers, huh?

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They are handy things to have.

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Yeah, yeah. And she, she said four of these types which are. I mean, she had the gas ones which are the ones that can, you know, clean the driveways get the moss off.

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Yeah.

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You know, after winter, these are. Is necessary in California as there are places like Washington. But there is a electric pressure washer she thinks is the best thing she's ever run into. It doesn't have the high pressure of a gasoline one, but it's perfect for like wood decks and furniture, patio furniture, and things outside where you don't want to blow the paint off, stuff these things or rip up the deck, which you will do with it.

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These things are pretty expensive typically, aren't they?

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179 bucks.

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Hmm. Okay.

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That's not expensive.

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And it's high pressure, but not too high pressure.

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It's 20. It's the pressure. No, it's not. It's the. It's. The electric ones are not as high pressure as the gasoline ones, but the convenience of the electric. You just hook a hose up to it. You flip a switch is going. You flip a switch, you take a break. You flip is when you have to start it, start it and pull and get the thing going. And then you got to turn it off. It's a pain in the ass.

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Yeah, it's horrible.

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You have to be serious when you're using a gas one with the electric one. It's like a Flip a switch. Do it. This is the Westinghouse WPX2300E for electric. The Westinghouse WPX 2300E. And. And it should be mentioned that most of these things fall apart. They're poorly made. She believes this to be one that will hold up for season after season for years and years, as opposed to breaking the second year. You have it.

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Can you use it on. On the protesters, like the videos where.

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They get used on your car. But protesters would be good, but the fire hose is better. So you have a fire hose. That's what you want.

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All right, well then. But will it clean like tire stuff off of cements?

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No, it's good for all that stuff. Container. You put soap in it, actually.

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Well, then I think I'm in the market for one of these.

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I think you could get one of these. And it's good for cleaning the car. It's not going to rip off the paint. It's easy to use.

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Use.

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It's small. It's not a big monstrous thing like a regular pressure washer. They're huge. They're crazy.

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It's a. It's a genius device. It sounds like. It sounds like a winner, John.

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It is. It's a winner.

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There it is. And more winners can be [e-mail] tipoftheday.net.

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Yes. All right. Hey, everybody, you know what? I. I gotta do a quick. I gotta do a quick karma for Nick the Rat here. Hold on a second.

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He's up next on the no Agenda stream. The New York City economy apparently has gotten to him there in the sewer. And so his latest episode will be up next on the no Agenda stream. If you're listening live, end of show mixes coming to you from MVP and Gary Youngling with a classic. Sometimes they just never go out of style. It's amazing how that works. And we will return at our regularly scheduled time, which will be, gosh, Sunday. We'll do another three and a half hours for you. Whatever it takes to bring the world into focus for you. Deconstruct the medium and show you how they do it and how dumb it all really is. We love doing it. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas hill country right here in Fredericksburg, Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

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And from northern Silicon Valley. Well, I'll be in Oakland on Saturday. I'm John C. Dvorak.

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