I love it.

I'm a pig.

Adam Curry.

John C.

Dvorak.

It's Thursday, October 2nd, 2025.

This is your award-winning GiveOnNation Media assassination episode 1804.

This is no agenda.

No shutdown here.

We're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.

In the morning, everybody.

I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's now apparent that bald people only hire bald people.

I'm John C.

Dvorak.

It's crackpot and buzzkill.

In the morning.

Well, that's an interesting little tidbit.

I don't know if it's true.

Well, did you look at the military gathering there in Washington, D.C.?

It's like everybody's, every guy, every general, every admiral's bald.

Correlation is not causation.

It's like when you, before TSA became TSA, the modern TSA after Homeland Security, after the 9-11.

It was all Filipinos.

In San Francisco, they would just hire each other.

Or you get a company, a gay guy goes in there as a head of personnel.

Boom, the whole company's gay.

Like Apple.

This is the...

The cabal.

Situation.

It's the cabal.

It's like you're gay, you're bald.

You say, you know, I like the way you look.

I'm going to give you the...

Wait a minute.

Could the military all be bald gay guys?

Anything's possible.

Well, that's good.

Yeah, well, I wasn't going there, but it's possible.

Yeah, I guess.

Well, isn't that the definition of why we need affirmative action?

To get people with hair back into the military?

I don't think that was the reason.

Oh, okay.

Well, I was quite amazed when I saw your clips come in this morning, because I saw the return of a feature we have not had for several months.

Yes, it's because this feature is produced by Steve Jones.

Ah, the clip collector.

Indeed.

Shall we roll it out since we're talking about bald guys?

Yes.

Hold on a second.

Hold on.

Hold on.

We've got to do the jingle, man.

Can't just stop in the middle of it.

Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC.

The never-ending 3x3.

Gotta have the jingle.

I mean, that's the whole point.

And, of course, the point of the 3x3 is that these guys can't do any independent reporting.

It's all pretty much the same from different people.

Here we go.

Let's start with NBC.

NBC.

The topic was shrouded in secrecy beforehand, and security was tight.

Some of the nation's most senior military leaders ordered to board buses at 3.30 a .m.

Oh, no.

And then wait hours for the event to begin, according to defense officials.

This speech today is about people, and it's about culture.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth telling generals and admirals who'd flown in from all over the world to get on board with a series of changes.

If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.

The new standards include new grooming rules that prohibit beards and a requirement that everyone in combat roles must meet the highest male standard for physical fitness, a change that could impact women in uniform.

If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.

He also plans to overhaul equal opportunity programs and the role of the inspector general.

New recruits could also see changes, lifting restrictions on how far drill instructors can go.

They can swear, and yes, they can put their hands on recruits.

This does not mean they can be reckless or violate the law, but they can use tried and true methods to motivate new recruits.

Retired Lieutenant General Mark Herling is concerned about the impact all of it may have on troops.

To hear the kinds of things that came out of the secretary's mouth shows that he doesn't really respect them as contributors to the combat arms or fighting our nation's wars.

President Trump today endorsing Hegseth's speech and repeating his ultimatum.

If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room.

Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.

In the president's remarks, which were highly political, he also defended the use of troops in American cities.

I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.

Now, a couple of things.

First observation, and I'm quite sure the president will be mad about this.

The continuous hum and buzz in the audio was just atrocious.

It was across the board.

The president does not like that.

No, he doesn't.

He gets irked about it.

He knows it's not good because it's not good for clippage.

The no agenda show, it's not good for the no agenda show.

My boys!

And the other, just a local observation, is when we elected a new sheriff here in Gillespie County, new sheriff, my buddy Mike, who you know Mike because I've talked about him.

He is the former Kerrville cop with anger management issues.

Oh, yes, yes.

He's now the lieutenant.

And the first thing he did was no beards and get rid of the fat guts.

It's like a thing.

This was not surprising to me.

And let me tell you, when it comes to the Fredericksburg Police Department, although he has no jurisdiction over that, but certainly over the sheriff's department, yeah, we had fat sheriffs waddling around.

And it's like PT, everybody, mandatory PT, height and weight.

We got to get in shape and we got to look good for the public.

That seems like not a very crazy thing, but everyone was so upset about it.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

The thing they left out of that clippage was the headset going on about how embarrassing it is to have a bunch of fat admirals in the Pentagon walking around.

I have that clip for later if you want it.

Well, let's go to, that was NBC.

That was NBC.

Let's go to ABC.

ABC it is.

Unprecedented.

Oh.

I love this.

I love.

Actually, I think in my clip.

Radnitz is over.

She's a drama queen.

In my clip, I think they said Fox News weekend host.

Did she say weekend host just to annihilate him?

Oh, yeah, weekend host.

There it is.

They're not all combat tested.

I don't think that's true.

Can't you receive a star?

Who are we kidding here?

No more identity months.

DEI offices.

Now the audio is really bad.

I could not get past it.

Dudes in dresses.

Yeah.

No more climate change worship.

No more division, distraction, or gender delusions.

No more debris.

We are done with that.

While the generals and admirals sat largely silent through the speech, Hegseth said military fitness and standards will be enforced.

No more fat generals or admirals, he said.

I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape.

Or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men.

For those ground combat roles, which women have been performing for more than a decade, the high male standard will now be the norm.

If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.

But Hegseth was not just talking personnel, but policy.

The rules of engagement meant to protect civilians and noncombatants, those, he said, have become too politically correct.

We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement.

We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.

President Trump then took the stage to address the officers.

And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room.

Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.

Telling his audience of some of the most experienced warfighters in their generation, the military should practice on American cities.

I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.

The trolling still works.

It's unbelievable.

It still works.

Yeah, we're going to throw them into the cities, man.

We're going to train their urban combat warfare, train in the cities.

I would stop the show.

I'm like, I'm sorry, generals, you got to wait for a second.

We got a ground loop here.

Is that the end of that clip?

Yes, the end of the clip.

In the same way as NBC, did CBS do anything different?

Well, not generally speaking, but CBS, I'm always pushing these toward the end because CBS is the one that's on the short leash.

Because the company's been taken over by Paramount.

So they're at the, it's like the, I'm going to get fired anyway, so let's just say what I feel like.

Nearly 800 of America's top military leaders were summoned from around the globe.

Oh, he didn't use the warfighters meme.

Disappointing.

Apolitical officers who remained silent as their commander -in-chief took the stage and offered this greeting.

You can leave the room.

Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.

That set the tone for more awkward moments to come.

Did they all laugh when he said that?

I keep, it sounds to me like they're laughing when he says that.

I watched the thing and I didn't notice that they were laughing at the, at least the micing that I heard.

That may have been sweetened, I noticed.

Everybody, no, ABC had it too.

They all had the same, maybe it's just compressed noise, I don't know.

Staged and offered this greeting.

You can leave the room.

Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.

That set the tone for more awkward moments to come, including the president's suggestion that dangerous U.S.

cities, like those where National Guard are currently deployed, should be used as training grounds for U.S.

troops.

This is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.

It's a war too.

It's a war from within.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth opened the meeting and ripped into diversity initiatives put in place by previous administrations.

Hold on a second.

He said that the troops are going to be used in the cities as if it was a done deal when Trump just said it as kind of a joke, a troll.

Yeah.

But according to the CBS, no, that's what's going to happen.

Which was not asserted by anybody.

No, but they did include the line, this is a war from within, which to me was the entire reason for the change of the Department of War.

Can we treat each state as an individual, like 60 day, does the timer reset for each state we have a war?

Just asking for a friend.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth opened the meeting and ripped into diversity initiatives put in place by previous administrations.

No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses.

No more climate change worship.

No more division, distraction or gender delusions.

That includes, he said, a return to the highest male physical fitness standards.

I don't want my son male serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men.

And he took aim at the highest ranking officers.

It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country in the world.

It's a bad look.

Vermont Democrat Peter Welch said the meeting was unnecessary and a bad idea.

It's a further effort to politicize the military.

It's very, very alarming.

There is no reason to bring all of these people, the enormous taxpayer expense to Washington to get a pep talk.

Hegseth told the audience they could disagree with him.

But the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink.

Then you should do the honorable thing and resign.

Yeah, well, it's interesting.

I'll bent out of shape over that.

Over the cost, please, Congress.

Yeah, I know.

The cost of flying them all in.

Congress takes military aircraft all the time.

Nancy Pelosi.

The military aircraft are going there anyway.

Hitch a ride.

Hitch a ride.

Well, there were a couple other things that took place around the military and this and this meeting.

I think this is from this is John Berman from Anderson Pooper 360.

Some remarkable new reporting tonight on Defense Secretary Pete.

Remarkable.

Remarkable.

Remarkable new reporting.

It's not just new reporting.

It's not just reporting.

It's remarkable new reporting.

Some remarkable new reporting tonight on Defense Secretary Pete.

Long running battle with his own staff and top advisers, as well as the country's top military commanders.

It comes by the way of the Washington Post.

There's the headline.

Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to staunch leaks.

Random testing and quoting from the report.

All military service members, civilian employees and contract workers within the office of the defense secretary and the joint staff.

Estimated to be more than 5000 personnel would be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement that prohibits the release of nonpublic information without approval or through a defined process.

What are we going to do for our sources?

That's according to a draft memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg.

Now, the polygraph.

No, of course, it's not new, but there's a kicker at the end.

And a separate document also from Feinberg.

Again, this is according to the Post.

And this builds on earlier CNN reporting that Secretary Hexeth had threatened then acting Joint Chiefs Chairman Chris Grady with polygraph testing because he believed Admiral Grady was leaking to undermine him.

Also, that his office had rolled out a policy earlier this year requiring Pentagon officials across the service to sign nondisclosure agreements before being read in on projects, initiatives and other work products.

And yes, it appears that all of this from us and from the Post was leaked.

That's why it's remarkable.

I get it.

It was leaked.

Now, the president.

The president also gave us an update.

I'm not sure if this was before, during or after.

It was the same podium on the on the Golden Dome.

You know, this is our our our security blanket all around the country.

The Golden Dome, everybody.

And we've begun construction on what we call the Golden Dome missile defense shield.

It'll be the most sophisticated in the world.

You watch it do well until they had some problems at the end with a little bit of a lack of ammunition.

What is he talking about here?

What do we miss an update?

They had a little bit of a problem.

Was there an attack that wasn't thwarted?

Because we had a lot of noise talking about it must be inside stuff for I think.

I think so.

Like one of those little message you were to the wise kind of thing that we don't know.

But they've got that taken care of.

But I tell you, it's what we're doing is so good and we deserve it.

You know, we help other countries with it.

We don't have it ourselves.

And Canada called me a couple of weeks ago.

They want to be part of it.

To which I said, well, why don't you just join our country?

Become 51, become the 51st state and you get it for free.

So I don't know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense.

It actually because they're having a hard time up there in Canada now.

Because as you know, with tariffs, everyone's coming into our country.

We have off script now, more investment than we've ever had before.

Seventeen trillion dollars coming in.

As an example, in four years, Biden didn't have one trillion.

We have 17 trillion more than that in eight months coming in.

Where's my check?

And they're coming in from Canada, Mexico, from Europe, from all over.

AI auto plants.

Everybody's coming back to the United States.

But 17 trillion.

OK, well, that sounds that sounds interesting.

And then my favorite part of the summit was the stair bopping.

We're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength.

We have great peace through strength.

America is respected again as a country.

We were not respected with Biden.

They looked at him falling downstairs every day.

Every day the guy's falling downstairs.

He said, it's not our president.

We can't have it.

I'm very careful.

You know, when I walk downstairs, I come on stairs like these stairs.

I'm very I walk very slowly.

Nobody has to set a record.

Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out.

Well, I did laugh.

A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.

We don't want that.

You walk nice and easy and not have it.

You don't have to set any record.

Be cool.

Be cool when you walk down.

But don't don't pop down the stairs.

So one thing with Obama, I have zero respect for him as a president.

But he would bop down those stairs.

I've never seen that.

Did that.

Did that.

Because I wouldn't hold on.

I don't want to do it.

I guess I could do it.

But eventually, bad things are going to happen.

And it only takes once.

But he did a lousy job as president.

Just bafflingly funny.

Like, just, you know, gives a shout out to Obama.

I didn't have respect from his president.

But man, he could walk stairs.

That guy was great at walking stairs.

Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bopping down.

Who was he?

He was dancing up there.

Was it President Ford who also tripped?

Ford tripped more than once.

Once it happens twice, you're done.

You're toast.

You're labeled.

You're labeled as a stair tripper.

And then Reuters, a fine North Sea Nexus outfit, came up with this little ditty.

Another part of the Pentagon's push to reshape the armed forces involves tapping Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are turning their talents to military tech.

That is the Bullfrog, an AI-powered machine gun that tracks and shoots down drones.

It's built by Ellen Control Systems, founded by Steve Simone, a former Silicon Valley star who sold his startup to DoorDash for $125 million.

Defense and space reporter David Jeans has more now on the entrepreneurs creating the future of warfare.

I think what they bring with them is they have a higher tolerance for risk, a higher tolerance for failure, and a higher tolerance for raising hype around their companies.

They also bring with them a new energy to this space, which has disrupted the traditional prime contractors like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin.

David says that what's been most striking is the speed at which Silicon Valley has shifted.

It was only in recent years that people were protesting military companies and military work.

And now Silicon Valley and its investors are all in on a more patriotic and more military-focused approach.

I think that that has come with the understanding that the world is starting to feel like a less safe place.

And there's also an understanding that the U .S.

military is largely unprepared for the future of warfare, and that Silicon Valley believes that it has the answer to help it modernize.

Well, what Silicon Valley also brings is the scam.

Oh, the scam angle, yeah.

And the scam, we've discussed this many times before, but the scam angle in Silicon Valley, probably before the AI rush, was we just got to get users.

Well, it's still the same, of course, with AI rush.

Eyeballs.

The eyeballs will make it up on volume.

Don't worry about it.

So right before the board meeting where you're about to ask for more money, you go to some of these companies called Monopoly, and I forget all the names, and you buy eyeballs, and they come by your site, and look at these stats.

We're hockey-sticking.

We're to the right and up.

We need more money.

We need more money to be able to cover it.

It's going great.

So Silicon Valley, they're doing the scam, and it's working out pretty well.

Denmark is the main target because they've got the money, apparently.

Denmark is on high alert after reporting several drone incursions in recent weeks.

35 French soldiers are already on the ground.

France, the US, and Sweden have also sent anti-drone systems.

But for many Danes, the deployment only underlines their country's military vulnerability.

Some residents are now bracing for the worst.

Listen to this.

Listen to this.

Sarah just bought one of the survival kits distributed by the Danish government.

Literally, it is a water, a foldable water bag.

It's a cracker, and a radio flashlight.

Earlier in the year, people in the EU were advised to stockpile enough food, water, and essentials for 72 hours, part of a strategy to increase readiness in the event of a military attack or other national crises.

I got quite scared, and I really wanted to do something.

I had a little less anxiety feeling.

The anxiety isn't unfounded.

Four times last week, two mysterious drones were spotted over military bases and airports across the country.

At the same time, three ships with Russian links were spotted off the Danish coast.

Investigations are ongoing, but authorities say they may have served as launch pads for the drones.

Denmark is among Europe's biggest donors to Ukraine, and also hosts a factory that produces fuel for its long-range missiles.

This is incredible, bullcrap, Silicon Valley scam.

I have two clips on this.

Well, let me play my final clip, because the psyop is paying off.

Well, actually, what are your clips?

These are from Morning Edition on NPR.

Oh, yeah, good.

Yeah, let's play these.

This is good.

And this is after the drones.

I don't know how you can get...

The Danes are supposed to be the happiest people on Earth.

Was it the Danes?

Yeah.

Yeah, it was the Danes.

Or the Norwegians.

I can't remember.

No, no, no.

It was the Danes.

The Norwegians are happy, but they're depressed.

They take a lot of antidepressants.

The Danes are happy.

They're happy.

They're happy.

But it seems to me, if they're happy, they're so happy, and they just turn on a dime into being, like...

Scared.

...afraid of their own shadow.

I need a radio flashlight with a hand crank.

This is the part one.

The U.S.

and other countries in NATO have sent military troops and equipment to Denmark to protect its capital while hosting meetings with European Union leaders starting today.

Ukraine even sent some help, too.

A week of flights by unidentified drones caused fear that Russia might be involved, but no proof.

Terry Schultz reports from Copenhagen that many Danes are rethinking their personal security.

The Danish government still can't say who staged the mysterious drone flights every day and night for a week.

It's a script now.

Mysterious drone flights.

It's the same as my clip.

It's all mysterious.

With ship...

Maybe launch from ships with links to Russia.

Sausage links?

With NATO allies and Ukrainian experts now rushing to protect the capital, it's harder to tell people not to be afraid.

Instead, Justice Minister Peter Homogaard warns them this is their new reality.

We will be in a situation that is also similar to this one again.

That is the nature of hybrid warfare.

For Trine, a hotel receptionist, the drones have already caused too many sleepless nights.

We agreed not to share last names of people we spoke to and requested.

Because we couldn't pronounce them anyway.

Given the widespread panic.

She's not the only one whose nerves are frayed.

I am.

My kids are.

My family are.

We make these emergency plans.

What do we do?

So we actually, we prepped, we prepared.

That meant, she said, checking their canned food supply, stocking up on water and reviewing their plan with other family members in case physical evacuation is needed.

Oh man, I have a...

Before we play the second clip, I have a boots on the ground from one of our producers, Paul in Denmark.

First of all, Copenhagen is gridlocked and helicopters are flying overhead all the time because of the stupid EU summit.

They're all at Christiansborg, the Parliament Palace, so Slottsholmen is closed off and then some stuff is happening in Fredrikstad where Amalie and Borg and a lot of organizations and embassies are.

A conversation with people the last few days gave me the following points.

Nobody believes anything.

So I don't know where they got these Danes, but nobody believes anything.

Because the leaders, Mette Frederiksen and Lars Lokke Rasmussen all point to Russia straight away while police and defense forces still maintain they don't know who it was.

An organized crime is an actual possibility.

So it's like, you know, I don't know where they got these scared Danes from, but that doesn't seem to be the boots on the ground situation.

Well, this is the messaging that they're trying to do then.

Yeah.

So this has been orchestrated.

You have clips.

You had a clip of it.

I got two clips of it.

Well, let me...

So there's somebody behind it for a reason.

We don't know what the reason is.

Oh, no, we do.

Of course we do.

Oh, to sell more junk?

Yes!

EU leaders that gathered in Copenhagen on Wednesday gave broad support to proposals to ramp up the development of drone and anti-drone technology.

Ahead of the meeting, the European Commission released a document which outlines four projects that it believes need to be financed and implemented as a matter of urgency.

We need money right away.

We're all here meeting anyway.

It's not a coincidence that drones and mysterious drones launch from ships that have links to Russia.

We need money!

The summit and proposal come as Europe faced a series of airspace violations in recent weeks.

So we have to create a European ecosystem that will enable Europe to develop cutting-edge drone solutions.

Yeah.

Inspired by what they are doing in Ukraine already.

The leaders also discussed a proposal which outlines the use of immobilized Russian assets to loan money to Ukraine.

Under the plan, Ukraine would repay the loan after Moscow agrees to compensate for damages.

Oh, sure.

The Commission would repay Euroclear, which would repay Russia.

We are not confiscating the assets, but we are taking the cash balances for loan to Ukraine.

Ukraine has to pay back this loan if Russia pays reparations.

The plan earned broad support, but was met with resistance by Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.

Von der Leyen sought to assure his reservations and clarified Belgium cannot be the only member state to carry risks.

They've had their eye on this money for so long.

You know, they keep looking at it.

They want this money so bad.

They finally have figured out a way and it's the best plan ever.

We'll slush fund it through Ukraine.

We'll put it in our pockets because what are we really talking about?

Some jamming devices.

These are all little tiny dumb drones.

And, you know, the 800-3 maybe get through so it doesn't seem like we already need, we already have some kind of defenses.

And, oh, by the way, if this whole thing comes to an end, Ukraine's on the hook.

You guys pay for it.

We're going to take it.

This is theft.

To me, it seems obvious.

They're stealing this money.

But, you know, we're not taking Russia's money.

No, we're just loaning it to Ukraine.

But, you know, if there's a ceasefire, if there's a peace deal, Ukraine will pay it back from Russia's own money, from their own reparations.

Give me a break.

This isn't...

It's great.

It's such a scam.

It's how you do it, I guess.

It's like, wow, come on, man.

You're such a creative bookkeeper.

Very creative.

Very, very creative.

All right.

Do we need to play your other Morning Edition clip or are we good on the drones?

By the other one, there's the two about...

Oh, Pfizer.

About the drones.

The other ones are different if you want to play those.

The other drone, yeah.

It's changing the topic.

Oh, OK.

Like other Nordic governments, Denmark urges citizens to store enough supplies to survive a minimum of three days with no access to electricity, food, or fresh water.

Oh, man.

Since the drones first appeared...

What do they expect to happen?

And how is this going to stop the drones?

At least I've got water.

At least I've got a candy bar and a flashlight radio.

It's silly.

I mean...

And the fact that...

Give me a Starlink or something.

You know, this is dumb.

Yeah, that would be usable.

Yeah.

...food or fresh water.

Since the drones first appeared September 22nd, people seem to be taking the recommendations more seriously than before.

A home goods store in a Copenhagen suburb.

Sales associate Peter Sandel said 20 liter containers of water were going fast.

Like hotcakes.

This morning, we have this, this, and this full.

Alejandra and Alexander snagged the last camping stove on the store's shelf.

They said until now they'd half-heartedly followed the government advice on stockpiling.

But the airspace incursions were a wake-up call.

We bought all the water and all that was before the drones.

So now with the drones, we were like, we need to get the last stuff that is on the list.

It's been a jolt for Danish authorities as well, says Jakob Hallgren with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

Sweden also went through a period like this shortly after the start of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, he explained.

And invested a lot in renovating and expanding its network of bomb shelters.

Hallgren advises the Danish government to do the same.

Living in Denmark, you might have kind of thought that you were shielded from these developments, but this is obviously no longer the case.

So if they haven't, it's a really high time to make sure that those shelters are repaired and that there is proper information about where you can find them.

In the meantime, Trine says she knows what she'd like to do about those disruptive drones.

She joked to her policeman husband she'd like to borrow one of his weapons.

And then my daughter, she's 20, she said, aw, dad, give her a pursuit.

She emphasizes she was kidding.

But she hopes the Danish government does decide to shoot the drones down if they show up again.

Oh, man.

You know what?

I can almost predict what's going to happen next.

President Trump is going to come out with, well, you've got to give us Greenland if you want to be safe.

Oh, that would be a great, that's a good one.

Can almost predict it.

That would be a terrific move.

But, you know, you want to be safe.

Like, we can expand the Golden Dome to Greenland.

And we'll give you a little annex over to Denmark.

This is, I mean, well, I don't believe, I think they've just got a bunch of numb nuts because of our boots on the ground.

Like, no one believes it.

They all think it's bull crap.

The drones have flashing red lights.

Yeah, that's what I'm going to do if I'm Russia.

I'm going to send a mysterious drone over and announce it with a big flashing red light.

You know, the funny thing is about it is they're all freaked out about the bomb shelters and all the rest.

And like the clip we played in the last show where they talk about the Russians launched 900 drones into Ukraine and three people were killed.

And I brought up, I keep bringing up this lack of consistency or logic.

You said 900 drones to kill three people?

What is Denmark worried about?

They got enough people.

How many people do they have?

I don't know what their population is, but it doesn't matter with four or five drones compared to 900.

Yeah, it seems rather odd.

And they're worried that they're going to attack Copenhagen?

Why?

Well, because they have a monarchy.

You know, North Sea Nexus.

They're under attack.

I mean, I really have no idea.

Well, they can spend money.

And by the way, that stupid clip you played earlier about that automated machine gun that uses AI to pop the drones out of the sky.

That thing will take out a flock of geese and it'll become the most controversial product ever.

Oh, look at this.

There's a hundred geese.

They're all dead.

They're trying to go down south.

Well, I hadn't thought about that.

But it's, I mean, isn't it obvious?

It's going to definitely kill birds.

But isn't it obvious to people that the European Union meets in Copenhagen?

I don't even know why they would go there.

They've got offices.

It's a pretty town.

That's why.

They've got offices in Luxembourg.

They've got offices in Belgium.

Yeah, Luxembourg.

Copenhagen is one of the prettiest.

If anyone wants to travel, they speak a lot of English there.

And Copenhagen is one of the prettiest towns in the world.

Yes.

So they went there for a fun time.

And then they brought out some drones.

I could have flown that drone over the airport.

Who knows who's doing that?

It's the same thing as the New Jersey drones.

It could be some jokers.

Launched from the Chinese mothership.

And we fell for it.

I mean, we didn't, but...

We didn't fall for it.

But the people on the East Coast did.

Oh, yeah, we want to know.

But they didn't panic like these guys.

They weren't getting water and diving into the bomb shelters, no.

Water.

That's true.

And radio, flashlight radios.

Come on.

The hand crank?

The hand crank ones?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, hand crank, of course.

Of course, someone had a...

China had another stockpile of those.

Throw them out.

Give them to them.

Gotta get rid of these things.

Yeah, the PSYOPs are good today.

Can I just take a little detour?

Just a quick one with two clips.

Because we identified these PSYOPs taking place through Discord.

Oh, yes, yeah.

And it's now everywhere.

They even have a name.

And although they don't mention Discord in this first report, they flash on the screen a Discord login.

Listen to this.

This is Morocco.

After a crowd disperses in the city of Wedge down the northeast of Morocco, a police van drives straight into protesters, injuring one of them.

An incident that happened on the fourth day of national protests would show no sign of dying down.

Initial peaceful gatherings called for a reform of the education system and improvements to health care.

But protesters say the government has been neglecting.

Protesters by now greater in number on Tuesday night clashed with security forces in several cities across the country.

Demonstrators threw stones at police who responded with dozens of arrests.

Here close to Agadir, vehicles were overturned or set alight.

Violence that Morocco's Association for the Defense of Human Rights condemned.

The violence and oppression we've seen in the past few days are really unprecedented.

For the first time since at least the 1980s, the youth can't even protest.

They're being repressed, dispersed before they can even assemble and chant their slogans.

The protest movement's organizers, the little-known collective Gen Z212, have also called for calm.

And in a communique issued on Tuesday night, Morocco's coalition government said it would listen to the protesters' demands and that it was willing to respond in a positive and responsible manner.

So this is the new group, Gen Z212.

They activate these kids on Discord and they're doing the same thing in Madagascar.

Under mounting pressure from the streets, Madagascan President Andre Azouel says he's dissolving the government.

The leader forced to take action after several days of protests across the country.

Maybe we haven't lived up to your expectations.

Or listened to your cries or your fears.

What began as a youth-led movement against frequent power and water cuts quickly grew into a larger wave of discontent.

The president just keeps lying.

He doesn't listen to us.

All we want is for him to step down.

We want change.

At the forefront of the movement is Gen Z.

Despite the violent crackdowns, bloody clashes with police, leaving several dead and dozens injured, the young protesters are vowing to continue accusing others of taking advantage of the unrest.

We were peaceful.

We were singing, shouting, calling for our rights, the right to live.

But then some people took advantage of the situation and others acted out, not really following the Gen Z movement's peaceful approach.

Despite its abundance of natural resources, Madagascar remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with three quarters of the population living below the poverty line.

Gen Z.

Gen Z.

This is it.

This is the new Arab Spring.

Oh, we need bread.

We don't have any bread.

There's a bread thing over there.

This is Gen Z 212.

This is an op.

And the Madagascar government, the president dismissed the government over it.

Oh, well, listen to these Gen Z-ers.

The Gen Z-ers.

Oh, yeah, they're in control now.

Please.

We have a Discord thing happening here.

In San Francisco or in your house?

Well, San Francisco's where Discord is.

Yeah.

But you can set up your own Discord server.

You don't need to be part of the Discord company.

I think it's, isn't it just open-source software at this point?

Ah, you know, the whole thing seems like an Intel op to me.

Well, it is.

People's Sick Day.

Play this clip.

This is the latest.

Because I guess blackout didn't go anywhere.

People's Sick Day.

What if millions of us stopped working, stopped spending, and stopped producing all at the same time?

There's a movement brewing.

It's called the People's Sick Day.

And what it is is a three-day economic blackout.

That means no work, no shopping, no production, just pause.

Three days where we remind the system that without us, nothing moves.

But here's the twist.

We're not giving out the dates until 48 hours before.

Because we don't want to give the corporations time to plan and stop us from having this happen.

Because let's be honest, if they knew what we were planning, they'd shut it down before it even started.

This isn't a protest.

This is a strategic disruption to the machine that feeds off of our hard work and labor.

If you want to be a part of it, go to thepeoplessickday.com.

Join the Discord and join the movement.

This is how we stand up against what is happening in our country.

We need to shut it down.

We need to shut it down.

So go to thepeoplessickday.com, sign up for the Discord, and you can get more information there.

Yeah, Discord is open source.

You can set up your own Discord.

And it feels so, you know, like underground.

TikTok is rife with people talking about the people's Discord.

Let's see what this is.

It's a chronically ill Discord.

Oh, she's just chronically ill.

Okay, never mind.

She's not people sick.

She's chronically ill.

Discord, man, that's the thing.

It is an op machine.

We made Discord for gamers like ourselves, but other engineers have found it to be a great tool.

I'll bet they do.

And it's so easy.

These kids are all hopped up on medication anyway.

Psy-op them, these Gen Z-ers.

Z-ers.

Gen Z 212.

It's a new world, John.

Oh, it's the same old world.

It's the same old world.

They just keep moving the goalposts around.

Now we're just supposed to hate our children.

Now we hate our children.

Gen Z children.

I hate you, child.

You're my child.

I hate you.

You're ruining everything with your people sick day.

Gen Z.

People sick day.

People sick day.

That's just going to go nowhere.

Well, no, of course not.

Because they don't have the agitators in place like they do in these other countries.

And also they're not cutting the power.

I'm sure that doesn't help.

No, you got to cut the power.

Yeah, that's the best way to go.

So I have a couple, just as a little side bit, I got a couple AI clips here.

Okay.

Not AI clips, but AI versions of, you know, they're starting to, I don't know if you followed the sombrero scandal.

How could I not?

Well, it's possible.

One of the funniest things this year.

When I mentioned it to Mia, she said, what are you talking about?

Really?

Well, she's busy running for city council.

So, and if anyone hasn't heard the original, now this is not safe for work.

Oh.

Woo.

This is the AI Schumer.

This is what started it off.

This was the original one.

This has got a.

Oh, no beeps.

No beeps.

There's no beeps.

Okay.

All right.

This has got Schumer standing next to Jeffries, who's wearing a sombrero with a big mustache.

Look guys, there's no way to sugar coat it.

Nobody likes Democrats anymore.

We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullshit.

Not even black people want to vote for us anymore.

Even Latinos hate us.

So, we need new voters.

And if we give all these illegal aliens free healthcare, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us.

They can't even speak English.

So, they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of shit.

You know?

At least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.

You know, now I'm really realizing how poor a job of AI that is.

It doesn't even sound remotely like Schumer.

I think it does.

Oh no.

They trained it on his voice.

I don't think so at all.

And there's a...

After that ran, there was a bunch of press conferences about what a scandal this is and how terrible, racist the Trump administration is.

Schumer was bent out of shape about it.

He felt very upset.

And it's gone to the point where now Vance is going to be giving out red sombreros that say, make America great again.

And so, there was a...

The last thing that came out is this, which is the AI Vance.

This is Vance with his sombrero on.

But this is, again, this is all fake.

It's not Vance.

And his sombrero's junk.

It's just a phony looking thing.

And this is what he did.

Okay, esto es mucho simple.

El Democrat Party es mucho retardo.

Okay?

Mucho retardo.

Wow.

Especially el Joaquimo Jeffries y el Chuco Schumer.

They are extra retardo.

So, el Presidente and I cannot negotiate with these Democrat retardos.

It's imposible.

Mucho imposible.

Gracias, amigos.

Oh, and make sure you el-voto for LJD Vanso in el 2028.

The whole thing.

And the funny part is, is that the whole shutdown is really playing right into President Trump's cards.

I mean, this is part of Doge.

Like, we're going to riff people.

Reduction in force.

It's almost like it was planned, and they took the bait.

Yeah, well, they've been doing it.

It's kind of consistent, taking the bait.

That's just like, wow, don't you see it?

Especially, and they like to play the old clips.

I didn't make it.

This is all over the place, but there's a collection of Schumer clips.

It goes back to 2009, where he goes on and on about how stupid it is to shut down the government, and he would never do it, and blah, blah, blah.

And it's one clip after another of him saying pretty much the same thing, which is crazy to shut down the government.

It's just something the Republicans want to do.

We would never do it.

I would never vote for this.

And he'd just go on and on.

And I guess, according to some reports, Mike Johnson had a reel of all these Democrats saying pretty much the same thing that he had running outside of his office on a monitor.

Just a bunch of, you know, a super cut after another.

I have a couple of shutdown theater clips, which I think are probably relevant.

We're going back to the pooper box.

We believe that layoffs are imminent.

They are, unfortunately, a consequence of this government shutdown.

In fact, that's not normally a consequence of government shutdowns.

Furloughs are.

So is working without pay.

But typical or not, the White House is doing it, and the House speaker today defended it.

Look, if Russ Vought has to make tough decisions, whoever is the director of the office of management and budget in a scenario like this has to make tough choices.

We're talking about permanently firing people.

Well, I'm not sure that hasn't happened before, but if the authority is there and he sees a program that is wasting taxpayer dollars, you and I can both agree the government doesn't do everything in the most efficient manner.

I mean, constitutionally, that's your job.

Article 1, that is your job.

It is until Chuck Schumer decides to hand the keys to the president, which is literally what he's doing.

Boom, there it is.

Yeah, it's great.

That's exactly what happened.

It was, like, played right into it.

It's unbelievable.

And, of course, it's sad because a lot of people will lose their jobs.

I think we're going to see hundreds of thousands of reduction in force, which is, if you look at the Doge executive order, it's, like, all in play.

It was very, very odd.

So you have another one here.

The administration is also using the crisis to either pause or cancel billions of dollars in already appropriated spending in blue states, including $18 billion for two big mass transportation projects here in New York.

Vice President Vance was asked about that today.

Does announcing that today mean that you guys are going to squeeze Chuck Schumer's home state until he blinks?

Look, I haven't talked to Russ about this this morning, but, look, I'm sure that Russ is heartbroken about the fact that he's unable to give certain things to certain constituencies.

The Russ he is referring to is Russell Vogt, the White House budget director.

The vice president was also asked about the racist AI videos of Minority Leader Jeffries the president has been posting on social media.

This is the latest from today.

Is it helpful to post pictures of Leader Jeffries and his sombrero if you're trying to have good faith talks with him?

Oh, I think it's funny.

The president's joking, and we're having a good time.

You can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats' positions and even, you know, poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.

With thousands of federal workers now either working without pay, not working at all, or even facing layoffs, and millions of Americans not able to access federal services, it's hard to see this as an opportunity to, as the vice president has said, be having a good time.

But there it is.

What I'm missing in all of these reports, where's your Mexican-Americans who are all mad about this?

We're not mad about it.

No, of course not.

They've got no sense of humor.

Of course, that's the whole point.

It's like they can't even find one Mexican to say...

You'd think they'd find one Mexican to say something.

You can pay one Mexican to say it.

It's racist.

Here's the continuation of this.

So, we played sound for Vice President Vance, not just defending that AI racist video of Minority Leader Jeffries wearing a sombrero, but also, like, celebrating that video.

And it was playing on a loop in the briefing room today.

What are you hearing from the inside about that?

It was not only just playing on a loop in the briefing room.

If you've never been in the press briefing room, for those who haven't, there are loudspeakers overhead, so you can hear announcements or what's being said or if there's an event going on with the president in the Rose Garden, for example.

They were playing that mariachi music as well over the loudspeakers for all the press that was coming in and out of the White House today inside the press briefing room.

It just kind of gives you a window, John, into how they're dealing with this and how they believe they have the upper hand when it comes to the messaging here.

And there's a moment here.

They're being heavily criticized over this, over these posts by the president, by Democrats.

And instead of backing off or apologizing for it, they're leaning into it.

And they're playing the music over loudspeakers and on repeat inside the briefing room because they simply don't care about that criticism.

It's like playing Metallica outside the Taliban enemy camp.

You know, it's like, come on.

This is so typical.

We've even done it.

It's what you do.

Remember this?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Hey!

No, no, no, no, no.

Hey!

Obama!

Obama!

Ah, good times.

Good times.

Miss Obama.

I miss him.

By the way, I didn't get any clips, but did you hear Michelle in their latest podcast with her shrink?

Oh, goodness.

I must have missed it.

What did she say?

She goes on a rampage about how her and the girls, and especially her, just couldn't take it because the way Barack chewed.

Really?

And they were on and on about it.

You're at the end of your marriage when that's irritating.

No kidding.

That's kind of end of days.

I don't get it.

He's just, it's disgusting, she says, to watch him chew.

Wow.

I remember my second wife, as it was ending, she got mad because the way I clinked my spoon into the bowl of cereal.

That's so annoying.

Yes, typically that is when a woman is fed up.

She's at the end.

She's at the end.

It's done.

Yeah, this is what's going on here.

In fact, they played that clip on Gutfeld when Drew Pinsky was on, and he said exactly what you just said.

He says, this sounds like the end of the relationship when things like chewing drive you nuts.

The way the guy chews, I mean, come on.

Here's a CBC report on the racist deepfakes.

The fight has become deeply personal after President Donald Trump posted AI videos on social media attacking his opponents.

One video shows Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House leader, wearing a photoshopped sombrero and mustache, while an AI Schumer makes derogatory comments about Black and Latino voters.

Jeffries called it fake and racist.

Oh, I think it's funny.

The president's joking, and we're having a good time.

The vice president says good faith negotiations can take place in this environment, dismissing concerns.

Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist, and I know that he said that, and I honestly don't even know what that means.

This is symbolic of the bitterness of this moment.

With no sign a resolution is in the near future.

Do you remember when, I think it was Trump's first term, he had some Native Americans in the Oval Office, and he was like, you know, we've got Pocahontas in Congress.

Do you remember that?

Only vaguely.

It'd be nice to have a clip of it.

I'm actually looking.

I don't think so, but it was funny.

Well, I got some government shutdown clips.

And what I'd like to know before we get to your clips, does this bother government employees?

We have a lot of them listening.

That this jokery is going on.

I don't think so yet, because it started October 1st.

Checks aren't until the 15th.

I presume they get paid every two weeks, right?

I don't know.

I think so.

Here's an air traffic controller.

I'm an air traffic controller in the Western U.S.

A lot of confusion regarding the government shutdown in ATC.

By law, ATC must operate.

Controllers must show up to work even during a shutdown.

The FAA has emergency funding through Thursday night at midnight in the event the shutdown isn't over by then.

After that, the agency and controllers will be operating on an IOU.

By law, all federal employees will receive back pay once the government reopens.

During the last shutdown in 2019, controllers missed two paychecks.

On the last day of the $0 paycheck, about 10 controllers at the critical Jacksonville Center called off sick, causing severe delays.

There were also excessive sick outs at other key facilities.

Since controllers now know that we can use sick leave without being charged, there's no incentive to come to work if we're not going to get paid anyway.

Our union, NATCA, is spineless and basically begging us to do the right thing and not call off sick.

I predict once funding runs out on Friday, there will be mass sick outs, crippling airlines, forcing Congress to do their job and pass a spending bill reopening the government.

You're servant of the skies and master of the microphone.

So that's no one mad about the sombrero.

No one's going to get mad about the sombrero except Jeffries and Schumer.

Yeah, yeah.

They're the targets.

Same with Customs Border Patrol boots on the ground.

We were told to come to work tomorrow no matter what.

We are HR and in charge of onboarding.

A few days ago, they were designating just three or four employees to come in and bring new hires on board.

As of now, though, we're all going to work.

We'll get a paycheck for September 22nd through the 30th and get back pay for the rest later.

But the shutdown will only really negatively impact us if the shutdown goes through October 24th.

So, you know, we have some time here for the more sombrero videos.

The difference is five Democrats.

If they can get five, which is not a lot, five moderates to feel the pressure and then change their vote and the next thing you know, it's done.

That shouldn't take too long.

I don't think they're pushing it right now because I think they do want to do what you said, which is entrap the Democrats so they can start firing people.

But let's go with this government shutdown.

This is from NPR.

Oh, you've got a series.

Oh, goodness.

Well, I'm sorry.

No, this is from NTD.

So it's more it's more objective.

Day one of government shutdown.

Senate Democrats blocked a procedural vote to reconsider a stopgap bill to reopen the government.

Our Washington correspondent, Luis Eduardo Martinez, has the latest on the story.

Republicans thought that they could barrel us into a shutdown because they didn't want to protect the health care of the American people.

Well, now they've seen they can't bully us.

They can't barrel us.

They don't have the votes to push their partisan bill through that did nothing to protect American health care.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has maintained his maximalist demands, despite that members of his conference have already shown opposition to hold government funding hostage.

We were elected to solve the problems of this country, not make them worse.

And that's exactly what Donald Trump and his Republican henchmen are seeking to do.

Does that language still work?

His his henchmen.

Henchmen.

By the way, what does it say?

Why did you barrel me?

What is he talking?

What barrel?

Oh, the Republicans are trying to barrel us.

What?

What?

I don't know.

Have you ever heard that phrase before?

Or that wordage?

Like that term?

Barrel?

Like what is it?

What is it?

Stretch over a barrel.

Pull us up.

Put us over a barrel.

Over a barrel.

Like I haven't heard it in this way.

No.

I think he just it just came to me.

He said it once and he had to say it again.

It's just he's an idiot.

Let's play part two.

It is now a messaging war.

And despite the fact that Congress holds the power of the purse, Democrats are blaming President Trump for the shutdown.

Republicans maintain their willingness to negotiate with Democrats their extension of Affordable Care Act health care tax credits that they are demanding.

This is not the time to take the American.

You meant to back up.

I thought I heard him say the Horrible Care Act.

People hostage.

Affordable.

Negotiate with Democrats their extension of Affordable Care Act health care tax credits that they are demanding.

Now, I would just stop you for a second.

So what exactly are they talking about?

Because the Republicans say, well, they just want free health care for illegal immigrants.

And the Democrats are saying that your Obamacare, your affordable health Affordable Care Act premiums will go up over 100 percent.

Which which one do you understand to be true?

If either.

The Republican position is true.

For one thing, the change in any of the Obamacare stuff doesn't take place until after this continuing resolution is already done.

Right.

So it's not even within this period.

So that's that's bullcrap.

And if that good point is not until 2026.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that's nonsense.

And so the other thing is, is it's obvious that because they've said it.

I mean, Maxine Waters said it.

And this is what that Indian guy said it, that they want to keep up payments, top notch health care for the illegal immigrants.

Maxine Waters said it like that.

She's she was they had like it was what's his name?

The pillow guy has his little TV network.

Mike Lindell, the pillow Mike Lindell's TV.

And they had some girl hounding Maxine harassing her, basically going on and on and on.

And then got her Maxine to say, say, isn't just just for health care for illegals.

And then she kept hounding her and Maxine got pissed off.

She says, look, we want health care for everybody, period.

And walked off.

Hmm.

So that's what it's about.

It's about premium health care.

I have, I have, I mean, I have the clip.

I have the clip.

Hold on.

Maxine Waters snapped when a reporter asked her about Democrats forcing a government shutdown over health care for illegal immigrants, which is weird because usually she loves talking about giving away other people's money.

Well, America's quit it.

Stop it.

This is the kind of journalism we don't need.

No, you're not.

No, you're being divisive.

No, please don't.

You don't need to ask that question.

You're just trying to get controversy here.

You're not going to get it from me.

We want to save healthcare for all people.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Congresswoman Maxine.

We're all people.

Yeah.

All people.

Healthcare.

Yes.

So that's so the Republicans are right.

Okay.

We continue.

This is not the time to take the American people hostage.

The ACA credits don't run out until December, but the best way to do that is to open the government and let's get back to this thing called regular order.

So we can have those debates.

We can have those committee hearings.

We can have those negotiations.

Senate Republicans are focusing their messaging on moderate Democrats, calling on them to vote for the continuing resolution to reopen government for more Democrats are needed to do so.

She don't think it's going to be that long of a shutdown.

This is a pure guess from the vice president United States, because I think you already saw some evidence that moderate Democrats are cracking a little bit.

They understand the fundamental illogic of this.

Chuck Schumer at the behest of a bunch of liberal far left activist groups has walked his Democrat colleagues into a boxed Canyon.

The continuing resolution that house Republicans pass and Senate Republicans support extends levels of government funding set by Democrats during the Biden administration.

Republicans have also chosen not to enact the spending cuts proposed by the department of government efficiency.

Ultimately, Democrats have already voted for current levels of government funding 13 times in the past.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So this is kind of nuts.

Let's go to part three.

Good evening, Mari.

What is the white house saying about the government shutdown?

Good evening.

Yes.

The white house is blaming Democrats for the government shutdown saying that it impacts active duty troops, critical food assistance and flood insurance as we enter hurricane season.

And vice president JD Vance today is saying this at a surprise appearance at the white house press briefing.

Watch whatever those disagreements are.

You don't shut down the government over it for the first time since the Democrats have been in politics.

They're now saying that unless we get every policy item that we demand, we're going to shut down the people's government.

They're trying to take a hostage and we're not going to let them.

The white house website featuring a government shutdown clock and the press secretary leaving this message on the white house comment line.

Thank you for calling the white house comment.

Democrats in Congress have shut down the federal government because they care more about funding healthcare for illegal immigrants than they care about serving you.

Meanwhile, vice president Vance says he doesn't think the shutdown will be long.

He's calling on more moderate Democrats today to join Republicans in voting to keep the government open.

So three moderate Democrats joined 52 Republicans last night.

We need five more.

While Republicans have offered a clean short term budget bill, the white house criticizing Democrats for holding the economy hostage for what it calls free healthcare for illegal immigrants.

So Democrats say that's not what they're demanding.

Political leadership of their party has got it into their heads that the only way to be compassionate is to be compassionate to illegal aliens rather than American citizens.

No, the law, the law is clear that no Medicaid, no Medicare, no ACA can go to any undocumented immigrants.

Hmm.

So Fetterman voted, uh, for the continuing resolution, Cortez Mastro from Nevada and King from Maine.

That's interesting that man, they must be hating Fetterman right now.

It turns out to be a pretty, pretty funny dude.

Yeah.

Everyone's surprised by that.

You see, he's actually kind of down to earth.

Yeah.

When he had the stroke, that's when he was, became a Democrat, you know, then that kind of ebbed away and then it became normal again.

It says something, doesn't it?

This is part, I got part four you play.

And Tiff, I don't know if you've seen this, but the white house has been replaying this meme in the briefing room.

It's, um, a post that president Trump originally put on his truth social of house minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero.

Don't cop out through a racist and fake AI video.

When I'm back in the oval office, say it to my face.

Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist.

And I know that he said that.

And I honestly don't even know what that means.

Like, is, is, is he a Mexican American that is offended by having a sombrero meme?

The president's joking and we're having a good time.

Vice president Vance says he makes the solemn promise to stop the sombrero memes.

If Hakeem helps reopen the government, we're going to, we're going to sombrero meme you bro.

Wow.

Stop this sombrero memes.

It's, it's notable that Vance is really the mouthpiece for this.

President Trump is, you know, he just reposted what, and by the way, if that was a, an AI meme, someone needs to turn their large language model.

And it wasn't all that great.

No, they're talking about the AI part was Schumer's voice.

Right?

Well, even the rest of it, that wasn't, I mean, even when the, the faith, the one with Vance, which we played and had the sombrero on his head, the sombrero was fixed.

Yeah.

So when Jeffrey's with his sombrero, when he turned, it's like the sombrero didn't move in at all.

It was just stuck on the frame.

It's bullcrap.

It's very poorly done to be honest.

Yes, but, but Vance is the, is the mouthpiece that, and that's noticeable, noticeable.

I just think that's notable.

Let's put it that way.

Vance is the one that is doing the talking here.

Of course he's, he's, he seems to be the point man for the, for the sombrero.

Hey Vance, you take the sombrero stuff.

I'm going to go to, I'm going to go get Greenland.

I'll get Greenland.

You get Jeffrey's.

Yeah.

Wow.

That's, that's pretty incredible.

Okay.

So I, I predict two weeks.

What do you think?

Oh, it might have not even go that long.

I mean, the last time they, during the Trump's first term, they did have a one month.

It was a month.

Yeah, it took a month.

I remember that.

And that was the longest ever.

So who knows?

Hmm.

Back to AI.

Hold on one second.

They're going to have to give on something.

the, the Democrats, the Republicans.

No, the, yeah, they'll have to give the Democrats.

They don't.

You think the Democrats will just fold because of the sombrero?

Like, no, they're going to fold because you're going to get some, they don't need, but the four votes they say, I thought was five is four.

And, and it's just the same funding that's been going on.

There's no reason to change anything.

They're supposed to change when you actually do a bill, not the continuing resolution.

Just keep spending the same money.

Yeah.

There's no reason to change.

Well, so they're going to, they're going to have to give a reason to buckle.

It'll be like, we just didn't want to subject the American people anymore to sombrero memes.

I don't know how they'll, they'll come up with some good reason.

They have to.

So I have this, the big scandal going on in AI is to Norway.

This is these kids.

You don't think so?

No, it's not a scandal.

It's one of the best marketing campaigns I've ever seen.

It's outstanding.

They're basically just trying to get an agent, an agent for some woman.

This AI model is not in movies.

It doesn't have any gigs booked.

Isn't getting sides for scripts.

No, it's like, yeah, but it's got Hollywood all bent out of shape.

They got one person after another going, if anyone hires her, we're going to quit the agency.

I'm telling you, I'm telling you it's a Dutch woman.

I think, although she has a British accent, it is a Dutch woman.

She, she was just a genius, a genius marketing ploy.

Like, Oh, we're shopping for agents.

That's when this, cause that's one of the hardest things.

Breaking into show business.

The first and probably hardest step is getting an agent.

Like, Oh, you got an agent?

No, not yet.

I'm trying to get one.

No one will take me.

Yeah.

Who's, who's your agent?

Well, you also represent, uh, you know, whoever Julianne.

Three seasons and a podcast meet Tillie Norwood, the world's most controversial new actor.

Can she cry on Graham Norton?

Well, she might seem real on screen and on her social media.

Take a closer look.

Can you tell Tillie Norwood 100% AI generated?

Yup.

She's fake.

Tillie Norwood is the first creation from a new studio that develops AI actors.

And this morning, her mere existence has sparked outrage and concern about the use of artificial intelligence in Hollywood.

We have so far lost the plot.

What are we doing?

The backlash to Tillie Norwood igniting over the weekend after her creator, Dutch actor and comedian, Alina van der Velden said multiple talent agents have shown interest in signing the AI actress.

According to deadline, that news prompting real actors to speak out in protest.

Emily blunt, calling it really, really scary.

In an interview with Variety, urging agencies to please stop posting a lengthy statement, defending the invention, comparing it to animation or CGI, writing Tillie Norwood is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work, a piece of art that sparks conversation will be Goldberg.

Among those responding.

The problem with this, in my opinion, humble opinion, don't care is that you are suddenly up against something that's been generated.

With 5,000 other actors.

So it's a little bit of an unfair advantage.

The debate over Tillie Norwood, just the latest in the battle between creative artists and AI.

Where was that report from?

Is that from CBS, ABC?

Where's that from?

I think, because I have a CBS, a CBC report from Canada, which sounded remarkably similar.

Three seasons and a podcast.

Exactly the same.

The same opening.

That's the whole.

It's the same report.

It's a package.

Okay.

It's a package.

Listen, I'll play it.

Three seasons and a podcast.

Bragging about getting gigs, battling with villains on screen.

Oh, interesting.

A little different.

Oh, well now I have to play it.

It's not exactly the same.

Three seasons and a podcast.

Bragging about getting gigs, battling with villains on screen in a skit.

This is Tillie Norwood, an AI generated actress created by the company Particle Six.

Its CEO, Aline van der Velden, says entertainment companies are interested.

By the way, I'm not familiar with this Dutch actress and comedian.

I haven't really been keeping up, but I don't think she's very well known in Holland.

With Tillie, you know, when we first launched her, especially with that accent, like, oh, that's not going to happen.

And now it's, you know, we're going to announce who she's going, who, which agency is going to be there.

I don't know if she does porn one as many.

I'm out of the business.

In the next few months.

She said this during a panel at the Zurich Film Festival.

See, that's how she did it.

She launched it at the Zurich Film Festival.

We're getting an agent for our AI.

Since then, Hollywood has been up in arms.

Actors like Whoopi Goldberg, Simu Liu, and Emily Blunt are speaking out.

Same package.

This is a, I think Hollywood just distributed a package to everybody.

Don't you think?

Hollywood would be the beneficiary of this.

Of course they would.

They love it.

This is cheap.

That's pesky actors.

And by the way, thinking it's cheap reminds me of the early days of CGI.

Yes.

When, you know, they would do a few special effects using the computers that are actually blowing up a building.

They had a computer do it.

And then pretty soon the movies became so CGI centric that it costs a fortune in computing power to do it.

So you think it's cheap at first.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because more expensive.

Now I want to, the reason I want to bring this up is because all these people got all, I see, you see it on all these networks, they're all bent out of shape.

And then the fallback was always, well, don't worry about it because the public is never going to, you know, have the same feelings for this sort of celebrities.

And they went on and on.

It's just because it's not a real person.

So there's not going to be any attachment.

And they all kind of ignore Hatsune Miku.

Hatsune Miku?

Hatsune Miku is a fake person in Japan that is extremely popular.

And she's been around since at least 2012.

She's been around for over a decade.

And it's a, you can look her up.

H A T U S.

I'm sorry.

H A T S U N E.

Miku.

M I K U.

A pop star.

And everyone knows she's a fake and everyone loves her.

Like she's like the girl next door.

And so this, this is more of a threat than they think it is.

And everyone ignores the phenomenon.

Is she anime or is she real?

She's anime, isn't she?

No, she's not anime.

But I'm looking at Hatsune Miku and the whole YouTube page is filled with anime.

Well, that might be full.

Maybe that page is, but there's, look at, look at images and do an image search and look for her.

She's real.

She's kind of a pretty Japanese girl.

Okay.

And, uh, except for once in a while, she has cross eyes.

okay.

I see her.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And she's very popular.

So, uh, this is not something that should be taken lightly.

Hmm.

Well, ultimately it's bad for humanity.

You know, you, you lose touch with, with human, we just, we're, we're being psyoped into technology.

I mean, you look at the latest AI, by the way, what you just said is reminding me of the meeting that, that, that, uh, Hegseth had, because all the counter arguments, why didn't they just send an email?

He didn't have to bring them all together when, when the old timers in the military said, yeah, you want face to face.

Yeah.

You want face to face.

And what you just said is a reflection of these, the same doofus as this.

Oh, they could have sent out an email or a zoom call would have done the same thing.

Well, if you look, it's not true.

If you look at the popular new AI companies, uh, loves you.

Dot AI friend, a friend.

AI is a really funny one.

I couldn't clip it because it doesn't come across it.

The pendant you wear around your neck and you press it to talk to your friend.

This, but this is it.

This is, this is your friend is dependent.

Well, no, your, your friend then texts you something.

You talk to your friend by pressing the pendant and then it sends you a text message.

With the phone that you're carrying around incessantly and holding in your hand as you walk down the street.

But of course, men and women, but of course, yes.

So, you know, this is, this is where it's headed.

I mean, I think in, in this regard, but who even cares about a movie with, uh, unless we all have the same friend AI or the same loves you.

Dot AI.

Yeah.

The gen Zedders, you know, they're all going for, not just gen Zed, but the boomers.

Boomers.

Even I'm lonely.

Oh, I have a friend.

Now I have a friend in my phone who listens.

My friend listens to me.

It's, it's extremely bad for humanity, but it's, I think there's no stopping it.

It's no stopping it.

So we'll have AI movies, you know, all generated characters.

It's, uh, I've given up.

I mean, if, if I, if I can't, they said the slop is going to kill it.

No, but people will love the slop.

This is, this is what I'm coming to realize.

Oh, it's slop, but I love it.

We're like pigs.

AI slop.

I love it.

I'm a pig.

Yeah.

That, well, not everybody, but a lot of, a lot, a lot of people are going to go for that.

They're just, they're AI pigs.

They want more slop.

Give me slop.

I love it.

I'm a pig.

Give it to me.

Well, then there's one other little Hollywood ditty.

Now also on Monday, Donald Trump upped his tariff war saying the U S will now impose a 100% tariff on films made outside the country.

It's still unclear how those tariffs would operate since movies and TV shows can be transmitted digitally without going through a port like a car or electronics.

But the announcement still is making waves in the film industry.

Here's reaction from George Clooney speaking in New York.

It really happens.

It would be pretty damaging to the business.

Look, he's not wrong about the idea that businesses have left Los Angeles.

They have in droves.

What we need is, uh, you know, the, the money is the tax incentives that you get here in New York, by the way, they're building studios here because there's so much work we need those.

And by the way, if he really wants to fix it, then we should talk about a federal incentive.

Sure.

To keep people working in, in Los Angeles, because there are tons of below the line people, grips and cinematographers who are losing their jobs because work is going away.

No, Hollywood always wants to be subsidized.

Give us money so we can continue to work.

No, no, we got AI slop coming to everybody.

Look at the pigs.

They love it.

I love it.

The, you know, that we are also focused on trans people, but transhumanism is just moving forward.

You know, again, the brain computer interface is on the way.

It's, it's, uh, you know, you'll live forever.

By the way, this show will, we'll never end.

It'll just be John Adam.

AI's tapped into the system, creating podcasts forever.

Well, we're going to stay in the Hollywood team.

I do have the Netflix clips.

Oh, what's I didn't think there was any news on Netflix.

What's going on?

Oh yeah, it's scandalous.

What?

Joining us now to start, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Lucasfilm Musk reposted a clip from the series writing quote, this is not okay.

Market did as suitable for children, aged seven and up.

The show includes a character who comes out as identifying as transgender.

The character says, quote, I've never been happier.

Other kids shows that feature LGBT themes include the Dragon Prince, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and the Owl House.

Well, I'm glad that you got clips of this because I saw the story come by and I just like, ah, more trans stories.

I'm not interested.

So clearly there's something there.

Otherwise you wouldn't have made three anals of it.

Analysis.

Yes.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Well, I'm just reading the clip name.

Okay.

Well, let's play some of these analysis clips starting with number one.

Joining us now to discuss is Will Hild, executive director of consumers research.

Will, thank you so much for joining us.

Great to see you again.

Now, first, what do you make of Musk's accusations against Netflix?

I think they're entirely accurate.

This is a company that has pushed a woke agenda with children for years now.

Libs of Tik TOK posted a two or three year old clip from cocoa melon, where they have a kid cross dressing, dancing for his two gay dads, uh, which is obviously reignited a controversy around that show as well today is long overdue.

And I'm glad that someone with the prominence of Elon is pushing back.

And in your view, is there a risk that many parents don't know that Netflix programs their kids are watching may contain LGBT content or themes that promote transgenderism?

Yeah, it's, it's a huge risk and it's something that Netflix has been pushing without really, you know, advertising it or making it clear that that's what they're doing with kids.

They just put it into otherwise normal shows.

Like I said, coca melon I think had like 10 or 15 seasons with absolutely none of that in it until this past a couple of years and they've started introducing it.

So that's the other issue is sometimes you'll start watching a show and it's unclear that it contains that kind of transgender ideology or LGBTQ ideology.

And then you, you, you know, maybe leave the room while you let your kids watch it.

And suddenly they're being indoctrinated with this kind of gender ideology nonsense.

Suddenly your daughter's a boy.

Cocoa melon.

Is that the name of the show?

Cocoa?

But, but I think what's overlooked in this analysis is the fact that this only happened in the last couple of years.

Yes.

And I've noticed it too with the memes about Netflix.

They've done, you know, they have a Netflix remakes.

It used to joke is always be, here's the Disney remake.

And there'd be, you know, some white girl would be some, you know, a, a Latino, black Latino lesbian.

That would be the Disney remake pierced.

And, and now you have a, this meme has been shifted to Netflix and only recently.

So there's somebody got into Netflix.

This is like the bald guys in the military.

Somebody got into Netflix.

Higher, more of them.

Higher, more of them.

Well, who was that guy?

That guy?

Well, the guy from Biden's administration, the transportation department, wasn't he in transportation?

The guy who kept stealing the suitcases with women's clothes.

He was the new nuclear, the nuclear guy.

Yeah.

He went to Netflix.

That's possible.

I mean, something happened to Netflix and it's only been within the last couple of years.

It seems.

And so now it's, it's, it's, it's kind of getting pushed back on them with these.

And this is one of them.

I think this is going to, I think what we're going to, what we're playing here is the beginning of, of a pushback.

Here we go.

And will, we have seen increasing concern from parents over the types of content being pushed on their children from say books to TV shows.

Now one of the Netflix shows in question dead and paranormal park is marketed to those seven and up.

Do you see there being a need for regulation on what does or doesn't count as being for kids?

That's a great question.

I'm generally loathe to have the government engaged in the regulation of speech, but one of the exceptions that we all pretty much agree to is that that certainly doesn't apply when you're talking about children.

This is something that we've seen in efforts to prevent children from accessing pornography in a number of different States like Florida and Virginia and Texas.

And I think there is a question here of whether this is something that we want to protect children from it also, you know, this isn't incidental.

These corporations have an agenda of pushing this stuff.

Our organization, consumers research went after state farm insurer many years ago because they were working with a project called the gender cool initiative and they were buying books aimed at kids as young as five.

And that's not my word.

That's it was said on the book, you know, kids five and up that we had titles like a kid's book about being transgender or a kid's book about being non-binary.

And they were buying these books and donating them to public schools to get them in the hands of children explicitly.

So it really, if this was just something that was accidental or a writer had slipped something in, that'd be a little different.

But it's clear that Netflix and a lot of other corporations have an agenda to target children with this kind of radical ideology.

That's, you know, in fact a form of grooming in a lot of ways.

Well, it didn't take me very long to figure it out under the new lens of the North sea nexus.

Cocomelon produced by moon bug entertainment limited British children's media company headquartered in London.

This is an attack on attack on the American children by the Brits.

Let's turn them all a trans.

Yeah.

Let's, let's cause our, let's cause a ruckus and who, let me see who owns this.

Hold on a second.

When we look at the moon bug owned by candle media, uh, Oh, black stone.

There you go.

Blackstone, co-funded by former Disney executives.

Okay, there you go.

They, Oh, Oh, but Oh, but there, wait, there's more.

Candle media owns moon bug entertainment, hello sunshine and the production company of Israeli thriller series.

Oh, we got the Jews in there.

This is a, this is a quagmire, but it's a double whammy.

Huh?

Yeah.

You always got to look at who owns this stuff and who's producing it.

So it called Brunetti asking him about Cocomelon.

He won't know anything about it.

He doesn't know anything.

Does he?

He knows more than you'd imagine.

He knows a lot.

But I don't think he knows about this, this sort of thing.

This sort of this sinister stuff.

So they also have done ABC kid TV, Cocomelon.

I guess they, they launched on YouTube.

Interestingly.

So Netflix, okay.

In June, 2020, Cocomelon launched a Netflix.

Hmm.

Well, it's a, it's an attack from the Brits.

That's, I'm just going to call it that way.

What else could it, is it, is it popular?

I'm not going to argue with you because this thesis seems to be holding up.

Yes.

Let's go to the last clip.

Following Musk's call for a boycott, Netflix stock closed down 2.3%.

Now looking back, Disney took a significant hit after it was accused of doing the same thing.

Do you think we could see Netflix changing its direction as a result?

How likely is that?

Well, it's unclear.

See one of the problems that we've got in pushing back on corporate America is that the large asset managers like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard control so many of the shares of the company that they can insulate the executive class from a lot of the bad decisions that they're making from a consumer standpoint.

And I think that's part of what's going on with Disney.

Disney shares have been in the tank.

They, their five-year performance, especially when relative to the S&P 500 have been absolutely abysmal, but they actually brought back the CEO that took them in a woke turn, Bob Iger.

And I think that's because of the influence of CEOs like Larry Fink at BlackRock and others at Vanguard and State Street.

And so I think that's a problem that we really need to solve.

It's one of the main things we focus on at consumers research.

We need to get these asset managers out of the business of insulating executives from the consequences of their decisions.

And Will, as you know, Musk is an entrepreneur who likes to take risks.

How likely are we to see him launch a Netflix rival?

Is there a market for that?

That's a great question.

You know, he's got his finger in so many pies in that way.

You know, he's, you know, rocket company, a car company, but he's also apparently going to create a competitor to Wikipedia and he's active in the AI space in a, in a very aggressive way.

So it would be great if he was to put those types of resources and his mind power behind a alternative to Netflix.

And a lot of times what the real allure of these stations, of these streaming stations is, is not so much the stuff that they make.

It's the licenses that they have purchased over the years.

That's certainly the case with Disney.

A lot of the stuff they're making now isn't that popular, but they hold the keys to seeing a lot of the old intellectual property that people beloved around Mickey Mouse and Cinderella and all that kind of stuff.

And Netflix is the same way.

Here's what they need to do.

Someone needs to start the AI slop streaming station and just have AI slop all day running on it.

It's everywhere.

I think you're ahead of your time there with that idea.

Sombrero videos, AI friends, making out with other AI friends.

We're still analog, man.

Podcasting is pretty much the only technology left that is just normal for normal people without video.

We're actually digital.

Yeah, but we're not AI.

No, we're not even close.

We're analog into people's ears.

You know, no distractions.

I'm in your head.

No distractions.

I'm between your ears.

Listen to me, donate.

Donate.

So I've made a decision.

Okay.

I'm glad you made a decision.

One, just it's one a month, one decision.

I'm no longer going to complain about people saying free speech versus freedom of speech.

I'm just going to call it speech because putting something in front of it- That's actually a good solution.

Yes, because it's all about speech.

You know, freedom of speech is not a kind of speech.

It's just speech.

I have the God-given right to speech.

I can speak.

I can speech.

I can say whatever I want.

Now, obviously, if I slander someone and that's a different issue, but it's just speech.

No, it's the same issue.

What do you mean?

It's still speech.

It's speech.

Yeah, it's just speech.

It just happens to be slander.

Well, yes, it is.

But I can still use speech, but the government can't stop me from slandering somebody.

If I slander someone, they can get me in trouble for lying or disparaging, but speech is just speech.

Right.

And all this freedom of speech and free speech, it's not good.

Just say speech.

Speech in the United States is protected.

Speech, not free speech, not freedom of speech, just speech.

Then so Jonathan Turley, who I like, I think- Yeah, he's great.

He's a professor at Georgetown.

I think if I was a student and I could take one of his courses, I think it would be dynamite.

Oh, I'd take it too.

You know, if you take, I have to say this to people that started going to college, and we have a few out there, just, you know, don't take courses, take professors.

Find out the guys who are super talented and take their courses, whatever it is.

It doesn't matter.

Just take that, because there's people that you're learning from.

Yes.

I recommend Prof G.

I don't.

Neither do I.

So Jonathan Turley, this showed up in my timeline, and I was like, well, that's interesting.

This is about speech and the North Sea nexus, and in particular, the middle management of the monarchs and the city of London.

Free speech isn't a free fall in Europe.

There are two anti-free speech movements that have coalesced.

One is in Europe, where it has laid waste to free speech, Germany, France, England.

Free speech has been eviscerated, and also places like Canada.

The U.S.

anti-free speech movement began in higher education that metastasized throughout the government, but this has all reached our shores now.

The Berlin World Forum followed the remarks of Vice President Vance on free speech, and the EU was red hot.

They gathered in Berlin, and it was the most anti-free speech gathering I've ever been part of.

There's only two of us from the free speech community, and they are committed, and Hillary Clinton was there, and she really fueled the anger.

I mean, when Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most anti-free speech pieces of legislation in decades, and she called upon the EU to use the DSA to force the censorship of American citizens, force people like Musk to censor.

It's an extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate in the United States, but they are committed to it, and after the World Forum, they further globalized this effort, and they are threatening companies like Axe with ruinous fines unless they resume censoring American citizens.

This is so bad, and it's really not even discussed properly what's happening in the UK.

It is, I mean, I've seen videos of the cop showing up, wanting to talk to some woman's daughter because she viewed a post.

She viewed a post.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, here's, I have a clip of the magistrate that's reading the riot act to somebody for a Facebook post.

I don't have the whole clip, it's too long, but the guy got prison time.

What?

Hold on a second.

I think I've seen this.

Is this the guy with the funky wig?

I need one of those wigs.

They all have funky wigs.

Give me a break.

Those wigs are great.

UK magistrate.

To a post questioning why you wrote, "'Cause they're over here, given life of Riley, off the tax us hardworking people earn when it could be put to better use.

Come over here with no work visa, no trade to their name and sit down and dos.

And then there's more people being put out homeless each year.

They get top band priority on housing.

You went on to say that you did not want your money going to immigrants who quote, "'Rape our kids and get priority.'" Although you said that you had no intention of carrying out any act of violence, there can be no doubt that you were inciting others to do so.

Otherwise, why post the comment?

Wow.

And he got fined or went to jail?

It was up to seven years.

No.

Yeah.

Wow.

So the thing is, but the comment at the end is why I cut it off there.

He said, yeah, you didn't want to incite violence, but why else would you post?

Yeah, not for your opinion.

Your opinion's no good.

No, according to this guy of this class, and I think which brings us back to your thesis, but of this class of people, the assumption is that if you post at all, you say anything, you're doing that only to incite violence because that's the only possible reason you do it, which is illogical.

Wow.

Yeah, and the discussion really isn't being held over here about what's happening.

It's not that way in the EU yet, but it kind of is.

It's just, you know, they don't have police.

Well, it is in Germany for sure.

Well, Germany, well, the reason why we don't hear it coming out of Germany is because if you post about it, you go to jail.

You can't even say that they're doing this.

Right, yeah, I know.

It's really pretty.

It's quite interesting and it's subtle, but the fact that Hillary Clinton would be over there encouraging it tells you, but again, she was, you know, in the Rhodes Scholar.

She's not a Rhodes Scholar because her husband was, but she's in that, we already identified her as part of the nexus.

Yeah.

So it makes nothing but sense that she'd go over there and promote this idea.

She's a horrible person.

Yes, she is.

She is a horrible person.

My goodness, my goodness.

Wow.

And people are still bent out of shape that she didn't beat Trump.

Yeah, well, you know, NPR did a poll.

This was kind of an interesting little segment that I got about political violence, speaking of violence.

And they polled, I guess their listeners, well, have a listen to this.

The federal government is shut down after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate could not agree on a funding bill.

A new NPR PBS News Marist poll is out this morning, and it found that more people would blame Republicans for a shutdown.

In a few minutes, we'll speak with Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro about her party strategy.

First though, more details from that poll.

It found the overwhelming majority believe children should be vaccinated before they're going to school, and that it's more important to control gun violence rather than protect gun rights.

NPR Senior Political Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro has all the numbers.

So Domenico, let's start with the shutdown.

What did the poll find?

This is, I mean, so this is NPR listeners, NPR PBS.

So this is the target demo for the Democrats.

Super liberals.

Super liberals, yes.

Yeah, Republicans get more of the blame, 38 to 27, though that's not close to a majority.

In 2019, during what was the longest government shutdown in history, over a month, 50% or more blamed Trump.

Now, 31% would blame both parties equally.

Trump and Republicans get low approval ratings, but Democrats in Congress are worse, just 25% approve of them.

That's because of Democrats, by the way.

Less than half approve of members of their own party in Congress.

So a lot of politics to play here as the shutdown goes on.

Now, one thing that really jumps out in this survey, which you've written about this morning on NPR.org, the idea that more people believe they might have to resort to violence to fix things.

How many people are we talking about?

Yeah, the number is up to 30% who think that they may have to resort to violence to get the country back on the right track.

That's up 11 points from when we asked that question in April of last year.

First of all, what kind of question is that to ask?

Hey, I know.

Let's ask people if they want political violence.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

So what do you think's driving that?

Largely, it's changed views among some Democrats.

They've gone from just 12% saying violence might be necessary to now 28%.

That's a pretty big jump.

But Republicans are higher still at 31%.

That's also a marginal increase from last year.

And everybody wants to fight.

Even a quarter of independents are saying this now.

You know, it's important to remember though, 70 % of people do not feel this way.

More than three quarters say political violence is a major problem.

And other polling has shown that when specific acts of violence are polled, the numbers are much lower.

Still, it's pretty alarming though that people are increasingly feeling this way.

Yeah, now, okay, let's get to free speech.

Something we've been talking about a lot since Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air for a week after the Trump administration pressured ABC and its affiliates.

So how are people feeling about free speech in America?

Well, they're not feeling like it's very free.

Roughly eight in 10 say they think that the country has gone too far in restricting speech.

That crosses political lines with almost 90 Democrats and independents saying this, as well as almost two thirds of Republicans.

Remember, conservatives were the ones who were saying for years that they felt that their speech, their free speech rights were being curtailed on college campuses and online.

So a lot of people now have gripes with what can and can't be said in the country.

And that's showing up in this poll.

People also believe the federal government should play a minimal role in regulating speech.

Just 15% said they think it should be a major role.

It should have a major role in doing so.

44% said it should play only a minor one.

Another four in 10 said it should play no role at all.

It does not bode well.

No, that's actually not good numbers.

No.

Because it should be nobody.

I mean, it says right there in the first amendment they can't do anything.

The government should be kept by the constitution says no.

Government can't do jack about speech one way or the other.

And can't make any laws to infringe on it.

Which is my version of doing jack.

Yes, yes, yes.

Well, speech.

I'm just called, so long way to say I'm just calling it speech.

Well, you can do what you want.

I'm gonna do exactly what I want.

Yeah, well, that's what else is new.

Speaking of speech and.

Wait, I gotta, since we were kind of on the topic about free speech.

Speech.

I don't have to, I can just do what I wanna do too.

I know, but I'm gonna contradict you.

No, you're going to, you're being a scold.

Yes, I'm going to speech scold you.

Yeah, you can do what you want.

Thank you.

This is a funny bit that ran.

It has been floating around on the Brit card.

Oh yeah.

Have you seen this?

This is the old lady at the bus.

Yeah, the old lady at the bus.

It starts with an old lady at the bus and she doesn't have a Brit card.

A Brit card, are they calling it the Brit card?

Well, I think somebody must be calling it the Brit card, but this is the digital ID is what we're talking about.

The digital ID that some people want.

And there's one aspect of this that's completely overlooked and I'll bring it up at the end.

Can I see your Brit card, please?

I don't have one, I don't have a smartphone.

Can I get another pint, please?

Sorry, sir, your Brit card says you've exceeded your alcohol quota for this week.

Sorry, sir, your Brit card says you've already flown twice this year.

We're having to restrict passengers with higher than average emissions profiles.

Sorry, I'm afraid your funds have been temporarily frozen.

Your recent social media post did not align with the government's narrative.

Sorry, I'm afraid your Brit card says you cannot purchase any more meat this week as part of our commitment to achieving net zero.

I've just logged in using my Brit card and it's saying I've already had three hours of internet today and it's locked me out.

Okay.

So what's being, you know, and this is all good stuff because that's exactly what would be happening.

Computer says no, computer says no.

Yeah, but the thing that they're experimenting with in China and their digital currency, and I've run into this because when I went to South Africa, I used a, I got a bunch of traveler's checks in rams and what the Chinese are experimenting with and which I experienced with these traveler's checks is expiration of funds.

Right, but that has nothing to do with the Brit card per se.

That would be.

It would if the digital currency all of a sudden, you got, well, it does because a digital, you could do this with real currency too, I mean, because they deal with these traveler's checks.

But the idea is that you're given 50, let's say you got $500 a week and that money that goes into the, and it's easier to do with the digital currency because you can just put a tag on that 500 and that 500 expires and must be spent within 30 days.

This is all part of the UBI concept.

So that way, you know, you have all this money, you can't save.

No.

Because they don't want you saving because that way you can't build up wealth.

I mean, I'm in agreement with you, but you're kind of jumping the gun.

The EU will have their digital euro, they're going to do that, but the UK, I don't know, they're not there yet.

No, I think it's something you have to bring in.

The Chinese are experimenting with it to see if people go along with the program, but it stinks.

Yes, it stinks.

There's only one way around it and that's Bitcoin.

No, cash.

Yeah.

Yeah, wow.

Also gold.

Yeah, okay, yeah.

Here, can I, do you have a cheese scraper so I can tip you?

Well, it's slightly impractical, but so is Bitcoin for that matter.

No, Bitcoin is a lot, that is digital gold.

It's a lot more practical.

Yeah, you got digital in there.

Yeah, but it, okay.

Well, I'm not going to argue with you because you're a boomer.

Yeah, you're the one that's the big gold bug until just recently.

Until 2020, yeah.

Yeah, I've- You had a brick- A bar, a bar.

Yeah, I did.

Yeah, whatever happened to that bar?

Yeah, well, whatever happened to my two ex -wives, I don't know.

I was looking for my leather jackets, it's all gone.

Everything, I have no history.

I'm looking for my MTV jackets.

There goes the bar, bye-bye bar.

I told you when you got the bar to paint it black and use it as a doorstop, no one would ever know.

I had a, when I was working with a guy at the air pollution district, who was one of the supervisors- You did tell me that, by the way, you did.

I did, I'm not, you know, I can remember that part.

And the reason is because of this story.

This guy working at, his name was, I can almost remember his name, but he was one of the supervisors.

I was over at his house, and he had all these screwball frames around his pictures.

They were all like metal, black metal around all these photos and stuff that he had hanging on the wall.

And he explained to me, they weren't black metal, they were solid gold.

He was one of those gold hunters that would go around panning.

He also had one of those metal detectors.

He'd hit the beach, the old man with the beach.

And he said he'd pick up gold watches, and all his gold, he kept it as bullion, but it was dangerous to keep around.

So he said if anyone ever busted into the house, they saw these cheap-looking frames that were painted black.

He says no one would ever steal these because it looked stupid.

But there was all solid gold.

It was like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold in his kitchen.

I mean, it was unbelievable.

It is kind of interesting.

That gave me the idea to tell you about painting the bar black and using it as a doorstop.

No one would ever suspect.

It is kind of interesting, when I became a gold bug and I was buying Krugerrands, I still have them.

I think I gave some away, but I have the majority of them.

I remember the price that I bought them at.

Do you remember the price per ounce?

Around 300?

No, no, no, 750.

Okay, well, okay.

And what is it now, 3,500, higher?

38.

38, okay.

Well, I'm just saying, you know, Bitcoin today is, let me check, 120,750.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, so.

Anyway, what I was going to talk about is the Pope.

The Pope?

The Pope, yeah.

Is he a Catholic?

He is a Catholic.

Worst joke ever.

But he's doing weird stuff.

You know, it wasn't.

It wasn't clippable because it's just quiet, but he was at an international climate conference and had a big, like a big hunk of iceberg dripping on the stage on a little pedestal.

And they asked him to bless the iceberg, and he did.

And he blessed the water.

And then he was asked about, through a different circumstance about abortion, and he moved the goalpost, which I thought was really interesting.

Pope Leo is ordering, offering, I should say, his views on a dispute surrounding the Catholic Church and Illinois' U.S.

Senator, Dick Durbin.

Chicago Cardinal Blaise Cupich had planned to give Durbin a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work helping immigrants.

But some conservative Catholic bishops complained because of Durbin's support for abortion rights.

The Pope says there is a contradiction in this debate.

It's important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of the Church.

Someone who says I'm against abortion, but says I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life.

So someone who says that I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants here in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.

So they're very complex issues.

I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them, but I would ask first and foremost that there be greater respect for one another.

The Pope said he was not familiar with all the details of the debate over the award, but says it's important to consider Durbin's overall record.

Senator Durbin has declined the award.

So the goalpost move here is all of a sudden he's talking in code about pro -life.

Pro-life is code.

It's not, it's anti-abortion is the term.

And I'm actually flummoxed that he didn't just say, no, I'm against abortion.

But he moved it to pro-life.

This is very strange.

Well, I don't know what he was doing, and I don't understand Durbin not taking the award.

Ah, Durbin schmurbin.

But the Pope, you know, we've been trying to figure out, what is this Pope?

And he's looking a little more woke than I thought he would be.

No, he's gonna be woke.

The last couple of Popes were woke.

They was picked by a bunch of woke cardinals.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's disappointing.

Let's talk about the deal.

The deal, the big Gaza peace plan, which is, I think, very interesting.

And the reason I say that is because everybody seems to like the Gaza peace plan.

And I'm talking like New York Times, Newsweek, which of course makes me very suspicious.

But I think President Trump did something really smart here, and he pulled the North Sea nexus into the deal by putting Tony Blair.

Oh, yes, yeah, that was a good move.

Warmonger Tony Blair onto the peace board, the board of peace, which I think can only be, it's like either you make this happen, Tony Blair, or I'm gonna expose you for the warmonger that you are.

I mean, it's a very interesting move.

And I think France 24 had an overview of the 20-point peace plan.

Under Donald Trump's 20-point plan for peace in Gaza, the first step would be an immediate ceasefire.

Hamas would then have 72 hours to free all hostages.

48 hostages remain in Gaza, at least 25 of whom are believed to be deceased.

In return, Israel would free 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 Gazans detained since the start of the conflict.

The plan would see Israeli forces perform a gradual, staggered retreat from Gaza.

Initially, the Gaza Strip would be governed by a technocratic, apolitical board of peace made up of Palestinians and international experts directed and presided over by US President Donald Trump.

The former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, would also play a part in this organization.

Hamas would be banned from any role in governing Gaza, while Hamas members would benefit from an amnesty if they disarm and agree to peacefully coexist with Israel.

The framework includes plans to invest in Gaza and rebuild the devastated territory.

As soon as a text is signed, access for humanitarian aid would be restored, overseen by bodies including the United Nations and the Red Cross.

An international stabilization force with the backing of Arab states would keep the peace.

In the long term, the Palestinian Authority would be allowed to take control of governing the territory after certain reforms, and the plan leaves the door open for an eventual Palestinian state.

But if Hamas rejects a plan or does not follow through, Trump says Israel would then have US backing to quote, finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.

So besides putting Blair on the board of the peace board, he's got all the Arab countries.

They're like, yeah, we like this plan.

And then he got Israel to agree with the Arab countries.

What do you think the chances are of success here?

Well, I think they're still talking to Iran because they're the ones that are behind the Hamas because in general, they're the ones calling the shots, it seems, and if there's a deal to be made, it's gotta be made there.

And they just tell them to back off and step up to the plate or whatever other cliches I wanna come up with and end it.

I think at first, I think, well, more talk because Trump's been yakking about this.

Oh, they released the hostages or else, he keeps saying it.

Right.

And it doesn't, nothing goes on and there's nothing and nothing and nothing.

And this seems to have gotten some, and I think you're right.

It's bringing Blair in and the...

The North Sea nexus, bring them in.

The creeps.

The creeps, bring the creeps in, yes.

The creeps in, bring the creeps in to have them put pressure on however they do it.

It's a mystery.

Hmm, meanwhile, we've got the flotilla, which is always hilarious.

It is great.

Always hilarious.

The Israeli Navy has intercepted a flotilla of vessels trying to get to Gaza.

The boats had traveled for weeks in the Mediterranean, drawing attention to the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Israel had warned them to turn back and vowed they would not break the naval blockade.

Paul Hunter has the latest from Jerusalem.

Paul, what do we know?

Susan, I'll say off the top, we don't know an awful lot of details with certainty because what's been happening is out in the Mediterranean in the dark of night, and obviously not in front of news cameras or reporters.

Because you guys are too lame to go out there.

It's dark at night.

It was too dark for us to go.

And though some of the various boats have been live streaming, verifying precisely what is complicated.

So with those caveats, here's what can be said.

A number of the boats, and there are about 40 or 50 of them in total, are now said to have been boarded by Israeli authorities.

Early word was that people were being arrested and taken to a port in Israel, it seemed, without incident.

But later came the suggestion from the flotilla that the Israeli Navy was using, quote, active aggression, that water cannon was being used, and even that at least one boat in the flotilla had been rammed, though no reports of any injuries.

Again, impossible to verify at this point.

Bottom line, an interception is underway.

The boats are all part of this international flotilla carrying opponents to the war in Gaza, some of them high-profile opponents, with aid meant for Gazans.

Though the aid, in truth, is merely symbolic.

The point here is to try to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and open a humanitarian corridor.

No, this is all ego.

This is just a bunch of people who will want to be like, whoa, I'm good, I'm great.

And of course, we know who's in the flotilla.

The blockade has been in place since Hamas took control of Gaza back in 2007, but is under fire now because it's preventing access for aid into Gaza from the Mediterranean.

At the same time, Israel controls land crossings while its two-year war on Hamas continues.

And as any of those boats would underline, countless Gazans are in ever more desperate need for food and other aid right now.

Bottom line, a tense situation in the Mediterranean, Susan.

And what is Israel saying?

Well, it calls the whole thing a stunt and calls those in the flotilla provocateurs looking to create some sort of incident.

Israel's even said that it would allow the boats to drop their aid north of Gaza with the pledge it would then be taken into Gaza, but the boats continued toward the Gazan coast regardless.

And there are those who suggest Israel has no legal jurisdiction in those waters, others suggesting if Israel can demonstrate that it's militarily justified, then interceptions can go forward.

But even as the flotilla approached, Israel made clear it would use any means possible to stop it and that seems to be what's happening.

Tonight, interceptions and arrests, and by some accounts, no small degree of chaos.

And I'll just mention one of those now detained, Greta Thunberg, the climate activist video emerging now of her being picked up by Israeli authorities on one of those boats.

As Israel put it, Greta and her friends are safe and healthy.

All of this, Susan, is expected to continue for the next several hours.

I mean, how can we take Greta Thunberg seriously anymore?

Does anyone take her seriously?

Climate activists, now Palestinian activists on the flotilla, break out the discord, people.

Get your Gen Z 212 in there.

This is just, she's a bad op at this point.

I don't know how, they must- She's definitely gone off the rails and she looks silly.

Yes, she's nuts.

I guess she has a, whatever, her sister's a pop singer or something.

No, really?

Yeah, very famous pop singer.

So famous.

Well, so famous you go, huh?

I have not heard of the famous pop singer.

Well, oops, I gave it away.

What was that?

Did you fall in a well?

I'm in the hole!

Kimmy's in the well.

I'm in the hole!

And with that, I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the cocoa melon, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, the inimitable, Mr.

John C.

DeMora.

Yeah, howdy, good morning to you, Mr.

Adam Crane, your morning ship, C Bootsman Graffy, the air service of the world.

The names are nice out there.

Yeah, counting the trolls, all of a sudden, so.

I figured out, so we had a problem on the last show.

I don't know if you remember after the show, I let you go before I'd even posted it, remember that?

Do you remember?

You remember?

You remember?

Yeah.

So, and I got all kinds of complaints.

I couldn't get into the troll room now most of the time.

I'm like, okay.

Mimi says she only heard about done a half hour of the show and then it dropped dead.

She couldn't pick it up at all.

I said, you complained to Adam?

She said, I will, but she never did.

She did actually.

Turns out that we had a classic, a DNS problem.

So people could literally not reach our MP3s, our stream, the troll room.

And I woke VoidZero up.

Like I pulled the handle and got him out of bed and he fixed it.

So I think that's why we only see 1691 today in the troll room.

People are giving up on this thing.

It's like, ah, well, can I listen?

Let them know people, all problems are fixed.

It's not that far off of a typical Thursday.

No, but I think there's probably a couple of hundred people who are like, ah, it didn't work.

It doesn't work.

You lose people that way.

It happens.

Yeah, it's harder to get a customer back than it is to get a new customer.

Exactly.

So those trolls.

The rule of marketing.

That's right.

Those trolls are in the troll room and you can find it, noagendastream.com is where you can listen live and troll around if you feel like it.

They are there.

Troll, just bring up Israel.

Lots of trolls.

We go, oh, I gotta post something.

I gotta post something.

And of course you can listen on a modern podcast app, which is what we recommend because the modern podcast apps, which increasingly more podcast apps are becoming modern, they're adding more and more features.

It's taken, we're in our sixth year now, I think, of podcast index and all the new features, but sometimes that's just what it takes.

We got a note yesterday from an outfit and they create, they do all kinds of stuff for blind people and people who are, what is the term?

Less abled in seeing.

And they're like, we love your service so much.

This really helps, because they make special podcast applications for people with screen readers.

And so they can find stuff.

All these other podcast apps don't really have that capability because they're not on the modern standards.

So I'm just saying like Podverse is specifically built for, what's the term?

It's a term for it.

Accessibility, there you go, accessibility.

All of that is going outside of the mainstream, outside of Apple and Spotify and anyone else, YouTube, YouTube.

And in addition to that, because we adhere to these new standards, when we go live, another thing you can't get on your legacy apps, you'll be notified and you can listen live right away to the stream.

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Now we ask for time, talent or treasure.

We have thousands of producers.

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And of course, we really appreciate people who fund us because this is our only job who support us financially, noagendadonations.com.

And then we have the artists or as we call it now, the prompt jockeys who try and create some art that we'll use for the album art, which we've been doing for at least a decade and a half.

Things have changed, there's no more humanity in it.

It's all pretty much AI.

We've driven away all of the humans.

And we wanna thank the prompt jockey who brought us the art.

And actually, Capital's Agenda, who did this piece for episode 1803, which we titled, The Drone Wall.

I'm pretty sure that he is not 100 % AI.

I mean, if you look at the no agenda words clasped in the talons of this Eagle on which the British wanker is sitting backwards, I don't think AI can do that, not easily at least.

I'm pretty sure he massaged that himself.

No, he probably put the no agenda on, he had the whole piece done and put no agenda in there by hand.

I wish he would tell us.

And Currie and Dvorak by hand.

Yeah, I wish he would tell us, that'd be nice.

Let us know how you did it.

There's no way that's gonna happen, that's impossible.

We need you to list your LLM and your prompt so we know exactly what you're doing.

We need to know.

Because we looked at some other things for artwork and there were some, a lot of people like the word wanker.

Man, they really like wanker.

That was interesting.

Wanker, I'm not quite sure what they like about that.

Was there anything that we looked at that we thought, that we thought was good?

Stop playing around.

Not really.

No.

I mean, we had enough trouble picking this piece.

Yeah, well, British girls, not quite sure what Blue Acorn was doing with the British politician holding up a sausage or a hot dog with mustard.

Yeah, there was that.

Not quite sure what that was.

Other bad cartoon art.

No, there really wasn't, there really wasn't.

It's hard, you know, when people are uninspired and it's like, oh, I do some art, I've just been putting that no agenda, funny.

Yeah, you got to have some humor to make it work.

Where's the sombreros?

Oh, we'll have lots of sombreros today, I'm sure.

Which probably will not get picked.

But you don't know.

Well, I don't know yet.

So thank you very much, Capitalist Agenda.

Capitalist Agenda has been around for a long time.

So, and he certainly does some of the handy work himself.

He is a pro.

As part of the value for value system, which we pioneered and we are very proud of to see other people using it in their podcasts.

So it's very hard.

So it's not an easy lifestyle.

We've chosen it.

It's the new international lifestyle, value for value.

We thank everybody and we tell you how much value they supported us with.

And we do that $50 and above for brevity and for anonymity.

And we kick it off with Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles.

Is he not the guy he always sends in on letterhead from the...

Yeah, that's what he did in this one too.

United Federation of Planets.

Yes.

Starfleet Command.

Yes, there it is.

United Federation of Planets, Starfleet Command.

He sent in a Rubblizer donation, $3,333 .33.

India, hang out, Mike, standby, 33, 33, 33.

Rubblizer out.

And he wrote in handwriting on this note, gentlemen, my slide towards douchedom was stopped by a shout out from Sir Trigger Max in the first donation segment of show 1800.

Fearing that the Rubblizer jingle might fall into disuse, I enclosed $3,333.33 so that it may be heard again in Gitmo Nation, we just heard it.

Also, I hereby beg admittance into the August order of Secretaries General with the moniker Secretary General of Greater Idaho.

Signed, Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles.

By the way- I thought he was in Spokane.

I'm sorry, well, he says Greater Idaho.

I think he may have moved.

And do you see at the bottom, I'd never seen this, you ever see this at the bottom of his stationery?

So at the top he has United Federation of Planets, Starfleet Command, at the bottom he has, because there's TMs and stuff.

Yeah, and copyright.

He says 1992 Paramount Pictures, all rights reserved.

Star Trek, the next generation is a trademark of Paramount Pictures.

What, is he worried he's gonna get sued over his stationery?

I think he bought this from Paramount.

Oh, oh, I thought he actually was a member of United Starfleet Command.

I thought it was real.

Oh, oh, I see.

Yeah, oh, well, okay.

I was convinced the guy's a member of the United Federation of Planets.

Well, maybe he is, he still has to get the copyright notice.

True.

Trademark TM.

Thank you very much, Sir Donald, soon to be Secretary General.

We really appreciate it.

I'll read the next two, so you can read the ridiculously long one.

No name from Waldo, Wisconsin.

Came in at three, four, five, six, seven, and his note is dynamite.

Karma, please.

Gotta love it.

You've got karma.

So the Commodore Semi-Anonymous Vegan.

Vegan, vegan, vegan, you know?

Vegan.

Is it vegan?

Vegan.

In Mill Park, Victoria, Australia, came in with three, three, three, dot, three, three, which he calculates is $500, which gives him a secretary generalship.

It does.

$500 Australian.

Three, three, three, three, three, who knew?

Yeah.

Commodore Semi-Anonymous Vegan here.

I'd like to take advantage of the secretary general offer with my three, three, three, three, three, which would amount to about 500 Aussie dollars in honor of P.M.

Elmer Fudd.

I'd like to be known as Secretary General of the Wanda Rabbits, the Wanda Rabbits.

I also, it pushes me over the threshold for a knight.

Ah, nice.

If it pleases the peerage committee, it has to be, I have to be known as Sir Occo of the Land Down Under.

Sir Occo, Sir Occo, Sir Occo, Sir Occo.

Sir Occo, Sir Occo, I gotcha, I gotcha.

At the round table, I'd like a slice or two of Hawaiian and margarita pizza.

Good for you.

Soon to be launched by 404 Pizza.

Keep an eye out on Kickstarter on the 1st of November, which is World Vegan Day, so it's a vegan pizza.

Yech.

Also, I'd like some pornographic, oh, I'm sorry, pomegranate kombucha, which is, I would recommend against, simply because I haven't heard of it already here, or there, he says, there.

John, can you cash Australian checks if they sent to you?

No.

What is the fee?

Well, probably not.

I think I can try.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Commodore Semi Autonomous Vegan.

We can't even wire money from our bank, but they'll cash an Australian check?

No, we can wire money, we do that.

I can't wire money, not online.

No, no, you can't do it online, you have to go in, because you can't, using Swift, you have to answer a bunch of questions, they have to look you in the eye, they have to say, do you know who you're sending this to?

Wow.

Let me see your ID.

And then they gotta have somebody else sign off on it.

Show me your Brit card.

You gotta have two or three people sign the document, and you gotta go over all the numbers.

Really?

It's a huge pain in the ass, and that's why, you know, Boyd Zero, who gets paid by us to keep the servers going, I only pay him every other month for two months' work, because it's a pain in the ass.

It takes a good half hour to put a separate wire, so they're not gonna let you do it online, but when Stablecoin comes in, and I always mention this to the bankers, I say, well, you know, this is gonna change when Stablecoin comes in, they always say the same thing.

What?

What's Stablecoin?

Really?

Wow.

Yes, really.

Well, you could always pay Boyd Zero in Bitcoin.

That's another pain in the ass.

Not really.

I'd have to have a wallet.

Whoa, no, no wallet, oh, God forbid.

And it would also, it's not as easy to document for tax purposes.

Certainly it is.

Sir Adam of the Coke Empire, associate executive producer, ship, haven't heard from him in a while, 24568.

Greetings from the empire.

Well, the Coke Empire is undergoing some changes at the moment.

This is, this feels like, to me, like inside investment information.

We are transitioning from King Charles II to Crown Prince Chase Coke.

That's the Coke brothers, K-O-C-H.

Young Chase will take the reign sometime in 2026 as he's busy in Silicon Valley spending the empire's money on angel investing into AI startups and other technologies with his disruptive technologies arm.

The empire's reaching a technology and the coming AI power needs is far and wide with our mega companies, Molex and Deepcom Power, helping Oracle build out its data center infrastructure.

It's sad that our King Charles II is stepping down, but soon, down soon, but besides being really the richest person on the planet Earth, if he didn't have this to split 50% with his dead brother's widow, he'd be worth over a hundred billion.

Wow.

Anyway, that sucks.

World domination.

The liberal.

Yes, world domination in all industries is progressing as there's not a thing any Noah Jenner slave touches in their day that didn't get manufactured by the empire.

From toilet paper to lumber TVs to iPhone screens, the Coke empire is all reaching.

I haven't donated in a while and that's my fault.

I'd like to say I've welcomed a new human resource into the world last November.

Ah, very good.

A new Coke baby.

Baby girl named Evelyn Gray.

She definitely is the best part of my day, as she should be.

I'm afraid, gentlemen, we as a society are careening towards the scenes from the great film, Dr.

Chevago.

He sent a clip.

Soon we will all have residency committee comrades telling us that our homes have five bedrooms and you only need one and that four families will take the others.

God knows if Gavin Newsom gets in next, we will be living out Dr.

Chevago.

John, I too listened to the Michael Savage show all those years ago when he talked about Gavin and Kamala destroying San Francisco.

Michael tried to warn us.

RIP, Teddy.

PS, support American manufacturing.

Buy some toilet paper.

Very good.

Michael Savage is dead?

No, he's Teddy Roosevelt.

Oh.

I guess.

Nathan Parker in Seattle, Washington.

And he says, keep up the good work.

Boom, that's a note.

And 222.22, which gives me to the second note.

No, I'll, no, you can have the second one and I'll, yeah.

Yeah, you just look at what's long and what can I do that's not long?

Yeah, don't worry about it.

You can read on.

Believe me, everybody's happy because it takes you forever to get through the long notes.

Sean Holman.

Hey, isn't that Holman?

Scroll back and forth.

Yeah, it's Sean Holman.

He's a brother.

In Indiana, 21911.

Ah, that's the 1911 guys, I think.

God bless you, brothers.

Saint Maria Goretti, pray for us.

All right.

Who's Saint Maria Goretti?

I think we've been through this and I forgot already.

Eli the Coffee Guy's up.

He's in Bensonville, Illinois.

He comes in with 21002 for today's show.

This Monday was National Coffee Day, if you didn't know.

And we're celebrating by releasing a new organic Ethiopian, Ethiopian.

What is this, Guji?

Guji medium roast.

Cheers to made-up days of celebrating random things.

Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.

Use the code ITM20 for 20% off your order.

Stay caffeinated also.

Can I get a health karma and an F cancer for fellow coffee lover and producer, Doug?

Stay caffeinated and thank you for your courage, Eli.

Stop it!

You've got karma.

Saint Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church and one of the youngest saints to be canonized.

There's your answer.

How old was she?

Young.

And then we have, oh, this is Irma Saso de Lima de Prado from Alsemere, the Netherlands.

I actually tried to get this note into AI and have it speak this note.

Two problems.

One, I couldn't get a good Dutch accent out of 11 labs.

And two, it made the note five minutes long.

So no.

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Oh, she got some donations.

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Okay, so it's a switcheroo, basically.

Let me do the switcheroo bit.

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I have some, oh, there's new data.

New data.

Did you hear about the new data?

It's always new data.

There's new data.

New data from the Centers for Disease Control show more people are coming down with the common cold.

The virus is currently at the highest level since 2022.

Oh, what could this be?

Could this be an ad or is it just information?

It's new data.

School is starting.

We're moving more indoors.

That increases the risk of transmission.

There's also other variables that are difficult to predict.

Changes in weather, humidity.

The CDC reporting nearly a third of tests are coming back positive for rhinovirus and enterovirus.

Rhinovirus is the most frequent cause of the common cold and enterovirus is a type of respiratory infection.

There's also viral competition where last season we saw certain viruses rise.

That means that we'll see other viruses decrease and that leaves the community with an immunity debt.

That means that many of us had not seen these viruses in quite some time and that increases our risk of susceptibility.

While there's no vaccines for the common cold, there are ways to reduce your risk of catching or spreading it.

Healthcare professionals say have good hygiene.

Now notice what she says.

While there's no vaccine.

Seeing these viruses in quite some time and that increases our risk of susceptibility.

While there's no vaccines for the common cold, there are ways to reduce your risk of catching or spreading it.

Healthcare professionals say have good hygiene like washing your hands, covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze, opening windows for cleaner air and staying at home from work or school if you're sick.

Experts say flu activity typically follows with illness rising at the start of October and peaking in December and February.

And when it comes to the flu, healthcare professionals say the flu shot is the best defense against not only the flu but also severe complications from it.

It's recommended annually to everyone over the age of six months.

So they went from there's no vaccine for the cold but you better get your shot for the flu.

What's immunity debt supposed to mean?

It's a great term.

We have immunity debt because you're not vaccine enough.

Don't you get it?

Immunity debt?

Immunity debt.

Yes, immunity debt.

Yeah, it's a little too long for a show title, but I like it.

I don't think so.

You think immunity debt is, I'll write it down.

You think so?

I mean, I like Gen Zed 212.

We already used Zed.

Didn't we use Zed in a previous thing?

Yeah, no, but that was just Zed.

Now it's Gen Zed 212.

Oh, that's promoting something.

I don't like it.

I thought this, finally someone caught on.

Kill all humans.

So we need to promote the AI slop.

This trend has been bugging me for a while and the NBC Today show finally did a piece on it.

And I think it's kind of hilarious.

We're back 739.

Today's consumer all about protein.

Yeah, it is surging in a big way this year being added to all sorts of products.

Even your morning cup of coffee.

NBC's business and data correspondent, Brian Chung here, looking into the growing trend.

It does seem like protein is omnipresent.

Yeah, and by the way, in your coffee, they're doing cold foam and now also milk infused, at least at Starbucks.

So the latest to jump on this trend, announcing the release in this line of protein powder drinks today.

It's a move that many big names in the restaurant and retail business are making in the hopes of getting more customers in the door and boosting sales.

Have you been following this, the protein drinks?

Which is- No, I have not been following this.

And this obviously sounds like a native ad for something.

Well, of course it is.

And it's, so they're adding milk, or you would say milk product to fizzy drinks.

And it's protein, you have to have protein.

And they actually have the, it's a roundabout way to get to the native ad, but here we go.

From sugarless to fat free.

You'd think we'd seen it all.

Yep, protein never tasted this good.

But the era of protein packed products has arrived.

Though not everyone is on board.

I just went to Walmart the other day and found out there's a protein popcorn.

Why do I need protein in my popcorn?

Starting today, Starbucks is jumping on the bandwagon, offering a new line of protein lattes made with boosted protein milk.

But the coffee chain isn't the only big name capitalizing on the trend.

Lots of protein, all under 500 calories.

Subway's new Fresh Fit menu also joining the movement.

If you are a restaurant right now, is this kind of the hottest place to be?

If you have a protein focused menu, that is considered healthy.

It not only generates sales for the restaurant, it improves the consumer perception of that restaurant.

Retailers are also hoping to boost sales.

Supermarket chain Kroger recently launched 80 new protein focused products under its Simple Truth brand.

And PepsiCo announcing it will be adding protein to some of its name brands by the end of the year too.

Do you want in on this?

On what?

Dude, a protein shake.

I said, let's buff in your arms.

The push for protein even making an appearance on the small screen.

Valium from Vanilla Farmer Protein.

To the phone screen with influencers and celebrities like Khloe Kardashian getting in on the craze, promoting protein products of their own.

Cloud Popcorn, my protein popcorn.

Pretty good, right?

And there's proof of the push.

In a recent survey, 70% of Americans said they're trying to consume more protein.

Yet health experts say where you get your protein from really matters.

Consumers might not be realizing that they're getting added sugars with the added protein.

Whereas if you're eating eggs, meat, yogurt, that's unsweetened, you're getting this protein source in a whole food form that's unprocessed.

You see, we were told in the movie, Idiocracy, that it would be electrolytes from Gatorade.

But it's protein.

Everything has, no agenda.

Now with protein, everything has got to have protein in it.

And there's a reason it took them a long time to get to it.

But here's the payoff.

The reason for all these products with protein.

All right, so clearly it's the latest trend.

But could there be anything else that might be driving folks to get more protein or try and consume more protein?

Yeah, well, Craig, these GLP-1 drugs and Ozempic is a big reason behind this too because as people eat fewer meals as a result of being on these drugs, they want it to be more efficient, trying to get as much protein as possible.

That's the reason why I think a lot of these protein bars that are protein maxing, get as many grams in one packaged item.

That's a big story here.

But for everyone else, I want to point out, doctors usually say you're getting enough protein as is.

So if you're going to try to change your diet, just make sure you talk to your doctor first.

So all these freaks who are on GLP -1s that can't eat anymore.

If I'm going to change my diet, I have to talk to my doctor?

Yes, you should, right away.

Hey, doc, I'm going to have, there's a protein bar.

If I eat that, is that something I should be aware of?

Is that something I should concern myself with?

No, not really.

I will say, by the way, the copay there, that's 50 bucks.

Thanks.

Everybody needs to have protein because they're not eating food anymore.

So, well, I can't eat because I'm puking from Ozempic.

So I still need to force down some protein.

Got to get some protein.

Eat protein.

If you're not going to eat, you need protein.

We have warned since the day these things came out, we said, this is not a good idea.

This doesn't sound healthy.

All of the bad side effects we've been tracking.

And I'm afraid that we're not going to get to the erectile dysfunction because now the GLP-1s are in trouble.

Ozempic has exploded in popularity as both a diabetes and a weight loss drug.

But now it's at the center of a legal blowback kind of situation.

More than 18- Kind of situation?

What is that?

Kind of situation?

It's reporting.

It's reporting.

It's reporting, yeah.

Of a legal blowback kind of situation.

More than 1,800 lawsuits have been filed over adverse side effects with the liability estimated at more than $2 billion.

Drop in the bucket.

Our legal expert, Whitney Traylor, is here to break this down.

So let's talk first about the claims against Ozempic.

Yeah, so we went back to school.

So all these 1L students that just started law school, you're going to be learning about this stuff.

This is a civil tort is what we're dealing with.

So this is product liability, complex civil litigation, mass tort liability.

And essentially they're saying that, hey, you marketed this drug and you downplayed.

They're claiming that they downplayed the potential harm that it would cause.

And it's causing these very severe side effects.

And so people are now bringing these lawsuits.

There's a bunch of, if you go online, you'll see a bunch of law firms just highlighting this case in particular.

And actually it was over 1,800, but as of this morning, I think it's 2 ,100.

How are the damages decided?

Is it individually based?

Do they look at the side effects?

How does that even get decided on?

Yeah, well, that's why we have a jury system.

And so the jury actually looks at that and they will decide a number of different factors.

So there's a number of terrible side effects.

Some people are going blind.

They're having intestinal issues.

Get him off the air.

There are digestive issues, just some really severe type of issues.

And the jury will come back and decide and say, hey, we think this is what it's worth.

And so you have to calculate both the physical damage, the emotional distress, the loss of consortium.

Then if people can't go to work, their lost wages, if they can't provide for their families.

So it's going to be different for different folks.

So of course, the Noah Jenner Show has been warning you about this, about these horrible side effects.

And if you still didn't listen to us, don't worry because Rob, the constitutional lawyer, the boots and suits, will be glad to sue these companies for you.

No problemo.

If you're going blind, call Rob.

Let me know, I'll forward your email to him.

But luckily, luckily, we have not one but two disclaimers now.

They're now 30 seconds, the disclaimers.

They're starting to creep up a little bit.

The disclaimer, the ads with their disclaimers.

Here is the competitor to Ozempic, ZepBound.

Tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck.

Stop ZepBound and call your doctor if you have severe stomach pain or a serious allergic reaction.

Severe side effects may include inflamed pancreas or gallbladder problems.

Tell your doctor if you are experiencing vision changes, taking a sulfonylurea or insulin, having suicidal thoughts, if you're nursing, pregnant, plan to be, or taking birth control pills.

Side effects include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which can cause dehydration and worsen kidney problems.

That doesn't sound too bad.

Suicidal thoughts.

How about this new one, which is Kamzios.

Kamzios.

Kamzios.

Kamzios is if you have OHCS, I think it is, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

I'm not sure what it is, but here's the drug disclaimer for it.

Kamzios works by targeting what's causing OHCM, and it's proven to reduce obstruction in the heart four times more.

Kamzios may cause serious side effects, including heart failure that can lead to death, a risk that's increased with serious infection, irregular heartbeat, or with certain other medicines.

Do not stop, start, or change medicines or dose without telling your doctor.

You must have echocardiograms before and during treatment.

Seek help for new or worsening heart failure symptoms.

Kamzios is only available through a restricted program.

Before taking Kamzios, tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and current or planned pregnancy.

Kamzios, first in its class to treat symptomatic OHCM.

I mean, I mean, what happened to good old anal leakage?

Now we've got death, death.

You just, you might die.

Give it a shot, you might die.

Of course, it will be available at TrumpRx.

Our president, he's a hoot, man.

TrumpRx, really?

It's .gov, I believe.

I'm pretty sure it's .gov.

It's better than a monument.

Get a domain name, TrumpRx.gov.

I went to CNBC to get the lowdown on the finances of this thing.

Oh, here we go.

President Trump announcing a drug pricing deal with Pfizer, which will voluntarily sell its medications for less, including discounted drug prices for Medicaid.

Pfizer is up 5% on the news.

Angelica Peebles joins us now with more.

There was a teaser too that other drug companies would have announcements to come also.

That's what the president said.

We haven't heard anything yet.

I've been checking in.

Nothing to announce there, but this is interesting, right?

Of course, we've been hearing from all these companies.

Yesterday, we talked about it.

Everyone's been saying they've been in negotiations, but today, Pfizer, the first company to actually strike a deal with the administration.

So what's happening?

They're committing to a few things.

They're going to lower prices in Medicaid, and then they're getting a three-year exemption from tariffs on the condition that they invest more in the U.S.

They're also agreeing to sell some of the drugs to this new website called TrumpRx, which is a DTC, direct -to-consumer platform.

And they're also promising to launch new drugs at parity, so the same price here in the U.S.

as other countries.

Now, it sounds like a big deal, but I do want to take a little bit of a measured approach here because some of these drugs, right, the drugs that they're selling directly to consumers, only one of them is actually broken out in the earnings report.

So these are older drugs.

They don't make a lot of money.

These are not the huge blockbusters that you might be familiar with.

And so even though it sounds like, yes, these prices are coming down, these are significant discounts, Pfizer's not really giving up a whole lot here, and also Medicaid already gets the lowest prices around.

So, you know, clearly this is working out for Pfizer, and it gives them certainty.

You can see the stock move today, but not giving up a ton here.

Yeah, scam.

Well, I have a report on the same thing, but this is from NPR.

Okay.

What's it called?

Oh, Trump announces deal with Pfizer.

Here we go.

President Trump says he's making good on his promise to lower drug prices for Americans.

He announced a deal with Pfizer on Tuesday and also announced a new government website called TrumpRx.

NPR Pharmaceuticals correspondent, Sidney Lupkin is following this.

So he said- Hold on.

They have a pharmaceuticals correspondent.

Yes.

Give me a break.

Right next to the climate desk, I'm sure.

Oh, let's roll that back for a second here.

Pfizer on Tuesday and also announced a new government website called TrumpRx.

NPR Pharmaceuticals correspondent, Sidney Lupkin is following this.

Hey, Sidney, so what's in this deal?

The splashiest part involves Pfizer selling its drugs, such as Zeljans for rheumatoid arthritis, directly to consumers at a discount.

Consumers could access the deals through a website operated by the federal government called TrumpRx.

Trump has talked about bringing drug prices in line with what other developed countries pay and making those other countries pay what he calls their fair share.

Here's Trump at the press conference.

The United States is done subsidizing the healthcare of the rest of the world.

It's a big thing.

I can't tell you how big this is.

The deal also includes discounts for Medicaid and a pledge from Pfizer to sell new drugs at the same price in the US as in other developed countries.

Trump says similar deals with other drug makers are in the works.

How did President Trump get the drug makers to come to the table?

Yeah, it started with an executive order back in May on what the president calls most favored nation drug pricing.

That would link US prices to those elsewhere.

Over the summer, he upped the ante with letters to 17 drug makers that gave them 60 days to come up with plans.

And then came closed-door negotiations.

During the press conference, Health Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

told reporters that negotiations went late into the night.

Pfizer CEO Albert Borla was at the press conference too, by the way.

He said this deal came with a three -year grace period from certain tariffs.

And he added that tariffs were the quote, most powerful tool to motivate behaviors.

So it's clear the threat of them played a role here, though the many details of the deal aren't public.

Yeah, and there's still no website, which is very bad form.

No, it's supposed to be in December.

They already said that.

From, here's, apparently Cuban, who owns his own drug purchasing website, Cost Plus Drugs, says, I've been told it's just a listing site and won't actually sell anything.

So they'll just have links to other online.

That would make sense.

Yeah, it's a marketing website.

It's a landing page.

Yeah, well.

A landing page.

Okay.

This is Consolidated's part two to this, by the way.

But what would this mean for consumers, Simon?

You know, a lot of them probably won't notice a difference.

In Medicaid, for instance, beneficiaries already pay very little or nothing for drugs.

And it's not yet clear how much money the Medicaid part of the deal would save taxpayers.

As for TrumpRx, direct-to-consumer prices mean that consumers are not using their health insurance.

So while, on average, prices may drop 50 % through TrumpRx, that's still 50% off a big number.

And it still might be unaffordable.

Insurance co-pays could be cheaper.

But if someone needs a drug that isn't covered by insurance and it's offered on TrumpRx, it might be an option.

All right, so when is TrumpRx supposed to get going?

Yeah, the TrumpRx.gov website is supposed to launch in early 2026.

And the new Medicaid prices are supposed to take effect around the same time.

As for the promise of launching new drugs at the same price in the U.S.

as abroad, that's an ongoing process.

In fact, some other companies have already said they'll do that.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, for instance, says its new schizophrenia drug will be sold at the same price in the U.K.

as it is here.

But that won't save American patients any money.

New schizophrenia drug?

A new schizophrenic drug is gonna be sold cheaper.

No, it's not.

Yes, it is.

Wow.

New schizophrenic drug.

For all the schizophrenics.

They worked that one in.

The check is in the mail, girl.

Good job.

Okay, what do we have?

Well, I got a couple of things here.

There's a couple of, for example, the man on the street was done by NTD asking people just randomly on one of the malls whether they think Trump's gonna run for a third term.

I thought this was amusing.

You only want this in there because of the $500 bet you have with your son.

Am I right?

No, I don't want it in there for that reason.

I already got that bet.

That's done.

Yeah, okay, you wanna throw it.

Would you support President Trump running for a third term?

NTD's Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C.

We need to hear from the people.

President Trump's been talking about potentially running for a third term.

Perhaps a joke, perhaps not.

Would you like to see that happen?

Yes.

I would like to, but it's not gonna happen.

That's not right.

He does say and do some things that even we don't agree, but I don't think that will happen.

You say you would like to see that happen?

I would like it, yes.

He deserves to be in there because he's moving everything forward, and that's great.

Sure, yeah, but I don't think he can.

Is it the 22nd Amendment?

I'm not 100% sure.

I don't even wanna comment.

I certainly think he will.

By the time it comes around, it'll be legal to do so.

And would you be behind that?

Hell no.

Pretty soon, it'll only be Republicans that can own guns, too.

President Trump has been talking about potentially running for a third term.

Would you be on board with that?

Yeah.

I'm not a huge political person, but I'm very turned off by the Democrats and just liberals and just all of that.

I don't think anybody should be on two terms.

That's been a tradition in our country, and I think it's been pretty well established.

How about Vans 2028?

What do you think?

Ah!

No.

No, please no.

I don't have that many years left on this planet.

I don't want this to go down like this.

I see that happening, yeah, yep.

Would you be supporting him?

Yes.

Probably a continuation of what Trump has started, just finishing it out and carrying it through.

I really, to be honest, don't know exactly what he's doing right now.

I haven't really followed his speeches or interviews.

So if it's not Trump, then for sure, Vans.

I won't close off to it.

I liked what he said a lot more before the election than when he joined the ticket.

So you're open-minded?

I try to be.

How about Vans 2028?

Yeah.

That would be a good call.

There's a couple other guys that could be in the running as well.

We'll have to wait and see because we really don't know much about Vans right now.

But if you ever watch, did you ever watch his movie that he made about, well, he didn't make it, but they made it about his life and where he came from to where he is today.

It was only God that did that.

But I would definitely vote for him in 28.

Brother.

Well, we could have done without that.

Goodness gracious, man on the street.

By the way, here's another clip that you'll be burped about.

Make it funny.

Well, this is Crowder who puts himself back on the pedestal and he's complaining about, hey, you know, he gets threatened too.

I didn't get any of the Tim Poole ones because Tim Poole has been saying the same thing.

But Crowder's stuff is like a little out there.

Crowder said he pulled back from these campus events due to security issues with those in the audience that opposed him turning violent.

When I did Change My Mind, it started in 2016.

The idea was, hey, calling the left on their bluff, civil dialogue with anyone to the tune of billions of plays and hundreds of hours.

And it got increasingly violent.

And what I didn't tell people, I told people out there, go do this on your own campus, have these conversations.

I advocated for it.

And Charlie took it to another level.

He was unbelievable at it.

I didn't tell people about the threats because I didn't want copycats.

I didn't tell them about terrorists from Yemen through Sweden showing up in East Grand Rapids.

I didn't tell them about concrete milkshakes.

I didn't tell them about my tires getting slashed, about people trying to firebomb my car.

Turning Point's national tour continues with some of the biggest conservative names, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Glenn Beck.

We have a- Yemen terrorists coming through Sweden?

We have a term for a guy like this in the old country.

We call it like a picker.

Say it with me now.

Like a picker.

It means what?

It means he's someone who picks off the remains of dead bodies.

He's just trying to make a name for himself off of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

I can't see it any other way.

Oh, look at me.

I'm so brave.

Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that because I found the thing peculiar.

What is a concrete milkshake?

Whether it's a milkshake that has concrete in it and they throw it at you.

So it's like basically like a brick.

Yeah.

Well, they just throw a brick at you.

Yeah.

This is- It's like a lot of work.

This is disappointing.

I saw him walking there with all his security guys.

Oh yeah, I'm a big man.

I'm going on campus.

Look at me.

I'm so brave.

I was doing it before Charlie.

That's basically what he said.

Yeah, that's what he said.

That was the theme there.

Yeah.

Well, now you've just bummed me out.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Imagine all the people who could deal with us.

Oh yeah, that'd be fab.

♪ Yeah, on no agenda, in the morning.

♪ Well, and since you played that clip, I'm going to force you to read all of the donations that came in $50 and above for the people who love us and get value from this program.

If they're still listening after that- You overlooked the good news part of that.

You overlooked the good news part of that.

There was no good news.

Yeah, you gave us a new Dutch term.

Like a picker.

Like a picker.

Am I pronouncing it correctly?

Yeah, pretty good.

Like a picker.

Like a picker.

Yeah, so like is a dead body.

Picker is picking, you know, taking stuff from it.

Like a picker.

We need to use this.

Like a picker.

Interesting.

Yes.

Hey, thank our producers here, John.

Oh, and starting with Amy Harmon in Nashville, North Carolina, came in $177.60.

And she has this, and she designates this as a Charlie Kirk Freedom of Speech donation.

Ooh, I like that.

Heidi Quant in Centerville, Virginia, $140.15.

And she's got a birthday call out and a note.

Ash in Texas, in Flower Mound, $138.38.

And this is a Who Shot JR donation.

Yeah!

There's two, two people.

Two people.

Two people, love it.

Eric Hochul in Mulrose, Deutschland, $104.

That's good, he's up there.

The top of the list now.

Baron Ladecken in Houston, Texas, $100.

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Dame Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, $72.27.

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We get one of those every other show.

Dame Nancy of the Confused, $57.21.

Donating is good for the show and your soul, she writes.

That's true, fact.

Dame, fact.

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And now we have $50 donors.

We have a makeup, there's a lot of them today compared to the last show, which was four, I believe.

Bobby Bosch, oh, Bo, I'm sorry, Bobby Bo in Bluegrass, Iowa.

These are all 50s.

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Nathan Knoll in Nederland, Texas.

Nederland.

Joshua.

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You been there?

Yeah, I know where it is.

It's Nederland.

It's Nederland?

Nederland, yeah.

Oh, it's Nederland.

Yes, Nederland.

Well, it says Nederland.

I know, but it's really Nederland.

You need to have two Es instead of one.

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John's, Florida.

And Sir Luke Rayner, the East of London and the Southwest, UK.

50.

Linda Walker in Roseburg, Oregon.

$50, that's a Bitcoin donation.

No, it's not.

So what's the green?

It's Stripe.

Oh, Stripe.

It's a Stripe donation.

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It's people that helped us do show.

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That's right, 1804.

18th anniversary coming up on the 26th of October.

It's been quite the ride.

Thank you all very much.

And again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for this episode.

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♪ It's your birthday, birthday ♪ ♪ On No Agenda ♪ A real quick one.

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It doesn't happen often, but Heidi Quant wishes Stephen Milling a very happy birthday.

He celebrates his 40th today and we celebrate with him.

Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.

And not one, but two, Secretary's General with a jingle that says it wrong, but here we go.

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♪ All hail to the Secretary Generals ♪ ♪ Cause they are the ones who need hailing ♪ ♪ All hail to the Secretary Generals ♪ ♪ On the No Agenda Show ♪ And in today's segment, we also have three knights to bring up on stage, including Peter Goodall, who says, John Adam, I'm glad to let you know that I've been listening since 2013.

I was an irregular donor, then decided to set a small bimonthly donation of $20.20 in the year 2020.

In the year 2020.

I made one small modification to it in 2022 and basically forgot about it since then.

Well, I just totaled it up and it has made me long overdue for a knighthood after amassing the pricely sum of $2,211.

Thank you very much.

I would like to be knighted Sir Slow and Steady as in slow and steady wins the race.

If possible, could I also get an associate producer credit for this current episode?

I have to ask John.

I think on a request like that, I think especially with the kind of overpaid for the knighthood, sure, why not?

Okay, you consider it done.

He says, I would like to add it to my LinkedIn profile.

So you are good to go and let us bring out the swords.

Here's mine.

I'm always at the ready with my sword.

Here you go.

A nice blade he brings out Peter Johnson.

You're here as well.

Peter Goodall, step up Sir.

And Commodore Semi-Anonymous Vegan.

All of you support the No Agenda Show in excess in many cases of $1,000 or more.

Therefore, I'm very proud to pronounce the Kate all of you as Knights.

Knight Peter of Castleberry, Sir Akko of the Land Down Under, and Sir Slow and Steady.

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And you can head over to noagendarings.com and let us know what ring size you have.

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And along with that, we will send you some wax to use with your signet ring to seal your important correspondence.

And of course, as always, a signed certificate of authenticity.

Welcome to you three, to the Knights and the Dames of the No Agenda Roundtable.

No agenda, me up.

And there's a party going on as we speak.

Actually, it's about to kick off the Northern Wake Pumpkin Spice Showdown in Raleigh, North Carolina.

That'll be at six o'clock at Hoppy Endings.

Go and check them out.

On Saturday, the tiny amygdala of Anchorage.

They will be uniting in Anchorage, Alaska at two o'clock at Campbell Park.

Go there and send us a meetup report.

You haven't heard from Anchorage in quite a while.

I'd love to get a meetup report and include your server if you can.

Coming up in the month of October on the 9th, Parker, Colorado, Johnson City, Texas on the 10th.

That's right down the road, about 45 minutes away.

But Fredericksburg, Texas will be on the 11th and Tina the Keeper has confirmed she will be there as well at J6 or Jenny's place.

Also on the 11th, Garden City, Idaho.

The 16th, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Coleyville, Texas.

Colleyville, Texas on the 18th.

Fort Wayne, Indiana on the 18th.

Columbus, Ohio as well.

The 19th, Lansing, Michigan.

Los Altos, California.

The 25th, the 26th, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

The 31st, Leiden in Zuyt Holland, the Netherlands.

And on the 15th of November, is this another one that you're going to attend, John, in Albany, California?

At the Mallard Club?

That sounds like it.

John will be there.

Those are the No Agenda Meetups which you can find at noagendameetups.com.

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♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out ♪ ♪ With all the nights and days ♪ ♪ Call me triggered or hella lame ♪ ♪ You wanna be where everybody feels the same ♪ ♪ It's like a party ♪ Yeah, baby.

It's like a party every single time.

It's just like a party.

And before we get to John's tip of the day and our outstanding end of show mixes, we like to select our ISOs here for the end of show.

I have three, John has two.

I'm sure they're AI'd, so I'll just do my real people ISOs first.

Is this true?

Which I thought was pretty good.

I kind of like that one.

We have this one.

I mean, you can't make this up, okay?

And this one I thought was just funny.

Brought to you by Pfizer.

Well, I like the Alex Jones one of the three.

Okay.

Now I have, I don't know how this is AI or not, but this is the W-A-W-D.

What are we doing?

No, it doesn't sound like AI.

What are we doing?

Because it's not.

No.

And this one here could be just a real person.

This is the Wowie clip.

Wowie Fawlty, what a fabulous show.

No, that's AI.

That is just so AI.

What?

Wowie Fawlty, what a fabulous show.

What is she even saying?

Wowie Fawlty?

Wowie Fawlty, what a fabulous show.

Who's Fawlty?

What I put in there was Wowie and then basically a random number of letters.

Just gibberish to see what it would say.

Yeah, I don't like it.

I mean, you can't make this up.

I think that's the one we're gonna have to go with.

Hey, everybody, it's time for John's tip of the day.

Well, this is a screwball tip.

This is something I didn't think I'd ever do, but I'm gonna do it.

I'm going to recommend that people go watch a PBS show.

What?

And you can get it over on Amazon Prime.

They have it over there and it's on the PBS.

You can dig it up, but it is a terrific show that everyone who listens to No Agenda should watch.

This is, it's a recent American experience called The Hard Hat Riots.

And it's about the hard hat riots in New York in the late 60s, early 70s, which is a history.

A lot of it, I didn't, I was completely unaware of it.

It was, a lot of the stories were suppressed.

They were not in the media, but it's the genesis during the Nixon administration, the genesis of the working class moving toward the Republican Party, how it all came about, how the Democrats had switched over to just pretty much supporting the banker class right in that moment when the CIA came in during the Russ Baker, in that Russ Baker book and pointed out the fact that the CIA was behind the Watergate scandal, which got Nixon kicked out, made him quit, and so they got back on track.

Wait a minute, what is this called again?

It's called The Hard Hat Riots.

It's one of the best histories I've seen.

I know part of it.

I was there pretty much, but I don't, I'm watching this going, this is all news to me.

It's fascinating.

Huh.

Is that like the OG people sick day?

Is that kind of what that is?

No, not at all, actually.

It was about, it was not about any, it's just, it's an unimaginably good documentary on the American experience.

Considering it's from PBS and you're promoting it, it really must be a doozy.

It's a doozy, it's a killer.

I love it.

There it is, everybody.

John's Tip of the Day.

Find them all at tipoftheday.net.

Great advice from you and me.

Just a tip with JCB.

And sometimes Adam.

Created by Dana Brunetti.

And there you go.

That is our show for today.

I saw Hakeem Jeffries do a press conference, so more sombrero will be forthcoming by this evening, I'm sure.

No doubt about it.

Retardo.

I was thinking about Mucho Retardo as a show title.

Mucho Retardo is a good show title.

It's not bad.

It's a decent idea.

Hey, coming up next on the No Agenda Stream, it's Nick the Rat from the sewers of New York City.

This is his 508th episode.

It's titled Dill Slop.

So you gotta wonder what that's about.

So stay tuned for it on your modern podcast app or if you're listening to the stream right now, directly at noagendastream.com.

End of show mixes.

Agent Looper is back with some thoughts and prayers and Jeffrey Crocker with a great, a great parody.

It's been a while, but the jury is still out whether it's AI or if he really can sing like that.

Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in picturesque Fredericksburg where it is Oktoberfest, everybody.

In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain, I'm John C.

Dvorak.

We'll talk to you on Sunday with another one, two, three hours of media deconstruction.

Until then, remember us at noagendadonations.com.

Adios, mofos.

Ahoy, ahoy.

And such.

Gather round, bitches.

Bitches, gather round.

Gather round, bitches.

Bitches, gather round.

Go in hands and bow our heads.

Oh, thoughts and prayers.

Thoughts and prayers.

Thoughts and prayers.

Bitches.

I posted a video offering thoughts and prayers.

Oh, thoughts and prayers.

Thoughts and prayers.

Thoughts and prayers.

Oh.

I met her in a school in the north of France where she taught me to act and wear tie-dye pants to see my boner, B-O-N-A, boner.

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance.

She asked me my name and in a high-pitched voice I said, Macrona.

E-M-A-N-U-O, Macrona.

M-M-M-Macrona.

Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she squeezed me tight, I knew that she'd be Mrs.

Macrona.

Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman but talked like a man.

She's Macrona.

M-M-M-Macrona, boner.

Well, we drank champagne and danced all night under electric candlelight.

She picked me up and sat me on her knee and said, little boy, won't you come home with me?

Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy, but when I looked up to me, Mrs.

Macrona.

M-M-M-Macrona.

M-M-M-Macrona.

Bridget Macrona.

M-M-M-Macrona.

The best podcast in the universe.

Adios, mofo.

Dvorak.org slash N-A.

I mean, you can't make this up, okay?