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0:06 Darren O'Neill and Larry Blayner.

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0:10 the morning. It is Sunday, 08/16/2026.

0:15 This is your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination

0:17 episode eighteen ninety five broadcasting live from just outside of Chirac

0:22 right here in FEMA region number five in the morning, everybody. I am Darren O'Neill.

0:29 And from the pretentious Connecticut shore, this is Larry Blydner keeping comies and creeps at bay with my gleaming scimitar of truth.

0:36 Yeah. I mean, that was it, man. Woo.

0:40 I love that new intro. Little bit chicks voice and it's it's great. It's great stuff. Nice work, Darren. Larry wanted chicks. I know. It wasn't just bakers. He brought in a bunch and it's like, well, we need this stuff to talk over and it needs to be a little quieter. And I'm like, let me go back into Suno and see and move everything around and yeah, it's AI and people are gonna be like, go fake and gay.

1:02 But then you put something in and send something in and where's sir Chris Vox? Where's some heavy metal directly from

1:09 somebody that can play the guitar and sing?

1:12 There

1:13 we go. But, like, we we can do the theremin. Let's add some theremin. Gotta have some theremin.

1:19 It always adds a certain creepy vibe,

1:22 which we dig. Even on a beautiful Sunday morning. What's it like in Chicago, Chirac, excuse me, this morning or this afternoon, Darren? Tell me. For the well, you're right with the time because I had been doing

1:34 the rock and roll preshow for like 700

1:38 episodes.

1:39 And I was always just, okay, I did that and then I went to have lunch. I forget that this show

1:45 is like I should eat something before the show. So literally like five minutes ago, I'm like, oh crap, this is gonna be through. I'm gonna be hungry. Uh-oh.

1:54 So I had to go grab a bar,

1:56 a little bit of pudding, you know, something like that just to get you going.

1:59 You need something, definitely. The rain finally stopped like the first time in a week.

2:05 Rain stopped? So you've been getting rained on all this time? Yeah, pretty much. No, no. It's no fun. But it's 82 degrees now, so you never know what's gonna happen.

2:15 You never know. It's a picture perfect day in Connecticut.

2:18 But what is that for Connecticut though? Nice and cool or? It's like it's like high seventies,

2:24 puffy whites, very low humidity. It's kinda really, it's kinda like California.

2:29 Well, no. Why would you do that then? Right.

2:32 Exactly. So but it's been it's been rainy too out here, but, you know, we're still breathing. It's all that matters. That's the only way to go. Yeah.

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3:24 and nothing's going on in the world at all, Larry. Have you noticed Not a damn thing. Boring it You

3:31 are so you gotta stop fibbing. Don't fib this early in the show. Save it for later. Like, you have so much to do.

3:37 Yeah. And I love I mean, I've been reading the Reddit threads and people like, these guys suck, man. I love the same people will complain,

3:45 Baronet and Larry, their voices sound way too radio.

3:48 And then in another message, they're like, they're not playing enough of the jingles. Like, well, do know that's the radio sound? Right? That's the whole

3:56 that's the whole bit. Like, they don't even play the bell, man. Well, why don't they play the bell?

4:01 Well, I have one of those little I have one of those bells. I'd get one if you want. Yeah. Ding ding ding. Well, that's Reddit is so weird, man. I I I rarely visit that place because it's just it's just it's out there. It is. You can't believe anything that you read on Reddit.

4:16 No.

4:17 And for everybody that was like, oh, and then Adam was really mad that people were telling him to do the show with Mimi.

4:23 So I thought about it like everybody on Reddit, do me a favor.

4:27 Get your wife or your children to write your post because it's just the same as you according to

4:34 Adam should do the show with Mimi then well then your wife should be the same. Put her on Reddit instead of you. It's gonna be exactly the same. Right? Because you can just interchange anybody.

4:44 I think Reddit is mostly comprised of, AOC voters.

4:47 Living in their basement?

4:49 Yeah.

4:50 Their parents' house? Mhmm. Yeah. Without a job?

4:55 Without hope. Quite possibly

4:58 without without a lot of hope. Exactly.

5:01 Yeah.

5:02 But which one of these things do you want to jump into first from the

5:06 Trump decoy plane

5:08 to the Damn. Well, I think Iran.

5:12 You know what? I'm gonna do a switcheroo on you, Darren. I know I had Emily

5:16 Gallagher labeled as number one, but since we were talking about people living in their parents' basements,

5:21 I think we have to start with clip two.

5:23 Abdul is Blue's Clues, that one.

5:27 Okay. So I get a little little set up here. Okay?

5:29 Now, are you hip to Blue's Clues?

5:31 I have nieces and nephews who were very big into is he still around? I know there's a weird dude, and there was, like, dandy notebook and something like that. Yeah. For those who may not know, it was a kid's show

5:44 back probably at least twenty years ago or more

5:48 hosted by a guy, very nice young dude dressed in a rugby shirt

5:52 and jeans, and and it was probably it was probably created for kids from, I would say, what would you like maybe three to eight years old, something like that. Yes. Young parents. Can like put them in front of the television and be like, ah, that's your babysitter.

6:05 Yes. And and also unlike Sesame Street and some of the other things, it wasn't at all slanted. There was no political message in Blue's Clues, which was reason I let used to let my kids watch it, and they liked it a lot. And so this kid's this guy's sitting there, and he had it like a digital, you know, fake screen behind him. And and the blue was the name of his dog. It was like this cute little hound dog, except it was it was a fake. It was a digital cartoon thing. And they would, you know, learn to count and the alphabet and all that kind of stuff. So that said,

6:33 this Abdul El Sayand

6:36 posted

6:37 this actually a few weeks ago, it just resurfaced

6:40 everywhere

6:42 talking about,

6:43 well, voting and Medicare and so forth. And he is dressed like the Blues Clues kid. On purpose? On

6:51 purpose. On purpose with the exact same set,

6:54 little little cartoon things kind of wicking and out of the screen,

6:57 and it's beyond belief. You you gotta hear this. Indoctrination,

7:01 anyone?

7:02 Oh, yeah. Which is why we need money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for all. Here's

7:11 the mail. It never fails and makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes, I wanna wail.

7:20 Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. This is this is Elsaic had singing into This not AI. This is this is legit. This is real. Yes. This is who people in Michigan want to put into office.

7:32 Into the senate. Yeah. Right in Washington DC.

7:35 Mhmm. Thanks, mailbox.

7:39 We just got a letter.

7:41 We just got a letter.

7:43 We just got a letter. I wonder who it's from.

7:48 Do you loving this?

7:49 What I'm loving this

7:51 to our buddy Net Net who lives

7:54 in the great state well, once great state of Michigan.

7:57 Yeah. He's been working on a boots on the ground that he said is probably going to have to be multiple

8:04 pages and reports because of how bad things are, and I believe it now. This is Yeah. Cementing that. Oh, yeah. Like, wow.

8:13 Wow. It looks like my ballot

8:17 brought to me by my secretary of state.

8:20 And with it, I can participate in democracy.

8:23 The first day that I can turn this in is June 25, but it has to be postmarked

8:28 by July 21.

8:31 Or I can drop it off up until election day, which is August 4.

8:36 Thanks, secretary of state. Thanks, mailbox.

8:40 Votes could do, we can do.

8:45 You should be thinking of the US Postal Service, which Yes.

8:49 May or may not get your ballots there on time.

8:52 Yeah. Now here's here's what I here's the really the kind of the backstory on this.

8:57 I saw this posted on X, and there was an avalanche. I mean, a fire hose

9:03 of comments saying, what are you, an idiot? Oh, you're just all negative stuff, grow up, get a job, whatever, etcetera, etcetera.

9:11 And then I realized he's he's no idiot, man. He's very, very smart because this content goes right to the heart of most of his electorate

9:21 because he's talking to kiddults.

9:24 True. People who never really, they never grew up. They want someone to take care of them because they either can't or don't wanna do it themselves.

9:31 So here's we're on a kiddie show together. It's Blue's Clues and daddy Abdul

9:36 will take care of you. And then if you think about it, Darren, how many times how many times going back maybe even to the Clintons

9:42 did people sort of refer to them as, like, America's mom and dad? I

9:47 don't know if you ever did. I know I didn't. No. Right. And then it was

9:52 then it was Michelle and Obama. Yeah. And then it was Joey and and Jill.

9:56 Right? Then was it Reese Witherspoon that said, oh, your mama la to come out. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. We all need a mama la. Exactly.

10:05 So this this guy this guy is very very sharp, and he's not afraid to look like an idiot in service to grabbing votes. And a lot of his people are gonna say yes

10:16 because of that goofy cartoon. Well, because he seems so likable.

10:20 Yeah.

10:21 Yeah. Be clear, when I was in college, I was the one walking around with a t shirt that had a drawing

10:28 of Bill Clinton's face on it and on the front it said, if Bill Clinton is the answer.

10:34 And on the back it said, it must be a really stupid question.

10:39 So yeah, I've always been on the right and I'm not to any heat over that from your your fellow students or At that time, no, because it was We were six five though. True. Who's gonna, you know, really? This is true. And it was the,

10:53 you know, late eighties, early nineties era. So it was a little bit of a different time but

10:58 even

10:59 then obviously

11:01 the

11:03 university which was a Catholic university, DePaul University in Chicago

11:08 Mhmm. Was going

11:10 completely woke. I was a communications major. I'm sure that's not a surprise to anybody. He likes to talk. The head of the department was

11:20 a lesbian who liked to spend way too much of the class time

11:25 talking about her and her partner going down to,

11:29 I think it was Peru,

11:30 one of those kinda Southern American countries to adopt a child and So

11:36 it's gotten a lot worse from the boots on the ground that we've all heard.

11:41 And of course, these kids

11:43 who are being promised things without understanding

11:47 the ramifications.

11:48 It's easy. If somebody walks up to you and like, hey, do you want x amount of money or do you want this you know, prize? Well, Well, like in game shows, remember when that all broke like, hey, somebody won a $100,000 on a game show. Yay. And then they're like, But then I had to pay $20,000

12:04 in taxes. And

12:06 I can't afford $20,000

12:08 in taxes.

12:10 It's because the

12:13 electorate overall

12:14 is not paying attention. I mean, we're on socials, I'm gonna run a Chris Matthews clip. One I was interested that he's still alone. Me too. I think I saw this one. And you know what? He's been gone. What? Would you say maybe ten years by now? Probably. I think so. I mean, that would be my guess between five and ten since the it was Obama, the the shiver up his leg, and then that was kind of his

12:35 outgoing out the door. So it was it might even be twelve years ago or so. And and let's he was also canceled for some reason. He didn't leave voluntarily.

12:44 What happened? We need to you know what we need? We need that we need that book of knowledge guy. Right. We need to hook that directly up.

12:52 Yeah.

12:53 But But here's what I was thinking just to divert just for a moment is I was thinking about this a lot. We need we need a book of knowledge chick.

13:01 Right? They do often. Really? So Adam has his with the guy with low voice. Yes. Yes. And you or some other Ben or maybe Adam, somebody cooked this up for us. And she's got a really sexy voice, really sexy, but she's kinda snarky and snotty.

13:16 So we ask her a question. She's like, what do you want now?

13:20 Stop bothering me. Exactly. Wouldn't that be fun? I think that was other fun thing on Reddit was, I looked these guys up. Who are they? And they they have this show called Planet Rage that always says pornographic

13:31 album art. It's like, what? You mean, like, fully clothed

13:34 redheads in Irish pubs? If Oh, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. But this I mean, this is what the it has to be a leftist. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Sorry for pointing at that because they're the only ones that would look at a fully clothed woman and go, that's porn. Of course. Yes. No. It's a picture.

13:52 Yeah. And it's a pointy chick, and it's all created by Grock. So all hail, Elon.

13:56 They are. But here is Chris Matthew. They probably never saw a real woman. That may be the problem. That's the answer. And they're like, we don't understand what this is.

14:07 Here's

14:08 what I think. And I've been thinking about this for days now. The DSA has done a favor to non DSA Democrats,

14:15 to regular Democrats who are regular members of the party. They've listed what they believe in. Their chair made that clear. It's in Peggy Noonan's column this week. It's very clear. We're gonna get rid of ice, not just ice. We're gonna get rid of the border. We're not gonna have a border anymore. We're not gonna effectively

14:32 control

14:33 people coming in and out of the country. And so I think we're not getting we're gonna get rid of prisons.

14:38 You know, we're gonna get rid of the Pentagon.

14:40 We're gonna negotiate. Well, what happens when your hostages

14:43 are your former diplomats like what happened with President Carter. People take your hostage your diplomats

14:49 hostages. What do you do then? You need an army. You don't like to like to have an army, but you do need to have one. All these positions can be denied by any regular democrat. All you have to do is go out there and say thank you DSA for telling us what you believe in. I don't believe in that stuff. And Yet, why haven't they? That's the question. We've we've been asking this on Planet Rage

15:11 for the last five years which was why are the moderate normal Democrats and this seems there's less of them now, but why Yeah.

15:20 Have they been acquiescing

15:22 to this

15:23 new very radical part?

15:26 I mean, it all just money? Is it all just fear? I don't understand how you can sell your whole

15:32 soul and country down the toilet.

15:35 They're all commies, Darren. All of them. I mean, ones that say you don't need an army, it's like, okay, let's just understand for one minute that if you had no army,

15:44 this country would be taken over within seconds.

15:49 Well, they they they're in favor of an army and that's the one that's

15:54 dispersed or or dispatched rather by the flock cameras to say get that citizen. He dropped a gum wrapper.

16:01 You're much safer. We can see you, but we really can't do anything about it. Yeah. Yeah. That's the army they want. The federal, you know, the police state. And they're kinda getting it. Somebody's sitting in a room with 8,000 monitors watching everything that's going on and going, well, look, there's an armed robbery or there's a sexual assault. What can we do? Well, nothing. We don't have police or anybody anymore. Yeah.

16:23 Like we have cameras.

16:25 Mean, we're not- By the way- Put anybody in jail, but we have cameras.

16:29 Well, they they won't put anybody in jail for anything that that matters, but, like, being maybe a podcaster saying the wrong things, that'll get you locked up. True. They're coming for us, man.

16:39 They're coming for us. Oh, wait. Here. We we we agreed.

16:42 Yes. Yeah. We rang the bell. Woo.

16:45 By the way, I checked Chris Matthews was bounced for allegations of sexual harassment. So there we go. Unlike Bill O'Reilly, which means none of it was probably true, and it was again a way to get rid of somebody that you didn't like. And I love how people are very

17:00 very specific

17:02 about who they believe and who they don't. And I'm getting I get tired of that. It's like if you believe somebody like Bill O'Reilly,

17:09 and I do, I also believe Chris Matthews. If he says he didn't do it, it's like where's the proof? If there's no proof

17:16 Yeah. For guys that have the audience that O'Reilly and Matthews had in the past,

17:22 silencing them. They tried to do it to Rush. They tried to do it to Hannity. They tried to do it to any

17:28 conservative voice

17:30 without fail.

17:31 And Matthews probably said something the ultra left didn't like. So like this, what he's saying right here, oh man, the DS eight people, they don't wanna hear this.

17:41 Well, real proof has become kind of optional, hasn't it? And and in proof of that, there's a story about another. This is this is really funny. You know that Sinatra song, That's Life. Right? That's Flying high flying high in April, shot down in May. Right? Well,

17:54 this guy was flying high in August and shot down a week later.

17:58 This is

18:00 his name is

18:01 Matt Gutman. You heard about this one?

18:04 No. I don't think He he was no. This is this is classic, and you gotta you gotta kinda look behind this because I think there's more to the story than they're telling or someone's telling. CBS Evening News scored its best weekly audience in months

18:18 as struggling anchor

18:20 Tony Dokapil was on vacation. Right? And I've I've seen Tony. He's he's pretty damn boring.

18:27 Right?

18:28 Tony's show averaged 4,100,000

18:29 viewers for the week of July 27.

18:31 I'm sorry. This this is, this other guy, the replacement guy, Matt Cutnick. He got 4,100,000

18:36 viewers for the week of July 27 according to Nielsen, making the show's best performance in seventeen weeks.

18:43 And the first time the Evening Nose has topped the 4,000,000 viewer mark since late March. Okay?

18:49 These upbeat numbers came in as Matt Gutman filled in for Dokapil who has been struggling to keep the show's ratings up. Right? Now,

18:56 Hosanna Gutman's probably feeling real good about that, isn't he? Sure he is. One week later,

19:03 CBS star Matt Gutman is facing a bombshell sexual harassment lawsuit.

19:07 Where do you go? Yeah. As his turn behind the CBS evening news desk helped deliver the struggling network, a ratings boost, The 48 year old was sued Friday by former ABC Newsfield reporter,

19:18 Sameer Saeed,

19:19 who accused him of making inappropriate

19:22 sexual remarks during two assignments.

19:24 When, Darren? Years ago. Has to be years ago. Gotta except not just years ago. Several years the mic. I heard it. That that was me. I was getting

19:33 just gesticulating

19:34 with joy over this story.

19:36 So it says that she filed lawsuit in LA Superior Court naming Gutman, ABC News, and the parent company, the Walt Disney Company as

19:43 defendants. Right? Now do you think isn't the timing of this suit

19:47 rather strange? Yeah. You waited till you saw them on TV and went, Yeah.

19:53 For somebody doesn't want them there, so let's do the this is

19:57 the playbook. The company

19:59 media I ate, what there was that the one that all went after

20:03 was the concerted effort going after

20:07 the advertisers

20:09 of

20:10 Limbaugh, it's really where it started with like Limbaugh and Fox News. Yes.

20:15 And then it kinda just steamrolled from there because they realized people had

20:20 zero spine

20:22 and at any hint of a

20:26 scandal at all,

20:28 they would pull their advertising. And I was having a conversation with Sergei the Russian handler the other day about YouTube videos and it's a very similar thing. He's like, you can't

20:39 easily

20:40 make money on YouTube if you're doing a show like ours.

20:45 Like No Agenda, like Planet Rage, like Larry Show. You you can't make money because advertisers

20:51 run away. Where you're making money

20:54 are, oh, let's talk about Lego or let's talk about something so

20:58 vanilla

20:59 that there can never be any controversy.

21:02 That's where the advertisers want to put their money because of this. Sure. Yeah.

21:07 Somehow Gene is making money by putting like very boring space video games up there and he's like, thanks for the warning. Uh-huh. It's but it's great. I mean, if you can make money doing it, that's Yeah. Yeah. That's great, but it's because the hotter content doesn't make money. And this does not surprise me except the guy the guy's name, it's funny because you say Gutman, the first thing I think is Gutfeld. And I'm like, is it no. No. The other guy. No. Gutman.

21:31 Now the interesting thing to is too, I think whoever this this woman's attorneys are to file this now, I think they're they're not that sharp.

21:38 Because if I was

21:40 those guys,

21:41 I would wait until Gutman,

21:43 who looks like he was lining up to replace

21:47 do pookel, whatever his name is.

21:49 Wait till he's really entrenched and maybe maybe capping 5,000,000 views Then a

21:54 then you sue. Now now CBS is gonna give you a lot more go away money with a guy like that sitting in place, but just about Is it about the money or is it about getting rid of the guy?

22:06 Well, it could be both. Yeah.

22:09 Yeah. Nobody said people on the left are all that smart.

22:13 No.

22:13 No.

22:14 This this is just a quick drop from a Chelsea handler, which may be did you see this one? Oh, yeah. We're gonna get Todd Blanche.

22:22 He's gonna be confirmed, and what's he's gonna overturn Roe v Wade?

22:27 What what? He's gonna overturn Roe v Wade? Wait a minute. Didn't that happen already? Yes. Years ago. Supreme Court.

22:34 We're all sitting around. All these men who have these powerful platforms are sitting around

22:39 watching this happen to women,

22:42 to communities that you could instead be supporting. You don't have to, like, turn over a whole new leaf. It's just about being a decent human being. You And

22:51 this again was with Kara Swisher.

22:53 Yes.

22:54 And she says, right. So is Kara Swisher ignorant of the fact that Roe v Wade was already

23:01 thrown down by the Supreme Court? It's like, what are these people on the news

23:07 for? This is why

23:08 you cannot believe anything you see on any news program. It doesn't matter what network it's on or what podcast it's on. Always double check your work kids because

23:19 the anchors

23:20 very rarely

23:22 are gonna push back. If Kara Swisher had any

23:27 idea of what was going on or journalistic

23:30 credibility, she'd be like, well, what do you mean overturn Roe v Wade? How's he gonna do that? The Supreme Court did that. But you wouldn't do that because Chelsea's

23:36 her buddy.

23:37 Right. It's like you can't no. That would be that would be inconvenient.

23:42 Yeah.

23:43 But it's the socialist commie way. You just we'll change words.

23:47 It is. People are, we're tired of hearing about commies. You know what? We are too.

23:51 Yeah.

23:52 But this is what is dominating

23:55 the news.

23:56 This is

23:59 AOC.

24:00 Let's run the socialist. Let's run through the socialist clip. Let's do that. Yeah.

24:04 And I have a local city councilman that has

24:08 this

24:10 saying woke one was crazy.

24:14 Woke one was crazy.

24:16 You were woke one AOC.

24:21 Mean, what part was crazy then? Well, she was pretty much the on the forefront

24:26 of

24:28 the original woke push.

24:31 That's crazy.

24:33 Woke one was crazy. Okay. That's And

24:36 I think that what's important is And the guy she's talking to on ABC says, that's true. Did you hear ABC when this was all going on saying, oh, all these things AOC and her liker saying are are they're crazy. So why is he agreeing with her now? Because again,

24:51 they really don't know what's going on. They

24:55 are just bobbing their heads

24:57 Sure.

24:58 Going along.

25:00 I mean, if if this guy was sharp, he would have said, well, was your prediction that we'd all be dead in eight years from climate change? Was that part of woke one or is that does that still stand AOC? Yes.

25:10 The world ending or the Yes. That's what she said. Water is rising.

25:15 Oh, yeah. We have to go all green even though we don't have enough electricity.

25:19 We all should have cars that we won't be able to charge or, you know,

25:23 when storms go through like they have in my home state of Illinois. Well,

25:29 the power has been down for so many, like every storm seems to be taking down

25:34 about a quarter million

25:36 customers

25:37 according to just the local Chicago area. That's not even outside of the Chicago

25:42 Metropolitan

25:43 Area

25:45 are out of power. It's like, well,

25:47 you don't want a gas car, do you? No. No. Just take our Yes.

25:52 We have to assess what it Was it? I mean, did the movement go too far with some of those positions? I mean, you you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police. Well,

26:01 you know, I think I think that

26:04 during the And I also wanna ask you because maybe I missed something. Yeah.

26:08 When did AOC back away from

26:11 defunding the police? He's like, you at one point

26:15 were backing defunding the police. Did AOC ever come back out and say, no. No. I think the police need money. I don't remember seeing that, but I might have missed I challenge you to find that clip, Darren, and I'll pay you handsomely if you can. But if you can't, you owe me. Right. No. Thank you. That's not a good bet. Alright.

26:32 During this time and during especially during COVID,

26:35 there was a huge opening of the Overton window. We were shut down. There was some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen because I mean, we're shut down. Why AOC?

26:44 Yeah.

26:46 Joey? No. Joey. So those shutdowns Yeah. And I think that

26:50 the the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy

26:56 that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that had that were had in that time were quite fruitful.

27:05 I think that when we talk about crime today,

27:09 it's fundamentally different than the way that we talked about crime in bringing crime down. Right? Mhmm. And I think that we all share in the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible.

27:19 I think that,

27:20 you know, during lockdown,

27:23 of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today. And I'm grateful that these candidates have the opportunity to present who they are to their electorate and what they're campaigning on in in this moment. Yeah. We just saw one of them singing the Blues Clues song or something.

27:38 And so rhetoric for her is a synonym for lies. So is that what she means by that rhetoric? Right? I think so. And Yeah. She's a DSC.

27:47 I mean, she is not a regular democrat. She has said that she is part of the democrat socialist movement and they want to,

27:56 according to their co chair,

27:59 abolish police, abolish prisons,

28:01 abolish the presidency,

28:03 abolish the supreme court.

28:05 So AOECs will tell you, well, we all want crime to go down.

28:11 We all have that same goal. And she can tell you that while also understanding

28:16 that she believes and her group believes,

28:20 well, the way to do this is to never incarcerate

28:23 anybody.

28:25 And I think that's just insanity.

28:28 Yeah. But maybe it may maybe it holds water, Darren, because she did say she said, this is a direct quote, crime is fundamentally

28:36 different now. Right. Than it was. But but he didn't ask her how.

28:40 Right. How

28:42 would that be? AOC, but details

28:44 don't matter. Yes. How, when, what, where, and why. What a story should be if you're a journalist

28:52 and yet they don't ask.

28:54 And you're like, well, why don't you ask? Why do you just keep bobbing

28:57 your head and saying, oh, okay. Yep. Yep. Yep. Because they're there to promote, not to question, really. Well, is the issue.

29:06 You've also got the clip here and I think I have the close to the same one. Your clip number one kind of fits right in I think with the Oh, crime.

29:14 You are going to love Emily Gallagher.

29:17 Yes.

29:18 What is crime? That's a question, isn't it? Yeah. It is. I like that. Just like AOC, what is really? I mean, you know, it's

29:26 you've gotta have different levels.

29:28 You do. Most of what we saw were kinds of poverty. People who are stealing things like toothpaste.

29:34 People who are stealing things like, you know, soap.

29:38 And that means if you're stealing those things, you need them. Right. And we are choosing to protect

29:44 billion dollar companies like CVS and Walgreens

29:48 over

29:49 the people who are

29:52 struggling to get by. So I would say that the true crime is that there is such

29:58 incredible

29:59 wealth disparity

30:01 in this city that there are people

30:04 who can be thrown in jail simply for having a biological

30:07 need.

30:08 And so one of the things that I'm finding for And I will ask, is it really a biological

30:14 need to have soap? Humans existed

30:16 for a long time on this planet when soap was not Yeah. A thing.

30:20 I think if if we wanted to, we could check with both CVS and Walgreens and ask just how the soap pilfering,

30:27 how severe a problem that is. And I'll guarantee you, they'll say, not very. No. No. I'm sure they, you know, for people that will they grab a bunch of things, usually things that they can resell

30:38 Yeah. At a much lower price. It's it's

30:41 the perfect way to run a store. If you can go steal everything from somebody else,

30:46 then sell it out of the trunk of your car. Oh, definitely. Yeah.

30:50 But yeah, well, why doesn't this

30:52 New York assembly person

30:54 Mhmm. Emily Gallagher at her office, wherever it is, I don't know which borough she's out of, but

31:00 why aren't you giving away bars of soap?

31:03 Good question. Or or opening up the bathrooms to the public. Come use ours. Wash up here. Exactly. But you would think if it really is

31:11 just things like soap that

31:14 you could get one of these companies, it would be great. Sponsored by,

31:18 you know,

31:20 Dove or Dial or whoever. Irish Spring, I get sent to the Irish. But she just lies because there are countless homeless shelters and food banks and so forth that are giving that stuff away

31:32 right

31:33 now.

31:34 Okay? So she's just lying.

31:36 Well,

31:37 CVS's

31:38 and the Walgreens

31:40 that have left these areas have been pretty clear about the amount of money

31:45 they are losing to theft. And it's not a small amount and it is certainly not just soap and toothpaste.

31:52 No.

31:53 But you know, you expect these companies when she says we're protecting these companies.

31:58 You mean we are

32:01 enforcing the laws that people don't steal or do you mean that we're not forcing them at gunpoint

32:08 to remain open in areas

32:11 where they cannot make a profit due to the

32:15 constant

32:17 shoplifting armed robberies. And there have been multiple stories of these things,

32:21 multiple stores having these problems.

32:24 Sure.

32:26 And the communities then go, well, what do you mean that's racist that you're leaving? Well, it's like no, the

32:32 one the employees at in the store are at in danger

32:36 Yeah. Because of the amount of crime in your area and they're being robbed so much.

32:41 There was one, I think it was in New York, one of these AutoZone

32:46 or one of these other auto parts stores that was like completely looted twice within a twenty four hour period.

32:53 That's by hungry people you should know. Oh, for drinks motor oil, everyone. Right. They're just they're that's a thing of necessity. You can't do anything about it's like if your whole store

33:04 if if you haven't seen the videos, you're not looking at all. But when you see these things happen

33:11 where a crowd of

33:14 20 to 50, maybe more people all go in at the same time and just take whatever they want run out.

33:21 Mhmm.

33:22 The store is fairly empty by the time

33:25 that is done. It's not somebody going in and grabbing, you know, a loaf of bread or a quarter motor oil or whatever. It's taking everything

33:34 that they can.

33:35 Yep.

33:36 And you expect the stores to stay open. How?

33:40 And

33:41 so one of the things that I'm fighting for at the state level is to make sure we pass things like treatment, not jail, and that we hold the line. Oh, there you go. Treatment, not jail. Treatment nutshell. Can't put them in can't incarcerate them. No. We're going to treat them.

33:56 Mhmm. Yeah.

33:57 Like, oh, that's gonna take care of it. It's like, we're not gonna send cops.

34:01 No. We're gonna send social workers.

34:04 And shrinks. Exactly. They're gonna take care of everything until they start getting shot at, then they run.

34:09 Yeah. On the incredible criminal justice reforms that we have done over the last ten and twenty years that are constantly being threatened by right wing media

34:20 who are looking to fearmonger about people who are actually just

34:25 in absolute dire straits.

34:27 Yeah. It's fearmongering.

34:29 Reporting on crimes is fearmongering.

34:31 Totally. Yes. Just take that beating and shut up. Change

34:35 the wording.

34:37 Change the language.

34:40 No. You're fearmongering. You can't tell that people looted this store and,

34:44 you know, physically assaulted the cashiers and bloodied them. No, no, that's

34:49 fear mongering, telling people the truth of what's going on.

34:53 This

34:54 concept of having no punishment

34:57 for crimes

35:00 makes zero

35:01 sense when you understand that there are some human beings who are just going to commit crimes. You're not gonna stop them. Yeah.

35:08 There's nothing you can do. I don't know what it is in their DNA,

35:12 but you aren't gonna stop them. When you go, well, the worst thing

35:17 that you could possibly do,

35:19 and you and I discussed this a few years ago in Chirac here

35:24 when the question of why

35:27 carjackings

35:28 were going through the roof.

35:31 And there was an assemblyman here in Chicago

35:34 who put out a statement like, this is all because of these violent video games like Grand Theft Auto. Yes.

35:41 Yes. I recall that. And I'm like, no. No. It's not. It's because, Preckwinkle,

35:47 Periwinkle, whatever what's their name? Preckwinkle, I think, that

35:50 they changed the law

35:52 that if you were under the age of 18,

35:56 you were not going to be tried

35:58 as an adult for carjacking and they

36:02 put that out there.

36:04 And then what happened? Carjackings

36:07 went way up by people under the age of 18.

36:10 Mhmm. And they were surprised. It's like taking away the punishment

36:16 had an effect and they were like

36:18 amazed that taking away the punishment

36:21 was having that kind of an effect. It's like this is not

36:25 something that you need to go to school for. This is not something you need a psychological degree for. This is nothing you need except

36:32 common sense that if people feel like they can get away

36:37 with

36:38 bad behavior

36:40 and have no consequences,

36:42 they are much more likely to do so.

36:45 But what they would answer you with, Darren, is those those teenage carjackers

36:51 were stealing those cars because they were hungry. They had well, they had a necessity. They needed some wheels, baby. Absolutely. Gotta get some wheels so I can drive it through the front of a

37:00 of a supermarket and clean that out. Go someplace else. Right. They're like, how dare you have a car when this poor kid here doesn't have one? Exactly.

37:09 You should let him use your car. Right? Yes.

37:12 I mean, speaking of Shyrak, this is our ex mayor Rahm Emanuel, who I think

37:17 has some aspirations

37:19 to

37:20 throw his hat in the ring to be the Democratic presidential nominee.

37:23 Oh, yeah. I'd love to see him against, Newsgum,

37:26 Captain Airgel. That'd be a funny battle. Yeah. It would. And at least around Emmanuel though,

37:32 you know, if this is that kind of a matchup, Emmanuel,

37:36 according to what I'm about to play, is

37:38 positioning himself

37:41 as more of the moderate, which

37:44 I don't know if that's, going along with how he's always governed, but

37:48 I mean, you're going up against, news scum, then

37:51 you have to take a step to the, center, I think.

37:55 B, I wanna be very clear. If you control the border,

37:59 you send a signal that people who break the law don't get rewarded.

38:04 And I I am so angry at our part my party, not only losing control of the border, but in the 2020 debate,

38:10 raising your hand and saying, I'm gonna give health care to people that cross illegally.

38:15 From a forget the immigration policy. The value system. You have American families

38:21 suffocating under health care costs.

38:25 Not everybody universally covered, but may were significantly well on our way there. And you're talking about free health care to having crossed the border illegally?

38:34 At every level, that was foolish by

38:38 the party.

38:39 Yeah. Let me let me play the part of your typical

38:43 journalist.

38:44 What what do you make of that, Larry?

38:47 Well, what I make is he he used the an interesting phrase

38:50 when he said people across the border illegally

38:53 are not going to be rewarded.

38:55 Well, that's pretty goddamn weak, Rom.

38:58 The correct

39:00 response

39:00 to that question is they're going to be deported

39:05 and or prosecuted because they've committed a crime. But saying they're not gonna be rewarded, that kinda puts it in a different different light, doesn't it? I think it does.

39:13 And

39:14 all these guys, this is the the standard play that they all do, whether it's Joey, whether it's I'm a moderate. I'm I'm a moderate until they get into office, then that goes out the window.

39:24 Well, it's easy to claim you're a moderate. Yeah. Of course. But this is how you get elected, and that's usually the way it is. I'm still I don't understand where are

39:34 the

39:35 where are the crossovers?

39:37 Where are the people that are willing to put in the time?

39:40 You're a tried and true conservative and you just pretend to be a liberal and you run-in New York or Detroit or wherever it is, you get elected and then go, surprise. Yeah. Where are those guys? That's a great question. See, this is where we need Minerva or Sybil or whatever that chick. We need we need that girl. I can't believe it hasn't happened. That is the,

40:00 you know, the Manchurian candidate kind of a concept, like sell something.

40:04 Yeah. And get to where you need to be and then just be like, well, I'm not gonna really vote the way you think I am. And

40:11 just a quick clip here just to show that we do cover every now and then things that happen outside of The United States. Oh.

40:18 These are our buddies

40:20 from Grimerica.

40:22 Great show. Yes.

40:24 Talking about what I'm guessing from what I understood from what I've heard,

40:29 a new

40:30 Canadian law

40:32 about hate speech.

40:35 Behaviors that are motivated by bias against the victims blah blah blah,

40:38 which are not a criminal offense.

40:42 For example,

40:43 disrespectful,

40:44 disrespectful,

40:46 disrespectful.

40:47 It's pretty subjective.

40:49 Disrespectful,

40:50 discriminatory or hostile speech.

40:53 Wow. I hate I know because like Disrespectful.

40:56 Who doesn't decide?

40:58 Well, we know who gets to decide, whoever is in charge of the government at that time.

41:03 No. I think just the normal RCMP climbs down off of his Palomino and says, that wasn't very respectful. You're going to jail. To who? But it's gets better.

41:13 A hate bias motivated incident may be determined to be a hate bias motivated crime upon further investigation.

41:20 Yeah. We can look for your hate bias.

41:22 That's a new game.

41:24 Can't say by Hasbro.

41:27 The little spinner. There's a spinner arrow there that came out. Yes. Well, there should be at at the very least.

41:33 Yes. Play it's a party game.

41:35 Yeah.

41:36 Incident example, an individual creates a social media post promoting the boycott of companies that support

41:43 the 2SLGBTQI

41:45 plus community.

41:46 Woah.

41:47 Yeah. So

41:49 boycotting

41:51 Yeah.

41:51 An LGBTQ

41:53 plus community

41:55 event

41:56 or organization

41:58 just boycotting them

42:01 is now going to be a crime in Canada. Congratulations,

42:05 Canadians.

42:06 Yeah. Well, they could they could shrink the the penal code very simply by just saying wrong think will be prosecuted because that's what they're talking about.

42:14 It's very scary.

42:16 Very.

42:17 That'd be a bias crime.

42:19 Wow.

42:20 But it's okay the other way though. This is the crazy,

42:23 infuriating thing. I feel like we're living in a dream.

42:26 But they can be completely hateful to Pierre, Polyev, all the conservatives,

42:31 anything normal.

42:33 They can be super hateful and biased against that,

42:37 but that's gonna be okay.

42:40 It's hate one way, one way hate.

42:44 Way is.

42:46 When you're putting this in

42:48 to the legal code, which is,

42:51 well, it's the hate bias to do this to an LGBTQ,

42:55 but it's not to do the same thing to a straight organization,

42:59 straight person, whatever. It's like, well, that's not

43:02 that's not an honorable thing.

43:05 Well, no. And, you know, in in United States, the first time any government agency

43:11 proclaimed anybody a protected class,

43:15 that was just a basically a step upwards in racism.

43:18 Because if you're protected and the other class isn't, well, they're kind of below you, aren't they? Yes, they are.

43:24 And that is the

43:28 the overall viewpoint that people are bringing.

43:31 I know this is a little out of

43:34 left field, but this is in honor of JCD who I mean, I was getting kind of

43:39 sad we haven't had any whatever girls on the show.

43:43 And this kinda goes in with that. It's what Wait a minute. What what girls? What whatever girls? There's a whatever podcast.

43:51 Which is due and then there's a bunch of women that are on there who

43:55 you know, are like OnlyFans models, things like that.

43:59 This is a

44:01 two parter with the same woman

44:03 who was a young black woman and they're discussing what is

44:07 and isn't racist, which goes right along with what the Grimerica boys were just saying.

44:13 As a black person, even if I was racist towards a white person, it doesn't have the same effect as if a white person were racist towards me. Oh. That's what I meant. No. That's what I meant. Jail system where black people go to jail jail than white people, you know. But let me ask you this. A black person walks up to a white person, not aggravated,

44:31 just punches them in the face because that person is white. Is that racism? I don't think it's racism.

44:36 What? Wow. Maybe prejudice.

44:37 I've heard a black Right. It's maybe it's prejudice. If you if you see a white person

44:43 and you and you just hit them with a brick,

44:46 I mean, that's not really racist. That's just having prejudice. You see the difference?

44:51 No. I don't either.

44:53 Ackman come up to me on a train. He spit in my face and he called me wipe that

44:59 I should

45:01 myself. I think that's racist. I think that's racist. Wait. That happened? Yes. That actually happened in New York. Bro, she could have been Irina's

45:09 Oh, yeah. Who's Ukrainian.

45:11 Who Ukrainian. Right?

45:13 In her instance, was that an act of racism that she experienced?

45:17 If you wanna call that racism, then sure. Blah blah blah. I just don't

45:21 Not what I call it. I probably call it racism. Do you call it racism?

45:25 And he specifically said something about your Yes.

45:28 Maybe prejudice.

45:29 What? So again,

45:31 this young

45:32 black female sitting right across next to whatever she was with a young white female Ukrainian girl

45:40 who had somebody come up on a train or something and spit in her face and call her a white bitch.

45:46 Is that racist? Well, no. I don't I don't really think that that's racist. How?

45:52 How? Well, it's because only white racism matters, of course.

45:56 Can black people be racist towards other minority groups? No. So can a black person be racist towards an Asian person?

46:03 Why don't you wanna say that? You can just submit it. No. But Can black people be racist towards Asians?

46:10 Maybe.

46:11 Wait.

46:12 Can black people be racist towards Latinos?

46:15 Why why Minority on minority. It just doesn't mean anything. I don't know. I'd explain It's just that it's Okay. I'm with the woman that said what? Minority

46:23 on minority.

46:24 It doesn't

46:26 mean

46:27 anything.

46:30 I'm trying to wrap my brain around that.

46:33 That

46:34 it only matters

46:37 if it is a white person

46:39 against any other minority. That's the only racism

46:44 that this woman believes there is. Anybody that is not white,

46:50 that is actively hostile,

46:52 actively

46:53 assaulting,

46:54 actively

46:55 hating

46:57 another person just because

46:59 of the color of their skin, because of their ethnicity,

47:03 well that's not racism.

47:05 And it's not.

47:07 It's very it's in this is so and I understand why JCD brought a lot of these. One, they bring a little levity, but they also

47:15 scare the hell out of you when you realize

47:18 these women are not alone in the way they think. No. No.

47:23 I don't know. What what do you mean by it doesn't mean anything? Like So it's only bad when white people do something. Because that's the that's the main core though. Blue. First of all, I am not racist.

47:33 It is a little bit racist to say that white people or other minorities can't face racism from black people. I'm just saying that it doesn't have the same effect. And if it doesn't have the same effect, it kinda just doesn't matter if that makes that's crazy. That's crazy. Bro, she's racist. Yes.

47:51 Yeah. I mean, okay. Wow. Again, the

47:54 Katerina,

47:55 like, Carisco, I'm bad with the names, with the woman in Saratsuska

47:59 from Charlotte. Charlotte. Yes.

48:01 She was killed

48:03 dead

48:04 because of the color of her skin. What do you mean it doesn't have the same

48:09 effect if it goes the other way? That's just insanity.

48:13 That's just

48:14 Well, maybe she missed that story.

48:16 It's indoctrination

48:17 one zero one. And she probably watches Blue's Clues with El Sayang.

48:23 Right? I don't know. Just get that mail in ballot. That's all that matters. How many ballots did he have though? It should have been like a thousand mail in ballots like filling out for your friends.

48:32 Just just one. He's not he's not that special. If he was special like me in LA, he'd have gotten eight when I only needed two.

48:39 And if you would have sent those in with the wrong Yeah. Vote in jail right now. They would have come for you. Don't worry. Definitely. Yeah. Now if you would have put those all and voted Democrat,

48:49 then they might have just Probably not. Yeah. They didn't notice that it was just a rounding error.

48:55 Yeah.

48:56 Where do you wanna go next?

48:58 Well, well, well, since we were going briefly

49:01 offshore or over the border,

49:04 there's a couple of funny stories here from

49:07 from The UK

49:09 about,

49:10 apparently, they've been suffering through some wildfires,

49:13 Darren. Interesting. Like Canada and The United States and Yeah. Yeah. You know? And I I have some experience with those having lived in LA as long as I did.

49:22 And usually, when when they used to begin when I first got to LA, there's always been fires in in in Los Angeles, even before there were people there. That's just very dry place.

49:32 But they would call it what it was back in the day,

49:35 and most of them were arson. K? Including the most famous one of all now, which, of course, is the Pacific Palisades

49:43 conflagration,

49:44 which was set by some creep.

49:47 Didn't just happen.

49:48 And even, you know, Karen Bass,

49:51 who was partying in Ghana as the city burned,

49:54 she doesn't want to mention that because that sort of kinda

49:58 undercuts

49:59 the climate change position, doesn't it? Yes, it does.

50:03 Yes. I mean, no Agenda pointed out they had

50:07 hands on a book from the eighteen hundreds,

50:10 which pointed out the amount of wildfires going on even then long before we had electric lines and cell towers and all of that. Yes,

50:19 absolutely.

50:20 So they've been raging in The UK and I have two clips and one is it's like the the the the yin and the yang

50:26 in the political mindset. And the first one is some very happy giggly newsreader chick talking about she got in the course of one evening three,

50:36 you know, emergency emergency

50:37 cell phone,

50:39 warnings

50:40 from the British government, as she calls them, Annie Burnham.

50:44 And

50:45 and, they woke her up because she had to get up and do the the show the next day. She wasn't happy about that, but she's really not that upset. Just listen to what she says. Anyway,

50:54 I got a alert from anti burn around the government three times, just to be clear,

51:00 with the the 07:00 ish one. Then I got it again at about

51:05 ten, and then again at ten to eleven, and I'd gone to bed early because I need to get up, and I just am I not doing it right? Is there a way of dismissing it? Viewing it or Well, that's what I thought. They know I just went, Oh, wildfires, and put it down.

51:18 The whole thing about this is Andy Burnham is trying to do something. I get that. I get that. He has actually banned his personal barbecues as we know. Stop. He's appointed a prime minister and he's pledged to buy

51:29 Okay.

51:30 Did you hear what he's done? What Burnham's done? He's banned banned barbecues.

51:36 Well, it sounds like California.

51:38 Yeah. Yeah. Because when in doubt, just ban something. That's always the fix. Ban it. Ban ban anything. Just ban something. Yeah, California, my buddy, when he lived in, I think he's still in the Bay Area. Oh no, you can't have

51:50 a fire, but you can't put that in your fire. It doesn't matter how cold it is outside. You can't have you putting that horrible smoke into the air, which then of course went down the line as well

52:01 where the

52:03 stories with

52:04 New York and that like, oh, pizza ovens? No. No. We can't have you doing that. It's it's all sorts of we we will control you.

52:12 Yeah.

52:13 And so, you know, in at the top of her blathering,

52:16 she said, you know, am I am I doing something wrong? Yes, you are. You have the wrong attitude, lady. Okay? You should be pissed at Burnham.

52:24 So I think there's a little more in this clip. Yes.

52:27 And then we can get to number five, truth of the truth about wildfires.

52:31 Ban disposable barbecues, as we know, he's appointed a fire minister, and he's pledged to buy European style fighting aircraft. That's all fine. He should be doing something.

52:40 Well, how much is he spending on aircraft to fight fires?

52:44 Right.

52:45 Doesn't but don't mention that. But she's it's all fine because he's doing stuff. He's he's banning stuff. We're buying banning the mines. Because planes are cheap. Planes are very cheap. Very cheap. So then from the same,

52:57 the same British station, I guess this is a a later telecast,

53:01 you get a very different and, I think, more realistic and truthful

53:05 appraisal

53:05 of the wildfire situation

53:08 in England.

53:09 I don't think anyone is saying that wildfires and fires in general aren't

53:13 serious.

53:15 I guess the question is, was the alert system

53:19 the right tool

53:20 by which to tell people about the danger?

53:24 I think it undermines the importance of the emergency system. If you've got something like a war

53:31 or an earthquake or you know some things that are just so existentially threatening that everybody needs to be told immediately

53:39 at that level. That's a high state alert for everyone that's in emergency,

53:43 and whilst it is very serious that we've got wildfires,

53:47 it runs the risk of actually undermining

53:50 people taking it seriously. It's a bit like a nanny intervention. We wanna be seen to be doing something. There are arsonists.

53:57 The majority of fires started from other things that we know broken bottles and others. But why are we not having a discussion about what's happened with rewilding,

54:05 about the pressures that have been put on farming

54:08 not to clear land, not to clear fallen wood,

54:11 not to clear areas where pea and grass and where they've been prevented from allowing sheep to graze and others and deer, and that has created our situation where people want to use the term tinderbox

54:22 where things are much more susceptible

54:25 to, catching fire.

54:28 There you have it. This sounds exactly like the coverage

54:32 Adam and John had

54:34 on the American wildfire.

54:36 Same exact things. Stopping

54:38 the clearing of brush. They're stopping all these things in the usually

54:43 under the guise of

54:45 global warming and then the end result is the whole place burns down and then they wanna blame.

54:51 Yes.

54:52 Yes. And what this guy alluded to as well and the first one, the woman didn't quite understand was a kind of a little phrase that I remember a guy telling me years ago when I was working for a big company.

55:04 And there are a lot of people

55:06 anybody working for corporate America knows this. There's so many people out there who are always kind of pretending to be busy busy busy. Oh, I'm so busy. I'm doing this blah blah blah. And this guy said, you know,

55:16 you should never confuse

55:18 activity

55:19 with achievement.

55:20 Yeah. You

55:21 know? And all these bureaucrats and clowns, they they just claim, I'm so busy. I'm doing this. I'm I'm banning barbecues.

55:27 I'm buying planes. So I'm really busy, but you're not getting the job done, are you? But that's that's how it works. Well, so the organization list that and then the

55:37 the mainstream media will be, well, they're really trying hard. They're trying to Yes. Yes. Look how busy they are. Do x, y, and z while they ignore, again, the who, why, what, when and how who, why, what, where and how,

55:50 which would make the story they don't wanna really know

55:54 how the

55:55 fires are starting. No, there are arsonists. Yeah. Believe that or not, people are starting fires a lot of times intentionally,

56:03 lot of times accidentally.

56:06 You know, it's like, but it's humans and if you

56:10 do not properly

56:13 treat the things which can then lead to

56:17 a buildup like

56:19 in California,

56:20 a bunch of it was, well, we're not clearing the brush underneath the power lines or

56:24 so when there is a problem or a power line comes down, well, of course there's something to light and then it lights a lot

56:31 on the fire. Yeah. In the meantime, leave the reservoirs empty because you know, we'll just handle it with, I don't know, spray wax or something. Well, When the whole has LA I'm wondering Jack, has LA been rebuilt yet now? I mean, I know they said this was all gonna be really quick and No.

56:47 No. Almost nothing has been rebuilt.

56:50 Yeah. As

56:51 was

56:52 predicted.

56:53 Yes. Corolla did. He he was he was telecasting podcasting,

56:58 I should say, from a hotel room.

57:00 The the fire wasn't even out yet. And he said, I guarantee you, you know, in a year and a half, nothing, nothing will have have been rebuilt. It's all gonna be hung up and permitting because they don't want they don't want this like this anymore. They want low income housing in Malibu,

57:13 and they're just gonna wait the the, the property owners out until they say, you know, alright. I'll I'll sell it at a loss. This is a battle I cannot win. And he's right.

57:22 It's a crazy system.

57:24 Yeah.

57:25 How about the Trump plane swap? Was that a good one, the ginger? I love

57:29 that. You you got something with this, don't you? I've got a lot because this was a very

57:34 entertaining

57:36 story.

57:37 Yeah. States and the Iranian backed Houthis carried out separate attacks on shipping vessels near the Strait Of Hormuz.

57:44 Now before the war began, about a 130 ships per day moved through that waterway.

57:50 According to Reuters,

57:51 only eight ships traversed the strait within the past week,

57:55 marking a new low.

57:57 Joining me now, CBS News contributor HR McMaster. He was one of four national security advisors to President Trump during his first administration.

58:06 HR, we'll get to the straight of war movies in a second, but I've got to ask you

58:10 about the Air Force One misdirection

58:12 story. You've flown on Air Force One many times. You have a keen understanding

58:17 of national security threats flying in and out of sensitive areas of the world.

58:21 How do you evaluate the evasive maneuvers the Secret Service ordered the president to take

58:26 and

58:27 those who flew with the president and those who were stuck on the decoy Air Force One?

58:33 Yeah. Hey, hey, major. Well, it seemed like the system worked to me in terms of protecting the president. I mean,

58:39 was a clear connection between the secret service and

58:44 the intelligence agencies that gave the president, I'm sure the heads up or secret service the heads up. It's clear that the Iranians are trying to kill him. This

58:53 isn't a secret that they've

58:55 tried to

58:56 get others to kill him in the past.

58:59 They've released the RGC released

59:01 a video, a pattern of life video on the first lady and the president's son Baron.

59:07 So I think that the

59:10 system worked in this case in terms of the handoff.

59:12 And I think we just have to remain vigilant because you know, Iran does have a pretty extensive

59:18 terrorist network, sleeper cell network, especially in Europe, you know, where they've conducted

59:23 many assassinations over the years, Major. So I I think the concern was the location that he was in Europe.

59:29 Yeah. And rightfully so. I mean, there's an active threat.

59:32 Yeah. That's the the

59:34 major Garrett and

59:37 so and that was a fairly straightforward

59:41 reporting, but then you have MSNBC.

59:43 Well, MS now. I just wanna say MSNBC.

59:45 You gotta gotta get a shock collar on that one.

59:48 As one of the officials said, another official called the reports of threats against Trump's life Israeli derived, not US generated,

59:55 and viewed as low confidence.

59:57 I wanted to talk to you about this because in part, I mean, we're both quite familiar with the vernacular of government.

1:00:03 What do you make of that reporting? What do make of that, Larry? There you go. I see it. It's a pepper patty just giving you the what do you make of that? And this was very low, very low. Right? Because the president is going to hop into a

1:00:16 catering van or whatever it was

1:00:19 on a low chance of a threat.

1:00:23 And kind of what it means about this threat as far as you can suss out.

1:00:28 Well, it does seem to be consistent with the view of the CIA with respect to Israeli intelligence of late. You might remember there was reporting that that mister Ratcliffe was not convinced that the Israeli intelligence was correct, that you could,

1:00:43 you know, decapitate the Iranian regime with a strike on how many and and cause regime change. I mean, he kind of called it. He kind of called a BS there in the situation room. So this is I think of a piece of his natural skepticism and the skepticism of the professional

1:00:56 intelligence analysts at the CIA. Obviously, you and I haven't seen that, so we're in no position to judge it. But, again, I don't begrudge the secrets. Oh, no. But the MSL people, they're always gonna judge. It doesn't matter if they've seen the,

1:01:08 the any documentation whatsoever.

1:01:10 They're gonna judge. That's their job. That's their job. They're judges. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously, you and I haven't seen that, so we're in no position to judge it. But again, I don't begrudge the Secret Service for

1:01:20 being overly cautious and not will be not being willing to take a risk even if there wasn't unanimity

1:01:27 about the veracity of the intelligence.

1:01:29 It's true. What's also true is a president and his close advisers can go back to the Secret Service and say, I understand the threat, but I need a different plan. That's what president Clinton did. That's clearly not what happened here. Let let's talk about where we are in this war. I I meant And I wanna go, wait a minute, Peppermint Patty. I think you're wrong about the Clinton.

1:01:49 Wanna hear this one more time? Yeah. Let's hear that again. Yeah. It's true. What's also true is a president and his close advisers can go back to the secret service and say, understand the threat, but I need a different plan. That's what president Clinton did. That's clearly not what happened

1:02:03 here. Let let's talk about where we are in this war. I I'm I don't think we need to hear anymore about the war. I wanna go to

1:02:10 this clip from, PBS

1:02:12 NewsHour.

1:02:14 How unusual is it for the Secret Service to turn Air Force One and its passengers to include White House staff, the traveling press,

1:02:21 into a decoy? As far as we know, the decoy fact of that question, it has only happened once before. In 2000, President Bill Clinton landed in Islamabad. You see there in an unmarked plane after Air Force one had landed and a body double who looked like Clinton got off of Air Force one. Didn't I just hear Jen Pithaki? Oh, no. Clinton wouldn't do it. No. Clinton wouldn't do it. Clinton wouldn't do it. Bullshit. He wouldn't do Yeah. I missed that story when it happened there, and that's pretty cool. So he had one of those probably one of those do you look like what is it? Daddy Long Legs, the the Joey clone that was was I think it was

1:02:56 fairly close so that way.

1:02:58 Was he eating a cheeseburger? Is he walked or something? Is that that's what sold it. He had a Big Mac in one hand and a large chocolate shake in the other. Okay. And probably three hookers following him. Bullshit.

1:03:10 Jeff, though, if you go beyond decoys to include feints or secret trips like George w Bush's to Iraq,

1:03:17 see, the Secret Service has taken steps like that before. As for questions today of the vulnerability

1:03:23 of those people who did fly on Air Force One without President Trump, Matronga said the bottom line is the Secret Service had to make a trade off.

1:03:33 I don't think that anybody intentionally

1:03:36 put,

1:03:37 you know, the anchors or anyone else, White House press corps,

1:03:41 in harm's way, but that was a risk that had to be weighed,

1:03:46 and at the end of the day, we have to look at continuity of American government, and quite frankly, I don't know how to say this, but just to say it is that the president of The United States is more important than every single person on that plane. Oh, they're not gonna wanna hear that. They don't wanna hear that at all.

1:04:03 No. The press is gonna be like, no. No. We're the most important one ever. Of course they are. Now this is how NPR covered it. New reporting contradicts what the White House told the press traveling with the president during a recent trip to Turkey. To Red Heart, they were were contradicting.

1:04:18 Yes.

1:04:19 And as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, that may have left reporters vulnerable.

1:04:23 President Trump boarded Air Force One as usual, but the Washington Post reports he was then smuggled off the plane in a catering truck and flew on an entirely different aircraft. An entirely different air not just a different aircraft. Entirely.

1:04:37 Entire. Not just a fuselage, the wings, and everything. It could have been a partially different aircraft.

1:04:42 Yes. You went on a totally different aircraft.

1:04:46 I feel like is there anything from Scott Simon on this stuff? I I kinda miss him. We gotta we gotta we gotta jam him into these shows somehow, Darren. He might be your beat. You can follow Scott Simon closely.

1:04:58 I'm gonna put that on me. I'm carrying Scott. Yeah. Off the plane in a catering truck and flew on an entirely different aircraft.

1:05:06 NPR hasn't confirmed the report, but journalists and White House aides who unknowingly flew on the decoy plane were firmly instructed to keep their window shades lowered.

1:05:16 Later talking to reporters, Trump never let on. Were you aware of any credible threat by Iran against her first one? Threat all the time. I'm number one. I'm finished.

1:05:26 That's not a lie. That's no lie. No. He's definitely number one. It's been well

1:05:32 known

1:05:33 and

1:05:35 for all sorts of reasons.

1:05:36 Yeah. Before you.

1:05:38 But if I go, you go. Right? I love that whole Oh, that pissed him off so much when he said that.

1:05:45 But do they not understand?

1:05:47 It didn't really matter whether he was on the plane or not. And these are the same people

1:05:54 that are going to belittle

1:05:57 the threats against his life. Yet when he leaves the plane and they're on it, all of a sudden these are very credible threats. How dare you leave these other people on this plane

1:06:06 when you knew they were trying to shoot it down?

1:06:09 Sure. Well, they're all the Butler false flag people. Right. Anybody, if you're going to be in the White House press corps, if you're going to

1:06:17 be one of the few that travels

1:06:20 with the president on

1:06:23 air force one, I think

1:06:25 unless you're a complete moron,

1:06:28 you have to understand the dangers that are inherent to that job. How would you not?

1:06:33 Sure.

1:06:34 Like, you know you're near a guy who

1:06:38 has had more

1:06:40 assassination

1:06:41 attempts,

1:06:42 I believe, or was the

1:06:43 at least there were more times that Secret Service actually had to fire on assailants than any other president. Oh, no doubt.

1:06:52 So,

1:06:53 of course, if you're around him, that might be a little dangerous.

1:06:58 Now listen. Before you.

1:07:00 But if I go, you go. Right? But there's still perhaps that perhaps if they wanna change

1:07:06 professions.

1:07:07 Tamara Keith, NPR News. You know what I'm surprised? Blumenthal says he wants to know details about president Trump's travel out of Turkey after a NATO summit. Blumenthal wants to know what the safety calculations were for journalists and others who traveled on Air Force One. And that's why I'd like to know what precautions were taken to make sure that they were safe flying in an airplane that could have been a target

1:07:30 of the Iranians with

1:07:32 missiles or other devices that were capable of evading the defensive

1:07:37 mechanisms on air the old air force one. Blumenthal spoke on CNN. Yeah. With all due respect, senator Blumenthal, you're a moron.

1:07:45 Yeah. He's also the stolen Valor man, isn't he? Yes, he is.

1:07:48 You know what I'm surprised at? I would think that by now, in fact, maybe we should get Musk on this.

1:07:54 Why hasn't some,

1:07:56 reporter

1:07:57 robot

1:07:58 been invented so all these press people can feel safe? They can sit home in their basements

1:08:03 and, you know, converse with the president and watch him while Robbie the robot, you know, press corps guy is he's you know, who cares if he gets blown up? It's okay. Right? You're right. You just have your analog. It's like a little wire thing.

1:08:15 Exactly.

1:08:16 They did a bit like that on The Big Bang Theory, which was Did they? Sheldon as the robot and he couldn't leave the house for some reason. I don't remember why.

1:08:25 But they took had on him with the press pass and the hat band. Right. All you need is like an iPad for the head. You put them on Zoom or something like that. Yeah.

1:08:34 And everything's good. Bob's your uncle. It just seems to Yeah. It's so easy. To work.

1:08:41 This I thought we don't, you know, again,

1:08:43 normally covers the

1:08:45 of the podcast, but Rogan, I thought had an interesting take on the Trump decoy.

1:08:50 Okay. Apparently,

1:08:52 there was this plot where Iran was trying to kill Trump. Remember when he was supposed to get in the air force one that Cotter gave him? Mhmm. And then instead he flew in the old air force one? Okay. Well, they're saying that he actually didn't even go in the old Air Force one, that they snuck him out on a truck Okay. Like some fucking

1:09:15 cargo truck Okay. And then put him in another kind of plane and flew him out of there, and then they put the press

1:09:22 in Air Force one because they were think they were apparently worried they were gonna target Air Force one as well. So imagine,

1:09:29 Trump put the press on Air Force one and

1:09:33 they were thinking about possibly targeting them. Holy shit. He hid in an airport catering container. And And by putting them there, he means they were there because they were going to be there anyway. The only thing that changed was Trump was taken

1:09:46 Yes. Off the plane. And the catering thing,

1:09:49 genius. I know Taylor Swift has used the same thing to get in and out of arenas.

1:09:54 I wonder how the food was in that catering truck. Was there snacks prepared from inside there? Oh. Might have come out with a lamb shank or something just Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is some good stuff.

1:10:05 Great stuff. Get to a military jet for a secret flight out of the country after the NATO summit last month, and this is being reported by the New York Times. The thing is though, I think they put the press on Air Force one.

1:10:18 So if they flew him out, was because they were worried they were gonna try to take down Air Force one,

1:10:23 and they they took the press. If take the press off, then they know that we know. Gotta let them let them know that we're You're right. Not playing games. Just everything's normal. Exactly. And if the press die, so sad. Oh my god. Get more press. That's

1:10:39 fucking wild. If that's true, that is so wild that he didn't even tell them, hey, guys.

1:10:44 We're not really gonna get on this plane. No one's getting on this plane. You Somebody tell Joe that Clinton did the same thing. I guess he missed that as well. It's alright, Joe.

1:10:54 But, you know, it's an interesting concept.

1:10:56 It is. And then they all wanna get upset because we were on the plane and we were in harm's way. It's like, well, the only difference is

1:11:04 whether Trump was on the plane or not. You knew you were gonna be on the plane. You signed up for that gig.

1:11:10 Mhmm. You know you're covering the president. You know you're on air force one. You know that has some danger. So come on. So they can all ask for hazard pay now? They should. If you're covering the president, I'd be like, pay me double, man. Yeah.

1:11:24 If you gotta be anywhere near that guy, it could get very dangerous very quick.

1:11:29 But he doesn't care. The UFC thing, right? Hey, you gotta go sometime.

1:11:33 Hey, like we talked about on the last show, he's like, gotta go, you know, that's we all gotta go at some point and Yeah.

1:11:40 Trump at the age that he is, I think is understanding

1:11:43 that,

1:11:45 you know, he's there to do a job.

1:11:48 Mhmm.

1:11:49 And

1:11:50 it's it's hard to put yourself into anybody else's shoes no matter what.

1:11:56 Sure. But

1:11:57 I think after the Butler thing,

1:12:01 Trump had a reckoning that,

1:12:03 you know, if I don't know what his belief system is,

1:12:08 but if you believe in a higher power at all

1:12:12 and a bullet

1:12:13 literally

1:12:15 grazes your ear but does not blow your head off,

1:12:20 I think you kind of

1:12:21 double down, triple down, quadruple down or more on the

1:12:25 I'm here to do a job, this is clear

1:12:29 and

1:12:30 the man or woman upstairs, whatever you believe in

1:12:34 is looking out for him.

1:12:36 One would think, yeah.

1:12:38 Because it's a very interesting position to be in and the guy, mean, he's either just a total badass as people say, Oh my old Trumpers.

1:12:46 Hey, I didn't even vote for Trump the first time.

1:12:49 Shame on you. No, you weren't well at the time. That's I was faced down with the whole retinal detachment I I forgive you, Derek. Time flies when you're having fun. Where do we want to go

1:13:00 in this media deconstruction series? Media deconstruction.

1:13:04 This is kind of fun one here with a kind of a catch phrase that that might, might catch on. This is Caitlyn Jenner,

1:13:12 talking about one of our favorite topics. Before we go here, wait a minute. Wait a minute. We're talking about the WNBA.

1:13:19 Right? And last week, did I not suggest, almost beg both you

1:13:25 and Adam Curry, both at six foot five

1:13:28 to

1:13:28 to,

1:13:30 apply

1:13:32 for the WNBA. We could be enforcers. Waiting for? I haven't heard a goddamn thing, Darren. Get busy. We could be enforcers. It's about the thing.

1:13:40 Enforcers didn't usually exist

1:13:43 in basketball.

1:13:45 In the NBA, I really they don't exist. In the WNBA, they didn't exist. Where in hockey

1:13:51 is the sport where you have

1:13:53 the enforcer,

1:13:54 which is somebody that is

1:13:56 almost entirely

1:13:57 on the team

1:14:00 to fight people on the other team. Was that Dave the Hammer Schultz? Was he one of those guys? There were a few of them in the What a name. Don't you wish you were nicknamed the Hammer? Know. Yeah, man. There were some Stu Grimson was one of them here in Chicago.

1:14:13 There were,

1:14:14 you know, a few that that was when they went on the ice, you knew

1:14:19 within seconds most likely there was going to be the gloves dropping and a fight breaking out.

1:14:26 And there's nothing more interesting

1:14:28 to me and there's a bunch of videos on YouTube that anybody can look up

1:14:33 of NHL players

1:14:36 talking

1:14:37 to each other

1:14:39 before

1:14:41 and after

1:14:42 fights, including there is some, you know, they're sitting there, they're waiting for the puck to drop. So this is Mhmm. You know, when the referee is holding there, he's getting ready to drop the puck, play will go in, but they they wait until the puck drops for the fight to start. Sure.

1:14:56 And these two guys are standing next to each other and there's a bunch of them that are out there like this and the one that comes to mind, the guy's like, hey, how you doing? Oh, I'm good. You wanna go? Yeah, sure. Oh,

1:15:07 luck to you. And the puck drops and they start fighting.

1:15:11 And then after they're in the penalty box, oh, I gotta work on my cardio, man. It's

1:15:16 like it's their job. It's what they do.

1:15:19 So I mean, I could be an enforcer in the WNBA, pretty sure. Go for it. Go for it. You need an agent. You can be you'll be okay. If you can get Adam and I the gigs, you know, on the WNBA,

1:15:30 you you play the agent, you get us the spot. I'll be your Jerry Maguire.

1:15:34 Exactly. Show me the money. Exactly. No. Not Cuba, Jerry. Oh, okay.

1:15:39 Cuba was canceled too, you know.

1:15:41 Who hasn't been canceled? Really, who hasn't been canceled?

1:15:45 And who doesn't understand yet that the canceling is usually at the behest of a large money group?

1:15:52 Yes.

1:15:54 Very rarely

1:15:55 that it's actually a

1:15:57 grassroots movement.

1:15:59 Yes.

1:16:00 Now, do we have any setup on this Caitlyn Court? Yeah. It's just it's it's it's Caitlyn Jenner talking to, you know, on the news to someone. I don't know who some talking head about

1:16:09 his her thoughts on the WNBA.

1:16:12 XX, you're in.

1:16:14 XY, you're out. It's Stop. Simple. That's the catchphrase.

1:16:18 Let's remember that. XX, I might get that tattooed on myself. X x, you're in. X y, you're out.

1:16:24 That is called pure logic for any generation besides

1:16:28 this current one. You're right. It is. X x, you're in.

1:16:33 X y, you're out. It's that simple. Mhmm. And I think you're doing a good job just to show the WNBA

1:16:39 how the hypocrisy that's going on here.

1:16:43 We have to protect women's sports. I have been coming on this show for years and years. I wanna protect women's sports. Right. Title nine was

1:16:51 one of the greatest legislations, and it was over fifty years ago for women's equality. It happened to be in sports.

1:16:58 But look at what it's done for women's sports.

1:17:00 I don't want that to be ruined by letting

1:17:04 biological men come in and play in women's sports.

1:17:08 You know? XX, you're in. XY, you're out. You can go play with the men.

1:17:13 Right. Where's the trans league? That's fine.

1:17:16 That's fine. Do that. Yeah. As long as everybody is on equal footing, that's all that matters.

1:17:22 And

1:17:23 it didn't occur to me at first that you were the first one to bring it up, which was the fighters in

1:17:30 in boxing

1:17:31 are all done by weight class and it's done for a reason that you don't have a lightweight fighting a heavyweight. Sure.

1:17:39 And that is within the same sets.

1:17:42 Yeah. So when you go on down this other which is why

1:17:47 as you've probably noticed, we brought the clip on

1:17:51 the last show two shows ago where

1:17:54 the guy from Outkick Sports

1:17:57 offered $10,000,000

1:17:59 and he was hoping that Elon would like triple that or something or bring it Yeah. To 100

1:18:04 Because he wants

1:18:06 to see

1:18:07 the WNBA

1:18:08 champions

1:18:10 go up against a high school basketball

1:18:13 team? He is so sure. Remember we had the clip from the journalist

1:18:17 in Minneapolis,

1:18:19 like, well, they're just treating this as a joke. It's like, no. No. That's real money, madam. Of course it is. And it's not a joke. It is to prove

1:18:27 that a high school team

1:18:29 will

1:18:30 most likely not just

1:18:33 beat

1:18:34 the WNBA

1:18:35 champions.

1:18:36 They will probably

1:18:38 blow them out.

1:18:40 Yeah.

1:18:41 And if that's the case, I don't know how anybody

1:18:45 with any bit of logic to them

1:18:48 would not be able to look at it and go, oh, yeah. Now I get it. This is why we don't let men play in women's sports. So, you know, it's like, you know, you to The keyword is logic. You can't ask for that, Darren. Just don't even don't even use the word. It's bad. Well, that's why I can't even imagine. And this would be the fun part. Maybe they would only end up playing a game these, you know, Inez Freedom and the other dude, I forget his name who wanted in

1:19:12 Yeah. On the WNBA.

1:19:14 But just say these guys

1:19:15 or someone like them,

1:19:18 hell probably even Michael Jordan at his age now.

1:19:21 Oh, sure. Were to go in and play one game for a WNBA team, it would be hard to believe that they wouldn't dominate

1:19:30 the game. Okay. Jordan's lost a step. He's getting older, but these guys that are fresh out of the NBA or Oh, yeah. If you were to take a current NBA player,

1:19:41 I would expect that guy

1:19:43 to score

1:19:44 80. He he would make the I think Wilt Chamberlain holds the record. Whatever it is, he would make that look like nothing.

1:19:51 Yeah. No doubt.

1:19:53 Because again, it's logic and we don't have

1:19:57 logic. There was another Victor Davis breakdown on this, which I'm intrigued that he keeps covering this.

1:20:03 Really? Yes.

1:20:05 Caitlin Clark single handedly

1:20:07 put

1:20:09 the WNBA

1:20:10 on the map. True. And that's what the problem is because the WNBA

1:20:16 was sort of a

1:20:18 little unknown league that was 65%

1:20:21 black.

1:20:23 People had suggested it was 35 to 40% gay.

1:20:27 And they sort of had their own little atmosphere, their own culture,

1:20:33 and they weren't really being rewarded, but they controlled

1:20:37 the ownership,

1:20:39 the coaches,

1:20:40 the referees,

1:20:42 the players all were on this DEI

1:20:45 left wing page.

1:20:47 And suddenly, the great benefactors

1:20:50 of the all of them happened to be white

1:20:55 heterosexuals

1:20:56 like Caitlin Clark

1:20:58 and Sophie Cunningham.

1:21:00 Which is the problem. It's like it's that doesn't

1:21:03 fit into our group, which

1:21:06 it's the separation of groups. It is a thread that has been going on for fifty years.

1:21:13 You get the rich, get the poor against the rich, you get everybody against the cops, you get the black against the white, you get

1:21:21 everybody.

1:21:23 And this was a very specific little group in the WNBA.

1:21:28 And all of a sudden they're like, wait, these two women that are now getting all of the attention,

1:21:34 well, they're the minority. They don't fit into

1:21:38 what the rest of the league is. Even though they are

1:21:41 showing them up with what they're doing on the court,

1:21:46 they don't like that because like so many things now,

1:21:49 everything is

1:21:52 culture based. It's race based. Sure. It is

1:21:55 wait. You're not a lesbian? How dare you play in the WNBA?

1:21:59 They didn't want that. In other words, they were willing to commit violence against them,

1:22:05 and the league was either

1:22:07 going to condone it or

1:22:09 plead ignorance

1:22:10 rather than all benefit.

1:22:12 Yeah. And we're seeing that. It's just like the violence in the streets of,

1:22:17 well, name your major city here.

1:22:19 Sure.

1:22:20 What's what's stunning though is that the coaches

1:22:23 don't not only not disapprove of this behavior, they they they advocate for it. You know, like the one the one that's running the fever. Right? She she's all pissed off. Right.

1:22:33 And, I mean, you watch a lot more team sports than I do,

1:22:38 but it's always been sort of

1:22:40 believed that if if the guys or the women on any given athletic team

1:22:46 are adversaries,

1:22:48 their performance is going to plummet really.

1:22:51 I mean, think about that. And these people are hating each other and pissed off and so forth. It's got to affect the level of play and most coaches would squelch that damn fast because that spreads very quickly.

1:23:04 Right. Because the ideal would be

1:23:06 a team

1:23:08 where everybody sticks together.

1:23:10 Yeah. Of course.

1:23:12 The number one job of

1:23:14 coaching or managing

1:23:16 is to back your player no matter what. Even if you think they were wrong, the thing you do in public

1:23:23 in front of the cameras

1:23:25 is you back your player.

1:23:27 Yeah.

1:23:28 And there was a lot of this in the

1:23:31 Chicago Bulls even when Michael Jordan was here winning six different championships.

1:23:37 You know, there was inner strife at times and that definitely took their

1:23:42 their teams down. And then you had when I used to watch baseball,

1:23:46 and I used to be a baseball addict. I am a recovering baseball addict used to watch

1:23:51 every White Sox game

1:23:54 for the season, which is a 162

1:23:57 games, plus there's spring training, plus there's postseason.

1:24:00 It took a lot of time.

1:24:02 Really? And the, 2005,

1:24:05 I'm glad because my one of my favorite players, Ozzy Guillen, came to manage in 2004.

1:24:10 Very fun guy, says things people don't like. He also got canceled

1:24:14 while managing the Miami team.

1:24:16 But 2005,

1:24:17 I was glad I was fully into baseball, saw the white sox win their only championship. And the point is there was not

1:24:24 one superstar

1:24:26 on that team, but you had a whole team of people that had each other's backs and they won the World Series.

1:24:33 There you are. Yeah. It works.

1:24:36 And there was one subtext that no one talks about, but it's right there staring us in the face that Caitlin Clark is probably the best player, and that's not supposed to happen in a predominantly gay, black, female league. Doesn't mean that other players are not nearly as good, but we haven't seen anybody like her in women's national basketball.

1:24:56 And in the case of

1:24:59 Sophie Cunningham, she's tall, she's beautiful, she's blonde, she's white, and people resent that as well. You put those two figures together, they create all this controversy and hostility and they remind America

1:25:14 that something is definitely wrong with this league.

1:25:18 Something that encourages

1:25:20 racism,

1:25:21 it encourages sexual prejudice,

1:25:23 it encourages violence,

1:25:25 and nobody wants to touch it.

1:25:28 And if it continues,

1:25:30 maybe they'll lose Sophie Cunningham and they would lose

1:25:34 Caitlin Clark, And if they lost both of them, they would go back to their preferred obscurity

1:25:40 and poverty.

1:25:42 Which

1:25:42 it seems like a very weird thing to want. I mean, one, it's really scary that it's a little social, you know, cosm of what's going on there, which is what's going on everywhere, which is Mhmm. Let's spread the hate, let's spread all of these bad things.

1:25:59 But the concept that they would rather

1:26:02 be

1:26:04 not in the spotlight,

1:26:05 not having huge amounts of fans, not having a huge bunch of money coming in because we're just having fun and we only wanna do it with people we like.

1:26:15 It's a very weird concept. I've only run into this when working for a country artist back in the day running the whole website fan club thing.

1:26:25 And there were people that would say things like, oh, I'll be glad when she's not so popular and we can see her in a small venue again. And it's like, what? I

1:26:34 I get the concept, but you realize that that is just meaning your favorite artist is now going to be a nobody and not making any money and not really having a successful career, but okay. It's

1:26:47 easier for you, I guess, to get to see them in a smaller venue.

1:26:51 But

1:26:51 I think there's leftist underpinnings

1:26:54 to that behavior.

1:26:56 Pretty much they just Look, all they can say now is to destroy the billionaires and especially that trillionaire. Right. That one guy, the bad guy. It's the gospel of envy as Churchill called it and they just don't like to see people really

1:27:11 achieve greatness in any way. You know, we all we remember

1:27:15 what's one of their favorite phrases? We are one. We are one. We are one. Yes. Right. You know, okay. I keep pointing out if everybody is the same, you're not gonna be

1:27:26 Jay Z and Beyonce. You're not gonna be Taylor and Travis. You're not gonna be Rock Hudson and Doris Day. No, there's a callback.

1:27:33 You're gonna be the people that are flipping the burgers. You're gonna be the guy sweeping up after the horse as he walks in the parade in Disneyland. It's like, you're not gonna be. No. They're gonna be the people sitting home collecting government checks just because they deserve it. They won't be big. The check No. They won't. They won't be big. A soap, Larry. Yeah. So true. They're gonna have to go to Mamdani's

1:27:55 grocery store and buy expired fruit and then they're gonna have to steal soap and

1:28:01 Yeah. You know, the beautiful thing about The United States is

1:28:05 you're going to fail. You're probably going to fail but you get to try again.

1:28:10 Yes.

1:28:11 Nobody knows if your first act is gonna work. For some people it does, for some people it takes a little while longer and

1:28:19 if you put in the hard work, eventually

1:28:22 you'll

1:28:23 probably hit on something.

1:28:25 Hopefully,

1:28:26 you know. Now we've got the USS Lincoln, we've got the glove story. There's I mean, it's- It's all great stuff man. Pick one. Endless buffet.

1:28:37 Yeah. We've got the USS

1:28:39 Lincoln which again is going to show you

1:28:43 more about

1:28:45 how the media treats things more than actually

1:28:50 having

1:28:51 a story. We've got, of course, MS now, they're gonna be on top of it. Right? Good. Good. Good. My colleague Lindsay Papia and I spoke exclusively to the wife of the sailor who jumped off the USS Lincoln and was medically evacuated from the ship. The Lincoln's been deployed for two hundred and sixty five days and hit a modern day record for most continuous days at sea without a port call. Course, we got the music that has to be very dramatic.

1:29:15 I don't even know if that was music. It was awful. It really sounded like a modem tone just really slowed Yeah, exactly. And

1:29:23 if you don't know what a modem tone is, to the last show and you will find out. Plenty of them there. But we spoke exclusively

1:29:31 and all of these stories

1:29:33 are coming through family

1:29:36 members,

1:29:36 which means you're not getting any firsthand accounts

1:29:40 and they're making it sound like these ships are out there for

1:29:45 completely

1:29:46 ungodly

1:29:47 lengths of time. Are they a little longer than normal

1:29:51 with the Lincoln right now? Yes, but it's not exactly going on, you know, years or anything. You're talking maybe a month or two extended over what in average. I mean, I

1:30:04 don't know if most people understand this, Larry. It takes a little bit of money to move an aircraft carrier from The United States to the

1:30:12 Iran

1:30:13 off the Strait Of Hormuz. It's a little bit of an expense.

1:30:17 So what is the point of MS now running this story? Because so is it is it Trump ad? Trump

1:30:24 ad. Okay.

1:30:25 Family members are concerned about potential exhaustion,

1:30:28 low morale, and the mental health of those on board. I mean, know MS now very unlikely that they're

1:30:35 going to care about the well-being of the military.

1:30:39 Yeah.

1:30:40 The wife of the sailor who jumped said her husband was struggling with his mental health and repeatedly expressed his concerns to his higher ups, but was quote unquote brushed off. The Navy says they can't comment on the medical records of individual service members to protect patient privacy.

1:30:57 In the last message she received from him before he went overboard, he said in part, I think the boat is finally getting to me. It's really getting me. I don't think I can do another deployment after this and I don't even know if I can finish this deployment.

1:31:09 The woman told me her husband jumped off the ship last Monday, but she didn't hear anything from the Navy for four days, not until Friday,

1:31:17 despite her attempts to reach out. She also said he raised concerns about his prescription contact lenses having expired,

1:31:24 saying he was getting yelled at for accidents on the flight deck that he said happened

1:31:29 because he couldn't see properly.

1:31:31 She says despite that, he was still allowed to work.

1:31:34 She told me quote, I think that also had a big toll on him because he could have injured a lot of people and he could have injured himself

1:31:41 because that's what they kept yelling at him every time he made a mistake.

1:31:45 It So basically, everything's wrong. They're doing Everything's wrong. I mean, can you can you buy that? Imagine this. So this guy is he's on the flight deck of a carrier, and I would assume in some ways responsible

1:31:55 for the safe takeoff and landings of of the aircraft. Right? Correct. That's

1:31:59 what they're saying anyway.

1:32:01 Skipper on earth, even in the, you know, the the Navy of Zimbabwe

1:32:06 would say, oh, you can't you're not seeing so good. Do it anyway. We'll take our chances with you. I mean, it's it's ludicrous. There's gotta be some there's gotta be more to the story. Yes. A lot more to the story than we're getting. Well yeah. Because if you know your contacts are expiring, believe it or not, they do bring mail and stuff to these people. You could have had more contacts delivered. You know? Absolutely. And just because they don't they don't they don't sail into a port, they still get supply ships visit and they can move stuff from ship to ship like you wouldn't believe.

1:32:34 And that's the beauty

1:32:36 of these types of reports that are what we spoke to the family and here's what they're reporting and of course there's nobody here

1:32:43 to push back on any of this.

1:32:47 And the report again,

1:32:49 the amount of money that it would cost if there was an accident with a plane going on to the carrier would Right. Toll of lives would be

1:32:59 just unbelievably

1:33:01 harsh.

1:33:02 So yeah, I don't believe for a minute or somebody's hey, Skipper, I can't see. Like, no, no problem. Go out there.

1:33:09 Don't buy it for one minute. And of course, we don't have any

1:33:12 comment in the whole, Oh no, they didn't hear from for four days. They're in a war zone.

1:33:19 Okay? You may not get

1:33:21 notified immediately.

1:33:22 I hope these people understand that you're

1:33:25 not gonna get immediate notification.

1:33:27 It's a weird thing.

1:33:29 I don't know how much communication

1:33:32 we can get boots on the ground from somebody probably for this. How much communication

1:33:37 if you're on

1:33:39 a mission like this?

1:33:41 Can you email daily? Can you text? I mean, what what is available?

1:33:46 Yeah. I mean, would assume with Elon's magical satellites, you could probably communicate

1:33:53 a lot, but it's like that is something that maybe shouldn't be allowed either. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Also, MS Now Families of the 5,000 sailors and marines facing horrific conditions on an aircraft carrier that's deployed to the war in Iran confronted the acting secretary of the navy at a fiery town hall last week. That's according to two sources who attended the meeting who I spoke with. Two unnamed sources, of course. Of course. Of

1:34:18 course, they're unnamed. Well, I they were there.

1:34:22 I first reported about the conditions on the USS Lincoln last week after speaking to about a dozen of the family members of the marines and sailors on board. They told me about things like non operational toilets,

1:34:34 moldy showers, and the ship's store lacking basic hygiene products like toothpaste,

1:34:39 soap, and deodorant. The Lincoln's deployment appears to be extended for a second time and they just hit a modern day record in the Navy for the most continuous days at sea,

1:34:49 topping two hundred days. Many of the family members who spoke up at the meeting were crying about the lack of hygiene products on board, and they say that they're all Right. For all of the things you can be upset about.

1:35:03 Well, see, that ship needs to dock in New York so they can steal the soap from CVS. There's an easy answer. Come on.

1:35:10 I don't believe for one minute a military family is crying because

1:35:16 mommy or daddy can't get a tube of toothpaste.

1:35:20 Yeah.

1:35:21 Also really worried about the fact that these long hours with very little breaks could lead to exhaustion,

1:35:28 which could potentially lead to accidents.

1:35:31 Which again, the military is well aware of. And if there are accidents,

1:35:35 it is a multimillion

1:35:37 dollar accident on an aircraft carrier. Sure. So

1:35:41 usually they have a

1:35:44 pretty well oiled machine if you will,

1:35:48 on scheduling and people have off time. Now I understand maybe

1:35:52 some people have insomnia,

1:35:54 some people are tired, it's been a long I get it.

1:35:57 But this is not the first time a ship has been sent out for over two hundred days.

1:36:03 I'm sure it isn't.

1:36:05 At times, the family members were crying in the meeting saying that they were really worried about the fact that their loved ones were facing food shortages and also shortages in basic supplies.

1:36:15 Wouldn't you have led with maybe there's food shortage, but maybe there were food shortages. We're not saying there is food shortages. We're saying there's possible food shortages, Larry. Yeah. Well We're not saying there are,

1:36:27 but we're saying it's possible.

1:36:29 Yeah. Well, anything's possible.

1:36:31 At one point, a woman actually said that she found it difficult to be proud of her husband's service because he had actually been questioning the mission after he had seen several news reports about innocent

1:36:44 civilians being killed in Iran. There we go. There you go. You know There you go. You know who the innocent civilians killed in Iran were? They're the people that were standing up that the government killed.

1:36:55 Mhmm. The reason you're there is to try to get those people out.

1:37:00 Yeah.

1:37:01 You know, I would say to these people they should, you know, if they weren't around, there's probably some some books, some diaries,

1:37:06 whatever,

1:37:07 of the families of veterans from World War II

1:37:12 whose dads and uncles and brothers were, might say, like, on the Bataan death march.

1:37:19 They didn't have cell phones and maybe they got a maybe maybe they got a letter every two months if they were lucky. They had no idea what was going on with those guys.

1:37:27 And it's that's that's horrible, but that's what kind of war is about. And whatever these guys are enduring

1:37:33 on that aircraft carrier is literally a boat ride Yeah. Compared to what those guys went through in ground wars

1:37:41 sixty years ago. Yeah. War is not a vacation.

1:37:45 No.

1:37:47 And obviously, they think it should be like, oh, no. They're not getting they're not getting their massages twice a day.

1:37:53 Like, this is what they signed up for. The job sucks.

1:37:56 I get it. That's why you appreciate the people that serve. It is not

1:38:00 an easy

1:38:01 thing to do. It's not like, you're gonna be on an aircraft carrier for six months or however long it is. You know, that's gonna be fun. No, it's not. And in point of fact, if you look on YouTube,

1:38:12 there are multiple Carnival cruises that are worse than that carrier.

1:38:17 I've seen a few of those. That's a stone fact. It's the reason I've never been on a cruise. I've seen some videos that are like I I watched the documentary a while ago. I I couldn't stop laughing. It was called the poop cruise. What's the leg of fright? That's a big floating Ebola chain. I don't know. No. No. No. No. No. This this thing, for some reason, I forget what the hell happened,

1:38:36 but it lost all power. And, of course, I think it was Carnival.

1:38:40 And for and so for, like, six days, it was just adrift in the Gulf Of America.

1:38:46 And what happened when the power went out, well then, you know, the toilets don't flush on Right. No flush. Water's in flow.

1:38:53 And I think on two or three decks, there was like four inches

1:38:58 of sewage water, you know, with feces and pee pee. It was it was just beyond belief.

1:39:03 And that you know what? I guarantee you that cruise was much worse than that carrier's enduring in the Mideast right now.

1:39:12 You know, that was you just retelling something and not a clip, but Chris Wilson sent this in and it fits.

1:39:18 Depressing

1:39:20 clip

1:39:21 of the day.

1:39:28 Woah.

1:39:29 Did somebody smack a puppy? I'm gonna get pissed if that's what the what was that? I don't know. I don't know what was the I think that was a gunshot at the end there.

1:39:37 What what makes that kind of noise in in Ozzy? I'm not sure.

1:39:43 We got little bit left here and then we got, Pegseth responding.

1:39:48 Her comment was met with applause from the audience. Now navy leaders said that they're planning on sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt another aircraft carrier in the region to relieve the Lincoln, but they couldn't give a definitive timeline about when that would happen or when the Lincoln would come home. But they did say that they're committed to improving the conditions on the Lincoln while they continue to fight in this war that has no clear end in sight. Oh, there you go. No clear end in sight of the war. It's forever

1:40:18 war. Remember that. I pointed it out on the last episode and I know

1:40:23 it doesn't mean anything to some people, but there have been 18 service members who have given their life

1:40:30 because they care enough

1:40:32 to fight for freedom around the world. In the same time period, a 180

1:40:36 people

1:40:38 murdered in the city of Chicago. So when people try to tell you that the cost is too high,

1:40:45 I just want you to have the receipts as the kids say.

1:40:48 Good point.

1:40:50 This is, from CBS KRCG,

1:40:53 a Hegzith reaction.

1:40:54 Pentagon facing major questions tonight about reports of American sailors jumping overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln,

1:41:01 which has now been deployed in The Middle East for two hundred sixty

1:41:05 six days. It's about nine months. Nine months deployed. Two hundred and fifty of those days not even with a land stop. This is because they are in the middle of Trump's war with Iran. Trump's war with Iran, not not our war, not the United States war. It's Trump's war with Iran.

1:41:22 And that war is taking a toll on sailors aboard who've complained about not having enough food. They've literally gone hungry, and we've heard these complaints,

1:41:32 the lack of basic necess We haven't heard these complaints, actually, madam. What we've heard is family members allegedly recounting stories

1:41:40 that they got firsthand. We have not as far as I can tell and I looked, there are no clips of servicemen from or service women from the

1:41:50 Lincoln

1:41:51 giving a first hand account.

1:41:53 Yeah. These that includes toothpaste, deodorant, soap. And again, who wrote this list? Because it's always about toothpaste, deodorant, Yeah.

1:42:02 Interesting.

1:42:03 And all of those things add up with an incredibly long deployment that keeps getting extended to dangerously low morale.

1:42:10 There are 5,000

1:42:11 American sailors on board. But tonight, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth is denying the reports, saying they're simply untrue.

1:42:19 Listen to what he told Newsmax when questioned about the reporting while traveling in Panama. Completely misrepresented.

1:42:25 Listen. We make sure that

1:42:28 every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more

1:42:37 respect

1:42:38 and gratitude for those sailors

1:42:41 than anybody.

1:42:43 This again is all just about making the average person listening

1:42:49 be against

1:42:50 what's going on. There are people both sides.

1:42:54 Mean, that was one of the places that people always like, Darren and Larry, they agreed too much. Where you were like, hey, no, I I don't think we should be there.

1:43:01 No. Trump said no new wars.

1:43:04 And I'm the guy that's like, well, words mean things and it's really, is it a war? No. It's a it's a military action. I was that guy.

1:43:10 You were that guy, but I still think nothing's gonna really change when they pack up and and leave.

1:43:16 No, because there's only

1:43:19 two ways for there to be real change.

1:43:22 Nuking is one. Right. Well, blowing

1:43:26 pretty much everything in the country away whether it's goods or not. Yes. And they don't wanna do that. No. Or

1:43:32 getting rid of the current regime. If you don't do one of those,

1:43:38 then yeah, you're going to be right

1:43:40 back more According less where you

1:43:43 to Donald, he's already gotten rid of two or three regimes.

1:43:46 It seems like there's always a backup regime. Those guys are prepared. They do keep recycling.

1:43:52 There's

1:43:53 no question about it.

1:43:55 Can never tell the latest regime from the previous one. They all look the same. It's very strange, isn't it? Yeah. But you know who owns the Strait Of Hormuz now. Right? Who does? After we finish

1:44:07 Go. Defeating

1:44:08 Iran, which is being very badly defeated,

1:44:15 Pretty soon, I'll be declaring the

1:44:18 Hormoz Strait a territory of The United States. And

1:44:24 again, he's laughing while he says it. But what I want him to do desperately, and I really mean this, Darren, I want him to call that thing the straight of America.

1:44:35 Put it on the maps. Yes. Yes. Yes. Matters. Put it on matters.

1:44:40 Yes. It's all naming rights.

1:44:43 Yes. Not wrong.

1:44:46 Essentially, that's right. We have the blockade.

1:44:49 And again, he then says, essentially.

1:44:52 So not only did he laugh through it to make it clear that it was a joke.

1:44:57 And then he's like, well, that's just essentially what it is because we're controlling it. And people are all going nuts like, oh no, he's got a day. He's gonna go. No.

1:45:08 Why don't you people pay attention?

1:45:11 That's too difficult. It's true. Unless we want them to. But,

1:45:15 and how about Venezuela? Venezuela was a one day war,

1:45:19 and now we work great with them. We've taken in millions and millions of barrels of oil.

1:45:25 Which is true. And then, of course, it's the cost of gas. For you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline,

1:45:32 just remember, you're doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a country really is the number one

1:45:39 state sponsor of terror in the world. We don't wanna have them have a nuclear weapon. So remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, you're at $4.

1:45:48 It's okay. I mean, it's I'm not I'm not I'll never apologize. I did the right thing. But you could you know, if you didn't have,

1:45:56 you'd be at

1:45:58 I mean, I had it down to below $2 in many states, but in California, you can't include because they keep taxing, taxing, taxing.

1:46:06 Yeah. California keeps blowing up, up, up no matter what.

1:46:10 Yes. And for the lefties

1:46:12 that are all like, oh, no. We're paying too much for gasoline.

1:46:16 Well, let me remind you during Joe Biden. Here's an MSNBC back when it was still MSNBC,

1:46:23 Andrea Mitchell. It's a potent one, but I really do think

1:46:27 in talking to members of congress

1:46:29 that they now see the politics right now, and it may not last,

1:46:34 that the American people are behind this

1:46:36 and

1:46:38 more likely are willing to take

1:46:40 a hit at the pump.

1:46:43 I don't think it's been sold adequately.

1:46:46 Well, if it's means not bringing more here. Right? Like, that's another way to message us, I might argue. Yeah. And Putin's price hike is a great way to message it. So they were fine. The Democrats were fine, including their talking heads because of the war

1:47:02 in Ukraine. Ukraine.

1:47:04 And it was Putin's price hike, not not Joey's. Right. Never forget that. So why so why is this the Trump price hike and not the Mueller's? Who knows? And I I just don't remember how much oil we get from Ukraine or Russia. I don't think any, but somehow it's Putin's price hike. I don't know. Couldn't I couldn't make sense of that, Darren. What's wrong with me? But it shows you exactly

1:47:24 the insanity

1:47:27 because they're gonna it all is political. It's not about giving you the facts who, why, what, where, why, who, why, what, when, how, whatever.

1:47:35 Are just giving you the politics.

1:47:37 They don't care. And this was okay, that little blurb in there. Well, they're willing to pay more at the pump

1:47:44 to

1:47:45 keep the war

1:47:47 over there, you know, in Ukraine.

1:47:49 Yes. What about in Iran?

1:47:51 Wouldn't you wanna keep the war out of your

1:47:56 own little

1:47:57 area? I would think that would be the case, but no. Yeah. But everybody loves Zelensky, especially Ben Stiller.

1:48:04 So that's who matters.

1:48:06 You remember that there was a video of Ben meeting Zelensky?

1:48:10 It was hysterical. He he Zelensky is standing in the middle of this pretty large room and they led Ben through a door on the side like a like a hamster coming out of a cage.

1:48:20 And as he walks across the room to greet Zelensky, he's got his both hands in front of him in the prayer position.

1:48:27 I don't remember that. Maybe I don't It was bizarre. It was like, what what is this? You know? Thousand scripts. He he didn't kiss his hand, but I was expecting him to do that. There were a lot of bizarre things.

1:48:40 Yeah.

1:48:41 Including here, we've got a boots on the ground, but this is a Oh, wait. Be be before you get to boots on the ground, there's one more Iran thing I'd love to to walk you through real quick Sure. Before we leave Iran.

1:48:51 And this this just made me laugh, and maybe Trump shouldn't know about this. The headline was dig it.

1:48:57 Iran's black widow

1:48:59 faces multiple death sentences after gruesomely killing at least ten ten

1:49:05 of her ex husbands. Oh, she's gotta be a very attractive woman then.

1:49:09 You wouldn't believe it. Wow. Really? Frightening.

1:49:12 Oh my god. She's so scary looking. Well, why 10 guys? Why how did she catch 10 dudes? Well, it it's well, I think they don't give all the details, but I think I think she's like 50 she's 56. Her name is Kalthum Akbarri.

1:49:27 56 confessed to much of the horrific body count that Manzad Durran province public relations office told Iranian state media last Sunday.

1:49:35 They mentioned one of her victims, the latest one, he was 82. So the guy was probably not seeing that very well.

1:49:43 But, I mean, still, that's a hell of a run. And she's a weapon of her in her own right, really. I mean, that's that's quite a quite a stack of of bodies.

1:49:51 She's she's knocked over.

1:49:53 And she she they said the motive was greed and that she collected gold cash and other dowry wealth

1:49:59 from her victims.

1:50:01 Okay?

1:50:02 And what was her method? Well

1:50:05 What a gold the fame well, what she did was something you know, my one of my guilty pleasures with my wife used to be watching like forty eight hours and all these these murder mystery things.

1:50:15 And so many times these women would kill their husbands

1:50:19 by feeding them

1:50:21 breakfast drinks like orange juice or jello shots that were laced with antifreeze.

1:50:26 Right.

1:50:27 And it would take a long time for these guys to die. They'd be six. Oh, what's wrong with nobody could figure it out. And one day they woke up dead. And

1:50:35 that's pretty much what she was doing. She said that her her last victim was in 2023.

1:50:41 His name was I'm gonna try to pronounce his name. I think it's pronounced.

1:50:48 God bless you. He had come that's it. He had complained to family members that Akhabari had been forcing him to take medications

1:50:56 and died shortly thereafter. So there so, you know, if Trump wants to get the next regime knocked off, maybe he should turn her loose on them.

1:51:05 Also, if somebody's forcing you to take medications, run. Run.

1:51:09 It is not a good idea.

1:51:12 My favorite one of the stories that was not too long ago was an Asian couple

1:51:17 where allegedly the husband then told the wife because they were having a problem with some kind of credit. It may have been ants.

1:51:25 Like, oh, we'll mix this in a like coffee mug or whatever. And then we had her on

1:51:32 video doing that and then claimed that she was poisoning him to try to put her in jail over the

1:51:39 the whole bit. And the wife's like, no. He told me to put the poison into the mug. At which point? Who do you believe?

1:51:45 Yes. Could be either way. Could just be somebody smart enough that's like, well, okay. I was putting poison into his coffee mug. Oh, well. He told to do it because we we had we had ants. Good

1:51:55 ants.

1:51:57 You don't want ants. You do not want ants.

1:51:59 And just a quick AI story before we have a boots on the ground because this,

1:52:04 if you fly,

1:52:06 this is, terrifying what's going on in Canada.

1:52:11 From the outside, it's pretty clear. This is not the air traffic control tower you're used to because controllers are elsewhere, maybe even in another city. But you can start seeing movement. So it helps our air traffic controllers,

1:52:24 and our traffic services staff

1:52:26 be able to pick out the things that are relevant to them. NEF Canada says this is the future, remote air traffic control with new high-tech features. It's the same level of service that we end up providing. Essentially, all we're doing is we're taking the visual view of someone looking out of a window,

1:52:40 replacing that with a digital view onto screens. Super exciting time, obviously. Ottawa's Kong Super Geospatial

1:52:47 designed the system and says it will provide access to services in remote community just as it has in the home of its parent company, Norway. As we're seeing the the development

1:52:58 and implementation of AI into more and more technology. This is another great example where the system can continue to learn, you know, what am I looking at? What are the aircrafts? What are the weather conditions?

1:53:10 What could go wrong, Larry? It's gonna take the

1:53:13 the tower from your local airport.

1:53:15 Yeah.

1:53:16 And we're gonna consolidate it and put it elsewhere.

1:53:20 Now I understand

1:53:22 putting some of these tools

1:53:25 into effect,

1:53:27 but moving people to a remote location

1:53:31 means

1:53:32 really bad things can happen.

1:53:35 I understand the, the staffing issue, and we've got people that are responding to this. Travelers at the Ottawa Airport aren't so sure. Don't like it.

1:53:45 I would rather people looking out a window. The more you put stuff like this in, the more it screws up.

1:53:52 Alright? You need the human factor regardless.

1:53:56 Hamilton Airport with 300,000

1:53:58 travelers a year will be the first fully remote location, and those air traffic controllers have been asked to move to Kingston.

1:54:06 The union is concerned they might leave the field instead. That attrition is only, I'll say, quote, unquote, only,

1:54:14 you know, 10 or 20%.

1:54:16 We can't afford to lose a single air traffic controller right now in Canada. Nav Canada says this change could be part of the solution. When fully operational, up to 15 airports could be remotely monitored from Kingston. It provides more more flexibility in our staffing in the long run. NAV Canada says that it won't be moving to Hamilton

1:54:35 until a year of shadow testing in Kingston shows no possible issues and until all regulatory hurdles are cleared.

1:54:44 With the stakes for all involved so high,

1:54:47 whether this comes to an airport near you remains up in the air.

1:54:51 I see what you did there up in the air. Up in the air. Now that's shadow testing. Does that include

1:54:57 airliners with real people on board? Well, of course, because what this would be is you're going to have

1:55:03 the remote unit

1:55:06 monitoring

1:55:06 and doing their job,

1:55:10 not actually communicating with the airplanes, but having

1:55:13 this be a simulation

1:55:16 kind of, but one, I don't think a year is a long enough time to understand everything that can possibly go wrong.

1:55:23 Mhmm. With that said, I don't know if anybody's still just literally looking out a window. These are usually all

1:55:30 on

1:55:31 instrumentation,

1:55:33 which

1:55:34 I understand you can

1:55:36 go remotely. It kind of reminds me like what MLB did when they started going to New York for certain plays like, oh no, we need to need to do a video replay. Let's get New York on the phone.

1:55:49 Well, this is interesting because I saw a story

1:55:53 earlier today

1:55:55 that the biggest siphon

1:55:57 of current air traffic controllers are video game developers.

1:56:01 They like the way these guys operate and they're the ones that are taking them off of the flight towers,

1:56:08 which is kind of kooky.

1:56:09 There you go. It's a tie in. It is a very One, it's a very stressful

1:56:15 job. There's no- Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Question about it the more I've been watching

1:56:21 a few different channels that show

1:56:25 the problems that have been going on in major airports around the country and around the world and

1:56:32 it's amazing

1:56:34 what some of these controllers can do and pilots. It's amazing

1:56:38 when they totally are able to keep their cool even though they know the

1:56:43 situation that they're in

1:56:46 is not

1:56:47 very good.

1:56:49 With that said, you want to keep a human being

1:56:54 if the lines get cut between the airport that's being serviced and the remote

1:57:01 location. Now again, I understand

1:57:04 adding a bunch of new equipment to a local,

1:57:07 but I

1:57:08 tower that's there, but when you try to take everything and move it remote,

1:57:13 that line somehow gets cut. You're gonna have big problems.

1:57:17 Sure. But of course what they're gonna want is just pure AI. That'll be the next No.

1:57:21 Yeah. How? How will run off? It'll just human watching the AI allegedly

1:57:27 who's going to fall asleep just like humans that are in the car once these people that get their Teslas or the self driving cars and they're just going along and they're like, Oh wow, it's been I tried this for two weeks and it didn't hit anybody. So now I'm just gonna relax Why and

1:57:41 not? That's when it drives you right off the bridge into the Gulf Of America, baby.

1:57:46 Or the Straight Of America. Yes.

1:57:48 We have a boots on the ground from sir Darius Unity, Knight of the Sandhill people.

1:57:55 He says in the morning, thank you for your courage. Long live mister Buzzkill

1:57:58 as well as his legacy. Amen to that.

1:58:02 And he said the best podcast in the universe and they put no agenda in parentheses.

1:58:06 Thank you, sir Darius Unity.

1:58:08 Discussed data centers on Thursday's episode and I remembered my pops and I did some work on them back in the day as union

1:58:15 electricians.

1:58:17 We were in the National Capital Region with Local twenty six and I was an apprentice primarily on the fire alarm crew.

1:58:24 I worked with fellow apprentices

1:58:27 in Charlotte,

1:58:28 North Carolina as an unofficial member of the Local three seventy nine as well this very spring that just passed together even more treasure slash intel for Gitmo Nation.

1:58:39 First, what I recall from my recent experience, the data centers are very mums the word as of late.

1:58:45 Construction workers must, if I recall, turn in their phones at the beginning of the workday or to prevent unauthorized pictures or info from being made public or more plausibly, maybe it was that they couldn't use their phones while on the jobs that yet they're very

1:59:00 sensitive about that stuff getting out.

1:59:03 He says if they do, they risk getting an immediate pinky slash pink slip now for what my pops and I foreman told me from his experience in August or so of twenty twenty three.

1:59:15 The data centers run 20 fourseven, that they do.

1:59:19 They have beefed up slash armed security

1:59:22 and they lose out on at least

1:59:24 a million bucks per minute for each and every minute that they have shut down operations,

1:59:30 especially if it's due to emergency

1:59:33 repairs and that I think that's a little high, but the numbers that I've seen

1:59:37 put it as possibly 20,000

1:59:40 plus per second or per minute, which adds up fairly quickly. Pretty quick? If you're out for an hour, I mean, our power was out here for over twenty four hours. So,

1:59:51 you know, if you're losing 20,000 plus per minute, that is no

1:59:56 joke. No.

1:59:58 He says we dealt extensively

2:00:00 with long heavy and thickly

2:00:02 protected cables and wiring. Oh yeah, you have to have shielding on that. Especially when the all hands call went out randomly.

2:00:10 We were often somewhat confused regarding

2:00:13 exactly what our general contactors clients needed or wanted from us,

2:00:18 be it in the specs for material that we were installing

2:00:22 or in the necessary tasks in general, which is also

2:00:26 interesting when you're like, well, why are we doing this?

2:00:29 You

2:00:30 have to wonder exactly what's going on. Said, lastly,

2:00:33 we had to install smoke detectors approximately every six feet.

2:00:38 And if memory serves, they had to be drilled into the columns of the structure holding up the raised flooring. Yeah, these things are built so

2:00:45 there's a lot of wires going around. Oh,

2:00:48 they're very creepy looking things. And I can guarantee that as we speak, there are probably

2:00:53 half a dozen studios

2:00:56 with scripts on their desk with titles like

2:00:59 Data Center Doom.

2:01:01 There's definitely.

2:01:02 I mean, it's just rife with

2:01:05 terror, these things. And some somebody's gonna make a buck off that. Or They're gonna lose a buck. I mean, there's a lot Well, that too. Yeah. Probably get to this more on the next show as far as the amount of money. A lot of people think it's turning into a bubble. A lot of people don't think any of the

2:01:22 billions or trillions of dollars that are being raised for these data centers are actually going to pay off.

2:01:30 Right now What does horror would say about that? Is there a way to play that

2:01:33 short these things and make it certain for companies,

2:01:37 it it we all know that there are memory shortages. It's amazing that memory that was worth like nothing two or three years ago, all of a sudden people want it because it's still memory.

2:01:48 Yeah.

2:01:49 And the chip manufacturers

2:01:51 can't keep up. But as we've talked about here,

2:01:56 the reality is as this AI stuff continues,

2:02:02 more and more

2:02:04 will be brought into the home, it will be brought into small businesses,

2:02:09 you can run

2:02:10 some very

2:02:11 capable models

2:02:13 on hardware

2:02:15 that cost,

2:02:16 you know, in the $10,000

2:02:18 range, which for an average person, they're not gonna pay that to play, you know, chat GPT and ask it questions.

2:02:25 No. But for any company,

2:02:28 even small businesses,

2:02:31 that is a small bill to rather

2:02:35 than paying 50 or $100

2:02:37 a month

2:02:38 for your AI in the cloud and risking your corporate data.

2:02:43 And

2:02:44 these things are already to the point to where they're getting into your own location.

2:02:49 So these data centers, what are they gonna be used for as we talked about with Adam on the last show? Yeah, it'd probably be a lot of pickleball courts or something.

2:02:59 The boots on the ground continues apologies for wasting so much time and getting this to y'all dovetailed

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2:03:42 free and dangerous. Well, that's the only way we know how to do it. Indeed.

2:03:47 And we love our boots on the ground. I put out a thing on X. I'm like, wanna be a podcast? Everybody's like, hey, you giving up Larry spot? I'm like, no. We're looking for people that can do boots on the ground because while I love boots on the ground as the one eyed podcaster,

2:04:01 reading

2:04:02 is sometimes a bigger

2:04:05 pain in the behind than not. And we would just like to hear your voice for people that have the ability

2:04:12 to record audio.

2:04:14 I'm trying to get a,

2:04:16 you know, a list of No Agenda producers

2:04:20 with what your

2:04:22 expertise lies in. Like here we just had our AI dude. Like so when the next AI story comes, can reach out and be like, hey, this is the story. What's what's your take on it? Be of the perfect reporter like, hey, what what do you make of this?

2:04:37 And we can get the boots on the ground from people in a way

2:04:41 where people can hear your lovely voices rather than listening to the the overly radio voices of of Larry and Gary all day. Is that what they say about us? Oh, dear.

2:04:52 Oh.

2:04:53 I know. They they sound too good. Well, I saw a letter that came in that Adam forwarded that you kinda sound like a like a beatnik poet, which Yeah. I like that. That's kinda cool. You gotta have that thing going on.

2:05:08 Let's get the glove story in. I think that was one that Oh, the glove story. The gloves, baby. Yeah. The gloves are interesting and they're dividing people and of course that means they're dividing the media.

2:05:20 This is something

2:05:23 that's been around for a while which I think most of the stories are missing out on.

2:05:28 They've been using these in jails. They're basically

2:05:32 gloves

2:05:34 with batteries

2:05:36 that produce a shock

2:05:39 much less

2:05:40 than a taser would. Yes.

2:05:44 This is from a Kentucky

2:05:46 jail employee

2:05:48 showing off the gloves, which I think is a good primer.

2:05:51 Basically you put it on just like like any glove,

2:05:54 you know, right now they're off, I can touch it, you know, they strap on and basically you got a power button that you hit,

2:06:01 it lights up and then it's active at that point in time. So I can touch anywhere on my body if I was to grab hold of my hand which I'm not gonna do, I've already experienced it, I don't wanna put myself through it, it doesn't feel the best.

2:06:13 Yeah, you don't wanna shock yourself.

2:06:15 I'll bet some will. There's gonna be glove fetish freaks that'll be buying, you know, taking these right off the shelves fast as they can. No doubt. And the interesting thing was as he just pointed out,

2:06:26 it needs to make contact with skin which means There's still. People can just whether they could just go head to toe in like Lycra or whatever that material is.

2:06:35 That would probably then insulate you from this because it's such a horrible dangerous weapon.

2:06:41 It

2:06:42 doesn't incapacitate you but it, you know, I've

2:06:46 I've to I've been exposed to this probably 10 to 15 times

2:06:50 myself

2:06:51 and it's

2:06:52 I guess the best way to describe it I mean it it basically takes all your focus off everything is going to basically where you're getting grabbed at and then as soon as you let go it's gone. There's no marks that's left or anything like that and it lets you get the control of the person to where you can get them in a safer location

2:07:09 and actually try to gain compliance.

2:07:11 Then we've had the compliance gloves

2:07:13 now for over That is a great word. We love It's compliance

2:07:19 always about compliance.

2:07:21 Always, yeah. Okay,

2:07:23 that's probably a good art idea. Compliance gloves make them snappy though.

2:07:27 And

2:07:29 basically,

2:07:30 it has been

2:07:33 probably one of the,

2:07:35 probably one of the best tools we added. One thing about like, and I'll even show you one thing about the gloves themselves

2:07:42 is that,

2:07:43 they have a button on them. And again, there's, it doesn't incapacitate a person like a taser. I'm sure several people have seen taser videos where you hit somebody and they fall on the ground and stuff like that. That yeah, yeah, can get stiff. This has no incapacitation

2:07:57 with it. I wonder I didn't do enough research here if none of Nobody is telling

2:08:03 exactly

2:08:04 what the charge is No. That you're getting. So it's enough

2:08:09 to make you

2:08:12 stop resisting

2:08:13 allegedly.

2:08:14 Allegedly.

2:08:16 Allegedly. I have my doubts about this, I really do. Well, yeah, the guy's on like bath salts or something. We've seen enough videos where tasers didn't work. Didn't work. Sure. And then when I saw this thing first mentioned online, it was in reference to apparently,

2:08:29 allegedly

2:08:30 ICE has bought many hundreds or thousands of pairs of these things they're gonna be using. So which you know any day now, somebody from MS Now will be reporting that these are in fact a wearable firing squad.

2:08:44 You know, that's that's how they're gonna characterize this stuff. CNN's already doing it. Oh, there you go. Okay. And again, the reality is this is less

2:08:53 than a taser. That much is clear so. Yeah. Less lethal than what they already have. So this is

2:09:01 trying to appease

2:09:03 a greater

2:09:05 majority

2:09:06 of the population

2:09:08 by having a way to do the job without

2:09:12 doing massive damage in, but still it's gonna be

2:09:16 Trump bad, Trump bad, Trump bad, ICE is evil.

2:09:20 Well, the gloves in theory, and g l o v e is for generated low

2:09:25 output voltage emitter, so it's glove.

2:09:28 The gloves generically are I know. I mean, whoever comes up with the acronyms, I got it. I have to give them credit on that one. That was pretty good. Yeah. It's glove.

2:09:37 The gloves generically are are a tool. So, like, you know, you you put them on. They're sort of an on off switch. So you're so if you touch someone, they may not feel it. When you turn it on, they're gonna get a voltage that's described

2:09:49 as sort of an intense bee sting. They're not supposed to do it for longer than fifteen seconds.

2:09:54 So this may be helpful, and I will say that the devices

2:09:58 have mostly been used at least from the public record. The company is not speaking now, at least from the public record in confined situations.

2:10:07 A jail. That may make sense because there's really no freedom of movement. Oh, there's no freedom at all in jails, madam Buzzkill.

2:10:15 Very little. Well, you know that these things are going to find their way very quickly into schools

2:10:20 and subway stations and crowded buses. It's gonna be it's gonna be

2:10:24 well, right. For law enforcement, okay. Now for other people, you're going to be committing battery if you do this. Yeah.

2:10:32 This is Juliet Kaym, the CNN analyst.

2:10:36 Go forward to ICE and where we are now. This is this is asking for intense trouble for the American public. Intense trouble for a In of public.

2:10:49 ICE is not known for de escalation. Oh, but wait. Well, this isn't indeed the okay.

2:10:57 ICE is not known

2:10:59 Yes. For de escalation,

2:11:01 she says. Mhmm. Yep. But this is a tool

2:11:05 that is

2:11:06 way below the threshold of what they've had before

2:11:11 which would show

2:11:13 that in good faith

2:11:14 anybody,

2:11:15 again if you had logic,

2:11:17 would understand that this is a step towards

2:11:21 deescalization

2:11:22 because this is like a bee sting rather than you getting hit with the electric

2:11:29 shock coming off a capacitor on your TV.

2:11:32 No.

2:11:33 If they were serious about this, Darren, they would issue

2:11:36 every squad of ice guys

2:11:39 pocket watches with chains

2:11:41 and a

2:11:43 competent hypnotist.

2:11:44 And that's how to make people compliant. Just sit them down, swing that watch, they'll do what you say.

2:11:51 Know if that would work. Oh. You're getting sleepy. That's it. Some audio too. Yeah. Now you got it. You're on

2:11:58 sleepy. That's what I'm talking about. Stop rushing me with that gun. No. No.

2:12:02 Right.

2:12:03 That's exactly the problem. Oh, but these gloves are bad.

2:12:08 They're the rules of engagement for ICE are not understood.

2:12:12 And with this mandate from the White House of The rules of

2:12:16 engagement ice. Wow. Are not understood.

2:12:19 If somebody tries to mess with them,

2:12:23 they will use the glove.

2:12:25 And more.

2:12:27 200

2:12:28 2,000 arrests a day. Yeah. Oh, a day. 2,000 arrests a day. That's too many. Let's not talk about the fact that how many million people came in under Joey because he said, hey, come on in.

2:12:40 Not talk about how crime rates actually seem to have gone down in some major cities, which I cannot prove it. You cannot prove it. Nobody can prove it yet, but it seems it's possible.

2:12:49 Mhmm. That violent gang members that are being sent back to their mother country,

2:12:55 maybe is one of the reasons why it's safer to walk around some places

2:12:59 in The United States now.

2:13:01 Could be.

2:13:02 You are now have sort of issued ICE to sort of go around, touch people, and zap them and say that they're not compliant. We know ICE Right. Touch and zap. They just say they're they could always say they weren't compliant, madam. But before, they could shoot them or kill them or do something like that.

2:13:18 Now they're gonna get a little owie.

2:13:22 I mean, is just insanity.

2:13:24 The fact that the reality of this system is

2:13:27 you're not doing any damage to somebody

2:13:31 because of this

2:13:32 glove.

2:13:33 Yeah.

2:13:34 I'm gonna be direct here. We know ICE lies. Oh, I'm gonna be direct here. We know ICE lies. So I bet you That was very direct. Madam. So direct.

2:13:43 Of course, I I slice. This is again,

2:13:45 okay, give us the list of where ICE, who which is a not a person, of course.

2:13:51 Has ICE lied? Where has ICE touched you on the doll?

2:13:55 That's it. They've been shown to lie. They have. And so this They have. That's CNN. They have. Woo.

2:14:02 Could be a real danger for the American public. They they have been shown to lie in court.

2:14:07 And so, you know, judges have made those,

2:14:10 made that very plain and clear. I do wanna ask you about, because we've talked about this before, but it it it with this extra tool,

2:14:18 when you consider the idea that there is a quota,

2:14:22 most departments have gotten rid of these. Right? I mean, this was a whole big thing with law enforcement many, many decades ago.

2:14:29 And now that it's back for ICE and ICE only, generally speaking,

2:14:34 what does this do to law enforcement agents when they have this thing sitting over their head that, oh, we need to get 2,000 per day? Yeah. It's a Wait a minute. She's saying that these these these gloves go back for decades. Is that correct? No. She's just talking about quotas in law enforcement.

2:14:52 And Alright. I mean, the reality is the only reason the quota of the around 2,000 a day is there

2:15:00 is because they started with so many millions of people that they had to get rid of. And this is nothing different

2:15:06 than having a

2:15:09 job. You work at a factory, you know, and you need to get X amount out. Well,

2:15:14 you put a number on it and you're saying, here's our goal. Here's what we're trying There's to

2:15:19 no like, well, if we don't get this amount of people, something happens. It's just, hey, this right now is the level we wanna be at,

2:15:26 but it doesn't mean they're rounding up people that don't deserve it.

2:15:30 They're like, oh no, they're not criminals. Oh, you mean are they here illegally? Well then technically,

2:15:36 criminal. Homan did respond to the glove

2:15:40 kerfuffle, if you will. Oh, let's see what Tom said.

2:15:43 And look. And there is no reason for it. I mean, the bottom line is you're right. It's it's just just it's politics. It's sanctuary

2:15:49 jurisdiction.

2:15:49 They know we're over over a decade. I can't I can't think of the hundreds

2:15:53 of cases like this has happened. It it's just one case after another at the other. We'll talk about this today and tomorrow,

2:16:00 then we'll move on. The next week, there'll be another one in some other place, another sanctuary state. And what really upset me, the response from the governor's office,

2:16:08 was that, well, ICE has billions of dollars. They should be doing their job. We did our job. We located this person in their facility.

2:16:16 We did investigation,

2:16:18 found out he is illegal in United States. She has a criminal history. He is deportable. So we issued a detainer

2:16:24 asking them

2:16:25 to notify us before they release them. Now I don't care about sanctuary policies. All they said, we can't honor detainers. We don't think they're legal. There's nothing illegal. There's nothing against the sanctuary law in California

2:16:36 for a deputy to just pick the phone up and say that, hey. This guy's being released in an hour. You don't have to hold him one minute longer longer than you would normally hold him. Just call us before we release him. It's common sense. So this person's dead because governor Newsom and and the state of California has put politics,

2:16:56 hatred over president Trump over public safety.

2:16:58 So look at what California has done to hurt you guys, to curb ICE enforcement.

2:17:03 They make ICE agents easier to sue. They're banning costs from moonlighting for ICE, restricting ICE courthouse arrest,

2:17:10 taxing immigrants detention profits, banning masks for federal agents. They're doing everything possible to make your job harder. Now think about if you're the family of that 68 year old or that 68 year old. How do you feel today?

2:17:24 Shake to your stomach that your government let you down. The state government let you down. Look. They they put a lot of roadblocks up. They try to make our job more difficult, but the bottom line is of June of this year, ICE made more arrest than any time in the history of ICE. A historic month in June. What do we do the next month in July? We blew June out of the water. We got another historic record. We're gonna keep doing our job. You can make it more difficult. You can impede. You can interfere,

2:17:49 but you're not gonna stop president Trump from keeping his promise to American people.

2:17:54 Ian, I think he's right there. Yeah. Let's hope so. You're not gonna keep Donald Trump from doing what he wants to do whether you like him

2:18:03 or not. And

2:18:05 the whole thing with these gloves, I don't understand because they seem to be gentle enough. If you're like, well, the guy's like, I've, yeah, I'd accidentally touched myself a few times. That sounded dirty. But hey,

2:18:15 if it didn't knock them out, like, well, what's the problem?

2:18:19 Yeah.

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2:19:03 support the show. It is your

2:19:05 No Agenda show. That's one thing I picked from

2:19:08 Adam years ago where it was always like, well, this is your No Agenda show. It's like, well, what do you mean by that? Yeah.

2:19:14 It means it is the producers

2:19:17 running the show.

2:19:19 Everybody's a producer.

2:19:21 The Podfather actually seems to be enjoying being a producer of the show. Imagine that. He really is. He says he likes listening to us. He may he's he

2:19:31 listened to Planet Rage. That is why we are here right now is because he

2:19:35 to Planet Rage and he liked it.

2:19:38 You can also get over into the Troll Room. Let's see. Yeah. Oh,

2:19:46 they are. 902

2:19:48 for a high.

2:19:49 That's not bad. I mean, for us. I mean, for Adam and John. John would be like, that's not enough. Of

2:19:56 course. Yeah. Us, need we need everybody to bring one friend with them. No. Bring two friends That would be better. Yes. The the troll Room is available over at noagenda.stream.

2:20:08 But if you have a podcasting two point o app, you're notified when the shows go live, a bunch of shows use it and it's great because a lot of people enjoy

2:20:17 listening live because you don't know what's gonna happen. Some shows will edit things or like, oh no, what did they say?

2:20:24 If somebody rage quits, you might miss out on all the fun.

2:20:27 Yeah. So you go over to noagenda.stream,

2:20:30 you listen live, you get a podcasting two point o app, you take part in the troll room shenanigans

2:20:37 and if you are

2:20:39 able to prompt an AI or maybe if you're a real artist, we'd love the real artist. I know for me the

2:20:46 the guy that is the AI prompt jockey.

2:20:50 I like the real art.

2:20:52 And a lot of people that are like, I don't think this guy ever listened to No Agenda. It's like, go to the No Agenda Art Generator. I'm only behind Nick the Red in Art Wins.

2:21:01 They're like, this guy's never actually listened to the show.

2:21:05 I was sleeping through it. I bet you that was the issue. Oh, Mike Riley's coming in today. Oh, man. He's That's good. That's good. We like People are gonna have to up their game.

2:21:14 The piece that we chose and we knew it was going to be

2:21:20 very controversial.

2:21:22 Right. That's exactly what it was

2:21:25 and we had a conversation about it and I got a email from a

2:21:32 I think it was a Viscount that was like, you know, that was JCD would never have let that go through because it was grotesque and I'm like, I know.

2:21:40 Mhmm. I know it was a bit grotesque. It was from Fret Pound who this was win number one,

2:21:47 which it was the very carnival looking

2:21:51 Yes. With the barker and then the pregnant woman with the carnival Fauci was the carnival barker. Oh, is that? Okay. Oh, yeah. I could see that. That's a Fauci. Oh, yeah. It looks even more insane than Fauci does normally.

2:22:04 Yeah. But that was him. I live with it like a walking stick and he had the striped jacket on, the straw boater hat. Yeah. Was perfect.

2:22:11 And he's like, the number was 82, not 84. I'm like, I know there's a little bit of artistic So

2:22:17 okay.

2:22:18 But when

2:22:20 and the overall vibe

2:22:23 worked and since it was a cartoonish,

2:22:25 you can get away with a little It bit

2:22:29 wasn't clinical.

2:22:30 It was an interpretation.

2:22:32 You know, the other ones, you know, the the guy with the cat from Doctor. Evil,

2:22:39 the bears and the horses fighting.

2:22:41 Scaramanga

2:22:42 had a couple like Burkup Beach.

2:22:45 Yes. I mean, if you're we figured if we were gonna go grotesque, you may as well really jump into it. Yeah. We felt we just should take a chance and unsettle you a little bit. And apparently, we did. In CSB,

2:22:58 all the naked women are nice, but they're probably not going to get picked.

2:23:03 No. Not nicey to naked bodies, I I hear John said. No cheesecake.

2:23:08 Cheesecake is okay, but they need to be clothed, CSB. Yes.

2:23:13 And,

2:23:14 the burka burka burka from Scaramanga we dug, but it took everybody like a half hour to realize she was sitting on cauliflower rather than like, what is that? What is that? Yeah. It's gotta be simplistic if we not learned anything.

2:23:30 The simple joke goes. I was almost gonna go with the CSB's

2:23:33 eye patch guy because it was less

2:23:36 offensive

2:23:37 than the

2:23:38 Carnival Barker one, but Larry convinced me. He's like, no, no, that one's more

2:23:42 eye catching and you wanna be eye catching. So I'm like, well, we could go to

2:23:46 an evergreen, but then the artist will never throw anything in because they'll be like, you didn't pick my art. And then then then I threatened to just make my own art and put it out there like, I can do it. I I can do it. I I've won. However, I'm only behind Nick The Rat. If you go to the leaderboard, you'll see Nick The Rat one ninety three, me one forty one. So Wow. Wow.

2:24:08 Nick Good for you, Darren. Nick The Rat will go down in history as the number one No Agenda Artist unless somebody really

2:24:17 really comes out of nowhere. So thank you, fret pound. It is very much appreciated.

2:24:24 Time, talent and treasure.

2:24:26 Gotta

2:24:27 keep the lights on, keep the microphones humming. So you gotta send a Darren and Larry donation. I mean, tell us the Darren and Larry donation. We wanna hear more of those guys. Yes, please. But we have a few people to thank for today's show.

2:24:41 We have the executive producers,

2:24:44 is anything over $333.

2:24:49 It's a number that everybody enjoys.

2:24:51 And let me pull up the right screen here. The first one

2:24:55 coming in with $1,888.88.

2:25:01 That's one heck of a number. It is. Mike the Privileged Taco Salad, which I've heard a lot of good nicknames.

2:25:09 That's great.

2:25:10 The Privileged

2:25:11 Taco Salad

2:25:13 says, Dear Amy, Dear Adam, Mimi and the Dvorak family, in the morning spelled m o u r n I n g.

2:25:21 After listening to show eighteen eighty eight, I discovered that I must have been living under a rock for most of my life

2:25:28 When my buddy Gary hit me in the mouth back around episode thirteen fifty seven,

2:25:34 he mentioned the podcast was done by John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry.

2:25:39 My response was John who?

2:25:41 I knew who Adam was from MTV but I had never heard of JCD.

2:25:46 I was hooked from the start and have not missed any shows since.

2:25:50 I learned quickly that the both of you know what you're talking about and set feelings and thoughts straight in my mind. That is one of the greatest things about No Agenda.

2:26:00 Yes.

2:26:01 I like finding people who think the way that I do.

2:26:06 I have questioned things that the mainstream media reports for as long as I can remember.

2:26:11 One instance is when George w Bush was president and Gerard Schroeder

2:26:16 Gerhard Schroeder was

2:26:18 the German chancellor.

2:26:20 The American news was claiming and quoting things that Schroeder was saying, and the German news was quoting things and saying what George Bush was saying.

2:26:29 I just happened to be learning German at the time and I picked up on what was being translated and can only go, no.

2:26:36 That's not what he said from both sides.

2:26:39 The news was embellishing the reports.

2:26:41 Imagine that. What? Gambling?

2:26:44 Round up the usual suspects. Exactly.

2:26:46 And this is it, especially when things get translated. You know

2:26:50 there's going to be funny things going on. He continues,

2:26:54 I, like you and JCD,

2:26:56 am also a jack of all trades and a master of none. I have donned a lot of different hats in my life and know quite a bit by doing so.

2:27:04 Again, you two showed me that there are others who are like me.

2:27:08 Past nicknames were Hazmat Mike, Out of Scope Mike, and Rock and Roll Mike, just to name a few.

2:27:15 Experiencing

2:27:16 the love that was shared for JCD was amazing and I am proud to be able to be a part of such a great group. Gitmo

2:27:24 Nation rocks.

2:27:26 Yeah, it's even better than Schoolhouse Rocks. Definitely.

2:27:29 I do hear John grousing at me for the length of this note, so I will close it by saying God bless you all.

2:27:36 And then he has met,

2:27:38 Ville,

2:27:38 Liebe and LA which I had to look up which I know I butchered it means with much love to you all in German. He says Mike, the privilege taco salad PS.

2:27:49 Kudos to Larry and Darren for their filling in. I have to admit that I visualized Tommy Chong when Larry speaks and

2:27:56 lost it when he said, dude, wait, you maybe you do have a Tommy Chong thing going on. Really? So so I'm either a a a beatnik poet or I'm a Tommy Chong. Wow. Or a total man. Yes. Yeah. Jeez.

2:28:09 He says, PPS, please accept my $1,888.88

2:28:14 donation in honor of JCD. We do thank you very much. And then handwritten at the bottom, which I wanna let you know,

2:28:22 my AI got right.

2:28:24 Type is better than my chicken scratch.

2:28:27 But

2:28:28 hey, if the AI can tell what it is, that's all that really matters.

2:28:32 Yeah. Thank you very much. I guess he's already at night if you do the any title change or anything, please let us know. But thank you, Mike. It's a privilege taco salad.

2:28:44 Thank you, Mike. Next up is doctor Don and Dame Audra.

2:28:49 33388

2:28:51 from places unknown.

2:28:53 And but this this jingle requested, Darren. It's a double up.

2:28:59 You've got Double up. Uh-uh. Karma.

2:29:02 See, there was none, but I just had to make myself a note to remember and and get it Uh-huh. So it could be quick like the Podfather.

2:29:11 Up next, Manuka Gold from Hudson, Florida. $250

2:29:16 from the Manuka Gold family. We're always happy to keep supporting. We do have a code at manukagold.com

2:29:22 for the No Agenda listeners. If you're looking for 20% off,

2:29:26 just use code TREASURE and it'll work for the entire month of August and we're still doing the $25 free gift with every purchase over $45.

2:29:36 Again, that is manukagold.com.

2:29:39 And I can attest,

2:29:41 this stuff is really good. Have you gotten yours yet? Have you got your address to them? Did you let them know where to find you? I've I haven't, but I promise I'll because I'm a honey freak and I can't wait. So yes, thank you for the reminder. It is fantastic stuff.

2:29:54 Next up is Brandon Baldwin of Manteca,

2:29:57 California,

2:29:59 222 Dot 22.

2:30:02 C note from

2:30:04 oh. It seems might have gone to the wrong

2:30:07 address. What?

2:30:08 Went astray, Yes. Make sure you send in the note to notes@noagenda.com.

2:30:14 The back office said they haven't received it yet or any note, Brandon. So

2:30:19 send it again to notes at no agenda wait. I'm sorry. You must have sent it to no agenda dot com.

2:30:25 It is no agenda show dot net. Notes@noagendashow.net.

2:30:30 Notes@noagendashow.net,

2:30:33 and we will do a make good for you. Definitely. The next episode.

2:30:39 Then coming in, Stefan from

2:30:41 Denmark?

2:30:44 I guess. I'll go with that. Hi I know he's donated to our other show as I just Yeah. I'm blanking on where he's from. Hi gents. Much appreciated that the two of our producers moved from

2:30:56 brunette like backroom producing to being off cam news models.

2:31:01 Well, I mean, we are very pretty stuff on. I mean, you know that. At least Larry is. I have to wear the eye I'm

2:31:08 gorgeous.

2:31:08 He says, I would like to request any jingle with love in the title

2:31:14 except love you mean it.

2:31:19 That is an interesting request.

2:31:21 Yes.

2:31:22 And his donation was $2.21 17.

2:31:34 Bugs. Bugs.

2:31:38 Had love in it. Good boy. Thank you, Stefan.

2:31:43 Yeah. Next up next up is Eli the coffee guy, and I'm so excited, Darren. Guess what? He's got my address and he's sending me some of that fabulous gigawatt coffee. Oh, you're gonna be wired.

2:31:54 I am. He's from Bensonville, Illinois 208

2:31:58 Dot 16, and Eli says, gentlemen, I read the newsletter. I read the newsletter and figured the Strait Of Hormuz sovereignty line was you guys having a laugh.

2:32:08 Some snide throwaway.

2:32:09 Then I saw some news articles with Trump trolling that pretty soon he'll declare it a territory of The United States.

2:32:16 It's hard to tell a bit from the news anymore.

2:32:18 Life often imitates comedy. Thanks for the laughs and great media deconstruction.

2:32:23 For producers who want great coffee, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com

2:32:28 and use code ITM 20

2:32:31 for 20% off your order. Stay caffeinated.

2:32:35 Eli, the coffee guy. Thank you, Eli. Thanks, Eli. I gotta get back to music. Some of the producers, they wanna do a Saturday meetup in September.

2:32:43 Oh, that's exciting. And it's either they want to, make sure I never do another show or they wanna say congratulations.

2:32:50 I'm not too sure which yet. You'll find out. But coming in next with $200,

2:32:55 Linda Lupatkin from Castle Rock, Colorado

2:32:58 says jobs karma. Of course, your resume has about ten seconds to make an impression and most don't.

2:33:05 For a resume that gets results, go to imagemakersinc.com.

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2:33:36 Don Mills of Shasta Lake, California donated $200.

2:33:42 And Don says, keep the best podcast in the universe going. Glad to hear the media deconstruction will continue. Well, thank you, Don. Yeah. We're planting the flag just like on D Day. We're just putting it up there,

2:33:54 daring anybody to come take it. Up next, Brenda Forkade,

2:33:58 I think,

2:34:00 Hallsboro,

2:34:02 Washington came in with $200.

2:34:05 No. No. These are the associate executive producers. Thank you very much, Brenda.

2:34:11 Next up, Anonymous.

2:34:13 Gave $200

2:34:15 from Parts Unknown and whoever you are Anonymous, we thank you very much.

2:34:20 Then also with 200, sir Lawrence of Dystopia

2:34:24 says in the morning, Darren and Larry, as you read this, our Northern Silicon Valley in the morning of John meet up will be in the rearview mirror.

2:34:32 Thanks go out to Pizzeria Violetta,

2:34:34 sir crazy recalcitrant

2:34:38 Steve

2:34:39 and the Dvorak's in attendance for the gathering of the round table.

2:34:43 No Agenda Nation lives on. Thank you for taking the helm during the interim.

2:34:48 Regardless of how the show will morph in the future, I am convinced

2:34:51 that with the multi universe of talent that is the No Agenda Producers Network, the show will go on

2:35:00 as we are currently having an ant battle at our yeah, at our readout

2:35:05 in what in there in our readout in Maxwell Park.

2:35:09 May I please get in I've got ants. In this, I loved. He said, I thank you for your cur

2:35:14 rage.

2:35:15 Oh.

2:35:16 No doubt a little nod to the Planet Rage podcast that Larry and I came from for five years.

2:35:23 Sir Lawrence of dystopia Baron of Maxwell

2:35:27 Park. I got ants.

2:35:34 I got ants.

2:35:38 There we go.

2:35:39 Next up is Sir Swiss Senna from Wadenswill,

2:35:43 Zurich, Switzerland.

2:35:45 $104.69.

2:35:48 I just made a PayPal payment of US dollars $1.00 $4.69,

2:35:52 which is the equivalent to 88 dot 88 Swiss francs

2:35:56 in honor of JCD.

2:35:58 In my 63,

2:35:59 I cried twice over the death of a well known person. The first time was when the musician Prince died on 04/21/2016,

2:36:08 and now when I learned of the passing of Buzzkill.

2:36:11 As the occasional organizer of the Swiss meetup,

2:36:14 I decided the producers of my region should meet again in Zurich at the cozy rooftop bar near the main station on Saturday, August 29.

2:36:24 I remember the discussion between the two of you if I would be eligible for the title of Black Knight.

2:36:30 And in the end you gave it to me, I wear it with pride just like my ceiling ring. I wish you all the best, The Dvorak family, the Curry family, and the two good souls who generously took over the mics for the time being.

2:36:43 I'm curious of what the future will bring for my favorite podcast, the best podcast in the universe. Best regards,

2:36:50 sir Swiss Senna.

2:36:52 Yeah. Thank you very much. And sir Robertson of two sticks up next from Dos Pelos,

2:36:57 California

2:36:58 came in with one zero one seventy nine. Thank you very much.

2:37:03 Alan Bean of Beaverton,

2:37:05 Oregon, $100.

2:37:08 No. No. But thank you, Alan. And then our buddy Timothy Hiesel coming in with a $100 from Hanford,

2:37:14 California.

2:37:14 No. No. Thank you very much.

2:37:17 Anonymous is back with a $100.

2:37:20 There's a lot of them. There's a lot of them. Thank you.

2:37:23 Then sir dude named Benonymous

2:37:25 coming in with a $100. Thank you very much.

2:37:28 The Lockwoods,

2:37:30 $100

2:37:31 from we not know not where, no nut. Thank you, The Lockwoods.

2:37:35 Also with a $100,

2:37:36 Angela Garcia, San Francisco, California. Thank you.

2:37:41 M Andrew Jones, Baron of America's Mountain, Viscount of the Very Fine People.

2:37:47 8888.

2:37:49 No note. Thank you, Viscount Jones.

2:37:52 And he writes books. He's got some interesting stuff. Oh, cool. Kevin McLaughlin. Oh, there he is. Concord, North Carolina,

2:37:59 the $80.00 8 donation.

2:38:01 $18.95

2:38:03 boob donation from the Archduke of Luna Lover of America

2:38:07 and boobs. Thank you, sir. Ablexrud

2:38:11 of Austin, Texas donated $80 and 8 and 8¢.

2:38:16 Thank you, Ablexrud.

2:38:18 And Les Tarkowski yet again with the $60.06.

2:38:23 No doubt. Route 66 donation from Kingman,

2:38:27 It is very much appreciated. Thank you.

2:38:30 Eric Ortega of Sioux Falls, South Dakota 5567.

2:38:34 He says, keep up the great work. We will try, and thank you, Eric.

2:38:39 Up next, James Edmonson came in with 5510,

2:38:42 which is double nickels on the dime from South Plainfield,

2:38:46 New Jersey. Thank you, sir.

2:38:48 Craig Noesley of Cumberland,

2:38:50 British Columbia.

2:38:52 $54.30.

2:38:54 And Craig says, I'm up to episode 40.

2:38:57 Thank God I've got years worth of JCD to listen to. And I pray we have years more with Adam, Larry, and Darren and Darren on the best podcast in the universe. Thank you, Craig. Yeah. You gotta follow him over on X. He's doing the reviews of all of the old No Agenda starting from episode one. It's an interesting

2:39:17 time capsule

2:39:19 to go back and see how the show has morphed.

2:39:22 Up next, Florida Sun Cleaning with fifty two seventy two from Citra, Florida says thank you all from Shannon. Oh, thank you. We appreciate it.

2:39:32 We do. Sir, recalcitrant, crazy Steve, and Dame Rose, Santa Rosa, California,

2:39:38 $51.50.

2:39:40 Thank you, sir and Steve and Dame.

2:39:43 Alexander Beatty with $50.01

2:39:46 from Tomball, Texas. Thank you.

2:39:49 Chris Slawinski.

2:39:51 Is it no. I'm sorry. Chris Slawinski.

2:39:54 Forgive me. Sherwood Park, Alberta, California.

2:39:57 Oh, no. Canada. What am I saying?

2:40:00 $50.

2:40:01 Thank you, Chris. Then EZ Landscapes. Oh, yeah. What did they do? We don't know. North Stonington,

2:40:07 Connecticut. Oh, that's near neighbor.

2:40:10 Larry, if you need some landscaping, you go to EZ Landscapes. Came in with 50. Thank you very much. Thank you.

2:40:16 Philip Balue of Louisville, Kentucky, $50.

2:40:20 Thank you, Philip. Pamela Bradley with $50 from Tecumseh,

2:40:24 Oklahoma. Thank you.

2:40:26 Chris Cowan of Austin, Texas, $50. Thank you, Chris.

2:40:30 And we like to thank everybody

2:40:32 for supporting this little show. Again, send in the Darren and Larry donations,

2:40:36 send in an 88 if you wanna do the JCD thing. There's all sorts of ways to help support the show. And you can also, of course,

2:40:43 just post about it. Let people know about the best damn podcast in the universe that we're still here.

2:40:49 Yep. We're still going strong

2:40:52 and we have the Podfather as a producer even on Sunday show. He's always like, can you imagine if we had him in the little earbud? That would be fun. That would be fun. We do have a layaway night for today

2:41:05 and that would be from Avery Allen. He says, thank hello to all the No Agenda family. It's taken me years, but I'm finally here.

2:41:13 I'd like to be known as sir Avery of Hamilton

2:41:17 and would like nothing special at the round table beyond the regular fair. Well, there's a lot of good stuff there already.

2:41:24 He says deepest and most heartfelt regards.

2:41:28 So we could do that. Let's see. We Yeah. Get the swords out here. Get those swords out.

2:41:37 Avery Allen, step right up to the podium, please.

2:41:42 For your support of the No Agenda show in the amount of a thousand dollars or more. I am very proud to pronounce you,

2:41:50 sir Avery of Hamilton.

2:41:56 Adam said we had to hit you hard. From Was now on he still breathing?

2:42:00 God. Lighten up, Darren. For we have the usual hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, mutton and mead, ginger ale and gerbils,

2:42:08 Bong Hits and Bourbon, Irish Whiskey, and Chicago Dogs.

2:42:13 And head on over to noagendarings.com.

2:42:16 That's where you'll be able to get your handsome No Agenda night ring. Just send in your ring size and your address, and they will get you your ring along with the certificate of authenticity.

2:42:28 And

2:42:30 thank you for supporting the best damn podcast in the universe and becoming a knight of No Agenda. And it's okay to hit them more than once because they're wearing all of the The armor. The right. So every it's safe.

2:42:41 Yeah. It's perfectly safe. Nothing to worry about.

2:42:46 Yeah.

2:42:53 We have a couple of birthdays to shout out today. Sir recalcitrant

2:42:57 crazy Steve the second wanted to wish sir Montauk a happy birthday. That was yesterday.

2:43:04 And sir William of West Pennsyltucky wants to wish DC girl. We know DC girl a very happy birthday

2:43:12 on August 18. We hope it is a great one.

2:43:17 And

2:43:19 then, of course, we have a few meetup reports here because there is a lot of No Agenda meetups going on. No Agenda

2:43:27 meetups.

2:43:30 It

2:43:35 is like a party. It's protection, it's connection, it's all that and more.

2:43:39 First up, we have the In the Morning Virginia.

2:43:42 Thank you for your courage. JCD meetup.

2:43:45 They have a little note here. Greetings, no agenda, no nation. Thank you for everyone who came out for the In the Morning Virginia and thank you for your courage JCD meetup. It was wonderful to see both familiar faces

2:43:57 and new ones over food and drink. We shared memories and stories

2:44:02 as we honor John.

2:44:04 We extend our deepest condolences to the Curry and Dvorak families and also prayers of celebration

2:44:09 for the newest arrivals.

2:44:12 In loss, we find new life. These moments remind us of why the meetups matter so much.

2:44:18 Let's keep this tradition alive because connection

2:44:21 is protection.

2:44:24 Along with the attached group photos, and it's a very good looking group. They were outside. No masks or anything, Larry. It was crazy. Wow. That's cool. We're, sharing a prayer for the No Agenda donation provided by Navy

2:44:36 Chaplain Milo Curtis

2:44:38 from Chesapeake, Virginia. A special thank you to him and his wife Bethany

2:44:43 for traveling out for their very first meetup. Thank you for your courage,

2:44:47 Dame Trail Chicken and this is the prayer here.

2:44:51 Alright. Go ahead. Yeah. Easy day. Alright. Let's pray.

2:44:55 Lord, we come to you right now. We lift up the Dvorak family. We pray for Amy Amy and the kids and

2:45:01 Curry's as well. And and Lord, we're all in this space with one another because of their faithful service to us over the years. We pray that your presence would be heavy, would be felt, your peace would be overwhelming.

2:45:12 Father, I pray it's for the No Agenda community

2:45:15 across this nation and around the world. That, father, this type of gathering, these type of friendships, this type of this kind of camaraderie would strengthen souls in these days. May your presence be felt be felt.

2:45:28 Father, may good things come of it that would accomplish your kingdom purposes. We pray this in your name. Amen. Amen.

2:45:35 Thank you. Thank you so much.

2:45:37 Very nice. Up next That was very nice. The Rockaway Beach pickleball meetup. I wonder if that's on an old data center.

2:45:46 Joseph Liggett says also really sorry about John. I finally brought myself to listen to the memorial show and listening to your intro. You could hear how much the old coot really meant to you. The No Agenda family is grieving with you. Yeah, I think John meant more to most people than they realized.

2:46:03 Oh, yeah. And is left really big shoes and that's coming from a guy with size fifteens. It is

2:46:09 impossible

2:46:11 and still very strange

2:46:12 to be keeping the torch lit for him. Yep. Hey, this is Joe in Rockaway Beach doing the media report. We got Tony and John here.

2:46:23 Say hi. This

2:46:26 is Tony c. I do name Tony c, r I p j c d. Yep. This is Johnny c, r I p, John C. Dvorak.

2:46:34 I've list I've been reading your material ever since Info World way back in the day.

2:46:40 Awesome. And and here's our awesome, glorious server.

2:46:44 Hi. I'm Katie. I'm from Rockaway Beach Pickleball and Golf. These guys were awesome to have here today. I really appreciated having their company.

2:46:55 Booyah.

2:46:57 RIP JCG.

2:46:59 I like the Ramones in the background. That's mixed Yeah.

2:47:03 And then a late comer, but we got it. The Podfather was trying to sneak one in. He's like, probably too late for this show. It's never too late. The Langley BC meetup report.

2:47:13 Hey, we're here at the WWJCDD

2:47:17 meetup in Aldergrove.

2:47:19 We wanted to think about and remember John. We had some wine, we had some mac and cheese, and we remembered a great man. This is ID pop raising a glass of red and damming some mac and cheese in honor of John C. In the morning.

2:47:35 In the morning, we do have some very

2:47:37 talented producers.

2:47:39 Indeed. There are some upcoming meetups including we got an ad from some, drunken minstrel,

2:47:44 Chris Wilson.

2:47:53 Good day, punters and producers of the best podcasts in the universe. We're bringing ants back to the Antipodes.

2:47:59 If you're located here in Old City Town or its greater metro region, listen up. It's about bloody time we got together and caught up in real life to honor the late, great John C. Dvorak and to celebrate that we're all still here to carry on his legacy. We will be supporting our No Agenda community in the great Aussie tradition of drinking beer and talking shit. Date is set for this coming Sunday, August 23, in the year of our Lord 2026

2:48:24 at our old horn for previous meetups, the gasoline pony, 115 Merrittville Road, Merrittville at the customary time of 03:33PM.

2:48:34 There are some restrictions for under eighteens, so if you'd like to include your human resources,

2:48:38 let me know, and we can look for an alternative venue nearby. I'm thinking of the Merrittville Bolo. RSVP on No Agenda Meetups, feel free to call or SMS me anytime for any questions or suggestions. Look forward to catching up with you all in. In the morning, and thank you for your courage.

2:48:55 Now thank you, sir Chris Welstein. Yeah. I love

2:48:58 fully produced bits. He's smooth. That's good work. He does a lot of the great end of show mixes.

2:49:05 Yeah. And he was kind of overboard for a little while so it is a beautiful thing

2:49:10 to have him back. We wanna run through these

2:49:13 meetups that are coming up here.

2:49:16 From, today we've got the show day

2:49:20 RIP JCD at 2PM Central at the Dog House Lounge in Dubuque, Iowa. That sounds like fun. Yeah.

2:49:28 August 16,

2:49:30 the Castle Island Brewery

2:49:32 in Norwood, Massachusetts.

2:49:34 And that one's 02:30 Boston time. Yes.

2:49:38 We have the TMI

2:49:40 evacuation zone toast to John meet up at 03:30 eastern at Evergrain

2:49:44 Brewing in

2:49:46 Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

2:49:49 Then the,

2:49:51 on also the sixteenth, the drinking to Buzzkill at 04:30PM

2:49:54 Pacific time at the Alibi Room

2:49:57 in Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia. Yes. Sounds like some partying going on there too. It does. Yes. Then next show day on Thursday, the Charlotte's

2:50:06 third thirsty Thursday at 7PM Eastern at Ed's Tavern

2:50:11 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and that is organized by sir Kevin Dils, the Archduke

2:50:17 of The Carolinas.

2:50:18 Beyond that,

2:50:20 we have,

2:50:21 Richmond, Virginia, August 21. We have August 22, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Reno, Nevada, August 23,

2:50:29 Indianapolis,

2:50:31 Indiana, Benton, Arkansas,

2:50:34 Merrickville,

2:50:35 New South Wales,

2:50:36 Australia. That was the one that Sir Chris was just talking about, I think.

2:50:40 Mhmm. August 28, Maastricht,

2:50:42 Limburg, Netherlands, August 29,

2:50:46 Nanaimo,

2:50:49 British Columbia, Canada. Is that what that is? Nanaimo maybe? I don't know. And,

2:50:54 I'll do the rest of the 20 nines, Albuquerque, New Mexico,

2:50:58 Rhode Island, and Zurich, Switzerland.

2:51:01 August 30, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.

2:51:04 On September 6, Medford Lakes, New Jersey. September 12, Boise, Idaho. The fifteenth is Scottsdale, Arizona. And the seventeenth is Charlotte, North Carolina.

2:51:13 October 3, Midlands UK. October 10, Treasure Island, Idaho. The October 15, Charlotte, North Carolina.

2:51:22 We're back to October 10

2:51:24 in Eagle, Idaho fifteenth,

2:51:27 Charlotte. We already had that January,

2:51:29 Fredericksburg,

2:51:30 Texas,

2:51:31 October 24, Smith Smithville,

2:51:34 Texas,

2:51:35 then as well on the twenty fourth Los Altos,

2:51:39 California

2:51:41 and Tilburg,

2:51:42 The Netherlands.

2:51:44 If you don't see your town there or one close, it's very easy.

2:51:48 Tip,

2:51:49 start your own. Just go to noagendameetups.com.

2:52:08 I mean, because it is actually a party. It is. I've got a few ISOs for today's show.

2:52:14 We're gonna get you to start bringing some ISOs in. I'm gonna bring some ISOs, I promise next time. What I always forget. Still every show no matter what, it's clips, clips, clips, then it's like, oh wait,

2:52:25 wait we need ISOs.

2:52:26 Yes. So I've got this one from

2:52:30 uncle Ted.

2:52:31 Okay. Oh,

2:52:33 yeah.

2:52:34 Kind of kind of an excited uncle Ted. Yeah.

2:52:37 I've got Mickey Rourke as a demo dick Marchinko.

2:52:41 Buddy or not, baby, here I come.

2:52:44 Or

2:52:46 Stop talking.

2:52:48 I

2:52:49 gotta say, I I kinda like I dig Mickey because I dig, you know, demo dick too. What do you think? Ready or not, baby. Here I come. Yeah.

2:52:57 I think that's a good way. It's kinda like a fun little game that people can take part in. Yeah. Yeah.

2:53:04 So we will mark that one down and

2:53:10 we will I mean, we don't normally hear, you know, a we'll do a clip of the day. Oh, good. Not a clip of the day. A

2:53:21 I was looking for the tip jingle, but you know what? We don't need the tip jingle in honor of JCD.

2:53:27 Will just say

2:53:29 if you have a medical bill at a hospital,

2:53:33 call them up and ask for a discount.

2:53:37 That's a good tip. That is the tip. We had my wife had some tests done when she was in the ER, went in and you call up and in our hospital anyway, it's easy enough. I'm like, can you offer me a discount for paying promptly?

2:53:50 And they're like, yeah, we can give you 5%.

2:53:53 That's not bad. Then I'm like, can you do 10? And they put you on hold for like thirty seconds.

2:53:58 And then they always come back and say yes.

2:54:01 That's very good tip.

2:54:03 It is a very nice way to save a little bit of money and whatever you save, of course,

2:54:08 you can donate to the best damn podcast in the universe.

2:54:13 That is gonna do it for another fun edition of the best damn podcast in the universe. Coming up next

2:54:20 on the Mighty No Agenda stream,

2:54:23 we have oh, live.

2:54:25 It is the battle of the douchebags

2:54:28 live. Oh, that's a good show. Listen on that. You've liked on it several times. It's really good. Enjoy that. Yeah. We have a couple of end of show mixes from Just Baker.

2:54:39 We've got one from sir Chris Wilson. I think, actually, I think we have three end of show mixes from Jess Baker, so thank you very much for that. You can always use more. Send those in.

2:54:51 We love the talented producers. That's for Dang Sure.

2:54:56 So coming to you from just outside of Chirac right here in FEMA region number five in the morning, everybody. I am Darren O'Neill.

2:55:06 And from the pretentious Connecticut Shore,

2:55:08 I'm Larry Blydner.

2:55:10 We will be back here on Thursday live on the mighty No Agenda stream, noagenda.stream.

2:55:15 Join us and remember us at noagendadonations.com.

2:55:19 Until then, hooey hooey. Thank you for your courage, and adios,

2:55:24 mofos,

2:55:25 and such. And such.

2:55:28 Larry

2:55:29 Darren.

2:55:35 Our ran just dropped the body count.

2:55:49 Widow on a mission. Married up the elderly, temporary permission. 10 husbands minimum, maybe thirteen, fifteen. I don't remember exactly. Classic serial scene. Diabetes,

2:56:00 meds, industrial, alcohol pour a towel over the face when

2:56:16 handed 10 death sentences. One family took the blood money rest. Want the consequences? Black widow, black widow still searching for mister Right. 10 bodies in the rearview still ain't found the light. Poison in the teacup towel in the night. Irons Black Weedle still ain't found, mister Wright

2:56:34 That's the end of the show

2:56:36 Value4Value

2:58:34 Iran say check the checks, best is economic theory cut and wallet's thin Oil price propaganda who cash in the spin Ballroom block by the circuit court Temporary tenant Media love territory People's house of vanity depends

2:59:40 Another issue this investigation has brought up is Austin's growing homeless population. We spoke with a local agency that says affordable housing is the solution to supporting these individuals and getting them back on their feet. Ashley Prentiss joining us now live from Downtown Austin with more tonight. Ashley.

3:00:11 Said that she was from the city.

3:00:15 I said, baby, you're way too pretty to be here.

3:00:21 As the junkies all drew near,

3:00:24 she said, I wanna help all the homeless people.

3:00:29 I wanna house all the homeless people too. I wanna fix all the homeless people.

3:00:36 I wanna fix

3:00:37 homeless people like you.

3:00:40 Well, what else could I do?

3:00:44 She was standing in my booth. Homeless individuals are not

3:00:48 are not dangerous.

3:00:50 I asked if she could give me money.

3:00:53 I grabbed her purse, then I started running away.

3:00:59 She gave chase.

3:01:03 Under a bridge, I found my dealer.

3:01:07 She called up so we had a feel and a rate.

3:01:13 Well, felt pretty great.

3:01:16 I said, you wanna help all the homeless people.

3:01:20 You wanna house all the homeless people you seek. You wanna fix all the homeless people.

3:01:27 You wanna fix

3:01:28 homeless people like me.

3:01:31 As the vagrants

3:01:32 gather

3:02:27 inadequate funding for mental health services has left more and more people on the streets. She says it was obvious. He was mentally unstable. And he kept saying that I have to open the door for him so that he could hurt and kill our concierge because she's a robot. A homeless

3:04:00 dvorak.org/na.

3:04:08 Buddy or not, baby, here I come.