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Hey, today's redhead day.
Adam Curry, John C.
DeVora.
It's Thursday, February 26, 2026.
This is your award-winning give-all nation
media assassination episode 1846.
This is no agenda.
Guilty until proven innocent.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas school country, here in FEMA region number
six.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we demand
accountability.
I'm John C.
DeVorak.
It's crackball and buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yeah, you did it, man.
You did it now.
You did it now.
What?
You did it.
Your entire Hoar Island thesis has thrown the
show into a tailspin.
Did you not receive any emails at all?
Yeah, I got a couple.
I mean, I got, uh, let's see.
I'm just looking from my Twitter timeline today.
Something simply isn't right about the show.
What the hell is happening?
Here's another one.
It's truly sad.
The show used to be a one-of
-a-kind breakdown of the news cycle.
And just enough crackpot to keep it interesting
and open.
I personally believe that after journalist Jamie White
was murdered, it was a cue to stop
talking about certain subjects.
This show sucks now.
I did not get that one.
Oh, this is public.
This is just on my timeline.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's just something somebody's bitching.
Okay.
Oh, well, I mean, it's nonstop.
It's all I can't even go to Twitter
anymore.
It's like people just hate me.
Yeah.
Well, they should hate you for letting me
talk like this.
Yes, they hate me for something.
Here's my favorite.
Here's my favorite.
What kind of Christian are you?
There's a mountain of evidence in the P.
Diddy and Epstein cases showing their deep involvement
in satanic cults and sex magic rituals.
Yet, for some reason, you keep trying to
sell us on the idea they were merely
rich guys having orgies.
It really makes me question who you really
pray to.
Why have you laughed at it like our
government is not full of satanic creeps?
Surely, you know the truth.
So stuff like this, and then it's running
away into podcasts.
This is the coffee and a mic podcast.
To separate whether I can talk to somebody
and judge whether they know what's going on,
or even if they're like controlled opposition is,
does Israel control the United States or does
the United States control Israel?
Because if you tell me the United States
controls Israel, one, I either think you're ignorant,
or two, I think you're working for them.
One of the biggest podcasts in the world
is No Agenda.
And after what I've heard on that show
over the last year, I'm trying to get
people to run away from that Adam Curry
and John C.
Dvorak.
I mean, just this past Sunday's episode, they
were completely excusing.
They're saying, oh, there were no underage girls
with Epstein.
They're Epstein mentions it in the freaking day
that I provide children.
Michael Tracy, Michael Tracy has been out there
denying the undeniable.
And people are like, you know, why do
they think that works?
I'm baffled by that because it seems to
me that conceding something would give you enhanced
credibility, right?
And there it is.
Conceding into audience capture.
Exactly.
Wouldn't it make sense that if we really
were going for the gold that we just
say, oh, yeah, yeah, this is this is
what we believe when we clearly believe other
things.
And we've been controversial throughout almost.
It's hardly controversial.
Oh, it's extremely controversial to maniacs.
You know, you have no idea this guy
with his.
Oh, you know, I don't understand how it's
even possible that anyone doesn't believe that Israel
controls the United States because, hell, you know,
there's a small little country in the middle
of nowhere and they're telling us what to
do.
Won't they tell us to give him even
more money?
I don't see him us doing that.
We're the biggest.
We have a one trillion dollar defense budget.
We're the biggest market in the world.
And they're telling us what to do.
And that makes sense to you.
I think that.
Well, of course not.
But that's the point.
There is.
No, not you.
I'm talking.
No, no, no, I know.
But there's you out there.
There's a complete lack of critical thinking.
And it comes from this beautiful confluence of
years of QAnon babies being shipped in wayfair
containers.
Remember that one?
Everybody was all in on that one.
Why could it cost $13,000 into Epstein,
who everybody was convinced that he was blackmailing
people, convinced, you know, throw in a little
bit of Whitney Webb.
And by the way, she's having a big
fight with Glenn Greenwald.
If you saw that Glenn Greenwald, you know,
you wrote stuff about me in 2013.
That was utter bullcrap.
So I can't trust you anymore.
Whatever you write.
Um, there's just it's like we've gone into
conspiracy overdrive.
And when the two sanest voices is Adam
and John, you got to stop for a
second.
Think, hmm, I wonder why those guys are
saying what they actually think.
And now what everybody wants them to say.
So let's clarify at least one thing.
This we never said that there's no underage
girls involved.
In fact, if you look at anything having
to do with prostitution whatsoever, you find that
it's dominated by underage girls.
And there's report after report, which I actually
did a printout of the United Nations and
other groups have done this at the average
typical underage girl involved in prostitution is a
runaway.
There's all kinds of issues with them, and
they're 15, but average average 15.
So this is not what we're talking about.
But let me read you this note from
a one of our listeners, one of our
producers, Chester.
Hey, John, I appreciated your take on Epstein.
I was at a dinner a few weeks
ago with several people, including a former high
end sex worker, you know, who explained her
opinion on Jeffrey and the island, which was
pretty much the same as yours.
Nobody at the table seemed to scandalize, but
they weren't agreeing either.
I think I said something noncommittal, like, oh,
maybe.
But the conversation stuck in my head.
So I was receptive when I heard your
rundown.
In other words, he heard her first than
me.
Oh, okay.
Interesting.
So I made an audio clip of you
expounding on the matter and sent it to
her in an email.
And she responded, quote.
So we have a we have our she
should be listening to the show.
Yeah, I hope so.
Send it.
I am glad someone is speaking up about
the matter in a sane fashion.
I think the Epstein spectacle is quite anti
Semitic.
Oh, hey, no.
Turning one lone individual into a central figure
in a conspiracy that involves money and finance,
forcing every person who knows him to explain
how he came to be tainted by this
scapegoat who just happened to be Jewish.
Give me a break.
It's obvious.
And then she says it's an unhealthy blend
of anti Semitic paranoia, Salem witch trial methods,
sex phobia, plus women of a certain age
hating the existence of young younger women in
men's lives.
Just perfect.
Some of those mean spirited women claiming to
be concerned about vulnerable younger ladies are older
sex workers.
End of quote.
So no, I'm the more I thought about
what you say.
Yeah.
First of all, yeah, the Epstein files are
filled with all kinds of crazy stuff.
Anybody's email, if they ever get a hold
of my email, the stuff I haven't nuked
on my own server, people send me the
craziest stuff.
You know, you look at that like, oh,
what's going on here?
Do I think Epstein was creepy?
Absolutely.
Do I?
Oh, yeah, sure.
He was.
You could take a look.
It was creepy.
People are creeps.
And there are lots of people like that.
In fact, the Department of Justice and Sheriff's
Office around the country continuously round up people
like that gets almost no mention because it's
not Trump or it's not billionaires, et cetera.
So and this I have to agree with
the president.
This is a he's calls it a Democrat
hoax.
It's a Democrat strategy and they're using it
quite effectively.
So there is one case now that everybody's
honing in on about this 13 year old.
And Anderson Cooper leads the charge, and then
we'll talk about this and what the facts
of the case are, not just what people
are saying.
We begin tonight, keeping them honest with the
name that I'm honest was not last night
State of the Union message.
Jeffrey Epstein.
That and the name that we learned today
has turned up in FBI records missing from
the Epstein files.
Donald Trump.
We know this because a numbered evidence log
in the Glenn Maxwell case catalogs about 325
FBI witness interviews.
But of that number, more than 90 do
not appear to be present on the Justice
Department's website.
And three of those witness interviews are related
to a woman who told agents that Jeffrey
Epstein had repeatedly abused her starting when she
was approximately 13 years old.
She also accused Trump of sexually assaulting her.
Now, we should point out here that the
president has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection
with Jeffrey Epstein, and the White House is
calling the allegations, quote, false and sensationalist.
We have nothing to do with Epstein.
The Democrats do.
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
You just keep going on the Epstein files.
And what the Epstein is is a Democrat
hoax.
The president, as you know, has been treating
the files as the ultimate not guilty verdict.
I have nothing to hide.
I've been exonerated.
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
I've been totally exonerated.
And I've been totally exonerated.
I've been totally exonerated on Epstein.
Well, you know, I'm the expert in a
way because I've been totally exonerated.
But I'm the one that can talk about
it because I've been totally exonerated.
Well, keep it honest, that might be easier
to say if the public had access to
everything the federal government has on Epstein, Maxwell
and the many powerful people they moved among.
Then Citizen Trump included, who, again, says he
did nothing wrong.
So now you've got to add one more
thing to the Epstein conspiracy that involves all
the billionaires, the elites and everybody that, of
course, is not with high end escorts.
No, no, no.
It's all children and it's eating babies.
And the biggest offender of this, and you
almost I almost have to think she was
doing it on purpose, is our AG Barbie.
These latest allegations first arose in July of
2019, just days after Epstein's arrest on federal
charges.
A woman called an FBI tip line.
Agents interviewed her two weeks later, during which
she told them Epstein had repeatedly abused her
at a home he was staying at in
South Carolina.
The abuse started, she said, when she was
about 13 years old.
Now, according to the FBI interview record, a
form known as a 302 when she showed
agents a photo of Trump and Epstein that
a friend had sent her.
Her attorney said that she was, quote, concerned
about implicating additional individuals and specifically any that
were well known due to a fear of
retaliation.
The Maxwell evidence log notes three additional 302
forms dated in August and October 2019 related
to the same alleged victim, as well as
three other sets of interview notes.
Now, none of those appear to be present
in the files released by the DOJ lawmakers.
Most sides of the aisle have now said
the release files, which took an act of
Congress to get released, are not all there
is.
And it's been more than a year since
the attorney general said this on Fox News.
Here we go.
Tomorrow, Jesse, breaking news right now, you're going
to see some Epstein information being released by
my office.
It's sitting on my desk right now to
review.
A truckload of evidence arrived.
It's now in the possession of the FBI.
It's a new day.
It's a new administration.
And everything's going to come out to the
public.
So that, of course, was the dumbest thing
she could have ever done.
Either she is a complete idiot or she's
working for the Democrats, as far as I'm
concerned, because she at least should have known
she had nothing.
All the stuff she put in the binders
was known for a long time.
And a final clip here about the DOJ.
That said, for the most part, the files
we've seen have been notable for the absence
of names hidden behind redactions, which both Republican
Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna both say
conceal potential co-conspirators.
And to the files we've seen, you can
now add the ones that are missing.
Reading now from the Justice Department's statement on
them, several individuals and news outlets have recently
flagged files related to documents produced to Ghislaine
Maxwell in discovery of her criminal case that
they claim appear to be missing.
As with all documents that have been flagged
by the public, the department is currently reviewing
files within that category of the production.
Should any document be found to have been
improperly tagged in the review process and is
responsive to the act, the department will, of
course, publish it consistent with the law.
So they continue to bumble along, putting things
out, pulling them back, putting them back in,
pulling them out.
And the Democrats are loving this.
As the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to dog
the Trump administration, Democratic lawmakers say that the
U.S. Government is withholding evidence that could
implicate the president in criminal activity.
These are the files that the FBI has
removed from their public Department of Justice database.
The yellow files here are the files that
President Trump is hiding.
The yellow files here are investigations with a
woman who was abused as a minor and
who alleged that Donald Trump was her abuser.
Dozens of FBI witness interviews appear to be
missing from public records, according to U.S.
media reports.
And numerous alleged victims say they cannot find
their testimonies in the 3 million new documents
released by the Department of Justice at the
end of January.
At the State of the Union on Tuesday,
Democratic lawmakers wore pins demanding the release of
the missing files and brought a dozen Epstein
accusers as their guests.
Where are the rest of the files?
The truth must come out.
Why are there no investigations when there are
plenty of people in these files to investigate?
Since the files have been made public, there
have been high profile arrests and investigations around
the world into those named in the documents.
But no such investigation has been opened in
the United States.
The White House has dismissed claims of Trump's
involvement with Epstein's criminal sex ring as false
and sensationalist.
And the president did not mention the late
sex offender in his speech.
In response to the allegations, the Department of
Justice denied any wrongdoing, saying that any missing
documents were either duplicates or part of an
ongoing federal investigation.
All right, so let's talk about the 13
year old for a second, because what we're
missing here is these so-called victims and
how old they were and what they were
a victim of.
And let's also mention the fact that we're
dealing with a use of language, which the
Democrats are quite good or the left in
general is good at and changing a customer
of a prostitute to an abuse, changing the
name of a john to an abuser and
changing the name of a sex worker to
a victim.
Yes.
Let's talk about they say victim, victim, victim
of these.
Now, the question that never that never seems
to be brought up.
Does anyone ever ask any of the women
who are or that have been.
Kind of sequestered to to complain about this
a lot.
Have you paid any money for this process
of abuse?
And how old were you and how old
were you at the time?
And were you paid any money?
I honestly, I don't want to sound callous,
but I almost believe that these women found
out what was being charged by the by
the system, by the hope, by the what
I call a whorehouse and what they were
getting.
And they felt gypped.
Well, the timing of them coming out is
always interesting.
But I want to go to the 13
year old because this is not a case
that is unknown to the show.
Even often referred to as the Katie Johnson
lawsuit or Jane Doe.
Was filed in 2016, alleging incidents that took
place in the summer of 1994 at Epstein's
Manhattan pad.
The victim, a 13 year old girl using
the pseudonym Jane Doe slash Katie Johnson, claimed
she was recruited under the guise of a
modeling career.
She alleged she was sexually abused by both
Epstein and Trump on multiple occasions.
Most notably, she claimed that during a fourth
encounter, Trump tied her to a bed and
forcibly raped her while she pleaded for him
to stop.
And this lawsuit included a sworn statement from
a Tiffany Doe, so a pseudonym who claimed
to be a party planner for Epstein and
said she had personally witnessed the abuse.
And the plaintiff said that Trump Trump had
threatened to have her and her family killed
if she ever spoke out.
Citing a 12 year old girl named Maria
who had supposedly disappeared after similar instances.
So this suit was first filed in California
in 2016, dismissed by a California judge, refiled
in 2016 in New York.
October 2016, there was a press conference scheduled,
I remember this, by her then attorney Lisa
Bloom.
Remember the Lisa Bloom, the famous?
Yes, the famous Lisa Bloom.
This is when the plaintiff was going public,
but the press conference was canceled very last
minute.
She stated her client was living in fear
due to death threats.
Then November 4th, days before the presidential election,
the lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff's
legal team without any public explanation.
So there was no evidence.
The lawsuit was withdrawn.
But here's the fun part.
Norm Lebeau, does that name ring any bells
for you?
No, he was a TV producer, crack smoking
TV producer who did sensationalist stories about celebrities.
He worked for the Jerry Springer show.
He's the guy that started all of this.
He he's the one that started publishing articles.
He's the one he is behind a lot
of these things.
You know that Kurt Cobain was killed by
his wife and this kind of stuff.
So a lawsuit that was put in withdrawn
right before the elections.
The whole thing is very, very flimsy at
best.
So, you know, OK, show me something, show
me something that's real, not some email that
says I got a torture video.
We already discussed that.
Have you looked at Pornhub?
So, yes, Jeffrey Epstein was a creep.
All my personal opinion, any but any older
guy who wants to have sex with a
16, 17, 18 year old, probably legal in
the states that were doing it or on
an island, you know, they got a lot
of problems.
But if it was for money, well, there's
other discussions that need to be had.
But the whole thing is being manipulated and
turned into a strategy for the Democrat Party.
Yeah, it's a total.
This is the this is the Russian hoax.
This is the Russian hoax of the second
administration.
Russian hoax is over.
They can't talk about it anymore.
I'm still lingering effects of it.
People still believe it.
And this is the new one.
And this came up.
This is the Trump screws little kids.
And yes, he's a rapist.
But it's a hoax.
I think it's going even further.
And it's really interesting.
And and I see people all over the
political spectrum falling for this.
I think many of our own listeners or
maybe formalists.
Obviously, some of our own listeners fall for
it.
And and the idea here is all billionaires.
Anybody who is power is a billionaire is
successful.
They're all in cahoots with Trump.
And they're going to get it seriously.
And and you need to this.
These people are the problem.
They're the Silicon Valley guys.
If you're Silicon Valley and you're Jewish, you
got two strikes against you.
Zuckerberg, Teal, all these guys.
And they're all in cahoots with Trump and
Trump is protecting them.
And this was completely laid out by none
other than the twerp.
Condoleezza Rice, Condi.
Well, she's not the twerp.
Susan Rice is the twerp.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Well, she's a twerp, too.
Condoleezza Rice, who wrote herself an email to
be able to say later, yeah, no, all
that.
No, no, no.
That's not Condoleezza Rice.
Was that Susan Rice?
That's Susan Rice.
Well, Condoleezza Rice is the old.
She worked in the Bush administration.
Oh, she teaches at Stanford.
Well, she's a problem.
What did she do?
Listen, listen to what she said on this
podcast with Preet Bharara.
And she's teeing it up.
She's teeing it up for the Democrat Party.
Has the first year approximated what you expected?
Has it been less bad than you expected
or worse?
Well, I expected it to be very bad.
Susan Rice, not Condoleezza Rice.
Isn't this Condi?
I think this is Condoleezza Rice.
No, this is Susan Rice.
Condoleezza Rice isn't even in this story.
I thought this was.
It's a Rice lady.
This is the twerp.
This is the twerp.
I knew it.
I just had the name wrong.
This is Susan Rice then.
Are you sure it's not Condoleezza Rice?
Condoleezza Rice is a tall woman with a
big square head.
Who talks like a patrician.
I'm pretty sure this is Condoleezza Rice.
Yes, I clipped it myself.
Did you visually see the person?
Yes.
Well, she was sitting down so I couldn't
tell if she was tiny or not.
Yes, this is Condoleezza Rice.
No, it's not Condoleezza Rice.
I hate the fact that I have to
contradict you on this because Condoleezza Rice is
not involved in any of this and it's
ruining your point.
Well, let me go look at my history.
I'm 99% certain this is Condoleezza Rice
talking and she may ruin my...
Here she is.
This is Susan Rice.
You're right.
Okay.
Thank you for catching that.
Thank you for saving me.
It's Susan Rice.
So, is my point valid again now?
Well, the problem is that when you misstep,
when you're making a good argument...
A good argument and then I ruin it
by...
And then you misstep by bringing in somebody
who's got nothing to do with anything because
of a mistake and the names being similar.
I didn't even think about that.
So, here's what we'll do.
Here's what we'll do.
We'll cut all that out of the show.
You're not cutting it.
No one will ever know.
Susan Rice, who...
I had this clip in the last show.
She is a drip.
Well, I have four clips because it was
super interesting all the things she actually said.
I was like, holy moly.
She's part of the scheme.
And she's the one that wrote the email,
correct?
To herself?
Yeah, she's the one who wrote the cover
your ass email at the end of her
term.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, that's Susan Rice.
Susan Rice.
Okay.
Condoleezza Rice was out of the business 10
years earlier.
Condoleezza Rice is dead to me.
She's dead to me, doesn't exist.
Susan Rice.
Susan Rice, teeing it up for the Democrat
Party.
Has the first year approximated what you expected?
Has it been less bad than you expected
or worse?
Well, I expected it to be very bad.
And I guess I would confess that it's
probably worse than I anticipated.
But not because they're doing things that surprised
me.
They told us exactly what they were going
to do.
Yeah.
You know, we recall Trump saying multiple times
on the campaign trail, if you vote for
me that this one time you'll never have
to vote again.
Or his, you know, pledge to use the
American military against the, quote, enemy within.
You know, you had Stephen Miller foreshadowing not
only the use of the Insurrection Act, but
potentially the suspension of habeas corpus and the
imposition of martial law.
All of these are, you know, they tell
you, interestingly, where they intend to head.
But what surprised me is the speed and
the efficacy of their efforts to do what
they set out to do.
And the fact that they have faced very
little resistance from members of their own party,
from the private sector, from civil society leaders
and university heads and law firms and all
of the, you know, the pillars of society
media that have, you know, rolled over and
played dead or hidden under rocks.
Yeah, I love this.
So she sets it up by saying Project
2025.
We all knew it.
They've held to it entirely, completely to it.
And they're going to get theirs.
Do you think that after a year of
this?
No, wait, I could misclip this somehow, probably.
Whether you're university, whether you're.
Oh, sorry about that.
Play a long game, not this short game
that has been so detrimental.
So very specifically, if the House changes hands
in a few months, what should be the
top priority or two in terms of that
accountability that you're speaking of for Democratic leadership
in the House?
Well, first of all, when the Democrats win
the House, which I believe they will, possibly
the Senate, you know, they need to appropriately
focus on the needs of the American people,
which Donald Trump and the Republicans could give
a damn about whether it's health care, housing
costs, food prices, electricity prices, runaway tech companies
that are, you know, lining their own pockets
at the expense of our children, our jobs,
our interests, maybe even our very existential future.
Existential future?
There's a lot of stuff that we need
to do in service of the American people.
But in addition to that, there will be
an accountability agenda.
You know, companies already are starting to hear
they better preserve their documents.
They better be ready for subpoenas.
If they've done something wrong, they'll be held
accountable.
And if they haven't broken the law, good
for them.
If they've done the right things, good for
them.
That also will be noted and remembered.
But, you know, this is not going to
be an instance of, you know, forgive and
forget.
The damage that these people are doing is
too severe to the American people and to
our national interest.
She's threatening everybody, but she's really confirming to
the Democrat party and the people who vote
Democrat, but also to anybody who is whipped
up into this Epstein thing.
You've got to hate these people.
You've got to hate billionaires.
You've got to hate tech companies, which is
so inherently un-American.
You know, I grew up like, hey, you
see that guy with the Rolls Royce?
Yeah, you could be that guy.
This is America.
But now everybody who's successful, everybody who's doing
anything with Trump, anybody who's been helping him
out, we're going to get you.
We're going to get you and everybody will
hate you.
And this is like I said, I had
this clip.
This was the thing about that little ditty
at the end about the corporations.
I think it has to do, which follows
into some clips I have about the DC
sewage problem.
It's pretty smelly out here in the most
beautiful city in America.
It is that that is that is aimed
at the pulling.
I believe it's aimed at the pulling of
all the DEI stuff.
The corporations are noticing and ESG, all the
corporations noticing that, you know, even Larry Fink
of BlackRock, who promoted the idea of ESG
in particular.
But it was like it's losing money for
these companies because you're putting incompetent people into
positions where they need where there has to
be some there has to be some knowledge
base.
You have to you have to you can't
just take anybody off the street and make
him a CEO.
You can't take anybody off the street and
make them into some, you know, running some
department that they have no clue about what
it is or what it does or what
how it works, as opposed to what the
Democrats are trying to do, which is exactly
that, which, of course, undermines the entire economic
system that we have a capitalism because they're
anti-capitalist.
And a lot of them will say it.
Yes, they come out.
And many of them would just say, yeah,
well, yeah, I am a communist.
It's the way to go.
It just hasn't never worked out so far
because it hasn't been done right.
That commentary, which never seems to end, never
will.
Someone also sent me a link today.
It was a short essay about Americans confidence
in government from 1958 to today.
And in 1958, it was somewhere in the
low 70s.
And today it's 17 percent.
Yeah, which is yeah.
And the point is that when it gets
this low, this is when interesting things take
place.
You know, you get the overthrow of the
emperor.
You get all kinds of things happening.
And I think MAGA came in the first
time at the right moment.
But I don't know if if if Trump
has the winning edge on this now, because
I just see too many people severely negative.
All trust, trust is lost in all institutions.
Covid had a big, although actually confidence went
up for a little bit during Covid across
the board, but now it's completely now people
are dying, you know, blood clots everywhere.
People have lost all confidence.
And so there could be a completely different
person who comes along and says, hey, I
can motivate all these people.
I think it's an interesting situation for the
United States.
Yeah, I agree.
So let's move from that unless you want
to finish.
No, no, no, that's no, I mean, I
just want to make your point.
Yeah.
But the only point I want to make
towards people who are mad at us, it's
like we're doing this because that's all we
do.
We tell you the truth as we see
it, not because we're paid, not because we're
Christian Zionists, not because we're controlled or blackmailed
by Mossad or CIA, and unfortunately not because
anybody's paying us to do this.
So get a grip.
I found that character in that one podcast
that condemned us to be pathetic.
Well, of course.
But anyway, so the thesis has not changed
about the whorehouse, and I'm still going through
photos.
This is quite, quite interesting.
So one of the things I'm going to
do, I'm going to start posting either on
my Twitter account, The Real Dvorak, or I'd
probably put him in the newsletter.
Occasionally you run into some screwball photo.
I ran into one the other day, but
I started, I had to...
Hold on, hold on, hold on a second,
hold on a second.
Somebody tell me you're recording the stream, please.
Let me know that you're recording the stream.
You didn't push the red button.
I have a feeling I may not have
pushed the red button.
Someone's always recording the stream.
So as long as you're recording the stream,
I'm happy.
Is somebody recording the stream?
We're going to pray someone's recording the stream.
Otherwise, this will be a very strange podcast.
Oh, yeah, Darren O has it.
Darren, you're the man.
All right, so I knew he'd have it.
All right, continue.
We're good.
Darren must have a great archive.
Darren is phenomenal, man.
Without Darren, we'd be bust.
So where was I?
I was talking about something.
I can't roll it back to find out
what you were saying.
Sorry, I can't.
I just can't.
You come back to me, but you...
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You were talking about the character on the
podcast.
You thought he was pathetic.
Yeah, yeah.
And about not getting paid by Mossad.
Yeah, we don't get paid by Mossad.
I don't know why they should send us
money anyway, just because we do a good
job of analysis.
So I wanted to switch gears and move
to...
Because I thought Susan Rice's commentary, which was
about, I think was about DEI, brings us
to the sewage thing.
And our national treasure, NPR did a thing
on it.
It's not clear what caused the Potomac sewage
spill.
The pipe is from the 1960s.
In an open letter, the head of the
utility that manages the line, DC Water, echoed
the risks that scientists like McGuire describe.
Old infrastructure, population growth, and climate change.
The utility has said it found signs of
corrosion during an inspection about a decade ago.
McGuire says the section that broke was slated
for repair.
So hopefully this is a little bit of
a kick in the pants for everyone.
Because she says the risks around the country
are growing.
We already have a chronic sort of slow
bleed.
But if we have a chronic explosion problem,
that's going to be much more impactful than
what we already have.
President Trump has tried to blame local Democratic
leaders for the accident.
However, DC Water is under federal oversight.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it's committed to
fulfilling its oversight role and to helping make
sure the recovery happens as quickly as possible.
The ultimate authority that really needs to be
aggressive in addressing this is the Environmental Protection
Agency.
That's Mike Jarrell, another scientist at the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation.
He says the EPA also has to be
the one leading programs to upgrade old sewer
lines, like the one that broke in Maryland.
Michael Copley, NPR News.
Okay.
So, okay.
Yeah, now somehow we got to blame the
EPA for this local issue.
So let's listen to the Wendy Bell Show,
the female right-winger that does it.
Is this a podcast?
No, no.
She's a radio person.
I talked about her in the last show.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She does the stuff on Rumble in between.
Yeah.
And she is, this is from her show.
This is your new go-to.
It's your new savage.
You got a lady now.
This is your savage.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She, this is not an in-between thing.
This is on her show.
This shows out of Philadelphia and she discusses
the same situation.
This is, I have this one, 1.2,
1.3. So we start with one and
it's a little different take on what's going
on.
Well, if you need a reason to blow
up DEI and put it away for good
forever, it's this Potomac nightmare of raw waste
that's still pumping into the Potomac River after
a month.
It's absolutely mind bending.
So The Daily Caller did this great story
and I want to read it to you.
And that's all we're going to talk about
in this segment.
It's that egregious.
DC Water, that's the name of the big
utility, right?
They have a CEO, new guy.
Well, wouldn't you know during Joe Biden's tenure,
he waved a magic wand and he put
some black guy in charge of it, which
is fine.
You would hope the black guy came from
some kind of a utility background.
We're going to talk about that in a
minute.
DC Water's CEO, that guy, oversaw $520 million
in DEI contract.
And coincidentally, the biggest sewage spill in US
history.
Like, oh my, let's chew a little bit
and see what the priorities of this utility
were.
Shall we?
While hundreds of millions of gallons of raw
sewage accumulated in its pipes, the District of
Columbia Water and Sewer Authority was focused on
diversity, equity, and other left wing priorities.
Setting the stage for what may be the
largest sewage spill in American history.
DC Water CEO, David Gaddis, as his name,
David Gaddis.
He's championed equity and diversity throughout his tenure.
Who was also named in a lawsuit against
his former employer for allegedly withholding information about
water contamination in Flint, Michigan.
Let's dig a little bit deeper into this
guy.
Before joining DC Water in 2018, Gaddis served
as Executive Vice President of Veolia North America
and CEO of Veolia Water Indianapolis.
It's the utility's first black CEO and the
first black executive to lead a major Indianapolis
utility, according to his bio.
Woo-hoo!
All right.
Well, we have this guy.
She could have done that in 30 seconds,
but I guess it's a radio show.
You have any idea how much I took
out?
I believe you.
Yeah, because you've read.
I know.
That's why I don't usually take from these
radio hosts, because they, in fact, it's even
a problem with Jesse Waters on TV.
They keep putting in interstitials.
They can't stop with the asides.
So here we go at part two.
Before Gaddis arrived, DC Water was considered a
global role model, commanding one of the highest
reputations in the water sector.
Gaddis sought to take the authority to the
next level by prioritizing equity for employees, customers,
communities, and contractors.
How about, I don't know, I'm just spitballing.
How about clean water?
Is that too much to ask for, just
water, clean water that doesn't make my hair
fall out?
He wanted to prioritize equity.
And so what did he do?
He started giving away money.
How much money?
Well, in fiscal year 2024, disadvantaged and women
-owned enterprises received about $520 million of business
diversity and inclusion grants.
They didn't need to prove that they knew
how to- Did you say business and
diversity inclusion grants?
But she said, okay.
Do anything.
They just needed to prove that they were
diverse.
That maybe they had some ovaries.
Maybe they had some melanin.
And it was like, yes, here's your money.
And yes, here's $520 million dollars.
Well, the EPA had to move in, in
April after Trump moved in, right?
And suspend some of these awards and grants,
no-bid awards to people who, by the
way, were proven to not fulfill their contract
obligations.
They wouldn't be held accountable.
There was no liability.
Like you can't make it up.
And now what do you see?
You see this mountain of human waste.
Okay.
So why is the president not railing on
this and getting rid of this guy and
changing things right away?
This is what he usually does so well.
There's a black guy, first of his kind.
It's just, and they got this Epstein thing
being charred, you know, being used as the
hoax of the month.
I don't know.
Here's the little kicker.
This kind of proves her point because she
brings this guy on.
I have one last clip after that where
he's introduced by a woman on another show.
He does a lot of media.
And here's this part.
You know, when I arrived at D.C.
Water, this was...
This is your last clip, by the way.
I don't know what you're...
No, that's another clip.
You know, when I arrived...
This is a pretty important topic.
Eight clips.
You know, when I arrived at D.C.
Water, this was an organization that looked very
similar to our industry.
It was predominantly, you know, white male at
the top.
But this is a utility that's, you know,
more than 70% people of color.
Yeah, there you go.
That's my reason for being here.
This utility.
And I really believe, and I still believe,
and it has been fantastic.
The outcomes have been fantastic.
But the people at the top, the executives,
the chiefs in that C-suite, they should
look like the employees that they serve and
that they work with.
And the same thing with the community.
And so my executive team, you know, looks
exactly...
Hold on, stop it a second.
If you're the CEO, you're not serving the
employees, you're serving the public.
Can I just add, what is the point
of this?
Of what?
Of the series.
Is it coming to a conclusion?
Yeah, the point is, is that you have
this situation where DEI is what Susan Rice
was talking about that she wants to re
-implement.
Okay.
And this is an example where it's headed,
which is sewage disasters, by getting rid of
Whitey at the top, because the Whitey at
the top doesn't...
Okay, is that enough?
Yeah, thank you.
That helps.
That helps.
Yes, you're right.
The employees.
Doesn't mean all black people don't know how
to run a sewage plant.
But when it comes to DEI and people
like Susan Rice, yeah, this is what you
get.
That they serve and that they work with.
And the same thing with the community.
And so my executive team looks exactly like
the community.
It looks like the employees, the staff, be
it people of color, women, men.
And it's just a fantastic team that has
come together to do a lot of great
things here at DC Water and in the
community for the customer.
Right.
Well, it's tough for that guy.
Yeah, and you take people that know what
they're doing and you get them out of
there so you can put some of your
buddies in.
And next thing you know, the whole thing
falls apart and no one knows how to
fix it.
It's been going on for a month.
And this is an example, this last clip,
which I'm sorry there's so many clips, but
I tried to keep them short.
But this is the Gaddis intro on some
show where this woman introduces him.
And you can see what all the priorities
are.
And she got named on some board that
this guy put together.
And he's so proud of himself for being
a DEI guy.
And this is what the Democrats are going
to reintroduce when they get back in is
this DEI bull crap, which is not doing
the public any good.
It's costing more money than it's worth.
And connecting them to a well-established, competitively
viable minority-owned firms.
Today, in this special 50th anniversary episode, we
celebrate and pay tribute to an innovative and
businessman, innovative leader, rather, and businessman, Mr. David
Gaddis.
But before we start the conversation with him,
let me just tell you a little bit
about him.
This is not his first induction to the
Hall of Fame, as I understand it.
He is, however, the CEO and general manager
of DC Water.
In this role, he oversees all authority, including
a $1 billion annual budget, a workforce of
1,100 employees, and the largest advanced wastewater
treatment plant in the world.
I'd like to hear about that.
Under his leadership, DC Water has emerged as
a leader within the water sector on environmental
justice and water equity programs, such as the
Lead-Free DC program, which is eliminating all
lead service lines within the district by 2030.
Mr. Gaddis has extended economic equity to the
community through changes to the authority business development
plan, which has improved access to contract opportunities
for small and disadvantaged businesses, an apprenticeship program
that offers classroom and on-the-job training,
as well as the establishment of the authority's
first-ever Business Diversity Advisory Council, of which
I'm very proud.
He also serves as chairman of the board
of Blue Drop, DC Water's non-profit sales
and marketing affiliate, and is a frequent presenter
at Utility and Government Services conferences and with
the National League of Cities and the National
Association of Public-Private Partnerships.
And before I bring him on, you should
know that prior to his service at DC
Water, he led Viola Water, Indianapolis, CEO and
president of Viola Water, Indianapolis.
He was the first African-American CEO president
and the first African-American CEO to lead
a major utility in Indianapolis, Indiana.
So please help me welcome Mr. David Gattis.
Good day, sir.
Why didn't you say Comrade Gattis?
That would have been...
Might as well have.
Thank you so much.
So you have to tell us about your
induction into the Hall of Fame in basketball,
University of Indianapolis.
Okay, he gets to kill it now.
They just talk about basketball for 10 minutes,
kind of a stereotypical manner.
But this guy's not mentioned in the NPR
report, which this glossed it over and blamed
climate change.
I mean, how much of this could we
take?
We have lost all faith in our institutions
and our water plants, our poop plants.
You're right.
Epstein or not, the president needs to step
in here.
I see it as an opportunity.
You got to cut this stuff off.
There's a lot to say that this guy
did no good along the same lines of
DEI, because I think it's part of the
same problem is the fraud in Minnesota.
It's just more of the same problem.
Oh, the Somalis, yeah.
Oh, yeah, let's set them up with...
They can do centers for kids and leering
center.
Vice President Vance made his stand of what
they're doing with, what's his name, Batya.
Is that the guy who's running the CDC
now?
I think it is.
Yeah, I think it is.
I think you're right.
Here's his little statement, which is, nothing gets
the news these days.
Nothing is in the timeline because Epstein.
We're announcing today that we have decided to
temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that
are going to the state of Minnesota in
order to ensure that the state of Minnesota
takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards
of the American people's taxes.
Now, what is this going to mean?
What this means is that, first of all,
the providers on the ground in Minnesota have
actually already been paid.
The state has paid those providers the money.
What we're doing is we are stopping the
federal payments that will go to the state
government until the state government takes its obligations
seriously to stop the fraud that's being perpetrated
against the American taxpayer.
There are a few different ways that we're
doing that.
There are a few different affirmative actions that
we're taking today.
Dr. Oz is going to talk about those,
but let me talk a little bit about
the spirit of this and why we're doing
it.
So number one, one of the examples of
fraud that we've seen in Minnesota that we
verify that is just awful is that a
program that existed to ensure that autistic children
had access to some afterschool services has made
a number of people rich, not by providing
services to needy children, but by allowing fraudsters
to take money that ought by right go
to American citizens and to American families and
to set up sham businesses, set up sham
clients, set up people who are not even
autistic, but claim to be autistic in order
that they benefit from the money that's out
there.
Now, what does that mean?
Number one, it means that a lot of
people are getting rich off the generosity of
American taxpayers, but more fundamentally and more importantly
than that, it means that there are kids
in Minnesota who deserve these services, who need
these services, and they're not going to those
kids.
They're going to fraudsters in Minneapolis.
That is unacceptable.
And that's the sort of thing that we're
cutting off with this action today.
And I tell you, it's not just Minneapolis.
Medicare was a boondoggle.
There's another report.
I didn't clip it.
In Austin, company pulled in tens of millions
of dollars.
They think it may be up to hundreds
of millions of dollars billing Medicare for stuff
that people never got.
I mean, yeah, yeah, that's obvious.
It's yeah, it's unbelievable.
It's all fraud.
Yeah, he's all these medical systems that, you
know, they used to have private doctors and
they used to have their own offices and
the rest.
And now it's all become some sort of
system.
Systematically, they got phone tests that you don't
need.
When you go now, they got all these
things.
We'll come back.
You know, oh, you got to do this.
You got to do that.
You're pretty cancerous.
We need to run some tests on you.
Yeah, and then this was this was a
fun fraud in Los Angeles.
Involving the superintendent of the Los Angeles School
District.
Tonight, LA USD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is the
subject of an FBI investigation.
Federal agents, some in tactical gear, seen entering
Carvalho San Pedro home Wednesday morning to execute
a search warrant.
Agents also searching Carvalho's office at district headquarters
in downtown LA.
The FBI is not detailing the nature of
the investigation, but confirms the warrants were served.
The LA Times, citing confidential law enforcement sources,
reports the probe is focused on Carvalho, not
LA USD, and may involve financial crimes.
According to the Times, the investigation involves a
former artificial intelligence company called Alhear that developed
a chat bot known as Ed for LA
USD.
Alhear collapsed in 2024 amid allegations of massive
financial fraud involving its founder and CEO, Joanna
Smith Griffin, who was arrested the same year.
In a previous interview, she promoted the company's
use of AI in education.
My name is Joanna Smith.
I'm the CEO of Alhear, and we help
schools to curb chronic absenteeism using chat bots
powered by AI.
Carvalho promoted the AI tool in 2024, but
after Smith Griffin's indictment and arrest, the district
declined to use the technology.
Hey man, if I get another email from
a teacher or an educator who says, oh
man, once the Chromebooks came in, everything went
to hell in a handbasket.
The kids figured out immediately how to bypass
everything, how to get to the web, to
get to porn, get all the AI for
all of their test scores.
I mean, what a, and it's all about
money.
There were big payouts, schools getting all kinds
of cash.
Oh, just take it.
I mean, Apple started, and I think they
were probably, they did that out of the
goodness of their hearts.
Like, hey, we need to get these kids
some computers.
And then they realized, like, we're not really
getting anything out of this.
They stopped that program at a certain point.
It's like, yeah, we're not going to do
that.
And then, yeah, Apple, Apple was the leader.
Yeah.
And then they just disappeared from the scene.
It was the same time when they were
given, remember, they were lending out apples.
They would send you one.
I got one.
They sent me an Apple 2.
My first Apple 2.
Yeah, my first computer was an Apple 2.
A guy named Daniel Paul worked at Apple.
He's still out there.
I don't think he's at Apple anymore.
And then he sent me, he says, oh,
no, I was at MTV.
Oh, you got to have a computer.
It's good.
And, you know, we want you to try
it out.
And the interesting thing is several years later,
I mean, I was into my first, what
was it?
The 540C.
Wasn't that one of the.
I don't remember the model numbers.
There's a bunch of LCs and other ones.
Well, no, this is the laptop.
They had the laptop and it was a
color laptop.
Oh, man.
And if you had five pixels.
Was that the big giant thing?
No, it wasn't that big.
Wasn't that big.
But no, that came in between with a
trackball built in.
I forget what that was called.
But then they had.
I have one of those, the giant thing.
With the trackball.
It's got to be a collectible.
I'm sure it is, if you can find
it.
Well, I think it was the 540C and
it was a laptop.
It had the OS7, I'm going to say.
And I remember it so well because I
had five pixels, five color pixels weren't working.
And Apple refused to take anything back unless
it was more than five pixels.
So they sold me a defective product and
they were expensive at the time.
They were $4,000, maybe $3,000, $4
,000.
Oh, no, no, that's expected.
A couple of pixels out.
That's just that's normal.
So the tough, tough luck, Mr. Vijay.
But Daniel Paul at that time said, hey,
you have to send us the Apple II
back.
And I actually had to send it back.
Why?
That was their policy.
We lent it to you and now we
want it back.
I know.
Why is the right question?
And I, of course, went, OK, I'll give
it back to you.
You could have just said, yeah, OK, sure.
And then generally speaking, these guys are so
poor at record keeping.
Yeah.
That you say, I don't want to say
that.
I know this from experience, but being in
that business forever.
OK, it's on its way.
Got lost in the mail.
Somebody checks the box and that's the end
of it.
And my how things are now between government
and technology companies.
This latest spat between the and I think
it's something else, actually, between the Department of
War and Anthropic is interesting to follow.
The CEO of artificial intelligence company Anthropic.
We need to work together between companies and
the government to better manage that time of
disruption and bring better prosperity smoothly to all.
Dario Amodei's company has been working with the
American government.
It was the only large language model being
used in classified U.S. networks.
That relationship is now at risk.
Reuters reporting that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete
Hegseth told Amodei in a meeting Tuesday, Anthropic
must ease restrictions on how the military can
use its AI.
Anthropic is refusing to let its systems be
used for autonomous weapon targeting or to conduct
U.S. domestic surveillance.
Hegseth is threatening to label the company as
a supply chain risk, effectively banning it from
working with the government or invoking the Defense
Production Act to force Anthropic to give in.
Hegseth argues U.S. law is sufficient.
I fully support that strike.
I would have made the same call.
The U.S. government attacked several boats it
claims were carrying drugs, striking twice in one
attack.
Democrats have called the strikes illegal.
A researcher says current laws governing war aren't
sufficient for technology that identifies targets, even attacks
them without human oversight.
And these sort of norms that were created,
you know, decades, something like 50 years ago,
you know, did not anticipate the type of
technology that we have now.
Branka Marion says AI finding, selecting, and engaging
targets clouds responsibility.
So the conversation is too important to be
private.
Reuters reports a Pentagon source says Anthropic has
until 5 p.m. Friday Eastern time to
respond to Hegseth's requests.
So Anthropic is throwing it, as far as
I can tell, on this, well, you know,
we are a company with a soul and
we don't want our work to be used.
We don't want our work to be used
for, you know, killing people.
I think they're lying.
The hallucination, the minute you hook up a
large language model to some tools, and I
have some hands-on experience, I've been building
something very simple, you know, manage an online
radio station with just prompts.
And if the AI can't, it will lie
continuously.
It'll say, oh, yeah, I did that.
I said, did you delete that file?
Yeah, no, I deleted that.
Are you sure?
Yeah, look, I deleted it.
Show me the list.
And it shows you the list of files
in there.
It says it's still there.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah, let me go delete that.
And then it comes back.
So see, it's gone.
And I can look at the file system.
It's still there.
These things, there is no control over this.
And I've tried it.
The best is, the best is, That's a
great story.
The best is XAI.
That thing is meant to just engage you
in bullcrap.
I mean, the way that was trained, and
of course, I could have known, you know,
something has been trained on Twitter data.
Yeah, how good is that going to be
in a production environment?
Claude, you know, sometimes it says, oh, this
is literally a prompt that came back.
I can't connect to my brain right now.
Okay.
You know, Gemini, they all do it.
They all, no one has fixed the hallucination
yet.
And it's kind of funny when you're using
a chat bot, and it's okay, you know,
for entertainment purposes.
But it's very entertaining.
But in a real world production environment, it
is unreliable.
And they know it.
I think they all know it.
Like, well, we don't want to get...
That may be, so what you're implying is
that the reason Anthropic is so reluctant to
let them go ahead with this stupid idea
is because they know it's going to be
a disaster, and it's going to reflect poorly
on them.
Yes.
And, you know, and they have OpenAI as
an example.
Canadian officials have questioned leaders from OpenAI about
the company's safety protocols following one of the
country's worst ever school shootings earlier this month.
After the shooting, it was revealed that OpenAI
had banned the ChatGPT account of the suspected
shooter, but did not tell police.
Reporter Ryan Patrick-Jones says the case raises
the question of just what tech companies are
obliged or required to report.
OpenAI says it banned Jesse van Rootselaar's account
on its chatbot, ChatGPT, eight months before the
shooting for violations of its safety policies.
The company didn't exactly say what she did,
only that its automated systems flagged her account
for possible misuse of its models, quote, in
furtherance of violent activities.
OpenAI says it considered whether to alert police
at the time, but decided that the activity
didn't quite meet its threshold of posing an
imminent and credible risk of serious harm.
They say they didn't identify any concrete or
immediate planning.
So the company says it kind of had
to balance whether to report to police with
the importance of user privacy and the risk
of over-enforcing and potentially causing unintended harm.
Now, after the shooting, OpenAI did contact the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police and shared information on
van Rootselaar's past use of ChatGPT, and they
say they are continuing to assist investigators.
In a statement after the meeting, OpenAI said
it has taken steps to strengthen safeguards and
has made changes to law enforcement referral protocols
for cases involving violent activities.
These companies are going to get blamed for
everything.
Everything.
And probably rightly so.
We got a note from one of our
producers, Gen Z.
I've noticed a writing style of AI chatbots
that I wanted to mention.
Perhaps you've noticed it too, but now that
I notice it, I see it everywhere, especially
all over X.
It goes like this.
Blank is not just blank.
They're a blank describing them.
Further expands with some BS to drive their
point home.
For example, it goes like this.
Adam and John are not just podcasters.
They are media deconstructors.
Adam and John speak truth to power by
breaking down the mainstream media's talking points and
beating them at their own game.
And once I realized what he was telling
us here, this format, I see it everywhere
now too.
He says he sees on LinkedIn, work emails.
Of course, there has to be tons of
bots on X.
What's the model again?
That's XAI, I would say.
No, the model is blank, blank, blank.
Okay, so blank is not just a blank.
They're a blank describing them.
Okay.
It's similar to diving.
So they iterate.
So John is basically a trick for padding.
It's a padding trick.
Completely.
And it's just iteration, three X iteration minimum.
Yeah.
I can see that.
So I'm sorry, he's a millennial.
So another thing related to this, I'm a
millennial and my barbershop is largely millennial barbers
and customers.
More than once, I've seen a post on
X the day or so before.
I heard a person in the barbershop recite
this X post word for word as if
it was their own thought to make themselves
sound profound or well-informed.
I think that's been happening for a long
time.
Well, you know, Erica Kirk is creepy.
Where'd you hear that?
I didn't, I just, I deduced that.
I didn't hear it from Candace Owens.
Yeah, it could be.
Yeah.
And then the big news that we can
wrap up some AI stuff here.
And gosh, this could have been so our
exit strategy.
I can't believe we didn't think of it.
Claude does COBOL.
What a great idea.
Of course it does.
Of course it can program COBOL.
Yeah, the IBM stock tank like 13%
in one go because of all their mainframes
running everything.
We discussed this on DHM.
Oh, you did?
And what did you say?
What you're talking about now is like obvious
that IBM is under threat because it's their
services business.
And once Claude does Red Hat, what happens
next?
Because their whole business is basically, you know,
service now.
They don't do anything else.
When it comes to troubleshooting Linux, I mean,
I've seen it happen.
It always winds up with the chat bot
telling you you have to recompile your kernel.
So I'm not too worried about it yet.
Dudes named Ben will have business for a
while.
But bottom line, these things hallucinate.
They haven't fixed it.
They're papering over it.
And it's just not that great other than
eating up your tokens, munching away.
Munch.
Yeah.
Even comic strip bloggers kind of backed off.
Oh, Claude, this is it.
Jobs will be gone.
You better get your affairs in order because
AI is taking over everything.
You'll have nothing to do.
You won't have a job.
People living on the street.
What, in what technological revolution has that happened?
When we invented electricity, did everyone lose their
job?
When we had the industrial revolution, did people
lose jobs or more jobs created?
With desktop computing, were more jobs created or
lost?
Well, my favorite along these lines is that
once they coined the term paperless office, if
you had invested all your money in paper
companies, you'd be a multimillionaire.
You'd be a Koch brother, basically.
So there's always that.
But there's another story that's floating around.
There's a big news story this morning.
That's all we're talking about on some of
these shows, which is the LA lawsuit over
social media.
Are you familiar with what's going on here?
Yeah, I think we played a clip a
couple of shows back.
It's coming to a head.
Okay.
You got anything?
I got one clip.
I labeled it number one, thinking I was
going to get more.
And then I kind of crapped out.
This is an NPR report.
Or no, this is NTD, LA lawsuit.
We're outside the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse where
an engineer and data science professor took the
stand today.
Professor John Chandler testified saying how social media
companies generate billions of dollars through ad revenue
from young users under the age of 18.
Professor John Chandler told jurors that research estimates
showed platforms made billions of dollars from users
under 18, including roughly $5 billion from Instagram
and more than $2 billion from YouTube in
a single year.
However, YouTube attorneys pushed back questioning how Chandler
calculated watch time and ad exposure and pointing
out that he does not personally use Instagram
or knew all of the features offered on
the app.
Jurors were also shown how ads play on
the YouTube app and showed Bad Bunny's NFL
halftime performance as an example of how ads
pop up.
Plaintiff attorney Mark Lanier went into detail describing
how ads are customized to certain users saying
when they log into their YouTube, they are
actually logging into their Google account, which can
send them ads based on their search history.
He also mentioned how children who lied about
their age are being fed adult advertisements.
For years, big tech has hidden behind predatory
design, coercive tactics to manipulate, exploit and addict
my generation of young people, stealing the meaning
of digital community right out from under us.
And I say no more.
Many survivor parents attend the trial each day
and on Wednesday, about 20 held a press
conference outside the courthouse.
They called for what they described as common
sense legislative solutions to address social media's impact
on young users.
Yeah, how about no slave slabs for you
child?
Survivor parents is a term they use and
I'm surprised they don't use the term victims
for all these social media users.
This is a lawsuit one girl has brought
forward.
She has 20.
She says she got addicted to Instagram.
She got addicted and she has mental health
issues because of it.
And they have and they're making a big
stink out of it.
And they're suing Instagram.
And I don't know, there's two or three
social media operations they're going to going after.
I think YouTube is one of them.
And it's actually a big deal because I
don't think they're going to win because the
guys, the counter arguments are too, you know,
they're just end up blaming the parents.
They're strong.
Yeah, so do I.
Yeah, it is the parents fault.
I blame the parents.
But all I've noticed is ever since, you
know, smartphones, everything and there's really been a
great innovation since then.
Of course, now AI is supposed to be
the great innovation.
Everything has just gotten worse.
Your battery runs down quicker because of all
this nonsense that's running around doing stuff for
you.
You know, search engines suck.
Just suck.
Everything's just kind of gotten worse.
Has that not been your experience in, you
know, five decades in the tech industry?
No, I think they've always been bad.
And so I don't think it's really gotten
that much worse.
And it's always entertaining at some level.
And it's hard to say.
I mean, the social media stuff is the
addictive aspect of it with the algo and
all the rest is probably concerning.
And I think people should be aware of
it.
It's something that didn't exist at this level
before.
But the parents are addicted themselves.
And yet that is the problem.
That's the problem, right?
The bad example.
Yeah, I agree.
So Samsung is coming out with their Galaxy
S26.
And they're not going to put one, not
two, but three AI engines in there.
Why?
Why?
Oh, I'm glad you asked.
Because so we'll have Gemini perplexity.
So Gemini for agentic tasks like booking rides
and doing things across apps for you.
Perplexity for web-based queries.
And then an upgraded version of Samsung's own
Bixby, which I noticed myself as all of
a sudden might not be.
Yeah, my now dead foldable phone.
Hi, I'm Bixby.
How can I help you?
Really?
Is this the same as Clippy?
Or that little dog that you see in
the corner?
With a name like Bixby, it might as
well be.
So it's going to, you know, it's going
to book Uber rides for you automatically when
you have to go to dinner as after
it already.
Because there's so much work.
It's so hard to go on the app,
the Uber app and click, click a couple
of times and get your ride figured out.
They're out of ideas.
That's the whole point.
They're out of ideas.
Well, we got this cool stuff, you know,
and your agent can talk to my agent.
This is in the press release.
Your agent talks to my agent.
They set a date for dinner and then
it'll automatically book our rides.
It'll pre-order our favorite meals.
I mean, every, like, this is why I
said...
Pre-order your favorite meal.
This is what I said on the last
show.
Like, we are the robots.
The tech companies are just...
It's a good point.
Just using the phones to control us and
it's working.
Pre-order your favorite meal.
And then we have...
You don't go to a restaurant to eat
your favorite meal necessarily.
You go there, maybe, I mean, there used
to be a place that always had these
frog legs that always go there.
But you'd always still look at the menu
and say, wait a minute, this isn't different.
Let me try that.
I guess that's out of the question now.
So lawmakers in Colorado have come up with
a genius idea.
This is Senators Matt Ball and Amy Pachal.
They're state senators.
They came up with SB 26051 requiring operating
systems such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
But they appear to also have thrown in
open source.
You will now have to verify your age
upon installing or starting up the operating system.
So they figured, oh, the way to do
this is you have to verify your age
to the operating system.
And after that, everything else has to adhere
to that age verification.
How about that for an idea?
Well, you mean everything defaults to that?
Yeah, everything defaults to it, yeah.
So that's not going to work.
No.
What, you think these kids are stupid?
Yeah, yeah.
So we're going to...
Hey, Dad, can you install the operating system
for me?
Oh, yeah, sure.
Okay, I'm good to go, thanks.
I mean, come on.
What could possibly go wrong?
This is all virtue signaling.
You're going to talk about this sort of
thing since we're talking about computers and stuff.
I do have another short presentation I'd like
to get rid of.
This is the video game sick report.
Oh, okay.
What makes more money than the music industry
and the film industry combined?
The answer is found in the click of
a mouse, the flick of a thumbstick.
I'm talking about video games.
Yeah, yeah.
What is it, almost 10 times the size
of Hollywood now?
Yeah, it's pretty big.
But what is the flick of a thumbstick?
Did you hear that little thing?
This is our expert reporting from NPR.
What makes more money than the music industry
and the film industry combined?
The answer is found in the click of
a mouse, the flick of a thumbstick.
I'm talking about video games.
Wow.
Thumbsticks is how I control the entire show.
Thumbsticks, do you flick the thumbsticks?
Yeah, that's how I forgot to record.
I was flicking the thumbstick and I thought
it went.
Okay, well, they strained out and discussed joysticks
for a little bit here with part two.
Last year, the video game industry generated around
$190 billion in revenue, according to outlets that
track it.
So how did this medium go from the
arcade into a global juggernaut?
That is the subject of a new podcast
series called Hidden Levels, which is a collaboration
between 99%- This is a house
ad.
It's a house ad.
It's a house ad that you're playing.
I would say about half of the stuff
on NPR now is house ads for their
podcasts that you can receive wherever you get
your podcasts.
Visible and endless thread from member station WBUR
in Boston.
And Ben Brock Johnson is here.
He's the creator of Hidden Levels and the
co-host of Endless Thread.
Hi, Ben.
Hi, Emily.
You can be player one.
I'll be player two.
Ready player two.
Let's go.
Your series is so fantastic.
It covers so many interesting things.
It's six episodes.
And one of them is all about the
history of the joystick because its origins have
nothing to do with gaming, turns out.
Yeah, this was a really fun episode.
The joystick is born in the early 1900s.
It has a somewhat murky origin.
It gets introduced into the aviation industry first
to better control some of the first airplanes.
That makes sense.
Yeah, but then the joystick gets incorporated and
really perfected by the video game industry starting
in the 70s as a tool that has
become the way to extend our bodies via
machine.
It's just used everywhere now.
Yeah, when I was training to fly a
helicopter and airplanes, I always had to learn
how to use the joystick.
And I think on my test, I even
had to say, you know, you use the
joystick to control the plane, morons.
So this is the level of discourse we
have on NPR when it comes to tech.
So here's the third clip, which I have
labeled WTF, meaning there's something stupid in it.
Well, I mean, you can say there's something
stupid in all these clips that I have
today, but there's something particularly stupid here.
Shane Rivera, a psychotherapist who works with LGBTQ
youth in South Carolina.
And Rivera described how a person, they were
working with, found a safe space for her
own identity in the video game The Sims.
Little by little, she herself started to try
out different things that her avatar did.
Different types of makeup, different types of clothing.
Until she settled into this style that was
much more her, rather than a preconceived notion
of masculinity or femininity.
I'm so taken with that because at the
core of gaming is play and play is
how you can discover yourself.
And it reminds me of this game called
Life is Strange True Colors.
The character in that game can fall in
love with either a man or a woman.
And it was a way that I explored
and ultimately found my own bisexuality.
Oh, oh man.
This is a call back to Gamergate.
This is where it all started.
This is where all of the woke stuff
started to rear its head.
And we ignored it for months until there
was no ignoring it.
And this is where it came from, where
you had this huge pressure from video game
reviewers and magazines and websites.
All of your characters are sexy chicks and
this is no good.
We've got to have equity and equality.
And it started with Gamergate.
That was the genesis of it popping up.
And here we are.
It's saved an NPR host from hooking up
with a dude too much.
Yeah, now she's discovered she's bi.
Her own bisexuality.
Yes, her own bisexuality.
She discovered it by playing games.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah.
Video games got her into lesbianism basically.
So, okay.
Well, that's good to know.
Here's another clip.
That's good to know.
That's just swell.
Swell, guys.
We need to bring the word swell back.
Swell.
That's just swell.
That's just swell.
All right.
Because I could fall in love with both
and they both were great storylines equally.
And the game really allowed me that.
So, you're saying that games can be places
where people can grapple with real world things.
They're not just escapism.
Absolutely.
And that's, wow, that's such a meaningful example
and why representation is so important in these
spaces.
Representation in these spaces.
Is this why this guy is on to
talk about representation in these spaces?
Is that why they got him on?
I have no idea why they even did
this.
NPR has gone down the toilet.
This is great.
I mean, it's just a gay cabal now.
Give me a break.
Gay cabal.
That's what it is.
Cooperation.
It's kind of pathetic.
And they're so proud of themselves.
They are.
I'm listening to a host.
I don't give a crap about their sexuality
and I don't want to throw it in
my face.
Oh, man.
Here we go.
Wrap up with the BS.
Okay.
I think games are really, ultimately, they're a
reflection of us, right?
In our own capacity for building things or
destroying things and everything in between.
Not only are video games huge, they're also
impacting our world in ways that we don't
really realize and appreciate.
Tell me about this sexuality.
It's in your DNA.
No, it's in my video game.
That's where it is.
Well, I do like the fact that one
of those, one of the big gaming consoles
is now all Linux and gave up on
Windows.
I think that's kind of cool.
If I were Microsoft, I'd be concerned about
that.
What is the big platform that just came
out with a huge console?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Yeah.
One of the big gaming consoles is now
all Linux.
Sony?
No.
No, no.
Microsoft's dropping the Xbox.
Steam, Steam, Steam.
Steam.
Yeah.
Steam has all the games.
Has a lot of games, not all the
games.
Steam has a lot of games.
I thought that was online stuff.
I didn't know that was a console.
Valve.
I think Valve is the name of the
console.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they sell pre-made Linux boxes now.
Yeah.
Good for them.
All right.
Let's talk about the State of the Union,
which the president did.
He sounds a little tired from time to
time.
I thought it was...
He went 148.
Yeah.
I thought it was a good...
I think a good joke was, stand up
if you stand for the American people over
illegal immigrants.
I thought that was a fun move.
I have a copy of that on the
clip list.
Yes.
Before we...
I'll let you do these clips.
I just want to play one.
The takeaway this morning on CNN.
Among speech watchers tonight, 64% say his
policies will move the U.S. in the
right direction.
And look at the growth President Trump made
over the speech.
So pre-speech, it was 54% of
speech watchers said his policies will move the
U.S. in the right direction.
After the speech, that number goes up 10
percentage points.
So Donald Trump made some progress with people
watching the speech from their pre-speech expectations
to what they saw in the speech itself.
And that 64% number, that's pretty much
in range across all of his State of
the Union addresses in his first term, last
year, the joint session.
That's about where we've seen this.
Roughly two thirds have walked away from his
speeches thinking he's going to move it in
the right direction.
So a lot of red meat for the
base.
Yeah, there's no doubt about that.
I, if you're a Republican on the ballot
in 2026, I think you leave this speech
being as happy as you could possibly be.
That he sort of stuck to the script
on the economy.
He gave the red meat to the base
on immigration and they can leave the home
tonight and sort of take that out on
the campaign trail.
I was surprised that CNN did the report
and that the numbers were that high.
I didn't expect that.
I mean, these things are always just a
performance.
It doesn't matter who's doing them.
And it's either a performance from the Republicans
in the audience and a Democrat president or
vice versa.
It's always the same thing.
Yeah, it's a joke.
Yeah, it's a joke.
Yes.
So what do you have?
I just have some of the highlights.
Let me go.
I'm going to start with the one that
I, because I want to just, there's a
little tidbit in here that one person I
saw bring it up and I'm going to
bring it up too.
This is a State of the Union.
This is when he talks about Irina, the
woman who was murdered on the train in
North Carolina, I guess it was.
And to get, you know, now he's doing
some of this stuff where he points out
somebody in the audience.
He had the family there and then the
Democrats would sit and the Republicans would clap.
And here's an example.
President Trump is also honoring and vowing justice
for Anna Zaruzka.
That's the mother of 23 year old Irina
Zaruzka, the Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed
last August in Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail
train.
Her killing attracted a lot of attention and
intense criticism over why the suspect was on
the street despite 14 prior arrests.
Take a look.
She had escaped a brutal war only to
be slain by a hardened criminal, set free
to kill in America, came in through open
borders.
Mrs. Zaruzka, tonight, I promise you, we will
ensure justice for your magnificent daughter, Irina.
How do you not stand?
How do you not stand?
So the thing about how do you not
stand, which to me would be great irony
was they put they put a camera on
people like Elizabeth Warren.
And it's all these Democrats.
They all didn't stand for the Ukrainian girl
and they all had little Ukraine flags on.
They had these little Ukraine flags.
Elizabeth Warren is a Ukraine flag and then
an American flag just underneath it, which is
kind of the opposite of the way it
should be.
And I could be wrong about the order,
but I'm pretty sure the Ukraine flag was
on top.
But but it's about Ukraine.
They didn't stand.
I mean, to me, it was it was
priceless in terms of the hypocrisy.
Well, I like the your report there saying
I got a lot of attention.
If I recall correctly, it took the mainstream
media two weeks to give this attention.
There was no one talking about it except
podcasts.
Yeah, I happen to remember these things.
Yeah, you remember that as a podcaster.
Let's go with here's the aliens clip.
President Trump last night making history with the
longest record of the State of the Union
address clocking in at just under an hour
and 48 minutes.
And a large focus of the president's address
last night was on his administration's immigration and
crime policies.
This is as he demands the full and
immediate restoration of all funding for the Department
of Homeland Security.
The president is also last night calling on
Congress to pass what he says he will
call the Delilah law.
That would be a law banning any state
from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
President stressing his reasoning there that many illegal
immigrants do not speak English and thus have
trouble reading basic road signs.
And the so-called Delilah law is named
after a little girl who was in the
audience last night.
Delilah Coleman, who was five when she was
critically injured in a car crash caused by
a trailer driven by an illegal immigrant.
She miraculously survived those critical injuries and was
there with her father.
Take a look.
Marcus, a fantastic man.
Delilah, please.
You are a great inspiration.
Please stand up.
So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join
with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
If you agree with this statement, then stand
up and show your support.
The first duty of the American government is
to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
You should be ashamed of yourself not standing
up.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
It got annoying.
It's like, OK, don't you know how this
works?
They don't stand.
You say stand.
They don't stand.
You're unpatriotic.
You're no good.
It is funny.
I mean, he's definitely milking it.
The last one was the boycott clip.
Meanwhile, Kevin, a historically unprecedented number of lawmakers
actually boycotted President Trump's State of the Union
last night north of 70 lawmakers.
And there are also counter addresses scheduled at
the same time.
There's the People's State of the Nation there
on the National Mall here, and there was
State of the Swamp at the National Press
Club.
And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Democratic
lawmakers who did attend to silently defy the
president's remarks, although some were more vocal about
their dissent, including Representative Ilhan Omar, who during
his part about immigration policy was calling the
president a liar and a murderer during his
speech.
And meanwhile, Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia gave
the official Democratic rebuttal, criticizing President Trump's immigration
policy.
Our president told us tonight that we are
safer because these agents arrest mothers and detain
children.
Think about that.
Our broken immigration system is something to be
fixed, not an excuse for unaccountable agents to
terrorize our communities.
What?
Yeah.
Oh, brother.
No.
Oh, brother.
But you should have seen the alternate events
with the fraud.
I have a clip, a very short clip
about that from Reuters.
Several Democrats opted to skip Trump's speech and
instead went to an event dubbed the People's
State of the Union.
Others went to a different counter event called
the State of the Swamp, where actor Robert
De Niro addressed the crowd, including activists dressed
as frogs.
I mean, again, it's all so they're all
now they're trying to get the influencers to
pay attention to.
Look, we got we're dressed as frogs.
Oh, yeah, this will go viral.
Yeah, it'll go viral.
No problem.
You know, someone asked me, like, well, how
can Ilan Omar be yelling that?
I said, this goes back to the first
time I remember someone calling out the president
from from from the seats was President Obama
in 2009.
Was it the guy from?
I forget his name.
Wilson.
Joe Wilson called.
He's like, you're lying.
You're lying.
He's a liar.
And then Marjorie Taylor Greene called out Biden,
I think.
This is.
Yes, this is.
Get back to work, all of you.
Sick of it.
Now, I have one clip from the State
of the Union, because in case you didn't
know, we are now currently in the golden
age.
A primetime pitch to the nation from a
president not known for his brevity.
True to form, Donald Trump delivered the longest
State of the Union address in history.
I'm sure he went home and went like,
Melania, it was a lot.
I got the record longest state in the
Union.
Never had a longest.
Yeah, I'm sure he did it.
As his approval ratings slide and concerns about
affordability grow, the president insisted Americans have never
had it so good.
Our nation is back bigger, better, richer and
stronger than ever before.
His greatest hits were on full display.
No tax on tips, doubling down on tariffs
and a promise to stay tough on immigration.
The only thing standing between Americans and a
wide open border right now is President Donald
J.
Trump and our great Republican patriots in Congress.
Thank you.
The speech was often interrupted by cheers and
chants of USA.
The Olympic gold medal winners in the US
men's hockey team received a standing ovation.
But at times, tensions spilled into the chamber.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
That is why I'm also asking you to
end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals.
And in that Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar shouted
in protest during the president's remarks on immigration
and the Somali community in her home city
of Minneapolis.
Fellow Democratic lawmaker Al Green was escorted from
the chamber.
He had waved a sign protesting a video
the president had posted depicting the Obamas as
apes.
We're lucky we have a country with people
like this.
Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped.
And dozens of other Democrats had refused to
show up in the first place.
Okay, it's also tiring.
Like how many state of the unions have
we covered in the course of this show?
25 maybe?
Well, it comes out once a year, so
probably not 25.
Well, it can't be 50.
I don't think I can remember that.
Once a year.
Yeah, but I guess we have.
Once a year.
We've done about 18 of them.
Yeah.
Oh.
We have the most state of the union
coverage in our podcast ever.
It's true.
You're not getting it.
I'm not, but you know what I'm saying.
If you're going to want to try it,
keep working on it, I'll encourage it.
There's so many people out there.
I'd rather do Alex Jones.
Hey, man, listen.
Iran is going to blow up.
You know what's going to happen?
The Muslims are taking over Texas.
I read their documents.
I've seen it.
It's in their documents.
Yeah, you're Alex Jones.
I'd say you're 90%.
And in fact, you're so far along, I
have no suggestions.
Normally, I'd say, well, if you could twist
it.
No prompting.
They have no prompts for me.
Oh, this is good.
Maybe the cadence could change.
I can't say any of that because you
got it to such an extreme that I
can't help.
I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
It's up to you.
Get in front of a mirror.
That's still the big thing here in Texas.
Oh, Sharia law is coming.
People say this to me.
Aren't you afraid of Sharia law?
No.
But we're becoming Sweden.
We're becoming the UK.
I said, no.
Check the numbers.
Our borders are closed.
And it took 25 years for this mess
to happen in the EU.
And I saw it happen.
I saw it before my very eyes.
And you need open borders for this to
happen.
And a complete, always communist government.
And a complete subdued population.
But it's the Republican talking point.
Just like Mandami, it's going to be there
everywhere.
So that'd be pretty funny.
Anyway, Iran.
ABC report from this morning.
The US is increasing its military presence in
the Middle East, adding to its show of
force against Iran.
In a rare move, a US official telling
ABC News tonight about a dozen Air Force
F-22 fighters have now landed in Israel
tonight.
The fighters spotted taking off from a base
in the UK.
President Trump threatening US military action against Iran
unless the Iranian regime agrees to a nuclear
deal.
All right.
All right.
We're ratcheting it up.
Let's go to CBS.
The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald
R.
Ford, sailed into an American naval base on
the Greek island of Crete today with multiple
squadrons of F-18 fighter jets seen on
deck.
The Pentagon has moved at least 120 aircraft
to the region in the past two weeks
alone.
Pressure is mounting inside Iran, too.
Thousands of students protested against the regime, the
first demonstration since the brutal crackdown in January
that left thousands dead.
President Trump is weighing his options.
I think they want to make a deal.
I don't think they want the consequences of
not making a deal.
Potential targets could include Iran's ballistic missile sites,
its nuclear facilities and the headquarters of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iran's foreign minister said the country was ready
to fight.
We have a very good capability of missiles.
And now we are even in a better
situation than previous war.
Iran has not only threatened retaliation against U
.S. bases in the region, but Israel.
I love the Nat Pops in CBS's report.
They got explosion after explosion.
Directly.
If Iran retaliates, it might not just be
Iran.
We've been fighting the last two and a
half war on seven different fronts.
We've seen multiple enemies.
U.S. officials say if President Trump does
decide to hit Iran, one option is a
joint military operation between the United States and
Israel.
Both countries have discussed hitting Iran's ballistic missile
sites.
Yeah, because, as you know, Bibi Netanyahu told
Trump what to do and Trump went, OK,
baby.
Here's Canada's global news and then a surprising
report from France 24.
With his country still inching towards conflict, U
.S. President Donald Trump used some of his
primetime speech to issue a direct warning to
Iran to give up its nuclear desires.
We wiped it out and they want to
start all over again.
Iranian officials pushed back on Trump's rhetoric, calling
it, quote, big lies.
We're in no way seeking nuclear weapons, Iran's
president said in recent days, despite sites destroyed
in 2025 appearing to be rebuilt, which adds
pressure to another round of upcoming diplomatic talks.
The president was measured when it came to
the conflict in Iran.
He definitely didn't saber rattle.
He didn't make threats.
He didn't need to.
The massive U.S. military buildup around Iran
speaks to America's distrust.
If you choose diplomacy and respect Iran's dignity
and interests, Iran's parliamentary speaker said we will
stay at the table.
The U.S. has hinted at potential olive
branches, including small scale uranium enrichment.
There's zero path to a nuclear weapon and
failure to do so could result in consequences.
This is him making the decision to use
military force to achieve his own policy objectives.
There are reports senior Pentagon officials have expressed
concerns about a large response, saying munitions stockpiles
are low due to American defense of Israel
and support for Ukraine, potentially giving the president
room to delay his decision.
That probably gave the American people a little
bit of a sigh of relief, but it
doesn't absolve the fact that this is still
a very hot situation.
And the president has to convince people that
this is in the nation's best interest.
Still, time is running out with a 10
or 15 day deadline imposed by Donald Trump
quickly coming to an end.
OK, so what we discussed on the last
show, I think, is still very much in
play.
This is to stop any any oil going
to China or to Russia.
Hey, let us in.
Let our American companies set up shop.
We'll do the refining.
We'll do the shipping.
We'll do drop shipping for you.
We'll do gift cards, whatever you want.
We'll take care of that.
We'll even give you some of those cool
little reactors that we that we're shipping around
with the air forces flying all over the
place.
Just do a deal.
I still don't understand why the president to
me is lying about this.
You know, I want to rebuild.
It just doesn't ring true at all.
And France 24 came very close, I think,
in this report.
The big, big issue as well is for
the US to debunk and destabilize the access
that goes from Iran to China and also
Russia.
And only then people like Jared Kushner will
appreciate the fact that possibly they can implement
the peace board, the extension of Abraham Accords
and reshape this region for which they also
have a vision, an ambition and their own
ideology.
And we'll see in the coming days how
their own strategy plans applies on the ground.
Sarah Krebs, speaking of China, we've had in
the last days talk about intelligence sharing on
the part of Beijing for Tehran.
Your thoughts on again, is this more than
just the United States versus Iran?
And what is the role of China in
all this?
Yeah, this seems like classic realpolitik on the
ground, which is sort of the enemy of
my enemy is my friend.
Right now, it seems as though there are
these kind of two worlds, U.S. allies,
China, its allies, and then these kind of
the Indias of the world that are trying
to navigate the middle.
And so it's not surprising that China is
trying to align a little bit with Iran
in order to push back in a balance
of power kind of way against the United
States, because that's kind of what these spheres
of influence are right now.
So it's not surprising at all.
First time I've heard any news report talk
about China in regards to this Iranian gambit.
I'm glad somebody picked it up.
Barely, though, barely.
It's like, come on, it's so obvious.
After Venezuela, this is now this is what
has to happen.
And, you know, you're not going to get
your oil out of the Straits of Hormuz
through the armada.
So do a deal and then come on
into the world and everybody can play nice.
Can it be anything else?
It's clearly not some nuclear facility.
No one is saying we'll have the bomb
in one week.
Nukes coming.
That's off the table.
Well, Whitkoff did say that recently.
Oh, yeah, I don't have the clip.
Out of the blue.
I think this was like about three or
four days ago.
Whitkoff has said exactly that.
Oh, what a douche.
He's what it was.
I see.
I think he had his binder and he
flipped to the wrong tab.
He's off script.
And it was like from five years ago.
He's getting what you say.
He's getting he's getting his information from chat
GPT on the flight.
Well, Bixby said books beside the gun have
a nuke in the one week.
So one week.
So one of the most controversial things that
I have ever seen happen on this show
as we made a call out and said,
listen, we have now seen so many times
a social media post where American troops are
being served steak and lobster.
And it immediately goes around as that's it.
Steak and lobster, steak and lobster.
They're going to be deployed.
Strikes are coming.
And I said, please, to our military producers,
of which there are many.
Could you please let me know what your
what your experiences?
Well, this is super interesting because it may
have to do with what service you're in.
But I will share a few of the
I'm sorry.
Yes, we have two notes in particular and
they contradict each other.
Well, I have about eight notes that contradict
each other.
First one.
I spent 31 years in the Navy, went
on deployment and they give us steak and
lobster.
It's usually because we're getting extended and not
going home.
It's true.
Next one.
My husband, who served in the army and
retired after 20 years of service in 2021,
had seven tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, said
a very long time ago when chow halls
and kitchens were only a couple of bases.
They would ship hot meals in these military
Yetis, and they would serve that before after
an operation in the early 2000s.
But now it's every Friday everywhere, basically all
the time on Friday.
So the videos that are going around social
media are just Friday.
Next one.
Yeah, I love these.
Your sense that this was BS and brother,
you are right.
I served as a cook in the US
Army.
Now we have Navy and Army different things
for 10 years from 88 to 98.
I've served in both procurement and production capacities
in large scale dining facilities.
These operate on a modest budget.
Generally, they plan for a three week menu
to cycle to balance consistency with variety while
special meals were planned in and they could
deviate under special circumstances.
It was rarely done to done to financial
constraints.
In September every year, it was clear which
facilities had budgeted well.
Those who who would shift to steak and
shrimp.
We never produce lobster weekly.
Those which manage finances poorly would swap ham
and omelets to bologna and orange juice to
Kool-Aid to cut costs ahead of the
first fiscal year.
So okay, then we have retired from the
Army 2018 Master Sergeant 20 years of active
duty service.
The steak and lobster theory is bullshit.
I can only speak from the Army perspective.
The Air Force probably has steak and lobster
on the days they don't have prime rib
and caviar.
With that being said, most soldiers don't even
eat in the dining facilities outside of breakfast.
Even the numbers are smaller than most people
assume.
I believe there's the theory that all soldiers
live in barracks with a chow hall across
the street.
Most soldiers live at home with their family
either on post housing or in a house
or apartment off base.
They eat their dinners at home, take their
lunch or go out and eat at one
of the many fast food restaurants in base.
If they are in a defense ready for
status, they're still living off post, can't drink
and usually have an hour recall and could
be anywhere in the world in about 18
hours.
Soldiers living in the barracks are generally on
a meal card that allows them to eat
at the dining facility for free.
Everyone else gets charged.
Soldiers not on meal card are on basic
allowance for the substance.
They are paid $476 a month to get
their own food wherever they wish.
Then we have Commodore Matt, the metal bender.
I just heard your immediate call to arms.
I can confirm.
I served in the US Navy and it
was widely known if you get surf and
turf while you're out at sea, bad news
is coming.
Some ships would also bring out ice cream
machines that they didn't usually have for the
same purpose.
The idea was to boost morale before dealing
a big blow.
So it seems the Navy may be doing
this.
Then we have the final one, Sir M,
mad son of Mid Valley.
I deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan a few times.
I've enjoyed many meals at dining facilities in
Kuwait, Qatar, and Romania.
I can tell you from my experience that
service members eating steak, lobster, and crab means
it's Friday.
Friday night is usually surf and turf night,
just like Wednesday is wings night, and Tuesday
is taco night in many chow halls and
dining facilities military wide.
So the only thing I can see here
is that maybe the Navy does this, but
everybody else seems to think it's just Friday.
I think we've solved this.
I wouldn't know much to solve, but at
least we got the bullcrap out of the
way.
It's Friday.
Thank you for the social media and it's
great insights.
And with that, I want to thank you
for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man
who put the sea in China's role in
Iran.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one, the only Mr. John C.
DuBois.
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Podcasting news.
Yes, I had podcasting news.
So, you know, everyone's like, oh, you got
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Video podcast is got, if it's not a
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So Spotify was the first to jump on
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What's happening is the and boy, we could
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Now that you can create video podcasts and
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We got some redheads lined up.
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They all get the skinny ones, me, the
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Porn.
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We're number one.
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Because we had Controller Slab and we knew
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And we argued over...
Well, we discussed many different pieces.
We chose Rocket Boy's throwback to 2001.
Is it 2001 Odyssey?
Is that it?
Yeah.
And I was surprised by when we were
doing the post-mortem on the show afterwards
that you had never seen this movie.
I can't recall seeing it.
Of course, I know Open the Pod Bay
Doors, Hal.
But I don't think I've actually seen it.
So I have put it on the list.
I have put it on the list.
Well, you know...
I don't know.
You know, I'm thinking about it because that
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Maybe I was in Holland and they didn't
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It's possible.
But I'm wondering, because I haven't seen it
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That's probably why I have never gone.
It's like, oh, I should watch this thing.
You know what was interesting?
We wanted to watch Spin City.
We thought, you know, hey, it'd be fun
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That is not available.
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So there's a show that should be on
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That was a good show.
Anyway, yeah, it may be unwatchable.
Kind of like the Colossus movie.
What was that thing called again?
The Forbidden Project.
I think that's still kind of watchable.
So it was Dan OBGYN 4.
And he's had the image, which I did
not remember because I probably haven't seen the
movie, that you said, that's the monolith.
It's the monolith.
Don't you see?
It's the monolith.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
It's a big phone in the middle of
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And Dan, I thought this was the art
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Yes, you did.
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it.
I have to assume that if he didn't
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And so we went to another version of
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surreal.
And we picked the other version.
Which looks a lot like a phone in
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Which is the first thing you saw, which
I thought was dimensional thinking.
So it's like, holy mackerel, I didn't get
that.
I still can't see it, but OK.
When was the last time you saw a
butt plug?
I don't go around looking for them.
I think the last time I saw is
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I don't know why, I just thought it
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Let's see, I think oh just a fun
little ditty although it's very very short and
you probably heard about it There's a minor
controversy at the British fake Oscars also known
as the BAFTAs As one of the People
who was in a Tourette's movie Could not
help himself when two black actors were on
stage Here we go The first BAFTA of
the night for a vital part of movie
-making My colleague I love how was it
was it Jamie Foxx you said no man
he meant that It's such a controversy you
get a Tourette's guy in an award show
hello.
Yeah, what do you expect to happen?
Yeah, I Never had that kind of Tourette's
no, that's that's extreme and that happens a
lot Yeah, and once in a while you
run into and I feel sorry for people
that get that don't under that haven't happened
to them They're the Tourette's sufferer.
Yeah, and it happened I was headed there
on a flight once and there's some poor
guy came in yeah, I obviously had Tourette's
and he was freaking out and Dragging his
luggage backwards off the wheels and then cussing
like a maniac Trying to put his bags
up while cussing and cussing and cussing it
and they took him off the plane and
I felt really That's because I knew it
was like just somebody was well Because when
you're on the plane, then you can't help
but saying bomb bomb bomb.
Yes, that's that's but that's what Tourette's is
It's like a severe OCD where you think
I'm I'm not gonna blink my eyes.
I'm not gonna blink my eyes.
Oh crap I'm blink my eyes like crazy.
I can't stop.
I can't that's what it is And if
you have the really bad kind it's like
oh I can't say bomb on this airplane
Bob that's what it is It's uh Yeah
You know Steve Jobs had a little bit
of Tourette's did you know that I Know
but I'm trying to imagine him Well, if
you look at that video where he announces
podcasting and then you know, I'm cussing about
my Mac hard drive suck Yeah, yeah, if
you look at him, he laughs and then
he ticks his head like three or four
times Oh the old head deal the old
head tick.
Yeah, like like Stephen Miller has like I
have Yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah, I do Go.
Yeah, you have yeah, I do.
Oh, yeah, you don't have the blinky blink.
Oh, I do Oh the blinky blink a
lot the blinky whenever I go on Rogan
the blinky blink is hard to control my
socks But that but it's cool you look
at the YouTube comments people like What is
that guy like resetting every five seconds and
then you'll get a comment under it.
Someone's like hey, man Yes to rats leave
Malone.
Okay I'm a victim.
You see I'm a victim and then people
the step is stick up for me.
It's good.
I like it Let's go with cash Patel's
hockey fiasco NPR The stupidest thing of the
week, so Ryan I want to start with
cash Patel's trip to Milan I think a
lot of people have seen that video of
him partying with the u.s. Men's hockey
team Is that why this is getting so
much attention?
Short answer.
Yeah, that's that is certainly a lot of
it Look at FBI directors are traditionally very
serious buttoned-up professionals Robert Mueller is one
example, you know They wear suits and a
tie they carry the FBI and it's huge
responsibilities on their shoulders We're talking terrorism investigations
fighting drug cartels Catching foreign spies trying to
steal America's secrets and then juxtapose that with
the video of Patel and Milan Celebrating with
the u.s Men's hockey team in the
locker room after the gold medal win over
Canada and in that video Patel is chugging
a bottle of beer.
He sprays some in the air.
He pumps his fist bangs on a table
He jumps around and sings with the team
And so this episode is certainly added to
concerns including among current and former FBI officials
About Patel's temperament and his fitness for this
big important job What does Patel had to
say about the criticism over this video?
He's tried to brush it off He said
in a post on X that he loves
America and was humble to celebrate with Team
USA Now Am I mistaken that cash Patel
plays hockey played hockey was a dog.
He plays Not pro, but that's semi pro,
but he plays it.
He's on a league.
He's a hockey player.
He's nuts about it That's not in the
coach of the national team is his buddy
And his buddy invited him into hey, come
on you want to come in the back?
Yeah.
Sure.
I'll come back there And so they made
a big fuss about it because you know,
he was you know, he was acting like
a dude No, no, the locker.
No.
No the fuss is about the airplane Well
that that became that that I think that's
the secondary fuss because they're trying to add
on to the main That's but the main
fuss was this lack of decorum There was
a suit and tie saying stop it boys
stop singing But here's a part two of
this clip now the top Democrat on the
Senate Judiciary Committee says he has evidence that
Patel's past travel Has actually hampered FBI investigations.
What can you tell us about that?
Right?
This is Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin He
said in a letter to the government accountability
office yesterday that whistleblowers have come forward with
information that Patel's decisions About the use of
FBI planes have hampered a couple of high
-profile investigations one instance According to Durbin an
FBI team was delayed at least a day
getting to Utah After conservative activist Charlie Kirk's
assassination there because of a plane and pilot
shortage caused Durbin says by Patel's personal flights
Durbin also says a team of FBI investigators
was enabled to fly to Rhode Island after
the shooting at Brown University Because of Patel's
decisions about planes now FBI spokesman Ben Williamson
has rejected both of those allegations on Brown
University Specifically Williamson said on X that Patel
was in Florida visiting his parents at the
time But that there was no issue with
aircraft being unavailable Needless to say though this
issue this travel issue for Patel is not
going away.
And here's Ryan Lucas.
Thanks as always.
Yeah, it's jet-gate This thing has legs.
They're gonna go after him.
They're gonna go after him real hard Here's
the Jake Tapper Tapper did a whole segment
on it.
Oh Outrageous Believe it or not.
That's your FBI director That's Patel celebrating with
the US men's hockey team after their overtime
win against Canada to win the gold medal
It was an incredible win that all Americans
can celebrate now Why exactly the what?
Except Patel all Americans can celebrate but but
not Patel the I director Who you might
think would be busy with all sorts of
things why he's in the locker room in
Italy seemingly pounding beers along with the team
Well, you can be forgiven Beers unlike Jake
Tapper who was pounding beers at the deputy
CIA directors birthday party Okay asking that question
especially after FBI spokesman Ben Williamson was lashing
out at a reporter from a different network
on Twitter the day before the game for
asking whether Patel was going To attend the
match the FBI spokesman writing quote your rag
outlet Wrote that he went to hang out
at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime Even
when provided information that your theory was false
unquote now the FBI is denying.
This was a personal trip for Patel they
say the director flew to Milan on the
FBI's gulfstream private jet for meetings with Italian
law enforcement and Security officials adding that the
FBI plays a major role in Olympic security
and that the trip was planned months in
advance, of course The Olympics was planned years
in advance Director Patel responded to the criticism
on X apparently not taking it very seriously
writing quote for the very concerned media Yes
I love America and was extremely humbled of
my friends the newly minted gold medal Winners
on Team USA invited me into the locker
room to celebrate this historic moment with the
boys unquote of course The issue is not
whether or not cash Patel loves America.
It's about His judgment and whether or not
he's embarrassing the bureau and the perks he
grabs and the seriousness With which he treats
his job.
Oh and one would think the FBI is
pretty busy these days with lots of things
going on Didn't stop there.
We've got to evidence the Government Accountability Office
estimates estimates that flying the FBI private jet
costs at least five thousand dollars per hour
Yeah, try closer to eleven thousand dollars an
hour.
If it's the plane, I think it is
five thousands pretty cheap Meaning Patel's Olympic trip
could theoretically cost taxpayers at least tens of
thousands of dollars And we should note that
the FBI director for security reasons is legally
mandated to use government aircraft for all travel
including personal trips But they are required to
reimburse taxpayers for the commercial cost of their
travel But the question is why was he
in Italy to begin with the trip to
Italy is far from the only time That
Patel has faced accusations of using government for
his personal benefit Reportedly at Patel's direction.
The FBI is even providing a separate security
detail for his girlfriend.
No, not his wife No, no say his
girlfriend country music singer Alexis Wilkins who lives
Stop stop Does he is he married No,
I don't think he is I think he
has the the honeypot girlfriend remember this the
one who's got the girlfriend But is he
married?
I don't think so.
Then why would you say not his wife?
He doesn't have a wife You just put
that in to make it sound scurrilous as
Though he's ditched his wife and he's running
off with this other woman.
That's what it sounds like.
It's not his wife It wasn't with his
wife Good catch his Girlfriend.
No, not his wife.
Not his fiance his girlfriend country music singer
Alexis Wilkins who lives part-time in Nashville
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee launched an
investigation last year into Patel's use of the
FBI jet for private travel There was a
time of course You might remember when Kash
Patel seemed to have a different attitude towards
the use of government resources confirmation hearing last
year And the resources of the FBI which
are funded by the American taxpayer dollars in
the seven minutes that you and I have
been talking About two people have died from
fentanyl overdoses One person has been shot to
death in this country and three people have
been raped The resources of the FBI will
go to that mission set and that mission
set alone Because America deserves a better brand
of justice and I'm gonna give it to
him Okay, so how many Americans died of
fentanyl overdoses?
How many Americans were shot to death and
how many Americans were raped while Kash Patel
was celebrating in that locker Oh brother The
hatred the hatred is so deep What happened
to love conquers hate bad bunnies words Man
oh man All right, I mean in the
Netherlands the King When he was Prince Prince
Pils for beer I mean he would when
the Dutch won something he'd be freaking out
it throwing beer over each other and one
thought that was cool Yeah, no, I'm not
in America.
No, you you can't celebrate anything here well,
not if you're a Republican yeah, no, you
can't if you're anything else it doesn't matter
Going on to screwball stories, that's I got
a couple here.
I want to play this was the Cuba
story.
I have questions Yeah, that is a screwball
story Secretary of State Marco Rubio says US
authorities are doing their own Investigation into an
incident early this morning This comes after Cuba
says its border guards shot and killed four
people and wounded six aboard a Florida registered
speedboat off the Cuban coast Cuba's Interior Ministry
claims the crew aboard the vessel opened fire
on the guards first who then returned fire
Your secretary Rubio just moments ago We have
our embassy on the ground in Havana working
this as we speak asking for access To
the people that were on those vessels and
we are going to verify that information independently
and reach our own conclusions Cuban officials claim
the commander of the Cuban vessel was wounded
in the shooting The ministry released a statement
following the incident saying Cuba would protect its
territorial waters Florida's Attorney General says he has
directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to investigate
Secretary Rubio says the result of the investigation
will be presented to policymakers including the president
for potential further action Hi your questions But
we're doing all this action against Cuba and
we still have an embassy there they haven't
kicked us out Yeah, I didn't realize that
either In Havana, well, of course we did
because that's where the Havana syndrome came from
well, I know about the Havana syndrome and
it came from there supposedly, but We're taking
action.
We've we've cut them off from the oil
supply.
They can't refuel their jets or anything and
They're having power outages and they've let us
keep an embassy there.
This doesn't make any sense to me I
agree you would have thought they at least
would have kicked our diplomats out, but I
was gonna say these were Cuban Americans supposedly
Who went over there?
I mean this has in some way it
has Bay of Pigs vibe to it Yeah,
well, there's also a lot of people who
are real sailboat enthusiasts They're they're usually armed
to the teeth on these some of these
boats because of piracy in the open seas
in the Caribbean Like Horowitz Horowitz always is
packing heat when he goes with He's going
to the islands man, he's packing heat he's
not taking no risks He's got his he's
got his Magnum, you know, he's got a
he's got a 45.
He's got the AR 15 He's got a
couple of grenades.
He's serious.
Ask him ask him about it.
He'll tell you Well, it's a well-known
fact that people are super careful they they're
armed on these boats don't kid yourself So
to a last Boss story, but this one's
gonna be your favorite.
Mm-hmm.
The Artemis.
Oh, no NASA is moving its Artemis moon
rocket from the launch pad back to the
hangar for more repairs It's a slow four
-mile track expected to take all day at
Florida's Kennedy Space Center Managers managers ordered the
rollback over the weekend after a problem developed
with the rockets helium Pressurization system the launch
team had been targeting March for the Artemis
to astronaut mission Humanity's first trip to the
moon in decades, but now it's off until
at least April.
Yes, of course Because you know we did
this with a tin can 50 years ago
a tin can and some and some hoodies
Oh with a with a garbage pail on
their head, that's okay, and we'll get there
eventually they're not even landing on the moon
There's gonna fly around it.
Yeah, there's a fly around.
Yeah a little age is CGI.
Well AI it'll be great and unfortunately What
it could be a lie it could be
they could be misleading us, but it appears
We did not have copulation in space It
was not the female astronaut who was pregnant
NASA is sharing the following information at the
request of NASA astronaut Mike Fink on January
7th while aboard the International Space Station I
experienced a medical event that required immediate attention
from my incredible crewmates Thanks to their quick
response and the guidance of our NASA flight
surgeons my status quickly stabilized after further evaluation
NASA determined the safest course was an early
return for crew 11 not an emergency But
a carefully coordinated plan to be able to
take advantage of advanced medical imaging not available
on the space station on January 15th, we
splashed down off the coast of San Diego
after an amazing five and a half month
mission I'm deeply grateful to my fellow expedition
74 members Zena Cardman Kimia Oleg Platonov Chris
Williams Sergei coud ver Chavez and Sergei Mikheyev
as well as the entire NASA team SpaceX
and the medical professionals at Scripps Memorial Hospital,
La Jolla near San Diego Their professionalism and
dedication ensured a positive outcome.
I'm doing very well and continuing standard post
-flight reconditioning at NASA's Johnson Space Center in
Houston Space flight is an incredible privilege and
sometimes it reminds us just how human we
are Thank you for all your support.
I Guess your theory doesn't pan out not
necessarily.
Oh, oh Okay Well, I mean a couple
of things I keep an eye on the
woman and see if she has a baby
Well, that's that's the what's what you do.
Yes.
Yeah, or the reason they want to bring
out this cock and bull story Which is
possible.
It's that she had an abortion.
Oh goodness gracious Okay, I guess anything's possible
Might be a bit of a stretch we
still don't think it's a stretch Yes We
haven't talked about it I did find this
this report from Global News relatively complete regarding
El Mencho The Mexican drug cartel leader And
we should probably just wrap it all up
with this report and we can maybe discuss
after the operation to capture Mexico's most powerful
cartel leader known as El Mencho unfolded in
a small town near Guadalajara Where Mexican special
forces acted on a tip from an associate
of one of his romantic partners in the
raid that followed the wanted Drug lord was
seriously wounded.
He later died during an airlift.
This was a very very effective Take down
of one of the biggest leaders and it
was done, you know based on the intelligence
That they come conducted primarily Mexico's defense minister
became emotional as he honored the 25th National
Guard members killed in operations Sunday The prosecutor's
office where El Mencho's body was reportedly taken
is now under heavy guard President Claudia Shane
bomb denied direct u.s. Involvement in the
operation, but acknowledged the Americans did provide intelligence
US President Donald Trump has previously threatened military
strikes inside Mexico targeting cartels and has Designated
El Mencho's cartel a foreign terrorist organization It's
no coincidence that the Mexican government decides to
act when it's under unprecedented levels of pressure
from the Trump administration to crack down on
the cartels The fear now is that violence
may continue to spiral as cartel members fight
for power and battle for territory There are
three people who are going to compete to
become the new leader of the cartel and
the political protection will go on Well experts
warned the death of El Mencho alone will
do little to disrupt Mexico's sprawling narco empires
It is a very superficial way to attack
the cartels and doesn't speak to a sort
of more profound Deep extraction of their roots
that are so deeply embedded in Mexico Facing
unprecedented violence It's now a question of whether
Mexican officials want to go deeper or if
the cartels are too rich and too powerful
To truly be disrupted.
This was kind of interesting First of all,
I think we needed to clean up Mexico
for FIFA for the World Cup You know,
we got to clean that place up a
bit But it seems like like 20%
of Mexico is in some way in some
shape or form employed by the cartels Have
you heard this?
Yeah, I've heard that number and other numbers
and it just seems as though is so
embedded They want you want to just let
the cartels bite each other to the death
and let them take the country over Well,
well, they seem to know, you know Yeah,
there's rivalry once in Iraq and once in
a while, but they you know, I've received
different boots on the ground I won't read
them.
But some people say, you know, everyone's happy
get rid of these guys other people say,
you know They come into the neighborhood.
They take care like the mob, you know
They take care of the kids bring candy
for the kids flowers for the women You
know, it's it cuts both ways and this
guy was not an El Chapo kind of
boasty guy.
He was supposedly a man of the people
Man of the people no matter what the
banks are gonna have some trouble Got no
more money to launder for a while I
think that may well from that group.
Anyway, yeah from that group.
I Don't know any thoughts besides the fact
that we clearly were helping I have no
thoughts on I mean, I know the writing
it was one-shot deal there was supposedly
there was a couple of tick tockers online
that are talking about it and I Don't
I have no No, you know, it could
be all bullcrap to me I mean I
have no nothing Well, that is that's a
that's not a great way to get into
our second donation segment You need to say
something funny witty or how about playing a
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Okay, one more Last clip for me.
This is the mystery school district story the
FBI conducting a search on Wednesday at the
home and office of a Los Angeles school
official a Spokesperson for the FBI Los Angeles
field office confirms that agents were at the
headquarters of the LA Unified School District and
at the home of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho a
third location in Florida was also searched It's
unclear what the investigation is about But the
school district says it's cooperating with the investigation
and doesn't have further information at this time
Carvalho himself and immigrants who had once overstayed
his visa has been vocal about protecting students
from ice Activity at schools.
He's been the Los Angeles Public Schools superintendent
since 2022 Before that he oversaw Florida's largest
school district for more than a decade the
LA Unified School District is the nation's second
largest with more than 500,000 students and
covering more than two dozen cities The office
of LA Mayor Karen Bass says it has
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Was digging around I saw I should give
this tip of the day people don't realize
how important it is to have one of
these things There are a buck or two.
They're cheap And they're extremely handy for writing
on anything that is just a little different
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to write Information like if you have a
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amps.
I write it on the side using a
and this is the tip a Silver Sharpie
if you don't have I love silver Sharpies
Silver Sharpies are the handiest thing I mean,
I first discovered him back in this floppy
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handy for everything you should because there's a
lot everything Do you know the people who
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Do you want a silver Sharpie?
Do you know how many mixers I've written
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I've lost count You know you put the
you know because the mixers are they never
like correspond to the players and stuff and
so and they or they have no numbers
and so I'll Write down one through eight.
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I can agree with also handy if you
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Think you're talking to a human being, but
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here's a little story I got to tell
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my name and I know the fly spot
where they got the champagne We rode for
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knows who we are.
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I said I didn't but that was a
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the presidential nominee is what I expect But
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