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Did you go this morning? No. Bad boy. Bad boy.

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Adam Curry. It's Sunday, August 23rd, 2026. This is your

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award-winning Gipo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1897. This is No

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Agenda. In the morning, Gipo Nation, welcome to No Agenda

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1897, the best podcast in the universe. And this is

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No Agenda version 1. And please welcome back the co-guest

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host that we had on the previous episode on Thursday,

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the one and only Sir Ducifer, Mr. Rob Duke. In

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the morning, everyone. How's everybody doing out there? I hope

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I'm coming in loud and clear. Loud and clear, no

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delay. Excellent. It was the weirdest thing on the last

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show. I'm like, why is Rob so slow? I never

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noticed he was a slow thinker, you know? It's like

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he always... I'm usually on the ball, ready to interrupt

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at a moment's notice. And then I realized later, like,

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oh, you know, And I'm like, Rob, do you have

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a bad connection or do you have a couple of

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tabs open on your browser? Yeah, and I replied back,

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well, my browser probably looks like John C. Dvorak's office

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at this point. I mean, I am a browser tab

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fiend. I have Finder Windows and three browsers open each

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one with like, I don't know, 40 windows. So yeah,

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we closed all that. Oh, man. You have 40? How

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many tabs? You have 40 tabs or 40 windows? I

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had, no, probably like... Eight windows with 40 tabs mixed

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around total. I mean, now I have three tabs open,

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so we're looking good. When you say Windows, what do

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you mean? Like file folders? You're on a Mac, right?

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I'm on a Mac. So I have Firefox. I have

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Safari. I have Brave. You know, I have all the

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different browsers open because each one does different things. Wow.

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Kind of. No wonder. No wonder. Well, here's the thing,

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Mr. Rob do. Whenever Gitmo Nation likes something, whenever they're

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really like digging something, people always do things like they

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make jingles, they put together end of show mixes. And

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since you are... I mean, no one even called you

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a Zionist shill. I'm amazed. I'm a little worried, actually.

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There's still time. Here's a mix just for you from

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Just Baker. Yeah. Yeah. in the right seat. Two pairs

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of eyes cutting through the same medium. They don't just

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report the weather. They measure the dew point at exact

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degree where the narrative vapor turns liquid. And you finally

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see the point. Just do it. Just do it. Do

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it. You're the brain, name the game Let the morning

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light do what the night couldn't Sir Lucifer and the

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Podfather Deconstructing the same old script Just do it Yeah

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Just go. To just do it I mean, come on,

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man. That's some love right there. I'm literally going to

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walk down the street with that blasting on a speaker.

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The question is, are you on super male vitality pills

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right now? Is that what's going on? You know what

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I did take, though? I will admit, I did take

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the methylene blue this morning. Hold on. Wait for the

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drop. Wait for the drop. Wait for the drop. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome. All right. You know, that's something

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we never did on no agenda is play music in

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the show. I'm like, man, I really wish I could

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play some old school music. I'm like, what am I

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thinking? I got this. producer made mixes might as well

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use them in the show now and do something different

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yeah exactly well i guess was that one that that

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played at the last show i didn't make it to

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the end no no no one made it to the

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end rob uh no no that's uh that's brand new

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nice how did i don't before we even start with

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deconstructing the news yeah how did i miss The Freedom

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250 Grand Prix being today? I, you know, I had

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no idea either. My, my mind has been, uh, um,

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I was looking for clips. I wasn't even looking at,

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is that a race cars? Is that what that is?

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It's Indy car. Um, A street race in Washington, D.C.

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is awesome today. Well, of course, all the liberals are

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complaining how horrible this is. But this, I mean, that

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could not be more Americans. Oh, yeah. Indy cars. And

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also... Do you know anything about racing? Are you a

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racing guy? Do you care at all about that stuff?

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need a break and you shift. That's about it. Because

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I think Formula One, and I could be wrong, I

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think the Formula One cars now also have batteries. Oh,

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wow. I don't know if they're hybrid. It's another heavier.

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to go green if we're racing in the United Arab

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Emirates. And I'm like, I think the Indy cars, they

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just burn fuel and just have explosions. Yeah. They burn

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fuel. They burn tires. They burn – it's a lot

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of – A lot of fossil fuels in the making.

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of Hormuz being in dispute over oil and we're just

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like burning it in D.C. It's beautiful, man. I want

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a shot of the car driving past the Lincoln Memorial.

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That's what I need. You know Trump's watching it right

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now. I do have a racing thing, though. I did

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do a drag race one time in my mom's 1986

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Buick Century that she got from Mary Kay. Wait, was

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that a straight six? It was a straight six. It

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was a six. Oh, man. And man, I caught a

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second, which I don't know if people know. That's when

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you peel rubber when you go into second gear. So

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that's called getting a second. And I beat my friend

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had a Caprice Classic. Oh, man. And I blew him

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away because he had too much weight. So your mom

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was a Mary Kay – what was it like? She

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was a sales director. Because if you're at the top

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of your game, that's when you get one of those

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pink cars, right? Right. She got three cars from Mary

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Kay. That's how successful she was. Yeah. And, you know,

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when I look back at it, I'm like, that's amazing

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because this was in the 80s and, you know, people

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maybe had a lot of money or it was, you

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know, it was a different time. There wasn't a it

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didn't seem like everybody had disposable income. So. But she

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would go out in her business suits and come back,

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and she would hold parties, and it just got bigger

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and bigger. I love that. Yeah, three cars out of

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the whole deal. You can't beat that. No wonder you're

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an entrepreneur. It's in your blood, man. It came from

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your mom. That's awesome. Yeah, and she started off as

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an English teacher. So that's… It's pretty amazing. And now

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she's retired and a grandmom. She just loves being a

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grandmom. Is she nearby? Is she in Texas? She lives

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down the street. When I moved to Austin in 98,

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slowly everyone in my family moved here to Austin. Because

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I'm like, this place is really cool. You guys should

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come. And now it's way too crowded. And I'm like,

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how do I get out of here? Right. Right. So

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you got grandma nearby. Yay. Yeah. Yay. That's great. That's

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how you do it. And all the all the extended

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family is close by. My brother is probably the furthest

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now. He's out near Beaumont. But we all kind of

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went from Louisiana over to Texas. Very nice. Oh, you're

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from Louisiana. Originally, yes. On the other side of the

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highway. Basically, other side of the Sabine River. I mean,

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we were like 20 miles from Texas. Oh, okay. Always

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looking to come. Always mall shopping in Texas because they

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had better malls. So I got a clip from several

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different people, which kind of pertains to you. And I

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wanted to respond to it and set the record straight

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and that I have another comment about it. This is

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from the Alex Jones podcast. Alex Jones live dot com

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show. Can I mention one last thing and I'll let

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you go. Well, we're not censoring you. You're doing that.

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You're not. You're not. You're doing it. You're doing the

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thing, brother. Do it. The next caller will do it,

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too. No, you're on the air. Go ahead. Is there

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any chance you're going to link back up with the

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Revenge of the Cis guys or Adam Curry from No

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Agenda? Because he's a Rogan guy. He's in Texas. You

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should really link up with Adam Curry. Yeah, I like

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Adam Curry. He's really smart. Last time he was on

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my show, like 10 years ago, he got a big

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backlash from his supporters. No. Oh, my biggest interview is

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with you, but I can't come on your show. You

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can't come online. I saw him like three years ago

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at one of Rogan's shows, The Mothership, shook his hand,

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said hi to his wife. I mean, Adam Curry won't

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come on the show. Well, he found Christ recently. His

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co-host, John C. Dvorak, just passed away, RIP. And he's

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got some time now. I think you guys, you got

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a big crossover audience, Alex, and I think you should

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take advantage of that. Well, you're lobbying me. He won't

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come on the show. So, he wants to come on

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and come on. Refuse! All right. Well, thank you for

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having me on, Alex. Yeah, you bet. Thanks for the

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call. Look, there's this thing. I was the first person

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to get really censored, and I'm still on YouTube, Instagram,

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Facebook, and most things. And I'm only allowed on Rumble

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and only on X and on AlexShonesLive.com. They came in

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and took over InfoWars, all that. So people still know,

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like, it's safe to do anything out there but be

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with Alex Shones. Sorry.

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I love Adam Curry. But people are always like, have

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this person on, have that person on. They won't come

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on. Joe Rogan's afraid to have me on. So, and

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that's fine. I'm not mad at Joe. It's fine. He

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can say everything I say now and be safe. But

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the globalists are like a hunting dog that's after a

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target. Globalists. It's like, don't get near Jones or you'll

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get big problems. That's right. All right. Globalists are behind

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me. Okay. Okay. So let me just tell the story.

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This was during the great PayPal deplatforming. And Alex asked

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me to come on. I said, brother, right now we're

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having so many troubles and we can't sell vitality pills.

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And if we get kicked off of PayPal, we got

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a lot of problems. And later, actually. People got so

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mad at PayPal for another issue that a lot of

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people just pulled their subscription. So we got hurt regardless.

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Wow. Yeah. Brother Alex, I would love to come on

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again. Absolutely. And I like that he remembered that Tina

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and I met him at the mothership. His new wife,

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he's married to her, right? His new wife? Is that?

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Yes. Is he still with her? Second wife. Second, third?

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They're definitely still together. Okay. She was hanging out not

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too long ago. She's very sweet. Sweetheart. Sweetheart. And so

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was Alex. Even Tina's like, Alex is a sweetheart. Did

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you notice his, you know, so I don't know how

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long ago you saw him, but he was... He's really

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gotten in shape in the last couple years. Oh, of

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course I saw that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he looks

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like a different person. People were like accusing him of

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being a clone. I'm like, no, it's the same guy.

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You know, that's what happens when you lose weight and

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shave your head. But you know, you look different. But

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it's true. It's true. They're cloning all the celebrities. You

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know this, right? And you have your digital twin. And

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actually, someone like Alex, would pay for it so that

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he could then retire to the bunker in hawaii got

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the documents it's all true you know i saw a

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second half a show clip i didn't bring it to

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the show but it was it was a guy saying

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he had a friend who was in the path of

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a data center And he calls him up and his

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friend's like, hi, I've moved to Puerto Rico. Yes, it

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was a number I could not refuse. I'm very happy

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now. And he's like, that doesn't sound like my friend.

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He thought he was cloned or some company stole his

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voice. So it was pretty interesting. And you're looking at

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it like, well, you know, it's possible. You know, here's

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the thing. If humans can think it, it's then possible.

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when they think it, but 5, 10, 20, 30 years

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down the road… All you have to do is come

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up with the idea. And that's one of the cool

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things about AI, especially with images. If you think it,

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you could possibly get a weird-looking version of what you're

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thinking created. But there's a lot of wokeism in AI.

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not some of it. A lot of it is because

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of – People believe in these black boxes actually are

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as some kind of oracle, like, you know, hey, tell

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me what this is about. And these things are only

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really good as tools if you know what the outcome

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is supposed to be, not as a as a all

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knowing, all seeing device. But actually, that brings me to

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the first. Yeah. The first topic, which as you and

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I discussed on Thursday, everything, everything, everything is about the

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midterms. I don't care what it is. It's all about

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the midterms. And it's unbelievable how people are falling into

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it left and right. And the data centers, well, that's

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one of the big ones. And I can say if

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I were the mayor of a town or the governor

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of a state – and I had a chance to

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get a big plant in, an AI plant or a

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data center, I would absolutely want it because the jobs

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are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are

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just enormous. President Trump hosted tech leaders at the White

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House to discuss U.S. efforts on cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence.

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Trump says the technology is crucial to create more jobs

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and beat China, but voters have a different perspective. NPR's

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Deepa Shivaram reports. The president argued that if he were

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the mayor of a town, he would want an AI

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data center there for the tax benefits. But if I

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were a governor or mayor, I would want that plant

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in my town. And many of them are designed in

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a very beautiful way. That puts Trump at odds with

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the majority of Americans. A Gallup poll from March this

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year said seven in 10 Americans oppose an AI data

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center getting built in their area. Trump, in his remarks,

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acknowledged that AI data centers could use a, quote, little

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public relations help. But his stance underscores how his perspective

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The perception of the technology differs from voters' concerns, which

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could be a top issue in the midterm elections this

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year. Yeah, there it is. Top issue. Yes, make it

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a top issue. So do you go to a church

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out there in Driftwood? Yes. It's an Episcopal church. Did

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you go this morning? No. Bad boy. I know. So

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we go to church early on Sunday morning. And this

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data center thing, there's like this confluence of messaging that

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has just come together to the point where very rational

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people completely believe that data centers are pretty much demonic.

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I mean, that's the word I hear. They're going to

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take all the water. They're going to take all the

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electricity, which, you know, some of that is true. They

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are going to use a lot of electricity. Well, we're

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covering that. Definitely. The last show. Definitely. Some of that

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is true. But there's this these additional things that have

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come in. And first of all, AI is all under

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control of Peter Thiel. Palantir is using AI, and they're

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going to control everybody, kill everybody. They kill everybody who's

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not a Jew. They're the only company doing it. The

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only company. They're not even an AI frontier company, but…

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In fact, they do quite the opposite. But this is

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like the Whitney Webb thing. It all comes back to

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Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia. And then Epstein, it

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all comes back to that. And then you add in

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this one extra bit, which actually saw you. I have

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not heard your clips, of course, but you brought in

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some clips, I think, which will be relevant. Now people

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add the flock camera. So now these data centers are

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going to be filled with surveillance on us. Skynet is

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here. We're going to be completely controlled. We'll be digitized.

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And the antichrist is in the data centers. And this

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is just not true. It's just not true. Well, and

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if they want to track you, they're already tracking you

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through... Oh, and they're posting their fears on Instagram and

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TikTok, which is the literal Skynet. No, they're posting their

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crimes. They're like, let's cut down these flat cameras, which

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I think is, I was going to say this after

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I played some of these clips, but that's the PSYOP

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of, hey, go cut down your local flat camera. Nothing

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will happen. I'm like, there's somebody running this thing to

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create. create a flock protection system because then it's going

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to become really bad. You know, like right now, it's

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just vandalism. Well, now it's going to be now you're

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messing with infrastructure and it's going to be some weird

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thing where they turn it around and go, now we're

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going to get you. And it's 20 years in prison

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for touching a fly camera. That's what I think. Well,

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that's an interesting take. Well, that's where it leads. It

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always leads to that. We've got to create something protected.

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So... This is the surveillance system that we're creating or

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who's creating. We don't know. But there's other companies out

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there other than Flock that are doing the same thing.

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How about Amazon? We don't hear about it. How about

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Amazon with the ring doorbells, which everyone gladly put on

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their home? Right. And now they're clairvoyant. They can see

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in boxes. What are these Flock clips you got? So

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the first one, let's see. Let's go to – well,

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let's see. I got Vader on Flock. Let's start with

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Vader on Flock. This is Darth Vader goes to a

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city council meeting, and he's voicing his support for Flock

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cameras. I was looking for people – initially bitching about

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it but i'm like i don't know these clips are

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kind of funnier of the people being sarcastic and promoting

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uh flock so we'll start with fader The Emperor is

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a fan of flock. And we must continue utilizing flock

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technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel

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scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground

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to pool, from pool to gymnasium. Because we all know

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that the flock cameras are not only following the license

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plate readers, they are following children. They are following children

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in parks. and gymnasiums and we need this. I need

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this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend. I saw this

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guy. He was great. I got to ask Rob, the

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constitutional lawyer. I mean, I'm not so sure. I mean,

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I know that municipalities are getting rid of him everywhere.

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City councils are going, hey, we made a mistake here.

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And I grew up with this nonsense in Europe. with

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traffic cameras and, you know, at a certain, where it

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actually led to with them, like in the Netherlands, it

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used to be flitzpiles, so flash poles, they'd call them,

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which is obviously a camera. Ah, crap, I got flashed.

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So then you just get a... Oh, you'd actually see

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the flash as you drive by, and you're like, oh,

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man, I got flashed. Exactly. But then they changed it.

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They changed it to these sensors with, let's say, maybe

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five kilometers in between. And so they clock you when

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you hit the entry on the highway. And if you

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hit the exit too soon, then they then boom, you're

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done. You clearly were speeding in the interim. So they

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have these these these sections of highway where they're just

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clocking you. You know, the opposite of Indy or NASCAR

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is not how you have to go exactly the right

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speed. And, and, and I, you know, it's working over

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there. It's stupid, but people are like, ah,

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I might as well just slow down here. I just

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go. Oh, well, here's Rob, the constitutional lawyer. He's checking

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in right away. He's listening. Oh, good. Are you about

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to ask him whether there's any expectation of privacy on

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a public road? Well, you know what I'm asking you,

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Rob. I'm asking you what to can because to ask

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that question is to answer it. I guess public. Okay.

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I thought that, you know, isn't that trapping you? Isn't

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that entrapment? He's going to have to write me a

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brief. A brief. Well, where it gets interesting is they,

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you know, they take this stuff and then they hold

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it. And then some of these police departments, the police

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departments are tracking their ex-girlfriends. I think that's a small

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minority, obviously. But they'll use it for other things. Like

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a crime was committed and you were seen on this

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road at that time. Yeah. Not for speeding purposes. But

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you were seen there, so we're going to come and

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question you. And there's video of that, of cops going

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to people's houses and questioning them. They're like, you stole

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a package. And she's like, I drove through that neighborhood

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because it's a shortcut. And they're like, nope, you stole

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a package off this lady's front porch. Yeah. uh so

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what else you got here all right so we got

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now we have i'm assuming this lady's a mom um

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because she just kind of gave out the the mom

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vibe uh she's sarcastic mom on flock one and she's

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basically you know doing the same thing that vader's doing

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but she's got a different twist on it and i

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and i kind of like this twist and and i'm

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all for you know if we're gonna do this to

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everybody, then let's, you know, if we're going to put

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flock cameras on the trails and everywhere that we can

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possibly think about, well, let's make sure they're in front

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of our public servants' homes. You'll probably remember me. I

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was at the last meeting in opposition to flock. But

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after seeing the recent data coming from the sheriff's office,

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I'm going to call for more flock cameras. Double. Triple

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even. I want the most that we can possibly have.

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I'm requesting they be placed in the commissioner's office, in

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front of the commissioner's houses. I want them at the

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sheriff's office, in front of the sheriff's house, and I

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want them in front of every government employee's house. This

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wasn't an issue pointing one at my driveway, so it

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shouldn't be a problem, right? Anytime the sheriff, commissioner, or

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government employee leaves their house... A drone should detach from

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the camera and follow them wherever they go. This is

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for safety and to protect you. Don't worry. It's just

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a license plate reader. No big deal. I'm not lying

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to you. You can trust us. We're here to help.

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Oh, I like that. And that kind of dovetails into...

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J.C.D.'s. He wanted cameras in the classrooms. Yeah. Here's Rob,

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the constitutional lawyer. He says the Fourth Amendment does not

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apply unless you have an expectation of privacy. Creepy. Overbearing.

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Absolutely. Unconstitutional. Sadly, no. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unlawful searches

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and seizures. Let's play your second clip, your second mom

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clip here. We can also use unique identification numbers in

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real time as you move, tracking things like your Bluetooth,

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your car GPS, heck, even your dog's microchip. And no,

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this is definitely not a slippery slope of constitutional liberty,

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just because some judge who works for the government maybe

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might say so. In addition, we could add an extra

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layer of security, and every government employee email and phone

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could have a digital online clone. That way, every taxpayer

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can go in, view your text messages, listen to your

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phone calls, see your search history, and listen to your

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voicemails on that device. If you don't have anything to

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hide, it shouldn't be a problem, right? We'll only store

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this data for 30 days, though. I'm being totally honest

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about this. For the low price of a few hundred

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thousand dollars, why not spend the extra money surveilling the

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government? their use of our tax dollars, and everything funded

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by them. If you're not willing to have this transparency

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as a public servant while you erect a surveillance state

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around citizens, then you're a hypocrite. Y'all stay blessed. Thank

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you. I love the ending. Y'all stay blessed. Y'all stay

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blessed. Rob continues, if the camera can see inside your

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car, you may have an interesting question. The question will

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again turn on whether you have an expectation of privacy

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in your car. And I just say that the final

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point is that everybody is freely giving their location information.

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Their data, their communications with a non-exclusive license to have

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that data copied and reproduced and replicated and remixed and

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done whatever and sold and sold to whoever wants to

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buy it. So this is just like a red herring

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almost. Like, oh, I'm so upset about this. But you

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shouldn't use a single app. The apps are what are

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doing it. And maybe this will lead to that. Maybe

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people will start looking at their phones and going, wait

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a minute. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.

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They won't. They love it too much. It's easier just

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to bitch about flock. I mean, you can't go to

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a city council meeting if you can't put it on

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Instagram. What's the point? That's true. I'm sure that this

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mom thought that as well. And the crazy thing is,

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is that this so-called incredibly intelligent artificial intelligence – is

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really, I mean, this is just a clip that I

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pulled to help people understand how the corpus, how a

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lot of this recognition is actually done and who does

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it. A lot of people see artificial intelligence as something

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that is largely automated, frictionless, and just appears as a

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useful tool for us. But most of the human hours

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that go into making artificial intelligence possible are not done

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in labs in Google or OpenAI. The majority of the

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work is actually very piecemeal data annotation work, which is

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outsourced. to various locations in the global south. everywhere from

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India to East Africa to the Philippines, where this data

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00:26:08,823 --> 00:26:13,413
annotation work is undertaken by an army of millions of

465
00:26:13,413 --> 00:26:16,403
workers across the globe. Now, just to give you some

466
00:26:16,403 --> 00:26:20,843
context, this data annotation could include something like annotating a

467
00:26:20,843 --> 00:26:24,563
street scene for an autonomous vehicle, so drawing a box

468
00:26:24,563 --> 00:26:27,373
around what is it tree, what is the child, what

469
00:26:27,373 --> 00:26:30,763
is the street sign, so that as you're training an

470
00:26:30,763 --> 00:26:35,803
autonomous vehicle to essentially see the road, the algorithm that

471
00:26:35,803 --> 00:26:39,003
powers it will be able to learn the difference between

472
00:26:39,003 --> 00:26:42,134
these objects. And this doesn't happen on its own or

473
00:26:42,134 --> 00:26:48,223
automatically. This requires hundreds and thousands of human labour hours

474
00:26:48,303 --> 00:26:51,763
at what I call digital sweatshops, which are located all

475
00:26:51,763 --> 00:26:55,303
across the globe. And this is often done in very

476
00:26:55,303 --> 00:27:00,583
substandard labor conditions. And the whole process of hiring these

477
00:27:00,583 --> 00:27:04,743
workers and outsourcing the work to them really mirrors in

478
00:27:04,743 --> 00:27:08,283
a lot of ways the outsourcing revolution that happened in

479
00:27:08,283 --> 00:27:11,373
manufacturing and IT. And I think when it comes to

480
00:27:11,373 --> 00:27:15,763
things like coffee or chocolate or our clothes, I think

481
00:27:15,763 --> 00:27:18,893
a lot of listeners would be aware that this is

482
00:27:18,893 --> 00:27:22,093
part of the global supply chain. And I think what

483
00:27:22,093 --> 00:27:25,603
we need to realise is that advanced technology like artificial

484
00:27:25,603 --> 00:27:29,663
intelligence is still part of these global supply chains. I'm

485
00:27:29,663 --> 00:27:33,743
going to push back on this dude. I know a

486
00:27:33,743 --> 00:27:37,153
guy who has a company, and he actually had this

487
00:27:37,153 --> 00:27:40,903
in the very beginning of Value for Value with Podcasting

488
00:27:40,903 --> 00:27:45,443
2.0 with streaming Satoshis. It was a company called Sphinx.

489
00:27:45,884 --> 00:27:49,273
And they actually had set up this, they were very

490
00:27:49,273 --> 00:27:54,134
excited about the lightning payment system because they had an

491
00:27:54,134 --> 00:27:58,943
entire army of people working in the Philippines, which is

492
00:27:58,943 --> 00:28:01,384
not a third world country. There's a lot of issues

493
00:28:01,384 --> 00:28:04,583
for sure. And these people would do exactly what was

494
00:28:04,583 --> 00:28:10,983
described, you know, CATs. that deer, human, bicycle, in essence

495
00:28:10,983 --> 00:28:14,543
the other side of your CAPTCHAs, but doing it for

496
00:28:14,543 --> 00:28:19,634
artificial intelligence. And they would get paid micropayments per completed

497
00:28:19,634 --> 00:28:22,384
assignment And they were able to take that, convert it

498
00:28:22,384 --> 00:28:27,293
into gas cards, gift cards, cards for local supermarkets. And

499
00:28:27,293 --> 00:28:30,023
they were doing phenomenally well. And I don't know if

500
00:28:30,023 --> 00:28:32,943
they're still in business. I presume they are. So that's

501
00:28:32,943 --> 00:28:35,623
actually not all that crazy and not all that bad.

502
00:28:36,123 --> 00:28:39,313
But this is just another part of it. Oh, they're

503
00:28:39,313 --> 00:28:42,844
digital sweatshops. By the way, there's a lot of people

504
00:28:42,844 --> 00:28:45,953
in America who do this work, too. A lot of

505
00:28:45,953 --> 00:28:50,493
people. My daughter did some. She was doing all kinds

506
00:28:50,493 --> 00:28:54,223
of stuff for Google for a while during COVID. All

507
00:28:54,223 --> 00:28:57,563
kinds of, you know, tagging, recognizing. I mean, it was

508
00:28:57,563 --> 00:28:59,733
everywhere. It was just, it was like a great little

509
00:28:59,733 --> 00:29:03,073
side gig. But somehow. I always find it interesting, those

510
00:29:03,073 --> 00:29:05,313
captures now. Now they want you to do three or

511
00:29:05,313 --> 00:29:07,083
four in a row before the website will let you

512
00:29:07,083 --> 00:29:09,453
check it out. You know, it used to just be

513
00:29:09,453 --> 00:29:12,323
one. Now it's like. No, no, no. Here's another picture.

514
00:29:12,323 --> 00:29:15,463
Identify these cars. Okay. It's so crazy that I have

515
00:29:15,463 --> 00:29:18,223
to convince a robot that I'm not a robot. I

516
00:29:18,223 --> 00:29:20,853
mean, there's something so wrong with that. So these data

517
00:29:20,853 --> 00:29:26,313
centers, which I truly believe will not actually be functional

518
00:29:26,313 --> 00:29:29,193
as data centers, We heard on the last show, if

519
00:29:29,193 --> 00:29:30,864
you didn't go back and listen to the guy from

520
00:29:30,864 --> 00:29:33,623
ERCO, or not from ERCO, but the Energy Commission in

521
00:29:33,623 --> 00:29:37,623
Texas. Yeah, in Turkey, Texas. Turkey, Texas, that they're looking

522
00:29:37,623 --> 00:29:41,603
for stranded power. So that's power that can't even get

523
00:29:41,603 --> 00:29:46,173
into the grid because it would overload the transport lines

524
00:29:46,173 --> 00:29:50,823
to the grid itself. Yeah. And so they, you know,

525
00:29:50,823 --> 00:29:54,073
the data centers, they're smart. You know, like, hey, I

526
00:29:54,073 --> 00:29:56,823
want to create a baseload. You can power my machines

527
00:29:56,823 --> 00:29:59,923
and then I can sell off some excess capacity when

528
00:30:00,019 --> 00:30:02,569
It's not needed or not at night or when there's

529
00:30:02,569 --> 00:30:06,140
no wind. Yes, there have been some projects that took,

530
00:30:06,140 --> 00:30:10,660
you know, especially in Virginia or the Alexandria, Virginia area

531
00:30:10,660 --> 00:30:13,579
where all the existing data centers are. Yeah, they started

532
00:30:13,579 --> 00:30:16,680
to suck more power. But now it's just seen as

533
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:21,390
this. evil evil thing and i'll reiterate this is a

534
00:30:21,390 --> 00:30:25,670
boondoggle a bonanza get your kid you know they will

535
00:30:25,670 --> 00:30:28,599
take anybody who wants to work they'll teach him a

536
00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:31,039
skill teach him how to weld teach him how to

537
00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:33,559
be an electrician teach him how to wire stuff teach

538
00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:36,039
him how to get coffee for all i care just

539
00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:39,799
like the oil boom This is a great opportunity. It's

540
00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:41,950
only going to last a couple of years. The data

541
00:30:41,950 --> 00:30:46,849
centers are not evil inherently, but this is now turned

542
00:30:46,849 --> 00:30:52,900
into a psyop, which is, you know, is anti-Republican. And

543
00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:55,769
the Republicans are doing it to themselves. This is the

544
00:30:55,769 --> 00:30:59,000
thing that's so crazy. Like, well, I can't vote for

545
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,359
anybody who's for data centers. Texas Governor Greg Abbott once

546
00:31:02,359 --> 00:31:06,089
dubbed his state the epicenter of AI development. That truly

547
00:31:06,089 --> 00:31:09,900
is a Texas-sized investment in our state. An ABC News

548
00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:12,690
analysis found Texas is now among the states with the

549
00:31:12,690 --> 00:31:16,259
most data centers. with more than 300 in operation and

550
00:31:16,259 --> 00:31:19,869
at least 200 more in the pipeline. But as opposition

551
00:31:19,869 --> 00:31:24,359
grows in Texas communities. This is my investment, my home,

552
00:31:24,359 --> 00:31:27,680
and it's being ruined. The issue roils the governor's reelection

553
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,279
campaign. Greg Abbott. Abbott took 20 million in campaign donations

554
00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:34,470
from data center executives and companies, and he gave them

555
00:31:34,470 --> 00:31:38,809
billions in tax breaks. Abbott now reversing course. We must

556
00:31:38,809 --> 00:31:42,980
prohibit them. From building AI data centers in rural Texas

557
00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:47,700
neighborhoods. Putting a freeze on new data center projects as

558
00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,569
the state audits them for energy, water usage and tax

559
00:31:50,569 --> 00:31:54,829
incentives. A move President Trump called a mistake. For Texas

560
00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:57,410
to say no to data centers is a mistake in

561
00:31:57,410 --> 00:32:01,500
the sense that it could be bigger than oil. Wow.

562
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:06,380
So none of these guys, including the president, understand anything

563
00:32:06,380 --> 00:32:09,200
at all about this stuff or the fact that the

564
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:14,630
frontier model companies, which means they're the leaders of burning

565
00:32:14,630 --> 00:32:19,700
money, that they are the ones themselves who have. scared

566
00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:22,960
everybody about oh well it's going to break in everything

567
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,250
it's going to bring down entire systems and that's super

568
00:32:26,250 --> 00:32:29,839
cyber hacking and it's going to steal your bitcoin going

569
00:32:29,839 --> 00:32:33,700
to break into your bank account which is backfiring on

570
00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:37,119
them in a tremendous way where the you know the

571
00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:42,119
new anthropic Fable used to be called Mythos. They rebranded

572
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:45,200
to Fable. No one's using it. It's too expensive. We're

573
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,880
like, we're not going to use that crap. We're going

574
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,940
to use the cheap stuff from China. This is fantastic.

575
00:32:49,180 --> 00:32:50,579
We like this. That we can load onto our computers

576
00:32:50,579 --> 00:32:53,299
and run ourselves. We can load it on our own

577
00:32:53,299 --> 00:32:56,910
little data center here in our homes. So Abbott, who

578
00:32:56,910 --> 00:32:59,829
doesn't understand anything at all. And yes, he's a good

579
00:32:59,829 --> 00:33:03,329
guy. Small towns, that's what happens in small towns. You

580
00:33:03,329 --> 00:33:06,160
get a bonanza, you get the small town. They get

581
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,720
a factory, they get something that brings jobs to that

582
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,289
area. Yes. That happens all the time. It happened with

583
00:33:11,289 --> 00:33:15,539
the railroads. Steel. And it's so, steel, thank you. It's

584
00:33:15,539 --> 00:33:20,500
so analogous to the railroads because, yeah. Lots of tracks

585
00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:22,619
are going to be laid and all those companies will

586
00:33:22,619 --> 00:33:25,579
go out of business. And many, many, many years later,

587
00:33:25,579 --> 00:33:28,190
we might be able to use it for something. It's

588
00:33:28,190 --> 00:33:31,079
a mall. You make it a mall. All kinds of

589
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:36,730
great opportunities. But Governor Abbott. He doesn't know what he's

590
00:33:36,730 --> 00:33:39,339
talking about, and now he's trying to play the political

591
00:33:39,339 --> 00:33:41,299
battle. And I think he's coming off as an idiot.

592
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,809
He was on the... the ABC this morning. Texas Republican

593
00:33:44,809 --> 00:33:48,000
Governor Greg Abbott once vowed to make his state the

594
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,759
quote epicenter of the AI industry. Now he has put

595
00:33:51,759 --> 00:33:56,099
in place a moratorium on data center construction. That issue,

596
00:33:56,099 --> 00:33:59,779
along with inflation and anxiety about the Iran war, is

597
00:33:59,779 --> 00:34:04,000
among the factors that have Texas Republicans nervous about the

598
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,679
Nervous. A nonpartisan Cook political report, which rates elections across

599
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:12,210
the country, this week rated the Texas Senate race a

600
00:34:12,210 --> 00:34:16,619
toss-up, suggesting Democrats have a real chance of winning a

601
00:34:16,619 --> 00:34:20,599
seat they haven't won in decades. We traveled to Austin

602
00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:23,860
to talk to the Lone Star State's most powerful Republican,

603
00:34:23,860 --> 00:34:26,860
a leader who is also famous. facing a tougher than

604
00:34:26,860 --> 00:34:31,429
expected campaign for reelection as governor. Governor Abbott, thank you

605
00:34:31,429 --> 00:34:33,480
for having us. Great to have you in Texas. So

606
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,599
how much anger and concern are you hearing out there

607
00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:39,679
about data centers? So what we've been focused on is

608
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:43,059
responding to concerns that have been raised about data centers

609
00:34:43,059 --> 00:34:47,010
and making sure that we've created a structure that's going

610
00:34:47,010 --> 00:34:49,659
to do more than any state to solve the problem.

611
00:34:49,980 --> 00:34:53,470
As governor, I have outlined that. The greatest detail and

612
00:34:53,470 --> 00:34:57,260
most comprehensive plan of any governor in the United States

613
00:34:57,260 --> 00:35:00,440
of America to respond to the data center challenge. Humana,

614
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,400
humana, humana. The data center challenge. You know, if he

615
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,230
actually knew what he was talking about, this is an

616
00:35:06,230 --> 00:35:11,809
opportunity for the American people to take money from BlackRock,

617
00:35:11,809 --> 00:35:15,739
from Vanguard, from the United States. from google from meta

618
00:35:15,739 --> 00:35:19,389
take their money i got an example of this too

619
00:35:19,389 --> 00:35:22,190
a big example so i got we got some friends

620
00:35:22,190 --> 00:35:25,159
that live in alexandria right outside of dc and they

621
00:35:25,159 --> 00:35:28,730
live in this beautiful neighborhood you you know the houses

622
00:35:28,730 --> 00:35:32,369
are are big compared to i would say upper upper

623
00:35:32,369 --> 00:35:36,829
upper middle class standards you You know, maybe these are

624
00:35:36,829 --> 00:35:40,119
1.5 million, $2 million houses. I don't know what they'd

625
00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:42,199
be. That's where they'd be in Texas. Up there, they're

626
00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:45,539
probably more, you know, probably close to 3 million. But

627
00:35:45,539 --> 00:35:48,820
these, everyone in this neighborhood, and they're surrounded by data

628
00:35:48,820 --> 00:35:51,909
centers. You drive out of their neighborhood, data center, data

629
00:35:51,909 --> 00:35:55,300
center, data center. It's just giant big buildings. And so

630
00:35:55,300 --> 00:36:00,720
obviously the data centers want to absorb this neighborhood. They're

631
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:06,190
giving these people $4 million at home, $4 million for

632
00:36:06,190 --> 00:36:09,210
their house, and then they're just going to bulldoze these

633
00:36:09,210 --> 00:36:11,789
houses and put a data center up. Which is, I'm

634
00:36:11,789 --> 00:36:14,220
like, I can't believe that that, I mean, it's a

635
00:36:14,220 --> 00:36:17,079
boondoggle for everybody in the neighborhood. They're like, sure, we'll

636
00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:19,289
move for that much. Yes, of course. Of course they

637
00:36:19,289 --> 00:36:21,220
will. Then it's like, where do you, then you could

638
00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:23,150
go, where do we want to go? Like, what's our

639
00:36:23,150 --> 00:36:26,159
dream place to go to? Because then you have dream

640
00:36:26,159 --> 00:36:29,059
money at that point to use and go for. Go,

641
00:36:29,059 --> 00:36:32,349
you know, plant your flag somewhere else. And so people

642
00:36:32,349 --> 00:36:35,840
are like, government money. This is not government money. This

643
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,389
is private money. This is private equity. They're raising huge

644
00:36:39,389 --> 00:36:42,480
money in bonds. This is the way to screw Wall

645
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,559
Street. I'm telling you, you can go back in a

646
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:49,059
few years and buy your house back for $750,000. Well,

647
00:36:49,059 --> 00:36:52,420
or if it's not been bulldozed. Or you can buy

648
00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:56,429
the dip in the market when the market drops. There's

649
00:36:56,429 --> 00:37:01,050
so much opportunity here. Because everyone knows this bubble is

650
00:37:01,050 --> 00:37:04,989
going to blow up. This is the same thing. with

651
00:37:04,989 --> 00:37:09,559
metropolitan fiber in the 90s you know all this money

652
00:37:09,559 --> 00:37:13,309
just tons and tons hundreds of billions of dollars went

653
00:37:13,309 --> 00:37:16,329
into no maybe it was more like hundreds of millions

654
00:37:16,329 --> 00:37:21,860
but that's billions today went into fiber being laid everywhere

655
00:37:21,860 --> 00:37:25,320
and only now only now What do we, 25 years

656
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,159
later? It's finally getting used. Do I get it here

657
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:31,760
in rural, quote unquote, rural Texas, 80 miles outside of

658
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:37,230
Austin? And there's no eminent domain. The railroads was eminent

659
00:37:37,230 --> 00:37:40,320
domain. Screw you. We're going right through you. The guys

660
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,150
who were in oil and gas, who were already making

661
00:37:43,150 --> 00:37:47,949
out like bandits, It's not gas they're burning, flaring off

662
00:37:47,949 --> 00:37:52,420
in the fields that you see creating dangerous greenhouse gases.

663
00:37:52,659 --> 00:37:56,760
It's methane, methane that they cannot transport because there's no

664
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,599
pipelines going from the gas fields to wherever it needs

665
00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:03,960
to go. It's not affordable. But look at what they

666
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,389
can do and what they are doing. Data centers are

667
00:38:06,389 --> 00:38:09,449
going near the gas fields. Oh, well, I can take

668
00:38:09,449 --> 00:38:13,059
this methane. Okay, that's extra. It is, I think, a

669
00:38:13,059 --> 00:38:20,289
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where money is being transferred from the incredibly

670
00:38:20,289 --> 00:38:25,159
wealthy rich to people who could use a break but

671
00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:27,769
you got to be opportunistic you got to be like

672
00:38:27,769 --> 00:38:30,010
an american you know we do this all the time

673
00:38:30,010 --> 00:38:33,000
in america this this state sucks i'm moving to another

674
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,090
state but oh there's no opportunity here i'm moving to

675
00:38:36,090 --> 00:38:39,539
that state where there's an opportunity this happens all the

676
00:38:39,539 --> 00:38:42,510
time this is our entire history Well, that's why Texas

677
00:38:42,510 --> 00:38:45,340
is growing so much. People are coming here for the

678
00:38:45,340 --> 00:38:50,079
jobs, for the opportunity. And the only thing I could

679
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:54,039
see is there are some anecdotal stories about the noise

680
00:38:54,039 --> 00:38:56,970
of these data centers next to neighborhoods. And one guy

681
00:38:56,970 --> 00:39:00,170
showed something about his cow. He had a live cow

682
00:39:00,170 --> 00:39:03,539
birth. But you're not seeing a lot of those. You're

683
00:39:03,539 --> 00:39:05,720
not seeing a ton of people saying that. You're getting

684
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:08,000
a story here and there, and they may have some

685
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,579
validity to them. Absolutely. So it's just a matter of

686
00:39:10,579 --> 00:39:13,059
– and I don't really mind Texas going, hey, we're

687
00:39:13,059 --> 00:39:14,880
going to take a pause, and we're going to look

688
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,090
at these concerns and see what happens to see if

689
00:39:17,090 --> 00:39:19,199
there is an overlap of that. But I don't think

690
00:39:19,199 --> 00:39:21,510
it's going to last very long. It's, you know, we've

691
00:39:21,510 --> 00:39:24,059
had the... But that's not even why it's being done

692
00:39:24,059 --> 00:39:27,090
because they're afraid of losing the midterms. Well, sure, that's

693
00:39:27,090 --> 00:39:29,029
only until after the midterms, then the study will be

694
00:39:29,029 --> 00:39:30,739
complete. And they're going to be like, yeah, here come

695
00:39:30,739 --> 00:39:33,559
the data centers. Here's our governor with new rules. Let

696
00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:36,119
me tell you what I've done. I have pressed pause

697
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:39,239
on any new data center, being able to join the

698
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,199
opportunity. in the state of Texas. Other governors have done

699
00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:46,369
the same. Well, here's the deal. During that pause, I

700
00:39:46,369 --> 00:39:50,900
have set guidelines and guardrails that all data centers have

701
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:54,929
to comply with. Number one, they must identify what water

702
00:39:54,929 --> 00:39:59,880
usage they're demanding and make clear they are not taking

703
00:39:59,880 --> 00:39:59,980
water

704
00:40:00,071 --> 00:40:03,931
from communities that need it. Number two, they must not

705
00:40:03,931 --> 00:40:07,641
take power from the Texas power grid that's needed. Number

706
00:40:07,641 --> 00:40:12,771
three- No one's taking power from the Texas great governor.

707
00:40:13,151 --> 00:40:16,491
Oh, man. Must actually lower the cost of electricity for

708
00:40:16,491 --> 00:40:20,031
consumers. They will. Number four, they need to make sure

709
00:40:20,031 --> 00:40:24,491
that they are not disturbing neighborhoods or rural communities. These

710
00:40:24,491 --> 00:40:27,801
are standards that are now being universally applied by all

711
00:40:27,801 --> 00:40:30,491
the data centers in the state of Texas. Do you

712
00:40:30,491 --> 00:40:34,191
have a co-op for your power where you are? We're

713
00:40:34,191 --> 00:40:38,241
under, yeah, it's not, I can't think of the name

714
00:40:38,241 --> 00:40:42,301
of it right now, but it has to do with

715
00:40:42,301 --> 00:40:45,921
the LCRA. But it's a co-op for like Eastern Hayes

716
00:40:45,921 --> 00:40:49,911
County. Okay, but we have a co-op here too. And

717
00:40:49,911 --> 00:40:52,421
they're like, man, this is great. When are you going

718
00:40:52,421 --> 00:40:54,561
to hook up some kind of data center out here

719
00:40:54,561 --> 00:40:57,431
in the hill country where nobody lives and then build

720
00:40:57,431 --> 00:41:01,291
your power generator? We'll take it. Well, you know, one

721
00:41:01,291 --> 00:41:03,331
thing I'm not good for is I don't even know

722
00:41:03,331 --> 00:41:05,541
what my electric bill is because my wife takes care

723
00:41:05,541 --> 00:41:07,811
of all that. But when we moved into the house,

724
00:41:07,811 --> 00:41:10,001
I did put solar on the house and mainly just

725
00:41:10,001 --> 00:41:12,571
because we had gone through the time where all the

726
00:41:12,571 --> 00:41:16,551
power went out that winter storm in 2021. Yeah. where

727
00:41:16,551 --> 00:41:18,381
you know people lost power and i'm like you know

728
00:41:18,381 --> 00:41:20,251
what we'll at least be able to charge cell phones

729
00:41:20,251 --> 00:41:22,441
and keep our refrigerators running with this it's not going

730
00:41:22,441 --> 00:41:24,621
to power everything in the house but it'll do good

731
00:41:24,621 --> 00:41:26,931
enough and that's why that's why i got it even

732
00:41:26,931 --> 00:41:29,801
though it's never probably going to make its money back

733
00:41:29,801 --> 00:41:32,551
but for me it was i could be traveling and

734
00:41:32,551 --> 00:41:34,711
if something goes wrong we're going to have some power

735
00:41:34,831 --> 00:41:38,821
Yeah, we were in the same situation in Austin. No

736
00:41:38,821 --> 00:41:41,561
power for five days. We couldn't get out because of

737
00:41:41,561 --> 00:41:44,311
the ice in a cul-de-sac on a kind of a

738
00:41:44,311 --> 00:41:47,441
– On a hill, yeah. Yeah, 23-degree incline. We couldn't

739
00:41:47,441 --> 00:41:50,071
get out. And so when we got here, I'm like,

740
00:41:50,071 --> 00:41:52,161
I don't care what we're doing. I am buying a

741
00:41:52,161 --> 00:41:55,191
whole house generator. I got one of those Generacs. It's

742
00:41:55,191 --> 00:41:58,721
expensive. It's an investment for sure. Sure. But, man, the

743
00:41:58,721 --> 00:42:02,511
power has never gone out since. And with the generators,

744
00:42:02,511 --> 00:42:05,151
it's cool. You can see it. When it pops on,

745
00:42:05,151 --> 00:42:07,671
it's like – You'll feel the power goes out and

746
00:42:07,671 --> 00:42:10,631
maybe half a second or whatever, then that thing kicks

747
00:42:10,631 --> 00:42:12,651
on and it's going. Yeah, and you hear this big

748
00:42:12,651 --> 00:42:15,911
clunk. That's the big switch that happens. By the way,

749
00:42:15,911 --> 00:42:20,381
Indiana, we have family in Indiana. They are still without

750
00:42:20,381 --> 00:42:24,191
power. That's amazing. Right near Geary, which, of course, is

751
00:42:24,191 --> 00:42:28,431
a very poor area. Yeah. And, you know, Texas definitely

752
00:42:28,431 --> 00:42:31,631
has done better than that. Here's, we'll continue with now

753
00:42:31,631 --> 00:42:33,891
the hate. What is driving the hate for the data

754
00:42:33,891 --> 00:42:35,691
center? I mean, we see it not just in Texas.

755
00:42:35,811 --> 00:42:37,291
We see it all over the country. I mean, some

756
00:42:37,291 --> 00:42:40,171
of these town hall meetings, some of these public hearings,

757
00:42:40,171 --> 00:42:44,641
real anger. What is driving it? Is it the energy

758
00:42:44,641 --> 00:42:47,471
costs? Is it the, what is driving the anger? So,

759
00:42:47,471 --> 00:42:51,971
we have. One thing is the rapidity that these data

760
00:42:51,971 --> 00:42:55,721
centers are coming online that people didn't see coming. The

761
00:42:55,721 --> 00:42:59,831
other is the way that the data centers, they didn't

762
00:42:59,831 --> 00:43:03,191
do their job to get the support of people in

763
00:43:03,191 --> 00:43:07,101
local communities. Gaining the support of people in local communities

764
00:43:07,101 --> 00:43:09,931
is essential. Because they did not do that. That's why

765
00:43:09,931 --> 00:43:12,371
I am now coming in as governor saying, listen, if

766
00:43:12,371 --> 00:43:14,541
you're a data center and you want to operate in

767
00:43:14,541 --> 00:43:17,241
Texas, you have to first get the approval of those

768
00:43:17,241 --> 00:43:21,391
in local communities. And that's why I said that standard,

769
00:43:21,391 --> 00:43:25,571
no data centers disturbing local communities in Texas. It was

770
00:43:25,571 --> 00:43:29,201
last year that you said that Texas was the epicenter

771
00:43:29,201 --> 00:43:33,171
of the AI industry. hindsight, did Texas move too fast?

772
00:43:33,491 --> 00:43:36,551
It wasn't Texas that was moving fast. It was these

773
00:43:36,551 --> 00:43:41,571
data centers. But they needed approval from the government. Well,

774
00:43:41,571 --> 00:43:44,491
so what data centers were doing, and this is the

775
00:43:44,491 --> 00:43:46,611
problem that we are facing here in Texas, but you

776
00:43:46,611 --> 00:43:49,921
mentioned what's going on nationally. Sure. And that is, they

777
00:43:49,921 --> 00:43:54,291
pop up in places that nobody ever heard of before

778
00:43:54,291 --> 00:43:57,241
until they started the construction. And so they had not

779
00:43:57,241 --> 00:44:00,221
been working in collaboration with the state. They'd not been

780
00:44:00,221 --> 00:44:03,811
working in collaboration with local governments. And so they basically

781
00:44:03,811 --> 00:44:06,671
dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused

782
00:44:06,671 --> 00:44:08,591
for them. And that's why they got the backlash they

783
00:44:08,591 --> 00:44:11,311
deserve. And that's why these new standards are in place

784
00:44:11,311 --> 00:44:13,391
to make sure they're not going to be able to

785
00:44:13,391 --> 00:44:16,171
operate until they come out of compliance with the standards

786
00:44:16,171 --> 00:44:18,941
that I have set. I'm telling you, this is just

787
00:44:18,941 --> 00:44:22,011
a psyop. The Democratic Party has done a great job

788
00:44:22,011 --> 00:44:26,911
in these Republican states. You know, that's totally true. If

789
00:44:26,911 --> 00:44:30,011
they had gone and done something like an Operation Lockstep

790
00:44:30,011 --> 00:44:32,741
and figured out the messaging and then rolled it out

791
00:44:32,741 --> 00:44:35,411
the right way and then hired Willie Nelson to make

792
00:44:35,411 --> 00:44:38,621
songs about data centers, you know, that's what they didn't

793
00:44:38,621 --> 00:44:40,971
do. They didn't do it the right way. They were

794
00:44:40,971 --> 00:44:43,431
like, Willie, Willie, here's the new song. Remind us of

795
00:44:43,431 --> 00:44:46,741
Operation Lockstep. What was that? Yeah. Well, so that took

796
00:44:46,741 --> 00:44:49,421
place, I think, in 2010, and that was a Johns

797
00:44:49,421 --> 00:44:51,811
Hopkins thing. And it was basically, if we're going to

798
00:44:51,811 --> 00:44:53,991
have a pandemic, this is how we're going to operate.

799
00:44:54,171 --> 00:44:56,411
This is how we roll out messages to the media.

800
00:44:56,771 --> 00:45:03,391
They also had the SPARS 2020-something, the SPARS agenda. And

801
00:45:03,391 --> 00:45:07,181
that had a lot of actual tweets that you could

802
00:45:07,181 --> 00:45:09,431
– You look at these tweets there, and they were

803
00:45:09,431 --> 00:45:11,971
fake in part of the exercise. Copy-paste. Copy-paste the tweets.

804
00:45:11,971 --> 00:45:13,781
Exactly, but then they're in the real world, and they're

805
00:45:13,781 --> 00:45:15,781
like, we're going to get rappers to tell people to

806
00:45:15,781 --> 00:45:18,981
take the vaccine. And Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton. And Dolly

807
00:45:18,981 --> 00:45:22,631
Parton. Vaccine. Vaccine. And then when there's problems, we'll admit

808
00:45:22,631 --> 00:45:24,471
it a few years later, and we'll kind of bury

809
00:45:24,471 --> 00:45:26,581
it, which is – that's the part that's kind of

810
00:45:26,581 --> 00:45:29,451
happening now with the vaccine. They're like, eh. Yeah, there

811
00:45:29,451 --> 00:45:32,351
were some problems, but that's the way. We didn't know

812
00:45:32,351 --> 00:45:35,951
at the time. Well, hey, it's me. I'm finally going

813
00:45:35,951 --> 00:45:39,211
to get my vaccine. I'm so excited. I've been waiting

814
00:45:39,211 --> 00:45:41,531
a while. I'm old enough to get it, and I'm

815
00:45:41,531 --> 00:45:44,231
smart enough to get it. So I'm very happy that

816
00:45:44,231 --> 00:45:47,551
I'm going to get my Moderna shot. Moderna shot. And

817
00:45:47,551 --> 00:45:49,621
I wanted to tell everybody, I think you should get

818
00:45:49,621 --> 00:45:52,041
out there and do it, too. I haven't changed one

819
00:45:52,041 --> 00:45:56,411
of my songs to the occasion. It goes... vaccine vaccine

820
00:45:56,411 --> 00:46:02,631
vaccine vaccine i'm begging of you please don't hesitate vaccine

821
00:46:02,631 --> 00:46:08,671
vaccine vaccine vaccine because once you're dead then that's a

822
00:46:08,671 --> 00:46:12,631
bit too late oh my goodness that that's messaging right

823
00:46:12,631 --> 00:46:16,531
there that That's what they didn't do. These data centers

824
00:46:16,531 --> 00:46:20,571
didn't hire the right public relations firm. Well, before this,

825
00:46:20,571 --> 00:46:26,991
it was the BESS, the BESS, the battery energy storage

826
00:46:26,991 --> 00:46:30,391
or big energy storage systems. Oh, God. That would never

827
00:46:30,391 --> 00:46:33,611
work. Well, we had one. In the next county, I

828
00:46:33,611 --> 00:46:36,471
might have been Kendall County, I can't remember. And, you

829
00:46:36,471 --> 00:46:38,411
know, and that was a big deal. And now it's

830
00:46:38,411 --> 00:46:41,411
the mosque, and it's always going to be something. And

831
00:46:41,411 --> 00:46:44,141
I still don't know where the sleeper cells are of

832
00:46:44,141 --> 00:46:47,081
military age men from China who are going to attack

833
00:46:47,081 --> 00:46:49,881
us from from within. I still that just no one's

834
00:46:49,881 --> 00:46:53,281
concerned about that anymore. well they're all in u.s colleges

835
00:46:53,281 --> 00:46:55,551
at this point that seems to be i have some

836
00:46:55,551 --> 00:46:58,331
ntd clips about that very subject okay that we could

837
00:46:58,331 --> 00:47:00,351
get to whatever yeah let's do it let's do it

838
00:47:00,351 --> 00:47:04,401
let's do it yeah so uh ntd china u.s college

839
00:47:04,401 --> 00:47:08,051
one The World Health Organization has very painful decisions to

840
00:47:08,051 --> 00:47:11,501
make, according to its chief. He described the large sudden

841
00:47:11,501 --> 00:47:15,161
drop in funding in U.S. foreign aid as severe. Well,

842
00:47:15,161 --> 00:47:17,891
that's the wrong clip. I must have given you the

843
00:47:17,891 --> 00:47:21,911
wrong clip or renamed it wrong. Which, well, which clip?

844
00:47:21,971 --> 00:47:23,891
Because this is like a three and a half minute

845
00:47:23,891 --> 00:47:25,891
clips. Oh, wait. How about if it's here? Maybe it

846
00:47:25,891 --> 00:47:28,591
starts here. Hold on. Let me see. This might be

847
00:47:28,591 --> 00:47:30,611
it, Rob. Hold on. I think I see your problem.

848
00:47:31,511 --> 00:47:35,621
The Pentagon is ordering several universities to audit infiltration from

849
00:47:35,621 --> 00:47:39,081
the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign adversaries. Just how

850
00:47:39,081 --> 00:47:42,931
entrenched has the CCP become in higher education? And it

851
00:47:42,931 --> 00:47:47,811
is Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. The Department of

852
00:47:47,811 --> 00:47:51,621
War this week notifying 30 universities they must audit their

853
00:47:51,621 --> 00:47:54,151
ties to foreign adversaries by the end of the month.

854
00:47:54,531 --> 00:47:59,311
Multiple outlets citing U.S. officials report Harvard, MIT, Georgetown, and

855
00:47:59,311 --> 00:48:02,751
other top schools are among them. These schools partner with

856
00:48:02,751 --> 00:48:07,231
universities or research facilities in China, Russia, or Iran. The

857
00:48:07,231 --> 00:48:12,181
Pentagon specifically naming China's rebranded Confucius Institutes, which promote Communist

858
00:48:12,181 --> 00:48:17,181
Party-sanctioned materials on American campuses. Congressman John Molinar, chairman of

859
00:48:17,181 --> 00:48:21,021
the Select Committee on China, says these partnerships pose undeniable

860
00:48:21,021 --> 00:48:25,621
national security risks. Some analysts say infiltrating higher education is

861
00:48:25,621 --> 00:48:28,731
part of the Communist Party's playbook, a tactic it used

862
00:48:28,731 --> 00:48:30,231
a century ago to be able to do it. take

863
00:48:30,231 --> 00:48:34,371
power in China. The Chinese Communist Party views infiltration of

864
00:48:34,371 --> 00:48:38,971
higher education as a key factor to overcome an enemy.

865
00:48:38,971 --> 00:48:41,711
What they did 100 years ago to the nationalists was

866
00:48:41,711 --> 00:48:47,131
first elite capture. and simultaneously grassroots activism to move things

867
00:48:47,131 --> 00:48:49,351
in the direction of the chinese communist party here we

868
00:48:49,351 --> 00:48:51,801
are a hundred years later and it looks like we're

869
00:48:51,801 --> 00:48:55,541
watching a replay you know i'm surprised that no one

870
00:48:55,541 --> 00:48:58,741
has made the again if you and i were doing

871
00:48:58,741 --> 00:49:04,371
the pr um i mean i'd say hey You know,

872
00:49:04,371 --> 00:49:08,451
all these DSA socialists, they're clearly being controlled by China,

873
00:49:08,451 --> 00:49:13,851
by the sleeper cells, Confucius Institute. No one's making that

874
00:49:13,851 --> 00:49:18,591
connection. It's such an obvious one. No, it seems –

875
00:49:18,591 --> 00:49:21,661
people are – I think people got pissed when Trump

876
00:49:21,661 --> 00:49:23,841
said we're going to let China send in a few

877
00:49:23,841 --> 00:49:28,781
hundred thousand, 600,000 students. 400,000 or something. Yeah, it was

878
00:49:28,781 --> 00:49:31,441
a – It was a decent-sized number, and people were

879
00:49:31,441 --> 00:49:34,041
going, hey, that's going to just prop up this current

880
00:49:34,041 --> 00:49:39,221
system that's creating the social justice warrior pipeline. You're taking

881
00:49:39,221 --> 00:49:41,971
people from high school who are basically normal, and then

882
00:49:41,971 --> 00:49:45,351
they come out with blue hair and nose rings. And

883
00:49:45,351 --> 00:49:49,711
so there is some validity to that, but I don't

884
00:49:49,711 --> 00:49:52,071
think it's – I don't think that's what you're getting

885
00:49:52,071 --> 00:49:58,561
from China, necessarily. You're getting China's probably well in clip

886
00:49:58,561 --> 00:49:59,991
two, it.

887
00:50:00,053 --> 00:50:02,773
goes through, there's a A general, or I guess they

888
00:50:02,773 --> 00:50:05,763
were auditing a class that the Pentagon was putting on

889
00:50:05,763 --> 00:50:08,863
for top-secret military work. And they go in there, and

890
00:50:08,863 --> 00:50:11,273
it's being taught in Mandarin Chinese, which I thought that

891
00:50:11,273 --> 00:50:15,443
was interesting. That's clip two. With Pentagon-funded projects being taught

892
00:50:15,443 --> 00:50:19,763
directly to Chinese nationals. The Department of Defense at the

893
00:50:19,763 --> 00:50:24,383
time had funded a class on advancement. weapon advanced weaponry

894
00:50:24,383 --> 00:50:28,393
at a major midwestern university and when they walked in

895
00:50:28,393 --> 00:50:30,383
to do the spot check in the class they were

896
00:50:30,383 --> 00:50:33,183
teaching the class in mandarin to not u.s students so

897
00:50:33,183 --> 00:50:36,033
the program was ended but it is still happening in

898
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:38,863
different places uh in our country yeah well this of

899
00:50:38,863 --> 00:50:42,873
course is ntd who just hate everything china Oh, yeah,

900
00:50:42,873 --> 00:50:47,403
they definitely do. And I mean, everything was anti-Chinese. They

901
00:50:47,403 --> 00:50:49,233
had what? It was like Chinese voter fraud. I'm like,

902
00:50:49,233 --> 00:50:52,263
oh, what's this? It's one guy that they caught. And

903
00:50:52,263 --> 00:50:56,063
he basically voted. I have this clip. He voted for...

904
00:50:56,353 --> 00:50:59,133
his neighbor or whatever, and then he tried to turn

905
00:50:59,133 --> 00:51:01,623
in his neighbor for voting illegally, but his neighbor actually

906
00:51:01,623 --> 00:51:03,763
could have voted if he wanted to, because he had

907
00:51:03,763 --> 00:51:06,963
a he was illegal. Oops, sorry. Go ahead. A Chinese

908
00:51:06,963 --> 00:51:10,963
national has been charged with voter fraud in Massachusetts. The

909
00:51:10,963 --> 00:51:14,943
Justice Department says he submitted a fraudulent voter registration and

910
00:51:14,943 --> 00:51:20,103
ballot by impersonating another Chinese national. The DOJ alleges 33-year-old

911
00:51:20,103 --> 00:51:23,743
Yu Pin Sun voted in the 2024 presidential election in

912
00:51:23,743 --> 00:51:26,503
the name of his victim, who was a lawful permanent

913
00:51:26,503 --> 00:51:30,863
traitor. resident. After registering to vote and casting a ballot,

914
00:51:30,863 --> 00:51:35,143
Sun allegedly sent a tip to Homeland Security Investigations in

915
00:51:35,143 --> 00:51:39,623
2026, claiming his victim voted illegally. Sun has also been

916
00:51:39,623 --> 00:51:43,903
accused of submitting two fraudulent immigration forms on behalf of

917
00:51:43,903 --> 00:51:46,763
his victim and the victim's wife. The DOJ says the

918
00:51:46,763 --> 00:51:50,933
couple had their green cards confiscated as a result. Sun

919
00:51:50,933 --> 00:51:56,103
faces charges of fraudulent voter registration and fraudulent voting. Each

920
00:51:56,103 --> 00:51:59,093
count carries up to five years in prison, along with

921
00:51:59,093 --> 00:52:02,833
a possible fine of up to $250,000. The DOJ says

922
00:52:02,833 --> 00:52:08,363
Sun will be deported afterwards. You know, we were watching

923
00:52:08,363 --> 00:52:11,433
the West Wing again last night. We're now in season

924
00:52:11,433 --> 00:52:16,313
four. And it's so, so odd to watch this because

925
00:52:16,313 --> 00:52:19,833
this is where Martin Sheen, who's the president, he's running

926
00:52:19,833 --> 00:52:23,893
for re-election. He has MS. He's got multiple sclerosis, which

927
00:52:23,893 --> 00:52:26,953
they hid. He's trying to hide it. Yeah. And then

928
00:52:26,953 --> 00:52:30,413
they you know, so he got censured by Congress and

929
00:52:30,413 --> 00:52:33,893
but he basically lied about it. And so there's a

930
00:52:33,893 --> 00:52:36,603
lot of Joe Biden type stuff in there. You know,

931
00:52:36,603 --> 00:52:38,713
it's like, wow, this is like they knew. So it's

932
00:52:38,713 --> 00:52:41,623
very odd. But the the crazy thing was this is

933
00:52:41,623 --> 00:52:46,193
season four, I think, episode seven or whatever. It's reelection

934
00:52:46,193 --> 00:52:51,003
night. And they have the election results and they call

935
00:52:51,003 --> 00:52:55,463
it at 11 p.m. Eastern time. How dare they? Wait

936
00:52:55,463 --> 00:52:59,623
a minute. We haven't counted the California mailing ballots. This

937
00:52:59,623 --> 00:53:03,223
is good. We need one more month. It's so bizarre.

938
00:53:03,423 --> 00:53:05,833
Just like in. And what is that? That's 20, a

939
00:53:05,833 --> 00:53:09,093
little more than 20 years ago. And we're now where

940
00:53:09,093 --> 00:53:12,673
we are today. That's just, that's so insane. You know,

941
00:53:12,673 --> 00:53:16,553
Florida had their election results like by 7, 38 o'clock

942
00:53:16,553 --> 00:53:18,623
that night. I mean, it was, I'm like, why can't,

943
00:53:18,623 --> 00:53:20,813
why can't everybody do it like Florida? They were, they

944
00:53:20,813 --> 00:53:23,803
were done. We already knew. The only thing that was

945
00:53:23,803 --> 00:53:27,023
weird, it looked like Dan Blazerian had votes taken from

946
00:53:27,023 --> 00:53:29,123
him. They showed some votes at one point, and he

947
00:53:29,123 --> 00:53:31,873
had like 8,000. Then the next drop, they're like, hey,

948
00:53:31,873 --> 00:53:36,893
he's down to 6,000. That was the only coinkydink that

949
00:53:36,893 --> 00:53:41,733
I saw in that election. But that's – and who

950
00:53:41,733 --> 00:53:46,043
knows what this – What any of this stuff means.

951
00:53:46,203 --> 00:53:48,943
But this Chinese thing, it's one guy and he was

952
00:53:48,943 --> 00:53:51,503
basically trying to get his neighbor kicked out of the

953
00:53:51,503 --> 00:53:54,533
country. It had nothing to do with politics, which is

954
00:53:54,533 --> 00:53:57,273
interesting because – You know, you're like, what are the

955
00:53:57,273 --> 00:53:59,953
reasons for voter fraud? You think, well, we want to

956
00:53:59,953 --> 00:54:02,523
install this certain person. You know, this is how we're

957
00:54:02,523 --> 00:54:03,963
going to do it. We're going to give this guy

958
00:54:03,963 --> 00:54:05,943
all the votes with the voting machines. But here, you

959
00:54:05,943 --> 00:54:08,023
know, you have a Chinese guy going in and going,

960
00:54:08,023 --> 00:54:10,183
hey, I'm trying to get rid of my neighbor. I

961
00:54:10,183 --> 00:54:11,963
don't I don't like his I don't like his cooking

962
00:54:11,963 --> 00:54:14,283
or whatever. Who knows why? But he was trying to

963
00:54:14,283 --> 00:54:16,612
get him kicked out. And that was the way. to

964
00:54:16,612 --> 00:54:19,542
do it which is completely antithetical for every other reason

965
00:54:19,542 --> 00:54:23,823
you think people would commit voter fraud The Strait of

966
00:54:23,823 --> 00:54:30,863
Hormuz is still hotly contested. We've moved towards a strategy

967
00:54:30,863 --> 00:54:36,713
of more economic pressure, which I even got a note

968
00:54:36,713 --> 00:54:41,663
from our producer in Bahrain. He says, this is working.

969
00:54:43,503 --> 00:54:47,633
It's, you know, UAE is also cutting off all economic

970
00:54:47,633 --> 00:54:54,213
ties. And that's your general strategy. Scott Patton Besant at

971
00:54:54,213 --> 00:55:02,303
work shutting everything down. And it's starting to now just...

972
00:55:02,423 --> 00:55:04,913
Be obvious that we have been in control of the

973
00:55:04,913 --> 00:55:07,993
straight or her moves. I don't care what people think

974
00:55:07,993 --> 00:55:10,613
they're reading or or what. And this is all to

975
00:55:10,613 --> 00:55:15,263
keep oil prices elevated for oil companies. We're having just

976
00:55:15,263 --> 00:55:20,153
an incredible bonanza profit year on all of this. But

977
00:55:20,153 --> 00:55:24,123
we're close to parity in what's being transported through the

978
00:55:24,123 --> 00:55:27,623
Straits of Hormuz, as well as through the pipelines, probably

979
00:55:27,623 --> 00:55:31,963
about 20 percent less. But that shouldn't result in these

980
00:55:31,963 --> 00:55:38,333
high prices that will rectify itself eventually. Yeah. Now, here's

981
00:55:38,333 --> 00:55:41,003
a couple of clips about it. Well, we have things

982
00:55:41,003 --> 00:55:44,473
that we could sanction. We have very draconian sanctions, and

983
00:55:44,473 --> 00:55:47,803
we'll see what happens. Did he say caconian? He said

984
00:55:47,803 --> 00:55:52,093
draconian. He said draconian sanctions. Sounds like caconian. We have

985
00:55:52,093 --> 00:55:55,923
very draconian. It sounds like caconian. I think you're missing

986
00:55:55,923 --> 00:55:58,343
the first part. It's like draconian. Things that we could

987
00:55:58,343 --> 00:56:03,153
sanction. Yeah. have very draconian sanctions and we'll see what

988
00:56:03,153 --> 00:56:06,103
happens right now the straight is open we a lot

989
00:56:06,103 --> 00:56:10,263
of boats are coming through boats are not reporting boats

990
00:56:10,263 --> 00:56:14,193
coming through I got my outboard motor and my flat

991
00:56:14,193 --> 00:56:16,903
bottom boat I got two barrels of oil on it

992
00:56:16,903 --> 00:56:19,423
let's go a lot of boats are coming through people

993
00:56:19,423 --> 00:56:22,453
aren't reporting that and that may slow down a little

994
00:56:22,453 --> 00:56:24,283
bit at some point but right now a lot of

995
00:56:24,283 --> 00:56:28,123
boats are coming through the naval blockade has been extremely

996
00:56:28,123 --> 00:56:32,133
effective zero I mean, literally, while it's up, and it's

997
00:56:32,133 --> 00:56:34,263
been for quite a while, you know, except for a

998
00:56:34,263 --> 00:56:37,473
couple of little pauses where we opened it purposely with

999
00:56:37,473 --> 00:56:40,233
a deal. But the deal didn't terminate. You know, the

1000
00:56:40,233 --> 00:56:41,963
deal didn't turn out to be what they said. You

1001
00:56:41,963 --> 00:56:43,803
know, when they tell us one thing and they do

1002
00:56:43,803 --> 00:56:47,683
another. But the blockade has been 100 percent successful. No

1003
00:56:47,683 --> 00:56:50,713
boats have gotten into Iran. but they are getting in

1004
00:56:50,713 --> 00:56:52,863
for other places but we'll see we're going to see

1005
00:56:52,863 --> 00:56:57,193
what happens it'll either be extremely good and oil prices

1006
00:56:57,193 --> 00:56:59,783
are going to drop like a rock or will continue

1007
00:56:59,783 --> 00:57:02,313
to do exactly what we're doing you know uh... they

1008
00:57:02,313 --> 00:57:04,863
were talking about three hundred and twenty minutes and understand

1009
00:57:04,863 --> 00:57:06,933
the logic it'll be a to be very successful we

1010
00:57:06,933 --> 00:57:09,203
continue to do or don't it's going to be great

1011
00:57:09,203 --> 00:57:12,173
the extremely good and oil prices are going to drop

1012
00:57:12,173 --> 00:57:15,103
like a rock or will continue to do exactly what

1013
00:57:15,103 --> 00:57:17,373
we do you know uh... they were talking about three

1014
00:57:17,373 --> 00:57:20,343
hundred and fifty dollars a barrel And it's today, 84,

1015
00:57:20,343 --> 00:57:25,543
85. Yeah, and also to be factual about it, I

1016
00:57:25,543 --> 00:57:28,503
remember during the course of this show, oil was above

1017
00:57:28,503 --> 00:57:33,643
100 back in... Wow. The 210s, I think? The teens?

1018
00:57:33,943 --> 00:57:36,833
Yeah, there was a point during Obama's presidency where I

1019
00:57:36,833 --> 00:57:40,473
actually... Rode my bike to a band practice I was

1020
00:57:40,473 --> 00:57:43,043
in because I'm like, I don't feel like driving. It

1021
00:57:43,043 --> 00:57:45,363
was the gas was like four or something a gallon.

1022
00:57:45,463 --> 00:57:48,653
It was ridiculous. That was like 15 years ago. Yeah,

1023
00:57:48,653 --> 00:57:50,523
I think I was in California at the time and

1024
00:57:50,523 --> 00:57:53,093
it was. That was probably $20 a gallon. It was

1025
00:57:53,093 --> 00:57:57,473
very expensive, six or seven dollars. uh here is uh

1026
00:57:57,473 --> 00:58:01,703
this is on cnn uh the colonel from centcom and

1027
00:58:01,703 --> 00:58:06,203
uh he's confirming uh that 10 million barrels a day

1028
00:58:06,203 --> 00:58:10,613
are moving through the Omani route. CENTCOM has quietly guided

1029
00:58:10,613 --> 00:58:13,983
10 million barrels of oil a day in a self-operation,

1030
00:58:14,183 --> 00:58:17,503
setting up a shipping corridor, hugging the coastline of Oman.

1031
00:58:18,023 --> 00:58:20,323
You know, that's more than 80% of the liquids transiting

1032
00:58:20,323 --> 00:58:22,843
through the Hormuz Street over the past two weeks have

1033
00:58:22,843 --> 00:58:26,313
taken this Omani route. That's about 2%. thirds of pre-war

1034
00:58:26,313 --> 00:58:30,303
levels. The U.S. has been blinding Iranian radars and blanking

1035
00:58:30,303 --> 00:58:33,703
them out and shooting down Iranian drones and cruise missiles.

1036
00:58:33,703 --> 00:58:37,363
We're showing the tracking here of hugging the Oman coastline

1037
00:58:37,363 --> 00:58:40,723
there, bypassing Iran here. What do you make of this?

1038
00:58:40,773 --> 00:58:42,463
So this is great to be able to finally talk

1039
00:58:42,463 --> 00:58:45,073
about this and see this in some graphics. Because what's

1040
00:58:45,073 --> 00:58:48,403
happening is everybody who's in the Straits of Hormuz, particularly

1041
00:58:48,403 --> 00:58:51,043
the U.S. military, knows that the Iranians do not have

1042
00:58:51,043 --> 00:58:54,023
control of it. And they haven't closed it. Meanwhile, the

1043
00:58:54,023 --> 00:58:57,283
U.S. blockade is closing off all traffic to Iran, but

1044
00:58:57,283 --> 00:59:00,663
letting out any other traffic that's not. Current ship tracking

1045
00:59:00,663 --> 00:59:03,593
shows 10 to 15%. ships a day for the last

1046
00:59:03,593 --> 00:59:06,663
several months have been getting through the straits. And so

1047
00:59:06,663 --> 00:59:10,503
this is what's happening is the Navy's doing its job.

1048
00:59:10,763 --> 00:59:16,273
And even CBS. The Cajun Navy delivering oil now. CBS

1049
00:59:16,273 --> 00:59:21,063
confirms that what CENTCOM says is true. While President Trump

1050
00:59:21,063 --> 00:59:24,203
says the U.S. controls that critical oil shipping route known

1051
00:59:24,203 --> 00:59:26,743
as the Strait of Hormuz, Iran says that very same

1052
00:59:26,743 --> 00:59:30,583
thing, same assertion. They control the Strait. Well, here's what

1053
00:59:30,583 --> 00:59:33,953
the president had to say about the Strait standoff. When

1054
00:59:33,953 --> 00:59:36,743
they tell us one thing and they do another, but

1055
00:59:36,743 --> 00:59:40,493
the blockade has been 100% successful. No boats have gotten

1056
00:59:40,493 --> 00:59:43,403
into Iran, but they are getting in for other places.

1057
00:59:44,133 --> 00:59:47,243
So the president might have been referring to this report

1058
00:59:47,243 --> 00:59:50,343
from Axios revealing a stealth operation and getting millions of

1059
00:59:50,343 --> 00:59:53,353
barrels of oil through the strait. Two officials told Axios

1060
00:59:53,353 --> 00:59:56,643
the U.S. military helps empty tankers enter the Gulf to

1061
00:59:56,643 --> 00:59:59,923
get the oil and then leave under U.S. protection.

1062
01:00:00,099 --> 01:00:03,299
Live now to CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie

1063
01:00:03,299 --> 01:00:06,129
Daggett. Charlie, what do you know about this? Well, first

1064
01:00:06,129 --> 01:00:08,409
of all, Reid, we don't have to hang on Axios

1065
01:00:08,409 --> 01:00:11,569
anymore. I can confirm those reports. Okay, hold on a

1066
01:00:11,569 --> 01:00:15,399
second. Axios, the shills for the Trump administration, we don't

1067
01:00:15,399 --> 01:00:17,759
have to rely on them. It's true. Know about this.

1068
01:00:18,359 --> 01:00:20,469
Well, first of all, Reid, I... We don't have to

1069
01:00:20,469 --> 01:00:22,919
hang in on Axios anymore. I can confirm those reports,

1070
01:00:22,919 --> 01:00:24,819
folks that I spoke to at Central Command and the

1071
01:00:24,819 --> 01:00:27,719
Navy said that the U.S. military and part of the

1072
01:00:27,719 --> 01:00:30,769
naval blockade is to try to ensure the safe passage

1073
01:00:30,769 --> 01:00:34,059
of ships along the Strait of Hormuz, both in and

1074
01:00:34,059 --> 01:00:38,699
out. And they said that they had been repeatedly intercepting

1075
01:00:38,699 --> 01:00:43,659
Iranian drones and missiles trying to target those ships. Okay.

1076
01:00:44,139 --> 01:00:47,279
Well, I do have a better description of Trump saying,

1077
01:00:47,279 --> 01:00:50,059
and he has a great pronunciation of Hormuz. Trump Hormuz

1078
01:00:50,059 --> 01:00:52,279
is USA, and this is from a rally he did

1079
01:00:52,279 --> 01:00:55,769
over the weekend. So we went down and we stopped

1080
01:00:55,769 --> 01:00:58,429
them. They'll never have a nuclear weapon. They want to

1081
01:00:58,429 --> 01:01:00,709
make a deal so badly. We don't even know if

1082
01:01:00,709 --> 01:01:04,499
we want because I view the... Straight of Hormuz is

1083
01:01:04,499 --> 01:01:08,479
in American territory right now. It's in American territory. Hormuz.

1084
01:01:08,619 --> 01:01:12,129
Hormuz. We've been calling it the Straits of Hormuz for

1085
01:01:12,129 --> 01:01:15,469
a long time, Mr. President. That's wonderful. So he said

1086
01:01:15,469 --> 01:01:17,919
that was the that was a rally I guess he

1087
01:01:17,919 --> 01:01:20,539
took he did over the over the weekend. But, you

1088
01:01:20,539 --> 01:01:23,179
know, he's calling it a U.S. territory. He put out

1089
01:01:23,179 --> 01:01:25,359
a tweet or a post, a true social post, and

1090
01:01:25,359 --> 01:01:28,399
it showed the circle there. It is like U.S. territory.

1091
01:01:28,779 --> 01:01:31,289
Yes. He's saying this is ours. We can do what

1092
01:01:31,289 --> 01:01:34,119
we want with it. I saw another headline in the

1093
01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:35,879
last couple of days where now it's up to 15

1094
01:01:35,879 --> 01:01:38,339
million barrels a day. So they're ramping it up. Oh,

1095
01:01:38,339 --> 01:01:41,319
yeah. I think it just took time, and they probably

1096
01:01:41,319 --> 01:01:45,209
had to identify coastal spots where the Iranians were going

1097
01:01:45,209 --> 01:01:48,719
to target planes from or target the ships from. And

1098
01:01:48,719 --> 01:01:51,159
so taking those out, now they can do this. And

1099
01:01:51,159 --> 01:01:53,939
the Oman side is apparently a lot deeper than… than

1100
01:01:53,939 --> 01:01:57,209
the uh than the iranian side in the strait uh

1101
01:01:57,209 --> 01:01:59,679
by by like three times deeper yeah it's a lot

1102
01:01:59,679 --> 01:02:03,289
deeper over there yeah so it's only they say 20

1103
01:02:03,289 --> 01:02:06,309
to 60 meters on the on the iranian side and

1104
01:02:06,309 --> 01:02:09,969
then it's like 100 100 meters down on uh On

1105
01:02:09,969 --> 01:02:12,399
the other side. So it's a lot deeper. Well, we're

1106
01:02:12,399 --> 01:02:15,199
being ripped off and we're being ripped off by the

1107
01:02:15,199 --> 01:02:18,329
oil trade. We just are. We're being ripped off. Sure,

1108
01:02:18,329 --> 01:02:20,919
they're using the crisis as, you know, they're never letting

1109
01:02:20,919 --> 01:02:23,429
it go to waste. You know, the ICE, the ICE

1110
01:02:23,429 --> 01:02:26,499
exchange is run by the oil. by the UK. And

1111
01:02:26,499 --> 01:02:28,899
we got greedy oil guys in Texas too, you know,

1112
01:02:28,899 --> 01:02:31,989
for the WTI. Here's an example on, I think this

1113
01:02:31,989 --> 01:02:35,119
is CNBC. We have an analyst who knows everything about

1114
01:02:35,119 --> 01:02:37,809
everything, obviously. Let's bring in Alima Croft, head of Global

1115
01:02:37,809 --> 01:02:41,499
Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. Alima, happy Friday. Thanks

1116
01:02:41,499 --> 01:02:43,519
for the time. Good to see you. Thank you for

1117
01:02:43,519 --> 01:02:47,479
having me. So we've been putting sanctions Thank you for

1118
01:02:47,479 --> 01:02:49,269
having me. I'm ready. I'm ready to see the oil

1119
01:02:49,269 --> 01:02:52,249
go up. Iran off and on for decades. How do

1120
01:02:52,249 --> 01:02:55,589
you think this new chapter might be different? I mean,

1121
01:02:55,589 --> 01:02:57,469
is it gonna be different this time? I mean, Iran

1122
01:02:57,469 --> 01:02:59,679
is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world.

1123
01:02:59,679 --> 01:03:02,759
The question is, is this going to change Iran's behavior?

1124
01:03:02,759 --> 01:03:05,799
Or do the Iranian leadership believe that they can outlast

1125
01:03:05,799 --> 01:03:07,929
us at this point, that we want this war to

1126
01:03:07,929 --> 01:03:10,729
end before they do? I mean, I do think that

1127
01:03:10,729 --> 01:03:14,919
the double blockade is clearly hurting Iranian oil exports. The

1128
01:03:14,919 --> 01:03:17,979
question is, what more can be done? Are we really

1129
01:03:17,979 --> 01:03:21,219
going to go after Russia and China, which helped Iran

1130
01:03:21,219 --> 01:03:24,349
militarily? I mean, that remains... What? Why do we have

1131
01:03:24,349 --> 01:03:29,869
to do that? They are not supporting Iran at all

1132
01:03:29,869 --> 01:03:37,579
anymore. China ran away immediately. Russia is like, okay, they're

1133
01:03:37,579 --> 01:03:42,619
busy getting ready to obliterate Ukraine. Right. And the analyst

1134
01:03:42,619 --> 01:03:44,399
is like, why haven't they gone and started wars with

1135
01:03:44,399 --> 01:03:46,609
these guys? It's funny. I was like, what? What are

1136
01:03:46,609 --> 01:03:50,499
we doing here? The question is, what more can be

1137
01:03:50,499 --> 01:03:53,349
done? Are we really going to go after Russia and

1138
01:03:53,349 --> 01:03:56,889
China, which helped Iran militarily? I mean, that remains to

1139
01:03:56,889 --> 01:04:00,299
be seen. I've never heard that happening before. A bigger

1140
01:04:00,299 --> 01:04:04,099
country helping out a smaller country during a war. Where

1141
01:04:04,099 --> 01:04:06,179
does that happen? I've never heard of that. I think

1142
01:04:06,179 --> 01:04:08,669
there's a view that Iran believes that they can outlast

1143
01:04:08,669 --> 01:04:11,699
us. Here's what the Treasury Secretary Halima said yesterday on

1144
01:04:11,699 --> 01:04:14,599
the show about what they're going to announce. If we

1145
01:04:14,599 --> 01:04:19,499
are doing the maximum economic pressure, then that means that

1146
01:04:19,499 --> 01:04:24,449
likely there will not be a large-scale kinetic restart. But

1147
01:04:24,449 --> 01:04:28,259
I would emphasize that is for now. And we do

1148
01:04:28,259 --> 01:04:32,269
have control of the strait. Scott Besson, as much as

1149
01:04:32,269 --> 01:04:34,939
I like what he's doing, he is just he sucks

1150
01:04:34,939 --> 01:04:38,319
as a public speaker. He really can't. He's a stutterer.

1151
01:04:38,819 --> 01:04:41,259
He's trying to figure out the right words each time

1152
01:04:41,259 --> 01:04:44,169
instead of just preparing something. I just look at him

1153
01:04:44,169 --> 01:04:47,629
speak, and I can only see Elizabeth Warren's face. There's

1154
01:04:47,629 --> 01:04:51,399
something about it. He just looks like Elizabeth Warren. This

1155
01:04:51,399 --> 01:04:54,549
woman continues, I think. So, Alima, I mean, this sort

1156
01:04:54,549 --> 01:04:57,229
of newfound posture, you think it works? I think it

1157
01:04:57,229 --> 01:05:00,559
works. It works. look, Iran is still firing on ships

1158
01:05:00,559 --> 01:05:03,439
in the Strait of Hormuz. Yes, the U.S. is escorting

1159
01:05:03,439 --> 01:05:06,769
some ships to the Armani Channel, but Iran still has

1160
01:05:06,769 --> 01:05:11,059
clear capabilities to fire missiles at ships to... What missiles?

1161
01:05:11,059 --> 01:05:13,879
No, they may have drones. I don't think they have

1162
01:05:13,879 --> 01:05:17,709
missiles left. ...to fire missiles at ships, to do drone

1163
01:05:17,709 --> 01:05:21,919
strikes on infrastructure. I mean, look at what has happened

1164
01:05:21,919 --> 01:05:26,219
to Kuwait in terms of power plants being hit, destination

1165
01:05:26,219 --> 01:05:31,299
facilities being hit. So Iran still had significant disruptive capabilities.

1166
01:05:31,299 --> 01:05:40,299
I got some feedback from some parents of people on...

1167
01:05:39,949 --> 01:05:44,339
The USS Lincoln on boats, really big, beautiful boats. And,

1168
01:05:44,339 --> 01:05:49,179
you know, and I understand. They're like, the show criticized

1169
01:05:49,179 --> 01:05:54,059
this. I'm like, no, it was a naval aviator and

1170
01:05:54,059 --> 01:05:56,659
a Vietnam veteran. So, you know, they have said we

1171
01:05:56,659 --> 01:06:00,509
were just relaying the message. Now, granted, it's just two

1172
01:06:00,509 --> 01:06:04,139
people. But they kind of wind up with, you can't

1173
01:06:04,139 --> 01:06:08,329
send anything. Only one Amazon package got through. I'm like,

1174
01:06:08,329 --> 01:06:11,259
wait, Amazon can send a package to the link? That's

1175
01:06:11,259 --> 01:06:15,619
pretty badass. That by itself is pretty amazing. You try

1176
01:06:15,619 --> 01:06:19,599
spending 200 days on a tin can, and my reply

1177
01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:23,579
was, First of all, anyone who signs up for armed

1178
01:06:23,579 --> 01:06:27,279
services in my book right away is already a hero,

1179
01:06:27,279 --> 01:06:30,309
is more courageous than most people I know, should be

1180
01:06:30,309 --> 01:06:34,219
revered, and they know what they're signing up for. Right.

1181
01:06:34,479 --> 01:06:37,299
They know what this, and I love them for that.

1182
01:06:37,469 --> 01:06:40,139
And I understand that you as a parent, as a

1183
01:06:40,139 --> 01:06:44,379
husband, as a wife, as a child, you're concerned, you're

1184
01:06:44,379 --> 01:06:48,429
upset. I get it. My whole family is military at

1185
01:06:48,429 --> 01:06:54,019
minimum, intelligence at best. And I'm the black sheep. But

1186
01:06:54,019 --> 01:06:57,699
I got this great note from Boots on the Ground.

1187
01:06:58,179 --> 01:07:01,879
Our boots on the ground said anonymous on the ship.

1188
01:07:01,879 --> 01:07:04,479
Are they on the ship? With regards to the sailors,

1189
01:07:04,479 --> 01:07:07,799
Iran and hygiene, I was deployed supporting Epic Fury as

1190
01:07:07,799 --> 01:07:10,489
well. But I was on the dry land portion of

1191
01:07:10,489 --> 01:07:15,179
it as a soldier under NAVCENT. That's Naval Central Command.

1192
01:07:15,359 --> 01:07:17,559
The best way to describe the living situation and the

1193
01:07:17,559 --> 01:07:20,049
complaints is that while it isn't great, so this person

1194
01:07:20,049 --> 01:07:24,139
was on the Lincoln, it most certainly could be worse.

1195
01:07:24,139 --> 01:07:26,379
A phrase to keep in mind is that it's the

1196
01:07:26,379 --> 01:07:30,719
God-given right of every soldier to bitch. Closely followed by,

1197
01:07:30,719 --> 01:07:34,029
if they aren't complaining, something's wrong. Give a soldier a

1198
01:07:34,029 --> 01:07:37,779
solid brick of gold, they'll complain it's too heavy. As

1199
01:07:37,779 --> 01:07:40,289
far as moldy showers go, they may have screwed up

1200
01:07:40,289 --> 01:07:43,649
and not ordered enough cleaning supplies, and they can't exactly

1201
01:07:43,649 --> 01:07:46,029
make a run to go buy some more, but responsibility

1202
01:07:46,029 --> 01:07:49,539
for keeping those facilities clean belongs to those same sailors

1203
01:07:49,539 --> 01:07:53,119
complaining. Sending out a picture of moldy showers eight months

1204
01:07:53,119 --> 01:07:56,449
into a deployment doesn't have the same implications as service

1205
01:07:56,449 --> 01:08:00,379
members deploying into moldy conditions. The problem can be traced

1206
01:08:00,379 --> 01:08:03,059
back to those living in those conditions. He's kind of

1207
01:08:03,059 --> 01:08:06,129
putting it on themselves. On the other hand, imagine the

1208
01:08:06,129 --> 01:08:09,149
worst parts of Groundhog Day. And this is the part

1209
01:08:09,149 --> 01:08:13,069
that got me because I can barely imagine how tough

1210
01:08:13,069 --> 01:08:16,759
this gig is, this job. You wake up, you go

1211
01:08:16,759 --> 01:08:19,219
do the same thing every day. You never know when

1212
01:08:19,219 --> 01:08:21,659
it's going to end. But unlike Groundhog Day, if you

1213
01:08:21,659 --> 01:08:24,779
screw up, you and your friends die. There's no weekend

1214
01:08:24,779 --> 01:08:27,509
when you get off shift that's back to your room

1215
01:08:27,509 --> 01:08:30,250
or bunk, maybe to sleep before doing it again. They

1216
01:08:30,250 --> 01:08:32,829
may not be in muddy trenches, but the mental wear

1217
01:08:32,829 --> 01:08:34,949
and tear is real and hard to imagine if you

1218
01:08:34,949 --> 01:08:38,569
haven't lived through it. On a warmer note, it took

1219
01:08:38,569 --> 01:08:40,739
me far too long to redeploy, but at least I

1220
01:08:40,739 --> 01:08:43,219
had started moving and could break the monotony from shift

1221
01:08:43,219 --> 01:08:46,279
work. Sitting at breakfast one morning with another soldier flying

1222
01:08:46,279 --> 01:08:49,059
back with me, we're shooting the breeze, discussing the peace

1223
01:08:49,059 --> 01:08:53,079
deal back in June. June. Wow. And the implications for

1224
01:08:53,079 --> 01:08:56,859
the Iranian and American economies. I brought up. I brought

1225
01:08:56,859 --> 01:08:59,979
up using the lens of confessions of an economic hitman

1226
01:08:59,979 --> 01:09:02,779
to view the deal from and without a missing beat.

1227
01:09:03,209 --> 01:09:05,589
He looks at me and goes, man, there's this podcast

1228
01:09:05,589 --> 01:09:08,879
I think you'll really like that deals with media deconstruction.

1229
01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:12,250
He proceeds to tell me about no agenda. Nothing could

1230
01:09:12,250 --> 01:09:15,199
have brought me more joy than dropping some nightly credentials

1231
01:09:15,199 --> 01:09:18,519
in response. Listeners really are everywhere and hiding in plain

1232
01:09:18,519 --> 01:09:20,989
sight. Keep up the great work. It goes an incredibly

1233
01:09:20,989 --> 01:09:24,759
long way. And so, yes, it is a war. and

1234
01:09:24,759 --> 01:09:29,199
i mean it's it's it's hard i know it's hard

1235
01:09:29,199 --> 01:09:32,239
for people you know look i'm old i'm six i'll

1236
01:09:32,239 --> 01:09:38,059
be 62 in crap like less than two weeks wow

1237
01:09:38,059 --> 01:09:43,750
thanks rob wow wow and i still maintain i'm gen

1238
01:09:43,750 --> 01:09:46,449
x I was the face. I think you are. Yeah,

1239
01:09:46,449 --> 01:09:49,039
you're on the cusp. You're one of those cuspers. They

1240
01:09:49,039 --> 01:09:52,029
call it, I think, the Johnson generation or something, which

1241
01:09:52,029 --> 01:09:56,149
doesn't sound good to me at all. Anyway, but this

1242
01:09:56,149 --> 01:09:59,979
Iran has been a problem. Iran.

1243
01:10:00,061 --> 01:10:02,721
has been a problem for the Iranians. Look at how

1244
01:10:02,721 --> 01:10:08,121
that country changed. And by the way, 1946, 1979, we

1245
01:10:08,121 --> 01:10:11,532
screwed it all up. We did it. We did it.

1246
01:10:11,591 --> 01:10:14,331
And then we believed, you know, in 79, we're like,

1247
01:10:14,331 --> 01:10:16,061
oh, no, things are going to be fine. And then

1248
01:10:16,061 --> 01:10:18,411
it wasn't fine. So this is something that had to

1249
01:10:18,411 --> 01:10:23,141
be fixed eventually. And... Here's a president that's just going

1250
01:10:23,141 --> 01:10:25,171
to do it, and it will be better for the

1251
01:10:25,171 --> 01:10:28,612
world. It will be. It's going to take a little

1252
01:10:28,612 --> 01:10:30,532
– it's not going to be easy. That's the thing.

1253
01:10:30,692 --> 01:10:32,541
None of this stuff is easy. None of this stuff

1254
01:10:32,541 --> 01:10:34,871
– It never is. Getting a ship, getting ships out

1255
01:10:34,871 --> 01:10:37,501
there to the Persian Gulf and multiple ships and changing

1256
01:10:37,501 --> 01:10:42,322
them out, all these are giant, complicated undertakings. And, yeah,

1257
01:10:42,322 --> 01:10:44,921
it should not be taken lightly. You know, I was

1258
01:10:44,921 --> 01:10:48,411
looking at these videos going – It's moldy showers and

1259
01:10:48,411 --> 01:10:51,671
clogged toilets. It's not. Is it really that bad? Maybe

1260
01:10:51,671 --> 01:10:54,231
it is. I bet the stench is probably pretty bad.

1261
01:10:54,391 --> 01:10:56,511
Well, your comparison to a burning man hit a lot

1262
01:10:56,511 --> 01:10:59,471
of people. Well, you know, a lot of people like

1263
01:10:59,471 --> 01:11:02,051
that a lot. I still have. And that was sort

1264
01:11:02,051 --> 01:11:05,341
of an offhanded comment. But. There that's you know, you're

1265
01:11:05,341 --> 01:11:07,751
living on these porta pot you have porta potties there

1266
01:11:07,751 --> 01:11:12,011
and if they're not You know sucked out every day

1267
01:11:12,351 --> 01:11:15,442
It gets pretty bad and they missed a day Yes,

1268
01:11:15,442 --> 01:11:17,591
and it was like I'm not you know you're looking

1269
01:11:17,591 --> 01:11:20,362
at each one going oh my god and each one

1270
01:11:20,362 --> 01:11:23,271
you're like, okay That's even worse. Oh my okay All

1271
01:11:23,271 --> 01:11:26,612
right, I guess I'm not going to eat today. That's

1272
01:11:26,612 --> 01:11:29,541
where it goes. So with the eating, we get to

1273
01:11:29,541 --> 01:11:33,581
the affordability crisis, which no one denies. Oh, the beef,

1274
01:11:33,581 --> 01:11:37,491
yeah. Where's the beef? Before we get to the beef,

1275
01:11:37,491 --> 01:11:41,671
I really... Try to understand this, what we did with

1276
01:11:41,671 --> 01:11:45,491
the long-term bonds and the T-bills, the short-term bonds, just

1277
01:11:45,491 --> 01:11:49,201
to understand what this is, what is happening, or really

1278
01:11:49,201 --> 01:11:53,041
what happened for a moment and didn't happen. And this

1279
01:11:53,041 --> 01:11:56,692
is the idea here by Besson, because this is the

1280
01:11:56,692 --> 01:12:01,591
guy. Besson is doing it. is to lower interest rates

1281
01:12:01,591 --> 01:12:07,301
without the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates. And the way

1282
01:12:07,301 --> 01:12:12,072
you do that is to make the – but he

1283
01:12:12,072 --> 01:12:15,371
basically bought up – Treasury bought up – A lot

1284
01:12:15,371 --> 01:12:18,471
of the 30-year bonds, which are the loans, you know,

1285
01:12:18,471 --> 01:12:22,091
30-year loans, that's how we print money in America is

1286
01:12:22,091 --> 01:12:24,771
we write a bond and then, you know, you buy

1287
01:12:24,771 --> 01:12:27,341
it from us and we take that money and spend

1288
01:12:27,341 --> 01:12:32,231
it on, you know, stuff like military. Yeah. And the

1289
01:12:32,231 --> 01:12:35,411
way you pay for it is by writing short-term bonds,

1290
01:12:35,411 --> 01:12:38,811
which are typically three months, the T-bills they call them,

1291
01:12:38,811 --> 01:12:42,771
which are seen as cash in the market. You can

1292
01:12:42,771 --> 01:12:45,971
spend it as cash. And for a moment there at

1293
01:12:45,971 --> 01:12:52,051
work, because the long-term bonds. yield, as they call it,

1294
01:12:52,112 --> 01:12:54,641
basically the interest that you get paid back on those

1295
01:12:54,641 --> 01:12:59,411
long-term bonds went down. And everything is priced upon that,

1296
01:12:59,671 --> 01:13:02,411
including your mortgage and your car loan and all of

1297
01:13:02,411 --> 01:13:06,301
this stuff. So the idea was good But it only

1298
01:13:06,301 --> 01:13:08,871
lasted for maybe a session and a half and it

1299
01:13:08,871 --> 01:13:11,661
started to go up again, which means they'll probably have

1300
01:13:11,661 --> 01:13:14,851
to do it again. And it looks like he will

1301
01:13:14,851 --> 01:13:16,572
do it and he will do it at an even

1302
01:13:16,572 --> 01:13:20,491
greater rate. And here is the general himself. So talk

1303
01:13:20,491 --> 01:13:23,921
us through what you are trying to do here by

1304
01:13:23,921 --> 01:13:27,991
announcing the increased size of the buybacks. Yeah, we're trying

1305
01:13:27,991 --> 01:13:31,471
to signal that we think that this is a thinly

1306
01:13:31,471 --> 01:13:36,311
traded area of the market. that we're in August and

1307
01:13:36,311 --> 01:13:40,591
there's been a lot of corporate issuance that's influenced the

1308
01:13:40,591 --> 01:13:45,231
market. And we believe that there are many underlying factors

1309
01:13:45,231 --> 01:13:49,041
that the market is not looking at. So what he's

1310
01:13:49,041 --> 01:13:51,782
saying here is that a lot of money has been

1311
01:13:51,782 --> 01:13:55,331
raised in corporate bonds, which is all of this AI

1312
01:13:55,331 --> 01:13:58,081
money, the money your kids should be going out and

1313
01:13:58,081 --> 01:14:01,481
taking from these nut jobs on Wall Street. That's what

1314
01:14:01,481 --> 01:14:06,231
he's saying. And because of that, the market's distorted. And

1315
01:14:06,231 --> 01:14:11,112
we are going to make a market in these. We

1316
01:14:11,112 --> 01:14:14,612
routinely do buybacks and we're going to increase the size

1317
01:14:14,612 --> 01:14:17,811
of the buyback. And you know, Sarah, I would note

1318
01:14:17,811 --> 01:14:21,192
that it could be more than the $4 billion per

1319
01:14:21,192 --> 01:14:24,992
issue. More. Yeah, I was going to ask how big

1320
01:14:24,992 --> 01:14:27,881
this could get. Huge! If the signal here is that

1321
01:14:27,881 --> 01:14:30,822
you're not happy with the direction of yields, you know,

1322
01:14:30,822 --> 01:14:33,581
they've gone back the other way. We've erased most of

1323
01:14:33,581 --> 01:14:35,961
the Treasury rally that you got yesterday with that big

1324
01:14:35,961 --> 01:14:38,511
surprise. So how much more are you willing to do?

1325
01:14:38,511 --> 01:14:43,011
Well, again, we have a big toolkit, so we'll see.

1326
01:14:43,631 --> 01:14:46,971
And part of it is signaling here and to show

1327
01:14:46,971 --> 01:14:50,581
that we believe that the yields don't reflect the underlying

1328
01:14:50,581 --> 01:14:53,981
fundamentals. Now, not in this interview, but the way the

1329
01:14:53,981 --> 01:15:00,011
underlying fundamentals are seen is because... of the tariff money

1330
01:15:00,011 --> 01:15:02,921
that went back to corporations, which, by the way, is

1331
01:15:02,921 --> 01:15:05,561
not going back to you. No, just I just want

1332
01:15:05,561 --> 01:15:09,021
you to know, not going back to you, the corporations,

1333
01:15:09,021 --> 01:15:12,591
they didn't have to pay. They got discounts. They negotiated

1334
01:15:12,591 --> 01:15:16,591
all kinds of the different rates with the suppliers. I

1335
01:15:16,591 --> 01:15:18,992
mean, they get a refund. They got it. And which

1336
01:15:18,992 --> 01:15:23,271
is your courts doing that. OK. So that has distorted

1337
01:15:23,271 --> 01:15:26,992
the market. That's distorted the liquidity, the amount of money

1338
01:15:26,992 --> 01:15:29,681
the Treasury has. But the funny thing is this is

1339
01:15:29,681 --> 01:15:32,742
not a new thing. It was called the twist. The

1340
01:15:32,742 --> 01:15:36,031
Treasury twist, and it's been done before. The dependence on

1341
01:15:36,031 --> 01:15:39,411
foreign bondholders, for instance, we saw the intervention in the

1342
01:15:39,411 --> 01:15:43,011
Japanese yen, and that's erased a lot of the progress

1343
01:15:43,011 --> 01:15:45,521
there. And so there are kind of all these worries

1344
01:15:45,521 --> 01:15:48,031
at once about what's going to happen ultimately with these

1345
01:15:48,031 --> 01:15:52,591
holders of Treasuries. Again, people have bad information. I have

1346
01:15:52,591 --> 01:15:58,661
asymmetric information. Woo! Oh, asymmetric. So, you know, I think

1347
01:15:58,661 --> 01:16:01,242
that he's got something. He's got a very big toolkit,

1348
01:16:01,242 --> 01:16:04,201
ladies and gentlemen. The market should think, well, why would

1349
01:16:04,201 --> 01:16:07,402
we have joined the Japanese in the intervention at this

1350
01:16:07,402 --> 01:16:11,101
time? Do we know something the market doesn't know? That

1351
01:16:11,101 --> 01:16:14,551
in terms of being willing to do what I would

1352
01:16:14,551 --> 01:16:18,251
call a treasury twist. here in terms of the bond

1353
01:16:18,251 --> 01:16:21,061
market what what do i know that the market doesn't

1354
01:16:21,061 --> 01:16:24,461
know so you know i think the market's probably gotten

1355
01:16:24,461 --> 01:16:27,141
a little ahead of itself i love this i've got

1356
01:16:27,141 --> 01:16:30,341
a secret boys and girls what what do i know

1357
01:16:30,341 --> 01:16:35,931
with my asymmetric uh uh this asymmetric yes asymmetric information

1358
01:16:35,931 --> 01:16:39,081
that you don't know stand by Why did we help

1359
01:16:39,081 --> 01:16:42,402
Japan? I don't know if you heard this. I heard

1360
01:16:42,402 --> 01:16:46,161
an Indus show mix. Come on, baby. Let's do the

1361
01:16:46,161 --> 01:16:50,931
Treasury twist. Yes, I heard it. I heard the yes.

1362
01:16:50,992 --> 01:16:53,831
I heard Chubby Checker. I also heard the Peppermint Twist,

1363
01:16:53,831 --> 01:16:57,831
the Treasury Twist. How did that go? The Peppermint Twist.

1364
01:16:58,811 --> 01:17:02,072
I don't remember that one. Yeah, but that's because I'm

1365
01:17:02,072 --> 01:17:05,311
a boomer. Hold on a second. The let me see.

1366
01:17:05,492 --> 01:17:12,791
Peppermint peppermint twist. So, OK. That was a classic. See,

1367
01:17:12,791 --> 01:17:14,931
I grew up with all that. Joey D and the

1368
01:17:14,931 --> 01:17:18,461
Starlighters. There you go. Joey D. Joey D and the

1369
01:17:18,461 --> 01:17:23,331
Starlighters. Let me see if I can find this. Oh,

1370
01:17:23,331 --> 01:17:28,942
yeah, baby. 1961. Three years before this boomer came to

1371
01:17:28,942 --> 01:17:32,031
earth. Well, you got a new dance and it go

1372
01:17:32,031 --> 01:17:38,031
like this. Oh yeah, the peppermint twist Okay. All right,

1373
01:17:38,031 --> 01:17:40,231
end of the show, mixers. Get to it. That's right.

1374
01:17:40,291 --> 01:17:43,351
You got two choices. You got two choices to take.

1375
01:17:43,351 --> 01:17:47,811
Chubby Checker or Joey D, exactly. Now, here's the crazy

1376
01:17:47,811 --> 01:17:51,692
thing. This is again, I said it's not new. Listen

1377
01:17:51,692 --> 01:17:56,671
to this. Activist Treasury issuance. That term was coined in

1378
01:17:56,671 --> 01:18:01,992
2024 by Rubini and Stephen Myron when Yellen did this.

1379
01:18:02,271 --> 01:18:04,981
Yellen. And at the time they wrote and warned that

1380
01:18:04,981 --> 01:18:09,011
her move, they're now doubling what she began. that her

1381
01:18:09,011 --> 01:18:12,692
move was equivalent to lowering rates by a full point.

1382
01:18:13,771 --> 01:18:16,711
Myron, of course, would go on to become Trump's key

1383
01:18:16,711 --> 01:18:20,291
advisor and on the Fed himself. So I think, according

1384
01:18:20,291 --> 01:18:25,591
to them, these moves do have a big economic impact.

1385
01:18:26,031 --> 01:18:29,641
Yeah, they do. So Yellen did this. She was criticized

1386
01:18:29,641 --> 01:18:33,341
for it, not just by Trump's financial advisors, but by

1387
01:18:33,341 --> 01:18:35,811
this guy. It has been the policy of the government

1388
01:18:35,811 --> 01:18:39,192
and successive treasuries, now, Yellen did some of this too,

1389
01:18:39,192 --> 01:18:43,711
to not do that, to not be opportunistic. You go

1390
01:18:43,711 --> 01:18:46,471
in and you buy bonds and you know the government

1391
01:18:46,471 --> 01:18:49,531
is not going to gain your purchase, for example, on

1392
01:18:49,531 --> 01:18:52,742
the day of a 20 year auction. But she started

1393
01:18:52,742 --> 01:18:55,871
with this twist towards bill issuance, and it's just continued.

1394
01:18:56,192 --> 01:18:58,692
Right. And by the way, who criticized it? Scott Besson

1395
01:18:58,692 --> 01:19:01,612
criticized it. Who criticized it? Kevin Wors criticized it. And

1396
01:19:01,612 --> 01:19:04,841
now they're doing the same thing, but in much bigger

1397
01:19:04,841 --> 01:19:07,671
proportions right now. It might work because we're going to

1398
01:19:07,671 --> 01:19:11,322
do it bigger. That's what Besson said. The victim of

1399
01:19:11,322 --> 01:19:13,531
this and the reason they do this, and I think

1400
01:19:13,531 --> 01:19:17,112
he will do a lot more for a couple of

1401
01:19:17,112 --> 01:19:20,201
reasons. One is to drive down the interest rates. And

1402
01:19:20,201 --> 01:19:22,971
I think that will work. But the victim of it

1403
01:19:22,971 --> 01:19:28,161
is the dollar. It's basically debasement of the dollar. So

1404
01:19:28,161 --> 01:19:33,601
while your interest rate may go down. your actual purchasing

1405
01:19:33,601 --> 01:19:36,731
power also goes down now take some time for that

1406
01:19:36,731 --> 01:19:39,641
to shake out in the market but that's you know

1407
01:19:39,641 --> 01:19:42,411
no one ever talks about oh my mortgage went down

1408
01:19:42,411 --> 01:19:45,231
and you know the the sad thing is that your

1409
01:19:45,231 --> 01:19:49,171
your purchasing power also goes down which is exactly why

1410
01:19:49,171 --> 01:19:53,362
you saw bitcoin skyrocket and hold I can't see it

1411
01:19:53,362 --> 01:19:58,242
right now, but it's still around 77,000. But here's the

1412
01:19:58,242 --> 01:19:59,411
thing.

1413
01:20:00,193 --> 01:20:04,563
The play here by Besant and by President Trump is

1414
01:20:04,563 --> 01:20:07,353
to grow our way out of it. The $40 trillion

1415
01:20:07,353 --> 01:20:10,503
mark that we passed for the national debt, would you

1416
01:20:10,503 --> 01:20:13,753
comment on that and how do we reverse that? The

1417
01:20:13,753 --> 01:20:17,263
40 trillion is a big number. It is smaller when

1418
01:20:17,263 --> 01:20:20,913
we look at the publicly traded amount because our social

1419
01:20:20,913 --> 01:20:26,003
security funds and other government entities hold a substantial amount.

1420
01:20:26,003 --> 01:20:28,123
And what we're going to do, we're going to have

1421
01:20:28,123 --> 01:20:30,023
to grow our way out of this. And as I

1422
01:20:30,023 --> 01:20:33,993
talked about, at G20 in Asheville, we are going to

1423
01:20:33,993 --> 01:20:37,523
talk about the U.S. growth strategy and encourage the rest

1424
01:20:37,523 --> 01:20:39,343
of the world to come along with us. We are

1425
01:20:39,343 --> 01:20:44,223
also, you know, I announced that Director Russ Vogt and

1426
01:20:44,223 --> 01:20:48,703
I have been tasked with looking at fiscal consolidation. I

1427
01:20:48,703 --> 01:20:52,343
think the numbers have, are not the actual numbers now.

1428
01:20:52,463 --> 01:20:55,283
We've had to do substantial tariff refunds due to the

1429
01:20:55,283 --> 01:21:00,113
court ruling. But with the Section 301 tariffs, I am

1430
01:21:00,113 --> 01:21:04,613
confident that we will be back to the same level,

1431
01:21:04,613 --> 01:21:08,143
if not higher, of tariff income for last year. And

1432
01:21:08,143 --> 01:21:10,753
that is most of the increase in the deficit. And

1433
01:21:10,753 --> 01:21:13,963
remember, we did not get here in a day. we

1434
01:21:13,963 --> 01:21:17,283
were left with a mess the biden administration had the

1435
01:21:17,283 --> 01:21:21,523
highest deficit to gdp in history when we weren't at

1436
01:21:21,523 --> 01:21:25,183
war or weren't in a recession for 2025 we brought

1437
01:21:25,183 --> 01:21:28,303
it down by more than a percent yeah general besan

1438
01:21:28,303 --> 01:21:31,073
uh no one cares about the previous guy no they

1439
01:21:31,073 --> 01:21:36,243
don't nobody you know i was mortgage rates you know

1440
01:21:36,243 --> 01:21:42,223
2021 three percent you go to 2022 october seven percent

1441
01:21:42,223 --> 01:21:44,883
that's huge boom and and then uh it got even

1442
01:21:44,883 --> 01:21:49,943
higher in 2023 october 7.89 almost eight percent no one

1443
01:21:49,943 --> 01:21:53,343
was complaining no they weren't complaining like they are now

1444
01:21:53,343 --> 01:21:57,573
and it's at 6.76 It seemed it was trending down,

1445
01:21:57,573 --> 01:22:00,233
which is interesting. It was trending down until February of

1446
01:22:00,233 --> 01:22:02,983
2020, right before we went into Iran. It was 6.17.

1447
01:22:03,283 --> 01:22:08,463
Now it's up to 6.76. So... It's trending up, and

1448
01:22:08,463 --> 01:22:10,403
I think they're trying to do what they can to

1449
01:22:10,403 --> 01:22:12,963
keep going up even more. Now, the problem is that

1450
01:22:12,963 --> 01:22:16,943
people just aren't making enough money. That's the problem, and

1451
01:22:16,943 --> 01:22:21,503
that is always because of money printing, debasement. You could

1452
01:22:21,503 --> 01:22:24,763
call this quantitative easing, but it isn't exactly the same.

1453
01:22:24,763 --> 01:22:29,983
But this brings – The Mar-a-Lago Accords, as I've called

1454
01:22:29,983 --> 01:22:34,213
them for close to two years now, brings this into

1455
01:22:34,213 --> 01:22:38,063
play. This is where the stablecoin gambit comes into play.

1456
01:22:38,683 --> 01:22:42,263
So the reason the yields on the 30-year treasury bonds

1457
01:22:42,263 --> 01:22:45,983
are high is because people don't want American debt. Why

1458
01:22:45,983 --> 01:22:48,523
don't they want a lot of debt? Because it's $40

1459
01:22:48,523 --> 01:22:51,343
trillion already, like, these guys are going to pay back.

1460
01:22:51,403 --> 01:22:54,803
It seems unlikely. So we need to create a way

1461
01:22:54,803 --> 01:22:59,643
to have people take our debt. And this is why

1462
01:22:59,643 --> 01:23:06,083
General Patton Besant is swapping out the long-term bonds For

1463
01:23:06,083 --> 01:23:10,533
these 90 day short term bonds known as T-bills, because

1464
01:23:10,533 --> 01:23:14,353
this is what stable coin is backed by. And there's

1465
01:23:14,353 --> 01:23:19,803
300 million people around the world in economies where they

1466
01:23:19,803 --> 01:23:23,883
have their own money and it's sucking and they just

1467
01:23:23,883 --> 01:23:28,143
want dollars. And this is how it's not forever. It

1468
01:23:28,143 --> 01:23:31,213
may be for my grandchild. I don't know about my

1469
01:23:31,213 --> 01:23:34,503
great grandchild. But this is the gambit they're going to

1470
01:23:34,503 --> 01:23:38,373
do now. Here's an explainer of stablecoin once again. Let's

1471
01:23:38,373 --> 01:23:41,563
talk about stablecoins because this is a type of digital

1472
01:23:41,563 --> 01:23:45,503
or cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to an asset. Most

1473
01:23:45,503 --> 01:23:49,203
often it's pegged to the US dollar. Now, so unlike

1474
01:23:49,203 --> 01:23:53,183
Bitcoin, for example, or Ethereum, whose prices can swing wildly,

1475
01:23:53,183 --> 01:23:56,413
stablecoins are backed by reserves such as cash or US

1476
01:23:56,413 --> 01:24:01,353
short-term treasuries or T-bills to keep their value fixed. The

1477
01:24:01,353 --> 01:24:05,393
market for stable coins has exploded as of 2025, like

1478
01:24:05,393 --> 01:24:09,123
you just said, some estimates put that at $300 billion.

1479
01:24:09,123 --> 01:24:13,503
Citi, for example, predicts that a figure could top $1.5

1480
01:24:13,503 --> 01:24:17,723
trillion by 2030, Or 3.5 trillion in a bull case

1481
01:24:17,723 --> 01:24:24,423
scenario. So, this is the only... It's the way they

1482
01:24:24,423 --> 01:24:26,523
chose is not the only way. Of course, it would

1483
01:24:26,523 --> 01:24:29,893
be great if we just went into a severe depression

1484
01:24:29,893 --> 01:24:33,013
and we reset everything. That's not going to happen. Nobody

1485
01:24:33,013 --> 01:24:37,923
wants it. It's just... You think it's hard now for

1486
01:24:37,923 --> 01:24:41,803
groceries. Wait till a depression happens. You don't have a

1487
01:24:41,803 --> 01:24:45,233
job. A handful of companies dominate the space. The largest

1488
01:24:45,233 --> 01:24:48,913
by far is Tether, a private company known for its

1489
01:24:48,913 --> 01:24:52,823
coin USDT. Circle, which went public in junior, we'll call,

1490
01:24:52,823 --> 01:24:56,763
issues a stable coin known as USDC. Together, they control

1491
01:24:56,763 --> 01:25:01,353
more than 80%. of the global stablecoin market. The majority

1492
01:25:01,353 --> 01:25:03,703
of the money that's backing those coins are parked in

1493
01:25:03,703 --> 01:25:07,153
U.S. Treasury bills. And that is a big reason why

1494
01:25:07,153 --> 01:25:10,333
the U.S. government is encouraging the use of stablecoins and

1495
01:25:10,333 --> 01:25:14,163
passed landmark legislation over the summer, creating guardrails for the

1496
01:25:14,163 --> 01:25:19,223
industry itself. Issuers have become major buyers of short-term coins.

1497
01:25:19,223 --> 01:25:23,803
government debt, effectively creating new demand for treasuries and extending

1498
01:25:23,803 --> 01:25:26,983
the reach of the U.S. dollar worldwide. So this is

1499
01:25:26,983 --> 01:25:29,373
the they call it the euro dollar, but this is

1500
01:25:29,373 --> 01:25:32,563
the dollar that all these other countries are going to

1501
01:25:32,563 --> 01:25:36,363
use. They already are using it. Venezuela was using it.

1502
01:25:36,363 --> 01:25:42,383
Iran. Iranians are using it now. What happens in America

1503
01:25:42,383 --> 01:25:45,543
is people will always run as fast as they can

1504
01:25:45,543 --> 01:25:51,333
to hard assets, gold and silver. And honestly, I don't

1505
01:25:51,333 --> 01:25:55,263
know if gold coins and silver coins is really the

1506
01:25:55,263 --> 01:25:58,443
way to go. I mean, the prices, how that works,

1507
01:25:58,443 --> 01:26:00,543
it's kind of scam. I mean, it's just... The fact

1508
01:26:00,543 --> 01:26:02,793
that Ben Shapiro is selling gold coins has got to

1509
01:26:02,793 --> 01:26:05,963
tell you something. They can't be a great deal. You

1510
01:26:05,963 --> 01:26:07,463
want to look at if you're going to do that,

1511
01:26:07,463 --> 01:26:10,973
don't go for anything. Oh, this is historic. You're going

1512
01:26:10,973 --> 01:26:14,733
to pay, you know, $8,000 an ounce instead of for

1513
01:26:14,733 --> 01:26:18,593
whatever the price of gold is. Yeah. That whole thing

1514
01:26:18,593 --> 01:26:23,983
is very sketchy. Yeah. The reason why Bitcoin is going

1515
01:26:23,983 --> 01:26:28,563
is because it is, by definition, a hard asset. And

1516
01:26:28,563 --> 01:26:33,963
the money people know it. Look at who's holding Bitcoin.

1517
01:26:34,303 --> 01:26:38,913
The same companies. And they're getting more. They keep buying

1518
01:26:38,913 --> 01:26:42,923
more and more and more. And, you know, I'm not

1519
01:26:42,923 --> 01:26:48,153
giving anybody financial advice, but I'm planning on it because

1520
01:26:48,153 --> 01:26:51,413
it's just so easy to sell, to buy, so much

1521
01:26:51,413 --> 01:26:55,543
easier than gold. It's easy to lose, too. You lose

1522
01:26:55,543 --> 01:26:59,103
that hash. You're done. Well, so we do have –

1523
01:26:59,103 --> 01:27:01,453
and I'm not a fan of that, but – We

1524
01:27:01,453 --> 01:27:06,313
do have these ETFs and that is essentially buying exposure

1525
01:27:06,313 --> 01:27:09,713
to Bitcoin. That's probably a relatively safe way to do

1526
01:27:09,713 --> 01:27:12,163
it. And you can do it now through your bank,

1527
01:27:12,163 --> 01:27:15,353
through your brokerage account if you have one. Your 401k,

1528
01:27:15,353 --> 01:27:18,123
I mean, you can go online and sign up and

1529
01:27:18,123 --> 01:27:21,033
you can put money into it. I think that's probably

1530
01:27:21,033 --> 01:27:26,183
a pretty safe way. Because this our money, our treasury,

1531
01:27:26,183 --> 01:27:30,053
our debt is being tokenized as the first real thing

1532
01:27:30,053 --> 01:27:33,513
to be tokenized across the world. I'm not saying that

1533
01:27:33,513 --> 01:27:36,423
I'm a fan of it. But it's a fact. This

1534
01:27:36,423 --> 01:27:40,073
is what is happening. What is tokenized treasury debt? Government

1535
01:27:40,073 --> 01:27:42,833
debt is one of the oldest and largest financial markets

1536
01:27:42,833 --> 01:27:46,313
in the world. Treasury bonds are normally traded through banks,

1537
01:27:46,313 --> 01:27:50,913
brokers, and clearinghouses, with settlement times measured in days. Tokenized

1538
01:27:50,913 --> 01:27:53,893
treasury debt takes those same bonds and represents them as

1539
01:27:53,893 --> 01:27:57,843
tokens on a blockchain. The underlying asset does not change.

1540
01:27:57,843 --> 01:28:01,063
What changes is how it is stored, transferred, and traded.

1541
01:28:01,443 --> 01:28:05,323
Tokenization means creating a digital token that represents ownership of

1542
01:28:05,323 --> 01:28:07,873
a real-world asset. In this case, the asset is a

1543
01:28:07,873 --> 01:28:11,343
government bond or treasury bill. Each token corresponds to a

1544
01:28:11,343 --> 01:28:14,223
claim on the underlying security. The token lives on a

1545
01:28:14,223 --> 01:28:17,623
blockchain, which is a shared ledger that records who owns

1546
01:28:17,623 --> 01:28:20,613
one. what without requiring a central clearinghouse. This does not

1547
01:28:20,613 --> 01:28:23,943
mean the bond itself disappears. The bond still exists in

1548
01:28:23,943 --> 01:28:26,983
the traditional financial system. The token is a wrapper that

1549
01:28:26,983 --> 01:28:29,973
makes it easier to move, divide, and trade. A $1

1550
01:28:29,973 --> 01:28:33,923
million treasury bill could be tokenized into a thousand tokens

1551
01:28:33,923 --> 01:28:39,403
worth $1,000 each, allowing smaller investors to participate. No, investors.

1552
01:28:39,403 --> 01:28:42,983
Okay. And that's what this whole clarity act is about

1553
01:28:42,983 --> 01:28:46,283
is the guys doing the stable coin. They want to

1554
01:28:46,283 --> 01:28:49,383
– a stable coin being backed by a treasury, as

1555
01:28:49,383 --> 01:28:52,453
far as I'm concerned, is as good as a U.S.

1556
01:28:52,453 --> 01:28:59,843
dollar. The banks hate this because the banks – and

1557
01:28:59,843 --> 01:28:59,853
the way the banks are going about it is saying,

1558
01:28:59,853 --> 01:29:02,153
well – What if you run out of money? Because,

1559
01:29:02,153 --> 01:29:06,073
of course, the stable coin, unless they're illegally making stable

1560
01:29:06,073 --> 01:29:09,703
coins that aren't backed by treasuries, then that's a problem.

1561
01:29:09,783 --> 01:29:12,373
But that's pretty highly regulated. That was set out in

1562
01:29:12,373 --> 01:29:16,393
the Genius Act. So the Clarity Act is what the

1563
01:29:16,393 --> 01:29:22,993
banks want to prohibit. the stablecoin companies from giving out

1564
01:29:22,993 --> 01:29:29,003
incentives, interest, benefits, points, you know, all of this stuff,

1565
01:29:29,003 --> 01:29:31,903
because that's what banks think they're supposed to do. But

1566
01:29:31,903 --> 01:29:35,843
banks inherently are run on fake money, completely fictional nonsense

1567
01:29:35,843 --> 01:29:41,003
money. So i'm definitely going to be for the idea

1568
01:29:41,003 --> 01:29:44,803
of using stablecoin than a bank look at silicon valley

1569
01:29:44,803 --> 01:29:48,333
bank i literally still have a silicon valley bank debit

1570
01:29:48,333 --> 01:29:50,973
card from when uh i had my company in san

1571
01:29:50,973 --> 01:29:54,273
francisco and we were um we had vc funding from

1572
01:29:54,273 --> 01:29:59,123
kleiner perkins and sequoia and all those guys and oh

1573
01:29:59,123 --> 01:29:59,923
you go well we're gonna

1574
01:30:00,209 --> 01:30:01,859
Give you this money, but you're going to keep it

1575
01:30:01,859 --> 01:30:05,349
in Silicon Valley Bank. Wow. I mean, we got away

1576
01:30:05,349 --> 01:30:10,779
clean on that one. Banks do go bankrupt. But the

1577
01:30:10,779 --> 01:30:15,999
problem is that these twists, these treasury twists, this buyback,

1578
01:30:15,999 --> 01:30:19,039
it never lasts forever. It can last for a long

1579
01:30:19,039 --> 01:30:21,839
time. It can work for a long time. And who

1580
01:30:21,839 --> 01:30:24,499
knows? Maybe we can grow ourselves out of it. I

1581
01:30:24,499 --> 01:30:27,829
don't know. That'll all depend. You know, the these 301

1582
01:30:27,829 --> 01:30:31,739
tariffs, which are very easy to implement. You know, the

1583
01:30:31,739 --> 01:30:34,569
the president has all really has a number of ways

1584
01:30:34,569 --> 01:30:37,919
you can put all those tariffs back on. Here's the

1585
01:30:37,919 --> 01:30:42,539
analogy of monetizing your debt, buying your own bonds. Treasury

1586
01:30:42,539 --> 01:30:45,699
Department's attempt to lower yields, not quite achieving its goal

1587
01:30:45,699 --> 01:30:48,129
this week. Yields back to where they were before the

1588
01:30:48,129 --> 01:30:51,379
intervention was announced, and actually higher than they were a

1589
01:30:51,379 --> 01:30:54,169
week ago. At what point could rates start to become

1590
01:30:54,169 --> 01:30:56,549
a threat to the equity rally? Joining us now is

1591
01:30:56,549 --> 01:31:06,129
Bernstein, private wealth management senior investor. Thank you. We have

1592
01:31:06,129 --> 01:31:09,869
yields higher, maybe not at absolute levels that are threatening

1593
01:31:09,869 --> 01:31:12,419
in particular, but I guess the why kind of matters

1594
01:31:12,419 --> 01:31:14,759
if it's just kind of this voracious demand for new

1595
01:31:14,759 --> 01:31:17,399
debt and I guess at some point what it might

1596
01:31:17,399 --> 01:31:20,949
mean for somebody with an equity portfolio. For sure and

1597
01:31:20,949 --> 01:31:22,779
I think the why kind of comes down to two

1598
01:31:22,779 --> 01:31:26,249
factors. Number one, you think about the inflationary pressures that

1599
01:31:26,249 --> 01:31:28,939
are coming from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East

1600
01:31:28,939 --> 01:31:31,739
and higher prices of oil. The other would be kind

1601
01:31:31,739 --> 01:31:34,269
of what's the credibility in terms of both monetary and

1602
01:31:34,269 --> 01:31:36,659
fiscal policy. I think part of the reason you saw

1603
01:31:36,659 --> 01:31:39,879
that retracement in yields is that many investors kind of

1604
01:31:39,879 --> 01:31:42,839
view that buyback announcement as having a beach ball in

1605
01:31:42,839 --> 01:31:44,669
the pool, putting your hand on it. As soon as

1606
01:31:44,669 --> 01:31:46,329
you move your hand, it goes right back up. And

1607
01:31:46,329 --> 01:31:50,299
I think that's really the challenge for the fiscal policy

1608
01:31:50,299 --> 01:31:52,639
right now is that often when you're doing those sorts

1609
01:31:52,639 --> 01:31:54,959
of measures, you're trying to buy time and you're looking

1610
01:31:54,959 --> 01:31:58,099
for other macro or monetary forces that are more powerful

1611
01:31:58,099 --> 01:32:02,139
and durable to take over. Unfortunately, that buyback announcement didn't

1612
01:32:02,139 --> 01:32:04,399
buy a whole lot of time. And now, you know,

1613
01:32:04,419 --> 01:32:06,899
the Treasury is kind of in a tough position. They're

1614
01:32:06,899 --> 01:32:08,439
going to have to do it again. They're going to

1615
01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:10,659
have to do more, come up with some something else

1616
01:32:10,659 --> 01:32:13,609
and the clarity act which i don't know what's in

1617
01:32:13,609 --> 01:32:17,749
it anymore because there's been so it's been bopping around

1618
01:32:17,749 --> 01:32:21,539
so many times i think the stable coin guys will

1619
01:32:21,539 --> 01:32:25,459
get some kind of capability to hand out points or

1620
01:32:25,459 --> 01:32:29,349
something they're making a lot of money by the way

1621
01:32:29,349 --> 01:32:32,949
i mean you you get Three or four percent on

1622
01:32:32,949 --> 01:32:37,719
a T-bill, you know, that's 90 days. I mean, and

1623
01:32:37,719 --> 01:32:40,519
you just make your and people are taking these stable

1624
01:32:40,519 --> 01:32:43,279
coins. And it's guaranteed. It's guaranteed. You get it. I

1625
01:32:43,279 --> 01:32:46,239
mean, they're making these are the smallest companies with the

1626
01:32:46,239 --> 01:32:49,589
largest revenue in history. They're making hundreds of millions of

1627
01:32:49,589 --> 01:32:52,659
dollars a month just by holding these treasury bills, which

1628
01:32:52,659 --> 01:32:55,939
their customers are buying from them. But they're not really

1629
01:32:55,939 --> 01:32:58,419
buying it. They're just getting to use it. They're the

1630
01:32:58,419 --> 01:33:01,679
guys that hold them. So they're keeping the interest. Yeah,

1631
01:33:01,679 --> 01:33:05,139
of course. So they'll give you some points. You know,

1632
01:33:05,139 --> 01:33:08,499
some frequent flyer miles or something. And everybody can make

1633
01:33:08,499 --> 01:33:11,359
a stable coin. Amazon will have a stable coin. Google

1634
01:33:11,359 --> 01:33:13,639
will have a stable coin. And I'm sure they'll be

1635
01:33:13,639 --> 01:33:16,699
giving you all kinds. Elon will have a stable coin.

1636
01:33:16,819 --> 01:33:19,079
He already has his X money. Just wait for it.

1637
01:33:19,439 --> 01:33:21,619
And this Clarity Act is what it all hinges on.

1638
01:33:21,699 --> 01:33:25,509
The most important priority is for Congress to send the

1639
01:33:25,509 --> 01:33:29,679
Clarity Act to your desk for your signature. That was

1640
01:33:29,679 --> 01:33:32,289
President Trump meeting with tech and crypto leaders at the

1641
01:33:32,289 --> 01:33:34,499
White House. The president and chair of the SEC are

1642
01:33:34,499 --> 01:33:37,279
calling for Congress to pass the Clarity Act. That would

1643
01:33:37,279 --> 01:33:41,119
decide which government agency regulates digital tokens rather than allowing

1644
01:33:41,119 --> 01:33:44,189
crypto companies to operate in a legal gray area. Let's

1645
01:33:44,189 --> 01:33:47,259
bring in the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong.

1646
01:33:47,419 --> 01:33:49,819
He was at that meeting yesterday. Really appreciate you joining

1647
01:33:49,819 --> 01:33:53,749
us, Brian. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah. Okay, so

1648
01:33:53,749 --> 01:33:57,739
let's get really, really concrete here. You've spent years saying

1649
01:33:57,739 --> 01:34:00,399
the biggest problem in American crypto is a lack of

1650
01:34:00,399 --> 01:34:04,459
regulatory clarity. So if the Clarity Act passes the Senate

1651
01:34:04,459 --> 01:34:07,889
in September, which it's up for a vote then, ultimately

1652
01:34:07,889 --> 01:34:10,569
becomes law, what changes for an ordinary Coinbase customer that

1653
01:34:10,569 --> 01:34:14,279
actually makes them safer? Yes. So this bill, the Clarity

1654
01:34:14,279 --> 01:34:17,329
Act, it's coming up for this vote on September 15th,

1655
01:34:17,329 --> 01:34:19,329
a full Senate floor vote. It has a number of

1656
01:34:19,329 --> 01:34:22,989
consumer protections that would make sure something like FTX could

1657
01:34:22,989 --> 01:34:26,419
never happen again. It has strong tools for law enforcement

1658
01:34:26,419 --> 01:34:29,789
to go after illicit activity. It also has the opportunity

1659
01:34:29,789 --> 01:34:33,619
to create new products in crypto that would benefit Americans.

1660
01:34:33,999 --> 01:34:38,689
including earning rewards on their stablecoin balances, the ability to

1661
01:34:38,689 --> 01:34:43,299
go raise capital in crypto, capital formation or issuing securities.

1662
01:34:43,579 --> 01:34:45,759
That's something that could be much more efficient, have lower

1663
01:34:45,759 --> 01:34:48,829
fees. And I think Bitcoin is telling us this is

1664
01:34:48,829 --> 01:34:50,889
going to pass. And I think it's telling us it's

1665
01:34:50,889 --> 01:34:54,759
going to pass in September. Because if this passes, stablecoin

1666
01:34:54,759 --> 01:34:57,969
bonanza is on. The whole world gets flooded with our

1667
01:34:57,969 --> 01:35:00,729
dollars, which they'll love using because it's going to this

1668
01:35:00,729 --> 01:35:03,289
whole system is going to screw the euro. It's going

1669
01:35:03,289 --> 01:35:07,439
to screw everything. We become the ultimate reserve currency, but

1670
01:35:07,439 --> 01:35:12,879
everybody can participate in that through your stablecoin. And hard

1671
01:35:12,879 --> 01:35:19,159
assets like Bitcoin, gold, silver will increase, I think, a

1672
01:35:19,159 --> 01:35:25,639
lot. I have invested interest in increasing a lot. And,

1673
01:35:25,639 --> 01:35:30,319
yeah, the downside is that if you're using stablecoin, Unlike

1674
01:35:30,319 --> 01:35:34,199
cash, it can be turned off. You know, it is,

1675
01:35:34,199 --> 01:35:38,749
in effect, a digital dollar that has control. Not like

1676
01:35:38,749 --> 01:35:42,879
your credit card is any different. Or your bank account,

1677
01:35:42,879 --> 01:35:46,639
even. People have lost bank accounts. People have lost –

1678
01:35:46,639 --> 01:35:50,879
and that didn't do anything – illegal essentially they were

1679
01:35:50,879 --> 01:35:53,779
just labeled or you got a labeling or your PayPal

1680
01:35:53,779 --> 01:35:57,979
yeah And that happened to Alex, happened to Nick Fuentes.

1681
01:35:58,239 --> 01:36:00,159
It's happened to a number of people who, you know,

1682
01:36:00,159 --> 01:36:02,799
when the government wants to go after you, they're going

1683
01:36:02,799 --> 01:36:05,319
to find a way to come after you. And that

1684
01:36:05,319 --> 01:36:07,799
is the Genius Act. I think the banks got pissed

1685
01:36:07,799 --> 01:36:09,709
off about that because it was sort of a Wild

1686
01:36:09,709 --> 01:36:12,559
West. And they're looking at, hey, we got to come

1687
01:36:12,559 --> 01:36:15,379
back and, you know. We're still the banks. We still

1688
01:36:15,379 --> 01:36:18,209
we still get to run the financial system. We don't

1689
01:36:18,209 --> 01:36:20,319
want this going off to a bunch of crazy. And

1690
01:36:20,319 --> 01:36:22,909
there will be and there will be I mean, this

1691
01:36:22,909 --> 01:36:26,009
is anti bank, this whole stable coin idea, which I

1692
01:36:26,009 --> 01:36:29,149
think is good. So there will be no more bank

1693
01:36:29,149 --> 01:36:33,509
bailouts. You know, the world is participating in the bailout

1694
01:36:33,509 --> 01:36:37,399
of the United States by buying our debt whenever we

1695
01:36:37,399 --> 01:36:40,279
need to buy, you know, a couple more, manufacture some

1696
01:36:40,279 --> 01:36:44,529
more missiles. for Ukraine or anyone else who wants to

1697
01:36:44,529 --> 01:36:47,019
buy them. - And we'll keep the oil flowing. That's

1698
01:36:47,019 --> 01:36:49,259
sort of the trade-off. - And we'll keep the oil

1699
01:36:49,259 --> 01:36:52,029
flowing and we'll keep the security over the oil. That's

1700
01:36:52,029 --> 01:36:55,299
what it is. May not be a utopia, But I

1701
01:36:55,299 --> 01:36:57,719
think it'll be better than where we might have been

1702
01:36:57,719 --> 01:37:00,349
or where we could be headed. And it doesn't matter

1703
01:37:00,349 --> 01:37:04,509
if it's a Republican Congress or a Democrat Congress. This

1704
01:37:04,509 --> 01:37:08,199
is irrelevant to that. It's irrelevant and outside of it.

1705
01:37:08,499 --> 01:37:09,719
If they can get it done in two and a

1706
01:37:09,719 --> 01:37:16,319
half more years. Yeah, it's, you know, with all these

1707
01:37:16,319 --> 01:37:19,039
things. You know, people look back. My son was asking

1708
01:37:19,039 --> 01:37:21,449
me about Bitcoin the other day. He said, why didn't

1709
01:37:21,449 --> 01:37:24,139
you buy Bitcoin? I'm like, well, we laughed at Bitcoin

1710
01:37:24,139 --> 01:37:26,449
when we first heard about it. And I remember Max

1711
01:37:26,449 --> 01:37:29,379
and I was like, you got to get Bitcoin. You

1712
01:37:29,379 --> 01:37:31,479
got to get your Bitcoin. It was like $5. And

1713
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:33,789
I had I have friends who had lots of Bitcoin

1714
01:37:33,789 --> 01:37:36,689
and used it to buy pizzas who are probably kicking

1715
01:37:36,689 --> 01:37:41,429
themselves to this day. And you don't know which is

1716
01:37:41,429 --> 01:37:43,599
going to be the winner and which is going to

1717
01:37:43,599 --> 01:37:46,699
be the loser. But now with some of these things,

1718
01:37:46,699 --> 01:37:48,559
now you can kind of tell because the government is

1719
01:37:48,559 --> 01:37:50,739
going to kind of pick winners and losers. And that's

1720
01:37:50,739 --> 01:37:54,579
what it normally does in these big things like this.

1721
01:37:54,639 --> 01:37:56,299
There's always going to be some group that's going to.

1722
01:37:56,589 --> 01:38:00,469
a benefit from it, especially with the Genius Act. That

1723
01:38:00,469 --> 01:38:03,339
seemed to be going towards, you know, the Wild West

1724
01:38:03,339 --> 01:38:05,599
of stablecoin and creating it. And the banks are like,

1725
01:38:05,599 --> 01:38:07,519
wait a minute, wait a minute. We got to put

1726
01:38:07,519 --> 01:38:10,809
a kibosh on some of this stuff and make sure

1727
01:38:10,809 --> 01:38:13,949
that we're making our money because we still – they're

1728
01:38:13,949 --> 01:38:16,799
trying to just say we're still important essentially and i

1729
01:38:16,799 --> 01:38:18,909
you know scott best and who knows what he's thinking

1730
01:38:18,909 --> 01:38:20,869
at this point he might be thinking you know i

1731
01:38:20,869 --> 01:38:24,659
came into the financial sector now i'm going to change

1732
01:38:24,659 --> 01:38:27,439
it in a way that is it can't be uh

1733
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:31,429
oh it can't easily be destroyed like it was you

1734
01:38:31,429 --> 01:38:35,519
know 2008. we have no choice we have no choice

1735
01:38:35,629 --> 01:38:39,119
And a lot of this, okay, blame it on Trump,

1736
01:38:39,119 --> 01:38:45,139
fine. This is COVID, the COVID trillions of dollars. This

1737
01:38:45,139 --> 01:38:47,839
is all the money that was printed to get us

1738
01:38:47,839 --> 01:38:50,569
out of the horror. You know, there was a lot

1739
01:38:50,569 --> 01:38:56,079
of problems with the overnight pandemic. uh, bank exchange, can't

1740
01:38:56,079 --> 01:38:57,999
come up with the number with the name of it

1741
01:38:57,999 --> 01:39:03,139
now. Um, uh during cove right before covet actually we

1742
01:39:03,139 --> 01:39:09,029
had the uh the collateral collateralized debt crisis of 2007

1743
01:39:09,029 --> 01:39:12,269
2008 i mean this is all the banks the banks

1744
01:39:12,269 --> 01:39:14,959
have been doing this for a year and of course

1745
01:39:14,959 --> 01:39:17,439
it goes back to 1971 we went off the gold

1746
01:39:17,439 --> 01:39:20,219
standard which you can say was the worst thing ever

1747
01:39:20,219 --> 01:39:23,649
on the other hand uh You know, it made America

1748
01:39:23,649 --> 01:39:26,539
very, very prosperous in a very short amount of time.

1749
01:39:26,599 --> 01:39:29,919
And then everybody got greedy and offshored everything to China

1750
01:39:29,919 --> 01:39:33,559
and to other countries. And, you know, I think with

1751
01:39:33,559 --> 01:39:38,759
the steel tariffs and American steel coming back. The Hamiltonian

1752
01:39:38,759 --> 01:39:42,529
system, the American system with tariffs and the tariffs are

1753
01:39:42,529 --> 01:39:46,879
coming right back. The 301 tariffs there. You literally decide

1754
01:39:46,879 --> 01:39:49,289
this. I think I have a I had a tariff

1755
01:39:49,289 --> 01:39:54,309
thing. I have a tariff thing. Let me see. Well,

1756
01:39:54,309 --> 01:39:56,599
and, you know, what it needs, what this type of

1757
01:39:56,599 --> 01:39:59,769
stuff does is it forces the Americans now to become

1758
01:39:59,769 --> 01:39:59,979
bad.

1759
01:40:00,101 --> 01:40:01,931
and participate because there's a lot of people who aren't

1760
01:40:01,931 --> 01:40:03,941
working anymore that just decided, hey, I'm not going to

1761
01:40:03,941 --> 01:40:05,951
work. I'm going to sponge off the government in one

1762
01:40:05,951 --> 01:40:08,291
way or another. And now it's with my parents. Yeah.

1763
01:40:08,291 --> 01:40:11,291
Now it's like, hey, here's the incentive, you know, become

1764
01:40:11,291 --> 01:40:14,811
an electrician, become a plumber, become a welder, you know,

1765
01:40:14,811 --> 01:40:18,321
all these jobs that are blue collar jobs, but I've

1766
01:40:18,321 --> 01:40:21,431
seen reports. There's a report on X there. They were

1767
01:40:21,431 --> 01:40:24,991
some parents were kind of embarrassed that their kid became

1768
01:40:24,991 --> 01:40:27,621
an electrician. And in three years, he was making two

1769
01:40:27,621 --> 01:40:31,231
hundred thousand dollars. Exactly. You know, so it's like now

1770
01:40:31,231 --> 01:40:34,431
they're not embarrassed. Now, like, oh, he's an electrician and

1771
01:40:34,431 --> 01:40:36,411
he owns several companies and he makes over a million

1772
01:40:36,411 --> 01:40:39,951
dollars a year. And remember, kids. Oh. That's right. All

1773
01:40:39,951 --> 01:40:42,021
hell is going to break loose and you're going to

1774
01:40:42,021 --> 01:40:46,251
need a Bitcoin. That's right. One Bitcoin. Just one. Just

1775
01:40:46,251 --> 01:40:49,571
one. What else you got here, Rob? What else did

1776
01:40:49,571 --> 01:40:53,121
you bring for us? Well, there's the whole beef situation

1777
01:40:53,121 --> 01:40:56,421
that happened on Friday with Trump saying we're going to

1778
01:40:56,421 --> 01:40:58,731
buy a bunch of beef. And then I think he

1779
01:40:58,731 --> 01:41:01,971
said beef product. Or somewhere along the way, someone goes,

1780
01:41:01,971 --> 01:41:06,211
what is beef product? I think it's – I believe

1781
01:41:06,211 --> 01:41:11,111
it's ground beef. It's going to be ground beef from

1782
01:41:11,111 --> 01:41:14,561
Argentina, where most of it will come from. He didn't

1783
01:41:14,561 --> 01:41:17,331
announce that in the beginning, but this seems like the

1784
01:41:17,331 --> 01:41:20,411
second big buy of beef that it's going to Argentina's

1785
01:41:20,411 --> 01:41:23,331
way. So there is some – Something going on between

1786
01:41:23,331 --> 01:41:26,731
us and Argentina, probably because he likes their president, the

1787
01:41:26,731 --> 01:41:32,001
chainsaw guy. Well, didn't we just do a big debt

1788
01:41:32,001 --> 01:41:37,171
swap with a money swap with Argentina? Right. Yeah. A

1789
01:41:37,171 --> 01:41:40,561
few months ago. Yeah. So we've been talking about this

1790
01:41:40,561 --> 01:41:44,031
for a while and already you've heard from Texas Slim.

1791
01:41:44,031 --> 01:41:48,231
Our beef comes from Argentina. Yeah. They take our good

1792
01:41:48,231 --> 01:41:52,851
beef and send it across the cleaners. Hey, Rob, you're

1793
01:41:52,851 --> 01:41:55,101
you got you got to stop the someone in your

1794
01:41:55,101 --> 01:41:59,341
house is on OnlyFans. Uh-oh. All right. Let's see. It's

1795
01:41:59,341 --> 01:42:03,711
fixed. It's working again. I'm killing windows as we speak.

1796
01:42:03,711 --> 01:42:06,771
There you go. I had five tabs open. Stop with

1797
01:42:06,771 --> 01:42:10,581
the Mac. Okay. This is your boots on the ground

1798
01:42:10,581 --> 01:42:14,651
cattle rancher? Well, let's go with Trump on Argentina beef,

1799
01:42:14,651 --> 01:42:16,051
and then we'll do the boots on the ground cattle

1800
01:42:16,051 --> 01:42:19,051
rancher. Okay. here we go question is what do you

1801
01:42:19,051 --> 01:42:21,521
have to say to us farmers who feel that the

1802
01:42:21,521 --> 01:42:24,991
deal is benefiting argentina more than it is them as

1803
01:42:24,991 --> 01:42:28,831
they are argentina is fighting for its life young lady

1804
01:42:28,831 --> 01:42:31,441
you don't know anything about it they're fighting for their

1805
01:42:31,441 --> 01:42:34,631
life nothing is benefiting argentina they're fighting for their life

1806
01:42:34,631 --> 01:42:37,211
you understand what that means they have no money they

1807
01:42:37,211 --> 01:42:40,211
have no anything they fighting so hard to survive if

1808
01:42:40,211 --> 01:42:42,821
i can help them survive in a free world i

1809
01:42:42,821 --> 01:42:46,191
happen to like the president of argentina i think he's

1810
01:42:46,191 --> 01:42:48,581
trying to do the best he can but don't make

1811
01:42:48,581 --> 01:42:51,441
it sound like they're doing great they are dying all

1812
01:42:51,441 --> 01:42:53,801
right they're dying what do you mean by wow i

1813
01:42:53,801 --> 01:42:56,471
hadn't heard that clip Yeah, that was on the plane.

1814
01:42:56,471 --> 01:42:58,731
It was cleaned up very nicely, too, because I've heard

1815
01:42:58,731 --> 01:43:01,091
other clips and I didn't I didn't do any cleanup

1816
01:43:01,091 --> 01:43:02,961
on it. I heard that. I'm like, somebody did some

1817
01:43:02,961 --> 01:43:05,551
processing on this. Good work. It's a good job. Good

1818
01:43:05,551 --> 01:43:07,601
work. There's lots of. So now we go to the

1819
01:43:07,601 --> 01:43:10,471
cattle rancher, which starts off with a great. I didn't

1820
01:43:10,471 --> 01:43:12,391
keep all the Nat pop in there, but he's got

1821
01:43:12,391 --> 01:43:15,111
an you're in a field. And he's in front of

1822
01:43:15,111 --> 01:43:18,911
cattle. Brr! Probably like 30 head of cattle. And he's

1823
01:43:18,911 --> 01:43:22,311
talking about it from his perspective about this deal. Well,

1824
01:43:22,311 --> 01:43:25,401
let's talk about it real quick. Right out of the

1825
01:43:25,401 --> 01:43:28,951
gate this morning, we've got an announcement from the administration

1826
01:43:28,951 --> 01:43:36,341
about cattle, beef prices. They're going to import... a bunch

1827
01:43:36,341 --> 01:43:41,551
more boxed beef, ground beef, scrap cuts, that's what I

1828
01:43:41,551 --> 01:43:45,821
call them, and hopefully bring down the price of ground

1829
01:43:45,821 --> 01:43:51,191
beef in the store for y'all. We've seen a market

1830
01:43:51,191 --> 01:43:57,391
crash. for live cattle live cattle that people like myself

1831
01:43:57,391 --> 01:44:02,131
grow and take to the processing plants or go down

1832
01:44:02,131 --> 01:44:07,551
through the system that's dropped 40 cents a pound already

1833
01:44:07,551 --> 01:44:11,621
just from that plant closure now this morning the markets

1834
01:44:11,621 --> 01:44:18,491
are crashing and But will your price change? So far,

1835
01:44:18,491 --> 01:44:21,331
we have not seen that. We have not seen that.

1836
01:44:21,331 --> 01:44:25,131
And at what expense to you? I'll tell you what

1837
01:44:25,131 --> 01:44:29,481
expense to you. This is the opposite of what needs

1838
01:44:29,481 --> 01:44:34,141
to happen. We're not gonna retain heifers and build a

1839
01:44:34,141 --> 01:44:37,641
herd when we can have, you know, the stroke of

1840
01:44:37,641 --> 01:44:40,671
a pen drop our price to where we don't make

1841
01:44:40,671 --> 01:44:45,851
a profit anymore. And honestly, that's where we stand. We

1842
01:44:45,851 --> 01:44:48,581
finally begun to make a profit and all hell breaks

1843
01:44:48,581 --> 01:44:53,191
loose. People can't handle it. You know, I guess because

1844
01:44:53,191 --> 01:44:55,631
because beef is high in the store. I get it.

1845
01:44:55,671 --> 01:44:59,401
Beef is high in the store. Look at what else

1846
01:44:59,401 --> 01:45:02,501
is high in the store. Look at what's high for

1847
01:45:02,501 --> 01:45:08,001
the rancher and the producer. Fuel, land, labor, all of

1848
01:45:08,001 --> 01:45:14,161
it. You know, you got a $9 latte, but... $7,

1849
01:45:14,161 --> 01:45:16,761
$8, $9 a pound for ground beef is too much,

1850
01:45:16,761 --> 01:45:19,801
right? Now you're going to get stuck with shitty ground

1851
01:45:19,801 --> 01:45:25,031
beef. Trust me. And we won't rebuild the herd, and

1852
01:45:25,031 --> 01:45:28,301
you're going to lose more ranchers, and in the long

1853
01:45:28,301 --> 01:45:32,911
run, You're going to lose everything. because where there are

1854
01:45:32,911 --> 01:45:39,571
cattle, there is freedom. And when these disappear... So does

1855
01:45:39,571 --> 01:45:43,331
your freedom. I don't think this is going to work

1856
01:45:43,331 --> 01:45:46,591
out like they hope. Okay, I have a couple thoughts

1857
01:45:46,591 --> 01:45:50,111
about this. What do you have? Well, I think probably

1858
01:45:50,111 --> 01:45:52,601
in the short term it's going to drop prices a

1859
01:45:52,601 --> 01:45:56,571
little bit, but I think he's right overall. We're having

1860
01:45:56,571 --> 01:45:59,331
that Tyson – it was the Tyson plant that closed.

1861
01:45:59,731 --> 01:46:02,351
There's a monopoly on the processing, which is where most

1862
01:46:02,351 --> 01:46:05,281
of the high prices come from. Three companies, none of

1863
01:46:05,281 --> 01:46:08,811
them Americans. Yeah, three companies. Exactly. That's the problem right

1864
01:46:08,811 --> 01:46:11,161
there. You want, you know, a Clarity Act for beef

1865
01:46:11,161 --> 01:46:14,191
wouldn't be bad. Hey, we're going to have, you know,

1866
01:46:14,191 --> 01:46:16,621
it's U.S. we're going to we're going to create U.S.

1867
01:46:16,621 --> 01:46:20,181
beef and, you know, are funded or or something to

1868
01:46:20,181 --> 01:46:22,531
get a U.S. company in there or kick out the

1869
01:46:22,531 --> 01:46:25,071
other companies. And then you get all these local and

1870
01:46:25,071 --> 01:46:28,911
allow people to locally produce it. Yes. And render beef.

1871
01:46:29,131 --> 01:46:31,321
But I think he's right. In the short term, it's

1872
01:46:31,321 --> 01:46:34,111
going to drop prices. And will it de-incentivize people to

1873
01:46:34,111 --> 01:46:37,541
become cattle ranchers? That I don't know. Well, there's a

1874
01:46:37,541 --> 01:46:41,001
couple things. And, of course, I've spoken with Texas Slim

1875
01:46:41,001 --> 01:46:43,561
for five years about this. He was here not too

1876
01:46:43,561 --> 01:46:46,481
late. He was... He was pretty ill. We were getting

1877
01:46:46,481 --> 01:46:48,961
him some medical help, and he came through here. He

1878
01:46:48,961 --> 01:46:51,751
stayed overnight. And I've got to tell you, he was

1879
01:46:51,751 --> 01:46:55,851
definitely not doing well. He's coming back strong now, thank

1880
01:46:55,851 --> 01:47:01,961
God. Yeah. And, you know, what's really happened, the ranchers

1881
01:47:01,961 --> 01:47:05,011
have a hand in this too. Maybe not this rancher.

1882
01:47:05,191 --> 01:47:08,351
And there's many ranchers all around the country who are

1883
01:47:08,351 --> 01:47:12,851
going back to their roots, regenerative and have processing. You

1884
01:47:12,851 --> 01:47:16,531
can do processing. You can do processing, but you can't

1885
01:47:16,531 --> 01:47:18,901
sell it in a store. You can sell it from

1886
01:47:18,901 --> 01:47:22,411
your process. So you have hometown meats, formerly known as

1887
01:47:22,411 --> 01:47:25,841
K&C Cattle in Luling. Yep. That's where I've gotten from

1888
01:47:25,841 --> 01:47:28,961
there several times. And Cole does all of his, you

1889
01:47:28,961 --> 01:47:32,121
know, he's his own geneticist. You know, he knows what

1890
01:47:32,121 --> 01:47:37,681
he's breeding. He's got fantastic cows. And they process, they

1891
01:47:37,681 --> 01:47:41,531
got, and that's another skill, I might add, that we

1892
01:47:41,531 --> 01:47:45,591
need people who can cut. this is a very you

1893
01:47:45,591 --> 01:47:48,421
know if if you can if you can learn how

1894
01:47:48,421 --> 01:47:50,961
to cut beef you've got a long future ahead of

1895
01:47:50,961 --> 01:47:54,411
you so that's another thing pork sheep chicken any you

1896
01:47:54,411 --> 01:47:57,011
know any of that just cutters are very very hard

1897
01:47:57,011 --> 01:47:59,531
to come by because you know people aren't interested in

1898
01:47:59,531 --> 01:48:03,661
those jobs but they're well paid now so he's feeding

1899
01:48:03,661 --> 01:48:07,771
his community And that community includes you and Driftwood, includes

1900
01:48:07,771 --> 01:48:11,711
me and Fredericksburg. And, you know, we've had one of

1901
01:48:11,711 --> 01:48:16,301
their military vets who'll come out and we'll pool all

1902
01:48:16,301 --> 01:48:19,611
of our neighbors together. You know, they just bring us

1903
01:48:19,611 --> 01:48:22,991
cash. And then they bring the boxes in one go

1904
01:48:22,991 --> 01:48:25,471
because, you know, the shipping is where everybody gets killed

1905
01:48:25,471 --> 01:48:27,911
and where it gets very expensive. And they bring it

1906
01:48:27,911 --> 01:48:31,101
from their own processing plant. It's local. You got the

1907
01:48:31,101 --> 01:48:35,591
same with the guys down there in Georgia. He actually

1908
01:48:35,591 --> 01:48:39,011
has an entire town that is a part of this.

1909
01:48:38,911 --> 01:48:42,421
So that system works. But a lot of these cattlemen

1910
01:48:42,421 --> 01:48:47,061
have really just become commodity cowboys. And they just know

1911
01:48:47,061 --> 01:48:50,731
I got to put twelve hundred dollars worth of Cheerios

1912
01:48:50,731 --> 01:48:53,531
in this in this animal. And I like this guy

1913
01:48:53,531 --> 01:48:55,891
was saying, I take it off live animals and I

1914
01:48:55,891 --> 01:48:58,061
take it off and send it to the processing plant

1915
01:48:58,061 --> 01:49:01,631
who control the price. And the Justice Department is now

1916
01:49:01,631 --> 01:49:05,251
going after price fixing between these these big processing plants.

1917
01:49:05,251 --> 01:49:08,391
So there is work being done. And there was absolutely

1918
01:49:08,391 --> 01:49:13,141
price fixing. The price of cattle was incredibly high. That's

1919
01:49:13,141 --> 01:49:16,751
why these guys have been making out. They've been selling

1920
01:49:16,751 --> 01:49:20,221
selling cows that were really too young to even to

1921
01:49:20,221 --> 01:49:22,791
even sell. Because they just want to make money. A

1922
01:49:22,791 --> 01:49:27,011
lot of the younger generation is not interested in farming

1923
01:49:27,011 --> 01:49:30,061
or ranching. They're not interested in it. It's too much

1924
01:49:30,061 --> 01:49:33,371
work. So we're going to have to come up with

1925
01:49:33,371 --> 01:49:37,941
some incentives for people to do it. This, here's the

1926
01:49:37,941 --> 01:49:44,631
biggest part. The education about beef, ground beef in particular,

1927
01:49:44,631 --> 01:49:50,211
is so poor. I mean, if a single mom with

1928
01:49:50,211 --> 01:49:54,551
two kids can go so much further with her money

1929
01:49:54,551 --> 01:49:59,991
on ground beef, making good nutritious food and meals,

1930
01:50:00,053 --> 01:50:03,663
for her kids than anything else in the supermarket. All

1931
01:50:03,663 --> 01:50:08,603
of this colored nonsense, sugary crap, which is actually killing

1932
01:50:08,603 --> 01:50:12,323
her kids, that education part, and it's not like the

1933
01:50:12,323 --> 01:50:15,433
supermarkets are going to help you, that is the big

1934
01:50:15,433 --> 01:50:18,653
missing piece, which I'd kind of hope Maha and RFK

1935
01:50:18,653 --> 01:50:20,743
Jr. would do a lot better at. I don't see

1936
01:50:20,743 --> 01:50:25,123
it. Um, because you, I mean, you can make meatloaf,

1937
01:50:25,123 --> 01:50:27,373
you can make, you can make hamburgers, you can make

1938
01:50:27,373 --> 01:50:29,793
meatballs. I mean, there's so much that you can do

1939
01:50:29,793 --> 01:50:32,323
with just ground beef. Mix it with a little pasta.

1940
01:50:32,903 --> 01:50:37,733
Yeah. Unfortunately, this is an affordability midterm move that is

1941
01:50:37,733 --> 01:50:40,633
being done here. I agree with the cowboy. This is

1942
01:50:40,633 --> 01:50:44,813
going to be much less quality beef than American beef,

1943
01:50:44,813 --> 01:50:50,593
certainly Texas beef. But it's an education problem. People just

1944
01:50:50,593 --> 01:50:53,563
don't really know what's going on. But if you go

1945
01:50:53,563 --> 01:50:57,983
to beef.com, I think Slim got beef.com. Hold on, let

1946
01:50:57,983 --> 01:51:01,043
me check. I don't know how. This guy's amazing. Well,

1947
01:51:01,043 --> 01:51:03,703
and I've used K&C. It used to be K&C, and

1948
01:51:03,703 --> 01:51:06,513
I think you still type in K&C, and it takes

1949
01:51:06,513 --> 01:51:09,263
you to their website. But there's also, I met a

1950
01:51:09,263 --> 01:51:12,883
guy who I was buying beef from him. Because he's

1951
01:51:12,883 --> 01:51:16,123
at the farmer's market. His name's Ray, and he sends

1952
01:51:16,123 --> 01:51:19,573
me Bible verses every morning. Oh, nice. Great guy. 6.30

1953
01:51:19,573 --> 01:51:22,223
a.m., boom, new Bible verse every day. He's like, you

1954
01:51:22,223 --> 01:51:23,303
want to put you on the list? I'm like, yes,

1955
01:51:23,303 --> 01:51:24,283
put me on the list. I got a couple of

1956
01:51:24,283 --> 01:51:27,523
those guys, too. I love those guys. It's great. You

1957
01:51:27,523 --> 01:51:31,153
get something to think about every morning before you get

1958
01:51:31,153 --> 01:51:34,473
up and run around. But they have... There's a Wagyu

1959
01:51:34,473 --> 01:51:37,473
herd out in Bastrop. And man, these are some of

1960
01:51:37,473 --> 01:51:40,373
the best steaks I've ever had. It was like 40

1961
01:51:40,373 --> 01:51:43,783
bucks a steak for a Wagyu, which you're not going

1962
01:51:43,783 --> 01:51:46,133
to get anywhere else like that. And you get to

1963
01:51:46,133 --> 01:51:49,383
cook it the way you want. So go to beefmaps.com.

1964
01:51:49,443 --> 01:51:53,103
I think the beef.com deal fell through. Go to beefmaps.com.

1965
01:51:53,373 --> 01:51:56,923
Find your rancher, taste the difference, go there yourself. There

1966
01:51:56,923 --> 01:52:00,363
it is. Drive, drive to your rancher, say howdy. Show

1967
01:52:00,363 --> 01:52:02,343
me, and look at the cow you're going to eat.

1968
01:52:02,643 --> 01:52:05,223
That was so cool when I took Tina to KNC

1969
01:52:05,223 --> 01:52:08,073
Cattle. And we went with Cole in the truck out

1970
01:52:08,073 --> 01:52:10,383
of the pasture and he like honks his horn and

1971
01:52:10,383 --> 01:52:13,083
the cows like I'll come running over because they think

1972
01:52:13,083 --> 01:52:16,523
they're getting fed. And Tina's like, how they're so cute.

1973
01:52:16,983 --> 01:52:20,013
Oh, I'm going to eat him. Yes, you're going to

1974
01:52:20,013 --> 01:52:22,573
eat him. Or her. It's going to be good. It's

1975
01:52:22,573 --> 01:52:25,133
going to be good. You're going to love it. Support

1976
01:52:25,133 --> 01:52:28,983
these guys. Your price will be good, and these guys

1977
01:52:28,983 --> 01:52:34,103
will support. We got Steiner. I think it's Steiner Ranch,

1978
01:52:34,103 --> 01:52:37,183
which is here in – I know the Steiners. Oh,

1979
01:52:37,183 --> 01:52:40,303
you do? Shotguns with Shane Steiner. So they have a

1980
01:52:40,303 --> 01:52:43,133
ranch down on, I want to say, is it 16,

1981
01:52:43,133 --> 01:52:47,133
Route 16? And you go online, and we order our

1982
01:52:47,133 --> 01:52:51,003
ground beef from them. We love their ground beef. And

1983
01:52:51,003 --> 01:52:54,683
they're much more local than coal. uh and our um

1984
01:52:54,683 --> 01:52:57,863
uh our brisket from them and we got a hump

1985
01:52:57,863 --> 01:53:01,383
the other have you ever had hump oh no that's

1986
01:53:01,383 --> 01:53:04,153
the hump on the back right yeah yeah it's the

1987
01:53:04,153 --> 01:53:07,143
hump it's just a roast yeah we ordered a hump

1988
01:53:07,143 --> 01:53:10,403
and uh And the guy comes up the same day

1989
01:53:10,403 --> 01:53:13,563
with his Yeti cooler. Hey, hey, Mr. and Mrs. Curry,

1990
01:53:13,563 --> 01:53:15,453
I'll put it in the freezer for you. He'll take

1991
01:53:15,453 --> 01:53:19,033
cash. He'll take a check. Wow. It's amazing. I love

1992
01:53:19,033 --> 01:53:21,733
it. The first time I got it delivered, the guy

1993
01:53:21,733 --> 01:53:24,243
shows up. And I'm getting my order. And he goes,

1994
01:53:24,243 --> 01:53:25,703
hey, I got some more in the back if you

1995
01:53:25,703 --> 01:53:27,383
want to check it out. I said, yeah, let's check

1996
01:53:27,383 --> 01:53:28,993
it out. He's like a drug dealer. You know, it's

1997
01:53:28,993 --> 01:53:31,543
like, you want more New York strip? He'll give you

1998
01:53:31,543 --> 01:53:33,603
a deal on this. He's like, you got cash? I

1999
01:53:33,603 --> 01:53:36,283
got cash. I think I bought that. I bought chorizo.

2000
01:53:36,523 --> 01:53:38,773
I bought another $100 worth of stuff. I'm like, sure,

2001
01:53:38,773 --> 01:53:41,223
let's go. I mean, it lasts forever. We buy a

2002
01:53:41,223 --> 01:53:46,343
couple hundred dollars worth of steaks. And I think $100

2003
01:53:46,343 --> 01:53:49,613
worth of ground beef for the whole month or maybe

2004
01:53:49,613 --> 01:53:52,883
five weeks. And we have people over for dinner. We

2005
01:53:52,883 --> 01:53:56,663
basically eat beef or almost carnivore. I have a potato.

2006
01:53:57,703 --> 01:54:03,723
Tina might have a salad. But we basically eat beef

2007
01:54:03,723 --> 01:54:09,123
every single day. And I'm feeling good. We're healthy. We're

2008
01:54:09,123 --> 01:54:12,703
still tall. We have friends over. And if you go

2009
01:54:12,703 --> 01:54:16,043
to the grocery store, if you go to HEB, you

2010
01:54:16,043 --> 01:54:20,603
can't get away for under $100 for anything. It's ridiculous.

2011
01:54:21,523 --> 01:54:24,903
We bought one of those. Big roast, a Costco roast

2012
01:54:24,903 --> 01:54:26,963
that you then slice your own steaks out of. Yeah.

2013
01:54:27,063 --> 01:54:28,963
Man, and that's the way to go, too. If you're

2014
01:54:28,963 --> 01:54:31,563
a steak eater, go buy one of these big roasts.

2015
01:54:31,623 --> 01:54:33,543
Get them from a local guy if you can. But

2016
01:54:33,543 --> 01:54:36,613
even Costco, I think we paid $200 for it, and

2017
01:54:36,613 --> 01:54:39,323
I got, I don't know, 18 steaks out of it.

2018
01:54:39,553 --> 01:54:42,713
yeah that's that so that makes that math maths the

2019
01:54:42,713 --> 01:54:46,163
affordability crisis is also part of just what we're doing

2020
01:54:46,163 --> 01:54:49,963
the cowboy is right $9 latte. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

2021
01:54:50,043 --> 01:54:52,903
Okay. Well, there you go. It depends on what you

2022
01:54:52,903 --> 01:54:56,153
want to spend your money on. Here's the Agriculture Secretary

2023
01:54:56,153 --> 01:54:59,503
of Rollins. This morning, President Trump announced a new plan

2024
01:54:59,503 --> 01:55:04,223
to import 300,000 tons of ground beef into the U.S.

2025
01:55:04,223 --> 01:55:07,133
with lower tariffs. It's a decision that he and Secretary

2026
01:55:07,133 --> 01:55:11,143
of Agriculture Brooke Rollins... and says will help lower prices.

2027
01:55:11,383 --> 01:55:14,443
But the Iowa Cattlemen's Association says it's going to hurt

2028
01:55:14,443 --> 01:55:17,733
more than it will help. KCCI's Abigail Curtin spoke with

2029
01:55:17,733 --> 01:55:20,843
both of them to learn what's at stake for purchasers

2030
01:55:20,843 --> 01:55:25,583
and producers. Ground beef. It's a protein staple in millions

2031
01:55:25,583 --> 01:55:29,973
of American households. But since January 2025, the price has

2032
01:55:29,973 --> 01:55:35,733
jumped 24%. President Trump is hoping to change this. Friday

2033
01:55:35,733 --> 01:55:39,673
morning, he announced he'd allow 300,000 metric tons of ground

2034
01:55:39,673 --> 01:55:42,313
beef to be imported with lower tariffs over the next

2035
01:55:42,313 --> 01:55:43,923
90 days. In a visit today, he's going to be

2036
01:55:43,923 --> 01:55:45,273
able to change this. According to the Iowa State Fair,

2037
01:55:45,273 --> 01:55:48,533
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says this will take

2038
01:55:48,533 --> 01:55:51,463
some of the burden off of consumers' wallets. We can

2039
01:55:51,463 --> 01:55:56,023
get a 25 percent decrease for families, usually lower income

2040
01:55:56,023 --> 01:56:00,993
families rely on ground beef than he wanted to. make

2041
01:56:00,993 --> 01:56:04,693
that move for the American consumer. Yes, exactly. By the

2042
01:56:04,693 --> 01:56:07,003
way, thank you, Troll Room. Yes, I know Pastor Jimmy

2043
01:56:07,003 --> 01:56:10,423
says no potato. We had dinner at Pastor Jimmy in

2044
01:56:10,423 --> 01:56:14,643
Annette's house last night, and he made some awesome steaks.

2045
01:56:15,403 --> 01:56:19,953
And then Annette made, gosh, she made potato for me

2046
01:56:19,953 --> 01:56:25,353
and had a... croissant gingerbread cookies like oh so why

2047
01:56:25,353 --> 01:56:29,003
does he say no potato that's interesting he's carnivore he's

2048
01:56:29,003 --> 01:56:30,993
okay he said oh he just has no potato and

2049
01:56:30,993 --> 01:56:33,343
chips no carbs no carbs but hey we talk about

2050
01:56:33,343 --> 01:56:35,173
this on we get to do this the hit new

2051
01:56:35,173 --> 01:56:39,603
podcast from adam curry and pastor jimmy wgtdt.com go check

2052
01:56:39,603 --> 01:56:42,503
it out everybody if you want your jesus If you

2053
01:56:42,503 --> 01:56:44,463
want to get your Jesus on with us, check it

2054
01:56:44,463 --> 01:56:46,203
out. Have you ever listened to the show? I have

2055
01:56:46,203 --> 01:56:48,203
not listened to that one. I will give it a

2056
01:56:48,203 --> 01:56:50,093
listen. All right, there will be a test. Are you

2057
01:56:50,093 --> 01:56:52,133
going to come on again soon, brother? I love it

2058
01:56:52,133 --> 01:56:55,783
when you're on the show. I think this next week,

2059
01:56:55,983 --> 01:56:59,593
I'll be in New Orleans and Lafayette playing with my

2060
01:56:59,593 --> 01:57:01,913
band. I got back into playing music because now my

2061
01:57:01,913 --> 01:57:04,073
kids are old enough to not need me around at

2062
01:57:04,073 --> 01:57:06,763
all. Wait a minute, what about Alex? Doesn't Alex need

2063
01:57:06,763 --> 01:57:09,353
you around? Oh, he needs me around, but it's a

2064
01:57:09,353 --> 01:57:12,773
weekend thing, but the kids are like, yeah, you don't

2065
01:57:12,773 --> 01:57:15,423
need the kids. The kids are like, Yeah, we're fine.

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01:57:15,423 --> 01:57:18,123
We're good. Just fix this when we break something. What's

2067
01:57:18,123 --> 01:57:20,843
the name of the band? Are you on Spotify? You

2068
01:57:20,843 --> 01:57:23,413
know, we don't have anything on Spotify yet. Good. We

2069
01:57:23,413 --> 01:57:27,533
have a lot of live recordings out. The name of

2070
01:57:27,533 --> 01:57:31,833
the band is Ross Mundy, R-A-S-M-U-N-D-I. And we're like a

2071
01:57:31,833 --> 01:57:35,423
reggae, hip hop, funk band. But when I say hip

2072
01:57:35,423 --> 01:57:38,903
hop, it's like old school hip hop. But it's conscious.

2073
01:57:39,803 --> 01:57:45,053
You know, we're pro-humanity. and you know pro-humanity yeah what

2074
01:57:45,053 --> 01:57:47,163
kind of what kind of band is this i know

2075
01:57:47,163 --> 01:57:49,933
we're not pro system that's for sure but you know

2076
01:57:49,933 --> 01:57:52,033
we got a south by gig this last year we

2077
01:57:52,033 --> 01:57:55,053
got into the reggae festival which by voting in and

2078
01:57:55,053 --> 01:57:57,823
it would just good things keep happening to us and

2079
01:57:57,823 --> 01:58:00,553
i wouldn't nice you know i wouldn't say it's in

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01:58:00,553 --> 01:58:04,063
terms of talent level it's not the highest talent level

2081
01:58:04,063 --> 01:58:06,653
but everybody gives it their go and we really do

2082
01:58:06,653 --> 01:58:08,523
put on a good show and we play you know

2083
01:58:08,523 --> 01:58:11,033
we'll play for two or three hours and just holy

2084
01:58:11,033 --> 01:58:13,863
crap you know get people get people moving and it's

2085
01:58:13,863 --> 01:58:16,193
uh that's where it's at do you have merch do

2086
01:58:16,193 --> 01:58:18,913
you have merch You know, we haven't even gotten into

2087
01:58:18,913 --> 01:58:22,803
merch yet. We're literally, things keep, we barely even have

2088
01:58:22,803 --> 01:58:26,803
our album recorded. Are you paying the venue to play?

2089
01:58:27,303 --> 01:58:30,063
No, they're paying us. Yeah, we're not doing that. We're

2090
01:58:30,063 --> 01:58:32,103
not doing that, but we're going to be in New

2091
01:58:32,103 --> 01:58:34,863
Orleans for a couple days playing some, it's like a

2092
01:58:34,863 --> 01:58:38,303
South by Southwest for New Orleans. Oh, wow. That type

2093
01:58:38,303 --> 01:58:41,263
of event. And then we're coming back and going to

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01:58:41,263 --> 01:58:43,003
hit – we're in the midst of – there's a

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01:58:43,003 --> 01:58:45,433
rave going to go on in Lafayette. And we're going

2096
01:58:45,433 --> 01:58:47,993
to be in the middle. We're sandwiched in between all

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01:58:47,993 --> 01:58:50,663
the DJs. So where are you playing? On Thursday, you

2098
01:58:50,663 --> 01:58:53,723
said? At Thursday, we're going to be at a hotel

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01:58:53,723 --> 01:58:56,073
ballroom. I don't – You know what? I'll tweet it

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01:58:56,073 --> 01:58:58,683
out so people can see it on X. But the

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01:58:58,683 --> 01:59:03,713
place we're playing in Lafayette is called the Boom Boom

2102
01:59:03,713 --> 01:59:10,723
Room, the Freetown Boom Boom Room. Yeah. RasmundiMusic.com, I believe,

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01:59:10,723 --> 01:59:13,743
is the website. That'll get you to a lot of

2104
01:59:13,743 --> 01:59:17,743
things. Like, we're very, you know, we don't have, like,

2105
01:59:17,743 --> 01:59:21,563
no one's super concerned about, we do the online stuff,

2106
01:59:21,563 --> 01:59:23,893
we make the videos, we put stuff out, but we're

2107
01:59:23,893 --> 01:59:26,913
mainly just word of mouth. You know, people show up

2108
01:59:26,913 --> 01:59:29,583
to our gigs because they've heard us before. Yeah. Or,

2109
01:59:29,583 --> 01:59:33,663
you know, it just happens. It's all happening because we

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01:59:33,663 --> 01:59:35,823
have the intention to go out and play good music.

2111
01:59:36,023 --> 01:59:37,463
So that's where it's at. Is it the Boom Boom

2112
01:59:37,463 --> 01:59:39,423
Room this Thursday? Is that where it is? No, that's

2113
01:59:39,423 --> 01:59:42,703
Saturday. Saturday the 29th. Yeah, the Freetown Boom Boom Room.

2114
01:59:42,883 --> 01:59:44,733
And the other stuff, I'd have to dig through my

2115
01:59:44,733 --> 01:59:46,553
phone. I have it on there. But we'll be in

2116
01:59:46,553 --> 01:59:50,693
New Orleans. Thursday and Friday and then Saturday in Lafayette

2117
01:59:50,693 --> 01:59:53,793
which is that's the heart of Cajun country yeah if

2118
01:59:53,793 --> 01:59:57,173
you're a Cajun person out there okay so I'll have

2119
01:59:57,173 --> 01:59:59,923
to find a a

2120
02:00:00,029 --> 02:00:02,359
Good replacement. It's going to be hard. Replacement for Thursday.

2121
02:00:02,559 --> 02:00:06,959
Sunday, I'm going to be in. We're going to Rotterdam.

2122
02:00:07,539 --> 02:00:10,819
Oh, nice. To finally visit my granddaughter, who is now.

2123
02:00:11,079 --> 02:00:15,289
Yay. She's now almost five weeks old. Next Sunday, or

2124
02:00:15,289 --> 02:00:21,019
this coming Sunday. Uh, Jason Calacanis will be a guest

2125
02:00:21,019 --> 02:00:24,459
hosting with me. Okay. Do you know J-Cow? Jason Cowell.

2126
02:00:24,459 --> 02:00:27,889
Well, I saw he was boasting about the new cancer

2127
02:00:27,889 --> 02:00:31,219
mRNA vaccine and how it's a great thing for humanity.

2128
02:00:31,599 --> 02:00:34,879
It's an outstanding product. Yeah, he was definitely promoting that.

2129
02:00:34,979 --> 02:00:37,899
I'm like, who is J-Cow? Is his name J-Cow or

2130
02:00:37,899 --> 02:00:41,239
is it just Jason? At Jason. At Jason. Yeah, I've

2131
02:00:41,239 --> 02:00:45,159
known Jason since the 90s in – in New York

2132
02:00:45,159 --> 02:00:48,629
was called Silicon Alley. John knew him very well. We

2133
02:00:48,629 --> 02:00:51,539
used to make fun of him all the time. He

2134
02:00:51,539 --> 02:00:54,259
got rid of that list, by the way. And now

2135
02:00:54,259 --> 02:00:57,759
he does this podcast, which I think is, I'm sure

2136
02:00:57,759 --> 02:01:01,479
it's on an RSS feed, but it's a big YouTube

2137
02:01:01,479 --> 02:01:05,419
deal. um with uh he's got all these uh silicon

2138
02:01:05,419 --> 02:01:09,919
valley dudes on including uh david sacks who was the

2139
02:01:09,919 --> 02:01:13,929
crypto slash ai czar for president trump for a couple

2140
02:01:13,929 --> 02:01:18,199
months there and it's a it's very i love watching

2141
02:01:18,199 --> 02:01:21,659
it and but jason calacanis he's a nice guy he's

2142
02:01:21,879 --> 02:01:25,079
I'm pretty sure he has a knighthood for the show,

2143
02:01:25,079 --> 02:01:27,929
but he's probably never claimed it. He's always supported the

2144
02:01:27,929 --> 02:01:30,589
show. He's always been very encouraging. And I said, hey,

2145
02:01:30,589 --> 02:01:33,499
man, you should come on the show. He says, well,

2146
02:01:33,499 --> 02:01:35,989
I can't do Thursdays because that's when they record their

2147
02:01:35,989 --> 02:01:38,979
own podcast. But he'd come on Sunday. So that should

2148
02:01:38,979 --> 02:01:42,249
be fun. I have not spoken. He's in Texas now,

2149
02:01:42,249 --> 02:01:44,359
too. He's out by you. I think he's out in

2150
02:01:44,359 --> 02:01:46,819
Driftwood area. Out in Driftwood area? Yeah, I think so.

2151
02:01:46,899 --> 02:01:49,519
I think so. So I'll find somebody for Thursday. Well,

2152
02:01:49,519 --> 02:01:53,579
I do love a good lisp. Yes, you would. I

2153
02:01:53,579 --> 02:01:56,459
got a John JCD story real quick. One of my

2154
02:01:56,459 --> 02:01:58,909
favorite moments was I was doing this thing called the

2155
02:01:58,909 --> 02:02:01,719
tyrannical lisp, which was – Oh, I remember that. Yeah,

2156
02:02:01,719 --> 02:02:04,099
the WHO. You might have some of those. Wait, wait.

2157
02:02:04,099 --> 02:02:09,669
I almost think a tyrannical, hold on, tyrannical. It's been

2158
02:02:09,669 --> 02:02:17,509
misspelled. It's tyrannical lisp. 1A, tyrannical lisp. T-Y-R. Here we

2159
02:02:17,509 --> 02:02:23,769
go. This is Paris' first zero-carbon neighborhood. In Ilofetil, or

2160
02:02:23,769 --> 02:02:29,359
Fertile Island, four buildings surround a central garden. Within this

2161
02:02:29,359 --> 02:02:34,859
small locality, you can live, work, shop, or play sports.

2162
02:02:35,459 --> 02:02:37,649
It's built on a one- But you've had a lot

2163
02:02:37,649 --> 02:02:39,979
of fun. lot of these, man. This is amazing. I

2164
02:02:39,979 --> 02:02:43,339
did a lot of them, yeah. I was always... Tyranny

2165
02:02:43,339 --> 02:02:45,909
will come to your door in a lisp. Here it

2166
02:02:45,909 --> 02:02:49,699
is. We are entering the era of the megalopolis. Yeah.

2167
02:02:49,759 --> 02:02:54,199
No, it's not a dinosaur. Cities around the world are

2168
02:02:54,199 --> 02:02:59,549
merging. And a classic one. IKEA is experimenting with insect

2169
02:02:59,549 --> 02:03:04,199
meatballs. Meatballs. To make people think about how much meat

2170
02:03:04,199 --> 02:03:09,169
they eat. And encourage people to try alternative proteins. The

2171
02:03:09,169 --> 02:03:13,939
new mealworm meatballs are developed by Space Ken. Oh, man.

2172
02:03:14,539 --> 02:03:17,619
Classic, classic. And John Lowe, at one point he'd be

2173
02:03:17,619 --> 02:03:21,459
saying, I really like that tyrannical lisp. I'm like, awesome.

2174
02:03:21,459 --> 02:03:24,239
He did. That was made by Heart Warm that you

2175
02:03:24,239 --> 02:03:27,849
could get a reaction out of JCD. All right, my

2176
02:03:27,849 --> 02:03:29,789
brother. I'm going to let you go. I'm going to

2177
02:03:29,789 --> 02:03:32,619
do a bit more here. Do the housekeeping. Yeah, well,

2178
02:03:32,619 --> 02:03:34,859
we have the Order of the Ant, which I will

2179
02:03:34,859 --> 02:03:36,789
make sure you are a member of the Order of

2180
02:03:36,789 --> 02:03:40,679
the Ant. It's this fantastic new pin that we have.

2181
02:03:40,699 --> 02:03:41,709
I saw that. Yeah, it looks like it. Oh, I

2182
02:03:41,709 --> 02:03:44,059
saw the rendering of the pin. Yes. It's going to

2183
02:03:44,059 --> 02:03:46,319
be beautiful. It's going to be beautiful. It's a great

2184
02:03:46,319 --> 02:03:49,629
idea. Definitely a great idea for that. So, yeah, I

2185
02:03:49,629 --> 02:03:53,499
hope everybody continues to donate and keeps donating. We've got

2186
02:03:53,499 --> 02:03:56,499
to keep no agenda going. And, you know, because the

2187
02:03:56,499 --> 02:03:59,779
mission is not done, right? The mission is not done.

2188
02:03:59,799 --> 02:04:02,029
The mission is never done, as they say. All right,

2189
02:04:02,029 --> 02:04:04,779
everybody. Rob Dew, known as Sir Dusifer. Thank you, brother.

2190
02:04:04,859 --> 02:04:06,319
We'll probably see you in a week or so. Hope

2191
02:04:06,319 --> 02:04:08,479
to have you back on. Yeah, find me on X

2192
02:04:08,479 --> 02:04:12,179
at Deuce News, D-E-W-S-N-E-W-Z, and I will see you guys

2193
02:04:12,179 --> 02:04:15,529
on the next time. Dear producers, thank you for everybody

2194
02:04:15,529 --> 02:04:20,079
jumping in. You ready to enlist? Buzzkill been at war

2195
02:04:20,079 --> 02:04:23,019
with the six-legged bastards. Day in, day out, formic acid

2196
02:04:23,019 --> 02:04:25,619
in the plaster. Antills rising like rent in the back

2197
02:04:25,619 --> 02:04:28,299
office drama. Jay designed a pin for a late father's

2198
02:04:28,299 --> 02:04:31,199
honor. Little metal soldier on your lapel like a metal

2199
02:04:31,199 --> 02:04:34,419
order of the ant. No cape, just a pedestal. Colony

2200
02:04:34,419 --> 02:04:37,849
of listeners keeping the trail hot. Pheromone donations. We march

2201
02:04:37,849 --> 02:04:53,759
when the mail drops. 3-30-3-30. We'll be right back. Buzzkills

2202
02:04:53,759 --> 02:04:57,739
crusade, we still got the plan Six-legged bastard never stood

2203
02:04:57,739 --> 02:05:02,699
a chance One-time donation, 33333 Keep the good fight alive

2204
02:05:02,699 --> 02:05:09,499
for the family Report for duty. Back office. Jay put

2205
02:05:09,499 --> 02:05:12,989
the memory in the metal. Father spirit marching every time

2206
02:05:12,989 --> 02:05:15,449
we settle. Work our hands of the show. We carry

2207
02:05:15,449 --> 02:05:18,619
the weight. Value for value. Never late on the play.

2208
02:05:18,739 --> 02:05:20,759
You drop the roll of threes. You get the rank.

2209
02:05:20,999 --> 02:05:23,559
No queen needed. Just a pin and a thank. Trail

2210
02:05:23,559 --> 02:05:26,899
leads straight to the producer's den. Where the real soldiers

2211
02:05:26,899 --> 02:05:29,789
keep the colony fed. Picnic invaders get the rank. The

2212
02:05:29,789 --> 02:05:32,499
boot in the boot again. We don't negotiate with the

2213
02:05:32,499 --> 02:05:35,719
six-legged men. Buzzkill paved the path. We just keep it

2214
02:05:35,719 --> 02:05:39,569
clean. Order of the ant. Permanent mean. Join the order

2215
02:05:39,569 --> 02:05:42,339
of the ant. Pin it on your chest and take

2216
02:05:42,339 --> 02:05:46,469
the stand. Buzzkill's crusade. We still got the plan. Six-legged

2217
02:05:46,469 --> 02:05:51,629
bastards never stood a chance One-time donation 33333 Keep the

2218
02:05:51,629 --> 02:05:56,319
good fight alive for the family Order of Report for

2219
02:05:56,319 --> 02:06:15,919
duty. Welcome to the order. Pin up. Fight on. Yo,

2220
02:06:15,919 --> 02:06:19,259
just Baker at it again. The Order of the Ants.

2221
02:06:19,399 --> 02:06:22,609
No, it's not Rob's band. Thank you very much. Joke

2222
02:06:22,609 --> 02:06:26,419
out. The thingy 20. Yeah, look at that. Look at

2223
02:06:26,419 --> 02:06:30,899
that, trolls. Coming back with a vengeance. 11-44, peak trollage.

2224
02:06:30,999 --> 02:06:34,279
Thank you very much. Listening live at noagendastream.com. And, of

2225
02:06:34,279 --> 02:06:37,199
course, in those modern podcast apps. Why would you live?

2226
02:06:37,199 --> 02:06:40,529
Listen to anything else, please. I mean, just the fact

2227
02:06:40,529 --> 02:06:43,579
that I played Order of the Ant means this episode

2228
02:06:43,579 --> 02:06:46,619
will not appear on Spotify. And you shouldn't be listening

2229
02:06:46,619 --> 02:06:50,359
through Spotify at all, actually, anymore. You know, I'm not

2230
02:06:50,359 --> 02:06:55,359
a fan of commercials, but they've implemented this skip button

2231
02:06:55,359 --> 02:06:58,339
now. So... You know, she's like, oh, skip all the

2232
02:06:58,339 --> 02:07:00,199
commercials. I don't want to hear any more. So all

2233
02:07:00,199 --> 02:07:04,499
of those podcasts that do not rely on value for

2234
02:07:04,499 --> 02:07:07,219
value are going to be in a world of hurt.

2235
02:07:09,059 --> 02:07:12,059
Thank you very much to all of the listeners. to

2236
02:07:12,059 --> 02:07:15,419
all of the developers who create those modern podcast apps.

2237
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Get one to podcastapps.com, Podcast Guru, Podverse, Fountain. There's so

2238
02:07:21,539 --> 02:07:24,579
many good ones out there. There's even ones for your

2239
02:07:24,579 --> 02:07:29,319
flip phone. I think it's the... Pod something. Just go

2240
02:07:29,319 --> 02:07:32,819
look at podcastapps.com. You'll find a whole bunch of them.

2241
02:07:33,299 --> 02:07:35,779
Value for value. If you've never heard of it before,

2242
02:07:35,779 --> 02:07:39,359
it's very simple. All you do is determine that you've

2243
02:07:39,359 --> 02:07:41,899
received some value from the show. It happens all the

2244
02:07:41,899 --> 02:07:44,839
time. And you think, how can I return some value?

2245
02:07:44,939 --> 02:07:48,139
That's very easy. You can give us time, time. I'm

2246
02:07:48,139 --> 02:07:49,379
going to be talking about your talent and treasure, your

2247
02:07:49,379 --> 02:07:55,259
time and your talent, creating mixes, attending meetups, organizing meetups.

2248
02:07:55,659 --> 02:07:58,589
We have so many producers who give us boots on

2249
02:07:58,589 --> 02:08:03,919
the ground. And I will promise to give a full

2250
02:08:03,919 --> 02:08:10,339
breakdown of music. The the meta lawsuit, Rob, the constitutional

2251
02:08:10,339 --> 02:08:15,159
lawyer, gave me a comparison sheet between the big tobacco

2252
02:08:15,159 --> 02:08:19,579
companies and the social media companies, which we just didn't

2253
02:08:19,579 --> 02:08:21,289
get to with Rob today. But I'm going to do

2254
02:08:21,289 --> 02:08:23,839
it. You're going to love it. That'll be on Thursday.

2255
02:08:24,479 --> 02:08:28,519
Special guest co-host to be determined. which is another way

2256
02:08:28,519 --> 02:08:31,019
you can help us with your value for value. And

2257
02:08:31,019 --> 02:08:35,109
of course, uh, uh, art, which is, uh, It's kind

2258
02:08:35,109 --> 02:08:37,579
of been on fire lately. Thank you so much, Francisco

2259
02:08:37,579 --> 02:08:41,459
Scaramanga, who brought us the album art for episode 1896.

2260
02:08:42,239 --> 02:08:44,999
I mean, this was so good. This was the chat

2261
02:08:44,999 --> 02:08:48,479
GPT for teens, kind of like a teen magazine Tiger

2262
02:08:48,479 --> 02:08:52,689
Beat cover. This was so spot on, brother. I just

2263
02:08:52,689 --> 02:08:57,499
love this. It's a complete departure from your usual cheesecake

2264
02:08:57,499 --> 02:09:02,099
stuff. I mean, I got homework help in seconds. Crush

2265
02:09:02,099 --> 02:09:05,989
advice that it works. A-plus grades made easy. I mean,

2266
02:09:05,989 --> 02:09:08,299
that was just so good. Girl with braces on the

2267
02:09:08,299 --> 02:09:11,819
front. Fantastic. So good. Let me see. There was a

2268
02:09:11,819 --> 02:09:14,459
couple other things. Let me look at the art generator.

2269
02:09:14,599 --> 02:09:18,779
Thank you very much, Sir Paul. Couture, no, ArtGenerator.com. I

2270
02:09:18,779 --> 02:09:23,219
already see people are setting stuff up for now. Let

2271
02:09:23,219 --> 02:09:26,359
me see. I liked Parker Pauly, Black Knight Parker Pauly,

2272
02:09:26,359 --> 02:09:30,219
with the cardboard, the T-Moon Knight. That was a nice

2273
02:09:30,219 --> 02:09:32,749
piece. I debated over that. Even Jay checked in and

2274
02:09:32,749 --> 02:09:34,699
says, are you going to use that one? I said,

2275
02:09:34,699 --> 02:09:38,849
you know... I kind of like the chat GPT for

2276
02:09:38,849 --> 02:09:42,479
teens. I think she used it in the newsletter. And

2277
02:09:42,479 --> 02:09:45,249
just some dynamite stuff that you guys are doing. Of

2278
02:09:45,249 --> 02:09:47,949
course, I used Tyler Brown's Surfer and the Harmoose for

2279
02:09:47,949 --> 02:09:51,459
the bat single this morning. And, you know, the jury

2280
02:09:51,459 --> 02:09:55,139
is still out. There's plenty of room for you to

2281
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get in at noartgenerator.com for this current episode.

2282
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Episode 1897. And now we're going to thank our producers

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who gave us treasure in the form of donations. Noagendadonations.com

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is where you can go to support us. Any amount,

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anytime you feel like it, whatever amount you want it

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to be. Now, if you are... fortunate enough to be

2287
02:10:15,851 --> 02:10:18,751
able to give us $200 or more. You become an

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02:10:18,751 --> 02:10:21,611
associate executive producer of this episode. You get the credit

2289
02:10:21,611 --> 02:10:24,321
as such in the show notes. $300 or more executive

2290
02:10:24,321 --> 02:10:28,931
producer, same deal, completely true Hollywood credit. Go take a

2291
02:10:28,931 --> 02:10:32,511
look at imdb.com. You can see that you're up there

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02:10:32,511 --> 02:10:35,631
with all of the Hollywood bigwigs, except we have a

2293
02:10:35,631 --> 02:10:38,191
lot more people working on this podcast than any other

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02:10:38,191 --> 02:10:42,231
production. And we're guaranteeing to read your notes as well.

2295
02:10:42,231 --> 02:10:44,921
And we have a special Order of the Ant, which

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you saw in the newsletter. Probably, if not, you can

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02:10:48,201 --> 02:10:53,231
go to noagendarings.com, read all about it. $333.33. You become

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02:10:53,231 --> 02:10:59,631
a member of the And that includes if you come

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02:10:59,631 --> 02:11:02,871
in with more, obviously. Let me see, where are we

2300
02:11:02,871 --> 02:11:06,831
here? I do a million things now. I don't have

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02:11:06,831 --> 02:11:09,951
anyone else to do this with me to hide behind.

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02:11:10,831 --> 02:11:16,871
Oh, coming in from Denmark, from Esberg, Lassa Jensen with

2303
02:11:16,871 --> 02:11:21,831
$888.88. Thank you so much, Lassa. He says, in the

2304
02:11:21,831 --> 02:11:25,001
morning, Adam, Larry, Darren, and Rob. He says, more Rob,

2305
02:11:25,001 --> 02:11:27,981
please. I started listening after Adam's first appearance on the

2306
02:11:27,981 --> 02:11:31,201
Rogan podcast, but don't play the jingle. I was captured

2307
02:11:31,201 --> 02:11:33,661
by Adam's thoughts on Rogan. Then I listened to the

2308
02:11:33,661 --> 02:11:36,011
No Agenda podcast and was instantly hooked, and I'd like

2309
02:11:36,011 --> 02:11:41,241
to be de-douched. You've been de-douched. Like so many others,

2310
02:11:41,241 --> 02:11:44,361
I was touched by JCD's passing. I put off donating

2311
02:11:44,361 --> 02:11:47,391
because I thought I had plenty of time. Yeah, I've

2312
02:11:47,391 --> 02:11:51,711
heard this complaint before. I felt hollow for two weeks

2313
02:11:51,711 --> 02:11:54,461
over some guy I never knew. Now I am donating

2314
02:11:54,461 --> 02:11:58,881
to honor the parasocial relationship I had. As actually Daniel

2315
02:11:58,881 --> 02:12:03,641
J. Lewis said, The audacity to podcast, I think, is

2316
02:12:03,641 --> 02:12:06,331
his his show. And he has a Web site wrote

2317
02:12:06,331 --> 02:12:09,671
about the parasocial relationship of podcasts is a good read.

2318
02:12:10,511 --> 02:12:13,091
He had that with the with the show. And he

2319
02:12:13,091 --> 02:12:15,421
says J.C.D. was so precious. He will be missed and

2320
02:12:15,421 --> 02:12:19,041
never forgotten. My faux papa. In the end, John got

2321
02:12:19,041 --> 02:12:21,671
the last laugh on us all with an exit strategy.

2322
02:12:21,931 --> 02:12:24,961
Indeed, condolences to the Curries, Dvoraks, and Noah Jen the

2323
02:12:24,961 --> 02:12:28,261
Nation. Hosts and producers alike, we must stay strong and

2324
02:12:28,261 --> 02:12:30,571
carry on. God bless you all. Thank you for your

2325
02:12:30,571 --> 02:12:33,791
courage. No jingles, no karma. Thank you very much. And

2326
02:12:33,791 --> 02:12:36,141
you all should become a member of the Order of

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02:12:36,141 --> 02:12:43,151
the Ants. $444.44 from Brett Carothers in Nanaimo, British Columbia,

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02:12:43,151 --> 02:12:47,191
Scandinavia. ITM a true honored night name, Sir Tree Daddy

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02:12:47,191 --> 02:12:51,581
of Hard to Say. Roundtable requests, none. Jingles, I love

2330
02:12:51,581 --> 02:12:55,281
my truck and I love what I do. I think

2331
02:12:55,281 --> 02:12:58,391
I have that one set up for you. Note, this

2332
02:12:58,391 --> 02:13:01,431
row of trees donation puts me above the cut for

2333
02:13:01,431 --> 02:13:06,061
my Canadian knighthood. As the owner and operator of Hollywood

2334
02:13:06,061 --> 02:13:11,251
Tree Company, I'm an avid chainsaw milling enthusiast, so I'm

2335
02:13:11,251 --> 02:13:14,191
happy to provide a live edge slab for the roundtable.

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02:13:14,271 --> 02:13:16,791
Very nice. No agenda has been a pillar and foundation

2337
02:13:16,791 --> 02:13:19,191
of my life, and I will be eternally grateful for

2338
02:13:19,191 --> 02:13:22,191
keeping me balanced out on a limb called life. Thank

2339
02:13:22,191 --> 02:13:24,771
you, Adam. Cheers to JCD's legacy for giving it all

2340
02:13:24,771 --> 02:13:28,311
you got. I would be remiss to your host. Our

2341
02:13:28,311 --> 02:13:32,931
inaugural Central Vancouver Island Jingle Pot Ranch meetup without this

2342
02:13:32,931 --> 02:13:36,571
illustrious knighthood status. Well, that's nice. So if you're looking

2343
02:13:36,571 --> 02:13:39,161
for a chill backyard hang, please join my smoking hot

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02:13:39,161 --> 02:13:43,431
wife, Britt, and our human resources Saturday, August 29th, anytime

2345
02:13:43,431 --> 02:13:46,411
after 1 p.m. PST. Thank you for your attention to

2346
02:13:46,411 --> 02:13:52,381
this matter. Thank you, brother. Sir Victor, Baron of the

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02:13:52,381 --> 02:13:59,091
Willamette Valley. Notice I pronounce it Willamette Valley. $343.75. JCD

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02:13:59,091 --> 02:14:03,571
Ant Love from Sir Victor, Baron of the Willamette Valley.

2349
02:14:03,811 --> 02:14:06,801
And you will receive a handsome Order of the Ant

2350
02:14:06,801 --> 02:14:11,001
pin, my friend. Sir Nate the Rogue, $343.75. These are

2351
02:14:11,001 --> 02:14:15,051
probably $333 plus fees. Rest in peace, JCD. Long live

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02:14:15,051 --> 02:14:17,511
the order of the ants. Sir Nate the Rogue, Knight

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02:14:17,511 --> 02:14:21,671
of the Rogue Valley. Corey McDonald, $343.75. JCD fan since

2354
02:14:21,671 --> 02:14:25,511
PCMag, Early Tech TV. My wonderful wife Leah and I

2355
02:14:25,511 --> 02:14:28,231
have been listening to the show for 13 years together.

2356
02:14:28,571 --> 02:14:31,351
And they never had a fight. And both knew I

2357
02:14:31,351 --> 02:14:33,511
had to join the order of the ant. Rest in

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02:14:33,511 --> 02:14:37,241
peace, John. Thank you for your courage. Sir Keith Big

2359
02:14:37,241 --> 02:14:43,021
Johnson. so humble too 343 75 i'm really supportive of

2360
02:14:43,021 --> 02:14:46,331
everyone who has been covering while the show is getting

2361
02:14:46,331 --> 02:14:48,151
its footing adam i know it has to be hard

2362
02:14:48,151 --> 02:14:51,211
we are thinking of you baby making karma for dame

2363
02:14:51,211 --> 02:14:54,941
elizabeth and i thank you very much uh sir keith

2364
02:14:54,941 --> 02:15:02,211
big johnson Oops, sorry about that. What happened? Let me

2365
02:15:02,211 --> 02:15:14,811
try that again. Okay. You've got... Parma Dennis from Duluth,

2366
02:15:14,811 --> 02:15:20,531
Minnesota, 343.59. Different fees for you for some reason. Adam,

2367
02:15:20,531 --> 02:15:23,971
first donation after about 10 years of listening. I found

2368
02:15:23,971 --> 02:15:26,431
the show somewhere in the 800s and never gave a

2369
02:15:26,431 --> 02:15:28,541
dime until now, which is a long time to take

2370
02:15:28,541 --> 02:15:31,781
something for free. I always meant to. That's what I've

2371
02:15:31,781 --> 02:15:34,971
told myself for 10 years. The show is worth more

2372
02:15:34,971 --> 02:15:36,931
to me than I've paid for it, so I'm starting

2373
02:15:36,931 --> 02:15:40,051
to fix that today. Thank you. John was reliably the

2374
02:15:40,051 --> 02:15:43,411
crankiest part of my week. I didn't appreciate it enough

2375
02:15:43,411 --> 02:15:45,411
at the time. I only knew him through my earbuds

2376
02:15:45,411 --> 02:15:47,791
and truck speakers. So I'm not going to pretend I

2377
02:15:47,791 --> 02:15:50,931
know what this past month has been like for you.

2378
02:15:51,351 --> 02:15:53,461
Thank you for getting back behind the mic anyway. No

2379
02:15:53,461 --> 02:15:56,911
jingles, no karma, just appreciation and love. And I will

2380
02:15:56,911 --> 02:16:03,481
de-douche you. You've been de-douched. You've been de-douched. Anonymous in

2381
02:16:03,481 --> 02:16:12,011
Edmonton, Alberta, $333.88. And that converts to $479.88 in Scandinavian.

2382
02:16:12,371 --> 02:16:15,901
Keep anonymous. Consider it done. We'll send a more thought-out

2383
02:16:15,901 --> 02:16:18,691
email for the Dvorak's and Adam later, wishing the Dvorak's

2384
02:16:18,691 --> 02:16:21,471
curry in the community my condolences. No jingles, no karma.

2385
02:16:21,471 --> 02:16:25,751
Rest in peace, JCD. Elizabeth Johnson, Order of the Ant,

2386
02:16:25,751 --> 02:16:31,031
33333, making this Order of the Ant donation to honor

2387
02:16:31,031 --> 02:16:35,041
John and ask for baby-making karma for Sir Big Johnson

2388
02:16:35,041 --> 02:16:39,231
and I. Well, the family is baby-making karma in each

2389
02:16:39,231 --> 02:16:43,431
other. Combined decades of listening, loving, laughing, and amygdala shrinking

2390
02:16:43,431 --> 02:16:45,551
have brought us to this moment. Dame Elizabeth of the

2391
02:16:45,551 --> 02:16:48,091
Hudson Valley. Of course, happy to do that for you,

2392
02:16:48,091 --> 02:16:57,361
Dame Elizabeth. You've got... Ha ha ha! Karma. Zadok Brown

2393
02:16:57,361 --> 02:17:03,451
III, order them, 333.33. A Commodore now night ITM and

2394
02:17:03,451 --> 02:17:06,641
thanks to all carrying the show forward. Please night me,

2395
02:17:06,641 --> 02:17:10,021
sir, Foam of the Dan Bar, Gigawatt Dark Roast Coffee

2396
02:17:10,021 --> 02:17:14,151
Milkshake and Musubi. For the roundtable, Musubi. I'm not sure

2397
02:17:14,151 --> 02:17:17,101
what Musubi is. Where's John when you need him? Godspeed,

2398
02:17:17,101 --> 02:17:20,431
JCD. Sunshine from the islands to all in Gitmo Nation.

2399
02:17:21,291 --> 02:17:25,771
Joshua Johnson. Joshua Johnson. I'm sounding like Calacanis. Joshua Johnson.

2400
02:17:26,191 --> 02:17:29,211
3-30-3-33. I've been bummed out that I didn't take advantage

2401
02:17:29,211 --> 02:17:31,801
of collecting my knighthood a few months ago while John

2402
02:17:31,801 --> 02:17:34,571
was still around as I have donated $50 a month

2403
02:17:34,571 --> 02:17:37,731
since October of 24. But I'm very excited to become

2404
02:17:37,731 --> 02:17:39,461
a member of the Order of the Ant and a

2405
02:17:39,461 --> 02:17:41,801
knight at the same time. I would like to be

2406
02:17:41,801 --> 02:17:44,911
known as Sir Double J and request Sir. Street Tacos

2407
02:17:44,911 --> 02:17:47,931
and Bush Light at the round table and also request

2408
02:17:47,931 --> 02:17:50,461
the Mac and Cheese and Little Girls Shut Up Slave

2409
02:17:50,461 --> 02:17:53,771
jingles. Thank you for your courage, Sir Double J. Okay,

2410
02:17:53,771 --> 02:17:55,531
now I have to do a couple of things here.

2411
02:17:56,051 --> 02:17:59,521
I need to get the Street Tacos. I didn't put

2412
02:17:59,521 --> 02:18:03,741
that order in. Street Tacos. And Bush Light. Let me

2413
02:18:03,741 --> 02:18:05,521
do that first of all. Make sure I get that

2414
02:18:05,521 --> 02:18:10,441
for you. Okay. Street Tacos. And then he wanted, what

2415
02:18:10,441 --> 02:18:13,781
did you want here, my brother? You wanted mac and

2416
02:18:13,781 --> 02:18:17,251
cheese. Yes, we got the mac and cheese. And he

2417
02:18:17,251 --> 02:18:19,931
wanted the Shut Up Slave. I think we can do

2418
02:18:19,931 --> 02:18:23,501
that for you. You slaves can get used to mac

2419
02:18:23,501 --> 02:18:26,401
and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Macaroni and

2420
02:18:26,401 --> 02:18:30,831
cheese. Cheddar melted together. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese.

2421
02:18:30,991 --> 02:18:37,391
Mac and cheese. Shut up, slave. All right. Sir Robertson

2422
02:18:37,391 --> 02:18:41,551
of Two Sticks, 33333, ITM, thank you, and may all

2423
02:18:41,551 --> 02:18:44,641
good deeds be done with humility towards others. Amen, brother,

2424
02:18:44,641 --> 02:18:46,961
for a greater tomorrow. All the best, Sir Robertson of

2425
02:18:46,961 --> 02:18:51,471
Two Sticks. Cyril Beatty, Reno, Nevada, 33333, thanks for being

2426
02:18:51,471 --> 02:18:55,151
there and making me feel sane. No Agenda Shop from

2427
02:18:55,151 --> 02:18:58,531
Gitmo Nation, Georgia, USA. Thank you, No Agenda Shop, 333.

2428
02:18:59,111 --> 02:19:02,271
Happy to hear the show carrying on John's legacy. Recently,

2429
02:19:02,271 --> 02:19:06,211
Tina shared our Sir Paul Couture design sticker honoring JCD.

2430
02:19:06,791 --> 02:19:10,041
It's striking, and we're gifting it together. to anyone who

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02:19:10,041 --> 02:19:14,051
places a shop order before September 30th. Oh no, have

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end message due to PayPal text limit. Thank you for

2433
02:19:17,741 --> 02:19:20,271
your courage. Yeah, I see what you did there. All

2434
02:19:20,271 --> 02:19:24,121
kinds of shortcuts. It's a beautiful sticker. I think there's

2435
02:19:24,121 --> 02:19:28,301
two actually the No Agenda Shop Sticker Club is well

2436
02:19:28,301 --> 02:19:30,831
worth it thank you very much order of the ant

2437
02:19:30,831 --> 02:19:33,511
for you guys and that's our executive producers now our

2438
02:19:33,511 --> 02:19:37,161
associate executive producers coming in with $250 Manuka Gold from

2439
02:19:37,161 --> 02:19:40,241
Hudson, Florida they say welcome back Adam the show keeps

2440
02:19:40,241 --> 02:19:43,091
us company while we're working on packages and it's great

2441
02:19:43,091 --> 02:19:45,351
to have you back we're always happy to keep supporting.

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We do have a code at ManukaGold.com for the No

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for the month of August and we're still doing the

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02:20:00,123 --> 02:20:01,903
Thank you very much, Manuka Gold. I stand behind their

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product. It's great. I also stand behind Eli the Coffee

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Guy's product, who comes to us with $208.23. He always

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does $200 plus the date, $8.23. He's in Bensonville, Illinois.

2450
02:20:14,123 --> 02:20:18,383
Last Thursday's show with Sir Ducifer was spectacular. Excellent media

2451
02:20:18,383 --> 02:20:21,373
deconstruction, especially when viewed through the lens of the midterm

2452
02:20:21,373 --> 02:20:24,143
elections. It also made me smile that even the seed

2453
02:20:24,143 --> 02:20:27,663
man's own people do humorous impressions of him, and he's

2454
02:20:27,663 --> 02:20:30,173
good at it. Adam, thank you for keeping the show

2455
02:20:30,173 --> 02:20:32,423
going as well as everybody who helps make No Agenda

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02:20:32,423 --> 02:20:36,183
happen. For producers who want amazing fresh roasted coffee, visit

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gigawattcoffeeroasters.com. Use code ITM20 for 20% off your order. Thank

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02:20:41,563 --> 02:20:44,403
you for your courage. Stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee

2459
02:20:44,403 --> 02:20:47,183
Guy. And he does say he would like to hear

2460
02:20:47,183 --> 02:20:49,763
the I got ants. Well, let's do that for you.

2461
02:20:49,943 --> 02:20:53,103
I have no problem because it is a classic. After

2462
02:20:53,103 --> 02:20:55,843
all, it is today is Order of the Ant Day.

2463
02:20:56,743 --> 02:21:09,463
I got ants. I got ants. Thank you. I don't

2464
02:21:09,463 --> 02:21:13,023
know if we had ants. We had ant invasion. I

2465
02:21:13,023 --> 02:21:17,403
was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants

2466
02:21:17,403 --> 02:21:20,523
and then ground them to a powder like a fine

2467
02:21:20,523 --> 02:21:26,823
grind of black pepper. We were having dinner and yeah,

2468
02:21:26,823 --> 02:21:31,103
I got an ant somehow. the meal and I ate

2469
02:21:31,103 --> 02:21:38,223
it. These things are peppery. I got ants. I got

2470
02:21:38,223 --> 02:21:46,643
ants. These ants. They don't need a lot. And then

2471
02:21:46,643 --> 02:21:48,073
you see, you find all the ones that are roaming

2472
02:21:48,073 --> 02:21:50,673
around you. Although I backed him off by doing the

2473
02:21:50,673 --> 02:21:53,633
burning trick. You just torch him. And you leave him

2474
02:21:53,633 --> 02:21:57,543
there. The only ant, there are occasional moments where there's

2475
02:21:57,543 --> 02:21:59,993
an ant that you do not torch, and that's an

2476
02:21:59,993 --> 02:22:03,123
ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back. I

2477
02:22:03,123 --> 02:22:12,623
got ants. I got ants. I got ants. I got

2478
02:22:12,623 --> 02:22:32,223
ants. I got ants. Ants. Ants. Ants. Before I continue,

2479
02:22:32,223 --> 02:22:39,743
there you go. I wanted to thank Sarah Kring, Sarah

2480
02:22:39,743 --> 02:22:43,683
Nielsen, Sarah Kring Nielsen. She sent a lot of stuff

2481
02:22:43,683 --> 02:22:46,753
to the P.O. Box. And her note was in regards

2482
02:22:46,753 --> 02:22:49,773
to my birthday note last Sunday. I was 18. Oh,

2483
02:22:49,773 --> 02:22:53,463
this is old. This is old. But we know Sarah

2484
02:22:53,463 --> 02:22:56,543
Kring, and she sent this. Seems to have been under

2485
02:22:56,543 --> 02:23:00,543
a rock this last year. Just got sent back this

2486
02:23:00,543 --> 02:23:05,473
package at home from... She had to fill a form

2487
02:23:05,473 --> 02:23:08,743
out to get it back, two QR codes, paid my

2488
02:23:08,743 --> 02:23:11,783
duties. It would be so much easier to send cash.

2489
02:23:12,323 --> 02:23:15,793
It's a blanket, but it's like a, I think, I

2490
02:23:15,793 --> 02:23:18,183
don't know if she made this herself. It must be.

2491
02:23:18,643 --> 02:23:22,163
It's like an ITM, no agenda. On a loom, which

2492
02:23:22,163 --> 02:23:25,663
is just a beautiful, beautiful product. And then a blanket.

2493
02:23:25,803 --> 02:23:28,763
She actually sent us a blanket. Which, where'd this come

2494
02:23:28,763 --> 02:23:33,903
from, this blanket? This is Maison Emmanuel. Oh, it's a

2495
02:23:33,903 --> 02:23:38,453
classy blanket. Therapeutic life-sharing community for adults. And so it's

2496
02:23:38,453 --> 02:23:40,993
for a good cause in nerd in need of special

2497
02:23:40,993 --> 02:23:43,323
care. Thank you very much. And she sent us a

2498
02:23:43,323 --> 02:23:46,643
mail a moose and just all kinds of beautiful stuff.

2499
02:23:46,703 --> 02:23:48,543
Thank you. Thank you very much. I was supposed to

2500
02:23:48,543 --> 02:23:51,243
do that on the last show, but I forgot. And

2501
02:23:51,243 --> 02:23:56,033
also, I want to thank Nicholas Ficklin. He is. The

2502
02:23:56,033 --> 02:24:04,133
producer of Sklazin Hot Sauce, S-C-L-A-Z-I-N, Sklazin Hot Sauce. And

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02:24:04,133 --> 02:24:06,103
a very long note, he says, you've been on my

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02:24:06,103 --> 02:24:09,323
heart since the Instagram post notification of John's passing. As

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02:24:09,323 --> 02:24:10,703
hard as the news hit me, someone who never had

2506
02:24:10,703 --> 02:24:12,833
the pleasure of meeting him, I can only imagine how

2507
02:24:12,833 --> 02:24:14,913
much more y'all have been impacted by the loss. My

2508
02:24:14,913 --> 02:24:17,133
prayers continue to be with you. And so he is

2509
02:24:17,133 --> 02:24:21,043
the producer of Sklazen Hot Sauce, and he made a

2510
02:24:21,043 --> 02:24:25,323
special batch on 8-8 in his honor while having a...

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02:24:25,323 --> 02:24:28,163
his own little memorial, listening to old shows. He sent

2512
02:24:28,163 --> 02:24:30,703
a package, which we received. Thank you very much both

2513
02:24:30,703 --> 02:24:33,763
to Texas and to the California PO boxes. And he

2514
02:24:33,763 --> 02:24:36,813
hopes it's enough for everyone to enjoy. It's pretty hot,

2515
02:24:36,813 --> 02:24:41,143
so it'll take us a while. But check out Sklazen.com.

2516
02:24:41,143 --> 02:24:43,113
I don't know if he's got them on the website

2517
02:24:43,113 --> 02:24:49,093
or not. But it's dynamite hot sauce, sklazin.com, S-E-L-A-Z-I-N. And

2518
02:24:49,093 --> 02:24:52,733
thank you very much. I cherish the special package, special

2519
02:24:52,733 --> 02:24:58,263
labeled version that you sent us. Scott Kinney is in

2520
02:24:58,263 --> 02:25:02,373
Lakeshore, Minnesota, $200, associate executive producer, and he says in

2521
02:25:02,373 --> 02:25:04,633
the morning to you, Adam, I'd like to introduce you

2522
02:25:04,633 --> 02:25:09,223
and the gang to Bot Commander. Bot Commander. Bot Commander

2523
02:25:09,223 --> 02:25:12,713
is the world's first person. Oh, I've seen this. Is

2524
02:25:12,713 --> 02:25:16,453
the world's first personal AI assistant to adopt the value

2525
02:25:16,453 --> 02:25:21,803
for value model. This is interesting. It's an extensive, free

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02:25:21,803 --> 02:25:25,403
AI home and business automation system. You can get it

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02:25:25,403 --> 02:25:31,793
at botcom.ai. Start automating now with Bot Commander. That's botcom.ai

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02:25:31,793 --> 02:25:35,843
with a B, bot, botcom. Did I mention it's free?

2529
02:25:36,183 --> 02:25:39,343
Yes, indeed, you did. I like that he's doing this.

2530
02:25:39,423 --> 02:25:41,813
It's value for value, so you don't have to pay

2531
02:25:41,813 --> 02:25:44,543
for it until you find it valuable. I don't have

2532
02:25:44,543 --> 02:25:48,273
a small business other than the show. But we have

2533
02:25:48,273 --> 02:25:51,673
systems in place. I think you should take a look

2534
02:25:51,673 --> 02:25:53,423
at it. If you have a home or small business,

2535
02:25:53,423 --> 02:25:56,243
it can automate a lot of things for you. Bot.

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02:25:56,863 --> 02:26:02,273
Botcom.ai. And with $200 from Castle Rock, Colorado, there she

2537
02:26:02,273 --> 02:26:05,933
is, as always, Linda Lupatkin. And she says she wants

2538
02:26:05,933 --> 02:26:10,373
jobs karma. AI can write your resume. Yes, we know

2539
02:26:10,373 --> 02:26:13,023
that. The problem is it can write everyone else's too.

2540
02:26:13,433 --> 02:26:16,643
Linda helps professionals and executives figure out what makes them

2541
02:26:16,643 --> 02:26:19,803
different, what makes them valuable, and turns that value into

2542
02:26:19,803 --> 02:26:24,643
a resume that gets results. Go to ImageMakersInc.com, ImageMakersInc with

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02:26:24,643 --> 02:26:27,473
a K, and Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs, writer of

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02:26:27,473 --> 02:26:31,523
winning resumes, because your resume should do more than just

2545
02:26:31,523 --> 02:26:35,923
look good. All the best from Linda. John. Jobs, jobs,

2546
02:26:35,923 --> 02:26:41,633
jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. And thank you

2547
02:26:41,633 --> 02:26:45,703
to these executive and associate executive producers and order of

2548
02:26:45,703 --> 02:26:50,563
the ant. awardees. I need a jingle for that. If

2549
02:26:50,563 --> 02:26:52,623
anybody can make me an Order of the Ants jingle,

2550
02:26:52,843 --> 02:26:55,093
I would love to have that to give these people

2551
02:26:55,093 --> 02:26:58,113
some special accolades. And of course, as always, these credits

2552
02:26:58,113 --> 02:27:01,633
are good at imdb.com or anywhere else Hollywood credits are

2553
02:27:01,633 --> 02:27:06,623
recognized. We go out, we hit people in the mouth.

2554
02:27:10,623 --> 02:27:19,923
What up? Yes. Continue to to thank people who sent

2555
02:27:19,923 --> 02:27:23,233
us treasure for the show, $50 and above. We mention

2556
02:27:23,233 --> 02:27:27,033
everybody. Sometimes we'll read your note under $200. Ian Field,

2557
02:27:27,033 --> 02:27:31,563
100. Keoa, Wynan, Springfield, Kentucky, $100. Says, God loves you,

2558
02:27:31,563 --> 02:27:34,063
Adam, and so do we. John is sorely missed, and

2559
02:27:34,063 --> 02:27:36,123
we can hear the hole in your heart, but please

2560
02:27:36,123 --> 02:27:38,353
soldier on. The world needs your steady mind and godly

2561
02:27:38,353 --> 02:27:43,323
heart. No jingles, no karma. Tim Tillman, Mechanicsville, Virginia, $100.

2562
02:27:43,743 --> 02:27:46,703
Sir Kev McLaughlin, Concord, North Carolina, lover of America and

2563
02:27:46,703 --> 02:27:50,743
boobs. He is the Archduke and the lover of boobs.

2564
02:27:50,963 --> 02:27:53,423
And that's what he says, lover of America and boobs.

2565
02:27:54,083 --> 02:27:58,093
Juraj Kodjak in Prague, Czechoslovakia, also coming in with the

2566
02:27:58,093 --> 02:28:02,433
boobs donation, $80.08. Thank you both. Nicholas Leary, Kodjak. columbus

2567
02:28:02,433 --> 02:28:06,273
ohio 72 72 matthew elwart weatherford texas with a small

2568
02:28:06,273 --> 02:28:10,973
boob 60 and six cents 6006 les katarkowski kingman arizona

2569
02:28:10,973 --> 02:28:13,683
with the same and bob cox a new small boober

2570
02:28:13,683 --> 02:28:16,883
coming in with from delphi indiana left an email where

2571
02:28:16,883 --> 02:28:19,603
adam is mentioned on the alex jones show well yes

2572
02:28:19,603 --> 02:28:24,253
thank you played that i got an invite 55-10, double

2573
02:28:24,253 --> 02:28:26,873
nickels on the dime from Sir Michael, protector of the

2574
02:28:26,873 --> 02:28:31,393
peas in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Double nickels on the dime

2575
02:28:31,393 --> 02:28:35,982
plus fees for fixing nuts remix. We played that on

2576
02:28:35,982 --> 02:28:41,302
the last show. Thank you, Sir Michael. John Catalano, 5271,

2577
02:28:41,302 --> 02:28:44,883
just an hour in. 1896 is not just listenable, but

2578
02:28:44,883 --> 02:28:48,543
enjoyable. Adam's co-host is very likable in content and demeanor.

2579
02:28:48,543 --> 02:28:53,063
It did not sound like a wannabe radio douchebag. Please.

2580
02:28:53,683 --> 02:28:57,243
Listener since at least 2008. Well, that's the early days.

2581
02:28:57,463 --> 02:29:01,103
Thank you for your courage. Forrest Martin, $50.05. Alex Delgado

2582
02:29:01,103 --> 02:29:05,683
in Aptos, California, $50. And Harold Hutton rounds us out

2583
02:29:05,683 --> 02:29:09,183
from Merrickville, Ontario with $50. Thank you all very much

2584
02:29:09,183 --> 02:29:12,383
for supporting the best podcast in the universe. You have

2585
02:29:12,383 --> 02:29:14,483
no idea how great it is to be able to

2586
02:29:14,483 --> 02:29:18,153
continue and receive value back for the value that we

2587
02:29:18,153 --> 02:29:21,343
are delivering. It is highly appreciated. appreciated. You can go

2588
02:29:21,343 --> 02:29:25,243
to NoAgendaDonations.com, support us with any amount, anytime you feel

2589
02:29:25,243 --> 02:29:27,583
like it. You could even set up a sustaining donation

2590
02:29:27,583 --> 02:29:31,863
which repeats over time up to you, any amount, any

2591
02:29:31,863 --> 02:29:41,143
frequency, NoAgendaDonations.com It's a birthday, birthday, birthday, Barroness Carol Ann

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02:29:41,143 --> 02:29:45,073
of Southern Colorado turns 67 years old today. Happy birthday,

2593
02:29:45,073 --> 02:29:48,393
Barroness. Andrea McDonald wishes her dad, Lucas McDonald, a very

2594
02:29:48,393 --> 02:29:53,583
happy birthday. Turns 59 tomorrow. Wants something from John's office.

2595
02:29:53,763 --> 02:29:57,113
We have discussed sending you something. Don't think John can

2596
02:29:57,113 --> 02:29:59,923
sign it for you anymore, though. And Tommy White...

2597
02:30:00,069 --> 02:30:03,159
Celebrates one day after me on September 4th. Looking forward

2598
02:30:03,159 --> 02:30:05,779
to it, Tommy. Happy birthday to these people from everybody.

2599
02:30:05,779 --> 02:30:09,529
It's the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday,

2600
02:30:09,529 --> 02:30:13,959
yeah! Order of the Ant and congratulations to Lessa Jensen,

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02:30:13,959 --> 02:30:18,279
Brett Carothers, Sir Victor Baron of the Willamette Valley, Sir

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Nate of the Rogue Knight of the Rogue Valley, Carter

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McDonald, Sir Keith Big Johnson, Dennis Anonymous, Elizabeth Johnson, Zadok

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Brown III, Joshua Johnson, Sir Robertson of Two Sticks, Cyril

2605
02:30:29,829 --> 02:30:32,269
Beatty, and the No Agenda Shop all the time. All

2606
02:30:32,269 --> 02:30:35,719
of you will receive this handsome pin, the No Agenda

2607
02:30:35,719 --> 02:30:39,599
Order of the Ant pin. You can go to noagendarings.com.

2608
02:30:39,979 --> 02:30:41,449
That's where you can let us know where to send

2609
02:30:41,449 --> 02:30:43,009
it to you. And thank you all so much for

2610
02:30:43,009 --> 02:30:45,329
supporting us. We'll keep this going for a while. Lots

2611
02:30:45,329 --> 02:30:47,979
of people want to get in on this. to get

2612
02:30:47,979 --> 02:30:50,449
one of those great order of the ant pins and

2613
02:30:50,449 --> 02:30:53,839
is a great ode to the one and only John

2614
02:30:53,839 --> 02:30:57,419
C. Dvorak. We have three knights, no dames today, so

2615
02:30:57,419 --> 02:31:02,929
I will bring out my one singular blade. Music And

2616
02:31:02,929 --> 02:31:07,579
invite Brett Carothers, I've got to get that straight, Joshua

2617
02:31:07,579 --> 02:31:11,409
Johnson and Zadok Brown III onto the podium here. Gentlemen,

2618
02:31:11,409 --> 02:31:13,189
thanks for your support of the No Agenda Show and

2619
02:31:13,189 --> 02:31:15,869
the amount of $1,000 or more. I am very proud

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02:31:15,869 --> 02:31:18,999
to pronounce the KB as Sir Tree Daddy of Hard

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02:31:18,999 --> 02:31:22,249
to Say. That's right. Sir Double J and Sir Foam

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02:31:22,249 --> 02:31:24,839
of the Dan Bar for you. We've got Hookers &

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Blow, Red Boys & Chardonnay, along with Gigawatt Dark Roast

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Coffee, Milkshake & Misubi. We've got Street Tacos & Bush

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02:31:32,509 --> 02:31:36,649
Lights. We also have Beer & Blunts. We've got Cowgirls

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& Coffin Varnish, Rubin S. Rubin & Rosé, Gaishas &

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02:31:39,479 --> 02:31:42,539
Sake, Ginger Ale & Gerbils, Breast Milk & Pablum &

2628
02:31:42,539 --> 02:31:44,959
Mutton & Mead. For you, the same deal. Go over

2629
02:31:44,959 --> 02:31:48,589
to noagendarings.com. You deserve it. And if you just tell

2630
02:31:48,589 --> 02:31:50,739
us what size you need for the ring, we'll send

2631
02:31:50,739 --> 02:31:52,779
it off to you along with some wax that you

2632
02:31:52,779 --> 02:31:56,179
can use to seal your important correspondence. We get a

2633
02:31:56,179 --> 02:31:58,489
lot of those in the P.O. box. Love it when

2634
02:31:58,489 --> 02:32:00,819
people send us a note. And you can tell that

2635
02:32:00,819 --> 02:32:03,559
they're a knight or a dame because they seal their

2636
02:32:03,559 --> 02:32:07,529
envelope with the noagenda ring. knight or dame ring and

2637
02:32:07,529 --> 02:32:09,499
tell us where to send it and we'll get it

2638
02:32:09,499 --> 02:32:11,099
off to you as soon as possible thank you so

2639
02:32:11,099 --> 02:32:13,019
much for supporting the no agenda show we are the

2640
02:32:13,019 --> 02:32:20,199
best podcast in the universe no agenda beat up let's

2641
02:32:20,199 --> 02:32:24,919
go We got your meetups. We sure do. I hope

2642
02:32:24,919 --> 02:32:27,889
that I have all. You know, actually, I forgot to

2643
02:32:27,889 --> 02:32:30,619
play one thing as we end our donations. And I

2644
02:32:30,619 --> 02:32:35,079
apologize because he sent it to me twice. I just

2645
02:32:35,079 --> 02:32:38,559
want to wind out our donations with Sir Felix, who

2646
02:32:38,559 --> 02:32:42,439
we had not heard from. since the COVID days, and

2647
02:32:42,439 --> 02:32:44,759
he's gotten a little older, his voice is a little

2648
02:32:44,759 --> 02:32:49,889
deeper, and he is obviously son to the drunken minstrel

2649
02:32:49,889 --> 02:32:55,809
from Australia, Sir Chris Wilson. Take it away, Felix. My

2650
02:32:55,809 --> 02:32:59,329
name is Sir Felix Wilson, The Early Knight, and my

2651
02:32:59,329 --> 02:33:02,289
dad is a douchebag. Some things stay the same, like

2652
02:33:02,289 --> 02:33:04,679
my dad being a douchebag, but other things change, like

2653
02:33:04,679 --> 02:33:07,349
my voice and the host of No Agenda. Not that

2654
02:33:07,349 --> 02:33:09,519
long ago, my voice used to sound like this. Daddy,

2655
02:33:09,519 --> 02:33:13,179
you're still a douchebag. Though sadly, that sweet childhood innocence

2656
02:33:13,179 --> 02:33:15,019
has gone. But I'm still here to call out my

2657
02:33:15,019 --> 02:33:17,789
dad as a douchebag. And while our beloved John C.

2658
02:33:17,789 --> 02:33:20,249
Dvorak is no longer with us, the best podcast in

2659
02:33:20,249 --> 02:33:22,479
the universe is here to call out my dad as

2660
02:33:22,479 --> 02:33:26,999
a douchebag. Douchebag! Without the Gitmo Nation community and the

2661
02:33:26,999 --> 02:33:29,299
best podcast in the universe, I would have grown up

2662
02:33:29,299 --> 02:33:32,309
retarded like all my friends with swollen amygdalas. Shout out

2663
02:33:32,309 --> 02:33:35,579
Fitz. Instead, I've grown up a free-thinking human resource, being

2664
02:33:35,579 --> 02:33:38,489
able to recognize retard when I see it, and importantly,

2665
02:33:38,489 --> 02:33:41,049
recognize when I'm being retarded myself, and so I keep

2666
02:33:41,049 --> 02:33:43,629
my amygdala in check. Now, more than ever, Gitmo Nation

2667
02:33:43,629 --> 02:33:46,439
needs your time, your talent, and your treasure. For the

2668
02:33:46,439 --> 02:33:48,969
sake of all our human resources, the children of Gitmo

2669
02:33:48,969 --> 02:33:51,569
Nation, like me, who have grown up with no agenda

2670
02:33:51,569 --> 02:33:53,999
for most or all our lives, go to no agenda.com.

2671
02:33:53,999 --> 02:33:57,599
to donations.com and donate now. We must secure the existence

2672
02:33:57,599 --> 02:34:00,339
of our podcast and the future of Git Donation children.

2673
02:34:01,079 --> 02:34:04,859
There you go. Think of the children, please. And thank

2674
02:34:04,859 --> 02:34:08,629
you to the group in Rebo, Nevada, for your Noah

2675
02:34:08,629 --> 02:34:13,059
Jenimita report. ITM, this is Dame Rita. This is the

2676
02:34:13,059 --> 02:34:18,569
best meetup ever. Really, connection is protection. And I wanted

2677
02:34:18,569 --> 02:34:21,379
to put out a word to Mimi and the Dvorak

2678
02:34:21,379 --> 02:34:27,159
family, Adam, Tina, love and life. In the morning, this

2679
02:34:27,159 --> 02:34:31,259
is Cyril from Reno. Connection is protection. We love you

2680
02:34:31,259 --> 02:34:34,439
guys. Thanks for all you do. This was so inspiring.

2681
02:34:34,699 --> 02:34:37,559
Thank you, Adam, and RIP John. And you just make

2682
02:34:37,559 --> 02:34:40,129
the world a better place, and you make us and

2683
02:34:40,129 --> 02:34:43,029
our households a happier place. Thank you. And these people

2684
02:34:43,029 --> 02:34:45,519
have been great. Cool. In the morning. In the morning.

2685
02:34:45,719 --> 02:34:48,619
This is Kevin at the Reno. meetup. Last time I

2686
02:34:48,619 --> 02:34:52,219
donated to the show John actually misgendered me, which is

2687
02:34:52,219 --> 02:34:54,209
the first time I had been misgendered since I was

2688
02:34:54,209 --> 02:34:56,969
in middle school and had long hair like Kurt Cobain.

2689
02:34:56,969 --> 02:34:59,539
Sending a lot of love to the Dvorak family and

2690
02:34:59,539 --> 02:35:03,479
love and light. In the morning, came to the meetup.

2691
02:35:03,479 --> 02:35:07,599
Adam, pray for you, Tina, and the Dvorak family. Take

2692
02:35:07,599 --> 02:35:11,439
care. In the morning, this is Raul from Sparks, Nevada.

2693
02:35:11,439 --> 02:35:14,339
I got to meet Dame Rita and these wonderful people.

2694
02:35:14,699 --> 02:35:17,249
Thank you, John, for everything you did. You were an

2695
02:35:17,249 --> 02:35:21,589
amazing man, and we severely miss you. Adam, Tina, Mimi,

2696
02:35:21,589 --> 02:35:25,889
Buzzkill Jr., the entire family, you guys are in our

2697
02:35:25,889 --> 02:35:30,239
hearts and prayers and our condolences. Thank you for everything

2698
02:35:30,239 --> 02:35:33,729
you've given us for all these years. We love you

2699
02:35:33,729 --> 02:35:37,569
guys. Connection is protection. Coming from JJ's Pi Code, the

2700
02:35:37,569 --> 02:35:40,719
No Agenda crew is amazing. Ah, there it is. We

2701
02:35:40,719 --> 02:35:42,669
got a server in there. Love that. Thank you so

2702
02:35:42,669 --> 02:35:46,669
much. I hope I got all the meetup reports crawling

2703
02:35:46,669 --> 02:35:50,779
back out of my email, which has been quite busy,

2704
02:35:50,779 --> 02:35:53,639
as you can imagine. Hey, there's three meetups taking place

2705
02:35:53,639 --> 02:35:58,639
today. The first one is the Indiana August JCD Greek-Irish

2706
02:35:58,639 --> 02:36:01,689
Wake at 3 o'clock. So that is underway at Blindall

2707
02:36:01,689 --> 02:36:05,759
Brewery in Indianapolis. I'm sure we'll get a beautiful report

2708
02:36:05,759 --> 02:36:08,929
from Annette. That is Dame Marie and Sir Mark of

2709
02:36:08,929 --> 02:36:11,889
the Greenwood, who always hosts that. The Ants and the

2710
02:36:11,889 --> 02:36:17,139
Antipods. This is the Sir Chris Wilk, Chris, the drunk

2711
02:36:17,139 --> 02:36:23,439
minstrel meetup, which probably happened yesterday. I think in Australia.

2712
02:36:23,619 --> 02:36:26,609
Is it Monday already? In Merrickville, New South Wales, the

2713
02:36:26,609 --> 02:36:29,299
gasoline pony. So hoping to get a meetup report from

2714
02:36:29,299 --> 02:36:32,169
him. I'm sure we will. And the Central Arkansas JCD

2715
02:36:32,169 --> 02:36:35,439
Memorial kicks off at 6 o'clock. A dude named Jared

2716
02:36:35,439 --> 02:36:38,929
now in Arkansas is organizing that. If you want to

2717
02:36:38,929 --> 02:36:40,809
go, then all you have to do is go to

2718
02:36:40,809 --> 02:36:44,239
noagendameetups.com to find... Find out all the details about that.

2719
02:36:44,559 --> 02:36:47,719
Coming up in August, we have Maastricht on the 28th.

2720
02:36:47,719 --> 02:36:51,039
That's in Limburg in the Netherlands. Nanaimo, British Columbia on

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02:36:51,039 --> 02:36:54,329
the 29th. Albuquerque, New Mexico on the 29th. Rhode Island

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on the 29th. And Zurich, Switzerland also on the 29th.

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Looking forward to meetups from all of you. On the

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30th, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, Raleigh, North Carolina, and looking at

2725
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September. On the 6th, Medford Lakes, New Jersey, Catawaba River,

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North Carolina, the 12th, Boise, Idaho, the 15th, Scottsdale, Arizona,

2727
02:37:13,119 --> 02:37:17,609
the 17th, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Petaluma, California, the 19th,

2728
02:37:17,609 --> 02:37:22,529
Wilmington, California. We have meetups through October. including the October

2729
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17th Fredericksburg, Texas meetup. I hope you all will join

2730
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us for that. And, of course, we have the big

2731
02:37:28,019 --> 02:37:31,009
19th anniversary coming up. Was it the 26th or the

2732
02:37:31,009 --> 02:37:34,419
28th of October? So we will be celebrating. Bittersweet, of

2733
02:37:34,419 --> 02:37:38,959
course, without JCD. But he's looking down or looking up.

2734
02:37:39,449 --> 02:37:41,449
I hope it's looking down and I'm sure he was

2735
02:37:41,449 --> 02:37:44,149
smiling. Thank you all very much for your meetups. We're

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02:37:44,149 --> 02:37:47,809
organizing them for sending in meetup reports. Go to a

2737
02:37:47,809 --> 02:37:51,259
knowage in the meetup, particularly now. This is a great

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02:37:51,259 --> 02:37:54,269
time. You will meet people that you never would have

2739
02:37:54,269 --> 02:37:57,079
met otherwise, and you will connect with them immediately. And

2740
02:37:57,079 --> 02:38:00,199
as you know, connection is protection. These people will be

2741
02:38:00,199 --> 02:38:04,329
your first responders in any emergency. Go to noagendaMeetups.com. Easy

2742
02:38:04,329 --> 02:38:06,659
to search. Easy to find one near you. If you

2743
02:38:06,659 --> 02:38:08,939
can't find one near you, you know what to do.

2744
02:38:09,279 --> 02:38:12,969
Start one yourself. Easy and always a party. Sometimes you

2745
02:38:12,969 --> 02:38:18,989
won't. I'm gonna go hang out with all the nights

2746
02:38:18,989 --> 02:38:22,749
and days. Be where you won't be. Triggered on hell

2747
02:38:22,749 --> 02:38:27,879
or lame. Be where you won't be. Everybody feels the

2748
02:38:27,879 --> 02:38:33,379
same It's like a party Alright everybody, that's it for

2749
02:38:33,379 --> 02:38:37,509
episode 1897 I'll be back on Thursday I'm not quite

2750
02:38:37,509 --> 02:38:39,659
sure who will be joining me, but we'll find someone

2751
02:38:39,659 --> 02:38:42,639
appropriate and fun. If you can't wait until then, check

2752
02:38:42,639 --> 02:38:44,689
out We Get to Do This on Wednesday. I do

2753
02:38:44,689 --> 02:38:48,139
it with Pastor Jimmy. If you are decloaking, coming back

2754
02:38:48,139 --> 02:38:51,669
to your faith, if you're Christ-curious, check us out at

2755
02:38:51,669 --> 02:38:56,659
WGTDT.com. And, of course, I'm looking forward to a great

2756
02:38:56,659 --> 02:39:01,889
No Agenda. at noagendadonations.com. If you're still on that modern

2757
02:39:01,889 --> 02:39:08,139
podcast app or on noagendastream.com, stay tuned for Grimerica 776,

2758
02:39:08,539 --> 02:39:13,749
Living from the Soul. Of course, JCD loved the Grimerica

2759
02:39:13,749 --> 02:39:15,519
show. He's been on it, I think, at least two

2760
02:39:15,519 --> 02:39:18,589
times, maybe more. So give those guys a listen. Thank

2761
02:39:18,589 --> 02:39:23,029
you. And take care of yourself, Gitmo Nation, coming to

2762
02:39:23,029 --> 02:39:25,739
you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country and

2763
02:39:25,739 --> 02:39:28,249
leaving you with one more Just Baker end of show

2764
02:39:28,249 --> 02:39:33,369
mix. We will see you on Thursday. Till then, adios

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02:39:33,369 --> 02:39:36,399
mofos, a hooey hooey, and such.