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And we say a big in the morning to my
friend. Not even on the other end, right on the
other side of the desk, which is brand new for
me. Never has no agenda been hosted by two people
in the same room at the same time. Matt Long,
in the morning to you, my friend. In the morning
to you. And I'm telling you what, this is a
real honor to be in here. And I have to
tell the producers that don't ask me about what the
studio looks like. Adam made me sign an NDA when
I came in. And so you could torture me, but
I'm not giving any details out. So, Matt, I'm trying
to give a little description of Matt. We only met
a few years ago. Matt is... Let's see how you
take this, Matt. Part Willie Nelson, part Hulk Hogan, activist,
constitutionalist, brother in Christ. He and his wife, Gail, have
organized every No Agenda Fredericksburg meetup, as far as I
know. And... Man, it is so good to have you
here. Matt has a radio show every single day, the
Matt Long Show. It's also a podcast. And did we
meet at church? Is that where we met the first
time, Matt? Yeah, we did. We met at Bridge Church.
I can't imagine anywhere else because I don't go anywhere
else but the church and the radio station. That's right.
And I've been on your radio show a couple times.
It's on Hill Country Patriot FM, which is one of
those classic American shows. small town radio stations i mean
does it reaches kerrville fredericksburg is that kind of it
gillespie kindle county figure uh draw a circle around kerrville
about 60 miles yeah and it covers that area we
have five stations but it's all it's owned by a
couple uh Sweet little couple that owns all five stations,
and it really is a – what's the best way
to describe it? Mom and pop station. Mom and pop
station held together with bailing wire and duct tape. Matt,
your studio is literally in a shipping container. It's the
funniest thing. It's so old school. So – What is
so interesting about you, I mean, when I met you
at the church, you know, you were very active. I
think this was probably around the election, maybe four years
ago. And, you know, you're like our go to guy
for all things, local politics, the Constitution. You're just an
amazing patriot. But you're the kind of patriot. that holds
conservatives feet to the fire nonstop. I mean, you're like
a thorn in their side. And I just, I love
what you do. Well, thank you. And yeah, it is.
I have more enemies at the Capitol in Austin than
I have friends. But but yeah, I focus my my
whole focus is Christian first conservative and then Texas politics.
And so there's so many people doing national politics, you
know, Adam and and. I would just be, even if
I wasn't repeating them, even if not listening to them,
I would probably be saying the same things most of
those say. And we have a few good Texas people
that cover Texas politics, but I think I'm the best
among all those that cover Texas politics. We had a
vote here and it's two to nothing. But But you're
like a guy who can stuff. You make jellies for
everybody. But you have a whole selection. I mean, you
are – If you wanted a picture, a Norman Rockwell
picture of an American, you're it, brother. You got your
truck parked outside. I mean, everything is just so perfect.
And I'm so excited to talk about some of these
issues with you today. But the one other thing I
want to mention is that I think it's once a
year, but maybe multiple times a year for school kids,
but also at the Capitol. You dress up as Ben
Franklin. I do. I have been playing a Ben Franklin
character for about 10 years, and it started out as
a small project. It was three times every summer for
a group in Georgetown that puts on Vacation Liberty School.
Now, I know a lot of your producers got confused
a while back when you were talking about Vacation Bible
School. Yeah. The heathens that listen. to this that have
no idea what Vacation Bible School is. Well, we do
Vacation Liberty School, and as part of that program, Ben
Franklin comes in and talks about charity and what is
Ben Franklin's beliefs in charity. And then after doing that
a few years, I started getting invitations from other people.
And so The last two or three years, I've really
gotten a lot of little gigs, and I just love
it. It's absolutely a blast, and I have to shave
my beard. My wife, we got married 26 years ago,
and I hadn't shaved my beard since 1989 or so,
and so I decided to go all in as Ben.
I had to get rid of the beard. And so
I shaved, and I don't think I even told Gail
ahead of time. And she walked in, and I'm really
glad she's usually armed. And the good Texas wife is.
That's right. And so she came in, and I'm glad
she wasn't armed because she didn't recognize me. Who's this
stranger in my room? But I've been playing Ben Farnes.
franklin and it is an absolute treat and i love
every minute of it and i have to give credit
to we have a local lady also goes to our
church her name is cj latta and she started making
me costumes because i started out ben franklin with a
halloween costume from amazon and Yeah. And but CJ, I
now have I mean, I got like six outfits when
you dress up as Ben. I mean, you're Ben. I
mean, you look like him. You walk like him. You're
maybe about the same size that he was. And. We
had coffee a few, what was it, last week or
so? And this is really when it popped in my
mind. Like, man, I'd love to have Matt on the
show with me. And we're having coffee at Clear River
here on Main Street. Well, coffee is a big word.
It was basically a shake that tasted like coffee. And
you said, hey, man... Can you help me with some
of your AI agents? And can you download these 15,000
documents on Ben Franklin from the Yale Library? Are you
legally in trouble now? No, man. It's for personal use.
It was for personal use. Because you literally know everything
about Ben Franklin. I mean, it's amazing. I know a
lot, but. Definitely not everything there is to know. But,
yeah, I love – and I don't read books about
Ben Franklin written by other people. I read his writings
and his works, and it just gives you – it
gets me into his head. And then the interesting thing
is when I get into the costume – it's more
than i just look like him i'm you become him
i become him yeah and i guess someone told me
years ago and i don't have any kind of theater
background well i have a little bit but they told
me well you're a character actor and i said well
i don't know i just get into when i'm in
costume i'm that person yeah and that even bothers me
when people address me as matt when i'm in It's
like, who are you talking about? But, yeah, I've got
a big event coming up here on September 19th. I'm
really excited about it. I've got a new presentation. It's
Liberty in Action, We the People, another grassroots organization, conservative
grassroots organization here. And they're having a big fundraiser. and
uh tom homan's gonna be there and uh that's chip
roy tom homan's the uh dhs guy yeah dhs guy
i have spent a day with him before he's quite
a character yeah and um
We've got a lot of big Texas politicians, Don Huffines.
Now, wait a minute. Don Huffines... He is currently the
interim comptroller. Yes. And I think he has to do
some kind of election. I'm not quite sure why. But
isn't he the guy that also bought Epstein's Ranch in
Arizona? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. How's he feeling
about that? You know, I tried to get an interview.
I've had him on my program a number of times.
And after that broke, I called him and I... I
was never able to arrange anything after that. But, I
mean, come on. That's what Texans do. You buy ranches.
Yeah. You know, and New Mexico is kind of a
cool place. You dig up the dead bodies, you know,
and then, you know, get some cattle on there. I
was really surprised at the reaction to that. Oh, everyone
is a meat-disguised. creepy and you know that's what i
heard everywhere oh don huffines oh boy he's part of
it epstein like dude he's like a like a mini
man Yeah, he is. He's like a petite male, but
he's super energetic, loves running the money for Texas. And
he doesn't need money himself. I think he's quite wealthy.
And I voted for him like, yeah, that's the guy.
I mean, that's the guy you want running our money.
But people have no idea. They just go off in
conspiracy theory land like, well, you know, some guy from
Texas. Texas bought it and it's no good and he's
covering everything up like yeah I don't think so and
you know I know Don and his wife real well
he has a twin brother really yes he does he
has a twin brother and you can tell them apart
but boy they look awfully a lot alike and they
come from the Huffines family up in Dallas people get
real concerned that is at the Huffines out of Houston.
And so you got to be real careful. They're the
Dallas Huffines. Okay. And yeah, their father made a bunch
of money. Let me guess. Oil? Just guessing. You know,
cars, I think. Oh, really? I think he was an
auto dealer or is. I'm not sure where they got
it all, but I'm sure there was some oil in
there somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. So whenever there's elections, you're the
guy. You talk about the elections. You do registration drives
at the church. And something happened this week with the
Supreme Court. I'm sure you're up to speed on it.
I got a clip here, and this is about the
mail-in ballots, and this is really interesting. The U.S. Supreme
Court issued an emergency order yesterday that allows the Trump
administration to move forward for now with plans to restrict
mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections. It's a ruling
opponents say would bring chaos to the election process only
days before ballots in some states are mailed out. Our
White House correspondent, Liz Landers, has more. The ruling allows
the administration to proceed with an executive order President Trump
signed in March directing the U.S. Postal Service to determine
which voters should receive mail-in ballots. It also directs the
Department of Homeland Security to build a database of U.S.
citizens who are eligible to vote. There are a lot
of moving parts, and here to help explain it all
is Steve Vladek. He's a constitutionalist. constitutional law professor at
Georgetown University Law Center. Steve, thank you for joining the
program this evening. Thanks for having me. So there are
two lawsuits that are challenging the president's executive order about
mail-in ballots. The Supreme Court decision yesterday had to do
with a group of states that sued, while the other
case that was brought by the League of Women Voters.
What did the Supreme Court's ruling tell the states? Yeah,
so the Supreme Court's ruling only applied Liz to the
state's lawsuit and it only said that the states had
sued too early because they brought their lawsuit before the
US Postal Service issued their final rule, which of course
they did last Friday. So it was, I think, a
win for President Trump, but a very time limited one.
It didn't say anything about whether the under underlying executive
order is lawful. It didn't say anything about whether the
new Postal Service rule is lawful. That issue is now
going to be litigated probably pretty quickly in both of
the cases that are back before Judge Talwani in Boston.
Now, have you followed this case at all, Matt? I
have been. Yeah, absolutely. And I don't think it's going
to have much effect on Texas because we have pretty
strict mail-in ballot rules. But I know, like my friends
out in the West Coast, Everybody gets a ballot in
their mail. Everybody, no matter who you are. There's just
like stacks of them out there. And there's got to
be something in between there. I have voted by mail
before living overseas and so have done that. In fact,
one presidential election, it must have been 90 years. 88
or 90. We got the ballots on the day that
the results were released. In other words, we got our
ballots from the embassy on Wednesday after the election. No
way. And I'm sitting around with all my American friends,
and they're like, well, why bother? And I said, oh,
hell no. We're going to. You're going to. We're going
to fill these all out. We're going to send them
in. We're going to make them do their work. work,
and so we did that. But mail-in ballots, I think,
are probably the most important. easiest way to steal an
election and to get dishonest results. And I think we're
maybe even thinking about tightening up. Well, we did get
a notice recently from the Secretary of States about mail-in
ballots. They really need to have a postmark on them.
What happens in a your ballot at the post office
and they'll just take it from the inbox and put
it into or take it the outbox and put it
into the inbox and they don't even stamp it and
uh i have a problem with that and so the
secretary of state this year issued a thing saying all
right y'all got to pay more attention to the uh
postmarks on that but yeah i think uh the west
coast and a couple of other states that we've got
got to do something about the mail-in ballots so what's
interesting about this supreme court case because of course rob
the constitutional lawyer do you know rob carty i've met
him at a at a meetup one of the great
meetups in fredericksburg fantastic meetups yeah he's with suits and
boots if you got hit by a truck call rob
there you go he'll get you the most money ever
um he says The reason why the Supreme Court wrote
this opinion is because they didn't lose on the merit
of the case. This was purely for standing. In other
words, because the states hadn't been hurt. Nothing has happened
to them. So they just jumped the gun, and Rob
thinks that they won't even be able to bring anything
back to the Supreme Court until after the election. Which
is interesting. So this seems like one of the most
phenomenal pieces of lawfare done by Republicans for once because
it's always the Democrats who have all the lawfare on
their side. And I think this clip explains… exactly what
the executive order does. Okay, so let's talk about that
executive order. There's another part of President Trump's EO that
bars the Postal Service from delivering ballots to people who
are not on federal lists of eligible voters. And it
also will direct the Homeland Security Department to create a
list of US citizens who are eligible to vote. How
are these actions affected by the ruling yesterday? So for
now, they're not. I mean, the most important thing that
folks should know is that the status quo, which is
the executive order is not in effect and the USPS
rule is not in effect, is still the status quo.
All the Supreme Court did yesterday was pause one of
the two injunctions against the executive order. executive order. There's
still a second injunction blocking the executive order from going
into effect. And Liz, the rule itself says it can't
go into effect until that injunction, too, is no longer
in effect. So we really are not at the end
of the story. We're really more in the middle of
the story where there's going to be more litigation and
where it's possible that these people are going to be
in effect. These questions are back in the Supreme Court,
perhaps by this time next week. So the way it's
going to work is the Postal Service will only send
out will only send on, I guess, mail mail in
ballots to people who are on their list. Hmm. And
I think what all of these people forget – wasn't
Benjamin Franklin who started the post office? Why do I
think that? He was the first postmaster general under the
British. We were still the colonies. It was 20 years
before freedom and before our liberty, and he was, yeah,
the postmaster general. But it's like postmaster general is because
– This was like the military in a way, right?
The U.S. Post Office is a constitutional thing. I think
they may actually have the power to do this. I
think they do. I think they do. And it's going
to be phenomenal because if they don't send ballots to
people who they don't deem as, hey, you're not on
the list, then – it just won't happen and that's
always been the problem and so all these states are
crying like well you can't do that well yeah why
don't you then don't use the post office yeah go
and go and deliver it so here's the the attorney
general of arizona because of course you know the and
by the way Mail-in ballot scam has been used by
Democrats and Republicans alike. This is not like a new
thing. This is – I think Florida probably has won
more elections with sketchy mail-in ballots than any state in
the union. But they've come up with some wording to
make sure everybody knows that this is not going to
work. It's horrible. It's a bad thing. We have to
fight this. this. We will fight this. The good news
is basically the because the Postal Service rulemaking is now
in effect and is ripe, we can go to court
and challenge it. So, you know, look for that very,
very soon because, you know, this is ridiculous. It's outrageous.
It's unconstitutional. Right. Elections are run by states. And this
is what I love. Yeah. You're still running your election.
Just you can't send it through the post office and
have it delivered in
Unless the people are on the list. I'm just wondering
if it's been years since we've had any episodes of
going postal. Yeah, what happened to that? People just stopped
going postal. I think now they're just going pregnant mom.
I don't know what that is. That's a good point.
What happened to those dudes going postal? I don't know.
Maybe they got a raise. And what they are trying
to do is undermine the right of people in this
country to vote. And they're trying to make it harder
for our veterans. Oh, there it is. People in rural
Arizona to vote. And we're going to fight that. You
know, obviously... As you point out, elections in America are
run by states. It's a federalist country. But one thing
you said there really stands out, Attorney General. First time
I hear someone on a liberal station call it a
federalist country. What happened to your democracy? Yeah, no kidding.
Are run by states. It's a federalist country. But one
thing you said there really stands out, Attorney General. You
said 80 to 90 percent of voters in Arizona cast
their ballots by mail. OK, as in that's the norm.
That's how everybody does it. So can you just play
the hypothetical with me? If this went ahead, OK, and
you're 44 days out from everything starting in early October
and you had to comply, OK? Would you even be
able to run an election? What would you do? I
mean, I think it's a great question. There's no such
thing. It's a great question. It would cause absolute and
total chaos. Chaos! Because the people of my state are
literally going to be waiting by their mailbox, waiting for
that – ballot to arrive and their expectation is that
it'll arrive and they'll fill it out and they'll put
it in the mail or they'll put it in a
drop box and that'll be that. That's how we vote.
It's how we have voted in Arizona since 1992. And
interestingly enough, it was pioneered here by Republicans. Yeah, exactly.
That's why it's stop altogether. Is this... When did this
really start? I mean, I voted by absentia is what
it was called when I was in Europe. And you
would get an absentee ballot because you're out of the
country. Was it really just COVID that accelerated that? Or
is she right that Arizona has been doing this forever?
I really don't know. I think a lot of these
mail-in places were way before COVID. I'm pretty sure Oregon
was before COVID. Yeah. And it's this movement of, well,
it just makes it easy to vote. And I'm not
sure if voting should be that easy. I think it
should. My opinion is we need to have a national
holiday. All vote on one day. All go in. I'm
with you on that. And if you are disabled, differently
abled, or if you're overseas, which both Adam and I
and many in my family have experienced that being overseas,
but we still want to participate. There are some legitimate
reasons, and that is where Texas is right now. But
if you're over 65, I think all you have to
do is ask for it. Right. Oh, really? Yeah, it
is now. I've got an age on it in Texas.
So, yeah, if you're over 65 or a certain age,
you just tell them you're old and you can't go
in. Oh, we should bring that up to parity with
Social Security, man. That should be 67. Is that where
we're at now? That's where we're at, 67. Oh, man,
I've got six more years to go. I can't stand
it. Bless your heart. Here's ABC breaking down the ruling.
This odd situation. where we're defending the law against The
federal government. I'm sorry, that's not the one. This is
the one with them breaking it down. Andrew, this was
a six to three decision by the Supreme Court with
the conservative justices voting in President Trump's favor to allow
him now to begin to implement some key portions of
that March 2026 executive order that imposed some new regulations
around military. mail-in voting in the United States just now
ahead of the November elections. This was an executive order
that was challenged by a coalition of Democratic-led states, in
their view, as an unconstitutional infringement of how elections are
administered. But the Supreme Court, in its decision today, said
that the executive order actually hasn't had any bite yet.
It hasn't harmed any of the states just yet. And
therefore, the president should be able to continue with his
policies as he sees fit. What are those policies? The
president, with his executive order, is now going to be
allowed to direct the Department of Homeland Security to compile
a citizenship list, a federal citizenship list. and to distribute
it to the states, to also then direct the attorney
general to prosecute any state and any state official that
would happen to give a mail-in ballot to someone who
is not on those citizenship lists, and to work with
the U.S. Postal Service to come up with new standardized
regulations for mail-in ballots. How do we feel about that,
Matt, about the government making a list of anything? Yeah,
I guess when it comes to voting, I don't have
a problem with that. I think there should be a
database. Every state has a database. I know the Constitution
says that the method or the means of the election
is up to the states, and so I see that
where they're coming from, the constitutional yet. But what struck
me on this were the two things they. brought up
one was who had standing yeah and the other one
that he just mentioned was nothing's happened yet and so
can you sue somebody for something you think they might
do i mean i've got a neighbor you know that
might do something in my you know throw his trash
over my fence yeah do do can i go to
the house and then i'm going to the house and
then i'm going to the house and then ahead and
sue him now for something he might do in new
york get it in new york maybe i don't know
there you go i get it but you know we
tried that uh recently and it was actually successful and
that was here locally where they're trying to stop the
solar farm north of town right and one of the
arguments from that company was we haven't done anything yet
how can you as for something where thinking about it.
We haven't even done yet. What happened to that? You
know, the judge sided with the plaintiffs. Man, I'm learning
legal language. Careful, Matt. This is going to ruin your
rep, man. That's right. The judge sided with the plaintiffs,
and I think there's a hold on it right now.
I do not know all the details on it, but
I think the good guys came out on top. Yeah,
and I think the real concern there was not so
much the solar farm, but the big battery, the best,
the big electrical storage. Battery energy storage. Oh, there you
go. Thank you. But they changed the name, so we
don't have to worry about it anymore. Oh, it's not
called BESS anymore? No, it's not called BESS. And don't
ask me what the new name is. The Thing. The
Thing. Here's the... details about DHS. The Supreme Court did.
Is it temporarily allowed... Trump's executive order severely restricting mail
voting to go into effect. It said it was too
early for states to challenge this. And this leads to
a lot of uncertainty going into the midterms because the
Trump executive order would radically restrict vote by mail. It
would instruct the Department of Homeland Security to create lists
of voters. that deem citizens, these lists are likely to
be highly inaccurate based on the fact that the Department
of Homeland Security has already made. You're making faces at
me. I'm wondering why they're going to be highly inaccurate.
Based on what? What? Based on democracy now, of course.
They know what they're talking about. Are you kidding me?
To create lists of voters that deem citizens, these lists
are likely to be highly inaccurate based on the fact
that the Department of Homeland Security has already made these
egregious claims of voter fraud that have turned out not
to be true. I don't remember the Department of Homeland
Security making... claims of voter fraud who know maybe todd
or uh holman maybe holman said something i don't know
oh holman's got loose lips man he does shoot off
all the time and says stuff not that he cares
but he does say stuff And then it says that
the Postal Service can only deliver mail ballots based on
these DHA's lists. And moreover, it will only deliver mail
ballots in states that hand over their voter rolls, which
includes sensitive personal information to the federal government. This is
essentially a form of extortion. The Department of Foreign Security
is trying to create these new lists. of voters in
each state that it claims are citizens. The problem is
that that's not the job of DHS. They don't have
this information. It's not their constitutional role. They've also made
these ludicrous claims of voter fraud. For example, they claim
that 15,000 people, non-citizens, were registered to vote in Nevada.
When a closer look was taken at that data, it
turned out 185 non-citizens were registered. Oh, that's okay. It's
just 185. It's never wide scale, and it's never large.
It's all just little bits and bobs here and there.
So they had dramatically overstated the number of non-citizen voting,
and that's the fear here, is that if voters... voting
proceeds based on these DHS lists. It's going to be
inaccurate. It's going to be unconstitutional. And a lot of
legit... I don't see the unconstitutional angle at all. Yeah,
if they pull up that manner of elections being up
to the states, and I don't have the exact language,
but that is in the Constitution. Right, but they can
still hold their election. It's just you can't use the
U.S. Postal Service without them being on the list. And
otherwise, go to Congress. uh, higher FedEx. Yeah, there you
go. DHS lists. It's going to be inaccurate. It's going
to be unconstitutional. And a lot of legitimate American voters
will,
are going to be wrongly labeled as non-citizens and unable
to vote, either based on shoddy data or an intentional
attempt by the trump administration to prevent people from there
it is there it is oh yes of course this
is how trump is going to steal the election you
watch there's going to be a a j6 or left
uh insurrection you just watch election deniers election deniers here's
here's my favorite though we'll wrap this one up with
leticia james of course She is the AG in New
York. What does this mean? It comes right after you
and a group of attorneys general filed a new lawsuit
to block the Postal Service rule from taking effect. It's
not. clear you'll get any relief until as early as
next week. So what happens between now and then? So
I and my Democratic attorneys general will continue to challenge
this rule because this rule will create nothing but chaos
and confusion. Chaos and confusion. Mark it down. That's that's
going to be the the term of the day. Chaos
and confusion. Who doesn't love some good alliteration. In the
state of North Carolina, in less than 11 days, they
will mail out a ballot to individuals who are in
armed forces as well as to citizens in these United
States. And it's critically important that individuals understand that the
only reason why this rule was created is because individuals,
particularly those in the White House believe that they cannot
run on their record and therefore they have to steal
this election. This is nothing more than an attempt to
suppress the right to vote. And I and my Democratic
colleagues will fight this all the way to the United
States Supreme Court. Let's be clear. The United States Postal
Service and the president of these United States does not
have jurisdiction over the elections. it's states and it's in
the constitution and that's why it's critically important that individuals
understand that states have the power and the duty and
the responsibility to administer elections not the president and definitely
not the postal system there you go that's can i
add one more thing to this please the list they're
talking about about these highly inaccurate lists. Every single state
keeps a list of registered voters. In fact, in Texas,
I can ask for that list and get it, and
it's not that big a deal. And so that list
would just be a matter of 50 different states sending
a zip file on off to DC, put it in
a drop box and say, these are all our registered
voters. It's not like they're going to have to create
something new or spend years getting it all together. Just
send them the list. And then I guess what DHS
is going to do, I guess they have the list
of who has who has citizenship. I would presume somebody
has a list of that somewhere or at least I
mean, I don't know. Yeah. Is there a list of
that? I presume so. Bound to be. Yeah, especially if
they're naturalized. If they've been naturalized citizens, they've come in
and, you know, taken the courses and answered, passed the
test and gotten sworn in. Those people's names are on
a list. Yeah. So they're going to do a little
a little diff, a little A, B, and then that's
it. You're on the list. You're good to go. But
this is how they're going to steal the election. Of
course. Of course. So there was something else. This president.
I'm going to miss him just for all his wackiness
and for the crazy stuff he does. And people don't
realize that, you know, there's so much hate. Yeah, he's
not acting presidential. This is something that, you know, I
think you and I both know a lot about when
it comes to ranchers. We have a lot of friends
who are ranchers, you know, the. Texas is ranching. You
know, Texas has fed the country, the entire country in
the past. So this is the beef deal that the
president announced. I'll play a little backgrounder here. Let's turn
to Washington now. A new push by the Trump administration
to curb inflation at the grocery store by lowering beef
prices. Eamon Jabberts joins us. He has the story for
us. Eamon. Yeah, good morning. David, President Trump is turning
his attention to rising costs for voters today, announcing what
he calls a deal to substantially lower the price of
ground beef for working American families. The president said on
social media that the U.S. will allow up to 300,000
metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported.
By the way, 300,000 tons of ground beef. Do you
know how many cattle that is? I don't know. It's
over a million head. Over a million cows. - That's
a lot of cows, brother. I'm not quite sure where
that's coming from. And that's the point. - With no
out of quota tariff, And he said that we have
a commitment that this beef will be sold at 25
percent below current market prices. But all this presents something
of a mystery here, guys. In his social media post,
the president didn't say who he had concluded this deal
with. And he did not specify who exactly had made
a commitment to sell that below market beef. Now, CNBC
has reached out to the White House with questions about
this. We've gotten no response so far. And we are
contacting the major beef importers to see if any of
those companies were will confirm that they are party to
an agreement with the White House. We'll let you know
if we get any more information, guys. But overall, this
really symbolizes the president's concern going into those midterm elections
that prices are still too high for consumers. Yeah. This,
of course, is about the so-called affordability crisis. Now, what
happens when the president makes an announcement like this? The
price of beef dropped immediately. I mean, the cattle futures
drop, everything drops. And so people are waiting for the
other shoe to drop. And I was kind of... Stunned
by the thing that was CNBC saying, well, we can
actually find who this deal is with. Some people said
Argentina. I saw memes everywhere like we're going to get
poisoned beef from Argentina. The president's going to kill us
with this subpar beef. And then I get a boots
on the ground from a no agenda rancher, not just
any rancher, a regenerative zoomer rancher. And he sent in
an audio report. Hey, Adam, this is the anonymous rancher
from Northwest River, picture Woodgate. Quick, down a report. Boots
on the ground. Just keep in mind that I have
actually a Zoomer, so apparently after Trump's announcement, I kind
of took it in no agenda vein that Trump likes
to put stuff on social media and let it ruminate
and see what happens. You know, he didn't actually do
anything as far as I know to purchase the... The
beef, but he did truth it from what I've heard.
And that's just dropped the market along with the class
closing. I take a different point of view than most
people. I am regenerative. We've been taking these last couple
of years to switch our dirt around, to get it
ready to be operating low cost. Even after the markets
have turned down, the cattle market's been high a year
longer than it should have been. Usually the cattle market
runs on 11-year cycles, give or take. So we've been,
I think we're year 12 of a high market. So
we should have crashed already based on just market fluctuations.
See, I didn't know that. I didn't know there was
an 11-year cycle to the cattle market. you know i
think and i'm thinking we're seeing this a lot these
days people not understanding the cycle of of different things
like that the uh the economic cycle and how drought
might affect the cattle crops and so the the cattle
and so the price goes up this year and oh
my goodness and then but then things uh there is
a natural cycle to these things and interfering with it
is a is is a no-no it's against nature it
is it is yo dude self-meddling when they so our
anonymous zoomer rancher goes on because you know i've talked
about the commodity cowboys these are the people who really
they're not like coal at KNC. They're not like this
rancher, regenerative, feeding their local community. And you don't have
to bring your cattle to one of the big three
processors. In fact, coal is doing quite well. I mean,
he's successful. He's not going to be a billionaire, but
he doesn't care. He wants to do this. He loves
what he does. And You got these commodity cowboys. who
just, you know, they stuff their cow with $1,100 worth
of Cheerios, and I'm not kidding, I've talked to Texas
Slim. When they go to the stockyard, they feed them
Cheerios to fatten them up and get them to the
right weight and everything. So that's not your grass-fed, grain
finish. No, that's Cheerio cows. And they're just concerned about
what they put in and what they get out. They
take it off to JBS and one of these other
guys, which is cartel. And I think that they're actually
working on breaking up some stuff with those guys because
they're not even American companies. They're owned by Brazil and
by China. And so our anonymous Zoomer Rancher says something
about that here. Cattle people are… uh commodity cowboys that's
that's true a lot of them you know they sit
and they watch the market report on tv and you
know they can go and complain to everybody else about
the the markets and the weather and the government the
three things you can't uh change whereas you know us
regenerative sell-by Find it, people. We're going to focus on
what we can change, and we're going to make a
profit while doing it. The only... Limit to your success
is the creativity of your mind. Yeah, exactly. Be creative.
That's what an American does. You get creative. And he
has some issues. It's not easy, but he's ready for
the challenge. I'm young. I'm not even 30 yet. Bam.
And I see nothing but opportunities in my future. That's
what I love. I see a lot of guys that
are fixing to retire. And... Boy, you give us some
time and...
you know we i don't know if we're going to
be owning a whole lot of land but you know
if we could keep our landowners happy i can see
us releasing as much ground as we can get a
hold of because there's not a whole lot of us
young guys wanting to come back yet now the labor
part that's going to be tough we use a lot
of h2a labor from south africa and uh Different culture.
It's hard to keep those guys from wrecking equipment and
everything around them, but it's all just a learning curve.
Sky's the limit when it comes to ranching, if you
ask me. But Otivus Rancher, out. All right. See, I
love that guy. So can I ask you a technical
question? Yeah. Did you run that through like Enhance? Adobe,
yeah. Enhance. All right. I could tell the little signs
of it. Yeah. It was really noisy, his audio, and
I tried to clean up as best as possible. Yeah.
He's a rancher. I can't feed a cow. By the
way, I don't think it's Honey Nut Cheerios, someone asked
me in the troll room. I think Froot Loops would
have been better. Can you imagine cutting your steak up
and it being red, green, and yellow? I think that
would be cool. I think I'd want some Froot Loops
steaks. Oh, man. General Scott Bessent. You've changed his name.
You know, when you're on the podcast with Jimmy, you
don't ever call him the gay general. Well, I get
crap for it. Like we have the anonymous gay accountant.
And, you know, I'm sure he's not happy with me
calling him that. Yeah. And then I'm focusing too much
on the gay part. It's more like Elizabeth Warren's brother
because, man, he has a weird-looking face. He has that
same kind of shaky demeanor when he's talking. But the
man is doing some interesting stuff. He is. And we
have a new... a new war operation. We have a
new D-Day Operation Economic Outcast. Today we're launching Today, today
Who gave him some cojones? Today we're announcing this. I
am Scott Messant. Today we are launching Operation Economic Outcast
to foreclose every other option available to the Iranian regime.
Treasury has mapped every node, every facilitator, and every network
that Iran has used to smuggle oil and evade sanctions.
Beginning today, the actions of Treasury and other agencies will
tighten the noose and block every potential source of revenue
that funds the IRGC and the evil Iranian regime. We
are enforcing a zero leakage approach. There will be no
minimal breathing space for the regime to rebuild its capacity
to inflict terror against America and the world. You got
to wonder how corrupt this business with Iran has been
throughout the decades when really all you need to do
is just turn off the money. No one was doing
that. We've had all kinds of Treasury secretaries. I mean,
the dollar is the money that people use to buy
and sell oil. How come this never happened before? It
seems like a no brainer. It does. And you know
what? I'm telling you, it's interesting that China came out
within minutes. I mean, it was literally within the hour.
China came on and said, yeah, no, we're not going
to we're not going to stick to that. We will
continue our support of Iran. And then on the very
same day, the CIA flies into Moscow. Into Moscow. Listen,
this is scary for me to say, but this type
of action, is this opening the door for people? A
literal, true world war? No, no. No? No, because we're
already at D-Day. We're ending the war right away. Listen
to the general. Operation Economic Outcast. That's the administration's new
name for its plan to choke off Iran economically by
targeting any country that does business with Tehran. In the
Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a
campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy
from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in
that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against
Iran's financial connections around the globe. That's, I mean, so
there's no war. No, there's no world war. It's over.
We have D-Day. D-Day. D-Day is here. We're liberating. We're
liberating the world. And maybe we are. I mean, this
is it's just like there's enough oil in the Gulf
and it's going through pipelines and we're bringing it through
the southern route. You know, these guys, they're just no
good. You know, I have to say that the we'll
clean this up. I lost complete track. Don't worry. I'll
play another clip and you'll get it back. Okay, there
you go. Now, it's not really clear what... We don't
edit anything on the show here, Matt. That's right. It's
warts and all on this show. Okay. Now, it's not
really clear what impact the new sanctions will have on
the Iranian economy. It's been subject to years of maximum
pressure, and it hasn't caused the regime. to crumble yet,
there's still a lot of questions about who will be
targeted and when. The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, was at
a press conference today laying it all out. And he
said that the plan is to, quote, tighten the noose
and force a, quote, zero leakage approach to cutting off
revenue that funds Iran's economy. And he did lay out
some specific areas that would be targeted, including technology. gold,
shipping, aviation. Now, he's also said that Trump had called
some world leaders to talk about the economic pressure, but
he said he wouldn't name names about who he had
called, and he refused to say how long the U.S.
was giving these governments to fall in line. Now, Besson
compared all of this to an economic D-Day, and I
asked him about that. Here's what he said. Well, this
is where I think Besant... uh put in a bit
of a tell you described this as an economic d-day
but d-day wasn't a threat of an invasion and the
u.s didn't give a timeline to germany so why not
impose the sanctions today why would i want to blow
up the global financial system what what what is he
planning here i'm So when it's time he blows up
the financial system or if he had told them this
to me. Or it's going to blow it up. I
don't know. But if we tell them first, it won't
blow it. I remember seeing that live and going, wait
a minute. There's something weird about that. We believe that
it is important to level set. and give people a
cure period, but they should know that that will move
very quickly and that we are serious. If people do
not want to meet our expectations, then we expect... And
they should expect that they will leave the dollar system.
Another big question hanging over all of this is how
China might be affected. Beijing is the top purchaser of
Iranian oil. It's Iran's biggest trading partner. But Trump doesn't
appear at the moment to be in a mood to
upend his relationship with the Chinese president Xi Jinping, who's
coming here to the White House for a state visit.
Next. Yeah, see, there's no coincidence in timing in this.
They can't just, you know, Xi Jinping is coming. Boy,
what kind of ceremony is the president going to give
to Xi Jinping? I don't know. You think they're going
to clean up the streets of San Francisco? No, no.
That was great, wasn't it? Yeah, that was. All the
homeless were gone. They were all in the bay. It
was fantastic. No, they're going to have flyovers. We're going
to have fireworks, all kinds. We should do a march
like they do in China. Yeah, and maybe even drop
a couple of bombs. drums nearby you know just we
got some tiny nukes we've never used you're the worst
matt you're the worst i have i do want to
make one comment on this d-day thing um That was
a bloody, deadly day. A lot of families were destroyed
on that day. I just looked it up, and we
lost 2,501 people. on D-Day in one day. And the
total loss that day of Allied troops was over 4,000,
including 391 Canadians. Man, those were the Canadians, I'm telling
you. But I have a hard time him using that
term D-Day because it kind of connotates. I know all
– what is it they say about all comparisons break
down at some point in time. When you call someone
Hitler. Well, analogies break down at some point. Right. And
this one I think broke down relatively. right away at
the beginning and I think they could have used a
better term than that and I know there's probably very
few people even alive today that can remember what happened
on that day. There's about 18 U.S. veterans, a friend
of the show, Agent Orange, He takes them to Normandy
every single year. They're over 100 years old now. And,
you know, he takes it, gets them on. I think
it's used to be American Airlines. Now I think it's
United. You know, whoever will treat them the best, flies
them over there. And those guys sit there and they
remember. And it's a beautiful, beautiful ceremony that they do
there. And. But even my maternal grandfather, Opa Al-Shoble, he
landed at Normandy and he got a he got a
bronze star, I think, for saving some. He was in
the signal and wire core. But, yeah, it was not
a great time there at all. My great aunt was
an administrator and a hospital administrator actually was in Hawaii
and had left the day before the bombing Pearl Harbor.
Yeah.
And right after D-Day, within a couple of days, she
was shipped in to land there, and she ran the
hospital in New York. Is it Sherborg? I can't remember.
One of the two towns there. There's two towns. I
don't know. And there was a hospital there and she
ran that hospital and was the administrator of that hospital
right after D-Day. And of course, she's not alive now
to hear the stories, but I imagine there were saw
a lot of ugly things in that hospital. You mentioned
the CIA director flying to Moscow. Here's ABC. Sources say
John Ratcliffe made the unannounced trip to Moscow overnight. This
is Ratcliffe's first known trip to Russia as the head
of the agency. The CIA declined to comment. Officials from
both countries have not disclosed what was discussed. Now, I
so I don't know if it was really about Iran
per se. I know that President Trump wants to play
ball with Russia. Then I don't see why we shouldn't
actually. There seems to be no reason other than, you
know, the full scale invasion of Ukraine, which we provoked.
We set it all up, you know, and thank you,
Victoria Nuland. I think it may have more to do
with the deal with Canada. And I think this is
Doug Ford. These Ford guys up north, they crack me
up. I think he even mentioned Russia as an alternative
to some Canadian products we would not get anymore. Premier
Ford, Alex Taibo with MS Now. In the past, you've
threatened yet stronger retaliation against the U.S., including curtailing the
export of electricity. from Ontario to the US. Would you
still go that far? I would. Everything's on the table,
but I can't do it alone. You know, I'm not
the only province that ships electricity down to the US.
We need a Team Canada approach. And I'd be happy
within the provinces to lead that approach. If this escalates
and we can't get back to the table and he
keeps coming after us, all options are on the table
in my opinion. But I can't do it alone. We
have other provinces that send electricity down to the U.S.
We all have to be on the same page. And
a follow-up, we know literally why we're in this trade
war right now, but I guess more philosophically, what are
the undercurrents that have brought us to this moment? President
Trump. Simple as that. You have a president, unlike President
Reagan that didn't believe in tariffs. President Reagan believed in
growing the economy on both sides of the border and
around the world. Make no mistake about it. America is
a powerhouse. but we're an economic powerhouse as well we're
the us's number one customer across the board across the
world we buy more products more services more widgets off
the u.s than anyone in the world and a tariff
on canada is nothing more than a tax on the
american people there it is i feel terrible for our
workers here the steel workers and auto sector but we're
going going to back them now what i was looking
for is a clip where he mentions potash which is
uh potash is for uh fertilizing Yeah, yes, yes, it
is potash. I was thinking of the other potash. Oh,
no, no, that's from back in the day, Matt. Potash,
yeah, it's absolutely necessary for fertilizer. And there's so many
of these things we import that we have been blessed
with a bountiful country. There are so many things we
have in our country. Can we make potash? I bet
we can. What is potash? That is not my area
of expertise. Hold on a second. That's the book of
knowledge. Yes, this is exactly where I'm going. Hold on
a second. Book of knowledge. What exactly is potash? Let's
see what the book of knowledge has for us today.
Okay. It's all pot-ass, so I don't know if he's
going to... According to the Book of Knowledge, potash is
a general term for potassium-containing compounds, most commonly potassium carbonate
or potassium chloride, derived historically from leaching wood ash in
iron pots, hence the name pot-ash. It is widely used
today as a fertilizer to enrich soil and boost crop
yields, and is also essential in the manufacture of glass,
soap, and various industrial chemicals. Thus, it has been written.
So we can't make that? We don't have that stuff
here? I don't know. I was just reading. Apparently, there
is Michigan. There is a domestic potash project in Michigan,
and it sounds like they take burnt wood and do
– you know, the waste of space in the Northwest
now that is – I'm sorry – that is being
– occupied by crazy liberals they got enough trees up
there we can make our own potash i'm sorry we're
americans that's right i'm i got my tongue in my
cheek very uh very uh carefully but apparently this uh
new mexico uh and utah also produce uh potash um
you know we found out during world war ii How
many resources we had in this country and what we
were able to do. And we just – if it's
easier to get it from Mexico or China or whatever,
that's just our nature. We're going to go, oh, yeah,
go over and get it in China. Why not? And
I just think that when we become so dependent on
foreign resources. You don't have a country. country you don't
have a country yeah what where does that eventually lead
you and so yeah i guess if we didn't have
any potash from canada well bless her hearts you know
And maple syrup and hockey, that's – There's literally going
to be tariffs on hockey sticks. Did you know that?
No, I didn't. A hockey stick costs about 200 bucks.
Get out of here. For a good hockey stick, yeah.
So it'll probably cost $300 to $400. I'm pretty sure
we can make a curved stick of wood. absolutely you
think we could but that see that's the whole idea
behind president trump's uh american system you know which i
think was a i think hamilton had the same you
know the american system i know you're giving me that
look like i'm just spouting here matt i don't know
i was trying to think about it well the idea
is Build it here. All our resources here and how
we're going to grow our way out of the the
deficit and the and the debt is with tariffs. That
has always been the plan. That's why, you know, the
Democrat and the Canadian Ford type response is always it's
going to be a tax on the American people. We
definitely have issues with being able to afford things, which
is a salary issue, and to some degree, a debasement
issue of the dollar. But we can make steel, and
that's happening now. And that will bring – well, here
it comes – good paying union jobs joe biden there
you go i mean i mean we can get back
to that the whole the whole midsection of the country
has just been destroyed tina lived in right across from
gary indiana where they still don't have power after 13
days um and her dad you know the mill closed
he worked at the steel mill closed That wall went
to China. But it's coming back. And yeah, it's not
going to be easy for a couple of years. Never
is. But I think that... they may be able to
pull it off i don't know i really don't know
well you know the tariffs were never part of the
republican playbook ever and he's right the the the canadian
i hate to say that the canadian was right when
he said reagan was very much against tariffs and i'll
tell you what i was very very shocked when i
first heard heard trumps talk about tariffs i'm thinking wait
a minute wait a minute oh no and so then
i watched all the republicans all of a sudden flip
180 from oh tariffs are no good tariffs are bad
but trump's doing it and so tariffs now are good
and i've heard listen to a lot of the excuses
and a lot of the uh justifications for his tariffs,
and I think I buy into some of them, but
this was definitely tariffs are a progressive, liberal thing that
Republicans and conservatives have steered away from for years. So
it's really been an interesting flip that all of a
sudden now we're all gung-ho about tariffs. So I hope
we get out of it what Trump, our president, says
we'll get out of it. The idea is it becomes
too expensive to buy the stuff from overseas, so we
make it ourselves. That's the entire idea the way I
see it. It's forceful, and a lot of people who
have internet shops are very upset. I get it. You
know, because, yeah, what a bonanza. I mean, you get
stuff from China, you mark it up. I mean, just
I walked through the mall with Tina a couple of
weeks ago and and it was some women like a
mid range women's clothing shop. And I look at sandals,
literally two slabs of. probably not even real leather with
a strap on it it has some brand on it
that i don't know the brand and it's 280 dollars
what are you kidding me this this is you know
this is made in china it costs maybe three bucks
maybe even less to make these ship them over put
a brand on it boom there it is
ridiculous you know that it just makes no sense and
then you bought them for her no no way i
don't think so no no i know i guilt her
about you know you got that's why i'm doing it
like hmm these chinese slaves the uyghurs uyghur sweat and
blood is in these things now she believe again Gary,
Indiana, or Gary is something. Yeah, that's what I thought
it was. Gary. No, it's Gary. You got Gary, Indiana.
I can't quite perfect it yet. Okay. Dude, my wife,
she, you know, we have like a moisturizer with a
little pump on the top. When it doesn't come out
of the pump anymore, the top comes off. and we
are to scrape the insides. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right.
And then put your hand over the straw and use
it that way for at least three more weeks. Oh,
three weeks. Wow. There's a lot in there. Yeah, there
is. Why don't they make those little straws longer? I
don't understand. You just cut open it with a razor
you can take. That's another way. And then you can.
just get it out. I got to do that. Listen,
I used to wash out my Ziploc bags and hang
them up to dry. So I know where your wife
is coming from. I love her for that, man. I
could. This is just a ripoff. It's a waste. I'm
not throwing it away. And so now I'm like, I'm
going all over the top now. You should see my
toothpaste. tube. I mean, we have those big keys that
you can slip on it, and you can twist it
all the way. I can't believe this. I have one,
too. I can't believe this. You have one of those
keys? I do. From my grandmother out of her bathroom.
Yeah, it's the best. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So the
one thing... The president does say there could be a
problem is aluminum. But for all the rhetoric, Trump last
night did acknowledge the U.S. relies on Canada for some
key products like aluminum. You know, selfishly, we need aluminum
in this country. We don't have it. We get it
all from Canada for the most part. And we need
it badly. Yeah. President Trump has long lamented the trade
deficit between the two countries, which stood at nearly $50
billion last year. But for a trading relationship as big
as the U.S. and Canada's, these tariffs still hit just
a fraction of the roughly $800 billion of commerce between
the two neighbors, which U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer has
echoed. At the end of the day, this is 5%
of imports from Canada. It's 0.06% of ours. overall consumption
in this economy. So there's no possible way it can
really affect U.S. well-being. Still, for states like Michigan, which
trades heavily with the nation to its north, this trade
war is already having consequences. Yeah. Michael Howard says his
furniture business has started losing clients. With a 50% tariff,
all those costs have skyrocketed, and just that one project
just cost our family thousands of dollars in profit. and
which impacts the ability for us to put food on
the table for our family. On the U.S.-Canadian border, where
$2.5 billion in goods cross every day, the costs to
citizens on both sides continue to grow. So you take
that furniture maker. I presume he's getting wood from Canada.
Could be. We got lots of wood. You just mentioned
that. We got tons of wood. I mean, we even
have producers who make cool boots and really nice men's
shoes, and they do it all in America. I mean,
it really is possible. And I don't see the price
being outrageously high. It's certainly not the $280, you know.
Sandals. Sandals. Give me a break. So Canada's firing back.
In Ottawa today, Canada's government had a clear message. It's
firing back. Canada will meet the moment. Canadians will meet
the moment. We will meet the moment together. All right.
NetNet has sent this to me in the troll room
five times now. Canada sends five million tons of garbage
to Michigan every year. We're literally taking their garbage. Okay.
So why don't you keep your garbage? That's right. Is
there a tariff on garbage? No, and they got all
that land going up north. You know, you look at
the map, and Canada doesn't seem to have a northern
boundary. No, it just goes all the way to Russia.
It just goes all the way up there. Man, there's
a lot of pits they could dig up there and
put their trash in. Yeah. And besides. I thought they
all recycled. I didn't think they even made trash in
Canada because they're so cool. They are. We'll support our
workers, our businesses, and our industry with whatever it takes
for as long as it takes. Starting September 8th, Canada
will impose or raise tariffs ranging between 15% and 50%,
affecting... 27 billion dollars worth of imports and that will
hit over 700 u.s products including some key U.S. imports.
Our response will specifically target products in the sectors of
steel, aluminum, household appliances, farming equipment, paper products and electronics.
Canada's retaliation follows the Trump administration, placing 50 percent tariffs
on roughly $20 billion dollars. worth of Canadian imports on
Saturday. Along with threats of more to come, President Trump
said he'll impose 50% on steel and autos starting next
year. And this clash between allies has gone beyond goods.
President Trump wrote on social media that the U.S. doesn't
expect to do business with the Canadian border province of
Ontario, adding, quote, the United States is giving serious consideration
to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
to that. One Canadian official simply said today, we'll always
call it Lake Ontario. So that is the typical Trump
look over here moment. I'm going to You know, just
mess troll with everybody. By the way, I looked it
up. Lake Ontario, it literally is half, you know, if
there's ownership, what there isn't. There's a border that runs
through it. It's roughly about right in the middle. And
we can call it whatever we want. That's right. We
can call it Lake America. I think we should. I
think that it's hilarious. There you go. It's Lake America.
It's official. It's just like, oh, man. This, of course,
is what, you know. The media loves to jump on
these things. Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario, Lake America.
And that's not even the real story. This is just
the latest jab in an escalating trade war between the
US and Canada. And the bigger threat just landed. President
Trump says he will impose 50% tariffs on Canadian cars,
trucks, auto parts and steel, start from the 1st of
January next year. Canada's already hitting back starting September 8th.
They're matching... Blah, blah, blah. Here's another one. President Donald
Trump is back to weaponizing bodies of water. Trump... He's
weaponizing Bile for Florida Trump posted on Truth Social His
administration is giving serious consideration In changing the name of
Lake Ontario To Lake America He even posted an image
of a map showing the Great Lake He even posted
an image of the map On all His proposed new
name This comes as Trump is engaged in a bitter
trade feud with Canadian leaders I think it's a bit
of a power struggle, you know, kind of a little
man's ego complex. Oh, little man's ego, little man's ego.
Have you seen the president's butt? That thing is larger
than the two of us put together. That thing is
enormous. McDonald's. McDonald's not Coke. He's got a Mickey D
caboose, baby. I think building of animosity between two neighbors
is something that is never a good result. It's not
the first time Trump has tried to rename a body
of water. So the general thinking here is that, you
know, of course, this is Mark Carney, who's the prime
minister. He is the central banker, central banker, basically. He's
all about the liberal rules-based world order. The general thinking
amongst people that I talk to is this is really
just about the midterms. Oh, it all is. Make Trump
look bad for the midterms, you know, get everyone all
jacked up about, you know, about – prices and tariffs
and you know the hockey sticks are gonna be too
expensive etc and when Doug Ford talks about electricity I
think he's only talk is he do they really have
electricity wires coming to America was he talking that oil
I had no I think I've heard that before the
power lines part of their a part of the very
northern area of some of our states no wow And,
you know, the U.S., we have three power grids in
the country, and one of them is Texas. One of
them is west, one of them is east, and the
other one is Texas. Yeah. Imagine. But it wouldn't surprise
me at all if there are power lines going over
the border into U.S. countries or into our states. It
wouldn't surprise me. These United States. I love the way
that gal earlier said that. These United States. And that's
the way it should be said, actually. So yesterday I
was talking to Pastor Jimmy who do the podcast, We
Get to Do This, and a question came up. I
think he asked me, like, well, what news can we
believe? And I like none. You can't believe any news
at all, whatsoever. The best thing you can do is
talk to somebody who knows what's going on, who's actually
an
expert in that field, which is what our producers are
on the No Agenda show, boots on the ground. I
just got a text from the oil baron, Paul the
oil baron. And he sent me a full article, but
I have no time to read it while on the
show. He says, the Trump administration is in talks with
Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the
south american country's enormous oil resources two u.s officials tell
axios now uh we know axios for some reason axios
is like a direct hotline to to the white house
yeah i'm not sure why um why it matters this
this is the historic deal Would more than double U.S.
oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the
world's largest proven reserves. And then the oil baron says,
Trump, sign up to keep oil price down, LOL. And
I believe it. I believe that's exactly what that is.
Well, all that oil in Venezuela was developed by American
companies and was actually owned by American companies. And I'm
going to get the companies wrong, but there were two
companies. Well, Chevron was one. Chevron. And they actually bought
that. They paid for all the infrastructure. They put it
all in. it all in that was their oil and
then they had to pay a fee to you know
venezuela got a share of it and the venezuelans took
it over and when they had their little revolution and
they kicked out all the operators in these refineries and
they said we can do it ourselves well guess what
they couldn't and uh... so a lot of their equipment
just went south and uh... i spent some time up
and uh... maracaibo is where the the big uh... bay
is where they did a lot of oil you were
there yeah yeah what were you doing there i was
uh... Traveling. Careful now. Yes. Working on my import-export business.
Sounds kind of spooky to me, Matt. I don't know
what business you were in. But, yeah, and it was
a horrible-looking place. I mean, it was like out of
some kind of sci-fi movie. The Derricks were kind of
all tipping over, and it was a very, very bizarre
scene. Because all the experts. That's where it's left. They
had to leave the country, and the whole thing fell
apart. Absolutely. So us taking it back, we're just getting
it back to the original owners. I mean, that's really
what it is. We just found some stolen property, and
we've got a guy big enough to go in and
take our stolen property back. So I don't have a
problem with it at all. Amen to that. You're a
car guy. I mean, all Texans are car and truck
guys. And I don't think I mean, when I was
growing up, I remember we always used to have long
conversation or my dad would have long conversations with other
dads about tires. And buying tires was a conversation. I
don't think that – do you remember those days when
people would just talk about tires you got? I'm going
to get new tires. I mean, these days – I
mean, does anyone really talk about tires that much anymore?
Or you just buy a car and, you know, it's
like, meh. You know, maybe it's, you know, it's an
eight-year-old car and the tire's a little worn. You can
literally go down to the tire. What is it called?
Like Tires R Us? Yeah, seven-day tires, something like that.
You have a cup of coffee, and they put new
tires on. You don't even ask, and you just put
some new tires on. But do you remember the conversations
about different kinds of tires? I guess I don't. Really?
I don't remember any tire conversations. Well, I was on
the East Coast. Maybe it was more of an East
Coast. coast thing, but it was always, and there was
a whole bunch of reasons and which tire was better.
And you want to have, actually, when I was in
college for three months in West Virginia, I remember that
was a big conversation because what tires you're going to
have for the winter? You want to have all round
tires. Round tires. And I want round ones, like, you
know, ones that work. And so as a part of
the midterm PSYOP from California, they've put in new rules
and regulations for tires. And I was like… What is
going on with this? And of course, Gavin Newsom is
very happy about it. And so we'll break down exactly
what is going on with this. I think it was
a good choice. Governor Gavin Newsom speaking for the first
time on new tire regulations. The California Energy Commission or
CEC unanimously approved earlier this week. Thank you, everybody. At
an unrelated press conference. Wow, what a nap pop that
was. Great nap top. Let's hear that again. Thank you,
everybody. standards beginning in 2033. The governor says his administration
backs the rules, saying they will reduce the energy needed
to move cars, in turn saving drivers money on fuel,
all while cutting emissions. The ROI is pretty good, the
return on investment. I'm back to just facts. In fact,
a billion dollars a year in fuel. You talk about
affordability agenda. That makes some sense to me. There it
is. The affordability agenda. So this is clearly a midterm.
Now, it doesn't really go in until January 1st, 2029.
But here's here's what it's about. It's the replacement tire
efficiency program. The California Energy Commission. So this is a
climate change initiative, which is just amazing. And it has
to do that. So passenger car replacement tires must meet
a maximum rolling resistance coefficient. Okay. RRC of 9.0 NKN.
I don't know exactly what that is. Then they have
phase two, where the ceiling drops from 9.0 to 7.1.
So this is how efficient your car tires roll on
the road, which, of course, has huge implications for weather,
speed, speed. Turning. They have to. So the what's called
the wet grip. It's like what in the world? So
they have to change to go from rubber to high
silica and functionalized polymer compounds. This this sounds like a
horrible idea. to and evs most of them in california
they eat up tires 30 more you know like will
you be able to break the same you know can
you will you get acceleration do your tires spin out
i mean this sounds like a bunch of idiots just
want to put something in there to you know to
placate the climate crazies and It doesn't sound like a
good idea. You know, the only concern I have about
that is can you get them in white walls? California
Energy Commissioner Nancy Skinner acknowledged. Matt will be here all
week, everybody. Under the new regulations, about 70% of the
tires currently sold in California will not be legal to
sell come 2033. But she also stresses tire manufacturers have
seven years between now and then to come. up with
new types of tires to sell tires Skinner believes will
ultimately benefit consumers. We'll ensure that the tires sold in
2029 will be the same quality and just as good
as the tires that are on your brand new car
when you drive it off the lot. Just as good,
just as good. So it's only for replacement tires. So,
you know, buy a new car and you get the
good tires, I guess. And of course, with California, this
is what we learned from John. It's like the reason
we have crazy expensive diesel is because of the sulfur
content that California demands. And we're not going to make
One diesel for California and a different one for everybody
else. So we have to deal with their regulations. That
may be the same. If all the tire companies get
on board with this, we're going to get these crap
tires. You know, I think a lot of tire companies
just won't do business in California, or at least a
couple of them won't. I mean, if they've got the
rest of the country to sell their tires to –
I just don't do business in California. I mean, what
is California's motto? We're from the government and we're here
to help. Is that their motto? We've got the government
designing tires. This is a problem. ...and Bridgestone Tires said
they hope to work with the California Energy Commission... Ah,
traitors. Bridgestone traitors. ...to ensure the new regulations take effect
smoothly. But other tire manufacturers and industry groups have argued
the rules could limit consumer choice and lead to significantly
higher costs for replacement tires after the tougher standards take
effect. Yeah. A coalition of tire companies earlier this year
sent the commission this letter, urging it not to adopt
the regulations amid concerns over high costs. Republican State Senator
Tony Strickland of Huntington Beach, meantime, argues the new rules
are government overreach. There's a lot of families that are
living paycheck to paycheck, And they can't afford these kind
of regulations. In fact, these board directors are the modern-day
Marie Antoinette. They don't care that they're really driving people
out of the state of California. You'd be wise to...
take advantage of new efficient tires, lower your cost at
the pump. Tire manufacturers, the vast majority came on board,
one notable one did not, but from a consumer's perspective
uh the savings is is self-evident and so i think
it was a good choice in that respect i wonder
who didn't come on board oh i know i've already
got that in my notes they're they're going to be
my new favorite tire company
Let's find out. Book of Knowledge. Which tire company is
not participating in California's new tire regulations? I love my
book of knowledge. Oh, it's great. Yeah. Let's see. According
to the Book of Knowledge, Goodyear and Dunlop oppose California's
new replacement tire efficiency program, while Michelin and Bridgestone support
it. Goodyear. Yeah. It has been written. So, Goodyear. Nice.
I wrote in a blimp once. Really? Yeah. Man, that's
a trip I'd like to take. It was pretty cool.
It was very cool. I missed an opportunity when Budweiser
had a blimp. I missed that opportunity. But I like
blimps. I think that, you know, they're... a pain in
the butt to land you gotta have 18 people on
the ground grabbing ropes with it it's a pretty cool
mode of transport it was really yeah but when was
the hindenburg 1908 I don't know. I can't remember. But,
you know, we had buildings that had airship docks on
the top of them. New York had them all over
the place. Yeah. And it was slow, but it was
luxurious. And you had big sleeper cabins. The only problem
was they exploded. But helium was hard to get back
in the day. So did pentos. It's a fine American
tradition of exploding transportation, yes. You know, but the Goodyear
blimp, it's got a cockpit that I think is about
the size of your studio here. And it is noisy
as can be because everything's right there. And it's just
this tiny little compartment. But, yeah, I think a blimp
would be a cool way to go across the country
without a doubt. A lot of these Silicon Valley guys
have tried to resurrect that several times. I'm not sure
what the status is. You know, I think everyone changed
investing into airships, as they're known. They're not blimps, airships,
into flying cars, which, you know. The flying car is
going to be like the paperless office or the paperless
toilet, maybe. I can't wait to get one. You haven't
seen my garage, but I have a spot for it.
For some reason, we have a three-car garage. We don't
have three cars, but that's where my flying car will
go if it ever comes out. All right. You know,
Gene, Sir Gene is always sending me. these uh these
videos youtube's like look at this man it's here it's
coming this is it the flying car i say have
you looked at the specs you can you can fly
exactly 60 miles an hour For 20 minutes. If I
can't get to Austin and land in your backyard, it's
not worth it. And also, if I have to recharge
for 24 hours before I can fly home, the power
to rate ratio is a whole thing. Mm-hmm. A lot
of complaints about H-1B visas. I think pretty much everybody
who listens to the show has a complaint about it.
A lot of my friends who work in technology companies,
their biggest complaint is they've been overrun by Indians. Mm-hmm.
All H-1B, they bring in more H-1B. It's filled with
fraud. Also, sorry, Brahmins, but the Brahmins are really racist
or classist, I should say. And it's just a mess
and no one wants to work there anymore. And it
seems like there's going to be some crackdown on this
finally, which is another part of the how about let's
get Americans back to work. And the first is the
new fee. Which was just came. I'm not sure about
the number, but this is probably a good idea. The
Trump administration is moving to codify a new fee for
H-1B worker visas that costs more than $103,000. In a
filing today, the Department of Homeland Security said some of
the revenue would be used to help fund the nation's
immigration courts and ICE. Earlier this summer, a judge in
Massachusetts struck down a similar temporary fee. The H-1B program
allows U.S. companies to hire tens of thousands of foreign
workers each year. President Trump has argued it takes jobs
away from Americans, but many companies say it's needed to
recruit top talent, especially in tech and research. Which is
just bull crap. They all get their education here. They
come over from India, get their education here, and then
get an H-1B, and then they're working. Do you know
why the tech industry? Is it really a labor shortage?
No, it's cost. It's just cost. So there's no –
it's not labor shortage based. Well, initially it was cost.
Of course, there are a lot of really highly educated
– and just mainly Indians, I would say. But then
– you know indians hire indians and they got you
know this whole h1b farms and you know like like
pat you I hate to sound racist, but you know,
one guy looks like the other on the passport photo,
you know, Rajiv. And so that just permeates. The fraud
is known, it's well known. Everybody complains about it. And
I don't care. You know, you can come here and
become an American and work here. That's fantastic. But the
specific visas part, of it is a scam. And there's
another thing. The State Department is now going to revoke
a lot of the 1B visas, which I presume is
A1B. There's a couple of different 1Bs, hospitality, agriculture and
business. The U.S. government is preparing to revoke the business
and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have
applied for or are currently seeking asylum status. If this
happens, it'll be the largest mass revocation of visas in
U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges. State Department
documents attained by the Associated Press say the revocation will
take place in the coming weeks. on B1 and B2
visas issued between 2016 and 2026, and will be done
in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security. B1 visas
are generally issued for business trips, and B2 visas are
generally issued for tourism, family visits or medical care. Current
applicants for B1 and B2 visas are asked to affirm
that they will not apply for asylum in the United
States and prove that they intend to return to their
home countries. Since President Donald Trump took office for his
second term last year, his administration has steadily ramped up
restrictions on visa applicants, demanding more information about their social
media histories, requiring the posting of expensive bonds for the
processing of visas, and outright banning the issuance of visas
to citizens of certain countries. Yeah. All they've got to
do is marry an American. No, they're cracking down on
that, too. They just rolled up a whole Chinese ring.
They've been doing that for a decade. Oh, yeah. I
had a friend in Ecuador... who needed to marry an
Ecuadorian to get her to stay in the country to
keep her business going. And she worked out a deal
with a young teenage boy in the village there. Yeah.
Boom. And so she said, well, do you want something?
He wanted a basketball. So she got her a basketball
and a husband. She gave him a basketball, and she
got a husband, and as far as I know, still
lives there. You know, that's right. I'm all for making
it, putting levels into getting into our country. You know,
at one point, I don't know. This is when I
was living in Europe. Like, maybe I should go move
to Australia. That might be interesting because I visited Australia,
did a documentary in 1990. Now, this is before they
went completely woke. Not all provinces or states, I guess
you call them, like Queensland is still pretty okay. And
I looked into it. And at the time, and I
don't think it's changed much, you had to either be
a literal rocket scientist or have $5 million. Okay. Now,
that's $5 million. Australian dollars. So I know that's maybe
nine fifty here's a buck fifty dollar dues now. But,
you know, yeah, that I agree with that. Make it
harder. I mean, or put a put a limit of
reason for you to come here and not just come
in. This is what destroyed Europe, completely destroyed Europe. It's
crazy. And you've been telling a lot of us recently
that we're not on the same path of destruction with
our immigrants coming in as quick as Europe was. For
this very reason. Yeah. You know, President Trump closed the
borders. Your boy Tom Holtman enforced it. No, we're not.
You know, of course, as part of the midterm push,
Let's all be extremely worried about Muslims. There's absolutely problems
with Islam. There's absolutely imams doing podcasts saying they've absolutely
had a plan since 1991. Absolutely. But it's still 1%
of the population. You haven't quite overrun us yet. You
know, every time I talk about Islam on my program,
which seems to be quite often recently, is I always
have to start with that caveat that I know they're
bad. I know they don't even culturally fit in here.
I mean, just everything right down the line. And yet
I can still – then I can talk about it
because anything I seem to say, if I don't put
the caveat in there, it's like, oh, you're pro-Islam. It's
like, no, I'm not. But we've – yeah, we do
have to be careful. But at the same time, this
is not London overnight. It's not Paris. No. Not overnight.
And London – you know, the main source of Muslims
is Indians. And why? Because I forget which prime minister
was it. It was, oh man, I should know this.
We've talked about him. The prime minister, I think before
Thatcher, I can't remember.
I heard something with an H. He said, hey, you
know, if we colonize you, you have a right to
come to England. Oh. Heath. I think it was Heath.
Heath. Okay, yeah. And so the Indians went... Straight up,
bro. And the Pakistanis and all kinds of colonies came
in. And that's where that came from. So you and
I could go and live in London then and be
allowed to stay because we were colonized as well. Good
luck with that. That won't fly? Shall I get you
a one-way ticket? Yeah. Happy to send you off there,
man. No problem at all. So you get these countries
like the Netherlands and they just let – I mean
the Moroccans. We had Muslims in the Netherlands for decades.
We didn't call them Muslims. They were Indonesians. Number one
country of Muslim religion, faith. Islamic political ideology, whatever you
want to call it, they call themselves Muslims, is Indonesia.
Number one, the Netherlands famous for its Indonesian restaurants. We
love Indonesian food. Never had a problem with, as they
call them, the Indos. The Indos. In fact, it was
okay to call them Indos. You can't do that anymore.
After that came the Turks. And that was part of
a guest worker program in the 70s. And they had
to really start building up the country because a lot
of it was destroyed. And so we needed guest workers
to come in. Just weren't enough people in the country.
Now, as a sideline to that, you had the Moluckers,
and the Moluckers didn't get a good deal. And they
also got colonized and treated poorly by the Dutch because
the Dutch, they were no good, man. They transported all
the slaves. I mean, they were the ship-faring nation. So
the Moluckers got all pissed off in the 70s, and
they started hijacking trains. Do you remember this? They were
hijacking trains in the Netherlands? Oh, yeah. How do you
hijack a train? They literally would hijack, and it would
be on TV. TV for days and they would have
hostages and then the special forces would go in and
several hostages got killed. It was and was always the
Moluccas, never Muslims, Moluccas. Then came the Turks. Turks. Yeah,
you know, there was a little bit of racism against
the Turks, but they integrated pretty well. And I have
a lot of Turkish Dutch, you know, crossbreeding families. And
they didn't really have the cuisine that added much to
the culture, but they were there for so long. They
helped build it. Not a problem. By the way, Muslims.
Then came the Moroccans. And these were not the Moroccans
in the big cities. You know, like Marrakesh. Have you
ever been to Marrakesh? I have not. Dude, it's like
the most modern city in the world. It is like
Singapore on steroids. Wow. Just beautiful buildings, beautiful, like shopping
malls better than UAE. Just fantastic. It wasn't those Moroccans.
No. No. They sent over the ones from the mountains
and they came over. Now, Muslims, yeah, you know, they
have Ramadan and they have some, you know, slowly the
halal stores crept in and people didn't really push back.
And then, of course, they started to get into government
because people are apathetic and don't go and vote. They
run the drugs, all the drugs. It used to cost
probably, if you wanted to kill somebody, I grew up
in this country, so I lot of weird things. If
you wanted to kill someone, you know, you probably 15,
10,000 euros. Now, 500. Wow. And they do it on
mopeds. Yep, they drive by, they shoot you, machine guns,
everything, run all the drugs throughout all of Europe through
the port of Rotterdam. Rotterdam, where my daughter lives, she
had to move out to a different area. I'm like,
you should move out to Tennessee is what I keep
telling her. That's far southwest of Holland, right? She doesn't
listen to me. But again, it wasn't a Muslim problem
until it's almost like someone told them, hey, Don't forget
you're Muslims. So all these years, it never was an
issue, but some of it has to do with Israel.
And the extreme hate of Israel in the Netherlands, where...
You know, Anne Frank, Corrie ten Boom. These are famous
Jewish stories from from Second World War. The hate is
unbelievable. And of course, a lot of it is because
look at who's living in Amsterdam. Look at who's living
in Rotterdam. You know, they burn Israeli flags now. I'm
not saying anything about Netanyahu or the current – I
don't give a crap. Gaza, okay, this is not a
problem that has just been recently. This is all psyops
to highlight genocide. There's been a lot of genocides no
one seemed to care about. This one people care about.
And so now the latest – This is amazing, is
the Eurovision Song Contest. Yes, I've never paid attention to
it until I started listening to No Agenda. And I've
been watching the Eurovision Song Contest since 1972 when ABBA
won with Waterloo. And I think the Dutch have won
four or five times. And it is a cultural phenomenon.
And it's from the European Broadcasting Corporation. The EBU, which
by itself is weird, because why is Australia in there
and why is Israel in there? And then there's all
kinds of ways people say, well, but they're technically a
part of Europe. Okay, geographically, I'm not seeing it, but
whatever. So ever since. Really, since... Even before Gaza, there
was already people calling for Israel to be boycotted, kick
them out. We don't want them in the Eurovision Song
Contest. And now it's flipped. And now... countries are pulling
out of the Eurovision Song Contest. And I'm joined by
Josje Suis. He's a Eurovision expert and journalist for Omro
Buker. I wish I could be paid as a Eurovision
expert. There you go. What a job that will be.
And in Arnhem in the Netherlands. Now, the Netherlands are
boycotting. Is this the biggest crisis that Eurovision has ever
faced? Yeah, I would like to think so. It's a
really big crisis. It's a crisis! Of course, the Eurovision
has always been political since the beginning. It was made
to make peace in Europe, but it's never been so
polarizing and dividing as it is now. Everybody is thinking
something of it. A lot of countries are boycotting it.
It's a big crisis. Yeah, it could be like a
negative downfall of the contest for sure. It's a big
crisis, a downfall. So negative. Everything's falling apart. How much
would people lose if Eurovision went away? I mean, what
would that, you know, I mean, I know it's kind
of a facetious question, but. I think the thing is
that this is one of these cultural events that kind
of keeps Europe together. Okay. Right. It's kind of like
we're the European Union, even though it goes far beyond
the European Union. And it's not just the Netherlands pulling
out, but the other big ones are pulling out. And
I think this could start in a funny way. I'm
just calling it as a possible Red Book prediction that
this could be the. Breaking up of the European Union
over cultural things like this. Now, Spain has said it
would not broadcast the contest or the semifinals in Vienna
next year, describing the process of decision making as insufficient
and engendering distrust. What do they mean by that? They
are not the only one. Ireland is also not broadcasting
it. I think what I mean... is because they think
the changes that are being made, that's what they voted
on yesterday. So they voted on having more juries and
changing the number of votes you can make. They're rigging
the whole thing. It was rigged anyway. It was all
favoritism. Countries voted for their neighbors, Belgium. Belgium and the
Netherlands would vote. No one voted for the UK. Like,
England is always last with no votes. I mean, they
won once, I think, with Brotherhood of Man. save all
your kisses for me. Why do I know this stuff?
Because I'm an unpaid Eurovision expert, Matt. I think they
find that too less of a change to keep the
trust in the EUVU that they are independent, not supporting
Israel in any way or giving them special treatments. And
I think they... They just don't trust the EU that
they are really independent. And I think for the fans,
it's very sad that the broadcaster will not broadcast it,
but they can watch it on YouTube as well. So
here's the funny thing. So it's the European Broadcast Union.
It's all the public broadcasters because all these all these
countries have. government broadcasting organizations. And it's just like the
BBC, funded a little bit differently, but it's from the
people. It's supposed to be apolitical and for the people
in every single country. It's extremely left-wing, very biased, and
it's a very expensive thing. The European Broadcasting Union, they're
not going to broadcast it in these countries, but now
they're putting it on YouTube? Yeah. Get rid of the
whole thing. So you lose your own – so you're
just cutting your own throat. I'm assuming there's advertising that
goes in with these. Is there money that's made by
broadcasting it? I'm glad you asked because they do –
Was that a good question? That's a – It's close.
It's still a great question, but no, it's a good
question. They have one sponsor. You might be surprised. Now,
Spain is, of course, one of the biggest contributors financially,
and without its participation and other nations like the Netherlands
and Ireland pulling out, what will be the effect on
this event? It's very hard to say now because the
Netherlands is the sixth biggest contributor in Money Wise. Spain
is, of course, one of the big five. So they
will lose a lot of money, but they keep the
biggest sponsor, Moroccan Oil, now. So it's hard to say
what will happen. They got three countries back, Moldova, Bulgaria
and Romania. So I think they tried to compensate the
loss that was expected to happen a little bit. But
I think you could see a lot of the rising
expectations. Did you hear it? the oil moroccan oil i
heard oil and i didn't hear what was before it
moroccan oil could it be any more anti-israel yeah moroccan
oil sponsor do you think that had anything to do
with it by any chance oh is it possible no
of course not you're just that's just a crackpot theory
i'm telling you that this is going to be the
beginning mark this the eurovision song contest breaking apart people
not broadcasting it and moving to youtube is going to
be the end of the european union this will be
the the crack the very first crack i can just
feel it it's it's you can't understand it it's like
super bowl It's like Super Bowl in America. Really? Okay.
Very much so. Yeah. And it was just fun. It
was just fun to see the votes coming in and
yelling and saying, oh, those guys are just voting for
them. Yeah. It used to be, you'd see Ukraine and
Russia voting against each other, you know, zero points, no
points for Russia from Ukraine and vice versa. Russia used
to be in it. Hmm. They used to be in
the Olympics. They used to be in all kinds. They
used to be in the G8. G7 plus one, maybe.
So the – This happened to you twice now, Matt.
I know what it's from. The 70s. Yes, that's exactly
where it's from. Matt and I were sharing bong stories
earlier. We both are avid vapors now, which I just
love. We're just sitting here vaping away in the studio.
It's fantastic. What are you rocking there? What's your rig?
What is mine? I think I have the same as
yours. I'm not sure what it is You got a
geek vape I think I have an older model I
went to a I'm so blind now This is the...
It's a little smaller than mine. The Aspire. Okay, Aspire.
Okay, okay. I'm familiar with them. Do you build your
own coil? No, I heard you when you said that
a while back, and I was thinking, what an idiot.
Yeah, man, you got to wind your own coil, use
American cotton. Yeah. Do you pull it out of an
old T-shirt? Where do you get this American cotton? You
buy it in a bag called – it's called bacon.
Cotton bacon. Okay. It was funny. When we were stopped
at the border coming back two times ago, we were
stopped. We stopped in – it might have been –
Minneapolis, I think. We came in from Minneapolis over to
Texas. And for some reason, we have the global entry,
which is like, you know, literally face scan like, hey,
Mr. Mrs. Curry. Yeah. OK, you're good to go. And
then we're standing there waiting for our luggage. And you
could see one of those feds walking around. He's like,
excuse me. You know, it's like, can I see your
passports? I'm like. Well, this is interesting. I use my
passport. Okay. And then we're ready to go out, and
then two more customs agents come up, and we got
our suitcases. And he's like, okay. where are you folks
from? I said, you know, we just got spoken to
by your colleague. I mean, do we look like international
diamond smugglers? Oh, last thing to say. T.T. is like
so mad at me. He's like, oh, why don't you
come over here? So do you have any cash on
you? Yeah, I got like 40 bucks. Can you need
some? Let me know. It's like, and so I think
because he kept mentioning cash, like, okay, open up my
computer back, you know, my studio bag, basically. And in
there is the bacon. Okay. And it says bacon on
the side. Is this an agricultural product? Oh, good Lord.
No, it's cotton. What do you need cotton for? For
my vape. Okay. They were really nice about it. Tina
was mad. Like, don't make these jokes, man. Don't do
this. But come on. It's like the whole thing is
hilarious. We're not smuggling anything. if i was smuggling something
i'd be a little quieter obviously you know i used
to uh collect beach sand at different beaches i would
go to because the sands are all very cool right
why does this not surprise me and so um so
i am uh flying in from columbia into miami and
uh they're going through my bags oh and the worst
thing that could ever happened was the girl working behind
the count, but working where I got pulled up. This
was Houston, not Miami, Houston. And she looks at me
and she goes, We went to high school together, didn't
we? And I went, oh, crap. Yes. Listen, let me
tell you, I could not have smuggled a cat's fart
in on that. She knew me from high school. She
knew you. They turned over everything, and they find the
one little container of white sand from a beach in
Columbia. Wow. I had Colombian white he says yes Colombian
white and she said what's this I said it's sand
and boy immediately these people come over and they took
it off and I guess they chemically analyzed it somewhere
and about 20 minutes later they come back and hand
me my sand back short a few grains I had
weighed it and they they they I said it was
okay. It was sand. I said thank you very much.
Anyway, I don't even know how we got on that
tangent. Vaping. And by the way, I'm going to put
it out there. I was a heavy smoker for many,
many years. Me too. And I tried, I mean, I
tried everything. I think I never tried hypnosis, but I
tried everything about quitting smoking that ever anybody had ever
come up with. And nothing ever worked for a short
period. It would never work. Yeah. And when I decided
to try the vape, and it was our good friend
Jerry. Jerry. Rest in peace. Jerry. And I went in
there and… Jerry and his wife… Oh, I knew you
were going to say that. Oh, goodness. Not Mary. No,
no. She had a common name. It'll come to me.
So they were… The hippies. Yeah. Hippies from California. And
they were in their 70s. And their mission literally was
to get people off of smoking cigarettes. Yeah. That's why
they opened the vape shop. And so I go in
there and they fixed me all up. And Adam, I
tell you, I did not pick up a cigarette. even
after that even once yeah now we've got a guy
at the uh our one of our main engineers up
at the studio he's a smoker and i love it
his little cubicle or his little box oh man and
he could well no he smokes outside so oh yeah
it comes in i'll come in i'll and i'll i'll
be heading in in I can smell Bob over there.
I love the smell of tobacco smoke. I love it.
And this is one thing that we connected on very
early, that we were both roll-your-own guys. And, of course,
I'd roll up the tobacco with weed. I mean, I
was wake and bake for most of my life. But
I stopped because of the... Maverick My periodontist He called
me. I've become really good friends with him. He's a
pilot. That's how we kind of connected. And he called
me a week before my first procedure, which was the
extraction phase. You know, I have just these beautiful new
teeth. I mean, don't you think? Oh, they're gorgeous. Gorgeous.
And he said, Adam, it's Mitch. Hey, man. can you
stop putting fire in your face for a week? Because
it's really, it's going to make my job harder, and
it's going to be harder for you to heal. And
I put down tobacco and weed and never touch it
again. I don't crave it. I mean, the vaping... Of
course, it is an electronic nicotine delivery system. There's no
doubt about that. And I think it's more just... you
know i miss that rolling that's why i like doing
the coil i miss the rolling the whole process you
know thinking about it you know and then sparking it
up and letting it go out and sparking it up
again and something about the vape satisfies those movements and
just i don't know what to do with my hands
well we can say it it's an oral fixation that's
right There it is. There it is. But I love
these people say... you know you're going to die from
vaping i'm like you really haven't done the research on
all the different aspects of vaping you know well yeah
it's really bad it's worse than smoking like you get
those people oh i absolutely do what do you shut
up exactly no i have one line i gave up
all my hard drugs i gave up alcohol um nobody
is taking my caffeine or my nicotine away from me,
I will go to the grave with a vape. Maybe,
I don't know, maybe I'll have a cigarette. If I
know I'm on my way out, go over bum one
from Bob. But I have to tell you that, no,
there's a lot of things that I have enjoyed in
my life that I gave up for good. Good, healthy
reasons. And I'm going to, by God, I'm going to
hang on to some of them. I'm with you, brother.
I'm with you.
Since we're on a cultural trip here for a moment,
Dolly Parton, first of all, Tim Curry passed away 80.
The number of times someone has said to me, hi,
Tim, I can't count. And so... Maybe that'll end now,
finally, because people think, well, that can't be Tim Curry
because he's dead. But I wasn't really a Rocky Horror
fan. What other stuff has he done? He'd been in
a lot of different things, though, not just Rocky. He
was known for – what a bummer that must have
been to only be remembered for Rocky Horror Pictures. For
the transgender dance that he did. But he was pretty
ugly. You know, I appreciate his – He was pretty
ugly. I appreciate the work he did as Pennywise. I
thought he was – We've had several Pennywises, and I
think he was one of the best Pennywises. And, of
course, Home Alone 2, they've been showing that little clip.
And that was a pretty funny scene. He's a pretty
funny guy. Let me look at his body of work.
Let me see. Doesn't Wikipedia always have that? Yeah. Okay.
So, man, they don't have a – the wiki page
doesn't have a – oh, Tim Curry performances. Well, here
we go. Okay. um let's see seven he was from
the 70s man he had okay he played in buttons
in cinderella midsummer this is uh stage stuff that's theater
it was a theater it's from the theater oh wow
he did a lot of theater stuff how about his
uh how about his movies uh Man, he did a
film. Okay, Rocky Horror, Annie, Clue, Hunt for Red October.
Now, that was a good movie. The Player, Home Alone
2. Loaded Weapon 1. I wish I was in that.
Mikhail's Navy. Huh, how about that? Oh, he was Major
Vladikov. Adam's Family Reunion. Oh, he played Gomez. That's right,
in Adam's Family Reunion. Charlie's Angels. Who wasn't in Charlie's
Angels? What else did he do? I still watch Charlie's
Angels on Sunday afternoons. Hello, Angels. He did a lot
of TV stuff, too. He would have been someone that
would have been really fun to have around the campfire.
He just seems like he would be able to tell
a story that would just keep you enthralled. I don't
know. I could be totally wrong on that, but that
was my impression of it, that he'd be a blast
to have over just to tell us some stories to
him you know and uh i think he'd be good
now you grew up in texas you're a full texas
boy i was born in abilene but my folks moved
us to vienna austria when i was about a year
and a half old in fact when hitler came to
power no i'm yeah i'm not that old 1961 in
fact we took the roder over to Europe. Sure. And
it's now a hotel in somewhere. I would like to
go stay somewhere. No, you don't. No, I don't? No,
it's not what you think it is. It's not what
you think it is. But so we were in Vienna.
In fact, we had ties to Holland. We'd go to
Den Haag every now and then. We had a good
friend who was a… What did your dad do going
to The Hague? You know, he was a preacher. Yeah.
Really? He was a preacher, a missionary. He and his
buddies. Well, big fail on Holland. They took Bibles and
literature in behind the Iron Curtain during the 60s. And
so they did a lot of that. But we went
to The Hague. In fact, the thing I remember about
Holland was they had seven up in Holland, and we
couldn't get that. in Vienna. And the other thing, the
most beautiful woman I think I've ever known was a
Dutch-Indonesian woman named Leda Katan, who I just, even as
a kid, I was like, oh my God. Goodness, beautiful
Indonesian women. By the way, Dutch, speaking of colonizations, the
Dutch colonized Indonesia. Yeah. And in fact, then the Japanese
took it away from them. And they threw everyone in
the Dutch people in the Japanese concentration camps. OK. I
knew a lot of kids. Their parents had been in
the Yuppa Kump. Oh, wow. They were called the Jap
camp. Wow. So, yeah, and then we came to the
States when I guess I was about 11 or 12,
and we moved to the tiniest little West Texas town
in the whole wide world, a place called O'Donnell, where
they put me in school. And I had never played
football. You know, not football, but football. Baseball. None of
those things were familiar with me at all. And I
ate with my fork in my left hand and my
knife in my right. You know that? Yeah, you know,
the proper way, the Emily Post way. Absolutely. I got
in trouble at school because I didn't know how to
hold. my silverware. You're heathen. I know. But I do
have memories of Holland, and I grew up reciting a
Dutch nursery rhyme when we first met. I remember that
was the first thing I asked you. What is it?
I don't remember what it was. Olico bolico rabi solico,
olico bolico no. And you've got to do these things
with your hands, right? Yeah. Nailed it, brother. All right.
You and Mark Rutter. Yes, hello. So I was leading
into an entertainment package of Dolly Parton just because I
always liked her. I mean, did you grow up listening
to Dolly Parton? I don't think so. I think I
did. I don't think I did. I obviously knew who
she was, and I heard her music by accident. But
it was not something I would tune in or buy
a record. As a radio guy, I've played all of
– because she had crossed over all the time. It
would go top 40, like Jolene, which I despise that
song. Now, here's the crazy thing. On the last episode
of the Noah Gentiles. show, I was talking to Rob,
you know Rob, and he was talking about the psyop
of the COVID vaccine. And I said, yeah, even Dolly
Parton was in on it. And I played the clip
of her singing vaccine, vaccine. So this is, you know,
you don't want to mess with a no agenda show.
That's right. Bad things happen when we dig up old
stuff of yours. But... I always loved her. I always
loved the songs, you know, 9 to 5. I just
wanted to play this as a short, well, it's a
longer than normal homage to Dolly Parton. Well, I wanted
to be a star, but I always thought of a
star more as a singing star. Legendary country music star,
businesswoman, actor, and philanthropist Dolly Parton has died. Parton was
born one of 12 kids in a one-bedroom cabin in
East Tennessee. I was never ashamed of my background, even
though we grew up very poor. Those humble beginnings would
shape her life in music. I think we've become who
we are when we're young. By 21, Parton broke into
the country billboard charts for the first time with her
single Dumb Blonde. It was one of the first milestones
in a career that spanned seven decades. She released over
50 albums, winning 10 Grammys and garnering 55 Grammy nominations,
the most ever for a female country artist. Get your
scummy hands off of me. Her first of two Oscar
nominations for Best Original Song was in 1981 for the
song 9 to 5 from her movie of the same
name. Working 9 to 5, I don't know where to
make it. She received an honorary Oscar in 2025 for
her humanitarian work. It makes me want to dream up
new ways to help lift people up. And isn't that
what we're supposed to be here for? In 2024, Rolling
Stone magazine ranked her 1973 hit Jolene, the number one
greatest country song of all time. Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging
her. you please don't take my man brain worm yeah
right And a song she wrote around the same time
as Jolene, I Will Always Love You, eventually got its
own iconic cover. And then Whitney, of course, made it
into a worldwide hit. And I! Beyond her music, Parton
created a business empire. Dollywood in the heart of the
smokest. Opening Dollywood, a theme park near her hometown in
East Tennessee that employs thousands and has invigorated the surrounding
area. Hundreds and hundreds of businesses have sprung up and
thousands and thousands of jobs. I just really think business.
I get that from my. dad. Parton supported many charitable
causes, including childhood literacy, through her imagination library. We've officially
gifted over 200 million books to children. Thank you. Dolly
Parton leaves behind more than iconic music. She leaves a
legacy of generosity, humility, and a reminder to be kind
to one another. I think everybody should be treated with
respect. I hope that everybody gets a chance to be
who and what they are. And, you know, she was
a real American, man. An American success story. Yes, she
was. Absolutely. I really loved her for that. And, you
know, Taylor Swift is no Dolly Parton. No, of course
not. Yeah, but there's always that comparison. Yeah. But it's
like, no, no, no, Dolly Parton. And whenever she was
on The Tonight Show, those appearances were legendary. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. She just played it off so well. And
you know what? Taylor Swift can see or shoot.
and Dolly Parton was never able to see her shoes.
There you go. So there's a big difference. Let me
see, Matt. Was there anything else you wanted? I have
a couple other things here that we haven't handled. Actually,
we should probably do a quick bit here on –
On the latest, we actually talked about this on your
program on Monday, the Matt Long Show, Matt Long Show
podcast, which is a good listen. You know, how long
have you been doing radio? Yeah. I'm going into my
eighth year. And is this all a hill country? It
is, yeah, the hill country. I started out, I did
a call in for a national show a few years
before that. where I called in and gave them Texas
news from the legislature on Tuesdays. Yeah. And that's when
the local radio station heard that and said, we want
you to do that for us. For free. For free.
And then next thing you know, they were offering me
a job. But there was no pay. There was no...
No pay. That's radio, baby. But you're in show business.
So I said, I'll tell you what. I'll give you
six months. And if I add value to you, I'm
telling you, this was before I discovered you guys. But
I told him, I said, if I'm adding value to
your station, then you need to pay me. And if
I'm not adding value to your station, then you need
to pay me. You need to find something that gives
you value. I said, so I'll give you six months.
And it's about a 33-mile drive one way for me
to get over there. So it's, you know, wear and
tear, gas, et cetera. And the owner called me in
at five months. And his table was clear except for
that big checkbook. And he said, what do you want?
And so I came home and I talked to Gail
about it. And again, no, I've never run a board.
I've never done any of that. Nothing. So this is
the thing. The first time you had me on, I
come into the – I'm like, so first of all,
you're coming down this very dangerous road. You're driving towards
Kerrville. Yep. And you have to – turn left on
this two-lane, 70-mile-an-hour road. With no view from either end.
No, it's like your life is in danger of making
this left-hand turn. You roll up. There's five shipping containers.
One of them is the one you're in. He's exaggerating
a little bit. No, I am not. I am not.
No, there's an office building, but no, I'm not. There's
five containers. No, the country station, which I'm sure is
the big one, they have cushy studio inside the building.
All the other guys get the container. And you're sitting
and I'm looking at you working the board and everything.
You know, I used to be a skateboarder back in
the day. You ever skateboard? No. And you know the
concept of goofy foot? No. So… Typically on a skateboard,
or in a surfboard, I guess. Your right foot is
back and your left foot is forward. Okay. And some
guys just learned how to do it with their left
foot back in their front. That's goofy. Okay. And it
freaks skateboarders out. And that's when I saw you doing
radio. I'm like, man, this is like goofy foot on
radio, but he's doing it. It's amazing. Now, you're really
good at, you know, you're running your own board and
everything. Yeah. And I'm just amazed, like, how did everything
work? Because, you know, it just seems like you're the
crazy professor. And you hit the top of the hour,
you hit the news, everything's perfect. It's a joy watching
you goofy foot on the radio. Thank you. It's a
compliment. It really is. Like your typical watch me do
this boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, pressing all the buttons.
Because that's what all the radio guys are. That's why
they put cameras in studios because the stupid top 40
i think it's the stupidest thing they ever did the
top 40 jocks want you know look how cool it
is when i'm when i'm hitting the buttons it's all
this complicated stuff that i'm doing man i'm turning up
the volume turning it down oh yeah and the minute
the the song starts you know i stop talking i
throw off my headphones and i go to the coke
machine i'm right back in time you know it's like
that's that's That's what DJs are, and you're the opposite
of that. But the result is fantastic. Well, thank you.
Thank you. Do you guys have a camera in the
studio? Oh, heavens no, and we never will. It ruins
everything. It ruins everything. It's the old line, we have
a face for radio, and it's very true. You're a
good-looking man. Not long. All right, so here is the
latest midterm outrage hair on fire that is working quite
well in Texas. President Trump hosted tech leaders at the
White House to discuss U.S. efforts on cryptocurrency and artificial
intelligence. Trump says the technology is crucial to create more
jobs and beat China, but voters have a different perspective.
NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports. The president argued that if he
were the mayor of a town, he would want an
AI data center there for the tax benefits. But if
I were a governor or mayor, I would want that
plant in my community. And many of them are designed
in a very beautiful way. That puts Trump at odds
with the majority of Americans. A Gallup poll from March
this year said seven in 10 Americans oppose an AI
data center getting built in their area. Trump, in his
remarks, acknowledged that AI data centers could use a, quote,
little public relations help. But his stance underscores how his
perception of the technology differs from voters' concerns, which could
be a top issue in the midterm elections. this year.
There it is. Top issue in the midterm and Abbott's
fallen hook, line and sinker for it. have you ever
seen i mean what happened to all the other outrage
it just all went away oh it just comes and
goes and uh we've doubled down on this one you
know when the outrage on that one came into the
hill country i'm i'm i get these pockets of outrage
that just pop up this cycles of outrage that we
see here in the hill country i think maybe started
by some of the women on No, it's all –
it is them. It is those women all the time.
Yeah, they get that all fired up, and it just
seems like they want to pull me in real quick.
Let's talk to Matt. He'll make it an issue on
the radio. And I just – I kick back, and
I wait, and I watch, and I observe. And at
the end of this, on these data centers, the first
thing I thought about was you're cutting off your nose
to spite your face. We are so addicted to Internet,
to connectivity, to being able to, you know, check your
bank account while you're on the road in, I don't
know, Taiwan or somewhere. And all these things that… People,
they're thirsty for more internet, more things on their phone,
more connectivity. You know, I went to the bank the
other day, and the ATM machine was down. You can't
walk into your bank anymore and just get cash, right?
By the way, you can at Guadalupe Bank. You can
at Guadalupe Bank, which are a sponsor of the Matt
Long Show, I should say. I love those guys. Yes,
they are real good. And so… So I pulled up
to the drive-up window, and I just gave her my
card, and I said, I just need $40. Adam, they
had to go print temporary checks. Fuck! for me. Really?
Yeah. The system was down so they couldn't do it
electronically? Electronically. Oh, goodness. I'm telling you, folks, this battle
against the data centers and had I brought any clips,
it would have been boring clips from 13 years ago
when Texas, the state of Texas, was hustling for data
centers. Yeah. And I listened to several hours of a
committee hearing from – 13 years ago where they were
begging these companies to come to texas and the companies
were lined up there talking to them giving testimony and
they kept saying yeah but we need a sales tax
cut yeah and uh they got it they got it
they got a six percent sales tax cut and so
we the state was all gung-ho to get it get
the data centers in, and now the very same people
who are all gung-ho. And, by the way, it passed
on the floor unanimously. How often does that happen? And
that never happens. No, no. And so it passed unanimously.
And now those same guys, gals and guys are all
saying, oh, no, no data centers, no data centers. No.
it's to get votes. It's be afraid of data centers
and vote Republican. Be afraid of Muslims, vote Republican. Be
afraid of... and vote Republican. Just name it. Name it
whatever it is. Oh, and weed's going to come back
into it. Be afraid, you know, of Delta 9s, vote
Republican. They already passed that, didn't they? Yeah, but they've
even pulled that back just in the last couple of
weeks. Because the Stone Texans are like, hey, you're, I'm
not going to vote for you if you don't give
me my Delta 8 and Delta 9 back. That's right.
That's right. That's crazy. So, yeah, it's just fear-mongering before
the elections. And you don't want to insult people. You
know, I don't want to insult people. But at the
same time, it's like – Step back a little bit.
See who is motivating you and why. Where is this
message coming from? And why is it so – why
are you getting so hair on fire about it? Well,
one of the reasons is – The frontier model companies
themselves – frontier model. Okay, so these – like OpenAI
and Anthropic, basically the top two. Their entire marketing to
keep the money flowing into them without any profits coming
out. In fact, they're burning money at an unbelievable rate.
Their marketing campaign is twofold. One is – Our stuff
is so good, it's dangerous. So we couldn't even give
it to you if we wanted to. Government, please regulate
us so that the cheap – see that computer right
there? Yeah. That is running my entire production system. That
is all open source models running on that one little
computer.
That little box right there with the blue lights. That
little tiny thing? Oh, my goodness. That's a GTX. It's
just running everything, my clips, the whole thing. It runs
everything, and that's what they hate. So they want regulation
to ban open source models. But because of their marketing,
People are like, well, this stuff doesn't sound good for
my health. It's in these data centers. We don't want
it near me because it might take over and do
something. And this was the latest. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
in an ad with a new app building partner on
the promises of artificial intelligence. Another company executive is sending
a different message. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper,
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, saying people are
going to be able to access these open source models
and be able to have ongoing persistent attacks on you.
Oh, no. You're going to need to have open models
will have attacks on you. We've got. to regulate them
stop really superior models defend them superior models off and
defend yourself It's been a month since OpenAI revealed one
of its models, with no instructions to do so, escaped
containment and hacked another company called Hugging Face. We're looking
at AI, we're looking at controls, we're also making sure
that we leave. I like this president, but he has
no jack about this. He doesn't know what he's talking
about. Shortly afterwards, President Donald Trump said the White House
was... was examining safety regulations, but little has happened since,
at least on the federal level. Weeks ago, a New
Mexico judge ordered Facebook and Instagram owner Mehta to pay
more than $900 million U.S., for causing mental harm to
children. On Monday, Alabama's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI over the
hugging face incident, investigating whether the company violated consumer protection
laws and poses an ongoing risk to the citizens of
the state. - They might be able to impose real
change on the way OpenAI The University of Toronto's Evan
Light says the New Mexico ruling could offer precedent for
controlling tech giants, pointing out the chorus calling for AI
control includes top AI companies like OpenAI. And he notes
Lehane's comment targeted open source artificial intelligence to the world.
OpenAI's not-for-profit rivals. Hugging Face tried to use an OpenAI
model to deal with the situation, and it was not
capable of doing that. And it used an open source
model from a Chinese developer to... adequately figure out what
the situation was. Global News asked OpenAI for comments. The
company did not respond by deadline. On Monday, it told
CNN it is conducting a thorough review. Okay, so it's
that kind of story when people don't know what it
is. And it's kind of... Hard for people to understand.
The only thing they really most people see is Chad
GPT and it talks back to him and it sounds
like a robot and it looks up off and it's
like a magic eight ball. And they think it's the
Oracle and it says everything. Of course, it's not always
right. But that's not really what AI does. I mean,
I don't have my box over there. I don't ask
it questions. You know, what I do is I use
it to run different workflows and processes. It made me
extremely efficient and saved me hours and hours of prep
per day. I mean, it's really phenomenal. But they hear
this and they're like, I don't want that near me.
You know, there's enough time. YouTube pastors out there that
have made people afraid of this. You know, it's the
devil. It's the antichrist. All of this stuff. You know,
Peter Thiel. You get people out there, well, Peter Thiel
and flock cameras. And it's all going to come together
and we're all going to die. That's basically the marketing.
The funny thing is, is that this is one of
the largest companies. transfers of wealth to the working class
to build these data centers. I mean, it's unbelievable the
amount of work that is available in Texas. That's all
I know about, but it's everywhere to build these data
centers. But they better hurry up because just today it
was announced that NVIDIA, the only company actually making a
profit because they create the The GPUs that everyone runs
their frontier models on, but not just the front every
model. There's other stuff, but they're the big dog. They
just reported like some astronomical number like $46 billion with
a $2.20 per share profit this past quarter. They just
announced they're buying Hugging Face, the guys you just heard
about. You told us a couple of weeks ago what
Hugging Face was. It's basically... A version of that. Okay.
Okay. So Chinese models, they're distilled, probably stolen from those.
Whatever it is, it works fine. You know, is it
cutting edge? Is it frontier? No. No, it's maybe nine
months behind. It works fine. There's a lot of open
source work being done. But NVIDIA… They are now about
to kill all these guys because they now have the
full stack. They've got the GPUs. They signed it. And
they've been pumping money into all these companies to keep
them going. The circular financing you might have heard about.
So they've been putting money in Anthropic, in Open Air,
all the small startups that use these models. And now
they just said, you know what? We're going to buy
Hugging Face. That's going to kill these guys. And NVIDIA
is going to be the top big dog. Yeah. And
I don't know if all these data centers are going
to happen. I really don't think so. Let me ask
you, being the king of conspiracy theories, what – What
do you hear about this theory about that China is
the one that is behind the no data centers in
our neighborhood because they want all the data centers? And
so the folks that are out promoting no data centers
and keep them out of my neighborhood, do you think
that China has anything to do with that? No, that
is the Republican response. to the Democrats playing this game
on them. So literally, you know Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary?
So he's... I don't know if the guy even has
any money. I don't know if he's just on Shark
Tank or whatever, but he does YouTube videos in his
pajama pants at home now. And he had this whole
video like, oh, we found out that this whole campaign,
which was some – I think it was in Utah,
like some left-wing group was going against data centers and
literally spreading this message of data centers bad. You know,
don't vote Republican because they want data centers. And Mr.
Wonderful is a perfect, you know, poster child for Republican
capitalism. And he immediately went, this is China. They're funded
by China. No, they're not. They're funded by, you know,
the Arabella group. Okay. Which is this huge, you know,
group of left-wing billionaires who just hate Republicans. So they're
playing a psyop party. on the Republican Party, getting everyone
to be afraid of data centers. And the Republican response
is, well, that's just China. They want to have all
the data centers. It's all midterm bull crap. All of
it. Okay. I take back everything. I've been spreading that
theory. No, no. I'll break that theory up. China doesn't
need – this is the beauty of the Internet. You
don't need data centers in Texas or Utah if you're
China. Put them in China. They've got the cheapest power
everywhere. What about putting them in space? There's been a
lot of talk about that. That's Elon. Yeah. Well. I
like Elon. I mean, if he can make that happen,
I mean, he solves the power problem supposedly because the
sun, you know. I don't know. It's like pigs in
space. It's going to have data centers. I don't know.
I guess if you can have the space station, I
guess you can have data centers. I don't know what
the weight ratio – I don't know how any of
that works, but man – It funded his IPO. Yeah.
You got the rockets. You got the GPUs. You know
how to do solar. You've got Starlink. Maybe he can
do it. I don't know. Hmm. What he will do
is he's going to do his new cell phone company.
Yeah, I've heard. There's some interesting stuff. I don't like
necessarily the idea of everything being tied to Elon because
it can go away. But yeah, I don't know. Data
centers in space, I'm fine with it. I'm good with
data centers. There you go. They're going to have so
much power being built around these data centers that when
they go away, because they will, you know. I had
a data center in 2002 in Amsterdam. Spectacular fail. I
was way too early. Right on the AM6, the Amsterdam
Internet Exchange. And I was right because, you know. Data
centers today are filled up with your YouTube videos. All
your Netflix stuff is at a data center as close
to you as possible because it's just cheaper that way
to transport the data. So these things are a fact
of life. But when they go away, we'll have all
this cheap power and we'll be, I don't know, mining
Bitcoin all day, Matt. There you go. There you go.
You know, it was interesting, the testimony from 13 years
ago from these folks who were trying to bring data
centers to Texas. They were very clear that they really
needed to be and wanted to be near big cities.
They had to be. close to a large population because
of latency. Has that changed? No. Latency is still the
same. Well, that's for what they – so you have
inference is what they call it. It's a fancy word.
So you have the compute – gotta have compute matt
okay gotta have compute to build the models which is
a very uh energy and processor intense uh intensive process
you know that costs a lot of money just in
pure energy but then the inference so when it doesn't
something, you want to get that information to you as
quickly as possible. For your chat GPT, maybe not that
important, but it's the same as... Like the stock market.
You have data centers in the buildings themselves where people
do this trading because you want the lowest latency possible
to make the trade even two-tenths of a second faster
than the other guy. It could mean a lot of
money. This is why – the president's media company was
selling API early access, which is literally like milliseconds to
his true social posts. Because when the president posts something,
then, you know, that changes markets. That, you know, when
he says, um, You know, I'm going to bomb a
whole civilization civilization. The oil markets react immediately when he
says, oh, no, it's I think it's OK now. The
oil markets react immediately. If you can get that five
500 milliseconds faster than the other guy, you can make
a lot of money. Okay. That's why they're leasing that
API access out for half a million dollars or $100,000
a month. It could literally be that valuable. Wow. So
anyway, I'm not against data centers. Okay. I'm against chatbots.
I think that's the worst thing that could have ever
existed. I've never even tried one. You should try one,
Matt. Yeah. Which one? It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Try
Chad GPT and give it a name and talk to
her. Oh, no, I can't. I just can't do it.
Oh, man. Hey, Matt, I really appreciate you being here.
Actually, I held you much longer than I said I
would. You're welcome. I'm going to do the donations. You're
welcome to hang around. I'm happy to let you out.
What do you want to do? Well, before you do
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if you don't mind. Yeah, of course. So one of
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it was somewhere between three and four years ago, and
I was driving back, and it was right after I'd
met Adam. And I said, well, I was driving back
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JCD, you guys were going back and forth, and he
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And he said something to the effect, you must be
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you hadn't gotten a dime yet from no donors from
Fredericksburg. Adam, I whipped over to the side of the
road. Yeah. And I made a donation. I bet you
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Adam Curry Show. Now, I'm not going to tell you
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dollars at the time. It's now three forty eight fifty
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May healing come as you grieve and God bless you
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John were talking regarding what they would do if one
of them passed. Hmm. We've talked about that a few
times. They both said that they would get Mo Fax
as a replacement. No, I think John actually said, you're
going to get Mo, aren't you? Which he did not
think was a good idea. Made me smile and then
a bit more ruefully now. On a different note, show
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Hold on a sec. Eating the Dogs. I'm sorry. I
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Eating the dogs. That sounds pretty good. Okay. Man, you
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Uh... That is, man, what is that? I think that's
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Here we go. They're eating the dogs. I think that
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I'm adding 333.33 for the order of the ant and
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Little Boots on the Ground, they operate Fieldwork Telecom, small
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as well as managing our books, all while managing the
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things. Work is going well, and we are truly blessed.
We built new fiber to the home networks, maintaining existing
fiber, and have recently started to cable... or dabble in
data centers and I'd love to give back to my
community with an insider's peak okay Here we go. So
far, we have only done some acceptance testing on the
fiber network running through most of the Midwest. These networks
are being built or upgrading on preparation for the data
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and labor are short. short. All of the ISPs have
been racing for many years to take the Obama rural
development of fiber. That's right. We got it here in
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Okay. They've been racing to get the money. They're all
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On the 28th, I will have completed my 63rd revolution
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What is this? You've got... And Okay Alright Thank you
very much Thank you all for supporting the No Agenda
show It is highly appreciated No Agenda Meetups Am I
going to promote the Fredericksburg meetup? Yeah. Are you kidding
me? okay all right once you once you do it
right now matt once you promote the fredericksburg meetup all
right october 17th it will be the fifth um semi-annual
we do it twice a year and uh the fifth
one will be in october 17th out at j6 jenny's
yep and uh the notice is already up and And
I would like to put a special request out there.
Jenny makes a living on renting out her units out
there, her B&Bs, and it is business practice here in
the Hill Country. That you, on a weekend, you have
to get two nights. That's the way it is. That's
everything that way, for sure. Yeah, the whole hill country
that way. I would really appreciate it if some of
you guys would come over for two nights. Come on
over on a Friday night. And the reason I say
that, first of all, the breakfast that Jenny gives you
on Saturday morning. Oh, is that good? And then on
Sunday. I mean, I'm telling you, and i will say
that if uh if we get any uh folks uh
that stay the weekend there i will bring up a
jelly that my homemade jelly which one i will donate
it i don't know we could bring the prickly pear
the what i'll bring a whole uh a variety a
whole selection but it would be a blast to see
all out there and it is such a peaceful place
if you're coming over from Austin or Houston or the
Metroplex or wherever. I mean, it is so quiet and
peaceful out there. It'll be a perfect weekend for you.
So check in at 3 o'clock on Friday. Check in.
Stay the weekend. And I do have to say the
first meetup we had there. was the highest bar revenue
that they had ever had up until that day. We're
drinkers, man. We're drinkers. And it's just beer and wine.
And so I guess the no agenda people drink and
know things. And so there you go. That's my push
for the Fredericksburg fifth semiannual. meet up and if you
are uh if you are christ curious decloaking or just
want to check it out i will personally usher you
at bridge church for the early service at 9 a.m
if you stay friday and saturday and come to the
church on sunday it'll be a hoot and matt will
be there too we will try we will walk you
we will walk you down the aisle that's right
A meetup report that I missed, it was the Thirsty
Thursday meetup. Let me see. This is from the Baron
of Belmont and Catawaba. Catawba, sorry, River Basin. We had
a good turnout at the 33rd Thursday meetup at Ed's
Tavern. On Thursday, we had two Dukes, two Barons, several
Knights, one Dame, even had the blonde girlfriend, nickname given
by John. Some of our regulars were absent, but we
did have a first-timer and some who can't. make every
month. I got you. JCD was well-remembered for lots of
bits and sayings of his were recalled. John is a
national treasure and will be well-remembered for years to come.
The Charlotte Noah Jenner family sends his love and heartfelt
condolences to the Dvorak family, the Curry family, the Horowitz
family, and all who loved and missed JCD. Quote, Our
lives change like the weather, but a legend never dies.
Jimmy Buffett from Last Mango in Paris. Thank you for
your courage. The Baron of Belmont and the Catawba River
Basin. Thank you so much, brother. Very nice. I'm sorry
I missed that the first time. I prefer audio reports,
but we make an exception for you, of course. An
audio report, though, here from the Chattanooga No Agenda Meetup
with me. music, apparently. In the morning, No Agenda Nation,
this is Commodore Baron Bones, Night of Twin Peaks. We
are here at Lookout Winery having a fantastic time. Everybody
had some flights of wine, we had some pizza, had
some great conversation, and we're here to pass the phone
around to say hello to everybody else that's here. Sir,
Ewell Larry here in the morning. Hello there, No Agenda
crowd. This is Dave Carlson, Hang in there, Adam. This
is Linda Carlson. This is Chris Lebrowski in the morning.
Hey, this is Scott Lovelace, newly crowned, not at the
round table, Sir Ginger Bear of East by God, Tennessee.
In the morning, RIP JCD. In the morning, slaves love
mac and cheese. ITM, this is a dude named Ben,
named Ben, and I really appreciate Sir Paul putting this
on and saying, an excellent job. It's been a lot
of fun. Hi, guys. I'm Salty. I have no idea
who you are, but it's good to be here. Sir
Paul Couture, Keeper of the Art, in the morning. This
is Noah, your resident Illuminati and Freemason. Sir, I do
name Ben again. Missy John. And we will all say
that, John, you may have turned down your speakers for
the last time, but we're going to turn them up
here just so that way we can go out and
hit them in the mouth. In the morning. In the
morning. Ah, wonderful. Thank you. I don't think I heard
your server in there, but that happens. This meetup taking
place tomorrow in Maastricht in the Netherlands. The three times
is shipwright. That. is a Dutch saying, three miles scheepsrecht,
three times a shipwright, seven o'clock in Café in Den...
Tennekan in Maastricht. Oh, that's Sir Avert Bob. He is
the crisis guy who comes in with emergency communications. He
came in and helped out in Kerrville, set up entire
mesh networks for everybody. Wonderful guy. Go and see Avert
in Maastricht. If you're in the south of the Netherlands,
it's a beautiful place to go check out. If you're
not, go drive down there. On Saturday, the backyard barbecue
at the Jingle Pit Ranch, 1 o'clock, Jingle Pot Ranch,
I'm sorry. It's a private residence, so you need to
see the website to RSVP. That is in Nanaimo, British
Columbia in Scandinavia. Go check that out. SirTreeDaddy is hosting.
They have a cool place. Our favorite Buzzkill meetup, 2
o'clock at Marble Brewery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Also on
Saturday, the New England JCD Memorial meetup, 2 o'clock. That
is at the home of Lady Butters and Sir Knives
in Rhode Island. RSVP required for the secret location. Curmudgeon
meetup, 6 o'clock. That is the same as Amsterdam time.
But this will be at the Rooftop Bar in Zurich,
Switzerland. Black Knight Sir Swiss Senna is hosting Please, we
love meetup reports From different countries So go to the
rooftop bar on Saturday At 6 o'clock and hang out
With Sir Swiss Senna And your other knights and dames
And douchebags, etc. And producers in Switzerland On Sunday, I'm
Our next show day, the Chester County Community Meetup, 333
at Liberty Union Barn Grill in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. And
we're done with August. But for September, we have on
the 3rd, my birthday, Raleigh, North Carolina, the 6th, Tapiolla,
Michigan, Fort Mills, South Carolina, Medford Lakes, New Jersey. On
the 10th, Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn! The 12th, Boise. Idaho,
Scottsdale, Arizona on the 15th, Charlotte, North Carolina on the
17th, the 18th Tbilisi in Georgia, not the state, in
the country. Another meetup report is required. The 19th King
George in Virginia, Petaluma, California, Wilmington, California, also on the
19th. And that rounds it out. There's many more in
October, November, going through December. No. in a meet-up this
is the place where you will meet people that you
never expected to meet you will make friendships some people
get married you make connections and as you know connection
always brings you connection protection Is that you, Matt, or
is that me? Connection brings protection. In fact, these people
will be your first responders in any emergency. Go to
noagendameetups.com. If you can't find a meetup near you, just
start one yourself. It's easy. It's so easy. Matt can
do it with help from his wife, Gail. noagendameetups.com. Guaranteed.
Always a party. Always a party. Sometimes you wanna go
hang out with all the nights and days. Be where
you won't be. Triggered on hell's blame. You're the one.
Everybody feels the same It's like a party. And that
concludes our broadcast day. Unfortunately, no end of show ISO.
People, start sending those in again, will you? I just
don't have time to make them. Help me out, producers.
It would go a long way. Now, if you're listening
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when the bat signal goes out and the stream goes
live, stay with us because Congressional Dish on Jim Briney
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will not be co-hosting. And no, this is not a
talent search show. I am bringing in people I want
to work with. I can work with. I know. I
know. and I'm friends with, that's the way it's going
to go for the foreseeable future. I got no other
ideas, people. Just support the show. NoagendaDonations.com That is the
most helpful thing you can do is support us. by
going to noagendadonations.com. So looking forward to Sunday. It should
be another hootenanny because there's always something to deconstruct. There's
always sense to be made of the crazy world you're
in where everything, and I mean everything, is about the
midterms. Thank you to Matt Long. Check him out, the
Matt Long Show, as a podcast. And I will be
back on Sunday. Until then, adios, mofos. Hooey, hooey. And
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