I don't have a body shape by me, and I can't sing, I ain't pretty, and my legs are thin.
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Well, I talked to God, I knew he'd understand, he said, stick by me, I'll be your guiding hand.
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Thank you very much.
You know, I see all the cameras, they're filming us tonight for a TV special.
So we want to look really good for the TV.
We thought we'd do a traveling wheelbarrow song for you here.
This is a song that was written while driving in an automobile.
It's called Stick Shifts and Safety Bells.
We hope you like it.
Stick shifts and safety belts.
Bucket seats have all got to go when we're driving.
In the car, it makes my baby seem so far.
I need you here with me, not way over in a bucket seat.
I need you to be here with me, not way over in a bucket seat.
All right.
And when we're driving in my lippie, it's easy to get right next to you.
I say, baby, scoot over, please.
I think she's right there next to me.
I need you here with me, not way over in a bucket seat.
I need you to be here with me, not way over in a bucket seat.
All right.
It will a lot of good cars.
Our Japanese.
But when we're driving far, I need my baby.
I need my baby next to me.
Stick shifts and safety belts.
Bucket seats have all got to go when we're driving.
In the car, it makes my baby seem so far.
I need you here with me, not way over in a bucket seat.
I need you to be here with me, not way over in a bucket seat.
All right.
I'm done.
Music's done.
It's a right smile.
The ornaments look pretty off about it.
When I kiss your lips, I want to sit down to the bottom of the seat.
I want to love you madly.
When I want to love you down, I table from you wishing I could love.
I want to love you madly.
What is this car that you're watching?
I want to watch the news.
Are you making headway?
Gary Walker, thank you very much.
What's happening, everybody?
Good morning.
Good afternoon.
Good evening, wherever you are, wherever you're hanging out.
J.M., wake up.
Okay.
There is no need for that name.
You, bitch.
Clearly you got a second one.
That's what my family's murdered by the CIA, Steve.
Won't you vax that thing up?
Y'all talking about eating house in here.
Why are you talking about eating house in here?
The idea of comedy, really, is not everybody should be laughing.
It should be about 50 people laughing and 50 people horrified.
Trying to have serious conversations about serious things.
Y'all talking about eating the booty.
We should nip it in the butt.
Nobody can dispute the fact that we need...
Tony Fauci, gumbo suppository.
You have direct incision.
Sometimes I retract into my shell in order to avoid some of the drama that we've seen recently.
Did you hear the question, Senator?
Running for re-election in 2026.
Spooks in Spain.
If you want to fight against a country, you need an F-15.
You need something a little more than a gun.
No, I'm not joking.
Think about this.
Whatever.
Taxation stealth.
Oh, god damn it, motherfucker.
I love you guys, we'll see you soon.
Good luck to you as well.
But wait, there's more.
June 25th, 2026.
Welcome to Thursday, everybody.
And welcome, Charles.
How you doing, brother? Good morning.
What up, gringo poppy?
That's Brendan Chubb.
Yeah, what up, gringo poppy?
Ah!
Oh, man. How's it going?
How's it going?
Man, I can't complain, bro.
You've got to take your blessings, enjoy the days,
and enjoy life. It's good so far.
It's sunny, warm.
Can't complain, man. How are you doing?
I'm chilling, man. Chilling.
Congratulations to the men's national team from Mexico.
Stomped.
Just stomped last night.
And will, of course, be advancing to the round of 32.
And on top of their group with nine points,
commanding victories all through the group stage,
where they will make it as far as the round of 16,
and then fall apart.
I don't know.
It's typically what happens.
But they brought out the legendary Mexican goalkeeper memo
with Choa last night for the final, like, 15, 20 minutes.
Really cool. Really cool.
So dope.
Was he like an old dude?
Did he stand up and cry and all that shit?
Oh, yeah. No, they're all weepy bitches.
They all are.
They gave him a hand?
Yeah.
No, he is. He's a legendary goalkeeper.
And I think he was his fifth World Cup that he appeared in.
Got it. Okay.
Yeah.
So I mean, longevity over the course of just, you know, 20 years.
20 years in the game.
But yeah, you told me just a few moments ago
that you were ready to let out some of that black rage.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
For folks, a little background.
And I was messaging Steve and I was messaging Steve
in all caps, like MF Doom.
And Steve asked me, why am I messaging in all caps?
Did I wake up a boomer next door or something?
No, I told him it's the black anger.
I'm frustrated with the man.
I'm sick of the white world holding the black brother down.
That's why I'm texting in all caps.
He had something for me regarding that.
I do. I do.
So when specifically black rage is called for,
we of course turn to Kevin Smith films.
For years in this industry,
whenever an African-American character,
hero or villain was introduced usually
by fight artists and writers.
They got slapped with racist names
that singled them out as Negroes.
Now, my book,
White Hatin' Coon,
don't handle that bullshit.
The hero's name is Malikwa.
And he's a descendant from the black tribe
that established the first society on the planet
where all of you European motherfuckers
were still hiding in caves and shit,
all terrified of the sun.
He's a strong role model
that a young black reader can look up to.
Because I mean to tell you,
the chickens is coming home to roost, y'all.
The black man's no longer going to play the menstrual
in the medium of comics and sci-fi fantasy.
We keeping it real.
And we gonna get respect by any means necessary.
Ah, come on. That's a bunch of horseshit.
Ando Calrissian was a black guy, you know.
He got to fly the Millennium Falcon.
What's the matter with you? Who said that?
I did.
But I know Calrissian is a positive role model
in the realm of science fiction fantasy.
Oh, fuck, Lando Calrissian.
Uncle Tom, nigga.
Only some white boy got involved in the Holy Trilogy.
But this.
Those movies are about how the white man
keeps the brother man down,
even in a galaxy far, far away.
Check this shit.
You got Cracker Farm Boy, Luke Skywalker,
Nazi poster boy, blonde-haired blue eyes.
And then you got Darth Vader,
the blackest brother in the galaxy,
Nubian God.
What's a Nubian?
Shut the fuck up.
Now,
Vader, he's a spiritual brother,
down with the force and all that good shit.
Then there's Cracker, Skywalker.
Gets his hands on a lightsaber,
and the boy decides he's going to run the fucking universe.
Gets a hope, clans, whites together.
And they going to bust up Vader's hood,
the Death Star.
Now what the fuck do you call that?
Intergalactic Civil War.
Gentrification.
They going to drive out the black element
to make the galaxy, quote, unquote,
safe for white folks.
And Jedi's the most insulting installment.
Because Vader's beautiful black visage
is sullen when he pulls off his mask
to reveal a feeble, crusty old white man.
They trying to tell us that deep inside,
we all want to be white.
Well, isn't that true?
That's right.
That's how I feel.
Black Rage.
That perfectly describes my sentiment
towards this country,
all in a Star Wars metaphor.
Or Star Trek, or Lord of the Rings.
Take your pick, Lord of the Rings.
Why are all the evil motherfuckers dark?
All the orcs and shit, huh?
Lord of the Rings.
The Urukite, they look like big black men
when they take them out of that slime.
Once Saruman, right,
goes in to check on them niggas
and the orcs are giving them the little inspection,
all them niggas look black.
Meanwhile, long as blonde haired Legolas,
Aragorn, the white man.
Even gay-looking hobbits, huh?
I mean, you can blame Peter Jackson for that.
We all know the Lord of the Rings
is about two diminutive gay men
who are vacationing looking for the perfect place
to open their own bed and drive.
That's the entire story.
And they're looking in the worst place on the map.
They're looking in the black neighborhoods of Mordor, huh?
Well, they're trying to gentrify,
as they do.
And so they figured that Mordor was prime real estate.
It just needed a little bit of, you know,
a little bit more hobbit,
a little bit less orc.
It's odd that in Middle Earth
orcs make up about 13%, 14% of the population
who is, I mean, overwhelmingly responsible
for the majority of crime.
That's just, those are just numbers.
I'm not being speciesist or anything like that.
Okay, yeah, but what we don't talk about
is the men, the race of men
that don't belong to Gondor,
the ones who fight against them niggas, okay?
We're talking about the men of the East, okay?
We're talking about the bad men.
And coincidentally, they're brown-skinned,
like Latinos, like redneck white people.
You know what I'm saying? Hey, whatever.
Fucking Tolkien racist ass nigga.
Weren't the elephant riders like Persians?
Yes, some Indian-looking niggas.
That's what I'm saying.
Yes, brown-skinned motherfuckers.
I mean, at least, you know, at least Tolkien
was being racially consistent.
If you're gonna put a guy on an elephant,
you probably shouldn't look like, you know,
Patti O'Leary.
Probably shouldn't.
No, he shouldn't.
He shouldn't have red hair and freckles, none of that.
So no Canelo alvarezes.
Yeah, correct, correct.
Right, right.
Yeah, so.
Okay.
Welcome to AM Wake Up, folks.
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It's true.
Let's see.
Well, I guess from
Black Rage to about the widest place
you could possibly ever get, Portland, Oregon.
Are you familiar with the comedian Tyler Fisher?
Tyler Fisher, you know what?
I might have seen a clip or two, but not too familiar.
He is also a hobbit.
Oh, okay.
Oh, God, okay.
Okay.
And has he's one of those guys that like during COVID
started leaning into the red pillow sphere.
Okay.
And I think kind of in a couple of different ways
sort of pigeonholed himself into that
genre of comedy.
But and went and filed a bunch of lawsuits
all over Hollywood for discrimination
because Hollywood won't cast white people anymore.
Now, I'll get into the second part of that later.
But yeah, he is fairly convinced
that the entire world is out to get him at this point.
It's still doing stand up.
Still doing stand up.
And hang it out in Portland.
Portland, a female armpit here was a city.
This is it, man.
You land.
They let you know where you are.
I didn't even get off the plane.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
Sorry for saying ladies.
Sorry to gender that speech.
We mean humans or transhuman people.
Just keep in mind the overhead compartments
have been filled with illegal migrants.
So let them scatter off.
Let them off first.
That had a tough ride from Venezuela.
Consider give them your pretzels or your chips
because they need it more than you.
If you're white, don't forget to denounce your privilege
before you get off the plane.
Apologize to a black person or queer person
for a bunch of shit you never did.
We're going to do a quick land acknowledgement
before we exit.
We just want to acknowledge that gate 55
was stolen from Delta.
It's now united.
So we just want to apologize
to the Deltonian people.
If any of your children are confused about their sex,
we are doing sex reassignment surgeries
for just 1,500 sky miles
if you're a medallion member.
It's a wonderful deal.
You want to take advantage of that today.
It's going to be a baggage claim 15.
Put them on the conveyor belt by the time they come back around.
They'll be snipped up.
Night tip top, ready to go.
Hit the streets of Portland.
We want to just remind you of the wonderful things
that you can do while you're here in Portland.
You can burn down a liquor store
without getting arrested.
Enjoy some of our great sights
like going to a CVS and having a teenager
unlock your condoms while you wait 15 minutes
in embarrassment.
Or head down to the park
and watch a heroin addict shoot needles in his dick
in front of your 8-year-old. Welcome to Portland
International Airport.
Tyler Fisher.
Funny, funny stuff.
And true.
Portland's a mess.
Portland is an absolute mess.
A lot of US cities are messy.
And a lot of US cities are
just low-key, easy going.
You ever heard of fucking basalt?
Oh, yeah.
You know what's going on down there?
Not as much as you.
I'm going to imagine.
Exactly. I don't know what's going on down there. That's the point.
Chicago, Illinois.
You know that place?
I'm familiar, yes.
Negas, killing each other.
That is historically accurate, yes.
Yeah, so there you go.
If anybody's
in or around Portland, is Powell's bookstore
the original location?
Is that thing still there? Did it get shut down
and taken away? That place was cool.
It was like a six-story bookstore.
Pretty grand.
That's gnarly.
That's really gnarly.
Hey, we'll welcome Auto Man Reboot.
And thank you for being drawn in
by the thumbnail.
I make those all by myself every day.
Yeah.
Shut up, Auto Man.
Thumbnail.
He got brought in simply by thumbnail, folks.
So
36 years ago,
yesterday,
the world was introduced
to the concept
of atrocity
propaganda.
Do you
out there
in listening land,
do you remember meeting
the Kuwaiti
ambassadors,
lovely daughter, Nariah?
Yes.
And in case you're
actually can go look this up,
atrocity propaganda
is a thing.
And it's a thing
based on this particular
young woman's performance.
Who, more premature,
might have died that day as well.
After I left the hospital,
some of my friends and I distributed flyers
condemning the Iraqi invasion
until we were warned we might be killed
of the Iraqi sauce,
the Iraqi sauce.
The Iraqis have destroyed
everything in Kuwait.
They stripped the supermarkets of food,
the pharmacies of medicine,
the factories of medical supplies,
ransacked their houses
and tortured neighbors and friends.
Our son talked to
a friend of mine after his torture
and released by the Iraqis.
He is 22, but he looked as though
he could have been an old man.
The Iraqis dunked his head into a swimming pool
until he almost drowned.
They pulled out his fingernails and implied
electric shock to sensitive private parts
of his body.
He was lucky to survive.
If an Iraqi soldier is found dead in a neighborhood,
they burn to the ground
all the houses in the general vicinity
and would not let firefighters come
until the only
ash and rubble was left.
The Iraqis were making fun of President Bush
and verbally and physically using
my family and me on our way out of Kuwait.
We only did so because
life in Kuwait became unbearable.
They have forces
to hide, burn and destroy
everything identifying our country
and our government.
I want to emphasize that
Kuwait is our mother and they are our father.
We repeated this
on the roofs of our houses in Kuwait
until the Iraqis began shooting at us.
And we shall repeat it again.
I am glad I am 15.
Old enough to remember Kuwait
before Saddam Hussein destroyed it.
They put
a 15-year-old kid out there
to read that
all of which was
100%
Hockam.
All of it.
Her English is top notch as well, folks.
She's on top of it.
Well, when you're educated at the finest
British schools
you tend to
have very, very
phenomenal English.
Yeah.
There it is.
She's not just some civilian
or person just giving her
take, her primary opinion.
She's just somebody reading off a paper
who comes from a well-privileged
background, most likely
not involved in Kuwait directly,
but she's out here giving a testimony
on the record
that coincidentally
was one of the
precursors
to so much further atrocities.
Gotcha.
I remember
very distinctly years ago
John Kiriaku was on the show
and he was telling me
this story from his perspective
as a CIA
counterterrorism agent
in the White House.
And they're
watching it
at their
office
there at DC
and they're like
there's like four or five agents
standing around and they're like
hey, isn't that the
Kuwaiti ambassadors
kid?
What's she doing?
They'd turn up the TV and start to listen
a little bit and they're all kind of looking at each other
like, did you
who wrote this?
They're like, what's
what's going on?
Why are...
Oh, okay.
And it
started to sink in what was
but for a few moments
there was genuine confusion
in the room where they're like
they did with
incubate.
Why would she be
they'd never let her near
a facility like, what is going...
Oh.
Got it.
Yeah, makes sense.
And then you release that on the mass populace
that don't fucking read
primary information. They just watch the news
and anything that comes from their government
they soon to be accurate.
So when they see a congressional hearing
or some kind of deposition
or something, they take that
to be well, this is the thing right here
this is it. This is really, really real.
But except it's not
it's really not.
Let's see if I can find that
uh
John Kiriakou
interview real quick
because I think
I even put the
the phrase incubator babies
in the, yeah. Yeah, here we are.
Uh
the 40th episode
of
Slow News Day.
Nice.
Yeah, so I'll link that
in the description is
titled Gulf Minds and Incubator Babies
from just about eight years ago.
I was still doing the
show on my back porch
at the time
in the Santa Cruz mountains.
So yeah,
just
we had a couple
of really cool benches
on the back that could
just hang out there and do the show.
It's kind of fun.
I like doing the show outside.
Sounds like fun. Yeah, closer to nature.
Right.
When
I was up in Humboldt
when we had to evacuate
the Santa Cruz mountains, I was
in the middle of a live stream. I was doing an action
for Assange
show
and my phone went off
and it's like, hey, your whole
town is on fire.
You need to leave.
Well, that sounds bad.
Yeah, I guess we do.
And we wound up
going up to Humboldt
for a week and a half, something like that.
And
I still
had to do the show. I was
driving out of
Murder Mountain where
my buddy lives and
shout out to Ben Balderson.
Murder
out in the
sticks.
They called it
Murder. Anyway,
I literally pull over off the side
of the road, throw a folding table out,
set my laptop and
mic and everything up on that,
leave the truck running
so I could run
an inverter and power my
equipment and just hang out
in a
turnout with
all of Humboldt County behind me
as a backdrop
and try to do the show.
It was hilarious. It was also a lot of fun.
I had Scott Horton
and William Ramsey on one time
and it really did look like
I was
standing on a hill in a windstorm
in a rack or something. It was wild.
Got Lee.
Fun. Fun times.
What do you got there?
Just a little
more on the
babies and incubators, but yeah.
It was just a document from 2001
already, you know, kind of breaking
apart the myth of all that
shit. So, yeah,
the same new folks, I guess.
They've been known it's a lie, but
you just need a story. You just need one
push. What did the Joker say?
It's like in order to get everyone
crazy, you just need to give a little push.
You don't even need to, you know, burn shit down.
You just need to set it up and then just
give a little push.
That's all it is.
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Steve, you heard about that earthquake
in Venezuela, my man.
I saw that there was
one and that it was
much more damaging
than the
5.6
quake
in Northern California yesterday.
But it seems like it's
there's
the fault lines they are
active, active.
And there's a lot of discussion
about like whether or not the 5.6
yesterday will lead to more
and larger that California is
definitely overdue
for
a sizable shaker.
You always get them
just though that's a standard for you all, right?
Well, yeah, I mean, it's
standard anywhere
with fault lines or a lot
of fracking, apparently.
Stask, Oklahoma.
But yeah, no, but
where we are in
Marin is
kind of like an isolated little pocket
and
the fault lines
run like
to the east and then north
or, you know, south
away from where
we're currently located.
So that's at least nice.
We're probably not going to get
the worst of it, but yeah,
Venezuela got hammered.
Yeah, I got a little video for the folks.
You know, let's see what's going on down there.
That's here.
7.1 magnitude earthquake
rocking Venezuela
and separate quakes reported in California
and Japan want to show you some of the video.
We are just now getting into us.
These chaotic moments on the streets of
Caracas dust filling the air after
the capital there in Venezuela felt that
intense shaking. You see people walking
around some of them looking confused.
A baseball game coming to a halt
people running for safety. See the
light fixture up there swaying
people running for safety
to the center of the field
just hours before that we saw
5.6 quake hitting northern California
knocking shelves of food
to the ground. We're also following a
6.9 quake in Japan with tsunami
advisories in effect there. There's a lot going on.
Lot to watch. We've got Bill Karen standing by
but I want to start with Aaron Gilchrist joining
us now because it seems that the most
significant of these is the one that just
happened late today in Venezuela.
Aaron, what do we know about the
possibility of any injuries about how people
are doing there?
It less than an hour ago this happened
Hallie and at this point there
aren't any reports about any serious
injuries or any major
damage having happened here but obviously
a 7.1 magnitude earthquake
is a major earthquake and
this was one that happened the
left of 6 o'clock eastern time
apparently in the northwestern part
of Venezuela so putting it very much
near the coast of Venezuela the Caribbean
coast of Venezuela there are reports
that there could have been some of the
serious shaking felt in parts of
Colombia and as you've been saying
this video that we're seeing now out of
the Caracas area which is more than
100 miles away from where we believe
the epicenter of this earthquake was
and still we see the shaking you see
people who felt that shaking running
into the streets getting reports
about buildings with cracks
potentially in some of these
buildings we've been hearing reports
about bottles being knocked off of
shelves in stores in this area
and obviously people very much concerned
about their safety running into the streets
trying to get to safe spaces
potentially to open spaces in
case there were any buildings that
might collapse and again at this point
an hour after this earthquake happened
we are not getting any reports about any
buildings that have collapsed or
seen any major damage or any reports
about people having been injured
Haley there are alerts that have been
posted by the National Weather Service
in this country about the potential
for tsunamis in this area and
earthquake of this magnitude near the coast
would have potentially could potentially
send waves to neighboring
islands into the
the Caribbean Netherlands into Aruba there
are reports about advisories
at least being posted for Puerto Rico
and the US Virgin Islands to be
on the lookout for potentially
tsunami waves Haley Aaron
Gilchrist we'll look to see if we get more video coming into
us too and our teams
and
hectic
not just one folks
multiple 7.1s
just back to back
back to back
craziness but you know what
when
things like these happen Steve I think it's
important to remember that you know
the world is a
you know at the end of the day we're people and we're here for each other
you know we all work together
to make things work
so here's a story from times of
Israel powerful
back-to-back earthquake struck
Venezuela on Wednesday killing at least
32 people almost 33 right
entering at least
700 the nation's acting
president said as communities
across the South American country
sustained damage acting
Venezuelan president del sida
the guests weren't the toll was
expected to rise as rescuers search
collapse buildings and emergency crews
reach devastation
devastated areas hit by 7.2
and 7.5
magnitude earthquakes that struck
shortly after 6 p.m.
local time the us
geological survey using predictive
modeling a.k.a.
I said the death toll
would most likely run into the thousands
with a substantial probability
of exceeding 10,000
in response to the disaster
Israel's foreign minister
or Israel's foreign ministry
said it is making immediate preparations
for the possible deployment
of an aid delegation
the ministry said it was conducting
a situational assessment
with the relevant authorities in Israel
and is examining possible
avenues for assistance
Israel's Zaka emergency
response organization
hang on real quick
it's just it's hilarious to be
that you know they're like
oh there was an earthquake
well this should probably be some very
available in cheap real estate
so perhaps we should put together an aid
package
that's where your mind go Steve
yes 100%
land grab you don't think this is a
humanitarian endeavor
I know I do not
I had call me jaded
you know possibly
possibly it's
it's just after spending a couple
of years setting Argentina on
fire I find it hard to believe
that the Israelis would be
interested in
Venezuela post
earthquake before anything
other than land acquisition
okay
such a black pillar Steve golly
anyways
Israel's Zaka emergency response
organization said earlier that it is preparing
teams to possibly be sent
to help local authorities
rescue people from the rubble
adding that it hasn't received information
regarding casualties among the
country's small Jewish community
fellow rescue organization
Israel aid also said
it was urgently responding
to the unfolding disaster
so yeah
you know this is a thing of course it does
matter that this is going on I just thought it was
interesting you know Israel is sending
people out there very interesting
yeah yeah
oh that's
again I could just
be a cynic but
I find it difficult
to believe that
these are our altruistic motives
yeah
again could just be
could just be me
you think maybe you think maybe has something
to do with you know possible
public relations maybe wanting to
make things look better
well
I don't know if Eddie Wood
listening is noticed or not but
Israel does seem to be in a
bit of a public relations
slump
yeah so
putting on a humanitarian face
who that was
that was fun to say
yeah probably
a smart move
for them except for you know the vast
majority of the world
views them
in a very
negative light
yeah
no
you remember how
a couple of years ago
Donald Trump
the current president
of the United States
that guy Donald
boy they
he was
at a rally
in a town called butler pennsylvania
and in the middle
of this rally there was
a very serious
very grave
paradigm
shifting attempt
on Donald Trump's life
which we all know
I was was totally
real totally legitimate
and were it not
for his
Charlie Kirk like powers
of regeneration
um
his ear would be significantly more
damaged than it currently is but because
he's got these
magical powers
of again regeneration
as an almost 80 year old
man at the time
his ear is unmarked
has the miracle ear
well tim dillon
was just on
the uh the Joe Rogan show
you heard of Joe Rogan
uh tol Rogan the guy
who talks about gay guys
and liking men's hogs yeah fear
that guy yeah yeah yeah
not a comedian not comedian Joe Rogan
right turns out he has
a podcast and tim dillon
was on it and the
subject of the
butler pennsylvania
incident came up
how was there no
more open
investigation into the assassination attempt
what happened there because that's where
Kent said that he was told to
honestly done do you know
you put in charge of it if you want it truly
and I'm being very serious if you want
an honest investigation put israel in charge
Joe if you
want
if you want it done
right have them do it
that's what I'm saying have them do it
just have them do it I would
just think they should look at the charlie
Kirk assassination as well I would trust their
conclusions have them
do it that would be my
thought just
just a fun thought there's a lot of people
that think it was a hoax and that it was a setup
and if it was I've said on my show
just tell us how you did it because that's fun too
it's fun so many men
shot during trump rally and butler sue
the united states two men
who are wounded in the shooting
they're suing
james copenhayver and david dutch
were shot during attempted assassination
of trump their toners
filed federal lawsuits against the united
states for their life altering physical
and emotional injuries claiming those injuries were
the direct result of negligence
on the part of the united states secret service
dutch was shot the stomach while
copenhayver was shot
twice
yeah I mean suing
everend in this country but there's an argument
that was negligence
remember that woman kim cheetle
was in charge and then they put her back in a bunker
who she was in charge of the secret service
oh that's right
that's right she was like the chainies
assistant
yeah
the roof was too slow
but they shot the guy who didn't even fall
he didn't roll off the roof like the whole thing
the slope of the roof that they were on
was steeper
if it's a faked assassination attempt
I don't care I want to know how it was done
and so does the rest of America
produce a special
where barry weiss interviewed donald
trump about how they faked the assassination attempt
put it on cbs
where she's doing and she's taking over
cnn now
yes that's true
she is
but yeah it's
it's always interesting to me how
uh
joseph p rogan
can
roll with
something like this with tim dillon
but then if somebody else brings it up
he'll be like why would you think that
why would you think that
how is that even possible
there's no way that they could do that
yeah you know the show
changes based on the audience if you have
your comedy buddies
smoking cigars
backwards talking about ufc
it's cool you know eddie bravo
chimes in you shut him down a little bit
you keep having fun tim dillon
you know he's funny you know what he does
you know what it is it's easy
you know just let him riff
you kind of talk about it a little bit you know it doesn't go anywhere
you know folks remember
that good old thing shame on
shame on you
it fooled me we can't get fooled again
yeah
except people keep getting fooled
again and again and again and again
yeah to the point where now it's like
comical it's just funny seeing
these things like things are just
out there and they're blatant but you know
most people are so fatigued
and exhausted no one gives a damn
uh no one
cares
unless they can make a buck off of it
unless they can make a buck and grift
the good old grift I can't wait for
the alien grift bro what did I see in the news
the other day the government released some
grainy black and white footage
of a pyramid like UFO
get you know
surfacing from water
yeah like
I'm sick I'm sick of this place man
yeah
sick of this place they want to
get away
I don't want to fly away
that's me
yeah yeah
yeah
Lenny Kravitz
oh god why did you have to do that dude
the cherry on top
Lenny
it's like a yamaka
yamaka
every time I hear Lenny Kravitz
I think of the Adam Sandler
Hanukkah song
oh lord
yeah worries as uh let's see
I think it's uh
Courtney Cox is
half Jewish
Lenny Kravitz is too
yeah yeah
and then he says put them both together
um what a fucking badass
you that's the the line
jerking in a coffin
you wouldn't be talking about that good old
skull and bones thing George
HW was involved in would you
Greg dub 27
you wouldn't be talking about some occulty
some secret society some I don't know
esoteric
shit would you sir
uh I think
what I think what Greg is ultimately
trying to get at is
uh
he would like us to play
the Trevor Moore talks to kids
bit
okay let's do it
good how are you
okay class
this is Trevor and he works in television
and he is going to talk to us today okay
okay hi how's everyone doing
high five oh there we go
I work in television
on a comedy show does anybody
here want to work in television when they
grow up okay okay
who likes comedy who's the who's the class clown
Joey
Joey Joey's the class clown I saw
Sarah Reese's and this is what her face looks
like
okay all right
I want to be an astronaut
well you want to be an astronaut
well that's great you can be an astronaut
all you have to do is study flying
or science and maybe someday
you could be the first astronaut
to walk on the moon
no you already was an astronaut
who first walked on the moon
well no not
really um
that wasn't real
uh see there was this thing
called the cold war and
in order to beat the Russians
we kind of faked that
that never happened
see how there's no windows
on the side and see underneath
where there's like a pod thing
what's that right take a look
at this wreckage see how there's no plane parts
on the ground there
what does that look like
a missile
you see president bush was in a secret
society at Yale called the skull
and bones his dad was too
and they all worship Satan
president bush worship Satan
in my personal opinion
absolutely
and one of the skull and bones
initiation rituals is that
to get in you have to lie naked
in a coffin and masturbate
in front of the older members
but the really messed up thing
is that since former president bush
bush senior was also a member
he requested to be there to watch
his son's initiation
so he watched
his own son masturbate
president bush masturbated in front
of his dad
yeah it's pretty gross
alright p trevor more
alright p dude jeez
yes
is that yeah
that's what plays in a loop on my head
any type any time
somebody brings up the skull
and bones or the coffin at this point
I'm like oh well that's
that's trevor
and yeah I think that that may
have been if not the first
then but like the third episode
of the whitest kids you know
okay alright makes sense
they came out swinging
that's hot
um
you know what I got a little
some some for the people
we always do random videos we kinda jump
into random shit sometimes you know
hey folks I gotta bust
a move check this out check this one out
check it out check it out check it out check it out
oh yeah
classic bang
jeez
and as part of
the 2027 national
defense authorization act all
Americans are required to play that
song every time they get a raise or a promotion
yep
it makes sense
thank you donald trump
the one that really gets me
Charles is the cars
for kids
come song
do you know what I'm talking about
I don't what are you talking about
uh several years back
on the show
when chris rantcast
was hanging out and co-hosting
he brought this to my attention
there's a
a program
called cars for kids
where you
can take a car
that maybe you know maybe there's
not much wrong with it but it's you know
all there and you're gonna upgrade
you can donate
that car
and it will in turn become
the first vehicle for a kid
oh very nice
nice little program
the uh
the jingle for it
is uh
well I'll play it
um
I'm sure it's a very very interesting
fun
now cars for kids
gotten a bit of trouble
because
the kids
that were getting the cars
all turned out to be
jewish
it didn't matter who donated
the car
or what their intended purpose
where it was it was just all of the
recipients
of the cars
happened to be jewish kids
so they got a little trouble for that
but that song
the 1-8-7
having cars for kids
turns out
that's uh
taken
from a jewish folk song
about
summoning the moshiach
jesus christ man
I'm not even I'm not joking
I'm not joking let's check out uncle moishi here real quick
oh my god
the little kindle
it's gonna be
the little kindle
that make moshiach
that's right
that's right let's summon
the jewish messiah
which is also the christian antichrist
maybe we should skip over that a little bit
but yeah it's the exact same
oh my god dude
right
oh the sound drop
great thanks dreamyard
but yeah
wow that's
it's the same thing
oh dude
oh my god
I'm uh
a little speechless
oh you know what they say right
that's all folks
when you look at
99.9%
of the planet as
animals
and you're the superior being
then you have a little fun
you do
maybe you take
one of your traditional folk songs
about summoning the antichrist
and turn it into a cute little
jingle about peddling cars
that are only gonna go to your friends
at none of the other boy kids
probably not number six
I am probably not going to put
Uncle Moyki on the pre-show
probably not
however if anybody
wants to call
a tune
you want your music on the
a and wake up pre-show tunes
it's a five dollar cover
charge
yeah that's easy
that's fair
and that could also be
you know your original music too
if you want I'll give a shit
one eight seven seven
guys
stuck in my head all day bro there it is
thank you thanks
I'm sorry
but yeah it's
it's crazy dude
the first time Chris brought that to the
show we were all just like what
really
that's bold
my goodness
dear lord bro
wow
the audacity
the thing I like about those things it's like
you don't know but they do
it's like they hear that and it's like
oh I know that jingle
and then you're dumb asses one eight seven
seven cars for kids
meanwhile
you're summoning the moshiak
yeah
oh my lord man
let's see if we can get the golem
to summon the antichrist
their antichrist
because it is the
the jewish messiah but it's the
christian
antichrist
yeah
speaking of
are you aware
that you're being trolled
every time you go into a 7-eleven
how so
well I know I feel like I'm being
trolled every time I go into 7-eleven
but it wasn't because of this
now it will I'll add this
to the list
let me know if the audio is back
no one's ever broke this on the internet
audio good
yeah I got it
through all the fast food chains
they all have some dark insidious
origin now we have the 7-eleven
food chain do you guys know
what the 7-eleven brand
of foods and desserts is called
what
go-yum
foods
go-yum
that's so funny
literally go-yum foods
if you go get ice cream at 7-eleven
it's go-yum
brand
go-yum
so
ugh
and it's true
it's true maybe
the noticing is what
has led the ADL
to now label
the term goyslop
as an anti-semitic
trope oh my god enough
of you
fucking enough
everything is fucking anti-semitic
everything
and then you start seeing wait what is that
go-yum
what is that
oh no that's anti-semitic too
don't talk about that food it's anti-semitic
woo
that's pretty on the nose right there
that's very much on the nose nigga
yeah it is
and I know I played the clip
you know but before
but
kinda
kinda bears repeating the Ari Shafir
explanation
of go-yum
right
were you hanging out for that one
did I play it while you were on I can't remember
nah man I wasn't pull that up
alright
the
most recent and most recently
departed host
co-host of Legion of Skanks
Ari Shafir he put out a comedy
special a few years back
titled Jew
and in it
he explains a lot
about growing up Jewish
and you know
things in the nature
of Jewish tradition
stuff like that
and here he is on the meaning
of the word go-y
and by you people I don't mean black people
I mean non-Jews
yeah Jews are racist
but we don't see skin color we see IQ
and income level
yeah
go-ys that's all you guys are
you ever hear that word
go-y it's Yiddish for non-Jew
Yiddish is like Jewish obonics
we don't know
go-y means not Jew
and just so you know when you hear it
you think it's fun and friendly when they're saying it to you
it's not
go-y is a derogatory word
probably my favorite derogatory word
yeah because most derogatory words
they single out one race or culture
make them feel bad
not go-y
go-y is the most inclusive
of all the derogatory words
do you know how pompous that is
to have as your term for the other
that means to them it's one-tenth
of one percent of the world
and then
ugh
the scariest shades
of go-y
as he's making
jokes about it on stage
and you dummy goys are laughing at it
mm-hmm
yeah
but yeah
it is
it is a derogatory term
have you seen this Steve
oh no
a play called the Zionist
turns the post-october 7th
disclosure into dysfunctional
family drama
oh how enjoyable
how enjoyable it's where he's been involved
yeah
he should be
I don't think he is but he should be
the new play is set to run through July 3rd
in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
and follows the family
on vacation as they navigate
their conflicting views on Israel
in the post-october 7th world
mm-hmm
just about the last thing I wanted to do on a summer weekend
in the Berkshire
was to see a play called the Zionist
the title alone
okay we're done
it's a family of Jews, Zionists
in conflict about October 7th
and whatever the fuck
what is the conflict
they can't figure out which city
in occupied Palestine
to burn to the ground first
perhaps
well the thing says the youngest son
is he's like a
anti-Zionist Jew
he's a Jewish anti-Zionist
he's like into Palestinian freedom
and all that and you know
so many different characters
in the Zionists family
no Steve do you think
you can make a play called the Zionists
me personally
if I wrote it no they would not let that fly
it would not
yeah okay
okay
a prominent Jewish family
fractured by the politics and aftermath
of October 7th gathers for a fragile reunion
at a luxury Caribbean resort
but as a sudden hurricane
bears down outside their bungalow
an even fiercer storm
erupts within
forcing them to confront old wounds
clashing values
and the ties that may no longer bind them
in this urgent and deeply
human world premiere
the Zionists a family storm
lays bare how identity politics
and history can tear families
apart and the struggle to hold
them together in an increasingly
divided world
that uh that sounds
like uh that sounds godawful
I'm sorry I want to be I want to be more open
minded about it but that that sounds terrible
so
yeah maybe this is why uh where's
that story I had a thing on uh I'll
pull it up uh
the the PR is just
it's not
working out anymore I think certain things
are just going down there's a lot of dysfunction
the the
the narrative war isn't
it's not narrating you're not
winning
you're losing
what what was the
story Israel spent they're spending like
350 million dollars
on propaganda alone like
Hasbara and like all these things like
outreach and political views
like oh for real
oh that's in your nation's budget
so propaganda is in your national
budget
that's not it that's kind of
that's kind of questionable but you know
whatever
well I mean honestly
any country that has
you know state-run media
is including
propaganda into their budget but yeah
yeah the 730
million just shy of three quarters of a
billion dollars the Israelis want to
uh or have been
shelling out
to rehab their image
uh I don't know if the does this include
the seven thousand dollars
per social media post
golly I'm sure it's probably in there
I didn't I didn't go deep into this but
um yeah this is from April for folks
April 29th right so not
not anything new
Israel is betting nearly three quarters
of a billion dollars I said
350 it's way more than that
uh that it can talk its way
out of a reputation crisis
exactly 2026
national budget it's in their national
budget that's nutty
well I mean
at least four billion dollars of their national
budget comes from us taxpayer
money yeah
so you know they got a little bit they can
throw out there
are you glad that you're working
your butt off so that
40% of your income
can be stolen from you by pedophiles
and then given to different
pedophiles in a different country so that
they can propagandize you into being okay with it
that's rad
that's super rad
mark most what is
a pure research center poll
released earlier this month found
60% of Americans now view
Israel unfavorably up
seven points in the single year
with only 37 viewing it favorably
all these fucking ads
here we go most striking for
a country long accustomed to
bipartisan American support
57% of Republicans under
50 hold negative views
of Israel support has created
among us support has created
among the religiously unaffiliated
black Protestants and Catholics
among American Jews
support has slipped below two thirds
support has cratered
among the religiously unaffiliated
black Protestants and Catholics
so yeah yeah it's it's
you're not winning folks
750 million
can't get you out of this fucking hole
all of the
Ashton Forbes crash out
tweets and Laura Loomer
psychotic rantings aren't changing
hearts and minds I find
that difficult to believe
given the magnanimous nature
of both individuals but yeah
yeah not working
bomber
whoops
maybe you shouldn't be murderous
psychopaths have you
have you tried
not being
what ambitions of
planet conquering genocidal maniacs
maybe
that would go a long way
towards rehabbing your image
I don't know it could
it could
I do want to give a quick recap
of the
the World Cup as far from the point
of view of Mexico
and their
last
last three matches in the
group stage here heading into the
knockout round
and that's exactly how it went
right
Mexico's rocking them huh
good times
yeah yeah no they are
they came into the tournament ranked 15th
in the world so
you know
they're playing like they should be
they should be but I was saying this
yesterday I'd never seen Mexico
with an actual defense before
on their World Cup team
defense is killing it
they're doing great
that's good okay
I don't think they've allowed a single
goal the entire competition
so far one of the only
teams to keep a clean sheet
going into the
knockout round
Argentina as well
Argentina so far
is not allowed a single goal
well the teams they have played
have had to be on the same pitch
as Lionel Messi
okay
didn't work out very well for them
worked out well for Messi
who's logged
five goals
in the
opening two games for Argentina
becoming the all-time
goal scorer for World Cups
um
it's true Harps they haven't
played Australia
again has anybody had
a sit down
with the Aussies and told them
that they are much more likely to
win a World Cup match
if they score more goals for
their team than they do for the
opposing team
because I feel like that is a key component
of their strategy that they're missing
where
they have a
tendency to score more goals for the other guys
than they do for themselves
it's certainly something to think about
both Messi and Ronaldo
are playing in their
six World Cups
which is insane
Messi just turned
39
Ronaldo 41
got a lot
yeah
very advanced age for professional
sports but it's hilarious
to hear the announcers
talk about these guys like they'll bring out
a 34 year old and they'll be like
it's the oldest person on the pitch
and it's like we can't believe
that he's not out there on the walker
it's amazing his hips
don't shed to every time he goes
to ground like it's wild
dude like it's a 34 year old
yeah
maybe
perhaps I don't know
they do look great
the mathematician
who has correctly predicted
the last three World Cups
says the sleeper
and the team
that he has
predicted to win
is the Netherlands
and
they are looking very
very good
going into this
insane
communication
defense good offense
they do they look tough
Holland looks tough
the same thing I meant
Holland from Norway
got the Norwegians
sitting pretty too
Norway plays France
in their final
group stage match
which
ironically
could be a preview
of the World Cup final
France coming into it
number one in the world favorite team
Mbappe
has himself four goals
for the World Cup so far also
Erlen Holland
from Norway has four goals
okay
and
Ronaldo has two
yeah
I don't like Ronaldo
I don't
you don't like brown people
I don't like Cristiano Ronaldo
the love of my life
you don't like handsome men
no I don't I'm not Donald Trump
I have the one
smoking hot Latina
that's all I
I'd say I'm happy
with that
took showers with the other pros
they came out of there they said oh my god
that's unbelievable
that's right
President of the United States
has intimate stories about Arnold Palmer's
junk
yeah
unbelievable
creepy ass nigga
I see Norway getting to
at least the group of eight
very very easily
because
Ronaldo is
he's plastic
like the dude's a kindle
in the first place I've never
cheered for Portugal
I don't particularly like
the couple of teams that
Ronaldo's played for
he appears to be
a very selfish
individual on the pitch
and it kind of looks like his teammates
don't like him that much either
he's one of those
I don't know
he appears to have more interest
in racking up goals for Ronaldo
than he does
for his team
but now
I suppose you could make the same
argument about any striker
you could probably make the same argument
about Messi except for
Messi is
football's all-time
assist leader
which kind of
belies the selfish player
narrative
like you really don't get to be
number one all-time
in making sure other people score
goals
by being a selfish player
right
there's no I in team
no but if you rearrange the
letters a little bit there's a me
and that's
Ronaldo ball
I
let's see
I don't know did you want to stay in World Cup
you had some stuff you wanted to bring
for that
I mean a touch just a little bit
mine was more so
I was reading up on it in the
Escobar story
the 90s stories of the
Colombian player that
scored on his own team
and just where that
I remember watching that game that was against
the United States
Colombia
got an own goal
the defenseman
who
was the unfortunate individual
who
created the own goal
met an
untimely demise
yes
let's listen
to a
two
Couar
the
p
another
or
the
of
the
We're in a violent country, but we can't be afraid either.
It's all up to you to be the next coach of the team.
This team will be the base of the Colombian national team.
The Colombian national team is the only ones who have met the people.
Let's do it.
That's for you.
Guys, who are you?
No one wants to make a mistake.
Unfortunately, the one who made a mistake
will be found.
It do get Byzantine.
It do.
The trigger man on that was Cartel Enforcer.
Cartel Hitman.
It didn't seem to be Cartel orchestrated.
It seemed to be personal grievance type thing.
I was reading about this a little bit ago.
The guy who shot Andreas Escobar,
he got sentenced to 43 years and did 11.
He did.
Primarily because of his Cartel connection.
Incredible.
But no, we talked about FIFA a little bit.
This was the main story that popped up,
but I just saw the little Netflix thing.
Folks, nothing is fun in this world anymore
because everything is on its way to be centralized.
everything's surveilled. And here's a story on the AI-powered World Cup runs on
thousands of data workers. Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the
Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams,
broadcasters, and the betting industry. So it's like the level of technology
being used is gnarly, and it's like them just literally surveilling players,
movements, etc. So the current edition of the FIFA World Cup features a sensor
fitted ball, real-time tracking, artificial intelligence, assisted offside calls, and
an AI assistant for each of the 48 teams. Behind these innovations are data
workers in countries including India, Cambodia, and the Philippines who are
essential for the many AI tools in play. Steve, your thoughts. Oh, it's
insane, the level of intrusive surveillance at World Cup. But that's
all sporting events right now. And if anybody thinks that all of the surveillance
tech is going away after the World Cup, think again, why would all these stadiums
invest in this stuff to not use it on everybody else that comes to it,
whether it's for football or a concert, it doesn't matter. It matters. It's
going to be a part of how you go out now. The ball thing's crazy because it
doesn't really seem to, but I don't know, do much. Yeah, yeah. No, but literally
just tracking players, watching moves, tracking the field, all that. And it's
like each team has their own like data analyst, the AI analyst, like what is
going on? I have no idea why the players are wearing sports bras. We were making
fun of them yesterday at my girl's Bob's house. We were watching the
Mexico game, saw some dude like scamper through in the background and we're
like, what the fuck is a sports bra for? Why would you? I don't get it. I don't.
I don't know. But whatever. I totally understand why a lot of people say
that soccer is gay when you've got, you know, skinny, sweaty dudes flopping
around in sports bras. That really doesn't go a long way to remove the
claims of soccer, pk a little, little homo. Just a touch. World another story.
Gadget review.com World Cup 2026 security normalizes mass surveillance.
Okay. FIFA's $365 million security investment brings military grade
facial recognitions and robot patrols to 16 stadiums. Soccer's biggest
party is turning into surveillance theater. The 2026 FIFA World Cup
across 16 North American venues isn't just deploying typical event
security. We're talking military grade facial recognition, robot dogs
with AI cameras and counter drone systems that might sweep up your
phone data all justified as keeping you safe. But with consequences
that will outlast the final whistle. The tech arsenal being
deployed. Let's see from robot patrols to facial scanning. World
Cup venues are becoming surveillance testing grounds.
Several US stadiums, including Gillette in Boston, Hard Rock in
Miami and Mercedes Benz in Atlanta are rolling out AI powered
facial recognition for entry and payments. Registered fans can
use their face instead of traditional tickets or cards.
Meanwhile, for robot dogs equipped with cameras will
patrol venues in Dallas and New Jersey. While Fordham
technology scored a multimillion dollar deal with DHS
Department of Homeland Security to deploy kinetic counter drone
systems that physically intercept on authorized aircraft.
That's right. Explodo drones in the hovering over a stadium in
case anyone tries to attack from the sky.
Yeah, yeah, DHS and FEMA have committed 365 million to World
Cup security technologies, 115 million for drone programs
and 250 million encounter drone grants to host states. Lenovo
was building digital twins of stadiums for real time crowd
monitoring. Incredible. While companies like Booz, Allen
Hamilton are fusing drone imagery with GPS tracking into
integrated command platforms. Lovely. All for your safety.
Well, in at least in the case of Gillette Stadium, all of that
surveillance infrastructure was already there. I don't know
if anybody remembers or not. But during the Super Bowl this
year, they had that ridiculous blue square campaign, which was
supposed to raise awareness about anti semitism or
something. This is the interior of Gillette Stadium, home of
the New England Patriots. This was the brainchild of Patriots
owner Robert Kraft, Epstein associate and hardcore Zionist
inside the Patriots Stadium, a command center of stats tracking
hate speech online. It shows where it's coming from the
time of day and how it's trending, especially among
younger people. We saw that not only is he an anti semitism
growing across the country, it's disproportionately growing
in college campuses and in high schools, which is part
of the reason Kraft says he partnered with the United
Negro College Fund and the Jewish organization, Hallel
International, to host unity dinners throughout the country.
Baruch College students Aiden Herzlinger and Akish L are
among the more than 450 students who've attended at least
one of the dinners. What do you talk about at these
dinners? The dinners are about finding commonalities,
commonalities between the black community and the Jewish
community. So we really talk about anything and everything.
It's not just about politics and opinions. It's about
treating each other as humans. It's about brainwashing.
Right. Pretty much right.
But yeah, it's like the Rhodes Scholars. I mean, you name
it any kind of groups where you bring minds together to
figure out problems and resolve issues. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
It's a bigger thing besides you coming together and
collaborating. Yes, you're collaborating, but collaborating
on what exactly? What's the ultimate motive of what's
going on? Right. Well, I mean, in this case, clearly, it's
to stamp out anti-Semitism, right?
Which is necessary.
We've converted a football stadium into a online
monitoring center tracking hate speech.
Golly. Wild Times. Golly. Yeah. Wild Times. That's what we're at, man.
Let's see. I wanted to talk about this yesterday and didn't
get to. And then we can, after that, roll the Greg
grease clip. But with the rise of polymarket, Kalshi and
stuff like that, Facebook and Metta's Mark Zuckerberg
thought to himself, why don't we get on a prediction
market too? Maybe we should do that. So Zuck is trying to
launch an experimental prediction market app that only works
inside Metta products. But quote unquote, independent from
Facebook and Instagram. It doesn't involve paying you out
any actual money. But you can put your money into it. And it
will give you like video game credits. Zuck recently
dispatched a small team of this company to create a
smartphone app similar to polymarket and Kalshi to
employees with knowledge and matter said users would not
wage your money. The app would probably rely on video game
like point system instead. Though the company had not ruled
out the eventual use of real money betting. The app is
internally referred to as arena when function independently
from Metta social networking apps. Metta aims to grow
the app by leveraging its large social networking
audiences, directing them toward using it. So your
Instagram or face page is going to be inundated with ads
for this trying to get you over to it.
Yeah, so basically your energy, they're taking your
energy, your input, and somehow you're getting
nothing, but they're getting something out of it.
All this the data traffic, the app traffic, the usage,
all that is beneficial to them. But your ass is getting
like fucking Toys R Us little credits.
So out society is collapsing vice vices go up, right?
Yeah. Excuse me, I'm sorry. Just over year over year. Last
year call she and poly market did 50 billion in online
trades. That's almost tripled. And we're halfway through
the year.
Well,
people be gambling. Are you a betting man, Charles?
I'm not all right. I'm not. I don't think I've ever
gambled in my life.
All right. I have often gambled with my health or my
sanity, but I prefer not to gamble money. Yeah, no money.
I don't know yet. Well, you know, I gamble. I gamble
every day. That's the case. Yes. Right. Money, though.
Right. Not necessarily risk a verse just underfunded to be
a gambler. Yes, exactly. I've been to casinos before, but
I've never put money down. I've been there post fish
with my mind melting while seeing a bunch of funky
shit at a casino.
Yeah. Yeah, they are fun for that. They are psychedelics
and casinos actually did as long as you don't get sucked
into, you know, throwing your life away to the one arm
band. It's it's fun. I lived in Vegas. And the only times I
put money in a slot machine was when somebody was like, No, I
want to see you gamble here. Put this in and I'm like, I'm
gonna lose your money. It's okay. It's okay. It's five bucks or
whatever. All right, I'm gonna lose it. And it's like gone. I
don't I don't it's it's not fun for me. I don't enjoy. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know. Cards are fun. Sometimes I don't I'll
play, you know, like no stakes, no hurt feelings poker or
freaking pennies or something. I don't, you know, that's
fine. But yeah, it's I don't I don't have that particular draw
to that that addiction. I've seen it too. I've seen gambling
addicts. I've seen the look on their face. Yeah, when we're
standing in a sports book and they just kind of, you know,
everything glazes over. I was like, Oh, that's a no count me
out. Come out. Man, by the way, if you know, if you are a gambler,
the fucking I don't I don't care. Just, you know, try to do it
responsibly. No, no, if that's a thing or not, probably not. I
do know that when I worked at a liquor store, I absolutely
loathed all of the lottery people. They'd come in and take up
like 15 or 20 minutes of your time. Right. Gotta have their
numbers. Godly. It's one of those. Yeah. And then you've got
eight more customers behind them going, can you hurry? What are
we doing here? Yeah. Yeah, bro, some vices are it's like, you
know, it's fun. And some it's like, I do you really, it's a
thing like this is becoming part of your life for real. It gets a
little sad.
See, I don't want to head into the flock stuff yet.
You know, let's go back to that conversation between Joseph
Rogan and Tim Dillon because Tim Dillon really does like, there's
a thing and a lot of people who have commented on this, there's
a lot of people who have made videos about it and stuff like
that, the the collapse of the Rogan spear. And the, I don't
know, just kind of the waning influence that that Rogan and
the Austin comedy scene seem to have. And there's still I mean,
still one of the most popular podcasts on the planet is still
people go there in order to get the Rogan bump, which isn't
necessarily doing what it used to. He can't like create
comedy superstars out of absolutely thin air anymore.
Fortunately, he does owe us an apology for Burke Kreischer and
Andrew Schultz. I'm waiting for that. You mean his
assassins, his comedy assassins? 250 people on the front lines
defending humanity. Yeah, no way. Cat Williams say Joe's too busy
pushing six comedians who ain't never been funny. Exactly. And
he's not wrong. He is not wrong, boy. But it's weird because
people will come there just specifically to kiss Joe's ass and
say whatever they think he wants to hear. Yeah, because he's a
gatekeeper. When you please a gatekeeper, you move on to the
next level, presumably. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean,
he's sitting there telling you that he took over Austin,
Texas specifically to gatekeep comedy. Why he's got a dozen
Navy SEALs running around in the green room at the
mothership. That's wild. That's wild. But Tim is one of those
people who doesn't need Joe Rogan. Yeah, Tim's wildly
successful, incredibly wealthy to say and do pretty much
whatever he wants. Shane Gillis, same thing. Like Joe Rogan
needs to be Shane Gillis his friend at this point more
than Shane needs to be Joe's friend. Exactly. And that's a
very, very liberating position to be in because then you
really can talk to your buddy Joe in the same manner that you
would if you were just hanging out in the green room at the
mothership and Joe knows that you don't need him. So he can't
gaslight you as much. He's got no respect for his good friend
Theo Vaughn. That's for sure. Theo Vaughn noticeably absent
from UFC 250. Yeah. Yeah, Theo's, you know, he's like moving
on to his own island doing his own thing. Well, Theo, I mean,
dude, I've seen, I've seen pictures of Theo at UFC matches
where it's like him sitting all by himself during the
prelims. He's just that dude. He loves the combat sports. He
likes being there. So yeah, it was interesting to see him
absent from UFC 250. Now, Tim teased a discussion about Israel
when they were talking about the Butler fake assassination
thing. And now now they're getting more into the meat and
taters of the Israel conversation.
Sturbing thing to a lot of people like how much influence do
they really have on this country? That's that's what
creeps people out because I think no one even really
considered it before October 7th. It wasn't mean. I'm sure
people considered it. But those people were wildly racist
and they were the only people that ever considered that
maybe there was some undue influence that Israel has in
the United States government. Now, it's golly. It's been
openly discussed for a very long time, Joe. I feel like
he knows it.
Point is considered it wasn't like it was an openly discussed
thing amongst young people, right? It wasn't until we
started realizing, first of all, it was a pack. It was the
weirdness of the New York City mayoral race. Yeah, of
course, very weird, where they were all like, we're gonna
visit Israel like what? Well, it's also in direct
opposition to the stated goal of the Trump
administration, which is to repair the United States and
to make it great and to elevate it and to focus on the
United States and to not go into Middle Eastern wars,
which was a huge, very popular plank of his platform
and to not waste money and saddle ourselves with
debt and mire ourselves in these unwinnable wars. And
there was such a gaslighting campaign. The secretary
of state came out after the Iran war and goes, well,
Israel is going to attack them anyway and our bases
were going to be vulnerable, so we had to join. And
then he went, no, I didn't mean that. I didn't really
mean that. We're partners. We both think it's a
great idea and there was tremendous pressure on him
to do this. Yeah. And, you know, it hasn't worked.
And it's clearly not in the interest of the United
States to be in a Middle Eastern war where they
ran. Tons of Jewish people don't believe it is.
Lots of, you know, people from all walks of life
don't believe it, but there's an ideological group of
people that donate a lot of money and that are
incredibly powerful and they are really pushing
this. They're pushing troops and they're pushing
nukes. They're like, you know, unconventional
weapons, like crazy bombing campaigns. They're
pushing troops on the ground. They don't care
what it takes. Iran has to be either completely
destroyed or it's just got to be a chaos zone,
but for the regional ambitions of Israel, they
can't, it can't exist. So, I mean, again, not in a
paranoid, conspiratorial way because I don't like
the victim stuff either. There's a bunch of people
in America being like, I can't get ahead because
Jewish people are successful. I think that's a
stupid road to go down. That's a victim road. I
hate that. I hate it. I hate it when gay people
do it or anyone, any group of people I hate
when they drench themselves in victim hood. I
think when you become a victim, you lose
autonomy over your life. It's insane, but I do
think there's a fair, there's a fair question to
ask about, what is, you know, what is the
motive of, of certain massive big donors? Is the
motive the strength and prosperity of America
or is it the strength and prosperity of Israel?
That's a
I think we know the answer to that. Yeah, I
think we do. I think many of those donors
have very blatantly and openly stated that
their priorities are Israel first.
Tim kind of dominating that conversation, but Joe
at least has to like, not along and be like,
well, yeah, yeah, and then still act
surprised, still pretend that you had no
idea. Right, exactly, exactly. Yeah, well,
that's your organ for you. That's how it
goes with him. It's like, again, gatekeeper,
but to like, like you said, to this point,
like there's certain people that can
lecture Joe, if you will, there's certain
people that can grab his hand and walk
him down the road for a bit. Tim Dillon
giving you an example right here, you
know, that's like one thing, but then
you get somebody like Theo that one
time and that was just like a circus,
you know. Yeah, or you get Louis J. Gomez
and Big J. O'Carson in there and they're
just, they're trying to get in the
club. Right, right. And look, I don't
mind if people go on a podcast and they
just want to be silly and crack jokes.
I love that. I do. The context matters
a little bit as far as whether or not
it's solely for the purpose of narrative
management, but yeah, yeah, I don't
care. Like I would prefer that. I would
prefer Joe Rogan go back to doing what
he was doing when he was first
podcasting, eating mushrooms with Mike
Tyson and shit. Right. That'd be
great. I'm fine, you know, but no, here
we are. It's the Israelis, of
course, you know, having to live with
all of this, you know, the rise in
anti-Semitism, the fact that they were
attacked, the worst attack on Israeli
soil in years. There are many major
cities in Israel have been, you know,
subjected to Hezbollah and Iranian
rockets, banged up, banged up. I did,
did say we were going to do the
Gregory's thing, but before we do that
real quick, just let me, let me show you
how the Israelis are dealing with
this, uh, their, their life
situation.
CSD is something real that many are
going through, not just from combat,
not just from October 7th and the
war, but also the, the impact of the
world reaction to the war and the
situation here in Israel. Well, as we
are here on International Yoga Day
and the summer solstice, no place
better to be than on top of
Tel Aviv with these beautiful views
celebrating the fact that we are
experiencing a very profound moment
here in Israel. Behind me, you see
dozens of people that are taking part
in a yoga practice as part of a
nonprofit called Brothers in Yoga.
It's an organization started by a
wonderful woman named Neta Margoli
who has dedicated all of her time and
energy and resources to bringing
somatic healing yoga practices to
starting with soldiers who have
experienced PTSD. That's great,
isn't that great? You, you come home
from a, a tour of, you know, sniping
toddlers and massacring women and
children ransacking their homes and
stealing their lingerie and you get
to chill out with a little bit of
yoga. It makes sense, you know, you
reintegration, you got to reintegrate
and how else do you do that besides
some eastern practices, you know,
whatever. Right, right? Nothing like a
a little, you know, Vedic meditation.
Exactly, exactly. To get over your
Zionist PTSD. Jesus, man. There was a
seven-year-old that threw a rock at
me once. I've, of course, I did
massacre his entire family, but now
I've got this PTSD about the rock.
Gonna have to, gonna have to do some
yoga about it. Let's uh, this pose is
called raping the Palestinian
prisoner. Oh, oh no. The downward dog,
they call that. Right, right. Downward
facing Goy. Yes. Oh, bad. Instead of
the lotus position, it's like the
hummus position. Yes. Oh, my God, man.
Well, you know, shout out to all those
soldiers. Oh, I hope all that yoga
pays off, but um. Man, shout out to
Greg Rees. Yeah, no, shout out to
Greg Rees too. Um, you know, we
talk about, you know, Israel getting
benefited and all this, but we're
also getting screwed, not just in the
in the form of, you know, New World
Order getting closer and closer every
day. I mean, it's here now, but just
expanding every day, but we get our
same old, same old where we're stuck
in this system of voting and politics
and this American like outlook and
July 4th is coming up, right? Where's
all this patriotism? Where's all this
like American greatness, you know? And
Greg Rees had a nice little, little
video on that that I think would be
nice to, oh, nice to watch. Oh, my bad. Shout
out to Greg Rees, by the way, as
always. But yeah, let's see what Greg
has to say about the 250th
anniversary of this great nation. The
Stamp Act of 1765 was the first
direct tax levied by parliament on the
colonies, which had no elected
representatives in parliament to
approve or debate it. British
Parliament later stated in the
declaratory act that they had full
power and authority to make laws and
statutes of sufficient force and
validity to bind the colonies and
people of America in all cases
whatsoever. According to the story, the
American Revolution wasn't about the
size of the tax. It was about the
right of Britain to impose taxes on
the colonists without their consent.
From 1868 to 1913, 90% of federal tax
revenue came from alcohol and tobacco
taxes. In 1909, President Taft
recommended that Congress propose a
constitutional amendment to give the
government power to tax incomes
without apportioning the burden. In
1913, the Federal Reserve Bank was
established. Along with it came the
ratification of the 16th amendment,
which gave what many court cases show
to be undue power to the internal
revenue service. This includes case law
that was withheld from IRS employee
training such as Stanton versus
Baltic Mining Company. Bill Benson's
findings published in The Law That
Never Was make a case that the 16th
amendment was not legally ratified
and that the Secretary of State
committed fraud when he declared it
so in 1913. The 1913 Form 1040 shows
that only those with annual incomes of
at least $3,000 were instructed to
file an income tax return, the
equivalent to approximately $98,000
in 2025 and only about 3% of the
population was subject to the income
tax. In the years following the Great
Depression, taxes were raised from
about a tenth of a person's income
to a third and during World War II the
taxpayer base was expanded from 4
million people to 42 million. The
current Tax Payment Act of 1943
required employers to withhold federal
income tax from an employee's paycheck,
each pay period, and send the payment
directly to the IRS. There is no
statute in the Internal Revenue Code
that clearly makes the average American
wage earner liable to file a 1040.
Yes, because it's for specific
individuals who have to do that. It's
not everybody in mass and I'm glad
Greg brought this up. It's for
persons and individuals engaging in
certain things. It's for people in
the government who are doing a
specific thing. It's not in mass for
everybody and this is where, for
example, New York, the driver's
license, like when you look at the
history of the driver's license and
all this, it started off as
anyone who was engaging in like
for hire operation had to have a
license, meaning you are like
working for like an electric, not
electric company, but some kind of
like utility company and you have to
use your car as a means of
money making. That was it. If you're
just in your car moving around doing
shit and you didn't have to and then
as the years got on, you start
seeing more and more regulation.
Well, if you're using your car 20%
of the time for like, you know,
money making endeavors, you have to
you have to do it. It's like, wait,
what? Wait, so it went from 50% to
20% to now all of a sudden it's a
matter of safety and everybody
needs it. Now you apply that same
logic to taxes. It starts off as
taxes for specific things,
imposts, excises, right? It's like
levy taxes for specific things,
duties, imposts and excises.
It's specific things, trading,
commerce, etc. But then slowly but
surely niggas is filling out tax
forms and shit. And if you don't,
you get in trouble because, A,
that's where we're at.
Or pay income tax on their labor.
And the Code of Federal Regulations
26 CFR section 601.602 states
explicitly the tax system is
based on voluntary compliance.
The Internal Revenue Service
develops forms and instructions
that explain the requirements of
the Internal Revenue Code and
regulations. The service
distributes the forms and
instructions to help taxpayers.
Taxpayers, that's a defined term.
Are you a taxpayer? Have you ever
wondered what a taxpayer is besides
somebody that pays taxes?
Go look up the CFR and the
USC definition of taxpayer.
But anyways, instructions to help
taxpayers comply with the law.
The tax system is based on
voluntary compliance. And the
taxpayers complete and return the
forms with payment of any tax owed.
26 CFR 601.602 tax forms and
instructions. Go check it out, folks.
There's so many of these little
things you read. You're like,
wait, what? What did I just say?
Based on, wait, what?
Based on voluntary compliance.
What does that mean?
Yeah, go check it out.
The IRS counters that Congress
gave the Secretary of the
Treasury power to enforce these
laws through involuntary
collection if voluntary
compliance fails.
In 2026, while many Americans
struggle to make ends meet and
argue that the IRS is
unconstitutional, the White
House is targeting a July 4
deadline for the Clarity Act to
become law, which will be the
legal framework for the
agentic crypto economy and
comprehensive oversight by the
IRS. Changes to internal revenue
code section 6045 require
brokers, any person who is
responsible for regularly
providing any service
effectuating transfers of
digital assets on behalf of
another person to report
digital asset transactions to
the IRS. This is happening on
the international level as well.
By the time the agentic AI
commerce is fully running, every
wallet, every broker and every
cross-border data sharing
agreement will already be wired
directly into the IRS and its
international counterparts.
The U.S. has explicitly
rejected the CBDC model in
favor of privately issued
dollar-backed stablecoins
regulated under the Genius
Act and soon the Clarity Act.
But the surveillance and
programmability concerns
associated with CBDCs are still
being achieved through state
mandated reporting wrapped
around privately issued
tokens that are functionally
just as traceable. Circle,
the issuer of the USDC stablecoin
which handles 98% of AI
agent payments, is positioning
itself as infrastructure for
tokenized carbon credits.
And so if a future carbon tax
were ever implemented, the
infrastructure will already be
in place for it.
Greg Ries reporting.
Yeah, exactly.
Taxation is theft.
Fantastic work from Greg Ries.
Shout out to Greg.
Go check out his sub-stacks,
subscribe to it, all that kind
of good stuff.
Well, it's, you know, you've
got to support independent
media if you want to keep
seeing it.
Yeah, for real.
And this is very, very
important stuff.
So yeah.
That is bad.
All of the tax code stuff
is so infuriating.
And it can't be voluntary
compliance if it can be
involuntarily taken from you
by force, if you don't
voluntarily comply.
Well, you know, Steve, the
feds got a wet their beak.
Oh, it's a voluntary program.
Okay. Well, I don't want to
do it then.
Oh, okay. Well, we're going
to send armed thugs to your
house to rob and or beat or
shoot you.
And then we'll take away your
liberty.
And then if we have to, we'll
seize your property and
everything in it until we feel
like we've been compensated
from this voluntary program
that you opted out of.
Disgusting.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
You have a choice, but here's
a gun staring you right in
the face.
So what are you going to do?
Yeah, the choices pay up or
get shot.
So yeah, you can voluntarily
comply with either.
Jesus.
And folks, as Steve knows, I
got a bounce here in just a
minute.
But you know, that video just
made me think as we're talking
about like government
extortion.
It's the same old song.
Nothing changes.
Nothing's different.
It's the same old thing.
And here's a little clip to
remind you of that from the
godfather.
Your boy Don Fannucci right
there.
That's that's who I was
going for right there.
That's the government walking
around all peacocked.
Everybody's kissing their ring
because they have to.
If you don't kiss the ring, you
get this shit beat out of you
slapped, killed, extorted,
whatever.
You have to kiss the ring.
And that's what this is.
But do you have to kiss the
ring though?
That's what I say.
I'm not kissing a ring.
I do my best not to an A.
We like Steve said before,
like you can't 100%.
Like, yes, sometimes you got to
play the game.
You got to dance to dance.
You got to do whatever, you
know.
But to what extent though, do
you always have to bend over?
When can you say, you know what?
No, thanks.
I'm going to pass.
Say no as much as you can,
folks.
It can be 100%, but just,
you know, stand your ground
as much as you can.
Absolutely.
Well, thank you, man, for
hanging out on a Thursday.
Your first day at you.
Yes, man.
Anything else you want to
point out?
Shout out.
Highlight for you.
Shout out to all the viewers.
Shout out to everybody
watching this.
You know, we can do this
without you and we do it
for you, of course.
Shout out to Mr.
Milotto Steve Poykinan
for kicking back,
chilling and doing all this.
Like, yeah.
Hey, yeah.
All right, man.
Well, have an excellent weekend.
Say hey to the fam.
And yeah, we'll see you next week.
Peace, brother.
Charles, everybody.
Let's see.
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See, where did that go?
Why won't you tell me?
Oh, Cousin Tarot, thank you.
And
a hollow Perth.
Hollow Perth, Alex.
Thank you.
Berdur Mariah.
I saw late yesterday.
Michael, thank you very much,
Michael says, save.
Save Lake Pillsbury and Potter
Valley.
Yes, sir.
We should do a deep dive
on Potter Valley soon.
And like skimming,
appreciate you very much.
Luigi, this Mexico national team
rip off Jersey.
I need one of those.
I do.
If you happen to be a purveyor
of knockoff Mexico men's
national team jerseys,
holler at your boy.
Megan Dobbs, thank you.
And I think we're caught up.
Let's head into the last hour
here.
Let's do.
Well, actually,
just talked about the knockoff
Mexico Jersey.
There's levels of having fun.
And in general, just, you know,
being a fan of the beautiful game
that Americans are doing wrong.
And this may have a lot to do
with the lack of embracing
soccer as a sport in general.
The American mind is wired to
seeing lots and lots and lots
of points and somebody scoring
on basically every possession.
So soccer is not a game that
that particular mentality seems
to enjoy very much.
But I feel like if they just
had the opportunity to see what
kind of fun people have while
they're at these matches, it
might change their mind like
this fellow who is exercising
free will to its fullest.
That's Miguel, the cotton candy
face, man.
I love it.
I do.
That's fantastic.
Good clean fun.
Well, maybe not clean fun,
but definitely not like dirty fun.
That's great.
I love it.
Um, actually.
I promise I'll stop talking
about soccer for probably
the rest of the show
or at least most of the rest
of the show.
But in my head,
I'm still going to be talking
about it.
Let's.
And I just want everybody
to remember these are just jokes.
OK, just jokes.
Ask your grandfather,
how does he stay married so long?
He'll tell you.
Happy wife, happy life.
Because she prioritizes happiness.
Not once does that.
They say, keep it real with a
young blood.
They love that.
Just be honest with her
and everything will work itself
out.
So make sure they're happy
because once they're happy,
then in return, you
still don't get happiness.
They don't work like that.
Well, you thought it was
reciprocal.
You know, don't try to know
lady in here, please.
Don't try to prove me wrong
and dedicate your day tomorrow
to making your n***a happy.
Now think about your woman
waking up tomorrow
and dedicating her entire day
to making you happy.
Doesn't that sound like
the worst day of your f***ing life?
Because she's not going to ask
you what she can do
to make you happy.
She's just going to do
a bunch of shit she feels
should make you happy.
And if you don't act
the way she hopes you would act,
so what she's doing now
is a problem
that you're not happy
about some shit you've never
asked her to do.
Delusional as f***.
Listen, it's nonsense.
No man wants,
no man wants happiness
from his woman.
We won't even believe you
if you try.
Fellas, can you imagine?
He puts a paper in front
of you and say,
hey baby, write down
what it's going to take
for me to make you happy.
Fellas, what are you writing?
You ain't got shit, do you?
Look at him, nothing.
He know it's a trap.
Soon as he writes down
what you can do to make
him happy,
you going to look at it and go,
so you saying I don't do this,
so you saying I'm not happy,
you're not happy.
That's what she's saying.
Delusional as f***.
And let's see,
where are we going to jump to?
I feel like there's a lot
of different, I do definitely
want to get into
the flock stuff.
Before that,
I want to return
to the Joseph Rogan,
Tim Dillon conversation
because they did branch off
into a bunch of fun avenues.
Not the least of which
is Tim Dillon torching
therapists,
which is a lot of fun.
So let's roll that.
You know what's interesting
about family?
I just spoke to a comedian
who went on a world tour.
He was in India
and he was talking about
how poor people in India
don't live on the street.
They live in slums,
which it's better.
It's better to live in slums
than the street
because a lot of poor people
are with their families
and they won't cast
their family out.
Family in America
almost means like nothing.
Everything's such
an individual pursuit
that family means nothing.
And
like that's reinforced.
Like I am in an argument
with my father,
his wife has different
political views
on certain things.
So we haven't spoken
in a little bit.
My cousin's getting married
and I told,
I have a therapist now
that I've had for six months
who I don't know
if it's good.
I don't know if you ever
know if a therapist
is good or not.
And I told my therapist,
you know,
my dad and his wife
are going to be there
and I haven't spoken to them
but I love my cousin
and I want to support
our marriage or want to go.
And my therapist goes,
well, you don't have to go.
My therapist goes,
if you feel like
it's going to make you happy,
go.
So therapy in our country
is has become a way
to kind of enable
like sick people
to just become selfish
psychopaths.
And family in America
means almost nothing.
And it is reinforced
how little family means
because
like doctors will tell you,
yeah, fuck it.
Your father cares.
So it's basically a thing
where like,
I think when you go
to these other countries
and you realize
how deeply rooted
a lot of things are
in family
and culture
and tradition.
And then we come
from a country
where like almost
very little is.
I'm not saying people
don't have great families here
but like,
you know,
America is about you.
And it's not about
if you don't agree
with your sister,
fuck her.
If your mother
disagrees with you,
block her.
That's our country.
And in other countries,
that's unheard of.
Like that's unheard of.
Like it doesn't happen.
And, you know,
the comedian was explaining to me
like in India,
there's like a lot less
of a drug problem
in certain areas.
And he was,
and he was wondering why.
And he goes,
well, people don't want
to do drugs
to like disgrace their family,
even poor people.
Even poor people
will be like,
I don't want to be a drug addict
because my family's
going to think bad about that.
Whereas here,
there's people that'll shoot up
in front of their parents.
You know what I mean?
so it's just a different,
it like it's it's
culturally we've gotten to this
point
where people are having less
children.
Family means very little.
So then what is replaced that?
It's clearly the state
and corporations
and ideology and ideology.
So they've replaced families
and communities.
Joe Rogan has two words
in that entire like
three minutes.
And it's just to
to be like,
Oh, well, the woke people
are bad too.
Right.
Right, Tim.
Let's let's make sure we
attribute which ideology
we don't like.
We got to talk about that.
But he's not wrong.
The way that Americans
currently treat family
is abysmal.
But
and that's by design.
That is 100 percent on purpose.
They want us to feel isolated.
They want us to feel disconnected.
And they want to drive us
into the loving arms of one
of two political parties
that will nurture
our ideological or personal
grudges
in a way that manifests
as
blind obedience
to the party
ideology.
It's true.
And unfortunate.
But yeah, I defined it.
I don't know.
I don't know if I believe
the I had a friend
who went to India
story necessarily.
I think Tim is pretty good at
painting a picture.
And if he wanted the message
to resonate,
he probably couldn't say,
you know, I've noticed
as easily as he could
bring in a fictitious third
person who had this experience.
My might be a little bit easier to
to get his point across that way.
He was definitely doing that
when he was exposing Brian Callan
for falling victim
to the Amy Poehler podcast scam.
He told this whole thing
about a guy who lived in,
I don't know, somewhere outside LA.
And it was Brian Callan.
So I could see Tim doing that.
He could.
What's fintech junction?
I'll take a look at that little later.
Later.
Let's see.
Where?
Oh, I did that yesterday.
Never mind.
All right.
Yeah, let's get into.
Wow.
Well, I start to get into some of the
flock stuff, but this is.
Do you remember yesterday?
You guys, we were talking about the
was it yesterday?
Maybe it was the day before.
Iranian mind control lasers.
And how mentalist Yuri Geller
was on Israeli television,
telling everyone that Donald Trump
was being mind controlled by lasers who.
Who also, it's not just Iran
that has this technology.
It's literally every other enemy
of the US and Israel that has this
technology, but the US and Israel
don't, which is putting them as a
deficit, added deficits, but they
should probably jump on that
mind control via laser or frequency
thing, except for they have.
So now we have not just maniacs in
the Pentagon, but a bunch of Dr.
strange laws, pretty weird stuff.
But scientists have been
experimenting with radio frequencies
on animals brains for decades.
And the military has followed it all
very closely back in the 60s.
The Soviets began zapping the
American Embassy in Moscow
with a low frequency beam.
One theory is that they were trying
to mess with people's central
nervous systems.
And one report did say the diplomats
got depressed a lot.
And hey, just think of all the
nifty applications against the
enemy.
Why blow people up when you can
drive them crazy.
From document stating back into the
early 80s, we see that the
military had discussed the
possibilities of mind control
through radio frequency energy.
The possibility is there.
The military has studied it.
A 1982 Air Force report called
Radio Frequency Energy, a major
new research initiative said that
RF can quote disrupt normal
purposeful behavior.
A 1987 military report called for
more pause that and run it back
research on our did say a
1982 report, which would mean
that the US military has been
very interested in controlling
people's thoughts via radio
frequency for well over 40 years.
Studied it.
A 1982 Air Force report called
Radio Frequency Energy, a major
new research initiative and said
that RF can quote disrupt
normal purposeful behavior.
A 1987 military report called for
more research on RF energy as a
non-lethal weapon while pointing
out that most of the existing
technology is classified.
In 1993, there was a big
conference at John Hopkins
University.
The entire conference was
classified.
The agenda wasn't and weapons
using extremely low radio
frequencies or ELFs were listed
as a very attractive option.
Ooh, attractive.
Yes.
Nothing more attractive than ELF
weaponry.
And that was again that conference
was in 93.
So checking the calendar here that
would put it at 33 years from today.
But for some reason, if you bring
this up, you're a crazy person,
even though the government has
had full on conferences about this
for decades talking about it like
it's a real thing that they do gets
you placed in the crazy town box.
And this again, that's an old report
that's looked like it was late 90s
early 2000s for that.
And now we've moved into this realm
of, you know, dystopic surveillance
where we've got traffic cameras
everywhere and flock cameras
everywhere and additional
cameras and every parking lot
and ATM machine.
And not to mention all of the
cameras that people put on their
own homes at a nexus of spying.
And it's not it's not going away
until we do something about it.
We're now finding out those
license plate cameras aren't just
recording your
car. It's called signal trace.
It doesn't read your plate.
No visible plate doesn't matter
anymore.
They don't need it.
It reads your phone, your
AirPods, your smartwatch,
every Bluetooth signal sitting
in that car with you.
That exact combination is unique
to you.
Nothing travels alone.
Every device that moves with you
gets pulled into the web,
your phone, your partners,
and the kids.
One household, one file
watched as one.
Now you know why they need all
those data centers.
Tracking and analyzing this much
data for every single American.
This isn't a small side project.
There's a few hundred million
people searched all day.
All of it straight into government
data sharing.
And in most cases,
no warrant required.
It's a live feed running 24
seven every time you drive past.
Plate cameras were just the
beginning.
The real target now is you,
your devices, your patterns.
And because this reads device
signals, it doesn't need a road.
Malls, parking lots, sidewalks,
anywhere they put the sensor.
It already knows your car.
Now it's built to know you.
And you never had an opinion.
Follow for episode two.
Who can access this data?
Yeah.
Yeah, the
the grid, the grid's up.
The surveillance grid's there.
We talk about this all the time.
You can go to deflock.org
and take a look for yourself.
We're simply just the license
plate readers are.
Not to mention all of the other
tools of surveillance.
And when cities implement these
things, as we've reported on many
times, there are always downstream
negative consequences.
This particular instance
here in Roanoke
resulted in the, I think the
removal of them.
We'll get into that.
But they put all of these
flock raven audio devices
in the wrong spots.
Quote unquote.
City council approved permits
for 75 locations to place
audio detectors in April.
At that point, contracts had
already been signed with flock.
Let's get into it.
Let's see.
There is an update.
So I'll get to that first.
As of 1045 a.m.
This morning,
it says after initially released
releasing a list of 16 addresses
where flock sensors had been
incorrectly installed in Roanoke,
the city on Wednesday evening
said that the list actually
includes 30 locations.
So almost half of the locations
approved for Roanoke
were put in the wrong spot,
quote unquote wrong.
Additionally, a number of the
addresses on the city's
initial list of 16 locations
were incorrect.
And then they're going to
make a further update
with the correct addresses.
City of Roanoke says it'll
pause installations of flock
flock safeties raven gunshot
detector.
After 30 devices were mounted
in incorrect locations.
On April 20th,
the Roanoke City Council
approved, they must have been
high approved encroachment
permits for 75 flock gunshot
audio detector devices to be
placed in locations throughout
the city.
According to a city press release,
citizen complaint led the city
to find on June 18th that
multiple devices were in
locations not approved by the
council.
The city suspended all further
installation activity and is
working to ensure that all
improperly installed centers
are removed.
The installation list
discrepancies are addressed.
No devices will be activated
until the city is assured
they've been properly approved,
permitted and installed.
So they're not saying no,
we don't want the surveillance.
They're saying we just want to
make sure it's in the quote
unquote right spot.
City already has 27 flock
license plate reader cameras
located throughout the city.
The council's five to two vote
to approve the encroachment
permits for the new audio
detectors raise public
concerns multiple residents
shared concerns surrounding
privacy with the council before
the vote.
Councilman Terry McGuire and
Nick Hagen voted no on the
permit citing privacy
concerns and inaccuracies
with the tech in other
localities after the meeting.
Let's see.
During the April 20th meeting
the council voted to improve
the encroachment permits for
the project.
Approving it today is just
one step since city attorney
Laura Corini.
And there's many steps
after for that to actually
get them installed.
You could probably push back on
this and row and out pretty
easy.
But yeah,
if you can't the wrong spot
the wrong spot.
Let's see other flock news
out of Pensacola, Florida.
Pensacola's controversial flock
safety contract has led to
more scrutiny over the city's
future opioid settlements.
How's that?
The extra attention on opioid
settlements who's evident
June 18th city council meeting
the city is set to participate
in a $1.5 million settlement.
Council members wanted to
ensure that there couldn't be a
repeat of the flock contract
without their vote.
The city council voted
unanimously to approve
entering into a settlement
with opioid manufacturer
Lupin Pharmaceuticals
and associated companies
but not before getting
assurances that the money
can't be spent without their
approval.
You see if you're a city
council looking to surveil
the shit out of your constituents
you're going to want to talk to
the flock guys.
Pensacola's two-year contract
with flock has been the focus
of sustained calls for it to be
canceled from members of the
public at city council meetings
since January in July of 2025.
Pensacola Mayor DC Reeves
approved a two-year $108,000
contract for 18 cameras.
The funds were from the
settlement money
from the national opioid
litigation.
So the city council
entered into a lawsuit
because you know opioid
epidemic is
incredibly serious
and incredibly
sad, tragic
and the city was looking to
bolster its coffers
off of some of that lawsuit
money
so they got it
and then they spent it on
spying on people.
Thanks.
Hurray.
Good good work fellas.
That's definitely what people
elected you for.
I don't I think so.
Let's see.
Yeah, let's stay with this.
Let's take a look at
Chandler Arizona
who had a four-hour-long
city council meeting
where
the thanks to pressure
from the residents of Chandler
which is a very wealthy phoenix
suburb.
They got rid of the
flock cameras.
Said temporarily
but that's a good start.
So these are the people in
Chandler at the city council
meeting
letting their elected
representatives know how they feel.
What's happening here was
this was a long city council
meeting.
It lasted over four hours
and the city was discussing
whether or not they should renew
their flock safety camera contract.
It was a $153,000 contract
and it started with just 14 cameras
but it quickly grew to over 40 cameras.
Now obviously the residents
hate the cameras.
They don't want them in their city
so they showed up to protest.
They all chanted and in the end
they actually won.
The city voted five to one
to delay the renewal of the contract
but again it's just a delay.
They will revisit the vote on July 16th.
Right, but it's a good start
and you can bully your government
into actually
having to do the right thing for once.
You don't necessarily get to
vote for any of that
but you can
show up in mass
and bully the fuck out of your
elected officials
in order to do it.
Yeah, they're postponing the vote.
They'll revisit the issue.
Where I imagine
if things at least go well
they will continue to do that.
Meanwhile Flock I'm sure
is going to lobby super hard
for the approval of it.
Flock has flown out numerous
politicians to their headquarters
and stuff like that.
They're whining and dining these people
putting bags of money in their pockets
all that kind of stuff.
So that's what you're fighting against.
You're fighting against dystopian
surveillance porn junkies
with bottomless pockets.
It's going to take a lot of you.
Let's run this.
We've got information about a subject
that was armed and dangerous.
We're able to use Flock.
By the way, this is a Flock propaganda commercial.
It's their own propaganda.
And I wanted to note that because
I don't go back to it
but Flock has
protected their comments.
They won't let anybody talk about this.
So as you can see the 182 retweets
on 24 likes.
But anyway, let's go back to the video here.
Flock LPR to kind of narrow down
the area where he was.
We finally got intel that he had a tattoo on his neck.
And I saw a gentleman standing in front
of one of our restaurants
and I zoomed in a little bit
and I saw the dark mark on his neck.
From nearly a thousand feet away,
we can zoom in, identify this tattoo.
That's insane.
Thousand feet away, they can zoom in
and identify individual tattoos,
which it didn't look like it.
It just looked like oh,
there's a dark mark on his neck.
That's our guy.
Have our officers on the ground.
It kept the person that was in crisis,
the officers and the community safe.
It was something I was very proud of
that our staff was able to do.
The DFR is an asset.
It's a tool for our patrols.
We use the DFR as overwatch
for our patrol officers
so we can guide them to resources,
guide them to specific places
where an incident may be occurring.
Honestly, it helps us connect the dots faster.
Getting that 100% aerial perspective
of any call for service
that you guys have within your department
is a crucial piece
for officer safety
and for community safety.
You can die in a fire.
But yeah, Flock has protected
all of their tweets,
not letting anybody see
what the actual comments are.
When you're doing that,
especially if you're self-imposing
the censorship,
it's usually,
usually because you don't want
to see just how hated you are.
Let's see.
What else do I have with this stuff?
Oh no, that was yesterday.
Here we go.
And I do want to play
a bit of their video,
the news investigation team.
Let's bring this up out of Atlanta.
And if you guys remember,
and I'll go ahead,
I'll pull that up before
we run the story.
But if you guys recall,
Atlanta is one of the most heavily
surveilled places in America
with a disproportionate amount
of ALPRs.
Let's bring this up.
Here we are.
This is, again, deflock.org.
You can also type in deflock.me
and it routes you
to the exact same website.
On the right-hand side of the screen,
that massive area of yellow
is Atlanta, Georgia.
Zoom in on it a little bit more.
Let's go to all of Atlanta.
Here we are.
With over 3,700 cameras
in the Atlanta and greater Atlanta
metro area.
So having teed that up,
let's go to,
where did I put that?
Where did I put that?
I'll just bring it up again
in a different tab.
No, that's right.
It's the...
Here we are.
So this is out of Atlanta, Georgia.
Flood cameras track everyone
for 30 days.
So any time you drive past
a flood camera,
that data is stored for at least
a month in a continued
surveillance project.
Sounds like.
A popular police surveillance tool
you might literally catch
rapists, murderers,
and then to convict
these suspects of those crimes.
But it's powerful in anyone's hands.
It's powerful in the hands of a good cop
and it's powerful in the hands
of a bad cop.
Look at this.
This is an Atlanta news team
doing an investigative report
in the style of a podcast.
They're in the studio,
they got the sound dampening things,
neat little lighting.
They're sitting at a very tiny desk
very close to each other.
But, you know, microphones on phones
down, they're podcasting
as the Atlanta news team.
And this isn't hypothetical.
They're getting arrested
virtually every week.
There's a new case
where they're using it to stalk
their exes or a love interest
and even going back in time
to track their movements
using their official police
login to this database.
Flood safety cameras
continue to pop up around town
to assure that car thieves
and violent criminals
have almost no chance to escape.
They've been helping catch suspects
quickly.
We're just trying to keep you safe.
Block cameras have revolutionized
local law enforcement.
The system has helped them arrest
violent offenders
and recover stolen cars.
An advantage they say is priceless.
Just help them get a dangerous man
off the street.
They tracked his car down
using block cameras.
The cameras take a picture
of every car that drives by.
The cameras are designed
to catch criminals.
But they also create a searchable
database of every car that passes.
All day is just reading tags.
They're continuously recording.
It's just a tool to help us catch criminals.
We're going to catch everyone.
We have cameras everywhere in that town.
You can't get a breath of fresh air
in or out without us knowing.
Crisana Elzer learned
the power of Floch firsthand.
You were in town from 1152 until 1209.
Exactly.
Like I said,
nothing gets in or out of the town
without us knowing.
When a Colorado police officer
showed up at her door
holding Floch snapshots of her truck.
And here's when you left at 1209.
That's when you left town.
No, to stop at Ridge Trail
and take a package.
Well, there's no shushing.
I don't need to be sure.
I need to know where this is.
The first thing he pulled out
on the body cam
is that Floch picture.
The clear photograph of your car.
But here's your vehicle
in the neighborhood many, many times.
Apparently casing houses
because you just can't drive through
for work or visit other businesses.
You can only be casing houses.
It is her. It is 100%.
It is locked in.
There is zero doubt.
I wouldn't have come here
unless I was 100% sure.
100%.
It is certain.
It is on video.
You're obviously welcome to go to court.
Crisana was charged
with stealing a package.
But it wasn't her.
The porch pirate was somebody else.
Multiple times you tried to show him
your video evidence.
He didn't want to see it.
Even when I called him back,
he said that's not my job.
You looked at a time of a crime.
You saw my vehicle entering
in the flock.
No, no. What I did was
I did an investigation.
You called my wife a liar.
You saw this as a fact.
I have video evidence.
I don't know what you want me to say.
The charges were dropped
after Crisana spent weeks
trying to get the police.
I don't know what you want me to see.
I want you to admit that you
fucked up.
That's what's going on.
I don't know.
The robot said
I did an investigation.
I asked the robot.
The robot said it was you.
I don't know what you want me to do.
The robot can't be wrong.
Oh, wait.
It can't be wrong.
Charges dismissed.
To look at her evidence,
timestamped video from her truck
and the neighbor's doorbell camera
showing she wasn't at the scene of the crime.
What does it say about where we are
that you feel you have to have
more cameras than the police have
in order to make sure
you can prove yourself innocent?
It sounds like it flipped the script
to you're guilty
until you prove yourself innocent.
Not only that,
but that's a very good point
from the reporter right there.
They put you into a situation
where you have to surveil yourself
better than they're surveilling you
and only your dystopian levels of surveillance
can counteract their erroneous read
off of the robot.
That's insane.
Let's go back to this.
By the way, the audio only listeners
are doing much better
with this report than we are.
Without a flock camera,
that detective would not have been at her door.
By his own admission,
he pulled out the flock picture of her car.
Do you want to apologize to Christina Elzer
for what happened to her?
For the police misusing the tools?
I don't think that I have to apologize for him.
He wasn't charged with a crime,
he wasn't, I mean,
other than being reprimanded for his attitude.
Sure, but I would tell you that
like, should I apologize
for somebody misusing a tool?
I don't think so.
Flock safety chief communications officer,
Josh Thomas.
That's the chief communications officer.
Going, well, obviously the technology is perfect.
So I think not my fault,
somebody misuses it.
I mean, I don't know.
Who's watching the watchers in these cases?
Well, the city council,
the city owns the data.
So city council would have
the appropriate responsibility in that case.
Our point of view has always been
that it is not Flock's job
to police the way police do their work.
That's wild.
Hey, look, we just build the spyware.
We're agnostic on what you do with it.
That's, that's insane.
Flock cameras don't surveil people.
People surveil people.
That's excellent.
Tim Hincheliff, excellent.
Yeah, go check out some more of this.
Flock license plate readers
don't just scan tags looking for stolen cars
or vehicles on a hot list.
The cameras take a photo of every car
that passes stamped with the
precise time and location.
The more cameras you pass,
the clearer the picture of your movements.
All of that data is saved
in a database for 30 days,
shared with connected police departments,
allowing the government to go back in time
to see where your car was and when.
No warrant required,
whether you're suspected of a crime or not.
Let's say you just got a cop
who wants to mess with you,
ruin your life or you're an, you know,
an ex and you're being stalked.
Well, that's what the technology
is currently being used for.
Every week we have another report
about officers getting dismissed
or arrested for abusing this technology.
I just do hot list alerts.
It's because of the investigative value here
is an is immense.
Otherwise, you're going back
to the old way of policing,
which is an eyewitness saw something.
They're going to call in and report it.
And a police officer has to go stop
every yellow Jeep that looked like that
or every person who's described a certain way
instead with an LP.
He's acting like there aren't
already traffic cameras.
Like there weren't already traffic cameras
before flock.
Like there weren't even already
pre-existing fusion centers
before flock.
This is so disingenuous.
It's infuriating.
You are.
You can actually find the objective data you need.
It's the new way of policing,
which is precise.
Instead of dragnet,
it actually becomes precision policing.
So I would challenge back that same notion
and say hot listing is not the way to go.
Because police departments not only
save typically 30 days of every vehicle
that passes every one of their cameras,
investigators also have access to the same data
from every department or private business
that shares cameras with them.
Yup, that's correct.
And all of it is unconstitutional.
And all of it requires no warrant.
It's just your ass versus the state.
So let's go back to this.
We have well over a thousand cameras
that we have access to right now.
Flock says 6,000 local governments use its cameras,
many sharing data with each other.
Flock becomes more powerful,
not just more profitable,
the more agencies who are part of the network.
That's their entire business model.
That's why they were worth seven and a half billion dollars.
The whole idea is crowdsourcing, right?
But it's crowdsourcing with agencies
rather than the crowd.
And the crowd is actually being surveilled
by the agencies
who are then crowdsourcing with each other.
Yeah, the crowd's the product.
We are the product.
Jason Huñar lives in Dunwoody, Georgia.
The Atlanta suburb was an early Flock customer
with cameras all over town.
And also one of the original loan safe havens
for Yankees in Georgia.
So I guess this is going to make sense
why they had it heavily surveilled.
Dunwoody shares with over a thousand
external agencies all of our data.
So he filed records requests
with the city for Flock's audit logs.
Despite 30 records requests,
you don't know who's watching you
and your family in Dunwoody in other agencies
and what they're looking for.
Correct.
Every time somebody logs in
and tries to perform a search in Flock,
it is catalogued.
And that's there in an audit log
that's immutable.
So there's public accountability on that.
Oh, yeah, totally.
You just can't get access to it.
But I mean, it's totally there.
I dislike this guy.
I'm going to get rid of him.
No, figuratively.
I'm going to remove the video from the screen.
I'm not going to get rid of him.
That sounds way darker.
Not where I was at.
Stop that.
But yeah, that guy's irksome.
Irksome.
Oh, it's all recorded in a database.
You can't change the database.
Can we see it?
Oh, you've got to take it up with them.
Why can't you show us?
It's your information.
Well, no, we sold it to them.
We did.
Except for there's also cases of Flock employees
going in and using their databases
in order to stalk people.
So Flock does retain, has the data.
The cops have the data.
The city council stalks them.
Doors the data, but you can't see it.
You have to file dozens and dozens
of public records requests
and you'll probably get a redacted version of it.
For your safety, of course, for your safety.
That's disgusting, by the way.
All right.
So let's go over to Cleveland.
Cleveland, Ohio, where Flock surveillance cameras
have become an issue.
And I really do.
I think that we need to refer to data centers
as surveillance centers.
I think we need to, they're not automatic
license plate readers.
They're spy cameras, surveillance equipment.
Really, it'll help when you're talking about it
if you're accurately describing what these things are
and what their intended purpose is.
Cleveland police asked to keep their surveillance cameras
and could not answer one basic question.
Do they actually work?
On June 17th, a city council committee voted
three to one against renewing the $250,000 a year contract
for about 100 Flock license plate cameras.
The contract expires June 29th, so the cameras go dark
unless that changes.
Police called the cameras essential and warned
that losing them could be crippling.
Then they admitted officers run about 12,000 searches a month,
but they could not say how many stolen cars they recovered
or whether crime went down at all.
Right.
One council member told them flatly,
you didn't show us any numbers.
Before voting it down, the committee added an amendment
barring Flock from selling or sharing the city's data,
which tells you what they're actually worried about.
Cleveland joins Dayton, Fort Collins, and dozens
of other cities cutting Flock loose.
The numbers existed and they were good.
You have to wonder why they were not in the room
when the contract was on the line.
Right.
Well, that's because, and you guys can go check,
verify this for yourself,
because the deflot.org website will show you.
They have currently logged over 107,000 cameras in the U.S.
There are 71 cities and municipalities
that have rejected these spy cameras.
Let's see.
What did I want to pull up with this?
Here's the other thing too.
It's definitely not just Flock cameras.
But yeah, let's bring the map back up.
And there are Flock cameras, right, of which 80,000
have been uploaded to the deflock map.
Motorola, GenTak, and then there is Other,
which doesn't give a description for what the companies are.
And then Unknown, where they have no idea whose cameras they are.
Let's see.
Heatmap.
Oh, okay.
And if you like, while you're over here, you can do the real-time
time lapse of surveillance in your neighborhood.
And we'll be taking a look at Des Moines, Iowa, specifically,
to see if that bears out.
Oh, enjoy the vacation, John the Revelator.
The, yeah, let's go ahead and, yeah, that's gross.
Let's go ahead and take a look at Des Moines, Iowa.
Whoa.
So the Flock cameras seem to be all around the highways along 80.
The State Road 65, Iowa, yeah, that loop.
They're not, it's correct.
They're not in downtown.
Altoona area, and, yeah, all along that I-80 corridor and the 35.
But, yeah, noticeably absent from downtown.
Accurate.
And they are unsightly.
They're gross-looking.
They are.
Let's see.
Did I play that?
I think I may have.
All right.
Now, moving over to the surveillance centers.
I don't know if any of you guys live around one.
If you do, I'm sorry.
It sounds like a freaking nightmare as demonstrated by this report.
Imagine living next to this and having to hear this constant ringing.
So, Hari, we're at your front door.
Yeah.
And I mean, you look in the distance, and there it is.
There it is.
It's right there in Olive Square.
There it is, the Vantage Data Center, standing tall with its blue walls
and massive generators right next to this sterling Virginia neighborhood.
What did you think when they first turned it on?
Well, we were told in the beginning that it's just they test the generators to make sure they're
working in case of an emergency.
That is what we were told in the beginning.
And then as the year and the months have gone on-
They just never turned off.
They're just never turned off.
Hari says they told them the generators were just temporary.
That was more than a year ago.
The massive data center was never hooked up to the power grid,
so the generators are the only source of electricity.
You just hear this noise.
It's just like you just want to curse.
You know, it's that bad.
Greg Pirio also lives right next door.
Our concern is property values.
Unless we can mitigate this and we're talking about lawyers
with options of what we can do and all that, you know,
we know that we're not going to get the values for our homes
that we could have gotten before.
It's about more than money.
It's quality of life.
One neighbor here even put plexiglass up against the window to block the noise.
And they have their own sound meters to monitor the noise.
This is a dashboard that some of my neighbors set up.
Virginia is the data center epicenter of the world.
There are hundreds of them consuming more than 25 percent of the state's power
driving up electric bills.
They can build their own power plants as part of their factory
so that no one's prices will go up.
And in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community
and very substantially down.
President Trump's plan to keep the data centers off the power grid
is good for keeping electric rates down.
And there are positives with data centers.
They create jobs when they're built.
They create local tax revenue, which helps schools.
It can help lower property taxes.
And they're pretty much inevitable with the way we use technology these days,
arguably becoming essential infrastructure.
The neighbors here don't disagree and they don't hate all data centers
but think they shouldn't be so close to neighborhoods.
What would you say to people in other parts of the country
where they hear all the data centers considering coming?
Do everything in your power to try to stop it from being built
in an area that has any residential properties
within 10 to 15 miles of it?
Yep. So that would be a nightmare.
Absolute nightmare.
Yeah. And exactly, Ronnie, maybe a whole 12 permanent jobs come out of that.
That's just a nightmare.
Let's see. Let's...
A couple of weeks ago, we did a story on Madison Square Garden, right?
It was during the NBA Finals.
The New York Knickerbockers became NBA champions.
And Madison Square Garden was the subject of a 404 Media Report
about all of the surveillance tech
that was being implemented there.
We talked about how everybody was being catalogued
and put into various different databases.
If you went into MSG, now 404 Media Reports,
that MSG itself made a dossier on activists
who opposed facial recognition at a sporting arena.
Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists
who have publicly criticized the venue's use
of facial recognition technology,
putting their tweets and comments into a document
that was inaccessible to other people
inside the company, 404 Media has found.
New shows that MSG operated by Jim Dolan,
who has garnered a reputation for being pernicious
against disperseed enemies,
is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology
but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it.
The document was included in a 45 gigabyte cache
of data hackers stole from MSG and posted online this month,
which 404 Media then downloaded and reviewed.
The wake of a data breach would be a good time for MSG
to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,
as Adam Schwartz, Privacy Litigation Director
at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
And one of the people included in the document.
You can see the document titled
facialrecognitionactivist.docx
included a folder named activist,
list three people who criticize MSG's use
of facial recognition, Evan Greer,
the Director of Digital Rights Group,
Fight for the Future,
spoken to Evan a few times.
Albert Fox-Kahn, Founder and Residence
of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project,
Stop and Electronic Frontier Foundations,
not Aaron Schwartz, RIP Adam Schwartz.
All three of the activists have been quoted
in major media articles discussing
MSG's facial recognition technology,
including NPR and the New York Times.
In each section, the document includes
background information on the activists,
their contact information if available,
their social media handlers and follower count.
Then quotes each have previously said
about MSG's facial recognition program.
The document also includes screenshots
of several of Greer's relevant tweets.
One says, hey New Yorkers,
who are the coolest people on the New York City Council
who might want to introduce a facial recognition ban,
like the one in Portland, Oregon,
that would stop Madison Square Garden
from using biometric surveillance.
At the time of the screenshot,
Greer posted the tweet 16 hours prior.
The document is dated as December 23rd, 2022 at 1 p.m.
It was available inside an MSG SharePoint instance,
suggesting it was available to people
other than the author.
Fact that MSG is creating dossiers on activists
who say things they don't like
shows exactly why private companies
should not be allowed to use
dangerous surveillance technologies
like facial rec, the Evan Greer told 404.
Large companies can and will use
surveillance tech to punish critics,
exploit workers and consolidate power
with no regard for the basic rights
they trample in the process.
It's fair.
In the document, MSG misgenders Greer.
Well, yeah.
For years, whatever.
Given the recent treatment of a trans woman
trying to use the bathroom in their venue,
I'm also not surprised they misgendered me,
says Evan Greer, pointing to a case
reported in a recent end up report
from Wired on MSG surveillance practices.
For years we promised we'd watch the watchers,
but now it's clear they've been watching us,
has gone in a statement, and it's creepy
when the largest corporations in the country
amass the surveillance power
that only governments once had,
but it's outright orwellian when these tools
target New Yorkers simply for opposing
their corporate surveillance state.
MSG has deployed facial rec since 2018
to identify people entering the venue.
MSG's facial rec system has been used
to block entry to the stadium
for all sorts of people.
The list includes lawyers who work at law firms
in litigation with Madison Square Garden,
even if they're not a part of the litigation themselves.
And potentially a man who once made a shirt
to criticize Dolan.
If you have a t-shirt that makes fun of me,
you can't come to my venue.
Short said in an earlier media coverage
about the technology, it raises the question,
what's going to come next?
Will companies use facial rec to keep out
all the people who have picketed the business
or criticize them online with a negative Yelp review?
Oh, that'd be hilarious.
It's just using facial recognition to go after Yelpers.
By hilarious, I mean tragic,
but yeah, a lot of them are horrible people.
I've met several.
Can't confirm.
Let's see.
I guess just one more thing about
the flock cameras.
Because it's wild just how often
this technology is abused
and how little gets done about the abuse of the technology.
So here's yet another local news report.
Channel 2 Susan Hendricks live outside
the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.
So Susan, I bet neighbors did not see this coming.
Yeah, they really didn't, George.
And the residents I spoke to today
in Canton on Main Street just a couple miles away
say they were shocked,
but they were happy to hear about the sheriff's swift response.
Very much appreciate them monitoring themselves
and protecting the public.
Where the two more Cherokee Sheriff's Office supervisors
are now facing criminal charges
is shocking to Canton residents I spoke with.
Lieutenant Chris Bryan of Ackworth
and Sergeant Mike Creedon of Cartersville
were arrested and booked
into the Cherokee County Detention Center.
Investigators say they used the county's
automated license plate reader system
for non law enforcement purposes.
Shannon Collins has lived in Cherokee County
for close to 20 years
and says while she understands the technology
can help law enforcement solve crimes,
it also comes with a responsibility
to use it properly.
I think there's a cost to giving up our freedoms
in that way when you're using technology
for those purposes.
So I think we hope to trust our elected officials.
The Sheriff's Office says the license plate reader system
can help investigators locate vehicles
connected to crimes.
According to the agency,
a series of self-initiated audits
uncovered what it described
as anomalies involving
three authorized users of the system.
On June 12th,
Deputy Cynthia Jodacy was also arrested
and fired on similar charges.
I'm not again.
They got Jodacy?
Dang.
But I'm not for abuse of it.
So that gentleman is from France.
He's lived in Canton about four years
and says he appreciates the technology,
the surveillance, as you heard,
if it's used in the right way.
Meanwhile, the Sheriff here issued...
No, that is the wrong answer.
Never listen to a Frenchman.
Jesus.
Doing a statement in part saying
they are committed to transparency,
professionalism, and ethical standards.
And it's still under investigation.
Reporting live in Cherokee County,
Susan Hendricks, Channel 2 Action News.
And we will wait to see when that investigation
is over.
Susan, thank you.
All right.
I mean, yeah, but three deputies
and these are just the ones
that are getting caught and prosecuted.
Like I said before the segment,
every week, we're bringing up
more of these stories.
It's a terrible technology that serves
no purpose whatsoever,
other than to intimidate.
Let's take a look over at
IZON Flock, which is another website that
monitors all of the surveillance tech.
Now, again, if you're new to the show
or you haven't seen me bring this website up,
there's a running counter
on the left-hand side of the screen
that will not stop ticking up.
It shows you the estimated number of vehicles
that have been tracked
while you're looking at the website.
It's nuts.
By the way, the hot list hit rate,
the percentage of vehicles
that triggered a hot list alert
out of the total vehicles
captured by the cameras,
less than 3%, 2.9367%.
That if your equipment has a 3% success rate,
it is a failure.
It's a fascinating website.
Again, if you're new to the show
or if you're listening on audio only
and you can't see what we're looking at,
go to IZONFlock.com, E-Y-E-S-O-N, Flock.com.
Good information.
And they're very clear to let you know
that the data shown is only from departments
that have opted to enable
their flock transparency portals.
Flocks are in thousands of cities.
Data is only a fraction.
If your location is not listed,
you can ask your local police departments
to enable their portal.
By the way, El Cajon, California,
it loves their flocks, loves them.
And I've had this website up
for maybe a minute,
maybe slightly longer.
And in that time,
a million vehicles have been tracked.
It takes less than a minute and a half
for one million vehicles to be surveyed
and tracked in the United States.
And again, that's just from the stuff
that they know about.
Not all departments are cooperating
with that whole transparency thing.
Disgusting.
Absolutely disgusting.
Let's see, I alluded to this yesterday,
but I did not play it.
I'll hold all of my comments
until I have to pause it and yell them.
But this is Bill Burr hanging out with Shack
on a podcast, as you do, I guess.
No, they're conspiracy theories.
White people hit or black people?
I would stand.
Black, come on, go black people.
I would go as far as OG before the internet.
Yeah, okay.
Black people.
And then white people started to catch up
with the internet once.
But we went in a stupid direction.
Yeah.
Like flat earthers, rather than like
being these people at the top
are the ones we should be upset.
You don't think the earth is flat?
I'll just ask a question.
Do you?
I'm just saying, I took it.
Oh my God.
My question is big shack, flat earther.
What is the advantage the people in power have
that if it's actually flat, I'm thinking it's round.
Like what does that get them?
Oh, I don't know.
Like I get the other things.
I just said I fly a lot.
Oh my God.
I didn't know this.
I'm going to let you cook.
One time I took a 25 hour flight.
And the plane never did this.
That's all I said.
Oh, it works.
Hold on.
If you're on the map, if the US is here
and another country is there, when I was going to that country,
the plane never did that.
That's all I said.
This is when you fly over the map.
If the US is over here, there's another country over here
on the bottom, whatever.
When you fly, my plane never did that.
That's all I said.
Now, look, you know me.
I'm entertained the flat earth thing to its fullest.
I do maintain that the earth doesn't.
It doesn't matter what shape the earth is in.
That's not what it's going to take for me to realize
that my government hates me and wants me dead.
I already know that.
But Shaq's logic here doesn't really
hold.
It's kind of funny to see him arrive at it, though.
It is.
I would, because then I'd be like the earth is round,
but it didn't do that.
I'm just saying.
That's all I'm just.
But you also realize just think about it.
This isn't north.
That's up.
I know that.
OK.
Come on, Bill.
Hey, the stones on Bill Burr to treat Shaquille O'Neal
with this utter disrespect and contempt.
Shaq's a giant man.
Like his leg is bigger than Burr.
I know that.
OK.
I'm just saying, because I was looking at a map
one time I was flying.
I was here and I flew to here.
And I stayed up the whole time looking out the window
just to make sure.
25 hours.
You know, I forgot.
You know what?
When you fly, they're phasing these things out
because they have newer technology.
But when you fly like instrument,
they have these things on the ground called VORs.
And that's how you if you're in the clouds or above them,
or wherever, how you get from point to point
with without messing up.
And if you're too far away, if you're at a lower altitude,
you can't get the signal because the earth is round.
And it's going like that.
And you're coming around like this.
And it's not until you get within a certain distance
that you can hear when you fly over to Europe.
OK.
I just remember that you thought the moon was closer than LA.
So I now it all makes sense.
That's not what I said.
I looked up and you can see the moon.
And how far is the moon from Earth?
Millions of miles.
OK.
Millions of miles, right?
Right.
You look up and you see the moon, right?
And I said, OK, how come when I look to the west coast,
I can't see LA.
And it's only 2000 miles.
You know, when you're doing your mogul deals,
you might not want to have this conversation.
When you get with General Mills to have you on the Wheaties
box, you might want to get it.
I just like to ask questions.
Shaq, how are you going to promote this cereal?
I'm just going to say, when I flew to Brazil,
I'm here and I looked out the window the whole way.
I love.
You're going to determine whether it's round and flat
by looking out the window.
What if a scientist wasting all their time
with all of these apparatuses?
Just look out the window.
Yes, exactly.
Because the apparatuses are there to fool you
and cloud your faith.
That's that.
Woo.
You can see John the Revelator.
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