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It was unwatchable.
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Adam Curry, John C.
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DeVora.
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Hey, it's Thursday, February 6th, 2025.
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This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media
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Assassination Episode 1736.
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This is no agenda.
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Dropping the G's and broadcasting live from the
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heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in
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FEMA Region No.
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6, in the morning, everybody.
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I'm Adam Curry.
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And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're wondering
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whatever happened to the sock hop.
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I'm John C.
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DeVorak.
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It's a crackpot in Boston.
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In the morning.
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Okay, Boomer.
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The sock hop?
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What is that?
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The sock hop became the gig.
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It became the gig?
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Yeah, it became the gig.
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The sock hop.
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It became the gig.
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It became the gig.
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We're gonna go down to Anton's, check out
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the gig.
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Yeah.
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You know what a sock hop was?
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Yeah, a sock hop is where the Bobby
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socks would go and dance and hop on
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their socks.
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Yeah, I know.
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My mom used to talk about the sock
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hop all the time.
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What was the sock hop?
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Please enlighten me.
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The sock hop was a dance that the
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schools, the high schools generally, but I would
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say grammar schools too, would put on.
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Yeah.
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In the gym.
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Yes.
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And they required everyone to wear socks so
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they didn't scratch up the gym floor with
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their shoes.
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Well, now that's interesting.
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I didn't know that.
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So you had to wear socks over your
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shoes or just socks?
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No, no, you didn't wear shoes, you just
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had socks.
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So the girls had socks, the guys, everyone
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wore socks.
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It was just a dance with a bunch
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of sock-wearing kids.
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Have you attended one of these sock hops?
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Of course I did.
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We had sock hops all the time, almost
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weekly.
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Now, did you have to have the right
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kind of socks so people wouldn't point and
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go, yeah, look at them socks?
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I mean, what was the protocol?
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That's actually an interesting point you just made
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because that never happened.
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Really?
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No one ever condemned the socks or even
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mentioned them.
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Oh, socks had a better life back in
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the 50s.
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I would say generally people wore gym socks,
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like the white fluffy ones.
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But my mom was a bobby sockser.
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That was just the form of socks that
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were below the ankle.
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That was just a sock type.
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Yes.
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Bring back the bobby sock.
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I think we should start that.
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Maybe Doge can help us.
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Bring back the bobby sock.
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I'm going to sum up.
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This show is going to be very short.
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We're going to end in one minute and
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13 seconds.
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I will sum up the news and then
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everybody can go home.
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I gotta say, President Trump is brilliant.
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He is, you know, and Musk is soaking
3:51
it up.
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He thrives, he thrives on it.
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Oh, he's got him posted, he posts on
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X Twitter, all his pictures of him, you
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know, jumping around while they're yelling at him.
4:03
You know, it's overlaid, of course.
4:05
From the same era, the same genre, I
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got this, not as good as that, that
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was great, by the way.
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Thank you.
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The Ranting Dems, play this, there's a Ranting
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Dems about USAID.
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A lot of these are floating around.
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This is just a segment of what could
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be an hour.
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Oh, yeah.
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We will not shut up.
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We will stand up.
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We will speak.
4:26
Before we play, what I love so much
4:29
about this is there was pretty much nobody
4:30
there.
4:31
There was more news media than crowd.
4:34
Later on in the evening, there was a
4:35
little bit more and, you know, that moveon
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.org was sending out stuff and I was
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looking on the Blue Cry.
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By the way, what a mistake.
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I clicked on a link.
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Someone sent me, it was for a Blue
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Cry link.
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Oh, my Lord.
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Everything there is just...
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And it was like, we didn't elect Elon.
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We got...
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And this is before this very, very sad
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demonstration by the Democrat Party, mainly.
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We will not shut up.
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We will stand up.
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We will speak up.
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We will rise up.
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What's dangerous is that people who work for
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USAID are wearing masks to protect themselves from
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Musk.
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This is a dictatorship in the making.
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We're not going to have apartheid in America
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anymore.
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Elon Musk has not been elected to anything.
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And who the hell does Musk think he
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is?
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He has absolutely no right in shutting down
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USAID.
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We cannot allow that.
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We've got to take to the streets.
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But my kickbacks, my kickbacks.
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Even CNN.
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CNN was laughing at them.
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This was surprising to me.
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Even though it has that Scott guy, whatever,
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who's on the panel.
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It's pretty much all Democrat operatives at the
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table.
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And here it is.
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Democrats agree that Musk is a problem.
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But listen to them today.
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And they have a pinata in search of
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a stick.
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To our Republican colleagues.
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If you do not see the light, we
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will bring the fire.
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Resist!
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We are going to be in your face.
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We are going to be on your asses.
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We have days to stop the destruction of
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our democracy.
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We have work to do.
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Tell Elon Musk to take his hands off
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your money.
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We don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22
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-year-olds working for Elon Musk.
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We pledge allegiance to the United States of
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America.
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And God damn it, shut down USAID.
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We are at war.
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We will win.
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We will win.
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I'm so sorry.
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Can we play it again?
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Democrats need a real leader.
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They need a real leader which currently does
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not exist in the Democratic Party.
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And they have been caught completely flat-footed
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with the entire Trump presidency for the last
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two weeks.
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And Elon Musk.
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I said on CNN months ago that Elon
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Musk would be the most influential advisor to
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President Trump.
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And that is proving to be true.
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Whether you like it or not.
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But Democrats should have had a plan for
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this.
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They knew it was coming.
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We say this every single night.
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We knew it.
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Trump has said all of these things were
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going to happen.
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We saw him align with Elon Musk which
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may go down as the smartest thing that
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any presidential candidate has ever done.
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From the young vote to tech to a
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million other things.
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So Democrats needed to have a plan.
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And it may be too late.
7:59
Bakari, are you fired up?
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I'm fired up and ready to go.
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Can't you see it in my face?
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Bakari.
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So when CNN's laughing at you, you've really
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missed the mark.
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You know the funny thing is, I got
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a note from one of our producers saying,
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I'm glad you were wrong about Doge.
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What?
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Yeah, because if you recall me, I was
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saying, well, you know, when first the whole
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idea came about, I said, yeah, this is
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a lot of talk and action.
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I went and I discussed about this, the
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Hoover Commission.
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And they've been trying to reform, you know,
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push back on some of these reforms forever.
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The Department of Education, they've been promising to
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get rid of that since Reagan.
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Because you have to remember that Carter's the
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one that put it in.
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By the way, it was Kennedy who put
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in USAID.
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Yeah, we'll get to that.
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We're going to get to USAID.
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I got a lot of USAID stuff.
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Of course you do.
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Of course you do.
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So I was skeptical saying, well, you know,
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I've heard this lot of talk.
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I've seen it over the years.
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You know, I'm an old fart.
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And I've seen all this stuff.
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Old fart.
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And the guy says, you know, I'm glad
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you were wrong.
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And I said, I am too.
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And I realized this is what happened to
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the Democrats also.
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Because they had to be in the same
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boat thinking, ah, big talkers.
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Oh, Doge, OK, whatever.
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Vivek already quit.
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And so nothing's going to happen.
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Who knew this was going to fall apart
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like it did?
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Not Doge, but the USAID and God knows
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what else is next.
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Well, OK.
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So that's what I'm talking about.
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And I think you do have to admit
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at this point that we are indeed in
9:42
the season of reveal.
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There's stuff being revealed.
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Yes.
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Yes, there's stuff being revealed that even I
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wasn't aware of.
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You know, like the Politico thing is amazing.
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I've got clips on that, too.
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I'll lead you in.
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First, let me just do the best line
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outside USAID with the Democrat Party was Ayanna
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Pressley.
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I think she had a really good line.
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We will see you in the courts, in
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Congress, in the streets.
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Elon Musk is a Nazi netball baby.
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A Nazi netball baby.
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I don't even know where she gets the
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netball part from.
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But that was a good line.
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What is she talking about, though?
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What is netball?
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Nepotism is what that refers to, I'm guessing.
10:31
Yeah, a netball baby is typically used in
10:34
show business for somebody whose kid becomes an
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actor and you're an actor.
10:40
But what, Elon Musk's dad was a rocket
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scientist?
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What's she talking about?
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I don't know, but it was still good.
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And in the Netherlands, the Tesla showroom was
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vandalized with Nazi imagery.
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So it's starting.
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It's starting.
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They're striking out against Elon.
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I'm going to lead you into USAID.
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Wait a minute.
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What?
10:57
Yeah, I know.
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Because he's a Nazi.
10:59
What has the Netherlands got to do with
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the price of bread?
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Look, they have a Tesla showroom.
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Elon's a Nazi.
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The Dutch want their bikes back.
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So get out of here.
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I mean, it makes no sense.
11:11
This is just vandalism for vandalism's sake.
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It's not like it's bothering them.
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They've got their own problems.
11:17
That's probably what it is.
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We're so frustrated that our country's going down
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the tubes.
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We're going to call out Elon.
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I don't know.
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I'm going to take you into USAID with
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a nice little transitionary clip from your man,
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Capehart.
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You always say my buddy.
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Your man, Capehart.
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You're the guy who brought Capehart to everyone's
11:37
attention.
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He has, he just, it was, I mean,
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he is.
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And the line is your buddy.
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Yeah, your buddy.
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He's gone flamboyant on everybody.
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President Trump's aggressive efforts to undermine federal agencies
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with the help of Elon Musk.
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His latest victim is the U.S. Agency
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for International Development, or USAID, a government agency
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that provides development and humanitarian assistance to countries
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around the world.
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Last night, the administration removed two of the
12:05
agency's top security officials after they refused to
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allow four representatives from Elon Musk's Department of
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Government Efficiency.
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They call it DOGE.
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To access its offices, classified personnel files, and
12:25
security systems that were reportedly beyond their own
12:29
security levels.
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Oh, no.
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In addition, most of the staff at the
12:32
agency's Legislative and Public Affairs Bureau was placed
12:36
on administrative leave Saturday night.
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This afternoon, Musk referred to USAID as a,
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quote, criminal organization, adding that it was, quote,
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time for it to die.
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The agency's ex-account has since disappeared, and
12:52
the website USAID.gov is offline.
12:55
In addition, across the Justice Department and the
12:58
FBI, prosecutors, agents, and leaders are facing down
13:01
the looming threat of being fired by the
13:04
administration and replaced by, replaced with loyalists.
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Loyalists!
13:09
Loyalists!
13:10
Loyalists, because he's a Nazi dictator.
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Loyalists.
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Okay, just briefly on USAID, and then I
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want you to start with me.
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I got a couple too, but I want
13:18
you to start.
13:19
We have been talking, this is bad for
13:22
the show.
13:22
We have been moaning about USAID, how they
13:26
have been starting color revolutions, disrupting countries around
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the world, what a secretive organization it is
13:33
with a whole bunch of douchebags in it
13:35
for the entire length of this show.
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And now they're going to get rid of
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it?
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This is a problem.
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It's bad for the show.
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Well, I never thought about it that way.
13:45
We had, in fact, a guy that used
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to listen to the show, used to be
13:48
a friend of the show, the economic hit
13:51
man.
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Yes, he went off the radar.
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I don't know what happened.
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Overboard.
13:55
He didn't like us.
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Well, he went to USAID.
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And after we started moaning about USAID, he
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stopped emailing us.
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No, we were always, we were moaning about
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USAID probably for a decade or longer.
14:08
Yeah, but then he went to work for
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them.
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He's like, hey.
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Well, I think what happened, he also ran
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into, at least a part-time girlfriend, was
14:15
this Russian spook for the State Department.
14:18
Yes, State Department spook.
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And she told him not to listen to
14:21
this show.
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We have, this happens once in a while.
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Just as a point of order, USAID was
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started by executive order by President Kennedy.
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Congress then created the Foreign Assistance Act, which
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made money available, not that Congress doesn't, in
14:45
that act did not specify where it's going,
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but saying, oh, here's this money.
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And the president is the one who has
14:51
the authority to say where the money is
14:54
going.
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And at the time in the executive order,
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on a permanent basis, President Kennedy delegated that
15:00
authority to the Secretary of State.
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And that's why there's always been this spooky
15:06
connection between CIA, of course, we know, embassies
15:09
in foreign countries, which are run by the
15:13
State Department, are the safe house for intelligence
15:16
assets.
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And kind of their front of house is
15:20
USAID, run by Samantha Powers most recently.
15:28
Victoria Nuland is the ambassador or whatever, or
15:32
was the ambassador to USAID.
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So this is all the wrong people, all
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of them.
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Yes, Samantha Power married to Cass Sunstein.
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Is it Sustine or Sunstein?
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I think it's Sunstein.
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Well, whatever.
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I thought it was Sustine.
15:49
Sunstein, Sunstein, Sunstein.
15:53
Marxist, a Marxist.
15:54
Yeah, Marxist and one of the early targets
15:56
of Glenn Beck, along with Soros.
16:00
And Beck seems to have backed off on
16:02
his old thesis.
16:04
When he was working for Fox, he would
16:05
always have a bunch of arrows.
16:06
The blackboard.
16:09
The blackboard with arrows going every which way.
16:11
And it always pointed to one of two
16:12
people, Cass Sunstein or Soros.
16:16
Usually Soros at the end, I would say.
16:18
Yeah, Soros was usually the big boy.
16:20
Yeah, the big boy.
16:22
It was pretty funny.
16:24
But she was the ambassador to the UN.
16:27
She's a sad sack looking redhead that just,
16:30
you know, Irish.
16:31
She's not even born here.
16:33
She was born in London, I think.
16:34
You know, she just posted on X that
16:36
she got fired.
16:37
Do you want to hear it?
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I'd love to hear it.
16:39
I have not seen it.
16:40
Well, you can imagine when you suddenly in
16:43
your inbox find a termination notice or a
16:47
leave of absence notice that you didn't expect
16:50
to get on a flawed predicate that you're
16:53
doing radical leftist insubordination.
16:56
It's pretty jarring.
16:58
And because there's so many lies and falsehoods
17:01
circulating and so many claims that people are
17:05
sort of not with the program, I think
17:08
people are just completely dislocated.
17:10
There's no stable ground on which to walk.
17:13
No.
17:13
And then, of course, most of them have
17:15
been laid off, so they're worried about how
17:17
they're going to pay the bills and how
17:18
they're going to make rent.
17:19
But maybe the part that is the most
17:22
striking and, for me, inspiring, if not surprising,
17:25
having worked there for four years, is that,
17:28
you know, the people who work at USAID
17:30
did not come to work at USAID for
17:31
the money.
17:32
The civil servants, the foreign servants, the contractors.
17:35
The parties.
17:35
They came to USAID because they wanted to
17:38
make a difference in the world, because they
17:39
saw America's interests as tied up with the
17:43
interests of people, vulnerable people around the world.
17:47
And so even as they're struggling to figure
17:49
out how to make rent, all of a
17:50
sudden they're most struggling with the fear that
17:56
so many millions of people who relied on
17:59
us as a country, on USAID as an
18:01
agency, but on them as individuals, that those
18:04
individuals out in the world have no place
18:06
to turn.
18:07
And, indeed, they're showing up and finding health
18:09
clinics shuttered and soup kitchens closed and advisers
18:14
who are helping governments renegotiate debt with China.
18:18
Those advisers, you know, now taken off the
18:21
books.
18:22
So just the wreckage in the world is
18:25
what the USAID staff that I'm in touch
18:27
with are carrying with them.
18:29
That's what's keeping them up at night as
18:32
much as the question of what am I
18:34
going to do tomorrow and, you know, how
18:36
do I take care of my family.
18:37
Yeah.
18:37
Projection much?
18:38
How am I going to get it?
18:39
What am I going to do?
18:40
What am I going to do tomorrow?
18:41
I don't know what I'm going to do.
18:43
So, okay.
18:46
Really the most surprising thing, and then I
18:49
want you to play your clips.
18:50
The most surprising thing really was Politico, because
18:53
that was supposed to have gone out the
18:56
door with the church commission.
18:58
There was not supposed to be funding of
19:01
news organizations from government money, you know, except
19:06
for our public broadcasters, PBS and the National
19:10
Treasure, NPR.
19:12
But what an interesting gambit to have a
19:15
thousand subscriptions to Politico.
19:17
And now I'm thinking maybe we'll uncover some
19:20
book purchases that were done, you know, to
19:23
get some people up into the top of
19:26
the New York Times.
19:26
That's so obvious.
19:28
Oh yeah, let's give Michelle Obama half a
19:30
million dollars to, or half.
19:33
What am I thinking?
19:34
Millions of dollars to do a book nobody
19:36
reads.
19:37
Let's give her a Netflix conflict.
19:39
I think the Netflix deals are the ones
19:41
that are the more extreme.
19:44
No, but I mean them, the state of
19:45
USAID actually buying up books.
19:48
Yeah.
19:49
You know, that's...
19:50
There's no, when they start digging into this,
19:53
it's going to go beyond USAID too, because
19:55
you are, as my clips, I'll have the
19:58
USAID clips, and I got to play a
19:59
couple others right after them, which indicate that
20:02
the Pentagon and elsewhere is all part of
20:05
this.
20:05
Well, save some room for my USAID clips.
20:09
Well, what USAID, why don't you play yours
20:10
first, and then I can, because mine are
20:12
more, I'd say mine are highly entertaining.
20:15
But well, okay, we'll start.
20:16
Let's start with these.
20:18
Okay.
20:18
This is, now, I got these, now this
20:21
is actually Jesse Waters, okay?
20:23
Yeah, okay.
20:24
Okay, okay.
20:25
Okay, right, look.
20:27
So Jesse Waters on Monday did a takedown
20:31
of USAID.
20:31
This is why it's hilarious, because Jesse Waters
20:34
is a smug, and he likes doing this
20:37
kind of bit.
20:38
So I said, oh, this is good, I'm
20:39
going to get this for the show.
20:40
And then Tuesday comes along.
20:43
Yeah.
20:43
He does another takedown, which is better.
20:45
I said, well, screw the Monday stuff, I'm
20:47
going to do this.
20:47
Okay.
20:48
Record a bunch of stuff, okay.
20:49
So yesterday...
20:51
He does another one.
20:52
Oh, brother.
20:54
So I used this, and I had to,
20:56
I realized editing his stuff, and you'll probably
21:01
catch a few of them.
21:03
You know, he's got the best writers at
21:07
Fox, I believe, because he's got the best
21:10
time slot.
21:11
So they put the best guys there.
21:13
And, of course, they don't do credit roles,
21:15
so we have no idea who these writers
21:16
are, and they don't get credited as typical
21:18
at Fox.
21:20
Fox, in particular, just tries to hide the
21:22
writers.
21:24
And I realized that, you know, you really
21:26
have to take Jesse Waters' stuff and chop
21:28
it up a lot, because he goes, he
21:31
does little asides, and what he thinks is
21:33
funny, he's not really funny.
21:36
No, he needs to...
21:37
He's just got that stupid look on his
21:38
face.
21:38
You know, he's got that Bugs Bunny look,
21:40
and so he looks kind of amusing.
21:42
And he makes these cuts.
21:43
So you cut all that stuff out, and
21:45
the presentation becomes pretty good.
21:46
All right.
21:47
I'm just saying that in advance, because I
21:50
don't want to hear you say, Oh, I
21:51
heard a cut.
21:53
Well, you're dog-eared about dogs who perk
21:57
up.
21:57
You never hear mine.
22:00
All right.
22:01
It's okay.
22:01
So I will not complain about your cuts.
22:04
It's probably...
22:06
They're pretty good.
22:08
Here's USAID one.
22:09
This is the intro.
22:10
This is going to be four cuts from
22:13
Jesse Waters.
22:15
Democrats were already losing their minds after Musk
22:17
froze their foreign aid slush fund.
22:20
Elon's the first government employee Democrats have ever
22:22
won a fire.
22:23
And he's not even taking a salary.
22:26
We're 36 trillion in debt, and a few
22:28
pennies got doged, and the Democrats are grabbing
22:31
bullhorns like Bush after 9-11.
22:33
Doge froze a $40 billion deep state super
22:37
PAC and put 10,000 bureaucrats on paid
22:40
leave.
22:40
And it happened so fast, one worker had
22:43
to be rehired to process people's final timesheets.
22:46
All the expensive artwork hanging in the agency
22:49
headquarters has been taken down and sold at
22:51
auction.
22:51
The website's down.
22:53
And there's no more Burt and Ernie in
22:55
Baghdad.
22:55
I would just say a strong message to
22:57
Democrats who are out there pretending to be
23:00
outraged about the long list of crop that
23:04
this administration is cutting, federal waste in funding,
23:07
like $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala,
23:10
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt, $20
23:13
million on a new Sesame Street show in
23:15
Iraq, $4.5 million to combat disinformation in
23:19
Kazakhstan.
23:20
I could go on and on, and I'm
23:22
happy to provide this list to every single
23:24
one of you.
23:24
Democrats are outraged that the American people want
23:27
to be, they want their taxpayers going to
23:30
good uses, not stuff like this.
23:32
We've literally devolved into a meme war.
23:34
This is so interesting.
23:36
And leave it to Beaver.
23:42
I have no idea.
23:43
I'll tell you this.
23:44
I love this woman.
23:45
She is, like, young, and she doesn't use
23:48
a binder.
23:49
No, she's got it all in her noggin.
23:52
She's got it in her knower.
23:54
And she doesn't put up with any guff.
23:57
She's the perfect foil for Trump.
24:01
I think she ad-libs stuff.
24:03
She says stuff that I'm sure that if
24:04
it was a male, press guy, that Trump
24:08
would chew him out.
24:09
Trump's, I think, a little more liberal with
24:11
women.
24:12
He treats them slightly differently.
24:16
And he lets her do her thing.
24:18
But she's good, because these are all minor
24:20
numbers in the grand scheme of things, but
24:22
this is exactly the stuff that highly intelligent
24:25
people, did you hear about that?
24:27
They're $2 million for six change operations in
24:29
Guatemala.
24:30
You know, it's like, that is the smallest
24:32
of the grievances.
24:34
Yeah, well, we get a few more here,
24:36
because Jesse brings a few into the picture,
24:38
that many of, like, the art stuff, I
24:41
haven't heard of.
24:42
And here we go, it's clip two.
24:43
But we can add some more to the
24:44
list.
24:45
$43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan
24:48
that had no customers.
24:50
Still less, though, than what Biden paid for
24:52
a charging station here.
24:54
$1.5 million to promote gays, lesbians, and
24:57
trans in Jamaica.
24:58
$4 million for trans Serbians.
25:00
$5.5 million for gay rights in Uganda.
25:04
Over $6 million for men who have sex
25:07
with men in South Africa.
25:09
That's just how it was described.
25:11
$17 million to promote inclusion in Vietnam.
25:14
It's just probably another way of saying it
25:16
went to trans.
25:18
We carpet-bond them, and then we paid
25:20
them the cross-dress.
25:21
$25 million to promote green transportation in Georgia,
25:25
not the state, the country.
25:27
And it's not like we took the money
25:29
and bought them electric cars.
25:30
We just paid a shady agency to put
25:32
up a billboard that says, buy electric cars.
25:35
$1 million for Arab and Jewish photographers.
25:38
Are you Jewish?
25:39
Are you Arab?
25:40
Do you have cameras?
25:41
Here's a check.
25:42
$8 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how
25:46
to avoid binary gendered language.
25:48
Translation, we spent $8 million so that a
25:51
reporter in Sri Lanka doesn't write he or
25:53
she.
25:53
Well, at least nobody died, right?
25:55
Wrong.
25:55
$122 million of the USAID money was given
25:59
to terrorists.
26:01
The Taliban is taxpayer-funded.
26:03
So was the Wuhan lab, so we're on
26:05
a roll.
26:06
The people spending the money can't even tell
26:08
you why they're spending the money.
26:10
USAID awarded $2 million to strengthen trans-led
26:14
organizations to deliver gender-affirming health care in
26:18
Guatemala.
26:19
So to each of you this morning, does
26:21
this advance the interests of American citizens paying
26:24
for trannies in Guatemala to the tune of
26:26
$2 million?
26:27
Yes or no, Governor?
26:29
I have no position.
26:30
Of course you don't.
26:33
This is clearly all these NGOs and non
26:37
-profits and they just took money.
26:38
They just took money.
26:40
This has always been the pipeline that we've
26:42
always identified as the problem is non-profits
26:45
and non-governmental organizations all around the world
26:48
who are taking this money and doing nefarious...
26:51
Our money, our taxpayer money.
26:53
Yes.
26:53
And also our taxpayer money's debt.
26:56
Yes, yes, our printed money.
26:59
And just taking it for themselves.
27:02
If you dig deep, this is where you
27:04
see cousins and aunts and uncles.
27:07
Just a 46-second from President Trump just
27:09
to interject in between these clips, if you
27:12
don't mind.
27:12
Yes.
27:12
Look at all the fraud that he's found
27:14
in this USAID.
27:17
It's a disaster what the people, radical left
27:20
lunatics, they have things that nobody would have
27:24
even believed.
27:25
The whole thing with $100 million spent on
27:28
you-know-what with money going to all
27:31
sorts of groups that shouldn't deserve to get
27:32
any money with the money.
27:34
I'd like to see what the kickbacks are.
27:36
How much money has been kicked back?
27:38
Who would spend that kind of money to
27:40
some of the things that you read about
27:41
and I read about and I see every
27:43
night on the news and every morning when
27:44
I read the papers?
27:46
Who would spend money for that?
27:48
I would say this, the people that got
27:50
all that money, are they kicking it back
27:52
to the people that gave it from government?
27:55
No, that's, to me, very, very corrupt.
27:58
Yeah, I think that put some people on
28:01
notice.
28:03
Yeah.
28:03
So this, it is kind of an exciting
28:05
time.
28:07
But I have to say.
28:09
It is the season of reveal, John, come
28:11
on.
28:12
You're going to have to admit it sooner
28:13
or later.
28:17
You're never going to admit it.
28:19
All right, we'll go to USAID bit three.
28:22
Is that where we're at?
28:23
Yeah, bit three.
28:24
Despite the blatant waste and corruption, there's a
28:27
sinister side to all of the gay, lesbian
28:29
and trans money we're funneling into other countries.
28:31
It's subversive.
28:33
It undermines their traditional culture, their religions and
28:35
their governing authority.
28:37
It divides these countries, it distracts them and
28:39
makes it easier for our government to exploit
28:42
them.
28:42
David Axelrod told Democrats who are defending this
28:46
stuff, you're walking into a trap.
28:49
Rahm Emanuel says you don't have to fight
28:51
every fight.
28:52
Wasteful spending isn't the hill I'm going to
28:54
die on.
28:55
But trans operas in Colombia are the hill
28:58
Democrats have chosen to die on.
29:00
Are they getting kickbacks?
29:02
We're about to find out.
29:03
Democrats have been sending your tax dollars to
29:06
the World Economic Forum so they can tell
29:08
us to eat bugs.
29:09
The George Soros Prosecutor Fund got $26 million
29:13
of your money to what, open jails?
29:17
USAID brags about overthrowing governments.
29:21
They bragged about supporting military coups and color
29:24
revolutions in the Middle East, Asia and Ukraine.
29:26
And we just found out the Biden administration
29:29
was paying the press.
29:32
During the last four years, Politico received $26
29:36
million from the federal government.
29:38
$8 million just last year.
29:41
The Biden administration was paying a DC insider
29:44
publication that happened to never report anything bad
29:47
about the Biden administration.
29:49
The whole thing is a racket.
29:52
This was a bailout.
29:54
Biden's government didn't need this.
29:56
It's a payoff product.
29:58
Because when they started paying at Politico, they
30:02
tanked the laptop.
30:03
They covered up Biden's nap times.
30:06
The USAID chief, Samantha Power, Politico wrote a
30:11
puff piece about her, called her a celebrity.
30:14
Have you ever heard of celebrity Samantha Power?
30:17
I'm a little disappointed at ourselves.
30:21
We have so often discussed Politico.
30:24
And I kept saying, who owns them?
30:26
And then you'd always come back, no, no,
30:28
they're their own thing.
30:30
They stand by themselves.
30:31
And now we could have figured this one
30:35
out.
30:35
Because of course, basically a blog with too
30:39
many people working there, it could never be
30:41
so self-sustainable.
30:43
We should have sniffed that one.
30:45
We should have.
30:46
And I think Axiom falls into that category
30:49
of too many.
30:50
Axios.
30:50
Axios and other operations are different.
30:53
Axios falls into that same category with too
30:56
many people and who's really behind it.
30:58
I mean, other operations like the Atlantic, for
31:02
example, you do have Lorraine Jobs, a Jobs,
31:07
Powell Jobs, whatever she wants to call herself.
31:10
So you got money there.
31:12
So even though that could be a slush
31:14
fund too, at least it has a cover.
31:16
There's no cover for these other operations.
31:18
There's no cover billionaire that looks, you know,
31:21
there's no Reed Hastings in front of the
31:23
whole thing.
31:24
So yes, yeah, we probably...
31:28
I'm reading, I'm reading that a lot of
31:31
money went into, got slushed somehow into Hollywood,
31:37
Hollywood productions.
31:39
Now that's kind of being countered by saying,
31:41
oh, you know, they paid people millions of
31:43
dollars to go visit Zelensky.
31:44
Maybe, I don't know.
31:46
Well, actually, yeah, I think yes.
31:48
Ben Stiller says no.
31:49
He says no.
31:49
Well, Ben Stiller probably paid for it himself.
31:52
He's probably dumb.
31:52
Well, I got a clip on this, but...
31:55
Well, let's do a last suggestion.
31:57
Let's play the last one, then I can
31:58
have a clip about Ben Stiller.
32:00
Okay, good.
32:01
So upon coming out here to the briefing
32:04
room, I was made aware of the funding
32:07
from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who
32:11
I know has a seat in this room.
32:13
And I can confirm that the more than
32:16
$8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to
32:18
essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American
32:21
taxpayer's dime will no longer be happening.
32:23
The Doge team is working on canceling those
32:25
payments now.
32:27
How critical is government funding to Politico's bottom
32:29
line?
32:30
Not sure.
32:31
But on the day of the freeze, they
32:32
couldn't make payroll for a couple hours.
32:35
It's not just Politico.
32:36
The New York Times got millions.
32:38
BBC got money.
32:40
PolitiFact was funded by the Biden administration.
32:44
Biden was censoring you and funding independent fact
32:47
checkers to call you a liar.
32:49
The left somehow looks like one big astroturfed
32:52
money laundering shell game.
32:54
Well, okay, that's a little disingenuous, Jesse Watters.
32:59
USAID has been there through many different political
33:02
powers running the country.
33:06
So it's not just the Biden administration.
33:08
It's not just, you know, the left and
33:11
the Dems.
33:12
It's the fundamental problem in government.
33:15
And this government's everywhere, except for some reason,
33:18
this president is pulling it apart.
33:21
You got nothing to lose.
33:22
It's very interesting.
33:23
Where's the, where's the.
33:26
So this is from, this is a clip
33:29
from, and I, one more clip after this.
33:32
This is the USAID.
33:34
This is from E, E Entertainment News, the
33:37
E, you know, E.
33:37
E?
33:38
E?
33:39
They still around?
33:39
E?
33:40
E still around?
33:40
Yeah, they're still around.
33:41
And here's their report.
33:42
USAID sponsored American celebrity visits to Ukraine after
33:47
Russia's full-scale invasion began.
33:50
Angelina Jolie, $20 million.
33:53
Sean Penn, $5 million.
33:55
Jean-Claude Van Damme, $1.5 million.
33:58
Orlando Bloom, $8 million.
34:01
Ben Stiller, $4 million.
34:04
This was done to increase Zelensky's popularity among
34:07
foreign audiences, particularly in the United States.
34:11
The involvement of celebrities made it easier to
34:14
coordinate funding programs for Ukraine during the conflict.
34:18
I'd like to see some paperwork on that.
34:21
Angelina Jolie, $20 million, really?
34:24
I'd like to see the paperwork on that.
34:26
Did they just, is there a big check,
34:28
like one of those publisher clearinghouse checks?
34:29
Yeah, big giant checks.
34:31
Hey, there you go.
34:32
That's an accusation that they're going to have
34:34
to deal with.
34:35
Now, the last clip I have just shows
34:38
that this is not, I mean, USAID is
34:40
the target right now.
34:42
But then I ran into this crazy clip
34:45
from Alex Jones.
34:47
Oh, yeah.
34:48
All right.
34:48
On Reuters.
34:51
And this is some Pentagon, some stuff that
34:54
was brought up from some Pentagon research.
34:56
And I think the Pentagon, unless something stops
35:02
and they manage to stop Musk, who's gone
35:05
on a rampage with a bunch of kids.
35:08
He's hired a bunch of young— This was,
35:11
so I saw the executive editor of Wired
35:14
doing interviews everywhere because it was the outstanding
35:18
reporting from Wired.
35:20
Outstanding reporting from Wired.
35:22
They did really good work.
35:23
Wired magazine did outstanding reporting.
35:25
And they're the ones like, well, these are
35:27
19 to 26-year-old kids.
35:29
What are they doing?
35:30
Who else?
35:31
Who do you think is programming your life?
35:33
Who do you think?
35:34
Well, besides— Who has the energy?
35:36
Besides anonymous Indians.
35:38
And I also, I'm quite sure that this
35:40
is a team that Musk is the spokeshole
35:43
for.
35:44
I don't think he's in there rousting around
35:46
because— No, I agree.
35:47
I agree.
35:47
If he was, he'd have the kitchen sink
35:49
and he'd make an X-post and we'd
35:52
see that.
35:53
I've said it a million times.
35:54
I'll say it again.
35:55
A million!
35:59
I said it at least twice.
36:01
Yes, that's more like it.
36:02
Which is slightly different than a million, I
36:04
suppose, if you're going to be picky.
36:06
Well, I learned it from the best.
36:09
I would say that Musk knows how to
36:12
pick people.
36:14
He has a knack for getting people— You
36:18
know, there's a funny thing about this, an
36:19
old story about Microsoft, when Gates was building
36:23
the company out.
36:25
And he was kind of, at the time,
36:27
now he's off the rails, but back in
36:30
the day, he would always, this was a
36:33
known Microsoft story, when he was staffing in
36:37
Redmond.
36:38
You'd come in from some other company and
36:41
he said, he would always insist that if
36:45
you're going to come to work for Microsoft,
36:47
you have to be willing to take whatever
36:49
money you were making over at Oracle or
36:52
whatever company you were working for before, you
36:55
had to take a cut in pay.
36:58
Because it was important that you took a
37:00
cut in pay to show that you really
37:01
wanted to work for Microsoft.
37:02
That you wanted to be there.
37:03
Oh, interesting.
37:04
And that was always, it was one of
37:07
those, that story, everybody knows that story.
37:09
So here we go with Alex Jones.
37:12
And this is like, of course, Alex Jones
37:14
dramatizes great, but here we go.
37:17
Reuters, for active social engineering defense, ASED, and
37:21
large-scale social deception, LSD, that's how, in
37:26
the grants, at usspending.gov, Department of Defense,
37:32
Thompson Reuters Special Services, that's M-I-6,
37:37
you can look it up, active social engineering
37:40
defense, large-scale social deception.
37:47
Zoom in on that.
37:48
Look at that.
37:49
Look at that.
37:50
Just look.
37:52
Of course, they want to keep it secret.
37:54
But the Pentagon's paying Reuters to, what's the
37:56
exact term?
37:58
Might just read this for the next four
37:59
hours over and over again.
38:00
Active social engineering defense, ASED, and large-scale
38:04
social deception, LSD.
38:06
Boy, that sounds like what good people do.
38:09
And there it is on the DARPA website.
38:12
Where they tell you about active social engineering
38:14
defense, but see, they didn't tell you what
38:17
they do lie to you.
38:18
And it's the Pentagon going, we want to
38:19
help deceive the public, Reuters, help lie, run
38:23
our deception engineering operation.
38:26
I mean, God, here's the bad guys don't
38:29
call themselves the bad guys.
38:30
That's like little kid shows like the Decepticons.
38:34
The Pentagon's like, we're the Decepticons.
38:37
Lie to the American people.
38:39
Look, I'm wearing a red cape and horn.
38:42
Well, this is, we've talked about this, about
38:45
DARPA working on social networks and understanding how
38:50
to engineer outcomes through the law of large
38:54
numbers and how large networks operate in general.
38:59
And then the, was it NSA or CIA?
39:01
I think it was military who recruited to
39:05
be the ghost in the machine.
39:06
Remember that creepy ad, be the ghost in
39:08
the machine.
39:08
It was NSA, be the ghost in the
39:11
machine.
39:12
And if you said something, really said something
39:16
a million times, it's that when the internet
39:18
came into play, it made everything much easier
39:21
for government to psyop us and to control
39:24
our thinking.
39:26
And I don't care if it's run by
39:28
Elon Musk or not.
39:29
X is a perfect place for that.
39:31
But the one that's really good is BlueCry.
39:33
I mean, whoa.
39:34
I mean, what's going on there is, it's
39:37
amazing.
39:38
I have to, you know, I have relented
39:41
from looking at the BlueCry feeds during this
39:46
last week or so, but I'm going to
39:48
have to go.
39:50
It's got to be distressing because these people
39:52
are insane over there.
39:54
And I log in.
39:55
Now, I haven't looked at BlueCry in weeks.
39:58
I log in, I see I have 20
39:59
messages.
40:00
And there's people going, people who listen to
40:03
our show.
40:04
You said that, how about this?
40:07
I'm like, wow.
40:08
And that's what they sound like too.
40:10
Yes, I logged right out.
40:11
I'm like, I don't want to read this.
40:12
And Scott Galloway, he posts 15 times an
40:17
hour.
40:18
This is no good.
40:21
Anyway, on USAID.
40:23
But before we continue with any more discussion,
40:26
I do want to say, these clips, including
40:31
the Jones clip, this is an amazing indictment
40:35
of mainstream media as being completely and totally
40:38
corrupt, and I would say useless to the
40:41
general public unless you just want to be
40:43
led around by the nose, by somebody that's
40:47
leaning around the nose for some nefarious reason,
40:50
I'd say, just in general.
40:53
This is not good.
40:55
Here's a short clip of Elon talking on
40:59
Spaces with his impression.
41:02
So he's doing his job.
41:03
He's doing his job perfectly.
41:05
He's getting out there.
41:07
He's doing the talking where he needs to
41:08
do the talking.
41:09
I don't think he was doing this from
41:11
inside the USAID building or sleeping in the
41:14
bed next to the Oval Office or whatever
41:17
is out there.
41:19
But he kind of summed it up with
41:20
something that sounded very Trumpy.
41:22
As we dug into USAID, it became apparent
41:26
that what we have here is not an
41:28
apple with a worm in it, but we
41:30
have actually just a bowl of worms.
41:33
And so at the point at which you
41:35
don't really, if you've got an apple that's
41:37
got a worm in it, maybe you can
41:37
take the worm out.
41:38
But if you've got actually just a bowl
41:40
of worms, it's hopeless.
41:43
And USAID is a bowl of worms.
41:46
There is no apple.
41:48
There is no apple.
41:50
You've just got to basically get rid of
41:53
the whole thing.
41:54
That is why it's got to go.
41:58
It's beyond repair.
42:04
Now, here's two serious clips because we can
42:08
stomp on people all day long.
42:10
Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State, who I'm
42:14
liking more and more, I have to say.
42:16
I am too.
42:16
I'm liking him more and more.
42:18
He's really, you know, it's like one of
42:21
those things where he found himself, it seems
42:24
to me.
42:25
Go ahead.
42:27
Because everybody on both sides of the aisle
42:31
always assumed that, because of Marco's, little Marco,
42:36
when he was little Marco, and he did
42:37
the small hands joke and he was going
42:40
after Trump and he was running against him,
42:41
they all assumed that he was pretty much
42:46
like them, that he was an old Republican,
42:50
old-fashioned Republican.
42:51
He's not turning out to be that way.
42:53
He's turning out to be a radical Republican,
42:56
Trumpist-type Republican, and he handles it so
43:00
beautifully.
43:03
It's a phenomenon.
43:05
Yes.
43:05
And, of course, he's still not to be
43:08
trusted.
43:09
Can't trust anybody.
43:09
I agree.
43:12
He did an interview, I think this was
43:13
Fox, and they asked him, because now he's
43:16
the acting director of USAID, and he had
43:19
a very clear, concise overview of what's going
43:24
on and how it's corrupt and rotten, and
43:27
here it is.
43:28
So you're now the head of USAID.
43:31
The head of DOJ, Elon Musk, called USAID
43:33
a criminal organization and added that it is
43:36
time for it to die.
43:38
Do you agree with that?
43:39
Let me walk you through the history of
43:40
this agency.
43:41
And this is good.
43:42
He knows the history.
43:43
I like this.
43:44
I've dealt with it for 14 years in
43:46
the United States Senate.
43:47
It was created as a way of doing
43:49
humanitarian assistance in the world, separate from the
43:51
State Department at the time.
43:53
But it said you have to take policy
43:54
direction from the Secretary of State, the National
43:56
Security Council, the White House, and all elements
43:58
of government.
43:59
They have basically evolved into an agency that
44:02
believes that they're not even a U.S.
44:03
government agency, that they are a global charity,
44:06
that they take the taxpayer money and they
44:08
spend it as a global charity, irrespective of
44:11
whether it is in the national interest or
44:12
not.
44:13
By the way, one of the few people
44:14
these days who uses the word correctly instead
44:17
of saying irregardless, he says irrespective.
44:20
He gets a point, gets a point for
44:21
that.
44:22
Irrespective of whether it is in the national
44:23
interest or not in the national interest.
44:25
One of the most common complaints you will
44:27
get if you go to embassies around the
44:28
world from State Department officials and ambassadors and
44:30
the like is USAID is not only not
44:33
cooperative, they undermine the work that we're doing.
44:36
They are supporting programs that upset the host
44:39
government for whom we're trying to work with
44:41
on a broader scale and so forth.
44:43
So they're completely unresponsive.
44:44
They just don't consider that they work for
44:46
the U.S. They just think they're a
44:48
global entity and that their master is the
44:50
globe and not the United States.
44:52
And that's not what the statute says and
44:53
that's not sustainable.
44:54
The President put a pause on all foreign
44:56
aid.
44:57
We found a lot of cooperation in the
44:59
State Department and we have issued dozens and
45:01
dozens of waivers.
45:02
As we go through all the foreign aid
45:03
programs in the Department of State, the ones
45:06
that make sense, we issue a waiver, they
45:07
go back on.
45:08
We've already done it for dozens of programs.
45:10
So, OK, so that makes total sense.
45:13
You know, oh, there's someone starving.
45:14
OK, we'll help those people out.
45:16
But then he gets a little tricky because
45:20
we know the State Department is really the
45:23
huge monster.
45:25
And here's all the State Department's great.
45:28
They're great.
45:29
Remember, Marco Rubio has been on the Intelligence
45:33
Committee for a long time.
45:34
So I think he's protecting his turf here.
45:37
So we're going through it at the State
45:39
Department, the State Department portion of foreign aid.
45:42
We find cooperation.
45:43
State Department people have been great.
45:44
And we're issuing waivers and we're getting input
45:46
and it's working.
45:47
We go to USAID, which is a big
45:49
chunk of foreign aid, $40 billion or so.
45:52
They're completely uncooperative.
45:54
They won't tell you what the programs are.
45:56
They refuse to answer questions.
45:57
They try to push through payments.
45:59
Even after the executive order, they were still
46:01
trying to push money through the system.
46:02
Can it be reformed or does it need
46:04
to die?
46:04
Well, that was always the goal was to
46:05
reform it.
46:06
But now we have rank insubordination.
46:09
Now we have basically an active effort.
46:11
Their basic attitude is we don't work for
46:13
anyone.
46:14
We work for ourselves.
46:15
No agency of government can tell us what
46:17
to do.
46:17
So the president made me the acting administrator.
46:20
I've delegated that power to someone who's there
46:22
full time.
46:23
And we're going to go through the same
46:24
process at USAID as we're going through now
46:26
at the State Department.
46:29
This is not about getting rid of foreign
46:31
aid.
46:31
There are things that we do through USAID
46:34
that we should continue to do.
46:36
That makes sense.
46:36
And we'll have to decide, is that better
46:38
through the State Department or is that better
46:39
through something, a reformed USAID?
46:42
That's the process we're working through.
46:43
There are things that are happening at USAID
46:45
that we should not be involved in funding
46:47
or that we have a lot of questions
46:48
about.
46:49
But they're completely uncooperative.
46:51
So we had no choice but to take
46:53
dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.
46:56
So we'll see.
46:57
State Department seems pretty safe.
46:59
And there's a lot of nonsense going on
47:02
there.
47:02
It's heavily intertwined with the Central Intelligence Agency.
47:06
When it comes to media corruption, though, Michael
47:09
Schellenberger pops up.
47:12
I'm not really a super fan of Michael
47:13
Schellenberger, but he dug in and he found
47:17
some USAID financing that really helped kickstart the
47:22
initial Trump impeachment.
47:25
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump
47:27
in December 2019 after a White House whistleblower
47:31
went public with evidence that Trump had abused
47:33
his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine
47:36
in order to dig up dirt on his
47:38
rival Joe Biden.
47:39
In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have
47:41
heard from White House staff that Trump had
47:44
on a phone call directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr
47:47
Zelensky to work with his personal attorney at
47:50
the time, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden
47:53
and Hunter Biden.
47:54
The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a
47:57
CIA analyst who was first brought into the
47:59
White House by the Obama administration.
48:01
Reporting by Dropsite News last year revealed that
48:04
the CIA analyst had relied on reporting by
48:07
a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the
48:11
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, or the
48:16
OCCRP, which appears to have effectively operated as
48:20
an arm of the United States Agency for
48:22
International Development, USAID, which President Trump has just
48:27
shut down.
48:28
The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report
48:31
by OCCRP four times.
48:34
The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born
48:36
Florida businessmen were key hidden actors behind a
48:39
plan by Trump to investigate the Bidens.
48:42
Do you remember those two guys?
48:43
Remember those two?
48:45
Like Boris and...
48:47
And Natasha.
48:48
Boris and Natasha standing next to Trump at
48:50
some function.
48:52
They took a picture with him, and then
48:53
all of a sudden, oh, they were key.
48:55
Those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former
48:59
Ukrainian prosecutors, according to OCCRP.
49:02
The OCCRP story was crucial to the House
49:05
Democrats' impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched
49:08
Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to
49:11
pressure a foreign country to interfere in the
49:13
2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower
49:17
cited it four separate times.
49:19
Yeah, he goes on and on and on
49:20
about this.
49:21
But, you know...
49:22
Yes, it was a good clip.
49:23
I saw him do this.
49:25
I'm glad you got that.
49:26
He's kind of dry.
49:29
He doesn't have much...
49:31
He doesn't have pizzazz.
49:32
So USAID spent, through political non-governmental organizations,
49:36
over $40 million on the Georgia elections, Georgia
49:39
the country, which, of course, you know, was
49:41
contentious.
49:46
It's really...
49:47
To me, this is quite entertaining.
49:49
I mean, it's...
49:50
It's very entertaining.
49:51
It's more than I expected.
49:53
It's a lot more than I expected.
49:54
Yes.
49:55
Well, that's for sure.
49:56
Me too.
49:57
And although you seem to have been expecting
50:00
from the season of reveal...
50:02
That's okay.
50:02
I won't criticize you.
50:04
No, no.
50:04
That's just the word I received, and here
50:06
it is.
50:06
I mean, the prophecy is true.
50:08
The season of reveal.
50:09
Uh-huh.
50:10
Uh-huh.
50:10
You can't deny it.
50:11
You're going to try, but you can't.
50:13
So this is going to continue at this
50:17
breakneck pace.
50:19
Rapid rate, yes.
50:20
They don't know what to do about it.
50:21
It's one thing after another.
50:26
The thing that's really...
50:29
I don't know how to call it, but
50:31
his approach to women's sports with that executive
50:35
order, I thought was a big deal.
50:36
I have the clip here.
50:39
Hold on a second.
50:40
I have a clip too.
50:41
Yeah, this is...
50:42
President Trump delivering on a campaign promise with
50:44
an executive order that may or may not
50:47
be legal.
50:48
We will not allow men to beat up,
50:51
injure, and cheat our women and our girls.
50:53
From now on, women's sports will be only
50:57
for women.
51:00
While several high-profile cases fill the cable
51:03
news airwaves, including swimmer Riley Gaines, who lost
51:07
a college competition to a transgender person, the
51:10
reality is it rarely happens.
51:12
In December, the NCAA president indicated the policy
51:15
allowing transgender women to compete might change if
51:19
federal law becomes more clear.
51:21
But in the same hearing, he revealed that
51:23
of the 510,000 college athletes, he was
51:27
aware of only 10 who were transgender.
51:29
Ashley O'Connor transitioned while a student at
51:31
Downers Grove South High School.
51:33
She's now in college, but knows firsthand the
51:36
impact of being allowed on the girls' badminton
51:38
team during a difficult time.
51:40
Being able to express myself openly and honestly
51:45
helps so, so much.
51:47
I haven't self-harmed for, I think, a
51:49
bit over four years now.
51:50
I mean, this is a person who needs
51:52
different kind of help.
51:54
Because I can express myself through badminton, I
51:59
haven't self-harmed.
52:01
This person needs a different kind of help.
52:06
Where'd you get that report?
52:07
This report is slanted.
52:08
Oh, of course it's slanted.
52:11
This report is from, it's probably from France
52:14
24.
52:15
Let me see.
52:16
Trans Maoism.
52:21
Oh, the Chicago WGN.
52:24
Hello.
52:25
It's obvious where it's from.
52:27
All right, but you get the idea.
52:29
What they're saying is- Yeah, well, play
52:30
this clip.
52:31
This is the executive order about men in
52:34
locker rooms.
52:34
This is on NTD, and this is slanted.
52:40
But NTD is always anti-Chinese slanted, and
52:44
I think their regular reporting is pretty neutral.
52:46
And here's the way they handled it.
52:48
One of President Trump's latest executive orders will
52:51
provide, quote, equal opportunity for women and girls
52:54
and keep, quote, men out of women's sports.
52:58
Last year, a male cyclist posing as a
53:01
woman competed in the 800-mile Arizona trail
53:05
race, a very big deal in cycling, and
53:09
obliterated the woman's course record by nearly five
53:12
and a half hours.
53:13
A White House document says the executive order
53:16
upholds the promise of Title IX and ends
53:19
the dangerous and unfair participation of men in
53:22
women's sports.
53:23
We're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on
53:26
notice that if you let men take over
53:28
women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms,
53:31
you will be investigated for violations of Title
53:35
IX and risk your federal funding.
53:36
While signing, Trump was joined by over 20
53:39
women and their daughters from parental rights advocacy
53:42
group Moms for Liberty.
53:44
Women's sports advocates Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlon
53:48
were there also.
53:49
Title IX, passed in 1972, prohibits sex-based
53:53
discrimination in any school or other education program
53:57
that receives federal funding.
54:00
And the U.S. officially has a new
54:02
attorney general.
54:03
Pam Bondi was sworn in on Capitol Hill
54:05
with Trump in attendance.
54:08
The Senate confirmed Bondi on Tuesday, 54 to
54:10
46, with Democrat Senator John Fetterman joining Republicans
54:15
in the vote.
54:16
Bondi says she will make the country proud.
54:19
And I will restore integrity to the Justice
54:22
Department and I will fight violent crime throughout
54:26
this country and throughout this world and make
54:28
America safe again.
54:30
So what, considering the numbers, it is just,
54:33
as you've pointed out, it's just so crazy
54:36
that the Democrat Party wanted to die on
54:39
that hill, as you said.
54:41
And...
54:42
They're still on to it, on the hill.
54:44
And I can't wait for my hate listen
54:46
tomorrow to find out what, because Kara Schwisher,
54:51
leading lesbian advocate, continuously has held to the
54:56
opinion that the war on trans, was it
55:00
because the Republicans hate gay people?
55:03
Well, nothing could be further from the truth
55:05
because they're actually being protected in this case.
55:11
This is from Denver.
55:13
While the preview for the U.S. Department
55:15
of State's website still shows resources for LGBTQI
55:19
plus prospective adoptive parents, the moment you click
55:22
in, you'll see a new acronym.
55:24
By the way, they're showing the Google search
55:26
results, so it's like a cached result that
55:30
has the link LGBTQI, and then when you
55:34
click in, well, yeah, they change it, but
55:36
Google hasn't updated it.
55:37
Prospective adoptive parents, the moment you click in,
55:40
you'll see a new acronym, LGB.
55:43
The same is found for LGB travelers.
55:46
To remove the T from the transgender identity.
55:50
I don't have to tell you what this
55:51
person was like.
55:53
You know, from your TikTok clips.
55:55
All federally funded websites and resources sends a
55:59
really big signal.
56:01
Jax Gonzalez is the political director at One
56:04
Colorado, the state's largest LGBTQIA advocacy group.
56:08
I'm a little bit of a history nerd.
56:10
The first acronym that was used was GLB,
56:14
so gay, lesbian, and bisexual.
56:15
You can see that used in the 70s
56:19
and 80s to identify the gay rights movement.
56:22
The L representing lesbians then became the first
56:25
letter to represent their contributions during the HIV
56:28
and AIDS epidemic in the late 80s.
56:31
This I didn't know, by the way, from
56:32
this self-proclaimed history nerd.
56:34
I didn't know that the L moved to
56:36
the front because of the lesbians helping in
56:40
the AIDS epidemic.
56:41
This is a point of contention.
56:44
When I was at...
56:48
When Cranky Geeks was being produced by Ziff
56:51
Davis and I was at the office, we
56:53
had one of our producers was a very
56:56
flamboyant gay guy.
56:59
And he was one of those guys who
57:02
had a lot of opinions about things.
57:04
And I've talked to him and other gay
57:07
males about this, and they, for the life
57:09
of them, cannot rationalize or understand why, and
57:14
they're a little irked about it, that the
57:17
G was replaced by the L.
57:20
Well, here's the official story from the history
57:22
nerd.
57:23
Letter to represent their contributions during the HIV
57:26
and AIDS epidemic in the late 80s.
57:28
Nurses would refuse to treat men who were
57:31
dying of HIV and AIDS.
57:33
And so lesbians stepped in, lesbian nurses, lesbian
57:37
volunteers.
57:37
Then in the 90s, the T representing transgender
57:41
people was added.
57:42
Man, I do not remember that being the
57:44
90s.
57:44
I remember that being in the mid-2000s.
57:48
Do you remember the T being added in
57:49
the 90s?
57:52
Ugh, I'm gonna have to do some work
57:53
on this.
57:54
There was the death of Brandon Tina.
57:56
That was a young trans man.
57:58
And after that, we had a surge of
58:01
visibility of transness.
58:02
Advocates say they're confident that while a letter
58:05
has been erased, transgender people won't be.
58:08
We're no longer being recognized by the federal
58:11
government.
58:12
I think what's true is that we don't
58:15
need to be in order to be the
58:19
people we are.
58:20
Yeah, there you go.
58:21
Good, everyone's happy now.
58:23
It's fine.
58:24
So LGB is protected.
58:27
Protected.
58:28
And the T, which was, you know, and
58:30
the Q, I mean, man, the Q thing,
58:32
that's what threw everybody for a loop.
58:34
But the Q thing just became this tack
58:35
-on excuse, which was a problem.
58:39
I have a couple of clips that kind
58:42
of relate to this.
58:43
And one of them, I thought, I mean,
58:45
I'll hold off on this.
58:47
This is an Irish journalist who went on
58:50
a tear about the trans conundrum and what's
58:54
really the problem with it, which is the
58:58
investment of the parents that have transitioned their
59:04
children and how it's created.
59:07
This woman is Helen Joyce.
59:08
We might as well play it.
59:09
Oh, Helen Joyce.
59:11
Helen Joyce is very, she's a, I wouldn't
59:14
say she's anti-trans because I don't think
59:16
she is anti-anything, but she's an observer
59:20
and she is seen as, she's like Rowland,
59:27
the Harry Potter writer.
59:29
Yes.
59:31
As a, you know, a hater of trans
59:35
when it's not the case.
59:37
And she has this interesting observation to make
59:40
about the investment that people have made into
59:43
this movement, into the trans Maoist movement that
59:47
is kind of depressing.
59:50
You may not have thought of, is that
59:52
there's a lot of people who can't move
59:53
on on this because that's the people who
59:54
have transitioned their own children.
59:56
So those people are going to be like,
59:57
you know, the Japanese soldiers who were on
59:59
Pacific Islands and didn't know the war was
1:00:01
over.
1:00:02
They've got to fight forever.
1:00:03
This is why, this is another reason why
1:00:05
this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion
1:00:08
that we'll ever have experienced.
1:00:09
A lot of people have done the worst
1:00:12
thing that you could do, which is to
1:00:14
harm their children irrevocably because of it.
1:00:16
Those people will have to believe that they
1:00:18
did the right thing for the rest of
1:00:19
their lives, for their own sanity and for
1:00:20
their own self-respect.
1:00:21
So they'll still be fighting.
1:00:23
And each one of those people destroys entire
1:00:26
organisations and entire friendship groups.
1:00:28
And now you can't talk truth in front
1:00:29
of that person.
1:00:30
And you know, you can't, because what you're
1:00:32
saying is you as a parent have done
1:00:35
a truly like human rights abuse, an awful
1:00:38
thing to your child that cannot be fixed.
1:00:41
There are specific individuals who are really actively
1:00:44
against women's rights here.
1:00:46
And it's not known why they are, but
1:00:48
I happen to know through the back channels
1:00:49
that it's because they've trans their child.
1:00:52
And so those people will do anything for
1:00:54
the entire rest of their lives to destroy
1:00:56
me and people like me, because people like
1:00:58
me are a standing reproach to them.
1:01:00
I don't want to be.
1:01:01
I'm not talking directly to them.
1:01:02
I don't spend my time bitching about them.
1:01:04
But the fact is that just simply by
1:01:06
saying we will never accept natal males in
1:01:10
women's spaces.
1:01:11
Well, it's their son that we're talking about.
1:01:13
And they've told their son that he can
1:01:15
get himself sterilised and destroy his sexual function
1:01:17
and women will accept him as a woman.
1:01:20
And if we don't, there's no way back
1:01:22
for them and their child.
1:01:24
They've sold their child a bill of goods
1:01:26
that they can't deliver on.
1:01:27
And I'm the one who has to be
1:01:29
bullied to try to force me to deliver
1:01:31
on it.
1:01:32
So those people are going to be the
1:01:34
people who will keep this bloody movement going,
1:01:36
I'm sorry to say, because they've everything to
1:01:39
lose.
1:01:40
Yeah, we've played Helen Joyce before.
1:01:47
See, I'm not going to play them now,
1:01:49
but male erotic fixation leads to children must
1:01:53
be trans and trans Maoist parents fighting to
1:01:57
the death.
1:01:58
She's been very consistent in this.
1:02:00
Can we, in the United States at least,
1:02:01
can we put this squarely on the shoulders
1:02:04
of the Democrat Party now is the question?
1:02:08
It's an interesting coincidence.
1:02:12
What do you mean?
1:02:13
To me.
1:02:14
What do you mean, coincidence?
1:02:16
Well, that most trans advocates and trans Maoists
1:02:21
and people who trans their kids and Hollywood
1:02:24
people in particular, Jamie Lee Curtis, Megan Fox,
1:02:28
and all these others that have boys that
1:02:30
made them into girls or vice versa, depending.
1:02:34
And they're all Democrats.
1:02:37
I don't, I suppose there's a Republican or
1:02:40
two out there that has a trans kid
1:02:42
who may be really, I mean, there are
1:02:45
people that do have genuine gender dysphoria, but
1:02:48
it's incredibly rare.
1:02:50
It's not, this is highly, this is a
1:02:53
movement.
1:02:54
This is not, this is something else.
1:02:56
This is what she calls a social contagion
1:03:01
is what she uses.
1:03:02
Contagion is the right word.
1:03:03
I mean, it's totally contagion.
1:03:04
Well, it's like June bugs.
1:03:05
I mean, it's hysteria that's created this.
1:03:09
And also a few scientists and some pediatricians,
1:03:12
including the American Pediatrics Board and these, the
1:03:16
horrible pediatrician, which I said before, I think
1:03:19
is the worst of all the doctors.
1:03:23
And, you know, with their vaccine schedules and
1:03:25
they kick people out of their, if you
1:03:28
don't want the vaccine, you won't, you can't
1:03:29
even go to them kind of problem we've
1:03:32
talked about on the show.
1:03:35
So it's just Democrats.
1:03:37
I mean, there, I suppose there's probably gotta
1:03:40
be a Republican there somewhere, but it's largely,
1:03:43
I'd say 90% plus Democrats Democrats.
1:03:46
So why is it Democrats?
1:03:51
Democrats and the media, the media, which is
1:03:56
90% Democrats too.
1:03:58
This is just Democrats.
1:03:59
So we're talking about Democrats.
1:04:01
Yes.
1:04:01
Why?
1:04:02
Well, it's because, well, trans Maoism, it's a
1:04:05
Marxist movement and it's Marxism.
1:04:08
There's Marxism behind it.
1:04:09
That's gotta be it.
1:04:10
And it became a form of religion, which
1:04:12
is what the Marxists always try to do.
1:04:14
Right, because they don't, because they're atheists.
1:04:17
Traditional religions.
1:04:18
Yes.
1:04:19
I want to talk just briefly about the
1:04:21
tariffs that were on and then were off.
1:04:24
And I think that this on and off
1:04:29
and wait for a month, to me, I
1:04:31
think it was a test that President Trump
1:04:34
ran to see how the dollar would respond,
1:04:36
which was quite interesting.
1:04:39
I mean, the dollar just skyrocketed in value
1:04:41
and then he took them off and they
1:04:42
went right back down.
1:04:43
One of our producers sent me a paper
1:04:46
written in November, 24th of November, 2024, by
1:04:50
Trump's Chairman of Economic Advisers, Stephen Mirren.
1:04:55
And he talks about the Triffin Dilemma, which
1:04:59
I'd never, or sometimes known as the Triffin
1:05:01
Paradox.
1:05:01
Have you ever heard of this before?
1:05:04
No.
1:05:05
The Triffin Paradox, written, identified by Belgian economist,
1:05:11
or Belgian-American economist, Robert Triffin in the
1:05:13
60s.
1:05:15
His basic thesis was that the problem with
1:05:20
a country having the reserve currency that is
1:05:24
over time, your currency, the US dollar, becomes
1:05:28
overvalued so that you almost naturally have to
1:05:32
shift all of your production overseas because it
1:05:35
just becomes much cheaper everywhere.
1:05:39
And the paper is 47 pages and I
1:05:42
was going through it and I'm trying to
1:05:45
mark stuff up and my brain is just
1:05:47
certainly hurting.
1:05:50
But it seems, what he is saying is
1:05:52
that, so if you put a tariff of
1:05:54
10% on goods, it does hurt local,
1:05:59
it does have a slight inflationary effect on
1:06:02
goods that you import.
1:06:05
But he says it's more like 50 basis
1:06:07
points, 1% tops.
1:06:09
But then when you get to 20%, there's
1:06:14
so much pain in the market and if
1:06:15
simultaneously you can bring down interest rates, there's
1:06:18
so much pain in these overseas markets they
1:06:21
have to shift their, they have to go
1:06:23
through a separate country, China is already doing
1:06:25
that of course.
1:06:26
Oh, it's coming from Vietnam, it's not coming
1:06:28
from China, it's coming from somewhere else.
1:06:30
Mexico.
1:06:31
Mexico, exactly.
1:06:33
That there is a way to prevent the
1:06:38
country from going into the Triffin paradox death
1:06:42
spiral and all the numbers that he has
1:06:45
in this paper, like the 60% we've
1:06:47
heard President Trump talk about, they're all in
1:06:50
there.
1:06:51
And so it seems like President Trump is
1:06:53
trying to figure out what he can do
1:06:56
because he needs a reset of the global
1:07:00
financial system, not the way the World Economic
1:07:04
Forum wants to do it.
1:07:05
And this guy, I think it's pretty funny,
1:07:07
he says look for a new Bretton Woods
1:07:10
Accord and he says since all of these
1:07:13
Accords have always been named after the resort
1:07:16
where they came up with it and signed
1:07:18
it, he says we should be on the
1:07:20
lookout for a Mar-a-Lago Accord where
1:07:22
somehow the currencies will be reset.
1:07:27
And I know we have really smart people
1:07:30
out in Gitmo Nation, so any simplification of
1:07:35
this process would be appreciated.
1:07:38
And at the same time, the stable coin
1:07:41
gambit seems to be playing up with the
1:07:47
most interesting people at the table, especially this,
1:07:51
what's the guy's name, from Cantor Fitzgerald.
1:07:57
Hold on a second, I have his name
1:07:58
here somewhere.
1:07:59
Lutnick.
1:08:01
Oh yeah, Lutnick.
1:08:02
And so...
1:08:04
Musk's a big fan of this guy.
1:08:06
Oh yeah, well there's no doubt and we
1:08:08
have to talk about that.
1:08:09
But so here's two clips about the president
1:08:12
signed the executive order for the Sovereign Wealth
1:08:16
Fund.
1:08:16
This is an executive order.
1:08:18
This charges your Secretary of the Treasury, Scott
1:08:21
Besson, and your Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick,
1:08:24
to begin a process that will hopefully result
1:08:26
in the creation of an American Sovereign Wealth
1:08:29
Fund.
1:08:30
It's a very exciting event.
1:08:34
We're going to have a Sovereign Wealth Fund,
1:08:36
which we've never had.
1:08:37
We have a lot of things that create
1:08:39
wealth and seeing that over the last two
1:08:42
weeks, I think we've created more wealth.
1:08:45
Other people have created de-wealth.
1:08:47
The people, my predecessors, we're creating a lot
1:08:49
of wealth.
1:08:50
Scott, maybe you'd like to say something about
1:08:53
it and I'd ask also Howard to say
1:08:55
something about it.
1:08:56
So first we get Scott Besson and he's
1:08:58
going to say, oh yeah, we're going to
1:09:00
put all kinds of assets into the Sovereign
1:09:02
Wealth Fund, which to me means perhaps tokenizing
1:09:06
our public lands.
1:09:07
I mean, there's all kinds of things that
1:09:09
have been discussed in this regard.
1:09:11
Yes, sir, this is very exciting.
1:09:14
We're going to stand this thing up.
1:09:17
Within the next 12 months, we're going to
1:09:20
monetize the asset side of the U.S.
1:09:24
balance sheet for the American people.
1:09:26
Now, how do you take that?
1:09:27
Monetizing the asset side of the balance sheet
1:09:30
for the American people.
1:09:31
How do you take that?
1:09:33
Just what you said.
1:09:34
Yeah, it's like we got oil.
1:09:36
What are American assets?
1:09:38
Whether it's the industrial base is considered an
1:09:41
American asset, but the federal government owns like
1:09:44
half the land in this country, which a
1:09:46
lot of people, including Milton Friedman, think was
1:09:48
a bad idea.
1:09:49
We shouldn't own any land, but we own
1:09:51
it.
1:09:52
And the land is valuable, especially in some
1:09:54
places, like certain states, California, for example.
1:09:59
That's an asset, big one.
1:10:01
All right.
1:10:02
We're going to put the assets to work.
1:10:06
And I think- That's tokenization.
1:10:08
I guarantee you they're going to make it
1:10:10
into some kind of crypto.
1:10:11
It's going to be very exciting.
1:10:13
We're going to study best practices that's done
1:10:15
around the world.
1:10:16
It'll be a combination of liquid assets, assets
1:10:19
that we have in this country as we
1:10:22
work to bring them out for the American
1:10:26
people.
1:10:27
The extraordinary size and scale of the U
1:10:31
.S. government and the business it does with
1:10:34
companies should create value for American citizens.
1:10:39
If we are going to buy 2 billion
1:10:41
COVID vaccines, maybe we should have some warrants
1:10:45
and some equity in these companies and have
1:10:47
that grow for the help of the American
1:10:50
people.
1:10:51
So bring all these things together, I think
1:10:53
Scott and I will create an amazing sovereign
1:10:56
wealth fund for you, sir.
1:10:57
So that's Ludnick.
1:10:58
And you could not have used a worse
1:11:00
example, you dumb dumbo.
1:11:03
Like, oh, yeah, we buy 2 million COVID
1:11:05
vaccines.
1:11:06
2 billion.
1:11:07
Did he say 2 billion?
1:11:08
He's stupid.
1:11:09
What a stupid thing to say.
1:11:11
Now, Ludnick...
1:11:13
Yeah, that was dumb.
1:11:14
In fact, that got a lot of attention.
1:11:16
As it should.
1:11:17
I think that Ludnick owns about 5%
1:11:20
of Tether.
1:11:21
Tether owns, I think, about $150 billion worth
1:11:25
of U.S. debt.
1:11:27
I believe that part of the gambit here
1:11:30
is to spread our debt amongst the global
1:11:33
poor by issuing...
1:11:36
Listen, by issuing...
1:11:37
Well, we're good at this stuff like that.
1:11:40
We have never done this one.
1:11:42
By issuing stable coins based upon debt that
1:11:45
we keep in America.
1:11:47
And, you know, because Tether, they make like
1:11:49
$4 billion a year just by holding $100
1:11:53
billion worth of paper, and there's like 20
1:11:56
people at the company.
1:11:57
Like, oh, they just hold the paper, they
1:11:59
get the interest, and they issue these stable
1:12:02
coins so we can continue to use the...
1:12:05
It'll probably be Tether.
1:12:06
Use the stable coins as, you know, hey,
1:12:08
everybody can use our dollars now.
1:12:10
Everybody, it's digital, it goes everywhere.
1:12:13
It devalues, but okay, you know.
1:12:16
There's something at play here, including having assets
1:12:21
of companies in the sovereign wealth funds.
1:12:23
Very, very different type of economics for us.
1:12:28
And then, of course, President Trump tries to
1:12:31
popularize that with this.
1:12:32
Other countries have sovereign wealth funds, and they're
1:12:36
much smaller countries, and they're not the United
1:12:38
States.
1:12:39
We have tremendous potential in this country.
1:12:41
Tremendous.
1:12:41
You're seeing that, what's happened just in a
1:12:43
short period of time.
1:12:45
And as an example, TikTok, we're gonna be
1:12:48
doing something perhaps with TikTok.
1:12:50
Perhaps not.
1:12:51
If we make the right deal, we'll do
1:12:52
it.
1:12:52
Otherwise, we won't.
1:12:53
So we're gonna own half of TikTok.
1:12:55
This is amazing.
1:12:56
But I have the right to do that,
1:12:58
and we might put that in the sovereign
1:13:00
wealth fund, whatever we make, or if we
1:13:02
do a partnership with very wealthy people.
1:13:05
There are a lot of options, but we
1:13:07
could put that as an example in the
1:13:09
fund.
1:13:10
And we have a lot of other things
1:13:11
that we could put in the fund.
1:13:12
And I think in a short period of
1:13:14
time, we'd have one of the biggest funds.
1:13:15
And, you know, some of them are pretty
1:13:18
large, I must tell you.
1:13:19
Some of the...
1:13:20
Like the Saudi Arabia fund is on the
1:13:23
large side.
1:13:24
But eventually, we'll catch it.
1:13:26
But we're gonna create a lot of wealth
1:13:28
for the fund.
1:13:30
And I think it's about time that this
1:13:31
country had a sovereign wealth fund and these
1:13:34
two gentlemen and some others are gonna work
1:13:36
with them very closely.
1:13:37
And they'll be heading it up, and they're
1:13:38
gonna do a great job.
1:13:40
Two highly respected people that have done unbelievably
1:13:43
well in the world, in the real world.
1:13:46
So that's a big deal, huh?
1:13:48
Yeah, it's a big deal.
1:13:49
I think it's gonna create value and be
1:13:51
of great strategic importance.
1:13:53
Yes, all right.
1:13:54
And a lot of publications are saying, you
1:13:58
know, this could stave off a debt crisis
1:14:00
because we keep the debt in the United
1:14:02
States.
1:14:04
Of course, the entire Bitcoin community is saying,
1:14:09
ah, this is where our strategic Bitcoin reserve
1:14:11
goes.
1:14:13
I mean, we'll see.
1:14:14
But man, you know, Trump is...
1:14:16
People forget that he's a macro guy.
1:14:19
And I just hope to God that he's
1:14:22
getting some good advice because this sounds sketchy
1:14:25
at best.
1:14:26
But the stablecoin thing, I don't know.
1:14:28
I mean, maybe it's brilliant.
1:14:30
But ultimately, you keep issuing paper so everybody
1:14:34
has the dollar, except they get it in
1:14:36
a digital form of a stablecoin, of a
1:14:38
tether.
1:14:39
It still devalues our money.
1:14:46
They have to do something.
1:14:48
Yeah.
1:14:49
And if anybody wants to listen to some...
1:14:51
I mean, I have to...
1:14:52
I don't like plugging the guy.
1:14:55
Mark Levin!
1:14:56
Hello, America!
1:14:58
So he does a Sunday show on...
1:15:03
On CNN.
1:15:05
No, on Fox.
1:15:05
Fox?
1:15:06
He does a Fox show on Sundays.
1:15:09
And it's this...
1:15:10
I don't know how many people watch it,
1:15:11
but it's just basically...
1:15:13
He does two...
1:15:14
One on Saturday and one on Sunday.
1:15:16
And it's basically a one-hour lecture.
1:15:18
It's nothing more...
1:15:20
Well, actually, I take it back.
1:15:21
It's about a half-hour lecture, and then
1:15:22
he brings some people on to talk about
1:15:24
the lecture.
1:15:25
How good was my lecture?
1:15:27
How good was I in this?
1:15:28
What do you think?
1:15:30
You know, he's a...
1:15:32
I have to say this.
1:15:33
I mean, he's a smart guy.
1:15:35
He's good.
1:15:36
His books are good.
1:15:37
He's the great one!
1:15:38
He's the great one!
1:15:39
He's the...
1:15:39
They stopped...
1:15:40
By the way, I noticed that's kind of
1:15:41
dissipated.
1:15:42
Oh.
1:15:43
The great one concept.
1:15:44
Oh, interesting.
1:15:44
But he is pretentious as hell because he
1:15:49
starts his radio program on...
1:15:51
During the week.
1:15:52
Every show, like all during the week, the
1:15:54
show starts with the national anthem.
1:15:58
I mean, give me a break.
1:15:59
Hey, well, we start this show with the
1:16:01
national anthem.
1:16:02
I mean, the national Gitmo Nation anthem, but
1:16:03
we do start with the anthem.
1:16:04
We actually don't start the show with it.
1:16:07
We rile everybody up.
1:16:08
We rile everybody up.
1:16:09
That's in the pre-show.
1:16:10
It's in the pre-show.
1:16:10
It's like the guy who comes out in
1:16:12
the comedy special.
1:16:15
What's the guy called?
1:16:16
The audience guy who comes out there?
1:16:18
The...
1:16:19
Not the fluffer.
1:16:20
That's a different kind of...
1:16:21
What's that guy called, the guy who comes
1:16:22
out?
1:16:22
The audience...
1:16:24
I forget what the guy's called.
1:16:26
The warm-up guy.
1:16:27
The warm-up guy, yeah.
1:16:29
He's slamming, he's got the script rolled up,
1:16:31
and he's like, all right, everybody, let's practice
1:16:33
your cheers.
1:16:34
Yeah, there we go.
1:16:35
Woo!
1:16:35
Okay, when the sign goes on...
1:16:37
Jumps up and down.
1:16:38
Gets everybody all worked up.
1:16:39
Yes.
1:16:39
Audience fluffer.
1:16:41
So let's...
1:16:42
So anyway, so Levin, I think it was
1:16:44
the last Sunday, he does a lecture on...
1:16:47
That's Darren O'Neill for us, the pre
1:16:49
-show guy.
1:16:50
That's what he does.
1:16:51
Yeah, yeah.
1:16:52
Pretty much.
1:16:53
Yeah, he does it.
1:16:54
He's good.
1:16:55
He gave a lecture on the real debt,
1:17:00
and he claims that because the Social Security
1:17:03
and Medicare, which are separate funds that are
1:17:06
supposed to be kind of walled off, even
1:17:11
though the money was stolen from them, that's
1:17:14
why people say, oh, the Social Security is
1:17:15
going to be out of business, so and
1:17:16
so, in five years we're going to be
1:17:19
out of money.
1:17:20
It's technically impossible, based on the original plans
1:17:24
for Social Security, because when you pay your
1:17:27
withholding, or if you're working for a company,
1:17:29
you have your taxes, it says withholding tax,
1:17:32
and then you see a little line that
1:17:33
says SS, Social Security.
1:17:35
Yeah.
1:17:35
You pay that separately.
1:17:36
That's not tax.
1:17:37
No, that's theft.
1:17:41
And it turns out that they've been taking
1:17:43
that and acting as it was tax, and
1:17:45
they're stolen the money.
1:17:46
According to Levin, we're actually 150 plus trillion
1:17:51
in debt, because of this money that's been
1:17:56
stolen from Social Security.
1:17:58
Everybody gets a tether here.
1:18:01
You get a trillion-dollar coin.
1:18:03
Yeah, a tether.
1:18:04
You get a tether.
1:18:04
Basically, the trillion-dollar coin.
1:18:06
Yeah.
1:18:07
So the point I'm trying to make, I
1:18:11
think, I think the point I'm trying to
1:18:13
make is that we have to do something
1:18:15
drastic, because we're broke.
1:18:18
Yeah.
1:18:18
What I found interesting in that paper is
1:18:23
he said, the way you do it, these
1:18:25
tariffs, is you tie it to national security,
1:18:29
which is exactly what President Trump did.
1:18:32
He tied it to immigration and fentanyl.
1:18:37
So it seems like something here is playing
1:18:39
out, and I like the idea of the
1:18:41
Mar-a-Lago Accords.
1:18:43
I think that's a genius name.
1:18:44
And it seems like, oh, yeah, so we
1:18:46
can just kind of wait for something to
1:18:48
happen.
1:18:48
I agree.
1:18:49
They have to do something.
1:18:51
Something has to happen, or, yeah, because we're
1:18:54
broke, and if we go broke, it's not
1:18:57
good for the world.
1:18:59
Everybody has a problem then.
1:19:00
Everyone's holding our paper.
1:19:02
Our paper.
1:19:07
So that was that.
1:19:09
Do you want to talk about Magaza?
1:19:13
Magaza.
1:19:13
Yeah, Magagaza.
1:19:15
Magaza.
1:19:16
That's the new thing.
1:19:17
Magaza.
1:19:18
Everybody's talking about Magaza.
1:19:20
Well, that was, you know, to me, just
1:19:23
to pray, yeah, you've got, I maybe have
1:19:24
one clip.
1:19:25
I don't have a lot on it.
1:19:26
I mean, I do have some thoughts, and
1:19:28
my thought was that during, because everyone's acting,
1:19:31
I like the way everyone acts so cool
1:19:32
because Trump's put these guys, and including Netanyahu.
1:19:37
Oh, yeah, no, no, this is not a
1:19:38
big shock.
1:19:39
What Trump did with this comment about, we're
1:19:42
going to just take over Gaza and then
1:19:44
turn it into a resort.
1:19:46
It was exactly the same, and I have
1:19:50
a term for it.
1:19:51
I now have a term for this, what
1:19:53
Trump's doing.
1:19:55
It's on here.
1:19:56
It's called the blurt.
1:19:58
The blurt.
1:19:59
The blurt.
1:20:00
And this is basically what he did with,
1:20:02
they're eating the dogs.
1:20:04
We're going to own it.
1:20:06
We're going to own it.
1:20:07
So I have the Gaza blurt, and I
1:20:10
think Trump just did it on the fly.
1:20:12
I don't care what anybody thinks because it's
1:20:14
like we're eating the dogs, and now everybody's,
1:20:17
and Mike Johnson was one of them, and
1:20:19
so was Rubio.
1:20:21
Well, they walked it back.
1:20:22
I have the walking it back clip.
1:20:24
Well, let's play this.
1:20:26
Here's the initial Gaza blurt clip from NTD,
1:20:29
which I think probably gets us off to
1:20:31
a good start.
1:20:32
Today we got some more clarification from the
1:20:34
White House.
1:20:34
A day after President Trump suggested he wants
1:20:37
the U.S. to take over Gaza and
1:20:39
own it, the White House says that President
1:20:41
Trump is not planning to use American taxpayer
1:20:43
dollars to fund reconstruction efforts in Gaza, and
1:20:46
nor is he committed yet to send any
1:20:49
U.S. troops there.
1:20:50
Watch.
1:20:50
The president has not committed to putting boots
1:20:53
on the ground in Gaza.
1:20:54
He has also said that the United States
1:20:56
is not going to pay for the rebuilding
1:20:58
of Gaza.
1:20:59
His administration is going to work with our
1:21:01
partners in the region to reconstruct this region.
1:21:05
And let me just take a step back
1:21:07
here because this is an out-of-the
1:21:09
-box idea.
1:21:10
That's who President Trump is.
1:21:11
That's why the American people elected him.
1:21:14
Meanwhile, last night, during a joint press conference
1:21:16
with Israeli Prime Minister, President Trump did not
1:21:18
rule out sending troops as an option, saying
1:21:21
he might if it's necessary.
1:21:23
Given what you've said about Gaza, did the
1:21:25
U.S. send troops to help secure the
1:21:28
security vacuum?
1:21:29
As far as Gaza is concerned, we'll do
1:21:31
what is necessary.
1:21:33
If it's necessary, we'll do that.
1:21:34
And when asked about why President Trump would
1:21:37
not rule out as an option, the White
1:21:39
House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, told us today
1:21:41
that she believes it's part of Trump's negotiating
1:21:43
tactics and that he will make a deal
1:21:46
on that, adding that it's to keep the
1:21:49
option open as leverage in negotiations.
1:21:52
And meanwhile, last night, Trump also proposed a
1:21:54
mass and permanent resettlement for Palestinians living in
1:21:57
Gaza.
1:21:58
And the White House said he's seemingly walking
1:22:00
it back, saying that Palestinians will only need
1:22:02
to be temporarily relocated as the reconstruction efforts
1:22:06
play out.
1:22:07
But the White House does stress to us,
1:22:08
though, that the U.S. is getting involved
1:22:10
in the reconstruction efforts and that is to
1:22:12
ensure stability in the region, adding that President
1:22:16
Trump is a great dealmaker and will strike
1:22:18
a deal with regional partners.
1:22:20
I think you've really hit on something.
1:22:23
The blurt is exactly what it is.
1:22:26
And every blurt with this president is a
1:22:29
negotiating point.
1:22:30
I'm going to say something here.
1:22:32
I'm sure he does this in business deals.
1:22:35
I'm going to put you out of business.
1:22:37
It's just out of the blue.
1:22:38
It just hits him on the spur of
1:22:40
the moment because we're eating the dogs.
1:22:44
You could just see it.
1:22:46
It was just like he's listening to this
1:22:47
woman yak away and all of a sudden
1:22:50
it just dawns on him to throw this
1:22:53
out.
1:22:53
We're eating the dogs.
1:22:54
They're eating the cats.
1:22:55
They're eating the dogs.
1:22:57
Let me play this clip.
1:22:58
This is labeled as walk back Trump's blurt.
1:23:03
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on
1:23:05
Wednesday walked back the Trump plan to permanently
1:23:08
relocate Palestinians from Gaza after American allies rebuffed
1:23:12
the suggestion.
1:23:13
So now Rubio is one of the Trump
1:23:16
whisperers.
1:23:17
This is the new role that you have
1:23:20
to play.
1:23:20
Trump on Tuesday in a meeting with Israeli
1:23:23
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the U.S.
1:23:26
could take ownership of Gaza.
1:23:29
And the only thing that President Trump has
1:23:30
done very generously in my view is offer
1:23:32
the United States willingness to step in clear
1:23:36
the debris clean the place up from all
1:23:38
the destruction that's on the ground clean it
1:23:41
up of all these unexploded munitions and in
1:23:43
the meantime the people living there will not
1:23:45
be able the people who call that home
1:23:47
will not be able to live there while
1:23:48
you have crews coming in and removing debris
1:23:51
while you have munitions being removed, etc.
1:23:54
That's the offer that he's made.
1:23:55
Oh, okay.
1:23:56
See, Rubio goes in to clean it up.
1:23:58
Yeah, I think Rubio did a good job.
1:24:01
And I like to compare it to Mike
1:24:03
Johnson who is also doing it.
1:24:06
But this is Mike Johnson and I describe
1:24:10
this as Mike Johnson skating.
1:24:12
You know, he's doing some sort of a
1:24:14
soft shoe.
1:24:14
He's dancing.
1:24:15
And it's like he doesn't know what to
1:24:17
say because it's like oh, what am I
1:24:19
going to do?
1:24:19
I can't offend it.
1:24:20
You know, because everyone's scared to death they're
1:24:22
going to say something that Trump gets pissed
1:24:24
about.
1:24:25
So they're backing him.
1:24:26
Rubio doesn't seem to be as Rubio's, I
1:24:28
think.
1:24:29
No, Rubio's got it figured out.
1:24:32
And so does Caroline Leavitt.
1:24:35
Yeah.
1:24:35
Yes, yes, yes.
1:24:37
Because she said it right there.
1:24:38
You know, the president obviously means this.
1:24:41
Like, okay.
1:24:42
And the other guy that the first person
1:24:45
I noticed that could do this well was
1:24:47
J.D. Vance.
1:24:48
Yes, initially during the elections.
1:24:52
Yeah, J.D. Vance could explain whatever Trump
1:24:57
did he could explain it and it was
1:24:59
to the satisfaction of everybody including Trump.
1:25:02
But Johnson Johnson hasn't quite got a clue
1:25:05
yet.
1:25:05
So he dances.
1:25:07
House Speaker Mike Johnson reacted to President Trump's
1:25:09
plan for the Gaza Strip.
1:25:11
Here's what Johnson said at the House Republicans
1:25:13
leadership stakeout earlier today.
1:25:15
There'll be more details forthcoming on that, of
1:25:17
course.
1:25:18
The initial announcement yesterday I think was greeted
1:25:21
by surprise by many but cheered by, I
1:25:24
think people all around the world.
1:25:26
Why?
1:25:27
Because that area is so dangerous.
1:25:29
He's taking bold, decisive action to try to
1:25:31
ensure the peace of that region.
1:25:33
It's a bold move, certainly.
1:25:36
Far bolder than what's been done before.
1:25:39
I think we've got to stand unequivocally in
1:25:41
an unwavering manner as the whip said with
1:25:44
Israel.
1:25:45
Our closest ally and friend in the Middle
1:25:47
East.
1:25:47
I think if we could bring control of
1:25:49
that situation and bring about a lasting peace
1:25:52
there it would do well for everybody not
1:25:53
just in the region but around the world.
1:25:55
It's a volatile place.
1:25:56
And I think the strong and decisive move
1:25:58
is an important step in that regard.
1:26:00
Johnson's got to get it together.
1:26:02
We don't want waffling.
1:26:04
We don't want waffling.
1:26:05
Here, listen.
1:26:06
Now, they even call him the Trump whisperer
1:26:09
in this report from Deutsche Welle as Rutte,
1:26:13
our boy from the Netherlands explains Greenland.
1:26:17
Because what did Trump say about Greenland?
1:26:20
Yeah, we're going to buy it.
1:26:21
We're going to take it over.
1:26:22
We're just going to enter it and take
1:26:24
it.
1:26:25
No, no, no, no, no.
1:26:27
What I think what he is really trying
1:26:29
to get at is that we have to
1:26:31
be watchful of what is happening in the
1:26:33
Arctic.
1:26:34
And Russia is speedily working on getting its
1:26:39
act together on the Arctic.
1:26:40
Take, for example, the issue of icebreakers.
1:26:42
We do not have enough icebreakers at this
1:26:44
moment for example in the US or in
1:26:47
many...
1:26:47
Who's this we you're talking about?
1:26:49
Other NATO allies.
1:26:50
This whole issue of the Arctic its geo
1:26:54
-strategic importance but also, of course, the natural
1:26:57
resources there and all the other geopolitical impact
1:27:00
it will have is what he is really
1:27:01
putting on the table and putting high on
1:27:04
the agenda.
1:27:05
But military action sounds like a war between
1:27:07
NATO allies.
1:27:07
He hasn't said that he will invade Greenland.
1:27:09
No, no, he did not say that.
1:27:11
But what he really said is that the
1:27:13
Arctic is of geopolitical and strategic importance.
1:27:17
But Rutte, they don't call him the Trump
1:27:19
whisperer for nothing.
1:27:20
He didn't say he wasn't going to.
1:27:21
Invade Greenland but he didn't rule it out
1:27:24
either.
1:27:24
And then let's go back to Rubio who
1:27:27
did a beautiful blurt cleanup on the Panama
1:27:31
Canal.
1:27:31
You've just come from Panama and you said
1:27:34
that your meetings in Panama went well.
1:27:36
After them, President Trump said that we're going
1:27:38
to take the canal back or something very
1:27:41
powerful is going to happen.
1:27:43
What's going to happen?
1:27:44
That was the blurt.
1:27:45
Or something very powerful is going to happen.
1:27:48
I hope nothing's going to happen and it
1:27:50
shouldn't because look, the President's point is we
1:27:52
gave the canal in a treaty to Panama.
1:27:54
We didn't give it to China.
1:27:55
You come back 20 years later and you
1:27:57
go to the canal and on the entry
1:27:58
points of both sides of the canal is
1:28:01
a Chinese linked company.
1:28:03
In fact, when I was visiting there yesterday,
1:28:04
the ship behind me just over my shoulder
1:28:06
was a Hong Kong shipping vessel.
1:28:08
And so their presence not just in the
1:28:11
canal but in Panama writ large is very
1:28:13
disturbing.
1:28:14
So ridding the presence, their presence could solve
1:28:16
this whole problem?
1:28:17
Well, we didn't give the canal to China.
1:28:19
I mean, it's a violation of the treaty.
1:28:21
What I told President Malino yesterday was that
1:28:24
President Trump made a preliminary determination that there's
1:28:29
a violation of the treaty.
1:28:30
You're in violation of the treaty because a
1:28:32
sovereign other country, a third country, has effective
1:28:35
control over the canal area.
1:28:37
And absent serious measures, we're going to have
1:28:42
to preserve our rights under the treaty.
1:28:44
Now, obviously, there are a lot of options
1:28:46
in that regard.
1:28:47
I think people speculate things but I don't
1:28:49
think we'll ever get to that point and
1:28:50
shouldn't get to that point.
1:28:51
So it's perfect.
1:28:52
He is a Trump whisperer and the solutions
1:28:55
are already taking place.
1:28:56
So we had a very frank conversation.
1:28:58
Since then, they've taken some steps.
1:28:59
They announced that they're going to get out
1:29:00
of the Bolton Road Initiative.
1:29:02
We'd like to see more.
1:29:03
We hope to see more in the days
1:29:04
to come.
1:29:05
You know, the government doesn't control the canal.
1:29:06
It's run by an independent agency, the Canal
1:29:09
Zone.
1:29:10
So they have to go through some legal
1:29:12
steps that they have to carry out.
1:29:13
Yeah, we've got to go through some steps.
1:29:15
Oh, it's working.
1:29:16
It's working.
1:29:17
It's working great.
1:29:18
They got out of the Belton Road thing.
1:29:19
Yes.
1:29:20
That was the kicker.
1:29:21
That was the main point.
1:29:22
And I'm totally convinced that, you know, people
1:29:25
are bitching and moaning about, you know, for
1:29:27
example, Rubio bailed from the G20, upcoming G20
1:29:30
meeting that was just recently announced.
1:29:33
Because they don't, he doesn't like the way
1:29:35
South Africa's acting.
1:29:38
Right.
1:29:38
Which, of course, that's easy enough.
1:29:40
Yeah.
1:29:40
But I still believe that we've decided on
1:29:43
a North-South policy because we can do
1:29:46
what we think we can do in Africa.
1:29:48
And we think what we can do here
1:29:50
and there.
1:29:50
And we have our influence in Europe and
1:29:52
England is what it is.
1:29:53
Yeah, we've got to do South America.
1:29:55
We've got to do South America because the
1:29:56
Chinese are moving into South America.
1:29:58
And this is in our hemisphere.
1:30:00
We're not putting up with it.
1:30:01
And Rubio speaks Spanish.
1:30:04
I got a, I got another blurt.
1:30:06
Here's another blurt, which is a boomer blurt.
1:30:09
This is a boomer blurt.
1:30:10
I caught it.
1:30:11
Let's see if you catch it.
1:30:12
We're telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare
1:30:16
earth.
1:30:17
We want what we put up to go
1:30:20
in terms of a guarantee.
1:30:22
We want a guarantee.
1:30:23
We want, we're handing them money, hand over
1:30:25
fist.
1:30:26
We're giving them equipment.
1:30:27
European is not keeping up with us.
1:30:29
They should equalize.
1:30:31
And look, we have an ocean in between.
1:30:33
They don't.
1:30:34
It's more important for them than it is
1:30:35
for us.
1:30:36
But they're way below us in terms of
1:30:38
money.
1:30:39
And they should be paying at least equal.
1:30:43
They should really be paying much more than
1:30:44
us.
1:30:45
But let's say equal to us.
1:30:46
And they're billions and billions of dollars below.
1:30:50
So we're looking to do a deal with
1:30:52
Ukraine where they're going to secure what we're
1:30:55
giving them with their rare earth and other
1:30:58
things.
1:30:58
So I kept hearing rare earth.
1:31:01
And I'm like, I can't help but go
1:31:02
back to 1973.
1:31:05
Yeah, baby.
1:31:06
Look out, baby.
1:31:08
Because here I come.
1:31:11
Is Trump thinking rare earth minerals, but he's
1:31:13
confusing it with the band Rare Earth?
1:31:16
I don't think so.
1:31:19
But when it comes to Europe, Europe is
1:31:22
rolling the dice and they're doing some very,
1:31:25
I think they're making very dangerous moves because
1:31:28
all the 27 member states got together and
1:31:31
said, yeah, we don't need America.
1:31:33
We don't we don't need Trump's military protection.
1:31:36
The European Union is aiming to strengthen its
1:31:39
defense capabilities, requiring an estimated investment of around
1:31:43
500 billion euros over the next decade.
1:31:47
That's 50 billion a year.
1:31:50
We do 800, we do 800, 900 billion
1:31:53
a year.
1:31:54
Spending has grown by 30 percent since 2021.
1:31:57
But in the current geopolitical climate, the bloc
1:32:00
believes this is not enough.
1:32:02
On Monday, the EU 27 met to explore
1:32:04
new ideas with the aim of incorporating some
1:32:07
into a future European Commission document.
1:32:10
When you ask what the leaders want in
1:32:13
the white paper, certainly white paper for these
1:32:17
three levels, how to create fiscal space, fiscal
1:32:21
space, how to create common funds to common
1:32:25
projects.
1:32:27
And finally, how to mobilize private financing to
1:32:31
strengthen our defense industry, creating more fiscal space
1:32:36
or, in other words, relaxing the economic rules
1:32:39
that force countries not to take on too
1:32:41
much debt is one of the main ideas
1:32:43
on the table.
1:32:44
The key to this lies with the European
1:32:46
Commission, which could allow countries to spend more
1:32:49
on defense.
1:32:50
Come on, Queen Ursula.
1:32:51
For extraordinary times, it is possible to have
1:32:55
extraordinary measures, also in the Stability and Growth
1:32:58
Pact.
1:32:58
And I think we live in extraordinary times.
1:33:00
So we will look as a commission deeper
1:33:03
into using much more flexibilities.
1:33:06
They are optional, possible with the Stability and
1:33:08
Growth Pact for defense investment and defense expenditures.
1:33:14
At a time when relying on allies is
1:33:16
crucial, the EU 27 gathered at a summit
1:33:19
alongside their partners, including UK Prime Minister Kia
1:33:23
Starmer and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
1:33:26
Rutte is there to say, you guys are
1:33:28
crazy.
1:33:29
You're crazy.
1:33:30
What are you doing?
1:33:30
You can't do this.
1:33:33
You know, the next tariff is going to
1:33:35
be on the EU, and it's going to
1:33:37
be ugly.
1:33:38
Because they don't make anything anymore.
1:33:40
Some German car is fine.
1:33:42
Whatever.
1:33:43
What else do they make?
1:33:46
Machine tools for one.
1:33:49
They do a lot of precision things.
1:33:53
Electronics.
1:33:55
Siemens is a big company.
1:33:58
Anyway, the world is in turmoil.
1:34:00
I'm actually kind of enjoying our last four
1:34:03
years.
1:34:04
This is kind of fun.
1:34:06
It's going to be a good four years.
1:34:09
The way you said it there sounds like
1:34:09
the world is going to blow up in
1:34:11
four years.
1:34:13
When we're gone, it might as well.
1:34:16
What are people going to do?
1:34:19
Oh, man.
1:34:20
Where do you want to go?
1:34:22
We should probably do one.
1:34:25
Maybe just a quick...
1:34:27
Let me get this out of the way,
1:34:29
since it was part of the earlier presentation
1:34:31
about the battle at the Treasury Department.
1:34:32
This is about the lockout.
1:34:34
Yes, the lockout.
1:34:36
Congress wanted to go in.
1:34:37
The Muscovites.
1:34:41
The Muscovites.
1:34:43
Another good one.
1:34:44
I like it.
1:34:45
The Muscovites, the kids, the children, those kids,
1:34:52
they got into the Treasury Department computers because
1:34:56
they're computer guys.
1:34:58
And they started finding all these...
1:35:00
This was because USAID overshadowed this, but they
1:35:04
found that the Treasury Department is handing out
1:35:07
checks to dead people, handing out checks to
1:35:10
companies that folded in 98.
1:35:13
These checks are going out.
1:35:15
And so everyone's all bent out of shape
1:35:17
about them getting in there.
1:35:18
They made a big stink about it.
1:35:21
Congress wanted to go in, but the Secret
1:35:22
Service kept them out.
1:35:23
This is battery...
1:35:24
Battle.
1:35:25
Batter.
1:35:26
Batter.
1:35:26
Battery.
1:35:27
Battle at Treasury Department Lockout.
1:35:30
The Secret Service rebuffed a group of congressional
1:35:33
Democrats who tried to gain entry to the
1:35:35
Treasury building yesterday.
1:35:36
They said that they wanted to provide oversight
1:35:38
after the Department of Government Efficiency gained access
1:35:41
to the Treasury's federal payment system.
1:35:44
It is time for us to shine.
1:35:46
It is time for us to be heard.
1:35:48
It is time for us to make sure
1:35:50
that they know we will not go.
1:35:54
Oh, you want to use our money to
1:35:57
go to Mars?
1:35:58
No.
1:35:59
We want to use our money right here
1:36:02
in Washington, D.C. We have to fight
1:36:04
this in the Congress.
1:36:05
We have to fight this in the streets.
1:36:07
Elon Musk is here to collect on his
1:36:11
investment.
1:36:13
He is here to seize power for himself.
1:36:18
We are here to fight back.
1:36:22
And everyone went home.
1:36:26
Yeah, we're all angry, but well, as long
1:36:29
as I get my check on the 18th
1:36:30
of the month, I'm okay.
1:36:31
Then Elon can do it.
1:36:32
There is a legitimate concern here in general,
1:36:36
which I don't want to pass over, and
1:36:39
that is the technocracy, the tech bros coming
1:36:44
in and replacing things with systems.
1:36:47
You know, I think there's No, I'm not
1:36:48
going to argue with you at all.
1:36:50
Yeah, a legitimate concern that we don't want
1:36:52
Palantir running too many things.
1:36:54
In the end, there's a privacy issue at
1:36:56
play.
1:36:57
Well, I mean, I think it's kind of
1:36:58
laughable.
1:36:59
Elon Musk has your social security number.
1:37:02
Elon Musk has a lot more about you
1:37:04
than yours.
1:37:05
And you willingly give it to him.
1:37:06
You willingly give it to Facebook.
1:37:08
Anyone who's on Facebook has no reason to
1:37:11
complain about anything.
1:37:12
Exactly.
1:37:13
And I'm not, by the way.
1:37:15
Battle at Treasury Department 2.
1:37:17
The lawmakers argue that the Doge run by
1:37:20
Elon Musk has what they call dangerous access
1:37:23
to federal payment systems.
1:37:25
Treasury officials insist the access is read only.
1:37:29
Democrats at the protest called the Doge a
1:37:31
power grab and pledged legal action.
1:37:34
I love the read access.
1:37:36
They can always read access only.
1:37:40
And I think the interesting thing on that
1:37:42
little clip there was that they're promising legal
1:37:45
action.
1:37:45
These guys are moving so at breakneck speed
1:37:49
from agency, from here to there, to here
1:37:51
to there.
1:37:52
The legal system, this shows you the flaw
1:37:55
in the system.
1:37:57
They can't by the time they got an
1:37:59
order, they're already off at someplace else.
1:38:04
Trump has gone nuts when it comes to
1:38:06
speed.
1:38:07
I don't know what your AOC on Musk
1:38:10
clip is, but I'm sure it's laughable.
1:38:12
Can we play it?
1:38:13
Well, this is the classic.
1:38:14
Yeah, well, there's two things about Musk.
1:38:16
We're going to play that clip yet, but
1:38:18
play the prelude, which is play the anti
1:38:21
-Musk bill proposed.
1:38:23
Meanwhile, on the side of the Democrats, lawmakers
1:38:26
want to prevent special government employees from accessing
1:38:29
government information.
1:38:31
This is mostly to stop Elon Musk's Department
1:38:33
of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing any
1:38:36
sensitive data on U.S. individuals.
1:38:38
Top Democrats say Musk is rapidly consolidating control
1:38:42
over large swaths of the federal government, with
1:38:45
Trump's blessing.
1:38:46
They're arguing that Musk is sidelining career officials,
1:38:50
gaining access to sensitive data, and more.
1:38:53
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out the
1:38:55
goals of the bill.
1:38:56
Our bill aims to do a few simple
1:38:59
things.
1:39:00
One, to deny access to special government employees,
1:39:05
employees that don't have to disclose their conflicts
1:39:08
of interest or any other ethic agreements.
1:39:11
Two, to deny access to anyone with conflicts
1:39:14
of interest or lack of appropriate clearance.
1:39:17
And three, include personal tax information into existing
1:39:21
privacy protections.
1:39:22
We call our legislation Stop the Steal.
1:39:26
Stop the Steal.
1:39:27
Whoa, so smart.
1:39:29
So smart.
1:39:30
I love that.
1:39:32
What an idiot.
1:39:33
The Secret Service is, in fact, technically responsible
1:39:35
for the security of the U.S. dollar,
1:39:38
I believe.
1:39:39
Yeah.
1:39:40
That's their responsibility.
1:39:41
It's not just to protect people, but also
1:39:43
to protect the money.
1:39:44
So, makes sense.
1:39:45
All right, now the AOC clip.
1:39:47
I don't want to spike the ball on
1:39:49
this, but this is an example of...
1:39:53
because you did it last, so I get
1:39:54
to do it now.
1:39:56
This is an example of taking a crappy
1:39:57
clip.
1:39:58
She's doing all these TikTok clips, and they're
1:40:02
terribly miked.
1:40:03
So, when you run it through Adobe, this
1:40:06
is what Adobe's good for, taking the echo
1:40:08
out.
1:40:08
So, this is the best anyone will ever
1:40:10
hear.
1:40:10
This clip's been going around, but this is
1:40:12
the best quality you're going to ever hear
1:40:14
of it.
1:40:14
Here we go.
1:40:15
This dude is probably one of the most
1:40:18
unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen
1:40:21
or witnessed.
1:40:25
Hold on a second.
1:40:26
Stop the clip.
1:40:26
Stop the clip.
1:40:27
She says this dude is one of the
1:40:29
dumbest billionaires I've ever met.
1:40:32
Then she changes it and listen to it.
1:40:33
Start it over.
1:40:34
Because I don't think she's ever met him.
1:40:37
No, you're right.
1:40:38
So, she changes gears and says, I mean,
1:40:41
I've ever seen...
1:40:42
You can see it for yourself.
1:40:43
Listen carefully.
1:40:45
This dude is probably one of the most
1:40:48
unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen
1:40:52
or witnessed.
1:40:56
Which, you know, you can probably even glean
1:40:59
that from watching these people on TV.
1:41:01
Anyways, all of that is to say is
1:41:04
that they don't do their homework.
1:41:06
Clearly, they're putting 19-year-olds in at
1:41:10
the treasury.
1:41:11
This dude is not smart.
1:41:12
How old was she when they put her
1:41:14
when she did her audition?
1:41:17
I'm a little tired of the, these are
1:41:19
19-year-olds.
1:41:20
19-year-olds are given an M1 and
1:41:24
you can go receive lead in desert places
1:41:27
where you've sent them.
1:41:29
Now, a 19-year-old is no good?
1:41:31
I'm a little sick of that.
1:41:32
And the danger in the lack of intelligence
1:41:38
and the lack of expertise that Elon has.
1:41:42
I mean, this guy is one of the
1:41:44
most morally vacant but also just least knowledgeable
1:41:53
about these systems that we really know of.
1:41:57
But the point is that what that means
1:42:01
is that they're going to hit a button.
1:42:04
A button?
1:42:05
Inevitably.
1:42:07
They are going to hit a button and
1:42:08
things can go sideways.
1:42:10
They're going to hit a button?
1:42:11
A button?
1:42:12
You know, just back to your north-south
1:42:15
strategy, I think you're spot on.
1:42:16
And I think Venezuela is going to be
1:42:18
in play.
1:42:19
I got a note from the oil baron.
1:42:22
Now, apparently, the guy advising our president on
1:42:27
drill baby drill is Keith Kellogg, who is
1:42:32
now the special envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
1:42:35
And he came out in oil circles and
1:42:41
said, global producers should try slashing oil prices
1:42:46
to $45 a barrel to pressure Russia into
1:42:50
ending the war with Ukraine.
1:42:52
There is no way you can't go to
1:42:55
$45 a barrel.
1:42:58
Saudi Arabia, I don't think, can even go
1:43:00
to $45 a barrel.
1:43:02
And now other advisers...
1:43:03
That's not true.
1:43:06
Well, I mean, of course, anybody can go
1:43:09
to $45 a barrel.
1:43:10
We talked about this in the show a
1:43:13
decade ago.
1:43:15
Saudi Arabia supposedly can make money at $20.
1:43:18
Right, but that was a decade ago.
1:43:20
I mean, the dollar has changed in value.
1:43:23
So, I think it's tight.
1:43:25
Let me put it that way.
1:43:26
I think it's tight.
1:43:28
But it's doable.
1:43:29
Well, according to the oil baron, Saudi Arabia
1:43:33
would struggle to generate enough revenue to pay
1:43:36
for social services, monthly payments to citizens, and
1:43:39
big infrastructure projects.
1:43:41
It will need about $90 a barrel this
1:43:43
year to balance its budget, according to the
1:43:47
oil baron and his sources.
1:43:49
Now, the companies have said, the West Texas
1:43:53
oil producer...
1:43:55
But what are they doing about the fact
1:43:56
that it's floating around $65-70?
1:43:58
Well, they like it there.
1:44:00
But...
1:44:01
They like it there.
1:44:01
I thought they needed $90 to get by.
1:44:04
I'm just telling you.
1:44:05
I'm not making this up.
1:44:06
I'm not pulling it from USA Today.
1:44:09
Okay, well, keep talking.
1:44:10
Don't pay attention to the man behind the
1:44:13
curtain.
1:44:13
Companies are no longer pursuing growth at all
1:44:16
costs, is what the West Texas oil consortium
1:44:22
is saying.
1:44:23
Longer term, advisors are saying Trump's support of
1:44:26
US oil and gas, including scrapping environmental regulations,
1:44:30
will make the sector more appealing to investors,
1:44:32
but it's going to take a little bit
1:44:33
of time and they need to find some
1:44:35
other sources in the meantime.
1:44:39
And I'm thinking we need to get some
1:44:41
of that from South America.
1:44:42
That was not in the briefing I got,
1:44:45
but there's no drill baby drill at this
1:44:48
point in time.
1:44:49
So he's going to have to figure out
1:44:50
some other way to lower energy costs.
1:44:58
Well, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of
1:45:01
possibility to do a deal with Maduro, who
1:45:05
seems to have a pretty good handle on
1:45:08
his power base.
1:45:11
Yeah, I think so.
1:45:15
You know, and they have a huge their
1:45:21
reserves off the coast of Venezuela is one
1:45:25
of the biggest in the world.
1:45:27
They got the goods.
1:45:28
They got the goods.
1:45:30
The Doge concept and cleaning up, and this
1:45:34
will actually take us into thanking some people,
1:45:36
because I've gotten a lot of notes on
1:45:38
why we're no longer hearing from the UK
1:45:42
and Australian donors.
1:45:45
We got a lot of notes.
1:45:46
Yeah, I got quite a few.
1:45:47
I mean, on Australia, the main one I
1:45:49
get is, A, we're afraid to donate to
1:45:51
end to your podcast because we'd go to
1:45:55
jail.
1:45:56
I heard that from the UK.
1:45:59
And too broke is another one.
1:46:01
They don't need to be on a list.
1:46:03
They don't want to be on a list.
1:46:05
And I like the one from the UK.
1:46:06
It's like, people are leaving the UK.
1:46:09
Anyone with the means and ability to get
1:46:11
out is getting out.
1:46:13
And a lot of them are going to
1:46:14
Dubai.
1:46:15
People try to go to Portugal, but Spain
1:46:18
and Portugal, they're starting to impose huge extra
1:46:22
taxes on buying a home there if you
1:46:25
have non-EU residents, which the UK is.
1:46:29
But in Australia, Australia, here's Senator Malcolm Roberts
1:46:35
who's like, hey, this is a good plan.
1:46:38
And his team have made a huge start
1:46:40
on putting the cleaners through US government waste,
1:46:43
some of which appears criminal and seditious in
1:46:46
nature.
1:46:47
President Trump has withdrawn the USA from the
1:46:49
World Health Organisation, the World Economic Forum, and
1:46:52
climate change, tyranny and fraud.
1:46:55
Moves One Nation has advocated for 20 years.
1:46:58
Executive orders have destroyed WOKE, DEI and transgender
1:47:02
ideology, while reaffirming support for gay, lesbian and
1:47:05
bisexual Americans.
1:47:07
Again, One Nation policy.
1:47:09
President Trump is not a threat to democracy
1:47:11
here or in the United States.
1:47:13
He is a threat to the Greens, who
1:47:15
are watching the pushback to their neo-Marxist
1:47:17
identity politics.
1:47:20
Their toxic ideology is rightly being dispatched to
1:47:23
the history's sewers.
1:47:25
President Trump did not start the pushback against
1:47:27
WOKE ideology.
1:47:29
Australia did.
1:47:30
When everyday Australians rejected the voice proposal.
1:47:34
And as Irish did when they rejected the
1:47:38
fragmentation of their families in a referendum there.
1:47:42
President Donald Trump's actions are in accord with
1:47:45
One Nation policies.
1:47:47
And of that we're very, very proud.
1:47:51
Trump puts America first.
1:47:54
One Nation proudly puts Australia first.
1:47:58
Good luck.
1:47:59
Good luck.
1:48:00
Hey, what are we drinking?
1:48:02
Well, now that you mention it, I'm drinking
1:48:05
Cascade Ice Organic with a USDA stamp.
1:48:10
Organic Pomegranate Mango Caffeinated Seltzer.
1:48:14
And with that, I'd like to thank you
1:48:16
for your courage to say in the morning
1:48:17
to you, the man who put the C
1:48:18
in the Cascade horrible drink that is approved
1:48:20
by the USDA.
1:48:21
Say hello to my friend on the other
1:48:23
end, the one, the only, Mr. John C.
1:48:26
DeMoraire!
1:48:28
Yeah!
1:48:29
In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Crails.
1:48:30
In the morning, ship C, boostin' ground feedin'
1:48:32
the air subs in the water to the
1:48:33
dames and the knights out there.
1:48:34
In the morning to the trolls hangin' out
1:48:36
in the troll room.
1:48:37
Let me count you, don't move.
1:48:38
Here we go.
1:48:45
2157 is our peak.
1:48:47
So that again, we're up.
1:48:49
I'm not hugely up, but we're up.
1:48:52
It's the Trump bump.
1:48:55
It's the burp bump.
1:48:57
That's what it is.
1:48:58
The Trump burp bump.
1:48:59
Blurt.
1:49:00
Sorry, not burp.
1:49:01
Blurt.
1:49:01
Blurt.
1:49:01
I like the blurt.
1:49:02
I think the blurt is a good concept.
1:49:06
I think it's gonna be a theme.
1:49:07
I think it has legs.
1:49:09
It has legs.
1:49:11
Thank you very much, trolls.
1:49:13
We love seeing you here.
1:49:14
I saw we had a new troll in
1:49:16
there.
1:49:16
He's like, hey, first time I can listen
1:49:17
live.
1:49:18
All right, good.
1:49:19
A new troll.
1:49:21
Yeah, we got new trolls.
1:49:23
It's good to have new trolls.
1:49:24
You know, it mixes it up a little
1:49:25
bit.
1:49:26
And immediately they go, well, you know, it's
1:49:28
really good, you know, because we can say
1:49:30
stuff here in the troll room, and sometimes
1:49:31
Adam's mentioned on the show, but you might
1:49:33
get kicked out.
1:49:33
He might kick you.
1:49:35
I kick one guy out once every three
1:49:37
months.
1:49:38
Just for kicks, honestly.
1:49:41
No surprise it's that high.
1:49:42
You did one last week.
1:49:44
That was the one.
1:49:45
That was the one.
1:49:45
My one time this quarter.
1:49:47
The trolls are listening live through trollroom.io.
1:49:50
I just renewed that domain name.
1:49:53
Or, of course, and I recommend this, I
1:49:55
was seeing Sam Tripoli was crying on Twitter.
1:50:00
Who's Sam Tripoli?
1:50:02
Oh, the Tinfoil Hat podcast.
1:50:03
We played him before.
1:50:05
Oh, right.
1:50:05
Sam Tripoli.
1:50:07
And he was crying like, I think I'm
1:50:09
getting screwed.
1:50:10
You know, my show hasn't showed up on
1:50:12
Apple for like nine hours.
1:50:15
I'm like, Sam, it's the wrong app, man.
1:50:18
That's the problem.
1:50:19
Now, if it doesn't show up on Spotify,
1:50:21
they may have taken it down.
1:50:23
Spotify reserves that right and does it daily.
1:50:25
They take down episodes, entire podcasts.
1:50:28
Yeah, they are the worst.
1:50:30
And Apple, you know, I just don't think
1:50:31
there's enough investment of the app.
1:50:34
It's not a profit center for Apple, so
1:50:36
they have a small team.
1:50:37
They're a dedicated team, but sometimes stuff goes
1:50:40
wrong.
1:50:40
Now, if you take a modern podcast app,
1:50:43
oh, boy, 90 seconds.
1:50:45
So you need to tell your audience to
1:50:46
use a modern podcast app, like we tell
1:50:48
ours at podcastapps.com.
1:50:51
Now, another thing you can consider is to
1:50:54
run the value for...
1:50:55
You know, someone...
1:50:57
Sir...
1:50:57
Hold on a second.
1:50:58
Let me grab it here.
1:51:01
I was sent a book to the PO
1:51:03
box.
1:51:05
A book?
1:51:05
You got a book?
1:51:06
Yes, I got a book.
1:51:07
It was from Sir Julian, the Duke of
1:51:09
Bastrop.
1:51:11
Remember?
1:51:12
Sir Julian is the one who gave us
1:51:15
Phoebe.
1:51:16
And this book is from 1990.
1:51:21
And it's Confessions of an Interant Fundraiser.
1:51:29
The book is called...
1:51:30
Itinerant.
1:51:30
There you go.
1:51:31
What does itinerant mean?
1:51:34
You know, a guy floats around.
1:51:36
He's floating around.
1:51:37
I'm an itinerant podcaster.
1:51:40
Yeah, do a podcast here or there.
1:51:43
I don't care.
1:51:44
I'm on the road, roaming around, getting a
1:51:47
job.
1:51:47
I get a job here, I get a
1:51:49
job there.
1:51:49
It doesn't matter.
1:51:50
Gee, sounds a lot like people who work
1:51:52
in the patch.
1:51:57
John hated, hated Landman.
1:52:02
You hated it, and you hated it so
1:52:04
much you wrote an entire treatment.
1:52:07
I wrote an essay.
1:52:08
I mean, Brunetti even emailed it to me
1:52:11
and said, Oh my God, look at this.
1:52:13
I sent him a copy, sent you a
1:52:16
copy, and then I posted it on Twitter.
1:52:18
I know.
1:52:19
I responded with, Okay, Boomer.
1:52:21
That's fine.
1:52:21
You didn't like it.
1:52:23
Fine.
1:52:23
Anyway, the book is titled Value for Value.
1:52:28
Confessions of an Itinerant Fundraiser.
1:52:31
Yeah, now it's kind of a...
1:52:33
I have to look through it.
1:52:36
But it seems like a lot.
1:52:37
It's like, how many pages here?
1:52:38
300 pages.
1:52:40
Let me explain you Value for Value in
1:52:41
one paragraph.
1:52:44
We give you this show completely free of
1:52:46
advertising, hassles, special freemium offers.
1:52:52
There's no plus bundle.
1:52:53
There's no subscriptions.
1:52:55
You just go ahead.
1:52:57
I love the plus bundle.
1:52:59
By the way, that was another book.
1:53:01
Someone didn't send us the book, but sent
1:53:03
us a picture of the NPR Startup Guide
1:53:06
to Podcasts.
1:53:07
Yeah, we have to get a copy of
1:53:09
this.
1:53:09
I desperately need a copy because they're the
1:53:12
guys that went broke doing podcasts.
1:53:15
Yeah.
1:53:16
Here's what not to do.
1:53:19
Get a copy from Mimi and then just
1:53:22
copy it and then put my name on
1:53:24
it.
1:53:24
It'll be a success.
1:53:25
I guarantee it.
1:53:26
It probably has everything in there that's right,
1:53:28
except for you need a Neumann microphone.
1:53:31
The Neumann mic will break you.
1:53:33
It will, time and time again.
1:53:35
Instead of all that, we just ask you
1:53:37
to return value to us in one of
1:53:40
three ways, time, talent, or treasure.
1:53:42
We've got a lot of time and talent.
1:53:43
A lot of people providing us with boots
1:53:45
on the ground, with clips, with ideas, with
1:53:48
feedback.
1:53:49
Everybody is a specialist in one area.
1:53:53
It may be that you drive a truck
1:53:56
in a certain region and have something there.
1:53:58
Maybe you work in a certain factory.
1:54:00
We have doctors, dentists.
1:54:02
We have lots of military, law enforcement, pilots.
1:54:07
I'm always amazed how many people work in
1:54:09
government who are clearly all pretty disgruntled.
1:54:14
We have a broad range of people that
1:54:17
have caught on to this show.
1:54:19
Yes, and we love you for that.
1:54:23
Now, we also need to pay our bills,
1:54:25
so we love when people send us value.
1:54:28
But before we do that, let's thank some
1:54:31
of the people who sent us some time
1:54:34
and talent in the form of artwork.
1:54:38
We pick a piece of art from noagendaartgenerator
1:54:44
.com, another fine example of value for value
1:54:46
being returned to us.
1:54:47
Thank you, Sir Paul Couture.
1:54:49
We have many pieces to choose from, certainly
1:54:52
in this peak AI moment that we're living
1:54:56
in.
1:54:57
We use that for the cover art, but
1:54:59
a lot of these pieces are used in
1:55:02
the modern podcast apps with chapter images.
1:55:05
I think people enjoy being highlighted there as
1:55:08
well, but there can only be one that
1:55:09
is chosen for the cover art.
1:55:10
In this case, it was Capitalist Agenda, and
1:55:13
I'm pretty sure this was not an AI
1:55:14
piece.
1:55:15
This looks like Capitalist Agenda.
1:55:17
This is one of his classic pieces.
1:55:20
That was for episode 1735.
1:55:22
We titled it Old Bag, and this was
1:55:25
like a nuclear launch button with two keys
1:55:31
with little dog tags, Curry and Dvorak, so
1:55:34
we got our names in.
1:55:35
He even snuck in an ITM on the
1:55:37
red, yellow, green button at the top, and
1:55:40
the big red button for launch was Tariff
1:55:44
Podcasts, 33%.
1:55:45
And we liked it, and there were other
1:55:47
contenders, but this was the one that we
1:55:49
liked the most, and I'm pretty sure it
1:55:50
was not AI.
1:55:50
It was one other one that we thought
1:55:53
was good.
1:55:55
Well, there were a couple.
1:55:55
Well, you did like the blue acorns farm
1:55:59
of what's in your mouth.
1:56:02
I said, we can't post it, but I
1:56:04
certainly liked it.
1:56:06
Now, the one that became the one I
1:56:09
liked at first and you liked, and we
1:56:11
both kind of liked, but you spotted the
1:56:12
fact that it had hallucinations.
1:56:16
AI hallucinations was the Let's Play LEGO AI
1:56:19
piece done by Darren O'Neill, and from
1:56:22
a distance, it's like, oh, that's a cool
1:56:24
LEGO podcast studio, but the minute you look
1:56:26
at it, this thing was wrong in so
1:56:29
many ways.
1:56:29
I mean, none of this LEGO would fit
1:56:32
together.
1:56:32
All the LEGO bumps were distorted.
1:56:35
There's a pop filter floating in midair for
1:56:38
some reason.
1:56:39
That's what got me, because I said, this
1:56:41
is great.
1:56:41
This is the best, because I like some
1:56:43
of these pieces he comes up with, and
1:56:46
then you pointed out the pop filter floating
1:56:48
in air just by itself, and I looked
1:56:51
at that, and I went, ah.
1:56:54
Disqualified the piece, and it was like, and
1:56:57
then I made the point that you have
1:56:58
more OCD than I do.
1:57:00
I don't really have that, because I'm, if
1:57:03
you haven't noticed.
1:57:03
No, I've noticed, yes, I have.
1:57:05
I've noticed in your edits.
1:57:08
Oh, please.
1:57:10
Callback.
1:57:12
And the point is, as soon as you
1:57:16
spotted it, it was one of those things,
1:57:17
once you see it, you can't unsee it,
1:57:20
and I kept seeing that, ah, okay, would
1:57:21
that disqualify the piece?
1:57:23
Yeah, the mixer looked like it was made
1:57:25
in a Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
1:57:28
I didn't have as an issue with the
1:57:30
mixer like you did.
1:57:31
Blobs.
1:57:31
A lot of people did Lego stuff.
1:57:33
We very much like the old bags, but
1:57:35
it doesn't really work.
1:57:37
No, that's not going to work.
1:57:38
I kind of like the will work for
1:57:39
public broadcasting, the blue haired, sad looking kid.
1:57:42
I almost used that for the, ah, I
1:57:44
almost used that for the, ah, newsletter?
1:57:48
Ah, newsletter.
1:57:49
I was going to use that.
1:57:51
The other one, which came in, a late
1:57:53
piece that came in, we should mention, it
1:57:56
came in too late to do.
1:57:58
It was the podcaster, please donate.
1:58:04
That piece came in after we had closed.
1:58:07
But that was a great piece, and I
1:58:09
like pieces for the newsletter that ask for
1:58:14
donations in the art.
1:58:16
So I almost used it, but it was
1:58:17
so kind of depressing looking, I ended up
1:58:20
I decided against it, and I probably lost,
1:58:24
probably lost us a thousand dollars, I'm guessing,
1:58:27
in the donations.
1:58:28
Because it would have worked, you know, it
1:58:30
would have worked.
1:58:31
No, it always works, but I just felt
1:58:33
bad about it because the piece just looked
1:58:34
like pathetic.
1:58:35
So I ended up using We've Landed, by
1:58:38
Gun Monkey, for one reason only.
1:58:41
It's just a pretty piece.
1:58:43
Yes, sometimes it's just a pretty piece.
1:58:45
That's right, sometimes.
1:58:47
Well, we also want to thank everybody who
1:58:49
supported us for this episode, $50 and above,
1:58:52
and at this moment in the show, we'd
1:58:53
like to stop and break for our executive
1:58:55
and associate executive producers.
1:58:57
These are real titles, show business titles you
1:58:59
can use anywhere for as long as Hollywood
1:59:01
exists.
1:59:02
By the way, this being the special donation
1:59:04
segment which people sometimes skip over, they're going
1:59:07
to miss our excellent review of the Grammy
1:59:10
Awards, which you bailed on after, what, ten
1:59:14
minutes, I think?
1:59:15
Oh, it was unwatchable.
1:59:18
Unwatchable.
1:59:19
It was worse than Landman.
1:59:24
Yeah, you got that right.
1:59:30
I tried to set a marker and I
1:59:32
messed it up here.
1:59:33
Hold on a second.
1:59:34
Tina and I watched and just a couple
1:59:38
of observations.
1:59:38
First of all, ratings are down.
1:59:41
Ratings are down almost 10% year over
1:59:44
year.
1:59:45
I will say there was less Satan.
1:59:47
There was no actual Satan segment in this
1:59:50
year's Grammys.
1:59:52
From time to time, there were women But
1:59:55
can I stop you there for a second?
1:59:57
Yeah.
1:59:57
I was thinking about this because I stopped
2:00:00
watching that I kind of looked at an
2:00:02
overview and I looking for some, you know,
2:00:04
just skipped through and there wasn't anything I
2:00:06
just gave up, but I think it's because
2:00:08
of the fires.
2:00:11
They're in LA.
2:00:12
They just had a big fire.
2:00:13
They couldn't put a bunch of fire on
2:00:14
stage.
2:00:15
They couldn't do all the fires.
2:00:16
They couldn't do their normal fire stuff?
2:00:17
It would be triggering.
2:00:20
Now you don't like Trevor Noah hosting that
2:00:23
thing.
2:00:24
Because Trevor Noah to me is a phony.
2:00:27
I used to see Trevor Noah when he
2:00:30
did I didn't see him personally, but I
2:00:31
saw his bits on YouTube when he was
2:00:34
a stand-up comic out of South Africa.
2:00:38
Hilarious.
2:00:38
He did a lot, but he did a
2:00:39
lot of racist material.
2:00:41
Which he should go back to.
2:00:42
He should go back to that.
2:00:43
What's he thinking?
2:00:44
And he was really funny with it.
2:00:45
He was very he was not politically correct.
2:00:48
He went to the Daily Show became the
2:00:51
host and became incredibly stayed and now on
2:00:55
this show he I mean if I was
2:00:57
going to describe him I would describe him
2:00:59
as trying to do his, whatever he was
2:01:02
doing as a host as talking too fast,
2:01:05
acting like you know, if it was somebody
2:01:07
else I'd say he was coked up.
2:01:08
If it was Kamala.
2:01:10
Interesting.
2:01:11
He's brushing through his material nervously.
2:01:15
It just was like it was cringy.
2:01:18
I couldn't watch the show.
2:01:19
It was terrible.
2:01:20
I don't know why they have him as
2:01:21
the host.
2:01:22
What's he got to do with the music
2:01:23
industry?
2:01:24
He did it last year.
2:01:25
He's affordable probably.
2:01:28
I think he's just affordable.
2:01:29
And he gets to double as Bruno Mars.
2:01:33
So they get two for one.
2:01:34
Look just like Bruno Mars.
2:01:35
It was nice to see women in pretty
2:01:39
dresses singing nice songs.
2:01:42
I mean that is the boomer adjacent in
2:01:44
me.
2:01:45
I'm like oh look there's someone who's dressed.
2:01:47
How nice.
2:01:48
Leaning on a piano and singing.
2:01:51
That was kind of impressive.
2:01:53
Will Smith made his comeback as if nothing
2:01:56
had happened.
2:01:57
He did the Quincy Jones segment.
2:02:01
There were a few DEI and trans comments
2:02:04
maybe three or four.
2:02:07
There was a lot more God than usual.
2:02:09
I like that.
2:02:09
I attribute that to President Trump.
2:02:11
We've talked about this.
2:02:13
The president sets the tone.
2:02:15
Like Bill Clinton made certain sexual acts not
2:02:19
sex.
2:02:19
Blowjobs.
2:02:20
It was not sex.
2:02:22
So that became a thing.
2:02:23
It's not sex.
2:02:25
And President Trump's talking more about God.
2:02:27
So that snuck in.
2:02:28
Good, good.
2:02:29
Now the thing that irked me the most
2:02:31
because I don't really watch You watch these
2:02:34
things.
2:02:35
You're a maven.
2:02:36
Yeah I don't really watch.
2:02:38
And there were some really good performances.
2:02:40
I thought the new music, the new artist
2:02:43
segment was outstanding.
2:02:46
But I don't watch a lot of network
2:02:48
television.
2:02:48
Well of course I have news networks on
2:02:50
all the time and I just ignore the
2:02:52
ad breaks but the number of ad breaks
2:02:56
and the first 10 without fail had a
2:03:00
different pharmaceutical product in it that I'd never
2:03:03
heard of before with each name was more
2:03:06
horrible than the previous one.
2:03:08
I've noticed this too.
2:03:09
It was unbelievable.
2:03:11
There's these crazy drugs that they're advertising it's
2:03:13
unbelievable.
2:03:14
They've got to put a stop to this.
2:03:15
And if you don't know what it is
2:03:17
you're like well what is this?
2:03:18
Do I have this?
2:03:19
I don't even know what it is but
2:03:20
it's going to solve it if I have
2:03:22
it.
2:03:22
You couldn't even figure out what the affliction
2:03:24
was that these drugs were for.
2:03:27
It was bizarre.
2:03:27
Have you seen the cartoon ad for Aliquist
2:03:30
or whatever I'm not sure what the drug
2:03:32
was where it's a cartoon it's like for
2:03:36
bipolar it's literally a cartoon of this girl.
2:03:40
I missed that one.
2:03:42
It's an entire cartoon.
2:03:43
It's a cartoon advertisement with a crazy voice
2:03:47
that's like either South African or Australian I
2:03:51
can't even get the accent because it's kind
2:03:53
of awkward so you can't quite understand what
2:03:56
they're saying and especially when they get to
2:03:58
all the contraindications it's like blurred.
2:04:02
The first one that came by a side
2:04:05
effect I kid you not was death.
2:04:07
I saw it on the screen.
2:04:08
That's a lot of them.
2:04:09
Side effect could be death.
2:04:10
Like what?
2:04:12
It's not a side effect.
2:04:14
That's the end.
2:04:16
Your prescription may end because you'll die.
2:04:20
It was unbelievable.
2:04:21
I'm sorry I need to go back to
2:04:22
the art for a second.
2:04:23
We got a beautiful note from the farmer's
2:04:25
wife.
2:04:25
You'll recall that her kids are homeschooled.
2:04:29
She has seven of them I think and
2:04:32
we had questioned why they had the art
2:04:35
of the podcaster with the sombrero.
2:04:38
You talked about this in the last show.
2:04:40
She sent us the note.
2:04:41
We didn't have the note.
2:04:44
No we did.
2:04:44
No we didn't.
2:04:46
Let me read the note.
2:04:48
I don't think we did.
2:04:49
I think we did.
2:04:50
I don't think we did.
2:04:52
Check the date.
2:04:54
I just copy pasted it into my show
2:04:56
notes.
2:04:58
This is worth reading again.
2:05:01
I don't think we read it the first
2:05:03
time.
2:05:04
It was about the online application for podcasters
2:05:07
to be at the White House briefings being
2:05:09
only in Spanish.
2:05:11
That's what gave her the idea for the
2:05:12
art.
2:05:12
But she says, and this is what I
2:05:14
wanted to add, the children are not allowed
2:05:16
to listen to the podcast at this time.
2:05:18
So they only take prompts for me.
2:05:20
She's prompting her kids like they're AI.
2:05:23
We just found out It's not good.
2:05:25
I think they should listen to the show.
2:05:26
I think so too.
2:05:28
But I want to read this.
2:05:29
We just found out I'm pregnant with our
2:05:31
eighth human resource.
2:05:33
God bless you.
2:05:35
We, especially the children, are so excited.
2:05:38
They've been begging for more siblings.
2:05:40
How about that?
2:05:42
In what family?
2:05:43
It's hard to believe the kids are begging
2:05:44
for more kids.
2:05:45
But okay.
2:05:48
She's an American.
2:05:49
She's the farmer's wife.
2:05:50
This is who we used to be.
2:05:51
No, she's the best.
2:05:53
However, she suffers from a very severe morning
2:05:55
sickness called hypermesis gravidarum.
2:05:59
Yes, she's gravidarum.
2:06:00
You barely get out of bed.
2:06:04
Pregnancies cause issues.
2:06:06
Not all the time, but when they do,
2:06:07
it's a major problem.
2:06:09
Well, she wants us to pray, and I
2:06:11
am.
2:06:12
And she says, love the show!
2:06:14
The farmer's wife.
2:06:15
Thank you, farmer's wife.
2:06:16
So now, back to our executive and associate
2:06:18
executive producers.
2:06:19
These are the people who supported us with
2:06:21
$200 or above.
2:06:22
You get an associate executive producer credit for
2:06:25
this episode.
2:06:26
You can use anywhere, including imdb.com, and
2:06:28
we will read your note, as long as
2:06:30
it's not too long.
2:06:31
$300 or above, and you get an executive
2:06:33
producer credit, which you can use anywhere, in
2:06:36
show business land, and we'll read your note.
2:06:37
And we start off with Sir Harrison from
2:06:40
Beaumont, Missouri.
2:06:40
Missouri.
2:06:43
And he wants a Rub-A-Lizer jingle,
2:06:45
which we have to make a decision on
2:06:49
this, because there is a Rub-A-Lizer
2:06:53
you know, there's a Rub-A-Lizer donation.
2:06:55
Are we just going to let people willy
2:06:57
-nilly use that now, or what do you
2:06:59
think?
2:07:00
3-2-1 Rub-A-Lizer?
2:07:02
33-33-33-33?
2:07:03
Yeah, yeah.
2:07:04
I mean, that's just I don't know what
2:07:08
your question is.
2:07:08
Well, so, the 3-3-3 3-3
2:07:12
-3-3.33 donation is a Rub-A
2:07:15
-Lizer donation.
2:07:16
We play the jingle, but can anyone still
2:07:18
request that jingle?
2:07:19
Well, it's just been going on for years
2:07:22
that people have been requesting that jingle, and
2:07:24
we've been playing it.
2:07:25
Okay, that was my question.
2:07:26
Thank you for answering it.
2:07:27
Was that hard?
2:07:28
No, it was pretty easy.
2:07:29
Yeah, it was very difficult.
2:07:31
I had to take time out of my
2:07:32
day.
2:07:34
1-1-1-1, a row of sticks
2:07:36
for Sir Harrison.
2:07:37
He is Commodore Harrison.
2:07:39
Sir Harrison of the Rednecks, checking in, he
2:07:41
says, partial switcheroo to C.
2:07:43
Neal, my Gitmo Nation buddy in a sea
2:07:47
of commies.
2:07:48
Please grant him $500 for his path to
2:07:51
knighthood, and he wants five more years.
2:07:54
India, hang out, Mike.
2:07:57
Standby.
2:07:59
33-33-33.
2:08:02
Rub-A-Lizer out.
2:08:03
So, C.
2:08:04
Neal, you keep track of, you add that
2:08:07
$500 and when you reach knighthood, let us
2:08:10
know.
2:08:11
It's the honor system.
2:08:12
We trust you.
2:08:12
Thank you very much, Sir Harrison.
2:08:14
Commodore Harrison, we appreciate you.
2:08:17
Now we have Sir Saul Hauser in Melbourne,
2:08:22
Florida.
2:08:23
666.66. And he sent in a tax
2:08:27
note.
2:08:27
It's supposed to be 666.66 because it
2:08:29
comes from Wells Fargo Bank letterhead.
2:08:32
No, it doesn't.
2:08:35
It does.
2:08:36
ITM, this is not a satanic donation he
2:08:41
writes, but the handwriting is.
2:08:43
I can tell you that right now.
2:08:46
This is 2 333.33 quarterly donations in
2:08:54
one.
2:08:56
Thank you for all you do.
2:08:58
Sales, karma please.
2:09:01
He's a Wells Fargo advisor.
2:09:07
He's getting everybody some more accounts.
2:09:10
Oh, he's a stock guy.
2:09:12
Wells Fargo advisors tends to be stock market.
2:09:14
I thought they signed you up for more
2:09:15
accounts than you need.
2:09:18
Let's hope those days are over.
2:09:20
Commodore Emeritus Sir Saul Hauser Baronet of the
2:09:25
Space Coast.
2:09:26
Alright.
2:09:27
Down there by Cape Canaveral.
2:09:29
You've got karma.
2:09:32
We move on to Dan Nickisher in Douglasville,
2:09:36
Pennsylvania.
2:09:37
ITM guys, I was hit in the mouth
2:09:38
by Kelly and Michael Day from Fouquet-Varina.
2:09:41
I think I said that right.
2:09:43
Fouquet-Varina, North Carolina, back in July.
2:09:45
I have not missed an episode since.
2:09:47
Outstanding!
2:09:48
Here's my first donation.
2:09:49
Please de-douche me.
2:09:52
You've been de-douched.
2:09:53
And he says he would appreciate some R2
2:09:56
-D2 karma.
2:09:56
You got it.
2:09:58
You've got karma.
2:10:03
Eric Carey in Felton, Pennsylvania.
2:10:08
34375.
2:10:09
Four more years.
2:10:10
Thank you for the service you provide.
2:10:13
This podcast is an absolute treasure.
2:10:16
Treasure.
2:10:16
No agenda has become something my whole family
2:10:20
enjoys.
2:10:20
Please say hello to my smoking hot wife,
2:10:22
Ashley, and my two human resources, Nugget and
2:10:27
Munchkin.
2:10:29
Okay.
2:10:30
Hello, Nugget!
2:10:31
Hello, Munchkin.
2:10:33
Hello, Munchkin.
2:10:34
We get a Rub-A-Lizer.
2:10:36
There you go.
2:10:37
There you go.
2:10:40
Random number theory at work.
2:10:42
You're gonna need a Bitcoin shut-up slave
2:10:45
and a screaming goat.
2:10:46
I look forward to the kids' giggles as
2:10:49
they listen to your samples, sound effects, and
2:10:52
antics.
2:10:52
Antics?
2:10:53
That's our comedic stylings.
2:10:55
That's not antics.
2:10:57
No, thanks again for all you do.
2:10:58
Thank you, Eric J.
2:11:00
Carey.
2:11:02
They're saying that all hell is gonna break
2:11:05
loose, and you're gonna need a Bitcoin.
2:11:07
India.
2:11:10
Standby.
2:11:11
33.
2:11:13
33.
2:11:15
Rub-A-Lizer out.
2:11:17
Shut up, slave!
2:11:19
You've got karma.
2:11:22
All right.
2:11:24
We have Joe Clemons in Tallahassee, Florida.
2:11:28
Long-time listener, first-time donor.
2:11:30
The nature of my business is that I'm
2:11:32
on the inside, or having drinks with people
2:11:35
on the inside, of many of the topics
2:11:36
you cover on the show.
2:11:40
Most of the media coverage I listen to
2:11:42
is subject to the Gell-Mann effect, where
2:11:45
I realize the host, reporter, analyst, or talent
2:11:48
has no idea what's actually going on with
2:11:49
topics I know deeply.
2:11:52
No agenda, however, is a different sort of
2:11:55
content.
2:11:56
You guys have an uncanny ability to analyze
2:11:59
how people think and act in the real
2:12:01
world, and I'm surprised about how correct your
2:12:04
analysis is on the issues I know best.
2:12:08
This gives me confidence that when you talk
2:12:10
about things I know nothing about, your analysis
2:12:13
is solid.
2:12:14
Ah, we fooled him.
2:12:15
Thank you for the twice-weekly dose of
2:12:18
hardcore realism.
2:12:19
What do you think he is, spook?
2:12:22
Uh, he could be an, uh, industrial guy.
2:12:27
Yeah, possible.
2:12:28
Well, anyway, thank you, Joe.
2:12:29
I mean, Tallahassee, I mean, it's not Spook
2:12:31
City there, that's for sure.
2:12:33
I don't know what's going on there.
2:12:34
Well, thank you very much, Joe.
2:12:35
We appreciate it.
2:12:36
Welcome to the party, pal.
2:12:40
Seth Murdoch, Dayton, Washington.
2:12:43
I don't even know where that is.
2:12:45
301.
2:12:46
This donation's actually an excuse to correct Dvorak's
2:12:50
awful tip of the day from months ago
2:12:53
when he recommended the Paper Mate InkJoy pen.
2:13:00
The Zebra F301 is the only choice for
2:13:04
the serious hand scribe.
2:13:07
Simplicity, elegance, and function, and none of that
2:13:11
rubbery crap on the grip.
2:13:13
The science is in.
2:13:16
Don't debate me on this.
2:13:18
Thanks for the show, Seth.
2:13:20
Okay.
2:13:21
I will get a set of Zebra F301s
2:13:25
and give them the once over and find
2:13:27
out.
2:13:27
Now, the Paper Mate InkJoy that I use...
2:13:30
We say Zebra.
2:13:33
Okay.
2:13:33
Zebra.
2:13:34
Zebra.
2:13:35
Zebra.
2:13:37
I'm gonna order one.
2:13:38
I'll get a set of these pens and
2:13:40
see if they're any good.
2:13:40
It has a durable stainless steel barrel.
2:13:44
Wow!
2:13:45
I don't need all that.
2:13:46
The barrel and all the rest of it
2:13:48
doesn't matter.
2:13:49
I was turned on to the InkJoy by
2:13:52
a bank teller.
2:13:53
And it was...
2:13:56
Sorry.
2:13:57
Let me play the commercial.
2:13:59
Play the commercial.
2:14:02
Oh, there's no voiceover.
2:14:04
It's just the pen flipping around.
2:14:05
Okay, sorry.
2:14:06
Yes, you were turned on by the bank
2:14:07
teller.
2:14:07
She said she hated these pens that the
2:14:12
bank had and these are normal ballpoint pens.
2:14:14
She said, I had to use something that
2:14:17
I didn't feel any...
2:14:20
Like there was no effort.
2:14:22
It was effortless to use these pens.
2:14:24
I said, what pen is this?
2:14:25
And so I grabbed a pen from her
2:14:27
and I said, oh, yeah, this is great.
2:14:29
And so that was that.
2:14:31
You grabbed it right out of her hands?
2:14:34
Well, she offered it to me.
2:14:35
Oh, okay.
2:14:37
Check this out, she said.
2:14:42
What's that in your mouth was the next
2:14:44
line, I guess.
2:14:45
Thank you, Seth.
2:14:46
Joseph Stegman is in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Send us a short row of ducks.
2:14:51
222.22. I don't have any note.
2:14:54
Do you have any note for Joseph Stegman?
2:14:55
I have nothing.
2:14:56
This game is a check.
2:14:58
You've got...
2:15:01
karma.
2:15:02
Alright, double up karma for you.
2:15:04
Thank you.
2:15:05
A lot of people are reverting to bank
2:15:07
checks, which is great.
2:15:09
Yes.
2:15:09
Bailey Davies in Courtenay.
2:15:11
Courtenay.
2:15:13
I don't know how to pronounce it, to
2:15:15
be honest about it.
2:15:16
Courtenay.
2:15:17
Courtenay.
2:15:20
In BC, in British Columbia.
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220.
2:15:25
81.
2:15:26
That's...
2:15:27
British Columbia is going to be our 52nd
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state.
2:15:30
ICM, we are in Courtenay on Vancouver Island,
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BC.
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Which is a great place to visit.
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The town of Victoria is one of the
2:15:40
cutest, most picturesque places on the West Coast,
2:15:45
period.
2:15:46
This Canadian dollar redo donation of 333.30
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Okay, well she gets bumped up to 333
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.33. The Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar
2:15:56
is down to tubes.
2:15:57
Australia is down to 61 cents.
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It's from my husband Dan Peruzzo's birthday.
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I heard you guys talking about tariffs and
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Very long overdue.
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I've been freeloading.
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Oh no.
2:18:00
Occasionally sending rude emails since Rogan 1.
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Nice.
2:18:05
Heartfelt thanks for getting me through the lockdowns
2:18:08
and for teaching me to analyze news and
2:18:10
information.
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De-douche.
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You've been de-douched.
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And I could use a job promotion karma
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if such a drop drop exists.
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I've got this.
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Let us know if that helped.
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And there's Eli the Coffee Guy from Bensonville,
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Illinois.
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202.06 Gentlemen, Eli says, last episode you
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said I promote my coffee.
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Wrong!
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I simply suggest people visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and
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use discount code ITM20, but I'm really just
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promoting American entrepreneurship, does it benefit me?
2:18:54
Sure, I've made friends, met fellow producers, and
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along the way, I may have sold a
2:18:59
little coffee.
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I'm just happy I can return value and
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support the best podcast in the universe, I
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love you guys, mean it, stay caffeinated, Eli
2:19:09
the Coffee Guy.
2:19:11
Who said he promotes his coffee wrong?
2:19:14
You did.
2:19:15
Oh no, I know he, oh I said,
2:19:16
no, the way you read it, it's like,
2:19:18
no, he said, last episode, you said I
2:19:21
promote my coffee.
2:19:22
Wrong.
2:19:24
Wrong?
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Yeah, wrong.
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I simply said, okay.
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Yeah, wrong.
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I thought it was, Wrong!
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You promoted your coffee wrong.
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No, no, he has wrong in all caps,
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so I had to do it wrong!
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Shut up, slave!
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Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
2:20:48
How about a few TikTok clips to round
2:20:50
things up?
2:20:51
Ah, why not?
2:20:52
I mean, it's, everything's been kind of, I
2:20:54
mean, can TikTok even compete with the funny
2:20:57
we've been seeing lately?
2:21:00
No, that's why they only have three.
2:21:01
Oh, only three, well, okay.
2:21:05
Let's go.
2:21:06
Okay, well, first let's start with this is
2:21:08
a gay guy.
2:21:11
But this, I'm starting to see a lot
2:21:13
of these clips where the Democrats, in fact,
2:21:15
let me preface this one with the, let's
2:21:19
start with this one instead.
2:21:21
Then we'll go to the gay guy.
2:21:22
This is, I'm hearing a lot of these
2:21:24
clips.
2:21:24
These are Democrats complaining about Democrats complaining about
2:21:28
Trump, and this is a typical one.
2:21:31
This is talk Dem complainer.
2:21:33
So we're still mad about the grocery prices
2:21:34
that didn't come down, even though Trump has
2:21:36
only been in office for a couple weeks.
2:21:38
And now we're mad that Elon Musk has
2:21:39
access to the treasury payments.
2:21:41
But what I want to know is why
2:21:42
aren't we mad about the fact that we've
2:21:43
been auto-paying anybody that asks for money,
2:21:45
even if it's a terrorist group.
2:21:47
You guys are constantly saying that we're the
2:21:48
uneducated side, but why aren't you guys questioning
2:21:50
the fact that the highest ranking treasury official
2:21:52
would rather resign than agree to an audit?
2:21:55
We're so uneducated, but why aren't you guys
2:21:56
putting two and two together about why they
2:21:58
want to sue for Elon having access to
2:21:59
the treasury payments while his team, Doge, is
2:22:01
exposing all the bullshit that our money is
2:22:03
being spent on?
2:22:04
You guys are still pushing grocery prices in
2:22:06
our face, but why aren't you guys upset
2:22:07
over the $4 million that we spend yearly
2:22:09
to prove whether duck quacks echo or not?
2:22:11
Or why aren't you guys upset over the
2:22:12
fact that we spend $5 million a year
2:22:14
on sandwich standards?
2:22:16
I live in New York.
2:22:17
Do you really think that I want my
2:22:18
money going towards a fucking pigeon sculpture while
2:22:20
they're shitting on everything?
2:22:21
And that's not even scratching the surface of
2:22:23
where our money is going.
2:22:24
Apparently, there's 1,200 of these type of
2:22:26
programs.
2:22:27
You mean to tell me that our government
2:22:28
has been spending money on things that have
2:22:29
long expired, one example being from 1998, and
2:22:32
you guys are not mad about that?
2:22:34
You guys are still bitching about grocery prices
2:22:36
and you're bitching about the fact that Elon
2:22:38
Musk is about to stop our money from
2:22:39
being spent on bullshit.
2:22:42
Bullshit programs that we can now argue is
2:22:44
money laundering.
2:22:45
You guys can bitch that I'm spreading conspiracy
2:22:47
all you want to, but there's no fucking
2:22:48
way that I'm gonna be okay with the
2:22:50
fact that there's a cloud-watching program that
2:22:52
my money goes towards.
2:22:53
No, hold on.
2:22:54
Language.
2:22:56
Oh, I said the language is out of
2:22:57
control.
2:22:57
That's an interesting trend you're identifying.
2:23:01
And this is showing up in your algorithm
2:23:03
feed, this is in your feed, it just
2:23:05
pops up, or is people sending these to
2:23:07
you?
2:23:08
I have, I dig these up myself.
2:23:11
I'm not dependent.
2:23:12
Are you searching for them, or?
2:23:14
No, they come up in the feed in
2:23:16
various ways.
2:23:18
That's an interesting trend.
2:23:20
Maybe the Chinese are like, no, let's appease
2:23:24
Trump a little bit.
2:23:25
More complicated than that, but let's go to
2:23:27
the next one.
2:23:28
But by the way, before we go to
2:23:29
the next one, which is the gay guy.
2:23:31
Yes.
2:23:32
You know, Rand Paul, used to, every year,
2:23:37
come before Congress and read a laundry list
2:23:40
of all these stupid programs and all the
2:23:42
same kind of thing that Trump rolled out
2:23:46
as, not Trump, but Musk, rolled out as
2:23:49
scams and a joke.
2:23:52
And Rand Paul's gotten no credit for this.
2:23:55
No, he was the guy.
2:23:56
Rand Paul used to do this all the
2:23:56
time.
2:23:57
Yep, and his dad before that.
2:23:59
Yeah, constantly, but meanwhile, now all of a
2:24:03
sudden, everyone's paying attention.
2:24:06
I just find it weird.
2:24:07
In fact, I might call Paul's office and
2:24:10
find out what's going on, what they think.
2:24:12
Yeah, record the call.
2:24:14
I'm not gonna record the call.
2:24:16
So, now here's, this starts off as some
2:24:19
woman complaining about something, and the gay guy
2:24:23
interrupts.
2:24:25
It's one of those combo clips where somebody's
2:24:28
bitching about somebody else.
2:24:30
And the gay guy interrupts, and he is
2:24:32
another example of what would normally be a
2:24:36
Democrat bitching about Democrats in a very solid
2:24:40
way.
2:24:40
This is a pretty good clip.
2:24:42
Trump supporters, you do not get to be
2:24:44
pissed about what is happening right now without
2:24:46
also admitting.
2:24:47
Oh, God, oh my God, that's sun.
2:24:49
I'm convinced these people are literally delusional, and
2:24:53
they are on heavy drugs.
2:24:57
I don't know a single Trump supporter that
2:24:59
has complained about anything.
2:25:00
This is exactly what we voted for.
2:25:03
100% exactly what we voted for.
2:25:07
And guess what, honey?
2:25:08
As a gay man, I'm glad that we
2:25:10
no longer have to worry about pronouns anymore,
2:25:13
because I didn't know what the fuck that
2:25:14
meant.
2:25:15
As a gay man, I'm happy that you
2:25:18
can only be hired based on merit.
2:25:21
As a child of an immigrant whose parents
2:25:24
came here legally, I'm happy that people now
2:25:28
are being sent back that came here illegally.
2:25:32
So none of us are complaining about anything,
2:25:34
baby.
2:25:35
You're sitting there wondering why we aren't?
2:25:38
We're good over here.
2:25:40
Trump has unleashed the gays.
2:25:44
This is- A lot of black guys
2:25:46
too.
2:25:46
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
2:25:48
Yeah, you know, because Americans ultimately are not
2:25:52
stupid.
2:25:53
We may be slow, but we're not stupid.
2:25:57
Well, some are, and my last clip will
2:26:00
be- And here's an example of one.
2:26:02
So we'll go back to the haters, because
2:26:04
they're still hanging in there.
2:26:06
Not as many as there were, but this
2:26:09
is a, well, you have to visualize this
2:26:11
woman.
2:26:11
She is, I don't know, she's addicted to
2:26:13
red makeup.
2:26:14
Everything, she's got the red lips, she's got
2:26:16
the red eyeliner, she's got red eyeshadow and
2:26:21
red rouge, I mean, she's just red.
2:26:23
It's like, you know, if she had put
2:26:24
any more red on, she'd put a couple
2:26:26
of horns would do the trick, but here's
2:26:29
the classic, in the old sense, I just,
2:26:33
so we know that- No, this is
2:26:34
a throwback.
2:26:35
This is a golden oldie.
2:26:37
It's not an oldie, it's new, but it's
2:26:39
old style.
2:26:40
It's old style.
2:26:41
Every red voter allows themselves to be ignorant
2:26:44
enough to stay guilt-free about what they
2:26:53
voted for.
2:26:54
They don't want to look at the news.
2:26:56
They don't want to pay attention to what's
2:26:58
going on.
2:26:58
They don't want to make statements or comments.
2:27:00
They don't want to denounce anything either.
2:27:02
It's funny, everyone's so quiet.
2:27:04
I used to think there was a difference
2:27:06
between Republicans, Trump supporters and Nazis.
2:27:12
It's not really looking that way anymore.
2:27:15
When your party is being overrun and affiliating
2:27:20
with Elon and no one, you're not saying
2:27:26
anything.
2:27:27
You're not hopping online saying, hey, wait a
2:27:30
minute, this isn't what I voted for.
2:27:31
This isn't what I wanted.
2:27:32
You're all so quiet.
2:27:34
It says a lot.
2:27:36
I think that you need to stay on
2:27:39
the trend of the unleashed gay guys and
2:27:42
Dem complaining about Trump.
2:27:48
I think that's better.
2:27:49
That should be the new beat.
2:27:51
That may be hard to get.
2:27:52
These things happen.
2:27:54
It's just, I'm just a vessel.
2:28:01
A conduit, as it were.
2:28:03
Yes, I understand.
2:28:04
It's divine.
2:28:05
Yes, I understand.
2:28:07
Here is a potential customer for the fabulous
2:28:11
book, Too Many Eggs, available at TooManyEggs.com.
2:28:15
Storing egg prices might be prompting extreme illegal
2:28:18
activity.
2:28:19
Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after 100,000
2:28:23
organic eggs were stolen over the weekend.
2:28:26
Police say it happened Saturday night in Greencastle,
2:28:29
Pennsylvania.
2:28:30
It's about 65 miles southwest of Harrisburg, where
2:28:33
a distribution trailer was parked outside of a
2:28:36
poultry company.
2:28:37
Investigators say the stolen egg shipment is worth
2:28:40
upwards of $40,000.
2:28:43
That's a lot of eggs.
2:28:45
$40,000.
2:28:46
I think $50,000, eggs are going for
2:28:49
a buck around here.
2:28:50
They're stealing the eggs!
2:28:52
They're stealing the eggs.
2:28:54
They're stealing the eggs.
2:28:55
So I had one of our producers about
2:28:57
a month ago saying, there's no eggs anymore.
2:28:59
He went on and on.
2:29:00
I said, there's eggs all over the place,
2:29:02
I said.
2:29:02
And they were at Costco.
2:29:04
But I've noticed he's, maybe we're the last
2:29:07
on the block here or the end of
2:29:09
the line in California.
2:29:11
But Costco, no eggs.
2:29:13
No.
2:29:15
The eggs that I have seen are a
2:29:16
dollar a pop.
2:29:18
Wow.
2:29:19
A dollar an egg?
2:29:21
Yeah, pretty much.
2:29:23
Well, this is the stupid bird flu that,
2:29:25
you know.
2:29:25
That's exactly right.
2:29:27
Yeah, that's exactly right.
2:29:28
They called all these chickens and they jacked
2:29:31
the price of eggs way up for no
2:29:32
good reason.
2:29:33
Luckily, and fortunately, because we had inclement weather,
2:29:37
so the eggs stopped laying up at Jay's
2:29:39
place.
2:29:40
Oh, yeah, they don't like it.
2:29:41
They're like, nope, we're on strike.
2:29:43
We're on strike.
2:29:44
The chickens stopped laying.
2:29:45
I said, what?
2:29:46
And so, I'm not getting the free eggs.
2:29:50
But I hope that cranks back up next
2:29:53
week.
2:29:53
And you have to be careful because, you
2:29:54
know, the chickens will start brooding.
2:29:56
And then if one broods, they'll all brood.
2:29:58
You have to like separate the brooder.
2:30:01
Chickens is more complicated than people.
2:30:04
Now, you don't just throw some chickens in
2:30:05
the backyard.
2:30:06
Like, I got eggs.
2:30:07
No, that's a lot of work.
2:30:08
And that's what I keep telling Tina, who's
2:30:10
like, I want chickens.
2:30:12
No, you don't.
2:30:12
Oh, I see what you're doing.
2:30:13
You're doing your research to prevent Tina from
2:30:15
getting chickens.
2:30:16
Yes, I do not want.
2:30:17
That's the last thing I need.
2:30:18
Because, you know, when some weasel gets in
2:30:20
and there's slaughtered chicken all over the, yeah,
2:30:23
I'm gonna have to go clean it up.
2:30:25
No, I'm not looking.
2:30:26
Yeah, you've got, you're right.
2:30:28
But I think you should still have chickens.
2:30:31
I don't think so.
2:30:32
Now, we have friends who have chickens, which
2:30:34
is like having a friend with a boat.
2:30:35
Oh, if you have friends who have chickens,
2:30:36
you don't need chickens, and you can just
2:30:37
get all the free eggs you want.
2:30:39
That's what I'm saying.
2:30:40
Oh, yeah, definitely.
2:30:41
I have some.
2:30:42
I agree with you now.
2:30:42
I have some big pharma news.
2:30:45
It is baffling.
2:30:46
Now, remember, the Surgeon General came out and
2:30:48
said, oh, you know, you're drinking too much
2:30:51
booze.
2:30:51
The booze is gonna give you cancer.
2:30:53
Gonna kill ya.
2:30:54
Gonna kill ya.
2:30:54
But it's like, they're baffled now because it's
2:30:57
not coming from the booze.
2:30:59
They don't know how, where is the colon
2:31:02
cancer coming from?
2:31:03
It was two years ago when, out of
2:31:05
the blue, this 39-year-old was diagnosed
2:31:07
with colon cancer.
2:31:09
It was a surprise.
2:31:10
It doesn't run in my family.
2:31:12
I was in good health.
2:31:14
Today, Emily Thirion is in remission, but like
2:31:16
her, more and more young people are being
2:31:19
diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer, including colon, pancreatic, and
2:31:23
liver cancer.
2:31:25
Gastrointestinal cancer rates have been on the rise
2:31:28
in patients under 50, and the causes remain
2:31:31
unclear.
2:31:32
In the past, the increase was attributed to
2:31:34
obesity, tobacco, and alcohol intake.
2:31:37
However, new tests are being conducted to find
2:31:39
out what could be behind the recent rise.
2:31:41
What could it be?
2:31:42
Experiments are underway using hair, fat, and blood
2:31:44
samples collected from 300 colon cancer patients.
2:31:49
We're looking for toxins in foods, everything that
2:31:52
may have contaminated it, like packaging.
2:31:55
We also check for traces of antibiotics.
2:31:59
Gastrointestinal cancers account for a quarter of all
2:32:03
new cancer cases and a third of cancer
2:32:06
deaths worldwide.
2:32:07
What could have changed?
2:32:09
What happened?
2:32:09
What changed over the last, say, four or
2:32:12
five years that would account for this?
2:32:14
Something happened, but we can't.
2:32:15
By the way, I love the microplastics now.
2:32:18
It's like, you have the equivalent of six
2:32:22
plastic spoons in your brain.
2:32:23
I have more microplastics in me than I
2:32:26
weigh.
2:32:28
I love the, oh, it's microplastics.
2:32:30
That's what's killing you.
2:32:31
Really?
2:32:33
Really?
2:32:33
At the Sovereign Wealth Fund, don't worry.
2:32:35
They're going to have two billion of these
2:32:36
microplastic causes.
2:32:41
What else could it be?
2:32:42
I have no idea.
2:32:43
I have no idea what it could be.
2:32:45
Interesting.
2:32:46
Well, that's what, hopefully, that's what we'll find
2:32:49
out if Kennedy gets in, but they put
2:32:51
his voting off for a week.
2:32:53
Oh, in advance?
2:32:55
Yeah, they put it in advance, but here's
2:32:57
something I was reading in one of the
2:32:58
newsletters I get.
2:32:59
Mm-hmm.
2:33:02
It's 30-hour stalling.
2:33:05
Who's the guy they've been stalling on the
2:33:07
most to push through as a cabinet member?
2:33:11
Can you, I mean, tell me, I'm going
2:33:14
to tell you who it is, but tell
2:33:15
me if the news medias even discuss this
2:33:18
guy.
2:33:19
Who they've stalled the most?
2:33:21
Yeah.
2:33:24
I don't know.
2:33:25
Who?
2:33:25
Who have they stalled the most?
2:33:26
Russell Vaught.
2:33:28
Well, no wonder.
2:33:30
I'd never- As director of office management
2:33:32
and budget, OMB.
2:33:34
Oh, yeah, they don't want anyone going in
2:33:36
there and looking at payroll.
2:33:38
So the Democrats have stayed in session to
2:33:40
protest the confirmation of Russell Vaught.
2:33:43
This is from Natalie Del Conte, Natalie Morris's
2:33:46
newsletter.
2:33:47
Oh, brother.
2:33:48
She's got a good newsletter.
2:33:50
I don't like the show, but the newsletter's
2:33:52
good.
2:33:53
And became the, he was associated with Project
2:33:56
2025, so they hate him.
2:33:58
Oh.
2:33:59
He wrote the parts of the plan that
2:34:00
had to do with shrinking the federal government
2:34:02
workforce.
2:34:03
Non-government organizations had taken control of the
2:34:05
budget.
2:34:06
There may be something interesting in that organization
2:34:10
that they don't want to come to light.
2:34:12
You know what this is, John?
2:34:15
Season of reveal.
2:34:16
That's what I've been saying.
2:34:17
Season of reveal.
2:34:20
I'm glad you're on board with me.
2:34:22
President Trump also signed an executive order with
2:34:24
great trepidation.
2:34:25
He says he really didn't want to sign
2:34:27
it, but I got to sign this thing
2:34:29
for Iran.
2:34:30
I hope we don't, I hope we don't
2:34:31
have to use it.
2:34:32
I really don't like signing this, but I'm
2:34:34
going to sign it because I have to,
2:34:35
but I don't really want to.
2:34:36
I'm really sad.
2:34:37
And Peter Doocy asks the pre-setup question,
2:34:41
I presume.
2:34:42
Why is Iran happy to sign it if
2:34:44
it's Iran and their proxies who have threatened
2:34:48
to retaliate against you and your team, like
2:34:51
you guys, for taking out Soleimani?
2:34:54
Well, they haven't done that, and that would
2:34:59
be a terrible thing for them to do.
2:35:01
It would be terrible for them to kill
2:35:02
you, yes.
2:35:03
Because of me.
2:35:04
If they did that, they would be obliterated.
2:35:07
That would be the end.
2:35:08
I've left instructions.
2:35:10
If they do it, they get obliterated.
2:35:12
There won't be anything left, and they shouldn't
2:35:15
be able to do it.
2:35:16
And Biden should have said that, but he
2:35:18
never did.
2:35:18
I don't know why, lack of intelligence, perhaps.
2:35:21
But he never said it.
2:35:23
If that happens to a leader, or close
2:35:27
to a leader, frankly, if you had other
2:35:30
people involved also, you would call for total
2:35:33
obliteration of a state that did it.
2:35:35
That would include Iran.
2:35:37
So I'm signing this, and it's a very
2:35:39
powerful document, but hopefully we're not gonna have
2:35:41
to use it.
2:35:42
Now, can a president leave a dead man
2:35:45
switch?
2:35:45
I mean, is that possible?
2:35:47
That, you know, I've left instructions.
2:35:48
If they kill me, then you drop the
2:35:50
nuke on Iran.
2:35:51
Is that even possible?
2:35:54
No.
2:35:55
I didn't think so.
2:35:57
But I thought it was interesting.
2:36:01
Is that another blurt?
2:36:04
No, this was thought out.
2:36:08
We have some interesting news from California.
2:36:14
I don't know if you have kept up
2:36:16
with this.
2:36:17
This is another thing that we've kept up
2:36:21
with over the years on the No Agenda
2:36:24
Show.
2:36:24
New information on California's high-speed rail project
2:36:27
as President Donald Trump calls for an investigation.
2:36:30
The original plan for high-speed rail was
2:36:32
set to take riders from Los Angeles to
2:36:35
San Francisco.
2:36:36
Future plans include connecting Sacramento to the system.
2:36:39
The original cost estimate was $45 billion when
2:36:43
it was pitched to voters back in 2008.
2:36:45
The cost estimate has now swelled to 128
2:36:49
billion at last check with no estimated completion
2:36:52
date.
2:36:53
The project's inspector general told us today that
2:36:56
ongoing risks of delay, including construction delays, because
2:36:59
of continued disagreement with third parties.
2:37:03
All aboard.
2:37:04
Train's good, plane's bad.
2:37:07
Woo-hoo!
2:37:08
We just keep to get using these jingles.
2:37:10
It's fantastic.
2:37:11
That's been going on for what, 10, 12,
2:37:14
14 years now?
2:37:16
It's been forever, it seems.
2:37:17
I got displaced from my home in San
2:37:19
Francisco for it.
2:37:20
Remember that?
2:37:22
For the station.
2:37:22
That's right, well, you got, yeah, because they
2:37:24
were gonna build the, that's right.
2:37:27
Eminent domain.
2:37:27
Might still be in San Francisco.
2:37:29
I don't think so, but yeah.
2:37:31
Well, maybe.
2:37:32
No, I don't think so, maybe, maybe not.
2:37:35
Yes, you were displaced because they were building
2:37:37
the, they build a new Transbay Terminal.
2:37:40
Eminent domain, I was kicked out of Eminent
2:37:43
Domain.
2:37:43
And they're gonna build a new Transbay Terminal,
2:37:45
and in that terminal, we're going to be
2:37:47
the high-speed rail trains underneath the thing.
2:37:50
And of course, they built a new Transbay
2:37:52
Terminal.
2:37:53
They never put the rail into the bottom
2:37:54
of it.
2:37:55
Nope.
2:37:55
And it's just a fiasco, another boondoggle.
2:37:58
Yes.
2:37:59
And yeah, and they took out a bunch
2:38:00
of, a nice bar around where you were,
2:38:02
and your building was pretty cool, and yeah.
2:38:06
Natoma Street doesn't even exist anymore.
2:38:10
Staying in California, Newsom's Inferno.
2:38:12
Looks like State Farm is on the move.
2:38:14
State Farm Insurance is asking California lawmakers to
2:38:17
approve an emergency rate hike.
2:38:19
The company says it has already received around
2:38:22
8,700 claims connected to the LA wildfires,
2:38:26
and the company has paid out more than
2:38:28
a billion dollars.
2:38:29
They're asking for a 22% rate hike
2:38:31
for homeowner policies, a 38% hike for
2:38:36
rentals, and 15% increase for tenants.
2:38:39
The rate hikes, if approved, would start on
2:38:41
May 1st.
2:38:42
State Farm says the hikes would allow them
2:38:45
to rebuild their capital base to continue coverage
2:38:48
in California.
2:38:49
Consumer Watchdog has been critical of the request,
2:38:52
saying State Farm has not provided enough proof
2:38:54
to show it needs money.
2:38:56
The insurance company most recently raised rates by
2:38:59
20% last March.
2:39:01
State Farm is California's largest home insurer, covering
2:39:04
about a million homeowners in the state.
2:39:07
Now, will you be affected by this?
2:39:11
I think we've already been affected by it.
2:39:13
Oh, you raised them already on it?
2:39:14
We do have State Farm, and they were
2:39:17
canceling a lot of policies.
2:39:18
They never canceled ours.
2:39:19
Mimi has found out why.
2:39:21
You're on a hill.
2:39:23
You're on a hill.
2:39:23
You got nothing to worry about.
2:39:24
Well, besides a hill, but no, it's because
2:39:26
we took, I guess there was some sort
2:39:30
of a rider or something that if you
2:39:33
were subscribed to it, which was recommended, then
2:39:35
you were put in a different category and
2:39:38
you weren't messed with.
2:39:39
Pays to have a good woman in your
2:39:41
life.
2:39:41
Yeah, women always do the job.
2:39:44
Yeah.
2:39:44
And so somehow- Women always do the
2:39:49
job, yeah.
2:39:49
They do.
2:39:50
And so somehow, I don't know.
2:39:55
Yeah, you lucked out.
2:39:57
Well, the whole thing is a mess.
2:39:58
Well, there was on KBUR, which is that
2:40:01
an NPR station, I think, KBUR?
2:40:03
Is that Burbank?
2:40:03
Not around here.
2:40:04
No, I think it's Burbank.
2:40:06
Oh, Burbank, it could be.
2:40:06
Yeah, they were talking to some guy, it
2:40:13
was a climate change guy probably, about rebuilding
2:40:17
and how are we going to rebuild?
2:40:20
State Farm says it will renew policies for
2:40:22
people hit by the fires.
2:40:23
The governor says insurance companies cannot cancel plans
2:40:27
for these affected homeowners.
2:40:31
You understand risk.
2:40:33
You also understand why people are sentimental.
2:40:36
Is this a good idea to rebuild in
2:40:38
exactly the same places?
2:40:41
Well, people do have the right to rebuild
2:40:43
in exactly the same places.
2:40:44
The question is, how are they going to
2:40:46
rebuild?
2:40:47
There's a new building code in California that's
2:40:50
supposed to go into effect next year, for
2:40:52
example, that requires electrification.
2:40:54
I think we should take advantage of this
2:40:57
terrible, terrible tragedy and not to minimize in
2:41:01
any way how horrific it is to build
2:41:03
back better.
2:41:05
For a better life, beyond your freedom, build
2:41:09
back better in California, for someone else.
2:41:13
Yeah, build back better.
2:41:15
People are getting ripped off by the electrical
2:41:17
bills in this state.
2:41:19
Gas is a lot cheaper, so let's get
2:41:22
rid of it.
2:41:24
What a mess, what a mess, what a
2:41:27
mess.
2:41:28
I'm sorry you live out there.
2:41:30
I'm sorry, it's just tough.
2:41:33
It's a tough go.
2:41:34
Feel sorry for me, people.
2:41:36
Donate to the No Agenda show, help John.
2:41:39
Yeah, we feel so bad for you.
2:41:40
Now, we'll help you move.
2:41:42
We'll show up with you halls.
2:41:43
I'm not moving anywhere, forget it.
2:41:44
I know, I know, it'd be bad for
2:41:46
the show.
2:41:46
Where am I going to go?
2:41:48
Tennessee?
2:41:49
They love you in Nashville.
2:41:51
I'd be great, I like Tennessee.
2:41:52
I think it's one of the best states.
2:41:54
Arkansas, I think, is the most underrated great
2:41:56
state, but Tennessee's dynamite.
2:41:58
You bring your banjo, they'll love you.
2:42:00
They'll bring the banjo.
2:42:02
Bring the harmonica.
2:42:04
Harmonica, exactly, oh, there it is.
2:42:07
So there's still been a lot of, before
2:42:09
the whole Doge thing, everybody was out there
2:42:12
complaining about Tulsi Gabbard, and everyone gets on
2:42:16
the air, and Panetta, Panetta.
2:42:19
Lou Panetta, what's his name?
2:42:20
Lou Panetta?
2:42:22
The guy, the baseball guy?
2:42:24
No, Panetta, the former CIA director.
2:42:27
What was his first name, Panetta?
2:42:29
Yeah, Panetta.
2:42:30
What was his first name?
2:42:32
I thought it was Lou.
2:42:34
Oh, it's kind of funny.
2:42:37
Leon, Leon Panetta, there we go.
2:42:39
Leon!
2:42:40
Leon Panetta.
2:42:41
So this guy is so toasted.
2:42:43
This is a very short clip.
2:42:45
This is what he said about Tulsi.
2:42:46
Oh, you know, they took his, Leon Panetta,
2:42:49
I think he had his security removed.
2:42:52
Yes, oh yeah, his clearance has been removed.
2:42:54
His clearance.
2:42:55
I think he lost his clearance, lost his
2:42:57
security service protection, and so yeah, I'd be
2:43:00
probably drinking a lot too if I was
2:43:02
him.
2:43:02
But he's, and he's following this very, very
2:43:05
closely because she just cannot be the director
2:43:09
of national intelligence, no way.
2:43:11
Of intelligence information.
2:43:14
And there are three problems with Tulsi Gabbard.
2:43:18
One is that she has absolutely no experience
2:43:20
in intelligence.
2:43:21
He thinks her name is Chelsea Gabbard.
2:43:26
Play that again.
2:43:27
Of intelligence information.
2:43:30
And there are three problems with Chelsea Gabbard.
2:43:35
Chelsea Gabbard.
2:43:36
Yeah, so he's the guy who's gonna give
2:43:38
us expert advice and he can't even get
2:43:41
her name correctly.
2:43:43
I'm gonna show my school by donating to
2:43:45
No Agenda.
2:43:46
Imagine all the people who could do that.
2:43:48
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
2:43:50
Yeah, on No Agenda.
2:43:54
In the morning.
2:43:56
Now a reminder that we have some outstanding
2:43:58
end of show mixes on the way.
2:44:00
A couple of new ones I think you'll
2:44:02
like a lot.
2:44:02
We also have John's tip of the day.
2:44:04
I have a tip of the day today,
2:44:06
so you may wanna hang around for that.
2:44:08
Oh yeah, we got some meetup reports, we
2:44:10
have a nighting birthdays, and John is going
2:44:12
to thank everybody who supported the show this
2:44:15
episode, $50 and above.
2:44:18
Yes.
2:44:19
Yes.
2:44:19
Starting with Sean Ungley in Philadelphia, but actually
2:44:24
this is $170.60, but this is a
2:44:27
switcheroo to phillylocal76.
2:44:29
Oh, okay.
2:44:31
Sean Homan in Noblesville, Indiana, 148.48. Merrick
2:44:40
Bendikowski, Bendikowski, in Warsaw, Poland.
2:44:43
Yay, we got one.
2:44:46
Wow.
2:44:46
Yeah, we got one.
2:44:47
One, two, three, four, five, and again with
2:44:49
some health karma for his dad.
2:44:51
Can you put that at the end, please?
2:44:52
Of course.
2:44:54
A.W. Christensen in Raglan, Queensland, Australia.
2:44:58
There we go, 120 bucks from Australia.
2:45:01
That is probably- That's the one.
2:45:04
That's probably 200 bucks, too.
2:45:05
It should probably be bumped up.
2:45:06
Okay, I will, hold on a second, let
2:45:09
me bump it up.
2:45:10
Bump him up to associate executive producer.
2:45:12
All right, all right.
2:45:15
Russell Rhodes in Tallahassee, Florida, 105.35, and
2:45:19
he's got a birthday call for his son.
2:45:25
Michigan Mad Dog in Mountain Pleasant, Michigan, 102.
2:45:30
Congrats on whatever he says.
2:45:33
John Robinet, $100.
2:45:35
Alexander O'Neill in Mississaugua, Ontario, Canada, and
2:45:41
he's got a very long note.
2:45:42
See if there's anything in here that we
2:45:43
need to do.
2:45:44
Well, he's Canadian, but he's based in Tokyo,
2:45:48
and he wanted to express his thanks to
2:45:50
Dame Astor and Sir Mark for hosting a
2:45:51
great meetup in January.
2:45:53
Connection is definitely protection.
2:45:55
They brought together a very fine group of
2:45:57
people from Tokyo and around the world, and
2:45:58
he's on the birthday list for the third,
2:46:02
so it's a post, it's after the fact,
2:46:06
and he was turned 33, so you're on
2:46:09
the list.
2:46:09
Yeah, another 33-year.
2:46:10
That's right.
2:46:12
Robert G.
2:46:13
MacArthur in Monmouth, Oregon, 100.
2:46:20
He says, this is what a USAID bucks
2:46:23
doesn't look like, donation to the show.
2:46:27
I think Rogan and us are the only
2:46:29
podcast not getting money from USAID.
2:46:34
Everyone's making out on that stuff.
2:46:36
Yeah, or the Russians.
2:46:40
Heather, yeah, no, people should note that, too.
2:46:43
We don't get money from these.
2:46:44
I think once in a while some spook
2:46:46
money shows up as a normal donation.
2:46:48
It's not private spook money.
2:46:49
It's just from their salaries.
2:46:52
Yeah, guys, poor guys.
2:46:54
Heather Hare in Gillette, Wyoming, 100.
2:46:58
Sir Zubat of Windsor in Windsor, Canada, or
2:47:04
no, Windsor, California, right, Windsor, the wine-growing
2:47:07
area.
2:47:08
Wants a little R2-D2 karma at the
2:47:10
end if you can give it to him.
2:47:11
Sir Brath in Lancaster, New Hampshire, 9016.
2:47:20
Patrick Stasiak in Saginaw, Michigan, 8810, and that's
2:47:25
a double nipples on the dime.
2:47:30
50th birthday coming up for him.
2:47:32
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina.
2:47:34
There he is, 8008.
2:47:35
He's the Duke of Luna, Archduke of Luna,
2:47:40
I'm sorry, and lover of American boobs.
2:47:43
He says, my apologies, the title upgrade to
2:47:46
Archduke was approved on show 1491.
2:47:49
Nia Toblowski.
2:47:54
David Kekita in Santan Valley.
2:47:58
Yeah.
2:47:58
And this is the 73 Ham Radio donation,
2:48:01
which I should probably put on the list
2:48:03
as a regular donation.
2:48:04
And David has a end of show mix
2:48:06
today for us, so he donates in time,
2:48:08
talent, and treasure, thank you.
2:48:11
A triple threat.
2:48:12
That's right.
2:48:12
Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, 7227.
2:48:16
Golf Winch in Roanert Park, California, 6777.
2:48:22
Sir Leron in Dothan, Alabama, 6746.
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Bobby Bowe in Bluegrass, Iowa, 6746.
2:48:33
There's a birthday coming up there for Jeff
2:48:36
Voss.
2:48:36
Yes, you got it.
2:48:37
And that's actually the 6502 chip donation plus
2:48:40
fees, so that would also account for Clay
2:48:44
Boccevice in Miami, Florida, 6736.
2:48:51
And here's the regular great promotion for the
2:48:54
chip donation.
2:48:56
People don't care anymore.
2:48:58
The only people who remember the 6502 are
2:49:01
boomers like you and me.
2:49:03
I'm Boomer Jason.
2:49:04
Michael Ragusa in Tustin, California, 6502.
2:49:10
And Leo Bugo in Sarasota, Florida, 6502.
2:49:16
Jobs Karma giving that at the end, we'll
2:49:18
do that.
2:49:19
David Cox in Austin, Texas, 6325.
2:49:23
Nick Lynch in Isanti, Minnesota, 6006.
2:49:29
And he wants to thank Dreb Scott for
2:49:33
the chapters so he can skip the AI
2:49:35
segments.
2:49:37
You're gonna die.
2:49:38
All right, fine.
2:49:40
Lucas Haskell in Saco, Maine, 6006.
2:49:46
I won't say what he said.
2:49:48
Daniel Bradley in Knoxville, Tennessee, 60.
2:49:51
Anonymous Girl, Boston, 60.
2:49:55
Brian Furley, 5510.
2:49:58
Sir Tom Darry in DeForest, Wisconsin, he came
2:50:03
in with 5510.
2:50:05
And then we go to Luke Rachovic.
2:50:07
Luca, Luca.
2:50:09
Luca Rachovic in Slovonski, Croatia.
2:50:14
Hey, Croatia, I used to write for a
2:50:16
magazine, Croatian Bug Magazine.
2:50:18
Hello, Croatia.
2:50:20
5377, a great place, by the way.
2:50:23
People wanna visit a great country, Croatia is
2:50:25
it.
2:50:26
Yes.
2:50:26
Still has enough remnants of the communist era
2:50:28
to make it interesting.
2:50:29
They have a beautiful coastline, I believe.
2:50:32
Yes, and Dubrovnik, if you wanna go there,
2:50:34
that's an experience.
2:50:35
They have the, what is it, the sound
2:50:38
pipes there?
2:50:40
And so when the water, the tide comes
2:50:41
in, it plays this eerie sound.
2:50:44
But I didn't get there.
2:50:46
Yeah, Kristina went there.
2:50:48
She said, yeah, yeah, whistles, and yeah.
2:50:52
Croatia is the bomb, man, it's the bomb.
2:50:56
Kristina says, do not eat the cheese sandwiches
2:50:59
from the gas station.
2:51:02
That's a worldwide rule.
2:51:04
She did not have a good experience with
2:51:06
that.
2:51:09
Kristina, by the way, is on a reality
2:51:11
show right now.
2:51:13
Did you know that?
2:51:15
No, she's been on one before.
2:51:16
She's like a reality person.
2:51:17
This is Chicks in the Jungle.
2:51:22
Oh, she got selected for that?
2:51:24
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's in it, and it's
2:51:27
in Columbia, and it's hilarious.
2:51:29
She had to eat ants and...
2:51:31
Oh, you're making me sick.
2:51:34
She's doing quite well.
2:51:35
She's doing well in the elimination.
2:51:37
She's still there.
2:51:38
She's still in the game.
2:51:39
I'll give you an update next week.
2:51:42
Heather Harper in Lubbock, Texas, 53.33. Michael
2:51:45
Gates, 52.80. Hakan Andresen in Portland, Oregon,
2:51:52
52.72. Roger Keesee, K-E-E-S
2:51:58
-E-E, in Holland, Michigan, 52.71. These
2:52:01
are all $50 donors, I believe.
2:52:04
Sir Ricalcid and Crazy Steve, our buddy in
2:52:06
Santa Rosa, California, 51.50. He puts on
2:52:10
the meetups.
2:52:11
James Sheremetta in Nappanoag, New York, 50.
2:52:13
Oh, these are all 50s coming up now,
2:52:15
including the $50 we got in from the
2:52:18
Albany, Albany, Albany meetup, including Rebecca Howe in
2:52:26
Memphis.
2:52:27
She wasn't at the meetup, but she gave
2:52:28
us 50.
2:52:29
Chris Conacher in Anchorage, Alaska.
2:52:31
Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas.
2:52:33
Meredith Whittle in Huntsville, Arkansas.
2:52:39
Daniel Calabro in Bethel, Vermont.
2:52:42
David Adrian in Cary, North Carolina.
2:52:47
Walker Phillips in San Rafael.
2:52:49
He was at the meetup.
2:52:51
Aichi Kitagawa in San Francisco.
2:52:53
I did not see him there, but Sir
2:52:55
Richie Rich from North Carolina was at the
2:52:58
meetup, the one with the great hair, top
2:53:00
of yours.
2:53:01
He sent me an email.
2:53:02
He said, John is exaggerating about the conversation
2:53:06
about the hair.
2:53:08
No.
2:53:08
Yes, yes he did.
2:53:09
He sent me an email.
2:53:10
No, he sent you the note, but I
2:53:11
don't exaggerate.
2:53:13
Okay, all right.
2:53:14
He came in with 52.
2:53:16
No, he, I don't know, maybe I embarrassed
2:53:18
him.
2:53:19
Alex Zavala is Sir Alex Zavala, host of
2:53:21
Nick U Dads.
2:53:24
Thank you, and an awesome meetup attendee.
2:53:27
Thank you all very much.
2:53:28
Thank you, everybody.
2:53:30
Requested was Jobs and R2-D2 Karma, so
2:53:33
we'll combine those two.
2:53:34
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
2:53:38
Let's vote for jobs.
2:53:39
Nikka, Karma.
2:53:43
And once again, thanks to our executive and
2:53:45
associate executive producers for episode 1736.
2:53:49
Noagendadonations.com is where you can go to
2:53:51
support us with your treasure.
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That's noagendadonations.com.
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Please help us out.
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Help John out.
2:53:57
Help John out because his insurance rates are
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going up.
2:54:00
Noagendadonations.com.
2:54:02
♪ It's your birthday, birthday ♪ ♪ On
2:54:06
No Agenda ♪ Happy birthday to Alexander O
2:54:09
'Neill who turned 33 on February 3rd.
2:54:11
Jeff M., which is his smoking hot wife,
2:54:13
a very happy birthday.
2:54:14
She celebrated on the 4th.
2:54:16
Jeff M.
2:54:16
himself had his birthday on the 6th.
2:54:19
Bailey Davies, happy birthday to husband Dan Peruzzo
2:54:22
turning 55 years old today.
2:54:25
Patrick Stasiak turns 50 tomorrow.
2:54:28
Happy birthday.
2:54:28
You'll finally see Abraham.
2:54:30
Bobby Bowe, happy birthday to Jeff Voss on
2:54:32
the 7th of tomorrow.
2:54:33
And Russell Rhodes wishes his son Pinkram Rhodes
2:54:36
a very happy birthday.
2:54:37
He turns 15 on the 8th.
2:54:38
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best
2:54:40
podcast in the universe.
2:54:42
♪ It's your birthday, yeah ♪ Now, before
2:54:44
we bring up our night to be, we
2:54:46
have a note.
2:54:47
It's a layaway night.
2:54:48
Joe Gwaltney here, he says, I finally donated
2:54:51
enough to claim my knighthood in keeping with
2:54:53
John's incessant need to pronounce every town incorrectly.
2:54:56
It reminds me of a time when as
2:54:58
a young boy living in Elbron, Virginia, pronounce
2:55:01
Elbrin, whoops, Elbrin, Virginia, pronounce Elbrin to the
2:55:04
locals, my grandmother took me to a local
2:55:07
church to show me the most horrible misspelling
2:55:09
of the town.
2:55:10
The cornerstone of the church showed the town
2:55:12
name as Elbow, Virginia.
2:55:15
And as such, I would like, that's pretty
2:55:17
bad.
2:55:17
I would like to be knighted Sir Duterino
2:55:19
of the Elbow.
2:55:20
I know you guys aren't into the whole
2:55:22
brevity thing.
2:55:22
So thank you very much for my sanity
2:55:24
and thank you to Sir Perfluous for hitting
2:55:29
me in the mouth.
2:55:30
Well, that's very nice of him.
2:55:31
So why don't you grab a blade, John?
2:55:33
We'll bring him up on the- Perfluous.
2:55:35
Perfluous?
2:55:35
Yeah, here you go.
2:55:37
Oh, that'll do.
2:55:38
That's a nice one.
2:55:40
I, Joe Gwaltney, step on up.
2:55:42
You, sir, are about to become a knight
2:55:44
of the Noah-Jemner Round Table.
2:55:45
Let me get these blades here.
2:55:46
And I'm very proud to pronounce the K
2:55:48
-D as Sir Duterino of the Elbow.
2:55:52
And for you, we've got hookers and bros,
2:55:54
rent boys and chardonnays.
2:55:55
We got harlots and halibos, redheads and ryes,
2:55:59
beers and blunts, rubinettes, rubin and rosé, gays
2:56:01
and sake, vodka, vanilla, bong hits and bourbon,
2:56:03
sparkling cider, escorts, ginger ale and gerbils.
2:56:05
It's a favorite.
2:56:06
Or of course, breast milk and pablum.
2:56:08
And as always at the Round Table, I'm
2:56:10
sure you will enjoy all the other knights
2:56:12
and dames are here enjoying it.
2:56:13
The ever effervescent Mutton and Mead.
2:56:16
And you, sir, may head right on over
2:56:19
to noagenderings.com and use the ring sizing
2:56:22
guide on the website to send us your
2:56:25
size and where you want the ring to
2:56:26
be sent to.
2:56:27
And of course, it always comes with a
2:56:28
certificate of authenticity and seeing as it is
2:56:31
a Signet ring, which is kind of cool.
2:56:33
It's a mirror, reverse.
2:56:35
You get some wax to seal your important
2:56:37
correspondence, which I just got from our knight
2:56:39
there in Bastrop.
2:56:40
His note was sealed with his ring and
2:56:42
the sealing wax.
2:56:43
It's beautiful.
2:56:44
And welcome to the Round Table, the No
2:56:46
Agenda Knights and Dames.
2:56:47
No Agenda Meetup.
2:56:52
Hey, it's time to party.
2:56:55
That's right.
2:56:56
If you want connection that gives you protection,
2:56:58
these people are your first responders in an
2:57:00
emergency.
2:57:01
So you want to go to a No
2:57:03
Agenda Meetup, you can find them all at
2:57:04
noagendameetups.com.
2:57:05
We love getting Meetup reports.
2:57:07
Here's one from South Dakota.
2:57:09
This is the Black Hills No Agenda Meetup
2:57:11
at Grove Peak Brewery.
2:57:13
Come and join us next month.
2:57:15
Hope to see you then in the morning.
2:57:17
In the morning.
2:57:18
Hi guys, this is Caitlin coming to you
2:57:20
from Crow Peak in Spearfish, South Dakota, having
2:57:22
a great time and hope to see you
2:57:23
guys next month.
2:57:25
Hi, John and Adam.
2:57:26
In the morning from Spearfish.
2:57:28
In the morning, John and Adam.
2:57:30
We're here at the Crow Peak Brewing Company
2:57:32
in Spearfish, South Dakota, having a great time.
2:57:34
We had a new person, a new face
2:57:37
join us this time and we can't wait
2:57:39
to see everybody next month.
2:57:42
Stillwater, I'm calling you out, bro.
2:57:43
We'll see you next month.
2:57:45
In the morning.
2:57:47
This Meetup report was produced in Spearfish, South
2:57:49
Dakota and is guaranteed to be completely AI
2:57:52
-free.
2:57:53
Yeah, and please don't send me your homemade
2:57:55
songs before and after the Meetup report unless
2:57:58
it's completely relevant, which it wasn't, so I
2:58:00
had to snip it off.
2:58:01
Philly, the Too Many Kegs Meetup.
2:58:03
Sean here in center city of Philadelphia with
2:58:06
Local 76 at McGillin's Old Ale House where
2:58:10
we have Too Many Kegs.
2:58:12
I listen to the show at double speed,
2:58:14
but I play it twice.
2:58:15
Hello, sirs from Philadelphia.
2:58:17
In the morning, this is Linadelphia.
2:58:20
In the morning, gentlemen.
2:58:21
The NFL's rigged, but go birds!
2:58:24
Sarcastic to Nomad in Philly, thank you for
2:58:27
your courage.
2:58:27
In the morning, hanging out here with a
2:58:29
bunch of flat earthers, having a good time.
2:58:32
Hey, it's Gray, checking in from my first
2:58:35
Philly Meetup.
2:58:36
Hi, Mom, we're all just wondering what keeps
2:58:38
the satellites afloat.
2:58:40
This is Black Knight, sir, EZ, and I
2:58:43
wanna tell John that I have a problem
2:58:45
with my night ring.
2:58:46
It's getting smaller and smaller.
2:58:48
I want a refund.
2:58:51
North Georgia, come on in.
2:58:52
Come one, come all.
2:58:54
John, we had a swell time, even though
2:58:55
nobody ate any mac and cheese.
2:58:57
Sean here.
2:58:59
Don't eat me, Tom Hummond.
2:59:00
You're scary, so scary.
2:59:02
Hey, N.A., Dr. Sir, Mike Ruff.
2:59:04
I love my mullet and I love my
2:59:07
beard.
2:59:07
Sir E here.
2:59:08
Remember, connection is protection.
2:59:11
In the morning, it's good to be back
2:59:13
with fellow slaves in the city of coming,
2:59:16
which is a verb.
2:59:17
Sick hail.
2:59:19
Noted.
2:59:19
This is Cody, signing out.
2:59:21
No agenda rocks, the best barkeep at Cherry
2:59:23
Street House, y'all.
2:59:24
In the morning!
2:59:25
In the morning!
2:59:27
All right.
2:59:29
Very nice.
2:59:30
There's a meetup taking place, started just now
2:59:32
at the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
2:59:34
It's their first of 2025 at Trails End
2:59:37
Brewery and Brick Oven Pizza in Coeur d
2:59:39
'Alene, Idaho.
2:59:40
The Northern Wake Publical Slave Gathering kicks off
2:59:43
in an hour from now at Saints and
2:59:45
Scholars in Raleigh, North Carolina, if you're listening
2:59:47
live, of course.
2:59:48
On Saturday, no mutton, just meet up.
2:59:51
That'll be noon Denver time, Antelope Ridge Meatery
2:59:54
in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
2:59:56
Let's join Canada, 2.30 in Alaska.
2:59:59
That'll be on Saturday at Snowtown Brewery in
3:00:03
Snohomish, Washington.
3:00:05
I don't know why you're using Alaska time.
3:00:07
I guess that makes sense.
3:00:09
Also on Saturday, the Treasure Valley Meetup, three
3:00:11
o'clock at Old State Saloon in Eagle,
3:00:13
Idaho.
3:00:13
And finally on Saturday, the Club 33, Not
3:00:16
a Leap Year Meetup at 3.30 Eastern
3:00:18
time.
3:00:19
Shig's in a Pig Barbecue and Brew, that's
3:00:21
on Illinois Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
3:00:24
Many more meetups to be found at noagendameetups
3:00:26
.com.
3:00:27
They take place almost daily now, all around
3:00:30
Gitmo Nation.
3:00:31
You need to be a part of these.
3:00:32
So when you go, go with an attitude
3:00:34
of gratitude and look them up at noagendameetups
3:00:36
.com.
3:00:37
If you can't find one near you, start
3:00:38
one.
3:00:39
It's easy and they're always a party.
3:00:41
♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out with
3:00:44
all the nights and days ♪ ♪ You
3:00:49
wanna be where you won't be triggered or
3:00:52
held to blame ♪ ♪ You wanna be
3:00:55
where everybody feels the same ♪ It's like
3:01:00
a party.
3:01:01
You know, I got the TV now on
3:01:03
the wall in the studio and I just
3:01:04
looked up and it's like CNN, they're running
3:01:08
out of people to put on to complain
3:01:10
about Trump.
3:01:11
Now they just got ugly people.
3:01:12
There's nothing but ugly people on CNN.
3:01:15
Yeah, with ugly shirts, ugly face, ugly hair,
3:01:18
it's crazy.
3:01:19
They're running out of people.
3:01:20
They can't fill enough airtime.
3:01:23
Sad.
3:01:26
Super sad is that I somehow, I'm not
3:01:29
sure how, neglected to get any ISOs.
3:01:33
Oh, I was thinking you were gonna have
3:01:35
a bunch of them.
3:01:35
I only have the one.
3:01:36
Well, it's a winner.
3:01:37
We will not shut up!
3:01:39
God, that's no good.
3:01:41
Wait a minute, let me see if, that's
3:01:42
really horrible.
3:01:44
Wait, I have...
3:01:46
Well, go back to the one I used
3:01:48
a lot, the one I had submitted last
3:01:50
time that got bumped by yours.
3:01:52
That was a good one.
3:01:53
Which one was that?
3:01:55
Do you remember which one it was?
3:01:57
Well, I have the list here somewhere.
3:01:59
I remember what I had.
3:02:00
I had...
3:02:01
Goodness gracious.
3:02:02
I had that one.
3:02:04
No, no.
3:02:04
Go to no, try no way.
3:02:08
No way, hold on.
3:02:11
This one, here we go.
3:02:13
There is no way anything can be this
3:02:15
good.
3:02:15
Yeah, I think we should use that one.
3:02:17
That's a good one.
3:02:18
Yeah, that would work.
3:02:19
Thank goodness.
3:02:19
All right, everybody, it is time for that
3:02:21
beautiful moment of the show, John C.
3:02:23
DuBorac's tip of the day.
3:02:25
♪ Creative lives for you and me ♪
3:02:27
♪ Just a tip with JCD and sometimes
3:02:32
Adam.
3:02:32
♪ Can I do mine first?
3:02:34
Yeah, please do yours first.
3:02:36
This was a tip from a producer.
3:02:38
For those of you who use Android phones
3:02:41
and you like using the voice-to-text
3:02:44
feature, which your voice input is quite handy,
3:02:48
but you don't want Google saving all of
3:02:51
your transcripts, which I'm pretty sure they do.
3:02:54
Of course they do.
3:02:55
There's an open source voice-to-text system
3:02:59
that is created by, funny enough, a company
3:03:02
in Austin, and their entire website explains exactly
3:03:07
how they're not lame.
3:03:09
It is called Futo, F-U-T-O,
3:03:12
and you can find them at futo.org.
3:03:15
You can even download it as an APK
3:03:17
so you don't have to get it off
3:03:19
of the Play Store, so you know that,
3:03:22
and you can look at their GitHub to
3:03:24
see how everything works.
3:03:26
And it does pretty well.
3:03:28
It's not quite as fast as you'd expect
3:03:31
from the Googles, but at least you know,
3:03:34
and it's pretty accurate, and at least you
3:03:36
know that it is not saving that to
3:03:39
embarrass you later in life.
3:03:41
That is my tip of the day.
3:03:43
That's a good one.
3:03:44
Thank you.
3:03:45
So this tip is more of an education
3:03:47
than a tip.
3:03:48
This stemmed from the end of last year,
3:03:52
or post-mortem, where it turned out that
3:03:55
I'd known you for 31 years or so.
3:03:58
Me?
3:03:58
And you didn't know anything about olive oil.
3:04:02
And you had come back from Italy.
3:04:04
I'm still reeling it that we've known each
3:04:06
other for 31 years, and you're probably right.
3:04:08
That's the hard part about it.
3:04:12
Yes, right, I didn't, I mean, yes, go
3:04:14
ahead.
3:04:15
I will take my lickens.
3:04:16
Because you had gone to Tuscany.
3:04:18
Yes.
3:04:19
And brought back a bunch of olive oil,
3:04:21
and then I told you a couple of
3:04:23
things, and you were clueless about it.
3:04:25
And I have to assume, and I talked
3:04:26
about doing this as a tip of the
3:04:28
day, that people don't know anything about olive
3:04:29
oil.
3:04:30
That's correct.
3:04:31
Or at least they generally don't.
3:04:33
And just a few basics.
3:04:35
Olive oil only keeps for two years, max,
3:04:41
and has to be kept.
3:04:42
This is what I didn't, I was surprised
3:04:43
by that.
3:04:43
This is the thing that you were surprised
3:04:45
by.
3:04:45
Yes, it was.
3:04:45
You thought olive oil, like all oils, goes
3:04:48
rancid, and the kind of rancidity that you
3:04:52
achieve from these oils, butter does this, coffee
3:04:56
beans do it, anything with oil.
3:04:58
The rancidity is unhealthy.
3:05:01
And olive oil is good for two years,
3:05:03
and so when you buy olive oil, you
3:05:04
should always check on the back of the
3:05:07
bottle.
3:05:08
It should have a either pick date, or
3:05:10
use by date, and it should be in
3:05:14
just a round number.
3:05:17
Costco's extra virgin olive oil that they sell,
3:05:20
Italian, in the green bottle, not the organic,
3:05:24
but the regular stuff, usually has information on
3:05:26
the back, and you can tell how, you
3:05:28
know, because the batches change about once every
3:05:30
four months at Costco, and you want the
3:05:33
freshest, newest olive oil you can find, hopefully
3:05:37
within a year.
3:05:38
But after two years, it starts to go
3:05:40
bad, and it's not something that ages like
3:05:44
wine, and so you have to be careful
3:05:45
with olive oil.
3:05:46
The other thing is that people don't know,
3:05:48
I just was thinking about it to add
3:05:50
to this simple tip, is you have to,
3:05:53
the olive oil, most olive oil, by a
3:05:56
factor of almost all olive oil in the
3:05:59
world, Spain makes most of it.
3:06:02
And they make more olive oil than anybody
3:06:04
by far.
3:06:05
You take everybody else combined, it's about what
3:06:07
Spain makes.
3:06:08
And most of their olive oil is blended
3:06:10
into other olive oils, and you have to
3:06:12
be careful, because it's always, Italian olive oil's
3:06:15
always considered the best.
3:06:17
Tuscan olive oil's always considered the best of
3:06:20
the best.
3:06:21
They're just a couple of things.
3:06:22
I find Sicilian olive oil would be really
3:06:24
good, but my favorite olive oil's come from
3:06:27
Provence, France, and California, which makes some terrific
3:06:31
olive oils, but the production is so low,
3:06:33
it doesn't even show up on the list
3:06:34
of olive oil makers.
3:06:36
South American olive oils are also good.
3:06:39
So the point is that you have to
3:06:41
be careful with the Italian stuff, which is
3:06:43
the most promoted, because you have to make
3:06:46
sure that you read the label, and make
3:06:49
sure it says produced in Italy with Italian
3:06:53
olives, because it'll often say packed in Italy,
3:06:57
so it'll say Italian olive oil, and it'll
3:07:00
say packed in Italy, and it's Spanish olive
3:07:03
oil, or even worse, Greece.
3:07:05
Oh no, oh, that's the worst.
3:07:08
No, Grecian olive oil is always considered greasy.
3:07:11
I don't like it, it has a weird
3:07:13
taste.
3:07:14
It's greasy, but I will say this.
3:07:17
In Spain, there's terrific olive oils around, but
3:07:21
very few of them get exported, and they
3:07:23
have varietal olive oils and all the rest,
3:07:27
and the last tip, I don't want to
3:07:29
overdo this.
3:07:30
Wow, you're going crazy.
3:07:32
The noagentitips.net can't keep up.
3:07:36
The last tip is the idea, what is
3:07:38
extra virgin?
3:07:39
Yeah, what is that?
3:07:40
What is extra virgin, extra, extra virgin, you
3:07:43
can even get.
3:07:43
Extra virgin, extra virgin olive oil is an
3:07:47
oil that, and usually what you want to
3:07:49
get is first pressed extra virgin olive oil,
3:07:53
and you should first press, because you want
3:07:56
it to be pressed by extraction, and by
3:08:03
a press, and so I'll just read from
3:08:06
the thing.
3:08:07
Extra virgin olive oil is, you mash up
3:08:11
the olives, and you start to press them
3:08:13
to get the oil.
3:08:14
You can't use heat or chemicals to extract
3:08:17
the oil, it has to be just purely
3:08:19
pressed, and the first pressing is the good
3:08:21
stuff.
3:08:22
That's the extra virgin?
3:08:24
That's the extra virgin first press.
3:08:26
First press.
3:08:28
Best price.
3:08:28
And so that's what you want, it doesn't
3:08:31
cost that much more than the cheaper stuff,
3:08:33
but as time goes, as they try to
3:08:35
get more oil out of the olives, they'll
3:08:37
go to the point where they will extract
3:08:39
it using a hexane, which is what most
3:08:41
oils are, most oils you buy are hexane
3:08:45
extracted.
3:08:46
You know, I think that you should give
3:08:49
up on the vinegar book and do an
3:08:50
oil book.
3:08:51
You seem to be on point with, and
3:08:53
by the way, I'm a little, so now
3:08:56
we have to give this away, because what
3:08:57
happens is, we went to the winery, Castello
3:08:59
Verrazano, the guy who discovered the Hudson Bay,
3:09:05
and the Verrazano Bridge is named after him,
3:09:07
and then the cannibals ate him in the
3:09:08
Bahamas, it was a bummer.
3:09:11
For him.
3:09:12
For him, it was a bad day, a
3:09:13
day wrecker.
3:09:15
But the way it works is, you know,
3:09:16
they give you, and man, I tell you,
3:09:18
the Italian winery's like, yeah, you have a
3:09:20
wine to taste thing, and they give you
3:09:22
six full-on pours, you're all hammered, luckily
3:09:24
we had a driver, you're all hammered, and
3:09:26
they're like, we could send it to Texas,
3:09:29
or I'll order some, you know, I'm not
3:09:31
gonna order like a whole bunch, like we
3:09:33
ordered some wine, just like, you know, a
3:09:35
couple, and then we ordered vinegar, which they're
3:09:40
famous for, and then the olive oil, I
3:09:42
think we got six bottles, so we gotta
3:09:43
give it away, we'll never use it in
3:09:45
time, before it goes rancid.
3:09:47
That's not true.
3:09:49
The six bottles?
3:09:49
I don't know how much oil, I plow
3:09:52
through one of those big, giant, liter and
3:09:55
a half bottles of Costco oil about once
3:09:58
every four months.
3:09:59
You're guzzling the stuff.
3:10:01
I'm not, I just use it, and it's,
3:10:04
I don't know, the bottles you have are
3:10:07
all three-fit 75, you said.
3:10:09
I'm gonna send you one, I'm gonna send
3:10:10
you one, I'll send you one.
3:10:11
Yeah, send me one, it'll be done in
3:10:13
no time.
3:10:14
All right, that, ladies and gentlemen, is John's
3:10:16
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That's it, everybody.
3:10:32
Wow, that was quite the tip of the
3:10:34
day, and I learned something.
3:10:37
I learned that you've known me for 31
3:10:39
years, I'm very disturbed by this.
3:10:41
This is a very disturbing thing to think
3:10:44
about.
3:10:45
It's like, you know, like Nussbaum sent me
3:10:47
a video of my hair at the Video
3:10:49
Music Awards in 1989, I really don't remember
3:10:52
much of it.
3:10:54
Yeah, well, there's reasons for that.
3:10:55
Because it was 36 years ago.
3:10:57
No, there's no, you think it's weed-related,
3:11:00
but it wasn't, it wasn't.
3:11:03
Coming up, end-of-show mixes from David
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Kekta, Kekta.
3:11:08
We also have, oh, Joe Grillo, that's right,
3:11:12
Joe Grillo did a fun little ditty for
3:11:14
us.
3:11:15
And next up on the No Agenda stream,
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TrollRoom.io and on your modern podcast apps,
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it's a good show, Planet Ridge.
3:11:23
It's Larry and Darren, of all the shows
3:11:26
that kind of mimic No Agenda, I think
3:11:27
they're the best.
3:11:28
They could take over in four years, they'd
3:11:30
move up a slot in time.
3:11:32
Coming to you from the heart of the
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Texas Hill Country, right here in Fredericksburg, in
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the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
3:11:39
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're finally
3:11:41
getting, well, finally, we got some the other
3:11:43
day too, but it's raining out, I'm John
3:11:44
C.
3:11:45
Dvorak.
3:11:45
We return on Sunday, where we'll have our
3:11:48
annual Super Bowl predictions, and of course, a
3:11:51
lot more media deconstruction, and more blurts.
3:11:55
Until then, adios, mofos, hui hui, and such.
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3:13:00
he blamed, without any evidence, his familiar scapegoats,
3:13:04
the previous administrations and DEI.
3:13:07
I put safety first, Obama, Biden, and the
3:13:10
Democrats put policy first, and they put politics
3:13:15
at a level that nobody's ever seen.
3:13:19
They put a big push to put diversity
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into the FAA's program.
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They actually came out with a directive to
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white people and want the people that are
3:13:31
competent.
3:13:32
But white people have always indulged in cannibalism.
3:13:35
They ate their slaves, and they ate black
3:13:38
people that were free after the Emancipation Proclamation,
3:13:40
after lynchings.
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3:14:07
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3:14:12
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3:14:13
I'm looking at the grinder most of the
3:14:14
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3:14:27
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3:14:33
eat black people.
3:14:34
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3:14:42
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3:14:44
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3:14:44
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3:14:46
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