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The dog ate the pills.
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Adam Curry, John C.
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Dvorak.
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It's Sunday, March 2nd, 2025.
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It's your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination
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Episode 1743.
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This is no agenda.
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Wearing our nice suits and broadcasting live from
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the heart of the Texas Hill Country here
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in FEMA Region Number 6.
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Good morning, everybody.
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I'm Adam Curry.
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And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everyone's asking,
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do you have Oscar fever?
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I'm John C.
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Dvorak.
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I'd almost forgotten about the Oscars.
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It's tonight.
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That's right.
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Forgot about it.
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I'm sure there will be an extended dead
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segment for Gene Hackman, who, as you know,
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was killed because he was about to expose
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the Epstein files.
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I know.
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It's so pathetic.
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That actually came up?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, it's pathetic.
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Is it thesis?
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Oh, yeah.
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No.
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No, better.
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He even put it on X.
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Yes, he put it on X.
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He said, I'm going to expose the Epstein
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files.
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Of course, the font looked a little wonky,
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but that just may be me.
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You know that guy?
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Fake tweets are the best.
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You know that guy?
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Who is he?
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He's a British guy.
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He's kind of like a Stu Peters type
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dude.
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And he did a 20-minute X post
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on it.
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Oh, yes, this is what happened.
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I don't...
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That guy, I hope he gets paid.
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Because...
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The Stu Peters guy?
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No, it's not the Stu Peters guy.
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It's some other dude.
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Come on, showroom.
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You can help Adam here.
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He's thinking of someone.
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You must know who it is.
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I can't remember who the guy is.
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I don't know who the guy you're talking
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about.
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Well, when you hear people...
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Piers Morgan?
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People have sent you links from this guy
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and you're always like, don't you ever dare
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send us that again.
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Oh, that guy who's always talking sideways to
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the camera?
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Yeah, exactly.
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See, I knew you'd know who I was
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talking about.
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That guy.
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Yeah, that guy.
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He's all over it.
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He's the worst.
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He's all over it.
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Oh, yeah.
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But just wonder, it's like, does he have
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ad money or...
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He's got to have something.
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Here, Gene Hackman.
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I am ready...
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Here, Gene Hackman, X post.
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On February 24th.
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Makes nothing but sense.
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I'm ready to corroborate everything in the Epstein
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client list and to put Bill Clinton and
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others in prison if it's the last thing
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I do.
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And then it...
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Here, this is the guy.
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The news hits like a gut punch this
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week.
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That guy.
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Gene Hackman, the old school Hollywood legend of
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the French connection, Unforgiven and Superman, gone.
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Gone.
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Does that guy have a lopsided face?
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Why doesn't he face the camera?
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He might have a lopsided...
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He's always cocked one way or the other.
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He's never like looking at the camera.
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He's like looking over to the side and
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then is askance.
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What is that?
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What is that style?
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Adam is at home alongside his wife and
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one of their three dogs.
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Oh, no.
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A tragedy, sure.
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But the details?
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They're so twisted, even the mainstream media can't
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whitewash it.
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Oh, even the mainstream media can't whitewash it.
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This is great.
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Wow.
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This is good.
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Something is off.
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Something's off.
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Way off.
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And the media are barely scratching the surface.
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Why would they?
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Here's what the media won't tell you.
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Okay.
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Gene Hackman wasn't some retired millionaire kicking back
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in New Mexico.
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No.
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He was neighbors with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Oh.
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Yes, that's Epstein.
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Well, I mean, his timing's a bit off
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because Pam Bondi's botched release has been kind
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of snowed under by other things taking place
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in Washington.
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Just on that for a moment.
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On Bondi?
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No, on Bondi.
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How does that?
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She had influencers and gave them all binders.
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Binders with old bunk.
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It's the same old stuff, yeah.
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But how does that even happen?
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I don't understand.
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I mean, that's a huge botch.
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Someone tried to screw her or tried to
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screw.
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Well, that's what she claims.
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I mean, did she not look at the
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binders?
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Let me just double check for a second
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before I hand out these binders.
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Of course.
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I have a clip of something that was
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similar to this kind of thing.
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This seems to be, I think, a theme.
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This Tom Fitton thing.
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What about this new series of clips called
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BTS behind the scenes?
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People bitching about, you know, the promises not
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being kept or whatever.
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Listen, this is similar to the Bondi thing.
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I'm looking for behind.
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Oh, here it is.
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BTS.
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I got you.
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I got you.
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And then, of course, we have to pressure
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the Trump administration because, as I said, there
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are some agents, you know, they just can't
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help but move slowly.
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And you may recall Joe Biden was interviewed
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by the special counsel and the special counsel
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released a transcript that was edited as we
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uncovered.
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And the transcript wasn't enough.
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In our view, there was an audio tape
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and then should have been released of Joe
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Biden.
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And so what happened is that we sued
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and there's the Biden people came up with
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60 different reasons.
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I'm exaggerating, obviously, to withhold this information from
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us.
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And so the court just a week or
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so ago asked the Biden, asked the Trump
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Justice Department, hey, hey, there's a there's a
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new boss in town.
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What's your position on this?
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And rather than just say, oh, we want
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to release the tapes, they said, well, we
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need till May 20th to figure out what
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to do.
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That's frustrating, isn't it?
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Wait a minute.
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What what tapes?
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Do you remember when Biden gave the deposition
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to the investigator before Congress and said, well,
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the guy is such a dumb, he's such
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a dumb old man that, you know, there's
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no way we can convict him.
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So we're going to let it slide.
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We can't put him on the stand.
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He's too feeble.
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I think something like that.
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Yes, I do remember.
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And then they said, well, let's listen to
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the tapes, because they figured the tapes, if
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you could hear what Biden was doing, then
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it would have, you know, kept him from
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getting reelected because he was still in the
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running.
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And of course, it happened that way anyway.
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But beside the point, they wanted to hear
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these tapes.
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No, we'll give you a transcript instead.
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And the transcript was edited.
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And so they start working on getting the
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tapes released.
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And now that Trump got in, they figure,
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well, here we go.
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We get to listen to the tapes.
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At least we get to listen to the
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tapes.
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And no.
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Yeah.
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So there's a lot of blockage, blockage.
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I was listening to Joe Rogan talking to
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Elon Musk because he had Elon back on,
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which makes no sense.
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I saw parts of that was good.
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Yeah.
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And well, what Elon said is, well, imagine
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that, you know, you're, everyone hates you and
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you're going in and then everyone is working
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against you, I guess, but that's, it's still
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inexcusable.
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She lied on Jesse Waters.
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I'm just going to hold on to that.
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I'm happy to change my opinion on Pam
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Bondi.
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But right now she is nil, nil.
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She's what?
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Nil, nil.
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You mean like a soccer game?
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Yes, exactly.
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Nil.
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She has nil.
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Negative one.
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Negative one.
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This was not good.
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That's not your first out of the gate.
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Here we go, everybody.
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The Epstein files are going to drop.
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Well, it was her fault.
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Yes.
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Yeah, it was bad.
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Instead of being a hot shot on Jesse
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Waters, she gets on the show as much
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as she wants to.
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Yeah, because Jesse has her number.
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They text.
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Well, Jesse has her.
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Yes, he has her text number.
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But Jesse always, Jesse has a very, his
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story, not Jesse, but his producers have a
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very good sense of photogeneity or actually telegeneity.
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They bring on a lot of pretty women.
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And more than the other shows in general.
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You're telling me that Pam Bondi was a
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DEI hire because she's pretty?
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Yeah.
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Actually, now you're thinking in those terms.
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I mean, she's 60.
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So she's held up a little.
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She's my age, 60?
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Yeah.
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Really?
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You can look her up, 59 maybe.
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But she's basically 60.
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And she...
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Yeah, 59.
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She is very telegenic.
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Yes.
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I don't know how she looks like in
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person.
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I guess she doesn't look that good.
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We know because our producer said she looks
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like Merle Haggard in a wig.
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So I can't get out of my head.
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But that's the thing about it.
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You know, you're either, you're telegenic.
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I mean, you can be, you know, beautiful
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in different ways.
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I can't get, it's hard to get out
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of my head.
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Merle Haggard in a wig is tough, man.
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That's a tough thing to let go of.
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So I'm sure that, I mean, you and
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I never speak during the week.
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Maybe an email or something innocuous.
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Maybe you forward something funny.
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Rarely.
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Rarely.
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I'm sure we probably had the same idea
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for our deconstruction of what took place in
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the Oval Office.
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But this morning we got breaking news, breaking
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news.
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And I mean, I have clips of all
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the meetings that went on and Zelensky in
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the UK.
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And, you know, we can back into it.
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But I think what UK Prime Minister Starmer
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did this morning kind of sums up what
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we both thought was about to happen.
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Would you agree?
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I'm not sure, but probably.
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I'm guessing there's, because you saw the newsletter
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and I have a lot of my thoughts
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in there.
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A lot of it's based on some input
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I got locally from Lib Joe.
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Lib Joe's?
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Well, stop.
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Stop this show.
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Well, not the normal Lib Joe's.
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We get different.
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Wait, you have new Lib Joe's?
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Well, one Lib Joe's a temp.
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What do you mean a temp?
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Working at the Washington Post?
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Hey, Uber drivers know what they're talking about.
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The Uber drivers are very good information.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Yeah.
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And the other one's an old friend of
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mine who's a big shot.
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Big shot.
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Who's also a liberal.
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In the publishing world by any chance?
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Yes, in the publishing world.
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All right, then I have thoughts.
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Yes, that's good.
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That's a qualified source.
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But it's still knee-jerk Democrat.
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I think it was largely expressed.
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I do have a clip from, I think
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the best exemplification of this is the twerp
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came on one of the shows.
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We have the same clips.
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You have the twerp?
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I have the twerp.
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Yeah, hold on a second.
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I have two clips by the twerp.
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She was on, the twerp was on with
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- She's the worst, this woman.
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But she exemplifies what these people are thinking.
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Well, the interesting thing, and I'll play the
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clip.
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Now we're beating around the bush and the
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producers are going, what the hell are these
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guys?
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Who's the twerp?
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Well, first of all, I think we both
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agree that what the president and the vice
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president did was predetermine they were going to
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undress this guy.
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That's what it seemed like to me.
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I can't, here's the one piece of evidence
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when I got into an argument with the
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publisher.
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Yeah.
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It was, his comeback was kind of, I
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couldn't beat this comeback.
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He says, oh really?
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Well, then where was the signing table?
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Why didn't they just do it, open up
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the press conference, they had the signing table
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with the document right in front of him,
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signed, that's what they always do.
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There's always a signing table so they can
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sign the document.
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The deal.
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And you know, what was the point of
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this rest of this crap?
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Where's the signing table?
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The signing table.
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I'm, oh, the signing table.
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No, because they knew that Zelensky wasn't going
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to sign.
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So they were like, okay, well, we'll bring
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you into the Oval Office.
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And for me, the clue was the journalist
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in the blue suit jacket.
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I love that guy.
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Because I have that clip too.
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Yeah, I don't know who that guy is.
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Now we've created a puzzle for the audience.
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Let me play the blue suit jacket guy.
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Well, wait, let's start.
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Okay, well, this is the part I'm going
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to explain to the people out there listening.
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The two of us are beating around the
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bush, because neither one of us know exactly
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how we should start this discussion.
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I think we, I think we start with
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the blue suit.
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Go to the twerp and then start.
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Well, if you're going to start with the
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blue suit, I think you should predate that
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and go to Trump in the greeting where
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he ridicules Zelensky for not wearing a suit
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at the beginning.
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Do we have that clip?
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Do you have that one?
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I didn't clip that one.
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I didn't clip it either.
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The reason why, well, so yeah.
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So Zelensky rolls up in the car and
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President Trump, late, and President Trump is there
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to greet him.
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He says, oh, look, he dressed up.
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That was pretty much, it was like an
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eight second clip.
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But this guy, I don't know who he
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works for, but he was left with the
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president.
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The president turns to him, has to swivel
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all the way around.
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The guy has some dumb question first.
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And then the president says, oh, you had
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a second question?
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That's felt set up to me, especially because,
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who is this guy in the blue suit?
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That would not have been a good situation.
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What was your second question?
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My second question for President Zelensky, do you
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ever, why don't you wear a suit?
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Why don't you wear a suit?
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You're the highest level in this country's office
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and you refuse to wear a suit.
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Just want to see if you own a
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suit?
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Yeah, I have problems.
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A lot of Americans have problems with you
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not respecting the dignity of this office.
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I will wear a costume after this war
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will finish.
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Yes.
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Maybe something like yours.
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Yes.
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Maybe something better.
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I don't know.
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We will see.
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Maybe something cheaper.
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Thank you.
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Now, the way I see that, that guy
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was a shill.
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The entire point was to rile up Zelensky,
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which he did.
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Because if you listen to what Zelensky is
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saying, he's like, oh, maybe I won't wear
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one like that.
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Maybe it'll be cheaper.
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So he was already a little bit annoyed.
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And Trump afterwards complimented the guy.
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Trump made some comment about the question.
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Good job.
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Good job, Jeeves.
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And it was, yes, this looked like a
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staged event.
14:25
And the thing that still is somewhat baffling
14:29
is the, and I think we can try
14:31
to analyze this, was the fact that Rubio,
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who was not given a part in the
14:35
play and didn't have any lines, so he
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didn't get scale.
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He sat there in a grumpy, kind of
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just in a grump mode.
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He had one, he had one line.
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He did.
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They gave him one throwaway line.
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He had one line.
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I don't remember, what was his line?
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It was a throwaway line.
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But if we, okay, let's just step back
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for a second, because everything that happened was
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pre-told by Rubio in the Pixie Girl
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interview, Catherine Heritage.
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Right, which we played last couple shows.
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Well, let me just, I'm going to play
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that part again so you can hear it,
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because now in context of what took place,
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like, wow, you hear everything.
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And I have to mention as an aside,
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have you seen the size of Marco Rubio's
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ears?
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I haven't noticed.
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They are, like, they're bigger than Granholm's saucers.
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You take a look, go look at a
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picture, and you'll go, wow, as I play
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this clip.
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I think President Trump is very upset at
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President Zelensky, in some cases, and rightfully so.
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Look, number one, Joe Biden had frustrations with
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Zelensky.
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People shouldn't forget it.
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There are newspaper articles out there about how
15:44
he cursed at him in a phone call.
15:46
This clip resurfaced, and it resurfaced, an old
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clip from MSNBC, and people on X are
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going, oh, they tried to hide this.
15:54
It wasn't all that hidden.
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Because Zelensky, instead of saying thank you for
15:57
all your help, is immediately out there messaging
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what we're not doing or what he's not
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getting.
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I think the second thing is, frankly, I
16:04
was personally very upset, because we had a
16:06
conversation with President Zelensky, the vice president and
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I, the two, three of us, and we
16:11
discussed this issue about the mineral rights.
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And we explained to them, look, we want
16:14
to be in joint venture with you, not
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because we're trying to steal from your country,
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but because we think that's actually a security
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guarantee.
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If we're your partner in an important economic
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endeavor, we get to get paid back some
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of the money the taxpayers have given, close
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to $200 billion.
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And it also, now we have a vested
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interest in the security of Ukraine.
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All right.
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So that's exactly what you even said at
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the time.
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And so all of this was known.
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They didn't like the guy.
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The guy was irritating them.
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I should bring in one extra dimension.
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I don't have the clip of it, but
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Scott Besson came on with Laura Ingraham, Frau
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Ingraham.
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And Besson, who was secretary of the treasury,
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I think, who met with Zelensky.
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Remember, he went over there by himself?
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Yeah, yeah.
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And Zelensky wasn't there for him.
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He was sleeping.
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Well, Zelensky did meet with him after he
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woke up.
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And he said he was going to do
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a deal.
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He was going to do a deal.
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Then he said he wasn't going to do
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it.
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That was the prelude to, it turns out,
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the prelude to Rubio.
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And so in other words, Besson went there,
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tried to start that deal.
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Fell apart.
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And after kind of a phony baloney discussion,
17:24
because he wasn't, wouldn't have gone in the
17:26
first place.
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So the second go round, it seems to
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be Rubio.
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And so you have a double teamed him
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with Rubio and the vice president.
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And the third go round is now Trump,
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Rubio and the vice president.
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And that didn't work out.
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So would that.
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So this was a setup.
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I'll play the twerp.
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And Susan Rice correctly identifies that it was
17:48
a setup.
17:48
But of course, it's because Putin.
17:52
Well, Nicole Putin, obviously, it's a very sad
17:55
day and an embarrassment for the United States
17:58
on the world stage.
17:59
Just for why does she come out of
18:02
the woodwork all of a sudden?
18:03
You have to question this.
18:05
Who does she work for now?
18:10
This is a good question.
18:12
I was thinking about this, too, which is
18:14
why as out of the blue, we haven't
18:16
heard from this woman.
18:17
And we for people out there, we generally
18:21
call her the twerp because she's a very
18:23
gnome like little character who is who is
18:27
a creep and small and a twerp.
18:31
And she comes out of the blue here.
18:37
I have no idea.
18:38
It's got to be the industrial complex.
18:40
She's not working for the USA.
18:42
That's for sure.
18:43
Because in this clip, you're going to hear
18:46
what comes up.
18:47
She's going to say that this deal was
18:50
not favorable to Ukraine.
18:52
So it was a bad deal.
18:54
She is a research fellow at the School
18:59
of International Service at American University.
19:02
And as of 2018, she's been on the
19:06
board of directors of Netflix.
19:09
It's probably how Obama probably got her in
19:11
there.
19:11
And she's the director of domestic of the
19:14
Domestic Policy Council.
19:17
Whatever that is another scam.
19:20
Here we go.
19:21
Let's step back and analyze what's happened here.
19:24
I think there's no question that this was
19:27
a setup.
19:28
You heard Donald Trump say at the end
19:29
of that clip he played.
19:30
This is great television.
19:32
This was a setup Vladimir.
19:34
I mean, excuse me.
19:35
I love how she messes up Vladimir with
19:38
Vladimir because she's so used to saying Putin,
19:40
Putin, Putin.
19:40
This was a setup.
19:42
It was on her mind.
19:44
Yeah.
19:44
Oh, yeah.
19:44
I mean, excuse me.
19:46
Vladimir Zelensky was compelled to agree to a
19:52
horrible deal that would have sent Ukraine's minerals
19:56
to the United States without any concrete security
20:01
guarantee.
20:02
It's a horrible deal for who?
20:04
Not for us.
20:06
Whose side is she on?
20:09
Well, we don't know.
20:09
Probably on the side of the globalists in
20:12
Europe.
20:12
Guarantees.
20:14
And yet, because he was trying to improve
20:17
a relationship with Donald Trump, he came to
20:19
Washington.
20:19
He came to the Oval Office and sat
20:22
down for a meeting.
20:23
Hat in hand.
20:24
Hat in hand.
20:25
That's my favorite.
20:26
There was no hat in hand.
20:28
No, he was all riled up.
20:32
And soon after he got there, the vice
20:34
president of the United States lit into him
20:36
and started a confrontation.
20:39
Now, I've been in countless Oval Office meetings
20:42
with heads of state, presidents and vice presidents
20:45
as national security advisors, UN ambassador and in
20:47
other roles.
20:48
I can tell you that the vice president
20:50
or the secretary of state or anybody else,
20:53
they don't jump in, hijack a conversation without
20:56
the express blessing of the president of the
20:59
United States.
20:59
So JD Vance did that deliberately.
21:02
Donald Trump knew what he was going to
21:04
do.
21:04
And I think, as he said at the
21:06
end, because he can't help himself.
21:08
This was a setup for the cameras.
21:10
It was a play to his base.
21:12
But above all, it was a play to
21:14
Vladimir Putin, to Vladimir Putin and to try
21:20
to humiliate Zelensky.
21:21
But Zelensky didn't play along with the script,
21:23
because Zelensky's got dignity and guts.
21:26
And Zelensky has people that he democratically represents.
21:31
And as- No, no, no, no.
21:33
It's under martial law.
21:35
There's almost been a year since they've had
21:37
elections.
21:37
No.
21:39
He couldn't sit there in silence as lies
21:41
were being told about how the war was
21:43
started, whose responsibility it was, you know, et
21:46
cetera, et cetera.
21:47
It happened during the administration that she was
21:51
in in 2014.
21:52
That's how the war was started.
21:54
And he tried to explain what is, in
21:57
fact, the case.
21:58
So the best part of that interview, I
22:00
thought, was this 33 second clip, which I
22:02
will just share with you.
22:03
It was an effort to humiliate him, to
22:06
scuttle the U.S.-Ukraine relationship so that Trump
22:11
no longer feels any obligation to provide support
22:14
and to hand U.S. interests in Ukraine
22:19
and potentially Europe to Putin on a silver
22:22
platter.
22:23
Why?
22:24
That's a great question.
22:26
No, it's not.
22:27
And listen- Susan, we're going to unfreeze
22:30
you.
22:30
I want to play- So the minute
22:32
she says that's a great question, the video
22:34
freezes.
22:35
It was poetic.
22:36
It was poetic, poetic.
22:38
Here is the most truthful moment.
22:40
It's 50 seconds.
22:42
The most truthful Trump moment in the Oval
22:45
Office.
22:46
This is, I think, is true.
22:48
Well, if I didn't align myself with both
22:50
of them, you'd never have a deal.
22:53
You want me to say really terrible things
22:56
about Putin and then say, hi, Vladimir, how
22:59
are we doing on the deal?
22:59
It doesn't work that way.
23:02
I'm not aligned with anybody.
23:04
I'm aligned with the United States of America
23:06
and for the good of the world.
23:08
I'm aligned with the world.
23:10
And I want to get this thing over
23:11
with.
23:12
You see the hatred he's got for Putin.
23:14
It's very tough for me to make a
23:15
deal with that kind of hate.
23:16
He's got tremendous hatred.
23:18
And I understand that.
23:19
But I can tell you the other side
23:21
isn't exactly in love with, you know, him
23:24
either.
23:25
So it's not a question of alignment.
23:27
I have to- I'm aligned with the
23:29
world.
23:30
I want to get the thing set.
23:31
I'm aligned with Europe.
23:33
I want to see if we can get
23:35
this thing done.
23:37
You want me to be tough?
23:38
I could be tougher than any human being
23:40
you've ever seen.
23:40
I'd be so tough.
23:42
But you're never going to get a deal
23:44
that way.
23:44
So that's the way it goes.
23:46
One more question.
23:47
And there you go.
23:49
I believe that's all to be true.
23:50
I got messages from friends overseas.
23:53
Here's my buddy, Michelle, in the UK.
23:56
What the F is Trump and Vance doing
23:58
supporting Russia after being in the Cold War
24:00
for 70 years?
24:01
They've turned on the whole world just for
24:03
some deals?
24:06
That's how it's being perceived.
24:09
Thanks to the media.
24:10
Well, he's not- Thanks to the media.
24:12
Exactly.
24:13
Thanks to the media.
24:13
And I want to put- just to
24:18
not go completely off track, but I do
24:20
want to play these clips because I think
24:22
it- You want to do Starmer first?
24:24
Because that's the big news.
24:26
Well, I was going to play the Galloway
24:28
material because it gives us all the background
24:31
we need.
24:32
Okay.
24:32
I don't- I'm not familiar with this.
24:34
And the reason I want to play is
24:35
because this is George Galloway.
24:38
Piers Morgan, just as a little background here.
24:40
He's funny.
24:42
I can't help but laugh.
24:43
Piers Morgan knows what he's doing.
24:46
He knows what good TV is.
24:48
He's always been a tabloid guy.
24:51
So he knows what a headline should be.
24:53
He does.
24:53
He knows how to get attention.
24:55
He's got no personality, really.
24:57
He got the attention of your clip machine.
24:59
This is how good he is.
25:01
He's good.
25:02
But so he- and you can hear
25:04
him defer, which is he doesn't get into
25:06
arguments.
25:06
If a guy goes off on him, on
25:08
Piers, he'd let him go because he knows
25:11
it's interesting.
25:12
But this is George Galloway, a notorious socialist
25:15
who's a writer for The Guardian, who's just
25:20
generally a creep in general.
25:22
Hates Trump.
25:23
Hates the United States.
25:24
Hates England, as far as I can tell.
25:26
He hates everything except the communist revolution.
25:31
But his discussion of the situation is so
25:34
on point that you have to say, well,
25:39
at least you nailed this part of it.
25:40
And here we go.
25:41
This is a three-parter.
25:42
I think it's excellent.
25:44
It's really come to something when having spent
25:47
a lifetime myself fighting against NATO and American
25:52
wars.
25:53
It's the Americans that are trying to stop
25:55
the war.
25:56
And Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson, and Keir Starmer,
26:00
who are trying to keep it going.
26:02
I don't want to keep it going.
26:02
You've got a lot of Ukrainian- I
26:03
don't want to keep it going.
26:04
You've got- Wait a minute, he put
26:05
Piers Morgan in the list?
26:07
That's great.
26:08
Yeah.
26:08
That's good.
26:10
You've got a lot of Ukrainian blood on
26:13
your hands.
26:14
Wow.
26:14
You have lied about this war from the
26:16
beginning.
26:16
I think Vladimir- You have lied about
26:19
the origin of this war, about the duration
26:22
of this war, about the course of this
26:26
war.
26:26
And now, having caused you and your war
26:30
party the death of a million Ukrainians while
26:33
claiming to love Ukrainians, you're now calling for
26:37
British lives to be lost.
26:39
What a load of absolute bullshit.
26:42
That constitutes close to a war crime.
26:46
You're going to regret it when, very soon,
26:50
Zelensky is sitting in a beachfront villa somewhere,
26:53
counting his ill-gotten gains, and all the
26:56
secrets of the rampant corruption between the Democrats
27:00
and the Zelensky regime begin to tumble out
27:04
of the cupboard.
27:06
This war did not begin three years ago.
27:09
You very well know that it began in
27:11
2014.
27:12
You very well know that it began with
27:16
a coup against the elected president of Ukraine,
27:19
backed by Victoria Nuland and the administration at
27:23
that time, and supported by you.
27:26
Man, everyone's going to hate Galloway now.
27:29
He can't even get the left on his
27:30
side with this.
27:32
I like the way he goes, you very
27:34
well know.
27:34
This is a trick I've never heard him
27:36
do, or anyone, actually.
27:37
I like this.
27:38
You very well know.
27:39
You very well know.
27:40
And he keeps it up.
27:41
And the whole thing is done for effect,
27:45
and it's very well done.
27:47
It's effective.
27:47
And it's very effective, and Morgan knows what's
27:52
going on.
27:52
And this was kind of, at least to
27:54
me, it's funny to watch Morgan.
27:56
He almost tries to stop him, but then
27:58
he gets him out.
27:58
He's on a roll.
27:59
And Morgan backs off, knowing that this is
28:02
good material that's going to get him the
28:04
views he wants.
28:05
But here we go.
28:06
You very well know that the criminalization of
28:09
the Russian language, which followed hard on the
28:12
heels of that coup, was the proximate reason
28:16
for an uprising in the east of the
28:18
country amongst Russian-speaking, ethnically Russian people.
28:23
You very well know that Zelensky and his
28:26
predecessor rained down shot and shell on the
28:30
people of East Ukraine for eight years before
28:35
Putin intervened.
28:36
It's possible that Galloway is really, truly an
28:42
anti-war guy.
28:44
That may be his reasoning, that he's just
28:47
so anti-war, which is good, that this
28:51
is why he's—and he's on point with this.
28:53
You're so right.
28:54
He's on point.
28:55
In 2022.
28:57
And that 14,000 people, most of them
29:00
women and children, were killed in that onslaught.
29:04
You very well know that Zelensky was preparing
29:07
for a final onslaught, a final solution.
29:12
And while I'm on that subject, you're always
29:14
telling us how much you love the Jews.
29:17
You're supporting a regime which puts up statues
29:21
to Nazi collaborators, to generals of the Galician
29:25
division of the SS.
29:29
Zelensky is Jewish, you know that, right?
29:31
You know Zelensky is Jewish, right?
29:34
But that's like saying there's no racism in
29:36
America because Obama— So you're calling the Jewish
29:40
leader of Ukraine a Nazi.
29:42
Is that your position?
29:43
By the way, I am a little disappointed.
29:46
Where are all my Jew haters to say
29:48
that Zelensky is controlling America?
29:52
I'm missing this in my time.
29:55
I'm missing it.
29:56
That's like saying there's no racism in America
29:59
because Obama was briefly the president of the
30:03
country.
30:04
The entire western part of Ukraine played a
30:08
decisive role in the mass murder of Jews
30:12
and Poles and others in the Second World
30:15
War.
30:16
And now they are heroizing the heroes of
30:19
the SS.
30:20
Why doesn't Donald Trump agree with you?
30:25
This is—I'm glad you got these.
30:27
This is very good.
30:28
This is— Yeah, he raps it and he
30:30
keeps—it doesn't end with—I mean, now the last
30:34
is the last clip, but it's just like
30:36
he brings in Donald Trump and this is
30:38
the part that I find was interesting.
30:40
Why doesn't Donald Trump agree with you?
30:43
Because he's wrong.
30:44
Well, you know, you have been up his
30:47
ass all of these two decades.
30:50
You've kissed his feet.
30:52
You've licked his boots.
30:53
You've fawned upon him.
30:55
Really?
30:56
You have been his super fan.
30:58
And now, on this fundamental question of our
31:02
age, he's entirely wrong.
31:04
Everybody watching knows you are Trump's biggest ass
31:09
kisser.
31:09
I like him.
31:10
I like him.
31:11
I like Donald Trump.
31:12
I know you like him.
31:13
I don't like him.
31:14
And on many things, on many things— But
31:16
on this, he's wrong.
31:17
And the fundamental question— Let me finish.
31:19
The biggest question in politics in the world
31:23
today, he's got it completely wrong.
31:26
Ukraine was the most corrupt country in Europe—
31:30
What, more corrupt than Russia?
31:32
—before BitLess was designated by the economists, by
31:37
the FDA.
31:38
What about what?
31:39
Putin?
31:41
Yeah, Putin.
31:42
And it falls apart there.
31:44
Oh, that's good.
31:46
That's good.
31:47
Now, does Galloway also hate Trump?
31:51
Man, that was a little unclear.
31:52
Unfortunately, in that little exchange there, in there,
31:54
he says, I hate Trump.
31:56
Yeah, but Trump is doing the right thing,
31:58
but I hate Trump.
31:59
Yeah.
32:00
Interesting.
32:01
All right, so all of this culminated, I
32:04
think, as intended or as expected— There was
32:09
a hint it may have been intended because
32:11
Starmer, in this clip, does indicate that there
32:15
was some— Because he met with Trump the
32:18
day before, or it was— I think it
32:21
was the day before.
32:22
Two days before.
32:23
Yeah, well, Macron, I guess.
32:25
Macron was there, and so was Starmer.
32:27
They both met.
32:29
So there may have been some scheming going
32:31
on here.
32:31
We don't know for sure, but this thing,
32:34
this is— I don't know.
32:37
Starmer is not a character I would trust.
32:41
I don't think anyone trusts Starmer.
32:44
No, no.
32:47
Now, so we're going to play the announcement
32:49
from this morning?
32:50
Yeah, this is the one that came out
32:51
today.
32:52
First, we will keep the military aid flowing
32:55
and keep increasing the economic pressure on Russia
32:59
to strengthen Ukraine now.
33:02
Second, we agreed that any lasting peace must
33:06
ensure Ukraine's sovereignty and security, and Ukraine must
33:10
be at the table.
33:12
Third, in the event of a peace deal,
33:16
we will keep boosting Ukraine's own defensive capabilities
33:19
to deter any future invasion.
33:23
Fourth, we will go further to develop a
33:25
coalition of the willing.
33:28
Where have we heard this, coalition of the
33:30
willing?
33:30
Was that not Iraq when— George W.
33:34
Bush.
33:34
When we scammed everybody into going into a
33:36
different country?
33:37
And he's the one who said coalition of
33:39
the willing.
33:39
In fact, if people want to look something
33:41
up that's entertaining, the Council on Foreign Relations
33:44
did a whole paper on coalition of the
33:46
willing.
33:47
If you google coalition, I'm sorry, coalition, not
33:52
coalition, coalition of the willing, Council on Foreign
33:56
Relations, you can find it.
33:58
Coalition of the willing to defend a deal
34:01
in Ukraine and to guarantee the peace.
34:04
Not every nation will feel able to contribute,
34:07
but that can't mean that we sit back.
34:11
Instead, those willing will intensify planning now with
34:15
real urgency.
34:17
The UK is prepared to back this with
34:19
boots on the ground and planes in the
34:21
air, together with others.
34:25
Europe must do the heavy listing.
34:27
But to support peace in our continent and
34:30
to succeed, this effort must have strong US
34:35
backing.
34:35
We're working with the US on this point
34:37
after my meeting with President Trump last week.
34:41
And let me be clear, we agree with
34:43
the president on the urgent need for a
34:46
durable peace.
34:47
Now we need to deliver together.
34:51
Finally, we agreed that leaders will meet again
34:54
very soon to keep the pace behind these
34:57
actions and to keep working towards this shared
35:00
plan.
35:01
We are at a crossroads in history today.
35:04
This is not a moment for more talk.
35:08
It's time to act, time to step up
35:10
and lead and to unite around a new
35:13
plan for a just and enduring peace.
35:17
Thank you.
35:18
I like the just and enduring peace.
35:20
A just, that's what Zelensky said that too,
35:22
a just peace.
35:23
We need a just, whatever that means, a
35:26
just peace.
35:26
Doesn't mean anything.
35:27
And what's the thing, we're gonna have more
35:29
meetings, but let's not have too many meetings.
35:31
Give me a break.
35:32
So right after the Oval blow up, Zelensky
35:36
hoofs it over to No.
35:37
10 Dowling Street for the big embrace.
35:39
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President
35:42
Vladimir Zelensky to London on Saturday.
35:45
I want to thank you, people of the
35:48
United Kingdom, such big support from the very
35:51
beginning of this war.
35:52
The meeting follows the berating seen around the
35:54
world.
35:54
Berating.
35:55
President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance
35:57
gave Zelensky in the Oval Office Friday.
35:59
God bless.
36:00
You don't know that.
36:01
God bless.
36:01
God bless.
36:02
You will not have a war.
36:03
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
36:05
We're trying to solve a problem.
36:07
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
36:08
I'm not telling you.
36:09
Because you're in no position to dictate that.
36:12
You're in no position to dictate what we're
36:16
gonna feel.
36:17
President Trump is spending the weekend at his
36:19
Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
36:21
Before leaving D.C., Trump spoke to reporters
36:23
about Zelensky's dressing down that sparked new questions
36:26
about the next chapter in U.S. support
36:29
for Ukraine.
36:29
He's got to say, I want to make
36:31
peace.
36:31
He doesn't have to stand there and say
36:34
about Putin this, Putin that, all negative things.
36:39
What became clear, and I think what has
36:41
the president so frustrated and frankly angry, is
36:47
that it's not clear that Zelensky truly wants
36:50
to stop the fighting.
36:51
Many Republicans expressed support of the president after
36:54
the showdown with Zelensky.
36:55
But GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska commented
36:59
on the situation on Axe, calling it a
37:01
regrettable conversation, showing the administration may try to
37:05
end all U.S. support for Ukraine.
37:08
All right, so as Tina and I were
37:10
talking about this, the first thing she said
37:12
is, well, who's his handler?
37:13
Who is making him do this?
37:16
And it seems very obvious to me the
37:18
EU and the UK are behind this, and
37:21
for very good reasons.
37:22
So he went to this emergency summit, and
37:25
he's sitting there, everyone's around the table, including
37:28
Queen Ursula.
37:29
They're all in all the panel, and Zelensky
37:33
lays out his plight.
37:34
Oh, what a difference a day makes.
37:37
Extraordinary.
37:37
I'm sorry, intro first.
37:38
We've seen in Washington in the Oval Office,
37:42
and because of this diplomatic debris, more than
37:45
ever, pressure.
37:46
Oh, I like diplomatic debris.
37:48
That's a nice one.
37:49
Diplomatic debris.
37:50
And because of this diplomatic debris, more than
37:53
ever, pressure on Keir Starmer, the UK prime
37:56
minister, really on this London summit.
37:59
But a very positive, constructive meeting, a lot
38:02
of warmth.
38:03
Indeed, the prime minister came out of that
38:04
famous black door, number 10, and gave a
38:07
big hug to President Zelensky and immediately drew
38:10
his attention to the cheers that had gone
38:13
up just outside the gates of number 10,
38:16
very much to say that the UK, the
38:19
Ukraine has a full backing of the United
38:21
Kingdom.
38:22
Then very warm words in front of the
38:23
cameras, briefly, very much appreciated by President Zelensky.
38:29
President Zelensky, who had requested, I understand, a
38:32
meeting with the head of state of the
38:35
United Kingdom, King Charles, and who has indeed
38:38
obtained it.
38:39
That had to be approved by the UK
38:41
government.
38:42
So interesting and very constructive, very positive.
38:46
That defense loan also announced last night.
38:49
So a lot of warmth, a lot of
38:51
backing.
38:51
And it's hoped that there'll be much more
38:53
backing in the London summit that will be
38:55
happening here at Lancaster House.
38:57
All right.
38:58
So then what was that report from?
39:00
That is from, I think, France 24.
39:04
They use the word warmth way too much.
39:07
Oh, and that was the contrast with Trump,
39:10
obviously, because it's an anti-Trump outlet.
39:12
And the warm embrace, you know, oh yeah.
39:15
You know, Zelensky also went into an office
39:19
with Starmer and I forget the woman's name.
39:22
You know, they signed a two billion pound
39:24
deal right on the spot before even this
39:27
summit took place.
39:28
So the UK was already in for two
39:32
billion pounds to keep something flowing.
39:35
And here's a, I have a couple of
39:36
clips here from this panel.
39:38
The stakes couldn't be higher.
39:41
The summit to take place on Sunday, hosted
39:43
by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, will bring
39:45
together leaders across Europe and will tackle.
39:48
Let me see if this is it.
39:49
You are secure.
39:50
I don't want that one.
39:52
Is it this one?
39:53
We hope that we can finish this war
39:57
this year, not in three years.
40:00
It's very, very difficult.
40:03
Very difficult for all our nation to go
40:06
through this war.
40:07
And all these, all these jimoks from the
40:09
EU are sitting there looking at him.
40:10
Oh yes, yes, yes, oh yes.
40:13
But with all respect to our soldiers and
40:15
our people.
40:17
So I can't speak about three years.
40:21
If we speak about how to prepare security
40:24
because of the Russia, they can come back
40:27
in 10 years.
40:29
If we will not be prepared, they will
40:31
not come back.
40:32
If we will pressure them, put them to
40:36
their place.
40:37
To their territory.
40:38
You have to put them to their place.
40:40
And if Ukraine will be in EU and
40:43
in NATO.
40:44
Uh-huh.
40:45
In the EU and in NATO.
40:47
There it is.
40:47
In closest years.
40:49
Of course, it will help us very much.
40:52
And I think that they will not come
40:53
back.
40:54
We will have strong army and strong allies
40:57
and strong unity, to my mind.
41:00
Because they will never, I mean, forgive the
41:05
world that they didn't win.
41:10
And you see that they will not win.
41:13
And then he takes it one step further.
41:15
And this is, this is real war talk.
41:17
You know, we are very often.
41:20
And also today we speak that we need
41:22
just and lasting peace.
41:26
And when we speak about the just.
41:28
And here you go.
41:29
An explanation of just and lasting peace.
41:32
Lasting peace.
41:33
And when we speak about the just and
41:36
this war.
41:36
It's difficult to find just in this war.
41:42
Because of such steps of Russia.
41:45
Their war.
41:47
Their way of this war.
41:50
How many people they killed.
41:51
Just killed and thousands in the prison.
41:55
And stolen children.
41:56
Stolen children.
41:58
And that's why we'll never forget it.
42:01
And we can't forget it.
42:04
And even if, I hope that our partners
42:07
on the same page with us.
42:10
Not only hope I see it.
42:12
But we'll never forget it.
42:14
And we will really do everything that people
42:17
who began this war.
42:19
Who unprovoked.
42:21
Unprovoked.
42:22
All these people.
42:24
Yes, really will.
42:29
Will answer.
42:31
And of course we will work on tribunal.
42:35
Even after the hard part of this war.
42:38
Even when we will go to the diplomacy.
42:40
We'll never, never forget these surnames and these
42:44
people.
42:45
Tribunals.
42:46
Okay.
42:47
That's not peace talk with tribunals.
42:51
And this, it's like a turning back the
42:53
clock two years.
42:54
It's the same stuff we've heard.
42:58
And like I explained to my friend Michelle.
43:02
Dude, we're responsible.
43:03
The USA is responsible for this.
43:06
Starts with James Baker.
43:08
Lying that, oh, we'll never expand NATO.
43:10
Then we expanded NATO over and over.
43:12
And then the coup.
43:14
Thank you, Victoria Nuland.
43:16
You just have to chalk that up to
43:18
the USA.
43:19
We let all that happen.
43:20
We let all that go.
43:23
And then Boris Johnson coming in.
43:27
Stopping the peace accord after Minsk II.
43:30
And the Europeans were already like, no, we
43:32
just want to get ready.
43:33
We use Minsk II just as a way
43:35
to arm up and get ready.
43:36
The whole thing has been a big giant
43:38
scam.
43:39
And really when you look at it.
43:41
This is part of the European Union project.
43:44
Yeah.
43:45
In fact, there's a couple of things to
43:47
note.
43:48
Which we don't have clips of.
43:50
But during this little, when Trump went off.
43:54
He did bring up the fact.
43:56
And just something I subscribe to.
43:58
Which was the EU was formed to screw
44:00
the United States.
44:01
Because they were losing out on trade.
44:04
And it formed specifically to outcompete us.
44:08
Yes.
44:09
And it hasn't worked, by the way.
44:11
In addition, one of the big problems.
44:13
There were a couple big promises.
44:16
I was there.
44:17
I was living there when it happened.
44:19
The EU would have all the same money.
44:22
It's going to be great.
44:24
And everything doubled in price the next day.
44:26
The minute the euro came in.
44:29
The next is you will no longer need
44:32
a passport.
44:33
Well, that helped with all the irregular migration.
44:37
That was all planned.
44:39
That was flooded the entire zone.
44:41
And they also promised.
44:43
We will never, ever, ever have a European
44:45
army.
44:47
I remember we played that clip from.
44:51
What's his face?
44:53
The Brexit guy.
44:56
Farage.
44:57
Who said it's just a lie.
44:59
You want a European army.
45:00
No, we'll never have a European army.
45:02
And we'll also never centralize the finances.
45:05
To have a federal central bank.
45:09
Yes, central bank and a tax.
45:11
And a tax, a generalized tax.
45:13
And so they need, in order to complete
45:17
the European Union project, they need the fear
45:20
of Russia.
45:22
And remember, it was, I think it was
45:25
Starmer and it was Macron.
45:28
We are now in a, we have to
45:30
have a war economy mindset.
45:33
A war.
45:34
This is what we're moving towards.
45:35
So that once you have a European army,
45:37
then you need to have European taxes to
45:40
fund that army.
45:41
And now you have the United States of
45:43
Europe, which they always intended to have.
45:45
And they don't care about their people at
45:47
all, at all, at all.
45:48
This is literally the finalization of the project.
45:53
And I'm sure that the globalists like Newland
45:56
and Lindsey Graham and McCain, they were all
46:00
in on it.
46:00
They loved it.
46:03
Lindsey Graham.
46:04
I do have the clip.
46:06
Is the Lindsey Graham.
46:08
He was obviously readied on the scheme of
46:11
the meeting with Trump.
46:13
He started off with, you know, Zelensky had
46:16
a pre-meeting, bipartisan pre-meeting, and he's
46:20
sitting there at the reception line.
46:22
Which is probably a violation of the Logan
46:24
Act, by the way.
46:25
Maybe.
46:27
But they all shaking hands.
46:28
Oh, Vladimir, so good to see you.
46:30
Oh, it's fantastic.
46:32
Do you have the Graham clip?
46:33
I have the Graham clip.
46:34
I have the whole Graham clip.
46:35
It's quite interesting because right after the thing
46:38
that took place, and it starts off when
46:40
I first heard it, because I heard it
46:41
live when it was going on.
46:42
I thought, oh, he's going to turn on
46:43
Trump, which then I did.
46:45
That thought lifted rather quickly because Graham doesn't
46:49
do that.
46:51
Graham is a screwy guy, a pro-war
46:55
guy, but he doesn't turn on the boss.
46:59
And so you ended up with this.
47:01
I don't see your Lindsey Graham clip.
47:04
Under Frakas.
47:05
It's all under Frakas.
47:06
Oh, I see it.
47:08
Yes, Frakas.
47:09
Got it.
47:09
So, Graham, what did I think?
47:12
Complete utter disaster.
47:13
Oh, by the way, stop, stop.
47:14
So the clip was terrible.
47:16
I mean, I think my clip is better.
47:18
Let me see.
47:19
No, this clip is really clean.
47:21
Once it gets going, I've cleaned it up.
47:23
I went through Adobe.
47:25
Believe me, it's understandable.
47:27
I hate Adobe.
47:28
It's so, they've gotten so bad with this
47:30
cleanup stuff.
47:31
They just turn it into AI voices like
47:34
it comes from 11 labs.
47:35
You get used to it.
47:37
Believe me, this is a much better than
47:38
that.
47:38
I know what you have.
47:40
And this, I had both.
47:41
And this one I prefer.
47:43
So, Graham, what did I think?
47:45
Complete utter disaster.
47:48
I've been to Ukraine eight or nine times
47:51
since the war started.
47:53
I understand the consequences of Putin's actions against
47:56
Ukraine.
47:58
I appreciate what the Ukrainian people have done.
48:00
They fought like tigers.
48:02
At the end of the day, I was
48:04
hoping that this minerals deal, which would be
48:07
transformative in the relationship, would go over well.
48:11
I talked to Zelensky this morning.
48:13
Don't take the bait.
48:15
President Trump was in a very good mood
48:17
last night.
48:18
Somebody asked me, am I embarrassed about Trump?
48:21
I have never been more proud of the
48:23
president.
48:24
I was very proud of J.D. Vance
48:26
standing up for our country.
48:28
We want to be helpful.
48:30
What I saw in the Oval Office was
48:32
disrespectful.
48:34
And I don't know if we can ever
48:35
do business with Zelensky again.
48:38
I think most Americans saw a guy that
48:42
they would not want to go in business
48:43
with.
48:44
The way he handled the meeting, the way
48:46
he confronted the president was just over the
48:49
top.
48:50
So I think the relationship between Ukraine and
48:54
America is important, vitally important.
48:57
But can Zelensky do a deal with the
49:00
United States?
49:01
After what I saw, I don't know.
49:04
President Trump, what did he say to you
49:05
about his interactions and whether he's— He was
49:08
shocked.
49:08
He was very upbeat.
49:11
I told Zelensky, we'll talk about security guarantees.
49:14
We'll talk about ceasefires and how the war
49:17
ends.
49:17
This is a process.
49:19
You have a new relationship with America.
49:21
A $500.5 trillion deal that President Trump
49:26
is proud of, that gives us an interest
49:29
worth defending.
49:30
Let's talk about the positive.
49:32
But he was terrible at Munich, Zelensky.
49:35
And I think he has made it almost
49:37
impossible to sell to the American people that
49:40
he's a good investment.
49:42
Senator Graham, thank you.
49:44
Do you think President Zelensky needs to resign
49:47
to presume these peace talks?
49:48
He either needs to resign and send somebody
49:51
over that we can do business with, or
49:53
he needs to change.
49:55
Yeah, he may get resigned.
49:56
By the way, Lindsey Graham is being primaried
49:59
by some MAGA person, I think an ex
50:02
-military guy.
50:03
So he has to suck up to Trump
50:05
to get the ever-important endorsement.
50:08
So, you know, Lindsey Graham, what a tool.
50:11
I have— Yeah, he played his part.
50:15
Yeah, he did.
50:15
I have Rubio post-fracas on CNN with
50:19
the Joker face, Caitlin Collins.
50:23
Two clips.
50:24
I thought this was— The lipless wonder.
50:26
There she is.
50:27
Thank you so much, Secretary Rubio, for being
50:29
here.
50:29
We just heard from President Zelensky.
50:31
He said he does not think that he
50:33
owes President Trump an apology for what happened
50:36
inside the Oval Office today.
50:38
Do you feel otherwise?
50:39
I do.
50:40
I do, because you guys don't see— You
50:42
guys only saw the end.
50:43
You saw what happened today.
50:44
You don't see all the things that led
50:45
up to this.
50:46
So let me explain.
50:47
The president's been very clear.
50:49
He campaigned on this.
50:50
He thinks this war should have never started.
50:52
He believes, and I agree, that had he
50:53
been president, it never would have happened.
50:55
Now here we are.
50:56
He's trying to bring an end to this
50:57
conflict.
50:58
We've explained very clearly what our plan is
50:59
here, which is we want to get the
51:01
Russians to a negotiating table.
51:02
We want to explore whether peace is possible.
51:05
They understand this.
51:06
They also understand that this agreement that was
51:08
supposed to be signed today was supposed to
51:10
be an agreement that binds America economically to
51:13
Ukraine, which to me, as I've explained, and
51:15
I think the president alluded to today, is
51:17
a security guarantee in its own way, because
51:19
we're involved.
51:20
It's not us.
51:20
It's our interests.
51:21
That was all explained.
51:23
That was all understood.
51:24
And nonetheless, for the last 10 days, in
51:26
every engagement we've had with the Ukrainians, there's
51:28
been complications in getting that point across, including
51:31
the public statements that President Zelensky has made.
51:34
But they insisted on coming to D.C.
51:36
This agreement could have been signed five days
51:38
ago, but they insisted on coming to Washington,
51:40
and there was a very—and should have been
51:41
a very clear understanding, don't come here and
51:44
create a scenario where you're going to start
51:46
lecturing us about how diplomacy isn't going to
51:48
work.
51:49
President Zelensky took it in that direction, and
51:52
it ended in a predictable outcome as a
51:54
result.
51:54
It's unfortunate.
51:55
That wasn't supposed to be this way, but
51:57
that's the path he chose.
51:58
And I think, frankly, you know, sends his
52:01
country backwards in regards to achieving peace, which
52:04
is what President Trump wants at the end
52:05
of the day, is for this war to
52:07
end.
52:07
He's been as consistent as anyone can be
52:10
about what his objective is here.
52:12
What about the apology he kept demanding?
52:14
But what specifically do you want to see
52:16
President Zelensky apologize for?
52:18
For being a douche.
52:21
Well, apologize for turning this thing into the
52:23
fiasco for him that it became.
52:24
There was no need for him to go
52:26
in there and become antagonistic.
52:27
Look, this thing went off the rails.
52:28
You were there, I believe.
52:30
It went off the rails when he said,
52:31
let me ask you a question to the
52:32
vice president.
52:33
What kind of diplomacy are you talking about?
52:35
Well, this is a serious thing.
52:36
I mean, thousands of people have been killed.
52:38
Thousands.
52:39
And he talks about all these horrible things
52:41
that have happened to prisoners of war and
52:43
children.
52:43
All true.
52:44
All bad.
52:45
This is what we're dealing with here.
52:46
It needs to come to an end.
52:47
We are trying to bring it to an
52:48
end.
52:49
The way you bring it to an end
52:50
is you get Russia to the table to
52:52
talk.
52:53
And he understands that attacking Putin, no matter
52:55
how anyone may feel about him personally, forcing
52:58
the president into a position where you're trying
53:00
to goad him into attacking Putin, calling him
53:02
names, maximalist demands about Russia having to pay
53:05
for the reconstruction.
53:06
All the sorts of things that you talk
53:08
about in a negotiation.
53:10
Well, when you start talking about that aggressively
53:12
and the president's a dealmaker, he's made deals
53:14
his entire life.
53:15
You're not going to get people to the
53:16
table.
53:17
And so you start to perceive that maybe
53:19
Zelensky doesn't want a peace deal.
53:21
He says he does, but maybe he doesn't.
53:23
And that active, open undermining of efforts to
53:26
bring about peace is deeply frustrating for everyone
53:28
who's been involved in communications with them leading
53:31
up to today.
53:32
And I think you should apologize for wasting
53:34
our time for a meeting that was going
53:35
to end the way it did.
53:37
So I'm seeing different things online.
53:40
I didn't clip anything.
53:41
One, because Putin is just speaking in Russian.
53:45
But apparently Putin says, you know, we got
53:48
more rare earth minerals than Ukraine.
53:51
Yeah.
53:51
We can do a deal with America.
53:54
We can do a better deal than they
53:55
can, basically.
53:56
And the other one that I saw was
53:57
some Ukrainian official, who knows, that said, well,
54:02
we just might have to ask China for
54:04
help.
54:05
Which I thought was interesting, if true.
54:07
I haven't seen that one.
54:09
And meanwhile, the professional signs are out in
54:12
front of the Tesla dealership in Manhattan.
54:21
Can you hear what they're singing?
54:24
No.
54:24
Zelensky is a hero.
54:26
Zelensky is a hero.
54:28
Repeat after me.
54:29
Mic check.
54:33
What's that got to do with Tesla?
54:36
Well, Musk, you know.
54:38
Yeah, Musk isn't, he wasn't even in the
54:40
room.
54:41
If we hurt Musk, we hurt Trump.
54:42
I don't know.
54:44
So I have a bunch of, I have
54:46
a series of, uh, FRACA's analysis from NPR.
54:51
Okay.
54:52
Oh, that's always funny.
54:54
Which discusses this issue.
54:56
Can we start off by saying, hey, hi,
54:58
hoi, hi, how you doing?
54:59
Can we start off with one of those?
55:03
I don't know if I've got that one
55:05
in this one.
55:06
This week with that remarkable.
55:12
This week with that remarkable Oval Office press
55:15
conference on Friday with President Trump, Vice President
55:20
Banz.
55:21
And of course, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.
55:24
Zelensky.
55:25
NPR Senior Editor and Correspondent Ron Elving joins
55:27
us.
55:27
Now, Ron, thanks so much for being with
55:29
us.
55:29
Good to be with you, Scott.
55:31
President and Vice President flanking President Zelensky.
55:34
And then President Trump telling him he ought
55:37
to be grateful for U.S. military aid.
55:39
Yes, that's exactly how it went.
55:43
Okay.
55:44
All right.
55:44
NPR, the national treasure.
55:46
If you didn't have our military equipment, this
55:49
war would have been over in two weeks.
55:51
In three days.
55:52
I heard it from Putin.
55:53
In three days.
55:54
This is something.
55:55
Maybe less.
55:56
In two weeks.
55:56
Of course, yes.
55:57
It's going to be a very hard thing
55:58
to do business like this.
56:02
It's very hard to do business like this.
56:06
Ron, in your experience, anything like this in
56:08
the Oval Office, in front of the international
56:10
press?
56:12
Simple answer.
56:12
No.
56:13
The point appeared to be for Trump to
56:15
send a signal that the world could see,
56:17
including supporters of his America first theme here
56:20
in the U.S., but also including our
56:23
allies in Europe, the countries he wants to
56:26
stop, depending on the U.S. for security,
56:29
and perhaps also a signal to Vladimir Putin,
56:32
with whom he has been quite visibly cooperative
56:34
since returning to power.
56:36
And as to the presence of reporters, it
56:38
was less about the press than the cameras.
56:41
In fact, as the abortive meeting ended, Trump
56:43
could be heard to say to the departing
56:45
crews that it must have made, quote, great
56:47
television, unquote.
56:49
The act as if it was a hot
56:51
mic moment.
56:52
I mean, no.
56:52
Yes.
56:53
And by the way, that was exactly the
56:55
pitch of Susan Rice.
56:57
Yes.
56:57
Oh, yeah.
56:58
But this analysis was identical.
57:00
Yeah.
57:00
And identical to the conversation I had with
57:03
the publisher and identical to the conversation I
57:06
had with the Uber driver.
57:09
Wow.
57:10
That is a strong meme.
57:15
So it was a hijack to suck up
57:19
to Vladimir Putin.
57:22
Yeah.
57:23
All right.
57:25
President Trump gets support from Republicans in Congress
57:29
to essentially flip U.S. policy to support
57:32
Russia because support for Ukraine has enjoyed bipartisan
57:35
support.
57:36
Yes.
57:36
Judging by their public reactions in real time,
57:39
yes, President Trump will get their support, the
57:41
Republicans in the Senate by and large.
57:44
Even some of the biggest defense hawks, like
57:47
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, were calling on
57:49
Zelensky to apologize to Trump for that meeting
57:52
or to resign as president of Ukraine.
57:56
So what they're making it about here is
57:58
the apology.
57:59
That's what we're going to be just hit
58:01
to death with for the next week is,
58:04
oh, he's such a little puny man.
58:06
He wants an apology.
58:07
What I thought was interesting was that after
58:11
he had the fracas, he did.
58:14
I didn't expect this to happen, but he
58:16
did do Brett Baer.
58:18
Brett Baer.
58:19
Yeah, he did.
58:20
Brett Baer.
58:20
Yeah.
58:20
He went to Brett Baer's show.
58:22
Yeah.
58:22
And the whole show, which I was stunned.
58:25
I thought he'd just cancel it.
58:26
But no.
58:27
In fact, I think Baer was stunned.
58:29
He mentioned it several times.
58:30
There's 30 seconds left on this clip.
58:32
I don't want to...
58:32
But I just wanted to also say that
58:34
that's all that show was about was the
58:36
apology.
58:36
Yeah, true.
58:38
Well, Fox News is run by Democrats.
58:40
Others found the whole thing unseemly.
58:42
They were expressing shock in private.
58:44
But on this issue, as on so many,
58:47
Republicans in Congress may utter criticisms or regrets
58:51
here and there, disagree, but they do not
58:53
break with Trump.
58:54
They vote with him.
58:56
They know what that will mean for them
58:59
in the immediate hours thereafter online if they
59:02
oppose him and on the phone and back
59:04
in their districts or their states.
59:06
And they know what it means when they
59:07
next face Republican voters.
59:10
Yeah.
59:10
Yeah.
59:11
It's only about politics.
59:13
It's only about the show.
59:14
Of course.
59:14
NPR.
59:15
Of course.
59:16
It makes nothing but sense.
59:18
Oh, man.
59:20
There's...
59:21
I have two more clips from NPR.
59:23
It was a good moment, though.
59:25
The whole thing was fun and well-timed.
59:28
Thank you, President Trump, doing it on a
59:30
Friday in between shows.
59:31
That was appreciated.
59:33
Oh, it was great.
59:35
What else do you got?
59:36
I thought it was, like, terrific.
59:38
What next?
59:39
In fact, that's one of the...
59:40
Another topic that comes up is that, well,
59:42
this is going to be a horrible...
59:43
No, this is...
59:45
This is...
59:45
This is...
59:46
This show is tough.
59:48
The next...
59:48
I guarantee by Thursday, there'll be another thing
59:51
that'll be just as good as this.
59:52
Yes, JFK files released.
59:54
It's going to be great.
59:56
Well, you don't know about that.
59:57
Let's play this fracas Ukraine rally.
1:00:00
Ukrainians are rallying around their president, Volodymyr Kuzinski,
1:00:04
after he was publicly berated in the White
1:00:06
House yesterday by President Trump and Vice President
1:00:09
J.D. Vance.
1:00:10
By the way, there's articles of impeachment now
1:00:14
in the Ukrainian parliament.
1:00:16
So I'm not so sure these reports about
1:00:17
rallying around Zelensky are all that correct.
1:00:20
I wonder about that myself.
1:00:22
But it's possible because the guy who is
1:00:24
pushing the articles of impeachment is one of
1:00:27
the oppositions that has been pretty much imprisoned
1:00:31
by Zelensky's dictatorship.
1:00:33
And I think Trump is correct about this,
1:00:36
by the way.
1:00:37
This guy has turned into a dictator that
1:00:39
for some reason we're all in on.
1:00:41
By the way, Sir Gene just sent me
1:00:44
a message.
1:00:44
He speaks fluent Russian because he's my handler.
1:00:48
And Sir Gene says, yes, Putin did say
1:00:50
Russia has way more rare earth than Ukraine
1:00:53
and is ready to do a deal with
1:00:55
the U.S. for rare material extraction from
1:00:57
all of Russia.
1:00:59
There we go.
1:01:01
Straight from the translator's mouth.
1:01:02
We always do well when Putin, actually it
1:01:06
would be pre-Putin, let the oil companies
1:01:08
and our oil companies into Russia because they
1:01:11
didn't have the...
1:01:13
At the very beginning, Russia's making a lot
1:01:15
of money off of oil and gas.
1:01:16
But at the very beginning, they've always had
1:01:18
the reserves.
1:01:19
They've had tons of them.
1:01:20
And everybody knew that because since Stalin, who
1:01:24
had gotten rid of all the bureaucratic class
1:01:26
that could do engineering, they had nobody that
1:01:30
knew how to get the oil out properly
1:01:33
using modern technologies.
1:01:35
And so they let our Exxon and BP
1:01:40
and all the boys came in and showed
1:01:42
the Russians how to do it.
1:01:44
And then Russia all of a sudden becomes
1:01:45
an oil economy because they were shown how
1:01:48
to do it right.
1:01:49
And they've benefited from it.
1:01:51
They know that they could bring in our
1:01:52
boys again.
1:01:54
Bring out the broader list again.
1:01:56
And here we go.
1:01:58
We could make money for everybody.
1:02:00
And I just don't get it why we
1:02:01
don't want to do that more.
1:02:03
It's just beyond me.
1:02:04
Clearly, our president does.
1:02:06
Yeah, but it still comes up with this
1:02:08
anti-Russian propaganda.
1:02:10
He comes up against this wall, this Putin,
1:02:13
Putin, Putin wall, and it's everywhere.
1:02:15
All right.
1:02:16
Let's continue with the fracas on NPR.
1:02:18
NPR's Joannica Kiss's reports from Kyiv.
1:02:27
Oh, this is their evidence?
1:02:29
TikTok videos?
1:02:30
What are you, a podcast?
1:02:31
What are you doing, NPR?
1:02:39
One prominent politician, Mustafa Nayyem, wrote on social
1:02:43
media that the Trump administration hates Zelensky and
1:02:47
Ukraine and sees Ukrainians as, quote, barriers to
1:02:51
backroom deals.
1:02:53
At the Kyiv food market, soldier Denis Sokolov
1:02:55
says Zelensky wants what's best for Ukraine.
1:02:59
The main difference is that Ukraine won't make
1:03:02
a peace, but Trump won't make a deal.
1:03:05
That's a huge difference in our politics, in
1:03:07
our vision to how we want to end
1:03:10
the war.
1:03:10
Making peace versus making a deal, he says,
1:03:14
are two different goals.
1:03:15
Let me just contradict the NPR lady here.
1:03:18
I have friends in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium,
1:03:22
the UK, and you know who they really
1:03:26
hate?
1:03:26
The Ukrainians.
1:03:28
They're sick of them.
1:03:29
Now, you won't hear that, and these friends
1:03:34
and family members are no fans of President
1:03:36
Trump, per se.
1:03:37
They're sick of the Ukrainians.
1:03:39
And the Ukrainians are walking around doing that.
1:03:41
I've seen TikTok videos.
1:03:43
I hate it here in Holland.
1:03:44
This place sucks.
1:03:46
The Dutch are no good.
1:03:47
The food sucks.
1:03:48
Kind of true.
1:03:50
It's like the whole thing.
1:03:52
Ukraine is known for its cuisine.
1:03:55
They must have something going on.
1:03:57
All right.
1:03:58
What's this?
1:03:58
Oh, the rally clip?
1:03:59
Is that the next one?
1:04:01
Yeah.
1:04:01
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hosting a
1:04:04
meeting of European leaders in London tomorrow to
1:04:07
show support for Ukraine.
1:04:08
Yeah.
1:04:09
Okay.
1:04:09
So we already know what came out of
1:04:11
that one.
1:04:12
Yes.
1:04:15
I mean, I don't know how much more
1:04:17
we can do.
1:04:18
The only thing is, I did get a
1:04:19
note that Haltebak Bunkers, who are a marine
1:04:24
fuel provider in Norway, has now declared they
1:04:26
will cease supplying fuel to U.S. Navy
1:04:28
vessels.
1:04:29
Well, that seems smart.
1:04:32
What?
1:04:33
Yes.
1:04:33
I missed this one.
1:04:34
Yeah, let me see.
1:04:36
Why?
1:04:37
Because, you know, let me see.
1:04:40
I have there, we have today been witnesses
1:04:42
to the biggest, this is apparently from Haltebak
1:04:45
Bunkers on X, so take it for what
1:04:47
it's worth.
1:04:48
Could be bullcrap.
1:04:49
Could be.
1:04:49
We have been witnesses to the biggest shit
1:04:51
show ever presented live on TV by the
1:04:53
current American president and his vice president.
1:04:55
Huge credit to the president of Ukraine restraining
1:04:57
himself for keeping calm, even though the USA
1:05:00
put on a backstabbing TV show.
1:05:02
It made us sick, short and sweet.
1:05:04
As a result, we have decided to an
1:05:06
immediate stop as fuel provider to American forces
1:05:09
in Norway and their ships calling on Norwegian
1:05:12
ports.
1:05:12
No fuel to Americans.
1:05:14
We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow
1:05:17
our example.
1:05:18
Slava Ukrainia.
1:05:19
Okay.
1:05:21
All right.
1:05:22
I don't know if it's true.
1:05:25
But it seems highly unlikely.
1:05:27
Yeah, well, that's why I say it's an
1:05:29
ex-post.
1:05:30
You just don't know.
1:05:31
Um, someone recommended I read The Road to
1:05:35
Serfdom.
1:05:36
Have you ever read that from Hayek?
1:05:38
Long time ago.
1:05:39
Yeah.
1:05:40
So this person's book, this is right in
1:05:43
with, you know, you know, it's a hair
1:05:46
on fire thing.
1:05:47
Yeah.
1:05:47
But in a way, it's kind of, it
1:05:50
makes sense because Europe wants central planning.
1:05:52
They want central war planning, which means central
1:05:55
industry planning, because that's what the war economy
1:05:58
is.
1:05:59
They want the central bank.
1:06:00
They want the finances to get together.
1:06:02
They want the, they want the European Union
1:06:06
taxes to pay for everything.
1:06:09
And, you know, you just, everyone's like, oh,
1:06:13
whatever.
1:06:14
I don't know.
1:06:16
It's kind of sad.
1:06:18
So they need.
1:06:20
It goes back to the days of the
1:06:23
kings and queens and serfs and peasants.
1:06:27
This is a historic thing.
1:06:29
They've always had a de fiefdom kind of
1:06:32
thinking.
1:06:34
Well, I mean.
1:06:34
It's pathetic.
1:06:36
Sorry, EU, but yeah, it does feel a
1:06:38
bit like that.
1:06:40
So, well, wait until everyone really lose their
1:06:43
ever-loving minds when Trump starts doing a
1:06:46
deal with Putin.
1:06:47
That'll be fun.
1:06:49
It's good for the show, but phew, man.
1:06:52
Oh, it's not going to be fun to
1:06:55
watch.
1:06:55
No, but it's good for the show.
1:06:56
We have just as many Americans who think
1:06:58
the same way.
1:07:00
More professional signs as J.D. Vance and
1:07:03
family go on a quick little break.
1:07:05
For Vice President J.D. Vance and his
1:07:07
family, following yesterday's fiasco there in the Oval
1:07:11
Office with Ukrainian President Zelensky, there's some new
1:07:13
video now we have showing the vice president
1:07:16
being greeted by protesters holding anti-Vance, pro
1:07:20
-Ukraine signs as he makes his way there
1:07:24
to Vermont for a Stevenson vacation.
1:07:26
Screw America, pro-Ukraine.
1:07:27
More protesters met the Vance family outside of
1:07:30
the resort, and the family ultimately had to
1:07:33
move to an undisclosed location.
1:07:35
Undisclosed location.
1:07:37
Okay.
1:07:37
This is the same old thing with Maxine
1:07:41
Waters during the first administration telling, get in
1:07:43
their faces, get in their faces.
1:07:45
It's horrible.
1:07:46
Republicans.
1:07:47
It's really about Republicans.
1:07:50
The, so I do have two short clips
1:07:53
regarding J.D. Vance, Trump, and Starmer about
1:07:58
the free speech issue, which I still think
1:08:01
should be called freedom of speech, but okay,
1:08:03
everyone calls it free speech.
1:08:05
Here's J.D. Vance making a point of
1:08:07
it with the British Prime Minister.
1:08:09
I said what I said, which is that
1:08:11
we do have, of course, a special relationship
1:08:14
with our friends in the UK and also
1:08:15
with some of our European allies, but we
1:08:17
also know that there have been infringements on
1:08:20
free speech that actually affect not just the
1:08:23
British, of course, what the British do in
1:08:25
their own country is up to them, but
1:08:27
also affect American technology companies and by extension,
1:08:30
American citizens.
1:08:31
So that is something that we'll talk about
1:08:33
today at lunch.
1:08:34
We've had free speech for a very, very
1:08:35
long time in the United Kingdom.
1:08:37
Yeah, you had it for a very long
1:08:38
time, and then you did away with it.
1:08:40
And it will last for a very, very
1:08:42
long time.
1:08:43
Well, no, I mean, certainly we wouldn't want
1:08:45
to reach across U.S. citizens, and we
1:08:47
don't, and that's absolutely right.
1:08:49
But in relation to free speech in the
1:08:51
UK, I'm very proud about our history there.
1:08:53
I'll bet you're proud of it.
1:08:55
Here's Keir Starmer.
1:08:56
What is he talking about?
1:08:58
They're arresting people for Facebook posts.
1:09:01
You can get arrested for performative praying, which
1:09:06
I thought was a great term.
1:09:07
And so if you pray in front of
1:09:10
a window and someone sees it, that could
1:09:12
be seen, you know, as insulting and you
1:09:16
can get a citation or be arrested for
1:09:19
it.
1:09:19
But here's Starmer once again denying this.
1:09:23
I think he's on Breitbart.
1:09:24
He did say today, we do have this
1:09:26
special relationship with our friends in the UK
1:09:28
and some European allies.
1:09:29
But we also know that there have been
1:09:31
infringements on free speech that actually affect not
1:09:34
just the British, but also affect American technology
1:09:37
companies and by extension, American citizens.
1:09:40
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, I think, has
1:09:43
brought this up.
1:09:44
This is about UK's Online Safety Act.
1:09:48
Is the UK and EU trying to censor
1:09:51
speech?
1:09:52
No, we don't believe in censoring speech.
1:09:56
But of course, we do need to deal
1:09:58
with terrorism.
1:09:59
We need to do.
1:09:59
By the way, it's true.
1:10:01
They don't censor speech.
1:10:02
They just arrest you.
1:10:03
That's not the same as censorship.
1:10:04
He's being very tricky here.
1:10:05
We don't believe in censoring speech.
1:10:10
But of course, we do need to deal
1:10:11
with terrorism.
1:10:12
We need to deal with paedophiles and issues
1:10:14
like that.
1:10:15
But I talked to the vice president about
1:10:16
it today and we had a good exchange
1:10:19
about it.
1:10:20
And of course, he's right to champion free
1:10:22
speech.
1:10:23
We champion free speech in the United Kingdom.
1:10:25
And in relation to the measures that we've
1:10:27
taken, obviously, we're very mindful that it shouldn't
1:10:31
have an impact on US citizens.
1:10:33
Very demure, very mindful.
1:10:35
Now, what this is about, as you heard
1:10:37
it mentioned twice, it affects US technology companies.
1:10:42
What they're talking about here is the Apple
1:10:45
order.
1:10:46
This morning, rare bipartisanship in Washington over new
1:10:49
concerns about American cybersecurity.
1:10:51
This gives the UK the right to basically
1:10:53
spy on my data.
1:10:54
At issue is an order from the British
1:10:56
government that could affect people right here in
1:10:58
the US.
1:10:58
The UK government is reportedly demanding Apple provide
1:11:02
backdoor access to any data in its cloud
1:11:04
storage system.
1:11:05
They've demanded this access not only to citizens
1:11:08
of their own country, but to citizens around
1:11:10
the world, which is pretty scary.
1:11:14
Just last week, Apple said it would stop
1:11:15
offering an optional security feature in the UK
1:11:18
called advanced data protection, which is found under
1:11:21
settings.
1:11:22
That feature blocks Apple from unlocking your data.
1:11:25
Apple holds the key to all of the
1:11:26
data that's uploaded into iCloud.
1:11:28
And the reason they do this makes sense.
1:11:30
It's because, oh, I've lost my password.
1:11:32
And so Apple can say, don't worry, we'll
1:11:34
take care of you.
1:11:35
We can get that data back.
1:11:37
Advanced data protection says, no, no, no, I
1:11:39
don't want Apple to have the key.
1:11:41
But the UK may want Apple to go
1:11:43
further in providing data access, presumably for national
1:11:46
security or law enforcement.
1:11:48
Here at home, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi
1:11:50
Gabbard forming a legal response, saying this would
1:11:53
be a clear and egregious violation of Americans'
1:11:56
privacy and civil liberties.
1:11:58
Lawmakers urging action, saying these dangerous short-sighted
1:12:01
efforts by the United Kingdom will undermine Americans'
1:12:04
privacy rights and expose them to espionage by
1:12:07
China, Russia and other adversaries.
1:12:09
It's up to American politicians to start putting
1:12:12
the pressure on the UK and saying, whoa,
1:12:14
whoa, whoa, whoa, this is an American company.
1:12:16
This is a bit out of bounds.
1:12:18
It's kind of interesting to me that, you
1:12:22
know, the UK is looking at, well, they've
1:12:24
ordered Apple effectively.
1:12:26
And I think Apple has complied.
1:12:27
Like, don't encrypt it.
1:12:29
And our own spy agency, the NSA, seems
1:12:34
to be a trans cult.
1:12:36
They're just talking about talking all day.
1:12:38
I mean, what is going on in the
1:12:39
world?
1:12:41
Have you seen that?
1:12:41
That NSA situation has not really been exploited
1:12:47
by the mainstream media enough.
1:12:48
It seems to me, if I was the
1:12:49
editor of a Metropolitan Daily, I would take
1:12:55
that story and just go after it.
1:12:57
Well, it's the City Journal that's going after
1:12:59
it.
1:13:00
That guy, what's his name?
1:13:03
Christopher Ruffo?
1:13:04
Ruffo, I think.
1:13:05
Ruffo.
1:13:06
Yeah, he's going after it.
1:13:08
But the mainstream media can't go after it
1:13:11
because it's anti-trans.
1:13:12
It's transphobic.
1:13:14
It's no good.
1:13:15
They're still all in on that.
1:13:17
They can't do that.
1:13:23
So, speaking...
1:13:23
They're in a bind with this trans thing.
1:13:27
It's just beyond them.
1:13:28
Although, yeah, actually, I had a...
1:13:30
Let me see, I have a clip.
1:13:33
This is a TikTok clip, no less.
1:13:35
Oh, no!
1:13:36
No!
1:13:38
I'm in your turf.
1:13:40
This is a gay lady, and she's out
1:13:42
of the club.
1:13:43
Howdy.
1:13:43
My name is Julie.
1:13:44
I'm an adult human female.
1:13:46
And to be in the gay club, you
1:13:47
used to just have to do gay stuff.
1:13:50
I'm a girl.
1:13:51
I kiss girls.
1:13:52
Homo.
1:13:52
Done.
1:13:53
Easy.
1:13:54
Over with.
1:13:54
We get it.
1:13:55
No one gives a shit.
1:13:56
But now to be a gay, it seems
1:13:58
there's a lot more rules.
1:14:00
You got to read the fine print.
1:14:02
You have to subscribe to a political ideology.
1:14:06
You have to, apparently, be miserable and oppressed.
1:14:09
You have to hate everyone who thinks differently
1:14:12
than you.
1:14:13
Fam, I just can't do it.
1:14:15
I'm still going to be a gay, but
1:14:17
I ain't in the club no more.
1:14:18
All right?
1:14:19
If you're picking up what I'm putting down,
1:14:21
let's be friends.
1:14:22
Let's be friends.
1:14:23
All right, she's out of the club.
1:14:25
She's...
1:14:25
Oh, yeah, she's a big turf.
1:14:29
I don't think she cares about what anyone
1:14:30
does, but she just doesn't want to be
1:14:32
a part of the club, which is a
1:14:34
good sign.
1:14:35
Yeah, we found these clips over the years
1:14:38
of these lesbians, mostly.
1:14:40
The gay males don't bring it up as
1:14:43
much, but the lesbians seem to be very
1:14:44
upset about it.
1:14:46
All of them except Kara Swisher.
1:14:47
She's all in.
1:14:49
She is the leader of the cult.
1:14:52
Yeah.
1:14:53
That's because she's a Democrat.
1:14:55
She's stuck in the Democrat ethos that won't
1:14:58
allow you not to think that way.
1:15:00
That's my hate lesson.
1:15:01
I can't even listen to my hate lesson.
1:15:03
It's gotten so bad.
1:15:04
It's hurting the show.
1:15:06
I'm okay.
1:15:07
All right.
1:15:08
Thursday, I'll bring in clips from my hate
1:15:10
lesson.
1:15:11
It's okay.
1:15:13
It's always the same.
1:15:14
What house are you in today, Scott?
1:15:16
Oh, I hate Trump.
1:15:17
Me too.
1:15:18
Okay.
1:15:20
By the way, you know, we often play
1:15:22
these super cuts of the news media saying
1:15:24
the same thing over and over again.
1:15:28
Yes, it's an old gag that seems to
1:15:30
have legs.
1:15:31
Yeah, so I have a super cut of
1:15:33
influencers.
1:15:34
This kind of shows you how smart companies
1:15:38
are using the internet and TikTok and Instagram
1:15:43
to do exactly the same.
1:15:45
They give the influencers money.
1:15:46
They give them a script.
1:15:48
And in this case, they all are also
1:15:50
peeling a potato.
1:15:52
And this is for some supplement company, I
1:15:55
believe.
1:15:56
So it's the exact same thing.
1:15:58
They're peeling a potato with a potato peeler.
1:16:01
It's crazy.
1:16:02
And they say this.
1:16:03
My dad is one of the highest paid
1:16:05
nutritionists in California.
1:16:09
No one believes him when he says these
1:16:11
things.
1:16:11
My dad is the highest.
1:16:13
My dad is one of the highest paying
1:16:14
nutritionists, yet nobody believes him when he says
1:16:17
these things.
1:16:17
My dad was the highest paid nutritionist in
1:16:20
2024, and still nobody believes him when he
1:16:24
tells them.
1:16:25
My dad is one of the highest paid
1:16:26
nutritionists in all of California, yet for some
1:16:29
reason, nobody believes him when he says these
1:16:32
things.
1:16:33
That's the highest paid nutritionist in California, yet
1:16:35
no one believes him when he says these
1:16:37
things.
1:16:37
My dad's the highest paid black nutritionist in
1:16:40
Southern California, and yet no one believes him
1:16:42
when he gives them these simple.
1:16:43
My dad's one of the highest paid nutritionists
1:16:45
in all of Florida, yet no one believes
1:16:46
him when he tells them these things.
1:16:48
My dad's the highest paid nutritionist in California,
1:16:50
yet no one believes him when he says
1:16:52
these things.
1:16:53
My dad is one of the highest paid.
1:16:55
My dad is one of the highest paid
1:16:57
nutritionists, and here are some wild things he
1:16:59
swears by that no one ever believed.
1:17:01
My brother's the highest paid nutritionist in Europe,
1:17:04
yet no one in the US believes him
1:17:05
when he shares these secrets.
1:17:07
My dad's a dietician.
1:17:08
Of course he'll make me a healthy human.
1:17:10
My dad is the highest paid nutritionist in
1:17:12
all of New York, but nobody believes me
1:17:14
when I share this advice.
1:17:15
There you go.
1:17:17
Wow.
1:17:18
Who dug that one up?
1:17:20
Well, it's very easy to do for yourself.
1:17:22
If you have the TikTok app, I know
1:17:24
you only use it on the computer, but
1:17:26
maybe time to get the phone out of
1:17:27
the drawer, load the TikTok app.
1:17:30
And you search for a term, and in
1:17:33
the TikTok app, when you scroll, then it
1:17:36
starts playing.
1:17:37
Yeah, but you get a variety of...
1:17:38
Yes, but it starts playing the preview.
1:17:40
So this was literally just scrolling through the
1:17:42
previews, letting each one play as it came
1:17:44
by, and then scrolling further to go to
1:17:46
the next one.
1:17:47
Did you put this together?
1:17:48
I did not.
1:17:49
I did not.
1:17:49
But I saw how it was done.
1:17:53
That's astonishing.
1:17:54
Is it surprising, though?
1:17:56
It's not as surprising in the least, but
1:17:58
the obviousity, which is a good word, by
1:18:02
the way.
1:18:02
Obviousity, I like it.
1:18:04
Yeah, the obviousity of this is people should
1:18:10
be frightened by it.
1:18:11
This is an op of the highest order.
1:18:15
We're just being played by these marketing people
1:18:19
in every which way.
1:18:21
You want to hear some big pharma plays?
1:18:24
Love it.
1:18:25
Okay.
1:18:26
Okay, first an easy one, just like, what
1:18:30
do you call it?
1:18:31
Low-hanging fruit.
1:18:32
It didn't take long for one-year-old
1:18:34
Soren's flu symptoms to land him in the
1:18:36
emergency room.
1:18:37
It was really overwhelming, and the fact that
1:18:39
the hospital was already so packed with kids
1:18:42
that were sick was also a startling thing.
1:18:44
But as soon as it seemed he was
1:18:46
getting better...
1:18:47
He then got RSV.
1:18:48
We had to quarantine him away from his
1:18:50
brother, and he was crying to hang out
1:18:53
with his brother, and it was just...
1:18:55
It was really heartbreaking.
1:18:57
Turns out there's been a big increase in
1:18:59
families dealing with the same situation.
1:19:01
So it's been different this year.
1:19:03
Dr. Olukemia Kinronola is used to busy days
1:19:07
and seeing sick kiddos, but not like this.
1:19:09
Thank you for picking up on that.
1:19:13
If there's one thing I despise, it's calling
1:19:15
kids kiddos.
1:19:18
It's creepy.
1:19:19
Busy days and seeing sick kiddos, but not
1:19:22
like this.
1:19:22
But on this particular day, we had flu
1:19:27
A, influenza A positive, about 20 cases.
1:19:29
In just my panel, it was really alarming.
1:19:32
It can be tough for parents.
1:19:33
So many of these viruses have similar symptoms.
1:19:36
Runny noses, coughs, some sort of fever.
1:19:39
But we asked, what is the key to
1:19:41
telling them apart?
1:19:42
For the flu...
1:19:43
If you see high fever, chills, lethargy.
1:19:47
For RSV...
1:19:48
Respiratory distress, either wheezing or just you can
1:19:51
see the retractions in the chest.
1:19:52
For COVID...
1:19:54
Some form of lymph nodes, so they're inflamed.
1:19:56
So that's more COVID.
1:19:58
And neurovirus.
1:19:59
Have a fever, not as high, usually it's
1:20:01
about like the 99.
1:20:02
Neurovirus, yes.
1:20:03
So we have four.
1:20:04
To 101.
1:20:05
And once kids do start to feel better,
1:20:07
they're actually more susceptible to other viruses at
1:20:10
that point.
1:20:11
The immune system was no easier for them
1:20:13
to get everything else.
1:20:15
After treatment, Soren is feeling better.
1:20:17
We're definitely on the up and up now.
1:20:19
Doctors say during this time, keep an eye
1:20:22
on your kid's symptoms and know that early
1:20:24
intervention works best.
1:20:26
You know, you know your child and kind
1:20:27
of trust your gut a little bit.
1:20:30
And in flu season, I'll be honest, it's
1:20:32
probably better safe than sorry.
1:20:33
So there's your quaddemic.
1:20:35
Unfortunately, the kid's not puking with norovirus.
1:20:38
But this one...
1:20:39
Yeah, how does that work?
1:20:40
How do you get norovirus and not puke?
1:20:43
Now, this is my favorite because it is,
1:20:46
this is a very important week.
1:20:47
And I'm not downplaying the importance of the
1:20:50
week because my daughter had an eating disorder.
1:20:53
My stepdaughter had an eating disorder.
1:20:56
Lots of girls have eating disorders.
1:20:58
But it is National Eating Disorder Week.
1:21:01
So let's celebrate with a new term.
1:21:03
On the Medical Watch this afternoon, it's National
1:21:04
Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
1:21:06
And there is a disorder affecting boys and
1:21:08
young men that you've likely never heard about.
1:21:11
It's called bigorexia.
1:21:13
Bigorexia.
1:21:14
Have you ever heard of this, John?
1:21:15
You've likely never heard of it.
1:21:16
But not bigorexia.
1:21:18
Dr. Huma Khan is the Director of Adolescent
1:21:20
Medicine at Advocate Children's Hospital and joins me
1:21:23
now.
1:21:23
Thanks for being with us.
1:21:25
So first of all, what is bigorexia?
1:21:27
Yeah.
1:21:28
So bigorexia is a term that describes muscle
1:21:30
dysmorphia.
1:21:32
It's a type of body dysmorphia in which
1:21:34
an individual is hyper-focused on getting very
1:21:38
muscular and lean.
1:21:39
And so what are some of the warning
1:21:40
signs to watch for?
1:21:42
Two warning signs.
1:21:43
Some of the warning signs.
1:21:44
He's in the gym too much.
1:21:45
Yes, this is crazy.
1:21:47
Bigorexia.
1:21:48
What are some of the warning signs?
1:21:49
Some of the warning signs to watch for.
1:21:51
So some of the warning signs are...
1:21:54
He'll kick your ass is one of them.
1:21:56
Your child is just getting very interested and
1:21:58
working out.
1:21:59
Oh no.
1:22:00
Oh, heaven forbid.
1:22:02
When you're interested in working out, you better
1:22:04
lay down, son.
1:22:04
You've got bigorexia.
1:22:06
And if these workouts are very expensive.
1:22:07
This isn't an April Fool's joke.
1:22:10
No, no, no, it's not.
1:22:12
This lady had a white lab coat on
1:22:15
and a stethoscope and everything.
1:22:17
Happening every day, multiple times a day.
1:22:21
And if this is also paired with any
1:22:23
restrictive eating behaviors, like adhering to a fad
1:22:26
diet, cutting calories, cutting carbs to the point
1:22:29
where you're noticing your child is no longer
1:22:31
eating like they used to.
1:22:33
But what's the difference?
1:22:34
Do you mean like eating healthy and...
1:22:36
What is this?
1:22:37
Your kid needs like an anti-report.
1:22:40
This is great.
1:22:40
No longer eating like they used to.
1:22:43
But what's the difference between, you know, a
1:22:44
child who becomes kind of aware of their
1:22:46
looks, if you will, as they enter the
1:22:48
teenage years and one who...
1:22:51
Watches Joe Rogan.
1:22:52
Is exhibiting conduct that parents should be concerned
1:22:55
about.
1:22:55
Yeah, I think that's a really interesting point.
1:22:58
And this week is National Eating Disorders Awareness
1:23:00
Week.
1:23:01
And I think it's really interesting to think
1:23:03
about, you know, we focus on eating healthy
1:23:06
and exercising and how that's important.
1:23:08
But it's also important to note that when
1:23:10
these things are done in excess, it can
1:23:12
be very dangerous.
1:23:15
Bigorexia.
1:23:15
There you go.
1:23:17
How is it dangerous?
1:23:17
By the way, the first report I wanted
1:23:19
to make a comment on.
1:23:20
Yes.
1:23:20
They like the idea of softening you up
1:23:23
with the kind of pre-propagandizing the public
1:23:27
that, oh, your kid has influenza, and he
1:23:31
gets RSV on top of that.
1:23:33
They always like to...
1:23:34
Which I don't know how often this happens.
1:23:36
But the idea is to make you think
1:23:38
that you're going to get two things at
1:23:40
once.
1:23:42
To keep in play the idea that when
1:23:45
you get the flu, you can also get
1:23:48
bird flu or something, or the two will
1:23:50
intermix and a third new disease will evolve.
1:23:54
You know, that whole concept, which is very
1:23:56
sketchy, has to be in the public frame
1:24:00
of mind so we can always keep people
1:24:02
in a state of fear.
1:24:04
Yes.
1:24:05
Bigorexia, also known as reverse anorexia, or megorexia.
1:24:11
How about magorexia?
1:24:12
There's a new one.
1:24:14
Magorexia.
1:24:16
I'm going to write it down.
1:24:19
Magorexia.
1:24:20
It'll be a thing.
1:24:21
You watch.
1:24:22
Magorexia will be a thing.
1:24:23
You have to define what it is exactly.
1:24:25
It's a beefed up Trump supporter.
1:24:29
No, no.
1:24:31
Bodyguards.
1:24:32
You wear red hats.
1:24:33
That's it.
1:24:34
That's magorexia.
1:24:36
I found this to be fascinating.
1:24:39
I can back up his claim about the
1:24:42
event taking place.
1:24:43
I can't back up his lab claims.
1:24:46
This is Dr. David Erb.
1:24:49
Dr. David Erb.
1:24:51
Not Herb, but Dr. David Erb.
1:24:52
The ERB, yeah.
1:24:53
Yes, and he has an explanation for the
1:24:56
measles outbreak in Texas, which I thought was
1:24:58
worth sharing.
1:25:00
Hi, everybody.
1:25:00
This is Dr. David Erb, Erb Family Wellness.
1:25:02
Quickly, everybody needs to know that it's national
1:25:05
news that there's a, quote, outbreak of measles
1:25:07
in Texas, and it's in Gaines County, Texas.
1:25:10
And the outbreak started with 14 individuals.
1:25:13
It was the outbreak.
1:25:14
The outbreak, 14 people.
1:25:16
What they did not tell you is, guess
1:25:17
what happened that caused the outbreak in Gaines
1:25:20
County, Texas?
1:25:22
It was a free measles vaccine campaign that
1:25:25
vaccinated a bunch of individuals and literally is
1:25:29
the cause of the outbreak.
1:25:33
If you actually, there's receipts on this.
1:25:36
You can actually go back and look.
1:25:37
There's articles on it.
1:25:38
And I know the propaganda wheel is turning,
1:25:40
but here's the thing.
1:25:42
It's not a coincidence that it's happening right
1:25:44
now when RFK Jr. is about to put
1:25:46
a dent in the whole pharmaceutical vaccine industry.
1:25:50
But here's the other thing.
1:25:51
There's a test called reverse transcriptase, RNA test,
1:25:53
that you can test individuals that have infections
1:25:56
and things and look at the virus.
1:25:58
And if you do that when people with
1:25:59
measles, you can see if it's a wild
1:26:02
viral strain of measles or if it's a
1:26:04
vaccine strain of measles.
1:26:06
And guess what you find invariably almost every
1:26:08
single time when you see these outbreaks.
1:26:10
Do you think it's wild measles or do
1:26:11
you think it's actually vaccines measles?
1:26:14
And what you invariably find most of the
1:26:15
time is that it's actually a vaccine strain
1:26:18
of measles, not wild measles, which means guess
1:26:20
what the cause of it was?
1:26:21
The cause was the vaccine program in a
1:26:24
time where they're actually trying to prove, you
1:26:27
know, that vaccines eradicate all these quote unquote
1:26:29
diseases when really the only thing that's keeping
1:26:32
these things going is literally the vaccine programs
1:26:34
that are actually causing people to get sick.
1:26:36
So I don't know about this claim.
1:26:39
I buy it.
1:26:39
I buy it.
1:26:40
And I'll tell you why.
1:26:41
I buy it too.
1:26:42
Yes.
1:26:42
I buy it because this reminds me of
1:26:44
the swine flu.
1:26:48
The number of vaccines that went out with
1:26:50
life swine flu in them and it was
1:26:53
some sort of a supposed accident.
1:26:55
I never believed that.
1:26:57
It was designed to plant swine flu.
1:27:00
Yes.
1:27:01
Good work.
1:27:03
And this makes nothing but sense because Kennedy's
1:27:06
coming in.
1:27:07
Let's plant some measles, a measles quote unquote
1:27:10
outbreak and then make a big fuss about
1:27:14
it.
1:27:14
I mean, listen, we don't put anything past
1:27:17
these ghouls.
1:27:19
Just because there's billions of dollars involved in
1:27:22
free money.
1:27:23
I mean, why wouldn't you try this trick?
1:27:26
Yes.
1:27:27
I mean, just like Hollywood, you know, let's
1:27:29
get rid of Gene Hackman.
1:27:30
Everyone will watch the Oscars.
1:27:32
And remember, Conclave is in the running.
1:27:35
So what we are hearing is the word
1:27:36
out of the Vatican is that the Pope
1:27:37
is in serious condition.
1:27:38
The words that they're using are extremely concerning.
1:27:41
He's been hospitalized for more than two weeks
1:27:43
with pneumonia and bronchitis.
1:27:45
And although it appeared as if his condition
1:27:47
was improving, things have taken a turn.
1:27:50
According to official reports, the Holy Father was
1:27:52
up this morning and praying in the chapel.
1:27:55
At some point, he suffered an isolated coughing
1:27:57
fit, which caused him to start vomiting.
1:28:00
And there's an isolated coughing fit.
1:28:03
That's quite the coughing fit.
1:28:04
If you start vomiting, this is not good
1:28:06
morning and praying in the chapel.
1:28:08
At some point, he suffered an isolated coughing
1:28:11
fit, which caused him to start vomiting.
1:28:14
And there's concern about aspiration, which is when
1:28:16
food or liquid goes into your airway instead
1:28:19
of through your esophagus.
1:28:20
The episode was so intense that he's receiving
1:28:23
what we are told is non-invasive medical
1:28:25
ventilation.
1:28:26
So what does that exactly mean?
1:28:28
Here's pulmonologist Dr. Barbara Mann from Mount Sinai.
1:28:30
We bring in the pulmonologist to explain this.
1:28:33
Non-invasive mechanical ventilation is a tight-fitting
1:28:36
mask that fits over your nose and mouth
1:28:38
and pushes air in and supports the work
1:28:40
of breathing.
1:28:41
This is really concerning.
1:28:42
He's an elderly man.
1:28:43
He's had many pulmonary complications to begin with.
1:28:47
He's been in the hospital for a while
1:28:48
now.
1:28:49
And although he may have been stable for
1:28:51
a couple of days, going into this acute
1:28:53
episode, I'm sure it set him back a
1:28:57
lot.
1:28:57
And it's unclear whether he'll be able to
1:29:00
recover from that or not.
1:29:01
So the question on everybody's mind says, Pope
1:29:03
Francis has been given his last rites, which
1:29:05
if you're not Catholic, it's a sacrament given
1:29:06
to those who are close to death.
1:29:08
That's like a question that was not in
1:29:10
my mind, but thanks for bringing it up.
1:29:12
It's not a question in my mind.
1:29:13
And it's not when you're close to death,
1:29:15
it's you're dying.
1:29:16
You're in the process of either dying or
1:29:18
you just died.
1:29:19
You're just right there at the death's bed.
1:29:22
It's not because you're gonna die.
1:29:23
You can do that tomorrow then.
1:29:25
The reason why we need this is because
1:29:27
of the Oscars tonight.
1:29:28
And it's unclear whether he'll be able to
1:29:31
recover.
1:29:32
I gotta say that you're probably right.
1:29:34
So the question on everybody's mind says-
1:29:36
Everybody's mind.
1:29:37
Pope Francis has been given his last rites.
1:29:38
You said on your mind, that's not on
1:29:39
my mind.
1:29:39
It was not on my mind until I
1:29:41
heard the clip.
1:29:41
Rites, which if you're not Catholic, it's a
1:29:43
sacrament given to those who are close to
1:29:44
death.
1:29:45
The Vatican hasn't said, if that was to
1:29:48
be announced, it would mean that the Pope's
1:29:49
condition has become so severe that death was
1:29:51
imminent.
1:29:52
And again, we just want to mention to
1:29:53
both of you that it has not been
1:29:55
announced, but people are waiting to see if
1:29:57
in fact they do.
1:29:58
So that's awful news to hear.
1:29:59
Let you go for sure.
1:30:00
All right.
1:30:00
Thanks, Teresa.
1:30:01
Thanks, Teresa.
1:30:01
Awful, awful news.
1:30:02
Awful news.
1:30:03
I'm saying Conclave for the win tonight.
1:30:06
Conclave for the win.
1:30:08
Looks like a good movie, by the way.
1:30:10
Looks pretty interesting.
1:30:11
Isn't it about a gay, a transsexual priest
1:30:14
or something?
1:30:15
There's all kinds.
1:30:16
No, like the priest who becomes Pope has
1:30:18
ovaries and all kinds of...
1:30:21
It's perfect.
1:30:22
Yes, it's perfect.
1:30:23
It's perfect.
1:30:24
Oh, man.
1:30:25
It's perfect.
1:30:27
I thought Enora, was it Enora, the one
1:30:29
that seems to be the last minute favorite
1:30:31
until Conclave all of a sudden took over.
1:30:33
First, it was some one other movie, then
1:30:35
it was this Enora.
1:30:36
This is all bull crap.
1:30:38
I haven't seen any of them.
1:30:39
Enora.
1:30:40
What is Enora?
1:30:40
That's because none of these movies are any
1:30:42
good.
1:30:42
What is the Enora movie about?
1:30:44
It's about a whore.
1:30:48
Okay, thanks for the plot line.
1:30:51
That's basically it.
1:30:53
Yeah.
1:30:53
Comics for Blogger wants the Jesse film to
1:30:57
win.
1:30:58
Was it the Bondage movie?
1:31:00
What's the Bondage movie?
1:31:02
Pam Bondy?
1:31:03
No, no, the Bondage movie.
1:31:05
It's a...
1:31:06
Bondage movie.
1:31:06
Is that maybe Enora?
1:31:07
It's called Pain, I think.
1:31:08
It's called Pain.
1:31:09
Pain?
1:31:10
Yeah, I think it's called Pain.
1:31:11
Let me see.
1:31:12
There's a Bondage movie that's...
1:31:14
What is wrong with Hollywood?
1:31:15
These movies are all perverted.
1:31:17
A Real Pain is the name of the
1:31:18
movie.
1:31:19
It stars...
1:31:20
Oh, that's a comedy, though.
1:31:22
It stars Jesse Eisenberg and...
1:31:24
Yeah, Eisenberg.
1:31:25
He's the guy who wrote the script.
1:31:26
It's a comedy.
1:31:27
It's a light comedy.
1:31:28
It's not a hardcore Bondage.
1:31:32
I'm just telling you.
1:31:34
It's a light comedy.
1:31:36
Jesse's character is apparently a very talented screenwriter.
1:31:39
Wait a minute.
1:31:39
Is this another Brunetti production?
1:31:41
This sounds like it's got Brunetti written all
1:31:43
over it.
1:31:44
No, Brunetti's still out of it.
1:31:47
He's trying to get Scaramanga to do AI
1:31:49
movies now.
1:31:50
Have you been following that on X?
1:31:54
No, but Scaramanga's supposed to be doing this
1:31:56
with us.
1:31:58
Brunetti came in and stole him.
1:31:59
We're going to have to have Brunetti in
1:32:00
his EP?
1:32:01
Oh, yeah.
1:32:01
He stole him.
1:32:02
He stole him.
1:32:03
He stole Scaramanga from us.
1:32:04
He's like egging him on.
1:32:06
Like, oh, yeah.
1:32:06
Wow, this is a real Hollywood backstabbing Hollywood
1:32:10
move.
1:32:11
Yes, that's what Hollywood dudes do.
1:32:12
They sneak into your community, steal your guys,
1:32:17
and you think we're going to get a
1:32:19
Scaramanga movie created by no agenda?
1:32:22
No, no.
1:32:24
We're not getting no royalties, no residuals, no
1:32:27
nothing.
1:32:28
We don't even get a screen credit as
1:32:32
an associate.
1:32:36
Which, according to Brunetti, is the lowest of
1:32:38
the low.
1:32:40
Oh, man.
1:32:42
Thanks.
1:32:43
Dana Brunetti, maker of fine films as House
1:32:47
of Cards, series House of Cards and Fifty
1:32:50
Shades of Grey.
1:32:51
Big time no agenda producer.
1:32:54
Just came in to get ideas from our
1:32:56
people.
1:32:58
Nice.
1:32:58
Well, he came to the best.
1:33:00
Well, this is true.
1:33:01
This is true.
1:33:02
Fact check false.
1:33:03
Let's just stop at...
1:33:03
What?
1:33:04
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
1:33:06
What did you just do?
1:33:06
I just did a...
1:33:07
Fact check false.
1:33:08
Fact check false.
1:33:09
Yeah, I just threw it in there.
1:33:11
Defending USAID clips.
1:33:13
This is from NPR.
1:33:14
Oh, yeah.
1:33:15
This is still ongoing, of course.
1:33:18
And this is interesting to me because this
1:33:20
is...
1:33:21
The NPR is all in, all this poor
1:33:23
USAID.
1:33:25
I want to go for these two clips
1:33:27
and I want to go to the...
1:33:30
I'm going to do this regularly and I
1:33:32
hate to tell you, but it's the best
1:33:35
I could find is Jesse Waters, who summarizes
1:33:40
some of the scams going on, and he
1:33:42
does a good job on almost every show.
1:33:44
Let me guess.
1:33:45
Is it trans, trans, LGBTQ trans?
1:33:47
Yeah, a lot of that.
1:33:49
Yeah, of course.
1:33:50
Because nothing gets the Fox viewers riled up
1:33:53
than two million dollars to some trans dance
1:33:55
party.
1:33:56
Yeah, that's right.
1:33:57
Sorry, it was trans dance party.
1:33:59
You got it wrong, USAID.
1:34:01
All right, NPR.
1:34:03
It's been a difficult week for the United
1:34:04
States Agency for International Development.
1:34:06
I love this guy.
1:34:09
I want him to do jingles for us.
1:34:11
You're listening to Noah Jenner's show.
1:34:12
You don't have to.
1:34:13
You've got the voice.
1:34:15
It's been a difficult week for the United
1:34:16
States Agency for International Development.
1:34:18
The Trump administration killed nearly all of the
1:34:21
aides of the aid agencies.
1:34:24
What?
1:34:26
Wow, what's his mind on?
1:34:29
They killed all the aides and you can
1:34:30
hear him go, oh shit, I said aides.
1:34:32
I mean aide.
1:34:33
The Trump administration killed nearly all of the
1:34:36
aides of the aid agencies programs, put thousands
1:34:40
of its employees on administrative leave or laid
1:34:43
them off.
1:34:44
Meanwhile, a legal battle between the government and
1:34:46
global health groups is going on about the
1:34:48
funds that are still frozen.
1:34:50
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court said it would
1:34:53
weigh in, though it hasn't issued a ruling
1:34:54
yet.
1:34:56
NPR global health correspondent Fatma Tanis joins us.
1:34:59
Hey, Fatma.
1:34:59
Thanks so much for being with us.
1:35:01
Thanks for having me, Scott.
1:35:02
The case has reached the Supreme Court.
1:35:04
Help us understand it, please.
1:35:06
So in January, when Trump officials at USAID
1:35:09
froze foreign aid funds, they also didn't pay
1:35:12
organizations for work that was done before in
1:35:16
December and January.
1:35:17
And these global health groups now say that
1:35:20
they've had to lay off staff and are
1:35:21
facing insolvency.
1:35:23
So they sued the government to make payments.
1:35:25
A federal judge then ordered the government and
1:35:28
set a deadline for last Wednesday to make
1:35:31
those payments.
1:35:31
But on Wednesday night, the Trump administration appealed
1:35:34
to the Supreme Court.
1:35:36
And Chief Justice John Roberts paused the case,
1:35:38
giving the government a reprieve.
1:35:40
Then on Friday, global health organizations urged the
1:35:43
Supreme Court to order the government to make
1:35:45
those payments.
1:35:46
It's about $2 billion that the government owes
1:35:49
these organizations.
1:35:50
And we're still waiting to see what the
1:35:52
court will do next.
1:35:53
And what about the terminations to the agency's
1:35:56
grants?
1:35:56
What kind of programs have been cut?
1:35:57
So the administration sent out termination letters to
1:36:00
organizations saying that it had determined that those
1:36:04
grants were not aligned with agency priorities and
1:36:07
that continuing those programs is not in the
1:36:09
national interest.
1:36:10
The administration has decided that more than 90
1:36:13
% of USAID's grants are to be terminated.
1:36:16
And some of those grants funded programs that
1:36:19
work to deliver the Trump administration's own policy
1:36:22
goals, like curbing migration, drug trafficking.
1:36:26
Others provided shelters for rape survivors or education
1:36:29
for children around the world.
1:36:31
Okay, it's horrible.
1:36:32
It goes on.
1:36:33
They go on and on and on.
1:36:34
And so I got to the end of
1:36:36
it because this last little bit here really
1:36:38
kind of irked me.
1:36:41
But wait, then Jesse Watters follows that.
1:36:45
Here we go.
1:36:46
Where does this leave the global assistance industry?
1:36:49
Well, it's quite the earthquake for the global
1:36:51
aid industry.
1:36:52
It's all interconnected.
1:36:53
So this move by the administration has far
1:36:55
reaching implications.
1:36:57
Millions of people around the world will feel
1:36:59
the impact.
1:37:00
One example, the UN said that 9 million
1:37:02
people in Afghanistan would no longer have health
1:37:06
services without US funding.
1:37:08
And organizations just say that there's no replacement
1:37:11
really for the role that the US had
1:37:13
in the global aid sector.
1:37:15
Okay, wait a minute.
1:37:17
9 million Afghanis are getting health care from
1:37:22
us?
1:37:23
Yes.
1:37:24
We have homeless encampments around the San Francisco's
1:37:28
filled with them.
1:37:28
There's tent cities on the main streets and
1:37:31
all the rest of it.
1:37:31
But we're paying for the health care of
1:37:35
9 million Afghani citizens.
1:37:38
Are you kidding me?
1:37:39
We have an epidemic of empathy in our
1:37:42
country.
1:37:44
An empathy epidemic.
1:37:46
And people get so focused on these things,
1:37:49
on the unhoused, on the poor Afghans, brown
1:37:53
people in sandy areas.
1:37:55
And they just forget about their own neighborhood,
1:37:59
their own neighbors, their own family.
1:38:01
It's really quite astonishing.
1:38:03
And it is an effect of media driven
1:38:08
MKUltra programming.
1:38:11
And it's unbelievable.
1:38:13
And NPR plays it to the hilt.
1:38:15
They're all in on this.
1:38:16
Now, of course, the funny thing is that
1:38:18
those 9 million Afghanis that are supposedly getting
1:38:21
health care from us, it's really not going
1:38:24
to them anyway.
1:38:25
It's going to the Taliban for their just
1:38:28
general funds.
1:38:29
That's because that came out in this report,
1:38:32
which is Waters discussing some of these scams
1:38:36
going on.
1:38:36
And then he kicks it to a congressional
1:38:38
hearing where they discuss this.
1:38:40
Doge found a $75 million contract for inclusive
1:38:45
justice in Colombia.
1:38:47
$40 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian
1:38:51
empowerment.
1:38:52
Another $40 million for female empowerment in Colombia.
1:38:57
Pretty sure this money's for cocaine.
1:38:59
But don't worry.
1:39:00
We're also going to give the Caribbean $3
1:39:02
million for being gay and lesbian.
1:39:05
You're gay and we want you to stay
1:39:06
that way.
1:39:08
And we still had money left over for
1:39:10
terrorists.
1:39:10
Mr. Roman, are you aware that we are
1:39:13
sending $40 million a week to the Taliban?
1:39:17
Yes, sir.
1:39:18
Can you name other instances of foreign aid
1:39:20
going to terrorist organizations?
1:39:22
We have assisted Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
1:39:25
There has been instances of the Hamzeh Network
1:39:28
in Sudan, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Kataiba, Hezbollah,
1:39:32
Hayat al-Shams in Syria.
1:39:34
Dozens of terror organizations have received indirect assistance
1:39:37
from U.S. foreign aid.
1:39:39
Wow.
1:39:41
Bringing back a name.
1:39:42
A blast from the past.
1:39:45
Yeah, baby.
1:39:50
Al-Shabaab.
1:39:51
Hadn't heard from those guys in a while.
1:39:53
They get their money and shut up.
1:39:55
That's like 2015 time, Al-Shabaab.
1:40:00
Well, DOJ made some local news here.
1:40:04
San Antone is right down the road.
1:40:07
This was shocking to say the least.
1:40:09
The organization is also known as Endeavors.
1:40:12
And you may have seen its administrative headquarters
1:40:14
and wellness center on Dezabala Road, where it
1:40:18
has a cluster of buildings and storefronts.
1:40:21
DOJ focused on an overflow housing facility for
1:40:24
migrant families Endeavors operates in Pecos, Texas, which
1:40:29
DOJ says has been sitting empty while Endeavors
1:40:32
has been receiving the $18 million per month.
1:40:35
Homeland Security reposted DOJ's ex-post tagging U
1:40:40
.S. Attorney Ed Martin with the words, please
1:40:43
investigate, to which Martin responded, duly noted, we
1:40:47
are on it.
1:40:48
I went to Endeavors San Antonio headquarters today
1:40:51
to get a comment from the organization.
1:40:54
They responded late this afternoon by email.
1:40:57
Endeavors was responsible for maintaining operational readiness at
1:41:01
the Pecos shelter, ensuring the ability to scale
1:41:04
from cold status, operationally ready, but not actively
1:41:07
serving children to full use of 3000 beds
1:41:11
as needed.
1:41:12
Decisions regarding facility use and migrant sheltering locations
1:41:16
were made by the federal government, not Endeavors.
1:41:19
Any claims of corruption or mismanagement are baseless.
1:41:24
DOJ also claims Endeavors received its HHS contract
1:41:27
in 2021 after a former ICE employee and
1:41:32
Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit.
1:41:37
So, wait, $18 million a month?
1:41:40
Yeah, it was about a quarter billion dollar
1:41:42
contract.
1:41:43
$18 million a month for 3000 beds?
1:41:48
Empty.
1:41:48
Yeah, well, even if they're filled, let's see,
1:41:51
what is that?
1:41:51
$18 million, let me do a quick calculation.
1:41:54
Yeah, do $18 million divided by 3000.
1:41:57
Divided by 3000.
1:41:59
I'd say about $5,000 a bed, am
1:42:03
I correct on that?
1:42:05
I think it's $6,000 a day.
1:42:07
$6,000, no, a bed, a bed, $6
1:42:10
,000 a day.
1:42:11
$6,000 a bed, which means a month.
1:42:15
This is $18,000 a month, so it's
1:42:17
$6,000 a month per person.
1:42:20
Per bed, yes.
1:42:21
Yeah, or per bed, okay, which is what,
1:42:24
$72,000 a year?
1:42:25
Yes.
1:42:26
$72,000 a year?
1:42:29
Hey, come on, man.
1:42:30
For one bed?
1:42:31
John, if you and I had a hotel,
1:42:33
we would be swimming in dough.
1:42:35
We would.
1:42:35
We'd be ramming so many illegals in there,
1:42:38
you wouldn't know.
1:42:39
It'd be so great with our friends in
1:42:41
Washington.
1:42:42
Well, NPR is very upset about, you know,
1:42:44
the good money for the Afghanis, even though
1:42:49
it's going to Taliban, but they're okay with
1:42:51
that.
1:42:51
They're also very upset with the D.C.
1:42:54
attorney situation.
1:42:55
Before you move on, I want to do
1:42:56
that.
1:42:57
I have two more Doge clips, two more
1:42:59
Doge clips.
1:43:00
The first one includes Samantha Powers, who was
1:43:02
at a demonstration because, you know.
1:43:05
She had a picket sign.
1:43:07
Tonight, uncertainty remains over the mass federal job
1:43:10
cuts across several departments.
1:43:12
The federal judge in California ruled the recent
1:43:14
firings likely unlawful, and he said the Office
1:43:18
of Personnel Management had exceeded its authority.
1:43:20
The ruling does not mean those fired employees
1:43:23
will be automatically rehired or that future firings
1:43:26
will stop.
1:43:27
Former workers at USAID spoke out against the
1:43:30
cuts at a rally yesterday.
1:43:32
What is being done is one of the
1:43:39
biggest blunders in American foreign policy history.
1:43:42
It is one that generations of Americans will
1:43:45
look back on with horror.
1:43:47
Firings are now impacting the National Oceanic and
1:43:50
Atmospheric Administration, being impacted by the firings as
1:43:53
well with NOAA.
1:43:55
800 workers on probationary status have been laid
1:43:58
off.
1:43:59
Those who were not let go say the
1:44:00
fired employees include meteorologists who make crucial forecasts
1:44:04
at the National Weather Service.
1:44:06
Those NWS models are used by local meteorologists
1:44:08
across the country.
1:44:10
Chris Bianchi at our sister station 9 News
1:44:12
in Denver says that data is directly responsible
1:44:15
for keeping people safe.
1:44:16
That tornado warning is not issued by me.
1:44:18
It is not issued by the 9 News
1:44:19
weather department.
1:44:20
It is not issued by the TV enterprise.
1:44:23
It's not issued by anybody.
1:44:24
It's issued by the weather service.
1:44:25
So who would issue a tornado warning?
1:44:27
The unions fighting the federal layoffs called the
1:44:29
California judge's ruling a first step and vowed
1:44:32
to keep up the fight.
1:44:33
You know, these are just feeds of data
1:44:36
which any local meteorologist could translate and should
1:44:40
be able to understand what's coming.
1:44:43
I mean, as a pilot, I have that.
1:44:45
I have information like that.
1:44:47
Not only that, but yeah, okay, there's one
1:44:50
model that they create.
1:44:52
And these models, but when there's a big
1:44:56
storm coming, if you even watch the regular
1:44:59
weather channels or any of them, they show
1:45:02
you all the different models.
1:45:03
There's like 30 of them.
1:45:04
There's 40.
1:45:06
Oh, here's the European model.
1:45:07
Here's the Russian model.
1:45:08
Here's the model from NOAA.
1:45:10
Here's the model.
1:45:11
And they show all these different tracks.
1:45:13
In fact, when Trump was president, he did
1:45:15
his own model once, if you remember, because
1:45:18
he drew a map where the hurricane was
1:45:21
going to hit and they ridiculed him for
1:45:23
it.
1:45:23
And this is just overkill.
1:45:28
There's a question I have because this is
1:45:31
a little unclear and I'm trying to kind
1:45:34
of get to the bottom of it.
1:45:35
This is about Medicaid and this is going
1:45:38
around that people are very upset about this.
1:45:40
As far as I know, no decisions have
1:45:42
been made, but maybe you can enlighten us
1:45:45
on this one.
1:45:46
As an urgent care nurse practitioner, when I
1:45:47
see a patient, really my focus is on
1:45:49
what do I need to do for this
1:45:50
patient to help them?
1:45:52
Justin Gill is the State Nurses Association president
1:45:55
and worries about his patients who may delay
1:45:57
a medical visit because of cost.
1:46:00
This as the House and Senate Republicans are
1:46:02
working to pass at least $880 billion worth
1:46:05
of cuts to Medicaid.
1:46:07
Medicaid is a lifeline.
1:46:09
During a virtual press conference, US Senator Patty
1:46:11
Murray explained 782,000 Washingtonians would be at
1:46:16
risk of losing coverage if Republicans institute so
1:46:19
-called work requirements to qualify for coverage.
1:46:22
What would be the impact to your patients
1:46:23
access to care?
1:46:25
It's only going to make matters worse when
1:46:26
it comes to delaying care, leading to conditions
1:46:29
that are going to be much more costly.
1:46:31
ICU nurse Julia Barcott believes the cuts would
1:46:34
be devastating to the most vulnerable people.
1:46:36
She says 69% of the patient population
1:46:39
at Astragatopanish near Yakima is on Medicaid.
1:46:43
You would be surprised that it's your neighbors,
1:46:46
family members, relatives, friends that all have Medicaid
1:46:51
to help with expenses and to have a
1:46:55
more cost effective insurance.
1:46:57
State Senate Minority Leader John Braun says it's
1:47:00
too soon to know what the impact on
1:47:01
Medicaid will be.
1:47:03
As there are multiple proposals and after President
1:47:05
Trump has publicly said Medicaid will not be
1:47:08
touched.
1:47:09
A lot of our programs wrapped up in
1:47:11
Medicaid waivers.
1:47:12
I think all these are going to be
1:47:14
looked at pretty closely at the federal level
1:47:16
and we should be prepared for changes.
1:47:20
Gill adds the matter of caring for those
1:47:22
who need it goes beyond party lines.
1:47:25
Now from what I understand, part of this
1:47:28
is all fear mongering, of course.
1:47:29
By the way, what did they not understand
1:47:32
about Trump saying Medicare will not be cut?
1:47:35
They throw it in there.
1:47:36
They quote him correctly.
1:47:38
Medicare will not be cut.
1:47:40
Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicaid.
1:47:42
I'm sorry, Medicaid.
1:47:43
Medicaid will not be cut.
1:47:45
What part of that?
1:47:46
What is that?
1:47:46
What can't you understand about that?
1:47:48
Why are they doing this report?
1:47:49
They're doing the same thing.
1:47:50
I have two clips about this, by the
1:47:52
way.
1:47:52
The same thing with Social Security.
1:47:55
Bull crap.
1:47:56
The Republicans themselves have said, hey, we're going
1:47:59
to look for fraud.
1:48:00
That's what we're going to do.
1:48:01
From what I understand, this Medicaid fear mongering
1:48:05
is tied to the Social Security clamp down
1:48:10
and from videos I've been watching online, it's
1:48:15
mainly able-bodied young women who are being
1:48:20
required to work 20 hours a month in
1:48:23
some form of service in order to maintain
1:48:26
Social Security benefits, which include Medicaid.
1:48:30
That's what I've understood.
1:48:32
And that's probably actually true.
1:48:36
Well, letters have gone out, but that may
1:48:40
be a Biden thing.
1:48:41
That may not even be something from this
1:48:43
administration, well, not administration, even from this Congress.
1:48:48
So let's do your DC clips.
1:48:50
Let me see.
1:48:51
Before we go to this, since you're on
1:48:53
this topic, the Social Security clips are better.
1:48:55
These are called docial security.
1:48:58
Docial security.
1:48:59
Is this a misspelling or are you just
1:49:00
super smart on me?
1:49:01
This is good.
1:49:04
These two clips, and there's two of them,
1:49:07
they are trying to make it seem as
1:49:09
though they want to cut Social Security because
1:49:11
that's part of the scheme of make Trump
1:49:13
look bad, when in fact, they're cutting employees.
1:49:15
And the guy who does the report, one
1:49:18
of these NPR guys who comes in, he
1:49:20
knows this is a lie.
1:49:23
And so he fumbles.
1:49:24
And in both reports, these are two separate
1:49:26
reports, he fumbles differently, but he fumbles both
1:49:29
times knowing that this is...it's like guilt is
1:49:31
in him when he does this.
1:49:34
Which one do we go with first?
1:49:35
The anal?
1:49:35
We'll start with...the first one is not the
1:49:40
analysis.
1:49:40
The first one is the short clip, just
1:49:42
the twist one.
1:49:43
Another email is being sent to federal employees,
1:49:47
telling them to provide a list of their
1:49:49
accomplishments this week by Monday night and to
1:49:52
expect a similar email every week.
1:49:55
It's part of billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to
1:49:57
trim the federal workforce.
1:49:59
The Social Security Administration announced yesterday it's eliminating
1:50:03
thousands of positions.
1:50:06
NPR's Ron Elving has more.
1:50:07
At this point, the cuts are to Social
1:50:09
Security staff.
1:50:10
The administration announced Friday it plans to cut
1:50:13
7,000 jobs in response to an executive
1:50:16
order from President Trump, who has said he
1:50:19
wants to slash the federal workforce, even in
1:50:21
what have been considered politically sensitive functions, such
1:50:25
as Social Security.
1:50:26
Social Security advocates say that the agency...
1:50:29
What did he say?
1:50:29
Social Security?
1:50:30
Because the code...
1:50:32
He blows it at the end.
1:50:33
It's because...
1:50:34
I want to hear it again.
1:50:35
Politically sensitive Social Security.
1:50:37
So what's politically sensitive about cutting staff?
1:50:42
Nothing.
1:50:42
But cutting Social Security is politically sensitive, and
1:50:45
he knows they're trying to conflate the two
1:50:47
to try to trick the dumb listeners of
1:50:50
NPR and the people that give them money.
1:50:52
Let me hear it again.
1:50:53
He wants to slash the federal workforce, even
1:50:55
in what have been considered politically sensitive functions,
1:50:59
such as Social Security.
1:51:00
Social Security advocates say that the agency is
1:51:03
at its lowest level in staffing in 50
1:51:05
years, despite the growing number of recipients.
1:51:09
Social charcuterie, I think he said.
1:51:11
Social charcuterie.
1:51:13
So this report was kind of twisted.
1:51:16
So they didn't do it quite right.
1:51:18
So later, not in the same show, but
1:51:22
later came this report.
1:51:23
It was a little longer.
1:51:24
The same guy comes in.
1:51:26
Again, they try to twist it to make
1:51:27
it sound like they're cutting Social Security to
1:51:29
make Trump look bad, because he promised never
1:51:31
to do that.
1:51:32
Of course, the Democrats like to say, well,
1:51:34
are they going to cut it?
1:51:35
And so he has the same guilty response
1:51:38
reaction, only slightly different, but it's the same
1:51:41
guy.
1:51:41
Another email blast went out late last night
1:51:43
to federal employees, asking them to list what
1:51:46
they accomplished in the past week.
1:51:48
Is this different from the email that Elon
1:51:51
Musk's Doge Group sent out over a week
1:51:53
ago?
1:51:54
Lots of confusion about this last night, Scott,
1:51:57
and again this morning.
1:51:58
The email came late Friday from the Office
1:52:01
of Personnel Management, or perhaps still from the
1:52:05
rather shadowy depths of the Department of Government
1:52:08
Efficiency.
1:52:09
That's the province of Elon Musk and his
1:52:11
minions.
1:52:11
And Trump has tasked with slashing the federal
1:52:14
workforce.
1:52:15
This email from OPM reiterating the original demand
1:52:18
for the five bullet points looked like what
1:52:20
Musk wanted.
1:52:21
Now, it's not clear yet which of these
1:52:23
messages, the first one sent from DOGE over
1:52:27
a week ago, or this latest one, is
1:52:29
more legitimate.
1:52:29
And it's not yet clear whether this is
1:52:31
real or just a gesture of some kind.
1:52:34
Trump seems to suggest its purpose is to
1:52:36
see how many of these federal employees actually
1:52:39
exist or come to work at all.
1:52:41
But in the short term, it's another way
1:52:43
to lower trust and regard for the government
1:52:45
and empower those who would displace it.
1:52:48
In the half a minute we have left,
1:52:50
possible cuts to Social Security, which used to
1:52:52
be considered the third rail.
1:52:54
At this point, the cuts are to Social
1:52:56
Security staff.
1:52:57
The administration announced Friday it plans to cut
1:53:00
7,000 jobs in response to an executive
1:53:03
order from President Trump, who has said he
1:53:05
wants to slash the federal workforce, even in
1:53:08
what have been considered politically sensitive functions, such
1:53:12
as Social Security.
1:53:13
He's saying social charcuterie.
1:53:16
I'm telling you, he couldn't say it again.
1:53:21
We have politically sensitive social charcuterie.
1:53:25
I mean, it's like, what are you?
1:53:26
What's wrong with you, dude?
1:53:30
Politically sensitive, cutting the staff, which is probably
1:53:34
not necessarily there because the problem is they
1:53:36
cut the people that know what they're doing,
1:53:37
which is typical.
1:53:39
That's what you do.
1:53:41
It's not good, but it's not cutting the
1:53:43
payments to anybody.
1:53:44
Nobody's getting shorted on their Social Security payments
1:53:46
or benefits, but they keep trying to conflate
1:53:49
the two.
1:53:49
And they did in both reports.
1:53:51
And this guy feels guilty about it.
1:53:53
Clearly, because he keeps stumbling over it.
1:53:55
And by the way, breaking news, the Norwegian
1:53:58
government has posted that U.S. ships will
1:54:00
be refueled, and they apologized for the incident
1:54:02
last night.
1:54:04
Sounds like a rogue employee on the X
1:54:06
account there.
1:54:08
Yep.
1:54:09
Yeah.
1:54:09
The old rogue employee.
1:54:11
This is like the rogue employee, which reminds
1:54:14
me of the situation that took place recently
1:54:16
with Apple, where if you type in racist
1:54:18
on the iPhone, it comes up, you know,
1:54:22
it's doing voice recognition.
1:54:25
Software, you say to the phone racist, and
1:54:28
it's going to type it out, and it
1:54:30
types out Trump.
1:54:31
And then it erases and puts racist.
1:54:33
Can anybody confirm that in the troll room?
1:54:35
So you have to use Siri.
1:54:37
It was, I saw it confirmed.
1:54:40
I saw it, but you know, AI, whatever.
1:54:44
I want to know if anyone can confirm
1:54:46
it with their iPhone.
1:54:47
I would like to say if it confirmed
1:54:50
or not confirmed, if this even happened for
1:54:52
a split second, this is a rogue employee.
1:54:55
They blame this and that and the other
1:54:57
thing.
1:54:58
We all know what it was.
1:54:59
You know what I'm saying?
1:55:00
Some joker.
1:55:01
If the video was, I've only seen one
1:55:04
video of this.
1:55:05
How many have you seen?
1:55:06
I saw one guy do it live on
1:55:08
local TV.
1:55:10
Oh, okay.
1:55:11
All right, well then, good.
1:55:13
And it was like, You know, John, it
1:55:16
was not a rogue employee.
1:55:17
It was a glitch.
1:55:19
It's definitely a rogue employee, some joker.
1:55:22
I know the type.
1:55:24
It's like, I got an idea.
1:55:28
Hey, watch this.
1:55:30
This is what people do when you're working
1:55:33
for a company and you get an idea
1:55:34
like this and you think you can get
1:55:36
away with it.
1:55:36
And you maybe could.
1:55:37
Yeah.
1:55:38
If you're really a good hacker, you could
1:55:40
get away with a lot of stuff.
1:55:41
I'm all for it.
1:55:42
I think it's funny.
1:55:43
It was very funny.
1:55:45
I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
1:55:46
Yeah, I think it's good.
1:55:49
It's a feature, not a bug.
1:55:50
Just remember, it's a feature of the iPhone.
1:55:53
All right, now let's do your D.C.
1:55:54
attorney's clips because you're on a roll here.
1:55:57
Yeah, we get to more NPR complaining.
1:56:00
And this is the one, this is like,
1:56:02
so the clips are self-explanatory.
1:56:05
This is about the firing or the demotion
1:56:08
of these guys.
1:56:09
Okay, here's the logic.
1:56:12
I have somebody working for me who is
1:56:14
politically active and he's causing trouble.
1:56:17
And so I demote him.
1:56:18
Yeah.
1:56:19
My demoting him is not meaning I'm politically
1:56:22
active.
1:56:23
I'm just trying to get this political action,
1:56:26
out of your company, activism out of the
1:56:28
office.
1:56:29
Yes.
1:56:29
But no, no, that's not the way NPR
1:56:31
sees it.
1:56:32
No, no, no, that's not what's going on.
1:56:34
Here we go.
1:56:34
The new leadership in the Trump Justice Department
1:56:36
continues to take actions against career pro-
1:56:38
Is this guy on the air 24 hours
1:56:41
a day now?
1:56:41
He's on a lot.
1:56:44
The new leadership in the Trump Justice Department
1:56:46
continues to take actions against career prosecutors.
1:56:50
Yesterday, the acting U.S. attorney in Washington,
1:56:52
D.C. demoted several senior attorneys, including those
1:56:55
who oversaw cases against President Trump's political allies
1:56:58
and January 6th rioters.
1:57:01
NPR's Justice Correspondent Ryan Lucas joins us.
1:57:04
Ryan, thank you for being with us.
1:57:05
Hello, thanks for having me.
1:57:06
What can you tell us about these demotions?
1:57:09
Well, sources tell me and our colleague Kerry
1:57:11
Johnson that the acting U.S. attorney in
1:57:13
Washington, D.C., Ed Martin demoted at least
1:57:16
seven top prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's
1:57:18
office here.
1:57:19
One of them is John Crabb.
1:57:20
He was a supervisor in the office.
1:57:22
He was involved in the cases against Trump
1:57:24
allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
1:57:26
He also oversaw January 6th cases.
1:57:29
Another prosecutor is Greg Rosen.
1:57:31
He led the Capitol Siege unit.
1:57:33
That's the unit that prosecuted January 6th cases.
1:57:36
And then two of the other attorneys who
1:57:37
were demoted worked on two of the most
1:57:40
high-profile cases to come out of the
1:57:41
Capitol riot investigation.
1:57:43
One of the attorneys helped lead the prosecution
1:57:45
against Stuart Rhodes.
1:57:46
He's the leader of the far-right Oath
1:57:48
Keepers extremist group.
1:57:49
Far-right extremist group.
1:57:49
Rhodes was convicted at trial of seditious conspiracy.
1:57:52
One of the other attorneys helped spearhead the
1:57:54
case against Enrique Tarrio, the former head of
1:57:55
the Proud Boys extremist group.
1:57:57
Tarrio as well was convicted of seditious conspiracy
1:58:00
at trial.
1:58:01
So the bottom line here is all of
1:58:03
the attorneys who were demoted were senior prosecutors
1:58:05
with a lot of experience, and now they're
1:58:08
being reassigned to basically entry-level jobs.
1:58:11
Oh, no.
1:58:12
Seditious conspiracy.
1:58:15
What is that?
1:58:16
They overcharged these guys.
1:58:18
It's pretty obvious.
1:58:19
And then the fact that Bannon and Navarro
1:58:21
spent time in prison for what?
1:58:24
Yeah.
1:58:25
Is it good?
1:58:25
That was totally politically motivated, and there's no
1:58:28
question about it in anybody's mind.
1:58:31
I mean, what's Bannon doing in jail?
1:58:33
Seditious conspiracy.
1:58:34
If he got thrown in jail for being
1:58:36
a bad podcaster, that would be different.
1:58:38
He should be in solitary confinement.
1:58:41
If two or more persons in any state
1:58:43
or territory or any place subject to the
1:58:45
jurisdiction of the United States conspire to overthrow,
1:58:48
put down, or to destroy by force the
1:58:50
government of the United States.
1:58:52
Wow, that's a pretty heavy charge.
1:58:54
I'm having lunch with Joe Coffey.
1:58:58
He's one of the January 6 guys.
1:59:00
He's here.
1:59:00
He'll have stories to tell.
1:59:01
Oh, yeah.
1:59:02
Yeah.
1:59:03
You remember the guy with the crutch holding
1:59:05
the crutch up in the air?
1:59:07
Oh, he's that guy.
1:59:08
Yeah.
1:59:08
And so what he was saying was, pray,
1:59:11
everybody, pray.
1:59:12
And then he was getting beaten.
1:59:13
He's a peacekeeper.
1:59:15
Yes, he was getting beaten by some Capitol
1:59:18
cop.
1:59:19
Oh, yeah.
1:59:20
Yeah, he got through.
1:59:22
That's a good guy.
1:59:23
You should buy.
1:59:24
You should be paying.
1:59:25
Of course I'm going to pay.
1:59:26
He goes to our church.
1:59:27
He just moved here.
1:59:28
So I can't wait.
1:59:29
We got a fun church group.
1:59:32
You should get a picture.
1:59:34
You should be holding up the crutch.
1:59:36
Yeah.
1:59:37
Get a shot of that.
1:59:38
Anyway, let's go.
1:59:39
Part two of this was reason given.
1:59:42
Well, one source tells me that Martin notified
1:59:44
these individuals by email.
1:59:46
And at least one of the emails, Martin
1:59:47
said that every U.S. attorney has to
1:59:49
assess the needs of their office as set
1:59:52
forth by the president and the attorney general
1:59:53
and, in essence, their priorities.
1:59:56
And therefore, these senior prosecutors were being reassigned,
1:59:59
effective immediately.
2:00:00
And at least one of the emails ended
2:00:02
by saying, this change is not temporary.
2:00:04
Now, I'm told that some of the senior
2:00:06
prosecutors were assigned to misdemeanors, which is where
2:00:09
brand new prosecutors in the office are usually
2:00:11
assigned.
2:00:12
Others were demoted to what's known as the
2:00:14
intake section, which is also for junior folks
2:00:16
in the office.
2:00:17
One person I spoke with described these demotions
2:00:20
as pure political retribution for working on cases
2:00:23
that the Trump administration does not like.
2:00:26
Now, I contacted the U.S. attorney's office
2:00:27
about these actions for comment.
2:00:29
It did not respond.
2:00:31
But this is not the first time that
2:00:33
Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney here,
2:00:34
has taken what appear to be retaliatory action
2:00:37
against the office he leads.
2:00:39
He previously fired more than a dozen prosecutors
2:00:41
in his office who worked January 6 cases.
2:00:44
So this is just the latest turmoil to
2:00:46
hit the U.S. attorney's office here in
2:00:48
D.C., which is one of the most
2:00:49
important in the country.
2:00:51
One of the worst in the country, too.
2:00:53
It's a known fact.
2:00:53
They're the guys who wouldn't do anything about
2:00:55
the Fast and Furious situation.
2:00:57
Oh, right, right, right.
2:00:59
And when, yeah, when Holder was taken as
2:01:02
contempt of Congress, they wouldn't press charges against
2:01:05
him.
2:01:06
But yet they'll throw Bannon in jail.
2:01:09
I can't argue the bad podcasting bit.
2:01:12
I mean, he needed to go away for
2:01:14
a bit.
2:01:15
And with that, I'd like to thank you
2:01:16
for your courage.
2:01:17
Say in the morning to you, the man
2:01:17
who put the C's in the social charcuterie.
2:01:20
Say hello to my friend on the other
2:01:21
end, the one, the only, Mr. John C.
2:01:23
DeMora.
2:01:26
Yeah, good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curran.
2:01:28
Good morning to you, Mr. Steve Booster, the
2:01:29
gramps in the air, subs in the morning,
2:01:31
the dames and knights out there.
2:01:32
In the morning to the trolls in the
2:01:33
troll room.
2:01:34
Let me count your trolls.
2:01:39
All right.
2:01:40
We outdid last Sunday.
2:01:41
Last Sunday, we had 2,573 peak trollage.
2:01:45
And today, 2,759.
2:01:48
Ooh, getting back to the good old days.
2:01:50
Which is now the over the last 100
2:01:53
shows, it's been 2,279 is the average.
2:01:56
So we're above average.
2:01:57
Very nice.
2:01:58
Well done, trolls.
2:01:59
And you know why, John?
2:02:00
You know why?
2:02:00
Trump is good for the show.
2:02:03
As long as he keeps up the blurt.
2:02:05
Keep on blurting, Prez.
2:02:07
It's good for us.
2:02:08
It'd be something between now and next Thursday,
2:02:11
Trump will do something.
2:02:12
He'll get everyone all riled up.
2:02:16
Yes.
2:02:17
Oh, Lord, please have President Trump do something
2:02:19
to rile everybody up.
2:02:20
It's good.
2:02:21
We love having the trolls with us.
2:02:23
They're in the troll room at trollroom.io,
2:02:25
or they may be listening on one of
2:02:26
those modern podcast apps.
2:02:28
Today, I'm going to promote PodVerse.
2:02:29
PodVerse, you can find PodVerse at podcastapps.com.
2:02:34
There's many more you can use, but these
2:02:35
apps, the ones that have the live notification
2:02:37
feature, you can listen to the live stream.
2:02:40
It's fun.
2:02:41
It's the modern way to listen to podcasts.
2:02:44
More and more people are moving towards recording
2:02:46
live in real time, which honestly, you should
2:02:48
demand from your podcast.
2:02:51
You know, that is, and that you should
2:02:53
be able to sit there in a troll
2:02:55
room and troll them, be the studio audience.
2:02:58
We have no fear.
2:02:59
We love it.
2:02:59
A lot of people have trouble, I think,
2:03:03
doing live to tape.
2:03:05
Oh, yes.
2:03:06
Which is the thesis.
2:03:07
One of the two reasons that we ever
2:03:09
started doing a podcast together is the two
2:03:11
of us philosophically are live to tape guys.
2:03:16
We are, yes.
2:03:17
We are no edit live to tape.
2:03:19
And it is a philosophy.
2:03:20
A lot of people won't, no, no, no.
2:03:21
You got to clean it up.
2:03:23
You got to record it, and then you
2:03:24
clean it up, and you do a cut
2:03:26
in, and a this and a that.
2:03:27
And you know that there's these modern editors
2:03:31
like Descript or Descript, I'm not sure how
2:03:33
you pronounce it, where you can actually sample
2:03:36
your voice.
2:03:37
And then if you, and you can, so
2:03:39
first you can edit on the transcript, which
2:03:41
is kind of cool, you know, like, I'm
2:03:42
going to edit this word out.
2:03:44
But you can also have it replace words
2:03:48
with your own voice.
2:03:50
I mean, at what point do you just
2:03:52
like give up?
2:03:53
Just give up.
2:03:54
It takes the soul out of it, people.
2:03:56
It just takes the soul out of it.
2:03:58
I don't understand.
2:03:59
Don't understand why they do this.
2:04:02
All of this is done under the value
2:04:04
for value model.
2:04:04
It's called overproduced.
2:04:06
Oh, yeah.
2:04:08
Yeah.
2:04:08
Well, during COVID, when everybody was doing a
2:04:11
podcast, that's when the role of podcast editor
2:04:15
came about.
2:04:16
What do you do?
2:04:17
I'm a podcast editor.
2:04:19
You know, there are people with thriving careers
2:04:23
as editors for influencers.
2:04:27
Really?
2:04:28
Oh, yeah.
2:04:29
Christina's fiance is doing some of that work
2:04:31
now.
2:04:31
It's pretty good.
2:04:33
He gets, I think, is that like 75
2:04:35
bucks an hour?
2:04:37
And it was the response for the herky
2:04:39
jerk look.
2:04:40
That's become so in vogue.
2:04:43
Yes, yes.
2:04:44
Your head's over here, then it's over here
2:04:46
by a millimeter, then it's this way, looking
2:04:47
that way, looking that way.
2:04:48
Oh, yeah.
2:04:49
I need the words on the screen.
2:04:50
I need to pop something up.
2:04:51
You know, pew and flash.
2:04:52
Yeah, because, oh, no attention span.
2:04:55
It's like radio.
2:04:58
Anyway, we operate under the value for value
2:05:02
model, which is quite well understood these days,
2:05:04
which means we do the show.
2:05:06
We provide value to you.
2:05:07
If you don't get value, tune out.
2:05:11
If you do, consider returning some to help
2:05:13
us.
2:05:13
We ask for time, talent and treasure.
2:05:16
And we have a bunch of artists and
2:05:19
prompt jockeys who are always at the ready
2:05:22
to provide us some value back in the
2:05:25
form of artwork, which we like using in
2:05:27
two ways.
2:05:28
One is the actual artwork for each individual
2:05:31
episode, which looks nice in the modern podcast
2:05:33
apps.
2:05:34
And also, Dreb Scott uses them for his
2:05:36
chapter work, which is also a feature of
2:05:38
the modern podcast apps.
2:05:39
And you can, you know, you can jump
2:05:41
around, like, oh, let me see what this
2:05:42
section is about.
2:05:43
And it'll even have a handy image, which
2:05:45
should bring a smile to your face.
2:05:46
Because most of the images the artists put
2:05:49
together bring a smile to your face, some
2:05:50
more than others, which means we chose the
2:05:53
artwork from Matthew Dropko, officially Matthew Dropko 1972,
2:05:58
for episode 1742, 1742, which we titled Golden
2:06:03
Poop.
2:06:06
Oh yeah, that was our exit strategy.
2:06:07
The Golden Poop exit strategy.
2:06:09
Forgot about that.
2:06:10
And this was a worker chicken.
2:06:13
A chicken worker, actually, as was discussed during
2:06:17
the show.
2:06:18
You liked it right away.
2:06:20
I liked it right away.
2:06:22
You thought it was the only one worth
2:06:24
doing.
2:06:25
That's one of the reasons I liked it
2:06:26
right away, because I didn't see anything that
2:06:28
was going to work.
2:06:30
I think I submitted, no, you said, find
2:06:34
a better one and convince me.
2:06:35
That's pretty much exactly what you said.
2:06:37
That's exactly what I said.
2:06:38
Not in that voice.
2:06:40
But close.
2:06:42
We briefly discussed Darren O'Neill's po-casting.
2:06:47
What was that about?
2:06:48
Was that People of Color podcast?
2:06:50
I can't remember.
2:06:50
Po-casting, yeah.
2:06:52
Blue Acorn had a Jump Chomp Trump, which
2:06:55
was okay.
2:06:59
People doing...
2:07:00
The real AI ones are just becoming annoying.
2:07:03
Let me see what else was...
2:07:04
There really wasn't anything.
2:07:08
No, I can't see anything.
2:07:11
Oh, a couple of people tried to do
2:07:13
the gold card gag.
2:07:16
But that didn't...
2:07:16
Yeah, a lot actually, you're right.
2:07:17
Yeah, Nico Syme tried.
2:07:18
It just didn't quite work.
2:07:21
And Dame Kenny Bent had the right idea
2:07:23
with a Welcome to the USA tote bag.
2:07:26
But then instead of a gold card, she
2:07:28
had a platinum card.
2:07:30
And then Brunetti's partner, Scaramanga, did the black
2:07:36
kid eating the bat.
2:07:37
Yeah, we're like, yeah, no, we don't think
2:07:40
we're going to have a black kid eating
2:07:42
him.
2:07:43
That's going to be a great movie, Brunetti.
2:07:45
It's going to be, I'm sure you'll be
2:07:46
just fine.
2:07:48
But I saw a preview of the Brunetti
2:07:50
movie.
2:07:51
And it's a cheesecake lady sitting in a
2:07:54
coffee shop with Jesus reading the Bible.
2:07:57
And then James Bond outside is this very,
2:08:00
very strange plot.
2:08:02
I'm not quite sure exactly what they're trying
2:08:03
to do there.
2:08:05
The Acme of Podcasts.
2:08:07
No, you were right.
2:08:08
You were right.
2:08:09
I think it was the best one.
2:08:10
And we thank you very much, Matthew Dropko.
2:08:12
Anybody can participate in this competition, which is
2:08:14
the cool part about it.
2:08:15
You just go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
2:08:18
You can upload it.
2:08:19
If you're doing it live, when we're doing
2:08:21
it live, then you have a good shot
2:08:22
of being chosen.
2:08:23
Because right after the show, we find the
2:08:26
opening snippet.
2:08:28
We then check the credits, make sure they're
2:08:30
good.
2:08:31
It's like a nuclear code check.
2:08:33
We both go through the list, make sure
2:08:35
we don't miss anybody.
2:08:36
Make sure the switcheroos are all done.
2:08:37
Then we choose the title.
2:08:39
No, then we choose the artwork.
2:08:40
Then we choose the title.
2:08:41
That's the sequence.
2:08:42
So you can participate.
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And remember, lots of this art gets used
2:08:46
in the modern podcast apps chapters.
2:08:49
Now to the treasure portion of our value
2:08:51
for value model.
2:08:52
This is where we thank every single person
2:08:53
who supports us with treasure, $50 and above.
2:08:56
And we start in this segment with our
2:08:58
executive and associate executive producers.
2:09:00
These are real credits.
2:09:01
You can use them anywhere.
2:09:02
Especially, you can show up to Dana Brunetti's
2:09:05
house and say, I'm an executive producer of
2:09:07
the No Agenda show.
2:09:08
Let me in.
2:09:10
And he'll probably get shot.
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$200 above, associate executive producer.
2:09:16
You can put it on imdb.com or
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any of your social media profiles.
2:09:19
Your LinkedIn looks very impressive there.
2:09:21
And we'll read your note.
2:09:22
$300 and above, you get an executive producer
2:09:25
credit and we'll read your note.
2:09:26
And we start off with Joel Sides from
2:09:28
Medina, Texas, who comes in with 515.38.
2:09:33
I'm pretty sure that's $500 plus the fees.
2:09:36
And he says, John, you are a very
2:09:39
good job of co-hosting the show.
2:09:41
I think he means do a very good
2:09:42
job.
2:09:42
I don't care what Adam says about you
2:09:45
around the hill country.
2:09:47
What?
2:09:48
I don't know.
2:09:50
What does he say?
2:09:51
I don't know what I say.
2:09:53
Ah, you do.
2:09:54
The show is always entertaining and very informative.
2:09:57
Thanks for all the hard work.
2:09:59
Oh, not you're not.
2:10:00
Oh, yes, I am.
2:10:02
Commodore Sides.
2:10:05
He's a little discombobulated in his note there.
2:10:09
But thank you, Joel.
2:10:10
I speak nothing but highly of Dvorak.
2:10:12
Some lady came up to me the other
2:10:14
day and said, John, what did she say?
2:10:17
John cracked me up with something.
2:10:18
I forget what it was.
2:10:19
Came up to me, not say like, hey,
2:10:22
man, you're so awesome or I saw you
2:10:23
on Rogan.
2:10:24
No, no, John was so funny on the
2:10:26
last show.
2:10:27
So it does happen.
2:10:28
People love you.
2:10:33
Sir, dude named Ralph in Miami, Florida.
2:10:36
He came in with 515.38. There we
2:10:39
go.
2:10:39
Same thing, which means the Commodore plus $15
2:10:44
.38 for the- For PayPal.
2:10:47
This note is for my donation of 15,
2:10:51
15 or 515.38 to earn my rank
2:10:55
of Commodore of the No Agenda Show.
2:10:58
I want to thank you both, the back
2:11:01
and the back office team and all the
2:11:03
producers for making the best podcast in the
2:11:05
universe possible.
2:11:07
The show has been a valuable resource to
2:11:09
me over the years.
2:11:10
May I please have some jobs, Carmen, to
2:11:11
ensure my job seeking success.
2:11:14
All the best.
2:11:15
Baron dude named Ralph.
2:11:17
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
2:11:21
Let's vote for jobs.
2:11:24
You've got karma.
2:11:27
We go to Jeff Barrick, I think, B
2:11:30
-A-R-I-C-H.
2:11:31
Barrick from Coos Bay, Oregon.
2:11:33
$3.50 and 93 cents, which he says
2:11:37
is $3.33.33 plus the PayPal fees.
2:11:40
Jingles requested the full Trump clip of they're
2:11:42
eating the dogs, eating the cats, they're eating
2:11:43
the pets, followed by little girl yay.
2:11:46
And this is a switcheroo.
2:11:47
Uh-oh.
2:11:48
All right, let me get this ready here.
2:11:51
In the morning, my name is Jeff Barich.
2:11:55
Okay, a handy pronunciation guide there, Jeff.
2:11:58
Thank you.
2:11:59
That is- You got it.
2:12:00
Got it.
2:12:01
Barich.
2:12:02
And this donation is for my smoking hot
2:12:04
wife Libby Barich's birthday on 3-3, which
2:12:07
is coming up tomorrow.
2:12:08
I'd like this $3.33.33 plus PayPal
2:12:11
fees donation to be in her name.
2:12:13
Libby donated on my behalf years ago.
2:12:16
I don't think either of us were deduced.
2:12:17
So we both need to be deduced.
2:12:19
We can do that.
2:12:20
Oops, I got a deduced.
2:12:23
You've been deduced.
2:12:25
So we'll say that's for Libby and this
2:12:27
one is for you.
2:12:30
You've been deduced.
2:12:34
The message to Libby.
2:12:36
Happy birthday.
2:12:37
And I want to thank you for all
2:12:38
your support over the years.
2:12:40
It is truly the glue that holds our
2:12:42
team together.
2:12:43
And I love you very much.
2:12:45
Message to John and Adam.
2:12:46
I'd also like to thank you guys for
2:12:48
your coverage and let you know that you
2:12:50
both really helped us stay sane throughout the
2:12:52
COVID craziness.
2:12:54
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs.
2:12:57
The people that came in.
2:12:58
They're eating the cats.
2:13:00
They're eating- They're eating the pets.
2:13:08
Still funny.
2:13:10
Still the winning quote for me for the
2:13:12
election.
2:13:13
That was the landslide quote.
2:13:15
The landslide quote.
2:13:16
People don't appreciate it for what it is.
2:13:20
Abel Dos Santos in Luanda.
2:13:24
Oh, Africa.
2:13:26
Africa news.
2:13:27
Africa donation.
2:13:28
This does not- What is that?
2:13:30
Congo.
2:13:30
Angola is from Angola.
2:13:31
Angola.
2:13:32
Angola.
2:13:32
That's right.
2:13:33
Oh, that's pretty cool.
2:13:34
Well, that's nice.
2:13:35
We got a Luanda, Angola donation.
2:13:39
$343.75. Thanks for being the greatest podcast
2:13:42
in the world.
2:13:44
Universe, too, by the way.
2:13:46
Really appreciated searching or reaching out.
2:13:49
I'm sorry.
2:13:49
Reaching out from Luanda, Angola, Africa.
2:13:53
Send pictures.
2:13:54
Send pictures.
2:13:55
What's your rig?
2:13:56
I want to see your rig down there.
2:13:58
Hey, Commodore G checks in from Cincinnati, Ohio
2:14:01
with $343.75. As always, you guys deliver.
2:14:04
Glad to be a producer on the Zelensky
2:14:06
Smackdown episode.
2:14:08
Commodore Indy the White Shepherd says hello as
2:14:10
well.
2:14:11
Infinity more years.
2:14:15
Ryan M.
2:14:16
in Cold Spring, New York came in with
2:14:18
$343.33. Hello, John C.
2:14:23
and Adam.
2:14:24
I, Ryan M.
2:14:26
of the Lower Hudson Valley, have finally arrived
2:14:29
at the round table with a third payment
2:14:31
of $343.33. I wish to be knighted
2:14:33
as Sir Weegee the Famous.
2:14:37
Sir Weegee the Famous.
2:14:40
Please have two tubes of both the salt
2:14:43
and pepper mix of both, which is the
2:14:46
name of the product, both the salt and
2:14:51
pepper mix available for me at the round
2:14:53
table.
2:14:54
Both is a hilarious, simple, and equally tasty.
2:14:57
It's good on French fries.
2:14:59
Tasty because it's a very fine grind of
2:15:01
salt.
2:15:01
Yes.
2:15:02
A tasty product that I have recently launched.
2:15:05
Ah, he's our guy.
2:15:06
He's our guy.
2:15:07
He's the both guy.
2:15:08
It's the salt and he's the both guy.
2:15:11
It's the salt and pepper mix with two
2:15:13
options.
2:15:13
One is more salt, less pepper.
2:15:14
The other is more pepper, less salt.
2:15:16
Okay.
2:15:17
Each of them at what we have thoroughly
2:15:19
determined to be the perfect ratio for which,
2:15:24
for whichever direction your taste buds lean.
2:15:27
Both can easily be purchased at useboth.com.
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Useboth.com.
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And our humorous content can be seen on
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Instagram at use underlying both.
2:15:41
Use both.
2:15:42
Please play Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and one goat
2:15:45
scream.
2:15:47
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
2:15:51
Let's vote for jobs.
2:15:56
Yeah.
2:15:56
Did you receive a package of like these
2:16:02
CBD THC pills?
2:16:07
No.
2:16:07
An outfit called, I think it's 1060 or
2:16:10
1090.
2:16:11
No, I did get, I did get my
2:16:13
first Ohio state hoodie though.
2:16:15
And I will be thanking everyone who sent
2:16:17
these.
2:16:17
Oh, that's nice.
2:16:18
No, I can't.
2:16:19
I don't know who this is.
2:16:20
And they sent us, they've got, it comes
2:16:23
in a bag that says definitely not drugs,
2:16:26
which is pretty funny.
2:16:27
I don't know who sent it.
2:16:29
I think it's 1060.
2:16:30
Well, I get some, okay.
2:16:32
I have a similar situation.
2:16:34
I had three, I can't remember the brand
2:16:36
name, Real Pepper or something.
2:16:38
There's these hot sauces, three different hot sauces
2:16:41
somebody sent.
2:16:43
It was packaged well enough that the fact
2:16:46
of the matter is the three bottles of
2:16:48
hot sauce, tobacco size bottles, Tabasco size.
2:16:51
I'm sorry.
2:16:52
Tabasco size bottles.
2:16:54
And there were three of them.
2:16:55
There's a habanero.
2:16:56
There's another, there's a kind of a regular
2:16:58
one.
2:16:58
And then there was the ghost pepper one.
2:17:02
The ghost pepper one broke.
2:17:04
Oh no.
2:17:05
Split in half.
2:17:06
Oh no.
2:17:07
And coated the packing material.
2:17:10
It didn't leak out of the box, which
2:17:11
is surprising.
2:17:12
But the packing material was soaked in ghost
2:17:16
pepper goo.
2:17:17
I was just.
2:17:19
And.
2:17:20
Go ahead.
2:17:20
So I had to rinse out the other
2:17:22
two bottles that were stained with the ghost
2:17:24
pepper goo too.
2:17:25
And I had to wash them off.
2:17:26
They were okay.
2:17:27
They came in intact.
2:17:28
The ghost pepper one, which was brand named
2:17:31
Oly, O-L-Y, Oly Ghost, it got
2:17:35
tossed.
2:17:36
That's funny.
2:17:37
And in this process of tossing it and
2:17:39
the packaging, it stunk up the house.
2:17:42
Which, the rather nice smell, by the way.
2:17:45
Ghost pepper aroma isn't that bad.
2:17:48
But it was like a very distressing for
2:17:50
me.
2:17:51
It's funny because last night we just watched
2:17:53
the Seinfeld episode where he has the hot
2:17:55
sauce that he has to bring back and
2:17:57
it gets crushed in the overhead bin on
2:17:58
the plane and it's all inside his suitcase.
2:18:01
Coincidence?
2:18:02
I don't remember that one.
2:18:03
Coincidence?
2:18:03
I think not.
2:18:06
Jeff Ria, Maricopa, Arizona, 333.33. First time
2:18:10
donation.
2:18:11
He doesn't ask for it, but I'm going
2:18:12
to deduce it.
2:18:14
You've been deduced.
2:18:16
He says, please play in order.
2:18:19
Don't be a dick.
2:18:20
Goat scream and you've got karma.
2:18:22
73 is Jeffrey Ria.
2:18:23
His call sign is alpha bravo for golf
2:18:26
tango.
2:18:27
73 is kilo five alpha Charlie Charlie.
2:18:31
Don't be a dick.
2:18:34
You've got karma.
2:18:36
A radar rider or at a radar rider
2:18:41
in Milton, Georgia, 333.33 TPP jobs.
2:18:49
Karma, please.
2:18:51
Which one's that?
2:18:52
I have it.
2:18:53
Oh, don't you?
2:18:54
This brings me the knighthood.
2:18:55
No, please knight me, sir.
2:18:57
Radar rider.
2:18:58
Radar rider.
2:19:00
Thank you for your courage.
2:19:02
Brisket and bacon.
2:19:04
Brisket and bacon.
2:19:06
Interesting.
2:19:07
At the round table, please.
2:19:16
Jeffrey Hodge is in Linfield, New South Wales,
2:19:20
Australia, 297.17. Now, do you think that
2:19:23
this is a 300 donation that got chopped
2:19:26
down?
2:19:27
Seems well, it would come in at the
2:19:29
rate that it was.
2:19:30
It's a spreadsheet.
2:19:32
This wasn't put on by hand.
2:19:33
So this would be 297 in American dollars.
2:19:36
So it was definitely three, probably 333 or
2:19:38
higher.
2:19:39
I'm gonna have to move him up then.
2:19:40
Yeah, 333 might have been $8,000 for
2:19:43
all I know.
2:19:46
And Jeffrey says, Sydney, Australia.
2:19:49
Thank you.
2:19:50
My wife, Jen, hit me in the mouth
2:19:51
in 2024 and got me listening to the
2:19:53
best podcast in the universe.
2:19:54
Good wife.
2:19:55
Thanks for bringing some normality and levity to
2:19:58
a crazy world.
2:19:59
Trump is good for the show.
2:20:01
There will be no shortage of fodder for
2:20:02
four more years.
2:20:04
This is our first donation.
2:20:05
So we need a double de-douching.
2:20:09
You've been de-douched.
2:20:11
And we'll do one more for the wife.
2:20:15
You've been de-douched.
2:20:18
And we request they're eating the hogs.
2:20:21
Well, I don't think we have that one.
2:20:24
We'll have to replace the H with the
2:20:26
D.
2:20:26
It never gets old.
2:20:28
Regards, Jeff.
2:20:29
They're eating the dogs.
2:20:30
There you go.
2:20:31
There you go.
2:20:32
They should be eating the hogs.
2:20:34
Yeah, it's good eating.
2:20:35
Dame Rita.
2:20:36
Hey, there's Dame Rita again in Sparks, Nevada.
2:20:39
She's been a regular recently.
2:20:40
222.22. A bunch of ducks there.
2:20:43
ITM, John and Adam, thank you for the
2:20:45
best.
2:20:45
Dame Rita.
2:20:47
Well, that's an easy one.
2:20:49
Matthew Martel.
2:20:50
I'm sorry.
2:20:51
Yes, Matthew Martel from Brumal, Pennsylvania.
2:20:54
210.60. He says, since you both love
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content suggestions, here's a segment idea for you.
2:21:01
Take note.
2:21:01
Take notes, John.
2:21:02
I've got a pen.
2:21:04
John C.
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2:21:07
It's not a tip.
2:21:08
It's a fact.
2:21:10
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2:21:26
All right.
2:21:27
Geez.
2:21:28
Yeah, well, he's on board.
2:21:32
Along with Eli the coffee guy, who's on
2:21:36
the next name on the list in Bensonville,
2:21:38
Illinois.
2:21:39
203.02. And he has a longer note
2:21:42
saying, March 1st, I completed another trip around
2:21:45
the sun.
2:21:45
Oh, it's his birthday.
2:21:47
But my birthday present came a day early
2:21:49
in the form of a meeting at the
2:21:51
White House between Trump and Zelensky.
2:21:54
Politics is my sports ball.
2:21:56
And the game is finally entertaining to watch
2:21:59
again.
2:22:00
John, I think your newsletter analysis may be
2:22:03
correct.
2:22:04
Trump is out to stick it to the
2:22:06
Europeans.
2:22:08
Only time will tell how this plays out.
2:22:11
Jingles.
2:22:12
I'm going to come and F the EU
2:22:14
for all.
2:22:15
You know, there you go.
2:22:16
There you go.
2:22:17
For all the guests.
2:22:18
He's on board with that, too.
2:22:19
Yep.
2:22:19
For all the coffee lovers out there, visit
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gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use the code ITM20 for
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2:22:27
Thank you for your courage and stay caffeinated,
2:22:29
says Eli the coffee guy.
2:22:31
I'm going to come.
2:22:38
And Linda Lupakin checks in, as she always
2:22:40
does, every single show with $200, requests Jobs
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Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:24:01
I have a side note clip.
2:24:02
I want to play side note about about
2:24:05
Joanne's House of Fabric that's closed.
2:24:10
Joanne's gone bankrupt.
2:24:11
I've never even heard of Joanne's House of
2:24:13
Fabric.
2:24:14
What is Joanne's is a massive chain of
2:24:17
fabric stores.
2:24:18
If you were a girl or a woman
2:24:19
older, because it turns out that and I
2:24:23
find this to be a depressing report because
2:24:26
it discusses the fact that nobody knows how
2:24:28
to sew anymore.
2:24:29
I can sew.
2:24:30
I can sew.
2:24:31
I can use a sewing machine.
2:24:33
I know how to wind the spindle on
2:24:36
the spool.
2:24:37
Of course you do.
2:24:38
I used to love it because that was
2:24:39
when I get to play accelerator pedal.
2:24:42
My mom taught me how to do it.
2:24:43
You know, when you're putting on the spool.
2:24:47
That was fun.
2:24:48
So that's over now, huh?
2:24:50
Do people even buy sewing machines anymore?
2:24:52
We have a family of people.
2:24:54
Everybody in this family has one of these
2:24:57
of the old Singer slant needle, which is
2:25:01
a classic sewing machine that has that's very
2:25:03
easy to use.
2:25:04
And they're one of the greatest all mechanical.
2:25:06
There's no.
2:25:07
So it's one.
2:25:08
It's got gears.
2:25:09
It's old fashioned.
2:25:11
By the way.
2:25:11
Thank you.
2:25:12
Untoward.
2:25:12
Yes.
2:25:12
The bobbin.
2:25:13
I'm sorry.
2:25:14
This is the bobbin.
2:25:15
The bobbin, right?
2:25:15
I wish I should have caught that.
2:25:16
You should have.
2:25:17
Yes, you should have.
2:25:18
Well, my.
2:25:19
Yeah, I dropped the ball.
2:25:20
Yeah.
2:25:22
Play this clip.
2:25:23
This is talks about the store closures.
2:25:25
If you love to sew or do other
2:25:27
projects with fabric, you might have already headed
2:25:29
to your local Joanne's store to pick through
2:25:31
what's left.
2:25:32
Joanne's for the non crafty used to be
2:25:34
the country's biggest fabric retailer, but it went
2:25:36
bankrupt.
2:25:37
And this week it started closing some 800
2:25:40
stores.
2:25:41
I've been to a couple of the stores
2:25:43
and I walk out and I cry.
2:25:45
Ingrid Crapo is a professional maker of things
2:25:48
with fabric.
2:25:48
I have 10 sewing machines.
2:25:51
I've done everything from uniforms for the University
2:25:53
of Maryland to mascots for all of the
2:25:56
sports teams in D.C. Crapo says she
2:25:59
will miss a well stocked fabric store.
2:26:02
She says the craft stores closest to her
2:26:04
don't have much of a selection and she
2:26:06
calls online shopping for fabric a nightmare.
2:26:09
But you didn't know, Michelle, that Joanne Fabrics
2:26:11
started out as, of all things, a cheese
2:26:13
shop in Cleveland during World War Two.
2:26:15
German immigrants Hilda and Bertolt Reich sold cheese
2:26:19
and fabric in a little store they ran
2:26:20
along with their friends Sigmund and Matilda Rohrbach.
2:26:24
I did not know that.
2:26:25
And you know what?
2:26:26
None of them was named Joanne.
2:26:27
No, but the store was named after their
2:26:30
daughters, Joanne and Jacqueline Ann, and it sold
2:26:33
more fabric than cheese.
2:26:34
And back then, making your own clothes was
2:26:37
often cheaper than buying off the rack.
2:26:39
Sewing is a lost art in America.
2:26:41
Mike Edwards, vice president at Joanne's in the
2:26:44
early 2000s.
2:26:45
That's the only reason they give?
2:26:47
Is sewing is a lost art in America?
2:26:49
I think that is the reason.
2:26:51
It's not.
2:26:52
Nobody knows how.
2:26:53
They don't teach it in school anymore.
2:26:55
They used to teach it in high schools.
2:26:58
They used to have auto shop in high
2:26:59
school.
2:26:59
They used to have wood shop in high
2:27:01
school.
2:27:02
They used to have metal shop in high
2:27:04
school.
2:27:04
They used to have, they used to teach
2:27:05
sewing in high school.
2:27:06
They used to teach cooking in high school.
2:27:08
Now they teach gender studies.
2:27:10
When I was a kid in Holland, they
2:27:15
taught us Pinnaken, Pinnaken, Pinnaken, and Pinnaken, you
2:27:21
had a mushroom, and so it was like
2:27:24
a wooden mushroom with a hollowed out core,
2:27:28
so like the mushroom stem would fit in
2:27:30
your hand, it was kind of lewd now
2:27:33
that I think about it, and you had
2:27:34
the mushroom head, and the mushroom head had
2:27:37
I think eight or maybe ten nails in
2:27:40
it, and you would use a crocheting needle,
2:27:43
and you would route the yarn around one
2:27:47
of the nails, and then pull it down
2:27:49
the bottom, put it back up, and pull
2:27:50
it down the bottom, so that you got
2:27:51
a long trail of, you know, of something
2:27:54
you Pinnaked, I'm sure some Dutch people are
2:27:57
going, wow, that he remembers that, Pinnaken, so
2:28:00
they taught us that, even the boys, even
2:28:02
the boys did the mushroom thing, it was
2:28:06
quite normal back in the day.
2:28:07
They don't teach anything like that, they don't
2:28:09
even show kids how to balance a checkbook,
2:28:12
oh, you don't need a checkbook, use a
2:28:14
credit card.
2:28:14
It's got Venmo.
2:28:15
They can't even add and subtract, I mean,
2:28:17
it's unbelievable what's happened to the education system.
2:28:20
Who needs a checkbook when you've got Venmo,
2:28:24
or Cash App, don't need it, you don't
2:28:28
need it, everything's going to the phone, in
2:28:29
fact, I have, I thought I had a,
2:28:33
yes, in Ohio, in Ohio they really want
2:28:35
everything on the phone, all your ID.
2:28:36
Representative Thomas Hall is one of the sponsors
2:28:39
of bipartisan House Bill 78.
2:28:42
The bill would allow Ohioans to use a
2:28:44
valid digital ID instead of a physical ID
2:28:47
card in almost any case, except voting.
2:28:50
We want to make sure that the infrastructure
2:28:51
is ready for that and secure for that
2:28:54
when we get to that day to allow
2:28:56
for digital IDs for voting, whether that's in
2:28:58
our lifetimes or the lifetimes after us.
2:29:00
Under this bill, you'd be able to use
2:29:02
a digital ID when you get pulled over
2:29:04
for any BMV purposes and at more local
2:29:07
businesses.
2:29:08
Yeah, moving towards the digital ID.
2:29:10
You know, now that I think about it,
2:29:12
my mom used to have patterns and she'd
2:29:17
put the paper patterns on the fabric and
2:29:20
then, and we always loved using that roller
2:29:23
with all the little teeth on it, so
2:29:25
you roll it along the pattern so then
2:29:27
it leaves the kind of the marks in
2:29:29
the fabric so you know where to cut.
2:29:31
And I remember the glorious day when my
2:29:34
mom wasn't home and I got her roll,
2:29:35
what does that thing called?
2:29:36
The roller?
2:29:37
The pattern?
2:29:38
Pattern roller?
2:29:39
Yeah, I don't know.
2:29:41
And right after I got out of college,
2:29:43
I had a girlfriend who was a fashion
2:29:45
designer and she actually made patterns and there's
2:29:49
also these famous pattern makers who do all
2:29:51
of them.
2:29:51
And I had a pattern made for shirts
2:29:54
for me and you could take these pile
2:29:57
of patterns and you take them to some
2:29:58
seamstress or somebody that knew what they were
2:30:00
doing and they'd make you a custom shirt
2:30:02
right off the spot.
2:30:03
I mean, these kinds of lost art.
2:30:05
Hey, all right, boomer.
2:30:08
That's about right.
2:30:09
It's like pathetic.
2:30:11
So the day that was very sad is
2:30:14
when I decided to use the roller all
2:30:16
over the Cherrywood coffee table.
2:30:20
I remember my mom, I didn't know if
2:30:23
she wanted to.
2:30:23
Well, there's the drawback to all of this.
2:30:25
I didn't know if she wanted to beat
2:30:27
me.
2:30:28
I remember a very sad, sad moment.
2:30:31
Where I'm running up and down your arm.
2:30:33
Very, very sad.
2:30:35
Look on her face.
2:30:36
Sorry, mom.
2:30:37
I forgot about that.
2:30:40
Oh, brother.
2:30:42
A little update on Gene Hackman.
2:30:43
The story gets crazier by the moment.
2:30:45
We started with Gene.
2:30:46
We might as well end with Gene.
2:30:48
Here at home, authorities say data from actor
2:30:50
Gene Hackman's pacemaker shows he was likely dead
2:30:53
for nine days before the bodies of he
2:30:56
and his wife were found at their New
2:30:58
Mexico home.
2:30:59
Santa Fe County Sheriff says the pacemaker shows
2:31:02
Hackman's last event was recorded February 17th.
2:31:06
Hackman and his wife Betsy, along with their
2:31:09
dog, were found dead this week in circumstances
2:31:12
officials deemed suspicious enough to warrant a thorough
2:31:17
investigation.
2:31:18
The cause of death remains unknown.
2:31:21
The pair did not show any external trauma
2:31:23
and there were no immediate signs of foul
2:31:25
play.
2:31:26
The pair is also testing negative for carbon
2:31:29
monoxide, likely ruling that out as a cause
2:31:33
of death.
2:31:34
Can you actually test for carbon monoxide posthumously?
2:31:36
In the blood, you can.
2:31:37
The blood.
2:31:37
Oh, you can?
2:31:38
Okay.
2:31:39
Yeah, because that's what it does.
2:31:40
I mean, it's just a blood disorder, actually.
2:31:42
But because it gets in the blood, you
2:31:44
know, it doesn't let the blood work.
2:31:46
What do you think?
2:31:46
What do you think happened here?
2:31:48
Mimi has the best theory.
2:31:49
Ah, can always count on Mimi.
2:31:51
If you got too many eggs or a
2:31:53
dead actor, Mimi's your gal.
2:31:55
Yeah, with the number of people and everyone
2:31:56
I tell it to, they go, oh, makes
2:31:59
nothing but sense.
2:32:00
Here's what happened.
2:32:00
It's Epstein.
2:32:02
Jep.
2:32:03
No.
2:32:03
So, so Hackman fell, had a fall or
2:32:07
something, or he had a heart attack, he
2:32:08
had some, he had an issue.
2:32:10
He fell and died.
2:32:12
Yeah.
2:32:13
The wife saw this and she didn't know,
2:32:15
couldn't revive him and she was freaked out.
2:32:17
And so she decided to take some, some
2:32:20
sedatives to calm herself down.
2:32:23
Took too many, passed out, dropped a bottle
2:32:26
of pills on the floor.
2:32:28
The dog ate the pills and it died
2:32:33
because there were pills all over the floor
2:32:36
and there was a dog in the house
2:32:38
and dogs eat crap off the floor.
2:32:42
So the, yes they do.
2:32:43
So the first thing you do if you
2:32:45
find your 95 year old husband dead is
2:32:48
grab the pill bottle.
2:32:50
Well, she was probably just enamored with this
2:32:52
guy.
2:32:53
She was, didn't know what to do.
2:32:54
So she went to calm herself down and
2:32:56
she took some, you know, who knows why,
2:32:58
but she took some pills and, or maybe
2:33:00
she said, I can't go on without him.
2:33:03
And maybe she killed herself.
2:33:04
That's possible too.
2:33:05
She was young.
2:33:06
Well, whatever the case was, the pills fell
2:33:08
to the ground and that's what just counted
2:33:10
for the dead dog because the other two
2:33:12
dogs were alive outside.
2:33:14
Hmm.
2:33:16
Well, that's, I mean, I don't see how
2:33:19
they can say it's a suspicious circumstances, but
2:33:22
well, there's three dead things.
2:33:24
And what's this three, what's this?
2:33:27
Three dead things.
2:33:28
What's this?
2:33:29
Yeah, well, it's a, it's a tragedy.
2:33:32
I'd like your input on this.
2:33:35
This is the Bezos change to the opinion
2:33:38
page on Washington Post.
2:33:39
Jeff Bezos wants to change things at the
2:33:43
Washington Post's opinion section.
2:33:45
He would like opinion writers to narrow in
2:33:48
on two things, personal liberties and free markets.
2:33:51
He said that they will cover other things,
2:33:53
but opposing viewpoints to those two positions specifically
2:33:57
would be published at other outlets.
2:33:59
It's yet another major change at the paper,
2:34:01
David Shipley, the editor of the Post's opinion
2:34:04
section stepping down rather than leading Bezos's new
2:34:08
direction.
2:34:08
So question one and two, question one is
2:34:11
why do you think he made the change?
2:34:13
And question two is why is everyone so
2:34:14
upset about it?
2:34:16
Well, first of all, we played this clip
2:34:17
in the last show.
2:34:19
Well then tell me, I don't, I don't
2:34:21
remember it.
2:34:22
Oh boy.
2:34:27
It's just beginning.
2:34:28
This is how it starts, yeah.
2:34:32
I think he's sick of the, of the,
2:34:34
of the orientation of the, of the, without
2:34:37
saying let's do more stuff that's pro-business
2:34:40
or, you know, pro or this compete with
2:34:41
the Wall Street Journal, let's be a little
2:34:43
more neutral.
2:34:44
He decided to take it this tact, it's
2:34:46
a tact, but what it really amounts to
2:34:49
is you guys are doing a crappy job.
2:34:51
It's very lopsided pro-Democrat reporting in an
2:34:54
environment that the general public, as you can
2:34:57
tell by the election, doesn't want.
2:34:59
We don't, and they're not gonna approach it,
2:35:02
the people, they're already, you guys already screwed
2:35:04
us over by, because of the not endorsing
2:35:08
Kamala Harris, and they're saying we're not really
2:35:10
gonna endorse her, even though I own the
2:35:12
place, and I say no, and it's usually
2:35:14
generally speaking in the history of newspapers, it's
2:35:17
always the owner who makes these decisions about
2:35:18
who gets endorsed.
2:35:20
So he says no, and then they have
2:35:22
a bunch of people walking off, and then
2:35:23
they have a whole bunch of people quitting
2:35:25
their subscriptions, that you look at that, you
2:35:27
say, no, no, this is not, we don't
2:35:29
want this kind of delicacy where you have
2:35:32
to be walking on pins and needles in
2:35:34
favor of something.
2:35:34
I'm gonna get a real audience that appreciates
2:35:36
the paper for what we do, so we're
2:35:38
gonna change our orientation.
2:35:40
That's all it is.
2:35:43
Everyone's all bent out of shape.
2:35:46
Yeah, well, why?
2:35:47
But exactly why?
2:35:48
I don't know.
2:35:49
Oh, because you don't like the idea of
2:35:51
privacy and liberty, and you don't like the
2:35:54
idea of...
2:35:55
We'll have none of that.
2:35:56
We'll have none of privacy and liberty, no,
2:35:59
that's no good.
2:36:00
Pro-business, pro-capitalism?
2:36:01
Can't have that.
2:36:02
No, we hate capitalism.
2:36:03
We want Marxism.
2:36:05
Give me a...
2:36:06
These people should be fired on the spot
2:36:08
if they complain, and the guy who quit,
2:36:11
good riddance.
2:36:13
I don't think...
2:36:13
Why do you quit?
2:36:14
In a market where the newspapers are failing
2:36:17
left and right, you can't get a job
2:36:18
doing any of this.
2:36:19
What's he gonna go?
2:36:20
Work for MSNBC?
2:36:22
This editorial page editor?
2:36:23
Where's he gonna go?
2:36:24
Pittsburgh?
2:36:24
Oh, no.
2:36:25
According to Kara Swisher.
2:36:27
Oh, yeah.
2:36:27
No, she listens...
2:36:29
Oh, Matt.
2:36:29
I should have clipped this.
2:36:30
I'm sorry.
2:36:31
She said, all kinds of people are calling
2:36:34
me, particularly from the New York Times, asking
2:36:37
me if I should hire this person from
2:36:38
the Post or that person.
2:36:40
Everyone's being poached from the Post now.
2:36:42
It's post-poaching.
2:36:43
And everyone's calling Kara Swisher to get her
2:36:45
input.
2:36:46
What?
2:36:47
What, she had a personnel for Newspapers USA?
2:36:50
What is this all about?
2:36:52
I don't know.
2:36:53
She's a tool.
2:36:55
She's a card.
2:36:55
Let's put it that way.
2:36:56
She's a card.
2:36:57
She's a card.
2:36:58
That's right.
2:37:00
There's an old term we should bring back.
2:37:01
Yeah, she's a card.
2:37:04
I got a note from one of our
2:37:05
producers saying someone very close to him is
2:37:09
a U.S. military drone operator, didn't say
2:37:12
which branch, and apparently his brother-in-law
2:37:16
got deployed last week and is currently dropping
2:37:19
bombs from drones onto cartel spots in Mexico.
2:37:24
This wouldn't surprise me.
2:37:26
No, but it surprises me that no one
2:37:27
is reporting on it.
2:37:28
If it's happening.
2:37:31
That wouldn't surprise me either.
2:37:33
Well, good point.
2:37:36
Let's talk about this.
2:37:38
Let's talk about it.
2:37:39
This is Trump.
2:37:40
He gave an interview to The Spectator on
2:37:43
a podcast, and this is an excerpt from
2:37:46
it, talking about Biden, who got Biden ousted.
2:37:51
And this podcast dropped like the day before
2:37:54
the Zelensky thing started.
2:37:55
It dropped.
2:37:56
It dropped.
2:37:57
You're right.
2:37:57
Oh, I'm sorry.
2:37:58
You're right.
2:37:59
Wow.
2:38:00
OK.
2:38:00
I'm always ridiculing that phrase.
2:38:02
Yes.
2:38:03
And I just used it.
2:38:04
Here we go.
2:38:05
I feel bad now.
2:38:06
Here we go.
2:38:07
I asked him, I said.
2:38:08
God, his voice sounds so bad on some
2:38:10
recordings, like he has no power.
2:38:12
I asked him, I said, so who do
2:38:15
you blame?
2:38:16
Because he was very angry.
2:38:17
He was a very angry guy, actually.
2:38:19
And he said, I blame Barack.
2:38:22
And I never think of him as Barack.
2:38:24
You know, you always hear Obama.
2:38:26
He said, you have to think of him
2:38:27
as Barack.
2:38:27
You have to think about that for a
2:38:28
second.
2:38:29
And he said.
2:38:30
And I also blame Nancy Pelosi.
2:38:32
I said, what about the vice president?
2:38:34
He said, no, I don't blame her.
2:38:36
Which was interesting.
2:38:37
Yeah.
2:38:38
He didn't blame her.
2:38:38
He blamed.
2:38:40
He told me he blamed those two people.
2:38:43
Not surprising.
2:38:45
No, not surprising.
2:38:46
Not surprising.
2:38:48
The guy buried by the other reporting.
2:38:51
So it is not that we didn't get
2:38:53
out, really.
2:38:55
I don't today.
2:38:56
I only have one.
2:38:57
I have one AI clip, and this is
2:38:59
actually, this makes sense to me when it
2:39:02
comes to AI, because the only thing I've
2:39:04
really seen AI good at is creating your
2:39:09
AI hate.
2:39:10
It's a lot of hate.
2:39:12
But I just don't want people to get
2:39:13
snookered into this.
2:39:14
I mean, when I see Glenn Beck having
2:39:16
actual conversations with Grok three and then telling
2:39:19
people about his conversation, I get worried.
2:39:22
Well, that's worrisome for sure.
2:39:25
Because I asked Grok, and Grok said this,
2:39:27
and I said, Grok, how old are you?
2:39:29
And Grok said, in human years, I'm 21.
2:39:32
But I gain in intelligence and knowledge about,
2:39:36
what was it, about 18 months per day.
2:39:40
And Glenn Beck's like, oh, oh, it's going
2:39:42
to take over.
2:39:43
It was going to be so smart.
2:39:44
Maybe Grok's a liar.
2:39:46
Yeah.
2:39:46
And then just wait until it gets hooked
2:39:48
up to quantum computing.
2:39:50
Oh, everything will all be over then.
2:39:54
Beck, invite me back.
2:39:56
I've got to set you straight.
2:39:58
Yeah.
2:39:58
Yeah.
2:39:59
Actually, he should.
2:40:00
He is a big fan of yours.
2:40:01
Yeah.
2:40:02
I like him.
2:40:02
I told you this.
2:40:03
You never heard it, but I heard it.
2:40:05
He says you're like his brother.
2:40:08
From another mother, is what he said.
2:40:10
Pretty kind of interesting.
2:40:12
Yeah.
2:40:12
Well, I like him.
2:40:13
I like Beck a lot.
2:40:13
Oh, he seems like a great...
2:40:14
I'd love to go over there and look
2:40:16
at his museum.
2:40:17
I've seen it twice now.
2:40:18
That museum is outrageous.
2:40:20
Yeah.
2:40:21
You would like it a lot.
2:40:22
Yeah.
2:40:22
Museums are all over the country.
2:40:23
You get to see them once in a
2:40:25
while here and there.
2:40:27
And they're just generally dynamite.
2:40:30
But half of the museum, or not half,
2:40:31
but a large portion of his collection is
2:40:33
just in the studio complex.
2:40:36
He's got like a 1930 Bugatti.
2:40:41
It's one of those things you got parked
2:40:42
in the hallway.
2:40:44
Yeah.
2:40:44
It's got some interesting...
2:40:45
It's a piece of art.
2:40:46
It's not really a car at this point.
2:40:48
It's beautiful though.
2:40:50
No.
2:40:50
So this made sense as something that AI
2:40:52
is good at, which is creating images, writing
2:40:55
stupid copy.
2:40:57
And so it makes sense that this is
2:40:58
happening.
2:40:59
This is in Virginia.
2:41:00
A shake up in the makeup of one
2:41:01
of Richmond's largest...
2:41:02
A shake up in the makeup.
2:41:04
Oh boy, everybody.
2:41:05
Shake up in the makeup.
2:41:06
A shake up in the makeup of one
2:41:07
of Richmond's largest employers is now underway.
2:41:11
CoStar Group, who operates real estate websites like
2:41:13
homes.com and apartments.com, laid off more
2:41:17
than 100 employees Thursday.
2:41:18
According to a company statement and people familiar
2:41:21
with the cuts.
2:41:22
Sources tell CBS 6 the cuts impacted multiple
2:41:24
departments.
2:41:26
Those positions included managers, editors, writers, production and
2:41:29
video staff.
2:41:30
Some who were laid off say they are
2:41:32
frustrated because they moved to the area for
2:41:34
the stability they thought they'd acquire from the
2:41:36
high-paying corporate job.
2:41:38
CoStar did not respond to direct questions about
2:41:40
the layoffs.
2:41:41
However, a press release on their website stated
2:41:43
the layoffs were due to annual performance management
2:41:45
and a reallocation of roles with the use
2:41:48
of artificial intelligence.
2:41:50
The company wrote in a press release, quote,
2:42:04
In the same release, CoStar said they will
2:42:06
be adding an additional 1,000 jobs over
2:42:08
the next year to their sales and market
2:42:11
analyst teams, as well as jobs from the
2:42:13
acquisition of another real estate company.
2:42:43
I'd like to hear Joy Behar.
2:42:45
Yeah, this is Joy Behar going off on
2:42:48
Musk.
2:42:49
And the theme of this is, Musk, go
2:42:52
back to Africa.
2:42:54
The guy was not born in this country,
2:42:57
who was born under apartheid in South Africa.
2:43:00
So has that mentality going on.
2:43:02
He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it.
2:43:05
Now I'm getting some flack because I said
2:43:07
that Musk was pro-apartheid.
2:43:09
I don't really know for sure if he
2:43:10
was.
2:43:11
He grew up at that time when apartheid
2:43:13
was in full bloom before the great Nelson
2:43:16
Mandela.
2:43:18
He was around at that time, but maybe
2:43:20
he was, maybe he wasn't.
2:43:21
He might have been a young guy, too.
2:43:22
So don't be suing me, OK, Elon?
2:43:26
They're allowed to say any lie they want,
2:43:28
but we have to be really strict.
2:43:30
That's why this show is important.
2:43:31
That's why this show sucks.
2:43:34
Because what was that all about?
2:43:37
Republicans can lie all they want, but we
2:43:38
have to be very strict.
2:43:40
Yeah.
2:43:42
How about your wall of receipts?
2:43:45
All right, this is a good series.
2:43:47
This is a couple of series from us
2:43:48
from last show.
2:43:49
This is from PBS.
2:43:50
It's the wall of receipts.
2:43:51
This is about the evidence that we have
2:43:54
about different kinds of corruption and whatever.
2:43:56
But this is the wall of receipts.
2:43:58
Here we go.
2:43:58
Billionaire Elon Musk says his campaign to fire
2:44:01
tens of thousands of federal workers and cancel
2:44:03
government contracts is in the name of rooting
2:44:06
out fraud and waste.
2:44:07
His Doge group has posted what it calls
2:44:10
a wall of receipts on its website that
2:44:12
claims it has saved billions by cutting certain
2:44:14
federal contracts.
2:44:16
But reports and government documents prove that many
2:44:19
of these so-called savings are either misleading
2:44:21
or incorrect.
2:44:22
Our White House correspondent, Laura Borrome Lopez, has
2:44:24
been looking into this and joins us now.
2:44:26
So, Laura, what kinds of savings are Musk
2:44:28
and his team claiming, and does the math
2:44:31
add up?
2:44:31
So Elon Musk and his team on that
2:44:33
wall of receipts say that their total cuts
2:44:35
equal $65 billion in savings.
2:44:38
They base that on contract cancellations, firing workers,
2:44:41
and, quote, fraud detection.
2:44:43
But as The New York Times first reported,
2:44:45
five of Doge's biggest contracts that they say
2:44:48
have resulted in savings ended up being deleted
2:44:52
from that wall of receipts after outlets pointed
2:44:54
out that there were errors.
2:44:56
And some of the biggest errors in savings
2:44:58
are, as CBS first reported, a USAID contract
2:45:01
for $650 million that was listed three times,
2:45:05
as The Intercept first reported, a Social Security
2:45:07
contract listed as $232 million instead of $560
2:45:12
,000, and an ICE contract that Doge listed
2:45:15
as $8 billion, when in reality it was
2:45:17
$8 million.
2:45:19
And it's important to note that that $8
2:45:20
million ICE contract was a credit line.
2:45:23
That means that ICE may have never ended
2:45:25
up paying out that total $8 million.
2:45:27
And some of these contracts were on the
2:45:29
wall of receipts were either already paid or
2:45:32
canceled under the Biden administration.
2:45:35
So Doge is essentially taking a lot of
2:45:37
credit in time for some of these contracts
2:45:40
that don't appear to be actually the savings
2:45:44
that they say they are.
2:45:45
Do we have any proof of what they're
2:45:47
saying here?
2:45:48
Because I keep hearing this, this $8 billion
2:45:49
versus $8 million.
2:45:49
No, this is kind of ant-fucking, too,
2:45:51
if you think about it.
2:45:53
Well, $8 million, $8 billion is quite the
2:45:55
difference.
2:45:56
Yeah, but still, they're going over, they're doing
2:45:58
accounting.
2:46:00
And this is an ongoing thing.
2:46:02
And yeah, there is a difference between $8
2:46:03
million and $8 billion, and you're going to
2:46:05
make these mistakes if you start throwing everything
2:46:07
up on a website, you know, just helter
2:46:10
-skelter is not being well organized and it's
2:46:12
not getting any support, especially by NPR and
2:46:14
the Democrats that think this is terrible, that
2:46:17
you're exposing any of this stuff, like promoting
2:46:20
gaydom in the Caribbean.
2:46:23
Gaydom?
2:46:24
Gaydom in the Caribbean is part two.
2:46:29
I know you were working the phones and
2:46:30
talking to vendors who appear on this so
2:46:32
-called wall of receipts.
2:46:33
What did they tell you?
2:46:34
So our colleague Kyle Madura spoke to one
2:46:37
of these federal vendors, a Taylor Jones.
2:46:39
His company, CulturePoint, does leadership and management training.
2:46:43
And his company was listed on Doge's wall
2:46:46
of receipts as having a contract for almost
2:46:48
$10 million.
2:46:50
But Taylor Jones told NewsHour that not only
2:46:53
was the amount of money wrong, it was
2:46:55
actually $100,000, but it was not a
2:46:58
guaranteed payment.
2:46:59
It was a credit line.
2:47:00
And the agreement with the government was never
2:47:02
signed.
2:47:03
We never had a contract, and we've actually
2:47:05
never had a contract with the government that
2:47:06
was, you know, a $10 million contract or
2:47:09
even a $1 million contract.
2:47:10
So not that we're opposed to it, but
2:47:13
it just never happened.
2:47:15
So we were a little surprised to start
2:47:17
getting calls from reporters about a non-contract
2:47:24
that was never executed.
2:47:27
So essentially there wasn't even a contract to
2:47:29
delete, Jeff.
2:47:30
And when you look at all of this
2:47:33
across the board, the math is really not
2:47:35
adding up to $65 billion.
2:47:36
There will be people who will say, well,
2:47:38
what Musk is trying to do is still
2:47:40
a worthy effort trying to clean up government
2:47:42
waste.
2:47:43
How much money has the team actually saved
2:47:45
so far?
2:47:46
So the actual savings is around $2 billion,
2:47:49
according to budget experts that we spoke to.
2:47:51
And again, as you noted, Musk says that
2:47:53
this is about, that these cuts are meant
2:47:56
to help reduce the deficit and pay for
2:47:59
Republicans' tax cuts.
2:48:01
Yeah, that's not what he says.
2:48:02
He says we need a trillion dollars, otherwise
2:48:05
we're going to go bankrupt.
2:48:06
That's what he says.
2:48:07
It's a little different.
2:48:08
This is just a skewed report.
2:48:10
I mean, yeah, I'm sure you can do
2:48:12
this and find, you know, errors all over
2:48:15
the place, at least at the beginning.
2:48:16
Eventually it gets shaken out.
2:48:18
The one I'm looking at, I think mainly
2:48:21
because, well, for two reasons, one, it's a
2:48:23
huge spook agency adjacent, spook adjacent company.
2:48:28
And also I know the guy who used
2:48:29
to run it, Ray Lane, is Booz Allen.
2:48:35
So Booz Allen.
2:48:36
Booz Allen is spook adjacent?
2:48:40
Yes.
2:48:42
Booz Allen is very spook adjacent.
2:48:44
And they have annually about $65 billion worth
2:48:48
of contracts, 98, according to the Wall Street
2:48:51
Journal, 98% of its money comes from
2:48:53
the government.
2:48:54
Wait, didn't Snowden work for them?
2:48:55
Yes.
2:48:56
Spook adjacent.
2:48:57
Yes.
2:48:57
Okay.
2:48:58
Yes.
2:48:58
98% of their income is from the
2:49:01
US government.
2:49:03
Really?
2:49:05
Oh, yeah.
2:49:06
They're basically just a huge government contractor.
2:49:09
Military industrial complex, CIA, NSA.
2:49:13
All kinds of stuff.
2:49:15
Booz, look it up, Booz Allen.
2:49:17
And I know- What do they do
2:49:18
for this money?
2:49:19
Well, now that's a good question.
2:49:21
Spooky stuff.
2:49:23
But the real question is, who are you
2:49:26
wearing tonight for the 97th Academy Awards?
2:49:30
Come on.
2:49:31
Are you wearing one of those things that
2:49:32
you designed yourself?
2:49:34
I sewed it myself.
2:49:36
Are you kidding?
2:49:36
Or your Ohio State hoodie, perhaps?
2:49:39
The Ohio State hoodie will be what I'm
2:49:41
going to wear, yep.
2:49:42
I'm going to show my support by donating
2:49:44
to No Agenda.
2:49:45
Imagine all the people who could do that.
2:49:47
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
2:49:50
Yeah, on No Agenda, in the morning.
2:49:55
Well, it seems the red carpet's already out,
2:49:57
so we got to get a move on,
2:49:58
because we have to watch this.
2:50:00
We've got to see the dead segment, got
2:50:01
to see all the- of course, we're
2:50:03
going to be honoring the people who lost
2:50:05
property and lives at the LA fire tonight
2:50:07
at the 97th Academy Awards.
2:50:08
So guess what the value of the Go
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Bag is tonight?
2:50:12
Oh, do you know what's in the Go
2:50:13
Bag?
2:50:14
I don't know what's in it, but I
2:50:15
know the total value.
2:50:16
Okay, what's the total value?
2:50:19
Take a sloppy guess.
2:50:21
$5,000.
2:50:25
$250,000 per bag.
2:50:28
What's in there?
2:50:30
I guess a lot of vacations.
2:50:32
Before we even start to thank our donors,
2:50:35
$50 and above, a health karma for Darren
2:50:37
O'Neill's wife, Kim.
2:50:39
Thursday, she's having a procedure done, so Darren
2:50:41
will be taking the day off.
2:50:43
He's a good husband.
2:50:44
Pfeiffer will be doing the rock and roll
2:50:45
pre-show for Thursday's show, and I'm going
2:50:48
to give her a little bit of health
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karma here.
2:50:50
You've got karma.
2:50:52
And now, John will thank all of our
2:50:54
supporters, $50 and above.
2:50:57
Yeah, the Indy No Agenda meetup starts us
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off in Greenwood, Indiana.
2:51:00
They came in and they sent us $150
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with a switcheroo for Nick.
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Nick Zondervan.
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Nick Zondervan.
2:51:10
He said, they say he's the best, he
2:51:12
can do a Vladimir Zelinsky imitation.
2:51:14
Maybe it's in the recording.
2:51:16
Yeah, it probably is.
2:51:17
I have the meetup reports ready to roll.
2:51:20
I want to thank him for that.
2:51:23
Tom Baird in Tyberg, Holland.
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And this is a nightingale, so you have
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to read it.
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It's Tilburg.
2:51:31
Tilburg.
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Tilburg.
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Tom says, with my latest donation, I am
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proud to say that my total contributions have
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now surpassed $1,000.
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I would love to be knighted Sir Cooley
2:51:41
of Kraukenstadt during the upcoming roundtable ceremony.
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I've been a loyal assistant since 2019, just
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in time for the ceremony.
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I'd like to request a drink, Gouden-Carlus
2:51:51
whisky infused with Belgian strong dark ale and
2:51:56
Venloos frittie.
2:51:58
Frittie?
2:51:59
I'm not familiar with this.
2:52:00
Venloos frittie, a dish I sorely missed in
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the eggcellent Too Many Eggs book.
2:52:06
Wishing you both...
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No, send it in and we'll put it
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in the next edition.
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Wishing you both a fijne fastelavond, that's carnival,
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and may the show continue for many years
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to come.
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Thank you both for keeping us sane in
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this insane world.
2:52:19
In the morning, Tom Baird.
2:52:20
Baird.
2:52:21
Baird, I think it is.
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Okay, Tom, I'm set for you.
2:52:24
Got that.
2:52:25
Ordered it.
2:52:25
I want to mention that Hillary sent us
2:52:28
a note from the...
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It didn't have enough for mentioning, but there
2:52:33
was a donation that came in from the
2:52:35
Portland Slave Soiree.
2:52:38
Oh.
2:52:39
A couple of different donors helped us out.
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Okay.
2:52:43
John Aaron's on the list, 100 bucks, thank
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you for your courage.
2:52:48
Baron Lattican.
2:52:49
Hey, Baron Lattican, we haven't heard from him
2:52:51
for a while, I don't think, $100 from
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Houston, Texas.
2:52:53
Chris Rink in Austin, Texas, $84.38, which
2:52:57
is a boob donation plus fees.
2:53:00
We'll have fees there.
2:53:02
Kevin McLaughlin, you know the fees, that's $4
2:53:04
in fees.
2:53:06
Checks.
2:53:07
Checks.
2:53:07
The fee is 15 cents.
2:53:08
15 cents, it's a good deal.
2:53:10
No matter what.
2:53:12
Good deal for everybody.
2:53:14
Yeah, Kevin McLaughlin, 8008, there he is, he's
2:53:16
the Archduke of Louisiana.
2:53:17
But let me ask you a question.
2:53:18
Let me ask you a question.
2:53:19
If someone sends in the donation plus fees,
2:53:22
doesn't part of the fee also get taken
2:53:24
as a fee?
2:53:25
Yeah, I think so.
2:53:26
Okay, just checking.
2:53:27
I don't know.
2:53:28
I mean, it's just, I'd have to look
2:53:29
at the math on that, but.
2:53:30
I'll bet it does.
2:53:32
Well, maybe, maybe not.
2:53:33
You don't know.
2:53:35
I don't know.
2:53:36
Maybe it doesn't.
2:53:38
I'm leaning toward it doesn't.
2:53:40
I think that covers it.
2:53:42
Because it would otherwise be ridiculous.
2:53:44
Oh, is there a button that says cover
2:53:45
the fees?
2:53:47
Yeah.
2:53:47
Oh, okay.
2:53:48
All right.
2:53:48
That's good.
2:53:49
Yeah.
2:53:50
So I don't think there's any more taken
2:53:51
out.
2:53:52
Yeah.
2:53:52
It's all right.
2:53:53
The tax man takes it out.
2:53:55
Somebody gets some extra money.
2:53:57
Somebody gets money and it's not us.
2:53:59
That'd be the U.S. government, eventually.
2:54:01
Doge.
2:54:02
Kevin McLaughlin.
2:54:04
He's the Archduke of Louisiana, lover of American
2:54:05
boobs.
2:54:07
Sir Lloyd is also in Winter Haven, Florida.
2:54:09
He also came with 8008.
2:54:13
He's an alumnus from a third-rate university.
2:54:16
Nice.
2:54:17
That's Ohio State, by the way.
2:54:22
It's not a third-rate university by any
2:54:24
means, but I said that, I think, on
2:54:26
some show and I'm getting ridiculed for it.
2:54:29
Forever.
2:54:31
Yeah.
2:54:31
Yeah.
2:54:32
Well, you know, compared to Cal Berkeley, maybe.
2:54:36
Jorge Alvarez in Ponte Verde Beach, 7171.
2:54:40
Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana, 6502.
2:54:42
That's a chip donation that is rare, but
2:54:45
people should think about giving that one in.
2:54:47
8080 would be another good one.
2:54:49
Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 6006.
2:54:52
Z80.
2:54:53
You can't donate that.
2:54:55
Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 6006.
2:54:58
Those are small boobs.
2:54:59
Baroness Monica, 5757.
2:55:02
Wish it could be more.
2:55:04
She's someplace out of the country, I think.
2:55:07
Ezekiel Goodwin in Richmond, Kentucky, 5678.
2:55:10
Needs a de-douching.
2:55:13
You've been de-douched.
2:55:15
The Organic Hemp Society in Topanga, of all
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places, California, 5333.
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If you use the code CURRY33, you'll get
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13.33% off of your hemp supplies.
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Jaron Padden.
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Jeroen.
2:55:37
Jeroen.
2:55:37
Jeroen.
2:55:38
Jeroen Pot.
2:55:40
In North Saffron, Essex, UK, 5272.
2:55:46
John Bossano in Madison, Alabama, 5272.
2:55:50
Those are actually donations of $50 plus the
2:55:52
fees.
2:55:54
Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado, 50.
2:55:56
These are all 50s.
2:55:57
I'm gonna wrap it with 50s.
2:55:59
It's a short list, actually.
2:56:01
Tony Lang, Castle Pines.
2:56:03
Bobby Bowe in Bluegrass, Iowa.
2:56:08
Scott McCarty in Lodi, Jordan Tierney in Oral,
2:56:12
South Dakota.
2:56:14
Joshua Johnson in Omaha.
2:56:16
Leif Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.
2:56:20
Daniel LaBoi in Bath, Michigan.
2:56:22
Foster Birch in New York.
2:56:25
And Matt Frazee in St. John's, Florida.
2:56:29
I wanna thank these people for making the
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It's just birthday, birthday on No Agenda.
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And there he is.
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Yesterday he celebrated his birthday.
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Eli the Coffee Guy supports us every single
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show.
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Jeff Barich wishes his smoking hot wife Libby
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a very happy birthday.
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She celebrates tomorrow.
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Rebecca Weintraub will be celebrating on March 4th.
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Jason Sullivan also on March 4th.
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And we have Sir Brian with an I
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celebrating on March 4th.
2:57:27
And also our very own Dreb Scott.
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Happy birthday to those awesome producers.
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And Dave Clevenger will be turning 74 on
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March 5th, which is also my sister Willow's
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birthday.
2:57:38
So happy birthday to everybody from the best
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podcast in the universe.
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Two Commodores to bring up.
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So I'd like to congratulate these two for
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supporting the No Agenda show.
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We have brand new Commodores.
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Check out the Commodore tab and send us
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Commodores arriving.
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Woo.
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Hey, three nights for us today, so that's
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good.
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We've got the Trident blade out.
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I got a blade here.
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That's a very good blade.
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Come on up.
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Ryan M.
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And Tom Beard.
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more.
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So I'm very proud to pronounce the KDS
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the Famous, Sir Radar Rider, and Sir Cooley
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We also add to that some barn hits
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of bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale
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and gerbils, breast milk and babblum, and of
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course, the ever-present mutton and mead.
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.com and check out those handsome rings.
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All you have to do is give us
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There's a ring sizing guide at noagenderrings.com
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and an address to send it to.
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It comes with wax to seal your important
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correspondence because they are signet rings and a
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certificate of authenticity.
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Once again, welcome to the roundtable.
2:59:15
No Agenda Meetups.
2:59:20
Yeah, man, the No Agenda Meetups, they are
2:59:25
something to behold.
2:59:27
You must go to one of these at
2:59:28
least once in your life and I guarantee
2:59:30
you, you will keep coming back because this
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is where you get connection that provides protection.
2:59:35
Every single person you meet will be your
2:59:37
first responder in an emergency.
2:59:38
You go to noagendermeetups.com, that's where we
2:59:40
have the entire calendar.
2:59:41
You can add your own.
2:59:42
They're producer-organized.
2:59:43
They are a lot of fun.
2:59:45
And one of the biggest ones that has
2:59:46
been going on for many years now is
2:59:49
the Indie Meetup.
2:59:50
Here's Annette's mix of the February report.
2:59:54
Hello, this is Senator Mark.
2:59:56
And this is Dave Maria from Indianapolis.
2:59:59
We miss you, Annette.
3:00:00
We'll see you next month.
3:00:01
The theme for these 33 days, fire, fire
3:00:04
them all.
3:00:05
In the morning, not from Indianapolis, a bit
3:00:08
stuffy here, not woofloo, but Mike, this is
3:00:11
your spot.
3:00:12
Where are you?
3:00:12
Hey, this is Emily, your Shufflecrack spook.
3:00:15
And breaking news, I'm all out of beer.
3:00:18
Bruce here, just drinking some beer at the
3:00:21
Dugout.
3:00:22
Hey, it's Gary here.
3:00:23
I'm wondering, are they going to announce that
3:00:25
the Pope is dead before, during, or after
3:00:27
the Epstein-Lust reveal?
3:00:29
Hey, this is Carter.
3:00:31
First time to the Meetup.
3:00:34
Yeah, live here out of Nafganistan.
3:00:37
And I've got one thing to say, the
3:00:38
truth is stranger than fiction.
3:00:40
In the morning, RFK Jr., I had nachos
3:00:45
today.
3:00:47
Hi, I'm Lexi Julber.
3:00:49
I served the No Agenda folks today at
3:00:52
the Dugout in downtown Indy, and so far
3:00:55
it's been a great time.
3:00:56
In the morning, long live the king.
3:01:02
I love it.
3:01:03
Where is our Zelensky guy?
3:01:05
Hi, I didn't hear him.
3:01:06
He wasn't there.
3:01:06
We missed the Zelensky impersonator.
3:01:10
Disappointing.
3:01:11
Don't worry, everyone else in these reports imitates
3:01:14
somebody.
3:01:14
Not sure who.
3:01:15
Here's Leo Bravo's 60th Meetup he's done in
3:01:18
Los Angeles.
3:01:19
Hi, everybody.
3:01:19
It's Leo Bravo.
3:01:20
We're at Meetup number 60.
3:01:21
I'm passing the phone around for everyone to
3:01:23
say hello.
3:01:24
Hello.
3:01:25
This is Greta.
3:01:27
Thank you to Leo for hosting these meetups.
3:01:29
We love you.
3:01:31
And, you know, we are a family of
3:01:33
four who know agendas together, so it's been
3:01:36
the best thing that's ever happened to us.
3:01:37
And I just want to say, John, I'd
3:01:40
never heard of RSV either until 2021, and
3:01:42
I've been a mother since 2011.
3:01:45
Hi, this is Tommy.
3:01:46
This is my third meetup.
3:01:49
I want to say thank you very much
3:01:51
for continuing the show.
3:01:52
We watch it every day and we love
3:01:55
it.
3:01:55
Every day, twice a week.
3:01:58
Well, I try and listen to it every
3:01:59
day.
3:02:00
Hi.
3:02:01
I'm really grateful for the show.
3:02:04
My name is Devil Angel.
3:02:05
I loved your...
3:02:07
John, I loved your remark about Jimmy and
3:02:09
the bats.
3:02:10
It made me and my brother crack up
3:02:12
very much, so just keep doing what you
3:02:14
guys are doing.
3:02:14
Thank you.
3:02:15
In the morning.
3:02:16
In the morning.
3:02:18
This is Brian.
3:02:19
Connection is protection.
3:02:20
Thanks.
3:02:21
Nice event.
3:02:22
Good conversations.
3:02:23
And this won't happen in the morning.
3:02:26
Hey, guys.
3:02:26
This is Slick Rick having a good time
3:02:28
here with Leo Bravo and the gang in
3:02:31
the morning.
3:02:31
In the morning, this is Angie from The
3:02:32
Ranch enjoying the sun in Southern California.
3:02:35
It's Sir Lee Kim Full Pop here in
3:02:37
SoCal where it's still fun being an illegal
3:02:39
alien.
3:02:39
In the morning.
3:02:41
John, popular with the kids there.
3:02:44
That's really cool.
3:02:45
The kids love you.
3:02:47
Central Ohio, come on in with your report.
3:02:49
I'm not producing it.
3:02:50
This is just what's playing in the background.
3:02:52
This is Wild Bill with the Central Ohio
3:02:55
meetup.
3:02:55
Thanks for doing what you guys do.
3:02:58
And here we go to the next.
3:03:01
In the morning, bag slappers.
3:03:03
John and Adam, we need to get you
3:03:04
both on Who Are These podcasts as soon
3:03:06
as possible.
3:03:07
And you got to get on this little
3:03:09
piggy.
3:03:10
It'll be another win for the toe.
3:03:12
ITM, gentlemen.
3:03:13
This is Sir Rod, the one who parties
3:03:15
the night of Crocs and socks.
3:03:18
Linda Lou and Eli the coffee guy are
3:03:20
great.
3:03:20
But Kevin McLaughlin is a legend.
3:03:23
Well, this is Sir Leary.
3:03:26
I really like this podcast that you guys
3:03:28
do.
3:03:29
It's great.
3:03:30
It's phenomenal.
3:03:31
Keep at it.
3:03:32
I would say four more years, but don't
3:03:34
put a time span on perfection.
3:03:38
Also, John, since we're in Columbus and we
3:03:40
heard you're now complaining about Columbus people not
3:03:45
sending in a national championship sweatshirt.
3:03:49
We got you covered.
3:03:50
Don't worry.
3:03:51
I know there's a bunch of anonymous people
3:03:53
out there that don't come to the meetups,
3:03:54
but talk to y'all later.
3:03:56
So how many did you get?
3:03:58
How many hoodies or sweatshirts?
3:04:00
I've received one thus far, but I think
3:04:02
there's two or three more on the way.
3:04:04
Oh, I'm so happy for you.
3:04:05
Final meetup report.
3:04:07
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:04:07
I don't buy clothes.
3:04:09
The final meter report, meaning the final meter
3:04:14
report comes from San Francisco.
3:04:16
John couldn't make this one because he has
3:04:18
family dinners on Friday.
3:04:19
This is the Duke of San Francisco's birthday
3:04:21
bash meetup in the morning.
3:04:23
This is Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve at the
3:04:26
Duke of SF birthday meetup bash, and unfortunately
3:04:31
it's family night for JCD.
3:04:33
Sir Robertson of Two Sticks here, and happy
3:04:36
birthday, Ben.
3:04:37
Sir Montauk having a great time in San
3:04:39
Francisco.
3:04:40
This is Sir Lavish behind the schemes.
3:04:42
Happy birthday, Sir Ben, Sir Ben, Sir Ben.
3:04:45
Oh, I'm sorry.
3:04:46
Duke Ben.
3:04:47
Happy birthday, sir.
3:04:48
This is a dude named Ben Basch, or
3:04:51
is it Lai Chow, from Daly City, LCDC.
3:04:55
In the morning, this is Sir Lawrence of
3:04:57
Dystopia.
3:04:59
You are the Duke, Duke of San Francisco.
3:05:05
All right, this is the Duke, dude named
3:05:08
Ben, named Ben, Commodore of the SF Fleet.
3:05:13
We are bringing all the Commodores together to
3:05:16
defend the Bay Area Fleet for the Tahoe
3:05:20
Secret Underground Submarine Base that must be protected.
3:05:26
Woohoo!
3:05:27
This is Sir Julian, Baron of the Santa
3:05:29
Cruz Mountains.
3:05:30
Made it up from Santa Cruz.
3:05:33
Hope you guys make it next time.
3:05:34
Everyone's missing out.
3:05:36
And that's a long drive.
3:05:37
In the morning!
3:05:39
Hey, here's a little tip for those of
3:05:40
you putting together these meetup reports.
3:05:42
Try and get people to record before they
3:05:44
drink.
3:05:45
It helps with the editing.
3:05:46
I have to do a lot of edits
3:05:48
on these things sometimes.
3:05:50
Currently underway in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Meeting
3:05:52
in the Desert meetup at the Saw Mill.
3:05:55
The Central Jersey meetup is also underway.
3:05:58
We Drink and We Know Things Apocalypse or
3:06:00
Season of Reveal Edition at 3BR Distillery in
3:06:03
Keyport, New Jersey.
3:06:05
And the Mount Holly Hypophora Hootenanny, also underway
3:06:09
in Belmont, North Carolina, at Muddy River Distillery.
3:06:13
On Thursday, you can go to the Central
3:06:15
Wisconsin WowSaw meetup at 333 Central at Sconus
3:06:19
in Schofield, Wisconsin.
3:06:22
The 805 Rooftop meetup at 4 o'clock
3:06:24
at Goleta HGI Rooftop in Goleta, California.
3:06:27
Dame Beth hosting that.
3:06:28
The Norther's Wake Publical Slave Gathering, 6 o
3:06:31
'clock at Saints and Scholars in Raleigh, North
3:06:34
Carolina.
3:06:34
Also on Thursday, the Orlando, Florida, Supper Time
3:06:37
meetup, 6.30 at Hourglass Brewing, Hourglass District,
3:06:40
Orlando.
3:06:41
And finally, the Tilburg meetup, Gitmo Nation Lowlands,
3:06:45
7.33 p.m. at Biercafe Kadinski in
3:06:49
Tilburg, the Netherlands.
3:06:51
We just heard one of our supporters coming
3:06:53
from Tilburg.
3:06:54
And those are just a few of the
3:06:55
meetups that you can find on the calendar
3:06:56
at noagendameetups.com.
3:06:58
Go there.
3:06:59
Look up your town.
3:07:00
Look up your zip code.
3:07:01
If you can't find anything near you, start
3:07:03
one yourself.
3:07:04
They're always a party.
3:07:25
It's always like a party.
3:07:27
We have some good end of show mixes
3:07:29
coming up for you.
3:07:30
Also, we have John's tip of the day.
3:07:31
And I wish I could say that I
3:07:35
had an ISO to compete with, but I
3:07:37
have nothing today.
3:07:38
I don't know how that happened.
3:07:39
I thought I had some.
3:07:40
I know how it happened.
3:07:41
You're giving up.
3:07:42
I'm not giving up.
3:07:43
It's just sometimes.
3:07:43
You threw your arms in the air.
3:07:45
And partied like I didn't care.
3:07:47
You have two.
3:07:48
Which one are we going to choose from
3:07:49
today?
3:07:50
Well, let's start with suit.
3:07:52
Why don't you wear a suit?
3:07:54
A little roomy.
3:07:55
A little roomy-boomy.
3:07:57
Okay.
3:07:57
Well, this one definitely isn't.
3:07:59
This is a crystal clear.
3:08:02
Wow, that was great.
3:08:03
I can't compete.
3:08:04
That's the problem.
3:08:05
Wow, that was great.
3:08:07
That's just a great end of show ISO.
3:08:09
There's no way I can compete with that
3:08:11
stuff.
3:08:11
Why do I even show up?
3:08:12
You should just do the show yourself.
3:08:14
Four more years.
3:08:15
JCD.
3:08:16
And now, everybody, it's time for the highlight
3:08:18
of the show, and it's John's tip of
3:08:20
the day.
3:08:30
Okay, first of all, I'm going to do
3:08:31
a little clarification on the last tip.
3:08:34
There's a number of factors that took place
3:08:37
when I recommended Zeus, the Greek season.
3:08:39
Oh, yes.
3:08:40
Yeah.
3:08:40
There was some pronunciation issues.
3:08:42
And it's like Tony C's is pronounced sashary,
3:08:46
sashary, Tony sashary.
3:08:48
People were mad.
3:08:49
People were mad.
3:08:51
I wasn't pronouncing it correctly.
3:08:52
Like James Carville called.
3:08:54
And then I was correct.
3:08:54
And by the way, the Tony C's seasoning
3:08:57
was not the tip of the day.
3:08:58
It was just a pass-through.
3:09:00
But they mentioned, I guess, the one that
3:09:02
people, if you really have Louisiana in or
3:09:06
whatever you call yourselves, you want Slap-Yo
3:09:09
Mama, which is the other seasoning.
3:09:12
I've never seen it, by the way.
3:09:13
I've never seen Slap-Yo Mama.
3:09:15
But that's supposed to be a kind of
3:09:17
usurped Tony C's somewhat, especially amongst the Louisianans
3:09:23
who are out of the state and they
3:09:25
picked Slap-Yo Mama as the one to
3:09:27
do.
3:09:27
And then another woman wrote in with a
3:09:30
recipe for Tony C's because she doesn't like
3:09:33
the fact that it has MSG in it.
3:09:35
But okay.
3:09:37
That said, the question remains, Adam was stunned
3:09:42
that I had picked a proprietary seasoning.
3:09:45
And why did I do that?
3:09:47
I thought you made your own.
3:09:48
Well, here's the deal.
3:09:50
Oh, here's the deal, everybody.
3:09:51
Okay, Biden.
3:09:52
Here's the deal.
3:09:52
Okay, Joe.
3:09:54
No joke.
3:09:56
So there are a lot of these things.
3:09:59
When I travel, I usually go to the
3:10:01
grocery stores in various areas and I look
3:10:03
for these proprietary seasonings, the hamburger seasoning, the
3:10:06
chicken jerk seasoning, all these different ones that
3:10:08
are pre-made.
3:10:10
Costco usually has a bunch of them.
3:10:12
They have a salt substitute from Kirkland right
3:10:14
now that's quite good.
3:10:15
It's a big thing.
3:10:16
It's just a bunch of herbs.
3:10:18
What's it made of?
3:10:19
Everything it seems to be in there, but
3:10:21
there's no wheat or anything that's bad.
3:10:24
What's wrong with just salt?
3:10:27
I'm going to finish my little exposition here,
3:10:29
which is the reason I even look at
3:10:33
these things or try them is because after
3:10:35
you're cooking for, you know, 50 years or
3:10:38
how long or ever long I've been cooking
3:10:40
for since college, you get sick of your
3:10:43
own food and you have to...
3:10:46
So you take these proprietary seasonings and instead
3:10:48
of making the steak the same old way
3:10:51
you've been making it for decade after decade,
3:10:53
no, you try somebody else's idea and you
3:10:56
dump their stuff on your steak and see
3:10:58
what it tastes like.
3:10:59
And so you try...
3:11:01
So I'm always looking for, like, for example,
3:11:03
Astor used to have the steak seasoning from
3:11:06
the Winn-Dixie stores down in the South.
3:11:09
They used to have this unbelievable steak seasoning
3:11:12
that I was using all the time because
3:11:14
it was just a perfect blend of spices,
3:11:17
herbs, salt and pepper.
3:11:19
But I've always trying these things out.
3:11:21
So I'm constantly on the lookout for this
3:11:23
sort of thing.
3:11:24
Can I just add one thing?
3:11:26
To vary my tastes.
3:11:27
Can I add one thing to your seasoning
3:11:29
talk?
3:11:31
Yeah.
3:11:33
Tina found out that when she does a
3:11:35
tri-tip, she loves doing a rub that
3:11:39
she makes herself, which includes espresso from gigawattcoffeeroasters
3:11:44
.com.
3:11:45
Yeah, a lot of people use coffee in
3:11:46
their rub.
3:11:47
It's...
3:11:48
Yes, it's very good.
3:11:49
It's very, very good.
3:11:50
With a little bit of brown sugar just
3:11:52
to make it even better.
3:11:53
It's perfect.
3:11:55
All right.
3:11:56
What's your tip of the day today?
3:11:57
Well, again, it's another proprietary product.
3:12:00
But I have to plug this thing before
3:12:01
I forget.
3:12:02
And it also gives me a moment to
3:12:04
complain about Amazon.
3:12:07
This is a...
3:12:09
One of the hot sauce providers out there
3:12:11
is called Melinda's.
3:12:13
And Melinda, you can go to the...
3:12:14
You look at Melinda Hot Sauces and it's
3:12:16
online and you can find their store.
3:12:18
You can go to there and you can
3:12:19
buy directly from them.
3:12:21
Now, Melinda, the one product which you find,
3:12:24
they also have distribution in grocery stores.
3:12:26
But to find this particular one, Melinda's Fire
3:12:30
Roasted Jalapeno Sauce, which is a mild...
3:12:35
It's not...
3:12:35
It's like out of five, you know, fire
3:12:38
engines, it'd be two.
3:12:39
It's a very...
3:12:41
It's a version of Salsa Verde, to be
3:12:43
honest about it.
3:12:44
I make Salsa Verde myself.
3:12:46
But there's something about this particular blend, this
3:12:48
Fire Roasted Jalapeno from Melinda.
3:12:51
It's almost addictive and it goes on everything.
3:12:56
Breakfast, eggs, it goes on hash browns, it
3:12:59
goes on steak, it goes on chicken.
3:13:02
It's so good.
3:13:03
There's not anybody in the family that's ever
3:13:05
had this stuff that doesn't agree that this
3:13:07
stuff is borderline addictive.
3:13:10
It's that good.
3:13:11
And all their hot sauces are good and
3:13:14
they come in a nice reusable bottle that
3:13:16
you could use for other things.
3:13:18
If you wanted to figure out how to
3:13:19
wash it out, you need a bottle brush.
3:13:21
That's the tip of the day, too.
3:13:22
Get a bottle brush, everybody.
3:13:26
So, Melinda's Fire...
3:13:27
Now, here's what I was going to complain
3:13:28
about.
3:13:29
You can go to their site and you
3:13:31
can order a bunch of stuff and you
3:13:32
have to buy 25 or 50 bucks worth
3:13:34
of hot sauces to get the free shipping.
3:13:37
Or you can go to Amazon and they
3:13:38
have it on Amazon, free shipping.
3:13:41
It's $6.95 for a bottle of the
3:13:44
big bottle, it's a big bottle, of this
3:13:46
stuff on the website.
3:13:47
It's $10.95 on Amazon.
3:13:49
Why is Amazon jacking up the price by
3:13:52
$4?
3:13:53
Because the free shipping's a scam when it
3:13:56
comes to a lot of products on Amazon.
3:13:58
I am going to send in a complaint
3:14:00
and I wish other people would do the
3:14:01
same thing to the Federal Trade Commission complaining
3:14:04
about this.
3:14:06
Oh, can you give us a template complaint
3:14:08
letter?
3:14:10
I could make one and put it in
3:14:11
the newsletter.
3:14:12
I think that's a grand idea.
3:14:13
I think that's very good.
3:14:14
Because it seems to me that this is
3:14:16
not right.
3:14:17
They're offering you pay, you pay a fortune
3:14:19
nowadays, it used to be 75 bucks, now
3:14:21
it's over $100, to get the free shipping
3:14:24
Amazon Prime and they jacked the price up
3:14:26
by $4, which is what you'd have to
3:14:28
pay if you bought it directly from Melinda's.
3:14:30
Hey Bob, what's all these letters from some
3:14:32
podcast?
3:14:34
I don't know, I don't know man.
3:14:36
Oh there it is everybody, if you want
3:14:37
to eat well, if you want the right
3:14:39
things in your mouth, you listen to John
3:14:41
C.
3:14:41
Dvorak's Tip of the Day, tipoftheday.net, noagendafund
3:14:44
.com.
3:14:47
You and me, just the two of us,
3:14:50
JC D.
3:14:51
And sometimes Adam, created by Dana Brunetti.
3:14:55
Yeah, there you go, that's it.
3:14:57
And as we end our broadcast day, we
3:14:59
see President Zelensky doing the class photo with
3:15:03
all the European leaders, and the caption reads,
3:15:06
ready to do the minerals deal.
3:15:08
Okay.
3:15:09
Yeah, they should be standing on a box,
3:15:11
I hope.
3:15:12
We shall see, we shall see.
3:15:15
If everything goes well with the connectivity, we
3:15:18
have a live fictional Battle of the Fictional
3:15:23
Douchebags with Lavish Pfeiffer, Sir Spencer and Sir
3:15:26
Seatsitter coming up next, which is always fun.
3:15:29
It's a hootenanny with all those kids get
3:15:32
together, if they can connect, we hope so.
3:15:35
And end of show mixes coming to you
3:15:37
today from Sir Scovey, Tom Starkweather, the melodious
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owl himself, and a nice fun little AI
3:15:44
ditty from DJ Walker Techno.
3:15:46
Coming to you from the heart of the
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Texas Hill Country, right here in Fredericksburg.
3:15:50
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
3:15:52
And I'm from Northern Silicon Valley, and for
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the Oscars, I'll be eating chicken amole.
3:15:58
I'm John C.
3:15:59
Dvorak.
3:15:59
And we'll be rooting for the Pope movie.
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3:16:06
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