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What court do I own that there's a
ball in there?
Get the ball out of here.
Adam Currie, John C.
Dvorak.
It's early March 13th, 2025.
This is your award-winning give on Asian
media assassination episode 1746.
This is no agenda.
Awaiting peace from Putin.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
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In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Currie.
And from northern Silicon Valley where Michelle Obama
has a podcast.
Next up, Meghan Markle.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
I'm pretty sure Meghan Markle already has a
podcast.
She had a Spotify exclusive for a while.
Well, she's got a new podcast from Canary
Island.
Meghan Markin?
Markin.
Meghan Markin.
Meghan Markin.
She's got one too.
Everybody does.
Who doesn't?
Oh, did you hear any of that Michelle
Obama podcast?
It's so bad.
Somebody pointed out there was like 11 million
people, 11 million, 11,000 people that listen
to it, but yet she sells 11 million
books.
How does that work?
I don't know.
The books are a scam.
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Well, hi again.
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It's you again.
Oh, I like your, is that pink?
It's, my wife called it coral, but it
could be pink.
Yeah, it is coral.
And it's a little pleated.
That goes on for two minutes.
That's what you're supposed to do before the
episode starts, people.
That's what we do.
We talk about relevant stuff.
Is your wife that guy?
Yeah, I guess Craig, her brother has...
What was that?
I don't know.
It just popped out.
That's good.
You know, this is her ramping up for
2028.
She's getting ready.
Finally, Big Mike 2028.
I need to register the new domain name.
That's what you do.
By now it's too late.
No, it's way too late.
I'm tired of it.
I got too many domain names.
Registering domain names for everybody.
But it's almost like we're going back in
time.
It's almost like we're rewinding the clock.
Eight years.
It's really quite incredible.
People ask why we're on our final four
years of the show.
And I would say this is kind of
the reason.
This is from Deutsche Welle.
This came over the transom yesterday.
From day one of Russia's full-scale invasion
of Ukraine, the allegiance of Washington to Kiev
has been steadfast and strong.
Three years long.
And then Donald Trump was elected U.S.
president again.
And that allegiance, it seemed to disintegrate overnight.
Trump has called Ukrainian President Zelensky a dictator.
The U.S. is demanding difficult things from
Ukraine if there is to be a ceasefire.
And from Russia, no demands at all.
Tonight, my guest says this all makes sense
once you realize what Donald Trump really is.
A Russian asset.
Yeah, baby, we're back.
The time machine is in effect.
So you don't think telling the Russians to
stop shooting is not a demand?
It's really quite...
Do you want to hear this guy?
This New York Times journalist.
You want to hear him?
What he had to say?
His rationale for saying that Trump is still
a Russian...
This is all new.
Yeah, Russian asset.
That's an interesting concept.
Whoever heard of such a thing?
Yeah, I'd love to hear it.
Well, we all know it started with the
dressing down of Zelensky in the Oval Office.
My first guest says that Donald Trump is
indeed a Russian asset.
I'm happy to welcome the journalist and New
York Times bestselling author.
Not just a Russian asset, but indeed.
Indeed.
Craig Unger to the show.
Tell us, what does that mean?
And I'm assuming that there is a difference
between a Russian agent and a Russian asset.
Wow, the journalism is so in depth at
Deutsche Welle.
Absolutely.
An agent is employed by an intelligence agency.
He or she knows that he's employed, they're
employed.
They get paid by them and they can
be tasked with specific operations.
An asset is very different.
An asset is more like a reliable friend,
someone that...
This is going to get great.
Listen to who he says is also a
Russian asset.
The KGB could trust.
In the past, the KGB had a history
of developing relationships with very wealthy billionaires like
Armand Hammer, who was head of Occidental Petroleum
and made a fortune with oil deals with
the Soviet Union.
Or Robert Maxwell, the late British press baron,
who was also close to the KGB.
They were considered assets.
And I think of Donald Trump in the
same vein.
This started to happen in the early 80s,
just as some of those people were aging
out as former assets.
So Robert Maxwell, who I think was more
known as a Mossad agent than a KGB
agent, and Armand Hammer, is that the baking
soda guy?
Armand Hammer is a very famous CEO of
Occidental Petroleum.
And he probably did a deal.
He just did deals all over the place.
That's what he was known for.
He was not a Russian asset by any
means that anyone that I've ever heard of.
I've never heard that before.
This guy wrote the book.
He should know.
He's in the New York Times.
But this is the most startling thing, is
when this started.
Do you know when President Trump was recruited
as an asset by the KGB?
Well, he said 1980.
No, no, not.
OK, that's the year.
But under what circumstances?
This is so...
Hookers peeing on him in a hotel?
Close.
A little less exciting.
Well, how did Donald Trump become a Russian
asset?
It really started in 1980.
And Trump was not nearly as successful as
businessmen, as many people think.
But in 1980, he had his first great
success.
He was developing the Grand Hyatt Hotel, which
is still there next to Grand Central Station.
And like any hotel, it needed television sets.
Trump ended up buying those television sets in
a deal with an electronic store that happened
to be a KGB front.
There you go.
So I went into this TV store.
I went into a TV store to buy
some TVs for my hotel.
And what do you know?
They said, hey, Donald, I make you a
deal you cannot refuse.
An electronic store that happened to be a
KGB front.
And that's how it started in 1980.
And it started a series of meetings between
Trump and people who are in the KGB.
There was a woman named Natalia Dubonina who
met with Trump.
Her father was ambassador to the Soviet ambassador
to the United Nations and later the United
States.
And this relationship started and it evolved until
1987 when the KGB sent Trump to Moscow.
They say, hey, Donald, we're sending you to
Moscow.
They sent him to Moscow.
They sent him to Moscow.
It's really quite...
He didn't go to Moscow.
Yeah, they sent him a plane ticket and
everything.
It's quite astounding.
And the Deutsche Welle would take this guy
and put him on the air for like
six minutes with this nonsense.
It's really, really astounding.
That's a good find.
It was right in my face.
So we are apparently getting closer to the
deal.
We've got Zelensky all wrapped up.
Before you go on, the funny thing is
that there's flip-flops because Trump's been pulling
this stunt off quite well.
All of a sudden, Zelensky is now...
Now we're pro-Zelensky, according to other reports.
And he's starting to threaten Russia.
I have a clip.
I don't want to play it now, but
I'm just saying that this is all nonsense.
It's crazy.
Here is...
So this is from France 24 or France
24.
And it looks like Zelensky is ready for
a deal.
Vladimir Zelensky, of course, was in Saudi Arabia
ahead of the talks, but not involved in
what was going on.
But let's get his reaction.
Vladimir Zelensky.
The American side understands our arguments and accepts
our proposals.
I want to thank President Trump for the
constructive nature of our team's discussion.
Today, the American side proposed taking the next
step immediately, establishing a full ceasefire for 30
days.
This would not only apply for missiles, drones
and bombs, and not only in the Black
Sea, but along the entire front line.
Ukraine welcomes this proposal.
We see it as a positive step and
are ready to take it.
The United States must now convince Russia to
do the same.
If they agree, the ceasefire will take effect
immediately.
Another key element of today's discussion was America's
readiness to restore defensive aid to Ukraine, including
intelligence support.
If agreements are implemented, then within these 30
days of silence, we can work with our
partners to develop concrete security guarantees that ensure
lasting peace.
Ukraine is ready for peace.
Now Russia must show whether it is ready
to end or to continue the war.
It is time for the full truth.
Okay, so then we have, this is the
second of these two clips, same report.
Marco Rubio, of course, our Secretary of State
is in charge of this and he says
the ball, the ball is in Putin's court
right now.
In Ukraine, the result of today's talks in
Saudi Arabia really is being viewed as probably
the best possible result that the country could
reasonably expect and effective immediately.
We heard those words there from Mike Waltz,
the resumption of US security assistance to Ukraine
and intelligence sharing after it was suspended by
Donald Trump after his disastrous meeting with Volodymyr
Zelensky in the Oval Office.
That was the number one objective of the
Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia today, to get
the Americans to resume military aid to Ukraine
and they're going to do that regardless of
whether Russia accepts the ceasefire and whether the
ceasefire really materializes.
Their second most important objective was to put
the ball in Russia's court and Marco Rubio
used those exact words to show that they
are willing to make peace and now challenge
Russia to show whether or not Russia is
willing to make peace.
And I think the Russians now have a
difficult decision to make because they're the ones
attacking at the moment.
The Ukrainians are defending.
It's a lot easier to agree to a
ceasefire when you're on the defensive.
The Russians, if they agree to a ceasefire
right now, that means that their attempts to
retake that key town that the Ukrainians occupy
in Kursk region, they're on the brink of
retaking it.
They might have to stop if they agree
to the ceasefire.
They also have not yet achieved their key
goals in Donbass of taking the strategic towns
of Chasiv Yar and Pokrovsk.
So the Russians will be loathe to stop
fighting now while the Ukrainians are on the
back foot.
On the other hand, the Americans have made
it very clear that they are going to
put pressure on the Russians and Donald Trump
said that he very much hopes that the
Russian side will agree to the ceasefire.
So now the Russians have got expectations.
Finally, the Ukrainians are perhaps about to see
the Americans putting some pressure on the Russians.
I mean, I think some people this evening
are thinking it's almost too good to be
true and wondering what's the catch.
Too good to be true.
But probably is.
Why don't you explain, why don't you explain,
since this guy didn't, I don't know if
he's a British guy, I don't know where
you got that.
Yeah, it's the same Franz von Katra.
The guy should be fired.
Done.
What does ball in court mean?
That means we are not playing cards, we
are playing basketball.
Football.
Not tennis?
Football.
Football.
There's no football courts.
You know what, you know what it means,
the ball.
What does it mean?
It means, well, the ball is in your
court.
And why is he using it as a
phrase?
And is it an American phrase?
Is it an international phrase?
And what, what court are we talking about?
And what, and just explain, it's bull crap.
There is no such thing as a ball
in a court.
Okay, you're now taking it.
So a phrase has always bugged me.
Clearly it's bugged you.
What am I doing?
What do I mean?
What court do I own that there's a
ball in there?
Get the ball out of here.
Okay, I'm glad you got that off your
chest after 60 years.
About time.
Oh, it's at minimum.
This is very urgent.
Minimum.
Is it a tennis court we're talking about?
It's a sport.
Or a basketball court.
A sports ball court.
Okay, well, since you are so bugged about
it, I'll look it up.
I can look up the balls in your
court.
You can actually look it up and follow
up on this.
Yeah, well, of course.
I mean, this, the ball is the origin
and meaning.
Okay, it is, yes.
The idiom, it's an idiom, John.
The idiom originates from the sport of tennis.
Once the tennis ball has been hit over
the net, thus the onus to act, i
.e. play the next shot, switches to the
person whose half of the court contains the
ball.
Or the ball is in your half a
court, it should be then.
It should be the balls in your half
court.
And by this, I proclaim today, March 13th,
ball in your half of court day.
I think it's all a metaphor.
I'm just guessing.
It started around the 19th century, but really
became popular in the 1970s, around the time
that Billie Jean King rose to fame.
Please.
Speaking of ball in your court.
All right.
I mean, I can continue, but you said
you had some Russia clips you wanted to
get out there.
Well, actually, I have the Ukraine, Russia stuff
from the BBC.
Today's my BBC day.
Oh, this is not just the BBC.
This is BBC World Service, which is short
wave.
Which is usually only about Africa.
Whenever I listen to BBC World News, it's
always some African world service.
Let's get it straight.
That's a world service.
Yeah.
It's like, okay.
It's never interesting.
And it's always on in the hotel.
They never is.
The first thing you see in any hotel
in Europe is BBC World Service.
It's annoying.
All right, here we go.
Let's start with Russia, BCK.
But in the past few hours, footage has
been released of Vladimir Putin, apparently visiting a
command post in Kursk, the Russian region partly
captured by Ukrainian forces last year.
I very much expect that all combat tasks
will be fulfilled and the territory of Kursk
will be completely liberated from the enemy, Mr
Putin said, dressed in camouflage gear.
The Russian chief of staff, General Valery Gerasimov,
told him Russian forces had now recaptured 86
% of the occupied land.
Ukraine has acknowledged some setbacks there, but said
fighting was continuing.
Russia's gain...
Hold on.
You lose 86% and that's, quote unquote,
some setback?
It's quite the setback, I believe.
But it's some...
These guys, they're in the game.
The ball's in their court too.
...as the US waits for the Kremlin's response
to the American ceasefire proposal agreed by Ukraine
yesterday.
So what is the likely thinking in Moscow?
I asked Lisa Vogt of the BBC Russian
service.
By the way, you'd expect the BBC of
all broadcast organizations to use the ball in
your court metaphor.
I'm surprised.
Very surprised.
Previously, Vladimir Putin had said on many occasions
that Russia is just not interested in a
simple ceasefire and would like to hear more
concrete and solid proposals for a peace settlement,
of course, that would meet most Russia's terms.
But right now, Russia is in a more
difficult position than I think it was before
this US-Ukraine talks in Riyadh, because for
weeks now, we've seen America making demands of
Ukraine and of Vladimir Zelensky.
And now the US is actually asking something
from Vladimir Putin, from Russia for the first
time in weeks.
That's not what Deutsche Welle said.
You mean France 24?
Oh, whoever that, wherever that New York Times
was.
No, they did not say they were asking
for something.
They in fact said the ball's in your
court.
Is that what you're saying?
The ball's in the court.
Yes, the US is actually asking something from
Vladimir Putin, from Russia for the first time
in weeks.
And it's going to be interesting to see
how Russia is going to respond to that.
Because it comes at a time when Russia
appears to be making advances on the battlefield.
So I guess they may not want to
pause.
Yes, of course.
And most importantly, they've just advanced their position
in Kursk region.
Now they're slowly gaining ground.
I have a question since we're ant-effing
about all this stuff.
Why do they never say the Kursk region?
Why is it always in Kursk region?
In Kursk.
Why don't they say in the Kursk region?
It's always in Kursk region.
Because everyone's easy to say the Ukraine, the
Ukraine, even though it's just Ukraine.
It's like in university.
He's been accepted in university.
This is the Europeans and the way they
speak.
It's got nothing to do with us.
All right.
Yes, of course.
And most importantly, they've just advanced their position
in Kursk region.
Now they're slowly gaining ground, losing a lot
of soldiers in the process.
But I think this is the price that
Russia is ready to pay, as Vladimir Putin
has indicated over those months and years of
fighting.
But indeed, for Russia right now, just stopping
where they are, potentially meaning getting no ground
in Ukraine, which was one of the main
objectives.
Yeah.
I think she may have a point.
Her head.
OK, next clip.
Yeah, sure.
Russia indicated many times that it wants Ukraine
to make many more concessions.
It wants other countries to recognize Russian sovereignty
over the lands that are captured in Ukraine.
It wants Ukraine to give up any hope
of joining NATO.
It wants to see sanctions relief.
And I think for Russia, it's just not
clear at the moment whether the ceasefire is
just going to be connected to this discussion
about bigger goals that Russia wants to achieve
in Ukraine.
Now, you said that Russia is in a
more difficult position than it's faced for some
time.
I mean, in terms of what's happened with
Donald Trump now apparently moving towards the Ukrainians,
what's been the reaction to that in Russia?
I think generally any reaction, just the assessment
of this new track in the relationship with
Washington, D.C., has been somewhat restrained.
And Putin himself has been very, very cautious.
He praised Trump for taking this new line
in his relationship with Moscow.
Vladimir Putin said that it gives hope, but
always very cautious in any assessment of whether
this new relationship, this dialogue can actually lead
to peace.
Well, I think the BBC, is this report
from today or from yesterday?
It's from yesterday.
Okay.
So we have a little bit of an
update and I think the BBC is not
far from the truth.
This is, let me see, this is a
report that came through from Kursk region.
Kursk region.
Kursk region.
Russia is close to kicking out Ukrainian forces
from their territory, bringing an end to a
brutal operation in the Kursk region, according to
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin visited his commanders on
the front line.
His demand was clear, liberate Kursk.
I very much hope that all combat missions
facing our units will be fulfilled and that
the territory of the Kursk region will be
completely liberated from the enemy in the near
future.
As ceasefire negotiations make progress, Russia has ramped
up the pressure to retake the territory they
lost after Ukraine's surprise counteroffensive in August, the
first foreign occupation of Russian territory since World
War II.
Shortly after the US paused both military and
intelligence support to Ukraine, Russia launched a daring
assault behind enemy lines, using a pipeline to
crawl under Ukraine's line of defense.
Special forces reportedly advanced over 15 kilometers in
the darkness and were in the tunnels for
several days before the ambush.
Just six months ago, the giant pipeline was
carrying Siberian gas to Europe.
So this is kind of cool, where they
went into the pipeline, they got shut off,
and they had their masks on and oxygen,
and they shimmied through this pipeline for 15
kilometers and are about to pop up behind
enemy lines, and we have breaking news, breaking,
breaking!
Boots on the ground.
Boots on the ground, I tell you.
Which is actually Sergine sitting in his underwear
at home, watching Putin on television.
Putin says, uh, yeah, I don't see why
a 30-day truce would be very beneficial.
It makes no sense, he says, to a
point where multiple large cauldrons of Ukrainian troops
are cut off because they're behind enemy lines,
thanks to the pipeline op, and on the
verge of being captured.
He said numerous times, according to Sergine, our
Russian boots on the ground, that he is
in principle in favor of having a ceasefire,
but due to the experience of the last
ceasefire negotiated, which resulted in nothing more but
a rearming of Ukraine by Germany and other
European countries, it is likely the exact same
thing would happen this time.
He did hint he's open to a ceasefire
if those troops that he has now cut
off from retreating would surrender rather than rearm.
That's breaking news.
Well, that's something that is exclusive to the
No Agenda show.
That's right.
That report.
That's right.
Wow.
Yeah, so that will be what it comes
down to.
So the ball's now in your court, Zelensky.
Half court.
Half court.
In the half court.
Half court.
Meanwhile, Queen Ursula...
That was a good ploy.
Oh, it's a great ploy.
It makes so much sense, and yes...
Yeah, he surrounds him and captures all these
cases, and now he's going to bargain with
who?
He's five by five in the pipe right
behind the Ukrainians.
Hey, boys, where are you going?
So don't fight us.
Surrender.
You're staying here.
Surrender.
Well, it's possible.
Let's just play this NPR report from yesterday
and see what they had to say.
Okay.
President Trump says there are things the U
.S. can do that would be very bad
for Russia.
NPR's Franco Ordonez reports on steps the administration
is taking to pressure Russia to reach a
peace deal on the war in Ukraine.
Trump says U.S. officials are going to
Russia to urge Moscow to sign on to
a 30-day ceasefire plan that the United
States worked out with Ukraine.
The plan between Ukraine and Russia could be
extended if both sides consent.
During an Oval Office meeting with the Irish
prime minister, Trump says it's up to Russia
now.
He says he hopes they agree, warning it
could be bad if they don't.
I can do things financially that would be
very bad for Russia.
I don't want to do that because I
want to get peace.
I want to see peace.
And we'll see.
Trump emphasized that he hopes such pressure on
Moscow won't be necessary and that he's feeling
they may be, quote, getting close to getting
something done.
Now, you make a good point.
It's like, why does this podcast, the No
Agenda show, why do we have, why can
we put this together so quickly?
And I'm looking at the quad box now.
None of the news networks have figured this
out.
Putin was live on television.
They don't have Russian speakers?
I guess not.
Or maybe it's not.
They maybe they want war because Ursula sure
seems to want it.
Here's the queen.
Oh, good point.
Here's the queen.
Honorable members, the European security order is being
shaken and so many of our illusions are
being shattered.
Oh, no.
After the end of the Cold War.
Hold on.
Well, she's going to explain her illusions.
Is she going to explain the illusions that
are being shattered?
Yes.
Yes, she is.
Oops.
Honorable members, the European security order is being
shaken and so many of our illusions are
being shattered.
After the end of the Cold War, some
believed that Russia could be integrated in Europe's
economic and security architecture.
It was perfectly all of the energy into
Germany.
Germany sent them Mercedes Benz.
The euro was circulating.
It was beautiful.
There was no problem.
Others hoped that we could rely indefinitely on
America's full protection.
Yeah.
And so we lowered our guard.
We cut our defense spending from routinely averaging
more than 3.5 percent to less than
half of that.
She's literally making President Trump's point.
You guys weren't paying your fair share.
But she says, oh, no, we just believed
in peace.
The Americans will take care of it for
us.
We thought we were enjoying a peace dividend,
but in reality, we were just running a
security deficit.
The time of illusions is over now.
Europe is called to take greater charge of
its own defense, not in some distant future,
but already today, not with incremental steps, but
with the courage that the situation requires.
We need a surge in European defense.
And we need it now.
We need a surge.
And we need it now.
And this was all in the European Parliament.
Everyone's standing up, talking some nonsense.
This is Manfred Weber.
He's a member of European Parliament.
And he sees this very dire right now.
We at CPP, we know what we owe
the Americans.
Supreme Commander Eisenhower and American soldiers brought freedom
and democracy back to Europe.
Reagan's call to the Soviet Union teared down
this wall in 1987, brought freedom and democracy
also to Central and Eastern Europe.
On the other hand, what happened in the
White House two weeks ago was simply a
scandal.
To say Ukraine is responsible for the war
is simply a lie.
And even with our long history with our
U.S. friends in mind, we must call
a lie a lie.
No one can twist the truth.
Putin doesn't want to end the war.
He wants to end Ukraine.
And as Europeans, we will never allow this.
After the speech of Vice President Vance in
Munich and what happened with Zelensky in the
Oval Office, one reality is clear, dear friends.
We are alone.
The world is in turmoil.
Europe has to wake up.
We have to become responsible for ourselves.
Our security is not in the hands of
Washington or Moscow.
It must be in our hands.
So the question is, and it was kind
of interesting, this guy's crazy, all those speeches
were like that.
So I'm watching before the show, and Mark
Rutte, the NATO Secretary General, is sitting next
to President Trump.
How are you, Donald?
It's good to see you.
So maybe there's a double gambit going on
here.
You have this thesis that Rutte is actually
a stooge of Trump's.
Well, of course, I had no time to
clip it.
But President Trump was saying, I'm so happy
you got the job.
There was some other guy.
And we didn't want him.
We didn't like him.
We didn't like him.
You're working on a Trump now, huh?
Yeah, I'm trying.
I didn't even know who the other guy
was.
And then he says, you were a great
prime minister in the Netherlands, where collectively half
of the country of the Netherlands went, no,
but okay.
He's our sales guy.
We've identified that.
Is it possible that now that, and by
the way, this whole thing, this whole 800
billion euros, this is all because Ursula triggered
Article 122.
You won't get that from your mainstream news.
This is Article 22 of the Treaty on
the Functioning of the European Union allows bypassing
the European Parliament and what are the chances
that they had a little poison pill in
there?
It's in effect what President Trump does with
a state of emergency.
It's the same kind of thing, but at
least he was elected.
Ursula, it was like six people elected her.
And so they invoke this with the COVID
-19 vaccine purchase, which we still haven't seen
all the text messages, Ursula, between you and
Pfizer CEO Burla.
So she can pretty much do whatever she
wants.
So now that they've freed up the money
and they've freed up 150 billion right away
to purchase stuff for Ukraine, could it be
that this is now going to be parlayed
into an even stronger NATO with Margarita at
the helm steering?
Because he's been in all these EU meetings.
He's always there.
So I wonder if they're really not all
that serious about the European army, but they're
like, hey, you know what?
Since we already got the money now, we
freed it up.
You can all go into debt.
You can bring it back up to where
it has to be for NATO.
And Trump, I mean, we can trust him
now.
He looks stable to us now.
Maybe this is just a whole ploy to
rearm NATO.
What do you think?
Well, I wouldn't put it past the military
industrial complex to come up with a scheme
to get more money.
Well, yeah, but they still have to resolve
this Ukraine situation.
They're not going to do it the way
they're going about it.
Well, the Ukrainian soldiers are going to have
to surrender.
And if they don't, well, then we'll keep
going, I guess.
Trump, the president was great.
He was talking about pictures that he sees
every day, or every week I get the
pictures from Ukraine.
I see young kids with their heads blown
off.
It was pretty graphic.
They're going to have to do the deal.
They're going to have to give up the
Donbass.
Yeah.
And stop the Crimea crap.
Let that slide.
Kursk region.
And the Kursk, well, that's, I mean, you
freeze everything in time.
And so that's why the Russians had to
get Kursk back, because they didn't want to
freeze everything in time with the Ukrainians owning
that area.
So they pushed them out.
So that's done.
So they got Kursk back and they want
their Donbass, because it's part of Russia, really.
And then they want no NATO.
And then now the additional things they have
to negotiate, because it's on the list of
demands by Putin, which is no troops in
Ukraine, no European troops in Ukraine, which I
don't think he's going to get that.
No, but he will get.
Why wouldn't they sacrifice these Ukrainian troops?
Just let him arrest him and he'll send
them back when the peace treaty is due.
Well, those guys are, that's a pawn that
doesn't make a lot of difference.
But the other, the big elements are get
no NATO, A, and they can do, Trump
doesn't want NATO, and neither does Heckseth or
anybody else.
So that's out.
And then, but they say, then the last
Russian demand is all of the sanctions are
off.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, like.
Which is not a big deal.
Because the war stops completely.
What's the reason for the sanctions?
Like Swift, that kind of stuff.
Everything.
Yeah.
Well.
President Trump certainly.
But then it looks like capitulation.
So they have to, so there has to
be some give that, I think the only
give that, otherwise it looks like total capitulation
to Putin, and they don't want that because
it doesn't look good, even though it's probably
what she should do, is the, they'll let
some peacekeeping troops in Ukraine.
Blue helmets.
Get the blue helmets in.
Make a different color, maybe.
I think this should be like a black
jackboot helmet.
Black helmets.
Okay.
All right.
Dream on, buddy.
That's what it should be.
I don't think so.
There's one other element on that list of
demands, which is the complete denazification of Ukraine,
but that, I think they can negotiate that
away.
That's not happening.
And they have to have new elections, and
Zelensky has to go.
You know, from what I understand, they're talking
to Poroshenko.
They, which I guess would mean us.
We're talking to Poroshenko about him coming back
in.
I think they should put Klitsch in.
No, Klitsch is out.
Klitsch is better working from the outside.
No, no, we don't want— I'm just doing
Victoria Nuland now.
No, Klitsch is better not to be in.
What, can we get Biden in?
Can we get Biden in to midwife this
deal?
People should go back and listen to that
whole phone call.
So we stay in Europe if we're done
with this, because I don't think we have
much more.
We have the most latest breaking news of
everywhere.
And if you don't mind, another breaking news!
Breaking news!
A major escalation in President Trump's trade war.
The president now firing back at the retaliation
Europe took yesterday.
Here is what he just posted.
The European Union has just put a nasty
50% tariff on whiskey.
If this tariff is not removed immediately, the
U.S. will shortly place a 200%
tariff on all wines, champagnes, and alcoholic products
coming out of France and other EU-represented
countries.
Oh, no!
Stock up, John!
Believe me, I am stocked up.
But this is a fear that all the
wine importers have had for the last few
years.
And one of the things, like, for example,
if you buy Futures, which I do...
You buy Futures?
Oh, yeah.
Wine Futures?
Yeah, that's what you do.
Otherwise, it costs you too much money.
So how do you do that?
What's the market you buy those?
You have to find somebody that sells Futures.
They pick them up.
Is that like on Yahoo Finance?
No.
Different importers, they sell them.
Okay.
It's not that hard.
If you believe me, it's not that hard.
So you are, in fact, speculating with your
wine collection.
Yeah, I do that.
Nice.
And so, about a year or two ago,
at K&L, which is one of the
places that sells...
Yeah, I remember K&L.
I remember them.
K&L has a little checkbox you have
to check if you buy Futures, which says
if there's an out-of-the-blue tariff
that's dropped on the wine after this...
The Futures are sold at a price, let's
say, whatever, 35 bucks a bottle, let's say,
for some expensive wine.
Normally, it sells for more.
And they drop a 200% tariff on
making the wine 90 bucks.
You've checked the box, and when it comes
in...
What kind of future is that?
That's not a good future contract.
Well, not if you're going to get dinged
200%.
That's not good.
No, I know.
And it's like, you just say, oh, no,
because there's some really interesting wines that are
showing up on the market.
The 2022 Bordeauxs, for example, are just...
Oh, it's dynamite.
It's dynamite.
They're a little bit overpriced, but these things
are unbelievable.
But the 22 Bordeaux, it's just the best.
It's the best Bordeaux I've ever had.
It's even better than the Beaujolais Nouveau.
So I think what really...
Sports ball.
Yes.
You're half of the court.
I think that what really...
And Bloomberg Daybreak had a pretty good piece
on this.
I think it was the targeting that the
European Union did in response to whatever we
did in this fog of trade war.
I think that's what really irked the president.
What does retaliation look like from the EU?
Well, as you're saying, the EU has come
out pretty quickly on the back of this,
and they're announcing plans to impose their own
duties all up at about 26 billion euros,
28 billion US dollars worth of American goods.
This will come in a phased approach that
does still allow room for negotiation.
So there were existing tariffs that had been
suspended on the US.
Those are due to snap back, as they
say, at the end of March.
And it sounds like they'll just let them
return.
And it's interesting to see that they're very
much targeting certain products that are produced in
certain states, politically sensitive states, should we say,
in Republican-led areas.
So that includes soybeans from Louisiana, for example,
bourbon, aluminium and steel, obviously, but also products
like boats and motorbikes.
And some of these are produced very much
in Republican-led states like Nebraska and Kansas.
So it seems to be very deliberate, very
targeted.
We know that they're looking at additional tariffs
by mid-April.
That's after the reciprocal tariffs from Donald Trump
are set to potentially come into force.
So we are seeing the EU come out
swinging today.
I mean, they call it a calibrated response,
but a proportional one.
But certainly it's interesting to see that the
EU has decided to announce retaliation when other
countries today are seemingly holding fire.
So that does seem like it was a
target.
Although you could, if it's, you know, the
motorbikes, you can have Harley Davidson because they've
gone all woke.
So we're not too concerned about that.
But it does seem like that was some
direct targeting.
And can we get an opinion on the
pronunciation of aluminum?
I need an opinion on this.
Is it aluminium?
Is it aluminum?
Or is it aluminum?
It's aluminum, but the British love calling it
aluminium.
Why?
Is that spelled differently?
Aluminium.
They call trucks lorries.
Lorries is kind of a fat trick, it
seems to me.
I don't know why they call it that.
So I've been looking at what the president
is doing.
And of course, you know, these tariffs, man,
it's been shaking the market.
But specifically, it happened on Sunday.
When he went on the Money Honeys podcast
there on Fox News, Fox Business News, because
I think that's a podcast level audience.
And he said, well, you know, I'm not
ruling it out.
Donald Trump might have been vague over the
weekend, refusing to rule out a recession.
But the U.S. president finally gave reporters
a little more clarity on Tuesday.
Do you think there will be a recession?
I don't see it at all.
I think this country is going to boom.
But as I said, I can do it
the easy way or the hard way.
So this is after the Money Honey.
Then he says, oh, I don't see a
recession at all.
After the markets went careening down.
The hard way to do it is exactly
what I'm doing.
But the results are going to be 20
times greater.
I'm very optimistic about the country.
I think we're going to have the greatest
markets we've ever had.
That hard way apparently refers to Trump's repeated
use of tariffs as a weapon to pressure
U.S. trading partners.
Despite the gains he's promising, markets reacted nervously.
A far cry from the confident scene following
his election off the back of such promises
as deregulation and tax cuts.
Markets swung high and low all day as
confusion reigned over yet further levies on Canadian
steel and aluminium.
Aluminium.
Confusion.
It's confusion.
It's just confusion in the markets.
He's creating confusion just by going on the
Money Honey podcast.
President Trump's new tariff threat.
He sparked fears over the economy as he
declined to rule out the possibility of a
recession.
We'll get the latest from the markets.
Senior political correspondent Rachel Scott starts us off
from the White House.
Good morning, Rachel.
George, good morning to you.
The president has insisted that Americans will be
better off in the long run because of
these tariffs, but he's also acknowledged there will
be some economic pain.
When asked directly if it could lead to
a recession, he declined to rule it out.
This morning, after a week of shaky markets
and tariff whiplash, President Trump is hesitant to
rule out a recession in 2025.
I hate to predict things like that.
There is a period of transition because what
we're doing is very big.
We're bringing wealth back to America.
But just days ago, the markets tumbled when
Trump imposed a 25% tariff on goods
from Canada and Mexico.
The president quickly reversed in course.
Now, Trump says he's planning for even more.
A 25% tariff on all foreign steel
and aluminium will take effect on Wednesday.
And vowing to impose what he calls reciprocal
tariffs on countries, too.
April 2nd, it becomes all reciprocal.
What they charge us, we charge them.
This morning, China's 10 to 15% retaliatory
tariffs on U.S. goods, including chicken, wheat,
soybeans and beef, now taking effect.
Many economists warn the impact of tariffs will
be passed down to consumers in the form
of higher prices.
OK, so I've been thinking about this and
I came across an article.
And this kind of goes back to something
I must have said last year, that, you
know, this is a real estate guy.
He's going to refi the country.
And I don't and I may be out
of my depth here.
But what I'm seeing in the markets, which,
as you know, are crashing every single day,
crashing.
When these asset prices go down, what also
happens, and I think it's about 0.6
% now since he started the whiplash, is
the bond yields go down because people and
I'm and again, you'll be able to correct
me if I'm wrong.
But the simplistic view for me is, OK,
we can't trust this stuff.
Mag 7, whatever, AI, I don't know.
I'm just going to go buy some bonds
now when the yields go down.
Of course, the price goes up.
But the yields are going down.
And this is what I didn't know until
I came across this article, that in 2025,
we have to refinance $9.2 trillion of
the U.S. debt, of which I think
$2 trillion may be due in April.
If he just keeps whiplashing everybody and the
bond prices even at 0.6%, that could
be a lot of money.
So this may just all be a refi
ploy.
And he may try to get it even
lower by going even crazier in the next
few weeks just to get those bond prices
down, cause the the fear, the actual fear
of a recession, and then maybe, maybe try
and get the Fed to step in and
trigger something.
We also have this didn't go very well
reported, the inflation number.
Welcome back, Spock.
We are just seconds away now from February
CPI.
Rick Santelli standing by the CME in Chicago.
Rick, the numbers.
Yes, boy, this is a biggie.
This is our February REIT, Consumer Price Index,
expected up three tenths, comes in a tenth
light, up two tenths of a percent.
And in the rear view mirror, at least
now, not revised.
And a path one percent, by the way,
was a two year high.
We're reversing from up two tenths, equals where
we were in October to find a lower
number.
You're back to July of last year.
Year over year, headline number, 2.9 expected,
2.8 is what we get.
So, of course, no one talks about it.
But so inflation down just a tick.
Of course, it's still up.
It's compounded.
But could this whole thing, when he says,
well, there's a hard way to do it
and it's going to be great, could this
be a ploy to just get interest rates
lower?
John C.
Dvorak, go.
Well, that's for an amateur.
That's an interesting thesis.
I'm not going to say that you're off
the mark.
Which is, by the way, that's John C.
Dvorak's way of saying, hey, I think I
agree with you, but I don't really want
to give you any credence or credo or
credit.
There you go.
This just felt right to me.
Once I saw that nine point two trillion
dollar number, I'm like, oh, OK.
OK.
That kind of makes sense.
But I like the thesis that he's a
real estate guy.
And it's true if you're like if you're
mainly investing in real estate all your life.
That's what you do.
Everything is refi.
Yeah.
And that's why you don't own anything.
Everything's financed and you're just in, you know,
there's a debt.
You're in debt.
But it's just a funny thing with real
estate.
If you like real estate, I personally like
it.
Everything is leveraged.
Everything is leveraged.
Everything's leveraged and everything is and then you
take out what you need.
I mean, it's almost it's a great product
because it's real.
It's an outstanding product.
It's like it's like Bitcoin in from that
regard that you can't make more of it.
Right.
Yeah.
There's only so you're at the limit.
You're at the you're already done.
Wow.
All the bitcoins have been done and that's
real estate.
So real estate is always the best asset.
Bitcoin is digital real estate.
You know, you know who actually said that?
That micro strategies guy.
Yeah.
Well, micro strategies are all in on that
sailor sailor.
So.
So, yeah.
So refi is the name of the game.
And and that could be a lot of
money doing it is you fluctuate and refi
business fluctuates with the interest rates when interest
rates go way down.
I mean, then, you know, now's the time
to refi.
And then all these ads are on TV
refi.
Exactly.
Refinance.
Here you go.
And then all the fees go in and
out of the refinance business.
And he's very good at, you know, in
fact, the thirty four felony counts that he
was indicted on in New York state were
for, you know, refi for refi.
Well, he undervalued his property.
Everybody does.
Yeah, of course.
You know, you do do what he did
is what you do.
And so you could bet.
Yeah, you can make a crime out of
anything if you wanted to.
And yeah, yeah, I think you're I think
you nailed it.
I think.
And and and and let's just bring back
in the stable coin gambit because, you know,
so we have to I guess a trillion
dollar coin.
Well, no, no, no, no.
That's the Bitcoin reserve.
No, the stable coin.
So we're going to go through this refi,
which means all of the all of the
bonds come due or not all of them.
But in April, we'll say so it's two
trillion.
So boom.
And then, of course, we're going to refile.
So we create new bonds or treasuries or
whatever they're called.
And then right away, we pop a stable
coin on top of that two trillion.
We've got a two trillion extra at no
perceived balance sheet cost because it's independent companies
who do that.
And then we can flood the market.
Everybody can use their dollars.
And and then we maintain the dominance of
the US dollar.
The timing may be interesting.
But we'll just have to watch and see
what happens.
But not only that.
Fighting against why people are fighting against it
is is the bigger question.
This morning, there was a big riot that
took place at Trump Tower.
Yeah.
Not a complete riot, but it was all
these people, probably a couple thousand people, all
wearing the exact same T-shirt trying to,
you know, this guy Mahmoud, whoever it is,
they want to release him.
He's going to be shipped out of the
country.
And there's a big protest going on.
Actually, I have a play clip of that.
I have a clip of that Mahmoud guy.
I want to get your take on it.
Where is it?
Yeah, here it is.
Mahmoud guy.
Does the administration believe that it means to
charge a green card holder with a crime
to be eligible for deportation?
Well, in fact, Secretary Rubio reserves the right
to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khalil.
And I'm glad you brought this up under
the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The secretary of state has the right to
revoke a green card or a visa for
individuals who serve or are adversarial to the
foreign policy and national security interests of the
United States of America.
And Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was
given the privilege of coming to this country
to study at one of our nation's finest
universities and colleges.
And he took advantage of that opportunity, of
that privilege by siding with terrorists, Hamas terrorists
who have killed innocent men, women and children.
This is an individual who organized group protests
that not only disrupted college campus classes and
harassed Jewish American students and made them feel
unsafe on their own college campus, but also
distributed pro-Hamas propaganda, flyers with the logo
of Hamas.
That is what the behavior and activity that
this individual engaged in.
And I have those flyers on my desk.
They were provided to me by the Department
of Homeland Security.
I thought about bringing them into this briefing
room to share with all of you, but
I didn't think it was worth the dignity
of this room to bring that pro-Hamas
propaganda.
But that's what this individual distributed on the
campus of Columbia University.
And this administration is not going to tolerate
individuals having the privilege of studying in our
country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations
that have killed Americans.
We have a zero tolerance policy for siding
with terrorists, period.
Now, did he actually organize these protests?
Was that his gig?
No, he wasn't the organizer.
He was one of the elements.
He was a key element and he was
a big protester himself.
And he was also supposedly the negotiator between
the school and the protesters.
He was going to be the arbiter or
whatever.
It's beside the point.
The way I see it is that these
visas are given out for students that, you
know, they go through rigamarole so they can
go to some school over here and they
come over here and start moaning and groaning
about everything, about the government, or I don't
even care if it was like about Hamas.
It seems to me that this is a
kind of a gift, the visa for student
visas are a gift to people.
I mean, it's an expensive gift because you
got to give the school has to be
full tuition.
So, you know, there's something like, oh, God,
we don't want to screw the schools completely
because there's a lot of free money here.
But now you can kick the guy out
at first looking at your cross-eyed.
I don't see why the big they're making
such a big fuss about this.
If the guy looks at your cross-eyed,
he's got a student visa.
You don't like him.
You kick him out.
I don't get it.
OK, just checking.
Well, because we're seeing delusional people running around
doing all and these protests, you know, and
yes, those are organized.
I'm starting to think the Tesla dealership and
charging stations are also organized.
Oh, yeah.
But there's an element of vigilantism.
Here's Anderson Cooper 360 Tesla vehicles on fire
at this car lot in Seattle over the
weekend.
The cause still under investigation.
A fire erupted at a Tesla charging station
in Littleton, Massachusetts, after police say vandals targeted
that center last week.
This person caught on camera throwing a Molotov
cocktail at a Tesla showroom in Oregon weeks
after police near Portland responded to shots fired
at the same location.
It comes as protests have broken out across
the country and Tesla locations from New York
to California, all in response to Elon Musk's
involvement with Doge Department of Government Efficiency and
its cut to federal workers.
He's also facing criticism over his alignment with
far right politics.
Tesla shares have plunged, losing nearly half of
their value since Trump took office and Musk
began slashing federal agencies.
The richest man in the world has taken
a hit to his fortune, losing $29 billion
in net worth on Monday alone, though he's
still worth over $300 billion.
Some Tesla owners are feeling buyers remorse.
Had I had the option of purchasing a
Cybertruck after the inauguration, I just wouldn't.
Others have decided to sell at a loss.
About $18,000 to $20,000.
Loss?
Yes.
And those who proudly want to keep driving
their Teslas.
I'm going to keep it.
I'm going to defend it.
So no, I'm not selling my Tesla.
This is perhaps the most disturbing part is
the car you drive now.
And have we ever had this?
Did we ever have that in the 70s?
I'm trying to think.
Wasn't there a time when we would honk
at some import or scoff at it?
Was there anything?
No.
No, never?
I know in France it's true.
A friend of mine, a good friend of
mine that lives there.
We'll call him Pierre for reasons of anonymity.
Well, he lived in a little town outside
of Paris and he had bought a Japanese
car and they were basically doing everything to
run him off the road.
The French were not going for you having
Japanese cars in France.
This was about, I'd say in the late
70s, early 80s.
That's changed because the Japanese cars, what are
you going to do?
And they were good.
I mean, Toyota is Toyota.
Yeah, good cars.
The BYD is not a bad operation out
of China.
And so, but there was, he says it
was notable that the French, if you weren't
driving a French car, they got really mad
at you.
But that never happened, that I know of,
it's never happened in this country.
And I was always having a car as
a kid.
Well, certainly not to this extreme.
Take your gold Tesla, the Banshee Oaks, climb
in and drive down to Florida or drive
to Tennessee.
I refuse to get terrorized to do something
they want me to do, to force me
to do that.
The thumbs down, flipped off, mean mugged, cut
off.
She wrote an essay about her experiences for
Business Insider.
Then she says things got worse.
I've been sent death wishes.
So folks have sent, I wish that, I
hope, how do they say it?
I hope that your cyber truck catches on
fire with the doors locked and you inside.
But the backlash seems to have only strengthened
Musk's relationship with the president.
Just today, Trump said he would look to
have attacks on Tesla dealerships designated as domestic
terrorism.
I will do that.
I'll do it.
I'm going to stop them.
We catch anybody doing it because they're harming
a great American company.
And let me tell you, you do it
to Tesla and you do it to any
company, we're going to catch you and you're
going to go through hell.
So you've been noticing in your TikTok escapades
and I'm sorry, research, scrolling, you've been seeing
more and more people who presumably will be
Democrat voters on the left who are just
foul mouthed about everything that's going on with
Elon and Doge, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's pretty astonishing.
So I was invited on Tuesday evening to
do Flashpoint.
Have you ever seen Flashpoint USA?
I don't know Flashpoint.
Flashpoint is hosted by George Bailey.
I've seen him around and he has a
panel on.
It's a podcast, a video podcast.
It's on television.
You know, I don't know, like the Victory
Channel or something.
It's close to Newsmax on your cable box,
no doubt.
But they stream it live.
And, you know, and so and there's like
Dutch sheets.
Where is it?
Where is it located?
I don't know.
Where'd you go?
No, no.
Oh, you were on.
Oh, you're sitting over Zoom.
No, it's you have six box, six box.
No, they still use Skype.
I said, do you know Skype is going
away?
But it's professional because it's in real time
and you got a producer talking to you.
Okay, everybody box, box, which means stop picking
your nose.
You're all going to be on in your
box.
I was in a sexto box.
So I'm in the box.
And the only reason I went on is
because I want to promote the show.
Sure.
And they asked me, like, what do you
want to press?
No agenda show and my other projects.
Okay, that's fine.
And I had no idea.
I had watched some of these shows just
to prep myself.
And sometimes it was one person.
And then I saw more of these boxes.
I didn't know what I was walking into.
So five minutes before seven, they call Skype,
you know, and I see I'm in the
box.
Counting it down 15 seconds to George.
It's like, wow, it's like real television.
I haven't done that in a while.
And, you know, so they actually start off
on me.
I do my promotions.
They show the MTV guy were there.
No one's ever done that one.
And one guy is like in Trump's envoy
to Israel, and he waxes on and on
and on.
And then they're talking about all the people,
you know, hating Elon and going after Doge.
And so I do my typical thing.
You know, I say, hey, you know, it's
like these people need prayers.
They're living in darkness.
So this account on X called Right Wing
Watch.
Have you ever seen that account?
They got half a million followers.
So they clip a bit out of it,
which is, you know, where I'm basically saying
all these people, you know, they're living in
a cloud of spiritual darkness and they need
prayers.
Well, let me just read some of the
comments.
FU, double FU, FFFU, cocaine brain worm.
Oh, double F him.
Adam needs to go F himself.
I mean, it's all just complete.
Just they've got nothing to say, just cursing.
For your comment that people need prayers.
Here, Adam Curry can go fuck himself.
What a dumb fuck.
He's the one that has serious issues.
Doge needs to stay the fuck out of
government.
They're screwing the American people.
What the fuck is wrong with Christians?
And, you know, and then gifs of middle
fingers being thrown.
Not a single, not a single normal argument.
And to me, of course, it was like,
wow, you're kind of proving my point.
You're completely living under some dark cloud.
It was really bizarre.
Well, I'm glad you stepped into it, not
me.
Oh, I'm happy.
You know, it's like when you're over the
target, that's when the flak comes in.
So I guess I hit a nerve and
these people must be feeling it.
And then, so I'm listening to what it
is.
It's literally spiritual darkness.
What else can you make of it?
I mean, it's not politics.
This is not politics.
FU.
There's not an argument saying, well, I think,
you know, this doesn't make sense.
FU.
They can't, it's the only word they can
say, the F-bomb.
It's embarrassing.
That's all they got.
And so now the, my hate list.
By the way, it reminds me of early
days of podcasting when everyone was cussing because
they could because, oh, I'm not on broadcast
radio.
So I'm on a podcast so I can
cuss, cuss, cuss.
Yeah.
And it gets really old fast.
Very fast.
But some damn has been uncorked and it's
okay.
But that's, if you accentuate a statement with
an F-U and you've got something to
say, but that's, it was just literally, F
-U.
That's not what's going on.
They're just saying it.
It's, they're using it in regular context.
In other words, you're just dropping F-bombs
throughout a sentence, which means that they have
either their vocabulary has frozen up.
Yes, that's for sure.
They can't say anything interesting.
For sure.
Or their IQ has dropped.
I can't put my finger on what it
is.
So for months, I've been listening to Pivot.
Yeah, that's right.
Pivot clip incoming.
For months, I've been listening to Pivot with
Kara Swisher and Professor Scott Galloway.
And his houses.
And it's, well, they all got multiple houses.
And so they're in Austin, South by Southwest.
Now, what I didn't clip this, but, you
know, he was saying, it's Austin's great.
And there's no taxes in Texas.
And Kara Swisher's like, well, I can't live
here.
Because they hate the gays.
And, you know, and it's a live crowd.
And they hate the gays.
Yeah, there's plenty of gays in Texas.
Let me tell you.
So there's literally, yeah, there's gay cowboys.
So there's literally, you can hear the gays
piping up in this Austin audience.
And then she said, goes on to say,
well, you know what I mean?
It's not Austin.
It's the state because I'd be afraid for
my family.
I'd love, I'd love no taxes, but I'd
be afraid for my family.
Okay, fine.
So for months, they've been talking about the
kleptocracy, the kleptocracy.
David Sachs, all he's doing is he's setting
up the Bitcoin strategic reserve to fill up
his bags and to exit with all this.
He'll be even richer than he was.
By the way, he sold every single cryptocurrency
he had two months ago.
He divested from any fund, including his buddy,
Jason Calacanis, who has, I guess has a
fund, who has one or two companies in
there that might have some, he got rid
of everything.
Guy's rich.
He doesn't need more money.
So how often have we heard for weeks,
months, Elon, he bought the presidency $270 million
to make his businesses even better, to get,
become richer, richer.
And so now, of course, it's falling apart
because it turns out it's not true.
And listen to how pivot pivots.
Like David Sachs getting involved in crypto and
then getting Trump to have dinner with the
guy from Ripple who probably promised him money.
And then all of a sudden deciding to
include Ripple in the strategic Bitcoin reserve.
By the way, there's nothing fucking strategic about
that.
And then all of a sudden Ripple rips.
That's pure, that's smart political kleptocracy corruption.
But at least that's smart.
His political forays so far, I don't think
are paying off for him.
I still think it's a really good car.
I think, you know, I can't help it.
I got a Tesla on my Uber app.
I cancel or I let him wait outside.
I know that's wrong.
What a horrible person.
So when he orders an Uber and it
shows up, it's a Tesla, then he'll cancel.
Because he doesn't want to be in a
Tesla.
But it is a good car.
It's a great company.
It should trade at a multiple of 50
to 100% more than the other car
companies, meaning it's a $25 or $30 stock.
So where's the benefit for him in this?
Yeah, where's the benefit?
Didn't you say that it was kleptocracy so
he could become even richer?
And now the opposite is happening?
What's the benefit?
Kleptocracy, you speak of.
That's the correct question.
I don't know.
Fame, narcissism, go red pill, clear out inspectors.
Oh, it's now it's just fame and narcissism.
Oh, OK.
Quick little pivot there, Pivot.
To me, the calculus is not smart here.
That's the name of the show, Pivot.
You nailed it.
Yes.
That's what they do.
They just keep changing their whatever.
They've just pivot at the top of the
hat.
Calculus is wrong here.
How about and I am not an Elon
Musk fan, but how about he might be
sincere about it?
Is it possible?
He seems sincere to me.
I don't know.
Is it possible that this foreigner who became
an American, that maybe he means it?
I don't know.
Become a brand that means has some very
negative brand associations.
I think that too.
I think people who are buying it are
repulsed by it.
They're repulsed.
I got to buy it.
I'm throwing up, but I still have to
buy it.
Of course, the people who are not all.
I'm going to stop you.
Nothing like that's going on around here.
In California.
I'm in California.
Tesla land.
There's nothing like that.
Interesting.
It's all out.
It's there's been a couple of showboaters down
in Southern California, some actors or something down
there.
I'm talking about around here, Bay Area, which
is very liberal.
There has been no discussion of anything.
There's Tesla's all over the fucking place.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I said that.
Why?
Because I'm listening to those.
Rots your brain.
It's contagious.
Tesla's all over the place and there's nobody
that's got the stickers on or there's nobody
painting on it.
No, nothing like that's going to nobody's.
Torch the Tesla dealership.
So, of course, people who do not live
under a dark cloud of spiritual horridness make
make funny make funny memes.
Going on now with the White House Tesla
Auto Mall.
It's the biggest sale of the year.
It's safe.
It's very strong, heavy.
It's all steel stainless steel.
Come on down to Pennsylvania Avenue just off
Route 29 to get our best deal ever
on a brand new Tesla.
I want to make a good deal here.
They have one which is thirty five thousand
dollars, which is pretty low.
Get a model one with a different panel
and everything's computer.
This is a different panel that everything's computer.
So don't waste your time going to those
other Tesla dealerships with riots and flaming cyber
trucks.
You've got to come down to White House
Tesla Auto Mall.
I love Tesla.
You've got to come down to White House
Tesla Auto Mall.
This is really amazing.
I love that Tesla Tesla.
So my so, you know, of course, Biden
did the same thing with the Jeep Cherokee.
So it was early and the Corvette and
the Corvette.
No, but he was actually promoting the Jeep.
No, drove it, drove it in parked in
front.
He actually drove it.
Trump won't drive.
Yeah.
No, Trump's losses.
I don't think you can drive anymore.
I don't think he's driven for probably 20,
30 years.
Maybe not.
Why would you?
I don't like it either.
I got to.
I love driving.
I'm a California boy.
Yeah, yeah, you are.
Well, speaking of the past, this whole waste,
fraud and abuse.
This is nothing new.
This is really nothing new.
And here's a little mini cut 2008 to
2010.
We simply must make the cuts and waste,
fraud and abuse in Medicare.
We owe it to our country.
There is an enormous amount of waste and
fraud and abuse in this government.
When there is waste and fraud, you have
an administration who should also be on top
of that situation.
If we're going to eliminate the waste, fraud
and abuse in Medicare, it does mean we're
going to cut some of that out.
We want to cut the bad stuff and
keep the good stuff.
Yeah.
Okay.
But now that it's Trump.
Everybody hair on fire.
Yes, that particular clip and more.
You can probably.
Oh, much more.
There's much more.
There's the forklift trucks that Clinton and Gore
brought out.
Yeah, the paperwork.
Yes.
Yeah, I remember.
They're going to eliminate this.
They're going to eliminate that.
This has been going on forever.
And then Trump actually is doing some things.
I'm not seeing any real evidence of this
either.
This could be the same as the rest
of them.
Although they're digging up more and more scummy
ideas.
You know, now there's a.
So during 404 media came out with an
interesting article about how those French universities are
welcoming American researchers.
We have a brain drain because the researchers
are all going to France.
Yeah.
So they can research their transgender stuff.
Well, by the way, which reminds me, you
know, Sean Hannity's transgender.
What?
Yeah.
No.
Well, listen to this clip.
You tell me.
Hold on a second.
Where am I?
Where am I looking?
Under Sean.
S E A N.
Oh, okay.
The Democrats are going to show up with
the little bingo paddles.
They won't stand for mothers.
It was embarrassing.
Or a 12 year old young man that
beat his battle with cancer.
What a great number or the wife of
an officer.
All right.
So they got their bingo paddles.
They won't even stand for working men and
women.
No tax on tips, social security, no tax
on overtime.
I used to be a working man and
woman, if you will.
Wow.
That's right.
It's obvious.
Well, she's proof proof.
Republicans love trans.
There's no problem.
So besides bond yields going down, besides inflation,
I'll just call it ticking down.
This was a somewhat hidden report that I
found on NPR.
The deadliest phase of the fentanyl crisis appears
to be over in the United States.
Anyway, new research shows fatal overdoses from fentanyl
and other street drugs are dropping from their
peak in all 50 states.
Here's NPR's Brian Mann.
We never understood this team at the University
of North Carolina finished their new analysis of
drug death data.
They found a positive trend that seemed inconceivable
a year ago.
We are on track to return to levels
of overdose before fentanyl emerged.
Drug deaths tracked nationwide by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention have already plunged 24
percent from peak levels.
Every state has now seen improvement, with many
states improving by 30, 40, even 50 percent.
Dasgupta says the number of lives being saved
left him stunned.
It has been a complete shock, the numbers
declining in the way that they have been.
I thought it's even hard to talk about
because it's after all this time looking at
overdose deaths.
This is what we have been hoping for.
This was not a big news story.
No, because it makes Trump look good.
I mean, I don't know if it's because
of his policies, but.
Well, it's also that somebody else discussed it.
I've heard this being discussed in some one
point that was made is that.
A lot of fentanyl that the people are
going to die of fentanyl died.
Oh, well, there's not.
They're all dead.
OK, well, you know, you start, you know,
yeah, you have to start killing off all
your customers and you kill most of them.
Yeah, it's just the kind of the languishing
ones are still dropping dead.
There's still too many dropping dead.
Yeah, but yeah, so the market is dead.
The literally dead customers do not did stats.
Yeah, we have to reflect the never made
any customers.
Never made any sense to me.
Those guys were selling that.
Well, speaking of Hannity.
RFK Jr. was on to talk about, you
know, the prices of eggs, but really about
the bird flu.
And it's there's all kinds of different noise
coming out of different directions.
But I'm going to listen to what RFK
Jr. says and hope that what he is
saying permeates through to Brooke, our our secretary
of agriculture and that people do some smart
things.
Let me ask you a concern.
And you inherited this.
President Trump inherited this is the avian flu,
which is impacting the cost of eggs and
chicken in the country.
What do you think needs to be done
to eradicate that?
And what do we do short term?
What do we do long term?
In other words, do we import eggs to
import chickens?
Do we do we have to wipe out
the population that might be infected by this?
No, we first of all, avian flu will
never be eradicated.
It is endemic in wild populations of birds,
particularly mallards.
And that's what infects the domestic flocks.
And so you'll never get rid of it.
And it doesn't appear to hurt wild birds.
They have some kind of immunity.
And the the strategy, the White House, we
all of my agencies have advised against vaccination
of birds, because if you vaccinate with a
leaky vaccine, in other words, a vaccine that
does not provide sterilizing immunity, that does not
absolutely protect against the disease, you turn those
flocks into mutation factories.
They're generating.
They're teaching the organism how to mutate.
And it's it destabilizes.
And it's much more likely to jump to
animals if you do that.
All my agency heads from NIH, CDC and
FDA had all said we should not be
vaccinating.
It's dangerous for human beings to vaccinate the
birds.
OK, do not vaccinate.
How about stop killing them?
The question is, should you?
McCullough would be in total agreement with this.
The question is, should you call those flocks?
Most of our scientists are against the culling
operation.
They think that we should be testing therapeutics
on those flocks.
They should isolate them.
You should let the disease go through them
and identify the birds that survive, which are
the birds that probably have a genetic genetic
inclination for immunity.
And those should be the birds that we
breed like the wild population.
Right now, the White House's strategy is to
repopulate those farms that have been depopulated.
We've killed one hundred and sixty six million
chickens.
That's why we have an egg crisis.
And the disease is not passed through food.
So you cannot get it.
As far as we know, you cannot get
it from an egg or milk or meat
from an infected animal.
Man, someone with some sense talking finally.
Last clip.
What is the strategy?
The White House strategy now and Brooke Rollins,
who runs USDA, and I am all on
board with this.
We should armor the domestic populations to insulate
them from wild infiltration.
This is how these birds are getting infected.
A wild mallard, most of them are open
air or open air poultry farms.
Our mallard will fly in to eat some
of the corn and that infected mallard will
infect the flock.
And so I think that that is the
best strategy.
And then also to intensively test therapeutic drugs
on those flocks so that, for example, you
tell you you you put a therapy in
with on in half the population.
And if that half that is treated survives,
now you have a a drug that potentially
is useful in human beings to treat avian
flu.
That's what we should be doing.
OK, this sounds good.
And I believe egg prices are coming down.
At least that's what Carolyn Levitt told me
was coming down.
But then try and square this report from
CBS for me about an approved vaccine with,
of course, Dr. Celine Gounder.
The US Department of Agriculture has issued conditional
approval for a bird flu vaccine for use
in chickens.
The vaccine from manufacturer Zoetis is one of
multiple targeting bird flu in poultry.
According to the USDA, avian flu has been
confirmed in 146 flocks in the past month,
affecting more than 20 million birds.
Thirty four million egg laying hens have been
culled since December.
Not all those birds necessarily tested positive for
avian flu, but were members of a flock
where a case was confirmed among humans.
There have been at least 68 confirmed cases
of bird flu last year.
According to the CDC, one person has died
from the disease.
Over the weekend, Ohio's health department reported the
fourth case of a person being hospitalized for
bird flu.
So you see what they're doing?
They're like that guy on X who keeps
retweeting his engagement farming us about the avian
flu.
Oh, oh, it's going to cross over into
humans, John.
They would cross over to humans.
You know what's going to happen?
What?
Pandemic, baby.
CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder joins
us on set.
She's also the editor at large for public
health at KFF Health News.
So we've been talking about bird flu for
quite a bit.
I mean, is now the time when people
really need to start paying attention with the
number of cases that we have?
I mean, those are pretty extraordinary numbers.
Oh, yes.
Pay attention to put this into context.
It would be helpful for people to understand
how a pandemic bird flu emerges.
So the bird flu, we have we ever
had a pandemic of bird flu?
No, well, but this is how we know
how it emerges.
She makes it sound like we had one.
Oh, yeah, it's all scary.
Pay attention.
People can infect birds as well as mammals,
which include pigs, cattle and cats.
People can get infected with the bird flu
when they come into close contact with infected
animals.
So farmworkers, for example, are high risk for
infection.
At the same time, people can get can
get infected with the regular human flu during
winter flu season.
A person could get infected with both the
human flu and the bird flu.
At the end, you know what that happens?
It'll mix up in your body.
Same time.
Mix them up.
Yeah.
Especially if, say, they're a farm worker or
someone else who comes into close contact with
infected animals.
So now the flu virus is made up
of eight different pieces of genetic material.
When you have different flu strains infect a
person or another animal at the same time,
those flu strains can swap parts.
And that's how you make a new hybrid
flu strain.
These new hybrid flu strains can be especially
dangerous because now you can get the human
to human spread and that can spark a
pandemic.
They just keep trying this over and over
again.
And our CBS girl is going to put
a name to it.
When he's a horror movie.
I mean, that is terrifying.
It's Frankenstein, right?
You know, that's how you get these super
scary Frankenstein flus.
The super scary Frankenstein flus, John.
What is wrong with these people?
This ends the minute they stop.
Pharmaceutical advertising on television.
Yeah, you it has to come to an
end.
You're right.
They're starting to advertise the weirdest stuff now
because you can tell they're panicking.
Yeah.
And I mean, there's stuff being advertised that
just basically at the end they say, and
by the way, if you take this drug,
it will kill you.
Side effect is death.
This has got to end because this is
what the influence comes from.
This is where it comes from.
Yeah.
The pharmaceutical influence comes from the fact that
they own the media.
Yeah.
They have to do these reports.
It's part of the deal.
Part of the contract.
And of course, they're still on the measles,
you know, which is all connected to RFK
Jr. And autism.
This is the Mennonites, you know, it's all
the Mennonites fault.
The Mennonites.
Those bastards.
And I heard from the oil barons.
You can cuss out the Mennonites and they're
not hearing it because they don't listen to
the radio.
Yes, they do.
Or the podcast.
They're not Amish.
They're pretty much.
No, no, no.
In fact, I heard from the oil baron.
He says if you want hard working people,
you want the Mennonites and they make great
furniture.
So the Amish.
Yeah, but I don't think the Mennonites.
Well, here's CNN had a report on the
Mennonites, who, as you know, are to blame
for all of this.
The epicenter of the measles outbreak is rural
Gaines County.
Why here?
Why a British guy in rural Gaines County?
I don't understand.
But why am I shouting?
Why not?
Is this coming from the Mennonite community?
That's the biggest cohort of the population that
is unvaccinated.
And so the predominant people that are we're
seeing with it are in the Mennonite community.
But it's not only them.
The Mennonites are Anabaptists who farmed around here
since the 1970s.
Tina Siemens runs a museum.
It literally goes back to the 1500s back
in Germany.
Charting her people's centuries long flight from religious
persecution and their time here in Texas.
She's now translating health department offers of vaccines.
No one will be turned away if they
cannot meet the payment.
But that's falling on some deaf ears.
Older Mennonites like Tina had to get the
vaccine to get American citizenship after immigrating here.
But now the younger generation is choosing not
to vaccinate.
Because they have the capability of educating themselves.
So this is not a blind religious belief.
This is an educated, whether it's right or
wrong, this is an educated choice.
Absolutely.
But is in line with centuries of Mennonite
tradition, self-sufficiency.
They have been self-sustaining.
They did not go to the local doctor
for everything because they had a home remedy.
Exactly.
It's not even a religious thing.
They just always say Mennonites.
Oh, must be crazy, Christian, Baptist, Nationalist, white,
Nazis, Trump lovers.
White, Nationalist, Christian, Nationalist.
They're no good.
They're no good.
She feels her people are being scapegoated while
others around here also refuse the vaccine.
Across Gaines County, more than 17% of
kids in public schools have a so-called
conscientious exemption.
So don't need to be vaccinated.
That's according to the latest state figures and
is among the highest in the state, which
is just one of 16 states that allows
that.
There are hesitants among the non-Mennonites.
I think COVID did bring a lot of
distrust to the public.
And it certainly didn't help us with already
people having distrust of the health care system.
Because they lied?
Yeah, probably.
So this, of course, has to be a
parade.
We have to have, we have to come
back and say, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no.
Vaccines are good.
And you know what?
They do not cause vaccines.
They do not, do not cause autism.
I don't care what you say.
They cannot be responsible for autism.
And if anyone knows this for sure, it's
HOTEP.
Joining us now, Dr. Peter Hotez, director of
the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's
Hospital.
Doctor, so good to see you.
False claims that vaccines are good for autism
aren't.
Hold on.
This guy reminds me as he's getting, he's
getting, it's like it's effect, you know, his,
I don't know if you want to, if
he's overtly lying, he knows he's lying.
I don't know what he's up to, but
he's, he's, he's disfiguring himself.
He's starting to look like the, in the
first, uh, uh, men in black or D
'Onofrio because inherited a bug got into him
and became, he became the bug.
He's all twisted and weird looking.
That's what this guy's slowing, slowly turning into.
He's looking weirder and weirder.
Yeah.
And his head will split open and then
the bug comes out.
The bug come out.
As long as we catch it on video,
it's okay with me.
Maybe I was talking to Joe about him.
I think Joe had him on the show.
We must've missed that.
And Joe was like, this guy is the
most unhealthy.
He eats crap, eats fast food.
He's grossly overweight, which you can't see because
he's always sitting down.
Yet this is the guy that's going to
tell us that to be healthy, you need
a shot.
But whatever, whatever you think, I don't care
what it is.
It's not vaccines that cause autism.
Doctor, so good to see you.
False claims that vaccines are linked to autism
aren't new.
This is debunked years ago.
Debunked!
2018.
You published a book about your own daughter,
Rachel's autism debunking this link.
Do you see any value in the CDC
looking into this?
Wait, wait, stop.
His daughter, Rachel has autism?
Yep.
And that somehow debunks?
Yes.
Because you know, she was shot up like
no tomorrow.
Oh yeah.
Well, wait until you hear his explanation of
what it really is.
What do you think it could be?
We've had an incredible increase in autism.
Of course, correlation is not causation, but it
did kind of happen with the increase of
childhood vaccines, the schedule, up to 70 now.
Yeah, it went from like five or six
to 80.
To 70.
I think it's 70.
I think it's 85.
Okay, I'm not going to argue.
About your own daughter, Rachel's autism debunking this
link.
Do you see any value in the CDC
looking into this right now?
No.
Could it help perhaps put conspiracies to bed?
No, we can't have a governmental health organization
looking into this now.
It's been debunked.
Don't waste your resources.
No, I don't really see a positive sign,
a positive reason for doing this, Anna.
We've got three very strong convergent lines of
evidence that there's zero link between vaccines and
autism.
First, you have actual data.
Data.
From all of the different assertions, whether they
claimed it was MMR vaccine back in the
late 1990s, or when RFK Jr. claimed it
was thimerosal preservative that's in vaccine.
All of those studies we have in the
open access published literature, large epidemiologic studies, thousands
of kids, 0.1, 0.2, lack of
plausibility.
We have now more than 100 autism genes
that have been identified.
Autism represents processes.
Did I just hear him say autism genes?
I've never heard of this.
He said 100 of them too.
So there's, you can actually have genes that
contain autism.
That occur in early fetal brain development well
before kids ever, ever see vaccines.
So if there's any environmental influence, it's around
the time of conception or in the first
trimester of pregnancy.
It's during conception.
Oh, you've got autism genes, man.
You know, this calls for eugenics.
I think.
Third, more recently, we have brain assembly and
brain organoid studies, really many brains in the
test tube using neurons with autism genes.
So they all point to the same thing,
the genetic basis of autism.
Genetic basis.
So he's going to tell us that since
the 90s, early, mid 80s, that all of
a sudden something happened with our genetic code,
in particular in the United States, that soared
the autism rates because we're all humping each
other and spreading our autism genes.
This, you're right.
This guy has been taken over by a
gruesome bug.
So do you believe that more research is
needed into what causes autism?
Could that be a good use of resources?
Oh, absolutely.
You know, where I am at Baylor College
of Medicine, we have an extraordinary neurological research
institute.
The details of the genetics of autism, how
the autism genes interact to other universities across
the country are looking into that.
So there's always more to learn.
In fact, there are some environmental triggers that
occur in early pregnancy that interact with autism
genes.
For instance, if a pregnant woman doesn't realize
around the time of conception that she's pregnant,
is on an anti-seizure medicine called Depakote
or also known as valproic acid, that can
cause the newborn infant to ultimately go on
to have an autism phenotype because it's interacting
with the autism genes.
We need more of those kinds of studies.
And I actually said that directly to RFK
Jr. many years ago, but I couldn't engage
him on it.
So there's a lot more to do.
But to waste taxpayer dollars and time and
energy in the scientific community on vaccines is
just a fruitless endeavor.
Just a fruitless endeavor.
It's genetic.
Don't you understand that, people?
It's genetic.
That's why only one of your kids has
it and not the other two.
It's crazy.
It's just genetic.
You know, they're going to come up with
an MRNA to solve autism.
That would be that would be ideal.
Which brings me to my COVID life insurance
clip.
Oh boy.
Okay, here we go.
So in France, there was an elderly, wealthy
businessman who got out life insurance for millions
of dollars.
He got the COVID vaccine and he died.
So the life insurance company is not paying
out because they decided that the COVID vaccine
is a medical experiment and death from a
medical experiment is not a covered entity.
Furthermore, even the judge says that the side
effects from the vaccine are well known.
They've been made public.
There's absolutely no way that this gentleman could
not have known the side effects.
He willingly chose to get the vaccine and
he died as a result.
And because it was a choice, they're calling
it a suicide.
And suicides along with death from experimental drugs
are not covered in life insurance.
So I know what you're thinking.
Oh, that happened in France.
That would never happen in the U.S.
Well, I'm sorry to tell you, but the
American Life Insurance Council has also said that
life insurance policies may deny payment if you
die from the COVID-19 vaccine because they
are experimental drugs.
There you go.
This is something we thought might happen.
We're seeing it happen.
You might want to check your policy.
Ah, well, that then brings me to my
Luigi clip.
Because if you're going to do this with
people, people are going to strike back.
They're going to strike back at insurance companies
and perhaps even pharma executives.
To the FBI, joining the investigation to a
suspected arson at the home of a Bayer
pharmaceutical executive.
It follows the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO in
December.
Our chief investigative correspondent, Aaron Kuterski, is here
with more for us.
Good morning, Aaron.
Good morning, Michael.
It was 730 the morning of March 4th
the New Jersey home of a Bayer executive
caught fire.
People were inside at the time, but the
fire, thankfully, was put out.
Nobody was hurt.
Bayer said the family, which the company is
not going to identify, is safe and unharmed.
But as you say, the FBI and a
number of other law enforcement agencies are now
investigating whether this was arson.
Bayer said it's cooperating with that investigation.
And so far, Morris County prosecutors say there
have been no arrests.
This is a time of heightened concern about
safety and security in the healthcare industry.
Officials worry the December assassination-style killing of
UnitedHealthcare chief Brian Thompson is inspiring threats and
plots against executives in the industry and beyond.
In fact, a Homeland Security report obtained by
ABC News said individuals driven by financial grievances
are taking Thompson's murder as inspiration for making
threats against government and public safety officials, particularly
if they're perceived as contributing to economic strain.
Authorities noticed one rather alarming post saying these
officials and executives deserve to be Luigi'd, a
reference to Luigi Mangione, the young Maryland man
charged in Thompson's murder.
Yeah, Luigi'd.
Luigi'd.
You can be Luigi'd.
That'd be a good show title if you
could spell it.
I have no idea how you'd spell Luigi'd.
It wouldn't be right.
It was kind of Luigi'd.
It was kind of interesting that the senator
from Louisiana, Cassidy, he had the famous Dr.
J.
Bhattacharya on the witness stand, which of course
is all showboating because that's what that's always
about, just going back to the danger of
vaccines and autism.
Now, isn't he the guy that a lot
of people love during the pandemic because he
was against lockdowns, mass mandates, et cetera?
I don't remember that guy's name.
Yeah, I think a lot of people really,
really love listening to him.
And when I weed, what weed?
When I read Wikipedia, when I, hey man,
when I weed the Wikipedia, Hey man, when
I weed, weed the Wikipedia, if it starts
off with Jayanta Bhattacharya who holds a medical
degree, but never completed residency, then I kind
of think that people hate him.
So here's some clips of him about vaccines
and autism.
I've been told that you have said that
we need to invest NIH resources at looking
at the link, a possible link between measles
vaccine and autism.
I've not heard that directly as hearsay.
Any comment on that?
Senator, it's a tragedy that a child would
die from a vaccine preventable disease.
I fully support children being vaccinated for diseases
like measles that can be prevented with the
vaccination efforts.
As far as research on autism and vaccines,
I don't generally believe that there is a
link based on my reading of the literature.
But what I have seen is that there's
tremendous distrust in medicine and science coming out
of the pandemic.
And we do have, as you know, Senator,
a sharp rise in autism rates in this
country.
And I don't know, and I don't think
any scientist really knows the cause of it.
So I would support an agenda, a broad
scientific agenda based on data to get an
answer to that.
I have an interesting test we could do.
What are the autism rates amongst the Mennonites?
We already know the answer to that one.
Probably zero.
So what is your strategy?
Do you have an idea or an agenda
that would once more, by golly, once more
prove that measles vaccine is not associated with
autism, either the schedule, the vaccine, or anything
else associated with it?
Because my concern is the more we pretend
this is an issue, the more we will
have children dying from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Senator, I guess I'd turn it around and
say, I don't want to just prove a
negative.
That's impossible, really.
But I want to address the rise in
autism.
I accept that.
Did you say something?
No, it was in the clip.
I thought someone said, hey, stop.
The rise in autism.
I accept that.
I think that's laudable.
We need to do that.
Yeah, that's a positive.
But I'm asking the specific question.
Will we once more have to go back
over this particular issue?
Because that has been exhaustively studied.
Yeah, I mean, I think, as I said,
Senator, I don't think that there's a link
between the MMR vaccine and autism.
I'm convinced based on that literature.
Notice he's saying just MMR vaccine.
The only reason I'm not wholeheartedly saying yes
to your question, which every instinct of mine
is to do that, is that there are
people who might disagree with me.
But that's life.
I mean, there's people who disagree that the
world is round.
And I say that not to minimize these
concerns.
But people still think Elvis is alive.
He's not?
Crazy.
Last clip is short.
At what end point we say we've got
good data?
Because I mean, I'm convinced that we have
good data on MMR and autism.
But if other people don't agree with me
and then they don't vaccinate their children, I
think I don't, as if I'm confirmed as
NIH director, the one lever I'll have is
to give them good data.
That's really the lever I'd have.
But that good data already exists.
You're a scientist and you accept that.
This is more an endorsement.
I'm a doctor, Jim.
With an appropriate allocation of current dollars would
be a better way to spend precious, limited
federal dollars.
All right.
So I guess it's off the table.
But the Chara isn't in on it.
He doesn't feel like there's any link.
Again, I think we just go study the
Mennonites and the...
They already did.
The Mennonites have been studied.
They have no incidence of autism.
Well, maybe we should just all become Mennonites
then.
I thought we had that clip.
I thought we played that clip before.
Mennonites autism?
I don't know.
But...
No, I don't think so.
I think Kennedy has brought it up.
Now, what else do we got here on
our list?
I don't know.
I'm sure you've got something.
I got the CCP cyber attacks.
I should talk about some of these.
Hey, there's a big stink about the Snow
White movie in England.
Really?
I thought everyone already hated it here.
Yeah.
Well, this is the BBC World Service.
Oh, World Service.
Which is where you get on the shortwave.
Yes.
I had the shortwave running.
I picked it up.
Okay.
It's also online, of course.
And this, I just think it's interesting because
how do you get into this mess?
How does Disney find a way to foul
up stuff like this?
It's easy.
A Disney premiere is usually a big deal.
Well, by the way, stop.
Yes.
That's when they said Disney premiere.
Premiere.
This is when you had this problem saying
premiere.
Yes.
The premiere of Canada.
You kept saying premiere because you lived in
England and this word has been...
It's in your brain.
Premiere.
It's a premiere and it's a gala, not
a gala.
It's a premiere.
And it's aluminium at the premiere at the
gala.
A Disney premiere is usually a big deal.
But the launch of the remake of the
classic Snow White is reportedly being scaled back
after a series of controversies.
Controversies.
Another word.
Controversies.
About global politics.
The Israeli actor Gal Gadot, who plays the
evil queen in the new movie, has been
an outspoken supporter of Israel during its war
in Gaza.
While Rachel Zegler, who's of Colombian and Polish
descent, supports a, quote, free Palestine on social
media.
But that's not the only issue, as the
BBC's culture reporter Stephen McIntosh explains.
I can't...
I mean, what could possibly be wrong with
Snow White, except that she's black?
Is that the problem?
Are they racist?
She's a Colombian, this woman.
Okay, she's brown.
She's actually quite pretty, the Snow White that
they're using.
Are they racist in Britain?
What is their problem with Snow White?
The problem is really between the two actresses
have gotten into a feud over the Israeli.
I mean, for one thing, if I'm Disney,
I'm the producer.
I don't know.
Maybe I should talk to Brunetti about this,
how this works.
What are the actors wagging?
Where are the actors, the tail wagging the
dog?
I mean, these people just shut up, do
their job and get out of there.
I mean, it turns out that this actress
playing Snow White demanded to get the romance
out of the story.
Okay.
I think, you know, I know in the
record business, but I'm pretty sure it's the
same with movies now.
And Brunetti can confirm or deny that you
can't be a recording artist or an actor
unless you have an enormous following on the
socials.
I mean, even Woody Harrelson, who barely knows
how to operate a phone, he, you know,
for his new movie, he had to have
a TikTok account.
The studio demands it.
So, of course, Woody Harrelson is crazy.
And so he'll put all kinds of nut
job stuff on there.
Yes, he is.
He's got the dementia from the pot, from
the weed.
So you get what you deserve.
It started actually right at the beginning with
Rachel Zegler's casting as Snow White.
She is a big star.
She was in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story.
But she's a Latina actress.
She's Colombian American.
So she was cast in a role that
was previously in the animated version, a white
character.
And very often when we've seen this kind
of controversy before, when a role like that
is recast with maybe a more diverse actor
or actress, there's a bit of a backlash.
It then became a bigger story about what
Rachel Zegler's attitude was towards the original source
material.
So she said in the original one, there
was too much focus on the love story,
too much reliance on the prince character.
She had this quote where she said that
the prince in the original film kind of
stalks Snow White.
And she basically said that the new Snow
White was going to be different.
And some people thought that was a little
bit insulting towards the original source material.
There was a rumored feud behind the scenes
between Rachel Zegler and her co-star Gal
Gadot, who plays the evil stepmother.
They have opposing views on the Israel-Palestine
conflict.
And then finally, possibly the biggest controversy was
the dwarfism.
Peter Dinklage, the actor from Game of Thrones,
came out and said that it was a
bit backwards, as he put it, to be
remaking Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at
all.
He's always been a champion for the idea
that if you're going to cast an actor
with dwarfism, that shouldn't be their primary character
trait.
There's all these controversies that have been kind
of been rumbling around over the last few
years while this film's been in production.
The last year and a half since, of
course, October 7th, it's been a bit difficult
for studios trying to navigate this, because obviously
Gal Gadot's a very well-respected actress.
They would have wanted to cast her.
She's a big name.
Equally, a lot of the actors and actresses
involved in these kinds of films have their
own personal political views on the conflict.
There's kind of been a few cryptic tweets
posted by Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot about
the conflict, but it's not necessarily clear if
they really are at odds with one another,
and if this really was a rupture behind
the scenes, or if the fans are just
kind of speculating that there might have been
a behind-the-scenes fallout.
Well, Hollywood has lost its ever-loving mind,
that's for sure.
They're doing a movie with seven dwarfs.
Right away, you have an issue if you're
going to start doing live action with people.
This is idiotic.
Notice how they call it original source material
instead of the story.
Yeah, the story.
The story.
Now it's original source material.
Yeah, let's take the prince out of it,
because this guy is a stalker, he's a
creep.
And let's change it from a romance.
These dwarfs, what's the point of them?
Get them out.
So basically, it's just a what?
I don't know.
Wicked 2?
Yeah, yes.
Another movie I have no desire to watch.
No, thank you.
Well, you saw the Broadway play and enjoyed
it.
I did.
But, you know, it was with my daughter,
Christina, and they had the special wicked alcoholic
beverages, and we were pretty smashed.
We were just drinking like, oh, this is
great, this is great.
They're singing, it's awesome.
They're singing.
Man, Brunetti's going to rue the day that
he didn't listen to me.
What did you tell him?
I told him he should use me and
you to get in on the Christian movie
wave.
Oh, he knows all about that.
Because MGM, now Amazon, they have a huge
hit on their hands with House of David.
I'm not going to watch it.
Oh, it's really, it's gory.
It's really well done.
You want to see heads getting chopped off,
and it's good.
You're going to watch it.
You'll like it.
I'm not going to watch it.
You're not going to watch it.
You don't like anything.
What am I saying?
Just like...
Okay, stop.
I have to say, I really like The
Diplomat.
What?
Yeah, I know you do.
It's recommended by you.
Yeah, it's a good show.
It's a lesbian undertones.
I mean, the whole thing, there's a married
couple with no children.
Lesbians always says, box office smash.
Well, you know, I have to say that
they definitely nailed it.
And it's a terrific pacing, and the teasers
at the end of each episode are fantastic.
Dynamite.
It's just a terrific...
Of course, it's typical of anything decent.
They can't produce enough copies.
So they did, what, eight episodes for season
one, six episodes for season two.
Come on.
They ran out of time.
That's not even one whole season, and it's
already on to season three.
Where's the people that used to produce...
The Sid Caesar Show, which was live comedy.
Yeah, but it didn't have sets.
It didn't have the White House as a
set or the embassy.
Hour and a half of Broadway quality comedy
every week for 30 plus weeks.
Bring back Sid Caesar.
Okay.
Boomer moment, everybody.
There you go.
I mean, to me, when I was a
kid, the season was like 35, 36 episodes,
and they go on a hiatus for 20
weeks.
But now it's like they do 12 episodes.
Oh, God, we're so overworked.
We don't know what to do.
We got to take some time off.
And in this show, they don't even do
that much work.
They do, what, eight and then six?
Yes, John.
And that was your Boomer update.
People are calling me Boomer.
Well, you get that button ready.
Put it on the regular button.
Yes, I will.
Because I'm going to give you a lot
of Boomer updates.
I have a number of them.
I'm complaining.
We got a number of them.
Boomers.
Check out my new Harley, baby.
Yeah, baby.
One, two, three, Boomers.
Yeah, I'm now be called a Boomer everywhere.
And in that whole thread, if you Boomer.
I saw that.
How insulting.
I saw you being called a Boomer.
That's so insulting.
Why is it insulting?
So what?
Who cares?
Because I'm not.
I am the face of Generation X.
They grew up with me.
Mr. Vain here.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm so vain.
You probably think this song is about you.
Somebody clip that, please, and make it take.
You heard him.
You heard him.
You haven't asked Adam, seriously?
I do have an ask Adam.
This is a plug for a podcast, a
science podcast that NPR does.
And they drop a little bomb here at
the end, literally.
And I'm going to ask you about it.
Okay, first, we'll play the clip and then
we'll play the jingle.
This month, Shortwave is featuring a science and
dog collab for the ages.
Because sometimes scientists need help and have to
call in dogs to get the research done.
Their powerful noses have earned some of them
a job as conservation detection dogs, helping biologists
sniff out things that are hidden or hard
to find, like whale poop in the ocean.
All right, I'm ready for the question.
That was the question.
It was right at the end.
Dogs can sense whale poop in the ocean.
Does a dog, can a dog smell in
the ocean?
Because you do it, you throw the dog
in the water and you say, oh, there's
whale poop here.
How do they find it?
Do they sit next to the whale poop
and wag their tail and bark?
What do they do?
How does a dog find whale poop in
the ocean?
Okay, so you not being the biologist that
I am, the boomer biologist, whale poop floats
to the surface.
So the dog can sniff it on the
surface of the ocean.
You've never swam in whale poop before?
I'm surprised.
Dog sniffs, what's a dog in the ocean?
What's the dog doing in the ocean?
No, the dog is standing on the shore
and he's on, he's on a boat.
He has a boat.
He's got, he's got a speedboat.
You know this for a fact?
No, of course not.
Why would I know?
It's like, I don't even know.
I'm not even worried about the half court
business.
This is, this is you just going crazy.
You're, you're disagreeing with media reports that are
insane to begin with.
Well, if we're going to go there, I
have another one.
Please.
This is the WTF clip of the day.
This is my story about the D.C.
budget because they, Congress is, you know, they're
taking money away from here, there, and the
other.
And, and this report comes out and there's
a logical inconsistency here.
See if you can spot it.
The House of Representatives passed a funding measure
last night that, among other things, would cut
over $1 billion in D.C.'s budget.
WAMU's Jackson Sinnenberg has more.
The House's funding package, called a Continuing Resolution,
or CR, would keep government spending at 2024
levels through September.
The CR also took aim at D.C.'s
budget and restricted its spending to 2024 levels,
even though the district has been operating on
a new 2025 budget for six months.
Mayor Muriel Bowser called the possible cuts a
$1.1 billion mistake.
That number is around 16 percent of D
.C.'s budget.
On the House floor Tuesday, Representative Eleanor Holmes
Norton explained the impact of the budget cuts.
This cut will likely force D.C. to
immediately terminate programs that delay off or furlough
police officers, firefighters, other first responders and teachers.
She also highlighted how the funding cut appears
to roll back D.C.'s financial independence.
This cut does not save the federal government
any money because D.C.'s local budget consists
entirely of locally raised revenues such as taxes
and fees.
Uh, okay.
Okay, so the budget cuts won't affect D
.C.'s budget because of taxes and fees, yet.
It's terrible.
It's Norton.
That old, I don't want to, I don't
want to say what I was thinking, but
she...
Well, you're going to say lesbian.
No, I just, she, no, she needs to
know.
Yeah, that's what you're going to say.
No, no, I don't know if she's a
lesbian, but I met her and I was
not impressed.
I didn't like her at all.
That was during the Affordable Care Act, which
she was ramming through.
She was, she was a big leader in
all that.
Obamacare.
So I just don't like her in general.
And then she also has no vote.
I know, it's a joke.
She just gets to sit there and harp.
Speaking of, I don't know about you, but
I got a lot of notes from Canadians.
And which does, it first of all makes
me very...
I did too.
I got a lot of notes from Canadians.
The Canadians are all jacked up about Carney.
Of course, this guy wasn't, this guy's, you
know, he's never been elected to anything.
Well, he's just a banker they put in
place.
That's funny because I got other notes.
I think people think they're emailing you, but
they email me and they're mad.
At me?
Well, at us, I guess.
Because we're like, oh, you know, a lot
of Canadians, they like this 51st state idea.
Whoa, talk about a third rail.
I don't want to be a 51st state.
I got a note from some Canadians and
they agreed saying that Canada not only doesn't
want to be a 51st state, but they
shouldn't be.
They said, one guy said, you know, you're
just going to get a bunch of more
Democrat voters because they're the worst.
Well, you don't want Canada in the United
States.
The main note I got was about the
tariffs on dairy.
And I think there was some correct information
here.
They said, you know, when it comes to
your milk, the tariffs only kick in above
a certain quota.
But then every single one, let me see
if I can get a good example.
Every single one of them said, we don't
want your milk.
It's gross.
It's horrible.
It's filled with crap.
We don't want your milk.
The only thing we might want is some
of that cheese from Wisconsin.
Yeah, you didn't get those.
California makes good cheese, too.
Let me see.
The reason why us Canadians protect our dairy
is because American milk is effing gross.
It's full of chemicals, hormones, antibiotic and nonsense.
Modern America is synonymous with cutting corners these
days, it seems, due to late stage capitalism.
Plus, Americans feed chicken shit to cows.
Communists wrote you there, late stage capitalism.
Plus, Americans feed chicken shit to cows.
This is why you have bird flu in
your cattle and Canada doesn't.
Our food laws are vastly more stringent and
most of our food isn't poisoned due to
the fact our health care is socialized.
It is our best interest to keep people
healthy, to cost the country as little as
possible.
We got slapped with mad cow back in
the day and we banned feeding any animal
byproducts to animals pretty much.
And so this person should have done it
with a Canadian accent.
Do we want guns?
Hey, sure.
Do I want American self-freedom?
I can't do a Canadian.
Sure, I wouldn't mind becoming American for the
right reasons.
But this Trump shit has got to stop.
Canada did nothing wrong except agreed to a
trade deal that Trump designed.
We do have tariffs on American dairy, but
they only kick in after a certain dollar
value, which has never been reached.
Canadians do not want American dairy because all
we know is it's garbage.
And so I, actually, this is a nice
guy who I emailed back and I said,
you know, you should want to be our
51st state so you could teach us how
to make better dairy and we'd give you
guns.
And he agreed.
He said, yeah, that'd be kind of a
cool deal.
They just came out with a new gun
thing.
There's a new gun restriction in Canada.
They must be worried about something.
But I think Canada is just too diverse.
You know, you can't say Canada is like,
you know, America.
We're kind of the same.
We have our differences.
But you got the French Canadians.
You got the Canadians on the East Coast.
Canadians are very, very different.
So do we want them?
I mean, President Trump.
No, we don't want the Canadians.
President Trump keeps saying it.
He just says it to gall them.
He knows it gets attention.
What we really want is Greenland.
I think that's serious.
Well, Greenland is a possibility after the results
of the vote.
Late night celebrations at the Democratic Party headquarters
in Nuuk, Greenland.
The center-right opposition party took a surprise
first place in the general election, garnering almost
30% of the vote compared to 9
% in 2021.
I'm overwhelmed and I'm very, very, very happy.
The party is known for its pro-business
policies and for backing a long and gradual
process towards Greenland's independence.
In second place, the Nalarok Party, who campaigned
on a promise of rapid independence from Denmark,
doubled their share of the vote to nearly
25%.
We have to be able to cooperate with
other parties as well.
And I do believe, as we have seen
for now, people want change.
People are mostly not voting for what have
been.
So no matter what kind of government that's
created tomorrow, I do hope solemnly that it
will be for the better and for a
change that people want to see.
The Inuit, Atakachijuts and Suomid parties, who make
up the current ruling coalition, saw a significant
drop in support, coming in third and fourth
respectively.
The two parties have dominated politics on the
island in recent years.
The Democratic Party must now look to other
parties to form a majority in the 31
-seat parliament.
The government that is formed is expected to
map out a path to independence.
The US president's efforts to acquire the mineral
-rich territory shone an international spotlight on the
elections.
And election officials in the capital Nuuk had
to keep polling stations open longer to accommodate
the large voter turnout.
Though independence was not on the ballot, it
was on voters' minds.
A majority of Greenlanders and four out of
the five parties running support independence, though there
is plenty of disagreement on what a break
with Denmark would look like.
Well, I think this is interesting.
This was kind of unexpected, according to the
insiders.
Yeah.
They didn't expect the center right to actually
take this one.
How many people are in there?
56,000 live in Greenland?
Yeah, some 56, 57.
How about this?
How about this?
We are, we're going to give you all
a Tesla Cybertruck.
Well, I don't know about that.
I don't know how their electricity is doing
there.
But I would say, if you say, we're
going to give each one of you 100
,000 bucks, cash.
A thousand bucks.
Tomorrow.
A thousand bucks.
A hundred thousand.
Oh, a hundred thousand.
Oh, that changes it.
And, and you, you become American.
So you get your MAGA hat, you get
your gun.
And you got a hundred thousand in cash.
Right.
A stable coin.
Or stock.
Stable coin.
Stable coin.
You get some stable coin.
Yeah.
Well, you might as well, I mean, come
on.
You might as well see if you can
rip them off.
That's the American way.
But if we do have a backup plan
for minerals, apparently we're close to maybe even
talking to the Congo.
Well, the US says that it is open
to exploring a potential partnership with DR Congo
to gain access to the country's critical minerals.
Kinshasa pitched the deal to Washington in the
hope of winning diplomatic support as Rwanda-backed
M23 rebels continue to consolidate their hold over
key parts of the east of DR Congo.
Emmett Livingston's in Kinshasa.
He tells us more.
The Congolese government is offering a deal on
critical minerals, such as cobalt and lithium, to
the Trump administration, hoping for diplomatic support against
M23 rebels and Rwanda.
Since January, M23 and Rwandan forces have captured
eastern Congo's two largest cities.
But the diplomatic response has been largely symbolic.
Congo's army in the east can no longer
fight back.
It's mostly been destroyed or run away.
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi is now trying to
leverage his country's enormous mineral wealth in order
to win American support.
Tshisekedi confirmed that he was seeking a minerals
deal last month, and his spokeswoman recently told
us that discussions were advancing.
But without commenting on the details, Congo has
the world's largest reserves of cobalt, a metal
used to manufacture batteries.
It also has massive reserves of copper and
lithium.
The Congolese presidency says the US administration is
considering its proposal seriously, an account that the
US State Department also recently confirmed.
But it's not clear how a deal might
work.
Most of the important mining sites are owned
already, for the most part by Chinese companies.
And despite years of trying to coerce American
business, Congo still struggles with a reputation of
being deeply corrupt and a risky place to
invest.
That's our kind of place.
Yeah.
Deeply corrupt, risky to invest.
This is us.
This is what we like.
Give those people some stablecoin.
You're good to go.
Yeah.
But the Chinese, though, they won't be happy
with it.
Yeah, but they bail out pretty quickly.
If you remember, the one thing that always
kind of sticks in my mind is if
you remember the Chinese were moving into Libya.
Oh, yeah, they hit the high road real
quick when we came in and started killing
people.
All of a sudden, we got to get
rid of Gaddafi for some unknown reason.
Well, because of the coin, possibly.
But it was a NATO operation.
NATO being the defensive operation that it is,
had to go on the offense and attack
Libya.
That was the Hillary Clinton NATO.
That was a Clinton op.
Yeah, it was a total Clinton op.
And so they go in there, and there's
the Chinese developing there, and they all bailed
out and left a bunch of property just
sitting there.
They just ran for the hills.
Chinese seem to do that.
Do you remember when Gaddafi came to the
UN in New York, and Trump let him
set up his yurt on his lawn?
Yeah, he set up his tent city.
Yeah, it was great.
On one of Trump's properties.
That was good times, man.
Back in the day when everyone was just
kind of cool, now we're all so mad
about everything.
Social media.
You know, when, actually, I have the clip
here.
I was kind of happy when I heard
this report.
You might have noticed yesterday that Elon Musk's
X was down for a while.
It's pretty annoying.
I was trying to use it to prepare
for the show.
Here's Musk on Kudlow's show discussing the situation.
There was a cyber attack on X today,
which shut it down and may have been
foreign sourced.
It's a big story.
You want to give us a moment on
that?
Well, we're not sure exactly what happened, but
there was a massive cyber attack to try
to bring down the X system with IP
addresses originating in the Ukraine area.
Well, so that's your suspicion.
Is the website, is the Internet up?
Is it up yet?
It's up.
Is the Internet up?
Okay, good.
Earlier in the day, Musk tweeted the following.
There was, still is, a massive cyber attack
against X.
We get attacked every day, but this was
done with a lot of resources.
Either a large coordinated group and or a
country is involved.
According to a Telegram post, though, pro-Palestinian
cyber hacking group Dark Storm Team took credit
for the attack.
Also, cyber attackers sometimes use fake or inaccurate
IP addresses to make them harder to trace,
meaning that the attackers might not have been
in Ukraine.
Tesla's shares also fell by more than 15
% yesterday, which was the lowest since before
election day.
There have also been protests around the country
and in Europe against Musk and Tesla.
Police say there have been instances of vandalism,
arson and gunshots.
Yeah, you know, I'd be fine.
I'd be fine if all social media got
DDoS'd.
Just take it all down.
People would know what to do.
They'd be walking outside like zombies.
Like, what is this?
They're looking at their phones.
Where's my feed?
I don't know.
There's no feed.
It would be so good.
Maybe somebody texted me.
Let me see if I can find a
text.
Whatever happened to the good old days of
the Internet worm?
Remember that one?
Yeah, yeah, the Internet worm.
That was, I remember that.
That was a great day.
People don't remember that, but I guess that
was the first large-scale cyber issue.
And the Internet worm, it replicated and it
went through all the servers and everybody got
all clogged up.
And this is before the web, though, wasn't
it?
I think so.
This was a story that was broken.
Actually, it was John Markoff that broke this
story for the New York Times when he
first got over there.
And it was such a fabulous story that
they took him off the story.
1988.
The Morris worm is what it was called.
Yeah, the Morris worm.
They took him off the story and put
a more experienced reporter on so that he
could get an award.
Oh, really?
That's how the corruption works in the mainstream
media.
And, of course, I've always, I gave him
grief about this for years.
About, yeah, you got taken off the story
so that somebody else could win a Pulitzer.
You could have gotten one good because you're
not going to go into the New York
Times early.
Like, this was like his first year there
and get a Pulitzer.
You can't do that.
That's against the rules.
And so they took him off the Morris
worm.
And then they also, the story that never
came out, except I think I've mentioned it
before, is that they changed his copy.
Because during his discussion of the, Morris was
the kid, I think, of a professor or
something.
Went to the professors and he was doing
color on describing the scene.
And there was a bunch of Russian writing
on the blackboard that had something to do
with something.
And they had to take, they had to
excise the CIA.
If somebody told him, no, you can't mention
that this guy's doing any work with the
Russians or something.
It was some screwy thing.
And he never figured out why they had
to take that paragraph out.
But this is another use of the mainstream
media being a front for the intelligence operations.
Well, I liked it when we called it
the worm.
I think it was better than, you know,
a virus.
I like worm.
It was different than a virus.
It was created by, well, not really.
Robert Tappan Morris.
And the way it worked was it exploited
a hole in the debug mode of the
Unix send mail program.
So it did spread virally through send mail.
It then exploited a buffer overflow hole in
the finger network service.
Who remembers that?
It self-propagated.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I think it's still a worm
type.
We can call it, I think it's more
of a worm than a virus.
Viruses are something that are spread through file
sharing and which brings us to the tip
of the day for later today.
Oh, well, before we get to the tip
of the day, why don't we go to
this where I thank you for your courage
and say in the morning to you, the
man who put the sea on your half
of the court.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end.
The one, the only Mr. John C.
DeMora.
Say hello in the morning to you, the
fam.
Curry in the morning.
All ships, sea boots to the ground, fit
in the air, subs in the water, and
the name's nice out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Stand by trolls, I'm going to count you.
Here we go, here we go, here we
go, here we go.
It's spring break, isn't it?
It's spring break.
That's what's going on.
Spring break.
Did you know it's spring break?
Why is it spring break?
Because that's what happens.
It's spring break.
It's not spring.
But it's spring break, I know, because Fredericksburg
is filled with loonies.
I went to play chess on Tuesday.
You went to play chess?
Yeah, I played chess with Willie at Java
Ranch.
Do you have a timer and you slam
your hand on it and when you make
a move?
No, no, no, no.
Willie is a cool dude though.
I met him at church and I thought,
I thought, wow, this guy's retarded.
When I sat next to him, he told
me his whole story.
He had a head-on crash in Colorado
when he was 19 and he had a
couple of seizures.
And so he talks like that.
And then I said, why don't we have
coffee sometime?
And then he brought his chess set and
the guy's like a master chess player.
But whenever he wins, he's like...
And the whole place, you know, it's totally
embarrassing and lovely at the same time.
They even had the first Willie chess competition
last month.
There were like 30 people came.
He plays chess with everybody now.
Anyway, it's spring break.
So I know because it's just crazy.
Why would anybody go?
Was there a beach?
In Fredericksburg, there's a bunch of bikini clad
chicks.
You can drink on the street in Fredericksburg.
We're one of the six cities in America
where that is legal.
Where are the other five?
I don't know.
New Orleans is one.
Yeah, I know New Orleans.
I don't know the other four, but we're
nearby.
You know, you could, you're in Austin.
You're like, hey, let's go get drunk and
laugh at the Republicans.
I don't know what they do.
You know, I'm sure that's...
Let's go make fun of the church people.
Let's go to Fredericksburg and get hammered.
Yeah, that's what they do.
So that explains the 1993, 1993 trolls today.
As opposed to our Thursday average, which is
higher.
2023, our last show.
Not really.
The average, well, our average over the last
10 shows is 2087.
To me, the median is 1,800 for
Thursday.
1,900 is a good one.
Well, I have the stats.
The numbers don't lie.
Yeah, your stats are what they are.
You know, statistics are good for everything.
The last 100 shows, 1902.
So I'm just saying, I'm just saying that
we're down a little bit.
Just a little bit.
But these trolls, they are hanging out in
the troll room, which is where we love
to have them.
I haven't been having intermittent connection issues with
the troll room today.
I'm not sure what's going on.
That's probably why the numbers are down.
I don't know if it's the troll room
or if it's me.
I'm not sure.
But they are listening live.
And you can do that at trollroom.io
or on your modern podcast app, which is
fun to do.
CurioCaster, it's actually a web page you can
use to listen live.
And with all these modern podcast apps, you
can find it podcastapps.com.
When we go live, boom, you get an
alert.
It says, they're going live.
You get the bad signal.
You hit it.
You can listen live.
When we publish our show to any of
these modern podcast apps, besides all the cool
features, you get your transcripts, you get your
chapters.
Thank you, Dreb Scott.
Within 90 seconds, it'll be updated.
So no more waiting around and emailing Adam.
You forgot to upload it to iTunes.
No, no, that's not how it works.
That's Apple just sits there and polls and
polls, wasting resources.
We use the modern pod ping.
These trolls are often in the troll room
to get good ideas for artwork.
But oh my, as part of our time,
talent, and treasure, we rely on the outstanding
work of many of our producers who build
websites for us and do all kinds of
fun things, including the Noah Art Generator, which
was down on the last show, which meant
we really had very little to choose from.
We had two pieces.
Yes.
A couple of artists were smart and emailed
us and said, Hey, this is my chance.
I'm getting in now.
And that was, and I think it was
Nestworks.
Let me check.
Let me see.
Did we choose Nestworks?
Yes, it was.
Nestworks brought us the artwork for episode 1745.
What did we, when did we title 1745?
Old Crone, that's what we titled it.
And so we got that straight from the
email.
So there's really nothing to discuss because we
didn't have anything else to look at, except
that.
And was there one other one that came
in?
I can't remember what it was.
Yeah, there was.
I think it was one of the ladies.
Oh, was it Tantaniel, maybe?
She said something.
So there's not much to discuss today, but
I see that the Art Generator is working
again.
Thank you, Sir Paul Couture.
We understand that these things can be difficult.
And he also asked me specifically, let me
make sure I get this right.
He asked me specifically to give an F
-cancer for his mom, which is part of
the distraction that was going on in his
household.
So we'll do that right now.
You've got karma.
And we appreciate all the work you do,
Sir Paul, and all the work that the
artists do who are diligently uploading today.
So thank you very much.
Now we go to the treasure part of
our time, talents and treasure.
This is a Value for Value podcast, which
means you just give back whatever you think
the show is worth to you.
It's been going pretty well for us for
17 years.
We're in our 18th year now.
Four more to go.
Less than four now, actually.
Three years and nine months.
Always four more forever.
That's your wish.
Dream on, baby.
I got a lot of life left in
me.
This is going to take a lot of
convincing and keep me going for another presidential
cycle, especially when you're blowing schnoz in my
ear.
It's hard.
It's a hard life.
We'd like to thank everybody who comes in.
$50 and above.
We don't do under $50 for reasons of
anonymity.
Reminder, if you had a recurring donation set
up, it probably expired.
A lot of them do around the beginning
of the year.
And if you've never done one, go to
noagendadonations.com.
Set one up.
Any frequency, any amount is all up to
you.
And we appreciate all of the support we
get from our producers.
And we kick it off with our top
executive producer.
Now, these are people we want to thank.
They're $200 or above.
If you are at $200 or above, you
get an official credit.
It's an associate executive producer credit.
Good wherever credits are recognized, which is all
of Hollywood, including that Snow White movie.
They would have recognized it, but you're not
on that.
And be happy that you don't have a
credit that says, you know, I was an
associate executive producer on Snow White.
No.
Associate executive producer of the No Agenda show.
$200 and above.
You get that credit and we read your
note.
$300 and above.
You become an executive producer.
Same applies.
It's good for your lifetime.
And accepted wherever credits are recognized.
And we also read your note.
And so we come to our first executive
producer, Troy Lafferty, who is in Newark.
But not Newark, New Jersey.
Home of Frank Sinatra.
No.
Newark, Ohio.
And Troy says, with $700.
Okay.
And he got us a knighthood today.
How did you the best podcast in the
universe?
You guys are truly the best.
Adam, thank you for providing Godcaster to all
of us aspiring podcasters.
Also, Adam, I appreciate your bold stance on
the Christian faith and the multiple interviews in
which you talk about Christianity.
Well, well, where were you on my Flashpoint
thread?
I could have used some help there.
Muchos gracias, Juan, for providing the audience.
Oh, that would be you, John.
Juan.
With providing the audience with countless tales regarding
your many storied experiences.
It seems like on a weekly basis, I
am providing my keeper with tips from John.
Well, that's no coincidence.
He does the tip of the day.
By the way, thanks for the tip on
the Bordeaux crates from Costco.
Good stuff.
Yeah, that is probably one of the best
no agenda tips ever.
And people always remember that one.
And this donation brings me to knighthood, he
says.
For my feast at the round table, I'm
requesting rattlesnake chili, wild boar medallions, and John's
choice of a fine Bordeaux to pair with
these wild game selections.
Let me get my notepad out because John
is going to give us a selection.
Yeah, get a bottle of 1990 Lynch barge.
1990 Lynch barge?
How do I spell barge?
B-A-G-E-S.
Barge.
Okay, all right.
And we'll add that to your rattlesnake chili
wild boar medallions.
You got it.
So for henceforth, please refer to me as
Sir Troy from the land of the psyops.
Finally, please switcheroo $200 of my total credit
to John C.
Lovins from New Albany, Ohio, as an associate
executive producer.
Well, this is complicated.
I'll have to write that down.
No jingles, no karma, though, he says.
Please, though, de-douche me as I forgot
to ask for it last time and de
-douche John C.
Lovins.
You've been de-douched.
All right, that's yours.
And here's for John C.
Lovins.
You've been de-douched.
And he says, thanks.
Four more years, Troy Lafferty.
Laff is pronounced like laugh.
Got it.
Newark, Ohio.
Thank you very much.
Good.
I'm going to put in John C.
Lovins as associate right now.
You got it.
Onward with Sir Furr.
He's the Black Baron of the I-4
Corridor in Orlando.
ITM, John and Adam, switcheroo.
Oh, it's a switcheroo.
By the way, there's a check you wrote
on a piece of paper.
Yes.
Please credit this executive producership to Ashlyn Speed.
Oh, oh, our racing gal.
Our girl.
Ashlyn Speed.
Okay.
It's funny.
I've got, he wrote this on the, he
recycled a sheet of paper.
And the backside is the annual meeting of
the Biltmore Shores Community Club with the agenda.
What's on the agenda?
What's on the agenda?
Well, Holly Greer speaks at first.
She's the president.
The nomination and approval of officers.
Then the financial review.
Community events comes up after that and the
new business.
Back, back to the note.
Not only does she promote the no agenda
show with that decal on her race car.
But she also sends you guys money.
According to my accounting, this switcheroo donation qualifies
Ashlyn for Damehood.
Well, how about that?
Welcome to the round table, young lady.
You are amazing.
Jingle request.
Boogity, boogity, boogity.
Spoken out wife and the F-35 Karma.
Thank you for your courage, sir, for the
Black Baron of the I-4 Corridor in
Orlando.
You've got Karma.
Okay, that brings us to Thomas Kilbride from
Waco, Texas.
515.38. I have no note from Thomas
Kilbride.
I haven't got anything.
But he may have been going for a
Commodore ship.
I'll check that in a moment.
But for no note, you do get a
double of Karma.
You've got Karma.
Sir John in London, in London, London, UK.
Dear Adam and John, I thought I'd get
on the Commodore Act before it runs out
for good.
There's 500 greenbacks for my Commodore title.
Please could I gain the additional title of
Commodore Kumar of the Seas?
Seven Seas.
Of the Seven Seas.
Hold on a second.
I got a...
What are you doing?
My...
What are you doing?
Well, what happened was a little drop-down
menu showed up, which takes out part of
the cell.
So I can't read the whole thing.
Are you using a pivot table?
There it is.
Okay, I got rid of it.
That's some drop-down for some unknown reason.
Please could I gain the attention of the
Commodore Kumar of the Seven Seas?
No jingles, just Karma for the whole No
Agenda family.
Regards, Sir John of South London, Commodore Kumar
of the Seven Seas.
Yeah, but when you...
Okay.
What?
When you send in your request for the
Commodore, you put their title in there and
it'll get...
Oh yes, it gets posted.
Yes, that's true.
You've got Karma.
We go to Zander van den Brandt in
Berleycum, the Netherlands.
Dear Adam and John, vape donation have finally
become a Commodore 64.
Adam will understand.
I called him out on a clicking sound,
but it was his vape.
I shouldn't have been so vapid.
Anyways, time to donate to the best podcast
in the universe while the Netherlands is going
to shits.
While Trump is putting an end to things,
here we are doubling down on DEI, Green
Deal and migration.
Lovely.
Love everything you do, so keep it up
and I'll be sporting my No Agenda merch
everywhere I go.
Jingle request, a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
And an old one from the vault, he
wants Putin on the Ritz, followed by Pew
Pew.
Name me as Commodore SNDR of Middle Roader.
Come, let's mix where John Podesta walks with
kids.
Oh, I mean pizzas in his mitts.
Putin on the Ritz.
There you go, Pew Pew.
That brings us to the bonus clip for
the middle of the donation segment.
Oh boy, aren't you glad you're listening, people?
You're listening to the donation segment.
We have a bonus clip for you.
Since it was mentioned in that particular clip,
play the news.
The Pizzagate killer is dead.
The man who terrorized people at a crowded
DC pizza shop back in 2016 has died.
Edgar Madison Welch was shot and killed Monday
by police in Kannapolis, North Carolina, after he
pulled out a gun during a traffic stop.
Eight years ago, the so-called Pizzagate gunman
entered Comet Ping Pong in Northwest with a
revolver and rifle.
He was searching for a non-existent child
sex ring, which he learned about from a
right-wing conspiracy website.
Welch was sentenced to prison and released back
in 2021.
Didn't this happen a few weeks ago?
I don't know.
I think so.
News to me.
Well, there's your bonus clip, everybody.
Another guy is dead.
Surprise.
A guy's dead.
Well, meanwhile, we have the Archduchess Kim, Keeper
of the Nutty Fluffers in Hubbard, Oregon, came
in with $500 to get her Commodore thing.
And she wrote, again, this is another check
that came in with a handwritten note.
Appreciate these.
I, Tam, John, and Adam.
Jingle, screw your freedom, little girl, yay.
R2D2 karma, please.
The sad puppy and a Commodore ship were
too much for me not to donate.
I have to do my part to keep
the great newsletters coming.
Let me read that again.
Great newsletters, huh?
Yeah, to keep the great newsletters coming, I
have to do my part.
Oh, great newsletters.
Okay.
Newsletters.
She's talking about the great, okay.
The great newsletter.
She's talking about the newsletter.
It's the great newsletter.
It's the best newsletter.
Hands down, the hypocrite of the week is
the best part outside of John's wonderful insights.
There you go.
You two keep me from going completely off
the deep end.
And for that, my employees and family are
grateful.
Keep up the great work, Archduchess Kim, keeper
of the nutty fluffers.
Screw your freedom.
Yay.
You've got karma.
And we move on to Sir Data Ops
from Madison, Wisconsin, 333.33, who says, I've
been a listener and producer for over six
years.
And no agenda has been a welcome constant
in my life.
That's right.
We're always here.
Your deconstruction has helped me see manipulation for
what it is and gain confidence in knowing
I'm part of a large tribe of like
-minded individuals.
For the past few years, this podcast has
been my only source for news.
So when you start a topic with, everyone
already knows about this, there's a good chance
I don't.
With this donation, I'll become a baron.
Please update my title from Baronet Sir Data
Ops, the Wisconsin millennial, to Baron Sir Spatial
Support, the Wisconsin millennial.
Thank you for your courage.
And for jingles, please play WTC7, Dogs Are
People Too, and Hit Me With Some Karma.
WTC7 won't go away.
Dogs are people too.
You've got karma.
What's a classic?
A classic, I tell you.
Robert Milner and Marion Iowa, 33333.
ITM John and Adam, thank you for all
that you do.
Today marks my first step toward knighthood.
And as an executive producer, I want to
thank my grandpa, Sir Doug of the Copper
Line, who hit me in the mouth at
the start of COVID.
And the show has been shrinking my amygdala
and keeping me sane ever since.
I think it's time for a long-awaited
de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
For all those on the fence, donate!
Jobs Karma works in many mysterious ways.
I can confirm it's safe and effective.
Because of this, I don't have to live
on the mac and cheese anymore.
Finally, I'm able to give some long overdue
treasure to the show and can additionally now
give my time and talent to those in
Gitmo Nation as well.
So if you have a need for a
new or used semi-truck, reach out to
Rob, the used truck guy, at 563-542
-2383.
I've got to read it again now, yeah.
563-542-2383.
Please don't actually rob the used truck guy.
For every truck sold to the No Agenda
Lister, 333-333 of the commission will be
reinvested back to the show.
That's interesting.
Wow.
As a donation in their name.
Thank you for your courage.
Can I get a mac and cheese and
a yak karma?
Few slaves can get used to mac and
cheese.
Mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese.
Cheddar melted together.
You've got karma.
Now, before I go to the next note,
we went to the P.O. Box and
there were a number of items in the
P.O. Box which I need to mention,
including a check for $333.33 from Zach
from Frankenmuth, Michigan.
Did you get a package of chocolates from
the Frankenmuth people?
Some time ago.
Yeah.
Well, he'd been sitting in our P.O.
Box for some time.
But did you get a check?
Well, it was some time ago, maybe.
It was like a month ago or so.
I don't remember.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, he has noagendachocolates.com.
This is, of course, the famous Frankenmuth chocolate
people.
It was like last year, I think.
No, it wasn't that long ago.
But it came with a serving platter and
it had all kinds of stuff in it.
It was a while ago.
Yeah, several weeks ago.
The platter, which is a cutting board, is
dynamite.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
The sampler tray is what he calls it.
Remember, free shipping on orders over $30 at
noagendachocolates.com.
I thought that expired.
No, no.
That was noagendafudge.com.
Now this is noagendachocolates.com.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
So I will send that 333.33 check
to you.
Yeah, drop it in it.
Put it in the bank.
Before I go, thank you to dbadbadba.com,
who sent me some of their coffee beans.
That's the red bike coffee.
Yes, by the way, dbadbadba sent me two
bags of coffee, too.
Very nice.
And then did you get a cutting board?
From what?
From Sir Aradadarian?
No.
Dude, he put together a cutting board that
is beautiful.
And he sent it to us.
He said, don't mention it.
So OK, I'm going to mention it anyway.
Oh, because he doesn't want, now he's got
to make one for me, because I'm going
to grouse.
That was the way, and you blew it.
You outed him.
Thank you to whoever sent me the F
-22 Raptor mission systems patch for my jacket.
I appreciate that.
I don't have that either.
No, no.
And thank you Jordan R.
Brown for U.S. Senate, who is running
against Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.
He sent me his agenda.
I think no matter what, if there's someone
running against Lindsey Graham, vote for him.
Jordan R.
Brown for U.S. Senate.
He locks it down, Lindsey.
Yeah, well, maybe, maybe.
All right, then we go to Sir PP.
I'll do this one as well.
Sir PPT, I'm sorry, $333.33. He says,
in the morning, boys, a February donation.
Yes, it's March, February 15th.
Was it sitting in your PO box with
your chocolates?
What?
Well, this notice, it's dated February 15th.
That just came in, just came in.
OK.
Sometimes, I don't know why some mail comes
in very late.
Local post office issues.
Somebody bitched about this in a note.
Where's my, how come I didn't get mentioned?
Generally speaking, the mail works quite well, but
it's in some areas where he is.
Where is that?
I don't know where it was postmarked.
OK, I don't know either.
Anyway, he says he loves the show.
I'd like to thank Dame Astrid and Sir
Mark for a great meetup in Tokyo.
Ah, it came from Tokyo, that's why.
Oh, it's from Japan.
Oh, I saw that note come in.
Yeah, a Japanese, it came from Japan.
It took forever.
Sure, it did.
We just got our Christmas card from Willow
in Italy.
I'm telling you, we've got problems.
The international stuff is bad.
Hopefully, we can all get together again soon,
he says.
Also, a shout out to El Mexicano, his
wife and little human resource touring Thailand.
Stay safe, Sir PPT.
And he says, donation accounting available upon your
request.
Well, we trust you.
Does that mean he comes at night?
Because he didn't mention that.
He'll have to let us know if that's
so.
Thank you very much.
Dame in training in Highland Park, Illinois.
It's also a name of a good scotch.
315.85. What?
John was right, as he usually is.
Let me just read that again.
His wind chime did elicit a donation.
Uh-huh, you better hit the chime.
Donate.
I understand how that works.
Love y'all and thank you for your
service.
Yours, Dame in training, Highland Park, Illinois.
Oh, beautiful.
Sir Mike 44JR, not BS, from Bethalto, Illinois.
314.
In the morning, thank you for your courage.
Happy Pi Day.
There it is.
There it is, the one Pi Day donation.
That's right.
Another winner.
Another winner.
Happy Pi Day.
I think that Dame in training may have
been a Pi Day.
With the added...
Oh, no, I don't think so.
No way.
Happy Pi Day to Mahadi Mob.
Another year.
Let's see if I'm free for the 4th
of July.
Bison or is it buffalo karma, please?
For work, relationship, and legal reasons.
All hail to the full Bellamy Suite, Sir
Mike 44JR, not BS.
I think he means yak karma, because we
don't have bison or buffalo.
It must be yak.
You've got karma.
Sir Hooper...
Hoop...
Hoopin...
Hoopin Soccer in Bowlsburg, Pennsylvania, 270.68. Another
check with a piece of paper.
This is actually a pretty long note, but
I'll read it.
ITM gentlemen, please find enclosed my immense donation
of 270.68, sent to reconcile for being
too broke for the last six months to
maintain my sustaining donation.
Luckily, my mom...
I'm sorry.
Wow.
I'm just reading this now.
Wow.
Luckily, he says, my mom croaked and her
entire estate finally settled after four years.
Thanks for being on top of nothing, California,
so I can square up.
Man.
My 333 monthly donation will restart in April,
and I suggest every listener commit to a
sustaining donation, no matter how small.
It is value for value, after all.
This donation makes me a Viscount, and I
would like to be known as Sir Hoopin
Soccer, Baron of the Psychedelic Overmind and Related
Dimensions, Viscount of the No-o-space...
No-o-space, I guess.
I think it's Noo-sphere.
Noo-sphere.
It's sphere.
There's no space in it.
No sphere.
I don't know why I'm saying sphere.
I don't know either.
Well, it is what it is.
It's my bionic lenses.
I respectfully request that 20% of this
go to paying down the national debt.
Well, that's actually going to happen.
That'll do it.
Yeah, exactly.
Because by 20%, it does go to taxes.
Yeah, you bet.
60% goes to Adam for managing communications
for the thousands of producers that John has
blocked.
I've blocked nobody.
No.
And the remaining 20% to provide $5
,000 checks for every American taxpayer.
Yeah, he's got that figured out.
He got the math right.
Nailed it.
I would like a sitar jingle goat karma,
please.
Do we have that?
No.
And thank you for your work and courage,
Matthew.
And then he's got some accounting.
We don't have a sitar.
We just have a regular service goat.
You've got karma.
And there you go.
You got your goat.
We got your goat.
You got your goat.
Dame Janet is next.
Also a written note, $250.
Says, ITM John Adam.
Nice handwriting, Dame Janet.
This donation is a switcheroo for my smoking
hot husband Bill, as well as a birthday
donation for Bill, retroactively, on March 1st.
And mine on March 15th.
Because of the...
Oh, beware of the Ides of March.
So what do we put in there?
Do we put in just Bill?
Well, that means Bill.
It's Dame Janet.
We just do Bill?
I'm gonna do Bill.
I don't know.
Bill.
I don't know what else to do.
Bill.
All right, Bill.
You're on the list, Bill.
Hold on.
Okay.
Bill is on the list.
And what else does Bill...
What does Dame Janet say here?
She says, John, I love the newsletter.
The memes and the hypocrite of the week
always make me laugh.
There's the second hypocrite of the week lover.
Yes, in the same show.
Random number.
Keep on keeping us sane.
Dame Janet of the T.P. Wyoming.
Okay, I'll call it Bill of the T
.P. Wyoming.
$250.
Thank you very much.
I'll put Bill of the T.P. Wyoming.
Well, Eli the Coffee Guy's back from Bensonville,
Illinois.
$203.13. Jay was concerned.
Yes, of course.
We were all concerned that we hadn't heard
from him last week.
We didn't know if something was going on.
No blurts.
With nothing zany going on, I don't have
anything witty to add to the conversation today.
But we did a new coffee in our
black bag series.
Black bag series is quite good, by the
way.
Yeah, black bag.
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Thank you for your courage and stay caffeinated,
says Eli the Coffee Guy.
Sir, I'm like that.
$200.33. He is the sir, I'm like
that in God's country, to be exact.
Gents, millennial private investment producer here.
Ah, it's been too long.
Not because of my terrible market projections last
year.
Persistent inflation.
No Fed cuts.
Market at all-time highs.
NVIDIA be a house of cards.
2025 refinancing wave.
Be the next downturn event.
Well, he's right on there.
I'm agreeing with you.
The refinancing wave will be a downturn event
for stocks.
If it happens.
Good for America.
While I take credit for a few and
realize that the Fed should have remained steady,
these were mostly in the neighborhood.
Regarding the refinancing wave, it sure seems that
Trump is stoking fear into the market to
ensure U.S. can refi at lower rates.
Well, here you go.
I do apologize.
This is long overdue.
I recently had a change in my role
that puts me on the road as a
pseudo-wholesaler of my company's proprietary investment solution.
Things are going great, but busy.
Hope to make some more donations as I
settle in.
Jingles.
Donald Trump don't trust China.
Share a secret and anything, Reverend Al, please.
Donald Trump don't trust China.
China is asshole.
Oh, there's no winning.
We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere,
but we laugh a lot.
Now everyone hug and share a secret.
Resist.
We must.
We must.
They're all jitty about a shutdown.
The tortise in the race.
Then co-author of Who Briefs.
You too, lead singer Bono.
Fran Drescher.
Sigournoy Weaver.
Suspect Jahar Sanaiev.
Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh.
You've got karma.
What a mess.
Oh, there you go.
There you go, brother.
Thank you.
Uh, Eric Cioffi in Columbus, Ohio.
$200.
I think it said Cioffi.
Cioffi?
Yes.
C-I-O-F-F-I is Cioffi?
Yes, it's Cioffi.
It says it there in the note at
the bottom.
Oh, I didn't read the note.
I did.
Oh, there it is.
It's like coffee with a C, with a
C.
Cioffi.
Yeah, you're right.
Cioffi.
ITM.
This is my Upside donation.
If you don't know, Upside is an app
where you can earn cash back by filling
up your car at a particular gas station.
Participating.
Yeah, well, the same thing, right?
Okay.
Since I drive a lot for work, I
figured I'd give it a try.
Well, it didn't take long.
I earned $200, so I thought, why not
give it to the best podcast in the
universe and get myself an Associate Executive Producer
title?
Given that I mostly listen to the show
while driving, huh?
Why not keep using the app and occasionally
donate what I earn?
If others want to do the same, enter
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Bongino.
That's Eric84582, Eric, E-R-I-C.
Your show, I just, I think it's a
good idea, actually.
Yeah, it's not bad.
Your show truly is the best podcast in
the universe.
I started listening during COVID based on a
recommendation from a co-worker, and I haven't
missed an episode since.
You guys have opened up my eyes to
the corruption that plagues our government and the
media.
Thanks for the amazing analysis.
Can I, by the way, this is why
we have to ask for donations to do
this show, because what we're doing.
Yes.
Thanks for the amazing analysis.
Can I get a house selling and buying
karma?
Thank you for your courage, Eric Chaffee, like
coffee, but with a C-H.
You've got karma.
Yeah, I forgot one more thing.
Did you get the Serious Pepper Hot Sauce
Trio?
I talked about it on the show already.
Oh, that's right.
But I just got mine in.
Well, that's interesting, because I got the one
that you got.
You got the same three, I'm sure.
Habanero, Serrano, and then a ghost pepper.
My ghost pepper bottle broke in the box.
I just happen to have right here, my
only ghost.
It's complete and ready and good to go.
I can't wait.
Okay, well, I want you to open it
right now.
Put a drop on your finger.
I don't think so.
Why not?
Okay, let me see.
It's not going to be that hot.
Well, the packaging is crazy.
How do you even open this?
It's got, how did you open yours?
What, the bottle?
Yeah, the bottle is very tight.
I can't open it.
It's got...
Oh, just scratch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can't open a bottle.
Hold on, hold on.
Well, now you said it.
Now I'm going to do it.
I got a knife here.
Hold on.
A knife?
Yes, I got a knife.
I got a gun.
I got everything here.
Are you kidding me?
It is loaded.
This is Texas, man.
Okay, I got it.
I got it.
All right, here we go.
Let's open this up.
Okay, all right.
Just the tip.
Yeah, just the tip.
Okay.
Luckily, I have some water here.
It's not water that does the trick.
You need milk.
It's actually not that bad.
Yeah, I didn't think it would be that
hot.
I mean, because, you know, they know how...
People that make these sauces know what they're
doing.
They're not just making pure capsicum.
It does linger.
Yeah, that's what it's supposed to.
It does.
It's lingering.
So that brings us, thank God, to our
last Associate Executive Producer.
This is hard, John.
Linda Lou Patkin.
She is in Lakewood, Colorado.
$200, as she does every single show.
And we are incredibly grateful for it.
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And now I've got to be careful I
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That would be a very big, big problem.
Wow, that is kind of spicy.
That is...
Yeah, it's just...
It's a tasty product.
You know what it says right here in
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High quality, small batch.
Yeah, well, there you go.
Serious Pepper Hot Sauce Company.
Thank you very much.
I'm going to try it in my eggs
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And thank you to our executive and associate
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Whoo, baby.
It's hot.
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Makes you want more, doesn't it?
Oh, yeah.
I just can't wait to get more.
I'm waiting for more.
It's groovy.
More, please.
More.
No.
Absolutely not.
Okay.
Let's play these cyber attack clips and get
them out of here.
You've had those for three weeks.
Three shows.
Yeah.
Are they still valid?
I think so.
A house committee analyzes the ongoing threats the
Chinese Communist Party poses to American infrastructure through
cyber attacks and espionage.
NTD correspondent Jason Blair has more from the
nation's capital.
As we speak, the Chinese Communist Party is
waging a full-scale cyber war against the
American people.
The bipartisan House Select Committee on the Chinese
Communist Party had a hearing to talk about
what intelligence officials are saying about the current
threats from the Communist Party in regards to
cyber security, as well as what the U
.S. can do to defend against it.
One message that the committee wanted to get
across is that this is just one area
where the CCP is waging warfare against the
U.S. However, it is one area that
can do a lot of damage.
Chair Moolenaar said in his opening statement that
CCP's hackers have targeted things like water treatment
plants, power grids that power homes, as well
as even hospitals.
Moolenaar gave two recent examples of big cyber
attacks from Chinese hackers, one that targeted telecommunications
companies like AT&T and Verizon, where they
were able to gain access to millions of
phones, gaining access to sensitive data from those
users, as well as listening into conversations pretty
much at will.
And this ranged from your everyday person up
to even the president and vice president.
He also brought up another recent example where
Chinese hackers targeted critical infrastructure in the U
.S., gaining access to, like I mentioned earlier,
water treatment plants, power grids, things like that.
And intelligence officials are telling them that the
CCP plans to kind of use these whenever
they feel the need to in case there's
some kind of conflict, perhaps something to do
with Taiwan.
This is such horse crap.
We've been hearing this for so long.
Oh, the Chinese are in every...
It's almost like Iran is two weeks away
from a nuclear bomb.
Oh, they're getting the sensitive data from your
phone.
Oh, yeah.
What's the sensitive data they're getting?
China, CCP, could you please just bring down
all the social media networks?
That would be great.
That would make me a happy American.
I would even learn Mandarin.
Just to thank you.
You heard him.
Yeah, I mean it.
Bring that stuff down.
And he means it.
It's ruining our country.
I think you're right.
Yeah.
All right.
Clip two.
It is clear Xi Jinping's goal is to
sabotage our way of life when the time
is right for his regime.
We must understand that this isn't just a
cyber threat.
This is part of the CCP's larger strategy
to destroy the American way of life.
Fan chair Moulinard continues saying, quote, The CCP
views all forms of warfare, cyber economic, ideological
and military as different tools to achieve the
same goal.
Global domination through the defeat of its enemies.
As far as what the U.S. can
do to deter and defend against it, ranking
member Krishnamoorthy brought up some solutions to address
the weaknesses from the two most recent major
cyber attacks, as well as the U.S.
increasing the cyber talent workforce, both in the
government and the private sector.
And he also really wanted to emphasize that
the U.S. needs to start holding the
CCP accountable when these attacks happen.
It means imposing costs on the CCP each
time they attack us.
When Xi Jinping decides whether to launch another
attack, he needs to ask himself whether the
costs are worth the benefits.
No come.
These aren't just cyber criminals.
These aren't just asymmetrical threats.
These are real plan threat actors who have
made a decision and orchestrated attacks against the
United States, who largely have not been held
accountable by either Republican or Democratic administrations.
It's been three shows since this report, and
still they haven't done anything.
This is so disappointing.
You nailed it right away.
This is just the same as a week
away from making a nuclear bomb in Iran.
Iranians are going to have the bomb any
minute.
Yeah, yeah.
It's the same thing.
Exactly the same thing.
And you got a kicker.
One common message the committee has been relaying
is that the CCP is dead set on
using any means possible to achieve their goal
of dominating the world, and they have really
not shown any sign of wanting to peacefully
coexist.
You remember when the Internet of Things, that
they were going to take over that, and
they were going to blow us up with
that?
Hey, could you please fix my vacuum cleaner,
Internet of Things, China?
This is all just bull.
I am so tired of this fear mongering.
And China, they're so horrible.
These horrible people, they're rolling out safeguards for
our children.
Today, new ways to watch your kids and
the clock on TikTok.
The hugely popular social media app is rolling
out a feature called Balanced Digital Habits in
order to help parents watch their children's usage
and even control their child's access.
Oh no, are they trying to control my
child's access?
Oh wait, that's for me to control my
child's access.
Oh, thank you, CCP.
It really activates an important dialogue between parents
and kids and teens about when it's appropriate
to sit and scroll the app.
The first new feature is called Time Away.
This will allow parents to block kids and
teens from being on the app at certain
times.
For some families, that could mean blocking access
during the school day or even at night.
We can block your access to TikTok, John.
Another new feature is called Family Pairing.
Parents will be able to see who their
child is following on TikTok, who follows them,
and who their child has blocked.
It gives families even more transparency and potentially
protects kids.
This, by the way, I guess is the
local TikTok guy.
From following accounts that might provide misinformation, bad
information, even cyber bullying.
And finally, TikTok enacting a wind down feature
for teens under age 16.
After 10 p.m., if they're using the
app, their feed will be interrupted with a
full screen takeover.
It will have calming music and encourage the
teen to be mindful of the time.
The TikTok is trying to control our children
with calming music.
Stop it, CCP.
However, TikTok reporting that for those who have
used this feature, the kids kept using it
even after that full screen takeover.
We could include this potentially in a list
of bedtime hygiene.
So this could be turning down screens, getting
teeth brushed, making sure that everything is ready
so kids can sleep.
Wait a minute, did he say bed hygiene?
Hold on a second.
What did he call it?
Using it even after that full screen takeover.
We could include this potentially in a list
of bedtime hygiene.
So this could be turning down screens, getting
teeth brushed, making sure that everything is ready
so kids can slowly calm down, turn down
the energy and get to bed.
Slowly calm down?
What have you got?
What rattled up are your kids?
Well, TikTok does that to the kids.
It's no good.
You know, I'm thinking about this.
So we got TikTok, which who knows if
there'll ever be a deal on that.
We've got, we had the Internet of Things.
We had the cloud.
We had all that.
What did you have before the cloud?
What was before the cloud?
What were all the hypes we had?
Machine learning.
We had client server.
Oh, client server.
Which was pre-cloud.
Net suite.
We had dumb terminals came back again briefly.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Oracle came out with a, and of course
you can go back to web TV.
But now we have the AI report, the
AI hype.
And the Mag 7, Mag 7, everything's down.
Yeah.
Because it sucks and it's no good.
And it's just good for making memes and
songs and funny videos.
But, oh, it's the future.
And now...
That is the future.
Funny videos.
Well, yeah.
If people actually had to pay what it
costs, we wouldn't have those either.
But there was a report that came out
two weeks ago from T.D. Cowan, an
analyst.
And they reported something peculiar.
And I brought two clips of it because
I think it's kind of interesting.
Where we had all the hyperscalers.
We have a million...
The oil baron is the luckiest SOB I
know.
He sold his $3 million rants for $15
million to some guys who wanted to put
a data center on it.
Just because he's near a transformer.
So they can get power to it.
And there's no people around.
So the, you know, so the data center
won't bother them.
And he'll be able to buy that thing
back pennies on the dollar.
Because Microsoft is pulling out of data centers.
So what's going on with Microsoft's data center
spending?
Yeah, well, just to step back a bit.
Microsoft has been one of the big technology
companies that invest...
Is investing the most in AI and AI
data centers in particular.
They've talked about spending $80 billion this year
on data center capacity.
So this note from T.D. Cowan really
raised a lot of questions.
They said that there's evidence.
They did some channel checks.
They said that there's evidence that Microsoft has
been canceling leases at data centers.
Totaling a couple hundred megawatts of data.
They also said that they're stopping something called
SOQs.
The statement of qualifications.
Which is sort of the step before leases.
In other words, they're pulling back pretty dramatically
from some of their data center commitments in
the U.S. And they're reallocating some of
the spending that they were planning on doing
internationally into the U.S. And overall, the
analysts asked the question of whether Microsoft is
getting concerned about whether AI is going to
live up to the hype.
Whether, in fact, companies like Microsoft are pulling
back a bit because they have not seen
the pickup in demand for data centers.
Now, to be clear, Microsoft has not confirmed
this.
They haven't talked about these details.
We got in touch with them and they
said they still are planning on spending that
$80 billion through the end of their fiscal
year, which is coming up in June.
They didn't talk about what they're doing after
that.
But they said they're definitely going to spend
that amount now.
So it does raise questions about where exactly
Microsoft is spending this money, what it means
and what the long-term demand for AI
is going to be.
And the second part of this report makes
me smile even bigger because the air is
coming out of the bubble.
Yeah, and this, Peter, I guess, suggests a
material slowdown in international leasing.
What would be the repercussions for tech in
general, but also beyond?
Well, we've seen these fears ricochet through the
market pretty rapidly.
Of course, there's hundreds of billions of dollars
being spent on AI capacity right now.
Microsoft is just one of the companies.
Meta, Amazon, Alphabet.
We saw OpenAI and Stargate talk about spending
$500 billion on capacity.
So these are huge amounts of money that
money is being spent at companies like NVIDIA,
in particular, to buy their chips, to put
them into data centers.
There are real estate deals that are behind
this.
There's a whole ecosystem, which has really been
the biggest boom area of technology over the
past few years.
That's fueled the stock market boom, too, where
you've seen NVIDIA race to a $3 trillion
company.
So if this spending starts to falter, if
you start to see people begin to believe
that AI demand is not going to live
up to all this hype, maybe they don't
need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars.
Maybe it's a bit less than that.
That's going to take some air out of
this bubble pretty quickly.
I'm a happy man, finally.
Let's find a new hype.
Why, you wanted to go to another hype?
Well, another one.
The Chinese announced a quantum computer.
Have you heard this?
Well, I have been predicting this for a
long time.
The pivot to quantum.
They announced something like a quadrillion times more
powerful.
Qubits.
Which is...
Quadrillion more...
Can you just admit that I have been
predicting the pivot from AI to quantum for
a long time?
I think they're one in the same.
Oh, come on, man.
I've been saying the hype...
Come on, man.
I've been saying the hype would pivot from
AI and...
Well, if you talk about a dog of
a pivot, pivot to oblivion, yeah, okay.
You nailed it.
Yeah, thank you.
I mean, I did nail it because it's
just true.
They have nothing.
It is nothing.
It's going nowhere.
Customers don't want it.
Who uses copilot?
Oh, yeah, I use it for all my
programming.
Okay.
Clippy.
Yeah, it's a very expensive clippy.
So that will bring down our refi interest
rates real quick.
But I think they've been keeping this report
as quiet as possible.
I even read that Microsoft is now saying,
well, you know, instead of nuclear plants, we'll
just use gas turbines.
That's okay.
We don't need to build nukes.
They're not going to build it.
They're pulling out.
The whole thing is a house of cards.
It's going to come flopping down, flopping down.
Now, you think it's still going to last
two years, but I don't.
I think it's over.
I have at least two years on it.
No, no, no.
I'm saying before the year is out, before
the year is out.
Before the year, before this year.
This year, yeah.
Is out, it's going to be a flop.
Yeah.
And we'll stop talking about it.
What do you mean?
I'll have to be celebrating and dancing on
my victory.
Well, I mean, we had to stop talking
about it as a positive thing that's important.
Okay.
I love you just from as of December,
everything will be ridiculed.
Yes.
I love people that said, yeah, the troll
room, like, Adam's going to be surprised.
Oh yeah.
When AI takes over the world, it's good.
Even Elon Musk shows up on Joe Rogan.
All he's got is the unhinged chat bot
from Grok that just uses expletives the whole
time.
Wow.
It's so impressive.
I'm just blown away by this stuff.
It's so great.
And people talk to these bots like they're
real and they send me the output.
Look what Grok said.
If you have that in your email, it's
delete.
I'm not going to read that.
It's a parlor trick.
It's time to catch up with the Gaza.
I have a clip, the Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
clip from NPR.
So we know what the hell is going
on.
Top Arab diplomats have met with Trump's Mideast
envoy, Steve Witkoff, and presented him with Egypt's
reconstruction plan for Gaza.
NPR's Ayah Batrawi reports the plan as a
support of all Arab states and several European
nations.
It counters Trump's proposal of displacing Palestinians from
Gaza.
Qatar says diplomats from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the
UAE and others, including a representative from the
Palestinian Liberation Organization met with Witkoff and agreed
to continue consultations and coordination on the plan.
Witkoff, who's in Doha for Gaza ceasefire talks,
has called the Egyptian reconstruction plan a good
faith first step.
Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Tamim Khalaf tells NPR
engaging the Trump administration on the plan is
key.
The plan that has been endorsed by the
Arab world was developed and formulated to ensure
that Palestinians and Gaza remain in their homeland.
Israel's far right government, meanwhile, is preparing plans
to facilitate Trump's proposal to permanently relocate Palestinians
out of Gaza.
The Arab world took a hint from Trump.
They know you guys are staying there.
We don't want these guys floating around.
Hey, how about this?
My buddy just became the new chief information
officer of the Department of Energy.
Who's your buddy?
Ross.
Ross, the intern?
Yes.
Well, this was my guy.
Energy appoints Twitter, Google, and Doge alum, but
I wasn't allowed to mention anything, as new
CIO.
Well, that's interesting.
Wonder what he's going to do.
Hmm.
Oh, congratulations.
Yeah, we have an inside Lincoln bedroom for
us, John.
We're on the inside.
It's about time.
We're on the inside, finally.
Update on the horrific crash between the Army
helicopter and the jet in D.C., and
this does not come as a surprise.
Federal investigators looking into the cause of that
deadly collision between a passenger plane and an
Army helicopter.
They're pushing for restrictions on some chopper flights
near the nation's capital.
67 people were killed when the American Airlines
jet and helicopter hit each other in Washington,
D.C., back in January.
The National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman says the
current amount of separation between planes and choppers
at Reagan National Airport isn't enough and is
unsafe.
They pose an intolerable risk to aviation safety.
And the NTSB is recommending the FAA find
a permanent solution for alternate routes for helicopters
when two of the airport's runways are in
use.
Investigators found there were more than 15,000
cases of planes receiving alerts about helicopters being
in close proximity between October of 2021 and
December of 2024.
Oh man, it was just an accident waiting
to happen.
And also I learned from our aviation pal
on the inside that that is the airport
with the highest number of missed approaches because
of this.
Because of that, you know, swing around to
runway 33 and then, oh, there's a chopper
here, let me pull up and they go
around.
That place is a mess.
Yeah, well, they get, they pull the plug
on these choppers.
Yeah, they do.
And my final clip then before we go
and thank some more people, we have John's
tip of the day, end of show mixes,
the ISO off, as we call it, and
we have Commodores today, a couple of Commodores,
is the finally a move that is of
some substance against the nut job climate change
agenda of the previous administrations.
Driving a dagger straight to the heart of
the climate change religion, at least that is
how Lee Zeldin, the administrator of America's Environmental
Protection Agency, described his 31 step plan to
deregulate US environmental policies.
Today, I'm pleased to make the largest deregulatory
announcement in US history.
Zeldin explained that his plan would benefit the
economy by rolling back rules that unfairly burdened
American industry and which he claimed cost trillions
of annually without providing any further detail.
Many of the moves would affect landmark regulations
aimed at protecting clean air and water.
Power plant emission standards established by the Biden
administration are to be reconsidered.
The limits were key to reducing pollution linked
to the gas and coal industries, including greenhouse
gases, mercury and other toxic metals.
Zeldin also said that he plans to rewrite
the agency's landmark 2009 endangerment finding, which officially
declared that greenhouse gases endanger public health and
welfare.
Among many other actions, today's momentous day also
includes the 2009 endangerment finding, along with all
actions that rely on it.
I've been told the endangerment finding is considered
the holy grail of the climate change religion.
The endangerment finding is the legal cornerstone for
US action to fight climate change and underlies
the legal arguments for numerous regulations.
Rolling it back was one of the recommendations
of the controversial project 2025.
A few hours earlier, Zeldin also announced he
was cutting 20 billion dollars worth of climate
grants.
Nice, yeah, that's some action.
Cut all that nonsense.
That Zeldin character, you know, he ran for,
I think, governor of New York.
He was always on Gutfeld.
Oh, really?
Yeah, he's another Fox guy.
Another Fox guy.
But you put those guys, you get those
guys because he had the chops, he was
a politician, but you put him on TV
for a long enough time so they get
used to being in with the cameras and,
you know, so they become savvy, media savvy,
which is, you know, you don't go through
training, you just get that way because you're
on the air all the time.
And so you make him the guy, boom,
you bring him in and he's, you know,
and he knows he's not shy.
So he doesn't go, he doesn't freeze up.
Yeah.
I liked it when he was on, he
was kind of funny, he wasn't real funny,
but he was funny enough.
And I didn't know they were grooming him,
though, that's interesting.
And actually, I do have a final, final
clip because it was just, it was just
funny.
Then it was completely unnecessary, but still very
funny.
This is the misgendering, the misgendering of Representative
Keith Self, who misgendered Representative Sarah McBride.
Oh, this was just a horrible moment.
It's a horrible moment.
What have we come to?
I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr.
McBride.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Ranking Member Keating, also wonderful.
Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again,
please?
Yes, it's a, it's a, we have set
the standard on the floor of the House,
and I'm simply...
What is that standard, Mr. Chairman?
Would you repeat what you just said when
you introduced a duly elected representative from the
United States of America, please?
I will.
The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
Mr. Chairman, you are out of order.
Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?
I mean, I have come to know you
a little bit, but this is not decent.
We will continue this.
You will not continue it with me unless
you introduce a duly elected representative the right
way.
This hearing is adjourned.
Now, what was interesting about that clip is
that the transgender person, the woman, McBride, she
had no objection to any of this.
She was going to yak away, but this
guy...
But she got back to him and said,
thank you, Ms. Chairwoman, which was funny.
She had a great reply.
He, it, thing.
And so it was like, but who's this?
This guy was, I guess, this...
Bill Keating.
Bill Keating from Massachusetts.
He's out of line.
Yes, out of order.
I think they should have just continued.
I thought it was perfectly hilarious.
Thank you, Ms. Chairwoman.
It was fine.
It was going to go along, and this
guy had to butt in with his, like,
his...
Politically correct bullcrap, you know, like, because I
guess the woman, transgender woman can't defend herself.
Helpless, poor thing.
Yes.
I found that, I found that very...
Looks like she could defend herself just fine.
Oh yeah, she could knock you on your
ass.
In the morning.
Again, we have end of show mixes coming
up.
We have the tip of the day.
We've got some ISOs to talk about.
And, well, we have a nice group of
people to thank.
We got some good meetups to talk about,
some meetup reports.
So, John, if you wouldn't mind thanking everybody
who supported us, $50 and above today.
Yeah, starting with Christopher Ebert in Spartansburg, South
Carolina, 10535.
Anonymous comes in from Kennet Square, Pennsylvania.
Is it Kennet or a Kennet?
A hundred.
I don't know.
A Julie Herbort in...
Oh, one of your neighbors.
She's in Fredericksburg, Texas.
You know her?
You know Julie?
I don't.
Julie.
She came in with a hundred bucks.
You should know her.
She should come to the chess match on
Tuesday.
Come hang out at Java Ranch.
Pete Lachance in Oviedo, Florida, 8438.
This is a salute from Oviedo.
God bless the best podcast in the universe,
and please add me to the birthday list.
That's nice.
Edward Owens in Alameda, California, 8008.
Kevin McLaughlin, there he is with the 8008.
As usual, he's the Archduke of Luna, lover
of America, and lover of boobs.
Yay.
Eric Marshall at Klamath Falls, Oregon, South Carolina.
I need some karma.
We'll put it at the end for him
if you make a note.
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And that's the Blofeld donation, which we're keeping
up with.
Andrew Foreman in Boca Raton, 6331.
Please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
He credits Dvorak's departure from being invited to
Twit as my reason for starting to listen.
Twit sucks without him, he says.
Interesting.
Yeah, well, that's true.
It's true.
Downhill from there.
Steve Banstra, Baron of BNA, 6993.
Christopher Dechter, 5678.
Michael Racinelli in North Riverside, Illinois, 5509.
And he's got a birthday.
He's turning 55.
Edwin Visser in Oogstgeest, Netherlands.
He's in Holland, that guy.
Chad Shackleford, Shackford, Shackford in Greensboro, North Carolina,
5272.
Okay, these are all $50 donations, and I'll
just read them off as such.
MP in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Steve Botts in— I think it's Bolts.
Oh, it's Bolts.
I thought it was a T.
He says John H.
of Chanhassen stole my apple.
Oh.
Oh, what?
There's a T.
Apple in my room, on Gigi donation.
Oh, I get it.
Ryan Coomer in Salt Lake City, Utah.
And this is 5213, which is probably the
same.
It's a birthday shout out for my lovely
wife, Karen.
Rab, Rab, Rab, Rabby, Rab, Sandin.
Sandelin, Sandelin, 51.
I'll get it.
Michael Shelton in Hannibal, New York, 51.
And he says you rule.
Buycount SirEconomyHitman in Tombill, Texas, 50.01. And
we're back to $50 donations.
These are the real ones that say 50.
Michelle Petty in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Stephen Schumach in Xenia, Ohio.
Terrence Phillips in Florence, Montana.
He likes the newsletter, doesn't listen to the
podcast.
Keep donating.
This happened before.
Yeah, it's better for less bandwidth.
You are really helping us.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's a double help.
Great for the show.
Andrew Grasso in Mineola.
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Mike Moon in Athens, Georgia.
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Brandon Sevwan, Port Orchard, Washington.
Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
Mammy.
Paolo Moore in Fort Washington, Maryland.
Aaron Oursears, Eugene, Oregon.
Baroness Knight in Edmonds, Washington.
And last on our list, which is a
good list, a Harry Klan in Aledo, Texas.
Oh, Aledo, yeah.
I want to thank these people for making
show 1746 the good show that it became.
Yes, Aledo, Texas, home of the wall builders,
Tim and David Barton.
It's a very nice place, Aledo.
Thank you all so much for your support
of episode 1746.
Thank you to everyone who came in under
$50.
We never mentioned those.
To make sure you stay completely anonymous, I
see you, $49.99. A karma as requested.
Here we go with that.
You've got karma.
And again, thanks to our executive and associate
executive producers for this episode.
Those are titles and credits that you can
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It's your birthday party on No Agenda.
Dame Janet wishes Bill Webb a happy birthday.
That's belated.
He celebrated on March 1st.
Michael Ranconelli turned 55 on the 9th.
Steph Ledingham of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
He turned 39 yesterday.
Ryan Coomer, his lovely wife, Karen, celebrates today.
And she turns 52 years old.
Dame Janet celebrates her birthday on the 15th.
And Pete Lachance will be celebrating on April
11th, getting in nice and early.
We say happy birthday to all of these
people on behalf of the best podcast in
the universe.
And we have three title changes today.
Baronet Sir Data Ops, the Wisconsin Millennial, upgrades
with another $1,000 in accumulative donations to
Baron Sir Spatial Support, the Wisconsin Millennial.
Congratulations.
Sir Hoopin Socker becomes Sir Hoopin Socker, Baron
of the Psychedelic Overmind and Related Dimensions, the
Viscount of Noorsphere, we think.
We think that's the correct way to pronounce
it.
And then we have a number of Commodores.
We have a nice list here.
We've got Commodore Troy Lafferty, Commodore Sir Fur
Commodore, Thomas Kilbride, Commodore Kumar of the Seven
Seas, Commodore S.
NDR of Middle Road, Middle Roda, and Commodore
Archduchess Kim Keeper of the Nutty Fluffers.
Commodores arriving.
And go to noagenderrings.com.
Let us know exactly what you want on
your Commodore certificate.
And we'll get that out to you as
soon as possible.
Of course, give us your address as well.
And we now thank a...
Well, actually, we don't just thank them.
We bring them up on the podium.
We have two knights and one dame.
Here is my blade for the trifecta.
There you go.
Little more enthusiasm.
Pull it out again.
Well, I got to put it back.
Here we go.
Okay.
What?
Did you get it?
I can't see it.
Yeah, here.
Oh, here it is.
I got it.
I got it.
Hey, Ashland Speed, come on up to the
podium, along with Troy Lafferty and Brennan Keller.
All three of you now become knights and
dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
I'm very proud to pronounce the KV as
dame Ashland Speed.
Put it on your car.
Sir Troy from the land of psyops and
Sir Commodore Brennan of the Black Swap.
And he is a black knight.
I'll read his knight in a moment because
we messed that up.
Thanks to you.
You now have some mutton and meat at
the table, but also hookers and blower and
boys and chardonnay, 1990 lynch bage, rattlesnake chili,
wild boar medallions.
And we also got some geisha and sake,
rubiness, rumen and rosé, ginger ale and gerbils,
and the aforementioned mutton and meat.
Yes, we forgot to knight Brennan Keller on
the previous show.
And here was his note.
The sad puppy in the newsletter always pulls
at the heart.
How could I resist a call to action
like that?
This donation puts me over the top for
knighthood status.
Henceforth, I'd like to be known as Sir
Commodore Brennan of the Black Swap.
Please add.
We had that.
We actually had the Nufla soup at the
round table on the last show, but we
completely forgot to knight him.
So he will now be known as a
black knight, which is pretty special.
It doesn't happen often on the show, but
it does happen from time to time.
Go to noagenderings.com.
There's a ring sizing guide.
Let us know what size you want.
We'll send it to you with the certificate
of authenticity.
And we have a nice little stick of
wax, which you can use to seal your
important correspondence with because it is an actual
Cignet ring.
And welcome once again, dame and knights, to
the No Agenda Roundtable.
No Agenda Roundtable I'm losing it.
Yeah, baby, it's like a big party.
And they had a party in Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
Here's their meetup report.
Hi, this is Drew, future head of the
Department of Government Efficiency in New Mexico.
In the morning.
This is Sarah, the secretary of Drew.
This is Dame Heather of the Lost Boys
of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In the morning.
In the morning.
This is Jeff from Albuquerque, the land of
the Mars rover.
I'm not part of any of his department
yet.
I'm waiting to get the Senate hearings on
that.
And Colorado Springs had a meetup.
This is Colorado Care Bear.
Check it in from the meetup here in
Colorado Springs.
This is M.
Andrew Jones coming in from America's Mountain, where
we're eating the pets.
This is Josh Ascension coming from North Aurora.
I am single slave nation, and I am
looking for one of those genetically modified woolly
mammoth girlfriends.
Rocky Mountain Milkmaid enjoying our monthly meetup.
Cousin Vito wishing everybody grace, peace, and strength.
God bless.
This is Clayton.
Night Stalkers don't quit.
This is Justin.
What up, slaves?
In the morning.
In the morning.
Remember to put your servers in these meetup
reports, people.
They always enjoy it, and it gets another
soul to the table.
Finally, just in under the wire this morning,
Dame Meowdeson with the Orlando meetup report.
In the morning, John and Adam.
This is Dame Meowdeson here at our Orlando
meetup with Sir Patrick Coble.
We had some great pizza.
You guys are amazing.
Noted.
This is Duke of the South, Patrick Coble.
Yum, yum.
This is Matt, resident douchebag.
I'm sorry.
We'll donate.
This is Eric.
First meetup.
Also a douchebag.
But been listening for a year and a
half.
And ITM.
Sean, aka Sir Face Tension, here.
And nobody's getting cornholed tonight.
This is Sir Dave of the Gunshine State.
Everyone had a great time, and thank you
for your courage.
Also, it's pronounced Dave Matthew and Fuquay Verina.
Bye!
In the morning.
Fuquay Verina.
One of these days, we'll remember.
We'll get it right.
Fuquay Verina.
Fuquay.
Fuquay.
Whatever.
Meetup's taking place today.
For some reason, it's just not memorable.
Fuquay.
Fuquay.
The Shrunken Amygdala Support Group 2.0 meets
tonight at 7 o'clock at March 1st
Brewing in Cincinnati, Ohio.
On Saturday, the No Agenda Dallas-Fort Worth
Mid-Cities Meetup kicks off at 11.30
AM.
That's morning time.
But don't worry.
You'll be able to drink at the Bourbon
Street Bar and Grill in Bedford, Texas.
Also on Saturday, the Snow Homo One Ball
Meetup, noon, at Sound II Summit Brewery in
Snohomish, Washington.
And also on Saturday, the Cabbage Smash, 1
o'clock, Blue Island Brewery in Blue Island,
Illinois.
Many more meetups to be found all the
way through the month of June.
It's unbelievable.
All around the world.
Go to noagendameetups.com to find out where
you can find one near you.
Remember, when you meet these people, it's that
connection that gives you protection.
And of course, these people are your first
responders in an emergency.
noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, then
start one yourself.
It's easy and always a party.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with
all the nights and days.
You want to be where you won't be
triggered or held lame.
You want to be where everybody feels the
same.
It's like a party.
Hey man, where's your ISOs?
I just carried the two over from last
show.
Well, which ones were they?
I mean, what do you think I am?
Some kind of a memory machine here?
Yeah, you got the search thing.
They're here.
The one you look up the following.
ISO.
Yes.
We're going to use this one.
Better than.
Better than.
That was better than a podcast.
Okay.
And the other one?
I thought you're going to pick one and
then the other.
The other one's wow that.
Okay.
That show was hot today.
I have contenders.
I have this one.
It's so freaking good.
I like that one.
You like that one?
Got cut off.
I actually, you know, I've been blown away
by the quality of your ISOs.
And I think I've figured it out what
you're doing.
I figured out what your well is.
It took me a little bit.
But then I realized you're not getting these
ISOs from audio books or anything like that.
John's been using AI for end of show
ISOs all this time, dude.
You've been using AI voices.
You have not been clipping this from anything
else.
You've been making them on 11 labs or
something like that.
Admit it.
After three and a half months.
I finally figured it out.
It's cheating.
It is?
Yes, that's cheating.
I thought I've been sitting here going like,
how does he get these great ISOs?
People are emailing me ISOs.
Oh, maybe this one could compete with John.
And then all of a sudden, these are
AI voices.
Another great show.
Boomers.
See, I can make them too.
I think mine's better.
I have more creativity.
Another great show.
Boomers.
Yeah, we're using that one.
Now, okay, I want to, all right, I
admit it.
Now I'm going to add a little tidbit
to it.
Okay.
Mimi.
What, you're going to blame it on Mimi
now?
No, no.
Three months ago when I started this gambit.
Wow.
She says, you shouldn't do that.
That's cheating.
That's not fair.
Yeah, it is cheating.
And I says, he'll never catch me.
I said, don't worry about it.
She says, I don't like you doing that.
And I played her a couple of clips.
I said, those are pretty good.
She liked them.
But as we said.
Wow.
You kept that going for months.
Months.
And I was like, I mean.
At least three and a half months.
Are people sending you audio books?
Or I'm like, how is he getting this
stuff?
And then all of a sudden I'm like,
ah, this is a scam.
She told me I was going to get
caught.
And she's right.
And I said, it'll take you months to
figure this out.
Mimi Dvorak, author of TooManyEggs.com.
The best book in the universe.
No thanks to John C.
Dvorak.
But that doesn't matter.
Here's another tip from John C.
Dvorak.
I've been meaning to promote this for a
while now.
It involves a clip that we have.
How much time do we have on the
show?
We got some time.
I mean, we're way over.
I mean, as long as you don't say
after the show.
It is too long.
But this is what triggered this tip of
the day.
This is the FBI phony baloney.
This Denver TV7.
And this is about a bogus.
Oh, the scam, scam, scam report from the
FBI.
It's right at the beginning of the clip
list.
Let's listen to your point on immigrants and
crime.
Here's Denver Mayor Mike Johnson.
Migrants did not bring a wave of crime
to Denver.
In fact, crime went down.
Homicides dropped 17 percent.
No, no, no, no, no.
The tip said B.
It starts with B, bogus FBI scam.
Well, you said Denver, and then.
I know.
I understand.
It's your fault.
And whether you're downloading a video from YouTube
or converting a document into a PDF, you
could be handing your information right over to
scammers.
New this morning, Denver 7 investigative reporter Natalie
Chuck sat down with an FBI agent with
a warning about those conversion sites.
And what happens is, is somebody goes to
a site that will convert their word processing
document to a PDF or do some sort
of download or conversion to audio files or
picture files.
That download could be putting onto your computer
or your network some malware software that would
then allow the criminals to come back into
your network or your computer and conduct further
criminal activity.
Yeah, yeah.
It doesn't go from there.
There's no details.
It's just blah, blah, blah.
This is anytime you download from the Internet,
you can get something.
It happens.
So what are the product you have to
have?
Everybody has had this product.
And there's a couple of different kinds of
products that do this.
But this is the one I like best,
because I had a situation about three or
four years ago that none of these things
would get rid of this, some malware that
was on my machine.
But this did.
It's called Spy Hunter 5.
Oh, this is your favorite.
This is my favorite because it works.
And you run it all the time.
And I'm telling that anyone who does any
downloads off the Internet, you have to run
this product every so often, if not daily.
And it finds all kinds of crazy stuff.
And I'll tell you this.
If anybody fools around illegally downloading movies or
records or goes to Pirate Bay or any
of those sites, any of those, all the
download sites drop malware on your machine.
They use the adware.
It's the stuff that goes in there and
it puts it.
So you say random ads on your computer
start showing up.
This gets rid of them.
Most antivirus stuff doesn't do anything about that.
And the problem is it's not like you
get one of these things on your machine.
Causes a problem.
It's like you get multiple ones on your
machine and you have five of these items,
five of these, these ad dropping things on
your machine.
They start to fight with each other.
And the next thing you know, the machines
are running like a pig.
It's ridiculous.
So you need spy.
You need this anti-spyware product.
And this is the best one.
Spy Hunter is the best one I've found.
And we do have Sir JD, the baron
of Silicon Valley, who seems to be overboard,
works for a competitive company, does another one.
But we haven't heard from him.
I don't know what happened to him, but
he's overboard.
But this is a product I would recommend
everybody get.
And I would recommend a subscription if you,
you know, because you need a subscription for
it to work.
But I'll tell you this, the latest operation
besides all the pirate sites that do this,
they all drop this adware crap on your
machine is RT.
The Russian, yeah, RT now has one of
these systems and they drop it.
You go RT and look at one of
their, play a clip.
Boom, you got it on your machine.
It's got to be taken off.
Well, that is a good tip.
It's not a new tip.
You've given me this tip before.
I've talked about, but it's not official tip
of the day.
Now it is.
Well, my tip is pay for your movies,
people.
Stop downloading it illegally.
Just pay for your content and stop going
to only fans NRT.
And that is your tip of the day.
Find more at tipoftheday.net.
I don't have any spyware.
Never have any spyware that I, my machine's
not running like a pig.
So I must not have spyware.
I do have SpyHunter 5 though, but not
the subscription.
I use the free thing.
Is the free thing okay?
Yeah, yeah, they're all good.
Yeah, yeah.
And for Vantivirus, get the free version of
Avast.
It's pretty good.
There's a bunch of different ones.
Or just use Linux.
Use Linux, people.
It's much better.
Yeah, well, there you go.
End of show mixes, Professor Jay Jones, Tom
Starkweather, and Neil Jones, the clip custodian in
the reprise.
It's from 2019, but it sounds like it
was made yesterday.
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Coming to you from the heart of the
Texas hill country, right here in Fredericksburg, where
it's spring break.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we had
another river of hell, or rather, atmospheric river
that crapped out.
It's nice and sunny out.
I'm John C.
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Remember us at noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos.
Hooey, hooey.
And such.
Whiplash.
Markets are crashing, John.
Markets are crashing.
Lash that whip.
Whiplash on the tariffs.
Feels like whiplash.
It stinks.
And also, lash that whip.
Terrible.
It's terrible.
President Trump's on again, off again.
Lash that whip.
I'm on the brink, honey.
Once I get that guy out of here,
it'll be all me.
It'll be all me.
Constant whiplash.
This is not the first time the president
has threatened or imposed tariffs and pulled back.
A lot of whiplash.
On again, off again.
He's at a curling center in Toronto.
Canadian sport.
I heard there's whiplash.
A lot of whiplash.
Yeah, whiplash.
Talking about curling.
The on again, off again tariffs.
Why?
I always think of curling.
That's just, that's all your gear, man.
It's nothing to do with me.
Lash that whip.
More whiplash from President Trump.
A lot of whiplash.
Why?
I always think of curling.
Lash that whip.
I heard there's whiplash.
The on again, off again tariffs.
Time for a whiplash.
Lash it, whip it.
A lot of whiplash.
A whiplash.
Lash it good.
Terrible.
It's terrible.
Lash it, whip it.
Constant whiplash.
On again, off again.
Lash it good.
He said we're going to put tariffs on
Mexico.
Well, senators said, wait a minute.
Oh, yeah.
Republicans on the Hill haven't shown a whole
lot of willingness to stand up for this
motion.
He's got a 90% approval rating among
Republican voters, and all the Republican senators know
that.
And every month, those tariffs go from 5
% to 10% to 15% to
20% and then to 25%.
Hence the color orange.
If tariffs is what it takes to get
Mexico to do better on their side of
the border, I'm all for tariffs.
President Trump has a habit of proposing asinine
and dangerous policies before backing off.
It would be my hope that they're going
to work out things so the tariffs don't
go into effect.
It just will not work.
And this will directly and immediately affect the
American consumer.
So maybe it's just a threat.
Who knows?
I mean, he said the last thing that
he said is that he's quite, he's deadly
serious.
When you say you and I know, I
don't know that at all.
Here's what I know.
I don't know whether to believe it or
not.
I say in this job, I know what
I'm told, not what I know.
But I do know that if we secure
the Mexican-Guatemalan border, that would be a
great way to stop hosts coming all the
way across.
But we're not talking about, we haven't seen
anything yet.
Is it the tweet?
A tweet.
So Mitch McConnell finally found his testicles because
his nearest wallet.
People have endured much worse than expensive avocados
or a few more dollars here and there.
And for the average American broke, that is
no small amount of money.
Broke is a lot of money, $1,300.
Any brand of course with avocado on the
menu will be impacted by this tariff.
I'm not blaming President Trump here.
I'm blaming the Congress because we can't do
our job.
We have with President Trump being kind of
a roller coaster.
So sometimes he's going up, sometimes he's coming
down.
This is the man that lost more money
than any other American person on the planet.
This guy has lost more money than anybody.
Potentially concerning new mutations in the bird flu.
First severe human case.
The nation's first severe case of bird flu.
The first human case of bird flu.
When you hear the words severe case, should
we be worried?
Is bird flu in humans super dangerous?
That means we're not testing enough.
And we know from other viruses that a
lot of the spread can be asymptomatic.
We should be having rapid tests, home tests
available to all farm workers, to their families.
What we need to be doing is a
whole lot more testing.
Adios, mofo.
Another great show, boomers.