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Yo, you have three, holy crap.
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Adam Curry, John C.
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DeVora.
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It's Thursday, May 1st, 2025.
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This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media
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Assassination Episode 1760.
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This is no agenda.
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Celebrating 6,397 days and broadcasting live from
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the heart of the Texas Hill Country here
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in FEMA Region No.
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6.
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In the morning, everybody.
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I'm Adam Curry.
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And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm sick
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and tired of hearing, I hope this message
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finds you well.
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I'm John C.
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DeVorak.
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It's crackpot and buzzkill.
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In the morning.
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Yeah, I'm convinced that that's just chat GPT.
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If you get one of those and someone
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said, write a nice letter to my friend.
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Yes, I hope this message finds you well.
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And then there's the alternate, which is, I
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hope this email finds you well.
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What does this even mean?
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Has anyone ever said this in real life?
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I hope this message finds you well.
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What is it looking for me?
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Did it found me?
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And it found me well?
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No, seriously, what does it mean?
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What does this stupid phrase mean?
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And why is it at the beginning?
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And you're right.
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It's obviously from chat GPT, because it's followed
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by a lengthy sales pitch that goes on
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and on and on and never gets to
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the point.
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What were they trying to sell you with
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this time, with that opening?
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Usually some service or maybe we can get
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more podcast listeners.
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LinkedIn is filled with, I hope this message
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finds you well.
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LinkedIn has become a spam network.
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Nobody likes LinkedIn anymore.
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They're all, you know, like, I've got to
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curate my feed.
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I've got to close everything down.
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I can't accept any more connections.
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It's a mess.
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They really hoard that.
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Once Microsoft bought it, they hoard that thing
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out.
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They made it bad.
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They really made, I think they probably let
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chat GPT loose on us.
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Everybody could grab all the emails and profiles
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and just spam away.
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That's all that AI is good for.
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Spam, deep fakes, humor.
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Humor.
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Humor.
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Yes.
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And some Python coding.
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Okay, I'll give you that.
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Use some PHP scripts.
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All right.
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Dynamite.
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Dynamite.
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Before we even get started, John, we have
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breaking news.
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It came in this morning over the transformation.
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Breaking, breaking, breaking.
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We begin with breaking news.
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Sources are confirming to Fox News that National
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Security Advisor Mike Walsh is out.
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As well as his deputy, Alex Wong.
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Additional names are likely to come, we're told.
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And we expect to hear from the president
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on this soon.
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I'm Harris Faulkner.
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You are in the Faulkner Focus.
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I'm in the Faulkner Focus.
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Oh, no.
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State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce is also with
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me.
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I love this.
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We have not had Tammy Bruce show up
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in any real capacity.
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This is exciting.
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So she's been on a lot.
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You just haven't seen her.
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Well, no, but she hasn't been on the
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show because now it's breaking news.
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Breaking, breaking.
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And Tammy Bruce is going to tell us
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exactly what happened.
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Or, or is she going to waffle a
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bit and be a propagandist, which is exactly
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the opposite of what she was when she
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wasn't working for government.
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I wonder which Tammy will get.
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First, though, let's get the news of what's
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coming together right now.
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Tammy Bruce with the State Department is with
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us right now.
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So first of all, just kind of top
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line this for us.
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I mean, Jennifer has given us the news.
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Top line.
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Now, if someone says to you, John, we're
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going to John at the State Department.
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Top line this.
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What would we be expecting to hear from
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you?
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Probably the most succinct explanation that explains everything
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right off the bat.
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The top line.
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And this is why we have no career.
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We have no career in broadcast.
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The opening, the opening, the headline, the lead,
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the headline from the State Department perspective.
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Tammy.
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Well, here's what I can tell you when
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it comes to right off the bat.
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Here's what I can tell you right off
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the bat.
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Here's what I can tell you, which is
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nothing.
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Well, here's what I can tell you when
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it comes to national security for the country,
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the nature of the president.
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A little laughter in there.
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I hadn't noticed that when I was clipping
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it.
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When it comes to national security for the
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country.
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Well, here's what I can tell you when
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it comes to national security for the country.
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What does it with a life tell, Tammy
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Bruce?
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Nature of the president who's involved in making
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determinations about this nation's trajectory, of course, economically,
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when it comes to security and what we've
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seen and what we know from President Trump
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is he's been very clear that his commitment
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is to diplomacy around the world.
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He is clearly an active and engaged president.
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That I think is a man who comes
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from business where this is so disappointing from
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Tammy Bruce and his understanding of what needs
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to occur is the guiding hand of everything
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that happens in this government.
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And of course, he is hands on literally
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when it comes to making things literally when
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it comes to the implementation.
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He has hands on walls.
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What was he doing?
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I don't know.
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He's touching it, etc.
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At every department, every day, whether it's the
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State Department or the Department of Defense, or
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of course, when it comes to who he
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chooses to advise him, she gives us nothing.
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What kind of top line is that, Tammy
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Bruce?
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The disappointment of the century.
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We loved you.
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We loved you on Fox.
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You were there to tell us to tell
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it to us straight.
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We loved you.
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No, no.
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OK, so let's do some propaganda.
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That mission was done well.
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So now they're talking about the mission of
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which the top secret details were leaked on
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the signal and signal.
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Oh, the Houthi bombing.
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So we're going to move from let's not
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talk about what happened to that was a
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great mission.
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Mission accomplished.
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That mission was done well.
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It was completed well.
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And I think it's worth stating that all
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of this is a leadership move now that's
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happening.
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But the actual mission that President Trump wanted
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worked out very well.
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Your last quick thought will move forward.
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Last quick thought you've given us nothing, nothing,
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nothing.
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Yeah, I think that's it.
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When we're looking at the choices that are
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made, when it comes to whether it's the
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Houthis, the nature of diplomacy with Iran, which,
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of course, always continues, bringing people to the
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table regarding Ukraine and Russia, the situation in
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Gaza, the critical minerals deal, which is actually
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a much broader deal with Ukraine, with money
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and resources that will be reinvested into Ukraine.
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And it's re-building after this horrible carnage
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that has unfolded over three years.
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So you've got major successes economically and otherwise
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as inflation goes down.
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It is a historic first 100 days.
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It has been aggressive, exciting, and America wants
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to change by electing President Trump.
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And we're seeing the benefits of his vision
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on every single framework.
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And it's been a success.
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It will continue to be a success.
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Complete and utter bullcrap.
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Propaganda.
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That was terrible.
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She did, that was a bad performance.
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It was, it was disappointing.
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Disappointing, Tammy Bruce.
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I have a feeling that was the Laura
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Logan spot.
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I think she was supposed to get that
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spot.
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I don't know why she didn't.
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Laura Logan would have done a better job
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than that.
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Well, that's the problem, because this is clearly,
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oh, let's just do some propaganda.
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Because it's 100 days.
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Now, just before we move on, I received,
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we have.
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Well, before we start, I have some thoughts
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about this Walz thing.
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Well, can I, can I just give you
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a boots on the ground real quick?
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Because we have the best producers and I've
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got many producer boots on the ground.
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Regarding Signalgate, then yes, I want to hear
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your thoughts about Walz.
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As a military contractor, writes our boots on
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the ground producer, with the Army and as
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a Navy reservist, we are required to use
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Signal in CONUS and OCONUS, which I think
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is Continental United States.
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And what's OCONUS?
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Oh, Continental United States.
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So the narrative that it's a commercial app,
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which you guys debunked, is false.
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DoD uses it as the app of choice
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for OPSEC, operational security.
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I embed with the 160th, FOSCOM, which is
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an unknown acronym to me.
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All chats between us contractors and our Army
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counterparts are on Signal.
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WhatsApp is only used by rear detachment Air
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Force units.
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Get in the back, you WhatsApp people.
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By the way, Michael Strickars is a douchebag.
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Just throw that in.
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He says he turned me on to you
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in 2019.
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He doesn't donate.
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So he's a douchebag.
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So whenever they say commercial app, it is
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a requirement within the Department of Defense.
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This is all, on its face, bullcrap.
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But clearly someone had to go.
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And I guess today we now know it
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is.
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Walt, your thoughts?
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Well, Walt and Wong.
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Well, Wong was the problem.
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That's what everyone thought.
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Well, we think he was the problem.
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I'm wondering whether because Walt was set up
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with his Signal system by the CIA directly,
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according to him.
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Yes, and Wong was...
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I think they set him up.
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I think this could have been a setup
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to get rid of him because...
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He's annoying.
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He was not a guy that anyone liked.
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They didn't...
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In fact, people that were Trumpers didn't like
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him either.
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But what's convenient here is that he could
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also have been a bargaining chip with trade
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talks with the Chinese.
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To get some Ting Wong back?
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Because of some Ting Wong.
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Some Ting Wong?
9:43
So, Wong was a Chinese national who was
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anti-China.
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And Walt was one of the biggest China
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hawks.
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So, let's get rid of those two guys
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and we'll start to talk.
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And I think they may have been sacrificed.
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Set up, set up to begin with.
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Yeah, set up and sacrifice.
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And the excuse will be, well, this Signal
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thing, somebody had to take a fall for
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it.
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Yeah.
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Even though it is a required app, which
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makes me question the Signal even more now.
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Yeah, CIA, it's got a backdoor, obviously.
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It has to have a backdoor.
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It must have a backdoor.
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Sure.
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Well, all this comes amidst the most important
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thing.
10:32
And I did the calculation this morning.
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We today, John, as of today, May 1st,
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2025, are celebrating 6,397 days of broadcasting
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to Gitmo Nation.
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Congratulations, sir.
10:49
This is where you say congratulations.
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Congratulations?
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Yes, congratulations.
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Because it's a lot more than this.
10:56
President Trump, the first 100 days continues.
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It continues.
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The what?
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First 100 days.
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What is this 100 days thing all about?
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I mean, I don't remember this the first
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Trump go around.
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I don't remember during Biden.
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I don't remember.
11:11
The only last time I remember the first
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100 days was, I think, when Steve Jobs
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rolled out the Macintosh.
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No, I think 100 days has been around.
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It has.
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Well, they're milking it.
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Well, of course, they're milking it, including the
11:26
BBC.
11:26
Donald Trump has been marking 100 days since
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he was sworn in as the 47th president
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of the United States.
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And in case you missed any of it,
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here's a reminder of the story so far.
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Yes.
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From this moment on, America's decline is over.
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Over.
11:43
Over.
11:44
I'm about to sign some very important executive
11:48
orders.
11:49
Military personnel to assist Border Patrol.
11:51
30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the
11:56
worst criminal illegal aliens.
11:57
The US will take over the Gaza Strip.
12:00
We'll own it.
12:00
Air Force One is currently flying over the
12:03
recently renamed Gulf of America.
12:05
If all of the hostages aren't returned, let
12:07
hell break out.
12:08
The Department of Government Efficiency moves to revamp
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and shrink.
12:12
I love the little drum roll in the
12:15
background.
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Of the federal government.
12:16
People voted for major government reform, and that's
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what people are going to get.
12:20
A dictator without elections.
12:22
Zelensky better move fast.
12:24
Should I run again?
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You tell me.
12:26
You should be thanking the president for trying
12:29
to bring it into this conflict.
12:30
Have you ever been to Ukraine?
12:31
You're not in a good position.
12:33
I was.
12:33
You don't have the cards right now.
12:35
Tariffs, you know, they're all set.
12:37
They go into effect tomorrow.
12:38
Hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia.
12:40
There were nearly 200 who were sent to
12:42
El Salvador.
12:43
Department of Education, we're going to eliminate it.
12:45
Details of the US attack plans were first
12:47
shared two days early with Jeffrey Goldberg.
12:49
I don't know anything about it.
12:51
We have to have Greenland.
12:52
This is Liberation Day.
12:54
The United States will implement reciprocal tariffs.
12:57
We've been meeting with China.
12:59
We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia.
13:01
You have to have Ukraine want to make
13:03
a deal too.
13:04
America is back.
13:07
You know why they didn't do this for
13:09
Biden?
13:09
Because all they would have for the montage
13:11
is, Dignity.
13:18
Do you remember back in 1984 when Ronald
13:21
Reagan became president?
13:23
He became president in 1980.
13:26
He was reelected in 84.
13:28
Yeah, right.
13:30
Do you remember the Morning in America campaign?
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Vaguely.
13:36
It's morning again in America.
13:39
Today, more men and women will go to
13:41
work than ever before in our country's history.
13:44
With interest rates at about half the record
13:47
highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today
13:50
will buy new homes.
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More than at any time in the past
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four years.
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This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women
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will be married.
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And with inflation of less than half of
14:03
what it was just four years ago, they
14:06
can look forward with confidence to the future.
14:11
It's morning again in America.
14:14
And under the leadership of President Reagan, our
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country is prouder and stronger and better.
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Why would we ever want to return to
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where we were less than four short years
14:26
ago?
14:29
It's morning in America.
14:31
It's one of the most famous ads of
14:34
its time.
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And we have a modern day version.
14:37
It's a new day.
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The sun is rising.
14:44
The birds are singing.
14:46
And things are returning to normal.
14:50
It's norming in America.
14:53
Today, we're actually arresting shoplifters.
14:57
And fewer businesses are being burned down.
15:00
All over America, pronouns are being dropped from
15:03
bios.
15:05
Men are not having babies.
15:07
And fewer drag queens are flashing their genitals
15:10
at children.
15:11
Videos like this one aren't being shadow banned
15:14
as much.
15:15
People are saying master bedroom.
15:18
And look at that.
15:19
White people are reappearing in commercials.
15:23
Oh, and guys, we can say guys again.
15:27
America, the fever has broken.
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Now we can be sensible, nicer, and normal.
15:36
Join us.
15:37
And let's never go back to those weird,
15:41
angry, divisive times again.
15:45
It's norming in America.
15:47
That's right, baby.
15:49
Have a great norming, you hear?
15:53
Same PR team.
15:54
Clearly.
15:55
It's norming in America.
15:57
It's very funny.
15:57
I like that.
15:59
I thought that was good.
16:01
That brings me immediately to a nutball clip.
16:03
Okay, are you on the mic, man?
16:04
Are you talking?
16:05
Are you spitting in that?
16:05
Yeah, I hope so.
16:07
I'm gonna jack you up some more.
16:10
Jack me up.
16:14
The opening show things right themselves.
16:16
Okay, that brings you to a clip immediately,
16:18
you said.
16:19
What kind of clip?
16:20
This is the ranting lunatic chick.
16:25
Wait a minute, you're going straight to TikTok?
16:27
Can we do this this early in the
16:29
show?
16:29
Can we handle it?
16:31
Maybe not, but this is definitely, it will
16:33
set the tone.
16:35
You know what?
16:35
Okay, I know I'm insane, and I know
16:37
I'm the internet's favorite crash out.
16:39
What I'm gonna say right now- Wait,
16:40
clash out?
16:42
Clash out.
16:42
Clash out.
16:43
I like that.
16:44
Crash out, crash, crash.
16:45
She said crash out?
16:46
I thought she said clash out.
16:47
I think she said crash out.
16:48
You know what?
16:49
Okay, I know I'm insane, and I know
16:51
I'm the internet's favorite crash out.
16:53
What I'm gonna say right now is I'm
16:55
not paying my debt anymore.
16:57
What we're doing from this point forward is
16:59
a debt strike 2025.
17:01
If I have to do it alone and
17:02
be insane, I will.
17:04
I literally will.
17:05
The fact that we would continue paying our
17:07
debt, we can't stop paying our rent, because
17:08
that's too crazy.
17:09
It'll put a lot of people in harm.
17:10
I'm sick of protesting.
17:12
It does nothing.
17:12
I don't want to go to war, because
17:14
look how skinny my arms are.
17:16
We have to do something.
17:18
I'm not paying my debt.
17:19
You can join me on this, or you
17:20
cannot.
17:21
I'm going to take a picture, and I'm
17:23
going to keep records of the debt that
17:24
I have right now, because when the interest
17:26
rates go up on that, I'm not paying
17:27
those either, even when they start to meet
17:29
our demands.
17:30
And the demands are as such.
17:33
Abolish ICE, okay?
17:35
I want those men home from El Salvador.
17:36
I don't care.
17:40
And we need to protect Medicaid.
17:42
The Department of Education needs to be restored.
17:45
I want critical race theory in the classroom,
17:48
period.
17:48
We need to literally be delusional.
17:51
I'm going to be delusional right now.
17:53
I will stand here right now, be delusional,
17:55
make fun of me all you want.
17:56
This is what we need to do.
17:57
This is what we need to do.
17:59
And if they don't meet our demands, then
18:01
what we're going to do is then we're
18:02
going to stop paying our rent.
18:03
But for right now, stop paying your bills.
18:06
Stop paying your debt.
18:07
We're going to start there.
18:08
And it's like, what the fuck do I
18:10
have to owe my credit score for the
18:12
house that I'll never buy?
18:15
I already am not allowed to rent because
18:17
I don't make enough money.
18:18
I have to have a cosigner anyway.
18:19
So what does my credit score even fucking
18:20
matter?
18:22
What does it matter, bro?
18:24
Literally, I want Doge out of office.
18:28
We're done with him.
18:29
We're done with him.
18:30
And free healthcare for all people.
18:32
I'm so dead serious.
18:34
Guys, we're done with this.
18:35
I love that she called herself delusional.
18:38
That is some...
18:40
That's a bipolar episode.
18:42
No, no.
18:44
That's engagement farming on TikTok.
18:46
I don't think...
18:47
I think you have to see her.
18:49
She's pretty serious.
18:50
No, this is...
18:50
It's all an act.
18:52
It's all an act.
18:52
She's a pretty good actress then.
18:54
She's pretty funny.
18:55
She got on the No Agenda show.
18:56
I'll give her that.
18:58
Yeah, she did.
19:00
But this is part of...
19:02
There's also another movement going on besides not
19:04
paying your bills.
19:06
These...
19:06
None of this is going to work, of
19:07
course, because it's a very small minority.
19:09
Yes, it's norming in America.
19:10
But there's a bunch of people calling for
19:12
the illegal, which is a general strike.
19:16
And they're calling for a general strike.
19:19
And I think it was for May Day
19:21
of next year, maybe.
19:23
Oh, they're getting ahead of the game.
19:24
They're front running the strike.
19:27
But I'm noticing it's starting to show up
19:29
more and more about, let's do a general
19:31
strike.
19:31
That's going to do it.
19:32
Well, today is, of course, a dual celebration.
19:37
Today is May Day.
19:39
And what is May Day?
19:41
May Day is workers...
19:42
It's the workers' day.
19:43
It's...
19:43
This is the day of...
19:45
Commies.
19:45
...of the working man.
19:47
What?
19:48
It's a communist holiday.
19:49
Yeah, communist holiday.
19:51
Yeah.
19:51
Would you be surprised to hear that this
19:53
falls on the exact same day as the
19:56
National Day of Prayer?
19:58
Well, I know it is the National Day
20:00
of Prayer because Trump was on the air.
20:03
Of course.
20:03
And he just could not stop talking.
20:06
It's called counter-programming, man.
20:07
It's like, we're not going to pay any
20:09
attention to the commies.
20:10
It's National Day of Prayer.
20:12
That is good.
20:13
It's counter-programming.
20:14
It's a good job.
20:15
World's workers' day.
20:16
Workers unite.
20:17
Pray, pray.
20:21
Anyway, it is 100 days.
20:23
It's also a show day.
20:24
It is a show day.
20:25
Of course, it's a double...
20:26
It's a triple threat.
20:27
It is workers' day.
20:28
It is National Day of Prayer and a
20:29
show day.
20:30
What more can you do?
20:32
But we are celebrating 100 days.
20:34
And President Trump chose ABC to do his
20:36
100-day...
20:38
His 100-day...
20:40
The 100-day excoriation of the media.
20:42
Yes.
20:43
And most of this was about Kilmar Abrego
20:47
-Garcia.
20:48
Let me ask you about one man and
20:49
one court order.
20:50
Kilmar Abrego-Garcia.
20:51
He's the Salvadoran man who crossed into this
20:54
country illegally, but who is under a protective
20:56
order.
20:57
I think to get into the White House
20:58
Correspondents' Dinner, you had to pronounce Kilmar Abrego
21:01
-Garcia properly.
21:02
Otherwise, you weren't allowed in.
21:04
That he not be sent back to El
21:06
Salvador.
21:07
Your government sent him back to El Salvador
21:08
and acknowledged in court that was a mistake.
21:11
And now the Supreme Court has upheld an
21:14
order that you must return him to facilitate
21:17
his return to the United States.
21:18
What are you doing to comply?
21:19
Well, the lawyer that said it was a
21:21
mistake was here a long time, was not
21:24
appointed by us, should not have said that,
21:27
should not have said that, and just so
21:29
you understand, the person that you're talking about,
21:31
you know, you're making this person sound, this
21:33
is a MS-13 gang member, a tough
21:37
cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the
21:40
hell out of his wife, and the wife
21:42
was petrified to even talk about him, okay?
21:44
This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from
21:47
Maryland.
21:47
I'm not saying he's a good guy.
21:49
It's about the rule of law.
21:50
The order from the Supreme Court sends him
21:52
into our country illegally.
21:54
You could get him back.
21:54
There's a phone on this desk.
21:56
I could.
21:56
You could pick it up, and with all
21:58
the power of the presidency, you could call
21:59
up the president of El Salvador and say,
22:01
send him back.
22:01
Nope, not good.
22:02
And if he were the gentleman that you
22:04
say he is, I would do that.
22:05
But the court has ordered you to facilitate
22:07
his release.
22:08
I'm not the one making this decision.
22:10
We have lawyers that don't want to do
22:12
this.
22:13
But the buck stops in this office.
22:15
No, no, no, no, no, no.
22:16
I follow the law.
22:17
You want me to follow the law?
22:18
If I were the president that just wanted
22:20
to do anything, I'd probably keep him right
22:22
where he is.
22:22
The Supreme Court says what the law is.
22:24
Yeah, this was so good because the president
22:26
really thought that he was going to get
22:27
a pass somehow.
22:28
But this, I chose you.
22:30
I chose you, ABC.
22:31
I chose you, Terry Moran.
22:33
Listen, I was elected to take care of
22:37
a problem that was, it was a unforced
22:41
error that was made by a very incompetent
22:44
man.
22:44
A man that turned out to be incompetent
22:46
that you always said was wonderful, great genius,
22:48
right?
22:49
And now you find out, all of the
22:50
media now, they're saying what a mistake they
22:52
made.
22:53
A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us
22:56
to have open borders where millions of people
22:58
float in.
22:59
I campaigned on that issue.
23:01
I wouldn't say it was my number one
23:03
issue, but it was pretty close.
23:04
I campaigned on that issue.
23:06
I've done an amazing job.
23:08
I have closed borders.
23:09
He said you couldn't do it and you
23:10
wouldn't be able to do it.
23:11
It would never happen.
23:12
Well, it happened.
23:13
And it happened very quickly.
23:14
Wait a minute.
23:15
When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this
23:18
country, we have to get them out.
23:20
And we're doing it.
23:21
And here comes the bone of the contention,
23:23
the tattoo.
23:25
You'll pick out one man, but even the
23:26
man that you picked out, he said he
23:29
wasn't a member of a gang.
23:31
And then they looked and on his knuckles,
23:33
he had MS-13.
23:35
There's a dispute with that.
23:36
Wait a minute.
23:37
He had MS-13 on his knuckles tattoo.
23:40
He had some tattoos that are interpreted that
23:42
way.
23:42
But let's move on.
23:43
Wait a minute.
23:44
Hey, Terry, Terry, Terry.
23:45
He did not have the letter MS-13.
23:47
It says MS-13.
23:49
That was Photoshopped.
23:50
Photoshopped?
23:51
That was Photoshopped.
23:52
Terry, you can't do that.
23:54
Hey, they're giving you the big break of
23:55
a lifetime.
23:56
You know, you're doing the interview.
23:57
I picked you because, frankly, I never heard
23:59
of you, but that's OK.
24:01
I picked you, Terry, but you're not being
24:04
very nice.
24:05
He had MS-13 tattooed.
24:07
We'll agree to disagree.
24:08
I want to move on to something else.
24:09
Agree to disagree.
24:10
Do you want me to show you the
24:11
picture?
24:11
By the way, by the way, that is
24:13
the lowest of the low outs.
24:16
I agree to disagree.
24:18
I know I hear it on podcasts all
24:20
the time.
24:20
You and I, we just fight.
24:22
We never agree to disagree.
24:25
It's like, you're wrong.
24:26
I don't think we've ever done.
24:27
Not that you may.
24:28
I never thought about this, but in 17
24:29
years, I don't think we've ever used that
24:31
phrase on each other.
24:32
We've never gone to bed angry at each
24:34
other either.
24:36
Well, well, who cares?
24:38
Terry, but you're not being very nice.
24:41
He had MS-13 tattooed.
24:43
We'll agree to disagree.
24:43
I want to move on to something else.
24:45
Terry, do you want me to show you
24:47
the picture?
24:47
I saw the picture.
24:49
And you think it was photoshopped?
24:51
Well, here we go.
24:51
Don't photoshop it.
24:52
Don't look at his hand.
24:53
He did have tattoos that can be interpreted
24:56
that way.
24:56
I'm not an expert on them.
24:57
I want to turn to Ukraine.
24:58
I want to get to Ukraine.
24:59
No, no, no, no, no.
25:01
He had MS as clear as you can
25:04
be.
25:04
Not interpreted.
25:05
It's photoshopped!
25:06
This is why people no longer believe the
25:08
news because he's fake news.
25:10
In El Salvador, they aren't there.
25:13
But let's just go.
25:14
They aren't there when he's in El Salvador.
25:16
Oh, they weren't there, but they're there now,
25:18
right?
25:18
No, but they're in your picture.
25:19
Terry.
25:20
Ukraine, sir.
25:21
He's got MS-13 on his knuckles.
25:23
All right.
25:24
OK?
25:25
Well, we'll take a look at that.
25:26
It's such a disservice.
25:27
We'll take a look at that, sir.
25:28
Why don't you just say yes, he does.
25:30
You know, go on to something else.
25:32
It's contested.
25:33
So this is a contentious issue because many
25:37
people have emailed me this saying, Trump, he's
25:39
not doing his homework.
25:40
He should just take the L.
25:43
It was photoshopped.
25:44
Now, there's two pictures.
25:46
There's one.
25:46
One of them's got some, you'd call it
25:49
photoshopped, explaining what the symbols mean.
25:52
MS-13.
25:52
That's what the photoshopped part is.
25:54
No, no.
25:55
It is MS-13 on his knuckles.
25:58
But the second photo taken in Ukraine, you
26:01
don't see that.
26:02
In fact, what you do see is his
26:04
knuckles are all smudged.
26:06
That's the photoshop.
26:08
No, the MS-13, there's no M on
26:11
his knuckles.
26:12
No, no.
26:12
They showed a picture of MS-13 on
26:15
his knuckles.
26:15
They showed that picture.
26:17
That's the photoshopped version.
26:19
I wonder if that's photoshopped.
26:21
Yeah, it is.
26:22
It's obviously, if you look at it carefully,
26:24
it's just the letters are too clear because
26:26
the symbols mean MS-13.
26:28
That was the idea.
26:29
But I'm just saying the pictures they showed
26:32
in this piece showed what you call a
26:35
photoshop, but I would say the other picture,
26:37
where his knuckles are completely smudged, that's a
26:40
photoshop.
26:41
I think that's photoshop too.
26:43
They could both be photoshopped.
26:44
Yes, the symbols stand for MS-13.
26:47
Yeah, that's all there is to it.
26:49
And he beat up his wife.
26:50
Since when are we doing this?
26:51
Since when are we doing that?
26:52
Apparently, there's another report that came out this
26:54
morning where he also did something.
26:57
He also beat his wife into...
26:59
There's some other beating that took place.
27:01
It's more part of this whole thing.
27:03
More beatings.
27:03
Ah, yes, you are listening to the No
27:05
Agenda Show.
27:06
Still ahead.
27:06
I'm asking the justification for going after people
27:10
you don't like.
27:11
We'll be back with more of Trump's 100
27:14
days.
27:15
Or not.
27:16
So that was big from the M5M this
27:18
week.
27:19
100 days.
27:20
What's happened?
27:27
Well, I don't have any 100-day stuff.
27:29
I have what the Democrats did, which I
27:31
thought was the best part of the week.
27:32
Oh, this is with Hogg?
27:34
The Hogg Kid?
27:35
Oh, no, the Hogg Kid's not that interesting.
27:37
The thing I thought that was interesting was
27:39
the sit-in.
27:41
Yeah, that started on Sunday.
27:44
We saw the sit-in start live on
27:47
the show.
27:47
Yeah, we saw it start, but here's the
27:48
report.
27:50
Which, holy mackerel, I didn't clip this correctly.
27:52
I can tell by looking at it.
27:54
Do you have the name of it?
27:56
Yeah, Congress Sit-In.
27:58
Okay.
28:00
Oh, it's okay.
28:02
I'll...
28:02
We'll roll with it.
28:03
We'll figure out what's going on.
28:05
Let's see what we have.
28:05
Congress returns from its spring break today, but
28:08
two lawmakers returned to the Capitol a day
28:10
earlier in protest of the Republican budget plan.
28:14
You're looking at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
28:16
and Senator Cory Booker, who held a sit
28:18
-in that lasted more than 12 hours.
28:21
This is one of those moments where we
28:23
have to step up more as leaders in
28:26
Congress.
28:27
We are in a moral moment, and what
28:30
we need now is not just four Congress
28:33
people and four senators, but to get there,
28:35
we need more people that are willing to
28:38
stand in this moral storm.
28:40
In this moment.
28:40
CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nicole Killian joins us
28:43
now from Capitol Hill with more on this.
28:45
Good morning to you, Nicole.
28:47
Senator Booker there kind of ended that speech
28:49
and everyone standed up.
28:51
There was kind of like a rorous applause
28:53
around him.
28:54
It did.
28:54
I didn't hear any rorous applause on the
28:57
clip.
28:57
There was some applause, but stand...
29:00
The guys, he said they standed up.
29:03
Well, he's British.
29:04
These guys are British.
29:04
You bring a British guy in so they
29:06
can do proper English?
29:07
Yes, they standed up.
29:09
I've been standed up all the time.
29:11
Why do this?
29:12
Why conduct a sit-in protest on the
29:14
weekend?
29:15
And from what you can tell, did it
29:16
resonate?
29:17
Well, I think a couple of things, you
29:19
know.
29:19
Interestingly, I did ask Senator Booker after he
29:22
had that record-breaking speech on the Senate
29:24
floor earlier this month, if this was a
29:27
sign of things to come from Democrats, because
29:30
of course some have been under fire for
29:32
not doing enough to combat the Trump agenda.
29:34
He did acknowledge the need on the part
29:36
of Democrats to do more.
29:39
Obviously, this all happened on the House side
29:41
of the steps, which involved minority leader...
29:43
Okay, you can stop the clip.
29:45
It goes on.
29:46
This woman is one of those women, I
29:48
don't know if you ever worked with any
29:49
of them, they're in broadcasting.
29:50
They can talk forever.
29:53
Oh, it's...
29:53
Gag, gag, gag, gag, gag, gag, gag.
29:55
And they have to be interrupted.
29:57
They leave very few openings.
30:00
When I tried to clip her, I tried
30:02
to cut something because she she ran like
30:05
she would use and she's like stood and
30:08
she would there was no way of writing
30:10
you know what I mean.
30:12
An unclipable wench, I tell you.
30:15
Yes, she's no good.
30:17
An unclipable wench who can't stop talking.
30:21
I want to play a little bit of
30:23
this Hogg thing though because I just thought
30:25
it was interesting to show what disarray the
30:27
Democrat Party is in.
30:29
DNC vice-chair David Hogg was on the
30:31
lead last week talking about his plan to
30:32
raise 20 million dollars to unseat Democrats and
30:36
save seats in primaries.
30:38
By the way the woman you're gonna hear
30:39
talking her name is Megan what is it
30:45
do I have it here Megan Hayes she
30:48
was an advisor to Biden and she has
30:50
a most interesting speech impediment.
30:52
Now the DNC chairman Ken Martin weighed in
30:55
and here's what he had to say.
30:57
No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence
31:00
the outcome of a primary election whether on
31:02
behalf of an incumbent or a challenger.
31:04
While you know certainly you know I understand
31:08
what he's trying to do as I've said
31:10
to him if you want to challenge incumbents
31:12
you're more than free to do that but
31:14
just not as an officer of the DNC.
31:17
From Minnesota if you can't tell.
31:18
So Hogg's argument is just because he's not
31:21
here to defend himself there's a lot of
31:23
dead weight in this party and we're talking
31:26
about safe Democratic seats so whoever wins is
31:29
gonna end up winning anyway and you know
31:31
we need to rise to meet the moment
31:33
that's what he would say.
31:34
Great you don't do that as a member
31:36
of the DNC you're an elected person on
31:37
the DNC leave the party and go do
31:39
that.
31:40
The DNC is not an idea that is
31:42
a Democratic Party the DNC is an institution
31:44
with a job to do people vote in
31:46
primaries not the DNC.
31:47
Are you sympathetic to his arguments at all?
31:49
No then don't be part of the DNC.
31:51
Well what about the idea that there should
31:52
be.
31:53
Absolutely there should be primaries people should be
31:55
primary if that is that is how our
31:57
democracy works but if you want to help
32:00
the primary challengers then leave the DNC that
32:02
is not your role as the DNC.
32:04
How interesting now that I listen to her
32:06
you can't hear it but when you see
32:07
her her mouth goes all weird when she
32:10
talks.
32:11
That was disappointing.
32:12
That's interesting Kelly Evans on CNBC has a
32:15
has a funny mouth thing.
32:18
The worst-case example of this was a
32:21
is a preacher called Robert Tilton out of
32:24
Texas.
32:24
Not familiar.
32:25
And he used to be a televangelist he's
32:28
on TV all the time but I don't
32:29
think I haven't seen him for years but
32:31
he did a thing with his mouth that
32:33
you'd watch him it was like it would
32:35
be kind of mesmerizing because his mouth wasn't
32:38
going in the same direction.
32:39
It was very odd.
32:42
Then they brought on this just short Ro
32:44
Khanna Ro Khanna which is just fun to
32:47
say Ro Khanna.
32:49
Joining us now to discuss Democratic Congressman Ro
32:51
Khanna of California.
32:52
Congressman always great to have you on the
32:53
show.
32:54
Thank you very much for being here.
32:55
You are one who has actually publicly supported
32:59
the effort from David Hogg.
33:01
You wrote on the platform X that you
33:06
think that Hogg is doing incredible work supporting
33:09
frontline Democrats while giving new candidates a chance
33:11
to run in safe seats and you say
33:12
Democrats should embrace a new generation of leadership
33:15
and competition.
33:16
Why is this such a lonely place for
33:19
you to be?
33:19
Oh you rebel.
33:21
Well look I think primaries are healthy competition
33:24
is healthy.
33:25
I won my seat in a Democratic primary
33:29
many of our members of Congress have won
33:32
in primaries and we need a new generation
33:34
of leadership.
33:35
Now I'm trying to reach a compromise with
33:39
the DNC and David Hogg and what I've
33:41
said to David is he can have his
33:44
organization that is having primary challenges but he
33:49
himself should not endorse in his personal capacity
33:52
while he's while he's vice chair and that
33:54
seems to me something that can bring everyone
33:56
together.
33:57
This was such a mistake to bring this
33:59
jamoke in.
34:00
I have no idea how that happened.
34:02
He must have come with money.
34:04
Who?
34:05
Hogg.
34:06
No.
34:07
This was just purely craziness from the Democrat
34:10
Party?
34:11
I don't know that it was a bad
34:13
thing.
34:16
He comes in, Carville's the one who's really
34:19
jumping all over there's a good back-and
34:20
-forth with him and Carville and and and
34:23
Hogg Carville accused of me saying you you
34:26
know what the position you're in you're not
34:28
supposed to be supporting anybody and he's not
34:31
I don't I haven't heard anything he just
34:33
wants he just is theoretical he says he
34:35
should we should bring in new people and
34:37
have them run in the primaries.
34:38
He hasn't named names so I don't know
34:40
what Ro Khan is talking about or Carville
34:43
for that matter then Carville called him out
34:45
for getting paid and and it turns out
34:48
that that vice chair that he is is
34:51
a voluntary job he doesn't get paid anything
34:53
he says.
34:54
I'm thinking this is why I think I
34:57
have no you know without evidence that there's
35:00
money behind him this whole this kid's...
35:03
Well it's not his father.
35:04
No we know that.
35:06
So the other big story this was big
35:09
because I know what well maybe Soros money
35:11
it's possible that's such an old trope at
35:14
this point yeah I agree and Soros wouldn't
35:16
be trying to put new people in.
35:19
The Soros gambit is over it's got to
35:22
be new people it's got to be new
35:23
money Soros is dead you know what's Alex
35:26
is gallivanting around with Alex is no good
35:28
he's not he's not he's not the powerhouse
35:31
or no he's the old man was so
35:33
the other big story because I know people
35:35
in the region was the big blackout and
35:38
I have two boots on the ground which
35:40
will help dispel all of the rumors innuendo
35:44
and bullcrap.
35:45
The power is back on in Spain and
35:48
Portugal after one of Europe's biggest ever blackouts
35:51
but there are still no answers as to
35:54
what actually caused it or how they could
35:57
prevent it from happening again.
35:59
Our Iberian co-bureau chief Aislinn is looking
36:03
at this story Aislinn what do we actually
36:06
know?
36:06
It's extremely unclear still what caused the blackout
36:10
and there is something of a political blame
36:12
game initiating we are also seeing an intense
36:17
discussion about the merits of different power sources
36:20
Spain is and Portugal are big renewables producers
36:25
French ministers were saying yesterday well you know
36:28
if they used more nuclear power perhaps that
36:30
wouldn't have happened the Spanish Prime Minister has
36:33
firmly rejected that saying actually even nuclear power
36:36
couldn't help us get this restarted we were
36:38
relying on a lot of hydro the Spanish
36:41
power grid operator has said that this is
36:45
absolutely not a cyber attack from their point
36:47
of view they say there was a massive
36:49
drop-off in power supply what caused that
36:52
is becoming a key area of investigation it
36:55
is unclear and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro
36:58
Sanchez is not ruling out a cyber attack
37:01
it's clear that it's very unclear and everyone's
37:05
dancing around and we have some answers but
37:07
first boots on the ground from Marbella Spain
37:10
where our producer is located Marbella is the
37:13
hoity-toity place of Spain to be if
37:15
you're near the harbor we've been told the
37:18
blackout here is weather or net zero based
37:21
after public radio telling us it was a
37:23
cyber attack while it was going on interestingly
37:26
the communications blackout here in Marbella was much
37:28
longer than the power outage we did not
37:30
have Wi-Fi or cell service for 18
37:33
hours while the power was only out for
37:35
seven hours and of course EU rules around
37:38
no gas stoves or barbecues on balconies meant
37:40
we had to borrow a neighbor's barbecue to
37:42
heat water and milk for the kids because
37:46
of course you have to have electric stoves
37:49
this is one of our producers can't wait
37:51
to get out of the EU so we
37:53
continue with this Reuters report and in the
37:55
absence of concrete answers what are the authorities
37:58
doing to make sure there isn't a repeat
38:01
of this well that is the big question
38:03
is whether it can happen again we've heard
38:05
energy analysts saying that this could indeed happen
38:08
again this was you know one of the
38:10
possibly the only big power cut in the
38:13
era of green electricity certainly the largest that
38:17
anyone can remember there has been an ongoing
38:21
debate about you know the viability of European
38:24
grids whether they are having sufficient amounts of
38:27
investment in them particularly now that we are
38:30
seeing these new sources of power come online
38:32
some analysts suggesting that you know you're trying
38:36
to operate a Ferrari on a country road
38:38
sometimes that will result in its own challenges
38:42
to the system whether that was the case
38:44
here whether there was a third parties involvement
38:47
it still very much remains to be seen
38:49
so now they're peddling the line well you're
38:53
trying to operate a Ferrari on a country
38:55
road mean or the grid is just not
38:57
ready for our sophisticated renewables so I contacted
39:00
our dude that's a good bit it's a
39:02
great bit our dude named Ben named Ben
39:04
who is the protector of megawatts if you
39:06
recall this is his job he know and
39:10
particularly cybersecurity zero cyber attack he said the
39:14
problem is Spain the reason why you're not
39:16
hearing the truth is that Spain has been
39:19
bragging about running on 100% renewables yeah
39:22
there's some clips that are of it I
39:24
mean there's a lot of visual news clips
39:28
that like to point this out and they
39:31
form memes so the truth of it is
39:34
at the time of the outage 77%
39:37
of generation was inverter based I love this
39:41
term I understand that immediately inverter based means
39:46
solar or winds because they generate direct current
39:49
and the inverter changes it into alternating current
39:53
yeah so I can go down to wires
39:55
and because this altered this these renewables do
40:00
not provide stable power they fluctuate due to
40:05
I don't know wind changes and clouds I
40:10
can't watch the TV they they have a
40:13
baseload their baseload is 15 gigawatts of generation
40:18
from France so according to the dude named
40:23
Ben named Ben protector of megawatts a substation
40:26
in France suddenly stopped transmitting electricity now they
40:29
they're not exactly sure why but they believe
40:32
that it was because of a fire at
40:35
the substation so the Iberian Peninsula Spain and
40:40
subsequently Portugal suddenly lost 15 gigawatts of 15
40:45
megawatts of 15 gigawatts 15,000 megawatts of
40:49
generation from the French that they were on
40:51
a reliant on because they were way over
40:53
subscribed on these renewables 15,000 megawatts is
41:00
a lot of generation to lose all at
41:02
once for instance in Texas we don't get
41:04
into an emergency situation until we go down
41:07
to 3,000 megawatts of spinning reserve even
41:10
on our best day for generation it would
41:12
be very difficult for our grid to survive
41:14
that bottom line emergency levels would be catastrophic
41:18
in Texas at 3,000 we have about
41:20
40,000 40 million people here they lost
41:22
15,000 so the whole the whole reason
41:29
you're not hearing the truth is because of
41:30
the bragging that they were over 100%
41:33
renewable and they're not they were really reliant
41:38
on this probably nuclear generated power from France
41:41
that dropped out everything went to crap and
41:44
this is the risk of this this insane
41:48
policy of relying on 100% renewables getting
41:53
to net zero it is insane and and
41:55
no one's gonna want to admit this so
41:57
I mean we've heard things such as oh
42:00
it was atmospheric fluctuation a rare atmospheric event
42:04
is so bogus USA Today even had this
42:07
preliminary reports out of Europe at the massive
42:10
blackout the cause may be something called induced
42:12
atmospheric vibration phenomenon where weather changes affect power
42:21
lines this is a lie and this is
42:24
just the beginning of this nonsense the more
42:27
they rely on renewables and in this case
42:30
external interconnect from another country which is a
42:34
huge security risk for your country we're relying
42:38
upon France if France drops the base load
42:41
for us boom we're done so this it
42:45
doesn't work it's not a good idea nuclear
42:49
is is not inverter base it's AC it's
42:52
renewable that's what they should be going to
42:53
but no instead it's all of this solar
42:56
and wind and they're going to keep lying
42:58
and I'm sure they'll have a task force
43:00
and nothing will ever come of it it
43:04
brings me to my two climate clips boom
43:06
shakalaka I don't know if I have anything
43:11
on that particular situation which I thought I
43:13
know I heard a lot of stuff and
43:16
very familiar with the phony baloney crazy comment
43:21
about the weather causing the whole thing climate
43:24
by his the climate hysteria debate is there
43:28
hysteria in the international climate debate Britain's former
43:31
Prime Minister Tony Blair suggests there is as
43:34
he calls for a new approach it comes
43:36
after Spain and Portugal were recently hit by
43:38
cascading blackouts which some say were made worse
43:41
by an over reliance on solar power entities
43:44
international correspondent Malcolm Hudson has more for us
43:47
from London in a new policy paper former
43:51
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said hysteria should
43:53
be taken out of the international climate debates
43:56
saying that voters feel they are being made
43:58
to make financial sacrifices and changes their lifestyle
44:02
in what Blair referred to as doomed policy
44:04
despite the fact that in developed nations these
44:07
changes will lead to a minimal impact to
44:10
global carbon emissions Blair said that by 2030
44:14
almost two-thirds of global emissions will come
44:17
from China India and Southeast Asia and said
44:20
that means any strategy based on phasing out
44:22
fossil fuels in the short term is doomed
44:25
to fail but while he appeared to hit
44:27
out against net zero carbon emission policies Blair
44:31
went on to clarify that Prime Minister Keir
44:33
Starmer's approach to net zero is the right
44:35
one supporting the government's plan for net zero
44:38
by 2050 Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner responded
44:42
Tony's clarified his comments and he welcomes our
44:45
direction of travel and that's on renewables investing
44:48
in renewables and nuclear as part of the
44:50
mix but we can't rely on fossil fuels
44:52
forever the British government rejected Blair's claim of
44:56
hysteria in the climate debate debate yes okay
45:01
yeah this is interesting how these things are
45:05
starting to fall apart it's what is the
45:09
what is the inverse of operating a Ferrari
45:12
on a country road is it a lot
45:15
that no no one knows what a lot
45:17
that what is what is an Edsel operating
45:20
an Edsel no no no a pedal bike
45:23
on a pedal bike on the Autobahn no
45:26
pedal bike on the Autobahn pedal bike on
45:29
the Autobahn there you go that's what it
45:30
is pedal bike I like it a pedal
45:33
bike on the Autobahn nice okay it's part
45:37
two now Republicans passed all of these changes
45:39
out of committee yesterday and the goal is
45:41
to make them part of that broader reconciliation
45:43
bill that big budget bill that we've heard
45:45
so much about with the goal to pass
45:47
all of this by the summer what reporting
45:48
what is she saying what is this I
45:52
don't is this another miss clip yeah to
45:54
play what I think I think you meant
45:57
to start it here hold on a second
45:58
I see what's going on but Ben Pyle
46:01
co-founder of climate debate UK says there
46:04
is a lot of hysteria driving climate policy
46:06
and this sort of tendency of a lot
46:08
of people within the global green movement to
46:11
sort of talk about deadlines you know 10
46:13
years left to save the planet and so
46:15
on and so forth many people have made
46:17
the 10 years claim over the decades including
46:19
former US vice-president Al Gore in 2006
46:23
Blair said that most political leaders know that
46:26
the debate has become irrational but are terrified
46:29
of saying so for fear of being called
46:31
climate deniers a British government spokesperson said that
46:34
they remain focused on their mission for the
46:36
UK to be a clean energy superpower while
46:39
treading lightly on people's lives Pyle disputed this
46:43
and said it will be expensive over the
46:45
next five years the clean power by 2030
46:49
agenda is going to lock Britain into extremely
46:53
expensive renewable energy subsidy schemes over reliance on
46:59
renewable energy has drawn criticism in recent days
47:02
following the huge blackouts throughout Spain and Portugal
47:05
energy expert Catherine Porter said the initial fault
47:09
in Spain's power grid was made worse by
47:11
an over reliance on solar power which led
47:14
to cascading blackouts that lasted for over eight
47:17
hours in the Iberian Peninsula so this is
47:21
actually this folds right into a classic clip
47:24
I have when he was still the the
47:29
chief of the the Bank of England the
47:31
Central Bank of the United Kingdom the new
47:35
Prime Minister of Canada listened to what he
47:39
was saying then and what he probably still
47:41
thinks today the world's coming to Glasgow let's
47:43
reshape finance for sustainable you demanded action and
47:49
now it's time for the financial sector to
47:51
deliver to reach net zero every country every
47:55
company every bank every investor every pension fund
47:59
around the world will need to make some
48:01
big changes in the run-up to COP
48:03
26 in Glasgow we have an enormous opportunity
48:06
to bring climate change into the heart of
48:08
every financial decision and our plan will manage
48:11
the risk from climate change while helping to
48:14
seize the opportunities from a newer greener economy
48:17
the UK has been at the forefront of
48:20
innovation for centuries brimming with ingenuity and a
48:23
can do spirit it also houses the world's
48:26
largest financial system and by bringing them together
48:29
we can deliver the net zero world that
48:32
you've demanded and that our future generations deserve
48:36
you demanded it you demanded it you want
48:39
the nobody demanded it no you demanded it
48:42
you wanted the net zero world that's what's
48:44
gonna happen to Canada Canada you're next how
48:48
are your renewables doing it's gonna be great
48:50
it's gonna be great might as well get
48:53
into this after a long night and not
48:55
much sleep Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at
48:57
his office this morning getting down to work
48:59
after laying out his vision to supporters last
49:02
night in Ottawa as we come here after
49:05
this consequential most consequential election let's put an
49:10
end let's put an end to the division
49:13
and anger of the past Carney says he'll
49:16
work with all parties and as the final
49:18
votes are counted it's clear he'll have to
49:20
the Liberals have come up just shy of
49:23
a majority they'll need to rely on the
49:25
handful of new Democrats who survived their party's
49:27
implosion the bloc québécois or even the Conservatives
49:31
to enact their agenda the latest count shows
49:33
Carney's Liberals and Pierre Poliev's Conservatives taking roughly
49:37
85% of all votes cast with a
49:40
less than 3% margin between them the
49:43
Conservatives say they're willing to work with the
49:45
Liberals on the biggest issue facing the country
49:47
its relationship with the US with Carney today
49:51
making another move on that file the Prime
49:54
Minister's office says Carney spoke with US President
49:57
Donald Trump that Trump congratulated Carney on his
50:00
win and that the two leaders agreed on
50:02
the importance of Canada and the US working
50:05
together as independent sovereign nations and agreed to
50:08
meet in person in the near future and
50:11
I think I think it was you who
50:12
said you know Trump wanted this to happen
50:15
he wanted Carney he implied that he did
50:19
here's here's some proof highlighting his phone call
50:22
yesterday with freshly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney
50:25
and hinting that on trade issues Trump seems
50:30
to see positive progress coming deal-making now
50:37
set to at least begin suggested Trump's pretty
50:40
almost immediately he's a very nice gentleman and
50:43
we he's going to come to the White
50:46
House very shortly within the next week or
50:49
less Trump even weighed in on the election
50:51
itself when a reporter pointed out Carney won
50:54
in no small way by targeting Trump and
50:58
his trade policies here's Trump on that and
51:01
on opposition leader Pierre Poliev they both hated
51:04
Trump and it was the one that hated
51:06
Trump I think the least that one I
51:09
actually think the conservative hated me much more
51:12
than the than the so-called liberal he's
51:14
pretty liberal guy but no I spoke to
51:16
him yesterday couldn't have been nicer and I
51:19
congratulated him separately Trump noted not long ago
51:22
that he's if if President Trump is saying
51:24
you're a great guy you're a nice guy
51:26
this is the time you start watching your
51:28
back something's coming for you and I congratulated
51:31
him separately Trump noted not long ago that
51:34
he's already made some 200 trade deals since
51:37
he imposed his tariffs earlier this year though
51:39
none has been officially announced or made public
51:42
today while slamming another country he's hit hard
51:46
with tariffs China the leading candidate for the
51:50
chief ripper offer Trump also suggested again maybe
51:56
something's in the works there as well I
51:59
hope we're gonna make a deal with China
52:01
we're talking to China where any of it
52:03
goes from here is as ever known only
52:05
to Trump though for Canada a better sense
52:07
of things may well come soon with as
52:09
Trump now expects that sit down in the
52:12
Oval Office with he and Mark Carney very
52:14
shortly then according to NPR Trump really did
52:19
get him elected Mark Carney has been elected
52:21
as Prime Minister of Canada according to the
52:23
projections from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation this was
52:26
seen as a referendum on which candidate could
52:28
best handle the United States under President Trump
52:31
who placed tariffs on Canada and sparked a
52:34
wave of Canadian nationalism Carney defeated Conservative Party
52:39
leader Pierre Palliative Palliative's momentum began to slip
52:43
when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned earlier
52:45
this year which gave the Liberals a lift
52:47
but the real boost came when President Trump
52:49
began targeting Canada's economy and its sovereignty many
52:53
Canadians were outraged by Trump's threat to make
52:56
Canada the 51st state it all becomes clear
53:00
yeah I thought that I think Palliative was
53:04
too much like Trump and he would have
53:06
probably butted heads with him he didn't like
53:08
him I have a very strange clip mm
53:10
-hmm that explains Trump's behavior in general mm
53:14
-hmm and this is the woman Corcoran I
53:17
think her name she is on the shark
53:20
tank she's the female girl there and she
53:23
female girl and she she's the one as
53:26
opposed to the male girl you can't be
53:29
too sure you got it you got to
53:30
be very clear the female girl yes the
53:33
female girl she she had an observation that
53:36
I think is something we should always keep
53:37
in the back of our minds about Trump
53:39
and after I heard this I also thought
53:42
that oh this is what would happen with
53:44
Bill Maher to listen to this sorry Donald
53:48
Trump getting the heck of a compliment from
53:50
one of the key stars of Shark Tank
53:52
Barbara Corcoran so I did a lot of
53:55
work with Donald and I can tell you
53:57
he is the best salesman I've ever met
53:59
my she's the blonde who does a lot
54:00
of fast-moving consumer she just smaller deals
54:02
but successful deals she's the QVC lady that's
54:05
what she is QVC girl yeah I I
54:07
watched him walk into a situation I for
54:10
example selling the Plaza Hotel to the Chinese
54:13
out of Hong Kong it was in Taiwan
54:15
group of Asians wealthiest families in Hong Kong
54:19
and they were there because they were interested
54:21
in the Plaza Hotel and I was a
54:23
broker or my brokers were all at the
54:25
table we're like really hungry to make this
54:27
deal and I watched him totally not pitch
54:31
the Plaza Hotel bury it and talk about
54:34
the landmasses on the Hudson River and the
54:36
buildings that would be there they were not
54:39
the least bit interested they just wanted to
54:41
buy the Plaza Hotel like a customer I
54:43
want to buy it and Donald was near
54:45
bankruptcy really needed the money to bail out
54:47
and I watched him I thought he was
54:50
so off he wasn't they bought the land
54:53
and built all those towers on the West
54:55
River as we know it today you know
54:57
all those Trump towers along the river that
54:58
was the deal how did he do that
55:00
I'll tell you what his masterful mind does
55:03
he is a genius at picking out the
55:08
vulnerability of someone's personality he can smell it
55:12
sense it and trust it okay so for
55:16
example if you were to walk into a
55:18
business meeting with Donald and you're saying whatever
55:20
you're saying I've seen it time and time
55:22
again he could see what your weakness is
55:25
and not physically reach over and put his
55:27
finger on it but he just could see
55:30
what your weakness is and play into it
55:32
not the nicest thing in the world but
55:35
it's a certain gift I've never seen anyone
55:36
else and it comes in handy in light
55:38
of what we're doing right now with China
55:39
yeah no she's the older lady not the
55:42
young and the young the young blonde is
55:44
the QVC yeah yeah I saw this clip
55:46
and I thought that makes total sense and
55:48
that's what he's been doing with everything and
55:50
I think I think this may have in
55:54
some degree you know since we're talking about
55:57
rare earths and about the processing so I've
55:59
been receiving nothing but tons of information about
56:02
rare earth processing Saskatchewan has had a rare
56:07
earth processing facility since 2020 so they do
56:12
a lot of this more I mean I
56:17
have a ton of different places where this
56:21
is happening but this kind of folds into
56:23
the new deal the last time Ukraine was
56:27
about to sign a minerals deal with the
56:28
u.s. it was derailed by a row
56:30
in the Oval Office around on relations are
56:34
slightly warmer and just before we recorded this
56:36
podcast they finally reached an agreement the deal
56:40
creates an investment fund for the reconstruction of
56:42
Ukraine in exchange for access to the country's
56:45
minerals oil and gas it will still need
56:48
to be approved by Parliament in Ukraine but
56:50
the Ukrainian MP Maria met sensei were welcomed
56:53
what she said were the improved terms of
56:55
the agreement it's quite a good investment opportunity
56:59
and a fair deal in the end where
57:02
no sort of deaths on military aid are
57:06
mentioned everything is done in a manner due
57:09
to Ukrainian Constitution and doesn't breach any oversight
57:14
of our EU aspirations so I thought CBS
57:17
actually had a that was BBC CBS had
57:20
a better report because this is exactly the
57:23
kind of deal that President Trump was talking
57:26
about give us your minerals we'll protect you
57:28
we'll protect our our own assets and maybe
57:32
we'll put together a little fund for you
57:33
a little hedge fund turn now to news
57:35
that has big implications for the war in
57:37
Ukraine the u.s. and Ukraine have signed
57:40
a long-awaited deal giving the u.s.
57:42
access to important rare-earth minerals Ukraine hopes
57:46
in return to get greater protection from Russian
57:49
aggression Ramey innocentia has more on all this
57:52
Ramey joins us now Ramey good morning Tony
57:55
yes good morning there and breakthrough here while
57:57
this deal does not explicitly say that the
58:00
u.s. will keep on helping Ukraine defend
58:02
against Russia's invasion like under the Biden administration
58:05
that is the hope u.s. Treasury Secretary
58:08
Scott Besson who signed this pact with Ukraine's
58:11
deputy prime minister in Washington said that it
58:14
signals to Russia that the Trump administration is
58:16
committed to a peace process for what he
58:19
says is a free Ukraine and over the
58:22
long term details about this deal though are
58:24
slim but it centers on u.s. access
58:26
to Ukraine's vast resources under its soil that
58:29
includes oil and gas but along with critical
58:31
raw materials that's like graphite titanium and uranium
58:35
for aerospace and technology funds from this deal
58:38
would go towards paying the u.s. for
58:40
future military aid and to establish a joint
58:44
fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine and you
58:47
know there has been a lot of drama
58:48
around this deal we all sides were closed
58:50
back in February when Zelensky went to Washington
58:53
to sign an earlier version but then we
58:55
saw that spectacular meltdown broadcast around the world
58:59
then last week Trump and Zelensky met at
59:02
St. Peter's Basilica look at that a decidedly
59:05
more peaceful there for the funeral of the
59:06
Pope and now we have this breakthrough but
59:09
importantly Russia has not commented yet so let's
59:13
talk about the Ukrainian rare earths well let's
59:16
play the NTD clip of this so we
59:19
can get that out of the way okay
59:21
Ukraine yep gotcha a Ukrainian official is in
59:24
Washington today the US and Ukraine just signed
59:26
a deal on rare earth minerals here's more
59:29
Ukraine's first deputy prime minister Yulia Sviridenko is
59:33
traveling to the United States on Wednesday to
59:36
sign a minerals deal the two sides were
59:38
reportedly set to close the deal on Wednesday
59:41
afternoon until Ukraine requested some last-minute changes
59:45
President Trump wants to use Ukraine's minerals as
59:48
a financial guarantee for the aid the US
59:51
has been sending to Ukraine I didn't want
59:54
to make a complicated deal I didn't want
59:56
to make a deal that couldn't be made
59:57
because Ukraine doesn't have very much money and
1:00:01
yet they're going through a very bad period
1:00:03
of time it's been brutal but Ukraine's prime
1:00:06
minister says the agreement won't include the money
1:00:09
the US has sent so far only future
1:00:11
aid so I think this is still about
1:00:14
weapon sales to the EU they'll be buying
1:00:17
it I believe because this these rare earths
1:00:21
in in Ukraine according to Reuters they don't
1:00:26
really have an operational mine they don't really
1:00:31
have rare earths exactly they have no mining
1:00:34
roads no rail no energy grids no processing
1:00:37
capacity that's your big big thing of course
1:00:41
it's all a chaos and you know they
1:00:43
geological data is hardly available that it seems
1:00:47
like a bit of a mirage that but
1:00:50
the rare earths business that Rubio was doing
1:00:54
in Rwanda boots on the ground Adam I
1:00:57
worked in the mining industry for eight years
1:00:59
lived in Africa for 15 mostly in DRC
1:01:02
and Kenya the answer to the question is
1:01:06
Africa has to make peace between a DRC
1:01:08
and its neighbors Rwanda is already doing unofficial
1:01:12
processing of rare earth minerals from the DRC
1:01:15
so there is processing and even crazier they're
1:01:21
gonna be processing right up in California at
1:01:24
Mountain Pass America led this industry for decades
1:01:27
with this site right here at Mountain Pass
1:01:29
but due to cost of capital subsidies overseas
1:01:31
in China as well as different environmental standards
1:01:34
we lost our leadership and this site fell
1:01:36
into essentially disrepair and bankruptcy MP materials has
1:01:40
humble beginnings we acquired this site in 2017
1:01:44
it had eight employees it was in care
1:01:47
maintenance nobody believed that we could compete against
1:01:50
China but we focused on execution and we
1:01:53
slowly methodically over time rebuilt this we have
1:01:57
nearly 300 Americans probably working on this site
1:02:00
when we acquired this site we clearly realized
1:02:04
that multi-billion dollar supply chains don't move
1:02:07
overnight we had to have a long-term
1:02:08
plan to restore this site successfully and sustainably
1:02:11
our first stage which is largely complete was
1:02:16
to relaunch the operations here we now produce
1:02:19
a rare earth concentrate product that represents 15
1:02:21
% of the global supply we are profitable
1:02:24
doing so our next stage which is underway
1:02:27
is to make separated rare earth products and
1:02:30
optimize it to be a leader in global
1:02:32
industry from a cost and sustainability perspective one
1:02:37
stage two is done we expect to generate
1:02:39
a significant amount of free cash flow that
1:02:41
will enable us to not just making separate
1:02:44
rare earth products but also magnets so we
1:02:46
can fulfill our mission of restoring the full
1:02:49
rare supply chain to the United States of
1:02:51
America so that's in California but what's the
1:02:54
name of this operation I've heard this Mountain
1:02:57
Pass materials and there's three more from USA
1:03:02
rare earth who have processing plants now in
1:03:04
Stillwater Oklahoma Shira Blanca Texas and Wheat Ridge
1:03:08
Colorado we are getting into the rare earth
1:03:10
business and it seems that most of them
1:03:14
are focused on magnets which would I don't
1:03:18
know if that's gonna be the future of
1:03:20
rare earths but that's what they most of
1:03:23
them seem to be doing so between Canada
1:03:27
these four states in America I think we're
1:03:29
getting back into the business we're and maybe
1:03:32
maybe so maybe we can chunk something out
1:03:35
of Ukraine if you know if it's really
1:03:39
even there maybe actually after their oil more
1:03:43
more than likely I would take that over
1:03:46
the rare earths any day so things are
1:03:51
moving and if they get the peace deal
1:03:54
they we can get the rare earths if
1:03:55
you want them from Russia Russia already off
1:03:58
I know we can get it easy but
1:04:00
we're gonna be doing processing and we have
1:04:02
and we're gonna make Canada you do it
1:04:04
Canada yeah you want to be net zero
1:04:06
here take this nasty stuff do it do
1:04:10
it do it do it while we're kind
1:04:16
of on this and and climate etc oh
1:04:21
it's the neo diminium rare earth that is
1:04:26
that that's the that's the big attraction that
1:04:28
that's for those ridiculous magnets yeah is that
1:04:31
is that of any real use the magnet
1:04:33
I mean it's obviously yeah that's motor very
1:04:35
yeah that's a yeah for all kinds of
1:04:37
stuff yeah it's extremely powerful magnet well we
1:04:41
need some kind of thing where you put
1:04:43
two of them together you can't get them
1:04:44
apart your finger gets gets crushed you're done
1:04:47
so this is so this is a story
1:04:52
that's been brewing it's been very hard to
1:04:54
get your fingers done it's been very hard
1:05:01
to get a clip and this is not
1:05:03
the one I wanted particularly because it comes
1:05:05
from OG what Africa news let me see
1:05:07
is it from yes Africa news yeah here
1:05:12
goes the show but it's about chemtrails or
1:05:15
as we call it aerosol injection and there's
1:05:20
a lot of people in the UK are
1:05:21
very concerned about this because they're talking about
1:05:23
it this is just a short clip about
1:05:25
what it is we all know what it
1:05:27
is but it's even interesting that one of
1:05:29
the scientists in this clip describes exactly what
1:05:33
has been happening to our climate and I
1:05:35
think it is due to aerosol injection or
1:05:39
chemtrails the approach would walk by planes releasing
1:05:42
tiny particles into the atmosphere's dry stable upper
1:05:46
layer called the stratosphere this would help reduce
1:05:50
the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface
1:05:52
and helping to cool the planet so our
1:05:55
study examines a climate intervention technique called stratospheric
1:06:00
aerosol injection which is an idea to cool
1:06:02
down the planet by adding a layer of
1:06:05
small reflective particles aerosols into the high atmosphere
1:06:08
those particles would reflect a small amount perhaps
1:06:13
1% of the incoming sunlight and there
1:06:16
was good evidence that this could be used
1:06:17
to cool down the planet and perhaps to
1:06:20
reduce some climate impacts vulnerable people around the
1:06:25
world researchers say that this could be done
1:06:27
using aircraft already in service today rather than
1:06:30
developing new ones despite the lower altitude it
1:06:35
would still be possible to cool the planet
1:06:37
by around 0.6 degrees Celsius when you
1:06:41
when you deploy listen to this guy listen
1:06:43
to what he says Celsius when you when
1:06:47
you deploy stratospheric aerosol injection you can change
1:06:52
atmospheric circulation patterns and so this can do
1:06:55
things like like disrupt precipitation patterns cause droughts
1:07:00
in some places cause excessive flooding in other
1:07:03
places sounds exactly what's been happening to me
1:07:06
but other experts have urged caution saying geoengineering
1:07:10
projects like this one don't offer long-term
1:07:13
solutions so as as kind of you know
1:07:17
the Alex Jones and me would say this
1:07:19
is exactly what they do do it for
1:07:22
decades and then say oh we have this
1:07:23
great idea and we've already been doing it
1:07:25
because it's in the jet fuel and Bobby
1:07:28
the op RFK jr.
1:07:30
took a question about this yesterday on the
1:07:33
dr.
1:07:33
Phil show Emily and my biggest concern is
1:07:38
the stratospheric aerosol injections that are continuously peppered
1:07:42
on us every day and bromium aluminum strontium
1:07:47
it's sprayed in our skies all day long
1:07:50
and I know you've talked to Dane Wigington
1:07:52
about this he seems to be one of
1:07:54
the experts in the field you got a
1:07:57
question yes how do we stop it that
1:08:01
is it's not happening in my agency you
1:08:04
know we don't do that it's done we
1:08:08
think by DARPA and a lot of it
1:08:11
now is coming out of the jet fuel
1:08:13
you know those materials are put in jet
1:08:16
fuel we I'm gonna do everything that in
1:08:20
my power to stop it we're bringing on
1:08:23
somebody who's gonna think only about that find
1:08:26
out who's doing and holding them accountable oh
1:08:29
Bobby he's a kook he's a kook he
1:08:31
believes in chemtrails they're always talking about jet
1:08:34
fuel yes this has been the theory for
1:08:37
a long time yeah that's a bad theory
1:08:39
why well for one thing it would be
1:08:43
corrosive but I've tested jet fuel when I
1:08:45
was a chemist at Union Oil that was
1:08:47
none of these things in that was not
1:08:50
in the last 25 years well as you
1:08:53
know no no well chemtrails have been talked
1:08:56
about way longer than when I was when
1:08:58
I was a kid they were talking about
1:09:00
him well I the materials she talked about
1:09:04
and I've seen this happen in Los Angeles
1:09:06
what floated down onto my house the strontium
1:09:10
barium and now I there's something to this
1:09:13
there is some and and it's always been
1:09:16
suspected that it's in the jet fuel because
1:09:19
you see it coming and it's not like
1:09:20
the guys in the with the jet they
1:09:22
put all kinds of crap in jet fuel
1:09:24
you can pee in jet fuel and it'll
1:09:26
still work it's diesel basically kerosene kerosene you
1:09:31
know so no I think this is happening
1:09:33
and ever since President Trump got elected it's
1:09:35
been pretty beautiful here in in Texas blue
1:09:38
skies where we would have every other day
1:09:43
if not days in a row of chemtrails
1:09:45
spreading out all across the sky making it
1:09:48
gray no I'm I think this is for
1:09:52
real I think okay well you can think
1:09:54
what you want we can agree to disagree
1:09:56
oh wait until you hear what I have
1:10:03
to say coming up you think that's bad
1:10:06
you're not gonna agree with anything I say
1:10:08
it's okay you got anything you got any
1:10:12
series anything you want to want to launch
1:10:13
into here well let's get rid of the
1:10:15
tick-tock clips yeah well I was hoping
1:10:17
you were gonna do student loan oh the
1:10:20
student loans yes everybody wants student loan with
1:10:22
tick-tock clips okay let's go student loan
1:10:25
revamp part one Capitol Hill House Republicans are
1:10:28
working to revamp the federal student loan system
1:10:31
as part of their big budget bill and
1:10:33
efforts to cut government spending entities Melina Weisskopf
1:10:36
has the details Republicans are working towards ending
1:10:39
President Biden's attempts to forgive student loan debt
1:10:42
after the courts rejected Biden's plan to forgive
1:10:45
student loan debt he enacted a workaround through
1:10:47
the save program that allowed so many borrowers
1:10:50
to pay back zero dollars on their student
1:10:52
loans and not accrue interest now Republican lawmakers
1:10:55
are trying to overhaul that entire Biden era
1:10:58
student loan payback program in addition Republican lawmakers
1:11:01
aim to cap the amount that students can
1:11:03
borrow in the first place the limit is
1:11:06
going to be the median price of a
1:11:07
college university or a program of study the
1:11:10
Republican chairman of the Education Committee says the
1:11:12
goal with these new limits is to encourage
1:11:14
colleges to lower their costs our current broken
1:11:17
system encourages students to accept more and more
1:11:20
debt without ever addressing college costs it's no
1:11:24
secret that spending in Washington has been a
1:11:27
disaster waste fraud and abuse has left the
1:11:31
American taxpayer on the hook for government bloat
1:11:35
who was that at the end you know
1:11:38
I don't know but it sounds like Reagan
1:11:39
exactly I was like I know the same
1:11:42
similar voice patterns probably a milieu thing hmm
1:11:45
so here's part now the part two is
1:11:49
that I just was it's a long story
1:11:52
how this happened but I got these clips
1:11:54
kind of screwed up but the second part
1:11:56
is a student loan redux to and Republicans
1:11:59
are working to make several changes to the
1:12:01
Pell Grant so the goal is to try
1:12:03
to limit the Pell Grant only to those
1:12:05
who need it most and change the requirements
1:12:07
from 12 credit hours per semester to 30
1:12:11
credit hours per year now Democrats said it's
1:12:14
unfair for untraditional students with other obligations outside
1:12:18
of school such as who I have obligations
1:12:20
to family or for jobs here's the ranking
1:12:23
Democrat member on the committee speaking about it
1:12:25
yesterday because they may need more financial support
1:12:28
to cover the basic needs like housing child
1:12:30
care and transportation at a time when families
1:12:34
are struggling to make ends meet I'm confused
1:12:36
why we're making it harder for working parents
1:12:39
who are trying to further their education the
1:12:42
Republican chairman for his part noted that the
1:12:44
Pell Grant is on track to run a
1:12:46
shortfall of 70 to 100 billion dollars within
1:12:49
the decade so he's trying to avoid that
1:12:51
Republicans are also trying to change the Pell
1:12:53
Grant to include vocational programs for example schools
1:12:57
for cosmetology or welding training any career path
1:13:00
that does not require a traditional college degree
1:13:03
if students choose to choose to take those
1:13:05
paths they will qualify for a so-called
1:13:07
workforce Pell Grant for the first time okay
1:13:11
so where that's interesting and that's a good
1:13:13
stimulus for welders what what happens with the
1:13:19
student loans people now have to repay is
1:13:22
the question they have to repay them that's
1:13:23
what they have to do are they going
1:13:26
to are they going to have programs to
1:13:28
refinance they'd like the reduction programs if you
1:13:31
work for the police department things like that
1:13:33
they're gonna have the same exceptions that have
1:13:35
always been in there okay but they have
1:13:37
to pay you take the loan out the
1:13:38
real problem I think it was mentioned in
1:13:40
the first clip is that these colleges they
1:13:43
saw the whole thing as a scam that
1:13:45
owed free money this is jack our tuition
1:13:49
up yep and oh they get even more
1:13:51
free money with the higher tuition well let's
1:13:53
jack it up even more the amount of
1:13:55
to the tuition fees and not just the
1:13:59
private universities but the public universities are just
1:14:01
as high as like the Harvard I was
1:14:05
unbelievable what a scam this has become I've
1:14:07
been looking at some of these endowments like
1:14:09
Harvard their endowments are huge they have over
1:14:14
I think they have a hundred billion dollars
1:14:16
or something like that so which is you
1:14:18
know arguably what we spent on Ukraine in
1:14:21
three years it was probably more but let's
1:14:23
just say that's the number and that's tax
1:14:26
-free the only tax they have is 4
1:14:30
% they pay to the colleges and the
1:14:32
rest is just you know who's managing that
1:14:34
money what's happening with that it's I think
1:14:37
black rocks got most that's that's the scam
1:14:40
if you ask me the scam is those
1:14:42
endowments and that's that's why Trump administration is
1:14:46
being hard-nosed about it they want control
1:14:50
over that or they want to know what's
1:14:51
going on with it that that I see
1:14:53
it as a possible source of taxation that's
1:14:56
public that can pay yet less yeah in
1:14:58
other words the taxpayer can pay less and
1:15:00
those guys can pay their fair share where's
1:15:03
their fair share for a start yeah I
1:15:06
mean especially Harvard but all of them have
1:15:08
huge endowments all of them do all of
1:15:11
them it's that to me is a is
1:15:13
a money scam those endowments is a tax
1:15:16
avoidance system for mega elites it has to
1:15:21
be certainly if Black Rocks in there then
1:15:23
can't be anything good no I mean and
1:15:28
then and then the other students who get
1:15:30
cajoled into a gender studies diploma poli sci
1:15:38
you know they owe $100,000 and they
1:15:43
got nothing nowhere to go if they owe
1:15:45
$100,000 that's low it's cheap yeah so
1:15:49
well that's good that's it that's not getting
1:15:52
enough attention that that endowment scam is is
1:15:57
a problem I got did you receive the
1:16:01
Michelle Obama clip 20 times which one the
1:16:06
one where she's going on about well there's
1:16:09
a bunch of them which one you talking
1:16:11
about well the one that's going around is
1:16:13
oddly clips which of course makes me always
1:16:15
go for the original oh it was a
1:16:17
slip-up she's saying she's a man she's
1:16:20
saying oh I love that clip here you
1:16:22
know I always you don't you notice it's
1:16:23
not on my list no but I thought
1:16:26
that clip was was terrific it's obviously chopped
1:16:31
off but people like this to me like
1:16:33
this is clip of the day this is
1:16:35
the best it's a very funny clip big
1:16:37
Mike is a man you know just so
1:16:40
proud of how you are being a role
1:16:44
model for dealing with a child that's transgender
1:16:47
absolutely and that's you know that warms my
1:16:51
heart particularly as a black man so the
1:16:54
video is the best so the video cuts
1:16:57
to her brother while she's talking so the
1:17:01
implication is as a black man you had
1:17:05
to deal with me a black man who's
1:17:09
transgender I'm not fighting that obvious truth
1:17:19
but here is the full clip in context
1:17:21
where she's actually talking to one of the
1:17:24
Wayans brothers about his transgender child well speaking
1:17:28
of parenting I wanted to talk Marlon a
1:17:31
bit about you know see they missed a
1:17:34
little Marlon bit just so proud of how
1:17:36
you are being a role model for dealing
1:17:40
with a child that's transgender absolutely and that's
1:17:44
you know that warms my heart particularly as
1:17:47
a black man you know I would you
1:17:50
care to share that journey of their transition
1:17:58
really taught me what real unconditional love was
1:18:03
by the way notice how Marlon is so
1:18:05
psyop that he's calling his transgender child they
1:18:09
when I went when they went through the
1:18:11
transition I actually went through the transition from
1:18:15
denial to complete acceptance and it took me
1:18:19
a week to get there only a week
1:18:21
it's easy it's easy parents only a week
1:18:23
unbelievable so anyway I just I had to
1:18:27
get that out of the way because that
1:18:28
was all over you of the text groups
1:18:30
in Fredericksburg are exploding big Mike it's true
1:18:33
JFK jr.
1:18:34
is coming back next no when I saw
1:18:41
it I knew I was gonna you know
1:18:44
you knew immediately was like miss it was
1:18:47
clipped for that purpose yeah and and I
1:18:49
figured you'd go grab the real deal and
1:18:52
you play it out so I didn't have
1:18:54
to even do it of course I did
1:18:55
of course good for you that's what I
1:18:58
do defending the woman hey we had a
1:19:04
big a very big bill pass in the
1:19:08
house the Texas House this week I think
1:19:11
two days ago and it's not it's not
1:19:13
law yet because it has to go to
1:19:15
the Senate this is the undisclosed AI generated
1:19:21
images and political messages bill that's not the
1:19:24
real title but it's interesting and the debate
1:19:27
is interesting around that as well former House
1:19:30
Speaker did feel in is the one that
1:19:31
filed House Bill 366 he was the subject
1:19:35
of political attacks and memes in his most
1:19:37
recent re-election campaign mail flyers depicted him
1:19:41
hugging Democrat Nancy Pelosi something that he never
1:19:44
did but he says that's not why he
1:19:47
decided to file this bill under House Bill
1:19:49
366 it requires any political advertising that uses
1:19:54
altered images including generative AI or deepfake videos
1:19:57
to contain a disclosure stating that the content
1:20:00
did not occur failure to do so would
1:20:03
be a class-a misdemeanor current state law
1:20:05
prohibits the use of AI generated pictures within
1:20:08
30 days of an election date feeling says
1:20:11
this is about making sure election law keeps
1:20:13
up with the evolving AI industry because a
1:20:16
deceptive ad could swing an election it's a
1:20:18
very common punishment when you're dealing with something
1:20:21
as important as an election especially election I
1:20:25
could say is a stolen election when in
1:20:27
the last 72 hours of a campaign a
1:20:29
video can be released that entirely changes the
1:20:32
nature of the electorate going into election day
1:20:35
several lawmakers lined up to speak against the
1:20:37
bill some said the bill is too vague
1:20:39
and could face First Amendment legal challenges some
1:20:42
conservatives also said the criminal penalties are too
1:20:45
steep and people should not be thrown in
1:20:47
jail for political speech this is insanity that
1:20:50
we would propose such a harsh penalty for
1:20:53
simply expressing our displeasure of an elected official
1:20:57
this is anti-american this is anti-constitution
1:21:01
feeling says he understands that but the penalties
1:21:03
need to be major to make sure that
1:21:05
multimillion-dollar campaigns play by the rules the
1:21:08
bill now heads over to the Senate for
1:21:10
consideration and it could frankly face an uphill
1:21:13
battle because lieutenant governor Dan Patrick is the
1:21:16
one that controls the Senate Patrick and Phelan
1:21:18
have had a rocky relationship to say the
1:21:20
least that goes back to the impeachment of
1:21:23
Attorney General Ken Paxton and several Senate bills
1:21:26
that have died over in the house over
1:21:28
the last couple of legislative sessions so this
1:21:31
is a again one of the only interesting
1:21:34
uses of artificial quote intelligence I feel you
1:21:39
should be able to do that it brings
1:21:41
humor into the process I'm delighted with it
1:21:44
and yeah absolutely you should put a total
1:21:46
agreement yeah put a disclaimer on it just
1:21:48
like the drug you don't even do off
1:21:50
screw the disclaimer I'm okay I'm okay with
1:21:53
the bill that says the disclaimer could just
1:21:55
do it like the ad companies may cause
1:21:56
a no leakage you may die and that's
1:21:58
all you need to do you know just
1:22:00
but the thing is even with the disclaimer
1:22:03
it doesn't matter because some of these things
1:22:06
will crop up as memes and they'll be
1:22:07
coming in anonymously from out of state it's
1:22:10
great I love and it's gonna show the
1:22:12
guy kissing Pelosi on the lips or whatever
1:22:15
who cares it's great but you think it's
1:22:18
funny and you know and if you can't
1:22:19
counter it if you can't counter it you're
1:22:21
this is a modern era yeah if you're
1:22:25
being besmirched smeared this besmirched I tell you
1:22:29
have to be able to cut as a
1:22:31
politician mm-hmm unless you're being libeled which
1:22:35
is different if you're being just smeared just
1:22:40
casually smeared is you have to be have
1:22:42
enough chops yes to get out of the
1:22:44
smear using your own wiles your own but
1:22:48
you by using your own use your own
1:22:50
AI yeah you can do the same thing
1:22:52
to the other guy what's that in your
1:22:54
mouth yeah yeah it's this is the
1:23:04
only thing they're worried about by the way
1:23:06
that's all they're worried about AI ma'am
1:23:09
I did some more vibe coding I will
1:23:12
say when it comes to getting me actual
1:23:15
results with coding grok funny enough someone suggests
1:23:21
I've tried them all I've tried chat GPT
1:23:24
Claude cursor cursor is not as way too
1:23:27
complicated that integrates with their IDE and I
1:23:30
don't have any of that I've just want
1:23:31
a simple script which I could have done
1:23:33
in two hours of my buddy Dave and
1:23:35
we would have been done with it but
1:23:36
now it's taking me collectively three weeks of
1:23:39
at least several hours on several of those
1:23:41
days to come up with a simple script
1:23:43
in PA in Python I'm sorry grok actually
1:23:47
did did pretty well but there's no absolutely
1:23:52
no evidence of intelligence it's it's just looking
1:23:56
at the words the language the structure the
1:23:59
syntax it can do all that and it's
1:24:02
just using old stuff that it learned somewhere
1:24:04
else and I know this because when it
1:24:07
comes to one particular language liquid soap long
1:24:10
story it's it's doing everything wrong and they
1:24:13
all do it wrong because they all have
1:24:15
sucked up the same wrong information and that
1:24:17
whole project is a mess with githubs and
1:24:20
get labs and different documentation and so it
1:24:23
has no intelligence but it's doing enough stuff
1:24:28
that yeah okay it this is a 50
1:24:32
billion dollar industry not a trillion dollar industry
1:24:35
it's still all parlor tricks have it right
1:24:39
your your Dvorak and substack you won't you'll
1:24:44
throw it out I could probably have it
1:24:48
do something and then I could edit it
1:24:50
to an extreme I'd probably spend more time
1:24:51
editing exactly that it would take actually right
1:24:55
from scratch yes not an unusual situation that's
1:24:59
the point that's exactly the point is but
1:25:02
if you can't yeah but I can write
1:25:04
from scratch and I can write pretty quickly
1:25:06
yes but if you can't write from scratch
1:25:09
you'll write some mediocre over word salad that's
1:25:14
over inflated and I'll have a little nice
1:25:16
little icons next to it it's no good
1:25:18
emojis emojis emojis and it'll start off with
1:25:22
I'm so happy to find you well exactly
1:25:26
what you're gonna get oh man so Ava
1:25:34
flooding a brook do you remember how your
1:25:37
buddy she's not my buddy I've never met
1:25:39
her oh she seems like she'd be your
1:25:42
buddy well she happens to be Dutch and
1:25:46
she has the the the I'm Adam she's
1:25:50
Ava so you would think coincidentally also born
1:25:54
on September 3rd which is my birthday well
1:25:57
there you go you two are meant for
1:25:58
each other we're twin flames I tell you
1:26:00
Tina's rolling her eyes when she hears that
1:26:05
so she posted a very interesting video about
1:26:10
her iPhone and I need to share this
1:26:13
because she there's if this is true and
1:26:16
I'll take her at her word it has
1:26:18
some interesting implications and of course she's using
1:26:21
it for engagement farming but here we go
1:26:23
hi everyone so yesterday I got two messages
1:26:26
from Apple stating that they detected a mercenary
1:26:29
spyware attack against my iPhone first I thought
1:26:33
it was fake I got two of these
1:26:35
messages and I thought it's probably not real
1:26:37
but upon further research it turns out that
1:26:39
these messages actually are real and so that
1:26:42
this is actually happening and in the message
1:26:45
they say that this targeted mercenary spyware attack
1:26:49
is probably happening because of who I am
1:26:53
and what I do and then they continue
1:26:56
to say that mercenary spyware attacks such as
1:27:00
Pegasus for example are exceptionally rare and that
1:27:03
they're extremely sophisticated they use really strong words
1:27:05
they're saying that the extreme cost sophistication and
1:27:09
worldwide nature of mercenary spyware attacks makes some
1:27:13
of the most advanced digital threats in existence
1:27:16
today and they're sending this to me because
1:27:19
they've detected that it's going on against my
1:27:21
iPhone so this is real obviously I don't
1:27:24
know for sure if any of that spyware
1:27:27
has been installed on my phone I definitely
1:27:29
don't know who did it so this could
1:27:31
be anyone this could be name a government
1:27:33
that doesn't like me this could be any
1:27:36
organization that doesn't like me secret services you
1:27:40
name it but what I do know for
1:27:42
sure is that this is an attempt to
1:27:45
intimidate me an attempt to silence me obviously
1:27:48
and I can tell them because they're probably
1:27:52
already watching on this phone right now that
1:27:55
it's not gonna work so you can try
1:27:57
and intimidate me all you want but I'm
1:27:59
not gonna stop that's all I want you
1:28:01
guys and I want the people spying on
1:28:05
me through this phone to know so I
1:28:09
don't for a second think that they're using
1:28:11
this to intimidate her she didn't know it
1:28:14
they didn't say hey we've got your phone
1:28:15
we saw what you did send me a
1:28:17
Bitcoin none of that I think she is
1:28:20
being used to infect other people if this
1:28:24
is true and I'll take her at her
1:28:25
word that she got these notices from Apple
1:28:27
which is very concerning well there is a
1:28:31
page Apple does I'm looking at it now
1:28:33
mm-hmm Apple does have a page up
1:28:35
about it is call it from Apple and
1:28:37
it says about the Apple threat notifications which
1:28:40
is what she's talking about and protecting against
1:28:42
mercenary spyware and there's a long lecture here
1:28:45
hmm how do you know it's not a
1:28:47
phony deal how do you get it do
1:28:49
you get it by by tapping on a
1:28:51
link and a text message I'm trying to
1:28:53
find out because they're very wordy this has
1:28:55
obviously been written by a no Apple intelligence
1:29:00
probably not AI Apple which is worse yes
1:29:03
it is according to public reporting and research
1:29:06
by civil society organizations technology firms and journalists
1:29:11
individually targeted attacks of such exceptional of such
1:29:14
exceptional cost and complexity have historically been associated
1:29:18
with state actors including private companies developing mercenary
1:29:22
spyware on their behalf such as Pegasus from
1:29:25
the NSO group though deployed against a very
1:29:28
small number of individuals often journalists activists politicians
1:29:31
and diplomats it could be I could be
1:29:34
actioned against me for example and it's in
1:29:37
the drawers we speak mercenary spyware attacks are
1:29:41
ongoing and global and since 2021 we have
1:29:45
sent Apple threat notifications multiple times a year
1:29:48
as we have detected these oh that's interesting
1:29:50
they can detect them and to date we
1:29:53
have notified users in over 150 countries in
1:29:56
total goes on and on I think so
1:30:01
I however I think she was used as
1:30:04
a well first of all your phone is
1:30:05
an attack vector on your life that's just
1:30:08
a known fact which is why I love
1:30:10
my light phone three it doesn't do nothing
1:30:15
however just coincidentally yesterday Tina comes in oh
1:30:19
my god you won't have believe what happened
1:30:21
to David so what happened said someone took
1:30:25
over his phone he no longer receives his
1:30:29
own text messages that's how we that's part
1:30:31
of how he noticed it they they stole
1:30:34
his identity they created a driver's license with
1:30:39
a driver's license were able to unfreeze all
1:30:42
of his credit he has credit frozen at
1:30:44
the three big credit agencies they unfroze the
1:30:46
credit and then how do you unfreeze the
1:30:49
credit well you have to you can go
1:30:50
online and say this is me and they
1:30:52
had a driver's license they had a social
1:30:54
security number so did he is he the
1:30:56
one who froze the credit yes he froze
1:30:58
it he had it frozen okay like most
1:31:00
smart people you have your credit frozen so
1:31:02
you had his credit frozen they unfroze his
1:31:05
credit they could took completely they took over
1:31:08
the functions at least the the text messages
1:31:10
so they cloned or whatever they did that
1:31:14
I mean and the whole text messaging system
1:31:16
is that you know system was a system
1:31:17
7 whatever it's called that you just go
1:31:20
to some podunk country and say here's 50
1:31:23
grand let me on the text messaging system
1:31:25
okay here you go you know that by
1:31:27
the way those Trump messages you're getting don't
1:31:30
tap on the link okay it's probably gonna
1:31:32
get Pegasus spyware or other mercenary spyware and
1:31:37
then they so then they unfroze his credit
1:31:39
and immediately went to buy a Mercedes and
1:31:43
a Porsche Mercedes was okay with him the
1:31:50
Porsche people called called him at home and
1:31:52
said hey are you sure you want this
1:31:54
Porsche and that's how they found out about
1:31:56
it but the Mercedes deal was done so
1:31:59
your phone is a threat vector of epic
1:32:02
proportion and not my phone not yours no
1:32:06
and should not be used and just to
1:32:09
complete the whole Scott the whole spy grid
1:32:12
sound like Katherine Austin Fitz right now after
1:32:17
Starlink which I saw them fly over again
1:32:19
last night and I wanted to take a
1:32:21
picture however the the camera on the on
1:32:30
this phone is shit so I could not
1:32:32
get a picture but I saw the whole
1:32:34
train of lights going right overhead I think
1:32:36
it has to be on a clear night
1:32:37
when there's just a little bit of moon
1:32:39
we have a crescent waning yeah you have
1:32:41
to catch it because they're over you're over
1:32:44
there over your all the time you don't
1:32:48
get to see him necessarily it caught it
1:32:50
and it was just beautiful I'm like oh
1:32:52
my yeah I've seen I've never seen any
1:32:56
second time seeing them while walking the dog
1:32:59
and now well there's more coming Amazon has
1:33:02
launched its first batch of internet broadcasting satellites
1:33:05
kicking off its long-delayed deployment of an
1:33:08
internet from Space Network 27 satellites are now
1:33:11
in orbit at an altitude of nearly 630
1:33:14
kilometers above the Earth's surface Monday's launch from
1:33:18
the Atlas 5 rocket which took off from
1:33:20
Florida follows that of two experimental satellites launched
1:33:24
two years ago as part of project Kuiper
1:33:27
at ten billion dollars effort unveiled in 2019
1:33:30
competing with rival Elon Musk Starlink Jeff business
1:33:34
team claims that the satellites still launching are
1:33:37
now much more advanced than the first two
1:33:39
the company aims to put more than 3
1:33:41
,200 of these satellites into orbit marks SpaceX
1:33:45
has already launched more than 8,000 Starlink
1:33:48
since 2019 meanwhile a growing number of astronomers
1:33:52
are warning that the large number of satellites
1:33:55
is hampering their work and could pose an
1:33:57
accident risk yeah whatever so there's 600 kilometers
1:34:02
but Starlink's are lower I think I think
1:34:07
they're close to the 350 400 kilometers well
1:34:11
let's find out okay what the book of
1:34:21
knowledge is slow today I have to type
1:34:24
something in I know I know and on
1:34:27
that phone with those little keyboard is very
1:34:29
hard I know I'm using the regular I
1:34:33
know I know there's no threat vector against
1:34:36
you you're clean man you got no mercenaries
1:34:38
I like a 342 okay so Amazon's gonna
1:34:41
be at twice that height which will induce
1:34:44
latency more just no good doesn't seem like
1:34:48
it's good but but did you hear that
1:34:50
8,000 satellites yeah I heard that that's
1:34:54
a lot man the end and you know
1:34:57
everyone's also jacked oh yeah soon my t
1:34:59
-mobile phone will be able to use Starlink
1:35:01
okay talk about a threat vector all they
1:35:05
have to do then is just target zoom
1:35:07
in enhance rotate fire yeah pretty much you'll
1:35:15
be done no they're gonna first I'll be
1:35:18
targeting the cartels in Mexico oh yeah oh
1:35:21
yeah I think we bring back ham radio
1:35:24
for the kids it was much better you
1:35:27
know short bursts yep you know and you
1:35:30
can do it you can push a button
1:35:32
you can send text messages to each other
1:35:34
that looks cool you walk around school kids
1:35:37
would be like yeah the thing on your
1:35:38
belt yeah make it right make it a
1:35:40
racket all
1:35:51
right do you have any do you have
1:35:52
any more sequences because I have something I
1:35:54
want to try and roll out and it's
1:35:55
gonna be difficult and you're gonna hate me
1:35:57
for it so I want you to get
1:35:58
whatever you have that you want to get
1:35:59
out of the way let's do it well
1:36:01
yeah let's see did I want to play
1:36:03
some data stuff too from the USDS the
1:36:05
Department of was data's whatever what the US
1:36:10
Department of Data Service that's the original name
1:36:13
for Doge no it this a group of
1:36:16
well you know yes the United States Digital
1:36:19
Service that is the original but but they're
1:36:23
bitching and moaning because they're getting fired and
1:36:25
they and but they make some good points
1:36:26
that this is on NPR which is you
1:36:29
know they're big supporters of the haters of
1:36:31
Doge and the supporters of everything that's in
1:36:32
government but this woman makes a good point
1:36:35
and it's the stuff we talk about and
1:36:37
I don't know what they're gonna do about
1:36:38
it Karen Moronsky Chapman never saw her job
1:36:41
as political she just wanted to make the
1:36:43
government work a little better I joined USDS
1:36:46
to help people help American people to deliver
1:36:50
better services she's a data scientist and for
1:36:53
the last couple of years Karen's been quietly
1:36:56
working deep inside the federal government she's a
1:36:58
little known agency called the United States Digital
1:37:02
Service or USDS this is her first media
1:37:05
interview a lot of what I was doing
1:37:08
was trying to bridge the different data silos
1:37:13
across government and really just help agencies be
1:37:17
more efficient and effective by using data to
1:37:20
inform decisions you can think of the USDS
1:37:23
as a kind of helpdesk though that would
1:37:26
be underselling it it's more like helpdesk meets
1:37:29
SEAL Team 6 kind of special ops team
1:37:33
for broken websites when federal systems start to
1:37:36
fall apart it's the USDS that gets the
1:37:38
call like in the spring of 2024 when
1:37:43
the Department of Education rolled out its new
1:37:45
FAFSA application that's the form college students used
1:37:49
to apply for federal financial aid and last
1:37:52
spring it broke in a spectacular way the
1:37:54
Department of Education just found a calculation error
1:37:58
on hundreds of thousands of student aid applications
1:38:01
forms failed to upload pages led nowhere students
1:38:05
born in the year 2000 walked out completely
1:38:08
it was chaos the FAFSA fiasco was pretty
1:38:13
on par with like healthcare.gov like it
1:38:16
was pretty close to being a healthcare.gov
1:38:19
situation healthcare.gov that was the catastrophic rollout
1:38:24
of the Affordable Care Act what we call
1:38:26
Obamacare these days the website to sign up
1:38:30
crashed just two hours after launch just to
1:38:33
confirm United States Digital Services was renamed by
1:38:38
President Trump to Doge and they're using the
1:38:40
same terms connecting the data silos acting as
1:38:43
a helpdesk so this is one of the
1:38:45
unsuccessful data scientists who were there and really
1:38:49
weren't able to achieve anything except a very
1:38:51
expensive Obamacare website hold on she's still there
1:38:56
this is the thing that's weird about this
1:38:57
story oh wow okay let it go it
1:39:04
wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it became
1:39:06
a national embarrassment so disastrous it prompted the
1:39:10
government to create the USDS to be a
1:39:13
rescue team for things like this so when
1:39:16
FAFSA fell apart in 2024 it was Karen
1:39:19
and her team who stepped in they stabilized
1:39:21
the site unlocked access and got students the
1:39:24
aid they needed they've done this kind of
1:39:27
work for the CDC Social Security education it's
1:39:30
high stakes high pressure but Karen loved it
1:39:34
it's really easy to get addicted to this
1:39:36
work because it's so meaningful there's very few
1:39:39
roles that you can be positively impacting the
1:39:42
life of millions if not hundreds of millions
1:39:44
of people and for a while it felt
1:39:46
well safe totally immune from the turn of
1:39:49
politics yeah like technology is not political like
1:39:53
technology should be nonpartisan it doesn't matter who's
1:39:57
president I'm here to serve the people but
1:39:59
I was wrong George has proved that technology
1:40:03
and its use can be highly partisan the
1:40:05
Department of Government efficiency is charged with rooting
1:40:08
out waste fraud and abuse but when it
1:40:11
made its way to the US Digital Services
1:40:13
Department it appeared to be taking an agency
1:40:16
built to protect the government's digital systems and
1:40:19
started doing just the opposite a good analogy
1:40:22
is it's like Jenga and at some point
1:40:24
George is pulling out pieces and something's gonna
1:40:27
topple and we may not be able to
1:40:30
put it back wasn't Kara Swisher's ex-wife
1:40:33
in charge of her for a while Megan
1:40:35
didn't she go there that I know of
1:40:39
yeah I think she did I think she
1:40:40
did and and was it Matt Cutts from
1:40:44
Google he was there for a while the
1:40:46
guy who did Google search they had you
1:40:48
know what they were doing is they were
1:40:50
mine they were the ones that were mining
1:40:51
everything getting all the data for Obama that's
1:40:55
what those guys were doing I remember this
1:40:57
we talked about it at nauseam ad nauseam
1:41:01
ad nauseam I tell you so she doesn't
1:41:04
she doesn't like do doge's doge is weaponizing
1:41:07
my department is that the story I think
1:41:13
she lost one of her friends or something
1:41:15
but to doge you know that I got
1:41:17
fired I mean I can't really tell but
1:41:22
but she has a complaint coming up that
1:41:24
is is valuable I remember when I heard
1:41:26
that they had right access to Treasury I
1:41:28
was like oh my gosh like you can
1:41:30
break things they're not small things trillions of
1:41:33
dollars worth of things like Social Security and
1:41:37
tax refunds the majority of folks I see
1:41:40
having been hired into doge are very junior
1:41:43
these systems are not going to be anything
1:41:46
like anything that they have seen before take
1:41:49
the Social Security system it was built in
1:41:51
the 60s and 70s and it runs on
1:41:54
COBOL a programming language that is two or
1:41:57
even three times older than some of the
1:41:58
doge staffers they clearly don't understand COBOL when
1:42:01
they were like oh there's a hundred and
1:42:03
fifty year olds at Social Security Elon Musk
1:42:06
talked about that during an interview on Fox.
1:42:09
The date gamut.
1:42:10
Pressure examination of Social Security and we've got
1:42:12
people in there that a hundred and fifty
1:42:14
years old now do you know anyone that's
1:42:17
150 I don't okay and Musk said it
1:42:20
was proof of fraud except Karen says it
1:42:24
actually wasn't and it's like no that's the
1:42:26
default date for COBOL like if the field
1:42:29
is missing just the default date that's why
1:42:31
there's all these 150 year olds.
1:42:34
These hundred and fifty year olds weren't getting
1:42:36
checks they just didn't have a birth date
1:42:38
in the system and Karen said she would
1:42:40
have told the doge people as much if
1:42:42
they'd only asked but they never did they
1:42:46
just assumed they knew better.
1:42:48
Well we had that from our dude's name
1:42:49
Ben the day after this this story broke
1:42:52
about the 150 year olds now NPR is
1:42:54
showing up with the story six minutes worth
1:42:58
of story.
1:42:59
Yeah this is pretty funny but she does
1:43:02
the point about COBOL is it is a
1:43:04
good point but except for one thing that
1:43:06
I don't know why it hasn't been discussed
1:43:08
it's not even mentioned.
1:43:09
You mean why is there no birth date
1:43:11
for these people?
1:43:12
No what about COBOL?
1:43:14
COBOL is not hard to learn any one
1:43:16
of these guys who are coding in machine
1:43:19
language or assembler or anything actually can learn
1:43:24
COBOL it's one of the easiest languages to
1:43:26
learn why doesn't they just say some junior
1:43:28
guys I'm gonna learn COBOL it's not a
1:43:30
big deal that's why it's called a common
1:43:32
business-oriented language it was designed to be
1:43:35
used by schmucks.
1:43:37
COBOL schmoball just use grock baby I'm sure
1:43:41
grock does a great job at COBOL.
1:43:45
You're right it's common what was it again
1:43:47
was the acronym?
1:43:49
Common business-oriented language.
1:43:52
Yeah was it relatively simple unsophisticated language.
1:43:58
Well it's got a sophistication to it but
1:44:01
it's very it's very I learned it once
1:44:04
I don't know if I could code in
1:44:06
it now but it's not a hard it's
1:44:08
not it's Fortran is harder.
1:44:11
Like COBOL is for schmucks that is a
1:44:13
t-shirt or a bumper sticker right there.
1:44:15
I mean it's not you don't have to
1:44:17
be a genius to code COBOL that's the
1:44:20
point.
1:44:21
Yeah but I'm still stuck on how come
1:44:23
there are so many records in the system
1:44:25
where they don't have a birth date what
1:44:27
kind of system are you running over there?
1:44:30
Well there's that.
1:44:32
All right so since you broach the money
1:44:35
topic with the Treasury there I'm going to
1:44:38
attempt and I may fail and I hope
1:44:41
you give me some grace.
1:44:43
No.
1:44:47
I hope you give me some grace.
1:44:49
This is this is this preliminary stuff you're
1:44:51
doing right now is already setting up the
1:44:53
wall.
1:44:56
I think I can explain the stable coin
1:44:59
gambit.
1:45:00
Oh I don't know if you can I
1:45:02
mean I don't this is gonna bore people
1:45:04
stiff.
1:45:06
Well I mean would you rather play tik
1:45:09
-tok clips instead?
1:45:10
I mean I did.
1:45:11
I would actually yes but but but if
1:45:14
you want to make the attempt I don't
1:45:16
know why you want to do this.
1:45:18
Because it's after the you want to do
1:45:22
it after the donation segment?
1:45:23
No why would we do it after the
1:45:25
donation segment?
1:45:27
Okay I'll do it all right I'll do
1:45:28
it after the donation.
1:45:29
No I'm just saying that because it's gonna
1:45:31
give us a low count.
1:45:32
No I'll do it after.
1:45:35
All right this is attention but then if
1:45:38
I do it after the donation segment you
1:45:40
can't grouse and go crap until the very
1:45:43
end.
1:45:46
Oh I'll save it yeah I can save
1:45:48
it.
1:45:48
Okay yeah.
1:45:49
But how many clips are we talking about
1:45:50
here?
1:45:50
You make it sound like it's gonna be
1:45:52
a half-hour presentation on stable coin.
1:45:55
No I think it's probably about 17 minutes.
1:45:58
Oh my god.
1:45:59
Well it might it will affect it affects
1:46:02
world affairs.
1:46:07
I'm just saying it will affect world affairs
1:46:10
and we have to learn things about what
1:46:11
is a euro dollar.
1:46:13
Do you know what a euro dollar is?
1:46:17
No I don't.
1:46:18
We hear it all the time.
1:46:18
I can look it up.
1:46:20
It's easier to look it up seems to
1:46:21
me.
1:46:22
I'll look it up.
1:46:23
Yeah okay well you do that you look
1:46:24
it up and then I'll play some m5m
1:46:27
news to entertain everybody to keep them listening
1:46:29
until we get to the donation segment.
1:46:31
Oh chills this morning anticipation is building for
1:46:34
new music from one of the greatest voices
1:46:36
of all time.
1:46:37
Yes eight-time Grammy winner Barbra Streisand announced
1:46:40
this morning she is dropping a brand new
1:46:42
album.
1:46:43
And we just heard a sneak peek of
1:46:45
the first single called first time ever I
1:46:47
saw your face the new record is called
1:46:49
the secret of life partners volume 2.
1:46:53
By the way stop the clip for a
1:46:54
second.
1:46:55
This is around pet peeves.
1:46:58
Why don't they use the term like you
1:47:00
always use in the past release yes release
1:47:03
you're gonna release a new album instead of
1:47:06
she's gonna drop an album.
1:47:08
Well that's supposed to be hip or something.
1:47:10
That's what the kids are talking about man
1:47:12
you drop an album and by the way
1:47:15
they they're so hip they call the Hoosiers
1:47:17
the Hoziers which is kind of cool.
1:47:19
The Hozier?
1:47:20
It's a sequel to her 2014 platinum certified
1:47:23
album and it's been more than a decade
1:47:25
in the works.
1:47:26
She collaborated on the album with some of
1:47:27
the best in the business including Bob Dylan
1:47:30
Paul McCartney.
1:47:32
First off two dead guys right at the
1:47:34
top the best in the business business including
1:47:36
Bob Dylan.
1:47:37
McCartney's alive?
1:47:38
Barely.
1:47:39
Including Bob Dylan.
1:47:40
We all know we all know John.
1:47:42
And Dylan's alive.
1:47:43
Dylan's barely alive and we all know John
1:47:46
buried Paul.
1:47:47
Stop.
1:47:47
Including Bob Dylan Paul McCartney Ariana Grande Mariah
1:47:51
Carey Hozier and others.
1:47:53
Hozier.
1:47:53
The album comes out June 27th.
1:47:55
Alright Babs we're looking forward to that.
1:47:57
I'm looking forward to that whoo a new
1:48:01
duets album just dropped.
1:48:03
No she's not.
1:48:03
It's dropped.
1:48:05
It's dropped.
1:48:06
Pick it up.
1:48:07
It's dropped.
1:48:09
Who saw this coming everybody?
1:48:11
On the medical watch for you this afternoon
1:48:13
a newly found impact of vaccines on women.
1:48:15
Medical reporter Dina Baer is here to explain
1:48:17
Dina.
1:48:18
Lourdes and Ben vaccines for the flu and
1:48:20
COVID can alter the menstrual cycle.
1:48:23
It's not a permanent impact but for women
1:48:25
who have a regular cycle getting a flu
1:48:27
shot or a COVID vaccine changed the length
1:48:30
of the cycle.
1:48:31
Multiple studies confirm menstrual disturbances following vaccines.
1:48:36
Now the Journal of the American Medical Association
1:48:38
confirms concerns expressed by women.
1:48:41
Experts say there's no need to worry the
1:48:43
cycle returns to normal and there shouldn't be
1:48:45
a reason for vaccine hesitancy based on the
1:48:48
menstrual cycle impact.
1:48:49
We hammered this during COVID.
1:48:53
Yep yep yep.
1:48:55
And we got excoriated for it.
1:48:56
It's bullcrap.
1:48:57
I did specifically.
1:49:01
We had a lot of people angry and
1:49:02
they all came back said I'm sorry you
1:49:04
were right.
1:49:05
It interrupted.
1:49:06
It disrupted.
1:49:08
It increased flow.
1:49:09
It became irregular like awesome like crazy flow.
1:49:14
Yeah the nurses were reporting it.
1:49:16
But don't worry there's nothing to worry about.
1:49:18
Nothing to worry about at all.
1:49:20
Don't worry about it.
1:49:22
These people are ghouls.
1:49:24
And who saw this coming?
1:49:27
Researchers at the University of Virginia say a
1:49:30
new study has proven safe and effective.
1:49:32
Whoa safe and effective you know that's gonna
1:49:35
be a doozy.
1:49:36
This time I actually believe it.
1:49:37
Safe and effective at desensitizing children to peanut
1:49:40
allergy.
1:49:41
Yeah UVA Health children's researchers tested children by
1:49:44
giving them increased doses of peanut protein.
1:49:47
Now by the end of the study all
1:49:49
27 children were able to eat 500 milligrams
1:49:52
of peanut protein daily.
1:49:54
Eight children are now freely eating peanuts.
1:49:57
Researchers are calling for larger clinical trials to
1:50:00
advance what could be a game-changing new
1:50:03
treatment for peanut allergies in young children.
1:50:06
Oh go figure.
1:50:07
For years we've been oh you can't have
1:50:09
any peanuts near my child.
1:50:11
My child was no good.
1:50:12
Whereas if you just expose the kid to
1:50:14
peanuts it turns out they're okay.
1:50:18
Well they were never exposed young enough that's
1:50:20
always been the issue.
1:50:22
Yes it's like so obvious.
1:50:27
People.
1:50:28
Where's Bobby the op in all of this?
1:50:30
Yeah that's what I like.
1:50:31
Where's the Epstein files?
1:50:33
Yeah I got some super cuts that'll round
1:50:36
it out.
1:50:37
Okay super cuts are always good.
1:50:39
I'm glad you have them.
1:50:40
Yo you have three holy crap.
1:50:42
Yeah because I'm they're leading up to the
1:50:44
current super cut that's floating around after chaos
1:50:47
and threat to democracy.
1:50:49
We have a couple of here.
1:50:50
We have the moment.
1:50:51
This one was a flop.
1:50:53
The strength that we have.
1:50:54
Sorry.
1:50:54
Is the moment flop?
1:50:56
The strength that we have is in this
1:50:58
moment.
1:50:58
Listen to your constituents.
1:51:01
Center them in this moment.
1:51:03
But I can tell you that there are
1:51:05
a lot of people that are watching his
1:51:06
leadership in this moment.
1:51:08
This is the moment.
1:51:09
No I think about what's happening you know
1:51:11
in this moment.
1:51:12
What's important is that we meet this moment.
1:51:16
So are these current Democrats the ones to
1:51:18
meet the moment?
1:51:20
What do you want to see us doing
1:51:22
right now in this moment?
1:51:24
And which Democrats are actually going to stand
1:51:27
up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in
1:51:31
this moment?
1:51:32
The fight that you all are exhibiting is
1:51:34
not just what the base wants but it's
1:51:37
what this moment requires.
1:51:38
The strength that we have is in this
1:51:40
moment.
1:51:42
Well by the way I think we hit
1:51:44
we played this one already.
1:51:46
In fact I'm pretty sure.
1:51:47
Yeah this next one might be.
1:51:50
You talking about this one or the next
1:51:51
one?
1:51:51
No the in this moment.
1:51:52
We played the in this moment.
1:51:54
But it was a flop.
1:51:55
Just the idea is that they were just
1:51:56
repeating this is a flop that never worked
1:51:59
out.
1:51:59
Yep that's a flop.
1:52:00
And then we had the threat to democracy.
1:52:03
We had the chaos which I don't have.
1:52:05
I mean those are also super cuts they
1:52:06
don't have.
1:52:07
But then we have the social media dangerous
1:52:09
series which we I think may have played
1:52:12
but this is another version of it because
1:52:14
it's got the the the annoying overlays.
1:52:17
But this is another example of something that
1:52:20
was they they they push this stuff out
1:52:24
trying to I don't know if they're looking
1:52:25
for it to catch hold or I would
1:52:27
say these are ineffective.
1:52:30
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1:52:33
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1:52:33
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1:52:36
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1:52:37
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1:52:39
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1:52:41
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1:52:42
We are extremely proud of the quality balanced
1:52:45
journalism that CBS 4 News produces.
1:52:48
But we are concerned about the quality of
1:52:49
the news stories that are plaguing our country.
1:52:55
The sharing of biased and false news has
1:52:57
become all too common on social media.
1:53:00
More alarming some media outlets publish these same
1:53:03
fake stories without checking facts first.
1:53:05
The sharing of biased and false news has
1:53:08
become all too common on social media.
1:53:10
More alarming some media outlets publish these same
1:53:14
fake stories without checking facts first.
1:53:17
Unfortunately some members of the media use their
1:53:20
platforms to push their own personal bias and
1:53:23
agenda to control exactly what people think.
1:53:26
And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
1:54:09
Yeah, I'm going to use these.
1:54:10
I'm speaking to the high school class.
1:54:13
Yeah, you should definitely use that one.
1:54:16
About propaganda.
1:54:16
Yeah, I'm going to show this to them.
1:54:17
Yeah, and it's like, it's an embarrassment.
1:54:20
But they continue, and this is the latest
1:54:22
one.
1:54:22
I think this is pretty new.
1:54:24
This one I have not seen.
1:54:25
This is the escalation.
1:54:27
They're trying to get this into the mainstream
1:54:29
thinking that, you know, Trump's escalation.
1:54:33
I don't know why.
1:54:34
Is that a bad term?
1:54:35
Or they're trying to equate it with the
1:54:37
Soviet Union?
1:54:38
I'm not sure, but they're trying to get
1:54:42
this word in there.
1:54:43
And it's all the same jerks.
1:54:46
We begin tonight with the escalation in the
1:54:48
president's crackdown on illegal immigration.
1:54:50
Today's dramatic escalation in the Trump administration's conflict
1:54:54
with judges.
1:54:55
The Trump administration signaling a major escalation in
1:54:58
its deportation efforts.
1:54:59
Today, an escalation in the Trump administration's battle
1:55:02
with the judiciary.
1:55:04
Tensions between local and federal authorities over President
1:55:07
Trump's immigration crackdown escalated today.
1:55:10
We begin this hour with a major escalation
1:55:12
of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.
1:55:15
We begin with what appears to be a
1:55:17
major escalation in the Trump administration's deportation efforts.
1:55:21
And what is a major escalation in the
1:55:23
battle here in D.C. over immigration and
1:55:25
deportation?
1:55:26
This feels like an insane and reckless escalation
1:55:30
from the Trump administration arresting a judge.
1:55:32
I will tell you, you are not alone.
1:55:34
This is a dramatic escalation.
1:55:35
More aggressive moves, more escalation.
1:55:38
Trump's escalation of his migrant purge.
1:55:41
This kind of escalatory action.
1:55:43
This is a dramatic escalation.
1:55:49
We see an immigration escalation.
1:55:51
An escalation.
1:55:53
Wow, that's a good one.
1:55:55
I'm going to give you a borderline for
1:55:56
that.
1:55:57
That was dynamite.
1:55:59
Borderline.
1:56:00
That was good.
1:56:04
Escalation.
1:56:05
I need the whole Sharpton thing.
1:56:08
This escalation of Trump.
1:56:11
The escalation.
1:56:13
I love him.
1:56:14
Call it a migrant purge.
1:56:17
Nice.
1:56:20
Migrant purge.
1:56:21
And with that escalation, I'd like to say
1:56:23
in the morning to you, the man who
1:56:25
put the sea in the unclippable wench, say
1:56:27
hello to my friend on the other end,
1:56:28
the one, the only, Mr. John C.
1:56:31
DeVore.
1:56:35
Hi, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam
1:56:37
Crane.
1:56:37
In the morning, I ship the sea of
1:56:38
Buddhists on the ground, feeding the air subs
1:56:39
in the water to the dames and knights
1:56:41
out there.
1:56:41
In the morning to you, the trolls in
1:56:42
the troll room.
1:56:43
Hold on a second.
1:56:46
Well, I don't know, man.
1:56:49
I think your supercut chased everybody away.
1:56:52
1880.
1:56:52
I think the threat of your...
1:56:55
Oh, hold on.
1:56:56
Oh, no.
1:56:57
Oh, right away, we lose the...
1:56:59
Right away.
1:57:00
Hold on a second.
1:57:03
That's crazy.
1:57:04
Right away.
1:57:04
The minute you started talking, it switched interfaces
1:57:08
again.
1:57:09
Oh, can you hear me now?
1:57:11
I can hear you now.
1:57:12
I hear you.
1:57:12
Can you hear me now?
1:57:13
I hear you now.
1:57:14
You sound great.
1:57:15
I don't know what that is.
1:57:17
I don't know.
1:57:17
Something's triggering it.
1:57:19
What?
1:57:21
The question is, what's triggering it?
1:57:24
Something.
1:57:26
Anyway, 1880 is the count on the trolls
1:57:28
in the troll room, trollroom.io, and that
1:57:30
is where you can go to listen to
1:57:31
the show live.
1:57:32
We've been doing it live for a long
1:57:34
time.
1:57:35
We are in our 18th year, and the
1:57:37
troll room is fun.
1:57:38
It's ephemeral because you can go in there
1:57:40
and go, troll whatever, and it just scrolls
1:57:42
right off, and it doesn't matter.
1:57:45
Then you're just shouting into the void.
1:57:46
It doesn't really make any difference.
1:57:48
So get it out of your system in
1:57:49
the troll room and listen to us live
1:57:51
at trollroom.io or get a modern podcast
1:57:54
app.
1:57:54
I really do recommend it.
1:57:56
By the way, I think we talked about
1:57:57
pocket casts last time, and so there's now
1:58:02
definitive answer from Apple that the donate button
1:58:05
in the app is okay.
1:58:08
So everybody is now doing this.
1:58:10
They're adding the donut, the donate button into
1:58:14
their apps.
1:58:15
Apple said it's okay, so it's okay?
1:58:17
Yes.
1:58:18
Is that the way this works?
1:58:19
Yes.
1:58:19
If it's not okay, then, oh, you have
1:58:21
to use Apple Pay, and we take 30%.
1:58:25
Don't you understand?
1:58:26
Oh, I see what you're talking about.
1:58:28
This has always been the problem, and the
1:58:30
app developers have always been afraid, like, oh,
1:58:32
man, my app will get rejected if I
1:58:34
put this in there.
1:58:35
No.
1:58:36
No.
1:58:36
You can put it in there, and it's
1:58:38
great because then people are listening.
1:58:39
Oh, I should support these guys.
1:58:42
Let me just look at my app that
1:58:43
I'm already using.
1:58:44
Click.
1:58:44
Boom.
1:58:45
You can support us as part of our
1:58:47
value for value method.
1:58:50
By the way, troublemakers abound.
1:58:54
We got an AI-generated note from Mel
1:58:58
Cooley, executive producer.
1:59:00
Did you see this?
1:59:01
No.
1:59:01
An AI review of our show.
1:59:05
Urgent content review and advertiser feedback.
1:59:10
I think I did see this.
1:59:11
I didn't look at it, though.
1:59:13
Gentlemen, this memo requires your immediate attention.
1:59:15
Following the broadcast of Episode 1759, we have
1:59:18
received deeply concerning feedback from our key advertisers.
1:59:21
The response has been negative and frankly threatens
1:59:23
our financial stability.
1:59:25
Specifically, advertisers have cited the following issues as
1:59:28
problematic and potentially brand damaging.
1:59:30
The give on Asian media assassination tagline.
1:59:34
Did we use that?
1:59:35
I don't remember that.
1:59:36
I don't know what you're talking about.
1:59:37
I don't know either.
1:59:38
This was flagged immediately as insensitive and potentially
1:59:40
offensive.
1:59:41
The lengthy and seemingly unfocused segments.
1:59:44
Did I get this email or not?
1:59:46
No, I don't think so.
1:59:47
I don't remember it.
1:59:47
So AI analyzed our show, 1759, as an
1:59:53
advertiser, and they hate it.
1:59:55
Several advertisers noted the extended period.
1:59:58
That proves our complete point.
1:59:59
Yes.
2:00:00
I'll read a few more.
2:00:02
Several advertisers noted the extended period dedicated to
2:00:05
topics like the Pope's funeral and the minutiae
2:00:07
of online hoaxes.
2:00:08
They feel the show lacked a clear through
2:00:10
line, at times meandering, losing audience engagement, and
2:00:13
by extension, the value of their placements.
2:00:17
The tapping me along discussion.
2:00:19
While intended as analysis, the extended speculation on
2:00:22
Trump's ambiguous phrasing.
2:00:24
Oh, by the way, that's interesting they brought
2:00:26
that up.
2:00:26
Yep.
2:00:27
Because we know what it means.
2:00:28
Well, there's two versions.
2:00:30
Well, the version I believe to be the
2:00:32
correct version is the golfing one.
2:00:34
Yes, I agree.
2:00:36
I think that's the right one.
2:00:37
Because he's a golfer.
2:00:38
Yes.
2:00:39
Tapping along as a golf term.
2:00:41
Tapping, you know, putt, putt, putt, tapping the
2:00:43
ball along slowly.
2:00:45
There is a second one, however, from producer
2:00:48
Andy.
2:00:48
He says, in a pig slaughterhouse, there's a
2:00:53
guy who uses a rattle attached to a
2:00:55
broomstick to keep the pigs moving into their
2:00:57
final destination by tapping it on the floor
2:01:00
behind them.
2:01:01
Yeah, I don't think that's it.
2:01:02
I like it, though.
2:01:03
I like the visual.
2:01:04
I like the visual.
2:01:05
But I'm glad that the AI picked it
2:01:07
up.
2:01:07
Because they picked it up as boring.
2:01:10
Yes, boring.
2:01:11
Now, wait, let's back off for a second.
2:01:13
Now, why was this sent in the first
2:01:15
place?
2:01:16
What is the end game here of sending
2:01:22
this note to us?
2:01:24
We don't have advertisers, so it's got nothing
2:01:27
to do with any real advertisers.
2:01:28
It's some sort of a phony baloney scam?
2:01:31
No, this is someone who thought they could
2:01:33
find a good use of AI.
2:01:35
Oh, and this is what they found?
2:01:36
This is it.
2:01:38
The extended listener donation segment.
2:01:41
Here we go.
2:01:42
While listener support is vital, the length of
2:01:45
the donation readouts, including personal anecdotes and tangents,
2:01:48
was cited as excessive and disruptive to the
2:01:50
show's flow.
2:01:51
Advertisers are concerned that this extended segment reduces
2:01:54
the time available for content and their messaging.
2:01:57
And then finally, tone and language.
2:02:01
Certain advertisers expressed discomfort with the overall tone,
2:02:05
particularly the use of dismissive language like bullcrap
2:02:08
and jamokes.
2:02:10
Well, at least he nailed it.
2:02:13
And the sometimes cynical and negative framing of
2:02:15
news events.
2:02:16
They prefer a more measured and analytical approach.
2:02:19
And it goes on and on and on
2:02:20
and on.
2:02:21
Wow, you've got to send me that.
2:02:23
Yeah, I will.
2:02:25
The AI then made a rap song out
2:02:27
of it, which I will not bore you
2:02:28
with.
2:02:29
No, you don't need that.
2:02:30
It's horrible.
2:02:32
I'm sure it is.
2:02:33
It's just crap.
2:02:33
So anyway, Time Talent Treasure is how we
2:02:37
operate this ship, which means we need your
2:02:39
financial support.
2:02:40
But we appreciate any kind of time and
2:02:43
talent that you put into it, which includes
2:02:44
the work that our artists do.
2:02:46
They always provide us with a piece of
2:02:47
artwork that we can use as the album
2:02:49
art and to get attention for engagement farming
2:02:53
on the socials, to be quite honest about
2:02:55
it.
2:02:55
And it always seems to work.
2:02:57
People love this one, although I did get
2:02:59
the errands.
2:03:00
Man, if you hate Tim Pool so much,
2:03:02
just don't talk about him.
2:03:04
You're sending audience to him.
2:03:06
Okay.
2:03:07
All right.
2:03:08
I'm sure.
2:03:08
Because Episode 1759 titled Eat the Babies.
2:03:12
I don't care about sending audience to Tim
2:03:14
Pool one way or the other.
2:03:16
I know.
2:03:17
But this is I'm just giving you the
2:03:18
feedback.
2:03:19
I'm giving you true.
2:03:20
I mean, if you if he gets audience,
2:03:22
he gets some recognition on the show.
2:03:23
Maybe he'll maybe maybe he'll log roll and
2:03:26
give us a log roll.
2:03:28
It's called pod rolling.
2:03:30
Pod rolling.
2:03:31
You pod roll.
2:03:33
You don't log roll.
2:03:34
That's so 2005.
2:03:36
It's pod rolling.
2:03:38
The artwork came to us from a well
2:03:40
-known artist, Capitalist Agenda, and it was indeed
2:03:43
the Beanie Boys Beanie with the googly eyes
2:03:46
in his googly eyes is what made it
2:03:48
work in his seat as at the new
2:03:50
media chair.
2:03:52
Oh, by the way, I had a where
2:03:54
do I have that?
2:03:56
There was a new guy in the new
2:03:58
media chair.
2:03:59
Let me see.
2:04:01
Where did I have that?
2:04:04
And the new guy, you know, that that's
2:04:07
an embarrassment being in that chair, it seems
2:04:09
to me.
2:04:11
Well, the guy in at this time was
2:04:13
Winston Marshall, formerly guitarist and banjo player of
2:04:19
Mumford and Sons.
2:04:21
He's British, and he now occupies this seat.
2:04:26
And I think this was also a set
2:04:28
up bull crap question.
2:04:30
Sorry, advertisers.
2:04:32
As he was, he was referring to the
2:04:36
sordid state of affairs in his home country
2:04:39
of the United Kingdoms.
2:04:41
It's in Britain.
2:04:43
We have had a quarter of a million
2:04:45
people issued non-crime hate incidents.
2:04:50
As we speak, there are people in prison
2:04:51
for quite literally reposting memes.
2:04:55
We have extensive prison sentences and for for
2:04:59
tweets, social media posts and general free speech
2:05:05
issues.
2:05:05
Would the Trump administration consider political asylum for
2:05:10
British citizens in such a situation?
2:05:13
Well, to your latter question, it's a very
2:05:15
good one.
2:05:15
I have not heard that proposed to the
2:05:17
president, nor have I spoken to him about
2:05:19
that idea.
2:05:20
But I certainly can and talk to our
2:05:21
national security team and see if it's something
2:05:23
the administration would entertain.
2:05:26
Yes, please.
2:05:26
Asylum for the Brits, I tell you, that
2:05:29
was a set up question.
2:05:32
So we know that that chair is there
2:05:35
for bull crap.
2:05:36
It's the set up bull crap chair.
2:05:38
Yes.
2:05:40
And of course, everyone goes along with it.
2:05:43
I wonder if they hand them a script.
2:05:45
Would you like you do want to be
2:05:46
in the chair this week?
2:05:48
Sure.
2:05:49
Well, can you do this?
2:05:50
And they give you give you a script.
2:05:52
They look it over and you decide, yeah,
2:05:54
I can do that.
2:05:55
If they do, I have to memorize it.
2:05:58
Yeah, you have to memorize it.
2:05:59
OK, I can manage that.
2:06:00
Imagine that they said, OK, Kerry, you're up.
2:06:02
You're in the new media chair.
2:06:03
I'd sit there and then I just I
2:06:05
just I'd have the script.
2:06:06
But then I'd hold up a picture and
2:06:07
say, hey, Carolyn, what's this in your mouth?
2:06:09
That's what I would do.
2:06:11
That would make me.
2:06:12
No, you're right.
2:06:12
I wouldn't do that.
2:06:14
You know, the first lobbering.
2:06:18
Hey, Carol.
2:06:22
Anyway, thank you very much.
2:06:23
Capitalist agenda.
2:06:24
You're a unanimous winner.
2:06:25
Let's take a quick look at no agenda.
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Our generator dot com.
2:06:30
Was there anything that had a lot of
2:06:32
tapping stuff that.
2:06:34
Yeah, no, that was so head and shoulders
2:06:36
above everything else.
2:06:38
I didn't want to actually use it because
2:06:39
I thought we don't need to send audience
2:06:42
to him.
2:06:43
Just send audience.
2:06:44
That's so much.
2:06:45
It's kind of an insulting thing.
2:06:47
But you like it.
2:06:49
But it's so funny.
2:06:50
You have to say you said specifically it's
2:06:52
the googly eyes that make it work.
2:06:54
It is the googly eyes.
2:06:56
It was definitely the googly eyes.
2:06:57
It's fantastic.
2:06:58
It was fantastic.
2:06:59
Yeah, no, capitalist agenda has skills.
2:07:01
He's got mad skills.
2:07:03
Mad skills.
2:07:03
And he's got, yeah, he's got the little
2:07:04
tag with this new media on the earphones.
2:07:08
Idiotic.
2:07:09
It was.
2:07:09
Well, ever since Tim pooled, you know, the
2:07:12
five million dollars came out and he thought
2:07:15
that it was because he was that good.
2:07:16
He just had to make fun of it.
2:07:18
I mean, remember the Russian money?
2:07:20
Oh, yeah.
2:07:21
Who can you forget?
2:07:22
Yeah.
2:07:23
Hmm.
2:07:25
Anyway, we want to thank everybody.
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We always thank everybody who supports us with
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And we kick it off with our anonymous
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black sheep from Maryville, Tennessee.
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Six hundred and ten dollars and anonymous black
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sheep who I know the anonymous black sheep
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sent me a note, actually.
2:08:20
And this is it.
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Thank you for the awesome content.
2:08:23
I've emailed Adam off and on.
2:08:24
Adam, I'm a recent Christian and do a
2:08:26
daily journal.
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The company is called Daily.
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The company is called Daily Kairos.
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K-A-I-R-O-S.
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Excellent product.
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I recommend.
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I'm a military contractor that embeds with Army
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and Marine Corps units.
2:08:39
This is the signal guy.
2:08:41
Signals the app.
2:08:42
The D.O.D. uses end to end
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encryption.
2:08:44
I'd like to call out Michael.
2:08:46
Steers charts, which is who we call it
2:08:49
earlier as a douche bag.
2:08:50
I didn't realize you've been double douche bag.
2:08:53
I didn't even realize you've been double douche
2:08:56
bag.
2:08:56
That's bad.
2:08:57
That's bad.
2:08:59
They didn't realize that he donated inside baseball.
2:09:02
We've had two units move out of Iraq
2:09:04
and the third will be in June when
2:09:05
the contract is up.
2:09:06
We have other new sites and other in
2:09:08
another Middle Eastern country.
2:09:10
Hmm.
2:09:11
Another two sites in Africa.
2:09:13
Another site added in the Pacific.
2:09:15
Unlike allegedly Pete Hegseth, there's no operational security
2:09:19
being divulged.
2:09:21
FYI, I was on a green suit deployment
2:09:23
with JSOC when our boys smoked the Wagner
2:09:26
guys in Syria.
2:09:28
This is the level of producer we are.
2:09:32
I just love that.
2:09:34
We smoked the Wagner guys in Syria.
2:09:36
This is what I'm talking about.
2:09:38
This is why we are the best podcast
2:09:40
in the universe.
2:09:42
And he says, Jingles, you might die.
2:09:47
Love you both.
2:09:48
Jesus loves us all.
2:09:50
You might die.
2:09:51
Yeah, if you come across the anonymous black
2:09:53
sheep, you might die.
2:09:55
All right.
2:09:56
That's true.
2:09:57
Oh, I'm sorry.
2:09:58
And I have the classic, that's true.
2:10:00
That's true.
2:10:01
I actually loaded it up.
2:10:02
There you go.
2:10:04
Scott Horton's up.
2:10:05
He's in Malibu, California.
2:10:06
Who is this Scott Horton?
2:10:08
Never heard of that guy.
2:10:09
Never heard of Scott Horton.
2:10:10
550-50.
2:10:13
Hello, John Z, Adam, and the whole Gitmo
2:10:16
Nation.
2:10:17
This is the other Scott Horton.
2:10:18
Ah, there it is.
2:10:19
I made it out to Leo Bravo's meetup
2:10:23
this weekend.
2:10:24
What a great turnout and what fun people.
2:10:26
I'm donating 550-50 to finish up my
2:10:29
nighting.
2:10:30
I needed 33 cents to complete to 1
2:10:33
,000.
2:10:34
Wow.
2:10:34
And wanted to add Commodore 2.
2:10:38
I haven't thought of a good name yet,
2:10:41
so that will be coming soon with my
2:10:43
accounting.
2:10:45
I want to call out, I think he's
2:10:47
on the list anyway for the Commodore ship.
2:10:49
He is on the list for Commodore ship,
2:10:50
yep.
2:10:51
And there's a couple of stragglers, by the
2:10:53
way, that are already, there's issues with their
2:10:56
Commodore ship, but they'll get it next show.
2:11:00
I wanted to call out the Pineapple Princess
2:11:03
and Dano as douchebags.
2:11:06
Dario.
2:11:07
Oh.
2:11:08
Not even close to Dano.
2:11:09
Well, if you look at it from where
2:11:11
I'm sitting, about a mile away from the
2:11:13
monitor, it looks like Dano.
2:11:13
Get closer, Pineapple Princess.
2:11:15
Douchebag.
2:11:17
And Dario, formerly known as Dano.
2:11:19
Douchebag.
2:11:21
And let Tyrone know that he still has
2:11:24
the stench of douchebaggery wafting from him.
2:11:28
Douchebag.
2:11:30
Thank you, John and Adam, for keeping so
2:11:34
many of us sane and helping us to
2:11:36
see through the media slash propaganda BS.
2:11:40
I'd like Jobs, Goat Karma, and Her Head
2:11:43
is Gone, and LG Boomshakalaka.
2:11:46
And Her Head is Gone.
2:11:47
Boomshakalaka.
2:11:49
Boomshakalaka.
2:11:49
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and Jobs.
2:11:53
Let's vote for Jobs.
2:11:55
Yeah!
2:11:57
Karma.
2:12:00
Austin Carr is next.
2:12:01
He's in Miami Springs, Florida, 533.33. Love
2:12:05
those 33s.
2:12:06
It's a switcheroo.
2:12:07
ITM Jen, since I've already spent many, many
2:12:10
thousands so my daughter could become a Vanderbilt
2:12:12
University Commodore graduate, I thought, what the heck?
2:12:15
Well, another 533.33 would be a bargain,
2:12:19
so she could also become a no-agenda
2:12:20
Commodore.
2:12:21
Please dub Abby Paulson as Commodore of the
2:12:25
Human Resource Producers.
2:12:27
So now do I put...
2:12:29
I'll just do Abby Paulson.
2:12:31
I'll put the whole thing in there.
2:12:33
Make it official.
2:12:35
Okay.
2:12:35
We don't want to get those switcheroos wrong.
2:12:38
Baby number three on the way.
2:12:40
Soon-to-be 33-year-old mom.
2:12:42
There you go.
2:12:42
Austin Carr.
2:12:43
P.S. Abby is also the wife of
2:12:45
the Coast Guard pilot who last year gave
2:12:46
an in-the-morning shout-out during his
2:12:48
M5M interview after a Gulf of America hurricane
2:12:51
rescue.
2:12:52
Yes, I remember.
2:12:53
I believe such a free publicity donation for
2:12:55
the no-agenda show is worthy of an
2:12:57
honorary no-agenda Commodore ship.
2:12:59
Hmm.
2:13:00
It's your duty.
2:13:02
It's your duty.
2:13:03
This is not a...
2:13:04
Exactly.
2:13:05
It's your duty.
2:13:06
It's your duty.
2:13:07
All right.
2:13:09
Thank you very much.
2:13:10
The switcheroo has been made.
2:13:11
Austin to Abby.
2:13:14
Sir Marcus in Egan, Minnesota.
2:13:18
By 1538.
2:13:20
Guys, this is Sir Marcus of Gerkeland.
2:13:26
Gerkeland.
2:13:28
Pickle Land, maybe?
2:13:30
I don't know.
2:13:32
Gerkeland, yeah.
2:13:34
My sweet stepdaughter, Blair, nicknamed me Commodore years
2:13:40
ago due to driving boats on our Minnesota
2:13:43
lakes.
2:13:44
This is the land of 10,000 lakes.
2:13:46
So I thought I'd better make it official.
2:13:49
So how about Mark Commodore of Pro Wing
2:13:52
County.
2:13:53
Thanks.
2:13:54
Sounds good to me.
2:13:56
Sir Milkman comes in next from Evington, Virginia.
2:13:58
$500.
2:13:59
And he just says, Sir Milkman of Evington,
2:14:02
Barron.
2:14:03
All right.
2:14:04
Zedock Brown III in Pukalani, Hawaii.
2:14:09
Pukalani.
2:14:11
Pukalani, Hawaii.
2:14:13
500.
2:14:14
ITM Gents had to get in under the
2:14:17
wire for Commodore.
2:14:18
Mahalo for all you do.
2:14:20
Mahalo for you.
2:14:22
Wow.
2:14:22
We have three with no note here.
2:14:26
So that will be three double-up karmas.
2:14:27
The first for SDG in Oakland, California.
2:14:31
$500.
2:14:32
And a double-up karma for you.
2:14:35
You've got karma.
2:14:38
I might as well do the other two.
2:14:39
Yeah, might as well.
2:14:40
Brock Reinhold, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.
2:14:44
$500.
2:14:45
Double-up karma for you.
2:14:47
You've got karma.
2:14:50
And John Tucker from Omaha, Nebraska.
2:14:53
$500.
2:14:54
And a double-up karma for you.
2:14:55
You've got karma.
2:15:01
Laurens de Kooster.
2:15:04
I'm guessing.
2:15:06
Laurens de Kooster.
2:15:08
De Kooster in Belgium.
2:15:11
Ittigem.
2:15:12
$350.
2:15:14
93.
2:15:15
ITM John and Adam keep up the great
2:15:16
work.
2:15:17
No jingles, no karma.
2:15:18
Greetings from Belgium.
2:15:20
Ittigem.
2:15:21
And he's got some something here.
2:15:23
Met vriendelijke groeten.
2:15:27
Loves and kisses.
2:15:28
I hope this note finds you well.
2:15:31
I hope this note finds you well.
2:15:34
SirDibsOnLiving, North Providence, Rhode Island.
2:15:36
That's where my mom is from.
2:15:38
$333.33. And SirDibs says, ITM John and
2:15:41
Adam, no jingles, no karma.
2:15:43
SirDibsOnLiving, thank you very much.
2:15:45
Yeah, and you got the next one, too,
2:15:47
for obvious reasons.
2:15:48
In the morning, John and Adam says, Andrew
2:15:50
Dechter.
2:15:51
And greetings to all Gitmo Nation from Northern
2:15:54
Wildcat Territory, FEMA Region No.
2:15:56
4, a.k.a. Northern Kentucky.
2:15:57
I come to you with heavy heart.
2:16:00
My 50-year-old wife, Angel, was diagnosed
2:16:02
with stage 4 kidney cancer in September of
2:16:05
2022.
2:16:05
She lost the kidney, underwent immunotherapy, and several
2:16:08
other courses of treatment, but the cancer still
2:16:10
spread.
2:16:11
Cancer sucks, and cancer that doesn't respond to
2:16:14
treatment sucks even more.
2:16:16
After learning the cancer spread to her brain,
2:16:18
she finally had enough and elected for home
2:16:20
hospice in March.
2:16:21
She is finally resting comfortably and seems to
2:16:23
be pain-free.
2:16:24
She is in her final days, and her
2:16:26
passing is imminent.
2:16:27
She was a fifth-grade teacher and was
2:16:29
one of the best in Boone County, Kentucky.
2:16:31
She had zero transitions in her class over
2:16:33
the years.
2:16:34
Angel will be sorely missed, but my three
2:16:36
kids and I will carry on her legacy.
2:16:39
Angel was not a listener of No Agenda,
2:16:41
but she tolerated my zeal for it and
2:16:44
didn't complain about my No Agenda coffee mugs,
2:16:46
stickers, and hats.
2:16:47
I wish to honor her tolerance by making
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her an executive producer for the May Day
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show, 1760.
2:16:52
Please accept this treasure of 333.33 for
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show 1760 in her name.
2:16:58
I request massive amounts of No Agenda health
2:17:01
karma for my beautiful wife in her final
2:17:02
days.
2:17:03
She needs it.
2:17:04
F-cancer, please.
2:17:06
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
2:17:07
Of course.
2:17:08
And she's in our prayers, mine for sure.
2:17:15
You've got karma.
2:17:20
Vert Fuller in Batavia, New York, $300, and
2:17:24
he sent in a check with a note,
2:17:26
which I will read, to DNC, $300.
2:17:33
Ever had it in his hand written in
2:17:35
a kind of a sloppy style.
2:17:39
Even when you take the plug out, you
2:17:44
two are electrifying.
2:17:46
How did I ever make it before COVID
2:17:51
when I didn't know about your podcast?
2:17:54
You are like a lost and found, I
2:17:59
guess.
2:18:01
Yeah, you're like lost and found, referring to
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a place where you go pick lost and
2:18:06
found stuff up.
2:18:07
I guess.
2:18:07
I would like to give this check donation
2:18:10
to making my son Andy a closer to
2:18:14
being a knight.
2:18:15
Okay, I don't know if he's on the
2:18:17
list or not.
2:18:18
Karma for my birthday on the 29th.
2:18:21
Is that on the list?
2:18:22
I don't know.
2:18:22
I think it is.
2:18:23
I'll check.
2:18:24
Let me see.
2:18:24
On the list, along with Willie Nelson.
2:18:28
Oh.
2:18:30
And then he says, too long a note.
2:18:32
When it's not really long at all, it's
2:18:33
just hard to read.
2:18:35
And by the way, that should be two
2:18:36
T-W-O's.
2:18:40
Sir, short for nothing.
2:18:43
Okay.
2:18:45
That's it?
2:18:46
Yeah, that's it.
2:18:50
Wirt Fuller, hold on a second.
2:18:52
Yeah, he's on there.
2:18:54
Rick W.
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Cable is in Modesta, California.
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$300, our last executive producer for this show.
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Thank you very much, Rich, for featuring us
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That's nice.
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Rich Geisler in San Diego, California, 250.
2:19:31
First associate executive producer, and he says, keep
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it up, fellas.
2:19:34
Rich.
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British Columbia.
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Hey, John, I've got some stablecoin stuff I
2:23:58
want to share with you.
2:23:59
Oh, I'm all ears.
2:24:01
So there is a bill in Congress right
2:24:05
now.
2:24:05
It is the stablecoin bill.
2:24:07
We'll talk about that in a minute, but
2:24:08
throughout the past couple of weeks, I've been
2:24:10
talking about things like the Mar-a-Lago
2:24:13
Accords, understanding the strong dollar versus the weak
2:24:17
dollar, what is President Trump trying to do,
2:24:20
and the only thing I really had known
2:24:22
or knew up until recently about stablecoin is
2:24:25
the main stablecoin that is in consideration for
2:24:28
use by the U.S. government, specifically the
2:24:31
Treasury, and I presume by osmosis, the Federal
2:24:35
Reserve, is Tether.
2:24:37
And all you need to know about that
2:24:40
is a stablecoin is pegged to a dollar.
2:24:43
One stablecoin is one dollar, and it is
2:24:46
backed by U.S. Treasury.
2:24:48
So this company, Tether, they only have 40
2:24:53
people working there.
2:24:54
All they're doing is they're buying massive amounts
2:24:58
of Treasury's, short-term Treasury, so T-bills,
2:25:02
American debt, and they're making hundreds of millions
2:25:06
of dollars based upon the interest rate, and
2:25:09
for every single dollar they buy in Treasury,
2:25:13
they make a stablecoin.
2:25:14
So it's really a way to make more
2:25:16
U.S. dollars of the digital kind, and
2:25:19
I've learned a lot about this, and we're
2:25:21
going to start with Planet Money, so it's
2:25:23
kind of a mainstream show from NPR, and
2:25:26
it has a little bit of talk about
2:25:28
stablecoin and the Mar-a-Lago Accords.
2:25:30
Then there's what we've dubbed the weak dollar
2:25:33
school.
2:25:34
Essentially because people around the world use the
2:25:37
dollar so much, that pushes up the dollar's
2:25:39
value and actually hurts American exporters.
2:25:42
So the weak dollar school wants to see
2:25:44
the American dollar devalued.
2:25:47
This school of thought is led by the
2:25:49
chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, a
2:25:51
guy named Stephen Myron.
2:25:53
More than half the world's trade is done
2:25:54
in dollars, even when neither country trading is
2:25:57
the U.S. Simon boils the weak dollar
2:26:00
school down to this.
2:26:02
The cost for America in doing this is
2:26:04
that you have a dollar that has been
2:26:06
distorted.
2:26:07
In his view, basically this means overvalued, and
2:26:10
that has held back American exporters.
2:26:14
A strong dollar means that American consumers can
2:26:16
afford to buy more stuff from overseas, and
2:26:18
so American factories find it harder to compete
2:26:21
with these cheap imports.
2:26:23
And so there's different ways that other countries
2:26:27
can begin to address this problem.
2:26:29
They could basically agree to buy more American
2:26:32
products.
2:26:33
They could invest more in America.
2:26:36
One solution that he expressed, which I think
2:26:38
is a little bit tongue-in-cheek, is
2:26:40
that they could just send checks directly to
2:26:42
the U.S. Treasury to basically pay them
2:26:45
a fee for services.
2:26:47
Or alternatively, America could impose tariffs.
2:26:51
The big idea in Stephen Myron's paper is
2:26:53
that leaders of countries from around the world
2:26:56
would descend on South Florida, make a grand
2:26:59
deal with President Trump to help weaken the
2:27:01
dollar, and this would be called the Mar
2:27:03
-a-Lago Accord.
2:27:05
You can see how it's something that appeals
2:27:07
to President Trump.
2:27:08
It kind of intellectualizes his instinctual view that
2:27:11
America has been wronged.
2:27:14
Okay.
2:27:14
So the problem we have in America is
2:27:18
because everybody wants our dollars, everybody uses our
2:27:21
dollars, the dollar is very strong against other
2:27:23
currencies, and therefore our products, when we want
2:27:27
to export them, are too expensive.
2:27:29
We're not like the cheap Chinese crap.
2:27:32
That's why I believe the temporary measure is
2:27:36
these tariffs.
2:27:37
Now, what I've learned is, and I've heard
2:27:40
this term so many times, euro-dollar, I
2:27:42
never understood what it meant.
2:27:44
The difference between the American dollar we have
2:27:47
here in America and the euro-dollar is
2:27:49
exactly that.
2:27:50
A euro-dollar is every dollar that is
2:27:54
in banks or in financial systems outside the
2:27:57
U.S., and it's a lot of money,
2:28:01
and this money really hurts us, particularly in
2:28:05
the hands of China, because they control how
2:28:08
strong our dollar is by how much they
2:28:11
use it, where they send it, how much
2:28:13
they buy, etc.
2:28:14
Here is analyst Matt Pines explaining a little
2:28:18
bit about the dangers of other countries holding
2:28:21
large quantities of dollars, in this case, euro
2:28:25
-dollars.
2:28:25
Don't be confused by the euro part.
2:28:27
If it's outside of America, it's a euro
2:28:29
-dollar.
2:28:30
There's flows of goods coming into the United
2:28:34
States and flows of dollars going overseas, and
2:28:37
a lot of those dollars are pouring into
2:28:40
China, and then China, as an entity, as
2:28:43
a balance sheet, is then deciding how to
2:28:44
deploy those dollars, and in some ways, it's
2:28:47
deploying them into domestic investment, in some ways,
2:28:50
it's deploying them into overseas investment, like Belt
2:28:52
and Road Initiative, but in other ways, it's
2:28:54
also redeploying them back into the U.S.
2:28:56
and other advanced financial markets into financial assets,
2:29:00
into our NASDAQ, into our real estate, into
2:29:03
our farmland.
2:29:04
The U.S. has watched over the past
2:29:07
few years how much of those dollars are
2:29:09
round-tripping back into the U.S., and
2:29:13
for certain elements of the U.S., that's
2:29:14
great.
2:29:16
That's an extra marginal dollar that's going into
2:29:18
NVIDIA stock, and it helps everyone's 401ks.
2:29:22
There's such a thing in the DoD, the
2:29:24
intelligence community, it's like a term of art,
2:29:26
like adversarial capital, and tracking adversarial capital is
2:29:30
a very important mission inside the United States
2:29:32
government, so they don't just see dollars going
2:29:35
back and forth, international trade and financial investment
2:29:37
as just a fundamentally neutral cycle of trade
2:29:42
and investment.
2:29:42
They see it as a security issue, especially
2:29:45
if you see some of these flows come
2:29:48
with invisible strings attached, or often those capital
2:29:51
flows have implicitly or explicitly corrupt the political
2:29:54
systems that they get deployed in, and they
2:29:56
shape, over time, the political systems in the
2:30:01
West.
2:30:02
We've seen stories in Canada and Australia, even
2:30:04
in the U.S., New Zealand, even Japan,
2:30:07
South Korea, Taiwan, a lot of these countries
2:30:09
that are very much at the tipping point
2:30:12
of where to shape strategic opinion among key
2:30:15
decision makers.
2:30:18
So, what I understand of this stablecoin bill,
2:30:22
which is now in Congress, is the idea
2:30:24
is to make all the euro dollars, everything
2:30:27
that's not in America, make those stablecoin, which
2:30:30
will be backed by U.S. Treasuries, so
2:30:33
they are backed by something that is supposedly
2:30:37
really secure and really good, and that those
2:30:40
dollars, because they're digital, can be completely tracked.
2:30:43
We know if someone's trying to buy off
2:30:45
politicians, and you will not be allowed to
2:30:48
use the U.S. dollars in America dollars
2:30:50
outside of the United States if you want
2:30:53
the dollar.
2:30:54
That way, you get the stablecoin, which basically
2:30:57
is a little piece of a U.S.
2:30:59
Treasury, which equals a dollar.
2:31:02
And so, here's Caitlin Long to explain the
2:31:04
stablecoin bill.
2:31:05
The stablecoin bill is going to create, for
2:31:07
the first time, an endorsed differential between an
2:31:10
offshore dollar and an onshore dollar.
2:31:12
The Fed, and particularly because of the control
2:31:15
of the European banks on the euro-dollar
2:31:16
market, what is a euro-dollar?
2:31:18
It goes back to the 1950s when Russia
2:31:21
didn't want to hold, during the Cold War,
2:31:23
its dollars in a U.S. bank because
2:31:25
it was afraid they'd be confiscated.
2:31:27
So it got the European banks to agree
2:31:29
to take U.S. dollar deposits.
2:31:31
So there was this huge offshore market which
2:31:33
is actually as big, if not bigger, than
2:31:35
the onshore U.S. dollar market.
2:31:37
It is big.
2:31:38
And to your point, it hasn't been in
2:31:41
control of the Fed.
2:31:41
Well, the Fed is now arrested control over
2:31:45
interest rates.
2:31:47
The most important interest rate was until recently
2:31:50
Libor.
2:31:50
It's now SOFR.
2:31:51
And it used to be unsecured, priced in
2:31:53
London.
2:31:54
It's now secured, priced in New York.
2:31:56
Okay, now here comes Tether.
2:31:58
Tether is a company that, for all the
2:32:03
allegations around it related to money laundering, et
2:32:06
cetera, et cetera.
2:32:07
Now, what's fascinating to me is that Congress
2:32:11
is about to ensconce this by saying, okay,
2:32:15
you can be an offshore issuer and you
2:32:19
don't have to do all the same know
2:32:20
-your-customer and anti-money laundering rules particularly
2:32:25
that a bank has to do.
2:32:26
A bank has to do what's something called
2:32:27
CIP up front.
2:32:29
You have to, before you onboard a customer
2:32:31
to a bank, you have to do all
2:32:33
the know-your-customer and enhanced customer information
2:32:38
program up front.
2:32:41
Fintechs don't have to do that and Lord
2:32:42
knows an offshore company does not.
2:32:45
And that offshore company will be Cantor Fitzgerald,
2:32:48
Lutnick's company.
2:32:50
They're the ones that are the, they hold
2:32:53
all of the treasuries for this Tether stablecoin.
2:32:58
This thing is outrageously popular all across the
2:33:02
world.
2:33:02
I didn't even realize how big this stablecoin
2:33:05
is.
2:33:06
It's being used by shop merchants, by regular
2:33:09
people everywhere because their own currency is so
2:33:12
unstable.
2:33:13
They prefer to use the Tether stablecoin and
2:33:16
they can easily pay with it.
2:33:18
They're already doing it.
2:33:19
It's just on your phone.
2:33:20
It's back and forth.
2:33:22
And here's a quick clip about how big
2:33:24
stablecoin, particularly Tether, really is.
2:33:27
Tether is pushing the U.S. dollar out
2:33:29
into emerging markets down to the communities that
2:33:34
nobody has banked before because nobody could figure
2:33:36
out how to bank them.
2:33:37
And those communities banked them profitably.
2:33:39
And those communities, Tether did, hats off to
2:33:42
them for doing that.
2:33:43
Those communities have access to the U.S.
2:33:46
dollar for the first time.
2:33:48
And in most of those emerging markets, they
2:33:51
would much rather have a U.S. dollar
2:33:52
than their own local currency.
2:33:53
And Tether has built this distribution channel and
2:33:56
there is nobody competing with them.
2:33:57
And they are pushing the U.S. dollar
2:33:59
out into the distribution channel and they're recycling
2:34:01
those tiny amounts of money from working class
2:34:06
and emerging markets.
2:34:07
And I think they have 400 million users.
2:34:09
It's a stunning number of users.
2:34:11
They're the biggest financial company in the world
2:34:13
right now and just keep getting bigger.
2:34:15
And they are recycling all of those flows
2:34:18
back into the U.S. treasury market.
2:34:20
What is that doing?
2:34:21
Because those are not going to be panic
2:34:24
sellers.
2:34:25
What is that doing?
2:34:26
That is increasing the resilience of the U
2:34:28
.S. treasury market.
2:34:29
And that is exactly the point.
2:34:31
And making the dollar strong as a currency
2:34:34
and usable outside the U.S. with the
2:34:38
euro dollar.
2:34:39
And we can then control our own interest
2:34:42
rate because LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate,
2:34:47
which was the standard, if you've ever looked
2:34:50
at your car statement or your mortgage, it'll
2:34:53
say, you know, on an adjustable rate, it'll
2:34:56
say, we offer you this money at LIBOR
2:34:58
plus 1% or plus 2%.
2:35:00
We remember there was a big scandal with
2:35:04
LIBOR in 2008.
2:35:05
LIBOR was already set to be replaced and
2:35:09
killed off by something called SOFR, the Secured
2:35:13
Overnight Financing Rate from the Federal Reserve Bank
2:35:17
of New York.
2:35:18
And so this is Bloomberg seven years ago.
2:35:21
This is how long this is in the
2:35:22
making, talking about this new way to set
2:35:25
interest rates, not by British banks and JP
2:35:28
Morgan, they were part of that, who were
2:35:30
just doing willy-nilly whatever they wanted, which
2:35:32
kept us not in control of interest rates
2:35:35
in America.
2:35:36
They were already talking about this SOFR.
2:35:39
Ed, let's start first with the SOFR situation,
2:35:42
which I have to confess, I'm not an
2:35:43
expert on this, but it's sort of oopsie.
2:35:44
Nobody is, David.
2:35:45
Isn't that what you say?
2:35:46
Oopsie.
2:35:47
So the Fed comes out with this new
2:35:49
alternative to LIBOR, and this is going to
2:35:51
be, they're trying to compete with some other
2:35:53
alternatives over in Europe to say, this is
2:35:54
the way you should peg your interest rates.
2:35:56
And then they discover, oh, we included some
2:35:58
transactions we were supposed to be including.
2:36:00
I call it SOFR.
2:36:01
I thought that sounded better.
2:36:03
I've heard SOFR, I've heard SOFR, I've heard
2:36:05
SOFR.
2:36:06
So far, so bad.
2:36:08
So it's kind of a case of better
2:36:11
the devil you know.
2:36:11
Look, LIBOR, as we know, was not perfect.
2:36:13
In fact, it was far from perfect.
2:36:14
But this is, as you say, the alternative,
2:36:17
and it's already gone wrong.
2:36:18
Two weeks in and it's already gone wrong.
2:36:20
So what's happened here is essentially the Fed
2:36:22
have come out and they've said some forward
2:36:23
settling overnight treasury repo transactions were included where
2:36:27
they shouldn't have been included.
2:36:29
So all of the data for that two
2:36:30
week period is botched.
2:36:32
Now they said they're not going to republish
2:36:33
it, but they are going to publish alongside
2:36:35
it, sort of theoretical data of what it
2:36:37
would look like if you stripped out those
2:36:39
transactions.
2:36:40
So it is a bit of a mess.
2:36:41
And I think the real challenge is this.
2:36:42
A lot of people obviously still use LIBOR
2:36:44
as the benchmark.
2:36:46
That's going to end in 2021, because the
2:36:48
SCA and the UK have said that at
2:36:50
that point it will disappear.
2:36:52
How do you get people to migrate across
2:36:54
to something if it shows even at this
2:36:56
sort of very early stage that it's unreliable?
2:36:58
This thing needs to be absolutely rock solid
2:37:00
if it's going to convince people to migrate
2:37:01
across.
2:37:02
It needs the derivative projects, which supposedly those
2:37:04
products are coming.
2:37:05
So this thing has migrated.
2:37:08
As of March 31st, 2025, the last LIBOR
2:37:12
contracts, the last derivatives were finally all settled,
2:37:16
taken care of.
2:37:17
And now SOFR is the new interest rate
2:37:20
setting standard for interest rates, which is completely
2:37:24
in control now of the Federal Reserve Bank
2:37:28
of New York.
2:37:28
And this timing I find interesting because on
2:37:32
April 2nd, he said he wanted to do
2:37:34
on the 1st, but it came on the
2:37:36
2nd.
2:37:36
President Trump talked about, My fellow Americans, this
2:37:39
is liberation day.
2:37:42
And maybe it was under the guise of
2:37:44
the tariffs, but I think it was really
2:37:45
about this interest rate that is now being
2:37:48
set by us.
2:37:49
We're in control of it and we're leaving
2:37:51
the stable coin as the ghetto dollar over
2:37:55
there for the Euro dollar and they can
2:37:56
do whatever they want.
2:37:58
It's all backed by us.
2:37:59
And this stable coin has a lot of
2:38:01
properties that make it very interesting, not just
2:38:04
overseas, but internally as well.
2:38:06
And by the way, Tether created the killer
2:38:09
use case, which is for the US dollar.
2:38:11
And a lot of people look at it
2:38:12
and say, why do you need a blockchain
2:38:14
for that?
2:38:14
That's an inefficient database.
2:38:16
Yes, of course, it's an inefficient database.
2:38:18
But what were they able to do?
2:38:19
Create incredible network effects by having 400 million
2:38:22
users globally.
2:38:23
That's bigger than the United States.
2:38:26
Incredible network effects.
2:38:27
That's what we're tapping into.
2:38:29
What are the greenfields?
2:38:30
The biggest one is putting that into the
2:38:33
regulated banking industry.
2:38:35
Everybody right now is forced into FedWire, ACH,
2:38:38
and a little bit of FedNow, but that
2:38:39
was such a controlled closed system that it
2:38:42
hasn't really taken off.
2:38:44
FedWire and ACH?
2:38:45
Hell, stable coins are faster, cheaper, more auditable,
2:38:50
more programmable, safer from an IT security perspective,
2:38:54
I would argue, for a whole host of
2:38:56
reasons.
2:38:57
This is a game changer to push that
2:39:00
into the greenfield of the traditional banking system.
2:39:04
So to wrap it up, I think the
2:39:06
stable coin gambit is to keep the US
2:39:09
dollar as the strongest, most secure, backed by
2:39:12
US Treasury's dollar everywhere in the world, but
2:39:17
we, through SOFR, will control our own interest
2:39:21
rates.
2:39:21
It's a big, big, long game gamble.
2:39:25
And if Trump can pull it off, I
2:39:27
don't know if it's going to be good
2:39:28
or not, but it's definitely going to change
2:39:30
the way finance works throughout the world.
2:39:32
And that's all I know for now.
2:39:39
How does this benefit bankers?
2:39:43
I believe that bankers, part of the SBA
2:39:47
Rule 12, that bankers can now issue their
2:39:50
own version of stable coin.
2:39:52
And so they can do whatever they want.
2:39:57
They like buying Treasuries, so I'll buy a
2:39:59
Treasury, I can issue a stable coin.
2:40:02
And I can issue it domestically, I can
2:40:04
issue it internationally.
2:40:05
I think that's where they come into play.
2:40:08
How would this differ from the olden days
2:40:10
when the banks used to actually print their
2:40:13
own money?
2:40:16
Well, the difference is, at that point, they
2:40:18
had to have gold to back their own
2:40:22
money.
2:40:23
And now you have to have Treasuries, which
2:40:25
is probably just as wonky.
2:40:27
That's why I'm not sure it's a great
2:40:29
idea.
2:40:30
I'm not saying it's a great idea.
2:40:32
I think it's what they're trying to do.
2:40:35
It just, you know, it's complicated.
2:40:38
I didn't even know what a euro dollar
2:40:40
was until yesterday.
2:40:47
We got a call from the government.
2:40:49
Shut up, Curry.
2:40:53
There you go.
2:40:54
That's my stable coin presentation.
2:40:58
Okay.
2:40:59
It wasn't as bad as I thought.
2:41:00
Oh, well, thank you.
2:41:01
That, coming from you, is a huge endorsement.
2:41:04
I don't know about that.
2:41:06
There's the government.
2:41:07
Do you need to talk to them?
2:41:08
I'm going to go pick that up, but
2:41:09
why don't you play the clip about the
2:41:11
impeachment, the partial impeachment announcement.
2:41:13
Okay.
2:41:15
Partial impeachment.
2:41:18
Partial.
2:41:18
Impeach impartial.
2:41:19
This is Congressman Sri Thanedar.
2:41:22
Donald Trump has already done real damage to
2:41:25
our democracy, but defying a unanimous 9-0
2:41:30
Supreme Court ruling?
2:41:31
That has to be the final straw.
2:41:33
It's time we impeach Donald J.
2:41:36
Trump.
2:41:37
The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia
2:41:41
must be allowed to return and receive due
2:41:44
process.
2:41:45
Trump ignored it.
2:41:46
He ignored the Constitution.
2:41:48
He ignored the very checks and balances that
2:41:52
keep our democracy intact.
2:41:55
This isn't an isolated incident.
2:41:57
It's part of a dangerous, deliberate pattern.
2:42:01
That's why today I introduced a resolution to
2:42:05
impeach Donald J.
2:42:07
Trump, outlining seven articles of impeachment.
2:42:13
Article one, obstruction of justice and abuse of
2:42:18
executive power.
2:42:20
From denying due process to unlawful deportations, Trump
2:42:25
defied court orders.
2:42:27
Is this a call you got earlier today?
2:42:30
Is this a robocall?
2:42:33
The call I got was the arborist canceling.
2:42:38
Oh, no.
2:42:39
I've been waiting months for this.
2:42:42
Well, you and me both.
2:42:44
Why would the arborist...
2:42:45
So, John has a branch which has been
2:42:49
squeaking against his window for months.
2:42:51
Sometimes I can hear it if it's windy
2:42:53
on the show, but I almost always hear
2:42:56
it after the show when I turn all
2:42:57
the noise gates off.
2:42:58
I'm like, oh, man, that thing must be
2:42:59
driving you nuts.
2:43:03
Well, it's only when you have a southerly
2:43:05
breeze.
2:43:07
So, anyway, so that's the guy.
2:43:09
He's a screwball-looking character.
2:43:10
I don't even know what he's thinking.
2:43:13
He's got a wig on, and he's like...
2:43:15
He really seriously should check this out.
2:43:18
And he went on and on.
2:43:19
He's got about eight points.
2:43:21
And it's, of course, going to go nowhere,
2:43:22
but it's making a big scene, and he
2:43:24
sounds like a moron.
2:43:26
Yeah, I would say so.
2:43:27
But that's big news, big news.
2:43:29
Big news, big news, yeah.
2:43:30
Articles of impeachment.
2:43:31
Finally, someone did it.
2:43:35
Yeah, I was waiting for Al Green, but
2:43:36
he didn't do it yet.
2:43:38
No.
2:43:39
Okay, TikTok.
2:43:41
Yay.
2:43:43
They're both short.
2:43:45
They're both under a minute.
2:43:45
Okay.
2:43:46
The dating app girl.
2:43:48
Dating app girl.
2:43:49
So, I'm scrolling the dating apps earlier, and
2:43:51
for the first 20 swipes, it's conservative, moderate,
2:43:53
conservative, moderate, apolitical, nothing.
2:43:56
Conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative,
2:43:58
conservative, moderate.
2:43:59
And to me, conservative, moderate, and apolitical, and
2:44:01
nothing is all the same thing.
2:44:02
You all are MAGA.
2:44:05
So, immediately, no, no, no, no, no, no,
2:44:08
no, no, no, no.
2:44:09
Took me 20 swipes to finally find a
2:44:11
liberal.
2:44:12
I'm like, gee, what the fuck is going
2:44:14
on?
2:44:14
Why is everybody MAGA?
2:44:16
It's not that everybody's MAGA.
2:44:18
It's the male loneliness epidemic.
2:44:20
It's because nobody wants to date them.
2:44:23
They don't make good partners.
2:44:26
That's why there's so many single ones out
2:44:28
there.
2:44:32
All the liberals are taken, not all of
2:44:34
them.
2:44:34
Obviously, there's some out there.
2:44:36
But I'd rather have no dates than ever
2:44:39
date a MAGA ever fucking again.
2:44:42
So I will scroll until my fingers fall
2:44:43
off until I can find the perfect liberal.
2:44:46
Why do they always have to cuss all
2:44:48
the time?
2:44:49
This cussing is unbelievable.
2:44:51
It's getting annoying.
2:44:53
It's very annoying, and there's nothing you can
2:44:54
do about it.
2:44:55
They won't stop it.
2:44:56
No, they won't.
2:44:58
Here's another woman.
2:44:59
This one here is complaining about her time
2:45:02
blindness.
2:45:03
Oh, time blindness.
2:45:06
Which is my favorite topic.
2:45:08
I'm time blind.
2:45:09
That's why I'm late.
2:45:11
We went through this several times in the
2:45:12
past couple of years.
2:45:14
So I just got yelled at for asking
2:45:16
a very reasonable question.
2:45:18
So I'm planning to go somewhere, and I
2:45:20
just wanted to know, are there accommodations for
2:45:22
people who struggle with time blindness and being
2:45:23
on time?
2:45:25
And then the person I was with interrupted
2:45:28
and acted like I was asking something else.
2:45:30
And then when we were done, they actually
2:45:32
started yelling at me and saying that accommodations
2:45:34
for time blindness doesn't exist.
2:45:36
And if you struggle with being on time,
2:45:37
you'll never be able to get a job,
2:45:39
provided you're trying your absolute best to be
2:45:41
there.
2:45:43
And then they're like, your stupid generation wants
2:45:45
to destroy the workplace.
2:45:47
And yeah, I think that a culture where
2:45:49
workers are just cut off because they struggle
2:45:51
with being on time when there's other solutions
2:45:54
that we can look to, I think that
2:45:55
just anybody who thinks it's okay to just
2:45:57
treat people like that, yeah, that culture needs
2:46:00
to be dismantled.
2:46:01
And then I asked that person, how can
2:46:03
you feel good about yourself upholding this kind
2:46:05
of system?
2:46:06
And then to think, I'm entitled.
2:46:08
No, if people think it's okay to treat
2:46:10
others like this, that's entitlement.
2:46:13
Oh, brother.
2:46:15
I like the way she reversed the reverse
2:46:17
roles there.
2:46:19
You're entitled because you're on time.
2:46:21
Stop it.
2:46:23
This is not healthy.
2:46:25
I'm worried about you.
2:46:26
You should not be watching too much of
2:46:28
this.
2:46:28
No, this is good stuff.
2:46:29
Everybody loves it.
2:46:31
It's all engagement farming.
2:46:32
I don't believe any of these people is
2:46:34
being honest.
2:46:34
Not a single one.
2:46:36
You think they're real.
2:46:37
I think they're all phony.
2:46:39
I think most of them are real.
2:46:40
There's a couple of phonies, but they're pretty
2:46:42
obvious when you see them.
2:46:43
Let's play this.
2:46:43
This is a, since you played that thing
2:46:46
about the stable coin, let's play this clip.
2:46:48
This is Timu versus France.
2:46:50
Oh, Timu.
2:46:51
The trade war between the US and China
2:46:53
has also affected Europe.
2:46:55
Several European countries report a surge in dumped
2:46:58
Chinese products on their market.
2:47:00
Last year, 1.5 billion parcels, mostly from
2:47:03
China, entered France, averaging just around $10 each.
2:47:07
Authorities are concerned with this trend, which poses
2:47:10
a threat not only to local producers, but
2:47:13
also to consumers.
2:47:14
On Tuesday, four French ministers unveiled a plan
2:47:16
to tackle the flood of low-cost parcels
2:47:19
from China.
2:47:20
To protect consumers, the government will triple inspections
2:47:23
this year, checking product safety, labeling, and environmental
2:47:27
claims.
2:47:27
They're also looking to the EU to end
2:47:30
customs duty exemption for parcels under $170 to
2:47:34
protect local businesses.
2:47:35
Yann Rivoy-Allant is president of the French
2:47:37
Women's Prêt-à -Porter Federation.
2:47:39
Wait a minute.
2:47:40
Is France putting something equal to tariffs in
2:47:43
place against China?
2:47:44
Is that what I'm hearing?
2:47:46
That's kind of what you're hearing, but the
2:47:47
number I thought was interesting, that in France
2:47:49
they're getting 1.5 billion packages of cheap
2:47:56
Chinese crap.
2:47:58
Cheap Chinese crap.
2:47:59
Nice.
2:47:59
He says the influx of Chinese products has
2:48:02
led to around 10,000 job losses over
2:48:04
the past two years and the closure of
2:48:06
several fashion brands.
2:48:08
He also says French fashion brands are unable
2:48:10
to compete.
2:48:11
Every week, brands send me copies of counterfeit
2:48:16
products made in China.
2:48:18
First, our designs are being stolen.
2:48:20
Second, the employees of Shane or Temu are
2:48:22
being exploited.
2:48:23
They're paid a pittance and forced to work
2:48:25
from 75 to over 100 hours a week,
2:48:28
with barely one day off a month.
2:48:30
This is clearly unacceptable.
2:48:32
They also commit tax fraud by declaring underreported
2:48:34
sales figures.
2:48:36
According to the government, over 90% of
2:48:39
these products are unsafe for consumers.
2:48:41
However, Rivoy-Allant says the new measures fall
2:48:44
far short and should be aligned with the
2:48:46
stronger U.S. actions against such platforms.
2:48:48
It's totally ridiculous compared to what the United
2:48:54
States is doing with $100 on each of
2:48:57
these packages.
2:48:59
So, we're in a situation where we know
2:49:01
that over 90% of products are dangerous
2:49:03
for the French, dangerous for consumers, for our
2:49:06
jobs, and for the planet.
2:49:07
And yet, we're putting in place a small
2:49:09
measure with barely 10% tax potential.
2:49:12
It's really amazing, the junk, the cheap junk
2:49:15
we have from China.
2:49:16
This microphone I'm using right now, cheap junk
2:49:19
from China.
2:49:19
This Yeti cup, American Yeti, Texas company, made
2:49:24
in China.
2:49:25
This bell, China.
2:49:26
This whistle, China.
2:49:29
My Light Phone 3, China.
2:49:32
It's all from China.
2:49:34
And I look at the stuff and I
2:49:36
go, do I really need all this stuff?
2:49:39
You know, do I really need it?
2:49:41
My guns are from, my guns are not
2:49:43
from China.
2:49:44
My guns are not from China.
2:49:45
Yet.
2:49:48
Yet.
2:49:49
We probably need to just have this story
2:49:52
out for a moment because it's not really
2:49:55
a big topic.
2:49:56
You know, there was a pretty bad attack
2:49:59
on tourists there.
2:50:01
You know, Pakistan and India heating up.
2:50:03
And here's the latest from Pakistan.
2:50:05
We start with the dispute between India and
2:50:07
Pakistan following a deadly attack in Indian-administered
2:50:10
Kashmir, which left 26 people dead last week.
2:50:13
The Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Modi has been
2:50:16
holding high-level talks with his cabinet in
2:50:18
response to the attack, which it blames on
2:50:21
Pakistan, a claim repeatedly denied by Islamabad.
2:50:25
Pakistan's information minister says his country has credible
2:50:28
intelligence that India is planning to attack.
2:50:31
Pakistan openheartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent
2:50:38
investigation by a neutral commission of experts to
2:50:42
ascertain the truth.
2:50:43
Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the path of reason,
2:50:47
India has apparently decided to tread the dangerous
2:50:50
path of irrationality and confrontation, which will have
2:50:55
catastrophic consequences for the complete region and beyond.
2:51:00
World leaders have expressed deep concern and urged
2:51:03
restraint by the uneasy neighbours who have fought
2:51:05
several wars and who both have nuclear weapons.
2:51:09
Man, Led Zeppelin did songs about Kashmir.
2:51:12
Can these guys not just settle it finally?
2:51:15
What is so special?
2:51:17
Seems unlikely.
2:51:19
What is so special about the Kashmir region?
2:51:21
What is it?
2:51:22
What do they care?
2:51:22
Everybody thinks it's a fabulous place and both
2:51:25
sides think it's theirs.
2:51:27
They own it.
2:51:27
Well, what's so fabulous about it?
2:51:29
I don't know.
2:51:30
I've never been there.
2:51:31
Does it have a beach?
2:51:32
No?
2:51:33
It used to be fabulous.
2:51:35
I don't know why they can't get it
2:51:37
over.
2:51:37
Well, we have Pakistanis and Indians in our
2:51:40
own nation.
2:51:41
The explanation will be biased in both.
2:51:43
We won't find out anything.
2:51:45
Well, I'll take bias over nothing.
2:51:48
Over this report.
2:51:53
They're going to strike us.
2:51:57
Why?
2:52:00
We don't know why.
2:52:02
You're right.
2:52:03
They've been bitching.
2:52:04
This has been going on forever.
2:52:05
For decades.
2:52:06
I have a real news clip if you
2:52:08
want to play real news jingle.
2:52:10
Goodness gracious.
2:52:11
I know.
2:52:12
We haven't done this for a year.
2:52:13
A year.
2:52:14
Where is it?
2:52:14
Oh, wait.
2:52:14
It's under...
2:52:15
I have the real news clip somewhere.
2:52:21
And now, back to real news.
2:52:24
Okay.
2:52:24
Time for real news.
2:52:26
What do you have?
2:52:27
So, the sports ball people are talking...
2:52:28
Everyone's talking and ridiculing this guy including Megan.
2:52:32
Kelly?
2:52:33
Yes.
2:52:34
Yeah.
2:52:35
And this is Bill Belichick who's like...
2:52:37
I don't know.
2:52:38
He's 60, 70.
2:52:40
He's like 72, I think.
2:52:41
And he's got a 24-year-old girlfriend.
2:52:44
Go right on.
2:52:47
Go Bill.
2:52:48
What a lot of people say.
2:52:50
And so, he was interviewed by CBS morning
2:52:56
and then they had to clip some of
2:53:00
her in there because she was being annoying
2:53:02
at the interview.
2:53:03
She was butting in a lot.
2:53:05
And then he came back with a comment
2:53:06
about it.
2:53:07
And then CBS came back with a comment.
2:53:09
And it went back and forth.
2:53:10
But here's the Megan Kelly, this Belichick.
2:53:13
This is the Megan Kelly report on it.
2:53:15
And she's, of course, you know...
2:53:18
She's Megan.
2:53:18
She's horrible.
2:53:19
She's Megan.
2:53:19
She's Megan.
2:53:20
Yes.
2:53:20
So, this guy, Bill Belichick, has been in
2:53:22
the news lately because his girlfriend, I think,
2:53:24
is 50 years, 47 to 50 years...
2:53:26
Oh, no!
2:53:27
...difference between Belichick and...
2:53:29
Is she mad about that?
2:53:30
Is that the premise?
2:53:31
She's mad about the age difference with the
2:53:33
chick?
2:53:33
No, she doesn't express this, but you know
2:53:35
she is.
2:53:35
Okay.
2:53:37
...young gal pal.
2:53:38
So, she shows up at these black tie
2:53:39
events with him wearing nothing.
2:53:42
She's basically wearing, like, a bikini.
2:53:44
And he's wearing a normal man's clothing.
2:53:47
Shocking!
2:53:47
And it looks weird.
2:53:50
Like, okay, whatever.
2:53:51
I guess I'm not...
2:53:53
Who am I to judge?
2:53:54
But I'm judging.
2:53:55
I won't lie.
2:53:55
It's weird.
2:53:57
And I'm pretty sure she is with him
2:53:59
because he's very famous and probably has a
2:54:01
lot of money and gets her access to
2:54:02
cool things.
2:54:02
That's my guess.
2:54:03
What?
2:54:04
Gambling?
2:54:05
I'm just going to say it.
2:54:05
But anyway, he gives this interview and now
2:54:09
it's starting to look much more like a
2:54:11
Jill Biden situation.
2:54:13
That's all I could think of, you guys.
2:54:14
She's like Dr. Jill on the sidelines calling
2:54:17
all the shots and trying to decide what
2:54:20
he can answer and what he can't in
2:54:21
this interview.
2:54:23
And what we learned today, I'll show you
2:54:24
the clip, but what we learned today was
2:54:25
that it was far worse than CBS This
2:54:29
Morning, which is like a nice program.
2:54:31
They try to do nice stories.
2:54:33
It would even air.
2:54:34
The reason, reportedly, that they chose to air
2:54:37
this one interruption of hers is because it
2:54:39
was far worse than this.
2:54:41
She was trying to dominate behind the scenes
2:54:43
and they felt it was okay to include
2:54:46
one of her interruptions just to give the
2:54:49
audience, to be transparent, that they had this
2:54:52
monster on screen left who was completely trying
2:54:54
to control him.
2:54:55
And it was to the point where they
2:54:57
didn't feel like it would have journalistic integrity
2:54:59
if they didn't show at least some of
2:55:01
it.
2:55:01
Watch this.
2:55:02
The other change for Belichick is 24-year
2:55:06
-old Jordan Hudson, his creative muse, as he
2:55:10
writes in his book.
2:55:13
Jordan was a constant presence during our interview.
2:55:16
You have Jordan right over there.
2:55:19
Everybody in the world seems to be following
2:55:21
this relationship.
2:55:22
They've got an opinion about your private life.
2:55:24
It's got nothing to do with them, but
2:55:25
they're invested in it.
2:55:27
How do you deal with that?
2:55:29
I've never been too worried about what everybody
2:55:31
else thinks.
2:55:32
I just try to do what I feel
2:55:33
like is best for me and what's right.
2:55:35
How did you guys meet?
2:55:37
I'm not talking about this.
2:55:39
No?
2:55:40
It's a topic neither one of them is
2:55:42
comfortable commenting on.
2:55:43
What?
2:55:44
And it went on.
2:55:47
The portion I talked to you about, it
2:55:49
went on and on to where it was
2:55:50
very cringy.
2:55:52
You were like, oh, God.
2:55:54
Oh, Megan, how deep you have sunk.
2:55:58
Megan.
2:55:59
Why is she doing this?
2:56:01
She's the woman who was like the big
2:56:03
political journalist, lawyer, and all she can do
2:56:07
is show business stuff.
2:56:09
I'm sure it's great.
2:56:10
Well, we know the answer.
2:56:11
It's great for downloads.
2:56:13
It's great for views.
2:56:14
It's numbers.
2:56:15
This is why value for value is a
2:56:17
much better way to do it.
2:56:18
You don't need numbers to survive.
2:56:22
You don't need to deal with these people
2:56:24
who send us AI analysis of the show
2:56:29
being anti-advertiser.
2:56:44
And to prove that, we are going to
2:56:47
thank our donors, $50 and above.
2:56:50
Yeah, we did pretty well today.
2:56:52
So that was nice.
2:56:53
That was nice.
2:56:54
Very nice.
2:56:54
Hopefully we got the big show coming up
2:56:56
on Sunday.
2:56:57
The Cinco de Mayo special.
2:56:59
Woo, everybody.
2:57:01
Yeah, that's right.
2:57:02
It is the big Cinco de Mayo.
2:57:02
Marjorie Santelli starts us off.
2:57:04
She's in Kirtland, Ohio.
2:57:06
One, two, three, four, five.
2:57:09
The Ash in Texas in Flower Mound.
2:57:12
One, two, one, two, one.
2:57:14
And that's an El DeBarge donation.
2:57:19
Thank you.
2:57:20
One person got my joke.
2:57:22
Thank you.
2:57:23
It's appreciated.
2:57:23
Yes, yeah.
2:57:24
It's appreciated.
2:57:25
Okay, well, she's on the ball.
2:57:28
Connie Wolles-Lusink and Heinen Noord, North Heinen,
2:57:38
Netherlands, 120, 120.
2:57:40
And she got a long note there.
2:57:41
She's a big fan of yours.
2:57:43
Yes, I can see.
2:57:46
She's just a note for you.
2:57:47
You can read it to yourself.
2:57:48
She says eggs are expensive.
2:57:50
Over there.
2:57:52
Oh, this is a two.
2:57:53
Oh, she says our eggs are 36 euro
2:57:56
cents per egg.
2:57:57
Therefore, I give you two dozen eggs donation.
2:58:00
That's a 12-12.
2:58:01
One, two, one, two.
2:58:03
I like it.
2:58:04
The eggs donation.
2:58:05
Eggs donation.
2:58:06
Why not?
2:58:07
Two dozen eggs.
2:58:08
So Jay has eggs.
2:58:10
Uh-huh.
2:58:11
And so she brought me some because I
2:58:12
use a raw egg in my morning no
2:58:15
agenda drink.
2:58:16
Yes, we have discussed this.
2:58:17
It was a tip, tipoftheday.net.
2:58:19
And she's got a chicken there.
2:58:21
And it's almost a tip of the day.
2:58:23
It's a buff Orpington, which is a killer
2:58:25
beautiful chicken.
2:58:26
We used to have them up north.
2:58:29
The buff.
2:58:30
And it used to be called Buffy.
2:58:31
It's a beautiful red chicken.
2:58:34
And huge.
2:58:35
And it produces the chicken.
2:58:38
I've never seen home chickens.
2:58:39
Usually don't do this.
2:58:40
Produces jumbo eggs.
2:58:43
Jumbo.
2:58:43
How big are they?
2:58:45
They're huge.
2:58:45
They're huge.
2:58:46
It's a big giant egg.
2:58:47
She says that the chicken makes a squawk
2:58:49
every time she lays one.
2:58:55
No doubt.
2:58:57
Poor, poor chicken.
2:58:59
Onward, sir.
2:58:59
By his grace.
2:59:01
Get buff Orpingtons.
2:59:03
Sir, by his grace, in Jacksonville, Florida, 1
2:59:05
-11-22.
2:59:08
And he's also mentioned Southeastern Turf Grass Supply.
2:59:11
For all your grass agronomic needs.
2:59:17
By the way, I know, sir, by his
2:59:19
grace.
2:59:19
By his grace.
2:59:20
And he's so worried about the tariffs.
2:59:21
He keeps sending me articles like, he's going
2:59:24
to screw it up.
2:59:24
He's going to screw it up.
2:59:25
He's going to screw up.
2:59:26
He's going to...
2:59:27
I have to close my business.
2:59:28
He's going to screw up.
2:59:29
Trump's no good.
2:59:30
Wait, is he getting his turf from China?
2:59:32
No, I think his pesticides, herbicides, all that
2:59:36
stuff.
2:59:37
Yeah, he definitely gets stuff from China.
2:59:44
Sir, KC9YJM7310535.
2:59:45
He wants a jobs karma at the end,
2:59:47
if you don't mind.
2:59:51
Paul Summers in Bath, Pennsylvania, 100.
2:59:56
Jennifer Rain in Snoqualmie, Washington, 100.
3:00:03
Sir F.A. Ann Beck in Shiftwood Forest,
3:00:07
somewhere in the United States, 100.
3:00:10
Dame Mellabation.
3:00:15
Mellabation?
3:00:16
Mettabation.
3:00:17
No, Mellabation.
3:00:20
Mellabation, okay.
3:00:21
In Colorado Springs, 100.
3:00:23
Kevin McLaughlin's up.
3:00:24
DeConco, North Carolina, is the Archduke of Luna,
3:00:27
lover of America and boobs.
3:00:28
8008, the boob donation.
3:00:30
Rick LaBanca in Hope, Rhode Island, 73, 73.
3:00:34
That's a ham radio donation.
3:00:37
And heaven forbid, we got another one.
3:00:39
Noble Anderson in Montgomery, Alabama, 73, 73, with
3:00:43
a happy birthday to me.
3:00:44
This is a while ago.
3:00:45
I guess it's my 73rd birthday donation.
3:00:48
It's also 73s.
3:00:50
Better late than never.
3:00:51
Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 73, 73,
3:00:54
with his callsign K4QOL, 73.
3:00:57
That's a ham donation, 73s.
3:01:00
Sir Chris Abraham in Arlington, Virginia, 73, 73.
3:01:06
Sir Stickwater, 73, 40.
3:01:09
Slickwater.
3:01:09
You need a different font.
3:01:11
Sir Slickwater.
3:01:14
There's got to be a default font.
3:01:16
Oh, please.
3:01:16
You've threatened to do this for years.
3:01:18
I don't do any.
3:01:19
Let's face it, I'm a big talker, no
3:01:20
action.
3:01:22
Dame Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, 72, 27.
3:01:26
Jorge Alvarez in Ponte Verde Beach, Vedra Beach,
3:01:30
71, 71.
3:01:31
Commodore 64 in Tucker, Georgia, which is 64,
3:01:35
but he has the extra fee, 65, 10.
3:01:38
Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana.
3:01:40
He's got 6502, my favorite donation for people
3:01:43
who know what a chip is.
3:01:46
Jacob Alley in Wichita, Kansas, 63, 31.
3:01:49
Hold on.
3:01:50
Jacob says he's been on a subscription plan
3:01:52
but never got a formal de-douching, so
3:01:54
we'll do that now.
3:01:56
You've been de-douched.
3:01:58
There you go.
3:01:58
Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 606, small boobs.
3:02:02
And Baronette Tess Salty in Manchester, New Hampshire,
3:02:06
58, 56, which is 55, 55 plus the
3:02:10
fee.
3:02:10
By the way, when you send a check
3:02:11
in, the fee is 15 cents.
3:02:13
That's right.
3:02:14
Brian P.
3:02:16
Bellin in Asbury, New Jersey, 58, 56.
3:02:22
Sad puppy donation, that's what that is.
3:02:25
Okay.
3:02:26
What do we have here?
3:02:27
Whoops, I just overscrolled.
3:02:31
Marnix, Marnix Kart in Den Haag, Netherlands, 55,
3:02:36
55.
3:02:40
Eric Fleenor in Palmyra, Michigan, 55, 55.
3:02:46
Anonymous, 55.
3:02:48
Surprise night, surprise night of astonishment in Yukon,
3:02:52
Oklahoma, 54, 44.
3:02:55
Tom Ross in Sylmar, California, 53, 28.
3:03:00
Now, he's got something.
3:03:01
He likes the newsletter.
3:03:02
He likes Tip of the Day.
3:03:03
He likes the jokes, but he says less
3:03:05
bickering.
3:03:05
It's only 65% funny.
3:03:07
No, that's a passing grade on the bickering,
3:03:10
and he sent you a copy of Dvorak's
3:03:12
Guide to PC Telecommunications, and he wants you
3:03:15
to sign it and return it.
3:03:17
Yes, I already communicated with him.
3:03:19
I will do that.
3:03:20
It's an instant bestseller.
3:03:22
Instant.
3:03:23
Anonymous, Oklahoma City, 52, 72.
3:03:27
Timothy White in Elburn, Illinois, 51, 50.
3:03:31
Eric Schmidt in Frankfurt, Deutschland, 51, 50.
3:03:37
Dame Courtney, Chicago, Chicago.
3:03:41
She's in Chicago, 51, 25.
3:03:44
ITM Mayday, Mayday.
3:03:47
It's a donation she can afford.
3:03:49
Yeah, we put that in the newsletter.
3:03:51
That was the 55, 1, and she put
3:03:55
25.
3:03:55
That was the Mayday.
3:03:56
Don't you remember?
3:03:57
You set this up.
3:03:58
Yeah, 51, 25.
3:03:59
That's the Mayday donation.
3:04:00
In fact, we have a bunch of Mayday
3:04:01
donations.
3:04:02
I'm going to read them one after the
3:04:03
other, just name and location, starting with Michael
3:04:05
Chauvin, who has no location.
3:04:08
Michael Raguse in Tustin.
3:04:12
Dame Lacey, and she's in Lake Mills, Wisconsin.
3:04:18
Farivolt Tea.
3:04:20
Farivolt Tea in London, England.
3:04:24
Send us some tea.
3:04:25
Is it a tea company?
3:04:26
I don't know.
3:04:27
Yeah, it's a tea company.
3:04:28
Send us some tea.
3:04:28
I could go for some tea.
3:04:31
Scott Riley in Meridian, Idaho.
3:04:35
John Aiken in Babson Park, Florida.
3:04:39
And last on the list is Dame Rita
3:04:40
in Sparks.
3:04:41
She's a regular.
3:04:43
Great newsletter and shows, she writes.
3:04:47
Joseph Wentzel in Dawson, Georgia, $51.
3:04:52
He lives in small.
3:04:54
He says, I love what you cats talk
3:04:57
about.
3:04:57
Keep chumming it up.
3:05:01
He works at a big box store.
3:05:03
Yeah.
3:05:03
And now we got the $50 donors.
3:05:05
I'll just go run through them, name and
3:05:07
location, starting with William Hammer in Hagerstown, Maryland.
3:05:11
Leif Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.
3:05:14
Bobby Bowe in Bluegrass, Iowa.
3:05:18
Comfort King in Valley Springs, South Dakota.
3:05:24
Joshua Johnson in Omaha, Nebraska.
3:05:26
Scott McCarty in Lodi.
3:05:28
Jordan Tierney in Oro, South Dakota.
3:05:31
Got the South Dakotans in today.
3:05:33
Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado.
3:05:36
C.
3:05:37
Jones in Safety Harbor, Florida.
3:05:39
And last on our list is Leslie Walker.
3:05:43
She's in Roseburg, Oregon, and she loves us.
3:05:48
Okay, that'll be it for today's show, 1760.
3:05:52
Yes, she says she loves us.
3:05:54
May the Lord bless us.
3:05:55
Thank you.
3:05:55
All right, thank you very much.
3:05:56
All of our donors, $50 and above.
3:05:58
We will not read anything under for reasons
3:06:01
of anonymity, so we see you, $49.99,
3:06:04
so we appreciate it.
3:06:04
And of course, all of those sustaining donors,
3:06:07
if you go to noagendadonations.com, you can
3:06:09
make a donation of any amount.
3:06:10
We love the numerology, as you can tell.
3:06:12
Lots of different numbers, and thank you for
3:06:14
the explanation.
3:06:15
But the sustaining donations really do help any
3:06:17
amount, any frequency, and we actually have a
3:06:20
baron coming up who did just that.
3:06:22
Thank you, as always, and once again, noagendadonations
3:06:25
.com.
3:06:30
Very short list, along with Willie Nelson, of
3:06:33
course, who celebrated yesterday, and Wirt Fuller, April
3:06:36
29th.
3:06:37
Jessica says happy birthday to John Dale.
3:06:39
He turns 50 on May 2nd.
3:06:41
And finally on the list, happy birthday to
3:06:43
Rick LaBanca.
3:06:44
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best
3:06:46
podcast in the universe.
3:06:49
And now we have 1, 2, 3, 4,
3:06:52
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 people who
3:06:55
took advantage of the final, final moment of
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the Commodore ship.
3:06:59
This means that when you go to noagendarings
3:07:01
.com and you give us the actual name
3:07:03
you would like on your certificate of being
3:07:05
a Commodore, we will take care of that
3:07:06
for you.
3:07:07
We have Commodore Anonymous Black Sheep, Commodore Scott
3:07:10
Horton, Commodore of the Human Resource Producers, Commodore
3:07:14
Mark of Crow Wing County, Commodore Sir Milkman
3:07:17
of Ebbington, Commodore Zach Zedock-Brown III, Commodore
3:07:21
S.T.G., Commodore Brock Reinholdt, and Commodore
3:07:25
John Tucker.
3:07:26
Commodores arriving.
3:07:29
Whoo!
3:07:30
Good list.
3:07:30
Very good list.
3:07:32
Here's that layaway baron who will be knighted
3:07:34
today, Sir Tom.
3:07:37
He is, well, let me read his note.
3:07:40
I was originally hit in the mouth by
3:07:41
Fabian of the Linux Outlaws, and after 11
3:07:44
years I have finally achieved the title of
3:07:46
Baron through monthly donations of $33.33 and
3:07:50
a care package of bratwurst and other meats
3:07:52
back in 2021.
3:07:54
I don't remember the...
3:07:56
I think John hoarded all the bratwurst and
3:07:58
meats.
3:07:59
Yes, everyone can do it.
3:08:00
And this is from Nemechek.
3:08:03
I don't know.
3:08:05
I don't remember.
3:08:07
But he goes on to say, Yes, everyone
3:08:08
can do it, you too.
3:08:09
You can do it too.
3:08:10
The Peerage Committee has approved carving out the
3:08:13
area code of 920 with Sir 10T, Duke
3:08:16
of Federal Reserve District 7's protectorate.
3:08:19
As such, I request a title change to
3:08:21
Baron Tom, Warden of the Frozen Tundra.
3:08:24
Go, Pat, go.
3:08:25
Keep up the great work, gents.
3:08:26
11 more years.
3:08:28
Tom G.
3:08:28
from the bratwurst capital.
3:08:30
And we're going to knight him right now.
3:08:33
So get your blade out.
3:08:34
We definitely need to have a nice blade
3:08:36
for him because he's becoming a...
3:08:37
Ooh, that is a good one.
3:08:39
So, all right, then.
3:08:42
Tom G., step on up.
3:08:44
Very proud to pronounce that he not only
3:08:47
is a knight of the Noah General Round
3:08:48
Table, but as Sir Tom, Baron Tom, Warden
3:08:52
of the Frozen Tundra.
3:08:53
For you, my friend, we have hookers and
3:08:55
blow, red boys and chardonnay, prostitutes and some
3:08:58
nice wine.
3:08:59
We have harlots and haldol, pepperoni rolls and
3:09:01
pale ales, redheads and ryes, beers and blunts,
3:09:04
cowgirls and coffin varnish, ruminants, women and rosé,
3:09:07
geishas and sake, vodka, vanilla, bong hits and
3:09:09
bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and
3:09:12
gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and, of course,
3:09:14
as always at the Round Table, mutton and
3:09:17
mead.
3:09:18
And congratulations.
3:09:20
Tom, head over to NoahGenderRings.com.
3:09:22
Let us know where you want us to
3:09:24
send your ring.
3:09:25
There's a ring sizing guide on the website,
3:09:26
so make sure you have the right size.
3:09:28
It comes with two sticks of dynamite.
3:09:30
Oh, no, two sticks of wax.
3:09:31
With that, you can seal your important correspondence,
3:09:34
and, as always, with a certificate of authenticity.
3:09:36
And thank you for becoming not just a
3:09:38
knight, but a layaway knight and baron of
3:09:40
the Noah Gender Round Table.
3:09:46
Well, the meetups are still huge, as you
3:09:52
can imagine.
3:09:53
They take place all over Gitmo Nation, around
3:09:56
the globe, really.
3:09:57
People love doing them.
3:09:58
They are produced and organized.
3:09:59
You can go to NoahGenderMeetups.com.
3:10:01
Find some near you.
3:10:03
There's a calendar.
3:10:04
There's a list.
3:10:04
And we love it when you send in
3:10:06
meetup reports, but it's getting a little bit
3:10:08
out of control.
3:10:10
So keep it short, please.
3:10:12
There's only one today, so I don't mind
3:10:14
playing it.
3:10:14
This is the meetup report from Chicago.
3:10:17
What's up, y'all?
3:10:18
This is Eli the Coffee Guy, hanging out
3:10:21
here.
3:10:21
Reggie's having a blast with everybody.
3:10:24
Peace out to Baron NBS.
3:10:26
Getting out of Chi-town.
3:10:29
I don't blame you, brother.
3:10:30
But it's still a great city.
3:10:31
Look!
3:10:32
Yo, it's Andrew here from the UK.
3:10:35
MI6 has come out here to represent.
3:10:37
And, yeah, no, it's a real fucking pleasure
3:10:40
to be out here.
3:10:41
And, yeah, NBS is looking kind of shocked
3:10:44
to get past the mic after that.
3:10:46
Not a serial killer, Kate here.
3:10:49
This is Sir...
3:10:51
Darth Pengura Laktaki, enjoying the in-the-morning
3:10:55
career, staring lovingly into Eli the Coffee Guy's
3:10:59
eyes because he's a handsome devil.
3:11:00
But all glory to Nick NBS for escaping
3:11:04
Chicago and going to more beautiful pastures than
3:11:08
a natural totalitarian.
3:11:10
All right, God bless.
3:11:11
In the morning!
3:11:13
Hey, this is Sir Tinley Knott.
3:11:15
Woke.
3:11:17
We are here at Reggie's in Chicago.
3:11:20
The only venue that has been good to
3:11:22
us.
3:11:22
They have been good to us since the
3:11:25
pandemic when we had our first meetup here.
3:11:27
And passing it on.
3:11:29
In the morning.
3:11:30
In the morning, John and Adam.
3:11:32
This is Baron NBS at the Escape From
3:11:35
Chicago meetup.
3:11:37
I'm wrapping my time up here in Chicago.
3:11:39
It's been a wonderful time here in Chicago.
3:11:41
Hanging out here with Eli, Alex, and some
3:11:45
random, very fine people.
3:11:48
In the morning.
3:11:49
Hey, this is Blake.
3:11:51
John, we're in trouble.
3:11:52
There's a lot of cheap guitars in Chicago.
3:11:55
All economic indicators aside, this is Sir Brian
3:11:59
with a Y.
3:12:00
We are fixing an imposed food crisis.
3:12:03
We are fixing an imposed.
3:12:04
Oh my God, Adam, I am so sorry.
3:12:06
But we're living up in Chicago again.
3:12:09
If you live nearby, come to the next
3:12:11
meetup.
3:12:11
We have a bunch of them.
3:12:13
In the morning.
3:12:14
What's up, NOAA Gender Nation?
3:12:16
This is KJ6QDT.
3:12:18
Just happy to be here for my first
3:12:20
meetup.
3:12:20
Hanging out with NBS.
3:12:22
Wish them best of luck.
3:12:23
And yeah, we'll see you all on NOAA
3:12:26
30.
3:12:26
Hi, this is Alex, ITM.
3:12:29
This is Dame Courtney here saying farewell to
3:12:34
NBS.
3:12:35
We will truly miss you in Chicago.
3:12:38
In the morning.
3:12:40
Alcohol, I'm telling you.
3:12:43
Keep it tight, people.
3:12:45
And where's the server?
3:12:46
I missed that.
3:12:47
I'm going to have to scold you a
3:12:48
little bit.
3:12:50
Meetup's happening today The Northern Wake Public Slave
3:12:52
Gathering.
3:12:53
6 o'clock at Potluck.
3:12:54
Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina.
3:12:56
The South Austin Slaves Meetup.
3:12:58
Tonight at 7 in Little Woodrow's in South
3:13:00
Park Meadows in Austin.
3:13:02
Hope you RSVP'd because you had to.
3:13:04
Tomorrow, the Tri-Cities Washington six-week cycle
3:13:07
meetup.
3:13:08
7 o'clock at Ty's Bar & Grill
3:13:09
in West Richland, Washington.
3:13:11
On Saturday, the first NOAA Gender Splash-Up.
3:13:14
That's the spring edition.
3:13:15
That'll be 1 o'clock Dutch North Sea
3:13:17
Time.
3:13:18
And that'll be in Scheveningen, the Netherlands.
3:13:20
Scheveningen.
3:13:21
You have to RSVP to find out where
3:13:23
it is.
3:13:23
Arno's organized that.
3:13:25
The Sonoma Wino Country Meetup on Saturday as
3:13:27
well.
3:13:28
Version 7.0 at Old Caz Beer in
3:13:31
Ronert Park, California.
3:13:33
And on Sunday, our next show day, Hot
3:13:34
Meat & Freedom Flames Brussels Backyard Barbecue.
3:13:38
Woo!
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That's at 4 o'clock in Brussels in
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Isel.
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I-X-E-L-L-E-S.
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Make sure you go to that one.
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And I want meetup reports from everybody one
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minute or less.
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If you want to find all the meetups
3:13:49
available, they are all around the world.
3:13:50
You can find them at noagendameetups.com.
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If you can't find one near you, start
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one yourself.
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It's easy and always a party.
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Sometimes you want to go hang out with
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all the nights and days.
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Hot meat, sugar, no hell flame.
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You want to be where everybody feels the
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same.
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It's like a party.
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It's like a party.
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It's just like a party.
3:14:18
That was the time we select our end
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-of-show ISO, a rare occasion today where
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we both have one.
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It's a one-on-one match-up.
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I don't think I'm going to win.
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Well, then play yours.
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But you have 11 seconds.
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How can yours be 11 seconds?
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I don't think it is.
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It says 11 seconds.
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There's probably something wrong with the clip.
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I'm just having issues.
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Yeah, it appears to be.
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I'm going to play yours now, and then
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I'll see where we can find yours.
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You might have two of them back-to
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-back or something.
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Another fabulous show.
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What more can I say?
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What is that?
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Another fabulous show.
3:14:52
What more can I say?
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Another fabulous show.
3:14:54
What more can I say?
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Another fabulous show.
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What more can I say?
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Another fabulous show.
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Another fabulous show.
3:15:00
What more can I say?
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Another fabulous show.
3:15:03
What more can I say?
3:15:04
So that's you trying five different versions of
3:15:07
AI.
3:15:08
It's the first.
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And, of course, I shouldn't have recorded the
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whole thing, but the second one is the
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one I wanted.
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Another fabulous show.
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What more can I say?
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Yeah.
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Boom.
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Yeah.
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Well, you've given away your ISO secrets here.
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I know.
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It was a huge blunder.
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Yes, it was.
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Here's mine.
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Yo, yo, yo.
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What up?
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No, you already did that one.
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No, it's a brand-new one.
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It still stinks.
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There we go, everybody.
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It's time for the tip of the day.
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At least John can't mess that one up.
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Here we go.
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Great advice for you and me.
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Just a tip with JCB.
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And sometimes Adam.
3:15:49
Created by Dana Brunetti.
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All right, we're back to wine and food.
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One more tip.
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This is a website that I use a
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lot, and it's a cheap trick.
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You're buying wine.
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Yes, we're buying wine.
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You want to know if the wine's any
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good.
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What are you going to do?
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What are we going to do?
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You go to Wine Searcher.
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Can I just say something?
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Yeah.
3:16:11
I am getting complaints.
3:16:12
Sir Gene recently was at a dinner, texted
3:16:16
a picture of the wine list to you.
3:16:18
He says, John no longer responds.
3:16:21
I missed it.
3:16:23
I always respond.
3:16:24
The phone was in the drawer.
3:16:27
It should be sent to my email.
3:16:29
But I could be watching.
3:16:31
I might be downstairs getting clips, or I
3:16:33
could be doing a lot of things.
3:16:34
I'm sorry, Gene.
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But generally speaking, I take care of this.
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Wine-searcher.com.
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Ooh.
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This is a huge, monstrous database of wines
3:16:50
and all the reviews and all the stores
3:16:52
that sell the wine.
3:16:54
Wow.
3:16:55
So you get a look at the wine.
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You put a wine at the top, say
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Chateau Montrose, 1990.
3:17:04
Yeah.
3:17:05
And then it gives you where it's available,
3:17:08
all the different prices from cheapest to most
3:17:11
expensive.
3:17:12
And then you click on Reviews.
3:17:14
It shows you all the known reviews, and
3:17:17
it gives you summaries of the reviews, and
3:17:19
it gives you star ratings, and it even
3:17:21
goes to Cellar Tracker, which is a site
3:17:24
that a lot of people think is great.
3:17:25
I have Cellar Tracker, the app.
3:17:28
Yeah, Cellar Tracker, the app, which is amateurs
3:17:32
rating the wines.
3:17:34
That's correct.
3:17:35
It's amateurs rating the wine, taking pictures of
3:17:37
the label.
3:17:38
The label goes, oh, it should cost you
3:17:40
this much.
3:17:41
Yeah.
3:17:42
But it's got the Cellar Tracker number in
3:17:44
there, too.
3:17:45
It's dynamite.
3:17:46
This is a godsend for anyone who buys
3:17:49
wine.
3:17:50
And do you recommend this 1990 bottle you
3:17:53
just mentioned?
3:17:53
Is that like $8,000?
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What is that?
3:17:56
The 1990 Montrose?
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Yes.
3:17:57
What does that cost me?
3:17:59
Oh, it's not cheap.
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But it's the one that's the top of
3:18:03
your mind.
3:18:03
It makes me wonder.
3:18:05
Well, it just came up to the top
3:18:07
of my mind.
3:18:08
I had it once in my life.
3:18:10
I'm thinking about Andres in a box, and
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John's like, oh, the Montrose 1990.
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That's what I'll have.
3:18:16
There you go, everybody.
3:18:17
You can find John's tip of the day
3:18:18
at tipoftheday.net or noagendafun.com.
3:18:23
Creating vibes for you and me.
3:18:25
Just the tip of the JCD.
3:18:29
And sometimes Adam.
3:18:31
Created by Dana Brunetti.
3:18:32
There you go, everybody.
3:18:33
Once again, we have completed our broadcast day,
3:18:35
and we are happy to have served you.
3:18:37
We do this as a public service.
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You are welcome to support us with some
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3:18:47
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3:18:49
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3:18:51
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3:19:00
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3:19:01
End of show mix is a nice Trip
3:19:03
House little ditty from Nautilus K.
3:19:06
I think he may be new.
3:19:07
I don't think he's ever done a mix
3:19:08
before.
3:19:09
And David Kekta checks in, our drummer.
3:19:11
Our drummer was always doing mixes.
3:19:14
He's got a hot new girlfriend, I hear.
3:19:16
So he's been a little sparse on the
3:19:18
mixes.
3:19:20
And I guess I can conclude by telling
3:19:22
you that I am still here in the
3:19:24
picturesque little town of Fredericksburg in the Texas
3:19:28
Hill Country.
3:19:29
In the morning, everybody.
3:19:31
I'm Adam Curry.
3:19:32
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain
3:19:34
without an arborist, I'm John C.
3:19:36
Dvorak.
3:19:36
We return on Sunday with another minimum three
3:19:40
hours of media deconstruction for your pleasure, again
3:19:43
as a public service.
3:19:44
And please remember us at noagendadonations.com.
3:19:48
Until then, adios mofos, and a hooey hooey,
3:19:52
and such.
3:19:53
R.S. King Jr. R.S. King Jr.
3:20:00
By the way, two good old boys is
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next.
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Watermelon juice, watermelon juice,
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watermelon juice, watermelon juice, watermelon
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juice, watermelon juice, watermelon
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juice, watermelon juice, watermelon juice, watermelon juice, mofo.
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Dvorak.org slash N-A.
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Another fabulous show.
3:23:06
What more can I say?