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I don't need the aggravation of ear mold.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's the early August 21st, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1792.
This is no agenda.
We have a dry latch.
And we're broadcasting live from the heart of
the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region
Number 6.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we applaud
President Trump.
Going on patrol.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's Claggott and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
And what did I miss?
He went on patrol?
No, he's going on patrol tonight.
Oh, is he doing a ride-along?
Yeah, in D.C. That's great.
He just came out this morning.
What's great is that people in other cities
are going, hey, hey, hey, President Trump, come
do that in our city.
It's going to catch on.
You watch.
It's going to catch on so far because
he actually has the authority to do it
in D.C. He doesn't have the authority
to do it in San Francisco to this
extreme.
No, but he has.
This is about the crime bill.
It's going to be the Trump.
Hold on a second.
The Trump Crime Bill, Batman.
That's what it's going to be.
And you only got to hope that it
turns out right, because other crime bills in
the past, like that of 1992, it's not
such a good deal.
Although now they're kind of, the Democrats are
kind of bragging about those old crime bills
by Clinton and Biden.
Yeah.
Well, Trump's not doing anything new.
Crime was really reduced because of Clinton.
What?
The 92 Crime Bill, of course, incarcerated over
a million black men for smoking weed.
Weed.
So the minute you see a kid on
the front of Time Magazine or Time website,
where you're holding an Uzi, smoking a spliff,
then you know that, then you know they're
serious about the crime bill.
Because that's what it was.
Lil, what was the kid's name?
From the 90s, oh man, Moe, Moe, Moe,
where are you when I need you?
Lil, Lil, what was it?
Lil Abby.
No, no, it was not Lil Abner.
Lil Billy.
No, it was- Lil Duncan.
No, someone in the troll room should know
by now.
I don't even know.
Yeah, it was the Lil Yummy.
Thank you.
Lil Yummy.
It was like a nine-year-old gang
member, Lil Yankee.
Lil Yummy was on the cover of Time
Magazine.
And that was the whole impetus.
Yeah, that was when Hillary Clinton was out
there saying, you know, um, these, did she
say degenerates?
No, it was- Something like that.
Hey, how good are we?
Two forgetful boomers.
So that was, that was the, it was
the Biden crime bill.
Then, I'm sorry, 90, not 92, 94.
94 Biden crime bill.
What was Clinton's phrase?
She used, it was exploit, the term was
a synonym for exploitative.
It was, um, Clinton.
I'd have to ask her.
Well, there's only one way to go.
Yeah, you got your buddy there.
Why don't you ask her?
Okay.
The 1994, uh, Biden crime bill.
What did Hillary Clinton call the perpetrators like
Lil Yummy?
Oh, she called them super predators.
There you go, super predators.
Thank you.
We don't need to remember anything.
We've got error.
We've got error here.
Super predators.
Error.
Her name's Error.
That's her name now, Error.
Does she make mistakes?
You think?
Error.
Error, error.
Yeah, everyone's publishing articles now.
It seems to be the new, new thing
to publish articles about the AI hype being
over.
Yeah.
Oh, that means it's not over.
I, I'm in agreement with you when they
say it's, because you know, it's Altman.
Altman is coming out and he's saying, oh,
you know, the LA Times.
Say farewell to the AI bubble.
Get ready for the crash.
Well, he never said say farewell to the
bubble.
He just said there is a bubble.
Well, no, this is the headline from the
Los Angeles Times.
I didn't, it's not cool.
They're making it up.
It's not in quotation marks.
He's just saying it.
He's just saying now.
Well, he's not saying that he's saying it's
a bubble.
He's not saying the bubble's over about the
birds.
Correct.
Correct.
They're the ones saying that.
The thing though.
Um, and if I was a newspaper, I'd
say stuff like that too.
I'm a little conflicted because I got a
report from CBS, which plays right into, I
would hope the Gen Z's that you and
I have raised in these past 18 years,
because we have raised a nation, John.
We have raised a generation of smart thinking
kids.
This is where you say, yes, indeed, Adam.
They're fabulous.
And I hope that they have heeded our
advice throughout the years through our complaints about
lack of shop and home ec and other
trades and apprenticeships.
And maybe a few, maybe a few have
thought about it because those who have listened
to the boomer show are about to get
rich.
Brandon Fry feels squeezed by two businesses trending
in opposite directions.
Data centers, such as this one he manages
outside Chicago, come along with soaring demand.
Everything in here needs servicing.
Everything in here needs service.
Tech support, tech support, HVAC support, electricians.
But the supply of technical support he needs
available 24 seven keeps shrinking.
What your customers don't want to hear is
we can't find somebody for them.
That's the last thing they want to hear.
And that will be the last conversation we
likely have with them as a customer.
Data centers now compete with factories and manufacturing
plants for electricians and plumbers.
As older blue collar workers retire, younger people
look at college and white collar jobs.
It's a growing labor crisis.
Roughly 400,000 skilled trade jobs are unfilled
in America.
By 2033, it's estimated that number could hit
close to two million.
Now, listen to the numbers, what kind of
money you can make as a plumber with
your butt crack.
It's awesome.
You got to be able to do more
with less.
Matt Roseland, an executive for a software company
called IFS.
I'm sorry.
First, you got to get some tech guy
and shove it in here for no reason
in the story.
Says new technology is one solution.
And you can see this is changing dynamically.
His company sells this program that helps companies
route and reroute their fleet of technicians.
You can take things like weather, traffic, different
priorities, and add that on top.
When you think about the labor shortages that
are out there, and you want to create
more efficiencies and do more with less, this
is how that's going to happen.
Back at the data center, Dan Brown knows
there's a labor crisis.
We're always looking for good people to hire.
But doesn't understand it.
He told us in Chicago, experienced HVAC technicians
make more than $150,000 without student debt.
The trace kind of got neglected.
So now there's a void that needs to
be filled.
And you're busier than ever.
Oh, absolutely.
Across the floor, electrician Kevin Fishback sees hope.
His local union's aggressively recruiting young workers for
its apprenticeship program.
They come into trades and they got insurance.
They got health care.
They got a pension.
That's an update with power for Brandon Frye.
That this career path is out there and
it is a valuable career path to take.
But for now, the data's in and it's
unmistakable.
Help wanted.
For Eye on America, I'm Mark Strassman in
Chicago.
And of course, we want to thank President
Obama for telling everybody to learn how to
code.
Good job.
Good job.
Which was the worst advice ever, it looks
like.
Good job, President Obama.
No.
And I think you can still just jump
in on an apprenticeship.
I'm sure that there's plumbers and HVAC companies
out there that would love to have a
few.
There's not as many as there should be.
That's the real problem.
The idea of apprenticeships has gone out of
favor.
The apprenticeship has sailed?
No, it's gone out of favor.
Well, you know, when they see the demand
for people, I'm pretty sure that they're going
to.
Oh, no, it has to come back.
It's always been there.
It's how it works.
You really can't graduate from high school as
a plumber.
You can't graduate from college as a plumber.
No.
You have to be shown how to be
one by someone who knows how to do
it right and professionally.
I'll tell you, if this gig comes to
an end, I'm going into plumbing.
Plumbing 2.0. Well, yes.
Meanwhile, we know that the bubble has to
be kept afloat and inflating at all costs.
The bubble's going to get bigger than a
lot of people like to imagine.
Well, it has to because according to Bloomberg
surveillance, we need it.
How do you think about GDP?
Well, you know, everybody has, I guess, redefined
what reasonable is or what Jay Powell describes
as solid when we're barely running the economy
so far this year, barely over a 1
% annual rate.
I mean, when I started in the business
in the mid-80s, you got down to
a one handle on real GDP growth and
people were talking about reasonable.
People were talking about stall speed and then
asking, when's the recession going to start?
The economy, I think, is sputtering.
It's uneven.
You know, without the proliferation of AI data
centers and all the technology spending related to
generative AI, the economy would actually be in
recession right now.
Yeah, I believe it.
I believe it.
We need all these data centers and everything.
Of course, it's unfortunate that people are paying
for it and paying for your stupid chat
GPT by your electric bill and utilities doubling.
I wonder when that riot is going to
start.
It has to.
It has to.
People aren't going to take it anymore.
Yeah, well, it's easy for you to say.
Yeah, it's easy for me to say because
it's true.
When people, when they're like, I think it
was like in Indiana alone, 80,000 people
got switched off because they couldn't pay their
bill, which had doubled.
At a certain point, people get pretty antsy
about that stuff.
Yeah, well, who are they going to take
it out on?
Their city council, their mayor, their city manager.
The mayor and city council don't.
City manager.
Except in some cities.
But generally speaking, they don't determine the rates
of the PG&E, for example, in California,
which is who's the head of PG&E
working some woman.
Yeah, well, hey, Luigi, Luigi, Luigi.
This is where we're at in our culture
right now.
No, they have to suppress that.
Wow, you are just so positive about everything
going great, aren't you?
I'm just telling you, these things are harder
to do than you think.
Ah, in California.
Like what do people do with their high
gas and electric bill?
They stop using their power.
And then they just say, OK, well, let's
freeze to death.
Buy more sweaters.
All right, buy more sweaters.
Put it in the Red Book.
Riot's coming.
Riot's coming, I'm telling you.
It has to be that way.
We're Americans, ultimately.
Now, and then what after the riots, what
are they going to do about it?
PG&E can document that fact that because
of their old power lines in the woods
and the fact that they caught a bunch
of places on fire, burned numerous millions of
acres to the ground.
And is it their fault that the line
sparked because of a tree?
Or is it the fault of the California
people that don't do forest management anymore?
They stopped doing it.
Or is it the fault of people like
Gavin Newsom who drained this?
He didn't drain the swamp.
He drained the reservoirs.
He actually tore down two or three dams.
Whose fault is that?
Is that PG&E's fault?
Is that the reason that the race have
gone up?
No, it's Gavin Newsom's fault.
And who's riding against him?
The Democrats are supporting him.
Well, you're talking about California the whole time.
California is not America.
That's a whole different deal.
California, that's the problem.
California is America.
You know, if California was Texas, we'd be
better off.
Although we're trying to be Texas.
Oh, let's do whatever Texas is doing.
Let's copy that.
Oh, Texas is going to gerrymander like we
always have done.
So let's do our gerrymandering worse.
Let's make us look like Massachusetts where we
have no Republicans in any office whatsoever, you
know, by cheating.
And then pointing the finger at Texas.
This is bullcrap.
Well, let me give you...
That's what I got to say.
Let me...
All right.
Well, we'll get off the topic of California.
Allow me to play a few clips here
from what is happening in the United Kingdom,
which has not come to violence yet, but
it's brewing.
And I've been around long enough.
I remember those thin British coming down from
the north to London with their pitchforks and
their torches.
It was not a pretty sight.
And it's beginning now with Operation Raise the
Colors.
Have you heard of this?
Okay, you got me on this one.
Here we go.
This is Marshall...
Winston Marshall.
He's a YouTuber, but he's a professional YouTuber.
Over the weekend, a quiet revolution swept Britain.
And if you only watch the mainstream media,
you might never have known.
It is the Raising the Colors movement.
Up and down the country, flags are being
hoisted and our streets are being adorned with
the cross of St. George, the Union flag.
Even roundabouts are being painted.
The good people of the United Kingdom, in
their calm, collected way, standing up.
And of course, those of the establishment and
the regressive left, who are not completely ignoring
this movement, are doing what they can to
undermine it.
You get something called Operation Raise the Colors.
That sounds very military.
It sounds very aggressive.
People aren't putting up this flag to celebrate
Britain.
They're putting up this flag to remind us
that Britain is white and we shouldn't be
here.
When the BBC reported on the roundabout, they
ran the headline roundabouts vandalized to look like
St. George's flags.
Contrast that with rainbow zebra crossings appear in
resort.
This morning, footage of Birmingham council frantically trying
to paint over the St. George's roundabout emerged.
At least two councils are working fast to
take down the flags because they are deemed,
quote unquote, dangerous and to be putting the
lives of motorists and pedestrians at risk.
So the government and the mainstream, everyone's trying
to cover it up.
Don't show those flags, take those flags down.
By the way, you try that in America.
If the city started to take down American
flags, that would not go over.
So listen to where this is happening.
And of course, how it started is kind
of well known.
There's a lot more going on here than
meets the eye.
The British are a people with a tradition
of being subtle with their patriotism.
That seems to be changing.
For good reason, which I'll explain.
But let's have a look at how this
movement came about.
This does not come out of nowhere.
Through July and August, anti-immigration protests have
taken place outside of government-funded migrant hotels
up and down the nation.
London, Warwickshire, Solihull, Altrincham, Bournemouth, Aldershot, Ashfield,
Southampton, Portsmouth, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle,
Norwich.
Criminal incidents by those claiming asylum in local
migrant hotels inspired the local communities to take
the streets.
Perhaps most famous of all was at the
Bell Hotel in Epping, where protests were sparked
by the arrest and charging of an asylum
seeker, Hadoush Kabatu, a 41-year-old from
Ethiopia, who was accused of sexually assaulting a
14-year-old girl.
The alleged incident occurred shortly after Kabatu arrived
in the UK via a small boat, and
he was residing at the Bell Hotel in
Epping, Essex, which was being used to house
asylum seekers.
The protests began following his court appearance in
July.
This, of course, comes after years of pent
-up anguish and frustration felt by British people
because of sexual abuse by legal and illegal
immigrants, asylum seekers, and communities of immigrant heritage.
Most notably, of course, the rape gang scandal.
The 2023 Knowsley Riots, which began because the
police failed to deal with advances on a
local girl by a man from a migrant
hotel, were a violent early example of such
protests.
So this is just the UK starting this.
This is starting to bubble under in every
single European Union member state.
Okay, so that's just flags.
But when the grannies come out, this is
when you got to be careful.
The pink ladies are in effect.
As with the grooming gang scandal, it wasn't
just the illegal behavior and sexual misconduct of
the immigrants which inspired the protests, but also
the authorities' mishandling of affairs.
Now, amongst all of these latest protests were
the pink ladies.
British mums uniting to defend their daughters and
children.
And this really might be the turning point
for Britain.
When the mums get involved, it's serious.
One of the organizers, Lorraine Cavanagh, explained.
We are mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters who wanted
to protect our family.
We don't hate these men.
We don't hate these men at all.
What we hate is what the government has
done.
You know, we witness pensioners going up to
the local supermarket, getting a basket and looking
for the red stickers for reduced labels to
get a bit of meat.
And then we witness these guys, 20s, 30s,
getting three meals a day in an unlimited
time, four-star hotel in Egyptian streets, you
know, mobile phones.
And now I'm understood they get a £500
voucher to get clothing.
And it's unfair.
And that's why we were standing up, because
it's unfair.
Not because of the men.
No doubt, half of them would go nowhere
near our children.
But not one of them women are going
to play roulette with their child's life.
You got to watch out when the British
grannies come out.
What are you going to do?
You going to mow them down?
Yeah, mow them down.
Shoot them?
Spray them with water?
What always remains is that the similarity between,
besides even a drag queen story hour, which
appears in the EU, appears in Great Britain,
or the fact that you have immigrants that
are given cell phones and cash vouchers or
credit cards in the EU, in Great Britain,
and here, what is the connection?
There has to be some sort of international
connection, because you don't have these phenomenon in
these discrepant areas, specifically in Western areas, the
United States, the UK, EU, the exact same
phenomenon where migrants are invited in one way
or another, given free cash, given free cell
phones, given free accommodations here and there and
everywhere.
Who's coordinating this?
Well, that is coordinated by the globalists.
Yes.
But who specifically?
This is ridiculous that nobody, I mean, I'm
surprised that people have put up with this
for as long as they have.
Well, it started a long time ago with
political correctness, where people were told to shut
up, don't say anything mean or nasty, and
it just got worse and worse.
And then we threw in some BLM, and
everything with color became an issue, and cheap
labor.
Ultimately, it's cheap labor.
And when I say cheap labor, not just
in some factory, of which there's not that
much left anymore in Europe, but cheap labor
in the kitchen, cheap labor to do your
lawn, cheap labor to wash your car, cheap,
cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap labor.
Keep all of your kids on, it's about
money.
Keep all of your kids in debt for
education, you know, jack everything up.
It's about money.
Now, so who is that?
Obviously, the Jewish bankers.
I mean, what answer do you want from
me?
We all know the answer.
First of all, I don't think it's about
money, because half of these guys are on
welfare.
It's about breaking the backs of Western civilization.
Right.
It's not about money.
I mean, half these migrants aren't doing the
law on anybody's lawn.
That's nonsense.
People can do their own damn lawn.
People can do their own laundry.
All the things that they say, oh, who's
going to clean your toilets?
Clean your own damn toilets.
Have you been to the UK recently?
No, I haven't been since 2017.
Okay.
But that's fairly recently, and it was pretty
bad then.
It's accelerated.
It's accelerated.
Yeah, well, it's accelerated under Biden in this
country.
Yes.
When they let in 20 million immigrants.
Yes.
That didn't do anything but take away apartment
complexes.
All right, stop.
So then it's about political power.
If you want to equate it to what
happened here, we have a first row seat.
It was about redistricting, getting more, in this
case, Democrat seats and illegal voters.
So isn't it ultimately about power?
And isn't power about money?
Or is it just about power?
No, power is about power.
So they can sit there and stroke their
white pussy and go, I control you all,
you plebs.
Possibly.
I think it's closer to that.
But then who, who is behind it?
Well, it's definitely socialist Marxists and Democrats.
That's it.
And I think that is, I was thinking
about this the other day, that the whole
world, even humanity itself, naturally migrates towards socialism
and Marxism until it's too late and they
figure out, oops, that wasn't a great idea.
Because the alternative, which is a republic and
freedom, like the United States originally was, is
not comfortable.
It's a little scary.
You know, you might have to get your
hands dirty to make, keep things the way
you want it to be.
So I think that it's almost human nature,
like, well, you know, but I just want
someone to take care of me.
And the more that is allowed to happen,
the more people feel comfortable with it until,
you know, you realize you've built a prison
up around you and you can't really get
out of it.
So, yes, it is Marxist.
Marxist is probably the best description because it's
cultural Marxism.
We went through that, man.
We were talking about that in 2009, even
when Obama came in.
It's all cultural Marxism.
And, you know, that is now completely a
thing.
And ultimately the systems.
And just look at our own political, our
own representatives, like California.
I think California is like, hey, man, just
take care of me so I can hang
out, bro.
Isn't that just human nature?
And that was one of the great things
about America is we said, no, we're going
to govern ourselves and you can have a
republic if you can keep it because it's
hard.
And then when you have the Marxist socialist
government and system, well, that, you know, that's
great because the people who are chosen as
so-called leaders and representatives, they love it
because it's never a problem for them.
They make sure that they get their salary
and they've got their health care and they've
got their cars and they're taking care of.
Well, this is well and good, but let's
go back to the original question, which is
this is coordinated.
You don't have drag queen story hour in
Sweden and the UK and the United States
out of the blue.
You don't have the same exact formula for
the immigrants come in, they get a credit
card, they get a cell phone, and they
get this, they get that, they get free
housing, like in New York is a classic
example at the Roosevelt.
Somebody, there is a group that's identifiable.
I can't identify them.
I'm just saying they have to be identifiable
that is behind the whole thing somehow has
managed to pull this off.
And I think it's it's obligatory for us
to figure out who these people are and
name them.
OK, well, I hate to say it because
you're not going to like my answer.
But this is the true enemy of the
people in this world is Satan.
And we have a lot of Satanists running
the show, running around, doing all kinds of
satanic things.
Well, I'll get I'll let that slide as
as a distinct possibility.
But there's still actual people.
Yes, that need to be called out, named,
pointed out and strung up literally.
OK, well, we got that far.
Well, just let's just name one.
Let's start with the low hanging fruit.
Macron, Starmer, Queen Ursula, Peepers.
Go with those people.
In fact, I have a clip here which
kind of brings this all together because it's
it's A.I. But it was so it
was so funny and so true at the
same time.
This is President Trump.
Oh, this is a good one.
Yeah, this you've heard of the car.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
So President Trump is doing a kind of
like an E!
Entertainment Channel red carpet voiceover.
Not President Trump.
Not President Trump, but President Trump, A.I.
version is doing a red carpet voiceover of
the arrival of the European Union leaders to
the White House for the summit.
OK, let's see who arrives now.
This guy, they say, is the president of
Finland, looking like the captain of a cruise
ship.
We need to get him a captain's hat
later on.
OK, who the fuck is this guy?
These Europeans all look like accountants.
Yes, sir.
I come to New York, Texas.
OK, thank you, sir.
Ah, the British prime minister.
They say this guy is gay.
I don't know if that's true or not.
I just think he's a dork.
Hey, this guy is definitely gay.
And his wife is a man.
And she beats him.
Mm, well, poor guy.
Ah, Georgia Maloney.
I love her.
I told her and Ilan that if they
ever have a kid, they better name him
Ilone Maloney.
Ursula, I like that she calls me daddy.
They all should when you think about it.
Good day.
I come to see my American daddy.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
There's always truth in humor.
You know, it's true that accountants, cruise ship
captains, losers, weirdos.
You know, how did they get there?
That can only— Yeah, that is actually the
question of the day.
That can only be— How did they get
there?
Corruption in voting.
I think that the fix has been in
so long on that.
Everywhere.
They figured that out a long time ago.
And you know what?
The people deserve it.
We deserve what we got, too.
And now we have President Trump.
And now it's even hard for him to
hold on to anyone supporting him.
Because, you know, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
Yeah, so that is a question I fear,
unfortunately, will have to remain unanswered.
Satan!
Yes, that's my answer.
That is the enemy of the world.
Yeah, well, that's a nice answer.
It doesn't help.
I'll tell you this.
It does if we all start to pray.
It's not a helpful answer, no.
Not for a lapsed Catholic, no.
But it's okay.
I pray for you, too.
You can pray all you want.
It's not a good answer.
It doesn't solve anything.
Oh, okay, well, say, what are you going
to do?
It doesn't solve anything.
That's the problem I have with it.
The United States of America has a chance
of getting out of some of this nonsense
unscathed.
We really do.
That's particularly— Yeah, well, tell that to the
Roosevelt Hotel.
I'm telling it to— Tell that to all
the 20 million.
All it took was one guy.
Biden comes in.
It doesn't know what he's doing.
Yes, it only takes one generation to ruin
it.
It takes one guy.
Yes, that's right.
One guy, four years.
Well, you got to add Obama to it.
Obama was a big part of it.
He was a big part of it.
It took a generation.
The millennials weren't paying attention.
Can't blame them.
They were psyoped into believing— No, they're total
stooges.
They were psyoped.
They were psyoped into believing that you need
a college education in gender studies, and then
you'll come out and you'll make $150,000
a year, learn to code, and meanwhile, butt
-cracked plumbers can do $1.50. Come on!
Learn to code.
It was a psyop.
My favorite.
It was a psyop.
Yeah, we fired all the entire pipeline operations.
Shuttered.
You guys should just learn— You pipeline workers
should just learn to code.
Do we have any— Oh, here's Joe Biden.
I come from a family in an area
where there's coal mining in Scranton.
Anybody who can go down 300 to 3
,000 feet in the mine sure as hell
can learn how to program as well.
Hey, man, you can learn how to program.
You can learn how to program.
And if you can go down a mine,
you can learn how to program.
Guy can't even program his phone.
Well, let's get into this summit meeting for
a moment because there are a couple of
things.
I'll just set it up with unbelievably, unbelievably—
and I'm sure you have clips of this,
right?
You've got an analysis.
Yes, you do.
Bolton, fart-sniffing Bolton.
By the way, my analysis is so off
the wall that you blow out everything you
can before we play it.
Oh, okay.
So Bolton, fart-sniffing Bolton.
I'm not saying that flippantly.
Wasn't he in a club where they sniffed
each other's farts in New York?
Or was that just a— Hey, this is—what?
Yes, yes.
I'm sure of it.
Ah.
Yes.
I mean, I'd like to—that's funny.
We talked about it on the show.
No.
Yeah, hold on a second.
Okay, go ahead.
Do your lookup and see if you can
find it.
Okay.
Well, I have—here it is.
National security.
Longest— National security.
There we go.
Longest-serving national security advisor.
The question is, who was that?
Yeah.
Who's she going to bring on the show
is the point.
Oh.
Who is she to back up all these
claims of hers?
And the fact that Tulsi's a horrible person,
who's she going to bring on?
The fart-sniffer.
What's his name?
The mustache man.
Boom.
What's his name?
Fart-sniffer.
You just called him his fart-sniffer.
Well, listen, listen, listen, so we understand.
There—there was a story that we've discussed that
he would go to some club in New
York where they would sniff each other's farts.
Am I— No.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm going to— I like the idea.
It's funny.
But the fact that you're defending it, you
imagine that it's true, is kind of disconcerting.
Ah.
It was— Like, there's this opening of the
show.
Yes, there was a weird, perverted club in
New York.
Ah, there you go.
I'll save that one.
Ah, I've got it, Watson.
Uh, Tennessee Williams was a part of this
club.
No.
Okay, no.
Tennessee Williams was part of a necrophiliac club.
Well, that's even worse than fart-sniffing, I'd
say.
Anyway, we don't have to belabor the point
of what Bolton does in his spare time.
But he did do something interesting in— Well,
he looks like a guy who sniffs— Precisely.
It's so— That's the reason that the joke
is funny.
It's so obvious.
But to believe it to be true is,
like, over the top.
You know what?
I'm just making it true.
Should we ask Error?
I mean, we can do that.
Yeah.
There you go.
Ask our buddy Error.
Okay.
Hey, Error, is it true that John Bolton
belonged to a club where people sniffed each
other's farts?
Oh, two, three.
Oh, she's digging.
A rumor that seems to have popped up
from nowhere.
There's no evidence or credible reports of John
Bolton being involved in anything like that.
Ah, you suck.
See, AI is wrong again.
Uh-huh.
Again.
She took her— She actually did some digging
that way.
No, no, I had the channel closed.
I didn't have her— I didn't have her
open.
Her mic was not open.
Uh-huh.
Anyway.
So here's Bolton, and he does something interesting
for the first time that I can recall
in an interview, and this is NPR.
Putin's pretext for the full-scale invasion of
Ukraine was the possibility of Ukraine's NATO membership.
NATO membership is a security guarantee.
So given that, what indication is there that
any security guarantee—is there any security guarantee that
President Putin would accept?
Well, there's a lot of loose talk in
the West about security guarantees, and many observers
have pointed out we gave Ukraine security guarantees
with the Budapest Memorandum in 1994.
That didn't deter Russia then.
People throw around this talk of an Article
5-like provision.
You know, Article 5 in the Treaty of
Washington that created NATO is famous for the
line that an attack on one will be
deemed an attack on all.
And nobody forgets the line—nobody remembers the line
a little bit further down in Article 5
that says that each party will—and I'm quoting
now—take such action as it deems necessary.
I looked it up.
That's true.
We all have taken Article 5 at face
value for the first line, not for the
rest, which is, yeah, you know, but we
got your back if we feel like it.
Did you know this?
Yeah.
I didn't know this.
I didn't know that it was still optional.
I thought it was, oh, yeah, you know.
Well, otherwise, every time a missile accidentally—in fact,
the latest thing—I don't know if you have
a clip of it—of the rocket that hit,
or I guess it was a drone that
landed in Poland in a cornfield.
Yeah, but that was— And it was all,
you know, running with their hair on fire
over that.
Yeah, I think that was— Could have triggered
the whole thing, you know, if it was—
It could have, but it didn't.
But it's not going to happen.
No, that's not—we're not going to have nuclear
war.
We're not going to have any of that.
But as Queen Ursula let out on the
last episode when she was doing her little
love fest with Zelensky in Brussels, it's going
to be the Europeans.
Now, the question is, what exactly does that
mean?
And I think what they all want is
they want hundreds of thousands of European Union
troops to be in Ukraine, not on the
border.
We'll have a demilitarized zone.
And the reason for that is they want
to keep their war economy going.
And we're going to be perfectly fine with
that because we're going to be selling them
all the dumb stuff they're going to be
using for nothing.
That makes nothing but sense.
And then with the promise of EU ascension,
and we'll have to roust up some corruption,
which, okay, we'll see.
Anyway, let's—since you've got an off-the-wall
analysis, I'll give the—I'll have our buddy Andrew
Rasoulis with his— Oh, there he is.
That's the— This is the guy.
Your buddy.
This is the guy.
This is your go-to guy.
This is my guy.
People don't notice.
You're going to be hearing a lot from
this guy for the next six months.
That's because we like him.
We think that he's a former War Department
guy in Canada, and he knows what he's
talking about.
And he has a pretty clear view of
things, and it seems straight up.
Good to see you on these key days.
And this is one, certainly.
Some of the true social posts I was
just mentioning, I wouldn't mind beginning there because
they're the latest we've heard from U.S.
President Trump.
Let's look at this.
The one line he's written, President Zelensky can
end the war with Russia almost immediately if
he wants to.
He seems to be putting the onus entirely
on Zelensky here, Andrew.
What is he seeking to accomplish with this
messaging?
Well, I think the messaging is that basically
the overall parameters of a deal are coming
together.
Now, that is from Trump's perspective, but he's
basically saying there's a deal to be made
here.
There's going to be concessions on territory, in
fact, reflections of reality since Ukrainians were not
going to militarily retake their lost territories.
And the key thing, your quote from Vitkov
about the Russians making, for the first time,
a concession on security guarantees, legal security guarantees
for Ukraine.
That's a new one.
So I think from Trump's point of view,
he's saying there's the deal.
You've got it.
Yeah, there is the deal.
And the deal includes Crimea and whatever security
guarantees you want, it will not be NATO.
OK, well, hold on for a second.
We'll come back to security guarantees because this
Truth Social post continues that there will be
no.
I just love how that anything on the
Internet, Truth Social, X, what?
Because if Zelensky's not posted, that'd be funny
if Zelensky posted on Truth Social.
That'd be cool.
But instead he does it on X.
So this is now how the news operates.
And President Trump's very smart with this.
I'll give you my statement.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Truth Social post continues that there will be
no getting back Crimea and in all caps,
no going into NATO by Ukraine.
And again, for Ukraine, deciding its future is
so.
All caps, it's obvious, no NATO.
You know, it's so essential to all of
its demands.
So again, what do you make of that
part of Trump's latest social media posting?
I think it's a reality check here for
the Ukrainians, because the war started.
The Russians attacked Ukraine over the issue of
NATO enlargement.
Up until right now, the Russian position has
been that the war will only end when
Ukraine becomes a neutral country that is completely
not militarily connected to the West, whether politically
or militarily.
Now, the concession, apparently that it covers a
of a legal guarantee, bilateral, not NATO, but
NATO style legal guarantee.
That is a Russian change.
They're actually saying Ukraine, what's left of it,
can actually have a legal security guarantee with
the West, including the United States.
That's a fundamental shift, actually.
That is big.
And that is that's a huge concession.
And I think that's why President Trump is
like, well, we got a deal here.
It can't be NATO.
And by the way, just to recall, was
it not Vice President Kamala Harris who went
to the Munich Security Conference and started all
this by talking about, yeah, NATO, we should
put some nukes in Ukraine?
Wasn't that her?
I don't remember her saying putting nukes in
Ukraine.
No, but I think Zelensky came right out
of them.
If I recall, I think Zelensky came right
out of the Munich conference and said, well,
yeah, we should have nukes here.
But she was saying NATO.
Well, he's always talking about nukes.
Of course, that's what he does.
All right.
Question here, what he thought of the EU
leaders.
I think Maloney is really interesting to watch
here because we've already seen a quote from
her saying that in terms of these security
guarantees, she's disagreeing with the French President Macron,
who's constantly talking about bringing French forces, at
least, or coalition of the willing forces into
Ukraine after a ceasefire.
Maloney's saying no.
The Italians are really not opposed to that
because they're saying there's X amount of Italians
and there's Y amount of Russians.
There's a whole bunch more Russians.
So she doesn't want to get involved in
a potential war with Russia over Ukraine.
So security guarantee is one thing, but boots
on the ground in Ukraine is another thing.
So Maloney is very interesting that way.
I think from Starmer and Macron and Mertz,
we're going to get the typical, yeah, we're
going to boots on the ground.
You know, Russia can't make a step forward.
The hard line.
But Maloney is actually the different one here.
Let's listen just for a second so we
can see if we can recall it from
this clip from MSNBC about Kamala at the
Munich Security Conference.
Lindsay, this speech was real.
This was the single most significant speech by
an American leader in the global forum calling
out Russian aggression and calling out Russia for
disinformation since 1962, since the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Adlai Stevenson.
What we're watching right now with Vice President
Harris is an American leader essentially telling the
world we are almost on the brink of
war and we have to stop that clip.
What is he talking about in 1962, Adlai
Stevenson?
I don't know.
It's Kennedy.
Okay.
Adlai Stevenson had nothing to do with the
Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
He was a twice failed presidential candidate in
52, 52.
I'm sorry, 62 is when the Missile Crisis
took place.
52 is when he ran.
He ran again four years later in 56.
Lost both times.
When the last time the same guy ran
twice, he had nothing to do with anything
after that.
He was an Illinois governor.
I mean, it was like, what are they
talking about Adlai Stevenson?
What kind of a report is this?
What's from MSNBC?
The more you know in the morning.
Thank you for correcting MSNBC.
Surprising that they had something wrong.
I'm just trying to see if he mentions
what Harris said.
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis by Adlai Stevenson.
What we're watching right now with Vice President
Harris is an American leader essentially telling the
world we are almost on the brink of
war and we have to resist it because
it will destabilize our entire way of life.
And that is a powerful message.
This is not a normal speech.
This is a serious moment for the United
States and for Europe.
So Joel, who's that message for?
Who is Vice President Harris talking to?
Is she talking to world leaders, the American
people, Putin himself?
Putin.
First and foremost, she's speaking directly at that
conference to the allies who are looking to
her and to the United States for leadership
at this moment.
And she's saying, we have delivered.
We are with you.
We are unified.
And that is not always the message.
And she hinted at this, that the United
States has been giving certainly during President Trump.
She's also making it clear to Vladimir Putin.
And look at this juxtaposition really of the
entire world, the United States.
I don't know.
I'll look it up for Sunday show.
Well, you're not going to find it.
OK.
You doubting Thomas?
You know, she's not going to you're not
going to find it because she never did.
We can't do that.
We can't even suggest such a thing.
And if she did, she's an OK, I'm
going to go out on a limb here.
If she did, she's an idiot.
Let's play the Poland stuff for a second,
just as a break.
OK, the Texas war, hot Poland.
OK, Texas.
I'm sorry.
I said Texas because I got a Texas
clip.
I went back to Russia.
Texas.
You put me in the same category as
Camilla.
Russia, war, hot, hot Poland.
At least 14 people are reported injured in
an overnight Russian attack on Ukraine's Sumy region.
This includes a family with three children.
Five months, four years and six years old.
That's according to Ukrainian officials who say Russia
launched 15 drones in the attack on the
Sumy region in the early hours of Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine's Odessa region, firefighters were dealing
with the aftermath of another reported Russian drone
strike.
Ukrainian officials called it a massive drone strike,
saying it injured one person and caused a
large fire.
Over 50 emergency workers battled the flames.
And in neighboring Poland on Wednesday, a military
drone fell and exploded in a cornfield in
the NATO member country.
Polish officials say it may have been a
Russian version of an Iranian drone.
Once again, we are dealing with a provocation
by the Russian Federation with a Russian drone.
We are dealing with it in a crucial
moment when discussions about peace are underway.
Residents in the area where the drone made
impact recount the moment of the explosion.
You're sitting there doing something on your computer.
Your wife's practically asleep.
And then boom, the entire house shakes.
An attack on Poland would mean an attack
on NATO, which could have serious consequences.
Poland also directly borders Germany, which has the
highest GDP and is one of the most
influential countries in Europe.
Poland's defense minister says Russia's goal is to
provoke Western allies.
OK.
Yeah, that drone went off, killed her and
landed in a cornfield.
It's also somewhat dubious because they determined that
it was Russian from some fragments.
And it's also exactly the kind of materiel
that has been used in Ukraine.
Yeah, I'm sure it's completely dubious.
By the way, he did mention Germany and
in there.
And did you notice Maloney sitting between Trump
and Mr. Peepers?
Oh, yeah.
Rolling her eyes and just going, you know,
she did everything short of stinging, sticking her
finger in her mouth and making a puke
sound.
According to the Polish army, no airspace violations
were detected from Ukraine or Belarus.
Police discovered charred metal and plastic fragments scattered
across the cornfield.
According to newspaper Respospolita, the wreckage may be
from a Russian Shahed 131-36 Kamikaze drone,
the type commonly used in Ukraine.
So, you know, not necessarily enough evidence to
get NATO to invoke Article 5.
We're not going to invoke Article 5 on
a cornfield attack.
Cornfield, they're hurting our cornfields now.
Here's a part two.
At a time when President Trump is doing
everything to bring about this piece, and Ukraine
is open to concluding this piece, the provocative
strategy and hybrid war continue.
So far, Russia hasn't commented on whether Poland
was the intended target.
Really?
Like they're going to comment, hey, you were
targeting that cornfield.
Come on, be honest.
So while the first clip was playing, I
read through the transcript of what Vice President
Harris said, and she did not say specifically
NATO is going to defend Ukraine.
But it was so implied.
So but it was enough.
It was enough at the time.
Putin said that, you know, hey, it's because
of your stance that we that we did
this because you were starting to rattle the
sword.
She's just as responsible as anyone.
Yes, this is this is what I wanted
to point out.
Well, you got that part right.
Her fault.
It's all her fault.
Well, she didn't do anything to to stand
it off, stand it down.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
Let's listen to well, I have I have
NPR morning edition report of the coalition of
the morning edition is getting worse.
Well, that's what we have from Brussels.
Terry Schultz joins us now to talk about
the challenges Europe faces with so many factors
still dependent on Washington.
So, Terry, how have European leaders been digesting
the events from DC?
Well, quickly is the best way I can
describe it.
It was less than 24 hours after those
meetings at the White House that the EU
leaders who'd been present there were back here
in virtual sessions debriefing their counterparts.
And that urgency just goes to show how
high stakes the situation.
Stop clip.
They're the leaders, right?
They are the leaders.
Yes.
Who are their counterparts, then?
Who would be a counterpart?
No, that's if you're the if you're the
president.
Yeah.
Do you have a counterpart, another another guy
above you or even to you?
I mean, there's 27 member states.
So maybe the other the other like the
polls and the Hungarians.
I'll let it slide a couple of times.
And that urgency just goes to show how
high stakes the situation is for Europe.
They had both a meeting of this coalition
of the willing that some 30 countries which
have expressed their readiness to physically help support
a ceasefire in Ukraine.
And they had one with just the 27
EU member countries.
President Trump has made it pretty clear that
he wants Europe to take the lead on
Ukrainian security.
That's that's our understanding, right?
That's right.
And more or less already decided that themselves
before Trump became more supportive of Ukraine.
But now the president has confirmed it many
times over.
And the good news for the Europeans is
that Trump is now pledging for the first
time to help with the security guarantees for
Ukraine.
Chairing the meeting of EU leaders, European Council
President Antonio Costa said Europe is actually now
working hand in hand with the US.
Their commitment to participate in the security guarantees
with the Europeans and other like minded countries
is a very important step, a very welcome
step.
Now, Costa says there's still a difficult road
ahead, but Europeans are feeling reassured by the
new US support.
Of course, we don't really know what it
means.
Is it boots in the air?
Is it and we'll do some flybys, you
know, maybe we'll drop some supplies.
It's very it's not clear what we'll get,
what we're going to do.
I predict we'll be doing very little other
than dropping off the orders.
What did you order?
He ordered some tanks.
Here they are.
What do you got?
Do you want fries with that?
We're flying them in.
How might this look, though, practically?
I mean, this coalition has been meeting for
months without the participation of the US.
Well, and also without even a basic outline
of what a final peace deal might look
like between Russia and Ukraine.
So what would be the rules and protections
and obligations of such a mission on the
ground?
In addition, it's been hamstrung since it was
created by the US lack of support earlier,
which is really critical, both in terms of
capabilities such as intelligence sharing and surveillance where
the US is dominant, but also the deterrent
factor, sort of the stick that you have
with an agreement backed by the US, especially
in the eyes of the Kremlin.
So now discussions will take a new, more
optimistic shape.
Now, President Trump says no US troops would
join this mission.
So how willing are Europeans to send their
people into Ukraine?
Well, that's a huge unanswered question because it's
not clear whether this mission would be to
sort of monitor a ceasefire or reinforce it
or defend certain lines.
And those verbs all mean very different things,
carrying different levels of danger for those deployed
in general.
European countries are going to have to send
forces.
And it seems about 10 have committed to
doing that so far.
But some options are much less palatable than
others.
And if this is a small force that's
just there to deter Russia reattacking Ukraine, this
is sometimes described as a tripwire force.
What happens if it is attacked?
We don't have any answers yet.
Or are we going to need to see
hundreds of thousands of European military personnel armed
to fight back?
Yes, I think that's pretty unlikely.
No, I think it's very likely.
And they have to.
There is a very high unemployment level in
the European Union.
People have no work.
There's only one thing left to do.
What's the constriction?
No, constriction.
Constriction.
Conscription.
I like constriction is the same thing.
Conscription.
Thank you.
Yeah, it has to be a military draft.
They're already talking about it in Germany and
nobody wants it.
The German youth do not want to fight
for Germany or anybody else for that matter.
It's something like they did a survey.
So it's like only 20, maybe 30%
the most would take up arms for Germany.
So that's how much they hate their own
country.
30% will go into the military.
And 20% will be, well, no, actually
more than that.
It'll be 50% women who probably won't
have to go.
And the 20% of men who don't
want to go, they're going to be doing
podcasts.
I mean, there's nothing else for them to
do.
There's nothing else.
And that's what you need.
It's like, hey, do you want to have
a good pay?
Go into the Luftwaffe and get in there.
And it's going to be every single country.
And it'll be a pretty good gig because
nothing's going to happen other than some fear
mongering.
I think Russia likes it.
We're probably going to do some great business
with Russia.
That's what I think is happening here.
President Trump, President Putin, like, OK, or whoever
that is.
Because man, that guy, the pictures of Putin,
it just doesn't look like Putin anymore.
And by the way, somebody pointed out something
because we have a fake.
First of all, a little backstory.
Mimi's working with a guy in Los Angeles
to produce a book, a memoirs of this
guy's doing.
I'm not going to say who.
Oh, another book.
Is this?
Well, we got a bunch of Gateway Publishing.
I'm sorry.
It's a marketing, marketing.
Yeah, it was a gate view.
I'll never forget.
No.
One of his best friends was Kennedy's double.
Wow.
And he was so apparently was incredibly depressed
when Kennedy was assassinated.
Yeah, he lost his gig.
He lost his gig.
So some one of our producers pointed out
in an email this morning saying that the
fake Trump is up and around because the
fake Trump has it has a tell.
Yeah, I'm a little dubious about this, but
I'm just like it.
I'm not just going to say it.
People can figure it out for themselves.
I'm dubious about all the fakes, by the
way, except for that Hillary, that one with
the person on the wrong side, short squat
woman.
Daddy long legs Biden.
Come on.
Oh, and the double Biden.
Yeah, but at least three bites.
So that's two out of four now.
Okay.
Okay, well, half of them might as well
just go all the way.
They're all fakes.
Yeah.
Oh, buddy.
So this Trump says that when he's talking
in third person, he says the Trump administration,
he refers to the Trump administration when the
real Trump always says my administration.
Yeah, but that's speech written.
Well, maybe not that.
Well, it's something to look out for.
I just say it was an interesting tell.
If true, it's possible now because, you know,
Dick Gregory had this back in 2015, 2016
before he died.
Oh, yeah.
He talked about this thesis that there were
two Trumps and one of them, he says
the real one always wore the red tie
and the fake one wore a blue tie.
And that's when Trump only appeared with those
two ties.
Now he wears pink.
He wears yellow.
He wears all kinds of ties.
Allow me to play that clip a few
weeks.
First, there's two Trumps.
Okay.
The one in the red ties, the real
one, the one in the blue ties, not
the one you saw last night after the
victory was the blue tie.
Now, if you would punch up.
Dr. Carson, Ben Carson, when Trump called him
a pedophile, and the next day he joined
Trump and the guy asked him, see every
now and then you slip and say, he
said, why'd you do that?
He says, it's two Trumps.
I was with the good one.
You see it there.
Just, just punch up when, when somebody interviewed
him, he said this to Donald Trump says
that's easy to pull up.
You know, there's, I forgot about the Ben
Carson anecdote.
Yes, there's a, there's a different theory, which
I quite like.
And the only reason I bring it up
is because this clip kind of, by the
way, we're the only podcast and the best
in the universe.
Of course.
That talks about body doubles when it's a
known fact that they're used to an extreme.
The theory goes that the elites have long
since perfected the art of cloning ever since
that stupid sheep, Dolly, Dolly the sheep, just
a stretch.
Ever since.
I met that dog.
I thought it was a sheep.
Oh, no, I met the first clone dog.
Yeah.
And, and what did he say?
Hi.
Okay.
But I'm just saying, cause the theory keeps
coming back and people email me this very
seriously.
So I take these things seriously because they
clearly believe that it's, if not possible, that
it's true.
And that many celebrities already have their clones
and they, of course they need to shut
up.
Otherwise, you know, they'll have to do all
the work themselves.
That would suck.
Heaven forbid.
And, and, you know, and that the real
Putin, this is this, this is a story.
The real Putin, the OG Putin is dead.
He died because remember he had cancer.
He had leukemia.
They kept trying to kill him and train
wrecks.
Yeah.
They kept trying to blow him up.
So he was dead.
But luckily, luckily they had the clone and
president Trump himself in 2022 kind of alluded
to this.
Do you respect Putin?
Well, he's a different person.
I'll tell you something.
I got along with him and look, I
got along with him loving this country and
he loves his country.
Okay.
But he's a different person than he was.
He seems to be different.
He, is he, is he, is he mentally,
it just doesn't seem to be the same
person I was dealing with.
There you go.
There you go.
It was a clone.
Well, that's an interesting clip.
The problem I have with it is why
haven't they, if they can make a clone,
why haven't they perfected it?
I mean, I've heard the reasoning behind it,
that it kind of actually looks like the
person is not a clone.
If he doesn't look like him, if he
doesn't think like him, if he doesn't act
like him, it's not a clone.
It's detectable.
Well, if you're going to, I can see
the, I can see somebody coming up with
reasons.
I mean, for one thing, the developmental aspects
of a person, you, you can develop worry
lines and using aging, just normal process of
getting older and older.
You, you know, you might get a bad
habit that creates a line in your face
or you ate too much and you're getting
a chubby face.
I mean, there's all these variables that you,
you can't control in terms of making a
copy.
So you might have what somebody should ideally
look like.
Genetically, they'd look like this if they hadn't,
you know, chubbed out when they were in
their thirties and then lost a lot of
weight.
Congratulations.
You have nailed the theory of clone difference
to the T.
It's exactly right.
Because even though you can make the clone
and you can't control what the clone eats
and, and the different environment they live in
versus their original DNA donor.
That is exactly the theory.
That's how it goes.
And who knows if that phone call was
the real Trump?
We don't know anything.
Breaking news.
Nobody knows anything.
I don't even know if that's a basic
thesis of the show.
I don't even know if you're John C.
Dvorak anymore.
I haven't seen you in a couple of
years.
I don't know.
They may have replaced you.
I could be a clone myself.
Well, that's why I'm talking like this.
Well, they nailed it on the attitude.
So good job, science.
That's all it takes.
It's just genetic.
Nothing you can do about it.
Anyway, Reuters went to the much more important
things of the summit meeting.
Obviously, Reuters, they would take the high road.
Another talking point from Monday's White House meeting,
that suit.
President Zelensky, you look fabulous in that suit.
Zelensky's black shirt and blazer combo certainly made
diplomatic waves, as well as keeping Donald Trump
and journalist Brian Glenn happy.
He was the one who called out Zelensky
for his attire in February.
Behind the new look, Ukrainian designer Viktor Anisimov.
He told us he didn't tailor the look
for Trump or anyone else.
He says a leader should look dignified.
And that's it.
And it was all very last minute.
Anisimov saying that he was working on alterations
until just before Zelensky flew out to Washington.
I love that Reuters actually went through the
trouble of trying to find the designer of
the suits.
Well, that's interesting because they tried to at
least Fox tried to promote it as they
bought the suit that day at one of
the clothing stores in New York or in
Washington.
Like H&M off the rack.
That's mean.
That's just Fox.
That's just Fox being Fox.
Yeah.
Yeah, it doesn't take that long.
You know, if you're in Asia for people
out there who if you ever travel to
anyone out there once it goes to Korea,
I'd say even Taiwan to a lesser extent.
But Korea is the main place.
They have the suit makers in in Itaewon
district.
There's a bunch of these clothing places.
I know, John, you used to have your
shirts made.
Tell them about the pocket.
And I would have.
Well, I wasn't going to talk about the
shirt.
You are now.
You are now.
OK, I have I used to have custom
shirts made and I always had a Perry
Ellis pleat put in the shoulders, which was,
you know, and also do any place else.
So what they do in Hong Kong to
what kind of pleat?
It's a pleat that's on the shoulders that
I notice.
And Perry Ellis shirts used to have.
I noticed it on a bartender once and
I asked him because it has a certain
look to it.
It's a beautiful look.
Imperiella is the name of the Perry Ellis.
Oh, Perry Ellis.
Perry Ellis.
The Perry Ellis cleats.
OK, pleat pleats.
OK, Perry.
I'm just trying to get it anyway so
you can have this done.
So I have these shirts made with that
pleat, which is technically illegal.
Yeah, but the.
Because it's copyrighted or something.
But anyway, so I always had my the
shirt pockets were the exact same size as
a CD.
So when you go to a party and
you want to steal somebody's CDs, you could
easily slip them in the shirt pocket.
They go right to the bottom.
Boom.
Don't even know you had them.
How many CDs did you wind up stealing?
I never stole one.
I just just in case.
Just in case you need to need.
If I had to, I had the I
had the I had the means.
Cop a disc.
Yeah.
So there's big pockets.
Pockets are large.
Now, the question is, was it a five
inch floppy?
No, it's a CD with it, with it,
with the CD jewel case.
It had to be.
It was the size of a jewel case
CD.
Hey, man, that guy's got some awesome tunes.
I'm going to steal his CD.
You're a treasure.
Oh, yeah.
And by the way, I would be all
for clones of us taking over the show.
I'm good.
Put me in a tiny home.
Perfect.
Let's go.
With growing doubts about America's willingness to defend
its allies, especially under President Trump, some lawmakers
are now discussing hosting, sharing or even developing
nuclear weapons.
They just threw that in.
Wow.
They just threw that in.
Oh, they're just asking for trouble.
OK, well, now we're ready for my three
clips.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, hold on.
You get any more because you get them
out of the way.
Because this is it'll be done after this.
I know.
Last one from Reuters about the whole security
deal.
President Trump is weighing whether to offer U
.S. air support, potentially including fighter jets.
What is up with this is Reuters.
They're a news agency.
They're kind of dramatizing everything.
President Trump is weighing whether to offer U
.S. air support, potentially including fighter jets to
guarantee Ukraine's security in any future peace deal
with Russia.
Military planners in Washington and Europe are exploring
options for post-conflict security following Trump's meeting
with Ukraine's president and EU leaders, which ended
with plans for direct talks with Russia's Vladimir
Putin.
Steve Holland has more on the U.S.
calculations.
One of the things they're not considering is
putting U.S. troops on the ground.
That idea bubbled up in the last few
days, and President Trump has basically shot that
thing down.
But other ideas that are possible are the
United States providing air support for whatever peacekeeping
buffer is there along the border.
There's also the possibility of supplying air defense
systems to Ukraine to protect them from these
drone attacks, missile attacks from Russia.
Theoretically, if there's a halt to the fighting,
these people would be there on a peacekeeping
basis.
Another option, according to two sources Reuters spoke
with, is sending European forces to Ukraine but
putting the U.S. in charge of them.
Whatever is worked out, President Trump will need
to allay fears domestically.
The American public is largely supportive of Ukraine,
but they're also leery of more foreign entanglements.
Trump was elected on one of the notions
that he would not involve the United States
in overseas conflicts.
He has stuck to that, and by ruling
out troops, he's trying to stick to that
as well.
But his MAGA base of supporters, they are
really against this sort of thing.
So Trump would have to provide them some
sort of reassurances that the United States is
not going to get into a hot war
against Russia.
Yeah, because otherwise Dave Smith will get angry
and Scott Horton will freak out.
How's that Middle East war going against Iran
that we were going to be in?
Yeah, those guys are nuts.
By the way, you took me off the
track with that shirt story.
I meant to talk about getting a suit,
tailor made suit in Korea, which is what
people can do.
If you go to, and I was saying,
if you go to Korea, make sure to
go to this district.
There's a number of stores that do this.
Shop around because there's about, the price differs
a bit, but you can get a tailor
made suit for about $200 to $250 and
a tailor made sport coat for $150.
They'll fit you and then do the adjustments
in the same day.
You'll have a complete suit the next day.
It doesn't take forever if they have the
infrastructure.
So the idea that Zelensky had to go
for a million, you know, sit down, get
a jacket.
But this is haute couture, you know, Ukrainian
fashion.
You know what?
I am going to tell you right now
that in the next Paris fashion shows, I
don't know when they're coming up, fall, maybe
the fall fashion show.
There will be black on black.
There will be Zelensky inspired fashion.
It'll be from some previously unknown Ukrainian fashion
designer and people will love it.
Oh, this is fabulous.
Very much.
Very Zelensky of you.
Very Zelensky of you.
By the way, let me just say, trolls.
Dunk, go, oh yeah, dunk on the pro
-peace people.
We're anti-war and pro-peace too.
Doesn't mean that some things don't have to
happen.
Well, I think the pro-peace people, in
many instances, as proven by these next three
clips, may be just stooges.
And I would say this chat room probably
has more than a few stooges for China.
Ah, there you go, because that's what the
bombing of Iran was about, in my opinion.
Now, this is an analyst who's in the
intelligence side of things, so he's a little
different in his approach to thinking about China.
But when they're talking about the situation going
on in Ukraine and you're talking about trilateral,
what comes to mind?
When I think about the situation in Ukraine
and I think about trilateral, this is a
riddle I don't know if I can solve.
Well, it shouldn't be hard for you to
say.
It means that the Russians, the Ukrainians, and
Trump are going to get together in a
trilateral, three-way meeting.
Yes, a threesome.
That's what everybody thinks trilaterals are all about,
right?
That would be, yes, right, right, right, right,
right, right.
You can't end the sentence with right, right?
Right.
Right.
You can't, you're right.
Right.
So not according to this analyst, this guy
has a different look at things and he
thinks that this war is designed to drag
on and he's got his own reasons.
This is quite an interesting analysis, which nobody
has even discussed or come close to.
This is the new Russian trilat one.
And joining us now to discuss these latest
developments is National Security Advisor and China analyst
Casey Fleming.
He's the CEO of Black Ops Partners.
Casey, as always, thank you so much for
joining us.
Now, all eyes are on how the Russia
-Ukraine conflict is going to end.
Russia has just indicated it wants a trilateral
with India and China.
What could this mean in terms of Putin
ending or continuing the war in Ukraine?
I think what we're looking at, and my
team thinks that what we're looking at is
an extended peace negotiation.
We've got two sides.
We've got the United States and Ukraine who
want an immediate end to the war.
And you've got the other side, which is
China, Russia and other allies of China and
Russia who want to keep it extended.
And they play the long game.
So we want to play the short game
to a quick ceasefire and a quick peace
agreement.
But the other negotiators, the adversaries, want to
keep it much longer.
The CCP is the wild card in this
thing.
The CCP plays the long game.
They want to keep Russia engaged in Ukraine.
Therefore, the U.S. engaged in Ukraine to
keep us distracted, along with the Middle East
and potentially another war that pops up, either
Taiwan or North Korea.
So the game for the CCP is to
keep the United States very distracted so they
can continue their extreme aggression throughout the rest
of the world.
Oh, this doesn't surprise me that the NTD
China haters would see this as the angle.
That's not so surprising.
Well, I agree 100 percent with the NTD
China haters because they're totally on board.
China is running away from everywhere.
I just read that Angola.
But you maybe have been duped.
What, that 300,000 Chinese are fleeing Angola
because the Angolans are sick and tired of
their Belt and Road lies?
You may be.
Maybe that's not.
Maybe you've been duped.
I mean, I agree that this is NTD
China.
The worst.
This is what that's the reason I have
these clips.
This is the worst case analysis.
It's not like best case.
OK, OK.
Well, it's good.
It's the worst case.
And I'm looking at China as the bad
guy in everything you do, everything you see,
everything you eat, everything you buy is China.
Best.
And so it's OK.
So we're continue with that thesis in mind.
On that note, both China and India have
been buying Russian oil, which the U.S.
says has been helping to fund the conflict,
although India has been buying less since President
Trump slashed additional tariffs on Indian exports to
the U.S. over its Russian oil and
gas imports.
But reports note that China is involved with
more than just economic support.
Some note the no limits partnership that was
struck right before the invasion.
What has been China's role here?
China's role has been very supportive of Russia.
You remember that they created a very strong
alliance and agreement, friends until the end, before
Russia ever went into Ukraine.
So there's a strategic partnership there, at least
for now, where they are aligned against the
United States and to remove the United States
as a global superpower and for the CCP's
eventual rule of the rest of the world.
So it's a partnership that we cannot ignore.
The CCP is the wild card in this
situation.
They are the grand puppet master with Russia,
Iran, Pakistan, North Korea underneath that, and to
a little bit of an extent, India as
well.
So China is the wild card.
They want to keep this war going as
long as they possibly can.
And if there is a temporary ceasefire or
a, quote, temporary peace agreement, it will be
temporary.
Okay.
And does he explain just how China is
going to keep this war going as long
as possible?
I mean, are they going to do that
through their misinformation?
But what are they going to, what tools
do they have for this?
Tucker Carlson.
What do you mean, Tucker Carlson?
Is he a pro-China guy all of
a sudden?
I don't think, I think there's a lot
of unwitting dupes.
You named a couple of them, the so
-called peaceniks, the people in the chat room
that condemn us when in fact we're the
peaceniks.
But why?
Okay, hold on, hold on.
I'm with you.
I'm just trying to understand where to look
for this.
They're clearly not getting a phone call saying,
hey, best price, say more Russia, bad.
I think a good example is Mr. Peepers
at the sit down with Maloney in the
middle, rolling your eyes, and he's going on
and on about how we should demand a
ceasefire instead of the peace agreement.
I'm with you on the European Union, Stooges,
for sure.
Because we know it just by what we
know, which is the ceasefire is a non
-starter for Putin because he knows that all
that means is just going to be a
pause so Ukraine can regroup and re-attack.
And so they can't have that.
And they're not going to do a ceasefire
under the circumstances.
But yet, why is Mr. Peepers pushing it
out of the blue, knowing full well what
happened with Trump and Putin?
But he's yack, yack, yacking it right there
with Maloney in the middle.
So I say the Chinese got there, and
like this guy says, they're puppet masters.
They got these puppets, and the puppets are
everywhere, according to him.
And I think there's some evidence of that.
First of all, Maloney in the middle just
sounds like a cool game.
I mean, it's like, spin the bottle on
steroids.
Maloney in the middle.
Well, I'll ask you the question after you
set up the last clip of this.
And I have a question about this.
And speaking of alliances, Casey, what about the
North Korean troops fighting alongside the Russians?
How should we read that?
The strong alliance, like I mentioned, China is
the grand puppeteer, the grand master puppeteer.
With Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea underneath
that piece of it.
And just to add a little bit of
confusion and a little bit more complexity, underneath
Iran, you have the terrorist organizations.
So this is all a master plan by
the Chinese Communist Party.
I think we as a government, we as
a country in the free world underestimate China.
We all have a long history of underestimating
the Chinese Communist Party, and it's high time
that we understand just how critical their role
is in the future developments of the world.
Expand on that for us a little bit.
What is China's goal in terms of the
Russia-Ukraine war here?
Is it in the Chinese regime's interest for
it to continue?
Absolutely.
They are supplying Russia with finance, buying Russian
oil and military armaments, including drones.
So they're fully engaged.
Again, they want this war to continue indefinitely.
Hold on a second.
That's very interesting, and I'll tell you why.
Let me hear that first bit.
Expand on that for us a little bit.
What is China's goal in terms of the
Russia-Ukraine war here?
Is it in the Chinese regime's interest for
it to continue?
Absolutely.
They are supplying Russia with finance, buying Russian
oil and military armaments, including drones.
Drones.
The reason I pick up on that is
because that is a main, was a main
talking point by Queen Ursula in her Zelensky
love fest, where she said, well, you know,
it looks like there's going to be mainly
drones that we're going to be building in
Ukraine.
So it's a twist.
It's a twist around to think of it,
but maybe she's also in on this and
like, well, you know, there's just going to
be lots of drones because China's going to
do drones and we might as well do
drones and we'll just keep this a drone
thing because it's a big money maker for
my overlords in China.
Does that make any sense?
Yeah, I guess.
Could be.
OK.
So they're fully engaged.
Again, they want this.
They want this war to continue indefinitely.
So it keeps us distracted, keeps us spread
very thin from supporting, you know, two, three
wars around the world.
So CCP has ultimate designs.
I think when you have to look at
it, they they want to rule the world
completely in their 100 year plan, which ends
in the year 2049 as Xi Jinping and
the CCP have been overachievers.
You might want to forecast that being year
2035, which is 10 short years away.
And here's a quote from me.
The world will be won or lost within
the next 10 years.
That's from our analysis of what's been going
on.
And we've been in this game quite a
long time.
Well, here's my question.
If we have stooges and I'm not going
to go for podcasters or trolls in the
troll room, but let's say peepers, maybe Ursula.
Ursula is corrupt.
We know that because just look at the
text gate with Pfizer.
She's clear and she's not elected.
She's just showed up all of a sudden
from peepers land.
So what is the incentive for them?
That has to be money.
You're not telling me that they're in it
just for the power.
Well, that's a good question.
And I don't know the answer to it.
There is an incentive of some sort.
Money.
I mean, don't they just want to have
lots and lots and lots of money and
just be, you know?
Well, I think that they would have that
type of attitude, I'm sure.
Because, you know, everyone's always jealous of somebody,
the billionaires of the United States and China,
which has just as almost as many.
And their luxury life, life of luxury.
Yes.
Villas.
Yes.
Here and there.
They have them.
Although our people don't do that so much.
No, no.
But they like having their hair done in
Paris and flying around.
And flying around.
Flying around.
Flying around, basically.
By the way, a lot of those.
And being extolled.
Extolled?
Extolled.
Oh, look at who I, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Worshipped.
Worshipped.
Yes.
Well, there's a plan afoot.
If it's money, if it's money, then there's
something.
There's a plan here that.
Do you mind if I do a little
series here?
I relinquish the floor because I gave you
my screwball analysis that nobody else has even
touched.
It's good.
And now you can do if you've got
something else.
And I'll also add to that that.
If it gets boring, I'll let you know.
Yeah, I don't care.
Of course.
Well, you'll let me know, but it won't
stop me.
Yeah, no, it never does make a difference.
You just get irked.
I'm not even going to get irked because
I think you'll like it.
But we do know that Mark Rutte, Secretary
General of.
Don't get too excited.
Oh, nuts.
It's not Mark Rutte.
But he kept saying, well, you know, NATO
when we say yes, we must, the United
States must pivot to Asia, to the Pacific,
must pivot to Pacific.
So this is not only just Russia now,
but it must be the Pacific.
So that is definitely on deck.
And again, I think our general agreement is
that the bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities
was to send a message to China, and
it seems to have worked.
It ended and President Trump even sent the
Israeli jets back, you know, because I don't
know who's in charge there.
You've got to wonder.
Anyway, so this starts off with Besant, our
Secretary of the Treasury, who said, oh, no
way.
I don't want to be the Fed.
I don't want President Trump.
He said, oh, he loves what he's doing.
He wants to be the he wants he
wants to be right where he is.
No, he does not want to be a
part of the Fed.
And I think it's pretty clear that President
Trump has his his sight set clearly on
the Fed and and the power that they
have.
And everybody should be happy that that that's
being looked at because it sucks.
It sucks that the Fed has so much
power over our lives.
So we start first with this is him
with Kudlow.
And this is kind of not really discussed
that very much.
But this foreign investment that we keep hearing
about, oh, you know, 500 billion from these
guys, 700 billion from these guys, everyone's going
to be that's not that's not just a
direct check that they write off to American
companies.
This is highly orchestrated.
We have these agreements in place where the
Japanese, the Koreans, and to some extent, the
Europeans will invest in companies and industries that
we direct them largely at the president's discretion.
And how does that work?
I mean, it's almost like an offshore appropriation.
I'm not sure we've ever had anything like
that in the States before.
Have you consulted with, I don't know, the
Senate Finance Committee or the House Waste and
Means Committee or or what?
Well, Larry, I think a good framing of
that is other countries, in essence, are providing
us with a sovereign wealth fund.
So so they're going to buy our goods.
Well, that's essentially what's going on.
Well, wait, let me step back.
They're going to build our factories.
They're going to help us to build new
factories, which Mr. Trump loves.
Exactly.
So the way to think about it is
these huge surpluses accumulated offshore.
Let's take Japan.
We're going to have 550 billion and they
will be reinvesting that back into the U
.S. economy.
And we will be able to direct them
as we reshore these critical industries.
We are trying to de-risk the U
.S. economy from what we saw during COVID.
President loves new factories.
He'll take rehabbed old factories.
He loves new factories.
So I thought that was rather interesting that
basically, I guess the the Treasury is saying,
OK, here's where you're going to put the
money.
This is what you're going to do.
If true, but it's and I'm sure that
that's where tariffs and all kinds of other
stuff comes into play that we're not told
about.
It's like, well, you don't want to put
your money into these companies tariff.
We're just going to mess with you with
tariffs.
So then it come this.
And thanks to Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting.
He did a great series on these.
And I was I was taken by it.
And it's from Arthur Hayes.
He's a former Wall Street guy, Deutsche Bank,
Citigroup, market maker in ETFs, trader, Citibank in
Hong Kong.
He's been around, but he also co-founded
BitMEX, which is a cryptocurrency exchange.
And he's widely regarded as someone who's smart.
And he explains the stable coin gambit under
Besant and the control it will have over
the entire world and how it will neuter
the Fed.
There's two pools of money, which I think
Besant via monetary policy and aggressive use of
terrorizing sanctions can make people on board in
the stable coins.
The first is the euro dollar market.
Right.
So, you know, 1950s and 60s euro dollar
market was created because of and just we've
been through this before, but the euro dollar
market is nothing more than dollars that are
not in America, but mainly traded in foreign
exchange in Europe.
And there's a lot of them.
And once they're in a non-American bank,
you know, there's really not much control we
have over it.
So that's the euro dollar, as they call
it.
You know, 1950s and 60s euro dollar market
was created because of all the regulations and
prohibitions about interest payments and trade flows that
the U.S. monetary authorities are putting on
commercial banks.
And so you have these foreign branches of
U.S. banks and foreign banks saying, hey,
I'll take your dollars outside of U.S.
control.
And so we have this 10 to 13
trillion dollar market, which nobody has any control
over.
Oftentimes influences Fed and Treasury policy in terms
of when dollars become expensive and cheap in
the euro dollar market.
And you can probably trace almost every financial
crisis outside of the United States to euro
dollar market flows.
And, you know, these flows are not doing
what Bessett wants them to do.
He can't control them.
He doesn't know where they are.
He can't make them buy what he wants,
which is Treasury bills.
So my idea, and maybe he'll do this
or maybe he won't, I don't know, is
right now, why do you feel comfortable in
a euro dollar?
Because every time your banking institution has gotten
into trouble, the Fed, the Treasury bills you
out, even if technically they shouldn't be doing
it.
So because you're not a member of the
discount window, don't follow U.S. regulations.
But, you know, we can point to many,
many, even 2008, the Fed secretly bailed out
all these foreign branches of banks for all
their bad trading policies to make sure the
euro dollar depositor was sweet.
So the idea here is to have stablecoin
flood the world, but not just floating out
there as dollar equivalents, but to have complete
control over the users of it.
Already 400 million people are using stablecoin throughout
the rest of the world.
And this is how Bessett never wants to
go to leave for the Fed because he
can actually neuter the Fed and control interest
rates through the stablecoins backed by short-term
U.S. Treasuries.
So the first thing Bessett should do is
say, hey, guess what?
If you don't have your money in a
U.S. branch of a bank or a
U.S. bank inside of America, you do
not have a guarantee any longer.
We will not come and save you anymore.
So all of a sudden these dollars are
like, oh, OK, well, there isn't this blanket
government guarantee from the Fed and the Treasury
for these trillions of dollars that I have
deposited on these banks.
But I could put my money into a
stablecoin.
And a stablecoin means that the dollars are
either a deposit of the U.S. branch
of a bank in America or they're holding
Treasury bills.
So if you don't feel safe in your
Deutsche Bank account in Switzerland or wherever, just
talk to your authorized participant and move these
deposits over to a stablecoin.
And now you have access to your dollars.
You have the blanket guarantee of the U
.S. government.
And guess what?
You might earn a bit of a yield
on your money because you probably don't get
much of a yield in a euro dollar
deposit outside of America because the banks don't
actually need your money and they have to
pay capital charges for the Basel III and
blah, blah, blah.
All the bad things about why banks don't
like large deposits.
And so now you have a $10 to
$13 trillion TAM of money that could flow
into stablecoins from abroad.
And what's in a stablecoin?
Besson has full control.
He knows where you are, which bank.
He knows where you're clearing your Treasuries.
And the best part is he can offer
you a yield that's lower than Fed funds.
So if Fed funds is four and a
half, he can say, oh, guess what?
I'll give you two on a six-month
T-bill.
And you say, well, I can't really do
anything about that because I'm not going to
go into a U.S. bank deposit.
The banks don't even pay you anywhere close
to Fed funds.
So fuck it.
I'll just buy the 2% that Besson
offers.
So Besson can, in one fell stroke, completely
neuter the Fed and no longer does the
Fed have any control over Fed funds because
Besson can offer the Treasury bill at whatever
price he wants, unconstrained by what Powell or
whoever his successor does.
So that's the control mechanism.
Now, how are we going to spread these
stablecoin around the world and the United States
so everybody starts using them?
We hearken back to Elon's Everything app, xMoney,
and not just him.
What was that dumb Facebook coin that they
almost got through?
I can't remember the name of that thing.
It was...
I know who would know.
Error?
Error?
Error?
Error would know.
Error would know.
What was the name of the Facebook money
that they tried to push through?
So, about the last bit, the Facebook settlement
money, payment from the 700...
No, see, she's stupid.
Oh, she's dumb.
She's a dummy.
Yeah.
Facebook had a coin they tried to push
into the market.
Oh, you mean like the launch coin on
the Believe platform?
It's been...
Okay, has no answer for me.
Stupid.
Well, she should.
The corpus would have that information.
Yeah, all right.
Stableface, whatever it was called.
Someone will eventually come up with it.
Maybe you dreamed it.
The fart coin.
Zuckerbucks.
No, none of that.
Zuckerbucks.
That's it.
The Libra.
There it is.
Thank you.
Thank you, Weirdo.
The Libra.
And everyone was all in.
Thank you, Weirdo.
The guy's name was Weirdo, is that right?
W-I-I-R-D-O, Weirdo.
So, what could you do now to spread
your stable coin throughout the world?
The U.S. has ways.
You have a lot of retail around the
world in developed and developing countries.
I live in Asia, and basically the entire
investment game out here in Asia is how
do we get local currency into dollars so
that they can buy higher yielding assets and
equities?
That's literally all of finance in Asia.
And then every so often, the regulators come
after people, and they basically put the young
guy in jail, and the boss stays sweet,
as they do.
And that is the game.
So, best I could say, okay, guess what?
We're going to deputize Elon Musk and Mark
Zuckerberg and give them protection to go and
offer a stable coin big account.
And we don't care if a foreign regulator,
whether banking or internet regulators says, we don't
like this.
We don't like that you're basically giving a
dollar big account to our entire underclass or
anyone who's not a wealthy individual.
And they don't care because they're sitting in
Hawaii and Austin, Texas, and Trump is protecting
them.
And if you go and you try to
remove access to Facebook or X, guess what?
Sanctions.
Just like what Trump threatened with Europe when
they had their digital information act or whatever
it is.
So, that's how they'd spread it around.
I'm told that's of all the things he's
saying, I'm like, that makes a lot of
sense.
And looking at the Genius Act, that would
be possible if they adhere to certain.
But basically, you have to have $10 billion
in cash.
That's possible.
But now to bring it back around to
the corrupt CCP influenced politicians.
This is another perfect gambit for it.
And then furthermore, Besson finally has a sanctions
weapon, right?
So, if you're in Asia or a lot
of.
Stop.
And I will, I will say that I
could call this a boring presentation, but it's
interesting at the same time, which is a
conundrum.
But that's not why I'm stopping it.
Who is this guy again?
Arthur Hayes.
And what's his background?
Wall Street banker.
And the founder of Bitfinex, a big cryptocurrency
exchange.
But he's a long term.
I think mainly in Hong Kong, Deutsche City.
He says he's in Asia.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
This is the last clip.
So, thank you for hanging in there.
And then furthermore, Besson finally has a sanctions
weapon, right?
So, if you're in Asia or a lot
of developing world, all the elites essentially steal
from their people and put their money in
US banks in some way, shape or form.
And so, guess what?
President or prime minister or parliamentarian, if you
don't allow Western social media companies to bank
all of your people with dollars, I'm going
to sanction you and you're going to lose
access to the billions of dollars that you
stole from your people.
And so, guess what's going to happen?
Nothing.
And so, I think that is how you're
going to get sort of like 20, 25
trillion dollar tam of money that could flow
into dollar stable coins.
And I think they're hinting at this already
in terms of you have the major social
media companies saying, oh, we're investigating stable coins
and this, that and the other thing.
And Besson's very pro on them.
And then basically, what does a stable coin
do?
They're going to buy treasury bills.
And they'll buy whatever yield Besson offers.
They can completely destroy the Fed.
You can put short term rates wherever he
wants it.
And now he's got a sink of tens
of trillions of dollars that he can essentially
fund the U.S. government with until they
do some sort of yield curve control to
bring down the long end.
Exactly.
Until it no longer works, which is probably
10 years or so.
But then it will no longer work.
I think this is a decent thesis.
Well, it's a fascinating one, that's for sure.
And it also could be the, it could
end the Fed.
But it could also collapse on itself at
some point, for some reason unknown.
Oh, easily, easily.
And bring the entire world's economy to a
halt, at least for a while, because you
can't do it forever.
But it could become the linchpin of the
economy, which would be interesting to see.
But I think the angle that you caught,
which was the interesting thing that caught my
attention that made me want to listen to
the whole thing, which is that, yes, Elon
Musk has been talking about making X an
all-in, does-everything-for-you kind of
monetary market of some sort.
To compete with, well, stablecoin wants to compete
with the Fed and with SWIFT.
Enter Russia, enter Russia.
Russia comes back into the fold.
Right, which is what we want.
We want Russia back in the fold.
And then you have Elon wanting to compete
with PayPal, since he never, he always felt
wronged in some funny way, because they didn't
do certain things.
Well, they kicked him out.
They kicked him out of PayPal.
That's why he felt wronged.
That's whenever people connect Peter Thiel to Elon
Musk.
Like, there's no love lost between those two.
And that's why he spent millions of dollars
getting x.com back, because he always wanted
PayPal to be called x.
And they kicked him out, probably because he
was no good, or at least for not
what they Or probably because he's annoying.
I think he is good.
Just, he's just annoying.
But he's got to be annoying.
I mean, even Trump figured that out.
Yeah.
And he's been very quiet.
You know, where's his, where's his new political
party?
I think he's been reading, hey, shh, we're
going to get you, we're going to make
you the stablecoin queen.
He's been very quiet.
Yeah, more or less.
And he does, and he lets all the
pro-Trump activism goes right through x, no
problem, never, you know, doesn't get bumped off
or anything.
A lot of screwball stuff on x, I
have to say.
It's fun.
I know.
I see you.
Someone, someone was like, you're always complaining that
you can't get past a hundred thousand followers,
but you're not growing your account like Dvorak.
You're not growing.
My account shrunk again.
But just the whole concept of you've got
to grow your account, man, by posting a
lot.
That's how you grow your account.
And when do I reap the harvest from
this growth?
When do I get it?
Well, there's no harvest to be reaped, except
it's just prestige.
Yeah.
I would say that I'm going to subscribe.
I got a check mark because of my
numbers, but I am going to subscribe to
x.
And I'll bet you my numbers go up.
Oh, now there's an interesting if, oh, that's
very interesting.
Yeah.
That's what my thesis is.
I've been waiting on it because when it
stabilizes, I'm going to subscribe.
And then I want to see if my
numbers, because my numbers should technically go up.
And this will grow your brand.
It'll grow the brand.
The fabulous and valuable Dvorak brand.
Yeah, man.
Grow your account and your brand.
This is beautiful.
Well, if you can do it and if
it works, I'm all in.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
It's a test coming up.
Coming up.
Coming up.
I'll report back.
Just to make sure we don't fall asleep.
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey being brought in for
the future replacement of FBI Director Cash Patel.
I just love Alex.
Breaking exclusive.
Okay.
What?
Oh, yeah.
Well, first of all, he's deputy director, not
director.
Yeah.
They're bringing in two new guys to be
co-deputy directors.
Because as you well pointed out, that was
the breaking exclusive on this show.
You know.
Oh, no.
Actually, Cash Patel is the director.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, he is the director.
I know what you're talking about.
Think of Bongino.
Bongino.
Yeah.
Cash Patel.
I think like Bongino, he wants to pop
out.
He's tired of it.
He didn't like it.
No, he's got nothing better to do.
Cash Patel?
Yeah.
He's got nothing better to do.
He can do podcasts.
No.
No.
Yes.
He's no good.
People love podcasts.
Well, they love podcasts, but you got to
have some chops.
By the way, I need to tell you
my story.
I went to the podcast movement in Dallas.
Ah, here we go.
Yeah.
I went to the podcast movement in Dallas.
Was it a bowel movement?
No, no.
So this is the big podcast industrial complex
conference.
Were you around when...
Yeah, I don't know if you were around
when...
I'm sure I was around.
Well, you were around, but you were alive
on this earth.
The first...
So we had the New Media Expo, which
always took place in California.
What's that place that sounds like a Canadian
place?
Ontario.
Ontario, California.
And the New Media Expo, then those guys
were very smart.
And they said, well, you know, this podcasting
thing has taken off.
Let's call it the podcast conference.
And they did their first one in Vegas.
And we had a pod show at the
time.
And so I don't know if you were
there yet.
And they said to me, hey, Adam, would
you come and do...
You've complained about this for a while.
Well, this upcoming complaint that you're going to
discuss.
Yes, just to reiterate, come and do the
keynote.
I'm like, I don't really like doing keynotes,
but you invented it.
OK, fine.
And they said, OK, I'll do the keynote.
OK, can we put you down for a
gold sponsorship?
I'm like, what?
Well, yeah, if you want the keynote, you
have to be a gold sponsor, which I
think was $10,000 or $15,000.
I'm like, no.
So in fact, I won't charge you for
a speaking fee for showing up.
They got in a huff.
Like, man, you're not supporting the industry.
You got all that VC money.
Now, we did.
It's true.
You got all that VC money.
Yeah, you got VC money, but not to
squander it.
When you give a keynote, you should be
paid to do the keynote, not pay them.
Thank you.
So, man, I'm like, no.
And it got pretty heated.
I said, I'll do your keynote.
We're not going to do a sponsorship.
Well, then you can't do the keynote.
Well, fine.
And what we then did is we took
our $10,000 and we started an unconference
in the hotel right next door at the
pool with chicks and bikinis and drinks.
I'm sure you would have remembered if you
were there.
I would have remembered that.
So I came later.
And it was the podcast unconference.
And everybody was hanging out.
We had the mixed drinks and beer.
And it did not endear me to the
podcast industrial complex.
But we were rebels.
Rebels, I tell you.
So, of course, I never got invited to
do anything with any podcast industrial complex conference
until, gosh, this is now three years ago.
So you were blackballed for being a dick.
Correct.
Or not playing the game.
But I agree with you.
I think you stood on proper grounds.
You were doing it.
You were a professional.
You don't pay somebody so you can give
a speech.
Well, I know you haven't done any conference
speeches for a while, but that is now
pretty much the entire game.
Yeah.
Well, that's why one of the reasons I
probably haven't done any conference speeches in the
last five plus years, at least.
At least.
If that's the game, I'm not playing the
game.
I don't have time for that crap.
I can.
I have a podcast to attend to.
And yes, you do.
You need to grow your brand.
You're busy.
I need to grow my brand on Twitter.
You're busy doing things that are very important.
Growing your brand.
So three years ago, because of the out
of the gate success of the podcast index,
and there's a lot of noise around podcasting
2.0 and new apps were coming up.
They said, well, you know, if you want
to do a session, you know, we'll make
something available to you.
And I said, well, you know, because at
this point I wanted to just meet a
lot of these people who've been working on
this project.
And so we all decided to meet in
Dallas.
And they literally put us during lunch in
a room way in the back on the
third floor.
And so with the expected results, it was
like 20 people there and, you know, no
signage, no promotion.
So it was quite insulting.
But that's a good one.
Yeah.
But it didn't cost money and we got
to meet everybody and hang out for a
couple of days.
So of course, I vowed I would never
do anything.
But then one of the participants in podcasting
2.0 Soundstack, who actually do a lot
of hosting and a lot of ad stuff
for other podcast hosting companies.
And they're most known for Live 365, live
streaming, which is a big part of podcasting
2.0. Witness people listening to this on
a modern podcast app.
Rocky Thomas, she said, hey, Adam, we'll pay
for a booth if you'll come and do,
you know, just a fireside chat.
I was like, that sounds like fun.
And I just and I talked to my
buddy, Mitch, the periodontist.
He said, yeah, you can use my plane.
And so I flew up in the morning
and flew back in the afternoon.
So I didn't have to stay overnight or
drive five hours each way or spend seven
hours getting there by commercial.
So not too much skin off my bones.
And the main thing, it was great.
It was fun.
Talked about no agenda, how awesome we are,
value for value, live stream, all this stuff.
But what was new, and this is something
new for conferences, which I was convinced would
suck.
The way they do it now is they
don't have a hundred, you know, all these
little rooms where, you know, you can you
can shove 30, 40 people in there.
And it always smells.
You know what I mean?
You get like those session rooms and it's
just as smelly and sweaty.
Am I right?
I don't know.
I never noticed the stench because I never
played a small room.
Well, remember, these are podcasters.
So these are people who typically sit in
their basement doing a podcast.
So it makes sense.
And then if it's full, you know, you
people can't stand the back and you can
barely move.
And so it's no good.
So they have this giant expo hall at
the Gaylord in Dallas.
And first of all, it's carpeted.
And I got to tell you, when it
comes to trade shows, carpeting is very important,
particularly for people who are walking around all
day.
Yeah, this is good.
Very thick, nice carpeting.
And they had all of these stages completely
open with chairs in front and plenty of
room for people to stand around.
And you'd think this would be a nightmare
with all these different interviews and speeches and
keynotes going on.
But no, they have.
And I guess this is a new a
new thing with conferences.
You walk into the expo hall.
Everybody gets a pair of headphones, wireless headphones.
And there's three controls on the headphones on
off volume button and then a channel selector
and the headphones on the outside turn color
white, blue, red, green or purple, indicating what
channel you're listening to.
So we're sitting on stage.
We have headphones on.
We have hand mics.
And we were on the white channel, which
I did say was kind of racist.
And the whole audience packed all had headphones
on with it.
You could see if someone wasn't listening, like
someone's on the red channel.
You could you could rouse them.
You could call them out.
But no one was doing that.
And they all have their headphones on.
I thought this was going to be the
stupidest thing in the world.
Like, how lame is this?
I got to tell you, it was fantastic.
It's like doing a podcast where everybody's on
the podcast, only they don't have mics and
they're all listening because you're in their head,
between their ears.
And no one was on their phone.
No one was looking down.
No one's looking away.
It was really revolutionary for the conference business.
I will hand that to them.
Sounds terrible.
That's what I thought.
But it's not.
So they had all the stages like it's
like a like an outdoor concert with multiple
stages in the same room.
Yes.
And these guys talking about that.
And, you know, like I walked past a
big stage and there was James Cridland was
interviewing the guy from Coat Hanger or Goal
Hanger or whatever it's called.
I like Coat Hanger better.
And and they're just talking.
You never would have been able to hear
them from way in the back.
But I just put the headphones on, clicked
on.
Yeah, well, that that makes sense.
It was great.
Instead of, you know, you can't really hear
people are poorly.
Mike is not loud enough.
You got feedback.
Now, we all could have just stayed at
home and be on Zoom, to be honest
about it.
Well, if you have a good audio engineer
who knows how to stage speakers.
So there's a delay between the front speaker
and the back speaker in such a way
that the sound sounds like what you sound
like, the voice of God when you're speaking
up there.
I prefer.
But nobody has those guys anymore.
I don't know why.
I guess they learned the code where they
went.
Yeah, they learned how to vibe code, man.
Anyway, it was it was very enjoyable.
And then and then just a bunch of
people I knew.
So everybody's going to have ear infections is
what you're telling me.
That was kind of the disgusting part.
They did not hand out little sanitization kits,
you know, but you can just wipe down
the you know, they get sweaty.
You wouldn't have liked it because, you know,
you get ear mold.
You get sweaty ear mold.
I don't need the aggravation of ear mold.
So that was the.
So welcome all those new people who are
listening.
Welcome all of the new listeners.
In fact, since we talked about it, why
don't we say in the morning to you,
the man who put the C in copper
disc.
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend
on the other end.
The one and the only Mr. John C.
DeVore.
Yeah, good morning to you, Mr. Curry.
Good morning, sir.
Seaboost to the ground, feed in the air,
subs in the water and the dames and
knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Let me count you for a second.
Hold on.
Well.
That is what I call an.
We got 1655.
It seems we went down.
Yeah, we should have 18.
We should have 18 at least.
Yes.
OK, well, there you go.
OK, probably the stable coin discussion.
No, I don't know.
No, no, no, because I don't like to
talk about.
No, that are that complicated.
No, because one hour and nine minutes ago
was the peak at 1655.
So that was that was.
Well, so well, then we then we still
have a problem.
People stop coming because they had a problem
a couple of weeks ago and they still
haven't figured out that it's been fixed.
Yeah, but people there are people have emailed
me and said, hey, it's working again.
So we'll have to build that one at
a time.
You know what you should when you grow
your brand on X, you should let people
know bitching about this when I grow my
brand.
But only but only when you grow your
brand.
Not before.
And so, yes, many of them are listening
at troll room dot IO or they may
be on one of those modern podcast apps,
which I highlighted at the podcast movement.
I would have expected all of you were
using them by now, but there were a
lot of.
Oh, and oh, when I told them that,
you know, when you go live with your
podcast, your podcast app will alert your audience
so you can grow your brand.
Oh, grow your show.
Oh, that's great.
And of course, through the magic of pod
ping technology, when we release the show, since
you didn't have time or couldn't listen live
within 90 seconds, you'll be notified of that
and you can get those at podcast apps
dot com.
We are also value for value.
Another topic much discussed, which is is kind
of a simple concept, really.
It's like we don't want to be interrupted
by ads.
We don't want to kowtow to the podcast
industrial complex.
By the way, the CPMs for those ads.
What do you think the CPM is for
an ad that's inserted?
Dollar?
Not quite that bad.
About 350.
Yeah.
350.
I mean, and it can only go down.
It's not going to go up.
No, no, no.
Now there's a higher CPM, which is cost
per thousand for those who are interested.
If you if you read an ad, a
host read ad.
Host read ad, I wish I could give
you five bucks.
Where I was.
No, that can be.
They say they say up to about 20.
But after commissions from everybody, probably you're looking
at 13 to the show.
And it would go like, you know, John,
Phoebe's looking so great.
Really?
Why, you think?
Well, I started feeding her this new food.
Tell me more.
It's called Farmer's Dog.
Yeah.
And people would immediately rush and say, wow,
Adam's dog is looking good.
I got to get me some of that.
And that's how it works.
But instead of being total shills, we just
ask you to support the show.
Equal to.
Directly.
Directly.
So all we have is processing fees.
No middleman here besides the obvious processing fees.
Yeah.
The thing is, even when you have the
middleman, there's you still have the processing fees.
But if you send a check, which we
gladly accept, there's a very 15 cents per
check.
Or if you send cash like synonymous of
dog patch, there's zero processing fees.
Actually, there is a cash fee now.
No, but they charge you to deposit money
into the bank.
Yeah.
After a certain amount.
Same thing with checks.
But there's a certain amount of checks.
I think it's like a hundred, a couple
hundred checks you can do for free, which
is really cheap.
It's free.
But then after a certain amount, then it
goes to the 15 cents per dollar.
It's 15 cents per whatever.
It doesn't know it's a flat fee per
check.
So if you send in a thousand dollars
in a check, it's 15 cents.
If you send in five dollars in a
check, it's 15 cents.
If you send a dollar in a check,
it's 15 cents.
Unlike, you know, the systems out there from
everything from Visa, MasterCard, everything is a percentage
of the total, which is not quite as
good a deal to be honest about.
But yes, at some point, I don't know
what the cutoff is.
I've never asked, but I do know there's
a cash acceptance fee.
I think you get after it gets to
a few thousand bucks, they start charging you.
Hey, you know what's going to revolutionize this?
Stablecoin.
That's right.
Probably not.
There's still going to be a fee.
You think the banks are going to let
anything like that slide without fees?
Dream world.
It'll have to be pretty low, but there
will be no middle.
How low can it go?
15 cents?
It'll be even lower.
No, no, they're probably hurting themselves at 15
cents.
Maybe.
I'm surprised it's that cheap.
I think Stripe that we have on the
website already accepts stablecoin.
I'd love to see the first person donate
to the show with USDC because that's what
they accept on Stripe.
What's USDC?
U.S. Digital Currency?
No, that's the Circle stablecoin.
You have USDT, which is Tether.
And of course, you'll have USDX, which will
be X, and USDF, which will be Facebook.
Yeah, USDC is already accepted.
I was looking at the news.
I was going to say trades, but it
wasn't in the trades.
It was in the news, financial news, that
the Zelle thing has fallen apart.
Oh, yeah, the banks hate it for a
couple of reasons.
Well, the bank that we deal with, the
two of us, refuse to take it, even
though it has gone through.
Yeah, because it's basically a wire transfer through
an intermediary.
But the banks don't like it because there's
no takesies-backsies.
They can't take it back.
And if so, what happens if someone gets
a hold of your Zelle and they just
empty out your bank account, then you have
a very unhappy, broke customer and there's no
way to get the money back.
And it's also cutting into their business.
Well, that's the main reason.
They don't care less about your poor problem.
Yeah, well, there's a lot of things.
All of these, like Venmo.
So Venmo uses Plaid middleware.
And what Plaid does is it, in essence,
you give it your password.
I mean, you don't actually give it your
password, but you give it permission to be
in your account to credit and debit money
and look at your stuff.
And so that's the bad part.
And what the banks have found is that
Plaid logs into accounts, not just when they're
paying or receiving money, but like 10 times
a day.
Well, let me see what he's doing now.
What is he spending money on here?
Look at that.
Well, maybe we can sell this to an
advertiser.
It's sick.
It's gross, really.
It's gross.
And they do that.
Well, we don't use those systems.
We use the basic old-fashioned system, the
bank itself, cash, PayPal and Stripe and now
Strike.
And that's it.
We don't have Square.
We don't do a lot of different ones.
But they're all out there.
But, you know, people say, why don't you
do this?
Why don't you do that?
How much more can we do?
Yeah.
Don't send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
Anyway, we're a check or check.
Yeah, it's great.
So you can send time, talent, treasure.
You can't actually send time and talent.
But by the way, the check goes to
Box 339, El Cerrito, California, 94530.
There you go.
And it should be addressed to the No
Agenda Show or me or both.
Yes.
So we love it when people do things
for the show, boots on the ground, organizing
meetups, helping out with servers, other types of
things.
That's all very valuable to the show because
it saves us direct money of having to
pay for those services.
And even though we, at this point, could
probably do our own art, I don't think
we want to.
Because, you know, just everyone else is doing
prompting on the AIs to create artwork for
us.
Now, obviously, you need to have a good
idea.
Needs to be fun.
We like it to be funny, if possible.
And that's not something artificial intelligence can do.
So your creativeness is still highly appreciated.
Blue Acorn did the artwork for episode 1791.
We titled that Bolt Muncher, which is a
slur these days for robots and AI systems.
And it was all right.
I mean, if you had listened to the
show, then you got it and you liked
it.
Had a boomer counting out resistors on a
counter, which I guess is me, since I
told the story.
And there's a robot next to it whose
name is Clanker.
And it was the best one we had.
I mean, there were some others.
But you like Screw Worm.
I like Screw Worm.
You thought it hit the gross factor and
therefore was vetoed by you.
Yes, indeed.
Yeah, I have a gross factor thing.
You were both like Body Double, but that
was screwed up by Comic Strip Blogger, who
didn't put the effort in.
Yeah, if Comic Strip Blogger had used AI
correctly, AI would have said, oh, your grammar
is incorrect.
Because we wanted that art.
We thought it was great.
He could have X'd that out in Photoshop
and put in the right grammar.
But you're right.
He was lazy.
It says, you're Body Double.
But it should have said, you're a Body
Double.
And he didn't do that and was also
not aligned properly.
So he was lazy.
It could have been shifted a little to
the right.
He would have had a winner.
He would have had a winner.
That was our first choice.
It was.
Because it was funny.
Yeah, yeah.
Because, yeah, it was very no agenda, very
funny.
And he was lazy.
What can you say?
By the way, on the Screw Worm thing,
I got a note from a rancher, Rancher
Austin is his name, and he said this
whole Screw Worm thing is a Psy-Op.
The Psy-Op to raise the price of
beef.
And I think he's probably right about that.
Could be.
Yeah, the narrative that the Mexican heard is
over.
But didn't you get the whole story?
Not from me and my conspiracy guys, but
your buddy, the famous Texas Slim?
Is he being Psy-Oped?
Is that what you're making the claim?
No, I'm saying that as we were eating
beef and drinking wine, I may have misunderstood
where he said, oh, that whole new world,
new Screw Worm, that's real.
And I might have misunderstood his irony.
That the narrative.
The way you presented it was possibly ironic.
No, no.
That is not the way I presented it.
But now that this rancher says, hey, this
is a Psy-Op, I'm like, ah, maybe
I misunderstood what Slim was saying.
So I'm going to call him about that
and then get the full detail.
Didn't the Texas Slim also say that the
herd count was down and they were having
issues?
Yes, that is true.
That is true.
Well, that would increase the price of beef
for sure.
Yes.
Well, that's mainly because we just have commodity
cowboys and people don't care anymore about ranching
and all of the young people are selling
their parents ranch because they don't want to
pay the inheritance tax.
And it's a pain in the butt.
And ranching is hard.
And they'd rather learn to code.
Code.
Code.
That's the bottom line.
So other pieces of art.
Yes.
I like the Screw Worm.
That was a no.
Was there anything else?
I don't think there was anything else that
we really...
You kind of like your new AI girlfriend,
but it was messy by Nestworks.
There's a lot of messiness.
Yeah, it was messy.
It was messy.
And then you also like Putin red carpet,
but I'm like, this is another...
I did like Putin red carpet because I
thought the cartooning of Putin, the caricature-ish
nature of the Putin character walking the red
carpet was really pretty good.
It was, but...
No, you vetoed that.
I did.
Anyway, that's pretty much the discussion we have
every single show day.
After we're done, after we do the credits,
after we...
Yeah, we do the credits, and then we
select the art, and then we do the
title.
That's how it goes.
And you just heard the whole conversation in
condensed form, because we really argue and throw
stuff at each other.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So now we'd like to thank the financial...
The treasure part of Time, Talents, and Treasure.
People who supported us financially.
And we had a new promotion, which you
launched without even talking to me about it.
Yeah, I know I've done this a couple
of times now.
We had discussed it.
I have to do that.
Why don't you explain exactly what the promotion
is?
Well, we did talk about it, by the
way.
It wasn't like you were completely in the
dark, because we had discussed on the show
the idea of naming, giving a no agenda
secretary generalship out as a kind of a
token title.
And you can be secretary...
And we talked about it after the show
once too, about how to do it, and
it should be state by state.
And I decided that's probably not a good
idea, because it limits people that are in
the populous states.
And so I just said it should be
open-ended.
You can make yourself secretary general of anything,
including the United Nations, under the no agenda
banner.
And so the offering is you can become
secretary general and an executive producer for $500.
And you get to pick where...
Secretary general of what?
And I suggested in the newsletter, Botswana.
You can be secretary general of the United
States.
You can be secretary general of Cincinnati.
But it doesn't matter.
How about the Hill Country?
Secretary general of the Hill Country.
You could be secretary general of the Hill
Country.
And it's just, it puts that title where
it belongs.
And now does this come with a certificate
of authenticity?
Oh, the certificate, yes.
Jay is trying to outdo herself.
So the certificates will probably go out at
the end of the month, because she now
wants to...
the thing, the design is going to be
slightly different than our other stuff.
It's always, everyone's been somewhat different.
But this is going to have a big,
a giant wax seal at the bottom.
Oh, nice.
That has the ITM signet ring thing, but
bigger.
She's ordered a giant version.
Did she order a giant ring to make
it?
No, it's just, it's a stamp.
Cool.
Stamp.
I had to get the art from Paul
Couture to her so she could get this
thing produced.
She found a guy.
First of all, I got into an argument.
No, I don't think it's not a good
idea.
For one thing, who's going to make these
things?
And every time we have a discussion with
her, where I tell her it can't be
done, within five minutes, she has to vendor.
I appreciate Jay for this.
She's on her phone.
Okay, can't be done.
Let me see.
I found a guy who will do it
for you.
Now, does she preface it?
Or does she end it with Boomer?
Does she?
Oh, I can get that done.
She knows better.
So yes, I'm looking at the troll room.
Secretary General of Boobs.
Yes, definitely a possibility.
Secretary General of Boobs.
That would be a gem.
Secretary General of Uranus.
Yes, all of these are completely valid.
They're all possibilities.
They're all valid.
All valid.
So Steve Miller came in from Aledo, Texas.
Steve loves us and he supported us with
$2,500, not stable coins, actual digital money.
And here's what he said.
We love your fantastic insights and commentary.
Is it possible there's still uncertainty whether your
three-by-three intro was or wasn't on
The Dating Game?
If so, season of reveal.
Herb Albert, Spanish for you on The Dating
Game.
Yes, we did deconstruct that.
You must have missed that.
Over the last couple of weeks on my
drive home from work, I found each of
you making me laugh out loud.
With the pathetic donation levels recently, I felt
like I might be running out of time
to make things right in our relationship.
Please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
And also please de-douche my son, Andrew,
who hit me in the mouth during COVID.
You've been de-douched.
And please split my donation to make us
both overdue and loyal instantites.
Names TBD, ITM, Steve Miller from Aledo, Texas.
Oh, so is he not on the list
because he's got a TBD there?
Well, he didn't mention Secretary General.
Let me just double check.
It says he came in at the right
time.
He can go pick one up later.
He's not on the list, so he can
definitely pick one up later.
OK, so he's got the name.
OK, we'll knight him when he feels like
it.
Yes.
Peter Fantino's up next.
He's in Eustis, Florida.
Eustis, huh?
Sounds right.
Came in with a thousand.
Whoa.
In the morning, boys.
First time donation.
I've been listening since the election and thought
it was time to pony up.
My name will be Sir Peter Jockey of
the Mountains.
Dinner is Beef Wellington.
He's just knighting himself.
Yes.
He wants Beef Wellington and a shaken dirty
martini.
Do you want olives with that?
So I got chewed out by one of
our famous, more famous executive producers.
Oh, executive or associate executive?
Yeah, that guy.
Yeah.
The most, one of our most famous.
And so he says that he was aghast.
And so was his wife, as a matter
of fact.
Oh, goodness.
I've never heard of an espresso martini.
And that was rather odd.
I don't understand why anyone, why would I
have heard of such a horrible drink?
Well, if you get out of the San
Francisco Bay Area where you have the drink
you have, I forget, can't even remember the
name of it, which is this coffee booze
drink that we have in San Francisco.
Coffee booze, it's called the coffee booze drink.
The coffee booze drink.
Also known as an Irish coffee, maybe?
An Irish coffee.
This is invented at a place in San
Francisco.
You can go there and get them.
And so that's, to me, was, you know,
and then there's this espresso martini.
It's been around for a long time.
Ask the animal, though.
I'll ask Ara.
Hold on a second.
Ask her when it came out, when it
was invented and where it was popular.
The espresso martini.
Oh, the espresso martini.
It's such a fun drink.
Vodka, coffee liqueur, fresh espresso, and a touch
of simple syrup.
Shaken until frothy and served with those iconic
coffee beans on top.
Here it comes.
Ah, I interrupted her.
Fun fact, it was invented in the 1980s
in London by a bartender for a model
who wanted something to wake her up and
mess her up.
Fun fact.
Fun fact.
You haven't been out of the house since
the 80s.
It makes total sense.
Onward.
Onward.
Skylar Firestone.
Ah, that sounds like a DJ name.
Skylar Firestone in the morning with everybody.
Z100.
That's in Texas, Liberty Hill.
51538.
I see no note from Skylar.
So I see nothing.
So Skylar will get a double up karma.
You've got karma.
You can do the next one because I
have a note for the one after that.
Yes, Sir Ahab from Mandeville, Louisiana, 500.
And he's in on the program.
Hey, guys, it's Sir Ahab, Knight of the
Seven Seas.
It's been a spell.
I'd like to be Secretary General of the
Pacific Fleet.
Thanks for all you do.
That's a good one.
All right.
We're going to have to figure out some
way to announce these things properly.
We do have the people mentioned, but we
probably don't have their titles.
That's going to, I'm not sure how to
do that.
But we have, now we have Justine Palmer
in Bozeman, Montana.
It came with 33343.
And this is interesting because I first put
her name down.
This is, I have the note and I
sent it over to Jay.
I first thought it was Justin.
And then I went back and looked and
I said, wait a minute.
This is not a signature or handwriting of
any known male.
And I look, oh, Justine, that makes sense.
Wow.
You're such a sleuth.
Well, the thing is, it brought me to
this idea that women are more into precision
than men.
Okay.
I just, I'm trying to develop this into
some sort of thinking, because during World War
II, when the men were all fighting, the
factories of the United States were all people
by women, a lot of them.
And a lot of them became precision engineers
and precision mechanics and all this sort of
thing.
And it just fascinates me now that I
start to think about it, because the women
are not credited with this capability.
I don't know.
I found it interesting.
And the note triggered this, but here's her
note.
Donation note.
Thank you for the best podcast in the
universe.
And then she's got a birthday shout out
for Chris Illuminati, Jensen.
Separate explanation.
No need to read, but I'm going to
read it anyway, because it's about football.
Previously had mentioned you did not receive any
clothing commemorating the most recent college football championship
winners from the FBS or FCS, D2, et
cetera.
She knows what all that means.
Although you have now received Ohio State representation
and people promised Florida, I never got anything.
I even closed some Montana State University Bobcats
apparel.
Which is a nice piece, by the way.
After a 15 and 0 season, unfortunately, the
Bobcats fell short of the 2024 FCS National
Championship game, but I couldn't pass on the
opportunity to send some D1 AAA FCS love
your direction.
There you go.
Nice.
By the way, I concur on precision.
I know many female pilots, helicopter pilots, especially
who are extremely good.
And that's precision work.
In fact, all.
Yeah, I just think it's there.
I think it just dawned on me looking
at her handwriting that it was, it's an
underrated characteristic of women in general.
Underrated.
That's right.
Is Mimi still there?
Can you, can you compliment her on her
precision?
No, she crashed a car into a tree.
No, I'm kidding.
Are you though?
She's an L.A. She's a good driver.
She's an excellent driver.
Maybe that's the reason that we mock female
drivers because.
Because they're so good.
Because they're so good.
Because they're a little too precise for a
male's taste.
Cut in here.
No, not cutting in there.
Come on.
Cut in.
There's a ton of raw.
You blew it.
Justin Proulx, Proulx, P-R-O-L-X,
P-R-U-L-X, Proulx.
I think it's Proulx or something.
Proulx might be Proulx.
It's a funny way of pronouncing that.
I don't have it.
Well, he's right up the road about an
hour.
Canyon Lake, Texas, 333.33. ITM gents, thanks
for keeping us grounded with amazing M5M analysis
every week.
It was time to donate when I received
my new Delta Reserve Amex.
Made with 33% metal from a retired
Boeing 747.
Well, that sounds like a cool product.
Yeah, I'd say.
Take a look at this.
Unless it's blue, that's kind of lame.
Let me see.
Delta Reserve Amex.
Let me see what it looks like.
While you're doing that, why don't you give
him some health karma for the wife.
Yeah, she has a broken back.
She has a broken back, definitely.
Here we go.
You've got karma.
It's purple.
It's purple.
Purple?
Yeah, it's purple.
Okay.
Up next is Baz, B-A-Z-Z,
with a capital Z, the first one.
Anyway, 333.
Baz from sunny Singapore.
Woo, look at that.
Nice.
Yeah.
All right, Baz.
We need more Singaporeans listening to the show.
They can all speak English.
That's actually on Tina's bucket list, Singapore.
She really wants to visit Singapore.
Oh, I've been there.
Yes.
And I would recommend it as a great
place for a vacation.
It's extremely safe, super clean.
It's a fascist state.
You have to know that.
You can't spit gum out.
You can't chew gum.
You can, I mean, you can, but you
really can't.
You have to bit or swallow it.
But it's got great food, terrific food.
It's pretty and great markets.
I would highly recommend Singapore as a vacation
retreat.
Is there any, can we get any garments
there?
Custom-made garments?
You know, I never bought any clothes there.
I don't think it's on the same league
as Korea or Taiwan.
Zadock Brown III in Pukalani, Hawaii, 315.85.
And he says, in the morning, gents.
And we say in the morning to you,
Zadock Brown III.
Thank you.
Anonymous in Deckerville, Michigan.
He becomes associate executive producer 26767.
Anonymous, ITM, Trump only jobs.
Karma, please.
Needed for promotion.
God to bless.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
You've got karma.
And we're on to our next associate executive
producer, Kurt Kiefer from Austin, Texas.
The Texans are really supporting the show lately.
26322.
And he says, Kurt Kiefer of Austin, Texas.
Commodore of smooth Texas highways.
Gents, my smoking hot, brilliant, free-thinking wife,
Beth.
And I love you guys.
We listen to the show live while we're
cooking dinner together.
It's a fun activity.
Highly recommended.
Even for those cheap-ass couples who don't
donate to the show.
Get a clue.
Donate.
Anyway, this donation makes me a knight.
I'm making it on the day before Beth
and I embark on a safari to Tanzania.
Beth suggested that I get my knight donation
in before leaving, as she thinks the title
would look cool on my urn, should it
be trampled by an elephant.
Or mauled by other big game on our
trip.
Yes, I concur.
How about dubbing me Knight Kurt of the
Nongorongoro...
Nongorongoro...
No.
Nongorongoro.
Yes.
Knight Kurt of the Nongorongoro crater.
If that doesn't roll off the tongue, perhaps
Knight Kurt of the Serengeti.
You guys pick.
I like the Nongorongoro because it'd be fun
for me to try.
Let's keep it simple for the roundtable.
Zebra schnitzel.
Hippo hot links.
A pilsner or two.
And just one.
Just one.
Camel filter cigarette.
Love you guys, the producers, and boobs, says
Kurt.
Great note, Kurt.
Thank you.
Camel made...
Filtered?
Yeah.
They're kind of...
They taste icky.
What I remember.
Tastes a bit like a palm oil.
James Green.
He's in...
Bethland.
Bethland, North Carolina.
Bethland.
F-land.
F-U-F-land.
North Carolina.
$233.99. Adam and John say, I'm a
plumber with 25 mass communications...
With 25 mass communication degree.
Go figure.
Dirty work for a living and I love
it.
Thanks for supporting...
Thanks for reporting on the reporters.
Thanks for reporting on the reporters.
Does anyone hear Dr. Huckabee in NPR's Alicia
Roscoe?
Dr. Huckabee.
Yeah, the mom.
Huckstabee.
Huckstabee.
Oh, Huckstabee.
Huckstabee, not Huckabee.
Oh, she's...
Oh, yes.
Huckstabee, the Bill Cosby character.
His wife.
In the way Alicia talks.
Dr. Huckstable.
Yes.
No, Dr. Huckstable.
Wasn't that the wife?
No, no, Dr. Huckstable.
That was Cosby, wasn't it?
Yeah.
I thought his wife was the doctor.
Oh, okay.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
What do we know?
Somebody there does know.
But yeah, there's a sound.
Alicia Roscoe has...
I think she just doesn't sound like a
professional broadcaster.
Aisha or is it Aisha?
Aisha.
Aisha.
Aisha.
Yeah, Aisha.
Okay, Aisha.
Anyway, suffer and succotash, go Florida ounces.
Suffer and succotash.
I'm Scott.
Simon.
Sam Trudell is in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
218.92 ITM.
He says, I just realized my 33rd birthday
is on a show day.
Time to donate.
Thanks to Adam W in Milwaukee for hitting
me in the mouth.
Please deduce.
You've been deduced.
And I didn't realize he asked this.
He says, I request a Sharpton hubris.
And that's from Sam Trudell.
I don't, you know, it's part of one
of these medleys.
So I hope I got it.
Let me see.
Tonight is the measure of whether the country
begins in the state of Wisconsin, a national
drive to push back or whether we have
more to go to build a movement of
resistance.
No, that's resist we much.
I don't remember what, where hubris is.
Hubris.
Let me see.
I like the guy did this.
Let me just try.
Let me try this.
Maybe this one.
Thanks to you, Ed.
Is this crown hog day two?
We are watching.
That was Attorney General Eric Holder's ABDs about
some Republicans at home are already beating the
drums of war.
Today, the Pentagon refuted that claim.
And he said the American people do not
want him to quote dwindling.
They do not want him dwindling his thoughts.
You can get a gig as a court
contortionist, intravenous fluids and pills coated with gelatin.
OK, I don't I don't know which one
it is.
I have to look that one up.
Sorry.
But thank you very much.
Eli, the coffee guy to 0821.
There he is.
Nomadic coffee, by the way.
It's interesting how recent diplomatic efforts by America
to broker peace have gone unnoticed by the
M5M.
It's not that interesting.
It's it's what you expect, whether as sure
by John and Armenia to Cambodia and Thailand.
Did you see?
But the one thing that wasn't reported, you
see the 5000 Cambodian Buddhist monks.
Have you seen this?
No.
Yeah.
A bunch of candidates, like 5000 of them
or more came out in a giant group.
They took a picture of it, say we
we nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The really Cambodian Buddhist monks.
Yeah.
5000 of them.
Wow.
And nobody covered it.
Look that up while you're reading this note.
Fox, I think, covered it.
Well, the.
Yeah, look up monks, Cambodian monks, promote Trump
for Nobel and you'll probably find it.
Or maybe your buddy there in the office.
I'm tired of her.
She'll know.
Anyway, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand or India, Pakistan, this
cynic in me questions.
Were these brief flare ups of conflict manufactured
with the purpose of allowing for a U
.S. brokered resolution?
Seems unlikely.
We don't have that much power.
Or is Trump trying to make peace profitable
again?
That seems likely.
That would be nice.
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Eli the coffee guy.
Well, you were wrong.
Wrong again.
It was not 5,000 monks.
It was 70,000 monks.
70,000 monks just broke their vows of
silence to nominate Trump for the Nobel.
Dear Mr. President Trump, we are standing here
today with hearts full of appreciation.
Today, 70,000 Cambodian Buddhist monks are wholeheartedly
supportive of our Cambodian Prime Minister to nominate
you for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Please accept, Mr. President.
70,000 monks can't be wrong.
So you got 70,000 monks.
Well, there weren't 70,000 there.
But no, but there was a lot there.
It was a lot of monks.
A lot of monks.
They're all dressed in red.
And this got no coverage.
What?
Orange.
Oh, is it orange?
I don't remember.
They might have been Hare Krishnas.
I don't know, man.
Whatever the case, they're all bald.
Yeah, they were bald for sure.
And it was weird enough as news and
just a visual was screwball enough.
Good visual, definitely.
You'd think somebody in the mainstream media in
New York, anybody would have taken a picture
and run it in their paper.
No, nobody except Jesse Waters even mentioned it.
Yeah.
That's pathetic.
Certificate.
We've got a couple more associate executive producers
here.
Certificate $200 and 42 cents.
He says, for some reason, I haven't been
able to get into politics, including no agenda
since the election.
Not that the results aren't what I wanted.
Burnout, I suppose.
But with this donation, I think I will
wade back in.
No jingles, no karma, says certificate, a.k
.a. a.k.a. Keith Lawson.
But we're not all about politics.
What about all kinds of stuff?
Huh?
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, we talk about all kinds of things,
including Linda Lou Patkin, Lakewood, Colorado, and her
$200 show donation, which happens every show.
And she always requests jobs karma and makes
the comment worried about A.I. For a
resume that gets results and tells you a
unique story and highlights the value you bring.
Go to ImageMakersInc.com.
That's ImageMakersInc with a K.
And work with Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs
and writer of winning resumes.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Karma.
And our last associate executive producer is Gordon
Schroeder.
We have no location for Gordon.
We have no note for Gordon.
Well, that means we have one thing for
Gordon, which is a double up karma.
Thank you for your courage.
You've got.
Karma.
And that concludes our executive and associate executive
producers for episode 1792.
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A little bit of a bit of a
climate change news.
Since this is up from Washington State two
months ago, I don't know if you caught
this news or maybe Mimi heard about it
and told you.
The first hybrid electric ferry is about to
rejoin the fleet after nearly two years out
of the water.
The ferry Wenatchee is undergoing sea trials.
Vigor Marine says the historic conversion is complete.
They swapped two diesel generators out for batteries
and installed a new propulsion system.
The Wenatchee will rejoin the Seattle Bainbridge run
and welcome back passengers once sea trials are
complete.
All right.
So we've got a battery powered ferry.
What could possibly go wrong two months later?
Washington State Ferries has pulled its newly renovated
hybrid electric ferry from service less than one
month since the big renovation.
We're told the Wenatchee had a mechanical issue
yesterday while docking at Coleman Dock.
It's not clear exactly what that issue was
or how long it'll be out of service.
The Wenatchee was added to the Seattle Bainbridge
route in July after its conversion to hybrid
electric power.
Yeah, of course.
What could possibly go wrong?
Battery powered ferries.
That's just not a good idea.
You put up especially those explosive batteries in
the water, sea water environment.
Yeah, that's a smart move.
Yeah.
What if it's such a bad idea?
You know, there was a Peter Thiel.
We talked about him earlier, co-founder.
He's from the PayPal Mafia.
And of course, the funder of killing machines
like Palantir, which although we have a lot
of testimony to the contrary, people believe that
Palantir runs the world and is tracking your
every move.
They certainly have been successful at some government
contracts and very unsuccessful at targeting terrorists in
Palestine because they killed a lot of the
wrong people.
But that doesn't matter because Peter Thiel is
a force to be reckoned with.
And the New York Times interviewed him about
a month ago, and I paid no attention
to what I saw come by my feed.
But the guy is so annoying to listen
to because he's like the Sam Altman.
Yeah, it seems that the entire PayPal Mafia
talks like Musk is the same way.
But Altman wasn't part of the PayPal Mafia,
was he?
No, I know.
But this seems like the PayPal Mafia all
talks that way.
I think it's a Silicon Valley.
It could be a million thing.
Just to sound interesting, I'm deep in thought
about this.
And he is a transhumanist, as you will
hear in a moment.
He's trans?
Well, he's gay.
And you remember his boyfriend fell off the
balcony and died in Miami a year or
so ago?
I don't remember that.
Yeah, it was kind of a bad, bad
vibe.
Yeah, fell off the balcony.
But the New York Times guy sits down
with him and he starts asking him about
transhumanism, approaches it from a very innocuous way,
really about, you know, do you think the
human race should survive?
Or do you think that your machine should
run everything?
And it took an unexpected turn.
You would prefer the human race to endure,
right?
You're hesitating.
Well, and I should mention, I cut out
a lot of the five second pauses.
You would prefer the human, the two of
us both like to brag about our editing
skills.
It doesn't take a lot of skill because
you look at the waveform.
No, it doesn't take a lot of skill.
Look at all this white space.
Just cut it out.
You would prefer the human race to endure,
right?
You're hesitating.
Well, I, yes.
I don't know.
I would, I would.
This is a long hesitation.
There's so many questions.
Should the human race survive?
Yes.
But, but I also would, I also would
like us to, to radically solve these problems.
And, and so, you know, it's always, I
don't know, you know, yeah, transhumanism is this,
you know, the ideal was this radical transformation
where your human natural body gets transformed into
an immortal body.
And there's a critique of, let's say the
trans people in a sexual context, or I
don't know, transvestite is someone who changes their
clothes and cross dresses.
And a transsexual is someone where you change
your, I don't know, penis into a vagina.
And we can then debate how well those
surgeries work.
But we want more transsexuals.
You should have debated that.
How well do those surgeries work, Peter?
Where you change your, I don't know, penis
into a vagina.
And we can then debate how well those
surgeries work.
But we want more transformation than that.
It's the critique is not that it's weird
and unnatural.
It's man, it's so pathetically little.
And okay, we want more than cross dressing
or changing your sex organs.
We want you to be able to change
your heart and change your mind and change
your whole, your whole body.
And then Orthodox Christianity, by the way, the
critique Orthodox Christianity has of this is these
things don't go far enough.
Like the transhumanism is just changing your body.
But you also need to transform your soul.
And you need to transform your whole self.
What?
I must alert Pastor Jimmy.
He's not going far enough.
We need to transform our bodies.
It's Christianity.
You can imagine this got my attention.
And let's dive in, shall we?
I generally agree with your, what I think
is your beliefs.
He agrees?
With his beliefs?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
This is the New York Times.
That religion should be a friend to science
and ideas of scientific progress.
I think any idea of divine providence has
to encompass the fact that we have progressed
and achieved and done things that would have
been unimaginable.
Okay, stop right there.
This is great.
First of all, interviewers should not be.
Agreeing.
Well, not agreeing or disagreeing.
But this guy's gone beyond agreeing and disagreeing.
He is now expressing himself.
Yes, he's from the sparkle.
Yack, yack, yack.
We came to listen to Peter Thiel and
what he thinks, not what some reporter from
the New York Times who's, you know, made
a mess of his life where he wouldn't
be there for at his age.
Yeah.
We don't care what you think.
Well, this guy, I think, is a member
of the sparkle clergy because he's like, oh,
yeah, no, I agree.
Yeah.
Anything that we do is God's, I plan.
Divine providence has to encompass the fact that
we have progressed and achieved and done things
that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors.
But it still also seems like, yeah, the
promise of Christianity in the end is you
get, you get the perfected body and the
perfected soul.
Oh, shut up.
He's laying out his Bible smack, man.
Let him, let him go.
What you hear Thiel say is better.
This guy's just there.
The promise of Christianity in the end is
you get, you get the perfected body and
the perfected soul through God's grace.
And the person who tries to do it
on their own with a bunch of machines
is likely to end up as a dystopian
character.
In hell.
Well, it's, let's, let's articulate this.
And you can have a heretical form of
Christianity that says something else.
I, I don't know.
I think the word nature does not occur
once in the old Testament.
Okay.
The word nature does not appear once in
the old Testament.
Okay.
I guess you could call creation, heavens and
earth, the world.
If you don't want to call it nature.
Okay.
That's, that's a point of discussion.
But I think there's a new Testament where
it appears quite a bit, especially the term
against nature.
I think the word nature does not occur
once in the old Testament.
And so, uh, you know, if you, if
you, you know, um, and there is, you
know, there is a word in which a
sense in which the way I understand, you
know, the, you know, the Judeo-Christian inspiration
is, it is, it is, it is, it
is about transcending nature.
It is about, he's almost done.
The way I understand, you know, the, you
know, the Judeo-Christian inspiration is, it is,
it is, it is, it is about transcending
nature.
It is about overcoming things.
And, you know, and the closest thing you
can say to nature is that people are
fallen.
And that that's the natural thing in a
Christian sense is that, um, you're messed up
and that's true.
But, um, you know, there's some ways that,
uh, you know, with God's help, you are
supposed to transcend that and overcome that.
Well, I now link arms with the Peter
Thiel haters of the world.
This guy is a ghoul.
He's a complete, all of his government contracts
should be ripped up.
What an idiot.
And the New York Times guy is not
much better.
No, the New York Times guy's worse.
Yeah.
It's just unbelievable.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Sure.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, nice interpretation, Peter Thiel.
Well, that was a trip down nowhere.
Well, I thought it was quite interesting personally.
Uh, let's go to what Tulsi Gabbard's up
to.
Yeah.
She's doing a couple of things, isn't she?
I think this, she has to be the
intelligence communities, at least the bad actors in
the intelligence community.
They gotta be worried.
Worst nightmare.
Yes.
Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard announces today
that she's cutting her department by more than
40% to quote, root out deep state
actors.
She says the move will make the department
more efficient and save taxpayers north of $700
million per year.
The news comes just after she wrote security
clearances for 37 intelligence officials, accusing them of
politically weaponizing intelligence.
NTD's Washington correspondent, Jack Bradley has more.
Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard strips security
clearances from 37 current and former intelligence officials.
She also terminated any government employment or contracts
for them.
Gabbard said that she's doing this at the
direction of president Trump.
And she didn't disclose any specific acts that
led to the losses of clearance for each
person, but said that more generally, they were
part of a political weaponization of the intelligence
community, leaking classified information and bypassing normal procedures,
particularly in creating a false intelligence report that
accused Trump of colluding with Russia in the
2016 election.
They were not happy with the outcome of
that election.
And so they created this politicized, weaponized piece
of fake intelligence that they aided and abetted
in this action, this seditious conspiracy that undermined
our democracy, undermined our republic.
These are bad actors that have to be
rooted out.
Yeah, I think this is pretty good, what
she's doing here.
And I think that's why she was hired
was to do this stuff.
I think so.
She has a bad attitude.
She's not going to put up with anything.
Well, she's not like a bureaucrat that's in
it just for the, you know, so she
can pick up a, pick up a retirement
check income.
No, no, she's.
Yeah, I'm kind of liking this Tulsi business.
And it's still not being picked up by,
I'm sorry, it's still not being picked up
by the mainstream.
You know, they still keep bringing out people
like Susan Rice and they bring out these
other people and people I know around here,
the Democrats around here that I know that,
oh, yeah, well, it's a known fact that
Russia colluded with Trump.
I don't care what they say.
Yeah, it's California.
In announcing the move on X, she said
that a security clearance is a privilege, not
a right.
Those who betray their oath to the Constitution
and put their own interests before the interests
of the American people have broken the sacred
trust they promised to uphold.
Those who lost their security clearances can no
longer access classified facilities and information.
Back in July, Gabbard said that the intelligence
community did assess that in the months leading
up to the November 2016 election, Russia was
trying to interfere in the U.S. presidential
election by sowing discord and chaos, but repeatedly
stating that Russia didn't appear to have a
preference for either candidate and viewed both equally
bad for Russia's interest.
She then said that in December 2016, then
President Obama called for another intelligence assessment to
contradict it and claim that Russia did interfere
in Trump's favor.
There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
Obama and his national security team directed the
creation of an intelligence community assessment that they
knew was false.
But Gabbard said that they used substandard intelligence,
bypassing normal procedures, and used the Steele dossier
as a source for the newer assessment.
The Steele dossier is now widely considered to
have been discredited.
Yeah, weren't they supposed to start the depositions
on the 19th?
I mean, do we even know if that
started at all?
You know, nothing's going to come of any
of this, except the people that lost their
security clearances are probably going to have to
go find work someplace else.
And, you know, who knows where.
And that's going to be all that's going
to happen.
They won't.
The Republicans are not vindictive enough to actually
take action.
No, they're not.
And by the way, the CIA, and you
know, an old report has resurfaced, and I
put it in the show notes, 1957, a
200-page report proposing that American special forces
should secretly infiltrate Ukraine, spark uprising, and destabilize
the Soviet Union from within.
This has been a plan by the CIA
and Western.
There was actually, they did it with the
Brits.
And there was an update to this plan
in 2014.
I mean, come on.
It was so obvious.
The outrage should be that we started all
this nonsense in Ukraine.
We don't.
The reason they just, that's another thing that
mainstream media will not do, which is.
No.
Give us the straight scoop on this stuff.
They just can't.
They're working, they're not working for the people.
Unlike us.
We work for you.
We work for the people.
We do.
We work for the people.
NPR did have a, I think I have
a 56 seconds.
NPR had this story.
President Trump's chief spy, Tulsi Gabbard, says she'll
cut her agency's budget by over 40%
by the end of 2025.
Is she the chief spy?
Is that really?
Technically.
Technically?
NPR's Jenna McLaughlin.
She's not really a spy.
You know, that's the thing.
She's not a spy in the sense of
what a spy is.
But it sounds cool.
She is a bureaucrat that heads up all
the spies and analysts.
She's the chief spy.
NPR's Jenna McLaughlin reports.
Career intelligence officials say their mission is to
speak truth to power.
However, the former Democratic lawmaker turned head of
the office of the director of national intelligence.
Wait a minute.
Since when is that their job?
Let's listen to that again.
2025 NPR's Jenna McLaughlin reports.
Career intelligence officials say their mission is to
speak truth to power.
That's bullcrap.
It's not their mission to speak truth to
power.
It's to subvert other powers and other nations
and other leaders.
It's not their mission.
However, the former Democratic lawmaker turned head of
the office of the director of national intelligence,
or ODNI, has expressed her commitment to aligning
the agency with President Trump's policy goals.
The ODNI was created after the September 11th
terrorist attacks to foster intelligence sharing between US
government agencies.
Gabbard says she'll slash the agency's costs by
over 40% by the end of September,
though she didn't identify specific cuts.
In a statement, the Democratic vice chair of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia,
says he would welcome the chance to review
Gabbard's plans, but expresses concern, arguing Gabbard has
a track record of politicizing intelligence.
And you're listening to NPR.
But what?
What?
What track record?
Let's listen again.
Welcome the chance to review Gabbard's plans, but
expresses concern, arguing Gabbard has a track record
of politicizing intelligence.
And you're listening to NPR.
A track record, I tell you.
What track record?
She just got this job recently.
She's been in office six months.
A track record assumes you've been doing something
for years and years.
Track record, baby.
When you use it in a political sense,
when you say track record.
Track record.
I'm telling you, track record.
Well, NPR, just since you mentioned this bull
crap about truth to power, play this little
clip.
This is an off-the-wall clip.
This is the science clip I have here.
Where is it?
Um, defy.
It says defy.
This is NPR defy.
Now, you've got to know if you can
define science.
You can ask the robot there that your
buddy.
I'm not going to define science.
But listen to the definition of science from
NPR.
Science, mind you.
Science, science, science.
Science.
Shortwave thinks of science as an invisible force
showing up in your everyday life.
Wait, start it over.
Okay, here we go.
Shortwave thinks of science as an invisible force
showing up in your everyday life, powering the
food you eat, the medicine you use, the
tech in your pocket.
Science is approachable because it's already part of
your life.
Come explore these connections on the shortwave podcast
from NPR.
So what exactly did they just say?
They said science is a force.
A force.
Some sort of force that.
Some sort of force.
I'm going to read definition of science.
It's like the systematic study of the structure
and behavior of the physical and natural world
through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories
against the evidence obtained.
That's it.
That's what science is.
It's not a force.
It's a force to be reckoned with.
Shut up already.
Science.
It's science.
Yes.
Let's talk to NPR promoting the idea of
science.
This way you believe the science.
Believe the force, Luke.
Believe the force.
Well, let's talk about some science for a
moment with Dr. Selene Gounder.
Turning to your health, there's news tonight that
the maker of Ozempic is cutting the price
nearly in half for some patients.
The company had already cut the price of
Wegovy, a similar medication approved for weight loss.
Dr. Selene Gounder is here with more on
the emerging price competition over these drugs.
What is driving this price war, doctor?
John, the race is on.
Novo Nordisk has dominated early on with their
drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, but now Eli Lilly
with their drugs Monjaro and ZepBound are catching
up fast thanks to lower prices and strong
supply.
It's really about Novo Nordisk trying to regain
take-back market share.
Specifically, Novo has said this is targeted at
patients with type 2 diabetes who do not
have insurance.
Now, I don't know how many patients don't
have insurance who can afford $500 a month,
but that is the target audience.
Yeah, well, we know that it's not about
that.
We know that you're being paid to shill
for weight loss drugs.
So, and are they competing just on price
or is there any other thing they compete
on?
Well, they also compete on effectiveness.
So, there was a head-to-head study
published in the New England Journal of Medicine
looking these two companies' drugs head-to-head.
Over 72 weeks, people on the Lilly drug
lost about 20% of their body weight
compared to 14% body weight lost with
those on the Novo Nordisk drug.
So, there is a difference there.
And the degree of improvement in blood pressure,
diabetes, cholesterol was commensurate with proportional to the
amount of weight loss.
And we have a new side effect of
these drugs.
Yeah, I saw this.
A new side effect known as ozempic vulva.
Oh, I don't know about that.
I thought, you know, I was thinking of
the positive things going on.
Well, I'll tell you about this.
The ozempic vulva is sagging caused by loose
labia, loose skin in the vaginal area, wrinkles,
or some combination of all three if you're
lucky.
Dude.
Oh, God.
Dude, you had positive news from them?
You had positive news?
Yeah, apparently it's a cure for baldness.
Oh, well, good news, ladies.
You won't go bald.
Bad news.
Bad news.
You'll be dragging on the ground.
We have an update.
Of course, we need to discredit our Health
and Human Services Secretary and everybody that he's
hired.
Back to school season often means making sure
your child is up to date on vaccinations.
That's what it means.
You just remember, back to school means get
your shots.
That's what back to school means.
Yeah, it used to be back to school.
Suddenly means get vaxxed.
It used to mean, you know, like, get
your books.
You got to put covers on your books.
You got to get your eraser.
No, no, no, not anymore.
Not just backpacks.
Back to school means getting vaxxed.
And why are we going back to school
so soon?
But that's another topic.
Back to school season often means making sure
your child is up to date on vaccinations,
a step most schools require before students can
attend.
In the past, parents could rely on a
single authoritative schedule from the CDC.
No longer.
This year, the American Academy of Pediatrics has
released its own vaccine schedule, and it's different
from the government's.
CBS News medical contributor, Dr. Selene Gounder, is
here to explain.
Gounder.
Dr. Gounder, explain.
What is this?
What was the laugh tale?
Oh, did you hear the laugh?
Let's listen again.
CBS News medical contributor, Dr. Selene Gounder, is
here to explain.
Dr. Gounder.
Oh, is it before?
Oh, yeah, here it is.
Dr. Gounder.
There it is.
Oh, he's laugh telling because, you know, he's
like, the stupid RFK Jr. I mean, we
can't trust them anymore.
So what are we going to do?
Dr. Gounder, explain.
What is this?
What's this discrepancy here?
Yeah, so for the first time in decades,
pediatricians are putting out their own schedule because
they no longer trust the government.
Stop the clip.
Stopping the clip.
Because I can I'm going to predict the
direction of this clip.
Surely you just, Mr. Dvorak.
She's going to go on with her assertion.
And then Dickerson, who is an old pro,
knows what he's doing is a top journalist
is going to say, well, isn't it true
that the pediatricians have a conflict of interest
because they're paid direct money, direct cash money
to make sure all their patients have all
these vaccinations.
And it's a big, huge bonus and part
of their income.
It's very important to them.
So they're conflicted.
Don't you agree with that, Dr. Gounder?
Let's see if you're right.
Yeah.
So for the first time in decades, pediatricians
are putting out their own schedule because they
no longer trust the government's process.
So the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Committee, folks may
remember, was recently overhauled.
All members were dismissed.
And almost everyone who replaced those experts is
somebody who has spread disinformation about vaccines or
has expressed vaccine skepticism.
This has never happened under a previous Democratic
or Republican administration, that the process would be
politicized in this way.
And so the American Academy of Pediatrics is
saying, look, we want to stick to the
science.
We don't want to politicize process.
So now all of a sudden we have
to stick to that science.
But from the very same people who have
given your kids Ritalin, who have told your
kids that, oh, you know, they've told you,
well, it's better to have a daughter who's
alive or son who's alive than a daughter
who's dead.
The very same people.
The Academy.
Oh, I want to thank the Academy.
Oh, but what's a parent to do, doctor?
So if I'm a parent and I want
to know what to do...
Wait, wait, stop.
He didn't ask the question that I surmised?
No, funny.
He didn't ask a probing question, a valid
question that would actually make some sense and
educate the public that they're trying to serve?
This is not serving the public.
This is serving the advertiser.
So if I'm a parent and I want
to know what to do, fine, you guys
squabble.
What is a parent to do?
Don't do your own research.
Yeah, so the main area where the American
Academy of Pediatrics diverges so far with the
CDC, the CDC is no longer recommending routine
COVID vaccinations for healthy children.
Pediatricians, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, strongly
disagree with that.
And they are saying that all infants between
the ages of six months and two years
should be receiving a COVID vaccine.
The bottom line is that the risk in
infants is quite high.
And the first encounter with COVID should be
with the vaccine and not the virus.
Duh, what are you kidding me?
Listen to that.
Listen to that ending again.
That's very interesting what she says here.
Bottom line is that the risk in infants
is quite high.
And the first encounter with COVID should be
with the vaccine and not the virus.
Their first encounter with COVID should be with
the vaccine.
What does the vaccine give you COVID?
Yeah, well, duh.
But more importantly, why doesn't he ask her
to clarify when she says, which we know
not to be true, that the risk for
infants and kids is high for catching COVID?
Why doesn't he say, John Dickerson say, what
exactly is the risk?
How many times are you going to pose
this question pretending that you don't know this
is a bought and paid for advertisement?
We know this.
This is obvious.
He's not a journalist.
He is a pitch man.
And they did this same segment.
That was the evening news.
They did it on the morning show.
In this morning's Health Watch, as kids are
going back to school, there's new guidance from
the American Academy of Pediatrics recommending that children
from six months to two years old get
a COVID shot.
Now, this contradicts the Centers for Disease Control
under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., which does not recommend COVID shots
for any healthy children.
CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder is
editor-at-large for Public Health at KFF
Health News.
And she joins me now.
Good morning.
Morning.
All right.
So why has the American Academy of Pediatrics
made this recommendation?
I think it's important to note that even
before the American Academy of Pediatrics made this
recommendation, there was a group brought together called
the Vaccine Integrity Project, which includes some of
the nation's top experts in vaccine science, as
well as representatives from the professional medical societies.
They combed through all of the evidence since
the last CDC review of vaccines to bring
their recommendations up to date.
And that review is what informs the American
Academy of Pediatrics' newest recommendations.
And that affirms that the vaccines are safe
and effective.
Children or infants, really, between the ages.
Is she talking about the fee schedule?
Yes, it's safe and effective and profitable.
Six months and two years are those at
highest risk for complications from COVID, whether that's
hospitalization, ICU, because they have smaller airways.
Their immune systems are not fully developed.
And by the way, under two, we may
not even know if they have immunocompromising or
other underlying medical conditions that put them at
risk.
That's right.
Jab.
If they're under two, jab them up.
And the same script comes out again.
All right.
So parents are stuck in the middle because
this guidance conflicts with the CDC's.
What are you to do as a parent?
What am I going to do?
I stopped vaccinating.
I'm so confused.
You've confused me, CBS people.
Children against COVID.
So who should parents listen to?
The science.
I mean, look, the American Academy of Pediatrics
represents over 67,000 pediatricians across the country.
These are the people who actually see these
children every day.
And cash the checks.
Unfortunately, the federal guidance has now been shaped
by politics and ideology.
Some people will try to wow.
Wow, lady.
Wow.
Politics and ideology.
What's the ideology here?
What's the ideology?
This is this is these people are not
serving the public.
You pointed it out.
And they will say that high quality studies
are flawed.
They will call for gold standard science, which
is in reality, garbage science.
They will say that this is a commercial
interest ahead of public health.
When in fact.
Wow.
But you said yourself, this is putting commercial
interests ahead of public health.
Yes, exactly what you're doing.
And they will say that this is about
putting commercial interests ahead of public health.
When in fact, this is the first stop,
stop, stop, stop.
What specifically?
I'm sure this guy will ask.
But what specifically?
What specifically are the commercial interests that she's
talking about that they're putting ahead of public
health?
Who is who is profiting from that?
What what commercial interest is profiting from not
giving a kid a covid shot?
Well, if you listen, if you listen to
this.
She's saying that they are saying, i.e.
RFK Jr., the way I understood it, RFK
Jr. is saying you're putting commercial interests ahead
of health.
And that would be twofold.
One, the doctors who are.
You know, I thought she said that they're
that's the RFK position.
Let's listen.
OK, they will call for gold standard science,
which is in reality garbage science.
And they will say that this is about
putting commercial interests ahead of public health.
They will say that this is about putting
commercial interests ahead of public health.
The commercial interests are the shot guys shot.
And Celine Gounder with her advertisement for Big
Pharma right here on CBS.
When in fact, this is the first administration,
Republican or Democratic, to have politicized vaccine recommendations
in this way ever.
Politicized.
Politicized.
What's the point?
I don't get the politics part.
Well, she's politicizing it.
This is all what you say by yourself.
And there was a third bit here to
this morning segment that I could not resist
clipping for us.
The vaccine advisory committee recently limited use of
a preservative called thermosol.
Yeah, it's thimerosol, you dork.
Thermosol.
Thermostat, thermosol.
The vaccine advisory committee recently limited use of
a preservative called thermosol and is now looking
at other chemicals and vaccines.
Why are these part of the vaccine?
What's their use?
So thimerosol is a form of mercury.
Now people hear mercury and they think, oh,
that's dangerous.
We're talking about a specific form of mercury,
ethyl mercury, which is not the dangerous form.
The dangerous form is methyl mercury with an
M.
So MM.
And routine childhood vaccines have actually been thimerosol
free for years now.
So it's not really even an issue.
Now, what do you think she'll say next?
What do you think she'll say next?
By the way, the methylmercury, I have some
quibbles about that.
Any mercury salt is bad.
Please quibble away.
I want to hear ethylmercury versus methylmercury.
It's a bad actor.
But any mercury salt, elemental mercury is not
bad necessarily, unless it can be metabolized in
some way, but it generally can't.
But any salts, the salts are the things
that the body can absorb and cause poisoning.
And what is the thimerosol used for?
It's used for preservatives.
Yes, preservatives.
But now wait for it.
So big picture, if you're going to worry
about methylmercury, worry about broken thermometers and those
skin lightening creams, not about the vaccines.
Now, aluminum is another one Kennedy has also
been concerned about.
Aluminum nudges the immune system so that you
get a longer lasting, more robust immune response
with fewer doses.
So that's a bonus.
And there's no evidence that it's harmful.
No evidence.
Aluminum, do you think that's a good thing
to have in your vaccines?
No.
And what she didn't say is it's an
adjuvant.
Yeah, she didn't use the term.
It kind of tickles your immune system, you
know, to get you going.
Yeah, because it's toxic.
Yes, that's exactly why.
These people.
Oh man, oh man, oh man.
Well, you can talk all you want.
You're blue in the face.
In the morning.
Well, even though we don't have their actual
names, then we hope to have them very
soon.
And we'll gladly go back and proclaim them
properly as secretary generals.
We do have a couple of those coming
up.
Thanks to the donors from today.
Also, we have our meetup schedule.
We've got a ton of birthdays.
We have John's tip of the day.
A lot of birthdays.
A lot of birthdays.
But first, we want to thank all of
our treasure supporters, $50 and above.
Yes, Nathan Cochran.
Well, actually, Nathan, we've got two Nathans, two
in a row.
Nathan Treywick in San Antone, $190.
Just came in under the $200 mark for
some reason.
Nathan Cochran, Franklin, Tennessee.
One, two, three, four, five.
You know where he's from.
Yeah, he's from Mercy Me.
Yes, exactly.
That's right.
Yeah, he's one of the many famous people.
Yes.
That like to listen to the No Agenda
Show to give them a leg up in
any sort of personal debate with anybody in
the world.
And the guys, they discuss it on the
tour bus.
They discuss the show on the tour bus.
They do.
That's how they pass the time.
Like, did you hear what the boys said?
What'd they say?
Yes, that's what they do.
Dame Rita, there she is.
She's in Sparks, Nevada, 10821.
I'll read her notes.
I'm sorry, I need to interrupt.
They just recently, we should consider this, they
did a Mercy Me Alaskan cruise.
Yeah.
Where you can join the Alaskan cruise.
Yeah.
That sounds like a moneymaker.
Yeah, it does.
I've had other people suggest this.
Do we want to do that?
We'll talk about it.
I'm thinking no, but okay.
I didn't expect you to say we'll talk
about it.
All right.
Onward.
10821 from Dame Rita.
I'm going to read her note.
ITM, John and Adam, thank you for your
valuable skills in media deconstruction, for exposing unfounded
claims by opportunistic actors.
Of course, your great humor always helps.
Also, happy 64th birthday to my husband, Greg
Harrington, on August 23rd.
And he is on the list.
Rick Justesen, Justesen, Justesen, maybe, in Salt Lake
City.
100.
He's been a five-year-long listener.
Doug Murray, Douglas Murray.
Douglas Murray, there you go.
99.99. Happy birthday to the Cotton Gin.
All right.
Oh, brother.
No, not the.
Happy birthday, Cotton Gin.
Cotton Gin?
Is it Cotton Gin's birthday?
Well, it's on the list.
Well, I got to put Cotton Gin on
the birthday list, then.
Well, it's probably on there.
Yeah.
Oh, it is on there.
Yes, good.
Happy birthday.
Cotton Gin does a lot on the stream.
Oh, okay.
Important part of the world.
Mongasaurus Rex.
Mongasaurus, I get it now.
Mongasaurus Rex in Kailua, Hawaii.
8888.
That's a birthday call-out to his smoking
hot wife, Bunny.
Bunny.
Bunny.
Jobs Karma to end for him, if we
can remember.
Jacob Van Doysen in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
That's 8833.
And that's another call-out for Colby.
Another birthday call-out.
Colby.
Eric Mackey, M-A-K-E-Y, in
Blainesville, Georgia.
8087.
A lot of oddball notes that appear with
these areas.
It's funds for our new server.
He's helping us with the cost of the
new server.
Oh, that's how we get...
Oh, brother.
I know.
Kevin McLaughlin, 8008.
He is the Archduke Luna of Luna.
Lover of America and lover of melons.
Chad Hewitt in Folsom, California.
And he came with 8008, obviously.
Chad Hewitt in Folsom, California.
6640.
66 books, 40 authors.
Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago.
6006.
Wyatt Worms, Verms, Vermis?
Wormies.
Wormies.
Wormies.
In Phoenix, Oregon.
6006.
India Tango Mike, which means ITM.
That's right.
Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona.
6006.
Samantha Vieira in Granbury, Granbury, Granbury, Texas.
Granbury, Texas.
Fishery, 5821.
Happy birthday to her husband.
Pretty.
Scott Mengel, it could be Mengla, but I
think it's Mengel.
In Exton, Pennsylvania.
5555.
Every time he sees FLOZ, he thinks Florida
ounces.
Everybody does.
Zachary Maywood, he must be a young one.
Yeah.
Zachary Maywood in Los Angeles, California.
5555.
Dean Roker, 5510.
Corey Cotton in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
5510.
It's another birthday for Corey Cotton.
Loyal listener since double digits.
Right on, Corey.
Right on, right on, right on.
Bill McFarlane in Manassas, Virginia.
5510.
Trevor Malkinson.
Malkinson, Malkinson.
Malkinson, sorry.
Malkinson in Courtenay, Courtenay, Courtenay.
I'm not sure how to pronounce it, even
though I should.
BC, Canada.
Courtenay, Courtenay, Courtenay.
You don't know about how those Canadians pronounce
things.
55.
Things are expensive here in Canada.
The family of four bill is over $3
,500.
The food bill is over $3,500 a
month.
Well, that's only $75 in American money, so.
Well, it's still high.
Martin Verhaar in Kolmhout, Belgium.
Kolmhout.
And thank you, by the way, Trevor and
family.
We appreciate you doing that.
Kolmhout, Kolmhout, Kolmhout.
5272.
We had some more Belgian donations.
Kent O'Rourke in Frostburg, Maryland, 5272.
Paul Terranova in Webster, Massachusetts, 5272.
Dame Nancy there in San Bruno, 5244.
She says donating is good for the soul.
Also good for the show.
Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas, 50.
Oh, we got to 50, so let's just
rattle them off, name and location.
Starting with Scott.
Then Noah McDonald in Traverse City, Michigan.
Nice place.
Terence Boyer in Tuscaloosa, Tuscola, Tuscola, sorry.
Tuscola, Illinois.
Andrew Gusik in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Michael Sykora in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
AA Offerings in Dordrecht.
Dordrecht.
In Netherlands.
Dordrecht.
Rene Bernhardt Gruten.
Bernhardt Gruten.
Bernhardt Gruten.
And she's in Switzerland in St. Gallen, which
I believe is a skiing area.
I could be wrong.
Adam G.
Hurst in...
We love the Swiss.
We do.
Adam G.
Hurst in Healthcote, New South Wales, Australia.
That's a 50.
And last on our 50 list is Stephen
Downing, and he's in Ogden, Utah.
Greatest thanks to Adam and John for teaching
me how to properly deconstruct the news.
Boom.
All right.
Well, thank you to these donors, $50 and
above.
We appreciate you.
Let me get the jobs karma out for
those who requested it.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
And a reminder that we never read anything
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Here we go.
Maddie M wishes her blue collar Bebe Nixie
a happy one.
Turning 43 today.
Sam Trudell turns 33 today.
Sam and JC wish Freddie Vieira a happy
one.
21st.
That's the birthday today.
Matt, happy birthday to Mike Ellison.
Turns 45 tomorrow.
Mongosaurus Rex wishes his smoking hot wife, Bonnie,
a very happy birthday for tomorrow.
Corey Cotton, tomorrow's celebration.
Chris Illuminati Jensen celebrates on the 23rd.
Dame Rita, happy birthday to her husband, Greg
Harrington on the 23rd.
Jacob Von Dozen, his son, Colby, will be
turning two on the 31st.
Happy birthday to him.
And not just from Douglas Murray, but from
myself and John as well.
Very happy birthday to Cotton Jensen.
And of course, happy birthday from everybody here.
The best podcast in the universe.
Now, I would like the back office to
take note.
We have four secretary generals.
We do not have their names yet.
So I will put together a special secretary
general award ceremony, music and effects, etc.
And we will come back to Steve Miller,
Peter Fantino, Skylar Firestone and Sir Ahab.
They might not have even known that they
were eligible for a secretary general because it
is $500.
They came in with $500 or more.
So we will let you know and or
you let us know.
And we will secretary generalize them post the
actual event.
Does that sound right?
I guess so.
It's going to be fun.
I think we'll have some really...
John Dickerson couldn't do better.
I think we'll have some very funny names
to be congratulated.
Tonight's ready to go.
If you got your blade, we'll bring him
up on the podium.
You got it right here.
Oh, you hit your head.
Oscar, Peter Fantino.
Both of you have supported the NOAA General
Show in enough funds.
That is $1,000 or more can be
an aggregate over any amount of time.
That makes you both Knights of the NOAA
General Roundtable.
I'm very happy and proud to pronounce the
KV as Knight Kurt of the Nongorongoro Crater.
Sir Peter, Jockey of the Mountains.
For you gentlemen, we have Hookers of Blue,
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and gerbils, bong hits and bourbon, breast milk
and pablum, and of course mutton and meat.
And you can head on over to noagenderings
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Take a look at those rings.
They are very handsome.
They are very beautiful.
And if you give us your ring size
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it to you with some sticks of wax
with which you can use to, you know,
seal your important correspondence.
They are, after all, Cignet rings.
And it always comes accompanied with a Certificate
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Congratulations to both of you.
And welcome to the No Agenda Roundtable.
No Agenda Meetups!
Yeah, the No Agenda Meetups, this is where
you find the connection that always gives you
protection.
And of course, it's where you will find
the first responders in an emergency in your
community.
No reports today, no promos, but I can
tell you that there's a Meetup in Charlotte,
North Carolina tonight, seven o'clock at Charlotte's
Thirsty Third Thursday.
That is at Ed's Tavern.
The Maastricht Meetup happens tomorrow.
That's in the Netherlands, seven o'clock at...
Actually, it's at the Everett Bopp's house.
So you want to RSVP for that.
He is the guy from Disaster Tech Labs
who is here helping out with the flood
relief in Texas.
On Saturday, we have the McKinney Media Mockery,
12.30. That's in McKinney, Texas at the
Pub in McKinney.
So that's an early one to get hammered.
And the Sorry It's Been So Long Meetup
in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday at 6.30
in 56 Kitchen Mayfield Heights.
And finally, we have the Outback Steakhouse Beef
Tallow Meetup.
That's in Indianapolis or in Indiana.
I'm sorry, Carmel, Indiana at the Outback Steakhouse.
That'll be at 3.30. I think they
had only one or two people the last
time.
So if you're around Carmel, Indiana, go to
the Outback Steakhouse on our next show day.
That is Sunday, 3.30 in Indianapolis.
Just a few of the No Agenda Meetups
coming up in this month and the next
month.
There's many more to be found, including the
October 11th Fredericksburg Hill Country Meetup at J6er
Jenny's Bar, the Half Moon...
Not the Half Moon, the Full Moon Bed
and Breakfast at her bar there.
I will be there.
I think we'll get the Keeper out there
and then many more luminaries from the Texas
area.
Go to noagendameetups.com to find every single
thing that is listed.
And if you can't find one near you,
start one yourself at noagendameetups.com.
It's like a party.
Now, before we get to John's tip of
the day, we always like to show you
how the sausage is made in Media Land.
And we're going to do a little production
meeting here and we're going to select the
end of show ISO.
I actually have a lot of ISOs for
today.
So I'm going to roll through all of
them and then we'll...
Do you have an ISO at all?
I have two that are probably...
If you have a lot, you'll probably have
a killer.
Okay, let's see what we have.
I'm about to lose my mind.
Okay, all right.
No.
No.
Okay, no.
Eject.
This is not a children's program.
Now we love the voice.
Yeah.
This is not My Little Pony.
I kind of like that one.
I do too.
Authenticity and truth.
A little hollow, but okay.
These guys are completely natural.
And here we go with this.
You know, we get into it deep.
And then the final one.
Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
And that's what I got.
So I think we both...
I'll keep it up here.
I think we...
No, we're just bumping mine to the next
show.
We like these.
This is not My Little Pony.
I kind of like that one.
You're bumping yours.
We have to go with that.
Okay, well, you've got a lozenge and we're
putting your ISOs in a band, which means
it's time.
I am in lozenge mode, yes.
Time everybody for John's tip of the day.
All right.
For everybody out there, it should be a
gardener.
If they're not, they should have potted plants
somewhere in their apartment.
You should be a gardener or just learn
how to code.
So the tip of the day are terracotta
watering spikes.
You can just Google it.
Terracotta watering spikes.
They have them all over the place.
They sell them there.
It looks like a giant carrot and you
fill them with water and they water the
plant.
You put a bottle of water in the
top hole and it'll water plants without you
having to attend to them.
In case you're on vacation, you take a
week off, you go someplace for the weekend,
you have a plant that needs watering.
This takes care of it.
It's a very good tip.
How does it function?
Well, it turns out that it leaks.
There's all these different mechanisms for watering plants.
So what you don't, because most people get
on Amazon, they'll buy some internet of things,
connected watering hose thing.
You don't want that?
Why do we not want that?
Because what happens if the net goes down?
What happens if you have your rotary boots?
It's nonsense.
Just have some simple device, a terracotta, T
-E-R-R-A-C-O-T-T
-A, watering spike.
There's a bunch of people that make them.
And the ones you want to look like
a carrot and you can stick up, you
soak them first and stick them in the
ground and then stick a water bottle in
the top.
Fill with water and it'll drain.
As the soil gets dry, it'll leak out
the water very slowly and keep the plant
from dropping dead.
Huh.
That is a very good tip.
I like that.
That is cool.
That's an old school analog.
How long will it last?
I mean, how much water do you, how
long will the water last from the bottle
that you put into it?
I don't know.
I've never run out of water.
You've never been out of the house for
more than three hours.
I don't go out of the house.
I stay here.
All right, everybody.
You can find them all on tipoftheday.net,
John's Tip of the Day.
There you go, everybody.
That does it for another three and a
half hours of media deconstruction.
Just for you, for your pleasure.
We are working for you as a public
service, not for big pharma, not for some
ghoulish industry and certainly not for the podcast
industrial complex.
No siree.
Keep it right here on the stream if
you're listening in the modern podcast app or
trollroom.io or noagenda.stream. We have Abs
in a Six Pack coming up next on
the stream.
It's always a fun show to listen to.
And of course, we will return on Sunday
with more of your media deconstruction.
End of show isos.
I mean, end of show mixes.
Sir Michael Anthony, Neil Jones times two with
a classic and a brand new one.
And I am coming to you from the
heart of the Texas Hill Country in little
old Fredericksburg, Texas.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain,
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
We return on Sunday.
Won't you join us?
Same time, same bat channel.
And always remember us at noagendadonations.com.
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