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You know what you did.
You know why I'm mad.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, March 8th, 2026.
This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1849.
This is no agenda.
Looking for my lost hour and broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas Hill Country
here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And I'm Mimi Smith Dvorak, ducking solar flares
in the upper northwest corner of the contiguous
United States.
Well done.
Well done.
Well done.
Well, in the morning to everybody who's listening,
this is no agenda.
And you heard a different voice, the same
voice you heard on Thursday's show.
Only now that voice will be with you
longer, and we will explain after we say
good morning and in the morning to Mimi.
What was your middle name there?
Mimi Smith Dvorak?
Is that what it was?
My maiden name is Smith, and I don't
always like to spell Dvorak to everybody.
So it's Smith Dvorak.
Yes, you also do not have...
I like to be annoying.
You don't have a Dvorak email address, because
you know no one will be able to
send you an email because no one can
spell it.
Well, if you take the V and the
A out, it spells dork.
There you go.
There it is.
So Mimi, everybody has been just...
I mean, my email box is flooded.
My X timeline is flooded.
My text messages are flooded.
Everybody has been just so concerned about John.
It's amazing how many people, I'm pretty sure
they're not Christians, are praying for him, which
is always interesting to see that, and it's
much appreciated.
You have to give us a little rundown
of what happened the past week, and we
need a sit-rep on what's happening as
of this hour.
Okay.
Well, first, I'm going to tell you that
not just Christians pray.
So there's that.
Well, thank you for setting me straight.
Yes, okay.
Yes.
Well, okay.
So John, let me start from the beginning.
He wasn't feeling great, but he had to
have some blood work done, went to the
doctor, mentioned that his chest was hurting a
little bit.
Doctors immediately sent him to the ER.
This was Tuesday?
This was 3-3, which was whatever day
that was.
Yeah, I think it was Tuesday.
Yeah.
So they put him in the hospital, moved
him instantly up to admitting.
They did some tests and decided he needed
a double bypass.
He had a heart attack when he was
at the hospital, which is the best place
to have one.
Now, was it a severe heart attack, or
is it just...
No, it was minor, minor-ish, but he
did need two bypasses.
So...
This is like unbelievable timing, though.
I mean...
3-3.
It's the magic number.
It really is.
That is...
Okay.
So, wow.
Thank you, Holy Spirit, is what we say.
Beautiful.
So, he went through surgery, you know, after,
you know, I mean, they had to...
It was a terrifying few days.
He is out of the ICU today, and
he's upright and sitting upright and walking and
talking and complaining.
He doesn't like the food.
He was watching Chinese TV last night, going,
well, maybe I can learn a language while
I'm here.
Yeah, that's what Jay texted me.
He says, yeah, they had him up walking,
which is unbelievable, and he was eating, and
he says he was watching Chinese television because
he wanted to learn the language while he
had some time.
I'm like, okay.
And he's, you know, his colors get better
than it's been forever, because I guess, you
know, he's...
This must have been going on for a
while.
Yeah, probably.
It's been progressively going on.
And, you know, he's on his way to
recovery.
I mean, he still is very hoarse from
having the ventilator, but he's himself.
Everything's intact, and he can't wait to bounce
me off the show.
Yeah, so you guys, indeed, you know, so
Mimi and I've been talking over the past
week, and, you know, we're like, well, what
are we going to do?
Because this could be weeks, it could be...
We had certainly no idea before he was
up and eating yesterday, which is very encouraging.
And we're like, well, people are not going
to stick around for best-of shows.
It's okay once in a while.
And I have to say, thank you so
much.
So many producers, of course, stepped up, sent
in best-of shows, which will all be
used eventually.
That was just phenomenal.
But we saw the, you know, this is
a family business.
This is a two-family business, really.
And we've been family for over 18 years.
I mean, I met Jay when she was
14 or 15.
You know, now she's married and, you know,
and doing all kinds of stuff for the
show.
It's just amazing.
There's your dog.
Yeah, sorry about that.
No, that's okay.
That adds color to the show.
So we really, you know, of course I
said, hey man, Darren O'Neill will jump
in.
Larry will jump in.
Mo will jump in.
The No Agenda Millennials will jump in.
Everybody will jump in.
But that just feels wrong, you know?
It's like, ah, it doesn't...
And then you said, well, here's how you...
You brought it in a very interesting way.
So, you know, we're very creative.
We'll come up with something.
Yeah, we'll come up with something.
I was shaking, Mimi.
This hit me harder than I thought, actually.
I'm like, oh, you know, I always thought,
well, one day, you know, it'll just be
me and be okay.
And then it's like, wow, that...
It was very...
I mean, John is, in a year and
a half, he's going to surpass my longest
relationship, which was my first marriage.
So, you know, and it was really...
I'm glad, you know, a couple of...
Tina included, but a couple of people say,
how are you?
And I'm like, you know, when I said,
how am I?
Oh, well, yeah, actually, I'm pretty shook up
by all this.
And then you said, well, I could do
the show with you.
And I'm like...
Now, first of all, you did the intro
with me on Thursday, and I listened back
to it.
I'm like, you've got a great voice.
You've got a great mic presence.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, well, please say it like that.
And I said that, and Mimi says, well,
you know, I used to be a model.
I said, oh, yeah, pictures or it doesn't
happen.
Whoa, smokestack, smokestack.
I showed that to a few friends.
Sorry, had to.
They're like, what?
Dvorak doesn't deserve her.
Man, that's...
Okay, all right.
You were a model when?
Is this early 70s, that picture?
Yeah, well, that picture was from when I
was 17.
So, yeah, I've had a checkered past.
I was a theater kid before that.
So, you know, this is all fine.
Yeah, well, that and improv.
And I was the emcee of a dinner
theater that was all improv and skits.
Well, and Mimi's like, yeah, we can do
stuff.
And then, you know, we can get some
clips together.
And I'm like, okay, well, you know, and
you say, well, you know, a lot of
the stuff John talks about comes from JC
anyway.
And I'm like, hold on a second.
Are we hearing that half of Dvorak is
really coming from the family?
Is this coming from you?
What's going on here?
No, our family is really...
We're all kind of competitive intellectuals.
That's the only way I can put it.
We talk about the strangest things.
We all have our specialties, me, food and
additives and food and clean eating and all
that good stuff, among other things.
And I read PubMed on a daily basis.
And I read legislative bills, you know.
And I'm a news junkie, but not mainstream
media.
And JC has his interests and Jay has
hers.
And, you know, Eric has his.
And we kind of are always trying to
top each other and bring new topics.
And so there's a lot of stuff going
around our family all the time.
So, yeah, John has his own take on
the world and he has a different viewpoint
and he's way more history oriented and, you
know, financial trends and all that.
That's stuff I don't care about.
I have a different bent, but there are
things that I will force him to talk
about because I think they're fascinating.
So this morning, so this morning I sit
down and I'm like, or maybe it was
last night.
I say, OK, well, if you have any
clips, let me know and send them to
this email box.
It's like 16 clips come in, like all
perfect.
I haven't listened to them because I'd never
do that, except I just check one for
level perfectly clipped.
They look like they're all the right length
of time.
I'm like, are you do you do clips
for John, too?
I mean, something's going on here.
No, I well, I use audacity anyway, because
I do transcribing of old.
I've done a lot of transcribing and a
lot of times, like people will give me
old cassettes that I have to transfer over
because they're in such bad shape and I
have to hold up the toes.
Kids, you have to understand back in the
day we had these little plastic boxes and
it had these these two wheels in it
and there was a magnetic tape.
And that's how we listen to things.
And we recorded things.
And and that was known as a cassette
tape.
I just have to tell everybody because and
and and the cassette tapes, there are many
different formats, different makers, and all of them
are different and they all record at different
speeds and they all have different.
So you have to have all the different
players to get the information off or you
have to somehow download it and then use
audacity and clean it up so you can
actually transcribe it.
It's a problem.
It's a process.
So and then also I've got the podcast
studio in Port Angeles, which I still haven't
used, but I've learned how to do everything.
Yeah.
I told you what to get.
You know that I gave you the equipment
list.
You got all that.
So yeah, go ahead.
The roads, podcaster, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The roadcaster.
Yes.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Is not trivial to learn.
Sorry, I don't have a background in that
stuff.
So yeah, it's OK.
I'm writing a book about this stuff, about
how to set up a podcast studio.
OK, yeah.
Now, probably the funniest message I got because
people responded so, so well.
And this I'll just have to read this
one verbatim.
After hearing Mimi, I'm going to ask you
a question again that I've mentioned more than
once in the past.
Please don't react emotionally.
Just consider.
Are you sure John is not CIA?
Mimi sure sounds like his handler.
I am definitely not CIA.
Well, you do have a fabulous background.
And you and I, you and I talk
a couple of times a year.
Mainly it's about taxes, but we wind up
talking for about an hour about all kinds
of stuff.
And then already just in this short week,
I've learned a couple of things that we're
going to talk about.
And one thing that I learned yesterday, I
want to talk about right after this clip.
The clock.
It runs our lives.
And when it jumps ahead or behind an
hour every six months, it messes with us.
Daylight savings time disrupts your biological rhythm.
Kay Lewis leads the youth group at her
Barrington church and worries about the sleep deprived
kids coming in Sunday morning.
If I had my druthers, I'd go to
daylight savings time and I would stop right
there.
Stay there year round.
Dr. Philip Cozy monitors sleep charts as part
of his work as director of the sleep
center for Edward Elmhurst Endeavor Health Hospital.
He says losing an hour of sleep may
seem insignificant, but studies prove otherwise.
There are significant implications with respect to mood
disorder and suicidality.
Cozy says there are also studies which show
a big increase in heart attacks, strokes, depression
and fatigue in the days after moving the
clocks forward.
State Senator Darby Hills is co-sponsoring a
bill that would allow Illinois to do away
with daylight saving time as neighboring states get
rid of it as well.
Even just an hour of sleep can make
a big difference.
And a lot of people have to change
their whole routines.
You know, evening daylight, evening daylight time will
allow people to be outside, be with their
families, mental health.
I just start trying to pretend one must
pretend their way into this new rhythm, right?
Fake it till you make it.
The Daylight Savings Act of 2026 would compromise
making daylight saving time permanent, but only changing
the clocks by a half hour.
All right.
Illinois is obviously nuts who change it by
a half hour.
But I said this to you last night.
I said, just remember, because that's the only
time John has ever been late is one
time when daylight savings time changed.
And so I thought I'd just remind you
as a courtesy.
And you said what?
I don't change my clocks.
I just stay on daylight savings time and
just subtract an hour.
I can't stand it.
So I just gave up on changing the
clocks.
So it's fine.
But your phone changes, doesn't it?
Automatically.
Yeah, I have no choice there.
But why change?
I've got grandfather clocks and clocks on the
wall here and there.
And it's like, it's only four months.
That's amazing.
So BC, BC, Canada has just announced that
they're changing permanently to daylight savings, which will
be very interesting because Washington already passed a
law that said that they, although it hasn't
been enacted yet, that we're going to stay
on standard time.
So it's just it's stupid.
I mean, I just think the whole thing
is dumb.
The worst thing ever was when I worked,
I worked graveyard shift and you'd go in
the, it would be great this time of
year because you work seven hours and get
paid for eight.
But the other time of the year, the
clock would roll back at two and you'd
go, oh great.
So nine hours, no overtime.
So where did you work graveyard shift?
At the club?
No, I, I, I had a, I worked
for MasterCharge when it was called MasterCard.
And I worked swing shift and graveyard shift
there on a regular basis.
I liked the swing shift better.
What were you doing?
Like answering people's calls or what exactly do
you have to do at MasterCharge?
I took lost and stolen card reports for
the seven Western states.
And then later I moved into the fraud
desk where I arrested people over the phone
using stolen credit cards.
Did you, is this citizen's arrest?
What was that?
No, it would be, the merchant would call
in and I'd go, hey, let me talk
to the customer.
And then I'd start flirting with them while
my partner called the police in the area.
And then the police would come in and
arrest the guy.
This was in the seventies.
They don't do this anymore.
But yeah, and then we'd go to court
and testify against them.
It was a goofy, goofy job, but it
was fun.
Yeah.
It's so nice.
It's so nice to hear about other jobs
that Dvorak has done.
I think we've heard almost all of John's
previous jobs already.
We know that you were, you were arresting
people over the phone.
You were a theater kid.
You worked in, what was the, was it
vaudeville?
What were you doing?
Well, I was an emcee of a dinner
theater.
So yeah.
Now, according to the newsletter, thank you very
much, Jay and you as well.
Again, the Dvoraks pulled together, put together a
great newsletter, chock full of memes.
And of course a fantastic donation drive.
You know, John is always saying that, you
know, people want to donate.
They really do.
But they always like having a reason to
donate above and beyond the value of the
show, which is why we have PhDs and
doctorates and, and, and different types of campaigns
that we do.
I never thought that he would pull this
one.
You know, this is, this is like, whoa.
But, but you guys immediately came up with
the give John a reason to live donation.
I was like, you, you, you are a,
yes, you are competitive intellectuals.
There you go.
Competitive intellectuals.
Right.
And it was just, yeah.
Well, we, we, we are back.
Jay and I are back office.
You know, we do everything that needs to
be done.
That John is, you know, John's talent.
He doesn't have to do these things.
Oh, oh.
And do you tell them that your talent,
don't worry about it?
Oh yeah.
Oh, goodness gracious.
That must inflate his head so much.
Your talent.
Don't worry about it.
I don't get that here, by the way.
I don't, I don't, I don't get your
talent.
Well, see, I've worked, I, you know, I've
been with John since like 82.
And, you know, I, I, I just jump
in and do things because someone's got to
do stuff.
And, you know, John's an essayist.
He's not a book writer.
So I would help organize the books and
get those things in shape.
And, you know, he, there's things he, that
I do better than he does and things
he does better than I do.
So it's that kind of partnership.
Um, working together and being married is challenging.
Yeah.
So, so, so, you know, that's, that's the
reason I live in Washington state.
Cause I like, I don't like living in
the Bay area.
And because I have a million animals, um,
it works better.
And, you know, we talk and, and I
come down on a regular basis.
You know, we do have family time and
we go on vacations together when we do
that.
Oh, when's the last time you went on
a vacation?
I don't like to go on vacation.
Do I hear a bird now?
First I heard the now is what is
that?
Oh, that's my Macaw.
Oh, okay.
It's a little different than the sirens going
across the Bay bridge.
Now, how are you doing Mimi?
Are you, how are you feeling?
Are you okay?
I mean, it's you, you come across like,
Oh, it's no problem.
You know, John's in the hospital, but come
on, this is, this has got to be
a bit of a shock.
Well, I, I, I wasn't, the other job
I had is I was the first EMT
in Oakland.
It was before EMTs.
I was an ambulance attendant in Oakland.
I was the affirmative action hire.
So, uh, uh, yeah.
And, um, you know, because of that, I
kind of compartmentalize.
So I will break down in about a
year.
Um, you know, I ended up with post
-traumatic stress from that experience and I've learned
how to handle it and how I handle
it is by not thinking about it, not
dealing with it and dealing with what needs
to be done.
And then I'll be the one who's just
a basket case, you know, six months from
now, a year from now, but it's fine.
It works great.
Now, are you going to come down to,
uh, to the Bay area for the recuperation
period?
But if you don't mind me asking, what,
what's the plan?
Do we have a time?
Do we even have a timeline for John
getting out of the hospital yet?
He should be out in a week by
the end of the week, probably.
Um, he's going to stay with Jay and
Brennan, uh, because their house doesn't have a
million stairs and because he needs people with
him 24, seven, and we'll probably get a
visiting nurse as well.
Uh, I have to get a hot one,
get one of those hot ones.
I'm hoping to, Oh, actually I wouldn't mind
getting just some big dude, dude, hot dude.
Okay.
Yeah, I got you.
So, um, I have to unhook my life
from Port Angeles cause I do things.
I'm not, I don't just sit up here.
I have things going on, so I will
be down, uh, when I'm absolutely needed.
Once I get everything taken care of here
and I get my macaw farmed out to
a friend and you know, my parakeets, I
have parakeets and the cats and, and board
my dogs at my kennel.
Most of my dogs, two of my dogs
come with me.
And then, um, I will go down and
make his house ready for him to come
back to it cause I have to put
in handrails and a bunch of things.
So, and I do, I do the house
maintenance.
You're going to allow him to, uh, to
stay in San Francisco.
I mean, is it not time for him
to give up that God forsaken place?
No, he likes living there.
I don't think so.
No, he likes it.
It's not, you know, we've talked about it
off and on, but my house is too
cold.
Full of too many animals.
And it's a mess.
I tell you, I don't want to be
around all that.
Well, I am constantly doing renovations here and
stuff.
You know, it would drive him nuts.
It's fine the way it is.
He'll be happy to get back to his
independence.
He's an only child.
He likes to, he really likes his, his,
you know, not to have somebody underfoot all
the time.
I will be down for like a couple
months and get him until he is in
good shape.
And then I will, you know, return up
here and then keep, I'll probably be down
every, every three weeks.
So I'll just drive a lot.
I'm really good at driving I-5.
Is there any view yet on how long
it will be before John can return to
the show?
If you and I allow him?
Well, first he has to get, not be
hoarse.
No, I, John is incredibly driven and stubborn.
And I think he'll be driven later.
What, what, what?
Driven and stubborn, what?
No, you don't say.
And I've of course talked to all of
my friends who've had bypasses and I've grilled
them, you know, incredibly.
And probably, you know, I'm hoping three weeks,
two weeks, two to three weeks.
You know, he will do it before anything
else.
We'll figure it out.
And we might have to ease him back
in, whatever.
We'll figure it out.
But he, but he wants, he's, he's, he
wants probably for me to apologize to all
the listeners that he's not there and they
have to listen to me.
He's, he didn't, he doesn't like this idea,
does he?
No.
Because what?
Because what was the alternative?
Darren, come on.
I mean, no, no offense, Darren.
I love you, brother.
No offense.
No, he's, you know, John is, John is
John.
It's fine.
You know, we'll get him back as quick
as we possibly can because I got other
things to do.
Yes, exactly.
Yes.
It's a win-win for everybody to get
him back.
Oh, absolutely.
So, what was I going to say?
No, I guess you've, you've, you've kind of
answered the questions.
I mean, it's good.
It's good.
I'm so happy you're here.
And, you know, Tina and I were talking
about it when you suggested it.
I'm like, you know, I think it's kind
of, she's like, this is a great idea.
She says it keeps it in the family,
keeps it with the Dvorak, you know, and,
and, and you, and she's met you, you've
met her and she's like, Mimi can talk.
You just might have to rein her in
if she keeps on going.
I said, no, I'm not too worried about
that.
Now, here's the thing as we kind of
slide in, because we're going to do a
bit of media deconstruction.
This I did not know of all, of
all, in more than 18 years, you spent
time as a child in Iran.
Yes.
I was there in 1966 when the Shah
was in power still.
My dad was a Marine.
He was called back.
He was a Marine engineer.
Always.
We lived in Reno.
He always kept up his licenses.
So when the Vietnam War cranked up, he
had the choice of, he was called back
to service and he didn't, my mother was
totally anti-war.
So I didn't want him to go to
Vietnam on munition ships.
So he took a job on the Persian
Gulf on the Glomar North Sea, which was
a, a drilling rig.
It was a boat that was converted to
a drilling rig.
So my mother and I relocated to Iran
and my dad would get two weeks on,
two weeks off.
So I arrived in Iran is like, you
know, I was, you know, six in sixth
grade and, you know, 10 years old ish.
And it was a very interesting experience because
I, you know, we were you in Tehran?
Tehran.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Tehran.
I got to get the right pronunciation.
Tehran.
Tehran.
Yes.
And it's, it's Iran, not Iran.
Yes.
Thank you.
Well, we, we know it's Iran.
The show knows this.
Yes.
And we stayed, originally we lived in a
hotel.
We were in the Sina Hotel, which was
a beautiful little place.
And that, and it was a block from
the American embassy.
And we stayed there for maybe two months.
And it was a CIA hotel.
Oh, of course.
Yeah, of course it was.
Yes, of course.
And you knew this at the time as
a sixth grader?
You know, this is a spook, a spook
spot.
I didn't know.
Well, we also had economic hitmen in there.
I didn't know what they were until later
reflecting on it.
There were a lot of finance guys.
There were CIA guys.
There were also a lot of people that
I couldn't understand why they were there, but
they were like, I think they were also
CIA.
But there's two types of CIA that I
found.
The ones that'll tell you, yeah, I'm CIA.
And the ones that go, oh, yes, I'm
doing special work on assignment.
Yes, I work for the embassy.
And there are the different ambassadors would come
through too.
By the way, I hate embassy kids.
No offense to embassy kids, but.
No, they're usually, when we moved to Belgium,
Christina went to the International School of Antwerp.
Yep.
And after two months says, Dad, I want
to go to Belgian school.
I speak enough Dutch because it's Flemish.
But she says, I hate these kids.
Same thing.
She's like, oh, they're annoying.
And also they're broken.
You know, they're just broken from the life.
Well, and my easiest way to sort kids
out was I'd go, how do you like
hose water?
And they'd look at me with this look
like, what are you talking about?
You mean drinking from the hose?
Of course, hose water.
Hose water.
And I'd go, see, you've never lived in
America.
You're not really an American kid.
But, you know, living.
So the CIA guys were interesting.
I mean, you know, I got I didn't
know what CIA meant.
And my mother and dad got really friendly
with a couple of guys.
Matter of fact, my mother wrote some of
them forever after that.
And one of them in particular would invite
my mother around the country to accompany while
my dad was out, you know, back on
the rig.
And we would go around the country so
he could.
That's the only way I saw all the
tourist spots.
I went everywhere in Iran.
I went to all the major cities because
we'd go with him.
And, you know, and we'd go and we'd
see museums.
We do this.
And every time he'd go, well, you know,
I'm if I'm not, I'm going to go
see a man.
And if I'm not back by a certain
hour, a car will come for you.
And then he'd also say, yeah, well, if
anything, if I use this one code word,
you guys need to get away from me
as fast as possible.
Wow.
I always thought this guy's just nuts.
What was it?
Do you remember the code words?
No, they changed every time.
You don't remember any of them?
That would be so cool.
One of them was, I think I need
a glass of water.
It was things like, it was really weird.
It was like really stupid or go get
me a Coke, you know, Coca-Cola.
But it wasn't until later when I, because
I've been writing down my different memories.
I went, your memoirs, my memoir.
Yeah.
It sounded like a good idea.
It dawned on me that we were the
beards to make him feel like he was
the boss.
Here's a guy with a goofy kid and
an American woman.
And we were probably in danger the whole
time because two years after we left, he
was killed.
He was gunned down on the Iraqi border.
So, yeah, it was like, he was interesting.
It was also interesting that when I was
there and I never understood this, the Peace
Corps were there and they were building tennis
courts.
Because that's what USAID does.
That's how we roll.
Yes, yes.
Tennis courts.
So, and, you know, a lot of things
about Iran.
Iran was at the time, you know, it
was all Western dress.
It was very modern.
It was kind of interesting.
Yeah.
Was that the day of the, of like
the mini skirt, not mini skirts, but above
the knee at least.
Yeah.
I mean, I've seen pictures, you know, it
looked modern.
Everyone's rocking and rolling.
They're smoking cigarettes, having a good time.
Yep.
And, you know, it was, there were a
lot of people.
I mean, it was lots of classes, like
since we were Americans, clearly we were in
the upper class.
And that was beautiful.
But there were also, you know, shopkeepers slept
in their shops.
And then people were, there were a lot
of very poor people.
There were people living in tents out.
We lived on the edge of the city
near the, we lived close to the American
school, which at the time was at the
edge of the city.
And there were people living in tents.
There were goat herders that would come by,
you know, all the people that I hung
out with, you know, our, our contemporaries all
lived in houses with big, tall walls.
Everything was walled.
It was, but I did learn about lots
about other religions because Iran was full of
other religions.
I mean, it was like, you know, there
were, you know, there were Jewish Iranians and
there were Christian Iranians and there were Muslim
Iranians and there was Zoroastrians still.
Would you say it was predominantly Muslim or
not at all?
No, no, it was, it was the most,
and also Muslims don't come in one flavor.
True.
I mean, you know, there are as many
different, almost as many divisions of Muslim as
there are Christians.
Yeah.
So, you know, you know, and it was,
there was a huge difference between the Sunni
and the Shias.
And they kind of don't get along.
I've heard I'm reliably informed.
And well, there are also branches of the
Shia.
Like there's the 12, the 12ers, that's what
the Shah was.
You know, there's, you know, there's, there's so
many, there's reformists.
There's, there's extremists.
They're just like Christians.
You know, there's.
Yeah, this, this is what people in America
don't understand, particularly in Texas.
There are so many people freaking out right
now.
It's intentional.
It's, I'm pretty sure it's a Republican.
Let's all, you know, gather the wagons and
vote for us.
Propaganda that, you know, the Muslim, look at
all these mosques.
The Muslims are taken over.
We're going to be just like Europe.
I'm like, I don't think so.
And it's, it's bad too.
For the very reason you just said, like
there's Muslims and there's Muslims.
Right.
But the more extremist of the Sunnis really
do believe the only way that they will
achieve Muhammad coming back is by Armageddon.
And killing the infidels.
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
So, but meanwhile, there's a whole lot of
guys.
There's non-denominational Muslims that are just like
our non-dominant denominational.
So like, yeah, whatever.
You know, there's people who just identify culturally
as Muslim, but they aren't really practicing just
like there are Jewish people who are just
like there's Christian people who are.
So that is, we don't teach.
We don't teach religion in school.
Anything, anything.
It's pathetic.
We don't teach anybody anything.
Yeah.
So, I mean, that's kind of like.
So, so you've seen the country change over
decades.
Have you kept up with it?
Oh, yeah.
I bore John to tears with it.
And I'd love to see TV, who actually
is an Iranian living.
Yeah, yeah.
John's played Cliff from Toosie.
Yeah.
I'd love to say it was because I
absolutely adore the guy.
He's got, I mean, he's a little, he's
had too much coffee, I think.
But he talks really fast, but he gets
really good clips.
And he, he, he really does great reporting.
And it is not the reporting we're seeing,
you know, and the fact that what we're
seeing is just such nonsense.
It really, I'm always ranting about it.
Since you brought clips, I'll, I'll let you,
I'll let you play some because I see
on the list you have some Iran clips.
I do.
And actually, one of my favorite would be,
it's, it's, it's, I'm not sure what I
named it.
It's the CIA, CNN, Iran.
Oh, the propaganda clip?
Oh, absolutely.
Here we go.
Break for a coffee along the way.
We've been driving for several hours.
There's a couple of things that we've noticed.
Number one is that, first of all, all
the shops are open.
All the shops are really well stocked, even
with, with fresh things, like, for instance, fruits
and vegetables, coffee, obviously also available as well.
And then also the gas stations, there's no
long lines as gas stations, fuel seems readily
available, and you just don't see any sort
of degree of panic anywhere.
Okay.
Is that not true?
He's out in the middle of nowhere.
It looks like, for all I know, he's,
he's in Nevada.
By the way, that's, that's Frederick Pleitgen, who
said that he had permission to be there,
which means it's from the, you know, IRGC.
Oh, okay.
What, what makes me so suspicious of the
whole thing is, if you go the Internet
Iran, March 6 clip.
Let me see.
Yes, Internet Iran.
Okay, this, this sounds like an AI voice,
but it's, it, there are, this was just
the best source for the information.
So, let's hear about.
Sorry, go ahead.
That's okay.
Let's just, let's just talk about the Internet.
So here.
As bombs fall and tensions escalate, millions of
people inside Iran are facing another crisis, a
near total Internet blackout across the country.
Iranians say they suddenly lost access to the
Internet, leaving them unable to contact family members,
read news updates, or share information about what
is happening on the ground.
Internet monitoring organizations report that national connectivity collapsed
to just a tiny fraction of normal levels,
effectively isolating the country from the global Internet.
Okay.
So was this guy from CNN taking up
all the bandwidth?
Yeah, he had a Starlink or something.
Yeah.
Who knows?
No, Starlink's not working either.
That's just it.
They have a total ban.
And it's like, you know, it's like, and
what they, there was no point to this.
It was just like pure, oh, everything's great.
Well, it is.
It's, it's great.
But I can't, first, it's just like, what
kind of nonsense is this?
What kind of story is this?
Well, they have, yeah, because they have no
reporting, obviously.
And, and it's very possible that it's actually
much better than we think.
I mean, it seems that we don't know
anything.
Breaking news, nobody knows nothing.
It's like, were there really 32,000 people
killed during the protest?
I don't know.
I mean, it's just a number that popped
up.
And some say thousands, some say a lot.
Some say 32,000.
We just don't really know.
Well, that actually, from different Iranian reporters outside
of Iran, who've been getting, some people go
to the border and to send off broadcasts.
I mean, they risk their lives to send
off, you know, little clips of video and
all that.
So from what I've watched for the last,
you know, 30 days, at least on 2CTV,
is that these, the targets are very specific.
We aren't, we aren't just, you know, carpet
bombing the country.
No, it's surgical strikes.
Yes.
Yes, my favorite word.
And at the same time, during the protests,
which were amazing to watch, and there was
a lot more video of that because the
internet was still working and Starlink was there.
You know, people were rounded up.
I mean, people were just shot on the
street and the bodies were, you couldn't go
get, try to retrieve your, your, your family.
You'd get shot doing that.
I mean, the crackdown, you know, the IRGC
was brutal.
It was brutal from the beginning.
And actually, I do have a really great,
to put Iran in perspective, the best quick
history I have of Iran is a clip
by Kazan, and I don't know how to
say his last name, but it's- Asidu,
maybe, Asidu.
Asidu, you're right.
He, he's this, he's got a sub stack
and he just did the best rundown of
the history of Iran to give people a
perspective.
Iran was- Sorry, I'm jumping the gun.
We're getting used to each other.
We're getting used to each other.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
So there's, there's part one and two, and
then we have a really good summation, which
I think is the third clip.
So if, however you want to do that.
All right, one.
Iran wasn't always a place where women were
forced to cover up.
The government killed its own people and kids
sold kidneys for food.
It used to be a thriving democracy.
Then Iran's prime minister tried to nationalize their
oil to take it back from British corporations.
The CIA and the Brits didn't like that.
So in 1953, they helped overthrow him and
replace him with the Shah, basically a king.
The Shah was controversial.
So in 1979, liberal college students led a
revolution to overthrow him.
What they hoped for was freedom.
What they got was the Islamic Republic.
The Republic executed thousands of political prisoners, including
those students.
In 1979, they held 52 Americans hostage for
444 days.
Night after night, they paraded our citizens on
camera and tortured them off camera.
We took that personally.
Now you need to understand this about the
Islamic Republic.
They aren't rational geopolitical actors.
They are religious fanatics who welcome death.
The constitution lists their Messiah, a figure who
disappeared over a thousand years ago, as head
of state.
They believe he will only come back at
the end of the world.
So that's what they want.
That's why they fund Hamas and Hezbollah.
That's why their terror network has launched attacks
in Europe, Muslim countries, and killed Americans worldwide.
You know, I've always wondered when CIA and
MI6 put the Shah in, did BP regain
control of the oil?
Have they just still been in control of
it?
Or was it truly nationalized?
Do you have any insight on that?
It wasn't nationalized, but they split it so
that Iran got 60% of the profits
and BP held 40%.
To this day, as far as you know?
No.
Once the IRGC came in, they nationalized the
oil and they mostly sell to China and
Russia.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes, we know this.
We know this.
So it actually, if you go, Kazin does
the second part, which is gives you a
really, it's kind of, it's just a nice
little summation of that.
It's the last part of that one clip.
For them, all roads lead to Armageddon.
They aren't logical.
They're ideological.
And you can't negotiate someone out of a
position that they didn't reason themselves into.
For the last two decades, they've pursued two
weapons to contest the West, nukes and terrorism.
Obama got them to agree not to build
nukes for 15 years in exchange for removing
sanctions, but that gave them more money, which
they gave to terrorists instead of their citizens.
Then Trump removed the nuclear deal and put
back sanctions that gave them less money for
terrorists, but push them toward nukes.
You don't want war, but you also don't
want them getting nukes, right?
But how do you prevent the nukes without
risking the war?
And if they get the nukes, does war
find you anyway?
Do you keep playing nuclear poker and hope
that they bluff for the next 20 years?
Or do you flip the table?
If you were the president, what would you
do?
And what would you realize about them if
they tried to kill you like they tried
to kill Trump?
Now, does Israel benefit from this?
Sure.
That's what happens when two countries share an
enemy.
You don't need to trust Israel to see
that.
Look, we're not saints.
We're acting in our interests.
But our interests and the Iranian people's interests
are aligned.
And what we did to Iran was wrong.
Now we have a chance to make it
right.
Why do you think it is that your
dog, what's your dog's name?
Moose.
Moose.
He's a Fila Bracelero.
Yeah, he's a killer dog.
The ones that'll kill you if you look
at him wrong.
Why has no American president done what is
happening now?
I mean, there's been a lot of talk.
They've had all kind, you know, they've kept
our diplomats hostage.
You know, there's just been so much going.
Obama gave him money, you know, pallets of
cash.
What do you think?
Why do you think no president has ever
done what is happening now?
Well, well, Jimmy Carter made the big mistake
of thinking that, oh, it's a religion.
We need a religious buffer to keep the
communists at bay.
He never, he didn't, you know, I mean,
he was a guy from the South.
He had no idea.
A peanut farmer, as they called him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With his smart brother, whatever his name was,
Billy Beer.
Billy, yeah, I remember Billy.
So we made a mistake then.
You know, he kept saying, well, I've asked
them nicely.
I've asked them nicely.
And it's like, you know, people are holding
your embassy hostage and you're asking him nicely
for 400 days.
It was a mistake.
He didn't back the Iranian people.
He didn't save them.
He trusted what the IRGC said, what the
Ayatollah said.
So since then, I think, I find it
really weird that, you know, at the same
time, both Iran and China and Russia got
involved with Venezuela.
You know, so they basically put a base,
an axis of operations in our backyard.
And then, and then Biden opened the border,
wide open border.
Well, I can't make, I can't make sense
of any of this.
You know, it's like, I think our, our
presidents were acting against us.
And I think, you know, I tend to
be, I'm not strong on, like, I believe
in George Washington's final thing where, you know,
it's country over party.
I don't, I don't care one way or
the other who the president is because he's
our figurehead.
But we've had some very peculiar things going
on for the last, you know, since, since
Obama.
Well, I'd say that that is mainly because
of China.
And because if you, if you look at
what's happening now, I'm not actually have a
clip later on, China was getting tons of
oil from Venezuela and lots of oil from,
from Iran.
And they were trading it in yuan.
They weren't trading it in U.S. dollars.
Always a mistake.
Just ask Gaddafi.
Big mistake.
And they also, you know, had committed 400
billion, equivalent 400 billion dollars into all kinds
of tech, including military tech.
Yep.
And to me, it seems like, OK, here's
this, here's this country or here are two
countries who are undercutting the oil price, which
for, it's just not good.
I mean, you can't, you can't have a
world oil trade if, if you got these
big actors doing all kinds of stuff.
And at the same time, I think it
is in America's interest to curtail that.
Well, there is another aspect to that.
China was also controlling the canals.
Right.
Both the Suez and, you know, the one
in South America, you know, controlling the shipping
ports and controlling the canals and also controlling,
they have many, many container ships.
So we, meanwhile, our maritime has really kind
of fallen off.
I mean, everything's under a foreign flag now.
We don't even make ships.
Do we even build ships anymore?
I don't think so.
Hardly.
I don't think so.
Yeah.
And, you know, we are, it's China, Russia
who are really behind all these crazy things
going on.
And we are at war with them, whether
we know it or not.
We're in a cold war.
So let's play your third clip and then
I want to play some China stuff.
Okay.
Well, you know what else no one wants?
The Islamic Republic, which controls Iran, slaughtering tens
of thousands of its own people.
The Islamic Republic, which has been playing a
game of nuclear poker with the world for
two decades, bluffing for another two.
Hamas, which hurt both Palestinians and Israelis on
October 7th, continuing to receive money and weapons
from the Islamic Republic.
There will never be peace in the Middle
East while the Islamic Republic is in power.
And who is this guy again?
Is he, is he a YouTuber?
No, he's a, he's got a sub stack
and he does a sub stack video sometimes.
Oh, it's a level up from YouTuber.
In my opinion.
Yeah.
I love sub stack because this is where
I get all my news now and it's
amazing what's going on around the country.
I mean, this is all hyperlocal.
This guy has a really good take on,
on the Middle East stuff.
He's a, he's, he's just fun to watch
and I watch and read him on a
daily basis.
So I have, um, I have, uh, some
reactions from the U S regarding what's happening,
but it, it was interesting cause I've been
looking for, for what I found from W
I O N.
Yes, I had to go to the, yeah,
I had to go to the Indian news
service and they see it very clearly and
they just say it exactly what's going on.
Two months ago, the United States captured the
president of Venezuela.
At present, it is fighting an all out
war with Iran and has already assassinated its
Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
While America's stated objectives are different, these moves
are increasingly being seen as an attempt to
target one of its chief rivals, China.
Now, how is this linked with Beijing?
Essentially, United States has targeted two countries that
both shared China as their most important crude
oil customer.
Overall, 17% of China's oil came from
Venezuela and Iran last year.
For instance, China became the main importer of
Venezuelan oil after Trump imposed sanctions on the
country's energy industry in 2019.
Last year's data indicates that 55% of
Venezuela's crude oil was exported to China.
And as per reports, around two thirds of
Chinese oil imports from Caracas go to independent
refineries known as teapots, were willing to flout
sanctions in order to purchase crude oil at
sharp discounts.
Without America now asserting control over oil sales
and revenue of Venezuela's oil, China's imports are
set to be impacted.
In case of West Asia, Beijing's stakes are
even higher.
Half of its oil imports are from Iran,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, and Oman, which
transport their crude oil through the Strait of
Hormuz.
And interesting to note that word came out
of Russia, I think three, maybe four weeks
ago, that Russia was considering selling their oil
in dollars again, which is interesting since they've
been kicked off of SWIFT, but there's other
payment rails they can use.
Wyan continues here with some details.
And then the timing of this is interesting.
Last year, it purchased an average of 1
.38 million barrels of Iranian oil per day.
On the whole, it brought 87 percent of
Iran's crude oil.
This accounted for more than 13 percent of
China's oil imports.
This works to Beijing's advantage as refiners reportedly
get a discount of eight to ten dollars
per barrel on the purchase of Iranian oil.
What threatens China even more is the ongoing
situation in the Strait of Hormuz with the
IRGC threatening to attack any vessel that passes
through it.
This might cause a devastating impact on China.
China has now broken its silence on these
speculations.
When asked about the hindrance of oil supplies
to Beijing owing to the present geopolitical situation,
China's foreign ministry stated that the country will
take all necessary measures to ensure its energy
security.
This also assumes significance in the backdrop of
U.S. President Trump's upcoming visit to China
in March after a gap of eight years.
Remember where he will meet with his counterpart,
Xi Jinping.
Trade is likely to be top on the
agenda.
Yeah, I think so.
Hey, Xi, we got your oil, man.
What do you want to do?
You want to play ball with us finally?
Or you don't want any oil?
I find this to be very interesting.
And the only other person I found who
has figured this out is a huge Trump
hater.
And that is Anthony Scaramucci.
Whatever you think of Trump, OK, and I
think he's a despicable human being, perhaps one
of the most evil people I've ever come
in contact with in my life.
He's trying to cut a deal.
Can you explain to us why you think
Trump went to war in Iran?
I think ultimately it has to do with
a broader chess match that's going on with
China.
And so if you really just step back,
you're getting the oil from Venezuela to China.
You're getting the oil from Iran to China.
And I think this is a broader chessboard
move.
And it's not really just being run by
him.
It's being run by what I would call
neocons.
This is the great irony because the president
ran on no more forever wars.
But this is the directive of neocons.
This is something that the late Dick Cheney,
if he was around, he would be so
happy right now.
There was no exit strategy.
There was no refugee strategy.
There was no evacuation strategy for our embassies.
This was military adventurism at its finest.
But I can tell you the strategy is
let's kill off all the theocrats and find
a secularist and let me see if I
can bribe him to do what I want.
And so where Trump is actually pissed off,
he's not saying it, but I know Trump.
He's pissed off at the Israelis because they
keep killing everybody.
OK, so they killed 40, 50 people.
And Trump's like, what are you doing?
I'm trying to find the guy that I
can bribe.
OK, to settle this thing down and bring
him on our side.
You see what's going on?
And so he's mad at them because you
have diverging objectives between the Israelis and the
Americans.
And again, in fairness to the Israelis, because
of what the Iranians have done to Israel
and Hamas is supported by them and all
this stuff, they want to put a hurt
on all these people.
But Trump doesn't want to.
Whatever you think of Trump, OK, and I
think he's a despicable human being, perhaps one
of the most evil people I've ever come
in contact with in my life.
He's trying to cut a deal that will
move the Iranians out of the access of
Russia and China.
I mean, he loves Putin, but he's really
more focused on putting a hurt on China.
I think Scaramucci is right.
I think Trump is pissed at the Israelis
because they do keep killing people.
In fact, they have a.
Well, we're in the middle of a global
power reordering that started in 2014, which were
disrupting the international order that was put in
place after World War Two.
And it's been eroding.
It started with Putin invasion of Ukraine, the
Russian interference in 2016 election.
And that really did happen.
China's aggressive expansion to South China, the military
buildup by China across Africa and Latin America.
China controls all the shipping channels where they've
been trying to.
You know, it's a coordinated strategy to displace
America as the dominant nation.
Yes.
So, you know.
And I think that Trump, if I just
look at it objectively, and we'll get to
the Israel thing in a second.
If I look at it objectively, I think
he knows the midterms a loss.
I mean, historically, statistically, it's a loss.
There's there's also a lot of Trump haters
in the Republican Party.
He's pretty sure he's not going to make
it.
He's not going to make a house in
the Senate.
Maybe maybe the Senate.
So you don't even know.
I think he's just going.
He's like, OK, I got to do all
of this before the midterms, before the impeachment,
before all the nonsense.
All I can do at that point is
executive orders and vetoes.
I have a mission.
It is it is, in his mind, certainly
an America first mission.
And I think I agree with it.
It goes completely against what people think he
said.
No forever wars.
Well, we'll see if this is a forever
war.
And I think that's what's going on here.
And he probably wants to wrap it up
before July 4th so we can have a
big celebration.
I don't know if that's going to work.
But that seems that seems to be what's
going on here.
See, I really detest the entire, you know,
again, country over party.
You know, since when do news people and
people on the main media, why do they
constantly come up with things like, oh, he's
a despicable human being?
Really?
I mean, come on.
You know, the guy is he's got a
lot of kids and his kids are all
decent.
He doesn't have a Hunter Biden in the
group.
You know, the whole thing about, oh, I
know him.
And, you know, and, you know, the anti
-Trump stuff is ridiculous.
You say it often enough.
Of course, people will believe this.
I think he's just like every other president.
He seems to have a bigger worldview than
a lot of presidents.
I mean, I personally, I probably equate him
to Nixon when it comes to comprehension of
the whole world playing field.
What people forget is all these protests that
show up are not organic.
They're not real protests.
They are funded by outside agents to stir
people up.
No agenda nation knows this, obviously.
Yeah.
And, you know, but it's like this constant,
I can't listen to any of these newscasts
without hearing the, you know, oh, he's despicable.
Oh, I know him.
He's horrible.
You know, I know what he's thinking.
You know, it sounds like a crazy girlfriend,
you know, the crazy girlfriend that's like, you
know, you know what you did.
You know what, you know what, why I'm
mad.
You know, I mean, I'm just finding that
to be why do we have this?
And what's the counter to this?
Well, OK, so the only counter I see
is the no agenda show, because I've been
watching Tucker very closely.
And, you know, he's convinced that Israel dragged
us into this.
And I want to get to that in
a minute.
But he was on, he did a, I
don't know if it was on his podcast
and Sagar came on his, you know, Sagar,
when he used to be on The Hill.
And this was fascinating because he was trying
to convince Trump to not do this and
went to see Trump.
And he literally has taken on the view
of the mainstream media that Trump is just
watching Fox News all day and only cares
about people who say he's good.
As I said, I flew up to D
.C. three times in the last month to
try to convince Trump not to.
This didn't work.
It happens.
I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, boy,
this is not going to get better.
So then I think I'll fly up again
and ask him.
I mean, I don't know if anyone else
is doing this.
I'm going to try to just declare victory
and go home.
Like you killed an 86 year old cleric,
let's just call that a win and then
pull back.
And so then meantime, he he got convinced
to denounce me.
OK, I don't care.
I'm a fly up anyway.
Denounce.
Right.
Even though he's like denouncing me.
So I call over there to see, you
know, call someone who knows him.
I said, I'm just going to fly up
anyway and and tell him this because I
think it's so important.
And the person says, don't bother because he's
being shown polling that this war is like
a 90 10 win for him.
And I said, I don't know where that
polling is coming from.
It's like, you know, I guess you can
make any kind of poll and it's he's
watching Fox News, which is telling him the
same thing.
And he's getting fake polling.
I guess they're only polling Sean Hannity's viewers
or something.
And so I'm not sure that there's a
sense as if this was yesterday because I
was getting so agitated and worried.
I don't think that there's a sense that
this is unpopular.
But I think there's an information vacuum here.
OK, so then Sagar comes in and, you
know, and again, their heads are only with
popularity, with polling, and they truly believe that
the president is only thinking about that has
nothing else in mind.
And Sagar makes it even worse.
There's a massive information vacuum.
And, you know, for the president and the
administration who declared a victory based on Internet
and vibes and podcasts, let's take a survey,
shall we, of every podcast that he appeared
on.
And how do they feel about the Iran
conflict?
You can look very clearly for yourself.
Who cares?
You can look at a lot of the
polling of that same demographic, which they were
very excited about.
Young men in particular, how are they feeling
about this conflict?
And, you know, if you were saying 90
10, it's not even true in a Republican
sense.
I mean, the latest one that I saw
was like 72 percent Republicans, which, by the
way, Mr. President and everybody in the administration,
Bush had 93 for Iraq.
And how did that turn out for him?
So let's not put, you know, put all
of our eggs in the basket of just
because Republican voters are here, that this is
all going to be like sunshine and roses.
And I also would not make the spurious
claim that it's all about Iran.
It's about compounding effects.
The gas price effect of the Iran conflict
is going to be dramatically more important to
the White House's political chances in the midterms
than anything that's actually happening on the ground.
I don't think it should be that way,
but that's reality.
And I do think also, you know, your
your your your inclination to get him to
try and declare victory.
That's the correct move from a strategic perspective,
an economic perspective, from every political perspective.
You don't want the entire country's national discourse
focused on Iran.
These guys are only thinking about politics only
and about, you know, partisan politics.
So, yes, go ahead.
Well, that's just it.
The partisan stuff, I mean, is just disgusting.
It's like, OK, you know, gee, are you
for the Raiders or the 49ers?
You know, I it's this nationalism doesn't exist.
What we have are two parties that are
warring against each other.
People who I have known for decades are
like, well, I can't talk to you because
you're MAGA.
Oh, people people that have been John's friends
for decades won't even talk to him anymore.
And not because he's MAGA, it's just because
he's not anti-Trump.
Right.
Which, again, that is.
You know, how can you look at the
whole picture, guys?
You know, it is a much deeper.
There are so many moving pieces and all
our media does is dumb us down.
Well, you know, I mean, yes and no.
I mean, so what has been going on
for a long time, three years now, but
had been bubbling under for a long time.
And it was a it's it's almost like
it was perfectly orchestrated.
Israel controls America.
That that is what we all have been
led to believe, because AIPAC has a lobbyist
for every single representative, every single senator.
And they control it all.
And they blackmail everybody with Epstein stuff.
I actually looked up how many other groups
have a lobbyist for every single representative and
every single senator.
Who do you think is the biggest lobbying
group that outranks AIPAC almost 10 to one
in money given to representatives to their reelection
campaigns?
Well, I have a different view.
Tell me who.
National Association of Realtors.
Well, biggest lobbying group have a lobbyist for
every single representative and senator.
Next in line, American Medical Association.
Same deal.
Next in line.
I mean, the NRA comes way down at
the bottom.
Next in line, American Bankers Association.
And then a huge lobby from AARP because
old people are an important voting bloc.
So that's that that meme has been created
and it's just been enforced.
And then, oh, well, look at all the
Jews in Congress.
They outrank their numbers by population, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera.
So when Marco and I and this put
me set me back for a second, I
wish we could have talked about it on
Thursday.
But, you know, John had to do something
else.
Thanks, John.
Rubio came out and said something about how
this was started, why it was started.
And everybody's the Mike X timeline was everybody
spiking the ball.
You see around the Jews dragged us into
it.
Israel did it.
And here this is a clip from France
24.
They have the best overview.
And then I want to give my take
on this because I've done a little.
I've looked a little further than just APAC.
When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016,
he ran on a promise to extract the
U.S. from so-called forever wars like
those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We should have never been in Iraq.
We have destabilized the Middle East.
But in just the first year of his
second term, Trump has launched military operations in
seven different nations.
And the U.S. is now engaged in
its largest military conflict since the invasion of
Iraq in 2003.
A recent poll by Reuters showed that just
27 percent of Americans approved of Trump's actions
in Iran.
And while 55 percent of Republicans approved, some
cracks are emerging in Trump's MAGA base among
supporters who say the war goes against the
whole idea of America first.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from office after
clashing with Trump over the Epstein files, wrote
on Twitter, I did not campaign for this.
This is not what we thought MAGA was
supposed to be.
Shame.
And Eric Prince, the Trump backer and founder
of Blackwater, said in a post, I don't
see how this is in keeping with the
president's MAGA commitment.
I'm disappointed.
Other Republicans reacted with outrage after U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided this rationale
for taking military action in Iraq.
We knew that there was going to be
an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack
against American forces.
And we knew that if we didn't preemptively
go after them before they launched those attacks,
we would suffer higher casualties.
Republican House member Thomas Massey from Kentucky wrote,
the administration admits Israel dragged us into the
Iran war that's already cost too many American
lives and billions of dollars.
Tucker Carlson, the right wing influencer who the
Atlantic reports met with Trump in recent weeks,
tried to convince Trump not to be pressured
by Israel.
Carlson telling Trump, you need to stand up
to Israel or else you're going to be
destroyed and the country is going to be
destroyed.
Adding Israel is a country of 9 million
people with no resources.
Why are we taking orders from them?
Democrats are trying to seize on all of
this, especially with primary contests already underway in
some states and in the run up to
the November midterm elections.
They're trying to portray Trump as more focused
on foreign affairs and starting wars abroad than
solving economic problems at home.
OK, so first I want to play the
original piece that what Marco Rubio said, because
when I heard it again, I had the
same reaction.
What?
What are you saying here?
And then I had to listen to it
again.
And then on a hunch, I talked to
Rob, the constitutional lawyer, who is a former
JAG, so, you know, military lawyer.
And so I was, you know, Rubio is
a smart guy.
So why is Rubio out there saying something
that can easily be interpreted as, oh, well,
Israel dragged us into it.
Here's what he said.
The United States conducted this operation with a
fair goal in mind.
I haven't got a chance to see a
lot of reporting.
I don't understand what the confusion is.
Let me explain it to you and I'll
do it once again as clearly as possible.
Perhaps you'll report it that way.
The United States is conducting an operation to
eliminate the threat of Iran's short range ballistic
missiles and the threat posed by their Navy,
particularly to naval assets.
OK, so first of all, right there, I'm
like, why is he saying that when we
have a huge armada down there?
The president's been saying, we're coming to help
you.
We're going to bomb the crap out of
them.
We're going to get rid of these guys.
Now, Rubio was saying, it's saying you're wrestling
a lot with papers, Mimi.
Oh, sorry about that.
Let me toss that to the floor.
Sorry.
That's OK.
I just want to make sure that you're
still with me.
Yeah, I am.
And so he's now he's saying something that
sounded technical to me and was only about
taking out their short range missiles and possible
nuclear bombs.
That is what it is focused on doing
right now.
And it's doing quite successfully.
I'll leave it to the Pentagon and the
Department of War to discuss the tactics behind
that and the progress that's being made.
That is the clear objective of this mission.
The second question that's been asked is why
now?
Well, there's two reasons why now.
The first is it was abundantly clear that
if Iran came under attack by anyone, the
United States or Israel or anyone, they were
going to respond and respond against the United
States.
The orders had been delegated down to the
field commanders.
It was automatic.
And in fact, it bared to be true
because, in fact, within an hour of the
initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile
forces in the south and in the north,
for that matter, had already been activated to
launch.
In fact, those had already been pre-positioned.
The third is the assessment that was made
that if we stood and waited for that
attack to come first before we hit them,
we would suffer much higher casualties.
And so the president made the very wise
decision.
We knew that there was going to be
an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack
against American forces.
And we knew that if we didn't preemptively
go after them before they launched those attacks,
we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even
higher those killed.
And then we would all be here answering
questions about why we knew that and didn't
act.
So I listened to this and I'm thinking,
why is Rubio saying this?
Or is it just true?
And the conclusion shows up in the filings.
So if this was a so-called preemptive
war where we had just said we're deciding
to bomb Iran, then the War Powers Resolution
would have popped up right away.
And then Congress would have control over the
timeline.
60 days plus 30 days to unwind.
You notice that that's not happening.
Even though, you know, of course, Massie and,
you know, they're trying to do it, but
it can't happen because the U.S. filed
a section 51 article, Article 51 of the
U.N. Charter saying that we were defending
because the Israelis struck.
And of course, we know the Israelis took
out 40 guys in one go.
And so we had to immediately defend ourselves.
In my opinion, this technical language that, and
I check this with Rob, the constitutional lawyer,
is like, wow, we got to find out
who's doing stuff over there.
Because he said this is one of the
smartest legal moves he's ever seen.
So that the president is not hampered by
Congress to get done whatever he wants to
get done.
And that is why Rubio was so specific
about it.
Because, of course, we knew the Israelis were
going to attack because that was the plan.
You attack and then we'll say, oh, they
were attacked.
So we've got to immediately counter strike because
they're coming for us.
And that's how they got away with not
having the War Powers Resolution enacted.
They may still try a little bit, but
the Senate already turned it down.
So that is why that happened.
But the way it's taken is just, it's
amazing.
Tonight, the White House pressed to clarify its
shifting explanations for why the U.S. went
to war with Iran.
24 hours ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio
said the administration believed Israel was going to
attack Iran first and was concerned Iran would
then retaliate against the U.S. There absolutely
was an imminent threat.
And the imminent threat was that we knew
that if Iran was attacked and we believed
they would be attacked, that they would immediately
come after us.
And we were not going to sit there
and absorb a blow before we responded.
Rubio's words setting off a firestorm.
I find it very disturbing that we are
committing this nation to war based upon a
decision by even though a staunch ally.
And I'm a supporter of Israel, but I
don't think anybody should drive our decision to
go to war.
But the interests of the United States.
Today, when I asked the president about it,
he contradicted Rubio.
Did Israel force your hand to launch these
strikes against Iran?
Did Netanyahu pull the United States into this
war?
No, I might have forced their hand.
You see, we were having negotiations with these
lunatics.
And it was my opinion that they were
going to attack first.
They were going to attack.
If we didn't do it, they were going
to attack first.
So if anything, I might have forced Israel's
hand.
Late tonight, Rubio was asked to explain what
he said 24 hours ago.
The president determined we were not going to
get hit first.
It's that simple, guys.
It comes amid growing concern from some of
the president's core supporters that he took the
United States to war after long promising he
would not.
This is what he said during the 2024
campaign.
She said, look at him, listen to him.
He's going to start a war.
Listen to his rhetoric.
He's going to start a war.
I said, no, no, no.
My rhetoric is going to keep us out
of wars.
So that I believe him.
I think that's what happened.
It's like we set it up.
We needed to have the cover so that
Congress couldn't stop this because he has to
do whatever he wants to do.
And Rubio is the fall guy for it.
Who's getting bombed currently?
I'm sorry.
You know, let's look at who's actually suffering
from all this.
You know, we've got bombs going on.
We've got, you know, the IRGC sending bombs
into, you know, Kuwait and into, you know,
Qatar and into Saudi Arabia and into Israel.
And I think they've had a few go
off in Iraq, you know, places they're just,
they're not even guided.
I think they're just, they're not, they're no
targets.
They're just hitting whatever they hit.
So, but meanwhile, when everyone says, oh, what
if we get attacked?
They can't, their bombs can't get to us
unless they had a nuke.
And if that's what the step of this
timeline was, you know, I don't think the
American people would be told, hey, guess what?
Iran has a nuke and we have verifiable
information that they do have.
They've created one that can get to us.
That would make me say, yeah, go bomb
them.
Well, I've been hearing the nuke next week
for, you know, at least seven years, eight
years.
I mean, that's been an ongoing thing.
Maybe, maybe not.
But they're pain in the butt and China
and the oil and no, it had to
stop.
I have a real hard time with Tucker
being called a right wing influencer because I
think a better right wing influencer would be
Osman Gold.
Oh boy.
Your boy, Osman Gold.
Yes.
I love Osman Gold only because he has
some of the best videos I've ever seen.
And he's, he's, and he's just completely unvarnished.
And, you know, and yeah, we have a
lot of.
See, I see it from a different perspective.
I'm on the bottom.
I see everything from a very hyper local
thing.
And what I'm seeing is that's going on
are all of the money that's coming from
through ways that you can't imagine, such as
and let me back up.
So I know you're familiar.
This will sound completely off topic, but I'll
get to the point.
So I know you're familiar with the Chilean
sea bass.
You know, it's everywhere.
It's in restaurants.
I've seen it.
Yeah.
I don't know anything about it.
Well, it was renamed.
It was renamed for marketing purposes.
Oh, like chicken Kiev became chicken Kiev.
Well, more like it's originally known as its
real name is Panagonian toothfish.
And it is not in the bass family.
It was renamed so people would buy it.
The biggest snow job in this country are
nonprofits.
Because, oh, God, it sounds so nice.
I'm in these little ways, you know, they're
going to volunteer and they're going to do
good things.
No, nonprofits take government, especially NGOs, take government
money, local government from our city level to
our county level, to our state level, to
our federal level.
They get money in them.
They immediately set up a couple of other
nonprofits that have similar names.
And that money goes to lobbyists.
It goes to political campaigns.
Sure.
It goes.
So there's all this money.
And it also goes to podcasts, podcasters, not
the ones you want.
Not here.
And so what we're seeing is that we're
being influenced.
We are eating propaganda every bite.
I mean, everything that we have is flavored
with this propaganda, which is why people who
are doing impartial news content are saying, oh,
well, he's a right wing influencer.
Oh, well, you know, you know, he's he's
MAGA.
And I know what the president's thinking.
This is all stuff that should make you
just your ears turn off.
And for you to look and find, let's
find some other versions of the world, because
I think it's far more sinister.
I mean, the fact that people the fact
that we had a, you know, Southwest flight,
you know, two oh nine four yesterday, that
whole incident on there.
I don't know anything about it.
Ah, I have a clip.
Oh, oh, she's got a clip.
All right.
OK, so play it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's it's called hands up, heads, hands down,
heads up, hands down, whatever.
You'll see heads up, hands down.
Hands up, heads down, heads up, heads down,
heads up, heads down, heads up, heads
down.
All right.
What was that?
That was a Southwest flight that was going
from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale for spring break.
And the SWAT team got called and that
was the SWAT team coming down the aisle.
There's a ton of videos of people.
And it's funny because people can't quite get
it right, whether it's hands up or heads
down or heads down, hands up.
So they're yelling this.
There's four guys that come on in full
tactical gear with guns and everything yelling that.
And then if we go to the Southwest
flight two oh nine four, oopsie explains it.
In a statement, Southwest says it acted out
of an abundance of caution over what turned
out to be a misunderstanding of a customer's
behavior and that it apologizes for the misunderstanding
and delay.
A source with knowledge tells NBC News the
incident stemmed from a man who had set
a timer on his phone to pray for
Ramadan.
Surprised this hasn't happened in Texas yet.
80 minutes sitting on a plane while the
plane was swarmed and then they got took
everyone off and they searched all their baggage
and they did all this thing.
They pulled this guy off roughly.
And then he was like, what, what?
What the hell?
I like I like a source with knowledge.
I want to be a source with knowledge.
That's what I want.
Yes.
When did we hear this before?
Clock boy.
It's ramping up.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The fear, fear, fear, fear, fear time here
in Texas.
Big time.
You know, it's like I haven't looked it
up, but Tina mentioned, hey, you know, there's
schools now in Texas who are putting in
halal kitchens.
I don't know if it's true.
I have an issue with that in general
for any type of special food.
But it is ramped up.
So it is real.
And I know where it's coming from.
It's coming from that cold General Flynn Defense
Intelligence Agency corner.
And the whole idea is vote Republican.
We will save you from evil Islam.
Now, there are definitely pockets of problems as
there are everywhere.
But you constantly hear, you know, Plano and
Dearborn, Michigan.
Yeah.
And then, of course, we have Mondami.
You know, he's a communist Muslim.
You know, we're not Europe.
That took 25 years of open borders for
that thing to really then, you know, now
it's like, hey, well, Islam kills people.
They rape women.
Now, that's not jobs.
It's not jobs.
Right.
It is.
And that's just it.
You know, it's like, don't what we're doing
is we're ascribing to one extremist group.
For a whole population, it's like saying, you
know, you know, there's some nutty Christians.
Who are you talking about?
Fredericksburg, baby, that's where we are.
The Jesus freaks.
That's here.
You know, it's like we aren't keeping we
used to be more.
Educated into knowing that, OK, you know, we're
talking about some extremist groups now, extremist groups
can cause a lot of problems.
I'm seeing little things popping up on the
small things that I watch.
I watch a lot.
I read a lot of Substack.
I watch a lot of YouTube stuff.
One of my favorites was Tyler Olivera, who
I just I just like his long form
documentaries.
He does.
And actually, I have a clip of him
of what just happened now to him that
is trying to inflame people.
And it's trying to say, yeah, it's the
whole thing about, you know, he's got a
good following.
It's been this thing has been rebroadcast everywhere.
It is another one of that.
It's a media propaganda push because it makes
no sense otherwise.
And I'm seeing lots of this happening everywhere.
And it's really starting to alarm me.
So, yeah, let's play Tyler Olivera.
Less than 24 hours.
That's how long it took for Patreon to
delete my account after I uploaded a video
titled I exposed the New Jersey's Jewish invasion.
No warning, no first strike, no option to
take anything down.
Patreon account gone, deleted overnight.
Over the last few years, I've made videos
about every group of people you can imagine.
Somalis in Minneapolis.
Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.
Corrupt Christian megachurches.
Pakistani Muslim gangs in England.
Incest families in Appalachia.
Indians throwing cow poop at each other.
Drug addicts, pimps, prostitutes, and not a single
platform blinked.
But the moment I made a video about
a Hasidic Jewish community in upstate New York
that uses welfare to support families of up
to eight to ten kids, sponsors pulled out.
Old sponsors even called me demanding that I
cut out their sponsorship from videos that are
two years old.
And the ADL even has the audacity to
publish an article saying that my video harkens
back to age-old anti-Semitic stereotypes for
asking Hasidic Jews what they do for a
living and if they're on welfare.
How do they afford eight to ten kids?
Here's what I've learned.
When they can't call you a liar, they
attack your name.
When attacking your name doesn't work, they pressure
your sponsors.
When you don't need the sponsors because you
have the direct support of your viewers from
websites like Patreon, mysteriously, your Patreon gets deleted.
Yes.
You know, I'm seeing it from the top
down.
It is all about slanting people's view and
assuming that people aren't going to look other
places for their news.
So, you know, everything that's said in the
big mainstream media, I can't even, you know,
I don't watch TV.
You know, I watch everything else.
How can you be on this show if
you don't watch TV?
Media deconstruction, Mimi Dvorak.
What is up with that?
So my focus is hyperlocal.
I'm looking at, you know, I think the
only thing we can do, we have no
control over the feds.
We have no control over, you know, the
state government.
We do have control over our county and
city governments and we need to start fixing
that because they are just as crooked.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, that's for sure.
I just want to wrap up the Iran
stuff with giving John some props because he
literally said on the show before he he
he exited the stage for a moment.
He said the strategy here is to keep
killing guys who pop up until we get
one we like.
And it turns out to be true.
I think you probably want to speak about
war rather than this.
But this is very important.
This is very important.
And we're doing very well on on the
war front, to put it mildly, I would
say.
Somebody said on a scale of 10, where
would you rate it?
I said about a 15.
And we're going to continue to do well.
We have the greatest military in the world
by far.
And that was a tremendous threat test for
many years.
47 years have been killing our people and
killing people from all over the world.
And I think we have great support.
And I think if we didn't do it
first, they would have done it to Israel
and give us a shot if that was
possible.
And if we didn't terminate the worst deal,
one of the worst deals ever made, the
Obama nuclear deal, I call it the Obama
nuclear deal, where he gave everything to Iran.
So we're in a very strong position now.
And their leadership is just rapidly going.
Everybody that seems to want to be a
leader, they end up dead.
And it's an amazing, amazing thing that's taking
place before.
So so, yeah, everyone who wants to be
a leader winds up dead.
And then he's asked, well, who do you
who is your choice?
He's actually I think he said, close consultation
with me.
Otherwise, it doesn't happen.
And then here's what he said.
I think this was when he was the
German president.
Mr. President, what's the worst case scenario that
you have planned for in Iran?
Well, I don't know if there's a worst
case.
We have them very much beaten militarily from
the military standpoint.
They're still lobbing some missiles.
At some point, they won't even be able
to do that.
I guess the worst case would be we
do this and then somebody takes over who's
as bad as the previous person.
Right.
That could happen.
We don't want that to happen.
That would probably be the worst.
You go through this and then in five
years, you realize you put somebody in who
is no better.
So we'd like to see somebody in there
that's going to bring it back for the
people.
Do you have someone in mind right now?
Because you said all the people you did
have in mind have been taken out.
Well, most of the people we had in
mind are dead.
So we had some in mind from that
group that is dead.
Back to Scaramucci.
Yeah, he's pissed at the Israelis.
Stop killing guys who might be the guy.
And now we have.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's funny that the way
they've been killing them is by bombing them
because these guys, because of the whole pager
thing that went off a few years ago,
they're afraid to use their phones and they're
afraid to have pagers and they're afraid to
they have to meet in person.
So they meet in person and then kaboom.
Another group, they may be dead also based
on reports.
So I guess you have a third wave
coming in.
Pretty sure we're not going to know anybody.
President.
Is he an option at all in your
mind?
I guess he is.
Some people like him.
And we haven't been thinking about too much
about that.
It would seem to me that somebody from
within might maybe would be more appropriate.
I've said that he looks like a very
nice person.
But it would seem to me that somebody
that's there, that's currently popular, if there's such
a person.
But we have people like that.
We have people that were more moderate.
You know, these were radical lunatics.
And you know what they get?
They get nothing.
All they do is kill people.
So the name he mentions there is the
son of the of the Ayatollah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's not.
No, it's not Resi.
No, he does.
He doesn't like him at all.
Listen to this report from France 24.
Well, there's no name being given as of
yet, but sources within the regime itself, which
were divulged to one of France 24's Tehran
correspondents earlier said it, the man will be
the man cited by Satan and in the
parlance of the Islamic regime that Satan is
the United States and in this specific instance
is Donald Trump and Donald Trump did indeed
mention Mujtaba Khamenei, who is the son of
the late Supreme Leader as the successor.
Now this name has been brooded about quite
a bit over the last few days.
The younger Khamenei who's 56 years old was
not killed in last week's attack that killed
his father and also his wife.
Now Israel as recently as yesterday said it
believed he is still alive.
Khamenei is someone who's got quite a lot
of support within the Revolutionary Guards of which
he is a member himself.
He had actually been suggested as a possible
successor before his father's death and apparently Ali
Khamenei was actually opposed to the son's candidacy
because he did not want to return to
a hereditary rule which he feared might actually
further erode the credibility of the mullahs in
the eyes of the Iranian people.
So you go look at this guy and
so he's in the IRCG, he's more moderate,
his dad didn't want him for reasons of
hereditary, okay.
But there's some other details that came out.
An interesting thing though is that last week
on the very day that the war started,
Bloomberg carried an investigation that alleged that Mujtaba
Khamenei had a wide range of luxury property
holdings across various European countries including Spain, Germany
and the United Kingdom.
Now he's not named as the owner of
any of these but Bloomberg established that he
was indeed basically the shadowy hand behind it.
The person who is listed as the owner
is Ali Ansari who's an Iranian businessman who's
a property magnate and who was sanctioned last
October by the United Kingdom, has not yet
been sanctioned by either the United States or
the European Union.
So he could be the guy, he's in
the IRCG, he could maybe control them, he's
not a mullah and Trump likes him.
He's been cited by Satan.
Yeah, but if you listen to all of
the Iranians that are all, you know, Iranian
-Americans Iranian in the UK, they're not keen
on any Khamenei at all.
They're keen on having the, you know, the
Shah's son to come back in as a
figurehead until they can have a normal election
and create a...
The so-called crown prince as they call
him.
Yeah, you know, he's a nice enough guy.
I think he has a good...
He's obviously a spook.
He's obviously working for either us or the
Brits or both.
Yes, but at the same time, that's what
people in Iran have been chanting nonstop now
at all of the protests.
Well...
They're looking for him to come back.
Is it possible that these are protests like
the ones we see in America?
No, they seem more organic because they didn't
have internet when they were still protesting.
So there's that.
Here's PBS NewsHour on Reza Pahlavi.
President Trump met with the German chancellor today
at the White House.
We saw him take questions from reporters.
One of the questions he got was who
could lead Iran next?
What did he say?
This was the first time we've heard the
president take questions from the press on camera
since this strike was launched over the weekend.
And now that the Supreme Leader has been
killed, there's a question of who's going to
lead the country.
He was specifically asked today in that Oval
Office meeting about whether or not the crowned
prince, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince, the
son of the former Shah of Iran, could
lead the country.
Here's what he said.
It would seem to me that somebody from
within might maybe would be more appropriate, I've
said that.
He looks like a very nice person.
But it would seem to me that somebody
that's there, that's currently popular if there's such
a person, but we have people like that.
But the president has also said that many
of the other options that the administration was
looking towards as potential successors in Iran have
also been killed now.
We heard yesterday from the Secretary of War,
Pete Hague, said that this is not a
regime change war.
So still questions about who succeeds there in
Iran.
So I think I kind of go back
to Scaramucci.
Trump wants somebody who can actually get something
done and who we could not bribe, but
who we can threaten.
Like, I will kill you if you don't
do what I say and who we will
kill.
And I don't think he wants to kill
Pahlavi.
He's like, I don't want to kill that
guy.
And Trump does not like him because he
said, don't come to Mar-a-Lago.
I'm not going to meet with you.
I have no time for you.
You seem like a nice guy.
Trump does not like him for whatever reason.
Well, I think, no, he can't just step
right in.
He doesn't know what's going on.
I mean, if you remember, the Shah of
Iran had his secret police known as the
Savat.
And the Savat were really interesting to see.
They weren't that secret.
You saw them everywhere.
And they were all exactly six feet tall.
And they all wore those little flat top,
you know, police caps and these uniforms.
And they all had, you know, Fu Manchu
mustaches.
And they all looked identical.
And they were, you know, frightening people.
I mean, they were, everybody would whisper about
them, you know, don't get on the wrong
side of them, because they were the secret
police who would haul you out of your
home or they put you under house arrest.
The Ayatollah Khomeini was originally under house arrest
for many years.
And matter of fact, the head of the
Savat would have dinner with him all the
time.
He was friends with Ayatollah Khomeini.
So when Ayatollah Khomeini went into power, he
was the first person shot.
But the entire Savat was then became the
IRGC's arm, and it got much bigger.
Now the Savat was UK and CIA trained.
And yeah, you need to know who the
keys are there, you know, because they still
exist.
So you need to, and you know, unfortunately,
you know, a military like that, it's like
whoever's the general sure will work for them.
So that's something that the Crown Prince would
have no knowledge of.
So it's going to have to be, they
need someone for the people and then need
someone who knows all the working mechanics, who's
willing to change size or to save a
skin.
That's the way I look at it.
I mean, it's like, and who really runs
any country?
You know, it's never the figurehead.
What?
It's all...
President Trump's responsible for everything.
Everything going wrong is his fault.
It's him.
He's doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So how'd the country run when we had
Biden?
Jake, Jake Sullivan and all those people were
running there with the auto pen.
We all know how it went.
Exactly.
Right.
So it's like, yeah, okay.
You're making a horrible point.
I don't want to think about it that
way.
Horrible, horrible, horrible point.
Well, I mean, there's more than we are
privileged to know because we are just the
peons who just provide money for them.
I have a good view of the world.
Oh, by the way, and I'm saying by
the way too much, I do want to
play this because this is your neck of
the woods.
This popped up on my radar.
I was like, oh, wow.
Hold on.
I don't know if I find this clip.
Here we go.
So this is Washington state.
Very similar to Texas.
No income tax, but wait.
Oh, this crazy tax has got to go.
Demonstrators dig in for the final days before
a state income tax likely gets passed into
law.
We have many counties from Washington state that
are here saying this is not what we
want.
There's other directions we can go.
The so-called millionaires tax would collect 9
.9% of annual earnings above a million
dollars.
So some Republicans are certain the income threshold
will be adjusted to apply to everyone, not
just the wealthiest.
They have no intention of keeping it at
a million dollars.
Passage in the democratic controlled legislature seems imminent
and the governor says he will sign it.
So opponents are scrambling to introduce some 11th
hour amendments.
So we still have the opportunity to try
to amend it and it would be skinning
it down, shrink its reach.
Representative Jim Walsh says Republicans also want to
give the public a chance to weigh in.
Another key reform we'd like to get on
as an amendment is allow the people to
vote on the matter.
If it does pass, a court fight is
likely over the constitutionality of a tax that
doesn't apply evenly to everyone.
We're here to make it very loud and
clear that the people don't want this tax.
We've said so 11 times in the last
hundred years.
Despite the opposition, Democrats say the measure helps
balance the state's regressive tax system while offering
more targeted relief for working families.
So we go now to our source with
knowledge of the situation, Mimi Smith-Dvorak, who
lives in the state and I'm sure has
some hyper-local information about this.
Well, first, our Washington state constitution bans income
tax.
So what they've done now is they've backed
off and said, well, we won't even take
this up until the next legislative year in
2027.
So they're putting it off.
Now, the biggest promoter of this is this
lobby group known as the Washington Association of
Cities, which every city, every town, I'm in
a podunk town, they all give tons of
money to this and everybody belongs to it,
are pushing for it.
So we'll see what happens.
And as far as voting, we're all mail
-in voting.
And there's a bunch of nonsense with that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Where's Tulsi?
When are we going to figure out all
this fraud with mail-in voting?
We need to figure that out.
So if you want some, some more alarming
Washington news, I've got news you won't get
anywhere else.
Okay.
So it says, uh, Washington News Biggs.
Okay.
Our Southern resident orcas only eat fish.
That's one of the reasons why there's so
few of them.
Their diet is not very diverse.
They eat the salmon that is dwindling off
of our coast.
A couple of researchers found some Southern resident
orca dorsal fins that had been eaten and
torn off the animals in Russia.
And they believe that Biggs orcas or non
-resident orcas are now hunting and eating, potentially,
our Southern resident orcas, which is amazing because
it is thought that the Southern resident orcas
don't have any natural predators.
Wait a minute.
So Russian orcas are eating our orcas and
we're eating them?
Exactly.
We aren't eating them.
I know, I know people who won't eat
tuna fish because they say, no, no, dolphins
get mixed up in it.
We can't have that.
Dolphins.
Well, maybe in this case.
I mean, it's like, you know, who's covering
the orca war, right?
The orca war.
I'll write that one down.
Hey, how about we thank some people because
we have an incredible list.
As we said, anyone who has a note
for John, we will read that note.
And we had the, we had the give
John a reason to live donation.
And holy mackerel.
I mean, people have just come out in
droves.
It's so beautiful.
I'm not going to do a big, you
know, who put the C in whatever, in
orca.
But I will take a look at the
trolls and see how many trolls he had.
1841.
There you go.
We're getting back up there.
Mimi, you're a, you're a fan favorite, drawn
people in beautiful, beautiful.
Well, I'm not John, but I'll do my
best.
You're doing a great job.
And so we are value for value on
on no agenda, which means whenever you feel
that you got value out of the show,
and I think Mimi actually brought quite a
lot of value today, and she'll be bringing
some more value in if you'll come back.
Oh, no, absolutely.
You're stuck with me until John's back.
You can do that with time, talent and
treasure.
And one of the ways that you can
use your time and talent is by organizing
meetups.
And we do have some great meetups report
that Darren and and Eli the coffee guy
had their meetup in in Chicago, but you
can also make art for us.
And so we want to thank MVP, who
did the artwork for episode 1848, we titled
that one podcaster down.
Everybody knows what that means when the podcaster
is down.
And this was a I mean, it was
borderline grotesque.
The picture of the heart, it was didn't
look like a very healthy heart to me.
And the title was breaking J.C.D.
has a heart.
So we appreciated that and MVP that was
that was well done.
And of course, the treasure we're going to
go.
Do you have the list in front of
you?
I mean, I can just do it.
I do.
No, I have I do have the list
in front of me, but OK, so we'll
we'll we'll do we'll do it like we
always do.
I'll start it off with Dreb Scott, Archduke
of the Cloud Chapters.
Now he sent this in for last Thursday
show and it was his birthday, March 4th.
He says the only day that gives a
command March 4th was my birthday.
Please add me to the birthday list.
So he's added belated today.
Thank you for the best comedy podcast in
the universe.
Thank you for continuing to provide thoughtful commentary
on the news.
Your hard work is appreciated by many.
Please accept my Bitcoin donation.
He sent in one thousand two hundred and
thirty four dollars and fifty six cents in
the Bitcoin.
Your hard work is appreciate my Bitcoin donation
via strike in an amount that equals one,
two, three, four, five, six.
No jingles, no karma.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
And we thank you, Dreb Scott, that now
you take over.
Oh, me?
Yeah, that's how it works.
OK.
You just just read him.
You just Alex Alexander Gelman.
Wait, hold on a second.
Where do you get Alex?
Yes, I'm sorry.
You got it.
You got it.
You're on.
OK.
Sorry.
Thousand dollars.
He's from Kotoku, Tokyo.
And there's no note.
We won't do all the double up karmas
because there's a lot of no notes today.
So I'll do these three in a row
because they all came in with eight hundred
and eighty eight dollars and eighty eight cents.
Eight is John's favorite number.
Mimi and John share eights.
You were married on eight, eight, eighty eight,
I believe, at eight oh eight at eight
oh eight.
Of course, Alex from Alex Vander Hanks, I'll
do it in English, Cedar Hill, Tennessee, Brandon
Mango in Hannaverton, Ohio, and Alicia Julian.
Oh, that's part of the Julian clan, Sir
Julian and Alicia.
Thank you, Alicia.
And she's in Virginia now.
They've gone back to their old spook land,
I guess.
Eight, eight, eight, eighty eight.
Thank you so much.
OK, so I get I get to read
the long one, thanks, Sir.
Sir Paul and Dame Heidi Schreiber from Queen
Creek, Arizona, eight hundred and eighty eight and
eighty eight cents, listener of No Agenda and
DHN Unplugged since the beginning.
To say John's absence left a void in
all our lives this week is a drastic
understatement.
Wishing J.C.D. a speedy recovery and
sending prayers and all the love in the
world to John, Mimi and their family, as
well as Adam and the Keeper.
We love you all.
Oh, very nice.
Dame Catherine, the Crypto Granny of Bangkok, comes
in with eight, eight, eight, eighty eight.
And of course, she did that with Bitcoin.
John may have found the perfect way to
get a slew of donations.
I know this will bring him a smile
and we'll know how much and he will
know how much we all love him.
Get well soon, John.
Dame Catherine, Crypto Granny, Granny of Bangkok.
Now, we got to do something about the
dog on the show, Mimi, Mimi.
Yeah, I know.
I was trying to figure out what to
do.
Why don't you go ahead, Muzzle?
No, I'm going to move him.
I'm going to move him to a different
room.
Why don't you go?
I will.
I will go ahead.
You get to read the next few.
Yes.
Baron Husky Bottoms.
No problem.
Baron Husky Bottoms.
He's in Franklin, Tennessee.
Sheriff of Liper's Fork.
I thought 828 somehow made visual sense to
me as I thought of a double bypass
and had had John's favorite number in it
as well.
So I'm suggesting this is a double bypass
donation.
I think of no agenda similar to any
other long-term relationship that one would have.
You have ups and downs.
You get annoyed.
You take a break.
But ultimately, there's a value and impact on
your life that makes you pursue the relationship.
I believe I started in the 300s somewhere,
and it hasn't always been easy.
At one point, I was so enamored listening
to you guys, everything you guys said, adopted
your every idea.
Not good.
Further down the road, I decided that Adam
was a plant by aliens, and John was
simply entertaining him because it was decent money,
and he didn't have to leave the house.
Oh, that might be true.
But with longevity, you realize there's value above
and beyond the surface interaction of navigating any
relationship.
I may not listen as religiously as I
once did, and I certainly don't agree as
much as I used to, but Adam and
John have added to my life experience even
though we've never met.
I'm sure Adam has introed Cinderella's classic, don't
know what you've got till it's gone.
I sure have, many times.
And hearing of JCD's excitement brought some perspective
that we don't ever know when the trains
are going to stop.
I figured now is a great time to
say thank you for the contributions of thought,
humor, and perspective that you've provided me over
the years, wishing a speedy recovery from John,
and hope that this small donation would cover
at least two hospital-proportioned aspirin.
Baron Husky Bottom, Sheriff of Lifer's Fork.
Are you back?
I'm back.
The dog is now in a hermetically sealed
room.
Nice.
In the quiet room, yes.
Well, there were about 10 deer in the
yard.
Oh, yeah.
I understand the problem.
It's just that it distracts from your lovely
voice.
Ah, okay.
So, where are we?
Zarendensel, Port Townsend, your backyard.
Yay!
It is.
Did you read it?
Nope.
Want me to read it?
Yep.
Oh, well, that's Zarendensel, Port Townsend, Washington, 777
.77. Since I was hit in the mouth,
I got used to counting on no agenda
twice a week.
Wanted to send my best wishes for a
quick recovery.
Get well soon, John, and thank you and
Adam for all that you both do.
Jongle for John.
Whatever you choose.
No, we have no jongles, only jingles.
Zander, Wallachia, Newton, Pennsylvania, 587.71. Hi, John.
Get well soon.
We need you for at least 40 more
years.
Yes.
Just now topped off my contribution to become
a knight.
I can't wait.
Yes.
All knightings.
We'll do the title changes, but all knightings
will be done when John's back, so it's
official, so you don't feel like you got
gypped somehow.
And Jay is keeping track of all those.
So, the next one is SirInfinitus, I think.
Yep.
526.36. John, it took a ticker event
to trump the sad puppy face.
That's what he said.
It was a donation play.
Ha ha.
No, serious.
Happy to donate.
Please absolve me from being a douchebag.
It's been a while since my last confession.
I mean, donation.
I think this puts me either at baronet
or baron status.
Just let me know and I'll change my
title if required.
Pray you get well soon.
You got this.
We love you.
We love you.
Make sure you're nice to the nurses or
they will yank on your Foley catheter.
Signed SirInfinitus, the greatest veteran-owned medical device
company in the US.
Gene Harris, Winter Park, Florida.
$500.
I'll do the next one since that was
an empty one.
SirZog of Elwood is back with $500.
He just got back from the Chicago area
meetup organized by Eli the Coffee Guy and
Darren O'Neill.
Solid guys indeed, and it was a great
get-together.
It's amazing how quickly No Agenda folks bond.
John, no exit strategies.
We need and appreciate you too much, brother.
JCD, we're pulling for you.
I'm going to ask for an F cancer
shout-out for Melissa, wife of Sir Brian
of the Green Hams.
Melissa and Brian, we're pulling for both of
you as well as here at the Zog
compound.
JCD, get that ticker rewired and get back
into it.
I might be behind.
A title adjustment in regards to donations, but
that can be dealt with at a later
date.
So I'm almost like, where is he?
Chris, SirZog of Elwood, baron of the Des
Plaines River Valley, father of Sir Azog and
son of SirZog of Elwood.
And of course, we have that F cancer
for you.
Here we go.
You've got karma.
Oh, no note.
Perfect.
David Arulanis, Escondido, California, $388.88. SLC,
SLC, SLC, even did a pronunciation guide for
me.
SLC with $360.59. This is a Bitcoin
donation.
Adam, this started out as a hate listen
after something bad you said about Linux audio
on Joe Rogan.
Good.
Especially now that we're all completely Linux.
It also was a bit of a guilty
pleasure due to your mouth.
What?
My mouth?
I'm not sure what that means.
Now, full circle, your spirit and your kernel
are saved.
John, the maker of all things, is waiting
for you.
Draw near to him.
His name is Jesus.
Over two years ago, a Honda in front
of me had a license plate, JCD3333, and
I'm still a douche.
One heart attack, and I'm executive producing the
next show.
Well played, sir.
Thank you for your courage.
Four more years.
And I will give SLC a de-douching
action.
You've been de-douched.
Oh, and they wanted to...
We do have that.
We have the prayer karma.
Let me see.
Hold on a second.
I didn't have time to prep the whole
spreadsheet.
Here we go.
You've got prayers.
Alrighty then.
And a goat scream.
He wanted an F-35 goat scream.
My favorite.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Hold on a second.
F-35 goat scream.
Where is...
Here we go.
You've got...
You've got karma.
There we go.
You got it.
Okay.
So I've got David...
Burn?
Yeah.
That's Burn.
Okay.
Staten Island, New York.
I don't have my glasses on.
Staten Island, New York, $345.75. $343.75
from Commodore G as well from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Get well soon, JCD, from Commodore G.
And Jacob Schultz, Strasburg, Illinois, $333.88. Yes.
We see your age.
Earl Christopher in Marshfield, Wisconsin, $333.33. Thanks,
John Adam.
Wishing a happy 55th birthday to my beautiful
wife, Diane, on March 3rd.
With this donation, I will upgrade from Earl
Christopher to Duke Christopher.
Accounting attached.
Yes.
Your title will be recognized today.
Trevor Gregory, Irvine, California, $333.33. Yeah.
One of my least favorite donations, only because
I always get lost when I'm putting it
on the deposit slip.
I love the $333s.
In fact, we got a few in a
row...
I know.
...that did not have a note, so I'll
run through those.
Morgan Medlock in Tacoma, Washington.
Kevin Dills, Huntersville, North Carolina.
Sir Aradidarian, Tobuco Canyon, California.
And Robert Rock, Eagle River, Arkansas.
And then we have Noonie, Noonie on eBay,
from Austin, Texas, $333.33. Dearest John C.
Buzzkill, I do believe we'll be back to
work sooner than you will like.
Wishing you a quick, smooth recovery with zero
drama.
All the best from the best vintage gold
jewelry seller in the universe, Noonie, that's N
-O-O-N-I, on eBay.
Jonathan Ferris, Liberal, Kansas, $333.33. Jason Lewis
from Macon, Georgia, $333.
He says, get well soon, but can't wait
to hear the funny anecdotes and read the
book on double bypass tips after you finish
the vinegar book.
Yeah, good luck.
Love you since Tech TV, so broken up
by this, I forgot to say that my
$333 donation made me a knight.
Sir J.
Lou of Macon, Town of the Dead Bugs.
He will be knighted when John is back.
John, praying continually for you, your family, and
your doctors.
May they perform the procedure skillfully.
May you, your family, and your friends know
peace and comfort through this time.
Adam, praying for you, too, that you would
be supported, patient, and nice to our favorite
buzzkill.
I predict record donations.
That should put a smile on John's face.
Love you guys.
Thank you very much, Jason.
Lois Liebel, Newark, Delaware, $333.
Jeff Hodge, Linfield, oh, this is Australia, New
South Wales, $321.
Thank you very much.
Sir Mike, 44, from Bethalto, Illinois, $314.
In the morning, thank you for your courage.
Happy anniversary, Mahadi Mob on Pi Day.
The tale is almost complete.
This is being sent early as JCD is
taking the exit strategy too literally.
I curse John with 99 years and a
day.
Jesus loves you and knows your heart.
Sir Mike, 44, JR, not BS.
Rob, oh, there he is.
Speak of him.
Rob, the constitutional lawyer, Spring Branch, Texas, $300
.88. He understands how it works.
Y'all, please accept my JCD PayPal donation
of $388.
Mimi, my family has personally seen the miracles
of modern heart surgery.
I promise you, everyone will be surprised at
how quickly John bounces back.
It's insane.
John, we're all thinking of you and your
family here in Texas.
And just to illustrate JCD's manliness, please pay
the no sweat off my balls.
That's what I think.
I think I have the sweat off my
balls.
Yes.
Okay.
We have that one.
And what else does he want?
And wash your hands.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Wash your hands.
I don't know if I have that one
anywhere.
Wash.
Oh, yes.
No, I only have an end of show
mix.
I don't think we have that one as
a jingle.
Please credit this donation to my wife, the
beautiful Maggie Carty, who has robbed the constitutional
lawyer.
It's no sweat off my balls.
And wash your hands.
Yes.
And wash your hands.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Okay.
So the next two are both 300s.
It's Derek Winky from Clarkston, Michigan, and Edward
Husky from Oakland, California, my old hometown.
Sir Commodore Mark Bendikowski checks in from Warsaw
in Poland.
Get well, JCD.
I'm praying for you with $300.
And Scott Napier from Madison, Wisconsin, also $300.
Heal up, John.
Adam is clearly lost without you.
I am, but I feel kind of safe
with Mimi.
Oh, that's fun.
Sir Selah Houser, Melbourne, Florida, $300.
I feel the need to donate again as
I fell victim to the no agenda PayPal
cabal claiming to have lost my last note.
So I was compelled to send another donation.
Well played, y'all.
Jingles any collusion and answer the question.
Go.
Any collusion.
I think the other one is an Ask
Adam and I do have it somewhere.
Any collusion?
Ask Adam.
Ask Adam.
Will he know or will he won't?
I don't know, but here we go.
Ask Adam.
Ask Adam.
Answer the question.
Go.
Yeah, you go.
Sir Keith Fayetteville, Arkansas, $250.
Our first associate executive producer.
He says, get well, John.
Get well soon, John.
Sir Keith of Fayette, Nam.
And then there's Mark.
Blayefeld.
Blayefeld, Hadham, Connecticut, $250.
Get better soon, John.
The world needs you.
Brian Massey checks in with a Bitcoin 200.
Well, not a full Bitcoin.
$250.
He says, ITM message income from Brian Massey.
Praying for JCD.
Stephen Theron, Stony Point, Alberta, Canada, $233.85.
Brandon Baldwin, Mantis.
What is, how do you pronounce that?
Manteca.
Manteca, California, $233.33. Manteca means lard.
Lard?
As in like Crisco?
Yeah.
No, like lard.
Yes, lard.
Not Crisco.
Lard.
Gotcha.
AJ Northfield, Minnesota.
$222.69. Get back to work soon.
Four more years.
AJ.
AJ.
AJ.
Sorry.
Jill Price, McKinney, Texas, $222.28. In the
morning, John and Adam.
It's been a long time since I've sent
a noteworthy donation, but John, nearly dying to
get us to donate, kind of guilted me
into it.
Yes.
I believe I reached Damehood quite a while
ago, but couldn't find the time to do
the accounting.
Well, it's finally attached, and I would like
to be named Dame of the Fairweather Friends
as I sometimes fall off the listening wagon
when you or John don't say what I
want to hear.
Sorry, but we all have our faults.
My donation is not a row of ducks.
It's four twos to make eight, and then
another eight since eight is John's lucky number.
Please give all of my karma to John.
Get better.
Thank you both for all you do.
Other than Jesus, you are the only two
people I can listen to to keep me
sane.
By the way, Adam, I love you, but
please learn how to pronounce Coleyville, Texas, and
Valparaiso, Indiana.
I butchered it two in a row.
There's Jill Price from McKinney, Texas, and what
did she want again?
She wanted just the karma for John, so
we'll throw out a karma.
You've got karma.
So the next few are $222.22. It's
John Davis from Brentwood, Tennessee, and Gregory Lambert
of Overland Park, Kansas.
And we have Sir Gordon Walton.
Gosh, he must be a Duke by now.
He's in Austin, Texas.
His whole family has no agenda titles.
Row of ducks, $222.22. Associate executive producer
again for you.
Edward Knowles, Grain Valley, Missouri, $220.
And this is a switcheroo for his smoking
hot wife of 28 years who hit him
in the mouth a couple of years ago.
So since then, we've never had to talk
about, we've never had more to talk about,
and we haven't had a fight since.
Well, of course not.
The people who know agenda together stay together.
Thanks very much to you both.
Her birthday is March 27th.
If you could please add her to the
birthday list.
Make sure you email us again so we
get that on the birthday list.
It's not easy to keep track of it
that far in advance.
It would be much appreciated if you play
her favorite ISO.
I got, well, he's asking for two things
in a row.
I got ants and fisting nuts.
I can actually, we can actually do both
of those.
Let me see.
My favorite one is I've got ants too.
Yeah.
You don't like the fisting nuts?
It reminds me of my youth.
Just go for it, John.
Tell us, I'm not going to tease about
the fisting method of eating snacks on an
airplane.
I see this on the airplane and it's
very annoying and I think it will result
in fights breaking out.
Because it's just so annoying to watch.
Guy takes his bag of peanuts and throws
a pile of them into his palm of
his hand.
And then he makes a fist around the
nuts.
Around the nuts.
And then he shakes his fist to try
to bring a nut to the little hole.
To the little hole.
And then he throws a nut in his
mouth from his fist.
Then he does it again.
He shakes and throws and shakes and throws.
It is annoying as hell to watch.
There we go.
Ants and nuts.
Congratulations.
We are here to serve.
Yes, praying for a speedy recovery for John.
Heart emoji.
And then there's Sir C.
Pound sign.
Sharp.
Dot net.
Sir C sharp.
It's sharp.
Oh, okay.
I don't know.
It's a programming language.
Oh, that's over my head today.
It's 21060.
Get well soon, JCD.
I have passed the threshold for baronet.
May I please have my title change?
Thank you for your courage.
Sir C sharp of net.
Dot net.
Dot net.
Yes.
C sharp is the programming language.
Dot net is a horrible Microsoft product.
But don't don't email me.
La Jolla salt dot com from La Jolla,
California.
210 dollars and 60 cents.
Please read as from La Jolla salt dot
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The world is a better place with the
man who traded ties with Detective.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Jehovah.
Jehovah.
It's in it.
What?
Bring it home.
Buzzkill.
Buzzkill.
You're on our prayer chain today and we
back on the podcast soon to come.
Godspeed from La Jolla salt dot com.
Sir Don Wyndham, New Hampshire.
Two hundred and eight.
Eighty eight.
Get better, John.
Don Viscount of the New Hampshire and a
graph in Granville, Ohio.
Two hundred and eight dollars and thirty three
cents.
No note.
I'll take the next one.
Lucas from Vienna in Austria.
Here we go.
John, I just heard the news and made
an instant donation.
Two hundred and one dollars living in Austria.
I always feel bad for people in the
States who have to deal with high medical
bills.
Since this is my first time donating, I'd
like to dedicate this contribution to your upcoming
medical expenses.
I wish you all the best and hope
you're back on your feet and behind the
microphone as soon as possible.
I really hope your recovery goes smoothly so
you can enjoy some of your good wine
again soon.
If you have a favorite Austrian wine, let
me know.
I'll mail it to you.
I enjoy your stoic perspective on the world
and I love how you can turn Adams,
how you can turn Adam furious with just
a few words.
Even though you're purely American way of viewing
things irritates me sometimes.
I don't want to miss listening to you
for another 200 episodes.
All the best.
Lucas from Vienna.
P.S. I wish for the China asshole
clip.
I have that one.
How does that work when I do the
China's asshole?
Here we go.
China is asshole.
How does that work?
John has Medicare.
I'm praying.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
He's got Medicare.
So is this all taken care of?
Nope.
Nope.
Resounding nope from Mimi who clearly does the
finances in the family.
Yeah.
It'll be about 60% that they pay
and we get to pay the balance.
So it's fun.
So how do I turn you furious with
a few words?
I'll have to work on that.
You know, you got it.
John has it figured out.
It used to be much easier.
Now I have Jesus.
So it's it's it's much harder to get
me mad.
OK, I'll work on it.
OK, please do.
Michael Turek, Post Falls, Idaho.
Two hundred and eighty eight cents.
Sir Dixbert, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Two hundred dollars and eight cents.
First, prayers for a speedy and full recovery.
J.C.D. has at least four more
years of no agenda, if not longer.
We hope so.
Second, I request a title change from Baronet
Sir Dixbert Satchim of dude's name Ben to
Sir Dixbert Baronet of the blank stare.
I've been out of it for 18 months
and I'm not going back ever.
Thanks, Sir.
Dixbert.
And you're on the list for the title
change.
Matthew Gebhardt, Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Two hundred dollars and one cent.
And we have big ones.
A cent is always good.
Wes Spears in the Woodlands, Texas.
That's Houston.
Two hundred dollars.
I.T. M.
John and Adam.
I'm helping a friend with a business idea.
He needs some collateral to approach investors.
I reached out to Linda Lou Patkin at
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We ended finding that a different approach to
the develop to the developing this information and
its structure is needed.
But she took time to review the material
and provide valuable feedback to get this point.
That was of meaning.
That was of meaningful.
That was meaningful, I guess.
And I wanted to provide some value back.
This donation should be credited to Linda Lou.
Big thanks.
Four more years.
Wes.
Oh, that's very nice.
Adrian Fabian.
Linwood, Washington.
Two hundred dollars.
And you get you definitely get this next
one.
Sorry.
Where am I?
Linda Lou Patkin.
Oh, thank you.
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Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
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Karma.
OK, so two are coming in at two
hundred dollars.
It's Stephen O'Connell, Las Vegas, Nevada, and
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And Commodore Surface Tension, Knight of the Retail
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Two more at two hundred.
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Two hundred dollars.
Our last for the executive and associate executive
producer segment.
Please accept this donation to help with JCD's
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We wish him a rapid recovery.
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Karma for John.
You've got Karma.
Wow.
Really nice.
All of these supporters of episode 1849 will
be, of course, credited.
Along with that, the executive and associate executive
producerships are real titles.
They work in Hollywood.
You know, I got a call from our
Hollywood bigwig from from Dana Brunetti.
Well, he never calls me.
He actually he he said, please give my
number to to Mimi because we're only what
are they like an hour and a half
away.
From me?
Oh, no, not from you.
No, they're much further away from you.
They're about 15 hours away.
But OK.
He said, please give my number.
We'll be down there.
Anything you need.
We're happy to help out.
He actually thought that because he had called
John and John hadn't called him back and
he thought that John was mad because he
had talked with me.
I'm like, yeah, that's that sounds like John.
Oh, no, that's absolutely it.
That's why John had the heart attack.
Yeah.
He was talking to curry.
We can't have that.
So be like Dana Brunetti and be an
associate executive producer.
Two hundred dollars or more and an executive
producer.
Three hundred dollars or above.
And of course, we always read your note
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Thank you all so much for the support
for John.
Thank you for the prayers.
Thank you for the love.
We thank and the rest of our supporters,
which are quite a list.
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Our formula is this.
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All right, Mimi Dealer's Choice, what else you
got in the hopper?
Well, I have a James Carville, which I
just found amusing and I thought you might
too.
Here we go.
But she started attacking white males and I'm
going to say, wait a minute, let's stop
our in nineteen in twenty, twenty four.
72 percent of the people that voted were
white, right?
That's just a fact.
Of that 72, probably 48 percent, or 48
and a half, were male.
So, it's somewhere around, I did the math
on the thing, about 33 percent of the
people that are going to vote are going
to be white males.
Well, it's stupid to attack 33 percent of
the voters.
He's talking about Ilhan Omar, but I just
thought, how'd you get 33 percent?
I couldn't do his math.
No, it's Carville.
But this happened in Texas, where Jasmine Crockett
was running for Senate, and she was running
against the heretic, I'll call him, James Tolerico,
who reads the Bible and says, yeah, you
know, the Bible says it's okay to abort
children.
Yeah, you know, it's okay.
And the reason is because she's a racist,
and she's like, you know, white people are
no good.
Well, guess what, Texas?
We're not voting for you.
It's the stupidest thing.
It's the same thing with Ilhan Omar.
Well, yeah, no, absolutely.
She annoys me to no end.
The one thing I saw this week that
just made me laugh is Steve Daines, who's
the politician from Montana.
He decided not to run again, even though
he's been representative since 2015.
And out of the blue, this old myth
video from 2021 showed up, and it's all
about local shopping.
A few years ago in Montana, meth was
homemade.
It was homegrown, and it had purity levels
less than 30%.
Today, the meth that is getting into Montana
is Mexican cartel.
It's no good.
You need homegrown meth, people.
Wow.
Shop local.
That's good.
That's good.
Which reminded me of the Gnome commercial.
I don't know if you watched it.
Oh, oh, yeah.
Well, you know what?
Before we do it, let me play the
lead into that, because this supposedly is the
reason why Trump fired her, and this is
from NBC.
So this news, I think you can say,
is stunning, but it's not surprising.
We know the president has grown increasingly frustrated
by Christy Gnome's performance as the Department of
Homeland Security secretary, most notably after a series
of events that took place over the course
of the last several days, where she was
testifying before Congress.
She had been asked a series of questions
specifically about the role she played in approving
contracts and notably won a $220 million ad
campaign that was used to encourage immigrants to
this country to self-deport.
The senator from Louisiana, John Kennedy, said on
that issue the president was, in his words,
quote, pissed.
During the course of the question, Gnome told
Kennedy that the president knew about her decision
to approve the ad campaign contracts.
You can imagine that did not sit well
with the White House, certainly with the president
as well.
And so that appears to have been the
tipping point in this moment.
There had previously been some frustration by the
president as it related to Gnome for her
handling of the operations, the immigration enforcement operations
that had taken place in Minnesota.
Yeah, well, I have actually the clip that
is Kennedy asking her the question in her
response.
OK, that's that's Gnome on her commercial.
OK, how do you square that concern for
waste, which I share with the fact that
you have spent $220 million running television advertisements
that feature you prominently?
Sir, the president tasked me with getting the
message out to the country and to other
countries where we were seeing the invasion come
from with with putting commercials out that told
them that if they were in this country
illegally, that they needed to leave or we
would detain them and remove them and they'd
not get the chance to come back to
America the right way.
Yes, so you have this commercial.
Yes, I do.
It says what it's WTF Gnome commercial.
Why do I love these wide open spaces?
They remind me of why our forefathers came
here, not just for its beauty, but for
the freedom only America provides.
I'm Kristi Gnome from the cowboys who tamed
the West to the titans who built our
cities to the dreamers who chased the impossible.
America has always rewarded vision and grit.
Our greatness calls people to us for a
chance to prosper, to live in the present
and to live how they choose to become
part of something special.
Anyone who searches for freedom can always find
a home here.
But that freedom is a precious thing.
And we defend it vigorously.
You cross the border illegally.
We'll find you break.
Our laws will punish you, harm American citizens.
There will be consequences.
But if you come here the right way,
your American dream can be as big as
these endless skies from President Trump and me.
Welcome home.
Yeah, I can tell you what's going on
here.
So she's riding on a horse with with
a certain amount of cleavage showing.
And her boobs, of course, don't even bounce.
So we know that they're fake.
And you say that as if that's a
bad thing.
Mimi Smith.
Well, when you're riding a horse, give me
a break.
So she's not a Harris out of place.
I mean, I know.
I mean, I have I've had horses.
I have a horse.
I thought you had fake boobs.
No, we're talking.
But it's like, you know, horse people don't
have every hair perfect.
She's got the little cowboy hat on.
She's got this cute little outfit and she's
riding along up in the, you know, out
in the woods.
There's trees and everything else.
And she kind of buries the lead if
the message was, if you're here, get the
fuck out.
Oh, sorry.
Wow.
Oh, a rare F-bomb.
All right.
Boom.
There it is.
Drop it.
And and for two hundred and twenty million,
I think that was the the makeup and
hair.
And I also think the other part of
that is my is who probably who was
part of her campaign and who she is
there to be hanging out with.
And that's and I have her her answer
to the Senate when they asked her specifically
about that.
And that's no, no answer.
At any time during your tenure as director
of Department of Homeland Security, have you had
sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?
Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going
down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee
today.
Yeah, that that's not a no.
No.
Well, I mean, so here's here's what's going
on.
The way I see it is fairly simple.
I don't I think everyone is just kind
of walking past.
First of all, I don't think Camo Barbie
has been the show is not a big
fan of her.
You know, a dog, dog shooter, Barbie.
Yeah, well, you know, but the point is,
so the two hundred and twenty million, that's
obviously not just for the commercial, but it's
for the ad buy is a big ad
buy.
So the romantic involvement that she calls garbage
is well known that she's having an affair
with Corey Lewandowski Lewandowski.
I think at one point worked for Trump
on his maybe his first campaign.
He is a former lobbyist.
You know, he's a you know, well, I
guess people call him a failed campaign manager.
It doesn't matter.
He is the assistant or the deputy secretary
of Homeland Security.
So there's a conflict of interest, but not
having seen the commercial, but having heard it,
she's running for president in twenty twenty eight.
That's what she's doing.
That's what Lewandowski is doing.
And you don't do that without the president's
blessing.
That's what's happening.
That thing was all about.
Look at me.
I'm the female Ronald Reagan.
Vote for me in twenty twenty eight.
That's that's her mistake.
Now she became the the special envoy.
Which eventually, when John's back, you will become
the special envoy to the No Agenda show,
the special envoy to the shield of the
Americas.
And I was looking at what is this?
What is this a real job?
And I also think that because of the
hearing and because of how Minneapolis looked, the
optics of it, they needed blood.
Someone had to bleed and she got sacrificed
and she knows it.
And and I'm sure Trump said, look, you
got to go.
You're you're toxic.
And I didn't like that commercial.
What are you doing?
No one runs without me blessing it.
And you're stupid for doing that.
But I will make you the special envoy
to the shield of the Americas, which is
this new group the president has put together,
which feels a bit like the Board of
Peace for for the Americas.
And I have a clip here from the
president speaking at the shield of the Americas
event about Cuba.
We're looking forward to the great change that
will soon be coming to Cuba.
He sounds like he had a vent in
his throat.
I don't know what's going on.
It doesn't sound like Cuba's at the end
of the line.
They're very much at the end of the
line.
They have no money.
They have no oil.
They have a bad philosophy, they have a
bad regime that's been bad for a long
time.
And they used to get the money from
Venezuela, they get the oil from Venezuela, but
they don't have any money from Venezuela.
They don't have any oil.
They don't have anything from.
People can't even know they land in Cuba.
They can't get gasoline to fly out.
They have to leave their planes behind and
they want to negotiate.
And they are negotiating with Marco and myself
and some others.
And I would think a deal would be
made very easily with Cuba.
But for 50 years, I've been hearing as
a little boy, I'd be hearing about Cuba.
You know, Cuba is a disaster, but I've
been hearing so much about Cuba.
But Cuba is in its last moments of
life, as it was.
It'll have a great new life, but it's
in its last moments of life the way
it is.
And but our focus right now is on
Iran and we'll do that.
I would say, what will you do?
Take about two days off, Marco?
No, he will.
Maybe an hour.
He'll take one hour off and then he'll
finish up a deal on Cuba.
That'll be an easy one.
Yeah, there's another one that's been around since
the Kennedy days.
Yes.
Yes.
So Kristi Noem is now Marco Rubio's secretary.
I think that's that's basically the job she
got.
I don't know.
She's she's too fading beauty queen for my
tastes.
Oh, how superficial of you.
Meow.
Yes, really superficial.
Please, please.
Yeah.
Her book wasn't very good either.
So you read it.
You read the book.
Yeah, I read about four books a week.
What?
Yeah.
Paper, paper.
Do you is audible or?
I do a lot of audible.
Yes.
And a lot of and I do read
actual books.
Yeah.
Huh.
And and I some things I skim.
She was a skimmer.
What?
She's a skimmer.
What what books are you reading right now?
Oh, you asked me and my mind goes
blank.
I don't know.
I'll give you a list.
Send me the list.
I do a little bit of tech news
for a moment.
Good.
You know, I continue to be very deeply
involved with trying to use large language models,
coding with the A.I. And it is
such a disaster because these things just lie,
tell you did something.
You know, it's all about the guardrails.
So you have tools and you can tell
the large language model to interpret what you
want it to do.
And it then is supposed to activate the
tool and do what you told it to
do.
So that's that's pretty much what all these
A.I. companies are doing, like Google.
You know, Google knows how to search Google,
how to search YouTube transcripts, lots of other
things.
But if you're building something with any large
language model, you have to be very careful
because it will if it can't find a
tool or it can't activate the tool, it'll
tell you that it used the tool.
And here's the results, because it had it
somewhere in its corpus.
I mean, it is a nightmare.
And the war has been ongoing.
And it is a war between Anthropic and
the Department of War.
And we CBS had had a report on
it, which I thought was kind of interesting.
The U.S. military attacks on Iran were
carried out with the help of artificial intelligence
tools from the tech company Anthropic.
There's no evidence of this whatsoever, but OK.
After the Pentagon announced it was ending their
partnership, that's according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Pentagon says it has no comment.
Anthropic is the company behind the popular A
.I. assistant Claude.
The military used a government version for its
intelligence and cyber operations, but decided to give
it up after a disagreement with Anthropic over
limits on how it could be used.
Senior business and tech correspondent Jolene Kent spoke
exclusively with the company's CEO before the United
States launched its attacks on Iran.
We haven't received an.
We sat down with Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei
just hours after the Pentagon's deadline to strike
a deal with the company over how their
A.I. is deployed by the U.S.
military.
It's about the principle of standing up for
what's right.
The Pentagon wants total access without restrictions.
Anthropic wants limits on mass surveillance of Americans
and fully autonomous weapons.
The central question, who should have the final
say in how one of the world's most
powerful A.I. is used by the world's
most powerful military?
Do you think that Anthropic knows better than
the Pentagon here?
One of the things about a free market
and free enterprise is different folks can provide
different products under different principles.
Our model has a personality.
It's capable of certain things.
It's able to do certain things reliably.
It's able to not do certain things reliably.
And I think we are a good judge
of what our models can do reliably and
what and what they cannot do reliably.
I was blown away by this.
He's admitting it.
He's admitting it.
It is unreliable, but it has a personality.
Well, I use I I have a substack
column.
I've got two, but I do my art,
you know, with one of the, you know,
little picture, a picture drawing systems and.
It's amazing how sometimes you get incredibly detailed,
you know, like, you know, the background and
the foreground and the style and you do
all that.
And it's it's it's it's OK, it's not
what I want.
Other times, even though I do all that,
it doesn't understand.
Like my favorite was trying to do a
thumb on a scale.
I kept having just a thumb without a
hand.
And then it was like the scale didn't
have a dial on it.
And then the scale had a hand on
it.
It was like it just was like it
was like trying to herd a cat.
Yeah.
And, you know, it's that.
And then I do a lot of, you
know, people are like going, well, you know,
instead of reading all the stuff that you
read, you should put it in and let
AI summarize it for you.
And it's like, OK, sometimes it's OK.
Sometimes it is just so off the mark.
It's like, what was it reading?
What do you what do you use for
that for a for summarizing?
I well, Claude, I've used Claude.
I've used I've used pretty much everything because
I just like to play around.
I'm absolutely I love the AI videos.
I mean, I just I I spend hours
looking through those.
I especially like the cats with guns.
OK.
Yeah, it's Soros to cat videos.
But but and I can now I've mostly
just been doing it so I can see
it.
And you can see AI just creeping in
everywhere.
You know, the commercials it's in.
You know, every people are using the voices.
You know, you can but it's nice that
you can spot the uncanny valley as far
as using it as more than a tool.
I think it's like it's like basically it's
giving a two year old instructions.
You got to look over their shoulder all
the time.
Yeah.
The worst is if you if it does
something and you want to adjust it.
It's impossible.
Yes, it cannot.
It cannot iterate with you.
It gives you something.
You might as well just give it the
prompt again.
And and, you know, like I'm feeling lucky.
Let me see what happens.
Darren O'Neill does a pretty good job,
though, with this prompting skills.
He does an excellent job.
You know, yeah.
But it's you know, everybody is going, oh,
I and I'm like, how is this different
from anything we've had before?
In some ways, you know, it's like, you
know, I thought having a word processor was
a big deal when I was a kid.
We had a typewriter with a ribbon.
Exactly.
Yeah.
There's a second part to this.
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth both
posted on social media Friday calling for all
government agencies to stop using Anthropx AI just
hours before U.S. strikes on Iran.
I think it was made very clear in
some of their statements, in some of their
language, that this was retaliatory and punitive.
If you had a moment with the president
right now, what would you say to him?
We are patriotic Americans.
We have done everything we have done has
been for the sake of this country, for
the sake of supporting U.S. national security.
We believe in defeating our autocratic adversaries.
We believe in defending America.
The red lines we have drawn, we drew
because we we we believe that crossing those
red lines is is contrary to American values.
Disagreeing with the government is the most American
thing in the world.
And we are patriots in everything we have
done here.
We have stood up for the values of
this country.
Yeah, this is bullcrap.
They know they know that this stuff is
no good because an open A.I., Sam
Altman, he jumped right in.
Oh, oh, yeah, no, we'll sign with you.
No problem.
We'll take the contract.
And then three days later, you know, we
shouldn't have rushed that on a Friday afternoon.
We need to adjust some of the terms
of the contract.
It's not for altruistic purposes.
It's not because you don't want mass surveillance,
because you know that it's just unstable.
The stuff is not good.
Now.
Does it work for code?
I mean, there's there's software engineers.
Sir Gene sent me a great video this
morning.
The software engineer, it's just like my life
is over and not because of his job,
but the satisfaction that he that he would
get from creating a product.
And I understand this is I see software
as an art, how you're you know, you're
coding in a certain way.
You're you're deeply involved.
You know, the entire guts of this thing.
And sometimes it can take a year or
longer to really ship a fully functional product,
depending on what it is.
It says now I just hit a button
and it creates a product.
And the satisfaction is gone.
And what's interesting.
Is that I, as a non coder, I
understand the concepts and I've done some Python
scripting, but nothing.
But I understand systems, so I know what
I want and I know what the code
has to do.
I am getting tremendous satisfaction from shipping a
product that is created with AI.
So it's kind of shifting that.
Oh, wow, this is awesome type feeling from
guys who used to who did it for
a living.
And it's and it's it's really it's I
feel the same with no agenda artists.
We had a lot of great artists.
They're all gone because they're not that satisfaction
of working for an hour on something or
longer.
You just don't.
It's gone.
And and that is that is the software
is the same thing.
It's art.
And that artistic outlet is being destroyed.
And it's just what it is.
Except.
OK, so my family's been in this country
since 1640.
My my great grandfather was a shoemaker in
Lynn, Massachusetts.
Wait, did he come over on the Mayflower?
Now we were a boat after or two.
Oh, one of those nondescript boats.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, whatever.
So so my grandfather was a shoemaker during
the changeover from the old, you know, the
sewing machines to, you know, steam powered sewing
machines, whatever the automatic sewing machines from handmade
shoes to the machine made shoes.
And, you know, I've read the old old
newspaper articles and all of the the old
editorials about how this is horrible because shoes
will never fit your feet right.
Things will never be right again.
You know, the world has changed.
Shoemakers were lamenting this this whole thing because,
you know, it was ruining the business.
Well, new tools do that.
You know, they replace things.
I mean, you know, I'm a you know,
I could type like a crazy person.
I did teletype.
I did all that stuff.
And first trying to people are going, what's
teletype?
Tell it here.
I'll give you a teletype.
There she is.
Mimi Smith-Dvorak.
She is typing away.
She's sending off information on the wire through
the telephone.
Explain the teletype because people people don't even
know Michael Jackson anymore.
So you might as well explain teletype.
The teletype was this very large typewriter that
was connected to a transmission device where you
could send you.
It was like they had a modem and
everything.
And you could send information across the telephone
lines.
So the other party would get the actual
copy of what you were typing.
Now, one time and they were they were
done by mostly Western Union who had the
franchises.
And they were very hard to they were
hard to push.
You had to really push down hard on
the keys.
They were long travel, exhausting to use.
Occasionally things would go wrong and people would
dial the wrong number to get to you.
So it was dial up.
One time when I worked for Master Charge,
we got Henry Kissinger's missives going to the
White House.
And it's just spitting out and spitting out
and spitting out.
And it was like, oh, my God, it
was at night.
So we finally called around.
We finally just unplugged the machine because we
didn't know what else to do.
And we called we called the local FBI
office and explained.
And then there was a flurry of activity.
And then these two guys came and put
it the whole thing into a black suitcase
and then they left.
I wished I'd read it.
I really wish I'd read it.
I had time.
But teletype.
So there was teletype.
There was also, you know, I was a
key punch operator, too.
We won't even go into that for punch
cards.
Yeah, I did punch cards.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Old technology.
So whatever new technology comes.
Everybody laments the old technology.
We all adapt.
We find new ways to use it.
And more jobs are created somehow.
Always, you know, especially people who could master
it early.
And, you know, the whole Luddite thing doesn't
work.
I mean, you know, we've come a long
way since monks were re rewriting the Bible
and, you know, in the Gutenberg, you know,
movable press.
I mean, we we should embrace it.
Technology.
I think that this is good.
It's just that it's screwed up because it's
in the in the early stages of it.
I I'm still thinking about the teletype.
I remember I remember I did a demo
once Apple.
I had an I think Apple link.
This was before this was a very early
Apple computer networks.
It was that the wait was that the
link where you put a telephone headset into
the reader.
The thing I still have.
I still have my acoustic modem.
Thank you very much from Radio Shack.
Yeah, I built my first one with my
Sinclair ZX 80.
I built my first acoustic.
Yeah.
Buddy and I both had.
No, that was after the that was the
Commodore, the Commodore Vic 20.
Vic 20.
Yeah.
And we worked in electronics store on Saturdays.
And so we took home old telephones, pulled
them apart, put them in little cardboard boxes.
And so you just reverse the phone, the
receiver, you put it on there.
And it was it must have been like
30 bought or something.
And I'd press a key and it would
pop up on his monitor.
So and it worked.
It was very fun.
But Apple link, you could send a telex
through Apple link.
And I remember demoing this at the place
where I worked.
Radio Veronica.
They had a telex, of course.
You know, they were a media company.
And I said, watch this.
And so I dialed in with the acoustic
mode.
It might have been on my TRS 100
on that.
Do you remember the TRS 100?
I do.
I remember all those.
Yeah.
On it had I think it had like
four AA batteries ran forever with an LCD
screen.
And so you could log in and you
could send the telex.
And people were like, how did you do
that?
So, yeah, it's the future, baby.
It's the future.
Well, OK, I worked for a Crocker bank
in the online computer room.
I was a telecommunications analyst.
And we had mainframes and we had minis,
which were kind of the in-between.
We had Burroughs products.
We were an IBM beta test site.
And I had a couple of friends who
left to go.
They were big proponents of the micro, the
personal computer was called the microcomputer originally.
And I was like, oh, that's not going
anywhere.
Who cares?
You know, who wants?
Who wants?
It's like Tina famously.
Tina famously.
Who?
Who would ever want a phone that they
can use on the street?
No one wants that.
So but so I you know, and then
I, of course, lost my job there for
through a series of events.
And I went to work for an early
microcomputer distribution company.
So, you know, I got to see the
Apple one when it was first introduced up
on Vicente Street in Berkeley.
You know, and, you know, no jobs was
there.
And and Wozniak was was was there.
And so was Captain Crunch.
You know, all these people, the freak or
the phone freak.
Yeah, he was just a freak or he's
still alive.
Yeah.
And, you know, it was like I kept
looking at him.
I kept going, oh, yeah.
And the people are like, oh, it's going
to do all these things.
And I'm like, yeah, sure.
With switches, look, you flip this switch and
that switch and then it's going to do
something.
This is OK.
Well, enough old people talk.
However, on the next episode on Thursday, this
is a tease.
You're going to tell us the story of
how you and John met.
Yeah, baby.
Yeah, I don't know what agenda.
In the morning, I'll just run down the
list and I'll go as fast as I
can.
But where there's a note, I will mention
it because people have a lot of beautiful
things to say about John.
Fifty dollars and above.
Mark and Renee Marino Valley, California.
John, may God preserve you to the last
day.
Love, Mark and Renee Dame Gunchit of the
Inland Empire.
Alan Bowes, Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
Man, the exchange rate is getting worse from
our banana republic.
He's probably one hundred and forty.
He's probably an associate executive producer.
I'm thinking that was definitely two hundred.
Yeah, yeah.
Sir J.D. Baron of the Silicon Valley,
San Jose.
He's one thirty three thirty seven.
Here is a lead hackerspeak donation with an
extra three for good luck from the baron
of Silicon Valley to support the show and
J.C.D.'s recovery.
Riley in Huntsville, Alabama.
One hundred and thirty three.
Thirty three.
Just want to thank you all for your
courage and give out three douchebags for my
brother, Jody, my brother in law, David.
And my buddy Keith.
Donate your cheap bastards.
We have Nancy Murphy, San Bruno, California.
One thirty three thirty three.
Adam Ward Derby in Great Britain.
One twenty three forty five.
One, two, three, four, five.
Same from Clay Bachevich in Miami, Florida.
Dame Rita Sparks, Nevada.
One, two, three, four, five.
I.T.M. John Adam, great show.
Amy Squires, Los Gatos, California.
One hundred and twenty three.
David Dolson, Houston, Texas.
One hundred and twenty.
Nathan Goldsmith, Tucson, Arizona.
One oh five thirty five.
Hatch from Gun Barrel City, Texas.
One oh five thirty five.
Best wishes, John.
Get well, John, soon with the same amount
from Joel Donaldson and also one oh five
thirty five from Zark seven.
John, this is not an exit strategy.
Get well and come back soon.
He is the knight of the center Neptune.
Then we go to the Sopes family.
Payton, Colorado.
One hundred dollars and eight cents.
Fifty dollars per bypass and eight cents for
good luck.
Heal up, John.
Many blessings to you and yours from the
Sopes family.
The following are one hundred dollar donors.
Baron Ladeken from Houston, Texas.
Van Newman, Bernalillo, Bernalillo, New Mexico.
Gadget Freak Ten, Western Springs, Illinois.
Peter Karnowski in Charleston, Oregon.
John D.
Kekich in Chardon, Ohio.
Heather Herr in Gillette, Gillette, Wyoming.
Richard Linkwest in Squim, Washington.
One hundred.
Get well, John.
I had that procedure in June.
And if I can do it, you can
too.
Carl Vogler, Dillon Beach, California.
Leroy in Panceo in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Garnett Group LLC in New Hampshire.
Brian Massingale in Stanley, North Carolina.
Peter Beebe in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Alex Robles in Chula Vista, California.
Bruce Klassen in Santa Clarita, California.
Anonymous from Montclair, New Jersey.
My old stomping grounds.
Get well, John.
Doug, Doug Dodge in Camarillo, California.
One hundred.
Mark Hardwick in Aledo, Texas.
One hundred.
Carlos Estrada in Spring, Texas.
Sir Kaz Brighton Hove, England.
Health Karma for John.
See, please.
Sir Kaz has been listening to the show
for about nine years and never donated while
you get a little.
You've been de-douche.
It always takes something like that for some
people to show up, doesn't it?
Kenzie in Canyon Lake, Texas.
But listen, oh, that was, you know, he
says, get well.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That was Kenzie.
Sir Kaz said health karma is both green.
So I messed it up.
Kenzie had not.
Kenzie.
All right.
You've been de-douche.
John Buell in Vista, California.
One hundred.
Then we have Commodore Pumps, who donated 88
plus 88 and fees.
And that turns out to ninety three sixty
four.
Same from Chris Daly.
Ninety three sixty four.
Get well, John.
Now we have the eighty eight.
Eighty eight.
Jeremiah Spiewak from Highland Park, Illinois.
Brenda McKenna, Danvers, Massachusetts.
Percy Grunwald, San Francisco, California.
James Treadwell, Driftwood, Texas.
Vic Pepe.
Hello, Vic.
From Southlake, Texas.
Eighty eight.
Eighty eight.
Dorothy Schroed in Corvallis, Oregon.
Joe Price, McKinney, Texas.
Raymond Samori in Madison, New Jersey.
Bobby Jackson, Bluegrass, Iowa.
Kelly Tester in Lincoln, Clinton, Arkansas.
Issa McCorkle in Anchorage, Alaska.
Randy Wallen, Georgetown, Texas.
Steve Mann in Plymouth, Michigan.
Sir Robert of two sticks.
He sent an eighty eight.
Eighty eight PayPal gift for John's quick and
full recovery.
Want to add how important and valuable no
agenda is to me.
He has a long note, but he knows
all about.
Oh, he met you guys at the museum.
He met you and Jay and Jaycee and
Theodorable.
Yes.
Beautiful.
Alex Leiskars, I think.
Portland, Maine.
Eighty eight.
Harry Kelly Tate.
Quo, Quo, Quo, Vola.
That's Florida.
Sir Beboop, Night of the Frozen Tundra.
Get well soon, young man.
Baron Baylor, Grafton, Wisconsin.
John, my family and I are praying for
you.
I know you'll bounce right back.
We all can't wait for you to be
bumping the mic again soon.
No love and light just yet.
And he is Baron Baylor, a.k.a.
Sir Camera Chris Keith Larson, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Kevin McLaughlin.
There he is.
Oh, he he strays from his regular eight.
Or maybe there's another one down the list.
He is the Arch Luna, Archduke of Luna,
Love of America and Boobs, Concord, North Carolina.
Nicole Weerman, Tualatin, Oregon.
Mike Rineker, Dubuque, Iowa.
Matthew, Lauren, Matthew Ware, New Hampshire.
John Wynn, Austin, Texas.
Rachel Rankin, Bettendorf, Iowa.
Gabriel Shelton, Pensacola, Florida.
Sir Darth Penguin, Lockport, Illinois.
For John, the Tech Grout gets well, get
well soon.
Prayers for you.
God bless with love.
Marcella Barden, Monday, Texas.
Benjamin Leto in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Christopher O'Rourke, Oak Lawn, Illinois.
Amy Mullen, Bastrop, Texas.
David Wynn, Rockville Center, New York.
Chris Coravo, Driftwood, Texas.
Natalie Taylor, Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Denison, Blaine Washington.
Michael Raguse in Tustin, California.
Whitney Santos-Diloretto in Boring, Oregon.
Morten Kiernan in Kongens Lingby.
That's in Denmark.
Thank you, Denmark.
John Scales in Ocala, Florida.
Alex Castellanos in Phoenix, Arizona.
Catherine Moore, Austin, Texas.
LAZ, Philadelphia.
Victor Petrovsky, West Orange, New Jersey.
Scott Riley, Meridian, Idaho.
Ryan Helling, Goleta, California.
Kenneth Warford in Gardner, Kansas.
Sven Janssen in Round Rock, Texas.
Katherine Morton, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Walter Hilbeck in Essen, that is in Deutschland.
Aaron Chamberlain, Dayton, Ohio.
A long letter that he sent, but he
goes back to the Twit days and he,
of course, wishes John well.
Onward to, where am I here?
Rachel.
Yeah, Rachel Drogoszewski in New York.
Julian Barlow in Farnworth, in Great Britain.
Sir Robert Charles and Baronetess Christina Pearl in
Deputy, Indiana.
The first time Christina Pearl met Adam, she
told him she'd be more nervous meeting JCD
because he's a unicorn.
The dream is still alive to meet him.
Can't wait to meet you at the next
meetup or sock hop, Sir Charles and Baroness
Christina.
Gerald Preston, Bennington, Nebraska.
Ernest Mosley, Grand Bay, Alabama.
John Peters in Lear.
Oh, Lear in Belgium.
Rachel T.
Focal Fogel tons.
And man, Mandeville, Louisiana.
Allie Miller, McKinneyville, California.
Steven Harrell, Harley in Warrenville, Illinois.
Linda Lou Patkin comes in with another donation.
Castle Rock, Colorado.
Bruce Hutchinson, Anthem, Arizona.
Aaron Weiss Gerber in Bend, Oregon.
Moon Consulting, Cameron, Montana.
Stephen Corbine in Woodway, Washington.
Matt King, Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Oh, the cool people live there.
Earth and Sky Camp, Earth and Sky Camp,
Memphis, Tennessee.
Stuart Fawcett, Liverpool in the Merseyside in the
Great Britain.
Julie Shuler in New Braunfels, Texas.
Joshua Baggett in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
John Kumar at London in the UK.
Amy Harmon, Biltmore Forest, North Carolina.
Jennifer Williams, Davy Crockett, National Forest in Texas.
Ryan Stewart in Baldwin, Missouri.
Paul Erskine, Lake Forest, Washington.
Lake Forest Park, Washington.
Kenneth Kyle Holtz in Ohio.
Semper Pici, LLC in Sharerville, Indiana.
Dave Swanbeck, Johnsburg, Illinois.
Tobias Real Estate Services in Gardner, Kansas.
Jonathan Elmore, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ryan Zukowski in Medford, New York.
David DeViti in Cumming, Georgia.
Jack Schofield in Yanketown, I think it's Yanketown,
Florida.
Christian Sutton, Clovis, New Mexico.
Alan Huffman, Urbandale, Iowa.
John Lumpkins, Richmond, Virginia.
David J.
Lankford, Bountiful, Utah.
Simon Lebozowski, New York.
Jonathan Hess, Nuremberg, Deutschland.
Damon Kaschajak in Heddenhuis, no, Denmark.
Daniel Fisher, Gwynn, Michigan.
John Hoibour in Bristol, Tennessee.
Jason Shepard, Trinidad, Colorado.
Gabriel Adams, Newport, Tennessee.
John Foley, Chicago Heights, Illinois.
Jim Larson, Owen Sound, Ontario.
Albert Peter Jurien Verheij in Doorn in Utrecht
in the Netherlands.
Chris Bolton in Newcastle-under-Lyme, that's in
Staffordshire.
Rebecca Flynn, Saunderstown, Rhode Island.
Rose Lincolns, Landesville, Pennsylvania.
Aaron Stafford, Pensville, New Jersey.
Kyle Rainey in Woolforth, Texas.
Doug Andrews, Sykesville, Maryland.
Monica Saini-Figurski in Rego Park, New York.
And there's Dame Astrid and Sir Mark there,
of course, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
of Tokyo and all of the disputed islands
in the Japan Sea.
And they say, Dear John, you are the
original chick magnet.
Thousands of women have a secret crush on
you.
We hang on every word that comes over
your lips.
So get that healing dopamine spike going and
get better soon.
I hope Raven comes to visit.
Sending you much love and a squadron of
kisses from Tokyo.
Sorry, Mimi, I love you, too.
That's Dame Astrid talking, of course.
Yeah, yeah.
Valerie Ray, Plano, Texas.
Jay Rectorick in Weatherford, Texas.
Matthew Merlino, Atlanta, Georgia.
Stephanie Lukasik in Santa Ana, California.
Ben Colbeck in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
Anna Stewart, Oklahoma City.
Paul Smith in Anchorage, Alaska.
Kyle Friedrichsen in Sarasota, Florida.
Michael Kern in Cypress, California.
Marissa Dance in Fairfield, Ohio.
Chad Ferber, Red Hook, New York.
Allison Ostrander in Round Rock, Texas.
Marilyn Plaza, Garwood, New Jersey.
Brian Adelin in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Severnus Murty in Culpeper, Virginia.
Lacey Bird in Becker.
That's in Lake Mills, Wisconsin.
Julian Erickson, Swamp, Scott, Massachusetts.
Susan Erickson in Burton, Michigan.
Frank Laura in Milford, Michigan.
Douglas Radcliffe in Dinwiddie, Virginia.
William Fleming, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Neutron Drive, Canyon.
Hi, Paul.
Neutron Drive, Canyon Lake, Texas.
Sir Dr. Sharky, St. Peter's, Missouri.
Eric England, Tallala, Oklahoma.
Charles George in Evergreen, Colorado.
Javier Vasquez in San Diego, California.
Sir Dr. Sharky, St. Peter's, Missouri.
Since I made a major typo in my
first message to John, so is my punishment.
I made a second donation with the correction.
It's OK, brother.
Spencer Pollack in Collinsville, Oklahoma.
Peter Barthel, Bellingham, Montana.
Mary Brune, Minnesota.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Mary Brune in McKinleyville, California.
George Haid in Trumansburg, New York.
John Foner in Pleasant Shade, Tennessee.
Max Turnquist, Sharon, Massachusetts.
Eric Allen, Woodland Hills.
Rebecca Hall in Cerveteri.
That's in Italy.
Cerveteri in Roma, in Italy.
Wes Stewart, Mesa, Arizona.
Inger Moe, Lafayette, Colorado.
Brian Tucker, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Tim Powers, Washington, Oklahoma.
John Mahala in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Stephen Sill in Duquoin, Illinois.
Matthew Lossie in Odessa, Florida.
Christopher Pauly, Verona, Wisconsin.
Podhouse Studios, Dos Palos, California.
Ray Aaron in Artesia, New Mexico.
Dan Kestersen, Colorado Springs.
David van der Brandt in Ternaard, in the
Netherlands.
Daniel Wautour in Toronto, Ontario.
Michael Belcher in Yuba City, California.
Brian Bollinger in Roseville, California.
Rob van Dijk in near Loden, Netherlands.
Linda Michelle Ghali in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dame Toni Helfs comes in from Oklahoma City.
The show isn't the same without you, John.
Your heart attack made me realize just how
much I depend on you for my twice
weekly dose of sanity and humor.
Get well soon.
Anonymous from Los Angeles, California.
John, you have made a bunch of great
content over the years.
I've been following since Silicon Spin.
Get well, get better soon.
Please don't become too crotchety.
Too late, too late.
Right.
Colin Metzler in Fresno, California.
Get well soon, John.
I've been listening to Noah Jensen since I
was 14.
I'm turning 30 this month.
You've helped shape my worldview.
And for that, I'm eternally grateful.
I pray for John's salvation and that God
does not call him home too soon.
No, no, no.
Randy O'Rourke, Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Praying for a quick recovery.
Sir Latte in Bremerton, Washington.
Get well soon, John, from Sir Latte of
Bremerton.
Spencer Nay in Weaverville, North Carolina.
Eric W.
Carson in Richland, Washington.
Sir Mix with a Bitcoin donation.
8888.
Get well soon, John.
Stay well, Adam and Mimi.
David Keyes, Riverside.
And this is 88.
Jesse Johnson from Woodbridge, New Jersey.
88.
What a time to be de-douched.
You've been de-douched.
Sending my get well prayers to JCD during
the holy month of Ramadan.
Leah Rachel, Rachelle Kim.
I thank Littleton, Colorado.
Get well.
A love and prayers for John.
Sir Galteran with 8438.
Get well soon, John.
Cameron Linga in North Branch, Minnesota.
8194.
Then we have the boob donations.
Kevin McLaughlin comes in twice.
He is the Archduke of Luna.
28008.
Thank you very much.
Dakota Walker, Boise, Idaho, with the boob donation.
Juraj Kojak from Prague.
I love these international donations.
A boob donation.
Sir Zuki.
808.
Dear John, wishing you a speedy recovery surrounded
by busty nurses.
My tip of the day is try Dr.
McCullough recommended natokinase capsules for your cardiovascular health.
Yes.
Is that is that a thing?
Yeah, it's something.
And yeah, he likes natto, so good.
OK, thank you.
I got to take a drink.
And it's and it's not stinky or slimy.
It's actually delicious over rice if you get
the right brand.
Sir Herb Lamb, Sugar Hill, Georgia.
8008.
Then we get the lucky seven.
Seventy seven.
Seventy seven from Dwayne Spellman in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
Greg Miller, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mutter says get well soon.
J.C.D. Dame Patricia Worthington, Palmetto Bay,
Florida.
Seventy five dollars.
Jim Crane, Missouri City, Texas.
Seventy five.
Get well prayers for John C.
and his wife Mimi.
Steven Hutto, St. Petersburg.
Seventy five.
Sarah Hubert in Mitcham, Surrey.
That's in in England.
Seventy three.
Twenty six.
Dame Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada.
Seventy two.
Twenty seven.
Arno in Ulmstill Fane.
Seventy one.
Thirty two.
Listening to the show now and Adam was
talking to Mimi.
Many health comers for John.
Wish him all the best that he may
be healthy again soon.
Back to his old self.
Also strength to his family and Adam in
this uncertain time.
Pete Lachance in Oviedo, Florida.
Sixty nine.
Ninety six.
Dame Tanya.
Good to hear from you, Dame Tanya.
New York, New York.
John, you've given us quite a scare.
Scare.
Glad you were able to have the surgery
so quickly and are on the mend.
Sending many hugs from Dame Tanya.
Scott Otto in Boonville, Indiana.
Sixty eight.
Eighty six.
Sir Hugger of Kitties in Zoundum.
Sixty seven.
Eighty nine.
John, get back into the house.
Donation.
Sixty seven.
Eighty nine.
Sixty seven.
Eighty nine.
Make John soon find big hug from my
kitties.
William Jarvis, Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
Sixty seven.
Sixty nine.
Chad Hewitt, Folsom, California.
Sixty six.
Forty.
David Cox, Austin, Texas.
Sixty three.
Twenty five.
Les Tarkowsky, Kingman, Arizona.
A small boob.
Six.
Oh, six.
Steven Felice Ranchos Palos Verdes in California.
Sixty dollars.
Elmer the Pelmer with sixty dollars sent to
the Bitcoin to get well.
Get John out of the hospital.
Bitcoin donation.
Get well soon, John.
Steve Banstra, our pilot in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sir, BNBNA.
I think it is fifty nine.
Ninety three.
Andrew Walker, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Fifty eight.
Eighty eight.
Sir David Wicker.
Sir, by his grace, Jacksonville, Florida.
Fifty eight.
And when one dime and there he is
again, sir, by his grace with fifty eight
and ten cents, God never leaves us or
forsakes us.
He loves you and we do, too, sir,
by his grace.
Nancy Murphy, San Bruno, California.
Fifty seven.
Twenty one.
Kelly Hubbard, Plymouth, Minnesota.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Daniel Toriello, Charleston, South Carolina.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Andrew Garland, Muncie, Indiana.
Fifty six.
Twenty three.
Eric Marshall, Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Fifty five.
Fifty five.
Fifty five.
Fifty five.
Health, karma for John.
Brian Furley comes in with double nickels on
the dime.
So does Chris Chambers from London, Ontario, Canada.
Sir Tooth Fairy, double nickels on the dime.
Valparaiso, Indiana.
Prayers coming your way, John.
And to Mimi for having to put up
with you while you're healing up.
Fifty five.
Ten from Sir Jules Reed in Salem, Oregon.
Brent Morgan, West Point, Virginia.
Fifty five.
Patrick McKenna, Carnation, Washington.
Fifty five.
John Siebert.
Fifty five.
Wishing John a speedy recovery with this Bitcoin
donation of seventy eight thousand four hundred and
ten Satoshis.
Excuse me.
Fifty five dollars.
Troy Funderburk, Missoula, Montana.
Fifty five.
Christopher Depp, Georgetown, Kentucky.
Hope you get better soon.
Carson Bush, Sebring, Florida.
Get well, John, soon.
Love from Sebring, Florida.
John Balsano, Madison, Alabama.
Fifty two.
Seventy two.
Kyle Hendrickson, Woodstock, Illinois.
Fifty two.
Seventy two.
Kyle Morrison, Duncan, British Columbia.
Fifty two.
Seventy two.
Cripes.
Peace and love to John.
Adam and family from Vancouver Island.
Brittany Miller.
Fifty two.
Seventy two.
She's from Trinidad, Colorado.
Peter Benardol.
Fifty two.
Seventy two.
Sir Pierre.
Get well soon, he says.
Fifty two.
Seventy two.
Anastasia Treckels, Valparaiso, Indiana.
Fifty two.
Seventy two.
I've been following your career for decades as
a longtime donor of my meager twelve twelve
per month.
I probably will surpass Baroness status, but I'm
just thankful for the sanity you and Adam
bring to the world.
Get well soon.
Trent Larrabee, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Fifty one.
Fifty eight.
Robert Ryan, Norton, Ohio.
Fifty one.
Eighteen.
Sir Luke in London, in England.
Collective Karma for all.
Sir Luke, the Earl of London in the
southeast.
Josiah Thomas, Anarchy, Iowa.
Fifty one.
Saga and Ronnie from Sweden.
I'm not quite sure it didn't come through.
What do you think that is?
It's Sweden, but we don't know.
We don't know what place it's from.
It's Unicode is what that is.
It looks like a an IKEA furniture piece.
Oh, that's what the Swedes love.
Those jokes never get old.
Dave Jackson, Akron, Ohio.
Get well soon.
Buzzkill.
That's Dave Jackson.
He is the man from School of Podcasting.
Dana Day, Walt Woodstock, Georgia.
Fifty thirty three.
William Hamblin, Hockley, Texas.
God save John C.
to work.
He did.
David Deloria, Santa Clarita, California.
Fifty oh five.
Corey Bennett, Hercules, California.
Fifty oh one.
And here are the fifties.
Daniel Boyd, Bath, Michigan.
James Shermetta, Napa, New York.
Joseph Lefrano in Victoria, Texas.
Sir Alex Zavala, Kyle, Texas.
Edward Mazurk in Memphis, Tennessee.
Stephen Ray, Spokane, Washington.
Glenn Kukas in Ashaway, Rhode Island.
Jody Zolman in Topeka, Kansas.
Jay Wing, Jake Wingo in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
Sean Murray in West Chicago, Illinois.
Jacob Ali in Wichita, Kansas.
He says we proclaim healing in Jesus name.
Amen to that.
First platoon, first squadron leader.
Two to six EVCC.
Say when those guys are serious.
Joshua Gladstone, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Theodore Hart in St. Joseph, Michigan.
Wayne Morel in Orlando, Florida.
Brent Wessel in West Salem, Wisconsin.
Stephen Crummey, El Cajon, California.
Danielle Williams, Mount Shasta, California.
Joel Blaine, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Get better soon, John.
I'm praying for you.
Daniel Niwong in Borlänge, I think it is,
in Sweden.
Let the force be with you.
Priscilla Rubio in Norwalk, California.
We're seeing John C., a speedy recovery.
George Nolan in Washington, Montana.
What, did I miss something?
Well, I don't know.
Did you?
Oh, nevermind.
I'm sorry.
I'm off.
I need to give you a break anyway.
You're making me exhausted.
I'm almost, I'm almost done.
I'm almost done.
Cold Reid, by the way.
Cold Reid, I'll have you know.
I know, I'm stunned.
Switcheroo, maybe, could be credited to my son,
Nikoli, Nikoli, who I hope will be knighted
before you actually find an exit strategy.
My apologies took me to denounce my, his
douchebaggery.
My sincere prayers are with you, John.
Mimi, his family, and of course you as
well, Adam.
You got a lot of praying hands on
you, John.
Take time.
The rest will be waiting and thank you
for your courage, says George Nolan.
Sarah Amble, Black Earth, Wisconsin.
Get well soon, John.
Rick Justicen, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Get well, John.
Gina Moley in Phoenix, Arizona.
Get well, JCD.
We miss you.
Stripe.
Thank you, Stripe.
50 bucks.
Walker Phillips, San Rafael, California.
Aichi, Kichigawa, San Francisco, California.
Jason Deluzio, Miami beach, Florida.
Kerry Jackson, Watertown, Tennessee.
And Sir Yogi wraps up our $50 and
above West Richland, Washington.
And he says he loves us.
And we thank you very much for that.
Those are just a, I mean, there's a
lot more, a lot of the eight eights.
Thank you so much for, uh, for giving
John these fabulous notes.
The donations are highly appreciated.
Um, and we all wish of course, that
John gets back in the saddle soon.
Although I have to say, I'm kind of
enjoying having you, having you hang out here,
Mimi.
That's it's not been too bad.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
We're not suggestions are always, uh, appreciated on
how I can be better.
Cause this is not my normal place to
be.
You're doing just fine.
Now you locked up the dog.
It's gotten even better.
Uh, no agenda donations.com.
Thank you all so much for supporting the
show.
Oops.
I'm sorry.
Uh, I got confused.
This is what I meant to do.
Yes.
Here we go.
Eric at the grand Canyon wishes his dad,
Edward from Bridgewater.
A very happy birthday celebrated on March 3rd,
Earl Christopher, happy birthday to his beautiful wife,
Diane.
She turned 55 on March 3rd.
Dreb Scott.
Of course he is the Duke of the
chapters, the cloud chapters, uh, March 4th, Alex,
Ivan, Jacqueline, and sweet pea say happy birthday
to Alex Meyers.
Turn 30 on the six and Edward Knowles
wishes his smoking hot wife, a very happy
birthday.
She'll be celebrating on March 27th.
Happy birthday from everybody here.
The best podcast in the universe.
And we will do these title changes.
Uh, nighting and damings will come when John
returns.
So you get the official double, um, double,
uh, ceremony as it should be.
He, he is the keeper of his sword.
Earl Christopher becomes Duke Christopher and sir.
C sharp of.net becomes a baronet today.
Thank you both very much for your additional
support and $1,000 or more to the
best podcast in the universe.
And we have some fantastic meetup reports.
That's right.
No agenda.
Meetups.com is where you can find all
of the no agenda meetups listed.
It is a collaboration between sir.
Daniel, who maintains the website and Mimi, uh,
who always is putting together the entire list
of what is upcoming and it's highly appreciated.
And we love it even more when you
give us a report.
Here is the report from Los Altos.
Fantastically.
The new producers and getting to meet new
people, sir.
Montauk.
I'm going to farewell time as always.
I'm Leslie.
I'm here.
I'm new.
These people are crazy.
Thank you.
Bye.
Hi.
This is Dame Rose.
This is sir.
Recalcitrant crazy.
See the second.
And I'm just hoping John is healthy enough
to have a beer at the next club.
Mallard meetup.
I don't think alcohol is in his future
anytime soon, to be honest.
That will be.
Oh, he can have a non-alcoholic beer.
Oh, yes.
Okay.
Hey, there was a big meetup in Tinley
park.
It was Darren O'Neill and Eli, the
coffee guy.
33 people showed up.
They had a great time and they made
a report for us.
What's up y'all.
It's Eli.
The coffee guy here at hailstorm brew and
having a good time with all my friends
from the no agenda crew.
Rex Redbone in the morning.
Baroness Amy of FEMA region five.
Baron John.
The fabulous of the glacial drumlins.
Dame Trinity visiting from Fort Wayne.
Having a great time with the no agenda
crew.
Thank you for your courage.
Ron V from the troll room.
Looking forward to seeing this one on the
air.
Hey, in the morning, John and Adam, sir.
PBR street gang here in Chicago, loving the
area and prayers to John.
What's the matter, John?
Too many eggs.
Too soon.
Too soon.
This is sir.
Matthew.
Get well soon, John.
In the morning.
This is Dame Courtney.
John get well soon.
We got to have some more live episodes,
guys.
We just can't handle all these special reruns.
They're just not my cup of tea.
Hope you get better.
Get well soon, John.
Can't wait to hear you.
John.
I hope everything turns out great.
This is sir.
Zaga Bellwood, Baron of the Des Plaines river
Valley.
Um, we miss you.
We hope you're back soon.
Exit strategy is not the way to go.
You gotta keep doing the show.
Hey, this is sir.
Spooky of the Elm streets.
John get well soon.
And Adam, we still love you too.
Uh, this is Omar.
That's all.
All right.
And it's Eli Baron of the beans saying
we love you, John and everybody out and
get mo nation.
Peace out.
Actually, we need Derek.
Hi, I'm Darren.
Oh, you may have heard of me.
I'm on the pre-show.
My wife refuses to talk.
We were all concerned.
John didn't have a heart.
So we were all happy to find out
he does.
Hey, thank you to Darren and Eli for
hosting this meetup.
We're sucking in soot and we're going to
fix it in post.
We don't fix anything in post.
Yes.
Very good.
Thank you very much guys.
Sound like you had a good time.
Um, a couple of meetups coming up in,
uh, in the rest of this month on
the 14th Eagle, Idaho, Gladewater, Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana,
the 15th Rockaway, New Jersey on the 18th,
Charlotte, North Carolina, the 19th on the 21st,
Los Angeles, California, and Franklin, Tennessee, Coleyville.
I got to learn how to pronounce that
Texas on the 28th and Fort Wayne, Indiana
on the 28th as well.
And a reminder, we have the Albany, California
meetup.
That might be John's return.
We don't know yet.
Uh, on the 11th of April, along with
Fredericksburg, Texas on the 11th of April and
many more that you can find at noagendameetups
.com go there, find them.
This is where you will meet people who
are like-minded just as nutty as you
are.
Connection brings protection.
These are the people who will be your
first responders in an emergency.
noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start
one yourself.
It's easy and always guaranteed a party.
And a special birthday shout out to Sir
Brian with one eye, Brian Skelton, who celebrated
his birthday earlier this week, and he got
cheated because we, uh, we didn't do a
full show.
So happy birthday, Brian.
Thank you, Tina, for reminding me.
I have all these women taking care of
the show.
It's fantastic.
It's fantastic.
I tell you, it's great.
Uh, so, so hopefully John, it'll be like
five weeks out from surgery by the time
the Albany meetup comes.
And if you don't get John, you get
me.
So I'll be done by then.
People be John who, what, who's that guy?
Now we'll, we'll, how's he walking?
Will you need a cane, an ugly stick?
I don't think so.
No, he should be.
I mean, he's, he's weak right now, but
yeah, he's in, he's in a week of
rehab and the cardio rehab.
So they're going to make him, you know,
walk and go up and downstairs and do
everything he needs to do out in the
real world.
Um, and you know, Jay and Brennan will
no doubt take excellent care of him and
get him moving.
Um, I'll be down there, so I'll be
able to nag him.
And, uh, you know, I expect that he's
going to bounce back fairly quickly.
I mean, that's what I'm hoping.
Yeah.
Um, sure.
Sounds like it.
When I heard he was already watching Chinese
TV, I'm like, okay.
The brains are, I remember when they woke
him up, you said that the nurses had
talked to you and said, um, you know,
he's, his, his, uh, mental state is great.
And he has a very strong grip around
the nurse's neck.
No doubt.
Exactly.
Uh, so you didn't have any ISOs.
They didn't expect you to.
Um, but I tried, but I was tired
from the other ones.
I understand.
I'm going to, I'm going to give you
three choices.
You get to choose.
Here's the first one.
Unbelievable stuff.
And that's the first one.
Second one.
It's very, very good.
And probably my favorite.
What the hell are you putting in your
mouth?
I just say, which one do you choose
Mimi?
Oh, I like the last one.
Okay.
And now, oh my goodness, here it comes.
Mimi's tip of the day.
All right.
Okay.
I have a tip.
That's not a normal tip, but it is
something that's how every tip of the day
starts off.
Not a normal tip, but it's a tip
of the day.
Okay.
Here we go.
Well, it's, it's not a cleaning tip.
It's not a wine tip.
It is a practical tip.
I cannot stress the importance of writing down
all of your passwords, all of your challenge
words.
Oh yes.
Yes.
Most importantly, your pin number to your computer,
the four digit pin.
Just the thought.
It's been the biggest frustration for me this
week is it's like, what was John's first
car?
Oh my God.
What, what, what, what was the mascot of
his, of his high school team?
You know, I mean, we've been, it took
us days to, to get the newsletter out
because we couldn't do the challenges for, for,
you know, now, if I understand, okay, so
it was, I understand that you had the
passwords to everything except the computer, but no,
no, we, we had old passwords that hadn't
been updated.
Oh yay.
Yay.
And we had, and yes, we did not
have the pin to, and John still won't
give it to us.
So we have gotten around it, which, which
makes two factor authentication a problem because they
send an email.
Yes.
And so John still won't give you the
pin to his computer.
Well, he doesn't remember it because evidently he
changed it on a regular basis.
So that means you have to go through
the Microsoft nonsense.
Oh my goodness.
So you can get into it.
You go through Microsoft stuff.
You can get into the computer.
We couldn't, cause we didn't know.
We couldn't, we don't know the Microsoft password
like anyone does.
Although for everyone listening, mine is, you know,
I hate Microsoft.
It's the problem is, is the two factor
authentications are, you know, you got to get
it right.
Yeah.
You know, so when you have access to
the email, so you're getting that far, it
is questions that are like, you know, you
know, I don't know, I don't remember what,
what year his first car was.
I don't know what, you know, who he
went to the prom with.
I don't, you know, all those things are,
does he, he remembers who he went to
the prom with?
The questions are so insane.
Have you, have you considered a Bitwarden or
some password manager of the like that you
can even set up a emergency things after
24 hours, you can, you can, the backup
person can claim it and then they can
get in.
Have I considered this?
Or are we talking about John?
Well, I'm talking to you because no, of
course John hasn't considered this.
Everyone knows my passwords cause I use it.
I have them written down and yes, I've,
I've, there's, I have played with those different
programs.
I cannot get John to use any of
them because he doesn't, he's just, that's just
John, no explanation needed Mimi.
It's just John.
But everybody else should have, should do this,
make everyone's life easier.
The other thing that I highly recommend, even
if you don't need it, give a power
of attorney to your spouse, just a durable
power of attorney that they can keep in
the safety deposit box in case anything happens
to you.
At least they have access.
You know, when I, when I met Tina
talk about OPSEC, cause that's what this is
operational security.
Um, and I was helping her with her
Mac or something on the laptop and I
said, Hey, what's this?
It says important.
Do not delete.
What's this?
That's all my passwords.
Like, Oh, okay.
Yeah.
That's where you want it right there in
the important.
Do not delete file.
But, but she has a file, she has
a file and it's safely kept and it's
all written down.
She's very fastidious about this.
Very, very good.
And she has all my passwords.
She knows exactly what they are.
They're all written down for this, for this
very reason.
So yeah, the backend getting in is, you
know, and it's, you know, I didn't expect
this, you know, I really, I don't think
anyone ever expects anything like this.
Um, but I'm one of those people who's
always nagging, you know, like, you know, what,
what if, what if, what if, you know,
and then if happened, yeah, it, if happened
and I, you know, it's, you know, I'm
surviving right down your passwords, give a power
of attorney.
There it is.
Mimi Smith, the Vorax tip of the day.
We made it Mimi.
We made it.
Yes.
It's a wow.
It's a long, we have to do this
again on Thursday.
I'm looking forward to it.
You know what to do.
You know what to do.
Put the lock the dog up and it'll
be perfect.
Absolutely.
Perfect.
I will absolutely do that.
And I won't, and I won't rustle papers.
No, it's Hey, try bumping the mic for
a couple of times.
That, that always helps.
Okay.
Um, thank you very much.
Uh, no agenda nation.
Thank you.
Troll room.
Thank you all for supporting the show and,
uh, especially giving John a reason to live,
believe me, it works.
It helps.
It does.
And absolutely.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
For both the prayers and the donations.
Thank you.
And a special thanks to Jay and JC
and everybody and Brandon, everybody who pitched in
coming to you from the heart of the
Texas, Texas Hill country, where all the wineries
are Fredericksburg in the morning, everybody I'm Adam
Curry.
And from the, I've got things coming up
on my computer from, uh, the good old
Olympic peninsula.
Um, for a few days, I will be
in Washington state.
So good thoughts for Washington since we keep
getting hit with solar flares, literally.
We've got, uh, follow the monkey and MVP
for end of show mixes.
We'll talk to you on Thursday.
Everybody.
Adios.
Mofos.
A Hui Hui.
And such, uh, go ahead.
Please.
America.
First is not isolationism.
I will put the other guys in danger.
America.
First is not hidden.
Don't lie about the one.
The first is not to get entangled.
Nearly accomplished on the ground versus the follow.
We're not at war.
America.
First is to kill people.
That's our job.
Kill people.
Very successful.
Kill people.
Very serious.
Missed it.
Kill people.
This needs to continue.
Kill people.
That's our job.
Kill people.
We are not in war.
Kill people.
Limited operation.
Kill people.
Sure.
It was a very clear mission.
And that mission is.
Can I be.
Killing a lot of people.
Kill people.
That's our job.
Kill people.
Very successful.
Kill people.
That's the big thing.
Kill people.
Very dangerous.
Kill people.
A villager.
Kill people.
This needs to continue.
Kill people.
That's the big thing.
Kill people.
Sure.
We are not at war.
The only ones that need to be worried
right now are Iranians that think they're going
to live.
That's our job.
Other than that, they're doing very well.
The old fox got a heart of gold
or so the stories have been told.
But he pushed the red line, went too
far.
Now it's on the lift like an old
salvage car.
He's in the shop for a valve in
it.
Getting parts replaced for the coming year.
Mimi wrote the book on the eggs in
the pan.
A literary feat for the best part of
the man.
But Adam says no to the exit plan.
It's unacceptable according to the man.
You can't just bow out with a cracked
up chest while the too many eggs are
put to rest.
The old fox heart is getting a start.
Bolting back together every broken part.
Meanwhile, the producers pitching to cover the show.
While J.C.D. recovers in his Silicon
Valley chateau.
The best podcast in the universe.
What the hell are you putting in your
mouth?