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March 22nd • 2h 48m

1853: Anglo

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I'll tell you, fascinating.
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Adam Curry, John C.
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DeVora.
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It's Sunday, March 22nd, 2026.
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This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media
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Assassination episode 1853.
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This is no agenda.
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Our boy is back and I'm broadcasting live
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from the hard to Texas hill country here
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in FEMA region number 6.
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In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
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And from refinery row in the north of
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the bay, where gas is free, I'm John
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C.
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DeVora.
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It's clackball in Bosdale in the morning.
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Welcome back.
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JC, you ain't checking now.
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Welcome back to that same old place that
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you grouse about.
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M5M hasn't changed since you've been around.
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And the trolls have remained, yeah, they're still
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around.
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Who'd have thought they'd need you?
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Pack you when they need you.
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Please them a lot, cause we got them
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on the spot.
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John C.
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Devorak.
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Yeah, thank you very much.
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I will mention that these clips, if they're
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a little bit over-modulated, for some reason,
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you know, we've gone over this a million
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times here, they break up.
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What breaks up?
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That song you just played.
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Oh, for you, you mean?
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Yeah.
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On your end?
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Yeah.
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You were also a little slow on coming
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in there.
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Are you sensing a delay?
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No, I was not.
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I thought I was on time.
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No, you were pretty late.
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Let me see for a second.
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Pretty late?
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Unfortunately, you were pretty late.
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Let me see.
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No, we got the minimal delay.
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You sound good.
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Hey, John, welcome back.
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Who cares?
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We can hear you.
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We have missed you.
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Well, thank you.
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I appreciate that.
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Glad to be back, to be honest about
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it.
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You want to talk about your experience?
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Yeah, I had a heart attack, I guess.
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I was in the hospital being checked out,
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curiously.
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Yes.
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And they said, hey, you know what?
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We think it's time for you to sign
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these forms.
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That's never good when someone says, hey, could
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you sign these forms for a second?
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And then we'll be back.
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We'll hear from you in another day.
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Yeah.
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So it was quite the experience.
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I wouldn't recommend it, but...
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I mean, I was...
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The worst part is this is like a
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double bypass, is what it was.
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Yeah.
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So the worst part was, is now.
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Wow.
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Is that you're just miserable.
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I mean, you're not...
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There's no pain.
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It's just that you can't rest right.
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You're limited in your motions, because if you
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threw a baseball, it would rip you apart.
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So you can't do this.
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You can't do that.
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You can't do this.
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You can't get up that way.
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You can't do this.
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You can't move left.
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You can't move right.
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Because...
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Oh, no, don't do that.
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And so you're stuck kind of in this
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kind of limited range of abilities.
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I can talk.
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Yeah.
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But do you get winded after a while?
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From talking?
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Yeah.
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No.
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Oh, damn.
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Long show again, people.
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No, no, we're cutting the show.
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Today I would recommend the following.
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Here we go.
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Jumble the donation segments.
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Go right to the tip of the day
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and wrap.
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So you mean do all the donation segments,
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everything in one huge segment, and then to
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tip of the day?
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Yeah.
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What about the ISO selection?
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Oh, we can do that.
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I only have one.
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So do you mind me just asking a
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few things about your experience?
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I would expect you to ask me a
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few things about my experience.
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First of all, I want you to know
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your wife was flipping out.
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She may have seemed very calm, but she
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was freaking out.
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It was very difficult for her.
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Yeah, that was largely because of the doctors.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah, and I think that after the surgery,
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they had Jay and Brennan in like a
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special room, which was very freaky.
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It's like, oh, it's a special room.
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Is this where they tell you?
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Well, the operation was a success.
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But he has no head.
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But his head is gone.
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Well, the thing I was curious about, because
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you had all kinds of other complications that
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were going on, and they had to intubate
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you.
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Were you awake when they intubated you?
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Supposedly, no.
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But you remember it.
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Yes.
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What was that like?
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Is that crazy?
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It's really nuts.
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It's not a good experience.
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You're so drugged up.
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You don't care as much as you would
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normally.
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But you're paralyzed, and you are...
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The real problem is you're kind of covered
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with a parachute.
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I mean, that's what you can see if
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you can see anything.
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But the real problem with it, and I
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don't think anyone's ever discussed this, is that
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the yackety-yack that goes on in the
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operating room, their talk, you can hear it
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all.
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Oh, so you're sedated.
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You're asleep, but you're not.
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It's like you died, and you're not dead
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yet.
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Exactly.
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Do you feel pain at that point?
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You feel nothing.
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No, you don't feel anything.
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Are they making jokes?
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No, they're not making jokes about me, but
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they're talking about their plans for the night.
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Did you watch that movie the other day?
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Did you see the Oscars?
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And it's relentless.
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Did you pick up any good tips?
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No, I did not.
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But was that the whole time?
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Because you were out for a couple days,
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I think.
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Well, I mean, you're not under the whole
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time intubated, but during the operation, which I
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don't know how long that took, I'll have
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to find out.
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You don't remember that, though, do you?
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No, you don't remember anything like that.
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All you remember is listening to these voices.
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During the surgery?
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Yeah, no, during the surgery.
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Oh, no!
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Wow.
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That's kind of crazy.
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Yeah, I know.
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No one's ever mentioned this.
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I'm going to have to talk to some
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other people about it.
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Were there any hot nurses?
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There was a lot of nurses.
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I, by the way, now have great insight
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into why Medicaid is going to go broke.
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Do expand.
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Well, for one thing, with some of these
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big companies like this at Sutter Health, medicine
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has changed from being actually, you know, where
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you have doctors to protocols.
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And suppliers, people who do stuff.
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Yeah, protocols, protocols, and more protocols, and everything
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is done by protocols, done by a checklist.
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It's all the same old expert system that
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we remember from the 1980s when AI first,
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or not first, but second or third time
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it showed up.
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And then these expert systems showed up, and
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this has moved over, and this took over
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medicine.
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And so there's no, so everything's plug and
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play.
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You don't need a, Jewish doctors are done.
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I think I ran into one the whole
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time I was here.
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For more reasons than one, I'm told.
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Well, one reason is that they'll ask questions.
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Oh, no, we can't have that.
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No, no, no.
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You know, there's a protocol after A, B,
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you check A, you check B, you check
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C, you check D, you check E, and
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then you do this.
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So no one is looking at the whole,
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at the patient as a whole, the entire
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life of the patient.
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Exactly.
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You'll find some old timers, but that's the
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end of it.
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Oh, that's too bad.
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That's, that kind of, that feels wrong.
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Yeah, this is why I think they, I
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think we had another show a few months
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ago where the whiteys are not supposed to
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even get into medicine anymore.
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Whiteys?
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Were there whiteys in your procedures?
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Did you have whiteys operating on you?
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I'd say 10% maybe.
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Wow.
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Now, did anyone know who you were?
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Did anyone say like...
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Eventually, yeah.
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Did anyone say like, oh, that's that dude
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from No Agenda.
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Oh, man.
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No, somebody looked me up, googled me.
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One of them were curious nurses.
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And said what?
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She said, I googled you.
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Are you famous?
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And I said, no.
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I said, is this you in the Google?
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I said, yeah, that's me.
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In the Google?
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Yeah.
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These are the people taking care of you.
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Is that you in the Google?
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Yeah, okay.
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That's real.
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That's calming.
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And then another doctor, some casual doctor, some,
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I think it was a nephrologist, came by
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under some circumstance.
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And he just left.
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I mean, all these doctors come and they
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go.
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They don't do anything.
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Did anyone give an in the morning?
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Like, hey, in the morning?
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No, but this one guy did say I'll
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be listening to the podcast.
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But I did not get an in the
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morning.
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Do you want to thank any of your
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doctors or nurses?
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Anyone?
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I don't even know who half of them
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are.
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Oh, wow.
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It's a system.
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Were they all named Sanjit?
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There's a lot.
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No.
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Actually, most of them were Filipino.
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Oh, interesting.
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And I'd like to thank Anna Banana, someone
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I can remember.
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Joke name.
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But I would say I went through let's
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see, 412 probably about 200 people.
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Really now?
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200 people came by everybody collecting 150 bucks
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for each visit.
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They all come by.
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They all get your vitals.
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Stick a thermometer in your mouth and pump
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up.
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Is this a medical hospital?
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Do they have any students come by and
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like, oh, yeah.
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No, it's not.
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And then finally, what everyone really wants to
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know is how was the food?
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It was terrible.
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I couldn't eat anything.
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What did you wind up eating?
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You got to eat something.
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Oh, you know, you find some grapes.
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So you end up starving to death in
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there.
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And I have stories about the food, which
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I'll elaborate on at some later date.
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And then sponge baths, were those embarrassing?
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At some point, the embarrassment is long gone.
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Dude, I cannot tell you how happy I
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am to have you back.
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Well, I'm happy about it.
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Yes, I'm sure you are.
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It was one of those things where we're
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always joking about exit strategy and then...
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Did you hear, by the way, how that
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went?
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I heard it from Horowitz.
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Yeah, I know.
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Which was kind of disturbing.
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Well, because Horowitz's show was coming up.
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So I sent him a text.
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Actually, I left a message.
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Somewhere.
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And he never got it.
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No one knows where this message is.
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So he was like, where are you?
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He called me at 10 after 8 on
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Tuesday.
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I'm like, ugh.
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And I was doing something.
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I'm like, oh, that's Horowitz.
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His stream is not working.
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I'll call him back in five minutes.
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I call him back.
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He's like, yeah, what's up with John?
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What do you mean, what's up?
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And being in the hospital.
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I said, what?
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And although...
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First of all, I got to tell you,
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your family is phenomenal.
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Really are.
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I mean, they immediately, they're jumping in.
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John is priority one.
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Although I had to remind them of that
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from time to time.
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It's like, no, John is priority one.
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Don't worry about anything.
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We'll take care of anything and we'll figure
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it out.
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And Mimi right away was like, okay, we're
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very creative people.
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We can come up with solutions.
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We can't just have best of shows.
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I'm like, does she have an executive producer
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credit somewhere?
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Okay.
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And then she says, well, I'm just going
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to do the show.
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I said, okay.
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I talked to Tina about it.
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Tina right away was like, that's a great
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idea.
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Because she's heard Mimi and me talk on
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the phone for hours about nonsense.
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She says, that's a great idea.
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But the funniest was Jay, who first of
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all is trying to break into all your
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computers because you're not so good at the
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password book, apparently.
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And then all systems, even if you have
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the password these days, oh, that's fine.
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You have the password, but I don't recognize
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this computer.
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So you have to do two-factor authentication.
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But no one had the password to your
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actual computer.
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And so they're like, do you know the
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password?
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I'm like, do I know the password?
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Huh?
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Why would you know the password?
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That's how desperate they were.
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I said, try his pin pass?
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His pin code?
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Try his birth date?
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I don't know.
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I have no idea.
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And then so Jay finally gets a hold
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of MailChimp.
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She's like, okay, I've got this.
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I'm going to do the newsletter.
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And she says, what do you think of
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this?
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And now, mind you, you hadn't even had
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your procedure yet.
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But you're under and hearing everything.
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But you're under.
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You're sedated.
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You got a tube down your neck.
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And your daughter's like, how about this?
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Give John a reason to live donation.
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I'm like, wow.
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Yeah.
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Fantastic.
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And JC jumped in with Horowitz, which you
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should probably be a little worried about.
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People thought he was really good.
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Yeah, I thought he was pretty good.
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I was actually surprised.
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I wasn't.
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Well, the reason I was surprised because he
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has this buddy that years ago, these two
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guys have been trying.
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They're like pals that can do.
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They've been trying to do a podcast.
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And then when they try to do a
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podcast, it's like they can't get in.
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You can't say a word.
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And so, you know, I'm sure there's plenty
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of people out there like that with that
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experience.
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And so I said, well, let's see how
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that goes.
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He took it home.
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It's a great job.
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He had good one liners.
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Yeah.
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Good comebacks.
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Definitely.
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Yeah.
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Did you did you follow any news?
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Anything going on while during your stay, which
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will be three weeks this Tuesday?
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What else do I have to do?
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No.
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Well, this was the funniest after your you
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were sent pretty quickly to the rehab center.
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And Mimi said nothing was J.
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I can't remember who told me.
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It's like, yeah, John is back.
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He's making little jokes.
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He's very annoyed.
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And he's watching Chinese television because he wants
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to learn the language as a good one.
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And did you did you come up with
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that?
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Yes.
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Well, while you were while you were away,
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you missed the biggest news, the biggest news
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in America.
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In light of the newly released video, we
16:48
have made the decision to not move forward
16:50
with the new season of The Bachelorette.
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That's what a Disney Entertainment spokesperson told ET
16:55
today, less than three hours after TMZ posted
16:58
footage from Taylor's 2023 domestic violence incident three
17:03
days before the show was set to premiere.
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A rep for Taylor tells ET she's grateful
17:08
for ABC support as she prioritizes her family's
17:11
safety and security.
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She is currently preparing to own and share
17:15
her story.
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There it is.
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That's what everyone's talking about.
17:24
The Bachelorette.
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Well, I guess that when it came out,
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borderline personality disorder looks like to me.
17:30
A bad case of it.
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A bad case of it.
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Maybe mixed with some other issues.
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Yeah.
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And that was horrible.
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But what I thought immediately was, this is
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great.
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Because now, because she, I guess she was
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on the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
17:48
So, probably the series is probably a dog.
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It's probably no good.
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Because this, all of a sudden, this comes
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out.
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But it was in the can.
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That's the problem.
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Well, exactly.
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It was in the can, precisely.
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Like, wow, this is not great.
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It's the 22nd or 23rd season.
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We got this stupid war taking away ratings.
18:08
Maybe we can create some...
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Hey, dude, that videotape you talked about, can
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you give me that recording of her trying
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to hit you with a chair?
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And she's going to tell her own story?
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I smell a new show coming.
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Yeah.
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You're probably right.
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And that's how I would roll with it.
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So...
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Yeah, they dumped it faster than you can
18:28
imagine.
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So...
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Well, let's talk about the war.
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Oh, yes.
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There is a war going on.
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Here's what gets me.
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I got two clips from Trump on progress
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of the BBC.
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Okay.
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Here we go.
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Well, Donald Trump has also been speaking today.
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He insisted that the U.S. is doing
18:45
extremely well.
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That's how he described it in this war
18:48
with Iran.
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The Navy's gone.
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Their Air Force is gone.
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Their anti-aircraft is all gone.
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It's all gone.
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Their radar is all gone.
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Their leaders are all gone.
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The next set of leaders are all gone.
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And the next set of leaders are mostly
19:03
gone.
19:04
And now nobody wants to be a leader
19:06
over there anymore.
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We're having a hard time.
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We want to talk to them, and there's
19:11
nobody to talk to.
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We have nobody to talk to.
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And you know what?
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We like it that way.
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And we have many other distinguished members of
19:18
the United States military, but I want to
19:20
tell you, Hexeth is doing a great job.
19:22
And Raisin Cain is doing a great job.
19:24
As good as anybody has ever seen.
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Don't forget, we had Venezuela.
19:29
That was the beginning where people started to
19:31
see the talent.
19:31
I rebuilt the military and built it, frankly,
19:35
including Space Force, but I rebuilt the military
19:38
in my first term.
19:39
I didn't think I'd be using it this
19:41
much, but I'm glad I rebuilt it because
19:43
we can't let these lunatics have nuclear weapons
19:47
because they were going to use them.
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They'd use them fast.
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Yeah, that was kind of a classic that
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he was saying.
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There's nobody left to talk to.
19:53
There's nobody there.
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We blew up everything.
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We're good to go, but then why is
19:57
this going on?
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So, how did they manage to slam shut
20:02
the straight, you know, answer me that?
20:08
Well...
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Let's play the second part of this.
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That was Donald Trump.
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Let's get back to the White House and
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to our correspondent, Tom Bateman.
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Tom, we are three weeks in.
20:16
Give me your assessment of where you think
20:18
we are.
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Well, you know, I mean, you heard from
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Donald Trump there repeating some of the messages
20:23
that we've heard over the last few days,
20:25
frankly, but I think what he didn't say
20:26
there is about, again, about the Strait of
20:30
Hormuz.
20:30
That was left to this social media post
20:33
that he put out in the minutes before
20:34
that, calling America's NATO allies cowards because he
20:39
says they won't take part in any US
20:42
operation to try and reopen the strait.
20:44
Now, that is going to send a shockwave
20:45
through the leaders of NATO.
20:47
They are used to some of the kinds
20:51
of equivocation, the questioning of the value of
20:53
the NATO alliance to the United States that
20:55
Mr. Trump has done in the past, but
20:57
we're now in a territory where he's continuing
21:02
to use this kind of language now, really
21:05
questioning their value, calling them a paper tiger,
21:09
for example, which, as far as NATO allies
21:12
are concerned, sends a signal to their adversaries,
21:15
mostly to, of course, to Russia, that might
21:19
suggest the US wouldn't defend NATO countries in
21:22
the event of an invasion in Eastern Europe.
21:25
They've always been really worried about this, and
21:27
that kind of language I think is going
21:29
to really concern them.
21:31
It is a signal of the frustration, the
21:34
anger that Mr. Trump is clearly feeling about
21:37
the part of this war that is going
21:39
wrong for him.
21:40
They don't have a solution yet to deal
21:42
with the way the Iranians have managed to
21:44
control the Strait of Hormuz, and this kind
21:47
of lashing out at his NATO allies, I
21:49
think, is symptomatic of that.
21:52
Yeah, I have thoughts on this, but because
21:56
NATO was brought up, it's no coincidence this
22:01
morning, thanks to clip collector Steve, my boy
22:07
was on CBS with Face the Nation to,
22:10
I guess, to kind of make everybody in
22:12
NATO feel good, and Mark Rutte was in
22:15
rare form.
22:17
We turn now to NATO Secretary General Mark
22:18
Rutte, who joins us this morning from The
22:20
Hague in the Netherlands.
22:22
Welcome back to Face the Nation.
22:24
Mark, it's good to be back on the
22:25
program.
22:26
Good morning.
22:26
Hey, good morning.
22:27
Hey, Margaret, it's good to be here every
22:29
time.
22:29
Yes, fantastic.
22:30
Good morning.
22:30
We did see that Iran fired two missiles
22:33
at Diego Garcia, that's that island in the
22:36
Indian Ocean which houses a U.S.-U.K.
22:39
joint base.
22:40
That was 4,000 kilometers from Iranian territory,
22:43
furthest Iran has ever gone.
22:45
You just heard Ambassador Waltz say there might
22:49
be a difference there in how Israel and
22:50
the U.S. assess that capability Iran has
22:53
in terms of what they fired.
22:55
But Israel says these were intercontinental ballistic missiles
22:58
that could hit Berlin, Paris, and Rome.
23:01
Does NATO share that Israeli assessment?
23:04
Well, Margaret, we cannot confirm that at the
23:07
moment, so we're looking into that.
23:08
But if this would be true, it is
23:11
the more evidence that what the President is
23:13
doing here, taking out the ballistic missile capability,
23:16
taking out the nuclear capability from Iran, is
23:19
crucial.
23:20
And exactly as the Ambassador just said, Ambassador
23:22
Waltz, we have seen with North Korea, if
23:25
we negotiate for too long, you might pass
23:28
the moment where you can still get this
23:31
thing done.
23:31
And North Korea now has the nuclear capability.
23:34
If Iran would have the nuclear capability, including
23:37
together with...
23:38
Was that confirmed that North Korea has nuclear...
23:41
He said North Korea now has nuclear capability.
23:43
Is that being confirmed?
23:45
Do we really know that?
23:46
What are you talking about?
23:47
Of course they do.
23:48
Well, we don't actually know.
23:49
Have they ever...
23:50
Yeah, they blowed up a whole crap load
23:52
of little bombs.
23:53
They're not monsters.
23:54
Little bombs, okay.
23:55
They blowed up some little ones.
23:57
But they're nukes.
23:57
Okay.
23:58
North Korea now has the nuclear capability.
24:00
If Iran would have the nuclear capability, including
24:03
together with the missile capability, it would be
24:06
a direct threat, an existential threat to Israel,
24:09
to the region, to Europe, to the stability
24:12
in the world.
24:13
So the President doing this is crucial.
24:15
And I've seen the polling, but I really
24:17
hope the American people will be with him
24:19
because he is doing this to make the
24:21
whole world safer.
24:22
Okay.
24:22
So thank you.
24:24
We got more.
24:24
Well, I'm sure the President appreciates your praise,
24:28
but he has been very frustrated and made
24:30
that clear this week with NATO and the
24:33
European allies.
24:34
He called NATO, quote, a paper tiger without
24:37
the U.S. He said they complain about
24:38
high oil prices when they're forced to pay,
24:40
but they don't want to help open the
24:41
Strait of Hormuz.
24:43
Easy for them.
24:45
Cowards.
24:46
We will remember.
24:49
I've been in several conversations this week with
24:51
the President, and the good news is that,
24:54
look, we had the U.S. for weeks
24:56
planning for epic fury.
24:58
And for reasons of security and safety, they
25:00
could not share with European allies and allies
25:04
around the world and partner countries what they
25:06
were doing because that would have jeopardized the
25:10
effect of the first attack.
25:12
Or it would have allowed you to plan.
25:13
So it is only logical that European countries
25:14
needed a couple of weeks to come together.
25:17
But at this moment, the good news is
25:18
this, that since Thursday, 22 countries, most of
25:23
them NATO, but also Japan, Korea, Australia, New
25:26
Zealand, Bahrain, the UAE have come together to
25:30
basically answer three questions.
25:33
What do we need?
25:34
When do we need it?
25:35
And where do we need it?
25:37
These three questions are now worked through to
25:39
answer the President's call to make sure that
25:42
we secure the free sailing through the Strait
25:45
of Hormuz.
25:45
You know, I have this thought that the
25:52
President isn't really in any rush to open
25:55
the Strait of Hormuz.
25:57
There's actually some papers out there that would
25:59
back you up.
26:01
You know, it's like, well, because it's not,
26:03
yes, it affects oil prices, but oil prices
26:06
are market prices.
26:08
I'm not sure that you know, that there
26:11
isn't enough oil to go around for the
26:13
time being.
26:14
Yeah, but this isn't helping Saudi Arabia.
26:17
No, it doesn't help them.
26:20
But I'm just, I can't help but think
26:22
like, yeah, maybe he's not in such a
26:23
hurry.
26:24
And then this happens, well, actually, this happens
26:28
this morning, I think.
26:31
We're going beyond the Strait, now we're going
26:33
to the, you know, where all the fish
26:35
are in the portal.
26:37
A new looming threat to international shipping and
26:40
the global economy with the vital Strait of
26:43
Hormuz effectively closed since the U.S. and
26:46
Israel launched strikes on Iran.
26:49
Tehran's Houthi allies in Yemen are now threatening
26:51
to block the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
26:55
Bab el-Mandeb?
26:56
The Houthis who control Yemen's capital and northwestern
27:00
Red Sea coast may close the maritime corridor
27:03
that connects Europe, Asia and Africa.
27:06
A representative for the group said that if
27:09
it does close the waterway it could only
27:11
attack vessels belonging to states carrying out strikes
27:14
on Iran, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.
27:18
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects the Red
27:20
Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
27:23
It's known as a strategic chokepoint linking the
27:26
Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean.
27:30
It's a vital route for global trade, particularly
27:33
for oil and gas shipments between Europe and
27:36
Asia.
27:38
So when the Houthis come out, how much
27:43
of a threat are those guys?
27:46
Don't they have little ships?
27:49
If you've got a $16 million tanker full
27:52
of oil...
27:54
Right, but if you've got U.S. forces
27:56
in the region, it seems like that wouldn't
27:59
be too much of a problem to blow
28:01
them out of the water.
28:03
Not necessarily, yeah.
28:08
But...
28:08
We're getting onto the helicopter talking about when
28:12
the Strait will open up.
28:14
It's a simple military maneuver.
28:17
It's relatively safe but it needs ships.
28:23
You need volume.
28:25
And NATO could help us, but they so
28:27
far haven't had the courage to do so.
28:30
And others could help us, but we don't
28:32
use it.
28:33
At a certain point it'll open itself.
28:35
At a certain point.
28:37
But we've defeated the enemy, and they are
28:40
an enemy.
28:40
They're a sick group of people.
28:43
Their leadership is gone.
28:44
The Navy is gone.
28:45
The Air Force is gone.
28:47
The anti-aircraft equipment that they have, the
28:50
radar they have, is all gone.
28:52
Everything's gone.
28:54
The Strait itself, the actual Strait, how are
28:57
you?
28:58
The Strait itself is doing a good job.
29:01
But it would be nice if the countries,
29:04
including China, if the countries that use it,
29:07
China uses 90% of their energy.
29:10
Japan is 95% of the energy.
29:13
It would be nice if those countries would
29:15
get involved.
29:16
Alright, so now he's saying, OK, NATO doesn't
29:19
want to help.
29:21
The Strait can open itself up, is what
29:23
I heard him say there.
29:24
But it would be nice if China and
29:26
Japan helped out, you know, so he's making
29:28
a clear call.
29:29
He's delayed his meeting with Xi another four,
29:33
five, six weeks.
29:35
I think we may be in total control.
29:38
There's a game here that's going on.
29:39
I think anything but that.
29:42
OK.
29:43
Here's my thinking.
29:45
He can't win this thing, continuing what he's
29:49
trying to do.
29:50
But he keeps hinting that, oh, we've taken
29:52
everything out.
29:53
We've taken everything out and no one's helping
29:55
us.
29:57
His exit strategy, I think, and I think
30:00
it would be a good one, and I
30:01
think it would work, is to just pull
30:05
out.
30:07
Just pull out.
30:08
Hey, there's nothing else we can blow up.
30:10
We blew up all that they don't have
30:12
an Air Force or a Navy or they've
30:14
got no radar, they've got nothing and nobody
30:16
to talk to.
30:18
We don't even know who the leaders are.
30:19
That one guy's gay, apparently.
30:22
That was the best.
30:23
He's actually now an entry in the Eurovision
30:25
Song Contest this year, I hear.
30:27
Oh, that makes sense.
30:30
So you get out and you do the
30:33
following.
30:35
And say, well, if they say they're going
30:37
to reopen the Hormuz, we'll just get out,
30:40
let them reopen it and let things stabilize
30:42
a little bit.
30:43
Maybe come back again.
30:45
And at the same time say, we would
30:47
have stayed and done more damage, but we
30:50
weren't getting any help.
30:52
NATO's not helping us.
30:53
Europe's not helping us.
30:54
Nobody's helping us.
30:55
China's not helping us.
30:56
Nobody, nobody, nobody.
30:58
And so what are we supposed to do?
31:00
We can't do the whole thing and get
31:03
the hell out of there.
31:04
That would be reasonable.
31:06
As fast as possible.
31:07
That's if he has the nerve to do
31:09
that.
31:09
That takes a lot of guts.
31:12
Well, there is one thing that to me
31:14
looks like beneficial at minimum.
31:18
So the president got really, well, really mad.
31:20
He was mad on Truth Social.
31:22
I'm mad at Israel for taking out the
31:25
LNG field in Qatar.
31:31
He's also irked about the fact that one
31:33
of their guys contradicted him in a press
31:37
conference.
31:38
Who?
31:38
The defense minister of Israel.
31:44
He's going to cut Israel loose if they
31:46
keep this up.
31:46
Yes, he will.
31:47
In fact, I'm thinking the more he's pushing
31:52
back on them, at a certain point, he
31:55
may be like, you know, I'm waiting for
31:57
the opportunity to not only show that what
32:00
I was doing was in America's interest, but
32:03
that Israel doesn't control me.
32:05
And I'm going to show it like this.
32:07
And it's going to be something, you know,
32:10
it'll be a move that is obvious.
32:13
And the only thing he can do is
32:15
cut off like, no more Patriot missiles or
32:17
something like that.
32:18
And I kind of feel him ramping up
32:21
for that.
32:21
It would be good for him to do
32:23
it because, you know, the whole idea that
32:26
Bibi Netanyahu held a gun to his head
32:28
and he did this is pretty rampant as
32:31
expected.
32:32
But the oil field, the Qatar oil field
32:34
turns out is kind of beneficial to us.
32:39
A developing story where we are learning more
32:41
today about how the conflict in the Middle
32:42
East could impact Alaska's energy market.
32:45
Augusta McDonald has been following this story all
32:47
week.
32:48
And Augusta, what changes are you monitoring right
32:50
now?
32:51
Yes, Arianna.
32:51
I've been looking at how the destruction of
32:53
a liquefied natural gas plant in Qatar could
32:56
influence efforts to build an LNG pipeline across
32:59
Alaska.
33:00
The Alaska LNG project is a major energy
33:03
infrastructure initiative.
33:04
You're probably familiar with it.
33:05
They want to build a pipeline that would
33:06
transport natural gas from the North Slope to
33:09
South Central Alaska.
33:10
Now, this project is led by Glenn Farn
33:12
Group, which has a 75% stake.
33:15
And project leaders say they want to deliver
33:17
20 million metric tons annually to primarily Asian
33:20
market buyers.
33:21
And that's a key detail because the LNG
33:24
facility that was hit by an Iranian counter
33:26
-strike in Qatar just days ago supplied 20
33:29
% of the world's liquefied natural gas.
33:32
And 80% of that product went to
33:35
Asian markets.
33:37
Qatar Energy's Roslofen complex was taken offline on
33:40
Monday with Reuters now reporting it's not expected
33:43
to be operating again for weeks.
33:44
In a statement from Glenn Farn Alaska, LNG
33:47
spokesperson Tim Fitzpatrick had this to say, quote,
33:50
global events repeatedly show the strategic advantage of
33:53
Alaska LNG's location as the only U.S.
33:56
source of LNG with direct Pacific access avoiding
33:59
contested waters and choke points.
34:01
And to that point, he's referring here to
34:03
shipping delays through the critical Strait of Hormuz
34:05
due to the conflict and saying further, Glenn
34:09
Farn is working closely with Asian LNG buyers
34:12
to accelerate commercial agreements and complete Alaska LNG.
34:16
So this kind of complicates the theory that
34:19
he's going to cut Israel loose because maybe
34:21
it was a plan all along.
34:24
When you look at the Alaskan LNG, it's
34:29
on the north side.
34:30
And the only way to currently get it
34:32
down to China and Japan is through the
34:35
Bering Strait.
34:36
Well, enter a little conversation with Putin at
34:40
the beginning of the year in Alaska about
34:42
business in Alaska, because the plan has been
34:45
since this year to cut a pipeline all
34:49
the way down the south so that you
34:50
wouldn't have to go through the Bering Strait.
34:52
But that is obviously not completed yet.
34:55
This is from a year ago.
34:57
It's one of the most important nights on
35:00
Taiwan's business calendar.
35:01
An annual dinner in Taipei hosted by the
35:04
American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, where business
35:07
leaders from around the world rub elbows with
35:09
officials from both countries.
35:11
But the star of the show wasn't a
35:13
person, but a pipeline for LNG, liquefied natural
35:17
gas.
35:18
The Trump administration is especially eager to share
35:20
our LNG resources with close partners, including through
35:23
the completion of the Alaska North Slope LNG
35:25
Project.
35:26
The pipeline, which has been pushed since President
35:29
Trump took office in January, aims to sell
35:32
Alaska's LNG to Asia.
35:34
My administration is also working on a gigantic
35:37
natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest
35:41
in the world, where Japan, South Korea, and
35:43
other nations want to be our partner.
35:46
The 44 billion U.S. dollar project would
35:48
stretch 1,300 kilometers across the northern state.
35:52
The gas it produced would then be shipped
35:54
to some of the world's largest gas importers,
35:57
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
36:00
And the night saw Taiwan's national oil company,
36:03
CPC, announce its intent to invest in the
36:05
project and buy its LNG.
36:08
We are very interested in buying Alaska's natural
36:12
gas because it can meet our needs and
36:16
ensure our energy security.
36:19
Yes.
36:20
Okay, so pretty important, everybody there.
36:22
Yeah, we, by the way, did discuss this
36:25
when it was first announced.
36:26
I can't remember that.
36:27
To me, it was like, oh, I heard
36:29
this...
36:30
You're so pipelined out.
36:31
I think it's probably it.
36:33
I'm so pipelined, but pipelines turn out to
36:36
be really important.
36:37
They're trying to do the, you know, increase...
36:39
They can't.
36:40
They got, like, 3 million barrels a day
36:43
going from Saudi Arabia, you know, across the
36:46
desert.
36:48
That's not gonna replace anything.
36:50
You know, your 20 million or 25 million
36:53
barrels a day.
36:55
But it, I mean, it's just, it feels
36:57
like, you know, I think I'm agreeing with
36:59
your idea there, that, like, you know, you
37:02
guys wouldn't help out.
37:03
Okay, whatever.
37:04
But, man, Trump has got to do something
37:06
about Israel, and that's why he's yelling at
37:08
him.
37:09
The only guy who might be able to
37:11
give us some insight is the gay general
37:14
Patton.
37:15
Scott Besson, who was very involved in all
37:18
of this.
37:19
And he does speak financial stuff, and he
37:22
was on Meet the Press this morning.
37:24
Interested in Manhans Welker's interview with him?
37:31
Hello?
37:32
I'm sorry, what did you say?
37:33
Do you want to hear the gay general
37:35
Patton?
37:35
Oh, no, I actually watched it.
37:37
Yeah, it's, there's some good moments in there.
37:39
He kind of, like, I think it was,
37:40
his best moment was predicting what the next
37:43
guest was gonna talk about.
37:45
Well, you know, I was on the phone
37:48
with President Trump a week ago.
37:50
He told me allies were on the way
37:51
to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.
37:54
Has the Trump administration abandoned that strategy and
37:58
now chosen to go it alone?
37:59
Again, what we have done, there has been
38:03
a campaign to be using military assets to
38:09
soften up the Iranian fortifications along the Strait.
38:13
That's gonna continue until they are completely demolished.
38:17
And, Kristen, let me tell you, whether it's
38:18
this network or the mainstream press, the American
38:21
people do not have good framing what is
38:23
going on here.
38:24
If you were to read what is happening,
38:26
and I'm sure when Senator Murphy is on,
38:28
he has come out and said, we are
38:30
losing the war.
38:31
That is wrong.
38:32
We have demolished the Iranian capabilities.
38:36
Their Air Force is completely destroyed, Navy destroyed,
38:41
and every day we are taking out their
38:44
missiles, their missile systems, and the factories that
38:47
build those missiles, and now the General Kaine,
38:52
Secretary Hegseth are leading a campaign to destroy
38:55
all the fortifications along the Straits of Hormuz.
38:58
Just to put a fine point on this,
38:59
though, is the President in the process of
39:01
winding down this war or escalating the conflict?
39:03
Again, they are not mutually exclusive.
39:06
Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate,
39:08
Kristen.
39:09
You gotta hit the gas to go slower.
39:12
Okay.
39:13
So this is really where it comes down
39:16
to.
39:16
Stuff is moving, but it's moving at sounds
39:20
like our whim.
39:22
Alright, let me talk about your announcement this
39:24
past week.
39:24
On Friday the Treasury Department lifted sanctions on
39:27
Iranian oil stored on tankers, a move that
39:30
would effectively allow Iran to get more than
39:33
$14 billion of oil revenue.
39:36
Why is the U.S. helping to fund
39:39
a country that it's currently at war with?
39:41
Again, Kristen, why don't we have...
39:44
Hold on.
39:44
Who is she talking about, Russia or Iran?
39:48
Iran, actually.
39:49
Okay.
39:50
The U.S. helping...
39:53
Put it on pause for a second.
39:54
Go back to our thesis of, I don't
39:55
know, years ago where they're in cahoots.
40:00
We're in cahoots with them.
40:02
Well with somebody.
40:03
Who's left to be in cahoots with?
40:04
Well, I don't know.
40:05
I mean, this is, that's why it's gotta
40:07
get out of there and see what shakes
40:08
out.
40:09
Yeah, okay, here we go.
40:10
It would effectively allow Iran to get more
40:12
than $14 billion of oil revenue.
40:15
Wait, hold on.
40:16
Why is the U.S. helping to fund
40:18
a country that it's currently at war with,
40:20
Again, Kristen, why don't we have good facts
40:23
here?
40:24
That Iranian oil was always going to be
40:26
sold to the Chinese, it was going to
40:28
be sold at a discount.
40:30
Best price!
40:30
Which is better, Kristen?
40:34
Which is better?
40:36
If oil prices spiked to $150 and they
40:39
were getting 70% of that, or oil
40:41
prices below $100, it's better to have them
40:44
where they are now.
40:45
And to be clear, we had always planned
40:48
for this contingency.
40:49
About 140 million barrels are out on the
40:53
water.
40:54
In essence, we are jujitsuing the Iranians.
40:57
We are using their own oil against them.
41:01
We have a much better line of sight,
41:04
to be clear, at Treasury, when this oil
41:08
goes to Indonesia, if it goes to Japan,
41:11
if it goes to Korea.
41:12
We have a much better line of sight,
41:15
and are able to block accounts that the
41:17
oil goes into.
41:18
When it goes into China, it completely gets
41:21
recycled.
41:22
So to be clear, that $14 billion number...
41:25
What did he say?
41:26
He's steamrolling this poor woman.
41:27
And she has a golden opportunity to just
41:30
stop him cold and say, why don't we
41:32
just commandeer all this oil?
41:34
And they get nothing out of it.
41:36
It's like we do with Venezuela, why don't
41:37
we do that?
41:38
No, no.
41:39
She was flat-footed.
41:40
This is terrible.
41:42
She's just no good at this job.
41:44
This oil goes to, if it goes to
41:46
Indonesia, if it goes to Japan, if it
41:48
goes to Korea, we have a much better
41:51
line of sight, and are able to block
41:53
accounts that the oil goes into.
41:55
When it goes into China, it completely gets
41:58
recycled.
41:59
So the $14 billion...
42:00
How does that work?
42:01
Recycle?
42:01
I didn't understand.
42:03
Block accounts, and it gets recycled.
42:05
I don't quite understand.
42:06
It gets recycled, and she says nothing.
42:07
If it goes to Korea, we have a
42:10
much better line of sight, and are able
42:12
to block accounts that the oil goes into.
42:15
When it goes into China, it completely gets
42:17
recycled.
42:18
So to be clear, that $14 billion number
42:22
is grossly overstated.
42:24
OK, so now that's just numbers.
42:26
But Manhans Welker has the question.
42:29
She knows what her viewers want to know.
42:31
I mean, even Tina was getting gas the
42:33
other day, and she texts me, thanks, Trump!
42:36
Because, you know, it's kind of expensive, even
42:38
in Texas.
42:39
Let me talk about the real-world impact
42:41
of this, because you're talking about 140 million
42:43
barrels of Iranian oil, and that's just a
42:46
little bit more than what the world uses
42:48
in one day.
42:49
How much can that really change prices here
42:51
at home?
42:51
Again, for some terrible framing.
42:53
Terrible framing.
42:54
Well, how much can it change prices here
42:55
at home?
42:56
No, no, no.
42:56
Can you talk to consumers?
42:57
How much will it change prices here at
42:59
home?
42:59
Let me explain.
43:02
140 million barrels, about 20 million barrels a
43:06
day, comes out of the Gulf.
43:09
About 5 million has been repurposed by the
43:13
Saudis.
43:14
Wait, so that's basically seven days?
43:16
My calculation's right there?
43:18
I don't know.
43:19
He's just throwing so many numbers on now.
43:21
By the UAE.
43:22
So we're at a 15 deficit.
43:24
About 1.5 is Iranian oil that comes
43:27
out.
43:27
So we are at between a 10 and
43:30
14 million deficit on a daily basis.
43:35
So if you think about 140 million barrels,
43:38
that's between 10 days and two weeks of
43:41
supply.
43:41
And one of the reasons the prices in
43:45
the U.S. of West Texas crude are
43:47
below $100, and we have not seen this
43:50
massive spike as we did during the beginning
43:54
of Russia-Ukraine, is because we are well
43:57
supplied in the market, whether it is the
43:59
Russian oil, whether it is the Iranian oil,
44:02
or it is the largest SPR release in
44:06
history, done by a coalition of 32 countries,
44:10
400 million barrels.
44:11
But it's the markets that determine the price.
44:15
The markets are just spooked.
44:16
So that's why the price is going up,
44:19
whether there's enough in the market or not.
44:22
But, OK, one to two weeks would be
44:25
the pullout time.
44:27
And well, he's setting it up.
44:30
Yeah.
44:30
But does he have the guts to do
44:32
it?
44:32
This is a gutsy move.
44:34
In what way?
44:35
To pull out.
44:37
It looks like he surrendered.
44:38
And oh, there's the Americans, they go in,
44:40
they can't, they never stick it out.
44:43
He can only, he can only, you know,
44:45
here's here's how it would work.
44:47
Israel does something stupid.
44:49
And Trump goes, because here's your twofer.
44:52
And Trump goes, all right, you idiots, go
44:54
do whatever.
44:56
I'm out.
44:57
Now, that's too, too, too obvious that, you
45:01
know, that's too scripted, it looks like.
45:05
He's got to just do it out of
45:06
scratch.
45:07
And I think he's setting it up.
45:08
He's saying we've done everything we can do.
45:10
And now there's just these rogue, the way
45:13
they describe it.
45:14
The only reason their missiles are flying around
45:16
is because of these rogue generals and these
45:18
rogue guys, you know, Iranian guys.
45:22
And but there's no leaders, nobody to talk
45:25
to, he says.
45:26
So what's the point of us being there?
45:29
We've got no leaders, nobody to talk to.
45:32
They've taken everything out that's important.
45:34
They set back the nuke program once again.
45:38
Get out.
45:40
One more, one more math with Scott clip.
45:44
All right, let's talk about the Russian oil,
45:46
which you just raised.
45:47
The administration did use oil sanctions on Russia
45:49
earlier this month.
45:51
You had initially defended imposing those sanctions, calling
45:54
Russian exports, quote, oil that funds the Russian
45:57
war machine.
45:58
If the point of the sanctions was to
46:00
stop funding the Russian war machine, why is
46:02
the administration effectively rewarding Russia?
46:05
Again, Kristen, you're missing the point.
46:07
Which is which is better?
46:10
Does Russia get more money if oil goes
46:12
to 150 and they get 70 percent of
46:15
that?
46:16
That's one of five.
46:17
Or if oil stays below 100.
46:19
So they're getting less money.
46:20
Our analysis shows our analysis shows that the
46:23
maximum extra amount the Russia could get would
46:26
be two billion dollars, which is one which
46:29
is one days of the Russian Federation's budget.
46:33
But understood.
46:34
But they wouldn't have gotten any of that.
46:36
I don't know.
46:38
But would they have gotten any of that
46:40
in place?
46:41
Whoever does your research, you should get rid
46:43
of because they would.
46:45
They were getting it.
46:46
It was going into China.
46:48
China was buying over 90 percent of the
46:50
Russian oil.
46:51
And it was.
46:51
What's the point of sanctions if not to
46:53
punish Russia, if not to punish countries again?
46:57
We have no ability to do that to
47:00
China if China if China wants to be
47:02
a bad actor.
47:04
But we were substantially able to degrade their
47:09
exports.
47:10
Their exports have dropped about 25 percent when
47:12
the rest of the world isn't buying it.
47:14
So exports are down.
47:16
But there was a lifeline into China.
47:19
Now we've opened up that to everyone else.
47:22
OK, just to be clear, though, you did
47:24
defend imposing those sanctions in the first place.
47:27
Let me just to be clear, it is
47:29
a maximum of two billion dollars.
47:31
So let's have good framing on this.
47:33
OK, framing, framing, framing, framing is framing.
47:39
We want a good framing.
47:41
So we got our our source on the
47:44
ground, boots on the ground, who's talking to
47:46
that poor guy.
47:47
Yeah.
47:47
And I have a feeling he's in Bahrain.
47:50
I'm not sure, but he's in that region.
47:52
And he said he's in the region.
47:54
Yeah.
47:55
He's not happy.
47:55
No, I'll share his note.
47:58
Three weeks, under expected barrage of unexpected barrage
48:01
of missiles and drones.
48:03
It's quite bizarre to imagine our quiet and
48:04
beautiful place with sounds of sirens every hour
48:07
and the gut wrenching feeling that the worst
48:09
is about to happen.
48:10
The country is a small island, hence my
48:11
guess, and only one causeway connected to the
48:14
rest of the world, let alone severe freshwater
48:16
vulnerability and huge dependency on desalination as a
48:19
lot of those places.
48:21
While everyone is talking about a marginal cost
48:23
at the pump, we are unaware of what
48:25
unknowns are awaiting us, as most of our
48:27
countries depend on imports for medicine, food and
48:29
every little necessity.
48:31
The Israelis, for some weird reason, are playing
48:33
a bad cop game, which is quite dangerous,
48:35
blowing up gas, oil fields, desalination plants, power
48:39
plants, ports and airports and claiming it was
48:41
the US or even the GCC countries, leaving
48:44
GCC countries to receive the aggressive retaliations every
48:47
day.
48:48
See, we're not getting all of that reporting.
48:51
No, the GCC countries are trying their best
48:53
not to engage in a direct confrontation, knowing
48:55
that the US and Israel can stop anytime
48:57
they want, there it is, pack up and
48:59
leave, which leaves us in a war with
49:01
a group of people of absolutely nothing to
49:03
lose, an isolated country that survived 40 years,
49:06
47 years of isolation.
49:07
I think Trump thought this would be a
49:09
paper tiger, but it seems to be a
49:11
bit tougher than a walk in the park
49:12
like Venezuela, more of a cardboard tiger.
49:16
And he gives us his insights here to
49:18
finish it up.
49:19
The Islamic Republic was modeled over a Frankenstein
49:22
of ideologies, a mix of Zoroastrianism, 12-verse
49:26
Shia Islam, revolutionary communism and Islamic Brotherhood organization,
49:31
covered in a novel and creative mix of
49:33
eschatology invented to give a level of extreme
49:37
holiness to the Grand Ayatollah and mixed with
49:40
fairytale end-of-time prophecies.
49:42
Sounds about right.
49:43
I'm not sure what the endgame is, but
49:45
the overall war is comical in nature, with
49:47
stupid turn-based RPG-like shot and retaliation
49:51
events, huge theatrics from all parties, and tons
49:54
of misinformation and disinformation.
49:56
Amen.
49:57
For us, this is existential and it's really
49:59
concerning to have the lives and well-being
50:02
of my wife and kids hanging in the
50:03
balance for such foolish adventures.
50:05
Adam, pray for us.
50:06
Maybe a mix of prayer to Jesus and
50:08
Allah can somehow work.
50:10
And he actually prayed for you.
50:12
So John, remember that for some unknown reason,
50:14
my prayer to Allah saved you.
50:16
There you go.
50:18
So looking at this possible pullout, this 48
50:21
-hour warning may be the signal.
50:25
And I didn't know Richard Engel was now
50:26
working for Sky News.
50:27
Did you know that?
50:29
I think he does.
50:30
I think he works as a stringer for
50:32
them.
50:32
I think he's still with NBC or the
50:35
network.
50:36
I think it's NBC.
50:36
Some kind of shared agreement.
50:38
Well, here he is with his report.
50:40
So this war is still going right now,
50:42
just getting an alert.
50:43
And now President Trump is talking about escalating
50:46
it even further.
50:47
What he specifically said is that if Iran
50:50
doesn't fully open the Straits of Hormuz, not
50:53
partially open it, not just to its allies,
50:57
not just to its regular customers like China,
51:00
then the United States will respond, according to
51:03
President Trump, starting from 11.45 p.m.
51:06
GMT tomorrow by obliterating power plants in Iran,
51:12
starting with the biggest one.
51:14
The Iranians immediately responded, saying, if our infrastructure
51:19
is attacked, we will attack infrastructure, and reiterated
51:22
a threat.
51:23
This was from a colonel in the Iranian
51:25
Revolutionary Guard, and specifically talked about desalinization and
51:30
targeting desalination facilities in the Gulf.
51:36
Now, the Gulf states are very dependent on
51:39
desalination.
51:40
Just look at Qatar.
51:41
Qatar gets 99 percent of its drinking water
51:44
by extracting it from the sea and taking
51:47
the salt out of it.
51:48
Bahrain, more than 90 percent of its drinking
51:50
water comes from desalination plants.
51:52
So they're now talking about hitting each other
51:54
where it hurts, in the same way that
51:57
Vladimir Putin targeted the power grid in Ukraine
51:59
because Ukraine is cold and freezing, and he
52:02
would do these attacks in the winter to
52:03
make the people suffer.
52:05
President Trump is now threatening to squeeze the
52:08
people of Iran and the government by cutting
52:10
off the power, as Dominic was just saying,
52:13
and the Iranians saying, well, we can make
52:16
the deserts dry and cut off the drinking
52:18
water.
52:19
Well, there it is, 48 hours.
52:21
Clock is ticking.
52:24
Well, he's not going to do that.
52:25
I don't think so.
52:26
Well, he won't.
52:27
He won't.
52:28
I don't think anybody will.
52:32
And, you know, this is going to be
52:34
interesting, but he has to do something that's
52:37
going to have to be drastic and it's
52:39
going to have to be soon.
52:41
This drags on too long.
52:42
He's got to, you know, if you look
52:44
at the timing of the whole thing, he's
52:45
got to be out of this thing so
52:47
he could take a victory lap, you know,
52:49
Mission Accomplished style BS, you know, victory lap
52:54
so he can change the focus of the
52:56
country to that, because we're still dealing with
52:59
the primaries coming up and the focus of
53:02
the country by July 4th has to be
53:04
on the 250th anniversary of the country.
53:07
Yes.
53:07
No, we have to have victory by then.
53:08
That's got to be.
53:09
Yeah.
53:09
We've got to have victory.
53:10
Yeah.
53:10
Got to have it by then.
53:12
And you've got to wind this down.
53:13
But you, I think getting out saying that
53:16
no one's going to help us and.
53:19
OK, well, then what we should have done.
53:22
Then what was the point?
53:24
It was a mistake.
53:26
So this is just the exit.
53:28
This is just a cover up.
53:30
What was so positioning everything in the region?
53:34
It was a mistake.
53:35
So why?
53:37
I don't understand.
53:38
What was the intended goal?
53:40
Well, the intended goal was to to end
53:43
for once and for all all the nuke
53:45
nuclear capabilities.
53:47
So they won't have a bomb.
53:48
I mean, Trump said that in the clip
53:50
we played earlier and they've done that.
53:53
So that's been accomplished.
53:55
What more do we need to be doing
53:56
there?
53:58
Well, I thought this was more about China
54:01
and making them pay retail instead of wholesale
54:05
and getting all the bad elements out.
54:08
Well, you know, you can't win them all.
54:12
This is the one thing that we don't
54:14
seem to realize.
54:15
You can't win them all.
54:19
Right.
54:20
But this gives a lot of credence to
54:21
the people who are running around saying that
54:24
Bibi Netanyahu told Trump to do this.
54:27
Well, they could do that all day.
54:29
That's not going to end no matter.
54:32
It's well, it's not about Trump.
54:35
It's about the Republican Party.
54:37
It's about splitting, splitting the base and getting
54:40
people to definitely not vote for Republicans who
54:44
are all in on Israel and all in
54:46
on Trump.
54:47
And I think it's having success.
54:50
Yeah, it is.
54:51
That's why Trump's got to take action here
54:53
and reverse course.
54:56
And he'll take a beating for it for
54:58
a while, but it's by the time July
54:59
4th rolls around and you get to celebrate
55:02
the country.
55:03
No, no, he's no, he has to do
55:05
something about Israel.
55:06
That's irreparable.
55:08
Well, he has to, but it's got to
55:09
have to be something they they'll do the
55:12
way they're going.
55:13
It's it's that's got to be the easy
55:15
part.
55:16
I don't think so.
55:18
I really don't.
55:19
I mean, I've been following this for months
55:22
now and it's no, I don't.
55:24
Half of our audience has left because we
55:27
don't agree that Israel controls America and Trump.
55:32
Yeah, I know.
55:33
Well, they're they're very foolish.
55:35
So Tucker is the he's at he's he's
55:40
the nucleus of this.
55:42
It's abundantly clear.
55:45
He is the guy that had that has
55:47
everybody on who is against Israel.
55:50
He is agreeing.
55:51
You know, he's got your your favorite guy
55:54
there.
55:55
What's his name?
55:57
Nick Fuentes, who is who is now he's
56:02
now proclaiming we are only back on Tucker's
56:04
show after.
56:05
No, no, no, no, no, no.
56:06
But but Fuentes is, you know, he's trending
56:09
again and he's like, we're under occupation.
56:12
The United States is occupied by a foreign
56:14
nation.
56:15
Yeah.
56:16
And you've got Candace and you've got, you
56:19
know, Megyn Kelly and Megyn Kelly's fighting with
56:22
the great one with Mark Levin, the great
56:23
one.
56:24
And Mark Levin and the whole thing is
56:27
one big mess.
56:32
And you know, and you and I, we've
56:34
talked about Tucker being a member of the
56:36
Pilgrim Society.
56:36
We've joked about it being a member of
56:38
the Pilgrim Society.
56:39
It's not a joke.
56:40
He is.
56:41
Well, there's no evidence of that.
56:42
But I mean, it it seems that way.
56:46
You want to just explain the Pilgrim Society
56:48
so people know what that is.
56:49
It's been around for a hundred years.
56:51
It's one of those secret societies of old
56:53
timers that, you know, I don't know what
56:58
they do.
56:58
It's just one of these things is the
57:00
Pilgrim Society.
57:01
Yeah.
57:01
But they're pro-UK, pro-Britain.
57:04
Yeah.
57:04
They're they're they're basically monarchists.
57:07
Yes.
57:08
And and I'm always looking to see, can
57:10
I how can I I mean, besides the
57:12
fact that Tucker always instead of he always
57:15
says, rather, I'd rather do this rather rather
57:18
than that.
57:19
I'm always looking at where's his Anglo Anglophile
57:22
roots.
57:23
You actually want to look at his parents
57:25
to get a little more insight to that,
57:26
in particular, his mom's family before his dad
57:30
divorced her.
57:32
You know, they were big commodity people in
57:35
Britain.
57:36
But I got this interview where here's Tucker,
57:40
just a podcaster, talks about what he does
57:43
in the wintertime.
57:44
You know, some of us go to to
57:45
Martha's Vineyard, some of us do do certain
57:49
things.
57:50
He is definitely more elitist than he lets
57:53
on.
57:53
What does your gut tell you right now
57:55
about the Gulf Arab countries?
57:57
Because as you know, there is some dispute
57:59
between Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, the UAE.
58:02
What does your gut tell you about this?
58:04
I've been having this conversation in the wintertime,
58:08
usually travel around or always travel around and
58:11
see friends, have dinner and stuff.
58:14
And John, in the wintertime, do you travel
58:16
around and see friends and have dinner and
58:18
stuff?
58:19
Or do you do you do other things?
58:21
My buddy said we all do a whole
58:22
group of us.
58:23
We we jump in a rock and roll
58:26
bus.
58:29
I mean, what do I really think?
58:31
I mean, there is, of course, a dispute
58:32
going on.
58:33
Let me ask you this.
58:34
If someone asks you to identify yourself and
58:37
I'm not talking about your gender or sexuality,
58:39
what would you say you are?
58:40
What country are you from?
58:42
Who are you?
58:43
I'm an American.
58:44
You're an American.
58:45
OK, thank you.
58:45
I'm an American.
58:46
That's what I would say.
58:47
What are you?
58:48
I'm an American.
58:49
Some kind.
58:50
I do not get involved in intra-Arab
58:51
disputes.
58:52
I don't speak Arabic.
58:53
I don't understand it.
58:54
I like everybody.
58:56
I've been in all three of those countries
58:57
in the last 10 days.
58:59
I like them all.
59:01
I would never get involved.
59:02
But big picture as an outsider, as an
59:04
Anglo, as an American English speaker.
59:06
I'm sorry, as an Anglo?
59:08
I've never said that in my life.
59:10
Of course not.
59:11
Who says that?
59:13
Pilgrims.
59:13
I'm an Anglo.
59:14
Pilgrims say that.
59:16
I mean, a few of the Chicanos around
59:19
here might call me that.
59:20
I'm an Anglo.
59:21
And he quickly corrects, I'm an American.
59:23
I like them all.
59:25
I would never get involved.
59:26
But big picture as an outsider, as an
59:28
Anglo, as an American English speaker.
59:30
English speaker.
59:31
I see things in terms of power balance.
59:34
So, when he pops up, you know, we
59:37
got Joe Kent and Joe Kent resigns and
59:41
he immediately goes on Tucker's show.
59:43
He's on every single show, I might add.
59:47
Have you followed what this Joe Kent guy
59:49
is doing?
59:51
Yeah, it's like he was, like somebody gave
59:54
him the call and activated the cell.
59:58
Yes, listen to him on Scott Horton's show,
1:00:00
Mr. Anti-War.
1:00:01
Now, do you think that plan A was
1:00:03
to parachute the monarch Reza Pahlavi, the grandson,
1:00:07
in there?
1:00:07
Or it was really the Israeli goal was
1:00:10
just convince Trump to get it started and
1:00:11
the plan is destroy Persia?
1:00:15
The Israelis were big fans of throwing everything
1:00:17
at the wall to see what would stick.
1:00:19
So I think at some point in time,
1:00:21
they probably briefed like the monarch's son or
1:00:23
the MEK or the Kurds or et cetera,
1:00:25
et cetera.
1:00:25
But really, at the end of the day,
1:00:27
the Israeli goal was to get in there
1:00:28
and hammer the regime, kill the Supreme Leader.
1:00:31
And killing the Supreme Leader, I think, was
1:00:33
twofold.
1:00:34
I mean, basically, it killed the guy that
1:00:35
was restraining the nuclear program.
1:00:37
And so now there's a more compelling case
1:00:38
to make that, hey, look, if they have
1:00:40
anything that even resembles any kind of enrichment
1:00:42
or any nuclear component, they're going to make
1:00:45
a bomb.
1:00:46
Because actually, probably now they will, because we
1:00:48
killed the one restrainer.
1:00:49
Actually, we killed several of the restrainers.
1:00:50
I say we, I mean, between us and
1:00:52
the Israelis, we will all be blamed for
1:00:54
it.
1:00:55
But really, the entire Israeli goal was just
1:00:57
to launch this, to topple the regime at
1:00:59
any cost because they know the time is
1:01:01
short.
1:01:01
They know that they're losing a lot of
1:01:02
support on both sides of the aisle in
1:01:05
America.
1:01:06
And so for them, timing was of the
1:01:08
essence.
1:01:09
And they basically work out the details later,
1:01:11
get us deeply entrenched in this thing as
1:01:13
fast as they can.
1:01:14
And after that, they basically met their main
1:01:17
strategic objective.
1:01:18
Everything else is just a matter of getting
1:01:20
us to stay committed to the fight.
1:01:22
So yes.
1:01:23
He's been activated.
1:01:24
He's on every single podcast, including Megyn Kelly,
1:01:28
where he's alluding to Charlie Kirk being murdered
1:01:30
by Israel.
1:01:32
Didn't bring that today.
1:01:33
But here he is on Sagar.
1:01:35
I agree.
1:01:36
Well, considering that, you know, our colleagues over
1:01:39
at Dropside News, they commissioned a poll.
1:01:41
A lot of Americans believe that the war
1:01:43
in Iran was to distract from the Epstein
1:01:44
files.
1:01:45
Do you think there's any credence to that
1:01:47
idea?
1:01:48
That's an interesting theory.
1:01:49
I would disagree, just in the sense that
1:01:54
the drumbeat for the war with Iran has
1:01:56
been going on, I think, longer than most
1:01:58
people knew what Epstein, who Epstein was.
1:02:01
But I think it was probably a welcome
1:02:03
distraction, considering how much it was in the
1:02:05
news.
1:02:05
Because again, if you want people to rally
1:02:06
around the flag, start a new war, that's
1:02:08
kind of like politics 101, tragically.
1:02:10
So I think that factor.
1:02:11
But I don't think it was specifically for
1:02:14
Epstein.
1:02:14
Had the Epstein files never existed, there'd still
1:02:16
be, unfortunately, a neoconservative Israeli lobby for a
1:02:20
war with Iran.
1:02:21
So it's all it's all Israel.
1:02:23
Trump.
1:02:24
This is the thing that is interesting.
1:02:26
These people really think Trump is an idiot.
1:02:29
He may not always be the best.
1:02:31
He may always be right, but I don't
1:02:34
think you can accuse him of being an
1:02:35
idiot.
1:02:36
And they literally are saying he's an idiot.
1:02:39
Bibi Netanyahu told him to do this.
1:02:41
Everything he stood for his entire life, he's
1:02:44
going to put on the line just for
1:02:45
Israel because, I don't know, because why?
1:02:50
Because he's well, the the shortcut is always
1:02:53
there's something in the Epstein files.
1:02:56
There's something going on.
1:02:57
He listened to this sticking, I think, a
1:02:58
little bit with the Epstein question.
1:03:00
That's another one.
1:03:00
And look, I'm not saying I believe this,
1:03:02
but I have seen a lot of people
1:03:03
who do.
1:03:04
They think, you know, you talk there about
1:03:06
Trump potentially being influenced by a threat to
1:03:09
his safety.
1:03:10
Another theory is about Epstein.
1:03:12
His conduct around Epstein has been bizarre, if
1:03:14
we're being honest.
1:03:15
I can say that.
1:03:16
You don't have to say it.
1:03:16
Do you think there's any credence to that?
1:03:19
I think if Trump was in the Epstein
1:03:20
files, they would have used it to take
1:03:21
him out long before he even got the
1:03:23
nomination back in 2016.
1:03:25
I just think even if you don't like
1:03:27
Trump, I think that's just kind of obvious.
1:03:29
But again, we go back to this is
1:03:31
a this appears to be a very powerful
1:03:34
network.
1:03:35
And so for people who've been anywhere near
1:03:37
it, are they intimidated by it?
1:03:39
That's a potential.
1:03:41
Yeah.
1:03:41
And sticking with that, you know, given your
1:03:43
assessment, you know, you've worked at the highest
1:03:45
levels of the United States intelligence community.
1:03:47
You said you do think Epstein is an
1:03:49
intelligence asset, not specifically for any one country.
1:03:53
So given your experience within that, I would
1:03:57
just want to be very, very clear.
1:03:58
It would not be out of the question
1:03:59
to have powerful networks like this, which are
1:04:02
linked to United States intelligence, Israeli intelligence, Russian
1:04:05
intelligence.
1:04:06
Yes or no?
1:04:07
Of course.
1:04:07
Yeah, of course.
1:04:08
I mean, I think most Western governments would
1:04:11
use several layers of cutouts and all the
1:04:14
people who could be called to testify probably
1:04:15
actually wouldn't know anything.
1:04:16
And there'd be very limited files about it.
1:04:19
It's just my professional opinion.
1:04:20
So intelligence is so strong, particularly U.S.
1:04:23
and Israeli intelligence, that Trump is afraid for
1:04:26
his life and he's just doing whatever he's
1:04:28
told.
1:04:29
That is the consistent message, but it leans
1:04:31
more towards Israel.
1:04:32
It just doesn't seem that way.
1:04:34
No.
1:04:35
Now, so Tucker, being the Anglo that he
1:04:39
is, the big interview that he does is
1:04:42
with the economist, with the lady from The
1:04:44
Economist.
1:04:45
Well, yeah, that woman.
1:04:46
You can't be more British crown, City of
1:04:51
London, North Sea Nexus than going on.
1:04:54
And she rarely does interview.
1:04:56
Do you ever see her doing interviews with
1:04:58
anybody?
1:04:58
Yeah, she she does the important ones.
1:05:00
The important ones.
1:05:01
OK.
1:05:01
Yeah.
1:05:02
So I pulled a few clips from it.
1:05:03
A dose, I think is her name.
1:05:05
Yeah, whatever her name is.
1:05:07
I pulled I pulled a few clips from
1:05:08
it, but before, just to give you a
1:05:10
contrast and people can change, they can change
1:05:12
their opinion.
1:05:13
I've changed my opinion throughout the course of
1:05:15
the show many times.
1:05:16
This is Tucker from 1996 when he was
1:05:20
still at the what was it, the Weekly
1:05:22
Standard, I think.
1:05:24
And he was still wearing bow ties.
1:05:28
This is him talking.
1:05:29
Ninety six.
1:05:29
He may have been an MSNBC.
1:05:32
No, could have been.
1:05:34
But this was on C-SPAN and he
1:05:36
was answering a viewer question about Pat Buchanan
1:05:39
being anti-Semitic.
1:05:40
Well, I mean, you know, it's perfectly valid
1:05:42
to question America's relationship with Israel.
1:05:45
Israel has a lobby.
1:05:46
It's perfectly fair, as far as I'm concerned,
1:05:48
to beat up on Israel's lobby.
1:05:50
But that's I don't think that's the reason
1:05:51
that Buchanan is being labeled an anti-Semite.
1:05:54
It's this kind of, as I've said, this
1:05:55
this relentless, this relentless bringing up topics related
1:06:01
to Judaism.
1:06:02
I mean, famously, Pat, you know, always beats
1:06:05
up on Goldman Sachs, but never Morgan Stanley.
1:06:07
I mean, it's really hard to there is
1:06:10
no point at which Pat Buchanan has held
1:06:12
a press conference and said, you know, I
1:06:13
really don't like the Jews.
1:06:14
I think they're a sinister force in America.
1:06:16
But I think and it took me years
1:06:18
to come to this to this position.
1:06:21
I mean, I'm not throwing the term anti
1:06:22
-Semite around.
1:06:24
But you reach a point when you say,
1:06:26
well, gee, you know, here's a guy who
1:06:27
has gone out of his way to to
1:06:30
defend to me on York and other accused
1:06:33
Nazi war criminals who's constantly attacked Israel, who's
1:06:38
attacked American Jews for supporting Israel unduly, who's
1:06:43
implied that American Jews push America into wars
1:06:46
in which non-Jews die.
1:06:49
There really is.
1:06:51
And again, I'm not hysterical on the subject,
1:06:52
but I do believe I do believe I
1:06:55
do believe with Pat Buchanan of needling the
1:06:59
Jews.
1:07:00
Is that anti-Semitic?
1:07:01
Yeah.
1:07:02
I mean, after a while, you conclude it
1:07:03
is in some sense anti-Semitic.
1:07:05
I mean, Pat Buchanan obviously has a lot
1:07:07
of personal and affectionate relationships with people who
1:07:10
are Jewish.
1:07:11
So on a personal level, perhaps he's not.
1:07:14
But on a on a different maybe thematic
1:07:17
level, I think he probably is.
1:07:19
Anyway, so I just thought it was fun
1:07:21
to listen to Tucker in a different setting,
1:07:22
different network, different frame of different framing, perhaps
1:07:26
framing.
1:07:27
Yes.
1:07:28
So he goes on with The Economist.
1:07:30
And this is an important interview.
1:07:31
It's the big interview because she does all
1:07:33
the big ones.
1:07:33
And here we go.
1:07:34
In your copious podcasting about this in the
1:07:38
last two.
1:07:38
Hey, we are the copious podcasters.
1:07:41
OK, lady.
1:07:41
Weeks.
1:07:42
You have made the argument very strongly that
1:07:45
the United States has been pushed into something
1:07:48
not in its own national interest by pressure
1:07:51
from Israel and the lobbying power of Israel.
1:07:55
What has been the question is whether the
1:07:58
person who makes the ultimate decision would who
1:08:00
be President Trump should have pushed back.
1:08:02
That's it.
1:08:03
Of course, of course, Trump should have pushed
1:08:06
back as previous presidents have done to some
1:08:09
extent, some very limited extent.
1:08:12
George W.
1:08:12
Bush didn't push back.
1:08:13
We went up in the Iraq war and
1:08:15
now everyone pretends, oh, that was nothing to
1:08:17
do with Israel.
1:08:18
What are you doing?
1:08:19
I, you know, I'm I'm trying to do
1:08:22
something in the back.
1:08:24
I'm trying to find something.
1:08:25
Why don't you say that?
1:08:25
Fortunately, let's just listen to my clips.
1:08:28
I'll listen to the clip.
1:08:29
But I have to.
1:08:30
Don't yell at me for being muted.
1:08:32
Well, do you want me to wait for
1:08:34
a second?
1:08:34
No, no, no.
1:08:35
This really it's got nothing to do.
1:08:37
Just play the clip.
1:08:38
I can hear it to some extent, some
1:08:41
very limited extent.
1:08:43
George W.
1:08:43
Bush didn't push back.
1:08:44
We went up in the Iraq war and
1:08:46
now everyone pretends, oh, that was had nothing
1:08:48
to do with Israel.
1:08:48
I was there.
1:08:49
I was talking to Bush.
1:08:51
This this right there.
1:08:52
He keeps saying this.
1:08:54
I disagree with that.
1:08:56
The Iraq war wasn't from what I can
1:08:59
recall is Israel was saying, no, no, don't
1:09:01
do it.
1:09:02
Do you recall that?
1:09:04
I don't remember them saying don't do it,
1:09:05
but it had nothing to do with Israel.
1:09:08
Well, Israel didn't have a beef with Iraq.
1:09:11
Well, Tucker is saying that he was there.
1:09:14
He was there.
1:09:15
He's always there.
1:09:16
He was there.
1:09:17
I found this annoying to some extent, some
1:09:19
very limited extent.
1:09:21
George W.
1:09:22
Bush didn't push back.
1:09:23
We went up in the Iraq war and
1:09:24
now everyone pretends, oh, that was had nothing
1:09:26
to do with Israel.
1:09:27
I was there.
1:09:28
I was talking to Bush.
1:09:29
That's not true.
1:09:30
That's a lie.
1:09:30
And that's why it's so important.
1:09:32
From my perspective, it's a lie.
1:09:36
It's annoying to say out loud what is
1:09:38
true before history is rewritten and he's starting
1:09:41
to remind me of Bannon kind of on
1:09:44
the outs, but trying to make it like,
1:09:45
oh, yeah, no, I'm there, I'm at the
1:09:48
meetings, even though he is actually a little
1:09:50
closer in than Bannon.
1:09:52
Yeah, but it's like the Iraq war was
1:09:55
a lie, but to say that Israel that
1:09:57
it was at Israel's behest and that he
1:10:00
was there and George W.
1:10:02
with George W.
1:10:02
Bush and and that's what it was about
1:10:04
and then say if anything else is a
1:10:07
lie, that's that's that doesn't seem right to
1:10:11
me.
1:10:12
It just seems like, no, that's not the
1:10:14
truth.
1:10:14
To say out loud what is true before
1:10:16
history is rewritten and disappears and it's lying
1:10:19
and it gets us here because we say,
1:10:21
oh, no, no, no.
1:10:22
Lobbying efforts had no effect.
1:10:24
Really?
1:10:24
We said that our pharmaceutical policy.
1:10:26
No, everybody understands that every policy a large
1:10:30
government makes, including ours, is influenced by various
1:10:32
stakeholders who are affected by the policy.
1:10:34
But this is the one area we have
1:10:36
to be like, no, it had it had
1:10:37
nothing to do with the fact that his
1:10:39
biggest donors were pushing him to do this
1:10:41
or the BB visited seven times in one
1:10:44
year.
1:10:44
Are you joking?
1:10:45
I'm not going to play along with the
1:10:46
lies anymore.
1:10:47
I don't hate Jews.
1:10:49
I don't hate Israel.
1:10:50
I love my country.
1:10:52
This has happened yet again.
1:10:54
I can give you a whole list of
1:10:55
previous times where it's happened.
1:10:57
And I think we need to know what
1:10:59
happened so we don't hurt ourselves further.
1:11:03
So he is saying that Bibi Netanyahu convinced
1:11:07
Trump, the dummy.
1:11:09
To go to war against Iran at Israel's
1:11:12
behest.
1:11:13
And people believe this, John.
1:11:15
They believe this.
1:11:16
I am not saying don't blame Israel.
1:11:18
I think Israel has its own national interests.
1:11:20
And Israel was certainly pushing for things.
1:11:22
But I think there is more agency and
1:11:23
therefore more responsibility with the president of the
1:11:25
United States and the Trump administration.
1:11:27
I agree.
1:11:27
He represents me.
1:11:29
I live here.
1:11:29
That's but that's important because in the way
1:11:31
Israel pushed him into this now, he shouldn't
1:11:35
have gone along with it.
1:11:36
He should have pushed back.
1:11:37
But to pretend that Trump woke up one
1:11:39
morning is like, I'm not suggesting that to
1:11:41
be Israel pushed him.
1:11:42
The prime minister, by the way, it's not
1:11:43
even just it's not Israel.
1:11:45
There are a lot of people who disagree
1:11:47
in Israel.
1:11:47
I know some of them.
1:11:48
It was the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin
1:11:50
Netanyahu, who pushed our president into doing this.
1:11:53
And I hope this is the last time
1:11:55
that Netanyahu or any foreign head of state
1:11:59
will ever push an American president to do
1:12:02
something that hurts America.
1:12:05
I mean, it's one thing if you say
1:12:08
your donors, the lobby, the Congress had nothing
1:12:10
to do with this.
1:12:12
AIPAC didn't didn't force this war.
1:12:15
So the only logical conclusion Tucker has is
1:12:19
Bibi Netanyahu visited Trump seven times and said,
1:12:22
you're going to do this.
1:12:23
And Trump was like, OK, Bibi.
1:12:27
And the and the logical result of this
1:12:30
of this discussion is breaking up Trump's so
1:12:34
called MAGA base, America First base, which it
1:12:38
has broken into MAGA and America First.
1:12:41
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a it's it's an
1:12:44
obvious fracture.
1:12:45
Let's talk a little bit more about how
1:12:47
this declining support for Israel, which I think
1:12:50
is one of the most significant political shifts
1:12:53
in the United States in recent years.
1:12:55
How is that shaping the MAGA movement?
1:12:59
I mean, are you now seeing when I
1:13:01
look at the opinion polls, I'm told that
1:13:02
there's 100 percent support amongst MAGA or 95
1:13:04
percent support for the war.
1:13:06
On the other hand, you're clearly a man
1:13:08
with a large number of followers who is
1:13:10
making a very, very different argument.
1:13:12
I was sitting next to Trump at his
1:13:13
house when he got elected.
1:13:15
I've known him a long time.
1:13:16
I talked to him a lot.
1:13:18
So wait a minute.
1:13:19
So Tucker was staying next to his house
1:13:21
when he got elected.
1:13:23
He's known him a long, long time.
1:13:25
He knows a lot about him.
1:13:26
And he think and so his conclusion is
1:13:29
that Trump is stupid and lets Israel push
1:13:31
him around.
1:13:33
Bibi Netanyahu specifically.
1:13:36
That sounds what he said, it sounds like
1:13:38
what he's saying.
1:13:38
You know, I don't fully understand what MAGA
1:13:43
is, but I know that the core promise
1:13:46
of the Trump political movement, Make America Great
1:13:48
Again, was America first.
1:13:50
And it was articulated by him repeatedly at
1:13:53
every campaign stop for 10 years.
1:13:55
So everyone in America knows this.
1:13:57
I think everyone globally knows this.
1:13:58
The core of this movement was the idea
1:14:01
that you would and we can debate about
1:14:02
how you do it, but you would try
1:14:03
to put the interest of your country at
1:14:05
the center of every calculation about how you
1:14:07
manage your country and how you interact with
1:14:09
the world.
1:14:09
It's not it's the single most obvious and
1:14:12
single most popular political concept ever devised.
1:14:15
OK, so he's saying something important here.
1:14:18
If the Curry Dvorak consulting group were asked
1:14:20
to give the president talking points, which he's
1:14:23
famously quite horrible at.
1:14:26
What would the talking points be to say
1:14:29
striking Iran was in America's interest?
1:14:34
Well, they had they were developing a weapon
1:14:37
that would have disrupted the world's economy and
1:14:43
hurt America.
1:14:43
We've heard that had to be stopped.
1:14:45
We've I mean, but now it was true.
1:14:47
All the times we've heard one more week
1:14:49
next week, next month.
1:14:50
Yeah, I know.
1:14:51
And you had to hear Lindsey Graham on
1:14:55
on the Bill O'Reilly podcast.
1:14:57
I saw it, but I couldn't get this
1:15:00
thing with it.
1:15:01
Well, you get 60 percent enriched, you know,
1:15:03
it means you get four weeks at any
1:15:06
given time.
1:15:08
But how but how about this?
1:15:10
How about this?
1:15:12
May not this may not be acceptable or
1:15:14
maybe too complicated for people to understand.
1:15:16
But how about this?
1:15:17
We're sick of the of Wall Street and
1:15:21
particularly the British banks running shipping, running the
1:15:25
insurance, keeping the Middle East in turmoil so
1:15:30
that they have extra premium on oil at
1:15:32
all times.
1:15:33
We're sick of them meddling in everything.
1:15:35
I'm trying to get stuff together with the
1:15:37
Abraham Accords.
1:15:38
I think I can get Israel in line,
1:15:40
but we've got to get these morons out
1:15:42
with their possible possible nuclear weapon.
1:15:45
And we've got to and we probably have
1:15:47
to get other companies running the oil from
1:15:50
Iran, which will give the profits to Iran
1:15:52
or split it the way we did with
1:15:53
Venezuela.
1:15:54
Would that not be a plausible answer, along
1:15:57
with, hey, China's been getting wholesale price.
1:16:00
They need to pay retail.
1:16:02
Isn't that America first?
1:16:03
Am I wrong about that?
1:16:05
I think that's a that's a perfect analysis.
1:16:09
Well, Tucker, in this last clip.
1:16:13
Leaves room to he could be a double
1:16:16
agent.
1:16:17
I'm listening is like, oh, hold on a
1:16:19
second.
1:16:20
So Tucker is now because he's good friends
1:16:23
with Trump.
1:16:23
Was there?
1:16:24
Oh, yeah.
1:16:25
Lives next door.
1:16:25
Living next door to him.
1:16:28
But the president, he has to convince me
1:16:30
that this was America first.
1:16:32
Listen to this.
1:16:33
Do you think Donald Trump has betrayed America
1:16:34
first?
1:16:35
I think that this war is something that
1:16:40
he promised he wouldn't do.
1:16:41
Not once, but countless times.
1:16:44
And until YouTube is banned, we'll be able
1:16:45
to prove that.
1:16:47
And the idea behind it is not only
1:16:51
contrary to America first.
1:16:53
It may be its inverse.
1:16:56
There's no argument that changing the regime in
1:17:01
Iran helps the United States.
1:17:03
And if there is an argument, I'd love
1:17:04
to hear it.
1:17:04
And by the way, if that argument is
1:17:06
sensible and convincing, I will support it.
1:17:10
All I care about is the United States.
1:17:12
But I haven't heard that argument a single
1:17:14
time.
1:17:14
All I've heard is the kind of tiresome
1:17:18
fear mongering about nuclear weapons, which Iran did
1:17:20
not have.
1:17:20
It's it's insulting, actually, even to make that
1:17:23
argument to me.
1:17:24
So that's a huge hole he leaves open
1:17:27
there.
1:17:28
If someone can convince him that this was
1:17:31
in America's interest, which I think I just
1:17:33
gave a reasonable argument, then Tucker would switch
1:17:36
around and be back on board and support
1:17:38
it.
1:17:39
Well, that's interesting.
1:17:45
You know, you've been in the hospital.
1:17:47
I know you've been watching TV.
1:17:50
But this is it's out of control.
1:17:53
It really is.
1:17:55
People hate Trump now.
1:17:57
They hate him.
1:17:59
Well, the contingency does.
1:18:01
No, it's it's it's big.
1:18:03
I have a feeling for these things.
1:18:04
It's big.
1:18:06
It's big.
1:18:09
Well, I don't think it's as big as
1:18:11
you might think.
1:18:13
Well, we're talking about this, I got a
1:18:15
couple of side clip, if you want to
1:18:17
hear something kind of funny.
1:18:18
It's about time.
1:18:21
But before we do that, though, here I
1:18:23
do have the oil China analysis clip.
1:18:25
Ah, here we go.
1:18:27
China correspondent Laura Bicker has this from Beijing.
1:18:30
China is not feeling the shock of this
1:18:32
war yet, but it is feeling the ripple
1:18:36
effects.
1:18:36
First of all, let's look at oil, because
1:18:38
China is the world's largest importer of crude
1:18:42
oil.
1:18:42
And some wondered, how would Beijing cope?
1:18:44
Well, for the last few months since January,
1:18:47
it has been stockpiling crude oil.
1:18:49
And it's thought it has at least three
1:18:51
to four months supply.
1:18:53
Also, China's insulated from any energy crisis because
1:18:57
it's had this push towards renewables and, of
1:19:00
course, electric vehicles.
1:19:02
That should ensure the queues at the petrol
1:19:04
pumps will not be too long.
1:19:07
And of course, when it comes to oil,
1:19:09
we have seen analysts suggest that some Chinese
1:19:12
flagships are making it through the Strait of
1:19:15
Hormuz.
1:19:15
How many and for how long is uncertain.
1:19:18
Where China will be concerned is if this
1:19:22
turns into a long, protracted war in the
1:19:25
Middle East.
1:19:26
And that is because China will be worried
1:19:28
about the global economy.
1:19:30
The country is already trying to deal with
1:19:32
serious economic challenges domestically.
1:19:35
To get itself out of trouble, it needs
1:19:37
to export.
1:19:37
It needs to sell its goods.
1:19:40
If you have a large region like the
1:19:42
Middle East, which is very well connected right
1:19:44
across the global south to Africa and elsewhere,
1:19:47
then perhaps their buying power will be reduced.
1:19:50
That is something Beijing will not want to
1:19:53
see.
1:19:53
America first right there.
1:19:58
Oops.
1:19:59
Simmer down, China.
1:20:00
I'll see you in five weeks.
1:20:02
Yeah, well, hopefully.
1:20:04
Well, we'll see.
1:20:05
So here's the here's the kind of the
1:20:07
funny clip.
1:20:07
Nobody's reporting this except, you know, these these
1:20:10
screwball Channel 26 is where I got this
1:20:12
clip.
1:20:13
These these Indian channels and some of these
1:20:15
a couple of robots are reporting it to
1:20:18
me.
1:20:18
This has got to be one of the
1:20:19
typical crazy stories that come about because of
1:20:23
the sanctions and this and that.
1:20:25
And rogue ships and shipping companies that aren't,
1:20:29
you know, really owned by anybody.
1:20:31
And it's nuts out there.
1:20:33
So there's this screwball story going around, which
1:20:35
I thought was quite funny.
1:20:36
It should have been.
1:20:37
I would run it if I was a
1:20:39
news editor.
1:20:40
Dead ship, unreported story.
1:20:42
This should have been reported in mainstream media.
1:20:44
Channel 26.
1:20:46
There is a Russian ship that suffered damages
1:20:48
that we are seeing here.
1:20:50
And this caused leaders of five countries of
1:20:52
the European Union, surrounded by the Mediterranean, by
1:20:54
the Mediterranean Sea, to warn of a serious
1:20:56
and imminent risk of an ecological disaster in
1:20:59
this sea in the Mediterranean due to this
1:21:02
Russian LNG liquefied natural liquefied natural gas transport
1:21:07
ship.
1:21:08
Russian ship that has suffered an unidentified incident
1:21:10
with explosions and a fire.
1:21:13
In other words, they do not know for
1:21:14
sure if this has to do with the
1:21:16
war or not.
1:21:16
But let's say this ship suffered an incident
1:21:18
and that would generate a serious and imminent
1:21:22
risk of an ecological disaster in the Mediterranean.
1:21:26
The ship is a Russian gas tanker called
1:21:28
Arctic Metagas, damaged, damaged by a series of
1:21:31
explosions.
1:21:32
It has been adrift for 15 days.
1:21:34
Moscow claims that the ship was attacked by
1:21:36
Ukrainian underwater water drones.
1:21:37
In other words, it would not be related
1:21:39
to in Iran, but to the war between
1:21:41
Russia and Ukraine.
1:21:43
At the same time, Kiev didn't comment on
1:21:45
the incident, which means it didn't claim responsibility.
1:21:47
The precarious condition of this ship, combined with
1:21:49
the nature of its specialized cargo, creates an
1:21:51
imminent and serious risk of a major ecological
1:21:54
disaster in the heart of the European Union's
1:21:57
maritime space.
1:21:58
This was pointed out by the prime ministers
1:22:00
of Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta in
1:22:04
a letter they addressed to the European Commission.
1:22:07
You know who had this story?
1:22:08
Mimi had this story, actually.
1:22:11
Yes, she had this story, but she there
1:22:13
was another version of it.
1:22:15
I got cut right to the end.
1:22:16
I don't want to play the whole thing.
1:22:17
That's got a kind of a kicker.
1:22:19
Everybody seems to have missed.
1:22:20
OK, here we go.
1:22:22
The EU said the vessel was part of
1:22:24
Russia's shadow fleet used to circumvent sanctions imposed
1:22:27
after Russia's 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine.
1:22:31
Russia's foreign ministry has acknowledged that the vessel
1:22:34
was adrift in the Mediterranean and said Moscow's
1:22:37
involvement in resolving the situation depended on concrete
1:22:40
circumstances.
1:22:42
Russia's transport ministry earlier this month said the
1:22:45
Arctic metagas carrying LNG from the Arctic port
1:22:48
of Mormansk was attacked by Ukrainian naval drones
1:22:51
and said the weapons had been launched by
1:22:53
Libyan Coast Guard.
1:22:55
Was this from a video game, a TV
1:22:56
series or a movie?
1:22:59
I have no it's a dumb clip.
1:23:01
It sounds terrible, but it's the little gotcha
1:23:03
at the end that just like, what are
1:23:05
they talking about?
1:23:07
What was the very end?
1:23:09
Let me listen.
1:23:09
Yes, carrying LNG from the Arctic port of
1:23:12
Mormansk was attacked by Ukrainian naval drones and
1:23:16
said the weapons had been launched by Libyan
1:23:18
Coast Guard.
1:23:19
Libyan Coast Guard.
1:23:23
Yeah, OK, what?
1:23:27
Yeah, yeah.
1:23:28
I don't know what what is that all
1:23:30
about?
1:23:30
I think people don't want to talk.
1:23:32
The Europeans don't really want to talk about
1:23:34
it because they have a different message.
1:23:36
This is Queen Ursula doubling down, doubling down
1:23:40
now that we have this oil shortage and
1:23:42
gas shortage.
1:23:43
And Europe is, you know, they are telling
1:23:46
people to drive slower, drive slower, drive slower
1:23:50
to work.
1:23:51
Everybody conserve.
1:23:52
Don't use your stove if you have gas.
1:23:55
Why do you have gas?
1:23:56
Don't use it.
1:23:57
Drive slower.
1:23:58
Try to take the train.
1:23:59
Try to take the bus.
1:24:00
This is crazy.
1:24:02
Here's her doubling down.
1:24:03
So we have our clear targets and we're
1:24:06
sticking to our targets.
1:24:08
Very important was the discussion.
1:24:11
And you just reiterated it.
1:24:14
How important it is that we do the
1:24:17
transformation in the energy sector to the clean,
1:24:21
homegrown energy sources.
1:24:23
This is for us extremely important.
1:24:26
Therefore, all the incentives we have set with
1:24:29
the emission trading system.
1:24:31
I think today in the European Council, it
1:24:33
was impressive to see there was a clear
1:24:36
majority clearly asking for the substance of the
1:24:41
emission trading system.
1:24:43
Also, you mentioned a few factors like being
1:24:46
homegrown or preventing the volatility of prices, but
1:24:50
also because the investment of the business case
1:24:54
needs stability and predictability.
1:24:57
So we are on track on the mid
1:24:59
and the long term and our goals are
1:25:01
very clear.
1:25:02
So if you caught it there in the
1:25:04
middle, she's talking about our emissions trading scheme
1:25:07
is now in place.
1:25:10
So they're doing the carbon credits thing.
1:25:12
They're moving.
1:25:13
Oh, brother.
1:25:14
Full steam ahead.
1:25:15
Yeah.
1:25:16
So you can trade in your emissions.
1:25:18
There's going to be a market for it.
1:25:19
Your carbon credits.
1:25:20
They are.
1:25:21
They are taking over Europe with this.
1:25:24
Taking over.
1:25:26
It's bad.
1:25:27
And meanwhile, speaking of carbon credits, what is
1:25:32
missing from this report is facing its worst
1:25:35
flooding in over 20 years as a second
1:25:37
powerful storm batters the islands.
1:25:40
Rising waters have flooded homes and officials are
1:25:42
closely monitoring a dam at risk of failure.
1:25:45
The Hawaii National Guard has been activated and
1:25:47
the governor there is urging residents to evacuate
1:25:50
immediately.
1:25:51
So far, more than 230 people have been
1:25:53
rescued and 5500 have been forced from their
1:25:56
homes.
1:25:57
The dam, which has been safe, was getting
1:25:59
close to 85 feet.
1:26:01
That's why we sounded the alarms and made
1:26:03
sure people could get over out of harm's
1:26:05
way.
1:26:06
Governor Josh Greene said the cost of this
1:26:08
storm could top one billion dollars, including damage
1:26:10
to airports, schools, roads, people's homes and a
1:26:14
Maui hospital.
1:26:15
I've looked through whatever clips were available of
1:26:18
this.
1:26:19
There's not a lot of people are talking
1:26:20
about it.
1:26:22
Nowhere does it appear they are.
1:26:24
Well, not I mean, have any of you
1:26:27
found any clips where they say due to
1:26:29
climate change?
1:26:30
No.
1:26:31
Or Jews.
1:26:38
All right.
1:26:40
Well, Robert, well, we had a couple of
1:26:42
deaths.
1:26:42
We have our immemorial segment for today.
1:26:46
Sad news as Chuck Norris passed away at
1:26:49
86.
1:26:51
An energetic Chuck Norris and what would be
1:26:53
his last social media post celebrating his 86
1:26:56
birthday.
1:26:57
I don't age.
1:26:59
I live alone.
1:27:00
His family announcing his death and asking for
1:27:03
privacy at this difficult time.
1:27:06
The actor and martial arts star was born
1:27:08
March 10th, 1940 in Oklahoma.
1:27:11
He joined the Air Force after high school
1:27:14
and was sent to Korea.
1:27:15
It was during this deployment that he would
1:27:18
begin his martial arts training, which would later
1:27:20
define his Hollywood career.
1:27:22
Norris was a six time undefeated middleweight karate
1:27:26
champion.
1:27:27
He credits Steve McQueen with encouraging him to
1:27:30
try acting world's greatest.
1:27:32
He crossed paths with another martial arts legend,
1:27:35
Bruce Lee.
1:27:35
They faced off against each other in the
1:27:37
1972 film The Way of the Dragon.
1:27:40
He acted in more than 20 movies, including
1:27:44
Missing in Action and The Delta Force.
1:27:47
And while they may not have been critically
1:27:49
acclaimed, they made box office gold and garnered
1:27:52
him millions of fans.
1:27:54
With his reputation as a tough guy firmly
1:27:57
established, he stepped into what would become his
1:28:00
most iconic role.
1:28:02
Famed lawman Cordell Walker in TV's Walker, Texas
1:28:06
Ranger.
1:28:06
The show was so popular it ran for
1:28:09
nine seasons and he was made an honorary
1:28:12
Texas Ranger.
1:28:13
Norris later found renewed fame as an Internet
1:28:16
meme where fans reveled in his toughness, sharing
1:28:19
takes such as Chuck Norris once ate an
1:28:22
entire bottle of sleeping pills.
1:28:24
They made him blink.
1:28:25
Yeah.
1:28:28
Oh, man.
1:28:29
Did you ever meet him?
1:28:30
No, did you?
1:28:31
No.
1:28:32
I was going to ask if Mimi had
1:28:33
dated him because, you know, she has a
1:28:34
lot of stories.
1:28:36
She got story.
1:28:37
She's got a she got stories, man.
1:28:40
She got stories.
1:28:41
So I want to get two clips out
1:28:44
of the way.
1:28:44
OK, that because I thought you kind of
1:28:47
short sheeted the idea on your last show
1:28:50
with Mimi about what I thought.
1:28:53
I was pushing this in the background, by
1:28:55
the way, was the Cesar Chavez BS.
1:28:58
I've never seen anything, any group of people
1:29:00
panic so much over Cesar Chavez.
1:29:03
And I want to play two clips.
1:29:07
This is, for example, set it up and
1:29:10
explain what Cesar Chavez has been who's been
1:29:14
dead for years.
1:29:15
Some woman who was his sidekick for the
1:29:19
whole time he was running the farmworkers out
1:29:23
of the blue.
1:29:23
And after every after him and his brother
1:29:26
are both dead, I decided to slam him
1:29:29
for some reason.
1:29:29
Like she was called out by, I don't
1:29:32
know, given a phone call.
1:29:34
I don't know what the deal, what's behind
1:29:35
all this.
1:29:36
And to say that he was a rapist
1:29:39
and just a terrible person.
1:29:41
And it basically overnight, half the schools in
1:29:45
California are named Cesar Chavez.
1:29:48
Streets everywhere named Cesar Chavez.
1:29:52
And this is all it's all being covered
1:29:53
up.
1:29:54
The parks, the dog walking park, everything is
1:29:57
a full on cancellation.
1:29:59
It's a full on cancellation so far after
1:30:02
the fact is ridiculous.
1:30:04
But you have to listen to a couple
1:30:05
of these these guys.
1:30:07
American Cholo is one of them who has
1:30:09
a kind of an outline of some of
1:30:11
the stuff going on.
1:30:12
This is Chavez with about Huerta, the woman
1:30:16
who made the accusations.
1:30:18
Dolores Huerta, all said and done, had 11
1:30:22
children.
1:30:23
OK, doesn't make her a bad woman.
1:30:25
But let's just let's put context into this.
1:30:28
She had two, which nobody know about until
1:30:31
just recently from Cesar Chavez.
1:30:33
She also had two from a prior relationship.
1:30:36
Ralph, she had two children from him, which
1:30:39
I believe was one of her longest relationships.
1:30:41
She had one with what's name Ventura was
1:30:45
another one.
1:30:45
She had five children from this man.
1:30:47
Right.
1:30:49
And the other one that she had kids
1:30:51
from was Cesar Chavez's brother.
1:30:54
She got with Cesar Chavez's brother and had
1:30:56
four children from him.
1:30:58
I don't know if this is a pattern,
1:31:00
but it's definitely not somebody who you would
1:31:03
think is, you know, living the high and
1:31:05
moral life.
1:31:06
And for her to have four children with
1:31:10
the brother of the man she is now
1:31:12
accusing of raping and having a relationship with
1:31:16
the brother and with Cesar Chavez for all
1:31:19
those years, for decades.
1:31:21
It makes me think it just makes me
1:31:24
think I'm sorry.
1:31:25
I know it's easy to just sit there
1:31:26
and bash the man and just say, yeah,
1:31:28
it's true.
1:31:28
I bet there's people bashing.
1:31:30
And the reason they're bashing me is because
1:31:31
he was anti-immigration.
1:31:32
He was calling, you know, Mexicans wetbacks or
1:31:35
any other Latinos wetbacks.
1:31:37
Different time.
1:31:38
You can't sit there and put your morals
1:31:40
and values of today's of today's world to
1:31:43
yesterday's life.
1:31:44
So to me, I'm making this video so
1:31:48
that we can discuss this.
1:31:50
Have the conversation about this.
1:31:52
Let's sit here and have a real conversation
1:31:54
in the comment section without just spewing hate,
1:31:58
without just spewing allegations, facts, bro.
1:32:02
There has to be something that somebody got
1:32:05
wind of that is that or maybe a
1:32:09
documentary or something is coming.
1:32:12
That is a detriment to the Democrat Party
1:32:16
and their entire stance on illegal immigrant workers.
1:32:21
It has to be so, too.
1:32:22
I think they're clearing the runway.
1:32:24
But why?
1:32:25
I don't.
1:32:26
Austin is doing it, too.
1:32:27
We have Cesar Chavez Avenue, I think it's
1:32:31
kind of the main drag by the river
1:32:33
in Austin.
1:32:34
They already have city council has already approved
1:32:37
a measure and it has to go through
1:32:38
a couple of steps.
1:32:39
They want to change that as well.
1:32:40
There must be something that somebody got wind
1:32:43
of that's brewing that is so bad that
1:32:46
this has to happen.
1:32:49
I agree, but what?
1:32:52
Well, we're going to find out eventually, but
1:32:54
the way they've done this in such a
1:32:56
panicky fashion from one woman out of the
1:32:59
blue, you know, decades later.
1:33:03
It's just it's a masterpiece in in orchestrated
1:33:08
cancellation.
1:33:09
This is not just casual.
1:33:12
No, I have another clip of her.
1:33:15
This is Huerta herself.
1:33:17
She's she's leading.
1:33:18
This is like in 2008, long after her
1:33:22
rape.
1:33:22
She's still with Chavez and she is leading
1:33:25
a march, the farmers farm workers march.
1:33:28
You can hear it just to show you
1:33:31
that she was still involved with him.
1:33:33
Well, today, we're going to be marching.
1:33:45
Remembering Chavez.
1:33:47
So I'm going to have to get along
1:33:49
with every step that we take.
1:33:52
We're going to be dedicated ourselves to continue
1:33:56
Chavez's legacy.
1:33:58
See, you want to tell me what she
1:34:03
said because I could hear Chavez's leg.
1:34:06
See, this is after after he is gone.
1:34:09
She's still supporting him.
1:34:11
I mean, this is this whole thing is
1:34:14
so phony and and it and it got
1:34:18
just eaten up by the media.
1:34:21
I mean, I've never seen anything happen so
1:34:23
fast.
1:34:24
No hearings, no discussion.
1:34:27
One woman, you know.
1:34:30
I'd have to do the look at the
1:34:32
calculation of the date years after his death
1:34:34
and just after his brother's death.
1:34:38
So they have no dead man can't talk.
1:34:41
Does this.
1:34:44
And it gets picked up on.
1:34:48
Well, so this whole thing, I see the
1:34:52
New York Times.
1:34:54
Published a multi-year investigative report on the
1:34:59
18th.
1:35:01
And this is what's kicked it off.
1:35:04
And their report details decades, decades.
1:35:08
Oh, here we go.
1:35:09
Decades of grooming and sexual assault of minors.
1:35:13
And that's like with an O and women
1:35:16
within the UFW.
1:35:19
Maybe there's something in the deep in the
1:35:23
annals, so to speak, of the UFW, which
1:35:26
is the workers, the farm workers, the farm
1:35:30
workers union workers.
1:35:32
Yeah.
1:35:33
Maybe there's, it's gotta be a, it's gotta
1:35:36
be like a Netflix thing or Amazon.
1:35:38
Maybe there's a movie.
1:35:40
Yeah.
1:35:40
Movie or Amazon or a document.
1:35:42
It would have to be Amazon, not Netflix.
1:35:45
Something has got to come out.
1:35:47
Something has got to be brewing that they're
1:35:49
freaked out about.
1:35:50
There's no other reason for this clearly coordinated.
1:35:54
That's probably Mimi brought it up.
1:35:55
I'm like, I mean, I'm sure it's bigger
1:35:57
in California.
1:35:58
It's probably about something in California.
1:36:01
Cause we're not hearing about it.
1:36:03
I had to look it up to see
1:36:04
if Austin was a part of it.
1:36:05
Of course they are.
1:36:08
Maybe there's an Epstein connection.
1:36:11
Yeah, that's what it is.
1:36:16
So Robert Mueller died.
1:36:20
Yeah.
1:36:20
And then Trump did his usual good.
1:36:22
I'm glad he's dead.
1:36:24
And of course he gets condemned for being
1:36:26
basically rude.
1:36:28
A douche.
1:36:29
A douche.
1:36:32
Well, it's very convenient that Mueller's dead and
1:36:35
it's the right time to go.
1:36:37
You know, this with, uh, I, I think
1:36:40
Tulsi Gabbard is still, uh, looking at things.
1:36:44
I don't know.
1:36:45
She may, she may be ready to bail.
1:36:47
There's lots of rumors.
1:36:48
Tulsi Gabbard ready to bail.
1:36:50
She's ready to bail, ready to bail.
1:36:52
She getting out, ready to go.
1:36:54
I know.
1:36:54
We'll see.
1:36:55
But I think the, the funniest move, uh,
1:36:57
by Trump is this one.
1:36:58
Well, onto this Fox News alert.
1:37:00
President Trump just posting this on true social
1:37:02
quote.
1:37:02
If the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign
1:37:05
an agreement to let our country in particular,
1:37:08
our airports be free and safe again, I
1:37:10
will move our brilliant and patriotic ice agents
1:37:12
to the airports where they will do security
1:37:15
like no one has ever seen before, including
1:37:18
the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who
1:37:21
have come into our country with heavy emphasis
1:37:23
on those from Somalia who have totally destroyed
1:37:26
with the approval of a corrupt governor, attorney
1:37:29
general and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the once great
1:37:32
state of Minnesota.
1:37:34
I look forward to seeing ice in action
1:37:36
at our airports, make America great again.
1:37:38
And that comes as we know, ice is
1:37:40
fully funded for a few years.
1:37:42
So he does have the power to do
1:37:44
this.
1:37:44
And I guess the question remains, does Chuck
1:37:46
Schumer continue this and president Trump make good
1:37:49
on that promise?
1:37:50
He just put out on true social.
1:37:52
Well, that's going to be interesting.
1:37:55
Yeah, I thought that was a good move.
1:37:57
I don't know if it's going to speed
1:37:58
up the lines any.
1:38:00
I doubt it.
1:38:02
No, to slow them down, probably.
1:38:03
Yeah, like papers, papers, everybody show your papers.
1:38:10
The happiest countries in the world is out
1:38:12
again.
1:38:14
Is Denmark one?
1:38:15
No, no, Denmark is down there at number
1:38:18
three.
1:38:20
Holy mackerel.
1:38:21
Yeah, they're also one of the most medicated.
1:38:24
No, number one is.
1:38:27
Well, this kind of makes sense that people
1:38:30
are happy there because they've got women.
1:38:35
Finland is number one.
1:38:38
Finland, why is Finland so happy?
1:38:43
I don't know, I've never seen a Finn
1:38:45
laugh.
1:38:48
Iceland is number two edging past Denmark.
1:38:51
Now, in the report from the BBC, they
1:38:56
show this is probably a little slanted.
1:39:00
You see Iceland, they're looking at like some
1:39:02
downtown, they've got a rainbow street.
1:39:05
OK, so maybe it's because they're all gay.
1:39:08
That's maybe they're confusing happy with gay.
1:39:11
Gay means happy.
1:39:12
Yes.
1:39:12
So it's Finland number one, Iceland number two,
1:39:15
Denmark number three, Costa Rica number four, Sweden
1:39:19
at number five.
1:39:20
Are you kidding me?
1:39:21
People in Sweden are mad.
1:39:25
Then you've got Norway at six and the
1:39:27
Netherlands at seven.
1:39:28
The Dutch have never been happy about anything.
1:39:30
They're just not a happy people.
1:39:32
So this is the bogus poll.
1:39:34
Yeah.
1:39:34
Who does this poll?
1:39:36
Let me see.
1:39:39
Wallet hub.
1:39:43
They don't actually explain it.
1:39:45
Thanks, BBC.
1:39:46
I don't explain how they do this.
1:39:48
Who does this?
1:39:49
Who does this poll?
1:39:50
They make a big deal about it in
1:39:52
the news and it always comes.
1:39:54
Oh, it's Gallup.
1:39:54
Oh, Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre and
1:40:00
the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
1:40:05
Well, it's green, too.
1:40:07
There you go, because they're green and they're
1:40:10
happy with their immigrants.
1:40:11
OK, that makes total sense.
1:40:15
Since we're going to smash everything together into
1:40:17
one segment and I want you to kind
1:40:19
of ease into everything, I want to do
1:40:21
a couple of tech things.
1:40:23
But is there anything else you want to
1:40:24
play from your list?
1:40:26
Well, since you talked about Denmark, I might
1:40:29
as well play my asylum commentary from a
1:40:32
Denmark person discussing the Palestinians that moved there.
1:40:36
So Denmark did a little scientific study with
1:40:38
the 321 Palestinian asylum seekers they've let into
1:40:41
their country.
1:40:42
What they did was they basically just kept
1:40:44
track of them and their children over the
1:40:46
last 30 years.
1:40:48
And out of those 321 original refugees, 204
1:40:52
of them have been convicted of a crime.
1:40:55
That's 64 percent.
1:40:57
Seventy one of them have been sent to
1:40:58
jail.
1:40:59
That's about one out of every four.
1:41:01
One hundred and seventy six of them are
1:41:03
on government welfare.
1:41:05
That's more than 50 percent of them.
1:41:07
Now, the fun part is when we get
1:41:08
to their 399 children, where 337 of them
1:41:12
ended up convicted of a crime.
1:41:14
That's 85 percent.
1:41:16
Hundred and thirty two of them went to
1:41:17
jail and 372 of them out of 399
1:41:22
ended up on welfare.
1:41:24
Now, let's just talk simple logistics.
1:41:27
That isn't sustainable.
1:41:29
That isn't a pathway for your country to
1:41:32
succeed.
1:41:32
You're talking about a single group of refugees
1:41:35
that in just two generations had a higher
1:41:37
than 50 percent crime rate, a higher than
1:41:40
50 percent jailed rate and nearly an 80
1:41:42
percent rate of being dependent upon the state
1:41:45
to survive.
1:41:46
Yeah, that's fucked.
1:41:49
No, that makes you happy.
1:41:50
That gets you in the top three of
1:41:52
the happiest countries in the world.
1:41:54
Because it's great.
1:41:57
Yeah, yeah.
1:41:58
And that's policy, they can do that with
1:42:00
Somalia, they could do that, any country wants
1:42:03
to do that, play that game.
1:42:04
They just have to find a little group
1:42:06
to ghettoized group of the moment.
1:42:07
And of course, they've been there 30 years
1:42:10
and and do this that it's always going
1:42:12
to be crappy.
1:42:15
But yet we still hear the immigrants do
1:42:19
less crime than the people that live there.
1:42:22
Right.
1:42:23
Where did that come from?
1:42:25
I don't know.
1:42:27
From some think tank, no doubt.
1:42:31
Let's just do a little bit of a
1:42:33
little bit of stuff, because there's been some
1:42:36
things happening and there's some things changing.
1:42:38
And I have had some new some new
1:42:40
thoughts.
1:42:42
The first thing is open AI is getting
1:42:45
ready for the biggest public offering in the
1:42:49
world's history, and they're trying to shore everything
1:42:52
up and get it all set and get
1:42:54
ready and batten down the hatches.
1:42:56
Getting new details today from an open AI
1:42:58
all hands meeting where leadership doubled down on
1:43:01
the push toward their enterprise business and an
1:43:04
IPO.
1:43:04
What does it mean?
1:43:05
Kate Rooney has more tech check.
1:43:07
Kate.
1:43:08
Hi, Kelly.
1:43:09
So that was the message from C.G.
1:43:10
Simo.
1:43:11
She's open eyes, CEO of applications.
1:43:13
I spoke to somebody who was in the
1:43:14
room at her employee all hands last week.
1:43:16
The source says that she really emphasized why
1:43:19
their enterprise business is so important.
1:43:21
This was two employees.
1:43:22
She really tried to rally employees around that
1:43:24
message.
1:43:24
According to this person, Simo said that the
1:43:27
opportunity is to now take chat.
1:43:29
Nine hundred million users, turn them into high
1:43:31
compute users and transform it into a productivity
1:43:34
tool as part of that open has been
1:43:36
shifting its focus from some of the less
1:43:39
profitable projects within the business.
1:43:41
The Journal was first to report some of
1:43:43
these details.
1:43:44
Someone close to Sam Altman also tells me
1:43:45
it does fit within his broader strategy for
1:43:48
open enterprise and have had the most material
1:43:52
impact on revenue ahead of an IPO and
1:43:54
open is going to need to prove more
1:43:56
discipline, not just talk about it.
1:43:58
And that is where CFO Sarah Fryer is
1:44:00
coming in.
1:44:01
I'm told by sources she's been getting open.
1:44:03
I ready to list as early as the
1:44:04
fourth quarter of this year discussing which gap
1:44:07
metrics to use.
1:44:08
We have reported she has been putting out
1:44:09
a more defined infrastructure spend 600 billion versus
1:44:13
more than a trillion dollars to investors.
1:44:15
And then Fryer also, I'm told, is beefing
1:44:17
up the IR team.
1:44:18
She hired Cynthia Gaylor that's Morgan Stanley's former
1:44:21
banker.
1:44:21
She was the CFO of Dropbox to really
1:44:23
help get that message out to Wall Street.
1:44:25
Kelly.
1:44:26
So I don't know about this IPO.
1:44:30
I mean, they need to do it.
1:44:32
They need to get early investors out.
1:44:35
People are probably like, you better get this
1:44:38
company public so I can bail out of
1:44:40
this as soon as I can to get
1:44:42
my thinking.
1:44:43
I don't know if this will be the
1:44:45
tipping point, but I have been doing a
1:44:47
lot of of intense A.I. work vibe
1:44:51
coding at home.
1:44:53
I did the whole open cloth thing and
1:44:57
found it tedious, annoying.
1:45:00
It's not very great.
1:45:03
I mean, you know, people are all just
1:45:04
loving it because it it does things for
1:45:07
you.
1:45:08
And then I discovered something called open code,
1:45:11
which is an open source, open source program,
1:45:15
open source models that is incredibly useful.
1:45:20
You you can make it do stuff on
1:45:23
your computer and make your computer do things
1:45:25
that are handy.
1:45:27
So as an example, you know, the entire
1:45:30
Linux system that I'm using for this show,
1:45:32
I created, you know, with with local things
1:45:36
doing it locally.
1:45:37
It's for my computer.
1:45:39
It's not useful for anybody else.
1:45:41
I open sourced it.
1:45:42
I put it on GitHub.
1:45:43
But, you know, I don't know if anyone
1:45:44
cares.
1:45:45
Ben Rose actually said something interesting to me
1:45:47
the other day.
1:45:48
He says, if I create a piece of
1:45:50
software that just solves one problem for me,
1:45:53
that's great.
1:45:54
I don't need to have some software company
1:45:57
like Microsoft.
1:45:58
So an example would be Windows Office.
1:46:02
Like I need something that creates documents compatible
1:46:05
with Microsoft Office.
1:46:07
I don't need the ribbon.
1:46:08
I don't need Clippy.
1:46:09
I don't need Zippy.
1:46:10
I don't need all of this stuff.
1:46:12
Just just do that.
1:46:14
And these local programs and local large language
1:46:19
models that you can run yourself are capable
1:46:22
of doing that.
1:46:24
And so I was listening to the All
1:46:26
In podcast with JCal, JCal and the crew,
1:46:30
and they were at the big NVIDIA conference.
1:46:34
As an aside, Jason Calacanis, who donated eight
1:46:38
hundred and eighty eight dollars and eighty eight
1:46:40
cents to give you a reason to live,
1:46:43
was the only person, the only person, not
1:46:46
Darren, not Larry, not Mo.
1:46:49
He was the only person that sent me
1:46:51
a personal message and said, hey, if you
1:46:54
need me to sit in or help out
1:46:56
a little bit while while John's getting better,
1:46:58
I'm here for you.
1:47:02
I thought that was really quite sweet.
1:47:05
Yeah, he's actually a good guy.
1:47:07
He is a good guy.
1:47:08
And he and so I'm listening to this
1:47:10
interview and Jensen's got his leather jacket on
1:47:13
and everyone's drooling over him as usual.
1:47:16
Chamath and all those guys.
1:47:17
Oh, Jensen.
1:47:20
But JCal, who he does, he sometimes he
1:47:24
launches stuff on when he said this.
1:47:26
I don't know if he made it up
1:47:27
or not, but this hit me.
1:47:29
And and I think I can kind of
1:47:31
see where things are going with AI.
1:47:34
I want to take you from the data
1:47:35
center to the desktop.
1:47:37
See, when JCal says something like that from
1:47:39
the data center, the desktop, I can already
1:47:42
hear the CNBC people saying that two weeks
1:47:44
from now.
1:47:45
It's great.
1:47:46
We're going from the data center to the
1:47:48
desktop.
1:47:48
I want to take you from the data
1:47:49
center to the desktop.
1:47:51
The company was built in large part on
1:47:54
hobbyists, video gamers and all those graphic cards
1:47:57
in the beginning.
1:47:58
And you mentioned in front of, I think,
1:48:00
10,000 people here, just Clawed, OpenClaw, ClawedCode
1:48:05
and what a revolution agents have become.
1:48:08
And specifically, the hobbyists who are really where
1:48:12
a lot of energy we see, you know,
1:48:14
a lot of the innovation breaks, want desktops.
1:48:17
You announced one here.
1:48:18
I believe it's the Dell 6800.
1:48:21
This is a very powerful workstation to run
1:48:24
local models, 750 gigs of RAM.
1:48:26
Obviously, the the Mac Studio sold out everywhere
1:48:29
in my company.
1:48:30
We're moving to OpenClaw, everything.
1:48:33
Freeberg just got ClawedPilled.
1:48:35
You got ClawedPilled.
1:48:36
I understand you're obsessed with these.
1:48:38
What is this from the streets movement of
1:48:41
creating open source agents and using open source
1:48:45
on the desktop mean to you?
1:48:47
So great.
1:48:47
Where is that going?
1:48:48
So great.
1:48:49
So great.
1:48:51
So a couple of things here.
1:48:53
First of all, I love ClawedPilled.
1:48:54
How ridiculous.
1:48:57
It really so the people are using this
1:49:00
agents, it's like an agent, oh, I got
1:49:02
an agent on the computer.
1:49:03
It really is phenomenal if you use open
1:49:05
code and you say, I need a program
1:49:08
on my computer that does this.
1:49:09
And I had something really simple.
1:49:11
I wanted to log into Google News using
1:49:14
my account, get the top 10 headlines about
1:49:17
a topic that I give it usually two
1:49:19
words like Straits of Hormuz, Hormuz Straits, I
1:49:22
think I put in there.
1:49:23
I wanted to give me a summary of
1:49:25
the topic.
1:49:25
Show me the top 10 stories and then
1:49:28
find the top five YouTube videos about it.
1:49:31
It has changed the way I do my
1:49:33
show prep.
1:49:34
And I asked it to do that and
1:49:35
I could watch it build this program, this
1:49:38
program specifically just for me.
1:49:40
Not useful to anybody else, not an agent,
1:49:44
but it is it's building software for me
1:49:46
that for a specific need that I that
1:49:49
I have.
1:49:49
Now, Jekyll says something very interesting here that
1:49:53
they're coming out with or they they are
1:49:56
powering a 750 gigabyte Dell computer and that
1:50:01
the Apple M4, you know, Studio 10, whatever,
1:50:06
is sold out.
1:50:07
The reason being what Apple has done specifically,
1:50:10
you can load that up with 500 gigabytes
1:50:12
of regular RAM and the architecture of Apple's
1:50:17
device.
1:50:17
And I presume things are going to change
1:50:18
for for the Intel devices you can use,
1:50:22
you can it automatically will apportion that to
1:50:26
running the the large language model.
1:50:30
So you don't need a specific NVIDIA GPU.
1:50:35
It can use this RAM and it can
1:50:37
allocate whatever is necessary.
1:50:39
And so when I heard Jensen Wang go,
1:50:41
oh, so great.
1:50:42
I thought I heard him saying not so
1:50:43
great.
1:50:44
And listen to the second clip.
1:50:46
OpenClaw basically put into the popular consciousness what
1:50:51
an A.I. agent can do.
1:50:54
That's the reason why OpenClaw is so important
1:50:56
from a cultural perspective.
1:50:58
Now, the second second reason why it's so
1:51:00
important is that OpenClaw is open, but it
1:51:05
formulates its structures, a type of computing model
1:51:10
that is basically reinventing computing altogether.
1:51:14
It has a memory system.
1:51:16
Yes.
1:51:16
Scratch is a short term memory file system.
1:51:19
It has it has, you know, it has
1:51:21
resources and manages resources.
1:51:23
It's it does scheduling.
1:51:25
Yeah.
1:51:25
Right.
1:51:25
And it cron jobs.
1:51:27
It could it could spawn off agents.
1:51:29
It could it could decompose a task and
1:51:32
and cause and solve problems as does scheduling.
1:51:35
It has I.O. subsystems.
1:51:37
It could, you know, input has output and
1:51:38
connect to WhatsApp.
1:51:39
And also it has a API that allows
1:51:43
it to run multiple types of applications called
1:51:46
skills.
1:51:47
Yeah.
1:51:47
These four elements fundamentally define a computer.
1:51:51
Yeah.
1:51:52
And therefore, what do we have?
1:51:54
We have a personal artificial intelligence computer for
1:52:00
the very first time.
1:52:01
Open source.
1:52:02
It's open source.
1:52:03
It runs literally everywhere.
1:52:05
And so this is now the this is
1:52:06
the this is basically the blueprint.
1:52:08
The operating system of modern computing, I think.
1:52:12
Well, I think I'm sorry about that.
1:52:16
I think there's something here.
1:52:18
It wasn't that always Steve Jobs's dream to
1:52:21
have the computer interface just be I want
1:52:24
you to do this.
1:52:25
And it does it.
1:52:26
I think what's happening with open source, not
1:52:30
with with the big models and open AI
1:52:33
and Gemini and Anthropic and all that, but
1:52:36
with stuff you can run at home, if
1:52:38
RAM weren't so crazy expensive, which may not
1:52:41
be by accident.
1:52:45
You can do it with just if you
1:52:46
have enough RAM, you can run this and
1:52:49
yeah, you might have a different computing experience
1:52:52
that has kind of always been the dream
1:52:54
of Silicon Valley, but no one wants to
1:52:56
admit it.
1:52:57
Nobody actually wants it to happen.
1:53:00
Does that make sense?
1:53:02
A little bit.
1:53:04
I have to think about it.
1:53:06
Well, you'll have plenty of time to think
1:53:08
about it.
1:53:09
You think?
1:53:10
Because in the meantime, while you're thinking, I
1:53:13
want to thank you for your courage to
1:53:15
say in the morning to you, the man
1:53:16
who put the C in Clawpilled, say hello
1:53:19
to my friend on the other end, the
1:53:20
one, the only, the welcome back, Mr. John
1:53:23
C.
1:53:25
Durant.
1:53:27
Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam
1:53:28
Curry.
1:53:30
Why are you laughing?
1:53:32
Because I'm thinking this is like the opening
1:53:34
of the show.
1:53:36
What is this is the triggered, triggered an
1:53:39
opening remark for me, and I never did
1:53:41
get what I said is we have free
1:53:42
gas.
1:53:43
You should have said you have free gas
1:53:45
up there.
1:53:46
You know, you never threw a question at
1:53:49
me so I could do my my joke.
1:53:51
No.
1:53:51
OK, hold on a second.
1:53:53
What do you mean you got free gas?
1:53:56
Yeah, you get free gas if you give
1:53:57
him the code word.
1:53:59
What's the code word?
1:54:01
This is a stick up.
1:54:02
OK, let's count the trolls for a second.
1:54:09
Oh, he's back, everybody.
1:54:10
He's back.
1:54:11
Let's say, oh, we have.
1:54:14
Twenty one oh five.
1:54:16
No, it's not bad for us.
1:54:18
Not too bad.
1:54:19
It's like it's not like people really care
1:54:22
that much about you, but at least they
1:54:23
came back.
1:54:24
You know, listen, you can download the show.
1:54:27
I've heard about that as a podcast.
1:54:29
Those trolls are listening live at no agenda
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stream dot com, and they're probably using they
1:54:35
should be using one of those modern podcast
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apps, which you can find at podcast apps
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dot com.
1:54:39
Why, you ask?
1:54:41
Well, because then you get an alert when
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we go like it's a regular podcast app
1:54:45
with all of the cool new features, chapters,
1:54:48
transcripts, you name it.
1:54:49
But when we go live, you get a
1:54:50
bad signal, you get a you get an
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immediate alert and you can listen to podcasts
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live.
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A lot of the podcasts at No Agenda
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Nation are stream live first and you can
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subscribe to them and it all comes through
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the wonderful magic of the no agenda stream.
1:55:05
But many others are doing it as well.
1:55:07
And we are value for value.
1:55:09
Thank you so much for keeping the show
1:55:12
afloat during John John's short absence.
1:55:15
It was highly appreciated.
1:55:17
Really nice to see that people wanted you
1:55:20
to wanted to give you a reason to
1:55:22
live and clearly it worked so far.
1:55:25
And the value for value can be done
1:55:27
in multiple ways.
1:55:28
You can send in your time, your talent
1:55:29
or your treasure.
1:55:31
The treasure part is obvious.
1:55:32
We'll get to that.
1:55:33
But we have time and talent, people doing
1:55:35
a lot of work.
1:55:36
When I made the call, we didn't know
1:55:38
exactly what's going to happen.
1:55:39
I must have received three or four different
1:55:41
best of shows.
1:55:42
So thank you.
1:55:43
If you're still working on one, finish it.
1:55:45
It's never, never a bad idea to have
1:55:47
a bad idea.
1:55:48
Never a bad idea to have a best
1:55:50
of show.
1:55:51
And people still created artwork.
1:55:53
We didn't have the same type of discussion
1:55:56
because I was just selecting the art.
1:55:59
I was letting Mimi go because she would
1:56:00
after every show, she's like, wow, this is
1:56:03
tiring.
1:56:04
Like, this is a lot of work.
1:56:07
Yeah.
1:56:08
Yeah.
1:56:08
People, people don't like doing it, though.
1:56:10
That's the funny thing.
1:56:11
Of course you like doing it.
1:56:13
And she was good at it.
1:56:14
It was a different show, but she was
1:56:15
very good at it and enjoyed it immensely.
1:56:18
And she inspired the art for episode 1852,
1:56:21
which was submitted to No Agenda Art Generator
1:56:24
dot com by Blue Acorn.
1:56:27
And this was you really had to listen
1:56:28
to the show to understand this one.
1:56:32
Shaggy dog story, Mimi at the pool in
1:56:35
her bikini with Jim Morrison of the Doors
1:56:38
wearing his own T-shirt.
1:56:39
You had to be there.
1:56:40
But I liked it.
1:56:41
I thought it was a good piece.
1:56:42
So were you looking at the art at
1:56:44
all during your your downtime?
1:56:47
Only to repost.
1:56:49
OK, I didn't look at the art.
1:56:51
I'm way behind on looking at the art.
1:56:53
Well, we're going to start looking at the
1:56:54
art on Thursday's show.
1:56:56
So please submit your artwork for episode 1853.
1:57:02
All of that is highly appreciated.
1:57:03
And we always thank all of our supporters.
1:57:05
Fifty dollars and above.
1:57:06
And we're going to do it all in
1:57:08
this segment to give John a little a
1:57:10
little easy ease back into the show.
1:57:14
And we'll start with our executive and associate
1:57:16
executive producers.
1:57:18
Right off the bat with one thousand and
1:57:21
fifty dollars from Lago Vista, Texas, Jim.
1:57:24
Then he says, Jim and Lago Vista here.
1:57:26
Heard you all talking about gyros recently.
1:57:28
Holy crap.
1:57:29
That's a while back.
1:57:30
Yes.
1:57:31
Reminded me of our flight, throwing some in
1:57:33
the kitty.
1:57:34
And I may have some fresh content of
1:57:36
interest.
1:57:37
Oh, this is this is Jim who took
1:57:40
me in the gyrocopter trip.
1:57:43
Oh, you went up in a gyro?
1:57:44
Yeah, I wanted to learn how to fly
1:57:46
him.
1:57:47
And I was still in Austin when I
1:57:48
went up there.
1:57:49
And they have a flight school.
1:57:51
And, you know, gyros are great.
1:57:55
I really want to fly a chopper.
1:57:57
You fly one of these.
1:57:58
I bet it's it's it's different.
1:58:00
It's it's a different answer.
1:58:02
Yes.
1:58:02
But it is.
1:58:03
It's a very different type of flying.
1:58:05
They're not super fast, which is a bit
1:58:07
like helicopters.
1:58:08
But there's some new ones out there that
1:58:10
are, you know, seven hour hang time.
1:58:13
They got air conditioning, you know, three, you
1:58:15
know, going to seat five people in some
1:58:17
of these things.
1:58:18
They're getting very sophisticated.
1:58:20
And they are, by my account, some of
1:58:23
the safest type of aircraft you can get.
1:58:25
So, Jim, reach out to me.
1:58:29
He gave it give us his email.
1:58:31
So I'll email him and they'll find out
1:58:34
what's going on.
1:58:34
I'm excited.
1:58:35
I'm always excited in a good gyro gyro
1:58:37
trip.
1:58:39
And now we have anonymous in Lopak, Holland.
1:58:43
Is that right?
1:58:44
Lopak, Lopak, Lopak, Lopak, Lopak, eight, eight, eight,
1:58:48
eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight,
1:58:51
no, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight.
1:58:55
The my lucky number.
1:58:57
Yes.
1:58:57
Actually, I prefer being a douchebag and stay
1:58:59
anonymous.
1:59:00
However, unexpected acceptance can or exceptions can arise.
1:59:06
Have a great recovery, recovery, John, from the
1:59:10
belly of the beast.
1:59:12
Software developer Thorac Centrum in Rotterdam.
1:59:16
Hmm.
1:59:17
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:59:19
And Lopak is where they have the big
1:59:21
TV mast.
1:59:24
Thank you very much, anonymous.
1:59:26
Five hundred and fifty five dollars and eighty
1:59:27
eight cents.
1:59:29
Give John a reason to live donation.
1:59:31
Sir Scott, the Jew in the North Idaho
1:59:32
Sanity Brigade from Post Falls, Idaho.
1:59:35
John, see, he says, congratulations on one of
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the best donation promotions you've ever come up
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with.
1:59:40
Another bold and creative strategy from a true
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guru of solicitation on behalf of the NISB.
1:59:47
That's the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
1:59:48
We are glad you survived your heart attack,
1:59:50
even if Mimi is on the fence.
1:59:52
Wow.
1:59:53
For a brief moment, we were worried the
1:59:55
show might pivot into a post John era,
1:59:58
which, let's be honest, would only expose just
2:00:00
how bought and paid for by the Israel
2:00:02
industrial complex Adam truly is.
2:00:04
That encouraging you to do exactly.
2:00:10
Wow.
2:00:10
Thanks, Judas.
2:00:14
Encouraging you to ditch the Bay Area before
2:00:16
it actually kills you, sir.
2:00:17
Scott, the Jew in the North Idaho Sanity
2:00:19
Brigade.
2:00:19
P.S. shameless plug for the N.O.
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2:00:23
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We run value for value.
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The hyperlocal revolution.
2:00:38
All right.
2:00:39
Beautiful for him.
2:00:41
Yes, it's very good.
2:00:43
Nick Sopes in Peyton, Colorado, three eight oh
2:00:47
eight.
2:00:49
Listen here, Jack.
2:00:50
This is a total recall donation.
2:00:53
Hall, make me wish.
2:00:55
Oh, make me wish I had three hands.
2:00:58
Maybe y'all, maybe y'all.
2:01:00
He was doing a voice text.
2:01:01
Says Hall.
2:01:02
Yeah.
2:01:03
OK.
2:01:04
Y'all make me wish I had three
2:01:05
hands so I could get three times the
2:01:08
applause.
2:01:10
Well, there'd be something to see.
2:01:12
Welcome back, John.
2:01:13
And thank you for your courage.
2:01:15
Mimi R.I.P. Chuck Norris XOXO Nick.
2:01:20
Hey, there's Dana Brunetti coming in with an
2:01:24
executive producer level donation.
2:01:27
Three thirty three thirty three from the ranch
2:01:30
in eighty eight for some reason.
2:01:33
Yes.
2:01:34
Well, because he loves you.
2:01:37
Brunetti has been you know, he missed you
2:01:39
so bad.
2:01:40
He was texting me every day and calling
2:01:43
and calling me, calling me.
2:01:45
So he's probably has he called you yet?
2:01:47
He must have called you by now.
2:01:49
Oh yeah.
2:01:51
Yeah.
2:01:51
More than once.
2:01:52
Yeah, exactly.
2:01:53
Yeah.
2:01:53
He says, welcome back from vacation, J.C
2:01:57
.D. Hopefully now the big donations from Sir
2:02:01
Animas of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia will start
2:02:04
back up so we can all try to
2:02:05
decode the messages to you from Mimi out
2:02:08
on assignment.
2:02:10
Yeah, this is his big theory.
2:02:12
You've heard this theory.
2:02:14
Yeah, he thinks Mimi is a spook.
2:02:16
I'm her handler and anonymous at Dogpatch in
2:02:19
Lower Slobovia as Mimi's conduit of cash that
2:02:22
goes into the show.
2:02:23
Yes, but you're not the handler.
2:02:25
She's your handler.
2:02:27
No, no.
2:02:27
He's he changed it.
2:02:28
Oh, well, let me read the rest of
2:02:30
the note.
2:02:30
You should also know that Adam was flirting
2:02:32
with Mimi and grooming her while you were
2:02:36
away, lying by the pool in Cabo.
2:02:38
And she was even sending bikini pictures to
2:02:41
him.
2:02:42
Hey, Mimi, send me some to.
2:02:44
Yeah, that's true.
2:02:45
Not not.
2:02:45
It's not a bikini.
2:02:47
It's a hot pants.
2:02:48
John, how do I reach you?
2:02:50
Your landline just rings and rings.
2:02:53
You need to set up forwarding or at
2:02:55
least voicemail.
2:02:56
I have to communicate with Adam more now
2:02:58
than ever.
2:02:59
Not that that's a bad thing, Adam.
2:03:01
I just don't want John getting jealous.
2:03:03
How are we going to schedule our next
2:03:05
dinner or our trip to see Big Boy?
2:03:09
Oh, my God.
2:03:12
Listen to that horn.
2:03:14
He made me do that.
2:03:17
So.
2:03:19
If you call my landline, it forwards to
2:03:22
Jay's cell phone number and she picks it
2:03:24
up.
2:03:25
And if I'm standing around, she'll hand it
2:03:27
over to me.
2:03:28
So I don't know what he's talking about.
2:03:29
All right.
2:03:29
Well, the big boy checked it out just
2:03:31
before the show.
2:03:32
He wants to go see some train.
2:03:33
The big boy train is the I know
2:03:35
the big boy is going to be in
2:03:36
the neighborhood.
2:03:37
What is the big boy?
2:03:39
That's the world's biggest America's anyway.
2:03:42
Biggest is the giant locomotive that the Union
2:03:44
Pacific floats around the West Coast.
2:03:48
It's huge.
2:03:50
Look up.
2:03:50
Big boy.
2:03:51
Big boy.
2:03:51
Union Pacific.
2:03:52
Big boy.
2:03:53
You may you may you may not want
2:03:55
to Google that.
2:03:56
You might want to be careful.
2:03:57
You get all kinds of interesting results.
2:03:59
If you say Union Pacific.
2:04:00
Oh, OK.
2:04:01
Now that's that's your Google phrase.
2:04:04
Shall I read this one since it's very
2:04:06
long?
2:04:07
Yeah, you might as well.
2:04:09
Are you going to play any like sick
2:04:10
man card at all?
2:04:11
You haven't done that once during the show.
2:04:13
You haven't done what?
2:04:14
Are you going to play like the sick
2:04:16
guy?
2:04:17
It's good for months.
2:04:19
It's going to take two months before I
2:04:21
can move my arms, basically.
2:04:23
Well, so you say, oh, you you've got
2:04:25
to read this long note because I had
2:04:27
a heart attack.
2:04:27
I could have done it that time, but
2:04:29
I'm saving now.
2:04:30
You gave me an extra bonus.
2:04:31
This is from Sean Ryan in Valente, Texas.
2:04:34
Three hundred dollars and eighty eight cents.
2:04:37
Please deduce me and my son, Dylan.
2:04:39
Ryan, you've been deduced.
2:04:42
There's the deduce for him and one for
2:04:44
you've been deduced.
2:04:48
I'm finally getting around to making my first
2:04:50
donation.
2:04:51
I started listening to your show late last
2:04:52
year.
2:04:53
My Gen Zed son Dylan said, Dad, you
2:04:56
should check out the no agenda show.
2:04:57
I think you'd like it.
2:04:58
I'm a boomer and he's a zoomer.
2:05:00
Yes, I was a late bloomer.
2:05:02
I like the show the first time I
2:05:03
heard it, but I was and still am
2:05:05
confused with fighting stage four cancer of the
2:05:08
ride that killed Scott Adams recently.
2:05:10
I don't like to think about that much.
2:05:12
So I was an occasional listener then.
2:05:14
Now I can hardly function without listening to
2:05:16
every show fully, even to the very end
2:05:18
with your lovely closing music.
2:05:21
I've abandoned all other podcasts and a good
2:05:23
man.
2:05:24
They just don't carefully listen to and deconstruct
2:05:27
the M5M like you guys do.
2:05:29
I'm addicted.
2:05:30
My request accompanying this donation, there will be
2:05:32
more as I fully intend to reach night
2:05:34
status before things go to heck in a
2:05:35
hand basket with my health is twofold.
2:05:38
First, kindly did you both me and my
2:05:40
son Dylan Ryan did that.
2:05:41
His referring me to your show has instilled
2:05:43
a sense of pride that I raised him
2:05:45
right.
2:05:46
The allocation for deducing should be two hundred
2:05:48
and fifty dollars and eighty eight cents allocated
2:05:50
towards my path to knighthood with the remainder
2:05:52
allocated to him.
2:05:53
Secondly, I request that you do an F
2:05:55
cancer along with good health karma.
2:05:57
When you read my note on the air
2:05:58
coming up.
2:05:58
Lastly, I will be making the trip to
2:06:00
Fredericksburg on April 11th, 2026 for the meetup
2:06:03
at the 1776 bar and full moon in
2:06:06
bed and breakfast.
2:06:07
I really hope to have the opportunity to
2:06:09
meet one of my two most admired people.
2:06:12
You, Adam, it'll be great to meet John
2:06:14
someday, but he seems a bit tied up
2:06:15
with surviving heartbreak at the moment.
2:06:17
On that note, I really enjoyed Mimi's commentary
2:06:19
while filling in for J.C.D. Thanks,
2:06:21
Mimi.
2:06:22
Cheers and well wishes from Sean Ryan.
2:06:24
Well, that's very nice.
2:06:25
And we do have we got a note.
2:06:32
You've got karma.
2:06:34
And I'm looking forward to seeing you.
2:06:36
We will see you there.
2:06:38
First, Michael Subco.
2:06:40
Who came in with a check from Belmar,
2:06:42
New Jersey, for three hundred dollars and 80
2:06:45
cents with no note that we can find,
2:06:47
which means he gets a double up karma.
2:06:51
You've got.
2:06:53
Karma.
2:06:56
We're also doing all of the nightings and
2:06:58
damings today, which should be quite a lot
2:07:00
for those, which is quite a lot.
2:07:02
Yes, we kept them in abeyance.
2:07:04
You know what's funny?
2:07:05
We have like a thousand nights and dames
2:07:07
and one birthday.
2:07:10
I know.
2:07:11
I thought there's something wrong with the list.
2:07:12
No, it's not.
2:07:13
Robert Rose in blue here.
2:07:15
So something's happening with him today.
2:07:17
Cedar City, Utah.
2:07:19
Major deducing in order.
2:07:21
It has been a shameful four years since
2:07:22
I've donated.
2:07:23
My original plan was to become a knight
2:07:25
by the end of 2021, but failed miserably.
2:07:27
I'm happy to report that this donation brings
2:07:30
me above the threshold to the seat to
2:07:33
be seated at the coveted table.
2:07:35
Let me just.
2:07:37
You've been deduced.
2:07:39
Some canned Coke zero and winter green zins
2:07:41
for the whole table.
2:07:43
I'd like to be known as Sir Rob
2:07:44
SCR for some reason.
2:07:46
Knight of the southern Utah Red Rock region.
2:07:48
John, great to have you back.
2:07:50
And we're all wishing you a quick recovery.
2:07:52
No agenda isn't the same without both you
2:07:54
and Adam.
2:07:54
Obligatory shout out to Mimi.
2:07:56
She did great.
2:07:57
My next donation will be a check and
2:07:58
handwritten note because I know how much you
2:08:00
love those John health karma for John and
2:08:02
anyone else that needs it.
2:08:04
Love and light from Sir Rob.
2:08:08
You've got karma.
2:08:11
Here we have.
2:08:14
Oh, it's the Indian and no agenda meet
2:08:16
up in out of Greenwood, Indiana.
2:08:20
It's from the Greenwood.
2:08:21
It's from the Greenwoods, the Greenwood.
2:08:24
I'm sorry.
2:08:24
Yes.
2:08:25
Uh, two, two, two, two, two.
2:08:27
The Indy and a meet up raffles switcheroo
2:08:30
donation for Gary Goodman.
2:08:33
Note get well, John.
2:08:35
And you two should think about having Mimi
2:08:38
as a special reporter every month or so.
2:08:44
No karma.
2:08:45
Karma jingle for everybody.
2:08:47
Gary, you know, you've got karma.
2:08:52
You know, we'll keep Mimi in abeyance when
2:08:55
we need her.
2:08:55
I got a for some reason, a check
2:08:57
was sent to my P.O. Box from
2:08:59
Sir PBR Street Gang and Dame Trinity.
2:09:02
I'm actually going to add them into into
2:09:05
this.
2:09:06
How did they have your P.O. Box?
2:09:08
No, I'm sorry.
2:09:09
It wasn't my P.O. It was to
2:09:10
our home address.
2:09:12
How did they?
2:09:12
Oh, OK, well, I guess.
2:09:13
Well, yeah, we all know how that happened.
2:09:16
Tip of the day.
2:09:17
Yes.
2:09:18
And I'm like, well, thank you.
2:09:20
But don't say because, you know, now I
2:09:22
have to send it to John.
2:09:25
And so it's Sir PBR Dame Trinity.
2:09:28
I'm putting them on this list here.
2:09:31
They and they said podcasts are down.
2:09:34
Maybe you know what?
2:09:34
They probably thought John can't no one can
2:09:36
get to the P.O. Box because John
2:09:37
is out.
2:09:38
Maybe that's what they thought.
2:09:39
Hope this note finds you well.
2:09:41
Dame Trinidad, we're traveling back from Pennsylvania.
2:09:43
Listen to the live stream of this Thursday's
2:09:44
podcast.
2:09:45
Simply stunned.
2:09:46
Please know that we are both praying for
2:09:47
John Swift recovery.
2:09:49
Please find the enclosed donation of a row
2:09:51
of ducks to to to to to.
2:09:53
Thank you for your witness and growth in
2:09:55
faith.
2:09:55
We are praying for John's return to his
2:09:57
Catholic roots during his health issue.
2:09:59
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
2:10:00
Your brother and sister in Christ, Sir PBR
2:10:02
three gang and Dame Trinity.
2:10:05
Any any any luck there?
2:10:07
Any any return to your Catholic roots?
2:10:13
In what way?
2:10:14
Does anyone expect me to get up and
2:10:16
go to church?
2:10:17
I don't know.
2:10:18
After having my ribs ripped open.
2:10:21
I don't think so.
2:10:22
Maybe you met God or you just heard
2:10:24
everyone talking while I heard.
2:10:26
Well, when I was with that intubation, I
2:10:29
think more than a few things happened.
2:10:31
OK.
2:10:33
Well, we'll leave that as it is.
2:10:35
Whatever that means.
2:10:37
All right.
2:10:37
I'll take it.
2:10:38
How about Sir Duggett up?
2:10:40
In Missoula, Montana, two to two.
2:10:43
Welcome back, J.C.D. This donation brings
2:10:47
me to Barron.
2:10:48
All right.
2:10:49
Henceforth, I'd like to be known as Sir
2:10:51
Duggett up of the sharp shovel as a
2:10:57
shoveler, scrutinizer of the subterranean.
2:11:01
It is a pleasure if it pleases the
2:11:05
peerage.
2:11:05
Yes, of course.
2:11:06
You could.
2:11:06
That's a.
2:11:07
I really don't think that title is under
2:11:10
a under a debate now.
2:11:14
OK, that's it.
2:11:15
That's it.
2:11:16
Then we go to Matthew Martel, Brumal, Pennsylvania.
2:11:21
Time to step aside.
2:11:22
Bongino, the pod mother, is here to run
2:11:25
things now.
2:11:25
Two hundred and ten dollars and 60 cents.
2:11:27
Visit Martel Hardware dot com.
2:11:29
Use coupon code Mimi 33 for an additional
2:11:34
10 percent off your order.
2:11:36
We're all going to die.
2:11:37
J.C.D. Hot pockets.
2:11:39
OK.
2:11:40
Oops.
2:11:40
I'm sorry about that.
2:11:41
Here we go.
2:11:45
Hot pockets.
2:11:46
All right.
2:11:47
Done, done, done, done.
2:11:50
All right.
2:11:50
Ah, Eli, the coffee guy in Bentonville, Illinois.
2:11:54
2888.
2:11:56
We're happy to have you back.
2:11:59
Mimi did a great job looking, holding the
2:12:01
fort, and I enjoyed the fresh perspective.
2:12:06
A few of her clips probably could have
2:12:08
been clip of the day.
2:12:10
Oh, really?
2:12:10
We're never awarded such by Adam.
2:12:13
It doesn't say the last few weeks say
2:12:16
that the last few weeks made me realize
2:12:21
that you'd gone to her head.
2:12:23
The last few weeks made me realize how
2:12:25
much I appreciate the show and the value
2:12:27
it's brought over the past decade.
2:12:30
Almost two decades.
2:12:32
Good to have the dynamic duo back in
2:12:34
action, especially with everything going on around the
2:12:38
globe.
2:12:38
If a global supply chain hit another snag,
2:12:42
not a bad time to stock up on
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coffee.
2:12:45
There's a gigawatt coffee roasters dot com and
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use the code ITM 20 for 20 percent
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off your order.
2:12:50
Stay caffeinated.
2:12:51
Eli, the coffee guy.
2:12:52
Then we have a daily darling.
2:12:55
Ailey, Ali, Ali, Ailey, Ali, Granada Hills, Grenada
2:13:00
Hills, probably California.
2:13:03
Two hundred and eight dollars with a note
2:13:05
as this.
2:13:07
Yes, here it is.
2:13:07
Handwritten in the morning, Adam and John.
2:13:09
As before, I want to thank you two
2:13:11
for cutting through the MSM bias, which most
2:13:14
of my friends and family listen to without
2:13:16
recognizing.
2:13:17
I appreciate that you read out the notes
2:13:19
from producers, along with where they are from
2:13:21
us, as it's a reminder that there are
2:13:24
free thinkers everywhere, even here in the left
2:13:26
leaning progressive Los Angeles.
2:13:29
It was great to hear John.
2:13:30
I must have such a hard time in
2:13:31
Los Angeles.
2:13:33
It was great to hear John in the
2:13:34
opening clip of Thursday's show as as impressed
2:13:38
as I am with Mimi.
2:13:39
And it's been interesting to hear her take
2:13:41
on current events, especially Iran, since she lived
2:13:43
there.
2:13:43
Yes, that was great.
2:13:44
We need John back.
2:13:46
He and Adam go together like peanut butter
2:13:47
and jelly.
2:13:48
No jingles needed, but karma for all.
2:13:51
Ailey, Ali, Ali, I'm going to say Ali,
2:13:52
Ali, darling from Grenada, Grenada Hills in California,
2:13:56
apparently near Los Angeles.
2:13:59
You've got karma.
2:14:03
Christopher Graves and Somerset, California.
2:14:04
Does that hurt?
2:14:05
Does that hurt?
2:14:06
Coughing, does that hurt?
2:14:08
No, you have to cough because you get
2:14:09
a lot of liquids during all these operations.
2:14:12
You end up with fluids.
2:14:15
Oh, fluids.
2:14:16
You got to cough them out.
2:14:17
In fact, when you're when the nurses come
2:14:19
by, they come by.
2:14:20
I got to get you vital.
2:14:21
Say I did this.
2:14:21
You got to do that.
2:14:22
Of course, every time they do that, I've
2:14:23
asked a couple of the nurses, by the
2:14:24
way, said, so what do they charge the
2:14:29
government?
2:14:31
I'm Medicare for every time someone does a
2:14:35
test of my blood pressure.
2:14:36
A check.
2:14:37
Yeah, the blood pressure check.
2:14:38
OK.
2:14:39
And they do it when you're in different
2:14:41
parts of the hospital.
2:14:42
It can be twice an hour.
2:14:44
Why not?
2:14:45
And did you get a number?
2:14:47
I said, what do you think they charge?
2:14:49
And she said, I have no idea.
2:14:52
And nobody has a clue.
2:14:56
I'm sure it's a thousand dollars.
2:14:58
No.
2:15:00
Well, it might be.
2:15:01
I mean, if it was, I would not
2:15:03
be shocked.
2:15:06
But there's a bunch of these things that
2:15:08
I have thoughts.
2:15:10
Where am I?
2:15:11
I'm lost.
2:15:13
You're at Graves.
2:15:14
Yes.
2:15:15
Somerset, California, two or three.
2:15:16
Twenty two.
2:15:17
Welcome back, John.
2:15:18
This is a let me finish the story.
2:15:21
So they come by because you have to
2:15:23
have this cough to get rid of some
2:15:25
of the stuff that's in the lungs from
2:15:28
all these fluids.
2:15:29
Yes.
2:15:30
So they actually make you cough and it
2:15:33
hurts like a son of a bitch.
2:15:35
No kidding.
2:15:36
How about laughter is laughter?
2:15:38
Oh, it's the worst.
2:15:39
Oh, no wonder.
2:15:40
OK, the first time I laughed, it was
2:15:44
like I thought I'd just drop dead.
2:15:46
It was like, OK, I'm going to have
2:15:49
to be more objective about this humor.
2:15:51
Oh, no, it was really.
2:15:54
Laughing is really rough.
2:15:57
I'm sorry.
2:15:59
Well, you're sorry.
2:16:02
I am kind of.
2:16:03
Yeah.
2:16:06
Welcome back, John.
2:16:07
This is a welcome home and thank you
2:16:10
to Mimi donation.
2:16:12
Hold on your friends.
2:16:13
Little John Scout, by the way, little John's
2:16:15
double up on some karma, please.
2:16:16
That's what he said.
2:16:17
Double car.
2:16:17
They sent a bunch of boxes of little
2:16:20
John's chocolate that they hand out to the
2:16:21
various nurses, physical therapists and the break room
2:16:26
and whatever.
2:16:26
So that was very nice of them.
2:16:29
Yeah.
2:16:29
Do you think you got it?
2:16:30
Jake comes with a bunch of boxes of
2:16:32
these things.
2:16:32
Do you think you got extra you got
2:16:34
better treatment because of the goodies?
2:16:36
It was as I was checking out of
2:16:37
the hospital.
2:16:38
Oh, I should have sent it earlier.
2:16:40
Oops.
2:16:40
Sorry.
2:16:41
Here we go.
2:16:41
Mimi donation.
2:16:44
You've got a lot of karma.
2:16:48
And that brings us to our last associate
2:16:51
executive producer for episode 1853 from Linda Lupak
2:16:55
in Castle Rock, Colorado.
2:16:56
And she wants jobs.
2:16:57
Karma, your resume has about 10 seconds to
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make an impression.
2:17:00
Copy change.
2:17:01
And most don't get a resume that gets
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results at ImageMakers Inc.
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Dotcom.
2:17:07
Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience
2:17:10
into a clear story of leadership, results and
2:17:14
impact.
2:17:16
That's ImageMakers Inc.
2:17:16
with a K and Linda Lou, duchess of
2:17:18
jobs and writer of winning resumes.
2:17:21
Welcome back, J.C.D. Jobs, jobs, jobs
2:17:25
and jobs.
2:17:26
Let's vote for jobs.
2:17:28
You've got karma.
2:17:30
So we're just going to keep this train
2:17:32
rolling.
2:17:33
I'll go through the rest of our supporters.
2:17:34
Fifty dollars and above.
2:17:36
Of course, no agenda donations.
2:17:38
Dotcom is where you can continue to support
2:17:39
the show.
2:17:40
So in this case, unless there's a note
2:17:42
that we need to read, it's going to
2:17:43
be name, location and number.
2:17:45
Ian Field, one hundred dollars.
2:17:47
David Oliver from Calistoga, California.
2:17:49
One hundred Dame Cindy of the Tito in
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Carmel, Indiana.
2:17:53
One hundred dollars, she says.
2:17:54
Get well, Sir.
2:17:56
Daddy cast Mechanicsville, Virginia.
2:17:58
Eighty eight.
2:17:58
Eighty eight.
2:17:59
Oh, these are the eighty eights.
2:18:00
Eighty eights.
2:18:01
So there you are.
2:18:02
Stephen Piric, Piric, Edgewater, Washington.
2:18:06
Longtime Aussie listener freeloading off the value podcast
2:18:08
for too long.
2:18:09
I decided to donate a little bit.
2:18:12
You've been de-douched.
2:18:14
Earl from the Marsh Braves in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
2:18:17
This is eighty eight.
2:18:18
Eighty eight.
2:18:18
Timothy Wilkinson, Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
2:18:21
Katrin van Tijl, van Tijl, Tijl in Rotterdam.
2:18:26
She says.
2:18:28
Brian Morton, Casper, Wyoming.
2:18:32
Ali Olsowski in Bainbridge, Washington.
2:18:36
Welcome back, John.
2:18:37
Sir Tommy Hawk, Iowa City, Iowa.
2:18:39
Chasen Rodzilski in Saskatoon in Canada.
2:18:44
Steve Niles, Santa Cruz, California.
2:18:46
You were missed, John.
2:18:47
He says Elliot Johnson, Morristown, Arizona.
2:18:50
And he has a birthday that this is
2:18:52
probably the only birthday for Dame Susan McKinney
2:18:54
on today from her son, Elliot.
2:18:58
Evan Gable, Vinton, Virginia.
2:19:00
Anonymous trad priest from Italy.
2:19:03
Hello.
2:19:04
How about that?
2:19:05
He's from Florence.
2:19:06
ITMI offered a traditional Latin mass for John
2:19:09
on the Feast of St. Joseph.
2:19:11
God bless you both and your families.
2:19:13
There it is, John.
2:19:14
The reason you're alive.
2:19:16
I'm well, thank you very much.
2:19:17
Yes.
2:19:18
Al Gonsulin, Gonsulin, San Diego, California.
2:19:22
Congratulations.
2:19:23
The ticker is fixed.
2:19:25
Night Light Snacks.
2:19:27
Night Light Snacks from Lynbrook, New York.
2:19:29
Get well, you old coot.
2:19:32
Scott Corey, Fort Gratiot, Gratiot.
2:19:36
I know we're saying that wrong.
2:19:37
Someone's going to yell at me.
2:19:39
Fort Gratiot, Gratiot.
2:19:41
And there's yeah, it's got some screwball pronunciation
2:19:43
we keep missing.
2:19:44
Yeah.
2:19:44
Hey, Sir Patrick Coble is there.
2:19:46
Fairview, Tennessee.
2:19:47
Welcome back, John.
2:19:48
ITM and no more jello.
2:19:50
The Franklin, Tennessee meetup was a success.
2:19:52
Thanks to you, Mr. Biggs, for organizing.
2:19:54
A regular schedule shall be set.
2:19:56
Christian Gruelich, Winterhaven, Florida.
2:19:58
John, welcome back on the 33rd day of
2:20:00
Lent.
2:20:01
Coincidence?
2:20:01
I think not.
2:20:03
Please accept this motorboat boob donation.
2:20:06
God bless you both.
2:20:08
Matthew McDaniel.
2:20:09
I miss the sound effects.
2:20:11
How crazy is that?
2:20:12
I miss the sound effects.
2:20:14
Matthew McDaniel, Carrollton, Texas.
2:20:17
Welcome back, John.
2:20:18
Lindsay Frick in Aurora, Illinois.
2:20:20
Get well, John.
2:20:21
Then we have Dame Pompeu in Los Angeles.
2:20:23
Eighty eight dollars.
2:20:25
Welcome back, John.
2:20:26
William Kidwell with the boob donation.
2:20:28
8008 in Dover, Delaware.
2:20:30
Thank you, Mimi.
2:20:31
You are a fantastic guest host.
2:20:32
Mac Conner, Estero, Florida, with boobs.
2:20:35
Kevin McLaughlin.
2:20:36
Here's our Archduke of Luna and a lover
2:20:39
of America and boobs coming in twice with
2:20:42
two boob donations.
2:20:43
And he says, God bless America and boobs.
2:20:45
Newsletter MIA on Saturday.
2:20:47
Must be something that went wrong somewhere.
2:20:50
We sent it out.
2:20:51
Thank you, Sir Kevin.
2:20:53
Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio.
2:20:55
Seventy two, seventy two.
2:20:56
Chad Hewitt in Folsom, California.
2:20:58
Sixty six, forty.
2:20:59
That's sixty six books.
2:21:00
Forty authors.
2:21:02
Then the small booze from Matthew Elwert in
2:21:04
Weatherford, Texas.
2:21:05
That's sixty dollars and six cents.
2:21:06
Six zero six as well from Dame Liberty
2:21:08
Mom and Baron Henry of Outpost West in
2:21:11
Ranchos Palos Verdes, California.
2:21:13
Fifty nine.
2:21:14
Ninety two.
2:21:15
Kirk Satov in Novato, California.
2:21:17
Double nickels on the dime.
2:21:19
Dame Nancy, San Bruno, California.
2:21:21
Fifty two, forty two.
2:21:22
Welcome back, JCD.
2:21:23
You were missed.
2:21:24
Thank you, Adam, for holding down the fort.
2:21:25
Your hard work is appreciated.
2:21:27
That's Dame Nancy of the Confused.
2:21:28
Solutions Unincorporated dot com from Awesome Town, British
2:21:32
Columbia.
2:21:33
Really?
2:21:35
Fifty dollars and fifty cents.
2:21:36
Donation made of the Solutions Unincorporated dot com
2:21:39
from Awesome Town, Candanavia.
2:21:42
Well, I got to look that one up.
2:21:43
Awesome Town.
2:21:44
Forrest Martin.
2:21:45
Fifty dollars and five cents.
2:21:47
Andrew Benz from Imperial, Missouri.
2:21:49
Fifty dollars and five cents.
2:21:51
And here are the fifties.
2:21:52
Noah McDonald, Traverse City, Michigan.
2:21:54
Alexa Delgado in Aptos, California.
2:21:57
Baroness Carol Ann sent in a note along
2:21:59
with her fifty dollars.
2:22:00
And I will read that.
2:22:01
Dear John, our thoughts and prayers are with
2:22:03
you for a full recovery.
2:22:04
What divine intervention.
2:22:06
Papa God is awfully fond of you praying
2:22:08
for the strength and patience needed to get
2:22:10
through this all.
2:22:12
We love you, John, from Baroness Carol Ann
2:22:14
of Southern Colorado and her smoking hot hubby,
2:22:18
Wade.
2:22:18
Thank you for your courage.
2:22:19
Beautiful card, actually, with a with a horsey
2:22:22
on it, with a horse.
2:22:24
And a little girl putting another little girl
2:22:26
on the horse.
2:22:29
That's it.
2:22:30
We made it.
2:22:31
Those are the yes.
2:22:32
Those are the supporters, the donors for episode
2:22:37
1853 of the No Agenda Show.
2:22:39
We thank you all very much for supporting
2:22:41
us.
2:22:41
As always, the executive and associate executive producers
2:22:44
are the they will be in receipt of
2:22:48
these actual credits.
2:22:49
You can use them anywhere.
2:22:50
And welcome, Dana Brunetti, to an actual executive
2:22:53
producership.
2:22:54
That's that's quite a big deal that he's
2:22:56
finally doing that.
2:22:57
And I guess we'll go straight into into
2:23:01
the birth.
2:23:01
Well, actually, we'll do this just to make
2:23:02
it feel good.
2:23:03
Thank you, everybody.
2:23:04
Go to no agenda donation dot com.
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Our formula is this.
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We hit people in the mouth.
2:23:16
Well, I'm going to shut up.
2:23:28
Well, as we said, we got a ton
2:23:33
of nights, a ton of dames and even
2:23:34
some title changes, but only one birthday.
2:23:37
It comes from Elliot Johnson, who wishes his
2:23:39
mom Dame Susan McKinney a very happy one.
2:23:42
She celebrates today and we say happy birthday
2:23:44
from everybody here.
2:23:45
the best podcast in the universe.
2:23:59
Here we go.
2:24:00
We got Earl Christopher now becoming Duke Christopher.
2:24:03
Sir C Sharp of .Net becomes a baronet.
2:24:06
Baronet surplus becomes baron illuminati.
2:24:10
Dame Beth becomes Dame Beth Viscountess of Baja,
2:24:13
Arizona.
2:24:13
Dame Isabel Pearson becomes Baroness of Gurs, and
2:24:18
Sir Digitup, Baron Sir Digitup of the Sharp
2:24:20
Shovel Scrutinizer of the Subterranean.
2:24:24
And before we do our knights and dames,
2:24:26
we do have a couple of notes here.
2:24:29
We have an instant knight note from, this
2:24:31
came from Sir Kit Breaker.
2:24:35
Gentlemen, thank you for your mastery, generosity, and
2:24:38
grace.
2:24:38
Please induct me as Sir Kit Breaker, Knight
2:24:40
of the Red Line, craving for some hookers
2:24:42
and blow in that order.
2:24:43
We'll get them for you.
2:24:44
We missed a note from Sean.
2:24:47
Dear Low Blow John and Chatterbox Adam, first
2:24:49
time donation, de-douche and detoxify me forever
2:24:52
please.
2:24:54
You've been de-douched.
2:24:56
He says, never say never, mofos, best V
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for V available, everybody who can't afford it,
2:25:01
donate once.
2:25:02
That's Sean.
2:25:03
And then we have a wedding shout out.
2:25:05
Dear John, I'd like to announce the wedding
2:25:07
of Sir Andy and Dame Kylie.
2:25:09
We went off successfully yesterday and we had
2:25:13
a beautiful day.
2:25:14
We look forward to having John back today.
2:25:16
All of our love, Sir Andy and Dame
2:25:18
Kylie.
2:25:19
Send wedding photos.
2:25:20
And of course, we're very excited about the
2:25:22
kids because you know you're going to name
2:25:24
them John and Adam.
2:25:25
It's going to be fabulous.
2:25:28
So welcome back, John.
2:25:30
Welcome back.
2:25:31
Can you lift the sword?
2:25:32
Can you handle it today?
2:25:34
Here, I got this special small one made
2:25:37
out of aluminum.
2:25:38
Here you go.
2:25:38
A teeny, teeny blade, everybody.
2:25:40
There he goes.
2:25:41
All right.
2:25:42
Up on the podium today.
2:25:44
Jill Price, Elizabeth Pierfontaine, Sandra Walker, Teresa Dempster
2:25:48
-Andrews, Sherry Wurgmager, Aaron Lopez, Jason Lewis, Sean
2:25:53
Connell, Jason Babcock, Steve Newman, Anonymous, and Robert
2:25:57
Rose.
2:25:58
I hereby pronounce the Kate, all of the
2:26:00
yeas, nights, and dames of the Noah agenda
2:26:01
round table.
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I'm sorry, Dame of the Fairweather Friends, Dame
2:26:06
Elizabeth of the North, Dame C.C. Mom,
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2:26:14
of the Dusty Desert, Sir J.Lew of
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Macon, Town of the Dead Bugs, Sir Hatch
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of the Western Ways, Sir J.
2:26:20
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2:26:23
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2:26:25
Line, Sir Rob Knight of the Southern Utah
2:26:28
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I think longer, too.
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We've never had- And by the way,
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when you're at the Toll Plaza, and you've
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to you there, lower your window, reach out,
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That's exactly what you want to do, and
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become a member of that sticker promotion.
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Help them out.
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They're very good people.
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We've never had any kind of agreement or
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deal with them.
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They've been a very trustworthy partner without an
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actual partnership, and we love them for it.
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And so should you.
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NoahAgendaShop.com.
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Noah Agenda Meetups.
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Yes.
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We have meetups.
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This is where you go to find your
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tribe, find connection that gives you protection.
2:28:49
NoahAgendaMeetups.com.
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These people will be your first responders in
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any emergency.
2:28:53
If you want proof, just listen to a
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couple of meetup reports.
2:28:56
The first one is the North Idaho Sanity
2:28:58
Brigade meetup from March 19th.
2:29:00
Check, check.
2:29:01
Oh, yeah.
2:29:02
Oh, it's recording.
2:29:03
All right.
2:29:04
Hey, this is Sir Ducifer.
2:29:05
Welcome to the Trails End Brewing Company.
2:29:08
The North Idaho Sanity Brigade meetup, day before
2:29:11
my birthday, March 19th.
2:29:13
And John, if you can survive a heart
2:29:15
attack, you can also survive the naked people
2:29:17
at Lolo Hot Springs.
2:29:19
Hey, John and Adam.
2:29:20
This is a dude named Jeff, here with
2:29:22
my dame, Holly.
2:29:23
We met at a Noah Agenda meetup four
2:29:25
years ago.
2:29:26
The couple that Noah Agenda's together stays together.
2:29:29
In the morning.
2:29:30
This is Holly.
2:29:31
Get well soon, John.
2:29:32
We're all rooting for you.
2:29:33
Thank you for your courage.
2:29:34
In the morning.
2:29:35
Hey, it's Sir Scott the Jew.
2:29:37
I'm here with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade
2:29:39
in Coeur d'Alene.
2:29:41
John's exit strategy was an utter failure.
2:29:44
And it's Saturday.
2:29:46
This is a Brian, Spook from Post Falls.
2:29:49
Just a big thank you to Mimi for
2:29:51
filling in, a big get well soon to
2:29:54
John, and a big thank you and in
2:29:56
the morning.
2:29:57
This is Lloyd the Brewer at Trails End
2:29:59
Brewery in Coeur d'Alene.
2:30:00
Get well, John.
2:30:01
Cheers.
2:30:02
In the morning.
2:30:03
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles here.
2:30:05
Shout out to Sir Tigger Max in his
2:30:07
Texas home.
2:30:09
Hi, this is Jason here at Trails End
2:30:10
Brewery.
2:30:11
Just want to say in the morning, and
2:30:13
Mimi, you're doing an amazing job.
2:30:15
Keep it up.
2:30:15
In the morning.
2:30:17
Who's this guy?
2:30:18
Bring back Mimi.
2:30:19
Hi, my name is Megan McLemore.
2:30:21
I work at Trails End Brewery in Coeur
2:30:22
d'Alene, Idaho, and it was so awesome
2:30:24
serving everyone tonight.
2:30:25
They're amazing as always.
2:30:27
Back to work, John.
2:30:31
Back to work.
2:30:33
I love it when you bring in your
2:30:35
servers.
2:30:35
Thank you so much for that.
2:30:36
Leo Bravo did his 73rd meetup in the
2:30:39
Los Angeles area, the HMS Bounty.
2:30:41
Hi, everybody.
2:30:42
It's Leo Bravo at meetup number 73 at
2:30:45
the HMS Bounty.
2:30:46
I'm passing the phone around for our friends
2:30:48
to have to say something.
2:30:51
It's B.
2:30:51
Dizzle from Southern California, just checking in with
2:30:53
all my other fellow slaves.
2:30:54
ITM gentlemen, Sir Mainframe here.
2:30:57
First, thank you, Mimi.
2:30:59
You were awesome.
2:31:00
I'm waiting for the tell-all book to
2:31:01
come out.
2:31:02
John, welcome back.
2:31:04
You sounded great the other day.
2:31:05
You sounded younger and healthier.
2:31:07
As far as your next sick day, what
2:31:10
are the last words in the foreman project?
2:31:13
Oh, yeah, never.
2:31:14
Hi, this is Dame Laura of the Golden
2:31:16
Mean.
2:31:17
Came down to see the fabulous Leo Bravo
2:31:19
and friends, and I came down from Washington
2:31:22
State due to climate change.
2:31:26
I walked in and came down Washington State
2:31:29
to see the friends.
2:31:32
Hey, guys, this is Slick Rick, and there's
2:31:34
some asymmetrical drinking going on here.
2:31:37
John C.
2:31:38
Dvorak.
2:31:38
Dvorak, very good to have you back.
2:31:41
It's like you never left.
2:31:43
You were always there in spirit, and we
2:31:45
can always smell you, too.
2:31:47
The camera adds 10 pounds, so we're editing.
2:31:50
We're going to edit.
2:31:52
In the morning.
2:31:56
Oh, man, that's a good crew there in
2:31:58
Los Angeles.
2:31:58
I'm always surprised by how fun they sound.
2:32:01
And then, finally, the march meetup from the
2:32:04
indie group Indianapolis, Indiana with Sir Mark and
2:32:08
Dame Maria.
2:32:08
And, of course, they have a fabulous report
2:32:10
for us.
2:32:11
Sir Mark here next to the beautiful Dame
2:32:14
Maria.
2:32:14
Dame Maria here.
2:32:15
John, we're praying for you.
2:32:17
Get well fast.
2:32:18
Mimi, you are amazing.
2:32:20
Adam, thank you for everything you're doing.
2:32:22
We love you guys.
2:32:23
Hey, Gary here.
2:32:24
John, I know you want to tell us
2:32:25
about the hospital food, but really all we
2:32:27
want to hear about is the hot nurses
2:32:28
in the sponge bath.
2:32:29
Hi, it's Diane.
2:32:31
Get well soon, because you are missed.
2:32:33
Emily LaFette here.
2:32:34
Hey, can we just have John, Adam, and
2:32:36
Mimi together on the show?
2:32:37
Sir Benny here.
2:32:38
John, you and I are about the same
2:32:39
age, and you know what?
2:32:41
My balls are killing me, too.
2:32:43
Risky here.
2:32:44
On that point, I'll pass on that one.
2:32:46
Just drinking some beers here, though.
2:32:47
Nader from Indianapolis.
2:32:49
I'm still in shock by what Benny said
2:32:51
there.
2:32:51
This is Nick here.
2:32:53
I'm in shock that Dame Swanee's ringtone is
2:32:56
Nights in White Satin by Moody Blues.
2:32:59
Dame Swanee, Nights in White Satin.
2:33:02
Leave a message.
2:33:03
Hi, my name is Bailey.
2:33:05
I'm the server here at Blind Out Brewery.
2:33:07
It's serving the wonderful No Agenda group.
2:33:09
We've had so much fun today.
2:33:11
I'm very glad I finally got to meet
2:33:12
these guys.
2:33:13
Absolutely awesome group of people.
2:33:15
Long live Buzzkill!
2:33:17
Viva la Buzzkill!
2:33:19
I'm convinced now that servers at No Agenda
2:33:22
meetups are hot.
2:33:24
They all sound super hot.
2:33:27
You gotta check these meetups out by going
2:33:30
to one.
2:33:31
And you find them at noagendameetups.com and
2:33:34
we have one taking place today at the
2:33:37
Alibi Room.
2:33:38
In fact, underway in an hour or two.
2:33:42
And that is in Vancouver, British Columbia, Candanavia.
2:33:50
Get that flamma, get that liquid out.
2:33:53
Come on, you can do it.
2:33:54
A lot of meetups taking place on the
2:33:56
28th of March.
2:33:57
Coleyville, Texas.
2:33:58
Columbus, Ohio.
2:33:59
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
2:34:00
Beachwood, Victoria.
2:34:01
That's Australia.
2:34:02
And Fukuoka, Kyushu.
2:34:06
We got a lot of Japanese, Japan meetups
2:34:09
coming up.
2:34:09
I like it.
2:34:11
I'm not sure why, but I like it.
2:34:13
Hey, we got some LNG coming your way,
2:34:14
people.
2:34:15
We're gonna take care of you.
2:34:16
April 2nd is Raleigh, North Carolina.
2:34:19
April 4th, Osaka, Japan.
2:34:21
April 11th is a big one, Eagle, Idaho.
2:34:23
Albany, California.
2:34:24
Do you think you're gonna make it, John?
2:34:25
Or is that maybe a little too soon?
2:34:28
I can't say.
2:34:29
Okay.
2:34:30
But we will say as the date comes
2:34:32
closer.
2:34:33
Lafayette, Louisiana.
2:34:34
And April 11th, also Fredericksburg, Texas.
2:34:37
Tina the Keeper and I will be there.
2:34:38
And a host of celebrities that you will
2:34:40
know.
2:34:41
I'm gonna see if I can get Pastor
2:34:42
Jimmy out there.
2:34:43
We'll get Matt Long.
2:34:44
He and his wife Gail are always organizing
2:34:46
it.
2:34:47
So it should be a good hootenanny at
2:34:48
J6 or Jenny's place.
2:34:50
16th of April, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2:34:52
April 25th, Scheveningen in the Netherlands.
2:34:55
Buda, Texas.
2:34:55
A new location, I think.
2:34:57
On May 8th, Leiden in the Netherlands.
2:34:59
On the 8th, Santa Rosa, California.
2:35:01
9th, Eagle, Idaho again.
2:35:02
On May 9th, many more meetups to be
2:35:05
had and to be found at noagendameetups.com.
2:35:07
You will not regret going to one of
2:35:09
these.
2:35:10
It's not like TEDx.
2:35:11
No license or anything like that.
2:35:13
You just get together.
2:35:14
You put it on noagendameetups.com.
2:35:16
People come and you have a good time.
2:35:18
If you can't find one near you, start
2:35:20
one yourself.
2:35:21
It's easy and a party.
2:35:40
It's like a party.
2:35:42
Well, well.
2:35:43
Just like a party, we have John's tip
2:35:46
of the day coming up.
2:35:47
Which turns out is really Mimi's tip of
2:35:49
the day.
2:35:49
I'm convinced that Mimi does all of these.
2:35:51
I don't know if you actually...
2:35:52
Do you do any of them or is
2:35:53
it all Mimi?
2:35:54
How much of you is Mimi?
2:35:57
What?
2:36:00
So I would say that yes, this is
2:36:02
hers.
2:36:03
She said, can I do tip of the
2:36:04
day?
2:36:05
I said, sure.
2:36:06
We got to do ISOs first.
2:36:09
Wait, before...
2:36:10
No, tip of the day is mine.
2:36:12
I'm talking about the ISOs.
2:36:14
Now, I'm going to tell you something.
2:36:16
She says, I'm going to send you some.
2:36:18
I said, okay.
2:36:19
She sends me 12.
2:36:23
Of which 11 were no good.
2:36:25
11 were like this.
2:36:28
And so I picked one and I said
2:36:32
I picked one and she's very disappointed.
2:36:35
But I'll get back to the AI next
2:36:37
show or the show after.
2:36:39
Okay, shall I play yours first or mine?
2:36:42
Yeah, I might as well play mine.
2:36:43
I almost spit out my coffee.
2:36:46
Oh, it's a little cut off there at
2:36:48
the end.
2:36:49
That's disappointing.
2:36:52
I've got a couple here.
2:36:53
Good job, guys.
2:36:54
Thank you.
2:36:57
They kind of liked it.
2:36:58
They thought it was cool and I was
2:36:59
like, okay.
2:37:01
But maybe this is more up your alley.
2:37:04
Okay, cut me the checks.
2:37:06
How about that?
2:37:08
That's cute, but I like the first one
2:37:10
the best.
2:37:11
Good job, guys.
2:37:13
Thank you.
2:37:14
Oh, we'll use that one then.
2:37:16
But first, it is time.
2:37:17
He's back in the saddle.
2:37:19
It is John C.
2:37:20
Dvorak's tip of the day.
2:37:21
Great advice for you and me.
2:37:24
Just a tip with JCD.
2:37:28
And sometimes I don't know.
2:37:31
Now this is a screwball tip.
2:37:33
So when you're in the hospital, you listen
2:37:35
to a lot of books on tape.
2:37:37
Is that what you do?
2:37:38
How about podcasts?
2:37:38
How about the best podcast in the universe?
2:37:40
Well, I would listen to that, but books
2:37:42
on tape go six hours one after another.
2:37:45
But I have to say, you wouldn't expect
2:37:49
this to be the one I was going
2:37:50
to pick.
2:37:51
It's called Elizabeth II, Life of a Monarch.
2:37:55
Wow.
2:37:58
I have to say, this was stuck on
2:38:01
the phone.
2:38:02
Jay was setting me up with some books
2:38:04
to listen to and somehow this got on
2:38:06
there.
2:38:06
I don't know.
2:38:07
Who gives a crap about Elizabeth?
2:38:11
But Jay insisted.
2:38:13
No, no, she didn't insist.
2:38:14
It just was on there.
2:38:16
And I couldn't get something else to play
2:38:17
or wouldn't download or you can't stream in
2:38:20
the hospital, whatever.
2:38:22
So I ended up starting to listen to
2:38:26
this thing.
2:38:26
Now see, the problem is if you go
2:38:29
to Amazon, the editor's pick, which is Elizabeth
2:38:32
the Queen, Life of a Modern Monarch is
2:38:34
an audiobook only.
2:38:36
And then there's Elizabeth II in private.
2:38:39
There's a bunch of different ones.
2:38:40
And the one that shows up on the
2:38:42
title here exactly is Elizabeth II, Life of
2:38:47
a Monarch.
2:38:48
So you may have to this may be
2:38:52
a hit or miss.
2:38:53
I'll tell you, it's fascinating.
2:38:56
Really?
2:38:57
It's absolutely fascinating.
2:39:01
It's like, what?
2:39:03
Every single, the little details, all these details
2:39:06
about when they were kids and what they
2:39:08
would wear and what they would throw at
2:39:10
each other and that Margaret, the younger one,
2:39:13
the sister was a biter.
2:39:15
Oh, she was nuts.
2:39:18
She was crazy.
2:39:19
And there was it talks about Charles, all
2:39:25
kinds of details that you wouldn't think were
2:39:27
interesting but it's absolutely fascinating.
2:39:30
Have you ever watched The Crown on Netflix?
2:39:33
No.
2:39:36
It's in essence the same monarch and what
2:39:41
always struck me, I don't know if this
2:39:42
is in the audiobook, is how obsessed the
2:39:46
entire family is with the press.
2:39:48
It's always about the press.
2:39:50
How did I come across?
2:39:51
You stole my thunder in the press.
2:39:53
Does that come across in the book?
2:39:54
It's a little bit of that, I'd say.
2:39:56
Those people are sad, don't you think?
2:39:59
Well, the thing that they mention in the
2:40:02
book Gruesome and wicked, I think.
2:40:04
Wretched.
2:40:04
Wretched was the word I think I used.
2:40:07
Well, Elizabeth seems like actually kind of a
2:40:09
nice person but they mention a documentary that
2:40:14
was done by I think the BBC.
2:40:16
That was Charles' deal.
2:40:17
He wanted to do a documentary of the
2:40:19
family.
2:40:20
Is this the one they buried?
2:40:23
No, eventually.
2:40:24
It aired once but then they couldn't stop
2:40:26
it and it came back and it's all
2:40:28
over the place.
2:40:29
There was a couple of them that were
2:40:31
done.
2:40:32
I think the recent one is the one
2:40:34
you're talking about but there was one done
2:40:36
a long time ago that they played it
2:40:40
and they just said, no, we can't have
2:40:44
the fact because it was mostly inside information.
2:40:47
So they go into their room.
2:40:49
In fact, when Elizabeth moved into Buckingham Palace
2:40:53
as a little nine-year-old or something
2:40:55
I can't remember when this first happened she
2:40:57
said they thought it was cool but the
2:41:00
place was crawling with mice.
2:41:02
Mice were everywhere and it was tattered.
2:41:08
Yeah.
2:41:08
As our president would say it was a
2:41:12
shithole.
2:41:13
Yeah.
2:41:14
That was in the crown as well.
2:41:17
The mice and everything was a mess.
2:41:20
Wow, that's an interesting tip.
2:41:22
So for those of you going in for
2:41:23
open heart surgery there's your tip of the
2:41:26
day.
2:41:26
Find them all at noagendafund.comtipoftheday.net Yes.
2:41:39
Yes.
2:41:42
Thank you, Dana Brunetti.
2:41:43
Where would we be without you?
2:41:45
And that concludes our broadcast day.
2:41:48
We have some dynamite end of show mixes.
2:41:51
Thank you to Jeff Crocker for his special
2:41:53
edition.
2:41:55
Coming up next on the No Agenda stream
2:41:58
we have our big dumb mouth OBDM.
2:42:04
They're talking about Chuck Norris on this one.
2:42:09
Stay tuned for that as it is going
2:42:13
to air next on the No Agenda stream
2:42:16
and we will be back on Thursday.
2:42:20
John, I'm so happy you're okay.
2:42:22
Happy you're alive.
2:42:23
Happy you're back.
2:42:24
We need to have some contingency plans.
2:42:26
I'm just saying.
2:42:29
It's a thought.
2:42:32
Passwords.
2:42:34
For a start.
2:42:36
Coming to you from the heart of the
2:42:37
Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg, Texas
2:42:40
where I'm happy to have my partner back
2:42:42
in the morning, everybody.
2:42:43
I'm Adam Curry.
2:42:44
And from North San Francisco Bay I'm John
2:42:49
C.
2:42:49
Dvorak.
2:42:50
We'll be back on Thursday.
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Both of us.
2:42:52
Count on it.
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Until then, remember us at noagendadonations.com.
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hub.
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OpenAI, because the future is a utility.
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You are 400,000th in line for an
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agent.
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Your call is being transferred to an agent.
2:46:23
The old fox got a heart of gold,
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or so the stories have been told.
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But he pitched a red line, went too
2:46:31
far.
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Now it's on the lift like an old
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salvage car.
2:46:34
He's in the shop for a valve and
2:46:36
a gear, getting parts replaced for the coming
2:46:39
year.
2:46:40
Mimi wrote the book on the eggs in
2:46:42
the pan, a literary feat for the best
2:46:45
part of the man.
2:46:46
But Adam says no to the exit plan.
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It's unacceptable according to the man.
2:46:52
You can't just bow out with a cracked
2:46:54
up chest while the too many eggs are
2:46:57
put to rest.
2:46:58
The old fox's heart is getting a start,
2:47:01
bolting back together every broken part.
2:47:08
Meanwhile, the producer's pitching to cover the show
2:47:12
while JCD recovers in his Silicon Valley chateau.
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Welcome back.
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JCD, you ain't checking now.
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Welcome back to that same old place that
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you grouse about.
2:47:45
M5M hasn't changed since you hung around.
2:47:49
And the trolls have remained, yeah, they're still
2:47:52
around.
2:47:53
Who the fuck, they need you.
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Back here when they need you.
2:48:03
Yeah, we please them a lot, cause we
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got them on the spot.
2:48:07
Welcome back.
2:48:21
The best podcast in the universe.
2:48:30
MoFo.
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Dvorak.org.
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Slash.
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N.
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A.
2:48:35
Good job guys.
2:48:37
Thank you.
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