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I've been misgendered. Adam Curry. John C. Devorah. It's Thursday,
May 7th, 2026. This is your award-winning Kibble Nation media
assassination episode 1866. This is no agenda. Come on. And
broadcasting live from the hotel with the flaming logo at
Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. I'm Adam Curry. Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning. Yeah, you just don't sound yourself. Well,
maybe it's the rig. Maybe it's Linux. I don't know.
I don't know. In the morning. Well, you're not even
in the country. No, but that shouldn't make any difference.
I can't seem to get any high end out of
you. And then all I get is you. That's the
low end you said that was missing. No, it's not.
It's your voice. No, you've trans. Transform into a... You're
trans. You sound trans. I don't know. I'm trans now.
That's good. You sound like your voice is an octave
higher. I've been misgendered. I think you're right. I've been
misgendered. Uh, yeah, here we are, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It's
been a rough- It's been a rough couple of hours
for me here. Ooh, now we have stories to tell.
Well, it's not all that exciting other than... We left
the house at 11 a.m. yesterday. To San Antonio. San
Antonio to Atlanta went fine. And then we sat on
the runway for a long time because of the storms
in Atlanta. Which shortens the sleeping time on the aircraft
because... Why don't you sleep while you're sitting on the
runway? Well, you know, it's just... Thanks. That didn't work.
And, you know, so then everything's later and then... There
was a lot of turbulence. And Tina... who normally doesn't
like turbulence. She bopped right off. She's like, oh, boom,
she's gone. I'm sitting there like, I still feel the
turbulence when I'm walking around. So we got in much
later than expected. I didn't get as much sleep. And
I've had nothing but technical problems here today. Oh, no.
Yeah, yeah. And I tested the whole rig. Everything tested
it out. Everything's fantastic. And then the minute we got
to go live, the whole stream system, all my credentials
popped out. And this hotel. Maybe Lennox is illegal in
Holland. It will be. You know what's illegal in Amsterdam?
Advertising meat. What? Yeah, you heard me. Oh, come on.
Yes! Yes, advertising meat is... So you can't... What about
advertising a hamburger? No, no, you cannot advertise meat in
Amsterdam. In just in Amsterdam or the whole country? No,
Amsterdam. Amsterdam has its own special policies. Yeah. You can't
advertise, there's no advertising of meat products in Amsterdam. Wow.
Yeah. And it's the climate change people. Oh my god,
I got some climate change. clips. Yeah. Well, first let
me finish my report. Yes, please. So this hotel, we
always stay at the airport hotel. Um... They have a
huge logo on the side of the hotel. Two days
ago, the logo caught fire. And they, on the outside
of the building, and they evacuated. evacuated all 280 people
So I guess we're kind of lucky that we didn't
show up earlier. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. And so
I've literally been in the hotel room getting set, prepping,
getting ready. fixing stuff, you know, the USB is disconnected.
It's one thing after another today. The gremlins are in
the machine, so I'm completely relying on you to drag
us through the show. I can do it. And I
want to remind everybody, this is a value for value
production. Which, again, people seem to have forgotten. Which means
near the end of the show. The trouble, hold on
a second. People should know that you have to go
through a rigmarole, a lot of trouble. We keep doing
this show when either one of us travels. I stopped
traveling after COVID, but Adam still takes a trip or
two. And this is a pain in the ass, but
we do it. We do it. Yeah, we do it.
We work on holidays, too. Yeah, work on. I mean,
I'm here to see my daughter. I'm here to see
her for a couple of days. You could be seeing
your daughter right now instead of doing this show. I
could be doing a lot of things instead of doing
this show. So we just ask you to support us
if you get any value from it. is of no
value to you, then okay, well, we'll figure something else
out. I think it's the news cycle. What do you
mean the news cycle? I don't think the news cycle
is attractive. Really? Oh, I think it's incredibly attractive. There's
lots of fun things to talk about. Yes, but they're
all minor. They're not like big trends or anything that's
going to change the world. No, I think you're wrong.
No, I think you're wrong. What happened is we have
too many big things. You know, it's like we barely
got out of COVID. Barely. You know, if you really
think about it, people are still traumatized by that. good
one that was a big one Um... Then we've had
Epstein files, but it's all unsatisfactory. You see, people, they're
not getting any, they can't get no satisfaction. And so
they're just mad about everything. And, you know, and we're
not the guys that... that are just, you know... cynical
all the time and and so we're not and we're
not pumping it up and saying everybody sucks but let
me start off with with just a fun little 37
second clip just to give everybody ideas speaking of covid
You know, uh, Questlove? Questlove? By the way, I want
you to do some follow-up on this not advertising meat.
Okay. It's been going on for a while, but now
it's official. So you know Questlove? Questlove? No? Yeah, I
think he's... Isn't he with... Isn't he in Jimmy Kimmel's
band? Or maybe, uh... No, I don't think so. Maybe
Jimmy Fallon's band? Yeah, yeah. No, Fallon's band has got
a name. Oh, he was, uh... Someone's banned. He was
in someone's band. He was one of those late night
show bands. I think it could be, I think you
might be thinking about... Are the guys now off the
British guy? No, no, no. No, no. I'm waiting for
the troll room to tell me. Anyway, Troll Room. Troll
Room is slow. Yeah, it was. What? Kilt-o? No. Anyway,
when you hear the guy, you'll recognize him. I'm pretty
sure he was... He was in one of those late
night TV show bands. And so this guy is... Yeah,
it was Fallon's Band. See, I know I'm right. Fallon's
Band. So if you're in Fallon's Band... Fallon's Band is
the roots. Yeah, quest love in the roots, exactly. Okay.
Thank you. So if you're in Fallon's band. During COVID,
what are you going to do? I don't know, what
are you gonna do? You're gonna take the shot. Of
course you have to take the shot that's required. And...
All of your buddies are gonna take the shot. They
have to take the shot. That's what it was an
edict. Listen to this. In the last year alone. And,
you know, I've wondered... Is there a pandemic happening that
I'm not aware of? I'll say for me in the
last... Eight months. I've lost 11 friends to stage four
cancer. Oh my God. Like even the day that I
found out D'Angelo had cancer. D'Angelo was the... six person
in a 24 hour period that broke the news to
me. And even then, it was like in humor because...
Five other people had broke the news to me like
earlier that day. I mean, this is bad. This is
no good. Yeah, that's a lot of people. Yeah, 11
people that he knows. Holy crap. Yeah, that's a lot.
Yeah. So, you know, so people don't want to hear
this. I don't want to hear that. Although, hold on.
I know you got a three by three. three, but
I might as well roll out this one while we're
at it. The Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn the
publication of studies that tracked the safety of the COVID-19
and shingles vaccines. A spokesperson for the Department of Health
and Human Services says the studies drew broad conclusions that
were not supported by the underlying data. Health officials... say
the COVID-19 vaccines and shingles vaccines are safe. Health and
Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed doubt
about the safety and efficacy of several vaccines. Yes, exactly.
Can you read the writing on the wall? My lord.
No, they can't. In fact, it's embarrassing. And I will
say this about that, pulling those studies. The pushback on
that was, there they go. There's Kennedy doing his anti-vax
thing. They're not paying any attention to the underlying reasons
they did this, which was they drew conclusions that weren't
valid conclusions to draw from. From the data. That's the
reason they did it. And I see more. anger about,
oh, look, there's another example. This is just Kennedy's anti-vax
thing. This is known as being an anti-vaxxer, and this
is proof. Yeah. Well, let's go to the next one
before we even do your three by three. Do you
have any? No, the three by three is about Iran.
We can do that. We can do that in a
minute. I want to do Henta virus. You have a
Henta virus? I may have a Henta. Because I got
I got I'm loaded for bear on the Henta virus.
Let me hit you with a... Let's go with it.
Let me hit you with a Hantavirus. Two cases of
Hantavirus. have been formally confirmed after three people died in
a suspected outbreak on a cruise ship off the coast
of West Africa. A British crew member requires urgent medical
care and a passenger from the UK remains in a
critical but stable condition. The World Health Organization says it
has identified a total of seven cases in the outbreak.
Pumza Filani has more. We've heard overnight from the cruise
line owners, a company called Ocean Expeditions, is they've confirmed
that they are currently working on plans to carry out
a medical evacuation of two crew members who are still
on board that MV Honduras cruise ship. off the shoreline
of Cape Verde. Now this is because they've not been
allowed to disembark the 149 passengers who are from various
nationalities around the world. The local authorities there have expressed
concern that they don't know the full details of the
disease and they're concerned what that would mean for the
population. So they've so far... I killed the clip accidentally.
The point of this is that... For whatever reason, Hentavirus
keeps coming up in our lives over and over and
over again. Let me take you back to episode 1362,
July 2021. And then there's another weird report. Weird. This
has cropped up many times, but it seems... Ortho hantavirus
is cropping up here and there the last time it
was The big news story was in 2013, of all
places, Camp Curry in Yosemite. Yeah, Hanta would be places
like Camp Curry. And it's from mice, right? Yeah, it's
mouse crap. But if you read about it... Hantavirus single-stranded
envelope Negative Sense RNA Virus RNA. So that already caught
my eye. Like, oh, RNA might have something to do
with it. If you look at the symptoms. Man, it's
very, very similar to COVID. And it's in your airways
as well. So I don't know if that could be
mistaken for it or God knows what. Yeah, the hat
has never had huge numbers. No? No. All right. So
that was 2021. I didn't go back to 2013, but
this is just last year. In other health news, researchers...
with Virginia Tech are warning of a disease they say
has pandemic potential. What pandemic potential? I like the alliteration,
pandemic potential. It's too long, but it would have been
a show title. What's that, John? Pandemic Potential. Tonight, NBC
News learning two U.S. Wait, what's going on here? Stop
what's happening here. Stop. Stop. Stop. Oh, my goodness. What's
going on here? The whole thing. Yeah, double curry. Everything's
out of control. All right, here we go. Well, first
of all, I mean, the real one would be bird.
flu but it's probably measles. It's called Hantavirus. You may
have heard about it recently. Oh, yeah, Hantavirus. I should
have guessed that one. Easy, easy, easy. It's called Hantavirus.
You may have heard about it recently. It's the infection
that killed Gene Hackman's wife. And it also caused three
deaths in California recently. That's right. The virus. That's right.
Commonly spread throughout rodent droppings and urine or saliva and
can cause serious illness in humans. How can that be?
How can that? Does it transfer from human to human?
How can it have pandemic potential? Exactly. Rat poop. You
get it from rat or mouse poop and saliva. How's
it... I don't get this beyond me. I love how
you're talking to Adam from 2025 while the clip is
playing. Yeah, I'm talking to him. We'll get back here.
That was great. Adam, grow up. What do you mean,
grow up? The thing is though, there's more than one
kind of Hentavirus. This is... the part that gets confusing
this now we're in today's world there's lots of different
hantavirus around the world most of it is in eastern
china where it's a different form it's a hemorrhagic fever
that's you know when you can have bleeding and it
can cause kidney failure but in the americas It's a
different form. It's called HPS hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, where you
can have sort of a cardiovascular collapse and a respiratory
or pulmonary lung collapse. Unfortunately, in the Americas, it can
be one of the strains is the Andean strain, and
that can have a mortality. between 25 and 50 percent.
Yeah. So it's the most dangerous and the most mortal
of all of the Hantaviruses. Most of the Hantavirus cannot
be transmitted through human to human contact, but the Andean
form can be. It's still rare, but there have been
reported cases of human to human transmission. In the Americas,
it tends to be a respiratory virus that starts off
with non-specific symptoms, fevers, gastrointestinal symptoms, but then very rapidly
can affect the heart and lungs and cause a fatal
type of pneumonia setup or what we call ARDS, which
stands for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Basically, the lungs can
get filled up with fluid and it's very severe. The
most likely way of getting this, all forms of hantavirus,
is through close contact with rodent droppings, urine, you know,
secretions, and it is not through human-to-human transmission. That's why
the general population does not have to be concerned about
getting this. This is definitely not... the next pandemic. Oh,
okay. All right. Well, that's disappointing. Well, I have my
cruise ship clip from NBC, which did a quick summary.
It's not that great. Okay. Tonight, an urgent medical evacuation
to take place at any moment. Three people suspected to
have the high-risk hantavirus on a cruise ship now off...
off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean,
expected to be transported to the Netherlands using two air
ambulance planes, according to the Cape Verde Ministry of Health
and the ship's operator. Already, three people who were aboard
the ship have died. This, as new video shows health
workers in protective gear and supplies being delivered to the
Russell. 150 people on board, including 17 Americans. I will
also show you what my room is like. Jake Rosmarin
is a passenger on the ship and in a new
statement said that safety measures are in place, including social
distancing and masking. After the medical evacuation, Spain now says
the rest of the people aboard the ship. will be
allowed to disembark at the Canary Islands, where the ship
is expected to arrive in the next several days. There,
they will be examined and sent to their home countries.
It's very possible that you can be infected and not
have any symptoms for weeks. Immunologist Stephen Bradfew underscores the
severity of the virus. If you get sick with the
cardiopulmonary hantavirus, on average, there is a 35% death rate.
And that 35% is high when you compare it to
other viruses. That's right. Influenza is far lower. COVID is
around 1 to 2%. The World Health Organization says at
least some of the passengers... may have contracted the virus
through human-to-human contact. This is the part that I'm struggling
with, human-to-human. Yes, they have the talking points. Human-to-human contact
is one of them. And the one you caught earlier
there in this clip, which was actually... kind of cool.
asymptomatic Oh, yeah, of course. See, they ran the asymptomatic
thing at us during COVID. They sure did. Which is
a key. It's a key to success. Asymptomatic spread, specifically.
Yeah. So you could not have any symptoms whatsoever. You're
not sneezing. You're not coughing. Nothing. You're just walking around.
And you're fine. You're in good shape. But you're spreading.
You're like typhoid. Everybody's typhoid Mary. Listen, our trolls are
so... jaded they're like yeah bring back uh zika Oh,
we were- Yeah, we're- We're- Zika, we want Zika. Zika
was where it was at, man. Yeah. So those two
Dutch people died. They died on the ship. That's not.
Yeah, that's not. Well, it's a cruise ships. The only
people who I know who go on cruises are old
and Andrew Horowitz. I don't understand why that guy is
so big on cruises. Everything goes wrong. Roger McGuinn's another
one. Well, but Roger McGuinn goes on those really high-end,
luxurious, like, you know, 150 rooms, and he does his
special show, and, you know, up and down the aisle.
But he doesn't do a show. He refuses to do
a show. He says it's low. It's low. It's beneath
him to do a show. He doesn't do a show.
He does a lecture. He brings his guitar on for
his lecture. I know he does. Yeah, of course he
does because he plays the guitar. If you go visit
him at his house, he's playing the guitar. Can you
imagine? You're on a cruise ship, a high-end cruise ship
with caviar. And there's a bird. an actual bird, Roger
McGuinn, a bird. And then he just lectures you? No,
no, no. I want my money back. No, of course.
We want him to play some songs. So his lecture,
I'm sure, is... Well, he lectures you, but he's... Sure,
he'll play a song while he's lecturing. Yeah. Yeah. You
can do that riff that nobody can do that eight
mile a hundred. 8 miles high riff he likes to
show it off. That's different. than Horowitz, who likes going
on these things. You know, where people get... They get
Hentavirus. They get Norovirus. They get all kinds of virus.
I can't believe that he still does that. You know,
and then the cruise ships get stranded. or it sinks
or capsizes. You're just being a bigot according to these
guys. I am a bigot, big time. I cannot believe
the cruise. The cruise cruise. It doesn't have any appeal
to me either. Anyway. So there you go. It's not
the new pandemic. M5M is saying that, I'm paying attention.
No, it's definitely... Well, they're hard up. They're hard up.
Yes, because... Asymptomatic, 35% death rate. Remember when COVID first
showed up, that had some ridiculous death rate? Yeah, it
was the same numbers. It was similar numbers like that.
It was. Yeah. Although I got to. It was asymptomatic.
And if you touch something, you touch a bag of
potato chips and somebody else touches the chips, don't catch
it. Here's America's Dr. Celine Gowder. Dr. Gowder, thank you
very much for being here. We're in a post-COVID world.
Post-COVID world, everybody. That means pay attention. We've got news
for you. just might scare you. People are scared. They
hear about an outbreak and they're worried. I know you
say this is not COVID. Explain to me why. So
this is not COVID. The Andes. No, it's not COVID,
but. Virus, which is a kind of a hantavirus, requires
close, prolonged contact between two people in order to have
transmission. When we've seen this happen in the past. It's
been in the context of spouses, that kind of close
contact. What makes this really hard to contain is the
fact that it's on a ship and the timeline. So
you have this long incubation period. You also have a
period of time when people can be infectious before they
show symptoms. So we have 140 people on this boat.
17 of them are Americans. How do you deal with
that population safely? in theory come home safely yes the
risk of spreading this on a flight is very low
they would need to be near a hospital that has
a heart lung bypass machine because that's what you need
when you get really sick with hantavirus It is something
that we can anticipate that Some countries won't want to
accept them, right? And this goes back to the Ebola
days, 2014, 2015. Ebola days. These passengers may well need
to quarantine on the ship. That out-of-office message just got
a little longer. Dr. Gander, thank you. Remember, she's the
doctor whose husband dropped dead. - But from the shot.
Come on. Yeah, he was a reporter at the... Wasn't
he at the Olympic Games or the World Cup soccer?
Oh, right, the Olympic guy. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of
like the Ebola days. Ebola days. The Ebola days. Yeah.
It was good times, Ebola days. Yeah, I remember them,
dude. Good old days. Remember that guy got off the
plane and just, we were all waiting for him. We
had, we were all watching live on TV. Yeah, the
guy just got off the plane and went home. He
got off the plane, got in the ambulance, popped out
of the ambulance, walked in, like, here I am, Ebola
guy. Yeah. And there was also some woman or something
that just jumped on her bicycle and took off into
the woods. Yes, I remember that. Yeah, so I think,
but you see, this is the problem. is we've had
so much uh news has just jacked us all the
way up that now we're just numb to it we're
just numb Like, whatever. You know, Ebola, Zika, Hanta. Okay,
war. Or whatever. Swine flu. Swine flu. It's got to
come back. Let's do your three by three. Get that.
Now it's time for three by three. It's an experiment.
Experiment by Jason. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC!
That's right, 3x3. John's got the big headlines from the
big three. Yeah, this is about the ceasefire in Iran,
and we're going to start off with ABC. Tonight, even
as Iran fires missiles and drones at American Navy ships
and our ally, the United Arab Emirates, the Trump administration
insists the ceasefire is not over. But today, a top
Iranian official insisting, quote, we have not even begun yet,
adding we know full well that the continuation of the
status quo is in. tolerable for America. Here at home,
the average price of a gallon of gas now topping
$4.50, the highest it's been in four years. The price
of beef soaring more than 15% over the past year.
Yesterday, the administration launched an effort to reopen the Strait
of Hormuz to commercial traffic. But in the past 48
hours, only two commercial ships have crossed, more than 1,500
stacked up outside. And late tonight, the president abruptly announcing
he was pausing the U.S. effort. It came after Iran
opened fire on some commercial vessels, including American Navy ships,
which fired back. Earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasizing
that didn't mean the U.S. had resumed attacks on Iran.
This is a defensive operation. And what that means is
very simple. There's no shooting unless we're shot at first.
We're not attacking them. We are only responding if attacked
first. This is a defensive operation. Rubio then taking it
a step further. further, declaring that Operation Epic Fury itself
is over. This, though President Trump's goal in starting the
war to eliminate Iran's nuclear program, remains out of reach.
Ten weeks in, are we any closer to getting rid
of Iran's nuclear material? Yeah, but look, here's the way
to think about Iran. So their ability to build a
shield. behind which they could hide their nuclear program was
wiped out. That's a very substantial achievement, and that was
the purpose of this operation from day one. Well, that's
one of the topics that needs to be discussed. I
don't know about, I think you're linking it. The operation
is over. Epic Fury is the president-notified Congress. We're done
with that stage up. I love this. It's over, man.
What are you talking about? 60 days, 30 days. It's
over. The thing is over. It's a ceasefire. We reset.
We're back to it. We're basically, we're in March. Okay.
We're in March now. There's no war. It's all good.
All right. So that was ABC. Who's next on deck?
Well, let's go to NBC. Tonight, NBC News. learning two
U.S. flag ships that passed through the Strait of Hormuz
had U.S. military security teams on board, two U.S. officials
say, part of President Trump's new Project Freedom, meant to
protect commercial vessels from Iranian attack. Iran still targeted both
ships with missiles, drones, and armed small boats. But the
U.S. military intercepted the attacks and blew up the boats.
I call it a skirmish because Iran has no chance.
Iran today once again targeting the United Arab Emirates after
this strike yesterday. Today, the UAE saying it shot down
more Iranian drones and missiles across the country. They're bombing
commercial tankers. It's just outrageous. With Secretary of State Marco
Rubio saying President Trump's new effort to open the Strait
of Hormuz by protecting ships from Iranian attacks was a
critical defensive step. There is no international law that allows
you to say I'm going to put mines in an
international body of water and I'm going to blow up
ships. that don't listen to us and try to go
through. That's what Iran is doing. This is a criminal
act, and someone needs to do something about it. That
bottleneck of oil tankers continuing to drive gas prices higher,
now reaching $4.48 on average in the U.S. This NBC
News analysis shows the prices highest on the West Coast
and in the U.S. cross the Rust Belt. But Rubio
defending the effort he says keeps the Iranian regime from
getting a nuclear weapon. If Iran had a nuclear weapon,
and they decided to close the straits and make our
gas prices like $9 a gallon or $8 a gallon,
we wouldn't be able to do anything about it because
they have a nuclear weapon. And just moments ago, President
Trump posting that at the request of... Pakistan and others.
And because progress is being made in talks, he says,
they will pause Project Freedom, which protects those commercial ships
in the strait. All I can think of when I
hear Project Freedom is... Bleh! Project Freedom! Okay. You know,
Rubio should have said $14 a gallon. Ha ha ha.
It's not going to, it's all going to come down.
The one thing is he doesn't exaggerate well. It's below
$100 today. Yeah, it dropped like a rock because Trump
came out and said. He said, we're going to get
the nuclear. They're going to drop the nuke program. We're
going to get the product that's buried under the ground.
I don't know how they're going to do that, by
the way, since it's buried under the ground. But he's
going to get it. And he made all these assertions.
But he says, but if that doesn't work out, we're
going to bomb them again. I mean, this is ridiculous.
It's fantastic. What do you mean? Yeah, I know. You
enjoy it. We have nothing but time on our side.
And here's what I keep hearing. There are hundreds of
empty tankers on the way to America. Is this actually
true? I don't know. We only have so much. I
see no evidence. I see no evidence of this. I
keep looking at Galveston. Like, you know, where are these
tankers? Yeah, it could be bull crap. I think it
may be. Let's listen to your CBS version. CBS, of
course, I say for last all the time now because
this has been taken over by Barry Weiss. But the
CIA still runs it. Come on. To the war with
Iran now, the ceasefire still officially holding despite attacks over
the past 24 hours and despite still very limited movement
through the Strait of Hormuz. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
said today the offensive stage of the war is over,
but the U.S. military is now focused on defense in
the form of breaking Iran's blockade and its hold on
the global economy. We have established a powerful red, white,
and blue dome over the street. The Pentagon says 15,000
American service members are involved in Project Freedom, which is
two American-flagged commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz safely.
American destroyers are on station. supported by hundreds of fighter
jets, helicopters, drones, and surveillance aircraft. More than 1,500 ships
are thought to remain stranded. The Iranian regime claims it
still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's foreign minister referred
to Project Freedom today as Project Deadlock. This is really
a classic question of chicken here and who will blink
first. Grant Rumley is a former Middle East advisor at
the Pentagon. Do you think that the U.S. military has
effectively ended the de facto Iranian blockade of the Strait
of Hormuz? No, I don't think so. You know, the
U.S. can... can block nine out of ten shots, but
if one of those Iranian vessels gets through and scores
a hit, it has a large and disproportionate symbolic effect.
The U.S. says Iran has attempted to disrupt its operation
in the Strait of Hormuz with cruise missiles, drones and
boats. But President Trump and other American officials said today
that this ceasefire with Iran is still holding. Yeah, and
there's all, there's so much. information of all sorts. And
by the way, someone just put a map into the
troll room. There does seem to be a lot of
ships coming to... to our coastline here. But there's... Are
you sure that... Yeah. There's a lot of ships. You
have no idea. Breaking news. Nobody knows nothing. And then,
you know, this projectiles. Oh, it was struck by projectiles,
according to the UK Maritime Observatory. These guys sit on
Twitter. And they watch for someone to post something on.
Twitter and like, oh, we got a report. And in
New Jersey, a tanker has reportedly been struck by projectiles.
Projectiles. What is that? It could be bananas. It could
be hand grenades. This makes no sense to me. Projectiles.
In the Strait of Hormuz, the vessel was targeted 145
kilometers. north of the city of Fijaria in the United
Arab Emirates, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations Agency.
It is the second vessel to be hit today. The
crew has been reported safe, and this came either shortly
after or shortly before Donald Trump announced on Truth Social.
that he would be escorting or the U.S. would be
starting to escort ships through there tonight, our time. Okay,
so we have that report about projectiles, and then Ms.
Now has this report. So, David, speaking of reporting, I'm
going to let you sort through this one for all
of us. Barack Ravid, of course. with Axios is saying
that a senior U.S. official denied that a U.S. ship
has been hit by Iranian missiles. It is obviously, we're
in the early moments of this, so I certainly am
not... placing a any sort of moral equivalency between government
of Iran and the U.S. government, I will simply say
we have two eyewitnesses saying that the ships were in
fact hit, according to Al Jazeera. And we have one
senior official right now on background. Telling Axiom. Background means
don't mention my name. That no U.S. ship was hit,
so. Hard to say, and we will need to wait
at least a few hours before we get actionable information
out of that area. Okay, so no one knows anything,
and the press... Here's their questions. For Secretary Hegseth, are
there still concerns about mines in the Strait? And can
you kind of clarify these reports of kamikaze dolphins that
we've heard about? What? I've never heard of a kamikaze
dolphin thing. It's like sharks with laser beams, right? The
threshold of restarting is a political decision above my... What
I'll say is it's low harassing fire right now. It
feels like Iran is grasping at straws to try to
do something across the southern flank. To your question, David,
their command and control structure remains very fractured, and I
think they're struggling to maintain control down echelon at the
edge. It's still pretty low-level kinetics at this point in
time. And I can't confirm or deny whether we have
kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't. Okay, you
know, it's like, what happened to the mines? They were,
oh, mines, they've mined it all. We have to close
it up because of the mines. Well, how come no
mines blew up the Maersk ship? that we escorted on
the way out. There's no mines! This has been another
hoax. This whole thing. Here's the CEO of Maersk Maersk.
saying, you know, we worked it all out and we
left with the U.S. Navy. In this case here, we
were approached by the U.S. government and the U.S. Navy
specifically saying that they wanted to take some ships out.
We went through intense preparation together with them, looked at
all the aspects of the mission and whether we could
stand in for the safety of the crew if we
were sending the ship along in that operation. Our assessment
was that the US Navy had made an extremely thorough
plan and that we felt comfortable we could get the
ship through without risk and then we conducted the operation
here earlier in the week and we're very pleased to
see that everybody got safely on the other side without
any incidents so a very well executed mission. by the
US military. And thank God for that, because then it
means that the ship is free and the crew now
can get back to doing the work that they want
to do and are supposed to do rather than be
stuck in the Gulf. Yeah. So where were the mines?
Did we all of a sudden we know where the
mines are? Or did our kamikaze dolphins figure that out?
When will the media learn that this is all just
bullcrap? It really all is. This is an economic game.
This is, um... Sal Mercogliano. What's going on with shipping?
He explains a little bit of how this works. Now,
this is led... to meetings in London with what's called
the Joint War Committee. Now, I'll have a link below
for this. The Joint War Committee is made up of
representatives of Lloyd's, the big insurer house, and other underwriters
who determine basically where insurance goes. If you look right
now, the... the rate to go through the Persian Gulf,
through the Strait of Hormuz was roughly about 0.15 to
0.25% of value to go through the Strait. That's what
you were paying above and beyond. And that was good
for seven days. Well, what we've seen happen is the
insurers canceled this. So you get stories like this. from
Jonathan Sauls over at Reuters. London marine insurers are expanding
the Gulf high-risk zone as the Mideast conflict escalates. So
that joint war committee that met on Monday has determined
that they're adding high-risk areas around Bahrain, Djibouti, Kuwait, Oman,
Qatar. They're expanding out the danger area. Now, that danger
area is going to... require more money. The insurance rate
is going to jump from 0.15, 0.25% to anywhere from
1 to 3%. 3% is going to be for U.S.,
U.K. and Israeli vessels because they are viewed to be
high targets. Not just U.S., U.K., Israeli flagged, but U.S.,
U.K., Israeli owned. And that is key. Yeah, that's all
that this is. The Joint War Committee, a bunch of
ex-spooks in the UK... They go to Lloyd's and say,
well, we think it's pretty dangerous over there. Why? Well,
we read on Twitter that the UK maritime observers, they
said that, you know, there were projectiles. Oh, okay, we
better jack up those rates. The straight is closed again.
It's all a scam. It's been this way for a
hundred years. It has nothing to do with mines or
dolphins or... I like the dolphins, though. Come on. Well,
the idea is great. Of course. Of course. Because the
dolphins are stupid. No, dolphin, I don't think there's such,
you can't have a kamikaze dolphin. They don't want to
die. I'm with you. I think after the first one
blew up, I think the rest of them would get
the idea. Hey, this is not a good thing. We're
not going to do this. Yeah, I got some clips
from NPR about the U.S. combat operations. U.S. Combat operations
are over. Uh, yeah, didn't you know that? There's no
more war. We've heard the president say the war is
over, nearly over, will be over in two weeks, several
times now. Is it actually over this time? Yes. Yeah,
I mean, we really don't know. I mean, Rubio says
the focus now is on negotiations and that the U.S.
is only going to be involved in... And what that
means is very simple. There's no shooting unless we're shot
at first. We're not attacking them. But if they're attacking
us or they're attacking a ship, you need to respond
to that. But to your point, I mean, we also
heard earlier in the day Trump expressing frustration that Iran's
leaders had yet to capitulate after two months of U.S.
military... economic pressure. They should wave the white flag. The
white flag of... surrender in hockey they say uh Uncle,
right? It just shows how things just are changing. Wait
a minute. Do they say that in hockey? I don't
know this. I thought that's at the schoolyard. Isn't that
where you're supposed to? Yeah, it's in the school year,
not in hockey. Where does that even come from, say,
uncle? Flag of... In hockey, they say... uncle right you
know it just shows how things are changing all the
time yeah last night trump also touted what he called
progress towards an agreement with they were on. Has there
actually been progress? Yeah, it's interesting because Trump's words were
very different than some of the messaging being delivered by
Rubio, who told us yesterday that the two sides were
still trying to figure out what the specific issues each
side were willing to negotiate about. That's the object of
this diplomacy, is to come up with some level of
understanding about... What are the topics that they've agreed to
negotiate on? We don't have to have the actual agreement
written out, and one day this is highly complex and
highly technical. But we have to have a diplomatic solution
that is very clear about the topics that they are
willing to negotiate on and the extent and the concessions
they're willing to make at the front end in order
to make those talks worthwhile. I mean, Layla, that makes
it sound like they're very early in the process. process,
which, again, is very different than the great progress that
Trump is portraying. You know, I thought they were down
to a one pager. They went from 14 points to
a one-pager, which may be the same thing, I don't
know. I don't know, they just say these things. Yeah.
Exactly. Maybe we should just... ignore the whole topic no
no no you can't because it's a part two it's
a part of this part it's affecting everybody with gasoline
prices that's what we yeah well here in california it's
seven dollars and eleven cents yeah well that's your own
fault because all the oil companies left Because of, you
know, just. Horrible California. And you've got three, four dollars
worth of taxes on top of that. So don't come
crying to me, California. I mean, and the big issue,
right, is still the Strait of Hormuz. More than 100
ships a day used to travel through that waterway before
the war. And it's only since the U.S. and Israel
started this. war that Iran took control of the strait.
So if combat operations are over, as we heard from
Rubio, what... Again, Iran took control of the strait. What
does that mean? Do they have a line of ships
that are blocking everyone from going in or out? No,
what they did was they said, look. We're sitting here
on the straits of her moves. We got property right
here. And here's where the straits are. We're going to
shell anything that tries to come through. But they didn't.
They've been doing it all along. What do you mean
they didn't? Well, we just took... They sent drones, they
sent missiles, they sent projectiles. You said so yourself. Oh,
projectiles. We just took a ship out. Where was the
boom, boom, boom from that? None of it. None of
it. It was their break. You believe the media. It
was lunch break. You are... Lunch break. Yeah, I mean,
that was Rubio's big push. And he said... Under no
circumstances can the U.S. allow Iran to normalize the idea
that they can control the waterway. But he also stopped
short of saying what action would take place. Now, the
secretary of state briefed the press on this latest development.
Is that unusual? Well, I mean, the administration really came
across the board. No, not for the future president. about
the war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dan Kaine, brief reporters, Trump also took questions. And it
just comes at such a big moment in the conflict
as Americans continue to feel kind of the economic pinch
of all this. And Rubio said that Iran needed to
make a sensible choice that leads them to recon-- The
alternative is growing isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat.
I know what the right choice is for Iran. I
hope that the people over there making decisions will make
the right one. Yeah, I mean, the message boils down
to a mix of de-escalation combined with this kind of
tough talk. And it can be confusing at times. Oh,
okay. NPR. All right. So this brings us to the
War Powers Act, which I find fascinating because I hadn't
really ever looked into it specifically because it kind of
never came up. I think maybe not even under Bush
because that was different. You know, it was the twin
towers coming down was different. But this Twin Towers, this
War Powers Act where you're supposed to have 60 days.
And then you can extend another 30 days. This is
a very interesting constitutional issue, which goes back a long
time in our history. And there's a lot of misunderstanding
about it, even in the hallowed halls of. Congress. Well,
I do want to start with the Iran war. We're
approaching tomorrow's 60 day deadline for the president to come
to Congress set by the War Powers Act. House Speaker
Mike Johnson was pressed on this deadline by my colleague
Ryan Nobles. I want you to play. So I want
to play for you a little bit of what he
had to say and get your reaction. Is it time
for Congress to weigh in on the war in Iran,
especially now that we're past the 60-day threshold? I don't
think we have any active kinetic military bombing, firing, anything
like that right now. We're trying to broker a peace,
and I would be very reluctant to get in front
of the administration in the midst of these very sensitive
negotiations. So we'll have to see how that plays out.
Constitution specifically states 60 days. What? But the president has
called it a war. The Constitution. Good catch. The Constitution.
This is why I dove into this. Listen to this.
Not a war right now. I'm saying that we do
not have kinetic military action at the moment. As President
Trump has said, this is a war, but what do
you make of Speaker Johnson saying that the United States
is not at war? Well it's a dodge from Speaker
Johnson and you know after the 60-day mark we begin
30 days in which the law is very clear the
president has to withdraw U.S. forces absent a congressional authorization.
Being in the region, not engaged actively in kinetic force
or kinetic action isn't what the law says. After 60
days, he has 30 days to withdraw. So absent congressional
action, the law says the president has to bring those
troops. home so I just when I heard that like
oh it's in the Constitution like okay let me go
check my Constitution you know that's not I don't think
so so now we go back to Rubio believe that
these votes coming up in Congress are a moot point
then look guys I love talking about this time he's
about the War Powers Act yeah okay I love it
I was hoping Hold on, hold on. No, no, you
don't want me to answer. I've got to answer the
question. Okay, and I love it. I'll tell you why
I love it. Because even as a senator, I said
something. The War Powers Act is unconstitutional, 100%. Now, this
is not the position of me. It's not the position
of the President of the United States now. This is
the position of every single president that has occupied this
position. It's the day that law passed. It's completely unconstitutional.
Now, we comply with it in terms of, like, notification,
because we want to preserve good relations with Congress, right?
And we do that. But even as a senator, I
would say that the War Powers Act is 100% unconstitutional.
And look, I know some of you, whatever you want
to say, but this is not this president's position. That
has been the position of every single... presidential administration since
the day that law passes an infringement on the president's
constitutional powers. We don't acknowledge the law as constitutional. Nonetheless,
we comply with elements of it for purposes of maintaining,
you know, good relations with Congress. And we want them
to be involved and we want them to be informed.
I have gone on Capitol Hill, I don't know, four
times this year for all senators and all House. members
and intel committee and gang of eight we want them
to be involved in this but but i want to
be clear on the point of the war powers act
it's unconstitutional and uh every president and every administration has
taken that position okay so now i'm interested we've got
people in congress saying it's in the constitution and then
we have rubio saying the war powers act is unconstitutional
constitutional so I had to dig and I dug so
deep that I wound up with the great one which
was Mark Levin. I did. He had Professor John Yu
on the show. And when you learn about the War
Powers Act and its history, it's actually educational. Welcome back,
America. We're here with Professor John. you who's probably from
my perspective the expert on the War Powers Act. He's
been writing about it for 30 years. You can go
to all these journals and law reviews, and he's been
duking it out with other professors. You know, John, you,
it's amazing. I watch Bernie Sanders. He immediately gets up
and says, but Donald Trump there is unconstitutional. You got
AOC, who, of course, we always turn to when we
want some constitutional expertise. She said the president needs to
be impeached. Now, these are two. That's a funny line.
Radical Marxists who really are not. inclined to like the
Constitution nor like our military. What do you say to
them about impeach the president over the War Powers Act?
Is the War Powers Act constitutional? Let's start right there.
I agree with you, Mark. I don't think it is.
The Constitution sets out the war powers. Congress can't use
a law to rewrite the Constitution. And the Constitution says
the president is the chief executive of the United States.
and he is the commander-in-chief. The founders understood those phrases
to mean that the president has the primary responsibility to
protect our national security. Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist paper
said, energy in the executive is a definition of good
government, because he was explaining why are these clauses in
the Constitution. And he said it's... response, it's necessary to
protect the communities, our community, from attack. That doesn't mean
Congress has no power. Congress has the power to provide
funds or to cut them off. That's how Congress ended
the Vietnam War. That's how Congress ended the Mexican-American War
of 1848. And so when you go back. to the
days of Madison, and then later the War Powers Act.
it was phrased differently initially and they changed that specifically
so congress would not have this power they think they
have. Right, in fact, I think it took a lot
of guts to play Mark Levin's stuff but He did
a lecture once explaining how Madison. had it so that
in the Constitution it says Congress can declare war. Yes.
But the original guys wanted to say Congress can make
war. Yes, here's the clip about it. And by changing
it from make to declare. The president can make war,
and if they want to declare it, that's just, it
shrunk the power. I mean, to say you declare war
doesn't mean that much if you can't make war. Exactly.
It's just you declare it, and it's only been done,
the last time it was done was in World War
II. Here's you. explaining that exact switch. And as you
say, Mark, when the Constitution was first introduced in the
Philadelphia Convention, the Constitution originally had said Congress has the
power to make war. And that was changed to declare
war because people thought that gave Congress too much authority.
And I'd even point you to something else Madison said.
In the Virginia ratification, convention, which was the key convention
to approve the Constitution, Patrick Henry actually got up and
said, he might have been the Bernie Sanders or AOC
of his day, and he said, I'm worried about the
president going off on military ventures. How are you going
to stop him? James Madison doesn't get up and say,
the Declare War Clause will stop the president. Instead, he
says, Congress will have to cut off funds because the
power of the purse is the ultimate check of the
people on the executive branch. Exactly. That's an... How come
Congress... Why don't they do that? Why don't they say,
we're not going to fund the war? Why not? What
you just showed in your reporting in that clip... unfortunately,
is that Democrats are playing politics with the Constitution and
engaging in political posturing while we have men and women
in the field. The politics are apparent because, as you
just pointed out, you can look at President Obama in
2011. You could look at President Biden's strikes on the
Houthis. The Democrats only think. that the Constitution demands Congress's
authorization for war when Republicans are president, when Democrats are
president. These same people who were in the Congress at
those times didn't raise a doubt, didn't draw anything into
question. And I have to say, President Trump put Congress
on notice even more so than any. Not only did
he move all these forces into the region over time,
but he attacked Iran just last June. If members of
Congress wanted to stop the war in Iran, they had
plenty of time to use the funding power, which is
their ultimate power over war. between June and now. And
let's just say they know how to use the funding
power when they want. Even when they pass a $900
billion spending bill for the Defense Department, they at the
same time close down the Department of Homeland Security because
Democrats are upset about the use of the Border Patrol
in Minneapolis. So they know how to use the funding
power they want to. They just don't want to because
they want to engage instead in political posturing against a
Republican president. I think that's part of it. I also
think they're all in the bag for the military industrial
complex. Sure, they have to be. It turns out, someone
did some research. There is one military industrial complex contractor
in... except for maybe one or two, every single congressional
district. And they're all little, sometimes little contractors, but they're
always providing a lot of jobs. The whole place has
been co-opted by the military industrial complex. That's where we,
that's our real source of GDP. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry.
Israel. APAC. No. It's these guys. Yeah, it's what you
do. Because they do it. You know, they've done a
hell of a job. Every single state in the union
has some kind of military contractor. So there's not going
to be a single representative or senator standing up and
saying, whoa, we should We should pull the plug on
that. No! No. And sorry to let everybody. Not to
want to get reelected. Sorry to let everybody down, but
we are a war nation. It's what we do. We're
good at it. We are good at it. Only now
we're doing it for us instead of for Britain and
Europe. You know, I'm not... Where's that clip? So, you
know, there's been all kinds of issues with Germany. Because
Mr. Peepers thought he'd be cute. and say Trump has
no exit strategy. I had a bunch of clips on
that for the last couple of shows. Yeah, I don't
have them here, but... But so he's trying to get
back in graces, good graces. And says, oh, we'll help
out. We've got something for you. Sent off with a
fanfare in front of a crowd of curious onlookers. Fulda
set sail from the port city of Kiel on Germany's
Baltic sea coast on Monday. The German minesweeper and its...
crew of up to 45 sailors are now heading to
the Mediterranean and not to the Strait of Hormuz, unless
certain conditions are met, outlined by Germany's defence minister. We
are moving it in advance to the Mediterranean, making all
the preparations we can, so in the event of a
ceasefire... a lasting truce or a framework under international law,
we can obtain a mandate from the Bundestag and as
soon as that's in place continue to operate. Fulda will
be at sea for about two weeks. Germany has said
the ship could be deployed to help clear underwater mines
from the Strait of Hormuz in order to secure shipping
routes which have been severely disrupted amid the U.S.-Israel war
with Iran. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has underlined that Berlin
remains far away from such a decision. Twenty percent of
global oil and gas passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Around 2,000 ships have been stuck since the war began
at the end of February. So the idea is once
the war is over, then the Germans send their minesweeper
to go find mines that don't exist. All they're going
to find is a bunch of kamikaze dolphins. And for
the troll room, when I say, yes, we are doing
war for us, yes, we're doing war for us. We
have always fought wars for Europe and for Britain. except
for Vietnam War, and that was a really bad one.
And so what has happened? In that case, that we
were suckered by the French. Yes. We kind of fought
that war for the French. Thank you. So when I
say we're fighting it for us, we're fighting it because
we have not gotten any of the benefit of... what's
been going on particularly in that region with oil. None
of it. We got screwed over and over and over
again. And so now we have our own oil and
screw Europe. Speaking of Roger McGuinn, there's a time for
war, there's a time for peace. There's no time for
love, there's a time for hate. It's just a fact
of life. You're all dreamers. Dreamers. And how bad is
this war? It's not bad. That sounds, I know it
sounds cavalier. But considering the benefit we're getting and finally
we're getting. Because everything is changing for America. It's unbelievable
how people can't see this. And maybe Trump will pull
it off. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. And you know
what? If you're talking about the New World Order and
the and the they of the world, all you have
to do is look at what's happening with the banking
sector. Look at what's happening with the Federal Reserve. You
know, I had to look into that as well because
I wasn't convinced that the... chair of the Federal Reserve
is the only person who determines the rates, and it
turns out he's not. And this is what's... happening here?
with uh Chairman Powell saying, oh, okay, you can vote
another guy in, but I'm staying on board so that
he can tip the scales and they have more votes
to do whatever the banks want. It's banks. It's banks,
the Federal Reserve. It's not government. It's banks. Here's a...
Tim Scott, I think he's on the Finance Committee. You
are also, as most people know, the chairman of the
Banking Committee. You played a key role in moving Kevin
Warsh to the committee, to the full Senate. You'll be,
I assume, on a party line vote at least, confirmed
as pet chair very soon. Jerome Powell. much to the
chagrin of Mr. Trump, What do you think about that?
This thing not as Fed governor. It is in the
law that he can do it. So you can say
to the end of 2028 or maybe middle of 20,
January 31st, 2028, he would have to get off. The
truth of the matter is he's breaking 75 years of
precedent. Every time you get a new chairman, the former
chairman leaves. That's good news because what you don't want
are these philosophies in conflict. And I think Jay Powell
is making a significant mistake, significant decision, but really bad
one. I think for the country and for the Fed,
it would be best if he left. Right, because the
Fed, as you know, the chairman doesn't have due to
lateral control, right? Just for people that don't know this,
he has to rule by some sort of consensus. Exactly.
And he would be there. So how do you get
rid of him? Prayer. Lord! We need some prayer on
this issue. Honestly, I think it's going to be his
decision. All signs point to his departure before 28, but
I do think he's maybe just poking the president in
the eye a little bit. I don't think so. I
think he fully intends to stay on. And here's how
the actual interest rate decisions are made. on the FMOC.
Fed governor is appointed to 14 years, and once they
are in that seat, they are extraordinarily difficult to remove
by design, both to keep the Fed independent from political
pressure and to stop governors from bowing to whoever happens
to be in the White House in that decade. And
it is actually the governorship, not the chairmanship, that carries
most of the real power. Each governor gets a vote
on the Federal Open Market Committee, which is the committee
that actually sets interest rates. This committee is made up
of seven governors from the Fed in Washington, of which
one is the chairman, as well as representatives from five
out of the 12 regional Federal Reserve branches to make
a total of 12 voting parties. Out of this group,
the chairman is more of a first amongst the kind
of role. Responsible for communicating what the Fed is doing,
running the meetings, and managing the institution's public face through
press conferences. But the actual decisions on rates themselves are
made by a vote between everybody on the committee with
everybody getting an equal vote. Now this is a problem
for an administration that wants to use the chairmanship as
a lever to crank down rates. Because even a friendly
chairman can be outvoted by the other 11 people in
the room, which creates an even bigger problem for the
administration. Exactly. So Trump wants the rates lower. Everybody wants
rates lower. Everybody. I want rates lower. Everybody wants, yep.
Everybody wants rates lower, but they're political. They're political. And
I think that, you know, you lower the rates for
banks. It's not necessarily good for banks all the time.
I think they're very concerned. That's why Powell is staying
on. And this is how it balances out. And Warsh,
as good as President Trump thinks he is, will have
no power. Based on the current board makeup, are there
people there who will disagree with? She would push back
on some of these changes. Absolutely. And remember, monetary policy
is made by a committee, the seven governors in Washington
and five of the 12 Reserve Bank presidents out in
the region. And at today's meeting, three of those presidents
basically fired a shot across Kevin Warsh's bow. They said
they did not want a statement that... that the Fed's
next move is to lower interest rates. So he's not
going to be able to do anything on interest rates
very quickly because so many of the policy members are
against him. And he still has to deal on major
changes in Fed communications and stuff. He'll need a consensus
of the board. So I suspect this will be a
slow process. Exactly. So. It ain't over. It ain't over.
at all. And so what are they doing? They're rebuilding
the international world order, formerly known as the New World
Order. with the bankers and here is the central banker
central banker Prime Minister Carney of Canada, and he's telling
us exactly what they're going to do. The world is
undergoing a rupture across several dimensions in technology. in energy
and commerce and geopolitics. Integration is being used as a
weapon by some. And the rules... are not constraining the
hegemons. Now, we have to take on the world as
it is, not as we wish it to be. We
know nostalgia is not a strategy, but we don't think
that we're destined to submit to a more transactional, insular,
and brutal world. And gatherings such as these point to
a better way forward. In closing, We're here. Because of
your invitation, again, thank you for that. But we're here
because of the moral and security imperatives of our cooperation
in the Caucasus, in the Baltics, in Ukraine, across Europe,
and also because of the immense potential for our partnerships.
to build a better, more prosperous, sustainable and just world
for our citizens. And I'll close with this. It's my
strong personal view that as the international order will be
rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe. And
so I'm very appreciative of the symbolism of this invitation.
Yeah, right, buddy. Yeah, out of Europe. Did you notice
the code words he had in there that implied Trump?
Yeah, of course. When you use the word transactional, transactional
means Trump. Trump, yes. Yeah, because Trump is breaking that
apart, and it looks like the Macron brothers are the
ones that are going to try and... try and save
the world or their world. The president of France, Macron,
goes to China, spends about six hours meeting with Xi
Jinping. And then on the flight back, he talks to
a bunch of reporters. And here's what he told the
reporters. He told the reporters, number one, that it's time
for Europe to break away from the United States, not
to depend on the dollar, not to depend so much
on us. to become their own third superpower. The second
thing he says, which I found really interesting, was that
Europe needs to make sure that they don't get involved
in conflicts that are not their conflicts, specifically that Europe
should not be picking sides on Taiwan between the United
States and China. And so I think this is a
good moment for us to ask Europe, does Macron say
that? Is Macron now the head of Europe? Is he
now the most powerful leader in Europe? Because if he
is, then there's some things we're going to need to
change. Number one, Europe, including France specifically, has depended heavily
on the United States for 70 years for their own
defense. In fact, when Macron tried to play global superpower
and send troops to North Africa to fight terrorists, He
couldn't even get his own troops there. We had to
fly them there and we had to fly them back.
He couldn't even get his own troops there. So if
they're going to break off on their own and follow
Macron's lead, that's going to save us a lot of
money. Okay. Okay. Future president. So here's Queen Ursula. And
she's stepping up to the plate now. Continent like ours.
with limited fossil fuels resources should lead the world on
electrification. This is the reason why last December we proposed
the GRIDS package. Its goal is to make our energy
and infrastructure fit for the electrification age. And I'm very
glad that last week in Cyprus, the European Parliament, the
Council, agreed to speed up... the negotiations. And as a
next step, we will put forward our electrification action plan.
Are they going to electrify everybody? I mean, didn't we
go through the... Electrocute. Didn't we go through the electrification
age in the late 1800s? These people are insanely... By
the summer, with an ambitious electrification target. And speaking of
finances, in the current European budget, we have set aside
almost 300 billion euros for energy, 95 billion of which
are not used so far. I know I'm preaching here
almost in the wrong church, but let us use this
to make this. Switch now to electricity, not just in
transport, but also in industry. So she's talking about using
electricity in industry. So are you going to use windmills
and solar panels for your steel? Is that what I'm
hearing? This makes no sense. And here's the numbers. This
is the second energy crisis within four years. And the
lesson should be very clear. Our over-dependency on imported fossil
fuels makes us vulnerable. They have a whole North Sea!
filled with fossil fuels. Let me give you two figures.
By the way, where does this electricity come from? So
what she's saying... or implying, I would say, she's implying,
that none of the electricity is going to come from
coal-powered generators or natural gas-powered generators. No. Or anything other
than solar and wind and maybe some water? No, nuclear.
She's going to add nuclear back into the mix. Oh,
well, nuclear's okay, but... But they killed the four reactors.
If she wants to add nuclear, why did they shut
down all the German reactors? To kill Germany. which happens
to be the industrial heart of the EU. They want
serfs. They want dumb slaves to clean their homes. What?
The Culture Suicidal. We've known this all along. Europeans are
suicidal. It's where they want war all the time. I
mean... Like you said, we've been selling arms and ammunition.
We still will be doing that. That's what we do
best, is make the stuff. And they can go kill
themselves. So what is the show title that I need
to write down? Oh no. What? I hear your computer
bleeping. Is that you? Yeah. Oh, no. No. Okay. Let's
continue. No, that's not me. It's nonsense. In just 60
days of conflict. Our bill for fossil fuel imports has
increased by over 27 billion euros. without one single molecule
of energy in addition. So the way forward is obvious.
We must reduce our over-dependency on imported fossil fuels. And
we must boost our homegrown, affordable, clean energy supply. from
renewables to nuclear in full respect of technology neutrality. Of
technology neutrality. What does that mean? I don't know, but
the problem is with the green agenda in the EU,
you'll never get new nuclear plants. It'll take decades. Decades
for that to happen. Already today, member states... Suicidal, I
said. Suicidal, but suicidal culture, suicidal... Queen Suicide? We gotta
come up with something. More low-carbon sources in their energy
mix are less impacted by the crisis. Take a country
like Sweden. If there the gas price increases by one
euro per megawatt hour, The electricity bill only increases by
0.04 euros per megawatt hour. Because almost all of Sweden's
electricity comes from renewables. and nuclear. So this is how
we insulate ourselves from future shocks. And this is the
path to independence of Europe. The problem with Sweden is
they got immigrants burning cars all day long. So it's
not all that fantastic in Sweden and luckily This is
a dead man walking. This is the Polish member of
European Parliament, Dominik Tarzynski. And he laid it out. And
I hope he has good security. You must have lost
your mind. In Spain, they just legalized residents of half
a million illegal aliens. In France. They throw grenades into
hair salons in a broad daylight. In Germany, not a
single day goes by without someone being murdered with a
knife. In Sweden, for example, you have bomb attack every
other day. I can continue, but you just don't care.
Those are not real problems. for the European left-wing politicians.
No! You are going to solve the situation in Minnesota!
You are seriously discussing here the rule of law in
the United States and criticizing the American government for deporting
illegal aliens, for deporting criminals out of their territory in
the same time when Western European cities are gradually... We
should do exactly the same. We should deport them from
Europe and not legalize their stay. We should listen to
them and not what you are proposing to all of
us. Everybody can see now you are enemies of Europe.
You hate Europe. You hate our nations and you want
to destroy the future for our children. We should stop
you. We should... Yes, exactly. The end of Europe. Classic's
been floating around. That's good. I'm glad you got it.
He's great. Yeah, he's the Nigel Farage of the era.
Yeah. Without the understatement. No understatement with this guy. No,
more of him. More of him. So something... that uh
We've been talking about on the show for... at least
five years, ever since I met Texas Slim. And I'm
going to play these clips because it shows you how
long. It takes government to get anything together, to get
anything done, even in a government that actually wants to
get stuff done. This is about the meatpackers. And Texas
Loom was screaming this to high heaven. Like, you know,
there's a cartel, the meatpackers, they're not even American companies.
They're screwing the ranchers. This is why we have the
lowest herd count ever, not because of drought and all
these other bull crap reasons. No, because there has been
an absolute cartel of beef in the United States. And
so now they're doing something about it with the new
AG Barbie. the AG Ken, AG Ken Barbie, Todd Blanche.
All right, good morning, everybody. Today we are here to
talk about our progress. here at the Justice Department to
hold meatpackers accountable. As you all know, last November, the
President tasked the Department to investigate the costs and prices
of beef. As a result, we prioritized investigating potential antitrust
violations. in U.S. cattle and beef. markets. In the beef
industry, the big four processors control over 85%. of the
beef processing market. Two of the Big Four are primarily
foreign-owned. Multiple plant closures across the country, the current market
structure, and high concentration in the industry indicate anti-competitive activity.
Since the President's executive order, the department has been actively
investigating with a review of over 3 million documents, hundreds
of industry participants, including ranchers, cattlemen, producers, and processors. have
been contacted and many interviewed as part of this ongoing
investigation. More broadly, the department has also executed on the
president's executive order to stop anti-competitive behavior in the broader
food supply market. Later this week, we will be announcing
an historic settlement that will directly affect the prices of
proteins like chicken, pork, and turkey. This business model allows
competitors to exchange competitively sensitive information on every aspect of
the protein industry and has raised the prices on chicken,
raised the prices on pork. and raise the prices on
turkey so It's good that they're doing that. It's good
they're breaking up this cartel. And. You know, luckily there's
still, you know, Texas Slim, somehow he got beef.com. I
don't know how he did that. So he's got beef.com
and you can find your local rancher and do lots
of stuff. And I like all this. I like what
Blanche is doing. But then the most un-American thing is
like, I want our Justice Department. I want these. guys
and SWAT teams. I want them busting into these offices.
I want boxes being carried out. I want JBS and
Cargill and Tyson executives. I want them in handcuffs. I
want perp walks. No. What do we do? Yeah, we
want snitches. There is more work to do and we
need your help. I want to remind everyone and anyone
in the industry that if you have information about antitrust
crimes, about price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation, or even
procurement fraud, the Department of Justice wants to hear from
you. Through our whistleblower rewards program, which we do in
partnership with the United States. Postal Inspection Service. What? The
postmaster general's involved in this? Come on. You can be
financially rewarded for coming forward with information about this behavior.
Just to put a fine point on it, if your
report... If the information you provide helps us, secure a
criminal penalty in excess of $1 million, you can be
entitled to recover and receive 15% to 30% of the
money that we recover. So whether you're a farmer, a
purchaser, a processor, you can help. Protect food security in
America by reporting these types of violations and potentially criminal
conduct. We will use every law enforcement tool available to
help reduce food prices. and vigorously enforce the antitrust laws
to ensure every aspect of the agricultural industry competes on
a fair playing field. If you see something, say something.
I don't like snitching. You know what this tells me?
What? They got nothing. He got nothing on these guys.
This is all hope. This is a snitching thing. Oh
my God, we can't prove a thing. These guys are
on the up and up. from what we can tell
because we can't prove anything maybe you know we can
get some snitches maybe and maybe that'll do something because
they got nothing they're not going to get anywhere with
this is a dead end this is not going to
go anywhere i don't like the same these guys long
ago people that are involved in price fixing knew how
to do it. You do it through third parties. You
do it by looking at what the airlines do. What
is United charging for this flight to Chicago? What are
we going to charge? Let's charge the same thing. I
mean, this is nonsense. These four, these big four are
dominating and they're going to continue to dominate. unless they
boil down to two or they become monopolists. But with
four of them, they look competitive. They're not. But it's
like the light bulbs, the Westinghouse light bulb scandals in
the past for price fixing. Oh, the light, not just
price fixing. But... length of burn fixing. Yeah, that whole
thing. Was it five? By the way, LEDs do that
now too. They crap out. Of course, of course. I'm
going to tell my LED story I've told you before.
Well, first explain the Osram scandal. That's what that was.
It was price fixing amongst the light bulb manufacturers, not
in price per se. but how many hours the light
bulb would last. And I believe there is still a
light bulb today that has been burning for over 110
years. is There's plenty of cool light bulbs that burn
forever. Yeah. But the LEDs should burn forever, at least
a lifetime of anybody that's living. So I... You know,
I bought an LED. Bug bulb for the front porch.
25 years ago. It was one of the first LEDs
American made. LED light bulb. They couldn't get much power
out of it. It was nice and yellow. And so
I put it up. Bug bulb. A bug bulb. Bug
bulb. Oh, there's a show title. Bug bulb. I like
it. So the bug bulb, it's still burning. Meanwhile, all
these Chinese lamps I buy that are LED, they burn
out in a year. They're like filaments. What happens? They
start to blink, blink, blink. flashing you can't stop if
you turn it on and off maybe it stops for
a while and it starts blinking and flashing because the
circuitry in the in the bulb is no good the
junk junk i tell you this every led bulb you
buy should last forever your lifetime good for life Should
be good for life. And none of them are, except
my bug bulb. Wait, no. And your bulb's in your
2009 Lexus. There's another interesting... No, no, it's not. It
was a 2000... I thought it was 2009. No, no,
no, no, no. No, 2009, that's a new car. Aw.
It was a 2003, I think. It's a 30-year-old car.
Yes. How does that work? Every bulb in the Lexus,
the interior lamps. Everything. The headlights, the taillights, everything. The
bulbs never burn out. Where do they get these bulbs?
We're being screwed, Mr. Dvorak. The whole thing is a
giant scam. I am so busy right now marking the
recording. I got so many great openers from you. giant
scam well you want to hear scam all right i'm
going to set you up i'm going to set you
up with this here's the setup pennsylvania's hershey company says
it's seeing a jump in the sales of mints and
gum and they say it's all due to the rise
of glp-1 weight loss drugs the company says the sales
of their ice breakers mints rose eight percent in the
first quarter of the year. Dental experts have linked the
drugs to dry mouth and some have complained of bad
breath over dehydration caused by the medication. Yes, and I
want to say that I've noticed this. I've noticed women
who are on the O. That they have bad... No.
Yeah, Ozempic. That they have bad... I had breath. This
is very noticeable. Really? Particularly in church. Yeah. particularly in
church. I'm not pointing anybody out, but I'm just like,
you know, girl, you're on the O and your breath
is hawking. What does it smell like? death warmed over
just nasty you know it's It has to do, I
think it has to do with. Uh, what is it?
What is the word? Ketones. Ketones. Thank you. Thank you.
Ketones. Yeah, it has to do with ketones. Rapid weight
loss can do that. But it doesn't matter. Because here
is a no agenda show prediction come true in the
worst possible way through our president. Today, I'm thrilled to
announce that starting on July 1st, we will also provide
Medicare patients with the coverage for weight loss drugs like
Ozepic. There it is. There it is. We knew it
was coming. Now, it's not the bonanza they thought it
was going to be. Zep pound, Wee Govee. Wee Govee.
Will be available for $50 a month. $50. Wow. $50?
Now think of that, $50 a month. So, if it
was $1,300... Now it's $50. And the $1,300 doesn't cover
a whole month. So it's really even more than that.
The fat vax. So it's now down to $50. So
that's where you get it. And also, and you remember
when I cut in. Oh yeah, now it goes into
the whole insulin thing. Blah blah blah. So there it
is. Now it's not the bonanza they wanted it to
be. And I think you still have to pay for
it yourself. I mean, is Medicare picking up a piece
of the cost or how does that work? It must
be. I mean, I can't imagine that they're like, okay.
50 bucks. No, no, no. There's Medicare is being drained.
Yeah. You know, it's being. eviscerated by these these various
overpriced drugs that they were overpriced on purpose and the
ridiculous amount of prescriptions that are going out. Yeah. That's
why it's going to be bankrupt in no time. I'm
going to be one of the last people on Medicare.
I'll never make it. I don't think so. They're going
out of their, you can just see it. You can
sense it when you're in the system that they're, they're
doing everything they can to drain it. Yeah. Any life
force. So. Uh, RFK Jr. trying, trying to do some
stuff. Trying. But I think it is hopeless. Here he
is on the SSRIs, which we call the modern MKUltra.
In Washington. The United States does not just face the
mental health. crisis, we face a dependency crisis. Driven by
over-medicalization. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan
yesterday to rein in what he's called Americans' overuse of
antidepressants. We will no longer treat them as the default.
We will treat them as one option. Kennedy has narrowed
in specifically on SSRIs, the most widely prescribed class of
antidepressants. That includes household names like Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac. The
user base is huge. Roughly one in six Americans reported
taking an SSRI this year. One in six? Kennedy acknowledged
that patients... can benefit from them, and he stressed that
he wasn't telling anyone to just stop. But he argued
that too many people start taking the meds without knowing
how long they'll stay on them, and with no plan
to come off. He has singled out SSRIs before. He's
previously claimed without evidence that they are partly responsible for...
Without evidence! The rise in school shootings and that they
can be harder to quit than heroin, something he repeated
yesterday. For his new effort, Kennedy announced several initiatives like
trainings and new guidelines to nudge clinicians to help patients
get off medications and consider other treatment options like therapy
or exercise. No major medical organizations were represented at yesterday's
event. Of course not. Of course not. But, so this
news is slowly, slowly getting through. And you and I
agree that there's probably a lot of people who listen
to our podcast who are on SSRIs. One in six.
So we say this not... Not to scorn you, but
to try and help you. uh because we've been following
the ssri mk ultra for a long time and they
stopped reporting on shooters if they were on ssris or
not you can never get that information and you can't
get that information because they're advertised on television another thing
RFK Jr. said that he would stop with the swipe
of a pen. If he was president, I guess. Somebody
pointed out that comments were running for president, even though
he should have the exact same goals. Yes, and this
president should be able to do that, and he should.
He won't. Here. is Ella Emhoff. Yeah, you know, this
is funny because I was looking at this clip and
I said, should I get this clip of Ella? And
I decided against it, but I'm glad you got it
because it's a... It's an example of people that are
stuck on these. And by the way, shocker, she takes
these things. Yeah, she. She was crocheting in Brooklyn when
she heard the news. I'm just sitting here crocheting. And
just so people know, Ella Emhoff is Kamala Harris's stepdaughter.
I'm just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend. And
I was just listening to this podcast that the Wall
Street Journal put out about SSRIs. anti-anxiety meds and kind
of the over prescription of them in America. And it
was making me think a lot because I've been on
SSRIs for over a decade, almost 15 years probably. They
were calling out the lack of research on long-term use
of these. things they were calling out. The... lack of
information that doctors give about coming off of these meds
and kind of the psychological effects they can have. And
it really got me thinking how little I've thought about
that naively, obviously. But I've noticed that every time I've
gone off of it for a week or missed it
or for whatever reason, like it has been really hard
for me and I've had a really hard time. And
I guess this is just something I was wondering if
you guys have thought about or relate to or kind
of consider when you're thinking about going on meds like
that. Meds. Because I don't know if this is something
that I feel like is being talked about enough because...
I feel like so many of us are on these
meds and... this is like actually happening like people get
off of them and they kind of break down and
it could be really bad so yeah i guess i
just want your general thoughts Yeah, my general thoughts are,
girl, I pray for you. And, you know, it's very
difficult to quit these meds. Because you get brain zaps
and all kinds of horrible things. And your No Agenda
show is going to go one step further. We are
going to play a clip which may be shocking to
some. So parents... Younger children probably shouldn't hear this. They
may not understand all the words necessarily. This is a
Health and Human Services testimony from a woman named Lauren.
And she is testifying about PSSD, which we've talked about
on the show before, which may be responsible for the
incredible low birth rate. we have because people on these
meds don't want to have sex and sex in fact
is not pleasurable for them love is not even capable
for them so the hallmark symptom of PSSD is genital
numbness yes like complete loss of sensation in your genitals
for me I clearly hate to talk but my clitoris
is completely numb as if it's the back of my
elbow. I have no sensation internally. I'm 23 years old.
Suffers also lose the ability to orgasm permanently, like for
the rest of their lives, and their libido entirely, which
for me and what a lot of other people experience
is like a sudden onset. like chemical asexuality that just
And in my opinion, I don't think it's sensational to
say that this is a form of chemical castration, But
beyond that, PSSD is not just a loss of sexual
function, but a loss for some people of emotional function
as well. That has been the case for me. Before
this, I was a super emotional... empathetic, loving, caring, like
Sylvia Plath reading and resonating girl. And the day I
woke up with this injury, I quite literally felt my
soul leave my body. Like I'm so serious. It was
the most unbelievable, inorganic thing I've ever experienced. It's a
common symptom people who have this condition. To this day,
it's been years for me. I'm 23 now. I can't
feel love for my own mother, which... It's the hardest
thing on earth. Dude. This is poison. This is poison.
This is very bad. They're not going to play this
on CNN. Because that's their bread and butter. What a
terrible situation. So you sent me two clips. You sent
me a clip of... trigonometry, what is the podcast? Yeah,
the podcast. Trigonometry and an Adam Carolla podcast. And they
were both about this woman, Helen Andrews. who wrote an
essay, which after you sent me those clips, I'm like,
I've heard about this lady. I go look it up.
Yeah, the essay's famous. Yeah, it's a famous essay. And
so I was able to pull three really short clips,
all around 40 seconds, from a speech she gave. And
she, in this essay, which is linked in the show
notes, she very clearly... explains. how wokeness and the really
she calls it the feminization. of America, but really the
world. is ruining us. Do you want to add anything
to it before I play these? Well, I thought Corolla's
take on it. And I'm not a Corolla fan. He
invented podcasting, you know. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I've heard.
I thought his take on it was quite, it was
a little nonchalant take. that was mostly reflective of what's
going on in Los Angeles. And of course, we have
this Spencer Pratt guy that's kicking ass with almost a
daily new... AI ad is phenomenal. They got some great
models. They're getting some traction, that's for sure. Yeah. Which
it was just which derives a bit from this one
but he says he's been working on his thoughts for
15 years about this issue, about the feminization issue. And
part of it was just to summarize. Women like to
talk. And once they're satisfied by talking about it. fixing
something, but it's the men who actually get the work
done. Women do get work done, but they can also
just talk, talk, talk, and never get anything done. Here's
the intro. The libertarian economist Tyler Cowen once wrote a...
blog post describing all of the revolutions he's seen in
the course of his lifetime, starting with the moon landing
when he was a little boy and going up chronologically
to today's advent of AI. And there were only seven
revolutions on this list because this was only the greatest
and most earth-shaking ones. And right there, between the fall
of communism and the invention of the internet, was something
called the Great Feminization. That is not a phrase that
a lot of Americans know, but future historians may well
rank it as having greater importance than almost any other
revolution on that list. Including communism. So here's a brief
description. I have referred several times so far to feminization
without defining what that means. I'll have a lot to
say about it in just a moment. But if you
want to put it in a single sentence, you could
say that feminization equals... Wokeness. Everything you think of as
wokeness is simply a dream. of demographic feminization. Think about
all the things that wokeness means. Valuing empathy over rationality,
safety over risk, conformity and cohesion over competition and hierarchy.
All of these things are privileging the feminine. Over the
masculine. And it makes so much sense that the Democrat
Party uses this. Because it activates women. It really does
activate them. When you have a... a class that is
Uh, suppressed. Like, oh, oh yeah. Oh, yeah, no, this
is horrible. We have to do something about that. This
is the Karens, the white liberal women. Of America, certainly.
And it's kind of frightening when you read this essay
and you see all the fields. that have been now
really taken over by women. Education. psychology. um and medicine
medicine yeah oh yeah how about covid burks and walensky
and was it walensky walensky i think her name was
yeah yeah yeah shut it down Shut it down, shut
them in. Everybody stay home. There was no masculine energy.
Female mayors. Female mayors. How about Queen Ursula? All of
this stuff. And she is also skeptical that this can
be turned around, but she does have one recommendation. where
we should start if we want to defeminize. So that's
agenda item number one. Get rid of all the HR
ladies. Who's with me? Just fire them. And then we'll
see how it shakes out. If your company has too
few women, that might indicate that you have a problem
with your recruiting pipeline. On the other hand, it might
not. Either way, we're not going to send a team
of lawyers after you to second guess you. Yeah, and
it's not that women are bad. It's just when women
control certain... sectors or industries or policy They don't necessarily
have a... a get it done way of doing things.
Climate change is another great example. You know, how many
meetings, how many hundreds of billions of dollars do we
not have in meetings about doing, and they never get
there, ever, because there's nothing, nowhere to get. Many meetings.
Yeah, just meetings and meetings and meetings and meetings. That's
because they need. for consensus. Consensus, yeah. And I think
a lot of women will read this and go, hmm,
that's interesting. Yeah, a lot of them would be irked
about it. Yeah, probably. Your sexism doesn't help. My sexism?
*laughs* Really, no. Ugh. Ugh. See, what we need is
a president who says stuff like this. We provided 100
percent expensing and bonus depreciation, which is tremendous. One of
the biggest things that you have. I mean, people have
no idea how big that is. So that businesses can
deduct 100 percent of the cost of new facilities, equipment.
and capital investment in the first year. It used to
take 38 years of deduction. Now you get it done
in one. You can take one so you can expand.
I think that's what made us so successful in the
first term. And now we have it for a 10-year
period. So you have it for a while. I really
was going to make it for a one-year period. That
would mean you spend all your money immediately. Now, unfortunately,
I gave you too much time. I was sort of
against that. I said, let's do it for a shorter
period of time. But we did it. It's the right
thing. And this way, when I get out of office
in, let's say, eight or nine years from now... I'll
be able to use it. I'll be able to use
it myself. Yeah, baby. Yeah. *Gasps* This is great. Let's
talk about climate change for a minute. Oh, must wrap.
All right. All right. Climate change. I got to do
some funny clips here. But there's a very interesting follow-up
clip. This climate, New Orleans needs to prepare. New Orleans.
is a vibrant city, home of the French Quarter and
the birthplace of jazz. It's hard to imagine that it
all might disappear. Yet that's the verdict of a study
published this week in the Nature Sustainability Journal. It finds
that sea level rise means the city could end up
being surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico by the end
of the century. Jesse Keenan is one of the city's
co-authors. He's the director of the Center on Climate Change
and Urbanism at Tulane University. And he joins me now.
Professor, good morning. Thank you so much for having me.
Is New Orleans... Well, what we see is that currently
atmospheric temperatures are roughly where they were during the last
interglacial, about 125,000 to 150,000 years ago. Now there's a
lag between global temperatures and sea level rise, but when
we begin to add it up, there's a recognition that
New Orleans has a matter of generations to prepare for
a transition north to the mainland and away from the
coast. So a transition, is relocation the only option for
New Orleans? Well, we don't really get into the engineering
specifics, but it's generally agreed that it would be nearly
impossible to engineer. a multi-purpose levee and dike system around
New Orleans. About 80% of New Orleans' land area is
underwater, or below sea level, I should say. It's essentially
a bowl. You can think about it in those terms.
So to be surrounded by open water and be exposed
to increasingly stronger hurricanes, the land itself is sinking and
the seas are rising. combination really makes it nearly impossible
to be able to engineer a solution to keep New
Orleans afloat. Did you see that? Uh, Mexico City is
sinking by half an inch a year? Yeah, it's been
doing that forever. Yeah, well, doesn't that eventually, don't they
wind up in Australia or something? I like China. China?
Yeah, it's been doing that forever. Well, so has Venice.
Yeah, well, Venice, yeah. Venice is definitely, I mean, that
thing's underwater every three weeks. I mean, it's just constantly
sinking. Wow. Yeah. Let's go to part two of this
and then we can bring an expert in. Now, it's
important to note the study predicts the surrounding of New
Orleans and even the possible submersion of New Orleans sometime
in the future. And you don't know exactly when. Fish
flopping on the streets. And that will be. But is
anyone actually making plans for this possibility in the future?
Well, I wouldn't say it's so much of a prediction
as the geological. and the paleoclimatic evidence points us in
the direction that New Orleans will be surrounded by open
water, and it is very likely that it will be
inundated. That question, whether we have decades or maybe over
a century to go, is in a way open to
science. But the real question is when and what does
it mean to... to begin to plan a transition of
the population, of businesses, of capital, and that's the challenge
we have ahead of us in terms of public policy.
There is not currently planning by the city or the
state to begin this transition. What we have seen in
recent years, which is critical as we highlight in our
work, is that there has been sediment diversion from the
Mississippi. river that can build land and by building land
in and around New Orleans you can buy time and
buying time is the the most critical aspect here now
that project was killed by the governor just last year
as not being particularly cost effective as it was argued
the reality is much of the expense of that project
was actually paid for by BP oil bill money from
a number of years ago. So the reality is that
every decade that we can buy to help transition is
critical for the success of environmental management, environmental quality, what
we leave behind, but also the humane treatment of people
that are otherwise going to find themselves in a very
difficult situation in the decades to come. I still don't
understand exactly what climate change has to do with it
and what is the solution that they're proposing. Moving the
city. Oh. Moving the city. Moving the city. Yeah, just
move it. Get it out of the air. It's going
to sink. So here's this guy. I thought this would
be a nice counter. Counterbalance. This guy, um... Greg Braden,
professor. logical climatologist guy's not bought off. Listen to this
little piece by this. by this guy on climate change
in general. Another example, I'm going to use climate change
as a geologist. I'm very passionate about this. You believe
in it? Climate change is a fact. I've been talking
about it since 1979. It's also a fact that humans
are not causing it. Humans are not causing it. The
real scientists know this. The cow farts. It's not the
cows. Cow farts. I'll tell you. I mean, NASA knows
this. that over 90% of the CO2, there is an
increase in CO2. I made a statement and I just
want to justify this. Is there more CO2 in the
atmosphere now than there was 10 years ago? 20, 50,
100 years ago, the answer is absolutely yes. Is it
a bad thing? The answer is no. Is it the
most we've ever had? We're right about 440 parts per
million right now. In geologic history, we're looking Cretaceous over
1,000, or the Jurassic over 1,000 parts per million, Triassic
2,000 parts per million. The Earth was lush. The Earth
was green. Life was abundant. during that time. And what
we see in geologic history, and this is fascinating me,
there are times when CO2 levels are high and the
temperatures are low. And times when just the opposite is
happening, it's not necessarily a one-to-one correlation. Where's the CO2
coming from? NASA knows. I've got a bunch of videos
on this. Over 90... percent of the CO2 is coming
from the oceans warming warm water holds less gas here's
the kicker the oceans are warming from underneath not from
the top, if it was from the CO2 on the
top. you know, the warming of the air. It would
be coming from the top. It's warming. The glaciers are
melting from underneath. The CO2 is... coming, the oceans are
warming from underneath from tectonic processes. that happen about every
12,500 years that people just don't want to talk about.
It is a tectonic process that begins in the core.
translates perturbations into the mantle, into the crust, the weak
areas of the crust. You see more tectonic activity, more
volcanic activity was exactly what we were seeing. Give this
guy the hook. He's not, he said the wrong things.
That's not right. Yeah. So your point being... We still
gotta- Don't bullshit. We still gotta move New Orleans. Yeah,
well, we will. Move New Orleans. Move New Orleans. Probably
don't have to. Here's a question. You probably don't have
to. Here's a question for you. Did you ever meet
Ted Turner? I never met Ted Turner. Will Hurst told
me a couple of stories because he's met Ted Turner.
And his only story about Ted Turner is... There is
a, uh... There was a line to the bar, and
there was somebody standing there. It looked like they were
in the line, but they weren't in the line, and
the line moved, and Ted was behind these people. Hearst
witnessed this. I just thought it was a funny story.
And he says, Turner says to the guys, hey. Are
you in the line to get drinks? And the guy
said, no, I'm just standing here. So they get the
fuck out of the way. And he says that was
Ted Turner. That sounds like Ted Turner. And I would
just say. You do not want to be proclaimed dead
by me on the podcast. Because I think I said
he was dead just a couple weeks ago. And so
now he's dead. Thank you very much. 13 and 3
8 yesterday. Ted Turner was never a man to shy
away from a challenge on land or sea. Whether bringing
the America's Cup back to the US, saving the American
bison, Getting the Atlanta Braves to the World Series or
changing the way we all consumed news. The skies over
Baghdad have been illuminated. The cover war is now largely
because of the way CNN covered the first Gulf War
live. We intend to cover all the news all the
time. She was a hard-drinking cigar. smoking adventurer. He had
kind of an Ernest Hemingway vibe, just with deeper pockets.
I get thousands, millions, and billions mixed up. Turner had
all kinds of nicknames, the Mouth from the South and
Captain Outrageous. In 2018, though, he disclosed to CBS Sunday
Morning's Ted Koppel that he was fighting Lewy body dementia.
It's a... mild case of What? People have Alzheimer's. His
memory back then hadn't forgotten his three marriages, especially the
one to Jane Fonda. Have you ever quite got over
her? No. Do you think you ever will? No. When
you love somebody and you really love them, you never
stop loving them. He never got over his love of
the American West, either, and his philanthropic efforts will live
on in perpetuity. We don't really own anything, he said.
We just borrow it for a while. Yeah, he still
made 87. That's pretty good. considering how he lived. Yeah.
You know, he was a V different, definitely had some
insights into cable. Oh, man, he was so right about
that. And they laughed at him. They laughed. He had
WTBS first, right? Superstation TBS? I can't remember the whole
history, but the fact is that they laughed at him
a lot and said he's a fool. He didn't know
what he was doing was very, yes, very common in
the early days of cable. Yeah, Superstation WTBS. uh that
was that was so yeah tbs turner broadcasting yeah so
that was a superstation first which meant he's sending through
a whole bunch of television stations and later via satellite,
or maybe the distribution was through satellite. But the big
thing he did... is he would take old movies uh
cheap or cheaper than you know first run stuff He'd
take old movies and he would play them. Dead. 1105.
And 8.05. Because he knew that when people had seen
the headlines on the news and were bored, they would
be switching around, and then they'd hit the beginning of
one of his movies. And it was genius. Until podcasting
came along. Yeah, which changed everything. It sure did, baby.
Let's... I got to cut some one more Tucker Carlson
thing. I want to get out of the way. Oh,
man. I finally watched that whole Lulu interview with him.
It's kind of nutty. Well, he's like, there's something's up.
I'm convinced now that either he's got a mental condition.
Meds. Or there's meds. Meds. Meds. Meds. Meds. Meds. Meds.
Meds. Meds. Meds. clips last show I thought were very
revealing about maybe it's a cry for help. Maybe it's
a signal. Maybe it's code. I don't know. But he
pulls the stunt with, he pulls a similar stunt with
Dave Rubin who got irked about it. Tucker casually says
Dave- I didn't know who Dave- Rubin was and Dave
Rubin played the clip on his show and then blasted
Tucker because Tucker even blurbed his book and he'd been
to his house and on and on and this is
the Tucker redux Dave Rubin piece Dave Rubin whoever that
is is he conservative okay I guess. Whatever. You know,
it's funny, Tucker. Is he conservative? Well, first off, as
I often point out, I'm actually not a conservative in
the strictest capital C sense of conservative. But I do
believe that defending my liberal positions has become a conservative
value. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But also, Tucker, you
blurbed my book on class. I mean, read it for
you. I know you are a big fan of doing
this because it makes you look like you're smart. Dave
Rubin is one of the bravest, smartest people I know,
as well as a tremendous television presence. So who changed
since then? Is it me or is it you, buddy?
Is it me or is it you? It's not me.
Tucker also literally walked into my house because I was
one of the first people to have the home studio
and gone independent. And I think his actual quote was,
holy effing shit, you did it. You did it. The
blurb of the book, when he signed his last book
to me, he said, you're doing it for all the
guys stuck at corporate jobs or something like that. Again,
I tried to broker a peace with him and Ben.
But the reason I'm doing this, you know, I don't,
as you guys know, I don't like doing the things
about people that I've known or I was friends with
or just when I've been through just that I knew
Cenk and Hasan and Candice and all these people. It's
weird. I think about it a lot. Like, how did
this happen to me? But this guy he is a
fraud like there were plenty more videos We got into
it before the show because there were so many of
them That it's like how many times this guy have
to expose himself and people realize he's making things up
No, this is, I think this is something else. This
is the video, the video thing. This is why we're
still here. Hanging on by our fingernails, but we're still
here. is once you get into video People need, it's
just, it's like an obsession. You know, and you have
to fight with somebody else on video. It's a thing.
It's the era we're in right now. and everyone thinks
video, video, video, and we need to be on video.
I gotta be on video and then I can fight
Candace and Candace can fight Erica and Erica can fight
Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro can fight Tucker and Tucker
can fight, you know, Ben Shapiro can fight Dave Smith
and Dave Smith goes on Joe Rogan and Joe, it's
like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's
going to implode. Well, it's definitely boring. Yes. Watching these
guys do a rotation. But I still think there's more
to it than that with Tucker because something's up. And
now we're starting to see some attacks. Do you think
it could be an actual illness? I don't want to
make light of it. It could be. It's possible. But
I think whatever the case is, they're going after Tucker.
Listen to this guy. Well, of course. I don't know
if this podcast or this is Tucker funding. They're going
after the fact that he's hooked up with the Qataris,
but he's not really. But yes, he is. Oh, man.
Play this clip. Did you guys know that when he
started the Tucker Carlson Network? Do you know who started
up the funding of his network? This is public knowledge.
The guy's name, he runs a company called 1789 Capital,
an investment firm that was founded by Omid Malik. He
funded the launch of the Tucker Carlson Network. He's a
Muslim man. $15 million. he gave to Tucker Carlson. Many
other credible sources are saying that since January, Qatar... wealthy
Islamic nation is funding Tucker Carlson. If you give me
$15 million, I might not think Sharia law is that
bad either. Exactly. Ehhhhh Yeah, whatever. We shouldn't participate in
this. Yeah, we should. No, no. I love it. I
know you do. But you don't have to. I can
get the clips. And then you'll poach me later when
you get a good one. Well, I mean, someone's got
to save the show. Yeah. So here's the fight. that
I am interested in, which is just not a lot
of... There's not a lot of information about it. And
I guess there's no cameras in the courtroom. This Elon
Musk versus Sam Altman. Yeah, it's right there, right here
in Oakland. This is interesting. I have one clip. from
CNBC. versus OpenAI trial. We did get news that OpenAI
plans to spend $50 billion in compute, at least for
the rest of this year. That was one big headline.
Brockman, as I mentioned, co-founder of the company. He answered
a lot of questions about his personal financial ambitions. So
he has what he described as a $30 billion stake
in this company at this point. He kept a journal
to document professional events in his life, personal events. That
has been a big highlight and a big piece of
evidence in this trial. Musk's personality and leadership style also
came up in Brockman's testimony. Musk has claimed that he
is responsible for helping recruit some of the key players
at OpenAI and therefore deserves a lot of credit. and
has talked about that in his own testimony. Brockman talked
about his reputation of being extremely hard-driving and that certain
candidates were very attracted by that, but others didn't like
it as much, and it actually wasn't as big of
a deal in terms of recruiting. So that just was
a big topic of conversation overall. He did also talk
a bit about overall Musk's... just leadership style. We did
get a moment that he talked about of Musk tearing
a painting of a Tesla off the wall. Scott, but
that's the latest. He's wrapping up that testimony and we
are expecting to get Siobhan Zillis, who's a close, close
executive of Musk, also the mother of his children. The
backdrop here, of course, Musk's suit opening up. Sam Altman.
Greg Brockman alleging that they essentially, as Musk put it,
stole a charity. What do you think is going to
come out of that? I mean, the way they finagled
that, turning a non-profit into a for-profit, it seems sketchy.
I think what's going to come out of it is
Musk is going to get his money back. That would
be the easiest way for him. Yeah, and that would
be, it's not that much compared to what they claim
they're spending. But the thing about Musk, I have to
say, is you have to judge the results, not the
commentary. And when they, I have to assume. And I
could be wrong, but I don't see how you could...
could... I don't see how I... how he could be,
but Musk has to be a judge of character in
terms of people working for him. That is unparalleled. He
has to be the guy who... who picks people that
know what they're doing or do it well. And I
think his influence on the company. He probably was more
than this guy. Musk sent a few people over, but
they were no good or we didn't like him or
whatever. I'm not buying it. I think that Musk... He
did run the SpaceX and all these other operations and
to do the kind of financial dealings and and to
sue in a certain way and to get him. get
billions of dollars left and right. He's got to have
a skill set that we can't fully understand. And it
has to do with picking people, which I always thought
that you get a guy who knows how to pick
an executive to help him run a business smarter than
you. Certain kinds of skills might be dependent a little
bit. is non-trivial. Yeah, you really want Musk and Trump
together. Musk to hire and Trump to fire. That would
be the good combo. Yeah. That would be a good
combo. Yeah, Musk should be the head of personnel. Well,
we're going to see. I mean, things are going to
start moving in this AI world, and we're already seeing
AMD and all these CPU companies. People are figuring it
out. It's like, oh, we don't need all this compute.
We just needed our computers at home. I can see
this coming. It's coming. Well, something's coming and it's not
going to be pleasant when it blows up. It'll ruin
the show for sure. And with that, I want to
thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to
you, the man who put the sea in the climate
change. Cow farts. Say hello to my friend on the
other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DEMORAH!
Yeah, well, in the morning, you miss that. You see
boats on the ground and subs of water and dames
and knights out there. Oh, hold on. I was still
stuck in that mode. Hey, in the morning to the
trolls of the troll room. Let me count y'all. Let
me see. Joke out. Joke out. Let me do an
actual troll count and we see 1453. of the Trolls
in the Troll Room, listening live at noagendastream.com. And we
are doing this as a public service for you. It
is currently 10.20 in the Netherlands. I've been awake for
20 hours, but I'm still here doing the show because
that's what we do. And we're going to Nashville later
this month. and it'll be on a Sunday and there's
things I could be doing, but I'm going to do
the show. Because we care about the show. And we
think that it's important that people understand the world that's
going on around them from a different perspective, not just
yelling into the void because we're on video. And that's
what seems to be happening. The whole podcast industrial complex
is now. Everyone's crazy about video. And you know what
they're doing? They're doing a horrible disservice to podcasting. Podcasting
should be audio. I mean, it's something you should be
able to do while gardening. You can't watch a video
while gardening. So what is happening is... All of the,
not all, but most of the big hosting companies. They
are... Offering video podcast. But it's no longer RSS-based. It's
done with an API. Which means it's not podcasting. Exactly.
It's done with an API. And so your video gets
published to Apple. It gets published to Spotify. Oh, by
the way, we're back on Spotify. I got someone to...
I got a representative who emailed me. Hey, is there
anything we can do for your show? I said, yeah,
how about you put our show on? I've been trying
to get it on for four months. Oh, hold on,
Mingxuan. They check and they come back, oh yeah, well,
we had a son, okay. So anyway, so we're on
Spotify now. RSS-based. But all this video stuff, it's all
being done through an APR. I thought we weren't on
Spotify because they wanted to run ads. Yeah, well, they
don't. They have new terms of service. They don't run
ads. Oh, okay. Yeah, so I said, Okay, we'll go
back on then. That's fine. If they run ads, then
we'll take it off. But that was the whole thing.
uh So they're breaking the R and in fact, it's
Spotify. If you up, if you have audio, if you
have an audio podcast and then you upload video. They
then take the audio from your video and your RSS
feed is completely broken. for audio. I think Apple may
be doing the same thing. It's... Why are they doing
this? I think the reason they're doing this is they
understand that if they just have an open RSS feed.
that can come into their platform. platforms, their podcast platforms,
it'll be filled with porn. and other things, other things
they don't want. I would think that's a concern. Yeah,
but it's not a podcast. Now you can be deplatformed
in seconds. By the exact people that I built the
podcast. Index 4 with Dave Jones. for this very reason,
because you will get, when the band hammer is there,
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With that amount of time to further digest what has
happened in the world, I'm always amazed at how... Spot
on, your analysis is... as things are happening just at
the moment. I figured out how. For long-time listeners, we
might remember that Adam isn't a boomer. He's from the
future and even had a time machine that we could
all ride in. It's been a long time. Adam, can
you set the time for just... returning to now so
we don't have to come back but I would love
to go for a ride please I love that nauseating
feeling it gives me plus I'm worried about Sparky the
dog it's been a long time since I haven't heard
him bark did anyone leave him water So he is
requesting the time machine, the dimension. time machine which we
indeed have not ridden in in quite a while so
i dug it out uh it's been in the podcast
bag so i have that she also wants a little
girl yay he says damn it's good to hear your
voice john your humble servant sir ichabod of the bike
path gorbol baron of the Solution Empire solution solution empire
Here we go. All right, everybody, get ready. Here we
go. Are you ready? Stand by. It's going to hurt
just a little bit. You might get dizzy. From this
day forward, it's going to be only America first. Here
we go. If you're dizzy, just look at the ground.
It'll all go away. Thank you, Sari Kabab. That was
a fun ride. Yikes. Okay, so I have to correct
myself. I did find it. Countess comes next after Viscount.
Ah, okay. So she becomes a countess. From vicountess to
countess. Got it. Makes sense. So that's a seven times
night, seven X. Uh, onward. with Sir Greg Birch, our
buddy in Port Angeles, Washington, the Dentite. Wishing John good
health and offering local assistance if needed. Well, that's nice.
5666, my 60th. Celestial orbit. Uh, it- What? Naps? Naps
now legal. You can take naps whenever you want. Whenever
you want, yes. Sir Greg, so he's got a birthday
coming up. It's $250. Thanks, Greg. Austin Allen, Roseville, California,
225. He writes in and says, hello, gents. It's Austin
Allen. be mistaken with Cole Thomas Allen and no affiliation
with the Wide Awakes. Just your favorite pool dude representing
hell. I mean, California. Making sure your pool feels great
and not like the disgusting high chlorinated public pools and
hotel pools. Thank you guys so much for all you
do. I listen to you guys during my pool route
and try to hit all my clients in the mouth.
That's part of your... Responsibility as a producer. I love
letting them know about the No Agenda podcast and how
it helps relieve people from the fear porn of the
legacy media. Your pool guy has about 10 seconds to
make a good impression and most don't. Throwback to Linda
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the pool guy and the Frogs are gay. Oh. I
didn't get the frogs are gay. Hold on a second.
You know, whenever we play these jingles, that's immediately when
people request the jingles. It's uncanny that way. I don't
like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the
frigging frogs gay. There you go. You got it. Jordan
Tierney in Oral. South Dakota. Dude, 1060. I found you
guys in 2020 after watching a Saddle Tramp story. No
Saddle Tramp. Where she talked about the podcast in 2020.
I was Miss Rodeo America, and due to the pandemic,
the pandemic served until the end of 2021. This is
Jordan is a woman. Yes. The Jordan. It's a Jordan
woman. Thank you so much for keeping me sane during
that time. You're welcome. You guys help me during everything
and keep everything in perspective and to see through the
BS. I did the $50 a month payment starting in
2024 and reached the full amount of Damehood in early
2025. I would like to be known as Dame or
Rodeo Queen. And at the round table, I would like
a bottle of Cabernet. Ooh, wait. I think I did
that. Which, which. Which Cabernet do we want for her?
Now let's do what Cabernet would be. Not just any
old Cabernet. We want a good Cab for her. No,
we'll give her a good... I have, you know, just
the top of my head, I think a bottle of...
of 2020 a BV Private Reserve would do. BV Private?
reserve cab. Okay. I have ordered it. It will be
there. And then she says, I think I did that
correctly. Please edit anything you need out. We did fine.
No jingles, no karma. God bless Dame Rodeo Queen. Now,
I want to know, Dame Rodeo Queen. Are you a
barrel rider? That's my favorite rodeo. Barrel racing. Is it
barrel racing? Not barrel rider. Okay, I'm sorry. Hey, let
me get on that barrel. I'll ride it. I think
you can call her a barrel racer. She may have
been a barrel racer. My first wife was a barrel
racer. You had a first wife? What? Stop the show.
What? Is she still alive? Yeah. Do you ever talk
to her? I don't, maybe, I haven't talked to her
for a couple, since COVID. Did she, was she listening
to us during COVID? I got this since COVID is
my. go to now i haven't done this since i
haven't traveled since covid i haven't talked to my first
wife since covid but i i haven't changed my underwear
since covid that's right Well, can I ask what her
name was? Her first name only? Yeah, Vicki. Vicki. The
more you know. She could jump on a horse bareback
and take off like a rocket. Oh man, you never
cease to amaze me, John C. Dworak. Nor does Eli
the Coffee Guy, who is in Bensonville, Illinois. He comes
in with $2.057. That is, of course, a $200 associate
executive producer. donation along with the date and he says
living in chicagoland suburbs i've noticed the flag at the
local schools and library has been at half staff more
often than full mass in recent years It started around
COVID and there it is since COVID and just kept
going. It used to be the half-staff meant something serious
had happened. 9-11, real tragedies. Now it feels like it's
done to demoralize us. Hard to feel like the country
is standing tall when old glory ain't. Thanks, Pritzker! Nothing
helps pick up the morale like a good cup of
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Eli the Coffee Guy. Bob Dietrich in good old Flower
Mound, Texas, $200. From 1864 Pointcast. Just Baker. Just Baker.
He did the mix. Just Baker. The mind-blowing maker. Just
Baker, the mind-blowing maker. A little rhyme there. The end
of show mix from last Thursday's podcast was incredible. With
the distorted organ intro to the next-gen rap, I was
blown away. Boom! After 20 replays in the... car, I
decided to... I decided the automobile speakers weren't cutting it.
Some more of these, please. I don't know if it's
an original or sparked from another artist, but bravo. No,
it's all Suno. Just Baker. Just Baker's new on the
scene. He competes. He competes. And also, if you want
to talk about competing, then you want to know about
Linda Lou Patkin from Castle Rock, Colorado. She supports us
almost, I think, every single show with $200, and she
just wants jobs karma. And she says, rightly so, your
resume has about 10 seconds to make an impression, and
most don't. for a resume that gets results. go to
imagemakersinc.com. Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience into
a clear story of leadership, results, and impact. That's Image
Makers Inc. with a K and Linda Liu, Duchess of
Jobs and writer of winning resumes. And she wants some
jobs, Karma. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Vote for jobs.
You've got karma. So I got an email from a
recruiter. This must be a scam. Do you ever get
emails from recruiters? If you get it, you know it's
a scam. But do you ever get an email from
a recruiter? No, I don't think so. I got this
from... You know, he has a LinkedIn, but he's got
a Gmail address. And he's like, you know, you with
your decentralization and with your podcasting 2.0 experience, I think
I have the perfect opportunity for you in a leadership
role. I'm like, okay, I'll bite. And then, you know,
I said, well, if you're more interested, then I will,
then I will. I'll send you more information. And then,
you know, he sends me like, I say, okay, what
is this, a job? Is this a consulting gig? Is
this, what is it? Oh, no, it's leadership at Adobe.
I'm like, what? That makes no sense. Yeah, exactly. Adobe?
Why is it Recruiter? I don't think. Do you want
you to work at Adobe? It must be a scam.
The next thing he sends me. No, it's got to
be. Yeah, the next thing he sends me has got
to be, well, if you take this test and give
us $50, then we can get you in. Continuing with
our supporters, $50 and above. Christopher Myers is in Dallas,
Texas, and he sends us $185 and says, donate better.
Yes, definitely low donations. We would like to see more
value coming back to us. Maybe for Mother's Day. You
know, Mother's Day is next Sunday. That's the next show.
Yeah, it's true. And maybe people would... for a change
because only we noticed this by the way they don't
people who people hate their moms except during the covid
year that's right that's when it was stellar and after
that it's like that's just mom yeah we we totally
kicked ass During the COVID year, For the moms. Yes.
And now I'm like, well, you know, whatever. Whatever. Exactly.
Mansoor Raad in Alpharetta, Georgia. I hope I pronounced that
right. One, two, three, four, five. We see what you
do there, what you did there. Thank you very much.
We appreciate that. Then we have Jim Carlson from Denver,
Colorado. He sends us $100, but he also had a
note, which I'm going to bring up here. And I
liked it because... It was here, John and Adam, a
short note, greatest podcast ever. I enjoy your podcast. John.
keep getting better. I am turning 80. on is this
12th of May? 12th of May? I think, or 17,
I think 12th of May, 26. And I do not.
want to BS, to be any younger. Catmans... What? Why
are you laughing? Why are you reffing? It's silly. Catman
something. Jim Carlson. Kathmandu. No, Kathmandu. Anyway, 80 years old,
and he still listens to the best podcast in the
universe without wearing his hearing aids. I wonder how many
people we have who are octogenarians that listen to this
show. Well, they better donate quick. I think you guys,
yeah, you know, $80 donation, $80 donation for you. Just
saying, get your donation in now. You don't want to
get up to heaven. Actually, I went back and forth
with one of our producers. Who's 80? 3, 84, 85.
Really? In the mid 80s. Yeah. And he says, I
got to get my knighthood in before I'm gone. I
told him he's got a bad attitude. Very bad attitude.
Don't look at that rock when you're driving your motorcycle.
Exactly. That's what I told him. The old rock thing.
Yes. Rhiann Kosinski, Cars Land. Alberta, that's in Scandinavia, 8374.
And also wants to add to the birthday list, Josh
of BC from Zach and Rhian of Alberta, Canada. And
a switcheroo donation and de-douching for his birthday. You've been
de-douched. He hit Zach in the mouth many moons ago
before. COVID and thanks is in order. John, so glad
you're okay. You have me worried for a beat. Ha!
Thank you for your courage, says Rianne. Jason Shepard, Trinidad,
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donator. And he comes in with $80.08. God bless America
and boobs. We have Jurak Kojjak from Prague. I think
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And he wants an F Karma, which I'll hit him
with right away. You've got karma. And next on the
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Thank you so much, Dame Rita. Gwen Sobieski, Kettering, Ohio,
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to. Mississippi. Oh, you and your Mississippi. Michigan. George Sousa,
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There's the first Mother's Day donation. And Bradley Bowman in
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Thank you all very much. For those of you who
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don't support, then things do tend to go away. And,
you know, I don't know if we can do four
more years at this point. I may have to get
that gig at Adobe. Yeah, I think you should go
to work for Adobe. Yeah, thanks. You'd fit right in.
I would not fit in at all. That's a horrible
idea. I don't want to work at Adobe. The other
one was... What's that AI company? He had two for
me. snowflake. Like, I'm not going to work at any...
company known as snowflake that's a horrible idea i am
i'm an executive vice president at snowflake thank you very
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Yeah, baby. We have end of show mixes. coming up,
which I think you will enjoy. We also have John's
tip of the day, but first we're going to choose
the end of show ISOs. I see you have two.
I'll go. I have four. So let me hit you
with mine. Okay. You ready? Hit it. I agree with
you. That's one. Oh my goodness, goody goody, gumdrops, you're
gonna love them. you Lovey's still on the air. That's
it. We're done. And the final one. This is incredible.
I kind of like that one. I like the incredible
one. That's better than the other one. Yeah. There's future
tense for the Alex Jones one. Get closer to the
mic, man. You're cutting out. Okay, closer to the mic.
Yes. Let's start with Fabulous. It's over. Fabulous show. Donate
now. Not at all, AI. Okay. Life. It needs more
energy. I wanted it to be soft and demanding. No
agenda. This was no agenda, except no substitutes. Okay, that's
taken from, what was it? What was the TV show
that had that? I don't know. Yeah, that was it.
We'll do that one. I like that. Except no substitutes.
That's true. And there is no substitute for John C.
Dvorak's tip of the day. Green. For you and me
Just the Tip with JCB And sometimes, Adam. Okay. Of
course. Okay. I haven't changed anything. Uh-huh. So everyone's moaning
and groaning about the last tip. So I'm going back
to the well and going back to the wine tips,
which everybody seems to love. We love our wine tips.
19, uh, 19, 2023 Kirkland Signature Chablis. Another Kirkland. Yeah,
do as Costco, you know, people can go to Costco,
it's cheap. I lost track of the price, unfortunately. Oh,
couldn't it be more than $9? They don't charge much
more than that. for their wines, do they? Not for
these Kirkland ones, no. No. It's just a plain Chablis.
Now, here's the thing. This one in particular... Let me
get this label I got here. Pierre Brissy, winemaker on
the back of the label. It says Pierre Brissy. Okay,
so Pierre did the wine. So... Chablis is an area
of the northernmost part of Burgundy. And they're known for
making, and the grape used in Chablis is always Chardonnay.
And so it's a Chardonnay, which is, you know, the
ABC folks may or may not like, but it doesn't
taste like a California Chardonnay, so people should... and complain
about it too much. And it says Chablis. It doesn't
say Chardonnay. So I guess that would benefit people who
hate Chardonnay. But it's not the typical Chablis in the
normal low carbon dioxide years of yore, with climate change
not being what it was. tends to be Steely, they
describe it as steely, flinty, sharp. Hold on a second.
Are you telling me that climate change... i.e. more parts
per million of our CO2 makes the wine better? Oh
yeah, the Germans will tell you this right now. You
go to the Rhine and ask around and let them
tell you what they think. Well, this is an argument
that has never been used. I think we should... I
think we've mentioned it once before on the show. I
can't recall, but I like it. Well, winemakers think it's
a big deal. Yes, more... So some of these areas
that make this sketchy... Sometimes good, sometimes bad wines. Burgundy
is a good example. They're basically every vintage is good.
And so this Chablis is not like the flinty, harsh,
you know, acidic Chablis that people expect. It's a very
soft, gorgeous wine. I would say I would check it
out, especially all the people that hate the California shards.
Shards, I'm using this thing. Shard. I sharded, man. That's
right. Hey, there it is. There's a dynamite tip of
the day from John C. DeBoer. I get them all
at noagendafun.com, tipoftheday.net. ♪ The first ♪ Just the Tip
with JCB. And sometimes, Adam. Created by Dana Burnetti. Let's
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