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She's all jacked up about the action hoe. Adam Curry.
John C. Devorah. It's Sunday, May 17th, 2026. This is
your award-winning Get My Nation Media assassination episode 1869. This
is no agenda. Doing the Bangaranga! Broadcasting live from the
heart of the Texas O'Connor. In the morning, everybody, I'm
Adam Kupf. And from Refinery Row, where everybody's happy that
Bill Cassidy's finally out, I'm John C. Dvorak. *In the
morn-* Hey, man, the gloves are coming off. Gloves are
coming off. I don't care how, you know, if they
cut your chest open, the gloves are off. I cannot
believe. that for 18 years, One thing has been my
segment. One thing. You need to come in. With a
series of four clips about Eurovision. Yeah, after you poached
and poached and poached, I got sick of it. What
did I poach? You know, everything. I've... Well, we do
this every single year. We're always very- And we nailed
it again. We did? I think we forgot to nail
it. We completely forgot to predict. But okay. It's a
good thing. But okay. I will, yes, because we probably
would have corrected, predicted incorrectly. But I will relent. I
will allow you. graciously. to roll out whatever you think
is important about this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Well, it's
funny you should ask. Now... First of all, this is
the 70th anniversary. Big deal. I mean, 75 would have
been better, but yeah, yeah. Yep, yep. 70 is a
big deal. Yeah, 75 is better. 100 is even better.
But 70, you know, you know, it's... Now, since you're
doing this segment, first of all, did we have any
transsexuals this year in the contest? No, they were all
transsexuals. Yeah? Okay. So let's say that this is a
PBS report. or I'm sorry, NPR report. So I thought
it was kind of entertaining because they actually... in an
offhanded way predicted the winner even though it was the
long shot in the way it was presented. But let's
listen to it. And the guys, they're very enthusiastic. Let's
go with Eurovision 70 Years. That's clip number one. Let
the- The Eurovision Song Contest begins! 70 years old still
as glamorous as ever the final song contest is in
full swing in vienna you heard three of the early
entries denmark germany and israel and it's said to be
the non-sporting event with the biggest global audience so if
you're not listening to news hour you are probably watching
it or is this npr Yeah. With a British guy?
Yeah. You're doing both at the same time. Let's speak
now to someone who is going to do that. William
Lee Adams, BBC journalist, founder of WeWeBlogs, which is the
world's most followed independent Eurovision channel. What kind of blog?
WeeWee Blogs. WeeWee Blogs. Okay. He's in Vienna. Hi, William.
Hey, good evening, James. Good to have you on the
program. What, nearly two hours since it all started. What
are the highlights so far? Oh, wait a minute. Well,
the room is... This is the BBC World Service, of
course. Yes, thank you. I knew it couldn't be NPR.
I just thought it was so lame it had to
be NPR, but now that I think about it, you're
right. Yeah. Okay, onward. Whenever you bring in the guy
who writes the WeWe blog. Yeah, the Wee Wee blog
is, I think, even beneath NPR. Very bouncy and very
buoyant. A lot of that is... down to Australia, Delta
Goodrum. She is going for gold and wearing gold. Yes,
yes, yes, I'm stopping. Oh my God, we're never going
to get through this. Australia? The Euderian Europe? Oh, we
go through this every year. You might as well add
Israel and say what? They're not in this, are they?
Because they're not in Europe. Yes, but it is the
Euro... The Eurovision. Yeah, Euro standing for Europe. No, that
just means Eurovision. Like, you can see Europe. You have
a vision of Europe. It doesn't mean that you have
to be in Europe. Oh, then how do the United
States do in this competition? We don't. Look, we have
the voice. We invented all of these. these things. Okay,
well, if they drop the United States, we'll drop ourselves.
How about South America? How did Brazil do? Every year
we go through this. What? Every year. They could, everyone
can participate if they want. They just have to join
the European Broadcasting Union, which costs money. Oh, there it
is. It's like the Olympics. you know it's like then
your country wins and then it's all hosted in your
country and there's a lot of money involved sponsors all
kinds of stuff everywhere 7 000 swarovski crystals she sort
of looks like liquid champagne walking down the stage now
i will say this is the commentary that I expect
from Eurovision. 7,000 Swarovski crystals. She looks like champagne coming
down the steps. It's wonderful. Now, her song is called
Eclipse. This is about alignment. And we can take some
notes here because this is how the podcast award should
run that you were going to organize, that we were
going to be the... The still in play. You know,
that's a connection that two people have that's really special
and can lead to sort of romantic entanglement. Now, she
herself is a cancer survivor. She's raised more than one
hundred and twenty million dollars for cancer research. And so
this song is about timing, you know, and she told
me. When I sing, I'm singing for all the struggles
I've had, all the struggles I've endured and survived. And
it's just beautiful. She rises into the air on an
elevator borrowed from Beyonce, the American pop star. Oh, no.
Which emerges from her piano. So she's in the air
in gold. There's a sun behind her. She looks like
a gorgeous Renaissance painting with the sun being that halo.
It's just stunning. Well, you've painted the... picture on the
radio which is what we yes that was pure theater
of the mind thank you we blog we'd like you
to have done which is wonderful but tell us about
the other favorites i mean she's one of them finland
greece although i think you had a kind of bulgaria
have come in at the last minute for you have
they oh absolutely the contest really is a two horse
race between Australia and Finland. Ha ha! Oh, how wrong
he was. Well, you did mention Bulgaria. We should have
sent Spencer Pratt. to the Eurovision. He would have swept
it. He would have. All right, now we go to
the I put "Ug" clip. I put "Ug" because this
is a real groaner, this clip. But Bulgaria is lurking
on the outside. Lurking. Now, the Bulgarian singer Dara, she
used to suffer from a compulsion where she couldn't leave
her house unless her makeup was perfect. And I don't
say this in a joking way, it was clinical. If
her eyebrows weren't painted on perfectly, she would experience so
much anxiety. Oh, give this guy the hook. There is
a traditional ceremony in Bulgaria, Kerkara, I believe, and they
expel evil spirits. So on stage, she has people with
bad makeup sitting in chairs, there's plastic on their face,
and they perform a dance to drive out the anxiety,
to drive out the evil. But she does this with
a box that looks like an office. You're not aware
of the audience, even though there are tens of thousands
of people out there. It's creating a music video universe
on a stage. It is remarkable. And just to close
off the circle about the favorites, you've got Finland. My
goodness. If Australia is about emotional connection with the singer
and the audience. Finland is about emotional disconnection because you
have a man and a woman on stage. The woman
is 56-year-old violinist Linda Lampinius, and she's deliberately icy. She
doesn't look at anyone. She's avoiding Pete. She says that
she is like a flamethrower, Lika Heiten in Finnish, because
she'd warm up and people would be drawn to her,
but then she would just get cold as ice and
walk away. And so their dynamic, his fire, her ice,
it creates smoke. Why are you torturing us with this?
I've never done this. Can I get some of President
Trump's bleach to drink, please? Well, I think it's about
time we got to the nitty gritty of this piece
of shit. Okay. And this is it. The ridiculous over-analysis
of stupid acts. Oh, the woman has anxiety attacks because
her makeup isn't correct. And she's the one who won.
Yeah. Yes. because of bad makeup. I mean, this whole
thing is ludicrous. And every year we talk about it,
we do normally predict with some accuracy, I might say,
even though we would have missed it this year because
who would have booked this one, Gary? I know, we
were too busy looking at the news. Well, we were
excised from the prediction by the cosmic forces because it
was impossible for us to predict. That's my thing. thinking
all right and that's in line with the kind of
stupidity that we're listening to now so let's go on
with clip three well he talked about anxiety earlier there
was a bit of anxiety quite a lot of anxiety
i guess around israel's participation five countries boycotting it how
did their entry perform how did it all go down
Indeed. Yeah, I think... What does that even mean? Here's
what I think. If I'm not correct, if I'm not
mistaken. The Euro- Night career. If I'm not corrupted.
If I'm not correct, then I'll be correct because that's
rule one. I'm always correct. I believe that these broadcasters
are all public broadcasters. I think that's part of the
hook. And that's why you've got Israel has public broadcasting.
Australia has public broadcasting. Canada, are they in this thing?
Wouldn't surprise me. They've all got public broadcasting. And I
think you have to be a public broadcaster. So this
is kind of, this is their Super Bowl where they
all get to, you know, get drunk. and hang out
and party. because it's kind of their party. I think
that's what's behind all this. But so how's that make
him competitive? *laughs* and jeering in the audience. But this
year, we didn't have the same amount of booing, if
any. Certainly in the final, I didn't hear any this
evening. A lot of that comes down to the subject
matter. The song that the Israeli actor Noam Betten is
singing is Michelle. Michelle is a woman. and they had
a toxic relationship, and you can't really read that politically.
Whereas in the past years, people imbued meaning into the
songs. For instance, in 2024, the original title of Israel's
entry was October Rain. Many people interpreted that to be
a story about the October 7th attacks, and the following
year, their singer, she actually survived. the October 7th attacks,
she herself hid under dead bodies. Now, that's not a
political statement. That's what she's endured. But people imbued it
with meaning, suggesting, oh, Israel chose an act because they
wanted to court sympathy on the international stage. But again,
we need to remember, art is one of the times
of the zeitgeist. You know, what is personal? What is
political? These subjects are often very gray. Hold on. I
have to subscribe to the RSS feed of the WeWe
blog now. This is so awesome. unbelievable. Yes, it's unbelievable.
You could have done one clip of this guy. I'm
sorry that I'm belaboring it because I hope this is
the last time we ever talk about it. No, no,
no. I mean, I was gonna do one clip and
then play snippets of the two songs, the one and
two. That's all I was gonna do. That's what we
do with the signal. Well, you got usurped. Indeed. And
pushed. I don't know if it's a good thing for
the show. I think it's hurting the show. Indeed, and...
It probably is. Let's turn to the... the voting because
that for a lot of people that that's always been
one of the highlights not just the singing but the
voting and it's changed this year to give a better
balance between the musical juries and the general public Yeah,
you're right. There were two big changes. One change is
that the professional juries in each country, they've been increased.
So last year there were five jurors. This year, there
are seven jurors, and they have to include more people
under 30 or 25, basically making them younger and more
diverse. The other big change is that rather than voting
20 times per person, which was allowed in previous years,
you could only vote 10 times. Now, this is off
the back of the revelation following last year's Eurovision. that
an Israeli government agency was involved in buying ads on
YouTube and other social media platforms calling on voters to
vote for Israel 20 times. Now, the reason voters can
vote multiple times is because the European Union... I pulled
this stunt at a, uh... Hello. chili cook-off for the
People's Choice Awards. Wait, you bought votes? Well, we had
a couple of... of uh chorus girls at the booth
and talking everyone into turning all their votes into our
jar. So they would sweet talk these guys. How many
votes you got? Yeah, we got 10 votes. Just give
us all 10 votes. It would be so nice. And
so we ended up getting a lot of extra votes
using that trick. But it's idiotic if you think about
it. You should have one vote. You get to vote
for the one you think's the best. You don't get
10 votes and give them all to one guy. I
can't even discuss this. with you. The European Broadcasting Union
wants to spread the love. It wants people to be
engaged with all cultures, all musical cultures. I'm letting it
play out out of respect for you. 18 years of
respect. That music comes from friends or from foes, but
it seems to have backfired in the last edition where
you had advertisements saying, no, don't spread the love. Give
it all to us. So this year that's been reduced.
to 10. We'll have to wait and see if that
has any sort of impact on the results. We're almost
at the end. I think 21st group at the moment,
five ladies from Cyprus performing. Any sort of surprises? Any
artists that stood out for you that aren't among the
favourites? No, no. I'm all the way now. They'll be
performing next to last in 20... Oh my goodness. The
song is called "Choke Me" which is very provocative and
a lot of people were offended. There was a petition
to have it removed. But the singer has explained through
her staging she is saying "Choke Me" to a phantom.
Oh. "Choke Me." How come "Choke Me" didn't win? Let's
just listen very quickly to the "Island" Rayleigh entry. Michelle,
we'll just listen to a little bit here. We'll jump
around. I'm doing this so that Spotify will take this
episode off of their podcast features. Here we go. Okay,
that's rejected. And here is the winner. Bangaranga! Let's see
if I'm winner voted for this. No, I can see
it. Drop! Yeah. Alright, let's leave it. Bangaranga, here we
go. Oh, I see. A little bit of Bollywood's in
there. Yeah, I get it. Kids like that. It's great.
All right, 15 minutes of the show. Very good. Very
good. Yeah. Very, very good. Okay, well, that's the end
of that. It is. Let me, let me, let's go
into some Trump hate. Ooh, yeah, we haven't done some
proper Trump hate recently. That's true. Since I stopped getting
the TikTok clips. Well, this is a semi-mainstream media Trump
hate. And it started with... Let me see. with the
chattering class, as we call it, the chattering class. Listen
to how Megyn Kelly introduces her guest. All right. We're
going to bring in our very first guest, very first
guest ever here on the MK show. That's the podfather
of our show, Glenn Greenwald, I speak of. He's a
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. and host of System Update on
Substack. Help me understand this. I mean, it's one thing
never to ask me back on the show. I mean,
it's pretty... Well, you were... I thought you were an
ungrateful guest. What do you mean ungrateful guest? So she
has Glenn Greenwald on the show. He knows the podfather
somehow. Well, he's her podfather. I used to be her
podfather. I can be the podfather, but I'm not her
podfather. Okay. And so, Megyn Kelly, captured by her audience.
Glenn Greenwald, he never got uncaptured. I think he's always
been kind of the same. Self-hating Jew. Uh, they, uh,
they just have to lay into it. I thought this
was, uh... Career ending. I didn't know this took place,
but I'm glad you got this clip. Oh, no, she
had Tucker on. She got Glenn Greenwald on. It's fantastic.
There was an admission on. The Iran war, which jumped
out at me, and it might to you too. Here
it is in Sat 7. By the way, so that
show, here it is in slot seven. And then you
get a three-second pause. Please appreciate your no agenda show
when you hear these things. You know, this is not
pro. Me and it might to you too. Here it
is in SOT7. We're doing it to help Israel and
to help Saudi Arabia and to help Qatar and UAE
and, you know, Kuwait and other countries. Bahrain. It also
helps China. We're actually, I told him today, I said,
you know, we're helping you and we're helping you in
another way. because I don't think China wants Iran to
have a nuclear weapon either. I said... Don't go crazy.
You don't need them having a nuclear weapon either. What
did he say? Well, he's not going to respond to
much. He's a pretty cool guy. He's not going to
say, oh, gee, that's a good point. What's he going
to do? Oh, I mean, What a wonderful point. You
think he agreed? That was the impression. I don't think
he wants him to. No, he would like to see
it end. But he's been good about it, you know.
So there it is. I mean, lest there was any
doubt, it's the first thing in the answer. We did
it to help Israel. We're doing it to help Israel.
He named other countries. He has said the world can't
have Iran having a nuclear weapon. But just to say
that is so controversial, that we're doing it to help
Israel. We know. We know that. We've said that many
times. And then you get called an anti-Semite. But that's
not anti-Semitic. It is a fact. You heard it from
the president of the United States himself. He thinks it's
also helping some of the Gulf Arab states. Fine. That's
not controversial. You can say that. But prior to the
president saying it himself explicitly, you weren't allowed to say
that other piece of it or you were called an
anti-Semite. Why? She's so uptight about this. Call me an
anti-Semite. You couldn't say this. You're a podcaster. You can
say whatever you want to say. Why do you care?
I don't know, it's weird. Here comes Greenwald. This was
a movement that was calling itself America First. And then
you have Trump saying, oh yeah, this will work. It's
kind of helping us. We don't want them to have
a nuclear weapon. But yeah, we're helping Israel. Get rid
of their big enemy.
I think he editorialized that a little bit. These people
are insane about this stuff. And so the way they
take the president's statement is, oh, it's about Israel. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, just helping Israel get rid of their big
enemy. Of course, Trump mentioned a whole bunch of other
countries, but Glenn Greenwald has an answer for that, too.
And also, when we talk about these Persian Gulf states,
what we mean are Persian Gulf dictatorships, Arab dictatorships that
have extreme levels of human rights abuses that we claim
to be so offended when they appear in Iran. You
think protesters fare any better in Dubai or in Riyadh
or in Doha? There's no one protesting in Dubai. I
think they're all pretty happy with things in Dubai. Riyadh,
are they protesting? Should they be protesting? Am I missing
something? I don't know. Maybe they should. In Bahrain or
Kuwait? No. Or then Iran? No, they don't. And this
idea, you know, and also the Strait of Hormuz, Trump
himself said at the beginning out of frustration, look, if
you're not willing to go to a war with Iran
to open the Strait of Hormuz, we don't have to
do it. We don't need the Strait of Hormuz, which
is true. We don't get oil from the Strait of
Hormuz. China does, and the Gulf states need the Strait
of Hormuz to sell oil. But Trump is in bed
with these Persian Gulf dictators. He loves them too. They're
extremely rich. They have a kind of shared aesthetic with
this very ostentatious, gold-laden kind of, you know. Trump is
now a Middle Eastern dictator, you see. This is where
it's gone. But you do have the taste for gold,
I have to say. Totally. I mean, if you go
look at that BBC video of me in 2004, I
had the same thing. But yet I never felt like
a Middle East dictator was my style. This gold-laden kind
of wealth expression. He loves them. His family is in
bed with the Persian Gulf states. In bed. And he's
very close to them. He listens to them and obviously
to Israel. And I don't think these are good things
for our country. Why are we prosecuting a war that's
harming Americans for the benefits of Israel or these Persian
Gulf dictators? and on the question of china yeah i
mean opening up the strait of hormuz is far more
in china's than ours the problem is is that the
only reason the strait of hormuz is closed is because
israel is because the united states joined israel and attacking
iran it was perfectly open the strait of hormuz was
prior to this war for forever perfectly forever closed now
closed now because it was a response to the attack
on Iran. And I think the rest of the world
is like, you caused this problem. It's your responsibility to
fix it. And I think it's a reasonable view for
most countries to have. So I played these clips. First
of all, I thought it was kind of funny. But
second of all, they are now so much like the
mainstream media. They don't really look at anything further than
the surface. I think they're watching MS now and CNN
and Fox probably to get their talking points almost. I
mean, this whole trip to China, as you, I mean,
it was ridiculous. It made no sense. Everything was wrong.
It's stupid. Trump came back with nothing. Let's go to
MS now. When Donald Trump was running for president, you
may remember this. He had a question he loved to
ask, a particular thought experiment about a tête-à-tête between Vice
President Harris and President Xi. And it went like this.
Kamala Harris is so incompetent. Can you imagine her dealing
with President Xi of China? Can you imagine her dealing
with President Xi? Can you imagine with President Xi? Can
you imagine her negotiating with President Xi of China? Can
you imagine her standing with President Xi of China? By
the way, nice supercut. I don't think so. Can you
imagine? He said that so many times. I mean, Trump
spent that campaign railing about China's influence in the world,
and he repeatedly insisted that he alone was the only
candidate tough enough to go toe-to-toe with President Xi of
China. He was the only person who could show Xi
who's boss. Well, Donald Trump just finished his first state
visit to China in his second term, and how did
it go? did big bad donald trump stand up to
the chinese leader i mean this is exactly the same
as megan and glenn there's no analysis they're just doing
hot takes like punch lines yeah that's a good point
that's just a hot take yeah and so let's get
the exact right word for it ambassador mcfall let me
start with you ambassador mcfall here we go this guy's
good outline some of the biggest issues that were at
stake during this visit we talked about this late last
night when it was the trip was still a bit
ongoing but as you looked it's now over what did
trump and really the united states get out of this
trip well what do you think john what do you
think they got out of this to get anything out
of this trip anything at all anything mrs anything um
i think they got something out of it I think
the Boeing, impossible sales of Boeing jets was a big
deal, especially if it was going to be 200 of
them or more. Yeah. That was about it, seems to
me. And they got to meet, and then Trump got
to show off to all these our own business guys
that he knows this guy, she, and they can introduce
him to him. Hey, you can meet the guy. You
meet him, shake his hand, and we're all good to
go. I think that's a big deal. There's actually more.
But yeah, there was that. There was some soybeans. Always
some soybeans. Oh, there's always soybeans. Gotta do some soybeans.
But let's hear what Ambassador McFaul thinks. Chen, you just
summarized it brilliantly. That was a fantastic laydown. And I'm
so glad you reminded everybody about what he said he
was going to do with China. Remember, when he first
ran for president, it was all about China. China's eating
our lunch. China's taking our jobs. They're doing all these
horrible things to us. And he used in that phrase,
that clip you just showed, communist China, right? You never
heard him use the word communist once on this trip.
And I just think this flip is remarkable. And I
hope his voters noticed it. I hope Republicans noticed it
because for decades. Notice what? The Republican Party was always
saying Democrats are weak on China. We're going to be
tough. And now he is completely flipped. You could not
do a bigger flip. So again, he do. Well, he
he was just nice. He didn't say you're always bitching
and moaning that he's not nice and he has no
decorum. And he goes over there and he becomes nice.
And now they're complaining about that. It's all they do
is complain. It gets better. I think an acronym you
could use to summarize not just this meeting, but everything
leading up to it is make China great again. When
you look at the impact of the Trump president. Make
China great again. Trump screwed it up, only made China
stronger. The real winner has been China. And the loser
has been America's allies and America itself. And what's really
extraordinary about it, Ali, is President Trump was elected beginning
in 2016 in large part because he was really one
of the first U.S. leaders who recognized the way that
China's entry to the WTO was contributing to the hollowing
out of the U.S. middle class. Wow, the very same
people who told him that he was racist and he
was going to kill people by withdrawing from all of
these organizations. All they do is counter-programming all the time.
One of his promises to American Rust Belt workers was
he was going to fix it. But instead, what we
see he's doing is bullying reporters, beating up on America's
closest friends and allies. Oh, no. And frankly, seeming cowed
by China. Again. No. Well, let's go to the liberal
intellectual elites, an acronym. will go to the liberal intellectual
elites who everybody listens to because their pod is by
far one of the most important and smart, smart tech
pods. It also, I mean, it's a reminder of the
stark contrast in the first Trump term. I'm sorry, this
isn't the pod, but it's one of the hosts of
the pod. What pod are we talking about? We're talking
about the pivot pod. And how the business community treated.
Kara Schwisher. You see, she gets to be on CNN
now that she has a show on CNN. You see,
that's how it works. Yeah, she wants to live forever.
And what we're seeing now, I mean, so many people
were critical of that inauguration seating chart. But this is
kind of evidence of probably a big driving factor for
that. So they could go on trips like this. Well,
as I said, it's a coin-operated presidency. And they figured
out very quickly that you put money in and you
get it. Coin-operated presidency. She's going to explain it. Oh,
that's cute. She's going to explain it. Boy, that's going
to catch on. All the kids are talking about it.
And they figured out very quickly that you put money
in and you get stuff out. Like Andreessen Horowitz spending
the most money towards the midterms. They understand it's a
very small amount of money to spend $115 million because they
get so much more. They get billions and billions out
of it. And so they've sort of figured out it's
a cheap way to get what you want. And that's
what they're doing. And they will continue to do that
because shareholders, as I've said over and over again, are
their biggest goal. And that's fine, I suppose. Shareholders are
a goal? That's pretty explicit. Now, she's just waffling. You
know, without Galloway, she's no good. She really isn't. Then
she is just, she is icky. She's gone and she's
like a single now. You know, she's like one of
the people that were in the Rolling Stones.
decided to become a single act. And so she's... When
Charlie Watts did his jazz album. So she quit the
group to become a single because she's such a demand
for it. And so this dog of this I want
to live forever thing, which is overproducing, costs a lot
of money, is going to cost CNN. She's going to
disappear from the scene after that thing, after they analyze
that sucker. So we'll see what happens. All right, so
now here they are together on the pod. He brought
17 CEOs with him and three diplomats. Flying billionaires on
a plane to China to get shit seems... Oh, by
the way, she has a really foul mouth in this
one. Problematic. Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York
Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher.
And I'm Scott Galloway. President Trump. Oh, can we start
the show like that? I'm Adam Curry. And you go,
and I'm John C. Dvorak. I think we should start...
Let's do it. Yeah, okay. everybody's doing the bangaranga and
broadcasting live from the heart of the texas hill country
here in fema region number six in the morning everybody
i'm adam curry and i'm john c dvorak excellent excellent
i'm kara swisher and i'm sky galloway president trump and
uh chinese president xi uh have met for a little
over two hours right now and attended a state banquet
to start off their two-day summit in china in g's
opening toast at the banquet g said achieving the great
rejuvenation of the chinese nation and making america great again
can go hand in hand he's snickering at trump on
his back though the white house said both sides agreed
that the straight of her moves must remain open she
warned that trump that mishandling taiwan would cause clashes and
put the entire relationship in great jeopardy what just happened
oh it ended well well there you go One more.
One more from these Jim Oaks. It's short. President Trump,
however, does not appear to be overly concerned. Let's listen
to how he answered a reporter's question as he left
the White House for his China trip. When you're negotiating
with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are American financial
situations motivating you to make a deal? Not even a
little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking
about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't
think about American financial situation. I don't think about anybody.
I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have
a nuclear weapon. That's all. That's the only thing that
Mono did. Oh, wow. That was some quote. That was
like an ad. He cut an ad for them. That
was astonishing, I have to say. I mean, it's what
I think he thinks. And this nuclear weapon thing, we're
less safe now than we were doing the Obama days
when we had most of the enriched uranium in a
deal and the state of her moves was open so
any thoughts about what he's doing here why or he's
just just an old adult man who just says whatever's
on his mind so this was indeed the ad and
all of the m5m jumped on this oh he doesn't
care in fact there's always one guy in the troll
room who always who basically should be on the pivot
pod yeah screw Americans, right? You don't care, but you
don't care. They all did this. They all jumped up.
He doesn't care about your money. He only cares about
nuclear war. President Trump is back at the White House
and back to the reality in the United States of
gas prices, which are now averaging $4.53 a gallon nationally. If
you thought that after a couple of days away during
his trip to China and when asked exactly what he
meant when he answered that question that he was going
to rephrase or clarify what he said about Americans financial
situations when it comes to the impact from the Iran
war you would be wrong. Hold on a second that
sounds like MS now. The CNN. Oh the CNN? That's
Caitlin Collins. Okay it seems to me yes the Democrats
who have been fighting against fossil fuels forever and would
love a $10 a gallon gas price to keep people from
using gasoline should be happy about this. How come they're
bitching about it? Can you answer me that question? Because
this is all about the midterms. That's all that it
is. Everything in the world is about the midterms. It's
just the midterms. The context and the question itself was
pretty clear, but also in the subsequent interview that the
president did while he was in Beijing with Brett Baier.
And in fact, during that interview, the president continued doubling
down on this sentiment. When you tell somebody you're going
to have to pay a little more, not that much
more, a little more for gas, Celine, for a very
short period of time, because we want to stop the
threat of being blown to pieces by a lunatic, by
a crazy person, and they are crazy, using nuclear weapons.
Everybody says that's fine. And that question was a fake
question, and they didn't put my full answer. I totally
care. Of course, to people struggling to put food on
the table or who are grimacing when they go to
fill up their tank. Vote Democrat. There was nothing fake
about the question. And as far as the president's answer.
We've played the entire thing for you since he said
it as he was departing the White House earlier this
week. But just for good measure, you can listen to
the entire thing. OK, good measure. Here we go. Mr.
President, to what extent are American financial situations motivating you
to make a deal? Not even a little bit. The
only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they
can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about American
financial situation. I don't think about anybody i think about
one thing we cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon
that's all that's the only thing that so it's subtle
it's very subtle chopping off the front end of it
but i think it matters so anyway let's find out
exactly what the i don't know financial people think of
the trip and if they felt it was any good
this is cnbc i like cnbc because they kind of
have to tell the truth is difficult for them sometimes,
especially for the Sorkin kid. But they have to tell
the truth because, you know, people invest on it and
otherwise people won't watch their stupid network anymore. So here
we go. President Xi has already issued a warning to
President Trump saying that the Taiwan question is the most
important issue in the China-U.S. relation. And if not handled
properly, these two countries could have clashes and even conflicts.
What do you make of this warning? That's a very
good question. And that's probably the biggest concern for people
like myself living in Taiwan. In a summer, there are
three subjects Trump want to talk about. Number one is
Iran and war, because they want to reduce inflation with
more supply of oil. Number two is trade. That's why
Trump got all the CEOs, NVIDIA, Apple, et cetera, to
China about trade. Number three is Taiwan. But from Xi's
perspective, the order importance is reversed. For Xi's perspective, Taiwan
is number one subject, number one importance. So if you
listened, and I'm just going to think it's true, I
don't know, it could be total bull crap. But if
you listen to some of the interviews, it seems like
some other deals were made that are relevant to our
relationship with China. Let me ask you this. The issue,
and you've been asked about it, and you've spoken about
it, and that is China's support of Iran. How big
a discussion was that today? We discussed it. We discussed
it. I mean, when you say support, they're not fighting
a war with us or anything. No. He said he's
not going to give military equipment. That's a big statement.
He said that today. That's a big statement. He said
that strongly. But at the same time, he said, you
know, they buy a lot of their oil there and
they'd like to keep doing that. He'd like to see
Hormuz straight opened. I said, well, we didn't stop it.
They did it. Then we stopped them. You know, sort
of interesting. He joked. He said, you know, sort of
if they stopped it, then you stopped them. But they'd
like to see it opened. But they actually closed it.
He didn't like the fact that they're charging tolls. I
don't know if they are or not. I don't know
who would pay them. I mean, where do they put
the money? The country's decimated. They're charging tolls. Where's the
money going? Do you think President Xi and China have
the ability to influence the Iranians, considering they are one
of their biggest customers? I love how he's not going
to give a truthful answer. He's like, I'm not going
to tell you that. Look, he's not coming in with
guns. He's not coming in with rifles and not coming
in shooting. He's been very good. they get a lot
of their oil, 40% of their oil from that location.
So what has happened, and one thing I think that
we're going to make a deal on, they've agreed they
want to buy oil from the United States. They're going
to go to Texas. We're going to start sending Chinese
ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska. All
right, let's go to CNBC with our Secretary of Energy,
Chris Wright. You said short term. Should we, should the
world get prepared for maybe a longer supply disruption than
some initially suspected? Because give us your view on where
we stand in the Strait of Hormuz right now, if
you would, Mr. Secretary. And also, what are your estimations
about how long things might take to return to normal?
And I hate that term, but I think you know
what I mean. Yeah, but a lot of that's up
to Iran. One way or the other, we will see
an end to the Iranian nuclear program, and we will
see free flow of traffic through the Straits of Hormuz.
That could happen relatively rapidly with an agreement with Iran.
Every nation in the world is standing against what Iran
is doing.
including China, who's a major buyer of Iranian oil and
other oil from the Arabian Gulf. Do you think they'll
swap that out for U.S. oil? It's kind of what
I asked you at the top of the interview. Yeah,
certainly in the short run, they're going to do that.
They'll continue to buy, and I think, growing amounts of
U.S. oil. You know, you see that Chinese ships are
getting to the Straits of Hormuz, because I think we
control it. I don't think Iran controls it. I think
we're just sitting there like, oh, this is great, until
you want to buy our insurance and use our new
shipping infrastructure. You can do whatever you want. Come to
Louisiana. Come to Texas. Best price. Everything's going to be
good. And in the background, we've got UAE and their
pipeline. And eventually, this thing will open up. And I
think you're going to see the price of oil go
just – you okay? Yeah, sorry. Just dive bomb. It
seems so clear, even looking at the futures. Yeah, but
don't we want to sell them oil at a little
higher price to make a little extra money? Well, yeah.
And we also want to do the insurance. We want
to take this away from the British guys. We want
to run that. We've seen Saudi Arabia go full flow
to the Red Sea with their port of Yambou. Do
you think that the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian
Gulf are going to become permanently less important? They're still
massively important, but less important than they have been? Oh,
absolutely. I mean, Iran, this is a card you can
play once. You can play once. We'll see more pipeline
capacity through Saudi, through UAE. You know, there's an Iraqi
pipeline that goes to Chehan in Turkey. We could see
a pipeline going to Jordan. Hey, maybe that's why Turkey
tried to get involved. Remember Turkey was trying to get
involved in the conversation? Yeah, they were actually. Yeah, I
think, hey, we got a pipeline. Send it our way.
This is good. Saudi through UAE. You know, there's an
Iraqi pipeline that goes to Chehan in Turkey. We could
see a pipeline going to Jordan. There'll be other routes
for energy to get out of the Persian Gulf. I
prefer to call it the Arabian Gulf. Ooh, we're renaming
it. I think we will see it. How about the
Gulf of America? Yeah, could you know the one of
those? Out of the Persian Gulf. I prefer to call
it the Arabian Gulf. But yeah, I think we will
see a decreasing importance from the Strait of Hormuz, but
not a decreasing importance of those nations energy production and
energy supply yeah they're great allies of the united states
they're key energy suppliers to the world yeah i i
think they have they have some kind of plan that
they're executing on, and Rubio's, Lubio, I'm sorry, President Lubio
is aware of it. Is there anything you can shed
light on that? Well, I think the details will be
announced later today. I don't want to get ahead of
the actual announcement by the trade representative, but there's going
to be some agricultural purchases which are important, and they're
important for our growers, and China needs those things. We
hope in the future to expand it to energy purchase.
The United States is a net supplier of energy now
to the world. one of the world's, if not the
world's largest energy supplier at this point. Obviously, when it
comes to the airplanes and the engines, those are American
factories and American workers that are making that. And so
anytime you can gain access to a market as large
as this one, that's a very positive thing. Yeah, I
still believe in the ARC model, America, Russia, China. Look,
you can buy some from Russia. We're not going to
make a problem out of it. We're not going to
sanction the ghost ships. Just do it, do it legally.
You're going to have to pay more, but, you know,
just get on board with everybody else. And then that
strait will eventually open up. It could take another four
or five months for all I know. I don't think
it's going to take forever. You know, there may be
something to the, you know, our basic thesis on the
show was always there's a back channel in Iran. Yes.
We were working with them in some way, shape or
form. Has that disappeared or are we still, is it
possible that we're still working with them and all this
is part of a giant scheme? Completely possible. And getting
rid of the Ayatollah guys was part of it because
the real powers in Iran didn't want them around. They
were annoying. It was super annoying. Well, they're very annoying.
In this way, remember the turban knockers, the kids going
bicycles and knock their turbans off. Yeah, I forgot about
that. Well, we already know that there's more hijabs on
the streets of Amsterdam than the streets of Tehran. Yes,
right. You got that information from a boots on the
ground report. Yeah, so things are... By the way, I
got a boots on the ground from one of our
producers. He says, everybody... Let me just find it here.
Everybody's bugging... Or he says, boogieing out of Kuwait due
to imminent action. Sunday was what we had been told
and why we bugged out. All contractors plus non-essential personnel
evacuated. This has to do with all GCC countries. Quote,
Trump is done effing around. Xi is handled. Oil being
sold from the U.S. CIA Mossad insurgency. Hmm. We have
served as the sheriff of the world. A lot of
colonists here. Well, he's a military guy. We've served as
the sheriff of the world. We're cleaning up European colonies.
So there's a lot in here, but there's supposedly something
might be happening today, and everybody's getting out. So I
don't know. Maybe this will come to a quicker end
than we thought. Well, it has to, in my opinion,
because we still have the problem with the 4th of
July. Yes, yes. We don't need anything, the sort of
Damocles hanging over our heads on the 4th of July
in our celebration of 250 years as a country. You
know, speaking of Greek references, Chris, the Knight of the
Iguana, he said he had a slight correction to the
Thysudides. Thysudides. Thysudides, yes. We can't pronounce it. He says
the Thysidides trap warns the upcoming power, not the dominant
one. Athens was the rising power. Sparta was gunning for
him. If you take the Thysidides trap as it was
originally written. Thucydides. Thucydides. It's impossible to say. I know.
Let's just call it T-trap. If you take the T-trap,
which is kind of cool with China. China is in
danger of the trap not the USA so even this
phony baloney thing that the M5M was bantering about they
didn't even get it right although I'm sure what? although
I'm sure in a future dictionary the Thucydides trap will
be reversed just like decimated yeah decimated It'll just be
reversed. Meanwhile, Cuba on deck. You recall the president said
that on our way home from Iran, we'll park off
the shore of Cuba and we'll say, hey, we're taking
you over, and they'll say, okay, we're good, we're ready.
Yeah, I got a couple of clips on this. Oh,
okay. Let's play your clips. Well, let's start with the
blackouts one and two. Okay. Cuba blackout, yep. First up
today, Cuba. This week, the island ran out of oil,
causing massive blackouts across the country and a night of
protests. Havana. protests. What is, who is this? Is this,
that's what's her name. The black chick that works on
the weekends at NPR. Yeah. NPR. And she just, I
don't know. She just doesn't want to pronounce words. Correct.
Also got a visit from the CIA director. He was
there for negotiations, starting with a tough choice for Cuba's
leaders. Change or the U S will act. NPR international
correspondent Eder Peralta is following it all and joins us
now. Good morning, Eder. Hey, good morning, Alyssa. So let's
start with more details from what looks like a week
with a lot going on in Cuba. Yeah, I mean,
we're reaching summer there, so it's really hot. And it
so happens that the lights went off for more than
24 hours this week. So on Wednesday, very unhappy people
took to the streets of Havana. They banged on pots
and pans demanding that the government turn the lights back
on. And the government didn't offer much hope. The country's
energy minister, Vicente de la O. Levi, came on TV
and said that the 100,000 tons of Russian crude that
arrived in April has been used up and that the
grid is now operating essentially without reserves. And remember that
Cuba has received precious little oil because the U.S. is
running a de facto oil blockade. Cuba has been investing
in solar power, but the grid is so old, so
frail, so lacking in maintenance that it can't handle the
voltage fluctuations that happen with solar energy. So that means
that the long blackouts that are making life miserable on
the island are here to stay. No, because we're coming
to the rescue. Is that what you have in clip
two? No, clip two is a little different. I think
clip three maybe, which is a different clip. But yeah.
And while all this is happening, the director of the
CIA lands in the country? Yeah. Cuba says that the
U.S. asked for a high-level meeting and a delegation headed
by CIA Director John Ratcliffe. By the way, when the
CIA director comes to visit your country, typically not a
good thing. Why is he there? Last time a CIA
director visited a country, we got Ukraine. Yeah. I'm wondering
this myself. They say, well, they want a high-level meeting.
why don't they send Rubio? Rubio is the obvious choice.
He's Cuban or any number of people. Rubio, of course,
would be the top guy. But they send a CIA
director because they want to highlight. Well, this just means
something's up. Yeah, I don't like it either. It's very
suspicious. Landed in Havana. Well, I mean, I don't disagree.
like it because something's up and maybe it should be
but okay the cubans say they made it clear that
they don't pose a security threat to the u.s they
say they don't host any foreign military or intelligence bases
on the island the u.s readout of the visit came
out from a cia official speaking to npr on condition
of anonymity and that official said that ratcliffe came with
a message for cuba and that's that the u.s wants
to quote seriously engage on economic and security issues but
only Only if Cuba makes fundamental changes. I've spoken to
Cuban officials and they have been fairly consistent in saying
that they are open to economic reforms on the island.
They're even open to U.S. investment, they say, but that
they will not, especially not under pressure from the United
States, give up their president or change their one party
system or for that matter, their socialist ideology. I think
the question is whether those things are the changes that
the U.S. considers fundamental. So what? I mean, does this
point to a stalemate? neither side is going to budge?
I think you could read it that way. And that's
consequential because President Trump has threatened military action. But I
had a conversation with Lilian Guerra, a Cuban historian. Has
he threatened military action? I'm wondering. I don't remember that.
I mean, nothing to the likes of, you know, like
we're going to remove a civilization. I don't recall that.
Neither side is going to budge? I think you could
read it that way. And that's consequential because President Trump
has threatened military action. But I had a conversation with
Lilian Guerra, a Cuban historian at the University of Florida,
and she sees both sides softening. The Vatican, for example,
has been instrumental in bridging gaps between the U.S. and
Cuba. And it's notable that Secretary of State Marco Rubio
met recently with Pope Leo. The U.S. has also offered
Cuba $100 million in aid, and Cuba has said they would
take it. And importantly, Cuba also released a high-profile prisoner
on Thursday. Guerra's read is that the situation is so
dire in Cuba that both sides are afraid of an
explosion. Do you mind if I just insert one clip
here? Go ahead. Because. But I want to mention something,
which is the fact that it didn't make a lot
of sense that Rubio is going to meet with the
Pope. Well, maybe he's a Catholic. But now it makes
a little sense that it's part of the scheme. Yes,
I have. And by the way, that kind of reconfirms
the fact that a communist system really should get rid
of religions if it wants to succeed. I mean, the
thesis in Russia was, let's get rid of the Russian
Orthodox Church. Let's, you know, put it into the background
because we don't need outside influence, which the Pope is,
telling people how to think or how to behave because
it hurts the communist system. I just found it kind
of ironic that they screwed up that part of it.
Well, so I just put a couple things together in
my tiny brain. So we've got Rubio talking to the
Pope. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church.
What is the original acronym for CIA? Are you talking
your tiny brain or the brain in your head? No,
that's the tiny brain in my head. It's very tiny.
That other tiny brain is somewhere else. It has a
mind of its own. Sorry, I was... Rubio talks to
the Pope. The Pope is the head of the Catholic
Church. What is the original acronym that we always laugh
about for the CIA, of which the director was just
there? Catholics in Action. Catholics in Action. Now listen to
this. Just go to Jen, because, you know, Jen, Patrick
and I were talking yesterday about the possibility, of course,
of this offer of $100 million that we're hearing now, that
Ireland appears willing to accept. Do we have a sense
from this meeting, the CIA, what you are hearing as
well, What kind of reforms they're likely to see, right?
They want to see and how quickly. Well, Isa, in
addition to those security reforms that Patrick laid out that
came up in that meeting with the CIA director yesterday,
they are also pushing what they describe as economic reforms
on the island, essentially opening it up to private investment.
This was something that was a key focus of a
different visit by U.S. officials last month to the island
where they met with senior Cuban officials. And they were
saying they needed to make these economic reforms in addition
to those security reforms in the near term or else
they would continue to face a catastrophic situation. Now, it
is clear here that these economic restrictions are going to
remain in place unless these alleged reforms are taken by
the Cuban government. However, the State Department says that they
are willing to offer this $100 million in humanitarian aid only
if it is given through the Catholic Church or independent
organizations on the ground. They say that this is the
key string that is attached to this offer, that it
has to be distributed through these independent organizations. Now, a
senior State Department official said that they have been in
touch. They have reached out to the Cuban government through
what they described as a senior channel between the State
Department and senior leadership in Havana about this aid. Cuban
officials have indicated that they would be willing to accept
it if there weren't conditions on it. So now take
what you just said. So the State Department says, Rubio
goes to the Pope and says, Hey, Pope, hey, Leo,
you're from Chicago. You know how to deal with me.
We can talk. We can talk business. So we're going
to give $100 million for Cuba. We want you guys to
be in charge of doling it out because there's nothing
more embarrassing towards a communist system than the church coming
in and telling them what to do. That's actually kind
of genius. I love that. My donations clip, which is
the third clip I've got on Cuba, has a similar
kind of, they bring the UN into it and how
they do it. We don't want to deal with them.
It's kind of interesting. It's similar to your clip, but
to play it anyway. The United Nations is trying to
raise more money for aid to Cuba, where a major
energy crisis threatens health care and food production on the
island. But NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports the United States says
it won't contribute to the UN's efforts. The U.N.'s Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says it has raised
only 30 percent of the $94 million it needs for Cuba.
Fuel shortages have created what one top official called a
multifaceted emergency. The State Department tells NPR that the U.S.
will not give any money to the U.N. in Cuba,
stating, quote, the U.N. in Cuba has long colluded with
the regime. The statement goes on to explain that Secretary
of State Marco Rubio has offered $100 million in goods to
be delivered by the Catholic Church or other, quote, independent
and respected organizations. This is like a huge FU. Like,
okay, you need some diesel. Clearly, you need some diesel.
We got a Jesus boat with some diesel on it
coming your way. But, you know, we got to have
the Catholic guys run everything now. I mean, it's such
a slap. It's quite funny. It is funny. And also,
you know that they're going to do the right thing.
Because you know, the whole point is stop the communists.
You know, if Rubio goes and says, well, you can't
be commies anymore. We're like, no, we don't want to
do that. You know, that'll be a huge problem. But
now you just bring in the Catholic Church. I'm like,
well, you know, we owe you one. I think it's
funny. It's a very strange situation. And out of the
blue, I mean, this whole Cuban thing was not part
of the campaign that Trump ran. It wasn't even discussed.
It's like a whole new idea. Somehow, I think, you
know, to be honest about it, it has to be
Rubio behind the whole thing. He's the Cuban in the
administration. And the Catholic. And the Catholic. Yeah. And a
friend of the Pope. Yeah, buddy-buddy. Trying to iron things
out between him and Trump in this phony baloney feud
that they really don't have. Yeah, precisely. But the media
loves that because, oh, Trump hates Catholics. Well, what's Rubio
doing there? It doesn't make any sense. It's good. I
think, isn't J.D. Vance a born-again Catholic? Didn't he join
the Catholic Church late in life or something? I don't
know. Is he a Catholic or is he a born-again
Christian? No, I think he's a Catholic. Look it up.
I think he's a Catholic. Well, we don't look things
up on this show. No, that's right. You can ask
your buddy. We consult the Book of Knowledge. Here we
go. Is J.D. Vance a Catholic or just a regular
Christian? Regular. Let's find out. All right, Book of Knowledge.
He's searching through all the pages. According to the Book
of Knowledge, J.D. Vance is a Catholic of a very
specific type, having converted to the Catholic Church in 2019.
He grew up loosely evangelical Christian, identified as an atheist
as a young man, then reconnected with Christianity during law
school before his formal conversion. Thus, it has been written.
Hmm. Well, I guess he is a Catholic then. Yes,
exactly right. Yeah. Anyway, so that'll be fun. That'll be
fun to see. But the big thing is investment in
the island, American investment. Yeah, it's about time. I mean,
the Canadians have been investing there for a long time.
It's getting on our nerves. You know, they're putting money
in. They've got property. This is a great place for
it should be a vacation paradise. It's a new island
right near Florida. Yeah, 90 miles away. Jamaica's getting old,
you know. Virgin Islands, everything.
Epstein Island. Everyone's been to all the islands. Let's go
to Cuba. Cuba's always been big. It's always been, and
it's got cigars. Cigars, cigars, cigars. Not only that, but
the cigars are quite remarkable. Don't they have a drink
too? Don't they have some kind of drink that they're
good at? A Cuban. Okay, thanks. Very helpful. I don't
know. Very helpful. Mojito? I have no idea. yes the
mojito all right okay where do you want to go
now well i got a couple of shorties here that
are that are interesting uh but let's say i've been
wanting to get this out of the way cbs did
a special on trolls on trolls yeah the psychology of
a troll wait a minute did they interview anybody from
our troll room no they didn't interview any real trolls
but the whole The subtext is that Trump is a
terrible person because he's a troll. Oh, I see. So
they're trying to deconstruct Trump by doing a story about
trolls. That's my guess. But here's the two part, two
clips. They're very short, but entertaining. Listen up, everybody. Arthur
Brooks can eat a plate of hot trash. Huh? That
was the first comment the CBS News contributor got on
one of his online columns. and his earliest experience of
internet trolls. One of the things that we have seen
since time immemorial is people with a pitchfork setting fire
to people they don't like. That's right. Perhaps the main
difference now is that they'd have to come back to
their families and communities, and now they can hide behind
the anonymity of an anonymous Twitter handle. It's the perfect
ecosystem for people that we call trolls today. And if
you spend any time on social media or any time
in the comments section after a news article, you're going
to find that it gets really toxic really quickly so
as a behavioral scientist and also as a writer in
public i wanted to know who are these people and
i started to do a little bit of research into
it and it turns out they're not like just you
and me it turns out they're different they're from the
seven percent of the population that have sociopathic characteristics they're
disproportionately drawn from what we call dark triads people with
narcissism Machiavellianism, meaning I'm willing to hurt you and even
psychopathy they have psychopathic traits, meaning they feel no empathy
or remorse, and they enjoy hurting you. And this is
why we can't say that these are ordinary people. Well,
maybe these trolls are actually awesome people now, the way
he described it. These are our people. These are narcissists.
Yeah, these are our people. They're psychopaths. This is an
offhanded attack on Trump. It's still our people. 7% are
in the troll room. true it's our people we have
a lot of we do have a disproportionate number of
people that would qualify yes and they should be proud
of themselves they should be seven percent is actually fewer
people than i expected yeah but you're disproportionately drawing from
that population they're the ones that are actually trying to
start internet conflict they're the ones who are actually insulting
other people they're the ones who are actually trying to
get you all fired up because they enjoy seeing the
emotional turmoil yes yes that is exactly them i love
you people this is what you're doing yeah the jig
is up we're on to you now we figured you
out cbs is on to you trollery trollery talking about
you they're getting their thrills from it now there are
others who say they don't we actually have studies that
ask internet trolls why they're trolling some of them say
for social justice but guess what else we find but
people who are activists political activists, they tend to be
psychopathic as well. This is one of the things we
need to keep in mind. On either side of the
aisle. If you're a real activist and you want to
fire people up and get people angry, there's a reason
you like people to be angry. So there are some
parallels there. There are. Wow. So that kind of reminds
me of that Twitter post you made. Which was? There
was some video about a guy explaining how psychos get
to the top of political... Oh yeah, the psychopaths taking
over the world. Yeah, that was a very interesting analysis.
But Spencer Pratt falls into this category. Yeah. You know
what's interesting is now other people are making videos for
him. No, most people have made – he's made very
few videos. The only ones he's made involve him, and
he says this is basically doing an interview. No, they're
all made by third parties. There's about six or seven
groups that do a lot of them, and there's a
bunch of independents doing a bunch of them. They're all
done by outside people. Not just one or two, all
of them. That's why the style is so different from
one to the other. So, you know, Tina is very
enamored by this. And she's kind of given up on
news. She's given up on our show. She doesn't even
listen to our show anymore. Well. She's like, she's watching
dogs on TikTok, on Instagram, and people cooking with cheese.
That's our competition. But. People cooking with too much cheese.
Too much cheese. And cats that play the piano. Yeah,
that's basically our group. Yes, and we're losing. We're losing
here. Well, we're losing now and again, I'd say. Now,
but the Spencer Pratt stuff, she sees that. She says,
you know, this could spark a revolution and many more
people could do this. What do you think? Well, I
think that's what everybody – I mean, what she says
there is a commonplace as far as I'm concerned, which
is that Pratt is doing what the future of politics
is what he's doing. The issue, it seems to me,
is that there's going to be some legal action taken
because of likenesses. But if you're famous, you can't do
that. I'm thinking there's going to be some changes made
in the law. Because there has to be at some
point. because there's a lot of the kind of defamation
that is part of his videos or the ones that
are being done on his behalf, let's say, because that's
what the situation is. Even though many of them identify
what group is doing them at the end, there's usually
an identification. Not always, but a lot of times. Okay,
this is interesting that you bring this up because I
think we're seeing the law change in many different ways.
And you identified one early on about where parents are
going to be penalized for things their idiot kids do.
Yeah. Which is, I mean, if you... Sneaking up on
us. But it's really quite insane. I mean, if you
look at the American laws, most of them were written
based upon biblical laws. And this is the exact opposite.
You know, scripture says, you know, no parent shall be
responsible for what his child does or the other way
around. And so this is such a diversion from U.S.
law and the origin of it from a long, long
time ago. And so I was very surprised to hear
Janine Pirro, Judge Janine, who is now the attorney general
for District of Columbia, when she said this. And as
we grapple with this problem, there is one area that
hasn't been discussed. Parental involvement has been a noted gap
in any discussion. And I am here to say, as
the United States attorney in the District of Columbia, that
ends today. Starting today, my office will aggressively prosecute parents
under D.C.'s curfew law, and the specific statute that we
will use is a violation of D.C. Code 22-811, and
it involves contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This
statute makes it unlawful for an adult to enable, facilitate,
or permit a minor to engage in delinquent acts. The
penalty is up to six months imprisonment. So if the
evidence shows the parent knew or should have known or
permitted or failed to prevent participation, we're going to charge
them. And if you drop your kid off and you
fail to supervise them or you let them skip school
to join the chaos, you are going to face fines,
court-ordered classes, and possible jail time. I'm against this. Why?
You don't think there should be any parent responsibility whatsoever
for delinquent kids who've gone nuts and they're unsupervised because
the parents are lacking substance? certain skills yes yes however
i think the kids need to be penalized otherwise they
get penalized no they don't well if their parents are
taken away they sure do because they're going to be
locked up in a foster care home i think you
put these kids into you tase them first so but
there's things changing in our laws and i just i'm
not there's a lot of things i don't agree with
i'm just i'm not entirely on board with that one
man she's at least she's not clear about the kids.
It's like, you know, everything is now the parents' fault.
Eh. So, Rob Carty, our constitutional lawyer, suits and boots,
he was so jacked up this week. He's like, this
is huge. And for his business,
It is huge, but I think it also is going
in a direction that we would like to see. This
is a change in liability from a court ruling by
the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to allow
a man who lost part of his leg in a
trucking crash to sue a major logistics company that hired
that truck. The man's attorneys argued that the truck driver
had been cited for careless driving in another crash months
earlier and that the broker, C.H. Robinson, should share liability.
Last month, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod spoke
to families who lost loved ones in similar crashes who
could also be impacted by this ruling. This is what
Ohio State troopers confronted, responding to a crash outside of
Cincinnati the day before Christmas in 2022. Can you hear
me? A tractor trailer heading north on I-75 crossed the
median and slammed into two vehicles. They were texting me
throughout their drive, saying how close they were, where they
were, and then I heard nothing. Amy Ross had planned
to host Christmas for her family that year. In those
two cars, her mother, Kimberly, a sister, Lauren, another sister,
Karen, and brother-in-law, Jeremy Bainey. and that's when we got
in touch with the police and the police said they're
all gone and there was nowhere to go there was
no hospitals to go visit them at the driver of
the truck a cuban national with a green card had
left miami two days earlier in a truck that police
said had a stolen federal registration number a toxicology report
showed elevated levels of cocaine and methamphetamines in his system
after the crash the driver fled back to cuba how
does a guy like this end up hauling goods for
walmart i don't think that this driver or many others
like him end up on the road but for the
broker turning a blind eye so now the brokers are
going to be liable for these crap drivers that they
hire. And here's, this guy, he does a YouTube, the
mother trucker. It's just short, but a little color to
it. To put it plain and simple, a lot of
owner operators are saying this is a big win because
the Supreme Court just had a unanimous ruling saying that
brokers are pretty much accountable for negligency when hiring any
motor carrier, right, that is unsafe. You know, and they
are including illegal alien truck drivers in this. So is
this a big win? Because when you look at this
and you're trying to book loads, the shippers, they want
to pay top dollars at times. Not all bad times.
And then they have the broker that's supposed to make
sure that happens. And what do they do? They pick
really crappy carriers to haul their loads. And they don't
care. They just want that extra money going to their
pocket and get some random carrier to do the job.
And then that person gets into an accident. And when
they do, there's no accountability on the broker. But now
that changes. Yeah, not only is it a change for
subpar truckers, haulers, loaders, whatever you want to call them,
but how about autonomous trucks? And with this type of
liability changed by the Supreme Court, could we see perhaps
vaccine manufacturers coming up soon? well something's got to give
on the vaccines or or pharma providers in general which
is one of the reasons i'm glad to see bill
cassidy was came in third in a in a three-man
race and got kicked out of his senate seat in
louisiana this is the creep who who condemned you know
wasn't going to vote for bobby kennedy he's a big
promoter of uh of the uh of the vaccine for
hepatitis b on for babies he is a one of
the top 10 recipients of pharma money he's also the
guy when he was hassling kennedy demanded that kennedy see
him twice a month to confirm to confirm that he
wasn't going to change the schedule for 86 vaccines for
infants. I mean, the guy was just a bad actor,
and he finally, you know, Trump wanted him out, and
he got out because he's also voted for Trump's impeachment
on the second go-round of the impeachment when Trump wasn't
even president anymore. Yeah, it's great. The guy's a total
creep. I mean, why was this guy even in office?
Oh, this brings me to Hantavirus. So this is the,
what is this guy? Admiral, what is that guy's name?
Admiral, Admiral. He's the Admiral. It's just him saying everything's
okay. Zero Americans are sick with Hantavirus. Brian Christine is
his name. linked to that cruise ship docked Spain. U.S.
health officials confirming for the first time, no Americans are
believed to be infected with the Andes strain, including the
passenger who ended up replacing the ship doctor who initially
tested positive. Further tests actually show he may have never
been sick with the disease. In total, health authorities are
watching 41 Americans for the virus, including 16 who were
never on that ship but were potentially exposed to one
of the cruise ship passengers who got on a plane.
All right, that's the report. Here's the admiral himself. Let
me be crystal clear. The risk of Hantavirus to the
general public remains very, very low. The Andes variant of
this virus does not spread easily, and it requires prolonged,
close contact with someone who is already symptomatic. Even so,
we have taken this situation very seriously from the very
start. We've taken it seriously across HHS and particularly through
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And I'm proud
to see many of my U.S. Public Health Service officers
have been actively engaged in the response. The CDC rapidly
activated its emergency operations center. It deployed medical teams to
assess passengers and coordinated closely with international partners. They have
notified state health departments. They have initiated monitoring of potentially
exposed individuals. and they have issued clinical guidance through the
Health Alert Network. And they have also brought together national
partners through coordination calls. They've developed tools and resources to
support public health decision making. Well, the point being for
that clip is the guy sounds like he's a typical
boring guy and he's just, you know, he's going through
the motions, but he has it kind of covered and
he's not hair on fire like we're all going to
die. I thought this was going to blow over in
two days and this has been like two weeks already,
isn't it? oh yeah it's not going to blow over
but then i then then so this is the new
guy admiral christine so now we go to cnn and
then listen to this tonight we have a cnn exclusive
k-file and covering new details about one of the trump
administration's top public health officials who led the public federal
response this week on hantavirus. Dr. Brian Christine stood before
reporters promising a response grounded in science and grounded in
transparency. But before joining the administration, Christine was an Alabama
urologist with little experience in federal public health. He specialized
in penile implants and once hosted a YouTube show called
The Erection Connection. You coughed over it. I want to
make sure you heard about it. I want to make
sure you heard about his YouTube show. Penile implants. And
once hosted a YouTube show called The Erection Connection. Which
I need an end of show mix. Someday we'll find
it. Erection Connection. Anyway, so they're burning. Who are you
doing? They're burning this guy. Called The Erection Connection on
his procedures. K-File also found a history of far right
commentary and conspiracy-tinged smarts, including comparing the Biden administration to
Nazi Germany, questioning the 2020 election, and suggesting the COVID
vaccine did little to stop the pandemic. So, okay, it's
funny. I think the erection connection is a great find.
But here's CNN burning the admiral over at HHS. The
previous admiral over at HHS, of which they never said
anything bad, was literally a dude in a dress. Yeah,
Rachel. Rachel Levine. Rachel Levine. Literally a guy in a
dress. Oh, never a bad word about her, him, it.
Come on. You nailed it. Yeah. Yeah, well, meanwhile, it
doesn't make any difference because Ebola's back. Yeah. Woo, finally.
Yeah, yeah. When it rains, it pours, people. I got
two clips, one from the comparative, the CBS clip and
a BBC clip. You can play either one. How about
CBS first? There are growing concerns over yet another deadly
virus outbreak. Doctors are monitoring an Ebola epidemic in Africa
that may be to blame for dozens of deaths so
far. CBS's Lilia Luciano has the alarming developments and speaks
to a U.S. ER doctor who survived the virus. Survive!
In Congo's Eturi province, health officials are battling a new
Ebola outbreak. The Africa CDC says there are 246 suspected
cases and at least 65 people dead, the highest death
toll from the disease in years. The World Health Organization
is concerned. We know very well that the country has
experience, but the region where it is happened,
is highly volatile with the humanitarian situation going on and
the population moving around from South Sudan to Uganda and
other parts. Government officials confirmed the outbreak has now spread
to Uganda. Medical professionals seem very concerned about the possibility
or the ability to contain this. Why is that compared
to other times? It's already a big outbreak at the
point that we're hearing about it. There have already been
a number of deaths. And this is a strain of
Ebola for which we have no treatment, no vaccines. The
virus spreads through direct contact with blood and other bodily
fluids. Dr. Craig Spencer contracted Ebola while working in Guinea
in 2014. Healthcare workers are the group that I'm really
concerned about because they have very close contact with people
when they're most contagious, particularly around the time of folks'
death. And the U.S. has been the single largest external
player in Ebola response in the past. Now experts are
worried that the dismantling of USAID and the U.S. withdrawing
from the World Health Organization could have an impact in
the global efforts to contain the virus. Let the World
Health Organization do it. Yeah, Bill Gates. Why does USAID
have to do everything? They can't because they don't exist
anymore. Well, good. Go to the BBC. The Democratic Republic
of Congo's health minister has said the strain of Ebola,
which has broken out in recent days, has a very
high death rate. Samuel Roge Kamba said there was no
vaccine or specific treatment available. The outbreak has caused 80
deaths out of nearly 330 suspected cases. Shinga Nyoka reports.
reports. The numbers of the dead and sick have been
rising rapidly since this outbreak was declared, mainly in two
gold mining border towns, where it's feared that high population
movement could spread the disease further. The African Union's public
health agency has called for an increase in cross-border monitoring
after Uganda confirmed its first fatality. The 59-year-old man had
recently traveled from the DRC. Officials have called for international
assistance to contain what is now the DRC's 17th outbreak.
World news from the BBC. I think I have one
clip from CBS that has something additional in here. This
is the Democratic Republic of Congo's 17th outbreak of the
deadly viral disease, and it's unfolding against the backdrop of
a deepening security crisis where clashes between rival militia groups
have killed dozens of civilians in recent weeks. Abdir Rahman
Mahmoud is with the World Health Organization. Well, we know
very well that the country has experience, but the region
where it is happening is highly volatile with the humanitarian
situation going on and the population moving around. So our
response is to stand with the regional government and the
country neighbor in terms of solidarity to show again that
they can control this outbreak. And Ebola was first discovered
back in 1976 in what is now the DRC and
is thought to have spread from bats. Now this morning,
health experts are warning. Bats! Those Africans are eating bats!
Yeah, it's a problem. Yeah. How many times have we
been through an Ebola outbreak on this show in 18
years? I think it was four. At least. And then
we had two Zikas, four Ebolas, two Zikas, one COVID.
And now we had three SARS. We had SARS, GARS,
or whatever that other one was. And we had the
swine flu. MERS. MERS and SARS. MERS and SARS and
then COVID-19. COVID-19. And now Hanta virus, which is kind
of cool. We've got a new one. Well, this is
the second. We had a second. I think we've had
three incidents of Hanta. We had the current one. We
had the one with what's-his-name's wife. And then we had
one earlier, maybe 10 years ago, that was a Hanta
discussion. I don't remember from 10 years. I don't think
we've ever had a discussion on the show about Hanta.
I looked it up at bingit.io. I couldn't find any.
I did promise I would look into the resignation of
McCary over the flavored vapes. Do you remember this? You've
muted yourself. I don't know how that happens. I mean,
that has literally never happened to me. I can tell
you how it happens. I think Tina would love for
me to mute myself sometimes, but not on the show.
Yeah, I'm sure she would. Not on the show. But
beside the point, what happens is I get these pop-ups.
Pop-ups? Yeah, pop-ups. What world are you living in? What
happened to a blocker? Blockers don't work anymore. I mean,
I have, for example, I got my AVG antivirus-free. There's
There's your problem right there. Your AVG antivirus free expires
in six days. This is a pop-up. Renew it, man.
So I click on it, but instead of clicking on
it, I click on the mute button. Oh. Because it's
overlaying it and it just misses. I don't know. It's
an accident. Okay. Well, it's okay. So I promised I
would look into this resignation from the FDA director, administrator,
I think it is, over flavored vapes. So let's get
the full story. And I think I've figured out what
this was really about. Children's National in D.C. is sharing
its concerns after the FDA's decision to authorize fruit flavored
vapes. And that move played a role in the agency
leader's resignation yesterday. Sunrise's Max Marcilla joins us live. Morning,
Max. What does this authorization really mean, and why is
it driving this pushback? Well, Hillary, this authorization means that
one company called Glass can now market two of its
flavored e-cigarette products. They're blueberry and mango flavored. Listen to
this. Listen to this device. They're called Gold and Sapphire.
And while advocates of this move are hopeful that it
could help adults transition away from traditional cigarettes, there are
many concerns being raised, especially for young people. So look,
big picture, teen vaping is at its lowest point in
several years, and these new devices will have a digital
age verification system. But we spoke with Dr. Susan Wally,
the chief of hospital medicine at Children's National, and she's
concerned that teenagers could still find a workaround to the
new preventative technology. Look, she says these fruit-flavored devices are
extremely addictive and oftentimes are young person's first experience with
tobacco. We certainly are concerned as public health advocates, pediatricians
and teachers that, you know, our young people will get
the idea, oh, well, maybe this means that it's OK
if the FDA has authorized it and it couldn't be
further from the truth. So so one I followed this
because I'm a vapor and I totally disagree with all
these Chinese These crap vapes that who knows what's in
them, that'll probably kill you. And then they came up
with it'll cost you a million dollars per flavor that
you want to have the FDA approve. And this glass
company, which is some outfit in Los Angeles, they came
up with, oh, well, you have to link it with
Bluetooth to your phone, and then with a government ID,
I'm like, come on, this is all nuts. But this
is, there is something going on here, two sides. One
is the president, who promised this to young MAGA, I
can't remember it, but I think he did. Like, oh,
we're going to let you vape, kids. Vote for me.
And he also was having a meeting at one of
his golf courses with the big boys from tobacco who
are now switching from combustible products to nicotine, just pure
nicotine products. And they've spent a lot of money on
his election campaign, and they want this. They want the
vapes to be legal. and Durbin talked about this in
the Capitol. Tobacco companies have donated generously to Donald Trump's
election, his inauguration, his great Gatsby ballroom, with the expectation
of favoring the treatment President Trump's administration has delivered for
tobacco. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration... And I
just have to say, it has nothing to do with
tobacco. Nicotine is nicotine. It's not tobacco. And, you know,
there's all kinds of studies that say it can be
good. You know, having too much of anything is probably
never good, but it's not necessarily going to kill you.
Chinese vapes will probably kill you. Bad vapes, yeah, can
create formaldehyde. You can get pieces of... Yeah, and the
problem with cigarettes themselves is the tar. Yeah, but Durbin
makes it sound like it's all about tobacco, which it's
not. But it is true that the tobacco industry has
been moving to nicotine, and they certainly did support this
president. Did something it had never done before. After pressure
from President Trump, the FDA authorized the first ever flavored
e-cigarettes. Why is that important? That's what lures the children
into this deadly habit. Notice e-cigarettes. We're not calling it
vapes. We're calling it e-cigarettes. Deadly habits. Scientists, doctors, and
parents, even the FDA's own studies, all acknowledge sweet and
fruity flavored e-cigarettes are responsible for addicting our children. Health
experts I've spoken to believe the true number of high
school kids vaping is at least 40%. 40% of our
kids vaping. Yeah, the same 40% who ate vaping.
nicely colored Fruit Loops. I mean, none of it's good
for our kids. The number's bullcrap. Of course. Teachers, principals,
and students acknowledge these are not kids vaping to quit
cigarette smoking. These are kids who first became addicted to
nicotine because of flavored vaping. Why would an administration supposedly
committed to making America healthy again unleash this new wave
of addiction on our children? formaldehyde chromium heavy metals like
nickel and lead all are present in e-cigarettes a recent
study found that vaping is likely to cause cancer oh
yeah we should not trust big tobacco when they promise
they won't market to kids we know better all right
so obviously this was kind of funny and kimball made
some jokes about it and then you have the reported
beef between the president and his head of the FDA.
According to Wall Street Journal, Trump spent this weekend angrily
bullying FDA Commissioner Marty McCary, seen here moments after he
graduated from the School of Stock Footage Doctors. He berated
him for delaying approval of flavored electronic cigarettes. You may
remember Trump promised young MAGA that he would save vaping,
which is as noble a cause as there is. And
so like a kid giving up his lunch money, the
FDA finally authorized cotton candy flavored e-cigarettes. This is what's
important to him. Vape pens. He's definitely been in Florida
too long. All right. So I got no argument. I
like vaping. I think it's great. I think it should
be easier for people to make safe vapes. That's not
the point. This guy was pushed out for very different
reasons. And it surfaced on an interview on CNBC. You
know, to put it kind of bluntly, you've been getting
some not great press. And, you know, I'm curious just
today, Paranoia, turmoil, and backlash inside the FDA under Marty
McCary, President Trump's Marty McCary problem. These are very recent
stories, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. A lot of
it does stem from frustration with patient populations and physicians,
which what they say is inexplicable decisions by the FDA
to not approve drugs. Replimune, for example, being a key
one. How do you respond to this overall criticism that,
I mean, continues to this very moment? Yeah. Yeah, I
think that article in The Wall Street Journal is the
ninth article they've posted in that opinion section begging for
Replimune's approval. I don't work for Replimune. I work for
the American people, and I stand by the scientists at
the FDA. Three independent teams arrived at the same conclusions.
On my watch, we have not done corrupt sweetheart deals.
What we have done is followed the science. So every
accept or reject decision at the FDA on my watch
has been the accept or reject recommendation of the primary
review teams at the agency. And, you know, I've spent
my whole career taking care of cancer patients. To suggest
that we want cancer patients to die is a little
offensive. So it's about Replimoon. Replimoon has all the big
boys behind it. I mean, you've got BlackRock. You've got
everyone has invested in this one company to make Replimune.
And it was supposed to be Replimune, isn't it? Well,
Replimune. Yes. Replimune. Are you familiar with it? Because it's
not in the market. I hope you're not using it.
I'm sure they'd love to pass it along. Well, no.
He was saying. There's a whole group called the Replimune
group. Yes. But he was saying, no, this thing is
no good. And these guys got not one, not two,
not three, but nine articles in the Wall Street Journal
opinion editors pushing for this drug. Well, final question, because
you referenced, you used the word corrupt when you described
sort of corporations. I'm just curious as to what you're
talking about. I'm talking about a small set of companies
have a trial that doesn't go their way. They call
you, they call CNBC, they call Wall Street Journal. They're
running ads on your network nonstop. and they say, hey,
this is wrong, the drug actually works when the trial
shows it didn't work. And they dial up tremendous pressure
in the media to drum up people, spin them up
on results that don't match the data that we see.
And what you see as a result are nine articles
by a couple editors in the opinion desk at the
Wall Street Journal pushing for one drug. What do you
call that? I know. Well, they would call it being
compassionate to the 8,000 people with melanoma who frontline treatment
failed. cancer surgeon i mean if there's anything that'll help
cancer patients a hundred percent we're going to get it
to them so final clip about what was wrong all
right well if you do that wait he's a cancer
surgeon i thought he was a dick surgeon no this
is a different guy this is the fda guy i
get mixed up you're still 15 minutes behind i am
yeah all right well if you do that i mean
i i just want to go through because to the
extent that i've been exposed to one story it has
been this one i've talked to the ceo as well
and any number of other people I am, yeah. they
see? Look, I'm not going to talk about an individual
product, but if you read what we call our complete
response letter, you will see the details of the FDA's
logic, and you will see some of those things shown
not to be correct. Can you give me something here
to hang on to just understand what some of the
details would be? So we publish it. We publish all
of it. So for example, if you want to see
whether or not a drug adds a benefit to cancer
patients, you run a control group where patients don't get
the drug. The FDA clearly recommended that control group. The
company clearly did not do that control group. And so
by law, we can only approve drugs with, quote, substantial
evidence. You went back and forth with them about that.
Didn't they say that that would be unfair to those
patients given the efficacy of the drug itself? The FDA
has had numerous meetings with almost every company that brings
products before it. The recommendations of the FDA were clear,
misrepresented in the media. How did they misrepresent? Well, saying
that they changed the goalposts. They don't change the goalposts.
So when we're talking about how hard it is for
RFK Jr. to do stuff, this is exactly what this
guy got pressed out. They threatened him. Who knows? Yeah,
that's why they came up with the vape thing. Yes,
exactly. No, that's what you do. You're pounding, you're pounding,
you're pounding, you're pounding, you say, well, hell with it.
Let's go after him some other way. Yep, and there
it is. We dream some scheme up here and we'll
go with this. What side is he on here? Well,
that's what Trump wanted to do. Okay, well, let's go
after him. Call Kimmel. Call Kimmel. Get him to make
some jokes. Yeah, you just keep doing it until the
guy gives up. This happened with a woman who just
quit the, I think she was the CDC or FDA.
And I had a clip. I didn't have a clip,
but I was going to discuss her. And she was
drummed out the same way. because this is major. If
you didn't have the pharmacy companies so big. And powerful.
It's shocking to me that Cassidy didn't get in because
he's supported by them. You even hear this guy saying,
hey, they're running ads on your network. Yeah, that's why
our CNBC guy is like, whoa, what's wrong with you?
I mean, it was a perfectly good drug. Everyone, the
CEO says, oh, what's that? The Wall Street Journal, nine
opinion pieces. There was money behind this. Big money. And
it was probably just for some stock win. I don't
think they have care about 8,000 melanoma patients. Well, there
was a stock at play. There had to be. So
that's what that's... No, it was. It was called Replimune.
Okay. And that's what all this... It's down to five
bucks a share now. Ah, there you go. Everyone lost
their shirt. So out you go. vapes we'll do something
we'll do something we'll make you look stupid yeah i
don't think trump is i don't think trump even knew
about this part no he can't keep up with this
stuff he can and he can barely do it uh
so um uh stephen colbert had his last show i
don't know if you saw it no i i'll go
back and look at it eventually they had david letterman
on and they threw stuff off the roof of the
CBS building. Yeah, I did see that. They clipped that
and put it online. Yeah, yeah, I saw that. And
we discussed this offline after the show one or two
shows ago. I'll just play this little brief bit about
his replacement. Meanwhile, fellow late-nighter Jimmy Kimmel joked at Disney's
annual upfronts about CBS replacing Colbert with Byron Allen's Comics
Unleashed. Quote, it's bad enough to lose your job. Imagine
getting replaced by the owner of the Weather Channel. So
Byron Allen will be replacing him. Our initial thought was,
go ahead. Pretty embarrassing. It's an insult. Yeah, it's an
insult. I mean, Byron Allen is something of a genius
entrepreneur, a billionaire. And he's been doing the same kind
of schlock programming forever. although he does when it comes
to the food stuff he has a number of of
foodie uh productions that he does that are extremely well
produced but most of his stuff is just you know
because byron allen who's a black guy it is a
wannabe comic who's not funny yeah but he's got a
knack for producing kind of
low-budget, mid-quality material, and he's been doing it forever. Way
before we started this show, he was doing stuff, and
he has this Comics Unleashed show, which is terrible. I
mean, it's just not well done, but it's cheap. It's
super cheap. So that's how he's made his money, leverage.
Here's the kicker. CBS didn't replace Stephen Colbert with Byron
Allen. he is paying for the time slot oh that
would make sense he bought the time slot that makes
total sense yeah and he's probably it's probably going to
be more profitable than any of the other late night
shows because yeah because it's what he does and he's
going to make good money off of that yeah it's
like a infomercial yes exactly you buy those slots spots
exactly and then everyone else is going to go you
know you'll see nbc the network actually instead of losing
40 million dollars a year will be making money doing
nothing yes for something that almost no one watches anyway
yes infomercial level a couple million people of which none
are in the demo no right you want you want
to sell medical devices you want to sell that phone
i didn't know that but now that you mentioned genius
right that's why byron allen is a billionaire he's something
of a genius in terms of TV. It's schlock, but
it's still. What are you going to do? What TV
is good? I mean, it's all schlock. Ever since Dana
Brunetti stopped producing shows, it's just gone downhill. Yeah. I'm
doing this to get out of a lawsuit, by the
way. Oh, he's... Good old Dana. Yeah, that guy. I
heard that he hates Hollywood. I love telling my church
people. Yeah, you know, Danny Brunetti, big Hollywood guy, he
listens to the show. He's kind of a friend. What
did he do? Fifty Shades of Grey? What? That's pornography.
No, that was Fifty Shades of Grey. That was the
bad one. Yeah. House of Cards. There was a trilogy.
There was three? Money, yeah. Three money makers, yeah, of
course. Of course, that's why he has a fire truck
and a farm. And we're podcasters. I'm just saying. Well,
you know, we got cash flow. All right. You got
anything else you want to do? Yeah, let's see before
we have it yeah i want to do um you
know what the sharia law clip is always good sharia
law in the usa big thread i find this to
be kind of kind of hopeless but let's play these
clips and lawmakers warn that groups in support of sharia
law have a long-term goal of widespread influence here in
the u.s warnings of Korea's authoritarian nature and social class
divisions based on sex and religion. They point to already
existing Sharia-based tribunal courts happening in Texas and the United
Kingdom. NDD correspondent Jason Blair brings us that story. People
do not have protection from imposing a foreign legal system
or code that overrides or replaces U.S. civil or criminal
law, nor the Constitution. House Republicans warn that stronger action
needs to be taken to curb the rise of Sharia
law tribunals and acting courts in the U.S. Political Islam
silences dissent, prohibits religious freedom, allows barbaric punishments, and treats
women, children, and non-Muslims as second-class citizens. At a congressional
hearing Wednesday, one witness said many Islamic groups have openly
stated their long-term intent of gradually making the U.S. an
Islamic society. society. They've written it down in the project
in a 12-point plan. You can read it for yourself.
They've come to make this country like they've made countries
all across the world Islamic. Amy Meckleberg, founder of Rare
Foundation USA, says there are Sharia-based tribunal services operating in
America. All across different places throughout the United States, from
birth to death, they now have full operational societies. So
within these societies, they have their courts. Subcommittee Chairman Chip
Roy says that the UK has 85 Sharia law courts
operating in the country. Muslims are increasingly turning to Sharia
courts to settle disputes rather than the UK's legal system.
He said UK. Yeah. Yeah. So it's called arbitration. That's
what that is. It's arbitration. Well, whatever it is, in
the UK it seems to be somewhat popular with certain
groups of people. Amongst the Muslims. Yeah, well, that's what
they do. It's just like the nature that it's going
to take over the US and we're going to do
this. Oh, please. This is nonsense. This is midterm fear-mongering
is what this is. Vote for Chip Roy. Vote for
Chip Roy. Yeah, Chip roy he's your buddy he's a
texas boy i'll stop the i'll stop the the muslim
um compounds in texas and whenever i say this people
are always like look at this man this happening is
real yeah maybe but we're a little just look at
the percentage of muslims in the united states and what
their influence is most muslims in the united states are
not for this stuff no and we don't have open
borders where crazy Muslims are coming in, and we don't
have a society where we allow, at least we should
not, where we allow them to fire up their loudspeakers
five times a day and have them stop and bow
in the middle of the street. Now, you may see
some videos about that, but that kind of stuff usually
doesn't fly in America. This is different. Europe is like,
oh, no, this is multicultural. We have to be nice
to everybody and it took 25 years if not almost
30 the praying in the middle of the street doesn't
fly in saudi arabia either but you know people are
online though it's happening and if it's happening in your
town then you should put a stop to it that
we can do but that didn't happen in europe i
saw this in the netherlands i saw when and look
they did a great job when Pim Fortin was running
for election and his party won after they killed him
to assassinated him two weeks before the election, he was
saying, do not allow the Islamification of the Netherlands. And
he got killed and then everybody shut up, went, oh
I probably shouldn't say anything about Islam and still took
25 years to get to where it is today. We
have a lot of runway to stop anything nefarious. But
you are being played. You are being played and I
think it's, you know, there's these geofencing operations. You heard
about this? Yeah, I have. Apparently, Israel has been paying
companies in America to pop up ads and manipulate algos
geofenced around churches, particularly in California, but also in Texas,
in the Dallas area, Austin. and part of their geo-fencing
is Israel great and part of it is Islam no
good. Be careful, be afraid. So you're being played on
all sides. But I agree with you. The influence is
not that great. Oh, man, the amount of people. This
is our next Waterloo. Part two. Part two. Rep. Jamie
Raskin argues that no special laws against Sharia law are
necessary because of the existence of current U.S. law. Murder
is against the law in America. whether the parents are
Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or anything else. Another witness who's
a high school student in Texas says his Republican student
club faced hostile scrutiny and censorship by school officials in
stark contrast to pro-Sharia groups. While the Republican student club
faced denial, censorship, poster removal, and hostile oversight, an outside
organization was given easy access to distribute Sharia-related materials directly
to students. Administrators not only allowed it, they actively promoted
Islamic events. Throughout the hearing, Democrats argued that existing U.S.
law is enough to deter any threats. While Republicans called
for urgent action citing Sharia-based tribunals and early warning signs
in Europe and Texas. Reporting on Capitol Hill, Jason Blair,
NTD News. Next, today is World Fallen Dafa Day. So,
if you ask anyone, what is Sharia law? Wait for
the answer. what is the what is sharia law everyone
thinks that somehow well it's going to supersede american law
no and i have to agree with raskin with on
that case it's not going to supersede american law you
can't go killing people but that's also not what sharia
law is like you stole my chicken you know i
get to take some beads it's not gonna chop your
hand off it's not quite that extreme Yeah, I haven't
seen that take place yet. Have we seen a good
stoning in America yet? A good Sharia law stoning? There's
been a lot of people that have been stoned, but
not in that way. If Sharia law suddenly, and then
you can go stone a girl because she kissed a
boy, that is against the law in America. You can't
go stoning people. But it's a meme now. Oh, Sharia
law, Sharia law. please tell me what is Sharia law?
Trolls, because the trolls are all into this. What is
Sharia law? They can't tell you. It's fear-mongering to get
your vote for Chip Roy and Ken Paxton and a
bunch of other guys. So we have a
we've got a couple of things. I do have a
3x3. We can do that and get out of here.
Oh, well, 3x3 is always fun. Now it's time for
3x3. Yes, Experiment by JCD. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS,
and NBC. The never-ending 3x3. That's right, he's got the
big three. And it's a story that will probably sound
exactly the same on all three networks, but there's always
a twist. You never know what these CIA broadcast systems
will do. Yeah, that's where we leave them for last.
And we start with the ABC people about the terrorist
attack. Tonight, an Iraqi national is in U.S. custody accused
of orchestrating terror attacks like these, taking aim at American
and Jewish targets around the world in retaliation for the
war in Iran. Federal prosecutors charging Mohammed al-Sadi with a
slew of terror-related crimes, alleging he coordinated 20 terror attacks
in Europe and Canada in the last three months and
eyed additional attacks in the U.S., identifying targets in California,
Arizona, and New York City. He has been trying to
inspire jihad around the world through the Internet. Prosecutors linked
al-Sadi to this stabbing in London that left two Jewish
men, including an American citizen, seriously injured. Drop the knife!
To this attempted arson at Bank of New York Mellon
in Amsterdam. And this firebombing of a synagogue in North
Macedonia. Al-Sadi was apprehended this week in Turkey. In court
today, he claimed he's a political prisoner being persecuted for
his ties to Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the military commander
killed by a U.S. airstrike in 2020. He's essentially being
subjected to a political prosecution, that he's a prisoner of
war and should be treated as such. But when federal
prosecutors portrayed al-Sadi as a terrorist mastermind who they said
successfully coordinated attacks overseas and paid undercover agents to carry
out more attacks in this country. Undercover agents. This guy's
powerful. Sketchy story. Powerful. Very powerful. NBC. Tonight, the FBI
and NYPD saying they've foiled potential terror attacks against Jewish
sites in New York, L.A., and Scottsdale, Arizona. Plots, they
say, are all tied to the Iranian regime. This man,
Mohammed al-Sadi, now held in a New York jail cell,
is an alleged high-ranking member of the mysterious terror group
called HAYI. What? Authorities say they've already carried out 18
terror attacks in Europe, primarily targeting the Jewish community, including
this suspect, tackled by British police after a stabbing rampage
outside a London mosque and the group carrying out the
firebombing of this Belgian synagogue. Tonight, the FBI says HAYI
is a front for the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, and
they say al-Sahdi's ties go right to the top of
the Iranian regime. Multiple photos show al-Sahdi with former Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qusim Soleimani killed in a U.S.
drone strike during President Trump's first term. Ah, there it
is. This is Trump's fault. Al-Saudi has specifically threatened to
kill President Trump on social media. He is certainly a
leader in this terrorist organization, and he was directing and
inspiring terrorist attacks. These photos, exclusively obtained by NBC News,
show his arrival in New York last night after he
was taken into custody by Turkish authorities, according to prosecutors.
They say since April he's been communicating with an undercover
officer offering to pay tens of thousands of dollars to
attack Jewish sites in the U.S. Oh. Tom, these are
alarming developments. The suspect was in court today. He appeared
briefly in court. His attorney says he thinks he's a
prisoner of war. Meanwhile, authorities believe the case underscores the
wide variety of threats for events like the World Cup
starting next month. Oh, yes. Now, let me ask you
some questions about this. That was cute getting the World
Cup in there. Yeah, yeah. Let me ask some questions.
So was he communicating with an undercover officer on our
side, like one of our FBI guys? Is that how
they nailed this guy? Well, wasn't it clearly explained in
the report? No, I didn't think it was clearly explained.
They keep talking about he paid agents around the world
to do stuff. He was linked to Soleimani, Trump's trophy.
So I'm just waiting for this to be Trump's fault.
And that synagogue in Amsterdam, they locked off a whole
part of the city. You can't even drive in certain
directions because of that. But I didn't hear anything about
this. So like some nut jobs, but I didn't hear
any connections to this guy. I don't know. This whole
thing is fishy. Appearing in a federal court in Manhattan
today, Mohammed al-Sadi smiled as a judge read off the
list of terrorism charges. Arrested in Turkey in the last
24 hours and extradited to New York, al-Sadi is accused
of trying to hire someone who happened to be an
undercover officer. Now it's clear. Carry out attacks in Los
Angeles, Scottsdale, Arizona and New York City. Well, the system
worked then. We stopped him. New York City Police Commissioner
Jessica Tisch said, we disrupted a plan to attack a
Manhattan synagogue and in partnership with the synagogue's leadership, ensured
its security when the threat was elevated. Prosecutors say on
April 3rd, Al-Sadi sent maps of a New York synagogue
and Jewish centers in LA and Scottsdale to the undercover
officer, agreeing to pay him $10,000. In the next day, al-Sadi
is alleged to have sent $3,000 in crypto as a down
payment for the New York attack, texting, I want to
see good news tonight, not tomorrow, bro. Prosecutors say al-Sadi
is the commander of Kata'i Hezbollah. Bro, wait a minute.
Where is this guy? Is he New Jersey? Bro. Al-Sadi
is alleged to have sent $3,000 in crypto as a down
payment for the New York attack, texting, I want to
see good news tonight, not tomorrow, bro. Prosecutors say al-Sahdi
is a commander of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist group
with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. He's pictured here
with the late Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, killed by a
U.S. drone strike in 2020 on orders from President Trump.
His defense attorney said al-Sahdi is being punished for his
ties to Soleimani. This case is a political case, and
it's a political prosecution, and we're going to be litigating
it as such. Prosecutors also say after the war began,
al-Sadi helped launch... Wait a minute, wait a minute. He
called it a political case? Well, that's what he calls
it. Well, isn't that just terrorism? That's an interesting point.
For his ties to Soleimani. This case is a political
case, and it's a political prosecution, and we're going to
be litigating it as such. Prosecutors also say after the
war began, al-Saudi helped launch 18 terror attacks across Europe,
including on a synagogue and a Jewish school in Belgium,
and the stabbing of two Jewish men in London last
month. CBS contributor Sam Vinograd said retaliatory acts of terrorism
could become more common. Even when drones, missiles and more
stop flying over Iranian airspace, it is more than likely
that these military campaigns have inspired a generation of individuals
to continue to try to wreak havoc and al-sadi is
facing multiple terrorism charges including providing material support for acts
of terrorism if convicted major he could face up to
life in prison Yeah. Whenever we have like, he hired
an undercover cop of, it doesn't even mention if it
was FBI or not an agent. And then he sent
him some crypto and used bro. I'm like, this guy
was some, probably some schmuck. And then they found a
picture of him with Soleimani. It sounds sketchy to me.
Well, maybe you could be right, but I think it's
just a maniac. and he's got a boatload he's got
a bunch of cash and he's crypto traveling all over
the place like he goes to Macedonia then he's in
Turkey then he's in Holland and then he's in New
York well no no he hired people to do that
stuff yeah but he's been floating around too he didn't
do it from Turkey he's not hiring anybody to blow
up a synagogue in Arizona from Turkey there's nobody there's
no connection there's no it's not possible he's got to
come over here to do some of that stuff. The
good news is he's off the streets. The FBI has
done it again. We're safe. Sleep well, citizen. Go back
to playing your harpsichord, citizen. Everything is well. And by
the way, my last clip is Harvey Weinstein. We're not
safe because he's going to be out of jail. To
the index now, a judge declared a mistrial in Harvey
Weinstein's rape retrial. The decision after a jury in Manhattan
could not reach a unanimous verdict following three days of
deliberations. deliberations this was the third time weinstein was tried
on accusations he raped an aspiring actress in a hotel
room in 2013 weinstein's lawyers argued the sexual encounter was
consensual a hearing next month could determine if there will
be a fourth trial that is that is odd isn't
it yeah well then i have two clips just to
wind it all up because that we're going to open
reopen been Epstein trials, more trials coming. And the Democrats...
Oh, great. That's terrific. How many people have gone to
jail so far? Well, one person is... They want blood
and they have a target on one guy. Okay. Here's
the MS now setting us up. On the committee, heard
dramatic testimony from survivors at a field hearing this week
in Palm Beach County, where many of Epstein's crimes took
place. When I was 14 years old, I was abused
by Jeffrey Epstein. He abused me until I was 17
years old. What happened to me was terrible, but what
happened after that by our own government changed my life
just as much. I came here today to ask for
one simple thing.
to make sure this never happens again. I kept my
identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day
with my name mentioned over 500 times. While the rich
and powerful remained protected by reduction, my name was exposed
to the world. Okay, so both of them say that
they were abused by the U.S. government. You wanted to
say something? No, I was going to say they got
outed by the U.S. government. Yeah, but I think the
first one said it was worse. Yeah. So the Democrats
in this case want blood, and I think they'll get
it. I think they'll get it, and it's about one
guy and one guy only. But let's turn now, sir,
to the Epstein investigation, because all House oversight Democrats are
calling for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to resign over his
Epstein testimony. What should the American people know about his
interview and how it fits into the overall probe? Look,
no one should be serving the American people, certainly not
as a cabinet secretary, when you are essentially a known
liar and unwilling to tell the truth. When you lie
to the public and you're not honest in a deposition
in front of the Congress. We all have seen Howard
Lutnick in multiple times say that after 2005, he had
no interaction with Jeffrey Epstein. that he had known very
well. And now we just know that that wasn't true.
We know that he went to the island, that he
went into business with Jeffrey Epstein, that he communicated, his
wife communicated with him. And so then to them, him
go into this interview with Congress and not admit to
that and evade. Look, he needs to resign or be
fired. He has lied to the American people. And that
is nothing. That's not something a cabinet secretary should be
doing. And beyond that, this points back to this massive
cover up. Howard Lutnick has been involved at the White
House, continuing to cover up for the DOJ, telling lies,
and he's got to go. Yeah, I think he will.
I think that's the scalp they want now. Why? Just
to do it. Ludnick's just a nutnik. He's a commerce
guy. Who cares? Yeah, he's important to Trump because of
the USDC. He's the big stablecoin guy. Oh, okay. Yeah,
he's a big stablecoin guy. I know he's the guy
that Musk wanted to be Secretary of the Treasury. He's
a big Lutnik fan. Oh, I'm glad we got General
Patton on the down low. That guy's much better. Yeah,
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you will be there as well. And you can use
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it in your social media profile. LinkedIn, it always works.
You can even become a consultant, I think, on some
movies if you want or podcasts. $300 or more, the
same deal. We'd read your note and you'll get a
credit of executive producer. We still have a few Order
of the Red Heart, Order of the Heart, Red Nights,
available, which is just that beautiful package that you get.
And that was kind of a promo to welcome you
back to the world of the living. And I think
we'll have one, if not two of them today, because
we start with Samuel Montgomery from Arvada, Colorado, who comes
in with $1,000 plus fees. So that's $1,030 and 26 cents. Thank
you for saving us the fees. And he says, ITM
John and Adam, first time donor. I'm a registered cardiovascular
invasive specialist. I've been that for 20 years. I'm going
to give him a deduce. You've been deduced. I assist
with performing cardiac cath procedures, which I assume John had
prior to his open heart surgery. It is an honor
to become a Red Knight. Did you have a cardiac
cath procedure? They run this thing up your leg. Oh,
in your leg? Well, they start in the leg, the
top of the part of the leg, and then they
run this thing up the veins or something, and they
just run it up there to check it. And then
they send some horrible dye into your system that then
poisons your kidneys. And then I could go on and
on about this. And then I had to go on
dialysis for like a month and a half to get
this poison out of the system. Does dialysis, does that
hurt? Does it suck? What's that like? Actually, not being
on it is nice. Yes. But when you're on it,
it's like you can nap through it. Oh. So it's
dozed off. But it's, no, it doesn't hurt at all.
It's actually, it's just annoyingly waste of time because it
takes forever. Jay, Jay, Jay, please get a picture of
John napping during dialysis. Too late. Oh, you don't have
to do it anymore? No, no, I haven't done it
for a month now. Good. I'm good. I'm happy to
hear that. How about the fluids? Is that over now?
No, I still had some fluids drained the other day.
Yeah. I'm actually kind of clear right now, so I
have a more sonorous voice. You do. I can make
deeper sounds. It's a few. And I don't know when
that's getting. And that's getting annoying because they have this
one guy who's actually pretty good at it, doing these
thoracentesis where they stick. So this guy's really good at
it. It doesn't hurt, and it's actually quite pleasant. So
the time before last, the guy, this guy's name's Hans.
He's excellent at this. His name is Hans? Hans. Hans,
yes. He's actually more of an Asian. But anyway, so
he says, I have a resident here who wants to
observe so he can do this too. and would you
mind having that happen? And you being a nice guy,
you went, yeah, sure, no problem. I went, sure, yeah,
no problem. And that was a mistake. Because instead of
the normal, you know, the way he normally soothes, the
way he does the whole shivs you with the needle
to drain you, it goes like this. Okay, here's what
I'm doing now. I'm going between the third and fourth
rib. And notice that as it goes into the cavity
between the ribs, and he's describing this, the whole process.
And it's disconcerting, to say the least. So people out
there don't have an intern or a resident watch anything.
It was disgusting. I'm so sorry. But was it less
fluid than normal? Are we on the uptake here? Are
we doing better with this? Yeah, I think barely, yes.
Because I don't want you to have to have an
operation for that. No, it's just the whole thing. It's
just annoying. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, fluid. Are you going
to go home soon? Are you going to go back
home? Yeah, I can probably get there now. I mean,
but, you know, it's kind of comfortable being waited on.
Oh, my back hurts. Can somebody get me an aspirin?
I'm with you. I hear you. It's comfortable. Nice. All
right. All right. onward with Steve Slocum, who also came
in with $1,000. Hello, Adam and John. My name is Steve
Slocum from Columbia Station, Ohio. Long-time listener, first-time donor. Let's
deduce him. I started listening. Let's deduce him. Let's deduce
him. I mean, he didn't ask for it, but... You've
been deduced. Deduction. I started... Yeah, good. I started listening
after Adam's first Rogan appearance. Oh, Rogan donation. Rogan. this
information is a bit late but i felt it was
relevant to the show i'd worked in one of the
country's largest va health care facilities before and during and
after covid the messaging this country received during that period
of time was dramatically different than what was happening in
these facilities veterans with active covid diagnosis were forced to
isolate in patient rooms together for extended periods of time
when social distancing was arguably at its worst. It was
sickening to witness the lies firsthand. Thanks to the two
of you and all the producers during that time for
providing grounded, relevant information to keep some sanity in the
world. Well, thank you belatedly. With my $1,000 Bitcoin donation. Nice.
I guess it would be. Yeah, it did come in
as Bitcoin, yeah. I would like to claim an instantitehood
of the Order of the Heart to assist with John's
recovery. I'd like to claim Sir Steve as my official
title. Request Reverend Manning Bitcoin jingle as well as health
karma for all. Thanks, gentlemen. They're saying that all hell
is going to break loose and you're going to need
a Bitcoin. You've got karma. Lovely. There you go. You
know, a lot of people forget what we did during
COVID. They forget what we told you about Ukraine. They
forget all these things. And then they'll yell at us
for things. And then in five years, we'll be like,
yeah. back a couple years late yeah it's all right
now it's all right it's all right we can handle
it 2026 what do you say we make this show
an even 20 years 20 years there you go we're
getting there sir e61 black sheep ah now this is
time towns and treasure all in one he's the guy
that i was talking about earlier. Yeah. He gave us...
Sir E61, is that some rank? No, I think that's
a Nokia phone. But maybe it is. I don't know.
He's in Johnson City, Tennessee. But he's not because he's
boogying out of Kuwait. He says, I sent Adam an
update, which is $343.75, which might have been $333.33 with fees.
We evacuated. You get real time here, fellas. So there
you go. Treasure, talent and time all in one. Thank
you very much, Sir E61 Black Sheep. Michael Trumbull in
Morris, Minnesota, 333.33. Here's a much overdue donation to the
best podcast in the universe. Your efforts and insights are
indispensable. And since COVID have been under supported, under supported,
I tell you, in the treasure area. Thoughts and prayers
for you both. Mitch Trumbull. Thank you, Mitch. Dennis Cato
coming in from Tampa, Florida. We recognize the name, 33333
ITM John and Adam, just to give you some background.
I actually have a history of correspondence with John going
back to 1999, though I'm sure he doesn't recall. Let's
find out. Oh, I recall every note. Let's see if
John remembers this. I was a Mac guy and an
Apple employee that would routinely take offense to his articles
where he would suggest Apple shut the doors, sell the
stock, and give it back to the shareholders or that
jobs return would do absolutely nothing to bring the brand
back to prominence, etc. Wait, wait, wait. After a few
beers, I sent some aggressively curt emails to John suggesting
that he find a new position in life. That probably
went something like F you. But I was amazed when
he actually would respond to my rantings and would be
ever so gracious and sweet. Okay, do you remember this?
Oh, yeah, I'm a sweet guy. No, no. I'm sure
he wasn't the only Apple employee. No, there's a bunch
of people that rant because I...
This really became mostly during the Mac era when I
was hired as the anti-editor of Mac User. Yes. By
the publisher, Felix Dennis. who I knew. Is he dead?
And he says, would you like to be the, we'd
like to put you on the inside back cover, but
your job is to just say bad. things so we
can balance the magazine. And you went, heck yeah, I'm
in. Oh, yeah, I can do that. No problemo. And
so I began it. And I was on the masthead
as the anti-editor. and I wrote these columns at the
back which were always critical and but I was also
critical in PC Magazine and elsewhere, especially when I wrote
the column, which I think Steve Jobs put up in
a frame, which was... Steve Jobs' good riddance when he
quit. It was a classic. But yeah, I got a
bunch of guys like this that were... That's funny. That's
funny. He says, speaking of sweet like John. We invite
everyone in Gitmo Nation to try our Manuka Gold Honey
with Lemongrass, Ginger and Turmeric. Visit us at ManukaGold.com. That's
Manuka with a K. For our wonderful line of wellness
products. well at manukagold.com so this is an apple guy
who sold this stock and bought some bees And I
love that story. And I love your product, Dennis. Dennis
Cato, Tampa, Florida. Thank you. Eli the coffee guy in
Bensonville, Illinois 20517. Cheers to Bulgaria! Winner of the 70th
Eurovision contest as the boys in the millennial media offensive
say The Black Sea is in play. Wouldn't surprise me
to hear more from Bulgaria and Romania as European nationalism
shifts further east. That sea matters more than most realize
for the energy needs of the West. Fortunately, none of
the current world turmoil has touched the coffee supply yet.
Get some fresh roasted coffee and visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use
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Eli, the coffee guy. Then coming in with $200, another
associate executive producership for... a dot farmer from Uden. In
the Netherlands. And he wants to hear a boogity boogity,
mac and cheese, shut up slaves, and a yak karma.
And he says, or traveling yak karma. Bless me, podfathers,
for I have sinned. I would like to thank you.
both for your time and talent, eight years of listening
here by some treasure. I would like a de-douche. You've
been de-douched. John, I love your view on the world,
the stories you tell about the different jobs you had
and situations you were in. By the way, my smoking
hot wife really likes your voice. Adam, thank you for
inventing podcasting, providing the bi-weekly crisp. and perfect sound quality
and making the show so much fun to listen to.
I'm the fun one. My kids know your intro by
heart, reproducing it every time a new episode starts. You
guys are the best. The Noah Jinder Show truly is
the best podcast in the universe. Now to business. Message
for... um the first ukrainian clogs on the ground meetup.
Hear ye, hear ye. To all farmers, shills, spooks, and
members of the Gitmo Nations, you are warmly invited to
join us for burgers and beers as we celebrate the
birthday of our favorite former mink farmer, now a dude
named Ben. We all raise a glass to knee-high corn
to 1,560. days of Russian peace and freedom and to
the honest and non-corrupt Ukrainians, the honest and non-corrupt Ukrainians,
all while supporting the Ukrainian economy. Join us. This is
the first. Join us on Saturday, June 6th at 6
o'clock at the Fat Moose in Bylak Tserkva in Ukraine.
Man, I need a meter per portrait. Wow, that would
be great if anyone shows up. That's awesome. We look
forward to seeing you there. Please RSVP, kind regards, a.farmer,
end of message. And he sent me a very... long
and beautiful boots on the ground about farming in Ukraine.
that was extremely informative. And he also said. everything yes
some drones fly most of them are shot down the
russian drones um One of them exploded in one of
his fields, a 10 by 10 foot hole, three feet
deep. He says, and yes, some people die and the...
cemeteries in you Ukraine are unbelievably full, just people that
just thrown bodies on top of one another. It's flags
everywhere. But he also says the front is has pretty
much been stagnant for weeks. There's not a lot going
on. Which makes sense because we haven't heard much. We
haven't heard much going on. Anyway, let me... That is
a very good report. Let me give you your jingle.
you You slaves can get used to mac and cheese,
mac and cheese, mac and cheese, macaroni and cheese, cheddar
melted together, mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and
cheese. You've got... karma Linda Lupatkin in Castle Rock, Colorado.
$200 jobs karma. 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 with
Linda Liu, Duchess of Java. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
And we have one final associate executive producer, Lois Forrestal.
Forrestal in Bellingham, Washington. $200. We did not receive... a
note from Lois? No, we did get a note. We
did? Where's the note? Yeah, it's a note that says
no note. Oh, but I'm still going to give Lois
a double up karma if you don't mind. You've got.
And with that, we thank our executive and associate executive
producers for episode 1869 of The Best Pod. Thank you
again for supporting us, you executive and associate executive producers.
Our formula is this. We hit people in the mouth.
The rest of our $50 and above supporters, value for
value, which includes Mike Duffy from Blenheim, New Zealand, 194.6.
which is, uh, that's right. He's going to be bumped
up. It's a $333 and 33 cents, New Zealand bucks
and wants business karma. The last round works so well.
We've quit our jobs. Now we're hot dog and full
time. Thanks. Florida's hot dogs. The best hot dogs in
the Florida's Laura. Flora. Flora's hot dogs. The best hot
dogs in the universe. That's interesting. Is he a hot
dog maker? He's a hot dog maker. Send us some
product, bro. You've got karma. Product. We want product. Bro.
Bro. Boob donation from the boob man himself, Kevin McLaughlin,
the Archduke of... Luna, Love of America and Boobs, $80.08.
As always, he says, God bless America and boobs. Sir
Kevin O'Brien, Chicago, Illinois, with a small boob, $60.06. You
can see for yourself how that works. Along with Les
Tarkowski from Kingman, Arizona, $60 from David Arellanas from Escondido,
California. Steve Bansky. Ah, yes. Steve Bantra. He is our
Southwest. Southwest? I used to love Southwest, but they are
now the most expensive airline there is. If you want
to go to Nashville... What do you think a round
trip to Nashville costs? Well, it would probably normally be
$69. $700. What? Yes. And that's not even before you
get like, you know, early boarding because they've changed it
now. You don't have that cool boarding that I like.
Now they have boarding groups. And you still have to
pay extra for your luggage. It's insane. You can fly
Delta or United for $399. I don't know. I don't
see why people still, I think people are using up
all of their, here's what I think happened. I know
what happened. The CEO changed. Yeah, the bean counters came
in. They said, let's have everybody use up all of
their points and miles at these exorbitant prices, and then
we'll lower it down again. I think they're just trying
to get rid of all those point people. Because I
can't believe that they're paying that kind of money. Anyway,
Steve has nothing to do with the organization, although he
flies for them, and I hear he's a great pilot.
And he says, have some more eggs, Steve Banstra. $59.93.
Thank you, Steve. Sir Shelfwood, I'm out in the Netherlands.
$59.86. That's a... 5678 donation and I'm picking up the
fees. Keep on keeping on, he says. He's from Gitmo
Lowlands. Mark Dunford, $58.56. Sir Commodore Crummy, El Cajon, California,
$57.98. James Edmondson, South Plainfield, New Jersey, double nickels on
the dime, $55.10. Same for anonymous.
Ms. Neal from Elm City in North Carolina and Dean
Roker, also with double nickels on the dime. Andrew Young,
5272. Baroness Monica, Drayton Valley, Alberta, California, 51.11. And she
says, boy, the exchange rate on dollar-roos is atrocious. Sorry
about that, Baroness Monica. Thank you for the support. Viscount
Sir Economic Hitman, Tomball, Texas, $50.01 to stay out of
that 50 group. And here they are, Pamela Bradley, Tecumseh,
Oklahoma. I'm sure I did that wrong. Chris Cohen, Austin,
Texas. Jason Geil. In Holland, we say Geil. which is,
the Dutch people will be smiling. Lake Oswego, Oregon. Michael
Sikora, Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Noah McDonald, Traverse City, Michigan. Scott
Lavender, Montgomery, Texas. Patrick Bomer in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. And
he says, gewoon voor de beste podcast van de univers.
Yes, yes. Groetjes for jouw en voor John. Yes. And
our last $50 donor is Dame Rosie Posey. And she
is just saying that she's very glad to hear how
each episode John's voice is getting stronger. Yes. She wrote
a cute card. Thank you. She has really pretty handwriting.
And she also wants to put Paul Lincoln, Sir Mama's...
boy of the arc welders on the birthday list for
may 22nd and we will take care of all of
that thank you 50 and above we never uh mention
anyone under 50 for reasons of anonymity and that is
critical So we don't do that, but we do see
you and we thank you very much for all of
the support that you have given. I do have an
extra karma request I'll take care of. Sir Bob, and
we do break for nights, wants job and F cancer
karma for himself and for his family. Jobs, jobs, jobs,
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Eric Mackey, who we haven't heard from in a while
and he celebrates on the 18th tomorrow. Happy birthday, Eric.
Brennan Lawton, ha! on the 18th as well. This is
a family affair. And then as we just heard, Dame
Rosie Posey wishes her mama's boy of the Ark Welders
a very happy birthday. He celebrates on May 22nd. We
lift you all up and say happy birthday from everybody
here at the best podcast in the universe. And here
we go. Bring two new orders of the heart into
our family, and in fact, they will be knighted momentarily.
But we like to do this right up at the
top. Samuel Montgomery and Steve Slocum, both of you gentlemen,
will become Red Knights Order of the Heart momentarily. And
we thank you so much for your Insta Knight donations.
Let's bring these guys up on the podium. There is
my blade. We need to make them official. If you
can take it out of the scabbard there. Very nice.
That's a handsome one. I like that one. Samuel Montgomery.
as it is time for you to become official as
I am very proud to pronounce the Kate V as
Sir Samuel Montgomery and Sir Steve, both Knights of the
NO Agenda Round Table. And of course, we've got the
mutton and the mead right here for you. Woo-hoo! Head
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quite efficient and beautiful and as always you get a
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the Erection Connection, as we just heard earlier on the
show. This is where you can find people who listen
to the show, even in Ukraine. everywhere around the world.
We are truly worldwide. It's an amazing community that you
are a part of and you should solidify that relationship
because this connection will give you protection. the people who
meet at the meetups will be your first responders in
any emergency and sometimes people send in meter reports and
i'd love to play one from the resist we much
meet up in los banos this is sir robertson of
two sticks at the resist we much meet up honoring
armed forces day Sir Montauk here enjoying a delicious pizza
and excellent conversation. In the morning! All right. We have
a written meetup from Leiden where the folks met in
the Netherlands on the 8th of May. Adam and John,
10 producers met in Leiden. Thank you for your courage.
Zobim El-Dudirachi, Black Knight El-Dudirachi, Joop, Andy, Robby, Arno, Roland,
Sebastian, Anita, and Pedro. Shout out to Joop and Andy
for coming to their first No Agenda meetup, says Baron
Rob. Next meetup will be in Rotterdam on June 26
in Café Hagsbluff. Pending MeVie's approval on Noah Jenner meetup
stock. I'm sure she will approve it. We also have
a meetup taking place today. This is the big one
in Indianapolis, Indiana. The May the Road Rise to Meet
You meetup, that is underway as we speak at St.
Joseph's Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis. Dame Maria and
Sir Mark of the Greenwood hosting that, of course. Next
show today on Thursday, Charlotte's... Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, monthly meetup,
7 o'clock at Tavern, as always, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
For the rest of this month, in May, on the
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has wine, she has cheese, she has everything. That's on
the 22nd, the 23rd, Wilmington, Delaware, Los Angeles, California, Hickson,
Tennessee, Franklin, Tennessee, and the 24th, Keyport, New Jersey, Vancouver,
British Columbia on the 24th, Squim, Washington on the 25th
with Mimi attending, and Anchorage, Alaska on May 30th. No
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It's very simple to start one and always a party.
*music* you say John's tip of the day is coming
up shortly, and we also have some really good end-of-show
mixes. I'm excited. play those for you. But first, for
some reason, for a long time, we've been doing the
ISO selection at this part of the show, and we
don't even remember why, but it's always fun. And I
will start since that's how it usually runs. John never
wants to go first. You never want to go first.
You notice that? Of course I notice it. Okay, well
I'll go then. I love your perspec- You're absolutely right.
little long We are good to go, buddy. Maybe this
one. That was good. Okay. I think this one's the
best. It was quite impressive. I like that one. It's
okay. Uh-huh. What you got? Let's start with... the A
douchebag. God, I'm a douchebag. Is that from Family Guy?
Yeah. That was the vaping episode. I'm a douchebag. I
thought we should just keep that as a regular. High
contender. High contender. All right. EEEE Let's go with... Gee
willikers. Gee willikers. Gee willikers. What a great show. No.
Rejected. I reject that one.
out of hand. Why? You can do better. You can
do better. Top show. Wow, top that show, you chumps.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. We have a winner,
and we have John's tip of the day. Green Vibes
for you and me. Just the tip with JCB. Hence.
Sometimes. Can we get some time to start planting gardens?
Is it now? We're in April, May? Yeah. So everybody
should go out and get a stirrupo. We had those.
in Amsterdam in the red light district. Aren't they great?
Yeah, fantastic. What is this? No, I'm not talking about
it. It's also called a, there's another name for these
things. They're called. What's the name? I don't know. I'm
going to get it. I don't even know what a
stirrup hoe is. Look it up, a stirrup hoe is
like a hoe. Yeah. Only instead of being a flat
surface thing, it's got a loop and it allows you
to... Oh, put your foot in it and jam it
in. No, it's good for, it is the greatest weeding
tool you can imagine. Oh. It just basically pulls the
weeds out. It's also called some other kind of hoe,
which is funnier. I don't want to get the name,
so hang on. Well, we're at the edge of our
seats here. Yeah, these are available at... Pastime and all
the big hardware stores. Let me find it. here. Stirrup
ho. Tally-ho. Hula-ho. Stirrupo. Hold on. I'm holding on. I'm
just sitting here waiting, watching the meters go silent. I'm
sorry, but I... You're underprepared. I closed one of the
windows that has it. It's also called an action hoe.
An action hoe. Which is really more the Amsterdam... It's
a show title, is what that is. Action hoe. Action
hoe. Yeah. And Home Depot has them. The Husky makes
a good one. A 54-in-1 would handle action hoe with
grip. These are just terrific products for gardeners. I used
to have one years ago. I forgot all about it
until Jay and Brennan brought one to the house here.
And they're gardening. Yeah, and they got a big garden
in the backyard. Oh. And so they're using this thing
as she's all jacked up about the action hoe. Yeah,
well, there's a lot of punchlines there with the word
action hoe, but it's really technically a stirrup hoe. Everyone
should get one. They're about 25 bucks max. Go get
your action hoe, everybody. That's a two. Tip of the
Day you will only find at noagendafun.com, tipoftheday.net. ♪ For
me, just a tip with JCB ♪ Sometimes, Adam. Created
by Dana Burnetti. Aren't you glad you waited? Yeah, I
am. Aren't you glad? I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
Look it up. This show is good to the last
drop. How many people listen to the tip of the
day? Oh, I'll do an analysis. One day. I bet
you about half, maybe half. No, no, 20%. 20%? You
think we'd fall off that much? For tip of the
day, yeah. I think so. Most podcasts... fall off pretty
substantially. After a while. But there's always that group that
just hangs in there all the way. And they're the
ones. Those are the good guys. Yeah, of course. And
they learn about all the fun stuff that everybody else
misses. Your loss. End of show mixes from Just Baker
and MVP. Love those guys. They're prompting away. They're doing
good things now. I mean, it gets better every single
time. End of show. Let's see. After the show, we
have the Millennial Media Offensive coming up. with Hans von
Spankovsky. Oh yeah, that makes total sense. Sounds like those
guys. And we will return on Thursday. We hope you
join us. And I am coming to you from the
heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg,
Texas. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from
Refinery Row, I'm John C. Dvorak. And please remember us
at noagendadonations.com. Until Thursday, adios. Mofoza, HooeyHooey, and Saj. Hey.
Beijing lights the great heart glows red Trump grins why
she knows his head fantastic Thank you. But blacked out
while the spooks take notes. Not a smoke. voice in
this corporate arc. War powers dance, I ran on life
support, another chance to keep the forever machine in advance
while the cruise ship coughs up his deadly romance in
the CIA. This script writes us all. you trees in
the valley where the John's locking the doors, falling down
to his knees, while the typhus is scratching to get
in. The screens are all glowing, a ghost like blue,
in a house that feels like a cage. The silence
is heavy, the shadows are new, in this lonely, fevered
age. Oh! ♪ ♪ Statham walks through the Dutch lowlands,
looking for a shadow from a hollow past with a
hand to... ♪ Reaching for his hands ♪ ♪ No
comfort in the travel ♪ ♪ No peace in the
flight ♪ ♪ Just two hearts beating out of time
♪ ♪ One staring at the ceiling in the dead
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