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She's a Chinese spy. Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. It's
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Sunday, May 24th, 2026. This is your award-winning Get More
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Nation Media Assassination, episode 1871. This is no agenda. I'm
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casting my-- The live music capital of the world, in
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the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon
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Valley, well I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's the refinery row.
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We wish everybody a happy Memorial Day. I'm John C.
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Borak. I'm Buzzkill. *laughs* You know, by the time you...
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Smooth as silk. Smooth... Nailed it. By the time you
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get home, you'll be saying refinery row. I don't know
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where I am. You won't know anything. I don't know
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anything now. Here I am in the biodome in Nashville,
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Tennessee. What's a biodome? Better known as the Gaylord Opryland
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Hotel. Yeah. Why is it called a biodome? Because you're
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entirely enclosed in a dome. Oh, I've been to that
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place once. Yeah, you're right. You know what I'm talking
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about. Yeah. And so it could be raining, could be
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sunny. You don't know. It's a constant, like 70 degrees,
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72 degrees. And everywhere you go, you're just inside the
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biodome. It's big. It's troubling once you realize, I've been
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in this biodome for three days. It's a bit much.
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So, um. Yeah, since you asked, we are here for
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the K-Love... Music Awards. The big Gay Love of Music
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Awards! That's right! Gay Love is, they own pretty much
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every single contemporary Christian music radio station in the country.
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Although I don't know if that's going to benefit them
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long term, but they do have streams. And so every
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top name in the Nashville music business is here performing
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live. doing worship services. Performing live! Doing worship services. We
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had a great service this morning with Bethel Worship. No,
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I mean, it's music. Like, you get 2,000, 3,000 people.
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We're all worshiping. And the great pastor from, what's his
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name? His name is Levi Lusko from... He's from Montana,
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but originally from California. Did a great message. And so
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we're just getting our buckets filled here. What was his
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message? His message was what to do when you're spiraling.
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And it was good. It would have worked for... Were
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you spiraling? No, but I have. I mean, I have.
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I mean, we've all spiraled at some... point you've never
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spiraled I don't know what it means where you just
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you feel bad you're down you're depressed you're not doing
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well bad all the time John's in a constant spiral
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exactly exactly now before we get started I don't think
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this has ever happened to me on an airplane before.
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I've been recognized for, you know, all kinds of different
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things. You were called out at the beginning and they
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sang a song to you, Happy Birthday? No, they didn't.
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So I'm kind of, I'm like half asleep. I got
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the hearing aids in, so you couldn't tell that I
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was listening to anything. And I'm listening to Tucker Carlson
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go on and on and on about. the Jews and
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Israel. And so I'm kind of, you know, like drifting
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off and I feel a hand on my arm. And
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I hear, hold on a second. Let me turn off
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my phone here. ITM! And it was Audra, our flight
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attendant on our Delta flight to Nashville. And I don't
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think I've ever, ever had a flight attendant come up.
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to me and throwing in the morning at me. Nice.
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Yeah. And she's like, I've been listening for six years.
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I love, I love what you guys are doing. You've
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been so great. You've been so helpful. And then her,
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her colleague, Carla was like, man, I got to listen
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to your podcast. Cause Audra's like jumping up and down.
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She can't believe it. that she's met you guys. So
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it was really nice. You got an extra listener. That's
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what counts. And we got extra peanuts. Yeah. One at
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a time. Oh, and you got free. Oh, free. Probably
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get a guy who's anyway. Yeah. So I wanted to
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say. So you were talking about some some issues you
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have with the gear. Oh, man, I had a drive
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fail. um an SSD drive. Solid state? Yeah, solid state.
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Although it was like half failing and then it kind
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of came back up. But that screws up a lot
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of things when that happens. So then you got to
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plug in the other drive. You got to remap everything.
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I got the road gear. Although it's, I mean, it's
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Linux. Remember, it's Linux. It's amazing any of this stuff
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works. But here it is functioning. Knock on wood. Holy
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Spirit, take us through the whole day. We'll be good.
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So, yeah. And... It's good to be on the air
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with you. as it were. Well, the first thing I'd
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like to say is apparently. uh the vice president had
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to turn around and come right back to dc President
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Trump didn't go to his son's wedding in the Bahamas.
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Even though he was already married, but the wedding ceremony,
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because It sounds like we have a deal. We've got
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a deal. Yeah, another deal. And I saw you had
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clips, so I'm trusting that you've got clips about the
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deal. I got the deal analyzed. The deal, the so-called
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deal that's in Trump, I believe is in Trump's mind.
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Well, first of all, we kind of... expected a deal
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to be here around June 1st because we need to
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have this all cleared up by the big 250th celebration
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on July 4th. We can't have a war when we're
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doing the big celebration. So we knew it was going
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to happen, but you think the deal is not a
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deal? I don't think it's a deal yet. Okay. And
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they're kind of wishy-washy about it. But, you know, it
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might be getting close. But, you know, this is supposed
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to have taken place when he said this whole thing's
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going to go six weeks. I think we're at 11
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weeks now, something like that. Hold on, hold on, hold
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on. It was only six weeks of actual fighting. All
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the rest of us were dead. has just been ceasefire.
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Oh yeah, that's right. What am I thinking? So get
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it right, man. So let's play the, I have four
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clips and there's three of them are analysis clips and
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one of them is the basic BBC clip, which I
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thought would be the place to go. Uh, Iran, Iran,
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Trump BSD. Oh, I called it a BS deal. Oh,
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there you go. BBC. President Trump has said an agreement
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with Iran to end the war has largely been negotiated.
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He made the announcement on social media. Peter Bowes reports.
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Mr. Trump posting on his true social platform has said
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an agreement has been... Yeah, hold on a second. Stop
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it. The first guy said... President Trump, but this other
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guy comes in and he calls him Mr. Trump, which
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is a note of disrespect. Well, everyone's doing it now.
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It's President Trump. Yeah, they can't get that out of
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their mouth. Well, the first guy did. Well, for a
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second there. It's editorialized. I'm sure the script says Mr.
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Trump. Anyway, we continue. ...largely negotiated after what he described
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as a very good call with the leaders of several
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Gulf states... Very good call. ...and that it was now
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subject to finalization between the U.S. and Iran. He added
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that in addition to other elements of the agreement, the
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Strait of Hormuz... would be reopened. But he warned that
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if a deal could not be reached, no country would
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ever be hit as hard as they're about to be.
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Contradicting Donald Trump's statements, the Iranian news agency Fars, which
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is close to the Revolutionary Guard Corps, says the Strait
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of Hormuz would remain under Iranian control. Well, that's... This
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is the BBC. The BBC is going to run their
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line of talk. Of course, they've been funding the whole
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operation for the... From the Muslim Brotherhood and the Lloyds
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of London and the City of London. Of course they
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don't want any deal. They're just talking the talk. sure
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they don't want any deal. But here we go with
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the analysis. Clip one. We start with President Trump's claim
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on social media that the U.S. is close to reaching
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a peace deal with Iran after weeks in which their
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shaky ceasefire has hung in the balance. Just days ago,
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he was threatening to attack Iran again. In his post,
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Mr. Trump said the deal had been largely negotiated. was
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being finalized and would be announced shortly. He also said
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the Strait of Hormuz would soon be reopened. This comes
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after Pakistan's army chief went to Tehran to hold talks
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with Iranian officials. And after Mr. Trump then held a
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call with Arab allies in which Pakistan, as the key
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mediator, also took part. and he held a separate call
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with the Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.S. president said
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both calls had gone very well. Earlier, his Secretary of
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State Marco Rubio, who's visiting India, also struck an optimistic
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note when talking to journalists. There's been some progress done,
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some progress made, even as I... I speak to you
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now, there's some work being done. There is a chance
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that whether it's later today, tomorrow, in a couple days,
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we may have something to say. But this issue needs
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to be solved, as the president has said, one way
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or the other. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
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The straits need to be open without tolls. They need
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to turn over their enriched uranium. They need to turn
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over their highly enriched uranium. We need to address that.
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You catch that? Yeah, he corrected himself from enriched uranium
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to highly enriched uranium. Yeah, that means something. That's a
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deal point there. Hey, give us your highly enriched, whatever
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that is, and you can keep your enriched. It's the
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60% stuff. Yeah. They need to turn over their enriched
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uranium. They need to turn over their highly enriched uranium.
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We need to address that issue. We need to address
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the issue of enrichment. These are the president's points consistently.
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And his preference is always to deal with it in
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a diplomatic way. Our North America correspondent, Peter Bowes, gave
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us his assessment. how that works. Hey, sign the deal
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or I'll blow you to smithereens! Of whether this means
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an end to the war is in sight. Well, with
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the caveat that we've heard positive statements before from the
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president about a potential deal with Iran, this does look
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as if there is perhaps... some sort of breakthrough in
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the making although the mood music from iran is somewhat
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different All right, so far, zero analysis, just calling our
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president Mr. Trump. They've given nothing so far. Yeah, and
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that's what you're going to end up with. Yeah, a
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statement from Rubio. Because there's nothing to analyze, let's face
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it. Essentially, Trump is saying what he feels like saying.
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Yeah. And there's no evidence that anything's going on whatsoever.
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The blockade's still going on and he keeps, and he's
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saber rattling to an extreme. Who is blocking? As far
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as I'm concerned, we're blocking. We're blocking. Yeah, we're blocking.
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We're blocking. Yeah. Who's blocking? We're blocking. They're not blocking.
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We're blocking. We're blocking. So we're blocking all the ships,
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and they're shooting at any that sneak by. And I
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feel bad for the people that are shipping, you know,
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the sailors that are on these vessels. They can't eat.
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I mean, there's no food. No, they're getting them out.
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Yes, we're getting the worst reporting in the world. That
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couple of guys are sneaking out at night. No, we're
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still escorting ships. Yes, we have no reporting. Nowhere. Who's
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boots on the ground there? We need some more boots
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on the ground from our side. Okay, here we go.
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Part two. Now, When they say Iran is saying. Is
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there a mouth on the country that is opening up
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and going, here's what we're saying? Is it on Twitter?
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Is it on X? Is it the IRGC? Who is
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Iran at this point? Who is talking? MI6. Oh, yeah.
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Management. Nevertheless, we had this. quite long, a lengthy statement,
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true social statement from the president within the last hour.
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And this in part is what he has to say.
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He says an agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to
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finalization between the United States of America and the Islamic
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Republic of Iran and other countries. And he goes on.
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with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel, which likewise went
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very well. And then he says final aspects and details
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of the deal are currently being discussed and will be
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announced shortly. So I think significantly there we have no
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mention of nuclear weapons, which is... still at the heart
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of this issue as far as President Trump is concerned.
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You notice that Of course there's no mention of nuclear
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weapons, because they never had a nuclear weapon. All we're
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hearing about is the dust. The Dust. That's the enriched
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uranium. They don't have a nuclear weapon. They have enriched
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or highly enriched. uranium. So now the BBC, after just
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hearing that from Rubio... are saying, oh, we haven't heard
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anything about a nuclear weapon. He says that the Strait
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of Hormuz will be open, but as we're already hearing,
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that is being disputed by Iran. So perhaps just tentatively,
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very tentatively, we might be moving towards some sort of
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breakthrough, but this certainly isn't a deal to end the
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war right now. Okay. All right. Some sort of breakthrough,
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but it's not a deal. But we don't know anything.
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We're the BBC. There's a couple of things that are
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interesting in this. Is that Pakistan seems to be playing
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the real role here. yes i and and pakistan also
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has been a safe haven for much of the iranian
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uh air force It turns out that they opened their
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bases up to Iran during the initial bombing, saying if
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you're worried about your jets, getting blowed up because they're
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pretty... Park them here. Park them here, yeah. It's all
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good. And so they have a lot of Iran's gear
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in Pakistan. And so Pakistan has some leverage in that
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regard. Well, yeah. They're also the front men for China,
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which is... the country that really needs this. The sticking
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point here seems still to be the basic thesis of
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the Sunnis versus the Shia. and the pakistanis are not
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shia they're sunnis and so they're not they're not subscribing
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to this 12th Imam theory and uh end of the
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world thesis that the Iranians seem to be all jacked
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about. Well, not the Iranians, but some of them. It's
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not all of Iran. Yeah, the mullahs. Yeah, the mullahs.
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Whoever's still alive. We don't know anything. We don't know
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who's running the place. We don't. And you know what?
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The Iranians I've spoken to? I don't think anybody's running
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the place right now. No, it's some dude with an
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ex-account. Look at me. Look at me. Hey, watch me
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post this. See what the BBC says next. Well, much
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of the impetus for this latest attempt to strike a
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deal seems to have come from the Pakistani army chief's
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visit to Tehran and his... talks there with Iranian officials
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to try to bridge the huge gaps between the two
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sides. So what did they discuss? Here's Kazran Aji from
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BBC Persian. The newly appointed spokesman for Iran's negotiating team
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says the discussions centered on a memorandum of understanding. Okay,
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so this annoys me. The newly appointed spokesman. Who is
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he? This is BBC Persia. Persian, I think she said.
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Shouldn't they be telling us who's talking now? Yep. This
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is the BBC, which is the great journalist at the
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BBC. They should be telling us, giving us... Some details.
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Yes. Anything. At least when we're talking to the press,
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you know it's our vice president, our new press secretary.
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Come on. We're doing better. The newly appointed spokesman for
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Iran's negotiating team says the discussions centered on a memorandum
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of understanding, something that will extend the ceasefire. and paved
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the way for a 30- to 60-day period of detailed
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negotiations between Iran and the United States. Ismail Barahi has
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been telling Iran's state television that the main issues under
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discussion are ending the war, the lifting of the U.S.
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blockade of Iranian ports, and the release of Iran's frozen
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assets in banks abroad. Hold on a second. So this
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30 to 60 days... This hasn't come out of the
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mouths of U.S. spokesholes as far as I'm concerned. I
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don't know where this came from, but this is kind
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of the narrative I'm hearing every well. According to what
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everyone's been hearing, it's 30 to 60 days. It'll be
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a ceasefire, not really. They're going to hammer it out.
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Yeah, but who is the progenitor of that? Where did
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that come from other than BBC Persian? They did mention
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somebody's name in there very casually. It was impossible to
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tell. I missed it then, hold on. And the United
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States. Ismail Barre has been telling Iran's... Ismail Barre? Who's
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that guy? It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I couldn't
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understand him. Troll room help. Who is Ismail Barre? United
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States. Ismail Baghaei has been telling Iran's state television that
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the main issues under discussion are ending the war, the
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lifting of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, and the
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release of Iran's frozen assets in banks abroad. But significantly,
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he does not mention anything about Iran's nuclear program or
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Iran ending its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. something
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that is an urgent priority for the American side. Hardliners
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in Tehran are opposed to relinquishing control of the Strait
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of Hormuz in return for lifting of the U.S. blockade
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of Iranian ports. a trade-off which could see the opening
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of this vital international waterway. Yeah, so I'm looking at
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the troll room for some help, and all I see
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is trolls arguing about Liz Cheney. Are you guys even
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listening? What's Liz Cheney? I don't know. Is Liz Cheney
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in the news? They're not even listening to the show.
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They're just in there arguing with each other. This G?
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One-upping each other. No, no, it's all about me. terms
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election florida we're gonna win we're gonna lose it's no
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good everyone uniparty Simmer down, Donna Summer. Paul Couture. He's
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very active these days. Paul Couture? Yes, Sir Paul Couture.
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He showed up in the troll room a couple, like
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two weeks ago, and he started, he's trolling hard, but
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not listening to the show, apparently. Anyway. So I do
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have a couple of clips that these are from just
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kind of just before this announcement, which really happened over
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the last, like, 36 hours. Uh, here's Rubio. This is
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a global radio, Canada. As NATO allies gathered in Sweden,
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the U.S. made it clear it's working on multiple paths
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to a deal with Iran, negotiation and a plan for
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navigation of the Strait of Hormuz. There's been some progress.
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I wouldn't exaggerate it. I wouldn't diminish it. The U.S.
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claims the two sides are getting closer to a deal
20:19
to start formal negotiations. Iran rejects that, characterizing the differences
20:24
as deep and significant, though Iranian officials did meet with
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key intermediaries from Pakistan to relay their positions. You see
20:32
what we've done to Iran? Iran is dying to make
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a deal. We'll see what happens. But the U.S. Secretary
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of State said he told NATO allies they need... backup
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plan if talks fail? Yeah. Plan B is what if
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Iran refuses to open the straits? What if Iran decides
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we refuse to open the straits, we're going to own
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the straits, and we're going to charge tolls for it?
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See, this is the part that bugs me. So you
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even have the BBC saying that the US controls the
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straits, that we are controlling the waterway, that we're making...
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making sure no one goes to the Iranian ports. And
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then you've got future President Lubio saying, well, they've got
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to open the streets. There's not a line of fast
21:11
boats anywhere. This is... Theater of the Highest Level. We
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don't know that. Of course we know that. There's no
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line of fast boats saying stop. Of course not. There's
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nothing going on in that regard. This is only about,
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uh... And what happened to the mines? What happened to
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all those? That fell off the radar. No one's talking
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about the mines. for a week now. Because there's no
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mines! Okay, at that point, something has to be done
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about it. NATO's Secretary General would not openly talk about...
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So you think the whole thing's a hoax? No, it's
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a financial war. I've said this from the beginning. It's
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if Lloyd's of London won't insure. Nobody, for whatever reason,
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no one wants... to use the American reinsurers through DFC
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and Chubb that were all set up, the International Development
22:09
Finance Corporation. For whatever reason, nobody wants to use those.
22:13
So the shipping company's like, oh, it's 100x to insure
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your ship. Well, we can't sail. That's what this is
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about. Only the couple of brave ones who are like,
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you know, oh, we're really here for China. Dead at
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night by turning off their transponders and heading through at
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midnight. Yeah, the transponders, that's all bull crap. The transponders
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is meaningless at this point. Everyone's spoofing. Nobody knows where
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anybody really is. Open the straits. We're going to own
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the straits and we're going to charge. NATO's Secretary General
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would not openly talk about how the alliance might help.
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In recent weeks, both the United Kingdom and France have
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sent aircraft carriers to the region. It is important that
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countries are coming together. Coming together. And have plans to
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ensure that the strait can be open for transit. It
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is open, man. The longer the stalemate drags on, the
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more this global crisis grows. More than 20,000 sailors are
23:18
still trapped on vessels in the Persian Gulf, unable to
23:21
leave their ships for months. and quickly running out of
23:24
food. They need a collective intervention because they are key
23:30
for our economies for both for the supply chains but
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also they are civilians. Like the rest of the world
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they can only wait for the two sides to make
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a deal. Trapped by a conflict that has no end
23:43
in sight. The way I see it, we are blocking
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the ports. of the Iranian ports. And that's where everyone
23:50
needs to go. Yeah, they got to get their stuff
23:53
from UAE and from Saudi Arabia, but they're already pumping
23:56
stuff over the pipelines. Like, yeah, we're getting it out
23:59
this other way. But the Iranian oil is really the
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prize here. And so they want tolls and we're saying
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no tolls. That's what I keep hearing. Toll. We want
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a toll. And the toll is not to get through
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the whole Strait. The toll is only to go into
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the Iranian ports. And the U.S. is saying, no, you
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can't do that because then you have too much control.
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Here's Rubio. Right now we're negotiating and we'll- That's Trump
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actually, but Rubio's coming. We'll see, but either we're going
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to get it one way or the other. They're not
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going to have a nuclear weapon. You will have a
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nuclear war in the Middle East and that war will
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come here. That war will go to Europe. We cannot
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let that happen and it won't happen. It's not going
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to happen. That's more important than anything else. We can't
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think, I can think of nothing that's more important than
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the fact that we cannot let Iran have a nuclear
24:49
weapon and we won't. CENTCOM still enforcing its blockade of
24:53
the Strait of Hormuz saying as of May 21st. CENTCOM
24:56
still blocking. CENTCOM. Everyone's claiming they're blocking. And we won't.
25:02
CENTCOM still enforcing its. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz,
25:05
saying as of May 21, CENTCOM forces have redirected 94
25:09
commercial vessels and disabled four while enforcing the blockade to
25:13
prevent the flow of commerce into and out of Iranian
25:16
ports. Secretary Rubio on this topic. Here he is just
25:20
moments ago. On the issue of Iran, the news. morning.
25:23
I know it's early on the, it's still in the
25:26
United States, a little later in the region, in the
25:28
Middle East, but we await word on those conversations that
25:32
are ongoing. There's been some slight progress. I don't want
25:34
to exaggerate it, but there's been a little bit of
25:36
movement and that's good. The fundamentals remain the same. Iran
25:39
can never have a nuclear weapon. And then added to
25:41
this, of course, is the issue of the Straits. Iran
25:43
is trying to... create a tolling system. Yeah, there it
25:45
is. The tolling system. And there's a little twist now
25:49
to the... The question you had on Thursday about crypt,
25:54
crypto. And how the Treasury and... General Besant. were able
26:02
to capture the crypto because that is all stable coin.
26:07
So now there's a little shift and this is part
26:10
of the tolling system that is a problem for anybody
26:14
but a problem for the US. Crypto experts claim that
26:17
foreign adversaries like Iran are using digital assets to evade
26:21
sanctions and funnel money to bad actors. Darren Botello joining
26:24
us now. Okay, Darren, how do we stop this? Laugh
26:27
till. Hi, good morning, Stuart. The good news is the
26:30
Trump administration is already stopping it. In fact, we confirmed
26:33
that the U.S. Treasury has been able to trace some
26:35
of Iran's money, and just last month they froze more
26:38
than $300 million. This was in regime crypto, Stuart. Iran
26:43
is... reportedly launching a new digital insurance platform for cargo
26:46
ships. Digital insurance programs. Everyone's in the insurance game now.
26:51
This is in the Strait of Hormuz. And here's the
26:53
kicker. They're settling payments entirely in Bitcoin. Basically, this is
26:58
how it works. The companies pay the insurance companies in
27:01
Bitcoin and they get. through the strait safely. That's the
27:05
trade-off. It's a direct move to dodge our banks and
27:08
scoop up a fresh source of cash. And this covers
27:11
a much larger shadow economy. New estimates from a threat
27:15
detection data firm show Tehran is sitting on a crypto
27:19
pile worth a staggering $7.7 billion. That war chest. has
27:24
been expanding ever since heavy sanctions cracked down. This was
27:28
during the first Trump administration, by the way. And here's
27:30
a look at the price of crude right now. The
27:33
hot board's up. Prices are trading near recent highs as
27:36
regional shipping tensions, they're flaring. But the regime is counting
27:40
on crypto to keep its military funded. Unfortunately, they keep
27:44
using words like crypto. Because, you know, crypto could be
27:48
anything. Ethereum could be... Well, he specifically said Bitcoin. Yes,
27:52
I know. That's what... Finally, someone said Bitcoin. But, you
27:55
know, it could be Trump's meme coin, for all I
27:58
know, when they say crypto. But this is a problem
28:00
because they cannot, cannot, cannot. cannot block Bitcoin from being
28:06
used, but they have a plan. The Treasury Department is
28:08
tracking the digital breadcrumbs and they're telling Fox, here's a
28:12
statement over here. Through economic fury, Treasury has taken actions
28:16
that have led to the freezing of nearly half a
28:19
billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency linked to the Iranian regime.
28:23
severing financial lifelines that Iran's regime and military depend on.
28:28
According to crypto experts, Tehran's tech is actually their weak
28:31
spot here. We found over and over again that they're
28:35
actually a much better asset for U.S. law enforcement and
28:39
other agencies to track because you leave a lot of
28:41
breadcrumbs. So I said the administration is taking action, but
28:44
how do we actually stop this? Industry insiders say Washington
28:48
has a massive trump card here by threatening to cut
28:51
off crypto exchanges from the American banking system. Regulators could
28:55
actually then flush out these foreign adversaries. Oh, please. That's
29:02
going to be a problem. Yeah, grabbing at the crypto
29:05
exchanges. Okay. When did this report come out? Because this
29:09
is old, because price of oil dropped since this thing.
29:12
Yeah, it took place. It's not that old. It's down
29:15
to 97. Come on. It was 102 when they had
29:20
this. But it's good. Look. The way I see it,
29:23
I don't know exactly what the game is that's being
29:26
played here. For sure, the oil guys are loving this
29:29
because with any report, like, oh, we'll just make it
29:32
more expensive. And we'll go up and we'll go down.
29:35
And your gas station's like, oh, yeah, let's do $5.
29:39
Oh, let's do $5.50. They can do whatever they want.
29:42
But when the narrative has been cemented, And they stopped
29:46
posting stuff on X because I think there's just one
29:49
dude whose name we couldn't catch. then it's just, it's
29:52
gonna be over. And then it's going to go and
29:55
everything's going to come dropping down. I think it's going
29:57
to come down fast and hard. That's gotta be, I'm
30:01
just looking at, I have no. Nothing to base this
30:03
on other than what I think Trump is doing in
30:07
his head. by July 4th. and the futures will be
30:11
$60 barrel of oil. Well, they're going to have a
30:17
hard time getting it down to 60, but it's possible.
30:20
The futures. The futures. Well, if futures are no futures,
30:24
it's still hard to get down that far. He'll be
30:27
buying that stuff up like there's no tomorrow. And it
30:31
also screws up our shale business. Yeah, but those guys,
30:35
they were already struggling. Remember, it was around $60 before
30:41
all this kicked off. Yeah, well. Before, like, Venezuela days,
30:45
which is still flowing, I presume. I just got to
30:48
presume. Oh, yeah. Venezuelan oil is doing, you don't hear
30:51
about it. Why would you? Everyone's all obsessed. So the,
30:56
um... I thought this autopsy... of the Democrat Party. That
31:05
was really interesting. Did you catch any of this? Yeah,
31:09
I caught the whole thing. I didn't think it was
31:10
interesting in the least. I thought it was. Why didn't
31:13
you think it was interesting? There wasn't anything new in
31:16
there. No, nothing new for us, but for the Democrats,
31:20
it feels like the Democrats are just all of a
31:22
sudden. sudden falling apart before the midterms and they have
31:25
no leader and they're all mad at each other. I
31:28
thought that was interesting. And so I brought two clips.
31:31
Now to the deepening divisions within the Democratic Party and
31:34
the long-awaited release of the so-called 2024 election autopsy. The
31:39
report was commissioned by Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin,
31:43
its purpose to help the party understand why former Vice
31:45
President Kamala Harris lost to President Donald Trump. Martin got
31:49
an independent consultant to write it, but then put off
31:52
its release saying it was badly done. After pressure from
31:55
other Democrats, today the DNC chair published the 192-page draft
32:00
that he says is still littered with typos and inaccuracies.
32:03
The paper argues that Harris wrote off rural voters and
32:06
failed to attack President Trump with the sufficient negative firepower.
32:11
The DNC adding disclaimers that the autopsy doesn't reflect the
32:13
committee's views. Our political pros are here to discuss. Ashley
32:17
Etienne is a former communications director to VP Harris and
32:20
Corbyn Trent is a former communications director to VP Harris.
32:21
former aide to AOC and Bernie Sanders. I thank you
32:24
both for being here. Ashley, you were one of the
32:26
people pushing for this report's release, and just hours ago
32:29
you told our good friend Kristen Welker that Ken Martin
32:32
should step down. Explain why. Well, I think this is
32:35
a complete failure of leadership. Ken Martin really has two
32:38
jobs, really, is to run, to raise money, and to
32:41
win elections. He chose to, instead of releasing a forward-looking
32:45
document that lays out a vision on how to rebuild
32:48
this party, how to win elections going forward from the
32:51
state level to the national level, instead what he released
32:54
is a pre-decisional document with critiques in it to cover
32:58
his hide. That's really what's happening here. Pre-decisional. I don't
33:02
know. What does it mean? It doesn't mean jack. She's
33:04
just saying stuff. I think we should use it ourselves.
33:07
It's pre-decisional for you to say that. It's pre-decisional for
33:11
you to say I'm pre-decisional. When elections going forward from
33:14
the state level to the national level, instead what he
33:17
released is a pre-decisional document with critiques in it to
33:20
cover his. hide. That's really what's at play here. And
33:24
fortunately, we've got a situation with democracy on the line.
33:29
We've got the party is having struggles. Fundraising is polling
33:34
at 28%. And Ken Martin made this entire autopsy debate
33:39
about himself rather than about the... party, about how to
33:42
rebuild the party, and how to bring back what we're
33:45
seeing, a bleeding support among the party's base vote voters.
33:49
Feels to me like a coup is underway. Yeah, they're
33:52
trying to get rid of this Martin guy. It's pretty
33:54
obvious. Yeah, well, who's... He was a dud when they
33:56
put him in. We noticed this when they were doing
33:59
it. Remember they did the... Oh, you have to have
34:01
so many lesbians voting and then you have to have
34:04
a gender fluid person in there. And then they didn't
34:08
pick one. They picked a white guy. Oh, that's right.
34:12
We needed a BIPOC. Yeah, I forgot about that. I
34:15
forgot about that. Yes. And then they pick some... Heteronormative
34:21
guy. Who needs that? He's out. Whatever happened to the
34:25
kid from Florida? Wasn't he part of the leadership? He
34:28
was the second in command, and they ousted him. Oh,
34:31
he already got kicked out? Yeah, because there was too
34:34
many white guys. My goodness. So sad. Let me see.
34:40
He's still floating around online on some social networks, bitching.
34:46
Let me see if this is any good. Let me
34:48
see. Allies of former President Joe Biden failed to give
34:52
Kamala Harris needed support before her 107-day sprint to Election
34:56
Day in 2020. No, that's no good. That's just the
34:59
same. And by the way, I think. Tom Yamas, who
35:02
I like. I know you do. If you listen to
35:05
him, the way his voice is, he's got a kind
35:08
of a funny lilt. He sounds like he's about one,
35:12
he's like one little accent away from sounding like a
35:15
surfer dude. I'll need to pay attention to it now.
35:20
He just sounds like he's gonna drop right into it.
35:25
Hey, man. Hey, cowabunga. *laughs* Hey, man. What surfer says
35:32
cowabunga? That's what they used to say. No, they've never.
35:35
That was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There was never
35:39
any. for a dude who said cowabunga. Yeah, you check
35:42
it out. Meanwhile, our top Democrat socialist of America is
35:48
Mayor Mondami. Mondami. Mom. Mom. Is it Mondami or Mom-dami?
35:56
I can't remember. I'm going to listen to you struggle.
35:58
Yeah. Well, okay, thanks. Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie. Uh, he's
36:02
come up with a brilliant new plan. He is now
36:05
the social media mayor. Merimumdani, known as the social media
36:09
mayor. And now he is launching a live stream series
36:12
on Twitch, answering questions from New Yorkers. This is Gavin
36:15
Newsom's strategy. This is not a good idea. What do
36:18
you mean? This is... what Trump did. Trump became the
36:21
social media president. Yeah, but Trump didn't start, wasn't doing
36:26
podcasting, he wasn't doing videos. You know, he was basically
36:31
just tweeting a lot of stuff at three in the
36:33
morning, so what? Yeah. Well, listen to this. Because Mamdani
36:37
has some good ideas. Well, he did get in through
36:42
social media doing a lot of videos because I guess
36:44
his wife was a producer or something. Here we go.
36:47
With the people, and it will be shared on several
36:50
social media platforms. Also be posting these conversations wherever you
36:54
listen to podcasts. Whoa! using the broadcast sentence of the
36:58
future. The most powerful sentence in broadcasting wherever you get
37:03
your podcasts. Yeah, was that what he said? That's exactly,
37:07
no, he said, you'll be listening to this wherever you
37:10
get your podcast. That's what he said. Listen to it
37:12
again. It's called Talk With The People, and it will
37:15
be shared on several social media platforms. Also be posting
37:19
these. conversations wherever you listen to podcasts. Oh, you're right.
37:22
You listen to podcasts. It never says get. Yeah, good
37:24
point. On your commute, washing dishes, pretending to answer emails.
37:28
Yeah, that's like all the social democrats. They just don't
37:31
really work. They pretend to be answering emails, so that
37:34
makes sense. Because government should be accessible. You should hear
37:37
directly from your city. about what we're doing and why
37:41
we're doing it. Donnie made this announcement with a photo.
37:44
Was she supposed to do that at press conferences? No,
37:47
man, he's hip. On social media, here it is, a
37:50
picture of himself next to FDR, who did a series
37:54
of fireside chats. This is CBS New York, who are
37:57
all in. Just listen to how they're. fawning over him
38:00
in this. Over the radio. So political reporter Marsha Kramer
38:03
joins me now to talk a little bit more about
38:05
this strategy. Marsha, what's your take on the mayor's live
38:08
stream? Well, Christine, I would say it was an R-rated
38:11
performance. But unlike the movies where an R means restricted,
38:15
here it stands for relatable. The mayor was relaxed. chatty,
38:19
didn't wear a tie, and did the live stream was
38:21
an expert named Moose, who read questions from people who
38:24
logged into Twitch. Now, Moose instructed the mayor in live
38:28
stream manners. He told him to say, chat, what's up?
38:31
And to say something good is called bussin'. Oh my
38:34
gosh, I think I need a bussin'. Bussin'. Bussin'. What?
38:38
bussin What's a blessing? Well, that's what Mondami said. Bussin'.
38:43
That's when something... It's bussin', man. That's what the kids
38:46
say. You got kids around, you bussin'. You ever heard
38:48
the kids say bussin'? Your kids are too old. They're
38:51
saying bussin'. And you're supposed to say, what's up, chat?
38:54
No, you're supposed to say, what up, trolls? People who
38:57
logged into Twitch. Now, Moose instructed the mayor in live
39:00
stream manners. He told them to say... Wait, they logged
39:02
into Twitch? Twitch. What, Leo's show? Twitch. Or Twitch. Chat,
39:07
what's up? Chat, what's up? And say something good is
39:10
called fussing. Oh my gosh, I think I need a
39:13
manual to do this. You need a manual. I need
39:18
a manual. I need to read up on this and
39:20
get with this language, but talk to me about the
39:24
strategy of going on Twitch. Look, this is a mayor
39:27
who has used social media in ways that other politicians
39:30
are green with envy about. It's a way to circumvent
39:32
reporters who tend to ask, well, let's just say, pointed
39:35
questions. This is, okay, taking it. We always said the
39:39
guy was doing a Trump. Like, promise everything. I wrote
39:43
a whole column, and if you go to dvorak.substack.com, I
39:46
wrote a entire column about it. Yes, the Oasis is
39:49
filled up with it. And to listen to the concerns
39:54
of the people. So yes, the mayor did explain his
39:57
budget and his desire to see. free buzzing not bussin
39:59
and he was also asked if he played minecraft no
40:03
talked about the nixon captain clutch and revealed his favorite
40:08
place for tacos it was a very man of the
40:10
people performance what was his favorite place for tacos we
40:13
didn't hear they didn't tell us these guys are no
40:16
good they're fiorillo laguardia who famously read comic strips to
40:20
people on the radio during a newspaper strike. So social
40:24
media is his form of radio. Indeed, it was very
40:28
relatable. Did, uh, did LaGuardia do that? Yeah, LaGuardia was
40:34
a social media guy when they used the, FDR did
40:38
too. They used the... Fireside Chat was an example. Yeah.
40:41
But yeah, LaGuardia would go on and he'd have a
40:45
radio show and he read comics and discussed the newspaper
40:48
and he did all this stuff. It was very, very
40:50
down to earth. People loved the show. That's interesting. It's
40:55
like a podcaster. Yeah, OG podcast. I need to look
40:57
that up. I think that's all Mamdani is doing, which
41:00
is, you know, he's taking it from the best, you
41:03
know, steal from the best. Yeah, that's good. That's good.
41:06
So we were talking about Massey. Oh man, probably the
41:09
most frequently emailed thing. No, two. Paxton and Massey have
41:13
been just filling up my email inbox. Yeah, I love
41:17
the Paxton stuff. Yeah, but apparently your people in Fredericksburg
41:21
are idiots. Well, there's a couple of... couple of issues.
41:28
One, The most important one for the people in Fredericksburg.
41:32
And all politics is local, I've heard someone say many
41:35
times. Uh, it was Paxton. whose office wrote up the
41:41
big press release excoriating our doctor, who is still, in
41:45
my opinion, in jail unjustly. Oh, yeah, the doctor who
41:49
got, yeah, that guy. We know about him. He was
41:55
a good guy who just got over his head. Well,
41:59
he got rousted into a scam. Yeah, he got rousted
42:02
into a scam. That's what I meant, in over his
42:04
head. Yeah, and Paxson wrote this whole, well, we got
42:07
him. This is the guy, the linchpin. Okay, that makes
42:12
sense. No wonder. I wouldn't like the guy either if
42:14
he pulled that stunt. Exactly. Exactly. So I'm on your
42:18
side. now. Thank you. There's a couple other things about
42:21
Paxton, but you didn't ask me after the show, so
42:23
I couldn't tell you. But I'll tell you if you
42:25
remember to ask me. Oh, you know, I forgot to
42:27
ask. You forgot to ask. I know. I put a
42:30
note down, too. Um... Okay, I'll ask today. Victor David
42:36
Hanson. Victor Davis Hanson. Victor Davis. Dave, Dave, Dave. VDH.
42:41
VDH. VDH had a great bit about Massey. And he
42:46
addresses everything. And you just can't argue with VDH. I
42:50
mean, he's. No, he's the best. And he does it
42:52
so calmly. Yeah, Tommy Smothers. Scott Jennings, whom I really
42:57
respect, he's a really great commentator. takes on people at
43:00
CNN. He summed it up. I can add something to
43:03
it, but he did a wonderful job. He pointed out
43:06
a couple of things that... The district that Massey represented
43:11
in Kentucky is probably the reddest district in the United
43:14
States. So those people wanted a strong, strong conservative. They
43:19
didn't object as long as he was libertarian, if he
43:22
was going to be a libertarian strong conservative. And by
43:25
that, I mean he came to prominence during the COVID
43:28
when he said there was overreach. They even gave him
43:32
some slack when he was opposing the big spending by
43:36
both parties. But what they couldn't countenance was this. that
43:43
When you can have the luxury of a Susan Collins
43:47
in the Senate or Rand Paul that don't vote 95%,
43:51
you know, they're mavericks. And sometimes they were Lisa Murkowski.
43:58
That's a... when you have five seats in the Senate
44:04
margin. You can have three defections. Okay. But when you're
44:08
close in the House, every little seat, and they only
44:11
got two seat margin, you can't afford that. And so
44:16
when he started, after he became a... folk hero on
44:19
the right by On the right, he decided that he
44:23
was going to become famous on the Epstein files. And
44:27
the problem with that was he didn't say a word
44:29
really when Biden was president. And the majority, the vast
44:32
majority of people who appear, whether it's Larry Summers or...
44:37
Reid Hoffman or all these These people, they're on the
44:39
left. So it didn't condemn Donald Trump. It didn't condemn
44:43
a bunch of conservatives. And that's what he was trying
44:45
to partner with AOC and others and saying, oh, there's
44:49
going to be Republicans. And it was a farce. All
44:52
right. So he's going to give his voting record in
44:54
a moment, and then he's going to address the Israel
44:56
issue. um But now it kind of makes sense to
45:00
me now because Massey was more what you'd call a
45:03
classic libertarian. Which I think is what Ron Paul always
45:07
was, what Rand Paul is. Do you think that they're
45:10
true Republicans or are they more, they just feel like
45:13
libertarians. And that's why a lot of people who listen
45:17
to us and listen to other podcasts, they like. that
45:19
they like the yeah man he's he's in the middle
45:22
He's not going with those guys. Well, the... I'm not
45:28
a big fan of libertarianism even though I called myself
45:31
one for a few years. It's okay, you slipped, it's
45:34
okay. It's kind of a stupid moniker because it doesn't
45:38
really mean anything specific. John at Dvorak.org. Nah, I don't
45:42
care. I know. But they always email me when you
45:45
say these things. And they should. They should email you
45:48
because they know that you can get to me. You're
45:51
spiraling. So... So Maybe. I mean, it's... It seems to
46:00
me that it's just a cop-out for... You know, yeah,
46:04
you know, it's the old, well, I'm a, I'm conservative
46:08
when it comes to, uh, Yeah, fiscal, fiscal conservative. Fiscal
46:11
conservative, I'm a social liberal. Yeah, yeah. Kind of, I'm
46:15
a combination, I think drugs should be legalized and... Maybe
46:19
it shouldn't be. Maybe it shouldn't be. I don't care.
46:22
Everyone should do their own thing. Do their own thing.
46:25
I think that's the basis. Back in the 60s. Do
46:28
your own thing, man. Tune in. Drop out. Turn on
46:34
tune in drop out that kind of that that's where
46:38
I think it all stems from and is corny. It's
46:40
corny. Just being independent, that's the way to go, or
46:44
non-affiliated in my case. Unaffiliated. We're both unaffiliated. Unaffiliated is
46:49
the way to go. Here we go. So that blew
46:50
up on him, and he kept trying to get back
46:54
onto the mainstream and get attention, and Marjorie Taylor Greene,
46:57
and Lauren Bobbitt, and all that. Tucker, all those people
47:00
loved him. That didn't work. And then so he voted.
47:04
The big defections came when he voted against the big,
47:08
beautiful bill. He voted against the closing the borders and
47:11
he voted against the Save Act, a voter ID. And
47:14
this was the big one, the Save Act. And that's
47:17
what Cornyn. was also voting against which makes no sense
47:22
i mean the the save act is the most sensible
47:25
thing in the world but okay and he voted against
47:29
this save act a voter id and once he did
47:32
that he crossed the rubicon the left made him into
47:35
a brave maverick but he was always Um... An ambiguous,
47:42
problematic person. He didn't have a lot of principles. He
47:46
had convenient principles because, as you pointed out, to save
47:50
his skin, he put out a false ad that years
47:52
ago Trump had endorsed him when he won 80% against
47:55
no opposition, essentially. So he re-ran that to full. people
47:59
and think that Trump had flipped. Number two. He said
48:04
in his defeat that he couldn't find his opponent because
48:08
he's in Tel Aviv. Does anybody really believe he lost
48:12
because of the Jews? Yes. Yes. Entire villages of people
48:17
believe this. Yeah, I agree with that. I agree with
48:20
you. Yeah, they do. In fact, the notes that I
48:22
got mostly was that the Jew money, what's her name?
48:27
Miriam Adelson. Miriam, Miriam, that evil Miriam. She's the one
48:32
who, she's just pumped all this money and that's why
48:35
he lost. No, there's been, you know, people who say
48:38
it was a money issue. Keep ignoring the fact that
48:40
Trump always had less money than the Democrats and beat
48:44
them every time. How about how about Musk spending 100
48:47
million in Wisconsin? Yeah, and then Musk spent a ton
48:52
of money in Wisconsin to defeat a couple of people,
48:54
and they got nowhere. Yeah, but you money. So the
48:58
money is. Yes, money is a factor when all things
49:01
are even, but when you have people that are running
49:05
on the basis of various kinds of philosophies or screwiness
49:10
that took place with this Massey thing, no, it's not
49:13
a factor. I mean, it's a factor, but it's a
49:15
minor factor. It wasn't because of the money that he
49:18
lost. Although people will argue with me because I had
49:21
this, my thesis is because of the fake scandal. But,
49:25
you know, I'm not so sure about that. I'm sticking
49:28
with my scandal theory. But like our mayor in Fredericksburg
49:31
had a lot less money than his co-contestant. And... Then
49:38
she got a lot of media. She was in, you
49:41
know, the Hill and Vine with her family, full picture
49:45
spread and everything. It wasn't money. It wasn't money that
49:48
got Randy Briley elected. You know, it's policy. It's, you
49:54
know, our church probably. His opponent because he's in Tel
49:58
Aviv. Does anybody really believe he lost because of the
50:02
Jews? He opposed the war and he always votes against
50:07
Israel, but that's not why he lost. He lost because
50:11
he deliberately, on key votes that had nothing to do
50:14
with Israel, turned on Donald Trump from a red district.
50:18
It would be the analogous of... say Nancy Pelosi's district.
50:24
It's the bluest in the U.S., San Francisco. And then
50:30
she started to vote with Republicans. That would be the
50:34
end of her. That, to me, sounds a lot more
50:36
plausible. for Kentucky. Well, somebody else pointed out that he
50:41
wasn't doing anything for his district either. He was doing
50:45
national issues. He was making a big fussy. He did
50:48
nothing for the locals. Which is the biggest problem we
50:51
have in politics in America in general. Everyone's always focused
50:55
on the big national stuff. Look at your own... Look
50:58
at your own town. Fixed stuff there. Here's a clip
51:02
about Cornyn since we brought him up. The only way
51:05
to pass the Save America Act is to nuke the
51:08
filibuster because you're never going to get 60 votes because
51:10
the Democrats cannot vote yes for this, even though they
51:14
know it's common sense. But they will never win an
51:17
election again if the Save America Act. So you're not
51:19
going to get any Democrats to vote for it. And
51:21
then look, the Democrats that are refusing, or the Republicans
51:24
refusing to pass this, are the ones that are on
51:27
their way out. Look at Senator McConnell, Senator Cassidy, Senator
51:30
Tillis. And now, you know what this is amazing about?
51:33
What Cornyn is showing is true colors. This is what
51:35
we were talking about for the last six weeks on
51:37
this show, as to why... Cornyn could not have another
51:40
six years is because it is dangerous to have these
51:42
senators that we know hate the Trump agenda, hate MAGA,
51:46
to be in the Senate without having to, knowing they're
51:49
not going to run for re-election again because Cornyn, there
51:51
was no way he was going to run for another
51:52
term after this. He is too old. So right now
51:54
he is proving to us exactly what he told, we
51:57
were warning you guys about. We need new blood and
52:00
people that actually support Trump's agenda. And because these guys
52:03
on their way out, they love to love to just
52:06
obstruct what this country wants and what President Trump wants.
52:09
That's interesting. I hadn't actually thought about that. just because
52:12
they've been primaried. doesn't mean that they don't have a
52:16
vote before the midterms. So I'm not quite sure what
52:22
the strategy is there. But they were going to do
52:25
that vote anyway. I mean, these guys, I have no
52:27
idea why anyone thinks like these guys. And the Democrats,
52:32
this thinking that, oh, if we... If we vote for
52:37
this and get there. voter ID, then we'll never win
52:39
another election. That's nonsense. Democrats, Democrats, socialists, maybe, and maybe
52:45
the corrupt Democrats in California and the West Coast where
52:48
the voter by mail is the dominant feature. Maybe, yeah,
52:52
some Democrats won't get elected again, but getting back to
52:55
the middle, the Democrats will get elected plenty of times.
52:58
Times. That's bullcrap. I mean, you know, the Democrats are
53:05
actually, by being this way, are admitting that they're corrupt.
53:10
Yeah, they are. They are. Oh, I don't want to
53:15
say you banged your mic cable, but it sure sounds
53:18
good. I had to move it because I'm about to
53:19
sneeze. Oh, okay. Why don't you sneeze? Well, no. Luckily,
53:22
because you did that, you said that. I interrupted you.
53:26
Ah, yes. Yeah, you interrupted the sneeze, which means it'll
53:29
come later. That's my least favorite thing people do. Oh,
53:32
bless you. They say it ahead of time. When you
53:36
got that big sneeze coming and you're gearing up. forward
53:39
and it's i've never heard anybody do that oh people
53:42
love doing that in advance of the sneeze they see
53:45
you going they see you going and then they'll say
53:47
oh god bless you Before you sneeze. I've never had
53:50
that happen to me. Maybe it's an East Coast thing.
53:54
versus West Coast. So the big thing that had everybody
53:59
occupied... in these past few days since our last podcast.
54:03
Maskgate. What? MASK GATE! I can't believe your algos did
54:10
not show you the mask? I don't know what you're
54:13
talking about. Internet sleuths have come up with the wild
54:16
theory that this Fox News guest was wearing a hyper-realistic
54:19
mask. straight out of Mission Impossible. Retired Vice Admiral Robert
54:25
Harward has gone viral for his May 19th interview on
54:28
Fox News, after hordes of social media users noticed what
54:31
they said appeared to be an unusual shadow on the
54:34
bottom of his neck. You have not seen this? You've
54:36
got to look this up. While I'm playing the skip,
54:39
you have to... The guy is Hayward. H-A-W-A-R-D. Just go
54:44
on X, type in Hayward, and you'll see the mask.
54:47
Leading to the wild theory that the contributor was wearing
54:49
a hyper-realistic mask. Many fueling the notion have pointed out
54:54
that Harward is a regular contributor to the program, and
54:57
that in all his appearances, several of which were as
55:00
recent as this month, his neck appears completely normal. The
55:04
outlandish claim has since spread like wildfire and turned into
55:07
a full-blown internet meltdown, as many couldn't help themselves but
55:10
to weigh in. Left-wing podcaster Ed Krasenstein joined in on
55:15
the hysteria on X. Can anyone really explain this? Why
55:19
does it look like Fox News... put a man with
55:21
a mask in their show, he wrote. While conservative media
55:25
personality. Oh, yeah. No. Okay. Just to, not to interrupt,
55:30
but I'm interrupting. Yeah. I saw this image originally with
55:33
the circle around this little area down at the bottom
55:36
where it looks like a tattoo or something. And I
55:40
just I didn't pay any attention to it, so I
55:43
missed it. Oh, people are losing their ever-loving minds over
55:46
it. I don't see why. It looks like the same
55:48
guy to me. We'll finish the clip and I'll tell
55:51
you what I think. ...calling back to another viral internet
55:54
moment, writing, that mother****** is not real. Others online have
55:59
tried to bring the situation back. down to Earth by
56:02
offering several possible explanations. It's a shadow, or more precisely,
56:07
a combination of shadows from the many lights in the
56:09
studio, and his shirt collar creating a weird overlap of
56:12
shades on his neck, one user wrote. While another asserted
56:16
that the oddity can simply be explained by a smoothing
56:19
filter that caused... artifacting that they noted is common on
56:23
virtual calls. Even Polymarket has gotten in on the action,
56:27
allowing users to wager on the outlandish theory. Alright. So
56:32
what do you think, since we need to settle this
56:35
for everybody? Well, first of all, I've, you know, these
56:38
mad, I know, you know, these things are not. you
56:41
know, completely without precedent having these masks and some of
56:44
them are pretty dynamite. There's a lot of examples online
56:47
of people putting them on and what they look like.
56:50
The typical, these masks go over the head and they're
56:55
pretty big in terms of what they cover up around
56:59
the neck area. They go way down into the chest
57:01
area. They're big. Yeah. And so you don't, this little
57:05
anomaly here, it looks like bull crap to me. Well,
57:10
I'd like to remind people of my family member in
57:13
1967. um Her husband brought someone home. from work that's
57:21
She did not know for dinner and during coffee and
57:24
dessert, this person who she did not know. 1967 okay
57:28
this is when i was uh what was i i
57:32
was three so this is uh 58 years ago This
57:37
person pulled off the mask and it was someone who
57:39
she knew really well. That was technology over 50 years
57:44
ago. Right. The technology has only gotten amazingly good. And
57:49
I agree with the, because the whole face looked kind
57:53
of smoothed out. I agree with the smoothing and some
57:57
anomaly that the... Now that the filter's brought in, on
58:01
Zoom or WebEx, whatever they're using, you have a number
58:04
of buttons. You know, make it high def, make my
58:08
skin look good. And I think it was that. And
58:12
also, to what end? Who cares? Yeah, I know. It's
58:16
not as though it's Biden. Yeah, exactly. This guy was...
58:21
He was in Vietnam, I think. Who cares? Why is
58:25
this even necessary? But oh no, oh no, everyone's always,
58:30
this is it, no. No, I agree with you. Yeah.
58:33
Who cares? It's bull crap. It's not, you know, it's
58:36
not the president. It's not like, you know, Hillary. It's
58:40
not like. you know anybody important in that regard I
58:43
mean the guys important to himself into the show I
58:46
guess but it's beside the point who cares yeah So
58:50
it was just like, no. No, I missed it. I
58:51
missed it completely. Oh, it's just like, come on, people.
58:54
No, no, no. Now, Biden, definitely daddy long legs. No
58:58
doubt about it. I mean, that was a whole different
59:02
dude who was running across the White House lawn. Well,
59:04
you know the story behind that, the current story, right?
59:07
No, I don't. What's the current story? The latest story
59:09
was that a Biden impersonator was hired sometime during the
59:16
administration to do a bit on the show. He was
59:21
so good and they liked him so much they decided
59:23
to use him as a substitute Biden every so often.
59:26
And then he got moved into a full-time position. Oh,
59:29
that's the story now, is it? That's the story now,
59:33
yes. That's good. Well, let's break apart another. Another. misconception
59:41
by people. This is, let me see. This was the
59:45
shooting at the White House? Near the White House. It
59:49
was an interesting little story about this that, you know,
59:53
that I think people should think about. Because I'll get
59:57
into it. Let's play this first. We're getting some new
59:59
details about... the shooting that took place on the corner
1:00:02
of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue at about 6 p.m.
1:00:05
Eastern Time. Let's cross over now to our senior law
1:00:07
enforcement correspondent, Mark Santillo, who has more details. Mark, what
1:00:11
have you learned? What have you learned? We just from
1:00:13
two sources briefed on the incident, as well as an
1:00:15
internal law enforcement document. We know now that the suspect
1:00:18
is Nasir Best, who is trained. transported to George Washington
1:00:21
Hospital as his Secret Service said he has passed away.
1:00:25
Now, the first thing that happened online was they started
1:00:30
showing a picture of one of those crazy trans dudes.
1:00:35
which was, you know, from, I don't know, years ago.
1:00:40
Saying, oh, yeah, it's another trans shooter. Everything on social
1:00:44
media is fake. That's how you have to look at
1:00:48
everything. Everything is fake. Nothing is real. It's really not
1:00:53
even worth your time. But that was the first thing
1:00:55
that showed up. And it's actually, it's a black guy.
1:00:57
The suspect previously approached the White House. There was interaction
1:01:01
in the past between the suspect and law enforcement in
1:01:06
June of 2025. There was an order for him to
1:01:09
stay away from the White House. That incident in June
1:01:12
of 2025 from an internal law enforcement document, according to
1:01:16
sources, it happened on July, the last summer. near the
1:01:20
White House, an officer in police uniform, full police uniform,
1:01:23
was working at a pedestrian access control post at the
1:01:26
White House. When he observed best, the suspect walk into
1:01:30
a restricted area by using the exit turnstile lane that
1:01:34
was located at the post. And apparently that restricted area
1:01:37
had multiple signs there, Amon, stating do not enter. exit
1:01:40
only, police line do not cross, pass holders and appointments
1:01:44
only. Again, this was near the White House area. The
1:01:47
suspect was immediately told to stop. The suspect did not
1:01:51
listen to the verbal commands from the officer, did not
1:01:54
stop and continued to go further into the restricted area.
1:01:57
The suspect was arrested. According to multiple sources, the suspect
1:02:03
had no prior arrests at that time. The suspect claimed
1:02:07
he was Jesus Christ and he wanted to, quote, get
1:02:10
arrested. The suspect has a history of mental health issues.
1:02:14
Again, suspect known to United States Secret Service for walking
1:02:18
around the White House area complex. and was taken into
1:02:23
custody last year. Again, the suspect being named is Nasir
1:02:26
Best. Okay. So one of the things that I keep
1:02:29
hearing about AI data centers. And this has become almost
1:02:35
a meme. People are saying, well... You know, they're building
1:02:40
all these data centers so that they can store all
1:02:43
of your information to spy on you with Palantir and
1:02:46
the flock cameras. Have you heard this? Oh, yeah. So...
1:02:52
This is Washington, D.C. This is the White House. Also,
1:02:55
ShotSpotter's gotta go. Yeah, well, that's kind of out of
1:02:59
the- picture but it's the flock cameras it's Palantir they're
1:03:02
tracking you they're tracking everything now the people are tracking
1:03:06
you are you paying money to you your Google and
1:03:10
your Apple and you know the Microsoft these are the
1:03:13
people tracking you you can just buy that information but
1:03:16
If it really was true. that they're surveilling you on
1:03:20
everything. How does this guy, who the law enforcement knew
1:03:24
about him... They knew that he had mental problems. They
1:03:28
already warned him, got a restraining order. So they're not
1:03:32
tracking this guy. They're not tracking it with Palantir, doing
1:03:36
a minority report with... flock cameras and his phone and
1:03:41
everything and storing it in your local data center. Can
1:03:45
we just get a reality check on this for a
1:03:47
minute? It's not happening. They're not that good. They buy
1:03:53
the things. They're not that good. They're not that good.
1:03:56
They are tracking, but they're not that good. They're not
1:03:58
that good. That's the point. Of course they're tracking. But,
1:04:02
yeah, they are not that good. I mean, this is
1:04:03
what happened with the 9-11. Come on. Yes, exactly. All
1:04:07
these guys were under some look-see. Whatever that was. All
1:04:13
of them. That may have been a different. Oh, dancing
1:04:15
is the release. Well, yes, but let's just assume that
1:04:17
we're going to go with the. official thing. Yeah. Because
1:04:21
the official thing, why would you do the official thing
1:04:23
that just indicates your boneheads? I mean, the official story
1:04:28
indicates that you're incompetent. Yes. Why would you do that?
1:04:32
Oh, we're dumb. I don't know. To throw everybody off
1:04:35
track. Give us more money. Right. There you go. And
1:04:39
then another one. So this, I really like this. And
1:04:43
I've dealt with immigration for... And by the way, wait,
1:04:46
stop. Before you leave the topic. I thought it was
1:04:50
interesting that we had the different reactions to the gunshots.
1:04:53
There's like 30 shots and I don't know what they
1:04:55
hit. They never told us. Did it hit the White
1:04:58
House? Were they just in the air? Who knows? But
1:05:00
there was a Chinese broadcaster and she ditched everything and
1:05:04
ran under a table immediately. And then there was some
1:05:08
dipshit, you know, Wesley girl that's going. I think I
1:05:12
actually have the clip of her. Hold on a second.
1:05:14
Of the Wesley girl? What's that? What is that noise?
1:05:17
I think this is her. We witnessed a tense moment.
1:05:20
at the White House late yesterday, our Selena Wang was
1:05:23
there. And Selena joins me now from the White House.
1:05:27
And Selena, you were there as shots rang out, clearly
1:05:30
audible. I want to play a little bit of that
1:05:33
scene. - That President Trump has said a deal is
1:05:37
close only for the two sides to remain far apart.
1:05:40
you That was the one, no, you're right, that was
1:05:45
the one who had to go, well, I think she
1:05:47
actually said something about it, hold on. Going on for
1:05:49
quite some time, what was going on? Yeah, John, I
1:05:53
mean, this shooting was actually happening just meters from where
1:05:56
I'm standing. Meters? Meters? Meters? Since when do we use
1:06:00
meters? That's a good one. What? Meters. Meters? She's a
1:06:07
Chinese spy. Time. What was going on? Yeah, John, I
1:06:11
mean, this shooting was actually happening just meters from where
1:06:14
I'm standing right now. And in that video you played,
1:06:16
that is the exact place where I'm here right now.
1:06:19
I was preparing to go live for World News. tonight
1:06:21
and you notice in the video that I continue talking
1:06:24
for the first few seconds of those gunshots because my
1:06:26
initial thought was this must be fireworks or something else.
1:06:30
Then I heard to get down so the team and
1:06:32
I we immediately dropped to the ground, ducked and covered.
1:06:35
Then we heard Secret Service yelling for us to move,
1:06:39
to sprint to the... Okay, anyway. Um... And moving on.
1:06:44
So I got a, one of our knights sent me
1:06:47
a very long email. He said, You shouldn't be so
1:06:52
glib about the Muslims. Okay. You're glib about the Muslims?
1:06:57
Yeah, that, you know, well... He was kind of misstating
1:07:01
it. And this is what I said, dude, I don't
1:07:03
know what you're talking about. Because he was saying, these
1:07:06
foreigners coming in. I'm doing an accent. These foreigners coming
1:07:10
in, they're taking away jobs from our kids. All the
1:07:12
H-1B visas. And I said, first of all, we're talking
1:07:17
about something else. But right as I'm reading this email.
1:07:23
this new policy comes out, which I think is a
1:07:26
dynamite policy for the United States, which takes care in
1:07:30
one fell swoop of all the issues about H-1B visas.
1:07:35
And I really like it. And I've been dealing with
1:07:38
immigration in the U.S. for... Ah, 30, more than 30
1:07:44
years. I've made many people legal, some I was married
1:07:48
to, some not. But this is a very good policy.
1:07:53
Well, the Trump administration announcing a major shift in how
1:07:57
it processes green card applications moving forward non-immigrants. in the
1:08:01
U.S. are going to have to return to their home
1:08:04
countries. Scripps News legal affairs correspondent Abidjoi Burnett is looking
1:08:08
into this, James. So, Abidjoi, who would be impacted by
1:08:12
it? Quite a few people, a couple thousand people, maybe
1:08:15
hundreds of thousands, according to some immigration attorneys, could be
1:08:19
impacted here. This is a new memo that... of Homeland
1:08:23
Security under USCIS. in the United States who want to
1:08:38
apply for a green card, This memo was issued late
1:08:44
last evening, but we started to see more details on
1:08:47
what reactions were like earlier today. And some of the
1:08:51
people who could potentially be impacted here are students, people
1:08:54
who came to the United States as students. There could
1:08:58
be people who are here as temporary workers. and even
1:09:02
tourists. And here's what an official with USCIS, this is
1:09:07
the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, this is what a
1:09:10
spokesperson for that agency, which is under DHS, this is
1:09:14
what they said with regards to this new memo that
1:09:17
has been really getting quite some attention. They said, we
1:09:21
are... ...returning to the original intent of the law to
1:09:24
ensure aliens navigate our nation's immigration systems properly. From now
1:09:29
on, an alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and
1:09:33
wants a green card must return to their home country
1:09:37
to apply, except for in extraordinary circumstances. Yes, this is
1:09:42
good. And I don't know if people understand how this
1:09:45
is going to impact the H-1B. And of course, the
1:09:48
people who do H-1B immigration visas, temporary visas, they're all
1:09:52
flipping out about it. But here's the explanation of how
1:09:55
this will actually impact them. And we have to presume
1:09:58
that the only way this will work is if the
1:10:00
U.S. UCIS If they, was it UCI? Yeah, the US,
1:10:07
the immigration services. They have to have enough people and
1:10:12
systems to actually handle this. But I've done this. I've
1:10:15
had to arrange a green card with someone going back.
1:10:19
to their country of origin. And it took a few
1:10:21
weeks, but it's not impossible. And if they make that
1:10:25
system work that way, it's going to be very good,
1:10:28
particularly for those of you worried about H-1B visa holders
1:10:31
taking your kids' jobs. Some of the attorneys who I
1:10:34
spoke with earlier today, they weren't as concerned about what
1:10:38
this actually means. One person told me they... are pretty
1:10:41
sure people will be able to continue to apply for
1:10:45
that green card status but then there are other attorneys
1:10:47
who were really concerned they said that they've been getting
1:10:50
many calls from their clients some of those clients are
1:10:53
extremely alarmed and they're talking about people who have family
1:10:58
members here there are folks who are working here in
1:11:00
the united States. They may be married to U.S. citizens.
1:11:03
They may be here on an H-1B visa where they're
1:11:07
able to work. So pretty much they have set up
1:11:10
lives here in the United States and they're going through
1:11:12
this process of applying for a green card. So they're
1:11:15
now wondering what is next for us. Take a listen
1:11:18
to what one of those attorneys told me. Who does
1:11:20
this impact, right? family members of U.S. citizens, the immediate
1:11:24
relatives of them, so their spouses, their parents, their children.
1:11:27
It includes people who are here working with U.S. employers
1:11:33
who are in the process or in legal status working
1:11:36
and are in the process of applying for their green
1:11:40
card, which It can take decades, so it gives them
1:11:43
a temporary way to stay here so they're not upended
1:11:45
and their work is not upended. And that attorney with
1:11:49
the American Immigration Lawyers Association, she told me that this
1:11:53
is something that could potentially impact hundreds of thousands of
1:11:56
folks. For example, back in fiscal year 2023, this is
1:11:59
where we have the most recent. data, about 600,000 people
1:12:03
were in line applying for their green card, going through
1:12:07
that process. This is a process that could potentially take
1:12:10
months or even years. So we're talking about the possibility
1:12:14
of hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting and
1:12:17
they're now wondering, what does this actually mean for them?
1:12:20
We've been told that there's a possibility that lawsuits could
1:12:24
be filed really to push back against the Trump administration
1:12:28
and prevent people from being forced to leave the United
1:12:31
States. Yeah, I think it's good. This is the way
1:12:34
it should be. This is how it worked in the
1:12:36
past. And we got a bunch of Democrat presidents, administration.
1:12:40
and they made it way too easy. This is how
1:12:43
it used to be. And you can get, I think,
1:12:46
probably for marriage, you probably can get a parole, I
1:12:51
think is what they call it. for some reason. And
1:12:56
then you can go back quickly and come back in.
1:12:59
But it's going to... going to help the system see
1:13:02
who really should be here and who shouldn't be. And
1:13:05
H1B is just, it's temporary. In, out, gone. None of
1:13:09
this like, oh, well, you know, now I married this
1:13:12
person. and now I want a green card and I'll
1:13:15
just stay here and I'll stay here forever until it's
1:13:17
processed. This is good. Okay. Let's talk about Tulsi Gabbard
1:13:26
quitting. Yeah. Yeah, this is another one of those. This
1:13:32
is a very big disappointment. For you. I liked her.
1:13:36
Yeah, well, it's... I thought she was good in the
1:13:39
position. She was... Yeah. She broke the thing about Obama
1:13:43
being, you know, a horrible person. Mm-hmm. And nothing came
1:13:47
of it. Mm-hmm. So here's the two clips they have
1:13:51
NBC. Tonight, as the president weighs resuming the U.S. war
1:13:55
with Iran, his top intelligence official says she is resigning.
1:13:59
Director of National Intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard, writing her husband, quote,
1:14:02
has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of
1:14:06
bone cancer, saying, I must step away from public service
1:14:09
to be by his side and fully support him through
1:14:12
this battle. The president posting that Gabbard has done an
1:14:15
incredible job and we will miss her. An Army veteran
1:14:18
and former Democratic congresswoman. Gabbard broke with her party to
1:14:22
endorse Trump in 2024. I invite you to join me
1:14:25
in doing all that we can to save our country
1:14:28
and elect President Donald J. Trump. But as his director
1:14:33
of national intelligence, Gabbard never fully made it into the
1:14:36
president's inner circle, clashing with administration officials, including the CIA
1:14:40
director. and often absent at pivotal decision points. For years,
1:14:45
an outspoken opponent of American wars in the Middle East.
1:14:48
Going to war with Iran would make the war in
1:14:51
Iraq and even Afghanistan look like a picnic. Recently, Gabbard
1:14:56
struggled to defend the president's attack on Iran. Do you
1:14:59
still believe that war with Iran would be so costly
1:15:02
and devastating that it would make our wars in Iraq
1:15:05
and Afghanistan look like a picnic? Once again, in this
1:15:07
role, it is essential that I do not allow any
1:15:12
of my personal views on any issues to color or
1:15:15
bias the intelligence reporting. Yeah, it is a disappointment. I'm
1:15:20
with you on that. Part two. A person familiar with
1:15:24
the discussions telling NBC News that Gabbard's allies had pushed
1:15:28
her to resign over the war with Iran, but she
1:15:30
declined. Earlier this year, the president was asked about his
1:15:34
confidence in Gabbard. I would say that I'm very strong
1:15:37
in the fact that I don't want... Iran to have
1:15:39
a nuclear weapon. I think she's probably a little bit
1:15:42
softer on that issue, but that's OK. Some people are.
1:15:45
Oh, so they're insinuating she was pushed out and this
1:15:47
is the excuse. Is that what's happening here? That's what
1:15:49
they're insinuating. Most people are. Garrett, all of this, as
1:15:52
President Trump says, he's considering new strikes against Iran. Well,
1:15:55
Sam, he's given this weekend as a loose deadline for.
1:15:58
potential resumption of airstrikes. And we've just learned that not
1:16:01
only will the president not attend his son's wedding, but
1:16:04
he's also canceled planned travel to his club in New
1:16:07
Jersey and will instead remain at the White House this
1:16:09
weekend. I see people on all sides of the political
1:16:13
spectrum saying, oh, it's just an excuse. Like, you really
1:16:17
are. That's really rude towards Tulsi Gabbard. If she wanted
1:16:21
to quit, I'm pretty sure she'd just quit. Yeah, she's
1:16:27
not a bullshit artist. Here's MS Now. This is the,
1:16:30
uh, let's see what they say. I'm gonna put you
1:16:32
on the spot and, um, and I apologize for that,
1:16:35
David, but we just got this posting from, um... Donald
1:16:38
Trump on Truth Social, as was predicted by Jake Traylor.
1:16:43
And I'm going to read it in full, but it
1:16:44
also talks about who's going to be taking over, at
1:16:46
least in the interim, for Tulsi Gabbard, a guy named
1:16:50
Aaron Lucas. But let me read the posting. Unfortunately, after
1:16:54
having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving
1:16:57
the administration on June. 30th her wonderful husband stop it
1:17:00
stop the clip I gotta go back on that. A
1:17:05
guy named... Aaron Lucas. So you don't refer, normally you
1:17:10
would just say his name. what his position is. But
1:17:14
the way to say a guy named as if it's
1:17:17
like, as I say, I don't know, some guy named
1:17:20
blah. Well, they're going to follow up with who he
1:17:23
is. But it's beside the point. It's a disrespectful way
1:17:27
of presenting it. Also. You'll hear in this clip that
1:17:31
she's going to be leaving June 30th. Which is, I
1:17:35
guess that's a, she has a transition period while she's...
1:17:39
Helping her husband? It wasn't immediate. She didn't walk out
1:17:45
in a huff. No, she did not. In full, but
1:17:48
it also talks about who's going to be taking over,
1:17:50
at least in the interim, for Tulsi Gabbard, a guy
1:17:53
named Aaron Lucas. But let me read the post. You're
1:17:56
right. That is funny. Unfortunately, after having done a great
1:18:00
job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the administration on June
1:18:03
30th. Her wonderful husband, Abraham, has been recently diagnosed with
1:18:08
a rare form of bone cancer, and she, rightfully, wants
1:18:11
to be with him, bringing him back to good health
1:18:13
as they currently fight a tough battle together. I have
1:18:16
no doubt he will soon be better than ever. Tulsi
1:18:19
has done an incredible job, and we will miss her.
1:18:22
Her highly respected principal deputy director of national intelligence, Aaron
1:18:26
Lucas, will serve as acting director of national intelligence. All
1:18:30
right, let's find out who Aaron is. I'm looking at
1:18:32
his bio, but he's a seasoned intelligence professional, former CIA
1:18:36
chief of station. Do you know any... else about him
1:18:39
can you get any more insights yeah he's a guy
1:18:42
and he's named Aaron into this guy Aaron Lucas she
1:18:45
does it again this is it again a guy what
1:18:48
is the point what is the point is this guy
1:18:50
who is this guy I'm looking now I mean he
1:18:53
was confirmed by the Senate in a sort of party
1:18:55
line vote but there was I think he is experienced
1:19:00
and I want to give him a chance. I don't
1:19:01
know him specifically in his background very well. And I
1:19:05
sort of agree with Mark here. Do some work. This
1:19:08
is going to be John Ratcliffe. So there'll be someone
1:19:12
in that position, but... One of the problems is that
1:19:15
another key person, the director of the National National Counterintelligence
1:19:20
Center resigned because in opposition to the war with Iraq.
1:19:26
So you now have no Senate confirmed director of national
1:19:31
intelligence. um you'll have an acting in that position and
1:19:34
the nctc wait stop Didn't he just a few seconds
1:19:40
ago say that along party lines, they confirmed this guy
1:19:46
Aaron? Yeah, yeah. Well, now is he saying there's no
1:19:49
confirmed? What is he talking about? It's either confirmed or
1:19:53
it's not. No, no. Along party lines. But he's... Let's
1:19:57
listen again. Hold on. with Iraq. So you now have
1:20:01
no Senate-confirmed Director of National Intelligence. You'll have an acting
1:20:07
in that position, and the NCTC position is empty as
1:20:13
well. So it's not great to have Joe Kent had
1:20:16
resigned from the position of National Intelligence. the director of
1:20:19
the National Counterterrorism Center. That is underneath the ODNI. That's
1:20:25
underneath Gabbard's old office. this kind of vacancy and changes
1:20:29
while the U.S. is at war, you know, is not
1:20:32
great. And I want to reemphasize there should have been
1:20:36
an intelligence assessment. How would Iran respond to being bombed?
1:20:40
Would Iran try to seize control of the straight-forward moves?
1:20:43
And I'm just saying this for viewers, and that has
1:20:46
to be an incredibly factual, rigorous assessment, not based on—
1:20:50
Hold on. Stop it again. Who says there wasn't? MSNOW.
1:20:56
Who says there wasn't? MSNOW. These guys just make it
1:21:01
up as they go along? He doesn't know one way
1:21:03
or the other. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they make it
1:21:04
up as they go along. Yes. In fact, I'm quite
1:21:08
sure. They're getting most of their news off of X
1:21:12
like everybody else. That's what that is. I don't know
1:21:17
how anyone. can watch this crap. Well, it's our job,
1:21:21
John. No, I'm saying, see, MS now is a deplorable
1:21:26
operation. Politics or, you know, the wishes of the president,
1:21:30
frankly, it's important for intelligence to speak truth to power.
1:21:34
Truth to power. Because there was a mistake in this
1:21:36
war. We didn't seem to have... anticipate that Iran would
1:21:39
close the Strait of Hormuz and you know you've now
1:21:43
had to know that he doesn't know that at all
1:21:45
gone for no reason no that is possible that we
1:21:47
exactly what we wanted yes months in a global energy
1:21:51
crisis so that's why having stability and non-partisan people in
1:21:56
these jobs is so important yeah but Nonpartisan people. Nonpartisan,
1:22:01
my ass. Well, this is one of these guys who's,
1:22:05
you know, he's a contributor. So he wants to be
1:22:08
contributing, wants to keep contributing. So he's got to say
1:22:11
things that they want to hear the contributor say. I
1:22:14
get it. He's just doing his job. I thought I
1:22:17
had a Fox version of this story. Let me listen.
1:22:20
Tony, I want to move to this because there's some
1:22:21
big news that happened last night. We learned that Tulsi
1:22:23
Gabbard, DNI director, has put in her resignation. And part
1:22:30
of it is because or the reason she says she
1:22:33
is resigning is her husband, Abraham, has come down with
1:22:37
a rare form of. Bone cancer. Those of us who
1:22:39
know her and her husband, they are the most amazing
1:22:42
people, are heartbroken over this. And yet, I want you
1:22:47
to watch this montage of how the Democrats. They're doing
1:22:50
super cuts now. Have reacted to this news. This is
1:22:55
the fourth woman to leave the administration? In the past
1:22:59
few months. The impact on US foreign policy, I think
1:23:03
it's basically irrelevant. She was entirely out of the loop
1:23:06
on decision making. This was because basically she's just not
1:23:10
in sync with this administration. This is why her initials
1:23:14
D&I became Do Not Invite. You know, probably one of
1:23:19
the worst things that I've read. Yeah, no, I'm pretty
1:23:24
sure that this is a real resignation for those reasons.
1:23:29
I think she was having a good time. I think
1:23:32
she actually... Yeah, she seemed to be. She was on
1:23:34
a lot of podcasts and she was... yakking it up
1:23:37
and she seemed competent and she did the thing about
1:23:40
Obama which nobody followed up on. And that was a
1:23:45
big deal. Yeah. So, I don't know. Here is... Just
1:23:53
to remind everybody, this is what she did. She did
1:23:56
this years ago. Declassified by the Office of the Director
1:24:00
of National Intelligence yesterday and released publicly just moments ago
1:24:04
is an exchange of emails initiated by Michael S. Rogers,
1:24:08
the four-star admiral now retired. Did you ever hear this?
1:24:11
I never really heard this one about. We liked Rogers,
1:24:15
Admiral Rogers, who was running the NSA. Yeah, he was
1:24:17
a good guy. And he was the one that said,
1:24:20
hey, this FBI guy is pulling all kinds of stuff.
1:24:23
They're spying on you, dude. They're spying on you, man.
1:24:27
But I never heard about this. This is about the
1:24:30
intelligence assessment, which is very bad for Clapper. Who headed
1:24:33
the National Security Agency in the second Obama term. Rogers
1:24:37
wrote to his boss, then Director of National Intelligence James
1:24:40
Clapper, in late December of 2016 to say that he,
1:24:44
the Admiral, had just returned from overseas travel and had
1:24:47
received an update on, quote, our efforts to produce a
1:24:50
joint product related to Russian attribution and intent for the
1:24:55
DNC-DCCC hacks. I know that this activity is on a
1:24:59
fast track, Rogers wrote, to put together a product that
1:25:02
can be provided to the president. I asked my team
1:25:05
if they'd had sufficient access to the underlying intelligence and
1:25:08
sufficient time to review that intelligence. On both points, Rogers
1:25:12
said, my team raised concerns. My folks aren't fully comfortable
1:25:16
saying they've had enough. to be absolutely confident in their
1:25:21
assessments, he wrote. that is CIA, FBI, NSA jointly authored,
1:25:41
that we can all defend. If NSA is intended to
1:25:48
be a co-author of this product, Rogers said also, I
1:25:52
personally expect to see even the most sensitive evidence related
1:25:55
to the conclusion. If your intent is to create a
1:25:58
CIA-only or CIA-FBI-authored product, then, Rogers concluded, I will stand
1:26:04
down on these concerns. Had you ever heard about this?
1:26:07
No, not at all. There's a part two to this
1:26:10
which really, really nails Clapper. On that email, Admiral Rogers
1:26:14
cc'd FBI Director James Comey, seen as... and CIA Director
1:26:18
John Brennan seen at screen right, flanking the DNI, James
1:26:22
Clapper seated in the middle for their joint congressional testimony
1:26:25
10 months before this email in February of 2016. Director
1:26:29
Clapper took a little over 12 hours to reply to
1:26:32
Admiral Rogers, and when he did, he addressed Brennan and
1:26:35
Comey as well, suggesting... They too, during those 12 hours,
1:26:38
privately expressed views similar to those of Rogers. Clapper began,
1:26:42
Mike, John, Jim, understand your concern. It is essential that
1:26:47
we, CIA, NSA, FBI, ODNI, be on the same page,
1:26:51
Clapper wrote, and we're all supportive of the report. In
1:26:54
the highest tradition of, that's... and we're sticking to it,
1:26:58
quote-unquote. We may have to compromise on our normal modalities,
1:27:21
since we must do this on such a compressed timetable.
1:27:23
This, Clapper concluded, is one project that has to be
1:27:27
a team sport. Jim. This latest declassification by Director Tulsi
1:27:32
Gabbard's office comes after she referred these matters to the
1:27:36
Justice Department. for additional investigation. And Attorney General Pam Bondi
1:27:39
then directed the impanelment of a federal grand jury in
1:27:42
Florida. Yeah. Clapper, we always knew this guy was the
1:27:47
loser. Yeah. He's the one that screws it all up.
1:27:52
And he did all, well, you know, the timeline is
1:27:55
important, so... We may have to go away from our
1:27:58
regular modalities, i.e. just write something up. I think this
1:28:03
is more smoking gun than people realize. I think so,
1:28:06
too. But then I, you know, went over to Bondi.
1:28:09
That was the end of it. Well, no, no, no.
1:28:11
No, Bondi referred it to. No, no, no, no. I
1:28:14
think DeGenoa is doing that stuff. Florida. Isn't that DeGenima?
1:28:18
Isn't he running that? I think so. What? What? Yes,
1:28:23
DeGenoa and his wife. No. Yes, yes. What, the sealed
1:28:27
indictments guy? Yes, yes. No, that guy's not even in
1:28:31
the picture. He is, he is. Yes, he is DeGenoa.
1:28:36
Let me see. Yes. Yes. You're... I'm telling you. Well,
1:28:41
you can be telling me all you want. I want
1:28:43
some evidence. Yeah, I'm looking. I thought I had a
1:28:45
clip about him. Uh, Joe... I know Gorka's back in
1:28:51
the picture. What's he doing? I don't know, but somebody
1:28:54
mentioned he's part of the administration, not doing something. Sebastian
1:28:59
Gorka. Now I'm going to have... Here, here, here. Clapper.
1:29:04
telling you it was i'm telling you is the genoa
1:29:07
and you're having a big no dream no no no
1:29:12
no hold on a second well let's uh let's ask
1:29:15
the book of knowledge That'll do it. Let me see.
1:29:21
There's a... Uh... Oh man. Here we go. Where is
1:29:30
this out? Okay. So book of knowledge, yes. Hopefully this
1:29:34
will work. Book of knowledge. Is Joe DiGenoa involved? in
1:29:38
the grand jury in Florida about Russiagate. The long, long,
1:29:51
long search for the book of knowledge. According to the
1:29:54
Book of Knowledge, Joe DiGenova will oversee the... Spygate probe
1:29:59
in Florida after the DOJ removed a deep state prosecutor
1:30:03
and is heading up a Florida-based federal investigation into former
1:30:07
federal officials who investigated Trump. He assumes leadership of the
1:30:12
ongoing grand jury probe based in Fort Pierce, with the
1:30:16
investigation being overseen by U.S. Attorney Jason Redding-Quijones and using
1:30:21
a grand jury run by Judge Eileen Cannon. DOS It
1:30:27
has been written. Told you. Oh, that's going to go
1:30:30
nowhere then. Well, that's a possibility, but for some reason...
1:30:37
and they brought him back in. Yeah. To kill it.
1:30:43
We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Okay, I got two
1:30:45
clips here I want to... I do have a clip
1:30:48
blitz if we have time for it. Oh, goodness. Let's
1:30:51
do the newer UFO files just released. Yes. NBC clip.
1:30:55
Yes. New, new, new. New release. UFO files, like this
1:30:59
one in Kazakhstan, a mysterious object lighting up the night
1:31:03
sky. Other videos showing pulsing balls of light flying erratically
1:31:07
and seeming to defy laws of physics. Some even appearing
1:31:11
to fly in formations. Part of the Pentagon's release of
1:31:14
more than 50 declassified videos and first-hand accounts following President
1:31:18
Trump's directive to release government UFO files. The files include
1:31:24
audio of astronauts decades ago describing mysterious bright lights and
1:31:28
particles. There's a whole bunch of big ones on my
1:31:31
weather banner. Just right. Looks like the 4th of July
1:31:34
outruns my... That's literally from Gemini 7, which is like...
1:31:37
Was I even born when this came out? I don't
1:31:41
think so. In this report from last year, in an
1:31:43
encounter that lasted over an hour, a U.S. intelligence officer
1:31:47
reported oval-shaped orange orbs coming within 10 feet of a
1:31:51
U.S. helicopter, splitting in two and speeding away, leaving military
1:31:55
and intelligence professionals speechless. Other videos may have an explanation.
1:32:00
Here, a U.S. F-16 fighter jet shoots down an object
1:32:03
over Michigan's Lake Huron in 2023, the same day the
1:32:06
Pentagon said it shot down a possible Chinese spy balloon
1:32:09
over that lake. Experts tell us no video released so
1:32:13
far proves any... Hold on, stop. Despite Balloon wasn't shot
1:32:17
down over Lake- curing it was shot down over the
1:32:19
Atlantic. Well, there were two spy balloons, weren't there? I
1:32:25
don't remember two. All I remember is the one that
1:32:27
they let go floating all over the place. It was
1:32:30
a daily news item. And then once it got to
1:32:33
the Atlantic, they shot it down. With a missile. With
1:32:35
a million dollar missile. Yeah. I think there was another
1:32:39
one that floated down and that's how they figured out
1:32:41
it was from China. Pretty sure there was another one.
1:32:44
I'm not convinced of that. But it wasn't Shemuel. Hey,
1:32:46
don't make me consult the book of knowledge. Object over
1:32:49
Michigan's Lake Huron in 2023. The same day the Pentagon
1:32:52
said it shot down a possible Chinese spy balloon over
1:32:55
that lake. Experts tell us no video released so far.
1:32:58
There's nothing in any of these that proves anything about
1:33:05
alien life. All it shows you is that there's stuff
1:33:08
in the sky that initially can't be explained. This was
1:33:11
the Pentagon's second release of UFO files, and they're expected
1:33:14
to roll out the next one in the coming weeks.
1:33:16
Yes, I'm pretty sure that... We are only, what are
1:33:19
we now, two and a half weeks away from Steven
1:33:22
Spielberg's Disclosure Day? Yeah, and the releases will end after
1:33:26
the movie does its thing. Well, yes, it probably will.
1:33:30
Let's see if I had any... No, I just said
1:33:34
that's not important. Let's go to the next item, which
1:33:36
is the Ebola update, BBC. Yes, yes, this is interesting.
1:33:41
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the
1:33:44
current Ebola outbreak has resulted in more than 200 deaths
1:33:48
in three provinces. Earlier on Saturday, the government suspended all
1:33:52
flights to and from one of the epicenters, the northeastern
1:33:55
city of Bunia. Thomas Nadi reports. It's unusual for the
1:33:59
DRC government to suspend flights during an Ebola outbreak. Previously,
1:34:05
airline operators have made this decision for themselves. The Transport
1:34:09
Ministry said the measure was to prevent any cross-border spread
1:34:13
of the epidemic and to guarantee the health and safety
1:34:16
of passengers, crews and airports. staff. The Transport Ministry did
1:34:21
not say it was banning humanitarian, medical or emergency flights,
1:34:25
but that these will be assessed and will require approval
1:34:28
from health and aviation authorities. The Democratic Republic of Congo's
1:34:33
football team say they will not change their preparations for
1:34:36
next month's World Cup, despite being told to isolate by
1:34:39
the United States because of the Ebola outbreak. A White
1:34:42
House official said the squad needed to remain in a
1:34:45
bubble for 21 days before traveling to the U.S. I
1:34:48
love the bubble. But a Congolese spokesperson said all the
1:34:50
players were based outside the DRC and their plans remained
1:34:53
the same. Well, since you brought it up, I've got
1:34:56
our scarf lady back again. She's still in the news.
1:34:59
Deborah Birx. The WHO rather says there are now almost
1:35:02
750 suspected cases in the Congo, around the Congo, and
1:35:07
nearly 200 deaths. How does the severity of this situation
1:35:11
compare to previous outbreaks? Well, the problem with this particular
1:35:17
outbreak is there was probably two, three or four cycles
1:35:20
of infection before it was even reported. And so a
1:35:24
lot of the numbers you're seeing and the rapid rise
1:35:26
of the numbers is because it went undetected and underreported
1:35:30
for probably three or four weeks. That resulted in a
1:35:34
lot of case reporting all at once. And so I
1:35:37
can't really tell you what the slope of new cases
1:35:39
are, which is It's really the important thing when you're
1:35:41
following an acute infectious disease. But just to make it
1:35:45
very clear to your audience, the people we are seeing
1:35:47
today that are cases were probably infected two weeks ago.
1:35:51
And so I think that's what makes us all concerned
1:35:54
is we're looking at this virus and this outbreak with
1:35:58
really old data. Now, I'm only playing her clips because
1:36:02
she, for one, said something that was interesting and a
1:36:05
little counterintuitive to the narrative, and this is on CBS.
1:36:10
As you know, in the past year and a half,
1:36:11
the Trump administration has largely dismantled U.S. aid. It has
1:36:15
withdrawn. Come on, Debra, blame it on Trump, blame it
1:36:18
on Trump. You know I had this clip. Blaming USAID
1:36:22
for everything. But wait. From the World Health Organization, it
1:36:27
cut funding to the Congo and Uganda. Do you think
1:36:31
that those moves contributed to the delay in reporting this
1:36:36
outbreak? And are they contributing to the lack of... supplies
1:36:40
in dealing with the outbreak in the Congo. Do you
1:36:44
really have this clip or do you have a clip
1:36:46
like it? No, I had it. I didn't have that
1:36:48
exact clip, but I had a clip where they're blaming
1:36:50
USAID because obviously it's our job to keep the Congo
1:36:55
from getting Ebola and it's our job to monitor the
1:36:59
Congo. And the Congolese themselves and everybody in Africa, they
1:37:03
got nothing to do with anything because they're too stupid.
1:37:06
So USAID has to be there. And it's been gutted
1:37:11
by Trump. So this whole thing is Trump's fault. That's
1:37:14
what she's angling for, our Nancy Cordes. But Birx has
1:37:18
a different story. Well, when I look what the administration
1:37:22
has done recently, I think they put 50, 100 million
1:37:24
dollars out there immediately and sent people as part of
1:37:27
the response. I think the bigger question to me is
1:37:30
a lot of us in the global community. The global
1:37:34
community. John, are you and I in the global community?
1:37:37
Well, it's possible. Sometimes maybe we. We touch on it.
1:37:42
And the global community. A lot of us in the
1:37:45
global community invested extensively in creating the African CDC for
1:37:49
this very reason, for this very response. Hundreds of millions
1:37:53
of dollars went into building laboratory capacity in the DRC,
1:37:57
at the African CDC, and for some reason that... failed
1:38:01
us and so what we need to do is figure
1:38:04
So we put hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of
1:38:08
millions of dollars in the global community into the African
1:38:11
CDC. So we paid for it, our CDC in Africa.
1:38:15
And for some reason it failed. Aha. Why didn't we
1:38:19
detect this earlier? Why didn't the instance? Institutions that we
1:38:22
all stood up as a global community effectively control this
1:38:25
outbreak early Because I think you guys are just there
1:38:28
to spread disease You're not actually there to combat it
1:38:31
so that it didn't spread as far and wide as
1:38:34
it has within the DRC I understand it's a conflict
1:38:37
area, but we have to do better. We owe it
1:38:39
to the people in the DRC And now listen to
1:38:42
what she says about USAID. This... It completely destroys the
1:38:46
narrative. I hear what you're saying about the fact that
1:38:48
the money is now flowing from the US to the
1:38:52
region. But we talked to aid workers in the region
1:38:55
as well, who said that a lot of local programs
1:38:58
were terminated after USAID was dismantled. programs aimed at Ebola
1:39:03
preparedness and response, and so they just don't have the
1:39:07
same capacity as they did before. Hold on a second.
1:39:13
Is this CBS? Yep. So this is Ellison's crowd and
1:39:18
this is what's her name? Barry Weiss. And they're on
1:39:21
the side of like re-arming USAID and the scam that
1:39:28
it is with the money laundering that goes on with
1:39:30
that thing. This is TBS. Why does Nancy Cordes even
1:39:34
have a job? They are only doing what Israel tells
1:39:37
them to do, John. Don't you know that? Because Larry
1:39:42
Ellison, you know. She talked about leading the witness. But
1:39:45
listen to the answer. As they did before. I think
1:39:49
it's a great question and we need to really look
1:39:51
at that. I know CDC's global health security program was
1:39:55
retained and a lot of that funding retained. I know
1:39:58
we had people. in Kinshasa as part of the CDC.
1:40:02
If you look at the Uganda funding, now I'm looking
1:40:04
at it from the HIV side, which really built a
1:40:07
lot of the laboratory capacity. This year, they're getting over
1:40:10
$400 million. So maybe there was a 5% cut. But
1:40:14
I think the American people were thinking that these programs
1:40:17
had been slashed. If you look at the MOUs, the
1:40:20
agreements that the U.S. government have been made, I've actually
1:40:23
been reassured by the numbers that are there on paper.
1:40:28
Gotcha. Thank you, Deborah Birx. Unexpected. Yeah, that was good.
1:40:33
That's a great, I'm giving you a clip of the
1:40:35
day for that. I am going to accept it with
1:40:38
great honor. If I could find my clip of the
1:40:40
day. Yes. With great honor. Great honor as I look
1:40:45
for it. Hold on, I found it. There's the clip
1:40:47
of the day. Got a note from one of our
1:40:50
producers, Boots on the Ground, says, you guys recently mentioned
1:40:53
a lawsuit against an AI company where Kidd asked if
1:40:56
it was okay to mix Xanax with Kratom. That is
1:41:00
a great note, by the way. I am aware of
1:41:02
this claim because I'm in a couple of pro-Kratom groups.
1:41:05
Now, we have to say we have a producer who
1:41:07
makes Kratom drinks. He has sent me these Kratom drinks.
1:41:11
I don't even know what Kratom is. It's a plant.
1:41:13
The Indians chew this all the time. Indians or American
1:41:18
Indians? No, Indians. Indians. Indian in India? India in India,
1:41:22
yes. Oh, okay. It's like, okay. And they extract the
1:41:26
sap and they do all kinds of stuff with it.
1:41:28
They chew it, okay. Yeah, they chew it. And I
1:41:31
remember our producer sent me like 24 bottles and the
1:41:35
post office was all mad because three of them exploded
1:41:38
in the box and it was a huge mess. huge
1:41:40
mess but i drank one or two like yeah what
1:41:43
does it do to you yeah it gives you a
1:41:44
little like minor body buzz i guess body buzz yeah
1:41:49
a little little body buzz but what and when we
1:41:52
talk about this is years ago people were saying that
1:41:54
they had been hooked on heroin uh they had all
1:41:57
kinds of drug dependency issues and kratom was in fact
1:42:01
what was responsible for them getting off of that and
1:42:05
it's a natural product now there there is a synthesized
1:42:09
version which is not what our producers are talking about
1:42:12
but so this producers in a lot of procreative groups
1:42:15
i just recently noticed that this is the same case
1:42:19
that led to Kratom being banned in Tennessee, where I
1:42:22
sit at this very moment. The part this AI lawsuit
1:42:26
and the Tennessee ban both leave out is that the
1:42:28
kid. was Uhhhh... This is what the kids do. Maybe
1:42:35
it's a TikTok challenge. The kids want to see the
1:42:37
hat man, quote unquote, the hat. man. by taking insane
1:42:43
doses of Benadryl. an act that leads to hallucination. So
1:42:48
the implication here from our producers that it was the
1:42:53
overdosing on Benadryl that made the kid kill himself, not
1:42:58
the Kratom and not the Xanax. But man, it sure
1:43:02
did contribute to that law being passed. Covering the state
1:43:05
capitol now, Tennessee passes a full ban on what's often
1:43:09
referred to as gas station heroin after ongoing debate over
1:43:13
the effects of Kratom. Kratom is derived from a Southeast
1:43:17
Asian plant and supporters say when it's in its natural...
1:43:20
form kratom can help curb opioid addiction and manage pain.
1:43:25
So it makes total sense that we would ban that
1:43:28
plant because we can't get involved with the drug companies,
1:43:31
now can we? But Tennessee legislators sided with caution this
1:43:35
week, aligning with advocates who say kratom in any form
1:43:39
can lead to addiction. and even deadly overdoses. Tennessee now
1:43:44
joins eight other states in banning kratom entirely, even in
1:43:48
its natural form. And that's the problem. So... Banning the
1:43:53
natural plants. Well, you gotta read the end of the
1:43:55
guy's note. Well, that's all I had in mind. What
1:43:59
did you have at the end of his note? The
1:44:01
end of the note was he got a hold of
1:44:03
the toxicology report on the kid. I'm sorry. Yes, he
1:44:06
did. He got a hold of the toxicology report. Yeah,
1:44:08
well, read that. That's the best part. I don't have
1:44:11
that in my notes. Oh, okay. Well, I'll just tell
1:44:14
you what it says. Yeah, he had four times the...
1:44:17
Four times the lethal dose. Dose of Benadryl in his
1:44:21
system. Yeah. So I had almost everything except for the.
1:44:26
The punchline. Well, precisely. I hand back my clip of
1:44:31
the day. This bill addresses the growing public health and
1:44:34
safety concerns surrounding kratom, often marketed as a natural supplement.
1:44:40
But natural does not mean safe. The Kratom plant has
1:44:43
been used as an alternative to opioids, a way to
1:44:46
wean addicts off heroin, and as a natural way to
1:44:50
relieve pain. But in recent years, Kratom has been modified
1:44:54
into a stronger synthetic form known as 7-hydroxy or 7-OH.
1:44:59
often sold at gas stations and vape shops as a
1:45:02
supplement or extract. Experts say 7-OH is 13 more times
1:45:08
potent than morphine. Yeah, okay. So there's a synthetic version,
1:45:13
which obviously is a problem. But the plant itself, I
1:45:16
mean, I think that should be invested. Where is our...
1:45:19
This should be investigated. Because I've heard enough. That guy's
1:45:23
got enough problems. I've heard nothing but positive things. Nothing
1:45:27
but positive things about Kratom. The plant, not the... vape
1:45:32
shop, gas station heroin or whatever they're calling it. Well,
1:45:37
I've heard nothing at all. 33. Clip Blitz. Clip Blitz.
1:45:42
All right. Clip Blitz. What are we doing? Okay, let's
1:45:44
start with voting rights and athletes. The NAACP is urging
1:45:50
black athletes who are being recruited by public universities and
1:45:53
states weakening the power of black voters to not commit
1:45:57
to going to those schools until those states... governments restore
1:46:00
fair congressional maps. The Civil Rights Group is targeting eight
1:46:04
states in the South where major college football and basketball
1:46:07
programs made up of mostly black players rake in big
1:46:10
money. The NAACP is also asking college athletes to elevate
1:46:14
the issue and call on leaders to speak out against
1:46:17
racial redistricting. It's also urging alumni, donors, and fans to
1:46:20
withhold financial support. Several Republican-led states are racing to redraw
1:46:25
congressional districts in an effort to flip seats, effectively diluting
1:46:30
black voting power. All right. Yeah, yeah, that's going to
1:46:33
work. Screw the black athletes. I'm sorry. Steve Hilton had.
1:46:38
Ah, Steve Hilton head in the clip blitz. What is
1:46:44
going on with the Clip Blitz? Steve Hilton. There's a
1:46:48
long lead-in to the Eclipse. The NAACP is urging black
1:46:52
athletes who are being recruited by public... No, that's not
1:46:55
Hilton. Where's Hilton head? Skip it. Go ahead and lift.
1:46:58
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Try it again. Hold
1:46:59
on. Don't move. Republican commentator Steve Hilton and former health
1:47:04
secretary Javier Becerra, a Democrat, continue to lead the primary
1:47:08
for California governor. KQED politics correspondent Guy Marzarati has more
1:47:12
on a new survey from the state Democratic Party. The
1:47:15
poll finds Hilton leading the pack with the. support of
1:47:18
22% of likely voters. Becerra is in second with 21%,
1:47:22
followed by investor Tom Steyer with 15%. 13% of voters
1:47:27
remain undecided just two weeks before the June 2nd primary.
1:47:32
The survey could ease some Democrats' fears about two Republicans
1:47:36
advancing to November. Under the state's top two primary, it
1:47:39
finds Hilton as opens a comfortable lead over Riverside County
1:47:43
Sheriff Chad Bianco. We got to make it illegal. Make
1:47:46
it illegal. That can't happen. We can't have that happen.
1:47:51
Clip Blitz! Clip Blitz! Alright, Clip Blitz! Lyft driver used
1:47:54
AI photos to the index of father from Boca Verde.
1:47:57
Florida claiming a Lyft driver used AI photos to falsely
1:48:01
accuse his teen daughters of damaging his car, charging a
1:48:04
$75 fee. They sent the father photos, but at the
1:48:07
bottom right, the Gemini logo. Now, Gemini is Google's AI
1:48:11
assistant that can generate false images. Lyft has now apologized
1:48:15
and blocked the driver from their app. It's another No
1:48:18
Agenda. Let's go! Cliblitz. Was that it? That was a
1:48:23
good one. Elon Musk lawsuit. Hold on. Elon Musk lawsuit.
1:48:29
Yes. Welcome back. This just in tonight. A jury has
1:48:31
thrown out Elon Musk's massive lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam
1:48:35
Altman. A federal jury. found that Musk waited too long
1:48:39
to sue. He had accused Altman of illegally enriching himself
1:48:42
off the company that must help start with him. Musk
1:48:45
says he will appeal, saying the judge didn't rule on
1:48:48
the merits of that case. All right, now can I
1:48:51
play a couple of clips about AI stuff since you've
1:48:54
led us here with your cliplets or is there more
1:48:56
cliplets? There's a couple more. Ugh. Well, can we- Don't
1:49:00
give me that! Can we take- Your clip blitz is
1:49:02
like three- This one here, I want to play this
1:49:04
one because this is a sad one. Three clip blitzes.
1:49:08
Oh, okay. Sad one. Alright. It's another No Agenda. No
1:49:12
Agenda! All right. CBS Radio signs off. Yeah. Have you
1:49:16
heard this? Yep. Of course. Before there was television, long
1:49:20
before there were podcasts, CBS radio basically invented broadcast news.
1:49:25
In big cities and remote farmhouses, families would gather around
1:49:29
the radio to hear President Roosevelt deliver a fireside chat.
1:49:33
Now we've got Mondami on Twitch. Or Edward R. Murrow's
1:49:36
eyewitness accounts of the Blitz. Broadcast like that one brought
1:49:53
the sound of the world into people's living rooms. In
1:49:56
the process, CBS Radio made the world... and listeners' vision
1:50:00
a little broader. Generations of talented wordsmiths polished their craft
1:50:05
at CBS. Before Charles Kuralt went on the road and
1:50:08
Peggy Noonan penned speeches for presidents, they got their start
1:50:11
working overnights, pounding away at typewriters, painting vivid pictures for
1:50:15
the ear. CBS Radio is still carried on... some 700
1:50:19
stations. But fewer people are listening to the radio these
1:50:23
days. There are other ways to entertain yourself in the
1:50:26
car now, and young people have grown to expect more
1:50:28
personalized programming from their smartphones. CBS's parent company was sold
1:50:33
to David Ellison's Skydance Media last year. The new owners
1:50:36
announced two months ago they were silencing the microphones and
1:50:40
laying off the radio staff. Christopher Cruz is set to
1:50:43
deliver the final CBS radio newscast just after 11.30 Eastern
1:50:48
time tonight. Well, in an interesting twist, there was a
1:50:52
prophecy about this happening. Back in 1990. And the prophecy
1:50:59
is this, because if you listen, how does this start
1:51:02
off? This starts off by them saying, Before there was
1:51:05
television, long before there were podcasts. Right? So... Our first
1:51:10
house, the first house I bought. in New Jersey in
1:51:14
1990 I bought from Dallas Townsend. Does that name ring
1:51:19
a bell to you? It sounds familiar, but I can't
1:51:23
place it at the moment. He was the quintessential CBS
1:51:29
radio news guy. And when we bought the house, there
1:51:32
was a big picture of Walter Cronkite above the fireplace.
1:51:37
out And so in an odd sort of way, that
1:51:41
was the passing of the torch. 10 years before podcasting
1:51:46
came to be. So that was, in fact, a prophecy.
1:51:51
How's it a prophecy? Well, because I'm making it into
1:51:54
one. Hello, okay. Hello. I'm just making it up as
1:51:58
I go along, John. Yeah, you're just like the MS
1:52:02
Now people. Okay, I'm going to cut you off. If
1:52:05
you talk to me like that, you might as well
1:52:07
just say I'm a horrible person. Alright, Clip Blitz, come
1:52:14
on, Clip Blitz. It's another No Agenda. Okay, well the
1:52:16
last... Do you want to play one more, the Minnesota?
1:52:19
I don't really, but yeah, I'll do it. Well, you
1:52:22
don't have to. No, now we've announced it. We did
1:52:24
a clipless jingle. Well, then play this Minnesota. Which one
1:52:29
is it? It doesn't say. I don't have a Minnesota.
1:52:32
Classic cars. Classic cars. Minnesota lawmakers want to ground your
1:52:37
classic. car five days a week. Yeah, I saw this.
1:52:40
A new Minnesota bill could ban most weekday and nighttime
1:52:44
driving for classic cars. Now, this is kind of wild.
1:52:47
Of course, we enjoy seeing classic cars on the road.
1:52:50
Brings a smile to everyone's face, you'd think, but that
1:52:52
experience might be about to become even rarer in Minnesota
1:52:54
because the new law, if passed, would limit classic... cars
1:52:58
to driving only on weekends or at special events well
1:53:03
okay i saw this story and someone sent it to
1:53:06
me it was like this is they're getting classic cars
1:53:09
off the road hey That's only because these people want
1:53:12
cheap registration. If you register your car as a car,
1:53:17
You can drive it whenever you want. Yeah, it's true.
1:53:20
It's kind of misleading. It's kind of misleading. Very misleading.
1:53:24
But at the same time, what is the point? I
1:53:26
mean, but this is now misleading, maybe. But is this
1:53:30
a foreboding? Is this a prophecy, perhaps, that's going to
1:53:34
start to move the older cars out because they won't
1:53:37
have... have computers that can track you? Ah, through the
1:53:40
data centers and the flock cameras and the license plate
1:53:43
readers? Hmm. Absolutely. Coincidence? I think not. I shall wind
1:53:51
us up here with a few clips from CNBC. I
1:53:54
like CNBC because they kind of can't lie. Well, they
1:54:00
can. They can, but... It doesn't go over with the
1:54:05
investors. It doesn't go over well with their audience at
1:54:07
all, however small it is. This is about the AI
1:54:11
IPOs. And we're now starting to get some information, starting
1:54:15
off with SpaceX. Texas IPO. And I thought it was
1:54:21
a relatively intelligent conversation about getting out first, who's making
1:54:28
money, who's doing what. And for those of you who
1:54:31
get value from the show by hearing us talk about
1:54:34
things, maybe this is of value to you. Last night,
1:54:36
though. Around dinner time here in the Bay Area, the
1:54:38
SpaceX Prospectus dropped. Dropped? Drop? Pick it up. I remember
1:54:47
when we went public in 96. Well, it looks like
1:54:50
Think New Ideas have filed their S1 document. Now it's
1:54:54
just looks like it dropped. though around dinner time here
1:54:58
in the bay area the spacex prospectus dropped and it
1:55:02
was a 308 page document that is part rocket company
1:55:06
part satellite empire part frontier ai lab all wrapped in
1:55:10
a controlled company structure with elon musk holding majority of
1:55:14
the board now the ai segment that is the part
1:55:16
that i want to dig in to today because essentially
1:55:18
all paths in that S1 lead back to AI. You're
1:55:23
right. This lady could be replaced by an AI agent
1:55:28
going, let's do a deep dive. The financials have three
1:55:31
main sections, space, connectivity, and AI. The AI segment, it
1:55:34
did $3.2 billion in revenue last year. on 6.4 billion
1:55:38
of losses. Now, the eye-popping number, though, that was CapEx,
1:55:42
as it often is these days. Nearly $13 billion on
1:55:45
AI infrastructure, which is four times the revenue it is
1:55:49
currently bringing in. So if you are a bear, the
1:55:53
math here in this last one, it's pretty straightforward. If
1:55:55
it's a $2 trillion valuation... has been reported and speculated
1:55:59
on 18 billion dollars in total revenue last year you're
1:56:02
looking at more than 100 times sales for contacts nvidia
1:56:05
trades at around 23 times palantir one of the most
1:56:08
stretched names in the public market around 88 so spacex
1:56:11
would be coming in higher than either of them and
1:56:15
it's actually not actually profitable it is losing money Here's
1:56:18
the other thing, though. SpaceX has never been priced on
1:56:20
traditional measures, and that is unlikely to change right now.
1:56:23
This is a growth bet on Elon Musk full stop.
1:56:26
And the same investors who bought SpaceX... Did she say
1:56:28
full stop in the middle of a sentence? yes but
1:56:31
she never stopped no that's bad form i agree private
1:56:35
rounds 400 500 600 billion dollars They did it because
1:56:38
of him. The retail demand on day one, likely going
1:56:41
to be enormous. And whatever you think of Musk's politics
1:56:44
or pay package, he has done something that no one
1:56:47
else has, built category-defining companies not once or twice, three
1:56:51
times. So that bet on SpaceX, it also matters beyond
1:56:55
this IPO itself because... OpenAI is reportedly planning a confidential
1:56:59
filing as soon as this week. Anthropic may not be
1:57:02
far behind. Players in the infrastructure layer underneath, all of
1:57:06
them are watching Q and trying to figure out their
1:57:08
own windows. What was the bell for? I just felt
1:57:13
like that bell was needed. So, in this... Anthropic's not...
1:57:17
far behind in this follow all three of these things
1:57:20
in this follow-up clip they're going to give you some
1:57:22
insight about the differences between the three i thought it
1:57:25
was reasonably good i'm not sure it matters too much
1:57:29
uh who goes first okay the no agenda show disagrees
1:57:33
whoever goes first is gonna is gonna be the big
1:57:35
winner everyone else we don't think that's Every so often
1:57:39
something like this happens. The first one goes and they
1:57:41
did the big winner. Then the next one goes and
1:57:43
then something screwy happens and then it folds and the
1:57:47
third one gets nothing. I'm not sure it matters too
1:57:50
much who goes first. It does matter. It does. I
1:57:55
think they're just so different in the model. Obviously, SpaceX
1:58:00
is really a bet on Elon and his vision. OpenAI,
1:58:03
I think, is really a bet on the consumerization of
1:58:06
AI. And I know OpenAI recently has started to move
1:58:10
away from the consumer model and more to enterprise. But
1:58:12
their DNA has been a consumer-first AI company. Anthropic, from
1:58:16
the beginning, was... hey we're an enterprise solution and so
1:58:20
i think one of the things to think about is
1:58:22
where do investors believe the the future at least in
1:58:25
the near term near to medium term right the next
1:58:27
two to five years where should they place their chips
1:58:30
they could place on both but if you have to
1:58:31
pick one do you pick on ai and consumers or
1:58:34
do you pick on ai uh in the enterprise and
1:58:37
that's In the private market, that was the trade for
1:58:39
venture. The venture capitalists that believed in AI would be
1:58:42
a consumer application first before anything else, bet on open
1:58:45
AI. And the ones that believed it was the enterprise,
1:58:47
bet on entropic. And I think now retail and the
1:58:50
rest of us will get to make that choice. I'm
1:58:52
going to give you my opinion. You just say blah,
1:58:55
blah, blah. Well, you should have cut him short. then
1:58:57
you should give your opinion instead of listening to that.
1:59:00
What's your opinion? I don't have an opinion. Exactly. As
1:59:05
crazy as he seems, I think Elon Musk is actually
1:59:09
doing the smartest thing. It may never come to be
1:59:12
his data centers in space. I don't know. But he's
1:59:15
selling compute. It's anthropic. I think he's giving up on
1:59:20
the LLM business and Grok will just be whatever it
1:59:24
is for people to go, "Hey, Grok, take your shirt
1:59:26
off." and uh hey grok remove the loser or hey
1:59:30
grok remove the remove the jew they do this all
1:59:33
the time You've seen that. Yahoo. It's funny though. It's
1:59:39
so horrible. I think, I think Musk has the right
1:59:44
idea. Be in the, in the cheapest infrastructure business. Once
1:59:48
you get those things up in space using the sun.
1:59:51
And I don't know about anthropic and open AI. But
1:59:54
then my final clip will be from Jeff Bezos. It
1:59:57
was a very different take on AI taking your job
2:00:01
away. So there are so many smart people and they
2:00:04
are smart and they are saying, oh my God, you
2:00:06
know, there's going to be no more radiologists because, you
2:00:10
know, AI can read x-rays better than a radiologist can.
2:00:14
And there are going to be no more software engineers
2:00:16
because AI can program better than... software engineer again. These
2:00:19
people are wrong. So what's really going to happen is
2:00:23
that it's going to elevate all of these people and
2:00:25
there's going to, it's like, it's like you've been digging,
2:00:28
let's say you're a software engineer. Right. What it's, the,
2:00:31
the analogy I can give you is you've been digging
2:00:35
out a basement for your house. with a shovel and
2:00:39
somebody was about to hand you a bulldozer. You should
2:00:44
be so happy if you're digging the basement to your
2:00:47
house and somebody says, hey, how about this? I have
2:00:50
a tool here that's going to... And what's really going
2:00:53
to happen is we're going to have so much productivity
2:00:55
in our economy. For example, this is just one effect.
2:01:01
A lot of people who have two earner income households,
2:01:06
one of the people is going to drop out of
2:01:08
the workforce. That's why we're going to have a labor
2:01:10
shortage. Because of the productivity gains, you're going to be
2:01:15
able to afford things. predict will actually have deflation of
2:01:20
certain core. Assuming we let this technology play out and
2:01:25
don't hamstring it with regulation too early. We will actually
2:01:30
have you know, everything will get your food will get
2:01:33
cheaper. Whoa Now that's a different take I like it.
2:01:38
I like it too. I think he's right. I'm with
2:01:41
you on that. I'm surprised by that because you hated
2:01:44
this AI thing. Well, I hated the chat part of
2:01:49
it. Yes, I thought that was stupid. I've been using
2:01:52
AI for all kinds of things. Coding. That's true. You're
2:01:55
like an acolyte. I don't know. I don't know what
2:01:58
that means. That figures. But if it's a prophecy. But
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you're one of them. But I want to wear that
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mantle. And I also want to thank you for your
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courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who
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put the C in cowabunga. Say hello to my friend
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on the other end, the one and the only, Mr.
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John C. Yeah, well in the morning you and Ms.
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I think K is cowabunga spelled with a K. I'm
2:02:21
John. No, it's not. It's definitely spelled with a C.
2:02:27
Let me count the trolls for a second. Let me
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see. 1602 on a Memorial Day weekend. That's not too
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bad. Oh, good. Yeah, it's good. Trolls are listening. No
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Many people help us. so many ways, giving us extra
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on the ground on Kratom. We have a lot. In
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fact, if there's a secret sauce of the No Agenda
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show, it's the producers. There is always someone somewhere who
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really are what make it all fly. In addition to
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that, we have artists. Well, we used to have artists.
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I was talking about this the other day at the
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dinner table. So we used to have a lot of
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artists. Now we have prompters. The artists are all gone.
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I don't think we've had a... Well, Nestworks, I think,
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does kind of some art still. Blue Acorn. But have
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we had any of the old guards? Nick the Rat
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is trying some AI stuff, but I don't know. We
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haven't quite gotten to that Bezos. Promise, yes. that is
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only going to be better for them. How do you
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feel? I like the art we get. It's always been
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sketchy. It's true. Well, so what Nessworks is, and Nessworks
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was the art that we chose for episode 1870 titled
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VBS. Took a while to get that up on noagendashow.net,
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but we finally got that figured out. It was there,
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but it was the wrong number. Void Zero and I
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are going to try and make that less of a
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problem when things go wrong. But Neswork created this. I
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think he did more of this by hand than by
2:05:17
AI. What do you think? This flamingo. Well, it had
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a different look for sure. It's hard to say. I
2:05:26
mean, it could have been all AI. Or it could
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have been, you know, a cut-and-paste job. I don't know.
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Maybe he can tell us. Yes, please, Nestworks, let us
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know. Looking at Noogen, our Artgenerator.com, that's where Sir Paul
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Couture spends a lot of his time making sure that
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we aren't spammed and we don't have, I don't know,
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like inappropriate art flowing into the art generator. Which is
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very obvious for people who like to do that kind
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of stuff. And it is Memorial Day weekend, so I
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would recommend that the artists give us Memorial Day. The
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themed art. I'm with you on that. Not Cuba. Did
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we even talk about Rubio and Cubio? Cubio! There you
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go, Cubio. Yeah, you played a bunch of stuff. Did
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I? I don't remember. Not on Q-Bub, it's just a
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bit Rubio. Yeah. Looking at the artwork that we received.
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Eve. We had some screw lube art that babes are
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overrated. You use the no agenda podcasting vacation school for
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the newsletter. That was nice. Oh yeah, and there was
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babes, just lots of babes. Too many babes. We're not
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gonna choose babes all the time. And it's not so
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funny to have women falling down manhole covers. or manholes
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in New York, we found that kind of gruesome. Uh...
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manhole because the lady died. It wasn't that nice. She
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died? Who fell down the manhole, yeah. Oh, I didn't
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know that. Yeah, she burned up. It was scalding hot.
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It was a bad, very, very bad day for her.
2:07:00
No, I don't think there was anything else we really
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liked. Was there anything that you recall that we discussed?
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No, the one I liked was the one we picked.
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Yeah, that was it. It was very, I would say
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Christian Sutton Jensen is in Clovis, New Mexico, comes in
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that. and says it's time to become a red knight
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so it's one thousand dollars one thousand thirty dollars and
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sixty cents that's what that uh 26. 26, I'm sorry.
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And Christian says, to become a red knight. I need
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the biggest dose of health karma you're legally allowed to
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give. Well, we can determine that, no problem. We have
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a governor on it, but we can take it off.
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We're unscrewing that thing. One month ago, my aunt was
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hospitalized with bacterial meningitis. She's been awaiting a heart surgery
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of her own after weeks of fighting infections and other
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horrible things. Things are stabilizing but not improving. I think
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a red knighthood is the appropriate move at this time.
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I've struggled a long time with my faith. I don't
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know if it's appropriate or not, but I asked my
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fellow producers to keep my aunt in their prayers. She
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is a beautiful and joyful woman. and God knows her
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family needs her in their lives. On a lighter note,
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I would like to be knighted as Sir Yes Sir
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of the You Know Where, and he winds up with
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thank you for your courage. So we're going to do
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some extra super stuff for you and for your aunt.
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Here we go. You've got karma. Prayers. go. Vincent James
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in Madison, Alabama, 103026. No note. He's going to have
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But since he's got no note, we'll give him a
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to Rio Rancho, New Mexico. $1,000. Caddy Bones comes in.
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It's a switcheroo for Jim, I might add. Caddy Bones
2:10:35
says, Dear Adam and John, my husband and I have
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been together for a long time. Jim and I have
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been listeners since 2014. That's a... 12 years, I'd say.
2:10:42
I unfortunately lost him at the end of 2023 to
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a fall. Oh, man. My life is never and will
2:10:49
never be the same without him. We look forward to
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our No Agenda nights twice a week on Sundays. We
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learn so much from your show, especially during COVID. Thank
2:10:57
you, she says. I could fill pages with examples of
2:11:00
what a wonderful husband and best friend he was, but
2:11:03
nobody has that much time. So I'll just say that
2:11:06
in all of our years together, we never had a
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fight. I've been meaning to write in and make him
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a knight. However, I never felt like it was the
2:11:12
right moment. It always made me sad thinking about the
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fact that he would be a posthumous knight. But once
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I heard about the Order of the Heart, I knew
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I had to make him a red knight, something special.
2:11:22
I would love it if you could de-douche him posthumously.
2:11:25
Well, of course you can. You've been de-douched. There are
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a couple of jingles that he really liked, Climate Gate
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and Fear is Freedom, and I would love it if
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you played them in honor of him. For his night
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name, I would love it to be Sir J. Bones,
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a nickname of mine for him. Thank you. I'm going
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to send a letter and donate soon so I can
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be his dame. Thank you both for keeping me sane,
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not just during that time that he was here with
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me, but since then as well. I tune into every
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show and try to imagine him next to me, listening
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and laughing. I'm sure he's up. listening and laughing and
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watching you. Big thank you to you both and to
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Noage and the Nation for helping to keep us all
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sane during this insane time. Sincerely, J. Bones' loving wife,
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Caddy Bones. To the gate, to the gate, to the
2:12:11
climate gate. you you *Dramatic music* Classic. Classic, classic, classic.
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Onward with Aaron and Lopez in Santa Rosa, California, 1000.
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And he sent a note in, a physical note. Hello,
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John and Adam. I'm a first-time donor. I couldn't pass
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up the chance to become a Red Knight on my
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COVID. and felt the need to return the value in
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these trying times. I'm entering my final year of college.
2:13:02
Wow. I like this. At Sonoma State. And I would
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like some Jobs Karma, Pelosi Jobs Karma, the classic, of
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course, as I search for an accounting internship. Thanks for
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all that. you do please knight me as Sir Blue
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Wolf of the bean counter. Sincerely, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, it's
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H-E. Ernan, Ernan. Ernan, Ernan, Ernan. Lopez. He's got a
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pronunciation guide for his name, but. Lopez is what we
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call him. And I'm gonna dedouche him. He didn't ask
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for it, but, uh, first-time donor. You've been dedouched. Jobs,
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thousands down to our first associate executive producer, Chris Dubendorf
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from Brookville, Maryland, 257.94. Did not have a note, but
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does have an American flag emoji, so I'm going to
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say that is likely for Memorial Day. And I will
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still... Add a double up karma for you. You've got...
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Karma. So we didn't have one normal executive producer. Yeah,
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we did. Oh, executive. No, well, I mean, what do
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you mean normal? 33333. Okay, well, that's a 333. We
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had four executive producers. No, I'm saying normal. Okay. Dame
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Melavation in Colorado Springs 250, she wrote an attached note.
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He's got kind of interesting handwriting. Dear JCD and AC,
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here's some value. This is probably a two. 50 donation
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for the two 50. uh 250 years yeah yeah this
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was a promotion you put it in the newsletter i
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remember yeah we got one - I'm pretty sure Chris
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was one as well, and the fees were $7.94. Just
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guessing. Okay. Celebrating 250 years of this great nation, you
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two will be... part of this country's history. Yeah, I
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think so. After 20 years. By keeping our amygdalas small,
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it's good to hear John being back to his old
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self, but with a seemingly slightly softer edge. My dad
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going until after JD or Marco are sworn in as
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number 48. um And he's got, oh, okay. Thank you
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for all that you do for all the producers. and
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the many blessings on everyone peace and joy dame melevation
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melanie drys oh very nice dame elevation thank you for
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And he says, Dear Adam and John, Uh... Oops, sorry,
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hold on a second. Dear Adam and John, In my
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quest to one day make a living as an author,
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well, you talk to John. That's the right guy to
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talk about. I've recently transitioned to the value for value
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So this donation is a thank you for a great
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M-A-T-T-B-W-R-I-T-E-S, MattBRights.com. I've got something for everyone, and it's all
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do the value for value model. I'm going to just
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help you right there. And as an added thank you,
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any donations I receive in the next month will be
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split with the No Agenda show. Adam, if you can
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find it, I'd love to hear the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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jingle, and I'd love to have some prayers. Well, you're
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lucky I actually found the Abu al-Baghdadi jingle. But John,
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could you please... Explain to him how the value for
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value model works for books because you have done this
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with Mimi and TooManyEggs.com. Yeah, you have the book available
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as a PDF. that it's it's free with the idea
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that the book will be downloaded and someone will end
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up buying a printed version. And the idea is that
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you want to... You want to sell. Or they download
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it and give you what they think it's worth in
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the value for value method. But I mean, using the
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word free has got to be minimized. Yeah, that has
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to go. But did it work well for the too
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many eggs doc? I think it worked well, yeah. But
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we saw a lot of books. I mean, the idea
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of the... It was a little different with the Too
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Many Eggs book, so we have a commercial version of
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the book which is printed. And that's not done value
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for value. Got it. Here we go. And that goal
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Bakar, Bakar, Abu. Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr. Abu,
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the United States, has been searching for Baghdadi for many
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I hadn't heard this in a long time. There it
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been lingering in the headlines a little too long, but
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the no agenda nights and dames. Dubs in Tennessee, Sir
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Patrick Coble and Pastor Jimmy and I had a little
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old school barbecue in the middle of Nashville. Maybe the
2:31:03
last time we'll ever eat there because the taxes are
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so high they may have to close it down. But
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meetups take place all over the world, literally. And you
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It's no cost. You just find a place. You all
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And this is the meetup in Los Angeles. Proud Bird.
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Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number 75 at
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the Proud Bird. I'm gonna pass the phone around, my
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friends have things to say. Hey John and Adam, Sir
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Leah Kim Fopop here, just here at the Proud Bird,
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mourning the death of Spirit Airlines. Not really. Sir Robertson
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of Two Sticks, enjoying the plain... Thank you Leo Bravo.
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Hey, great meetup you guys got here. It's Proud Bird
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just doing a little bit of Plane Spot and enjoying
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some company with some great folks. Long live the Constitution.
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Hey, this is Eric. Just reminding you, trains are better
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than planes. Train's good, plane's bad. I'm interested in what
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you guys are doing. in the story of the woman
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who was plunging into a searing manhole, I think that
2:32:19
anything that happens between two consenting adults should stay that
2:32:22
way. It should not have made the news. Oh, man.
2:32:25
Horrible. This is Angie from the ranch over here at
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the Proud Bird hanging out with Leo Bravo. In the
2:32:29
morning. In the morning! In the morning! See, that's what
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I'm talking about. You bring in your server. That makes
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the whole meter... And I'm sure Daymonette did the same
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at the Indy meetup for May. Hello, this is Day
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Maria. And Sir Mark. We have a small meetup today,
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but it is amazing as always. Come on, come on,
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next month. Hey, this is Emily, your Shufflecrat Spook. Insert
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something fun here. Brewski here, just enjoying some beers with
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the Bald Bros. Sir Rip of the Maple here in
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Indianapolis attending my monthly Ambigna Size Regulation Vita. My name
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is Toni. I'm from Louisville, Kentucky. I'm honestly too shy
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to be here and too gay. This is Katie from
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St. Joseph Public House and Brewery in Indianapolis, Indiana serving
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up the No Agenda. Live from Indianapolis, the home of
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the greatest spectacle in racing, gentlemen, start your podcasts. You
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notice how the servers over there at the brew house
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in Indianapolis, they really get into it. I think they
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have their own contest who can sound the coolest on
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the meter per port. Good job. I appreciate it. There's
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a meetup taking place today in New Jersey, Keyport, New
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Jersey to be exact. The We Drink and We Know
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Things is probably underway as we speak. The I Need
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up on the 30th, Anchorage, Alaska, we have Ukraine. Excuse
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me, on the 6th of June, Bila Turska, Kiev Oblast,
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Did not get my ISOs. So you win. It's just
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a matter of choosing which one. Which one would you
2:35:47
like me to play first? Well, I've gone with all
2:35:49
celebrities this show. Oh, nice. So let's start with Arnold
2:35:54
Schwarzenegger and Scrooge. Screw. Screw your other podcasts. This is
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the best. *laughs* That's a good one. I like that.
2:36:02
Very good. And who was the other celebrity? The other
2:36:06
one is Hillary Clinton. Wow. The No Agenda podcast is
2:36:10
too delicious to believe, my friend. Wow, this is a-
2:36:14
First of all, where'd you get these? I did them.
2:36:18
You called up Arnold and you called up Hillary. Hey,
2:36:21
Arnold, can you give me a quickie here? I honestly
2:36:24
think Arnold is the better one. Screw your other podcasts.
2:36:27
This is the best. Okay, fine. That may ever be
2:36:31
an evergreen. That is so good. Hey, everybody, right now
2:36:34
it's time. for John's tip of the day. ♪ Fast
2:36:38
for you and me ♪ Just the tip with JCB.
2:36:43
and sometimes Adam. Okay, since I'm a heart patient, I
2:36:49
have to have no salt in my diet basically for
2:36:53
the next year or two. Oh, no. horrible probably forever
2:36:56
yeah And so I've had to come up with ways
2:36:59
of seasoning food that, you know, and other people need
2:37:03
to go and lower salt. They need to know these
2:37:05
things. And so I found a couple of products, which
2:37:08
I think are quite good at salt substitutes. This is
2:37:12
a very good tip for people who can't. Now, why
2:37:14
can't you have salt? What is the reason? What does
2:37:17
salt do to the heart? It changes your electrolytic balance.
2:37:19
And how is that bad for your heart? It makes
2:37:22
your heart go into irregular heartbeats. Oh, okay. That wouldn't
2:37:25
be good. No. No. So that's one of many things.
2:37:32
It's also hard on the kidneys. It has all kinds
2:37:34
of issues. Okay. Now I had a Goya, a Cezanne
2:37:39
though, Total or whatever. picked some time ago, but I'm
2:37:44
gonna bump that and go with "Badia" complete. No added
2:37:51
salt. This is the badia seasoning from the Mexican. food
2:37:56
provider. It's a seasoning. Buy the biggest container of it
2:38:00
that you can find, usually in a Mexican store. And
2:38:03
it, actually, Brennan has said that it saved my palate,
2:38:08
is using this stuff on everything. It is a terrific
2:38:12
all-purpose seasoning. What does it taste like? Well, if you
2:38:17
smell it, you can smell all kinds of stuff in
2:38:19
it. It's got garlic and onion. It's got the basic
2:38:23
things, and it's also kosher for people who worry about
2:38:26
that. Well, our Jew money, people will be happy. Yeah,
2:38:30
it's kosher, and it's just a terrific... garlicy, oniony, cinnamon,
2:38:37
it's got all kinds of stuff in it. It's just
2:38:39
a... It's an all-purpose seasoning. You dump it on everything
2:38:44
and use it generously. Have you considered MSG? MSG is
2:38:52
sodium. Oh it is? Oh that's right of course it's
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Muto. Multi Mutaglamonate Studium Glamban Academy. Yeah. What is it
2:39:00
again? What is MSG again? Monosodium glutamate. That's what it
2:39:05
is. Okay, give me the name of this product again
2:39:08
because I may have to try that. It sounds good.
2:39:10
Oh, you'll love this stuff. It's Badia, B-A-D-I-A. Badia? Uh...
2:39:14
C'est saison completa. And it just says complete seasoning. And
2:39:22
if you go to a Mexican mercado or a supermercado,
2:39:28
they will have the big giant containers of it. Ask
2:39:31
for it by name at your local mercado. Yeah, it's
2:39:35
great. I might try that. It sounds good. Hey, this
2:39:38
is just one of the many tips of the day
2:39:39
you can find at noagendafun.com, tipsoftheday.net. Just the Tip with
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JC Deer Sometimes at all. Created by Dana Burnetti. Well,
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there we go. Perfect timing because I need... to get
2:39:55
my fancy suit on for the big K-Love Awards tonight
2:40:00
at the Grand Ole Opry. You're going to be presenting?
2:40:02
You know, they have podcast awards and they've never asked
2:40:06
me, never even considered to have me present and this
2:40:10
is my third year I've been there. So no, I
2:40:11
will not be. I'll just be in the audience. You
2:40:14
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the most... You get a go bag. There's no swag
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will worship God. This is the good news. Lots of
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Jesus. That's cheap. Okay. I think it airs on, I
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don't know what it airs on, TBN next week or
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something. So I could actually tell you the winners on
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Thursday, but I might not. Oh, and then we can
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bet on them in the betting market. Kelchie up. Show
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