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fraud never fraud is everywhere Good morning everybody, I'm Adam
Curry. What's the fuss about the TV show Euphoria? I'm
John C. Dvorak. Okay, I'll bite. The TV show Euphoria.
I don't think I've even heard of this. Of course
not. Why would you keep up with what's going on
with Gen Z? *laughs* What is the show? I may
have heard about it, but what is the show about?
What about Gen Z? I don't know what it's about.
I haven't never seen it. Okay, so... It's supposed to
be a big deal. In fact, here's this... BBC headline.
Headline. Breaking. Almost rage bait. Has euphoria gone from defining
Gen Z to dividing them? With a picture of Sidney
Sweeney as the teaser. I don't know, man. We just
started watching Dutton Ranch. So that's what we're watching. Oh,
that's another Taylor Sheridan. That's the guy Taylor Sheridan does,
you know, Landman, Yellowstone, all these cowboy shows. And it's
pretty good. Dunn Ranch is good. It's not- hey, you
know what? Can you just stick to one of them?
Well, no, we finished all of the other ones. What
are you talking about? Is Landman done? The most recent
season is done, yeah. Why isn't he working on another
season? Well, I'm sure he is. How many shows can
this guy do at once and be good at it?
You know, this is what showrunners do. When you're hot,
you got to do it. You got to just keep
pumping them out, man. Pumping them out. And then there
was Madison. Was it Madison? Count Madison, I think. With
Kurt Russell and... I got a name, Blondie. Blondie. Yeah.
Another good show. There's lots of good shows. By Taylor
Sheridan? Yeah. It's like the guy Darren, what is his
name, who did the Beverly Hills 90210. Darren O'Neill. Darren
O'Neill, that's right. Famous. Beverly Hills 90210. And for a
while he was doing all the shows and then he
did the... the new, was it the new series of
Sex and the City, and it was horrible. You know,
he tried to rekindle that old spark that he had.
I don't know. Hey, you know what? Nobody cares. I
think literally nobody cares anymore about good TV shows. We
might watch them, we might not. It's not like it
used to be. Not like the good old days. Where
you'd be like, "Hey, did you see Friends last night?
It was awesome!" Yeah, it's because we're only three channels.
Pretty much. So I'm looking at X this morning, and
you think that Paris is burning down. And, you know,
there's all these... Because they won a soccer match. So
is that what it is? Yeah, the Saint-Germain team won
the... The big cup, the club cup. And there's a
first time that any team except Real Madrid has ever
won it two years in a row. And the French
have gone nuts. So the way that plays out on
X is immigrants torching businesses, looting stores. Oh, it's a
celebration of the soccer team. So be true. Yeah, well,
yes, but that could also be a celebration of the
soccer team. That's hilarious because you don't hear anything about
the football match. You only do if you listen to
the BBC or the... That's my point, though! People are,
you know, you look at X, go like, oh, the
Muslims. the desk burning it up. I will say we
watched the last season, the last episode of Hacks. I
don't think you'd like it with Gene Smart. Where she's
a comedian. I told you to watch it and you
probably hated it. I watched the beginning. The first season
I watched, I thought it had some elements that were
good, but it was unrealistic. Well, hello. And so the
very last one, the very last, like the series closer.
Let me guess. She gets shot. Oh, no. By an
immigrant. No, but they go to Paris. And Tina and
I go like, this is unrealistic. Where are the Muslims?
That's like whenever you see a show on this London,
like, nah. No, I'm not seeing it. I'm not seeing
it. London's loaded. So this thing was trending on X,
and it was one of those clips where I'm like,
uh. I gotta go find a longer version of this.
So the way this was played is... Mike Johnson, Speaker
of the House. uh wants more money for congress they
want to pay raise which not it was not even
the issue at all but so that kind of like
i hadn't heard about that yeah well i saw that
it wasn't actually what he was pushing for but okay
no and and so what it was what he was
pushing for is more stock trading that's exactly the way
you take And if you listen to the clip, here
it is. Well, look, you know, the salary of Congress
has been frozen since 2009. You know, when you adjust
for inflation, a member of Congress today is making 31
percent less than they made in that year. It goes
down every year. And over time, if you stay on
this trajectory, you're going to have less qualified people who
are willing to make the extreme. I mean, people just
make a reasonable decision as a family on whether or
not they can come and move to Washington, have a
residence here, a residence at home, and do all the
things that are required. So the counterargument is, and I
have some sympathy, look, at least let them engage in
some stock trading so that they can continue to take
care of their family. So. I had the same response.
You just like, oh, that's the first thing you'd think.
Yeah. And of course, the first clue is this is
posted by the House Democrats account. So I'm like, okay,
let me go find the full clip. Let me see
what he actually said. In fact, he is for a
ban on. insider trading. Oh, that's cool. Here it is.
I'll tell you my honest opinion on it. I mean,
I'm in favor of that because I don't think we
should have any appearance of impropriety here, okay? But the
other side of it, some people say... Well, look, you
know, you see how that how they cut that bit
off at the beginning was I'm in favor of the
ban on stock trading. And they cut that off and
then it turns into- Oh yeah. That's a shocker to
me. I'm glad you uncovered this scandal. Well, so here's
another one. And this has been running for like a
week and a half. And I want to ask you
a question after we listen to this. There's all kinds
of fraud being... Fraud! Everest fraud is everywhere! Especially the
Somalians. Uh... the Muslims. And so there's an audit across
50 states. Now, I'm going to see, let's see if
you pick up on the same thing that I did
when you hear this clip. Now, we'll audit all 50
American states looking for potentially massive fraud. In the billing
of autism treatment, This is happening now amid a recent
explosion in spending on autism services, North Carolina alone. apparently
saw an 11,000% increase in the last four years. Why
was that? Good question for Alexandria Hoff live in D.C.
Alex, hello. Good morning. Hey, Billy, that is a good
question because according to that data coming out of North
Carolina, the use of taxpayer-funded autism services is significantly outpacing
the number of children being diagnosed. So something's not right
there, and it's not just in the Tar Heel State.
A recent analysis by the Cato Institute found that in
five years, Medicaid billing has surged in every other state
that makes their data public. on ABA therapy. It's Applied
Behavior Analysis. That's what it's called. For reference, Minnesota's ABA
spending increased by about 51,000% since 2018. We all know
what happened there. President Trump spoke on that yesterday. So
that with millions of dollars just being stolen, everybody had
autism. Everybody had autism. They said, incredible action Just seems
so my see what they're doing. You haven't seen it.
I listened to this. And I'm thinking, well, hold on
a minute. RFK Jr., the president, myself. Everybody has been
saying, the studies show that everybody has autism. One out
of three boys. thinking this scam is much bigger than
they're talking about here. perhaps the actual study of autism
of how many people have autism. was the scam to
begin with, an inside job before it even got to
the Medicare and all of this money that was going
to autism treatment. How, we've only heard, well, there was
nobody with autism when I was a kid. Now everybody
has autism. Is this much bigger? I mean, doesn't anyone
see? the connection there between this thing that we've been
told for the past five years over and over and
over again that every single kid has autism it's all
because of the vaccines Maybe some of that is overblown?
For the purposes of scamming the public out of their
tax dollars? Precisely. I like the thesis. I mean, what
I'm missing is anyone else discussing the thesis. It seems
like a no-brainer. Like, yeah, remember, everybody had autism. The
president just said it. Everybody's got autism. That's what he
said a year ago. Everyone's got autism. We've got to
stop this. But now there's too much autism. Treatment? Something
does not compute here. Something is a lot. So I
have a couple of things I wanted to talk about
today, too, which is along these same lines. OK. Things
don't make sense. And one. that The one that's gotten
into me and I started looking into it. is the
Freedom 250. Oh, this is great. So here, play this.
This is the BBC's report on this. Trump 250 concerts.
Donald Trump has announced he's considering cancelling a series of
concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. and
replacing them with a single act, himself. From Washington, here's
Tom Simons. In his post, Donald Trump described himself as
the greatest president in history, the GOAT, and said he
was capable of getting bigger audiences than Elvis in his
prime. It was a riposte to a series of... who've
said they won't take part in the Freedom 250 celebrations,
including the funk and soul band The Commodores and the
country singer Martina McBride. Donald Trump said he was now
looking at the feasibility of putting himself on stage in
an America is Back rally in just four days' time
on Wednesday. in Washington, D.C. Now before you comment, I
have the NBC version of this, which mentions a few
more artists. Tonight, with preps already underway for an event
celebrating America's 250th birthday on the National Mall, a new
snag. This will be a time like you've never had
in your lives, America 250. Six musical artists originally announced
as performers now dropping out, many citing political concerns. Country
singer Martina McBride writing, I was presented with an opportunity
to perform at a nonpartisan event. out to be misleading.
Rapper Young MC sang, told about any political involvement. and
Poison frontman Brett Michaels, writing, it's evolved into something much
more divisive than I agreed to be part of. The
event is organized by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership launched
by President Trump. We have a president that wants to
celebrate 250 years of America, and that's exactly what we're
doing. That's how it was sold. to performers. Everyone is
backing out. A representative for Vanilla Ice. ABC News. is
proud to help celebrate America's 250th anniversary. Others still slated
to perform include... and Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli. Okay,
so... I hear all these names. You know, back in
the 90s, I was. I had a top 30 hit
list syndicated radio show. And the way you got it
on, the way it works is you give them the
show for free. They run it Sunday morning and they
get to sell three minutes of airtime. And I got
this. local airtime and then i would sell you know
six minutes of the rest of each hour on a
national basis it was actually very lucrative but the only
way you could get the stations to take it was
if i buy ron allen kind of deal completely it
was lucrative man it was good but then i sold
it to reebok and to pep In fact, I think
it was Pepsi's, Adam Curry's. Pepsi top 30 hit I
can't remember But the way to clear it is I'd
have to go to all these different bad top 40
radio stations. I've been to every single one of the
50 states. And you've got to do their B-91 summer
jam. And it was always, it was Milli Vanilli. It
was Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. It was all
these Vanilla Ice. It was all these track acts. This
is a track act concert. Who cares? I mean, the
Commodores? It's not like Lionel Richie's showing up with the
Commodores anymore. And then it's happening in four days from
now? No, it's not. I got the schedule here. I
don't understand that. Martina McBride was scheduled for June 25th.
That's not four days from now. No, it's not. These
reports are all bull crap. In fact, if Trump goes
on and talks about America 250, that's different than Freedom
250. Freedom 250 is a disaster waiting to happen. It's
idiotic. What is it? What is it? Okay, well here's
the problem. Just as a little background, America 250 was
put together by Obama. And it's still in play. The
chairman, the honorary chairman is Obama and George Bush. We've
got competing 250s. And so Trump, in January, came up
with this Freedom 250 thing and put this bonehead Silicon
Valley guy. And I want to hear, I'm just give
you an indication of what a megalomaniac this guy is.
Who? Keith Krach. So you have to go to KeithKratch.com.
Oh, man. Now this guy ran a reba. DocuSign. Angie's
List. He's a Silicon Valley hack. And he's rich. He's
loaded. I think he's a big donor. But if you
go to KeithKretsch.com. Is it Keith? Hold on. K-E-I-T-H. K.
Okay. R-A-T-C-H dot com? No, I think it's C-R-A-K-R-A-C-H. Oh,
KRA. Keith Cratch. Okay, who is this dude? Oh, co-founder
and channel. Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. Okay,
so if you look at this guy's megalomaniac website, nobody
in their right mind puts a personal site together that
looks like this. This is great. This is me everywhere.
Leadership. You'd think he was from Bombay. This is what
Indian guys do. Oh no, I'm very important. So they
do it for their moms, mostly, I'm told. Mommy, come
over from Bombay. I'll show you how to meet President
Trump. Sorry for being racist, everybody, but I can't help
it. So this guy, yeah, it's not racist. So they're
Caucasians, how can they be racist? Caucasians with melanin. So...
So let's look at this act. Now, the first thing,
when I think of putting together an America 250 thing,
what do I think, what comes to mind when it
comes to like what? What kind of acts represent the
country? Milli Vanilli? Of course not. No. So here's the
guy, he's got this set up as Martina McBride, whoever,
you know. C&W, so okay, she's somebody, but she doesn't
want to do it. No. By the way, none of
these people seem to have been contacted except for Bret
Michaels. They just put their name on it. The C&C
Music Factory guy who I think now says he's not.
By the way, C&C Music Factory, I don't think the
guy even sang on the record. It's just the guy
who dances, just like Lily Van Leeuwen. Let me give
you the list. Martina McBride, C&C Music Factory, Vanilla Ice.
These are all America 250. Where is Lee Greenwood? Where
is Kid Rock? The kind of people that Trump like.
Right. They're not on this list. That's what gave me
the signal that this is bull crap. Yeah. And it's
this guy, this Keith Krach guy running. He was given
the job. This is a classic example of Trump picking
the wrong guy. Yeah. He's running this. Freedom 250 thing
into the ground. It's an embarrassment for the president who's
got to back the guy up. He's not going to
get rid of him because he's a big donor. Oh,
wait a minute. Oh, hold on a second. This concert,
the so-called concert we're talking about, is part of the
Great American State Fair, which will be on the National
Mall. Yes, that's exactly the kind of acts who are
on the fair circuit. The Westbury Music Fair. Yeah, second
rate. The losers. Yeah, with no original band. Well, Vanilla
Ice is very patriotic, though, I'll have to say that.
Yeah, well, he wants to do it. But, you know.
But where are the real people that Trump would pick?
This is bull crap. This entire Freedom 250 thing is
a fiasco. And yeah, they maybe have a fireworks display,
but it's in competition with the other thing. And it's
like, seems to me to be just a poorly executed.
And this guy, this cratch character who doesn't seem likable
and he seems like an egomaniac, he's spread too thin.
If you look at his website, he's doing everything. He's
a professor. He's a CEO. He's this, he's that. The
thing though is the Rededicate 250. That was actually quite
good. I watched a lot of that. That was on
May 17th. And that was a pretty good show. And
they had every, you know, of course, it's a, you
know, a Christian Bible thumping thing, which is why I
watched it. Well, that's why you would like it. Yeah,
but it was also, the show was... put together very
well. It was tight. Yeah, but it was a bunch
of Christian bands. It wasn't Lee Greenwood. I think he
might have been there, actually. Well, here's what's interesting. So
now I have an ABC report. And this talks about
America 250th crosshairs. So there's already this confusion between freedom
to 50. America 250, and then America 250th. There's a
branding problem here. Oh, definitely. This is where Cory Booker
goes off. And on this issue of the 250th anniversary
of America... You had these performers that have canceled. They
perform at the celebration on the mall. And now Trump
is saying he's going to turn it into celebration at
the mall. No, it's a fair. It's a fairground. A
Make America Great Again rally where the entertainment's going to
be Donald Trump. What are you telling people? Great. How
should this anniversary, it's a huge moment in the country's
history. How are we going to do this? Should this
be celebrated? How do you prevent this from turning into
simply a partisan affair? Yeah, I mean, this is the
problem with Trump. He's a divider in chief. Oh, please,
get him off the stage. It's not insane. what American
history has always been about. standing up against authoritarian figures
and making our democracy more robust. This is one of
those moments where we have a man that is unfortunately
reminding us of the dangers of a democracy when you
have an out of control president and what the, I
think, education moment is, is the only way he's ultimately
going to be stopped is if more people Stand up.
Answering the question. No. That's how we've advanced through crises
before. No. No. I heard the CNC Music Factory guy,
who I also did dates with. 100% lip sync. Good
dancing. He had his little crew there. Um... People are
going around calling up these artists saying, you know, this
is a Trump thing. This is not about America. It's
a Trump thing. It's a Trump thing. And these artists
are like, whoa, I don't want to lose my... My
track dates at the fair, the blue states. That's what's
happening. There's a coordinated campaign to ruin the fair, the
state fair at the mall. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, of
course. Everything that Trump does, they find ways to submarine
it. And Trump doesn't help things by... putting some of
these people in charge that shouldn't be doing it. Wait
a minute. I mean, if he'd given the, just said,
hey, Elon. Yeah, organize this. Can you use your skills
to pick somebody to run this thing for me? He
could have asked us and we've done a better job.
I would think so, yeah. And we would have done
an award show and everything. Podcast Awards, we'd slip that
in. Wait a minute. Are we criticizing the president? Because
I don't think that's our brand anymore, John. We can't
be. Oh, no, we can't criticize the president. You have
that note. You want to read it? No, I'm not
going to read it. I would read that one note.
I didn't even. We got a note from some some
disgruntled listener. You guys are just – but I looked
him up. He donated a couple years ago. We're not
getting anyone donating during this. I'm blaming Trump for the
low donations. Yes, of course. Mainly because until he gets
his Iran – Iran, Iran thing over. Iran, yes. No,
no, no, no, no, no. No, we need a new
president. We need a Democrat president. We're just like the
oil guys. There's no difference between us and the oil
bear. And you know, so. I'm glad you find that
humorous. Something happened. on the Joe Rogan show. And I
saw this a week or so ago. And I was
like, yeah, right on. Now, Theo Vaughn, you know Theo
Vaughn, right? You know who he is? I know who
he is, I don't watch his stuff. No, no, but
you know Theo. And so Theo was on Joe's show.
I don't know. And Joe was on Theo's show. Yeah,
okay. No, Theo was on Joe's show. It must have
been four or five weeks ago. And Theo Vaughn was
out of his gourd. He was like, gourd? Wow, there's
a phrase I haven't heard for, oh, let me think.
66. It's the phrase that pays, baby. It's an old
Jonathan Winter saying. That's how old it is. Well, the
thousand-year-old man. No, no, that's Carl Reiner. I thought it
was with Jonathan. Let's not talk about it. No, no.
It was Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks was the thousand-year-old
man. Okay. All right. Thanks. So he was nuts. He
was spiraling. He was like... drill, you know, there's a
Yo! I was sitting there like, dude, you should come
and work out with us. Come and hang out with
us. I mean, Theo Vaughn was really going nutty. And
Theo has a lovely guy. I'm sure he has all
kinds of issues. Uh, don't we all? Like what? He's
had addiction issues. Right now he's been trying Jesus, which
we're all praying for Theo in that regard. But there
was something else, and it is SSRIs. And Theo is,
I think he's even been vocal about it. that he
takes, you know, whatever, Lexapro, whatever it is, whatever the
brand du jour is, it's all the same stuff. And
so Joe's on a show talking about. uh talking to
some other guests and here's here's what he says yeah
theo vaughn's going through the exact same thing and last
time i was on the podcast he was explaining to
me it freaks me out because Theo's had conversations before.
like even publicly he had a netflix taping and it
didn't go well. It was like they actually... They shelved
it. They never used it. There was all these stories
from people that were there saying he bombed. I think
he just had kind of a breakdown. crowd and there's
a video of it we said you know the people
were shaking hey we still love you thank you look
i'm just I'm trying not to take my own life.
That's what I'm trying to do right now. And like,
you hear stuff like that and you just go like,
oh, Jesus Christ. I've known too many people that I
didn't think were going to kill themselves and then did.
And then he goes down these spirals where he starts.
world events and freaking out. I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ,
like, I gotta help this dude. And so I send
him things about people getting off of them, and apparently
there's some doctors that specialize in getting people off of
them, but... Here's the thing about that chemical imbalance thing.
That's not real. They used to think that that was
what these things do, that they treated a chemical imbalance.
But then recently, the studies have shown that that is
not what they do. They don't exactly know what they
do. and they kind of numb you in some sort
of a way that helps some people. So... I even
texted Joe, like, thank you for saying that, this chemical
imbalance lie that they throw on everybody, which is total
horse crap. Say way to go. Excellent job. This is
a bad thing. People can't get off of him. Doctors
are handing out like candy. And then Joe does something
I don't think I've ever seen him do. He did
an apology. But I don't think this was just an
apology for Theo Vaughn. I think the pushback he got
from his audience. was so severe. And Joe is... Joe
really doesn't like controversy about himself. No, he really doesn't.
Yeah. You know, he's always... He's always very cautious and
I know him this way. He doesn't really want anyone
to be mad. A lot of people don't. A lot
of people just don't. Right, just don't. Yeah. And if
you listen carefully to this apology that now he said
this was an apology for Theo. But I kind of
had the feeling it was an apology for more. than
just Theo, more for SSRIs and other things. I apologize
to Theo. He knows I love him. And he said
that. And we laughed and we joked around about it.
And I apologize for the way I talked about this.
But I felt like I need to explain to other
people too, to get. Just like what was going on
in my mind. And it certainly wasn't like... covering for
Israel and it certainly wasn't like trying to paint him
out like he's damaged or treat him like a child.
I just want him to be okay. And when you're
dealing with someone, or when you have had experience dealing
with someone where it winds up going very badly, And
then you're just left with this feeling like, what could
I have done? You know, I didn't do a good
job of it, you know, especially like the Marcus King
thing. Like, that's terrible what I did. He goes on
and on about this. I think the audience freaked out
on him. I think, you know... Our audience, our producers
go. Yeah, but here's what I did to get off
of him. Yeah, they do. We don't have anybody pushing
back on us. No, no, but I think, and that
must be the size of the audience too, I think
a lot of people freaked out because it's a harsh
reality. When someone is telling you the truth, he said,
he told that what I've... believed to be a medical
fact. They don't know how it works. They don't. And
this chemical imbalance thing is a lie. It's a sales
pitch. It's a rationale. And I think also some of
the Israel people got mad at him. like, "Oh, you're
covering for Israel by saying Theo's just nuts on drugs."
Whatever. There's an element of that. That we do get.
Yeah, all the time. um It was just surprising. I'm
like, wow, you know, the pressure must be really big.
We don't, we don't, first of all, we don't really,
we never really got any pushback on that. Only people
who agree. It's a small group. We have this 10th-ish
audience. Well, if that. It's a small group. I don't
know. I really don't know. I don't think anybody knows
exactly how big the audience is. Some say 10, 11,
12, 20 million, 100 million. You got $500 million, blah,
blah, blah, whatever. I think 10 sounds about right. I
think it sounds about right. Talking about disasters. And to
back up my prediction. From the last show or the
show before, I don't remember. Okay, here we go. This
brings us to a three by three. Oh, hold on
one second. Now it's time for three by three. Yeah,
baby. Experiment by JCB. Comparing stories from ABC's The big
headlines from the big three news organizations, and will they
say the same? Will one be different? What will the
CIA broadcasting systems bring us? John has all three. In
fact, in this case, they're all pretty different, but... They're
about the same. Let's start with ABC. Tonight, Jeff Bezos'
commercial space company, Blue Origin, is warning Florida residents not
to touch any debris from this catastrophic explosion that incinerated
one of its largest rockets during an unmanned engine test
Thursday night. the enormous fireball lighting up the Cape Canaveral
sky, producing a mushroom for dozens of miles. Frantic witnesses
inundating first responders with 911 calls. There was a massive
explosion at Blue Origin. A big mushroom cloud just went
into the sky like an atomic bomb. There was a
huge fireball in the sky. There's still a raging fire
going. daylight revealing much of the launch pad reduced to
charred rubble. Blue Origin saying an anomaly took place during
a static fire test of its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket
when the rocket's engines are fired while the craft remains
attached to the launch site. The explosion, a significant setback
for Blue Origin and NASA. which is depending on reusable
rockets from Blue Origin to send landers to the moon.
Blue Origin had emerged as really a key player in
NASA's efforts to return to the moon, and so this
is pretty devastating to that effect. Blue Origin says it
invested more than a billion dollars into that launch site
in a statement Jeff Bezos calling it a very rough...
day but vowing to rebuild. Yes, this was your prediction
from the last show, in fact, when we played the
jacked up NASA guy saying, yeah, we're going to have
dune buggies and all kinds of stuff that we had
before. Again, on the moon, it's going to be great.
And we have the lunar economy, which apparently can't get
off the launch pad. Not only that, but it took
the launch pad with it. I was thinking about this.
Of all the – if you look at historical footage,
whenever they do a compilation of space travel before this
new space travel race. There were maybe... But of course,
the challenger was the big one. But maybe there were
three or four explosions. It's always like, it's all great.
Everything's lifting off. Everything's going. Did we have a lot
of mishaps back in the day? Well in the early
days it was laughable. That's all there was. There used
to be a program. We're talking about the 50s. Yeah.
So in 1950, here's the history for you kids out
there who haven't been around long enough. That's right. This
is exclusive to your No Agenda podcast. In 57. We
got a paw-paw Dvorak going to tell you about what
happened back in the day. In 57, the Russians put
a satellite into space and it was. beeping away floating
around Sputnik. Also known as Sputnik, yes. And so Sputnik's
going around beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
just annoying the hell out of the United States because
the Russians apparently are doing space shit. And they sent
a dog in space, Latka. And they killed that dog.
That dog died, man. The dog died in space. And
you can still buy watches, I think, in Russia that
have Latka on the dog, on the face of the
watch. I think Sir Gene has a couple of them.
I have one. Oh, wow. I bought it during the
Soviet era, and somebody said, when you buy stuff on
the street, which is illegal. Be careful. You know, this
guy sneaks up to me. He says, you want to
watch? And he shows it to you. He looks left,
looks right. He opens the case, and it's one of
these Latka watches. I say, hell yeah. It's like 10
bucks or something. And so I give him the 10
bucks he hands me to watch and I look up
to thank him. Poof. Gone. Yeah, you think that's cool.
Glenn Beck. I think there was two or three Sputniks
they had. It wasn't just one. They had... At least
that's the story Glenn Beck told me. I only remember
the one. He has one. He has one in his
museum. I saw it. He has a Sputnik, yeah. That
guy's got way too much cash. I don't know how
he got that. Okay, well, anyway, back to the story.
Dog watch. So in 57, they sent up this button,
Nick, and so they told everybody, all the kids, okay,
everybody's got to get into science. That's when science fairs
started. Science! So everyone had to get into science and
so they started launching rockets. Trying to get, you know,
one that would would not blow up. And my favorite
one was the and it was the Navy versus the
Army. And the army had these old V2s from Germany
and the navy had these rockets called the Vanguard. Oh
yeah. And they kept trying to launch a satellite. Off
of ships. And they would blow up every single time.
And it would be nightly news. Another Vanguard blows up.
And so we got to see one rocket after another
exploding because they couldn't get anything off the ground. It
was embarrassing. And then somehow by 1969, they had a
man on the moon. Unbelievable. And now 2026, we can't
get off the launch. But it's seen, it's always seen
as this is actually great. Congratulations, Blue Origin, because we've
learned a lot. This is what Elon always said. No,
it was meant to deteriorate rapidly because now we know
what we shouldn't be doing. Elon's smart enough to have
him do it up in the sky and not wreck
the whole launch pad. No, I think they had a
launch pad blowout too. That one, that was some years
ago. Yeah. Okay, let's go to CBS's version of the
story. Oh, CBS, here we go. If any rocket launch
is a controlled explosion, this moment was neither. Blue Origin's
New Glenn Rocket. parked on its launch pad, suddenly erupted
into a mammoth fireball, seen... That is crazy. Vengeance. significant
setback. the space company. This is a very critical Problem
for NASA to deal with? We simply don't know the
extent of the damage to the launch pad or what
it might take to fix the rocket and get it
flying again. New Glenn's only launch pad. including twisted metal
and a collapsed lightning tower. Repairs could take months. What's
unclear, the city's on NASA's Artemis program to return to
the Moon ahead of the Chinese. Blue Origin's developing lunar
landers for NASA to deliver astronauts and cargo to a
planned moon base near the lunar South Pole. Next year's
Artemis III mission aims to practice docking the Orion capsule
with a Blue Origin lander. And all the landers need
the new Glenn rocket to get to space. A setback
like this obviously is going to push those plans back
a bit. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos posted about the
explosion, It's too early to know the root cause. Very
rough day, but we'll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get
back to flying. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said The agency
will assess near-term mission impacts. Tony, NASA has also hired
SpaceX to help get America back to the moon, but
its lunar lander is behind schedule, and after the most
recent flight of its Starship rocket had problems, it's also
grounded. Observations. We are missing the term glitch. I find
that very annoying. Instead, we have brought back the term
haywire. Ooh, good catch. What is the etymology of this
term haywire? Ask the robot. Book of knowledge. What is
the etymology of the term haywire? My book of knowledge
is... is on it let's find out where this comes
from it's got to be old According to the book
of knowledge, the term haywire originates from the baling wire
used to bind hay bales in farming and logging operations.
This cheap, malleable wire was notorious for tangling easily creating
chaotic messes when handled carelessly. leading to the metaphorical meaning
of something going awry or out of control by the
early 20th century. Thus, it has been written. So it's
a hundred year old term. Haywire. That makes sense, actually.
Explained by the robot. Well, Glitch is the one you're
supposed to be using, people. I don't understand why they
don't use Glitch. They're sick of listening to you complain
about it. Let's go to the last report, which is
NBC. The explosion was massive, filling the night sky with
a brilliant orange. That's not good. Captured on doorbell cameras
and shaking homes. Wow, great Nat Pop. Oh, that's fantastic.
That's not good. That's good. That's not good. It looks
like there was an explosion. fueled by methane and liquid
oxygen. No injuries. From the air, the company's only launch
pad appears completely destroyed. Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos posting,
Very rough day, but we will rebuild whatever needs rebuilding
and get back to flying. The disaster comes just days
after NASA awarded Blue Origin. a nearly $200 million contract
to launch components, and perhaps eventually astronauts to a lunar
base. The great return is close at hand, and we
will not slow down. But now a potential delay to
NASA's ambitious launch schedule set to start this fall. And
next year, with the Artemis III flight to test docking
procedures. in Earth orbit. Former NASA chief, Charlie Bolden. Spaceflight
is hard no matter who's doing it. We know how
to do it, but nature and physics and a lot
of other things have a say in all this. Radiation.
It was just last month that another Blue Origin rocket
failure left a satellite in a wrong orbit. And now
a bigger failure as the company... tries to compete with
SpaceX and help send humans eventually onto the moon. Now,
no one has mentioned the possibility of sabotage. There's a
lot of money, a lot of contracts out there. Sabotage,
anyone? Well, it's like that time that SpaceX rockets the...
You saw something headed toward it before it blew up
on the... Launch paddock a few years back. Yeah. No,
it seems suspicious. Yeah, well, but the sabotage... comes right
at the same time that SpaceX is filing for their
public offering. I'm just saying. Yeah, but the problem is,
does this make the public offering more or less attractive?
Well, in my mind, it's all unattractive. I mean, where
is- No, well, that's not the question. That's fine with
you. But I'm just saying, does it, to investors in
general- Would this explosion make the offering more or less
attractive? Well, I'm not allowed to have an opinion, so
my opinion doesn't matter. No, you can't say what you
think. You have to tell me what... You're not answering
the question. Okay. The answer to the question is much
more attractive. I say less. My question, my follow-on question
though, which is in your camp. How come AI hasn't
figured out all of the problems? Shouldn't the wonderful artificial
intelligence have all the answers and have calculated the perfect
exact things that they need so that this could not
happen? Isn't that Bezos has AI? Elon has AI. I
thought AI was smarter than anybody in the universe. In
fact, they both have AI up the wazoo. Gavin, your
take on the S1, and I think specifically Elon Web
Services. I think what's important about Elon Web Services does
make me laugh. But $15 billion, that means the AI
business right there is going to quadruple. Quadruple! It is
already effectively quadrupled. I think what's important about that is
there's a stat in it that for, I think the-
This is Gavin Baker. And if you ask me who
that is, I don't have the answer offhand. Okay, go.
Their first data center was 122 days. The second one,
it took them 91 days. The third one. This is
from the All In podcast, so it's not going to
be negative. They build data centers dramatically faster than anyone
else at a lower cost. And now that you have...
A lower cost, but a lower cost. Cost. I'm gonna
dump out of that. I watched a lot of the...
Reagan National Economic Forum, which was about 10 hours. Did
you see any of it? It was. I saw zero.
It was. There were a couple of interesting speakers. Some
things were interesting that were said. Okay. It was on,
I think CNBC may have had some co-sponsoring with us,
saw some CNBC hosts. um but it it was it
was very very long and it was a true economic
forum type thing And I have two clips from it
with Dan Armada. And this is about, this is exactly
what I've been predicting, where all these big data centers.
all this important stuff from the training, the models and
everything, it's all starting to fizzle out. Now, the new
term is inference. or some say inference, but I'm pretty
sure it's... inference. I think inference is the correct pronunciation.
There's a lot there I want to dig into. First,
I want to get the private sector, the entrepreneurial piece
of this into the conversation too. Dan, you've co-founded a
startup. You're the CEO of a startup called Armada. And
I guess before I get your reaction to what we've
just heard. far on stage. Just a little bit about
Armada. Yeah, so Armada is the hyperscaler for the edge.
We're building modular - Hyperscaler for the edge. - Yes.
Wow. We can draw analogies to the late 90s from
what is happening here. So now we've gone by the
language or the bullcrap. Yes and yes. Yeah, so Armada
is the hyperscaler for the edge. We're building modular AI
data centers that can be deployed anywhere in the world,
which is important. If you look at a map of
the world, only about 30% of the world has these
big hyperscale data centers. We're building for the 70% so
that the US can win this AI race that we're
in right now. So the edge, that's... inference the edge
is oh but i need to have this this uh
well he actually explains it here we're in the middle
of this ai super cycle and what we're super ai
super cycle we're in the middle i like that super
cycle and what we're witnessing is that there's this uh
shift that's going on it used to just be all
about training these really high powered and that's still important.
We still need to lead in that area. But what
we're now seeing is a lot of people asking, well,
how do I actually deploy those? in as many places
as possible to boost productivity, to improve my operations, to
improve decision-making. And that is about taking those models that
have been trained on those hyperscale data centers and then
running them on something like our modular data centers at
the edge for inference and fine tuning those models to
proprietary sensitive oftentimes data sets for national security, for energy.
And we're seeing that play out globally where now people
are like, okay, I've been playing with ChatGPT for a
couple of years on my phone. What can I actually
do to improve my business or improve, you know. Zack
thought I- I'm like, you know, I've been playing with
this chat GPT on my phone. What can I do
to have it improve my business? People are like, okay,
I've been playing with ChatGPT for a couple years on
my phone. What can I actually do to improve my
business or improve? you know, national security. And I think
that's going to continue to play out, which is one
reason why. You're seeing it respond. One of the things
that... was very interesting over the last few weeks. You've
seen the spot price for H100s and H200s, which are
NVIDIA's chips that are more optimized for inference versus training.
I love that there's a spot price. for this. It's
actually starting to exceed and the GB300s, which are like
the ones for training. What's the right word? Aquahire. of
Gromit. Because they saw this shift that's coming to inference.
And I think you're going to see that. -Aquahire. -Oh,
you know what an aquahire is. An aquahire is... That's
what happened to drop.io back in the day. An aquahire
is where you want the people who built the product,
but you don't give a crap about... -Oh, so you
buy the product and you steal the people. Okay. -Yeah,
exactly. Now, I have some experience with this inference. -Aquahire.
I wish someone would acquihire this show. Well, at least...
Right? Well... Yes, you, in fact, I think this is
all leading into a couple of anecdotes, personal anecdotes that
you have to offer. Yes, about working with AI, specifically
clawed code. yeah and it's for a theory and the
thing is this is for the simplest of simple ideas
that you've developed. It should be seamless and effective. Yeah,
it should be... No, what is it? Safe and effective.
So. As I was playing around with the chat GPT
for years, no, I... On your phone. On my phone.
I really wanted to see if this AI could help
out with my production work. And I analyzed myself. I
went, self, what do you spend the most time doing
for the No Agenda show? Can you guess what it
is? Well, I know what it is. It's yakking. Yeah.
Copy paste. The amount of copy and pasting that I
do for show notes and clip titles and just –
and I decided, okay, let me take the one that
is – The one that is the easiest to mess
up as a human because it's at the end of
the show we're tired and we have to actually run
through it together because i make mistakes you make we
make mistakes it's the credits it's purely the credits I'm
like, here's a great test. Today should be easy. Yes,
my robot is very happy. It might get it right.
So I teach, now when you teach the robot to
do something, so Claude Code is an agent. And Claude
Code by itself is an idiot. The reason why Claude
or any of these models have problems with how many
R's in strawberry is because they're just guessing. They have
no intelligence, no knowledge. What they can do is build
a Python script that then says, oh, the word strawberry,
hold on. And then it will look at the word
strawberry. It'll programmatically see how many R's and then it'll
come back with the right answer. But it has to
build a script for it. It doesn't actually know it
itself. This is the basis of how this stuff works.
And what's nice about it is you just tell it
what you want it to do. So I said, robot,
I want you to... Do the credits. Here's the spreadsheet
that Jay sent me. It's an Excel file. Go in
there. Find out. Find everybody who's donated between $200 and
$300. Put them into my. into my show notes document
under associate executive producers and $300 or above, put that
into the executive producers. Oh, that's got to be the
easiest thing in the world for it to do. And
I say, in addition, look at the notes. If there's
a switcheroo, you have to change the name. Oh, you're
making it complicated, but it should be effortless. The switcheroo
part. Never had a problem. The where do the names
go? Every single time it does it differently. So first
it'll put like two people in execs and then all
the rest in associate execs. And then I go in,
I say, no, you have a document. And it makes
these little memory files. They're markdown files. You have a
document. You've memorized this previously. Between 200 and 300 is
the associate executive. Oh, yeah, you're right. Okay, I'll fix
it. It fixes it. And then it says, I'm going
to make a note of this so I don't do
that again. Next show. It does that right. But then
it puts in the amounts. It puts in the entire
notes. I said, no, it's just the name. You're right.
I'm going to make a note of it. So then
I'm like, robot, you keep doing this wrong. How can
we fix this? Okay, I have an idea. You just
use the word credits, all uppercase, and that will trigger
my memory to go look at the memory docs. does
it wrong the problem with ai or robots as i
like to call them There's no consistency. There is no.
iterating you can't iterate you can't say You can do
this on your own. Go into ChatGPT or whatever, say,
draw a picture of a house with a cat in
the yard and a dog. Okay, great. If you say,
now make the sky blue. It'll remove the dog. You
know, it does all kinds of other things. Yeah, it
cascades on its own. Yes, and it's not reproducible. Use
the same prompt twice in the same AI, it'll bring
back two different results every single time. It is for
business purposes. When it worked, now. I'll be the first
to say. It's actually still faster for me to yell
at it, you know, and typing, I typing at it,
say, no, you did that wrong and it will fix
it. It's still faster than me going back and fixing
it. But it's very annoying and I've given up on
thinking I can never get it right. Here's the second
thing. I've taught it how to make clips. Now, FF-
What? Yes, FFmpeg. is a well-known open source program. Now,
if I say, here's a France 24 clip, here's the
URL, clip it. Those are usually about a minute 30,
minute 40. Perfect. It does it. It clips it. I've
actually gotten pretty good at teaching it not to put
the reporter tag at the end. So it does a
transcript, and then it cuts based upon the transcript. It
can do that. It cannot think for itself. It cannot
pull a clip out based upon a full sentence that
someone is saying. It is it can't do it. It
has no intelligence. It doesn't have ears. And it can't
figure out what a good clip is, what a beat
is with an intro, with an arc, with a payoff
at the end, a hard cut. It cannot do it.
Ergo, this crap is way overvalued. And I think it's
unusable for business. That said. For me, myself, It's a
little, it's on par with having an intern. As long
as the intern hands me the stuff and I go
back and correct everything, it saves me 30 minutes. But
I don't see where everyone's like, oh, it's just going
to change business. We don't need people. Bullshit. It will
improve existing people's... productivity But you've got to show me
a lot better output than what this stuff is doing
right now. And Claude is supposed to be the creme
de la creme. Which brings me to "Bootz on the
Ground". Which I think you were copied on from Brad.
we've been talking about real jobs young people should be
looking at in the new economy that Trump and General
Besant are building. And he said, hey, I heard you
bring up HVAC again and the great wages, and you're
not wrong. I've been a journeyman electrician for over 20
years, and the wages keep going up along with heavy
demand. All trades are great and provide incredible life. However,
pay attention. There's one trade almost nobody talks about that
is head and shoulders above all skilled trades. More money
than anybody. Complete job protection. Do you remember this email?
Yeah. The job is elevator mechanic. Highest pay by far,
always in demand, no matter how the economy is doing.
We have two elevator mechanics that show up at the
Albany Mallard Club meetups. Oh really? Are they driving Bentleys?
No, but they're very proud of being elevator mechanics. Elevator
unions are run like mafia families, though it can be
difficult to get into, but that doesn't mean outsiders don't
get into it. So there you go. This is your
tip of the day from your No Agenda show. elevator
mechanic. I mean, this would be, if we were doing
a... The Graduate 2026 version instead of plastic we say
sun elevators get into elevators people always need elevators elevators
is good So. Anyway. That is my AI experience. Maybe
it'll get better and if it does I will certainly
share the clipping stuff with you I've been doing it
for five weeks. I'm using it. It sucks, but. it's
still a little faster than me doing everything by myself.
But for $200 a month of Anthropic token credits, I
could probably hire an intern. Who would probably do a
better job. We got some goofball stuff here I want
to get out of the way. Okay. So there's this
woman. Duh! Oh, I can't believe you clipped this. Ha
ha ha! Let's just say an attractive woman with a
belly shirt. Can we just add that to it? She's
not just a woman. She's a good looking gal. But
it's beside the point. Her name's Elizabeth April. And she's
a psychic. And she's on this podcast. Of course, this
guy's lapping it up. These podcast hosts that do a
lot of interviewing, they just go along with everything, it
seems to me. Yeah. uh whatever it is they're doing
my material from 12 years ago Yeah. It's funny that
you're bringing the clips. We've had some kind of... I
feel like I'm in a new version of the movie.
Was it big? Were they switch places? Yeah, well, we
switched, I guess. So let's go with it. She's going
to talk about, and I'm listening to this, I'm thinking
it's reasonable what she's got to say about. People being
cloned? Is that my cue to start the clip? Yeah,
it was just... So many people, like Simon Cowell. Wait,
Simon Cowell? Simon Cowell. Have you seen the recent video?
I have. So you think that's not him? No, I
don't know. Can't say for sure. Wait, what does he
look like? He's looking weird too now. No, he's looking
weird. John Travolta. Yeah, man. Looks like John B. The
singer? Exactly. I'm gonna show her John B. Did you
see him? Yeah. So what is that about? Do you
think that's like a Jim Carrey situation or? I'm not
sure, but they're definitely replacing people left, right, and center.
And then I have a conspiracy theory. Okay. That no
one else has. Okay. So you know what's up. Okay.
My big theory about cloning. they popularized plastic surgery. cover
up the differences in clones. Like Michael Jackson was the
first major public clone and he was the first major
quote-unquote celebrity who got all the plastic surgeries and changed
his appearance and it really wasn't it was actually a
clone. But then you have Ozempic and you have this
whole like Ozempic, GLP, whatever they're called drugs right? Whatever
they're called. Major weight loss. may change your appearance. drastically
and then you have something called endrenochrome you guys know
what that is of course for those of you who
don't know what that is it's essentially a substance that
comes from victims fear it's essentially blood and what happens
is not humans drinking this reptilians part of the elite
they drink endrenochrome to essentially reverse They've had access to
adrenochrome pretty much since the dawning of humanity my favorite
part of this is that she says adrenochrome where the
term is adrenochrome this woman is i don't know why
she's on a podcast other than she can get she's
cute I got a belly shirt on, I'm slumped in
my chair, like, can I look at the skirt? This
was horrific. Okay, I won't play the second half. No,
no, no. Of course we'll play the second half. But
yeah, I think it was horrific, but... um Sound is
something screwy about it. Andrenochrome. It's an andrenochrome. It's an
andrenochrome. Let's play more. What's happened? No, because people think
we're idiots. What's happened since 2020 is the trafficking rings
all over the planet are getting shut down. Especially since
the death of Queen Elizabeth. She was like the head
reptilian. And then everyone vied for power. When I saw,
because they have pictures flowing. flying by it's highly edited
I remember meeting Queen Elizabeth She may have been a
reptile, but there was not much going on. I don't
know how much command she had of the reptilian world.
After she died, no one could figure out who was
going to be in charge. What are you talking about?
Prince, King Charles is in charge of the reptilians. We
all know that. Everyone was fighting and slowly but surely
all these pockets of like underground trafficked victims. So the
supply of adrenochrome has diminished so much. These celebrities can't
get their hands on it anymore. It just came out
too that Ozempic is shredding your bones. grinding like a
cheese grater. Yeah! Jim Carrey is wholeheartedly He actually stood
on business when it came to all of the superficial
Hollywood bull. Like, this is stupid. Like, he makes fun
of that stuff. The thing is, like, they either take
people out who aren't complying, or they replace them with
a clone. So, I always say this, like, if they
replace someone, Watch what they're filming in next. How come
it's an international law put in place by the UN
to where human cloning is banned? Why would you have
to ban it? Why would you have to ban it?
Cross the globe. It's international law. company is doing. -
The shadow government's already doing it. - Exactly. government it's
like it doesn't exist but it's illegal you can't do
it though here's another theory too a lot of people
from congress are old trafficked victims like kids disappear all
the time right then they put them through a program
they emerge as some new person they run for office
and they win how How come J.D. Vance changed his
name four times? I forgot. I have all these different
names. Who are you? Well, now I'm going to agree
with that. I'm going to say that I am suspicious
that Tallarico may be one of those. That's completely possible.
That guy looks put together. Like a Frankenstein. My goodness.
Yeah, it's the Andrew Necro. This is the competition, the
podcast competition we have. Oh, and we're losing, and we're
losing, we're losing, we're losing, we're losing, we're losing. The
reptilians. We should just, maybe Thursday we just do a
show like that. And you know what? Less prep is
a lot easier to do. We'll just call up some
buddies, have them come on the show. You know, you
got to have your baseball hat. You need your baseball
hat on backwards when you do this, John. Oh, yeah,
definitely. You have to have it. Not completely backwards, kind
of backwards and sideways. Well, we're on this kind of
thing. You said there was enough. Sorry. Sorry. I was
going to do something else. But okay, you need to
continue this? Really? No, I don't have any more of
the cloning stuff. I do have something that backs up
one of our other... things that we've noticed. Which is
the idea of making Tucker Carlson the President of the
United States. Ah, yes, okay. And Chink, Chink, your buddy
Chink, Chunk, as you like to call him. Yeah, Chunk.
Chunk Weeger. Yes, Chink. he's on board. They only have
one guy who could win and I'm worried about it.
And that's Tucker Carlson. If Tucker runs in the Republican
primary, he definitely wins that. primary you can quote me
on it and then you could have Kevin laughing and
you can rerun that tape it'll be great in fact
back in 2016 I was on ABC's This Week with
Stephanopoulos they asked the whole panel who's gonna win at
that point they just on the Democratic National Convention and
Hillary Clinton had a 10-point lead I was the only
one on the panel to say Donald Trump was gonna
win and they all laughed out loud Populous win. The
people chasing after the donors, whether it's Israel or Big
Pharma or any of the other donors, nobody likes those
people. Kamala Harris lost because she was bragging about how
she had 90 corporate CEOs on her side. I got
bad news for her. Nobody likes corporate CEOs. Sorry, Kevin.
Sorry, me. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This makes
no sense. Because... It's the exact same people like Chenko
are saying that. Massey was defeated by Jew Money. Not
by the guy was I don't still even know the
guy's name. Who is who is who is now the
new senator from Kentucky? Do you know his name? He's
not a senator, he's a congressman. Okay, I see I
don't even know that. Yeah, obviously. What's his name? What's
his name? You don't know his name. Garrison or something.
He's got some very pedestrian name. He had no name
recognition. No. But apparently, it makes no difference. difference now.
He's a Navy SEAL. I know that. Pick a lane,
Cenk. The people chasing after the donors, whether it's Israel
or Big Pharma or any of the other donors, nobody
likes those people. Kamala Harris lost because she was bragging
about how she had 90 corporate CEOs on her side.
I got bad news for her. Nobody likes. corporate CEOs.
Sorry, Kevin. Sorry, me. But the reality is that's what
every poll shows. It is deeply, deeply unpopular. And these
days it's pretty merited. So if you've got someone in
the right lane, which is democratic capitalism, I think they
win. Yeah, okay. Well, we'll see if Tallarico wins. Texas.
We'll see. We'll see. I don't think he can win
in Texas. There's a big fight off. If the Texans
are not going to vote in a vegan... Uh... A
vegan. Period. Not to mention the fact that he's got...
What? No, go ahead. Go ahead. Not to mention the
fact that he's got screwball. religious beliefs. Very much so.
So I have two clips here of Paxton. And I
think this is one of the reasons why he won.
And it's not my favorite reason, but when you extrapolate
what he's really saying, he's correct. Because there's a lot
of fear. What is the number one fear of everybody
in Texas? Everybody in Texas is worried about one thing
and one thing only. Muslims. Because we are a Christian
nation. We are a Christian state. Period. The end. I
took on our foreign adversaries as well. Stopped China from
buying our land. Tripled border security. Security designated cartels as
terrorists. and I'm now taking on one of our most
growing and biggest threats, which is Sharia law and Islamification.
You know, Sharia law is organized crime, period, and I
will treat it as such. I also changed the law
to stop these radical Muslim groups, like CARE. and Muslim
Brotherhood from buying any property in Texas. Treating Sharia law
as organized crime. Uh, can you please unpack that? Unpack
that! Yeah, so look, we've got to make sure that
everyone understands this is not a religious liberties issue. This
is not a First Amendment issue because if they're... faithfully
adherent to their ideology, and I call it an ideology
for a reason, in the Koran, they see us as
the infidel that they can commit jihad against. This is
an America First issue. This is a Texas First issue.
This is a national security issue because they don't think
we deserve the right to exist. as Americans or as
Christians. So he conflates a couple things here. I completely
agree. Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. In fact, that is the
backbone of most terrorism we have witnessed in the past
50 years, probably even longer than that. started by the
British MI6 back in the day. Council on America, Islamic
Relations, also bad news. Bad dudes, bad people. Yeah, they
keep referring to them constantly. NPR, everybody goes to them
for quotes. Why? Okay, thank you for asking. Because liberals,
and that would mainly be Democrats, but liberals... They always
want to find someone who's oppressed. So that's why gays
for Palestine and that's why they're all wearing kiffy as
at that every protest. Now they they're stupid because they
haven't studied history because the socialists and the communists have
always been used. by these types of radical Islamists, which
is different from Muslims, Islamists. to gain political traction. And
the first thing the Islamists do when they're in power
is they kill the socialists and the communists. It's historical.
So, but Paxton... And a lot of Republicans are conflating
this. And, you know, to say I don't think Paxson's
ever looked at the Koran to say that we're the
infidels. They got to kill us. You know, it's not
like a it's not like a. a covenant like we
have in the Bible. This was specific tribes. that were
written in the Quran that had to be gotten rid
of. You know, he's taking things... a little too far
in his interpretation. But you do. But ultimately, he is
correct because this is what we've seen in Europe. We've
seen liberal. groups Who's? Islamists and there go Muslims. to
take over countries. And you get a small country like
Holland, and they have a 1.5 birth rate reproduction rate,
which is negative. You bring in a whole bunch of
Muslims. And they're going at it like bunnies. And before
you know it, they take over. And they took over
Brussels. And they've taken over all these different cities just
by sheer numbers. I don't think we have to worry
about that in Texas just yet. What's the percentage of
Muslims in Texas total? of the population. I'd have to
ask. Take a guess. I know what it is. I'd
say it's probably 4%. Two. Two percent. Yeah. So we've
got a ways to go. But it's being used by
people like Paxton. Which, you know... Here's another one. If
a bunch of... Indonesians came to live in your neighborhood.
Would you be freaking out or would you think, hey,
maybe they got some good Indonesian food? The latter, for
sure. I'd be very interested. If one of them could
cook. There's no guarantee that somebody comes in from a
foreign culture that they can actually cook. What country has
more Muslims than any other country? in the world. Indonesia.
Number two. But they're also Pakistan. Number three, India. Number
four, Bangladesh. It's a long way until you get down
to Iraq, Iran, and Somalia and all these other places.
And London. London's got more than anybody. So. So I
just want to say that just be careful. Be careful
with how Sharia. Sharia law. Sharia law. It is no
different than the Talmudic law from the Jews, which a
lot of people also hate. You know, got to wash
your hands, don't shake hands with your left hand, whatever
it is. eat with your right hand, don't eat this
kind of food, you know the Jews have don't eat
shellfish, that's the main part of it. It's not like
Sharia and the rest is arbitration which even smart lawyers
like the constitutional lawyer agree with me, but it's become
this catchphrase. You know, it's like, Sharia. But, Paxton is
correct, we do need to stop the Islamist groups like
Muslim Brotherhood and CARE. And there is an entire political
party in the United States, the Democrat Party, that thinks
they're being smart by using them as the poor oppressed
people, and they're all over the world, blah, blah, blah.
Free Palestine. And it's going to get really interesting if
people don't get smart about what's happening. Here's the second
clip. You said there was another part other than treating
Sharia law as a criminal enterprise. You're going to be
stripping away the power from these Muslim groups. How are
you going to do that? Number one, we met his
second degree felony. To enforce Sharia law, I will make
sure that that is enforced to the fullest extent. I
don't even understand what that means. How about you can't
enforce any other law than U.S. law? But you can't
have arbitration if you want. Number two, change the law
to stop these no-go zones like you've seen in North
Texas. Plano Islamic Center, Epic is one of them. They've
renamed it to the Meadow. They're going to keep renaming
it. But what this law... What he's trying to do
here is make you think that this thing is built.
It's not built. There's a mosque. There's no community. There's
no meadow. None of that is real. You've only seen
renderings online. But he's using it. for his political gain,
which is the part I don't like. What it does
is it allows the AG to bring an action to
deny public benefit. And what is that? Sewer, water, electricity,
roads, management districts. That makes sure that the meadow remains
a meadow. But the third that I mentioned earlier, probably
the most powerful tool, is stopping... enemy entities from owning
any property in Texas that includes critical infrastructure. So we
need to continue to add to that list. Right now,
CARE and Muslim Brotherhood are on that list. We need
to keep adding because what it does is it prevents
them from owning any property in Texas and it allows
the AG, and I made sure that was in the
law. to bring an action to force them to divest
and sell their property. We cannot allow them to own
one square inch in our great state. Look, I'm never
retreating from Washington, D.C., because I'm never going to Washington,
D.C. I have always known that the fight is right
here in the great state of Texas. I was born
here. And I'll be buried here. This is it. No,
so. And be buried there? And be buried there, yeah.
So. Yeah. Yes, our problems... worldwide, but certainly in the
United States, is Muslim Brotherhood is a huge problem. CARE
should be their 501c. Three status should be taken away.
They should be dealt with. They're no good. They're probably
doing criminal things. And there may be others. But let's
just be careful when we just say Muslims, because it
is the Indonesians, it is the Pakistanis, it is the
Indians, it is the Bangladeshis. And the British now, I
guess. Okay. Yeah. So I just wanted to get that
off my chest. Ebola in Brazil. Oh man, I had
new Ebola jingles. Hold on a second. Oh, brother. eeeeebola
no no no brand new ones i'll find them while
i play the clip health officials say they've identified a
suspected ebola case in brazil if confirmed it would be
the first case outside africa since the latest outbreak began
in the democratic republic of congo rory gallimore reports The
Brazilian authorities say this suspect The man who was infected
with Ebola is a man in his 30s. He has
recently returned from a trip to the DRC and is
now being kept in isolation at a specialist hospital in
Sao Paulo state. Tests are being carried out to confirm
the exact nature of his illness, but this could mark
an escalation in this outbreak. Until now, the vast majority
of infections have been registered in the east of the
DRC, with a handful of people in the south of
the DRC. across the border in Uganda. There have been
more than 240 deaths so far. The medical charity, NSF,
has described the situation as deeply alarming, but health workers
have successfully contained many Ebola outbreaks in the past. Oh,
that's interesting. Yeah, I have. I did find them. You
lost your jingles? No, I found them. I found them.
Hold on a second. I'm bringing it to you right
now. These are great. I was so happy with them.
Here we go. Ebola. Ebola, it has been with us
two times in... Is the third. time about it kidding
hello You're sharp. I am. We did see that Tedros
who talks about this. He went to the Congo. Yeah,
I thought that took a lot of nerve. And he
was all dressed up in his World Health Organization camos.
You know, they all have uniforms now. And here he
is. The head of the World Health Organization visited eastern
Congo's... Bunia on Saturday. Looking forward to stop this Ebola
with the community and under the leadership of the government.
More logistics support, more financial support, but while focusing on
the emergency, we should use it as an opportunity to
build the health system. Because in every crisis, And that's
how we should manage this. As no good. Hold on,
I'm going to get the second part of the report
here. Terrible. Bunia, a city in the Aituri province, is
at the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the African
country. Experts warn the virus is spreading faster than the
response. Despite better organized health facilities and new aid arrivals,
latest official figures show more than 1,000 suspected cases and
more than 200 suspected deaths. Neighboring Uganda has confirmed nine
cases and one death. Is John McCain's ex-wife, is her
name Cindy? Yeah? Cindy McCain. Yeah, well, she's a part
of the problem. World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain
is stepping down from her post Monday. During her three
years at the helm of the UN agency, there have
been two famines. And when we spoke with her late
last week from Rome, she told us we're looking potentially
at several more. among many other challenges. By the way,
if you're the head of the World Food Program, you
get an apartment in Rome? That's the gig right there.
Why not? What's Rome got to do with the price
of bread? That's where your headquarters are. You gotta be
in Rome. Are you kidding? It's like being in Paris.
It's great. Emergency response to Ebola in the Congo. That's
a country that's already struggling, as I understand it, with
about 27 million food insecure people. I know the US
State Department is pledging some help here, but what are
you hearing about the situation? on the ground for emergency
responders like yours. Yes. It's not good. Not good? It's
not good. people in a mass way. Mass! And there's
really no way to know right now how many people
have been affected by this. We know that it's a
rampage now with it. Rampage! So what we need to
do is not only be able to... to get in.
We run logistics. We bring in supplies. We bring in
people. And we do much more than that as well
just in the region. But this is going to take
a real world effort. This is very deadly. Very, very
deadly. Hey, maybe that's why Peter Thiel has moved to
Argentina. Even following that story? Oh, tell me about it.
Oh, so apparently he bought a house in Argentina and
he's put his kids in school there in Argentina. And
everyone's saying, well, what's going to happen in America if
he's moving to Argentina? But didn't he also have one
of those guys who bought a place in New Zealand?
Yeah, but he put his... kids in school. That's the
big one. He put his kids in school. Maybe he
just doesn't want to live in New York. He has
kids? He's gay. Yeah, but you can have kids. Well,
I never heard that he has kids. Well, that's interesting.
I never heard that he was married to a guy
or a girl or anybody in between. Hmm. Well, now
you make an interesting point. I don't think I've ever
heard that either. A book of knowledge. Does Peter Thiel
have kids and is he married? Here we go. Oh,
Peter Thiel is what the book of knowledge understood. Let's
see if he figures that one out. According to the
Book of Knowledge, Peter Thiel is married to Matt Danzison,
and they have two daughters born through surrogacy. Oh, there
you go. DOS It has been written. What do you
know? I guess I didn't know that. He keeps it
to himself. On the down low. He keeps it on
the down low. The down low. of green. Gone from-
Well, the last thing you want is to be a
homeowner. in New York City. Here's the latest from the
socialist mayor, Mamdani. Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the
City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New
York City. When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action.
to remove negligent owners and property managers. Oh no. Get
him. We will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards.
Sewers that include community land trusts, non-profits. the tenants themselves.
Remove you. That'll be. fun to watch. The court case
will be fun to watch. It's not going to get
anywhere with that bullcrap. Well. So what was interesting is
the response to... the Jill Biden book and her interview.
And I think... I think I had, let me just,
I'll play. I thought he was having a stroke. Yeah,
this is exactly. Let me play that clip. This is
the one that everyone's all up in arms about. When
she arrived at the first presidential debate of 2024, she
saw that President Biden wasn't feeling well. But then... Joe
always, even if he was off a little bit, he'd
always rally. And I thought, okay, so he'll get in
there in that debate and he'll be fine. He's going
to rally. But he got in there, he got into
the debate, and he didn't. Making sure that we're able
to make every single solitary. This was great. I love
this package because that wasn't in the clip that everyone
was posting on X. They actually put in... the pieces,
and this was from CBS this morning, they put in
the pieces of the debate. And when you hear it,
it's just like, wow. It really was really, really, really
bad. The debate and he didn't. Making sure that we're
able to make every single solitary person eligible for what
I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me,
with dealing with everything we have to do with. Hmm.
What? *whining* We finally beat Medicare. You remember how bad
that was? I remember the whole thing. It was hilarious.
I was horrified, I was frightened. Because I had never...
ever. seeing Joe like that before. Or since. Yeah, right.
Or since. Yes. Or since. Never seen more of that.
Never. Never. Why did you have to? I don't know
what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought,
oh my God, he's having a stroke. Scared me to
death. And then he never seemed to... Find himself. Find
himself, yeah, after that. But then, I have to tell
you, as we were walking out, he said, I really,
and I'm not going to use the words because it's
morning TV. But I really sort of messed up. Didn't
I? So. Remember when we were talking about this and
how that went down and how we were pretty sure
that this whole thing was sabotaged? that you know they
didn't give him his meds or a shot or whatever
they typically yeah you know it's a shot that yeah
he's got some bottles zapped up um and then when
jill biden went to vote. She was wearing a red
dress. And I think we kind of floated the idea
like, oh, maybe she switched sides. Maybe she's doing this
to help Trump. You know, there was a lot of
weirdness about that whole period because that was when, you
know, it was obvious Trump was going to win and
they did the switcheroo. So now this book comes out.
And this book is... The timing is interesting. Why now?
Why right now? Is he, you know, why does her,
Jill Biden has a book and she's writing about all
this stuff and it's kind of on the cusp of
the midterms. And it has thrown the Democrats for A
loop. And the example I have is the Pod Save
America podcast. And these are – aren't there two of
those guys, the former speechwriters for Obama? Yep, two of
the speechwriters for Obama. And they're kind of insider elites
for the Democrat Party. They like to present. themselves as
such. So they are so mad, they do what all
Democrats do when they're mad. They start cussing like crazy.
So you're forewarned. Hold on a second, just to back
you up on this a little bit. It would be
then, it would be interesting that she has appeared on
CBS. But not the other networks. Good point. Good point.
Well, these guys, the insider elites to the Democrat Party,
are mad and cussing in sues. I don't think they
appreciated being fucking lied to, who didn't just lie about
the debate performance, but gaslit everyone and told us we
were all overreacting, bedwetters, that their polls were fine, that
the fucking debate was fine. And now Joe Biden's like,
oh, yeah, we were lying the whole time. And they
went after us personally. Yes. I went from feeling kind
of bad about the whole situation to being like, oh,
OK, fuck you then. The people who are saying, why
don't you let it go? Why are you talking about
this? I didn't write a book and then whine about
how Joe Biden was talking over the good parts here.
I'm the whole time they went after us personally. Yes.
I went from feeling kind of bad about the whole.
situation to be like, oh, okay, fuck you then. The
people who are saying, why don't you let it go?
Why are you talking about this? I didn't make Joe
Biden write a book and then whine about how Joe
Biden was mistreated by our podcast, Nancy Pelosi, the party,
right? Who was mistreated? The American people. There was never
a second of remorse or an apology for their utterly
disastrous... disastrous decision and people don't trust the democratic party
and it's not going to bite us in the ass
in the midterms but it will bite us in the
ass in 2028 i promise no there you go there
they go this it's turmoil i tell you turmoil i
can't think i can't think i can't think that that's
not something that was planned i kind of liked it
okay There's something going on there. Well, I'm not gonna
die lying. I'm liking that thesis. We should keep an
eye on it. I want to go back to the
Reagan National Economic Forum. uh i got a general besant
did a whole he did a whole keynote which is
I'm not gonna play it, but... The clips will be
in the show notes. People can listen to it. It
was quite good. He started with Reagan and how America
does one thing right. When we mess up, we admit
it and we move on. America was asleep. That'll be
the day. But he sat down with a Kudlow. And
I have a couple clips. Oh, Kudlow. Who cares about
Kudlow? Don't get panties in a bunch about Kudlow. I'm
telling you. He's on Fox, right? Is he on Fox?
Yeah, he's on Fox. Yeah, he's got a show on
Fox that's on Fox Business. Let's get that right. Yes,
yes. And he never talks about business. Why would you?
And the two things that I'll pull out of this.
Um... General Besant mentioned something here. And I was like,
huh, okay, hold on a second. We heard this briefly
on episode 1872. And it was the $250. Bill. Do
you remember this? Yeah, it was in the newsletter. Yeah,
right. So you remember it because it was – you
don't send me the newsletter anymore for review. Why is
that? Because we have two guys copy editing it. But
then, but see, then I don't know that the, what's
in the newsletter because the newsletter goes. to my enormous
newsletters bin because it has the word newsletter and unsubscribe
in it. And I forget to parse through my email.
And I feel bad that I haven't seen the newsletter.
Could you just send me... We can send you the
test. Could you please? Not the test. Just send me...
But I want it from you. No, the test is
the... No, the test... also goes to my newsletter bin
it goes well that's all we can do now that
gives the the workflow has changed I'm just telling you.
Okay. Jeez, you got all these little gotchas in your...
Oh, you can't do this, you can't do that. I
send you an email, I get a... Kind of a
response of two weeks later typically. I saw that video,
that guy's an idiot. Okay, what did you... Oh, that
video I sent you two weeks ago. Yes, you sent
me videos to watch. I'm a busy guy. I'm producing
my part of the show. You're busy. All you talked
about at the beginning of the show... watching TV. $250
bill. What is your take? What did you say in
the newsletter about the $250 bill? Nothing important, I just
said that Trump wants to do one and no one's
gonna do this. It's not gonna happen. So the $250
bill First of all, I called our bank. And I
said, bank manager, his name is also Adam. Hey, Adam.
If this thing comes out... I want one. Reserve one
for me. I got to have one of these. So
Besson is asked about this, and an interesting term came
up. So you were mentioning in your talk, we are
here. at this conference celebrating 250th birthday of America and
looking ahead for the next couple of hundred years, I
can't help but ask you, are we really going to
have a $250 bill with Donald Trump's picture on it?
Well, the whole world is waiting. So... For the 150th,
there was a Calvin Coolidge coin. Oh, God, I love
that. With his image on it. We are going to
have the image. of president trump on a coin and
there is a proposed legislation in the house to put
president trump on the $250 bill. As Treasury Secretary, I
am only mandated to do two things with the design
of the currency. At present, it has to be someone
who is not living. And it must say, in God
we trust. I can do whatever else I want. And
I I think that if you were the president, just
like Calvin Coolidge was for the 150th, if you're the
president for the 250th, President Trump should be on there.
And for any of you who want to geek out
in monetary theory, there's something called seniorage. So we print
treasury. prints currency, the Fed distributes it, and we have
about $2.5, $2.6 trillion outstanding, and that's a free loan.
So we put currency out there, and we don't have
to pay any interest on it. So with seniorage, I
think that you get the $250 bill, I think a
lot of people are just going to put those away
and hold them. I'm sure it's a good free one.
So I really like this seniorage. If he made enough
of them. It's an interest-free loan which they can write
treasury bonds against and get interest on. Yeah. That's a
great idea. Yeah, it's an interesting idea. He's not going
to get his picture on the bill. It has to
be approved by Congress. Well, there's a bill in Congress
to do this. And you think guys like Thomas Massey
and all these other pissed off Republicans are going to
vote for it? No. You think a Democrat's gonna vote
for it? No. So, and they got, what, leeway of
about five votes? No, they're not gonna get it through.
Well, you... miss the other possibility. You're dead. Yeah. Not
living. So he needs to be unalived and then we
got our money. It's a lot of money. So this
isn't happening. All right. I might have to go to
Polymarket on this one. I think it will happen. I
think Besant will somehow make this happen. Mmm. Besant, he's
the general, man. He's got good, he wants to do
it, but it's not going to happen. He's got juice.
It's just like the moon shot. He's got juice, man.
He's got juice, I'm telling you. He can do it.
I like the idea though. The whole idea of... Yeah,
it's a cute idea. And we need something other than
the hundred. We used to have $500 bills. Let's bring
those back into play. No, no one's going to... You
can't spend that. We can barely even spend a hundy.
Hundo. It's a hundy. Rig D's always called it a
Hun-D, not a Hun-Do. So we have a new obesity
drug. Oh goodness. We do? Eli Lilly. Oh yeah, is
this a pill? I'll bet it's a pill. The next
generation of obesity medication is getting closer to reality. Eli
Lilly is studying a new drug. Test results show it's
more powerful, even more powerful. than the obesity shots and
pills already on the market. NPR Pharmaceuticals correspondent Sydney Lepkin
is here to tell us about it. Good morning. Good
morning. I'm so glad you're the one who's going to
pronounce the name of this new drug. What is it?
The new drug is called Redatrutide. So it's a weekly
injection, just like Wegovy and Zepbound, but it's a little
different. We'll go via ZetBound target the GLP-1 hormone. This
new drug works on three hormones, GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon,
and that makes it more powerful. When you say more
powerful, you've got to sell me because I have seen
the results in human beings of the existing drugs. How
powerful is it? Yeah, so Eli Lilly, the company that
makes Reddit True Tide says... that in the clinical trial,
people taking it for 80 weeks lost an average of
more than 70 pounds. Woo! For comparison, patients taking the
placebo over the same period, they lost five pounds. Those
were the latest findings from its phase three clinical study.
Dr. Carolyn Francavilla, who is the Vice President of the
Obesity Medicine. what she thought. any weekly injection. Wow. Wow.
NPR bringing the shills in. You think? You know, I've
been reading studies about GLP-1. you And what it really
does. is it takes away your joy. Oh yeah, that's
an interesting little... Tidbit, that seems to be documented quite
well. You don't want to do anything. You're just a
dud. Well, in that regard, it takes away your joy
from eating food, from drinking wine, from smoking cigarettes, from
snorting Coke, but it just takes away your joy. I've
heard sex too. Yes. I don't really want to have
sex, you know, and all the other stuff about, you
know, But you look so good. I don't care. However,
in that regard, it's a gateway drug to SSRIs because
your joy is gone. You're going to be depressed. Boom.
Lexapro. Interesting idea. Now, the number three in today's thesis
count. Gotta write them down. - I'm not writing nothing
down. - I'm not writing nothing down. - I'm not
writing nothing down. drug good enough that people, assuming it's
approved by the FDA, will want to switch to it?
You know, it won't be for everyone. In fact, Frank
Avila said it may be too powerful for some people.
Having options is important. And now we have Zetbound, Wagovi,
the Wagovi pill, Foundeo. Here's Frank Avila again. We're really
going to have to think about, you know, moving forward,
which medication makes sense for which patients. But I mean,
if you would have told me this a decade ago,
I would have thought it was a lie. It's amazing.
The obesity drugs already in the market are expensive and
a lot of insurance plans don't Thank you. people still
can't afford them. How expensive is a new drug likely
to be? You know, we don't know yet. It's still
early days for Red Atrutide. The company has published these
study results yet in a peer-reviewed journal. Ritatrutide is not
yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Eli Lilly
says it's planning to submit it for approval by the
end of the year, and then it could be a
while before the FDA does approve it. That said, Dr.
Frankavilla heard about people supposedly buying a knockoff version of
this drug off the internet. She says, Don't do that.
You don't know what you're getting and it could be
dangerous. Oh, you could make it at home. Oh, well,
that's good to know. I want to lead into a
boots on the ground that we got, but it comes
first with a pre preceded by a few clips. Regarding
the price of oil, which no sooner had I said
watch it come down then it came down and as
we've been discussing if we take a look at all
prices you can see down today moves off more than
one percent Both for Brian. after the US and Iranian
negotiators apparently reaching an agreement to extend the ceasefire on
the month. Big losses there to the tune of 16
to nearly 19% for both WTI and Brent crude. Again,
oil markets seem to be looking past the wall. They
seem to be optimistic. that a deal would come through
so we see those big double digit losses. in the
oil moves. I like how it's called losses when everyone
else is cheering. Yay! It's like 87 bucks now, the
WTI. 87.76. And Brent is what, 91? 7.76. 250th anniversary!
So the, uh... the CEO of Chevron, who previously in
the week He'll be saying, oh, it's going to be
$200. We're getting at the bottom. We're scraping the bottom
of the barrel. It's no good. He's on Bloomberg. A
little different story. Let's talk about the reason for this
conversation in central banks right now, at least one of
them. Crude. On track, at least for now, for its
steepest monthly decline since 2020. Optimism building for a resumption
of traffic. through the Strait of Hormuz. As energy producers
are highlighting the risk of an extended closure, Chevron's been
warning, quote, we will start to see physical shortages. The
CEO, Mike Wirth, I'm very pleased to say, joins us
in the studio. Mike, it's good to see you. Good
to see you, John. Welcome back to the program, sir.
I get this question a lot. You're the expert. Help
me answer it. Why is crude at 100 at 90?
and not close to the 200, given this straight's been
shut for three months. You know, it's a little hard
to explain. We really are seeing... Because we just jacked
the price up on you for no reason, that's why.
Markets tighten, inventories draw. demand for products around the world
is still very strong. I think there's this And we're
experiencing it again the last few days that the end
is near, the conflict is nearly resolved and flow through
the Strait will resume very quickly. And that has kept
the back end of the curve lower than it might
otherwise have been. I think the psychology of the market
has been this is closer to rather than the beginning.
Not just that, though. There's some other things at play
that your No Agenda show has mentioned. How far are
we away from having... connect some of these countries to
the mainland and their production without having to traverse the
strait at all. Well, there's a couple that exist now
that you've talked about in Saudi and the sanctioned which
is about 50% complete, to get more of their production
over to Fujairah and outside of the Strait. So I
think you'll see more of that, Lisa. The one opportunity
there is, countries like Iraq and Kuwait that are deeper
up in the Gulf. access to those pipelines. the route
could be through the north and ultimately then into the
Mediterranean, maybe through Turkey, where we see a pipeline comes
out of the Caspian Sea over into the Mediterranean in
Turkey. flows to avoid the straight and horn moves. And
that's underway now. And I think you'll see that in
the years that follow. There's your turkey, John. That's why
turkey was weaseling in on the deal. Yep. Hey, boys,
we got a pipeline over here. Come on, bring it
over here. This is going to be fine. Now, the
problem is July 4th. It's gonna be a little tricky.
If the president somehow, I don't think he can do
it, but if Congress decides to remove the federal tax,
which is 18 cents. That may make a difference. We
got boots on the ground from Sam. And Sam runs
a gas station, an independent gas station in King County,
Washington. And he does about a million gallons a year.
thousand customers a day he's an unbranded And it was
nice. It was a nice note. I put the whole
note in the show. It was a good note. It
had a lot of information in it. Yeah. Now, he's
in Washington State. So he says, you know, we got
hidden fees, 78 cents per gallon at the pump, 52
cents per gallon refinery carbon credits. which is doubled as
operating costs. He says there's absolutely no difference between brand
gasolina and unbranded gasolina. It's the exact same stuff, comes
to the same pipeline, the same mix. Everything is all
the same. The main thing he wants everybody to know
is that he's on two-week contracts. So. His gasolina will
not go up or down immediately. It takes about two
weeks because he just doesn't have the purchasing power that
the big brands have. So Trump has got to do
something very, very quickly in order to get a significant
drop by July 4th. It's possible, I guess. And you're-
And the other thing he wants everybody to know is
please, please, please, please, please go to your unbranded gasolina
station and pay in cash. I like the sound of
it. Do you mind? No, it sounds like code or
something. You're trying to make a point about something, or
you're speaking... Pigeon Spanish. I'm not sure what you were
doing there. Well, I guess if you say gas is
so confusing because gas could be natural gas, liquid natural.
I like gasoline. So you want me to say gasoline
will make you feel better? Gasoline? Well, it's gasoline, not
gasolina. But we also call The Secretary of State, Lubio.
Well, that's his name in China. One of our producers
sent me a note. He said, I heard some guys
at the coffee shop, and he literally called Rubio Lubio.
And I was going to go over and give him
an in the morning, but I chickened out. I'm like,
you would have been guaranteed. Oh yeah, absolutely. No one
else calls Rubio Lubio, but our people. Yep. Anyway, back
to Sam. He says, please. Pay in cash. It's so
much better for the... Well, debit cards, same thing. Is
there no processing fee for the gas station on a
debit card? Typically in California there's not because they have
the debit card prices that is the same as the
cash price. I think in... I don't know if... I'd
have to look. Um... Hmm, that's a good point. Well,
Sam will have to send a follow-up. but cash or
debit card if possible. Although I've, I've, I've. paid with
debit cards. The thing with debit cards... is it gets
declined half the time and the other you know five
out of ten times you use it your number gets
jacked and you get cut you have to get a
new card debit cards are dangerous I have used a
debit card for the last 25 years and I've had
none of these issues. It never gets declined. Tina always
gets popped. Always. Yeah. Her credit cards, too. It's amazing.
Well, it's her then. That's what I keep telling her.
She won't believe me. Won't believe me. Anyway, so... It's
already gone down. I think gasoline... Went down by eight
or 10 cents I saw here in Texas. It's already
down. Well, you're in California. You got special rules for
everything. But I, you know... We'll see. It's going to
be tight. It's going to be real tight. It's got
to do something quick in order to get it down
substantially. You know, it was Newt Gingrich, I think. Do
I have that clip still? Kingrich. Gingrich. Maybe a Don
Gingrich was saying the other day, if Trump. can get.
gasoline In this... Yeah... Screw that. I thought I had
this clip. If Trump can get gasoline down to about.
three and a half dollars, which I don't think is
possible. he says the Republicans will win the midterms. That's
new Gingrich. That's what he says. There's a lot going
on. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of
change in electoral maps. There's stuff going on. They may
pull it off. I don't know. They're not pulling off
nothing. Okay. You want to put a bet on it?
You want to put a bet on it? Okay, so
what would the bet be? For $1, of course. No,
well, okay, I can do a dollar bet, but what
would the bet be for? I mean, what would be
the structure of the bet? Okay, Republicans keep the House
and the Senate. Then you're going to put a dollar
on that? Well, I can do a buck fifty. *laughs*
I'm a podcaster, man. Let's listen to a little NPR's
plug for one of their shows. AI gods. You'll like
this one. Millions of people are already turning to AI
for spiritual guidance, asking it moral questions, seeking comfort, even
chatting with AI versions of their gods. Yeah. Is this
a full show? Of their gods? How many people have
gods? Oh, the, uh... Hindus? I think Hindus have gods,
yeah. They have multiple gods. um Is this for a
show or an episode? It must be for an episode.
No, it's for a podcast. For one episode of a
podcast. Yeah, I think. Well, they have that whole AI
thing they're doing. Yeah, well, this comes on the heels
of the Pope's encyclical. Well, the Pope has some negative
things to say about AI. Yeah. You know, I listen
to it. He doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm
sorry. He's just, you know, like, well, it's horrible. Yeah.
I... Completely agree that I've always said the chat bots.
no matter what you're asking it for, spiritual advice, for...
What would you be asking spiritual advice for from a
computer? Hello? There is a large amount of people who
do not want to speak to their pastor about certain
things who are turning to AI. chatbots, particularly glue.com, G-L-O-O.
Never heard of it. Oh, they're pretty big. Glue, G-L-O-O
dot, or maybe dot A-I. which is a specific Christian
faith-based AI, and they are pouring their hearts out to
these chattels. And I think it's a very bad idea.
But people don't want to speak to a human being
about things anymore. I mean, come on, you can't say
that this is not happening, that people aren't talking to
this chat box. It's obviously happening or they wouldn't do
a whole podcast about it. I got another plug from
an NPR show for something I want to ask you
about. Okay. ID tech. ID Tech. All right, here we
go. This message comes from ID Tech, the original tech
camp. Experience Camp Crunch Labs IRL, BattleBots, and more, held
at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State. Hold on,
I've got to listen to that again. Hold on, hold
on. This message comes from ID Tech. The original tech
camp. Experience Camp Crunch Lives IRL, BattleBots, and more. Held
at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State. Yeah, it's
a summer camp. ID Tech. It says it's the original
tech camp. Since when? Well, when's the last time you
went to camp? So this thing's all over the country.
I looked it up. ID tech, yeah. It's huge. It's
monstrous. It's done by some couple. That sounds pretty cool.
What do you do there at ID Tech? I don't
know. I have no idea. You learn how to do
a battle bot. Bottle, did it say BattleBot or BottleBot?
it must be battle you know the robots that fight
yeah that show has gotten boring I look at it,
I'm like, eh. Okay, I got another one for you.
This is from KQED. Gender expansive cuts. Nonprofit serving girls.
Which is kind of funny. Just by itself. Nonprofits serving
girls and gender-expansive youth in the Bay Area and L.A.
lost $113 million in funding last year under the Trump
administration. That's according to a new report from the nonprofit
Alliance for Girls, which calls the loss an existential crisis.
Chantal Hildebrand is the organization's executive director. So either they've
shrunk. and are no longer able to serve as many
young people as they were before or they've been cancelled
in their entirety because there's just no more funding for
it. What? That means that it's also less of an
investment in the actual young people. as well as not
having services in some of our communities that are the
most vulnerable. Like what? She says non-profits need more public
support in the form of volunteers and donations. The money
supply from the government got cut off. That's what it
sounds like to me. Yeah, but what is it? It
goes to gender expansive. What does that even mean? Well,
it's on the girls. It's for girls. But what money
are we talking about? I know kids. Nobody's got... There's
no money going into their pocket. They haven't got any
special places to do anything. What are they talking about?
This is bull crap. I don't know. Did you look
it up? This is some sort of creation. Did you
look it up? There's nothing to look up. I can't
figure it out. Oh, they cut $110 million away from...
What? I don't know. Well, you seem very upset by
it. I'm very upset about this. This is constant waste
of money. There's a lot of money being wasted, definitely.
And what's gender expansive? I don't know. I would expect
you brought the clip. You would have looked it up.
I looked up. I couldn't figure it out. Well, then
I don't have the answer what gender. Okay, let's go
to another annoying clip. I can get mad about it.
What is he just? This John's get mad. I'm in
a bad mood. Why? Climate. Why? Climate. Why? Why are
you in a bad mood? Because climate... Because the donations
are just terrible today. It's embarrassing. In a controversial move,
state regulators have approved major changes to a key state
climate program. California's air resources... board voted yesterday to create
a four billion dollar fund for big leaders to invest
in decarbonization projects. But climate, transit, and affordable housing advocates
worry it might mean significantly less money for their programs.
Judson True is with the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency.
Transit, including Muni, is crucial to achieving our climate protection
goals and ensuring affordability, and this vote is a setback
for both of those causes. The decision comes months after
industries warned that compliance with current rules would drive them
out of the state. and increase energy prices. Okay. I
don't know. You're just playing stuff that makes you mad.
Yeah, I know. I got a bunch of it, too.
How about this one? No, no, no, no, no. I've
got to stop you. I have to stop you from
hurting yourself. Your blood pressure's up. I want to ask
you a question after I played this. This is Pratt.
Pratt with all the cool commercials. He's, I think it
says Tom Lamas, Namath, Lamath. Governor Gavin Newsom just endorsed
Karen Bass today saying, quote, the work Karen Bass is
doing in LA is making our entire state stronger. What
a joke. What? It's a joke that Karen Bass is
doing good work. Let's finish the quote. Governor Gavin Newsom
just endorsed Karen Bass today, saying, quote, The work Karen
Bass is doing in L.A. is making our entire state
stronger with an 18% decline in homelessness, while it grew
nationally, historic drops in violent crime, boosting film production in
L.A., and protecting our communities against ICE. She has my
full support. for re-election. Do you think that endorsement is
going to help Karen Bass? I think that endorsement, these
two are co-conspirators. They're criminal partners in the negligence that
led to 7,000 houses burning down. You think Governor Gavin
Newsom's a criminal? In my opinion, it's criminal negligence when
you fail your taxpayers and they burn alive. Because of
choices you made with your state park that you're responsible
from. Same with Mayor Karen Bass. Again, it's my opinion.
I believe if you let people burn alive because of
your negligence, that becomes criminal negligence. Now, first of all.
Pratt is very smart here because llamas. tries to nail
him on the, do you think he's a criminal? Are
you going to say he's a criminal right now? And
Pratt goes, now, in my opinion, you are criminally negligent.
So he's very smart. No, Pratt's sharp. I, however, do
not think he's going to win. Okay. He's not. They're
going to cheat. They're going to steal. Whatever it is,
he will not win. I just don't see California is
too rotten for him to win. I have the opposite
opinion because I've heard this before. Okay. My opinion is
that they can't afford. to rig the election against him
because he's got too much momentum. And it's going to
become obvious that the state is full of... and it
would cause a backlash. So they can't take a chance.
It's just a minor office. It's the mayor of L.A.
who cares. And Karen Bass isn't endearing herself. to anybody.
She's a communist for all practical purposes. So they're going
to let him win. Hmm. Well, if they let him
win, he will. probably fail spectacularly. You've got to think
the whole city council, the whole system is completely rotten
and corrupt to the core. How long is the... What
is the tenure for a Los Angeles mayor? How many
years is that? I don't know, ask the robot. I
think it's four years. the robot book of knowledge how
many years does the mayor of los angeles serve I'm
glad we have the robot today. It's getting a lot
of good use out of the robot. Okay. According to
the book of knowledge... The mayor of Los Angeles serves
a four-year term with a limited two consecutive terms. Okay,
four years. Thus... It has been written. four years. It's
going to be very hard for him to, if he
wins, very hard to get anything done. But I don't
know. They are insane people. They're crazy. Well, I have
to agree with that. The second thing, which is another
reason they'll let him win, because he can't do that
much damage. Or he can't damage, he can't fix the
damage that easily with the city council being a bunch
of boneheads. This happens in San Francisco. The city council
is completely out of control. Yeah, what... Why do you
still live there? You love it. I think you just
love having horrible people around you. I don't live in
San Francisco. I don't live in Los Angeles. I live
in a small community. Yeah, with people who read the
New York Times all up and down the street. I
know. It's great. And then in New Jersey... It seems
like no sooner do we have a Democrat. This is
my old state, New Jersey. I love New Jersey. Lots
of friends still in New Jersey. So they bring in
a Democrat governor. And right away, she's doing exactly what
the party wants. Oh, let's stir up some crap. Let's
make ICE look bad. Let's make Trump look bad. All
the people are wearing keffiyehs on the street. I haven't
seen the professionally printed signs yet, but they're coming. Tensions
continue to flare outside the Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center.
Newark, by the way, is not exactly the same as
New Jersey. Newark, New Jersey. Protesters who say living conditions
in the building are inhumane, clashing with immigration enforcement. Saturday
morning. between ICE officers and demonstrators being met with tears.
Just hours earlier, New Jersey Governor Mickey Sherrill announced plans
to set up a for protesters to avoid a repeat
of the chaos streets of Minneapolis between ICE agents and
American citizens just months ago. and we know American citizens
lost their lives. Hold on, stop. Can you... That woman
is in the same milieu as Pam Bondi. She sounds
just like her. Interesting. Let's listen again with a critical
ear. We know what ICE has done in other states,
and we know American citizens lost their lives. And I
refuse to let that happen in New Jersey. Yeah, that's
a good observation. Maybe the same law school? The escalation
in protests comes after 300 migrants went on a hunger
and labor strike inside the detention center due to poor
living conditions, including reports of detainees being burned by scalding
hot showers and maggot-infested food. Here's what I don't understand.
They want a hunger and labor... strike? Are they in
the, did they have to work in the detention center?
Were they making Ikea furniture? Maybe license plates. For days,
ICE has refused most of our requests, raising serious questions
about what it's trying to hide from public view. Yesterday,
the New Jersey Department of Health sought to inspect. the
site, but it was denied full access. as well. Come
the New York representatives come in and make a big
scene out of stuff. These are people aren't even representing
New Jersey. Wednesday, a group of U.S. lawmakers went to
Delaney Hall to see the conditions for themselves and hear.
from detainees. It's MAGA infested, I tell ya! mistreated and
then They're under attack. It's a quick... Mass. It is
detention center. must shut Mark Wayne Mullen denies the allegations
of unfit conditions at Delaney Hall, but said, holiday Holiday
Inns suck too. Yeah. No, it's a program. It's no
different than everything else. It's all about the midterms. all
about it. That's all that it is. Yeah. But at
least we have Jill Biden on our team now. That's
cool. Making the podcasters cuss. It's amazing. It's amazing. Making
podcasters cuss. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I've got a couple
other little things. How about let's finish something light. Okay.
Again, of course, a homeschooled Indian. Uh, is this Spelling
Bee Champ? Ah, yeah, this is good. Nearly 300 spellers
competing at this week's Scripps National Spelling Bee. After nine
exciting rounds, judges declaring a tie, prompting a dramatic spell-off,
a lightning round, 90 seconds to spell as many words
as possible. Denebola. D-N-E-B-O-L-A. Faye Dodo. F-A-I-S-D-O-D-O. Kawasat. C-Y-W-Y-D-D-A-U. Slotchly.
Riti Arias. R-E-T-I-A. Then the anxious wait for the winner
to be announced. The spell-off results. spelled a total of
25 words and that an eighth grader from Rancho Cucamonga,
California, declared champion, correctly spelling 32 words. a new record.
That's great. There was one of those videos going around
like UCLA students who can't spell. Which is... - Funny,
you know, actually I have it here. - My favorite
stuff. It was quite funny. because it was an ad.
But, you know, that's not the way it's presented on
X, because as we know, on X, everything is... Fake
and gay. So here it is, UCLA. By the way,
UCLA people could never spell. Well, there's that. So UCLA
couldn't. Students struggle with basic reading. The sentence is, the
beneficiary tried to embellish the extortion scheme. Here it is.
The Beneficary tried to ambush the extortion. Storten scheme? What
does that mean? I don't even know what to do.
Ben, uh, I can't say that. I tried to, um,
em, emlish. The... "Adortion... scheme?" "What does that mean?" "I
don't know." It's actually a part of a – a
commercial for UniShack off campus housing, but people post that
as, look at these idiots in California. You can't trust
anything. Well, what are you going to do? You can't
trust anything. They're idiots in California. You can't trust anything
anywhere. However, you can trust. The Value for Value System.
Now, if John and I can trust it today, it's
a different story. But you can trust that your no
agenda show always delivers you value without any commercials, without
any corporate interests or anything like that. In fact, we,
to our detriment, speak our mind continuously. And we've done
this for 18 years. We've been through the cycle. We
know how it works. But we are always proud to
say. That we thank you for your courage, the man
who put the sea and Charles in charge. Say hello
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In the morning to the trolls in the troll room,
let me count you. There we go. That was pretty
good. 1928, peak trollage, listening to us live on noagendastream.com
and in the modern podcast apps, which is the only
app you want to use is from podcastapps.com. You know,
there was... There's this whole group. who came out of
secret hiding. They've been meeting in secret. And they call
themselves AMP. - Ant? - Amp, amp. - A-N-T? -
A-M-P, Alpha Mike Papa. - Oh, amp. - Amp, yes.
And AMP stands for... Alliance for Measurement in Podcasting. Oh,
okay. And so they had a secret off-site, which they
called, get ready for it, the Amp Accords. Oh, brother.
Yeah. And they have a website, ampaccords.com. A billion dollars
of demand is sitting on the sidelines, which is why
leading platforms, advertisers, publishers, and creators have come together to
create the first podcasting measurement framework. So I'll skip right
to the point of this. The, you know... Podcast measurement
sucks. It's based on downloads. It's no good. And so
these guys want that YouTube money. They want to get
the YouTube money because YouTube is calling their videos podcasts.
So they're trying to redefine what a podcast is. They're
doing it all wrong. Doing it all wrong. Spotify, SiriusXM,
DraftKings, BetterHelp, there's the advertisers, Libsyn, PodScribe. And UTA, the
UTA Creators Union. They're doing it all wrong. And this
is what I've told. I said, if you want to
have the same type of measurement as YouTube to get
your YouTube money. you've got to cut the podcast apps
in on the deal. And I don't understand why people
have such trouble seeing this. every media. always puts the
distributor in the deal. Television, radio, newspapers, podcast apps, not
in the deal. The podcast apps know exactly who heard
the commercial. They know exactly how many people skipped. They
know they have all they have what they call first
party data. If you cut the podcast apps in on
the deal, you're going to be golden. You'll win everything.
You'll win all the YouTube money. I don't know if
they'll listen to me. Well, let me think. And by
the way, I wasn't. You're right. They won't listen to
you. I wasn't invited to the offsite either, which is,
as you know. And why would you be? Baffling. Always
baffling. You don't know Jack. I don't know what I'm
talking about. Get a modern podcast app. Not only will
you be notified when we go live, many of the
No Agenda Nation podcasts go live. And then not just
us, lots of podcasters are now starting to do this
going live. And you'll then be notified and you can
listen to it live in your podcast app. But probably
more important, within 90 seconds of publishing the podcast, you
will be notified that it's in your podcast app ready
to enjoy. Just ready to enjoy. Don't mess around with
those legacy apps. Now I mentioned value for value. This
is what we've been living by for 18 years. It's
a roller coaster ride. It's up, it's down. When it's
up, we're happy. When it's down, we're not happy. Today
is not the happiest of days. And please go on
X and tell me the reason why is because I'm
not critical of Trump and John. And John is... You're
not hating on the Jews. That's the main reason. And
John is no longer critical after his open heart surgery.
I'm too nice a guy. Too much love. Yeah, no.
We are... And people are like, you've changed. You're a
Christian. Yeah, I've definitely changed, but I don't think I've
changed in my life. criticisms It's just people don't like
it when you don't criticize someone. You have to criticize
everybody. Everybody. I criticize you and them. Except Candace Owens.
She's the one that's taking our audience. People are being
hypnotized by Candace Owens. Yeah. And Tim Dillon. NLP never
hurt. And Tim Dillon. Tim Dillon. You don't know anything.
You're watching those dumb chicks. I love the dumb chicks.
This is what I've been waiting for. Finally, I have
my opening for the show. Perfect. Um... Value for value
comes in many different ways. We love when people support
us. We got some great boots on the ground today.
Perfect example. Thank you for helping us with clips. Thank
you, Clip Collector, Steve Jones. He may have done your
three by three. I don't know if he did, but...
Steve is very good at stuff like that. We appreciate
it. People giving us encouragement. Even some of the negative
stuff can sometimes be encouraging. It was like, oh, I'm
going to delete this. Now I'm encouraged. Thank you. Oh,
I'm going to block that guy. I'm encouraged. If you
have nine followers and you've changed your screen name five
times since 2019, you're getting blocked because you're a bot
or you're an NPC. And the other way that people
can support us with their time, talents, and treasures is
by creating artwork. It does work with prompting. Some people
do actual work still with Photoshop, which is appreciated. And
some just really, really don't do a lot of work
at all. still will win. And that example is Darren
O'Neill, who brought us the artwork for episode 1872, which
aptly was titled Lunar Economy. We saw the lunar economy
blow up on the launch pad. And once again, the
No Agenda Show predictions are on par. You said it.
You said it's gonna blow up. It's not going to
happen. It'll be delayed. And literally two days later, something
blows up and the moon shot is delayed. But Why
listen to us? So Darren made the cars for podcasters.
Which was cute. It was cute. It was very cute.
It's a different AI model. I had not seen the.
crayon model yet. Have we seen this a lot, this
particular? I think we may have seen it once or
twice. Possibly. But it's just well done. I mean, Darren
is the master at this. Darren is quite the master
at this. I don't know how, you know, it's amazing
in some situations. Like what? I can get that to
work. He's very good at it. Lots of people prompting
away, I did enjoy that it doesn't have our names
on it, at least that I can see, which is
the No Agenda. Over next to Darren's piece, there's a
Waffle House done in the style of No Agenda. I
thought that was a cute piece. And I like the
kids sucking on the... Yeah, the moon helium. Yeah, the
moon helium. I think we debated between moon helium... Cars
for podcasters. And I think you like the moon base
by Darren. That's what you like. These are the no
agenda moon base. I like the helium one and the
cars. I think you may have been the one that
pushed the cars one. I wanted the rumble waffle, and
you said, that's racist. By Scaramanga. Yeah, it was racist.
It's not racist. I said, who is fighting at these
teen takeovers? Yeah, but it doesn't say teen takeover. It
just says rumble waffle. as though it was a Waffle
House with a fight going on outside. Well, okay. Not
to make teen takeovers at Waffle House. You'd get your
ass kicked. Ever been to one of those places? Yeah,
I've not been to an awful house in a long
time. Well, the waffle house has got a... Which is
good. I would recommend going there, but there's a lot
of rough customers in there. Rough customers. And I'd say
an honorary mention to Nestworks, who once again tried to
do something non-AI, didn't quite make it. He has this
new style. with kind of a line and, you know,
Yeah. What style would you, is algo tricks, what style
would you call that? Because it's minimalist. Minimalist, yeah. Didn't
quite cut it, but we appreciate the fact that people
do this at all. It gives us good feedback to
know what you liked and what struck a chord during
the podcast. That's one. Another good reason for doing some
artwork. It gives us some feedback in an interesting way.
And you can upload that at noagendaartgenerator.com. And we appreciate
what everybody does. And thank you very much, Darren O'Neill.
It keeps him up in the standings. Now we will
go to the treasure portion of our time, talent and
treasure. And we have one executive producer. And what do
we have in total here? Seven associate executive producers. of
a lot of people, we have 1800 people listening, not
everybody's supporting us. Not today. Not today. But we will
thank Sir Eric. from Opelika, Alabama. I think it's Opelika,
isn't it? Is it Opelika? Opelika? Opelika? Aren't, aren't, aren't.
Our town names, our city names are pretty atrocious. Yeah,
no, we watch them constantly, but I think it is
Opelika. But it does come in with our favorite executive
producer number, $333.33. And as a reminder, if you are
fortunate enough to support us with $200 or more, you
get an associate executive producership, $300 or more executive producer
credit, which is Hollywood level. You can use anywhere Hollywood
credits are recognized, including imdb.com. And we are guaranteed to
read your note. We thank everybody $50 and above. because
we're very grateful. And Sir Eric says, ITM Citizen John
and Citizen Adam, here is some V for V. Can
I please get some good sumo and no injury karma
for me and everyone competing in the third annual Sakura
Cup next weekend? Whoa! Do we have a producer who's
a sumo wrestler? I have no idea. And I don't
know what the Sakura Cup is. I don't either, but
send pictures. We've got to see your fat butt. You've
got karma. If we have a noogen, this is an
advertising opportunity. Can you put stickers or embroidery on the
sumo thong? No, you can't put anything on it. The
best you could do is have a tattoo and I
don't think they'd like that. What, the Sumo Association? I've
watched sumo for probably 40 years, and I've never seen
a tattoo on a sumo wrestler. You have not been
keeping us up to speed on the most recent sumo
developments. Opelika, you're right. Thank you, sir. Bye, His Grace.
Ryan Wickenhagen in Townsend, Georgia. 275. Dear John and Adam,
I decided to make my contribution quarterly. as opposed to
my random here and there donations because I'm coming more
and more to the conclusion that your show might be
one of the few places left Where the middle still
exists. You call things for what they are, regardless of
which side it comes from. And that is greatly appreciated
and sorely needed. How come this guy's not posted on
my Twitter timeline? I get nothing but the opposite. No
agenda. Sounds like you have an agenda. Jew agenda. Israel
agenda. Trump agenda. Yeah, that's what I get. do agenda.
- You guys have built the most important component of
any civilization, community. You've allowed there to be a middle.
I have phlegm today. You okay? You want me to
take over? Do you need me to jump in? Hold
on. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to mute you
while you do that. continue while John is I'll just
wait here for a second and are you done component
no I'm not good I muted you I muted you
I didn't want the phlegm to come through go ahead
no I got that got to I muted myself oh
I cleared my throat good you've allowed there to be
a middle and if there's unable to look to the
left or the right to make a choice then we
have no choice and if we To have no choice,
we have no freedom. If we have no choice, we
have no freedom, so we go in the middle. The
No Agenda Show might be the only thing left that
can save the republicans. I'm grateful for you both. I'm
writing my congressman to demand we have Adam and John's
face on the $250 bill instead of Trump. That means
we have to be dead. Yeah, we'll put it off.
Thank you literally for your courage and for your attention
to this matter. You're welcome. Thank you. That's a very
encouraging note. Thank you for blessing us with that. Nathan
Sweem. I think as a new donor, I don't recall
a Nathan. Nathan Sweem from Central Point, Oregon, $263.22. Nathan
does not have a note, so Nathan, send it to
us if you want us to do a make good
on that. In the meantime, you'll receive a double up
car. You've got. Karma. Mansour Rod in Alpharetta, Georgia, $257.94.
ITM and happy birthday, America. Oh, yeah, I know what
he means. Zadok Brown, Pukalani, Hawaii, $257.94. One of the
few producers left allowed to listen to the show in
Hawaii. And no, no. But that does mean another double
of karma. You've got. Karma. Schofield in Yankee Town, Florida.
Really, there's a Yankee town in Florida? 250 Short comment.
So John does not bust my balls. This gets me
to knight status. join Dame Susie? Boot? Scooter. Is that
right, Susie Boot? Scooter of the nature coast? No, it's
Dame Susie Boot Scooter. of the nature coast. Boot scooter?
Yes. Wow. What is it? Okay. Of the nature coast
and to celebrate 54 years of wedded bliss. Holy moly.
54 years. Nice work, buddy. And they never had a
fight. Very nice. Call me Sir Jacket. Yes, he will
be knighted shortly. Oh, there's Leigh-Anne Webb. Spouse and better
half of Steve Webb, OG Godcaster. She's in Riverside, California.
233.77. These are associate executive producers. ITM Adam and John.
Sorry it's been so long. California, she says. Go vote.
This Tuesday is Election Day. For true change, the only
sane choice for governor is riverside county sheriff chad bianco
Do you know of Chad Bianco? Yeah, he's in fourth.
He's in fourth. The other Republican, in quotes, is being
propped up by Democrats who know they can't beat Bianco
in November. Living in Riverside, Steve and I know he
is the real deal. a man of integrity who loves
the Lord. During COVID, Sheriff Bianco fought to keep California
open, refused to enforce mask mandates, and refused to close
churches. Don't listen to the fake polls like the one
John just mentioned. Turnout is predicted to be low, making
your vote matter even more. If we all show up.
for Chad, we make the vote too big to rig.
Help us fight the evil running this state. Blessings to
you both, Gitmo Nation and California. We really need God
and Chad Bianco right now. Thank you for your courage,
says Leanne Webb. Thank you, Dame Leanne. Good to hear
from you. Uhhh... it up. Picking away here and there
we go. Linda. Oh, is this Linda? Am I on
Linda? You're on Linda. Linda Lou Patkin in Castle Rock,
Colorado. Jobs Karma. Your resume has about 10 seconds to
make an impression and most don't. For a resume that
gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com. Linda helps professionals and executives
turn their experiences Into a clear story of leadership, results,
and impact. That's ImageMakers, Inc. with a K. And Linda
Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes. $200.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote. You start. Good
luck. We still have a number of people to thank.
Those were, of course, our executive and associate executive producers
for episode 1,000. 873 with $85.35, and we're appreciative of
that. John Hoiboor in Bristol, Tennessee. That is Dutch for
hay farmer. Just letting you know, as in H-A-Y, hay
farmer. Dakota Walker, Boise, Idaho, the first to come in
with a boob donation, $80.08. I sent Adam an email.
If you could please read and potentially ask for help
on... Oh, yes, I will read this for a second.
Uh, but I have his note here. Uh... Is he
here? Yes, Sir Dakota. We break for nights. Um... He
is actually soon to be Knight, Sir Dakota, just moved
his family from Idaho to Maine, and he is shocked.
by Maine's elimination of all childhood vaccine exemptions outside of
medical. So you can no longer get it based on
religious exemptions. He's very upset because his kids now can't
go to school unless they get all of these shots.
And he would he needs help finding an accommodating doctor.
I think that's code medical professional or organization who will
sign for a real medical contradiction. And you can contact
him at walker6607 at gmail.com. walker6607 at gmail.com. Our next
boob donation, and we have three of them today, is
Kevin McLaughlin. We know him from Concord, North Carolina. He
is the Archduke of Luna and Lover of America and
boobs. And the $80.80. senses there. God bless American melons,
he says. Xobim, X-O-B-I-M, Xobim, Xobim, in Leiden in the
Netherlands, our final of the three boobs. Greetings from Leiden,
right under the European heat dome. Yeah, the heat dome
is bad. Christina, you know, she is with child. She
should be delivering the child in about six weeks. And
it's very, very hot for her right now. It's very,
it's unpleasant under the heat dome. which of course is
due to climate change. Dame Rita, $68.33. She always supports
us every single show. Thank you so much, Dame Rita.
She's in Sparks, Nevada. Cheers to the best podcast in
the universe. Peter Karnowski, $61, Parts Unknown. Sir Dan the
Quiet Man in Canton, Georgia. Small boobs, $60.06, 606. He's
going through a major home remodel, and I think I'd
go nuts if I didn't have the No Agenda show.
That's why we're here, brother. Les Zarkowski, also with the
small boobs from Kingman, Arizona. Scott Auld in Coral Springs,
Florida. And he wants to use this $55. He wants
to use this donation to de-douche his friend, $100 Eric.
You've been de-douched. That brought him to no agenda when
Scott Adams died and when Scott was adrift. He says,
thank you both for your courage. You're safe here. Just
hang on to the no agenda life raft. Joshua Hopple
in Nanjimoy? Nanjimoy? I've never heard of this. How do
you pronounce it? I don't know. Why not? That's the
robot. I'm not going to ask. Nan G. Moy. Nan
G. Moy, Maryland. $51.50. D-douching if time allows, of course.
You've been D-douched. He is the irrelevant artist. There's Dame
Rita again. I think one of these Dame Rita donations
is a missing one from a previous show that bounced
up. here. Well, we're going to thank her again. $50.33.
ITM gentlemen, thank you for the twice weekly dose of
sanity and laughter. Thank you. We always love seeing your
name on the list, Dame Rita. Here are the 50s.
Terrence Clark, Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Nathan Knoll in Nederland, Texas.
Joshua Johnson, Omaha, Nebraska. Tony Lang from Castle Pines. Colorado.
And winding out the list of $50, Sir Michael from
Snohomish, Washington. And the rest are under $50. We do
not mention those for reasons of anonymity. $49.99, we see
you. The $33.33s, the $21.15s, the $11.11s, the $12.12s, the
$4s, the $3s, all the way down to the $1s.
Every single amount is appreciated. That's how Value for Value
works. Whatever you get out of the show, send the
value back to us. We can't determine what's valuable to
you. Only you can do that as long as you
do it. That's all we ask for. In fact, you
can even set up a recurring donation. Go to noagentadonations.com.
Any amount, any frequency. is appreciated noagendadonations.com i have no
birthdays today Which... Yeah, it's a real... It's short every
which way. It's very odd. Yeah, I thought so. I
mean... That doesn't happen that much. Yeah. You can get
on the birthday list by sending your birthday notes. to
notes at noagendashow.com. So what we do have is we
have one night to bring up to the round table.
So if you could... I got my blade, luckily. Ooh,
nice. That's your fancy one. Very nice. Over time, you
keep your own accounting. officially pronouncing with that We say
welcome to the No Agenda Roundtable of the Knights and
the Dames. And of course, for you, we have hookers
and blow, rent boys and chardonnay. We have harlots and
howl doll, redheads and rise, beers and blunts. Cowgirls and
Coffin Varnish, a great combo. Ruben S. Wilman and Rosé,
Gase and Misaki, Vodka, Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling
Cider and S-Force, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, Breast Milk and
Pavlomen, as always at the round table. We have the
mutton and and you could head over to NoAgendaRings.com, handsome
no agenda night and dame rings they are signet rings
so they are accompanied in your package when you receive
them after sending us your official size and address uh
some wax to seal your importance correspondence with just like
all those fancy old school period piece series that we
watch on pbs and a certificate of authenticity and welcome
once again to the no agenda roundtable reminder We still
have a few of those red knights, order of the
heart pins available for those who want to get in
on this offer because that is going away very soon
because clearly John is healed. He's as grumpy as ever.
First thing we do here is play the meetup reports
we've received, and this is from the 3BR Distillery in
Keyport, New Jersey. This is Sir R. Daniels coming at
you from the 3BR Distillery in Keyport, New Jersey, where
my pronouns are Viscount and Commodore, and we drink and
know things. I need a drink edition. This is Jersey
James calling from 3BR. I really screwed up the organization
for this one, by the way. In the morning, this
is Brian. My first time. Joining this crew was a
real pleasure. I will be back. It's fun. Go to
your meetups. In the morning, this is MK Ultramark. hanging
out at the Central Jersey meetup. I'm loving life right
now. Very courage John and Adam in the mood Thank
you for the report. We love getting those. Go to
noagentameetups.com. to become part of No Agenda Nation. It's very
simple. It doesn't cost any money. You just look up
a meetup near you and go visit one. It's super
cool. Like today, if you're in Raleigh, North Carolina, you
can go to the Northern Wake June Fun Times meetup,
6 o'clock today at Saints and Sons. scholars in raleigh
the rest of this month on the six it is
the ukrainian meetup we are excited to get a meter
per port from them it'll be in bilat cirque cirque
va kiev oblast It's a very disputed area. Lots of
farms over there. So we're looking forward to see how
many Ukrainian meetup attendees we'll have. Boise, Idaho on the
13th, along with Franklin, Tennessee. Indianapolis, Indiana, the big one
on June 14th. Charlotte, North Carolina on the 18th. And
Rotterdam, the Netherlands on June 26th. We have several in
July, August, September, going through to October, almost through to
Christmas time. It's amazing how many people love the meetups.
Go hang out together. You have one thing in common.
You are children from other lands and you all listen
to the show. Noagentameetups.com. This is where you get connection
that always brings you protection. Every single one of the
people you meet at the meetup will be your first
responders in an emergency. Noagentameetups.com. If you can't find one
near you at noagentameetups.com, start one yourself. It's easy. And
always guaranteed a pate. We have end of show mixes
on the way. Appreciate the prompting people are doing this.
They're getting good. And it's good. And I think the
reason why they're good is because they're not using the
typical voice that we've heard a million times. They also
have very targeted no agenda lyrics. Very subliminal. Every single
end of show mix tells you to donate. It's very
subliminal. So make sure you listen to it and listen
to it loud. And John's tip of the day is
coming up. But first we have a couple of ISOs.
This is a tradition on the show where we select
something that we will use at the very end during
the mic drop. I'll go first. I have two comedic
gold Gold. Hmm. And there's this one. They were right
about everything. - Kind of like that one myself. What
do you have? Do you still have celebrities? Uh, now
I have a politician, but I'm gonna tell you something.
I'm gonna put these off to the next show and
giving you... They were right about everything. Oh, wow. Thank
you very much. I appreciate that. Hey, but don't worry.
There's more John with tip of the day. Just the
tip with JCB. Sometimes Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I... I know,
it caught me off guard. Yeah. Okay, we're going to
go. Tip of the day is a, you know how
garbage bags are, these garbage bags, if you're doing anything
that's like clearing weeds or brush. Yes. Or you're. or
clearing out your house. They tear. The thing pokes through
them. Yeah, they're not very sturdy. They're made of cheap
plastic. Well, they're made of good plastic, but they're not
very sturdy. Right. So you want this product, and these
are called Durasac. woven contractor cleanup bags. And they're woven.
I just like the term. And things don't poke through
them. I like Durasac. I just like Durasac. It just
says Durasac. Durasac. And Durasac makes, you have to be
careful. They make a lot of stuff that you can
get one bag for 19 bucks. It says, like, I
don't know what it's for. But these are, this is
the box that you buy for 19 bucks. of 16,
it's a 16-pack Dura-Sac. Holds up to 110 pounds of
stuff. - Wow, of stuff? - Yeah. - Wow. And
without having issues, and you can reuse them. You can
dump the stuff out, and you reuse them again. They're
heavy-duty contractor cleanup bags. or do they put a K
at the end? D-U-R- S-A-C-K bags.com. Durasackbags.com. Your sack will
be durable. Now, I want to tell people to get
on our Instagram. Oh, hey, hey, good news. Good news!
One of our producers, I don't know who, but I
love you and I thank you. I complained about being
kicked off of Instagram. And I just, on a whim,
I'm like, let me see if I can, and I
logged in and was perfect. I've been restored. Yeah, that's
what our people do. Our people are the awesomest. So
Instagram, no agenda podcast. official site we got approved to
be the official now what do I do do I
can I tag you or how does Instagram work now
that I'm back on how does Instagram work You just
follow us. Oh, okay. And that's enough? I just follow
the Insta, the no agenda. Yeah, you click on follow.
Hold on, let me do it right now. Hold on
a second. So I go to Instagram. I don't do
Instagram. I've never done Instagram. You have a ton of
pictures on Instagram that you've put up there. No, that's
not a ton. It's only my daughter for her birthday
and Father's Day. Okay, and no agenda, what is it
called? No agenda official? No Agenda Podcast. Look at this.
There's a no agenda show. There's a no agenda show.
Who runs no agenda show? I don't know. We can't
find out. No agenda podcast. Follow back. Oh, you're already
following me. Okay, how many followers do you guys have?
780! We're official. We need... What do we need, a
thousand? We need a thousand, but we need five thousand.
If people want to see photos of my studio. WHA-
You're going to show. I've... Okay. I've only been to
your house once in the entire two decades we've known
each other. And I was forbidden from seeing your studio.
You would not let me go upstairs. And now, as
a cheap gimmick, you're going to post. Just a cheap
gimmick is what it is. You're going to post. Cheap
gimmick. You're going to post pictures of your studio on
Instagram? Yeah. Wow. Wow. Darren says that... You asked him
to create AI images of his studio. Is that true?
No, that's bullcrap. He lies. He lies. Everybody go get
your Durasac and go to No Agenda. Go to fund.com
for more tips. *laughs* Darren O'Neill, who started at 11
this morning and is still listening, just... Makes me feel
warm all over. Good. Coming up next on the NOAA
General Stream, a friend of the show, Nick the Rat.
This will be from his nicktheratradio.com, the Baltic Bedlam. reminder
that you guys about Texas Slim. stuff going on. He
needs lots of prayer. but I will be bringing you
some updates on him and the Beef Initiative. The show
mixes today come from Just Baker and... And they are
dynamite. See you on Thursday! Make sure you have a
good weekend, what's left of it. Coming to you from
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