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It's delicious. Adam Curry. John C. DeVora. It's Sunday, July
5th, 2026. This is your award-winning Get More Nation Media
assassination episode 1883. This is no agenda. Still. But we're
broadcasting live from Museum Square here in the heart of
Amsterdam. in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from
Northern Silicon Valley where I can tell you that on
behalf of public broadcasting and in case you didn't know,
Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. I'm John C. Dvorak. Crackpot and
Buzzkill! In the morning! Yes, it's a scandal, I tell
you. A scandal. Scandal. Oh boy. Hey John, I'm still
here in the socialist slash communist country of the Netherlands.
And how you doing there? You know, there's a couple
problems here. First of all, we had a really nice
reunion with the family. It was great. It's nice to
see everybody. Half of my nephews are socialists. And they
say it. Do they greet each other with comrade? Uncle
Adam, I'm a socialist. Say, yeah, that's why you're poor.
Yes, that's true. No, they are very angry, and they
are angry at... two things the main things they're angry
about since you asked is hydration breaks Yeah, I can
see that. You're taking the entire energy out of the
game. Say, yeah, but, you know, you've got to live
with it. This is how we're going to make soccer
bigger. We don't need... Football, football, football, not soccer, football.
To be bigger. Okay. Are you mad because you're out
of the game and America's still in it? Is that
the problem here? No. That would be an issue. That's
a sore spot. I don't know why you'd say that.
So talking to my brother-in-law, And, uh, He runs a
pretty big section of a publisher of magazines, which is
obviously, I think one of them is still print. But
the rest are. um online and in fact the You
know, the largest magazine in the 80s and 90s when
I was here was Veronica Magazine. That was... the magazine
of the Veronica Broadcast Corporation that I was a part
of where I started my career. And that magazine had
over a million subscribers in the 90s. How many people
do you think... still subscribe digitally, digitally to the magazine.
A couple hundred thousand. 90,000. And it's still one of
the biggest. publications here in the country. And he says,
oh man. Now, he's not a socialist. He is very...
pro-Trump, conservative, which is an anomaly, which is nice. Although,
an anomaly for someone to be so open about it.
I says I am here. Because they also own a
number of the big newspapers. In the country? The journalists
and the management literally come to work. with Palestinian flags
and keffiyehs. Oh, brother. He says we're lost. We're lost.
But then it was interesting. Because he says, you know...
But it's obvious that, you know, Putin's Putin's in trouble
now. I said, what? Oh, yeah, no, Putin is clearly,
he's in trouble now with, you know, they're losing terrain
and Ukraine is winning. I said, bro, is that what
they're writing? Because I'm not so sure about that. That
was good. And then... We had a great Uber driver.
And so he's in a Tesla course because you can't
drive a gasoline-powered car in Amsterdam anymore. It has to
be electric. And we're chatting, and he's like, oh, you're
from America. Oh, you're from Texas. And this young guy,
you're from Texas. Oh, yeah. Oh, you like, you got
lots of guns. Yeah, yeah. Tina's the first one. Oh,
yeah, I like my guns. Okay. So he kind of
set the tone. And he's like, oh, you have a
Tesla there? I said, no, I'm not a big fan
of Tesla. But it's American. It's Elon. I said, no,
I don't like it. You're right. Battery car sucks. I
hate it. I suck. It sucks. But we have to
drive it. And he goes on and on like this.
And then he's like, okay, I want to ask you.
you a question please don't be offended he's a like
a Turkish Dutchman so he has a bit of a
Turkish accent don't be offended that's what you're doing that's
what you're trying to do there I'm doing I'm and
believe me I'm just wondering what the hell it was
I'm nailing it I'm glad you gave you if he
clarified that I needed clarify that yes he says um
okay i i don't want you to be upset just
uh i have a question let me guess is this
about trump yes did you have voted for him so
yeah we voted for him i'm just like we'll just
go all out yeah we voted for him we love
him Yeah, but most Americans, if I ask them... They
say, "Oh, I don't want to talk about it. We
don't talk about who I voted for." I said, "Oh,
that means they voted for Trump. They're afraid to say
it." She said, "Ah, no, no." And he's like, "Ah,
so Trump, huh? Yeah." He's like, you know. I'm 30
years old. and uh There's no housing. I still live
with my parents. He said, I can't get a house
because our government gives it to the immigrants. I understand.
They have a horrible country. They need a safe place
to come to. They need a safe place to live.
This comrade. I understand, but they give them house. They
give them money. They give them car. They give them
everything. And I'm living with my parents. I said, well,
there you go. Yes, we need someone like Trump here
every single time, every single time. They all think it's
great and then they're like, oh, you know, we really
need someone like Trump here. So this is, it's, uh,
everyone's, uh, oppressed here. They're, they're, they're... Oppressed. They are.
They're beaten down. And, you know, the guys, I don't
vote anymore. Why not? Because it doesn't make any difference.
It says they're just there to pretend, to sell me
a story, but it never changes. You vote right, you
vote left, it doesn't make any difference. So it's kind
of sad to see it. And I think, wow, we
have such a great country. We got our problems. Well,
unfortunately, you missed the big show. Well, I tuned in
to as much as possible. Can I explain a little
bit what happened? Yes, please. Please. First of all, Trump
is does is a showman. And this show was and
he had to do the show because he had all
these veterans and old men and everybody. coming up there
and he had to put on a spectacle by setting
all kinds of records uh the biggest ever yeah 375
000 until they got struck by lightning and had to
move out this is on the mall right not the
yeah and then they came back most people came back
and there still was a big audience but what was
interesting was was Trump's speech was pretty good uh it
wasn't funny really but it was it was It was
a good speech, but it was this... show. And it
was the 850,000, 851,000 shells. circling the whole place that
went on for 38 minutes. And then lightning came, or
thunder came back and started raining and washed the crap
out of the air, which was an interesting phenomenon. But
it was this band. This guy, and no one credited
him. I'll tell you who it is. Colonel Scott McKenzie,
who heads up the Army Band, they put together a,
and I've looked up, tried to get the details on
this, and I can't get any numbers other than. 300
to 350 piece orchestra. No way. That's fantastic. Look it
up. Oh, I did not see any of that. Oh,
I'm sad about that. It was a joint band where
he picked from the best of the best of all
the best musicians in all the armed forces. Oh, it
must have been great. Put this tremendous, it was essentially
just for... Just for comparison's sake. Like a symphony orchestra
like San Francisco is 105 people. Right. This was like
a symphony with a thousand saxophones. Ah, awesome. And he
was a sax, this guy's a saxophonist himself. And these
arrangements, they did cover songs of Chicago. Journey and oh
wow all these songs And they were just so well
arranged and you can tell they obviously had to segment
this orchestra so some part of it would play a
raucous tune with a lot of guitars and then there'd
be the saxophone stuff. And they had these four singers.
Which were all, and I... They were dressed in military,
the dumpiest, frumpiest military uniforms. I think there was three
women and one bald guy. Oh, no. And they were
terrific singers. But they didn't have cool uniforms? But they
would come out. Well, in uniforms, yeah. cool uniforms they
had frumpy no no they're just just to dress whites
okay yeah so it was frumpy looking frumpy it was
It was funny. There's no Shakira, let's put it that
way. It was just straight up, and it was something
charming about it. Because you had this big military band,
which you couldn't do. PRA-
This is where Trump understands the power of big government.
You can put together a 300-piece orchestra if it's government.
Yeah, exactly. You can afford to do it. You can
afford to do it because it doesn't cost anything, really.
But you can't do that in the private sector. So
he went all the way with this. And it was
like, uh... just fabulous and uh and but you know
nobody credited this unbelievable band But... Just to compare it
to what we could expect, I have a couple of
clips that might give us some insight of what was
going on. First of all, the, uh... Fire where did
you play this clip? NPR had to find some way
to throw a wet blanket on things before it even...
Of course, it sucked. It's no good. Orange Man bad.
Now, they made it sound like it's going to be...
They actually were pretty objective about it to the very
end. Listen to this report. Fireworks in D.C. And just
quickly, Jeff... The 4th of July in D.C. isn't complete
without fireworks. I gather this one tonight will be big
and then some. Yeah, this is going to be huge.
850,000 fireworks for a roughly 40-minute show, according to The
Washington Post. That's absolutely massive compared to, as you know,
the quite extensive fireworks D.C. has on every day. every
4th of July. According to the Post, it could cause
air quality issues, actually. Air quality was already very unhealthy,
and people with respiratory issues may need to stay inside
or wear masks. You might not. Woo, you worked on
it. Nice. So just by comparison, the San Francisco... Yeah,
it wasn't climate change, it was air pollution. So San
Francisco, by comparison, they lit up the Golden Gate Bridge.
It was not viewable by anybody. Didn't they set it
on fire? Oh, no, it was the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm
sorry. Well, the local exhibit, which was a bigger show
than usual. with 5,000 shells. Wow. That's a big show.
Yeah. So 851. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, again, this
is Trump. Let's go, man. And it did set the
Guinness Book of World Records for fireworks display. Biggest ever.
Yeah. I saw all the flybys because that was in
the afternoon. And flybys, yeah, it was a spectacle. Flybys
were cool. It's like, this is amazing. What is going
on here? Yeah, of course I couldn't watch anything on
YouTube TV. Because, oh, you're in a different country. I'm
like, I'll get you. I'm going to turn off my
GPS. I got my VPN routed through my home computer.
You're in a different country. You can't watch it. So
I had to get some, like, C-SPAN streaming on YouTube.
No YouTube TV. It was real sad. Fox had the
best. Yeah, but not all of them were streaming live
on YouTube. So you had to kind of hunt around.
Then you get the RBTV, which is that outfit that
always follows Trump everywhere. Oh, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen
them for a while. You tune in and right away,
so you're from California. How bad does that suck? I'm
like, okay, man, this is 4th of July. Stop with
that! That was too much. All right, so what else
you got? Fireworks on Facebook? What is that? This is
an interesting, this is a local story. because locally we
had, essentially, it was fogged in. And all the best
fireworks displays are just some guy in his backyard. Yeah.
Always a winner. It's always a winner, yeah. I'm sure
in Texas it would be a little more spectacular than
what we get. They're trying to crack down with huge
fines and everything in between. And so when I was
a kid, we used to... We used to. buy fireworks
from the various Chinese grocery stores in Oakland. Or San
Francisco, too. You'd go there and you'd have code words,
and the next thing you know, the guy would bring
out a bunch of stuff. Well now it turns out
that they're selling the fireworks over Facebook. And this is
a local story that I thought was... Kind of interesting.
It's almost the 4th of July, and though fireworks are
illegal in the vast majority of the Bay Area, you've
probably already heard or seen some in your neighborhood. So
where are all those fireworks coming from? Reporter Darwin Bond-Graham
with the Oakland side looked into it, and he joins
me now for more. So you start your story that
was published this week. with an example of a recent
Oakland police raid that found a bunch of illegal fireworks.
Tell us about what happened there and how that connects
to the trends you're finding in your reporting. Yeah, this
was a case of a person who was dealing a
large quantity of fireworks out of their home in East
Oakland. They were advertising them over social media. It sounds
like social media has made it even easier for fireworks
sellers to find buyers. Is there any way for... police
to keep up with those ads. Yeah, that's right. It's
like the main way that a lot of the sellers
appear to be marketing these products is over Facebook and
Instagram and other social media. They post these kind of
cryptic pictures of fireworks and then they get into these
DMs with people who want to buy them and then
they'll, you know, meet. people in a parking lot or
have them come to their house or somewhere else to
sell them. The police are actively scanning social media. So
there's a lot of sheriff's deputies and officers from different
police departments who are looking on Instagram and kind of
lurking around and seeing what they can find. And that's
how they're getting a lot of their leads. here to
figure out who these people are. Yeah, well, of course.
Yeah, right. They're doom scrolling and this is what their
excuse is. I'm looking for illegal activity, man. Yeah, I
found something. Oh, yeah. Well, there were, actually, I caught
this. I got some clips from Ms. Now who really,
they should just shut that operation down. It's getting worse.
Douglas Brinkley. He's a historian, I think. Isn't he, Brinkley?
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, so he noticed, huh, you
need to be a historian, that there were really two
different Americas and two different speeches from two different luminaries
this 4th of July. Well, they were two very different
speeches. Both were playing with the idea of American exceptionalism.
Donald Trump at Mount Rushmore was talking about we're exceptional
and now we've got to drive the communists out of
the country. Basically restoking a Red Scare, something, kind of
speech, Joe McCarthy. would have easily given. Mondami is reflecting
back on... Question. Did McCarthy really give big speeches about
the commies, or was he just the guy who had
the commission and was going after him? Did he do
big speeches about it? He was front and center to
diatribes, let's put it that way. it that way. I
wouldn't call them big speeches. Ellis Island and the tradition
in New York of becoming a naturalized citizen. He's born
in Uganda. When asked, he says, I can't have presidential
ambitions. The Constitution says I can't because I was born
in Uganda. And here it is, July 4th. Alexander Hamilton,
one of the greats of the Revolutionary War era, had
the same issue. He served his country in every way
possible to George Washington, and as we know, his role
in the Constitution and the Federalist Papers and the like,
but he could never run for president. But they're a
naturalized citizen, what Mondami was talking about. And it reminds
us that we keep refreshing ourselves in this country, having
new waves of immigrants. And that is the American dream.
And that is what makes America exceptional. Now, there was
a lot of this refreshing talk everywhere. So I kind
of like what he did here. Trump is like McCarthy
and Mondami is like Hamilton. I mean, it's so obvious.
Yeah, in fact, I have a Mondami. We just interrupted.
I have the Mondami clips. I have them. Do you
have this one? Well, let me do Trump first. These
are relatively short. This is from The Mall. At 250
years, America is the oldest republic on earth. I'm sorry,
this is from Mount Rushmore. The freest people on earth.
Yeah, by the way, just since you didn't hear both
of them. I did. I have the other ones too.
Oh, okay. The other one I thought was a little
more... It was a little less disorganized. was okay here.
I mean, it was... Yeah, it was okay. It was
okay. Righteous and enduring Constitution on Earth. We are the
strongest and most powerful country on Earth. And by the
grace of God, the United States of America is the
most successful, most accomplished, most exceptional nation ever to exist
in human history. And it is great to be your
president. It is great. And then this is the communist
trope. You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you
can be loyal to America. You can be a... or
you can be a patriot, you cannot be both. As
for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, who
tell our children that we live on stolen land or
that our heroes were oppressors, they're doing something much worse.
and slandering our past, they are slandering and attacking our
future. Not going to let that happen. Not going to
do it. I'll do two more from the mall and
then you'll play them on Dami. This country is the
home of freedom. This is the land of liberty. And
this is a flag. That's the banner of. the most
extraordinary, most exceptional, most incredible nation ever to exist on
the face of the earth, and we're doing better now
than we've ever done before. People have done more good,
shown more courage, made more progress. or achieved more greatness
than you, the American people. For 250 years, the United
States of America has been the hope, the promise, the
light, and the glory among all of the nations of
the world. All over the world, they try and be
like us. Nobody can be like us. He's a rebel
rouser. We have thrived and flourished because our founders were
great. Our cause was just, our people are brave, our
culture is exceptional, and our destiny is written by God.
And as we can see here tonight, after 250 years,
the spirit of 1776 still lives within us all. It
still roars in the hearts of our nation's capital. It
still burns in the heart of every patriot. Thunders through
every city and town and it's... still lights the entire
world with the glow of American liberty, and there is
nothing like that. At 250 years old, we may be
the oldest constitutional republic on earth, but our country is
just getting started because the best is yet to come.
There you go. And it's kind of, you know, when
you hear like, we're the oldest, we've done this. And
I look at the cobblestones on the streets here in
Amsterdam, and some of them are older than America. This
is unbelievable. We're not a very old country. 250 years
is pretty new. No, we're just getting started. The Roman
Empire went for a long, long, long time. There you
go, John. We're just getting started. The best... is yet
to come. In fact, well, not to just jump the
gun on this. It hit you. It has led, I
mean, all these 250 years of American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism.
It has lead. Thanks to the education system. To this
clip, which is the Whatever Girls 9. What country did
the United States gain its independence from? This is not
fair. Europe. I can't. Who was the first president of
the USA? Oh, oh, oh, uh, he had a top
hat. Yeah. They always say Lincoln. What's his name? Abraham
Lincoln. Okay, what do you think? Lincoln. I think it's
Lincoln too. They go in that top hat. Lincoln. What
country is the Great Wall of China in? Tokyo. What
language do the people in Idaho speak? Potato. I'm blurted
out. Potato. How many years are in a decade, Gemma?
Twelve. How many are in a century? Five hundred. What
is the closest star to Earth? Okay, relax, Fido. The
North Star. The sun. Oh, the sun. No. The Lone
Star. What country is the Panama Canal in? Yeah, Portugal.
Okay. You're not allowed to do this. You are jumping
the gun. You're like making us look bad. You know,
the funny thing is that one girl asked, what's the
closest star? She says the sun, which is the closest.
It is true. It's correct. And two or three of
the other girls mocked her for being an idiot. Well,
this is part of the genius of America, that even
if you have clearly only four or five functioning brain
cells, you can still make a living on OnlyFans. So
we're a great country. What are you complaining about? This
is great news. Yeah, I'm not complaining. I think this
is great. I agree with you 100%. Okay, all right.
Okay, let's get back to the topic. We have a
jobs program for everybody here. We have, you have a
Mondami clip? I have a couple. A Mondani? Yeah, I
have a couple of them. A couple of just shorties
that I pulled out. Well, I- I- let's play mine
first. Okay. It may set the stage. Alright. Hey guys,
it's your mayor. Call me Mamdani. Since we're communists and
we don't have electricity for everyone, except for ourselves, we
would really appreciate it if you can go ahead and
set your AC to a special mode called off mode.
Also, it would be great if you could also stop
eating, because we don't have food for everyone. So if
you're fat- Please eat once every other day. If you're
kind of fat, you can eat once a day. And
if you're skinny, you're probably white, so you don't get
to eat anything. If you have any pets, please bring
them in to City Hall so we can feed our
Haitian immigrants. Well, I'm off to enjoy Taylor Swift's wedding,
so later, comrades. *Demonic voice* programmatically, I think you made
a mistake by playing two nutball clips back to back.
It's okay. It's okay. I know, it's like one comic
following another. Programmatically, I wouldn't have advised that, but some
of the real clips from his Fourth of July speech.
That wasn't real? We are told that America is exceptional.
Because we are richer. stronger. more powerful than everyone else.
The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because
here Nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be
closed. We may have walked on the moon. but the
work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration
of Independence. That work endures, and it belongs to us
all. It belongs, too, to our newest Americans, those standing
here with me today. all of whom were recently naturalized.
nearly a decade ago. I too felt what you feel,
the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker.
But an American too. Okay, so he starts off reasonably
okay. You each hold a special power. Well, hold on.
Reasonably, okay, he's stiff. This is the worst speech he
could have done. He was not relaxed. He was behind
the George Washington desk, I guess. Oh, really? No. And
he has a bunch of stiffs standing around him that
don't look like they're very comfortable. or know what the
hell they're even doing there. It was terrible. No, it
wasn't great. It wasn't very energetic. But, you know, he
only got a little commie later. You each hold a
special power. The power to determine what America means. See,
this is more like, what do you mean? Where are
we going with this? The powerful have always known their
answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy.
Aha! The powerful! Supremacy! Whitey! Where only a select few
are allowed freedom. Where not all are created equal. I
mean, this is going downhill pretty quick. America, if you
ask that- It deteriorates very- fast. Yeah. Gee, man, come
on. White supremacy. We're not created equal. Okay. There you
go. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more
people it welcomes. What is it? Where does he get
this from? America, they will tell you, belongs only to
those with the right accent or the right shade of
skin. The rest of us, they insist... Nobody says this.
But this is what he's doing. I found this to
be quite... An American, actually. The rest of us, they
insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.
how small they are. How weak? How unoriginal. You're small
and weak, alright? And unoriginal. Unoriginal. What do we see?
We see a city of contradictions within a nation of
contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of
the world. One where children go to sleep hungry while
the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. Uhhh... Swipe it
Elon! We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs
who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our- Oligarch.
Yeah, oh no, oligarchs. No, listen, this is- You know,
the oligarch thing is every consultant on the Democrat side-
Said don't do that. Tells them to stop. using that
word. It doesn't mean anything and nobody knows what the
hell you're talking about. They think it's oil. They really
don't know. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and
oligarchs who buy elections. Yeah, who dominates podcasting? We see
masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our
undocumented neighbors. before spiriting them away in unmarked vance. This
is the one I thought was the best. That was
funny. So the agent... So you go, hey, can you
cook me something before I take you away? We see
a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those
with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors...
and chisel into stone. and we see a nation that
has allowed so much of that wealth to be held
instead in the soft hands of a precious few. Again
with this soft hands because they don't work so this
you know just soft hands like a podcaster's soft hands.
All right last one. There are some who respond to
those who ask for more from America with a simple
refrain. Love it or leave it. They say. But patriotism
has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws.
Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. It is every
march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest
held a decade before its time. It is precisely because
we love this nation that we will not leave it.
After all, Who loves America more than those who
who've sacrificed so much to make it free. Well, so
fine. But there was a lot of this talk everywhere
of, you know, It's our turn now. We're going to
change it, which is very much the DSA way, the
Marxist way, you know, like whatever the... candidate now in
New York like we're gonna get rid of the presidency
we'll just have a like a steering committee exactly this
is Sherilyn Eiffel who is Gwen we love Gwen Eiffel
in hindsight we never gave her enough props Because once
she left... Was it PBS? It was a news hour.
Yeah, a news hour. Once she left, the news hour
just fell apart. It turns out she was the one
holding it together. Yeah, you don't know until somebody... One
cog leaves, the next thing you know, the place falls
apart you didn't know at the time. When we say
leave, she died. So this is her niece. And listen
to this. And so I remind people that we were
founded a second time. We will need to be founded
a third time, and it's on us. And that's the
exciting part. We get to be the founders and the
framers of the new iteration of American democracy. What? if
we are willing to do it. There's nothing that stops
us from doing it. And so that's the opportunity of
this moment. We hit 250 and then we needed to
restart again. And so that's the work that is before
us. Sherrilyn Ifill is the former president of the Legal
Defense Fund. She is now at... Yeah, yes, we need
more lawyers like that. So I remember, now I was
young, of course, 1976, so I was 12 years old.
I remember a bicentennial. I have only fond memories of
it. And I found a video. of Man on the
Street. being asked oh yes this is good yeah and
and so i i split it up into two parts
and we don't have to play the positive one but
the negative one So this is just all the people.
It sounds the same. Our negativity that we have elements
of severe negative in America, they have the same complaints.
Yeah, and I should remind people that this was 1976,
which I recall. We were there. I was in the
middle of working for the Air Pollution District. There was
the, it was just Watergate was wrapping up and Nixon
was a terrible person. We're ready to go into the
Jimmy Carter era. We're right in the middle of what
was the equivalent of the Great Depression of the 30s
with interest rates at 20%. Yeah. and unemployment super high,
that's when the idea of stagflation was peaking right about
the time of the bicentennial. Funny enough. So it was
not a good time. And didn't we just have the
energy crisis too? Exactly. The energy crisis just wrapped. OPEC
was now telling everybody what to do. Yeah, it was
not, the timing was, it was, to me, I'm surprised
anyone had anything good to say. Nixon had taken all
our gold. The dollar was in free-floating currency. That happened
a few years earlier. Funny enough, in this archival footage...
People weren't really complaining about that too much. They had,
you know, the same typical complaints. Right now we don't
have a great deal to celebrate. I feel that it
might leave a lot of people out. For me, it
doesn't have any real significant... Meaning, I mean, what's the
difference between 199 years or 201 years? I don't really
have any particular feel about 200 years. Somehow I feel
that it's like a big fad. You know, the bicentennial
has been kind of a dirty word here in Philadelphia
and throughout the country, I think. In many ways, the
bicentennial is just being fabricated. This country is faced with
so many problems. I just can't... stand aside and say
hip hip hooray for the bicentennial. Well, after Watergate, the
morale of the country is low. I'm concerned that the
bicentennial is still saying things that... were okay 10, 15,
20 years ago, but I don't know if they're okay
now. At this point in this day, I really don't
see any advantage of the bicentennial. At the time of
the bicentennial, we still have, you know, 8% unemployment. 8%,
John? We have, what is it, 3.4% right now? Unemployment?
Round four. According to the numbers, those numbers made. I
can't see any reason to go around patting ourselves on
the back for having just survived two centuries. There's a
lot of divisions here in the United States. It used
to be called the melting pot. I don't know what's
happening here. You know, maybe the compounds are beginning to
separate again and the people of the United States are
diverting. We're endorsing the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
1976. But you know, an Associated Press has done a
study in Miami where they gave out the Declaration of
Independence and didn't say what it was and asked people
if they would endorse it. Only one person out of
50 on a Miami street corner would endorse the Declaration.
You know what they said why they wouldn't endorse it?
This is commie junk, the work of a raver. I'm
going to tell the FBI about this kind of stuff.
See, your whatever girls have no hold, no lock on
idiocy. We've always been dumb. So these are the kinds
of problems that we face. We have strayed so far
from the original conception of what patriotism and love of
country is. That we now believe that everything that this
country stood for is subversive. No one wears American flag
lapel pins anymore, have you noticed? People have lost faith.
People don't know what patriotism is anymore. I think maybe
the best thing for this country is 1975 being International
Women's Year. Even more than 1976 being bicentennial, you know.
because I think maybe women should have a larger say
in really what happens in this world. Our basic loving...
You know, rather than let's beat each other's heads in
to get what we want. You know, let's love each
other. Let's, you know, let's not kill each other. I
think we've done already enough, enough buildings and enough. Covering
the earth with concrete. This is your climate change, dude.
destroyed enough in nature already that maybe progress is regress.
I'd like to see the Bicentennial deal with the kind
of future I think we're going to have, and I
think it's going to be a sort of troubled future.
We are not necessarily the greatest people that ever existed
on this earth. We thought we were. We've broken down.
We have to rebuild. No, we're going to rebuild on
the basis of adversity, whether you like it or not.
Are we going to have more and more of everything?
No. For a long period now, we're going to have
less and less of everything. Yeah, well, of course, the
opposite is true. We had the 80s, the 90s, and
then we ran into trouble again. It's a cycle. Yeah,
the 90s were really prosperous. But I don't hear anything
really different from the complaints we get today. You know,
it's the same. So we grouse a bit. And maybe
it's just the media. We grouse a bit. The media
picks the same people. That's my ultimate conclusion. The media
picks the same people. Although NPR really tried. Listen, boss,
I got an idea. We'll do a segment and we'll
have people. uh record their answers on this cell phone
and send it in and we'll air it all the
way boss Just as contrasted, because I know what you're
going to play, because I saw that or heard it
too. Bill Hammer was at the fireworks display and afterwards
as people were streaming out. They were doing a live
feed. And this was just people leaving. And he would
just go up to live feed, person after person after
person after person. And if you took all that stuff
and put it together, it was nothing but positive. In
fact, it was ridiculously positive. And so your point about,
and I think this is... This is true, and I
think we both, everybody suffers from it if you're in
the media. Yeah, you know, when you go out there,
the positive stuff's not that interesting. Yeah, no, it's just
a bunch of people saying this was great. I love
Trump. I can't have that. Stop that immediately. Stop that.
The Fox people are probably even, oh, we got to
do some negativity here. So they asked swing voters if
they were proud. of their imperfect america and now more
oh man i'm so sorry i screwed up my I
screwed up my own jingle. Simon. And now, more voices
of our fellow Americans. NPR has undertaken a project that
we call Swing Shift. It follows a dozen voters in
swing states. and Peirce Senior Political Correspondent Tamara Keith. checking
in with them periodically on gas prices, their opinion on
how the president's doing, and today... and how they feel
about America on its 250th birthday. Hello, Tamara. This is
John from Pennsylvania. I sent John and the other Swing
Shift voters a list of questions about America 250 years
in. And they sent back thoughtful answers, recorded on their
phones.
The question is, are you proud to be an American?
Why or why not? The answer is yes, I am
proud to be an American. It's a very imperfect country.
There's a lot that still needs to be worked on,
a lot that still needs to be done. And still,
he's proud. They all are, with varying levels of nuance.
Yes, I am and always have been proud to be
an American. I would still say yes here, but with
some slight embarrassment. I'm proud to be an American. This
is the greatest country on the planet Earth. We live
in the best country in the world. You know, we
have democracy. We have freedom. I do have some pride
to be an American. However, I also have a lot
of shame. Why wouldn't I be proud to be American?
I mean, we live in one of the best countries
in the world. That was Jason, Wally, Gerald, Teresa, Evan,
and Lee. NPR agreed not to use their full names
so they can speak freely about politics in these polarized
times. And I think that that is a clue that
they give us there. The minute you let people speak
anonymously. Then the truth comes out. We're proud to be
in America. It's a pretty good country. It's all right.
Oh, it's a little bit of shame. But in general,
it sounds like people are optimistic. And I'm quite sure
if she had at least one besides the guy said,
I feel some shame. She would have put it in
the report. She just didn't have it. So That was
quite appealing to me. Like you said, you experienced this
kind of in an offhanded way there in Holland when...
The driver. Ask people who they voted for and they
wouldn't say and you said they voted for Trump. Yeah.
But there were... Which is probably true, but they wouldn't
say it because it wasn't anonymous. Exactly. And the driver
was interesting. He's like, I love it here because we
just say who we voted for. I think we're pretty
clear in America, too. I think what I feel is
that Americans. come over and first of all why are
they over here they're here for business or they're here
you know to run away from evil orange man and
they just don't want to say it i don't know
it's uh But media-wise in the United States, the minute
it's anonymous, then the truth comes out. And she had
a second piece here. The final question I asked was
for one word or phrase that explains... how they feel
about America's future. These swing voters are uncertain, concerned, hopeful,
worried, excited, and cautiously optimistic. And then there's Lee, who
has a new job, and his optimism is unqualified. I
think we're going to have a good... What? Hold on
a second. optimism is unqualified? Well, technically what she's saying
is that everybody else had qualified optimism. Which means that
you... Yeah, I'm optimistic, but... who has a new job,
and his optimism is unqualified. I think we're going to
have a good future because why wouldn't we? I don't
know. I think she's just saying, that guy's an idiot.
It can't be right. Well, he sounds like one. That
can't be right. So then we switch over to Ms.
Now. And we have... see Representative Huffman. And of course,
MSNOW was all over the setup to the House being
taken over by Democrats for the impeachment of Trump. Yeah,
a lot of this is in the jurisdiction of the
Natural Resources Committee. And so our oversight and investigation team
has undertaken a year long. investigation that really, I think,
should upset every American because our country only turns 250
years old once. We were on track for a broadly
unifying national celebration with serious folks like the Smithsonian leading
the programming. Congress set up. this commission. Yeah, compare that
with Trump the showman. Oh, the Smithsonian is going to
move. Can you imagine? Yeah, slavery, horrible, the yawn. With
serious folks like the Smithsonian leading the programming, Congress set
up this commission to be insulated. from politics to really
be above politics. And it was going to be a
lot like... Hold on. I think that fireworks are above
politics. Yeah. A band playing a bunch of hot songs
with a big sax section is above politics. He's actually
leading into something which is a... topic you brought to
our attention several weeks ago. And it was going to
be a lot like what many of us experienced in
1976, something that we could all feel good about our
government leading instead. Not everybody. You've already proven that wrong.
Not everybody. Donald Trump hijacked it, made it all about
himself and his vanity projects, his political agenda and all
of these endless schemes to enrich himself and his cronies.
Enrich. So with America, with freedom to 50. Freedom 250.
He enriched himself and all of his cronies. Yes, this
is a scandal. Congressman, it's Sam Stein here. The report
that you put out today. or really looks at whether
money was. misdirected and if donors were misinformed about where
their money was going, assuming they were giving to the
congressionally mandated committee and then it turns out they were
giving to the Trump related committee. This is sort of
a reoccurring pattern. I know you've been focused on the
triumphal arch. that he's trying to build out in Virginia.
But we just don't know the sources of the money,
how he's spending the money, where the money's going, and
who it's going to in a lot of these cases.
Can you speak in broad strokes about what you know
as someone who does have jurisdiction over this and what
you would like to find out? Yeah, this. This report
pulls back the veil on how they hid a lot
of this from public scrutiny. And they started out with
an attempt to take over that bipartisan commission that Congress
created. When that failed, they went to Plan B, which
is this elaborate machination where they set up a shadow
company, Freedom 250 LLC. They housed it within a beloved
charity, the National Park Foundation over at the Department of
Interior. And they did it in a way that all
of their fundraising and other activities would be insulated from
public view. And so they started shaking down and misleading
donors, soliciting. foreign contributions. They siphoned off the resources of
the bipartisan commission that Congress authorized. And they did it
all in this veil of secrecy through Freedom 250. So
this is the organization that that Silicon Valley guy, the
Indian guy, put together? something or other was his name.
Yeah, I don't recall his name. So all of this
secrecy, he fleeced the donors. I looked it up. It's
public. I read the documents, ma'am. And it's Raytheon, it's
North of Grom, and it's all the military and... The
usual suspects. Coca-Cola. I mean, it's not like they didn't
fleece any donors. They said, hey, Trump went over and
said, hey, listen. You like these contracts? You know, chip
in man, make America look good. Pay something for the
mall. Oh no, this is, he just enriched himself and
his. Cronies. Yeah. Coca-Cola. His cronies. He drinks a lot
of Diet Coke. His cronies are Raytheon. How's the money
coming from Raytheon to win? Well, I guess it does
enrich them because they get a contract somewhere down the
road that they would have gotten anyway. Who else are
you going to contract some of these Patriot missile banks
to? They're the only ones who make them. Which we
sold the Dutch 700 of them, as an aside. Oh,
Raytheon is good for them. They bought 700, I think
it was Patriots, to give to Ukraine. Literally. Oh. It's
a gift to Ukraine. And you know how you pay
for it? With a freedom tax. There's a new freedom
tax in Holland. Because we're protecting your freedom. So wait
a minute, let me get this straight. The Dutch people
have been suckered into paying a freedom tax to give
our company, Raytheon, money to buy missiles that they would
then give away to Ukraine. Yes, and then they tell
the media Putin's in trouble. It's working, people. Your freedom
tax money is working. Wow. So this talk, though, is
all part of the setup. You sold that deal. We
got some sales guys that are terrific. It's our guy.
Oh, Ruta. That's right. He is. He's done his job.
Trump, you're the trillion dollar Trump. You did it again,
man. It's great. So Ty Cobb, who used to be
a White House lawyer. He's now grabbing the bull by
the horns because we have to set everything up because
we're going to have your thesis, and you probably won't
be wrong. I still took the other side of the
bet because there's two of us. If the Democrats take
the House in the midterms, they will immediately move to
impeach the president. And this is what they are hammering
is enrichment of his cronies, himself, and he's clearly crooked.
the former Trump White House lawyer. Ty, pretty interesting there
when you look at that chart and how much Trump
has made and how much everyone else has lost. What
is your reaction to the scale of what we're seeing
in the... What? How much Trump has made and how
much everyone else has lost? This is the best part.
Who lost what? Well, so that they show the chart
of the meme coin, of the Trump coin. which, you
know, it's exactly what it is. You sell, you make
a million of these Trump coins or however many they
made. It's an ICO. Everyone knows how it works. There's
tens of thousands of them. And you sell them. Everybody
buys them and the price goes up. And then, you
know, he dumps all of the insider stuff that they
have, which is another $10 million. And then you put
that in your pocket, and then the market goes down.
And everyone else lost, and you won. That is exactly
how it's been working for, you know, for a decade
almost. crypto ventures over a billion dollars last year alone,
right? This isn't a cumulative number. It's in one year.
An industry is actively promoted and supported and done policy
executive orders related to. Is it legal? I don't believe
so. Certainly, I don't think it was contemplated by the
founders when they created the emoluments clause. I do think
that one of the line items, of course, is the
commemorative coins, you know, several hundred million dollars of income
related to those coins. How can that be anything other
than trading on his image and likeness? Yes, the image
and likeness he's built up for. For what, 40 years?
Yeah. And I think this all launched before he became
president. Closer to 60 years. Well, yeah, yeah. In violation
of the emoluments clause. It's in violation of the emoluments
clause? Is that in violation of the emoluments clause? The
emoluments clause has to do with foreign gifts. It's gifts,
yeah, but okay. With regard to the crypto, obviously, you
know, it's a slimy industry. I mean, you know, certainly
the way he's going around it, where he creates policies
that can only enrich it, rich himself and his family.
Bull crap. Congress is making laws about that. The president
isn't making laws about crypto. is something that I think
the average American should be staggered by. But you mentioned
the scale, and I think the scale here is just,
it's intentional. There's no question. I mean, we are seeing
the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind
in the last 18 months. Mankind! So... This is what
they're going to do. They're going to take, you know,
they're going to say crypto, crypto, which will confuse everybody.
And then they're going to make it very confusing. Well,
what is crypto? And what did he have? And is
crypto this? Is crypto that? And they're just going to
go on and on. Because it's a good one. Because
no one, you know, not. Not a lot of people
understand it. Millions do, but certainly not most. uh and
many people have enriched themselves with crypto of all sorts
But they're going to use this over and over again
and the hearings will go on forever. They'll be explaining
crypto. And Trump did an interview with CNBC. He did
a sit down with the guy we liked, the one
guy we liked, Joe Kernan. And here's the two clips
about these accusations. Now, many people argue business experience is
needed in government. And we've seen the stock market in
the first term and the second term. I think it's
been rewarded to have a businessman in there. I think
we shouldn't be surprised that your businesses are doing well,
but how would you counter critics? that say you're using
the presidency to enrich yourself and your family? Well, in
a lot of ways, if you think about it, the
stock has got up so much. The stock market today
is up 500 points. It's up to almost 53,000. You
know, I watched your show and you had somebody on,
one of your brilliant analysts, and they said if I
had won the election, they said if President Trump could
get the stock market to anywhere near 50,000, that would
be an unbelievable achievement. And that was over four years.
In other words, at the end of his term, four
years, if he could get anywhere near 50,000, that would
be, well, it's at 53,000. It's just a couple of
points short of 53,000 right now. And that's essentially after
a little bit more than a year. I kind of
disagree with this because... I believe that when you devalue
the dollar with... printing money in essence and we've done
a lot of that doesn't the stock market automatically have
to go up i mean is that number kind of
irrelevant i mean you can't say well this is in
1984 dollars which would be this much today Don't you
have to say the same thing about the stock market,
where 53 might be 35 in 1984? I think you
can make that argument. I don't think it's valid. Oh.
Okay. All right. They continue. Do you worry that if...
If the Democrats were to win the House, that there's
going to be endless investigations of you and your administration.
Well, you know, I don't do anything having to do
with my business. My kids run it. I put a
lot of money. I had a lot of money, and
I have a lot of money. I've always made money.
Money. I'm a business person. I'm a really good business
person. I've made money. I've made a tremendous amount of
money, more than I would have ever thought I would
have made. And I let people invest it. I don't
even speak to, I don't even know who they are.
But it's given to big firms like that are on
your show all the time. My son, Eric, handles it.
I don't talk to him about things such as this.
I think I'd be allowed to. I'm not sure even
what the status is, but I don't. And he gives
it into these like semi-blind trusts or blind trusts where
people invest. There was a story today about Jensen Wing,
who's fantastic, NVIDIA, and that I have some stock. I
think it's very small. I think it's one of many
companies that one of the big Wall Street firms invests
in. So they said, oh, Trump has some stock in
there. I don't care about that. You know why I
don't care? Because... I have a much bigger purpose. You
know, this is the Oval Office. It's a much bigger
purpose than whether or not I make money. Anyway, that
will be it. They'll be fighting for years and years
to impeach him. Get him out again. And on the
other side, we have... Really this socialism thing is quite
interesting. And somewhat alarming, I would say. because you see
the... the I really didn't even believe it myself but
I see this what they call the red green alliance
happening more and more so it's the Red for the
communists and green for Muslims? Yeah. And that, I'm thinking
there's something to that now. Here's. what Kamala Harris is
doing. It's like, oh, you know. That Mondami guy, he's
got both. He's a commie and he's a Muslim. I
should go talk to him. An interesting scoop. Yes, perfect.
In Axios, Hamil Harris. reached out to Zoran Mamdani, New
York City Mayor, and significantly pro-Palestinian activists to talk about
things. Things. What's that about? Look, I'm not surprised by
it. I mean, Cass and I talked about this for
the last couple of months. I mean, this was a
big piece of Kamala Harris's sort of downfall in 2024.
She just could not wrap her head around talking and
communicating with this wing of the Democratic Party. And how
aggrieved they felt. And how aggrieved they felt. And we've
seen recently with the DSA emerging as something that's been...
You better pay attention. attention. And so I think she's
doing her politics correctly. And obviously, Mayor Mandani is the
sort of mayor of the moment. So she's doing the
right thing. But she's recognizing that she's got to ameliorate
this before the next election. Which means. I'm asking you,
is this a tell? Is this the strongest tell of
all that she's running? I think she's doing everything she
can right now to put herself in a position to
run again. I think it's very likely, but there's still
some consideration that she may not. Because for me, the
first tell is when she didn't run for government. Right,
exactly, exactly. But she wants to keep black voters as
close as possible as well. Cassie? Yeah, I think it's
interesting that so many sort of hedged around whether or
not they support Mim Dami ahead of his election. And
now you have Kamala Harris remains the. the favorite in
the odds, the betting market right now. And she's calling
him. What I do think is interesting from a Republican
perspective is Mondami espouses so many of the things that
when Kamala Harris talked about them in 2024, voters ran
away from that. So it's interesting that instead of saying,
what are the lessons we learned from 2020? Talk about
the DNC autopsy. She's doubling down. She's embracing. She's seeing
that this is the future base of the Democrat Party.
And as we know, you can't win if you can't
turn out your base. Maybe we need to combine the
commie and Muslim and call them mommies or mummies. No.
Okay. But it's so bad that even Fetterman, who... Oh
yeah, Fetterman hates this. He's such an interesting dude. You
had the representative who won the... the primary in New
York. Yeah, Chevalier is the one they're talking about. Yes.
Doria Elisa Avelia Chevalier is one of several far-left candidates
who have shocked the democratic establishment this current political cycle.
Their success raising questions about the future of the party
as they see, as they say rather, that their movement
continues to grow. Solidarity is the force that we need
to vanquish. Trump's fascism, to abolish ICE, and to stand
up to the billionaires who are rigging our economy. Can
a democratic socialist get elected president? I think a democratic
socialist can get elected anywhere across this country for any
position. We want to demonstrate that this is not some
fluke. This is about an entire movement of working class
people who...
know that we can demand so much more. Now, John
Fetterman, Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania. Sir, good to have you
back and good morning to you. I want to motor
through a couple of topics and this is the first
one. You said the other day that there's a significant
part of our party that's being taken over with these
extreme views. Now, others are saying it's just. You said
significant. Explain that. Well, I think your colleague Chad just
pointed out, I just put out a tweet yesterday. I
mean, she was praising Kim and Stalin. I mean, between
those two men, you know, 100 million, you know, people
murdered, you know, like some of the most evil. terrible
people in the world or in history. And she was
praising them, saying we don't have enough of their books
in our libraries. And of course, she deleted those things.
But this is not ancient history. This is all recent
views that people like this, we are electing. And on
this network, I've described that. I think it was with
Jesse. I said, you know, our party's becoming an orgy
of socialism, and I think I've been vindicated with to
see the way these elections are working out. Yeah, it's
kind of concerning. Of course, you know, I think the
whole thing's an op, but that's just me. I think
it isn't. It's not just you. I think it is
an op. Let's play my favorite one, though, the person
in Colorado. This joker in Colorado really takes it over
the top. The ideological battle within the Democratic Party on
full display yet again. Democratic Socialist candidate ousts another sitting
Democrat in Congress. NTD's Melina Weiskopf has key takeaways from
Colorado's primary elections. Longtime Democrat Congresswoman Diana DeGette from Colorado
is the latest target from the far left of the
Democratic Party. Yesterday, the congresswoman, who has served here in
the House for the past 29 years, lost her seat
to the Democratic Socialist candidate, Malat Kiros. Kiros previously commented
that the massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7th was
the inevitable consequence of apartheid. House Republicans this week warning
about the dangerous rhetoric from far-left candidates like her. We've
watched members of their coalition say Israel, our closest ally
in the Middle East, doesn't have the right. to exist.
Kiros' win is the latest in a string of victories
for the Democratic Socialist movement in America that's led to
the ousting of several Democrat incumbents here in Congress over
the past few weeks. House Minority Leader and Democrat Leader
Hakeem Jeffries, when asked about this trend, told reporters this.
Ultimately, it'll be in the hands of the people. of
Denver, but the reality is we have an unsettled electoral
environment. Another progressive candidate, State Representative Manny Rutinel, in Colorado's
8th District, won the Democratic primary, nudging past a moderate
state lawmaker. Rutinel will now face Republican incumbent Congressman Gabe
Evans in November. The results tonight could not be more
clear. Out of touch, far left Democrats just nominated the
most radical socialist Colorado has ever seen. Ban oil and
gas. Ban natural gas stoves. This is one of the
most purple districts in the nation, and Democrats are eyeing
it as a pickup opportunity for November. House Speaker Mike
Johnson telling reporters on Twitter. Tuesday that the contrast for
voters couldn't be more clear. Now, I've been thinking about
this, particularly, you know, speaking to my brother-in-law here. And
so two of my nephews, one is a socialist. And
one is completely... right-wing, voted for shared builders, etc. And
they're two different countries, but... the same basic ideas. They
both agree on one thing. Israel committed genocide. And... If
this truly is an op from CIA, which, you know,
there's plenty of evidence to go around that they have
managed. elections and who runs our country. for a long
time. That would be the perfect one. You just want
to get the people who are against Israel. to talk
together and it's all going to be young people, which
is the weakness of the plan because young people don't
typically vote as much as older people. But I can
see where you get these. anti-Israel/Muslim pro-Mandami types. together with
the Marxists and free stuff. And I can see how
they would have molded that. Does that fit into your
thesis? Well, yeah, in some ways. And I think a
lot of it is to get... people to reveal themselves.
In other words, you set up shop, make it look
normal, and then see who jumps in. And I have
this clip from Rance Priebus. He was asked about this,
the whole Democrat socialist stuff, and he was blathering on
on Hannity. And this is previous going on and on.
And I think. He, of all people... Who was Priebus
again? He was... Rance Priebus is the original guy who
ran the original Trump office. He was the chief of
staff for Trump in 2016. Right. He's a wimpy-looking guy,
and he was put in by somebody else, but he's
kind of come around, but... Put him by the CIA,
maybe? No, I don't think so, because I don't think
he's read in, unless even this is being part of
the plan. But what he says is to me, after
he's done, I'll tell you what he's missing. Well, I
don't know if we're teaching people anymore like we used
to. I mean, you have Muslim countries. from the west
coast of Africa all the way through the Middle East,
all the way through Asia, basically. And you have this
little tiny spot, Israel on the map, and they've been
persecuted for decades and decades and centuries, for that matter.
I mean, there's no doubt about it. The point here,
it's very clear, it's a leadership problem. It's not a
messaging problem. I mean, you have a Democrat Party, you
have Hakeem Jeffries, Schumer, Ken Martin, all of you all
out there in the Democrat Party. They're not calling it
out. This stuff needs to be isolated and rejected. If
the entire Democrat leadership called out... These kind of comments,
this gal from Colorado that she was called October 7th
inevitable, she called 9-11 inevitable. Every party leader in the
Democrat Party should have called her out. Every state party,
local party, county party. If everyone did that and ostracized
this person for these... crazy comments, she wouldn't be elected,
but they're not willing to do it. They have a
leadership problem. Here's another question. If, tell me what, if
you're into DNC right now, what, which one of, which
swing state in 2028 do you want one of these
DSA lunatic communists campaigning in? To John Ossoff and Roy
Cooper, which one of these DSA candidates do you want
running around in North Carolina and Georgia this fall campaigning?
The answer is none of them. So there was this.
Well, let me say something. Sure. When he says that
they won't call him out, I think you might be
missing the point. of that There's been this underlying current
even since I was in college. within the Democrat Party
that's extremely socialist, and it's starting to emerge after all
these years. And it's a sincere movement. It's bad for
the country and bad for everybody. But it's been bubbling
underneath the surface. And the reason that the leadership doesn't
make a point of calling it out is because in
some ways they want it. They love it. They want
it. The Democrats want. Because Bernie Sanders has been harping
on this for year after year after year. We need
to go more left. So he keeps wanting to, you
know, he and Robert Reich, who was, actually we saw
him on the street. He lives in Berkeley. Robert Reich
came out and if you look at this, he's got
a podcast or something. Did you yell at him? Did
you yell at him? If I had seen him sooner.
He has a podcast where he's the same thing. On
Substack. Democrats should not move toward the middle. They should
move further left. It's undercurrent. They've decided, okay, we're going
to try it. Let's see what happens. And I think
they're sincere about it. So there was this guy... And
they're being encouraged by the op. Yes. And I think
the op is bigger than just the Democrats. But it
will behoove the Democrats, Democratic Party. There was this guy,
Jeremy Boring, who is actually, he lives up to his
name. There's a term for that. When someone Someone's personality
is like their name. Yeah, there is a term. I
forget what it is. He's kind of boring. He was
the co-founder of The Daily Wire with Shapiro. And he
has a podcast, of course. The Jeremy Boring Show. And
he had this guy on Burmawi. a Muslim who left
Islam and converted to Christianity. And he did a whole
hour about this. Most of it was not that interesting,
but I have two clips that I thought kind of
fit in with this exact conversation about the Red-Green Alliance.
Now... Islam fits. that narrative. because Islam is non-Western, non-white,
colonized. uh non-christian so it checks all the boxes and
Islam by nature is anti-West.
So the alliance. They became... just naturally like a couple.
who are in love even though they don't agree on
almost anything else, they agree on the enemy. Yeah. Marxists,
they want to take down the system because they want
to build their utopia. Islam wants to take down the
system because it wants to replace it. with the caliphate,
with the rule of Allah. So both groups are saying,
well, let's work together. And let's... Kick the can down
the road. And we will figure out who's going to
establish what later. For now, let's... take down the system.
I think that's spot on. And of course, the communists
always forget that once the combined group has the power,
the Muslims will kill them. They're the first to kill.
They kill them first. Yeah, that would be the way
you'd go. The communists don't think... I don't know what
they're thinking. I'm not a communist, so I can't figure
it out. I mean, it's the whole idea of queers...
for Palestine. Yeah, exactly. It summarizes everything. But now you
see that you have a Tucker Carlson. who was saying
Islam isn't that bad, these Muslim countries are pretty good.
Love Qatar. I have a house there. Israel is horrible.
Israel is a... is responsible for all of our problems.
And so you're bringing in, you know, you're bringing in
another group that are kind of coming together and eventually
will wind up voting for. These Democrat. Uh, candidates. Or
it's possible. Not all of them, but... I think you're
right, the Democrat Party. seize the power, seize the movement,
and they're like, well, we don't have much else. And
we can still throw our LGBTQ in there because they're
all for it. It's an interesting game to watch. Oh,
it's terrific. Now. Considering this is coming from the intelligence
sector and from the CIA. This is probably why the
president has appointed the bull in the china shop, Bill
Pulte, as the interim DNI. And he's doing the purge.
So you have a director, the most senior, the director
of. national intelligence and Pulte himself has no experience in
intelligence. He is known primarily for doing the president's bidding
and now his chief of staff also no and no
experience and has a history of looking into election fraud
claims. Which concerns you more, the competence question or the
ideology question? I think it's all of them. Number one,
it's against the law to put Bill Pulte in there
because he has no intelligence background. Okay, this was interesting.
I'm like, wait a minute. It's against the law to
put him in there because he has no intelligence background?
The law... That's bullcrap. Well, the law says... No candidate
to be no nominee. shall have no intelligence background. But
Trump has already nominated another person. He's not the nominee,
he's the interim. So this is another tricky-dicky move by
the president. He nominated someone who has intelligence background and
experience, but this guy is... just here for, you know,
until we move that guy through. Ideology question. I think
it's all of them. Number one, it's against the law
to put Bill Pulte in there because he has no
intelligence background. It's actually articulated. So the suitability both on
knowledge and experience, but also character from both Bill Pulte
and now his chief of staff. But what's their intent?
What are they looking to do? Are they looking to
make the intelligence community better? The DNI was supposed to
be a synchronizer, supposed to help with efficiency and sharing
of information. That's not what they're necessarily looking to do.
What it sounds like, and what's past its prologue, is
they're looking to create another big lie. and now use
the power of the intelligence community and more broadly you
know, the FBI and Homeland Security and others to do
the bidding to forward this conspiracy. And that should alarm
all Americans because the capabilities of the intelligence community are
vast and impressive, which is why we were able to.
dismantle ISIS and hunt down bin Laden and all the
things we've done during the global war on terrorism to
keep us safe after 9/11. That is not what we're
going to see going forward. We're going to see these
capabilities potentially turned on American citizens. Yeah. Of course. It'll
be turned on American citizens like John Brennan. *laughs* Who
has done a cool move? John Brennan is now suing
the Trump administration. Firing back at Donald Trump's revenge campaign
is where we begin this hour with former director of
the CIA, John Brennan. Thank you for being here and
having this conversation with us. Absolutely, Nicole. Thanks for having
me on. Yes. Nicole. Vocal fry. Put your headphones on.
What made you... sort of take a different legal... strategy
because the facts have always been the same and and
i i just want to ask you to go over
the facts of the of the smears and the alleged
investigations into you as they've been unearthed by John Durham
by Marco Rubio, who was the senator in charge of
the Intelligence Committee when it comes to that 2016 intelligence
assessment. Well, Nicole, clearly I didn't come to the decision
to launch this lawsuit against the Trump administration, President Trump,
and the Department of Justice lightly. But as you and
I have talked numerous times over the past 18 months,
Donald Trump has been engaged in this campaign to punish
individuals he considers his enemies. And I am being targeted
by Donald Trump because I fulfilled my obligations in 2016
as director of the CIA. to expose Russian interference. in
that presidential election of that year. He's doubling down. Talk
about your op, Muslim Brennan. Right? Yeah, this guy's unbelievable.
Yeah. So he's going to stick with the... With the
Russia collusion thing, even though it's been. Right. The lid's
been long since blown off it by Tulsi Gabbard mostly.
But this guy was probably in charge of the Red-Green
Alliance within the intelligence community. Yeah, he probably was since
he was... As head Muslim. And nobody to this day
has ever... Ever just asked him? In the news media,
he said, hey, are you a Muslim? Are you a
Muslim? And a good Muslim has to answer yes. No,
a good Muslim doesn't. A good Muslim is that thing
where you can lie. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot about
that part. Like, there's a term for it. Yeah, lying.
Well, I mean, there is a specific term for it.
It's called lying for the purposes of the benefit. The
benefit of Islam. Yeah. Interesting. So, in conclusion... There is
a definite... Uh... situation we have to be aware of
in the United States. And I think this Red-Green Alliance,
there's something to it. Um, But if you just have
a bunch of imams and clerics running around, it doesn't
work. It only works if you get a mamdani or
a chevalier. This is where it's dangerous. When you have
the communist who is a Muslim or converts to Muslim
like the Jewish guy. in New York. They had him
doing a whole bunch of... Quran citations. Yeah, he's at
the mosque. Yeah. That's where that's what we have to
look out for. Um... And then we have the intelligence.
community, the FBI going after Newsom. Oh, yeah, I have
a clip. I'll play mine, and if you've got anything,
well, actually, let's play yours, because you're in California. You'll
probably have something better. Newsome wiretap, that sounds the same.
Stunning new report reveals- The FBI recruited a member of
Governor Gavin Newsom's inner political circle to wear a wire
as early as June 2024. So who was this cooperating
witness? Alexis Podesta, a veteran Sacramento Democrat who worked under
former Governor Jerry Brown. She did so in 2020. Newsom
appointed her then to the board of the state. compensation
insurance fund, a position that she still holds. She later
became a key cooperating witness in the federal corruption case
against Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, who pleaded
guilty in May to federal fraud and tax charges. And
that's where this story takes a major turn. The New
York Post is reporting, quote, Democrat insider Alexis Podesta secretly
recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then chief
of staff, Dana Williamson. The revelation that she was wearing
a wire as far back as June 2024 explains why
Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI
letters last fall informing them. their phone calls had been
intercepted during the investigation. And that timeline matters. The wiretap
would have been authorized during the Biden administration. And federal
wiretaps aren't handed out lightly. Investigators must establish probable cause,
show a wiretap is necessary, and the DOJ must...
must approve it. Then a federal judge has to sign
off and the authorization is limited, generally just 30 days
at a time. With every extension, reacquiring a new application
and new judicial approval is required. Yeah, they're going after
him. And I looked it up, Alexa Podesta is no
relation. to John or his brothers. No relation. No. But
the thinking by some reporters is that... She was caught
up. in the scandal with the chief of staff. She
went state's evidence. She sang like a canary. She flipped.
She flipped and they said, if you really want it.
I'm not supposed to do anything with you. you're going
to have to wear a wire. Yeah, they usually have
something on you if you're wearing a wire. If you're
walking around for, since 2024 with a wire. There's something
going on. You're doing it under duress. Nobody's voluntarily doing
that. Because people will shoot you if they, you know,
I mean, there's been, oh, she fell out the window.
I'm sorry. So, yeah, this is bad. Yeah, that's bad.
Well, that's why Kamala is sniffing around Mamdani. You know,
who do they have at this point? Who do they
love? The other thing that I'm convinced of, which is
that part of the whole... Op, the Op of the
Commie Op. is also to sideline Josh Shapiro. And they've
done that because with all this anti-Jewish stuff. Come on,
isn't that the same? I can't have the Jew. And
so and he and CNN had an interesting little. chat
around with somebody saying, well, he presents himself as more
Jewish than these other guys. He's Jewish. Do you have
that? Do you have a clip? No, I wish they
should have gotten... Did they say he's more Jew-y? No,
that would be a John Stewart's always using the term
Jew-y. But that would be... a deal killer. So Shapiro
is, because Shapiro, I think, could be a great candidate.
Yeah. 'Cause he's got the chops, he's got... executive experience.
He's running a state. That kite will not fly in
this Democratic Party. You can't be a Jew anymore. It's
just not going to work. No, so the Jew thing,
so they've managed to sideline him. How do they even
allow Bernie Sanders to speak anymore? That's a very interesting
point. Or is he just... Just an old crank, and
they don't even see him as well. He's an old
crank, and he's okay. He's not really Jewish. Yeah. The
most Jew-y of them all. So, Burchett, Tim Burchett, Representative
Burchett, who was the big UAP UFO Disclosure Day guy.
So that turned out to be a wet fart. It's
just nothing happened. Spielberg didn't come through, you know, the.
The videos suck. It's all old stuff. Okay, we have
a hard time even believing Apollo 11. Okay, but they
saw stuff on the moon or something. So it was
just a dud. and the witnesses aren't really witnesses. not
really whistleblowers. So it's just nothing. So he's moved on.
I think this guy's entire... modus operandi. is you know
if i can just cut on joe rogan a couple
of times i'll get re-elected So now he's on the
MK Ultra tip. Which is a lot more believable than
the UFOs. And they got hearings. Have you seen any
of the MKUltra hearings? I've been meaning to go back
to C-SPAN and look specifically at them, but no. Let
me bring you up to speed. I've seen a couple
of clips that are good. Sorry. Here we go. I
remember when all the talk about MKUltra broke and then
they were talking about lawsuits and there were lawsuits. The
CIA and the federal government said that this didn't exist.
And then they came back and said, well, it does
exist. But we're not doing it anymore. I guess my
question to you all first is, which lie do we
believe? Because he's doing shtick. Yeah, woo! Are these MKUltra
survivors who are hooting and hollering in the background? Obviously
there was an open bar before this thing started, so
thank y'all. But, um, Dr. Kenzer? Hit your mic, brother.
You're on the mic. It's an old CIA trick. I'm
just kidding. I mean, the guy is just doing stick.
which is not really that funny. I think he's trying
to become a personality in these things. I think like
Kennedy, he's trying to be a John Kennedy. Oh, well,
he's failing. He's no John Kennedy. I put myself in
the place of one of those senior CIA officers, and
I'm thinking to myself like the ones back in the
1950s. Well, other people must be doing this. We'd be
falling behind if we don't do it. And nobody's looking
over our shoulders. And that, I think, is your job.
So I think there is a definite air of urgency
and total secrecy. If any current research is going on,
and if it's conducted in any... comparable level of secrecy
to the original MKUltra, it's very deeply secret. Okay, it's
very deeply secret, so... Let's bring us up to speed,
make it a little more current. Let's talk about some
of these lone wolf people, which we used to call
lone wolves. Now they're just known as loners. What are
the possibilities that what we've learned in MKUltra, now that
it has advanced so much to algorithms and the computer
and getting to... loners that some of these loners could,
through this just mass propagation of whatever you're doing. could
cause someone to maybe take a shot at a president.
I know there's a lot of speculation out there about
the Butler shooting and I guess even the Charlie Kirk
shooting. I just hate to speculate because I don't know.
I have no first-hand knowledge. Whether those guys were programmed
through radio waves or through their computer activity. So I
would never hazard a guess except to say what I've
already said, that they developed means that we've never been
told about many, many years ago. And I imagine they've
evolved to be much more effective now. I think this
guy was the only, I forget who that was, it
was Dr. Kinzer. I think he's probably correct that memes
and algorithms, they definitely can affect people. And, you know,
DARPA, now this comes from... Machinic. So take it with
a grain of salt. But Pachenik told me that DARPA,
the defense— When did you talk to Pachenik? Oh, we're
talking years ago. Years ago. And so he told me
this years ago, and there's evidence of it, the DARPA,
the Defense Agency Research Project, who... All right. Thanks to
Al Gore who created the internet. and Tim Berners-Lee, but
we all know it was Al Gore. that they were
evaluating the effects of quote-unquote social media back in the
late 70s. And I think there's something to that. that
And just look at what memes can do. They're very
powerful. And if you can control algorithms and get stuff
going, you know, you can move people places. You can
get people to... To want to defend Palestine and hate
Jews and... The problem I have with that. thesis is
that when I was at Cal Berkeley as 50 years
ago plus. way before memes or social media or before
computers, desktop computers at least, pre-desktops. They were yelling the
Palestinian thing. And then... You know, Palestine, Palestine seems to
be code for something. And then when I heard that
speech, which I've discussed on the show before, Phil Spector,
who gave a three-hour lecture in Wheeler Auditorium, and he,
as an aside, went on that when he was a
kid, he had heard this Palestine versus the... Israel thing
before Israel was even a country. And he was hearing
about this Palestine, Palestine, Palestine. So I'm not convinced that
memes are going to trigger some guy to take a
shot at Trump. Let me counter that. Maybe Palestine, Palestine,
Palestine never worked until they had the internet. And then,
oh, now we can do it. It still doesn't work.
What do you mean? They're getting people positioned to be
elected. We have a mayor in New York. It is
working. I don't know if it's working anymore. Well, if
it's an op, it may not be working. It may
be. Artificial. I'm going to make the argument that it's
artificial. Okay. Well, we shall see, comrade. I'm going to
start calling you comrade. I'm hedging my bets, just in
case. And our friend Burchard also is hedging his bets
because he's doing the same thing that he did with
the UFO UAPs. Listen to this. like you're describing something
like the Martin Luther King assassination.
We didn't have anything to do with it. And James
Earl Ray was a third-rate thief. He made an incredible
shot, one foot on a commode, one foot in a
bathtub, leaning out of a window, basically. And the next
day, or that afternoon, all the shrubbery was cut in
front of the flop house he was staying in. There's
a lot on that. one that will never be discussed.
I have some friends that were there. So I guess
I could come on. I read the documents. Pretty close
to firsthand knowledge. But yeah, I'm sorry. I'm probably gonna
get audited when I walk out of the room. I
know it. Thank you. Chair lady, I yield back my
four seconds. Yeah, okay. So they're not really talking about
MKUltra, they're talking about propaganda, media propaganda, and we can
certainly show that there's a lot of mainstream media propaganda
that is intended for one reason and one reason only
is don't vote for Trump. Vote Democrat, even better. So,
I mean... I think it's... I think this op idea,
there's something to it. It's possible, plausible. Could be happening.
Well, it'll resolve itself shortly. But I still think the
Democrats are getting in and getting the House in. I
don't know if they're going to get the Senate. Was
he gonna get the house for sure? And they're going
to impeach Trump, even though it's going to go nowhere.
It's just going to be a huge waste of time.
Yes, it's a waste of time and useful content for.
Ms. Now and other cable news networks. They need something.
I saw an interview just to can I switch topics
here? Yes, please. I saw an interesting interview on FedGov
today. You know, because they do podcasts, obviously, good use
of your tax money. And they had an interview with,
let me see, she is, I think, the CIO. of
a second where is it here Uh, her name is...
Uh, Fletcher, Fletcher, Fletcher, Kelly Fletcher. State Department CIO. So
she runs the computers for Marco's outfit. And they have
had quite an interesting experience. with AI. I'm listening to
this and I'm sure you'll pick up on the same
things that I did. Honestly, for the State Department, generative
AI is like the perfect technology for us. We translate
things. We write a lot. It's pretty magical for our
mission. Magical. And so we rolled it out to 3,000
users. to start and it was, you know, it was
in development. It crashed. She loaded a document that was
too big. It crashed. PDFs worked fine, but like, oh,
an Excel table, forget about it. You know, it was
imperfect. And I'm so thankful we had these 3,000 users.
They were committed to it. They, we would change the
underlying prompt in a small way and these users would
notify us of the change in performance before our analytics
did it was so cool so we actually recently sort
of hit the knee in the curve moment we spent
probably a year we got to remember this one the
knee in the curve moment This is a good one.
What does it refer to? So, you have to look
at the knee if someone's lying on their back and
then the curve all of a sudden shoots up because
their knee is bent. The knee and the curve. Okay.
I think it's one we need to keep track of.
before our... Okay, we can keep track of it, but
I don't think it's going to go anywhere. It was
so cool. So cool. We actually have recently... Wait for
it. We've hit the knee in the curve moment. We
spent probably a year, year and a half just saying,
use it, use it, use it. We built this for
you. Please use it. We now have well over 50,000
users. We have about... 20,000 users every single week, unique
users. Unique users. She's talking like a Silicon Valley lady.
And now we have to, we don't have enough users,
so let's get some champions. Yeah, we have a really
strong community of users. Community? These are our employees. Some
of it is like, not technologists, but technology users become
super users. They talk to each other. They engage. And
I thought organically this will grow. You know what I
mean? They're sitting next to non-super users. It'll grow. But
now we're being more intentional about it. So we have
the AI Champions Program. These are folks who like explicitly
part of their duties are... to go around their embassy
or their domestic office and say to people, hey, this
is what I'm doing with AI. Would this work for
you? They get to call themselves AI champions. They're a
cohort. They get extra training. Honestly, it's really cool. Everything's
really cool. So what do you think that the, after
these years, of implementation, forcing these poor government employees to
use it, sending out some kind of Gestapo team called
AI champions. Hey, why aren't you using this? What do
you think they're ultimately using this technology for? search engine.
Now close. So right now I would say we have
AI agents, but as a user, you don't really see
them. Because they don't really exist. In the background. But
we're moving to role of something we're calling Beacon, and
it is your personal administrative assistant. So all those things
that you're, you know, how much leave do I have?
You know, I forgot. thing we do how do i
get out of this job ai agent how much leave
do i have how can i leave this desk well
that's that sounds that's it that is government worker in
a nutshell having been there number one how much how
much sick time do i have how much how much
leave do i have can i combine the I'll get
sick and take a week off. I'll be in Europe
for two weeks. This is it. How much leave do
I have? You know, I forgot my password on my
phone. Do I have to go in to see someone
or can someone help? Okay, if you're a government employee
and you forgot your password on your phone, phone? Maybe
you shouldn't be an employee. Like all the administrative toil.
Administrative toil of how do I get out of this
job for two weeks in Europe? All the administrative toil.
It's going to help with that. We have the infrastructure
to do it, but I'll tell you it's the training
that's getting us. Because right now you would call all
different help desks to solve these problems and those help
desks have scripts and some of those scripts are great
and some of them are not. Okay, so now we're
coming down to the nitty-gritty. All of this money, all
of this effort, all of these agents running around doing
stuff. We need to show some numbers, people. Show me
some results. And we found about 60% of our tickets
from the IT support center could either be sped up
or totally resolved through an agent. But we need the
agent to be very clear if it can't help. We
need to send you to the right place to get
help, but it can't not help. Because then we're going
to be in a situation where folks just aren't going
to trust it. We have about a minute left for
this part of the conversation. What kind of a timeline
do you expect to be able to get through? It
sounds like just a volume of stuff to be able
to work through, even with the advantage of using AI
tools. So for the IT Support Center, I think we
have a full plan for about six months. of the
tickets we receive, which we receive almost a million tickets
a year. Now rolling that out, we're going to see
how it goes with users. I think we're going to
get users. My hope is that 10 to 20% of
their help desk questions are resolved through Beacon in the
next six months. So it's for help desk. Uh... I
forgot my password. What do I do? Do I need
to go see someone? I mean, this is what a
waste. And is this the best they can do? Hmm.
It seems pretty pathetic. Now, if you ask Marc Andreessen...
Man, that head, that guy's head. It was egg-shaped. It's
an egg. It's not egg-shaped. And it's completely smooth. I
mean, his head is like a giant ostrich egg. I'm
surprised he doesn't wear a hat. A tiny one. A
tiny little hat. A cowboy hat would probably be the
way to go. No, no. Everyone would know, like, dude,
you're just hiding that point. He is a conehead. That's
what he is. And he seems like a nice enough
guy. I met the guy, I had dinner with him
once. Oh, yeah? When he had hair. Oh. That's how
long ago it was. Yeah. And with his hair and
everything, he looked... You never knew he had that shaped
head for some reason. I think he probably should have
gone with a toupee. Well, I think it was, so
I met him virtually in 1993. And he was still
at school. I've told you this story. And I had
the MTV.com Gopher server. And he says, hey. I've got
this thing. It's called a web browser, Mosaic, and you
can set it up on MTV.com. And he sent me
the... HTTPD, I think, 1.4 or something. Yeah, this is
way before I met him. Yeah, yeah. Well, he was
in school. So I think once you was a billionaire
is like I'm not gonna deal with the toupee. I
can get any chick I want. Egghead or not, just
call my boy Jeff. So here he is about, he's
asked the question about his favorite models. And so, you
know, again, we're back to policy questions, which is they're
going to be...
see efforts to kind of prevent AI medicine from happening
or robotic medicine from happening, but the capabilities for sure
are going to be, are going to exist. I mean,
the, the, Dr. Chad GPT is a better doctor than
99% of doctors. Like people like, you know, I don't
know, doctors hate when you say it, but like it
is true. It is, it just is. It really is.
We have all these new companies. This company, a brand,
one of our companies, Open Evidence, that's actually the AI
medical service that a lot of the doctors use. And
it's sweeping the medical field. And it's great, by the
way, as a patient, you really want this because you
want your doctor to have state-of-the-art AI, right, supporting all
of their, you know. By the way, if only to
just have all of the information at their fingertips, right,
to just. to really understand, you know, because no human
doctor can possibly read all the medical literature and keep
up with it every year. Dr. Chad GPT? That's what
he's going for. Yeah, that's inevitable. Yeah. Yeah. And here's
an ad that producer... Gary sent me. As a... Meta
is rolling out their AI. And I don't think they
have a good strategy at all. They're trying to sell
it now as part of your WhatsApp for an extra
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is gonna be such a meltdown. people start to figure
this out. What does JC say? He's all in on
the same thing. Good. That makes me feel good. He
has no qualms about that. um Well, let's change the
subject again. We should probably at least discuss the... big
shot funeral that took place. Oh yes, yes, the, yeah,
this was... rather interesting uh on the fourth of july
as as we had already accurately uh Pegged? It didn't
get the play that they wanted. You can't do a
funeral. funeral compete with 850,000 shells. No, but here's the
BBC report. A massive funeral like this takes massive preparations,
including centers like this rest station right on the outskirts
of Tehran. There are lots of these inside the city.
As people come on these buses, one is just... pulled
up bringing Iranians from across this country. Here they can
cue men in one line, women in the other to
get food and water and to rest. They tell us
they're heading to Tehran. They want to be able to
go to the vast Mosalla complex where the former supreme
leader is lying in state. And then on Monday, what's
expected to be a huge procession carrying his coffins through
the streets of Tehran. Millions are expected to turn out.
Many will, but many won't. Those who suffered during the
restrictions and repression of his nearly four decades of rule.
of this morning, this is an intensely political moment. You'll
see on all of the photographs of the flags a
clenched fist, a symbol of resistance and also revenge, a
message from the leaders of this Islamic Republic. The war
assassinated their supreme leader and many others, but they're still
standing. and still in charge. Well, that's interesting. That was
the BBC take, who clearly want to continue to have
the stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz out of our
hands. CNN had a rather different report. Up front now,
Nizila Fathi, former, and New York Times, of course, who's
based in Iran for 10 years. Nazila, we haven't seen
or heard from the new Supreme Leader, Moshe Taba Khamenei,
yet. So if he does not appear during the ceremonies,
what is the message that sends? Erica, I think that
is the most striking absence that everybody's asking. Where is
he? the reason that he has not made an appearance
yet because even the head of the revolutionary guards, Ahmad
al-Wahidi, who had not been seen in public since his
appointment after Ayatollah Khamenei was killed, made an appearance at
this funeral. How come he's not showing up? for his
father's, for his own daughter's funeral. And the only way
that he has communicated has been through written messages. And
if this funeral is expected to project an image of
resilience, strength, and also leadership transition. I don't think this
messaging is complete without Khomeini's, Murshid Abba Khomeini's appearance during
this funeral. a little different message. Of course, the guy
may not even be alive for all we know. I
wonder myself. Yeah. Trump keeps saying like, oh, that was
a bit of a regime change, new people, we killed
the old people, then we killed the new old people,
now they're dead, now we got the new guy. Um,
hmm. Yeah, kind of cavalier about it. Yeah, he likes
killing people. I have a kind of the religious. but
I wouldn't call her a nutcase. But this woman who
runs Grace Ministries. Amanda Grace? I'm not familiar with her.
Well, you will be after you listen to this. This
is a rundown of what's to come. after the July
4th party. Hello, everyone. Amanda Grace here. Something fascinating is
beginning today and actually converging with July 4th. Oh, I
have seen her. She has like a. kind of a
small room that she's standing in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hello everyone, Amanda Grace here. Something fascinating is beginning today
and actually converging with July 4th that I believe we
really need to pay attention to the fact that these
events have converged together this particular year that is America's
250th anniversary. Let me explain. So the 17th of Tammuz
on the Jewish calendar begins July 2nd, 2026. Can I
just ask in advance, does this result in the rapture
at any point? I don't think so. Okay. It's a
Jewish fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of
Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple. Now, it
marks the beginning of a... three-week period of mourning that
leads to Tish B'Av, or the 9th of Av. Now,
the 9th of Av begins this year, July 22nd, 2026.
It is considered the saddest day on the Jewish calendar,
on which they not only fast and pray, but they
recognize that very serious world events. occurred on the 9th
of Av. Some of them were the spies returned with
a bad report. Both holy temples were destroyed. The Jews
were expelled from England and from Spain and World War
I began. America's 250th anniversary this year falls within these
three weeks of mourning. BETWEEN Tishba'av and the 17th of
Tammuz. I don't think that's an accident. I think we
have to pay close attention to the fact that these
two events are converging within this time. You know what
else is happening too within this three-week mourning period? The
Ayatollah Ali Khomeini's funeral. which happens to begin July.
July 4th, 2026, and goes to July 9th. Guess what
July 4th is on the Islamic calendar? It is the
19th day of the first month, or 9-11. And it's
concluding July 9th, 79. 1979 was the Iranian Revolution. This
is all happening within this three-week... period between the 17th
of Tammuz and the 9th of Av. That's not an
accident. We have to be heightened and alert spiritually. Intercede
and pray because there is a profound reason this is
all converging. Yeah. I would have clipped that on myself.
Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, well, I expect Sir Brian
of London to give us a full report. Oh, he'll
be glad to. Yes, and he'll let us know if
there's any truth to this. But yes, we must be
very careful. We must be on alert. Well, I'm always
on alert. So I do have one Ask Adam clip.
Oh. Ask Adam. Ask Adam. Yeah. Okay. I'm ready. Okay.
Before we play it, this is a clip you want
to listen to. I want you to tell me what
this is all about. And this is the 30 second
clip. The Ask Adam, Ask Adam contest? Yeah, Ask Adam.
context. What is this about? Women's bodies have always been
big business. You can go back to the 90s. There
was an obsession around being as thin as possible. Fast
forward to the 2000s. We saw a lot of focus
on having big lips, tiny waist. Now the focus may
be on being young forever. always been a money-making business.
Is the difference now that young girls are being monetized?
I mean, it strikes me that Ellie Mae has taken
on a role. As a moneymaker, Ask Adam, ask Adam,
will he know or will he won't? I don't Answer
the question, go. Can I hear the last... Young girls.
Can I hear the last ten seconds of this clip?
You can listen to it again if you want. I
think I need a few more seconds of this clip.
A lot of focus on having big lips, tiny waist.
Now the focus... maybe on being young forever, but it's
always been a money-making business. Is the difference now that
young girls are being monetized? I mean, it strikes me
that Ellie Mae has taken on a role. As a
moneymaker, Okay, is this? It is either. I-I-I cannot- Is
it a reboot of the Beverly Hillbillies? Wow. That's out
there. No. But I admire that shot. That was a
good one. He admires my shot. That was from half
a court. It's a shot in the dark. I did
a granny style underhand. Um... This is about OnlyFans? No.
It sounds like it's about prostitution. What it's exactly about,
and I took the, it's not a context clip, obviously,
because I thought it was so fascinating the way they
put everything. It's about pre-teen online influencers. Oh. Wow. There's
a big trend going on. This is a report from,
I think, NPR. Yeah. Or BBC, one of the two.
But there's a whole bunch of these pre-teen online influencers
that are paid. to uh... Two. you know, promote. makeup
or whatever. Yeah, for kids, yes. For kids. Yeah, Zephora.
Which brings us to another kind of angle here, just
part of that clip. I have this maha clip. This
is the Maha Soda Pop Influencers clip. strange happened online
I want to share with everyone. The moment Robert F.
Kennedy moved Pull soda off the food stamp thing. Oh,
this was a big to-do. This is from several months.
This is maybe almost a year ago, this thing that
happened. A wave of influencers, dozens of them just blew
up their feeds. Overnight. Outraged, all trying to defend so
that I'm like, These are like dieticians. These are health
gurus defending soda all at the same time within the
same 48 hours. I found that very odd. Almost every
one of them just happened to mention the same thing,
that president loves Diet Coke. I'm like, oh, interesting. This
is probably not a grassroots reaction. This is a script.
And if you pull the string on it, it comes
out. comes from a PR firm that has been quietly
texting influencers their talking points and offering at the very
bare minimum $5,000 a post. 5,000. But if you are
a larger influencer, you can get 20,000, 50,000, 100,000, even
up to 500,000 or more per post. And I'm not
kidding. It's like a lot of money involved in this.
So they're, and the problem is their posts are not
mentioning that they're being paid. So. Unfortunately You know, it's
like you got to be suspicious of these posts because
it all seemed to be attacking at the same time.
But here's what people need to understand. This is like
the normal now and online influence is the product. You
can buy it by the post and the overwhelming majority.
of marketers now run influencing or influencer campaigns it's a
multi-billion dollar machine Yeah, and from what I understand, after
this came out that most of these influences were paid
and didn't disclose it, then there was a whole wave
of them apologizing. Like, hey, I took this money. I
really shouldn't have. I feel bad about it because they
were all exposed. Yeah, this is, this is what, hey.
The same way that they're paid to influence soda pop,
they can be paid to influence elections, they can be
paid to influence all kinds of things. Yeah, that's what
you do. And quite frankly, think that's our exit strategy.
We might as well just sell out. Yeah. You know,
I'm thinking we can probably do influence campaigns for coffee,
for chocolate. For honey products. Honey, honey products. Honey products.
for resumes that get results. I mean, hey, maybe, maybe.
I should just thank you for your courage to say
in the morning to you, the man who put the
C in 128 gigabytes of CPU, say hello to my
friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr.
JOHN C! ...in the morning, I should see boosted graphene
in the air. Subs in the water and all the
dames and knights out there. In the morning, two trolls
in the troll room. Hold on a second, trolls, I
gotta count you. Hold on, there we go. This thing
is funny. Oh, 1471. That's more than I expected. on
this 4th of July weekend, which I would like to
remind everybody. We're working. We're working. Fourth of July weekend.
I'm working here. It is 10 p.m. Yeah, and you
actually flew to... You're not only working, you're working in
another country. Yes, in a different time zone. And I
really should be here hanging out with my daughter, but
no. Sorry, I can't come visit you Thursday or Sunday.
Sorry. I know I'm only 40 minutes away, but, you
know. Yeah, it got to work. You know, we have
a public service. People count on us. Oh, you're 40
minutes away? From Rotterdam, yeah. Oh, I thought you were
staying in Rotterdam near them. No, no, we're staying in
Amsterdam. We're right near the museum plane. The Rijksmuseum. Rijksmuseum.
The Van Gogh Museum. The Stedelijk Museum, which is modern
art. And then they have the MOKO. MOKO. And that's
like they say they have a Banksy and some other
stuff there. I don't know. Isn't... You know that Banksy
doesn't have to be attached to a wall or something?
Yeah, you have to take the wall down. Generally. So
no, but it's important to us because we know that
people rely on, certainly 1,400 people rely on us doing
it live at this hour. At this hour. And we're
happy that they're listening. And they're probably listening at noagendastream.com
or on a modern podcast app because you're just wasting
your time with the legacy apps. First of all, you're
never going to get a bad signal. You're not going
to know that we went live. And you're certainly not
being able to listen to the live stream in your
modern podcast app. And, you know, we have a... which
is our studio audience, they hang out. And if you
can't, even if you can't, when we publish the show
within 90 seconds because of the pod ping technology that
all these modern podcast apps are using, and it's now,
we're decentralizing this pod ping stuff even more. and people
can even participate. with a gossip listener. So we are
really taking the power away from ourselves, actually. We're taking
podcast index. We're going to decentralize that. It'll all be
in DHT, which is distributed hash space. So the whole
podcast universe will be. Uh... distributed and uncorruptible. And that
will be the only media. distribution format of its kind
that can do that. And we will make zero money
from it, which is kind of weird, but also kind
of fun. So I hope everyone appreciates that. I know
you do, John.
Oh, yeah. And I think I should get a Nobel
Prize. I always appreciate the not making money part. Yes.
You always try to tell me to reevaluate my choices
in life. So you can get a modern podcast app
at podcastapps.com. Now, we have made our own. speaking of
money, our own vow to not succumb to commercial interests.
And only... work in a value for value model, which
means we give you our full program, everything we have
twice a week, the full Monty, no expectations up front.
All we suggest is that you think about the value
you have received, which can be, you know. Would you
please take the value pitch? Because I asked you to
do that last week, and I think you should do
it again this week. You're pretty good at it. People
are tired of hearing me say it. You're good at
it. But it's just kind of, well, you kind of...
You give it in such a way that it's relaxing.
Yeah, I need a tougher stick. I'm more irked about
it because the idea is that we produce a very
elaborate product that people are kind of stunned by how
professional it is. Yes. And then we give it away.
And we just hope to God that people make the
realization that the reason that we're giving it away is
because we can't do this any other way and be
honest. Because if you have advertisers or corporate interests, you
have to cater to them, even though. You sometimes will
do it so subtly, you may be... make it sound
as though you're not doing it, but you have to
do it. You have to knuckle under in one way
or shape or form. Have you tried that new Coke
Zero? Yeah, like that. So, it's delicious. uh So there's
a lot of... The honesty factor, it depends on whether
you want it. We're the only podcast that really does
this well because we're very sincere about it. Other people
try to do the half-baked value for value. Some people
are reticent about it. Some people are shy about it.
That's the real problem. Oh, God, I don't want to
have to ask for money. Oh, I'm asking for money,
but then they go to Patreon. I don't want to
use Patreon. Yeah, and they give 30% to Patreon or
whatever. Yeah, they give a bunch of money to Patreon,
then they get a check in the mail, then Patreon
can cut them off. And yes, Patreon can cut them
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have a level. That's the other thing. We've actually pioneered
the rando donation. where you give whatever you feel like
you know what do you think is what is it
worth to you Now the idea, of course, to be
honest about it, is that it maybe gives people the...
They might get loose. and say, well, I'm going to
give him a little more than I normally. If he's
got $50, I'll give him $55. Or $50.01. Do you
feel loose yet? I want to get high on that
list. Do you feel loose? $50.05, that's a good one.
It's a super high-quality product. You had me at super
high-quality product, really. That's where you have it. It is
a super high quality product. Every once in a while,
somebody will comment about it. They'll say, how do you
guys do that? You're not in the same room. You
don't rehearse. You don't practice. And you're remote, and you
go for three hours yakking away about these various topics,
and it is smooth and sounds like you've been doing
it forever. Well, that's because we've been doing it forever.
Doing it for 19 years. If you don't have it
down by now, you're never going to get it down.
So that's what Value for Value is all about. There
you go. So you can support us in a number
of ways. Time and talent and treasure. Now, the time
and talent part is... is critical to the model. We
have never called our listeners, listeners, or. Has Rogan called
some fans? No? you know, you are producers, everyone has
an obligation. And not everybody has a time or a
talent in their mix. Some people are very good. actually
interesting because everybody has a specialty. And. That's why we
have such interesting... Boots on the Ground reports from Oh
man. People in aviation, people in medicine, people in education.
In broadcasting. People in broadcasting, people in carpentry, people in
welding, people in... Trucking people, you can't name a location.
We have a lot of truckers. Yes. You can't name
a vocation that we don't have someone out there who
is an expert in the field and is happy to
share their experience with. I actually got a... Boots on
the ground from the anonymous... air traffic controller about that
almost incursion. where we had one plane incoming. And the
other plane took off after like 30 seconds of getting
clearance. And so then the incoming plane had to do
a go around and pulled up so it didn't crash
into him. Yeah. And I said, you know, hey, I'm
kind of... Kind of disappointed that you didn't, uh... None
of our air traffic controllers wrote in, so I'll just
read what he wrote in. Finishing 1881, regarding the near
miss and ATC, these things, in my opinion, are a
culmination of things all resulting from COVID. where one to
two year pilots were promoted after large amounts of retirements
occurred through the scamdemic. Also during those years, the FAA
implemented CPDLC, controller pilot data link communications, basically text messaging
from air traffic control to pilots. Now with the recurring
no agenda topic of screens and smartphones destroying our younger
generation's ability to do anything outside of drool and scroll.
you It's got an image. Imagine a system where air
traffic control and pilots don't have to talk to each
other for a majority of the flight. Everything is done
over text message. Click accept and the plane does it.
This is true. No one has thought through the impact
it's going to have. When you eliminate the constant need
to listen and respond in a timely matter, the result
is delays in response and slower attention spans. Quote, oh,
when ATC sends me the next text command, I just
push the button. It's noticeable. Pilots are slow to respond,
sometimes called three to four times a day. times before
acknowledging. This doesn't exclude controllers. Making the job more efficient
with tech takes away from what actually gets the job
done. The God-given ability to speak. Post-COVID freeze hires are
unwilling to do the study. To study the point signal,
so post. covid freeze hires are unwilling to study the
0.65 to know the rules not sure what that means
So he winds up by saying, no agenda pilots, do
better. No agenda controllers, pull your heads out and do
the job. Stop relying on a computer system to do
your job. Thank you for your courage, the anonymous controller.
Kind of a... concerning note. Yeah, I'd say it bothers
me hearing it. Yes. So, but that's the kind of
quality analysis you get on the No Agenda show from
our producers. Now, you can also organize a meetup. There's
a lot of things you can do. We do need
to pay bills. And that's where this value for value
comes for, value often enumerated in. Cold hard cash. Don't
send your water, your blankets. We just want your cash.
But first, we've got to thank a talent, and that
is the artwork that always gets attention. We have noagendaartgenerator.com.
That is where you can upload your usually AI-prompted artwork,
and if we choose it, we're happy to give you
credit. And we thank Blue Acre. corn for making the
traditional Kind of cheesecakey, although it was in a classic
style. A classic, almost like, would you call this 1960s
or 1940s? I would say pin-up style, yeah. So 40s
kind of... Vargas. Yeah, Varga girl, yes. Varga girl. Exactly.
America 250, no agenda, you got the Varga girl, you
got the eagle, you got a flag, you got some
fireworks. It worked for us. And a lot of people
had this similar idea. If we go look at the
art generator to evaluate other pieces we looked at. Uh...
Let me see, we had... Happy to, we had the
Ferris, a lot of Ferris wheel. Uh... Francisco Scaramanga. OVAG,
no, I'm not going to use that. Uh, was there
anything else we liked? I don't think so. Not really.
You were actually complaining. Well, I usually do complain. I
usually complain about the artwork. No, this was good. I
like the comic strip bloggers, which was used in the
newsletter. The second iteration of Happy 250 with the roller
coaster, which was stolen from. Apparently, Ness Works, who did
an earlier version in the... in the timeline. So he
reprompted. But it wasn't as good. He reprompted an old
prompt. Oh, this is interesting. I don't know how he
managed to do it exactly the same. Or maybe. Unless
he fed the original art into the thing and said,
do it better. Or maybe. just use the same model
and poop that out. Maybe. That's also possible. Well, Blue
Acorn, we appreciate you. Thank you very much for your
support with the time and talent you put into it.
Now we're going to thank the financial producers who gave
us their treasure. And we thank everybody, $50 and above.
We do have... some
some guidelines for ourselves here. We like to read notes
and we read every single note above $200 guaranteed. We
may pick one or two out under the 200 level
and that's just for time's sake. um if you're fortunate
enough to support us with 200 or more then not
only will we read your note we'll also give you
an official Hollywood title of associate executive producer. And those
are real titles, real credits. You can put it in
imdb.com. It's accepted there. It looks great on your LinkedIn,
etc. You could say you're... If it's $300 or more,
you can say I'm an executive producer of the No
Agenda podcast. and I'm a podcast consultant. and then you
can send people emails and and they will hire you
Haven't you received many of these consultant messages on LinkedIn?
You get more than if you get a bunch of
them, yeah. My email, I don't know if you... My
email has somehow... They got my name off of a
podcast list or there's some hot list that is going
around. And it's just, I mean, you can't, you can't
junk. Well, it's all, you know. Talk to this guy.
You know, he wrote a book like Thom Hartman. I
forwarded that one to you. Yeah, I saw the Tom
Hartman one. You should interview him. What I sent you
back was the great crash of 2017. The authoritative Tom
Hartman. I get a lot of those, probably 10, 15
a day. And they have pretty good subject lines. I'm
like, is this one a producer? You open it up
right away. It's one of those. You've got to bounce.
I don't know if your email system can do it.
I know mine can. I know Google doesn't do it.
But you have to, if you bounce the sender. as
though that email is invalid. Peace. It'll usually take you
off that list, whatever it is. Oh, that's a good
idea. Okay. I'll talk to void zero. Yeah, he'll get
you bounced. So let's start with our top executive producer
today who came in with a show number donation. This
hasn't happened in a while, and it gets tougher the
longer we continue the show. $1,883. This is show 1883.
Coming from Commodore Archduke of Central Florida. He's in Winter
Park, Florida. And he says, John and Adam, happy belated
Fourth of July from the Archduke of Central Florida. No
jingles, no karma. Wishing the best to the NOAA gender
community. And we thank you. That is very kind of
you. Thank you very much. Yeah. Scott Floyd from Clayton,
California comes in with 300. And he becomes the only
other. Executive producer, grateful for you guys. Thanks for the
thoughtful insights on M5M, MSM behavior, life, faith, and celebrating
our amazing country. Appreciate that you keep it real. and
are part of my weekly routine. Like that for John's
health and recovery and Adam. Oh, I'm a part of
it. Thank you. On to our associate executive producers. I
believe these are $250, $250 for America's 250th birthday, plus
the fees we... Appreciate that. William Alston in El Paso,
Texas. And he says, happy 250 USA. and Chris Garcia
in Boise, Idaho, 257.94. Happy 4th of July to Dame
Jen from Idaho. And... inch Lynch inch inch into all
my family and friends in and out of Idaho, including
my no agenda family. Hip hip hooray. And here comes
the question, what language do they speak in Idaho? Idahoian.
That's right. Duke Sir Dr. Sharkey in St. Peter's, Missouri.
257.94. That's a happy birthday, 250 America, plus fees. Thank
you. Today, I proclaim that you are not just the
best podcast in the universe, but you are the best
podcast in the best country in the universe. Woo-hoo! Thank
you for what you do. Love, Duke, Sir Dr. Sharkey,
Secretary General of FEMA Regions. four and seven in St.
Peter's, Missouri. Towers Comics in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada comes
in with the $257.94. Yay, Canada! Thanks for the great
show. All right, Canada. Sir Beeboop, Night of the Frozen
Tundra, 250. straight up for the birthday. New Brighton, Minnesota.
Small business karma jingles, please. Just send your cash. I
think that sounds pretty good. And it's true. I know
a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
Just send your cash. I think that sounds pretty good.
That's true. you've got. Karma. Brian Sorensen in Havre, Montana,
250. Jingles L. Sharpton in any R2-D2 Karma. This will
push my oldest son, Christian, over the threshold for knighthood.
Accounting and knight requests will follow. All right. So he
won't be on today's list. Not today. Yeah, not today.
What we understand. Yep. For now, just know that we
love and respect the both of you and all you
do. Happy 250th. all. And while you're in luck, we
have a brand new Al Sharpton nut job clip. Of
why they're having these. fights on the on the white
house lawn the ufo and all of the uf whatever
they call it *laughs* you've got karma. 250 from Richard
McCutcheon in Odenton, Maryland. No note, so that means he
deserves a double up karma. You've got. Karma. Jill Price
in McKinney, Texas, 250. Happy 250th birthday, America. This is
also a make good for Father's Day. I lost my
dad quite suddenly on Christmas Day. He was 91. Good
run. His very best dad and loved America more than
anyone will ever know. He could... Never quite understand how
to listen to the show. being 91 and all, but
he was always so impressed with how aware I was
of everything going on, even though I refused to watch
the news 24-7, or even at all. I also give
props to you too. Well, I know I'll always give
props to you too. Thank you for helping me. make
my dad proud. Adam. Please shake your rain stick for
Colorado and Utah. They are both on fire. My very
favorite place in the world, Leadville, Colorado, is burning in
front of my eyes! They must get rain. Thanks for
all you do. Here's to four more years, Jill Price,
Dame Fairweather friend. Well, this is a problem because... Let
me see... I don't have my rain stick with me.
Do you want to shake your rain stick? I can
do it. Let me see. Do you know who sent
us these rain sticks? I don't know what that was.
I thought it had maybe a rain stick. I think
you should. Give it a good two shakes of the
rain stick and focus it. Remember, it's always the back
end, so focus the back end towards Colorado. Ooh, there
it goes. One more. Whoa. Okay. Now everybody look out
because these things do tend to ricochet around the country.
So we hope that helps. And if not... Send us
another donation, I'll do it when I get home. Sir
Leron in Dothan, Alabama. What about La Jolla? Oh, I'm
sorry. You're right. Yeah, what about you just let me
do my job? Sir Laron in Dothan, Alabama. If I
did that, what would I have to do? Nothing. Also,
that's our last happy birthday donation, $250. He says, still
here, still love the show. Happy 4th, Sir Leron from
Dothan, Alabama. Thank you, and it's good to know you're
still here. La Jolla Salt in La Jolla. California. This
is the salt guys. Your buddies. Yes. One of the
least appealing effects of the journey through the Mahjong desert.
is how harsh and drying it can be to your
skin. Fix it fast with a sea salt scrub from
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Go podcasting. and have an amazing 250th Independence Day weekend.
Hey, I need one of these. Send me one of
these Mahjong tiles. I'll give it to Tina so she
can impress her friends. Do you get to just take
your own mic? Oh, she's got her headphones on. She's
doom scrolling on Instagram. She's in the same room as
I'm producing the show and doesn't listen to the show.
This is my life. This is my life. It is
1030. Andrew Snyder in Puyallup, Washington, 2011. Seems a bit
long, but here we go. Hello, listeners and producers of
the best podcast in the universe. This is my- first
non-anonymous donation. Please de-douche me. You've been de-douched. JCD, I'm
very happy you're alive and kicking. My wife's reaction to
the news was, he should have had more kale. Bye.
Oh, where is that jingle? Hold on. Have more kale.
We haven't played.
Classic, classic. She's a keeper to be sure, he says.
Adam, thanks for all your contributions to the world. Without
exaggeration, I think podcasting is one of the most important
innovations in history. As my mom's widower said, Hey man,
did you get any royalties from that thing? No. But
I've got everyone's ear. Wouldn't it be great to add
Spanish speaker to your Linda Lou resume? Ah, this is
a cross-promotion item we've got going on here. Okay, Spanish
speaker. Tacoma Language Academy offers live online Spanish learning for
adults and we have a free Spanish placement quiz. It
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an interactive Spanish learning podcast called Listen, Read, and Interact.
Find it in Podcasting 2.0 and Legacy Podcast apps or
at listenreadinteract.com. I wouldn't mind learning a little bit of
Spanish. We could all use a little. We should all.
speak Spanish. Yeah, I think we should. I could do
with a little bit of Spanish in my life. Well,
I'm in California and you're in Texas. These are the
two states that we should be able to speak Spanish.
At least be bilingual states. Yes. Although it's not that
important. Linda Lou Patkin and Castle Rock, Colorado, what's important.
is Linda Lou Patkin in Castle Rock, Colorado. 200 bucks.
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 position.
their experience so employers see the value. That's Image Makers
Inc. with a K. and Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs
and writer of Winning Resumes. Best, Linda. Jobs, jobs, jobs,
and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Look out! And 200
comes in from Austin Allen in Roseville, California. And he
says, happy 250th, gents. I felt it was necessary to
become a knight and join the Noah Jenner Roundtable before
my child. Hopefully a son this time. He's born next
month. Oh boy. The due date is coming in hot,
August 8th. At the roundtable, I'd like Blanton's Single Barrel
Kentucky Bourbon. and a large slab of raw salmon and
salad to keep me from joining the triple bypass surgery
gang. I've taken John's tip and started taking magnesium to
keep my heart in good condition so I can be
there as long as I can for my kids and
future grandkids. I'd like to be known as Sir Sofa
King Pool. Sir Sofa King Pool. Bless you both and
long live the No Agenda podcast. Goat karma and turning
the frogs gay. Stay chlorinated, says your favorite pool guy,
Austin. I don't like them putting chemicals in the water
that turn the friggin' frogs gay. you've got karma. And
last on the list, we have an anonymous donation that
seems so anyway from Strike came through as a Bitcoin
donation for $200. So whoever that is out there, here's
a double up karma for you. Yes. You've got... Karma.
I have a feeling... I have a feeling that was
actually someone in the troll room who was complaining about...
us losing their donation. So if you want to raise
your hand. Oh, that's possible. Yeah, I'm not sure what
happened. raise your hand and I will thank you personally.
But if you don't raise your hand or if you're
gone already, then it's too late. So that is, see,
that's it, right? Yeah, that's our executive and associate executive
producers. Oh, yes, Survivor. So we think it was Survivor,
so I'm going to give Survivor a... a little bit
of karma here. Thank you for that donation. You've got
karma. And that wraps up. Let me actually put it
in here. Let me put it in survivor. Sir. Vi-Vivore.
Vi-vor. Survivor. I hope that's him. Okay. And that wraps
up. Thank you. The formula is this. We hit people
in the mouth. So he says, I got an email
from Jay. I sent a note with a special request.
Still haven't received mine. Oh, this is someone else. Mine
was a switcheroo with a note. Well, then we'll just
leave it in abeyance. And now that you're in contact
with Jay, everything will work out just fine. We'll do
it on Thursday's show. Thank you. Now the rest of
our supporters, $50 and above. Stregalicious in Racine, Wisconsin. 164
24 And he says, happy belated Canuck Day and America's
250th. James Green, Elfland, North Carolina, 123.45. Love those sequences.
My semi-annual weekly dose, semi-weekly dose. of the BS outside
my bubble. Thanks. Costas Blachouras. Blasurus, Blasurus, Aldergrove, British Columbia,
1776, $117.76, God bless America, and no agenda, and calling
out Chris the Irish as a douchebag. Douchebag! You got
it. Jason Shepard, Trinidad, Colorado, $80.76. Sir Kevin McLaughlin, there
he is from Concord, North Carolina, with the boob donation,
$80.08. He is the Archduke of Luna, lover of America
and boobs, and he says... God bless America. Land that
I love. Oh, yay. And boobs. And by the way,
this is after the 4th of July, and I'm reminding
him to upgrade. to He's a grand duke. He's a
grand duke, yes. But he refuses to take the title
until after the fourth, he says. Oh, okay. Well, then
we need jingles for these people. Yeah, we needed a
jingle for him. And there was another jingle we had
that we needed for somebody. who was also a Grand
Duke. We've got to keep track of this. Kenny Halstead
is in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Also a boob donation.
Happy 250, America. Thanks for the show. Brandon Lockley of
Sugar Hill, Georgia, 77.7. I see what you're doing. A
completely no-name here with 7644. Thanks, that worked out great.
Sir Bernie Atama in Hinton, Iowa, 72. And he says,
here's 72 to mark my 72nd year today of the
sun's track across the flat plain. Please give me a
birthday shout-out, and I wish God's blessing to you both.
Thank you very much. And you are on the list.
Sir J. Moe, Lewiston, Idaho, 69, 33. Chad Hewitt, Folsom,
California, 66, 40. Yes, 66 books, 40 authors. God bless,
he says. David Cox, Austin, Texas, 63, 25. Sir Burns
in Causton, British Columbia. 58:56 He said, a good future
quick note from a Canadian living in BC. I encounter
lots of anti-American bigotry in my day to day. It's
casual and almost assumed by some people that I too
hate America and Americans. Well, I guess you don't. But
we don't hate Canadians either. You should tell them off.
Sir Dancing Mike in Maryville, Tennessee, 56-56. That's a birthday
donation from Sir Dancing Mike to his smoking hot wife,
Dame Denise of Maryville, who turns 56 today, July 5th.
William Goonan in Henderson, Nevada, 55-35. Michael Elmore in Gastonia,
North Carolina, double nickels on the dime, 55-35. 10. Sir
Selvaren, Silver Spring, Maryland, 5430. He says happy 4th and
5th of July. Commodore TYNJ8X. He's in Somerville, Tennessee, 5430.
Pete Lachance in Oviedo, Florida. Thank you for standing up
for the greatest nation the world has ever known. Thanks
for working on the holiday weekend. ITM from Dame Nancy.
Thank you, Dame Nancy. Erik Hokel in Melrose, Deutschland, 52.
The Cleaner in Phuket. Fouquet of Arena. Fouquet of Arena,
North Carolina, 5150. And he wants to wish his beautiful
wife.
Gina Bobina, Fofina, a very happy birthday. Her birthday is
tomorrow, July 6th. I'd also like to send this donation
to support her favorite podcast in celebration of her favorite
day. So the cleaner may or may not listen, but
she does. Nice. Peter Meir, could be Meyer. In Houston,
Texas, These are the 50s. Love listening to you guys.
After all this time, John is so smart. And Adam,
you're a great storyteller, especially the travel stories. Four more
years. Foster Birch, New York, New York, 50. Grant Caldwell
in Cave Creek, Arizona, who says, I tell everyone who
will listen or not about no agenda. Keep it up.
Sir Alex Savala in... Kyle, Texas, 50. Good to hear
from you. Alex, Jorge Hernandez in Lake Stevens, Washington, also
50. Dr. Sir, you know, Commodore 128 in Tigger, Oregon,
50. And. uh well he is a commodore he says
requesting the best and greatest trump's ppp jobs TPP jobs
karma you have. Let's see. We do break for these
kinds of people. TPP jobs, Carmen. Yes. and prayers. I
have been out of work since October, right when my
wife was six months pregnant with our fourth human resource.
The good news is we now have a very healthy
baby girl who was almost six months old. Oh John,
Dame Yano wants you to know that mahjong is very
popular in California. In fact that is exactly how her
grandma pays for Christmas gifts for the whole family. If
there is time Dame Yano would love to hear the
Yano jingle and you're really stretching it here. You know.
Yeah, no. With all that said, please accept this double
$25 donation from the two of us. Thank you for
your courage. Okay, well, I'll do this for you. Yeah,
no. No, yeah. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Joe
and John. You've got karma. And we wind it up
with Greg P. Wadby and Peter Borogod. Peter... Peterborough. ON's
got to be Ontario, but it says UES, so something's
wrong there. He says, sorry, a boot missing a donation
on Canada Day. Hey, thanks again for the Canadian content
and all you do. Happy 4th of July and God
bless. And that wraps up our executive, associate executive producers
and everybody. $50 and above, but we always love seeing
those. $49.99. We don't read anything under that for reasons
of anonymity. And those who do that understand why. We
appreciate every single donation, any amount. It all matters. Go
to noagendadonations.com. We take every single form of payment you
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any frequency. It's all up to you. Noagendadonations.com. And here's
our list. Sir Dancing Mike, his smoking hot wife, Dames
and Ease of Maryville turns 56 today. Happy birthday to
her. The cleaner wishes his beautiful wife, Gina Bobina, a
very happy one. She celebrates tomorrow. And Sir Bernie Anima
is turning 72 years old. So happy birthday to all
of you from the best podcast in the universe. And
we have one night. Oh, there we go. One night
to bring up. on the podium. Do you have your
blade by any chance? Yeah, I got it right here.
That's a handsome one. Austin Allen, you did it, man.
It is time for you to become a Knight of
the NOAA General Roundtable, and I am therefore very proud
to pronounce the KD as... Yes, welcome to the roundtable
of the knights and dames. For you, we have hookers
and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, Blanton single barrel Kentucky
bourbon with a large slab of raw salmon and salad.
Mmm, tasty. Along with that, in case you want some,
some beer and blunts, Ruegnes women and rosé, Gatien and
sake, vodka and vanilla. Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider
and Escort, Gin Drill and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Pavlum,
and of course we've got some Mudden and Mead always
here at the round table ready for you. While you're
enjoying that, I will tell everyone who is not yet
a knight or a dame that you can go to
noagendaringes.com just to take a look at these beautiful signet
rings. You can go there to give us your ring
size. Use the handy ring sizing guide on the website
and tell us where to send it. We'll get that
off to you as soon as possible. The new shipment
came in. It's a complicated premium we have here because
of ring sizes. You don't want to order too many
of one size. We always try to. kind of get
the things that we need. So it's not easy. So
if you waited for a couple of weeks or longer,
and if you haven't heard from us, send a note
to notes at noagendashow.net. And there you go. That's our,
that's our, those are our nights. That's our night. That's
our birthdays. We did all the producers. I know what
it's time for. I'm done. First, we have a meetup
report. This is from Raleigh, North Carolina, the July 2nd
meetup. This is Sir James at Saints and Scholars in
Raleigh for our every month meetup. We've got about 10
people, all the old favorites, and a couple of new
people showed up. Hey, this is Sir David Killian of
the Illinois Prairie. I'm just happy to be here from
Illinois. Just driving through and wanted to meet these awesome
people. Thank you. It ain't easy when you're greasy. Sir
Jerry Girl. ITM, John and Adam. We're connecting for... with
the regulars and the newbie. Thank you for your courage.
Thank you for your courage. Hey, this is Christine. I've
been coming to this meetup for a few years now,
and it has kept my sanity in check. I look
forward every month to these meetings because these are a
great group of freaks and geeks, and anybody who hasn't
come to a meetup yet please go because you will
find community you will find connection and I'm so grateful
for this group hey this is Ben an Englishman that
has escaped the United Kingdom for the beautiful state of
North Carolina connection is protection absolutely love this meetup on
a monthly basis thank you oh hey it's Ty from
States and Scholars and are we agreeing All right. The
connection is really bringing some protection there in Raleigh. Fantastic.
Thank you very much. Coming up this month in five
days from now, we have the July 10th meetup in...
Mont Lezune in Gers, in France, with the Baroness Isabelle,
who sent me a very nice note about hooking us
up if we want to come to France. It won't
be on this trip, Baroness Isabelle. Maybe on the next
one. July 11th, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Also on the 11th,
Eagle, Idaho, Scottsdale, Arizona on the 14th. We'll be right
back. Boise, Idaho on September 12th. There's a lot of
meetups. Just go to noagentameetups.com. You can search by zip
code, by day, by calendar, just to find something near
you. This is a great opportunity to meet people you
probably wouldn't meet otherwise. We have such a diverse group
of producers. You can. Hang out with them. Talk about
you can feel safe about talking about anything you want
to. No one's going to laugh at you. No one's
going to excoriate you. There's nothing but respect for these
things. I've never, ever received a note that said, man,
that meetup sucked. I didn't feel right. No, never. Go
to noagentameetups.com. protection. That's what you get there. These people
will be your first responders in any emergency. If you
can't find one on the calendar or near you, start
one yourself. It's super easy. It's free to do, and
we love it when you do. Noagentameetups.com. ♪ Mix and
dance ♪ ♪ And before we get to our very
nice end of show mixes and John's tip of the
day, it's time to select the ISO for the end
of the show. came with nothing today. So you win
by default. We just have to choose which fake voice
we're going to use. fake i got these from trump's
speech okay Start with the 250. I want to wish
No Agenda and the producers a happy 250th USA anniversary.
Okay. Wow. That's so great. cool you got it from
his speech I must have missed that part it was
during the lightning storm well you were uh you didn't
get to catch the whole thing okay but that was
that was nice when he did that very very kind
of him And here's another one from Trump. John and
Adam are the best podcasters out there, so donate to
the show. Well, I'm conflicted because we really... Don and
Adam are... How come it got cut off? You need
to have the bot put a little more breath at
the beginning and the end. John and Adam are... It
sounds like Don. John and Adam are the best podcasters
out there. So donate to the show. I think we'll
do that one just... the Piss You Off. It's Don
and Adam. Yeah, Don and Adam, everybody. Hey, right now
it is time for John's tip of the day. That's
for you and me, just the two of us with
J.C.D. And sometimes Adam. - Comes from one of our
knights, and this is a knights only.
Yeah. Tip of the day for the knights out there,
people that got the knights. Yeah, this is a convincing
argument why I should make this tip of the day.
Okay. This is an electric wax, and this is what
you look it up, and Amazon has it. They're $8.98.
Wow, what a deal. Electric wax seal. Warmer. Oh. It's
a seal kit with tweezers and a tool and the
whole thing and your little round thing where you can
pour the hot wax into to make the circle and
you can stamp it with your night ring. Oh, so
you're not messing around with a lighter and dripping the
wax. So you're not burning yourself. burning the wax it's
a wax melter that's a great idea that's a good
little wax melter for people out there who like to
use the wax that you get with the ring That
is an outstanding tip. I think that's great. Not only
that, but you get some more. You get additional melting
wax seal sticks. Yes. There's nothing quite like it. wax
beads if you want to use them. You get some
beads. Everybody wants beads. You can't lose everybody. If you
want to find out more, go to tipoftheday.net or noagendafun.com.
Created by Dana Burnetti. Wow, all right. Going on 11
p.m. here in the lowlands. We'll be probably not hitting
the bed until about 12.30. Time to go to bed.
Yeah, so these good people can go home is what
my grandfather would say. Woman, it's time to go to
bed so these good people can go home. But you
should not go home. Because if you stay tuned to
the NO AGENDA stream, we've got that Larry show coming
up next. And he's doing America's 250th. I love me
some Larry. - He's got a good vibe going on.
So listen to that and end of show mixes. We've
got Bri Porian, Bri Porian, Johnny B, and Just Baker
in the mix. MVP sent one that was a little
too X-rated. It was too much language. John would have
hated it. Didn't even want to submit you to listening
to that. And we will return. I still will be
The Netherlands are waiting the grandbaby. More pizza, kid, eat
some more pizza. from the Museum Square District right here
in the heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm
John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Thursday. Remember, in
the meantime, to support the show. Noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios,
mofos, hooey, hooey, and such. And the show don't stop.
Producers in the house, everybody wave. Celebrating freedom while the
pockets say. No ads, no suits, no corporate drama. Just
curry and devour it, causing friendly trauma. Breaking down the
headlines, cutting through the fog. Independent media, baby, that's the
job. Everybody talking about the latest scene. PsyOps, politics, and
everything between. One side mad. Outro Music Independent media, baby.
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American. Can't believe I fell for the lies again. Nothing
like reality when it breaks illusion. Passport stamp, know me
the pan land. Everything different from the television plan. You
said, watch out! But me shook every hand. Know me
wonder who been writing the program. online one story in
the street one makes fear one makes you meet good
people big sky barbecue smoke truth got rid of when
S O L L A Bye. Same potato salad and
Brussels in your backyard. Same chunks of celery, same globalist
lard. Melting in the heat dome like it's part of
the plan. Push it faster till it gives the whole
country the trots, man. you Yeah. They got the exact
same recipe from Ottawa to Canberra Even the paprika ratio
is suspiciously similar Open border onions, burn down croutons on
top Socialist mayo so thick it'll make you sobriety Stop
heatwave, hit it, now it's turning into soup GOP won
in the potato salad, got the whole party on the
scoop Explosive diarrhea The 250 at barbecue while the moderate
potato salad got swapped out for the extreme version too.
Shapiro tried to bring a level-headed bull So, but they
replaced it with the coordinated one overnight. Now every spoonful
is whispering you will own nothing and be happy. All
right. It's so absurd it's wearing a name tag that
says PSYOP. Pushing the agenda one scoop at a time
till the whole country's soft. The only way to beat
it is to put out even more till the food
poisoning so bad they can't ignore the metaphor. Same potato
salad, same recipe worldwide. Melting faster than the narrative they
tried to hide. Push it faster. The mayo meltdown commence.
Support the show before the potato salad achieves sentience. ITM.
Happy 250th and watch your potato salad fam. Mmm. list
overnight flash mob rehearsed by the same wef choreographer tight
open borders conga line trans ideology parade free speech shutter
tighter than a homeless choke point blockade social media lockdowns
capitalist ♪♪ unacceptable nominee torched in the flame trough so
extreme the recess a bloodbath of complaints on the narrative
market too. bubble are coordinated, I will pop it like
sovereignty while the 250 at barbecue serves open border potato
salad with the side of who knew Push it faster
like microwaving a- Socialist soups on the menu, they spoil
it. Two perfect siops. ♪ Take the country from future
♪ Too loud, now's the target and the trombone reset.
Bye. you Nofo. Dvorak.org slash NA. Don and Adam are
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