No Agenda - 1657 - "Trash Can Man"

Episode Date: May 5, 2024

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I don't trust any chicken. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, May 5th, 2024. This is your award-winning, given-ish-to-me-the-assassination episode 1657. This is no agenda. Enjoying a classic clothesline and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in Fever Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're all saying don't shoot your dog,

I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Craig Vaughn and that's him. In the morning. I almost didn't make it through. I had no idea. I've been good all morning. Yeah, now you're getting histamined up, and you're going to be coughing all show. Oh, it was bad yesterday.

Yesterday. And it's all of a sudden we got i thought you had heapers all over the place to prevent that problem no that would that was in the old house gosh that's a long time it looks like you need to move them over to the new house yeah um it's crazy you know we this is it's unheard of this global warming is climate change is great because it's been 70 degrees for most of the week, but wet and raining, which we obviously needed. So that's all good. And something happened and just it's like, wow. Everything popped at once. And we also have this invasion of caterpillars.

Oh, the biting type? No, the big, thick, black ones. They're just everywhere. It's incredible. And they don't turn into butterflies. They turn into moths, which is interesting because when you have cedars spraying everywhere, you'd think that that would kill off the moths. But no. Yes, yes.

No, it's not. I have a closet that's cedar lined just for that purpose. Yeah, and what do you have in that closet? Let me guess, your tuxedo collection? I have the tuxedo collection and other rules. Since you brought it up, rules since you brought it up i i'm amazed by the outrage over christy noom killing her dog cricket well i think i i got a earful from mimi oh really who owns a kennel who might add yeah so she's a protector of dogs. She is. About how horrible this

woman is. And I said, everybody's missing the point about this. Everybody. I think you probably do. Well, how about this? How about I play a clip and then you'll tell us what point we're missing. And then I'll give you my opinion. Both sides of the aisle do not agree on much right now,

but they have been united in outrage over South Dakota's Governor Kirstie Nome's confession that she shot her 14-month-old puppy dog because she couldn't train him.

Give it back, bitch! Give it back! Why you gonna kill it? And she says it killed her neighbor's chickens. She defended herself, though. She claimed that it was tough decisions like this that happen on farms all the time. And that she followed the law and was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor. Nah.

Which part was the parenting part? I'm keeping this to myself. I'm going to let y'all talk about it. What is your opinion on such things? I start with you with the baby dog. Literally, who's just over 14 months. This is a puppy. If your dog is acting wrongly, it's because you were incompetent at training that dog. And I grew up, we had big dogs and we had chicken. And the dog did once get a chicken. Whose fault was it? Mine for not having the dog somewhere where he couldn't get the chickens. But then what do you do? You train them. And by the way, if you have a really challenging dog, there are countless organizations to rehome them to somebody who loves the dog enough. I want justice for Cricket. This is terrible. It's a terrible thing. I want justice for Cricket. This is terrible.

It's a terrible thing. Justice for Cricket. Oh, Cricket. The dog's name was Cricket. You know, a sign of a sociopath is someone that kills animals. I'm not a clinician. No. But she killed her animal.

That's for sure. All right. All right. What an idiot. I'd love to hear your view on this. This is important news. Breaking. Breaking. My view on this is that is important news. Breaking, breaking. My view on this is that

I'm not even sure this happened. I think Kristi Noem has to do something because she does not want to be the vice presidential choice and she's at the top of the list. This did it. This took her off the list for good and without having to say no interesting why would she not want to uh further her uh her career into uh into the oval i think she's got friends who said look what happens to all these people who get associated with trump at that level it's it's trouble i mean it may be great you know but then again it's you're going to be in the middle of this and that no get out of this any way you can. But she didn't want to get out of it by saying no,

and then being on Trump's bad side, she's going to say, I kill dogs, I shoot them. Oh, okay, well, you can't pick her. Oh, well, that's a very no-agenda take of you there. I like that. I like that. Well, I personally think that she should just say this is puppy health care i mean that's what she should call it because you know i love the outrage over some some woman shooting her dog because whatever but you know hey just suck out those fetuses no

problem that's health care please the hypocrisy is crazy that's crazy the hypocrisy give me a break hey man my favorite video of this week i don't know if you saw this where those i guess oh but i already you said process okay it's not going to be what i'd guess what were you going to guess the liberal filter have you seen that one no what is the no i have not seen the live stop that's a video that's how how have i not seen this the last person to retweet it which would be the easiest to find is the libs of tiktok has it somewhere okay what is it it's hilarious what is it it turns your picture into a liberal. Oh, I have seen this, yes. No, that's not what I was going to say. No, I love that protester, the kid who has a bike helmet on and he has a shield.

You're hurting me? Well, yeah, he has a shield made out of half a garbage can and he runs oh no that one yeah that's different towards the cops and the cop just clotheslines him just like you know it's it's it's like i feel bad watching it over and over and over again but it was so funny just so funny this is for when i saw the kids with the half garbage can running at the cops it's like larping, what are you doing? It's not exactly what I was thinking. I was just going to say that.

It's LARPing at its highest level. Yeah, it's amazing. Oh, look, I'm a knight in shining armor. I mean, what are they thinking? I mean, the derangement of some of these kids, and of course they're just kids. I mean, what are you going to do? All young people, they're just kids i mean what are you gonna do they're all young people's and they're just they're dumb sometimes but the deranged sometimes they're dumb sometimes the derangement that you know that they've lost so much respect for law

enforcement and police they don't even think it's what do you think it is like a cartoon like this cop is not gonna bust your head like come on you're charging a cop with a garbage can shield and a bike helmet and a bike helmet that was the best so yeah so then my second favorite video who would have ever expected the frat boys the frat boys to be protecting the flag i mean yeah yeah that's a new trend i don't know i like it i'm i think this is this is interesting to see how we have within these in these can't and these of course are privileged boys they're all privileged kids this is old miss governor tate reeves also posted a video showing counter protesters singingesters singing the Star Spangled Banner in front of Palestinian protesters. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

So gallantly we'll all sing That needs some work. Now listen to Joy. Woo! Play ball! Surprised they weren't singing Dixie instead. Well, because you know they must be racist. Governor Reeves praised the counter-protester. What a dick she is.

It's unbelievable. You can't even have respect for the Star Spangled Banner anymore. Not from her. She's got to go. Yeah. No, well, she will eventually. I mean, the Moe prophecy will come true. It'll happen.

It'll happen. They're all going to go. All the DEI hires. You're all stuffed up. I am. It's funny. It's not funny. You can usually plow through the worst case of the flu. All the DEI hires. You're all stuffed up. I am. It's funny. It's not funny. You can usually plow through the worst case of the flu.

You'll be on the air. You sound fine. I'm still on the air. It's just this, whenever I project, then it just locks up. It's funny. I'm locking up, man. I don't know what to say. I'm locking up.

I'm locking up. I'm glad you think it's funny while I go through this incredible trial. I've never, you've witnessed this before. Yes, yes, yes. Let's stay on these protests because they are rather interesting. Here's something that it kind of hit me this morning about the Google protests. I have a feeling, well, listen to this. This is from a while back

there's no new Google protests it's still ongoing it's not over I guess it will continue until the ceasefire we'll get to that too the rising a recent article in the intercept reveals that Google and Amazon provide cloud computing

support to the Israeli military under what is called Project Nimbus, a contract worth $1.2 billion. The Intercept reviewed a 63-page Israeli government procurement document, which showed that Amazon and Google support two of the nation's leading weapon makers that manufacture drones, missiles, and other weapons used in the war against Hamas. Well, stop, stop, stop, stop. I want to take a kind of a look at the terminology being used here. Google's not supporting them. They're supporting Google. It's the other way around. Are they giving the services away for free?

Is that in the documentation? No. They're getting paid. So how is that in the documentation no they're getting paid so how is that support i don't get it okay i'll tell you my first thought when i was about this far in the clip as well i'm like this is coming from some other company making google look bad okay well you can play there i'm sorry i interrupted it but okay it's this terminology that they're supporting this when it's the other way around is annoying. It's as though because I went to, bought some groceries at a local store that the grocery store is supporting me.

They're not supporting me. I'm buying groceries from them. It's possible that they have a value for value model at Google. Oh, that's a real possibility. Hey, Israel, how about we just give you this Project Nimbus? If you feel like it, donate something to us. Give us some time, talent, or treasure. It's possible.

Other obligatory cloud customers includes the blank Bank of Israel, Israel Airport Authority, and a quasi-governmental body tasked with expanding Israel's settlements in the West Bank. Shocking. In the last two months, multiple Google employees got fired and arrested after protesting against Project Nimbus. Shocking. We don't kill people. Across Google, we've also been clear that we will not design or deploy AI applications as weapons or weapons systems or for mass surveillance, unquote.

Earlier, Intercept reported Israel's use of Google Photos to implement a facial recognition dragnet across Gaza's Strip to scan ordinary Palestinians as they attempt to flee the ongoing bombardment. Okay, a couple things about this. One. Oh, wow. One.

First of all, before you go to your couple of things, what do they have, cameras in the middle of the rubble? Are you kidding me? No. Well, I love the outrage over this while in America, the TSA has just started scanning everybody without any, just like, hey, we're doing this now. We're just doing facial recognition. Everyone's like, oh, okay, but Israel, Gaza. Second of all, I want to see all these people divest from Google and Amazon.

No more shopping. No more Gmail. no more google docs where's that where's that come on divest talk is cheap back in 2019 there was noticeably a lot less outrage when it was reported that google and its parent company alphabet were working in ways that were benefiting the chinese military specifically for the purposes of them tracking the Uyghur population, as well as the protesters who were protesting for their freedom. They were using. But they're yellow people. We don't care about them.

Similar services in order to crack down on protesters there and in order to track people who they wanted to put in concentration camps. But yet at the same time, Google said that it was no longer going to vie for a $10 billion U.S. government contract with its military, saying that what the U.S. military was doing was against its values. And so I'm very confused about what exactly google's values supposedly are when they seemingly have no problem benefiting foreign governments whether u.s allies or not but they won't even work with the u.s government so why are they based here are they an american company do they consider themselves yeah we can stop this she's no you can keep playing it i like it but i want to know what it is i don't recall what did you preface it with who is this woman?

This is The Rising. Oh, The Rising. The Rising. I prefaced it, but you didn't hear it. I was probably zoning. She should be fired because she ... The young black girl?

I don't think so. Why are they based here? Are they an American country? The young black girl? I don't think so. So why are they based here? Are they an American country? The young black girl doesn't sound black. I don't think that's her. I'm not sure. I didn't clip this. I noticed that she's really poor.

She has some prompter issues that she's reading away. This woman has the same. I'm done with her. I don't care. Black or white, she's off the show she's been eliminated from who should be off the show is whoopee well let's uh now let's look at the endowments this is it's all fascinating because it's not really about killing people it's not about genocide no it's about money money money

money money here's a meet the press you hear a lot of these protesters demanding divestment, but they also will often say disclose first. And the reason why is because we just don't have a lot of transparency into what is in these school endowments. So, again, part of this is the broader strategy among pro-Palestinian protesters to boycott, divest and sanction businesses that have ties to Israel. businesses that have ties to Israel. Now, divest is the big conversation on college campuses where you have these universities with, in many cases, multi-billion dollar endowments that they use to invest in companies. So how much of those investors... I'm so confused that we just gloss over this. Why aren't they giving away free education? They got millions, billions of dollars and they're investing it in the stock market. You're talking to the wrong guy here. Okay.

Are going into businesses that have ties to Israel. Well, let's take a look at some of the. This is why Eisenhower said the military. Well, he didn't say it, but it was in his original speech. Yep. I'd be right. The military industrial, the military academic industrial complex. Yeah.

He had academic in there originally. And someone took it out and said, hey, see this picture? What's in your mouth? Those investments are going into businesses that have ties to Israel. Well, let's take a look at some of the requirements for how they have to disclose any sort of holdings. There's a form 990 with the IRS that's reported annually. This gives you the broad mix of stocks versus bonds that a university will be holding in an endowment. But the detail on specific stocks that are being held comes from a 13F filed with the SEC. The problem, though, is that that doesn't really cover the entire scope of the endowment, which in many cases, as I mentioned, can be in the billions of dollars,

which means it's largely up to the universities on a voluntary basis to disclose in their annual reports what's actually in there well i think we should crack this open we should know what these universities are doing with all this money and how does it benefit the children well it's not obviously because they're retarded the stuff they're doing like oh billions of dollars in endowments trash can man come on this is crazy i got one more clip trash can man and ryan i'll give you an example of one university again columbia university getting a lot of scrutiny over all this when you look at the endowment we're talking about a university that has 13.6 billion dollars in endowment funds and when we talk about that i mean how many children can you educate from that money 13.6 that's a lot of billions 13 f that discloses how many children can you educate from that money? 13.6.

That's a lot of billions. 13F. That discloses how many securities and how many types of companies they're investing in. It covers only 68 million with an M, which means that the number of stocks that we know Columbia has invested in through their endowment, it's only about 0.5%. So 99.5% of the endowment funds we don't know about we don't know if they are or aren't in any sort of companies that have attachments to israel so that's what protesters asking for they're asking for more disclosure of the nature of those investments before they then ask them to divest from those funds but the status quo there is not a lot of

transparency into these endowments ryan okay so, so they're protesting. This whole BDS, boycott, divest, and sanction, has been based on stuff they don't even know? We know it. We know you're hiding secret to Jew payments. We know it. What is this? They don't even know this? No one seems to know.

No. I find this highly, highly irregular. Suspicious. Suspicious. And then, so now when you think about it, if it's all about, hey, you're giving money to these Israeli companies, then isn't it interesting? Well, you're not giving, okay. First, let's get our, because I'm irked about terms here. All right, help me out.

You're not giving money to Israeli companies. You're investing. Oh, investing. Usually you open markets, stock market stuff. Investing. That's a good point. Investing. You're not giving.

It's not a giveaway. It's not a gimme. No. Okay, you're investing. Good point. Because that's what a school should do. A school should be there to make money for itself. Do they have parents?

I am all for, I'm with you on this thesis. I don't understand. Harvard's numbers are unbelievable. All these big universities have these large endowments. Usually they, by soaking the alumni, they call the alumni up constantly. I used to get called all the time from Cal, except once I told them one thing,

and that was I got put on the blacklist. I haven't been called for years. What did you tell him? I said, you know, I noticed that last year you guys gave Barack Obama campaign a million dollars of this sort of money. Why am I giving you money so I can go to Barack Obama? I don't support the guy. And I never got called.

Off the list. Off the list. Did list did you get uh tp during uh during halloween no they're pretty no no nothing bad happened but when you say so when you think about it's about you know so they so clearly there's the protesters want to hurt the companies that are being invested in doesn't if i just draw the logical conclusion right yes okay so then now we have to look at who's funding these things because they're clearly short on these stocks or something both sides of this are apparently being funded by quite wealthy people you have jerry seineld's wife apparently helping to organize a pro-Israel protest.

Is he still married to Shoshanna? Is he still married to her? Or has he gotten a new wife in the meantime? I have no idea. That's got to be a promotion for his movie. Bill Ackman and other celebrities or, I guess, wealthy people have helped

to donate to that party fund for the UNC fraternity that was seen protecting the American flag. And then on the pro-Palestine side, Students for Justice in Palestine, of course, receives funding from some Soros foundations, from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, from a Wall Street banker by the name of Felice Gelman. The protesters have been led by some people who are with the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, which receives stipends from some of those same progressive billionaires to go onto campus and help these students organize their protests.

They have received pro bono legal advice from the Palestine Legal Group. So across the board, I mean, we can't just say that all of this is pure grassroots campaigning done by the students for the students. There's outside influence both on the pro-Palestinian and the pro-Israel side. Yeah, I think that's what broke all of this because no one's taking it seriously anymore. Everyone's like, oh, okay, it's these investors on this side fighting those investors on the other side.

That's all I can see now billionaires how do you become a billionaire well you you make a lot of money and then you invest it in uh in companies i guess well you would take the uh if you were wanted to you could if you could get everyone to divest and you were on the short side you can. Yeah. And then you could let it all go back to normal. You can make money that way. This is what Soros does. Exactly. Soros is the king of shorting.

Shorting currencies. He's a shorter, and he also plays currencies. He's really made more money off currencies than anyone could possibly do. Especially the pound. And if you read his books, he's got a lot of tips on how to do this,

and a lot of it has to do with being completely manipulative. Yeah. He's short on a country. It's like, America? I'm going to short America now. It's time to take that down. And of course,

he's really not doing this anymore. It's his boy. It's Huma Abedin's boyfriend. He's the new face. Well, since I've got you on financial stuff. Jonathan or something, whatever his name is. No, that's not his name. Jonathan Soros.

No, it's not Jonathan. It's Alex. Alex. Alex. Alex Soros. Alex Soros. So you probably saw this hilarious video video of jared bernstein this the chairman or the ceo of the council of economic advisors for the president you saw this video i i've passed through it a

couple of times i haven't really sat down and looked at it if you haven't played it of course i haven't of course because everyone's... You're talking about me? You should get a HEPA filter. Stick your head in that cedar closet. I will clean it right up. Everyone's laughing. Stick my head in what? In the cedar closet.

I don't know. Maybe that'll help. So everyone's laughing at this video. And it is laughable because the guy cannot explain how we print money and we borrow money. But then why do we even, huh? Taxes? And he gets so confused. And I'm trying to track down.

What's his name again? Jared Bernstein. He really is the guy. And he talks a big game about inflation. He's on the White House lawn. You know, he's always brought in to give his commentary. He's on the White House lawn. You know, he's always brought in to give his commentary.

And this is like the season of reveal pinnacle when he can't explain how our financial system works, how we finance the government. But very few people have explained what's really going on. And I have great hope, great hope that we can you can explain this so we understand. So we can put you up for chairman of the Economic Council of Advisors for the president, because this guy is a numb nut. The U.S. government can't go bankrupt because we can print our own money. It obviously begs the question, why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we print ourselves? It obviously begs the question, why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we print ourselves? I'm waiting for someone to stand up and say, why do we borrow our own currency in the first place? Like you said, they print the language and concepts are just confusing. I mean, the government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money,

which is why the government definitely prints money, and then it lends that money by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They sell bonds. Yeah, they sell bonds, right? Since they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money. Yeah. So a lot of times, a lot of times, at least to my ear with MMT, the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing, but there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to so yeah, I guess I'm just, I can't really talk, I don't

get it, I don't know what they're talking about, because it's like the government clearly prints money it does it all the time and it clearly borrows otherwise we wouldn't be having this debt and deficit conversation so i don't think there's anything confusing there so this is hilarity for all and i'm gonna i'm gonna take a little guess here. I'm going to guess that this guy doesn't understand, which is amazing if you're the chairman and CEO of the Economic Council of Advisors to the president, that he doesn't understand that the Federal Reserve, who creates money with the banking system, is not a government institution. No. So can you explain simply to us all just the simplest way is that you have credits and debits or to balance the budget to have the same amount of money out there that you have

credits debits for and so you you create a billion dollars worth of bonds and sell them and that money goes into the into circulation that's the only simplest way of looking at the way I see it. So we sell a bond and then that bond, the Fed then prints that bond in dollars. But people owe that money back. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, the people, the people owe that money back. Well, it's mostly the people that buy the bonds. I mean, people, everyone likes to say, well, China, you know, yeah, a lot of foreigners buy the bonds too

because they're good. It's a good bond and it has an interest, it pays interest. Yeah. Which is supposed to be the inflation rate at the most, but it never is, it's always higher. Yeah, of course. Which means you get inflation so the system

builds inflation in. So how, why do we pay taxes? To help, because there is missing money. Because somewhere along the line, they didn't make this debit credit thing balance out. It's never balanced. They were supposed to be balanced. If they put a constitutional amendment to balance it, you wouldn't have this issue. You probably wouldn't need to pay taxes.

But then we'd all be broke. There wouldn't be any potholes fixed. And they're not potholes anyway. They send the money to Ukraine. Okay, I got the answer to why do we pay taxes. This is not a good system. No, it's a great system. We pay taxes to support the military-industrial complex.

There it is. That's literally where our money goes. And to pay off the rent, the interest, the interest of the money we printed. The bond money mismatch. Is this a sustainable system? Long-term. It's been going for a long time. It's been going since, I'd say since 1913 yes that's that

would be the correct date yes it's been sustainable with a couple of with a couple of hiccups yeah like that little hiccup where we had to confiscate everybody's gold that was one hiccup that's one hiccup 1971 hiccup is dropping gold all together from the calculation yeah that was nixon's hiccup is dropping gold altogether from the calculation. That was Nixon's hiccup. Way to go. But the real hiccups were 1930 Depression, 1970s Depression, the crash of 2008, 2009. Yeah. And that comes and goes. And COVID.

And COVID. And COVID. It's a business cycle. And what is the best way to keep this going? War. War is good. Isn't that what they always do? That is Marxist economy.

A Marxist economist, that's their basis for making these calculations. Yes. Oh, so you're... Oh, hold on a second. So the Marxists like war because it helps them with their system? Did I misunderstand? No, I don't know if they like war or not, but it seems that they might. Oh, no, I think they love it.

When they see capitalism, they like to interpret it as needing wars to exist. We need to open up. we need to open up it's like a slam on capitalism but it's a Marxist economic theory that wars benefit capitalism I'm just getting this from other Marxists

I'm not one when I had the cell meeting the other day they were bringing this up yet again I loved watching some of the Berkshire Hathaway big meeting in Omaha. They have their annual meeting. Of course, this is a sad meeting.

Is Munger still alive? No, he's dead. Oh, he died finally. Okay. Yeah, at 99. And so here's Warren Buffett without, I think he even referenced someone as Charlie for a moment. He forgot that he was dead. And they have like $188 billion in cash. And Warren Buffett's saying, this is great. We just leave it in money markets. We just leave it in treasuries for three months, six months.

We're not going to invest in any dumb companies. But Warren, but Warren, but Warren, what about AI, Warren? What about AI ai when you think of the potential for scamming people you can reproduce images that i can't even tell to say i need money you know i'm you know it's your daughter. I just had a car crash. I need $50,000 wired. I mean, scamming has always been part of the American scene. The American scene. This would make me, if I was interested in investing in scamming,

it's going to be the growth industry of all time. And it's enabled in a way. Obviously, AI has potential for good things, too. But I don't know how you, based on the one I saw recently, I practically would send money to myself over in some crazy country. So I don't have any advice on that. You know, I think he nails it. Rambling. It went on for hours.

But I think he nails it, though. All of this is good for, but he didn't quite nail it. He said for scamming and for comedy. So far, we have seen no other actual use. Yes. For AI. Spot art. Yes. art.

You know, 60 Minutes did a huge thing. Oh, Randy Travis. Thanks to AI, he can sing again. Oh, boy. I didn't know he could. No, he had some horrible illness. Oh, he had one of those throat issues. Well, I think we may be summarizing.

I think you might be onto something i like that clip it's almost like a clip borderline borderline but not because you could because he's you could be hard to hear him i know well i can't help that the um idea that ai is good for humor definitely yeah did you see the but oh god there's one thing. The Biden pooping thing. Oh, the Biden pooping. Best use of AI this year. We need to do the No Agenda AI Awards. There you go.

Best category for fake video goes to Cat Turn. I'm in. Cat Turn. You're already... Since I've been pushing for some sort of awards there's our awards the ai podcast awards we'll just throw podcasts in there to give it some validity but it's not about podcasts at all just said the ai podcast awards because we do the awards on podcasts and we hand out the best uh well ai and here's here's fake voice yeah best fake voice uh best and of

course we have to have an r-rated category uh best r-rated picture of taylor swift taylor swift his own category altogether yeah and uh and we should say best ai spokeshole dear members of the media and the public i welcome you you. My name is Victoria Shi. I have been created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine using artificial intelligence to provide you with timely and high quality information on consular affairs. I am a digital person. That means that the text you hear was not read by a real person. It was generated by artificial intelligence. I will carry out a number of tasks first and foremost i will inform the public providing timely and verified information from ukraine's consular

service oh wow it's yeah have you seen catch have you seen her have you seen the video no i have not seen her i know but you know that do you have to remember that the japanese had an ai girl uh who's extremely famous in Japan. Somebody in one of our Japanese producers can tell it, can remember the name of this woman. Oh, I know who you're talking about. Yeah. And it was a face and she was a, she was a celebrity, but she was completely a computer generated, but it was called back then when she came around. This is five, six, seven, eight years ago when she showed up.

This was called computer generated. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like Max Headroom. But it's the same thing. Like Max Headroom. Yes, like Max Headroom.

He can be one of our celebrity judges, Max Headroom. Yeah, he'd have to have his head jerking around a lot. Yeah, one of those guys. Hey, I think we're onto something here. It's begging. The AI world is begging for an award show. Oh, yes, they need it. They do.

And we can tell everyone, hey, listen, just in case you win, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, I think, as possibly you might have won. Could you please do an acceptance speech for us? Really funny. Okay, well, there's a couple of things about if you want to take it to the limit. Please do an acceptance speech for us. Really funny. So the show creates itself. If you want to take it to the limit, a couple of things that should be noted. One, yes, you do that. You bribe people with awards to get them to speak. Lifetime Achievement Award.

Not right away, but I'd say within a couple of years, probably within three, to get nominated, you have to pay a fee. Oh course no this is how it works no you there's an entrance fee yeah that's how we make a reasonable fee that's yes two thousand dollars that's our that's how we make money yeah absolutely and then we make money on the catering for the gala yeah Yeah, there has to be catering. There has to be a gala. Red carpet. Well, I don't know about that. Well, maybe.

But some of the guys who do this stuff, you don't want to see them on the red carpet. But there are so many companies. Now, we're just doing it virtual. We'll save money. There are so many companies who have, you know, it'll be best... No, we're not going to do a virtual.

We're going to have a real event. Best prompt jockey. Think about it. That's going to be hard. Here's the problem with that. I would say not. Merch. We're going to sell merch. Yeah, merch. Lots of merch. Somebody else could do the merch. We don't have to do it. We'll just job it out.

But I would say, I don't like the prompt jockey thing is going to be tough because what you're doing is you're exposing uh probably somebody's employee to poaching yeah okay they're not going to go for that but we can definitely get a whole bunch of comedians to judge the funniest memes you know the funniest video memes the funniest uh you have a panel and uh and then you know, best faked leaked audio. Oh, yeah. We can sit down and do the categories. Okay.

Good. All right. It's a done deal. All right. Exit strategy. Beautiful. Well, no. I think we can still do the show.

How disappointing now. Now let's go talk to somebody. Let's listen to somebody who knows all about AI, who is all in and actually calls it the AIs, which I think we need to start adopting. It's not AI, it's the AIs. And that's Bill Gates. And he's back on the scene with the Hannah Ritchie.

This is his Unconfuse Me podcast. And something's really weird with Bill. I mean, okay, something's always weird with Bill. He's sitting in his... He has a neurological disorder. Is it something with his right arm? Is something... His left shoulder was up.

His right arm was... He never moved, really, his right arm? Yeah, he's got a... Something's going on. Something's going on yeah he's got a some issue and he also has vax i think vax parkinson's problem oh i just feel sorry about that but anyway we're still going to make fun of him my guest is dr hannah ritchie uh data scientist and researcher at the university of oxford also head of research for our world in. She's just coming out with a fantastic new book called Not the End of the World. Welcome, Hannah.

It's a pleasure to be here. It's a pleasure to be here. Okay, so now we're going to get into it about the power of AI. Is there something that you've changed your mind about recently? I spent a lot of time in the technology world, and I have to say I was very stunned how the AIs went from basically not being able to read or write at all to doing that in a very facile way still very imperfect but it kind of blew my mind I had challenged people to pass a test and thought they might

never at least would take them years but within a a few months, they were able to do it. So now, you know, I'm thinking about, wow, how do we use this in education and health and various environmental challenges? So the power of these AIs, I mispredicted that and I'm reformed. He's reformed. He believes in the power of the AIs. This is very weird to say the AIs. He's like talking about the gods.

The power of the AIs. The AIs. I'm reformed. I believe in the power of the AIs, our new god. So what do you think Bill is thinking about really for using the power of the AIs, our new God. So what do you think Bill is thinking about, really, if we're using the power of the AIs? Any ideas? Yeah, mRNA vaccines.

Now creepier. Think creepier. Creepier? Yeah, creepier. He wants to clone himself. I have no idea. Do you think AI will play a role in climate action? Well, absolutely, because our ability to model complex phenomena... Wait, hold on a second. Stop the podcast.

He just pulled the emergency brake. Didn't Bill introduce her and isn't this his podcast? I know. That's what's so interesting. I'm glad you picked up on that. So how did it turn around or he's being interviewed now that's kind of a podcast host is that this is this is the new format i think it's revolutionary revolutionary it's like what i give i give him two thumbs up for this concept i like it i like it a lot let's go back do you think AI will play a role in climate action? Well, absolutely, because our ability to model complex phenomena, the AIs are helping a lot with that. So, for example, looking at the genetics of cows and saying, hey, some cows emit a lot of methane and some emit very, very little.

And some cows survive in hot weather very well and some do not. And then along with our ability to edit genes, one of the most dramatic source of emissions that at one time I wasn't sure the path forward, now we can see either making the cows better or various techniques where they create meat without the cow. There it is. We create meat without the cow. There's even a new, in the Netherlands, they're promoting farmerless meats. This is my favorite.

Meat without the farmer. That's the way to go. Meat without the farmer. That's the way to go. So, Bill is all in on the climate change, making meat without the cow, and probably some more here. Let's see what else he has. Even the weather modeling piece, now AI is being applied to that, both the long term, which is kind of those climate models, but say telling a farmer in africa based on the weather should they go ahead and plant now or is it going to be so dry you know they used to always plant at the

first rain but if you know that's anomalous you know then then you shouldn't plant and so the are really starting to help us with very practical problems this This is bull crap. Did he say AIs? He keeps saying it, the AI. I'm telling you, the guy is looking at the AIs as the gods. He's reformed, remember? The AIs. So the AIs are dictating the world. I wish I had the mRNA clip that he just did, too, for USA Today,

where he's like going off the deep end end no don't worry lost it there's more because he has more oh yeah he wait there's more so remember that you're making cow mooing noises it's very inappropriate it's ai and remember that we just had this bird flu scare which is not over but oh it wasn't in the in the ground beef oh thank god it might be in the milk but it's in the ground beef but when people you know people listen very poorly to the news and they hear breaking breaking breaking ground beef bird flu i guarantee you that people are like well maybe you should just have some chicken tonight you know man i'm not so sure i want to have some grist i heard chicken i heard something about ground beef i don't like it and and and they're all jumping in on it i would have to say if it

wasn't planned ma'am they they really picked up quick because the fake meat people are back they're not going to give up they're all in including bill for you what what scenario where new data kind of changed your your view of things so i think my general framework for change on many of these technologies is that if you generate alternative technology which is as good as the original and is cheaper than the original then people will just adopt it and i think that's true for energy sources like i think people are not that bothered about what actually comes goes into the plug they just want reliable power i think one area where i'm a bit more skeptical of that framework now is in food now i'm a big

fan of meat substitutes i love impossible burger beyond meat burger like i'm a vegan so i eat this stuff all the time i think i had this framework in my head that if they just got cheap enough and tasted good that people would just make that switch i'm now becoming much more skeptical that it will be as easy as that i think there will just be this inherent resistance for many people that it's not meat so I'm not going to make the switch. So to me I'm leaning more towards I think if we're going to see this large scale change in dietary habits it basically needs to generate you basically need to generate meat which would be lab-grown meat for example when it's not just a plant-based

substitute for that but it's the actual thing just without the cow or the chicken. I'm telling you that this is not a coincidence. That Bill Gates, and he's clearly interested in anything, modifying cows. He's like, no, no, we just need to go to lab-grown meat. And it's on the radar all over the place. Well, good luck. Top...

Hey, I think there's a path for these nut jobs. Here's Tom Lomas with the top story. Top story on NBC. I'm joined tonight by Tom Rosmeisel. He's the head of global marketing at Good Meat, one of just two cultivated meat companies. Let's just bring in the guy who's the head of global marketing. Don't you think that's kind of suspicious?

Well, it depends on what the story is about. Is it about global marketing? Well, it's about... Or is it about this meat thing stuff? Yes. Or how is this even news? This is a native ad is what you're about to play here. Yes, correct.

Well, it's because of a debate going on in Florida. Meat companies in the u.s that have been approved by the fda to sell their products and representative dean black who is a republican member of florida's state legislature but an important but here he's also a cattle rancher we thank you both for joining top story tonight i'm looking forward to a spirited debate tom i'm going to play a video for our viewers now that our great director is going to spirited debate come on this is the role so we're looking forward to a spirited debate here on the tv show walk our viewers through what we're looking here so the meats built or assembled i guess in these where was he said assembled he's versus built and then assembled both equally bad built or

assembled i guess in these metal containers and then it comes out bad built or assembled i guess in these metal containers and then it comes out and it looks just like a filet right i mean if i were to buy that at the grocery store i would know the difference and if you're an idiot looks like a chicken filet my question to you is what does it taste like it tastes like chicken. People are going to fall for this. John, people are going to. I can predict it right now. This global warming nonsense has been going on.

In fact, I have a call out for our producers. We have a best of show coming up for the, I think, Sunday the 26th. And Sir Deanonymous has upgraded BingIt.io. I mean, he has done a phenomenal job. You can search every single episode of the No Agenda show. And you can also now sort those results in reverse chronological order. I'm going to put together a global warming slash climate change special. I did one already. Yeah, you just did clips. Yeah. I'm going to put together a global warming slash climate change special because- I did one already.

Yeah, you just did clips. Yeah. But now you can get us talking and there's a lot of stuff that's not clips. It's just conversations we were having. That would be a nice show. I think it would be a great show and I'd like producers to go to bingit.io and search because it goes back to episode three we were talking about this nonsense and and every it's been the same for almost 17 years can i can i interrupt your pace and flow for a second please we have to do two donation segments today oh i know i was

already thinking about that i just wanted to I think we're just back to two. I mean, I love it. I thought everyone felt very comfortable. Yeah. Here's what we need, is we need the art generator to come back online. Oh, is it dead?

Let me check if it's back online by now. Nope, it's dead. It's dead, Jim. Noagendaartgenerator.com is dead as a doornail. Yeah, getting that Cloudflare thing. Okay, so let's just continue for a little bit, because I think I can tell you... Well, how about, let me see...

So the theme of your little presentation here is fake meat. Fake meat, yes. Fake meat, which was precipitated by the fake scare about the fake bird flu and so now the fake meat people are out all over the place tom what do you say hold on yeah so you're equating the bird flu bullcrap that came and went yep with fake meat the impetus for fake meat as part of a long arc. A setup, a big setup. Wow.

Bill Gates has an investment in a fake meat company. Well, good for him. He's about time he lost on some of his investments. Yeah, I'm just going to take the other side of that. I think they're going to make it happen. And I'm going to tell you how. I'm going to tell you how. First, let's get another one. I're going to they're going to make it happen and and i'm going to tell you how i'm going to tell you how first let's get another one i have i'm going to skip around these clips i don't want to bore you too much it's not going to happen what what culture

and politics would be at play here uh i mean you should ask uh representative black um there are no credible safety concerns coming from the legislature about this so you know if politicians want to say hey we don't like this meat um that may play well with some consumers but you know ultimately consumers should decide what meat they want to buy or not buy okay so here's now we're going to get some of the reasons why we need lab grown meat. Tom, is this does the country need this right now? And would your meat be more affordable? I mean, I mean, give me the top three reasons why America needs this right now. That's a good question.

Yeah. So the number one reason is environmental. So we're growing just the meat that is consumed by a consumer. We're not growing a beak or an intestine or fur or tendons or anything like that. So we have the ability to grow meat much more efficiently than the conventional way. Yes, we grow meat better than cows, okay?

And that's going to be really important. I mean, the protein requirements of the planet are going to double between now and 2050. Redefining protein as we we suggested, would happen. So adding another tool to be able to sustainably make protein is going to be really important. It's not going to replace conventional meat. We're not advocating for that. Certainly, that's not being expected from the Florida legislature.

But consumers should decide. They should be able to go to a grocery store and determine what type of safe and approved meat they want. Okay. So it comes down to one. Sorry, not to interrupt you, but I want to say that is the mistake they're making. Consumers will not decide in favor of lab grown meat. There's consumers are not so stupid that they think that lab-grown meat's better.

And all they need is just a kind of a kickoff. Hey, you know, there's amino acids, there's all kinds of who knows what mystery elements and vitamins in real meat that the body needs over it because of evolutionary factors that is not going to be in lab-grown anything. You are correct about the quality of the products, that it will be very bad for humans. I believe you're incorrect about consumers being stupid. A, a lot of consumers took a gene therapy that had no business injecting

into their body. Stupid? I don't know. Depends on how it's positioned by the authorities and the science millions of people have been psyoped into buying an electric vehicle because oh it's going to save the climate it's going to save the world it's going to change everything and these are the saps that are standing by the side of the road when it's too hot when it's too cold their car is worth 30 percent less the minute they drive it off the lot, 50% within six months. Yes, consumers are stupid when lied to, particularly by people of authority like, I don't know, Elon Musk.

So what is the ticket? What is the ticket into getting the people to buy the cheap meat? Listen to this last clip. Right now, is it cheaper or more expensive than regular meat? Yeah, right now it's more expensive. We've got a lot of steps in order to scale our technology. It's going to take a lot of time to get there. But that's true of all new industries.

You know, when cars came out, they're very expensive. Cell phones, electric vehicles, you name it. There's always a process when you're scaling up a new technology. And what was the solution for the electric vehicles? $5,000 subsidy from the government. It's coming for fake meat. Guaranteed. If you buy the fake meat, it's going to be cheaper because of these subsidies to the supermarket, to the producers, however they do it.

Yes, I think that that is going to happen. I know you disagree. You disagree clearly. Well, I'm going to give you a little, I'll give you that. I'll give you the possibilities that they're going to chicken shit their way into this by giving away money, American taxpayer money to make it so it looks more appealing. Who cares? We print it. But even cheaper,

if it's cheaper, it's actually going to be a mistake because of the way the mind works. It's going to be a cheap lab-grown substitute for real chicken, which is cheap anyway. But okay, let's just say it's a cheap lab-grown chicken meat.

And this is cheaper. We can save a little money here. Oh, I don't know. let's just say it's a cheap lab grown chicken meat and it's going to look, this is cheaper. We can save a little money here. Oh, I don't know. It looks cheap. It's cheap. It's going to be seen as cheap junk.

I think there's a huge hurdle to get over. If you're going to pull this stunt where you think you're going to sell the public lab grown, you know, some slush. It's not, they're never going to pull this stunt where you think you're going to sell the public lab-grown, you know, some slush. Okay. It's not, they're never going to get this right. Have you walked through a regular old supermarket recently? I walk through regular old supermarkets all the time.

It looks like Disneyland. It's nothing but colored packages with sugar and chemicals. People are eating chemicals and sugar all day long. And here we go again. Yeah, and you think, oh, I want some good quality chicken. Do you buy meat and chicken at the supermarket? I've bought meat and chicken at the supermarket. I don't normally.

I usually just buy giant slabs of stuff. Yeah, where do you buy? Costco? I buy Costco. Yeah, I buy meat at Costco. Yeah, you are a discerning consumer who's smart. You're also from the silent generation. You know good food.

I am not from the silent generation. I'm a baby boomer. Don't associate me with them. I'm sorry. Mistake. Mistake. I meant the boomer. Of course, you're smart.

But the people who are eating, people are eating junk. They're sugar addicts. They're going to be gonna be like hey have you tried this new chicken it tastes great texture is fantastic tell that to the stock market and beyond meats it's coming beyond meats oh here it is this is our fake hamburger they had electric vehicles in 1912 they just needed a reboot they needed elon they didn't have elon at the time you cannot tell me that the electric vehicle has been a great idea can you i don't think so no well i mean it would be if they had they had the one that they use the technology which i think they're using in some parts of China, where you go, you. All of it sucks. It sucks. It's no good.

All right. I just hope people go to beefinitiative.com, everybody. Make sure you find a rancher near you. There we go again. Because it's coming. It's coming. And you know, this is my favorite. So they had on Dean Black, some house representative. He's probably from florida

and the and on the off chance that i'm right and about what about lab meat about people going people are going to be lapping it up yes on the off chance he brings up a really good point there is a lot of research and development still to be done. And I'll agree that in order for it to be competitive, it would have to be scaled up. And if you scale this up, that brings up my second objection, which pertains to China. Look, communist China and communist countries have a history of collectivizing agriculture and food production. And they use that to control their populations. agriculture and food production. And they use that to control their populations. And for this to make sense, it will have to be concentrated in large factories. And look,

we are in a very intense geopolitical time with China, North Korea, Iran. And if you concentrate your protein production in a few major factories, you're a few missile strikes from an instant famine yeah i like that i like that yeah i like it a lot i like it a lot and then i'll just play this final clip because anything anything that comes from the netherlands is dynamite uh you know again we're redefining protein of course i'm all in with you that no lab grown meat anything can have any of the goodness that's inside actual animal protein i don't eat much chicken at all i don't trust any chicken from anywhere yeah i don't trust any chicken i don't trust any salmon you trust salmon you trust salmon from anywhere i don't trust any chicken. I don't trust any salmon. You trust salmon? You trust salmon from anywhere? I don't think so. What happened to Dame Elise from...

She must have gone overboard. Remember she was in Alaska? She would send us salmon from time to time? Elise Garland? The Garland girl? Yeah, Garland. Yeah, Elise Garland. Garland, Garland.

I thought it was Garling. It was Garling. Well, whatever the case is, they are still up in Port Angeles. I think they've bailed out they're overboard we haven't gotten into more importantly we haven't received any limoncello for the last five years more more than that her limoncello was off the hook it was so good anyway um leave it to the the the farmerless meat country known as the Netherlands. This is really, this is a marketing campaign. Farmerless meat.

Can you believe it? Instead of saying it's not actual meat, no, it's farmerless meat. Don't, just forget about the cow. We don't need this stupid farmer, his wooden shoes. No. And you want protein?

Introducing the Dutch Bugs Burgers. At first glance, it looks like a normal hamburger. But it's not just any old burger. Because half of the meat patty consists of ground-up insect larvae. The Bugs Burger. It's dry, but it has nice flavor. And I would definitely recommend it to my friends. Yeah, listen.

The Dutch, it has nice meat flavor. So I'm going to eat it up. It's very good. I would recommend it to all my friends. It's dry, but it has my friends. Yeah, listen, the Dutch, it has nice meat flavor, so I'm going to eat it. It's very good. I would recommend it to all my friends. Try, but it has nice flavor, and I would definitely recommend it to my friends. The main ingredient in Vera's Bugs Burger is ground lesser mealworms, the larvae of the darkling beetle.

The production of the insect burgers begins here, in the Dutch town of Ermelo. The manufacturers have been breeding insects here for about 40 years, mainly as animal feed. Give them cow feed! And for the cosmetics industry. But recently, they've been producing more and more larvae for human consumption.

He performs regular checks on the quality of... What do you think the difference is between larvae for animal consumption and larvae for human consumption? Is there a different process suddenly? You're making me sick. Or larvae for human consumption. He performs regular checks on the quality of his worms. Around 2 billion people around the world eat insects daily.

But it's still a big taboo in Europe. Within five years, I think we all eat a couple of times a year insects. The worms are a sustainable source of energy containing 50% protein. They only need a fraction of the space, water, and feed that breeding higher orders of animals require. Their CO2 emissions are minimal. The larvae live for three months in these boxes where they consume grain. When they're large enough to be harvested, they're flash frozen and shipped to customers. Max Kramer and Baris Ozil are the founders of Buxburger. The founders first encountered

edible insects during a world trip seven years ago. That's how they got the idea to start their business. When we first told friends, family, and acquaintances about our idea, most of them said we were crazy, that there's no way it would work. In the meantime, everybody thinks what we're doing is cool. And the next thing they say is, hey, when can we finally try it out? The ground mealworms are mixed with peas, water, and a secret spice mixture. Their burger will lead to less meat being eaten. That will be good for the environment because less grain will be used for cattle feed. And the insects are also climate friendly.

A few restaurants in Belgium and the Netherlands already have Bucks burgers on their menu. The exotic hamburgers cost between 12 and 17 euros. God, they cost a fortune. They're going to be subsidized. Your subsidized theory,

I have to say, is probably the only thing that's going to save this industry. But it's disgusting. I'll give you a clip of the day for that's going to save this industry. But it's disgusting. I'll give you Clip of the Day for that one. Oh, thank you. I found it by accident. Clip of the Day. It's the most disgusting.

That'll be the disgusting Clip of the Day probably for a long time. It's in our future. It's in our future. Yes. No, they've been promising. They've been threatening us with this forever. And all we do is laugh. You can find old Carson shows I've been watching,

and they talk about it in the late 70s. And all we do is laugh. All we do is laugh. And then one day you're going to wake up. One day you're going to wake up, and you're still not going to eat a bug burger. And it's going to be, Mr. Dvorak, I'm sorry, you can't buy any beef on your credit card

because you drive a Lexus. An old one. It has a to be Mr. Dvorak, I'm sorry you can't buy any beef on your credit card because you drive a Lexus. An old one. It has a motor in it. A dirty motorized Lexus, Mr. Dvorak. Do you know how much improvement we've made on the Lexus in the 25 years since you bought that vehicle, Mr. Dvorak? You are a dirty polluter. Carbon criminal. You're a carbon criminal.

That's another good show title. I'm just rocking it today. You're a carbon criminal.'s another good show title i'm just rocking it today you're a carbon criminal carbon criminal and then i'm sorry it won't work well i have the cars built before they uh put in the good vices that could i know be remotely shut you down i know well they're coming they. I know. They're coming for you. They're coming for you. They're coming for you. Anyway, it's just a little, all I'm saying is get to know a rancher somewhere

because when it comes down to it. Here we go again. Look, there's no money in this for me. No, we noticed. You get free meat. No, I do not. Well, you should. What kind of deal is this? Because I'm not like that.

Ranchers can't give away... Because I'm not like that. No, I'm not. Well, that's how you and I differ. Okay, point made. I just want you to know, there's no benefit to me and there's no benefit to Texas Slim or anybody else. The ranchers are running at capacity, so you better get in while stocks last.

Otherwise, it's just going to be over. It's okay. I mean, I'm just here to help people. Didn't you hear that? First law of no agenda here to help people. Didn't you hear that? First law of no agenda, here to help people. Yeah, I think that is the first law of no agenda. Here to help people. All right.

Well, I got a bunch of different things. I got Russia versus the Falun Gong, which I thought was funny. I got bank laundering, another bank caught being a money laundering operation. Oh, that's good. You like that? Yeah, I like, yeah. Of course. It's about the... Why do these guys... Is that your exit strategy? Why do these guys launder it when you can just print it? Just make some

for yourself and take it home. There's TD Bank of all places. Is that from TD America? I don't know if it's from TD America or not. Oh, okay. Play it. TD Bank hoping China launder fentanyl money, according to the Justice Department.

The Wall Street Journal reports an operation was uncovered in New York and New Jersey, which laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal drug money via TD Bank and other banks. This is TD. I knew I recognized it from my day trading days. TD is from TD Ameritrade. And I believe they've been purchased by Wells Fargo. And they had their headquarters in New Jersey. These guys.

Let me see if they are owned by Wells Fargo. I think so. I think, yeah. They're still in business. They're in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Not Wells Fargo. They're owned by Toronto Dominion. That's how door TD comes from.

I thought that someone bought them. Okay, I could be wrong. This is according to court files and people in the know. Chinese Monday. Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab. is according to court files and people in the know. Chinese laundering. Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab. I know that Charles Schwab bought their trading operation. I don't know if they bought the bank.

This is according to court files and people in the know. Chinese money laundering organizations have gotten very good at shielding ill-gotten gains. These organizations launder cartel cash quicker and cheaper than competitors, often with a money-back guarantee. During a hearing on Chinese money laundering Tuesday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said that Chinese money laundering organizations work with Mexican cartels to move fentanyl profits. The Journal reports, according to court files in 2021, federal agents followed suspects through New York City streets as they carried giant bags of cash bank to bank. On one occasion, they even caught suspects bribing TD

employees. They can, you know, make them look the other way when opening bank accounts using fictitious high quality Chinese passports. Federal investigator Ricardo Mayoral told lawmakers he's often seen these organizations engaging in bribery, which bypasses traditional detection systems. So these guys also, they own the Nordstrom credit card. They own the Target credit card. This is quite the operation. I'm digging this.

They have $450 billion in assets. And was this anywhere on the quote-unquote mainstream news? I've not heard of this at all. What? At all. In the Justice Department probe, the Chinese laundering organization offered $57,000 in bribes to TD employees. This included gift cards. The organization moved at least $653 million to thousands of entities in the U.S. and Hong Kong,

according to court documents. The Justice Department is also investigating TD Bank for three other instances of money laundering. A Canadian regulator fined it nearly $7 million on Wednesday. TD Bank said Thursday it's cooperating with law enforcement and strengthening its anti-money laundering program. Yeah, but people buying $3 of Bitcoin, go arrest them. Please, because that's how criminals operate. Go arrest them, please.

Because, you know, that's how criminals operate. Ignore the guys with the fake passports carrying bags of money down the street. The American dollar is still the best for corruption. It's still the best. It's the best. Well, you know, criminal activity. Yeah, criminal activity. We're the best. It's the best.

Well, you've always had this thesis, and I kind of agree with it. It is very much proven true in the first Cocaine Cowboys movie, which people should see, which discussed the fact that half the banks in Florida were more or less supported as money laundering operations for the cocaine trade back

in the 70s and 80s. Great, great, great movie. Yes, it's a great, great, great movie. It's a recommender. It's a recommender for sure. The second version, not so much. I never even watched that. Just the original. Yeah.

Good old days. Money laundering. Yes. We're back. Major bang, not a slouch. But old school with bags of cash. I mean, you've got to hand it to them. That is old school.

That's the best part. That's very good. I like it. Good work, work boys what else you got well we have another a congressman to talk about corruption i think this is the congressman that was caught tc it's under tc yeah this is uh well it's one of ours one of our texas homeboys democratic congressman henry cuyara of texas and his wife have been indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges. The Justice Department says the case involves the couple's ties to Mexico and Azerbaijan. The indictment says Cuellar and his wife accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico from 2014 to 2021.

In exchange, Cuellar allegedly agreed to help Azerbaijan and the Mexican bank by advancing their interests in Congress. Cuellar was at one time the co-chair of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus. The indictment says Cuellar agreed to influence bills favorable to Azerbaijan and deliver a pro-Azerbaijan speech on the House floor. Federal disclosures show that the congressman traveled to Azerbaijan. Wait, hold on a second. This is excellent. This is excellent. So there's a guy, Cuellar, who is Mexican-American.

Yeah. Or just American, but he's closer to Mexico than... He's in Texas, and he somehow is representing Azerbaijan and nobody's a little bit... What's going on with this guy? Because everyone in Congress is on the take somewhere that's what it looks like and and what i would hope is that people who just meme about this and of course there's a lot of a lot of uh people who are not fans of the democrat party going look at that another one of them creepy yeah why don't

you go and vote? Go and vote. The Republicans who voted for the big bill and all the rest of it. I want to talk about that, too. The disclosures show that the congressman traveled to Azerbaijan in 2013. Two years later, Cuellar's office announced an agreement between a Texas university and an organization called the Assembly of Friends of Azerbaijan. The Justice Department said the couple surrendered to authorities today and were taken into custody. But see, this is actually a follow up. This is the whole thing.

It's like when someone is hanging out with the representatives from Azerbaijan. I mean, what how is this the people's business, the people of Texas? hanging out with the representatives from Azerbaijan. I mean, what, how is this the people's business, the people of Texas? How is it helping the people of Texas? Well, they made a relationship between the University of Texas and a school in Azerbaijan. I mean, there's something there.

Oh, please. So you remember Gallagher, Representative Mike Gallagher? He's the one that introduced the original let's steal TikTok bill. Yes. And he had a lot of lobbying money from Google. And so I've been waiting to see where he shows up because he said he was going to resign. to resign actually um he he rescinded that and he says no no no i'm going to resign uh so he's going to resign on april 19th but he moved his resignation to april 20th

so that he could write that when some stock options expire no that that was when we had the TikTok bill included in the military industrial complex defense industrial base bill. The hundred billion dollars, 95, 96, give or take for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan. So it was so important for him to vote. And guess where he shows up? He just got a job at Palantir. Taiwan. So, it was so important for him to vote. And guess where he shows up? He just got a job at Palantir. A fine military industrial complex company.

And that's how it works. I read into something the other day. It was sponsored by Palantir. And I'm thinking, oh, brother. Spook. And here we are trying to make some money with an award show.

Yeah, but it's going to be a winner. It's going to be a winner, Jerry. We're doing it all the wrong way. I have a CBS... Of course, if we wanted to be a couple of corrupt jerk-offs, yeah, we could go do anything we wanted, but no. And let's talk about the size

that this is more fun and and people appreciate it it is oh i have a lot more for can you imagine having to be a crook having to having to be a criminal having like hide money and and shell companies and being having you you're like this quay our guy he got his wife arrested well that's what you do that's what uh i mean take your wife with you i'm taking everybody with me all my relatives are going down ultimately that uh what's the congressman bob what's his name the other corrupt man yes yeah he threw his wife out there hey hey she set it up which she did his wife under the bus which she did alright let's talk about because obviously Mike Johnson

got he got the blame for he gets the blame for everything besides bringing this bill to the floor for the aid to Israel,

which was the big problem. Then they said, and you're not done, son. Go out there and talk about anti-Semitism being un-American. And we need a bill. We need a big virtue signal bill. I got some clips on this. I got a couple too.

I'd like to hear yours because no matter what side of the debate you stand on, Congress shall make no law. What is the actual term to... Look at it. It's real short and sweet. Just check it out. There's an actual term. It's not infringe. Is it infringe? I think it's infringe. Congress shall make no law. See if I can get the... Congress shall make...

Respecting... Prohibiting the free exercise there. Or abridging. I'm sorry. Of course. I should have known. Or abridging. Abridging the freedom of speech or the right of the press or the right of the people to

peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievance you know what while we're on this before before we go anywhere since we're on the first amendment again congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This is the establishment clause, which has been misconstrued into a separation of church and state. And would you know it? There's an ad out there.

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Code Bongino. Yeah, oh yeah, it's NBC. I mean slash NBC. Because this runs on NBC podcasts. It's NBC podcast. What do you mean slash NBC? Yeah. Because this runs on NBC podcasts. It's an NBC podcast? Yeah. It's an atheist podcast?

This is an atheist podcast, by the way. Yeah, of course. Of course. I'm not, you know, a Christian nationalist by any means. Code Bongino. Not me. You are. I'm not.

And I tell you this. Christian nationalist. I spot atheists a mile away. Code Bongino. Code Bongino. Code Bongino. So anyway, so the abridging of, so what this, the way I understand it, and I have a couple of clips too, but I want to hear yours first. And boy, do we need Chevron deference to come to the Supreme Court soon. Resulted in a proposal for the Department of Education to adapt Title VI, very similar to what they did with Title IX, where they said, hey, you know what, it's gender, whatever you identify as, you can't be discriminated against.

So, yeah, dudes, you can go into the women's locker room and toilets and all that. And Title VI has now defined what anti-Semitism is. And then they bundle that all up, including the illegal chants, which we discussed, because somehow saying from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free is dangerous, very dangerous. And it could spark something horrible. And it's like yelling fire in a crowded theater or it's fighting words or somehow they've determined that they can write regulations. It's not even a law, but regulations against this type of speech. And I don't think either one of us feel that that is a good idea or constitutional. I would agree.

So where did you get some clips from and what do we have? So I got these clips. This is one of those discussions that take place on NTD where they bring a guy in and they yak, yak, yak about this particular thing with some ideas. I only clip these because there's points of interest in here. Here we go. This is NTD. Joining me now to discuss the act is Jonathan Houlihan, General Counsel and Director of Legal Operations at Citizens Defending Freedom. Jonathan, thanks for joining us. Good to see you again. Now, the House passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act in a bipartisan vote. It's now waiting in the Senate. Now, Congressman Mike Lawler, who introduced the bill, said on the House floor, quote, it is absurd to oppose this,

that it somehow limits free speech, adding that calling for death to Jews isn't protected speech, it's anti-Semitic. What is your analysis of this bill? Well, this is an interesting bill. I mean, you have conservatives and progressives that have really band together in a lot of circumstances under the banner of free speech, which I agree in some circumstances. And here's why. I mean, if you look at the Constitution, First Amendment, Congress shall make up no law abridging the freedom of the press or of freedom of speech. So that's the First Amendment. Some of the critics of this bill have said it's too broad. Free free speech will be chilled. And it really is outside the boundaries of the First Amendment.

That being said, this is really content based restriction. And that's OK sometimes. Right. advocacy for breaking laws, convincing people to break laws, commit mayhem. All of those things are exceptions to the First Amendment. I'm sorry. Who is this? You have to back it up again. I didn't write it down. How is this an exception to the First Amendment? He said that the exception to the First Amendment are things like threatening somebody,

sending, you know, doing, advocating riots. Yeah, but those are all exceptions to the First Amendment. Then he went into a whole bunch of other things. I thought they were all part of the, I think they're all exceptions to the First Amendment, which is an extension of yelling fire in a theater. But you can't, you know, threaten somebody's life. You can't threaten the president. These are all first amendment issues. Right. But listen here, what he says. Content-based restriction. And that's okay sometimes, right? Whether it's obscenity. Obscenities. Obscenities. Obscenity used to be against the law and it's not, well, you know, that's a first. Obscenities. Obscenities obscenities you're you're the biggest violator

what advocacy for breaking laws uh convincing people to break laws commit mayhem all commit may all those things are exceptions to uh to the first amendment fighting words kylan so it kind of falls in that bucket now the is, is this content-based restriction with this bill narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest? That's kind of the case law where it falls. And I would say, I would agree that it is a little broad using this definition, and they should tailor it down a little more narrow to be very specific that these fighting words are calling for criminal activity. What we've seen on these campuses is adherent. It's not free speech.

It's violence. It's not letting Jewish students pass. All of those things are not protected speech. So I get the aim of the bill, but we've got to be very careful when the government is trying to compel some type of content-based restriction. All right. So let's just break this one down for one second. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Do you feel that that is a fighting word, that that is a call to violence?

Do I feel that way? No. Okay. But I'm not Jewish. That doesn't matter. I assume that some Jewish people might feel that way. Okay. They can feel bad about it, but, I mean, that's Jewish people might feel that way. OK, they can feel bad about it.

But I mean, that's their feelings. Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood. It's about hurt feelings. I got expanding on the critics side. Congressman Jerry Nadler called the bill misguided, adding that by effectively codifying those examples into Title six, the measure threatens to chill constitutionally protected speech. Speech that is critical of Israel alone does not constitute wrongful discrimination. Help us understand the Title VI that's referenced here. Well, yeah, I never thought I'd agree with Congressman Nadler on much. But under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that ensures university or college programs

or activities that receive federal funding do not discriminate based on national origin, ancestry, characteristics, those type things. So under Title VI, those schools are already supposed to be doing that. So, for example, if they have these groups that are calling for violence, they're calling for death to Israel, all of these really horrible things, then those groups shouldn't be allowed to exist on campus. They should be investigated and expelled because they're trying to further a criminal act of getting these intimidating students, those type of things. So that shouldn't be tolerated in the first place because it goes beyond First Amendment rights.

tolerated in the first place because it goes beyond First Amendment rights. So I do agree that Title VI is a mechanism already that already has mechanisms that can be enforced without adding to it. And I would be very concerned about giving the Department of Education more authority. Look, we've already seen what the Department of Education has done with gender. I mean, they've redefined gender. So we're going to give the Department of Education more authority to to investigate students when they clearly can't even get biological sex. Correct. OK. All right. Well, good. He redeems himself a little bit here. Yeah. So we have a habit with his Paxton's Attorney General. Not Paxton's, Paxton's Attorney General. Yeah. So he's suing

over Title IX and saying, no, we're not going to adhere to that. We're just not going to do that. No, no, no. And then in the same breath, he's like, May is Israel Awareness Month. Like, it's like, okay.

Okay. All right. Let me see what this guy winds up with on that note congresswoman harriet haigman says the bill provides no actual relief for terrorized jewish students and infringes on the first amendment washington post is saying the bill would create a clear definition of anti-semitism in u.s law and then enable the education department to cut off funding to economic institutions that are found to tolerate such behavior. Based on that definition, do you think the bill will effectively address anti-Semitism on campuses? Not particularly. I think what will address anti-Semitism is having chancellors and university presidents enforce the law and not allow these things to get out of hand by enabling the Department of Education to give them more authority. Again, Congress delegating their authority to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to conduct investigations is not the answer. I mean, the answer is the rule of law and using the tools that are already in the toolkit.

It is not lawful to prevent students of Jewish ancestry to go to class. It is not lawful to prevent students of Jewish ancestry to go to class. It is not lawful to threaten or intimidate. So there are laws on the books, and these chancellors and presidents of these universities need to show leadership and show courage. And doing the right thing is not always easy, but they need to do the right thing here. I'm just very skeptical of giving the Department of Education more authority, more deference, especially when it comes to our constitutional rights. Oh, he says the word, deference. Yeah. I like that.

Okay, he's backing your good graces. We totally need to. I was talking, you know who came through town the other day? We had dinner, some drinks for his birthday was the oil baron. Okay. And I'm saying, so, you know, we're talking about what's going on. And, you know, he says, you know, should by any weird. First of all, he said all the Democrats he knows and he travels in Austin.

So lots of Democrats. He says, all my friends are like they're on the outside yeah go joe but they tell me they're all voting for trump because they don't want to be ousted from the group from their other democrat friends who are probably also lying and are going to vote for trump but he says it's actually bad for us because if trump gets in then the oil prices will kind of stay where they are and they're going to start going down. He said that if Biden gets to go for another go around, he says the oil prices will skyrocket. He says it's been held down artificially by a whole bunch of means.

Well, I would have asked him. I can still ask him, so yeah. Well, I would have asked him. I can still ask him, so yeah. Well, the production of oil in this country is the highest it's ever been, despite what Biden says. But it's a fact. Yeah. And so I think he's just saying it's, you know, they're making a big fuss about petroleum because of the base of idiots. And because of the high production going on here,

and I guess cutting off the Russian stuff maybe affected the whole scene. The price of oil is too high now. It's not too low. It's not artificially low by any means. No, no, but he says it could double. He says it's crazy. Well, I can see it going up.

Yeah. I'm just telling what my boy in the oil business says. You know, I have no other. He probably has a feeling for it. He's in the business after all. He told me about the EPA. You know, remember they had, oh, you've got to shut off these things. You've got leakage everywhere.

And leakage in the refineries. Yeah. Product is just going out the window. He says that we have so much basically just free gas that is just out there that no one is building any plants for. He says we can't even give it away. Gas. He says natural gas, we could power the country for a thousand years with all this gas that we're not allowed to do anything with. It's just there. I can anything with. It's just there. I can believe that.

It's just there. We also have 350 years that known reserves of coal that we could power the country with for 350 years, plus another thousand years of gas. We could just be going like crazy for the next, you know, 1,500 years, it seems, and no one would blink an eye. But no, no, no, no. Peak oil. No, no. Peak oil.

Yeah, peak oil. Buy your electric vehicle, people. Bring the grid down. I'm driving around yesterday, the local driver. I'm seeing all of the cars that are parked on the street and everywhere else. Where are they going to charge? You have to charge an electric car every night. Yep.

Yep. How about Los Angeles? Can you imagine being on the 10 with like 30% battery? Yeah, I can imagine. Or the 405? It's no big deal because you're not moving. And the electric car only uses energy when it's moving. So you could sit there for hours on end how about your air conditioner well that would

be chewing up some gas some gas some all right i got a couple of clips here from from the nap the napster judge nap now when it comes to freedom you want to be listening to judge napital oh by the way i was i'm just before you do that that, you brought up this idea of this group of people. You had a name for them, the counter podcasters or something. Oh, the controlled opportunists. Yeah, those guys. There's another, there's a third group. Oh, no.

And Napolitano is part of this third group, and he keeps bringing these ex-spooks. Ritter, Ritter. He's bringing Ritter on. Scott Ritter, I think McGregor. Yeah, McGregor. McGregor's in this third group. And there's another. There's Larry White, I think is his name.

He's another ex-spook. I don't know him. Larry something. And there's a bunch of these guys. And it's like, to me, because that group that you defined, I think there's another group, and I think that's this group, and Napolitano is right in the middle of it. Well, I him i like i don't like it when he has those guys on because you know people will say this is great it explains everything two hours of them doesn't explain

anything but he he he nails this one down the way i see this the house of representatives voted by overwhelming numbers to define anti-semit in such a way that if you repeat certain phrases from the New Testament, you can be declared an anti-Semite. Okay, let them say what they want about me. Ah, but if you're a college professor or a college administrator, or you're a student and the college lets you say this, the college can actually lose federal funds. Now, this is not the law yet. The Senate hasn't hasn't voted on its version of this yet. Joe Biden would probably sign up because he likes to curry favor with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government. But I would think that the first person harmed by this law would challenge it in the federal court and the first federal judge

that sees this thing will invalidate it because Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech basically means that you decide what to say and what to listen to. And the government has no say in making those decisions because the whole purpose of the First Amendment, this is right out of about two dozen Supreme Court opinions now, is to keep the government out of the business of speech. He's a constitutional lawyer. He would know regarding the House of Representatives anti-Semitism bill. Did all the members of Congress who voted for passage of the bill violate their oaths of office? Yes, they did. This is where he's taking questions.

He's taking questions. Okay, I want to mention something here. You called this a resolution. It appears to be an act. No, it's HR. It's a House resolution. It's a resolution that resolves. There's no extra law being written here.

They're adapting title six that's just saying hey we think you should change title six okay department of education goes yeah the department of education is involved yeah yeah chevron deference get these people on deference has got to get in quite sooner than later they knock this crap off let me just say congress would impress me if they said we're writing a law, a bill, a law that says you cannot say this. Then you would impress me with your big mouth. But no, what they're doing is you should change that. Because they don't have the balls because they know it's completely unconstitutional.

So it's a resolution that says Department of Education, you should change that. Great question. They violated their oaths of office because everyone took the same oath I did when I became a state judge in New Jersey. The president did when he became president. A school board janitor takes. And that is fidelity to the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment. Not the Constitution as they want it First Amendment, not the Constitution as they want it to be, but the Constitution as the courts have interpreted. Great question.

Okay, we'll do one more and then we're done with it. Under H.R. 6090, the New Testament is anti-Semitic hate speech. How can you swear on the Bible in court now? How can they swear on the Bible when they take their oaths of office? Great question and great observation. Great question. Statements made in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the Acts of the Apostles and St. Paul's letters to the Hebrews, to the Romans, to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians. All of that is hate speech under this despicable legislation that the House of Representatives passed yesterday. I don't think

the Senate's going to pass it. And it is inconceivable to me that a judge would allow it to last. The first judge before whom it's challenged will enjoin its enforcement immediately. So just help me here, John. I'm reading H.R. 6090 House Resolution.. It says at the top, an act, but that's an act. That's the acting. That doesn't mean it's law. Just help me understand, make sure I'm saying this right. And it says to provide for the consideration of a definition. So consideration, not this is what we define it as,

consideration of a definition of anti-Semitism set forth by the International House of Pancakes, a Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, for the enforcement of federal anti-discrimination laws concerning education programs or activities and for other purposes. So they're asking for consideration of a definition. They're designing something to throw at the department. I think what he said was right. They're designing something to throw at the department i think he what he said was right they're designing something to throw it to how at the department of education to make them do a bunch of differences you know a

bunch of different yes rules a bunch of rules and the rules are only apply that the rules are designed to apply to the colleges that get federal funding so they can hold the sword of damocles over their heads exactly and and let them do their own thing. I mean, I think everybody's right. You're right. He's right. This is just a chicken kind of approach. Do not want to do anything, but, you know, pass it.

Here, you guys go do this for us. Yeah, do this for us. So we don't have to do it. Exactly. So we can look good in the process by voting yes. And I will just remind everybody, Chevron Deference is under review, will come up at the Supreme Court,

and what that will force is a complete redo of how laws are written. So laws will have to be... By agencies. Yeah. So the agencies will no longer be able to interpret the laws. The laws will be sent back to Congress and they will have to define exactly what the law is and not leave it up to the agencies,

which would save our country. If, if, if, if, if. And of course, the irony, I'll remind you, I think I wrote this up in a sub stack. The irony is that it all began during the Reagan administration. Yes. During a case where the EPA was, because Reagan told the EPA to back off.

And so they started changing their rules. They backed off and they got sued by a climate change, you know, some climate people. Climate critters it was a lawsuit and it was and it was against chevron for not having to follow the older rules because the epa backed off and they and the courts decided hey the epa it's up to them they can do whatever they want and if they back off on their on the rules and make it things easier on chevron that's just too bad that's just the way it is it became known as the chevron deference but then it no then it became an issue once it went the That's just the way it is. It became known as the Chevron deference. But then it became an issue once it went the other way.

This is the problem with Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats get in and they crank the rules up in the other direction. And now it was oh, this is bad. Well, it was fine during the Reagan administration but now it's bad. That's kind of

a basic rundown. It's a short path to healing. It would be healing for our country. But in reality, this should... Before that case, which was in the 80s, Congress had a little more responsibility in handing everything off to these quasi-kangaroo court agencies. That was part of that system.

Bloated. You were part of it? Yeah, when I was in the Air Pollution District. It was a kangaroo court. They had their own hearings and their hearing board, and you had to stand up when the guys came into the hearing. For the agency? For the guys in the agency?

No, they had their own court system. Oh, wow. All these agencies do. They have their own little kangaroo court, and they'd bring people in, and the next thing you know, they are so-and-so, the head of the whatever it was called, the board, and everyone's standing. They all stand like a real judge. All hail, all hail.

And they all sit down, and then they, you know, you guys are fined a million dollars for doing this and that and the other thing okay well what are we going to do about it nothing and with that i'd like to thank you for your courage say in the morning to you the man who put the seas in the carmen criminals ladies and gentlemen say hello to my friend on the other end the one the only mr john c devore Mr. John C. DeVore. Good morning to you, Mr. Andrew Curry. Good morning to all ships, sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the dames and knights out there.

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We're going to let you smoke them up, your menthols. It's unbelievable. Don't lose the black vote. No, no. And then we even had he had a little thought little little cartoon balloon there you ain't black pointing out so the hypocrisy of menthol joe uh made us chuckle it was a good piece um a you know correct a record is one of those pros um and just a great job there were some other ones I know that we, that we considered, but no agenda art generator.com is currently down.

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So is there a reason why 504? Because, well, it was Cinco de Mayo, but that would have been 505. So I don't know. But it does say ITMACJCD Star Wars. Oh, I see. That's why it's for 504 24 star wars day donation yes may the fourth be with you from a future dementia patient listening at 1.5 speed oh sorry to hear that thankfully that won't happen within the next four years so i'll just keep enjoying the best podcast in the universe thanks for all you do. Did you see that Mark Hamill?

They rolled him out again. Oh, my God. Mark Hamill. Did you see the picture of him hugging Jean-Claude Pierre? I even have. And he's also at the podium. This is a violation of the Hatch Act. Yes.

And I can accentuate that with, let me see, I had him here. Using the White House podium to promote Joe Biden for president is illegal. Yes. And then he was backstage in the press office and he recorded and posted this with a picture of laser eye Joe. Hey, I'm Mark Hamill and i'm voting for joe b1 kenobi and apparently they're handing out aviators now as swag in the white house did you catch that no i did not yeah you came out with it with aviators all violation of the hatch act yeah well gee okay well mark hamill though it's just

like why would you lend yourself to that because you like joe you think joe's sharp he's sharp as attack sharp yeah and he's in the back room so he gets to see joe when he's sharp as attack he's just throwing the zingers out there hashtag show art everybody if you're planning on uh posting something that we can use as show art, hashtag show art. Yeah, post it on the message. Appreciate it. Thank you, Sir Tommy Hawk. Scott Graham's up.

He's in Portland, Oregon. He had no note. I couldn't find a note anyway. And he came in with 453. So until he sends us a note, which we'll read later, we'll give him a double up karma. Yes, we will. Double ups. You double up karma. Yes, we will. Double ups. You've got karma.

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Let me see. He sent us, let me see what he called this. He called this the parable of 10 men in a bar. Yeah. It's a very long, I'll post it as a PDFdf but it's um he says it's one of the best analogies i've seen to explain the downfall of socialist taxation policies this is how income taxes are paid in the u.s and i'll post that so i'm going to take a look at it it's kind of a brain twister but when you look at it you go huh huh okay huh why don't we just print it just print it so thinking dad's up he's in broken arrow

oklahoma at 333.33 and he says the first season of the thinking dad podcast launches tomorrow with an exclusive interview with alex newman founder of Liberty Sentinel Media, uncovering the dangerous global strategy to standardize education. Yeah. The Thinking Dad podcast equips men to think biblically about family, faith, business, and culture. Find it at thinkingdad.net. Adam, you have an open invitation to come on and talk about your faith, family, career. Season one guests include Rick Green, Dr. George

Barna, Kevin Sorbo, and many more heavy hitters. And you'd fit right in perfectly. Yeah. Well, we know Rick Green. ITM. Yeah, Rick Ebner Sorbo. He's kind of a native ad, looks like to me i i'm i'm with it

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Working in Alabama, that's where he is now, wondering where are the cicadas, and I think there's another week or so to go, and where is Mike Johnson's mouse? Also, I need a de-douching. You've been de-douched. Yeah, that had a lot of people cracking up. That was pretty good.

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It's a good phrase. Or safe. Sir Friday of the Hot Shop turned me on to your show. And currently we have our Art Glass show at Montauk Gallery in San Fran. Montague. Oh, I'm sorry. Montague. Thank you. Montague. Where's the

Montague Gallery in San Francisco? I don't know. I have to go over there because he left a book for me. I have to go pick it up. Oh, but take some pictures. I want to see this Art Glass show. That sounds cool. Art Glass is a big deal. What do you mean? It's a big deal. Especially in the Pacific Northwest where

it was really kind of popularized by Galooly, Gahooly, whatever his name. Galooly. Who I met on a ferry boat once. I bet it was a ferry boat. Don't we have Texas hot glass here in Texas?

She makes a flute? I think, okay. Is it different? A lot of people do it. It's hot stuff. Anyway, Gigawatt Coffee's up. And he's in Bensonville, Illinois, 20505. And he says,

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Africa News to scare everybody off. Oh, no, please. Come on. Some Africa News. Come on. It's a shorty, news to scare everybody off? Oh, no, please. Come on, some African news. Come on, it's a shorty, a real shorty. 39 seconds. Don't worry, it won't hurt too much. The Russians are in a separate compound and don't have access to U.S. forces

or access to our equipment. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin offering reassurances that U.S. troops in Niger are safe. His comments came after Reuters reported that Russian military personnel had entered an airbase in the capital, Niami, which houses U.S. troops. Niger's junta has told the U.S. to withdraw the nearly 1,000 military personnel the U.S. has in the country. At the same time, Russia is seeking to strengthen relations with Niger and other African countries. Until a coup last year, Niger had been a key U.S. partner in the fight against Islamic insurgents.

What do we get out of Niger? I mean, we have a drone base there. We actually... Probably minerals of some sort. I'm sure we get something out of it. Listen to this. I think it's strategic. We have a drone base in Niger.

Listen to this. I think it's strategic. We have a drone base in Niger. Francophone West Africa has seen a series of raging changes and radical shifts in policy recently. French troops were expelled from Niger last year, and now they're demanding U.S. troops get out as well. Get out! The U.S. has long seen Niger as a regional ally in its fight against terror groups in the region and operates a military base and a $100 million drone base in the sub-Saharan desert. There you go. $100 million drone base. Hmm. Hmm.

So Russia's moving in. Where's China in all of this? Is it just the BRICS taking over everything? It doesn't get much publicity for what they do. They do everything pretty much on the side. Right. But I mean do you think that the Russians and the Chinese are now working together

to take over Africa and all those minerals? The minerals? Well the Chinese I think would maybe. Somebody is. Yeah. The BRICS. We've got to be careful this Maybe. Somebody is. Yeah. The Bricks, man. We got to be careful. This Bricks has taken over.

We're going to be out of luck. I think so. I think we're going to be out of luck. Stuff's going to be bad. It could happen. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go to... We'll just print some more of that money.

I do have a three-by-three, by the way. Maybe the last one. Why maybe the last one? Because, you know, they're getting people don't like them. They're because you all hate experiment. But J.C.D. It's failing. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC.

All right. Well, the jury is out. We're not. But, you know, the next three by three could be a comparison in a prelude to our award show. Could be three by three of AI jokes made about a certain topic. Or three by three of Joe Biden's voice. Yes. There you go.

Now you're talking. Now we have. Now we have. Do you have. This is about Biden condemning the violence. He finally came out and said something about what's going on on the college campuses. It took him forever. And so we, oh, it's got to be the big top of the news now.

So they got to do three networks pretty much producing the same story with a variation always from CBS. But let's start with ABC. Tonight, the dramatic images of authorities moving in during the overnight hours, cracking down on protesters at UCLA and driving them out, continuing their effort to oust them as the sun came up. The university declaring this pro-Palestinian encampment an unlawful gathering,

calling in outside help. Get back! Get back! Hundreds of officers arriving in riot gear, firing flashbangs and non-lethal ammunition. Take your revenge, we will use force! As officers cleared a library where anti-war protesters had barricaded themselves inside. Police releasing photos of ball bearings and DIY armor they say were homemade weapons. They were used to force criminal charges. and DIY armor they say were homemade weapons. And tonight, authorities revealing what they say has become all too common,

outside agitators. Of the 12 people arrested in Portland, police say just four were actually students. And tonight, after days of protests across the country, President Biden now speaking out, saying order must prevail. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. The president condemning anti-Semitism and threats of violence against Jewish students. He also spoke out against discrimination against Arab Americans. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it's anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans.

It's simply wrong. But Whitey is OK. Just so you know. Whitey's okay. Whitey's okay. No problem there. Whitey can take it. Whitey. Whitey. Whitey can take it.

Whitey can take it. So let's go with NBC's Whitey. With the clashes between college campus demonstrators and police reaching new heights, today, President Biden condemning violent, disruptive protests. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down. He sounds more like faster here. Yeah. Did they spin him up?

I think they it would be probably appropriate to give to play him at 1.2 speed. That's what they're doing here. They spun his voice up. Well, we'd have to do a side by side, but it could be vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down. I'm sorry. I'm going to obsess over this if I don't just listen for a second. Where's let me get your your ABC report. Tonight, the driver driving them out, continuing their effort to oust them as the sun came up.

Where is it? University declaring this pro-Houstonian. It's against the law. Order must prevail. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows. Now it's the same.

Shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest. I guess the better question is, which Biden is it? That's the question. it's against the law nationwide more than 2100 arrests have been made connected with campus protests today portland state university campus closed down as police made 12 arrests and cleared the school's library overnight four arrested at yale 90 removed from campus at dartmouth And at the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus,

defiant students reestablishing their tents just 24 hours after police disbanded the encampment there. We're going to be here indefinitely until they meet our demand. Back at UCLA, cleanup is underway. Professor Graham Blair, who was arrested this morning in the encampment, is defending the students' right to protest, despite some of the tactics they've used. I think anyone who is worried about graffiti on buildings on a college campus needs to come visit a college campus. It's 18-year-olds who are learning for the first time how to express themselves. Oh, you put him, because it, please.

If you put him through the leftist generator, he stays the same. Yeah, that's for sure. Now, these two reports are interesting because ABC concentrated solely on UCLA. Yes. And ABC is owned by Disney, which is where UCLA is. Disney, Hollywood, you know, UCLA, Westwood, as opposed to NBC, which had a more kind of eclectic look at a bunch of different colleges. So that was kind of an interesting comparison.

But let's see what the big boys do at CBS. The CIA broadcast systems. White House officials say it was the sheer number of violent encounters on college campuses over the past two days that prompted President Biden to speak out. There's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos. His comments came in the wake of nearly 2,000 arrests at more than 30 colleges and universities. Just today, protesters were ejected from a library at Portland State University that they had occupied for three days. Inside, police say they found ball bearings, paint balloons, spray bottles of ink and DIY armor. Vandalism, trespassing.

The DIY armor, that's the trash cans they're talking about? That's DIY armor? Actually, there was a girl that was on one of these tiktok videos that had a bunch of they were armored up now armored because they're worried about rubber bullets what do i smell that's my armor spray bottles of ink and diy armor vandalism trespassing breaking windows shutting down campuses forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. Like many protesters, President Biden has expressed concern about the plight of Palestinian civilians. More than 34,000 killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

But when asked today if he would change his policies towards Israel, as the protesters have been demanding, Biden said simply no. The unrest is now threatening to become an election issue. Young people are a key Democratic voting bloc. Biden needs to listen to what the students are calling for, which is an end to a genocide funded by the United States. So first things first, stop funding Israel. In Battleground, Wisconsin, Donald Trump argued Biden should have spoken out sooner. There's a big fever in our country and he's not talking.

But Trump also made this unfounded claim about campus demonstrators. They do come from other countries and they are paid. Unfounded claim. Really? This is what broke this whole thing, is everyone sees it now. Everybody sees that half these people graduated 10 years ago.

We get Code Pink Lady. Yeah. Madea, she's running around. That woman is like she's in her 70s or something. She's posing as a student. You can just hire her. You can hire her and all her cronies to go anywhere. Yeah, hold up running around. That woman is like she's in her 70s or something. She's posing as a student. You can just hire her. You can hire her and all her cronies to go anywhere. Yeah, hold up this sign.

Okay. Donate. No problem. Bode pink. Meanwhile, looks like no deal yet. No deal. Hamas says, what? No deal?

No deal. Bibi says no deal? I got a no deal clip. It's no deal. Israel still has its sights on Rafah and we're no closer to a ceasefire. Hamas has poured cold water on the optimism surrounding the latest round of talks in Cairo between their delegation and Qatari, Egyptian and American mediators. The AFP quoted a senior Hamas official as saying there will be no agreement without a complete cessation of the war

and accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of personally hindering the deal. The proposal on the table would halt fighting for 40 days and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners, according to details released by the UK. Negotiations are set to continue on Sunday, but Israel is yet to send a delegation to the Egyptian capital. Late on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said accepting a ceasefire deal should be a, quote, no-brainer for Hamas. And the reality in this moment is the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas. protesters kept up the pressure on netanyahu on saturday turning out in their thousands again in tel aviv to demand the government accept a ceasefire deal and secure the release of the remaining hostages netanyahu has vowed not to stop the war until hamas is destroyed and faces

pressure from nationalists in his coalition to go ahead with the offensive against the southern gaza city of rafa You know what I think? I think the problem is Hamas doesn't have 33 hostages anymore. Oh, I think they're all dead. But where'd you get that clip? That's France 24. Because they kind of left it out. They made it sound as though Blinken's at the negotiations.

He's not. He wasn't even there, was he? No. In fact, I have a clip. This is from Al Jazeera, which kind of brings in a very interesting who's actually at these negotiations. Wait, let me guess. CIA? Tell me the CIA is there. You nailed it. Well, what's the clip? What's the clip? Cease fire delegation, AJ.

Got it. Gaza, where the humanitarian situation across the strip is getting worse by the day. There have been more attacks, more displacement and more suffering. But diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire deal are ramping up. All eyes are on Cairo on Saturday, where Hamas delegation is holding talks with mediators from Egypt and Qatar, as well as the CIA director, William Burns. from Egypt and Qatar, as well as the CIA director, William Burns. Now, we should mention, these talks are taking place in Egypt. And what neither of these outfits are saying is,

Egypt is very key to the resolution of all this, because we know Egypt has received 7 billion euros from the European Union to to build uh camps which will be you know like i'm sure it's uh like holiday holiday camps holiday camps then they'll open up their border which is closed shut tight and then some of them will be migrated into europe and i'm pretty sure that pier that we're building there for humanitarian aid, that's where people will be able to hop off and get onto a boat and go to America. So Egypt is a big player in this, and it's not really discussed, unless you have something in this next clip.

No, not about Egypt being a big player, but it finishes off the thought about, it's actually this guy that guy the other guy in this rcia guy which is like okay yeah yeah all right the group says it's studying the latest israeli proposal in a positive manner but sticking points do remain israel wants the return of the captives being held in gaza and hamas is insisting on a permanent end to the war. Those talks come as the UN warns that northern Gaza is now experiencing a full-blown famine and moving towards the south. The head of the World Food Program is urging negotiators to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible to save lives. Ah, do you know who the head of the World Food Program is?

I'm going to find out. You'll be surprised. Because you're going to tell me. Here it comes. Here it comes. I just want to be very clear because what you're saying is significant, and I believe it's the first time we've heard it. You're saying there is full-blown famine in northern Gaza. I am.

FBF. Yes, I am. And there has not been an official declaration that there is no but you are saying that based on what you've seen yes it is based on what we've seen and what we've experienced on the ground yes which is it's it's horror it's you know it it's it's so hard to look at and it's so hard to hear also so uh i'm just I'm so hoping that we can get a ceasefire and begin to feed these people, especially in the north, in a much faster fashion, but also including, as I said, water, sanitation, medicine.

It's all part of the famine issue. And it's also something that we need to make sure that the world understands. We can't let this happen. It just, in this day and age, when the world has the ability to feed itself 10 times over, nobody should starve. Nobody should starve. That was Cindy McCain, Widow of John McCain. She is the executive director of the World Food Program. Interesting, isn't it?

Yeah. I have a kind of a side clip that has something to do with this situation. This is the Houthis' new threat. Have you heard this? No. Okay. The crowd chanted, the Red Sea is blocked. The Iran backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen has been firing at ships in the Red Sea

that it thinks are headed to Israel as a show of support for the Palestinian people. During the rally, a spokesman for the Houthis said that if Israel proceeds with ground operations in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, then the Houthis would expand their operations. But it remains unclear exactly how the Houthis would carry out the threat. Despite that, Israel's prime minister says he remains undeterred in achieving Israel's main objectives in the war, which are defeating Hamas, ensuring Gaza will no longer be a threat to Israel, and returning all the hostages. We are making great efforts.

We have already returned half, and I can tell you that we are determined to return everyone, the ones who are alive as well as the ones who are dead. Yeah, I got a bad feeling about this. They don't have the hostages. They don't have them. And I think Benjamin Netanyahu is going to get blamed for dragging his heels. feeling about this i they they don't have they don't have the hostages they don't have them and i think benjamin not yet netanyahu is going to get blamed for dragging his heels well you took too long if he ever comes to a deal uh i'm sticking with my thesis they're going to do a ceasefire

and then they're going to wait getting closer closer to the election, the August conventions. And then it'll be broken by the Hamas terrorists. Something will happen. And it'll go back into full-blown war. And then the protesters can take down the Democrats at the convention. So we've got on the table, we have 40 days of cessation, which is not long enough, for 33 hostages,

which is a magic number. Bringing out Cindy McCain, that bugs me. Yeah, I guess so. When is she like, what credit does she have to become the executive director of the World Food Program?

Well, let's take a look at her bio and maybe we can determine which agency she's associated with all right well you take a look at that and i'm going to play this this was encouraging to me because i thought when turkey a but formerly known as turkey and they do this, I'm thinking they're close to a deal. The complete suspension of trade with Israel is a significant escalation of Turkey's diplomatic efforts to pressure Israel. Ankara is demanding an immediate ceasefire and the free flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. We have taken some commercial measures to force Israel to increase the amount of humanitarian aid to pass through and into Gaza. First, we imposed export restrictions on 54 product groups.

And as of Thursday, we have stopped export and import transactions with Israel, covering all products. We will manage the consequences of these steps together with our business world. We are not looking for enmity and fighting with any country in our region. They tell me this may cause some troubles. I say that we believe that God is the only power that can eliminate all troubles and we are doing the right thing. When a ceasefire is declared

and enough aid is allowed into Gaza, the goal will be achieved. I'm thinking, you know, Turkey wouldn't, they got enough problems already. So now they're stopping we're stopping all trade. They have a lot of products. I have a little bit of a analysis of what you just played. Okay.

This is the Turkey cutting off Israel. This guy, this is only part of a long, again from Al Jazeera, a long discussion. And this guy makes the claim that Turkey has taken it in the shorts for doing this. That's why I'm thinking they've got to be close to a deal. Why else would Turkey do this? The talk he made there, he made it absolutely clear, and it's not against the people of the State of Israel, certainly, but he single-outed,

especially the administration, namely Mr. Netanyahu, calling him an impossible person to deal with. So until drastic measures are taken, the ban will continue. So now I'm sure the loss of revenues in the tourism is obviously very important. But what would be quite upsetting is that, you know, like a Muslim country against a Jewish state type of thing, that would be very wrong because Israeli tourists were always welcomed in Turkey and they're kind of causing no danger to them. So they love coming.

600,000 people, as mentioned, coming and going. So I think behind, you know, I assume, especially now the tourism season is approaching the summer, there will be efforts to probably single out this particular point. summer, there will be efforts to probably single out this particular point. But I'm sure it's going to be a major line of discussion or important part of this ban. But again, Turkey seems to bear all costs. The decision is there and officially announced. Wow. Did bear all costs. He also mentioned that Turkish Airways, which, by the way, is a great carrier. Turkish Airways had 15 flights a day going in and out of Israel to various points. And those all have been cut off since the beginning of this thing.

And it's costing them an arm and a leg. That's a big deal. Yeah. So they're losing out. The Turks are losing out. Of course, it's not as though Erdogan's done much for the economy. Hmm. Well, maybe

we can solve some of this in the way that Europe likes to operate. Maybe we can solve this by taking the vote to the people. With the Eurovision Song Contest! United by music. This year's Eurovision slogan couldn't be further from the truth.

The annual feel-good celebration is shrouded by controversy over Israel's participation amid the war in Gaza. Direct threats have been made against the singer representing Israel and thousands are expected to gather in protest when the event starts. Israel, and thousands are expected to gather in protest when the event starts. We count on 20,000 to 40,000 demonstrators coming to Malmö, coming from all over Europe. It will be a very big protest. 100,000 visitors are expected in Sweden's southwest coast city of Malmö for the event,

where the police authorised a Quran burning demonstration on Friday. In this tense context, security is a top priority. There are lots of police on the ground throughout Malmo. We receive reinforcements from all over Sweden, but also from Denmark and Norway. We also use drones so that we have a good overview of the event. Another major world conflict is expected to be at the heart of the event. Ukrainian group Alyona Alyona and Jerry Hill will be defending the blue and yellow flag.

If you talk a lot about your situation, people hear you. So now I feel that people heard us. Still now. We're here to talk. Yeah. If they win, the duo say they plan to sell their trophy and donate the proceeds to the war effort. Like their predecessors who raised 900,000 euros in an auction on Facebook.

I'm telling you, this is going to be an interesting show this year because Malmo is filled with immigrants and they're burning. Malmo is the ground zero for the Muslims in Sweden. Yes. And they just authorized a Quran burning. Smart move. What? Why? That's what they just said.

They just had it in the beginning of the report. I know. I heard that. And I'm thinking, what are they thinking? This is like not necessarily a good idea. For ratings. Are you nuts? Oh, ratings. Everyone's going to is like not necessarily a good idea. For ratings. Are you nuts? Oh, ratings.

Everyone's going to tune in. At least they got that idea down. Everybody's going to tune in this year. I can't wait. Who's airing it this year? Nobody here, that's for sure. No, no, no. No, we do.

We air it here. I'm somewhat Paramount Plus or something. Something that's going out of business. Did you find out about Cindy? Did you get any details on Cindy? Yeah, she is rich. What did she get rich from? Her dad owned the biggest Budweiser distributor down there.

So when he died, she inherited all that money. And she's been one of those rich liberal even though she's a conservative technically a philanthropist for years and she's uh i guess she's been involved with a number of operations that gave her the the chops to go do this what she's doing money money laundering just guessing just guessing it's just the funny thing is, she was the junior Rodeo queen in 1968. Barrel rider? Doesn't say. Hey, I got a boots on the ground report from inside Lockheed Martin.

That's Barrel Racer, by the way. Yeah, Barrel Racer. Thank you. Boots on the ground from inside Lockheed Martin. This is the defense industrial base. Lots of money flowing in and always good to hear from our producers, boots on the ground. They are truly the courageous in Gitmo nation.

We from time to time get walkthroughs by military brass. Yesterday was what I thought would be the same as usual. The major talk started as usual, quote, we are safe because of what you build. Blackhawks, yada, yada, yada, end quote. It then took a serious turn. He went on to say that not only do they expect on-time deliveries to asking for them to be delivered early, he said that for the first time in his career, upper command was not saying the usual, quote, threat of global conflict existed. Now they're saying it's going to happen soon.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, what? He went on to say that for the first time, the USA is not the guaranteed victor, hence the need for faster deliveries. This is a concerning report. After he was done with his talk, management asked if anyone had any questions. I could not let him down or the show. I kind of have a reputation for asking uncomfortable questions. I raised my hand and asked why our victory was being questioned.

He rambled about rising powers, destabilized Middle East and and all that so i looked him in the eye and i simply said who he returned my gaze not looking for an emmy here but it was quite intense he simply said china yeah i thanked him for saying it out loud after this was over he approached me and thanked me for the question he said he isn't allowed to say China, but he could answer that question. He thought that this information would be of interest to us. Yes. That's cute. He says, I think this ties in with the latest Ukraine cash dump.

We have billions to spend now. So, yeah, I think that's a very interesting boots on the ground. And then we'll see what happens. Well, it's the pivot towards Indo-Pacific. Well, there's definitely that, and that's no doubt about it. We'll be building a lot of boats. Quick little update on the big pharma industry. We've had a lot of, you know,

heart issues ever since COVID. It's very baffling. Baffling. It's baffling to the medical industry. What could have changed during COVID? What could it be? It's so hard to understand. What could it be that is causing heart attacks,

particularly in young people? Left and right. We just don't understand. But luckily, NBC has some answers for us. There is more evidence that actual anger is in fact really bad for your health. All right, previous studies have shown there's a link between frequent anger

and an increased risk of heart attack. But now there's a new study out in the Journal of the American Heart Association that is helping explain why that is. Yeah. So NBC News medical contributor, Dr. John Torres, is here to walk through it. He's very going to calmly walk us through this. So actually, if you have an outburst of anger, it shows up in your heart. It does. And what we've known is that anger over time, these strong emotions can really have an effect on your heart, increased risk of heart attack, increased risk stroke cardiovascular issues but what this study showed is even one

episode and these episodes as they multiply over your life can cause the impact even that one episode can cause similar type situations and can you increase your risk of these type of things episode is that like like ragey or like mild irritation in the, they had the students looking in the study, just reviewing something that happened in their past that made them angry. So they were just reliving an angry episode. So it doesn't necessarily have to be that heavy of an episode. So if you're in traffic one day and you're ragey and you yell at your kids later that week and you're ragey and all these things, is this cumulative?

It is cumulative. And what happens is when this is happening on the blood level stage here, think of it like a straw. Your blood vessels are like a straw. You want them to be wide so it's easy to get that fluid through the blood to get to the organs. When you have an anger episode, those blood vessels constrict. So it's like a skinnier straw. You're trying to get the same fluid through, and it's not working. It's not getting to the organs, the heart and the brain as well.

Plus, if you have atherosclerotic plaques, if you have plaques inside there, they'll break off and that can cause a heart attack or stroke. So that's what's happening on that level when you have that episode. And those can build up over time. I will say that in October, it'll be 17 years we've done this podcast. I do not think I can remember a single time that you were mad or ragey as they say here at mbc i'm hopping mad now i don't think i've ever heard and this is why you're still with us it's clear yeah yeah i think maybe not getting the vax is probably more responsible no no no no no what are you saying let's talk about how to handle your anger well

and could you rage yourself in one episode into a heart attack you potentially could you know if you're young if you're healthy and you have these raging anger episodes it's probably not a big deal at that time if you're older and you have one that could cause an issue we've all seen the movies where somebody angry and all of a sudden they're like i'm having a heart attack over time these could accumulate and these could cause problems. And that's what the researchers are saying. I'm sorry. That's how to handle your anger.

This is a short clip. This is how you handle your anger. How do we do it? How do you get anger out? What's the best way to do it? So how do you get anger out? How do we get it out? Get it out of my heart.

The best thing is just to use these calming techniques. And they sound cliche. And the biggest one, my wife taught me this, breathing exercises. In through the nose, out through the mouth. they help it really i can't i can't stand this breathing you know how about the heavy bag it's so it's so unbelievable no it is believable and then i'll just wind up with this it's totally believe i'll wind up with this uh and now as far as we know, the only countries where you can advertise direct to consumer for pharmaceutical products is the United States and New Zealand. I do not think Canada allows this.

But the CBC, I mean, everything is so corrupt. I mean, everything is so corrupt. They had, someone sent me three different pieces, all the same imagery, you know, injecting into your leg, the same girl, the same story. Because fear not, Canadians, even though this is not a commercial, you now as well can get the weight loss shot. Canadians struggling with obesity will have a new treatment option next week. The makers of Ozempic say their weight loss drug, Wagovi, will be available in Canada starting Monday.

CTV's Alison Bamford has more on the risks and the rewards. What happened to benefits? It's not just a risk, it's a reward now. Risk and rewards. Hey, I got a reward for taking this medication and the rewards a different name with different packaging but experts say wagovi is essentially a drug canadians already had access to wagovi is ozempic and ozempic is wagovi i love this so just so you know it's the same product It's the one you've been hearing about from the Kardashians. So you can take this. It's Ozempic. Don't worry. It says Wagovi, but it's Ozempic.

So what you're saying is that this is a native ad, which should be illegal in Canada. Completely. Theans already had access to. Wagovi is Ozempic and Ozempic is Wagovi. is Ozempic and Ozempic is Wagovi. Wagovi is classified as an anti-obesity medication. Ozempic is a type 2 diabetes drug. Both contain the molecule semaglutide. It helps us with feeling fuller longer. It helps our brain understand that we're good. Health Canada approved Wagovi for weight loss back in 2021 but ongoing supply shortages made it unavailable to Canadians, which is why doctors commonly prescribed Ozempic as an off-label drug

for obesity management. Now with a drug labeled for obesity, many hope it improves access for patients who really need it. Hopefully the bias around prescribing a medication for weight management changes. That's the marketing lady. She's literally saying, hey, hopefully the bias against prescribing this. So I'm going to stop you again. Yeah.

What you're doing is playing what appears to be a native ad for drugs in Canada, which should be illegal. On the CBC. Doctors warn against using these types of drugs for cosmetic purposes. But experts say the class of medication has been around for 20 years. It's safe and effective. And shown to be safe for those taking it as a long-term obesity medication.

Novo Nordisk, the maker of the drugs, plans to ramp up production as Wagovi makes its way to Canada Monday. While there are other anti-obesity drugs out there, some doctors say this one opens the door for cheaper, more effective treatments down the line. Alison Bamford, CTV News, Regina. I always had to leave the Regina in. It just makes me laugh. Yeah, rhymes with. Always makes me laugh. So yeah, it's good. It's been approved in Canada for three years, but it's coming. It's coming. We got a new shipment.

It's in. It's coming in. It's good. We're all good to go. Well, that was depressing. I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd depressing. I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.

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I appreciate you taking one for the team. You're welcome. He also challenges all No Agenda producers to join me as sustaining donors. There you go. Yeah, good man. Good man. Thank you. Ray.

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He mentions that Gallagher took the job. Yeah, and he says, I think he may have sent me that, that Gallagher resigned, took a job with Palantir, and he says he can't stop thinking about human meat in his ground beef. And he thanks me for that. That's a weird thought. Sir Tom Derry in DeForest, Wisconsin. Sir Jeff Anonymous.

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You'll never get it right. It's in BC. It's up there in the middle ofC. They have a nice garden up there at that little town. Do they now? Kurt Patrick. That's $50. That gives me the $50 donors. I'm going to go through them one at a time. Jacob Martinez in El Monte. James Cherometa in Napanoc.

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And we've got some peer exchanges going on here. We have Sir EA of the Tax Domain upgrades his status to that of a baron. We heard him earlier on as an executive producer. Thank you very much, Sir EA of the Tax Domain upgrades his status to that of a baron. We heard him earlier on as an executive producer. And thank you very much, sir, EAA of the tax domain. You are now a baron of the No Agenda show, the No Agenda roundtable, and of course of Gitmo Nation. And we appreciate that very much. We do have a night note to read. This is from Waldo from Lower Alabama. He says he reached knighthood after a double donation for show 1500, He says he reached knighthood after a double donation for show 1500, but he never got around to claiming his knighthood as he didn't know his ring size.

Now, we do have a handy ring sizing guide at noagenarings.com. So I guess he's figured it all out, and he wants his knight name to be Sir Waldo of the Lake of Lower Alabama. And he wants Ardberg Oogadal and West Indy salad at the round table for his meal. Are you familiar with the Ardberg Ugedal product, John? I have no idea. I'd have to look it up. Well, it's over here at the round table, guys. Could you just slice it up for him, then, whatever he wants? What's it taste like?

Like chicken. Give me your blade, man. Let's bring this guy up. Let's get him in. Here you go. Nice. There we go all right waldo come on in i got it here for you that ardberg ugdal

regardless of your weird choice of round table uh accoutrements i am very proud to pronounce the as sir waldo of the lake of Lower Alabama for you, my friend. We have Ardberg and Oogdahl and West Indies Salad. Also, Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, if you want. We have some cookies and vodka.

Maybe you're interested in some redheads and ryes or perhaps Brazilian hotties and cha-cha-cha. Cowgirls and coffee varners, sparkling cider and estorch, ginger cider and S-Torch, gin, adrenaline gerbils. No, there's always mutton and meat.

If all else fails, the mutton and meat is there. Head over to noagendarings.com. You already figured out that you can get your ring size there. Also, we will send along with some wax to seal your important correspondence with this night ring, which is a signet ring and a certificate of authenticity. And welcome to the roundtable, the No Agenda Nights and Dames. No Agenda Meetups! Yeah, we got a couple of meetups taking place.

It's always amazing when I'm talking to people about No Agenda, and they say, what are these meetups? Have you ever been to one? No, what happens there? I say, you have to go to one. It's an amazing experience. It's something that cannot be explained. You just have to hang out at one. It's the lowest key gathering you'll ever imagine. And it's weird because you walk into a space with no agenda people and you kind of see it. You know, it's like you look around like that's them. And then you'll always hear, hey, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning.

Here we go. And then you're part of the gang. It gives you connection, which always results in protection. As was witnessed by, I believe, the 52nd, 51st or 52nd meetup that Leo Bravo was organized in Los Angeles. Hi, everybody. It's Leo Bravo. I meet up number 51. I'm going to pass the phone around. Everybody has greetings to share with us. Hey, John and Adam, ITM. This is Sir Leah Kim Fopop just saying we're in the communist lands and say that's true.

Hey, guys, this is Slick Rick and in the morning. This is Dave. This is my first outing with the group here, my first meetup. Nice to meet everyone. In the morning, this is Sam Hambone having a great time in Torrance. Hi, this is Ryan. First meetup. Thanks, Max, wife, Greta, for slapping me in the mouth. Hi, this is Greta here at our second official meetup and first LA meetup. And we're really grateful to Leo for hosting these in the morning. In the morning. This is Brian. Thanks for all you do, Adam and John. Hi, in the morning, I'm Tommy, and I'm chickening out.

Here you go. I'm chickening out. Hi, my name is Devwan Douglas Angel. May the 4th be with you. Hi, this is Tommy in the morning. This is my second meetup, and I've had an amazing time, and I really hope to continue doing these with you. May the 4th be with you.

In the morning! I love hearing that. When people say it's my second or my first, that's really an amazing time. That's because that's the truth. They love it. Memphis had the No Agenda Bad Beer Protest meetup yesterday. No Agenda Nights and Dames. This is Tech Guy Ty from the Memphis No Agenda Bad Beer Protest.

And I just wanted to say that we're here celebrating good beer at High Cotton. And I'm joined by... Fred C. Fatuto. I put the C in cranky, crackpot, and CIA. And this is Sir No Please, where beer good, planes bad. And this is Luke Cumberland. We're from Oxford, Mississippi in FEMA Region 420.

Giving a cold shout out to Lamal Spellswell, Bulldozer, and Trans Zelda. Calling you out. And none of us are duped bags. In the morning. That's what we like to see, a meetup with zero douchebaggery. Congratulations, great meetup report. And our final one comes from Arlington, Virginia, home of many spooks. The Sir William Bachelor Party Edition.

This is the Sir William of Pennsylvania Bachelor Party. This is Roundy wishing Sir William and his three nipples a happy marriage. Outstanding. I won this. I'm not sure what it is, but I'm so happy to hear that Sir William is going to be an honest man. Hey, congratulations, Sir William. Jeff from Springfield. Know what they say about the wedding night. Bingo, boom, shakalaka. Dan from Texas. Hi, Tim. Hey, this is DC girl. Can't wait for the nuptials. Sir Chris, aloha from the aloha state of Arlington. Jason, the new guy from Arlington. I just wandered in. Hey, this is Steggy.

Congratulations, bailing Marie. Hey, this is Sir William of West Pennsylvania. Don't forget to wax your ceiling. It's in the wedding. Ah, yes, nuptials. We've married many couples here on the No Agenda Show. And the couples that No Agenda together stay together, it's a fact. Look it up.

Follow the science. We've got a couple meetups taking place. Actually, one today, the Northwestist Meetup, which is well underway at the Vault Bistro and Wine Bar in Blaine, Washington. On Thursday, our next show day, that's the 9th, the Not That Thursday, the other Thursday meetup, 6.30 in City Park, Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado. The third Leiden Amygdala Check, 7.30, Amsterdam Times. Stadsbrouwhuis Leiden in Leiden, the Netherlands. That's where all the smart people are.

That's where all the university people are. And coming up in the next month, next month we got edmunds oklahoma indianapolis indiana charleston south carolina charlotte north carolina richmond virginia fort wayne indiana big austin texas barbecue on the 18th at uh baron scott's home make sure you check that one out higginham higginham connecticut on the 18th norwood massachusetts i guess they're going to be shooting in mass Connecticut on the 18th. Norwood, Massachusetts. I guess they're going to be shooting in Massachusetts on the 18th. San Diego, California. Keene, New Hampshire. Athens, Greece on the 22nd.

Would love to receive a report from you guys. Reno, Nevada. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And Tulsa, Oklahoma. Many more on the calendar at noagendameetups.com. You definitely want to try one of these out. It's free to be a part of it. You can hang out.

You make friends. You will probably make friends that you will have for a long time, if not for life, and you might even find your mate there. Noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where you want me. Drink it all, hell

away. You want to be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. I appear to have a cornucopia of ISOs here, so you want to start with yours? Yeah, after you dropped the ball last time sure uh which one do i start with well let's see what we got hold on um i think uh cherry cherry chimney oh my oh my goodness A little hard to hear. All right. What else you got? WTF. Okay. Let me try a couple on you.

Ooh, smooth. Hmm? Hmm? Like that one? Yeah. It's okay. And it's so juicy. Come on.

Come on. There you go. It's too gay. Come on. Come on. There you go. It's too gay. Come on. Unconstitutionally gagged. Uh-huh. And we have... Wow. Uh-huh.

I think this is the one. This has got to be the one. It tastes like chicken. Come on. At least one of those was good. Well, actually, two of them were good. Uh-huh. The one you liked at the beginning I thought actually was good, even though I poo-pooed it.

But wow was always a winner. But how about wow, it tastes like chicken. Let me try. Let me see. Let me see if we can make this happen. Wow. It tastes like chicken. I don't know if it's necessary.

I can do that. Okay. Okay. Let's try this other one. What was the first one again? Smooth. Yeah. Okay, okay. Okay, let's try this other one. What was the first one again? Smooth here. Ooh, smooth. Go with that.

Okay. All right, we'll go with that. I'll go with that and you go with this. I show you some good news. It's good, good, good news. Yeah, that's right. John's got some good news. We we're gonna wrap with two good news is today what what do i do i need to split it up with a good news jingle in between are we gonna and no no no we'll stop after the first one now the reason i i this one i just one of the ones that was for last show and i liked the story so much,

but it was botched by the producers in the room there when they got into their little editing suite, and they cut the kid off, and they cut the end off, and it's just a mess. But I liked it so much as a basic story. It's short, and it's super short. And I want to play, this is about a little kid who was buying the school lunches for

everybody else in the school that couldn't afford them because they didn't have the money or whatever just a great story sweet fifth grader in missouri is raising money to pay off fellow students lunch debts it's important for kids to eat like i don't think they can make it through the day without eating school lunch 11 year old dakin kramer has raised close to $1,000 so far. The school doesn't deny any children lunch, but that has led to a lot of unpaid bills. Kramer has made it his mission to raise as much as he can before he heads off to middle school in less than two weeks. Ah, where was this? Where did this good news take place? That's a good question. It was in the Midwest somewhere.

Of course, not in a city. Of course it wasn't in a city. Not in California. So here we go. Here's the highlight good news today. This is a dog that somehow was just abandoned in the mountains, and they found him and brought him back to health. And shot him. And shot him. A classic dog story.

Here we go. Think of pets new at 10. A dog is lucky to be alive after being found stranded on Lookout Mountain in Phoenix. The Arizona Humane Society says that back on April 24th, they got a call about a two-year-old Sharpay Mix who was hiding in a small cutout on the side of the mountain. who was hiding in a small cutout on the side of the mountain. When rescue crews got there, they say that the pup was dangerously dehydrated and may not have survived much longer if she wasn't found. Officials say that she was scared but was open to receiving help from rescue crews. Honestly, she was too weak. She just did not want to walk at all.

So we did kind of a funky, crazy, hold her like a baby sort of situation. And she actually really just relaxed and seemed to enjoy being carried down the mountain. But it was a very teeny tiny rocky trail that was pretty slick. And so Tracy and I took turns carrying her down the mountain and she was just an absolute angel. She knew we were getting her to safety. And then we got her into our trauma hospital at the Arizona Humane Society. Oh, she does look so sweet and calm. Well, the pup was treated by staff at the Humane Society, and we're told that she is doing really well now.

She earned the name Bright Eyes since the person who found her only happened to see her due to those amber eyes that were reflecting behind her hiding spot oh she's a gorgeous oh gorgeous yeah this is one of those this is an abandoned covid dog the way i see it yeah yeah bright eyes is not a good name for a dog though because that reminds me of uh watership down where they shoot the mom i don't know you you don't you don't know watership down you remember that disney movie where they where they shoot the mom? I don't know. You don't know Watership Down? You don't remember that? Disney movie where they

shoot the mom? No. I don't watch depressing films. It was a kid movie. It's what traumatized millions of Gen Xers around the country, around the world. That's it for No Agenda for today. Thank you all very much in the troll room.

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Hold line! Hold line! This is the last stand. Trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. In a movement which is sweeping this country. For many students, this is about much more than Gaza. It's about policing, too.

Speech from President Nixon that he was going to have a Cambodian invasion and expand the war. Police officers have just let off a flashbang device. And Alison turns to Barry and she says, why are they doing this to us? Just do it! River blitz with a point two. Last night saw a violent raid executed against anti-war protesters at UCLA. Spring, the events of May 4th, 1970. We know the Vietnam War was going on.

It was a very active spring. What is clear is that many were not students. They were older than 30, 40. As well as Hell's Angels. The violence came from pro-Israel protesters. And they had helicopters buzzing the campus. They brought the war home. Resign protesters also launched tear gas, where films spraying chemical agents like skunk on protesters. For many students, this is about much more than Gaza. It's about policing, too. And so at a certain point, the National Guard came in and cleared them out, forcibly, with bayonets.

And a number of the students were actually stabbed. Trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. And they all go up the hill and they all turn in unison and they all shoot in unison. And they shoot at the students that are like 300 feet away. I'm ready for you all to come. Flyers are blazing so brightly. Flyers are blazing so brightly Fires are blazing so brightly I don't understand it

Smoke reaching so far Smoke reaching so far You're nuts, you're nuts You're nuts, you're nuts NASA satellites can see that NASA satellites can see them. NASA satellites can see them. NASA satellites can see them. NASA satellites can see them.

One million miles away in space. One million miles in space. One million miles in space. That are a million miles away. Arctic is literally melting. Parts are actually on fire. Can we at least agree that directed energy weapons are a thing? I think that was a new thing. General Michael Flynn calls out Netanyahu and the Israeli military leadership for clearly standing down.

But the point is, and so these governments all need a boogeyman. I'm your boogeyman. Somebody had had a bunch of the troops stand down. I mean, this is 9-11 all over again. I'm your boogeyman. Break through, overrun, go in. Israel supports Hamas. There's a lot of back-channel wink-wink going on here.

Suitcases full of cats. It is true. I'm your boogeyman. And so these governments all need a boogeyman. No, I don't support Hamas. You are 100% right. We don't support Hamas. I'm your boogeyman.

I looked it up. Israeli intelligence created Hamas. General Michael Flynn calls out Netanyahu. Let's be clear. There's no way. I'm your boogeyman. Israel supports Hamas. It is true.

I looked it up. No, I don't support Hamas. I'm your boogeyman. I mean a mosque. It is true. I looked it up. No, I don't support a mosque. I'm your boogeyman. I mean, this is 9-11 all over again. But the point is... I'm your boogeyman. Suitcases full of cash. There's a lot of back-channel wink-wink going on here.

I looked it up. And so these governments all need a boogeyman. Break through. Overrun. Go in. right through overrun go in the best podcast in the universe devorec.org slash n a smooth