No Agenda - 1662 - "Rousting Granny"

Starting point is 00:00:00 Good news sucks. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, May 23rd, 2024. This is your award-winning Kid One Nation Media Assassination Episode 1662. This is No Agenda. Tackling trans-Maoism and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas show country here in FEMA Region Number Six.

Starting point is 00:00:21 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're all worried about the TSMC kill switch, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crack bottom buzz kill. In the morning. The TSMC kill switch? Yeah, I was reading about this this morning actually.

Starting point is 00:00:42 Is this the thing in cars? No, no. This is the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company who makes 90%. How did this happen? How did this happen? 90% of all the high-end ships are made in Taiwan. And the company that provides most of the gear is, again, how did this happen? Located in Holland. Yeah. ASML. ASML. Well, they make the lithography.

Starting point is 00:01:12 Don't they make the lithography? Yeah. They make the ultra, uh, UV stuff that nobody else seems to be able to do. Yeah. I know. Go Dutch. And so the Dutch, a lot of people go Dutch. So they have, it was unknown to me, but they have a kill switch on all their gear. The Dutch have a kill switch? Yeah. And so if China takes over the island, all that gear that's at TSMC will remotely be ruined. Just with, it's just, yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:50 Isn't that interesting? Where'd you hear this from? It was in the trades. I read it in the trades. In the trade, billboard? Which, which trade? No, it was the industry trades, manufacturing news. Hollywood reporter.

Starting point is 00:02:03 Huh. Well, I know that the Dutch, there was a big fracas because the Dutch government told ASML, like, hey, you guys, you know, you can't, if we say you can't export, you can't export to certain countries like, you know. China, Russia. Yeah, exactly.

Starting point is 00:02:21 And the company was like, well, who's in charge here? And the government went, not you. So they have a kill switch on all the gear because they exported the actual gear, right? The gear to Taiwan. Yes, they export the gear and Taiwan has probably the lion's share of it. And there's a back door, I guess they can just remotely over the internet kill the gear. I think it's part of the contract. Then the Taiwan should disconnect their gear from the internet. Hello?

Starting point is 00:02:55 I'm sure it's part of the contract. They have the gear in the first place. You can be sure it's in there. I mean, everything has a kill switch these days. You know, their cars have kill switches. It's a kill switch bonanza. Did you know they have a new president in Taiwan? Yeah, he's a pro-independence guy. Here's the guy. New president Tsai Ing-Teg inherits not just the office, but the intricate web of challenges that comes with it. At home, he faces a fractured parliament with no party holding a majority. Internationally, he faces significant challenges.

Starting point is 00:03:37 Even though he is offered to meet Xi Jinping for talks, he is also pledged to defend the island, saying it's only the people who can decide Taiwan's future Beijing has repeatedly labeled him a dangerous separatist Remains ever present even while Lai has been preparing for office Beijing has been ramping up drills in the region as both a reminder of their military might and their political intentions. Did you see those guys fight? I love it when they fight in parliament.

Starting point is 00:04:10 They're knocking each other in the head. They're throwing them off chairs, dragging them on the floor. All we get is... The Taiwanese parliament used to be like a bloodbath. It's great. And all we get is baby girl, your eyelashes. We get like, what is that version? No, those guys are do it for real like BAM knock you out sucker. By the way, where'd this guy go to school?

Starting point is 00:04:32 This Taiwanese president Harvard The chorus he's a stooge. He's one of our stooges. Of course. He is he's one of our stooges. He's a stooge man Who isn't? I will we're waiting for Georgia to implode. I'm sure we of our stooges. He's a stooge, man. Who isn't? We're waiting for Georgia to implode. I'm sure we've got stooges all over that place, as in Georgia, as in the country. It's been amazing. Well, and now we have today, there's the big meeting between Biden and the guy who runs Kenya, Ruto.

Starting point is 00:05:02 And this is like ridiculous. It's like, this is the best we can do is Kenya, Kenya, whatever, how you want to pronounce it. Does Kenya have anything of value for us? Well, it must, but I think it's strategic more than anything. It's just sitting right in the middle there. I went, I was in Kenya. Oh, here we go.

Starting point is 00:05:18 Here we go. Everybody drink. This is like, this is, this country is a nightmare. And, uh, and so we were headed to South Africa, the family, and we're going to South Africa for a meeting and we had a stop over for a meeting of the ICC. And what is the Newark family doing? The Newark family meeting. And so we're, we stopped in Kenya and we're at the airport waiting. And a couple of things happened.

Starting point is 00:05:49 One is I had a, this was a while ago, so I had these cassettes to listen to. And those were stolen, which I made a fuss about and I got them back. Who stole them then? Well, stop, stop, stop, stop. Now, were these your disco cassettes? Who stole them? What happened? Now, were these your disco cassettes? Who stole them?

Starting point is 00:06:03 What happened? They disappeared from the overhead because we were out of the plane for a minute for some reason and were in the airport and they got stolen and I made a huge fuss about this and I got them back. And the guy says, you shouldn't leave anything when you take these breaks into Africa because that's like a year's salary for somebody, one audio cassette. I said, no, okay. But the thing that part of the reason for the story

Starting point is 00:06:30 is you go, you're sitting, we're sitting in the airport lounge waiting for the, to get back on the plane. And the Kenyan army, about four army guys are in there shaking down passengers and robbing them one after the other. Wow. In the airport. And did they shake you down for your best of luck?

Starting point is 00:06:52 They never got to us before we got back on the plane. You know, my- Don't make eye contact with them is the word. Don't look, kids. They were literally stealing people's money at the airport, the Kenyan army. I said, this is a terrible country. I was glad to get out of there. But this was probably a while ago. It was 30 years ago. Oh, it's changed. I hear the place is great now.

Starting point is 00:07:19 It's changed. It's really shaped up a lot. It's groovy now. Yes. All right. So that is Biden's really shaped up a lot. It's groovy now. Yes. All right. So that is Biden's big foreign policy, Kenya. Yes. That's it. Do I have a clip on this? I might. Kenya.

Starting point is 00:07:33 Who has Kenya? Oh, yes, you do. Oh, let's chase away the audience right at the top of the show. Good one. Well, it's taking place here in the US of A, so let's see what happens. The Biden administration is rolling out

Starting point is 00:07:44 the red carpet for Kenya's president, who's beginning a three-day state visit to Washington. NPR's Michelle Kalamand reports. Relations with Kenya have gone from a regional partnership to a global one, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. This is the first state visit by an African head of state in nearly 20 years. It is long overdue. He says president Biden and Kenyan president William Ruto will announce new partnerships and emerging technologies and more on security cooperation that

Starting point is 00:08:17 includes in Haiti, where the U S will be offering logistical to a Kenyan led international force. The long overdue mission is meant to stabilize Haiti now racked by gang violence. It's about barbecue. I see. By the way, I don't think that's true. There was first in 20 years,

Starting point is 00:08:34 there was a huge African contingent. I remember this maybe 10 years ago. Remember that all kinds of African dudes? No heads of state. Heads on sticks. The best you can do is 15 years ago, somebody came over and said hello. So this is about Kenia is going to be, bring an army over to take care of Haiti for us. Yeah, we're great. But the way they put it, oh yeah, for a technology

Starting point is 00:09:00 exchange, whatever they said. Who are they kidding? Yeah, foam finger number one. Hello, hello Haiti, we're coming, we're coming for you. Our elites have wanted Haiti so bad for so long, you know, let's face it, the Clinton Foundation messed it up. They were supposed to have control of it. And then somehow that slipped through their fingers after they got the gold contracts and took all the children. We haven't forgotten. I mean, the potential for casinos, especially in the north part of the island, beautiful place. It's an obvious place you want to have.

Starting point is 00:09:37 If it wasn't for the damn Haitians. Yeah, barbecue. Annoying. Well, let's get to the big news of the day. This was without a doubt the big news. big, big, big, big news. We are learning more about the severe turbulence on a passenger plane from London to Asia. One man was killed and images show just how chaotic things got inside that cabin. And we are now hearing from the airline CEO, ABC's Christiane Cordero has more on this.

Starting point is 00:10:03 Christiane, good morning. Brianne, and good morning to you. This kind of turbulence has been on the rise. Experts say one factor, maybe climate change. Oh yeah, climate change. Now I love these reports because- Yeah, by the way, turbulence has never happened before climate change.

Starting point is 00:10:20 I'm going to give you a whole, I got a whole report. I got a whole rundown on this because I'm tired of this nonsense. And by the way, one man was killed, he died of a heart attack. It's sad, but he died of a heart attack. He wasn't killed. It was not a pretty scene. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:10:35 Which is a reminder, how many times do we have to see it? Just like we do up here in the cockpit, when you're in your seat, keep your seatbelt buckled. Don't think that you've got a free ride here. Keep your seatbelt buckled. It's that simple. A Singapore Airlines flight was- This is Reuters, by the way. Hit with severe turbulence on Tuesday, flinging passengers and crew around the

Starting point is 00:10:57 cabin and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Bangkok. Dozens were injured. One died of a suspected heart attack. Suspected? What happened? What happened? It appears that the flight entered an air pocket. There are also reports that there were some storms nearby that could have caused some of the turbulence.

Starting point is 00:11:18 So this is kind of where it caught my attention. Like, oh, because they're talking wind shear, clear air turbulence climate change and then there's this little report that everyone kept repeating over and over and over Reuters again Could climate change be making air turbulence more common and severe? The death of one passenger and injuries to others on a Singapore Airlines flight has underlined the potential dangers of severe turbulence in particular. Airline Ratings editor-in-chief Jeffrey Thomas. Turbulence is becoming more prevalent as climate changes and a university research in the United Kingdom has shown that over the last 40 years severe turbulence has increased by 55 percent. 55 percent? Oh no,

Starting point is 00:12:09 this climate change must be stopped. What is it doing NBC? Breaking this morning after that dramatic turbulence onboard Singapore Airlines flight 321, the airline CEO is speaking out. We're deeply saddened by this incident. That extreme turbulence wreaked havoc inside the plane, injuring dozens of passengers and flight attendants, some critically. So-called clear air turbulence, often appearing close to the jet stream, is very difficult to predict. And researchers say climate change has already made wind shear much stronger. Yes.

Starting point is 00:12:43 And so now we're not sure, was it clear air turbulence? Were they in a storm? Is it wind shear much stronger. Yes, and so now we're not sure, was it clear air turbulence? Were they in a storm? Is it wind shear? Maybe the CBC can help us out. Paul Williams is an atmospheric scientist at Reading University in England. Are we seeing an increase in turbulence? I think so.

Starting point is 00:13:00 This started out as a theory we had about 10 years ago. We were running atmospheric simulations, computer simulations of the future. Oh yeah, now stand by because we got some modeling going on here. And they were indicating that the amount of severe clear air turbulence was going to double or treble in the next few decades because of climate change. And more recently, last year, we published a study that confirmed that, in fact, those increases have already begun. I love how they publish a study that confirms it.

Starting point is 00:13:36 We looked back at historic data. No actual evidence. There's no actual evidence. They just published a study that confirmed it. It confirmed that, in fact, those increases have already begun. We looked back at historic data going back to 1979, which is when satellites first began observing the jet stream. And when we crunched those numbers, we found that from 1979 to the present day, there's already been a 55% increase in the amount of severe turbulence. So I think those increases from climate change have already begun and are only set to continue into

Starting point is 00:14:12 the future if the climate continues to change as we expect it to. So this is your pet peeve. Your pet peeve is 55% of what? Exactly, it sounds very severe. This 55%. Oh my God, we're all going to die. Luckily, CBC kept this guy on the phone on the Skype on the zoom for about 12 minutes. If you didn't fall asleep by the end, he lets us know what's really going on.

Starting point is 00:14:42 Severe turbulence is rare and it even will remain rare if it doubles or trebles. Something like one tenth of one percent of the atmosphere at flight cruising levels has severe turbulence in it. So you take 0.1 percent and double it or treble it, it's still only 0.2 or 0.3 percent. So the chance of your flight hitting that little tiny part of the atmosphere is really tiny. Just keep your seatbelt fastened and try and have a nice flight. So 0.1% of the air has severe turbulence. But because it's 55% increase, it's like 0.2% now.

Starting point is 00:15:21 So there's not that much to be afraid of Especially if you realize that this was not clear air turbulence This is what it was the Boeing 777 was flying from London to Singapore When it hits sudden turbulence on the edge of a powerful storm flight radar 24 shows the plane suddenly pushed up then down like a violent wave at 37,000 feet then a controlled emergency descent to 31,000 feet and an emergency landing They were flying over the ITC Z which every big Heavy aircraft pilot knows is the intertropical convergence zone. This is where this the equator. This is where you get these two jet streams converging. This is where particularly July, January, you get big storms and that's what they flew into.

Starting point is 00:16:14 This has nothing to do with clear air turbulence from climate change. It's nonsense. It's not fun if you're in the plane. But this is a big scare tactic to once again hype climate change. And I spent several days this week putting together our Sunday special, which will be a climate change special. And this would be the second time we've done a climate change special. I'd like people to compare it to the older one. Well, you did climate change clips and I did us reading and talking about climate

Starting point is 00:16:52 change. Almost. That'll be different. Exactly. Almost no clips. So because of Sir Deenonymous, bingit.io, if you haven't seen bingit.io you can search every single episode of the No Agenda show, going back to the single episode of the No Agenda Show going back to the first episode. When you see the transcript, you can highlight a piece of the transcript, click the clip button and it creates an embeddable clip. Actually creates an embeddable clip with a video, with the captions and with the show

Starting point is 00:17:21 art. It's really phenomenal what he's done. It's phenomenal. It is. It's actually good, which is why I'm sending you more show notes now, knowing that it'll go into this database. So, yeah, it's fun to do. So, I started episode one. We actually, the first episode we talked about, and I only searched for global warming. I didn't search for climate change because it was global warming. We're talking almost 17 years ago. You could do another five hours using searching for climate change. I didn't get past episode 100 and I had the show done. And what's surprising is that the elements are always the same. Banning meat, vaccinations, because we also had another bird flu, swine flu, trusting

Starting point is 00:18:14 the science. If you recall, and I'd forgotten this, that the university that had all the base climate data, do you remember that they lost all the data because they didn't have enough hard drives and then the data got corrupted and they lost it? So the actual basis data that all this nonsense is built upon has been lost. Clicky stick. Similar to the moon landing recordings, oops.

Starting point is 00:18:42 And then something, one other thing that is very it just keeps coming back it's the same elements over and over again huge element no meat no meat by the way there was no talk of burps it was all cow farts sheep farts was another big good point I yeah you're right I remember that period where it was cow farts there's no cow but now it I remember that period where it was cow farts. There was no cow, now it's cow burps. And there were sheep farts. You don't hear about that anymore. The sheep farts was- I don't even remember that. Yeah, it was like 12% of New Zealand's climate change or global warming came from sheep farts. So they made up all kinds of stuff. But I pulled a clip

Starting point is 00:19:20 as a teaser. And this is a discovery that you made on the show. We're going back to episode 93 from 2000. What are you making that sound for? Because 93, that's in the dark ages of the show. But that's what's so cool is because this is how long we've been tracking this nonsense and we've been delivering this as a public service to people. And this one I had forgotten about and it's something that you picked up on. We're going back to episode 93, 2009.

Starting point is 00:19:55 Here we go. You'll be amazed by this one. Newsnet and the BBC this week, they had a complete documentary on Power Shift 09. Oh, nice. Now powershift.org, people can go out there and check it out. It's a green activist. And essentially the government has taken over this particular conference and they loaded it up with Obama people. The key noter was the EPA woman, Paul Podesta, one of the staffers, one of the major staffers. Podesta before we knew about Podesta?

Starting point is 00:20:34 Second commander, one of these other guys. It looked like the organizer from the way they had this thing structured, the way they did the show, this documentary. Bill Clinton was there, everybody was loaded up, they were loaded up with these guys. And here's what, I'm watching this thing thinking, well, this is just another. And they got all these kids, it's a bunch of young people. And they get them all pumped up with this green, green, green, green, green stuff and global warming. And so then they jumped to showing some of the behind the scenes seminars. They always have the breakouts. Oh, of course.

Starting point is 00:21:11 So the breakouts are training the kids on civil disobedience, resisting arrest, how to do sit-ins properly, how to lock arms, how to do passive resistance. Wait a minute, let me get this straight. And anybody who happens to be one of those people, I'd like to ask a question. Since when does the government train the youth to do these sorts of things? The first thing I thought of was either Nazi youth or the young Communist Party. This is training the youth. So I'll bet you a lot of those trainees from 15 years ago are now in schools teaching the next generation this same nonsense.

Starting point is 00:21:57 Yep. In fact, we got a boots on the ground from New Jersey from Chris. He says, and his daughter daughter he has two children in the system he says my oldest daughter was in grade school she's now a sophomore in college but they started with the propaganda even before the school year started they would gather all the parents and go over the topics they'll be covering and over the ensuing years my daughter would come home and report on the nonsense they'd be pushing in fact they showed the years, my daughter would come home and report on the nonsense they'd be pushing. In fact, they showed the...

Starting point is 00:22:26 Here, when my daughter was in the sixth grade, she came home to let me know she had upset the science teacher who was on her soapbox about how we're killing polar bears. And of course, this is a no agenda. And we'll mention there's more polar bears than ever. Exactly. And then force the class to watch a YouTube video titled something about the lone polar bear in the tundra starving to death because of climate change. But the video shows an emancipated, emaciated bear walking back and forth in the snow while the teacher explained the video was shot in the deep

Starting point is 00:22:57 Arctic wilderness. It was indicative of what all the bears looked at, but by the end of the video my daughter raised her hand and said, hey if the video was shot on the tundra then why is there a wall and two garbage cans at the edge of the frame? I soon received a call from the teacher who didn't appreciate being contradicted. I mean this is horrible what they're doing to our children. And I was listening to an interview of John Daniel Davidson. He's a senior editor at The Federalist. I guess he's been writing for Wall Street Journal and all kinds of mainstream publications for 20 years. And he came out with a book called Pagan America and the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. And I just had to share some of his thinking on the topic. Please give us some examples of how this is breaking down and how paganistic elements are

Starting point is 00:23:54 being introduced to these big companies like Google and I've seen different things taking place like this. Yeah. So this, I mean, some of that is the obvious stuff, climate changeism and environmentalism as a modern form of nature worship. Corporate culture and corporate America is shot through with this stuff now. The way our mainstream society talks about climate change and environmentalism is fundamentally religious because of the importance that they place on it, right? You have people saying, you shouldn't have children, we shouldn't form families. Arguing for policies that will bring absolute misery and ruination to the vast swaths of

Starting point is 00:24:39 the world. It's good, isn't it? People are comfortable kind of talking about policies that will result in the deaths of millions and millions of people, famine and starvation for the sake of what I would argue is a religious idea, right, that we owe the earth something and we need to sacrifice ourselves to Gaia. We need to sacrifice our human flourishing to this other being, which is the earth. And this is where it gets tricky because these people are not going to say, I worship the earth. I am a devotee of Gaia. And so I'm like, yeah, that makes sense. You'll follow the science and we have to save the earth and it's replacing, it's a religion

Starting point is 00:25:28 for people who are all in on this going back decades. That's just witnessed in our clip. We've talked about it being a religion. But then he goes one step further. So we have environmentalism or climate changeism as a modern form of pagan religion. We have transgenderism, which is a modern form of paganism or devil worship. Throughout pagan cultures of the past, this notion of changing sexes or gender bending has been a feature of various pagan deities in various

Starting point is 00:26:06 cultures throughout human history and it's remarkably consistent. The idea that a pagan deity could do this in and of itself and to do it to other people has always been associated with certain deities, right? So again, are transgender activists going to say like, going to come out and say, I'm a devotee of this Persian goddess or of this Mesopotamian god? Probably not. Most of them are not going to. But they will functionally be engaged in very old practices that are pagan fundamentally. But more broadly, as I mentioned earlier, transgenderism is really a subset of transhumanism, which posits that we can create ourselves and we can become like gods that we are gods that That we are not limited by

Starting point is 00:27:09 reality or by biological reality Men can become women women can become men or we can become neither and that we are we have that power as of a deity Okay, so I'm following him there, but the transhumanism part, I was like, oh yeah, we kind of forgot. I forgot about that. Oh yeah, it's all part of the transhumanist agenda and the neural link and all this stuff. And then he winds it up with this one.

Starting point is 00:27:37 And where I think that is headed and where I argue at the end of the book when I talk about artificial intelligence in the transhumanist movement, you know, because what starts with self-worship always ends up projecting out to something else. So the transhumanist movement is not going to end with just saying, we're all gods and we can determine what we want to be because we are deities. There's going to be an external object that ends up becoming the object of worship. And in the case of transhumanism, it's going to be artificial intelligence. And you can already see the ways that this is taking shape. The most vocal and prominent transhumanists have already come out

Starting point is 00:28:23 and all that's said in their words and especially in their actions We need to turn over decisions about our lives to these AI algorithms That will tell us what to do and will tell us how to be happy and will enable us to live forever And I gotta tell you the amount of times that I've heard some tech weasel talk about that, how AI, like Elon Musk, oh no, AI is going to create a God. I've heard Joe Rogan say, oh, you know, AI, we just need AI that tells us what to do. And then you look at the Viva Tech conference in France, this, which is going on right now, Viva Tech, and there it it is As France positions itself as the top innovator in the artificial intelligence space Europe's biggest startup events Viva Technology opened its doors in the French capital

Starting point is 00:29:13 This year AI is everywhere The event's eighth edition aims to show off the depth of AI's capabilities I'm sorting waste to cancer detection and tackle key questions about its impact across industries like climate change and upcoming elections. So, AI will take care of climate change, will take care of medicine and the upcoming elections, but luckily... In terms of journalism, however, French media group head Pierre Luet told France24 the industry isn't at risk.

Starting point is 00:29:42 A lot of preparations will be made... What? No, no, don't worry. That's the only thing that is at risk. A lot of preparations will be made. What? No, no, don't worry. That's the only thing that is at risk. I know, it's the best. A lot of preparations will be made easier and quicker by AI. And we know that you can have a synthesis of millions of pages in a very quick time. Then comes the human difference. I'm a very, very strong believer in the fact that AI will not replace those guys.

Starting point is 00:30:02 Of course, and luckily not, you will not be replaced by AI because what you know, what you can do, AI today doesn't know how to do it. AI is also revolutionizing the job market. Consultancy firm PWC found that roles integrating AI skills carry up to a 25% wage premium, as well as having nearly five times the rate of productivity growth and easing repetition for employees. Yeah, that's right.

Starting point is 00:30:28 Everyone get a job in AI. Kids, kids, don't become a plumber. No, become a prompt jockey. That's the way to go. It's going to be great. Will I have AI clips? Oh, please give me some AI clips. And the reason that these are interesting now is because of the clip you played earlier

Starting point is 00:30:45 about the climate change meetup that was taken over by the US government with Podesta and everybody else in between the Clintons. Because it seems as though this big AI meetup, which just took place in South Korea, it's been the same thing. It's like the US government's now like moved in. I don't know what they're up to, of course. Well, if we think about what Davidson said, we give people the AI, give them something to worship and the AI tells them what to do, but let's make sure that we control what it says.

Starting point is 00:31:22 what to do, but let's make sure that we control what it says. Well, that would be a definite possibility. Let's go with AI meeting in Korea one. Many of the world's leading tech companies met in Seoul, South Korea this week, and they joined an international agreement on AI safety. Several governments led by the US also agreed to set up a new global AI safety network. So will these voluntary agreements actually keep AI safe? Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is leading the Biden administration's effort on the issue. Welcome back to All Things Considered. Thank you, Ari.

Starting point is 00:31:56 Good to be with you. Will you begin by giving us a concrete example of the sort of AI risk you believe these new agreements will help us avoid? Are we talking about misinformation or invasive surveillance or what? I would say both and then some. Misinformation, deepfakes, some of these models are so sophisticated that if they're not properly tested before they release, they can do things that the developers didn't even think they were capable of. Oh, Lord.

Starting point is 00:32:26 Okay, so here's a woman who doesn't know anything about tech or computers or any, she's just not a scientist. She's got, she's the head of the commerce, she's a stooge. And so she's worried about- She's like Julie on the love boat. She leads the delegation. Come on everybody, she's got the umbrella.'s like Julie on the love boat.

Starting point is 00:32:45 She leads the delegation. Come on everybody, she's got the umbrella. Come on everybody, it's time to drink. Yep, it's time to drink. So we know this is a fiasco. You got to test it to make sure it won't do this or that. Well, you can't... That's bull crap.

Starting point is 00:33:02 The whole idea of AI is that it's kind of a, you know, freewheeling. So how do you test it? You test it by just, you have to be, you say test before release? No, the only way you can test it is by releasing it. You know, let the, let the weenies at it, you know, let them start doing, using it for all kinds of nefarious purposes. Comedy. So far, comedy is the top. Comedy is spot art. Spot art. Yeah, and creating bad songs and bad songs. And some transcription.

Starting point is 00:33:35 It does transcription okay, you know, but that's alright. And it doesn't do it well. Okay is the term, yes. Number two. You know, you probably heard about hallucinations or the model doing things that weren't predicted. So one of the things we'll be doing is testing all of the most sophisticated models before they release to the public for use. Oh, they're going to have a lab?

Starting point is 00:33:57 They're going to have an AI lab there in the commerce department? This is a good question. And by the way, I didn't notice it before that you're playing this clip. She does talk a little bit like, well, I can't quite breathe through my nose. There's possibly some powder going around that she might be imbibing. Everybody follow the rails. So that we can be sure that they're going to do what they're intended to do. But is Pandora's box already open? I mean, we've already seen deep fakes that use politicians' voices.

Starting point is 00:34:27 I would say yes and no. I mean, certainly the technology is out there. Yes and no. And we've already started to see some disturbing instances where, as you just said, you know, there's deep fakes that's out there, misinformation. But look, the exciting thing here, it's easy to get bogged down in how it could go poorly. There's also life-changing, life-giving possibilities that AI can bring to the world. Name one. Name one life-changing.

Starting point is 00:34:55 You beat me to the punch line. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Name one life-changing, life-giving. Life-giving. This is your worship. It gives me life. I love my AI and I love my truck. Okay, that's three. Bringing a doctor to everybody that has a phone, you know, huge opportunity for education. So I

Starting point is 00:35:21 think the whole point of it is let's do our best to work with like-minded countries that believe in democracy, that are post civil rights abuses, and say, let's put a lid on the risk so that we can let all of the exciting opportunities develop. You say let's work with like-minded countries. China is a notable outlier. As I understand it, Chinese delegates have attended these international summits, but the government of China is not part of a global AI safety network that the US has led with other governments. China exports its AI technology to many other countries around the world. So how effective are these guardrails going to be if China and

Starting point is 00:35:58 its allies don't agree to them? Ultimately, we want as many countries to participate as possible for exactly the reason that you just said. You know, the more... Wait, wait. What reason that he just said? China. We want all countries to participate for exactly the reasons you said. All he said was they're not participating. Yeah, because it's everyone against China. The more I think of it through the lens of let's all worship the AI, the more this makes sense. Someone has figured it out like, hey, as long as we're pulling the strings, as long as we control in our lab, as long as we make sure that whatever comes out of the AI is what

Starting point is 00:36:38 we want it to be, I think they see this. I think they see this. Yeah, the message you want the AI to deliver is vote Democrat. Yeah, precisely. That's all it is. Yeah. Vote Joe. Vote Joe.

Starting point is 00:36:52 This is the wrapping clip, which just makes the whole thing an eye roller. We're talking about three distinct but related agreements here. There's the private companies that have reached a set of standards. There's this international safety coalition. And then there is the federal government setting up its own AI safety institute under your Department of Commerce. The press release says it will do things like advance, support, and articulate principles around AI safety.

Starting point is 00:37:21 It does not say enforce. Does this institute that you're leading have any power to prevent AI companies from doing things that experts believe would be harmful? Ultimately, Congress needs your act. In other words, no. No. Well, this fits in perfectly with this urgent, urgent warning. We live in a world where artificial intelligence can create video, and documents that look stunningly Authentic now the Department of Homeland Security is warning. I will likely be used against us in the upcoming election This isn't a threat of tomorrow. This is a threat of today

Starting point is 00:37:58 According to a Homeland Security bulletin enemy countries, and other adversaries could exploit AI tools confuse or overwhelm voters and election staff to disrupt their duties during the 2024 election cycle. So I'm sitting here going, all right, what exactly is AI going to do besides make nudie pictures of Taylor Swift or something else that's funny that is obviously not real? Joe Biden pooping. But what's going to confuse us? For example, according to the DHS Bulletin, enemies might use AI to share altered images,

Starting point is 00:38:31 videos or audio clips, claiming that a polling station is closed or that polling times have changed. Who needs AI for? Thank you. Thank you. What? You don't need, I mean, the guy went to jail for doing just that as a goof. Up Twitter, he put up a, you know, like a Hillary sign, done with the GIMP.

Starting point is 00:38:54 And if you use Photoshop, you don't need AI for that. But okay. The bulletin points to this audio. You know the value of voting democratic when our votes count. It's important that you save your vote for the November election. Which authorities suspect is an AI generated message. Suspect? Hold on a second.

Starting point is 00:39:12 I love when you get riled up. They suspect. Why don't somebody just ask Biden at the press conference or ask a KJP at the press conference. Well, who are said authorities? Authorities. Authorities. Week report. Who, where'd you get this?

Starting point is 00:39:30 This is, um, I think this is NBC. NBC. It's an AI gist. Poor. Oh, hello. ...message sounding like President Biden, which urged people not to vote in the lead up to the New Hampshire primary in January. Which I didn't hear in that clip, by the way.

Starting point is 00:39:48 But I didn't hear him say that, but okay. And DHS officials also expressing concern that AI technology might be used to create and push out dangerous information that could help extremists design violent attacks. Okay, no examples, no reason why it needs to be AI. Extremists just attack. They don't need AI. Oh, Mohammed, we need some AI. I'm being racist here, but oh, Mullah, we need some AI right away. And why am I an Indian guy all of a sudden? Whatever it is, terrorists don't need AI. And then here's the real head scratcher.

Starting point is 00:40:29 After we saw this open AI parlor trick, this little charade of an AI going, oh, wow, it looks like you're going to do a video. Oh, this is great. So is this AI or is it just an actress that you hired? I'm a little confused about this report. Hollywood megastar Scarlett Johansson is taking on one of the biggest names in tech, OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman.

Starting point is 00:40:57 Hey, how's it going? Hey there. The actress saying one of the five voices for OpenAI's new AI chat bot sounds eerily similar to her own. I'm really excited about teaming up with you. Johansson, who famously played the voice of an artificial intelligence system in the 2013 movie Her. Hi. How you doing? Saying in a statement that Altman had reached out twice wanting to hire her for the OpenAI project. How? Stop. Why do you need to hire an actress? And they hired a different

Starting point is 00:41:29 actress. They did a casting for AI. Can't AI create the voice? Is this, is it generating the voice on demand or is it using pre-selected segments or do they have to sample? I don't, it makes no sense. Why can't AI just create the voice? This is very, this is sketchy. In offer, she declined. But she says when she heard the demo for the voice name Sky, she was shocked, angered, and in disbelief over the resemblance to her own. In response, Ullman says the company has paused the use of Sky's voice,

Starting point is 00:42:04 but denies copying Johansson's, saying in part the voice was never intended to resemble hers. But Johansson points to a recent post by Allman on X where he simply wrote, her, referencing the movie he's spoken about publicly. I think her got something deeply right on the interface. Deeply right on the interface? The controversy has... Deeply right.

Starting point is 00:42:24 Well, this is how you got to talk. You see, if you're one of these cult members, it's deeply troubling. I think it got something deeply right on the interface. I think her got something deeply right on the interface. You got it on the interface. The controversy highlighting concerns over online fakes and the growing copyright concerns posed by artificial intelligence. And Open AIs is prior to ever reaching out to Johansson, it cast actors to create the voices of its new chat bots. The company has yet to release the identity of those actors.

Starting point is 00:42:54 I'm surprised that they need to cast actors for the identity. I think your point is well taken. What's the point of it? This is so great. So luckily on the place where it matters, CNBC, where people are going, Oh, goo goo gaga over Nvidia. Oh, I need more chips. I need more chips. We need compute, compute, compute, more compute. It'll work when we have more compute. Buy, buy Nvidia chips, more compute, wait for their super black, black ball chip,

Starting point is 00:43:22 whatever it is. Then it'll work i promise it'll work once we get more compute so they bring on this guy gary marcus and thank you gary marcus um you've consistently offered gut checks about hallucinations lack of progress uh the way in which this is not the pipe dream that some envision have any of the recent uh product introductions changed your mind? No, I mean we're still basically working with the same technology. It's still designed in the same way. It takes a lot of statistics from a lot of words and tries to predict what

Starting point is 00:43:54 happens next. And as soon as these things come out, people start playing with them on Twitter and so forth and you see a lot of examples where they're still making the same boneheaded mistakes as they were before. Nobody has actually solved hallucinations and I don't think we can with large language models. I think we need genuine innovation here. So what happens is we have a trap right now where people propose things like the humane AI pen, imagining that AI is solved and then they put it out in the world and we realize

Starting point is 00:44:20 no it's not solved. And I'm afraid that it hasn't happened yet. Are you going so far as to argue that the wave of investment that very smart companies are making right now is misplaced? I think people are putting in too much money too fast. I do think it's kind of premature. Sam Altman talked about raising $7 trillion. That's like Series H money or something like that

Starting point is 00:44:43 when you've really established your business model and so forth and that just hasn't happened here. I've publicly predicted that OpenAI might turn out to be the we work of AI. People might scratch their heads and say, well, this is a solution in search of a problem. We haven't really found the problem. The whole industry spent something like $50 billion last year, made $3 billion in revenue. That is not sustainable in the long term. So either they have to make it better, which has proven really difficult, or they have to find some killer use case, which they haven't really because the performance is unreliable. So yeah, my guess is that a lot of investors are going to be left holding the bag. So I hear this and then I read about people leaving OpenAI and they have these horrible

Starting point is 00:45:27 People leaving open AI and they have these horrible NDAs and you can't talk about the company ever or you lose all your vested stock. And I realize why, because they don't want these people to tell everyone that it doesn't work, that it's crap. No, it works, but it's crap. I'm sorry. It works, but it's crap. Yeah. I mean, but it's a trick.

Starting point is 00:45:48 It's impressive in the video and the audio and the pictures and some of the, okay, so it writes up flower points fine, but it's not really useful. What the guy said is true. It's a solution looking for a problem that just doesn't exist yet. Well, I think the funnier thing that his commentary expressed was the- The we work. Well, the we work was-

Starting point is 00:46:13 Good line. In terms of pure humor, that was definitely the peak. But no, I meant funny in the sense that it's like pathetic. 50 billion to bring in five? Three, no, three. Oh, three, okay, 50 billion to bring in three. That, which I've always been convinced is going on with electric cars too, that they are ship, you know, they're losing,

Starting point is 00:46:40 I think General Motors or Ford or one of them brought this up, they were losing $100, dollars a car they sold. Every car sold was a hundred thousand dollars in the hole. And I think that, yeah, I think that that goes for Tesla. Uh, even though the cars are all cost over a hundred thousand, I think they're probably losing money on each one because the technology is just, they're too expensive to make. But the same thing with this AI, when you go to Wally, DoLY, I'm sorry, DOLLY.

Starting point is 00:47:07 I like WALL-E. Let's go to WALL-E. WALL-E is the movie. DOLLY is the art generator. And you generate these pieces of art over and over again. They are probably losing $10 to $20 each time that you generate a piece of art. It's just that it's a huge money loser. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:31 They'll make up for it in volume. Get the users. We'll think, we'll worry about profit later. Eyeballs. Eyeballs. We're too old for this. We have, we're just cynical off the top because we've seen this over and over and over.

Starting point is 00:47:46 We've seen this bull crap forever. You know, the only guy who really did well with the last bull crap was Mark Cuban with broadcast.com. It's brilliant. Brilliant. Yeah. And he was in and out. He was a... Brilliant. He was brilliant. Yeah. It was pretty good. You can't say he wasn't brilliant. Now, if we just stick with big tech

Starting point is 00:48:06 for a moment, I was shocked, I tell you. Shocked that Tucker Carlson did an interview with Eric Prince and posted this interview with the hashtag paid promotion. Oh yeah. Yeah. What exactly? What? So he does an interview with Eric Prince, hashtag paid promotion. So we all know that Eric Prince is there.

Starting point is 00:48:36 So we got pay to play now on the, uh, Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson. This is how he's making his money. And, and he's doing it with Eric Prince with his unplugged phone. Listen to this nonsense. So how does your phone protect people? So again, like I said, this era started three and a half years ago, and we came at it from a completely contrarian view. This phone, it's our hardware, made in Indonesia

Starting point is 00:49:08 at a Singaporean facility. Oh, that'll be safe. Our operating system, all our code. All our code. The whole, we built a whole operating system, okay. And we are solely focused on data sovereignty that you control. It's pretty cool just to that, I am kind of impressed that you control. It's pretty cool just that I am kind of impressed

Starting point is 00:49:27 that you made hardware, you didn't just build an app. Like you actually- Correct, because you have to control it down to the root level of the hardware and the software so that we don't have an advertising ID and our operating system blocks any attempt by any app to turn on your camera or your Wi-Fi or your microphone or your GPS. It's all apps.

Starting point is 00:49:52 Okay, all right so that's not that spectacular but wait he's gonna make some great claims here. We don't allow any of that leakage in fact we have a privacy center. This is called the unplugged. This is an unplug phone. And this is effectively a firewall, which prevents apps from doing all the things they're used to doing on all the other phones. So you're in control of what of your data goes out,

Starting point is 00:50:20 which is effectively zero. This is like a safe. Comes in, it doesn't come out. Okay, so you can use apps, and then none of your data goes out. Now listen to the apps. Wait, stop. We have to stop right now.

Starting point is 00:50:35 I think you need to hear the next clip for what you're gonna say, but okay, go ahead. Apps assumes an operating system that runs the apps. Apps don't just run on anything. I can't run a random app on my toaster or freezer. He's running an Android derivative. Of course. This is bull.

Starting point is 00:50:54 Well, he said, wait a minute. He said they did the whole coding themselves. They got nothing to do with anything. Yeah. Get ready for this. Just to bottom line it, I'm protected from what am I protected from if I use that? Here's the thing. If you're using apps and some federal agency goes to that app,

Starting point is 00:51:14 purveyor and says, give me everything you have on Tucker that he's been using on that app, there'll be nothing because there's no data leaking from you. So there'll be nothing. They'll have no login data. There'll be no usage data. Nothing, there'll be nothing. The app just runs without the backend service. It's amazing. From your device to that app. If you call somebody, we have our own secure messenger.

Starting point is 00:51:38 For example, you wanna call and make a secure call and you call me, it takes about five seconds to connect because it's literally creating a encrypted tunnel between you call me, it takes about five seconds to connect because it's literally creating a encrypted tunnel between you and me. Generates a new encryption key every call. It is our effort to fight the power of big tech. So what can't I do? I mean, fight the power.

Starting point is 00:51:56 I'll just confess that I use an iPhone made by a company I actually kind of hate and that hates my country and me and I use it anyway because it's And we figured there's a lot of people like you that That's why we're here with a paid promotion Would want to digitally A lot of people like you, dumb, dumb, ignorant, not knowing exactly what's going on and here comes the claims

Starting point is 00:52:16 You that would want to digitally opt out of the lie of big tech And so what you can't do obviously we don't have the Apple store We don't have Apple music but you can use Spotify. You can use a lot of the other streaming services on here. We just prevent them from collecting your data as to what you're listening to or- Oh, okay. So I can use Spotify, but they won't know what I'm listening to. Streaming services on here. How does that work?

Starting point is 00:52:42 Like, he's a lie. Here, we just prevent- How does that work? Like, he's a lie. We just prevent them from collecting your data as to what you're listening to or where you are when you do it. And you can share pictures, you can send pictures. We have a lot of the other privacy related apps, whether it's Signal or Threema or Proton or Telegram. Oh, Telegram, it's privacy.

Starting point is 00:53:00 Oh, protected, no problem. Proton, oh yeah. Proton is oh yeah. Proton is an email server system. Proton definitely gives up information when asked by the authorities. Okay, they may not be able to give the messages if they're encrypted, if they're encrypted,

Starting point is 00:53:19 they're not always encrypted, but this is a lie. And he's in a troll room says that he's also buying ad space on O'Keefe stuff. So people are going to fall for this. This is like that, remember that nut job with the freedom phone? I'm not as upset about it as you. Well, I'm more upset that Tucker is doing paid promotions. I mean, that's just lame. That's just lame.

Starting point is 00:53:44 That's it. He's got a cash flow problem. I guess. But, you know, but he's… I'd like to know what he charged for that particular advertorial or whatever you want to call it. Hey, Eric Prince, we'll talk about your phone. Oh, it's great. Oh yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:59 You can listen to the No Agenda stream securely. No one will know you're listening. It's great. Yeah. It's a hoax. It's not good. It's hoax. No, it's just, it's not necessarily a hoax. It's something, it just cuts everything off. Nothing works. He said right there, if it asks to look at your cam or your contacts or anything else, we'll just refuse to, we won't use it, we won't run it. That means nothing will work. Nothing, no app will work on that phone.

Starting point is 00:54:31 Spotify will not work unless you opt into the library that does digital, what's the term looking for? I don't know. Yeah, you do. It's the digital signature. I forget the name of it. DMCA? No, not that.

Starting point is 00:54:54 No. It's the same thing if you load Firefox or Brave and if you then want a Widevine, there you go. If you want to watch some movie from, you know, but if you want to watch YouTube TV, you have to then opt into loading the wide vine DRM. There we go. You have to opt into loading the, the libraries that in essence let them know exactly what you're doing. Otherwise Spotify doesn't work. I know because that's what the,

Starting point is 00:55:26 there's all of them. I think all this stuff's not going to work because most of these guys look at and said, well, if you won't let us do that, you can't use us. Spotify spot. I have a no agenda phone, no agenda phone.com. Spotify does not work unless you say, okay, I'll opt into this stuff. Let's choose spot. Which gives it all away. Yeah, of course. Of course. Telegram, signal. Yeah, all right. But I'm sure it's all secure. I'm sure. Well, it was a paid promotion. Come on. I know, but it's just, I'm disappointed.

Starting point is 00:55:57 I expect so much more from my... Oh, you never expect. You hated that guy. No, I expect more from my mercenaries go back Oh, no, not from Eric. No, not from Eric. I'm telling you hated the guy Tucker. I never hated Tucker. No, I always thought you did. Oh Let's take a slight comedic break For real comedy or or no comedy because I thought that was pretty funny

Starting point is 00:56:23 That was funny, but it wasn't as funny as this. Okay, I'm ready. Now I'm, this TikTok ban will ruin our lives because they're not going to have the good clips like this talk ban, the talk clip I have, which is, every time I watch one of these, I say, now, is this an actress auditioning? Is this really good acting? It's beyond the pale. I mean, is this,

Starting point is 00:56:50 or is this really just a dummy that because people get on the, there's some of the dumbest people that put themselves on Tik TOK and they're just a, they're dumb and arrogantly dumb. You know, they don't even know how it didn't. In this case is not a woman who's necessarily dumb. She's just ignorant. And I just think it's one of the great clips I've ever heard. So the other day, I went to a steakhouse for a friend's birthday,

Starting point is 00:57:24 and she ordered a steak and the waitress goes, how do you want your cow cooked? I'm like, it's a weird way to order it, but whatever. So she asked my friend, how do you want your cow cooked? My friend says I want it medium rare or something like that. And so then I wasn't in the mood for a steak. I wanted a hamburger. I'd been craving a hamburger.

Starting point is 00:57:41 So I order, you know, the cheese, the cheeseburger. And she goes, how do you want your cow cooked? I kind of like awkwardly look at my friends. I was like, I feel really embarrassed. Do I point out that it's not cow like hamburger is a pig. Everyone knows ham comes from pig. So I was like, well, I want my pig cooked. Well done. You're not supposed to eat pork, like uncooked. Everybody knows that. That's why it's always been super weird to me that people will get like red in the middle on their burgers.

Starting point is 00:58:13 And so she looks back at me and she goes, you mean your cow? And I'm like, I don't know how to have this conversation right now. Like I'm not a teacher. I'm not, I don't know how to educate you kindly. And I was like, sure, my cow. But it was so bizarre. I'm like, how don't know how to educate you kindly. And I was like, sure, my cow. But it was so bizarre. I'm like, how do you not know? It's literally in the name. It's a hamburger. There's no hope for the world. Yeah, that's right. That's right. No hope for the world. I think it's real. I think it's genuine. This is the level of output we have from our scholastic system.

Starting point is 00:58:42 I bet she knows, I bet she knows all about climate change though, but she's all in on that, by the way. And she votes Democrat, I can assure you. The oil baron gave me a whole bunch of negal meat. Negal? Negal, yes. Isn't that an antelope? That is a kind of antelope. Only it is an antelope that has, it's a ruminant. It has three stomachs.

Starting point is 00:59:08 So the- Not four. No, three. Or two. No, three. So it has a whole- Or ten. It has a-

Starting point is 00:59:16 So the meat and it's ground, it's ground, ground, ground nigal. We had hamburgers. Man, this is some delicious, very delicious, very delicious, it's ground, ground, ground nigal. We had hamburgers. Man, this is some delicious, very lean, delicious. And, you know, I can send some to you if you want, if you'd like me to send a cooler. Yeah, he's got, he's got, he's got dry ice. Yes, we have dry ice.

Starting point is 00:59:46 He's got sausage and, and the hamburger tubes. And he shot it himself at the King's Ranch. Oh yeah, it's Phoney Baloney Game Ranch. It must have cost a mint to kill that thing. Oh yeah, well he's the oil baron. And here we don't say Phoney Baloney Game ranch, John. We call it a high fence ranch is what we call it. Okay. We don't call it a phony baloney. We call it a high fence ranch. Okay. He shot it at the high fence, fence, fence, whatever it is. It's his birthday. Be nice. It's his birthday. Okay. Happy birthday. He's not on the list. Put him on the list.

Starting point is 01:00:23 He's on the list. I put him on the list. Of course I did. Well, speaking of crazy food. Well, wait, wait, go back to the meat. So what makes it special? I mean, what was it, what was the characteristics that made it so tasty? So it's kind of like a mix between venison, which I happen to like the taste of venison. Yeah, I like the taste of venison too. But the texture and all that is much more of beef.

Starting point is 01:00:50 How about, now see here's when you go to the ground, these ground, you grind up these animals and they take on a different quality. Like for example, not to digress too much. No, that's okay. But for example, ground elk, which is a terrific tasting product, needs to be backed off because ground elk in a burger is dense.

Starting point is 01:01:13 It's too dense. You need to put some ground turkey or something in there to lighten the load. So how about that for this? Is this dense? This has the exact same consistency as beef, as ground beef. No difference. So it's very lean and it has... Except it just tastes better. It tastes better. Yeah. I'd say, I want to say sweeter, but that's not really the right term. But you know how venison, it's not gamey though. It's not, you know, venison can sometimes taste a little gamey if it's not dressed.

Starting point is 01:01:45 Well, it depends on where the venison is. If it's like New Zealand ranch venison, it's very mild compared to some animal somebody shot. Well, this is from the phony baloney game hunting place. No, high fence. High fence. It's fan, I haven't had the sausage yet, the sausage and I'm so I'm sure they spice that with something So I'm gonna try that Try that next

Starting point is 01:02:11 But he gave me just a whole bunch of these these tubes that they pack for him So, you know, he shoots I get I don't I wonder if he even has to carry it back on his back, you know Thing just you know, just shoot it. Oh They go have a beer. You shoot it and go have a beer. A bunch of you're done. You go into the 19th hole. Here is the latest from Illinois. The state is buzzing, literally.

Starting point is 01:02:35 Happy Wednesday, hump day, everyone. And boy, do we have a show for you. Buckle up. We're talking cicadas and booze. We've all heard that you can eat cicadas. You know, there are recipes online describing how you can pan fry them, boil them, toast them, put them in cookies and cakes, whatever. But would you drink them?

Starting point is 01:02:52 All right. So that's something that sounds appealing to you. Listen up. Noon Whistle Brewery posted these images yesterday, unveiling its locally harvested cicada infused malort. It is available at its brew pub in Lombard. The comments on this post range from, heck yeah, I'd try it, to y'all are nasty. And of course, a lot of people asking, seriously, why?

Starting point is 01:03:15 Because your future is bugs, Illinois. You hear that? That we all know you can put it in cookies? No? Who's doing that? Seriously, who's doing that? Nobody. We all know you can put it in cookies. No. Who's doing that? Seriously, who's doing that? Who's putting that stuff into their cookies?

Starting point is 01:03:36 It's concerning. Very concerning. Well, I sense you're doing, well, no, bugs. I don't have any bug clips. You have no bug clips? No, I got some Mar-a-Lago stuff. I still have some climate stuff that I couldn't get to because you went to that guy who went from climate to transgenderism to AI. It was beautiful.

Starting point is 01:03:59 It was beautiful. Huge switcheroo on the whole pace and flow. I'm okay to go back to climate if you want. I mean... Yeah, I got some NPR climate changes because they're, there's an Antarctic expert. This is getting on my nerves, this stuff. It's like, well, you know, it's doing this. Where's the, where's the sea rise?

Starting point is 01:04:21 You know, I don't see it. Yeah, yeah. I'm familiar. Elitist Voices of America. This is NPR. Or PBS. Fixing the problem comes down to, you probably guessed it, Oops, I'm sorry. Woo! Wrong one.

Starting point is 01:04:37 For decades, scientists have gathered evidence that climate change is melting sea ice in the Arctic. But Antarctica has been this weird outlier. The region's sea ice melt hasn't been so dramatic. That's because the two places are quite literally polar opposites. The Arctic up north is an ocean surrounded by land. The Antarctic in the south is land surrounded by ocean. It's a very different setup. That's Caroline Holmes. She's a polar climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey. Scientists like her have been tracking

Starting point is 01:05:10 Antarctic sea ice levels by satellite for 45 years, and they spotted a big shift in 2023. Last year, there were loads of dramatic climate stories going on, and one of those was that sea ice in the Antarctic was really dramatically low in Antarctic winter. So that's our summer Antarctic winter. Antarctic sea ice plummeted to the lowest point on record, but it wasn't immediately clear whether human activity caused that. There's a lot going on in the Antarctic climate, Holmes says. You know, at this point, when I hear this noise, it literally just goes in my ear, one ear goes out the other. And I think everyone else tunes it out too. Antarctic ice, whatever.

Starting point is 01:05:49 And it's now it's not human activity. But it's not human activity. She said, man, it's more complicated. There's more going on. Yeah, like flying saucers. Well, wait a minute. If human activity is causing global warming. No, that's not the part of the globe, man. I feel your pain. It's either it's causing it universally because it's global, the word global refers to the globe,

Starting point is 01:06:20 or it's not. But they can't seem to make up their minds. They don't know how to deal with the fact that they can't really put any numbers together that work. But okay. Continuing. The Antarctic is really variable. We know things like winds, temperatures around Antarctica are some of the most variable places on Earth. And because of that, you could get lots of naturally caused variation that are kind of masking anything that's going on with climate change.

Starting point is 01:06:49 So Holmes and her colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey put together some calculations. They used computer modeling to determine how unusual it is over the long term for the Antarctic to lose that much sea ice. And we found that this is a really rare thing. I mean, we knew it was rare because it hadn't happened before in our lifetimes, but we showed using computing that it really, really, really was a really, really, really, really, really was a really, really,

Starting point is 01:07:17 really, really, really was a really, really extremely rare event. That suggests such a major ice loss isn't only a product of shifting wind patterns or ocean currents. Cow farts! Now there's much clearer evidence that climate change is playing a role. We found that it would only have happened about once in 2,600 years.

Starting point is 01:07:36 Wait, wait a minute. What? Let me get this straight. 2,600 years ago it happened. Yeah, so what was the climate with your blaming climate change back in the day? 2600 years ago, I was the Romans Romans burning stuff Yeah, come on. This is yeah. No, I feel you but you know what? This is where the money is I don't know why we're so pigheaded about it all.

Starting point is 01:08:07 We're just pigheaded. We should just jump on board. Jump on board, go all in. Cash in, cash out. Hello everybody, climate change. John, what's the latest? Oh, it's unbelievable. We're all going to die.

Starting point is 01:08:17 Where's my money? Have you seen the latest models? Oh yes, you know, AI is going to solve this. When we get the next large language model from Mistral, it's going to be great. Yeah, we could be cashing in. People would believe us. We can sound sincere. We can sound sincere. We can sound sincere. That's the trick. It's hard. It's hard, but I think we could do it. We could pull it off. It's doable.

Starting point is 01:08:46 We can do it. Take a couple of acting lessons on it. We're good to go. There you go. Yeah. Okay. I think there's a last clip here. There is.

Starting point is 01:08:54 There is. Yeah, the Kareem DeVore Consulting Group is what it comes down to, to me, with some AI. Fixing the problem comes down to, you probably guessed it, reducing greenhouse gases. Gillen Holmes says that until then, reliance on fossil fuels will continue to shape the Antarctic even if the effects don't show up right away. Oh, how much, who's paying these people? Vegans, rich vegans. Vegans, you'll see that's quite the common theme in the climate change special.

Starting point is 01:09:24 I'm guessing that's true because you brought it up earlier. A lot of veganism. And with that… Yeah, the whole idea. It seems to be the root of all evil. Veganism. It's a big part of it. A big part of it.

Starting point is 01:09:37 And with that, I would like to thank you for your courage saying the morning to you, the man who put the seas in the cow that's cooked. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore-Annec. Well, in the morning you, Mr. Annec, and also all the morning, in the morning all the ships and the seas and the boats and the ground, the feet and the air,

Starting point is 01:09:56 the subs in the water and all the dames and the... Hello, hello, hello, trolls. That's what I'm talking about. Well, this is, you know, I saw it this morning. When I logged into the troll room, I saw very little trolling activity. But I think Darren did something. Because on the last Thursday show, we had 1,820 trolls. Today, down to 1,693.

Starting point is 01:10:22 I blame Darren. What did Darren do? I don't know. I didn't listen to the whole show. But when I checked in, there was only like 250 trolls. Wait, no, but I have it here. Let me see. I checked in. There was 389 and that was a half hour before we started. So he chased the trolls away. I don't know what he did. He might have played a song that was defensive to everyone. Taylor Swift. I'm sure.

Starting point is 01:10:45 Well, I don't think he played Taylor Swift today, but maybe. Well, anyway, I mean, there's still, I mean, it's still maybe some issue with getting online. There's a lot of possibilities. We also have a holiday coming up. And so that holiday will probably result in people taking off today, tomorrow, the next day, and the next day. And then Monday, that's what you do. That's what I do. You work for the government. I do it all the time. You take off a couple of sick days before a three-day weekend and boom, you're good to go. You know all about it. That's right. I do, believe me. And the thing is, when you quit, I worked there for almost a decade at this agency and I got almost a round

Starting point is 01:11:27 of applause because I walked out of there with no sick leave left and no vacation time left. Zero, zero. A big article again today I was reading about how today's workforce, they don't take any, they hardly take any PTO because they're just working remote. And we've talked about this before. They just have little apps that make the mouse move around to make it look like they're busy. They're sitting on the beach.

Starting point is 01:11:54 I don't understand how, how can the economy be booming and doing so well? Stock market, all time high. It's amazing. What's going on? How does it work when no one's doing anything? You tell me. Well, I'll tell you what I think, which is I think that even working at home and getting an hour's work done a day instead of eight

Starting point is 01:12:14 is still more productive than being in the office and shooting this shit all day and being around the water cooler and getting a half an hour's work done. It's just, I don't- Interesting. I'm not, I'm not convinced that the work at home guy with the fake mouse movement and all the rest is still not getting more done than you get done in the office.

Starting point is 01:12:33 It's very possible. It's very possible. I think the stock market all time high is because the dollar was basically devalued due to inflation, but that's just me. Well, it's a universal because the dollar versus euro is a buck 0.8, so it's still not that bad. No, no, not at all. Not at all. It's fine.

Starting point is 01:12:51 Compared to the yen, which is completely lost. I don't know. Are we over 160 again yet? I'm waiting for it. I think it's pushing it. I'm waiting for that collapse. My comment is buy a Toyota. You can do that? Buy a Toyota.

Starting point is 01:13:06 Buy a truck. Let me see what it is. Hold on, I can take a look at it right now. Let me see. It is almost 157. Creeping up. Creeping up. It did bounce up there before. I mean, I think it was a couple of weeks ago. I know it did. It's too high. It shouldn't be there.

Starting point is 01:13:22 No, but it is because something's wrong. I think there something's wrong. I think there's something wrong. I'm not sure. Maybe it's just me. All I hear is, hey, everything's great. The economy is great. And all I see is TikTok videos of children going, I can't afford rent.

Starting point is 01:13:37 I work two jobs. But something's wrong. Somewhere something's wrong. By the way, you too can be a troll that just, you know, maybe, hey, if you're a troll, just get one of those apps that just makes it look like you're busy in the troll room. Then convince us, you know, just move the mouse around, post something from time to time, and just pretend to make us feel better. I think it's possible.

Starting point is 01:14:02 You can get one of those. If I was creating an AI for the troll room, I would create a promotional one. So it just can continue the hound, like buy the toomanyeggs.com. Go to toomanyeggs.com. That's what I would have to do. Just over and over and over, every five minutes.

Starting point is 01:14:21 Have you been to toomanyeggs.com? Kind of thing. Well, Doug is our AI in the troll room, of course. Doug is AI. Doug used to be, he used to give the news. Yeah, on the stream. Then I know. And then Darren came along and killed Doug.

Starting point is 01:14:37 I don't know. Anyway. That was all pre-AI. That's right. We've had AI on this show for 15 years with Doug. With Doug. Yeah, Doug. And it was probably better and certainly more entertaining.

Starting point is 01:14:54 And Doug read the news. If you'd like to be a troll, go to trollroom.io. You can do that live and you can join in anytime because there's always something going on there in the No Agenda stream. There's always something going on there and the no agenda stream There's all kinds of live shows and Boobury was there. I mean they got concerts now. This is insane. What's happening? It's its own organism I don't know how sir Benrose manages it all but he does and somehow everyone's reasonably happy and There's just show after show after show and you can you control along live

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Starting point is 01:16:14 Minimum, a cap, advertising is censorship, V for V for life. And one of the ways that we love to receive value is from our artists who are always on the ball. Many of them are Dutch Grand Masters. And in fact, most of them are Dutch Grand Masters. And they are diligently creating art during the live show when they can so that the minute we're done, we fill out the credits because of course, everyone gets a credit and we're about to thank our executive and associate executive producers just like Hollywood. And then we select a title and boom, we're good to go. And it was Sir Shug, Shug aka Faux Diddley, who nailed it with the classic Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, which he transmorgified into Trad Wife Homes and Gardens new cookbook

Starting point is 01:17:10 and recipes for indoctrination. It's a little hard to read that one, but it was good. We liked it. There were some other things that we looked at. Well, the Jack up Joe was good, which was done by Tantanil right next to it. Yes. The rabbit. It was a little, you know, the batteries.

Starting point is 01:17:32 The idea was there. It's a typical no agenda pack shot with Duracell batteries, which is weird because he had... And I should remind people, I've had nothing but bad luck with Duracell batteries that you get from Costco. They leave them in too long, they leak, they leak, they leak, and they don't last that long. The best battery to get is either an Allmax or a Fuji. Fujis?

Starting point is 01:17:59 Fujis, I've had good luck with Fujis. Fuji makes a terrific battery. Can you get those at Costco, the Fuji? No, all you can get at Costco is Duracell and the Kirkland battery. No, how are those? The Kirkland's. I have not noticed that they're any good. No.

Starting point is 01:18:17 There's not a place to buy batteries. I don't think I'd ever buy Kirkland batteries. Fujis though. I bought them at... Yeah, Fujis. Fujis are good. They didn't show me anything.... Yeah, Fuji's. Fuji's are good. They didn't show me anything. You had a complaint about the chicken the other day.

Starting point is 01:18:29 I saw you posted about it. Well, it turns out that Costco is taking the Costco chicken, the $4.95, $4.98, whatever. Classic. Classic cheap chicken. Rotisserie chicken. And in some Costcos, not mined locally, but the one up in Port Angeles, Washington, where it's actually in Squim, they put it in a plastic bag instead of in the container.

Starting point is 01:18:53 Oh no, that's wrong. And so the plastic bag, all the juice ends up in the bag and the bag is made out of whatever it's made out of. It cracks and it leaks. And so you're going gonna get Costco chicken juice all over your car or wherever you put the bag. And it also steams the chicken in the bag. It's creating a soft skin.

Starting point is 01:19:15 It's a disaster. And you also can't tell using the chicken trick what the best chicken is in the group because they're all in bags. You can't really tell with the Costco chicken in the container. The trick is, for everyone out there who eats this crap, the trick is if the back of the chicken is touching the top of the container, because you can see it, I'd say about one out of 20 chickens does this, it's the perfectly cooked chicken.

Starting point is 01:19:43 John C. Dvorak's Pet Peeve of the Day. What is that peeve? It's a tip. Well, I wanted to play the peeve, but then you close it with a tip. But your peeve was the bags. Yeah, the peeves are the bags. The bags are no good. Yeah. We don't have a John C. Dvorak tip of the day.

Starting point is 01:20:01 We should. Should. We had many artists check in with slingshots. The slingshot. People love the slingshot idea. Yeah. Well, they didn't quite, why didn't they quite do it? It didn't quite, it didn't quite do it for us. Yeah, they were just a little light, corny. Yeah, I kind of liked Darren's No Agenda Sewage Sludge. Class another classic pack shot. It was okay. I saw you use-

Starting point is 01:20:27 Yeah, he does. Well, he always throws something in there just in case. I saw that you used Fletcher's Gold Standard for- Yeah, I used it in the newsletter. For the newsletter. Yeah, I thought it was a pretty piece. It was a nice piece. It wasn't for the show

Starting point is 01:20:42 because it doesn't really have any direct connection to anything, but it was a nice piece. Then there was a bunch of AI stuff everywhere, a lot of tradwife stuff, people trying to get us with tradwives. It wasn't going to translate. I did get people emailing me about how they love being a housekeeper. And well they should. Instead of Homemaker, it's a John C. Dvorak housekeeper. And well, they should.

Starting point is 01:21:08 Instead of homemaker, it's a John C. Dvorak housekeeper. That is great. That is great. Well, thank you. You're keeping a house. Yeah, exactly. You're keeping a house. Thank you very much, Sir Shug, AKA Faux Diddley for the artwork for episode 1662.

Starting point is 01:21:22 We almost, this was kind of interesting. We almost titled that one Jacked Up Joe and we went for a hard landing but we're like yeah how about Jacked Up Joe and if we had done that it would have been the third time we've used that title a quick, a quick check revealed that we had already doubled that once before so. Yes we'd use it it, use it twice. I promoted the idea, let's go for the hat trick. Yeah, I wavered for a minute, but then now we can do something better.

Starting point is 01:21:51 Now we'd like to thank the people who delivered us treasure. We appreciate this very much. We appreciate anyone who becomes a producer. And you can become a producer for any amount, at any time, it's up to you. You can become a sustaining producer. If everyone did, it would be fantastic,

Starting point is 01:22:05 but that's just not how it works. Value for value usually comes in the form of numerology. People love to donate in certain numbers, but if you feel like it, you can go to noagendadonations.com and you can set up something that goes every month or every week or every show. It could be $5, it could be 11.11.

Starting point is 01:22:23 I see still a lot of people doing four. I looked at the numbers today. That's the weekly. Oh, that's the weekly $4 a week. You can have a layaway knighthood. So as long as you keep track of the honor system, keep track of all your donations, lots of people have become knights over years time. And we appreciate them. We appreciate anybody under 50. Typically that's for anonymity, which don't want to be mentioned at all. And we always want to highlight our top donors, $200 and above, associate executive producers, $300 and above is executive producer. And we read your note and we kick it off with Dusty from Waco, Texas, who comes in with a cool Insanite $1,000.

Starting point is 01:23:06 He has a typewritten note, which I shall read. There we go. Dear John Adam, Dusty here from Waco, Texas. Deduce me, fellas. You've been deduced. Been feeling to donate for quite some time. This is Texan. Been feeling to donate for quite some time. This is Texan. Been feeling to donate for quite some time.

Starting point is 01:23:27 Been feeling or doling for some time boys. You better de-douche me. Got punched in the mouth by my cousin Chris Gillum who resides in North Austin and I'd like to publicly thank him for telling me about No Agenda and also I should remind him to donate douchebag. Douchebag. John, it's hard for me to relate to anyone who still calls California home. Only kidding he says, but I do value your voice of experience. You keep the game on the field.

Starting point is 01:23:58 Well, that's interesting. You keep the game on the field. What do you think that means in this context? Time out. I pray for your state. To Adam, however, I have the most important thing in common. In 2004, I cried out to the Lord from a very lost and dark place. Not only did he rescue me from my pain, but he also set my feet on solid ground that has given me a fruitful life with renewing hope in my heart. I was so happy for you and your family when I heard you had come to faith in Jesus.

Starting point is 01:24:24 After 20 years Of walking with him. I know now for certain that every word in that Bible is right and true. No jingles for me, though I donate this $1,000 with a cheerful heart of gratitude for no agenda service to humanity Y'all are another critical voice in the layman's search for the truth. I'll sign off with a quote from DJT That would be Donald J. Trump I presume. The truth is a force of nature, it always wins in the end. Hang on folks, only a little while longer now. I think he's voting for Trump. I would think so. I think he's voting for Trump. Yes, and you can hold on, you never know what's gonna happen.

Starting point is 01:25:02 Yeah, you never know. Alright, thanks brother, thank you Dusty. And you can hold on. You never know what's going to happen. Yeah. You never know. All right. Thanks brother. Thank you, dusty. And, uh, did, now did he ask for a nighting or anything? Nope, he did not. We talked about this, Jay and I, and we're just going to wait for him to come back and tell us what to do. Okay. And we'll do it. We'll do it for you, brother. We'll do it for you. Just let us know. Barry growl from Franklin, Tennessee is up. We have a lot of people in Franklin, Tennessee.

Starting point is 01:25:27 Great content, guys. Keep it up. I would like to request a goat karma for no other reason than I love to hear the screaming goat. Barry Growl, formerly NoNote. You've got karma. All right, Barry. Thank you, brother. Pretty sure I know Barry. Baron Thaddeus, Tambourine, Queensland, Australia. Hey, Tambourine, interesting.

Starting point is 01:25:56 Hey Baron Thaddeus here, one of your first 10 Noagenda nights ever seated at the roundtable. Well hello. Checking back in for some house buying karma. It works so well the last time. Would love some more. Thank you for your courage. BPCITU, best podcast in the universe. By the way, this is, he says 500 Australian dollary dues that he sent us, which he says equals 333 USD. Actually turned out to be a little more. I guess. Yeah, 350.

Starting point is 01:26:27 Yeah. You know what? That's because of our dollar devaluing. There you go. We're losing against Aussies. You've got karma. There you go. We're losing.

Starting point is 01:26:35 They're just using the wrong calculator. It hasn't changed that much. 66 cents. Thanks. You looked at it the other day. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Rob Simpson in Argyle, New York.

Starting point is 01:26:45 34567, an old classic that nobody uses anymore except Rob. ITM, gentlemen, thank you for your courage. You gentlemen are second to none. Woohoo! This donation is to honor our 32nd wedding anniversary, one more year for that magic number. And then another donation. My wife Cheryl is the best thing to happen to me. I was the luckiest guy alive 32 years ago and each year after has been a bigger blessing. This donation brings me to nighthood. He won't be sleeping in the doghouse tonight.

Starting point is 01:27:25 This donation brings me to knighthood. I would like to be knighted Sir Rob the Knight of the Highlander Shooting Irons. I humbly request Scotlander, Honeycomb, Honeycone IPA, and a side of Fiddleheads. They still go great with Mutton at the round table, please. In closing, I would like to request two mic bumps from John and also send out goat karma for all the listeners and all the trolls. Thank you, Rob Simpson. So we give him a night, a couple of mic bumps.

Starting point is 01:28:00 Yeah. Oh, see, this doesn't sound, see, when you want to do want to do it when you request it doesn't sound anything like it Yes, because your hands not mic bumps cuz this is what a mic bump sounds like Yeah, do the one that you normally do that other bump. I can't this is a function of the of the microphone stand There you go, Rob. You've got karma. Yeah, that's it.

Starting point is 01:28:26 That's it. Yeah, that's the one. It's not the mic being bumped. What is it? What are you bumping there? I'm bumping the whole, the, this. There's the great, I love that. That's a good sound. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:28:39 What are you, what are you bumping? It's the system. It's the bar that sticks out and, and then the mic is attached to that and then there's a cage around the mic which shouldn't allow that to happen. What I'm doing here should not be heard by the mic at all. Are you on the aisle? What mic are you on? I would say that this cage is no good. Well, I wish we could complain to Bob, but he's dead. No, it's not his cage. Oh, that's why. This cage is the one that got sloppy and it ended up touching the outside thing.

Starting point is 01:29:15 It would make it even more noise. This cage is just so good. This is an Amazon cage. Anonymous from Tomahawk, Wisconsin. 333.33 says, hey, hi fellas, four more years. Last fall I panicked and picked up a meaningless nickname. I'll fix that in a future donation, hopefully sooner than later, if the purpose of this donation bears fruit.

Starting point is 01:29:39 I have a chance at my dream job this week, so I need a jobs karma pronto. Give me some of that new Al Rev. Some of those are instant classics. Yes, I did have some of that new Rev. Yeah, I have his new supercut. Thank you for your courage anonymous. Pushing proven conspiracy theories that pushing proven that they were not factual conspiracy theories. Jen Psaki. Yesterday, President Biden pardoned, quote, bifurcate laws that criminalize consensual gay sex.

Starting point is 01:30:18 In California. What are your thoughts? How do we, I mean, some say he's Jim Jones or Jim Jordan with a jacket on. He co-offered the bill on aid to Israel and restraint. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got Carmen. We love Reval, we love him. At least he's keeping up. A new producer so you're getting stuff from him again. Anonymous in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. We know, we used to have somebody that worked on his show.

Starting point is 01:30:52 Remember that? Some years and years back. Oh, that's right. Where he required, he has to have a cup of green tea or whatever it is, right to, you know, at certain, at 2 o'clock on the desk. He has a rider. He has a rider. Anonymous, another anonymous, and this one's in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Nuts, 333.33, thanks for everything.

Starting point is 01:31:14 Hoping for any new jingles, people don't express themselves anymore. Well, what does that mean? Means there's not enough new jingles, except we just played one. All right. What are you drinking? Means there's not enough new jingles as though it was something we just played one. All right. What are you drinking? More, more, yeah!

Starting point is 01:31:28 There's some new jingles there. Yeah, four more years, that's new. Totally usable. Laura Cram in Camus, Camus, Washington, 333.33. ITM gents, on behalf of devout Catholic tradwives, just had to say, butker for president. Congrats. Well, congrats to say, Butker for president. Congrats. Well, congrats to Adam and Tina on five years.

Starting point is 01:31:49 Yes, thank you very much. Deducing, she says. You've been deduced. And some Rev Al for my smoking hot husband and three human resources. Keep up the good work. This will be the longer version. Haven't played it in a while. She's getting lunch at

Starting point is 01:32:06 Chipotle The Tortise In the Race Kim Kardashian Siganoi Weaver Russia R-E-S-P-I-C-T They're all jitty

Starting point is 01:32:22 R-E-S-P-I-C-T There's no real conference. Hey, suck it to me, suck it to me, suck it to me, suck it to me. We much. Suck it to me, suck it to me, suck it to me, suck it to me. Resist. There you go. We much.

Starting point is 01:32:32 Classic Rev-Al for you. Thank you very much. Sir Dr. Sir Otter Baronetta, the flat water in Lincoln, Nebraska, comes in with 33333. Requesting karma for all the good guys at the Libertarian National Convention in DC this weekend. That's something we didn't cover. No we didn't, didn't realize.

Starting point is 01:32:54 Jingle requests, Reverend Al Medley, I mean what are we doing today? I don't know, it's a lot of Reverend Al. This is a random number, random number. Yes it is. And little girl yay. It says yet, but I'm sure he meant yes yet. Yes of karma. We need a little girl yet President Trump said that because of the killing of al bagdagi bagdagi That the world is a better place

Starting point is 01:33:22 You've got karma Yay! Bagdagdy. You've got karma. Amanda Salazewski. Salazewski and Wasaw. Wasaw. I'm sure I'm doing that wrong. Wasaw, Michigan.

Starting point is 01:33:28 This is the first associate executive producer. Wisconsin. Oh, Wisconsin. Why did I say Michigan? That's wrong. Wasaw. And she wrote a note. And she's, yes, Amanda.

Starting point is 01:33:36 Oh, Shay Lesky. Uh-huh. Oh, Shay Lesky. Oh, Shay Lesky. Oh, Shay Lesky. Oh, Shay Lesky. Oh, Shay Lesky. Oh, Shay Lesky.

Starting point is 01:33:44 Oh, Shay Lesky. Oh, Shay Lesky. Oh, Shay Les and she's, yes, Amanda. Oh, Shay Leske. She has a pronunciation there. Also known as Dame Amanda of the Badger State. John Adam, just wanted to return some of the value that you've both given me with this donation. I've reached Dame Hood. Oh, there you go. She will be Dame Amanda of the Badger State. Also, my birthday falls on a show day this year. I am turning 41 on Sunday, May 19th. Please add me to the birthday list and may I have a biscuit?

Starting point is 01:34:12 They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. And some karma. Thank you both for all that you do. Amanda Chaletsky, future Dame Amanda of the Badger State. And we will be giving that title to you later on. You've got karma. And we have the Highland Craigs in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 230. Thanks Noagenda gentlemen. You y'all are awesome. Love the Highland Craigs

Starting point is 01:34:47 That's it Isn't there more here isn't it? Oh, no, that's the other one. Oh, there's two greens. I got it. Thank you The next one is mr. Aaron Heath Lewiston South Australia Australia 226 Jobs Karma for all of us for or starting something new. Love the show. Keep up the good work. Well, we got that for you. No problem. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You got karma. Here we go with Eli the Coffee Guy in Bensonville, Illinois.

Starting point is 01:35:25 This brings me to a note that was written in too. Gentlemen, you asked espresso questions last episode. We have answers. The device used to knock the spent coffee out of the portafilter is known as a knock box. Mimi pointed this out to me too. Knock box. Knock box.

Starting point is 01:35:41 Knock box. Knock box. Light roasts don't knock out of the portafilter as easy because they are denser. Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box!

Starting point is 01:35:50 Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box!

Starting point is 01:35:58 Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! Box! do have more caffeine. The Honduran organic is my favorite for espresso. Adam, I agree that dark roasts work better in the French press. Producers should visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and get a

Starting point is 01:36:11 super sampler of all 10 of our coffees to which then see which one is their favorite and use ITM code 20 for 20% off their orders. Stay caffeinated. Now that brings me to a note that was sent by another coffee guy. And of course I ended up going back to make sure. Misplacing the note. No, I have to go back and find the note. Okay. But I'm just give me a second. Here it is.

Starting point is 01:36:37 It's from Mike and he's a coffee roaster too, but he does, I think he's more commercial. Does he have a code? A coffee roaster here weighing but he does, I think he's more commercial. Does he have a code? A coffee roaster here weighing in on the light dark debate. And this is our producer, Mike. Eli the coffee guy who has a dang good espresso blend will probably confirm what I'm about to say as well. But he doesn't quite because he says something different here. It's not that light roast coffee has more caffeine.

Starting point is 01:37:09 It's that the light roast coffees have more density. Now he did say that. And humidity, that the amount of space they occupy is greater compared to a dark roast. So when you fill your portafilter with a dark roast, the standard is 18 grams, but to occupy the same amount of space, you will have 20 grams of a light roast. Oh, that's why it's more caffeine, it's just more product.

Starting point is 01:37:35 Yeah, it makes sense. More product, got it. This is even more noticeable when you compare the amount of coffee in a 12-ounce bag of light versus dark roast, also the phenomenon where you can't knock the light roast out, has to do with dark roast being more carbonized, brittle, and light roast being more flexible, retaining more water. I work on some high volume $30,000 espresso machines that use ceramic burrs and they are not rated for light roast

Starting point is 01:38:02 because they will get jammed from the two factors I just mentioned. Now that's more information than anybody out there will ever get from a podcast about coffee. Yes. Well, I'm down to my almost my last can of the coaster. I love this. You love the canned coffee. Yeah. And again, it says here,

Starting point is 01:38:26 Nitro, shake vigorously to activate. And it does. When I open it, it sprays all over me. I, my supposed, you know, should I wait before that? Because the activation. Well, that's another question for Eli the coffee guy. He's the one who makes that product. Because I did it the other day and all over my hoodie and like, okay. product because I did it the other day and all over my hoodie and like okay Now I just want to mention on this get this can is it's confusing Costa Rican Dota Tara zoo snap chill coffee here comes single origin juicy profile vibrant taste

Starting point is 01:38:58 Mm-hmm. Yeah, indeed. It's just water and coffee Mm-hmm. Well that caught that can coffee that make is quite good. It trips me out. I mean, it's just. Yeah, I know we noticed. Please. Carter Smith is in San Diego, California and he says $200 for y'all catching up

Starting point is 01:39:17 for a subscription that has long since lapsed. Thank you for your service. Carter Smith, thank you Carter. Linda Lupatkin in Lakewood, Colorado, 200, and she wants jobs, karma and has a message. Which is a promotion for herself for a speedier job search. Go to ImageMakersInc.com for all of your exclusive resume and job search needs. That's ImageMakersInc. with the K.com or find Linda Lupatkin, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes on the producer list.

Starting point is 01:39:46 Now I mentioned this, we'll give her the jobs card and then I have a comment. Well make the comment and then I'll do the jobs card. The comment is that we've gotten at least two notes from people who said, you said there's no advertising, but Linda Lu Patkin's advertising. Really? Yeah, I can read the note and

Starting point is 01:40:11 My comment is no she's not really advertising because she's not going through an advertising system She's just plugging a product that she has the same as Eli the coffee guy Which I reprimanded this guy for not mentioning that Seems like more of an ad than the Linda Code he's got a code He's got a code. He's got a code. He's got a code. So, hey, we all should have someone who donates $200 every single show. All right? We all should be so lucky. Not an ad.

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Starting point is 01:41:30 We'll gladly vouch for you because we are show business guys. Thank you for supporting us for episode 1662. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Shut up, slave. Shut up, slave. Shut up, slave. There's some bird flu. They're just keeping it alive at this point. I don't know if you've been following, but this is...

Starting point is 01:42:08 Yeah, it's just languishing. They're not doing a very good job. Well, they're trying to keep it alive. Tonight, US health officials closely monitoring that human case of the highly contagious bird flu virus. Now, the second infection linked to an outbreak in dairy cons. Oh, stop. Second infection.

Starting point is 01:42:25 So second infection, why are they using the word high? This is a, I don't know where you got this, but this is bad reporting. It's highly contagious amongst birds. Yes. But to just throw it out as highly contagious makes it think that we're getting it. That's the point. Authorities saying a Michigan farm worker recovered after having mild symptoms. That worker likely contracting the virus from infected livestock.

Starting point is 01:42:52 Back in March, a Texas farm worker was diagnosed with the first human case of bird flu. Human case of bird flu. First of all, bull crap. I've seen guys in Belgium with bird flu. Bullcrap, I've seen guys in Belgium with bird flu And it's pink eye basically tied to dairy cows both patients worked with cows What does tied tied to dairy cows even mean? Did you did you put a string on it a piece of yarn? Yeah, a big rope diagnosed with the first human case of bird flu tied to dairy cows. I mean, that's not even That's not It flu tied to dairy cows. I mean that's not even, that's not, it's either from dairy cows or... Where did this report come from? This is ABC.

Starting point is 01:43:34 These networks are really out of control. They're being told what to do. ...worker was diagnosed with the first human case of bird flu tied to dairy cows. Both patients worked with cows, both reporting eye infections, but the cases are not connected. Eye infections, pink eye, that's literally what you get. It's almost like, you know, just rubbing poop in your eye, you get pink eye. Please, eye infections. Oh, I'm blind! I'm blind from bird flu! The risk to human health still is very low.

Starting point is 01:44:04 Because of the bird flu threat, the CDC tonight has a precaution urging cities and states to keep up flu surveillance this summer. Keep it up. Keep up. Keep up the surveillance. There is no human-to-human transmission, which is very important research, that this problem is still mostly confined to livestock. All right, let's listen to Lester Holt on NBC with his version very quick.

Starting point is 01:44:25 A second human case of bird flu linked to dairy cows has been confirmed in the US. Health officials in Michigan say a dairy worker who contracted the virus experienced mild eye symptoms and has since recovered. The first case was found in Texas in March. Oh, I've recovered from my pink eye. Oh, so rough. It was, you know, there's probably more cases of the plague than these two cases of bird, supposed bird flu and conjunctivitis. Actual plague. Yeah, actual people. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

Starting point is 01:45:07 Well, let's change gears and go to the 10 commandments in the Louisiana schools. Big scandal. Woo! Louisiana may soon require public schools to display the 10 commandments in every classroom. That's in a bill that passed the state Senate last week. A few other states have also considered this move after a US Supreme Court decision about religion in schools. Molly Ryan with member station WRKF in Baton Rouge has more. The bill specifies that a poster at least 11 inches by 14 inches must be displayed in every

Starting point is 01:45:42 public school classroom with the Ten Commandments, spelling out the prohibitions against killing and stealing to prohibitions against coveting your neighbor's wife, servant, or cattle. Proponents say it will provide moral guidance to students. The significance of history is historical. Our laws are based on the Ten Commandments. In fact, without them, a lot of our laws would not exist. That's State Representative Dodie Horton, a Republican lawmaker and sponsor of the bill, discussing it at the legislature last month. She passed a similar bill last year that requires all public school classrooms to display in God we trust. Horton and other proponents

Starting point is 01:46:19 say there's a new legal opportunity for something that's been prohibited in the past. They cite a US Supreme Court ruling that gave a high school football coach his job back after he was fired for preying on the field. The legal landscape has changed, which now allows us to present a bill like the 10 Commandments. Oh, where's the controversy? It's coming in clip two. Here we go. A similar bill failed in Texas last year and Arizona governor vetoed a slightly different one.

Starting point is 01:46:48 The group Americans United for Separation of Church and State says Louisiana would be the only state to require the commandments in all classrooms. Opponents of the bill say it's state sanctioned religion and violates the first amendment. No. Here's Terry Landry with the Southern Poverty Law Center opposing the bill in a Senate committee, saying it violates the rights of families of varying religious beliefs. Where are the parental rights in this particular issue? The proposal does not require teachers to teach the Ten Commandments, but some, including Landry, argue some of the commandments could raise uncomfortable questions for elementary

Starting point is 01:47:22 school students. Do I want a teacher explaining to my child what is adultery? He noted that could also clash with another bill being considered to ban classroom discussion of sexual orientation. The bill goes back to the House where it's expected to pass with some changes before heading to Republican Governor Jeff Landry's desk. If he signs the bill, opponents are expected to challenge it in court. Oh, brother. So here we go.

Starting point is 01:47:47 Now there's a few things to discuss. One, the guy, the atheist, who I'm assuming is an atheist, that came up with this, well, I don't know, it's gonna cause problems because you have to explain adultery to children. But meanwhile, they're promoting sexual orientation discussions. Homosexual orientation.

Starting point is 01:48:11 To the first graders. And why don't you put the Ten Commandments just hanging above your pride flag? It'll all be okay. Please. And of all things, by the way, we should mention the Ten Commandments are innocuous. But they will bring forth the Satanists and the Atheists who are going to bitch and moan because it's not a separation. What church are we talking about here? The Jewish, the Ten Commandments comes out of the Old Testament. Yes. So that's Jewish. The Ten Commandments comes out of the Old Testament.

Starting point is 01:48:46 Yes. So that's Jewish. So are we talking about you're objecting to, you hate Jews. I just don't… Good stretch. But then again, now the other element that came out, this is Texas rejected the same idea. What's wrong with you in Texas? I don't know, but I was not part of that vote. I understand in California why that would never happen.

Starting point is 01:49:09 Well, I don't know the details of the Texas thing, but we just need to set straight that the separation between church and state is nowhere, can you read that in the Constitution? The only thing that reads in the First Amendment is that government cannot make any law against any religion. Yes, even if you want to be a Satanist. The separation of church and state comes from a letter that Jefferson wrote that people now hold up as, oh, see, the founding... No, no, you can do whatever you want. Any state can do what they want. And quite honestly, any school should do whatever they want. But we do much better if we got a little bit

Starting point is 01:49:49 of 10 commandments in our life. But no, oh boy, oh yes. I'm sure this all boils onto one thing. Don't vote for Trump. And while we're at it. Yes, I think you nailed it. While we're at it. That's the only reason for the controversy

Starting point is 01:50:04 or the fact that they carry this on NPR. Don't vote for Trump. And while we're at it, everyone, you know, you can go to any school in America. You can go to, I think probably if I went into the school in Fredericksburg, you'll see pride flags in all different versions and all the teachers have a pride flag.

Starting point is 01:50:24 We ought to be, it's gonna be great great and we get pride and pride and pride. One of the sins, of course, pride. But we got all kinds of pride flags. But oh, no, Alito's got a pine tree flag. This morning, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito faces new calls to remove himself from cases tied to the former president and the assault on the Capitol. The New York Times reports a second flag used by January 6 protesters

Starting point is 01:50:50 was seen flying at Alito's vacation home. Scott McFarland looks at the modern message of that revolutionary war banner. This is fantastic. The guy's flying a flag, and it's a problem. They've flown pride flags over the White House. I know why. I actually have a clip from two shows ago. Yeah. Can I play the follow up and then I want to hear yours?

Starting point is 01:51:13 Yeah, play the follow up. But I want to just mention that this is part and parcel, I think, of the upcoming Supreme Court decisions about the Chevron deference. Flags. About flags. It's got nothing to do with the course not you can see the white and green appeal to heaven flag and that the rioters who searched and i'll tell you right the siege helped make the flag a symbol of support for former president trump and the conservative christian nationalist movement

Starting point is 01:51:44 according to this new york times report Wednesday, an appeal to Heaven flag was photographed flying at the New Jersey vacation home of conservative Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito last summer. The report comes days after Alito acknowledged an upside-down U.S. flag, also associated with the January 6th attack, and the Stop the Steal movement, flew outside his Virginia home days after the deadly Capitol riot. Alito argued he had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag that was hung by his wife amid a dispute with neighbors. And recently Alito argued free speech is under attack.

Starting point is 01:52:18 Troubled waters are slamming against some of our most fundamental principles. The controversy comes as the court is deciding whether Trump should have immunity from prosecution, which led some Democrats to call for Justice Alito to recuse himself from those cases. I think what he did was really the wrong thing to do, and it casts some doubt on impartiality. As the appeal-to-heaven flag also hangs outside the office

Starting point is 01:52:43 of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, Johnson issued a statement in support writing he has long appreciated the rich history of the flag as it was first used by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Yeah, and it was against the British because they wanted to cut down our pine trees. And we said no. We need these pine trees for making cheap furniture. You guys haven't got a clue. IKEA needs them.

Starting point is 01:53:12 IKEA needs a damn pine tree. Here's what I got. Now this is from two weeks ago. This is the upside down flag became an issue. An American flag once reportedly flown upside down at the home of a Supreme Court Justice. The presidential contenders agreed to debate and pretty soon also Michael Cohen on the stand at the criminal trial of Donald Trump and Piers Ron Elving joined us. Ron, thanks so much for being with us.

Starting point is 01:53:36 Good to be with you, Scott. The New York Times reported this week it had photographs confirmed by interviews with neighbors that a US flag flew upside down at the home of Justice Samuel Alito just days before President Biden was inaugurated in 2021. Now, is this just a matter among Capitol pundits and opinionators or something more? It certainly has set pundit tongues to wagging Scott and it's still a developing story But there are some facts agreed upon Alito says he had nothing to do with the flag

Starting point is 01:54:09 But his wife put it up after a verbal dispute with a neighbor over yard signs Apparently one sign was reported to have had an obscenity on it. Mrs. Alito took exception to that had an altercation with a neighbor and Then she ran up old glory upside down now. It's a nautical sign of a vessel in distress, but it was also brandished by some of the rioters at the Capitol trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. That was several days before this flag incident at the Alitos. So Democrats are taking this very seriously. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Senate Judiciary Chairman, Dick Durbin have both called on

Starting point is 01:54:49 Alito to recuse himself from two cases pending now before the high court cases that are pertinent to Trump's trials and his election denial. This is so amazing because you know, when it comes to flag etiquette, I mean, seriously, I've seen the pride, I'm going to say it again, the pride flag flying above the American flag totally out of all flag regulations. Any flag in America should not be flown above the US flag.

Starting point is 01:55:20 Right. And what is the deal with these people? I should have clipped it. You know, my hate listen pivot with Kara Schwisher and Scott Galloway. They were like, you should just leave the flag alone. You should never do that. Stop with the flag. All of a sudden they care about the flag.

Starting point is 01:55:38 These people hate the American flag because it represents Trump. They hate it. They hate America. They're haters. The haters got to hate. They hate the American flag because it represents Trump. They hate it. They hate America. They're haters. The haters got to hate. They hate it. A 69-year-old grandmother was arrested here in Fredericksburg this week by the sheriff. You know why?

Starting point is 01:56:00 Because there was video of her praying inside the Capitol on January 6th. This is almost three years later. And they're still rousting grannies? Rousting grannies. Well, how did they find out who it was, A, and why is the sheriff going along with this bullcrap? Well, thank you. This is why it's a big issue here. Let me write down Rousting Granny.

Starting point is 01:56:25 That's pretty funny. We have a runoff election for Gillespie County Sheriff, which ends tomorrow. And this is the incumbent sheriff. And so apparently the way it works is whenever you're riding around, the sheriff just scans your license plate. And if a warrant pops up, he's going to arrest you. So I didn't know the sheriff was riding around just checking everybody's license plate. But apparently it is. So it's part political now, of course. Look at what he did. He's bad. He's bad. Vote for the other guy. Vote for the other guy.

Starting point is 01:56:58 But he's bad. Vote for Chris. Vote for Chris. But he's bad. I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Yes, it's good. But in general, the knowledge of what really... And you notice that they only talk about rioters now. They don't talk about insurrectionists. That went by the wayside. They stopped calling it...

Starting point is 01:57:17 Well, that's because Biden can't pronounce it. He keeps saying erectionists. Here is Bill Maher, who appeared on the Megyn Kelly show. He did this by the way I should mention. He also appeared on Gutfeld. And on The View. He's everywhere. He's everywhere.

Starting point is 01:57:33 Because he's got a book and he's got a good book agent and she's pushing him on this show and that. He was not happy on Gutfeld. Well, he wasn't happy on Megyn Kelly either. I think on January 20th, 2025, he'll show up at the White House, whether he's invited or not. And I don't think that's gonna be good. We're now-

Starting point is 01:57:50 I don't think he's gonna bomb in if he lost. Yes. Oh yeah, bomb is a word I wouldn't even throw around lightly. Oh, stop it. He's not gonna do that. Right, like there was never an attack on the Capitol. I hear you, I hear you.

Starting point is 01:58:04 But he's not going to show up at the inauguration. They didn't show up at the Capitol and break windows and knock down doors and kill cops. They didn't do that. They didn't break windows and knock down... They didn't kill cops. They of course did. No, they didn't. Who did?

Starting point is 01:58:19 They died of natural causes that day? Yeah, nobody died that day. Cops? No, not true. Who? Okay. Who? Oh, I don't remember the names. They didn't. There was Brian Sicknick who died later after the fact and the coroner's report did not say it was because of what he had inhaled that day. He said it had possibly accelerated the condition that killed him. So this is the kind of knowledge or ignorance that people have.

Starting point is 01:58:46 Well, cops were killed, man. Cops were killed. They killed cops. That's Bill Maher, a guy who has a voice. He has a voice. He was very similar on Gutfeld when he had... And Gutfeld has a tremendous sense of humor when it comes to dealing with this guy. And he's just amazing to watch. He's faster too, because the two of them got into a little sparring match and you can just see that the quips were faster.

Starting point is 01:59:16 And it's a big deal. You know, that this way, Johnny Carson always got a lot of kudos because if you wanted to get into like an insult thing, the thing going on, he'd kill you Because you just aren't that fast. He's real fast. And so as Gutfeld turns out to be really quick But he said the same thing He said Trump's gonna you know, he's just gonna take the office and he's going to and if he gets elected He's never gonna leave. This is the same stuff. He says that he's going to ruin, he's going to kill, end democracy. Where does this even, how does this even develop?

Starting point is 01:59:50 It's just derangement syndrome. It's totally deranged. I should have, I should have played these clips after you brought up the 10 commandments because Nora O'Donnell, this was really interesting. Nora O'Donnell interviewed the Pope. Yes, she did. And they took up the whole show. Well, I don't have all that. But a lot of things that have been reported in the news turn out to be fake news, according to the Pope. What? I know I was surprised. Let's

Starting point is 02:00:19 start with number one. It's Francis's capacity for forgiveness and openness that has defined his leadership of the church's nearly 1.4 billion Catholics. He put them and the world on notice during an impromptu press conference on a plane in 2013, when he spoke on the subject of homosexuality. If someone is gay, he said, and he searches for the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge? And he did not stop there. Last year you decided to allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples. That's a big change.

Starting point is 02:01:01 Why? No. What I allowed was not to bless the union. That cannot be done because that is not the sacrament. I cannot. The Lord made it that way. But to bless each person, yes. The blessing is for everyone. For everyone.

Starting point is 02:01:27 To bless a homosexual type union, however, goes against the given right, against the law of the Church. But to bless each person? Why not? The blessing is for all. Some people were scandalized by this, but why? Everyone. Everyone. You have said, who am I to judge? Homosexuality is not a crime. No, it's a human fact. Which brings me to the... where is it here?

Starting point is 02:02:06 The new show starting on Peacock at June 6th. Here's the promo. Our planet is home to over 11 million species. The paparazzi really are everywhere. Everything you were taught as a kid is wrong. Gay penguins, bisexual lions, sex-changing clownfish. This is a queer planet. Queerness has always existed. It's only in humans that we have such a stigma about it.

Starting point is 02:02:43 The idea of just having two fixed sexes is clearly out of style. Mother Nature is pretty open-minded. Sex is not just for reproduction. It's clear that no matter where you look on our planet, nature is full of queer surprises. To be honest, we should all probably get laid a little more than we do. That's right. Queer Planet starts June 6 on the Peacock Network. Woo!

Starting point is 02:03:15 Gay. And it's called Queer Planet. The show is called Queer Planet. Yep. That's your name. Peacock. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's all good. It's all good. It's your peak clock. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:03:26 No, that's all good. It's all good. It's all good. It's perfect. But don't hang the 10 commandments up in the schools. Queer plans. They show a bunch of lions. Boy, it looks like gay lions.

Starting point is 02:03:40 It really looks highly produced, I must say. Yeah, well, they got a lot of producers that know what they're doing. Yeah, they certainly do. That are gay. Anyway, I don't know why I went that route, but maybe we should get back to Trump because Comey is out and about. Well, wait, wait, before you do that. Back to gay?

Starting point is 02:04:04 Talking about, you know, you first you brought up the 10 Commandments, now we got brought gay planet or gay queer planet, big difference. Yeah. I might as well play this clip. This is Biden and the five daughters clip. Have you heard this? Yeah, I have.

Starting point is 02:04:19 Yeah, it's kind of creepy. Purgatory for this guy, five daughters. Straight to heaven. And by the way, I say to every young man thinking of getting married, marry into a family of five or more daughters. I did. My wife's the oldest of five sisters. You know why?

Starting point is 02:04:36 One of them will always love you. Not the same one. One of them will always be on your side. That's the biggest advantage of marrying into five daughters. This is so creepy. He's crazy. He's crazy. He's crazy.

Starting point is 02:04:44 He's crazy. He's crazy. He's crazy. He's crazy. He's crazy. One of them will always love you. Not the same one. One of them will always be on your side. That's the biggest advantage of marrying into five daughters. This so creepy, he's creepy. He's creepy. So what is he saying? What is he telling us here? That you should marry a woman who has sisters, I guess. Has four sisters or more, I would assume. I would assume or, you know, three.

Starting point is 02:05:05 Because one of them will love you. Yeah, not necessarily the same one. No. Which means he's having sex, he has sex with one of his wife's sisters. That's what it tells me, that he is, for a good Catholic boy, he is a sinner. You think? Wow. Big revelation. Stop the presses. Biden is a sinner. The prop bets are in for the debate. We have the odds for which drug President Biden will test positive for. We have, now when it says plus 200, what does that mean?

Starting point is 02:05:48 That means if you bet $200, you win at 100. No, no, if it's plus 200, that means if you bet a dollar, you get two back, so you get three back. All right. So that's Adderall at 200, Cocaine at 400, PCP or angel dust at 600. By the way, this is from a bet online. Ketamine, a thousand. Now Viagra, 1500. I'm surprised.

Starting point is 02:06:15 They're not going to test anybody for drugs. So this betting thing. Here's the question I have when I saw this list. If they don't test. So I bet. Yeah. Do I get my money back of a test if it takes. If they don't test. So I bet. Yeah. Do I get my money back if a test ever takes place?

Starting point is 02:06:27 I don't think so. Probably not. Probably not. Probably not. I'll take the long shot. This is kind of a little bit off the wall, but in the category of post-traumatic syndrome disorder, what other words softening have we had throughout the ages? Women's healthcare, reproductive healthcare, what other weird-

Starting point is 02:07:01 We should have a list, a concise list of these. Euphemisms. Euphemisms. Yeah, euphemisms. That's the word. So, Illinois has just passed a new euphemism law. On Tuesday, Bill 4409 passed in the state Senate 34 to 20. Question is, House Bill 4409 passed.

Starting point is 02:07:20 All those in favor vote aye. Opposed nay. The voting is open. The proposed legislation would remove the term offender and replace it with justice impacted individual, or individuals in the state's adult redeploy Illinois program, commonly referred to as ARI. According to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, ARI is an initiative that diverts offenders from prison to programs to help rehabilitate

Starting point is 02:07:45 them to success. Republicans say the language change portrays a lack of empathy for victims and lack of concern for public safety. Change this, change that. The only thing that you don't want to change is the behavior of criminals. And guess who's paying for that right now? Victims all across this state. I urge a no vote.

Starting point is 02:08:07 How about that? I love that. I love how they changed. Justice impacted individual. Yes. I'm sorry. Have you been impacted by justice? Yeah, I'm in jail.

Starting point is 02:08:17 I've been impacted by justice. Yeah, gender affirming care. That was the other one, of course. That was the big euphemism. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But whatever you do, keep the 10 commandments out of schools because that's going to hurt children. That's really going to hurt children. You have to explain adultery to them. Yeah. Janet Yellen is in Italy today. In Italy. Yeah. What do you think she's discussing with her counterparts, the G7 finance

Starting point is 02:08:48 ministers? Well, it's this. Focus now turns to your meeting in Italy with the G7 finance ministers and the frozen Russian assets. We know those assets are not going to be seized altogether and gifted to Ukraine. This talk though, that a loan could be given to bring forward future profits to give more money to Ukraine now to the tune of 40, 50 billion dollars. Is that something you support? Yes, I think that's a possibility. I believe it's important for the G7 to work together to show a united front and to show that we can generate meaningful resources to support Ukraine over the next several years.

Starting point is 02:09:32 And while America stands behind Ukraine and I expect Congress, if necessary, will pass future packages, Ukraine has substantial needs and being able to marshal significant resources to help Ukraine is important. And that's one way to do it. I understand that today the European Union took the final step in approving a plan by which windfall profits that are being earned on Russian assets. Now listen to this. This is about EuroClear. Listen to the words that she's using regarding interest and making money or not. I mean, it's very confusing here.

Starting point is 02:10:17 In EuroClear, they will be dedicated for Ukraine's use. And the plan that you mentioned would essentially bring forward that flow of interest proceeds from the assets that do not belong to Russia. The Russian assets are not earning interest anymore, but they are generating returns for EuroClear. How, okay, so it says the Russian money that's in EuroClear is not generating any money, but somehow EuroClear is going to be taking

Starting point is 02:10:54 the interest earned on that money and sending it to Ukraine? Yeah. This is a mistake. They're stealing money. Yes. Loan could be given to Ukraine that would be repaid over several years by that flow of interest.

Starting point is 02:11:12 Oh, it's a loan. I see. Over that flow of interest. This is a big mistake. And this is why Russia and China, they're trying to get their own, the bricks are going to try and get their own money together. That's something that happens overnight. It'll take decades probably.

Starting point is 02:11:30 But this is dumb. This is dumb. I think Janet Yellen hates America. She just wants the dollar to break apart. I think she's an agent of change for some, for maybe the Chinese. How can we have someone so dumb doing these things? She was the head of the Fed for a while. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:11:55 Great job. I think under Trump. No, was she under Trump? It was either Trump or Obama. Could have been Obama. I think. Maybe she was Kerry or... She might have been under Trump.

Starting point is 02:12:10 I'm thinking. But no. But anyway, she was, I think she definitely worked under Trump for a while and then he got rid of her. Yeah. Yeah, because she's dumb. This makes no sense. The, here's, now interesting things are happening. The, the FIT 21 act was passed by

Starting point is 02:12:32 the house. Here's Tom Emmer, which always gives me a chuckle because Emmer is bucket in Dutch. So here's Tom bucket to talk about it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today we have an opportunity to determine whether the next iteration of the Internet will be designed by Americans or if it will instead reflect the values of some other nation. The FIT 21 Act gives us that opportunity and unlocks a larger conversation beyond innovation. This bill is about national security. It's about consumer protection. It's about global competitiveness. It's about consumer protection. It's about global competitiveness It's about shaping everything your global digital economy looks like and how it functions currently all online Transactions are intermediated but as we move deeper into the digital age digital assets are key to

Starting point is 02:13:20 Decentralizing the internet so Americans can transact directly with each other. Now no intermediary needed. Without crypto we don't have this ability. And I think giving Americans the choice to do business through an intermediary or directly with each other is important. Having that choice will fundamentally alter the digital economy, unlocking new opportunities for Americans and individuals across the world in ways we haven't even begun to contemplate. However, this Congress can no longer stand by as regulators squander this opportunity

Starting point is 02:13:51 right within our grasp. This administration has demonstrated they simply are not willing to allow the digital asset industry to innovate in the United States. For every legal inconsistency or regulatory hurdle they produce, instead of coherent and informed guidance, they drive American digital asset users into less safe jurisdictions. That's why the FIT 21 Act is significant. So this clears the way for central bank digital currency, but it also cleared and passed. I mean, it has to pass the Senate and of course, the president has to sign it.

Starting point is 02:14:25 But you can have your own Bitcoin wallet. You don't have to have it connected to your bank. You can create services that have Bitcoin wallets. You can help transfer, I should say digital assets, but I just think of Bitcoin. You can have services that transfer, that pass through payments. It's really good for innovation, bad for the dollar.

Starting point is 02:14:46 Good for innovation. How does this help the IRS? I'm not seeing it. That's what the beauty is, I'd say. It's not, they didn't pass it. They must hate the IRS. It passed overwhelmingly in the house. Well, what was the votes?

Starting point is 02:15:03 It was overwhelming. That means a bunch of Democrats had to vote for it. 71 voted against, mostly Democrats. All the rest voted for. Huh. Yeah. They're up to something. But the thing, to be honest about it, that, you know, a wallet is just a metaphor.

Starting point is 02:15:21 There's no wallet. All you're doing, all a wallet is, is just making signing, cryptographically signing something. You know, you don't get any money. It's not like, you know, like money trickles into some thing. You don't have like a pocketbook. So if you can do encrypted email, you should be able to do an encrypted signing of a transaction. All right. I guess that's interesting. It is to me. Here's something that it would be. Well, if we're going to go that, this is interesting to me.

Starting point is 02:15:50 All right. NPR at best. Okay. Max Dow once lived on the streets of Fairhaven, Vermont, but he receives an honorary doctorate this morning at Vermont State University, Castleton. Max may have some faults, but he's really a pussycat, a tabby. And as Vermont Public Radio reports, the once feral kitten taken in by a woman named Ashley Dow has become part of university life over the past five years.

Starting point is 02:16:17 He's posed for photography classes. He's hitch rides on backpacks and been a general source of campus cheer. Ashley Dow told Vermont Public Radio she's encouraged students to bring Max home if they see him out after five and students did actually bring him home, she says. I'll get text messages from random students. It's like he's okay. He's up by the greenhouse. A school announcement on Instagram says Max's doctor of literature degree comes, quote, complete with all catnip perks, scratching post privileges, and litter box responsibilities

Starting point is 02:16:51 that come with it. Don't invite Max to a kegger to celebrate this weekend. He's still not 21. So let me just get this straight. You compare one of the most important financial innovations in our life to a cat getting a degree. Financial innovation. Oh yeah. Well, when the IRS-

Starting point is 02:17:11 When the cat getting a phony, baloney degree in literature. Why literature? Or is it litter? Litter at tour? Yes. Well, when the IRS comes for your money, they'll get it. They'll have to pry it out of my cold hand, my dead hands. Well, that clip is really just saying what a degree is worth in today's world.

Starting point is 02:17:33 Well, not like our PhDs, it's a little different. I think those are valuable. Very valuable, I'd say. Indeed. I have some random clips I can play, or I can play a series of clips on Mar-a-Lago case. Yeah, the Mar-a-Lago, I'd like to hear that. The Mar-a-Lago case is kind of interesting because it seems, I don't know if we learn anything new, but it seems like A, there was some, to coin the phrase, trumped up documents that were shipped over there.

Starting point is 02:18:02 Second, Trump is using this to campaign by saying that the FBI wanted to shoot him. Yeah, yeah, it's all good stuff. I have two ways I can go with this. There's a bunch of clips, but I'm only gonna, I'm gonna run these, which are the more complex ones. There's three clips, the 1A, 2A, and 3A. We'll skip the other ones. Start with

Starting point is 02:18:27 the 1A. We've been hearing a lot about Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York for making hush money payments. Well, while that one's on pause through the long weekend, lawyers for Trump and two co-defendants appeared in a Florida court today. In that case, the former president is charged with taking classified and top secret material to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House, then conspiring to hide those documents from federal investigators. And Pierce Greg Allen is at the courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. Hey, Greg.

Starting point is 02:18:53 Hi, Ari. Tell us what happened in court today. Well, defense attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon to dismiss the charges against their clients. They say this case is politically motivated and that the prosecution is, quote, selective and vindictive. Former President Trump wasn't here today, but he skipped the session, but his two co-defendants were here. The court heard two motions, both filed by Trump's aide, Walt Nauta. Nauta is

Starting point is 02:19:16 charged with moving boxes containing classified documents to different locations at Mar-a-Lago in an alleged attempt to hide them from federal investigators and then lying about it afterwards. Nauta's attorney Stanley Woodward told the judge he believes his client is being prosecuted because he refused to cooperate with the government's case against his boss. When Nauta refused to be a witness against Trump, Woodward says prosecutors retaliated by, in his words, shoehorning him into the indictment of the former president. Judge Cannon, who's a Trump appointee, you know, and has been criticized for some rulings in favor of the defense, seems skeptical today.

Starting point is 02:19:49 She said, isn't that a fairly standard way to try to get attorneys to convince a client to cooperate? It's really no. It seems pretty standard. Yeah, it turns out that they threaten this attorney and one of them said to the attorney, look, you're up for a judgeship. If you get this guy to roll over on Trump, you're never going to get that judgeship. And so this case is falling apart.

Starting point is 02:20:17 At the, yes, at all, all seams. Not to mention the New York case, which is really dumb, but let's go to part two here. Nat. James O'Donnell, Jr. Attorney, New York, USA Running theme here across these trials, it sounds like there were some testy moments in the courtroom. Tell us about them. Testy moments?

Starting point is 02:20:32 James O'Donnell, Jr. Attorney, New York, USA Yes, nothing like we saw in New York, but much for us. There was a lot of attention devoted to a meeting in August of 2022 between prosecutor Jay Bratt and Stanley Woodward, who just came on as not as attorney. Woodward said he was under consideration for a federal judicial appointment at the time and that Bratt mentioned it at the meeting. Woodward says he believes it was intended to send him a message that he should convince his client to cooperate with the investigation,

Starting point is 02:20:57 or in his words, it could mess up his potential judgeship. Prosecutor David Harbach, who was talking to the judge about this, called that description of the meeting a fantasy and that Brats passing comments were being taken out of context. He became agitated at one point when Judge Cannon pressed him on the issue and she had to admonish him to calm down. And tell us about the the motion to dismiss that was argued today. What was that about? Well, the motion involved all three co-defendants, Nata's lawyer Stanley Woodward made a technical argument, as he termed it, that focuses on how the indictment is worded. He encouraged the judge to throw out several counts.

Starting point is 02:21:32 One example were two counts in which Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira are charged with attempting to get the club's IT supervisor to delete video footage from surveillance cameras. The IT guy said he couldn't do it and the footage wasn't deleted, but because of that Woodward says no crime was committed. It was just a conversation he said. It's not illegal to talk about something. Yeah, it just gets more and more complicated. That's why we haven't been covering it. Yeah, interesting.

Starting point is 02:22:03 But we'll, I have one third clip here. Trial was supposed to have started this week. The judge indefinitely postponed the start date. Any idea of when it might actually get underway? No, no sign of that at this point. There are, by my count, nearly a dozen motions filed by Trump's lawyers still pending before the court. The judge has also yet has to have important hearings

Starting point is 02:22:23 on how classified material will be handled. She says she's going to take up that issue in July, which makes it eight months behind schedule. And it's beginning to look less and less likely that the trial will begin before the presidential election. And of course, if Trump wins, because it's a federal case, he'd have the power to shut down the Department of Justice case. What a waste. What a waste of energy, waste of air time. Money. The what? Waste of money.

Starting point is 02:22:50 The Wall Street Journal had an overview of the median age of television networks. Of the networks? Yes. You mean the viewers? Yes, of the viewership of, and these are cable networks. I'd like you to give a little, just guess, what do you think the median age is of those watching MSNBC? I would say 50.

Starting point is 02:23:21 69. Fox News? I would say that's got to be 75. 68. Oh, Fox News is younger. That surprises me. CNN? Well, I'd have to say 70. No, no. 66.

Starting point is 02:23:38 No. Here's the kicker. That's median age. Median age. Which we everyone, we should probably explain that. Here's the kicker. That's median age. Median age. Which we everyone should probably explain that. Yes, median versus average. Good idea.

Starting point is 02:23:52 Yes, median is that means that number that you have just as many above that age as there are below. Right. So if you have a lot of people who are 12 years old that are watching, then that should drop the median age. But if the median age is something that high, that means there's a lot of really old people listening. The average is you just take all of them and you add them all up and then you divide by

Starting point is 02:24:17 that number, which is always different than median. Oh, I think it would probably be lower if you took the average age. But what got me was MTV, median age? That's higher than we think. 52. The median age of people watching MTV where they watch teen pregnancy reality shows. And we're worried about the Ten Commandments in school. We're lost as a nation.

Starting point is 02:24:48 There you go. We're lost as a nation. Here's speaking of old people, here's the Old People Channel, MSNBC, with former FBI director James Comey, who sounds worried about Trump becoming president. What are the principal points of danger within the Justice Department if there's another who sounds worried about Trump becoming president. This is about what kind of country are we going to be. If he has the ability, smarter than he was last time, to use the power of the Department of Justice and the FBI to target his enemies especially, the rule of law in America will change in a way we haven't seen in our lifetime. When you say target his enemies, how would he do that?

Starting point is 02:25:36 Well I think the first thing he would do is he would express it in his first term as a wish. I want people to go after so and so. I want people to go after Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI. In a second term, he would go a step further. I'm highly confident and say, I want him criminally investigated. And he would have, he was close to the bottom of the barrel in his appointees last time. He'll be at the very bottom. And those are the people who carry out that order. Sounds like somebody's worried. He sounds very worried.

Starting point is 02:26:07 He should be probably. And then this is- By the way, I want to mention some, this was actually a good, this could be used. And he just, I think did it by accident, but to use the pitch, this is the be the pitch Trump is, he's been an officer four years before, now he's smarter. It's what he said. He says now he's smarter, so he's more, he could be more evil.

Starting point is 02:26:34 He's already talking about the second term. These people are so convinced. And of course this, which I'm pretty convinced this was a plant, I think it was well done. I think this is a chalk it up as a win for the Biden team. It doesn't make any difference, but I think it was well done. Former President Trump addressed reporters today outside of the courtroom, but offered no comment on the incendiary controversial video posted to his social media account. What happens after Donald Trump wins?

Starting point is 02:27:06 The video showed hypothetical headlines of an imagined Trump victory this fall with one asking what's next for America and three times suggesting the creation of a unified Reich, a term widely associated with Nazi Germany. President Biden released this campaign video response. A unified Reich? That's Hitler's language. That's not America's. He cares about holding on to power. This kind of rhetoric is unsurprising, coming from the former president, and it is appalling. And we got to tell him who we are.

Starting point is 02:27:41 It's not the first time Trump has used rhetoric prompting outrage for its echoes of hateful extremists. On Saturday at the NRA convention he mused about the possibility of staying on for a third term. You know, FDR, 16 years, almost 16 years, he was four term. I don't know, are we gonna be considered three term or two term? The Trump campaign has taken down the video and blamed a quote junior staffer for sharing the material, which was first published elsewhere. I'm thinking that was a plant because you really had to zoom in on the third Reich headline. It wasn't parent. I think it was well done. I agree. I think somebody, uh, someone did a good, a good one.

Starting point is 02:28:22 Dirty tricks. This is the dirty tricks part of politics. And that's what some Democrat did that. That's why they got on it so quick. Well done. Is that everything good to go? Now, what does, what tell me about FDR with 16 years? What's all that about? He was, FDR was, it was elected president and he was, then he was reaffirmed.

Starting point is 02:28:43 He got a second term and he got a third term then he got a fourth term that would give him 16 years in office it was FDR that created the amendment that you can't run more than twice. Oh okay okay that's what I was because he was in for 16 years. Well he died in the last of the years, but he was basically elected for 16 years. And if, you know, the Democrats would have just kept him in there. That's the idea. And it was, they had to be stopped.

Starting point is 02:29:13 And so they put the, the, I mean, people talked about if that wasn't for that, that amendment, Obama would still be in pre, still be the president. He still is. He still is. What are you talking about? He still is. He still is. What are you talking about? He still is. What am I thinking? Okay, a little update on the Iranian president. I like what you said in the newsletter that the thesis that these are all guys that they wanted out of the way anyway,

Starting point is 02:29:38 including the bombing of the so-called embassy or consular building in Syria, which is just in Damascus. These were annoying people get rid of them so when we got the news that there was a hard landing, this was before we knew anything, this was on Sunday, we immediately said there's no such thing, this is a crash, it's all over and that is confirmed. Tonight's the wreckage of the fiery crash that killed Iran's president and its foreign minister in a region already rocked by over and that is confirmed. by accident. Today in the streets of Tehran, men openly wept for President Raeisi, seen as a potential successor to Iran's aging supreme leader. At some Iranian embassies in the west, opponents celebrated. The US tonight says there are no signs of outside interference

Starting point is 02:30:39 and saying Iran's government reached out for help during the rescue efforts. Ultimately, largely for logistical reasons, we weren't able to provide that assistance. Raisi described today as a friend by fellow presidents Putin and Xi. Hamas sending its sympathies. Since the October 7th terror attacks, Iran's proxies have launched multiple offensives escalating the tension in the region. And from Tehran an advisor to the government telling NBC News not to expect policy changes despite the unexpected death. Lester Holt sat down with Raisi last year in what was among his last interviews with Western media. Raisi telling Lester the billions of dollars unfrozen during a deal with the US

Starting point is 02:31:22 in exchange for five American prisoners were Tehran's to use as it wanted. Always nice to have NBC's MI6 correspondent check in. We appreciate that. One of our producers sent me a couple of clips from this podcast called the Unpopular Opinions podcast. The thing that hosts his dad is an Iranian aviation engineer and his dad had some kind of inside, I won't say it's inside knowledge, but kind of confirmed some of the thesis that we've

Starting point is 02:31:52 been talking about. And I want to play two of those clips. If the weather is bad, the protocol is to delay or cancel the flight and then proceed on road for a three hour drive and reroute the flight. Rumor has it that at the last minute something went wrong with the VIP chopper which had the sophisticated signaling, the transponders etc. And so at the very last minute they swap the lead craft with a different helicopter. By the way never a good idea. Wow that's a great one. Never ever get in the swapped out helicopter. So basically, that's a great one. Never ever get in the swapped out helicopter. So basically, they had this official VIP helicopter ready to go.

Starting point is 02:32:32 And at the last minute, they switched it with a with a worse one, which didn't have all those, all those features. Then false statements started from the authorities such as a it was a hard hard landing and we have spoken to them. When they got to them the following day, no mobile phone could get any signals. So that was a blatant lie told. Turkish authorities were asked to send two specialist drones, which located the wreck early the following morning and check their system and no signals were received from the down choppers, transponders, GSP transmitters or the sat nav. And see, Khomeini, the ayatollah, the supreme leader, made a speech only a couple of hours after it happened. He was as cool as a cucumber,

Starting point is 02:33:20 prayed for their safe return and said not to worry if they don't come back because everything is in hand. So the guy reading this, I mean he's all over the map with the technical aspects, none of that makes much sense. Instead of GPS he says GSP and a transponder is not a very sophisticated piece of gear, but I'm going to take the helicopter swap out of something that was probably true. And then this final clip is about the internal politics, which goes to your point about, we kind of wanted him out anyway. This is where things get a little bit interesting because this president Raisi was a hardline conservative.

Starting point is 02:33:58 Now in the internal politics of Iran, that basically means he was going places within the party, if that makes any sense. He was kind of tipped to go far. And in the Iranian system, the Guardian Council basically gets to decide who will be the successor to the Supreme Leader. Raisi, even though he's the president now, was tipped to become the head of the Guardian Council, which would then have been responsible for picking the successor to Kamenei. This is where the plot thickens even more friends, because Raisi was also tipped to become the Supreme Leader himself, i.e. he would get onto the Guardian Council and then back himself to replace Khamenei once Khamenei pops

Starting point is 02:34:47 his clogs because he's in his 80s now. And here is the final clincher. The hard cause in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and apparently Khamenei himself want a different person to replace Khamenei, namely Khamenei's own son, Khamenei Junior, let's just call him his son. A lot of people are suggesting that it could have been either the hard cause in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard or Khamenei himself, who wanted to off basically a rival who was threatening to, you know, scupper the succession. This is lent extra credence because who is in charge of security protocols for things like presidential journeys on helicopters? None other than the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps themselves. Dun dun dun. Sounds more plausible to me than what I read everywhere online.

Starting point is 02:35:51 Mossad, Mossad, Mossad. No, no, I don't think so. I'll go with the swap out the helicopter and kill him for 500 Alex. It's obvious that's what's going on. And the other guy, the Israeli shoot of that other character, which was another piece of theater Followed by though. Let's attack Israel with a few I'm not even sure I'm not even sure it was it was Israel that did the Syria job We may have done it remember we always hear that there's a lot of collusion between America and and Iran

Starting point is 02:36:22 Yes, you're right. It's possible any, yes, we could have done it. Yeah, but hey, can you guys do us a solid? But it was set up to make it. They had to have a scenario, and so for all practical purposes, Israel did it. Because that resulted in the missile exchange where Iran sent some missiles over. Oh, we missed.

Starting point is 02:36:42 Oh, the Iron Dome. And then say, we gotta retaliate. They sent some other missiles the other, we missed. Oh, the iron dome. And then say, we got to retaliate. They sent some other missiles the other way and land in the desert. Oh, too bad. Well, we had a shot at it. All right. Yeah. Bull crap. All right. Did you cash our check yet from the Zionists? We got to make sure we cash our checks. We don't get a check from them. Unfortunately, we get some serious money. Becoming from our own state department and our intelligence services

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Starting point is 02:48:09 It's more sucre, something like that. Oh, okay, well, here we go. Hello, Adam and Joan. This is Sir Donald Winkler reporting back from the heart of Athens in beautiful Greece. Hi, this is Maria, flown in, especially from the UK, back to the homeland for the Athens meetup having a great time and I just want to say at this point what

Starting point is 02:48:32 difference does it make? This is douchebag Ash, pure blood baby daddy, fear money is toilet paper. In the morning! Alright just a couple people but it's a meetup. There's couple people, but it's a meetup. If it's more than one person, it's a meetup. Thank you for sending the report. We love those. We have a meetup taking place today. The New York City meetup. This is the 6-1.

Starting point is 02:48:55 Wolf Tones Irish Pub and Kitchen, 5 o'clock. So they're about to start in New York. Dan will be your host. The North Idaho Sandy Brigade, 4th Thursday meetup kicks off at 5 30 at Bunker Bar in Post Falls, Idaho today. Sir Scott the Jew, your host. The Hattiesburg Hub City beers at Hub City beers and fine cigars in Hattiesburg, Mississippi today, 5 30. Now we do not have a show, a live show on Sunday and also looks like there's no meetup so we'll just tell you what's coming up next week on Wednesday the 20th. Oh wait, no, this is wrong. This is, how did I get in there? Nope, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. The jury will disregard those remarks. The Denver Sun Worship

Starting point is 02:49:35 Full Moon Meetup, 6 30 today, Denver Colorado City Park, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the Hangout and Talk About Stuff Meetup in Sardis, Mississippi at the Rafters on the Water is underway as we speak. On Saturday, the Last Minute May meetup 1 o'clock in Texas at Flips Patio Grill in Fort Worth, Texas. The Local 905 International Brotherhood of Mouth Hitters 1.30 on Saturday at Sin and Redemption in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The biggest little meetup, 2.33 Big Horn Tavern in Reno, Nevada on Saturday. Also the reunion of the most wanted at 3.30 Philadelphia Brewing Company in Philly. That is Local 76. And then on Sunday, even though we do not have a live show, we have the best of climate change, which I'm pretty sure you'll love. The NA guardians of reality, NKY summer picnic.

Starting point is 02:50:27 NKY, I think it's probably just KY, maybe it's Northern Kentucky. The summer picnic listening tour, Florence, y'all. One o'clock, Stringtown Park, Florence, Kentucky on Sunday. Also the Don't Be a Douchebag meetup, round four, 5.30 at McNellie's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And then the next Thursday, since we won't be able to tell you

Starting point is 02:50:45 about everything on Sunday show, the London Gatwick. Hello, Gatwick. We want to report from you 333 at the Radisson Red Gatwick Hotel Bar, Gatwick, London, UK. At the airport, I guess. And then also on Thursday, May 30 at the South Jersey, Brett's farewell, seven o'clock, Brett's leaving, farm truck brewing in Medford, New Jersey. In June, we've got Albany, the South Jersey, Bret's farewell, seven o'clock, Bret's leaving, farm truck brewing in Medford, New Jersey. In June, we've got Albany, California. Oh, that's the Get John Out of the House Meetup. June 1st, Albany, California.

Starting point is 02:51:12 You're going, you gotta go. I mean, it's your backyard. What's the location? I don't know, I don't have that information. But I know it's on June 1st, it's a Saturday. It's Albany. It's where that's nearby. Albany, not Albany. Sorry. Albany.

Starting point is 02:51:31 Are you going to go? I, I, I have all the intentions in the world of going. It's called the get John out of the house meetup. That doesn't mean I'm going. Also want to highlight. Probably going if it's, you know, yes, I'll be there. Everyone show up, bring Sundries. Highlighting Houston, Texas on June 8th.

Starting point is 02:51:58 No one has RSVP'd yet, so please do that. And of course, June 15th, the meetup at the airport in the Netherlands, go to NoAgendaMeetups.com. I'm gonna be there, that's the whole point. Go to NoAgendaMeetups.com and learn about all the meetups near you. If you can't find one, start one yourself. It's easy. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you want me Triggered or held aflame You wanna be where everybody feels the same

Starting point is 02:52:35 It's like a party Just like a party Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, ISOs Do you have any ISOs, do you have any ISOs? Do you got any ISOs? I have three, how many do you have? I have two, well, let me do mine, since I don't know if they're any good.

Starting point is 02:52:53 Let me check this one. You just have to stay away from all the mainstream stuff? Is that what you do? Too long. I actually kind of like that one, it's a little long. You know who that is? That's Horowitz. No. Yeah. And then there like that one. It's a little long. You know who that is? That's Horowitz. Oh.

Starting point is 02:53:07 Yeah. And then there's this one. The alternative media. That's where you hear the truth. I don't know about that one. This might be better than mine, but mine are okay there. But they're more along the lines of short. Okay. Let's start with drink.

Starting point is 02:53:23 Drink responsibly. B-21. I thought a good message at the end of the show might be appropriate. Oh yeah. And now it's time for a good message. All right. Yeah. What else you got?

Starting point is 02:53:37 I got brave or Bravo. Bravo. I kind of like Bravo. Yeah. I kind of like him. That's always a good ending. And then bye-bye. Bye-bye. Also like Bravo. Yeah, I kind of like him. That's always a good ending and then bye bye. Bye bye.

Starting point is 02:53:46 Also like that. What if I did... Bravo. Bye bye. How about that? I like those two. In sequence I think they're great. There is cute cat that ran up a tree.

Starting point is 02:53:58 A lost dog is home and heavy. Will they play a good news clip? A good clip we'll see. Good news everybody! We always like to end up the show with some good news so people can complain about how much they hate the segment. We're doing it to pester you, okay? John, what do we have for good news? Who hates the segment? Oh, there are people who just, they will send me an email. Good news sucks! Oh well,, the hater's gotta hate. Yeah, yeah, Taylor. That's right.

Starting point is 02:54:27 Okay, this is a high schooler who saves his father just in time for his own graduation. Families are getting ready to celebrate a high school graduation in the coming days and the coming weeks. But for one Virginia father and son, it's a celebration they were so close to never sharing. Our Northern Virginia reporter Max Marcilla has their stories from Warrenton. Ret Hepler and his father Joe, this is any ordinary day. It's dinner time after school, a moment between a father and a son. He's a lot more responsible than a average teenager. And that is quite the understatement. What Rhett is capable of,

Starting point is 02:55:05 that's something he didn't even know. This was Thanksgiving in the very same kitchen hours before his dad had a heart attack. Rhett says it all happened so fast. His dad came downstairs, said he wasn't feeling well, told his son to call 911, and then he collapsed, falling face first in the kitchen, eventually lying in a pool of his own blood.

Starting point is 02:55:26 That's when Rhett jumped into action. I wasn't panicking, I wasn't freaking out. It was just, all the adrenaline was like, do what you gotta do. With the guidance of the 911 operator, Rhett started CPR. Doctors told him he helped save the life of the man who has guided him. Being an ex-law enforcement officer who's given CPR to someone before, I can understand how difficult that was to do with a stranger. I can't imagine what he was going through having to do it with me. Rett graduates from Kettle Run High School this weekend.

Starting point is 02:55:56 His dad will be there to celebrate with him because of him. It's a very special moment. And I'm very, very happy that I'm here to see it. My dad is the most important person in my life. I'm just honored that I could do something for him. And it doesn't feel like it's nearly as much as what he's done for me. But I was just doing something for a moment.

Starting point is 02:56:20 A moment that allowed for more moments this father and son nearly never got to share in Warrington. I love him very much. Max Marcela, DC News Now. I'm a little conflicted by this good news segment. Because it's gory, keels over, face first, blood on the floor, and then the kid goes, oh, maybe I should do something. Because that's what I said, then he spr sprang into action I'm a little conflicted I could use a little more rainbows and butterflies next time. You want more dog stories. Good news, good good news, good news, good good news, good news. That's right dog stories rock or you know squirrels or whatever. Kitten in a tree. Where's the good old kitten

Starting point is 02:57:08 in a tree? 30 feet up. It's always 30 feet up. We have a best of climate change, no agenda. I think you will enjoy it. We never got past show 100, barely past show 100, and you will hear a lot of things that are at the bedrock of this nonsense. Things that even we have long formulas. Yes, background formulas long since forgotten how it all got started. And you will be reminded. It's all bad. Bad and bogus. Coming up next on the no agenda stream for all you trolls, even if you're listening on a modern podcast app, we have beer, bourbon and balderdash. And end of show mixes from Hugh

Starting point is 02:57:55 Allison, Professor J. Jones and Leo LaPuke, classics, all of them, every single one of them. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill country where we arrest our praying grannies in Fredericksburg, Texas. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Sunday for the special and next Thursday for a live show. Join us then. Until then, remember us at NewAgendaDonations.com. Adios, mofos, or hooey, hooey, and sun! All the time, everyone will be thinking Joe's jacked up. He will be jacked up.

Starting point is 02:58:27 He has to be. Jacked up Joe versus regular Joe. I'd have been married 40 years ago if I hadn't been knocked neat, caught in a joke. Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from? Caught in a joke. Where did you come from?

Starting point is 02:58:40 Where did you go? Where did you come from? Caught in a joke. And side by side, asked two different dudes. Nah, there's maybe three of them. And that's hard to say. And then there's the Bug Eye Joe, and the Squinty Eye Joe, and the Skitter Joe. There's a bunch of these. I don't know what the deal is.

Starting point is 02:58:57 How do they find these people? Say my friend, how many did you know? Chicken in the red bed scratching our dough. Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton Eye Joe? The Bug Eye Joe, and the Squinty Eye Joe. Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from? A cotton-eyed Joe. The bug-eyed Joe and the squee-eyed Joe. Where did you come from? Cotton-eyed Joe. So, what are you gonna do? You did that or AI?

Starting point is 02:59:13 You hear the news about the hard landing. We believe in efficient police force. For the poor neighborhoods, you get drones. People should know when they're conquered. There's no such thing as a hard landing in a helicopter. Person shot, person stabbed. Person robbed. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the future of law enforcement. In helicopters there's no such thing as a hard landing. It's a crash.

Starting point is 02:59:34 All captured by an NYPD drone. The drones will be piloted remotely. A cop with superior firepower. Unleash hell. Satanist ministers inside classrooms. The drones can get to places officers can't because they have infrared cameras. 209 is currently programmed for urban pacification, but that is only the beginning. And this technology is a game changer.

Starting point is 02:59:55 This is the New York City Police Department. The hard landing thing is nonsense. Drones as first responders. Sounds more like an RPG then. Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply. This is the future. This is a time for kids to consider... Sling shots. Sling shots. Yeah!

Starting point is 03:00:14 Noah's a game changer. Unleash hell. I'm gonna demand a drug test. Sling shots and a ball bearing. A lot of cats had gone missing, gotten sick, or had died. Noah Jenna Sling Shots Ball Bearing sold separately. Outstanding product. A lot of cats had gone missing, gotten sick, or had died.

Starting point is 03:00:25 Noagena Slingshots Ball Bearing sold separately. Outstanding product. You now have 15 seconds to rewind. I always have a slingshot dude, I like to shoot him. Don't look at the tradwife stuff, you'll become a Nazi. These newer slingshots are so powerful, it's unbelievable. He was high as a kite. Are slingshots cheap? Hard landing indeed. It's practical, it's unbelievable. He was high as a kite. Have slingshots cheap?

Starting point is 03:00:46 Hard landing indeed. It's practical and it's fun. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Starting point is 03:00:55 Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Starting point is 03:01:03 Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! the site of the incident. It's a low tech idea, but I'd like it. Come on, we've been saying the word jacked up for a long time. Has used drones to assist with search and rescue efforts. Did you have a heart landing? No, I crashed. Bring back another fan favorite. The Satanic Temple has a safeguard

Starting point is 03:01:17 against improper surveillance. He's gonna be so jacked up. Rizul, what are you hearing at this hour? Marbles. This is Joe. My name is Joe Biden, I work for Kamala Harris. Joe is looking cool. He's gone big time, standing proud, rising in some polls.

Starting point is 03:01:36 Make my day, pal. And with drugs provided by the White House physician. Look, I'm not a young guy. Joe now has a whopping boost of confidence. The erectionists who storm Capitol Hill. Stiff in his determination and is living large with an enormous swelling of pride. And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic. And he just lacks the one thing every man deserves, a somewhat semi-functioning brain.

Starting point is 03:02:02 Every four years, we have this little thing called an erection. Drugs from the White House are not available in stores, but perhaps through a phone call to Hunter Biden or a White House staffer, you may get a trial pack. Here is testimonial from someone who did just that. Joe Biden, he gave me the courage to admit that I am in fact an erectionist. I think I was about 12 when I became an erectionist. I know by 13. Last night I was an erectionist with my wife. I stormed her Capitol.

Starting point is 03:02:29 I started out at the Capitol Dome. I worked my way down to the Swannum. I got greedy and I headed for Boggie Bottom. Drugs from the White House Physician. For natural man-made, science-c created, enhancement. See ya later, bye bye. The best podcast in the universe. Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash NA.

Starting point is 03:02:59 Bravo. Bye bye.

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