No Agenda - 1678 - "Stolen Cookies"

Starting point is 00:00:00 There's going to be a lot of pink guy. Let's put it that way. Adam Curry, John C. Devorak, there's a July 18th, 2024. This is your award winning give on Asian media assassination episode 1678. This is no agenda. Cleansing your polluted amygdala and broadcasting live

Starting point is 00:00:17 from the heart of the Texas Hill country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley, where Taranuvuji is back undefeated, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Nailed it. Only, only you could give us some sumo headlines at the start of a show on a day like this.

Starting point is 00:00:42 Only you, John C. Goodmore. I could have said J.D. Vance. Oh, no. Oh, no, no. Wait, breaking, breaking. All right, Phil, stand by. We're going to get back to you soon.

Starting point is 00:00:54 But there's some breaking news emerging right now. I want to go to CNN's Kayla Toschi. She's on the scene for us. Kayla, the president of the United States was about to speak, but something has gone on. Yes. We've just gotten new information. Tell us about that. Kayla, the president of the United States was about to speak, but something has gone on. We've just gotten new information.

Starting point is 00:01:06 Tell us about that. Breaking. Well, if president Biden has just tested positive for COVID, that according to the president of UNIDO, the leader of the. Oh no, he tested positive for COVID and it gets worse. Now the president has received probably at least five doses of vaccine as a lot of us have and has also had the virus. Wait for it.

Starting point is 00:01:27 And that has really, you know, all those elements serve to increase his immunity. Plus, you know, we also have Pax Levin now and we've already heard that he's taking a dose. Breaking. Dr. Reiner, we're seeing live pictures of the president boarding Air Force One right now. And what jumped out at me and I'm sure to others as well I didn't see him wearing a mask as he was with those other people. No mask, oh no. Breaking, breaking. But remember everybody it's safe and effective. President Joe Biden slowly making his way off Air Force One in Delaware Wednesday night. This is one of the first images of the president we've seen since confirmation came in that

Starting point is 00:02:10 he tested positive for COVID-19. So I think Biden being sick is a big deal, but I don't think he's going to suffer any real consequences from this because it is a manageable disease even in the older population. That's Stanford's Dr. Yvonne Maldonado. That's not right. Rest is key for someone who has tested positive for COVID. The president's press secretary says Biden will self-isolate in the days to come. He did eventually put a mask on after getting into his waiting SUV. Biden's medical team says he has been vaccinated and has all of his current annual booster doses. Maldonado says that is important.

Starting point is 00:02:52 That is important. He's had all his booster shots. He's wearing a mask. He's still got COVID. It's unbelievable how safe and effective it really is. You know, I didn't make the clip of it, but Gutfeld had kind of an, I don't know, probably a sketchy joke where he said, when he announced it on his show, he says, well, there's another shot that didn't work. And I think this came right after he announced that he would only, only, only, only really give up if you had some kind of medical emergency?

Starting point is 00:03:26 Yes. How cool. Unfortunately, there's one report that I have from NPR, the Biden has COVID clip, and there's a little factoid at the end of this, which they've left out of all these other reports. President Biden campaigning in Nevada left early today, that's after confirmation from the president's doctor,

Starting point is 00:03:44 the 81 year old president has tested positive for COVID. Biden was to deliver remarks at a Latino organization conference. President instead left early to self-isolate at his home in Rehoboth, Delaware. Biden's doctor says the president's symptoms are mild. Mild. Yeah, mild. He has no problem. But I think this is the clip where they

Starting point is 00:04:06 they're trying to get rid of him. And then I think this is it. I'm not sure if the way he says they only have some medical problem. The pressure from Democratic leaders pressure Biden to get out of the race is intensifying. In fact, one person who has been out

Starting point is 00:04:18 there publicly defending Biden told me just a short while ago, Biden is going to see the whole House of Cards come down down soon as for that meeting In the Hobbit, Delaware I am told that this was a one-on-one meeting just the Senate leader and the president and the Chuck Schumer Forcefully made the case for us be better for Biden better for the Democratic Party and better for the country if he were to bow Out of the race and David when I went to Schumer's office to ask them about, to tell them I was going

Starting point is 00:04:48 to report this and tell you this tonight, absolutely no denial from Senator Schumer's office. They only said this, Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus. In other words, the views of Democratic senators. I am also told that Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House, has expressed similar views directly to the president. Hey Joe, let me show you my caucus. Let me show you this. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe we can spin this, ladies and gentlemen. Maybe we can spin this in a positive direction. Joy Reid, help us.

Starting point is 00:05:20 These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take a iconic photo op during an active shooter situation. Weird situation. We'll figure that out one day. But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength. This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID.

Starting point is 00:05:49 Should he be fine in a couple of days? Doesn't that convey exactly the same thing? That he's strong enough, older than Trump, to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn't that exactly the same? It should. I mean, it's not exactly the same. It's not the same

Starting point is 00:06:09 incident, but it's an elderly man coming through out of an illness. It should. Take her off the air. What a nincompoop. It's exactly the same. Yeah, it's not exactly the same. Getting shots exactly the It's exactly the same. Word on the street. I have from reliable sources. Biden will step down tonight. Tonight. Tonight. This is what I'm hearing. And it kind of goes along with this news.

Starting point is 00:06:36 And I believe this is the the Biden won't quit until he's sick. The Democratic National Committee announces it's shelving an effort to make Biden's nomination official by the end of July through a virtual roll call vote. The DNC rules committee now announcing no virtual voting will begin before August 1. The move perhaps intended to buy more time to convince Biden to drop out of the race. Sources telling ABC News it came at the urging of the two most powerful Democrats in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. So far, Biden resisting all entreaties to drop out of the race, but he has had words of praise for his vice president, Kamala Harris.

Starting point is 00:07:16 By the way, she's not only a great vice president, she could be president of the United States. In an interview with BET, Biden did say a doctor's recommendation could sway him. I think there's some medical condition in him. If somebody, if the doctors came to me and said, you got this problem, that problem. Ah, there's your out. I don't know. I think. Well, I don't think he wants an out.

Starting point is 00:07:43 No, but did you see him going into and getting out of the plane? That is not all he could barely get up to stairs And it was the short little boys Wasn't the big it was they don't roll that out for him anymore the big stairway. No Now I'm just telling you I heard from reasonably good inside sources Micro dot guys. No close though here in the hill country. Yes. The word is you stepping down.

Starting point is 00:08:13 It comes, uh, this comes from a Trump associate. So who knows? Well, tonight would be, uh, timed because Trump gives his speech tonight. Yeah. So they could, uh could ruin the coverage. That's what would make logical sense to do it if you're going to do it at all. But I don't believe that. I don't think it's going to happen.

Starting point is 00:08:34 And they keep bringing up this August 1st thing. One of the early tweets that was taken down after the Trump shooting was it. Don't worry. Trump's going to be dead by August 1st. I think that was in one of my one of the newsletters I sent out. We still had that tweet on it. So we have be dead by August 1st. I think that was in one of my one of the newsletters I sent out it would have to start that tweet on it So we have to wait until August 1st. Is that is that the idea? Well, I think that if they're planning to try to kill him again man I'd say that August 1st is one of the dates that has been set up. So why would you?

Starting point is 00:09:07 Throw in the towel today doesn't make sense. Well, I mean, clearly he didn't have to didn't have to say, oh, I got COVID, I'm going home. That was not necessary. His symptoms are mild. He wasn't wearing a mask. It's a hoax. It's a reason to get maybe just doesn't like Latinos. Maybe he doesn't like Latinos because they're turning on him.

Starting point is 00:09:26 A, maybe he's pooped. He himself talked about the schedule he's been on. I want to run through a couple of bad takes, bad assassination takes that cropped up in the media. And some of it was thwarted or combated by the blue team. We started with the blue team, CNN basically. CNN. Here's Axelrod does this on CNN.

Starting point is 00:10:00 This is Obama's guy. The reality is that there are things you can't erase I mean we all remember January 6 we remember the president's rhetoric then just a few weeks ago he retweeted a tweet in which Liz Cheney was accused of treason and it said, read truth if you want, televised military tribunals, and he did. So I think the speaker should talk to the president as well because he has done his share to put us where we are. No, he brought it upon himself,

Starting point is 00:10:37 but there's David Urban to say ho, ho, ho, ho. David. Yeah, I was just going to say, look, Axel, you and I will disagree on this. There's no excuse. Axe. That's like blaming the victim a little bit here, right? Like, so somebody Yeah, I was just going to say, look, there's, Ax, you and I will disagree on this. There's no excuse. Ax. That's like blaming the victim a little bit here, right? Like, so somebody gets assaulted, you blame the victim.

Starting point is 00:10:49 We shouldn't have been wearing that outfit, or that man deserved to be being hit by a car or whatever. He's not saying that in person. Indirectly, he is, but you know, you got to condemn this now, right? Ax, you got to condemn it outright, right? There's no justification for it. David, I've condemned it from the very beginning.

Starting point is 00:11:04 Oh, man. I pour that. I don't place for that. But you can't condemned it from the very beginning. I abhor that. I don't place for that. But I don't think it's also a good thing. You can't say January 6th is the reason the president almost got killed yesterday. Did I say that? You kind of did. I said the speaker said we have to lower our voice.

Starting point is 00:11:16 And I'm suggesting that he should speak to his own candidate as well. And we should speak to lots of Democrats, lots of Republicans, the president of the United States, add some rhetoric, heated rhetoric? Well, let's start, let's do this. Let's start by not putting words in my mouth. Okay, well, I'm not.

Starting point is 00:11:29 I'm just saying, you should say it. Let me bring it to Ashley for one second. Okay, but I just want to say it. January 6th did not cause what happened. I don't think he was saying that. Nobody said that. I don't think he was saying that. Bah!

Starting point is 00:11:38 He said he did. He said exactly what he said. Liar. A lot of people getting fired from their jobs for saying, oh, it, no bad shot, but my favorite was of course what happened in Australia. A joke about a missed shot from an attempted assassin's rifle has put musical duo Tenacious D and the Crosshairs amid calls for their deportation from Australia. The controversy brought down the curtain on the rest of a tour across Australia and New Zealand,

Starting point is 00:12:08 and it could mean no more on-cores for the comedic rockers. From Tenacious D's Carl Gass, this is not the greatest quote in the world. Make a wish, Canada! Oh my God. Don't miss Trump next time. Paying no tributes to his bandmate, the other half of the comedic rock duo Jack Black posted, I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday and I would never condone hate speech

Starting point is 00:12:40 or encourage political violence. With that, the rest of the duo's spicy meatball tour was canceled and all creative plans put on ice. He, he, he, he, he. Oh, that was one of my top three. But the topper, the topper had to be Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway on the Pivot podcast.

Starting point is 00:13:07 Get a load. You got me on this one. I'm sure this is going to be a news to me. Get a load of this one. Social media is flooded with misinformation, conspiracy theories, especially X, of course. And Elon Musk keeps touting that he's real media now. He's not real media, he's a piece of, anyway.

Starting point is 00:13:22 Elon Musk and some other tech business leaders using their megaphone to criticize the Secret Service diversity initiatives and making unsubstantiated claims about the shooting just like they did with that guy who got killed in San Francisco. Wrong, wrong. He's not Antifa.

Starting point is 00:13:35 He also formally endorsed Trump after the shooting as did Bill Ackman because they couldn't have the spotlight away from them. People on both sides of the political spectrum are sharing theories, the false flag, claiming the picture was staged. Yeah. Certainly it was fast on his feet. There's ridiculous theories on both sides, the worst on the right, but I don't know if

Starting point is 00:13:52 you heard, but right before Melania gave her public statement, she was heard yelling into a phone, you had one job. Too soon? I like a joke. My favorite joke was from someone where they said, let's hope it's not a time traveler from the future who can't shoot. It was something like that. Anyway. Oh, no. The truth is, I mean, probably the most likely conspiracy theory is the Democratic Party

Starting point is 00:14:18 ordered a hit, but they used T-mo for it. They used T-mo. Oh, my God. All right. We'll stop with the jokes. It's just like, they hate so much that they still have to make jokes and they didn't deliver a single one of them. They're not funny jokes.

Starting point is 00:14:39 No, they didn't deliver a single one of them. What I really played this clip for is Kara Swisher says, no, there's lots of conspiracy theories. Like it was inside job. I gotta say, he did get up pretty quick. That picture was pretty iconic. And I just need to stop and say something about this. Because there is a large contingent, quite large, who all believe this was staged. It was meant to get that iconic photo of Trump and the flag and his fist pumping in the air, it was too perfect. Everything was too well orchestrated. Please don't pay attention to the dead guy.

Starting point is 00:15:15 That's irrelevant. But I would just like to remind people that if the Curry DeVoyer consulting group had advice on such a strategy, we would do it in October, not in July. That just discredits that whole theory. It's idiotic, wouldn't you say? Yeah, I'd have to agree with that. I have a couple of clips that kind of refer to this.

Starting point is 00:15:48 One is, first I got, this is about the nature of the shooting. Bongino came up and had, who is ex-Secret Service guy, so he has a lot of contacts. And he was bitching about it. I guess we're gonna do just another investigation by this time by the house speaker. So we have about six or seven of these things going on at the same time. They're definitely gonna get rid of this woman. I don't know how they're gonna manage it,

Starting point is 00:16:19 but you're gonna have to give her a golden parachute or something. Oh, you mean the secret service lady? Cheetal. Yeah. I mean, you had some stuff in the newsletter about her, which I did not know that Jill Biden actually was partially responsible for. Jill Biden hired her.

Starting point is 00:16:35 Yeah. Really? How do we know this? Well, there's an article in the New York Post. There's an article in the Daily Mail. There's an article in Politico. There's an article in the Hill. I think there's an article in the Daily Mail, there's an article in Politico, there's an article in The Hill. I think there's plenty of articles that indicate

Starting point is 00:16:48 that Jill Biden did this. So that's how we know it. But since you're on the topic of people being abhorrent, which I thought was funny hearing that coming from Axe. Right on Monday, they canceled the Mika and- Yeah, the Morning Joe show. Morning Joe got kicked off the air because they were, and then the next day, of course,

Starting point is 00:17:15 more I don't have the clip and Morning Joe- I think we're responsible, because you called out the CEO of Comcast. You said it's that guy's fault. And I think he heard it and he went, uh oh. Yeah, I doubt if he heard it, but he should have been saying uh oh. Meanwhile, they let Nicole Wallace do her show.

Starting point is 00:17:33 Yeah. And she's worse than those two. And so I have some Nicole Wallace's material that I have three clips here. They're fairly short, except for the first one. But here's what happens, this is the day, this is the first Monday when she comes back on the air, she wasn't bumped, and here we go.

Starting point is 00:17:53 For back with Claren David, it's 439 in the east, and we've memory-holed Mike Pence. The whole reason Donald Trump needs a new VP is because he called Mike Pence the P-word, because he wouldn't be the final nail in his Coo coffin and then left him to die. His supporters wanted to quote hang Mike Pence. And by the way, JD Vance said he would not have certified those electors. Can I show you what JD Vance was actually confronted by Fox's Brett Baer about all the things JD Vance said about Donald Trump.

Starting point is 00:18:24 Let me show you that. Well, you know, Senator, this is an evolution, and I know you've been asked about this before, about past comments that you've made about Donald Trump. You've said, I'm a never Trump guy, never liked him, terrible candidate, idiot if you voted for him, might be America's Hitler, might be a cynical a-hole cultural heroin

Starting point is 00:18:45 noxious and reprehensible about Donald Trump I didn't think he was gonna be a good president Brett he was a great president. If the flip-flop doesn't make you throw up in your mouth the you know sycophant he's turned into might. Yeah I think flip-flopping is baked in in the Trump era for Republicans. Sadly, as I mentioned, that's why I think that the unqualified tag is important. But I think at the at the base of what you just raised about the reason JD Vance is now needed is because Donald Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, has been disenfranchised by Republicans. But most of Donald Trump's cabinet won't support the former president either, for a fundamental reason.

Starting point is 00:19:29 Because Donald Trump did try to topple democracy with violence, and Mike Pence refused to do it. And this is important to the context of what we saw in Butler. We don't know the shooter's motivations. Let's just say it was political violence, politically motivated. That shooter almost interrupted democracy through violence, through a bullet.

Starting point is 00:19:50 On January 6th, Donald Trump led an insurrection to interrupt democracy. Yeah, this is, this is the big, it's a false equivalency. What are you doing? I like- So this is that guy, jolly, ex Republican congressman. Of course, Nicole Wallis is an ex Republican. She was, I think, a spokes hole for Bush. Bush, yeah. And she now says that she was like a self-loathing

Starting point is 00:20:15 Republican and she was feeling bad about the years she was. Yeah, I always hated being a Republican. But I'm not a flip-flopper. And speaking about puking in your mouth, come on, Nicole Wallis. That's a good point. I'm not a flip-flopper. And speaking about puking in your mouth, come on Nicole Walsh. That's a good point, I'm not a flip-flopper. That's nasty, that's nasty. Well she's a really pathetic example of a,

Starting point is 00:20:36 well here's what you listen to this clip to. Unfortunately nobody was killed, but the crowd was chanting, hang Mike Pence, and Donald Trump watched as that occurred. It is why Mike- And sent out a a tweet calling him not the P word, but we know from Ivanka Trump's assistant that that's what he was saying in private. And as I've said that what he said out a tweet, what is not calling him the P word? Well, what was the tweet?

Starting point is 00:21:02 He is always sending out tweets. So she said, so she implies the by the way she presents this, that he sent out a tweet, but he did calling Mike Pence a prick or a pussy or a pussy. We don't know. We don't know because, but it's the P word. It's a P where you can't say the P word unless you're wearing a pink hat. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:26 So she says he sent out a tweet, not calling him a, wait, would the tweet say, what is she talking about? They're very confused at this moment. They're confused. They don't know what to do. There's no call from Jill. She's trying to keep Joe afloat.

Starting point is 00:21:45 Their deal isn't done yet. She's managing Schumer. It's like, this guy, I gotta make it happen. Hunter, he's in the corner going, it's a problem. They got problems. There's problems in paradise here. So nobody knows what to do.

Starting point is 00:22:06 Well, here we go to the last short clip. Trump, we're the guy and the first girlfriend that was dating him was Mike Pence. And you say, well, you know, it's not you. It's him. I mean, he left you to actually die. They were chanting, hey, Mike Pence. And he said, yeah, go for it. Basically, it's really unbelievable. He said, wait, wait. They were chanting hang Mike Pence and he said yeah go for it basically

Starting point is 00:22:27 It's really unbelievable He said wait wait she say she claims that Trump said they were chanting hang Mike Pence I don't remember this I watched the whole thing too if he was watching what I was watching which was on C-spend It wasn't much going on and so they're chanting according to her hang Mike Pence Which could have been just the FBI chanting it. And then Trump said, go for it. When was this? Do you remember this? No.

Starting point is 00:22:53 And what they had is they also claimed they built a gallows. There was a small, there was no gallows. There was a guillotine, like a model guillotine that was outside. You know, someone brought it in a trailer. Yeah, this is a growth. Surprise, surprise. The media sucks. Just surprise. The media is doing no good.

Starting point is 00:23:16 No, not that, but they're, uh, this is where I want to play this clip. This is the one I just sent in. Oh, this is Brian O'Shea. Mm-hmm And Brian O'Shea is married to Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf. Yes, and he's a former Intel guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a private security company Intel ex Intel ex army Green Beret. He's had a hell of a background ex Intel, ex army green berets, he had a hell of a background.

Starting point is 00:23:45 He, and she married him because he was a bodyguard. He was a bodyguard, yeah, a bodyguard. So this one, marrying the bodyguard. Yes, yes. So this guy- She's a regular Whitney Houston. So she wrote a sub stack claiming that Jill Biden is behind the whole assassination.

Starting point is 00:24:04 No, it was really cagey. She's like, I don't want, stack claiming that Jill Biden is behind the whole assassination. It was really cagey. She's like, I don't want to get sued, but it looks like Jill is in charge here. That was an interesting piece. And that piece by, I would have linked to that in the newsletter, but I read it after the fact. And because it was interesting, I tweeted it, so people should follow me, the real Dvorak.

Starting point is 00:24:31 Because I'm not on Macedon anymore. So he has a couple of new, he has one insight that I've never heard, and she claims, this goes on for a little while, and she says it's like breaking news and they talk about that But they talked about some other stuff, but this is the one of the key little elements in an interview She did with him on her one of her Podcasts and I will say this she doesn't I don't know why this is she's

Starting point is 00:25:00 Always poor. She is so poorly mic'd on her own podcast. And everybody else, all the guests are well mic'd. Yeah, she does it on the laptop mic. I have no idea why. So someone should shake her about. Say, hey. I've never heard a podcast where the host. The host is the worst.

Starting point is 00:25:20 I'm gonna send her some gear. She needs some gear. We gotta help Naomi with a mic. She needs a mic. Okay. Okay, I'll send her some gear. She needs some gear. We got to help Naomi with a mic. She needs a mic. Okay. Okay. I'll send her a mic. All right.

Starting point is 00:25:30 So this is Brian O'Shea. Yeah. My first reaction was, and I'm not going to judge the Secret Services conduct. I will say that I've heard, and I don't know, I have a lot of Secret Service friends, are telling me some of those people on that detail were kind of short. And why is that important? Yeah, it's not that they were very, a lot of them were like midgets, like the seventh. Yeah. And the thing is, it's so, I took no offense when my friend Gary would assign me to, for instance, a former naval

Starting point is 00:26:08 commander, a submarine commander, because submarine commanders are short. I am about five foot eight. And so I can shield him. But there were a few that were, and Donald Trump is a tall man. And I would just think you'd want people at least his height. But again, I don't know. But I also noticed like there are a couple people I noticed in the crowd that stood out. I don't know who they were.

Starting point is 00:26:35 There's one guy that just stood there standing. That was really weird. But I will say this, when I got the audio of the, when they did their huddle around him, the Secret Service, there's some things that the media is censoring right now. And I think it's because Secret Service has been pushing diversity, equity and inclusion with the goal of having 30% women by 2030. What I did hear in the audio that has been censored, they've just cut the sound for the split second, but I caught it early, is you hear through Donald Trump's mic, one

Starting point is 00:27:17 of the female agents saying, what are we doing? Now, as a security professional? Okay. Not a secret service guy, but I'm really good. You always know what you're doing. Yeah. Now, which, which brings me to another couple of points that are interesting to me. Now the media obviously bleeped that out. So you, I've never heard that.

Starting point is 00:27:45 I don't think I've heard either. But I have heard, I have. What I did hear is I heard, on your go, all right go. And then nothing goes. They're just, he's still on the floor. They're supposed to take him out. I saw that too. Yeah, that was weird.

Starting point is 00:28:00 There were two other censorship issues though. One of them was the New York, this was a whole segment of the Gutfeld show, and I could have clipped it, I suppose, but I can just say it. They are censoring the photo of Trump with his fist in the air and the flag in the background, and they're taking the flag out.

Starting point is 00:28:19 By request, by request. I have an unnamed editor of, quote, major news outlet wants the media to stop using the iconic photo of Trump because it helps Trump. Yeah. So the news media is deciding not to use a real photo that hasn't been altered. Hey, man, the whole thing was set up to get that picture. Don't you know that?

Starting point is 00:28:42 This whole thing is the inside job false flag. Now, the other one, the other thing that's been taken out of it, and I do remember, I to get that picture, don't you know that? This whole thing's the inside job false flag. Now the other one, the other thing that's been taken out, and I do remember seeing this, and then I haven't seen it since, which is one of the incompetent secret service guys had a rifle, and this I don't think is one of the girls. I mean, we do know about the girl who can't holster her gun. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:29:03 That's been played up on the Twitter and every place else. She can't get it. She got the gun out and she couldn't put it back. And then so she held it out and kept it in her possession, holding it. But there was a shot of a guy who's, these people are all confused and this guy's got this rifle and he actually pointed it at Trump. You know, just on that topic, what bothered me is so many people were behind the president, roaming around, photographers like zipping across to the front and not a single reaction from any of the law enforcement or secret service.

Starting point is 00:29:46 And maybe we should just consider that we don't actually live in the West Wing television series, and that in reality, the presidents are a lot less safe than we think they are. Do we like to believe? You know, it's like,

Starting point is 00:30:03 let me just read this for a second. Our anonymous lobbyist checked in with me, and he's in Milwaukee at the RNC. You remember the anonymous lobbyist? Oh yeah. He says, the amount of security and police presence in Milwaukee for the RNC is shocking, actually very impressive. I worked for an organization who put on a party for attendees after the convention last night on Tuesday.

Starting point is 00:30:24 They're basically says this is one week of partying from lunchtime till the morning hours. Just outside the front of our event building are barriers to stop vehicles from proceeding into the hard security zone. There are two security zones around the forum, soft and hard, which span multiple blocks in all directions. Vehicles are allowed in the hard security zone, but must pass through a designated checkpoint where a bomb check on the vehicle is performed. In front of our event building was not a designated vehicle checkpoint. At the barriers in front of our event building, Secret Service was stationed in an unmarked patrol vehicle and the building next to our event building was actually housing Secret Service officers for the week of the convention. During the setup of the event, broad sunny daylight, I was in the front of the convention. During the setup of the event, broad sunny daylight,

Starting point is 00:31:05 I was in the front of the building assisting with various tasks to prepare for the party. A man on a moped managed to speed through the security barrier into the hard zone unabated by the barrier, which was designed to stop cars, of course, not mopeds. Whoops. As soon as the moped got through the barriers,

Starting point is 00:31:21 a secret service officer popped out of his duty vehicle. He walks over to me and says, did you see the man on the moped? I said, yes, with some additional trivial comments. The Secret Service officer says, well, I didn't want to kill the guy, so I let him through. I mean, in reality, you're just not as safe as everyone thinks you are. That's just the fact of life. You know, Trump is not necessarily safe tonight at the event. I mean, anything could be hidden in the...

Starting point is 00:31:51 If they want to get him, they'll get him, eventually, without intervention of some kind. So, we need to stop dreaming that we live in this fantasy of Harrison Ford and Secret Service and police and everybody does everything right. They should have shot the guy in the moped. Yes, right through the noggin. I mean, seriously, that's the reality of it. We're all living in a fantasy world, you know, pre-conditioned by movies and television.

Starting point is 00:32:23 It's just not so. It's hard to do this kind of protection. It's hard. So this is the Dan Bongino's take on some of this. Bongino, all right. Everybody get ready. Remember, code Bongino for 10% off. A high level source reached out to me last night

Starting point is 00:32:42 and said to me that the rooftop that the rooftop that the shooter engaged from, as I told you last night during the Tucker Carlson special and then on Don Jr.'s show, was actually supposed to be posted by a local police department or non-secret service counter sniper team. So we're clear on the facts. There were two counter sniper teams from the secret service too. Those two were assigned to the scene. That rooftop was obviously deemed a threat.

Starting point is 00:33:11 It was a line of sight issue. So because they didn't have the assets and I'll get to why in a few minutes, it involves Dr. Jill Biden, who has an extremely low threat level relative to Donald Trump. This is the breaking news. For some reason, that local police part, this is not about Monday morning quarterbacking folks. Again, this is not a football game. These are people's lives. For some reason, that local tactical counter sniper team didn't make it to the roof.

Starting point is 00:33:39 What I'm hearing from sources is that that tactical team positioned it through a second floor window, which seeds the high ground. Now, I wish I wasn't breaking this on my show. The fact that nobody is comfortable talking to the media because they're such insider hacks and they're afraid they're all going to be exposed and they all have to come to me, candidly, folks, is a travesty. Wait, John, breaking news, breaking!

Starting point is 00:34:07 Come here, babe. I love you. Have a good trip. I love you. Tina's leaving for Indiana. All right, yeah, sorry, that was breaking! Well, the thing, the point of that, yeah, I got the joke.

Starting point is 00:34:22 Sorry. The point of that was, why are, you know, that Bongino, and I agree with this, nobody's talking to the media about this stuff, because these guys like, he... Sorry. What? No, the dog barked, it wasn't me, the dog is barking. Oh. The media are partisan hacks, and you can't talk to them,

Starting point is 00:34:43 you get busted, you get outed. They're just not trustworthy. So like that's Boncino's lament was that, why are they telling me this stuff? I mean, I'm just a talk show host. And that's what I thought the point where that really was. Couple of things. First of all, if we really want to go back to the genesis A couple of things.

Starting point is 00:35:05 First of all, if we really want to go back to the genesis of hurting the president, I'm going to put that squarely on Kathy Griffin. She kicked it all off with the Trump severed head and boy, did she pay for it dearly with her career and with her health. So I just want to say- Yeah, her health. God. Talking about someone who's gone downhill. Yeah, I mean, so we don't have to be mad at her,

Starting point is 00:35:30 but she did really start this, oh, Phoebe, be quiet. The things that bother me, and well, okay, let me step back a second. From looking at all of the videos that people have sent me, all of the personal videos people have taken, all the Rumble stuff, all the Brighton stuff, all the Q stuff, I can safely say,

Starting point is 00:35:55 we have a lot of snipers in our country. Ha! Ha ha! Yeah, I noticed this too. We got a lot of snipers. A lot of them. If you just go on Twitter, the lot of snipers. A lot of them. If you just go on Twitter, the number of snipers have come out of the woodwork to bitch and moan.

Starting point is 00:36:09 We got snipers. If you need a sniper, just come here and throw a brick, and you got a sniper. I mean, it's unbelievable. This reeks, to me, completely of an FBI type operation, which was probably not supposed to include a gun. And I say this because of the very prototypical... Phoebe, quiet! We got people working on the bathroom so she's all upset.

Starting point is 00:36:40 I say this because the very prototypical, We're going to jack you up online, probably while you're playing a game, which is now known that he posted some messages on Steam, on the gaming site. And we're going to give you some explosive devices. We're going to give you a remote control. And when we give you the signal, you press that button, it's going to blow up. It's going to give you some explosive devices. I'm going to give you a remote control. And when we give you the signal, you press that button. It's going to blow up. It's going to be awesome. And he did have some explosive devices in his car,

Starting point is 00:37:12 and they found some at the house. The Butler Township police were not responsible for the security of the building, according to Knight. But it's unclear which local agency was. The Secret Service says it was outside of their security perimeter and was primarily the responsibility of local law enforcement, even though the rooftop had a vantage point 148 yards from the podium.

Starting point is 00:37:35 The AR-15 or variations, the M4, has a maximum effective range of 656 yards. Retired Secret Service agent Rich Starapoli also worked for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump. That building was nowhere near the outer perimeter. There is no excuse for not having someone posted on the roof of that building. The Secret Service tells ABC News that no one was put on the roof because it was dangerously sloped. That argument called into question because of images like these. The Secret Service did not respond to NBC News' multiple requests for comment, putting out a statement on X overnight.

Starting point is 00:38:09 We are deeply grateful to the officers who ran towards danger to locate the gunman and to all our local partners for their unwavering commitment. Stephanie, it looks like a lot of pieces may be falling into place. I think you're also learning there was another moment along the way that the shooter had been reported as suspicious. Yeah, Lester, four officials tell us that rallygoers noticed crooks at the metal detectors pacing

Starting point is 00:38:34 and acting strangely. Police then notified the Secret Service according to a US official. All of this happening before crooks got on that rooftop. So all of this happened an hour before. I mean, this has FBI written all over it. How many times have they given some poor SAP a remote control?

Starting point is 00:38:52 You press this, you blow it up, it'll be awesome. You know, you'll be doing something good. The kid literally posts on Steam, like July 13th, I'm making my premiere and it's gonna be awesome. and I'm paraphrasing. I don't think they expected him to have the gun and he popped off two shots before it even, it's not like he was an expert assassin, in fact,

Starting point is 00:39:17 according to reports from his schoolmates. He was a horrible shock, like laughably bad and kicked him out of the gun plot. Well, I never heard that he's laughably bad. Yes, I had laughably bad. Laughably bad is the reporting I have. So then what really bugs me is that they start to spin the narrative. And the first narrative which popped up a day ago was this nutty one.

Starting point is 00:39:43 Tonight, a new report that security around Donald Trump was increased in recent weeks because US intelligence learned of an Iranian plot to kill him, according to three officials briefed on the matter. Raising even more questions about how a 20-year-old gunman in rural Pennsylvania with no apparent connection to the Iranian plot was able to get on a rooftop last Saturday. So they try and, oh, it was Iran. It was an Iranian plot, everybody. It was Iran who did this. That's narrative spin number one, which of course results in hilarious gas from the mainstream media. Listen to this. This morning, we're learning more about the increased security around former President Trump

Starting point is 00:40:22 before Saturday's assassination attempt. Yeah, it all comes as US intelligence directed an Iranian plot. What? She literally said. Yes, good gaff. US intelligence directed an Iranian plot. Yeah, it all comes as US intelligence

Starting point is 00:40:40 directed an Iranian plot. Yeah, truth wants to come out. So that was yesterday. Today though, this is the new one. This goes back to he was a gamer, he was an incel. New this morning, a source tells CNN that the gunman wrote on the gaming platform Steam, apparently days before, quote,

Starting point is 00:41:02 July 13th will be my premiere watch as it unfolds CNN senior national security analyst former assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Julia Kayam is with us now so what do you think about that there was some kind of cryptic somewhat cryptic posting from the shooter yes so he knew what's interesting about all the information we're getting out is now is that he knew that there was some performative violent action that he wanted to do, right?

Starting point is 00:41:36 So there is, because he's looking at the DNC dates, he's looking at the Trump dates, he's sort of searching all around. He then focuses on a relatively close event for him geographically, which is Trump. So we know that for reasons that might be psychological, historical for him, cultural, he's isolated, he's looking for a moment to get his headline. What's interesting is he doesn't care what the headline is. I mean, in other words, his search history now

Starting point is 00:42:08 is showing someone who's sort of scrambling for an ideology. And that's what's so, I think, new for this kind of political assassination attempt is we generally have a motive relatively quickly. They either don't like the candidate, right? So, or they're trying to do something to impress someone, say the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt. And so I think we're going to learn a lot more,

Starting point is 00:42:31 and what we may learn, John, is that we can't put a nice bow around this. Yeah, yes you can. In cell, loner, no girlfriends, bullied at school, playing video games, wanted to make a name for himself, had no political motive. Well done, well done. And just as stupid and bumbling as the Secret Service, and no disrespect, I mean, it's just a fact. Half of these people probably don't train enough in a real life situation. One of our producers also mailed in, well, the DEI hire, she's probably her first real

Starting point is 00:43:11 live event, that something really happened and maybe she was adrenaline's flowing, couldn't reholster her weapon. That's because we all believe in the movies. So then we have this other fantastic, fantastic quote from the Secret Service Director, Cheetal, why no one was stationed on the roof, which has just resulted in hilarious memes. Secret Service Director is saying a decision was made early on not to place any personnel on the roof.

Starting point is 00:43:43 That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point, she said. And so you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. It's hilarious, the memes like cows on the roof, you know. That roof is hardly even sloped. No, it's ridiculous.

Starting point is 00:44:05 So everybody's full of crap. Everybody, the whole veil has just dropped, has been lifted really. Like, oh, oh, it turns out you're not really safe. Give me a break. But do you remember when Trump first got elected in 2016, he didn't trust the Secret Service and decided to have his own people? Yes. Now, it's Service and decided to have his own people.

Starting point is 00:44:25 Yes. Now, it's my understanding he still has his own people. It could be. But I don't know which ones, my understanding is he has special forces, which may have been the military guys who also seem pretty. Who pointed the gun at him. Yeah, seem pretty ineffective.

Starting point is 00:44:42 Now, I have two clips. And by the way, I just want to say again, Secret Service, they all did shield him. And that does take a certain amount of hootspot. It takes a lot of guts. So, and you know, I don't want to disparage people. I'm just being realistic about this. You have two clips.

Starting point is 00:45:02 We have, I want the shooter new details. Let's get this out of the way. Okay, we're learning new details about the suspected shooter who tried to assassinate former US President Donald Trump Authorities say Thomas Matthew Crooks was scheduled to work the day of the shooting but took the day off law enforcement Said Crooks first aroused suspicion three hours before the shooting at the rally venue when he passed through security carrying a rangefinder. The binocular type devices are used by hunters or target shooters to measure distances when setting up a long range shot. That's amazing. It's amazing. Hey, what's that rangefinder? Okay, carry on. Come on. And then the only other clip I've got on this is Butler Police Department clip. Whereas, yes, got it here. Meanwhile, the Butler Police Department has confirmed its officers confronted the

Starting point is 00:45:56 gunman on the roof outside the Trump rally last Saturday, shortly before he fired at the former president, coming close to killing him. More from MPR's Martin Costey. In a written statement, the Butler Township Police Department says its officers were assigned traffic duty outside the rally. Traffic duty. But they quote, broke free from that to respond to a report of a suspicious male around a business called American Glass Research. They didn't find him at first, then one officer hoisted another to the roof where the gunman pointed his rifle at him, causing the officer to let go and fall. The statement says the gunman opened fire, quote, moments later. It's still not clear whether the Secret Services Protection Plan

Starting point is 00:46:36 relied on the Sheriff's Office, State Police, or other local officers to safeguard that rooftop. So, you know me as a conspiracy therapist, I'm looking at everything. You know, that weird QAnon guy was in the audience. He didn't move, he knew it was coming. Q, Q knew it, it was all a setup. It's all, I mean, so just for the record, I completely believe that this happened. This kid was probably not even supposed to fire.

Starting point is 00:47:04 It feels completely like an FBI. No, I like your thesis. I like the idea that this was an FBI, another six week cycle FBI scam. Not meant to actually harm the president. Not meant to have this. And the kid, because he was so, I guess, spun up by the FBI that he decided he's going to freelance. They said it, you know, they picked the wrong guy.

Starting point is 00:47:29 They, well, he even said that you got the wrong guy. He said it on that video. That's right. You got the wrong guy. I'm not just going to detonate some bombs, which as far as I can tell, we're not detonatable or detonable, which would be typical, which would would be very and you haven't heard. Oh, yeah They had to detonate him because they were bombs. No, you didn't hear they didn't blow them up in the in the detonation unit No, it's like I was a little unclear about that. Okay, fine. Then we have the photo of the bullet

Starting point is 00:47:56 This is another Point of contention people saying that there's no reason, there's no reason for this shot to have ever been made. And I'll explain why as we have Doug Mills from the New York Times who has been a photographer of presidents, I think since Bush. Forever. Yeah, forever.

Starting point is 00:48:19 Forever. He explains his settings and he does say something interesting here. My name is Doug Mills. I've been covering politics since 1983 and I was yesterday covering President Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. I was taking pictures and that's when the pops started happening and I just happened to have my finger on the shutter and I heard the pops and just kept shooting.

Starting point is 00:48:39 I didn't know what I had captured, but when I got to my laptop, I could see that bullet flying behind his head because it's definitely not in the frames right before it and it's not an afterwards. It's only that one frame and I was shooting an eight thousandth of a second. It captured that streak behind him. So the so the theory goes no reason he was shooting at one eight thousandth of a second. He wanted to get the shot of Trump's head exploding. I'm not a photography expert, but a lot of people.

Starting point is 00:49:10 That's interesting. I haven't heard that angle. Oh yeah. Well, so first of all, he says here, like I looked at my laptop in an interview on NBC, which was too boring and too long. He says he sent it to his editor and his editor called him and said, hey, you won't believe what you have. So there's a little discrepancy in his story there. But it's my understanding that if you are photographing

Starting point is 00:49:34 in a very bright daylight environment and you want to blur out the background, you want to have your object very sharp, that one eight thousandth of a second is not completely out of the range of ideas. Now you know more about it than I do. It's pretty high shutter speed,

Starting point is 00:49:57 but you can get some effects that you otherwise wouldn't have by shooting at that speed. That's a very high speed. He's a professional photographer. He wants to shoot a lot of shots. He's probably shooting like a maniac. I mean, click, click, click, click, click. No, more like, it's two kinds of photographers I've run into

Starting point is 00:50:25 over the years, because I've had a lot of photos taken for one magazine or another. And there's two kinds of photographers you run into. The one is the, like you just described, they sit you down and they'll take, I don't know, 200 pictures of you. Yeah. And then they'll show you the proofs and it's all on a

Starting point is 00:50:46 sheet, little bitty pictures, and then you circle the couple that you might like or he'll say, here's the one I want to use and maybe you're allowed to select it or not, depends on the photographer. Most of the time they'd let you pick one that you don't look like an idiot. And then there's the other kind, and I had this done for my, when I did the telecommunications book in the 80s this guy

Starting point is 00:51:08 He and this is the other kind of photographer and this is the artist he shoots an 8x10 negative yeah on a big giant camera sets you up That brings a makeup person in they stand you there. Wait,, we gotta do a Polaroid first, Polaroid. I don't remember the Polaroid, but they do that. Yeah, on the Hustleblood. They do that for lighting. The Hustleblood, you put the Polaroid back on it first. This is not a Hustleblood, this is an 8x10.

Starting point is 00:51:36 I know, I'm just telling you. Yeah, Hustleblood guys are pretty close to the same thing, because they got a big negative. So the guy sets up shop and he's got this big camera, they put you up there, make you up, you probably, I don't remember the Polaroid, but he probably did that just to get the lighting to make sure it looked okay.

Starting point is 00:51:53 And then takes one picture. And it's perfect. That's a different kind of photographer. And so you have the two, got two different styles, but shooting at 1-8000 means you weren't really trying to get a lot of shots off. I'm sure they're shooting at maximum frames per second, blank, blank, blank, blank.

Starting point is 00:52:14 I mean, there's a lot of people very suspicious of this. If that's all you got, then okay, you want to get the exploding head shot of the year. Exploding head shot would never be used. No, no. So that doesn't make any sense. They're not, no one's going to print a shot of a guy's head exploding. So now is the next part of the theory. Now, and this one, uh, I actually wanted to call up Horowitz, but then I found a clip.

Starting point is 00:52:41 I actually wanted to call up Horowitz, but then I found a clip. This is the wealth fund management that shorted the DJT stock. Yeah. The day before the shooting, 12 million shares, which was not really a short, it was a put, which is technically. It's basically a short.

Starting point is 00:53:03 Okay. And Jason Goodman called and got someone on the phone. Hello? Alex, is this Mr. Wagner? Yeah. My name is Jason Goodman. We don't know each other, but I was calling to see if you're aware

Starting point is 00:53:18 of this information that's going around the internet about Austin private wealth shorting 12 million shares of Trump media stock. Is there anything to this? There's a lot of information about your company going around right now. Right, I understand. So it was a reporting error. So if you go back and look at that same filing,

Starting point is 00:53:42 you'll see it was a clerical error in the filing. Well, how did that occur? I mean, were you trying to short fewer shares than that? How could such an error like this, it seems like a remarkable coincidence for that dramatic of an error to occur the day before this historic incident, doesn't it? So the reporting is generated June 30th,

Starting point is 00:54:07 and it was a clerical error. I do believe we'll be releasing something to our website with more detail on it. But if you go look at the updated filing, you'll see the proper data in there. So that's something for Horowitz, but I'm sure you can tell. We kind of talked about it. We talked about the stock and its response to the shooting, which it skyrocketed the next day. But was that squeezing shorts? Well, if it's a put, the puts are really, you just get wiped out.

Starting point is 00:54:38 It's not like you have to cover anything. Right, but you're right. You don't get wiped out. A put is a fraction of the total share amount, correct? Because it's basically an option. A put is a stock that's borrowed and sold and it's as an option. As an option, right.

Starting point is 00:54:55 So you lose your options. Basically, it's not like when you're actually short, you can lose your ass and you have to cover. Your house and everything. You can lose a lot of money if you're short against the run-ups. I think they also. So you panic and you have to cover. Your house and everything. You can lose a lot of money if you're short against the run ups. I think they also- So you panic and you sell back, you buy and sell.

Starting point is 00:55:10 They also wrote call options. I think they had a straddle going. That would make sense. I mean, these operations do that constantly. But the second part of it is that this Austin Wealth Management Fund, they donate a lot of money to Jews. So, you know, I'm just saying.

Starting point is 00:55:28 I'm just saying, I'm just saying. It was all kinds of stuff like that. So people are really going, sadly a bit off the rails with this. Whereas I think the only explanation I can come to is almost like Occam's razor. We've seen this from the FBI. The remote makes total sense.

Starting point is 00:55:51 The FBI immediately took over the investigation. Of course they did. And who knows if this will ever come out because typically they do a report and they say, well, I'm a confidential informant person and I talked to this kid for two months and that would make nothing but sense. It has all the hallmarks, everything,

Starting point is 00:56:11 to make a big boom, to make some noise. Now, could that have been pro-Trump? Maybe, I don't know, but there has always been a conspiracy against Trump. There is a conspiracy and there always will be, the literal definition to breathe Trump. There is a conspiracy and there always will be. The literal definition to breathe together. There is a conspiracy and it's massive. It's massive.

Starting point is 00:56:33 They hate the guy. Would they, I mean. A large contingent of the government. Yes. Of the government itself hates the guy. This is true. The stock market. He's not making any friends by making it by putting JD Vance in there who's who probably is more against the administrative state than Trump

Starting point is 00:56:54 himself. Well the stock market responded very favorably to to Trump surviving this assassination. Yes it did. In fact it's gone way higher. Yes, it did. In fact, it's gone way higher than I expected it to. I think that was at 42 now. I have stunned it's over 40. It's amazing. It's amazing. Yeah, but it's overheated anyway.

Starting point is 00:57:23 Just because I love George Carlin, I wanted to play his 42nd bit on assassinations, which is always just fun to listen to. We miss him. Assassination. You know what's interesting about assassination? Well, not only does it change those popularity polls in a big fucking hurry,

Starting point is 00:57:41 but it's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Do you ever notice who it is? also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Do you ever notice who it is? Stop to think of who it is we kill. It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon.

Starting point is 00:58:00 They all said, try to live together peacefully. Bam! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we're not ready for that. Yeah, that's difficult behavior for us. Ah, Miss George. We need to- Yes, that is a good bit.

Starting point is 00:58:21 We need to play that every couple years. And I need to give you massive props. You called it. You nailed it right on the money. President Trump walks in on the first day of the Republican National Convention with a big bandage on his ear. You could not have been more right about this. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:38 Why would you not do that? It was, it was, I mean, it was just, it was so big, though. Yeah, now there was criticized, in fact, there was a funny meme going around, I might put it in the next video. Yeah, the My Pillow. No, the meme is, I don't understand why he's wearing such a big bandage. What's he afraid of? And then the person saying this, the meme, the meme-er has got a big giant mask on. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that one.

Starting point is 00:59:05 COVID mask. So here is, I'm sorry. I was just gonna say, this became, some, MSNBC and some of these other, I don't know if it's CNN, but MSNBC, they started bitching about this bandage. And so they had to get Ronnie Jackson or Jones, or whatever his name, Johnson,

Starting point is 00:59:26 I can't remember his last name, Jackson I think, who's still Trump's doctor. Jackson, yeah, he's Jackson. He had to put the giant bandage on because the nature of the wound is such that, and that skin is very susceptible, this is really just cartilage. Yeah, it he said he said Jackson said that if you touched it just touched it. It was start bleeding.

Starting point is 00:59:52 So you had to protect it with a big bandage. So Trump comes walking in and this is CNN with former Fox host Chris Wallace and Jake Tapper and even they could not deny the electrifying moment that it was. Chris, Winston Churchill famously said, nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without effect. And you can see that today,

Starting point is 01:00:20 the idea that just hours ago, a few days ago, this man, an assassin's bullet whizzed by him hit him in the ear inches from his temple and it'd be just by the slightest fraction of an inch he survived shot at without effect and you can see the the joy of this crowd I I gotta tell you, somebody who's been covering these conventions since 1964, that may have been the most electric moment I ever saw. That was quite extraordinary.

Starting point is 01:00:54 Whether you like the man or not, that was... Well, I mean, this is a crowd, these are tens of thousands of people who love Donald Trump, and they almost lost him. This figure that figures so prominently in their lives. And it's so interesting tonight, there has been zero talk about the Democrats and rhetoric and political rhetoric and blaming the media. It's all been talk about divine providence, a miracle. And I think that's

Starting point is 01:01:26 what most of these people view is that it is by the grace of God that Donald Trump is here tonight and representing them going forward. So that was kind of interesting. Trump's first truth or truth, truth post truth was this was God alone who saved me. And certainly the first day of the convention, there was a lot of God talk. Two days ago, evil came for the man we admire and love so much. I thank God that his hand was on President Trump.

Starting point is 01:01:59 Because on Saturday, the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle, but an American lion got back up on his feet Continuing on the religious theme an actual man of God paid tribute to Trump's rhetorical style much to the former president's delight. You're gonna be so blessed. You're gonna be tired of being blessed. I guarantee it. Believe me. That guy was pretty funny. Did you see him?

Starting point is 01:02:38 Yeah, you know, the whole convention has been a tearjerker, the way they've orchestrated it. I have to say that I have seen a lot of these conventions, I went to one once, when I was in high school. Which, was that where Wallace was? It was a long time ago. Sorry, I'll stop.

Starting point is 01:02:57 I think it was the last San Francisco convention. Whatever the case was, you can get into these things, I don't remember ever being checked for guns or anything, but you can get in as you go. This is the era of the, all the signs used to be on sticks. I noticed there's two things I noticed about this convention. There's no sticks. No sticks.

Starting point is 01:03:17 People just holding different signs up as though they were in the card section of a college football game where they had these different cards and you lift this one, okay, lift up card number three. And they'd lift up one of the cards and every night's a different card because they've made this convention thematic with a different theme for every night

Starting point is 01:03:38 and they preface all the speeches, all the big boy speeches with the general public coming out and giving their stories and they're just heartbreaking and they just make it sound like the country's falling apart and it's very well done. I think this is the best orchestrated convention I've ever seen in so far as showmanship's concerned. You can see Trump's TV background and you know he's talking to Burnett and some of his buddies to design this thing the way it is.

Starting point is 01:04:10 It's spectacular. Last night they had the Gold Star families, 13 of them who lost kids in Afghanistan. Oh man, they all went up there and said Joe Biden lied. He said not a single serviceman or woman lost their life on his watch. He has never said my child's name out loud. And then they all went, you know, they said the names out loud and the crowd said their names out loud. I mean, that was just like, and even CNN, I didn't clip all of that, but even CNN was like, well, that's a political death blow right there,

Starting point is 01:04:48 which it was. There was a lot of, I would say, all three days so far, and tonight will be Trump's night, have been like that. They've been just, it's been, I've never seen anything so well done. They had, the worst speech, I think, was Don Jr. He's not a good orator, but he did bring out his granddaughter.

Starting point is 01:05:09 I mean, Trump's granddaughter, Trump's grand and she gave a grandpas cool type speech was fantastic. Brilliant move. JD Vance made some huge, huge mistake. He forgot that this was being televised. He was talking to the audience. He was playing on the crowd. He forgot that he was being on television.

Starting point is 01:05:36 That was bad. I didn't see it as a faux pas necessarily. What I noticed about him was that he needs, his elocution could be improved, he could have a little deeper voice. Yeah. He sounds a little thin. But I basically liked it, but he did, you're right.

Starting point is 01:05:57 And the audits do different kinds of chants, like JD's mom, because the mom was there. That was fantastic. The JD's mom, they would start chanting different things they'd make up in the audience, and then JD was encouraging it. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, for his grandma. Yeah, ma'am, ma'am, and all the rest of it.

Starting point is 01:06:16 I actually, I watched- I thought he was, now with Vance, I wasn't thinking they were gonna pick him, and I thought it was because of the beard for one reason. But everybody seems to like him. Mimi likes him. Trump Jr. has a beard. I don't understand why people say Trump has a white beard.

Starting point is 01:06:32 I know. I don't know what I was thinking when I made that assertion because Eric has a beard. Yeah, they both have beards. Eric Trump has a beard. They're all bearded. So maybe it's just Trump doing his sleight of hand. But I heard JD Vance two days earlier on the Hannity radio show, I was driving to the store,

Starting point is 01:06:53 and Hannity was on with JD Vance. And I had never, he is quick-witted, he's fast, he's sharp, he was holding his, more than holding his own, he was dominating Sean Hannity on the radio show, and he was just, I'm listening to him going, oh, well this is news to me. And when I heard him on the radio just going, you know, just actually sounding, I would say,

Starting point is 01:07:18 competing with Kellyanne Conway for talking the mic, I was impressed. And so I was waiting for this speech, and his EQ could have been improved, but they could have given a little big bottom, run him through some pressure. You mean what I give you, I give you big bottom twice a week.

Starting point is 01:07:40 Big bottom. Yeah. So, but now I think, okay, this guy's probably okay, and he is only 39, and he does, he's definitely a Trump-er, and he's got the same basic concepts and ideas, even though Nicole Wallace just calls him a brown-noser. Well here's JD Vance, I think this is the Ohio Senatorial race, where, you know, his feet are held to the fire. You were a Never Trump or you called him an a-hole,

Starting point is 01:08:07 a borderline Nazi, which he did. And here's JD Vance. You've admitted you've changed your mind on Donald Trump, but in the past you've said, quote, I'm a Never Trump guy, quote, my God, what an idiot, and quote, God wants better of us. All statements you have either said or tweeted about Donald Trump at some point. us all statements you have either said or tweeted about Donald

Starting point is 01:08:25 Trump at some point. The question you have 60 seconds, why should Trump voters Trump supporters vote for you? Yeah, look, I mean, all of us say stupid things. And I happen to say stupid things very publicly. You know, I've been very public about the fact that I voted for the president in 2020 that I was wrong about the president back in 2015, 2016, and that he's been the greatest president of my lifetime for the very simple reason, there are many, but one very important reason is that he revealed the corruption in Washington, D.C. I mean, who would have believed five years ago, six years ago, that the FBI would actually investigate

Starting point is 01:08:57 illegally, get an illegal wiretap on a sitting U.S. presidential candidate. We saw that Trump revealed it, and he revealed it in a way that showed us the stakes of the fight, which is why I'm running up for this office in the first place. And one thing I'd point out is that, I was just north of 30 years old, when I said a lot of those things, a lot's changed in my life.

Starting point is 01:09:15 I re-engaged with my faith, I got baptized three years ago, I've had three kids since then, a lot's different. And one of the things that's different is that I did change my mind about Donald Trump, he was a great president, and I think at the end of the day, one of the things that's different is that I did change my mind about Donald Trump. He was a great president. And I think at the end of the day, one of the things this race presents is an opportunity. Who actually agrees with Trump

Starting point is 01:09:30 on the core issues of trade, of immigration? Who's willing to fight for an America first foreign policy? I think that's clearly me. Interesting, got baptized. Yeah, he also did a, well, I know you'd respond to that. He also had in another interview, and I think maybe it was on Hannity, he kind of blamed the media for brainwashing him

Starting point is 01:09:52 against Trump. Oh, I wish we had that one. That wouldn't surprise me. I wish I had it too. Wouldn't surprise me. That makes nothing but sense. So a couple other people showed up. The most interesting one to me was Amber Rose.

Starting point is 01:10:07 Amber Rose who has a huge social media following, I think mainly for her boobs. And she's black or mixed race. And so she came out and by the way, she's most famous for dating Kanye West. That's really what shot her. Yes, she was good. The first person I knew who supported Donald Trump was my father.

Starting point is 01:10:33 I was shocked. My entire family is racially diverse. And I believe the left wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist. My father said, no,'s not Amber what are you talking about? And when I insisted he said prove it. So to prove my father wrong I did my research and looked into all things Donald Trump. People have to do their research. I watched all the rallies and I started meeting so many of you, his red hat wearing supporters.

Starting point is 01:11:16 I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don't care if you're black, white, gay, or straight. It's all love. It's all love, baby! And that's when it hit me. These are my people. This is where I belong. So I like all of my fear of judgment, of being misunderstood, of getting attacked by the left and I put the red hat on too. So this really shook a lot of people up. Here's a quick reaction from the Daily Blast. People have a right to change their minds. I think flexibility of thought is very important.

Starting point is 01:12:08 But right now, this moment to me, when it comes to Amber Rose, is giving the short line. I've spoken about the short line a lot because when you're a person of color, you're often enticed with more revenue, more eyeballs, more of a following if you do the contrarian point of view to people who look like you in front of people who don't.

Starting point is 01:12:30 Because you stand out. Exactly. I see. And that's what it was giving to me last night. Ah, she's just a whore. Ah, she doesn't really care. She's a whore. Here's Van Jones.

Starting point is 01:12:41 He had his own take. But what I would say is, what you called an inchoate coalition, I see it as the Republicans are trying to eat our cookies. We've had some cookies called the black vote and they're trying to take those cookies. We've had the labor vote, they're trying to take those cookies. They're taking our cookies, man.

Starting point is 01:13:02 They're taking our cookies. That's a good one. take those cookies. They're taking our cookies, man. They're taking our cookies. Ha ha ha. That's a good one. Taking our cookies. Oh no. So. Another person similar to her speech, I thought that got the audience, where it was the Jewish student from Harvard.

Starting point is 01:13:20 Oh, oh, oh. Did you see him? He was on the last night. Oh, Mastodon went crazy. No, he's bringing in the euda. He's bringing in the euda. It's no good. Literally. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I call it mastodon because it's bastodon. Yeah, and then you had the two Americans whose son is a hostage. They were very unsuccessful at getting the crowd to do Bring Them Home.

Starting point is 01:13:54 They got Bring Them Home started, but it didn't go very far. No, the rhythm was all off. It was not good. One other observation, Mike Johnson, who just has a Cheshire, Cheshire cat vibe about him. I don't like him. Now that you mention, I never thought of it.

Starting point is 01:14:12 I did something about his stupid grin. Not like that. I didn't recognize now that you mentioned Cheshire cat. That's exactly what it is. And did you see the hammer? The gavel? No. That thing's as big as his head. It's the biggest gavel I've ever seen anywhere.

Starting point is 01:14:34 I have a short clip by Johnson. Okay, let me see. This is called Another Investigation is an NPR clip. House Speaker Mike Johnson is launching a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Here's Claudio Grisano's support. Congressional briefings are also being held with officials about the shooting.

Starting point is 01:14:53 Speaker Johnson told Fox News that investigators will be able to move faster than a traditional committee and have the authority to force witnesses to testify. There's not a lot of the procedural hurdles and we'll have subpoena authority for that task force as well. It'll be compiled to Republicans and Democrats to get down to the bottom of this quickly so the American people can get the answers that they deserve.

Starting point is 01:15:14 Johnson's task force is expected to be part of several congressional probes that will look into security failures exposed by the shooting at the Trump rally in Western Pennsylvania. Now just to counter your slight snide remarks, despite the fact that he's a believer, I do not like Mike Johnson. I don't like him either. I don't like him.

Starting point is 01:15:37 I do like the fact that he's a political enough that he was the one sitting next to JD Vance's mom who's 10 years sober, as they like to keep pointing out, and he was kibitzing with her. And it was cute to see, because he was, you know. Yeah, you see, yeah, he's smart that way. You know, I- He is smart. We watched Hillbilly Elegy. I'd never seen it, had not read the book.

Starting point is 01:15:59 Impressive story, and I'm going to presume it's true. But so many people, oh no, he's manufactured. He's manufactured. Where I came away, have you seen the movie or read the book? No, I have not seen the movie, I have not read the book. I came away from it thinking, wow, seriously, only in America, only in America can you go from the backwoods of, well really Kentucky, but also Ohio, you know, what people would call white trash.

Starting point is 01:16:29 Yeah, I would say he definitely would be called white trash. You know, and then go into, after 9-11, go into the Marines, and then with the GI Bill, was able to barely scrape by in Yale. You know, the whole story is nice. No, first he went to Ohio State. I'm sorry, the Ohio State, I learned. Well, yes, what an Ohio State person always says.

Starting point is 01:16:53 Now, is there a football thing between Wisconsin and Ohio? No, the football thing is between Ohio State and Michigan. Oh, Michigan, right. And you can't bring that up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And it's a major, major hatred between the two schools. Hey, another thing I do like, he owns over $100,000 in Bitcoin.

Starting point is 01:17:14 Go JD. Yeah, you'd like that too. Go JD. That and being baptized would be your two things. Well, on that note, what do you think? So Trump said he has completely rewritten his speech, he threw it out, he said, I'm going in a completely different direction.

Starting point is 01:17:30 Besides Hulk Hogan showing up tonight, which would be awesome. It could be, by the way, Trump could be misdirecting. He does that constantly. Could be. In fact, I never realized it until the Trump granddaughter came up, the 17-year-old, and gave that little speech and talked about him trying to psych her out on the golf course

Starting point is 01:17:51 and being kind of an a-hole, which is what sports guys do to each other. Well, she's teaching her. She's teaching her to be competitive. That's what a good grandpa, paw-paw does. Don't you? So you don't know the trumpet. Oh, no, wait, stop, stop, stop. You're a grandpa.

Starting point is 01:18:08 Don't you mess with your kid, or with your grandkid all the time? Constantly, you do the best you can. Yeah, to get him prepared for life, and you'll be able to figure out hoaxes. Yeah, well, the parents won't do any of the good stuff. No, that's why you give your grandson noisemakers for his birthday.

Starting point is 01:18:26 Oh, yeah. You want to always give kids drum kit is my favorite gift. Drum kit. Exactly. Exactly. So I believe Elon Musk may be speaking tonight. And that'll be interesting. So let's just go back to JD Vance for a second. I think he's a good pick Even though you were sure it was gonna be Marco Rubio. No doubt about it

Starting point is 01:18:51 Looking back on it Largely because of the beard again. I what were you thinking man? What were you thinking? I was thinking that Trump was was you know, of course, I don't ever heard Trump say this could have been You heard it from the media. I was suckered by the media. Yeah, suckered. I was suckered by the media. So what else is new? I mean, this is what they do.

Starting point is 01:19:10 And so I have some JD Vance clips. Oh, yeah. Let's do that. To give us a little insight here. Oh, I only have two actually. They're both from NPR and they're talking about his techie. This is why I think Musk will be there. This is JD Vance techie. This is why I think Musk will be there. This is JD Vance techie.

Starting point is 01:19:25 The Republicans. Night two of the GOP convention was a night of rivals coming together to back Donald Trump, including his final primary opponent to drop out, Nikki Haley. I'll start by making one thing perfectly clear. Donald Trump has my strong endorsement period. Tonight, Ohio Senator JD Vance will accept his party's vice presidential nomination. You might be aware of Vance's roots in Appalachia thanks to his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Less known are his roots in the worlds of Silicon Valley and venture capital. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, Vance's close ties to tech billionaires could supercharge Trump's re-election bid.

Starting point is 01:20:11 Shortly after JD Vance published his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy in 2016, another career began to rise in San Francisco. He was hired to work in a venture capital firm run by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, who is one of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley. Here's writer Max Chafkin, who wrote a book on Thiel that mentions Vance. Vance worked for Thiel for a relatively short amount of time, less than two years, and then moved to Ohio where he continued to invest, but clearly was starting to think about his political future. But before his political life even started, he launched his own VC fund with backing from Teal and other tech heavy hitters like investor Mark Adresin.

Starting point is 01:20:50 In other words, he was compiling a deep pocketed tech roster that came in handy when he ran for Senate in Ohio and won with financial help from Teal and other tech investors. And now as Trump's vice president pick, Vance is tapping his tech billionaire contacts once again and a growing group of them are embracing The MAGA movement says author Chafkin. So this is also quite controversial the teal connection and So the messages I receive are he's Intel is The Palantir teal is no good. Oh Oh no, he's all in with the intelligence agencies. He's supported by them. He's bringing in, he's a horrible guy.

Starting point is 01:21:28 And I'm thinking, my uncle is one of the highest guys in the CIA. Why are you listening to me if you think that way? Yeah, I would say the same thing. Why is anyone listening to you? Yeah, really, stop it. Now the other thing about this, there's a second clip and I actually have a third clip. Well, I'm going to play an intermediate clip

Starting point is 01:21:49 because when Trump picked, this is just a very short clip, it's only a couple seconds, but this is where the NPR says that Trump named his dick. So Trump named Vance's pick on Monday. You have been speaking to Republicans in Milwaukee. How's he being received? Let me hear that again.

Starting point is 01:22:08 So, Trump named Vance's pick on Monday. You have been speaking to Republicans in Milwaukee. How's he being received? That's what you want to hear, maybe. I don't know. No, I listened to it. I slowed it down and everything, and he definitely says, pick. Pick is what I heard.

Starting point is 01:22:24 But if you drop the idea that he says, Dick, and you listen to it, he definitely says pick. Pick is what I heard. I didn't hear you. But if you drop the idea that he says dick and you listen to it, he says dick. Yeah. Yeah. It's the blue dress gold dress thing. Silver, yes. I mean, let's play the second part of the JD Vans clip. It's tempting to paint this with a broad brush and say all of Silicon Valley is getting behind

Starting point is 01:22:41 the former president, but what's actually happening is that Silicon Valley's right wing has been activated and persuaded to open their pockets. A new tech aligned political action committee called America PAC was unveiled just after Trump announced Vance as his running mate. Elon Musk is poised to flood the group with cash. Venture capitalists Mark Adresin and Ben Horowitz

Starting point is 01:23:02 also plan to contribute. On the duo's podcast on Tuesday, Horowitz said he wished they didn't have to pick a side. But the future of our business, the future of technology, new technology, and the future of America is literally at stake. Many big players in Silicon Valley traditionally sat on the sidelines for presidential elections or voted for Democrats. But now that has changed.

Starting point is 01:23:25 Samuel Hammond is an economist at the right leaning think tank foundation for American innovation. He says many of the new financial backers of Trump and Vance are placing big bets on two industries, artificial intelligence and crypto. When that bet pays off depends entirely on the policy of the US government. Jaffkin, the book author who is also a reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek, says there is a fear that AI policy in the Biden White House will be too heavy handed. They perceive, you know, to some extent, I think, correctly, that Joe Biden, less so than pretty much any president that they have encountered in their lifetimes, is not as

Starting point is 01:24:03 willing to accommodate them. Newly added to the Republican Party platform, just in time for the RNC, repealing Biden's AI executive order that attempts to provide some modicum of AI oversight. Oh, I can't, well, we'll talk about AI in a moment because that's bull crap. Silicon Valley is mostly Democrats.

Starting point is 01:24:22 No, hold on a second. Before Obama, they were all reading Ayn Rand and they were all wearing Rolexes. And they'll, they are- Obama came along and they all became Democrats and they became staunch Democrats. John Doar was always a Democrat. Yeah, he doesn't count.

Starting point is 01:24:37 He doesn't count. Well, he's VC, you know, and he's getting, most of those Kleiner guys are Democrats. The Purce is a Democrat. They're all Democrats. Yeah, but they were all reading I and Rand and talking all big Yes, they were Rolex's and whoa and they fast cars and we're still like a valley They were still supporting the Democrat candidates and they all were

Starting point is 01:24:57 jobs had Meetups at his house. Yeah, yeah, Tim Cook had big money gathering operations at his place. Amongst other things at his place. Zuckerberg put a 400 million bucks or some ridiculous amount of money into the Wisconsin — Can we just put it this way? Silicon Valley are globalists. They're not right or left really. They're globalists. Whoever has the best globalist path they'll take. That's what they are. I'm not going to argue about that. No. Absolutely true.

Starting point is 01:25:32 That's what they really are. But they tend to be Democrats in terms of where they give their money. I mean in fact if we just really think about it the Republicans, Republican Party, the Democrats, just you have lower taxes. You know that's about the only thing so far until Trump came along and he stopped wars, which is a big problem. So he's going to have to deal with that stopping war business. He's going to have to still... Yeah.

Starting point is 01:25:54 Stopping wars is not good for business. Well, unless you ramp up China, which he's always been, he's always been an anti-China guy and, you know, we need big, beautiful ships, subs that go so deep, deeper than others. Now, I'm thinking tonight, and this really hit me because I saw Tucker did a speech. Why are you laughing? Why are you raffin'?

Starting point is 01:26:20 Because Tucker has been showing up everywhere. Exactly, he shows up the first night. He's right there. Yes, he was right there. He was up in that booth where Trump was. The VIP box. Yeah. He was. So why is Tucker there? I think Tucker, and he's been hanging out with Trump a lot.

Starting point is 01:26:40 You know, he goes to the UFC fights. There's Tucker. You know, Tucker is around Trump a lot in, let's call it social settings. So I think he has his ear. Oh wow. I was looking at the trip list and then I cut that in the background. Penny dropped. So just taking him at his word, which is usually a mistake, and maybe even some art of war, perhaps Trump is going to change the battlefield tonight.

Starting point is 01:27:24 He has said that he doesn't want to go into this whole mode about, you know, whatever he was going to do, he was going to burn everything down. He was going to just slash and burn the Democrats. He says he's going to change it all up. So just at face value with Vance, even Mike Johnson, with his close call with what everyone is saying at this convention, Tucker. Again and again and again throughout history there are forces within every society because they reside in the human heart that are against people. They are dedicated to the destruction of people and the civilizations that people built. And if you pay any attention at all

Starting point is 01:28:03 to history you will recognize it. It's like wait a second, people are saying exactly the same things. The climate people, the AI people, the transhumanist people, the Biden administration, they're saying exactly the same kinds of things, the same themes that every other movement of this kind, and they had a million different names for them throughout history, were also saying. That's the first thing I noticed. The second thing I noticed is what do all of these movements over the past 2,000 years have in common? Who do they hate most? As you can tell by what I said about JD Vance, I think you learn very much by taking a look at who's mad at whom

Starting point is 01:28:37 and about what. So if there's something that threatens you, pay close attention to what makes them angriest. It's certainly true in my business, which is the speech business. What are they trying to get you not to say? What are they punishing you for saying? Those are likely to be the truest things. Not the falsest things. It's not misinformation. It's not disinformation. It's truth. That's why you hate it, obviously. It's obvious now. It took me about 10 years to figure this out. I'm not a super genius. But what group do they dislike most? What group are they absolutely terrified of and hoping to eliminate? Well, it's Christians. That's who it

Starting point is 01:29:12 is. It's Christians. And I'm saying this is not a particularly fervent lifelong Christian. I am a Christian. But I haven't spent my life surrounded by plumes of incense deep in prayer, I spend my life in a newsroom saying the F word. I'm not sort of a pious person at all. But I try to be a noticer since I'm paid to do that. And the group that makes them angriest triggers them most, I guess we would say now, is Christians. Christian nationalism. People pray outside abortion clinics. People celebrate Easter and not trans visibility day. These are their real enemies. But that's been true in every revolution in the past 2000 years.

Starting point is 01:29:57 It was a really, it was an interesting speech that Tucker gave. And so I'm thinking if Trump were to move this from lawfare to spiritual warfare, he has a whole different game going on. And I'm just saying this from an analytical point of view, because here's the stories that are popping up. New York Times, this is after Saturday, Trump's devotees see God's protection. Christian nationalism is emerging as an overt threat to democracy, Los Angeles Times.

Starting point is 01:30:28 Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goals, Washington Post. The defiant Trump image that made critics join the cult, I mean, it's everywhere. Yeah. Well, this is the athe atheist getting a little upset. Well, on cue, someone who I don't really even like that much, I try to avoid playing any clips, is Josh Hawley. Now isn't Josh Hawley also a tech guy? Why do I think that?

Starting point is 01:31:00 Not that I know of, I mean Josh Hawley's name has come up in the conversation quite a bit Well, here's I'll look him up while you here's here's a clip that that popped up Faith leaders are speaking out on what they say are the dangers of Christian nationalism and its impact on our democracy and government This is in response to Senator Josh Halley's words advocating for Christian nationalism a week ago Our David and Melania is breaking down the conversation for us in the studio tonight. So these religious leaders today tell me their biggest fear is violence in the aftermath of Senator Hawley's speech, one where he advocates for Christian nationalism, but insists he is

Starting point is 01:31:36 for religious tolerance. I'm told by the panel of faith leaders today, the issue with professing advocacy of Christian nationalism is at the stance and stance nice religious freedom to Jews, Muslims, LGBTQ Christians, and people of color. And some will say that I'm advocating Christian nationalism, and so I do. That excerpt of last Monday's speech by Senator Josh Hawley continues to make waves in our country and pull together religious leaders in Missouri this Monday, condemning the senior senators words. Christian nationalism is not compatible with religious tolerance or religious freedom because it's saying we will have a Christian nation. Sorry, Muslims, sorry, Jews,

Starting point is 01:32:14 sorry, atheists. This nation isn't for you the same way it's for others. At best, we'll tolerate you being here, but you don't get the same level of rights as others. Christianity is two billion people across the world. It's a very diverse religion. So when they talk about a Christian nation, they really mean a very specific form of mostly white, the mostly evangelical, conservative, straight, patriarchal Christianity that often becomes white Christian nationalism. Last week, Senator Hawley said his focus is keeping the left from destroying the First Amendment

Starting point is 01:32:47 and religious liberty our country is built on. It's a fact of history, not open to debate. It's a fact of history that we were founded by Christian believers and that our fundamental ideals, including those in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, all come to us from the Christian tradition. That's just a fact, and I think it's worth preserving.

Starting point is 01:33:07 So, that man, there's a lot of fear about this. No tech connection. I thought, why do I think that? What's just the opposite? Well, what does he come, where does he come from? Well, he actually graduated from Stanford. And he, I mean, he, he lives in Missouri, obviously. And he went to, and he's another Yale-y, just like- Oh, like Vance.

Starting point is 01:33:31 Like Vance. Yale guys run the country. And who knows what they're up to. So what is interesting is there's- But Hawley's been on this theocratic thing forever. I didn't know that. This is nothing new with him. I didn't know that. But he says, I'm a Christian nationalist and everyone freaks out about it. And then, so this, oh, it's, and then you get all these. So we really have, we have the sparkle clergy, which is, you know, God is trans.

Starting point is 01:33:59 Then we have the extreme right nut jobs, you know, God hates fags, you know, go in and storm abortion clinics. No, I mean, there's all kinds of crazy things going on. And then you have the, you know, what they call like the remnant church who believed in the history of America being, you know, the pilgrims came literally after strengthening their faith in Leiden of all places in Amsterdam. And, you know, all of the first presidents, everything is all based upon the word of God.

Starting point is 01:34:32 So, Hawley's actual message is something that I think Trump could actually use. The Left's primary purpose is to attack our spiritual unity, our common loves. They want to destroy the affections that link us one to another and substitute a set of altogether different ideals. The left preaches its own gospel, a creed of intersectionality, of deliverance from tradition, from family, from biological sex, and of course from God. They regard the faith of our fathers as a fetter to be broken. They deem our common moral inheritance as cause for repentance. Instead of Christmas they want Pride Month. Instead of prayer in schools they venerate the trans flag.

Starting point is 01:35:13 Diversity, equity, and inclusion are their watchwords, their new Holy Trinity. And they expect their preachments to be obeyed. They may speak of tolerance, but they practice fundamentalism. Those who resist are called deplorable. Those who question are labeled threats to democracy. And this is why progressives, I submit to you, have such little patience these days for working people. They're too attached to the old ways,

Starting point is 01:35:42 to the old faith of God and family, home and nation. Now this is the left's true replacement theory, their true replacement agenda, to replace the Christian ideals on which this nation was founded and to silence those Americans who dare still stand by them. Boom! That's what Trump should do tonight. I don't think Trump's going to do that. I don't think that's what he should do. I think it is falling into a trap if he does. I think he's going to be mostly about family and the working class. That's why he brought on I think the most controversial guy.

Starting point is 01:36:19 The head of the Teamsters. Well, they want they want labor on their side. They want their cookies. They want their cookies. They want to steal the cookies from the Democrats. And they already had, they got plenty of religious stuff going on. They don't need to, Trump doesn't need to pile on.

Starting point is 01:36:36 I mean, he's not gonna mention it, but I think it's gonna be about family. It's gonna be about unity. And it's gonna be about, and he's gonna slip a bunch of labor stuff in there to try to get the working class, the middle class, and blacks and Hispanics. He's gonna do a lot of crossover stuff to bring them in

Starting point is 01:36:54 because he knows that they're, he can get a lot of black votes, mostly black men. The black women still reject him. Keep your eye on Hulk Hogan tonight too. See what he says. And they're gonna have Hogan tonight too. See what he says. And they're gonna have Hogan, yeah. That group, that's just kind of a... No, you watch.

Starting point is 01:37:11 I'm going to disagree with you on this, but it's okay. We can disagree. Mostly, I don't think he's gonna push that. It's not a good idea. I think it's a great idea. Obviously. Well, you would. Obviously, I would. Yes, I would.

Starting point is 01:37:23 You're a religious? I'm a Jesus freak. Well, you would. Obviously, I would. Yes, I would. You're a religious? No, I'm a Jesus freak. No, I think it's a religious freak. No, no, no, I'm not. No, I'm a Jesus freak, not a religious freak. It's different things. Anyway, just to move to the AI portion, because that's very interesting that these tech bros, as Kara Schwish would call them, the tech bros, oh yeah, they want AI regulation. We got to change that, we got to get rid of it. You can't hamper our fantastic investments. Yeah, let the, the way I see it,

Starting point is 01:37:57 let the AI thing collapse on its own weight. Why should the government get involved? Here's the Goldman Sachs Exch exchanges podcast about AI and the investments. The biggest challenge is that over the next several years alone, we're going to spend over a trillion dollars developing AI, you know, around the infrastructure, whether it's the data center infrastructure, whether it's utilities infrastructure, whether it's the applications, a trillion dollars. And that is the issue in my mind.

Starting point is 01:38:26 What trillion dollar problem is AI gonna solve? This is different from every other technology transition that I've been a part of over the last 30 years that I've closely followed the technology industry. Historically, we've always had a very cheap solution replacing a very expensive solution. Here, you have a very expensive solution that's meant to replace low cost labor.

Starting point is 01:38:49 And that doesn't even make any sense from the jump, right? And that's my biggest concern on AI at this point. But isn't technology always expensive in its nascent stage and then you improve, you evolve, you iterate and the cost comes down dramatically? Yeah, not always. Let's take e-commerce and the internet as the best example of this. From the get-go, you had a very cheap technology, e-commerce, replacing a very expensive brick

Starting point is 01:39:17 and mortar retail solution. Amazon was able to sell books from the first day that they started selling books on the internet because it was cheaper to sell over the internet than it was for Barnes and Noble to have retail stores. That was cheaper from the beginning. There's a real life example of arguably the most important technology development of our generation, e-commerce. That was cheaper from day one.

Starting point is 01:39:39 Fast forward 30 years, and it's still cheaper. We still have a cheaper solution replacing a more expensive solution. Take Uber replacing limousine services, right? So you start it cheaper and 30 years later, the internet is still enabling things to be cheaper than what the incumbent solution is. There's nothing about AI that's cheap today, right? And you're starting from a very high cost base. So that part, I think there's a lot of revisionist history on about how things always start expensive

Starting point is 01:40:06 and get cheaper. Nobody started with a trillion dollars. You know, he could have pushed back further when she's, it's never been more expensive in the beginning. Never, never. I mean, when the personal computer first came out, those things to put them together so that it was actually useful, it cost about $3,500 for a machine. As opposed to today, you can get a B-Link,

Starting point is 01:40:29 which has more power, for 69 bucks. With a great hard drive. Well, that's your issue. Yeah. So, use condition to power, that would be my advice. Anyway, the point is, is that it's always been, when the $3,500 machine came out, or you could even spend more than that,

Starting point is 01:40:50 it was so much cheaper than a mini computer. Or a mainframe. And everything else in between, it's always been cheaper. It always starts off cheaper. That's your original so-called value proposition. It's cheaper. That's value is the word.

Starting point is 01:41:04 Value. And it's always been cheaper. That's value is the word. Value. And it's always been cheaper. The fact that it's gonna cost a trillion dollars to solve a cheap labor problem, which is like worldwide you get cheap labor anywhere, it is ridiculous. This guy, I don't know who that guy was, but he nailed it.

Starting point is 01:41:18 He's from Goldman Sachs. Well, they know what they're doing. Yeah, yeah. They're shorting while everyone's going long. They're shorting while they're telling everyone else to go long. Well, of course, that's what you do on CNBC. So along in that vein, we've really started something with the economic indicators. We had the hair salons. And I think you and Horowitz were doing some of this stuff,

Starting point is 01:41:47 or at least it sounded like it. I got one from one of our producers who follows Helen or Troy, H-O-T. By the way, these are all called coincident indicators. It's a known thing to look out for. I like economic indicators better, but what do you call them? Coincident indicators. They're economic indicators that just happen to coincide with some other action going on someplace else.

Starting point is 01:42:16 So if you can find one that's obscure and that really nails it, you can make a lot of money. Well, here's one. This is so Helen or Troy, their hair products, consolidated net sales declined 12.2% driven by decline in sales of hair appliances, prestige hair care products, and humidifiers in beauty and wellness.

Starting point is 01:42:38 Yeah, Helena and Troy became a, we produced some earnings recently that were off mark. Yes. And it became a kind of a topic of discussion for an entire day at CNBC. Here is, I like this one, police officer in Chicago here. Hello, thank you for your service. And in Chicago for both police and fire departments for the last four to five years has had a large quantity of people passing up the opportunity to take the job.

Starting point is 01:43:06 And a lot of people in Chicago have mentioned that the economy is good and people don't want to be cops or firemen because money is loose and there's plenty of jobs. I am roughly 35 years old and I have had at least three people that are around my age ask my advice on becoming a police officer in Chicago. One of them works in finance, finance, but stated it's too- Finance. Finance.

Starting point is 01:43:27 It's too boom and bust and the market is brutal. I'm also noticing a lot of people in my age group, 28 to 35, moving back home with parents. I think we can assume 2020, 2021 was the generation's 2008, but covered up by COVID like has been discussed on the show. He feels that when people start to look for jobs at police and fire, that that is an economic indicator of rough times ahead.

Starting point is 01:43:52 I think we could have the copy. That's an interesting thesis. I think we can have the cop indicator. And then- The cop indicator. Yes, the cop indicator. And then the most mind bogboggling segment on CNBC. All the orange pill boys are jacked. As you know, I was a skeptic.

Starting point is 01:44:13 This is Larry Fink. Skeptic, yes. I was a proud skeptic. And I studied it, learned about it, and I came away saying, okay, you know, my opinion five years ago was wrong, here's my opinion, say this is what I believe in today, I believe the opportunity today.

Starting point is 01:44:32 I believe Bitcoin is legitimate. I'm not trying to say there's not misuses like everything else, but it is a legitimate financial instrument that allows you to have maybe uncorrelated, non-correlated type of returns. I believe it is an instrument that you invest in when you're more frightened though.

Starting point is 01:44:52 It is an instrument when you believe that countries are debasing their currency, debasing their currency by excess deficits, and some countries are. I believe we have countries where you're frightened of your everyday existence, and if you have an opportunity to invest in something that is outside your country's control,

Starting point is 01:45:15 then you can have more financial control. And so I'm a major believer that there is a role for Bitcoin in portfolios. I believe you're going to see that I'm a major believer that there is a role for Bitcoin in portfolios. I believe you're going to see that as one of the asset classes that we all look at. I look at it as digital gold, as I said before, and I do believe there's a real need for everyone to look at it as one alternative

Starting point is 01:45:42 to, I would say, the optimism that I have in the world. And I believe there's a great industrial use for it. And I think a lot of people are missing that. Industrial use. What's the industrial use? Is it a hedge? He believes it. I have no idea.

Starting point is 01:45:58 He do believes it. He do believes it. We've come a long way from being babies for the internet. That guy's the last guy I'd listen to. Well, I mean. The DEI guy. You know, the Black Rock has got their heads up Biden's ass. Yeah, and they make no money.

Starting point is 01:46:15 They're very unsuccessful. Oh, they make plenty of money, but they're not making money because of this offhanded advice that they're giving other people. Okay. You know they have an ETF, right? This off-handed advice that they're giving other people. Okay All right, I mean, you know they have an ETF right it's a very successful Bitcoin ETF So they do put their money where their mouth is I don't know how successful that ETF is ETFs are not a good idea Okay, because they naturally degrade it just naturally wellgrade, just naturally. It's a real problem with ETFs,

Starting point is 01:46:50 unless you're shorting on them. All right, ETFs, no good. I cannot paray your comment about ETFs. All I know is they have one. We can take a break here, or we could get to the other big news, which just it spanned all the networks for about an hour and then it disappeared but man

Starting point is 01:47:10 this was a doozy. Senator Bob Menendez left... What was it? Here it is. Senator Bob Menendez left federal court today a convicted criminal. I'm deeply deeply disappointed by the jury's decision. That jury finding him guilty of 16 counts, including bribery, extortion, and acting as a foreign agent. I have never violated my public oath. I have never been anything but a patriot of my country. Now, majority leader Chuck Schumer

Starting point is 01:47:37 is joining a group of more than 30 Democrats calling for the senator's resignation. Prosecutors spent nine weeks proving Menendez accepted thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and a new Mercedes in exchange for actions that in part benefited the Egyptian and Qatari governments. What? They had another clip and they had his nickname.

Starting point is 01:47:56 He was Qatari now. I thought it was Egypt. How many governments in the Middle East was he working for? All kinds of government. I want, was this the, uh, someone had his nickname here. I think this is it. Senator Bob Menendez is facing calls to resign after being convicted of corruption. Prosecutors said the New Jersey Democrat abused his power as chairman of the Senate Foreign

Starting point is 01:48:17 Relations Committee by doing favors for Egypt and several businessmen as part of a scheme that involved extortion and bribery. Those bribes included gold bars, a luxury car, and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Menendez is vowing to appeal. Somewhere they call him Gold Bar Bob, which I like. Gold Bar Bob. Gold Bar Bob, everybody.

Starting point is 01:48:38 But that guy's, I mean, I still think it's his wife. I think he got really screwed by his wife because she's the one that introduced all the connections. She's a mover and a shaker that woman. And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the seas in the coup coffin. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeForent. Well in the morning to you, how you doing?

Starting point is 01:49:07 Well that's interesting. We are about an almost half an hour late on the troll count. Last Thursday we had 1873 and that was after about an hour and 10 minutes today 2319 at a buck 50. Hello trolls good to have you here. That's the number that used to be common. Yeah but it would have been much higher if I had done it half an hour ago. So the trolls are tuning in and they're doing that at trollroom.io. Some of you, hopefully more, increasingly, are using a modern podcast app.

Starting point is 01:49:52 Support your independent podcast app developers. You're gonna be very sorry. Podcasts will start disappearing from Apple and Spotify. And, oh, it's so easy. Yep, okay. Go to podcast. Boom, they're gone. They're gone. And po Spotify and oh, it's so easy. Yep. Okay. Go to podcast. Boom, they're gone.

Starting point is 01:50:08 They're gone. And poof. Yeah, that's right. Podcastapps.com. And of course you get all the cool features, which includes artwork in the chapters. You get chapters, which are, I mean, no one really has this chapter feature. You get transcripts, you get all kinds of fun extras that are just not available. You get these modern podcast apps alert you through the Podping system, which is a decentralized

Starting point is 01:50:33 notification system, blockchain, within 90 seconds of us publishing. Go ahead. It's a blockchain? We have a blockchain? It's a blockchain, yes. The Podping system runs on a blockchain. Why? So it's completely decentralized.

Starting point is 01:50:49 No one owns it. So anybody can ping the blockchain. It's not, I don't want to own it. But where is the blockchain that you can ping? It's in the cloud. It's a blockchain space. You can ping the blockchain. Somebody has to be hosting something.

Starting point is 01:51:06 No, it's like hundreds of thousands of people are hosting this blockchain. What if they all stop? Yeah, okay. All right, John. They're not all going to stop. But if they all stop, then we have other problems. So that blockchain has been around for 15 years. What if the net goes down? Yeah, I don't think you'll be worried about your podcast if the net goes down. You won't be getting your podcast.

Starting point is 01:51:30 And we can say wherever you don't get your podcasts. Those images come from our artists who understand the value for value system extremely well. They like to give us value back for the value they receive from the show, which is what we've been doing. It'll be 17 years in October. And instead of taking corporate, you know, someone got mad and said that your tip of the day, which was, I think it was a book. No, it was a water filter. Was it a water filter? Oh yeah. The clearly filtered filter. And you said you'll get it on Amazon and then immediately be like, man, that's insulting.

Starting point is 01:52:09 You got native ads. I said a native ad for a water filter three hours and 10 minutes into the show. Boy, we're rocking and rolling, aren't we? No, the whole point of being Valued for Value is we can talk about actual products we like and that we use. Yeah, that's the idea. We do that all the time with different computers. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:52:30 I mentioned Beelink. Oh, Beelink. Oh, yeah. Oh, they're paying us off. Yeah. They can't. They're losing money on each computer. I mean, they're paying us off.

Starting point is 01:52:38 People are too conspiratorial. No, it's just guys like that. The guy's a dick. No, he's not. He apologized. And once I said, I said, quite frankly, I find this insulting. I didn't mean it that way. Okay, well. Then how did you mean it?

Starting point is 01:52:55 People write stuff. I understand how it works. So some guy wrote a note in. He says, I offended John. He goes on and on and on. And I'm thinking, what? I don't even know what he's talking about. Was it the Brahmin? No, it wasn't the Brahmin. The Brahmin I do offend. Yeah. And all of India hates you. But the Brahmin deserves a couple of things. I mean, the guy lords it over everybody. He's a Brahmin. That's what they are. If I were you, I wouldn't go to Bangladesh anytime soon.

Starting point is 01:53:23 I'm not going to Bangladesh. You won't be there anyway. Time, talent, and treasure is the way that it works. You can hit somebody in the mouth, turn them onto the show, get them to donate, call someone out as a douchebag, support us however you can. I mean, it's in kind when you're doing things that would cost us money like websites, you know, the

Starting point is 01:53:46 Void Zero. Art. Well, I'm gonna get to Art. Void Zero does our infrastructure. Everybody pray for Mark. He has all kinds of intestinal issues. Oh, this is not good. No, no, it's, in fact, it's really not good. You know, he can't really sit down even. Oh, I gotta, I should give him a call. Yeah, you know what? He would really appreciate that.

Starting point is 01:54:08 And he's been with the show for what, 15 years I think. Ever. 15, at least 15 of our 17. Yeah, he came in after Mr. Oil. No, he was there before because he had the chat. Okay. Which, the troll room still is on his server. He's just, you know, it's just running for everybody, which is no agenda stream, which

Starting point is 01:54:30 is, you know, where all the trolls hang out. So yes, we do have artists who like to give us art. Some of them donate to financially, but the art is just phenomenal for us to be able to choose. There's a little Slim Pickens for us on the last show, for a number of reasons we'll get to, but first we want to thank our Dutch master Dame Kennybem. We chose her volume knob, her rhetoric volume knob, which... That was under protest. Yes, under protest. Do explain. It was not my favorite.

Starting point is 01:55:01 under protests, do explain. Uh, it was not my favorite. Um, well, you had another cheese cake. I didn't see it as a, as a possible fallback, but you were rejecting everything. Well, here was the main problem. Um, so we kind of liked the idea of Trump as Van Gogh and Scaramanga had probably the best version of Trump is Van Gogh But you didn't see it because there was John's favorite boobs front and center, which of course like that wasn't the reason the booze Mangas boobs. No, there were two of the Dutch

Starting point is 01:55:36 There were two of this the Trump and the patched ear one of them you liked which was tantanee One of them you liked, which was Tanta Neal's. And I like Scaramanga's, they're right next to each other. And I like Scaramanga's not because of the heavy top to woman, although that was not, I didn't think it hurt the piece by any means. But Scaramanga did a tremendous job of making Van Gogh look like Trump. He did. Tantaanil did not. He agreed. And there were a number of people who did Trump ear things,

Starting point is 01:56:13 which we were kind of against, but the Van Gogh thing was funny. But they had the wrong ear. Yes. It was one piece in particular. Correct the record. Correct the record. Correct the record. It has the wrong ear.

Starting point is 01:56:25 Come on. Would that just take any talent? Did you see Darren O'Neill sent us his prompts for his artwork? Yes, I saw the prompts. Darren O'Neill has decided to eschew his own artistic capabilities in favor of comic strip bloggers prompt jockey AI. And he sent a, we had to, because of the show before, we demanded that he send us the prompts. Send us your prompts.

Starting point is 01:57:00 And so he sent a whole, a very nice presentation, which is actually something I should put in the sub-stack column, just as is. It was very interesting. It was quite amazing how really simple it is. I mean, in that regard, and he only pays 20 bucks a month, I'm sure it's costing somebody money somewhere. I believe, you know, just the example

Starting point is 01:57:21 for that one piece that he did, the thing coughed out about 10 pieces at least, and each one of those has got to cost a number of dollars a piece to generate by the AI. Yeah, for 20 bucks a month, he's killing it. It's a money maker. So the rhetoric button I felt was usable, and you ended up agreeing.

Starting point is 01:57:45 Yes, I did. Um, let's see what other, you know, there were other ear things, but I think we both felt like, like gummy ears. Okay. Yeah, we didn't know. It was, it was, that was a little sick. You know, we're not Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. Who do you think we are?

Starting point is 01:58:02 Yeah, we try to keep the, yeah. Yeah, but we're also not gonna do glorify. And the Trump with the fist in the air and the flag in the back and all that. We're not gonna glorify anybody, no. No, we're not gonna do that. It's just, you know, it's just a, it's just, no, we're talking about creative.

Starting point is 01:58:18 We need creative. Yes, creative. And creative means creative. It comes from your soul. Yeah, that's why, that's why Daren O'Neill. Or your training in some cases. And creative means creative. It comes from your soul. Yeah. That's why, that's why Darren O'Neill. Or your training in some cases. That's why Darren O'Neill is one of the top

Starting point is 01:58:31 of the leaderboard. He has soul, even though he is just a prompt jockey. It's amazing. It's amazing. Well, we want to thank all of our artists, of course, because they provide just a very valuable service and that's how Value for Value works. We really appreciate it.

Starting point is 01:58:49 Thank you so much for doing that. And now we go to the treasure component of our Value for Value model, our executive and associate executive producers. Go to noagendadonations.com to learn how to support us with your finances. We do need that because this is all we have. We don't, you know who reached out to me?

Starting point is 01:59:09 Podcast One. Are you familiar with Podcast One? The name rings a bell from years ago. Well, Podcast One went public, and they have Adam Carolla and- Oh, okay, that group. And they said, hey, a lot of our users are telling us

Starting point is 01:59:27 we need to get you guys into our network. And I replied, and you know, they're like, hey, we provide money. We have money, we help you monetize with ads and money. And I said, well, you're gonna have to make it extremely attractive for us to leave our producers behind. So I don't know if you if you can provide. They won't do that.

Starting point is 01:59:49 Of course not. If you can provide. Their money is like, you know. An exit strategy. I'm looking. Their money is like, you know, 50 bucks. I mean, most podcasters that are part of these networks don't make anything. Well, Corolla's making something.

Starting point is 02:00:06 Is he? Oh yeah, he's definitely making some, and he got stock. Yeah. Right, stock, yeah, probably was useful. He got, you wanna hear this note? Yeah, play the note. Play the note? I can't play the note, I can read you the note.

Starting point is 02:00:20 Let me see where it is. Hi there. That's a good start. That's the kind of notes I get on LinkedIn. I'm the development coordinator at Podcast One, a full service podcast production, marketing and advertising network. I want to introduce myself and personally reach out as we would love to work with you on the No Agenda podcast.

Starting point is 02:00:42 Our staff has been submitting their favorite podcasts and your shows come up from multiple fans at our company. Yeah, sure. If you're open to it, we'd love to set up a call or grab lunch if you're in LA. Have you ever listened to our show? To see if there's an opportunity to work together or at very least make a formal- Answer no. Yeah. Um, we limit the number of shows on our slate. Ah, these are real Hollywood people, John. Which has contributed to the five plus year longevity

Starting point is 02:01:16 of hits like, are you ready for these hits? I'm ready. Lady Gang. Oh yeah. Off the Vine, A&E's Slate, the Adam Carolla Network, the Kyle Lowry Network and Jordan Harbinger. Just recently we launched with Cody Rigsby. Have you heard of any of these people?

Starting point is 02:01:40 No, Adam Carolla. We support with Revenue Generating, a top class sales team across the country headed by Sue McNamara, who ran sales for Howard Stern for 20 years. John, think of the opportunity. I'd rather be dead. I mean, seriously, I would rather thank our executive and associate executive producers twice a week for sending us the value that they get out of the show. And that's really all that it is, is just send us the value that you get out of the

Starting point is 02:02:14 show of any amount. And the thing is, one of the things we've worked out on this show is lack of dependency. Correct. Because you lose one advertiser because you said something stupid and then we can't pay the rent. Well, you could say something stupid and make us lose the advertiser too. In fact, we used to, when we don't do it so much as we used

Starting point is 02:02:42 to, at the end of the show when we do our post-mortem to get the art and do the rest of it and talk about the show, we used to say, you know, we would have been fired for this, this, and this. I think we still do it, we just don't pay as much attention to it. All the things we do on this show because we're not limited by worrying about the advertisers,

Starting point is 02:03:02 we're not limited to what we say or what we do. We're only limited by liability issues. So we... And we keep each other. We can't slander people. We don't do that. We're responsible to each other. Right. Right.

Starting point is 02:03:17 Right. That's it. And best of all, remember, no meetings. That's the real reason right there. We don't want to meet with With anyone You know especially a lunch in LA. What's what's that big? Fast moving consumer goods group with the e the Dutch group. What's their name? They do all the soap stuff

Starting point is 02:03:40 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what's their name they do dove Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what's their name? They do dove Yeah She well You know what? How about this? Listen guys. We've got we've got a great buy opportunity from Eric Prince with his with his Unplugged phone you're gonna he's gonna give you a phone and you can end You know what? We love you to interview him on the show.

Starting point is 02:04:05 Unilever, thank you very much, Osteen Berger. You said E. What? You said the name starts with an E. Yeah, I was wrong. Yeah, well that's why I couldn't get it. Unilever, of course, monster company. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:04:19 The guys at Unilever, they really would love to advertise with Dove, but can you dial back You know the DEI hate because they're really big on black skin That's the kind of stuff we'd have to deal with can you imagine yes, that's exactly what you just said is was from obviously Extracted from a meeting you've already had years ago when you were doing other work and the women are always the same type of woman Yes years ago when you were doing other work. And the women are always the same type of woman. Yes, they're all the same. Hey, the team has been talking about your last episode. We have a couple of notes for you. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. If you support us with $200 or above,

Starting point is 02:05:03 you get an associate executive producer credit, which is real. You can use it anywhere, including IMDB. You can open up an account there and they will be recognized as such. And we read your note and the 300 and above, you're an executive producer. And Lubor Benda is from Czechoslovakia,

Starting point is 02:05:21 Rudnik to be exact. Where's Rudnik? Rudnik, Rudnik, Rudnik. And came in with a beautiful note that just said, love, love, love, and sent us $1,000. Now, now- That was pretty generous. That's love, love, love.

Starting point is 02:05:38 Donating is loving, proof. Thank you so much, Lebor. And that's- Did you get the note that the guy from Argentina sent us? I did. Actually, I'll read it to you. I, that was very interesting. Hold on, I have it here.

Starting point is 02:05:52 As requested, I hereby confirm, I am a DH unplugged Argentinian listener. I guess you guys were talking about it. I don't know of anybody else. However, a bunch of people listen to No Agenda here, all hit by me. Still need to find someone I don't know who listens to the show. I live in a rural setting in Uruguay, a few houses in the woods. I can assure you, you can walk around the hood and you

Starting point is 02:06:16 might be able to hear the No Agenda show playing. You can't miss the sound of goat karma in the woods. It's hilarious. I personally listen to the show live walking around with a speaker. You've got friends down here. Don't forget, we don't have much cash, but we are not poor. Come for vacation. We live by the ocean.

Starting point is 02:06:37 Santiago. Well, we just might take you up on that Santiago. I hear Argentina is beautiful this time of year. Well, Uruguay is supposed to have some tremendous food. And soccer players. Andrew Alexander's next on the list, and he's from your neck of the woods, Fredericksburg, Texas.

Starting point is 02:06:55 Hey! And he came in with 54375. A neighbor. My team. We live in F-burg, which I guess is what they call it there. We know, we know. F-burg. No, we call it Fred. I don't know why he said Effberg.

Starting point is 02:07:06 Fred. Makes me suspicious. We live in Effberg and have been on the sidelines of this shift for about a decade. Come by our place in Coolwater Ranch, we have an insane barn with restored neon from Mexico and 3,000 collectible liquor bottles. Huh? He's a hoarder. I should go there.

Starting point is 02:07:30 I got it. Come visit, John. You'll love it in Fred. Note from my friend Elias, a big fan of yours, you should send them something. It is the note from Fred. Elias, you should send them something about how your best friend dated a girl who testified against Hunter Biden and hit you in the mouth, AKA told you about the show, and how he almost got shot by the Secret Service

Starting point is 02:07:53 for grinding on Malia Obama while she was a Harvey Weinstein intern. So there's no way that guy on the roof was allowed to take that shot unless it was a setup. Best wishes, Andrew. guy on the roof was allowed to take that shot unless it was a setup. Best wishes, Andrew. Do we have the best producers or what? I guess so.

Starting point is 02:08:10 Boots on the ground. Well, I was grinding Malia Obama. You guys are the best. You guys are the best. Sir Smidiot. Smidiot. Shreveport, Louisiana, 35093. John and Adam, first let me get this out of the way.

Starting point is 02:08:24 Rodney, how are you still a douchebag? Douchebag. And Robert, welcome to Noah Gen The Nation. You are now a douchebag. Douchebag. Sorry I haven't donated in a while. To be honest, I'm donating because of John's giant ear bandage prediction.

Starting point is 02:08:40 Keep up the great work. Four more years. And he wants a couple of jingles here. He wants the dumps. He wants Trump come and then he wants, don't eat me Joe Biden. Okay. Well, we have all of that. And he ends it by saying, regards, sir smid smidiot, rhymes with idiot. Okay, gotcha. They did dumps. They call them dumps, big massive dumps. I'm gonna come. Don't eat me, Bojide, and you're scary, so scary.

Starting point is 02:09:15 You're right, thank you. Ted Holmeier in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, 333.33, when big things happen like the Trump attempted assassination, we appreciate we're able to tune into the no agenda show for truth. Truth would like some goat and jobs karma. I would like to give a douchebag call out to Jake. And Stella. And Mark Berkowitz. douchebag and Stella douchebag

Starting point is 02:09:45 and Mark Berkowitz douchebag who all listened to this show. Thank you for all you do, Ted. You got it, Ted. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yay! Karma.

Starting point is 02:10:01 Just think, that goat was heard in Uruguay. Yep. Jason Young is in Rocheren, Texas I'm probably saying that wrong. Rocheren. I don't think it's Rocheren I think it's Rocheren, but I don't know. Rocheren, Texas. Associate executive producership for Jason $250 need a birthday donation from my smoking hot wife to celebrate South of Houston on our wrecked farm with no power or water. Yeah, that's bad. I mean, that storm, that really barrel

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Starting point is 02:13:48 She's on the producer list. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yay! You stopped. Karma. And our final associate executive producer, Sir Radicale, Muskegon, Michigan, $200.

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Starting point is 02:14:45 can set it up yourself the frequency the amount you can determine for yourself it really helps on the slower days and we'll be reading the rest of our producers down to the 50 in a few minutes once again thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for producing episode 1678 our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth All right, I would like to start this off in a lighter note, okay have a show. Alright. I have two. Second half of show? This is second half of show. Oh, okay. But it's not second half of show material.

Starting point is 02:15:31 No. Oh, okay. This is the second half of show. Well, you, I mean, you confused me. Oh, you're going to play the jingle. Never, don't do that. Okay. But you can play this jingle.

Starting point is 02:15:38 Ask Adam. Alright, everybody. It's Ask Adam time. What could be going on? This is actually two Ask Adams, one after the other. What? So let's start with Ask Adam puzzle Q. Okay, and people should know that John sends me his clips in the morning.

Starting point is 02:15:57 I don't listen to him. We don't coordinate. This is a performance that we do together. So I have no idea what's coming, And here is my Ask Adam puzzle cue, a cue for question, I presume. One of the world's most famous puzzles turns 50 this year. Puzzle. A famous puzzle turns 50.

Starting point is 02:16:19 Famous puzzle. I have to come up with something. The troll room was already telling me? I don't want to cheat. The troll room is helping you cheat. I just looked over and they gave it away. I don't appreciate that troll room. Here's your answer.

Starting point is 02:16:44 There's never been a puzzle quite like Rubik's Cube. And America may never be the same. Wow. Yes, the Rubik's Cube. The creator is an 80-year-old Hungarian architect, Erno Rubik. Back in the day, he was a professor in Budapest, fascinated with geometry,

Starting point is 02:17:00 and he created a prototype in 1974 that took months to solve. So the creator of the Rubik's Cube, Mr. Rubik himself was stumped by his own invention. Very difficult. I would not have guessed that, and in fact, 50 years, and I'm thinking back,

Starting point is 02:17:16 was I 10 when that came out? I guess so. I have no idea. That is crazy. That's, you know, my nephew, Connor, Connor is from the elite side of the family. He did his submission to, I don't know if it was, I think Juilliard,

Starting point is 02:17:38 that he plays a classical piece while solving the Rubik's Cube. It's a great video. Yeah, that's talent. I gotta find it. Yeah, he's from the Buckley side of the family. That brings in another Ask Adam Q. Bonus! The second part of this is this one. Now, half a century later, about 500 million Rubik's Cubes, official versions and look-alikes have been sold worldwide. And solving it has become a competitive sport.

Starting point is 02:18:10 The World Cube Association. There's an association for everything. Yeah, that's what the script says. I wouldn't know. Now, the World Cube Association says the current world record set last year is just over... Oh, okay, how much time? Yeah, how much time does it take to solve a Rubik's Cube

Starting point is 02:18:27 Rubik's Cube puzzle by the number one guy i've seen some of these i'm gonna say oh this is astonishing i'm gonna say seven seconds play the answer good set last year is just over three seconds you can watch it on youtube three seconds must be a very short video. Wow, three seconds? I don't know how that's possible. Except I'll say this. Now our old spreadsheet guy, a friend of ours, is Eric Mackey. Yes.

Starting point is 02:18:58 Who? Eric Mackey, the guy who does, can do a Rubik's Cube in three seconds, sees things differently than you do. Because he can look at it and then they say, go and he's got it done in three seconds. Eric is one of these guys. He does not the Rubik's Cube so much,

Starting point is 02:19:14 but we used to do this all the time at the table. You could take one of those crazy puzzles that have a bunch of things hooked together in some awkward way and you're supposed to pull on it and you try to get this thing on. Yeah, I know what you mean. Those things, the Curly Q metal things? Yeah, those Curly Q metal things.

Starting point is 02:19:33 And I would say I would have one and it took me like five minutes jerking around and getting the thing to fall apart. Eric, and this is God's truth, and he does this with other things too. He can like pack a container. Yeah, he has kind of a Rain Man vibe. He can count things in a room

Starting point is 02:19:52 and do all kinds of stuff like that. Well, he does, I don't know if he does that, but he does, with the puzzles, he does the following. You put it in front of him and he looks at it for about, I don't know, 15 seconds, and then just grabs it and boom, it's all apart. It's just instant. It's like as soon as he picks it up,

Starting point is 02:20:11 it's in the 10 pieces that it was designed to be, you know, that's part of the puzzle, and then he can put it right back together. It's unbelievable. And so I have to assume the Rubik's Cube guy, and I've heard this from a lot of engineers have this capability, Chet Heath who did one of the buses for the IBM PC,

Starting point is 02:20:31 he said he didn't realize that he can look at a bus and he can see immediately why it won't work. Just by what the pinouts are. He's not gonna work. Contrary to popular belief, Eric actually has a family with three kids. He has three kids, yeah, and they're all happy campers.

Starting point is 02:20:49 He figured it out. Ask Adam, ask Adam, will he know or will he won't? I don't know but here we go. Ask Adam, ask Adam, yeah. Answer the question, go! Uh. Uh. Anyway, there are people that have the, you know,

Starting point is 02:21:06 that see things. That was a good one. You, by the way, have, you're kind of that way with sound. I what? You're kind of one of these guys, you're seeing your. Oh yeah, with sound, oh yeah, definitely. Oh, sound, big, it's big with me, sound, sound. I like doing sound.

Starting point is 02:21:22 Well, let me do a little light to clip edge here. This was kind of fun because I saw this story six days ago and I think I might've clipped it and like, who cares? The reason why it was interesting to me is I built a website back in the on-ramp days before it became Think New Ideas. And it was the website you visit more than once a month, tampax.com. That was the actual slogan on the website. And so there was this study that came out and I had clipped, I was like, yeah, that's

Starting point is 02:21:57 something I should probably put on the back burner if we have some time. And today a new report comes out and I'll play the original report in a moment. Dr. Lauren Stryker, thanks for being with us again. Good morning. So we're going to do some health headlines of the day. First off, I think we did this story where they said metal was detected in tampons. Should people be worried about this?

Starting point is 02:22:15 Talk about it. Okay, this sounds terrifying, but bottom line, this is nothing to panic about. So what's this all about? Got a lot of media last week. Basically, some scientists tested to look for the presence of metals in tampons. All kinds of tampons, every brand, organic, inorganic.

Starting point is 02:22:32 And they found that there was metal in all of them. Arsenic, cadmium, lead. So this sounds terrible, right? But there's three reasons that no one needs to panic. Number one, is there's no evidence that these metals get outside the tampon, much less get absorbed by the body. Number two, we're talking trace amounts, teeny, teeny, tiny amounts that are unlikely

Starting point is 02:22:54 to be clinically significant at all. But number three is the big one. You're already getting your daily dose of arsenic in your kale salad, in your arugula, in any fruits or vegetables that either grow or in the water, because we have metals in our water supply, in the ground. So this idea that you're gonna put this tampon

Starting point is 02:23:16 on your body and it's gonna do terrible things to you is not based in science. This is click bait, this is fear mongering, and in fact, the people that wrote this article said, hey, this is like no big deal. We just want people to know this. And let's just talk about organic for a minute. You know, the reason why I play this is because I happen to know

Starting point is 02:23:36 how these companies operate. And the choice a young woman makes between different menstrual cycle products will probably determine their usage for the rest of their life. So Tampax was really all in on trying to get young girls as soon as possible to use their product and what this was was a bogus-ass stupid study from the makers of cup products which is now all over social media. Girls going, oh, look at this. They're all getting paid for it.

Starting point is 02:24:08 So they put out this fear mongering report. As you can well imagine, I have a teenage daughter and I'm thinking about this, you know, for her as well. And so we are going to spend a bit of time talking about alternatives for people that they can consider if they are concerned about this. OK, well, let me tee you up on that. Let me tee you up. This is NBC. Let me tee you up on that. Let me tee you up. This is NBC. Let me tee you up.

Starting point is 02:24:26 Let's read what the script says. Okay, well, let me tee you up on that. What are some of those alternatives? I think people know obviously pads are an option. There's those little like cup things too. Exactly. So there are two things that work kind of similarly. There are menstrual cups.

Starting point is 02:24:40 There are menstrual discs, which essentially sort of- So this was a native ad of horrible proportion. Unbelievable. Scaring people into thinking there's arsenic in your tampon. This is what goes on at the mainstream media constantly as supposed news. Exactly. Exactly. It's disgusting. Yes.

Starting point is 02:25:01 And then we get called out because I recommend a water filter. Well, there's that. It's your own fault. You did it. You brought that on yourself. Hey, let me tee you up, John. Let me tee you up. I need to be teed up.

Starting point is 02:25:14 I'm going to tee you up with a very short report from the King's Speech, which was Prince Charles. And this is the piece that was sent to me. A bill will be introduced to progressively increase the age at which people can buy cigarettes and impose limits on the sale and marketing of vapes. Ministers will also legislate to restrict advertising of junk food to children along with the sale of high caffeine energy drinks to children. A bill will be introduced to progressively... Oh sorry. So there you go. Progressively making it difficult to

Starting point is 02:25:51 get vapes, get your hand on vapes and energy drinks and junk food. The King is very obsessed. It's worse than that. I saw a bunch of clips from the King's speech that were done by NTD UK, which I normally don't clip from. Interesting, okay. So they have, these are four clips, and the fourth clip is the kicker. But let's listen to the basic introduction.

Starting point is 02:26:18 Is this like a state of the union? What exactly is the King's speech? The King's speech is confirming what the new party is up to and agreeing with it and promoting it and it seems to me that's what it is. The Queen, I think, used to be the Queen's speech, but she never got so involved. This guy's almost like wanting to be a governor. I don't like this guy, this Charles. No, he's a douche.

Starting point is 02:26:44 Sorry, sorry, UK. He's definitely in on all this. This is, if you listen to these four clips, this is Britain turning socialist. King Charles has set out the new government's legislative agenda. The King's speech, delivered within a ceremony full of pageantry, promises a government of service focused on reviving the economy and tackling issues from an acute housing shortage to the cost of living crisis. King Charles set out Prime Minister Keir Starmer's legislative agenda on Wednesday,

Starting point is 02:27:23 promising a government of service focused on reviving the economy. Charles told the gathered peers and MPs the government's program would be best upon the principles of security, fairness and opportunity for all. Stability will be the cornerstone of my government's economic policy and every decision will be consistent with its fiscal rules. The package of more than 35 bills will focus on growing the economy, performing planning laws to make it easier to build homes, speeding up the delivery of major infrastructure projects,

Starting point is 02:27:56 improving transport and creating jobs. My ministers will get Britain building, including through planning reform, as they seek to accelerate the delivery of high quality infrastructure and housing. They will also pursue sustainable growth by encouraging investment in industry skills and new technologies. Now, do they need the approval of the King in order to implement? Because it says my ministers? Yeah. I thought it was just... Technically they do.

Starting point is 02:28:29 I thought there was just a formality, it's tradition. Well, it's a formality, but turns out... Yeah, turns out. Yeah. And so this guy who is a socialist, as far as I'm concerned, he continues and we'll go to clip two, which is short. The government also set out plans to gradually rationalize the passenger rail network and set affordable fares to draw people back onto trains. Wait did he say

Starting point is 02:28:51 nationalize? Yeah nationalize. This decision would mostly reverse the privatization of the railways conducted in the 1990s by the then conservative government. With brands taken together, these policies will enhance Britain's position as a leading industrial nation and enable the country to take advantage of new opportunities that can promote growth and wealth creation. The speech delivered in the House of Lords by the King, with all the traditional pomp and pungentry, includes many of the policies championed in Labour's manifesto. Measures to modernize the Constitution will be introduced, including House of Lords reform, to remove the right of hereditary... Wait, wait, let me hear that again. I'm going to go back.

Starting point is 02:29:40 ...includes many of the policies championed in Labour's manifesto. Measures to modernize the Constitution will be introduced, including House of Lords reform, to remove the rights of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the Lords. Wow! You're getting kicked out! They're revising the Constitution, and I'm sure they have an amendment process don't they what is the Constitution the Magna Carta well no it's just whatever it is I don't know what it is but they're gonna change it in the House of Lords guys are done yeah they're basically gonna eliminate I mean the

Starting point is 02:30:19 House of Lords has always been kind of like why you know they just kind of rubber-stamp stuff but they're stamp stuff. But they're funny. But they're funny. That's a tradition. And they're funny, but they're not dangerous. It needs to be like kicked out of office. This is really extreme changes that people are, I think it's going to screw up the country, but I think it's all part of the socialist agenda that he's falling for because he's

Starting point is 02:30:43 all in on climate change and all these other ideas. Useless eaters. So let's go to clip three. Behind me here in parliament, King Charles set out Sir Keir Starmer's plans for government in his King's speech. It contained 40 pieces of proposed legislation. Some of the key bills announced include a bill to toughen spending rules.

Starting point is 02:31:02 This seeks to strengthen the role of the economic watchdog, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, to guarantee that major fiscal decisions are properly scrutinized. There is a crime and policing bill which will include a ban on zombie-style knives. It will also include a new type of antisocial behavior order and stronger penalties for shoplifting.

Starting point is 02:31:22 Labor's landmark bill to boost workers' rights is referred to as a new deal for working people. It includes a ban on zero-hour contracts, giving workers rights immediately on starting a job, and a crackdown on the practice of fire and rehire. There's a strengthened version of the renters' reform bill. This retains a ban on no-fault evictions and would bring in measures to boost renters' rights.

Starting point is 02:31:46 Then onto planning, infrastructure and energy, there's a bill to reform procedures to accelerate house building across the country. The government is seeking to renationalize nearly all passenger rail services within five years, a key priority for the Labour government. And a bill to establish GB Energy, a state-owned company which will oversee investments in decarbonization projects such as offshore wind. Wow, how are they going to pay for this? Inflate the pound?

Starting point is 02:32:14 Oh, that's an interesting point. I didn't even think of that. Hey, could be cheap for us to go visit. It's already, yeah, but everything, I mean, the pound is worth less now, it's only a buck 20. I mean I used to go there, it was a buck 60. It was always a buck 60, 60. But everything's overpriced now,

Starting point is 02:32:32 so it doesn't really, still a jip. Now, so the last thing is the kicker, which is this one, and this is a classic socialist idea that is incorporated into these 40 labor 40 parts of the labor manifesto. And the funny thing is they use a manifesto term which fits right in. Here we go. Moving on to AI, another bill which creates binding rules to govern the development of artificial intelligence.

Starting point is 02:32:59 This legislation will enhance legal safeguards with a focus on general purpose technology that underlines AI products such as Chats GPT. In regards to border security, this government plans to strengthen Britain's borders by modernizing the asylum and immigration system and establishing a new UK border security command with counter-terror powers to tackle organized crime. Labour is also resurrecting the previous government's proposed ban on anyone born after 2009 buying tobacco. And alongside devolving powers to mayors and councils, Labour is seeking major constitutional reform too. Reform of the House of Lords is on the table, which would include removing hereditary peers. There's also a hint of potentially lowering the voting age to 16. Ah!

Starting point is 02:33:45 Ha ha ha ha ha! Wow! Well, every country gets the government she deserves. That's what you all voted for, because you hated the conservatives, like, ah, let those labor guys in. They've been chomping at the bit. And they're gonna-

Starting point is 02:34:02 Lower the age to 16, That is always a winner. If you're a socialist, they are going to throw you in irons. And what do you think those those reforms? Oh, you won't be able to say anything. They won't be able to say anything. So you can't already can't know they're already cracked down on social media in the UK. Wow. People get arrested for nothing.

Starting point is 02:34:29 There's an unconfirmed rumors coming in that Chinese president Xi Jinping had a stroke. Ooh, I haven't heard that. I know that today's news from out of China was that they got rid of a number of people from the ministry. Oh, could be a palace coup going on. Who knows? I do. I want to play, I just wanted this, back to Biden for just a second.

Starting point is 02:34:49 Why not? I wanna play these, these are two clips from his Lester Holt interview. Yeah, he was pretty angry. He was lit. He was mad and he kept saying, look, look, look. Look. I mean, when you hear somebody saying look

Starting point is 02:35:04 as much as Biden does, this is like, it, this is defying. He's very defiant, but he's also half brain dead. And I only have two clips, but the one, the first clip is the good one. Well, let's talk about the conversation. This has started and it's really about language, what we say out loud and the consequences of those you called your opponent an existential threat on a call a week ago. You said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye.

Starting point is 02:35:31 There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate the more... I didn't say cross-series. I was talking about focus on. Look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was, there was very little focus on Trump's Agenda. Yeah, the term is bullseye Was it was a mistake to use or I didn't mean I didn't say cross hairs I've been bullseye man focus on him focus on what he's doing

Starting point is 02:35:56 Focus on one is on his policies focus on the number of lies. He told in the debate focus I mean, there's there's a whole range of things. Look, I'm not the guy that said, I don't want to be a dictator on day one. He didn't say that. He said he'll be a dictator for one day. Lies. Lies. Biden's a liar.

Starting point is 02:36:19 But this idea that, you know, I said crosshairs. I mean bulls, I mean focus on. That was great. And so we have part, the second part is not as entertaining, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, voted for me to be the nominee in the Democratic Party, okay? I listened to them. In your last TV interview you were asked if you had watched the debate and your answer was, I don't think so, no. Have you since seen it? I've seen pieces of it.

Starting point is 02:36:56 I've not watched the whole debate. The president also responding to news of Donald Trump's new vice presidential pick. I want to ask you about, just shortly before you and I sat down, former President Trump named his vice presidential pick J.D. Vance. What does that tell you, his qualities, what does that tell you about

Starting point is 02:37:16 former President Trump's values in terms of who he will surround himself with in a next administration should he win? Well, it's not unusual. He's going to surround himself with people who agree completely with him. I have a voting record. I support him. Even though if you go back and listen to the things that J.D. Vance said about Trump. You know, I think I have angrier clips from Joe from that interview.

Starting point is 02:37:41 If you don't, if you will indulge me. That's fine. That's all I got is those two because I thought they were meaningful. But yeah, well he was, the clips I should have gotten I didn't get, but I just couldn't get a good, the reason I didn't get them, these are the clips from the NCAA speech. I have one clip. Not NCAA, but the NAACP speech. I have one.

Starting point is 02:38:00 Where he's, he's good. He's screaming, he's yelling, it's like gone nuts. I mean, he goes crazy. He's one of those crazy speeches where he's unhinged. But I found two copies of it and they were too echoey. I wasn't gonna run them through Google. They were no good. They were no good.

Starting point is 02:38:16 They're no good. Here's a very, very short one, but definitely my favorite. One of my best friends, when I was a lifeguard in the projects, his nickname was Mouse. This is one he got in the, he tangled, he rumbled with with corn pop, he had his buddy there in the projects, which was Mouse. Does anybody take this guy serious? I got some short angry clips here. I want to ask you about, just shortly before you and I sat down, former President Trump

Starting point is 02:38:50 named his... Oh no, you got that one. You had this one. Mr. Trump has said he's giving you a chance to redeem yourself, basically the idea of engaging in another debate. We're going to have another debate. Yeah, you're going to have one in September that's on the books. Would you be open to doing one in the next few weeks?

Starting point is 02:39:05 I'm gonna debate him when we agreed to debate. And I'm gonna debate him in September. But if the opportunity came up to do one between now and then, is there a sense of wanting to get back on the horse? I'm on the horse. Where are you, Ben? I've done 22 major events.

Starting point is 02:39:23 And thousands of people. Also moving crowds. A lot happening. I'm on the horse. What I'm doing is going out and demonstrating to the American people that I'm command of all my faculties, that I don't need notes, I don't need telepromp.

Starting point is 02:39:40 I can go out and answer any questions. I don't need telepromp. Oh, and I stood there when when NATO was in town. I stood there for an hour and answered questions. If you were to have continued to. Oh, poor follow up from Lester Holt. Yeah, that's when you identified Vice President Kamala Harris as President Trump and President Zelensky as President Putin.

Starting point is 02:40:03 Is that what you're talking about, Mr. President? No. But if you were to have. Is that what you're talking about, Mr. President? No. Well, he's not going to be here. Lester Hold is a soft baller. He's a soft baller. Questions. If you were to have, continue to run and be officially nominated,

Starting point is 02:40:17 what happens if you have another episode like we saw during the debate? Episode. What happens if you have a performance on that level? I don't plan on having another performance. I know, I know. Yeah, I know. All right.

Starting point is 02:40:35 Mr. President, it's always good to talk to you, good to see you. Thank you for making some time for us. Sometimes come and talk to me about what we should be talking about. All right. Okay, the issues. Always happy to talk.

Starting point is 02:40:45 When does he talk about the issues? No, man. What is that? It is bull crap. Oh. Well, I hope he stays in. Yeah, well, he's quitting tonight. He's quitting tonight.

Starting point is 02:40:57 It's over tonight. Tonight? No, this is, yeah, microdots. No. It's quantum dots, okay? Oh, well. Quantum, quantum. Micro. It's quantum dots. Okay? Oh, well. Quantum.

Starting point is 02:41:08 Quantum. Micro dots is funnier. Quantum dots. The Olympics are starting soon in Paris. For one, I have Olympic fever. I'm very excited. Although I always find it kind of, I got to admit, I don't like that we always send the dream team for basketball.

Starting point is 02:41:24 You know, it's like, oh always send the dream team for basketball. You know, it's like, oh, LeBron James. Okay. Well, at least we can win in one thing. Yeah, it is. I think it's a version of cheating years ago before the original dream team. When they had, you couldn't be pro. You couldn't be a pro.

Starting point is 02:41:40 And they, so they had these college kids and we'd win and we wouldn't win. And when you win, you win. And somebody got sick of the fact that other countries are beating our college kids and we said okay these guys as far as we're concerned they're bringing in pros we're bringing in pros yeah so can make up your mind but I think who's that that freak the guy who's seven foot nine that guy yeah I always calm it's open's Obin Yama, I think is his name. I always call him Obama.

Starting point is 02:42:08 But he'll play for his own country. Yeah, well a lot of guys do. In fact, one of the best players in the league is playing for Serbia. Right, that guy, what's his name? Oh, it's... Yeah. I should have the name off the top of my head being a sports ball fan, but I don't. Yes, you are a fan.

Starting point is 02:42:28 Anyway, part of the deal was- Jokovic. The Joker. Part of the deal is we would have flying taxis. Well, we know that's out. The flying taxi's not happening. Surprise, surprise. Which means we won't have people dying in these death traps.

Starting point is 02:42:44 Trust me. trust me. And they're supposed to have all kinds of competitions in the sand. Yeah, this is a classic. This is a good story. But the sand is basically full of poop. Yeah, it's poopy. So to prove that it's not poopy, the mayor took a swan dive into the Seine. It's the dive into the Seine River that Paris' mayor has been dreaming about to show the

Starting point is 02:43:17 water is clean. It's amazing. We work a lot and very hard for that very lucky and happy day. Happy because the Seine will be the centerpiece of the Paris Olympics. In less than two weeks from now, opening ceremonies will be hosted on the river for the first time. But there had been concerns about athletes competing in the water. The river, so polluted, swimming in the Seine was banned for more than a century with only a few exceptions.

Starting point is 02:43:48 For good reason. Determined to make it safe again for the Olympics, cleanup efforts began over nine years ago costing one and a half billion dollars. It included a giant underground water storage basin renovating sewer lines and treatment plants. Even with all that, water quality tests last month indicated more needed to be done. We did it. We did it. We did it. Officials say the latest water quality tests show welcomed improvements and Paris is ready

Starting point is 02:44:18 to let the games begin. Why did they have to do sewage changes? Were they dumping the poop in the sand? Well the coliform tests were always failing. Now there's a, it's possible that they could possibly fix it. One time I was hanging out, hanging out. I was hanging out in Paris. I was hanging out with a guy.

Starting point is 02:44:41 In Paris. In Paris with a guy American. With a croissant. With a croissant. With a croissant. I asked him, I said, you know, what would you define the French as being really good at? And I was thinking, you know, growing peaches, wine, there's all these different things you'd think of.

Starting point is 02:44:57 Crepes. Crepes. He says the number one thing the French are great at is public works. Rail designs, the sewerage system, the sewers of France, all the rest. I mean, they do that better than anybody else in the world. And I noticed this the first time I was over there, the roads don't have potholes all over the place. Oh, there's that.

Starting point is 02:45:16 Move to Paris then, you freak. So I can see them possibly being able with their public works kind of mentality, being really good at it, maybe cleaning up the sand, but that's a big project. I don't know. I think there's going to be a lot of pink eye, let's put it that way. From there we moved to what we actually had. We had the King's speech. The Queen is under attack.

Starting point is 02:45:47 Oh wait, before I just stay with the Olympics, I do have a clip. Oh you have an Olympics clip, okay. I have an Olympics clip that I think is funny. Let me see, all right here we go. Paris Olympics will provide recycled cardboard beds for athletes. The manufacturer of the beds said they are so strong that five or six people can jump on them. The The manufacturer of the beds said they are so strong that five or six people can jump on them. The mattresses of the beds can be customized to enhance sleep quality. Paris 2024 revealed the recyclable cardboard beds that will be helping

Starting point is 02:46:16 athletes catch up on their beauty sleep during the summer games. The beds were designed by AirWeave, a Japanese company. Its CEO said cardboard beds were initially created in 2021 for the Tokyo Olympic Games. He said the beds for Paris Olympics were even stronger. Cardboard beds? Didn't they have that a couple years back? I remember this. Yeah, at the previous Olympics, but I didn't know that. And it's like, is that the best you can do? Yeah, really.

Starting point is 02:46:49 From sleeping? What a futon, anything. No, the cardboard beds, is my understanding, is so that it discourages sex. I never heard that part of it. Yeah, I think that's, did you know that there was a 4chan poll about us? About us? Yeah. No agenda guys, yay or nay.

Starting point is 02:47:11 Oh, we probably got, for 4chan, we probably got, I don't know what we get from, I know Reddit would give us a nay. Well, listen to this, worth listening to if you have seven hours a week to kill. I remember listening to John C. Dvorak for years related to tech. I did not realize he was involved in politics. Yeah, they're pretty good. Although Dvorak is increasingly naive for someone as old as he is, who has seen as much as he has, he's always giving MFers the benefit of the doubt when it's really, really not warranted.

Starting point is 02:47:41 He also reads slash Paul. So that's great. I guess you're a 4chaner. Then Adam is a retard. John C. Dvorak is the goat. It's a shame that Tranny made that god-awful keyboard layout and made it his same last name. Wow, 4chan. Real accurate there. Yeah, fantastic. Anyway, back to the Queen. The Queen is under attack. It was five years ago that Ursula von der Leyen squeaked her way into the chair as head of the European Commission by just a handful of votes. Her attempt to get re-elected for a second term is likely to be just as close.

Starting point is 02:48:21 Two weeks ago, EU leaders nominated von der Leyen despite an occasionally controversial stint in charge of the bloc's executive branch. I would plain and simply like to express my gratitude to the leaders who endorsed my nomination. One key dissenting voice though is Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney. The leadership proposal from the conservative, socialist and liberal parties was wrong, partly because there was no discussion considered regarding the mandate for these leadership nominees. In the wake of European elections, citizens clearly asked for a new direction for the

Starting point is 02:48:56 EU. Meloni is not the only person unhappy with von der Leyen. Ahead of Thursday's ballot on whether to confirm her for another five years in charge, talk has grown about objections and opposition to her leadership of the Commission. A vital issue for some is the question of transparency. That was kept on Wednesday ahead of the vote by an EU court ruling which criticised the Commission's handling of Covid-19 contracts. More significant, however, are questions about Ukraine. MEPs on Wednesday backed a motion reaffirming support for Kieviv at a time when Europe appears

Starting point is 02:49:27 increasingly divided about the war with Russia. That comes less than three weeks after EU leaders signed a new security deal with Ukraine. The key player is Hungary, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has talked about using the position for something he calls peace missions. Those include meetings with Ukrainian war critics like China's President Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and a visit to Moscow. What's the over under? You think she'll stay in? Or are they going to... According to this morning, she's back. Oh really? Yeah, she's in. Well, I'm happy because we need her for the show. She's good for the show.

Starting point is 02:50:05 Yeah, she's good for the show. In my last clip before we... What a horrible person she is. Oh no, she's the worst. She's never been elected by the public to anything. She was a failed finance minister for Germany. People discarded her. They didn't like her.

Starting point is 02:50:18 And she totally, totally was all in on the backroom deals with Pfizer. Yeah. And everyone knows it. She's a Pfizer stooge. Everyone, there must be a lot more Pfizer stooges for her to stay in. Good try, Maloney. Her voice is amazing. I'm Georgia Maloney.

Starting point is 02:50:40 Texas news, which is also, it's actually, it's no agenda news. It's Texas and California. Putting a capital X in Texas. Billionaire mogul Elon Musk shared on his social media site, X, formerly known as Twitter, that he's had it with California. Had it! He plans to move its headquarters and that of SpaceX to the Lone Star State. Musk explained he decided to make the move after California's

Starting point is 02:51:05 governor signed into law a pro LGBTQ plus bill. This is the final straw because of this law and the many others that preceded it attacking both families and companies. SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas and exes headquarters will move to Austin have had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building. Signed by Gavin Newsom, the California law that provoked Musk's ire gives schools more leeway in regard to informing parents of a child's gender choices.

Starting point is 02:51:38 It forbids schools from requiring teachers to tell the parents of any changes. Elon Musk has long voiced inflammatory statements against trans people. And he has a trans daughter. When court documents said she no longer has a relationship with him. I think Austin should block this.

Starting point is 02:51:57 They don't want, we don't want that trash, that ex-trash. Well, he has to do this stuff publicly because to get out of California, because he's going to get some billions of dollars in the payment. Tax. He has to get out of California very publicly

Starting point is 02:52:14 and it can't have any connections to like the Twitter offices or anything because California goes after you. They have an exit tax, right? No, not just exit tax. They claim that if you spend more than so many hours in California a year, you're considered a California citizen. And so the only way to really extract your,

Starting point is 02:52:36 you have to get everything out of you. You have to make it very public and then you have to, and they're still going to go after you. They're very into going after people who leave the state. Wow, that's like leaving the Manson family. It's exactly the same as Democrats. I said this a number of times, I've mentioned it, which the Democrat party, which runs California,

Starting point is 02:52:57 is more like a cult than it is like a political party. I mean, so when you quit the cult, it's hard. Is that why you're still there? You're afraid of the cult? No, no, I divorced myself from the cult in 1979, 1980. And it took this long to be accepted as some outsider. I'm not in the cult, nobody cares. But I'm telling you, for at least a decade, I was hounded for not being a Democrat.

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Starting point is 02:56:37 That's, that's that. No, we'll take it. Thank you, Steven C. Oh, 45 plus 47 is 92. Kevin McLaughlin, there he is in North Carolina. In Concord to be exact, he's the Archduke of Luna and he gives 8008, which is a boob donation. Travis Moore in Gibsonville, North Carolina, 8008.

Starting point is 02:56:56 And he's got a birthday call out for his wife, Anna. And I think she wants a biscuit, so we'll give her a biscuit for her birthday. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, 6006 Small Boobs. Chad Hewitt in Folsom, California, also 6006. Jeff Hunt, 5510 Double Nichols on the Diamond. He's got a knighting coming up. You want to read this?

Starting point is 02:57:26 And I believe after 15 years, he says, this brings me to knighthood. Love the show and I need some graduate MBA karma dealers choice. I can use anything I can get. We'll do that at the end for you. Regarding the MBA, my ethics class was 100% focused on UN sustainable development goals.

Starting point is 02:57:43 No room for dissent and what little I put up against globalism, questions about global warming or something simple like maybe we shouldn't treat science like a religion, I was shut down despite being the only one with any understanding of science. For context, this is a Jesuit Catholic school which should be questioning everything dogmatic, at least by my understanding. All right, Jeff, you will be knighted. That's terrible. That is terrible.

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Starting point is 02:59:36 He also sent in a nice meme for me to use. Thank you, Alan. Yes, thank you all very much for your support. Under 50, we don't mention for anonymity. We see you there, 49.99, 49s. And of course, anybody can support the show in some manner financially. You can do that at any amount, anything that represents the value you got out of the show. And we love it when you do sustaining donations, where you can set a frequency and a number

Starting point is 02:59:59 of your choice. And we appreciate all of you know, AgendaDonations.com. Just wanted to say, sorry that we lost Dr. Ruth. She passed. A lot of dead people this week. John Lord, bass player for Deep Purple, who I knew actually, and he was 71 or something, that's too young.

Starting point is 03:00:19 And I just heard that Lou Dobbs apparently just died. Lou Dobbs? Yeah. This is unconfirmed. It's unconfirmed, but that's what I just heard that Lou Dobbs apparently just died. Lou Dobbs? Yeah. This is unconfirmed. It's unconfirmed, but that's what I just heard. Oh, I knew him. Yeah. I actually had him at Silicon Spin a couple of times

Starting point is 03:00:33 when he was running that science site. What science site? He had a site, after he got fired the first time, he started some rocket science site as a website that was about rockets and launches and it was a pretty good site. Hey, do you know who else just died? Bob Newhart. Oh, well that's a shame.

Starting point is 03:00:56 Did you know him? No, I never met Bob Newhart. We're outliving everybody. I did get to see Bob Newhart when he first showed up as a standup. Oh, that must have been great. Oh, he was unbelievably funny because he was the first super dry comic that was just killing it. And he had those two best selling.

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Starting point is 03:01:40 Your birthdays, we've got Sir Radical, Black Knight of the Holy orbs turning 48 today Travis more happy birthday to his hot smoking hot wife and I should be slid up right tomorrow Jeff Hunt celebrates tomorrow and Jason Young wishes his smoking hot wife a very happy birthday as do we Happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe So we've got our two in the universe. So we've got our two

Starting point is 03:02:04 uh, knights. Let me see where's the knights here. There we go. You got a little bladedge out there? Yeah, I have a blade for you. Here you go. Nice. Eric Anderson, Jeff Hunt, step up on the podium. Gentlemen, thank you very much for your support in the No Agenda Show.

Starting point is 03:02:20 Anybody can become a knight. It might take you a couple of years, but people do it all the time. And I'm very proud to pronounce the KV as Sir Idiot of Rural Intelligencia and Sir Jeff Hunt. Gentlemen, welcome to the Noah Jenner Roundtable of the Knights and Names. For you, we have a geisha and a bucket of fried chicken,

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Starting point is 03:03:42 It's not your money! That's right. No agenda meet up, it connects you with other people, which immediately gives you protection. Connection is protection. It is a great addendum, or yeah, addendum is a good piece, I think, good way to put it, to your no agenda show, because you may be in the troll room hanging out, but you can actually meet these people. And we've had people meet and get married. We've had people meet and start businesses. You've had people meet and just hang out together and drink and have fun and talk about stuff.

Starting point is 03:04:13 Never has there been a fight. Never has there been any angry words that I have ever heard of. In fact, here's an example of a great meetup report from Fort Wayne, the mac and cheese meetup. Adam and John, this is Shannon in Fort Wayne. We're low on nap pops and low on Biden voters, but we're very high in mac and cheese. Hi, it's Shelley from Fort Wayne. Thank you for your courage.

Starting point is 03:04:33 Hey, Jared, thank you for Shelley's courage. In the morning, I met some wonderful people today. And he wasn't paid to say that. Hey, sir, PBR Street gang. In the morning, John and Adam. Here we are, Fort Wayne Wayne eating the mac and cheese. Dame Trinity having a great time at JK O'Donnell's in the morning. That is Mike with the Fort Wayne crew in the morning.

Starting point is 03:04:53 So Baron Spud the Mighty's at trolling around in the troll room says don't expect to meet any chicks at the meetup. I just heard a couple right there. It's not true. Blatant lie. In fact, why don't you give it a shot if you're in Charlotte, North Carolina tonight, seven o'clock Ed's Tavern got a meetup there. Charlotte's thirsty third Thursday.

Starting point is 03:05:12 There's a lot of women that go to these meetups. You know, it's Baron Spud the Mighty. I mean, hi, I'm Spud the Mighty. All right. Yeah, I'm sure the chicks run away from you. Spud the mighty. Saturday, the Chicago River Rendezvous. That's where you can meet chicks. One o'clock at the Island Party Hut in Chicago, Illinois.

Starting point is 03:05:33 Hey, Darren, you should go. Dr. Ruth's Last Call, Miller's Ale House, Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey on Saturday. That should be a good one to go to. Pour one out for Dr. Ruth. Michigan Local One Central meets at two o'clock on Saturday at Horrocks Farm Market Beer Garden in Lansing, Michigan. The Shrunken Amigula Support Group meets on Saturday at two o'clock at Taft's Brewporium in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Sonoma Wino Country Meetup four o'clock at Iron and Vine in Santa Rosa, California. The Insane Diego Monthly Meetup, that's always the third Saturday,

Starting point is 03:06:07 the Round Table Pizza in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego. And the Fort Worth Smoke-Filled Back Room. Join that happy crowd at 4 o'clock on Saturday at the 1849 Cigar Shop in Fort Worth, Texas. And the Margarita Meetup on Sunday, Julyst Lenora's Alton Palm Beach Gardens, Florida And also on Sunday the East Central Illinois meetup three o'clock at triptych brewing in Savoy, Illinois That's your no agenda lists. There's many more We've got a lot internationally as well

Starting point is 03:06:40 And if you're out there somewhere in the sticks in the, if you're in Uruguay and you're listening, stop listening to goats in the woods. Why don't you do a little meetup and do a meetup report? We'd love to hear from you guys in Uruguay. Please, it would be, it's easy. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. You wanna be where you want me, trigger no hell or blame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party.

Starting point is 03:07:22 It's like a party. It always is like a party. Got another Austin meetup coming up soon I think. We should probably go. And one's going to be organized in Bernie. Bernie Texas coming up. Ooh, Bernie. Yeah, yeah, that's Mitch. Mitch the maverick, the periodontist.

Starting point is 03:07:39 He's going to start one. He's going to... Yeah, yeah. He's got dough, so it'll be cool. He'll set it up right. You got any ice house? You know I failed again. What? Luckily I have two. Hopefully one of them is useful. You're always one useful. Maybe it's the ghost of corn pop. Hmm. I don't like it either. It's usable, but it's blurry.

Starting point is 03:08:09 Yeah, this is the one you want. Are you saying it's a false flag? Well, it's only because of her voice at the end when she goes, What? It's the best. Come on. We all know it's good. Ladies and gentlemen, end of show. This is what we do every single show.

Starting point is 03:08:22 Greetings for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. That's right, just a tip everybody. It is a tip from John C. Dvorak as we lead you into your weekend, well almost weekend. John, what kind of tip do you have for us today? I have a food tip. A food tip? Oh, we love our food tips. And the only reason I'm going to bring this tip up

Starting point is 03:08:46 is because every time I go to the store and this situation occurs and I always have to, I have actually discussed this with shop, fellow shoppers at the grocery store. I know shoppers. And very few people seem to know this simple fact, which is that pineapples are not bananas and they don't ripen after they're picked.

Starting point is 03:09:06 They stay frozen in time as to the ripeness. So when you buy a pineapple, and for some reason almost nobody knows this. Because they always think of everything as a banana. Or even all kinds of things ripen after you pick them, but not pineapples. And so pineapples, you want to- If you go before me, that's gonna be,

Starting point is 03:09:29 I'm gonna put that in my eulogy. John taught me, people think everything's a banana. And that's just not true, people. So when you buy a pineapple, you wanna get one that is gold colored, not green, but gold colored. Because if you buy a green one that's all greenish, it's not going to go anywhere, it's going to be sour and kind of like not as sweet as it should be.

Starting point is 03:09:53 So the thing should be solid gold colored. You don't find them very often, but when you do, they stand out like a sore thumb, and that's the one you buy, a gold pineapple. And when you cut one of those babies open, they're super sweet, the core is edible. It's unbelievable how good a pineapple is when it's ripe, but it will not ripen.

Starting point is 03:10:12 ["Tip of the Day"] It's not good news, it's good advice. John C's Tip of the Day. That's right everybody, an invaluable tip, the invaluable tip of the day. I hit my own tip here. The tip's too long. And that will conclude our broadcast day live from Northern Silicon Valley and the Texas Hill Country.

Starting point is 03:10:38 Fred! No cults here. No cults here. Before we leave though, we do have a couple of end of show mixes. We're getting short on people doing these kinds of end of show mixes. The of the sung variety, which we do love so much. It takes a lot of effort. Nostradamus did that for us and also Clip Custodian Neil Jones these are evergreens so we love rolling them out for you. And rest me oh what we have coming up next MMO millennial media offensive on the no agenda stream or if you're listening

Starting point is 03:11:17 on one of those modern podcast apps coming to you from the heart of that Texas Hill country and Fred female region number six in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's sunny today, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Sunday with another media deconstruction just for you. Read all about it on 4chan.

Starting point is 03:11:36 Until then, adios, mofos, a hooey hooey, and such. Such! Trump haters got no reason Trump haters got no reason to live They got little minds, shifty eyes They walk around telling fake big lies Wearing pussy hats, grinding their teeth Telling us how things are going to be Don't want no drum haters, don't want no drum haters Don't want no drum haters, well dear Trump leaders are not the same as you and I Patriots such as I, eat strong and fall See the end is long and wise, but the news is wide Trump hate has got nobody Trump Trump leaders got nobody Trump leaders got nobody

Starting point is 03:13:09 Trump leaders got nobody to love They got safe spaces when running high Crying their eyes out, scream at the sky Got sanctuary, free stuff for all Socialist leaders, slapping the wall Kicking off receipts, and what comes to Burning our flag, on red, white and blue No more no Trump haters. No more no Trump haters. No more no Trump haters right here. Trump is telling us what he intends to do. Trump means to throw people in jail who disagree with him.

Starting point is 03:14:04 Trump. Trump means to throw people in jail who disagree with him. Listen to what he says because he's telling us what he will do. He says, let's remove all doubt. This is what I'm about. This is what I'm about. He will execute whoever he's allowed. Take him at his word. Boom.

Starting point is 03:14:41 Predeliction. Predeliction for Predeliction for revenge. Look at his past. Trump is telling us what he intends to do. He has to be eliminated. The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo.

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