No Agenda - 1736 - "The Blurt"

Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh, it was unwatchable. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, February 6, 2025. This is your award-winning Kibble Nation Media Assassination episode 1736. This is No Agenda. Dropping the T's and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're wondering whatever happened to the sock hop.

Starting point is 00:00:29 I'm John C. Dvorak. Okay Boomer, the sock hop? What is that? What is that? The sock hop became the gig. It became the gig. Oh what? Yeah, it became the gig.

Starting point is 00:00:44 The sock hop. It became the gig. It became the gig. We're gonna go down to Anton, check out the gig. It became the gig. Yeah, it became the gig. The sock hop. It became the gig. It became the gig. We're gonna go down to Anton's, check out the gig. Yeah. You know what a sock hop was? Yeah, a sock hop is where the Bobby Socks would go and dance and hop on their socks. Yeah, I know. My mom used to talk about the sock hop all the time. What was the sock hop? Please enlighten me. The sock hop was a dance that the schools, the high schools generally, but I would say grammar schools too, would put on in the gym. Yes. And they required everyone to wear socks so they didn't scratch up the gym floor with their shoes. Well now that's interesting. I didn't know that.

Starting point is 00:01:26 So you had to wear socks over your shoes or just socks? No, no, you didn't wear shoes, you just had socks. So the girls had socks, the guys, everyone wore socks. It was just a dance with a bunch of sock-wearing kids. Have you attended one of these sock hops? Of course I did. We had sock hops all the time, they were almost weekly. Now did you have to have the right kind of socks so people wouldn't point and go,

Starting point is 00:01:47 yeah, look at them socks. I mean, what was the protocol? That's actually an interesting point you just made because that never happened. No one ever condemned the socks or even mentioned them. Socks had a better life back in the 50s. I would say generally people wore gym socks, like the white fluffy ones. But my mom was a bobby sockser.

Starting point is 00:02:09 That was just the form of socks that were below the ankle. That was just a sock type. Yes. Bring back the bobby sock. I think we should start that. Maybe Doge can help us. Bring back the bobby sock. I'm going to sum up.

Starting point is 00:02:24 This show is going to be very short. We'm going to sum up with this show is gonna be very short. We're gonna end in one minute and 30 in 13 seconds. I will sum up the news and everybody can go home. Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk.

Starting point is 00:03:07 Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk.

Starting point is 00:03:15 Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk.

Starting point is 00:03:23 Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Elon Musk. I gotta say, President Trump is brilliant. He is, you know, and Musk is soaking it up. He thrives, he thrives on it. Oh, he's got him posted, he posts on X Twitter, all his pictures of him, you know, jumping around while they're yelling at him. You know, it's overlaid, of course.

Starting point is 00:04:06 From the same era, the same genre, I got this not as good as that. That was great, by the way. Thank you. The ranting dems. Play this clip. There's a ranting dem about USAID. A lot of these are floating around.

Starting point is 00:04:17 This is just a segment of what could be an hour. Oh, yeah. We will not shut up. We will stand up. We will speak. Before we play, what I love so much about this is there was pretty much nobody there. There was more news media than crowd. Later on the evening, there was a little bit more and you know that moveon.org was sending out stuff and I was looking on the blue cry. sending out stuff and I was looking on the blue cry. Then by the way, what a mistake.

Starting point is 00:04:45 I clicked on a link. Someone sent me it was for a blue cry link. Oh my Lord. Everything there is just. And it was like we didn't elect Elon. We got and this is before this this very very sad demonstration by the Democrat Party mainly What's dangerous is that people who work for USAID are wearing masks to protect themselves from Musk.

Starting point is 00:05:25 This is a dictatorship in the making. We're not going to have apartheid in America anymore! Elon Musk has not been elected to anything! And who the hell does Musk think he is? He has absolutely no right in shutting down USAID. We cannot allow that. We've got to take to the streets. But my kickbacks, my kickbacks, even CNN, CNN was laughing at them. This was surprising to me. Even though it has that Scott guy, whatever, who's on the panel. It's pretty much all Democrat operatives at

Starting point is 00:06:12 the table. And here it is. Democrats agree that Musk is a problem, but listen to them today. And they have a pinata in search of a stick. To our Republican colleagues, if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist! We are going to be in your face, we are going to be on your asses. We have days to stop the destruction of our democracy. We have work to do. Tell Elon Musk to take his hands off your money. We don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22-year year olds working for Elon Musk we pledge allegiance to the United States of America We will win we will we We won't rest. We won't rest. No, we won't. I'm scratching.

Starting point is 00:07:05 I'm so sorry. Can we play it again? The Democrats need a real leader, okay? They need a real leader, which currently does not exist in the Democratic Party. And they have been caught completely flat-footed with the entire Trump presidency for the last two weeks. And Elon Musk. I said on CNN months ago that Elon Musk would be the most influential advisor

Starting point is 00:07:29 to President Trump and that is proving to be true, whether you like it or not. But Democrats should have had a plan for this. They knew it was coming. We say this every single night. Project 2025, as we just talked about. We knew it. Trump has said all of these things were going to happen.

Starting point is 00:07:44 We saw him align with Elon Musk, which may go down as the smartest thing We knew it. We knew it. Trump has said all of these things were going to happen. We saw him align with Elon Musk, which may go down as the smartest thing that any presidential candidate has ever done, from the Young vote to tech to a million other things. So Democrats needed to have a plan and it may be too late. Yeah, Bakari, are you fired up after this? I'm fired up and ready to go. Can't you see it in my face? Bakari, are you fired up after? I'm fired up and ready to go. Can't you see it in my face? Bakari.

Starting point is 00:08:08 So when CNN's laughing at you, you've really missed the mark. It's real. The funny thing is, I got a note from one of our producers saying, I'm glad you were wrong about Doge. What? Yeah, because if you recall me, I was saying, well, you know, when first the whole idea came about, I said, yeah, this is a lot of talk and action. I went and I discussed about this, the Hoover Commission, and they've been trying to reform

Starting point is 00:08:36 that, you know, tear, you know, take push back on some of these reforms forever. Yes, since Reagan. The Department of Education, they've been promising to get rid of that since Reagan, since Reagan, because you have to remember that Carter's the one that put it in by the way It was Kennedy who put in USAID. Yeah, we'll get to that. We're gonna get to USAID I got a lot of USAID stuff too. Of course you do, of course you do. So I was skeptical saying well, you know this I've heard this a lot of talk I've seen it over the years, you know, I'm old fart and I've seen all this stuff

Starting point is 00:09:07 and the guy says you know you I'm glad you were wrong and I said I am too and I Realized this is what happened to the Democrats also because they had to be in the same boat thing They have big talkers now doge. Okay, whatever already Vivek already go the vague already quit And so it's not gonna nothing's gonna happen who knew this was gonna fall apart like it did Oh, Doge, okay, whatever, already Vivek already quit, and so nothing's gonna happen. Who knew this was gonna fall apart like it did? Not Doge, but the USAID and God knows what else is next. Well, and okay, so.

Starting point is 00:09:36 So that's what I'm talking about. And I think you do have to admit at this point that we are indeed in the season of reveal. There's stuff being revealed that even I wasn't aware of. The Politico thing is amazing. I've got clips on that too. I'll lead you in. First, let me just do the best line outside USAID with the Democrat Party was Ayanna Presley.

Starting point is 00:10:08 I think she had a really good line. We will see you in the courts, in Congress, in the streets. Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby. A Nazi nepo baby. I don't even know where she gets the nepo part from, but that was a good line. I don't get the where she gets the Nepo part from but that was a good line I think we get the Nepo. What was she talking about though? What is nepotism is what that refers to and I'm guessing Yeah, and Nepo baby is typically used in show business, you know for the yeah for somebody whose kid becomes an actor and you're an actor Exactly. But what Elon Musk's dad was a rocket scientist? What's he talking about? I don't know, but it was still good. And in the Netherlands, the Tesla showroom was vandalized with Nazi imagery, so it's

Starting point is 00:10:50 starting. It's starting. They're striking out against Elon. I'm going to lead you into USID. Wait a minute. What? Yeah, I know. Because he's a Nazi.

Starting point is 00:11:00 What's the Netherlands got to do with the price of bread? Look, they have a Tesla showroom. Elon's a Nazi. The Dutch want their bikes back, so get out of here. I mean, it makes no sense. This is just vandalism for vandalism's sake. It's not like it's bothering them. They've got their own problems.

Starting point is 00:11:17 That's probably what it is. We're so frustrated that our country's going down the tubes. We're going to call out Elon. I don't know. I'm going to take you into USAID with a nice little transitionary clip from your man, Capehart. You always say my buddy, your man Capehart. You're the guy who brought Capehart to everyone's attention. He has, he just, I mean, he is.

Starting point is 00:11:41 And the line is your buddy. Yeah, your buddy. He's gone flamboyant on everybody. President Trump's aggressive efforts to undermine federal agencies with the help of Elon Musk. His latest victim is the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, a government agency that provides development and humanitarian assistance to countries around the world. Last night, the administration removed two of the agency's top security officials after they refused to allow four representatives from Elon Musk's Department of Government

Starting point is 00:12:13 Efficiency, they call it DOGE, I call it DOGGI, To access its offices, classified personnel files and security systems that were reportedly beyond their own security levels. In addition, most of the staff at the agency's Legislative and Public Affairs Bureau was placed on administrative leave Saturday night. This afternoon, Musk referred to USAID as a quote, criminal organization, adding that it was quote, time for it to die. The agency's ex account has since disappeared and the website, USAID.gov, is offline. In addition, across the Justice Department and the FBI, prosecutors, agents, and leaders are facing down the looming threat of being fired by the administration and replaced by

Starting point is 00:13:06 replaced with loyalists loyalists loyalists because he's a Nazi dictator loyalists Okay, just briefly on USAID and then I want you to start with you I get a couple too, but I want you to start we have been talking this this is bad for the show We have been moaning about USAID, how they've been starting color revolutions,

Starting point is 00:13:28 disrupting countries around the world, what a secretive organization it is with a whole bunch of douchebags in it for the entire length of this show. And now they're gonna get rid of it? This is a problem, it's bad for the show. Do we have, well I never thought about it that way. We had, in fact, a guy that used to listen to the show,

Starting point is 00:13:48 used to be a friend of the show, the economic hitman. Yes, he went off the radar. I don't know what happened. Overboard. He didn't like us. Well, he went to USAID. And after we started moaning about USAID, he stopped emailing us. No, we were moaning about USAID probably for a decade or longer. But then he went to work for him. He's like, hey.

Starting point is 00:14:10 Well, I think what happened, he also ran into at least a part-time girlfriend was this Russian spook for the State Department. Yeah, State Department spook. Yes, I remember this. She told him not to listen to this show. This happens once in a while. told him not to listen to this show. We have, this happens once in a while. Just as a point of order, USAID was started by executive order

Starting point is 00:14:34 by President Kennedy. Congress then created the Foreign Assistance Act, which made money available. Not that Congress in that act did not specify where it's going, but saying, oh, here's this money. And the president is the one who has the authority to say where the money's going. And at the time in the executive order, on a permanent basis, President Kennedy delegated that authority to the Secretary of State.

Starting point is 00:15:03 And that's why there's always been this spooky connection between CIA, of course, we know, embassies in foreign countries, which are run by the State Department, are the safe house for intelligence assets. And, you know, kind of their front of house is USAID, run by Samantha Powers most recently. You know, Victoria Nuland is the ambassador or was the ambassador to USAID. So this is all the wrong people, all of them. Yes, Samantha Power married to Cass Sunstein. Is it Susteen or Sunstein?

Starting point is 00:15:44 I think it's Susteen. Sunstein. or Sunstein? I think it's Susteen. Sunstein. Well, whatever. I thought it was Susteen. Sunstein, Sunstein, Sunstein. One of the targets of... Marxist. Marxist.

Starting point is 00:15:55 Yeah, Marxist and one of the early targets of Glenn Beck, along with Soros. And Beck seems to have backed off on his old thesis. When he was working for Fox, he would always have a bunch of arrows. He had a blackboard. The blackboard, the blackboard. The blackboard with arrows going every which way. And always pointing to one of two people, Cass Sunstein or.

Starting point is 00:16:14 Or Soros. Or Soros. Usually Soros at the end, I would say. Yeah, Soros was usually the big boy. Yeah, the big boy. It was pretty funny. But she was a and then she was the ambassador to the UN. She's a sad sack looking redhead that just you know

Starting point is 00:16:30 it's Irish. She's not even born here. She was born in London I think. You know she just posted on X that she got fired. Do you want to hear it? I'd love to hear it. I have not seen it. Well you can imagine when you suddenly in your inbox find a termination notice or a leave of absence notice that you didn't expect to get on a flawed predicate that you're doing radical leftist insubordination it's pretty jarring and because there's so many lies and facades circulating and so many claims that people are sort of not

Starting point is 00:17:06 with the program i think people are just completely dislocated there there's no stable ground on which to uh... to walk no and then of course most of them have been laid off so they're worried about how they're going to pay the bills and having to make rent but maybe the part is the most striking and for me inspiring, if not surprising, having worked there for four years, is that the people who work at USAID did not come to work at

Starting point is 00:17:31 USAID for the money. The civil servants, the foreign servants, the contractors. They came to USAID because they wanted to make a difference in the world, because they saw America's interests as tied up with the interests of people, vulnerable people around the world. And so even as they're struggling to figure out how to make rent all of a sudden, they're most struggling with the fear that so many millions of people who relied on us as a country, on USAID as an agency, but on them as individuals, that those individuals out in the world have

Starting point is 00:18:06 no place to turn. And indeed they're showing up and finding health clinics shuttered and soup kitchens closed and advisors who are helping governments renegotiate debt with China. Those advisors now taking off the books. So just the wreckage in the world is what the USAID staff that I'm in touch with are carrying with them. That's what's keeping them up at night as much as the question of what am I going to do tomorrow? And, you know, how do I take care of my family? Yeah, projection much? How am I going to get it? What am I going to do? What am I going to do

Starting point is 00:18:41 tomorrow? I don't know what I'm going to do. Really, the most surprising thing, and then I want you to play your clips, the most surprising thing really was Politico because that was supposed to have gone out the door with the Church Commission. There was not supposed to be funding of news organizations from government money, except for our public broadcasters, PBS, and the National Treasure, NPR. But what an interesting gambit to have a thousand subscriptions to Politico. And now I'm thinking maybe we'll uncover some book purchases that were done to get some

Starting point is 00:19:23 people up into the top of the New York Times. Oh, that's so obvious. Oh yeah, let's give Michelle Obama half a million dollars to, or half, what am I thinking? Millions of dollars to do a book nobody reads. Well, not just that. Oh, let's give her a Netflix conflict. I think the Netflix deals are the ones that are more extreme.

Starting point is 00:19:43 No, but I mean, the state of USAID actually buying up books. Yeah. You know, that's... There's no, when they start digging into this, it's going to go beyond USAID too because as my clips, I'll have the USAID clips and I got to play a couple others right after them which indicate that the Pentagon and elsewhere is all part of this. Well save some room for my USAID clips. Well what USAID, why don't you play yours first and then I can, because mine are more,

Starting point is 00:20:13 I'd say mine are highly entertaining. But well okay we'll start, let's start with these. Okay. This is, now I got these, now this is actually Jesse Waters, okay? Yeah okay. Okay okay. Yeah, okay. Okay, okay. Okay, right, look. So Jesse Waters on Monday did a takedown of you Sandy.

Starting point is 00:20:32 This is why it's hilarious because Jesse Waters is a smug and he likes doing this kind of bit. So I said, oh this is good, I'm gonna get this for the show. And then Tuesday comes along. He does another tak down, which is better. I said, well, screw the Monday stuff. I'm going to do this. So yesterday, he does another one. And I'm, oh brother. So I used this. And I had to, I realized editing his stuff, and you'll probably catch a few of them. You know, he's got the best writers at Fox, I believe,

Starting point is 00:21:09 because he's got the best time slot. So they put the best guys there. And of course, they don't do credit rolls. So we have no idea who these writers are. And they don't get credited as typical at Fox. Fox, in particular, just tries to hide the writers. And I realized that you know you really have to take Jesse Water's stuff and chop it up a lot

Starting point is 00:21:29 because he goes he does little asides and what he thinks is funny he's not really funny. No he needs to... He's just got that stupid look on his face like you know he's got the Bugs Bunny look and so he looks kind of amusing so he and he's makes these cuts so you cut all that stuff out and the presentation becomes pretty good all right I just I'm just saying that in advance because I don't want to hear you say I heard a guy had a cut well you're like your dog here about your dog you never hear mine all right it's okay so I will I will not I will not complain about your cut it It's probably...

Starting point is 00:22:05 They're pretty good. But here's USAID one. This is the intro. This is going to be four cuts from Jesse Waters. Democrats were already losing their minds after Musk froze their foreign aid slush fund. Elon's the first government employee Democrats have ever won a fire. And he's not even taking a salary. We're 36 trillion in debt and a few pennies got doged, and the Democrats are grabbing

Starting point is 00:22:31 bullhorns like Bush after 9-11. Doge froze a $40 billion deep state super pack and put 10,000 bureaucrats on paid leave. And it happened so fast, one worker had to be rehired to process people's final time sheets. All the expensive artwork hanging in the agency headquarters has been taken down at Soledad Auction. The website's down and there's no more Bert and Ernie in Baghdad. I would just say a strong message to Democrats who are out there pretending to be outraged about the long list of crap that this administration is cutting, federal waste and funding, like $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala, $6 million to

Starting point is 00:23:11 fund tourism in Egypt, $20 million on a new Sesame Street show in Iraq, $4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan. I could go on and on, and I'm happy to provide this list to every single one of you. Democrats are outraged that the American people want to be, they want their taxpayers going to good uses, not stuff like this. We've literally devolved into a meme war. This is so interesting. And leave it as, uh, Levitt, leave it, what's her, is it Levitt? Levitt, leave it, leave it to Beaver. I have no idea. I'll tell you this. I love this woman. She is like young and she doesn't use a binder.

Starting point is 00:23:49 No, she's got it all in her noggin. She's got it in her nowhere. And she doesn't put up with any guff. She is the kind of... She's the perfect foil for Trump. And she does add... I think she had Lib stuff. She says stuff that I'm sure that if it was a male press guy that Trump would chew him out, Trump's I think a little more liberal with women. He treats them slightly differently and he lets her do her thing. But she's good because these are all minor numbers in the grand scheme of thing, but this is exactly the stuff that highly intelligent people, did you hear about that?

Starting point is 00:24:27 Two million for six change operations in Guatemala. You know, it's like, that is the smallest of the grievances here. Yeah, well, we get a few more here because Jesse brings a few into the picture that many of like the art stuff, I haven't heard of and here we go, it's clip two. But we can add some more to the list. $43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan that

Starting point is 00:24:48 had no customers. Still less though than what Biden paid for a charging station here. One and a half million to promote gays, lesbians, and trans in Jamaica. Four million for trans Serbians. Five and a half mil, for gay rights in Uganda. Over six million for men who have sex with men in South Africa. That's just how it was described. 17 million to promote inclusion in Vietnam. It's just probably another way of saying it went to trans.

Starting point is 00:25:18 We carpet bond them and then we paid them the cross dress. 25 million to promote green transportation in Georgia, not the state, the country. And it's not like we took the money and bought them electric cars. We just paid a shady agency to put up a billboard that says, buy electric cars. A million for Arab and Jewish photographers. Are you Jewish? Are you Arab? Do you have cameras?

Starting point is 00:25:41 Here's a check. Eight million dollars to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary gendered language. Translation, we spent eight million so that a reporter in Sri Lanka doesn't write he or she. Well, at least nobody died, right? Wrong. A hundred and twenty two million of the USAID money was given to terrorists. The Taliban is taxpayer funded. So is the Wuhan lab. So we're on a roll. The people spending the money can't even tell you why they're spending the money. The USAID awarded $2 million to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender affirming health care in Guatemala. So to each of you this morning, does this advance

Starting point is 00:26:22 the interests of American citizens paying for trannies in Guatemala to the tune of two million dollars? Yes or no? Governor? I have no position. I have no position. Of course you don't. This is clearly all these NGOs and nonprofits and they just took money. It's just they just took money. This is this has always been the pipeline that we've always identified as the problem is nonprofits and non-governmental organizations all around the world who are taking this money and doing the fair use- Our money, our taxpayer money.

Starting point is 00:26:52 Yes, our printed money. And also our taxpayer money's debt. Yes, yes, our printed money. And just taking it for themselves. If you dig deep, this is where you see cousins and aunts and uncles. I just have a 46 second from President Trump just to interject in between these clips, if you don't mind. Yes. Look at all the fraud that he's found in this USAID.

Starting point is 00:27:17 It's a disaster what the people, radical left lunatics, they have things that nobody would have even believed. The whole thing with a hundred million spent on you know what? With money going to all sorts of groups that shouldn't deserve to get any money with the money. I'd like to see what the kickbacks are. How much money has been kicked back? Who would spend that kind of money to some of the things that you read about and I read about and I see every night on the news and every morning when I read the papers Who would spend money for that? I would say this the people that get all that money. Are they kicking it back to the people that Gave it from government. No, that's to me very very corrupt. Yeah, I think that put some people on notice

Starting point is 00:28:02 Yeah, so this it is kind of an exciting time. But I have to say. It's hilarious. It's, it's, it is the season of reveal, John. Come on. You're going to have to admit it sooner or later. You're never going to admit it. All right.

Starting point is 00:28:20 We'll go to USAID bit three. Is that where we're at? Yeah, bit three. All right. Despite the blatant waste and corruption, there's a sinister side to all of the gay, lesbian and trans money we're funneling into other countries. It's subversive. It undermines their traditional culture, their religions and their governing authority. It divides these countries, it distracts them and makes it easier for our government to exploit them. David Axelrod told Democrats who are defending this stuff, you're walking into a trap.

Starting point is 00:28:48 Rahm Emanuel says, you don't have to fight every fight. Wasteful spending isn't the hill I'm going to die on. But trans-operas in Columbia are the hill Democrats have chosen to die on. Are they getting kickbacks? We're about to find out. Democrats have been sending your tax dollars to the World Economic Forum so they can tell us to eat bugs.

Starting point is 00:29:09 The George Soros Prosecutor Fund got $26 million of your money to what, open jails? USAID brags about overthrowing governments. They bragged about supporting military coups and color revolutions in the Middle East, Asia and Ukraine. And we just found out the Biden administration was paying the press. During the last four years, Politico received $26 million from the federal government. $8 million just last year. The Biden administration was paying a DC insider publication that happened to never report anything bad about the Biden administration. The whole thing is a racket. This was a bailout. Biden's government didn't need this. It's a payoff product. Because

Starting point is 00:29:59 when they started paying at Politico, they tanked the laptop. They covered up Biden's nap times. The USAID chief, Samantha Power, Politico wrote a puff piece about her, called her a celebrity. Have you ever heard of celebrity Samantha Power? I'm a little disappointed at ourselves. We have so often discussed Politico and saying and I kept saying who owns them and then you know you'd always come back no no they're their own thing they stand by themselves and now we we could have figured this one out because of course some basically a blog with too many people working there couldn't they could never be so self-sustainable. We should have

Starting point is 00:30:44 sniffed that one. We should have sniffed that one. We should have and I think Axios falls into that category of too many... Axios. Axios and Axios and other operations are different. Axios falls into that same category with too many people and who's really behind it. I mean other operations like the Atlantic for example, you have Lorraine Jobs, a Jobs, Powell Jobs, whatever she wants to call herself. So you got money there so you can see.

Starting point is 00:31:12 So even though that could be a slush fund too, at least it has a cover. There's no cover for these other operations. There's no cover billionaire that looks, you know, there's no Reed Hastings in front of the whole thing. So yes, yeah, we probably... And I'm reading, I'm reading that a lot of money went into, got slushed somehow into Hollywood, Hollywood productions. Now that's kind of being countered by saying, oh, you know, they paid people millions of dollars to go visit Zelensky. Maybe.

Starting point is 00:31:45 I don't know. Well, actually, I think, yes. Ben Stiller says no. He says no. Well, Ben Stiller probably paid for it himself. He's probably dumb. Well, I got a clip on this, but let's do a last Jesse. Let's play the last one.

Starting point is 00:31:58 Then I have a clip about Ben Stiller. Okay, good. So upon coming out here to the briefing room i was uh... made aware of the funding from u s a i d two media outlets including political who i know has a seat in this room uh... and i can confirm that the more than eight million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to political

Starting point is 00:32:21 i mean american taxpayers dime will no longer be happening uh... the doge team is working on canceling those payments now. How critical is government funding to Politico's bottom line? Not sure. But on the day of the freeze, they couldn't make payroll for a couple hours. It's not just Politico. The New York Times got millions. BBC got money. Politifact was funded by the Biden administration. Biden was censoring you and funding independent fact-checkers to call you a liar. The left somehow looks like one big astroturf money laundering shell game. Well, okay, that's a little disingenuous, Jesse Waters.

Starting point is 00:32:57 USAID has been there through many different political powers running the country. So it's not just the Biden administration. It's not just the left and the Dems. It's the fundamental problem in government. And this government's everywhere, except for some reason, this president is pulling it apart. You got nothing to lose. It's very interesting.

Starting point is 00:33:23 Where's the... Where's the... where's the... So this is from, this is a clip from, and one more clip after this. This is the USAID, this is from E, E Entertainment News, the E, you know, E. E, E, they still around? E, E still around? Yeah, they're still around and here's their report. USAID sponsored American celebrity visits to Ukraine after Russia's full-scale invasion began.

Starting point is 00:33:50 Angelina Jolie, $20 million. Sean Penn, $5 million. Jean-Claude Van Damme, a million and a half dollars. Orlando Bloom, $8 million. Ben Stiller, $4 million. Ben Stiller $4 million. This was done to increase Zelensky's popularity among foreign audiences, particularly in the United States. The involvement of celebrities made it easier to coordinate funding programs for Ukraine during the conflict. I'd like to see some paperwork on that. Angelina Jolie $20 million really? I'd like to see

Starting point is 00:34:24 the paperwork on that. Is that a big check $20 million really? I'd like to see the paperwork on that. Is that a big check, like one of those publisher clearinghouse checks? Yeah, big giant checks. Hey, there Angie, there you go. It's an accusation that they're going to have to deal with. Now, the last clip I have is it just shows that this is not, I mean USAID is the target right now, but then I ran into this crazy clip from Alex Jones. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:34:48 All right. Poirot. Sorry. On Reuters. And this is from the, this is some Pentagon, some stuff that was brought up from some Pentagon research. And I think the Pentagon's, and all these, unless something stops and they manage

Starting point is 00:35:03 to stop Musk, who's gone on a rampage with a bunch of kids, he's hired a bunch of young. This was, so I saw the executive editor of Wired doing interviews everywhere, because it was the outstanding reporting from Wired. Extending reporting from Wired. They did really good work. Wired magazine did outstanding reporting.

Starting point is 00:35:25 And they're the ones like, well, these are 19 to 26 year old kids. What are they doing? Who else? Who do you think is programming your life? Who do you think? Well, besides, who has the energy besides anonymous Indians? And I also, I'm quite sure that this is a team that Musk is the, the spokes hole for. I don't think he's in there rousing around. No, I agree. I agree. If he was, he'd have the kitchen sink and he'd make an ex-post and we'd see that.

Starting point is 00:35:52 I've said it a million times. A million! A million! I said it at least twice. Yes, that's more like it. Which is slightly different than a million, I suppose. You're going to be picky. Just a. Well, I learned it from the best. I would say that Musk knows how to pick people. He has a knack for getting people... You know there's a funny thing about this, an old story

Starting point is 00:36:20 about Microsoft when Gates was building the company out. And he was kind of a, at the time now he's off the rails, but back in the day, he would always, this was a known Microsoft story when he was staffing in Redmond. He'd come in from some other company and he said, he would always insist that if you're going to come to work for Microsoft, you have to be willing to take whatever, whatever money you were making over at Oracle or whatever company you were working for before you had to take, take a cut in pay because it was important that you took a cut in pay to show that you really wanted to work for Microsoft. Oh, interesting be there. Oh, interesting. Interesting.

Starting point is 00:37:05 Yeah. And that was always, it was one of those, that story, everybody knows that story. So here we go with Alex Jones and this is like, of course, Alex Jones dramatizes great, but here we go. Poiters, for active social engineering defense, ASED, and large scale social deception, LSD, that's how in the grants at usspending.gov, Department of Defense, Thompson Reuters Special Services, that's MI6, look it up, Active Social

Starting point is 00:37:36 Engineering, Defense, large scale social deception. Zoom in on that. Look at that, you see that? social engineering defense, large scale social deception. Zoom in on that. Look at that. Look at that. Just look.

Starting point is 00:37:52 Of course they want to keep it secret that the Pentagon's paying Reuters to, what's the exact term? Might just read this for the next four hours over and over again. Active social engineering defense, ASED, and large scale social

Starting point is 00:38:05 deception, LSD. Boy, that sounds like what good people do. And there it is on the DARPA website, where they tell you about active social engineering defense. But see, they didn't tell you what they do lie to you.

Starting point is 00:38:18 And it's the Pentagon going, we want to help deceive the public Reuters, help lie, run our deception engineering operation. I mean, God, you know, here's the bad guys don't call themselves the bad guys. And that's like little kids shows like the Decepticons. The Pentagon's like we're the Decepticons lie to the American people. Look, I'm wearing a red cape and horn. Well, this is, we've talked about this about DARPA working on social networks and understanding how to engineer outcomes through the law of large numbers and how large networks

Starting point is 00:38:57 operate in general. And then the, was it NSA or CIA? I think it was the, it was military who recruited to be the ghost in the machine. Remember military who recruited to be the ghost in the machine. Remember that creepy ad? Be the ghost in the machine. NSA. Yeah, right. I remember. Yeah, be the ghost in the machine. If you said something, really said something a million times, it's that when the internet came into play, it made everything much easier for government to Psy-op us and to control our thinking.

Starting point is 00:39:25 And I don't care if it's run by Elon Musk or not, X is a perfect place for that. But the one that's really good is Blue Cry. I mean, whoa. I mean, what's going on there is, it's amazing. I have to, you know, I have relented from looking at the Blue Cry feeds during this last week or so, but I'm going to have to go. It's got to be distressing because these people are insane over there. And I log in. Now I haven't looked at Blue Cry in weeks. I log in,

Starting point is 00:39:58 I see I have 20 messages and there's people going, people who listen to our show. And there's people going, people listen to our show. You said that, how about this? I'm like, wow. That's what they sound like too. Yes, I logged right out. I'm like, I don't want to read this. I have no, and Scott Galloway is, he posts 15 times an hour.

Starting point is 00:40:19 This is no good. Anyway, on USAID... But before we continue with any more discussion, I do want to say this, these clips, including the Jones clip, this is an amazing indictment of mainstream media as being completely and totally corrupt and I would say useless to the general public unless you just want to be led around by the nose. Yeah. By somebody that's leaning around the nose for some nefarious reason, I'd say, just in general. This is not good.

Starting point is 00:40:54 Here's a short clip of Elon talking on spaces with his impression. So he's doing his job. He's doing his job perfectly. He's getting out there. He's doing the talking where he needs to do talking. I don't think he was doing this from inside the USAID building or sleeping in the bed next to the Oval Office or whatever is out there. But he kind of summed it up with something that sounded very Trumpy. As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a ball of worms. And so at the point at which you don't really, like if you've got an apple that's got a worm

Starting point is 00:41:37 in it, maybe you can take the worm out. But if you've got actually just a ball of worms, it's hopeless. And USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple, you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. That is why it's got to go. It's beyond repair. So, okay. Now here's two serious clips that, because you know, we can stomp on people all day long. Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State, who I'm liking more and more, I have to say. I am too. I'm liking him more and more.

Starting point is 00:42:18 He's really, he, you know, it's like one of those things where he found himself, it seems to me. Yes. Well, part of it's... Go ahead. Because everybody on both sides of the aisle always assumed that... Because of Marco's... Little Marco, when he was Little Marco and he did the small hands joke and he was going after Trump and he was running against him, they all assumed that he was pretty much like them,

Starting point is 00:42:47 that he was an old Republican, old-fashioned Republican. He's not turning out to be that way. He's turning out to be a radical Republican, Trumpist type Republican, and he handles it so beautifully. It's a phenomenon. Yes, and of course, he's still not to be trusted. Can't trust anybody. I agree. He did an interview, I think this was Fox, and they asked him,

Starting point is 00:43:15 because now he's the acting director of USAID, and he had a very clear, concise overview of what's going on and how it's corrupt and rotten, and here it is. So you're now the head of USAID. The head of DOGE, Elon Musk, called USAID a criminal organization and added that it is time for it to die. Do you agree with that? Let me walk you through the history of this agency. And this is good. He knows the history. I like this. I've dealt with it for 14 years in the United States Senate. It was created as a way of doing

Starting point is 00:43:49 humanitarian assistance in the world, separate from the State Department at the time. But it said you have to take policy direction from the Secretary of State, the National Security Council, the White House and all elements of government. They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a U.S. government agency that they are out there global charity that they take the taxpayer money and they spend it as a global charity irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not by the way one of the few people these days who uses the word correctly

Starting point is 00:44:17 instead of saying irregardless he says irrespective he gets a point gets a point for that irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest one of in the national interest, one of the most common complaints you will get if you go to embassies around the world from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like is USAID is not only not cooperative, they undermine the work that we're doing in that country. They are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we're trying to work with on a broader scale and so forth. So they're completely unresponsive.

Starting point is 00:44:44 They just don't consider that they work for the US. They just think they're a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States. And that's not what the statute says and that's not sustainable. President put a pause on all foreign aid. We found a lot of cooperation in the State Department and we have issued dozens and dozens of waivers. As we go through all the foreign eight programs in the Department of State

Starting point is 00:45:05 The ones that make sense we issue a waiver they go back on we've already done it for dozens of programs So okay, so that makes total sense, you know, oh, there's someone starving. Okay, we'll help those people out But then he gets a little tricky Because we know the State Department is really the the huge monster Because we know the State Department is really the huge monster. And here's all the State Department's great. They're great. Remember Marco Rubio does has been on the Intelligence Committee for a long time. So I think he's protecting his turf here. So we're going through it at the State Department, the State Department portion of foreign aid.

Starting point is 00:45:41 We find cooperation. State Department people have been great. And we're issuing waivers and we're getting input and it's working. We go to USAID, which is a big chunk of foreign aid, $40 billion or so. They're completely uncooperative. They won't tell you what the programs are. They refuse to answer questions.

Starting point is 00:45:57 They try to push through payments. Even after the executive order, they were still trying to push money through the system. Can it be reformed or does it need to die? Well, that was always the goal was to reform it. But now we have rank and subordination. Now we have basically an active effort. Their basic attitude is we don't work for anyone, we work for ourselves.

Starting point is 00:46:15 No agency of government can tell us what to do. So the president made me the acting administrator. I've delegated that power to someone who's there full time and we're going to go through the same process at USAID as we're going through now at the State Department. I think there are some... this is not about getting rid of foreign aid. There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do that makes sense. And we'll have to decide, is that better through the State Department or is that better through something, you know, a reformed USAID? That's the process we're working through. There are things that are happening at USAID that we should not be involved in funding that, and, or that we have a lot of questions about, but they're

Starting point is 00:46:50 completely uncooperative. So we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control. So we'll see. Um, state department seems pretty safe and there's a lot of nonsense going on there. It's heavily intertwined with the central intelligence agency. When it comes to media corruption though, Michael Schellenberger pops up. I'm not really a super fan of Michael Schellenberger, but he dug in and he found some USAID financing

Starting point is 00:47:19 that really helped kickstart the initial Trump impeachment. The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump in December 2019 after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump had abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had on a phone call directed Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky to work with his personal attorney at the time, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

Starting point is 00:47:55 The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration. Reporting by Dropsite News last year revealed that the CIA analyst had relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, or the OCCRP, which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, which President Trump has just shut down.

Starting point is 00:48:28 The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times. The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were key hidden actors behind a plan by Trump to investigate the Bidens. Do you remember those two guys? Remember those two? Like Boris and Pielzer? And Natasha. planned by Trump to investigate the Bidens. Those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors, according to OCCRP. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats impeachment claim,

Starting point is 00:49:06 which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four separate times. Yeah. He goes on and on and on about this, but you know, Yes, that was a good clip. I saw him do this. That was, yeah, I'm glad you got that. He's kind of dry. He doesn't have much, he doesn't have pizzazz. So USAID spent through political non-governmental organizations over 40 million dollars on the Georgia elections, Georgia the country, which of course, you know, was contentious.

Starting point is 00:49:47 country which of course you know was contentious. This is really it's to me this is quite quite entertaining. I mean it's very entertaining. It's more than I expected. It's a lot more than I expected. Yes it's well that's for sure. Me too and the thing although you seem to have been expecting from the season of reveal. That's okay. No no that's just the word I received and here it is. I mean, the prophecy is true. The season of reveal. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You can't deny it. You're going to try, but you can't. So, this is going to continue at this breakneck pace. Rapid, rapid rate. Yes, rapid. They don't know what to do about it. It's one thing after another. The

Starting point is 00:50:23 They don't know what to do about it. It's one thing after another. The thing that's really, I don't know how to call it, but his approach to women's sports with that executive order I thought was a big deal. I have the clip here. Hold on a second. I have a clip too. Yeah, this is... President Trump delivering on a campaign promise with an executive order that may or may not be legal. We will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls.

Starting point is 00:50:53 From now on, women's sports will be only for women. While several high-profile cases fill the cable news airwaves, including swimmer Riley Gaines who lost a college competition to a transgender person, the reality is it rarely happens. In December, the NCAA president indicated the policy allowing transgender women to compete might change if federal law becomes more clear. But in the same hearing, he revealed that of the 510,000 college athletes, he was aware of only 10 who were transgender. Ashley O'Connor transitioned while a student

Starting point is 00:51:31 at Downers Grove South High School. She's now in college but knows firsthand the impact of being allowed on the girls' bad-bitten team during a difficult time. Being able to express myself openly and honestly helps so so much. I haven't self harmed for I think a bit over four years now. I mean this is a person who needs different kind of help. I haven't because I can express myself through badminton. I haven't self harmed. You need this person needs a different kind of help. Where did you get that report? This report is slanted.

Starting point is 00:52:09 This oh of course it's slanted. This report is from uh it's probably from France 24. Let me see uh Trans Maoism uh oh the Chicago WGN. Hello. It's obvious where it's from. All right. But you get the idea. What they're saying is- Yeah, well, play this clip. This is the executive order about men in locker room. This is an NTD and this is, NTD is slanted.

Starting point is 00:52:40 But NTD is always anti-Chinese slanted and I think the regular reporting is pretty neutral. And here's the way they handled it. One of President Trump's latest executive orders will provide, quote, equal opportunity for women and girls and keep, quote, men out of women's sports. Last year a male cyclist posing as a woman competed in the 800 mile Arizona trail race, a very big deal in cycling, and obliterated the women's course record by nearly five and a half hours. A White House document says the executive order upholds the promise of Title IX and ends the dangers and unfair participation of men in women's sports.

Starting point is 00:53:23 We're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding. While signing, Trump was joined by over 20 women and their daughters from parental rights advocacy group Moms for Liberty. Women's sports advocates Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlon were there also. Title IX passed in 1972 prohibits sex-based

Starting point is 00:53:53 discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal funding. And the U.S. officially has a new Attorney General. Pam Bondi was sworn in on Capitol Hill with Trump in attendance. The Senate confirmed Bondi on Tuesday, 54-46, with Democrat Senator John Fetterman joining Republicans in the vote. Bondi says she will make the country proud. And I will restore integrity to the Justice Department and I will fight violent crime throughout this country and throughout this world and make America safe again. So considering the numbers, it is just, as you've pointed out, it's just so crazy that the Democrat Party wanted to die on that hill, as you said.

Starting point is 00:54:41 And they're still onto it. And I can't wait for my hate listen tomorrow to find out what, because Kara Schwiss, Schwisher, leading lesbian advocate, continuously has held to the opinion that the war on trans was because the Republicans hate gay people? Well, nothing could be further from the truth because they're actually being protected in this case. This is from Denver. While the preview for the US Department of State's website still shows resources for LGBTQI plus prospective adoptive parents,

Starting point is 00:55:21 the moment you click in, you'll see a new acronym. By the way, they're showing the Google search results, so it's like a cached result that has the link LGBTQI and then when you click in, well yeah, they changed it but Google hasn't updated. Prospective adoptive parents, the moment you click in, you'll see a new acronym, LGB. The same is found for LGB travelers. To remove the T from the transgender identity. I don't have to tell you what this person was like.

Starting point is 00:55:53 You know, from your TikTok clips. All federally funded websites and resources sends a really big signal. Jax Gonzalez is the political director at One Colorado, the state's largest LGBTQIA advocacy group. I'm a little bit of a history nerd. The first acronym that was used was GLB, so gay, lesbian, and bisexual. You can see that used in the 70s and 80s to identify the gay rights movement. The L representing lesbians then became the first letter

Starting point is 00:56:26 to represent their contributions during the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the late 80s. This I didn't know, by the way, from this self-proclaimed history nerd. I didn't know that the L moved to the front after the, because of the lesbians helping in the AIDS epidemic. That's... Yeah, this is a point of contention. When I was at, when Cranky Geeks was being produced by Ziff Davis and I was at the office,

Starting point is 00:56:53 we had one of our producers was a very I remember. Clam boy, gay guy. And he was one of those guys who had a lot of opinions about things. And I've talked to him and other gay males about this. And they for the life of them cannot rationalize or understand why and they're a little irked about it that the G was replaced by the L.

Starting point is 00:57:20 Well, here's the official story from the History Nerd. Letter to represent their contributions during the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the late 80s. Nurses would refuse to treat men who were dying of HIV and AIDS. And so lesbians stepped in, lesbian nurses, lesbian volunteers. Then in the 90s, the T representing transgender people was added. Man, I do not remember that being the 90s. I remember that being in the mid 2000s. Do you remember the T being added in the 90s?

Starting point is 00:57:52 I'm going to have to do some work on this. There was the death of Brandon Tina. That was a young trans man. And after that, we had a surge of visibility of transness. Advocates say they're confident that while a letter has been erased, transgender people won't be. We're no longer being recognized by the federal government. I think what's true is that we don't need to be in order to be the people we are.

Starting point is 00:58:20 Yeah, there you go. Good. Everyone's happy now. That's fine. So LGB is protected. Protected. And the T, which was, you know, and the Q, I mean, man, the Q thing, that's what threw everybody for a loop.

Starting point is 00:58:34 The Q thing just became this tack-on excuse, which was a problem. I have a couple of clips that kind of relate to this. And one of them, I thought, I thought, I'll hold off on this. This is an Irish journalist who went on a terror about the transconundrum and what's really the problem with it, which is the investment of the parents that have transitioned their children. Yes.

Starting point is 00:59:06 And how it's created, this woman is Helen, I might as well play it. It's Helen Joyce. Helen Joyce is very, she's a, she's a, I wouldn't say she's anti-trans because I don't think she is anti anything, but she's an observer and she is seen as, she's like Rowland, the Harry Potter writer, as a

Starting point is 00:59:32 hater of trans when it's not the case. And she has this interesting observation to make about the investment that people have made into this movement, into the Trans Maoist movement, that is kind of depressing. What you may not have thought of is that there's a lot of people who can't move on on this because that's the people who have transitioned their own children. So those people are going to be like, you know, the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific Islands and didn't know the war was over. They've got to fight forever. This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we'll ever have experienced. A lot of people have done

Starting point is 01:00:11 the worst thing that you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably because of it. Those people will have to believe that they did the right thing for the rest of their lives, for their own sanity and for their own self-respect. So they'll still be fighting. And each one of those people destroys entire organizations and entire friendship groups. And now you can't talk truth in front of that person. And you know you can't, because what you're saying is you as a parent have done a truly like human rights abuse

Starting point is 01:00:37 level of awful thing to your child that cannot be fixed. There are specific individuals who are really actively against women's rights here, and it's not known why they are, but I happen to know through the back channels that it's because they've transed their child. And so those people will do anything for the entire rest of their lives

Starting point is 01:00:56 to destroy me and people like me, because people like me are a standing reproach to them. I don't want it to be, I'm not talking directly to them, I don't spend my time bitching about them, but the fact is that just simply by saying, we will never accept make-nation males and women spaces. Well, it's their son that we're talking about. And they've told their son that he can get himself sterilized and destroy his sexual function, and women will accept him as a woman. And if we don't, there's no way back for them and their child.

Starting point is 01:01:23 They've sold their child a bill of goods that they can't deliver on, and I'm the one who has to be bullied to try to force me to deliver on it. So those people are going to be the people who will keep this bloody movement going, I'm sorry to say, because they played Helen Joyce before. Let's see, I'm not going to play them now, but male erotic fixation leads to children must be trans and then trans Maoist parents fighting to death. She's been very consistent in this. Can we, in the United States at least, can we put this squarely on the shoulders of the Democrat Party now is the question.

Starting point is 01:02:08 That they are the ones who... It's an interesting coincidence. What do you mean? To me. What do you mean coincidence? Well the Democrat, that most trans advocates and trans Maoists and people who trans their kids and Hollywood people in particular Jamie Lee Curtis, Megan Fox and all these others that have boys that made them into girls or vice versa depending. And they're all Democrats. I suppose there's a Republican or two out there that has a trans kid who may be really, I mean there are people that do have genuine gender dysphoria but it's incredibly rare.

Starting point is 01:02:50 It's not, this is highly, this is a movement, this is not, this is something else, this is what she calls a social contagion is what she uses. Contagion is the right word, I mean it's totally contagion. Well it's like June bugs. I mean, it's hysteria that's created this. And also a few scientists and some pediatricians, including the American Pediatrics Board and the horrible pediatrician, which I said before,

Starting point is 01:03:19 I think is the worst of all the doctors. And their vaccine schedules, and they kick people out of their, if you don't want the vaccine, you can't even go to them kind of problem we've talked about on the show. So it's just Democrats. I mean, there are, I suppose there's probably, you got to be a Republican there somewhere, but it's largely, I'd say 90% plus Democrats. So why is it Democrats? Democrats and the media, the media, but what you now know is-

Starting point is 01:03:56 Well, the media is 90% Democrats too. This is just Democrats. So we're talking about Democrats. Why? Well, it's because, well, Trans Maoism, it's a Marxist movement. It's Marxism. There's Marxism behind. That's got to be it. And it became a form of religion, which is what the Marxists always try to do. Right, because they don't like traditional religions. I want to talk just briefly about the

Starting point is 01:04:21 tariffs that were on and then were off. And I think that this on and off and wait for a month, to me, I think it was a test that President Trump ran to see how the dollar would respond, which was quite interesting. The dollar just skyrocketed in value and then he took them off and they went right back down. One of our producers sent me a paper written on November 24th, 2024 by Trump's chairman of economic advisors, Stephen Mirren. And he talks about the Triffin Dilemma, which I'd never or sometimes know as the Triffin Paradox.

Starting point is 01:05:02 Have you ever heard of this before? No. The Triffin paradox, written, identified by Belgian economist, or Belgian American economist, Robert Triffin in the 60s. His basic thesis was that the problem with a country being, having the reserve currency that is over time, your currency, the US dollar, becomes overvalued so that you almost naturally have to shift all of your production overseas because it

Starting point is 01:05:35 just becomes much cheaper everywhere. The paper is 47 pages and I was going through it and I'm The paper is 47 pages and I was going through it and I'm trying to mark stuff up and my brain is just certainly hurting. But it seems what he is saying is that, so if you put a tariff of 10% on goods, it does hurt local, it does have a slight inflationary effect on local goods that you import. But he says it's more like 50 basis points, 1% tops. But then when you get to 20%, there's so much pain in the market. And if simultaneously you can bring down interest rates, there's so much pain in these overseas markets, they have to shift there. They have to go through a separate country. China's already doing that, of course. Oh, well, it's coming from Vietnam.

Starting point is 01:06:28 It's not coming from China. It's coming from somewhere else. Mexico. Mexico, exactly. That there is a way to prevent the country from going into the Triffin paradox death spiral. And all the numbers that he has in this paper, like the 60%, we've heard President Trump talk about, they're all in there. And so it seems like President Trump is

Starting point is 01:06:53 trying to figure out what he can do because he needs a reset of the global financial system, not the way the World Economic Forum wants to do it. And this guy, I think it's pretty funny, he says, look for a new Bretton Woods Accord. And he says, since all of these accords have always been named after the resort where they came up with it and signed it, he says we should be on the lookout for a Mar-a-Lagoago Accord where somehow the currencies will be reset. And I know we have really smart people out in Gitmo Nation, so any simplification of this process would be appreciated. And at the same time, the stablecoin gambit seems to be playing up with the most interesting people at the table, especially this, what's the guy's name, from Cantor Fitzgerald.

Starting point is 01:07:55 Hold on a second, I have his name here somewhere. Lutnik. Oh yeah, Lutnik. And so- That's a musk's a big fan of this guy. Oh yeah. Well, there's no doubt and we have to talk about that. But so here's two clips about the president signed the executive order for the sovereign

Starting point is 01:08:15 wealth fund. This is an executive order. This charges your secretary of the treasury, Scott Bessent and your secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, to begin a process that will hopefully result in the creation of an American Sovereign Wealth Fund. It's a very exciting event. We're going to have a Sovereign Wealth Fund, which we've never had. We have a lot of things that create wealth, and you've seen that over the last two weeks. I think we've created more wealth.

Starting point is 01:08:46 Other people have created de-wealth. The people, my predecessors, we've created a lot of wealth. Scott, maybe you'd like to say something about it. And I'd ask also Howard to say something about it. So first we get Scott Bessett and he's going to say, oh yeah, we're going to put all kinds of assets into the sovereign wealth fund, which to me means perhaps tokenizing our public lands. I mean, there's all kinds of things that have been discussed in this regard. Yes, sir.

Starting point is 01:09:11 This is very exciting. We're going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months. We're going to monetize the asset side of the US balance sheet for the American people. Now how do you take that? Monetizing the asset side of the balance sheet for the American people. How do you take that? Just what you said. Yeah, it's like, we got oil.

Starting point is 01:09:37 What are American assets? Whether it's the industrial base is considered an American asset. But the federal government owns like half the land in this country, which a lot of people, including Milton Freeman, think was a bad idea. We shouldn't own any land, but we own it. And the land is valuable, especially in some places, like certain states, California, for example.

Starting point is 01:09:59 That's an asset, big one. All right. We're going to put the assets to work. And I think that's tokenization. I guarantee you they're going to make it into some kind of crypto. It's going to be very exciting. We're going to study best practices that's done around the world. It'll be a combination of liquid assets, assets that we have in this country as we work to bring them out for the American people. The extraordinary size and scale of the US government and the business it does with companies should create value for American citizens.

Starting point is 01:10:39 If we are going to buy 2 billion COVID vaccines. Maybe we should have some warrants and some equity in these companies and have that grow for the help of the American people. So I bring them all these things together. I think we'll create, Scott and I will create an amazing sovereign wealth fund for you, sir. That's Ludnick and you could not have used a worse example, you dumb dumb bow.

Starting point is 01:11:03 Like, oh yeah, we buy two two million covid vaccines two billion they say two billion he's stupid what a stupid thing to say now luttnick yeah that was dumb i think that got a lot of attention of this as it should i think that luttnick owns about five percent of tether tether owns i think about $150 billion worth of US debt. I believe that part of the gambit here is to spread our debt amongst done this one by issuing stable coins based upon debt that we keep in America. Because Tether, they make like $4 billion a year just by holding $100 billion worth of paper. And there's like 20 people at the company, like, oh, they just hold the paper, they get the interest. And they issue these stable coins so we can continue to use the, it'll probably be

Starting point is 01:12:05 tether, use the stable coins as you know, hey, everybody can use our dollars now everybody, it's digital, it goes everywhere, it devalues, but okay, you know, there's something at play here, including having assets of companies in the sovereign wealth fund is very, very different type of economics for us. And then of course, President Trump tries to popularize that with this. Other countries have sovereign wealth funds and they're much smaller countries and they're not the United States. We have tremendous potential in this country.

Starting point is 01:12:41 Tremendous. You're seeing that what's happened to happened just in a short period of time. And as an example, TikTok, we're gonna be doing something perhaps with TikTok. Perhaps not, if we make the right deal, we'll do it, otherwise we won't. So we're gonna own half of TikTok, this is amazing. But I have the right to do that,

Starting point is 01:12:58 and we might put that in the sovereign loan fund, whatever we make, or if we do a partnership with very wealthy people, a lot of options, but we could put that as an example in the fund, and we have a lot of other things that we could put in the fund, and I think in a short period of time we'd have one of the biggest funds, and some of them are pretty large, I must tell you, like the Saudi Arabia fund is on the large side, but eventually we'll catch it.

Starting point is 01:13:26 But we're gonna create a lot of wealth for the fund, and I think it's about time that this country had a sovereign wealth fund, and these two gentlemen and some others are gonna work with them very closely, and they'll be heading it up, and they're gonna do a great job, two highly respected people that have done unbelievably well in the world, in the real world. So that's a big deal, huh? Yeah, it's a big deal.

Starting point is 01:13:49 It's going to create value and be of great strategic importance. Yes, all right. And a lot of publications are saying, you know, this could stave off a debt crisis because we keep the debt in the United States. Of course, the entire Bitcoin community is saying, ah, this is where our strategic Bitcoin reserve goes. I mean, we'll see, but man, you know, Trump is, people forget that he's a macro guy and I just hope to God that he, that he's getting some good advice. Cause this sounds sketchy at best. The stable coin thing, I don't know.

Starting point is 01:14:29 Maybe it's brilliant, but ultimately you keep issuing paper so everybody has the dollar except they get it in a digital form of a stable coin of a tether. It still devalues our money. They have to do something. Yeah. And if you, if anybody wants to listen to some, I mean, I have to, I don't hate, I don't like plugging the guy. Mark Levin. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:14:56 Hello America. So he, he does a Sunday show. Uh, on CNN. No, on Fox. Fox. He does a, he does a Fox show on... On CNN? No, on Fox. Fox? No. He does a Fox show on Sundays. Yeah. And it's, I don't know how many people watch it, but it's just basically, he does two,

Starting point is 01:15:14 one on Saturday and one on Sunday, and it's basically a one-hour lecture. It's nothing more. Well, actually, I take it back. It's about a half-hour lecture and then he brings some people on to talk about the lecture. How good was my lecture? How good was I? What do you think? I have to say this. I mean, he's a smart guy. His books are good. He's the great one! By the way, I noticed that's kind of dissipated. The great one concept.

Starting point is 01:15:42 They stopped, by the way, I noticed that's kind of dissipated. Oh. The great one concept. Oh, interesting. But he is pretentious as hell because he starts his radio program on during the week. Every show, like all during the week, the show starts with the national anthem. I mean, give me a break. Hey, well, we start this show with the national anthem. I mean, the national Gitmo Nation anthem, but we do start with the anthem.

Starting point is 01:16:04 We actually don't start this show with it National Anthem. I mean, the National Gitmo Nation Anthem, but we do start with the anthem. We actually don't start the show with it. No. We rile everybody up. We rile everybody up. That's in the pre-show. It's in the pre-show. It's like the guy who comes out in the comedy special. It comes with the guy.

Starting point is 01:16:15 What's the guy called? The audience guy comes out there. The, not the fluffer. That's a different kind. What's that guy called? The guy who comes out. The audience, I forget what the guy's called guy warm-up guy. Yeah with it when he's he's slamming He's got the script rolled up and he's like, all right everybody. Let's practice your your cheers. Yeah

Starting point is 01:16:37 Yes, everybody all worked up yes audience fluffer So let's so anyway, so Lavina, I think was the last Sunday, he does a lecture on... That's Darren O'Neill for us, the pre-show guy. That's what he does. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, he does it. He's good. He gave a lecture on the real debt. And he claims that because the Social Security and Medicare, which are separate funds that are supposed to be kind of

Starting point is 01:17:09 walled off, even though they were still the money was stolen from them. That's why people say, oh, the Social Security is gonna be out of business so and so, you know, any, you know, five years we're gonna be out of money. It's technically impossible based on the original plans for Social Security because when you pay your withholding or if you're working for a company, you have your taxes, it says withholding tax, and then you see a little line that's SS, Social Security. You pay that separately. That's not tax. No, that's theft.

Starting point is 01:17:41 And it doesn't, it turns out that they've been taking that and acting as it was taxed and they're stolen the money according to Levin We're actually a hundred and fifty plus to true under trillion in debt Because of the real because of these this money that's been stolen from Social Security Everybody gets a tether here Coin yeah tether you get a basically a trillion dollar coin. Yeah, tether. You get a tether. Basically, the trillion dollar coin. So, the point is I'm trying to make, I think, I think the point I'm trying to make is that we have to do something drastic because we're broke.

Starting point is 01:18:18 Yeah. What I found interesting in that paper is you said the way you do it, these tariffs, is you tie it to national security, which is exactly what President Trump did. He tied it to immigration and fentanyl. So it seems like something here is playing out. And I like the idea of the Mar-a-Lago Accords. I think that's a genius name. And it seems like, oh yeah, so we can just kind of wait for something to happen. I agree, they have to do something. Something has to happen or, yeah, because we're broke and if we go broke, it's not good for the world. Everybody has a problem then, everyone's holding our paper our paper.

Starting point is 01:19:09 So that was that. Do you want to talk about Magaza? Magaza Maga Gaza Magaza. That's that's the new thing. Magaza. Everybody's talking about Magaza. Well, that was, you know, to me, just to pray. Yeah. You've got, I maybe have one clip.

Starting point is 01:19:25 I don't have a lot on it. I mean, I do have some thoughts. And my thought was that during the, cause everyone's acting, I liked the way everyone acts so cool because Trump's put these guys and including Netanyahu. Oh yeah. No, no, this is not a big shock. What Trump did with this, this comment about it, we're going to just take over Gaza and then turn it into a, you know, a resort.

Starting point is 01:19:47 It was exactly the same. And I have a term for it. I now, I have a term for this, uh, what Trump's doing. Uh, it's on here. It's called the blur. The blur, the blur. And this is basically what he did with, they're eating the dogs. We're going to own it. We're going to own it. We're going to own it. So I have the Gaza blurt and I think Trump just did it on the fly. I don't care what anybody thinks because it's like we're eating the dogs.

Starting point is 01:20:15 Yeah. And now everybody's and Mike Johnson is one of them. Yeah. And so is Rubio. Well, they walked it back. I have the walking it back clip. Well, let's listen. Well, I have, let's play this. Here's the initial Gaza blurt clip from NTD, which I think probably gets us off to a good start.

Starting point is 01:20:32 Today we got some more clarification from the White House a day after President Trump suggests that he wants the US to take over Gaza and own it. The White House says that President Trump is not planning to use American taxpayer dollars to fund reconstruction efforts in Gaza, and nor is he committed yet to send any U.S. troops there much. The president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza. He has also said that the United States is not going to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza. His administration is going to work with our partners in the region to reconstruct this

Starting point is 01:21:04 region. And let me just take a step back here because this is an out-of-the-box idea. That's who President Trump is. That's why the American people elected him. Meanwhile, last night during a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister, President Trump did not rule out sending troops as an option, saying he might if it's necessary. Given what you've said about Gaza, should the U.S. send troops to help secure the security vacuum? As far as Gaza is concerned, we'll do what is necessary.

Starting point is 01:21:33 If it's necessary, we'll do that. And when asked about why President Trump would not rule it out as an option, the White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, told us today that she believes it's part of Trump's negotiating tactics and he will make a deal on that, adding that it's to keep the option open as leverage in negotiations. And meanwhile, last night, Trump also proposed a mass and permanent resettlement for Palestinians living in Gaza. And the White House study is seemingly walking it back, saying that Palestinians will only

Starting point is 01:22:02 need to be temporarily relocated as the reconstruction efforts play out. But the White House does stress to us though that the US is getting involved in the reconstruction efforts and that is to ensure stability in the region, adding that President Trump is a great deal maker and will strike a deal with regional partners. I think you've really hit on something. The blurt is exactly what it is. And every blurt with this president is a negotiating point. I'm going to say something here.

Starting point is 01:22:32 I'm sure he does this in business deals. I'm going to put you out of business. It's out of the blue. It just hits him on the spur of the moment because we're eating the dogs. You could just see it. It was just like he's listening to this woman yack away and he's this all of a sudden it just dawns on him to throw this out. We're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs. Here, let me play this clip. This is labeled as top U.S. officials walk back Trump's blurt. U.S US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday walked back the Trump plan to permanently relocate Palestinians from Gaza after American allies rebuffed the suggestion. So this is now Rubio is one of the Trump whisperers. This is

Starting point is 01:23:18 the new role that you have to play. Trump on Tuesday in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the US could take ownership of Gaza. And the only thing President Trump has done very generously in my view is offer the United States willingness to step in, clear the debris, clean the place up from all the destruction that's on the ground, clean it up of all these unexploded munitions. And in the meantime, the people living there will not be able the people who call at home will not be able to live there while you have crews coming in and removing debris while you have munitions

Starting point is 01:23:52 being removed etc that's the offer that he's made no okay see Rubio yeah yeah I think Rubio did a good job and I like to compare it to Mike Johnson, who is also trying to do it. But this, this is Mike Johnson. And I, I described this as Mike Johnson skating, you know, he's doing some sort of a soft shoe. He's dancing. And it's like, he doesn't know what to say because it's like, Oh, what am I going to do? I can't offend it. You know, cause everyone's scared to death. They're going to say something that Trump gets pissed about. So they're backing him.

Starting point is 01:24:27 Well, Rubio doesn't seem to be afraid. No, Rubio's got it figured out. Yeah, he knows what to say. And so does Caroline Levitt. Yeah, yes, yes, yes. Because she said it right there. The president obviously means this. Like, okay.

Starting point is 01:24:43 And the other guy, the first person I noticed that could do this well was JD Vance. Yes. Initially during the elections. Yeah. JD Vance could explain whatever Trump did, he could explain it and it was to the satisfaction of everybody, including Trump. But Johnson, Johnson hasn't quite got a clue yet so he dances. House Speaker Mike Johnson reacted to President Trump's plan for the Gaza Strip.

Starting point is 01:25:11 Here's what Johnson said at the House Republicans leadership stakeout earlier today. There'll be more details forthcoming on that of course. The initial announcement yesterday I think was greeted by surprise by many but cheered by I think people all around the world. Why? Because that area is so dangerous and he's taking bold decisive action to try to ensure the peace of that region. It's a bold move certainly, far bolder than what's been done before but I think we've got to stand unequivocally in an unwavering manner, as the whip said, with Israel, our closest ally and friend in the Middle East. And I think if we could bring control of that situation and bring about a lasting peace there, it would do well for everybody, not just in the region, but around the world.

Starting point is 01:25:55 It's a volatile place. And I think the strong and decisive move is an important step in that regard. Johnson's got to get it together. We don't want waffling. We don't want waffling. We don't want waffling. Here, listen. Now, they even call him the Trump whisperer in this report from Deutsche Welle as Rutte, our boy from the Netherlands, explains Greenland.

Starting point is 01:26:17 Because what did Trump say about Greenland? Yeah, we're going to buy it. We're going to take it over. We're going to take it over. We're just going to enter it and take it. No, no, no, gonna buy it. We're gonna take it over. We're gonna take it over. We're just gonna enter it and take it No, no, no, no, no What I think what he is really trying to get at is that we have to be watchful what is happening in the Arctic and Russia is

Starting point is 01:26:36 Speedily working on getting its act together on the Arctic take for example the issue of icebreakers We do not have enough icebreakers at this moment, for example in the US or in many... Who's this we you're talking about? Other NATO allies. So this whole issue of the Arctic, its geostrategic importance, but also of course the natural resources there and all the other geopolitical impact it will have is what he is really putting on the table and putting high on the agenda. But military action sounds like a war between NATO. He hasn't said that he will invade Greenland.

Starting point is 01:27:09 No, no, he did not say that. No. But what he really said is that the Arctic is of geopolitical and strategic importance. But, Ruta, they don't call him the Trump whisperer for nothing. He didn't say he wasn't going to invade Greenland, but he didn't rule it out either. And then let's go back to Rubio, who did a beautiful blurt cleanup on the Panama Canal. You've just come from Panama and you said that your meetings in Panama went well. After them, President Trump said that we're going to take the canal back or something very powerful is going to happen. What's going to happen? That was the blurt or something very powerful is going to happen. What's going to happen? That was the blurt, or something very powerful is going to happen.

Starting point is 01:27:48 Well, I hope nothing's going to happen and it shouldn't, because look, the president's point is we gave the canal and a treaty to Panama. We didn't give it to China. You come back 20 years later and you go to the canal and on the entry points of both sides of the canal is a Chinese linked company. In fact, when I was visiting there yesterday, the ship behind me just over my shoulder was a Hong Kong shipping vessel. And so their presence, not just in the canal, but in Panama writ large, is very disturbing. So ridding the presence, their presence could solve this whole problem?

Starting point is 01:28:17 Well, we didn't give the canal to China. I mean, it's a violation of the treaty. What I told President Molino yesterday was that President Trump's made a preliminary determination that there's a violation of the treaty. You're in violation of the treaty because a sovereign other country, a third country, has effective control over the canal area. And that's absent serious measures. We're going to have to preserve our rights under the treaty. Now, obviously, there are a lot of options in that regard, and I think people speculate things, but I don't think we'll ever get to that point, and we shouldn't get to that point. So it's perfect. He is a Trump whisperer, and the solutions are already taking place.

Starting point is 01:28:56 So we had a very frank conversation. Since then, they've taken some steps. They announced that they're going to get out of the Bolton Road Initiative. We'd like to see more, and we hope to see more in the days to come. You know, the government doesn't control the canal. It's run by an independent agency, the Canal Zone. So they have to go through some legal steps that they have to carry out. Yeah, we got to go through some steps.

Starting point is 01:29:15 So it's working. It's working. And then... It's working great. They got out of the Belt and Road thing. Yes. That was the kicker. That was the main point. And I'm totally convinced that, you know that people are bitching and moaning about, for example, Rubio bailed from the upcoming G20 meeting, which was just recently announced, because they

Starting point is 01:29:34 don't like the way South Africa is acting. Right. Which, of course, that's easy enough. But I still believe that we've decided on a North South policy because we can do what we think we can do in Africa. And we think what we can do here and there. And we have our influence in Europe and England is what it is. We got to do South America. We got to do South America is the Chinese are moving into South America and this

Starting point is 01:29:59 is in our hemisphere. We're not putting up with it. And, and Rubio speaks Spanish. I got a, I got another blurt Here's another blurt, which is a boomer blurt. This is a boomer blurt. I caught it. Let's see if you catch it We're telling Ukraine. They have very valuable rare earth. We want what we put up to Go in terms of a guarantee. We want a guarantee. We want we're handing them money hand over fist. We're giving them equipment. European is not keeping up with us. They should equalize. Look, we have an ocean in between.

Starting point is 01:30:32 They don't. It's more important for them than it is for us. But they're way below us in terms of money. And they should be paying at least equal. They should really be paying much more than us. But let's say equal to us. And they're billions and billions of dollars per person. And they're billions and at least equal, they should really be paying much more than us, but let's say equal to us, and they're billions and billions of dollars below.

Starting point is 01:30:51 So we're looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they're going to secure what we're giving them with their rare earth and other things. So I keep hearing rare earth, and I'm like, I can't help but go back to 1973. Is Trump thinking rare earth minerals but he's confusing it with the band rare earth? I don't think so. But when it comes to Europe, Europe is rolling the dice and they're doing some very, I think they're making very dangerous moves because all the 27 member states got together and said, yeah, we don't need America. We don't need Trump's military protection.

Starting point is 01:31:36 The European Union is aiming to strengthen its defense capabilities, requiring an estimated investment of around 500 billion euros over the next decade. That's 50 billion a year. We do 800, we do 800, 900 billion a year. Spending has grown by 30% since 2021, but in the current geopolitical climate, the block believes this is not enough. On Monday Monday the EU27 met to explore new ideas with the aim of incorporating some into a future European Commission document. When you ask what the leaders want in the white paper, certainly proposals for these three levels. How to create fiscal space, how to create common funds to common projects and finally how to mobilize

Starting point is 01:32:29 private financing to strengthen our defense industry. Creating more fiscal space or in other words relaxing the economic rules that force countries not to take on too much debt is one of the main ideas on the table. The key to this lies with the European Commission which could allow countries to spend more on defense. Come on Queen Ursula. For extraordinary times it is possible to have extraordinary measures also in the Stability and Growth Pact and I think we live in extraordinary times. So we will look as a Commission deeper into using much more flexibilities that are optional possible with the Stability and Growth Pact for defense

Starting point is 01:33:10 investment and defense expenditures. At a time when relying on allies is crucial, the EU27 gathered at a summit alongside their partners, including UK Prime Minister Keiren Stammer and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Rutte is there to say, you guys are crazy. You're crazy. What are you doing? You can't do this.

Starting point is 01:33:32 You know, the next tariff is going to be on the EU and it's going to be ugly because they don't make anything anymore. Oh, some German cars. Fine. Whatever. What else do they make? I like machine tools for one. Okay.

Starting point is 01:33:51 And they do a lot of precision. Bosch. Very precision things. Yeah. Electronics. Yeah. Bosch. Yeah. Siemens is a big company. Yeah. Anyway, the world is in turmoil. I'm actually, I'm kind of enjoying our last four years. This is kind of fun. It's going, it's, it's going to be a good four years. The way you said it there, it sounds like the world's going to blow up in four years.

Starting point is 01:34:12 Well, no more internet. When we're gone, it might as well. What are people going to do? Oh man. All right. Where do you want to go? Because of what? No, we should, well, let's, we should probably do one. Maybe just a quick, let me see. Let me do the bat, let me get this out of the way, since it was part of the earlier presentation, with the battle at the Treasury Department, because this is about the lockout. Oh yes, yes. Congress wanted to go in, they, the Trump, the Trump, the Musk, the Musk, the Muskavites.

Starting point is 01:34:41 The Muskavites, another good one. I like it. The Muskavites,, another good one. I like it. The Muscovites, the kids, they got into the Treasury Department. They're children. Those kids, they got into the Treasury Department computers. Oh no. Because they're computer guys. And they started finding all these, you know, this hasn't been, this was because USAID overshadowed

Starting point is 01:35:04 this, but they found that that the Treasury Department is handing out checks to dead people and handing out checks to companies that folded in 98. They just, these checks are going out. And so everyone's all bent out of shape about them getting in there. And so it's become a big, they made a big stink about it. And so it was Congress wanted to go in in but the Secret Service kept them out. This is battery battle, batter, batter, battery battle at Treasury Department lockout. The Secret Service rebuffed a group of congressional Democrats who tried to gain entry to the Treasury building yesterday. They said that they wanted to provide oversight after the Department of Government Efficiency

Starting point is 01:35:41 gained access to the Treasury's federal payment system. It is time for us to shine. It is time for us to be heard. It is time for us to make sure that they know we will not go. Oh, you want to use our money to go to Mars? No. We want to use our money right here in Washington, D.C. We have to fight this in the Congress. We have to fight this in the Congress. We have to fight this in the streets. Elon Musk is here to collect on his investment.

Starting point is 01:36:12 Oh, goodness. Yes. He is here to seize power for himself. We are here to fight back. Yes. Yes. And everyone went home. Yeah, we're all angry, but well, as long as I get my check on the 18th of the month,

Starting point is 01:36:31 I'm okay. Then Elon can do it. There is a legitimate concern here in general, which I don't want to pass over. And that is the tech-nocrocy, the tech bros coming in and replacing things with systems. You know, there's, I think there's... No, I'm not gonna argue with you at all. Yeah, legitimate concern that we don't want Palantir running too many things. And then there's a privacy issue at play.

Starting point is 01:36:57 Well, I mean, I think it's kind of laughable. Be like, Elon Musk has your social security number. Elon Musk has a lot more about you than you're saying. You willingly give it to him. You willingly give it to Facebook. You willingly give it to Google. Anyone who's on Facebook has no reason to complain about anything. Exactly.

Starting point is 01:37:13 Battle, and I'm not by the way, battle at Treasury Department 2. The lawmakers argue that the Doge run by Elon Musk has what they call dangerous access to federal payment systems. Treasury officials insist the access is read only. Democrats at the protest called the Doge a power grab and pledged legal action. I love the read access. They can always read access only. And I think the interesting thing on that little clip there was that they're promising legal action. These guys are moving so at breakneck speed from agency, from here to there to here to there. The legal system, this shows you the flaw in the system.

Starting point is 01:37:56 They can't, by the time they get an order, they're already off at someplace else. Yeah. Trump has gone nuts when it comes to speed. I don't know what your AOC on Musk clip is, but I'm sure it's laughable. Can we play it? Well, this is the classic, yeah. Well, there's two things about Musk. If you're going to play that, come yet, play the prelude, which is play the anti-Musk bill

Starting point is 01:38:21 proposed. Meanwhile, on the side of the Democrats, lawmakers want to prevent special government employees from accessing government information. This is mostly to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ, from accessing any sensitive data on U.S. individuals. Top Democrats say Musk is rapidly consolidating control

Starting point is 01:38:42 over large swaths of the federal government with Trump's blessing. They're arguing that Musk is sidelining career officials, gaining access to sensitive data and more. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out the goals of the bill. Our bill aims to do a few simple things. One, to deny access to special government employees, employees that don't have to disclose their conflicts of interest or any other ethic agreements. Two, to deny access to anyone with conflicts of interest or lack of appropriate clearance. And three, include personal tax information into existing privacy protections. We call our legislation, Stop the Steal. Stop the Steal. Oh, whoa, so smart, so smart.

Starting point is 01:39:30 I love that. What an idiot. The Secret Service is, in fact, technically responsible for the security of the US dollar, I believe. Yeah. That's their responsibility. It's not just to protect people, but also to protect the money, so makes sense. All right now the AOC clip

Starting point is 01:39:47 So yeah, now I want to I don't want to spike the ball on this but this is an example And you did because you did it last so I get to do it now Yeah, this is an example taking a crappy clip to she's doing all these tick-tock clips. Yes, and they're terribly mic'd So when you run it through Adobe, this is what Adobe's good for, taking the echo out. So this is the best anyone will ever hear. This clip has been going around, but this is the best quality you're going to ever hear of it. Here we go.

Starting point is 01:40:16 This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed. Hold on a second. Stop the clip. Stop the clip. have ever met or seen or witnessed. Um, stop the clip, stop the clip. She says this dude is one of the dumbest billionaires I've ever met. Then she changes it and listened to it started over because I don't think she's ever met him. No, you're right. So she changes gears and say, well, I mean, I've ever seen, I, you can see it for yourself, listen carefully.

Starting point is 01:40:44 Interesting. This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed, which, you know, you can probably even glean that from watching these people on TV. Anyways, all of that is to say is that they don't do their homework. Clearly, like they're putting 19 year olds in at the treasury. This dude is not smart. How old was she when they put her when they when she did her audition? This I'm a little tired of the these are 19 year olds. 19 year olds are given an M1 and you can go

Starting point is 01:41:27 19 year olds are given an M1 and you can go receive lead in desert places where you've sent them. Now a 19 year old is no good. I'm a little sick of that. And the danger in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise that Elon has, I mean, this guy is one of the most morally vacant, but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we really know of. But the point is, is that what that means is that they're going to hit a button. A button. A button! Inevitably.

Starting point is 01:42:06 They are going to hit a button and things can go side. A button! They're going to hit a button. A button! It's all kind of... You know, just back to your North-South strategy, I think you're spot on. And I think Venezuela is going to be in play. I got a note from the oil baron. Now apparently the guy advising our president on Drill Baby Drill

Starting point is 01:42:29 is Keith Kellogg, who is now the special envoy to Ukraine and Russia. And he came out in oil circles and said, global producers should try slashing oil prices to $45 a barrel to pressure Russia into ending the war with Ukraine. There is no way you can't go to $45 a barrel. Saudi Arabia, I don't think can even go to $45 a barrel. And now other advisors- That's not true. Well, I mean, of course, anybody can go to $45 a barrel. We talked about this in the show a decade ago.

Starting point is 01:43:15 Saudi Arabia supposedly can make money at 20. Right, but that was a decade ago. I mean, the dollar has changed in value. So I think it's tight. Let me put it that way. I think it's tight. But it's doable. Well, according to the oil baron, Saudi Arabia would struggle to generate enough revenue to pay for social services, monthly payments to citizens, and big infrastructure projects. It will need about $90 a barrel this year to balance its budget according to the oil baron and his sources.

Starting point is 01:43:48 Now, the companies have said the West Texas oil producer... What are they doing about the fact that it's floating around $65.70? Well, they like it there. They like it there. I thought they needed $90 to get by. I'm just telling you, I'm not making this up. I'm not pulling it from USA Today. No, no, okay.

Starting point is 01:44:10 We keep talking. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain. Companies are no longer pursuing growth at all costs is what the West Texas Oil Consortium is saying. Longer term, advisors are saying Trump's support of US oil and gas, including scrapping environmental regulations will make the sector more appealing to investors, but it's going to take a little bit of time and they need to find some other sources in the meantime. And I'm thinking we need to get some of that from South America.

Starting point is 01:44:43 That was not in the briefing I got, but there's no drill baby drill at this point in time. So he's going to have to figure out some other way, um, to lower, lower energy costs. Well, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility to do a deal with Maduro who seems to have a deal with Maduro, who seems to have a pretty good handle on his power base. Yeah, I think so.

Starting point is 01:45:14 You know, he'd do a deal. Yeah. And they have a huge, their reserves off the coast of Venezuela as one of the biggest in the world. They got the goods. They got the goods. The Doge concept and cleaning up,

Starting point is 01:45:34 and this will actually take us into thanking some people because I've gotten a lot of notes on why we're no longer hearing from the UK and Australia donors. Yes, we got a lot of notes. Yeah, I got quite a few. I mean, on Australia, the main one I get is, A, we're afraid to donate to end to your podcast because we go to jail.

Starting point is 01:45:55 Also- I heard that from a UK listener. Yeah, and Two Broke is another one. They don't need to be on a list. They don't want to be on a list. And I like the one from the UK. It's like the people are leaving the UK. Anyone with the means and ability to get out is getting out. And a lot of them are going to Dubai. People try to go to Portugal, but Spain and Portugal, they're starting to impose huge extra taxes on buying a home there if you have non-EU residents, which the UK

Starting point is 01:46:29 is. But in Australia, here's Senator Malcolm Roberts, who's like, hey, this is a good plan. And his team have made a huge start on putting the cleaners through US government waste, some of which appears criminal and seditious in nature. President Trump has withdrawn the USA from the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum and climate change tyranny and fraud, moves One Nation has advocated for 20 years. Executive orders have destroyed woke DEI and transgender ideology, while reaffirming support for gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans – again, one-nation policy. President Trump is not a threat to democracy here or in the

Starting point is 01:47:12 United States. He is a threat to the Greens, who are watching the pushback to their neo-Marxist identity politics. Their toxic ideology is rightly being dispatched to the history's sewers. President Trump did not start the pushback against work ideology. Australia did, when everyday Australians rejected the voice proposal. And as Irish did, when they rejected the fragmentation of their families in a referendum there. President Donald Trump's actions are in accord with One Nation policies and of that we're very very proud. Trump puts America first. One Nation proudly puts Australia first. Good luck. Good luck. Hey what are we drinking? Well, now that you mentioned it, I'm drinking Cascade Ice Organic, with a USDA stamp,

Starting point is 01:48:09 organic pomegranate mango caffeinated seltzer. And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the Cascade horrible drink that is approved by the USDA. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one the only mr. John C. DeVoreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2,157 is our peak. So that again, we're up. I'm not hugely up, but we're up. It's the Trump bump. It's the burp bump. That's what it is. The Trump burp bump. Blurt. Sorry, not burp. Blurt. I like the blurt. I think the blurt is a good concept.

Starting point is 01:49:06 I think it's gonna be a theme. I think it has legs, it has legs. Thank you very much, trolls. We love seeing you here. I saw we had a new troll in there. He's like, hey, first time I can listen live. All right, good. A new troll.

Starting point is 01:49:21 Yeah, we got new trolls. It's good to have new trolls. It know, it mixes it up a little bit. And immediately they got, well, you know, it's really good, you know, cause we can say stuff here in the troll room. And sometimes Adam's men sit on the show, but you might get kicked out. He might kick you. I kick one guy out once every three months, just for, just for kicks, honestly. I'm surprised it's that high. You did one last week.

Starting point is 01:49:44 That was the one. That was the one that was the one my one time this quarter The trolls are listening live through troll room.io. I just renewed that domain name or of course, and I recommend this I was seeing Sam Tripoli was crying on Twitter. Yeah, I think that I'm Tripoli Oh the tin foil hat podcast we've've played we played him before Oh, right Sam triple Sam Tripoli and he was crying like I think I'm getting screwed You know my show hasn't showed up on Apple for like nine hours. I'm like Sam. It's the wrong app, man That's the problem now if it doesn't show up on Spotify They may have taken it down Spotify reserves that right and does it daily. They take down episodes, entire podcasts.

Starting point is 01:50:28 They are the worst. Yeah, they are the worst. And Apple, I just don't think there's enough investment. It's not a profit center for Apple, so they have a small team. They're a dedicated team, but sometimes stuff goes wrong. Now, if you take a modern podcast app, oh boy, 90 seconds. So you need to tell your audience to use a modern podcast app, like we tell ours at podcastapps.com. Now, another thing you can consider is to run the value for, you know, someone, um, sir, hold

Starting point is 01:50:57 on a second. Let me grab it here. I was sent a book to the PO Box. A book? You got a book? Yes, I got a book. It was from Sir Julian, the Duke of Bastrop. Remember, Sir Julian is the one who gave us Phoebe. And this book is from 1990 and it's Confessions of an intern Interent fundraiser

Starting point is 01:51:28 The book is called tinerant. There you go. What does it itinerant mean? You know a guy floats around he's floating around I go here I go there I float around I'm an itinerant podcaster Well, yeah do a podcast here there. I don't care. I'm on the road, roaming around, getting a job. I get a job here, get a job there. It doesn't matter. Gee, sounds a lot like people are working the patch. John hated, hated Landman. You hated it. And you hated it so much you wrote an entire like treatment like that. I mean Brunetti even emailed it to me and said oh my god look at this. Yeah I sent him a copy, sent you a copy and then I posted it on Twitter. I know I responded with okay boomer that's fine all right

Starting point is 01:52:22 you didn't like it fine. Anyway right. You didn't like it. Fine. Anyway, the book is titled Value for Value. Confessions of an itinerant fundraiser. Interesting. Yeah. Now it's kind of a, I have to look through it. But it seems like a lot is like, how many pages here? 300 pages.

Starting point is 01:52:40 Let me explain you Value for value in one paragraph. We give you the show completely free of advertising hassles, special freemium offers. There's no plus bundle. There's no subscriptions. You just go ahead. I love the plus bundle. By the way, that was another book. Someone didn't send us the book, but sent us

Starting point is 01:53:03 a picture of the NPR startup guide to podcasts. Yeah, we have to get a copy of this. I desperately need a copy because they're the guys that went broke doing podcasts. Yeah. Here's what not to do. Get a copy for Mimi and then just copy it and then put my name on it. It'll be a success, I guarantee it. It's probably everything in there that's right, except for you need a Neumann microphone.

Starting point is 01:53:31 The Neumann mic will break you. It will, time and time again. So instead of all that, we just ask you to return value to us in one of three ways, time, talent or treasure. We got a lot of time and talent, a lot of people providing us with boots on the ground, with clips, with ideas, with feedback. And everybody is a specialist in one area. And it may be that you drive a truck in a certain region and have something there.

Starting point is 01:53:58 Maybe you work in a certain factory. We have doctors, dentists, we have lots of military, law enforcement, pilots, every... I'm always amazed how many people work in government who are clearly all pretty, pretty, pretty disgruntled. We have a broad range of people that have caught on to this show. Yes, and we love you for that. Now, we also need to pay our bills, so we love when people send us value. But before we do that,

Starting point is 01:54:30 let's thank some of the people who sent us some time and talent in the form of artwork. Now we do, we pick a piece of art from noagendaartgenerator.com, another fine example of value for value being returned to us. Thank you, Sir Paul Couture.

Starting point is 01:54:49 And we pick a piece, and we have many pieces to choose from, certainly in this peak AI moment that we're living in. And we use that for the cover art, but we use a lot of these pieces are used in the modern podcast apps with chapter images. I think people enjoy being highlighted there as well. But there can only be one that is chosen for the cover art. In this case, it was Capitalist Agenda, and I'm pretty sure this was not an AI piece. This looks like Capitalist Agenda.

Starting point is 01:55:18 This is one of his classic pieces. That was for episode 1735. We titled it Old Bag. And this was like a nuclear launch button with two keys, with little dog tags, Kareem Dvorak, so we got our names in. He even snuck in an ITM on those, you know, the red, yellow, green button at the top. And the big red button for launch was Tariff Podcasts 33%. And we liked it. and the big red button for launch was Tariff Podcasts 33%. And we liked it.

Starting point is 01:55:46 And there were other contenders, but this was the one that we liked the most. And I'm pretty sure it was not AI. It was one other one that we thought was good. Well, there were a couple. Well, you did like the blue acorns form of what's in your mouth. I said, we can't post it, but I certainly liked it.

Starting point is 01:56:07 Yeah, it was funny. Now the one that became the one I liked at first and you liked and we both kind of liked, but you spotted the fact that it had hallucinations. Too many AI hallucinations was the Let's Play Lego AI piece done by Darren O'Neill. And from a distance, it's like, oh, that's a cool Lego podcast

Starting point is 01:56:25 studio. But the minute you look at it, this thing was wrong in so many ways. I mean, none of this Lego would fit together. All the Lego bumps were distorted. There's a pop filter floating in midair for some reason. That's what got me. Because I said, this is great. Yeah, this is the best.

Starting point is 01:56:42 Because I like some of these pieces he comes up with and you said, and then you pointed out the pop filter floating in air just by itself. And I looked at that, uh, disqualified the piece and it was like, and then I made the point that you have more OCD than I do. I don't really have that because I'm, if you haven't noticed, no, I've noticed. Yes, I have. I've noticed in your edits. Oh, please.

Starting point is 01:57:10 Callback. And the point is as soon as you spot it, it's one of those things once you see it, you can't unsee it. And I kept seeing that. Okay, would that disqualify the piece? Yeah. The mixer looked like it was made in a Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. I didn't have an issue with the mixer like you did. Blobs, blobs. A lot of people did Lego stuff. We very much like the old bags, but it doesn't really work. No, it's not going to work.

Starting point is 01:57:38 I kind of like the Will Work for public broadcasting, the blue-haired, I almost use that for the... I almost use that for the newsletter. I was gonna use that. The other one, which came in, a late piece that came in, we should mention, it came in too late to do, was the podcaster, Please Donate. That piece came in after we had closed Yeah, but that was a great piece and I like and I like pieces that for the newsletter that are that asked for donations In the art. Yes, so I almost use it, but it was so kind of depressing looking I ended

Starting point is 01:58:21 Decided against it and I probably lost, it's probably lost us a thousand dollars, I'm guessing in the donations. Because it would have worked, you know it would have worked. No, it always works, but I just felt bad about it because the piece just looked like pathetic. So I ended up using We've Landed by Gun Monkey for one reason only, it's just a pretty piece. Yeah, sometimes it's just a pretty piece. Yes, sometimes it's just a pretty piece.

Starting point is 01:58:45 That's right, sometimes. Well, we also want to thank everybody who supported us for this episode $50 and above. And at this moment in the show, we'd like to stop and break for our executive and associate executive producers. These are real titles, show business titles you can use anywhere for as long as Hollywood exists. By the way, this being the special donation segment, which people sometimes skip over, they're going to miss our excellent review of the Grammy Awards,

Starting point is 01:59:12 which you bailed on after what, 10 minutes, I think? Oh, it was unwatchable. Unwatchable. So it was worse than Landman. Yeah, you got that right. So, Tina and I watched and just a couple of observations. First of all, ratings are down. Ratings are down almost 10% year over year. I will say there was less

Starting point is 01:59:46 Satan. There was no actual Satan segment in this year's Grammys. From time to time there were women. Can I stop you there for a second? Yeah. I was thinking about this because I stopped watching that. I kind of looked at an overview and I'm looking for some, you know, just skipped through and then there was anything I just gave up. But I think it's because of the fires. They're in LA, they just had a big fire, they couldn't put a bunch of fire on stage, they couldn't do all the fires. They couldn't do their normal fire stuff? It would be triggering. Hmm. Now you don't like Trevor Noah hosting that thing.

Starting point is 02:00:24 You... Because Trevor Noah to me is a phony. I used to like Trevor Noah hosting that thing. You are... Because Trevor Noah to me is a phony. I used to see Trevor Noah when he did... I didn't see him personally, but I saw his bits on YouTube when he was a stand-up comic out of South Africa. Hilarious. He did a lot, but he did a lot of racist material. Which he should go back to. He should go back to that. What's he thinking? And he was really funny with it.

Starting point is 02:00:45 He was very, he was not politically correct. He went to the Daily Show, became the host and became incredibly staid. And now on this show, he, I mean, if I was going to describe him, I would describe him as trying to do his, whatever he was doing as a host, as talking too fast, acting like, you know, if it was somebody else, I'd say he was doing as a host as talking too fast acting like you know if it was somebody else I'd say he was coked up it was Kamala. Interesting. He's rushing through his material nervously it just was like it was cringy I couldn't watch the show it was terrible. I don't know why they have him as the host. What's he got to do with the music industry? Well, he did it last year. He's affordable probably.

Starting point is 02:01:27 I think he's just affordable. And he gets to double as Bruno Mars. So they get two for one. Look just like Bruno Mars. And it was nice to see women in pretty dresses singing nice songs. That is the boomer adjacent in me. I'm like, oh, look, there's someone who's dressed. How nice. Leaning on a piano and singing. That was kind of impressive. Will Smith made his comeback as if nothing had happened. Like, oh, yeah, well, he did

Starting point is 02:01:58 the Quincy Jones segment. There were a few DEI and trans comments, maybe three or four. There was a lot more God than usual. I attribute that to President Trump. We've talked about this. The president sets the tone. Bill Clinton made certain sexual acts, not sex. It was not sex. So that became a thing. It's not sex. And President Trump's talking more about God. So that snuck in. Good, good. Now, the thing that irked me the most, because I don't really watch... You watch these things. You're a maven. Yeah, I don't really watch. And there were some really good performances. I thought the new music, the new artist segment was outstanding. performances. I thought the new music, the new artist segment was outstanding, but I don't watch a lot of network television. Well, of course, I have news networks on all the time and I just ignore the ad breaks, but the number

Starting point is 02:02:55 of ad breaks and the first ten without fail had a different pharmaceutical product in it that I'd never heard of before with each name was more horrible than the previous one. I've noticed this too. It was unbelievable. Crazy drugs that they're advertising is unbelievable. They've got to put a stop to this. And if you don't know what it is you're like well what is this? Do I have this? I didn't even know what it is but it's gonna solve it if I have it. You couldn't even figure out what the affliction was that these drugs were for. It was, it was bizarre.

Starting point is 02:03:27 Have you seen the cartoon ad for aliquists or whatever? I'm not sure what the drug was. Where's a cartoon. It's for some, it's like for bipolar and there's a car is literally a cartoon of this girl. I missed that one. It's an entire cartoon. It's a cartoon advertisement

Starting point is 02:03:45 with a crazy like a voice that's like either South African or Australian. I can't even get the accent because it's kind of awkward. So you can't quite understand what they're saying and especially when they get to the all the contraindications. They just like blurred. The first one that came by a side effect, I kid you not, was death. I saw it on the screen. Yeah, that's a lot of them. Side effect could be death. Like what? It's not a side effect. That's the end. Your prescription may end because you die. It was unbelievable. But I'm sorry, I need to go back to the art for a second.

Starting point is 02:04:23 We got a beautiful note from the farmer's wife. You'll recall that her kids their homeschooled she has seven of them I think and And we had questioned why they had the art of the of the podcaster with the sombrero Yeah, you talked about this in the last show. Yeah, but she sent us the note. We didn't have the note. I know we did No, no, we didn't we didn't I let me read the note. We didn't have the note. I thought we did. No, no, we didn't. We didn't. Let me read the note. I don't think we did. I think we did. I don't think we did. Well, check the date. Well, I just copy pasted it into my show notes. Never mind. This is worth reading again. I don't think we read it the first time, but

Starting point is 02:05:04 it was about the online application for podcasters to be at the White House briefings being only in Spanish. That's what gave her the idea for the art but she says and this is what I wanted to add, the children are not allowed to listen to the podcast at this time so they only take prompts for me. See she's prompting her kids like they're AI. We just found out. It's not good. I think they should listen to the show. I think so too.

Starting point is 02:05:27 But I want to read this. We just found out I'm pregnant with our eighth human resource. God bless you. We especially the children are so excited. They've been begging for more siblings. How about that? In what family? It's hard to believe the kids are begging for more kids, but okay.

Starting point is 02:05:46 No, but this is, she's an American, she's the farmer's wife, this is who we used to be. No, she's the best. However, she suffers from a very severe morning sickness called hypermesis gravidarium. Yes, she's gravidarium. She can barely get out of bed. It's one of those, pregnancy's cause issues with a lot of, not all the time, but when they do, it's a major problem. Well, she wants us to pray and I am.

Starting point is 02:06:11 So, and she says, love the show, the farmer's wife. Thank you, farmer's wife. So now back to our executive and associate executive producers. These are the people who supported us with $200 or above. You get an associate executive producer credit for this episode. You can use anywhere including imdb.com and we will read your note as long as it's not too long.

Starting point is 02:06:31 $300 or above and you get an executive producer credit which you can use anywhere in show business land and we'll read your note. And we start off with Sir Harrison from Beaumont, Missouri. And he wants a rub-a-lizer jingle, which we have to make a decision on this because there is a rubbalizer, um, you know, there's a rubbalizer donation. Are we, are we just going to let people willy nilly use that now? Or what do you, what do you think?

Starting point is 02:07:00 Three, two, one rubbalizer 33, 32, 33. Yeah. I mean, that's just what's, I don't know what your question is. 321 Rubbalizer 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 that has been going on for years that people have been requesting that jingle and we've been playing it. Okay that was my question thank you for answering it. Was that hard? It was pretty easy. Yeah it was it was very difficult I had to take time out of my day. 1111 a row of sticks for sir Harrison he is Commodore Harrison sir Harrison of the Rednecks checking in he says partial switcheroo to see Neil my Gitmo nation buddy in a sea of commies please grant him $500 for his path to nighthood and he wants five more years

Starting point is 02:08:04 33, 33, verbalizer out. So, see Neil, you keep track of, you add that 500 and when you reach knighthood, let us know. It's the honor system, we trust you. Thank you very much, Sir Harrison, Commodore Harrison, we appreciate you. Now we have Sir Salahouser in Melbourne, Florida, 666.66. Mm-mm. And he sent in a tax. So it's going to be 666.66

Starting point is 02:08:29 because it comes from Wells Fargo Bank letterhead. No. No, it doesn't. It does. ITM. This is not a satanic donation. He writes. But the handwriting is, I can tell you that right now. This is 22333.33 quarterly donations in one. Thank you for all you do.

Starting point is 02:08:57 Sales, Karma, please. So he's a Wells Fargo advisor. OK. He's getting everybody some more accounts. He's a stock guy. Oh, he's a stock guy. I thought it was one of those guys. Wells Fargo advisors tends to be stock market. I thought they signed you up for more accounts than you need.

Starting point is 02:09:17 Isn't that what they... Let's hope those days are over. Commodore Emeritus Serg Salahuser, Baronet of the Space Coast. Alright, down there by Cape Canaveral. You've got karma. We move on to Dan Nickesher in Douglasville, Pennsylvania. ITM guys, I was hit in the mouth by Kelly and Michael Day from Fukay Verena. I think I said that right.

Starting point is 02:09:42 Fukay Verena, North Carolina, back in July. I have not missed an episode since. Outstanding! Here's my first donation. Please de-douche me. De-douche me, de-douche me, de-douche me. You've been de-douched. And he says he would appreciate some R2-D2 karma.

Starting point is 02:09:57 You got it. You've got karma. Eric Carey in Felton, Pennsylvania. 34375. Four more years. Thank you for the service you provide. This podcast is an absolute treasure. No agenda has become something my whole family enjoys.

Starting point is 02:10:20 Please say hello to my smoking hot wife, Ashley, and my two human resources nugget and munchkin okay hello nugget hello munchkin hello munchkin we get a rub-a-lizer no there's your random number theory at work that's right you're gonna need a Bitcoin shut up slave and a screaming goat. I look forward to the kids' giggles as they listen to your samples, sound effects and antics. Antics? That's our comedic stylings. That's not antics. Thanks again for all you do. Thank you, Eric J. Carey.

Starting point is 02:11:01 They're saying that all hell is gonna break break loose and you're going to need a Bitcoin. India, Tango, Mike, standby, 33, 33, 33, verbalizer out. Shut up, slave. You've got karma. Alright. We have Joe Clements in Tallahassee, Florida. 333.33, long-time listener, first-time donor. The nature of my business is that I'm on the inside or having drinks with people on the inside of many of the topics you cover on the show.

Starting point is 02:11:41 Most of the media coverage I listen to is subject to the Gell-Mann effect where I realize the host reporter, analyst, or talent has no idea what's actually going on with topics I know deeply. No agenda, however, is a different sort of content. You guys have an uncanny ability to analyze how people think and act in the real world and I'm surprised about how correct your analysis is on the issues I know best. This gives me confidence that when you talk about things I know nothing about your analysis is solid. Ah, we fooled him. Thank you for the twice weekly dose of hardcore realism.

Starting point is 02:12:19 What do you think he is? Spook? He could be an industrial guy. Industrial guy? Yeah, possible. Well, anyway, thank you, Joe. I mean, Tallahassee, I mean, it's not Spook City, that's for sure. No, no, I don't know what's going on down there. Well, thank you very much, Joe. We appreciate it. Welcome to the party, pal. Seth Murdock, Dayton, Washington. I don't even know where that is. 301. This donation is actually an excuse to correct Dvorak's awful tip of the day from months ago

Starting point is 02:12:54 when he recommended the Papermate InkJoy pen. The Zebra F301 is the only choice for the serious handscribe. Simplicity, elegance and function. And none of that rubbery crap on the grip. The science is in. Don't debate me on this. Thanks for the show, Seth. Okay.

Starting point is 02:13:21 I will get a set of Zebra F-301s and give them the once-over and find out. Now, the Papermate Ink Joy that I use... It says Zebra. We say Zebra. Okay. It says Zebra. Zebra. Zebra. I'm going to order one.

Starting point is 02:13:38 Get that set of these pens and see if they're any good. It has a durable stainless steel barrel. Wow! I don't need all that. You know the barrel and all the rest of it doesn't matter. I was turned on to the inkjoy by a bank teller. Mm-hmm. And it was... Sorry, I was playing. Let me play the commercial. Let me play the commercial. Oh, there's no voiceover. It's just the pen flipping around. Okay. Sorry.

Starting point is 02:14:06 Yes. You're turning on the bank teller. She said, she said it was, she hated these pens that the bank had and these are normal ballpoint pens and she said, she said, I had to use something that I didn't feel any, like there was no effort. It was effortless to use these pens. Yes. I said, what pen is this? And so I grabbed a pen from her and I said, oh yeah, this is great.

Starting point is 02:14:30 And so that was that. You grabbed it right out of her hands? So she offered it to me. Oh, okay. Check this out, she said. What's that in your mouth was the next line I guess. Thank you Seth. Joseph Stegman is in Thousand Oaks, California, sends us a short row of ducks, 222.22.

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Starting point is 02:20:46 Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. How about a few TikTok clips to round things up? Ah, why not? I mean, it's, everything's been kinda, I mean, can TikTok even compete with the funny we've been seeing lately? No, that's why they only have three. Oh, only three? Well, okay. Let's go. Okay, well first let's start with this is a gay guy. But this I'm starting to see a lot of these clips where the Democrats, in fact, let me

Starting point is 02:21:16 preface this one with the, let's start with this one instead. Then we'll go to the gay guy. I'm hearing a lot of these clips. These are Democrats complaining about Democrats complaining about Trump. And this is, this is a typical one. This is talk damn complainer. So we're still mad about the grocery prices that didn't come down, even though Trump has only been in office for a couple of weeks. And now we're mad that Elon Musk has access to the treasury payments. But what I want to know is why aren't we mad about the fact that we've been auto paying anybody that asks for money, even if it's a terrorist group?

Starting point is 02:21:47 You guys are constantly saying that we're the uneducated side, but why aren't you guys questioning the fact that the highest ranking treasury official would rather resign than agree to an audit? We're so uneducated, but why aren't you guys putting two and two together about why they want to sue for Elon having access to the treasury payments while his team, Doge, is exposing all the bullshit that our money is being spent on? You guys are still pushing grocery prices in our face, but why aren't you guys upset payments while his team Doge is exposing all the bullshit that our money is being spent on. You guys are still pushing grocery prices in our face, but why aren't you guys upset

Starting point is 02:22:07 over the $4 million that we spend yearly to prove whether duck quacks echo or not? Or why aren't you guys upset over the fact that we spend $5 million a year on sandwich standards? I live in New York, do you really think that I want my money going towards a fucking pigeon sculpture while they're shitting on everything? And that's not even scratching the surface of where our money is going. Apparently there's 1200 of these type of programs. You mean to tell me that our government

Starting point is 02:22:28 has been spending money on things that have long expired, one example being from 1998 and you guys are not mad about that? You guys are still bitching about grocery prices and you're bitching about the fact that Elon Musk is about to stop our money from being spent on bullshit. Bullshit programs that we can now argue is money laundering. You guys can bitch that I'm spreading conspiracy all you want to, but there's no fucking way

Starting point is 02:22:48 that I'm going to be okay with the fact that there's a cloud watching program that my money goes towards. Oh, language. Oh, I have to say the language is out of control. That's an interesting trend you're identifying. And this is showing up in your algorithm, this is in your feed, it just pops up or people sending these to you? I have, I dig these up myself.

Starting point is 02:23:10 I'm not dependent. Are you searching for them? No, they come up in the feed in various ways. That's an interesting trend. Maybe the Chinese are like, no, let's, let's. No, this is more complicated than that, but let's go to the next one. But by the way, before we go to the next one, which is the gay guy, you know, Rand Paul used to every year come before Congress and read a laundry

Starting point is 02:23:39 list of all these stupid programs and all is all the same kind of thing that Trump, you know, rolled out as not Trump, but Musk rolled out as scams and a joke. And Rand Paul's got no credit for this. Rand Paul used to do this all the time. And his dad before that. Yeah, they could constantly. And that would, but meanwhile, now all of a sudden everyone's paying attention.

Starting point is 02:24:06 I just find it weird. In fact, I might call Paul's office and find out what's going on. What do they think? Yeah. Record the call. I'm not going to record the call. So now here's the, this starts off as some woman complaining about something. And the gay guy interrupts is one of those you know combo clips where somebody's bitching about somebody else and the gay guy interrupts and he is another example of it what would normally be a Democrat

Starting point is 02:24:37 bitching about Democrats in a very solid way this is pretty good clip Trump supporters you do not get to be pissed about what is happening right now without also admit. Oh my God, that's sun. I'm convinced these people are literally delusional and they are on heavy drugs. I don't know a single Trump supporter that has complained about anything. This is exactly what we voted for. 100% exactly what we voted for, 100% exactly what we voted for.

Starting point is 02:25:07 And guess what, honey, as a gay man, I'm glad that we no longer have to worry about pronouns anymore, because I didn't know what the fuck that meant. As a gay man, I'm happy that you can only be hired based on merit. As a child of an immigrant whose parents came here legally, I'm happy that people now are being sent back that came here illegally. So none of us are complaining about anything, baby. You're sitting there wondering why we aren't. We're good over here. Trump has unleashed the gays. A lot of black guys too. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Starting point is 02:25:48 Yeah, you know, because Americans ultimately are not stupid. We may be slow, but we're not stupid. Well, some are, and my last clip will be... Here's an example of one. So we'll go back to the haters because they're still, they're still hanging in there. Not as many as there were, but this is a way you have to visualize this woman. She is, I don't know. She's addicted to red makeup.

Starting point is 02:26:14 I mean, everything. She's got the red lips. She's got the red eyeliner. She's got red eyeshadow and red bruise. I mean, she's just red. It's like, you know, if she put any more red red on she put a couple of horns would do the trick but here's the classic in the old sense. This is a throwback. This is a golden oldie. It's not an oldie. It's new but it's an old style. Every red voter allows

Starting point is 02:26:42 themselves to be ignorant enough to stay guilt free about what they voted for. They don't want to look at the news. They don't want to pay attention to what's going on. They don't want to make statements or comments. They don't want to denounce anything either. It's funny. Everyone's so quiet. I used to think there was a difference between Republicans, Trump supporters, and Nazis.

Starting point is 02:27:13 It's not really looking that way anymore. When your party is being overrun and affiliating with Elon and no one. You're not saying anything. You're not hopping online saying, hey, wait a minute. This isn't what I voted for. This isn't what I wanted. You're all so quiet. It says a lot.

Starting point is 02:27:36 Hi. You know, I think that you need to stay on the trend of the unleashed gay guys and Dem complaining about Trump. I think that's better. That should be the new beat. That may be hard to get. These things happen. I'm just a vessel. A conduit, as it were.

Starting point is 02:28:03 Yes, I understand. It's divine. Yes, I understand. It's divine. Yes, I understand. Here is a potential customer for the fabulous book, Too Many Eggs, available at toomanyeggs.com. ... egg prices might be prompting extreme illegal activity. Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after 100,000 organic eggs were stolen over the weekend. Police say it happened Saturday night in Greencastle, Pennsylvania.

Starting point is 02:28:30 It's about 65 miles southwest of Harrisburg, where a distribution trailer was parked outside of a poultry company. Investigators say the stolen egg shipment is worth upwards of $40,000. That's a lot of eggs. $40,000. That's a lot of eggs. $40,000. I think $50,000. The eggs are going for a buck around here. They're stealing the eggs.

Starting point is 02:28:52 They're stealing the eggs. They're stealing the eggs. So I had one of our producers about a month ago say, there's no eggs anymore. He went on and on. I said, I have eggs all over the place, I said. And they were at Costco. But I've noticed he's, I guess maybe we're,

Starting point is 02:29:07 we're the last on the block here or the end of the line in California, but Costco, no eggs. No. Uh, the eggs that I have seen are a dollar a pop. Wow. A dollar an egg? Yeah, pretty much. Well, this is the stupid bird flu that, you know. That's exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right. They called all these chickens and they jacked the price of eggs

Starting point is 02:29:31 way up for no good reason. Well, we. Luckily, and unfortunately, because we had inclement weather. So the eggs stopped laying up at Jay's place. Oh, good god. They don't like it. They're like, nope, we're on strike. We're on strike.

Starting point is 02:29:44 Chickens stopped laying. I said what? Yeah, and so I'm not getting the free eggs. Yeah, but I hope that cranks back up next week. And you have to be careful because you know the chickens will start brooding and then if one broods they'll all brood. You have to like separate the brooder. Chickens is more complicated than people. You don't just throw some chickens in the backyard like, I got eggs. No, there's a lot of work. That's what I keep telling Tina who's like, I want chickens.

Starting point is 02:30:11 No, you don't. Oh, I see what you're doing. You're doing your research to prevent Tina from getting chickens. Yes, I do not want. That's the last thing I need because you know when some weasel gets in and there's slaughtered chicken all over the... Wipes out the chickens. Yeah, I'm going to have to go clean it up.

Starting point is 02:30:26 Nah, I'm not looking. Yeah, you're right, but I think you should still have chickens. I don't think so. We have friends who have chickens, which is like having a friend with a bone. Oh, if you have friends who have chickens, you don't need chickens and you can just get all the free edge you want. That's what I'm saying. Oh yeah, definitely.

Starting point is 02:30:41 I have some... I agree with you now. I have some big pharma news It is baffling now. Remember the surgeon general came out and said well, you know You're drinking too much booze. The booze gonna give you cancer, but I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you But it's like they're baffled now because it's not Coming from the boo. They don't know how where is the colon cancer coming from? It was two years ago when out of the blue this 39 year old was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Starting point is 02:31:09 It was a surprise. It doesn't run in my family. I was in good health. Today, Emily Tyrillon is in remission. But like her, more and more young people are being diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer, including colon, pancreatic and liver cancer. Gastrointestinal cancer rates have been on the rise in patients under 50 and the causes remain unclear. In the past the increase was attributed to obesity, tobacco and alcohol intake. However new tests are being conducted to find out what could be behind the recent rise. Experiments are underway using hair, fat and blood samples collected from 300 colon cancer patients. We're looking for toxins in foods, everything that may have contaminated it, like packaging.

Starting point is 02:31:55 We also check for traces of antibiotics. Gastrointestinal cancers account for a quarter of all new cancer cases and a third of cancer deaths worldwide. What could have changed? What happened? What changed over the last, say, four or five years that would account for this? Something happened, but we can't... By the way, I love the microplastics now.

Starting point is 02:32:18 It's like you have the equivalent... Oh, that must be it. You have the equivalent of six plastic spoons in your brain. I have more microplastics in me than I weigh. I love the, oh, it's microplastics. That's what's killing you. Really? Really? The Sovereign Wealth Fund, don't worry, they're going to have two billion of these microplastic causes. What else could it be? I have no idea. I have no idea what it could be.

Starting point is 02:32:45 Interesting. Well, that's what, hopefully, we'll find out if Kennedy gets in, but they put his voting off for a week. Oh, in abeyance? Yeah, they put it in abeyance, but here's something I was reading in one of the newsletters I get. It's 30-hour stalling. Who's the guy they've been stalling on the most to push through as a cabinet member? Can you tell me, I'm going to tell you who it is, but tell me if the news media has even discussed this guy.

Starting point is 02:33:19 Who they've stalled the most? Yeah. I don't know who. Who have they stalled the most? Yeah. I don't know who they stalled the most. Russell Vought. Well, no wonder. As director of office management and budget OMB. Oh yeah, they don't want they don't want anyone going in there and looking at looking at payroll. So the Democrats have stayed in session to protest the confirmation of Russell Vought. This is from Natalie Delconte, Natalie Morris's newsletter. Oh brother. She's got a good newsletter. I don't like the show,

Starting point is 02:33:51 but the newsletter is good. And became the, he was associated with project 2025. So they hate him. He wrote the parts of the plan that had to do with shrinking the federal government workforce, non-government organizations and taking control of the budget. There may be something interesting in that organization that they don't want to come to light. You know what this is, John? It's season of reveal. That's what I've been saying.

Starting point is 02:34:15 Season of reveal. Glad you're on board with me. President Trump also signed an executive order with great trepidation. He says he really didn't want to sign it, but I got to sign this thing for Iran. I hope we don't have to use it. I really don't like signing this, but I'm going to sign it because I have to, but I don't really want to. I'm really sad.

Starting point is 02:34:37 And Peter Doocy asks the pre-setup question, I presume. Why is Iran happy to sign it if it's Iran and their proxies who have threatened to retaliate pre-set up question I presume. for them to do. It would be terrible for them to kill you. Because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end. I've left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated. There won't be anything left. And they shouldn't be able to do it. And Biden should have said that, but he never did. I've left instructions if they kill me, then document, but hopefully we're not going to have to use it. Now, can a president leave a dead man switch? I mean, is that possible that, you know, I've left instructions. If they kill me, then you drop the nuke on Iran. Is that even possible? No, I didn't think so.

Starting point is 02:35:58 But I thought it was interesting. Is that another blurt? No, I just was thought out. We have some interesting news from California. I don't know if you have kept up with this. This is another thing that we've kept up with over the years on the No Agenda show. New information on California's high-speed rail project as President Donald Trump calls for an investigation.

Starting point is 02:36:30 The original plan for high-speed rail was set to take riders from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Future plans include connecting Sacramento to the system. The original cost estimate was $45 billion when it was pitched to voters back in 2008. The cost estimate has now swelled to $128 billion at last check with no estimated completion date. The project's inspector general told us today that ongoing risks of delay, including construction delays because of continued disagreement with third parties.

Starting point is 02:37:03 All aboard, trains good, planes bad. Woohoo! We just keep to get using these jingles. It's fantastic. That's been going on for what? 10, 12, 14 years now? It's been forever it seems. I got displaced from my home in San Francisco for it. Remember that? That's right. Well you got, yeah, because they were going to build the, that's right. Might still be in San Francisco.

Starting point is 02:37:29 I don't think so, but yeah. Well, maybe. No, I don't think so. Maybe, maybe not. Um. Yes, you were displaced because they were building the, they build a new Transbay terminal. Eminent domain. I was kicked out. And they're going to build a new Transbay terminal and in that terminal we're going to be the high-speed rail trains underneath the thing. And of course they built a new Transbay

Starting point is 02:37:52 terminal. They never put the rail into the bottom of it. Nope. And this is just a fiasco, another boondoggle. Yes. And yeah and they took out a bunch of nice bar around where you were and that your building was pretty cool and yeah. Natoma Street doesn't even exist anymore. Staying in California, Newsom's Inferno, looks like State Farm is on the move. Farm Insurance is asking California lawmakers to approve an emergency rate hike. The company says it has already received around 8,700 claims connected to the LA wildfires and the company has paid out more than a billion dollars.

Starting point is 02:38:29 They're asking for a 22 percent rate hike for homeowner policies, a 38 percent hike for rentals and 15 percent increase for tenants. The rate hikes, if approved, would start on May 1st. State Farm says the hikes would allow them to rebuild their capital base to continue coverage in California. Consumer Watchdog has been critical of the request, saying State Farm has not provided enough proof to show it needs money. The insurance company most recently raised rates by 20% last March.

Starting point is 02:39:01 State Farm is California's largest home insurer covering about a million homeowners in the state Now will you be affected by this? I Think we've already been affected by it. Oh you have State Farm. Yeah, and They were cancelling a lot of policies. They never canceled ours Mimi has found out why you're on a hill You're on a hill Hill but no it's because we took He had found out why. You're on a hill. You're on a hill. You got nothing to worry about. Well, beside the hill, but no, it's because we took,

Starting point is 02:39:28 I guess there was some sort of a writer or something that if you had subscribed to it, which was recommended, then you were put in a different category and you weren't messed with. Pays to have a good woman in your life. Yeah, women always do the job. Yeah. And so somehow...

Starting point is 02:39:48 Women always do the job. They do. And so somehow, I don't know. Yeah, you lucked out. Well, the whole thing is a mess. Well, there was on KBUR, is that an NPR station, I think? KBUR? Is that Burbank?

Starting point is 02:40:03 Not around here. No, I think it's Burbank. Oh, Burbank. It could be. Yeah. They were talking to some guy, I don't know, it was a climate change guy probably about rebuilding and how are we going to rebuild? State Farm says it will renew policies for people hit by the fires. The governor says insurance State Farm says it will renew policies for people hit by the fires. The governor says insurance insurance companies cannot cancel plans for these affected homeowners.

Starting point is 02:40:39 You understand risk. You also understand why people are sentimental. Is this a good idea to rebuild in exactly the same places? Well, people do have the right to rebuild in exactly the same places. The question is, how are they going to rebuild? There's a new building code in California that's supposed to go into effect next year, for example, that requires electrification. I think we should take advantage of this terrible, terrible tragedy, and not to minimize in any way how horrific it is is to build back better. For a better life beyond your freedom, build back better. Woo, California! For someone else.

Starting point is 02:41:12 Yeah, build back better. People are getting ripped off by the electrical bills in this state. Yeah. Gas is a lot cheaper, so let's get rid of it. What a mess. What a mess. What a mess. I'm sorry you live out there. I'm sorry. It's just tough. It's a tough go. Feel sorry for me, people.

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Starting point is 02:42:04 Harmonica, exactly. exactly oh there it is so there's still been a lot of before the whole doge thing everybody was out there complaining about Tulsi Gabbard and everyone gets on the air and Panetta Panetta Lou Panetta what's his name Lou Panetta the guy the best baseball guy no Panetta the the former CIA director what was a what's his what was his name? Lou Panetta? The guy, the baseball guy? No, Panetta, the former CIA director. What was his first name, Panetta? Yeah, Panetta. What was his first name?

Starting point is 02:42:32 I thought it was Lou. It's kind of funny. Leon, Leon Panetta. There we go. Leon! Leon Panetta. So this guy is so toasted. This is a very short clip. This is what he said about Tulsi.

Starting point is 02:42:47 Oh, you know, they took his, Leon Panetta, I think he had his security removed. Yes. Oh yeah, his clearance has been removed. His clearance. I think he lost his clearance, lost his obsidian service protection. And so yeah, I'd be probably drinking a lot too if I was him. But he's, and he's following this very, very closely because she just cannot be the director of national intelligence. No way. Of intelligence information.

Starting point is 02:43:14 And there are three problems with Chelsea Gabbard. One is that she has absolutely no experience in intelligence. He thinks her name is Chelsea Gabbard. Play that again. Of intelligence information and there are three problems with Chelsea Gabbard. Yeah, so he's the guy who's gonna give us expert advice and he can't even get her name correctly. I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab.

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Starting point is 02:49:11 Leo a bugle or bugle in Sarasota, Florida 6502 jobs karma given that at the end will do that David Cox in Austin, Texas 6325 the Nick Lynch in Izanate, Minnesota 6006. And he wants to thank Dreb Scott. Except for the chapters so he can skip the AI segments. You're gonna die. All right, fine. Lucas Haskell in Sacco, Maine. 6006. I won't say what he said. Daniel Bradley in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Starting point is 02:49:51 60 Anonymous Girl, Boston. 60. Brian Ferley. 5510 Sir Tom Dary in DeForest, Wisconsin. He came in with 5510. And then we go to Lukarechewick. Luka, Luka. Luka, Rechewick in Slavonsky, Croatia.

Starting point is 02:50:14 Croatia. Hey, Croatia. I used to write for a magazine. Hello, Croatia. Hello, Croatia. 5377. Great place, by the way. People want to visit a great country, Croatia is it?

Starting point is 02:50:26 Yes. Still has enough remnants of the communist era to make it interesting. They have a beautiful coastline I believe. Yes, and Dubrovnik if you want to go there, that's an experience I'll never forget. They have the, what is it, the sound pipes there and so when the water, the tide comes in it plays this eerie sound. Well I didn't get there. Yeah, Christina went there. And so when the water, the tide comes in, it plays this eerie sound. Well, I didn't get there.

Starting point is 02:50:48 Christina went there. She said, yeah, yeah. Whistles and yeah. Croatia is the bomb, man. It's the bomb. Christina says, do not eat the cheese sandwiches from the gas station. That's a worldwide rule. She did not have a good experience with that. Heather Harper. Christina, by the way, is on a reality show right now.

Starting point is 02:51:13 Did you know that? No, she's been on one before. She's like a reality person. This is Chicks in the Jungle. Oh, she got selected for that? Oh yeah yeah she's in it and it's in Colombia and it's hilarious she had to eat ants and oh I know she's making me sick. She's doing quite well she's doing well in the in the elimination she's still there she's still in the game I'll give an update next week. Michigan 5271 these are all $50 donors. I believe sir recalcitant crazy Steve our buddy in Santa Rosa, California 5150 He puts on the meetups James share a meta in Napa knock, New York 50. Oh, these are all 50s coming up now including them the $50

Starting point is 02:52:17 We got in from the Albany Albany Albany Albany meetup Including Rebecca ha ha how how in Memphis she wasn't at the meetup, but she gave us 50 Chris Conacher in Anchorage, Alaska Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas Meredith Whittle in Huntsville, Arkansas the Daniel Calibro in Bethel, Vermont, David Adrian in Cary, North Carolina, Walker Phillips in San Rafael, he was at the meetup, Aichi Kitagawa in San Francisco, I did not see him there, but Sir Richie Rich from North Carolina was at the meetup, the one with the great hair, top of yours. He sent me an email, he said John is exaggerating about the conversation about the hair.

Starting point is 02:53:07 No. Yes, yes he did, he sent me an email. No, he sent you the note, but I don't exaggerate. He came in with 52. No, I don't know, maybe I embarrassed him. Alex Savala is Sir Alex Savala, host of Nick U Dads, thank you, and an Austin Meetup attendee. Thank you all very much. Thank you everybody. Requested was jobs and Archie Jutu Karma, so we'll combine those two. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

Starting point is 02:53:43 And once again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1736. NoAgendaDonations.com is where you can go to support us with your treasure. That's NoAgendaDonations.com. Please help us out. Help John out. Help John out because his insurance rates are going up. NoAgendaDonations.com. It's your birthday, birthday.

Starting point is 02:54:02 Oh, no agenda. Happy birthday to Alexander O'Neill who turned 45. Happy birthday to Alexander O'Neill who turned 45. Happy birthday to Alexander O'Neill who turned 45. Happy birthday to Alexander O'Neill who turned 45. Happy birthday to Alexander O'Neill who turned 45. Happy birthday to Alexander O'Neill who turned 45. Noagenthadoonations.com It's your birthday, birthday On Noah's channel Happy birthday to Alexander O'Neill who turned 33 on February 3rd Jeff M, which is his smoking hot wife a very happy birthday she celebrated on the 4th

Starting point is 02:54:16 Jeff M himself had his birthday on the 6th Bailey Davies Happy birthday to husband Dan Peruzzo turning 55 years old today Patrick Stasiak turns 50 tomorrow Happy birthday to husband Dan Peruzzo turning 55 years old today Patrick Stasiak turns 50 tomorrow. Happy birthday. You'll finally see Abraham Bobby Bo Happy birthday to Jeff Voss on the 7th tomorrow and Russell Rhodes wishes his son Vikram Rhodes a very happy birthday He turns 15 on the 8th. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe Now before we bring up our nights to be, we have a note.

Starting point is 02:54:47 It's a layaway night. Joe Gwaltney here. He says, I finally donated enough to claim my knighthood in keeping with John's incessant need to pronounce every town incorrectly. It reminds me of a time when as a young boy living in Elbron, Virginia, pronounced Elbron, whoops, Elbron, Virginia, pronounced Elbrin to the locals, my grandmother took me to a local church to show me the most horrible misspelling of the town.

Starting point is 02:55:10 The cornerstone of the church showed the town name as Elbow, Virginia, and as such, I would like to be knighted Sir Deuterino of the Elbow. I know you guys aren't into the whole brevity thing. So thank you very much for my sanity and thank you to sir perf perf perfilis for hitting me in the mouth well that's very nice of him so why don't you grab a blade John we'll bring him up on the Perfluis Perfluis yeah here you go oh that'll do are about to become a night of the no agenda roundtable

Starting point is 02:55:45 Let me get these blades here, and I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as sir Deterino Duturino The elbow and for you we've got hookers and bro rent boys and Chardonnays We got harlots and halvors redheads and rise beers and blunts Ruben s women and rosé Gases and sake vodka vanilla bong hits and bourbon sparkling cider and escorts ginger ale and gerbils the NoagendaRings.com and use the ring sizing guide on the website to send us your size and where you want the ring to be sent to And of course that always comes with a certificate of authenticity and seeing as it is a signet ring, which is kind of cool It's a you know mirror reverse you got some wax to seal your important correspondence Which I just got from from our night there in Bastrop his note was sealed with with his ring and the sealing wax is beautiful And welcome to the roundtable the no agenda nights and days

Starting point is 02:56:47 no agenda meetups that's right if you want connection that gives you protection these people are your first responders in an emergency so you want to go to a no agenda meetup you can find them all at no agenda meetups calm We love getting meetup reports. Here's one from South Dakota Black Hills no agenda meetup at Crow Peak Brewery Come and join us next month. Hope to see you then in the morning in the morning Hi guys, this is Caitlin coming to you from Crow Peak in Spearfish, South Dakota having a great time and hope to see you guys next

Starting point is 02:57:24 Month hi John and Adam in the morning from Spearfish, South Dakota, having a great time and hope to see you guys next month. Hi John and Adam. In the morning from Spearfish. In the morning John and Adam. We're here at the Crowe Peak Brewing Company in Spearfish, South Dakota, having a great time. We had a new person, a new face join us this time and we can't wait to see everybody next month. Stillwater, I'm calling you out bro. We'll see you next month. In the morning! This Meetup Report was produced in Spearfish, South Dakota and is guaranteed to be completely AI free. Yeah, and please don't send me your homemade songs before and after the Meetup Report unless it's completely relevant, which it wasn't so I had to snip it off.

Starting point is 02:58:01 Philly! The Too Many Kegs meet up. Sean here in Center City of Philadelphia with Local 76 at McGillin's Old Ale House where we have Too Many Kegs. I listen to the show at double speed but I play it twice. Hello sirs from Philadelphia. In the morning this is Lin-A-Delphia. In the morning gentlemen, the NFL's rigged. But go birds! Circastic and Nomad in Philly, thank you for your courage.

Starting point is 02:58:27 In the morning, hanging out here with a bunch of flat earthers, having a good time. Hey, it's Gray checking in from my first Philly meetup. Hi mom, we're all just wondering what keeps the satellites afloat? This is Black Knight Sir EZ, and I want to tell John that I have a problem with my night ring. It's getting smaller and smaller. I want a refund. North Georgia, come on in. Come one, come all. John, we had a swell time even though nobody ate any mac and cheese.

Starting point is 02:58:57 Sean here. Don't eat me, Tom Hummin. You're scary, so scary. Hey, N.A. Dr. Sir, Mike Ropp. I love my mullet and I love my beard. Sir E here. Remember, connection is protection. In the morning, it's good to be back with fellow slaves in the city of coming, which is a verb, sick hail.

Starting point is 02:59:18 Noted. This is Cody signing out. No gender rocks, the best barkeep at Cherry Street House. Yeah. In the morning? In the morning! In the morning! All right. Very nice. There's a meetup taking place, started just now

Starting point is 02:59:32 at the North Idaho Sanity Brigade. It's their first of 2025. It trails in brewery and brick oven pizza in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The Northern Wake Publical Slave Gathering kicks off in an hour from now at Saints and Scholars and Raleigh, North Caroline if you're listening live of course on Saturday, no mutton just meet up That'll be noon Denver time Antelope Ridge Meteory in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Starting point is 02:59:55 Let's join Canada 230 in Alaska. That'll be on Saturday at Snowtown Brewery in Snohomish, Washington be on Saturday at Snowtown Brewery in Snohomish, Washington. I don't know why you're using Alaska time. I guess that makes sense. Also on Saturday, the Treasure Valley Meetup at 3 o'clock at Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho. And finally on Saturday, the Club 33 Natalie Pier Meetup at 3.30 Eastern Time, Shigs and a Pig Barbecue and Brew.

Starting point is 03:00:21 That's on Illinois Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Many more meetups to be found at NoAgendaMeetups.com. They take place almost daily now all around Gitmo Nation. You need to be a part of these. So when you go, go with an attitude of gratitude and look them up at NoAgendaMeetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one. It's easy and they're always a party. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. You wanna be where you want be,

Starting point is 03:00:51 trigger the hell flame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. You know, I got the TV now on the wall in the studio and I just looked up and it's like a party. You know, I got the TV now on the wall in the studio and I just looked up and it's like CNN, they're running out of people to put on to complain about Trump. Now they just got ugly people. There's nothing but ugly people on CNN.

Starting point is 03:01:15 Yeah, with ugly shirts, ugly face, ugly hair. It's crazy. They're running out of people. They can't fill enough airtime. Sad. Um, super sad is that I somehow, I'm not sure how, neglected to get any ISOs. Oh, I was thinking you were going to have a bunch of them. I only have the one. Well, it's a winner.

Starting point is 03:01:37 We will not shut up! God, that's no good. Wait a minute. Let me see if... That's really horrible. Wait, I have, um... Well, go back to the one I used a lot... The one I had submitted last time that got bumped by yours.

Starting point is 03:01:52 That was a good one. Wow. Which one was that? Do you remember which one it was? Well, I have the list here somewhere. Well, I remember what I had. I had, uh... Goodness gracious! I had that one. No, no go to no try no way No way

Starting point is 03:02:11 This one here we go there is no way anything can be this good. Yeah, I think we should use that one That's a good one. Yeah, that would work. Thank goodness. All right, everybody It's time for that beautiful moment in the show John C. Dvorak's tip of the day. Green vibes for you and me, just a tip with JCD. And sometimes, Adam. Can I do mine first? Created by Dana Brittany. Yeah, please do yours first.

Starting point is 03:02:36 This was a tip from a producer. For those of you who use Android phones and you like using the voice to text feature which your voice input is quite handy but you don't want Google saving all of your transcripts which I'm pretty sure they do. There's an open source voice to text system that is created by a funny enough a company in Austin and they have their entire website is explains exactly how they're not lame. It is called Futto, F-U-T-O, and you can find them at futto.org.

Starting point is 03:03:16 You can even download it as an APK so you don't have to get it off of the Play Store so you know that and you can look at their GitHub to see the thing, how everything works. And, um, it does pretty well. It's not quite as fast as, um, as you'd expect from, uh, from the Googles, but at least you know, and it's pretty accurate. And at least you know, that, um, it is not saving that to embarrass you later in life. And that is my tip of the day. That's a good one. Thank you. So this

Starting point is 03:03:46 tip is more of an education than a tip. This is, I can't stem from last, the end of last year or post-mortem, where it turned out that I'd known you for 31 years or so. Me? And you didn't know anything about olive oil and you had come back from Italy. I'm still reeling at that we've known each other for 31 years and you're probably right. That's the hard part about it. Yeah, that's right. I didn't, I mean, yes, go ahead. I will take my licking.

Starting point is 03:04:16 Because you had gone to Tuscany and brought back a bunch of olive oil and then I told you a couple of things and you were clueless about it and I have to assume and I talked about doing this tip of the day that people don't know anything about olive oil. That's correct. Or at least they generally don't. And just a few basics. Olive oil only keeps for two years max. This is what I didn't, I was surprised by that. This is the thing that you were surprised by you thought all the olive oil like all oils goes rancid

Starting point is 03:04:49 Which is and the kind of recit rancidity that you achieve from these oils a butter does this Coffee beans do it anything with oil the rancidity is unhealthy and Olive oil is good for two years And so when you buy olive oil you should always check on the back of the bottle it should have a either pick date or use by date and it should be in you know in just a round number. Costco's extra virgin olive oil that they sell Italian in the green bottle not the organic but the regular stuff, usually

Starting point is 03:05:25 has information on the back and you can tell how, you know, because the batches change about once every four months at Costco. And you want the freshest, newest olive oil you can find, hopefully within a year. But after two years, it starts to go bad and it's not something that ages like wine. So you have to be careful with olive oil. The other thing is that people don't know, I just was thinking about it to add to this simple tip, is you have to... Most olive oil by a factor of almost all olive oil in the world, Spain makes most of it and they make more olive oil than anybody by far.

Starting point is 03:06:05 You take everybody else combined, it's about what Spain makes. And most of their olive oil is blended into other olive oils. And you have to be careful because it's always... Italian olive oil is always considered the best. Tuscan olive oil is always considered the best of the best. Just a couple of things. I find Sicilian olive oil would be really good, but my favorite olive oils come from Provence, France, and California, which makes some terrific olive oils, but the production is so low it doesn't even show up on the list of olive oil makers.

Starting point is 03:06:36 South American olive oils are also good. So, the point is that you have to be careful with the Italian stuff, which is the most promoted, because you have to make sure that you read the label and make sure it says produced in Italy with Italian olives, because it'll often say packed in Italy. So it's Italian olive oil and it'll say packed in Italy and it's Spanish olive oil or even worse, Greece. Oh no, that's the worst. No, Greece, Greece and olive oil is always considered greasy.

Starting point is 03:07:11 It is. I don't like it. It has a weird taste. It's greasy. But I will say this. In Spain, there's terrific olive oils around, but very few of them get exported. And they have varietal olive oils and all the rest. And you, the last tip, I don't want to overdo this. You're going crazy. The noagentatips.net can't keep up. The last tip is the idea. What is extra virgin?

Starting point is 03:07:39 Yeah. What is that? What is extra virgin? Extra extra virgin. You can even get. Extra virgin. Extra virgin olive oil is an oil that is, and usually what you want to get is first pressed extra virgin olive oil. And you, and it should, you should first press because you want it to be, to be pressed by, by extraction and by pre by a press. And so I'll just read from the thing. Extra virgin olive oil is,

Starting point is 03:08:11 you mash up the olives and you start to press them to get the oil. You can't use heat or chemicals to extract the oil. It has to be just purely pressed and the first pressing is the good stuff. That's the extra virgin? That's extra virgin first press. First press.

Starting point is 03:08:28 Best price. And so that's what you want is it doesn't cost that much more than the cheaper stuff. But as they try to get more oil out of the olives, they'll go to the point where they will extract it using a hexane, which is what most oils are. Most oils you buy are hexane extracted you know I think that you should give up on the vinegar book and do an oil book

Starting point is 03:08:51 you seem to be on point with and by the way I'm a little nervous and now we have to give this away because what happens is we went to the winery Castello Verrazano the guy who discovered the Hudson Bay and the Verzano Bridge is named after him. And then the cannibals ate him in the Bahamas. It was a bummer. For him. For him it was a bad day, a day wrecker. But the way it works is they give you, and man, I tell you, the Italian winery is like, yeah, you have a wine to taste in. And they give you six full-on pours. You're all hammered. Luckily

Starting point is 03:09:25 we had a driver. You're all hammered. And they're like, we could send it to Texas. I'll order some. I'm not going to order like a whole bunch. We ordered some wine, just like a couple. And then we ordered vinegar and what they're famous for. And then the olive oil. I think we got six bottles. So we got to give it away. We'll never use it in time before it goes rancid. That's not true. I don't know how much oil... I plow through one of those big giant liter and a half bottles of Costco oil about once every four months. You're guzzling the stuff. I don't knowling it. I'm not. I just use it. I don't know. You'll bother us.

Starting point is 03:10:06 You have our all three Fit 75s, you said. I'm going to send you one. I'm going to send you one. I'll send you one. Yes. Send me one. I'll be done in no time. All right.

Starting point is 03:10:16 That, ladies and gentlemen, is John's Tip of the Day. Tipoftheday.net. NoAgendaFun.com. Greetings to you and me, just the tip with JCB And sometimes, Adam. Created by Dana Bernetti disturbed by this very disturbing thing to think about it's like you know like Nussbaum sent me a video of my hair at the Video Music Awards in 1989 I really don't remember much of it yeah well because it was for that 36 years ago no there's no this you think it's a weed related but it wasn't. Coming up end of show mixes from David Kekta. We also have oh Joe Grillo that's right Joe Grillo did a fun little ditty for us and next up on the No Agenda

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No Agenda - 1736 - "The Blurt"

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