No Agenda - 1739 - "Hyophora"

Starting point is 00:00:00 I'll bet you that camel milk yogurt is good. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, February 16, 2025. This is your award-winning Giveaway Nation Media Assassination episode 1739. This is No Agenda. Under the Golden Dome 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.

Starting point is 00:00:24 And from Northern Silicon Valley where it turns out San Francisco is sinking. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Craig Botton Buskill in the morning. Oh really now? You're telling me the mud flats are... The whole city is going down. Where did this come to light? It's all over the news.

Starting point is 00:00:46 Look up. Just go Google. San Francisco is sinking and you'll find all these stories all of a sudden. Well, now if you look out the window, do you see any evidence of this? Yeah. Whoa. Holy moly. Look at that thing sink. It was not like a ship going down. Point four inches a year. Parts of San Francisco, oh not just San Francisco, and Los Angeles are sinking into the sea. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:13 Yeah. That's what people have been wanting forever. Oh, here it is. Okay. So meaning, there's a second part to the story, meaning sea level rise will be even worse. By the way, this story is, this is the way the story's been going. If something's sinking, it doesn't mean something else is going up. All the stories say, in fact, this was even in Epoch Times.

Starting point is 00:01:39 San Francisco is sinking. So the sea level is going to rise somehow. Due to climate change. There you go. A study led by NASA and NOAA has found that California is sinking in some areas. It's only some areas. Yeah, San Francisco is one of them. I love to have the AI generated art, you know, with the Golden Gate Bridge slowly sinking.

Starting point is 00:02:02 With the Golden Gate Bridge slowly sinking. But I mean seriously, what is it? Oh, it's 0.4 inches per year in sinking. Are you in a sinking hotspot? I'm on a solid rock on the East Bay. It's not even close to sinking. Okay, well, I mean. That's why I can look and see the mudflats. They haven't changed either.

Starting point is 00:02:24 I'm just, I'm gonna, I've that's why I can look and see the mudflats they haven't changed either. I'm just I'm gonna I've stopped saying you should leave Yeah, you're gonna be a solid zone here You're gonna be with the Massachusetts I'd leave you can be doing the show with a snorkel If you lived in Massachusetts, I've been to Massachusetts you don't want to live there. That's what I said No offense, but dude a lot of rainbow flags in Massachusetts. It's out of control. It is a bit out of control.

Starting point is 00:02:52 So I just wanted to give everybody a little overview of the mainstream media from the past week. It's 30 seconds. New warnings of a constitutional crisis just weeks into Trump's second term The stage is set for a constitutional crisis Could this signal the start of a constitutional crisis legal experts say our country could be headed toward a constitutional crisis They're calling this a constitutional crisis. This is a constitutional crisis I am unapologetic in suggesting we are in a constitutional crisis right now. Are we already in a constitutional crisis? I am unapologetic in suggesting we are in a constitutional crisis right now.

Starting point is 00:03:25 Are we already in a constitutional crisis? Those two words, right? Constitutional crisis. So when people hear us say about four more years and we just say we're basically in our final four years, I want you to understand this is the reason. This was today, 2025. This is 2020. Warnings of an impending constitutional crisis ripped through the nation's capital.

Starting point is 00:03:49 There are experts who are saying this is a constitutional crisis. We are at a dangerous time in our history, a constitutional crisis that probably is the most severe moment since the Civil War. This is 2019. We're now like one subway stop from a real constitutional crisis. We are in effect a constitutional crisis. Constitutional crisis, we're hearing it over and over again. Nancy Pelosi's already said that Donald Trump is unfit for office. She said that he belongs in prison.

Starting point is 00:04:18 She says that we're in a constitutional crisis. If that's not enough to begin an impeachment inquiry, then what on earth is? Here's 2018. A constitutional crisis, possibly. The constitutional crisis alarm bells are ringing. But is anybody listening? And 2017. Might be on the path to a constitutional crisis.

Starting point is 00:04:35 We will ask two experts about whether or not this is a constitutional crisis. We've never faced quite the constitutional crisis that we do right now. They are fomenting a constitutional crisis. Are we staring down the barrel of a constitutional crisis? This is an existential constitutional crisis. People get a new script. We're bored already. These people.

Starting point is 00:05:01 This is it. It's like, oh, okay. They can't seem to come up with any new, I mean, if they would just get the, do a real job instead of just coming up with this. And this is the whole mainstream media. The whole thing is corrupted. Well, not just me. It's hopeless. Not just mainstream media, but it's leaking through to podcasts. Yes. It does. Well, everything. Yes. Because some podcasts are nothing more than a,

Starting point is 00:05:23 they want to be extension of the mainstream media. I present you John Stewart in conversation with Jen Pasaki. But the overwhelming majority has been we are sleepwalking into a constitutional crisis. Again, taking the bait. By the way, I realize why John Stewart's podcast sucks so bad. And this is actually a funny bit without him actually knowing it. Jon Stewart is great at delivering scripted lines.

Starting point is 00:05:51 I mean, he does them so smooth. He's just perfect at it. Yeah, he's a pro. He's an incredible pro. But when he just has to ad lib, he can't do it. It doesn't come out right. It's all wrong. And listen to this.

Starting point is 00:06:07 The larger thing and not defending the efficiency or value of the programs. I would take it just one step farther. And I worked at the State Department. I think USAID is a tremendous institution. I don't think it should be a front and center top messaging argument. It's better. I don't think it should be a front and center top messaging argument. Should people in Congress defend and use every lever of their power to prevent the Trump administration from gutting it?

Starting point is 00:06:31 Yes, because they play a pivotal role around the world, cracking down on corruption, defending a free press, a million things. But I guess when it comes to how the Democrats are communicating with the public, the things that the Trump administration are doing that they should be talking about more, in my view, are getting access to people's personnel information, their social security data, anybody who's applied for a government job, that's millions of people. Halting programs, which a judge this week said they haven't actually put back in place, all of the funding judge this week said they haven't actually put back in place all of the funding halts halting of the funding that they said they had. You know, government's not popular, as you all know.

Starting point is 00:07:10 Congress is not popular. Well, why would that be? Right? I don't know. Institutions are not popular. True. So if you're trying to reach people who are like government, Washington, then talk about how this program that's being cut off is helping your kids have early childhood

Starting point is 00:07:26 education. It's helping you get Medicaid access. It's helping you farmers have subsidies. Wait for it. That seems obvious, Jen. Yes, it is. So why are they not doing it? I wish I knew the answer to that question. That is the most painful sigh I have ever heard. Self-realization all of a sudden. Because it's no good. Why

Starting point is 00:07:50 is it so hard for them to just say, it's probably not no good? They can't. They can't. And by the way, I wanted just not to change the subject, but my cleantech, cleantech, clean feed, you're right, the fonts have all changed now. now. Last on the list, I guess. It's kind of an odd font. It's a little more bold, don't you think? It's a Helvetica style font. It's a European style. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:19 They're from the UK. I'd say the big news, the big news, the big, big, big, big, big news is everything's happening in Munich. It's all in Munich. Oh yes, I have a whole series of Munich clips. Are they from NTD? I think they're, no they're from PBS. Oh well good, because the NTD stuff is just, it's a little harsh sometimes. But yeah, I got the four clips and then some anal clips. Everyone has to understand that John titles his clips and he puts in their Munich overview and then overview anal, which I think stands for analysis.

Starting point is 00:09:04 Analysis. Yeah. What else would it mean? Well, you can just put in analysis It's kind of jarring. I'm always long. I gotta You know because I've got a way that when I print it out I have the time over one side It's just the way your your mind works. Everyone everyone knows everyone agrees. It's okay I'd like an overview because there's so much going on. What is happening? Are we going to war? Is NATO involved? I mean, what's happening? I think this is a pretty good overview.

Starting point is 00:09:33 Today in Munich, Vice President JD Vance met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and with German political leaders, including the head of the far-right AFD party. Oh, they forgot to say extreme right. Oh, boy. That latter meeting came after Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference. It's usually focused on Western adversaries. Vance instead critiqued America's European allies. Nick Schifrin is in Munich again for us tonight.

Starting point is 00:09:59 In front of a mostly European audience anxious for reassurance, today, Vice President Vance delivered a scolding. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values. World leaders were hoping for clarity on the administration's plans for Ukraine. Instead, Vance expressed implicit support for right-wing parties, including Germany's AFD, whose leader he met this afternoon, and who's been endorsed by Elon Musk. That's kind of disingenuous. What he really said was, people don't like your immigration. It wasn't just sitting there endorsing.

Starting point is 00:10:37 He also complained about free speech. Yes, but here the BBS is saying he endorsed far right parties. If American... It's not just... Let me just roll it back. No, I'm just saying that, yeah, this is slanted. Of course it's slanted. Of course.

Starting point is 00:10:52 Of course. Of course. Including Germany's AFD. Let me just go back here. Instead, Vance expressed implicit support for right-wing parties, including Germany's AFD, whose leader he met this afternoon, and who's been endorsed by Elon Musk. If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.

Starting point is 00:11:14 It's too bad he flubbed that line because it was a good one. Yeah, he knew it was good. This happens to me, it happens to you. Yes, oh, all the time. You know it's a good line, you know if you deliver it properly, you're going to get it, it's going to come home and then you blow it. And you see this all the time. So he knew it was a good line. Yeah, and it fell so flat because...

Starting point is 00:11:35 He choked. Greta Greta... Oh, no. If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's holding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. By the way, just on Greta Thunberg's holding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. By the way, just on Greta Thunberg, it's interesting how everyone's complaining about the teenage Doge team, but yet hundreds of billions of climate change dollars were all based on the 15-year-old Greta Thunberg. Right, who uneducated, who didn't even go to school because she was protesting all the time.

Starting point is 00:12:08 Just saying. What no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Yeah, no, that's right. relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Yeah, no, that's right. That is, that is a very implicit endorsement of the far right.

Starting point is 00:12:30 They're missing it because Europe is now saying extreme right. It's they've changed that narrative. Extremely. They're freaked. Of course they're freaked. Rightly so. Onward next. Vance portrayed Europe as silencing critical and conservative voices, weeks. Rightly so.

Starting point is 00:12:45 Vance portrayed Europe as silencing critical and conservative voices, including by recently throwing out Romanian elections over Russian misinformation. But in a new Wall Street Journal interview, Vance embraced Europe's position on Ukraine, that the West could increase sanctions on Moscow and even deploy U.S. troops inside Ukraine to reach peace. And hours later, Vance met with Ukraine's delegation in a meeting that a senior Ukrainian official described to PBS NewsHour as quote, very good. We want to achieve a durable lasting peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have

Starting point is 00:13:27 Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road. European leaders tell PBS NewsHour they're confused by what they consider mixed U.S. messages on Ukraine, including those repeated today by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a visit to Poland. The reality that returning to 2014 as borders as part of a negotiated settlement is unlikely. The reality of U.S. troops in Ukraine is unlikely. The reality of Ukraine membership in NATO as a part of a negotiated settlement, unlikely. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. I think this was careless and I think it was a mistake in my view it would have been much better to talk about Ukraine's possible NATO membership and

Starting point is 00:14:13 possible territorial changes at the negotiating table first and then with Ukraine present and not with them already having Putin's price hanging over them And European leaders continue to doubt that peace with Putin is possible. Peace with Putin is possible. President Putin says he's willing to meet. Yeah. But on what terms? I had good conversation with the President Trump.

Starting point is 00:14:35 We had some phone calls and he had phone call with Putin. And he said to me, I think that Putin, that he wants to solve the war. I said to him that he's a liar. It's amazing. First of all, this Zelensky, man, it's like, he's got a different story every 10 minutes. And when did this NATO membership come back? Everyone knows that's a non-starter.

Starting point is 00:15:07 I have no idea why they keep pushing it. That's the whole problem. It is the problem. Yeah, and Vance was very clear. I mean, I'm sure you have the clip. Vance said it was more clear. Yeah, like, no, the solution does not lie with Ukraine having NATO membership. That's it. And that was the problem since 2014. The whole thing started with the expansion of NATO. That's it. And they're just, do you think that they're sniffing their own farts? They really believe that this is possible?

Starting point is 00:15:39 I have no idea what they're thinking because they're not gonna get, you know, unless they kick the United States out of NATO, we can just veto it. You know, the thing about NATO, you can't get in unless everybody says yes. Yeah. Right. Right.

Starting point is 00:15:51 So you can say whatever you want. We're the boss of them. It was an alternative that just to get off this track for just one second, there was an alternative clip of Zelensky. Uh, this is the talk Zelensky clip. Oh yes. Good. I asked President Trump, Mr. President, why did you talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin before talking to me? It doesn't sound like AI at all.

Starting point is 00:16:15 I'm so convinced. Talking to me and President Trump said he wanted to talk to the tallest one first and then the shortest. I was not happy about this. Then I told him that I want to create a European army. And then he asked me if it was an army of short little midgets like me. And I did not like that either. All right.

Starting point is 00:16:38 Since you went down that track, I have to play a couple of clips before we get back to the overview because this is, I think, what it's really all about. And we should probably look at your anal clips based upon this. This is the true, the real Zelensky or this 10-minute Zelensky about the European army. The Ukrainian president, though, characteristically blunt. The case of the old relationship between Europe and America are ending. From now on things will be different and Europe needs to adjust to that.

Starting point is 00:17:14 I really believe that time has come. The armed forces of Europe must be created. The armed forces of Europe must be created. Now we have talked about this since the beginning of the show. I was in in Europe and then later in the UK when the Lisbon Treaty was signed. We all remember how that went. Ireland, you voted wrong. Do over, vote again. And so I think Holland did the same thing if I'm not mistaken they voted wrong way first. Was it Holland or France? I think it was one of the two.

Starting point is 00:17:52 It was mainly Ireland. The point is that these countries if they didn't vote right yeah then they re-voted. They kept making them do it over and over till they finally came. That's how democracy works. Do you not understand democracy? There were three main promises for this Lisbon Treaty which was the so-called Constitution of the European Union. One was, no more passports, it's great, everybody can walk to the borders, you don't need to show your papers anymore, and if someone comes in illegally from another country they can walk into your country too, it's great. That second part they didn't actually promise, but it was implied. The second promise,

Starting point is 00:18:28 you'll all have the same money. It's fantastic. No more Gilder, no more Deutschmark, no more Franks. No, you'll have the euro. It's great. Overnight, 100% inflation. Coffee went from two Gilders to four four guilders in euros. And the third was, we'll never have. That was a good bit by the way. But it's true. I know, and Italy really hit it hard. Oh, it got really bad.

Starting point is 00:18:55 People couldn't afford their espresso in the morning. And the third promise was, we'll never have a European army. No, no, no. Well, there's actually, there was another one, which was, we'll never have a European army. No, no, no. Well, there's actually, there was another one which was we'll never have a European central finance. No, we'll never do that. That's encroaching very quickly.

Starting point is 00:19:13 And basically the European Central Bank already makes a fact, but we'll never have a European army. And I think that what is happening now, and I have a redux clip from 2015, so that's 10 years ago, and we've been following this and there are a couple of other clips, but this is the best one. I think what is happening now is the military industrial complex, that's American weapons

Starting point is 00:19:38 manufacturers in general. Germany has a little bit, Sweden make some planes, not unimportant. But really, if you want things that go boom and that comes from us. Wow, sound effects on the show. The NATO thing is kind of a non-starter because it's like these guys that don't want to pay. We've got our guy, definitely our guy, Mark Rutte over there saying, look, you must have 5% otherwise if you do a European army, it will be 8 or possibly 10 or more percents.

Starting point is 00:20:12 When they heard that, which is I think the total setup, they're like, yeah, yeah, let's go those guys into it. And this has been on deck with people who have been paid off by big military contractors for over a decade. This is Nigel Farage when he was still a member of European Parliament. And this is right after the 2014 coup that Victoria Nuland, John Brennan, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, all these suckers, they all orchestrated this. And there was a big setup to ultimately either result in more money being spent by the EU into NATO armaments or just get them to start their own army. That's fine with us too, as long as we get more money.

Starting point is 00:20:58 I've been wondering why David Cameron's been slashing our armed forces. Won't commit to 2%. Is happy for us not to be able to defend our islands. I think Mr Yonkers has given us the answer. We're going to do it at an EU level. We're going to have a European army. Now, when I raised this last year with the Deputy Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg, he said it was a dangerous fantasy to even talk about an EU army. I hope every Liberal Democrat voter has heard Mr. Mahofstad today, the leader of the European Liberals, crying out for militarisation at an EU level. Of course the truth is it's already happening. We already have a European Defence Agency, we already have EU battle groups on

Starting point is 00:21:41 active service all over the world, We already have an EU Navy active against the Somali pirates and who can forget Eurocorps here in Strasbourg last year virtually goose stepping that ghastly flag round the courtyard outside. And of course the Lisbon Treaty Article 28 provides for all of this. Tony Blair was right. He said the European Union is not a project about peace, it's a project about power. And I think Mr Junker is trying to seize on an opportunity. We ourselves in the European Union provoked the conflict through our territorial expansionism in the Ukraine. We poked the Russian bear with a stick and unsurprisingly Putin reacted. But this now is to be used as an opportunity to build a European army.

Starting point is 00:22:37 Then they get into a big fight for Hofstad's interrupts. But Nigel Farage saw it. This is 10 years ago. This was the whole point. This was the whole setup and then you had poor Mark Rutte. Now I understand why they chose him. He was set up to fail. This guy, this wishy-washy former prime minister, never married, unclear about any relationships, used to be in Unilever's human resource department with the other ladies. Now he's just a wishy-washy smushy guy with a funny accent I like to mimic. His whole job was to fail at getting them to pour more money into NATO. And now all he sees is people are complaining now. What is this now?

Starting point is 00:23:25 And here's what NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had to say at the conference on Saturday about Europe's task now. To my European friends I would say get into the debate not by complaining that you might yes or not be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up the spending, make sure that the training in the weapon supply is continued, but also come up with concrete ideas what for example security guarantees could look like. And what Europe could, and I must say since one day of complaining what I'm now seeing on the European side of NATO, is indeed that people are now getting into the concrete planning phase of what could that be. Stop complaining, you're all complaining, Why are you complaining all the time?

Starting point is 00:24:07 They're going to go for it. They're going to go for it. This guy was set up to fail. You know, hey Mark, go ahead boy. Why don't you go try to get up it from 2% to 5%? Good luck. They already knew it. This was the whole plan. And now, now Trump is like, yeah, this is great. You know what? Screw you guys. Why don't you go do something yourself? Take care of it. We're going to put NATO is done.

Starting point is 00:24:32 I think, I think it's over. Because it makes no sense to have a European EU army and NATO is what we call duplication of efforts. Yeah. Redundance. Redundancy, yes. So let them come up with, you know, three, four, 500 billion euros a year. Hello Europe, it's going to be fun. I wish I could get my daughter out. She won't leave. You know, this is Europe. The fact that we've had this era of peace for 70 years or more, it's a fluke.

Starting point is 00:25:10 Yeah. If you know world history, it's a total fluke. There were things like the hundred years wars. Good times. I remember they're constantly attacking Russia because of, you know, for one reason or another. And Russia knows this and they're freaked out about that's where they're constantly attacking Russia because of, you know, for one reason or another. And Russia knows this and they're freaked out about it. That's why they're so adamant.

Starting point is 00:25:28 Yeah. They're not idiots. I mean, we're very, you know, cloistered in the United States when it comes to world history. So we think everything is the way it is today, is the way it always was. And to be fair, after World War II, which the Russians really, they'd really defeated the Nazis. Yeah, the Russians won the war. But, you know, as usual, we came in, we stormed the beach.

Starting point is 00:25:49 I mean, it's not to be discounted. But then we flew. No, not the Normandy thing. Eisenhower was a good guy. That was the real deal. We flew the flag and we liberated. We did liberate, you know, we're like, hey, you're free. Not downplaying that at all.

Starting point is 00:26:04 But the Russians, they, you know, they lost millions of people just because they're a military society. This is what they do. And then we had the whole Bretton Woods thing and who jumped out? The Russians. They went, no, we're not going to be your little son over here. We want to control Europe. And that is true. They have definitely wanted to control Europe and that is true. They have definitely wanted to control Europe. I think that dream may be gone by now and they just want to be a part of the system. But when the EU really drove this decision to kick Russia off of Swift,

Starting point is 00:26:39 yeah, that's an act of war. They also got kicked out of the G8. Oh, that was a good one. That was probably like, I hated those meetings anyway. Who cares about that? I don't want to go there. But optic wise, it was not nice. Who's the aggressor?

Starting point is 00:26:56 Who's the aggressor? And then the whole Nord Stream debacle. Back to the analysis. Well, no, the overview. You want overview three or are we going to anal? I'm sorry, the overview. Yeah, we're on three, I believe. Okay, all right.

Starting point is 00:27:06 Zelensky added today that Ukraine would need real security guarantees in order to make any ceasefire durable. He said that the US needed to be part of those security guarantees, but Omna, today a State Department spokesman, said, quote, we expect European partners to take the lead in establishing a durable security framework and look forward to their proposals. So Nick, tell us about the mood in the room during Vice President Vance's speech and also what you're hearing from attendees tonight.

Starting point is 00:27:35 Well, President Trump this afternoon called Vance's speech quote brilliant, but the speech landed like a lead balloon in the room because again, Europeans have been dealing with mixed messages on Ukraine all week from the Trump administration, and they're hoping that the Trump administration treats them, treats Ukraine as partners in trying to pursue peace rather than going above Europe and Ukraine's head and speaking directly to Moscow. That said, though, Amna, two senior European officials told me tonight that actually the speech was better than it could have been, that they preferred a scolding over a negative speech about Ukraine or even a speech in which the U.S. was announcing some kind of troop withdrawal from Europe.

Starting point is 00:28:16 But it's not just Europeans who are worried about Ukraine's policy. Apparently, today the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker who's here today called Hegseth speech in Brussels a quote rookie mistake the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written and Carlson is a quote fool. That's what Wicker said Wow These reports bring in Elon Musk Tucker Carlson who's next Candace Owens are they going to talk about her? Not you mentioned I'm sure I was in the edit room, right? Oh, we left her out. Dammit. Easy target.

Starting point is 00:28:50 Megan, Megan Kelly, Megan Kelly, and code Bongino. Throw it in there. That's what a misser, people. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if we start to hear some talk of, well, you know, maybe we should just close some of those bases in Germany. Well, you know, Trump talked should just close some of those bases in Germany. Yeah, just bring some of our boys home. Well, you know, Trump talked about that in his first term. He did, yeah. He went on about, what are we doing with all these bases

Starting point is 00:29:13 all over the place? It's costing us money. Yep. What's it doing? Some ill will is being derived from it. Well, this is an interesting way to, so we have a $ billion dollar trade deficit with the EU, which, interestingly, I heard the numbers, the way it works with the EU, they have a 200 billion

Starting point is 00:29:34 surplus from China and I mean, a deficit with China, a 200 billion surplus with the US, so they kind of stay the same. Whereas the US has a 300 billion deficit with China, so we have a 500 billion, at least 500 billion deficit between the EU and China. So we could change that by, all right, good, buy the stuff from us then, set up your own army. That would be at least 200 billion, maybe more. Just looking at balance of payments. Well, when they set up their own army. That would be at least 200 billion maybe more Just looking at balance of army. They're gonna buy our product for a while. They have to I mean everything standardized on our stuff. Yeah For a while. Yeah. Yeah for a while then you can you know, you have to do to get back to a you know

Starting point is 00:30:20 A normal economy. It's not just built on militarism. What's what's a European gun? What's a brand name of European gun? Ruger no, it was for sure Czechoslovakian. Yeah Probably a few let's go to clip for Glock. Oh Glock. That's a good point. Yeah Glock Ukraine's defenders continue to say Russia is not serious about peace and they have a case in point today That a Russian drone hit a radiation shield that protects the Chernobyl nuclear power plant now earlier today I talked about all of this Ukraine as well as Vance's speech with Europe's top diplomat. Kaya calls Yeah, that doesn't sound fishy at all

Starting point is 00:31:02 Yeah, I'm sure it was a system That doesn't sound fishy at all. Yeah, I'm sure that was a... There's some... Well, the radiation shield is literally the dome they put over. Yeah, and this drone falls over. And that thing is pretty... pretty... It's built to last. The whole point of it was like, lock it down, close it up.

Starting point is 00:31:21 So a drone drops into it. Okay, radiation shield. All right. Sounds very scary. Radiation shield. We move to the analysis. Okay. Kai, Carlos, thanks very much. Welcome back to the NewsHour. I appreciate it. Last week, European officials came to Washington and were reassured, I'm told, by senior Trump administration officials about Ukraine.

Starting point is 00:31:45 Earlier this week, you and other senior European officials met with Vice President Vance in Paris and I'm told were reassured about the administration's focus on Ukraine. But this week, we also heard from the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegs, questioning whether Ukraine could ever get back occupied territory and essentially taking NATO off the table. What's the impact of the mixed messages from the United States? No more parties. Well, the new administration is starting and of course we are building up our relationship with the new administration as well.

Starting point is 00:32:14 I mean, I've had good calls, good call with Marco Rubio as well, who was also very issuing on Ukraine. So of course we have to figure out the messages, what is right. But this conference is a good place. We have a lot of meetings with representatives to understand what are the ideas really of the United States regarding Ukraine. But can Europe actually make plans for Ukraine? Can you and the United States work on a strategy for Ukraine when you're getting these mixed messages?

Starting point is 00:32:46 Well, we have the strategy in place. I mean, for us, it's very clear. It is to put the pressure on Russia to really stop this war. When President Trump says that I just want the killing to stop, it's easy. If Putin would stop bombing Ukraine. This night we heard that they were bombing the nuclear station. So clearly Putin doesn't want peace. So the press... I like how Chernobyl has become the nuclear station. Isn't that thing completely defunct and down and shut?

Starting point is 00:33:16 Yeah. Yeah, it's the nuclear station. This woman is the second to Ursula. She's the Foreign Secretary of the EU. She's just another blowhard, unelected... A DEI hire. Unelected spokes hole. ...that I just want the killing to stop. It's easy if Putin would stop bombing Ukraine.

Starting point is 00:33:43 This night we heard that they were bombing the nuclear station. So clearly Putin doesn't want peace. So the pressure, the political, economical pressure should be on him so that he realizes that he can't win and realizes it's a mistake to be there. But President Trump also said this yesterday in the Oval Office, quote, yes, I do believe Putin wants peace and quote, I trust him on this. What's your response to his saying? Well, maybe he doesn't know Putin as well as we do. So well, Putin is not really keeping his promises. If you think about we have had such quick fixes, deals like Minsk 1, Minsk 2. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh The fact that this was, that the war would have been over if these agreements were put into play and they weren't. Thanks to Zelensky largely.

Starting point is 00:34:48 Putin has specifically said, why don't we just hold to the Minsk Accord. And who is this lady? Where is she from? Is she from Germany? Where her, she's from originally, I'd have to look it up. No, that's okay. It's not that important. Well, maybe. I don't know. I mean, she's one of those. Yeah. One of those, one of those places. One of those could be anywhere.

Starting point is 00:35:09 Yeah. But she's just typical EU spokesperson or, or representative or phony, you know, unelected official that runs the thing. Yeah. She's a technocrat. The EU is just a mess. Technocrat. It's ridiculous. I'm a technocrat.

Starting point is 00:35:24 A technocrat. She's, that's right. That's the word. She's a technocrat. Here we go, six. The previous acts of diplomacy between Russia and the Ukraine that European sponsored. Yes, previous ceasefire agreements that were only necessary for Putin and Russia to get their act together more and attack in a bigger scale. So I think, you know, the history proves that. And that's why they only understand the language of strength. And we have to be really strong and firm that you can't win here. Because if United States is worried about China, if we can't get Russia right, we can't

Starting point is 00:35:59 get China right either, because they are carefully watching how this goes. One of the possibilities when it comes to a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, if we were to get to that, would be for European troops to deploy inside Ukraine. In your conversations with European leaders, are they willing to consider that even if, as Hexas said this week, that the United States wouldn't protect them under Article 5. They're always like, this is a constant theme. Well, if you give in to Putin, everyone else is watching and oh, now, oh, they're weak, now we'll come and grab something. It's a domino theory, modern version.

Starting point is 00:36:39 Yes, yes, exactly. We did live through the domino theory in the 60s and 70s and that was bull crap. Which is the very reason why no one else wanted to go in the armed forces because they all figured out we were fighting stupid wars in Vietnam and Korea. And then no one wanted to be a part of it until, oh, the 9-11s, get the towel heads everybody because that was real. Yeah. Well, because that was real. Uh. A towel. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:37:06 Well, that was the spirit, you know. It was like, hey, the towel heads did this. It turns out maybe not. Let's go into Iraq anyway. Who cares? Let's go in there. I think we're on seven. Yep.

Starting point is 00:37:22 We have to understand that there's no peace. In order to have peacekeeping troops, you need to have peace. But again, Putin doesn't want peace, and that is a big problem that we need to address right now. And of course, if there is peace, then we need to discuss what are the security guarantees. Yesterday, we heard the Defense Secretary of Ukraine saying that, you know, U.S. gave us promises in the Budapest memorandum, give up your nuclear weapons and we will defend you when Russia attacks.

Starting point is 00:37:50 And where are you now? So he was really very vocal in saying that, you know, you have not kept the promises you have gave us. So right now, if we talk about security guarantees, then they really need to be credible. What are the security guarantees that will really deter Russia from attacking again? She's the secretary of the interior? What is her title again?

Starting point is 00:38:19 I think she's the foreign minister. Oh, foreign minister. I think. I have to go back. She's the henchwoman of the Queen, Queen Ursula. The joke in that, by the way, in that little commentary was the promise is not kept. We always have to remember that was James Baker. That's the real promise, yes. And the promises that were made when the Soviet Union collapsed and it became Russia and the other countries all got independence, became independent, including Ukraine, from Russia.

Starting point is 00:38:55 And then we promised that we weren't going to move NATO one inch eastward and ever since then that's all we did. And that was a promise that Putin called us out on and didn't do anything about for a long time until this latest thing with the Ukraine. And that was the end. That was the last, the straw that broke the camel's back. And it's his fault. Okay.

Starting point is 00:39:17 You, uh, and, uh, Von der Leyen, the president of the European commission have both said publicly in the last couple days that any kind of tariffs would essentially create conflict between the United States and Europe that is unnecessary. Do you think the United States imposing tariffs on Europe would prevent Europe from working with the United States on Ukraine? No, we have different cooperation points. So it's clear that there are no winners in trade wars. The consumers are the biggest losers because the prices rise due to this. So I hope that these things are settled between

Starting point is 00:39:56 United States and Europe. If there is trade imbalance, then of course we can see what we can do about this. But starting a trade war, I don't think it's a good thing, because who is laughing on the side is China. Yeah, okay. You know, this is not a trade war. No. It's not a trade war. It's a little more extreme than a couple of tariffs on some goods and services.

Starting point is 00:40:23 It's a balance of payments. It's an equalization of trade. Seems to me. But okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's call it a... everything has to be a war, by the way. Everything's got to be a war. It's the way the Europeans think. Is that clip eight?

Starting point is 00:40:40 We always have to remember that World War I was... and it starts with the, this is why the Ukraine thing's so dangerous because World War I started with a lunatic assassinating the Archduke Ferdinand. It was some maniac. It had nothing to do with anything. And it just, it, it escalated, it escalated to a full blown world war and it was being fought all over and literally all over the world world South America and every in

Starting point is 00:41:06 Middle East every place was on got involved including us I mean they can learn from us, you know, when we're angry at our neighbors, we just fight it out on the ice We just do a hockey game. We beat each other up We beat you anyway three to one you can't even skate. That's how you do it You don't go into into the trenches and kill a million of course no i saw clips believe me i did not see a hockey game hockey's great i went to one hockey game in my life when i was in school in west virginia edie her name was edie edie took mud man and me to pennsylvania drove like six hours to go to a flyers game.

Starting point is 00:41:47 And I'm at the game. I'm like, I don't even see the puck. I have no idea what I'm looking at. No, it was not for me. But not for me. I guess not. No, but you know, but there was no fighting. I mean, I like the fighting and the gloves are off.

Starting point is 00:42:06 That's the best. I went to a hockey game and there was no back in the day and there was no fighting. And I might have even been against New Jersey, which you'd expect. I don't recall any fighting. No, I built like, oh, you'd remember it if you saw it. Yeah, no, there was no there was no fighting.

Starting point is 00:42:21 These guys, these guys. Yeah. But that ultimately is how you Get some aggression out, you know, just go beat each other on the other supposed to do Yeah, it's not there's no have fighting in soccer. No problem. You know what? This is a good point Soccer would score big in America even with limited commercials if there was fighting I Think you might be on to something commercials if there was fighting. I think you might be onto something.

Starting point is 00:42:45 We need to swirmish. I don't like soccer. I think it's boring. But I would maybe watch it if I was super. But these guys are kind of wimpy, these guys. They're all with their feet, and they're prancing around, kicking the ball. More head kicks.

Starting point is 00:43:00 I'm sorry, I kicked you in the head. Oh, what can I say? So where are we on these? Your bonus anal. OK, here we go. And finally, we kicked you in the head. Oh, what can I say? So where are we on this? Yeah, your bonus anal. Okay, here we go. And finally, we've been talking about this. Most of the security conference is focused on this, but the Vice President, JD Vance, gave a speech today

Starting point is 00:43:15 in which he said that the greatest threat that the Europe faces is from within. And he said, quote, there is no security if you're afraid of the voices, the opinions, and the conscience that guide your own people If you're running in fear from your own voters There's nothing America can do for you is Europe afraid of the voices opinions and conscience of its own people. Well Freedom of opinion freedom of press is one of the fundamental

Starting point is 00:43:41 Values that the European Union stands for. And as you see, we have a lot of... I love... You don't have freedom of speech, you have freedom of opinion. You can have an opinion as long as you keep it to yourself and don't post about it. Freedom of opinion, freedom of press is one of the fundamental... You see that freedom of opinion? This is the problem right here, Europe. Yes, you have freedom of opinion. That right is secured for you.

Starting point is 00:44:08 You can have your opinion as long as you... Just shut up about it. Yes. Freedom of opinion, freedom of press is one of the fundamental values that the European Union stands for. And as you see, we have a lot of elections going on all the time, a lot of very different groups. Do-over. Very vocal. And I don't really agree with that criticism and I think you know of course we deal with our domestic problems on our own but we need to cooperate on the big international worries that we have and

Starting point is 00:44:40 this is for example the war in Ukraine. Oh man, well you know what? This whole thing escalated and Vance got a new speech when Zelensky did this. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says he's directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals. He said the document was too focused on US interests and didn't include security guarantees for Ukraine that would deter future Russian aggression. Well, there are not very concrete things about security guarantees in this document. For

Starting point is 00:45:16 me, it's very important, the connection between some kind of security guarantees and some kind of security guarantees and some kind of investment. Ukraine has vast reserves of critical minerals that are used in aerospace, defense and nuclear industries. The Trump administration has indicated it is interested in accessing them to reduce dependence on China. I don't know why Euronews is up talking all of a sudden. China, China. In China, defense.

Starting point is 00:45:43 And by the way, the ludicrous logic here is that we get the minerals and we would have to provide security because we want to protect the minerals. The minerals, of course. Someone told us. But no, no, they don't want to give us that. They don't want to. No. Ukraine is a corrupt operation.

Starting point is 00:46:01 It always has been. Yes. Yes. And nothing's changed. All that's changed is there's a bunch of money. And the idea behind the minerals was to pay us back for all the freebies they got and distribute it around the world for all we know. This is ridiculous. And for all the decades I grew up and lived in Europe, we loved Ukraine.

Starting point is 00:46:23 That's where you could do nasty. You want some crazy drugs? Ukraine. You want the Ukraine girls? Ukraine. You want Hitman? Ukraine. You want to go party crazy? Ukraine. Everyone loved Ukraine. It was all good. There's no reason for this.

Starting point is 00:46:44 And I'm being a little flippant, but it fit in well. You're not being that flippant. It's the truth. It's the truth. Everybody... That's the whole... Yes, the unspoken part of it is exactly what you said. By the way, just going back to soccer for a moment, here's your problem.

Starting point is 00:47:03 When someone's hurt on the field, it's always fake. Oh, my knee. Oh, oh, baby. There's a lot of flopping it's called. Yeah, flopping. It's like, oh, I'm so hurt. If someone was really hurt, the leg is like bent. Oh, you see that in real sports. Yes. Yeah. We're just trying to Americanize football to make it successful. I'd like to go to MSNBC to get some fantastic analysis from our mainstream here in the United States. Fundamentally, the goal is as President Trump outlined it, we want the war to come to a close, we want the killing to stop, but we want to achieve a durable

Starting point is 00:47:46 lasting peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road. At this table, we want the American people to understand what's being said and what it really means for them. So when they hear the vice president speak this way, and there's another sound that we can use too that sort of crystallizes that moment, what should people understand it means for them potentially down the road? Not only is it isolation, but it's going to actually hurt you in your pocketbook at home. When it comes to the United States now looking like it only cares about itself, which I get

Starting point is 00:48:22 it, feeling that we're overextending. I remember when I was growing up this idea of we should not be the policemen of the world. I get that part. But working alongside people, helping people with common values, helps American values continue. So what we're really seeing is an entire reframing by JD Vance and Trump of what America actually stands for. This idea that an America that stands up for democratic values, an America that stands

Starting point is 00:48:47 up for pluralism, and it's now turning to an America that stands up for colonialism, right? Land grabs, real estate deals, none of that benefits somebody sitting at home right now. That only benefits the people who are making the real estate deals. Lady, we just bought a plot of land for you in the Don Boss, congratulations. Now this is the best part of this combo. And by the way, that guy that was there is Michael Steele.

Starting point is 00:49:14 Yeah, oh yeah, the former Republican. That guy's pretty funny. Former head of the RNC jerk. Wow, all right, this continues and gets better. Right, I wanna take a listen to the other sound we have of JD Vance talking about the threat from within and then we'll talk about on the other side. The threat from within, like immigration. The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's

Starting point is 00:49:39 not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. One of the things that strikes me about the first piece of sound we played and then that piece of sound is that it sounds innocuous enough. Now we know what the values are, right? We know what the values are, right? We know what they are. They cut it off, but not, so this is a very, this is a psychological operation on their viewing audience, all 15,000 of them. It's like, oh, well, it's our values, our shared values.

Starting point is 00:50:17 And now they're gonna tell you what those values are. One of the things that strikes me about the first- Why don't they let Vance tell you, because he does. Because it's psychological warfare, it's propaganda. One of the things that strikes me about the first piece of sound we played and then that piece of sound is that It sounds it's a piece of sound. It's what was that? It was a piece of sound POS innocuous enough if you do not dig into the details and if you're not looking at it, which values are we shared values? Are we talking about? So let me pull

Starting point is 00:50:46 up this from the Washington Post, which was that Vance met with the leader of a far right German party. So not what he said. Not what he said. No, something the Washington Post wrote exported the MAGA message when they say shared values, which values pray towel, I wish I was exaggerating when I say Nazi values, values Nazi values that's it. That's what ventures what Nazi values Yes, of course. Thank you. Ms. NBC. I wish I was exaggerating when I say Nazi values

Starting point is 00:51:17 Right. I mean, this is the far far right party in Germany, which understands what this kind of Right now and for JD Vance to say the will of the people, apparently the will of the people is great when Trump wins in the United States, but he refused to meet with the elected leader of Germany, the German Chancellor, and instead goes and meets with this far-right extremist party out of power saying they're the will of the people. So what he's really presenting for the United States internally and overseas is that the will of the people. So what he's really presenting for the United States internally and overseas is that the will of the people is white, Christian, male, and willing to fight

Starting point is 00:51:50 for that identity. Let's just take a quick break. Let's take a quick break and listen to boots on the ground, Frank from Germany, Frank. And he sent us a note and said, Adam, John, if you ever need any information from Germany, I'm here for you. For instance, Alice Viedel, she is the leader of the far far right, also known as extreme

Starting point is 00:52:14 right Nazi values, AFD party. She is not only a lesbian, but she's married to a brown girl or refugee. I didn't know that. Cherry on top. she's married to a brown girl or refugee. I didn't know that. Cherry on top. No, anyway, the whole point is that this bull crap. Yeah, it doesn't make, it's illogical. It's bull crap. And they are, they are headed, AFD is headed for their strongest

Starting point is 00:52:40 results ever in, in the elections because the, the Germans, I feel bad for them. You got to get some pirate radio going or something. Do some podcasts. Where are the German podcasts? I'm sure they're around. But yeah, well, you have your contact right there. Ask him. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:02 But I wonder if they're allowed to even... Why is he listening to us? Yeah, good point. I wonder if they're even allowed to express their opinion, you're only allowed to have it. I do have three relatively short BBC clips about the Munich conference. You want to hear those? Sure. The future of Ukraine took center stage at the International Security Conference in the German city of Munich on Friday. It came after several days of speculation about how President Trump's telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday might be the start of a

Starting point is 00:53:37 process that will end the conflict. On the sidelines of the conference, the US Vice President JD Vance told reporters that Washington could impose economic sanctions on Russia if it refuses to agree what he called a good peace deal that guarantees Kiev's long-term independence. There are economic tools of leverage, he said, and there are, of course, also military tools of leverage the US could use. Later he addressed the delegates at the meeting. This is a security conference and I'm sure you all came here prepared to talk about how exactly you intend to increase defence spending over the next few years

Starting point is 00:54:16 in line with some new target. And that's great because as President Trump has made abundantly clear he believes that our European friends must play a bigger role in the future of this continent. We don't think, you hear this term, burden sharing, but we think it's an important part of being in a shared alliance together that the Europeans step up while America focuses on areas of the world that are in great danger. Shared burden? They want no part of that. Well, later in the day, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky met the US vice president at the Munich conference.

Starting point is 00:54:51 Mr. Zelensky said they'd had a good conversation and that it would not be their last. He said they needed to prepare a plan on how to stop President Putin and finish the war with Russia and that President Trump was key to making that happen. I hope and we count that really President Trump will help us and I really count on him. He is the President and United States is the biggest denator during the war. I mean comparable with other countries. As I said, Europe also, but it's Europe totally continent.

Starting point is 00:55:30 The United States gave a lot, that's why I count on him. People voted and we really think, I see, yes, that he is a strong man. And if he will choose our side, and if he will not be in the middle, I think he will pressure and he will push Putin to stop the war. He can do it. This is, he's backtracking on everything that's been discussed. It is baffling. The head of the European Commission is Ursula von der Leyen.

Starting point is 00:55:59 This is my favorite. Here's Queen Ursula. President Putin says he's willing to meet, but on what terms? is my favorite. Here's Queen Ursula. I know she's 4'9 and acting like she's a giant. She's got nothing. But throws this stuff out there. It's baffling. His ambition to destroy Ukraine. And let me be very clear.

Starting point is 00:56:37 A failed Ukraine would weaken Europe, but it would also weaken the United States. Because what we have seen is the authoritarians of this world are carefully watching whether there's any impunity. What? This is their latest pitch. The other woman had it too, which is, oh, they're watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Chinese in particular, they're watching to see if we blow it. Yeah, exactly. If we blow it with this deal then China's going to take over the world. The authoritarians of this world are carefully watching whether there's any impunity

Starting point is 00:57:16 if you invade your neighbor and violate international borders or whether there are real deterrence. borders or whether there are real deterrents. Yeah, they're going to go for their own army. They're crazy. And Macron is having a big meeting tomorrow. Emergency meeting, everybody. Pierre is ready for your hair. Come on to Paris, everybody. We've got to have emergency meeting.

Starting point is 00:57:41 Ms. Trump is not going to help us. All we wanted was simple. Give us some rare earth minerals. You send some money our way. It was easy. Now someone, someone got in the middle and I think it's the military industrial complex, they've wanted this all, all along.

Starting point is 00:57:59 They knew NATO was not working. They needed a new way. And, uh, and I think president Trump is, is keen to that. Like, okay, fine. Well, we don't even need tariffs. Just buy $200 billion a year worth of our stuff. I think it's obvious. Well, this is not so far, this is not going well for the, that war.

Starting point is 00:58:28 And then we didn't even bring up the Middle East thing. I mean, Trump made a big fuss about high noon yesterday. And he says, what I don't want to see is these three people released and two people released. By the way, I've been doing a ratio thing with the number of people that they released and the number of people the Israelis released. One to a hundred, I've been doing a ratio thing with the number of people that they released and the number of people the Israelis released. One to a hundred, I think. It started at one to fifty. There was fifty Palestinians who are worth one Jewish hostage.

Starting point is 00:58:55 Then it went one to sixty. Now it's one to about one ten, one hundred and ten people per released hostage. It's ridiculous. Yeah, high noon came and went. And now President Trump is at Daytona 500. He's got the beast on the... He's going to get some cheers. Did you see it? He was on the track and then he's talking on the radio from the beast as he's going around the track.

Starting point is 00:59:24 Oh no, I did not notice this. The pace car. It was great. Yeah, Merica. He was on the track and then he's talking on the radio from the beast as he's going around the track. Oh no, I did not notice this. The pace car. It was great. Yeah, Merica. So the beast was the pace car? Yes. Yes.

Starting point is 00:59:33 Wow. Yeah, it was fantastic. Did that give it a good workout? Well, while we're on that topic, President Trump keeps talking about his plan. We're going to own Magaza and all this stuff. And it was pointed out to me that this plan has been around probably since 2019. The plan is written up, it's published, it's well known. And of course, it's Bibi Netanyahu's godson.

Starting point is 01:00:00 You know, remember Jared Kushner had to sleep on the couch. He Googled it. Google it. The spy for Israel. The spy for Israel. He went on Lex Friedman's show a year ago after October 7th, and he explained the plan and the reason for the plan. This was something I took on. I was working on the political framework between the Israelis and the Palestinians and trying to understand what were the issues.

Starting point is 01:00:25 And the issues were not very many. Basically was you had a land dispute, you had to figure out where do you put borders ultimately, you had a security paradigm, which I was much more favorable to Israel's perspective on. And obviously the events of the past 48 hours have fully justified that bias. In addition to that, you had to deal with the religious sites, but I felt operationally that wasn't actually as complicated as people made it because you wanted to just leave it open for everybody.

Starting point is 01:00:55 Then I went through and I felt that the Palestinian leadership was fairly disincentivized to make a deal because there was just this paradigm where they had billions of dollars coming in from the international community. And I think that they feared that if they made a deal, they would lose their relevancy internationally, and the money would stop flowing into the country. So what I tried to do is to say, my approach when I would get into a hard problem, say, how do I understand all the different escape hatches? How do I try to eliminate them and then build a golden bridge that becomes the only, but

Starting point is 01:01:29 also the most desirable pathway for the decision makers to walk through? So that makes sense. Hamas didn't want to give up millions of dollars and payments that came in, they would lose their relevancy. It's probably a fair assessment. Then I don't know about the escape hatches, but okay. Here's the business plan and the players in the plan. So we developed a business plan for Gaza, the West Bank.

Starting point is 01:01:55 We threw in some improvements for Jordan and Egypt as well. I was based off of the Vision 2030 that they did in Saudi Arabia, which I thought was a visionary document. I went back through this process and I studied basically every economic project in post-World War II periods. So we looked at what they did in South Korea, why it was successful with some strong industrial planning. We looked at Japan, we looked at Singapore, we looked at Poland, why it was successful.

Starting point is 01:02:21 We spent a lot of time on the Ukraine plan for the country and why it wasn't successful. That was mostly because of governance and corruption, which actually resembles a lot of what's gone wrong with the Palestinians where there's no property rights, there's no rule of law. What we did is we built a plan to show, it's not that hard in the sense that between the West Bank and Gaza, you had five million people. We put together a plan, I think it was about $27 billion. We got together a conference. I had the head of AT&T.

Starting point is 01:02:51 We had Steve Schwartzman from Blackstone came, which is very gracious of them. We had all the leading Arabic businessmen, the leading builders, leading developers. The general consensus of that conference was that this is very doable. We think that for Gaza in particular, it would cost maybe seven to eight billion dollars to rebuild the entire place. We felt we could reduce the poverty rate in half. We can create over a million jobs there.

Starting point is 01:03:17 The only thing that people said was holding it back wasn't Israel. What was holding it back was governance. And people wouldn't have confidence investing there with with the rule that That Hamas was was perpetuating so this sounds to me like a lot of the setup for the plan that the president is talking about literally mentioning Jordan and Egypt and The plan was advanced this plan has been going all along. I encourage people actually to look at the plan.

Starting point is 01:03:45 It was very thoughtful. It was 181 pages. We went project by project. Each project has costed out. It's a real plan that could be implemented, but you need the right governance. All of the different Arabic countries are willing to fund it. The international community is willing to fund it because they've just been throwing so much money at the Palestinians for years that's never been outcomes based or conditions based.

Starting point is 01:04:06 It's just been entitlement money and unfortunately, it hasn't really achieved any outcomes that have been successful. So it's a great business plan. It just shows too rebuilding Gaza could be easy. But like I said, the problem that's held the Palestinian people back and that's made their lives terrible in Gaza has not been Israel. It's really been Hamas's leadership or lack of leadership and their desire to focus on trying to kill Israelis and start war with Israel over improving the lives of the Palestinian people. I mean, Hamas has been running it now for 16 years

Starting point is 01:04:42 and they don't have a lot to show for it. Our posture with them was basically a very simple deal. If you think about what's the end state in Gaza, it's actually not that complicated. There's no territorial disputes, right? The border is the border. There's no religious issues there as well. You're not dealing with Jerusalem. You're basically just dealing with the fact that Israel wants to make sure that there's no threat from Gaza, so it's a demilitarization

Starting point is 01:05:06 or some kind of security guarantee from a credible source where Israel doesn't feel like Gaza can be used to stage attacks into Israel or to fire rockets into Israel. But Hamas has not shown desire for that or a capability for that. And I don't think there's enough trust to allow them to do that, which is why, you know, under the current circumstances, if you do want to have peace there, Hamas has to be either eliminated or severely degraded in terms of their military capabilities. Yeah. Check mark, check mark. This was, this is over a year ago. This is exactly what has happened. The plan has been underway for a long time. This is why the president seems so confident. And I'm pretty sure Jordan and Egypt are ready. I don't see it. What do you see then? I see

Starting point is 01:05:50 the same mess that's always been historically and I don't see it changing at all. I mean let's look at the track record. I think he's right about the fact that you had bad governance for X number of years but it's also during that period of bad governance, which we have in California. You have a period of brainwashing the public to make them think that this is great what they're doing, and they're all full of shit, these people, and the Palestinians are troublemakers because of it. Because of the brainwashing.

Starting point is 01:06:21 Yeah. Yeah. You can find the textbooks and all the rest about how the Jews are terrible and all the rest of it. And if that's doesn't just disappear overnight, just because you put some new people in the same thing, like in California or in these schools where, you know, they promote gender studies or gender ideology as a kids come home. If the parents are in with it because they're dumb or lousy parents, they buy into it too. But they haven't blown up the leadership. That's the difference.

Starting point is 01:06:50 The Hamas leadership is gone. That's the difference. If you blew up Gavin Newsom, not saying you should, and got rid of these city councils and all the corruption. Yeah, it would just reform. Man, I… It would reform. It's going to reform in Palestine too.

Starting point is 01:07:10 It's just the way it is. Like an octopus tentacle just grows on again? Kind of, but if you have a population that's all into it and thinks that everything is hunky-dory and they refuse to do this, they refuse to do that. No, this is bull crap. This is going nowhere. Well, I think this is the plan they're trying to implement. Well, they can try all they want. Good luck with that. I think it's just a waste of time and money. But, you know, this idealistic. Yes, yes.

Starting point is 01:07:38 They think, everyone thinks like an American. This is not the way it is. But he did make a good point about the corruption of bad governance of Ukraine and Hamas. And the Ukraine is the same way. And California. Put them all in the same boat. And California or Massachusetts. You're the Ukraine of America. That's getting there. Let's stick with the military industrial complex and a little bit with Israel.

Starting point is 01:08:04 The Iron Dome, we heard President Trump promise the Iron Dome is coming. Let's stick with the military industrial complex and a little bit with Israel. The Iron Dome, we heard President Trump promise the Iron Dome is coming. Although is it going to be called the Iron Dome? Here is our Secretary of Defense with the money honey. We need to update our nuclear triad on land, in sea and on air. But that also includes the Iron Dome, Iron Dome or Golden Dome, whatever you want to call it. Golden Dome. We have embraced or Golden Dome, whatever you want to call it. Golden Dome.

Starting point is 01:08:25 We have embraced the executive order of President Trump. We're going to ensure it's included in reconciliation money in the FY26, all our budgets going forward, to invest in the ability—Maria, get this, novel idea—to defend our homeland. That's why we're focusing on our southern border and the invasion there, the 100 percent operational control, and then our skies. So, Golden Dome, Iron Dome, Maria, Money Honey, Bartiromo dives in deeper. Joining me now is US Israel Education Association Senior Policy Advisor. Okay, I love this. This is the US Israel, the Israel, America Israel Education Association.

Starting point is 01:09:06 Advisor. Yes. This is the funding arm for AIPAC. And this is what I've consistently said because I followed the money. You can look at the 990s, you can see that it's Raytheon and Boeing who put money into the Education Fund, nonprofit, and the Education Fund funds APAC. Not for Israel to control everybody, but for the military industrial complex to control everybody, which they do.

Starting point is 01:09:35 No doubt about it. We still have producers out there who listen to the show and think that you're a Zionist for even suggesting that we are dominating the situation in the way things go. Yes. Boomer Zionist, okay? I mean... Oh, you're a boomer Zionist. I didn't... Boomer, yeah. Boomer Zionist piece of crap. That's what it is. Yeah, well, yes. That's what one guy called you. So why is this guy telling us about the Golden Dome? Because he's part of the military industrial complex. And we're going to build this thing and it's interesting. And it's not going to do anything.

Starting point is 01:10:11 Well, listen. Joining me now is U.S. Israel Education Association Senior Policy Advisor and rocket scientist Ari Sacher. And he's a rocket scientist, not unimportant. President Trump told me he's probably going to call it something else, something like the Golden Sphere or Golden Dome. I think Golden Balls would be better. The Golden Sphere, the Golden Dome. We have to come up with a better name than that. He's probably gonna call it something else, something like the Golden Sphere or Golden Dome.

Starting point is 01:10:42 Tell me how this works and a little about the iron dome that is used right now in Israel sir so let me tell you at the outset which doesn't work the golden condom the golden egg I mean we've got they've got to do something they got to start marketing this properly now let's listen to what it is so let me tell you at the outset, the president is using the term iron dome as a, as a metaphor. Iron dome is a previous slide that defends small areas, city sized areas against threats that are launched from about 40 miles away. So it's perfect for defending Israel from Gaza, Lebanon.

Starting point is 01:11:19 Um, it, it is not something that the United States needs very much. United States has a small, uh, a small number of batteries of Iron Dome and that defends deployed forces. But to defend the US homeland, as the president wants to do, you need something completely different. You're defending against rockets not launched from Canada or Mexico, or that I know of, but you're defending against rockets that are launched from North Korea, from China, from Russia. Awesome.

Starting point is 01:11:46 Potentially. And you need something far more complex than Iron Dome to shoot it down. The president is looking at is something that probably would be called space-based intercept. You bring up a whole bunch of interceptors into outer space, and the whole intercept will take place outer space. So if you want to call it Iron Dome, or you want to call it Fred, it doesn't make a difference. It's not Iron Dome. But the chances of it succeeding are excellent.

Starting point is 01:12:11 The US has a tremendous amount of engineers and gumption. Space Force. Yeah, baby. Let's call it the Orange Dome. There you go. That's better. Isn't there some treaty who are not supposed to weaponize space? I mean, it's not like we haven't already done that and the Chinese haven't already done

Starting point is 01:12:28 that. But that should get some pushback. Yeah, I think there is a treaty. But the whole thing is that this is just a fiasco. No, I think it's brilliant. I mean, that's what nuclear deterrence is all about. Yeah, okay, you can bomb us, but then we're going to just wipe out your entire civilization. No, no, no, no, no. We zap your hypersonic missiles with the... Sure we do. With our golden stream.

Starting point is 01:12:56 I was wondering how long it would take for you to go there. It took me at least six minutes. Come on, give me some credit. Well, you know, and Elon's gonna build it. I mean, I was alive when Reagan was like, yeah, we're gonna put in Star Wars. Whatever happened to that? Didn't work. Well, they couldn't get, none of this stuff works.

Starting point is 01:13:24 I mean, if you have a multiple reentry product It didn't work. It didn't. Well, they couldn't get. They couldn't work. None of this stuff works. I mean, if you have a multiple reentry product that's like you send it up in ICBM and it breaks into a hundred little pieces and a hundred little bombs and it just goes scattering around every which way, it's pretty hard. You can stop one or two. And then we have the upcoming drone warfare, which comes under the radar. And that's going to be, I think, going to be the future of a lot of these battles, these drones flying around.

Starting point is 01:13:49 Yeah. This is a mess. They got to, you know, establish a peaceful world. Yes. Well, you do that through strength. Through war. Yeah, exactly. Let's talk a little bit about the situation with Eric Adams.

Starting point is 01:14:07 Yeah. Can you, do you have, in these clips, or can you tell me exactly what the charges were on him, because as far as I can recall. Yeah, a couple of Turkish airlines upgrades. Because they said, well, I want you to introduce me to somebody and I'm upgrading you to from business. This little bit of that, that's all involves Turkey. And also then there's a charge that they were getting to, which they didn't get to, which was him lying to the FBI about what was going on.

Starting point is 01:14:37 But the whole thing was, you know, the justice department dropped it. But the way, this is a presentation on PBS again, and this is a pack of lies. This, I've traced this down. I believe there's a beef going on between the Federalist Society. No. And the Trump administration. And a new guy, because there's a change of leadership at the Federalist Society and there's

Starting point is 01:15:01 this guy who's taking over called Leonard Leo. Can you tell me about the Federalist Society? Is this like the Federalist Society versus the anti? The Federalist Society is a super conservative operation that's involved with the judicial picks. The Gorsuch, Amy Comey Barrett, and Kavanaugh were all chosen by the Federalist Society. When Trump's first, when he was first in office, almost every judge that he appointed was pre-picked by the Federalist Society. When Trump's first when he was first in office almost every judge that he appointed was Pre-picked by the Federalist Society. Can I ask you a question? So when I think Federalist Society I think of the Federalist Party and the anti-federalist party when we were getting the Constitution together and there was no It's not the same thing. No, it's just a group of super good super conservatives. I believe in

Starting point is 01:15:44 very very conservatives, no leeway whatsoever type of operation and they're mostly concentrating on the judicial and they have people planted all over the place and I believe this is a power play because when Trump put in Pam Bondi without consulting these guys. Oh, that's the issue. They, these guys really think they're the tail wagging the dog and they're, and especially this new guy, Leonard Leo, you should just look him up on Wikipedia. He's an egomaniac who spends a lot of money at seams and he is a,

Starting point is 01:16:22 throwing his weight around. He's one of these, he's one of these guys who he thinks he's the president, kind of, you know, where you're, you're the guy behind the scenes. If anybody remembers old California politics from the, I don't know, before I was born, but in the thirties and forties, this guy, Arthur Samish. Okay. So he supported not only John Roberts, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, but also Clarence Thomas. Yes. These guys really think they run the place. Because they kind of do when it comes to the judicial to this point,

Starting point is 01:16:54 but they weren't consulted on Bondi. There may be some, and Bondi's got some issues that irk these guys. And so I think this was the whole Eric Adams thing the way it was handled because we go through these clips I'll tell you my complaints about each one of these clips the PBS guys are are Having nothing but fun over this because the person who started this and I believe the Federalist Society is behind them the mass Resignation. Oh, yeah, that sounds right. When you have a mass resignation, somebody is orchestrating it. This does it. I've been in enough operations to know this because I've done it myself.

Starting point is 01:17:30 Have you ever mass resigned? I put together one. It's a story that I'm not going to discuss. You're a troublemaker, you. I am a troublemaker. And so this Danielle Sassoon is like, Oh, she was the acting top prosecutor, US attorney, la la la la la. And nobody mentions in any of these reports, any of them, you can look and look and look, you won't find it.

Starting point is 01:17:55 The fact is she was in office as acting for three whole weeks. Three whole weeks. Yes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So she shows up. Next thing you know, she quits in a huff over the Eric Adams thing. We'll go through these clips and I can complain more, but let's start with the Eric Adams fiasco clip one.

Starting point is 01:18:19 A wave of resignations is shaking up the US Justice Department after the Trump administration gave orders to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. So far, at least seven officials have quit and Adams is facing increasingly loud calls to step down.

Starting point is 01:18:35 The exodus began yesterday with one of New York's top federal prosecutors and it's already being dubbed the Thursday afternoon massacre, recalling the famous Saturday night massacre during the Watergate scandal William Brangham begins our coverage. Okay. Hold on so soon a member of the deeply conservative Federalist Society is a rising star in legal circles In her resignation letter Sassoon name-checked her former mentor Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia You name checked her former mentor, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Okay.

Starting point is 01:19:06 Yes. All right. You've picked up on something important here. This is good. Her credentials are impeccable. And the guy who's the other guy that I think was important on this is this guy, Hagan Scotton. Hagan Scotton was one of the guys who was leading the investigation of Eric Adams.

Starting point is 01:19:26 Right. And the two of them, she has one child and one on the way, family woman, married, and the Scotton guy's got three kids, and you just don't up and quit a job like this with a big family like that unless you get guarantees. So it goes, don't worry about it. You can quit, but you're going gonna land on your feet when in fact, if you quit the way these two did and the other five, it's like, no, you're never going to get work again in this town is the way it should go.

Starting point is 01:19:54 But no, they've, they've been set up. This whole thing is a scam. And it's, and it's being played. And the media loves it because you have these people are impeccable. This, this, this Scott, this Hagen character, this guy's double bronze star. He's got reddles up the ass. You know, he's a, these are super conservatives that are, you can say, well, look, these super conservatives, they quit on the Trump administration because it's corrupt. Trump's corrupt.

Starting point is 01:20:22 And so is, is Pam Bondi. But let's finish these clips. Throughout this entire ordeal, which I think today New York City Mayor Eric Adams was playing defense. I had to endure for something I didn't do. I didn't do anything wrong. Including a PR blitz on Fox News. All the while the U S department of justice is in upheaval over the fate of the corruption case it brought against the mayor.

Starting point is 01:20:48 Yesterday, six DOJ officials resigned after refusing an order from the department in Washington to dismiss the case. Acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, started the exodus. Oh, she started the exodus. Okay. Yeah, she was the initiator. Working there three weeks, not taking orders from her boss. So I just started the job. I'm working there three weeks. My boss says, you got to drop this case. I have reasons or we have reasons or we don't think it's a good case or it doesn't make any difference. Why?

Starting point is 01:21:29 Because you're working there three weeks, you're on probation and you, oh, I'm not going to listen to you. I quit. And so then- By the way, I expect you to say that one day on this show to me. I think it's going to happen. Not working for you. I quit. And so, and the media just slaps it up because this is like a kind of a crack in the armor here. Soap opera. It's a soap opera. They love it.

Starting point is 01:21:56 Yeah. And it's bull crap. And the logic of it makes no sense. This is total insubordination that was orchestrated by somebody. And I suspect a Federalist Society but on to clip two. Three. Three. Oh, that was two?

Starting point is 01:22:11 Yeah. Yeah. This is three. Okay. Well, then clip three kind of summarizes an interesting thought. Writing to Trump's new attorney general, Pam Bondi, Sassoon accused Mayor Adams and officials in the DOJ of what amounted to a quid pro quo. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:22:28 That Adams would aid Trump's immigration enforcement if the DOJ dropped his case. Sassoon excoriated that alleged offer, writing, quote, it is a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to reward Adams' opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal of a criminal indictment. Now is she the one that said that Adams' lawyer had said that in the meeting? I don't know who said that, but I just want to back into this concept that the Justice Department, there's a couple of things, the Justice Department for one thing did a deal with somebody, gee that's never happened in the history of the justice system in the

Starting point is 01:23:14 United States. No one's ever done a deal with somebody to get them to cooperate from one way or another, that's never happened before. So this is a big shocker. Then they keep bringing up this prosecutorial misconduct. That's bull crap because prosecutorial misconduct always has to do with screwing over some guy, not letting him go free. So this whole thing is orchestrated and it's phony and PBS doesn't dig into it. Nobody mentions that this girl, this chick, Sassoon Chick, was there for three whole weeks and she's standing up against the DOJ and Pam Bondi. Give me a break. Sassoon Chick.

Starting point is 01:24:01 Sassoon Chick. How old is she? Let me see. She's young. Yeah, she does seem young. But she did some big, she's got some big, big, she was the Sam Bankman Fried prosecutor. Yeah, yeah, she's the Sam Bankman Fried and she also did, she did something else. She's no slouch.

Starting point is 01:24:19 No. I'm not saying that. She's not a slouch, but she, but something's corrupt about the whole thing. Yeah, what else did she do? She's done some racketeering cases, sex trafficking. You know, for three weeks you do what you're told. You'd think. Especially in this sort of situation.

Starting point is 01:24:41 I mean, come on, this happens all the time. And so even if there was a quid pro quo, which they keep talking about, they can't prove, but they keep saying it, say there was, this guy is going to help Trump clean up New York and make everything better. And this is a bad idea. Bad idea supply. Do you want to hear the NPR clips on this or do you want to, you have one more Eric Adams clip I see. Play the last one.

Starting point is 01:25:09 Yesterday, Mayor Adams met with Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, and sat beside him on Fox News this morning as he denied Sassoon's claims. That's quid pro quo. That's a crime. It took her three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action. Come on, this is silly. But then Homan implied that if Adams didn't help with immigration... ...in his office, up his butt, saying, where the hell is the agreement we came to?

Starting point is 01:25:37 Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General and former Trump lawyer, Emil Bovi, who ordered the dismissal, rejected the assertion that there was any quid pro quo. In a response to Sassoon, he wrote that she, quote, lost sight of her oath and should not, quote, interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the policies of a democratically elected president. Adams had pleaded not guilty last year to federal charges of accepting bribes and illegal campaign contributions from Turkish nationals.

Starting point is 01:26:10 Now, a flurry of Democrats are calling on Adams to step down. And calling on New York governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, to remove him from office, which she'd have the authority to do. For DOJ officials, the so-called Thursday afternoon massacre continued today. Hagen Scottin, the line prosecutor who handled the Adams case, quit, with a defiant message to Bovi, refusing his motion to dismiss the case. Scottin wrote, I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward

Starting point is 01:26:45 to file your motion, but it was never going to be me. Reportedly, Bovi was able to find a DOJ lawyer willing to sign the motion this afternoon. This is a good sequence you had here because exactly what you talk about and and of course this the focus of Sassoon is only that you know She was she's so awesome and she really led the charge and this is you know, no one agrees because it's Trump and politicization He's going after his political enemy That's what's sticking it's really sticking and this interview or this appearance he did on Fox with Holman sticking and this interview or this appearance he did on Fox with Holman has just got everybody in a tizzy as of course we must once again resort to MSNBC and the superstar Joy Reid. But we begin tonight with Donald Trump's take

Starting point is 01:27:35 on law and order as we now live in a country where the rule of law comes second to whatever Trump wants. As of today, seven top federal prosecutors and officials, including the acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, saying that she witnessed Adam's attorney indicate that Adams would only be able to help push Trump's immigration enforcement policies if the charges against him were dropped. And before I continue the clip, so apparently this happened three weeks ago when she just got there is when this horrible quid pro quo, qu-pro-qu-pro-qu-pro-quomo Quid pro quo.

Starting point is 01:28:18 Quid pro quo was suggested. She held on to it. This morning Adams responded, of course, on Fox. Of course, because that's the president's network. Think about that. Think about that. Think about my attorney, Alex Spira, one of the top trial attorneys in the country. Imagine him going inside saying that the only way, uh,

Starting point is 01:28:46 Madams is going to assist in immigration, which I was calling for for since 2022 is if you drop the charges, that's quick procreate. That's a crime that took three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action. Come on. This is silly. Yeah, it was okay. This is silly. But you know, when you say it on Fox is not true. Well, first, okay. This is silly. But you know, when you say it on Fox, it's not true. Well, first, I should note that Adam's attorney, Alex Spiro, who you just heard him mention, also represents none other than...

Starting point is 01:29:12 Who? Who? Can you guess who? Who? You'll never guess? Jeffrey Epstein. No, close, close. I'll give you one more guess.

Starting point is 01:29:21 Weinstein. Oh, man. So close. No. Trump's co-president Elon Musk. Trump's co-president. That's no good. I like the co-president. Epstein would have been better. Interesting, right? Epstein would have been better. Interesting, right? It's interesting, right? Interesting, right? And second, it is hard not to find it ridiculous when Adams is seen sitting next to Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, right there on Fox, who just minutes later all but confirms the

Starting point is 01:29:52 quid pro quo with a threat to Adams on live TV. If he doesn't come through, I'll be back in New York City and we won't be sitting on the couch. I'll be in his office, up his butt saying saying where the hell is the agreement we came to? Up his butt? Nice. Uh, Tom Brokaw is rolling over in his grave. He's dead.

Starting point is 01:30:21 That's what I said, he's rolling over in his grave. Yeah, you can't believe that news now, I can't believe that you're going to turn Mopper's butt. And of course, everyone's quick to jump in because, hey, there's going to be a spot. There's going to be a spot. Let's jump in. Let's bring in some familiar faces. Very familiar to me is a former New Yorker. This morning, Curtis Sliwa has officially filed paperwork to run for New York City mayor. Sliwa! I have to say, Curtis Sliwa was such a badass back in the late 80s and the 90s in New York.

Starting point is 01:30:51 The Guardian Angels, it was the people protecting the people and he's still walking around with that silly beret on his head. The beret, the red beret. The beret is like, dude, we get it. Sliwa is of course the founder of the Guardian Angels and was a Republican nominee for mayor in 2021. Mayor. Ultimately losing that election to mayor Adams.

Starting point is 01:31:14 In a campaign post, Sliwa has said he will prioritize public safety and quality of life issues. Meantime, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has been mulling a run for mayor as well. Cuomo has not made things official, but he did post a campaign style video on social media yesterday. It's frightening out there on the streets, but we have been through this before as New Yorkers. We've seen the ups, we've seen the downs, and we know how to make this city work and make this state safe for everyone.

Starting point is 01:31:49 And that's exactly what we're going to do. This was from a Valentine's Day event at the Johnson Houses Community Center yesterday, which was hosted by Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs. Cuomo, quid pro Cuomo, not looking good. He looks frail. his voice is frail. The old man, the governor? Yes, very thin, looking kind of gauntish. No, it's not good.

Starting point is 01:32:18 It's not good. The, let me see. I think we're done with that, right? We have nothing else. I think we covered it. So the interesting little piece of video I caught, we've been talking about just staying in New York here with the $59 million that was being spent on the Roosevelt Hotel for, I guess, does the No Agenda Style Guide allow us to say illegal

Starting point is 01:32:46 aliens again? I think that's back, right? We can say that now? No, I think we can always say it. Yeah, well, you can have your opinions, but you know, you've got to be careful about what you say. In the UK, and this was on GB News, of course, Camelot Castle, a Camelot Castle famous hotel that goes back to the time, you know, supposedly that's where King Arthur had his round table

Starting point is 01:33:13 of knights and, you know, it's in a village and it's a castle and they got rooms in the castle. I thought King Arthur was out in the western part of the country over in whatever that area is. The western part? The Camelot Castle associated with King Arthur. Well, it's just named Camelot. No, but I'm reading from the... I forgot the London. Okay.

Starting point is 01:33:40 Okay. Listen, it's a castle... That is bullcrap anyway. Please continue. That's the marketing story. Okay It's the marketing story the proprietor of Camelot Castle Explained what the British government wanted to do with him Regarding illegal aliens in Great Britain

Starting point is 01:33:59 You refused a request from the Home Office to house migrants. What did they offer you and why did you turn it down? Well, it was a considerable amount of money Beverly. It was probably double what we would normally make on a good year Because they offered full occupancy on a rolling contract for a year So how does that work? Somebody literally just picks up the phone to you or do they send you a letter? They sent us a letter first right and to be honest with you I thought it was a joke. Well, because of the amount of money they were offering. I just couldn't believe that the government wanted to put

Starting point is 01:34:30 illegal migrants up in four-poster beds at Camelot Castle. I mean, it was absolutely remarkable. It would have destroyed the village because one of the things they said is to lay off all the staff and all but two, because they do meals on wheels, you clean the rooms once a week. You're probably a big employer in the village. Well a major employer in the village and locally and of course those jobs in a village like

Starting point is 01:34:55 Tintagel they wouldn't be replaced. No. So, but also they would have stacked the place up with about 300 people and You know you then have those people wandering around the village I don't know whether they whether they intended to contain them over here would be allowed out and about I know in other areas Certainly hotels in Newquay have had some serious problems because there were a few hotels that did take the migrants They're presumably people who stay at your hotel then spend their money in the village Well, of course they do they do spend their money there and it would have it would have destroyed the local economy. You know it's hard to say how many

Starting point is 01:35:30 hundreds of thousands of pounds our guests spend in the village but certainly a fair amount. But it's also the the cultural degradation that goes along with this. New York, what is it, we got memos from people who had weddings scheduled. Was it Pennsylvania? It's all over the place. The Netherlands. It's like some sort of a conspiracy. That's the thing.

Starting point is 01:35:57 It's like, it does seem like this was a coordinated move to destroy the world basically. Bring it all down. Bring all societies, particularly in heartlands. Just bring it down. Bring it all down. Yeah, who needs that aggravation? No, but a lot of people took the deal of course. A lot of people took the deal. Well, when they offer twice as much as you normally get, which is what the guy implied. Well, we know the Dutch, remember that family, van der Falk, they took the deal. And then the family got into a big fight over it and, you know, blew the family apart. But half of them didn't want to do it.

Starting point is 01:36:39 And the other one was like, look at the money. And he was taking money for just presenting the deal to the family I think so It's it's insanity Insanity and why why because oh I learned something you know this This this new style we've picked up of someone saying why because It has yeah, it has an asking themselves questions. It's called Hypofora. Hypofora? Hypofora, figure speech in which the speaker poses a question, then answers the question.

Starting point is 01:37:16 And it is really a psychological trick. And what's the trick accomplished? Besides annoy you and me. That is the main reason they're doing it, of course. To annoy you and me. The rhetorical effectiveness lies in allowing the speaker to answer questions the listener may have. So if you have this question, we're going to give you,

Starting point is 01:37:48 we're going to confirm your question and then give you the answer in a different direction. Hypofora is used as a transitional device to take the discussion in a new direction, a device to catch attention, since a reader or listener's curiosity is stimulated by hearing a question and to suggest the answer that the reader or listener may not have thought of. So it's a good trick.

Starting point is 01:38:15 It's a control trick. I like it. Neuro-linguistic programming I guess. Now I like it more than before. Now we have to really pay attention to who's doing it because their people are just directing the conversation in the direction they want to there's no so in other words There's no conversation. No, and why because then why and why because they they want to control your mind. That's why there you go I'm gonna do it. I have one clip of Bio-Leninism which is also known as Trans Maoism. As President Trump has now signed executive orders that the government funds may not be used for gender operations, which is also known as gender-affirming care for children under 19, which means, really

Starting point is 01:39:08 only means that Medicare can't pay for it. If you want to do it, you know, you want to pay for it yourself, and that's another thing. So they're protesting this outside the Lourie Children's Hospital, I think in Chicago. Hundreds of people protested outside hundreds not only one only one was trans who was protesting everybody there does not look trans at all and the people who are speaking on camera not trans except for one

Starting point is 01:39:38 but that's a male to female trans which i don't think there was much operating done that perhaps breast enhancement. Hospital Saturday. Trans rights are human rights. Over the hospital's decision to pause gender affirming surgeries for patients under the age of 19. Legislators have no business to be stepping into medical decisions. The hospital says it will continue to provide some services for transgender youth. We can receive gender-affirming hormones and puberty blockers,

Starting point is 01:40:12 but if they're willing to take away top surgery, which is such a pivotal part of people's transitions and people's... I just love top surgery. You mean a... Double mastectomy. It's now just known as top surgery. Lives, then what's next? The decision came shortly after President Trump signed an executive order stopping federal support for gender transitions. A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's executive order on Thursday. Demonstrators say the move can cause serious harm to transgender people.

Starting point is 01:40:46 As we know... Here it comes. Now, you always want to throw this in because as we know, why? Because as we know... ...to transgender people. As we know, many trans youth who can't get access to health care commit suicide, unfortunately. It's so tired. It's so tired. It's so tired. The evidence is not conclusive on that at all.

Starting point is 01:41:08 But that's that's the psychological trick we've played over and over again. If we don't give trans children healthcare, note the term healthcare, they will kill themselves. Demonstrators say the move can cause serious harm to transgender people. As we know, many trans youth who can't get access to health care commit suicide, unfortunately. At the rally, we heard from transgender advocates. I'm the product of a transition before the age of 19 years old.

Starting point is 01:41:40 And I just don't know if this man dressed and looking very feminine has had bottom surgery I Was supported I had access to care and because of that I'm standing here today Healthy thriving parents with children who are patients at the hospital thriving. Parents with children who are patients at the hospital also healthy and thriving. They're choosing to live their true selves because not doing so hurts them more than anything the bullies can do. What do we do? Stand up like that. Many in the crowd fear the changes this hospital made are just the beginning. Lurie's is a leader in this space so if they back down other smaller companies and smaller organizations will follow. In a statement, Laurie Children's Hospital called the decision difficult and said they're

Starting point is 01:42:28 monitoring further developments on this issue. You know, in 1990, I did a documentary of Thailand. And we did a whole bunch of crazy things, you know, drank cobra blood, stayed with the Hill tribe up near the Burmese border. So they're doing snake alley in Taiwan. They bring Cobra. I thought it was, you know, they kill, first they make the Cobra angry and then they milk them and then they slit them open.

Starting point is 01:42:52 Yeah, it was very disgusting. And, you know, we went to see, it was bad. Went to see the long necks, which turned out to be a tourist trap. But we also in Bangkok, we went to a ladyboy show. And I remember interviewing the ladyboys. And I recall saying, so why do you want to be a woman? Yeah, I was in 1990. I was how old was I like 3030 something. Not even. Yeah, 30. And they got mad at me. They said no no we're not women. We're ladyboys They literally will get mad if you thought that they wanted to be women this you know We're just ladyboys. This is this is what we want to be

Starting point is 01:43:38 and I That would solve a lot of problems Well, that's not going to happen. No, it's not going to happen. I have two, but I just wanted to say something on the DEI front because I have breaking news. It's breaking news. My buddy, my buddy, the former Hollywood executive, you know who I'm talking about. Yeah. I know exactly who you're talking about.

Starting point is 01:44:03 It's suing Disney. Good. And so I can now tell you who his name is, because it's in print. Robert Stephens, Rob Stephens, who served as CFO and then president of Marvel from 2015 to 2023, filed a complaint Tuesday that a Disney executive informed him that he would not be promoted to president of Disney Consumer Products because of his age and race.

Starting point is 01:44:30 Stephens claimed that then Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter, also known as Ike, told him in February 2022 that word came from then Disney CEO Bob Chapek that he would not receive the promotion because the company couldn't award the job to another old white guy. The job was then given to a woman of ambiguous ethnicity, per the complaint. Stephens alleged that he was also denied the promotion for objecting to other incidents of racial discrimination that he witnessed at the House of the Mouse in the past. The former Marvel executive claimed

Starting point is 01:45:12 that Disney was engaged in, quote, an official effort to promote vice presidents based on their race and a memorandum, so that he has the receipts, that would have referred to employees with the racial signifier BIPOC. Disney's actions were willful, wanton, malicious, intentional, oppressive, and despicable and were done in willful and conscious disregard of the rights, welfare, and safety of Mr. Stephens.

Starting point is 01:45:38 I'm thinking he's going to be starting his own entertainment company soon. Well, that could be, but I think he should donate to the show. Oh yeah, no, big time, because we've been a huge supporter of him without ever naming him. So back to the gender issues, which I guess are somewhat related to that. Related, yeah, related. Let's go to, there's a new gender. No.

Starting point is 01:46:00 Yeah. No. It's unbelievable, there were 75, I think there are 70. It is the policy of this administration. There are two genders. Well here's the new one. This is the gender season. Did you know, however, there is a gender identity that is linked to the seasons?

Starting point is 01:46:17 This is called gender season. And this is a gender identity I've only just learned about. It's a micro identity. It's not an identity that I have ever heard discussed before. It's a new one for me. Gender identity is an individual who explores the gender identity in relation to a season or all the seasons. So this might be somebody whose gender expression and identity is linked to one season, so for example, winter. Or this might be somebody whose gender identity and expression changes depending on the season. This is completely in line with what I've been

Starting point is 01:46:48 saying for a year. It's the gender season of reveal everybody. The gender season of reveal. That's why people are named autumn and summer and winter and fall. Okay. Wow. So there's that. And then we have the, this is a new movement that I caught early here. This is the transprepper. Oh, this is good.

Starting point is 01:47:19 With concentration camps looming in the United States, here's what queer people are doing. Yes, I said concentration camps. You can Maga We are getting a go-bag ready. We are getting all of our documents ready So drivers license birth certificate social security card passport No, if you have to revert your passport and your documents to previously said Gender identities that you were born with, do so. I'm allowed to do so with my driver's license that says ex on it in the state

Starting point is 01:47:51 that I'm in. I'm going Monday to revert that to my gender assigned at birth. So the next step, we're gonna have a go bag with shoes, clothes for seven days, dehydrated food, think astronaut food, for seven days. We're gonna have a go bag with shoes, clothes for seven days, dehydrated food, think astronaut food, for seven days. We're gonna have $1,000 cash or prepaid credit card on hand. Some ether, Nick, ether. And this is just for the emergency. This isn't for permanency. This is for a week of getting by off the grid.

Starting point is 01:48:20 We're gonna have anything ready for the pets that we're taking with us. So put some cat litter in your trunk. put some cat food or dog food in your trunk Make sure there's a leash there Make sure you have everything ready for everything that you're taking with some lattes make sure your meta Medication is available and in extra stock so stock up on it. Ask your doctor for a three-month supply at one time So stock up on it. Ask your doctor for a three-month supply at one time. Keep your gas tank full.

Starting point is 01:48:47 Have all of this stuff available and ready to go in a moment's notice for every single person in your family. You do not need a passport to get into Canada or Mexico. You just need your documents. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a passport ready to go. Have a beautiful day and stay safe my transgender family. Wow, trans survivalist movement. That is, that is, that's interesting.

Starting point is 01:49:13 Yeah. I think that they should all go to Berkeley. That's, we all meet with our go bags in Berkeley. We meet with our go bags in Berkeley. And have you found more of these these videos of the trains? I'll start bringing them up as they come this is yeah, there's been a few this is but so what? Concentration camps are they referring to he just says Google it Mega, no, I'm mega

Starting point is 01:49:39 What he said trans Concentration camps. Okay. Let's see. I'm googling it as per instructed. Well, they had them during the Nazi era apparently. Well, same thing. This is the Nazi era. Hello. Yes. Hmm. I cannot google anything current of said concentration camps. Well, you're not doing it right. I'm not Googling right. So I got a couple of clips about Doge.

Starting point is 01:50:15 Okay, I just want to say I feel bad for these people. I mean, it's horrible that our fellow citizens have been so psyoped into this insanity. And I wish there was something I could do for them. You're doing what you can. I am. I'm doing what I can. But it's not enough, obviously. And they won't listen.

Starting point is 01:50:34 At some point when you go over the cliff, you're in free fall. There's not really any way. There's no Superman coming to stop you from hitting the bottom. In your opinion, having a decade on me, is there anything like this that has happened in the past with any group that felt so marginalized that they were prepping and fleeing for fear of their government? The regular preppers? Well, yeah. They've been around forever. So this is just an offshoot. I don't see the difference really. Okay.

Starting point is 01:51:11 So I'm going to start with this clip. This is Brooks. Yeah. Because Brooks and Cape Heart were on yakking about everything. And so I just took this little snippet from Brooks and then I have to... The guy, I feel bad about him, he's delusional. And this little lecture he gives here is... This is about a guy missing the point, I guess. I'm not sure how you can come to this conclusion, but here we go.

Starting point is 01:51:40 What I object to is Donald Trump was elected mostly by working class people who have real problems. They have health disparities with the rest of us. They have educational disparities. They workplace. They live in communities that have where the social capital is low. Is this a, does Brooks have a TikTok account? Is that where he's doing this? This is not on PBS. Yes, this is on PBS.

Starting point is 01:52:00 Is he on zoom? What, what is this? No, it's just the way it's, no No, he's he's a remote on his remote Okay, Donald Trump was elected by those people you'd think he'd care enough about them to do something on behalf of the people who elected them Instead he's going after you know USAID. He's going after any place He thinks there might be liberal people with college degrees And so what we're seeing is not populism. What we're seeing is a sort of Ivy League right-wing nihilism. And to me that is so disorienting and so shocking

Starting point is 01:52:31 and so appalling that you can't even serve the legitimate needs of the people who put you in power. They're totally off the board this last month. We need something to happen. We need some kind of win that you know like stopping a war or something that can just put everybody on a different track. I don't know if I can handle another four more years of this. Well the thing that bothers me is that he doesn't understand that what Doge is doing is exactly what these voters wanted. Yes. And showing the corruption and waste of their taxpayer money is exactly helping them. I don't know what he's talking about.

Starting point is 01:53:12 I do have two more clips. I want to play the Doge Report. There's a woman who comes on every day on Twitter and this is often released by Musk, who does the Doge report. And here's the one she just did on the healthcare industry, which is worth listening to, because I may be bringing these in more often than I have the bonus clip I want to play. The Doge report, healthcare edition. So just found that the US healthcare corporation

Starting point is 01:53:41 spent 95% of their income to shareholder payouts. Not on more research, not on staffing issues, not on infrastructure, but shareholder payouts. That totaled about $2.6 trillion over the last 20 years. Fun fact, the US taxpayers pay about 70% of those fees. Also just breaking, if that wasn't enough to make it too fit to be tied. $2.7 trillion, again, $2.7 trillion again 2.7 trillion dollars has been improperly paid out in Medicare and Medicaid to people outside of our country.

Starting point is 01:54:36 I hope you heard me. I didn't say million. I didn't say billion. I said 2.7 trillion dollars of taxpayer money has been improperly paid in Medicare and Medicaid to people outside of the United States. Thank God for Doge for exposing this, for showing you how they are robbing us blind, like wasting our money and lining their pockets. More to come. I'm going to tag on to this and yes, I'd like you to keep on. I saw that, but I think it's your beat now.

Starting point is 01:55:13 You definitely keep tabs on her reports. Breaking. She should do a little better job. Breaking! Just breaking right now! She's just a kind of an amateur doing good work. But when it comes to the voter base who wanted all this and the medical industrial complex, for lack of a better term, RFK Jr.'s acceptance speech when he was sworn in with the president there addressed exactly this.

Starting point is 01:55:43 President Trump has promised to restore the American dream in this country. A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person only has one. 60% of our population has only one dream, that they get better. President Trump has promised that he's going to restore America's strength. We can't be a strong nation if we have a weak citizenry. If people are sick, 60 percent of our people are sick, 77 percent, as President Trump mentioned, of our children cannot qualify for military service.

Starting point is 01:56:19 And we need a man on a white horse now. We need somebody who is willing to come in and has the spine and the guts and the strength to challenge orthodoxies, to stand in the way of vested interests, and to break institutions that have turned against our democracy. President Trump has shown again and again that he is that hero. Yeah, sucking up a little bit, but I love the basic premise. Healthy people have a thousand dreams. Sick people have won. That's so right. Before we get to the last clip, which is the one that's a bonus clip. I have an RFK clip too, which is this is one of these clips where it's like, you know, I'd like to see this if he can do it.

Starting point is 01:57:11 This was on one of the turning point meetings. My initial inclination would be to use the justice department and the moral authority of the office, but also the justice department should immediately call in the beginning investigation of the medical boards and the collusion between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical boards that are de-licensing these physicians who actually try to heal patients and try to treat them. physicians who actually try to heal patients and try to treat them. The Justice Department will also call in the medical journals that are corrupted by the pharmaceutical industry and explain to them that they're all going to be subject to criminal and civil ricoactions if they don't show us a way that they're going to stop revoking studies and refusing to publish studies that challenge the mercantile interests of pharmaceutical companies. We're going to change the way business is done at NIH.

Starting point is 01:58:21 Oh, he does leave them. This is new. Now he's like, well, I'm going to leave them out if they show that they can change their ways. Yes, he gave, yes, but this is going to be rough because they're going to push back on this. So here's the bonus clip. This was sent by our Grand Duke out of San Jose into me this morning. And so I thought it would be good because it talks about kind of the the the underpinnings of Doge. Yes, it's quite quite interesting. Yeah,

Starting point is 01:58:51 this is good. Of course I have yes. Democrats are doing everything they can to challenge Doge and they're trying to take it out. But here's why it's going to be nearly impossible for them. In 2014, Obama created the United States digital service. It was a government IT task force meant to fix the Obamacare disaster website. It had full access to federal systems, but nobody paid much attention to it. Now fast forward to 2025.

Starting point is 01:59:18 Trump rebrands it as the United States Doge service. Same acronym, same funding, but a completely different mission. Find the receipts. Legally, DOJ is untouchable. Trump invoked 5 US code 3161, which lets him create temporary hiring authorities. Now DOGE teams are inside every federal agency. Each team has a lawyer, an HR rep, a young tech genius, an investigator, and they all report to DOGE, not the agency they are embedded in. Then, Trump invoked 44 U.S. Code chapter 35, a law governing federal IT oversight. Since USDDS was already an IT oversight body, DOGE now has access to every federal database. You can't defund it because it's not a new program, it's just a rebrand.

Starting point is 02:00:19 You can't sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws. And if any agency fails to comply, they are violating presidential authority. Oh, and guess what? Elon Musk was given security authorizations and top secret classified access. He now has oversight of every major federal system. So Democrats, the deep state, they can't shut it down without rewriting multiple federal laws. Man, that last bit, first of all, yes. And there's even all this video of President Obama and then Vice President Biden, you know, boasting about this, boasting about how great this was going to be and we're going to take care of it and we're going to solve everything.

Starting point is 02:01:07 But it's that last bit that has people so spun up. You know who was out there hammering on me? Amazing Polly. What did Amazing Polly have to say? Well, so this is what I would, I knew this already, but this time was different. When you go on Rogan, you're not on Rogan, you're not done when you walk out the studio. No, no, that's when it all starts. Then people make clips, people make clips, and just there's a lot of stuff going on. And there's a lot, you know, just because of the things I discussed, there were a lot of big

Starting point is 02:01:46 accounts that tweeted these clips. So Bill Ackman, he was tweeting about what I, because I basically laid out the stablecoin system. I talked about, what's his face, James O'Keefe. So O'Keefe tweets out a piece. So we got a lot of leverage out of it, but when someone sends me a note in email about the The Rogan Show, I know immediately if they listened to it or if they watched it. The people who watched it, then people have lost the ability to listen. Yeah, well we've proven that on this show. I mean, but it's... When we take our clips and the two of us, both of us do the same thing. We hear stuff that we wouldn't have heard if we watched.

Starting point is 02:02:34 It just gets so incredibly bad when it's video. And particularly, you know, a clip might not have a little bit of... This is the thing I've trained myself in, you have to go and find the original and listen to the context of the clip. Then so, Rogan says, what do you think of shitcoins? I'm like, there's only one, it's Bitcoin. And that's it, and everything else is no good.

Starting point is 02:02:58 And I said, Bitcoin, there's a whole bunch of benefits to it, but I said the way it seems to be going going and then I went into my whole spiel about stable coin how it's being put on top of treasuries and And so my my basic premise was no, I'm good with Bitcoin But amazing Polly and oh and I also said, you know a lot I said the same thing I said on this show a lot of people are pretty spun up thinking the PayPal mafia they're going to encapsulate us in this control grid and we're all going to be forced cancer mRNA shots and I said you know Joe these people have been on your show they seem pretty nice but a lot of people

Starting point is 02:03:39 don't trust them and so what I actually was saying was the opposite of what amazing Polly like though. Yeah, you're over these guys Oh, yeah, they were on his show. So they must be good And and I'm like, did you actually listen to what I said? and No, these people have lost the ability and I'm this is why we are the best podcast in the universe It's because we don't have video you kind of have to listen to the show and no one shares audio clips. Let's be honest about it No, they don't know why you're gonna share not you can see a waveform bouncing around No, that's what people want on their the on their tick-tock and on YouTube and on Twitter and everywhere

Starting point is 02:04:20 I got a share video got a share video Unless the video has big captions right on top of the video, then people kind of understand what you're saying. But at that point, why are you even watching the video? You're reading the text. Yeah, you are. So, I don't know. So you got grief.

Starting point is 02:04:40 Oh, yeah. I mean, there's a lot of people who like the thing. But yeah, you can tell the people who listen to it. But it was there's a lot of people who like the thing, but you can tell the people who listen to it, but it was just surprising to me that people who we respect amazing Polly. No. Yeah. I've always thought she did good work. No, no, no, no.

Starting point is 02:04:55 All I did was lay out what is happening and what the strategy is with the US dollar. And now all of a sudden I'm pro control grid. So your money is controlled. I said, no, I actually said, here's the, and I said, you can send a billion dollars on Bitcoin to someone else in the world in 10 minutes, nobody can stop it. And then her response to that is, oh yeah, I'm for the little man. You're only for the billionaires. I said it's an example You can send ten dollars

Starting point is 02:05:28 That's crazy. That's crazy people are obviously she got under your skin with her No, no interpretation of what you had to say. No, I'm just sad I'm sad that people are so spun up they're ready to pounce the minute they even hear something that fits with their their Thinking or bias or whatever you want to call it, they just pounce. And so we have this just- You contradict their thinking. Yeah. Well, but the thing is I wasn't contradicting her thinking. She didn't even- No, but it's perceived.

Starting point is 02:05:57 Yeah, perceived. Well, no, not even perceived, just confirming that the minute I bring up what might happen or what a strategy is, then it's like I'm all for it. I'm just saying that people are losing their minds. They're losing their minds. This is news to you. There's gambling going on. Well, I didn't expect people like Amazing Polly to lose their mind. Polly to lose her mind. Or other people who hear something we say like, that guy's been anti-war and Austrian economics has said, that's what we are. We're anti-war. You couldn't be more pro-Austrian economics if you're pro-Bitcoin, to be honest about it.

Starting point is 02:06:46 But the whole world has gone crazy It's a little tiring. It's a little time. It's gone nuts. It's gone nuts It's exactly what's happening. They're going nuts And so people who listen to the show take their time Listen while you're washing the dishes walking the dog driving in your car Which I think is going to increase now everybody has to go back to work and you don't have time to be watching videos all day long. Crowded highways. This is why the NOAA agenda show is good for you because it calms you down. Because you get a little bit of insight into what is actually being said and not all this breaking, breaking, breaking, oh my god, you're on fire!

Starting point is 02:07:20 Alert. Alert. And with that I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the quid pro quomo. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMore! Good morning to you Mr. Andrew Curry. In the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water and the dames and the nights out there.

Starting point is 02:07:42 In the morning to the trolls in the troll room who don't think I'm as smart as I think I am. Joke out. Let's count them first. Let's see, did I even get a count? I don't think I got a count. Is it broken? I don't think it worked. Let me try again, let me see.

Starting point is 02:08:02 There we go. Oh yeah, oh wow. 260 go. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow 26 Wow. Oh, wow, 26 Ruby 2607 Good. Yeah, that's good That's very good. Actually, isn't that very good? No, that's what 24 is normal. Okay, so we're it's it's above average It's good. It's above average everybody. It's very good. We had at one time Sometime back we had Yeah, yeah. Well, this is an odd weekend. It's funny. You know, it's a holiday You and I don't even think about it anymore. I mean, I I didn't know it was I have to be reminded

Starting point is 02:08:38 I mean, I didn't even know it was president's day weekend until we had some friends come over Last night we went out to dinner and like what is it's busy in town. What is this craziness as people parked everywhere and I just seen the newsletter. I'm like, it's President's Day weekend and it's kind of Valentine's Day weekend. And for us is just normal. You know, I'm prepping up until five o'clock because we're going out to dinner. It's like normal business for us. And I would like to

Starting point is 02:09:05 say regarding the newsletter alert, alert, alert, breaking, breaking. For those of you who use Apple of iPhones, iOS, they've redone their mail, Apple mail client. You wouldn't know about this. I wouldn't know about it, but I learned it from Tina very similar to gmail now they automatically Separate your email into promotions No, so they've got four tabs at the top So if you haven't seen your newsletter, it may be in a different tab now And I don't know also mention this you mention, as you brought that apple up, Apple Pay works with Stripe. Google Wallet works with Stripe.

Starting point is 02:09:51 Oh really? And so does Bitcoin. Bitcoin works with Stripe? If you look at the page, noagendadonations.com, that takes you to the Stripe page and you'll see the little Bitcoin marker there. I haven't seen anyone get anything through using it but people keep complaining about oh you should do this, you should do that, you should do this, you should do that. So we do it and nothing happens.

Starting point is 02:10:19 I'm looking for the little Bitcoin. I don't see the Bitcoin thing. There's no Bitcoin thing there. There's no Bitcoin thing.. There's no Bitcoin thing. I see an Amex, I see a, do I have to click on donate? Would that be it? Let me click on donate. Yeah, you have to click on something.

Starting point is 02:10:31 I'm clicking on donut, donuts. I'm clicking on crypto. You can donate crypto. Oh. Yeah, you have to click on donate to get the anything. Then you can click on crypto. Oh, I'll test it. And if you were doing this on an iPhone,

Starting point is 02:10:46 a little Apple, iPhone, iPad thing would crop up. It probably didn't because you were on your computer. Yes, of course. Same with the Google Wallet. Mm-hmm. Oh, sexy. So now it's even easier to support your No Agenda show. Is that what you're saying?

Starting point is 02:10:59 Yeah. Well, it's technically easier, but it's going to be harder for the penny pinchers out there that don't like to listen and won't support the show. Talk a big game. Never going to support the show. Talk a big game. Oh, you know, I'd do it if you did this.

Starting point is 02:11:14 Okay. But I was about to donate, but then you said, you know, you played a Jared Kushner clip, so you're clearly a boomer Zionist piece of crap. I can't donate now. I don't always agree with you. It's all right. This is the beauty of our show. The beauty of our show is you don't have to, you know, it's, it's called

Starting point is 02:11:36 the value for value model. And, uh, and you know, if you, if you get value out of the show, you send it back somehow, if you don't, then the show, you send it back somehow. If you don't, then, you know, you're a douchebag. We try to make it easy. Yeah, we try to make it very easy. You can do that all kinds of different ways. You can support us with time and your talent, which the artists always do. And for the last show, episode 1737, appropriately titled Swastikars,

Starting point is 02:12:03 which he thought was kind of a genius a genius title We got art from pickle surprise And pickle surprise won the Valentine's Day art Which we are now we almost didn't pick Valentine's Day art because John has no love in his life at all Apparently and was like, oh, no, I don't know if you should pick Valentine's Day. Why are we supporting that commercial crap? That's what I said. Why are we supporting this commercial crap? We normally support a national holidays. I do say that's true. But there was nothing better than this piece. I mean, the piece was,

Starting point is 02:12:38 it wasn't as elaborate as some of the other Valentine's Day pieces, which were really kind of busy, but interesting. With the simplicity and the, the piece itself yeah it was well done. Yeah and that was now I have to say I used a piece. Did you use the brown cheese? We both considered using the brown cheese heart which by the way turns out brown cheese comes from Norway not from Denmark. Sorry for misgendering your cheese everybody I use the like a wrecking ball piece by Douglas McCartsey Mick artsy yeah with Doja the Doge dog on it the Doge dog yeah yeah yeah yeah I just thought that was a

Starting point is 02:13:22 dynamite now do you know what the what this wrecking ball? refers to Yeah, yeah All the commentary that no that doges the wrecking ball No, no this particular sitting on the wrecking ball like that refers to Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus right she was on the naked on the ball. Oh, yeah. No now I'm glad you remembered. Okay. Yeah, we all remember that. Yes. There were a couple other ones.

Starting point is 02:13:48 Let's see, you did, now I like the straws kind of. I kind of like the straws, although it was a little thing. Yeah, I didn't like that one at all. No, I liked the- Because it didn't look like straws. It just looked like something. I don't know what it looked like.

Starting point is 02:14:00 Yeah, you didn't like it. We all loved your dream girl. That was a funny one from Darren, which of course is your dream girl. That's all funny one from Darren, which of course is your dream girl. That's all you watch all day long is people like that. And by the way, you can follow along in all of the art at noagendaartgenerator.com. You can contribute. You can be a part of the art contest, which is not just a contest. Everyone loves looking at different pieces of art. By the way, some of these wind up at NoAgendaShop.com on t-shirts,

Starting point is 02:14:29 hoodies, koozies, hats, you name it. You can even suggest some cups. You can suggest it to them. And the artists actually get a piece of the action there. We have no deal with NoAgendaShop.com. They just donate from time to time when they feel like it's appropriate. What was that? Do you like the more traditional, which was it? One of the traditional ones you liked. Well, you kind of like the- I think I like Cupid's arrow by Pickle Surprise. Yes. Yes. You did like Cupid's arrow, Pick pickle surprise. And some came in late, I think.

Starting point is 02:15:05 Some came in, like I didn't see the heart with the straw in it, that came late, blue acorn. And the Microsoft party, yeah, no one will understand that. But that was everyone's favorite bit of the last show, the Microsoft party. They really loved your story. Yeah, well. It's a good story. I mean.

Starting point is 02:15:30 It was a good story. Somebody sent a nasty note and saying, yeah, this isn't the party you're full of crap. This is the party. And then he sent me a link to some party some software company is doing with Balmer as the keynoter. I'm thinking, this guy's nuts. Gotta love it.

Starting point is 02:15:45 So thank you very much. All artists, we appreciate what you do in our value for value model. And as always, we wanna thank everybody who supported us with Treasure. It is a key part of the value we need to keep this show going for another three years and 10 months.

Starting point is 02:16:04 And- Or somebody said 40 more years. Good luck with that. And you can do that, of course, by going to noagendadonations.com. We'll mention everybody and the amount that they supported us with, $50 and above. But we'd like to make a special segment here and hand out executive and associate executive producer

Starting point is 02:16:23 credits just like Hollywood, where that's all we can really do Hollywood style. But they are recognized by Hollywood. The fact Hollywood heavyweights like Dana Brunetti, famous from Fifty Shades of Grey and House of Cards, Dana Brunetti. I mean, he's produced for this show. He's an associate executive producer and he has created a segment. And he gets credits for that.

Starting point is 02:16:46 So you can put it in imdb.com. And if you donate $200 or above, you get an associate executive producer credit. Good for the rest of your life. And we'll read your note, $300 or above, an executive producer credit. And we read your note. We start off with Topeka from Kansas, which sounds kind of okay. So it might be living in Topeka, Kansas, or is it?

Starting point is 02:17:07 Well, you got the wrong, no, Topeka. I got the wrong thing. Here is Rob. Yeah, move over a cell. Rob, I'm sorry. One cell over, you'll be good to go. I'm like, that's odd. Robin Tolbert in Topeka, Kansas.

Starting point is 02:17:17 I was like, why would you call yourself Topeka if you're in Kansas? Here it is, Robin says, I started listening in June, 2023 and donating by november 2023 because the work Is the worker is worth his wages and you two are absolutely worth the value That's what i'm talking about I was within 50 dollars of making damehood and looking for an appropriate number donation. This is five one five thirty eight

Starting point is 02:17:42 Should have mentioned that five one five thirty eight donation this is 51538 should have mentioned that 51538 then I read about the Commodore special which I think this is the last week for the Commodore special no I'm gonna extend it you're you're you're a push show people's give up on it you're a pushover I couldn't manage it last time but I'm flush with cash at the moment so I asked to be named Commodore RC Tolbert God's blessings on you and Gitmo Nation. Thank you Robin, we appreciate it. So Jay calls me. Yeah. Hey what is this? Why are these people asking for Commodore ships? I said we reintroduced it like two newsletters ago.

Starting point is 02:18:20 Does she not read the newsletter? I called her out on it. She didn't read the newsletter. She's not listening to the show. So we can say anything we want about her now. Oh really? And she probably doesn't even show up because you know she's an iPhone user. She wouldn't be caught dead with a green bubble. No, she's not an iPhone user. Really? Respect. Respect. Why not? But Brennan I think is. Her husband. Well, that's disappointing.

Starting point is 02:18:48 Very disappointing. Mimi at least listens live sometimes. Well if she's live, unfortunately she only listens live. No much work. Sir Don by the way is in Owensboro, Kentucky. He's up next with 515-38. Sir Don of the Scandinavian Nancy Nichols Happy Valentine's Day Commodore Donald Bartholomew, Adam, reach out to Liberty Tree Podcast.

Starting point is 02:19:15 I'm sorry, I read it that way, but that's weird. No, that's what it says. What it says. They would benefit from your value for value guidance. The Liberty Tree podcast could benefit from the value for value guidance. That would be, uh, means they need a lecture. No jingles, no karma, NSDQ, blue skies. It's interesting. By 1538. I have no, I even, he'sodore ship and I don't know what else. It's very interesting. People will actually email me or CC me on email to a podcaster and say,

Starting point is 02:19:52 you know, I'm introducing you to Adam Curry. He has great sound. I'm sure he'll help you out. Yeah. Like, no. Like, no. I'm like, okay. Paul Fellner is in Mitchell, South Dakota, 51538. That is another Commodore ship.

Starting point is 02:20:12 I see no note for Paul. Is there any note for Paul? I don't have a note from him either. I don't know what... He's going to have to come in late. Well, I'm going to give him a double up karma then just for good measure. You've got karma. I like the fact that everyone who took the Commodore ship, and there's three of them You've got karma.

Starting point is 02:20:25 I like the fact that everyone who took the Commodore ship, and there's three of them today, we'll put an announcement together for all of them later. Not in today's show necessarily, but they all coughed in the extra money for the cover of the fees. That's beautiful, because it's $500, right? They put in the $1538. Yeah, it's $500 for the comedy. Much appreciated, people. Much appreciated. Ronnie Ross in Burns, Tennessee.

Starting point is 02:20:51 I see him, gents. My buddy Martin Carter hit me in the mouth on November 2018 and he's never donated. Please call him out as a douchebag. Douchebag. I have only recently donated $20 in the past and need a D-douching. You've been D-douched. And I will mention he came in with $420, so that's a big D-douching for him. After this Dave Smith nonsense and another phenomenal appearance on Rogan, I felt compelled to donate. This is a Rogan donation.

Starting point is 02:21:21 Is it a Rogan donation or Scott Horton donation? I think it's a toss-up. Oh, because Dave Smith was the one that was... Yeah, who was angry at me about what you said. Oh, that's interesting. So it's a combo. It's a combo dough. It's a combo dough.

Starting point is 02:21:38 Combo dough. Combo dough. Adam, I know you quit smoking, but I also know that the bong rap is a recorded short jingle. quit smoking but I also know that the bong rip is a recorded short jingle and I've noticed it's been two years and counting since any producers have asked for the bong rip. Do any producers smoke anymore? So if you please hit the bong for me and if any producers are in the Nashville, Middle Tennessee area feel free to reach out to me for all your custom carpentry. Oh, a carpenter.

Starting point is 02:22:08 Yeah. And he says, add. I'm going to read it. 615-593-6132. This is Ronnie Ross, the carpenter. Yeah! Long overdue bong rip. Yeah man! Drew Kester, I'm gonna say Kester, but in Holland we'd say Koester, so I'm not sure. He's from Helena, Montana, so Kester probably. Hey, in the morning gents, Scott Horton donation here! John, this is

Starting point is 02:22:45 this is the best promotion we've ever done. This is $350.58. I normally no idea who Scott Horton even was. You know when people told me I remember because he actually was on the no agenda stream a decade ago. So but oh really yeah he's been around for a long time but I you know you caught me off guard after two and a half hours of the podcast and some someone raving and ranting about Trump being a the gimp for Netanyahu and like and then and then of course I said throw that in the bin with the view which is which doesn't mean I equate anyone to the view But that clip certainly was. Anyway, Scott Horton donation, more of this please. I normally give $5 a month sustaining donation, which is a pathetically small amount, but I figure, hey, if everyone did that we could

Starting point is 02:23:34 listen to the show coming to us live from Adam's yacht and John's lavish underground bunker, oh yeah, that'll be the day. First heard of you guys during a COVID anti-mask rally, some guy grabbed the microphone and yelled out, is this really true? This is amazing, and yelled out, everyone should listen to the No Agenda Show. Man, I wish I had a clip of that. I wish we had that guy. This donation comes with a bulletin to all my fellow Liberty loving Montanans Please support House Bill 404 the defund the Guard Act We will be testifying for it at the Capitol on the 26th of this month

Starting point is 02:24:12 So let's meet up there and stand against the Pentagon corruption and call your representatives Please put this donation. Oh, this is plus fees three three three towards my husband James path tonight hood You keep track of that and we'll when you're ready we'll credit him of course love what you do thanks Drew Kester beautiful thank you so much Herba dude in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 333.33 and he asked for a D douche. You've been D douched to the audience out there. Get yourself a D douche while they last great to a producer douchebag.

Starting point is 02:24:53 They're running out. They're running out. Says Herbert do PS last update to the 2030 club.com was over a decade ago. What gives episode five 30, five 83 and a five eight three super go what gives episode 530 583 NA 583 super 2020 2030 secure your membership for 3441 a month for a knighthood for 1695 a month by 2030 uh dvorak.org slash NA which is probably the jingle he wants to play but yes there's an old old, uh, he found an old, this is so our, this is so archaic. It's an old website that we went back and forth on email about this and it's still up and Adam, I guess,

Starting point is 02:25:34 posted it originally and it's sitting on an AWS bucket somewhere and it's still working. It's actually got some information on there. It's kind of interesting. And it's not 2030 yet, so I don't know. The2030club.com. That's right. Thanks Herbie. But it's old. It's old, yes. Sir Walkman, dude. Play Dvorak.org slash NA. Oh, hold on a second. Dvorak.org slash NA. Which still does not forward to NoAgendaDonations.com but I'm reliably informed today is the day.

Starting point is 02:26:09 Any minute. Any minute now. I got to, all I have to do is hit the button. Yeah, that's all it'll take and you'll automatically get a microphone. ITM, yesterday was Dame Toons's The Data Queen and I's 33rd anniversary and they never had a fight. Obviously obviously I cried what cried donation hmm so here you go what do you think he's trying to say obviously comma cry he cried donation so here you obviously somebody cry

Starting point is 02:26:38 donation I don't know to my data queen I love you babe annoying each other for 33 years and still going. Jingles, whole load and dumps. I'm gonna give you the whole load today. They did dumps. They call them dumps, big massive dumps. Because nothing says I love you like a whole load of big massive dumps.

Starting point is 02:26:59 How beautiful. Ah, you people are so romantic. Bob D Maple in Golden, Colorado, three three three dot three three. I T M not the Camelabiscuit on my birthday. The not Camelabiscuit, I'm sorry. The not Camelabiscuit on my birthday sound is actually from an old web series called ask a slave. I told you, told you on YouTube, specifically episode three.

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Starting point is 02:27:45 Thor 333.33, ITM, John and Adam, deducing in place please, long overdue. You've been deduced. Thank you for all you have done keeping our amygdala's in check. No jingles, no karma from Basile Weiters from Sevenbergen in the Netherlands. Thank you, Basiel. I sent my anonymous vegan in Mill Park Victoria, Australia to the best podcast in the universe. Short time listener started during the woof-a-loo. First time donor Anita Dedeusche. You've been ded Dushed.

Starting point is 02:28:27 I thought I'd take advantage of the Commodore campaign and send through my $500 Australian, which is... Oh! $500 Australian, which is... It's valid. It's valid. It's valid. So, at $314, he would become a Commodore at $314 in Australian dollar-reduced.

Starting point is 02:28:44 Thank you, Adam, for the hyper local podcast primer. I've put that information to good use. Keep up the good work and here's to four more years. The semi-autonomous, I'm sorry, semi-anonymous, vegan, vegan, vegan, vegan, VK3 ITM. Lindsay Christensen is in Santa Fe, New Mexico. $300. Thank you very much, Lindsay. Says thank you both for all you do. I'm a male. My name is Lindsay.

Starting point is 02:29:12 Well, thank you. Lindsay Graham. A male's name. It's one of those names like Pat. Yes. Sir Ross the Boss in Kennewick, Washington, 250. He is a first associate executive producer and he writes, Please put a Ty Rebisch on the, or Ty Rebisch, I guess, on the birthday list.

Starting point is 02:29:36 He turned 22 on February 15th. I hit Ty in the mouth a few years ago and he's been a dedicated listener ever since. That's good. A happy birthday tie from Sir Ross the boss of Broken Ladder Ranch. Very nice. Craig Cortes 250, first or second associate executive producer of this list. Dear Adam and John, in the morning this donation should bring me to the requisite amount to join the roundtable. Alright. Then since there was no location here but he says, as I live in Abu Dhabi, I would like to be dubbed Shake Craigybin James Al Cortese and would like some Lugemat or Lugemat? Lugemat. Lugemat. It's a donut

Starting point is 02:30:18 hole covered in date syrup. So... Oh God! Lugemat. Do you think I pronounce it Lugemat or Lugemat? I have it. Luge mat or Luge mat. I have no idea. I'll say Luge mat. I think Luge mat would be the way I'd pronounce it. If I was taking a shot at it, he wants some Luge mat and camel milk at the banquet table. This is something I, this delicacy, I have not tried myself yet.

Starting point is 02:30:39 Camel milk. It does. It would neither one sounds that it appetizing. Many thanks to my Sheikahaker Laura who donated most of the money She's worth at least 200 camels I'll bet you that camel milk yogurt is good and thanks You know what I'll take that bet Could somebody please send some camel milk yogurt to John I will I will bet you

Starting point is 02:31:03 Please send some camel milk yogurt to John. I will bet you. Thanks to you guys for keeping us all sane. I stopped listening to podcasts at 1.5 speed. Thanks to Adam. Well, there you go. That's why you are indeed very sane. Mike Janssen's in Brussels, Belgium. It says Brussels.

Starting point is 02:31:22 Is that the way it comes over there? I don't know. Brussels, you say Brussels, Brussels. I says Brussels. Is that the way it comes over there? I don't know. Brussels. You say Brussels. Brussels. I say Brussels. Bruges.

Starting point is 02:31:30 Uh, 2-20-87. She doesn't listen to the show, but now I feel obliged. Te va Gio Bene Chiara. It's also my birthday, by the way. You're on the list. Love from Brussels. Yes. All right, Mike Frank Gravato is in Kenilworth, New Jersey to 1617 Adam and John. Thanks for keeping us informed Adam. Great job on Rogan Rogan donation

Starting point is 02:31:56 Wishing my son James a happy birthday. Could we get lots of karma and a birthday biscuit? Well, yes, you can get both. Not a problem. Uh, and let me see. John, did you ever find the driver defense guy from Oakland? The driver defense guy from Oakland? Wow. No? I will take it.

Starting point is 02:32:19 I have a pretty good memory, but I have no idea what he's talking about. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. You've got karma. Frank, send me a note, Frank. Eli the coffee guy's up. He's in Bensonville, Illinois. Adam is jacked up on coffee as we speak. 20216, Adam. Yes?

Starting point is 02:32:39 You were obviously right during your interview on Rogan. Rogan, I'm sorry. American ease the return to the principles set forth in the monument to the forefathers. Faith morality law, education and liberty. If the revelations of Doge prove anything, it's that our government is strayed far from the founding ideals, regardless of the new season of the America. The TV show is entertaining thanks to Trump and Elon and Elon jingles Obama yo Elon Trump what wait wait wait jingles Obama no no he's he's confused he means Neil

Starting point is 02:33:13 deGrasse Tyson saying oh Elon that's what he's yes that's what he there is no Obama there's no dogs you got eating the dogs yeah don't be a dick we don't have that's not yeah we do we do we do actually we do we do now we do now There's no dogs. You got eating the dogs. Yeah, don't be a dick. We don't have that side Yeah, we do we do we do actually we do we do now we do now Producers in need of delicious fresh roasted coffee visit gigawatt coffee roasters comm and use the code It em for 20% off your first order stay caffeinated says Eli the coffee guy. You keep doing it. It's ITM 20 You keep what did I do? You keep saying ITM for 20% off your first order. It's ITM 20. Huh.

Starting point is 02:33:49 Yeah. I don't know why. I have a block. You do. You have a block. What are you on? What are you on? They're eating the dogs. Don't be a dick. Yeah. Oh, there you go.

Starting point is 02:33:57 That's going to be a favorite. That's going to be a favorite now. Incognito, Plymouth, Michigan, 200. Adam, head over to my blog, the link below. Oh, I know who this is. It's Incognito. He is from enelrea.com. Enelrea.com, it's airline backwards.

Starting point is 02:34:22 I posted about rumors of a Southwest Airlines and JetBlue tie-up. I don't think it's a merger as too many people are whispering, probably interline as in joint boarding passes and bag transfer or code share if Southwest IT can get their heads out of 1979. Of course it could all collapse if Southwest IT says no, they can't do any of it. It also requires Southwest pilot approval, which is a maybe We have a lot of Southwest pilots. Give us the dirt boys and girls Southwest barely exists north of Baltimore and that's where JetBlue is big this talk Trump will be laissez-faire on airline mergers

Starting point is 02:34:59 But there were none on his prior watch. I donated $200 this week. Just mentioned Enelrea. It's so difficult. It's airline backwards. Enelrea.com. But my blog is freemium. Freemium. He's got a freemium blog. And Patreon just allowed comping. So tell me if you want a comp account. Yes, I actually, I clicked the link, I got a comp account and I appreciate it. I get about an email every five minutes from your blog. So you're about to get your own email box just so I can look at it later. Thank you very much brother. He's actually given us a lot of good airline dirt in the past. He's a very good resource and decided to add some treasure to his time and

Starting point is 02:35:46 talent this time around. So we wrap it up with Linda Lu Patkin, our buddy in Lakewood, Colorado, who writes jobs commerce she wants and says for a winning resume and faster job search, go to ImageMakersInc.com. That's ImageMakersInc. with a K. And work with Linda Lu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes resumes your go-to For all your executive resume and job search needs jobs jobs jobs jobs and jobs Beautiful list today everybody. Thank you so much for the treasure You've supported us with all of you are now eligible for imdb.com account. Some of you may already have one.

Starting point is 02:36:27 You can add this one to your list of accomplishments as executive producer or associate executive producer of episode 1739 of the best podcast in the universe. We'll be thanking everybody who came in $50 above. And of course, if you go to noagendadonations.com, you can set up a recurring donation, any amount, any frequency. That always helps us in the slower days.

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Starting point is 02:37:08 Shut up, Slade. Mina Mina. Mina Mina. Hey, did you hear about the new non-addictive painkiller the FDA approved right before RFK Jr. came in? No, but I'm sure it's addictive. It's funny you say that. Jurnavix was just approved by the FDA.

Starting point is 02:37:29 It's an alternative to opioids because makers say it's not addictive. Family doctor, Nita Bajor is joining us now. She's from Oakview Medical. I just want to mention this doctor is decked out brand new lab coat, fresh, fresh out of the, out of the PR wardrobe closet she's got her stethoscope on which is all it's it's bejeweled what do you call it to bedazzled she's she's got a name tag she got stuff all like almost like metals this is just completely decked out.

Starting point is 02:38:02 She is here in Greenville thanks for joining us today. Thank you for having me. By the way, wasn't it Greenville? Didn't we hear from someone that Greenville is where they test all these like new food and new medications? Remember that? I don't recall that, but there are places around the country where that is true. I think it was Greenville, yeah.

Starting point is 02:38:18 Dora is joining us now. She's from Oakview Medical Associates here in Greenville. Thanks for joining us today. Thank you for having me. How does it work? So it's brand new. It inhibits the receptor for, there's a specific receptor in the pain pathway that it inhibits and thereby lowers the pain signal for the patient.

Starting point is 02:38:36 So it's used mainly for acute pain. Would you say it's just as effective as an ibuprofen or like how does it compare to other pain medication? I think in the studies they compared it to placebo and hydrocodone acetaminophen which is kind of one of the traditional pain medications and they found that it was more efficacious and pretty good in relieving acute pain. More efficacious than placebo. Okay so it works I mean I think that's what people really want to hear. It works. It works. Okay, so it works. I mean, I think that's what people really want to know. Are there any side effects we need to know about it?

Starting point is 02:39:13 As with others, I mean, I think the concern is because it's not an opioid, is it going to also cause addictive or dependence potential? And that, let's see as the clinicians start using it more and more we need real-life data to help us with that but supposed to be pretty well tolerated we'll just see how it pans out. Wait a minute. The FDA has approved this but we how many people did you test? Yeah I think I read it up on the studies and it said it was tested on a couple hundred people but again you really need it to be given to millions of people. Oh yeah, just give it to everybody we'll find out later. Yeah, lab rats, that's what you

Starting point is 02:39:52 are people, lab rats. See what any side effects could be. That's right, because you know we have patients with many multiple chronic conditions and so when we introduce a medication we're always monitoring and educating our patients, so safety comes first. Safety comes first by testing it on you. Safety comes first. Alright, well we look forward to seeing how effective it is and having another option besides opioids. Absolutely, I think hopefully we're excited about it. Thank you Dr. Bajor.

Starting point is 02:40:21 We're excited about it. RFK Jr. Stop this immediately. That is not okay. That is not okay. Um, I have a couple of, uh, truth. Wanna comes wants to come out. Uh, very short clips. Uh, we start with, um, the mayor of Philadelphia.

Starting point is 02:40:44 You'll recall. She is well known for her. Yeah, she's just, yeah, she can't talk. She can't catch a break. Reminded us all through their excellence that nothing is possible when we work together as a team. Nothing is possible when we work together. Nothing is possible.

Starting point is 02:41:04 And then we have Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. We are all willing to work with anyone who's serious about doing the work of censoring the American people and advancing progress. Okay. Censoring the American people and advancing progress. Yeah, that makes sense. It's amazing. These people just say what they really mean.

Starting point is 02:41:30 What did she even intend to say? What word did she mean instead of censoring? Yeah, you know, I heard that clip's a week old and I almost had it for the show, but I was trying to decode it too and I couldn't come up with anything. I have no idea what she might've been thinking. Censoring the American people. Um, I can't, I don't know. I'm by same reaction you have.

Starting point is 02:41:57 Somebody out in the, somebody in the troll room should know, should you be able to say it just takes a breakthrough in thinking to get them. No, they just, they just said thinking to get them what she's trying to say. They're flinging her. She's an NPC. They've got no other explanation for it. She wasn't supposed to speak. New details on the unfortunate crash between the Black Hawk helicopter and the regional jet.

Starting point is 02:42:25 Although this report kind of made me mad the way they characterized it. And I also don't know if this is actually what happened or this is the full reason for it, but there are two reasons that we're hearing now. One is. I didn't want to get any of this, but since you brought it up, after you play the clip,

Starting point is 02:42:46 I do have a question, just kind of a rhetorical question. All right, good. You can ask the questions and the pilot will answer. This particular flight was a checkride for the pilot flying the Black Hawk. Generally, a checkride is a practical exam that a pilot must pass to be qualified to perform specific aircrew or mission duties. The Army does three types of checkrides. By the way, you'll hear the term CVR, that is cockpit voice recorder. Instrument, annual, and night vision goggles.

Starting point is 02:43:21 The helicopter crew was likely wearing night vision goggles throughout the flight. The NTSB says the helicopter pilots had an altitude discrepancy and weren't aware of how high they were. This video shows the helicopter crashing into the passenger jet around 845 January 29th. The American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas was cleared for landing after a last-minute but routine runway change. Audio from air traffic control reveals the military pilot acknowledged he saw the jet approaching the runway. Today investigators revealing a potential technical glitch. 17 seconds before impact. A radio transmission from the tower was audible on both CVRs directing the Blackhawk to pass behind the CRJ.

Starting point is 02:44:09 The portion of the transmission that stated, pass behind the, may not have been received by the Blackhawk crew. Transmission was stepped on by a.8 second mic key from the Black Hawk. And NTSB investigators say the preliminary report could take up to 30 days, but the full report could take up to a year before it's released. So the only thing before you ask your question, the only thing that really makes me mad is

Starting point is 02:44:38 it was not a glitch. When you key up the mic, then you don't hear anything but yourself speaking, so they may have keyed up and stepped on the transmission. But that's not a glitch. That's just unfortunate. And at 0.8 second, that's like someone just clicked on and then heard, probably heard that there was a message coming in and then let go right away. The appropriate response would have been, say again, but that didn't happen.

Starting point is 02:45:09 Your question. Couple of things. Um, why are these communication systems half duplex? What specific in this day and age, what specific reason are they half duplex? Because if they were full duplex, it wouldn't matter where you keyed up or not. Well, it's a, it's legacy. There's also a separate issue. Distance is another.

Starting point is 02:45:38 So the, I believe the military, um, uses amplitude modulation and everyone else uses a frequency modulation AML. Distance is another. So the I believe the military uses amplitude modulation and Everyone else uses frequency modulation AM FM. They also use different bands Which by itself is a problem because they don't the aircraft don't hear each other But they both hear what the tower says because the power the tower broadcasts on both frequencies It's legacy. It's legacy is pure legacy. And full duplex would require digital I think I don't think you can know wouldn't. Well you'd be sending and receiving you'd be sending in on one frequency.

Starting point is 02:46:17 You don't have to be able to be offsets. There's offsets. It's like going to a repeater. There's lots of ways of doing it. But the question is legacy is not an excuse for this kind of technology. But repeaters aren't... If you're talking on a repeater, you're not able to have someone else speak at the same time. Okay, well let's just ignore what I said there. The point is that there's no reason in the world you can't have full duplex communication in this day and age. I think there is. I don't think it's very... I can talk on the phone as full duplex.

Starting point is 02:46:59 An old-fashioned telephone with a carbon microphone. Yeah, well if you want to have a very long string attached to your aircraft, that would work. I can do it with a wireless phone. If I'm on a wireless phone or if I'm on a cell phone, I can hear you talking and I'm, well I'm talking. How's that different? I don't know why you're defending this. I'm defending it because I don't think it's technically feasible. If everybody, I mean, that when you have a duplex phone call, you have a full time connection.

Starting point is 02:47:33 So you can't have everybody having a full time connection. I, it technically, I don't think it's that feasible, John. I really don't. I mean, I understand. I'd like to hear from somebody out there as a radio expert. Even though you're a general. Yes. I think it is feasible and I don't understand why they have this this whole idea that the thing clicked on for an eighth of a second. When when did you have a ham radio conversation was full duplex that wasn't digital?

Starting point is 02:48:03 Never. I've had plenty of conversations on a telephone. Yes, but it's... I'm not hearing anybody else's phone. They're all separate. They're all in separate channels. They're all doing it using the cell system. I don't see how this can't be done with airplanes. It's one call at a time. You can't have 20 calls open with everybody at the same time, how many transmitters do you want? If the tower is transmitting, I think it should go to, it does go to everybody if they're not keyed up. Well, you're now the new FAA administrator because you're asking for something which I don't think is

Starting point is 02:48:36 technically feasible in the setting of aviation. I would like to hear from others. It just doesn't make sense to me that we're, this is the technology that's so old, it's ludicrous. And you yourself defended it as legacy, which indicates it's old. It's functional. The legacy part is really the AM versus FM for distance. Upgrade. I just don't.

Starting point is 02:49:07 I mean, all right, well, we have plenty of smart people who can tell us how it would be possible. I don't think it's possible in a multi-station setting. You can have a full duplex with one person, but you can't have a full duplex with 10 planes. I just don't see how that would, then you're all, no, I don't see that working. What is your other question?

Starting point is 02:49:31 Well, the other question was, it seems to me that the whole thing is because of the bad altimeter. Yes. You don't like to emphasize that. Who is the manufacturer? We don't find that anything. No, no, no, that's not how it works. When you are flying in airspace, the tower, actually you can tune to the ATIS,

Starting point is 02:49:48 so there's a special frequency and you can listen to the current weather conditions at the airfield and they will give you a altitude pressure number. Standard is 29.9. And so if the air if the pressure is higher or lower then you'll have maybe it'll be thirty point one or thirty point two and that did and that's the only way you can determine your altitude from my understanding they both they had two different altitude indications which means they both either didn't listen to the, um, to the current setting or the current, uh, broadcasts of the current barometric, uh, pressure was wrong, but that doesn't make a lot of sense for

Starting point is 02:50:35 the, it's, it's a big cock up is what it is. And here's another one. Why are we having military training exercises in what, in and around the most busy airport in the world? Well, that I can't answer. I don't think it's a good idea either, other than that they were flying a continuity of government mission, which would require this. And then there's also the night vision goggles, which I think reduces your field of view from like 75% with your peripheral vision to 40. But you know, we may never know. That's what they said.

Starting point is 02:51:15 We won't know for another year at least. And then we'll all have forgotten about it, as it usually goes. And we may never actually get the full details because the military doesn't like to talk about it. So. David Scharff What? African news? You've got to do this once in a while.

Starting point is 02:51:29 Michael O'Brien What? African news? E.J. What? African news? E.J. African leaders are meeting in Ethiopia this weekend for their annual summit with conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan topping the agenda.

Starting point is 02:51:42 Heavy fighting continues in both countries. In the DRC, rebels have seized another strategic city in the east. Emanuel Ogunza reports from Nairobi. African leaders arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized Bukavu, the second largest city in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, amid heavy fighting with the Congolese army. In Sudan, the national army continues to gain ground against the paramilitary rapid support forces with both sides refusing peace talks. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is at the African Union summit, has urged leaders to propose solutions to conflicts that have displaced millions.

Starting point is 02:52:21 Several side meetings will discuss US President Trump's freeze on foreign aid, which has severely impacted American funded programs for health, water and agriculture across the continent. For NPR News, I'm Emanuel Igunza in Nairobi. Okay, I have a real problem with NPR. I mean, they have no problem whatsoever using a British guy, go or talk or lie this, for something that's going on in America about our own news. But then the minute it's about Africa, they have to bring an African guy in. And it's-

Starting point is 02:52:52 Can you barely understand? It just isn't compelling to listen to. It's bad African news. B-A-N. Bad African news. That's what it's being called from now on. I don't understand why they do it. I just don't understand.

Starting point is 02:53:08 It's so wrong. It's wrong. It's very wrong. I have one more TikTok I can play. This is a woman who looks like a pig. She got the red hair and she's got just a... I hate to be insulting, but she does look like a pig. And she hates mega.

Starting point is 02:53:43 If you're out here celebrating Elon Musk and his supposed finding fraud, which he's not, I better not see you at a national park this summer. I better not see you at any federal preserve or national monument or national park. If you were one of those red hats, get out, get out. You know what? They say the outdoors are for everyone. It's not for you, babe. It's not for you. If you are a MAGA fan, the outdoors are not for you and national parks are not for you. Why? Because they just fired all. She did it. Hypophora. I can't believe you didn't catch it. It's not for you. If you are a MAGA fan, the outdoors are not for you and national parks are not for you. Why? Because they just fired all probationary workers from the US Forest

Starting point is 02:54:19 Service. Good luck getting any bathrooms cleaned this summer. Good luck having rangers for programs. Good luck doing anything for our national parks because you just decided that that was fraud and that wasn't needed even though things like us 8 are 1% of the budget because you don't know how to do research and you're so busy sucking up to billionaires and watching our federal lands be opened up for oil drilling and for exploration when they should be protected. You think that they're going to do anything to protect the environment. They absolutely are not because you are so far up a billionaire that you have no idea what's going on. So here's the thing.

Starting point is 02:54:54 If I see your camper or your ginormous truck at a campground this summer at a national park campground, bestie, I might be confronting you. I hope I don't see your red hat anywhere on the trails because you don't deserve it. The outdoors aren't for you. Stay inside. What is the point of these threats? What's wrong with these people? Well, and by the way, what is that called again when you say why? There's a phrase you use. Hypophora. say why would there's a phrase you use? Hypophora. Hypophora? Hypophora with a PH. Hypophora. Hypophora. Why? Because that's the name. I think it's a good show title is the reason I asked. Hypophora is, yeah, it's a very reasonable show title. Well, just on the Dogefront, and I don't know if this is true, we have a lot of producers in the Virginia

Starting point is 02:55:46 and Maryland and DC area. I keep seeing these real estate app maps that are being posted with every home is for sale and all these new listings. Is that true, is my question? Then is that exceptional for all of these homes to be for sale suddenly? I would like to know from our and are any of you guys selling your home? That would be another question. The second thing is I thought this was quite interesting. I know you saw it as well about the 150 year old social security recipient, old social security recipient, which can mean several things. It could be someone who's receiving on behalf. And there's a lot of, a lot of different things that could be, but I like this one

Starting point is 02:56:34 the most and I think I got this on X. I'm a coder, experienced coders, no cobalt. No, no, no coders with experience in COBOL know COBOL, right? You're being a little, a little douchey here. Yeah, you might as well throw Fortran in while you're at it. Yeah, young coders don't, okay, young coders, you know, people, it's a legacy code.

Starting point is 02:56:56 When the Musk, when the Musk claims social security is paying thousands of 150 year olds, I think someone should let him know that in Cobol, if a date is missing, the program defaults to 1875, which is apparently when these Cobol programmers were born. So if you have 2025 minus 1875, it's 150. LOL, you idiots. Um, interesting. We have a lot of cobalt people who listen to the show. I'd love to hear about that. And of course, I don't think any social security date field should be empty to

Starting point is 02:57:34 start with if your birth year is not in there, that doesn't make sense to me either. But actually the social security number will trace back to your birthdate. How do you figure that? Every number is recorded and the birthdate is, to get your Social Security card you have to put your birthdate down and it's encoded in the number. But how? Yeah, there's a linkage. I'm pretty sure.

Starting point is 02:58:02 Can you decode your birth date from the social security number? I've always believed you could but I don't know that you can. That's interesting. What's your social security number? Hey, why don't you blow me? And by the way, this thing about, oh, they got this, oh, and musk and all that. Your social security, I could find your social security number out if I really wanted to. It's out there. All right, you find my social security number out if I really wanted to. It's out there. All right, you find my social security number.

Starting point is 02:58:28 Okay. I, of course, will confirm it with you if correct. Okay, I'll dig around. I mean, you already know where I live. You got to map my home with a picture. That's all out there, thanks to you. I have gotten some nice gifts, I'll admit. You got some gifts? Yeah, I didn't get anything. Sorry, I got your home address off the

Starting point is 02:58:51 internet, but here's a gift. So now every package, every box that comes, if it doesn't say Amazon on it, I let Phoebe sniff it first and then I poke it with a stick. I'm not going to open anything that you send to me. I got to get some kid in the neighborhood to open my packages. Hey kid, now you're talking. Give me these five bucks. This is the funniest Doge thing I've heard of. It's up in your neck of the woods. Get a load of this. San Francisco city officials are confirming three guys claiming to be from the Department of Government Efficiency or DOJ, tried to enter their offices today and get info. They were dressed in DOJ shirts,

Starting point is 02:59:30 wore the red MAGA hats. According to the sheriff's office, they went into these offices at city hall around noon today and demanded employees turn over digital information. The employees refused, called the sheriff's office, but these men left before deputies

Starting point is 02:59:47 got there. The sheriff's office doesn't think these people were actually representatives from Doge. President Trump created Doge when he took office in January and he has put Elon Musk in charge of that. I think it's great. I like the idea. That's pretty, pretty clever. No, in a

Starting point is 03:00:06 different report I heard they had Elon Musk masks on, which is, you know, would kind of be a giveaway I think. But I like, I would say, even the MAGA hat, I mean, can we get like a Doge badge? Maybe that's something. Is there a Doge badge? Well, it's not the way they're doing it, but okay. They're not busting in like that. They're in there. They're already working there. I'm from the Doge. I'm here to check your records. I have two clips from NPR that I've been sitting on for a while because I have a complaint. They must be warm.

Starting point is 03:00:44 This is the polar bear de-icing story that showed up. First I heard on NTD like a month ago and then it showed up on NPR a couple weeks ago. Polar bears spend their days jumping from ice into water so if they get all wet why doesn't their fur freeze? NPR science correspondent Jonathan Lambert reports on a new study in the journal Science Advances. NANOPHYSICIST BOTEL HULST GOT INTERESTED IN STUDYING POLAR BEAR FUR WHILE WATCHING A GERMAN QUIZ SHOW.

Starting point is 03:01:15 In that quiz show, I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras. That essentially means that they're so well insulated that their fur takes on the temperature of their frigid surroundings. That's the case on land and when they jump into icy water to hunt. Because I have been working with anti-icing, I just suddenly was very puzzled

Starting point is 03:01:35 because I was thinking, well, how do they manage that? When they get into the water, they go out again. Why do they not get covered in ice? Meaning they stay cold, but their fur is largely free of ice. Holst, who's at the University of Bergen in Norway, initially thought that the structure of the fur itself might have some kind of de-icing properties.

Starting point is 03:01:54 So her team used a high-powered microscope and zoomed in on some fur. But we couldn't see anything special about the polar bear's hairs. They just look normal. But as she and her colleagues were handling the fur, they noticed that it was really greasy. And when they washed the fur with soap, wet it, and froze it, it got icy. And so we realized that this was down to polar bear hair grease, effectively. Molecular analysis of the hair grease revealed that it was chock full of certain compounds which are resistant to ice.

Starting point is 03:02:25 And, the fur lacked a compound called squalene, which is found in other marine mammals. Squalene, it turns out, has properties that make ice stick to it. Oh, this is riveting. I'm glad you sat on this. Here's my question. These polar bears have been around forever and we're just discovering in 2025 that they have some sort of goop that goes into the fur and makes it so that doesn't freeze and has deicing properties. It took the year 2025

Starting point is 03:02:57 to figure this out. Meanwhile we can predict the climate change. Are you kidding me? I'm with you on that. But that of course is it kind of ruins the whole climate change, climate change polar bear deal. Well that too. Because, you know, it's all the poor polar bear. He's standing on a, on a rock of ice. Oh, he has to swim. I just found this in insulting piece,

Starting point is 03:03:28 even though you thought it was boring. I really got worked up about it because of this 2025. We're now discovering that polar bear grease has got some deicing properties and it took us this long to figure this out. And we've been around polar bears for a long time. This is unbelievable to me. Objection. I never said it was boring. But the second part wraps it up, but it's not important.

Starting point is 03:03:51 We can say that this is what makes polar bear hair grease so efficient. In fact, the team found that the squalene-free fur grease performed about as well as certain kinds of PFAS chemicals that have been used in ski waxes. Holst hopes that her research could eventually lead to things like greener ski waxes, lubricants, and even new de-icing fluid for airplanes, all inspired by greasy polar bear fur. This is great. This is perfect. We need to kill more polar bears to de-ice our aircraft. I'm all in. You don't have to kill the polar bears.

Starting point is 03:04:25 The chemical structure is, that's what they uncovered, and they can just make the stuff from it at a refinery. Squalene, is that the same as squalene? Squalene free. Squalene free. Oh, squalene free. You know what, I'm outraged with you as well. I think it's crazy. How come we, have we been afraid, polar bears, by the way,

Starting point is 03:04:42 pretty dangerous, you know, they're not as cute as they look. No, they're nasty creatures, but we do shoot them once in a while. And you can get the fur and you can do whatever you want with it. But it seems to me ridiculous that in the year 2025, they finally discover that polar bears fur doesn't freeze up like a mustache does on some dude. that polar bears fur doesn't freeze up like a mustache does on some dude? I had a perfect out but it just never works. You know why? Because we're not full duplex. That is the problem.

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Starting point is 03:13:30 ring size. There is a ring sizing guide at noagendarings.com. Thank you again for your undying support and welcome once again to the roundtable. Noagendar Meetups! And the meetups! It's time to party! Always like a party everybody. We have a meetup taking place today. It's at Margarita's Keen. It's Keen, New Hampshire. It's the Too Many Eggs meetup. It's number 10. They have...I guess they still have too many eggs.

Starting point is 03:14:01 They're getting to a dozen. Yeah, that'll be a big one. The 12th, that's right. On Thursday, our next show day, the 29 days until spring meet up, that'll be at 630 at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado. Charlotte's thirsty third Thursday, it's always the same on the third Thursday of the month. That'll be on the 20th, 7 o'clock at Miss Tavern.

Starting point is 03:14:20 It's 29 days before spring? I guess so. It was 33 degrees this morning in Fredericksburg. I'm not kidding. You have the weirdest weather. Someone said it's like the Powerball numbers. You know, it's like 23, 80, five. It goes up and down.

Starting point is 03:14:40 Okay, let me see. Yeah, that's it. Ed Tavern, Charlotte, North Carolina. Coming up on the 21st Portland, Oregon, Columbia River Basin. That's in Washington. On the 22nd Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Arlington, Virginia. Hey people, you still live there? Is your house for sale? Orlando on the 23rd, Indianapolis on the 23rd, San Francisco on the 28th, San Francisco. I wonder if you want to go to that, John, San Francisco. It's your backyard. I'm not sure it may by who knows it may be

Starting point is 03:15:10 underwater by them Keyport New Jersey on March 2nd oh man we're into March already and oh the Netherlands March 29th safe in them and oh Kulemborg on May 29th in Gelderland the Netherlands so many meetups meetups to go to, so many meetups to attend. All you have to go is to one. It's kind of like eating potato chips. You will never want to stop going to a meetup. Connection is protection. You can find these first responders in an emergency as your No Agenda fellow producers at noagendameetups.com. Go there to find one near you. If you can't find one, start yourself. It's easy, I'm telling you. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. Bom bom bom.

Starting point is 03:15:49 You wanna be where you want be. Trig it on, hell's a lame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same. And do do do lip do, do do. It's like a party. Like a party, Like a party. All right, this is the moment in the show we determine which show I said we're going to play

Starting point is 03:16:09 at the very end of the show. And I see you have three. Three. Why don't you go first today? How many do you have? I have two, but it doesn't matter. I always go first. It's time for you to go first.

Starting point is 03:16:22 Yeah, then go first again. No, I want you to go first. It's a for you to go first. Yeah, then go first again. No, I want you to go first. It's a tradition. Up his butt. Nice. Who was that? Up his butt. Nice.

Starting point is 03:16:33 Up his butt. Nice. No. They're doing a hell of a job. It's an amazing job they're doing. Well, that's too bad it's one channel only. So that one drops by default. One channel only.

Starting point is 03:16:44 By default. Now we go to John's ISOs. Which one goes first? I guess I'll start with damn good. These boys are damn good. Wow. Wow. This is, this is, this is, you've got some amazing, why do I even try?

Starting point is 03:16:56 Shouldn't even try anymore. Slick. Slick show? Slick? Oof. Oof. The best. Another spectacular show. By the best. Slick show, slick. Oof. Oof.

Starting point is 03:17:07 The best. Another spectacular show by the best. This is so hard. I think slick show, slick. I like that one. These boys are damn good. That's kind of the funniest. I kind of like- I'd go with that one.

Starting point is 03:17:24 I think that's the best. And now everybody in a sign from the moment you've really been waiting for, for three hours, John's tip of the funniest. I kind of like... I'd go with that one. I think that's the best. And now everybody in a sign from the moment you've really been waiting for, for three hours, John's Tip of the Day. Created fast for you and me, just a tip with JCB. And sometimes at home. Created by Dana Bernetti. Okay, this time I'm going to talk a little bit about glassware. Glassware.

Starting point is 03:17:44 Nice. Glassware, nice. Glassware. So I think people should have the proper glassware when they serve alcoholic beverages. Oh, I'm happy to hear this because I could not agree more. I think we do not have good glassware here in the curry compound, so I'm very interested in this particular tip of the day. I could probably do a whole number of these, but I'm gonna do this one in particular because this is a

Starting point is 03:18:08 this is a good one to make it really look like you know what you're doing. Now I will say that I understand the use of the burgundy glass, bordeaux glass, all these different varieties of sautern glass, they're all slightly different, you can have different glasses. The old-fashioned brandy snifter for example is Passe for the last 20 years and if you pull one of those out you're a Rube. Let's start with that. So you either want a cognac glass or something but in this case we're going to discuss the

Starting point is 03:18:40 Glen Karn Scotch Whiskey Glass, which is the glass you... Everyone should have a set of these. Oh, I have this one. I think I have this one. You have a Glen Karn glass? I think so. It's a tiny glass. It's not that tiny.

Starting point is 03:18:55 Well, and it has kind of like a bulb and then a... at the top? Well here, look it up. Just look up Glen Karn, but if you want to go to GlenKarnWhiskeyGlass.com to find one of the vendors, Glen Karn, it's spelled G-L-E-N-C-A-I-R-N. Yes, this is the one I have. I have one of these. Yes, I have a set. You have a set. I have two.

Starting point is 03:19:19 Well, they're designed for... It came with the bottle, I believe. It came with the bottle, I believe. It came with the bottle. Woo, win! I've got this one. You have to do a glass for the next three shows. This is a great tip. I can do a lot of glass, believe me.

Starting point is 03:19:35 I think this is a dynamite tip. But the Glen Carne glass is the Scotch whiskey glass, period. Yes. But you can serve bourbon and all these other things, but you're kind of violating the rules. This is really a Scotch glass, period. Yes. But you can serve bourbon and all these other things, but you're kind of violating the rules. This is really a scotch glass, but it's a classy looking glass. It's kind of stemless.

Starting point is 03:19:53 It's got kind of a foot. Yeah, it has no stems, just the foot. It's like a tulip with a foot. Yes. And it's an excellent glass. And for scotch drinkers, I would recommend this. Get a set of these. Six, they have them everywhere. everywhere everyone sells them Amazon has them you can go to this website

Starting point is 03:20:09 I just cited and they're here and they can get pretty fancy But just a regular one is the one you want I feel so bad now because and Tina's gonna be I don't know she's listening because I think There's some there's some dudes and they have they have bourbon. I know it's not scotch whiskey dudes and they have bourbon. I know it's not Scotch whiskey, but they have a bourbon that has been aged in a sherry cask. And I can't get their name. And they may be in Texas actually.

Starting point is 03:20:36 And they sent me- Well, bourbon can't be in Texas. They sent me their bourbon and a set of these glasses. They sent these glasses, these scotch glasses with their bourbon? Yep. Yep. Yep. Is it okay for bourbon too? Well, not really, but it's not a bad idea. It's not a bad idea supply. It's a good glass. Bad idea supply.

Starting point is 03:21:03 I'm happy that I have the right glasses. I can't wait for the next tip of the day. Tipoftheday.net, noagendafun.com. Wow. Excellent tip, John. This is very important. I can't wait for the red wine glass. Then we have the white wine glass.

Starting point is 03:21:12 Then we have the champagne glass. I'd say this is your beat for the next tip of the day. I'm happy that I have the right glasses. I can't wait for the next tip of the day. Tipoftheday.net, noagendafun.com. Wow. Excellent tip, John. This is very important.

Starting point is 03:21:20 I can't wait for the red wine glass. Then we have the white wine glass. Then we have the champagne glass. I'd say this is your beat for the next tip of the day. I can't wait for the red wine glass. Then we have the white wine glass. Then we have the champagne glass. I'd say this is your beat for the next tip of the day. I can't wait for the red wine glass, then we have the white wine glass, then we have the champagne glass. I'd say this is your beat for the next three shows. Well, I could do a lot of stuff on glasses, but I can do two.

Starting point is 03:21:35 I think you could do a book. TooManyGlasses.com. There you go. Somebody registered that right away. Thank you all very much for being here with us. Thank you for supporting us at NoAgendaDonations.com. It means a lot. And end of show mixes, we have, oh, the clip custodian, Neil Jones, who sent a very nice mix, and Professor Jay Jones, no relation, he's in China, and David Keck, excellent drummer. Look for him on YouTube and up next on

Starting point is 03:22:07 No agenda stream the troll room.io and your modern podcast app we have behind the schemes Always a fun show to listen to boost those kids coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill country here in Fredericksburg in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. Yeah from Northern Silicon Valley would actually rain this morning, but it won't rain anymore. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's still chilly here in Fred, and remember us please at NoAgendaDonations.com. We will see you on Thursday right here on No Agenda. Till then, adios, mofos, a hooey hooey, and such. Like Jack Palance in the movie Shane.

Starting point is 03:22:48 Throwing the pistol at the sheep herder's feet. Pick it up. I don't wanna pick it up, just for you to shoot me. If all of the hostages are returned returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out. They got the gun Return all of them, return all of them If they're not returned all of them Not in drips and drabs

Starting point is 03:23:37 Not two and one and three and four and two You all saw him. He had a gun. There's now a Kennedy in the Republican administration. Never had a doubt. Never a doubt. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has officially just been confirmed. Big talker. It's gonna do this, it's gonna do that. Everybody's jacked up about it.

Starting point is 03:24:20 A hundred things that I'm gonna do immediately. A hundred things. And I'll say them immediately. 100 things. 100 things. And I'll say to him, you guys are part of a raccoon syndicate. And so he made some promises. With a stroke of the pen make sure that these guys are part of a racketeering group. That's the 97 more to go. I can't wait. This one's associated with ASD, neurological ticks, whatever. We should hold him accountable and make sure that his promises are noted. He's gonna do this, he's gonna do that. Everybody's jacked up about it. And so he made some promises.

Starting point is 03:25:23 The 97 more to go. I can't wait. The time has come in the UK and the EU to declare a state of war with the United States and America. Ever since the fascist takeover by Donald Trump doged Elon Musk, America now represents a serious threat to democracy across the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world.

Starting point is 03:25:32 The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world.

Starting point is 03:25:40 The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country in the world. The United States has been the most powerful country America now represents a serious threat to democracy across the world, especially in the western world. Don't be a dick. Don't be a dick. What kind of interviewer says don't be a dick?

Starting point is 03:26:06 Unbelievable. I don't know. Boop Booper. I don't know. He said more on that clip because Booper. Yeah, yeah. He said 14 seconds. Don't be a dick.

Starting point is 03:26:14 Look, play it out. I have a thought about it. I want to hear the don't be a dick again. Don't be a dick. Yes, I said concentration camps. You can f*** mega. We're talking about efficiency. I think everyone is interested in government efficiency.

Starting point is 03:26:22 This is not government efficiency. This is actually just a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a Yes, I said concentration camps. You could f*** mega. We don't get to talk about efficiency. I think everyone is interested in government efficiency. This is not government efficiency. This is actually just cutting programs, cutting benefits to our actual basis. So the resources and money,

Starting point is 03:26:34 one of those ways is not to give billionaires a huge tax cut. The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash NA. These boys are damn good!

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