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Yeah, I saw the fly. I'm not buying it.
Adam Curry, John C. DeVorek.
It's Thursday, March 20th, 2025.
This is your award-winning Kimono Nation Media Assassination episode 1748.
This is No Agenda.
Suffering a constitutional crisis and
broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley Valley where we discovered that the Aussie
intelligence agencies were behind the cover-up of JFK's assassination
I'm John C. DeVore
I'm sorry I crashed you you were out you were out of out of runway I was you were
out of runway you were out of runway man I know. You were out of runway, man.
I know.
Sorry, but just say I'm John C. Dvorak and I'll edit it in.
No one will know the difference.
Right now?
Yeah.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
No one will know.
There will be no edit.
You're right.
You are correct, sir.
There will never be an edit. Editing is no edit. You're right. You are correct sir. There will never be an edit.
Editing is no fun. No, that's the point. I don't want to deal with that.
Well the files are out and we now know Elvis is alive. Well they're not completely out. We have to
remember this the third are still missing. Yeah, you know what? I have to be honest with you.
I really don't care.
There's nothing earth shattering.
I mean, half the people say the Russians knew it.
They told CIA.
The CIA didn't know.
They covered it up.
The Jews did it.
I mean, it's everything.
It's everything out there.
Yeah.
It depends on who you want to.
Well, no, I mean, of course it depends on what you look at, but it's like,
there's no conclusive evidence.
Do you mind if I just play the one clip I have, which is from the CIA broadcast
systems, which would be the only ones you'd be interested in, uh, in their
report for this particular matter.
After more than six decades of waiting, several thousand new pieces of history now in America's hands. matter. John F. Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas. Most of the files are now posted on the National Archives website,
sharing important details about Lee Harvey Oswald,
who investigators say was JFK's assassin,
even ones detailing Oswald's movement
in Mexico and the Soviet Union
months before the assassination.
What could be major, but won't be what the public's expecting,
is information that the CIA knew more
about what an unhinged character Lee Harvey Oswald was
only six weeks before the assassination.
Author Gerald Posner wrote the book, Case Closed,
one of the first publications to state Oswald alone
killed the president.
He says these files are not a smoking gun,
but still important.
I think that it became part of Dallas's DNA.
It was associated with Dallas in a way
that other assassinations have not been.
According to FBI expert and JFK historian,
Ferris Rookstool, he says, quote,
the records paint a much broader picture
of intelligence involvement in monitoring, downplaying,
and concealing critical information
about Oswald and the
JFK assassination.
The FBI and CIA had pre-assassination intelligence on Oswald's activities but chose not to act
and later engaged in deliberate efforts to mislead official investigations.
Now the CIA is leading us down their path, I guess.
Of course, that's what you do.
I have two clips.
Okay.
JFK, these are from NTD.
Well, that is quality guaranteed.
The Trump administration releases the JFK files, making good on the president's campaign
promise.
NTD correspondent Jason Blair gives us a snapshot of the release.
I think it's the same guy who I just had in my clip, the Jason Blair guy.
I could be wrong.
The Trump administration released the files on Tuesday that contain about roughly 60 to 80,000 pages. And some of these files have been released before. However, there was a lot of information
redacted in this batch appears to have much of that redacted information. And this is something
that President Trump said that he wanted.
So people have been waiting for decades for this. I don't believe we're going to redact anything.
I said just don't redact. You can't redact and you'll make your own determination.
The files have been released on the U.S. National Archives website and it could possibly be weeks
before we know for sure if there are any bombshell revelations in the JFK case.
So far there are new details coming out with a lot of stuff still being discovered.
For example, there is information detailing how the CIA went about tapping telephones
in Mexico City to monitor communications between the Soviets and Cubans at their diplomatic
facilities, which these facilities are where
Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald visited in the months leading up to the assassination.
There's also instructions detailing CIA operatives on how to wiretap, and there's new info on covert
activities in Cuba targeting revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, and there's been some buzz on a previously released note
going around again on social media.
This allegedly was written by JFK's son, JFK Jr. in 1994
to then Senator Biden.
In the letter, he called Biden a traitor.
Reportedly, the FBI did investigate this
and wasn't able to confirm that the letter
was really written
by JFK Jr.
I think that was the Easter egg they put in there.
Let's just put a little fun thing in here, shall we?
Let's do a little list.
I'm sure there's more than one.
Let's do something a little fun.
Yeah, yeah.
A lot of statecraft.
The CIA wanted Israel redacted. It really is the biggest ever in all show history.
The distraction of the weak on no agenda.
Look over there.
We bring out the Epstein files.
Oh no, we can't do that.
So let's play part two of this.
A court has blocked that part of Trump's order for now.
Still, Kammerdela says the problem is...
Nobody really understands what a legal DEI means.
He says nothing about federal anti-discrimination law has changed.
What's this?
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's completely the wrong clip.
I don't know how that Oh, I'm sorry. It's completely the wrong clip. I don't know.
I don't know how that happened.
I'm sorry.
JFK's grandson, Jack Schlossberg reacted to the-
I was wondering why DEI was in the JFK files.
...released criticizing networks for covering it.
He wrote on social media, quote, you don't need to cover the fake JFK documents story,
especially when there's so much real news.
No, there you go. JFK documents story, especially when there's so much real news. JFK's nephew, RFK Jr., who is the current Secretary of Health and Human Services, has
frequently been a supporter of the release of these files.
He has previously said, quote, a government that withholds information is inherently fearful
of its citizens ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy. So you're telling me that they, this is,
there's another tranche yet to be released or will never be released.
According to a guy that showed up on Jesse Waters, he says,
one third of the files are missing. And by the way,
the Schlossberg character who condemned the,
the JFK junior commentary where he called Biden a, and he's a Kennedy, I guess, where
he called Biden a traitor.
What, who cares?
Well, it's-
What is he, so somebody, why is he defending Biden in any situation like this anyway?
I mean, I just, it's beyond me.
The whole thing is kind of dumb. Well, yeah, it's a distraction, but at the same time, it, I just, it's beyond me. The whole thing is kind of dumb.
But yeah, it's a distraction,
but at the same time, it's fun.
Oh yeah, it's good.
And there's these threads all over Twitter
that go on forever.
My favorite is-
But these guys go to one.
My favorite is-
And there's redactions all over the place.
Who are we kidding here?
I love it when people throw it into Grok.
Come on, Grok, tell me who killed JFK.
Grok has done nothing. Grok can't even draw a clock face.
Grok is a front for the CIA. People have asked Grok, it says the documents prove that Oswald
was the lone assassin is what it comes up with.
I've been noticing this more and more people I respect will say,
when I looked it up on Grok, or I looked it up on ChatGPT, I'm like, I can't talk to you.
Like you looked it up on ChatGPT, that means it's right? What do you think this is? It's like,
did you look at the sources? Did you just take that for whatever chat GPT said is true?
It's concerning.
I have used these systems a lot
and I get the biggest kick out of the fact
that if you use more than one,
in other words, you don't ask Rocky, ask Grok,
you get different answers.
You get different answers.
Of course.
And if that doesn't tell you that,
well, I don't know here, why is that giving me a different
answer?
The question is, what are you doing in this moment?
What?
What are you doing in this moment?
Oh, the in this moment.
Yes.
Yes, I had the, did I get the in this?
I got it for you. The strength that we have is in this moment. Yes, yes. Did I get the industry? I got it for you. The
strength that we have is in this
moment. Listen to your
constituents, center them in this
moment. But I can tell you that
there are a lot of people that
are watching his leadership in
this moment. This is the moment.
No, I think about what's
happening, you know, in this
moment. What's important is that
we meet this moment. So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment? in this moment. What's important is that we meet this moment.
So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment?
Meet the moment.
What do you want to see us doing right now in this moment?
And which Democrats are actually going to stand up
against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in this moment?
The fight that you all are exhibiting
is not just what the base wants, but it's what this moment requires. In this moment. The fight that you all are exhibiting is not just what the base wants, but it's what this
moment requires.
In this moment.
Okay, well, let's see.
You got that.
I had the same clip.
You did.
That's a super cut of in this moment.
Let's try to figure out why, what, what is this all about?
It's about this moment.
It's this very moment in history, this time.
It's kind of like in the morning.
What is the op here?
What are they trying to accomplish by dropping this in this moment into every conversation?
What is it supposed to do?
I think it's an NLP trick.
Yeah, but what?
I don't really know.
It's noticeable.
It's very noticeable, but when I first ran into it, I'm thinking, what are you trying
to do?
Are you guys that lost?
Or is it code to show that you're all in the same team maybe?
I mean, it baffles me.
Okay, hold on a second.
I'm going to ask ChatGPT.
They will tell me. Ask ChatGPT. The phrase is- I'm gonna ask chat GPT and they will tell me.
Ask chat GPT.
The phrase...
I'm not grok it.
Here we go. You grok it. The phrase in this moment can be relevant to NLP, Neurolinguistic
Programming in a couple of ways.
What was the question? What question did you ask?
Oh, my question is how is in this moment an NLP? Of course, I had to prompt it.
I just want to make sure we're coming out of the blue with that.
Mindfulness and presence.
NLP often emphasizes the power of being fully present.
Language patterns and reframing.
Oh, they're just throwing that in.
State management.
Oh, I like that.
The concept of state refers to one's mental, emotional, and physiological condition.
Practitioners often use phrases like, in this moment to guide individuals into a more
resourceful state by directing attention to their current feelings. I think that's true. That is probably what it is.
That's probably straight from the NLP guidebook. It's like, this moment, so when you're watching it, you think, oh my God, what's happening
in this moment?
Let me feel inside myself.
I don't feel good in this moment.
How do you feel in this moment?
Maybe.
Maybe.
Well, in this- I can't figure out what these guys are up to at all.
Well, in this moment, I think the real in this moment is what's happening in Europe.
They have gone collectively nuts.
I mean, like really all out warmonger.
Let's just not pussy foot around it.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's spend the money. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Let's spend the money, let's go
into debt. We need the war machine.
A roadmap to rearmament on Wednesday in Brussels. European Commission has laid
out their 800 billion euro plan to make Europe an independent defense power.
450 million European Union citizens should not have to depend on 340 million Americans to defend
ourselves against 140 million Russians who cannot defeat 38 million Ukrainians.
Ideas already to be committed.
How arrogant is that?
What did he say?
He said 420 million Europeans should not have to rely on 340 million Americans to defeat 140 million Russians who can't even defeat 8 million Ukrainians.
That's because they haven't used their 20,000 nuclear weapons yet, Yatul.
Defeat 38 million Ukrainians.
Ideas already tutored by Commission President von der Leyen in recent weeks, the Commission believes 650 billion euros could be raised block wide if Member States are given more
lassitude in their budgetary rules and laid out on Wednesday plans for the 150 billion
euro security action for Europe or SAFE fund.
The EU would take out loans in its own name and issue loans to member states making joint
purchases of defence equipment, an approach aimed at promoting interoperability between
member states' militaries.
The instrument also hopes to stimulate homegrown defence industries, with 65% of funds ringfence
to be spent in the EU, Norway and Ukraine.
Companies in third countries like the US, UK and Turkey could benefit too,
but subject to conditions. Other partner countries entities and products
can be eligible for common procurement subject to an agreement with the union on financial
conditions and security of supply. Alright, so we get 40% of that, so roughly
300 billion euros, we'll take it. And meanwhile, where we heard on the last show that Volkswagen is retooling one of
their closed factories to make bombs.
The Belgians and other car manufacturers, they're like, this is a great idea.
57,000 square meters of industrial space here in Brussels is currently at a standstill.
But what if this huge Audi factory became a weapons factory?
That's the idea put forward by the Belgian defense minister in the wake of European plans
to rearm Europe.
There's a factory that's no longer in use, with an industrial base that's super easy
to convert to the defense industry.
For example, for light armored vehicles and for other possibilities, including drone production,
many Belgian companies are interested.
I bet they are, since no one's buying the cars apparently.
They're shutting down.
But the worst, John, the worst came from Queen Ursula, who traveled to Denmark,
very strategic of course, because what do we know about Denmark?
They still think they own Greenland.
So she went to Denmark, she goes to a military academy and talks to the cadets.
She doesn't say cadets, she says cadets.
And she starts off by saying, what is the best way to avoid war? If you were to
give a recommendation, if the Curry-DeVorek consulting group were to give
a recommendation, how do you avoid war?
Well, I think you do avoid war, you try to keep open communications between various possible
war advocates, or not advocates, but people that you might have a beef with.
Boy, you couldn't have been more off base.
That is not how you avoid war.
And this historic academy is one of the reasons I chose Denmark to speak about security and
to make the case that if Europe wants to avoid war, Europe must get ready for war.
You want to avoid war by getting ready for war? Well that's not quite the way I would
have done it, but...
This is insanity.
And Denmark is acutely aware of its own security interests.
Poor Denmark.
Oh, yeah, and these poor kids sitting there.
Not least.
Denmark's a small country that just gets caught up in this stuff.
They don't really have any, at this point in history, they should stay...
They should be like smart money Switzerland, which just stays out of these conflicts no no
instead it will hold your money hey hey we'll hold your beer why you two guys
fight the cannon fodder kids over there not least because of its unique
strategic geography but also because of recent events. I'm of course talking about the ongoing war in Ukraine and conflicts in other theaters,
but also the repeated and continued attacks on critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
And of course, the ongoing competition for influence in the Arctic region, including
Greenland. Yeah okay so
yeah that's why she's there including Greenland and the war economy is coming
back of course Russia they can't even turn back if they wanted to no way and
and we are we just deserting them. The security architecture that we relied on
can no longer be taken for granted. The age of spheres of influence and power competition
is well and truly back.
Just take Russia.
We already know its determination to deny other countries
their right to choose their own path.
And now Russia is on an irreversible path.
Irreversible, they can't turn back.
It's irreversible.
How can that be? It's irreversible. To creating a pure war economy.
It has massively expanded its military industrial production capacity.
40% of the federal budget is spent on defense, 9% of its GDP.
And this investment fuels its war of aggression in Ukraine while
preparing it for future confrontation with European democracies. There's no
evidence of this. She's making this up as she goes along. And just as these threats
increase we see our oldest partner the States, move their focus to the Indo-Pacific.
Well, yeah, there's that.
We're building big beautiful ships.
She got that part right.
So what exactly does this war economy entail?
What are you going to spend all of this money on Ursula?
That means large scale pan-European cooperation to address gaps in priority areas.
That starts with fundamentals like infrastructure and military mobility.
By 2030, we need a functioning EU wide network of land corridors, airports and seaports to
facilitate the fast transport of troops and military equipment. At the same time, we need to invest in air and missile defense,
artillery systems, ammunition and missiles,
and we have to learn the lessons from the battlefield and the changing nature
of modern warfare. We have seen the importance of drones and counter drone systems
in Ukraine.
And Europe needs to develop all types of unmanned systems and the advanced software and sensors
behind them.
And the same goes for cyber and using military artificial intelligence or quantum computing.
You can put that in your shaggy dog story now. Quantum computing.
Oh, yeah, that's where your money's going, people.
Quantum computing.
But then the final clip, the final clip is really what this comes down to
because it's all just about getting Ukraine and just making Ukraine
European or NATO, whatever we want to make it.
And this strategy has a name.
Ladies and gentlemen, the third priority for European defense is perhaps the most strategic
and that is increasing support for Ukraine.
This is what we call the steel porcupine strategy.
Yeah, baby.
The steel porcupine strategy. Yes, it's the steel porcupine strategy and she will
explode. This is what we call the steel porcupine strategy because we may need to make Ukraine
strong enough to be absolutely indigestible for any potential invader. You see, if someone wants to eat the steel porcupine, then the steel spikes will stick
out of your throat and your stomach.
It's indigestible.
Ukraine will be a steel porcupine.
So we need to invest in Ukraine's strength in deterrence through denial.
We have done a lot already.
We have supported Ukraine.
They're in denial, all right. Deterrence through denial. We have done a lot already. We have supported Ukraine. They're in denial all right.
Deterrence through denial.
Oh man.
In deterrence through denial.
We have done a lot already.
We have supported Ukraine with about 50 billion euros in military support alone and trained
more than 73,000 Ukrainian troops.
And our support for Ukraine's accession to the European Union
remains as strong as ever, but there is a lot more that we can do.
Oh yeah, so much more. They're crazy, John. They're completely nuts.
She wants war. She just wants war. I don't see any other way to look at it.
Yeah, that's what she wants.
I don't see any other way to look at it. Yeah, that's what she wants.
Who, what is the-
How do you get that way?
Adrenochrome?
Meanwhile, let's play this clip before we continue, which is the Ukraine energy fiasco.
Yeah, NTD? Yeah. Ukraine now agrees to a partial ceasefire with Russia after President
Trump speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
But as Trump says the two countries are on track for a ceasefire,
overnight strikes raise questions about enforcement of a truce.
Joining us now live is NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tau.
Good evening, Iris.
One of the biggest takeaways from Trump's call with Zelensky today?
Good evening, Judy.
So the hour long call between President Trump and Zelensky today
yielded a few major things.
One, Zelensky now agrees to a temporary energy ceasefire
after Trump just yesterday got pooing to agree to one
also over a long phone call.
And two, we might be seeing a new deal coming out between the US and Ukraine.
The White House says President Trump today in the call suggested to Zelensky that the
US can help Ukraine run some of its power plants and that is to give them some protection
of their energy infrastructure.
President Trump also discussed Ukraine's electrical supply and nuclear power plants.
He said that the United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its electricity
and utility expertise.
American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure
and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Here's what I don't understand.
The M5M is emphatic about pronouncing Turkey as Turkey-A, Kiev as Keev, but when it comes to Putin,
it's Poo-uh. Poo-uh. Poo-uh. I'm just poo-uh-ing. Or as Marc Levan calls him, Putin. Oh, Putin.
Yeah, that's... I've heard Putin by more than a few people. Yeah, that's probably part of
it. Which, of course, I believe is just a subconscious way of implying it's Rasputin.
Putin.
I have a funny NPR foreign clip which just like it made no sense when I heard this one.
Listen to this.
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he plans
to talk with President Trump.
Now it's Volodymyr. Volodymyr. Volodymyr. It's Volodymyr. Volodymyr.
He says he plans to talk with President Trump today by phone. This comes after Trump spoke
yesterday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader says his country will agree
to stop targeting Ukrainian energy facilities for 30 days.
But Ukrainian officials say Russia is still firing drones at them, even hitting two hospitals overnight.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley says that the conversation between Trump and Putin has gotten Europe's attention.
This is deeply shaking the continent. There's a view that Putin is stalling so he can continue the war,
and that he's playing with Trump, who Europeans believe is naive, has no experience with Putin
and wants a peace deal so badly he'll do anything.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You can't have it both ways, NPR.
You can't say that he's a puppet of Putin, that there's Russian collusion,
and then say he has no experience with Putin.
What, they're contradicting themselves now.
They don't know what to do.
Yeah.
They're warmongers too.
They are.
Who, who, who is the host of, uh, PBS news hour these days?
What is, what is the format of the news hour?
The format is they bring it.
There's a woman with kind of a multicultural woman and the
and various guys.
I use the black gay guy.
Is it Oh, Kaypard?
No, no, no, no.
Kaypard is a commentator.
Is is the manhands lady on the news hour?
No, the manhands lady that's Kirsten Welker.
She's on NBC News, the press.
I found a NewsHour bit from 1994 about, now this is about NATO expansion.
And it was a debate, well, he calls it a debate, it wasn't really a debate. And the so-called debate is between the former ambassador to Russia, Matlock, and Henry Kissinger.
And listen to the difference in PBS NewsHour from what we know it today and what it was
in 1994. Since the collapse of communism in Central Europe, there have been proposals and debate over whether and how to expand NATO,
which now guarantees mutual protection for 16 Western nations in Europe and the US and Canada,
to such countries as Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
Today, at the so-called CSCE summit in Budapest, President Yeltsin repeated his country's opposition to that idea.
He warned of a cold peace and said the world could not be run from one capital, a reference to Washington
and the U.S. But the issue of NATO expansion has also divided American officials and analysts.
We take up the story with two of them, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Jack
Matlock, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, now a professor at Columbia University.
I found this to be fascinating because it's not even that long ago. What is it, 30 years? 1994?
And these countries hadn't come into NATO yet and already the Russian president was saying,
hey, hey, hey, no, no, no, no. And, but no, that doesn't matter.
We don't care.
Starting with you, Ambassador Matlock,
the Russians are clearly very unhappy
about the prospect of expanding NATO.
Let's start with this.
Actually, what is the US policy right now?
How quickly is the Clinton administration
pushing to expand NATO from what you can read?
Clinton.
Well, my understanding is that their position
is that the East Europeans should be prepared
for NATO and though no date has been set, that the question is not if but when.
And NATO itself recently, just for background here, recently voted to come up within a year
with a list of sort of conditions for membership for potential members.
So the
issue is moving forward as you understand it, is that correct?
The issue is moving forward but we have to be careful not to trap ourselves in
an endless waffle. When we say the issue is not if but when, the responsibility of
national leaders is not to ask rhetorical questions but to answer them.
So we have an obligation to give some sort of an answer to when and the Russians are not unhappy about the timing
They're unhappy about the fact about the fact and therefore we ought to face that as early as possible
So the Russians were unhappy about the fact at all while we we collectively were already talking about doing it.
But who was really pushing it? This answer was surprising.
Well, where is the pressure, as you understand it, Jack Matalock, where is the pressure coming from
for quick expansion inside NATO, inside? We know that certain Eastern European or Central European
countries like Poland would love to be a member quickly quickly but where is it coming from with inside NATO? Well my understanding is
that the Germans have been sort of the principal advocates within NATO.
They're joined by certain others. I'm one who feels that we found we should leave
the possibility open that we should make clear that we would back expansion only if there is a
threat which needs to be met. In other words we should use it to pressure the
Russians to ease off on the rhetoric and to behave in a manner which does not
threaten these. One another problem here is that the I think it's much more
important for the Poles the Czechs and the other East Europeans to get in the European Union.
This is important economically.
They need the markets.
And I suspect that some Europeans look at NATO as almost a surrogate for doing what
would be a more difficult matter for them, and that is opening their markets to them.
I thought that to be interesting.
It was interesting.
In fact, this goes back to this period.
That was Robert McNeill that was the host there.
That was during the era when it was called, before it was NewsHour, it was called the
McNeil Lair Report.
Those are two guys that came from mainstream media over to PBS to set up shops because
they felt that the half-hour news shows on network TV, which were still there.
Were no good.
Were just entertainment.
Entertainment.
So they figured an hour with a little more thoughtful discussion would be better.
Not knowing that giving an hour away like that or creating this hour show after they
left, both McNeil and Lehrer, it turned to, except during that short period when Gwen Ifill was there and she kept it
in play.
Yeah.
And then it just became a left-wing bunch of stooges.
So I thought it was interesting that Europe was cobbling together what they're now completing,
the European Union project, and that they really saw NATO, a war machine machine as a way to get that going and luckily last clip
Former ambassador Matlock reminds us that we made some promises about NATO expansion
There is one other factor here that we seem to be forgetting and we did though
It was not a legally binding assurance
We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev back when the Soviet Union existed that if a united Germany was able to stay in NATO
NATO would not be moved eastward and
You know, I think that the current Russian government is very clear
So we would be but but that that assurance was given to the Soviet Union. That is right
It's not a legally binding. That's that's that's their their their their loophole
Well, we gave that assurance to the Soviet Union, not to Russia, you see.
It's a very different thing.
But it was, you might say, a geopolitical deal.
And if we simply ignore it, then I...
Certainly, if I were a Russian, it would be hard for me to interpret this,
even though it may not be intended that way, and it is not.
And now you can hear Kissinger talking about those pesky Russians,
they're stopping the
American war machine from doing important work.
Is anything less than an attempt to shut Russia off from Eastern Europe?
That was a line that Yeltsin used today, that it would isolate Russia and sow the seeds of
discord.
But here's a country that has 20,000 nuclear weapons. The possibility that Poland would start marching into Russia is zero.
And I repeat, this is not, in terms of political architecture, conceived as a cold war situation
because Russia can participate in the European security country in all the political issues,
but one has to keep in mind what a weak Russia has done in the last few months.
When we were assembling forces against Iraq a few weeks ago.
When we were assembling forces in Iraq a few weeks ago? Really? Back in 1994 already, huh?
Yeah, of course. Russia said no.
The Russian Foreign Minister appeared in Baghdad in a political demonstration that certainly in practice discouraged any American military move on Serbia.
They have clearly taken traditional Russian positions, understandably so.
But Russia thinks of itself as a major geopolitical player, which it has every right to do.
And I think it was two years later that we bombed Serbia.
Yeah, Clinton. Yeah. That's every right to do. And I think it was two years later that we bombed Serbia.
Yeah, Clinton.
Yeah.
Was that Madeline Albright, who was then the secretary of state?
It could be. I think so.
Oh, I know.
That's the moment where we accidentally hit the Chinese
embassy and blew it to smithereens.
Oops.
Yeah.
So this has always been a horrible system.
I don't think President Trump's going to get us out of it.
I think he wants to keep it.
I don't think he can get us out of it.
No.
And with all this JFK stuff coming out, RFK, JFK, RFK, JFK.
The K's.
All the K's.
It's going to, you know, where it looks like they're going to...
Bobby Kennedy still sticks by the guns where it's, you know, he says, JFK pulled us out
of Vietnam, or said, let's get out of Vietnam completely because there were 75 dead soldiers
that were over there and they shouldn't have been fighting, but they were, and he was dead
a month later.
Yeah.
His commentary.
Yeah, but there's, I don't think there's anything about Vietnam in the JFK drop.
Is there?
I don't know.
I haven't heard anything about it.
Let's ask Grock.
Grock.
Ask Grock.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the guy.
All right, where do you want to go from here?
I have a lot.
Well, since you...
Whoa!
I'm sorry.
Whoa!
I changed my position at Sharon's, bang the mic with my fist.
Oh, no.
So, there's that.
How about going to, since we're down, let's do the Ukraine peace talks and get that out
of the way from the World Service of the BBC. Yes, ladies and gentlemen the BBC
World Service. The US has confirmed further peace talks will be held in Saudi
Arabia on Sunday but it's not yet known whether a delegation from Ukraine or
Russia will be involved. In his call with Donald Trump on Wednesday, President Putin agreed to continue the talks. Our Russia editor
Steve Rosenberg says it's a sign of a growing relationship between the two
countries. The Kremlin is saying the kind of things we haven't heard the Kremlin
say about an American president for years.
Today Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump trust
each other and understand each other well.
There is another thing that President Trump understands because the Russians have dropped
plenty of hints and that is that there are lots of lucrative deals potentially for America
to do in Russia.
Lucrative deals? Oh no.
But Trump is... Some kind of wasn't covered by NPR, Trump's a bonehead.
He has no experience with Putin. Putin. Putin. Putin. Putin.
Part two.
Which is fueling suspicion that Mr. Trump may prioritize deal making with Moscow over
Ensuring a just peace for Ukraine. Oh the just word a just peace which means just taking
Just peace. I'm a just peace not no, it's a just peace which means we take your 300 billion euros and
We tell you to sod off.
I find you one deal that Donald Trump has so far failed
to convince Vladimir Putin to sign up to
is a comprehensive ceasefire.
The Kremlin leader has laid down a string of conditions
for that, including an end to Western arm shipments
to Kiev and to Western intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
Still, the Kremlin continues to praise Donald Trump.
On the streets of Moscow, though, people are more cautious.
Tatiana tells me she doesn't like how Donald Trump keeps changing what he says and does.
One minute he's giving you something, she says, the next he's taking it.
Vladimir tells me he's still waiting for proof that
Trump will improve relations with Russia. We've been promised things before, he
says. It's almost as if Russians cannot believe what they're seeing, that it's
too good to be true. An American president who says he wants better
relations with Russia. That was interesting. The public at large is now...
Yeah, heaven forbid we want decent relations with somebody with 20,000 nuclear warheads.
This is against the entire globalist...
When you look at it on the map, you really start to see what the expansion of NATO was.
You kind of understand that the globalists on our side, and when I say our US, EU, they
wanted to make sure that they captured everything that could fall into a vacuum or that could
be sucked back into Russia.
They do that by saying, well, Putin wants that, which may be true.
I mean, you know, he clearly wants to do business with them.
Yeah.
And then Ukraine is just, it's like the pearl.
It's like the perfect little, well, not little,
huge piece of land that they just can't allow him
to influence.
And that was really the genesis of the whole problem is when Poroshenko
decided, you know, he was the president of Ukraine.
Said, you know, I think I'm going to do a deal with Russia instead of with the EU.
That was the start of it all.
Yeah. And that's where they brought in Newland and John Brennan was over there.
The Maidan thing, the whole thing.
Had to get everybody out.
The donuts.
Were they donuts, cookies, or were they pretzels?
I can't really remember.
I don't remember.
So meanwhile, we're just going to stay in Europe for another couple clips.
Okay, oh yeah, sure.
Turkey.
There's a turkey mess going on that nobody's done.
The mainstream media is not talking about this whatsoever at all.
Turkey-ay.
Turkey-ay.
How does the BBC World Service pronounce it?
Well, we'll find out, won't we?
In Turkey, students outside Istanbul University were...
That's a violation of standards.
I think that's not right.
That's the BBC.
They said Turkey.
That's incorrect.
The following report incorrectly identifies Turkey right. In Turkey. That's the BBC, they said Turkey. That's incorrect. The following report incorrectly identifies Turkey A as Turkey.
In Turkey, students outside Istanbul University were pepper sprayed by riot police as they
protested against the detention of one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest
rivals, the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamolu.
In a rare display of public anger, crowds
chanted anti-government slogans while the main opposition called his arrest a coup against
our next president. These locals in Istanbul voiced their outrage.
I think these are all political decisions and I am sure that a large part of the country
thinks so. There is no justice, there is no law. There is always a judiciary that only enforces the decisions taken by the government.
There is no other explanation for this.
I'm furious.
That's all I have to say.
Our situation is not getting any better.
The reasons are already obvious, but of course there must be a cover for this.
But at a news conference, Turkey's Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç defended the arrests.
I would like to underscore that the Republic of Turkey is a state governed by the rule of law.
Everyone is equal before the law. No individual or group is granted special privileges.
The Turkish lira plummeted to its lowest level following Mr. Oumouliou's detention, falling
by almost 15% against the dollar.
Well, Emre Temel from the BBC's Turkish service joins us now.
Emre, Mr. Oumouliou and a hundred politicians, journalists and businessmen were detained.
What are they accused of?
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office described Ekrem Imamoglu as a suspected criminal
organization leader.
He was accused of corruption in tender processes.
Prosecutors also accused Mr. Imamoglu of aiding the outlaw of Kurdistan Workers' Party,
PKK, as well.
And Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç said a total of 106 individuals have been detained
into two investigations into terrorism and corruption.
The wild card here is I think the Gulen network who of course lost their leader Fethullah Gulen.
He died what? Last year? Late last year?
Yeah.
I wonder if these people are part of the network.
No, this whole thing is very suspicious and we don't, we'll never have any clue as to because
the reporting is so mediocre.
They can't even get the name of the country right. How can we trust anything? Turkey, hey ladies.
He added that investigations will remain confidential. Mr. Imamoglu denies all the charges.
His wife Dilek Imamoglu dismissed the accusations as ridiculous and
manufactured. And the opposition says Mr. Umemoglu is being targeted to stop him
running against President Erdogan in the next presidential elections. How much of
a threat is he to Mr. Erdogan? Ekrem Ä°mamoÄźlu is seen as the strongest rival to the Turkish president Recep Tayyip ErdoÄźan
in a future election.
As President ErdoÄźan himself, Mr. Ä°mamoÄźlu seemed ready to use Istanbul mayorship as
the launchpad for the ultimate price presidency.
He's a very popular politician, won the mayoral race twice in 2019 and was resoundingly re-elected last
year.
And he is, Mr. Imamo is expected to be named as main opposition Republican People's
Party's presidential candidate in a primary vote on Sunday.
However, yesterday his university diploma was revoked.
This move was largely seen by the opposition as an aim to eliminate him
from the Turkish politics because a college degree is a constitutional requirement for a
candidacy in Turkey and Mr. Ä°mamoÄźlu was preparing to appeal this decision but what happened this
morning left him in an uncharted territory. If he will be arrested, the government may appoint a trustee to the Istanbul Metropolitan
Municipality to replace Imamoglu and as it stands now, Ekrem Imamoglu will not be able
to run in Turkey's next presidential election.
I'm surprised that no one, I'm sorry.
I was going to say the giveaway that this is a scam is the fact that they took his diploma
away.
The university was told that the guy got a degree, he needed a degree I guess to run for
office in Turkey. Yeah. Yeah, I mean he's had this degree, it's like it felt like somebody
at the University of California called me and said we're revoking your bachelor's degree.
What? How do you do that? Let that be a warning to you trolls.
If you troll too hard, we're revoking your no agenda PhD and maybe even your Commodore
ship.
Take it away.
Oh man.
You'd expect a lot more reporting on this from the media because it is a NATO country
that is in disarray right now.
It's always kind of in disarray.
It's always kind of.
I'm actually surprised that I never heard this from any other source, including NTD.
Nobody's covering this except the BBC's World Service.
Yeah, well, they got to fill the airtime somehow.
You know, now that there's a vacuum
with the Voice of America being gone,
oh, now everyone's gonna switch to us on long wave.
I was gonna clip something, but it was so dumb.
It's like, oh, the Voice of America
has 360 million listeners in their audience.
I'm like, no, they don't.
That's bull crap. No, they don't. That's bull crap.
No, they don't.
President Trump is right getting rid of that
because they're propagandizing the Americans with all that nonsense.
So I think we can't go around.
Man.
Yes.
Well, I don't know where you had it,
but I do have one more kind of obscure clip. Sure.
Of information that's not being played anywhere else and that's followed by a couple of very strange clips.
But this is the untold, the unreported South Africa news. There's another blurt that nobody picked up on.
I didn't hear this anywhere. You know about this. Is this about the ambassador that we kicked out? No, no, no, not about the ambassador.
Oh, once again, President Trump, manga,
making African news great again.
Manga?
Yes, manga, making African news great again.
Oh, oh, manga.
Manga, yeah.
Almost 70,000 South Africans have expressed interest
in resettling to the United States,
following an executive order by President
Donald Trump offering citizenship to farmers from the country. The South African Chamber of Commerce
in the USA says it's handed over the details of those interested to the US Embassy in Pretoria.
From Johannesburg, here's our Africa correspondent, Mayani Jones. Now this is the first time that we're
getting an indication of the level of interest in South Africa to Mr. Trump's offer to
resettle South African farmers to the US. Now for some context on the 7th of
February President Trump issued an executive order accusing the South
African government of discriminating against white africana farmers these are
descendants of Dutch and French settlers, of Africa. This
is something that President Siriova-Rama-Posa has repeatedly denied. Nonetheless, a month
later, President Trump extended his invitation to any South African farmer who felt discriminated
against and also offered them citizenship. Following this, the South African Chamber
of Commerce in the U.S. says it launched a platform on its website inviting people who were interested in resettling to fill in a few basic details. We don't know
the professions of these people so we don't know if they qualify for resettlement, if
they're farmers and this is just an expression of interest. These are not people who've
applied for resettlement yet but they say they're interested in this and according
to Sikhusi around 67,000 people filled in this form and have expressed an interest in
resettling to the United States. Most of them were aged between 25 and 45 and the
majority of them had dependents that would be coming to the US.
That's a great idea. I didn't know about that.
Nobody knows about it.
That's a good idea. I mean those guys know how to farm.
Yeah, they do. Yeah.
And, you know, a lot of our young people don't want to farm anymore.
They just want to sell the farm.
Yeah.
No, this is a, but this again, not being, this is unreported.
I stunned how the mainstream, well, I'm stunned there's gambling going on.
Yeah.
But they could use the main, the M5M could use that to say,
well, Trump wants to bring in South Africans.
Yeah, whitey's.
Yeah, they bring in white, he only likes white people.
Yes, yes, Nazis.
I don't understand, yeah, I agree with you that it's a missed opportunity by the mainstream media.
Now, then there's this other story which is the...
If I can just say, the reason why they're not doing it is they understand like we do
that African news is automatic tune out.
So that's going to be the real tune out though is this story. This is the... it's under...
Cape Town?
Yeah, Cape Town. So the South Africans have a contingent of people that they sent to an Antarctic site
where they...
Oh, right.
...they rolled up and then they should...
They were mad.
Didn't they have a fight break out or something?
No.
There's one guy there that's apparently gone nuts and he's a psycho and they can't get him out.
So this is a report from a South African radio station.
And they brought in a foreign, one of the ministers who does nothing, but make
excuses for, no, we've got it, we've got it under control and the guy says,
it's like totally full of crap.
This went on for a long time.
I only have two short clips of it, but I mean, you could, it just goes on and on
and on with this guy apologizing for this whole situation.
But I thought it was amusing. Here we go. All right. You're on Cape Talk. My name is Dan
Corder. As I said a few minutes ago, I'm genuinely thrilled to be joined by Minister Dion George,
who's the environment minister, more specifically of the DFFE, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries,
and the Environment. Dion George, thank you for joining us. Your department is in the middle
of a rapidly exploding story that has developed
in the last few days, we really caught a hold in the media
in literally this morning about San A5,
our Antarctica research station that South Africa
is the custodian of and manages,
and about allegations that one member
of our research team down there has
been accused of physical assault, potentially even sexual assault that has, well it depends
on which kind of statement and press release or which journalist you read, but has potentially
expressed remorse, underwent further evaluation, but potentially also has a sexual assault
allegation outstanding.
We've also heard suggestions from the media
that members of the rest of our research team felt unsafe and wanted to be evacuated and
then they weren't. Can you just clear up exactly what is going on for all of us who are swimming
in too much journalism right now?
Yes, good afternoon. Thanks for having me on this afternoon. I think yes, we must stick to the facts and also I think that we really
do need to avoid sensationalizing the situation. There is in fact a situation that we are dealing
with it with very successfully. What happened was one of the members of the team at Antarctica
had an altercation, verbal altercation with another member regarding a task that
needed to be done.
And that did escalate and there was a physical assault.
Not serious injuries, the doctor attended to them and that was okay.
Everything's good.
Nothing to worry about, nothing to see here.
Yeah.
Okay.
So this guy, this guy who sounds like a kind of
a Mr. Peepers character continues.
What are they doing at that Antarctic base?
Are they looking for the flying saucers?
Are they looking for the ice wall
where the rest of the continent or the flat earth is located?
During this era, this period of time when it's the worst of conditions,
usually most of these bases are abandoned, but they keep a team at this one and the South Africans keep a team.
Are they running the earthquake machine? What is happening? What is happening down there?
I never say that. That's never explained in the entire report.
When you mean physical assault, was it a punch-up? What was it?
Punch-up!
I do not know the whole detail of it, but it was a physical altercation.
And there was no serious injuries.
Okay.
And that did happen. There was no sexual assault. That is not correct.
Okay.
There was an allegation of sexual harassment against the same individual
and what we've done is we've immediately had our team of psychologists and experts on the
situation right at the very outset because obviously it's very harsh circumstances down there and you know, if the window has now closed
because, you know, for returns, etc.
Although I am considering every...
Sorry, can you just unpack that?
Yes, exactly, because some of our listeners have already said, well, you know, the Cape
of Gullis only goes down at this time.
It's only in December.
It's a boat.
But I know of people who have been flown down.
I know that the weather changes.
Is there no way to get people out who want to get out? December it's a clear that there is headway getting
made. That's a good story. Headway getting made. That's a story for a Netflix mini-series.
Limited series. Exactly what Mimi said. By the way, if I may just for a moment, I think
that the streamers are making big, big mistakes.
You know, we've been trying to follow a couple of shows.
And first of all, Roku is now testing autoplay ads on the home screen.
Do you have a Roku? You don't have a Roku, do you?
I do have a Roku. I have a couple of Rokus, but I don't use them.
Because my smart LG TV, which is recommended during the tips of the day,
some time ago has a bunch of stuff built in.
So I don't use them.
Yeah, but if you have a Roku box,
now all of a sudden you bring up the home screen
where you select your icon
for the streaming service of your choice.
And they got ads auto playing with audio.
That's interesting.
Which brings me back, okay. The guy who, okay, this is interesting. I don't know if it That's interesting. Can I, which brings me back, okay.
The guy who, okay, this is interesting.
I don't know if it's that interesting.
It's a little inside baseball.
Well, you're on the hook now.
It better be interesting.
Well, it probably won't be that interesting.
But the guy who is the CEO of Roku, I had lunch with once, and he was, and the reason
I had a chat with him because he was the guy who started Replay TV,
which was the original competitor of TiVo.
And I went to the rollout of Replay TV,
and his whole modus operandi, his whole idea
of how you're gonna make money with Replay TV,
which was just basically a DVR.
Was skipping the ads.
Yeah, but his idea was throwing in more ads in situations where you couldn't skip them.
He really liked the idea of now you have a captive audience, let's throw some ads at
them that they can't do anything about.
So it makes nothing but sense that he would do this with Roku.
What's the guy's name again?
Because he's invited me to his backyard barbecue a couple of years in a row.
The CEO of Roku?
Yeah, yeah.
What's his name?
I don't know what his name is.
He has a house in Austin.
And he gets-
He does?
Yeah.
He's a really nice guy.
That's what people say.
I mean, it just never worked.
I mean, he's like a really nice guy.
It never worked out.
It's like, hey, come by on Thursday.
Thanks for knowing what I do, dude.
And he would have Willie Nelson.
I think his house is probably a pretty big place anyway.
But my general complaint, the streamers seem to have a new strategy.
They are now releasing episodes weekly, where it used to be you'd get the first three,
then you get another batch.
In some cases, the whole thing, you could kind of pace your own viewing habit.
Right.
Which is what you want.
Yeah.
But they're doing away with that.
And so basically if you look at White Lotus, which we watched season two and
now it's season three, so I will watch it.
It's now they're turning it into an eight hour movie where they don't have big cliffhangers
after each episode, it just kind of ends and the tension is just, it's tension throughout,
it's building up, it's building up, but then you have to wait a week.
I think it's a losing, I know why they're doing it because people would come in, get
the deal for one month, pay for one month, cancel right
away after they've binged the series they want to see.
So they're trying to stretch people out over at least two months or longer.
Or the not one month free thing.
Yes.
Because that's the idea.
Yeah.
You can't binge.
I think it's a mistake in strategy. I'm not sure. It's also, the episodes just go on and on and on with no resolution.
You know, if you have an episode, you need a resolution with some cliffhanger at the end.
They don't have that.
Just like, we'll see you next week, sucker.
I don't think it's real.
I think it's...
That sounds like a good idea.
We have a problem.
I don't think it's real. Yeah. That sounds like a good idea. I think we have a problem. I don't know.
I find most of the watch, my watching has just gone deteriorated completely because
of, I mean, except for a couple of shows that I like.
It all sucks.
I have like two, three shows maybe that I'll watch over and over.
And I mean, I still find there's, there are some network stuff that is still nominally good. I think,
I still think NCIS is a well written show that has a good,
it's compelling and well done. Other than that,
the FBI stuff is not that interesting. They killed a couple of them.
I mean, which brings me to some clips.
I need to get into a different, to get into a different category here.
You're just going on and on with your clips.
I just gave you Cape Town.
This is the show.
I gave you Cape Town. I get to do something now.
Cape Town was borderline, man.
Well, it was.
We need to talk about the Elon hate.
I got clips.
Okay, well, let me start off with a super cut. And it's long so you can, No, it was. We need to talk about the Elon hate. I got clips.
Okay.
Well, let me start off with a super cut and it's long so you can, if you're sick of it,
let me know.
Saying on my phone, I don't know, some of you know this on the iPhone, they've got that
little stock app.
I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day.
225 and dropping.
Elon Musk, you didn't create US aid.
The United States Congress did for the American people.
And just like Elon Musk did not create US aid, he doesn't have the power to destroy
it.
And who's going to stop him?
We are.
We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be
a dictator on day one and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks
like. Today it's USA. Tomorrow it's our healthcare. It's social security. It's our livelihoods. It's our freedoms. So stand up for USA Today.
USA Today.
What? Stand up for USA Today? The newspaper must stay around.
It's our health care. It's social security. It's our livelihoods. It's our freedoms.
So stand up for USA Today. USA Today. So that we can stand up for all of our freedoms in
the days ahead.
This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today.
Let's call it what it is.
The people get to decide how we defend the United States of America.
The people get to decide how their taxpayer money is spent.
Elon Musk does not get to decide.
We are here to save lives because that is
what AI does. And no one elected Elon Musk to dismantle it.
Elon Musk, where are you? Bring your ass over here so you can see.
Finally Maxine Waters is back. Who's here? This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarms just before
he strolls into the lobby.
That is what they are doing.
They are dismantling the federal government, which will deny the American people the services
and the resources that allow them to help to raise their families, have a secure
economy and a secure future for themselves.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
I'll keep playing.
You said I could stop it.
Yes.
Oh, okay.
Every time you hear Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, you just remember it
is the Department of Government evil.
While we're sitting here, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are recklessly and illegally dismantling
the federal government, shuttering federal agencies, firing federal workers, withholding funds
vital to the safety and well-being of our communities and hacking our sensitive data systems.
Now we should in no way be cooperating with House Republicans who want to shut down the
Department of Education and destroy Medicare and Medicaid.
And we should not stand by as the richest man on the planet gives himself and his companies
huge tax cuts while the American people get absolutely nothing.
Doge staff to carry
out this agenda across all these agencies. Alright, so I have four clips
then I'll let you go with your clips. I just know I don't have anything that tops
that. I want to mention something though. This idiot Walt, Tim, Tampon Tim as they
call him, he's you know gloating about the the downturn in Tesla stock.
The pensioners in Minnesota hold like 127 million shares or some crazy amount.
Yes, some outrageous number of shares and he's happy that they're losing their ass.
Are you kidding me?
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
But the attacks on Tesla are interesting because, And if you just scroll through a timeline, you'll see all of these the you know
This these Teslas have you know 20 cameras or whatever it is
I know it's funny when someone keys the car then, you know, you're on camera and then you know
They're they're busting people for this and you know it
And I'll get to what I think this is in a minute
but first two quick clips from Anderson Cooper 360. New Tesla safety concerns after another
violent act of vandalism against the company. This was a targeted attack against a Tesla facility.
The most recent happening Tuesday in Las Vegas. Police say a person dressed in black shot and set fire
to several Tesla vehicles at a repair facility.
The word resist was spray painted on the building.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force
is now conducting an investigation
in order to identify the suspect and a motive.
Violent acts like this are unacceptable
regardless of where they occur.
And specifically to those who might think
that something like this is justifiable or potentially even admirable.
We want to let you know it's a federal crime.
We will come after you.
We will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
Justice Department officials announced just days ago that 24-year-old Daniel Clark Pounder
has been arrested in connection with the Molotov cocktail attack on a Tesla charging station in South Carolina. CNN
has reached out to his attorney for comment. If convicted, he faces up to 20
years in federal prison. So this this is so out of control and I would have to
say the Democrat representatives they're the ones who were stoking this up. I
mean just listen to what they're saying.
You heard it in the super cut.
So they had to take action.
And there was something called the Tesla takedown call, which is,
you know, which we know is like, that's kind of like the gay guys for Harris,
white dudes for Harris, Hollywood for Harris.
They're doing the zoom calls again.
And so they bring on this very weak lady who young lady who is the host of the call. And they bring in a bunch
of actors and people telling you what to do and what not to do.
And this was this was great because they bring in Alex
winter, who has a movie to promote.
Alex Winter is from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Okay.
Uh, dude, hey dude.
And I think they have, uh, another, uh, like the, the third movie in the series
coming out and so they're bringing all these people in, they bring on Alex
Winter, an actor who proceeds to read a script.
Alex Winter is an actor, director, and writer
who has worked across film, television, and theater.
As an actor, Winter recently co-starred
in the anticipated third installment
in the Bill and Ted franchise.
Please welcome Alex Winter.
How's it going?
Thanks so much, Annie.
It's really great to have you here.
I like that he says it's very great to have you here, even though that was her line.
I'm not quite sure where that went wrong in the script, but that was incorrect.
Alex Winter.
How's it going?
Thanks so much, Annie.
It's really great to have you here and great to see everybody on this thing.
Like most of the world, I was appalled by Elon Musk not seeing the script salute, which
kicked off his all out assault on our
government. And I wasn't surprised to see people protesting him soon after that. There
was a protest in early February, the Tesla story that caught my eye because only one
person ticketing attracted a huge group of bystanders who were also being adversely affected
by Musk and his criminal actions with Doge. Then more protests sprouted up in mid-February
and I decided to protest at a Tesla store in my town.
Now I expected it to just be me and maybe one other person.
But when I got there with my little sign,
there were dozens of protestors
and within an hour there were close to a hundred.
I'm a big believer in nonviolent protest
as protected by the First Amendment.
It's a constitutional right
and it's foundational to a working democracy.
And it's been wild to see the tens of thousands
of citizens around the world
who are now organizing these grassroots,
nonviolent Tesla takedown protests.
The grassroots nonviolent.
They're like parties.
We've been seeing.
Hold on a second.
This, he's not a very good actor.
No.
Is he actually looking down and reading it?
He's reading off his screen. You can see that.
Oh, he's reading off. Okay. So, yeah. Cause it just sounds, I mean,
he's not a good prompter reader either. I mean,
this doesn't sound natural in the least. It sounds terrible.
But the fact that he lent himself for this and what they're trying to do is
they're trying to calm it down because they know it's out of control.
They know they're complicit.
When I say they...
No, so that's why they're emphasizing non-violent.
Exactly.
Grassroots.
It's grassroots too.
Grassroots non-violent.
Grassroots non-violent.
Mostly peaceful protests.
And it's been wild to see the tens of thousands of citizens around the world
who are now organizing these grassroots non nonviolent Tesla take down protests.
They're like parties with dancing and music.
One had a mariachi band.
We had marching bands.
Another one had Joan Baez playing her guitar and Paul Alto is pretty rad.
Oh, it's all, it's just a party.
This mariachi bands.
There's no one keying Tesla's.
There's no one fire bombing Tesla's.
There's no Molotov cocktails, but
you know, Elon Musk is a Nazi.
But I think the Tesla takedown matters for several key reasons.
One is that it gives many people a means to get out in peaceful protests to make their
voices heard.
Very important right now.
And it also matters because it helps people to learn the facts about the reckless and
deadly activities of Musk and
Doge that are impacting people directly.
But as far as actually taking Tesla down, I don't think that's actually on any of the
protesters. Elon Musk only has himself to blame for tanking this company. Tesla was
permanently tarnished the moment Musk gave that Nazi salute and followed it with his
brutal attack on the lives of ordinary citizens.
It's all on Elon. There is no conspiracy. There is no well-funded cabal.
Yes, there is.
It's just Elon Musk who has taken Tesla down.
Why would you even say there's no well-funded cabal
when you're literally reading the script given to you by at least a funded cabal?
Come on.
It's all on Elon. There is no conspiracy. There is no well funded cabal. It's just Elon Musk who has taken Tesla down.
And meanwhile, the protests will continue to grow. They won't stop until Musk is stopped.
That means more people in the streets, more people learning the facts about his attack on our democracy,
more people who aren't afraid of standing up to corruption and bullies.
There are millions and millions of us and we all stand together in solidarity.
That's when we win.
What this is, as far as I can take, is a globalist takedown action against American manufacturing.
I think the truly wealthy, many of them Democrats, probably more of them Democrat
than most Republican, they just don't want American manufacturing. And it, you know, okay,
Elon's an easy target. You know, I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, but he is-
No, that's true. You're actually pretty skeptical about Elon Musk in general. But he is manufacturing stuff.
He is making cars here as well, yes, in China.
He is building rockets here.
Yeah, but he's not bringing the Chinese cars here.
No, no, that's true. That's true.
He's making the cars he sells here are made here.
So let's check in with our favorite protege, Kara Swisher.
Let's hear how she feels about Elon Musk.
Well, it's very typical.
This is how he conducts himself all the time.
He's always in a state of high drama, high agitation.
He did this when Tesla was in big trouble.
He had to sleep on the floor of the factory even though there was a hotel next door because
it was dramatic.
He thinks he's the center of the universe, which is really strange.
He's very into video games.
And so I think
he thinks he's sort of ready player one. He thinks nothing can happen without his existence.
He often used to say, if Tesla failed, the human race was doomed to me on a number of
occasions, things like that. So, you know, it's massive narcissism with a lot of talent
and a lot of PR and a lot of drama.
And that's what you're seeing right now.
The word he likes to use is hardcore, which is just hustle porn.
It's just a different way.
They do this in Silicon Valley.
They sleep under their desks.
They think this is an accomplishment to show how committed they are.
It just means they're exhausted.
This is what he does.
He's up all night.
And so I work on weekends.
That's my superpower. Well, Caitlin, I, I work on weekends. That's my superpower.
Well, Caitlin, I know you work on weekends and so do I.
I don't think we consider it a superpower.
And you know, he stuff like that.
He wants, he also likes to criticize people relentlessly about how lazy they are, how
stupid.
And you saw that in the New York Times piece, the same thing.
So this was actually quite a mild piece by Kara Swisher.
But contrast that with Kara Swisher talking about Elon Musk before
he bought Twitter which of course was the Democrat messaging machine.
And so I think he gets annoyed when you know people don't see the grand vision of what he's
doing and what he's doing is incredibly hard. What he's executed on has been so impressive
you know in terms of the car and the space, the space X, just
the rocket stuff is really astonishing achievement at the same time.
And he does have to build a company, but you know, it's a really interesting situation.
You know, I think the suggestions that he's crazy, because he goes on Twitter and he seems
to be playful on Twitter.
I'm not sure people, I think people are reading too much
into it, his candy company or various things he's doing.
He's just messing with people.
He's like that.
Having had a number of encounters with him
and small tiffs and I've had a number of them,
he's just like that and I appreciate it.
I have to say, compared to a lot of people
who are polite to your face and not behind your back
He's pretty much you know what you see is what you get and this is what you get when you have someone is creative this innovative and
This of his vision. Oh my oh my I care what you're I see what you were doing to try to move my stuff
I don't know why you had this old clip
Yeah, it's a good one where who got who found that for you that way?
I came across that the what the the old or the new place the second. Oh that was on Twitter
That was on X. Okay. He must probably dug it up. Of course, of course he did now
It's so out of hand that Musk went on Hannity friendly fire to go to go say, what is going on here?
Why?
Why do I see people like,
I woke up this morning and saw that Teslas
will put a blaze in one of your dealerships in Vegas.
I've seen this happen all over the country.
Bullets are being fired, charging stations are put a blaze,
Teslas are being put a blaze.
A blaze, I tell you.
You have experienced assassination, threats of assassination for you and your family.
What have you done that warrants this?
Because I see nothing that you have done except help our country.
Yeah, I mean, it's really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of really
hatred and violence from the
left.
I always thought the left, the Democrats, were supposed to be the party of empathy,
the party of caring, and yet they're burning down cars, they're firebombing dealerships,
they're firing bullets into dealerships, they're just smashing up Teslas.
Tesla is a peaceful company,
we've never done anything awful.
I've never done anything awful,
I've only done productive things.
So I think we just have a deranged,
there's some kind of mental illness thing going on here,
because this doesn't make any sense.
And I think that a larger force is working as well.
I mean, I. That's a great line. I think there are larger forces at work as well.
That's a great line.
I think there's some kind of, really?
Gambling?
There's a mental illness thing going on here.
There's some kind of mental illness thing going on here because this doesn't make any
sense.
Yeah.
I think there are larger forces at work as well.
I don't know.
Who's funding it and who's coordinating it?
Because this is crazy.
I've never seen anything like this
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. There's a second part to this and that can be done. You actually tweeted out
Don't put it on the screen. The level of violence is insane. It is deeply wrong
Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks
You just rescued two
Astronauts that have been in space for 286 days. They were
only supposed to be there eight. You helped the people in North Carolina, Tennessee, California.
You have, I think, the most creative and innovative car on the market. You created Starlink for
communications that's used by hundreds of countries. You're working on helping the
blind see and all of these other things. Is it really come down to the basic, you're aligned with President Donald Trump, who also is a
friend of mine, and that you have identified well over $100 billion in waste, fraud, abuse
that our federal government never should have been spending? Is that what it comes down
to?
Yeah, it turns out when you take away people's, you know, the money they're receiving, forging
at least, they get very upset.
And they basically want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud.
And they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping this terrible waste and corruption
in the government. And well, I guess they're bad people.
Bad people will do bad things.
Okay.
Yeah, it's obviously coordinated and we know who it's coordinated by.
And it's the same people who are calling for violence against Donald Trump
before he was president, Maxine Waters, all these people just yelling
and yelling and yelling.
I think that the Tesla takedown call is their move to try and tamp it down a little bit.
Yeah, that's absolutely correct.
Someone's going to get fired.
You're absolutely right.
Wow, wow.
This is a moment, ladies and gentlemen.
Mark the time.
But what's interesting is this idea, the subtext of the
possibility that the globalists do not really want the United
States to re-establish itself as a manufacturing center.
I'm convinced of it because that's exactly what President Trump is doing.
That's what the tariffs are about.
That's what everything is about.
They want to keep it in China and Taiwan.
When I was a kid.
Ah, here we go.
Nice.
I think I have a, let me see.
I think I have a, let me see.
Yes, here we go.
When you were a kid, we were in the rocking chair.
Yeah, there we go.
Yeah.
So when I was at Berkeley, I was studying at the business library and I was reading
there.
This was like 50 years ago.
I'm reading in there.
I'm reading documents about how the country, how America was. This was back 50 years ago. I'm reading in there, I'm reading documents about how the country, how America was, this was back 50 years ago, how would they, the whole idea is to turn America into a service economy.
And customers, customers for the rest of the world. And we're going to be a service economy and our manufacturing was designed 50 years ago
to start going away.
So we would be bringing stuff in from here and there and you put it together here.
Maybe you do whatever you do, but the whole country would be a service economy because
the globalists see everything.
They don't see it as, you know, you have, they don't see any reason in a globalist sense
that we should be building anything.
Why? You just be a service economy. And if the world was a perfect place, yeah, that'd be great
if no one was ever going to attack you or try to steal your stuff.
deal your stuff.
Well, I mean, we can't, you can't create a, an economy that's just based upon me cooking for you, you shining
my shoes, that guy washing my car.
I mean, eventually the money has just been flowing.
That's, that's the whole Trump doctrine.
That's what the tariffs are about.
And believe me, I think he's really going to put them on and he'll put them on for good
or until people come to their senses.
I think I have a clip about that.
Where is it?
Yeah, I think this is it.
This is from Scandinavia, CBC.
And we are going to make the country more affordable for working Americans.
The US trade secretary is offering new insight into the Trump administration's tariff plan.
During an interview airing on Fox News, Scott Besant offered a roadmap of what to expect
starting next month.
What's going to happen on April 2nd, each country will receive a number that we believe it represents their tariffs.
So for some countries it could be quite low, for some countries it could be quite high.
A senior Canadian government source says it is believed the number will be the new tariff
rate.
Besant said it will be determined on how fair the Trump administration views the trading
relationship and take into consideration
tariffs imposed on U.S. goods and other trade-related barriers.
He says it will be the starting point for a negotiation.
If you will stop this, we will not put up the tariff wall.
If you do, then we will put up the tariff wall to protect our economy, protect our workers,
and protect our industries.
This appears to be at odds with some of what the president has said before.
Just yesterday, Donald Trump seemed to warn that tariffs would be imposed on April 2nd.
April 2nd is liberation day for our country because we're going to finally be taking
in money.
In a statement to CBC News, the White House cautioned...
How does that contradict?
I don't understand what she just said there.
How does that contradict?
What is the contradiction?
We'll back it up and I'll listen more carefully.
We will not put up the tariff wall.
If you do, then we will put up the tariff wall to protect our economy, protect our workers,
and protect our industries.
This appears to be at odds with some of what the president has said before.
Just yesterday, Donald Trump seemed to warn that tariffs would
be imposed on April 2nd.
April 2nd is liberation day.
How is that different from what Besson said?
I think what she's implying is that he is that Trump sounds firm with the April 2nd stuff and he sounded like
it would may or may not happen.
That's all I can imagine.
April 2nd is liberation day for our country because we're going to finally be taking in
money.
In a statement to CBC News, the White House cautioned that details have not yet been finalized,
saying the reciprocal tariff plan has yet to be unveiled by President Trump, but adding
that all members of his team are aligned on this policy.
Embesant is an interesting guy besides being openly gay and married, never mentioned by
the M5M because, you know, that would kill the narrative.
They never mention, they don't talk about Tammy Bruce is gay.
No can't do that.
And she's the spokesperson for this defense department I think or Pentagon or one of them.
Besides that he also is the guy who worked with the Soros hedge fund when they broke
the Bank of England and shorted the pound.
Oh that's right.
Yes.
This is the guy who knows how to do it.
He's a sharp operator.
Besant also suggested there will be opportunities for countries to escape tariffs.
I'm optimistic that April 2nd, some of the tariffs may not have to go on because a deal
is pre-negotiated or that once countries receive their reciprocal tariff number that right after that they will come to us and want to
Negotiate it down. It has been an erratic start to the Trump presidency when it comes to trade policy
Blanket 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico were threatened delayed imposed and then paused with some exceptions
Followed by 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports.
Trump has made it no secret he does not view the Canada-U.S. trading relationship as fair.
He's complained about protections for Canadian dairy, made false accusations about Canadian
banking rules, exaggerated and complained about the trade deficit.
The list goes on and on.
While the White House did not provide any detail about a number or tariff rate for Canada
It is a frequent target of Trump's anger
And Canada is making some weird moves
Like canceling part of the order for the f-35
This is very dumb
The F-35? This is very dumb.
The F-35 has long been a political football in Canada, and it seems destined to be one
again.
The defense minister raised the issue with me.
The issue, says Prime Minister Mark Carney, is whether the F-35 is the right warplane
for Canada.
The fact is that under the contract as you may know there after a certain
number of purchases then we have options on on subsequent aircraft. Canada has already paid for
its first tranche of 16 F-35s to be delivered in the next few years. It planned to buy 88 in total
from defense contractor Lockheed Martin for 19 billion dollars but that could change. Defence Minister Bill Blair. The Prime Minister has asked me to go and examine
those things and have discussions with other sources, particularly where there
may be opportunities to assemble those fighter jets in Canada to properly
support them and maintain them in Canada. That is a very obvious reference to the
company that placed second in Canada's fighter jet competition. Saab, the Swedish defense giant with its Gripen E fighter jet which it offered to assemble
in Canada.
Reducing the number of F-35s bought from the US as much as it may feel good politically
and play well with an angry public would not be easy.
Dude, what are they doing?
That I don't think you can't just you know go
ahead and oh we'll change this out I mean you have what they're gonna have
sob jets now that means that well in fact you'll have to supply change you
need different runways. This is the wrong weapon system to reconsider. Retired
General Tom Lawson is the country's former top military commander and a former
consultant for Lockheed Martin.
He says operating two types of fighters is something the military doesn't want to do.
It's costly, two training regimes, two supply chains and separate hangars.
Lawson also warns any further delays risk wearing out the current CF-18s.
There's a very real scenario where everything gets delayed to the point where there are
no fighters flying in Canada for a period of time.
And that would be a further blow to Canada's struggling air force.
New documents obtained by CBC News show only 40 percent of RCAF aircraft are serviceable
and ready to fly and fight.
We don't have war stocks to sustain a fight.
Critics have suggested the F-35 should be dropped because it's vulnerable to U.S. interference.
Former test pilot, retired Lieutenant Colonel Billy Flynn says the same could be said for
all U.S. military software and weapons supply chains.
There is nothing unique about the vulnerability of the F-35.
Reducing Canada's F-35 purchase could also affect aerospace firms in this country.
To date, $3.5 billion of Canadian parts have gone into the program, contracts that could
be vulnerable depending on the direction the political wind is blowing.
So I look at the map of Canada and the provinces are very interesting, particularly the ones that connect to the United States border.
And there's moves being made, this is a great guy, in Alberta, which I think that. No, pretty, I think mostly BC is Washington state and Alberta is probably over Montana,
Idaho, maybe a touch of Washington.
Let me just, let me just see real quick.
No, you're right.
You're right.
The border is on Montana.
But you know, it's connected to us and there's, there's moves being made.
What we're proposing to do first and foremost is to free Alberta from governance by idiots in Ontario and Quebec.
So I've been involved with an organization called the Alberta Prosperity Project for a number of years.
Interestingly, we're now up to over 60,000 members, which is more members than the United Conservative Party of Alberta at this point, where a number of the organization's
goal is to educate Albertans on the benefits of independence free of the structural problems
caused by Canadian federalism, which has effectively turned Alberta and Albertans into colonized
citizens of, into a colony of Quebec and
Ontario, which we're all sorely fed up with.
So you know, myself and a number of other Albertans have decided that enough is enough.
We're tired of being governed by complete idiots.
And we're at a unique point in history with the newly elected Trump administration to send a delegation to Washington to discuss
with the Trump administration their support for Alberta independence and to gauge the
level of support in the Trump administration for an independent Alberta free of Canada,
to gauge their support for Alberta either becoming a US territory or a US state.
Yeah, baby. We'd have a big foam finger sticking up into Canada. Alberta.
Where all the wealth is.
Right.
Alberta is the key to the whole country in so far as, you know, balancing the budget.
Cause all the energy they have.
Yeah, the oil, right?
Yeah.
Oil shale, shale oil and oil and everything else.
A lot of stuff.
I bet there's interest.
Well, that ain't good.
None of this, it's pretty funny.
That's all I can say.
Yeah.
Well, it definitely causes a stir.
He has 60,000 members.
That's, that's, it's not bad. It definitely caused a stir. He has 60,000 members.
That's not bad.
I thought that was interesting.
Well, you got me on that one.
You're up.
Okay.
Well, let's just take a look at the policing, the Chinese police in the United States and
the big scandal that's taking place.
That's still going on?
That started up again because now they're
going to pass some laws, some the congress is getting involved. A group of Republican lawmakers
in the house have introduced a bill to combat China's efforts to establish secretive police
stations on American soil. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who sits on the House Select Committee on
the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the Expelpel illegal Chinese police act of 2025 last week.
The committee's chairman, Congressman John Mulanar, co-led the bill.
Joining us now to discuss these latest efforts to combat the CCP's operations in the US is
Jimmy Quinn, national security correspondent at the National Review.
Jimmy, thank you so much for joining us.
Great to have you with us again.
Now, first, what are these secretive
Chinese police stations?
What are they doing on US soil?
What these Chinese police stations are doing
is they are involved in repression,
they're involved in political outreach to US politicians.
It's a violation of America's sovereignty.
What they are in short are these offices that are set up
within other legitimate seeming community
organizations that already exist in the United States. These might be groups for ordinary people
in the Chinese diaspora who want to get together with other people from their hometown. Many of
them have been co-opted actually by the PRC and the Chinese Communist Party.
And these people are forced to set up a police station.
And, you know, the claim by the Chinese government is that they're just processing paperwork,
helping people with their driver's licenses.
But the thing to know is that these are not approved by the US government.
These are illegal law enforcement outposts in our country, In this case, in the middle of Manhattan, it's something that
so this one was shut down.
There might be two more in the country according to some research out there,
but it's a very scary situation.
Only two, only two left.
That's what he says, but who knows? But the question comes to mind is, every time I hear this kind of story,
and I remember this TV show that's on CBS is FBI International.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
What's the FBI doing, and the show about the various FBI offices around the world?
How's that different than this? Or what about the spy stations, Berlin's station,
all these places that the CIA runs that are in other countries? How's that different?
There's one page that was removed from the CIA JFK file drop and it is the page about
the CIA's involvement in non-governmental organizations.
It's now gone.
It's gone from the website about how official cover is necessary to enable our officers
to work overseas and often hostile and volatile environments.
That's why CIA uses state department cover companies.
Yeah, we do this.
But do these Chinese police,
do they wear uniforms and have billy clubs?
And hats and helmets?
I mean, it just doesn't make a... just kind of the story just baffles me somewhat because of the fact
that we do this everywhere. Yeah. And now the Chinese, you know, they're accused of, well, the
problem with is the Chinese police, they look for Chinese that are over here and then they go over and find,
you're Chinese, you should be promoting China or something. Just beyond me. I guess maybe we don't
do that. I'm not sure. Well, we don't use restaurants as cover. That's for sure.
Yeah. This is good food involved. Okay. Let's put part two.
And to your point, Congressman John Mulanar saying, quote, Yeah, this is good food involved. Okay, let's put part two.
And to your point, Congressman John Molinar saying, quote, these stations
represent a direct threat to our
national security and undermine the
rule of law in the United States.
What would this legislation do in
terms of combating this?
So this bill goes after the agencies
and the officials within the
People's Republic of China and the Chinese
Communist Party who are involved in this program, both here and in China. It would impose full
blocking sanctions on certain officials who are involved in running the police station. Typically,
it's the Ministry of Public Security. But as we learned through the federal indictment of the two men who operated the station
in Manhattan, the Chinese consulate is involved as well here in New York. So Chinese diplomatic
outposts are involved. So there's this kind of alphabet soup of different PRC security agencies,
diplomatic arms that play a role in operating the police stations. So, you know,
what these lawmakers are trying to do is they're trying to go directly after the people who run
this operation and make sure they can't enter the U.S., they can't access assets that they might
have here or conduct transactions with U.S. individuals. So that's very important. And there's also a component of the
bill which bans people who are found to be operating these stations from setting foot in
the United States. You have these visa bans as well. You know, I think the use of the term
police station, that sounds propagandistic to me. I mean there are no actually it's not like there's a shield on the door and
They've got a front desk and they've got a jail. I mean, this is conjuring up the image
I the sergeant at the front desk. Yeah, and this is NTD
Of course who hate the Chinese Communist Party, but this is but everyone they're not the only ones that use the term
No, I mean, I'm not the only ones that use the term.
No, I mean, I'm saying the term is being used purposefully to conjure up images that may be.
Yeah, like there's an alien police station.
Yeah.
Now, now you're thinking.
In your city, that is the Chinese, the Chinese, the Communist Chinese party is
running this police station in San Francisco.
I mean, you could say a safe house for spies and there's all kinds of different ways you could
cat, you could describe it. But police station is very specific.
Yeah, I agree 100% with you.
Oh my God, that's too in a show.
Hello, is this?
I do it all the time.
I'm always, this shows we get to be kind of like Capehart and that other guy.
Are you John C?
Brooks and Capehart.
What are you calling me, Capehart?
You're right.
You're the Capehart.
I'll be Brooks.
I'm not going to be Capehart.
No, no.
Now zooming out a bit, we hear a lot of talk about the long arm of the CCP, where Chinese
dissidents, human rights activists, or members of faith groups and ethnic minorities like
say the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong are targeted even on U.S. soil.
Talk to us about that.
How is the CCP effectively operating on U.S. soil?
What your viewers need to know is that there's this thing called the United Front.
It's a concept that the party has run throughout its history, stretching back basically to
its founding.
We're talking about the early 20th century through the 1930s.
And it's a strategy that the party has used to basically co-opt people who aren't officially
party members to get them to do the party's bidding.
And it just tries to convene people, it operates through them. It's kind of the lifeblood of the
entire system where people will, different agencies within the CCP and within the PRC will turn to
United Front actors and they'll ask them to do things like hunt down
a dissident as we saw in this case where the defendants in the Chinese police station indictment
are alleged to have worked with the Ministry of Public Security to find dissidents on US
soil.
So the United Front is here.
It's dangerous and it's very influential,
unfortunately, and it's kind of the connective tissue for all of these malign long arm repression
activities. Very concerning indeed. Jimmy Quinn, thank you so much for joining us.
It was very, very- How's it different than a spy?
Very concerning indeed. Well, this brings me to something I was hoping would come up.
We love listening to how people speak in the mainstream and NTD is mainstream of sorts.
We have discovered the term apophora, which is when someone says why and then answers
the question.
There's another one that I bumped up against, which is the explanation
for terms like dictator, ally.
That's a favorite one right now.
You know, Trump's ally.
Police station is actually another one.
And it's called emotive conjugation.
And I had not heard of this term, but it's
real simple when it's explained, and I
found a clip of Eric Weinstein
explaining this concept, which was
developed by Russell Bertrand.
You're looking for emotive conjugation or
Russell conjugation. It turns out Bertrand Russell had're looking for a motive conjugation or Russell conjugation.
Turns out Bertrand Russell had been here earlier
and in 1948 he was on the BBC and he said,
let's look at the construction, I am firm,
you are obstinate, he, she, or it is a pig-headed fool.
And that was just a moment where I said,
oh my gosh, I don't realize that I have been given
no extra information about the three conjugations
that he's gone through, and yet I feel differently.
I like the fact that somebody is firm and steadfast,
and I dislike the fact that somebody is pigheaded.
And then I realized that this could actually be weaponized
and as part of an arms race, that maybe the newspapers
were in fact conjugating president strong man
dictator.
And so I remembered this very
strange phrase from years past,
Panamanian strongman Manuel
Noriega.
And I thought, who would come up
with a construction that awkward
and always invariant?
And then everyone-
And then everyone uses it.
Exactly.
Hawkish, he's hawkish.
And so what I came to understand
is that the big boys don't play around with faking the facts. And then everyone uses it. Exactly. Hawkish, he's hawkish. And so what I came to understand
is that the big boys don't play
around with faking the facts.
What they realized is that we have
multiple opinions on everything.
But our emotional state selects
which opinion, and the person who
figured this out is Frank Luntz.
And Frank Luntz is a Republican
pollster.
There's a video of him where he
asks people, what do you think about undocumented workers?
And they're like, oh, you know, they're doing a great job
and we have to recognize their contribution.
Well, do you support illegal aliens?
No, no, no, they should be deported.
Yeah.
In an instant.
And then you see that the mind doesn't see itself.
And so we are both for and against everything.
I love this.
Of course, we've seen it. We called it out, but I never knew it had a term.
Yeah, it's an awkward term.
As a term, it sucks.
As a term, it sucks. Yeah, but like newcomers, there's another
one we've identified.
Yeah, newcomers.
But like newcomers, there's another one we've identified. Yeah, newcomers.
I'd like to figure out where the, what the usage of the false accusation or, or false,
the thing they all keep using with Trump.
False equivalence?
No, no, not false.
Without evidence? Without evidence? or keep using with Trump when they drop the word false. False equivalence? No, no, not false.
Without evidence?
Without evidence?
No, no.
I'm talking about when they say Trump falsely claims that the election was rigged, falsely
claimed.
He claims that the right election was rigged.
He doesn't falsely claim it, but they say falsely claimed.
That construction.
What is the, where does that fit into the scheme of things?
And I see it all the time with Trump.
There's, they're always throwing a crazy little phrase in here and there that
it's like, I think the strong man example is a good one.
Yeah.
Strong man, president, dictator, um, all those terms, but we just need to be on the look, I mean, we identify them.
Yeah, we don't categorize them, we just identify them as what we do.
Exactly, exactly.
I'd like to lighten the mood a bit.
Talk, talk, tick-tock.
I'm ready.
I'm ready.
I'm ready.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Wow, you actually, oh, this is the thanks I get for saying you were right. Yeah, I'm ready. Wow you let you actually in oh, this is this is the thanks
I get for yes, you were right correct. How about that? You are right? Yes
These things always pay off they do it's a big payoff for you big payday you get to do your trans talk clips
Well, let's start with trans women in sports being okay. Oh, hold on a second. Where is this?
Talk.
Oh, talk, yes.
If your daughter doesn't want to compete
against trans women in sports,
maybe your daughter just shouldn't play sports.
Ever thought about that?
Maybe she just like doesn't have that competitive spirit.
Maybe she's just mediocre.
Maybe she's not that good because you know what?
There are cis women that beat
out the boys every single freaking day. So if your daughter is making all of these excuses,
because she thinks that a trans woman has biological advantages over her, which is probably
brainwashing that you cause, if she's complaining about the biological advantages that trans women
have, she's going to complain about the biological advantages that cis women have, okay?
What if there's a cis girl on her team that's six feet tall?
Is she going to complain?
What if there's a cis girl on her team that has extra large feet and so has great balance?
Is she going to complain?
What if there's a cis girl who has extra long arms?
Is she going to complain?
She's going to complain about every damn thing, okay?
So maybe it's time to hang it up, okay?
Accept the mediocrity and go on to play piano or something like that, okay?
Okay, well, she's...
And after this, she went outside and keyed a Tesla.
Tell me.
She went right away.
Yes, exactly.
That's what she did.
They caught her on the camera.
I'm a little concerned.
It seems your TikTok algorithm is intersecting with mine
because I've seen these clips.
Uh-oh.
Here's the trans...
This is...
I actually have two more.
This is the trans woman leaving.
This is a common one we're starting to hear more and more of.
I'm leaving the country and I could use a little help. the trans woman leaving, this is a common one we're starting to hear more and more of.
I'm leaving the country and I could use a little help. As you might imagine, being a
trans woman, I'm not super excited about the direction this country is headed. I live in
an area that is still relatively safe for trans people, but I'd rather not be here if
and when that stops being the case. So I'm leaving by the end of the year with my fiance
to live in a place that has more constitutional protections
for people like me.
However, moving is expensive generally,
let alone moving to a whole ass other country.
Oh, was there a call for a GoFundMe
on this particular talk clip?
Well, since my TikToks tend to come off of Twitter, they don't have the connections to
the other stuff.
Because a lot of the gay men who are worried about their rights, they're moving to Spain.
Yeah, the thing is when you want to move to another country, you're going to learn something
very interesting.
You can't just show up and say, I want to live here.
There's all kinds of requirements.
You can't just say, oh, I want to be a citizen here.
No, no, the EU, no, you can't just show.
Well, I mean, if you walk across the border from some, you know, like from Morocco maybe
or from Algiers or whatever, but no, you can't just go to the UK for instance. Can't the UK be like,
okay, do you have work? Do you have a sponsor? These people are going to find that it's not as simple as that.
that it's not as simple as that. Then we have the other extreme of these clips.
This was the trans mom of a, no, a gay mom of a trans kid or something.
I don't know, it's hard to say, but in Deerfield, Illinois, there's this big brouhaha over this
boy who's determined that he's a girl and he shows up in the women's
locker room and got his dick hanging out and the girls don't like that.
And so there's been a big fuss made by the moms and then the school locked the girls
in there and said you have to change in front of this kid.
No, no.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
The school did that?
Yeah, and now there's all kinds of lawsuits going on.
We have lost our ever-loving mothers.
But here's what you're dealing with.
This is the Deerfield clip,
and this is the woman who comes out and she just lays it on the line, how good it is to protect
this trans girl.
Tina Nelson, she, her pronouns, community member, and part of the LGBTQ community. Thank you for prioritizing the safety of the student that's been targeted by an organization
that weaponizes religion to push the white supremacist agenda of their cis white husbands.
Church people.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
This is, it's. I have the mic. Let's be respectful. Please be respectful of each other white husbands. Church people. Excuse me. Excuse me. This is, it's. I have the mic.
Be respectful.
Please be respectful of each other's times.
Targeting a middle school student
because of your white god.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Can we pause for a second?
This is a time for us to listen, to hear your viewpoint.
And we want to hear that.
So thank you.
Yes. So children that are raised by those who hate, vilify and fear monger, will hate,
vilify and fear monger their peers. So education is super important, sex education is super important and this is just a kid and it's I'm just I'm
really grateful to see how full this room is of support for this kid instead
of the petty women that target him.
I'm glad you gave the back story because I wouldn't have understood it.
And by the way, what is cis white? Your cis white husbands.
Yes. And your white God.
And she also makes the point, she said,
she makes the point that these women aren't,
they don't think for themselves as their cis white husbands that think for them.
That's the only reason it's going on.
Any of this is going on because of the cis white husbands that tell the,
these dumb women what to do and how to, how to think this woman.
And if you look at her, you know,
she's all tatted up and she's got piercings and she's got some,
there's some creepy kid behind her that looks like a goth trans of some sort.
And it's just, it was just cringe cringy. And I, there's another,
it's a term I don't like.
Yeah, that is kind of a term I wouldn't expect from you.
Cringy, cringy.
Well, you know what it is.
It's TikTok itself.
That is the issue.
That is what is creating, here's another term, brain rot.
KDP Drossenberg, a freshman at the University
of North Carolina, Asheville.
Two successes, two failures.
recently realized what too much scrolling was doing to her.
How many hours were you spending on your phone?
Oh God, probably like nine.
Nine hours?
I was just kind of constantly on it.
You may have heard stories like hers before.
I wasn't able to focus because I would have to take out my phone every couple of minutes.
But now you can actually see the science behind it.
Smartphones have wide reaching changes all over the brain and specifically grows here
and it shrinks there.
Psychiatrist Brent Nelson is applying this new science at Newport Health Care, which
has mental health treatment centers for teens across the country.
This is a brain that's addicted to a smartphone.
These are MRI images from a recent study in Korea.
All the red indicates increases in brain activity, the effects of smartphone addiction.
Do you want your brain to be this colorful?
You don't.
Why?
Well, because this is showing where the brain is working extra hard compared to a non-addicted
brain when asked to do actually a pretty simple task.
Yeah, I love, you know, I'm really sad at this point that I pissed off the brain scientist
from Austin.
Because this is the kind of stuff he would be doing.
Remember that?
Oh, yeah, I totally remember of stuff he would be doing.
Remember that?
Oh yeah.
I totally remember it.
That's too bad.
You were a bad boy.
Yes.
I was supporting Trump without admitting I was a Republican.
You never have been a Republican. No, but that was his wife.
She got real mad at me.
And that's what happened.
All right.
Second part to this.
Addicted smartphone users' brains
were so colorful, so active,
it made them less attentive and more easily distracted.
What's now informally called brain rot.
What does that look like in real life?
Yeah, let's take school, for example.
Sitting in class and you're trying to focus.
They're gonna be looking around,
not attending to what the teacher is trying to teach them they're going to be looking around, not attending to what
the teacher is trying to teach them.
Dr. Nelson says emerging research points to even greater risks.
We're just starting to see these changes and we know they're connected to behavioral changes,
depression, anxiety.
The dangers are hiding in there.
Social media had really influenced me in a lot of ways. TikTok would kind of push these videos of people popping an edible before school.
Yeah!
If I do this, maybe I'll be cool. And I started self-medicating.
To deal with that, last year she checked in to a treatment facility.
If you hadn't gone to treatment, where would you be today?
I don't think I'd be here.
It was really bad.
Katie had to give up her phone in treatment.
There she found other outlets from drawing to playing guitar that helped rewire her Gen Z
brain.
Yeah.
The key, perhaps, analog integers reminiscent of another generation.
Playing in the dirt, drinking from the hose, sort of the gen X kind of
mentality is shown to actually allow folks to recover, to feel better,
to make it easier to kind of go about their day.
There it is.
Drink from the hose, play in the dirt.
Play in the dirt.
Play in the dirt, children, that'll fix it.
Yeah, I'm all in on this.
I can see it.
Well, you're talking to the wrong guy.
No, I mean, you have no idea what this is.
I create brain rot on myself sometimes.
Sometimes on like a Monday, which is I try to kind of do a little bit of a Sabbath,
just, you know,
and I can't get away with it, but at least I don't look at news and I don't, you know,
I'm just, I'm not doing the tip.
I'm not doing emails on Monday.
Don't send me an email on Monday.
It goes to the bottom of the stack.
But then I'll sit on the couch around three, like, oh, let me see what's on YouTube.
And then it'll be five o'clock and I've seen a thousand cop body cam videos.
I've seen all kinds of things like what did I just do to myself?
And it goes by real quick.
You don't even realize it.
It is, there is an addictive quality to it and it rots my brain.
And then I need two more days to recuperate so I can do the Thursday show.
Well that's interesting. I don't know if it's interesting.
Baby's been babysitting Theo a couple of times because they've been had to go do
some, had to go do some stuff. How old is Theodore at this point? I don't know. I have no idea
He's your grandkid you don't know how old I don't know how old you are this is where you say he's new I don't remember
He's new
One this part I don't use that part of my memory for that sort of thing. Clearly. Don't count on John for a birthday present, Theo.
So, he plays Minecraft. He's always yacking about it and I always tell him, I'm not interested, I don't want to hear about it and I shut him down.
Grandpa, grandpa, come look at my Minecraft. Look at my blocks.
And it's just like a terrible game.
And so it turns out he wants to, when he comes over once in a while, he wants to watch, of
course, his parents have now said, no more of this.
I was used to show him if he wanted to be entertained on the television, I would put
on-
Let me guess, let me guess, Russian car crash videos?
Absolutely.
He loved those.
Kids love watching Russian car crash videos. Absolutely. He loved those. Kids love watching Russian car crash videos.
Just a tip.
This is tip of the day.
A tip of the day.
Early tip of the day, everybody.
Yes.
And so he wanted to watch some Minecraft videos.
Oh, God.
And the Minecraft videos are all talks about the various, I don't know if they're cheats
or whatever.
It's just so dumb.
I mean, these characters are just blocks.
They're just dumb.
It's stupid.
Low res blocks.
They're just blocks.
It's just blocks.
There must be a 10,000 hours of Minecraft videos on YouTube.
Oh yeah.
Oh, it's a big thing.
Sure.
It's unbelievable.
I said, well, you want to watch one? See, I want to watch that one. These points that when it's a big thing. Sure. It's unbelievable. I said, well, you want to watch Wednesday?
I want to watch that one. These points that when it's on the screen is, and I look at it,
because they have the time in the lower right hand side showing how long they are, two and a half hours.
Oh yeah, these streams. Sure, I've seen those. I mean, I haven't watched them, but I see them pop up.
Oh yeah.
Oh my God. It's just boring as hell.
How about this? I have an idea.
I have an idea. Here's a grandpa moment.
Why don't you go out and get a huge Lego set?
He's got Legos.
Does he like Legos?
Yeah.
Well then, but you should buy him a set. Like a, you know, one of those.
No, we've been, believe me, we've done that.
He's been bought plenty of Lego sets, but he'll still be,
he loves Minecraft is such an extreme. He likes playing it, likes's done that. He's been bought plenty of Lego sets. But he loves Minecraft as such an extreme.
He likes playing it, likes learning about it.
Likes the cheats, I think.
I don't know what he's watching.
Yeah, is that like second life
where there's all kinds of sex stuff going on in Minecraft?
No, I don't think so.
As far as I guess, there's just a bunch of block characters
wandering around kicking each other.
It just doesn't make sense to me the whole game.
How about a chemistry set? Do they still make those? Can you still get it?
No, they don't. When I was a kid,
I had a real chemistry set that could blow things up.
And I had sodium pentothal.
Oh, you did now. That's pretty cool.
Yeah. And someone said, Hey, that's truth serum. So it tasted awful.
Let me tell you that.
It didn't work very well.
You had to inject it.
And then you had the microscope set.
I definitely had a microscope set.
I had a real chemistry set when they were real.
Yeah, they were dangerous and poisonous and toxic.
I had one of those.
You had sulfur in there.
You had...
Oh, beyond that, you had all kinds of stuff.
It was awesome.
Good times, good days.
They won't sell those anymore to kids because they might kill themselves.
I don't know what.
That was your Boomer Update.
Hey everybody, your Boomer Update is complete 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 emotive Conjugation say hello to my friend on the other end the one the only mr.. John
You're right in the morning all ships to see boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water
There's a nice out there. In the morning in the control room.
I'm counting it out.
Hold on a second.
All right.
Oh, it's not all that great.
Let me see.
1927 was our peak.
1927, which is a look.
I don't even think I think that's below average at this point.
Average is 1800.
No, I'm looking at the averages right now.
The average of Thursday is 1993.
That was oh, no, that was the last show.
Last 10 shows, 2084.
The last 100 shows, 1904.
You're off.
But in general, Thursdays are up 4.7%
over the last 100 shows.
Who cares?
Nobody cares.
I mean, it's like saying,
how many downloads do you have?
Who cares? Nobody cares. It's like saying, how many downloads do you have? Who cares? Nobody cares.
Nobody cares how many downloads.
We just care if we can keep the show going.
What else would I do?
Well, I know what I'd be doing.
I'd be watching Minecraft videos.
On the phone, doom scrolling.
Doom scrolling is very bad.
What do you do when you're really not working? What do you do?
I'm writing or I'm on
Doing it sorting email or trying to clean up my office
sorting fail sorting towels
Folding laundry sorting towels
Folding laundry or sometimes I maybe get in the car and go someplace.
Yeah, where do you go? Costco. Yeah, okay, so it's not some place, it's Costco. Yeah,
how you doing stuff? Well, that's good. That's good. Not always. I mean, sometimes I'm just
watching television aimlessly, watching, trying to find something worth watching, which is not easy.
No, no. So you watch your series
during the day not in the evening right? You don't watch TV in the evening you watch sports, sports I
bet sports. No I don't watch that much sports I watch, no I'm not a, I follow sports but I don't
sit there and watch it like a basketball game that's what at home sitting there watching a
whole basketball forget it. The games are always same. Wait till the last two minutes and you get to see the game.
So when you're sorting towels, do you have to like match the washcloth with the towel or
you're trying to make a matching set to hang out?
I don't do it. That's great and carried away.
What do you do then?
I just fold them and put them in the drawer.
Oh, you said sorting.
You said sorting.
Well, that's kind of sorting.
You got to take the...
Because there was towels that go in one drawer
and there's dish towels and there's kitchen towels
and there's bath towels or three.
There's three kinds of things you got to sort.
Got to select them.
Got to select them.
Wow.
You should consider some single use towels.
Called paper towels. Yeah, exactly.
I got those too.
Do you have a dispenser?
Paper towel dispenser.
Not one of those round ones, but one of those like in the bathroom,
you pull out a brown sheet.
No, I don't know what that is.
Yeah, you've been to a restroom and you wash your hands and then there's a dispenser and you pull out a brush.
That's not a bad idea.
Yeah, but then you have to spend your days refilling them.
I don't need that aggravation.
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auto play all. I don't like that either. I just want to scroll
through the little squares. I don't need to have a preview automatically play. You know what does
your smart TV do that? That annoys you. That does annoy me. Yeah. Why? Because I just want to look
at the description. It gives you a little sample. It's a free sample.
It's all free.
It's a sample though.
I don't want the sample.
I want to click to get the sample.
Well, maybe they should have a toggle.
You can turn that off.
That would be an idea.
Yeah.
I'm sure that...
Because I like that.
I like the little sample.
I'm sure that they're counting that as a view.
Hey, man.
We got it.
You know, it's all done in minutes.
If you read the trades, it's all billions of minutes.
Oh, there's that.
So yeah, I bet you they do because since it's done in micros, it's done it by second by
second.
I'm sure they do that.
Yeah.
The whole thing is sleazy.
Yes.
Well, no sleazier than charging.
And the content is junk.
There's so much garbage.
It's poorly written, poorly acted.
Hmm.
We wound up watching the Marky Mark movie.
What was the Marky Mark movie?
What's that called?
The Mark Wahlberg movie is The Family Plan.
It's from 2023.
Yeah.
He's a car dealer.
He's got a little family.
And then it turns out.
Oh, you mean he's starring him.
Yes, he's starring him.
I think he also...
I thought it was like a biography or something where you described it.
No, he also, I just call him Marky Mark because I know him as Marky Mark.
He produced it too.
And it turns out he was an assassin.
Oh, well that's creative.
It was a feel-good movie.
I can't help it.
A feel-good movie about a car dealer who's an assassin.
Yes, it was a feel-good movie about a car dealer who's an assassin. Yes, it was a feel-good movie.
Wow.
Anyway, so we don't, we just give you top quality entertainment and media deconstruction
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that comes from our producers themselves. But first we need to thank our artist who brought
us the artwork for episode 1747.
We titled that Hi-Fi Intel,
which is exactly what we provide,
high fidelity intelligence, just for you.
So we do.
And now this was from a brand new artist, Gun Monkey.
I think Gun Monkey had been on the art generator
for two hours and this doesn't happen very often.
It's happened about three times.
Yeah, but all recent, I think, since the advent of AI.
And this was an interesting piece.
It was a flying Volkswagen bus.
From the repurposed factory.
Yes, exactly. And it had all kinds of US Navy bombs and it had
Korean Dvorak bombs. I don't get the US Navy aspect to it but okay. I did get a
note from Gun Monkey. Oh. Yes and turns out Gun Monkey is a girl. I didn't know that. Gun Monkey's a girl. Yes. What did she have to say in the note? Wait a
minute. Hold on a second. Is this? Let me make sure I'm saying this right. Did we choose Gun
Monkey before? No. No. Well, what was the cow art? Who did the cow art? That was also Gun Monkey. Yeah, we chose Gun Monkey two shows in a row.
Oh, and she's new to the thing.
Yes.
That's odd.
She did the cow? Gun Monkey did the cow?
Here, Gun Monkey says, I want to thank you for selecting the cow art for 1746.
I've been listening to Noah Jenner since 2020.
After I said them-
Well, Gun Monkey didn't do this thing. This was done by-
By someone else else you're right
Yeah, this is to I put it was I won Pipple that's who is the first
That's a mistake on my on my part
Yeah, what are you giving gun monkey the credit for this guy gun monkey deserves no credit?
No, who did this one then this is TI Pipple TI Pipple Pipple J. Oh
Sorry TI Pipple. T.I. Pipple? Pipple J. Oh sorry T.I. Pipple J. Which probably means something in Haxor. Yeah well I didn't get a note from T.I. Pipple J.
And this was the first submission because he submitted five pieces the first time
ever and he got got a winner or she could be a she I don't know. Could be. Well
I'm still gonna read this
I don't know. I would you got track side track. Would gun monkey flirting with you? What's the deal here? Well, no what gun monkey?
Said that that's that he's a she and
And gun monkey is a professional artist and I wanted to welcome Gun Monkey to the show even though Gun Monkey has been
listening since 2020 and Gun Monkey also owns a gallery, gunmonkeyart.com. Makes sense doesn't it?
I guess. So I don't know about Pippel Jay. Pippel Jay know nothing about but we appreciate Pippel Jay.
But Pippel Jay is the one who came in first time.
Cause gun monkey has submitted before she wasn't a one off people.
The people Jay guy or girl came in first shot and got,
this is it happens rarely, but it has happened before.
Great job comes in with five pieces and they hit two of them.
I thought were quite good. Yes.
And actually they were all okay, but two of them really good. And she, and he, she won the, uh, for the Volkswagen flying bus, the flying bug.
Yeah.
People, Jay, let us know about you.
I love getting, uh, uh, notes from, from, uh, from the artists.
Was there anything else that we looked at that we need to discuss?
No, actually they do
We were this was such a clear winner. I think we both determined it to be the yeah I think we picked it pretty quick because it stood out. Yeah
Yes, oh, there's a lot of fun art for today
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff. Yeah. Oh, by the way
People who thought it was a good idea
to have puking leprechauns and puking Irish,
no, we're not gonna choose puke art.
No, one of the things you have to remember,
we have unwritten rules, including grotesquery.
Grotesqueness, yes. Anything that including grotesquery.
Anything that's grotesque or kind of sickening
or nauseating is not gonna be picked ever.
Automatic fail.
Because we don't want that association
where people associate no agenda with something gruesome.
And don't like it.
Don't want it.
Not gonna accept it.
So anyway, thank you very much, people, Jay.
We appreciate you.
And we also always thank the people who support us because unlike the download scam, which
is like, oh, you know, we had a million downloads.
Okay, how much is that?
That's what they say to advertisers.
You don't even know if people listen to it.
That's the scam right there.
You know, downloads.
You got a whole bunch. There's not much else you can do, what else can you do?
There's nothing else to be done.
Can't be done. Nothing else to be done.
So that's why podcasting is a problem.
That's why it's all moving to YouTube.
Because you can, you know, you get 30 seconds of view time.
Boom! Someone watched.
That's not a scam.
Now instead, we just ask you to support the show with whatever you think the show is worth to you.
It's called the value for value principle, the value for value model.
And we thank everybody.
That's an important part of the feedback loop, or important part of value for value is having the feedback loop.
Some people take advantage of us, send in very, very long notes.
That's not the idea, but we will comply as much as we can.
And we thank every-
There's one couple coming up-
I know.
That are just like, come on.
I know, I saw them.
And some are just pure puzzling.
We thank everybody $50 and above,
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and associate executive producers.
These are people who donate $200 and above,
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That's a real credit. You can use it anywhere credits are recognized Hollywood style and we'll read your note $300 and above
same thing only you're an executive producer and
back with a vengeance is
Suranimus of dog patch and lower Slobovia a top top executive producer today, with 3352.
Man, bringing home the bacon for us.
I'm sure there was at least one $2 bill in there?
Two?
Good $2 bills.
3354.
I have 3352 on my note here.
Oh, it says 3354 on the spreadsheet.
Okay, this is very important because if we get the code
wrong, someone's gonna die.
So written on the note is 3352.
Well, on the spreadsheet, she put 3352.
This J has the issue.
J could be responsible for death.
Okay, normally here's what I normally here's what
happens we're very concerned about this no no kidding so usually the anonymous
donation comes in I count it and keep the no there there's the first weak spot
no I count it and then I have somebody else count it. So two people count it and you get a number and if the number matches,
that's the number we use. In this case,
I never counted it this time because I was cooking or something,
I was something going on.
Sorting towels.
I was sorting towels and so, uh, so we have this problem.
Well, hold on. Do you recall there being more than one two dollar bill?
I'd have to go look in the drawer.
Next to your phone?
Next to the phone.
Now everyone knows where the money is kept.
The drawer phone.
We're running this show out of John's drawer, okay?
Laughably, that's closer to the truth.
Here is a drawer that has money in it. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I don't know what to say. So the code, the people out there,
that need this code, it's either that need the code.
We're going to have to try both these numbers and see what happens
from seronymous of dog patch and Lower Slobovia, thank you to all producers for their ongoing effort
to make this a primary news and information source. Also, thank you to producers offering
insight on algorithms and attribution capacity, John's Oasis column, and John and Adam's
willingness to read a long note. Can you do it again and hold it?
We'll read his long note.
Well, and then he posted some music notation.
Yes, I was told about this.
Are you looking at the note? Because I'm looking at it. And so it's four, not bars, but this-
Can anybody read this musical?
Do you have an instrument there
you can play those four notes?
It's the same note every single time,
but one is like,
da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
and then the second line is, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
What does it sound like?
Does it sound like anything to you yet?
And then...
I know.
I have no idea what this is.
And then...
And then he'll tell us and then it'll be something that we go, oh, da.
But then he also has two, three pieces highlighted in yellow.
Yes. I don't understand that either. This is a, is he's,
he's gone out of his way to confuse us.
It's a problem. It's a problem. It's a real problem.
You know what I'm going to do here? I have an idea here.
Hold on a second. So he's musical. Well, I don't know if he's, well,
maybe he is. That's an interesting point.
Let me see if I can post this into the troll room.
Yes.
If anybody out there can play these notes or this, this is the trolls have it.
I've paid it.
It says 2730.
33.
I don't know.
I don't know any of what this means.
Anyway, he, uh, he does close it by saying Ramadan.
We will find before all the, before the show ends in four years, we will have this figured out Ramadan Mubarak. Before the show ends in four years, we will have this figured out.
Ramadan Mubarak, may this Ramadan cleanse your soul and bring you closer to the Almighty.
He closes. No jingles, no karma, and the trolls are now speculating in their typical stupid troll
way. So we'll never get a straight answer. It was a good idea. How stupid am I? All right. Thank you very much, Seronomous.
Please let us know if we got this number correct. It's on the note is scribbled 3352.
So I'm going to think that that is the correct code, the correct number.
That's what I'm thinking.
And I apologize for any death and destruction that occurs.
This is the spread she would have been put on later.
Yes, I apologize for any death and destruction.
Okay. I'm afraid she would have been put on later. Yes, I apologize for any death and destruction. Okay, I gotta get my mouse to work.
Come on, mouse, you can do it.
There we go.
Okay, now we've got Dame Becky.
She came in and she has a note.
Okay, this is gonna be annoying
if I can't get this thing to work.
So I can switch over to the note.
Ah, there it is.
Ugh.
Okay.
Okay, ITM Jensen closes a belated birthday donation for the two of us.
These are Mike Baronet of the Great Katy Prairie Celebrated 74 Trips Around the Sun on March
8, 2025. Dame Becky Baronetis of the great Katy Prairie
celebrated 73 trips around the sun on March 2nd.
So they're both marchers.
The donation takes us each to Baron Baroness
and we hereby request the territory
of the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Oh.
No jingles, no karma. Keep up the amazing work you both do to keep us sane and our amygdala shrunk
regards Becky Kinney. Or Becky Kinney, that's Becky Kinney, yeah, in Katy, Texas. We've had she we yeah obviously he's irregular then we got two checks
of three thirty three dot thirty three from chap Williams in Edmond Oklahoma
which of course totals six six six dot six six but there was no note I do not
have an email I have nothing of the sort so I will just give him a double up karma. I say thank you very much.
You've got...
Double up!
Karma.
We'll expect a note eventually.
Brian Schubert in Richmond Hill, Georgia.
$500.
Checking in from Savannah.
Oh, he's actually in Savannah.
Yes.
Please de-douuce my wife sorry sorry fat
fingered it and I request baby making karma no jingle you've got karma do you I do want to thank the fine folks over at NoAgendaChocolates.com.
Another box came in, John.
Have you received another box?
No.
Of turtles?
No, I haven't seen any turtles.
And I got a hoodie.
A little John's Candies hoodie.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
Tina took that right away and said,
these people are trying to kill us.
Well, maybe.
Ryan Shubert, Rich.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's you.
Go ahead.
You do Ryan Shubert.
No, you just did him.
I'm doing Scott Lamont.
There we go.
In Somerset, Massachusetts, $350.93.
My final night payment.
Sir Scott, the white knight of Pottersville village in Somerset,
Taxachusets at the round table.
Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon and salt and vinegar almonds.
And that's his entire note.
So you got it.
Thank you.
Baroness Sarah Rupert in Oakland,
California, three, three, three, three, three. Uh,
she writes happy 50th birthday today to Jonathan Rupert from
Baroness Sarah Rupert and the original no agenda
sucker baby violet violet. She's older now.
We love you so much.
This donation plus the, it's called a trap baby by the way.
Trap baby.
You can call it sucker baby if you want.
We love you so much.
This donation plus the one he made in December and our subscription has earned him a seat
at the round table because you knight him today
on his 50th birthday as Sir Jonathan Rupert. Please wish Jonathan happy birthday and an ITM
when you come to the April 5th meetup for John's birthday at our new restaurant. They have a pizza
place. They own the two of them. Oh cool. Over in Piedmont. It's also a grand opening weekend of our second pizzeria, Violetta.
They named a pizza place after the Trap Baby, which is now older, located in the new Prescott
Market in West Oakland.
Oh, that's another place.
Double check address from the meetup site to make sure you go to the correct location.
Okay. We'll have the, they're going to have a chain of these places. Double check address from the meetup site to make sure you go to the correct location.
Okay.
We'll have the, they're going to have a chain of these places.
We have the VIP section reserved for the No Agenda family.
We'd love to be the new meetup spot for the Bay Area.
There you go.
Baron dude named Jeff.
333.33.
This donation pushes me past Viscount status. Nice. Huge
dose of relationship karma. I need all the help I can get. You got it. I'm gonna throw
in a goat actually. Make sure you get the right stuff. You've got karma. Goats are
always good for relationships. North Idaho Sanity Brigade donationation in Concord. Yes.
Dearest bloomers,
it should be noted that the meetups just might be the single easiest way to generate executive and associate executive producer donations.
Attendees can simply plunk down bits of cash into the center of the table.
You have Brunetti-esque big boy forever credit before you can say phony ISO.
Yes, a lot of people are complaining.
They're saying your phony ISOs are phony because an ISO is short for isolated clip.
That does not mean AI generated clip.
So it's unfair what you're doing.
It should also be noted that Adam, since something was amiss after three and a half months,
at the very beginning of the ISO gate,
but John gaslit him by falsely claiming they were coming from audiobooks.
It wasn't early.
It was about a month into it.
Hold on, stop.
It wasn't a false claim.
You claimed it.
No.
Well, there's the use of false claim.
Yeah, exactly.
But it wasn't right away.
It was after about a month before he decided to call me out on these clips. And that's when I gas lit him. If you want to put it that way.
Yes. Yes.
I would use the term bullshitted him with the idea that it came from an audio book,
because it was, it made nothing but sense because they were very clear,
crisp and clear. And it sounded like an audio book person. Anyway, he continues, love is lit sir.
Scott the Jew and North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
Yes, and I got a post note asking the North Idaho Sanity Brigade requested a doodoo.
I'm all tongue tied today.
You got it? You got it? You're hanging in there.
A de-douchcing for Jack Kramer
You've been deduced
And according to Darren O'Neill the sheet music in the image appears to be from Beethoven's Symphony number 9 in D minor
Op Opus 125
Opus 125, specifically the fourth movement, which includes the famous Ode to Joy meme. The highlighted sections correspond to recognizable melodic patterns from this symphony.
So he sent it to AI.
AI, oh yeah, of course he sent it to AI.
Good idea.
Ode to Joy.
Yeah, it was a good idea.
Ode to Joy, which is the European Union's national anthem. Oh
That's where we're dealing with
We're starting to figure it out. We're on to you. We're on to you. Thanks to AI. Yes
And on actually thanks to Darren anon in anonymous place
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Hopefully short and sweet this time
This row of ducks was the steak dinner monies that was
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Hey, look who comes in with $212.
It's our guy, Blockman Bing.
Oh yeah?
That is the guy whose note we read who was complaining about us.
That's right.
Calling us out for all kinds of things. Turns out he lives in New Jersey, Tinton Falls, and he says,
That makes nothing but sense.
Long time boner, first time donor.
Not, well, not the first time complainer.
I've been listening since Adam was on Twitter in 2010,
but I only started listening religiously since covid. I used to love the
chemtrails and trains good jingles. I could get those at deducing and goat karma please.
I thought there was I thought there was more to this note. Did this note get redacted?
Not that I know of and I'm wondering whether this is the same guy or he's just someone using the name.
Hold on a second, because I remember this note was longer. Is Jay editing?
No, he doesn't do that.
Here, it's a very long note.
Yes, side notes. This is interesting. I'm glad I caught this because the side notes are interesting. I am an Indian Hindu doctor. I voted Republican in every election since I
turned 18 20 years ago. I took a little offense at being labeled a drive-by.
That was that was the same guy. That was my accusation by the way.
I'll take full credit for calling him a drive-by.
You are correct.
I have emails with Adam dating back to 2010 when I started listening.
And then he says, useful idiot is a term that, because he called us useful idiots for Israel.
Useful idiot is a term that harkens back to the Cold War to reference non-commies doing
the propaganda legwork for commies.
Yeah, there used to be a podcast called the useful idiots that Matt Tabe used to do.
This is relevant today in non-Israelis defending Israel by not calling out their crimes against
humanity.
You see, I think that is a problem.
You cannot say we are defending anybody because we're not calling someone out for their crimes
against humanity.
Because then you never stop.
So we're defending thousands of people being killed in Syria.
We're defending the killing of people in Somalia.
Oakland for that matter.
Oakland, yes, we are pro-death in Oakland.
No, you can't do that.
You can't do that.
So I take some exception with that.
Anyway, I'm glad I got the rest of your note.
And so we wanted a chemtrails, which I hadn't seen obviously chemtrails
trains good and
What else did he want and?
deducing
You've been deduced and the goat karma coming up
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Oh, didn't you get some of their product? I got some of their product.
No, I got none of their products.
Their product is outstanding.
What is it? Salt?
Read the note.
Oh, 211-865 is what contributed. he, she, whatever, whatever group, this corporation.
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They forgot the code Bon Gino offer.
Yeah, I noticed there was no discount there.
I'm surprised.
It's a great product.
I have tried it.
Scrub, I exfoliated like a madman.
Dame Stacy is in Billings Montana, 210.60.
In the morning to you gentlemen, this is a March 21st birthday donation to me.
I want to thank Saddle Tramp for hitting me in the mouth a few years ago.
Ask Saddle Tramp, how is Saddle Tramp?
Haven't heard from her in a while.
Although I have not been able to fully hit anyone in the mouth, I have smacked my husband
around with different segments.
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give me a biscuit on my birthday
Eli the coffee guy in Bensonville Illinois there we go two hundred three
dollars and twenty cents this by way, I'm not sure.
This one we put in here because it came in and it got one of the pending things.
This happens with PayPal every once in a while.
Yeah, we don't know. It looks dubious. It could be a terrorist.
Yeah. Coffee guy.
So the guy comes in every show with almost the same amount of money.
And then they have to flag it.
Oh, problem.
It gets flagged out of the blue because it's a randomizer.
There's no real work being done here.
He writes, he writes, well, news agencies railed against the administration for deporting an innocent pro-Palestine advocate for exercising
his free speech.
You guys called out Mahmoud Khalil.
I have a clip.
I have a bonus clip.
Ah, bonus clip everybody.
Right in the middle of this.
Let's play the bonus clip.
All right.
What is it called?
Khalil.
Could have figured that one out.
A federal judge in New York today rejected the Trump administration's efforts to keep
Columbia protester Mahmood Khalil in a Louisiana detention facility.
The protesters' attorneys said the government wanted to avoid New York and New Jersey.
Our legal correspondent Arlene Richards finds out whether location matters.
A New York federal judge on Wednesday ordered that Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil be transferred
to New Jersey.
In a 33 page order, Judge Jesse Furman moved the entire case to a New Jersey federal court.
He ruled that since Khalil was still being held in a New Jersey facility, when his attorney
requested his release, the case must be heard in New Jersey.
One of Khalil's attorneys said in a
statement that the government moved him to Louisiana to avoid having the case
heard in New York or New Jersey. Critics say Louisiana's appeals court is the
most conservative in the country. Whereas New Jersey's Third Circuit panel is
evenly split with six conservative judges and six liberal judges. While the
Justice Department hasn't commented on the claim,
international law attorney Gerard Felitti said in a text message
that the court explicitly said there was no basis to conclude
that the government transferred Khalil from New York to Louisiana
for an improper purpose.
He adds that deportation decisions are made by immigration courts.
Appeals are typically made to the Board of Immigration Appeals and then in certain circumstances
to the appropriate federal court.
Faliti confirmed that Louisiana federal courts do lean conservative, whereas New Jersey
federal courts have historically been less inclined to uphold deportation orders.
But he said, we are far from the deportation stage.
Right now, the New Jersey court would have to decide whether Khalil's rights were violated
in the first place.
He said, what we will hear are arguments about whether his First and Fifth Amendment rights
were violated by the government.
The attorney said if the court rules in Khalil's favor, the government will have to be successful
on appeal in order to proceed with a deportation hearing.
I talked to a constitutional lawyer, Rob, and Rob.Lawyer, and I said,
What's going on with all this? Who is in charge?
He said, well, this is how it was written.
The executives Article 2 and the judicial Article 3, they were meant to make it all at odds with each other.
It's called checks and balances.
So this is how our system was meant to work.
Confusing and annoying.
Good work, founding fathers.
And it pays the bills.
Doesn't this somehow go back to Madison versus Marburg?
You guys called out, I'm going to continue the note.
You guys called out Mahmood for being a spook.
It's that type of deconstruction that makes no agenda truly the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you for your insight, Jingle, Spot the Spook, of course.
George Clooney is a spy.
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George Clooney, George Clooney, George Clooney is a spy.
Was it Marbury versus Madison?
Marbury, yeah. Marbury, Marbury.
You said Marburg? Marbury. Marbury.
Marbury.
You said Marburg?
I did.
Yeah, you're thinking of the Emo virus.
I'm thinking of Mark Wahlberg.
I'm confused.
Oh, that could be too.
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Is this a thing?
What?
Yeah, well, here she goes.
When did breastfeeding go out of vogue?
I'm sure there's all kinds of issues.
Even men still breastfeed.
So, Leslie can make more money selling that bony baloney stuff?
I guess.
I'm sure there's a campaign against it.
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This is a switcheroo donation from my son Andrew Scholarude.
I hit him in the mouth about four years ago and we've enjoyed every show since.
This is a special birthday donation. He turns 20 on March 24th. This is his last birthday
at home. He leaves April 8th. For the Air Force to join our Cyber Security Warriors,
his mom and I, oh, he's a dude named Ben. His mom and I will miss him terribly. Terribly. But Gitmo Nation will get another
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I have an ask Adam kind of thing.
Kind of thing? Or is it...
Well, it's like I want to...
This is a clip I took from NPR and it sounded...
I heard... What I heard was later corrected,
but what I heard I want to see if you hear what I heard.
Do I play the jingle first or the ask Adam?
I would play the jingle first.
Ask Adam, ask Adam, will he know or will he won't? I don't know but here we go.
Ask Adam, ask Adam, yeah. Answer the question, go! Okay, I don't know but here we go. Ask Adam, ask Adam, yeah.
Answer the question, go!
Okay, I'm ready.
So they name a call sign for a radio station and what I heard was not...
Don't tell me, don't tell me what you heard because that may...
No, of course not.
I want you to tell me what you hear.
Okay.
Go.
you heard because that may... No, of course not.
I want you to tell what you hear.
Okay.
Go.
From KUNC and the NPR network, this is in the NoCo.
I heard KUNC.
Okay.
I know what you heard.
You heard KUNT.
Yeah.
It was, she was more clear later in the clip
And then when she said it cuz I heard it I said what what kind of a state at day
How did they allow this and then they she said KUNC?
More clearly later and I said, oh, that's interesting and I went back and played this again. I still heard
Heard it miss heard it. You were set up at that point. You were set up.
It could be.
Set yourself up.
Well, I'm glad you got it.
We were talking about AI during the donation segment.
Welcome back everybody who doesn't listen
to the donation segment.
You missed some good clips.
Ha ha ha.
Oh yeah.
Jokes on you.
And that included a decodation
of Seronomous of Dog patches musical notation which we believe now is
code code to joy owed to joy we're not sure yet but AI is being applied
everywhere what could possibly go wrong as we hear from the UK Times podcast
Laura you've got the story in the paper today about David Lamme the Foreign
Secretary is bringing AI and novel technologies into the Foreign Office to help diplomats practice
negotiation scenarios. That's fascinating.
I do and he is. It is fun, isn't it? I mean, everybody in government is tasked with thinking
about ways that they can use AI and talk about the opportunities of AI. But David Lammy,
never one to be left out, is trying very hard in a speech today at the British
Chambers of Commerce to talk about how the Foreign Office can deliver growth. So there'll be some
comments for Foreign Office staff, there'll be various new units and insight groups. But the
thing that caught me most, my eye the most talking to people in government about this in recent days
was the upcoming announcement on artificial intelligence, which is actually that they're
developing, they've got two new AI tools inside the Foreign Office and they are developing
ways to help diplomats to actually do negotiations. They're using, they're trying
to create virtual realities so you can just drop an ambassador with a VR
headset into a meeting with an overseas prime minister.
Talking to a Donald Trump bot.
Exactly, they're modelling how countries and other diplomats respond to things like natural disasters,
so hurricanes or to sharp rises in inflation and various economic shocks.
So it's quite interesting the extent to which it can replace the kind of conventional and
very age old tradition of these diplomats building strong personal relations with people.
I'm not massively convinced, but I think it will be very interesting to see how ambassadors
and high commissioners are actually.
Why don't they just have the UK AI talk to the US AI, take out the middlemen?
Yeah, and then go into that mode.
The high speed.
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reveals electronics in the connector that include an antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller.
Ooh, that sounds like a pretty cool device. Ooh is right.
We don't know what it does.
Well, you know what it does?
It's a spying device.
But you can get them?
Oh, you know.
Where can you get them?
I don't know.
At hack five, apparently, according to the troll room.
Hack five.
I didn't realize that.
I want to call out a script. I'm disappointed in Miss Leavitt and Peter Ducey
for playing out a little show in the press room. This was funny but yet unnecessary because it was
obvious you colluded and this discredits Peter Ducey of Fox News.
There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think
the US represents the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore. They want the
Statue of Liberty back. So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France?
Absolutely not and my advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind
them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not
speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful to our great country. Kelly.
So obvious.
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Yeah, I was turned off by that.
I want to get this out of the way, which is the stranded astronauts controversy.
Controversy?
Yeah, they weren't stranded.
No, they weren't.
Well, depends on who you talk to.
I have two clips.
I have the astronauts return.
But before we play that, I want to play the stranded astronauts clip.
This was a couple of weeks ago when they were at a press conference. They were floating around in
the pod and they were asked this question. I like that you titled the clip stranded astrobots.
Here's the question. Our next question is from Aaron Gregg with the Washington Post.
Our next question is from Aaron Gregg with The Washington Post. Hi everyone. Thanks for doing this. So my question relates to Elon Musk.
My goodness, this sounds just like those quarterly calls from Wall Street.
Our next question is from The Wall Street Journal.
Hey everybody, great cue. Yeah, I have a question for the astronauts.
Our next question is from Aaron Gregg with the Washington Post.
Hi everyone. Thanks for doing this. So my question relates to Elon Musk has said that
he made the offer to bring you guys back earlier and that it was denied. My first question
is, is that true? And if so, what would that have looked like? Was he offering to make
another flight, push seats on another flight?
Could you give us some background there?
I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says is absolutely factual.
We have no information on that, though, whatsoever.
What was offered, what was not offered, who it was offered to,
how that process has went.
That's information that we simply don't have.
So I believe him.
I don't know all those details, and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer
that maybe that you would be hoping for.
Well, that's interesting.
So the answer they were hoping for, of course, is that yeah, Biden stranded them.
But they were offered a trip back and then Biden actually did strand them, left them
up there.
And then it's kind of, it's now become a bone of contention amongst the media.
Well, the word stranded isn't being used correctly.
They like being up there and all this.
They were lost in space.
And so we have the astronauts return clip,
which is just kind of summarizes them coming back.
Two NASA astronauts are back on earth
after an extended stay on the International Space Station.
Their mission was set to last only eight days,
but Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams
ended up spending nine months in orbit.
Central Florida public media's Brendan Byrne
has more on the astronauts' 286 days in space.
It was a picture-perfect return
as the SpaceX Dragon capsule gently splashed down
under a canopy of four parachutes
just off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida.
And splashdown.
Crew 9, back on Earth.
But their mission wasn't as smooth as their return.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams arrived at the station back in June in Boeing's
Starliner spacecraft designed to take astronauts to and from the station.
It was a test flight, but during their arrival the crew encountered problems with the spacecraft's
thrusters.
Starliner docked successfully, but NASA decided it wasn't safe enough to take them home.
Instead, they went with another company, Elon Musk's SpaceX, for the return journey.
Starliner was sent back to Earth without a crew in August, and an already planned crew
mission flew to the station in September with only two
of its four seats taken by NASA's Nick Hague
and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov.
The empty seats were for Wilmore and Williams.
The four returned home together.
Nick, Alex, Butch, Sunny, on behalf of SpaceX,
welcome home.
During their extended stay, Wilmore and Williams
became part of the station crew,
conducting 150 unique science experiments and multiple
spacewalks. NASA's Steve Stitch says despite the mission not going as
originally planned, you know, Butch and Sonny's return on Dragon to me shows how
important it is to have two different crew transportation systems. NASA says
Boeing is committed to flying Starliner again, although when that will happen
and whether or not it will carry a crew is still unclear.
What I find fascinating about all this is that the blue thing, was it Blue Horizon,
Blue Origin, what is Bezos' outfit called?
Yeah.
Blue, baby blue.
They've had a lander on the so-called moon for two weeks
and you've hardly heard anything about it.
It's not doing anything up there.
Well, it's out of power now. It's done.
I was going to say, well, go ahead and finish that thought because I was discussing how I thought that's it. Yes. I was going to say, well, go, you can finish that thought because I was discussing how
I thought that they stayed up on the space station and they can collect a bunch of overtime.
Blue fail.
Blue fail.
Blue fail.
But one of our producers looked into it and found out that they weren't going to get any
overtime at all.
They got kind of jipped by this whole thing.
Yeah, they got like 170, 70 bucks a day or something.
Yeah, it's like meals and and and transportation.
You know, I think they did get some per diem.
Yeah, some drink coupons, possibly.
Yeah, so that's a rough deal, man.
That's no good.
Yeah, of course.
And somebody pointed out that they're both of them weren't young.
And so they're going to have a hard time covering.
Yeah, hard time.
Yeah.
And then of course there's the fly.
You probably saw the fly video.
Yeah, I saw the fly.
I'm not buying it.
You know, it could be any sort of anomaly.
Yeah, no, you believe in it.
I think the whole splashdown was AI generated.
It was just AI.
There was no splashdown.
AI is not that good.
AI is very good. It's very good at that stuff.
You know, and that Jensen guy, he keeps doing...
Who's Jensen?
Jensen from NVIDIA.
Oh, Jensen Wong.
Yeah, he keeps doing these Steve Jobs things
with his leather jacket.
His leather jacket and his sneakers.
Yeah, and he's got a robot just accompanying him. Yeah, and he's got a robot just accompanying him.
Yeah, and he's treating the robot like a dog.
And they're like, stand over there.
It's like, it's so fake.
I had dinner with that guy.
Yeah?
Yeah, some years back before they really got big.
When he was still a gaming guy?
Yeah, when he was still a gaming guy. Nice guy. Yeah, I. Yeah, I'm sure he is like them and go kick him in the shin
He's even nicer now. Yeah, I bet he won't have dinner with me now. No, no, no, no, no, who's that guy? Who?
I think we need to I'm going to wrap up my
my offerings for today
with some measles because we've got to sound the alarm. New York City
under alert.
I'm calling on all New Yorkers. If you've not been vaccinated, your child's not vaccinated,
please step up and get it done.
Today, Governor Kathy Hochul spoke about why she is sounding the alarm encouraging all New
Yorkers to get vaccinated against measles. While the outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico may
seem far away, 13 other states are reporting cases of measles, including New York State.
And there is an outbreak in Ontario, Canada, which borders New York. Governor Hockel is hoping to
combat any vaccine hesitancy. The vaccination has been determined to have saved 60 million lives over the last 20 years
alone.
60 million lives.
That's extraordinary.
60 million lives saved?
What?
Yeah, that's what she's saying.
What is she, nuts?
She's saying that the vaccine has saved over 60 million lives from the deadly measles.
Oh my god.
That just doesn't, that's just, that sounds just that sounds that's no it's bull crap
That's what it sounds like. We cannot go backwards in this time of fear and disinformation
It'll only wreak havoc on our state
Everyone let's go forward together the state launched a new web portal today with information about measles about
81% of New York residents have received at least one MMR dose.
That is the measles vaccine.
Not enough.
Since 1989, two doses have been recommended.
The first dose is given at the age of one, the second at four to six years of age.
She's doing this all wrong.
You've got to offer French fries and a Big Mac and then they will get vaccinated.
But the worst part is Dr. Peter Hotepp.
Hotepp, yes, Hotepp, well, he's very,
he's celebrating because it was, you know, COVID broke out.
Celebrating another day of life from the looks of him.
Five years ago was when we first came out
with the mRNA vaccine, which as you know has
been incredibly successful.
Just ask him, just ask President Trump, saved millions of lives, almost as many as the measles
vaccine is just fantastic.
Five years ago tomorrow, Moderna introduced the first human trials for a COVID-19 vaccine.
But the point and the point you made to us all those years ago, is that the research that went into that vaccine and the
others started well before the pandemic, in some cases 40 years before the
pandemic, including research that you've done. This is the kind of thing we're
talking about here, research that's being done in the background that most people
don't even know for diseases that we don't know that we're going to suffer
from. Yeah, that's exactly right, Ali. Remember the work going in to show that the spike protein,
especially the receptor binding domain of the spike protein is the target of any vaccine
strategy against the coronavirus, whether it's SARS or SARS 2, which is the cause of
COVID‑19. That was work that was funded in our lab all through the 2010s and and possibly even earlier than that. So that was a decade of research
funded by the NIH and then the whole of the research that led to the Nobel Prize at the University of Pennsylvania
scientists for mRNA research that was 15 years of research. So, you know, the
unfortunately, you know the American people too often have the impression that mRNA vaccines arose out of nowhere and it didn't. There was 15 years of significant
support from the National Institutes of Health that funded two convergent lines. One for showing the
spike protein as a target for coronaviruses and second, how to shape the mRNA vaccine, shape the mRNA as a vaccine strategy.
A vaccine strategy, not a gene therapy, a vaccine strategy and of course he is singing for his
supper here because he's afraid that Bobby the Op may just defund his research. Well what we
learned from talking to you all those years ago and since then is all that we don't know about
biology, about chemistry about about disease
my argument is that's okay it's okay if everybody watching the show doesn't know what the NIH does
it's okay if you don't know what clinical trials are going on Ali Velshi from MSNBC's Velshi Velshi
they're old Velshi yes Velshi Velshi Velshi to happen the fact that you can target them because people don't know what they are and that
the government can get away with impunity and saying we're cutting all of this research,
you shouldn't have to know what it is.
You do have to know that important work is being done.
Important work.
Well, and not only that, Ali, you're absolutely right, but the other aspect is now with this
mRNA having proof of concept that it works for infectious
diseases.
Doesn't work.
It works.
It doesn't work.
Proof of work is like Bitcoin.
Proof of work.
We have proof of work that it works.
And proof of work, it works.
Safe and effective.
It works.
Well, and not only that, Ali, you're absolutely right.
But the other aspect is now with this mRNA having proof of concept that it works for
infectious diseases, now
we're turning it to cancer therapeutic.
Oh yeah, of course.
Yes, problem reaction solution.
So there was a recent report that an mRNA vaccine is showing a lot of promise in pancreatic
cancer which, you know, in the past has been such a devastating condition that's taken
the lives of so many of my friends and
colleagues over the years.
We're now at Baylor looking at the-
What?
Yeah, I want-
How many people does he know that had pancreatic cancer?
I'd say that's something wrong with that, the numbers.
With that group.
With that group.
Yes, that's-
That's going on there.
That's 602.
My friends and colleagues over the years, we're now at Baylor looking at the possibility
of creating an mRNA for triple negative breast cancer. So again, this is going to be the next generation of cancer
therapeutics and we can't now cut that off. And then we have other pandemic threats coming
down the line. There's this thing called H5N1 that's affecting cattle and poultry and now
there's been 70 human cases so far.
There's no human to human transmission.
Not yet.
But that could happen.
And it could happen over the next couple of years.
And so we're going to need new vaccines for that.
And that can only come through support from the National Institutes of Health.
I love the conflagration, the confusion about vaccines and therapies and this guy is a ghoul.
He's a total ghoul, but why does the NIH have to be... I thought drug companies,
pharmaceutical companies, vaccine manufacturers and all the rest can do their own damn research.
Thank you. Very good point.
Okay, so that's the research side point. That's the research side.
Then there's the political side.
And when I say that, I'm referring to the measles situation we got in the United States.
We've not talked about a measles outbreak in this country for a very long time.
Outbreak.
Largely something that people thought was eradicated.
An outbreak.
It doesn't take much to shift the political winds, to cause people to say, I don't need
vaccines, they're dangerous, they're going to cause autism or whatever the case is.
In some cases, those concerns are rooted in some valid fears.
And in some cases, like MMR, they're simply not.
We have a head of HHS who suggests that there may be other ways to deal with measles.
Yeah, like getting it.
It's just a thought.
Yeah.
And it's not the kind of message we want to get out.
I'm here in Texas, we're at the measles epidemic.
I'm sorry, an epidemic?
Epidemic adjective, affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number
of individuals within a population. This is not an epidemic. It's also not an outbreak. There's some kids with measles.
Yeah, and it's not the kind of message we want to get out. I'm here in Texas
where the measles epidemic is pretty serious business where at least 250 known
cases and some of my colleagues in West Texas are telling me
that number may be considerably higher.
And the one thing you can't hide is the 34 hospitalizations.
Oh, there it is again.
Now you called this out a couple of shows back
and I say, well, that was just a mistake.
But I think you're right now.
You are correct.
I can't argue.
Thank you. I was correct correct I can't argue I was
correct can't argue with your logic yep they are you say deaths and then you
correct yourself they are planting it it's another it's a trick as Texas are
telling me that number may be considerably higher and the one thing
you can't hide is the 34 deaths 34 hospitalizations in in in Texas right
now because of measles.
Measles is a serious illness
that causes measles pneumonia.
It causes-
Measles pneumonia.
That is good.
It causes measles croup.
It causes permanent neurologic injury.
Measles ticks.
And this is what's racing through
the unvaccinated populations in the state of Texas. Racing through the unvaccinated population in the state of Texas.
It's racing through the unvaccinated population.
And the only way to slow this epidemic down right now is to vaccinate our population,
to catch up vaccination campaigns. You can even vaccinate individuals.
That's patently false. It's not the only way. There's many ways, like letting everybody get the measles. It's not the only way. There's many ways. Like letting everybody get the measles.
It's not the only way.
We've been exposed to the virus.
If you vaccinate within 72 hours,
that has to be all hands on deck.
Wait a minute.
You can vaccinate within 72 hours of getting the measles
and then it'll cure you?
That's not true.
No.
Vaccinate our population.
Do catch-up vaccination campaigns.
You can even vaccinate individuals who have been exposed to the virus.
If you vaccinate within 72 hours, that has to be all hands on deck.
I don't know.
I'm really head scratching.
All hands on deck.
Quick, quick, quick.
All hands on deck.
I don't know.
I'm really head scratching what our Health and Human Services Secretary is saying.
He's starting to talk about vitamin A as a preventative. It's head scratching what our Health and Human Services Secretary is saying. He's starting to talk about vitamin A as a preventative.
It's not.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
Or, or, it's a deconitis as a steroid.
I don't know where that comes from.
The overwhelming message needs to be to vaccinate our population.
Yes.
Stop it.
And as long as we have an unvaccinated population in Texas, this virus will continue to race
through it. I think of it like a hurricane over warm Caribbean waters.
As long as there's warm water, that hurricane will continue.
It's the same with an unvaccinated population.
It's a hurricane!
Unvaccinated population is like a hurricane.
Wow.
I have no words.
I have no words.
There's nothing you can say.
No. It's just insane.
Alright, take us home, John.
What do you mean with a...
With a clip. Just end it up with a clip.
I got it. Okay, it's a two-parter. This is the DEI.
Okay. Yes, I'm just telling you we're going long.
I don't want to go long. Let me just play something short then.
Yeah, play something short. It couldn't be any shorter than this. I don't want to go long. Let me just play something short. Yeah, play something short.
It couldn't be any shorter than this.
I like to know how this works, but Mexico has captured the FBI's most wanted guy.
The White House announced the capture of another fugitive from the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
The statement says the fugitive is called Francisco Javier Mambo Dales and that he's
a senior leader of the brutal MS-13 gang.
He'll be extradited from Mexico to face charges in the United States.
Oh, that's easy.
The Mexican gangs don't want tariffs.
We don't want that guy.
We don't want this guy.
This guy's no good.
Take him.
Yeah, take him.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In the morning.
Yeah, we are going a little bit long, but it's good because we've got Commodores, we've
got tons of birthdays.
The Commodores again.
Yeah, the Commodores are stepping up, man.
They're stepping up. We love it.
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Nathan.
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It's Music City USA, baby.
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Um, he says the nation's fifth largest cell carrier is being eaten by the second largest.
I don't even know who is number five.
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I don't even know who is number five.
Dame Becky's up.
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Sir Lineman, 67, 89.
Baron of Southern Shillenoys.
Oh, he's getting surgery next week to remove a brain tumor the size of a tennis ball.
Geez, that's gotta hurt.
Well, we stop right away for karma for him, health karma.
You've got karma
Kevin O'Brien not gonna mess around with that Chicago six. Oh six small boobs
Scott Schreiber in Madrid, Maryland. Oh, I'm sorry. He's not in Madrid, Maryland So it says but no, it's Madrid Spain
some
Province province or whatever it is MD 57, have Father's Day in Spain from Scott
Schreiber by the Riverside.
Okay.
Well, thanks, Scott.
Sir Broth-Bessie in Lancaster, New Mexico, 5555, He's in the White Mountains.
Dean Roker, 55-10.
Srinivas Murty in Culpeper, Virginia.
Somebody's pounding something.
Stop the hammering outside.
52-73 and it's a happy birthday to Radha Murti.
Turning 95.
Good work.
Bob Newell in Penfield, Pennsylvania, 52.50 and now we got to read to the 50s.
It's actually a pretty short list today.
And the $50 donors are short, another short list.
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Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia
Andrew Gusick in Greensboro, North Carolina and last Michael Cicora in New Richmond, Wisconsin Want to thank these folks and everybody else for helping us do show 17. I don't know what it is
48 Let's do show 17. I don't know what it is. 48.
48.
You don't know how old your grandson is,
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Numbers, numbers.
But you know how to sort the towels.
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We never mentioned those.
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That'll be interesting for Sir Onimus of Dogpatch and Lois LeBovia.
I am very curious where he's going to pick up his Commodore certificate.
You never know. You never know.
Two nights to bring up today.
Bring up your night blade, John. We got two nights. There you go.
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Hey Scott Lamont and Jonathan Rupert both of you hop up on the podium.
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No Agenda Meetups
One of the best parts of being part of No Agenda Nation is going to a meetup
this is where you meet the people who will be your first responders in an emergency.
These are producer organized.
You can find them at noagendameetups.com.
They are the people who bring you connection and protection.
And this is exactly what took place at the North Idaho Sanity Brigade meetup.
This is the North Idaho Sanity Brigade and we are in the moment.
It's Shersh Skaftaju here.
My dad is one of the highest paid nutritionists in North moment. It's Shersh Koptichu here. My dad is one of the highest paid nutritionists in North Idaho, but for some reason, nobody
believes him when he says he has bigorexsia.
Sir Donald of the fire bottles trying to figure out why I'm the only one here who has programmed
a vacuum tube computer.
This is Lloyd the brewer, I'm the newest member of the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
Just want to say thank you for what you do and see you tomorrow morning.
Adam, good pronunciation of Coeur d'Alene.
I don't got anything to say.
That was my son Quincy, this is Sir Ducifer finishing up a six day snowboard run.
Wow.
Hanging out with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade in the morning.
Sir Eli Font here in the morning.
This is Brian from West Falls, soon to be sir of stable storefronts.
Couple suggestions for show title, credibility flambé,
perhaps the end of show ISO.
Dvorak is a fraud.
Bring back real ISOs.
That's my crew right there, man.
Nice to see Sir Duce for hanging out there.
There's a lot of famous people in that one.
Yeah, we got Sir Donald the Firebottle. That was very good.
Remember to include your servers in these reports, please.
We got a couple of meetups taking place today underway as we speak.
The Central Wisconsin WowSaw in Skonis, that's in Schofield, Wisconsin.
It's called this Hot Tucson Meetup underway at Canyons Crown in Tucson, Arizona.
The Denver Spring Equinox Meetup kicks off in just about an hour and a half from now
at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday, this is their fourth anniversary.
That'll be this evening at Edge Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And tomorrow, the Round Rock Roundup, 633 here in Texas, Round Rock, Texas, Cork and Barrel.
On Saturday, the City of Fountains meet up at two o'clock
at Bergen Barrel in Overland Park, Kansas.
And on Sunday, our next show day,
the Dems' Ides of March Indy No Agenda meet up three o'clock
at St. Joseph Brewery and Public House
in Indianapolis, Indiana.
That's always a big group.
We always look forward to your meter reports.
Many more on these calendar
All of these meetups again are scheduled and produced by producers
Go hang out figure out who else is listening. You will always enjoy a no agenda meetup
In fact, it's like chips you eat one. You can't stop at all
Go to know agenda meetups calm if you can't find one near you start one yourself. It's easy and always a party. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You wanna be where you want be, triggered on hell or lame.
You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Yeah, baby.
I always like a party.
And now we come to the phony baloney ISO competition that John is just cheating and we want real
ISOs so I'm going to play some real ISOs and then you can play your cheats, okay?
So here's my first one.
And so there we are.
Nah, it's too muddled.
It's too muddled.
Here's another one.
Here's another one. Yet again I find myself amazed.
Yeah, didn't like the cutoff. Here's my favorite.
Hey, you get me my age, it's gonna be a lot different.
That was you.
Yeah, I figured.
Okay, yeah, all right. Come up with your phone.
Okay, so Mimi said to me, she challenged me, she says, you know, you've been caught. Now you've got to try to get the
thing to do some street sounding, some ghetto, something that's a little different.
Oh, wait, wait. So you're not doing ISOs you're once again doing?
I'm doing the same ISOs because I couldn't get, I tried to get everybody on the list. I think if I
upgrade my subscription to- No, that's not an ISO. That's an AI phony baloney jack-off.
Okay, but the phony baloney, if I could get... I wanted to go,
yo, yo, yo, what up, dope show.
It can't do that?
No.
Everything works out except the dope show. It won't say dope show. Okay.
All right.
So what we're going to do now, we're not going to call it ISO.
We're going to call it the agentic AI segment.
And I will see, I'm not going to compete with you on who can make better AI voices.
Yeah.
Okay.
The show evolves, you know, it's what it once was.
But we can't call it an ISO.
No, I just call it an ISO for the purposes of the list, so you can find it on the list.
So I got three.
Alright.
What do you got?
I got done.
We're done.
Now go home.
Yeah.
Great.
I give up.
Another great show.
That sounded pretty AI.
That's a fail.
That's a fail.
And that guy couldn't do, yo, yo, yo, what up? great show. That sounded pretty AI. That's a fail. That's a fail.
And that guy couldn't do yo yo yo what up. No. Which is incredibly white of you. But okay,
I digress. Yeah, of course it is. I'm white. Hello. Hello. And the final one? Sexy. Another
show that exudes sexiness. Hmm? Yes.
You're losing your touch, man.
You know, now I've lost... Let me hear this one.
We're done. Now go home.
I kind of like that one the best.
Yeah, I used that one.
And now everybody, it's time for everybody's highlight of the program.
This is John C. Dvorak's tip of the day.
Created by us for you and me.
Just a tip with J.C.D. And sometimes, Adam. Created by David Brede. It's great advice for you and me, just chill with JCB.
And sometimes, Adam.
Created by David Bernetti.
Today's show is for free photo editing software.
Mm, GIMP, it's the GIMP.
To compete with GIMP.
Oh, okay.
Because GIMP is actually quite hard to use.
It's very powerful, but very difficult to use.
So I'm having fun with this other one, and there's a bunch, it turns out to be tons
of them out there, not tons but maybe a dozen. Very usable, free products. Are you
going to alternative.net? No, I got dug this one up through some more deeper
research. Okay. This is photo demon. Photo demon. Photo demon.
And I would recommend people get it and play with it and you get it at photo.
Don't get it anywhere, but he, but their main, so I,
I went to GitHub to find their real source of it,
which is photo demon.org and download it from there because everyone else is,
you know, you can't trust these download sites anymore.
They download it.
No, that was a previous tip.
Spyware with their downloads.
Yeah.
Photodemon.org, I think they're on version 12,
and I would recommend playing with it
if you like to play with some photo editing stuff.
Oh, that's a pretty good tip.
I might even follow that tip myself.
Yeah, give it a shot.
I'll give it a shot.
There you go, everybody.
That is your John C. Dvorak tip of the day.
Tipoftheday.net, noagendafun.com.
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Thank you very much, Dana Bernetti, for creating that.
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I've got a, I pulled up up an oldie which is from 2016.
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