No Agenda - 1757 - "Word Veto"

Episode Date: April 20, 2025

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The whole thing is staged. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, April 20th, 2025. This year award-winning give-away nation media assassination episode 1757. This is No Agenda. He is risen! And we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number 16.

Good morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody's saying Happy Easter, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where everybody's saying happy Easter. I'm John C. DeVorek. That was, didn't make it. I almost didn't make it. Geez. I got COVID.

I got COVID. I picked up COVID in Holland. So did you pick up something on the way back? Yeah, COVID. You didn't pick up COVID. Well, everyone says it's COVID. There must be COVID. I'm probably dying of the COVID. You sound terrible.

Yeah, thank you. I was trying to- Yeah, there's a cough button you have. I think you're just doing this for dramatic purposes. Hello. Well, you see, now when I hit the cough button, yeah, when I hit the call button, then you make a big problem out of it. Thanks.

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Are you there? I'm here. Yeah, I think I picked something up at the party. What are the chances?

Two hundred elites all gathered together. One of them is going to be a seething illness ridden human resource. So what, so you do have some, some ailment. I do. Yes. It actually, it started normally. Do you never show it even if you're sick as a dog, but you do sound a little congested. That's the problem.

I, it started Thursday during our last show, and I was using the cough button continuously. Oh, seriously, let's put it that way. Not so much because I was coughing, but it's just the congested, blowing my nose, man, it's horrible, it's horrible, it's horrible. Anyway, I Am so happy that it gives you such joy

It's not funny it's not funny I mean I could have called all of anything around the world wondering why you're sick So I'm not wondering why I'm sick, but I have a question for you forget about so well. No It is 420. Yeah. A lot going on in this day. And the question I have for you is are you now currently at this moment under martial law?

Oh, that's right. Today is martial law day. Yes, I am. Yeah. I mean, it's one, one, I already forgot about that. No, I hadn't forgot about it because it was even a like a ten-minute topic on the hill. What's the girl's name? Crystal? Crystal Ball? Crystal Ball. Crystal Ball, that's her name, right? Well, no, she's not on the hill. She's got, they do an independent podcast now. No, I thought this was on the hill. Well right? Well, no, she's not on the Hill. They do an independent podcast now.

No, I thought this was on the Hill. Well, the Hill, no, she's not, she used to be on the Hill, but she's not on the Hill anymore. Well, she was, she was beside herself. And, you know, first of all, I mean, I got to play these two clips because she was so, I mean, the big... I'm glad you have clips about this, because I completely, you know, I completely dropped the ball on this. Well, you think that I would think that Easter is the most important thing to think about today,

or that it's for 20 day, or Hitler's birthday, but no, I was watching for martial law, because we've been assured today would be martial law. And here's the setup. With no, by the way, we've been, I'm sorry, but we've been assured by these various screwballs with no foundation. Well, she actually lays out,

now I understand the foundation of this thing. Then the big chyron said, 420 martial law, 420, 4 slash 20 martial law. I'm like, it's Easter. I don't, just on its face that this president would declare martial law on Easter is highly unlikely. 421 maybe maybe maybe it'll happen tomorrow but no not on 421 but the reason why is because the resistance is growing. Resistance is swelling, both at the grassroots.

I'm sorry, it's swelling. It's swelling. It's swelling. The resistance is swelling. It's swelling. The resistance is swelling, both at the grassroots and the institutional level. Hundreds of thousands of people have turned out to Bernie and AOC's Fight Oligarchy tour, including large crowds in red states like Idaho.

Millions turned out coast to coast as part of the hands-off protests. Members of Congress cannot hold a town hall without being flooded by outraged constituents. Universities are beginning to fight back rather than get rolled. Law firms are starting to think twice about their capitulation bribery deals. Democrats have moved from Cory Booker's show speech

to Chris Van Hollen's genuinely courageous flight to tangle with Buckele in El Salvador. The courts are becoming increasingly assertive and bond traders are apparently the actual deep states. Now, how will Trump respond to this rapid political shift and mounting backlash? It won't be by backing down or changing course. It will be by cracking down. Oh yeah, it will be by cracking down.

That's like martial law. He's going to put military on the street so that he can ship everybody off. They're going to become the Amazon of shipping human resources out of the country. Some of this project, of course, is already well in motion. He's used supposed national emergencies and national security threats already to claim extraordinary powers by his terrorist program and by invoking the Alien Enemies Act. But there's more. On April 20th, pursuant to an executive order that Trump signed on day one of his presidency, he is going to

receive a report from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Fascist Barbie Kristi Noem about whether or not... Fascist Barbie. Hey, we pioneered AG Barbie. I have to say a Fascist Barbie may be better. Well, Fascist Barbie refers to Kristi Noem. AG Barbie. I have to say a fascist Barbie may be better. Well, fascist Barbie refers to Christy Noem. AG Barbie refers to... Oh, that's right. It's Pam Bondi. Yes. Who is it? Who do we have as Ken? Is it VP Ken? Hegseth would be Ken. Hegseth Ken. Hegseth and fascist Barbie Christy Noem about whether or not he should invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807. Now, such an invocation would open up extraordinary powers for this president to use our military in our streets against our citizens. There it is. You see, this is what this whole thing was about, is about this report that

is supposed to be delivered today because reports always come on Easter Sunday. And yeah, because people love working on the holiday. There's nothing like it. And so there's going to be this report from Hegseth Ken, or maybe just call him Ken Hegseth. No, Hegseth Ken is better. And Hegseth Ken is going to say, we're ready, Mr. President. We're ready to start rousing citizens on the street. Of course, there are any number of ways which he might deploy that power. Perhaps he'd deploy the military to the border, part of an expanded militarized immigration response. Acting

head of ICE has mused about ramping up mass deportation on an industrial scale, even fantasizing about fleets of trucks, scooping up immigrants the way that Amazon efficiently delivers packages on a mass scale. Quote, we need to get better at treating this like a business, acting ICE director Todd Lyon said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process like Amazon Prime, but with human beings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, bro. Amazon Prime.

Trump and the Republicans are pushing for a much larger budget for ICE and for private prison contractors to run detention centers. But if you really want to go for industrial scale, it'd be hard to beat the military. Now, even if you are hawkish on immigration, think of the genuinely evil way this administration has already conducted itself. Do you feel comfortable handing them the tools for a militarized industrial scale human removal and incarceration system? Do you really think the horror is going to be just reserved to the criminals, the gang

members when we already know that 90% of the men that they sent to a slave labor torture dungeon were innocent, like Amazon Prime, but for fascism, I guess. 90%? Yes, 90%. Yeah. So, I hope that- You can tell by looking at them. I hope that you can find more of those TikTokers who, when they say, oh, it's coming, it wasn't

420, it's going to be 430. Oh yeah, they're going to move the date. But this is the insanity that we've come to in our mainstream media messaging system, which is still, it's still live. It's still hobbling along. The morning shows this morning, the Sunday morning shows all filled with Easter cheer and filled with Chris Van Hollen who went to El Salvador because he is so brave he's so brave and he talked to what was this guy doing not in a jail by the way yeah they went to hotel, they were having mojitos. Margaritas, margaritas.

The guy was dressed with like with a hat, with a hat, backward hat and a Hawaiian shirt and what the, what was this? This was, and so they, and they brought a photographer along, so they took some, some ops, the photo ops, and it was like ridiculous in the fact that this is, you know, this is beyond me. Well, so he was on every one of the top three shows, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and This Week, and they all had the exact same script, exact same questions, and the exact same answers.

So let's listen to CBS Face. This basically a three by three of the morning shows. It is, but I will not appropriate your jingle. Senator thank you so much for joining us this morning. You're just back from El Salvador and I want to pick up where we left off with Camilo because the White House is using these new details to build its case that Abrego Garcia should stay where he is and not come back to the US. Your response? Well, Weijia, it's good to be with you.

And these, his case is of course separate. Who's Weijia? Is she new? Weijia? Weijia. It's a Weijia board. Weijia, Weijia Zhang, Weijia Zhang. Well, Weijia, it's good to be with you.

And these, his case is of course separate than the case of the Venezuelans that you were talking about earlier. And in a Brega Garcia's case, the Trump administration admitted in federal court that he'd been wrongfully abducted and sent to a prison in El Salvador. But rather than fixing the problem as the Supreme Court. Wait, wait. So he's quoting them as, and somebody came out and said he was wrongfully abducted? I don't think so.

No, well, of course not. They said we made a clerical error, but he was no good anyway. Put him on the Amazon Express. ...has said in terms of his need to be, that used their efforts to facilitate his release. They reprimanded the lawyer who made that case. So they need to bring him home. Now with respect to these other facts, I say put up or shut up in court. This was his continuous thing.

So on all the networks, put up or shut up in court. Here's NBC Meet the Press. You know, while you were in El Salvador, the White House was counter-programming, effectively releasing information about... Counter-programming? That's interesting. So they're aware of the distraction of the week and how it works? Counter-programming? The White House was counter-programming, effectively releasing information about Mr. Obrebrego's Garcia's background, including a police report suggesting he's a member of MS-13, details about a restraining order from his wife who ultimately dropped the matter, and a police report in which an

officer said he suspected Mr. Abrego Garcia may have been involved in human trafficking. Now, he's never been charged with a crime, but is his past complicating the broader argument that you are trying to make here about due process? Well, what Donald Trump is trying to do is change the subject. Let's make no bones about that, right? This subject is that the Trump administration is ignoring a Supreme Court order, nine to nothing to facilitate his return because they admitted in court, they, the Trump administration's ignoring a Supreme Court order nine to nothing to facilitate his return because they admitted in court, they the Trump administration that he'd been

wrongfully detained. Now, what I have said is Donald Trump and his administration need to put up or shut up in court. There it is, put up or shut up in court. Can ABC go for the hat trick Jonathan Karl? Are you concerned about your defense of somebody? Obviously, everybody in this country, even those undocumented immigrants have rights, but are you concerned about standing so forcefully with somebody that has at least a questionable

record? I am not defending the man, I'm defending the rights of this man to due process. And the Trump administration has admitted in court that he was wrongfully detained and wrongfully deported. My mission and my purpose is to make

sure that we uphold the rule of law because if we take it away from him, we do jeopardize it for everybody else. I do want to point out, Carl, yes, the Trump administration is trying to change the story. They're trying to detract attention. Here's where they should put their facts. They should put it before the court.

They should put up or shut up in court. I mean, come on. Does nobody have an exclusive anymore these days? It's all the same. This guy who sounds like a nervous wreck, he sounds like a you know a character actually shaking voice and all. You know he's doing this as a stunt to run for president. This guy's running for president? Yeah. Oh boy. Well you pretty much summar summarize it right there. Let's do a triple shot here of Margarita Gate.

So did you walk into a trap though? I mean, they bring you to your hotel. It's a trap. He's in a civilian clothes. And you met with him. We saw the images that you put out of meeting with him, you know, the beginning of the meeting. You're sitting there, you're drinking water and talking to the guy in the hotel lobby,

I assume. Water? And then at some point they bring in these like, you know, glasses that look like margarita glasses. What margarita glasses? It wasn't a trap. My goal was to meet with him. How come he wasn't in the,

I don't understand. Why was he not in the El Salvadorian jail with his head shaved bald? This is the part I don't understand. The whole thing is staged. And make sure I could tell his wife and family he was okay. That was my goal. And I achieved that goal. You're absolutely right that the Salvadorian-

No, hold stop. That wasn't his goal. No, his goal was what? To run for president. His goal, he said at the beginning of this whole trek that he was going to go there and get him and bring him back. That was his goal.

That was the goal, yes. Well, it seems like they could have just hopped onto the jet and taken off. I don't think it was an issue. The guy was his goal. Yes, yes. Well, it seems like they could have just hopped onto the jet and taken off. I don't think it was an issue. The guy was not detained. He was just hanging out in the hotel lobby. I achieved that goal.

You're absolutely right that the Salvadorian authorities tried to deceive people. They tried to make it look like he was in paradise. They actually wanted to have the meeting by the hotel pool originally. Yeah, I wonder who really wanted to have the meeting by the hotel pool originally. I wonder who really wanted to have

the meeting by the producers probably like, hey, this is a much better shot over here by the pool. We can all be outside. Really? Absolutely, absolutely. We had to negotiate that. They wanted to put me right over

looking the pool. In fact, if you had a different angle on the camera shot, you would see the pool. Because they did write that the Bukele put out a statement saying miraculously risen from the death camps and torture and sipping margaritas with you. I mean, they were really trying to make you look like you were hanging out with somebody that they say is a gang member.

No, let's see what CBS we just. I want to show our viewers some pictures that the president... Can you believe that this was the number one topic on all three Sunday news shows? This is what blows me away. There's a lot going on. We are under martial law, people.... of El Salvador. Bukele posted showing you and Abrego Garcia sitting around what appears to be margaritas. You have blamed him for trying to deceive people with props. After he posted those images,

he also posted, quote, I love chess. Do you have any concerns that the Salvadoran government used you as a pawn to make their point that Abreiego Garcia is doing well and that he should stay where he is. I see what she did there.

She said chess pawn, okay. No, in fact, the El Salvadorian government tried really hard not to let me see him. But I think they realized that that was not a good look at the end of the day. I had press conferences in El Salvador with local press and made the point that El Salvador was- Wait a minute, how can there be local press under that dictatorship of Bucali? This doesn't make any sense. Violating international law by not allowing anyone to reach him, not his wife, not his

lawyers, nobody. They realized that was a bad look. So I'm glad I met him. That was the purpose of my visit. Yeah, but the glass. They agreed to go- But wait, hold on. He just changed his- The purpose is different again. It's perfect. Now it's perfect. Oh, God. He keeps changing it.

A new purpose. So, buddy, they realized that was a bad look. So I'm glad I met him. That was the purpose of my visit. You're right. They go to great lengths to deceive people. Yes. And that's what you saw because they- Those evil Bitcoin people in El Salvador.

Got these government guys essentially told the waiters to bring these drinks that appear to look like margaritas to the table. No one touched them. I can go into the details about how their whole scheme was set up. But the reality is, if you look at the photos when I first sat down and the ones at the end, you can see that that was all staged. They're trying to create the impression that this is a guy in paradise, when in fact he's been in one of the most notorious prisons in the world. But his head wasn't shaven, so he was not in that prison. Here's the last one, Kristen Welk in NBC.

Absolutely not. They had no intention of letting me meet with Abrego Garcia until they felt the pressure. They felt the pressure from people saying, why are you, you know, complicit in this illegal scheme? Why are you denying his wife, his lawyer, or anybody the opportunity to speak with him? So my mission was to be able to say that he is at least alive. That was his mission. A third mission.

A third mission. A fourth. That's the fourth. That's the fourth mission. He had a lot of missions, man. You're right. It's the lengths that both, you know, the El Salvadorian president, Bukele, and Donald Trump will go to deceive people are boundless, right? In this case, they did order the waiters, the government people, to bring these two

glasses that, you know, appear to be margaritas. I have no idea. We didn't touch them. And they tried to manipulate it, so to make it look like Mr. Obregó's, García's margarita had been drunk. In other words, the liquid was lower. But they screwed it up. Hey, John, if you and I were going to try and make this look like paradise, but I think we would have chosen some different tactics.

Like I'd have girls in bikinis walking around, you know, we'd have party lights, party people, DJ thumping in the background. No, no, no. Those stupid El Salvadorians. We're going to put liquid in the glass. Don't even know if it's salt or sugar and we're gonna make one a little lower So everyone will think that he's been drinking it's food up in their scheme because if you look at the Rims of the glasses, I don't know if with salt or sugar, but there's no gap. What who puts sugar? Who puts sugar on their margarita?

Is that a thing even? There are drinks there are other drinks. He does, this Margarita, the whole thing is a joke. Yeah, it is. Okay, nine seconds. So nobody touched the Margarita. Stop, the fact is that you're right. These morning shows that this is their story.

We have a borderline bombing of Iran. We have the crisis where Netanyahu is getting shut down. We have all kinds of issues. We have the big protests over the weekend. We have all these things going on and this publicity stunt, because this guy's running for president or he thinks he is, he doesn't have a prayer because he's a moron, is the top of the news because obviously somebody's coordinating this and it's not any of the news directors It's Chuck Schumer again

Who I don't know the whole thing is you know what you got you you know I was thinking first thing I thought we don't maybe the CIA or somebody but once you mentioned Chuck Schumer You're probably right because it's so lame. Yeah, that has to be a Schumerism, a Schumer scheme. It has to be. It's so dumb. And then they all do this. They all do. Who cares? I mean, we do, of course, because it's just so stupid. I'm going to be talking to a high school in a couple of weeks, and they want me to come in and talk about propaganda. Wait, stop, stop, stop. What? Yeah, the guy down the street, he teaches a class in media communications.

It's an advanced placement class to, I guess, 10th, 11th graders. And he wanted me to come in and talk about propaganda. I said, are you sure they're going to be able to handle it? Because they're going to see stuff they've never seen before because that's, they just never watched that stuff. You know, you have to show this dumb stuff. And then, you know, the, the senators all saying the same thing as super Basically, I'm gonna come in play a bunch of super cuts say I'm the super father

I'm the father pod father drop my mic and I'm out and that's what I'm gonna be and yell go pod go podcasting He said the kids are really excited. These kids don't know who I am. Well, they know what Who's this old fart coming in? No, no, he's not an old fart. No, they know what podcast. He's very excited. Who's this old fart coming in here? No, no, he's not an old fart. No, he's a young guy. No, you. Oh, I was kidding. Thank you.

Who's this boomer you brought in? Teach. Teach. Teach. Who's ever used that term? Only a boomer. Only a boomer. Only a boomer.

Teach. Oh man. All right. So there is some very interesting news and I'm going to play it in. Before you go on with these clips, anything interesting happened on the way back from Amsterdam? You usually have a story about going through customs or some foul up or a last ditch thing that you saw when you left and you didn't realize this was that bad over there. How's your daughter doing? Okay. Well, thank you for asking. My daughter is doing very well.

So I told her, I'm going to see you on Friday. Let's go to a nice restaurant, which turned out to be Japanese Fusion. We had seven courses. It took four hours for them to serve this thing. That was a little long. But before that, she arranged for us to have a VR experience. And this is a franchise called Zero Latency. And imagine a Quonset hut in the middle of South Rotterdam.

And so they've got a big room and you have walls and it's just... Quonset hut. It was a Quonset hut, but a pretty high ceiling. Quonset hut. It was a Quonset hut, but you know, pretty high ceiling. Quonset hut, it was a Quonset hut, I'm telling you. It was open on one side. I know what they are. And so you had this really big room and it has kind of a black floor and walls with some stripes on it.

And so you play as a team. We went, the three of us, you know, do up to eight players. You get your VR goggles, you get your weapon. And then who's the third? Oh, her fiance, Kevin. Oh, okay. Kevin. And we like Kevin.

And so, and then you go in and then it takes a second to sync up. And we did the zombie apocalypse VR experience. So you're you know, you're you see each other and that you all look of course, you know, you're you have an avatar. It's very it's photorealistic kind of like it has very much like a doom feeling to it only higher resolution. If you remember the game doom another boomer reference everybody. It was incredibly realistic.

Is it more like Doom or more like Duke Nukem? Oh, much more like Duke Nukem. I mean, it was an advance, but the, you know, it's basically first person shooter, except you got your team, you can switch guns, you know, you see a gun, you walk over toward it, you grab the gun, you got a plasma gun, you can switch between, you know, you see a gun, you walk over toward it, you grab the gun, you got a plasma gun, you can switch between, you know, grenades and you get a Gatling gun. Is there anything you could do you're doing in the Quonset hut that you can't do at home?

I got to tell you, well, it was, it's big. You need the space because you're walking around, you know, you're actually walking around. Oh yeah. You're walking. Um, you're, you're move. The thing that's kind of weird is, you know, that you're actually walking around. Oh, yeah, you're walking. You're you move. The thing that's kind of weird is, you know, you want to walk up to the elevator and has a ramp. And of course, if you actually try to walk up, like in your step on the ramp, you're going to fall in your face. So you learn pretty quickly.

You just walk and then the ramp kind of adjust to you. So that, but that only took three minutes to get used to it. It was incredibly real. So real that, you know, the zombies are coming at you and then you hear in the headphones, there's one non at you behind you turn around, you blast them with the grenade. And I actually got a physical response to this.

I was tired after 30 minutes. I was like, that was a tough day of fighting zombies. And I thought this will never fly for anything but this. You can't live in this world. It's very disassociative. Wait, wait, you said it won't fly for anything but this? Yeah, but games. In other words, zombie fighting?

Yeah, games, games. It won't work for touring Paris? No, no, no, no, no. It won't, no, no. Of course not. No, you... So I can't go on a cruise down the canals in Venice? Yeah, but you won't get the wind in your face. You know, zombies is already kind of a surreal experience.

You don't need to have anything else. So, okay, so you what you're predicting is it's a dead end. It's a dead end. This is fun. I mean, it's a great fun dead end. It's a fun show title, fun dead end. Yeah, that's basically what that is. But to say that, that this would be like the metaverse is going to be cool. No, no, you can't do more than a half hour of this stuff. And then you just like, ah, and then the thing is heavy on your head. But more importantly, I got a lot of emails from people

about my report from the last show when I was in Amsterdam. Yeah. And it's interesting. I think I was pretty clear telling everybody that I was amongst the media elites and that Taxi Eric, he's the guy that is saying, no, no, no, we think Trump should have a statue because I got a lot of similar emails saying, you need to get out of Amsterdam. It's not like that everywhere. We're all against this, the global elites, we love Trump.

I thought it was pretty clear what you said. But you know, with a bunch of elitists that were completely off the rails and Taxi Eric was a, yeah, a kind of foundational and then connected to reality in some funny way, even though he almost got me killed. Yeah. Well, then, you then you know that was that was anyway So But what I get from everybody is the same thing the people who listen to no agenda and I'm sure that you know There's other people who don't listen to no agenda other groups who are who are all in

But everybody is just talking amongst themselves. No one's doing anything. Not dissimilar to the United States until Trump stood up and said, hey, this nonsense is over. So everybody thinks it's crazy, it's no good. But meanwhile, even this new government, the new cabinet just steamrolls over everybody. They get the same old, same old. So there's two emails I pulled out that I wanna share. First one is from Nathan. He says, Adam, as you know, Amsterdam is extremely left. Everyone is scared and angry. In my class, this prevails as well.

I'm in the second of the Cygnus gymnasium. So he's probably about 17. When I ask why they are angry, they say, Trump, Musk, but they don't really know. They're afraid of Trump becoming a dictator. Usually their reason is that he is shutting down all the institutions and putting pressure on the legal system. Real facts or examples? Well, they never have those. The most left voters also think a European army is a good idea. How it is regulated with taxation via your carbon footprint is perfect. These people will have to change themselves. Now they only

vote for the left. With this they think that their sins on climate will be redeemed. Even people closer to me find it hard to keep thinking for themselves. Family, who my father and I try to explain as much, we can also panic, of course, because they can only see the M5M. I find it increasingly difficult to restrain myself and seeing people I love get so worked up and frightened. Everything they try seems to succeed. That would be the crazy people. As we as awakened people have to try and help in some way.

Well, of course, this is exactly the problem. No one is really helping. But the one that really got me, because this is universal and I've adjusted my cultural trauma, it's just like COVID. Europe never got out of COVID and to some degree neither did the United States. People who are still mad about things, who hate Musk, hate Trump. They're the same people, you know, it's the same argument. Vax, no Vax, lockdown, no lockdown, social distancing, no social distancing, mask, no mask. It's the same, people never got out of it.

So it's just a replacement. You see with the mask, masked up boneheads all over the place. Oh, there's tons of masked people everywhere. So this came from Beth, and she is an expat in the UK. And what's interesting is here, this is the degree to which she has been assimilated into this system. It says, I'm a dual US-UK citizen, been in the UK for 15 years, my husband in British. Honestly, I love the UK. It's definitely my home,

and in spite of the growing dystopia, my situation is comfortable and good. Here's my report. Now remember, she likes it there. Her situation is comfortable and good. So she goes on. I saw the writing on the wall years ago and left social media entirely just to be safe. I'm a major turf and I knew my views would get me in trouble if I didn't.

I have a skilled but blue collar job and basically everyone on the factory floor would agree with the no agenda perspective. A few are fans of Trump, others conservative, but hate his style. I voted for- Okay, let's stop. I want to make sure that everyone out there knows what TERF, we haven't used that term for a while. Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Yeah. No trans women. Yes, no trans. I think everyone knows what TERF is, but okay. I don't know. No, I'm just good. I voted't know. No, I'm this good.

I voted for Bobby the Op because I'm a coward. And this way, when I'm with someone with TDS, you could also say you're a libertarian, I'm a coward. This way, when I'm with someone with TDS, I can say things like, well, I never voted for him, but surely such and such policy might actually turn out to be good. Remember, she's comfortable and loves her life. Management is another story. My boss thought Trump created NAFTA and he's a big racist, of course. I get a lot of comments from educated people who assume that I also have Trump derangement syndrome, which I do not.

Another thing I've heard multiple British people say is that they thought we were supposed to help others. But Trump only cares about himself and how they had we were supposed to help others but Trump only cares about himself and how they had to explain this to their children. I live in Oxfordshire and work in an affluent village but live in a very average town. Nobody has stopped driving their Teslas. Our friend group, bless them, are quite intelligent. People who haven't got a clue about U.S. politics. One friend is still obsessed with Trump being a Russian asset and mentions it a lot. Another friend thought that abolishing the Department of Education meant no more public schools in the whole country.

They seem to get most of their ideas about America from Reddit. Of course, they still believe in safe and effective. As for free speech arrests, they are both ignorant and dismissive. It's not happening. And even if it was, then people must have deserved it. Seems to be the opinion. Pretty grim. The elder generation is split.

My husband's aunt, who is a lovely woman, is terrified by what she views as a rejection of the mechanisms which brought peace to post-war Europe. Trump mates are sick to her stomach. My lovely work mom in the second half of her 70s also hates Trump, but it's disgusted by the way the country is going, namely she doesn't feel safe in Reddingtown anymore due to dodgy Turkish barbers popping up everywhere and loads of men just hanging around. Her daughter lives in Dover.

She tells me all the time how many boats of illegal migrants come in every week We all know we aren't allowed to talk about this stuff. My own town is very average on Saturday You'll see families and people of all walks of life in the open air shopping center area But recently I was in town on a Friday afternoon. It was a different vibe loads of men just hanging around My hairdresser told me about men harassing her young apprentices 16 years old. I hate this vibe. Thanks for a great show says Beth who I will remind you start off by saying I love the UK. My life is comfortable and good. Beth you need to reassess your life. This is not comfortable and good. This is the lobster getting boiled in

the pot. That's exactly right. Yes this is the slow where you put it in and you turn the heat up. And I realize, you know, just look at all this nonsense of people arguing and you sent me a video this morning of Liberty Lockdown podcast of people arguing about Douglas Murray and Dave Smith and Joe Rogan and Ian, I don't even know half these people. And I'm like, I am so happy and so I'm really happy that we do the Noagenda show under the constraints we have self-imposed on ourselves as it comes to expansion, growth, and finances because we are the only ones who just have, there's no reason for us to say anything but exactly what we feel. I think everyone else is audience captured. I think there's a huge fear

of being deplatformed by the group, not by government, by the group. Whatever this group is, we've talked about this before. That's why I put the word internecine in there. Yes, I even put that in the show notes so people can, let me see, I wrote it down here, internecine, i-n-t-e-r-n-e-c-i-n-e, relating to or involving conflict within a group. Oh, it comes from fought to the death. Anyway, there is a real problem going on everywhere, And the United States is not immune to it. And I really, truly think that this is still COVID trauma,

that people just wanna fight with each other about something, because we're still all mad. We're all still, you and I aren't, but we're mad, we're hurt, we're angry, we feel discriminated, we feel, you know, making, doesn't matter what side you're on. And President Trump just triggers it all time and time again.

He's very good at it. And I think that he probably egged on this whole 420 martial law thing just to get people crazy. He still seems to kind of be doing that stuff. You know there is a phenomena. We had that. This just came to mind. Bill Ziff, one of the first and early billionaires I ever knew, ran to Davis. How many do you know these days? How many do you hang out with? I don't hang out with any. Well, I hang out with one.

Well, you hang out with one. But it's beside the point. Okay. But Ziff, I used to hang out with Ziff a little bit. But the thing about him is that he was always saying one thing and doing another in certain kinds of funny ways. And somebody who really knew him well and worked for him forever during the early days of his publishing empire. He says that Ziff had this sick way of matching people up and putting people together that were he knew would cause a conflict.

And he believed that Ziff thought it was fun. He was like, just amused himself. It's like the king is let's put these two people together and see what happens. And it was, I think from this extreme amount of wealth he had, he was one of the richest men in the world at the time. And it developed this screwball way of looking at things and the screwball way of acting. It worked out, except for the people that were placed in these situations

where they'd always get in trouble. And maybe Trump has got, maybe it's something to do with the wealth. Really the only true billionaire. Oh, you think it's a billionaire thing? I'm beginning to think it might be something, because Trump is the only true billionaire. Vanderbilt was never president of the United States

and other super rich people never got to that far because they never bothered. But, but. Too much work. I can make a mess back here by signing checks. But this idea of, you know, of just, just doing little things and moving things around like a chess game and then, and seeing what happened see what happened well let's see what happens if the I

know these two people don't get along I wonder if Joe works for Jim if that would be really funny oh wait what about if Jim worked for Joe that'd be even funnier moving around I just get this sense that something like that might be going on by the basis of what you just said which might be true Trump is triggering this and he's doing it in some some conscious way on purpose Well, let's look at this at the next item here on the agenda, which is clearly a an art of the deal move But we have to go back To three days ago when it looked like it looked like look, look we had something on the table, we had

papers, we were signing. After months of delays, a minerals deal is closer than ever. On Thursday, Ukraine said talks with the US delivered good results. Just hours later, the two sides signed a so-called memorandum of intent. I love this. A memorandum of intent is, I would say, completely worthless. Yes, I agree. A memorandum of intent is the way to kind of put the negotiations on hold because you're going nowhere. I'm going to write a memo that we intend to, I don't know, yes. Or the final agreement. The deal would give the US access to Ukraine's mineral wealth in return for billions in military

aid. Ukraine, for its part, wants strong security guarantees. It sounds like they came up with exactly the same deal. Yeah, we'll protect our interests with some military stuff and then Ukraine is yammering again. But the process has been shaky. A February signing fell through under chaotic circumstances. Since then, Ukraine said the terms have constantly changed.

Media reports said the US now has changed repayment demands from 300 to 100 billion dollars. Hey listen, Vladimir, listen, listen, listen. We're going to give you 60% discount. All right, discount. We go from $300 billion to $100 billion. What are you yammering about, man? Meanwhile, the Trump administration

continued to face accusations of echoing Putin, creating unease among Ukraine officials. Just days ago, the US envoy Steve Whitkoff conveyed Moscow's proposal for a peace in exchange for five Ukrainian regions. I believe that Mr. Witkoff has taken on the strategy of the Russian side. I think it is very dangerous. Ukraine said it will not discuss territorial agreements before a ceasefire, a truce they want under US security guarantees.

But so far it's not clear how the minerals deal would ensure Ukraine's security. So I think they just redlined the original agreement and scratched out 300, said 100 billion. Okay, that's our final, final offer. And before we get to the next round, we have a little, little, little, little rest, a little pause. It is Easter after all. He is risen.

Tonight in a surprise announcement, Vladimir Putin says he's ordering a 30 hour Easter truce in the war in Ukraine. The brief ceasefire coming one day after President Trump warned the US will walk away from stalled peace negotiations. There is a progress soon. We're going to just take a pass, but hopefully we won't have to do that. President Zelensky tonight saying there's no trust in words coming from Moscow, but that Ukraine is open to US proposals for a 30-day ceasefire.

Another ceasefire. So he's rolling everything back, going back to a 30-day ceasefire. And then of course we get the report that everybody has been talking about is where we're really at. I think we're at the end of our rope, people. He's been pressing both Moscow and Kiev for a truce. But so far Donald Trump has failed in his bid to secure a ceasefire in the Ukraine war. On Friday, the US president reiterated that he wanted to clinch a deal quickly, but said that the US could ditch brokering further talks unless progress is made soon.

No specific number of days, but quickly, we want to get it done. If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we just gonna say you're foolish your fools your horrible people and we're gonna just take a pass But hopefully we won't have to do that. I'd like this take a pass. That's how you talk about Brought that I'm glad you got to take a pass thing. I keep saying yeah play this clip This is Ukraine Trump and, and this is from PBS. And I think that they're trying to give us a different perspective than reality here. The latest on the international effort to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. As those negotiations have stalled, there is a new ultimatum from the Trump administration.

Earlier today, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrapped up a marathon series of talks in Paris with both Ukrainian and top European officials. Rubio, on his way out, said the US may quote, move on from trying to broker a peace deal if progress isn't made soon. We're not gonna continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end. So we need to determine very quickly now, and I'm talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable in the over the next few weeks. If it is, we're in.

If it's not, then we'll have to, we have other priorities to focus on as well. In Washington, President Trump echoed that warning, but stopped short of saying he's ready to walk away. He pushed back against the suggestion that Russia is taking advantage of his patience. I know when people are playing us and I know when they're not and I have to see an enthusiasm to want to end it. And I think I see that enthusiasm. I think I see it from both sides. But you're going to know soon.

Do you think Russia's playing me? No, nobody's playing me. I'm trying to help. All of this unfolded as the war grinds on. Russian missiles today rained down on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Officials say one person was killed and nearly 100 others were wounded. All right, what's your take? Well, they, they make it sound as a Rubio and Trump or a differing opinions of things. And it's a conflict. Oh really? I didn't, I didn't get that at all. I thought, I thought, well,

there's been, I've been listening to a lot of these NPR PBS things and they've been trying to promote that idea. And I think it was kind of promoted in there, but I don't see it, because Trump's saying, you know, we're out of here. Sounds pretty much what Rubio says. I have my favorite Canadian, Andrew Rasulis, with his analysis, and I've played him before.

Andrew Rasulis, he's a former war guy in Canada now, he's a consultant. He's a war guy, he knows war. You like him, when you hear him, you'll remember. What do you make of the news that the US may walk away from the peace talks if it's not possible to imminently or quickly end the war in Ukraine? It's a very important development, but we have to put it in context. What happened Thursday? Rubio, on his way out to the airport, said after having that meeting in Paris, which included the Americans, the Europeans, and the Ukrainians, and he said, you know, if we're not going to get a deal soon, we're walking away.

So why did he say that? Well, at that meeting, Vitkov was on the American delegation as, and he's Trump's point person on this, basically went to Russia, went to or talked to Ukrainians, talked to Europeans and put together what he believes is the best possible deal for a ceasefire, a comprehensive ceasefire. And it includes the following. One, the Russians keep all the territory they currently hold militarily. Two, the Ukrainians do not get NATO. Three, there are sanctions relief put in place for Russia, but Ukraine remains

sovereign. So there was a lot of pushback from the Ukrainians and the Europeans to this plan saying that it caters too much to the Russians. The American position is it reflects battlefield reality and that's where we're at. Yeah, they don't want that. The Europeans want war. They don't want to stop. They're all in on this the way I see it and the Canadians and the Australians. So what happens if the US walks? Donald Trump said that ending this war would be the feather in his cap when it comes to foreign policy. Did he actually say that? Hey, this will be the feather in my cap. I don't think so. A feat that he wanted to accomplish. If he is out and his negotiations...

No, he promised he would end it within 24 hours. That's what he actually said But he was being him ironic day one. Yeah day one. What does this mean? Let me just say there's a meeting in London next week, but the same people same parties We will see what happens there It's the last ditch and April 30th is a hundred days anniversary of the America of Trump's presidency We still have that time. I believe, to secure a deal. Having said that, assuming there's no deal, to answer your question, it would certainly favor the Russians.

The Ukrainians would have to rely solely on the Europeans in Canada, to what degree in Australia. But basically, they could not get the Patriot missile systems. They could not get the Patriot missile systems. They could not get the intelligence required Russia would increase the momentum it has already on the battlefield, which is just to their advantage They would increase it even furthermore and basically the Ukrainians would be left with the Europeans and Canadians To sort it out themselves not a very good position And then of course can the EU can Europe and Canada and

Australia, can they fill the gap left by those turncoat Americans? Is this enough? Canadians, Europeans, some other international allies, can they fill that void if the US steps away in terms of that key military support? No, they cannot. They can sustain the Ukrainians in a defensive mode for a while, while the Ukrainians try to wear down the Russians and secure a better deal than they're getting now.

That is not a highly likely outcome. Because also, I repeat, the Americans have the Patriot missile systems, nobody else has them and the Ukrainians need them for air defense. And two, it's the intelligence Americans provide Ukrainians with targeting information that only the Americans can provide So finally then what is really what was really needed has already happened. The the global stage has already changed Seemingly irreversibly and back to the old ways of the old days of the boomer days. What is the biggest geopolitical concern about Russia and some of its allies like China, like North Korea,

now that US has assumed this position? Oh, we're very clearly beyond the liberal rules-based order of 1991 or 1945. Pick your year. We are back to a much more traditional realpolitik power politics international system in which the great powers compete against each other sometimes politically economically and militarily when things come to that point. It's all a question of equilibrium and balance of power and basically the big boys set the stage and the smaller weaker powers have to adjust to that reality. That I'm afraid is the new reality that we're going into. Yeah, that's it. I think that's it.

Well, I have a different take on this what could possibly happen if they don't go along with Trump. Okay. Which they should and get this over with, but they just seem reluctant like you say. Is there, the Europeans can do more than just be defensive. They can put their boots on the ground in Ukraine. They want to form an army anyway. Let's put some German and French. The French have been promising troops. Yeah. Macron, you know, and his wife. Well put the French troops in there. And then the Germans can put their troops in there. Everyone can just load up. And so the Ukrainians can have some backup and then they can drag this thing.

And how do you think that's going to work out when you get dead German, French and British kids coming home in body bags? How's that going to work out in Europe? That's going to work out when you get dead German, French, and British kids coming home in body bags? How's that going to work out in Europe? That's going to be... It's going to make... They're going to twist it in such a way that... Look at what these Russians have been doing to our kids. They're going to do what they always do. They make it look like, oh, this is terrible. Now we need revenge for the dead kids. It's doable. They got to, now we need revenge for the dead kids. It's doable. They want to do it. They want to, they want to. Is that a better outcome? No, it's not a better outcome. It's going to be a disaster, but they, that's what they want to do.

And there's nothing to stop them. That's what I said. They want war. This we're saying the same thing as the premise. And I just saying here's how it's's gonna happen. Oh, I sure hope not Well, if they don't go along with Trump it's good that's exactly where it's headed there's no other way Well, maybe maybe because if you're telling me you know, you're over there or work and you're telling you know Everyone's thinking the Russians are gonna march in and take over all of Europe any minute now We got to stop them somewhere. We we gotta go to Ukraine to do it. So we'll send our boys there.

People are putting go bags together, man, with band-aids. Go bags, that's gonna do it. With matches and band-aids. That'll do the trick. And then the long wave radio receivers so they can get the BBC World Service. It's pathetic. It's so crazy that people can't see what is going on,

how stupid this whole thing is. And they've bought it hook, line, and sinker. They really have in the, in general, the majority, not the no agenda people. They're saying they're going, this is bull crap. But meanwhile, suit up. No? Ah. I really, I felt very poorly most of the time in Europe. I did. I felt poorly.

I felt poorly. People, you can tell the people, again, whenever I… To top it off, they gave you a cold. COVID, they gave me COVID, man. It's just like, don't you see that you've got to stop this nonsense? And they're still pushing climate change and the digital ID and more taxes and federal tax.

Carbon taxes. Yes, carbon taxes. Never leave that out of the picture. Well, climate change taxes. Just more just more and more and more and more. In fact, what was I reading? This was a good one. Where did this come from? Some university.

That man's best friend may be nature's worst enemy. Study on pet dog finds. So dogs apparently are the worst thing for climate. Oh yes, this has been going, this has been for a few weeks now, this anti dog thing, which I think is actually Muslim based. No, I think it's tax based because people are sending me these articles. Tax dogs? Yes, you have to pay a dog tax, of course. That's perfect. They're not going to come

and kill Fido. They're going to send you a bill. You know how many dogs there are? That's perfect. They're not gonna come and kill Fido. They're gonna send you a bill How many dogs there are? That's a bonanza and people will do anything for their animals not for their kids suit them up ship them off to Ukraine But don't touch my dog. I'll pay the fine Yeah dog waste contributes to pollution and waterways inhibits plant growth Okay Dog waste contributes to pollution and waterways inhibits plant growth. Okay. No, I think the dog thing is a carbon tax gambit, which makes sense to me. It could be. Yeah, I think so.

So anyway, yes, I felt just very poorly because I know that people aren't stupid, but they're all going along to get along. I don't want to be unpopular. stupid, but they're all going along to get along. I don't want to be unpopular. You know, they're changing the name of the school, Michiel de Ruiter. Now you don't know Michiel de Ruiter, but he traveled the world when he was 12 years old. And then when the British army, the armada, the British Navy, famous Dutch kid, and then when the British Navy was sailing's a famous Dutch kid. Famous Dutch kid. And then when the British Navy was sailing over to Holland to basically capture the whole country, he really started up the Dutch

Navy, the Marines, went over there, went out there, they sailed out and they kicked the British back. Well, now that school has to change its name to be more inclusive. Because, you know, it doesn't represent our society anymore. It's had that name for, I don't know, a hundred years. So it's the exact, we've seen this template. They just found a different George Floyd moment. And so they want to change the name of the school and, you know, they go out there, interview the parents, oh yes, I think we should change the name of the

school because it really needs to be more inclusive. It's not of this time anymore. It's an old name. It's not good. And then the interviewer says, so what did Michiel Dura have to do? You should ask someone who knows more about history. I don't really know. They're afraid. They're afraid of being ostracized. And that's certainly the Dutch way, but I think it's also a bit of the European way. No, we didn't know. We didn't know. No, no, they need to do something. But they need somebody. They needed Donald Trump. Ultimately, that's why they hate him, because they want him. They want someone like that to stand up and say no to be just that guy That's

That's the only thing I can make of it Because I think you're probably right. Yeah, I'm sad. I'm sad for Europe I told him so you better put a ring on it man. He goes let's play with Trump. He's going to come over and you're going to get left behind. Yes, I'm sorry. A couple of Trump clips. This is what's going on over here when it comes to Trump. This is a Trump loyalist clip. This is the latest of the complaining going on on PBS.

President Trump today advanced his plans to make it easier to fire tens of thousands of federal workers. On social media, he said he would move forward with a rule previously known as Schedule F, which the administration said, quote, will allow agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or undermine the democratic process by intentionally subverting presidential directives. Our White House correspondent Laura Burrón-López joins us now with the latest. Laura, President Trump promised that he would do this. So what does this do and how many workers would this affect?

So Schedule F changes the job classification of nonpartisan federal workers, designating them as political appointees. And so bottom line, it makes it easier for the president to fire anyone that he considers disloyal and replace them with complete loyalists to his cause and to his agenda. Now, this was a part of the Project 2025 blueprint from the Heritage Foundation. And OMB director Russ Vogt was key in drafting this during the first administration but they were not able to implement it during the first administration. I love the term blueprint this is good. I read the document it was

a chat GPT embellished piece of crap way too long single-spaced unnecessary long bios of everybody was very egotistical it had some things in there like get rid of Department of Education. Think you could find that in other documents. But it was far from a blueprint. Yeah, blueprints actually the simplistic. Yeah, yeah, just nuts and bolts. His bull goes here. Yeah, this thought did we were coming back to this, this thesis. I mean, they have these memes. They like to throw it to Trump and loyalist is loyalist. In other words,

you got people working against you and your project and you want to get rid of them. Yeah. I don't see why, why, how is that different than any other president or any other person running a company or running a government agency or being the president or anything else? You don't want people working against you. No. So why wouldn't you want to get rid of them? Oh, because they're bringing in loyalists.

Okay, well. Because they're triggering internal conflicts of their listeners. Like, oh, well, imagine if someone could come and just fire me for not doing my job. I'm telling you, this is all socialist. This Schedule F, I mean, that was a masterstroke. Didn't he implement that in his first administration? Well, he tried. Well, I thought the law got passed or something was put through, kind of like as a, something

that never really got turned back. No one changed it. It was just sitting there ready to be implemented. Well, that's what they're up to, and it got all these people in a tizzy. So here's the second part of this. And RestVote said throughout the campaign that they wanted to traumatize federal workers. And the White House estimates that this will impact some 50,000 federal workers that could be laid off.

But government experts say that that's probably a minimum. So what happens next? And has there been, I imagine, pushback to this? There has been pushback. But so first, what happens is a White House official said that agencies have until April 20th to hand them the list of who they think should be reclassified in their agency. But Everett Kelly, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said that this is another in a series of deliberate moves by this administration to corrupt the

federal government and replace qualified public servants with political cronies. The FG says that they are going to city administration and they are the largest union representing federal workers. So this is part of a much bigger picture of Trump's war with the federal government. That is, it is. Now we have a war with the federal government. Everything is a war. Everything is a war. Everything is a war. Blueprint, playbook, war. That is.

It is. And so this all comes as President Trump and Elon Musk's team have instituted firings across the board. Yesterday, the Trump administration moved to fire some 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That's most of the agency, William. And today a federal judge paused those firings, calling it deeply concerning that the firings violated an earlier injunction. Now based on our reporting as well as a New York Times analysis, when you zoom out, essentially

there are more than 132,000 workers that have either been fired or pressured to take buyouts. Since Trump has taken office, we spoke to Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at University of Michigan, who said that this essentially defeats the purpose, this Schedule F, of a nonpartisan civil service. He said that in the end goal, this is about imposing loyalty tests, and that targeting bureaucracy in this way is a hallmark trait of authoritarian regimes. Practically, it could also mean that there's some favoritism that is instituted when it comes to who gets government contract.

Oh, oh, there it is. It's about the government contracts. And that's where Elon comes back into play. Yeah, it's about the government contracts. It's about the money. It's about the free money. It's really what it's about. It's not about partisanship or the idea.

Oh, it's the hallmark of authoritarian governments. This is the way Chicago has been run forever. Forever. Yeah. That's the way it goes. Everything's partisan. Yeah. Well, on that, here's a clip about Elon and government contracts. SpaceX is fronting a bid to build President Trump's proposed Golden Dome Missile Defense System, a satellite-based shield designed to detect and stop long-range attacks. The company is working with Palantir and drone maker Andoril on a concept that would launch

hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit to track threats in real time. Another fleet, about 200 satellites, would carry strike capabilities like missiles or directed energy weapons. Hey, you don't hear that very often these days. Directed energy weapons. Your favorite. How you laughed at me about my directed energy weapons.

I still laugh. SpaceX is leading the custody layer, satellites that track incoming threats in real time. Early design costs are estimated at $6 to $10 billion. Instead of the government owning the system, SpaceX is pitching a subscription model. I love this. President Trump, you're behind on your monthly payment. Do you need a payment plan? Because we have to turn you off.

You know, you opted for the subscription service. The Pentagon would pay for access similar to a service, an approach that could speed up development, but raises questions about long-term... Wait, wait, hold on. Stop it. I don't know how that could speed up development. Defense as a service, you know, we have software as a service. Das, Das, Das, Das, Das, yes.

Das, software as a service, give me a break. I think it's great, defense as a service. Yes, John and I, we are consultants in the DOS, in the DOS space, space, space. Space, space the DOS space. Space, space. Space, DOS space. And we can recommend the right things for you. You need a subscription to this, you need a subscription to Palantir.

Now Palantir has many subscriptions. It's all part of DOS. I mean, you want the drones, you can, on demand drones, on demand, just whenever you want them, you just insert a quarter and the drones fly. D.O.D. Drones on demand, just whenever you want them. You just insert a quarter and the drones fly. Drones on demand. That could speed up development, but raises questions about long-term control and oversight. Over 180 companies have shown interest, including Lockheed, Boeing, and Northrop. But SpaceX's existing satellite network and launch capability may give it a head start.

Yeah, no kidding. I love the whole idea. And we can also, other countries, you want a subscription to our service? Yeah, that's great. You pay monthly. It's exactly the same as the little... Yeah, you pay monthly. And of course, I'm sorry, no war from midnight to three, we're doing upgrades. The system will be down. 404, a little page, sorry, we're under maintenance right now. No, can't do it.

Yeah, it's great. This is great. I'm very excited about these things. Okay, firings. Now this is interesting because at no point did the president actually say he wanted to or he would fire the president of the Federal Reserve. Head. Head. The head of the Federal Reserve? Head. Is that it? Head.

I'm at the head of the Federal Reserve. The Fed head. He's too late and always wrong. That's how President Trump characterized the head of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. The US President, unhappy with Powell, threatened to fire him. If I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me. No, he did not say he was going to fire him. He said he'll be out of there real, real fast. Everyone's saying that he threatened to fire him, but he did not say he was going to fire him. He said he'll be out of there real fast.

Everyone's saying that he threatened to fire him, but he did not say that. I don't think he has to say that, but that's how it's been taken. Trump criticized the Fed's chair for not cutting the US interest rate, which is at more than 4%, unlike the European Central Bank which cut theirs. We have a Federal Reserve Chairman that is playing politics, somebody that I've never been very fond of actually, but he's playing politics. Interest rates should be down now, they should be coming down in Europe, as you know they reduced them I guess seven times.

On Wednesday Jerome Powell suggested that it was Trump's tariffs which were causing economic uncertainty and preventing the Federal Reserve from lowering the rate. The administration is, as I mentioned in my remarks, is implementing significant policy changes and particularly trade now is the focus. And the effects of that are likely to move us away from our goals. So unemployment is likely to go up as the economy slows in all likelihood and inflation is likely to go up as tariffs find their way. But can Donald Trump put an early end to Powell's mandate like he says he can? Many legal experts

believe this would be difficult. The institution is supposed to be independent of the US administration, but because a court hasn't ruled on the matter before, no one can say for certain what would happen. And President Trump has been defying many political norms since returning to office in January. As for Powell, he said he would complete his term until 2026 and would not resign if asked to do so by the president. Yeah, but we need to get those interest rates down for the, for the refi in 2025. So I, you know, but the Federal Reserve is, you know, this is the big joke. This Federal Reserve has never been, they've always been off. Their timing has sucked. It's never been right.

No, but I don't think changing it out is gonna make any difference. No, it's not gonna change anything. You know, we need the Mar-a-Lago Accords. This is what has to happen. That'll put the pressure on. Fifi Lagarde over there in the EU, the European Central Bank, she is the J-Powell of Europe. She's getting a little nervous. They lowered the interest rate now, they're down to 2.25%, They lowered the interest rate now, they're down to 2.25%, I believe, just in time to pour on some more debt. I think the Mara Laga accords are coming and I think the stable coin is on its way because she gave a very nervous response about stable coin. On the issue of stable coins, you know that we have regulation in place. It's called MIKAR.

It is effective. It's currently under review and consultation for possible improvements. And I'm delighted that this is the case because we are facing a constant evolution of those digital payments, of those cross-border payments of those stablecoins, which I would put in a very separate category from the cryptos. Yeah, because they're dollars, that's why. Crypto assets or however you want to call them. Cryptos. So the stablecoins are a different animal and clearly having a good solid regulation that constitutes the framework within which they can operate, I think is paramount and has been understood by the European Union, by the commissions, by various authorities in charge of those matters and will be reviewed in order to make sure that it procures a safe

harbor for those initiatives. But let me take the opportunity of this to acknowledge that for the first time in our monetary policy statement, we refer to the digital euro. And that should be a clear signal that not only do we stand ready and do the hard work that is incumbent upon us, but it also acknowledges the fact that other European authorities are hopefully going to accelerate the pace at which we can deliver. I think she's afraid that the stablecoin is going to flood her market. What stablecoin are we talking about?

Any stablecoin will be an American dollar-backed stablecoin. She doesn't want people using stablecoins. She's like, but we've got the digital euro coming. We've got our CBDC. This is what we want. We don't want your stablecoins. That's why, but but but we've got the digital euro coming. We've got our CBDC. This is what we want. We don't want your stable coins. Well, that's why she's gonna Well, blame her.

No, of course not. Very well have a regulations about that stuff. No stable coin for you. Don't use stable coin people. Don't use it. It's no good. You want our digital euro? Yeah. No cryptos. It's a different animal from the cryptos. The cryptos. It's the trillion dollar coin, John.

It's coming. The trillion dollar coin is the answer. It is the answer. It always is. In the end, the Simpsons predicted it, so you know it's got to happen eventually. I've got an offbeat clip just to take a kind of a break. This is a very strange clip about something that I thought was probably the most under-reported story. Well, it's totally just under-reported but it's also the most interesting story

I think came out all week. And you'd think they would have covered on these Sunday morning shows, because it's a major event. This is the Wisconsin story. And in another court ruling over the power of the executive branch in Wisconsin today, the state Supreme Court upheld a very unique partial veto power that the governor has. Governor Tony Evers used that power back in 2023 to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400 years.

At the heart of the case was Evers' ability to veto even the tiniest parts of a bill to dramatically alter its meaning. By striking individual words and numbers in the legislation, he approved more school revenue increases until literally the year 2425. Wisconsin Supreme Court has been embroiled in national politics

recently, with Elon Musk pouring millions into a race to back a conservative judge who lost. It was the most expensive judicial contest in American history. back a conservative judge who lost. It was the most expensive judicial contest in American history. So you can literally stripe away the word like, not.

Not, you can take where, should not exceed and then you just take away the word not and it should exceed. Yes. Wow, and is this a liberal or conservative governor? I believe he's a liberal governor, but it was the liberal Supreme Court, the one that Musk tried to get that other guy into and he couldn't do it, that allowed this to happen because he had done it anyway.

He was like, this is taking line item veto, which has been talked about forever. To an extreme and they can't seem to implement. This is not line item veto. This is word veto. Yes. Word veto. So you can base it. You could end it as a writer. I can assure you that you can rewrite anything to mean just the opposite. Easily. Yeah. Easily by just taking words out. That's great. And this is like, this is the most phenomenal story and it also sets a precedent, at least at one state level, that really, I would, this is something to keep an eye on.

Wow. So, he managed to get school funding for 400 years somehow by dicking around with a bill. That's great. Well, states... Take this word out. You know, if you took this word out... States' rights, baby. States' rights. Yeah.

That's good. Wisconsin should do whatever they want to do. That's beyond states' rights. They should do whatever they want to do. If they beyond states' rights. They should do whatever they want to do. If they can do that, they need to change their constitution. That's fantastic. That's why America is so fun. We're exciting.

We have crazy stuff that happens. So talk about crazy stuff. I do have some Brooks and Capehart clips which I have not done for weeks. Okay. Because of Gigi. Okay. Brooks and K-Part. The show that literally no one else but you watches. It is not a show. What is it then?

It's a segment on the Friday version of the PBS NewsHour. You're able to get four clips out of a segment of a show? That's unbelievable. Yes, I have the, we're starting with the BBC, BNC. This would be, I think the one I start with is, yeah, Brooks Nuts. You offered a prescription, David, in your column in the New York Times for this moment that we are in,

and you called for a civic uprising. You said in this column- Oh wait, stop, stop, stop, stop. Civic uprising, huh? This is not the right one. You gotta- No, that's part of the series of Nuts. The one we really want, I'm sorry.

This is BNC Brooks. Christ this? Christ this? Christ this? Crisis. Brooks crisis. It says Christ this. I want to talk about President Trump and the courts.

The president has wielded his authority in, I think, by any measure in an extraordinary way. Slashing budgets and jobs across the federal government, targeting billions of dollars at colleges and universities, threatening major law firms on immigration. We've all been following that remarkable process. But the courts, David, in many instances have stood up to the president. Do you think that they are doing their appropriate role of check and balance? Yeah, I think they are.

The question is whether Trump pays any attention to the courts. And so to me watching the Trump administration, just the Trump administration say, you know, we've decided stop lights don't apply to us. Yellow lines down the middle don't apply. We're just going to roll over it and you stop us. And when you think constitutional crisis, you think like two sides facing off on the barricades. But I've actually lived through a constitutional crisis. When I was at the Wall Street Journal, I covered the end of the Soviet Union.

Whoa, that was a constitutional crisis, okay. And it was obviously very different in many ways. But one thing was interesting, the mental adjustment I had to make. When I went to the Soviet Union- The mental adjustment. Yeah, at the very end, because I grew up in a country where I assume if a law is passed, then things will change. It will be enforced and it will be a reality on the ground. But at the very end of the Soviet Union, they would pass law after law and nothing happened. Nobody bothered to enforce it.

It never had any implementation. So the laws were fictional. Because people had lost faith in the laws, lost faith in the whole system. And so what happens now is not that you get this big conflict, but Trump just says, we're going to arrest a guy who we have no due process. And there's like no conversation, it just happens. And nobody's there to stop it because famously, the judiciary doesn't have an army. Right.

Now is he referring to when President Biden just said, you know, we're not going to adhere to the laws of immigration. Is that what he's talking about? Because that sounds awfully familiar. Or Biden refusing to suspend the freebie money for the people who took out student loans and the Supreme Court told him not to. Is he talking about that? I guess, but you know, the Supreme Court clearly needs guns. You give them weapons.

Couple of things, couple of things. Of course, when I started doing these clips, I always get the same basic complaint. Yeah, don't give your money to PBS. That's what it always is. Okay, well, that's at the top of the list. Don't give your money to PBS. Where is somebody that can defend Trump's policies as a point of interest as opposed to two guys who hate Trump?

Brooks, who's supposedly a conservative much to the way, like that crackpot Jennifer Rubin, who is at the Washington Post, called herself a conservative blogger she's a liberal nut and Brooks is not where's Ann Coulter what's a good question where is and I don't know I think they could put anybody in there to have a counterpoint it should be point counterpoint not two guys that both hate Trump Brooks hates Trump and Capehart really hates Trump. I guess maybe that's the difference. One hates Trump more than the other. But they know their audience.

They don't want anyone defending him. They want more. More! Pilot on! He's no good! I'm getting mad! So, the other thing is, he went through a constitutional crisis by visiting Russia. Yes, it was very hard.

And by the way, the Soviet Union was always run with a bunch of laws that were never enforced. They were there for the purposes of enforcing when needed. That was their idea. They used to, my favorite, I went there before the fall of communism. I was in the Soviet Union and visited. And my favorite, and there's all these laws they have. you can't do it. If they wanted to arrest you, they'd find a million things that you did wrong. And my favorite one was the, you can't take money out.

You can't take the ruble outside of the country. It has to stay inside. I still have rubles in my, my, my, everybody took them out of the country. The point, the point is, is that they could arrest you. But you're not supposed to take rubles outside of the country. Technically, just outside of the airport, there's some point where you're just outside the airport is considered not in the country. And that's where they store the carts for the airport, the luggage carts. And to get one of the carts, you have to use a ruble. Yeah.

So to use a cart, you have to break the law. Well, when I was in Russia, Soviet Union, before the wall came down, they told me, whatever you do, don't insult the Kremlin. So Sebastian Baca and I, Sebastian of Skid Row, we went, we were drinking vodka on Red Square at 3 a.m. and we were trading t-shirts for some of those cool Russian furry hats. We didn't get arrested. We were there with Ozzy. But you could have been.

Could have been. Yeah, you're not supposed to do any buying or selling or anything during that era. I was told that everything's under the table. So I picked up a couple of Russian watches that had Yuri Gagarin on the time. Collectibles. Collectibles. Total collectible. Yeah. Do you have them still?

And so they were, I forget, some guy comes up to me, would you like to buy a watch? And I was told they were going to be trying to sell me with these watches, but they're illegal to buy. Yes. So I said, yeah, sure. And I said, so I gave him the, I gave him whatever it was. And he, and I looked at the watch and as I looked, I looked at the watch and I looked up,

the guy was disappeared. I mean, it was just like, I've never seen anyone vanish in thin air like this. The other thing that was notable when I was there was they did, this was the beginning of the end where they were to allow these, uh, some vendors around, uh, uh, the Kremlin, they had these little shops, they would sell approved, uh, souvenirs. And so you could buy like a shirt.

I had bought up, this is during Paris, Troika and I actually bought a Paris Troika t-shirt. And, uh, and the thing, the rule was if the shirt costs five rubles and 50 Copacs or whatever it was, I can't remember what the censor called, you had to pay exactly that amount because they won't, they can't make change. No change, right. They can't, they can't.

It was against the law to make change and it was also against the law to overpay. So you couldn't give them six and say, keep the change. It was nuts. And so this is Brooks's example of going through a constitutional crisis. This guy is so full of it, it's an embarrassment. Let's go to clip two, I'm sorry. Would this be nuts? Nuts one? No, no. The second part is Cape Heart's response. This is the BNC Cape Heart follow up to what Brooks said, so we can get the debate going. Oh, yes, here we go. Jonathan, what do you think about that?

I mean, we had Georgetown law professor Steve Lattek on the show. He says we're not quite there yet because the Trump administration has not yet formally blown through overtly ignored a direct court order yet. But we also heard from the League of Women Voters, the nonpartisan organization who this week I'd like to read you this quote. Bullshit. Who walked away from managing the elections because it was so rigged and stupid.

They said, quote, it has now been 87 days since the start of the Trump administration. From the flagrant disregard for congressional authority and governmental checks and balances, to defying Supreme Court orders to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back home. One thing is abundantly clear, our country is in a constitutional crisis. Where do you come down on that? I am glad you read that because I was shaking, I was nodding in agreement with the League of Women Voters. How can you say that the president hasn't defied court orders? You've got Judge Boasberg who is threatening to, says yesterday that there's probable cause

to charge the government or lawyers arguing on behalf of the government with criminal contempt. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Because the president of the United States and his administration ignored his order to not deport those folks to El Salvador. So I know there are these formal definitions of what a constitutional crisis is, but from where I sit in my school house rock knowledge of how our government is supposed to work, we are in one. We have a president of the United States who on a daily basis blows past the guard rails, pushes as far as he can get to test the system. And what has heartened me this week is hearing from Judge Boasberg and the

judge who ruled yesterday in that beautiful seven-page opinion where they are not just saying this isn't the right thing to do. They are pushing back just as aggressively from their respective federal benches. And I think we will be better for it. I read that opinion and indeed. Beautiful. Yum. Those seven pages were just so beautiful. That guy is under investigation. No one mentions this.

He's under investigation, that judge. Yeah, Boesberg. Yeah, he is. Yeah, no one mentions that. Okay. But I mean, what really constitutes a constitutional crisis? I mean, if the Supreme Court says you can't do that and the president does it, is that by definition the constitutional crisis? No, none of this is. These people are insane. They just look, they like the term. These people are insane. They just look, they like the term.

They like the term because that, that it can easily devolve into the concept of a threat to democracy, which is something they came up with and they love it. And so they just want to keep harping on it. Threat to democracy. Well, if you use their standards, this show, this very show has been constitutional crisis many times. Just between you and I. And it's a threat to democracy by their definition. It's a big threat to democracy.

By their definition because the threat to democracy is the threat to the Democrat party is what they mean. So what happens? This is a question. This is a constitutional question. So if the, if the president ignores a court decision or court order. You mean like Biden did? Yes. What happens?

What does the Constitution say? What is supposed to happen? What's supposed to happen is you impeach the president. Ah, okay. Which they'll do as soon as they get back and once the Democrats get the... Yes, yeah. Yeah, it's unlikely President, if they lose the House and the Senate or either one or the House in particular, it's sure to be an impeachment. He'll never finish four years. It has to be the House. The House is the one that initiates. Yeah, the House.

Yeah, they'll impeach him for the third time. Nothing will come of it because you can't get that many senators. You have to have 60 senators say yes to him. No, 75. I think you have to do 75%. Right. Then that will be the whole circus all over again. And then after that, in 2028, the show ends because I can't do it anymore. I can't, I can't, it would be too much. I can't take it. Exactly.

So this Brooks is off the rails to the point where now he sounds more like a Democrat than ever and now he's actually part of the idea of protesting in the streets because it's gotten so bad with Trump. Pitchforks. Let's go, people. Let's go. It's so bad. It's so bad. I don't know if you look out your window right now, you probably see people running up and down the street with their hair on fire. I see nothing but pickup trucks with Confederate flags around here, John. Everybody in Fredericksburg is happy. They're happy.

The funny thing is I'm not seeing anything different here in the Berkeley area, let alone if I drove past the Tesla place again, with thousand Tesla's surrounding it. There's not one, I haven't seen one damaged Tesla or anything in between. So the whole thing is something of a farce, but let's listen to what Brooks believes should happen. You offered a prescription, David, in your column in the New York Times for this moment that we are in. And you called for a civic uprising. You said in this column, I want to read a bit of this, saying that the attacks that

we've seen on institutions, quote, are not separate battles. This is a simple effort to undo the parts of the civilizational order that might restrain Trump's acquisition of power. So how would that civic uprising form? Yeah, the core argument is that Trump is really about amassing power and anything that might potentially restrain his power he will destroy and that includes the court systems and anything part of that that Live in humanity includes the universities, the scientific community, the truth, the media.

And so far we've responded to all these things like NATO and in separate lanes. We think the Fed is different than NATO, which is different from the universities. But my point is this all one thing. And if institutions and even sectors try to respond to this individually, they're doomed. Even Harvard with $52 billion in this endowment, you can't do it alone. Though that was a signal moment. That was a crucial turning point

because it changed the minds of everybody and every university I've talked to since then. Oh really? Yeah, so post Harvard they've all said. A lot of them beforehand were like, well, Columbia made a deal, maybe that's right for us. Once Harvard came out, I talked to a couple of university presidents who said,

oh, this is where we need to be, because the Trump administration made it impossible for Harvard not to say no, and that's what we're dealing with here. And so the point I tried to make is all these different sectors have to get together and form one big civic movement. And it can't be political. It's not Democrats versus Republicans. It's not left versus right.

It's institutions versus the destruction of our institutions of civilization. Institutions of civilization. Yeah. Well, this is what they're saying in Europe. He's destroying the institutions of civilization. Of civilization. Oh man. You know, the other thing they're saying in Europe is America is right now in the middle

of a revolution. And that is true. That is exactly what's happening. We are in the middle of a revolution, breaking down stupid stuff that we all somehow were told to believe that this is how it goes. This is just, this is what it is.

You don't fire government workers. Keep everything going. Go along to keep going along. Keep along. It's all good. And no, no, it's stopping. Yeah, and so these- They don't get that part.

So these guys think that they, okay, well maybe it's the Bernie and AOC crowd. Maybe you can arm them. Yeah. Can you imagine? No, I can't. There was a good thread that I put up on X, formerly known as Twitter, that somebody had posted a big protest in England, pro-trans.

And so somebody had gone to the thing and collected all these pictures of the signage and it's frightening. It's so so off the off the it's unbelievable people should try to track that down and by the way I do need more followers the real Dvorak on Twitter. It's never gonna happen. I have the same thing like I'm stuck forever at 98,000. This is because before Elon got in there, they put, I'm sure they have limits. They actually gave a limit. If this guy goes beyond this number, no.

Yeah, that's me. Yeah, I think it is you. I think it's me for sure. Cause I get to 102,000.4 and it stops. Or goes down, I'm down to 102.2 I should be at a million okay I'm looking at this thread now here's a sign I will make you listen trans women are women trans men are men if you don't like that go shit somewhere

else okay if the system C I s T E M transphobe do-it-yourself lobotomy as a guy poking his eye out with a knife. Okay. Babies for trans rights. Oh, that's a nice one. It's not radical to remove rights. Transphobes are the dangerous minority. You ruled for discrimination, violence, murder, sexual assault, harassment of an innocent minority.

Eat the gender binary. Oh, that's a good one. Eat the gender binary is a good one. Eat the gender binary. You know, this is in England. This is in the UK where these signs are cropping up. When did they become so, because I thought they were the first ones to start backing off on the whole trans thing and now it's all back with a fury?

Yeah, but it's not trans, John. It's trans Maoism. It's a political thing. It has nothing to do with people who are trans or whatever. It's political. This is a political movement of very unhappy people who have been hypnotized by COVID. On to clip two. And if you look down through history, there have been social movements, these kind of civic uprisings that have succeeded.

They've banded together across sectors. They have a clear simple message that appeals to a lot of different people. They use things like lawsuits, protests, boycotts, all sorts of things, strikes, anything they can do. But basically... Shouldn't Brooks get out on front?

Should he be the first on the barricade? Come on everybody, follow me. I'm Brooks. I'll tell you what to do. Yeah, you should have a big red flag on a pole. All sorts of things, strikes, anything they can do. But basically, if you're ahead of a law firm or a university, any of these institutions, you're dealing with administrations that's just about raw power. Elites of the world, unite behind me! So the question you have to ask yourself is how do we amass power so they're not dividing us so we're dividing them? And that is a mass uprising.

And the one turning point, if you look even at the civil rights movement, when you do a nonviolent protest, and the people on the other side attack you with violence, that tends to weaken them. And then suddenly you're dividing them. So obviously. And so this is the kind of way we have to think. Has he noticed that? The great military strategist. Has he noticed that the violence is on the left and it's always been on the left and it's on the left now with the protests going on and burning the Tesla dealerships and

all the rest of it? Has he noticed this or has he just ignored that, thinks it's going to be some sort of a pushback? That's necessary. That's necessary for the people to show their power against battery cars. And so this is the kind of way we have to think that it's time not just to think, well, maybe he'll look at the other guy. It's time we're all involved.

We're all in this together and we're going to mass power together. Jonathan, do you think that that movement, that uprising is going to happen? I mean, we've, we've saw protests recently. There are major protest plan for tomorrow. Do you think that there is this coalescing energy that David is talking about? I think it's, I think it's happening. It's happening. I'm out front. Come on girls. Let's go. It's happening. It's happening. These people are going to go back home, drink their Chardonnayay have their nuts That was a great show. Yes, it was we we have the nation behind us. Is the right? Yes, they'll be drinking chardonnay. We have the country behind us. Yes. I'm getting shard

I'm getting text messages from everywhere. They so agree throw off your sweaters. Come on, swirl your shard. Throw off the cardigan. Throw off the cardigan, swirl your shard, and let's go, people. Do they know that they're on the losing end of this? No.

What do you think? No. They're in a dream world, but it's like, what's so annoying is this is a disservice to listen to these two clowns. The only one servicing them is you. By playing these clips over and over again, they're still on the air. In fact, they go home, swirl their shard and like, I sure hoped John will play these clips so we stay relevant in the universe.

That's what's happening here. They do a disservice. This is public broadcasting. It's paid for by the government. They get a billion dollars from the government to do this. And this is what the... Well, no, no, it's also from viewers like you. No, it's not from viewers like me. I think this is the last of the clips.

And I think it started when people were showing up outside of USAID when they were going through hell. I think we're seeing it in the town halls in Republican districts, so much so that the leadership told Republican members of Congress don't hold town halls anymore. We've seen it with the big rallies in red states convened by Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC in red states.

I think just yesterday or two days ago in Montana, hundreds if not thousands of people. Hundreds, millions. And then you look at what's happening and I know the courts and the judges are impartial, but they are also part of this pushing back on what's happening. And then for Harvard to do what it did, I think sent a message, not just to university presidents but to the country that if Harvard had folded, it would have been a devastating thing, but it didn't happen. And I would just say this one last point.

In Trump 1- Fuck the Jews. thing, but it didn't happen. And I would just say this one last point. In Trump 1, Adamsor wrote famously, the cruelty is the point about the first Trump administration. And I would argue that in Trump 2, it's now the cruelty is the policy. And I think what we're seeing around the country is people pushing back against Trump 2. Jonathan K. Part, David Brooks, always good to see you both. Thank you. Thanks. Awesome segment, boys.

Great job. Boy, that was so riveting. All right. Well, let's talk about the town halls. Cruelty is the policy. That's right. And it's scary. The town halls are scary.

Very scary. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene's town halls are just scary. North of Atlanta, Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's town halls are just scary. North of Atlanta, Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall had flashes of WrestleMania. WrestleMania. Hostility, jeering, scuffling with security, and a ringmaster. Georgia's firebrand congresswoman. This is a town hall, this is not a political rally, this is not

a protest. Three hecklers were arrested. Police tasered two of them, including this man. These town halls have become so raucous. Green is one of the few Republicans to hold one during this congressional recess. Their national party has suggested members hold virtual town halls instead. Already in three months, we've got more emails than all of last year. What does that tell you? For an hour in Iowa, a room full of Senator Charles Grassley's constituents ganged up on the 91-year-old Republican. Yeah, we showed him.

Come on, Dems. Do your job, Senator. Yeah. Yeah. Do your job, man. Did you see this guy was sitting back? He's like, this was far from WrestleMania. Do your job, man.

Hey man, do your job. Do your jobs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man, do your job. They're furious and they want answers on issues from Social Security to deportations. Are you gonna bring that guy back from El Salvador? Bring that guy back, you know, the one from El Salvador?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Woo. Why not? Well, because that's not a, that's not the power of Congress. Poor dude.

Yeah, but that's not, I don't know what's going it. What's going on? Who are these people? Did someone bust them in? Why, yes, yes they did. Happened to Murkowski too. In these moments, some people clearly seem scared. Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski made this extraordinary admission.

We are all afraid. I'm often times in a bucket. Well yes, uh, oftentimes very... Well, yes, she's a town hall in a bucket. Yes, I'm afraid. I'm anxious myself about using my voice, um, because retaliation is real. And it's not just Republicans getting an airful from their constituents. I don't believe that you have fought large enough. Democratic representative Laura Friedman got the same message from Californians.

You are not building our constitutionally tonight. Okay, please, please sit down. We've got a lot of, we have a lot of questions I want to get through. Do more. Fight harder. And yet there's this reality check. The president's approval rating stands at 47% in our recent CBS News poll, higher than at any point during his first term. That was a great statistic. I love it. I didn't expect them to do that. 47% approval rating higher than his first term is getting worse. I think that I've noticed this. I think they're doing that to try to rile up the Democrats. Oh totally but that's what you do that he's getting more popular we have to do more be crazier do more sit more be crazier that's it yeah

be crazier did we're CBS News be crazier because this is great it's easy for us yep all we have to do is film it, it's good news. It gets people to watch the show, our dying shows. Yeah. It's a good idea. I think it's smart. They could do a little bit better on the audio. I'm disappointed in CBS with their audio.

You know, some of the audio and the fact that they, you know, you can clean up that Murkowski clip. Somewhat, yeah. But they don't, nobody's done it. You know some of the audio and the fact that they you know you can clean up that Murkowski clip somewhat, you know But they don't nobody's done it. So every time you hear it you can't I could have Used something that had that clip in there, but I thought the clip was you can't hear her. It's unusable I know it's I can't believe I played it. I apologize. I'm stunned That you played it. All right, i'm gonna play something different. I guess, shift gears here for a second. It is, of course, Easter today.

Please take note, Adam and John working on Easter. We work on- Oh, that's right. You know, I forgot to milk that. That's true. We're working- Yes, you did not milk it. On Easter Sunday, again.

I think we've worked every Easter ever. Well, it's a Sunday, you typically, so yes, I believe so. I don't think we've taken any, yep. No, no, no. Who else can say that? Nobody. No, no, no, no. No. So this comes from Frau Ingraham's show, The Ingraham Report.

And so I wanted to play this just as a good news, a Jesus free clip. But then I thought, wait, wait, this is actually a put down on the famous Dana Brunetti, Dana Brunetti, the producer of major box office smashes, such as Gran Turismo, such as House of Cards, such as 50 Shades of Grey and 50 Shades of Grey-er and he will not listen to me. He also did the social network. The social network. I mean these were huge hits. Captain Phillips I think is one of his big hits. With Tom Hanks? Yeah. Interesting. I wonder if Brunetti's ever been to the island with Tom.

Probably not. Anyway, he will not listen to me. I tell him, his career's in a slump, Hollywood hates him. He's retired, hello. I'm defending Dana Brunetti. You're never retired from show business. You're always looking for your next hit. You're always looking for your next hit. You always want to have that one more time.

I want to get in the game one more time. I have told him time and time again, but he will not listen to me. The way to go is Jesus Dana Brunetti. This Good Friday a note of hope. to go is Jesus, Dana Brunetti. This Good Friday, a note of hope. It's no secret that people have been writing the obituary of Christianity since Jesus was nailed to the cross. Have you been to the movies recently? Some of the biggest box office winners in recent weeks,

The King of Kings and The Chosen Last Supper. Why are Jesus movies beating Disney releases? Because there's a yearning for truth, eternal truth, and community rooted in that truth. On Amazon, House of David, based on King David's life, was one of the most watched new releases for the streamer. And there's huge excitement building around Mel Gibson's forthcoming sequel to The Passion of the Christ, 20 years after that blockbuster shook it. The Passion of the Christ 2. That's right. It just kept on going. up and churches in case you haven't been paying attention

Are packed this Holy Week the National Catholic Register is reporting across the country dioceses are seeing annual increases in new converts of 30 to 70 percent that's up I'm reading similar reports in England in France and even in Washington DC There's a pronounced effort to demonstrate faith these days in a way you just didn't see a few years ago. President Trump has made a habit of inviting pastors of various denominations to pray with him in the Oval Office. Earlier this week the president held an Easter prayer service and dinner at the White House.

As we gather with family and friends we'll not forget the true source of our joy and our strength. America has put our trust in God. It will always be in God we trust. We will never change that. What you are seeing is the normalization of faith across the culture. In pop culture, in government, it's like a green light that one can, with calm and confidence, express faith without fear of recriminations in the way the founders intended. And it's a message that those Gen Zers who are going to be baptized this weekend seem to be responding to.

Get on the train, Bernetti. Get on the train. Jesus is trending. How does this report jive with all the anti-Christian stories that are coming? All the Christians, they gotta do this, they're under attack, everyone hates them. How would they make, how would they, it's just narratives, they're straight, not the narrative. How would the narrative be consistent? Where's your report?

Well I don't have a report on this. I could, next show I'll have a dozen clips. Okay, bring it on. I bet you can't find a dozen. Well I'm not going to find a dozen. Oh, okay, there it on. Now I bet you can't find a dozen. Well, I'm not going to find a dozen. Okay, there you go. But I'll find enough. No, people are becoming bold in their faith, John.

This is good. And the movies and you know, you've you said it yourself, the president sets the tone for the country. That's what's going on. When he starts watching those movies, that would make a difference. He's going to go to the premiere. The premiere of what? Of Mel Gibson's The Passion, the sequel. The Passion of the Christ 2. Yes, the sequel. It's going to be worse.

It was a very stressful movie. The first movie was all in Aramaic. Yeah, but you cannot say it wasn't very successful. It's one of the biggest grossing movies of all time, I think. I think it did like 800... Unwatchable. Oh, I loved it. $800 billion. You can't watch anything.

$800 billion. It was $800 billion. Okay, hold on a second. It was not was 800 billion. Okay, hold on a second. It was not 800 billion. What was the box office for passion of the Christ? I'm going to ask your favorite AI. Okay, you're right. 612 billion. No, it was million, but it was close. Yeah, 612 million is not 800 billion. No, it was million, but it was close. 612 million is not 800 billion.

But that's okay. I like the way you think. You're in a dream world. No, I'm in reality, my friend. I'm in reality. Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, on the social networks, things not looking too good. We've got lawsuits happening everywhere. What started as a chat app for gamers has become a playground for child predators. That's what the New Jersey Attorney General alleges of Discord. Discord appeals to online predators who use the app to sexually exploit children. New Jersey is now the first state to sue Discord, you know, you know what discord is don't you? I

Think I do I don't use discord. I don't know discord. Oh, well, no discord is very popular We will has is more popular than snapchat It's more popular than whatsapp It's popular popular than signal. It's more popular than Telegram? Well, what you're saying, what you just keep on spouting, is not comparable. A Discord server is not just a chat. It has files.

It has all kinds of, it has different functions. A lot of them are used by Spooks. It was a big gamer thing. You could share, you know, that's where you could also buy stuff. You could buy your in-game gear. So it's, that's why they say it's a server. And I think it's even open source. So you can, you know, but the company Discord is very successful.

They're making a lot of money and they're in trouble. New Jersey is now the first state to sue Discord, alleging it does not provide a safe environment for kids. The app, with over 200 million monthly users, operates as a series of chat rooms known as servers. Attorney General Matthew Plakkin says a number of the people in those servers are adults communicating with children. Plakkin blames Discord's default settings, which allow anyone to friend anyone.

There's very little to prevent kids from connecting with and receiving message from complete strangers. The Attorney General's office points to several child predator cases. It's prosecuted with links to Discord. Predators that were found to have used the app to engage in sexual grooming, extortion, and exploitation. The AG's office also says Discord misled parents about a feature called safe direct messaging. Discord said safe direct messaging would scan direct messages and delete those with explicit

content. But Discord knew that wasn't true. The Attorney General's office also alleges Discord is a breathing ground for extremists and racist content. White nationalists organized a 2017 Unite the Right rally on Discord. The New Jersey Attorney General's office sued Metta in 2023 and TikTok in 2024. Discord, now the latest social media site, called to court. We are now in a position to lead nationally The New Jersey Attorney General is seeking civil penalties as well as an injunction against discord and an order that discord give back

Any profits that were generated in New Jersey? So of course, this is parents Moving, you know shoving their own responsibility out of the way. You've got to take away these phones from these kids. Just to know, organize with your school, no phones for these kids, stop. It's all dumb. You know, I'm still stunned by the fact that kids can be on their phones in a classroom.

Yeah, that's ending. There's a lot of- Well, it's barely ending, and everyone's bitching about it Well, it's like it should have never begun When I was a kid, oh boy. Here we go Yeah, this reminds me of when you were a kid your parents kept you in the drawer When I was a kid, I remember there was two things that there's interesting switch over there was like when I was a kid was a big deal

That kids got caught Smoking in the bathroom. Oh, yes time. I was out of college. It was like, oh, no Nobody smokes it but they smoked pot in the bathroom now all of a sudden they went from smoking cigarettes a pot mmm in the bathroom when I was a Kid it was like verboten to have a handheld calculator like an HP. Yes. You couldn't... You remember this too, don't you, Boomer? Yeah. And then you had your watch. You had a little Casio watch with a little pen and you could...

and had a calculator on it. You could tap the little numbers with the pen on the watch face. Remember that? No, I don't remember that, but I can see people doing it. Couldn't have it. So you've gone from, no, you can't have a calculator in the classroom because it's cheating, to oh yeah, you're going to have a phone where you could do it with the internet in your hand. You can look anything up. Or you could do it with the internet in your bed your hand you can look anything up But it's because the parents the kids that you you produced the boomer generation The parents are like I have to be in touch with my bless you I have to be in touch with my child beyond my tape if my if my son doesn't feel well And yet we never that was never us no we went to the nurse and the nurse said sit here lay down. He's an aspirin

I know I know I know Meanwhile more lawsuits Facebook okay PayPal or Venmo accounts. You might have some money from Facebook inside Facebook started sending out forty dollars sixty seven cent payments to users as part of a class-action lawsuit over his mic button. Where's my money? The suit claimed that Facebook used cookies to track users even when they were logged out or using other websites.

Facebook agreed to settle the suit but did not admit to any wrongdoing. They got to end that too. They should have to repent. We did it. We're sorry. Here's your $40. They should be forced to admit wrongdoing. And Google also on the block for the millionth time

of which of course just a fine will be paid and nothing else will happen. This is really a big blow to the company. Big blow. The state of Virginia essentially saying that Google held an illegal monopoly over key parts of the online advertising market. Now this all stemmed from a lawsuit

from the US Justice Department, as well as 17 individual US states that argue that Google dominated three essential tools in ad tech, namely publisher ad servers, ad exchanges, and tools used by advertisers. Picture any website that you use that has advertising. Look at the top banner, the banners on the left and the right. These all comes from deals that Google strikes with advertisers who then are

allowed to place their ads on millions and millions of websites across the internet. Now the court agreed partially saying the company locked in publishers and blocked out rivals. The judge also ruled that Google removed key product features and forced customers to stick with its tools which in turn hurt competitors and the competition and customers. Google has denied hurting the market saying that it will appeal the judgment in a statement saying that it did win half the case today and it will go on to win the other half. It's such a racket those guys have.

They have the buy side, they have the sell side, they got the tools, they got everything. Everything. This total scam. Yeah, they figured it out. Total scam. Yeah, my final, and this is, we have talked about this for well over a decade. We have warned about this. We probably have even framed it as such.

The best jail, the best jail is the one that you let the inmates build themselves. And we are here. Some police departments are using a new tool, those home doorbell cams to create a crime fighting camera network. But as Stephen Romo reports, the privacy questions have some critics concerned. Across the country, crimes are being caught on doorbell and surveillance cameras every day.

Now more and more police departments are leaning into this technology, getting homeowners and businesses to share their video with local law enforcement. The goal, to create a network of cameras to fight crime. We're seeing more frequent apprehensions and faster apprehensions of suspects. In Washington, D.C., their Camera Connect program

and real-time crime center launched early last year. In that time, they've seen a 35% reduction in violent crime, a 30-year low. And they say the tens of thousands of new camera registrations they've had so far will be an important tool to continue that trend. This program allows for those that wish to provide information to us to remain anonymous. And it makes it more of a comfortable interaction rather than having an officer knock it on your door.

This is so bad. And part of it is because people just love capturing this stuff on their cameras like, oh, I can't wait to post that to TikTok. Oh, look, I caught a fight. Put it on X. It's true. Look, there's a rat. Oh, that plane fell out of the sky.

The rat. That plane fell out of the sky. I had it. I had it. I'm on the news similar programs are in place in jurisdictions coast to coast and while the rules can vary it generally works like this when homeowners register they can join a list of available cameras that law enforcement can turn to in an investigation police can request video from them and the homeowner can then

choose whether to provide that video or not. Yeah, you want to send that to us, don't you? I mean, you wouldn't want to hold back any evidence, would you? I mean, seriously, I mean, I think it's probably a good idea if you give that footage to us, don't you think? Businesses that sign up can take it a step further. They can opt in and provide their live surveillance feeds, giving police departments access to their cameras in real time. And while police say they've seen success, privacy advocates have serious concerns about handing over this kind of access. When you justify surveillance by saying that it's only going to be used against the most violent criminals, what you end up seeing is

those technologies become slowly over time and an everyday aspect of policing. Many police departments emphasize these programs are voluntary and designed with privacy and transparency in mind. We are not passively watching camera feed and watching people live their day to day lives. New uses for the latest technology to help keep us safe. You can't stop it. This is where SkyNet is here.

We're building it ourselves. You know what? If I go to someone's house and I see one of those cameras, I'm going to call them and walk away. I'm not coming to your house. Take that ring camera down. Why don't you just take some shoe polish and put it right over the lens. Oh, yeah. I'm going to rip it right off and put it in my drawer next to my phone. None of this is good. But again, I'm telling you, it's because people love it.

Oh yeah, I got this. I got this. I got him. I got him And my clip went viral. I'm gross. I'm awesome Right Hey, if you catch the pizza right that could be worth some money Pizza Yeah, hey with that I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to the man who just put the seas in the crime Hey, with that I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to the man who just put the seas in the crime Fighting camera network say hello to my friend on the other end the one the only mr. John

Yeah, well in the morning you mr. Adam Crane the more no ships out there. And the morning to the trolls in the troll room. We can't have a party now. 1912. Not bad for an Easter Sunday. Aren't you people out hunting eggs? 1912 stinks. For a Sunday? Well, for a holiday, you know, nobody comes and listens. This is why nobody does work. This is why nobody works. I've said it before.

This is why nobody works work. This is why nobody works. I've said it before. Yeah. This is why nobody works on these holidays. Nobody. Because nobody's around. They don't listen. They're actually doing something. They're living their lives. No, people always want to check in with us.

I mean, again, we do this. Maybe they'll download later. Maybe. We do this as a public service for everybody. It's important. If we don't point it out, who is going to? Everybody else is on the take. One way or the other, they may not even know it, but they want to be popular.

We clearly don't want to be popular. Yes, I guess that's true. We gave that up a long time ago. Hey man, you guys should see video. Need to do video. The trolls are in the troll room, trollroom.io. This is just one of the many features we've been doing for, oh gosh, over 15 years with the live chat and streaming. We were on that so early.

Why did we even decide to do that? You did, it was all you. It was me. I was against it. You were against live streaming? I thought it was unnecessary. And how all you. It was me. I was against it. You were against live streaming? Well, I thought it was unnecessary. And how do you feel about it now? I was in the pure side of the podcasting formula.

How do you feel about it now? I think it's fabulous. Yeah. I was completely wrong. You were right. Oh, my God. I can't believe this. This is like the whole week I've been right.

You can also listen to it on the modern podcast apps, which I recommend you give them a go podcast apps.com. You know, the big what's it called? pocket cast, pocket cast, which originally pocket cast. I don't know if you know the story behind it. No, was it was an app that was built by NPR and PBS and they all put like a $50 million into building this app. That sounds right. And, and it wound up, you know, the whole thing fell apart and

then it was sold to another group and that group because it's very hard to make money on a podcast app unless, you know, people just want to support the developer, which you should do. Most apps have a way to support the developer, which you should do. Most apps have a way to support the developer through premium something or other. You should do that, because that improves your app over time. And ultimately, Matt Mullenweg's outfit,

Automatic bought it, the guys behind WordPress, and they open sourced it, and they have now added all these podcasting 2.0 features, including the funding tag, which is cool. So if you use Pocket Pocket Cast app, if you want to support the show, there's a button right there. Just look at the app right now. It says support the show. You click on it. Boom, you go right to our donation page. Is that right? Yes. It's another Podcasting 2.0 improvement to podcasting. Yep. Yep. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Impressed. Well, thank you. Thank you. That was one of the first things. You didn to podcasting. Yep. Yep. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah. Impressed? Well, thank you. Thank you. That was one of the first things. You didn't do it. Uh, I was a big part of it. Yeah. We all, we all, uh, this is the whole group.

The whole group is about 150 people. Been, the group's been together for five years. Yeah. It's, uh, you won't find that. That does stem from NPR, you said. No, but that's feature. NPR did nothing. They had to, they tried to sneak in an ad thing called RAD.

RAD, R-A-D, RAD. Radio advertising directive or something. That thing fell apart. And so, you know, no, none of these, none of these features were in there when it was bought. No, that's new. That is a 2.0 feature, my friend. You will not find that on Spotify or Apple.

You can get those at PodcastApps.com. You're a saint. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Oh, you're sniffling. Yes. It's getting worse as the show progresses. Yes, I think it's something about you

that's spurned it all. It's the COVID. You can't blame me. It's the COVID. I's that's burns it off. It's the COVID. No, you can't blame me. I got nothing to do with it. It's Dutch COVID. Dutch COVID is what I got. As we mentioned, we've been doing this for over 17 years and the way we've been able to sustain our transparency, our honesty, our integrity, and quite frankly, our lack of... We're quite trans. our honesty, our integrity, and quite frankly, our lack of... We're quite trans. Our lack of global success is by our value for value model, which means you don't get ads, you don't have to pause for anything. Oh man, it's gotten so bad now with the ads.

Do you listen to any other podcasts ever? I do, yeah. Yeah? Like what? Well, I don't have anyone that I listen to over and over. I just listen to a variety of podcasts. I sent you one this morning. The YouTube podcast. That's not a podcast. That's a YouTube video.

Well, it's a guy with a, okay, there's a guy with a, one guy with a microphone and he's wearing a beanie and he's not Tim Poole that's a podcast. The new uniform for podcasters is a beanie and cans. You gotta have the cans over the beanie. That's it. That's what we need to do. We need to have beanies. We got to have beanies over the cans. I think that would be good. That would be a good look for us. Not beanies over the cans. The cans are under the beanie. Cans over the beanie. No, the cans are over the beanie. Yeah. Well, there you go. The cans are over the beanie.

I've already helped our artists with the art and we're guaranteed we won't choose it. We'll have two or three of those already. Yeah, it's coming. Yeah. They won't get picked, don't do them. Value for value is how we decided to move this ball forward and it's been okay.

I mean, it's certainly certainly it's been a ride. Imagine like you look at your check at the end of the month like, oh, it's much less than it was the month before. Why? I don't know. You suck. Okay, thanks. Got it. Or, hey, we did well. People like this. But we can't kowtow to anybody because that's when it just doesn't work. The audience capture thing doesn't work. People who want you to say certain things, they never donate. Have you noticed that? Oh yeah, that's why we don't do it. We know this.

We've been around a block. People are like, oh, you gotta talk more about this. You gotta talk about Epstein. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you don't talk about Epstein, you know how they control everything. Epstein. Maximal.

Where's the list? I wanna see it. Yeah, I want it too. There is no list. And Diddy. Do you really think there's a list of clients that has behind it, oh likes this, likes this, has a penchant for that? Do you really? Yeah. I don't think so. I think so. You think that list exists? No, they destroyed it. I don't think it ever existed. I mean, you don't know your clients well enough. You have to write that down.

Oh, he likes the feather. Too many people. There's a massive amount of people. You need the details. Well, we want the list. I agree. We want the list. We want the list.

And you know what? Or at least come out and say that, or at least come out with the BS. There is the list. I agree. We want the list We want the list and you know what or at least come out and say that or at least come out with the BS There is no list. We tried and tried and tried Pam bondage can come out and do that at any time. She can say we're wrong. We thought we thought we had something here We don't yeah, I mean just tell us the truth instead of dangling. Yes., yes. And how about that frazzled drip video? Tell us more. Frazzled drip. I don't even know about that.

No, you don't want to see it. Frazzled drip. You don't know the frazzled drip? No. Oh, it's horrible. I didn't want to tell you. I thought I would have called it. If you had said that out of the blue, I figured that's a disease you have currently.

No, it's a... That's what it sounds like. Frazzled drip. It's supposedly Hillary Clinton and Uma Abedin torturing a child and cutting off the child's face and wearing it like a mask. There I said it. Oh yeah, I remember that. Oh, now you remember.

How could you forget that one? Somehow that didn't leave, it was hard for me to get out of my mind. Because it's bull crap, of course it is. Frazzle drip, yes. It was hard for me to get out of my mind. This is bull crap. It's frazzled drip. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So, hey, we're going to do something really gross.

Somebody, anybody with a camera, anybody with a phone that can take a picture of this so we can use it as evidence against us. And remember, it was filmed by Podesta. Podesta. Yes. It was Podesta filming because you can hear him laugh. It's Podesta's laugh. Everybody knows it.

Everybody knows it. Wow. This is turning out to be such an Easter show, isn't it? That's beautiful. Yeah. Thanks to you. What do you mean? You brought it up.

I didn't. Well, you pretended you didn't know. I didn't know. Value for value is where we ask you to support the show for the service that we provide free of charge. There's no limitations. We never ask you to jump through any hoops, not even a registration. You know, you can sign up for the newsletter, which is also free, which you also get in your living. And I'm surprised more people don't sign up for it. It's good content. And I'm surprised more people don't sign up for it. It's good content.

And it's funny. And it always gives a little preview of stuff we're going to talk about or what's going on. I've got some memes of the week, some funny memes. I got a hypocrite in there. Every newsletter has got a different one. Yeah. And I know you do a lot of work on creating those hypocrite

memes. You do it so much work. You have to look through somebody else's files. Yeah. It's very difficult work. Well, it's not as easy as it looks. It used to be easier when the guy, most of these come from Defiant L. He used to crank these out and then all of a sudden he became like,

I think Trump or somebody said, hey, this guy's got some good stuff. So now he's pontificating, he's clipping all kinds of stuff. It's just like gone beyond. He's gone to his head. He's jumped the shark. He's jumped the shark. Yeah, he has jumped the shark. So one of the ways people support us with time and talent is what our artists do. And our artists are very talented. They've been talented for many, many years. And a lot of them have picked up the tools of the trade. The new tool, I mean, back in the day, people were using Microsoft Paint when we started the show.

And then, Hey. And Mac Draw, I remember a lot of people use Mac Draw. Mac Draw. And then slowly they came in with some Photoshop. And then there was a big, oh, I remember the controversy. That's clip art. Someone's cheating with clip art those days seem silly

By today's terms don't they because now it's AI people are using AI not all but many are using them some I've heard it over a half of the artists some of figured out some are so good that we think it's AI and it's not but all of it is it no agenda art generator comm and You can if you're listening live you can just go there and refresh and see the new ideas streaming in which is fantastic. And of course all of these images make have a pretty good shot at being used for the chapters which you can see on the modern podcast apps including Pocket Cast. Pocket Cast has like 3% of the market, which is pretty big for an app. So our art for episode 1756, which we titled AG Barbie, came to us from Dr. Kelly and it was a Hey Bill Pick Me Girl. And people loved this art. I knew they would. I knew it. And you know,

people were really ready to give up Linux like love if Microsoft has girls like that I'm I'm I'm I'm packing up my Linux. I'm going to Windows I Saw him say it and this was of course based upon a story that you had never told I don't think I'd ever heard it before that that Microsoft would send off these girls to Australia to go work there because you know they had to protect them against Bill and well no it's after they had an affair with Bill they had to protect the company of the company right yeah do you think that e Karen was one of them I don't know maybe

remember the the girl who used to she worked it's at, she turned down a job at the CIA and then she worked for Microsoft in the 90s? Would this have been in the 90s? It probably would have been in the 90s. And then she was sent over to run the outfit in Australia. Well, if it's the yes, then yes. Sounds like she might have been one of them. So that was Dr. Kelly. Dr. Kelly won anything previously?

No, this was Dr. Kelly's second submission. Dr. Kelly has only been an artist for three weeks, has only entered twice, and boom! It happens. Nailed it, nailed it. That was really good. Well, that was the point of controversy because we both wanted to pick the one next to it which was Shrimp Barbie. Let me see. Let me see. Where was it? What

was it with Shrimp Barbie? Well you go find, hey Bill pick me from Dr. Kelly's right next to it. I can't believe you don't remember this. I traveled across the world. Is it on the next page? No, it's right next to the one we picked. I know, but I can't even find the one we picked. I think that's on page two for me. No, no, it's on page one. I'll tell you how many rows down.

One, two, three, four, five, six. Ah, okay. Shrimp Barbie is, no, next to it I have the Tech Grouch. On the other side. Oh, oh, oh, there it is. No, that wasn't the one. We wanted the one. No, no, that's the one we wanted.

We wanted Pick Me Too, the guy with the belly shirt and the beard. The one above it. The one above it? Oh, well, your layout. How many? I got four across. What's your layout?

I got three across. All right. Go four across. I don't want that. Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about, the with a beard and the yeah, but that's picked me too That's not shrimp Barbie. It says shrimp Barbie on mine. I'm talking about the one on the left from blue acorn So we were talking about oh, no, we didn't want that one. That's the one I wanted I thought that was great. It was not you do when you wanted was the same one

I'm talking about no you were laughing We thought it was both we both thought it was funnier than the than the cute girl I was I'm telling you I was laughing at the same one I'm talking about. No. You were laughing. We thought it was both. We both thought it was funnier than the than the cute girl. I was I'm telling you I was laughing at the other one. Well, that's a terrible one. I thought that was funny. Now, the one I like. Yeah, you like the shrimp Barbie. I got you.

No, I like Bad Cook. By Darren O'Neill. And you just thought it was AI Slop. Yeah, it was Slop. It was Slop. It was actually quite good. And there's some other pickbills down further, a little more cheesecakey. The troll room is like, well, what is this? I hate this conversation. You guys aren't playing along. You have to get to the website and play along

Yeah, if you're not on the website is it's boring. Yes. Well, they they think it's all this is riveting Oh, this is so good. This is inside baseball. Oh, okay And you know what they do they don't donate and they don't they don't know they don't donate these people that they're complaining Do not donate they'd all they want is just you know They are complaining, do not donate. All they want is just free stuff. Free stuff. Right in the vein. Exactly.

Well, thank you very much to our artists there. Brand new artists, which I think is just fantastic. It is very, it doesn't happen a lot. Dr. Kelly, welcome aboard. You're not on the leader award, but you keep at it. And by the way, speaking of the speaking of the tech grouch. So I pulled up the tech tech grouch, because you told me they was on TikTok. Yeah. And I showed it to Christina and Kevin.

And and even I was playing and I'm like, they didn't age. You got to do new ones. Yeah, obvious. It's very old. Yeah. And you have like 27 views. What's because it's just posted. Nah, it doesn't have virality, man. You got to start over. You got to remake the TechCrouch. Anyway, thank you very much to all of the artists and again to Dr. Kelly and everybody

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You've been deduced. Okay. And we've got that switcheroo also play Obama Adams family no no no no keep up the good work okay you know what you're my house drinking the booze You're in my house drinking the bottom. All right. Yeah, that stuff was a lot better. I mean, it was catchy.

We had people that had, I think maybe, I don't know. They had rhythm. It's hard to say. You know what? It's before AI when people, you had to have rhythm, you had to have chops to make something now. You know, you might, I would give you that one AI might be Partly responsible. It's hurting everything that's creative Cotton or maybe it's helping cotton cotton gin says maybe that speaks to the quality of the show lately

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More than 300 British soldiers came here to Lexington literally from overseas to take part in this historic reenactment eight Americans We know were killed several others wounded and it all happened 250 years ago today Jordan then Conquered are also marked the battle with a dawn salute and check this out right now We're expecting to see some cannons and potentially some muskets fire off Or maybe right now I went to Lexington Green. It's very impressive. Very impressive place. What depth, by the way, we should mention that. I went to Lexington Green. It's very impressive.

Very impressive place. The shot heard around the world. Look it up, people. We're going to get a lot of these 250-year things in the next year. A lot of things happened between this weekend. Now and then. Now and then, that's right.

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We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. Shut up, sleep Did you see covid.gov? No, I did not see covid should I go look at it now go to covid.gov covid.gov is where you should be able to get information about vaccinations we should be able to get information about All kinds of things except ivermectin We can get free tests from the government, but no that has changed CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine gounder joining us now to talk about these

findings. Let's talk about the White House and the- Did you see covid.gov? Do you see what it says now? Yes, this has been floating. This image has been floating around. I don't understand why Trump has to be in the image unless he's the leak. Well, let's go to Celine Gounder from CBS to understand if this is a problem, if they can do it, because if you haven't seen it, covid.gov, basically, definitely go check it out, has the entire report on COVID coming from a lab leak in China, not some pangolin or some bat from a wet market. Yes. CBS News medical contributor, Dr. Celine Goundounder joining us now to talk about these findings. Let's talk about the White House and the 2024 congressional report specifically saying COVID-19

most likely came from a lab leak in China, but many scientists still lean towards the natural origin. So unpack all of that for us. So there's no smoking gun really for either theory but the strongest scientific evidence points to a natural spillover most likely at that wet market in Wuhan in China where... So she's just going head-on against it. ...live animals that are known to carry coronaviruses... Hold on, stop. I want to mention one thing with this thesis of hers that's old and stale. They could never find this so-called animal that had this disease ever.

They've never found it in the wild on any animal. They've got the wet market right there. They can go through everything. They could check. Yep. You done? Yeah, I'm done. In Wuhan in China, where live animals that are known to carry coronaviruses were being sold, there was genetic material from infected animals, including raccoon dogs that was found in the same places where the virus was first detected at that market. Wow, raccoon dogs didn't even play during COVID and she's bringing that out. That's amazing. And there's no direct evidence that the virus came from a lab. This is

a new one, John. It's a new variant. Not just no evidence, there's no direct evidence. This is very tricky. In places where the virus was first detected. Wait, stop this clip. This came from what? This CBS? Yes, Dr. Celine Gounder. CBS, okay. Yes, CBS. Yes, you know CBS. This is the CIA's report. At that market. But why are they going back to this old bromide? Let's see if the clip gives us some insight.

And there's no direct evidence that the virus came from a lab. US intelligence reports say the Wuhan lab did not have SARS-CoV-2. How about this for a theory? How about there never was COVID, it was just the flu and she's not lying. There was no direct evidence for COVID from a lab. No, maybe it was just the, remember the flu was gone. There was no flu. Flu was zero, zero cases of flu. Everybody had COVID. So maybe they were killing them off with the ventilators. Yes, and and remdesivir and all kinds of other nastiness, maybe and we're just an unhealthy population. So maybe she's right. Maybe there was no COVID from the lab or from the pangolin or the raccoon dog or anything.

I have COVID now. I'm a living. The virus that causes COVID or a close precursor even before the pandemic started. Okay, so the government claims the virus contains a genetic feature that does. Did she say government? Right again. Sound like she said the government. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, or a close precursor even before the pandemic started.

Okay, so the government claims the virus contains a genetic feature that does not exist in nature. Is that accurate? So that claim is misleading because they're talking about a part of the virus, what's called the furan cleavage site, which helps the virus to infect human cells. And it was unusual when scientists first saw this, but that's because they didn't know to look for it.

And since then we've- Oh! Oh, that's the ticket. I love this. And since then, we've learned that similar fur and cleavage sites are found in other coronaviruses that infect animals. So this is not a proof of virus engineering. It's really something that can occur naturally.

Yes, like the flu. So this change of the website, this has got to be concerning for you,, doctor Okay, so CBS News reports the Trump administration actually replaced government website government another government She's talking about government websites government government websites with government websites with simplified messaging focused on the lab Simplified messaging leak theory. Is that concerning? Well, it is concerning because Leak theory. Is that concerning? Well, it is concerning because- Public health- Are you concerned?

It's very concerning. Communication should really be grounded in facts and science, questions even, but not politics. And replacing nuanced scientific content with a single unproven narrative is really misleading to the public. And it does undermine trust in government guidance. And so if you have another pandemic or other crisis hit, you want the public to feel like they can trust the information they're being given.

And this really does undermine that trust. That train left the station years ago, lady. Nobody trusts the government no more. That's all over. Even Australia was just blown away by this. And US President Donald Trump has sensationally transformed a government website that once contained resources for COVID-19 and he's turned it into a promotional page for the lab leak theory. COVID.gov no longer holds info on vaccines, testing, treatments, but instead traces the

virus to Wuhan in China and accuses key public figures there of pushing a preferred narrative. To tell us more about this we're joined by political scientist Simon Jackman in studio. Simon, good to see you as always. Thank you. What are some of the big claims being made on this site right now? Well it revives the so-called lab leak thesis, number one, and in particular goes very hard. Hold on a second. I thought that we already transferred to the lab leak thesis over a year ago. No.

So you don't, how do you revive something that is the standard thesis? It's not, this is. What are these guys trying to do here? Rewrite history? Gaslight. Gaslight. Gaslight, of course course it also what but for

what end well because because Australia was one of the most locked down countries in the world they can't the the mainstream the m5m the government they cannot admit that they were wrong in any any aspect of, because then people might try and kill them. Or whatever. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Doesn't that make sense? Yes, I think it does. Against people who were in the Biden administration, and indeed in some cases, in Trump Mark 1, charged with taking care of this pandemic.

Yes, Trump Mark 1. I like Mark 1. I like Mark 1 too. Trump Mark 1. Yes, Trump Mark 1. I like Mark 1. I like Mark 1 too. Trump Mark 1, Mark 2, Mark 1. Charged with taking care of this pandemic, Dr. Fauci in particular, it goes very hard at him. It goes very hard at people working alongside, and indeed anybody who was running, I think, public health at the time.

Do you see what he's talking about? Ha ha ha ha. We were- Yeah, we should have laughed. Yeah, wow. Because anyone who was running public health at the time. You see what he's talking about? Ha ha ha ha. We were- We were laughed at, wow. Because anyone who was running public health at the time, the mainstream media was part of public health at the time. That's why he's laughing.

Ha ha ha, don't come and kill me, Aussies. Very hard at him. It goes very hard at people working alongside him. Indeed, anybody who was running, I think, public health at the time come in for a serve there.

They have essentially taken a report by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and put that up almost in its entirety as now, as we said in the intro there, that is what the US government is putting forward with respect to information about COVID now, never mind the fact that hundreds of people a week across the United States are still dying from COVID.

Still dying from COVID or with COVID or of COVID. What was it? People are dying from, yeah. The hundreds a week are now still dying from COVID. Yes. Well, people die from pneumonia. Yes, hundreds die from pneumonia. That's not COVID.

No, of course not. They died with COVID. We all know. We all know. We were there. We are not going to let the M5M change our mind. A note from the constitutional lawyer Rob. Adam, life imitates no agenda.

Y'all have discussed all the Ozempic marketing, the efforts to get it covered by insurance, the health risks that these drugs entail, and the abject lack of transparency shrouding the whole operation. You even talked about Ozempic induced blindness. Well, now there's a lawsuit in New Jersey claiming claiming that Ozempig made a woman go blind by inducing a condition called non-arterotic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Ischemic.

Ischemic? I think I guess it's ISCH isn't that is ischemic. Non-arterotic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy or is that is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is It's irreversible and 15% of the time it spreads to the other eye. According to the lawsuit, Novo Nordisk had a lot of evidence linking Ozempic to Nion but failed to warn anyone. At the same time, Novo Nordisk was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to have obesity classified as a disease to ingrain these drugs into the pop culture zeitgeist and to get private insurers to cover the drug. I say again life imitates no agenda. Yes, well we have warned for this because we read stuff. So yeah, that takes a genius. But here is the worst and Sharon Osborne apparently has this new side effect known as ozempic feet.

Oh, this is new. Yes, it is. You have my attention. Ozempic feet. Gnarly side effect of weight loss drug exhibited by some celebs. Yes. So apparently your feet go all curled up. The lebs. Yes. So apparently your feet go all curled up. Your toes curl and you can't uncurl them.

And they have pictures of Sharon Osborne apparently with COVID feet. So yeah, it just looks like your toes are cut off because they're all curled underneath. You can't stretch them back. It's a tendon issue. Yeah. Yes.

Huh. Fans noticed Osbourne, 72, had wrinkly feet. The fans speculated it could be a result of her ozempic usage. She walking around barefoot? What are they talking about? Yeah. Pictures of her on the couch. This cannot

be a good product. I don't think so. It just can't be a good product. I don't feel like it's a good product. But it doesn't matter because there's help on the horizon. Eli Lilly announcing potential encouraging news for millions of Americans with obesity and type 2 diabetes promising new data suggests the company's new daily pill could revolutionize weight loss as we know it. The drug maker says results from a late stage trial shows their daily pill may be another option similar to Ozempic and other popular injectable drugs but without refrigeration or injections necessary. Joining us now with more on this is endocrinologist

and obesity expert, Dr. Rekha Kumar. Dr. Thanks for taking the time. We know that the common GLP-1s are administered with an injection. How does this pill work and why is it different? So this pill is different because it can just be swallowed. It doesn't matter, you know, with food, without food, with water, without water. The current GLP-1 that's oral, that's on the market,

ribelisous, has a lot of stipulations around food and only four sips of water. So this is different because it's a daily pill versus a weekly injection. Time of day doesn't matter. And we're seeing results that appear to be basically as good as the injectables that we have on the market. I mean we're finally here. It's about time. I mean eat all the junk you want. Doesn't matter if it comes in a bag, has a barcode. You can have the pill with the junk.

You can eat it right. You don't need four sips of water. You can swallow it with your milkshake. This my friends is what America is all about. This is what we do. What exactly did this trial study show? And are there any side effects patients should be concerned about when it comes to this new pill?

Why, yes, you've got the COVID gnarly feet. You've got the blindness. You've got the anal leakage. But don't worry. So what this trial showed was that this medicine was great at lowering blood sugar as well as... They've actually said it's great. What the study says, hey, this is great. Reducing body weight. It was a 16-pound weight loss at 40 weeks, which is tracking to look like the weight loss we see in Ozempic, Wigovi, a little bit under Mungaro and the fact that this doesn't require refrigeration. Wait, wait, wait. Mungaro did better.

Mungaro outperformed everybody. It sounds like it. Mungaro, if you're going to go for the shot. This is news to me. Yeah, I didn't know it either. I think if you're going to go for the shot, Mungaro is the way to go. And the fact that this doesn't require refrigeration, it's not an injection and can be taken by mouth is great for people that might have an aversion to pills or an aversion to injections. So it offers another option. It's just another option. I am not a medical doctor. We are not giving you any advice, but stay away from this stuff. People. This can't be good. Yeah. So while we're on the topic of ingesting poison,

fluoride, I have a fluoride, a series of clips from PBS that I thought were quite fascinating because they brought somebody on to re-promote fluoridation because all of a sudden, you know, we're having these issues, some states are dropping it. Was it a representative from Alcoa, the aluminum producer? No, I don't think so, but I didn't I didn't do a deep dive into her background But she she's obviously a stooge and she wouldn't answer one question This is this has been going on on networks everywhere. I wanted to clip some of this stuff. So I'm glad you had it

There are pro fluoride people out on all the networks right now. Yeah everywhere. All right this is well the real what this stop right. Everywhere. All right, this is from? Well, let's stop right there because the reason is fluoride is a industrial waste. Poison. And they don't know what to do with it. I mean, they're gonna have to take it out and drop it off in the middle of the ocean or something right now because it's no good.

But here, so we wanna reintroduce it into the drinking water, that'll get rid of it. And so let's bring in some experts here. Now they actually, I have to give the credit But so, but so we want to reintroduce it into the drinking water. That'll get rid of it. And so let's bring in some experts here. Now they actually have to give the credit to the guy on PBS here because he actually actually actually actually actually he said he does repeat a question twice that she never answers. He doesn't keep beating her up with it, which I would have done, but you'll hear.

Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to end the federal recommendation that municipalities add fluoride to their drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency also said it was reviewing, quote, new scientific information about the risks of fluoridation. Given this renewed debate, we wanted to hear one perspective from a community that did remove fluoride from its water, the Canadian city of Calgary. Earlier this week, I spoke to Lindsay McLaren.

She's a professor of community health sciences at the University of Calgary. And I began by asking her why we started fluoridating water in the first place. In regions of the United States and elsewhere, it was observed by local dentists, this was back in the 1940s, that people living in certain communities had kind of a staining of their teeth, but their teeth also turned out to be quite resistant to tooth decay. And so it was figured out that this was because of naturally high levels of fluoride in the drinking water. And so that gave rise to the idea that we could actually do this intentionally and in

a controlled manner as a public health intervention to improve the oral health of the population. We mentioned that some people have cited risks associated with this practice. And the current HHS secretary in the United States, RFK Jr., he had a recent visit to the state of Utah. Utah itself became the first state to ban fluoride in its water. Here's what he said there. And the error of fluoridated toothpaste and mouthwash, it makes no sense to have

fluoride in our water. The evidence against fluoride is overwhelming. In animals, in animal models, and in human models, we know that it causes IQ loss. Huh? What? Causes what? IQ loss. I'm sorry. I'm pretending to have been drinking the water.

So, oh, yes. So, uh, okay. So that's the key that he wants, you know, let's get rid of Flora cause it's not good for our intelligence, we're all dumbing down. So let's continue these clips and see what she has to say about this. So what about those arguments? One, that in the era of heavily fluoridated toothpaste, we don't need to add it to our water. And two, are there studies indicating that it causes IQ loss? So the point about being in the era of widespread fluoride toothpaste is a good one. But research and systematic reviews of research that have been conducted in this

era consistently show that there is an added benefit of fluoridated water above and beyond the widespread use of toothpaste. And then what about the studies that he cited about IQ loss? Yeah, what about them? So yeah, he has to re-ask the question because she didn't answer it. Right. About IQ loss. Do you think she's going to answer it this time?

After he asked again? I'm guessing not. Maybe she will deflect, deny and defend. I think you're right. And then what about the studies that he cited about IQ loss? The main thing to say there is that it's really not at all clear that fluoridation is associated with those outcomes at the levels that we're talking about for community water fluoridation. There's many examples of things that are harmful or toxic at high

levels but that are innocuous or even beneficial at lower levels. Hey man, what are you complaining about? Lots of stuff that we put in the water is toxic, okay? But it can also be good for you. So turning to your experience, in 2011, the Calgary City Council voted to remove fluoride from its water. You launched a study then as to what the downstream impacts of that was. What is it that you found? So we designed a large scale study where we collected data on oral health

and a number of other things from several thousand kids in both Calgary where fluoridation was stopped and in Edmonton, which is the other large city in Alberta, which has several similarities to Calgary, with the main difference being that they had fluoridation in place and it was continuing. About seven to eight years after the decision to stop fluoridation in Calgary, we observed quite a big difference in the

prevalence of tooth decay among kids in the two cities. A big difference! Oh, okay. A big difference. Big difference, all right. What was the big difference? It's a big difference. It's a big difference. Well, what would you guess? Wait a minute. So, they had two cities. One had fluoridated water, one had no fluoridated water, and they noticed a big difference. I guess much better teeth health in the fluoridated city. I'm going to say like 90% better. That's a guess. I think that's kind of the implication. Yeah, I'd

be like 90 to 100% better, yeah. Okay, all right. Do we reveal all in this last clip? Yes, we do, except for the brain damage part. She still won't talk about that. Oh no, we can't talk about that. So the percent of kids who had tooth decay in Calgary where there was no fluoride was 65%,

whereas in Edmonton where fluoridation remains in place it was about 55%. A 10% difference. That's big. Whoa, that's big. It's a big difference. It's a huge difference. 55 versus 65. Versus 65. That's a huge, monstrous difference that we should all risk our mental health for. Okay. So a decade later, voters there voted to put fluoride back into the water. And he doesn't at any point say, that's not such a big difference, is it, doctor? Or whatever's your name, whatever her title is.

It's Pharma Lady. Professor. Professor. So a decade later, voters there voted to put fluoride back into the water. That has not happened yet. So does your experience there help inform how Americans ought to be thinking about this decision? Certainly in the Calgary case, we were fortunate to be able to build this study and to demonstrate

that there are consequences to removing fluoride from drinking water. It's not just an innocuous policy decision. That information I think figured importantly in the decision to reintroduce the measure, which should be happening soon. What I think I would also want to add here is that if you decide as a community, if you have a kind of a grown-up conversation and decide as a community to not fluoridate the water, that is one thing. But you have to accompany that by a discussion about what are you going to do instead because tooth decay is not an innocuous health problem. It's a serious health problem. It's very common and perhaps most importantly,

it's almost entirely preventable. And so what kind of a society are we if we don't prevent an entirely preventable problem that causes harm and pain? And so then he went right back and he said, but how about the IQ issue? And she answered the question in the final clip. No, but no, of course not.

And he didn't beat it up anymore, but let's go back to what she just said. It's in it 55% in the, in the Florida dated area versus 65% in the non Florida dated area. That is not preventing anything. She says completely preventable. She says cututake is complete. She said this completely preventable. How is 55% complete? Even it's not even half. It's less than more than half people getting it with the fluoride. How does that prove how does that make fluoride make it preventable? This is unbelievable to me. Here's the thing that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to explain.

The history of, and they just call it fluoride, but it's really hydrofluorosilic acid, I believe, hydrofluorosilic acid, I believe, which is released during strip mining, phosphate mining. They used to just release this fluoride into the air, but it was in the 1970s, I think. The Department of Agriculture said, airborne fluoride is causing damage to domestic animals, it's crops, it's an airborne pollutant. So they came up with environmental regulations. This is all, you can look this up, chat GPT it. These companies had to limit their airborne pollutants. So they were being caught in air filtration systems, which they then condensed into a water-based solution.

They packaged that up and sold it to municipal governments. That's what happened. They needed to get rid of this stuff for the phosphate mining, and they just came up with this great story. And even my periodontist, I told you the story. Oh yeah. He was like, where do you stand on fluoride? I said don't put it in your water. That's not true, it saves so many children. And then once he started looking into it, which he never did, because it was just rammed into his head in dentist school, they said holy crap, you're right. This is no good. You can get fluoride just as Bobby Deop says. You can get it from toothpaste.

You can get it with mouthwash. Your dentist can put it on your teeth directly, which is probably the best way. Yes, you can get it in the nice tray with a nice tropical fruit taste. That is, remember, do you remember that? When they put the fluoride... Oh God, I used to hate that.

I don't think they do that anymore. You get these two trays, and you be sitting there, and then this tropical fruit taste will be dripping into the back of your throat, make you all nauseous. And of course, for me, the kicker was when I read

Legacy of Ashes, the CIA story written by Weiner, Daniel Weiner I want to say, and Uncle Don was in that book everywhere. And I called Uncle Don, he says, is this true? He says, yeah, that's the way I remember it. And what was in the book? It says the CIA would put fluoride into enemy water camps so they become nice and docile so they could take over the camp at night. But then this is the this was PBS? I guarantee you Alcoa has some kind of sponsorship of PBS. Because Alcoa did a lot of this. Ugh. People should just listen to the No Agenda Show and live longer.

Let's hope so. Oh man. I think that was the last clip, wasn't it? Yeah, that was the last clip. Okay, we are beyond our... Uh oh, time's up. Time is up. So I have two clips.

They're reasonably short. Manga, Manga everybody, make Africa News great again. I have a 45 second Africa News clip. The 2022 US Africa Summit was meant to usher in a reset in ties between Washington and the continent. Joe Biden was meant to repair the harm done by Trump 1.0. Just over two years in, those plans are being ripped apart. In a further sign that Africa barely features in Trump's foreign policy, Washington is preparing

to close several embassies on the continent, according to reporting by the New York Times. The report says missions in Lesotho, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Gambia and South Sudan top the list of those facing closure. The news comes on the back of sudden aid cuts to health and other social programs, trade tariffs and visa bans imposed on over a dozen countries. So we are giving up on Africa, as you predicted. It's all about North Pole, South America. Africa no longer matters. We're pulling out our embassies, which means no more spies. We're just done. Do we just leave it to the Chinese?

Yeah. Is that a good idea? We're going to take, dude, we're going to do South America. Which is better. Chinese are, the Chinese have already taken over Africa and They're gonna try to take over South America. We have to stop him. That's where we stop him. We can't deal with Africa. Okay and then finally

Canadian news as Canadians prepare to go to the polls on the 28th of April Current Prime Minister and Liberal candidate Mark Carney presented himself as the strongman to lead Canada against a hostile neighbor to the South. Donald Trump is trying to fundamentally change the world economy, the trading system. But really what he's trying to do to Canada, he's trying to break us so the US can own us. This is going to be a great election. They want our land, they want our resources, they want our water. They want our land. They want our resources. They want our water. We want your women.

They want our country. And we're all going to stand up against Donald Trump. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You sure? I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.

The United States is Canada's top trading partner by some distance, buying 75% of Canada's exports in 2024. So Donald Trump's 25% blanket tariffs on Canadian goods and new 10% energy levy have left the country economically vulnerable. A vulnerability conservative challenger Pierre Poullier blames on the incumbent. Claim that you want our country to respond with strength but after the last decade, half of which time you've been Justin Trudeau's economic advisor, our economy is weaker than ever before. It's been the worst growth in the G7.

Since the Liberals scraped a victory in the 2021 general election, the Conservative opposition have mostly dominated in the polls. But Donald Trump's trade war has turned the tables, putting the incumbent Liberals out in front for the first time since 2022. Poor Canada. I feel bad. Why would you feel bad? No, because they know that it's partially true.

I mean, it's not like we want to really own Canada, but parts of it, parts of it will be handy to have. And parts of it, I think think want to be part of America. It's not like one giant country that all thinks the same. Because I make jokes to Canadians all the time. It's like, you know, you'll be a 51st state. Half of them go, oh, that would be awesome. The other half go, Trump, Trump, Trump.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But if we keep the, we're a real problem, economically speaking, with what's happening now. So what are their choices? What can they do? Is a fait accompli? They should get their act together. I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that.

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Thank you very much. We appreciate and congratulations again with your executive producership and now onto the meetups. No agenda meetups. No agenda meetups take place all around the world. You can find the entire list calendar at noagenda meetups.com. And we love it when people send in their meetup reports. Here's the big one from the Indy April meetup. This is Sir Mark.

And this is Day Maria Indy April missing the last two meetups. It's great to be back with the family. In the morning, John and Adam, Sir PBR Shreaking coming direct to you from the NPR studios. Sir Benny here just watching Sir Mark using his machine that Adam always talks about. He's problems with it, but wish you guys the best Hi, this is Cindy name of the Tito's from Carmel, Indiana I'm here to tell you climate change is real we survived the tornadoes Hey is Gary here and just a word out to Elon and everybody else What good is doge finding all the corruption if nobody is getting arrested?

Risky here drinking some beer at the blind aisle. Yo, yo yo, this is Emily, the currently employed FET. Hey John, can we uh, can we, Micah, can we make ISOs great again? Get rid of AI. This is syrup of the maple bots. I could not make the meetup today, so I sent an AI agent to do my meetup report for me. Sounds good.

In the morning everybody. This is the evil Annette Miller cloning syrup of the maples voice just because I freaking can. Hi, this is Brandy at the Blind Owl hanging out with no agenda. They really look like they have no agenda. Live from Indianapolis, Embrace the Chaos. Embrace the Chaos. That's a good one.

Did we come up with that or did they come up with that all by themselves? That sounds like them. I like it. And thank you for putting your server in your report. We need more of those. Here's Leiden, the Netherlands. These guys, I think they were celebrating 420 early. Baron Rob from Leiden and Dranklokal 1650 for another great meetup.

Thank you. This is Rick in the morning. Great meetup. Hello, this is Flasche Adam, a big fan. Thank you for the lot of value. I never paid for any of it. Hi, this is Flasche. I'm a big fan of you. I'm a big fan of you. I'm a big fan of you. I'm a big fan big fan. Thank you for the lot of value.

I never paid for any of it. Too bad! Hi, in the morning. Sir, what would you redo in the morning? I'll do the Rashi in the morning. Hey, Pedro, in the morning. In the morning. Great meeting you.

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And we go over to Japan. I told you these no agenda meetups are bad. They're worldwide. This is the I think the Kyoto meetup. Hello, Kyoto. Come on in in the morning. This is Sir Bill of Osaka coming to live from the host city of the 2025 World Expo and more importantly the ITM airport.

We're here at the Osaka castle viewing the cherry blossoms and enjoying some adult beverages. A good portion of the participants are ham radio operators. We'd like to wish JCD 73 is on his 73rd birthday. We're all glad we were able to pressure you into renewing your call sign. This is Sir Skoll and Skrull. ITM, it's like a party. This is Casey from Osaka, Japan. It's like a Hanami. ITM from John in Kyoto.

I lowered myself to come down and visit the Osaka lowlanders and we had a good time, but we didn't get to eat well meat this time. Maybe next time. 73 is John. This is sir 3d. We had a great meetup here in Osaka. Hi, this is Mike. We had an amazing meetup under the cherry blossoms and some

amazing weather as well. Really incredible. Oh, by the way, listen to my podcast, Adult Music with the pink neon logo. We talk about new classical and jazz albums. All right. It was the Osaka meetup, I stand corrected. And for those hams in Japan, do you guys do digital? I'd like to see if I can get a little Q-so going with you guys for McGuire's that's the venue in Ottawa Ontario Canada on Thursday our next show day the north Georgia two-year anniversary meetup six o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta Georgia and also on Thursday it's like a party in Sacramento six o'clock sac yard in Sacramento California the douche Devon will be hosting that many more meetups throughout June as I can see on the calendar here go to knowagendameetups.com

this is where you get the connection that gives you protection all these people will be first responders in an emergency and you get to hang out with some fun people send in reports everybody knowagendameetups.com if you can't find one near you start one yourself Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you want me, trigger to hell's lame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party And now we have the machine versus man. That's right. I come up with the real ISOs,

the ISOs that are made by people, by human beings. John has moved over to the dark side and he only does his AI generated drivel. Slop, slop, slop. Do you even have any ISOs? I said you're one. I said it was last night. One.

One ISO? Yeah, one. One. I'm using the one. This is the way it's going to be from now on. If you have nothing, because you've been picking your own every time, so if you have nothing, the one will back you up and you'll have a good one. I have four.

Yeah, you always have. Well, you have four today, you have three. I'm going to hold yours. I'm going to hold yours. Here we go. Here's my first. This is the best podcast in the universe. That was pretty bad.

That's you. No, that was not me. That was not me. Here's another one I picked up. Happy Easter to you and to all out there listening. That theory has been debunked. No, I think I really, I do have one that I think is worth it. It's this one. Oh man, the show's over. Yeah, come on. That sounds like AI to me. No, that's a kid. Oh man, the show's over.

That's not AI, that's a real kid. Play mine. The show was Magnifico. I don't know man. Oh man, the show's over. Give it to the kid.. Give it to the kid. We give it to the kid. John, you are such a mensch. Thank you very much. And now everybody, it's time for John's Tip of the Day. Creative vibes for you and me. Just the tip with JCB. And sometimes, at home. Created by Dana Bernetti. So my tip of the day is not to buy a B-Link. It's an

anti tip of the day. So what I did was I decided to... Hold on a second. Even though we didn't have official tips of the day, without a doubt B-Link at one point would have been a tip of the day. You were telling everybody, oh you gotta get the B-Link. It's great. Well, it's a cheap little computer that works until it doesn't. Yes. And so, but I mean I'm still just hanging in there, but I decide I'm gonna run Linux on this thing, except if I can do it.

But then I said, well, you know, I wanna run live Linux. Oh, ooh, you wanna, so just stick in that USB stick and make a run. So you got to get an, okay, if you want to run a live, anything, you get the ISO, which is the, uh, the, the, yeah, the, the, the, the, the image. ISO stands for something. I don't remember what image, something. Is it the image of the,? Of the disk, yes. It's a disk. But you want to run it, you want to make it bootable,

and so you want to make a live version of, like for example, I have an ISO of Linux that I could run, Mint Linux, I think it's up to version 24 or something, it's ridiculous. They still haven't got any good audio stuff, which is weird. Don't get me started. And so you want to, you need to get a copy of this.

This is a handy product anyway. It's called Bellina Etcher. Oh yes, well anyone who has ever made a live Linux USB has a copy of Bellina Etcher. So that's my tip of the day. Get a copy of Bellina Etcher. Make a live, it's for USB, it'd also burn a disc, but it's for making live USBs, which is the easiest way to do it.

You know, it's great. If you, here, I'm gonna add to your tip. You can actually then take your computer with you, and wherever you are, you just say, hey, can I just borrow your computer? Bam, you jack that stick in there, you change the boot order, and there's your computer back. Works every- First of all, you change the boot order and there's your computer back. First of all, you have to go into the guy's system and change the boot order.

Yeah, you just ram F4 a lot. It's not insulting. Maybe it's not insulting. But yes, you can do exactly what Adam said. But Bellina Etcher's the way to make these, is the best way, at least currently. There's other systems that do this. I used something else before. But it's a good way to do it. But you want these live,

and it's called live because it boots from the little, from the stick. You don't have to install it on the machine. And what is, because if I, yeah? No, I was gonna say, what is the advantage of using the live? According to you and as the tip that way when you take the stick out then it goes back to the old operating system You still have everything you you still have all your old stuff

intact So what happened to your be link that you decided to go this way? I'm getting an a story. I think it's the, whether it's the B-Link itself, probably not the B-Link itself as opposed to the SSD that is failing. Yes, so what you're saying, this is a tip when your crappy old machine craps out, you can still bring it back to life with a live Linux USB. Yeah, or you could run Windows off the little USB too, if you wanted to.

Oh no, no, no. Is there a live Windows? You can make it with, you can make a live Windows if you want to. Whatever you do, don't make a live Windows stick people. Get your Berlina Etcher. That's what you want. That is John C. Dvorak's Tip of the Day.

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