No Agenda - 1759 - "Eat The Babies"

Episode Date: April 27, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You are in a horrible mood today. Number 6, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where they want to round up the judges, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Yeah, best, funniest thing ever. Funniest thing ever. Rounding up the judges. Oh no. It's a constitutional crisis.
Starting point is 00:00:42 I love it. Do you have any clips of that? I got plenty of clips. Yep. Well, first I need to tell you, I don't know if you've been following the news, but there has been quite the setback in peace negotiations. This is just breaking. As of this morning, you're talking about this morning. Breaking big setback in peace negotiations between Yeah. Between myself and Andrew Horowitz.
Starting point is 00:01:07 Oh, he called me, uh, Saturday night. No, yeah. Saturday night. And, uh, and you hung up on him. He drunk called me. Oh, that's not good.
Starting point is 00:01:23 From a party. From a party. He had a party with friends. He's like, hey, man, here's someone who wants to talk to you. And he puts me on with, you know, granted, no agenda producer who was like, I can't believe I'm talking to you. You saved me during COVID. I'm like, oh, well, that's very nice. You said, I'm like, so did Andrew just sit there and go like, Oh,
Starting point is 00:01:48 I can call Curry whenever I want. She said, yeah, pretty much. That's a funny idea. Yes. I can get ahold of the big boy. I can talk to that man whenever I want. Remember on speed dial. Yes. You've seen him on Joe Rogan. I've got him right here. Let me call him for you. He always takes my call. So he pulled a Biden.
Starting point is 00:02:12 A Biden? Yes, what Hunter Biden used to do all the time. A Hunter Biden, yes. But wait a minute, then I'm Joe Biden in that case. I don't think that's very good. That's what I'm thinking.
Starting point is 00:02:21 I don't like that so much. Joe Biden. Yes, that's what I'm thinking. I don't like that so much. Joe Biden. So, looks like things are not over yet. Not over. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Well, at least the producer got to talk to you.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Yeah, she was very nice. But you know, still, I mean, and I even say, Andrew, are you calling? Are you just, are you drunk? He said, yeah. It should have been, not at Saturday night, it's not the time to call. I should have recorded it.
Starting point is 00:02:49 That was my bad. Yeah, now you, yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, I should have done that. Well then he'd have been really irked. Hey, you know, this is, and then we'll get to the judges. So I had this Robert Sarah Pope pick in mind, you know The men even when the Pope got sick I was already looking around and that was the first guy that came to mind
Starting point is 00:03:15 So I pick him on the last episode as kind of a long shot, but you know, it's like I think this is the guy And now have you seen this? He's gone viral. He's become the anti-globalist faithful's favorite new pope. There's articles about him everywhere all of a sudden. You know, people listen to our show. At the Gateway Pundit? Maybe. But the telegraph... Perhaps anyone's going to listen to be them. Yeah, but the Telegraph. Cardinal Robert Sarevgini is exactly the kind of anti-woke pope that many conservatives... That means the likelihood of him getting it is getting some lessons.
Starting point is 00:03:54 It's just lessons. I know. In fact, I have some pope... Well, let's start with that stuff. I got some pope analysis. Pope-inau, pope-inau, pope-inau, alright. Let's start with... Let a, see what we got. You're a little low on volume today. I'm going to crank. Give me a boost me boost, boost, boost. You're boosted. Consider yourself boosted. All right. Let's start with just the plane, the plane clips, which would be, uh,
Starting point is 00:04:20 papal event, uh, and Trump report PBS. Ave Maria! Before paying his respects at the coffin, President Trump sat down with Ukraine's President Zelensky for the first time since their rancorous confrontation in the Oval Office two months ago. Rancorous! Trump reportedly pressured Zelensky to accept a plan in which Ukraine will formally surrender territory occupied by Russia, including the Crimean Peninsula, as well as granting the United
Starting point is 00:04:51 States an enormous stake in Ukraine's mineral wealth. As far as the White House is concerned, this is the only feasible deal. On the ex-social media platform Zylinski described the meeting as very symbolic and potentially historic. Thanking Trump, he said he was hoping for results on everything covered in their discussions, protecting the lives of Ukrainians, a full and unconditional ceasefire, and a reliable and lasting peace that would prevent another war from breaking out. But in a post on his Truth Social Network, President Trump launched a broadside against Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Starting point is 00:05:28 He said there was no reason to shoot missiles into civilian areas. It makes me think, he said, that maybe Putin doesn't want to stop the war and is just tapping me along. When Trump emerged into St. Peter's Square, he was met with silence. The contrast with Zelensky's appearance could not have been greater. Warm applause greeted the Ukrainian president as he took his seat. And then the grand ceremony began in earnest with the coffin carried from the basilica into the square. The congregation was addressed by 91-year-old Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.
Starting point is 00:06:02 In this majestic St. Peter's Square where Pope Francis celebrated the Eucharist so many times and presided over great gatherings over the past 12 years, we are gathered with sad hearts in prayer around his mortal remains. I was reminded by our resident Catholic, Vo it is pronounced Sarah Sarah not Sarah okay Sarah Sarah Pope Sarah Sarah so there's a one thing in that clip and everybody reporting on this said that uses about about the applause for Zelensky and no applause for no? No, no, actually that was only reported by PBS. Of course.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Everybody reported on Trump's post and without question they said, I think he's tapping me along. Tapping me? Was that in the post? Tapping me along? Yeah, it's in the post. Everybody read it. It's in that clip. And they're always tapping me. What does that even mean? And no one's questioning it. It's like, what is...
Starting point is 00:07:13 What phrase... Where does this come from? Is that code for something we don't know about? Maybe it's something told... Don't worry, Putin, when I use the word tapping, don't worry, we're not tapping out. I just found it peculiar that nobody, and you included, right now, use the word tapping. No, we're not. We're not tapping out. I just found it peculiar that nobody and you included right now. Well, I thought I thought it was a British thing.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Why would Trump be using a British ism? I don't know. I don't know tapping because the the what would the phrase be it would be dragging me along? No, stringing. Stringing, that's it. Stringing me along. Well, chat GPT doesn't know it. Chat GPT says, what is that, a song? Tapping me along. Interesting. And everybody who read it without question, they all read it without wondering what the
Starting point is 00:08:07 hell it means or why he said tapping. It's like Kofife. It's a blurt. It's a blurt. It's a mini blurt. It's a blurtlet. Well, it didn't work because I'm the only one who seems to have caught it. Tapping me along.
Starting point is 00:08:22 So, let's go to Papal Event 2 where they wrapped us up and this is where PBS, I mean they slammed Trump in that first clip about, oh you know as long as you got applause and everyone's silent when Trump came in, you're supposed to be silent anyway. But okay. We talked about peace in Ukraine dominating the diplomatic agenda. The Cardinal reminded the strong of frances's despair the futility of war the front there
Starting point is 00:08:50 faced with the raging wars of recent years with their inhuman whores and countless wars and destruction pope frances incessantly raised his voice imploring peace so long more he said is only the death of people and the destruction of homes, hospitals and schools. Then the Cardinal named what some commentators interpreted as a barbed missive at President Trump and his war on the Mexican border.
Starting point is 00:09:19 This is PBS? Yeah. It sounds- They got this British MI6 guy that comes over once when he gives his reports. It sounds like he's doing a newsreel from World War II. War on the Mexican border. War always leaves the world worse than it was before. It is always a painful and tragic defeat for everyone.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Build bridges, not walls. Was an exhortation he repeated many times. In conclusion, Cardinal Battista Ray appealed to Pope Francis in the afterlife. Pope Francis used to conclude his speeches and also his private meetings by saying, do not forget to pray for me. He used to say like, no gays, that's what he used to say in the private meetings. Now, dear Pope Francis, we ask you to pray for us, and we ask you from heaven to bless the Church, bless Rome, and bless the whole world.
Starting point is 00:10:20 After communion and an invocation to the saints and martyrs, the funeral service came to an end. Before you move on to the analysis, I have three shorties I'd like to insert if that's okay with you. It's fine with me. It's from Inside Edition. With Deborah Norville? Yeah, I didn't know that Deborah Norville had been downgraded to Inside Edition. Hello? Isn't that a downgrade?
Starting point is 00:10:48 She's been on Inside Edition. She's the one who saved the show after she got fired from the Today Show on NBC. I completely forgot about it. Yes, I completely forgot. 20 years ago. Yeah, well, there you go. I forgot about it. Here's her report that she filed.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Hello, everybody, and thank you for joining us as we broadcast today from Vatican City. The funeral of Pope Francis will be taking place right here tomorrow at St. Peter's Square. 130 foreign delegations are confirmed to attend including 50
Starting point is 00:11:18 heads of state and 10 reigning sovereigns. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will be here along along with former President Joe Biden, all to say their final farewells to the People's Pope. The People's Pope? Did you know that he was the People's Pope? I think I may have heard that before. It doesn't sound right. He wasn't the People's Pope, he was the woke pope. He definitely was the woke pope. He definitely was the woke pope. The pope's lying in state came to an end today as the last of the mourners filed past his coffin.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Hope Francis would have loved this moment when a lone little girl said her farewell. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump left for the funeral today praising the potter. I met him twice. I thought he was a fantastic kind of a guy. He wasn't a great pope. He was a fantastic kind of a guy. He was a kind of a guy, you know? That's how gangsters talk about each other. He was a fantastic kind of a guy. I thought he was a fantastic kind of a guy. Seating arrangements could be complicated. I spoke with CBS Evening News.
Starting point is 00:12:26 Hold on a second. You have to get, you know, Inside Edition does have some producers that... I never heard that clip from Trump saying that. That's a clip you want to use. Yes. It's great. It's fantastic. That's why I'm playing the clips.
Starting point is 00:12:41 But Inside Edition has done this. They had the little girls part. I didn't know about that either. Well, Edition has done this. They had the little girls part. I didn't know about that either. Well scripted clearly. Hello, but having a good sound bite is always a winner, especially if it's off. The three mainstream networks, everything they do is almost identical. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:13:00 I know. I always finish this. I'm sorry. That's okay. I thought he was a fantastic kind of a guy. Seating arrangements could be complicated. I spoke with CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson. The President of the United States and First Lady will be here.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I understand also former President Biden will be attending. What challenges, if any, does that propose? At ceremonies like this, former presidents usually put away all of their past acrimony and so you would expect that here. One would hope that tradition would hold in the behavior of the two past presidents but tradition has been taking a bit of a pounding recently. Oh, tradition has been taking a bit of a pounding recently. Really? One example? None, none, none. But this little ditty was also something I don't think showed up anywhere but on Inside Edition.
Starting point is 00:13:47 The funeral is a security nightmare. These strange looking weapons are drone busters. Did you see the drone busters? Yeah, they showed up. There was a lot of pictures. Oh, they were showing up? Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Yep. They jammed the signal to a drone. There's also an extraordinary media operation underway in preparation for Saturday's historic funeral. I spoke with ABC News 2020 co-anchor Deborah Roberts. This is a pope who touched people around the globe. They call him the people's pope. And this is a man who really just embraced anybody,
Starting point is 00:14:19 the poor, the least among us. He embraced everybody, the people's pope. He was literally pulling his hands away from people. Remember that? He's like, don't touch me you dirty pleb. I remember these things. The people spoke. All right, that's it.
Starting point is 00:14:37 That's all I got. Just want a little intermezzo there for you. I have a list that I was sent of all the bad things this guy did in terms of traditional Catholicism. Like appointing fake cardinals in China for instance? Yeah, well letting the Chinese government pick the cardinals. Well there you go, yeah. Named pro-LGBT clergy as cardinals, honored Martin Luther who broke up the Catholic, you know, just basically began the whole Protestantism thing and he honored him.
Starting point is 00:15:16 There you go. Which is like, what? He criticized large Catholic families who breed like rabbits quote unquote. I forgot that one. Stop breeding like rabbits. Which is like, you know, because we have a, now we have this population's decline of Western civilization. Yes. This is helping. Well, he was the globalist pope. That's why. He was the, you'll be, own nothing and you'll be happy. Oh wait, that was the other pope. That was Schwab. Pope Schwab.
Starting point is 00:15:49 Approved Holy Communion for adulterers. Oh no. Shocking. Shamed Catholics into taking the COVID shot. That was a big one. He promoted, where's the one he's got on here? This list is a mile long. I'm gonna just find a couple of gems. And there's one I'm looking for, which is where he promoted
Starting point is 00:16:17 a depopulation of the world. Promoted depopulation, this is kind of a relentlessly belittled traditional Catholics as backwards, rigid, self-absorbed, told an atheist journalist that sinful souls are not punished. He didn't think there was a hell. It ushered in a kind of a Marxism model. Anyway, it goes on, I told Muslims to stay Muslim. That's a good one. Do your thing, man. Do your thing. The list is a mile long and it's just like one thing after another.
Starting point is 00:16:57 And therefore the people's pope. The people's pope. The people's pope. All right, I think we're on. We went to clip two? I think we got that. We hit yes. The analysis. Yes, okay. Also from PBS, which is always on target. John Allen has covered the Vatican for 30 years. He's editor of Crux, an online site that covers the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Crux? Is that the name of this? Crux. Crux. Yeah. John, practically all the cardinals who are eligible to vote, that means the cardinals who are under the age of 80, were at today's funeral, they'll be in Rome leading up to the conclave.
Starting point is 00:17:30 In those days, are they going to be talking to each other either formally or informally about who they might see as the next pope? Oh, absolutely, they'll be talking to one another about who they see as the next pope. That is after all the business they have been called to roam to perform. And so in these daily meetings of cardinals for their meeting every morning called the general congregation meeting, some of that is procedural, but some of it allows cardinals the opportunity to talk to one another about what they see as the issues facing the church to sort through where the church stands and where these cardinals
Starting point is 00:18:05 believe it needs to go. Specifically at this time right now, what are some of the considerations the cardinals will be thinking about? I think fundamentally the issue that's facing every conclave is do you want to keep going in terms of the papacy that just ended or do you want to try something else? But beyond that, there is a complicated sort of bushel basket full of issues they'll be looking at from... Bushel basket full?
Starting point is 00:18:34 That's an odd way of putting it. A bushel basket full. Sort of bushel basket full of issues they'll be looking at from geopolitics where we're entering an era where old alliances seem to be falling apart and new ones are coming into view and they'll want somebody who can steer the church safely through those storms to internal church debates over contentious matters such as women and outreach to the LGBTQ plus community to more broad social concerns such as migration and climate change and poverty.
Starting point is 00:19:13 All papal things. Climate change. Yeah. Yeah. PBS. I found that's another offensive thing. PBS, the Papal Broadcast System. So now that there's a kind of a kicker in the second part. I thought was I thought this second clip is quite entertaining
Starting point is 00:19:30 With talks about peace in Ukraine dominating the diplomatic agenda. You're not playing anal to oh I'm sorry. You're right the viewership of the movie conclave spiked after the news of Pope Francis's death I think a lot of people think because they've seen the movie they know what a conclave is you've written a book about conclaves how close is it to what actually happens i've been telling people that taking the movie conclave as a guide to a real people election is like taking that zany eighties mel brooks comedy spaceballs as a guide to
Starting point is 00:20:03 real space travel this is old world politics Where everything is far more genteel and indirect and subtle now don't get me wrong and let's not be naive There is real political sausage being ground during this period, but this isn't the Iowa caucus This is politics Vatican style How do they know that more people are watching that? No one divulges any numbers. I don't know. I just thought that Spaceball's comment was funny.
Starting point is 00:20:34 It's just lame. Oh, please. It was a good comment about the movie. Of course, I didn't see the movie, so I don't know. Exactly. You didn't see the movie, so you have no idea. I do know the guy at the't see the movie. You didn't see the movie. You have no idea. I do know the guy at the end of the movie, the Pope they picked as a hermaphrodite.
Starting point is 00:20:50 Well, not entirely, but yeah, close enough. You saw it? Yeah, I saw it. We discussed it. Yes, I saw the movie. Not a hermaphrodite. I thought it was a hermaphrodite, but had some kind of appendicitis and the doctors went in and found that the then ultimately chosen pope had ovaries.
Starting point is 00:21:22 So the pope had ovaries and a dick. That is the implication. Well, that's a hermaphrodite. I thought the hermaphrodite means you have both sex organs as well. So it wasn't clear from the movie and that was quite frankly a disappointment. Yes. It seems like a long way. The movie sounds like a shaggy dog story.
Starting point is 00:21:46 No, it's like they literally inserted that nonsense at the end for no good reason. It was like the big, it was almost like Madame Butterfly. Oh, it's a girl or boy, whatever it was. It's a boy. It wasn't a girl, it's a boy. Yeah, it was just like, it was completely unnecessary for. It was completely unnecessary for the rest of the movie. Really, so they didn't need a punchline at all? I don't think they needed a punchline.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Certainly not that one. Made no sense. Well, I like this baseball's analysis. There's a third clip here, which is misspelled paper. I got two Ps on it. Do Cardinals go into the conclave with eight candidate in mind or a group of candidates likely candidates in mind they're often cardinals to do file into the sixteen chapel with a fairly strong
Starting point is 00:22:33 sense for whom they intend to test their vote i mean bear in mind the last two conclaves that is the conclave of two thousand five elected pope benedict the sixteenth and the kind of later two thousand 2005 that elected Pope Benedict XVI and the conclave of 2013 that elected Pope Francis. Both of those were over in about a day and a half. Now, that would be completely impossible if it worked for the fact that a number of cardinals had made up their minds before they actually went into the Sistine Chapel about which way they wanted to go. I know you said this isn't the Iowa caucuses, but is it possible to handicap the potential
Starting point is 00:23:10 popes, the likely people who could be pope? Well, you know, there's an old Roman saying that he who enters a conclave as a pope exits as a cardinal, meaning sometimes getting that kind of talk does you more harm than good. But that said, we can look at the reputations Cardinals have held over the years, the significance of the positions, that is the jobs that they have held. One odds-on favorite and somebody who certainly will get a very serious look would be Italian Cardinal Pietro Potterline, who was the Secretary of State, that is the top aide and the top diplomat under Pope Francis, who would be seen as somebody who would in some ways carry forward the Francis
Starting point is 00:23:51 legacy but is an extraordinarily stable, careful, measured man and given what's happening in the world that's a prescription I think a number of Cardinals might find attractive. Yeah, they're supposed to listen to the Holy Spirit. They're not supposed to be politicking. Well, the funny thing is the irony of that guy's last comments was that if you enter as the pope, which he now just named somebody who entered as the pope, Pietro guy, who I thought would be the guy. That's your guy. Would not make it.
Starting point is 00:24:28 And so the same would hold true for the Sarah guy that you picked because he's getting a lot of ink. For a whole bunch of reasons, I got a lot of emails about my PO pick. But everyone would be very happy, which, you know, makes me wonder. But that's my pick. I'm standing by it. That's what I got to do. Yeah, I think your pick is a great pick, to be honest about it. And he's old, he's not going to be there forever. So he's got to get the black guy in, he won't be here for long. I mean, they won't even let Cardinals under 80 vote for the pope and this guy's 80. No, no, up to 80 as far as you can't, not over 80s. I don't think you can vote if you're 80. No, I said that's what I meant. You can't, when you're 80 and older, you can't vote for the pope.
Starting point is 00:25:22 So how can you be the Pope? It makes no sense. So... And I've heard this guy talk admittedly only in French. Oh man, he's another one of these... He doesn't... how about a Pope with a clear voice? I think that Surra guy is a... Or Surrah. I think he speaks about four languages. I think he speaks Italian, French, Italian, and Papal. Latin? I don't know. Three or four. Fluently. Yeah, we'll see. All eyes are on the Vatican. Now we go into the big smoke thing.
Starting point is 00:26:04 Now we go into the big smoke thing. I'm going to be waiting for the smoke. The smoke. The smoke, yeah. It's good branding though. When you think about it, those guys, they know how to brand themselves. You know, burning up the lots and then mixing it with the chemical to be black or white smoke. I mean, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, I had a meme about it in a newsletter. You probably missed it.
Starting point is 00:26:28 I did. I'm sorry. I was out. I didn't have a chance. Now, did you send another newsletter? Did you send a follow-up? Yeah, I sent a second note because things had fallen off the cliff. And so I had to send out the emergency plain text. Did stuff get trapped in the in the in the in the spans? There might have been a little bit but I don't think that was the cause I think it was just a lull. Hmm April it's always April. There were a couple of interesting terms in this ABC report it's from your girl Martha Raditz or what do we call now
Starting point is 00:27:05 Radnitz? Radnitz? Martha Radnitz. This is the continuation because oh Lord we need to continue with Signalgate. But listen to these terms. We're gonna get the latest now on the controversy surrounding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. New security questions raised from his use of a commercial messaging app for sensitive commercial messaging app. Signal is a nonprofit, first of all. It comes back a couple of times. The commercial I've heard this too. I've heard this comment too.
Starting point is 00:27:37 They use that term. Yeah, which is specifically what they want. What they're trying to imply is that this is some off-the-shelf Yeah, bonehead product that anyone can pick up and as opposed to a secretive government system that can only be used by You know spies and spooks by Rocky and Bullwinkle Yeah security questions raised from his use of a commercial messaging app for sensitive national security communication She full of affairs anchor Martha right is tracking that story. Good morning, Martha Hello, good morning George this morning more alarming news Chief of the Affairs, Anchor Martha Reitz, tracking that story. Good morning, Martha. Hello. Good morning, George.
Starting point is 00:28:06 This morning, more alarming news out of the Pentagon. Sources tell ABC that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the then acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Chris Grady, of leaking information to the press. The sources say Hegseth was shouting at Admiral Grady after a story appeared about Elon Musk's possible top secret briefing by the Joint Chiefs on China. Hegseth was shouting at Admiral Grady after a story appeared about Elon Musk's possible top secret briefing by the Joint Chiefs on China. The Wall Street Journal first to report that Hegseth demanded proof from Admiral Grady that he didn't leak the story, yelling, I'll hook you up to a expletive polygraph.
Starting point is 00:28:40 And this morning, Hegseth's press spokesman denying that the defense secretary had the commercial app signal on a personal computer Inside his pentagon office sources told abc that the computer hold on a second. Hold on a second Now this was the the last report we got was it was on his personal phone Now she's saying He was running signal the commercial app on his computer inside the Pentagon. Yeah, this has been a change in narrative.
Starting point is 00:29:12 That's a big change. The narrative has been changed. There's a couple of things. And they also left out the fact that according to the guy who is the chief national security advisor for Trump. It was a spook. Was told by the CIA that this is the product to use. This is the one to use. Yeah. And so he was using it on his computer. Now you can use signal on your computer. Sure. But this is a- It's like me, my text messaging. I do everything on the computer.
Starting point is 00:29:41 I use Google voice for texting cause I can type away. I don't have to poke away my thumbs and get you know. You don't have to extract your phone from your drawer let's be honest. I don't have to take the phone from the drawer. Denying that the defense secretary had the commercial app signal on a personal computer inside his Pentagon office sources told ABC that the computer was connected to an unsecured commercial line what is known as a dirty line since it does not have fire like that a dirty line yes this entire show operates on a dirty line firewall protection all whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa hold on a second let me
Starting point is 00:30:19 hear that again what is known as a dirty line, since it does not have firewall protection. All this. Firewall protection? That's kind of skipping along. Okay. As we've learned this morning from sources that Hegseth's chief of staff has now departed the Pentagon. Joe Casper will now take on a part-time advisory role in the government.
Starting point is 00:30:43 We are told Casper's departure follows the dismissal of top aides to Hegseth. Those aides were escorted out of the building by security, George. And so now, now comes another piece of information. It sounds like Pete Hegseth is taking a page out of the John C. Dvorak handbook. Yeah, real exodus there. Meantime, the New York Times reported just moments ago that these phone numbers... Well, it's not an exodus if you're kicked out. The real exodus there.
Starting point is 00:31:12 They're not leaving on their own accord. They're being kicked out, no? I think one of them quit. Okay, well then it's not a real exodus. Yeah, real exodus there. Meantime, the New York Times reported just moments ago... Oh, exodus. They used the word exodus? Yeah. In. And Exodus is it three or four guys?
Starting point is 00:31:28 If 245 people left walked out the same day, I would call that an Exodus. Yeah, real Exodus there. Meantime the New York Times reported just moments ago that these phone numbers that Haegseth was using were actually available online. Oh, oh, like Google phone. He had a Google phone number like you, John. Google just found online. Yeah, George, you know, any personal phone is vulnerable, especially if you are the defense secretary. Foreign adversaries would like those numbers,
Starting point is 00:31:58 and those numbers are pretty easy to find. And Hagseth had highly sensitive information on his phone in those signal chats. Hold on a second. So I have your phone number. And you have highly sensitive information on your phone. What do I do? Call you up and say, hey, push that. Let me walk you through some processes so you can send me all that information.
Starting point is 00:32:22 I mean, what does that got to do with anything? You got his phone number. So what? Yeah. Well if you're Huawei you're in the system. Foreign adversaries. Well yeah if you're Huawei this is true. You could probably, there might be a back door into the phone. If you have the number you need the number to get into the back door. Or if you have the database that the NSA maintains and you need to just give them the number and they cough back every message you've ever done or received, that's
Starting point is 00:32:53 different. I think what we can conclude is that this reporting is very flimsy. They're using all kinds of adjectives to try and hype it up with commercial app and dirty phone line and found the numbers online. This is just exactly what it was always intended to be. It's some form of railroading for the military industrial complex or the neocons or whoever wants Hegseth out. Foreign adversaries would like those numbers and those numbers are pretty easy to find. Hey Pete can I have your digits? And Hegseth had highly sensitive information on his phone in those signal chats about the attack plans in Yemen.
Starting point is 00:33:33 Highly sensitive. Okay. Well, there you go. Martha Raddatz on the beat everybody. The world is safe. ABC's got issues. Yeah. I think they're more compromised than CBS. Yeah, I was trying to clip some of the latest on the media from NPR. Your buddy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:55 It was very difficult because they're just talking about how Brendan Carr, the new FCC commissioner, how he's going after them. And I think is it NBC has a $20 billion lawsuit against it? Or CBS? CBS, from Trump, $20 billion lawsuit. Yeah, that's ongoing. I know, and we're also in an investigation. This is the problem with the report.
Starting point is 00:34:21 We're in an investigation because the FCC believes that we don't have underwriting. We have, we're doing commercial messages. And then they went on to have no examples or even explain what the difference is. It was very disappointing. I was ready to clip a whole bunch, but it just didn't happen anyway. So. Well, yeah, the Hgg Seth is under fire. I don't think he's handling it well. No.
Starting point is 00:34:48 He should be more glib and less angry. Yes. So we don't know exactly what was discussed. We had the president meeting with Zelensky, which was kind of a cool move where you had that huge room I presume summer in Vatican City and they put two chairs right in the middle and there's Zelensky's hanging out with Macron and You know, he's doing his little
Starting point is 00:35:15 Tett-a-tett and then Trump comes in they sit down and I guess I have some analysis of this Well, I'll play the news report first president Trump meeting face to face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi Saturday at St. Peter's Basilica, the two discussing a ceasefire deal. Zelenskyi sounding confident after the meeting, posting he's hoping for results and ultimately a full and unconditional ceasefire. After the meeting, President Trump strongly rebuking President Putin on true social, accusing Russia's leader of tapping him along and saying, quote, maybe he doesn't want to stop the war. Adding, if the missile attacks continue on Ukraine, he may be forced to impose sanctions
Starting point is 00:35:53 on Russia. The growing frustration from the president comes after his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Russian President Vladimir Putin met face to face for the second time Friday, the meeting lasting three hours and being called constructive and a step in the right direction. But so far, neither side has agreed to a ceasefire and President Trump saying this Friday about a deadline. I have my own deadline and we want it to be fast and the Prime Minister is helping us. He wants it to be fast too.
Starting point is 00:36:21 So we have a deadline and after that we have it. We're gonna have a very much different attitude Yeah, he has his own deadline. He's got his own deadline He's got so she dropped the tapping along also. Yes comment This is actually what do you call that when something does not show up in Google? We had a word for that back in the day. What's that word? Google wash was no no no not Google wash No, if it doesn't show up in Google, then it has a term.
Starting point is 00:36:48 That doesn't happen very often, but this tapping along is one of those phrases. Google, nothing, no search engine knows about it. That's interesting. Alright, your NPR analysis? Well, let's start with the, first of all, the tapping along here with the Trump-Vatikin-Zelensky NPR clip, which is kind of what you played, but this is their version. President Trump is back in the U.S. after his very brief trip to Vatican City to attend Pope Francis' funeral.
Starting point is 00:37:29 As NPR's Deepa Sivaram reports, while there, he met with Ukraine's Zelensky. The meeting between Trump and Zelensky took place in St. Peter's Basilica shortly before the funeral program began. The White House hasn't released any detail of the conversation between the two leaders. But Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social and said he thinks Russian leader Vladimir Putin might be, quote, tapping me along and doesn't want to end the war. He was critical of Russia's attacks on civilian areas and floated the idea of sanctions against Russia but provided no further detail. Trump is spending the rest of the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Okay. Pretty straight forward. They get tapping along comes up again and it's straight forward. They don't talk about, you know, big applause for Zelensky and it booed Trump. And so now we go to an analysis, uh, and we, they bring in this guy, McFaul. You see, if you see this guy, McFaul. If you see this guy, he's got this dour quality to him. He used to be an ambassador.
Starting point is 00:38:30 I think he's a spook. Trump hater to the core. And so he's going to be biased and he's going to see nothing good going on. But everything that Trump did that he thought was positive, he does say, but it's all, you know, the kind of neoliberal crap, but here we go. President Trump met with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Vatican this morning. A photo shows the two leaders sitting face to face, huddled together in seemingly deep conversation on the sidelines of Pope Francis' funeral. The White House says the two had, quote, a very productive discussion.
Starting point is 00:39:05 And on social media earlier today, President Trump criticized his Russian counterpart, writing, quote, there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas. It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war. He's just tapping me along. This all comes a day after U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met with President Putin in Moscow to discuss a possible end to the war in Ukraine. Here to talk about what all of this high-level diplomacy means is Michael McFaul. He served as the former U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration and
Starting point is 00:39:36 is currently the director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Welcome. Thanks for having me. Let's start with this meeting. What do you make of the meeting? What do you make of the fact that afterward Trump posted on social media criticizing Vladimir Putin, not Vladimir Zelensky?
Starting point is 00:39:53 Well, I'm glad they had the meeting. Anytime they can meet, especially one-on-one, without cameras, without staff, that's always a good thing. Without cameras. Because then President Zelensky gets to explain his position directly to President Trump. The reaction from President Zelensky on social media was very positive and other staff people have said positive things. And as you just noted, President Trump also did criticize Putin.
Starting point is 00:40:18 He suggested that maybe he's not serious about peace and that there should be sanctions. And that's, in my view, a correct assessment of where Putin has been so far. And that would be a correct prescription to try to put pressure on Russia, something President Trump and his team have never done. Yeah. Even Bolton came out and went, oh, this is good. This is good. When these guys are all on the same side. They're all Putin haters, Trump haters.
Starting point is 00:40:47 And so when Trump looks like he's standing up to Putin, this is great. And if he got closer and started threatening a war, he'd be even greater. And if we bombed Iran, that would be fabulous. These guys would be all over themselves. Yeah, nice. Yeah. All right, onward. Sorry. But I'd also point out that President Trump sounds always tough on social media and says a lot of things rhetorically and very rarely follows up with concrete actions when we're talking about pressure on Putin, pressure on Russia.
Starting point is 00:41:19 Trump said yesterday he thinks Ukraine and Russia are close. How do you read that? What do you read that? What do you think is happening in the coming weeks? Do you think this war could end? I'm not sure. I worry that Putin is not serious about ending this war. I think Putin thinks time is on his side. Trump and his team will eventually get frustrated and walk away.
Starting point is 00:41:40 They'll cut military assistance to Ukraine. And that's all in Putin's favor for continuing the war and to try to conquer the territory on the ground that he is already annexed on paper. You buy a map in Russia today and it has four of those regions of Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation. I'm curious what your best realistic read is right now, not what you would like to see but what you think is realistic.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Well, I would disconnect two different things that get conflated. There's a ceasefire, and then there's a permanent peace agreement to end the war. I think those are two very different things. I think most immediately, getting a ceasefire, and even if it has to be a minimum one, getting a ceasefire that both sides say we are not going to attack civilian targets, that would be a great achievement for the Ukrainians. Remember, Putin constantly every day and just a few days ago, again in their capital of Kiev, is attacking civilian targets. I call that terrorism.
Starting point is 00:42:41 That would be great to end. And then that moment, if you got to a ceasefire, could create the permissive conditions for a longer negotiation that I think could go on for months, if not years, about some permanent peace settlement. And I'm not optimistic they would ever get it, but at least the war would stop without forcing Zelensky to acknowledge annexation. And I think tragically, that's probably the best outcome. Uh, Google Whack.
Starting point is 00:43:13 That was the term. I never, I don't recall that term. Yes, Google Whack. It's a Google Whack. Tapping along is not found in a Google search. It is a Google Whack. Wrapping along is not found in a Google search. It is a Google whack. So okay, so we have all that taking place. But meanwhile, the president is definitely saying that it appears like there are already some terms that have been negotiated, particularly when it comes to Crimea.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday for a fourth time to discuss a peace deal with Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine, I think they're coming along, we hope. They're very fragile. The president said he's not placing a deadline on the talks, but wants to get something done as quickly as possible. We're going to try and get out of war so that we can save 5,000 people a week.
Starting point is 00:44:02 I think we're pretty close. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told CBS News Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan he agreed with Trump's assessment that talks are moving in the right direction but wouldn't discuss details. We are really polite people. And unlike some others, we never discuss in public
Starting point is 00:44:21 what is being discussed in negotiations. Otherwise, negotiations are not serious no a major sticking point in negotiations is Crimea seized by Russia in 2014 in a new interview with Time magazine president Trump said Crimea will stay with Russia but Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says he cannot accept that because it goes against his country's constitution. Both President Zelensky and Trump will be in Rome for the Pope's funeral on Saturday, where the president says it's possible that they'll talk.
Starting point is 00:44:54 Oh, so now all of it's like Zelensky, just keep telling him, no, just keep, keep it going. Whatever they want, just say, no, I can't do that. I can't have elections because that's unconstitutional, but I can't give up Crimea because that goes against our constitution. They, there is no, uh, they have no intention of a truce. I don't see it. I really don't see that we're getting accurate information. Well, that's what I don't see.
Starting point is 00:45:25 Now, like a good businessman running our country, President Trump has put a hedge in place, and he sent little Marco down to Africa or over to Africa to take care of the deal. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed what they're calling a pathway to peace in a U.S US brokered agreement. As the Rwanda-backed M23 keep up gaining ground, the Congo found it crucial to accept the offer made by the US. A necessary step towards peace taken with resolve and purpose. This moment carries particular weight for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Goma, in Bukavu and beyond.
Starting point is 00:46:06 The Declaration of Principles, Rwanda says, opens the door to a definitive deal. Our common aim is to conclude a comprehensive peace agreement as soon as possible. But there are no shortcuts or quick fixes, and we have to do the hard work to get it done right once and for all. The long simmering tensions between the two neighboring countries have led to one of the world's largest humanitarian crisis. Yet the diplomatic breakthrough the US have facilitated is no accident. Trump's administration is in talks with Kinshasa to invest billions of dollars in minerals. DRC is the world's largest producer of cobalt and has vast deposits such as gold and copper.
Starting point is 00:47:01 I think we're looking at some rare earths coming from the DRC You know we can talk about rare earths coming from here and there and all we want but the problem is and it's always ignored in These reports we can't process these rare earths. That's the problem It's not that China has nothing but rare earths China has a hundred percent of the world's processing I thought Canada had some. Doesn't Canada have processing capability? Not that I know of. All I know is that China, we dig up rare earths, we ship it to China, they process it and we get it back.
Starting point is 00:47:34 Well, you don't have to get mad about it. I'm mad at the fact that they keep not reporting on this. Okay. So, what? We got a rare earth deal. So, what? We can't do anything with it. Well, what does it take to process rare earth? Can we start rare earth processing?
Starting point is 00:47:50 Does that take a hundred years to get a gun? I think it's a myth. I think I personally, I don't know. But I will say what I suspect. Okay. It's a mess. Yeah, probably. It's a dangerous thing to do. It's probably toxic as hell, ruins everything around it. It's got to be a laughable mess. That's the only thing I can think of. Otherwise, we'd be doing it. Send it to Canada. I don't think Canada is doing it. They should start. What do you want to do if we get rid of Canada?
Starting point is 00:48:24 It's a great idea, Canada, why don't you process this? We'll drop all the tariffs. But here's more evidence that I really don't believe that they want any kind of truce and nor do we because our boy over there, our sales guy in the EU, we all know him, Mark Rutte. Yeah, your buddy. Mark Rutte. He just keeps on harping the same thing.
Starting point is 00:48:46 It's gotta be more money, more money, and for a long time. The Kremlin says an offensive by the Ukrainian army in Russia's Kursk region is over. That emerged in a briefing between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Russia's general staff, Valery Gerasimov, who said the last occupied settlement in the region had just been recaptured. The plans of the Kiev regime to create a so-called strategic bridgehead and disrupt our offensive in the Donbas have failed.
Starting point is 00:49:15 Russia also confirmed for the first time that North Korean soldiers have been fighting alongside Russian troops in Kursk. The Russian Defense Ministry released this video footage showing aerial shots and soldiers running and others issuing instructions to raise a Russian flag over a village in the region. Ukrainian officials however say the fighting is still continuing. Ukraine's general staff said the statements of representatives of the high command... This is the wrong clip, how come you didn't stop me? Well, I was waiting for you to cut in with your Ruta voice.
Starting point is 00:49:50 It's the wrong clip. I'm sorry. NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta has urged all 32 member nations to devote more funds, equipment and political energy to the world's largest military alliance. The move comes as European countries ramp up defense spending to meet the agreed upon 2% threshold ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague in June. It also follows threats by US President Donald Trump of walking away from NATO if Europe does not increase defense spending to at least 5% of GDP.
Starting point is 00:50:19 It has to be considerably higher than this famous 2% which we wanted to achieve by 2024. No it must be 5. We have seen the last couple of days countries like Belgium and Spain and Italy saying we will reach the 2% in time for the summit so that's not 2024 but close. Close. But clearly with 2% we cannot defend NATO territory. It has to be considerably higher and I've said before. You have to understand it is not money, we can't defend you.
Starting point is 00:50:45 We cannot defend NATO territory without the right amount of monies. It has to be considerably north of 3%. North! North! Rutte insists the increase in spending is to ensure NATO's safety and not just match the US. He added that the alliance must be fully competent and ready to weather any storm, particularly against one common threat.
Starting point is 00:51:21 The comments came during a visit to Washington to meet with high-ranking U.S. defense officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hexhav. The NATO boss was also questioned by reporters on the ongoing peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, but declined to give his opinion as to not hinder the process. I think this is all part of the forthcoming Mar-a-Lago Accords. If I put it all together with the trillion dollar coin, economic concessions, if you buy our military gear, so no tariffs, we'll protect you as long as you spend the money. Of course, dollar devaluation, which I think is happening. But the tariffs are going to be linked to the United States protecting you.
Starting point is 00:52:18 And then we'll have the 100-year bonds or whatever. And it was actually, I come up with this, didn't you have a clip on the last show from Besant at the railing on the IMF and the World Bank about their climate change nonsense? I'd have to look into clipless, but I don't know specifically what clip you're talking about. Let's just play it again. Well, I think that's what it was because I went back and I listened to Besant talking at it's like the International Finance. I had two Besant clips.
Starting point is 00:52:46 Gambit, let me see what they were. The first one was about him railing on the Chinese. Yeah, yeah. And the other one was just a generalized, not as strong a clip. Well, if you listen to the opening of that speech that he did, here's what he said. In the final months of World War two
Starting point is 00:53:09 Western leaders convened the greatest economic minds of their generation Their task to build a new financial system at a quiet resort high up in the mountains of New Hampshire They laid the foundation for PACS Americana The architects of Bretton Woods recognized that a global economy required global coordination. To encourage that coordination they created the IMF and the World Bank. These twin institutions were born after a period of intense geopolitical and economic volatility. The purpose of the IMF and the World Bank was to better align national interests with international order, thereby bringing stability to an unstable
Starting point is 00:53:53 world. In short, their purpose was to restore and preserve balance. This remains the purpose of the Brinton Woods institutions. Yet everywhere we look across the international system today, we see imbalance. The good news, it doesn't have to be this way. My goal this morning is to outline a blueprint to restore equilibrium to the global financial system and the institutions designed to uphold it. Sounds like a new accord to me. And what the IMF, their original task, as I understand it, was to allow countries to devalue or revalue their currency, but with everybody knowing it. And so you had to go and get permission from the IMF and that's how they provided stability.
Starting point is 00:54:45 And that's how the whole foreign exchange business grew out of that. And of course, eventually went completely nuts. So he wants to rebalance everything. And then here's his clip on China. In response to President Trump's tariff announcements, more than 100 countries have approached us wanting to help rebalance global trade. These countries have responded openly and positively to the President's actions to create a more balanced international system.
Starting point is 00:55:16 We are engaged in meaningful discussions and look forward to talking with others. China in particular is in need of a rebalancing. Recent data shows the Chinese economy tilting even further away from consumption toward manufacturing. China's economic system, with growth driven by manufacturing exports, will continue to create even more serious imbalances with its trading partners if the status quo is allowed to continue. China's current economic model is built on exporting its way out of its economic troubles. It's an unsustainable model that is not only harming China, but the entire world. China needs to change.
Starting point is 00:56:03 The country knows it needs to change. Everyone knows it needs to change. The country knows it needs to change. Everyone knows it needs to change. And we want to help it change because we need rebalancing too. China can start by moving its economy away from export over capacity and towards supporting its own consumers and domestic demand. Such a shift would help with global rebalancing that the world desperately needs. So rebalancing, rebalancing. This is the most presumptuous, that last part is the part that you're talking about that I played the last show. Yes. This is the most, I thought about this, this is the most presumptuous thing. Who says that China doesn't, oh boy, we're so, we wish we had more,
Starting point is 00:56:50 our trade wasn't so unbalanced. That's bull crap. They've been saying for years that they want to own the manufacturing space for the whole world and then by some date, they always have some date in the future where they expect to dominate the whole all of it China and so what is he talking about well he's talking about doing the exact same thing we want to export yeah you can't be all the exporter we want to export and we've been talking to the Chinese about it or have we US presidents Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US and China have been in trade talks
Starting point is 00:57:28 after Beijing denied any negotiations on tariffs. During a meeting with Norway's prime minister at the White House, Trump told reporters that his officials had a meeting with their Chinese counterpart on Thursday morning. Well, they had a meeting this morning, so I can't tell you, it doesn't matter who they is. We may reveal it later, but we had meetings this morning and we've been meeting with China. Earlier, China's foreign ministry denied Trump's assertion that the two sides were
Starting point is 00:57:57 involved in active negotiations. These are all false news. As far as I know, it's even more impossible to reach an agreement. That's Chinese for FAKE NEWS! The Chinese comment came after Trump said Tuesday that the final tariff rate on China's exports would come down substantially from the current 145%. The trade war has raised fears of a global economic slowdown with the International Monetary Fund, IMF, slashing its 2025 growth forecast from 3.3% to 2.8%. So you know, if these Mar-a-Lago Accords actually happen and they try to get everybody together
Starting point is 00:58:35 and they try to rebalance, I understand security guarantees, I understand debt restructuring and I think actually President Trump could probably do that, could convince everybody to take a 100 year bond at a much lower interest rate. Tariffs as leverage, but dollar devaluation. I have two questions. One, how do you devalue your current, how does the dollar devalue? What is the key lever to doing that
Starting point is 00:59:10 oh and then all of a sudden you want to what I hate it with that thing just do it again hold on John it did it again it just decides all of a sudden I'm just gonna use a different a. These guys screw up. Are you there? Are you there? Yeah. Okay. No, we're completely gone.
Starting point is 00:59:35 Clean feed decided to change the interface again. This is doing this a lot to you. Yes. So anyway, my question again, how does one devalue the dollar? How do you do that? Well, you don't. For one thing, the dollar will slide up and down in its value naturally,
Starting point is 00:59:57 and it's not as devalued as it once was, I'd say. I don't know how many years ago when the Euro was a buck 26. I'd say, I don't know how many years ago when the Euro was a buck 26. I remember that because I think I was in Europe that year. And so it's not like the peso where they all of a sudden make an announcement that is worth half as much. Well, that's what I'm asking. Because the reserve currency, we can't do that.
Starting point is 01:00:21 Can we do it if we flood the world with stable coin? Would that do it if we if we flood the world with stable coin? Could would that do it just by I don't think I don't think I don't know why you want to do that I'm not saying I want to do anything. I hear that I read all the time about dollar devaluation and I'm how does China Devalue their currency. They're doing is not a reserve currency and they just They just arbitrarily move it up and down based on their central planning. You have to have central planning. It's not possible. We can't go devalue the dollar.
Starting point is 01:00:54 It's not going to happen. I'm asking you for the mecha. So let's say China just wakes up one day and says, we're worth less. That's how they do it. And they just say, okay, do they change the exchange rates on there and I'm asking for the mechanics no they change the exchange rate so why couldn't why couldn't we do that with a dollar you could do that with it you could say we're just good the exchange rate is now this I'm not saying we should the
Starting point is 01:01:20 dollar would collapse the whole world economic system would fall apart oh who says that's not the idea? We don't want that. Do you have a worldwide depression and we'd be out of a job? We could talk about lousy donations. Man, you're fighting me like I'm the one saying this should happen. I'm just reading about it and I'm trying to understand the mechanisms of it. Well, I don't know what the mechanism would be.
Starting point is 01:01:45 Well, could the mechanism be by creating a flood of new dollars in the form of stable coin that would just by having to start the printing presses up, that'll do it. Same thing. It's the same. Hell with the stable coin. You don't need the stable coin. Just crank out the just change the money supply. The Biden kind of did that.
Starting point is 01:02:04 It cheapened the dollar. It's more fun. One way of doing it. It's more fun to say stable coin, just crank out the money, just change the money supply. Biden kind of did that, it cheapened the dollar. It's more fun. It's one way of doing it. But it's more fun to say stable coin. Yeah, you like the word stable coin. You are in a horrible mood today. I don't know, did you get out on the wrong side of the bed? Or what happened to you? You're like, you drank vinegar.
Starting point is 01:02:20 What the hell am I doing over here on this side of the bed? wrongs what the hell am I doing over here on this side of the bed how does people get on out of bed on the wrong side of the bed I think that's an interesting phrase is this part of the Horowitz rift are you are you mad being the child in the middle I mean what's going on man you said you're in a bad mood I'm just trying to get a little conversation going I'm in a bad mood you're bringing up topics that I can't you you're asking me questions I can't answer. Oh, then just say I can't answer it instead of… I said that.
Starting point is 01:02:48 I already said I don't know. Instead you said, you don't want to do that. Except you can do the printing press thing. That will devalue the dollar. But just hypothetically, just follow with me. You could also do a fake printing press with stablecoin. I don't know what that even means. That's the problem.
Starting point is 01:03:04 Well, you create more dollars only these are digital dollars, just like the EU is going with stable coin. I don't know what that even means that's the problem. Well you create more dollars only these are digital dollars just like the EU is gonna do with the digital euro. Everyone's gonna be doing this. This is in the cards. So the digital dollars the stable coin is the same thing? Yeah that's that's the yes. You make us when you buy a Treasury treasury for every dollar of treasury bill that you purchase, you get to create a stablecoin. There are hundreds of billions of stablecoins already in circulation based upon this. That's what Tether does. So they have already done this. And that's what Lutnik was doing with the the canter fridge Gerald. They are going to be the biggest provider of liquidity or I guess backing of stable coin.
Starting point is 01:03:50 Sounds like economic mumbo jumbo. All economics is mumbo jumbo as far as I'm concerned. I think that's part of the plan. Just create stable coin that could devalue the dollar. That is the same as a printing press only it's not the same as the money supply like M2 or whatever. Anyway, I'm just waiting for the Mar-a-Lago Accord. That's what I'm waiting for. But you have some hang up on this Mar-a-Lago Accords. Because I coined it. now everybody's using it.
Starting point is 01:04:33 I talked about it first. Okay. It's just like the Pope. Everyone's listening to our show and they're not donating. Well that's for sure. These guys. These guys. And who's the Catholic donors? No, they're donating. What do you mean? Void Zero is one of our biggest value contributors. Mega Catholic. He's a meta, meta, meta Catholic. Meta, meta, meta, meta. Uh, okay. Well, let me see if I can change your mood with this. Uh, sports ball, little sports ball. And? You were in the news. You didn't, you don't tell me you're not watching the playoffs. Yeah, what playoffs? Basketball? The Hockey League, man. Oh, I haven't been following the hockey game.
Starting point is 01:05:12 The Capitals versus the Canadians? Come on, man. Yeah, there's a guy named Dvorak on the Capitals. ... capacity crowd, first time they've headed. Fully attended playoff game here since 2017. Young upstart Montreal-Canadians team. Fully attended playoff game here since 2017 Come on tell me you know this guy is Do you see him at the big Dvorak conference? No, I didn't see him at the Dvorak conference. Every time I hear about the Capitals, I keep thinking, I should get a hold.
Starting point is 01:05:57 I know the owner of the team. Wait, isn't that the guy from AOL, Ted? Ted Leonsis? Ted Leonsis. Yeah, I know Ted. Yeah, everyone knows Ted. Well, you know Ted was on our board at Pod Show for like five minutes. That sounds like Ted. He was on the board, showed up to one meeting and went nah screw these guys. I'm off. Got no time to be on the board. Ted Leonsis funny guy very funny he is a funny guy I guess you get a hold of him yeah I'm getting if you
Starting point is 01:06:32 can be on our board what I want to do is get an autograph of the guy one of the players is not Dvorak but this Ovechkin guy that's that's a player mmm mmm player. Well that didn't cheer me up. Well I'm sorry okay well let me see if this cheers you up. Tonight one of Jeffrey Epstein's most vocal accusers has died. Oh there's a cheery story. Here with her family helped to expose Epstein's evil. CBS's Ali Baumann joins us with more tonight. Allie? Good evening David. Virginia Joufray's family calls her a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse. And other survivors have credited her with giving them the courage to speak out.
Starting point is 01:07:15 She died Friday at her farm in Australia. Virginia Joufray was the first accuser of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to waive her anonymity and go public. In a statement, her family says the 41-year-old was the light that lifted so many survivors. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight. Joufray said in 2019, Epstein's sex trafficking ring passed her around like a platter of fruit to the rich and powerful Including Britain's Prince Andrew when she was 17
Starting point is 01:07:49 the Duke of York denies the allegations and questioned the authenticity of This infamous photo of him with his arm around you phrase way They settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in 2022 We need to show the world that the rich and the mighty can fall too. Joufray spoke with Gayle King in 2020 about her fight for justice and Epstein's death by suicide in a New York jail. It would have been great to look at him in court and say, you know, you hurt me, you took away my innocence, you took away my youth, but he took that away from us too. So they didn't really, they kind of, they buried the lead if not explained at all because
Starting point is 01:08:29 the real story is, I have two parts here, is that she committed suicide. The woman who was one of the most prominent accusers of wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has died. Virginia Joufray was 41 years old. Her family says she died by suicide. So this is a very strange story because I have a clip that I clipped I think three weeks ago. There's a lot of clips we don't get to in the show. Tons. Yeah. And it was an oddball story about her. So this is three weeks ago where she went on Instagram. It's like, Oh, I've been hit by a bus.
Starting point is 01:09:11 There did a couple of things before you play that. There's a very interesting, uh, for people who like this sort of thing, uh, conspiracy videos floating around saying that she was murdered. And it's kind of fascinating, because they say the bus accident, which they've shown, didn't account for her actual bruising that she was being beaten by some lover of hers
Starting point is 01:09:39 that was a sadist, I guess, and beaten the crap out of her constantly. And so the pictures you saw of her all beat up was like not then nothing to do with The bus wreck that it correct and he then he hung her Who I didn't hear that part well Here's here's the report that I clipped three weeks ago police in Australia Her peer to have disputed a claim made by Prince Andrews accuser Virginia Geoffrey that she was involved in a serious crash
Starting point is 01:10:05 which has left her with just days to live. The 41-year-old who previously alleged that the Duke of York had sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager wrote on Instagram yesterday that her car had collided with a school bus. Well, Lady Pitt is here. There are some conflicting details in this, aren't there? It is a bit confusing, Mary, because because in her post online Virginia Dufray said that she's gone into kidney renal failure and has been transferred to a specialist urology hospital and she's posted a photo where she appears to be in a hospital bed and has quite severe bruising to her face. She goes on to say
Starting point is 01:10:43 that she has four days to live after a crash with the school bus near her home in Perth in Australia. Now Western Australia police explained they know of a minor crash between a school bus and a car that was reported by the bus driver the following day but there were no reported injuries to them as a result of the crash. Here's what the officers have said. I do know there was an accident on the 24th of March. It was a bus with another vehicle. And was there any passengers on the bus at the time? I'm not aware of passengers on the bus but certainly the bus driver reported as as he was required to do and in the right time frames and I'm advised it was about $2,000 damage in the vehicle not aware of any injuries.
Starting point is 01:11:30 So the there's another option which is she's gone underground because Pam Bondi is about to drop the Epstein report. What would if she she's already out front about all, I can't see that being part of it. I'm just saying this. I think my thesis about the sadist is more likely. Oh, it's not my thesis. I know. But where is the Epstein Report?
Starting point is 01:11:59 That would be the big question. Where is the Epstein Report? Maybe she, I guess the third possibility, she hung herself because she's tired of waiting. Wow, oh that's pretty bad. Bad, bad, bad. We're never going to see the Epstein report. I don't think so either. We have to get that out of our craw. I don't think we're going to see it.
Starting point is 01:12:21 I don't think there is a report. I whatever it has been burned with everything else and the Epstein's probably still alive There you go Yep Right well that didn't die I hardly call that a cheerful Was just trying to version I have Got some stuff. I know how to cheer me up. Oh no, TikTok clips. Oh please. Talk. Talk.
Starting point is 01:12:47 TikTok. I have two TikTok. I have two. Okay. And the first one is this guy, it looks exactly like Governor Newsom only he's got gray hair. And he sounds like Newsom and I posted, reposted this on Twitter and actually tagged Newsom. Oh, I'm going to tag him, that'll show him. I'm tagging Newsom, that'll show him. Look at me, I'm the real Dvorak. Well, he does follow me, so it has some meaning.
Starting point is 01:13:20 Oh, you've got great followers. Name dropping. And so, but this guy looks, it looks exactly like him and he's a little more manic. But I just got the biggest kick at it. But this is typical of these guys and he's wearing a suit and tie and he's just a screwball clip. Donald Trump is now arresting a federal judge who disagrees with his immigration policy. Not only is this illegal, but it's happening at the same time that Donald Trump is defying a nine to zero court order. The law!
Starting point is 01:13:54 It is at the same time that he's disappearing people without due process, a violation of the Constitution, a violation of the law. Make no mistake, Donald Trump is breaking the law at the same time that he's breaking the law further by arresting federal judges. This is a complete and utter meltdown of the checks and balances to protect us from being an authoritarian regime. Now is the time, America! To be honest, of course, the time was a month ago, two months ago, three months ago, last November. But now, if you are not feeling with fervor the desire to defend your country,
Starting point is 01:14:30 to defend the promise of what you can be, then you are no longer part of this American experiment. Call your senators, call your reps, knock on their doors at their offices, and only one word should be on our lips, impeach! Oh man. That's pretty typical. Yeah. Of, of, of, that's a typical for Saturday afternoon in your office. It's just like, wow.
Starting point is 01:15:04 Now the other one I have, which I think is quite funny and I don't know, you know, I, I'm in between, I, I, if I'm being logical about this, this is just a troll and this was at an AOC town hall. What trolls on Tik Tok? What? This, this is at an AOC town hall. It's a question and answer. And this woman comes up and she goes on about her thesis about overpopulation and what we should be doing about it to save the planet for climate change.
Starting point is 01:15:36 And there's a note of sincerity in her voice that she's either, I don't know if she has me convinced she's a good actress or what, but it's a total troll. It has to be. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't call her out as such and she just kind of goes along with it, which is pathetic I might add, but here it is. We're not going to be here for much long because of the climate crisis. We only have a few months left. Troll, right there, troll. You support the green deal, but it's not getting rid of fossil fuel. It's not going to solve the problem fast enough. A Swedish professor saying that we can eat dead people, but that's not fast enough. So I think your next campaign slogan has to be this. We got to start eating babies. We don't have enough time.
Starting point is 01:16:26 There's too much CO2. Really? Now you were questioning if this was troll? All of you, you know you're pollutant. Eat your babies. We have to start now. Please, you are so great. I'm so happy that you're really supporting nuclear deal. But is this the real Alex Stein dressed up with a voice changer? No, it's just some random Swedish woman. Not enough, you know, even if we would bomb Russia We still have too many people too much pollution. So we have to get rid of the babies That's a big problem. Just stopping having babies aside enough. We need to eat the babies that's a big problem just stopping having babies inside and out we need to eat the babies and this is very serious please give a response no thank you thank you we'll go ahead okay
Starting point is 01:17:15 no we'll go ahead it's no no no thank you so I yeah, no, so one of the things that's very important to us is that we need to treat the climate crisis with the urgency that it does present. Luckily, we have more than a few months. We do need to hit net zero in several years But I think we all need to To to understand that there are a lot of solutions that we have And that we can pursue and that if we act in a positive way, there's space for hope There's we are never beyond hope now. Hold on a second. I So I went searching for a clip, because I know that we had Eating the Babies at some point in the history of the show. 2019, is this the same?
Starting point is 01:18:11 I'm not going to be here for much longer. It is. That's an old clip. It's not from C-SPAN. Because of the climate crisis. That's from 2019. Well, you think my memory would be a little better that I can remember that clip, was it mine? And it was taken from C-SPAN, by the way.
Starting point is 01:18:32 It wasn't really a TikTok clip. I just call everything talk because it's easier to categorize. Yeah, one of your clips, yeah. I'm not calling out for that reason, I'm surprised. I don't remember us playing it. I remember, okay. Although I have to say out for that reason. I'm surprised. I don't remember us playing it. I remember. Although I have to say, if that clip existed and I submitted it, it was definitely played.
Starting point is 01:18:52 Because nobody wants to not play Eating the Babies. I'm sure it was played. That's why I remember. Like, wait, I remember Eating the Babies. But I didn't realize it was the exact same clip. In fact, it's the same length. Buck 50. Interesting. Well, this it's the same length. Buck 50. Interesting. Well this is why the internet sucks. Well this is what bothers me by the way.
Starting point is 01:19:10 This recycling of clips. Oh, I see it so often. It sucks. It's just all over. It's all over. In fact, there's a couple of clips that I saw that I lost track of and then they, you know, like from about a year ago and boop, there they are again. They're coming back around.
Starting point is 01:19:25 So basically it wasn't AOC getting trolled. You got trolled. With another clip with it, with an old clip. I got trolled with an old clip, but it's a great clip. It's a great clip. It's a great clip, but this is just put classic on there. I mean, you know, sometimes I wonder if we're doing a disservice because, you know, the show started off in 2008, well before 2008, but 2008, Ron Paul was running, he had end the Fed, he had his book out and everybody was talking about, you know, the Federal Reserve, it's as federal as Federal Express and everyone kind of understood that this was not a government agency and now that Ian Carroll dude
Starting point is 01:20:08 He's made a whole video like did you know that the Federal Reserve is as a Governmental as Federal Express and people are sending it to me like this is a good background or you need to watch this You need to know that the Federal Reserve is not part of the government and I'm thinking to myself Do we need to re-explain these things? Is that where we're at now? There's a number of people out there that have condemned, oh, I forgot who it was, somebody sent us a note going on and on about how we have basically taken for granted many of these issues with the audience expecting them to know stuff.
Starting point is 01:20:41 That's possible. It's possible. I think it's possible. Maybe we should just start re-airing old shows. I think we could get away with it. We can start with the baby clip. Find that show and see what else was on there. Try some gems. For every time that the word Obama shows up, like, oh, but Trump, insert that real quick,
Starting point is 01:21:00 and that'll be the same show. Nothing's changed. Eating the baby. Well, I'm glad you remembered that. So here is some delusional DC Union Dems. This is beautiful. This is a toe-tapper.
Starting point is 01:21:18 You talk about tapping somebody along. This is your toe-tapper. They're so mad at Doge, so mad at Muscat, they made a song about it. And it's kind of a Negro spiritual when you listen to it. Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
Starting point is 01:21:39 That's an old Union song from the 30s. Oh, it's a Union, it's a Kami Union song? Yeah, that's a classic.. Oh only you would know that. Yeah well I do know it. What side is that's a Union song? Yeah which side are you on it was a I think it goes back into the 30s. Well I'll play this and I'll look up the original ones. We'll fight against chose, we'll fight beyond must, no humans can within our walls, we'll fight from dawn to dusk. Oh, which side are you on? Which side are you on? Yeah, it's got this really old fashioned... Here it is, it's the American Socialist song.
Starting point is 01:22:26 Here we go. Boom, boom, boom. With a banjo, apparently, from the combined socialist states of America. 1938. I'm trying to talk up the intro. It's taking a long time. Come on, sing. Okay, now here comes the banjo comes. He's milking it.
Starting point is 01:22:46 From all of you good workers, good news to you I'll tell. So they're doing a socialist song. Yeah! Wow! Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Yes, an old socialist song from the...
Starting point is 01:23:04 Wow! So a bunch of commies. Hello! That's... Oh man. That's crazy. If anyone wants to make end of show mix, I'll put the whole thing in the show notes. I was just like... They did a whole new lyrics to it.
Starting point is 01:23:20 It's like, oh brother, give me a break. So here's another interesting thing that took place. So Caroline Levitt, which I discussed in the newsletter with some interesting information because there's been some phony baloney YouTube videos about her. Oh, they're going after her personally now? They're going after her personally? No, it's just the opposite.
Starting point is 01:23:43 Oh. It's like a reverse smear. That's the way I described it. They're making it sound like some sort of a genius and she just sued the View and she got $800 million. What? And it was all elaborated. It's all like, you go check the newsletter.
Starting point is 01:23:58 There's a link to the video. And so I checked it and I'm like, look, this is, how come I haven't heard of this? Cause I'm watching it, you know, being hook, line, and sinkered. And after watching another video about her, where she excoriated the Supreme court under some circumstance, which I eventually found the disclaimer for it
Starting point is 01:24:20 on the YouTube video by clicking more. It said, this is fiction. There's no fiction on the $800 million lawsuit story, which is very well produced and you'd be convinced. What was it for? What was the $800 million for? Defamation. Wow.
Starting point is 01:24:35 Because they brought her on the show and they slammed her and made fun of her and they found all these memos. So she won this suit? $800 million? No, this is the point. Oh, okay. It's an elaborate hoax, but it's so elaborate.
Starting point is 01:24:46 Oh, wow. That it's like, you see this, you watch the video and you are totally convinced that this actually took place. It's very well done. I mean, the video's got clips from different people on Fox talking about how this is going down and, well, it looks like she's got their apology, She got an apology, but she's not. And it just, but they clip it so beautifully as one of the great pieces of propaganda I've ever seen in my life. So I look at, I, but I,
Starting point is 01:25:12 but I believed it cause I saw it just casually. Yes. And so I said, I've never heard of this. $800 million is not chicken feed. That's almost a billion. Like, where's the news on this? There's nothing in the New York Times, nothing in the Washington Post. Oh, they had you going. They had you going. They had me going for a few minutes, but then I ran it through AI searches. Oh, goodness.
Starting point is 01:25:35 And I ran it through all of them. I ran it through Grok, spotted it as a hoax, ChatGPT, everything, but he spotted it as a hoax, but Perplexity, which is one of my go-tos perplexity.ai. Uh, it, they bought it. Wow. And so I saw the thing about, she won this $800 million lawsuit. And then I looked at that. They have reference buttons. You push them, you see what the references are. And there were two references, both to the same fake YouTube video
Starting point is 01:26:06 that I guess they scanned and I don't know how they managed to get it in there, but they did it. What? AI was wrong? Say it ain't so. So I'm using this as an example of AI, you know, can't even do the fact checking for you. But so this kind of thing's been going on. So but anyway, that's the side.
Starting point is 01:26:26 Carolyn Leavitt has made it so you have a couple of podcasters can now, they have a podcasting seat. Oh, it's a new media. I think it's the new media seat. Yeah, the new media seat. New media seat. And there's a seat in front and there's some bunch of them in the back. But the seat in front was now occupied for this one day by Tim Poole, your buddy. When you're in the new media seat, do you have to wear the dunce cap?
Starting point is 01:26:49 Is that the idea? You sit there in the corner with the big pointy hat? Over to the side wearing his beanie. Big pointy hat, oh with his beanie, okay. And he's sitting there with his beanie. I don't know if you saw this or not. No I did not. I knew about it.
Starting point is 01:27:01 This is the clip from it. How long does this clip go for? 142. Yes. 142 is about 142. Yeah. It's a, it's a scripted to such an embarrassing extreme that she should be ashamed of herself. Cause you just, this is unbelievable. This was, this is, they're going to use this new media seat to,
Starting point is 01:27:23 to slam the mainstream media with tropes. And she's going to respond, oh, you made such a good point. Yeah, this is terrible. You're right. How does the phone call go? Hello, Tim Pool. This is the White House press office. We are sending you a script.
Starting point is 01:27:43 We have decided that you are going to be in the new media seat. Now, since you have a beanie, you don't have to wear the dunce cap, but we will be sending you a script and we expect you to read it. Is that okay? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. And here's the clip. Many of these organizations that are represented in this room have marks and locks. That right there is written by the White House press office. That is a Carolyn Levitt line. Many of the organizations represented in this room.
Starting point is 01:28:14 Yeah, right off the bat, you can hear it's a script. Many of these organizations that are represented in this room have Martin Lockstep on false narratives such as the Very Fine People hoax, the Covington smear, and now what's being called the Maryland man hoax. Did she have his hand up her her hand up his butt and moving his mouth? I mean, this is unbelievable. Where an MS-13 gang member adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is just simply being referred to as a Maryland man over and over again.
Starting point is 01:28:40 Now in an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you've created this new media seat. So I'm wondering if you can comment on following this expansion, you've had numerous outlets to disparage the companies that you've had sit here as well as the reporters. I'm wondering if you can comment on the unprofessional behavior as well as elaborate if there's any plans to expand access to new... You're behaving very unprofessionally towards me. I am pool boy.
Starting point is 01:29:08 Sure. Well, we certainly welcome diverse viewpoints in this room, which is one of the reasons we have you in here. And there's many new faces in this room in comparison to the previous administrations. We want to welcome all viewpoints into this room. We welcome unbiased journalists who really care about the truth and the facts and the accuracy and you rightfully pointed out the Maryland man story which I from this podium when the Atlantic published it on that very first day I came to this podium and said this is wrong. The press
Starting point is 01:29:36 in this room have this story wrong and we have seen more and more evidence come to the table that we have had all along. We were always right. The president was always on the right side of this issue, to deport this illegal criminal from our community. And it is despicable to see the media continue to refer to this individual as someone who is just a peaceful man living his life in Maryland.
Starting point is 01:29:56 This was and always has been an illegal criminal, an MS-13 gang member, and a designated foreign terrorist. And the administration maintains our position to deport these individuals from our community. So thank you for being here, Tim. It's great to see you. Thank you. Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:30:11 How pathetic. And, you know, if she says one more time, from this podium, from this podium, well, I'm going to start using that here at my podcast podium. John, are you at your podium? What do you think about it from your podium? Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile, I recorded it.
Starting point is 01:30:30 Last night we had the White House Correspondents Dinner, also known as- Well, I'm glad, you know, I saw it mentioned and I was going to go check it out. Cause I do- Well, why would you? Why would you? I never did. I just completely dropped the ball. So I'm glad you picked it up. check it out because I do. Why would you? Why would you? I never did. I just completely dropped the ball, so I'm glad you picked it up.
Starting point is 01:30:47 Well, I just picked up a little bit of it because, you know, and I what's the most fun is watching. It's called the nerd ball, the nerd ball. The most fun is watching the people come in and see span. They in essence just turn the camera on. They have their their their girl there who has a microphone and she's just grabbing people. Of course, there was no comedian.
Starting point is 01:31:11 They fired the comedian. There was no president. And there were almost no celebrities, which was the whole point of the fun of the White House Correspondents Dinner. It was fun to watch because the comedian would roast the president and the president would sit there and take it.
Starting point is 01:31:29 And it was that moment in time which is gone, gone forever. And so they had the, so what do they have to do? Well then everyone else is the star. So you had all of the news anchors showing up. And then I saw Dana Bash with, what's the man, woman? What's her name? Caitlyn?
Starting point is 01:31:53 Caitlyn Collins? Caitlyn Jenner? No, no, no. Caitlyn Collins, Caitlyn Collins. Caitlyn Collins, the lipless wonder. Yeah, the lipless wonder. And they are primping and posing for the camera and shimmying their shoulders and laughing and doing.
Starting point is 01:32:09 Shimmying their shoulders? I don't think so. Yes, yes, yes. I was, my mouth was agape. I'm like, oh my gosh, they're the stars, they're the celebrities. As you all know, every year we invite the president to this dinner. For decades, presidents on both sides of the political spectrum get gussied up and join
Starting point is 01:32:32 us. Have you seen this guy, the new president of the White House Correspondence Association? Yeah, it sounds a lot like what's his name, the black guy from Big Capehart. Well, he might be his brother, but he's in a complete white suit with, instead of a tie, he's got like a pearl brooch. What? With a pearl brooch. You know, like a brooch. Is he gay?
Starting point is 01:32:59 He sounds it. Hello? I want to be clear about something we don't invite presidents of the United States to this because it's for them we don't invite them because we want to cozy up to them or curry favor sounds like we don't you got to look at this guy his name is Eugene I'm looking at you Daniels he looks like we walk right on you Jeans. He looks like he walks straight out of an El DeBarge video. I mean, it's like...
Starting point is 01:33:27 It's a little obscure. Not for this guy. Not for people who were around in the 80s. Only extend invites to the presidents who say they love journalists or who say they are defenders of the First Amendment and a free press. We invite them to remind them that they should be. We invite them to demonstrate that those of should be. We invite them to demonstrate that those of us who have chosen the public service of journalism are not doing it because
Starting point is 01:33:55 we love flights on Air Force One or walking into the Oval Office. It's to remind them why a strong fourth estate is essential for democracy. That's why we have podcasters. Here he is. Here's a picture of him in this outfit you're talking about. So he's wearing it's in variety. Of course. I'm, Hey everybody. I made variety. I made variety. These people feel like they are stars and there's,
Starting point is 01:34:24 they're pontificating like this is public service. Who are you sitting with? Who are you sitting with? Well, I'm sitting with a bunch of guys from AP and CNN. There's no celebrities. I got no one there. So this guy's the MSNBC guy and he's obviously in the same milieu as K-Part because he sounds so much like him. Oh, totally. Why, at the end of the day, it's good for them. Even among the most... You know, if you played this guy out of the blue and I had to guess who it was...
Starting point is 01:34:58 You would have said K-Part. You would have said K-Part. No? Yeah. The free nations, the WHCA, what we do is unique. It is an example of American exceptionalism. Though we don't have the current president with us. This is more an example of douchebaggery. This is what I'm talking about. Tonight, we wanted to hear from some of those who have been gracious enough to sit among the White House press corps
Starting point is 01:35:26 And here we go roll the tape members of the White House Correspondence Association distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen Here I am Who was that from Saturday Night Live who did Bush Is that? You think about Dana Carvey who used to do Who was that from Saturday Night Live who did Bush? Cuz they Think of a Dana Carvey who used to do
Starting point is 01:35:48 George W. Yeah, this is HW boy. No, this is W Yeah, well so then they you know Then they played the clip of that when it was cool When you had people making fun of the president and the president making fun of himself But they jumped that shark so long ago. Anyway, I was just like, it was... They jumped the shark when Obama went after Trump. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. And then everybody else went after Trump. Yeah. And that was the end of it. Yeah. I didn't pull that clip. Trump's funny, but he can't take a joke when it's just mean-spirited.
Starting point is 01:36:28 I think he's got a sense of humor. He could take some chiding, but not when it's the way it was with Obama. Yeah. If it was Obama, I don't think I clipped that. He... Oh, here it is. The imagine if I did any of this clip. Here we go.
Starting point is 01:36:47 Imagine if I had done any of this. Let me just, I just want to be clear about it. There's a lot of, he does a lot of that in this clip. I miss him. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News' credentials from the White House press court. You're laughing, but this is what's happening. Imagine if I said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated that you will not be allowed into government buildings. I don't think that happened, did it? Not that I know of.
Starting point is 01:37:42 Yeah, government buildings, it was the CIA skiff. This is from the Midas Touch Network. I'm still a fan. Come on. We will punish you economically for dissenting from the Affordable Care Act. What? Oh, is he talking? what is he talking about? I have no idea what he's talking about. Or the Iran deal. The Iran deal, huh?
Starting point is 01:38:16 We will ferret out students. Students, spokes. Who protest against my policies. Genius. Genius. I didn't know where this was. When did he do that? I can't believe he can still
Starting point is 01:38:36 pack a house. People, oh, Bomba wasn't that bad, man. It's not as bad as this was. The mainstream, the M5M, is pretty much all they're doing now is polls. The country hates what Trump's doing. 22%. No one agrees.
Starting point is 01:38:51 No one likes it. But the best this week came from the Supreme Court. And this is Mamout vs. V. Taylor. This is about a Montgomery school district. So Montgomery is in, is that Virginia? Montgomery? I think it's Montgomery. No, this is Maryland. Maryland, yes, thank you. About the LGBTQ books in school. Yeah, for the fifth, for the kindergartners, they got to have the gay dog book and then there was all these other
Starting point is 01:39:25 S&M books and leather. Yes, so I pulled two clips. It's very funny stuff. Well, it'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. I mean, it's just, I mean, in the defense, so here's Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch. First, he's getting the details on these books.. Now this is just not the books in the library. This is being taught as part of the English curriculum. What age do you in Montgomery County teach students normally about human sexuality? I think that it begins in either fourth or fifth grade. The human sexuality class? Family life and human sexuality curriculum. I'm not entirely sure. Starts in fourth or fifth grade, you think? I think so.
Starting point is 01:40:09 Is there anything you can point us to in the record on that? I don't think so. Okay. And second, these books are being used in English class. Wow, you know what he sounds a bit like when he starts, I'm gonna start this off. What age do you in Montgomery County teach students normally about human sexuality?
Starting point is 01:40:30 Tell me about your sexuality in your DNA. Man, Charlie Rose and Judge Gorsuch, same guy. What age do you in Montgomery County teach students normally about human sexuality? I think that it begins in either fourth or fifth grade. The human sexuality class? Family life and human sexuality curriculum. I'm not entirely sure.
Starting point is 01:40:53 Starts in fourth or fifth grade, you think? I think so. Is there anything you can point us to in the record on that? I don't think so. Okay. And second, these books are being used in English class The division between English class and other things in a second grade classroom doesn't really exist You're sort of in a room with the teacher and some no, I appreciate that. I went to second grade too. Yeah But but it's it's part of the English curriculum that these books are being used and that's I thought that was yeah
Starting point is 01:41:23 I'm not I'm not fighting the premise. I'm just saying that the mind... It's not the math class. It's not the human sexuality class. It's the English class. It is certainly not the human sexuality class. I'm just sort of fighting the premise that there's a neat distinction. Okay. And they're being used in English language instruction at age three. Some of them. So, Pride Puppy was the book that was used for the pre-kindergarten curriculum. That's Pride Puppy. Pride Puppy. That's the one where they were... By the way, this is unconscionable.
Starting point is 01:41:53 No kidding. They would introduce three years pre-kindergartener kids to Pride Puppy and some of these other things. This never got brought up in any of the conversations that I think they've, they've banned the term, but this is pure grooming completely. It's grooming, grooming, grooming. And who are these people trying to kid? Some of them.
Starting point is 01:42:19 So Pride Puppy was the book that was used for the pre kindergarten curriculum. That's no longer in the curriculum. That's the one where they are supposed to look for the leather and things and bondage things like that. It's not bonded. It's a woman and a leather. It's a sex worker, right? No.
Starting point is 01:42:33 No? That's not correct. No. Gosh, I read it. That's my favorite. Gosh, I read it. I saw it as bondage. I mean, I might have to reevaluate my thoughts.
Starting point is 01:42:45 Drag queen and drag queen. The leather that they're pointing to is a woman in a leather jacket, and one of the words is drag queen in the service. And they're supposed to look for those? It is an option at the end of the book. Yeah, okay. So this goes on, and by the way, they brought in comparisons to religion, which was very, really confused the whole conversation.
Starting point is 01:43:06 But, so that's one. I'm glad you got these clips. Yeah, I mean, it actually was Rob, the constitutional lawyer who sent them to me. He says, this is some good, he says, this is show material. Yeah, you know, I saw almost all the stuff, because it was fascinating. It's hard not to listen to it. And I don't know why I didn't clip it, but it's definitely important because it's fascinating. It's hard not to listen to it. And I don't know why I didn't clip it but it's definitely important because it's insane. Well and here's the part that is even more insane.
Starting point is 01:43:33 You've included these in the English language curriculum rather than the human sexuality curriculum to influence students. Is that fair? That's what the district court found. So the key word influence to influence students. Is that fair? That's what the district court found. So the key word, influence, to influence students. I think to the extent the district court found that it was to influence, it was to influence them towards civility. Influence them towards civility. The natural consequence of being exposed to them. Whatever, but to influence them.
Starting point is 01:44:01 In the manner that I just mentioned, yes. So that right there is enough. You are not in school to influence children, are you? I mean, influence here is just another nowadays. Yes. Propagandize. Yeah. I mean, obviously you want your teacher to be a good influence, but that's a different use of the verb, influence. This is to propagandize children. This is homeschool people, homeschool. And responding to parents who are concerned, you agree that there was some intemperate language used. Yeah, and this is why it's Mahmood versus Taylor. So it was the Muslims who said,
Starting point is 01:44:47 hey, stop this nonsense. They're the ones that stood up. And so I guess there was a a a temperative atmosphere in at the school board where people may have gotten a little bit heated. And then this guy said something which you know, well, you know, was was I didn't I didn't quite mean it. Whatever I don't know that those were responding to parents who were concerned This was after the fact for most of these comments and this was in a very public setting which obviously got heated and some Intimidate comments were used certainly and and I wanted to understand your your Your context that you were giving about the statement that some Muslim families, it's unfortunate that this issue puts some Muslim families on the same side of an issue
Starting point is 01:45:32 as white supremacists and outright bigots. I think in response to Justice Sotomayor, you're trying to give some context to that. I don't think I was speaking directly about that comment. I think that comment was given or was made in June, which was several months after the decision to withdraw the opt-outs was made. I don't have context for that statement No, I don't have context. We understand the context You're telling these Muslim parents are just like these these white supremacist Nazis This has to stop. I can't even believe that the judges had such decorum during this whole hearing It's really and this goes far beyond just a couple of books in the library. They are
Starting point is 01:46:13 Influencing children. Yes. I wonder if is it a synonym grooming Synonym Influence, Let's see. 38 similar words. Hmm. Doesn't show up, but it does in my dictionary. That's it.
Starting point is 01:46:35 So this is really nuts. Yeah. The whole thing was quite good. And then Katanji Jackson Brown, she kind of took the side of the school district saying, well, you know, if you don't like it, go someplace else. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:46:51 Well, then she's introduced the idea of school choice. Yes. Of course, her final thing was homeschool. She did say that. No, that's the final answer, obviously. I got a note from one of our producers. But we don't do,, it is the final answer, except for the fact that we're being taxed to death
Starting point is 01:47:09 for the educational system. And we should be able to use it. We should be able to send the kids to a public school and it should be fine. They should learn how to read, write, and do math. But no, they're being taught about gay dogs. I mean, it's beyond me. Pride puppy is not a gay dog. Just search for the woman in leather. Boots on the ground, peer network for mental health disorders among kids from one of our producers. Just pulled the kids from public school. Why? Why?
Starting point is 01:47:47 Because of a cultural issue based in our rural schools that was persistently spreading amongst the children. We are privy to more knowledge because my wife worked for the school as well. There was a chronically online, over socialized seventh grader who determined she was a therian. You know what a therian is? I didn't know what a therian is. A therian? Wow, that's a new one to me too. Kids who identify as an animal.
Starting point is 01:48:16 Oh furry. Yeah, well, a therian. Within three months, she had convinced almost 70% of the girls of this small school that they also identified as animals. Yeah, that's what the social contagion. I say convinced because she predatorily targeted the younger children to gain more self-assurance in her position. Children as young as four years old were asking their parents to buy them tails and masks to go to school in.
Starting point is 01:48:46 It worked its way back up the classes. The data from the school shows it was mostly all girls from four to 14 and only a couple of mentally unstable boys. There's no bias here with our producer. The school refused to... Well, you know. Yeah, a couple of guys. Let me see the guy get in on this action.
Starting point is 01:49:06 Hey, all the chicks are wearing tails. I'm in. The school refused to acknowledge what was happening and do anything about it. So I agree. It's 100% the peer network, social networks, including YouTube and the internet. Our children started coming home and using language and saying they are identifying as a cat or a dog and that we have to have some long conversations about it and its dangers and what it really meant.
Starting point is 01:49:29 They got the idea to understand the severity of identify and went to school to declare that they were mistaken but would love to play as a dog or cat, etc. That was our compromise. It was a big compromise. Not much of one. We ultimately decided to pull the kids halfway through the year to home school. Parents who did not pull their kids are reporting their kids are more and more adamant about it, defying them, fighting with them, trying to pursue their Therian self.
Starting point is 01:49:56 Biting them. Biting them. Biting their ankles. Other parents are starting to try and buy these children the tails and garb that they need to fully identify as said animal in defiance of these. This is a great note. Showing that it takes one parent, one kid and school scared off a lawsuit over this woke language to really ruin a school district.
Starting point is 01:50:17 So I guess that they, it was getting, this is not okay. And good for you, anonymous producer parent. Good for you. Although I wouldn't even have gone with the compromise. Forget that. Can't put up with that crap. Yeah. So this is what's happening.
Starting point is 01:50:36 The internet. Killing everybody slowly. Oh, goodness. Well, it doesn't have to. No, well, no, it doesn't have to. No, well, no, it doesn't have to. Uh, Al Gore was on Bill Maher Friday. Yeah, I saw that. Uh, you know what I wanted to get, I didn't get a clip from that. I did. I did. I'm glad you did. But you know, I wanted to, a clip I wanted to get, uh,
Starting point is 01:51:02 just to, just another one of these, I didn't clip. I have a million clips, but I, you know, I don't clip everything. You don't clip them. I got all these clips that I didn't clip because... No, I got clips that I didn't clip. I got clips. I got a lot of clips that I did clip. You got up on the wrong side of the bed. You know, that's what happened. That's what it was. But I wanted to get Steve Bannon, when he was on, I think the week before,
Starting point is 01:51:23 and Bannon is the one who claims that he's the one who started the Trump 2028 idea. Oh really? And yes, he says he started it and it was, and they've, they're looking into it. He says they think they can legally do it and he wants to do it. And he went on and on and on. So the whole thing's a Bannon scam. Clearly.
Starting point is 01:51:49 Although Bannon is the most arrogant character. He's just, you know. But President Trump unveiled it in the Oval Office to Frau Ingram. He said, come here, take a look at this, take a look at this. You're talking about the hat. Yeah. Yeah, the hat, which I think Eric or Don Jr. did. I don't know who did the hat. But he didn't say, but he never said he was going to, he thought it was, he never actually stated that he's going to do it. No, no, of course not. The sad thing is... Because he knows he's not going to do it.
Starting point is 01:52:16 It's just bull crap. But, but Bannon's taking it very, unlike us and every other observer who thinks that Trump's a goof and he always to do these kinds of things. Bannon's taking it very seriously. Well, let me paraphrase from the text group here in Fredericksburg, Texas Hill country. Look at this.
Starting point is 01:52:39 The libs are losing their minds and it could constitutionally, it can be done. That's what Bannon says. Yeah well that's what they did. It's very clear that it can't be done. Well you should tell Buzzkill jr that because he's all this is just another version. I don't care I got the money in the bank I'm doing I see it. This is just another version of martial law. It's another version of martial law it It's another version of martial law. It's another version of the grid going down. It's another version of micro dots. It's going, okay.
Starting point is 01:53:12 You don't, you didn't have, you didn't have to hurt me. You didn't have to pull me in. I've already repented for all that. Um, why am I condemning you? And, uh, 10 days of darkness. I forget about that one. And then when we come back after 10 days of darkness, it's going to be a great reset. Everything will be different and we'll all be billionaires because we bought XRP.
Starting point is 01:53:38 I'm telling you, the XRP thing is still in play. Oh, I forgot about the XRP thing. With the quantum off-world servers. Yes, there were people who were sold. You're right in the dead center of this. I really think that's great. I love it. And the thing is, I can laugh with these people about it. And they're like, did you buy any more XRP? Yeah, it's going to 2000, hear. If it goes, I have a thousand XRP that I bought at like five cents. And I didn't even realize I had it until I looked at an old one. Oh, I got this, got some XLM too. And they're like, it's going to 2000. If it goes to 2000, I'm buying you a car
Starting point is 01:54:23 because I will have $2 million. Not you, John. I keep telling them. Oh, yeah. No, what about me? No, you're not getting a car. You're getting, no, no, no. So anyway, here is Al Gore on Bill Maher and here he is responding to the speech that he
Starting point is 01:54:39 gave, which we pulled apart on the last episode of the best podcast in the universe. We generally have the same view of the Trump administration. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You were in the news this week for invoking Nazis. Well, I didn't do what JD Vance did and call the Trump America's Hitler when he did that a few years ago. I think there's a bit-
Starting point is 01:55:02 Well, what he actually said was, I think about Trump a lot, and he could be an asshole just like Nixon, or he could be America's Hitler. And I remember thinking, oh, so the good option... I like how Bill Maher is defending with facts. ...is that he's just an asshole like Nixon. Well, I think there's a big difference in comparing someone to Hitler. I mean, we heard the clip. He compared him to Hitler.
Starting point is 01:55:31 But oh no, no, I was talking about the Frankfurt School. On the one hand, which I don't do, I think that's a big mistake. And I said that in the speech that you're referring to. That's a unique form of evil that should not ever be compared to anything. But we are not living up to our responsibility to our Constitution if we don't remain alert to warning signs that we know from history, not only from the Third Reich, but from a whole series of strongman dictators, when they start trying to tell people what to think, when they start trying to expand their power
Starting point is 01:56:11 so that they push the Congress around, push the judiciary around, and try to consolidate dictatorship, the first steps on that road are ones that we should see as warning signs. And those warning signs are your own facts, your own truth, lies. Nazis are hard words to use with nuance. So when you bring that word out, you know, I feel like they're the goat of evil, you know, and so it just conflates me. I agree with that.
Starting point is 01:56:44 I agree with that. I agree with that. But if you look at what I actually said in that speech, there was a group of German philosophers that went back after the war and conducted a kind of moral autopsy. And they said, one of them said that the first step on the descent into hell in that case was, and I quote, the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power. They attack the distinction between true and false. And when I see and hear over and over again the assertion of complete inaccuracies that Ukraine is responsible for starting the war with Russia, there's so many of them.
Starting point is 01:57:22 And they keep asserting these things expecting us to believe that the climate crisis is a hoax invented by the Chinese, that windmills cause cancer, that clean is, that coal is clean. And they try to assert with the force of power their own special version of alternative facts. But I guarantee that the side of the country that voted for Trump, they hear Nazi and they just go, Oh, you're calling us Nazis. First of all, it's a bit of a false premise as bad as they are. And also it just says to them, will you just hate us? Bill Maher, he may be part of the saving grace of the country.
Starting point is 01:58:00 I have to do a mea culpa. The one listener out there has a history or has a background in science made a point that I made an error. Uh oh. When I said, when I was talking about clean coal, I'm glad that you played that clip. Now it reminded me because I was going to do it and I forgot all about it of course as usual. And it was lignite is the worst coal, not the best coal. The best coal is actually something called anthracite, which is super clean coal. And lignite is the dirty, dirty coal.
Starting point is 01:58:33 But even though we can kind of burn it in these floating beds, but I don't know why I said lignite. I know what it is. And it was a blunder. I'm surprised. I only got one note from one guy. Well, we got a lot of notes about Coldwater Creek, about the Manhattan Project waste. Yes, and the notes were all over the map. Well, we got ones like this. Please revisit the Coldwater Creek nuclear story from show 1758 minute marker 40.02 to 46.20. You and John were clearly lost. First, not knowing about it.
Starting point is 01:59:20 That's my favorite. Not knowing about it! Second, saying repeatedly it was in Pennsylvania. And thirdly, dismissing it as simply fear-mongering. Easy does it, people. We're just here at the podcast podium. You can just say, hey, you know, you were wrong. This is what's going on. And there really is something happening there and a family of mine has indeed you know gotten sick from stuff that's probably around here. But no,
Starting point is 01:59:57 waste from the US nuclear bomb project was in fact buried in Missouri and is in fact still making people ill today. Also John, the most inexpensive Geiger counters under $800 will not detect alpha radiation. Oh my goodness. Mea culpa. I still hold the belief that it was a story that was brought back to fear monger against nuclear. Yeah, I think you're right. Well, the, I think the exemplification of that idea is the, actually we had another, there's another story somebody pointed out and sent it to you. And I think you may have got looked into it, which is a story that had resurfaced two or three or four times over the last four
Starting point is 02:00:42 or five years, which is something you've spotted a lot. And I'd say the baby, I'd say the baby eating thing is a good example of today's show. Yeah. Yeah. And that was some five years ago. Yeah. Six, six years ago. So yeah, recycling of memes. Yes, it happens. And tropes. It happens. So it's very common and it's like, uh, well, that was a good save. It worked back there in those days. Let's do it again.
Starting point is 02:01:06 So no sooner had the president signed his AI in school executive order, then we start getting inundated with AI in the schools. So I'd call this propaganda too, because remember it was public-private partnerships. So this is about the Abbey robot. The Abbey robot. So the kids are sitting in the Abbey lab and they all have a computer in front of them. The computer has a camera.
Starting point is 02:01:35 It's scanning their eyes to see what they're looking at on the screen. And the little cute little robot sits on the shelf. They each have their own little robot. And the robot, you know, his eyes blink and it's kind, you remember that dog, remember the Sony dog? Ibo. Ibo, thank you, Ibo. This is Abhi.
Starting point is 02:01:53 Hmm, I wonder if it's also from Japan. So yeah, it's kind of like that, only it's more robot-esque, but it's not much more. You know, it has some, it can move its arms and it swivels its body. But it's doing great for the kids! It's become like a little mascot. Meet Abbey.
Starting point is 02:02:10 We didn't know what Abbey was, but it came with a promise of uplifting our test scores. The AI program is aimed at kindergarten through fifth graders. It helps both students and teachers in the learning process. They never complained about coming to Abbe Lab. It's like, Ms. Miller, we're going to Abbe Lab today? You know? It's like, yes, we're going to the Abbe Lab. The robot uses the camera in the student's computer to track eye movements and their
Starting point is 02:02:37 attention span. It helps them stay on track. We'll actually pause the math or reading lesson, call them out by name, say, hey, you're not paying attention. Let's make sure we stay focused before we move on to the next problem. The program uses a student's account to track their progress by subject. Abbey customized the lesson that they're getting so children feel that at the end of the day that Abbey's meeting their needs.
Starting point is 02:03:02 Abbey is capable of adapting to students' learning styles and celebrates those who are succeeding. This new frontier may be worrisome to some parents, but creators say Abbie won't take the place of teachers. It's an additional tool. Tools have a place, right? They don't supplant, they don't replace, but they should have a place that helps empower teachers
Starting point is 02:03:23 in a way that gives them the ability to do more in their classroom. And the school is seeing positive results. One teacher says this is accelerating the kids learning early in the school year. The one that comes to lab are moving up into second grade. Abbe Lab has really helped them reaching the goals that they need to reach in first grade and starting them with a solid foundation in second grade. So apparently it's working.
Starting point is 02:03:49 It's one of our trolls said, is it like one of those monkeys with the symbols? Yeah, that's kind of what it is. A mechanical version of the monkey with the symbols. Oh, you did a ching ching. Good job. A monkey with the symbols. Ching ching, you did a good job.
Starting point is 02:04:01 You know, I did some vibe coding over the weekend. Which is a vibe coding. It's a new word I learned vibe coding. Vibe coding is where you program computer code with AI vibe coding. Because I have a project, I'm working on this project. And it's the same thing that I talked about last time. It makes a mistake. And then, you know, it's, oh, I see I made a mistake because I give it the error log. And then and then before you know it, it's like, well, you have to recompile your kernel.
Starting point is 02:04:35 I mean, literally, it takes you in circles, it goes around. And then because I don't know what I'm doing, I'm not a coder and I want it desperately like help me. It's not a very difficult program But help me do it and because I'm not a programmer I expect the AI and I'm not a programmer And I brought up what JC said about this On a previous show because you can made this complaint before Which is that AI coding is no good if you can't code. So I want to take, yes, I want to take it a little bit further.
Starting point is 02:05:08 Because for me, coding with AI is almost like working with a genius kindergartener who has ADHD and has a box of animal crackers. You know, you can't focus this all over them. It's nuts. And then I realized we have to apply the mangelman amnesia thesis to AI. Remind us what that is. Mangelman amnesia, where you read something in the newspaper about a topic you absolutely are an expert in and it's wrong. Ergo you can assume that every other article in the newspaper about things you don't know about is going to be wrong. That's the mangelman amnesia effect. Why is it called amnesia you think?
Starting point is 02:06:02 Because you forget. You're the amnesia part. Oh, because you forget that hey, they don't know what they're talking about. So when it comes to aviation, you know, it's like, well, then they rarely have it right with accidents and all that. I mean, even with what we were talking about earlier, with the phone line. Well, you know, it was a dirty line, it was a commercial, and it didn't have a firewall. Like, okay, sure. Yeah, that's what makes a line not dirty is having a firewall. So that's bullcrap. So then we can presume that everything else they say is bullcrap.
Starting point is 02:06:41 And by the way, that's probably the same with us too. However, we know a lot about, we know a little about a lot. Don't we know a lot about a little? Yeah, we do. We know a lot about a little and a little about a lot. Yeah. Which is better than most people that do podcasting who just shoot the shit. So when it comes to creating podcasts, I would say AI gets a below passing grade it can't do podcasts it's always the same thing what I take a deep dive yeah so if we know that it cannot
Starting point is 02:07:19 properly do podcasting it probably can't do great coding either. Could I, and so back to Buzzkill Jr., could I maybe use it for some things in podcasting? Yeah, you can make some ISOs for the end of the show. That's about it. I have some for today's show. But first I'd like to thank you for your courage saying the morning to you, the man who put the sea in his very own podcast podium. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John C. Oh shoot. John C. DeMora! Wow, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Cray.
Starting point is 02:07:57 In the morning, our ships and sea, baby eaters, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, the names and I's out there. In the morning to the trolls in the trollroll Room. Count these trolls for a second. There we go. We're talking. 2,473 trolls peak time-age listening at TrollRoom.io tuning into the live stream, which is good.
Starting point is 02:08:16 And the trolls have been... The trolls are now all turning into baby eaters. It doesn't surprise me. Trolls like eating babies. So you can join them at trollroom.io or if you want to you can listen live on a modern podcast app. Go to podcastapps.com. I like Podcast Guru. That's the one I've been using. Someone just asked me today, what should I use? Well, you should try them all, I would say. Try them all. There's a whole, there's a cornucopia of podcast apps to use.
Starting point is 02:08:42 They have many more features than your Apple or your Spotify or anything else you can find, including the live bat signal, which is for all of the No Agenda live podcasts on No Agenda Stream. I think they pretty much all are using the live, the live type is called the live tag, the lit tag is what it call it, just live, and you'll be notified. So when Darren and Larry go live with Planet Rage, which is typically, I want to say that I didn't even know what day it is, but it's always right around the time I'm walking the dog and my phone goes like, oh, the boys is Planet Rage. And I listen live while I'm walking around.
Starting point is 02:09:29 Also, you get chapters, you get transcripts, all kinds of benefits. That's interesting, Adam. Where can you find all these podcasts? Is there a compendium or a list of what they are and where they are? Well, I'm glad you asked, John. I would go to PodcastApps.com. That would take you to this entire list. It's a compendium and it shows you all of the features They support it's well worth your time and trouble Wow
Starting point is 02:09:51 Thanks, thank you podcasting 2.0 people thank you for that we are value for value Which means we will not get a seat at the new media spot in the White House press room. We're not being put on the chair. It's like getting a timeout. Congratulations, you're now in the White House. You're in the timeout spot. But that also means that we rely entirely on the value that you feel you get from what we do and send back to us.
Starting point is 02:10:26 That's something we started in our first year, said, this is never, we can never do ads, not because, you know, yes. I didn't print this out, but we did, you know, since I sent out the second note, I get a lot of feedback. I try to answer most of it about why the donations are down. Oh, yeah. And so, and they all, it's all perked back up enough. I get a lot of feedback. I try to answer most of it about why the donations are down. And so, uh, and they all get perked back up enough so that it's not nothing to complain about. But I got the one, my favorite one with some,
Starting point is 02:10:56 one of our producers is because you're communists. He says you're asking for money and then you're taking it from us and then you're passing it to yourselves. And he went on and on about it. We're communist. The communist model's no good. It was described to me yesterday at lunch as God's economy. I thought that was a good one. I liked that too. So I don't know about the communist one. No, we just decided early on that a lot of people think, well, it's good, you know,
Starting point is 02:11:25 because if you had ads, you'd be de-platformed and people would pull their ads. So yeah. Oh yeah, we'd be, we would just show it not be existing if we had used another model. But that's not the prime reason. The prime reason we didn't want ads
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Starting point is 02:11:55 Yeah, who? Right. And then you had to have the money from the ads go to the sales group anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And commissions everywhere and then, and then it's no good. Yeah, and then they have to be... you need a traffic department to deal with it. Traffic department! So instead we said, you know what, if you get any value from the show send it back to us. And that was kind of an experiment and it worked and people liked it. They liked the idea of supporting us for the value they get like like even the the the producer from Horowitz's drunk party it was probably a Florida key party if you ask me and And she said, you know, what does that mean? You don't know what wife swapping. Yeah, that's key parties
Starting point is 02:12:39 Yeah, that's a big thing in Florida No good days are over. No, that's a big thing in Florida. Now the good days are over. No, it's still, hey, I'm telling you. Remember we had a big group there in Florida and they disbanded all of a sudden. I think it was a key party gone wrong. That's interesting. Yeah, that's a big disappointment. I forgot what the name of that producer was. It was a good group.
Starting point is 02:13:04 Yeah, they were meeting all the time, but it was like Indiana. Yeah, no one picked it up. Although we do have a meter report. Leo Bravo knocked it out of the park today. He had 20 people at his Los Angeles meetup. People coming down from Washington. It was a nice report. No, so instead we just ask you to contribute back.
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Starting point is 02:13:49 throughout the ages to support the show. In fact, the reason that you still get No Agenda at the top of all your Google searches because one of our early producers was an SEO expert and he cemented us inside the algorithms. No Agenda is this show when you're looking for it. Also news with No Agenda, I think we pop up at the top of the list.
Starting point is 02:14:08 So that was a very valuable contribution back to the show. And of course, another valuable contribution is the artwork that our artists diligently are making during the live show, because they're using that modern podcast app. They get alerted, oh yeah, that's right, I gotta listen, I gotta make some art. And then they upload that to noagendaartgenerator.com, another fine website that one of our producers,
Starting point is 02:14:29 Sir Paul Couture, has provided and kept running for us, mostly for the past 10-15 years. And the artwork for episode 1758, which we titled Scream Circle, was a fine AI generated piece which just made us laugh from Francisco Scaramanga. It was our Black Pope done as a muppet with the odds of him being chosen 33 to 1. And it hit home. People loved it. They were laughing their butts off. And when I see on X people say, the minute this popped up, I had to pull over and get the podcast. I had to listen to what was going on.
Starting point is 02:15:12 It was very, it's very funny. And it's something about the goofball smile, I think that just makes it work. Yeah, I think the goofy smile. It's really good. Let's see if there's any other things that we looked at that were close seconds. No, I remember because typically we do the credits. We liked a few pieces, but none of them were getting the mark.
Starting point is 02:15:34 You liked the watermelon juice from Matthew Dropko. I thought you liked it. No, you liked it. You liked it. I was like, eh, kind of simple. The mustache wedding was cute, but we didn't think anyone would really understand that one is pretty obscure. Oh, the one that I liked, you put the kibosh on right away and not without
Starting point is 02:15:57 merit was the two popes doing rock paper scissors. Oh, yeah, the black pope and the white pope. You're like, that's no good. Look at their hands. It's all AI. It's no good. Yeah. The one hand, the guy's fingers were a mile long and the other fist couldn't even form a fist. It was terrible. It's too bad because the concept was good. The concept was good. But no. You also liked the mustache wedding. You said that a minute ago, but I'm just looking at it now Now no no I didn't fight you on it didn't fight you know no you only when you really were yeah You're right that when you were really Pushing was rock-paper-scissors. I like the rock-paper-scissors, but I mean, but we're we have veto power and
Starting point is 02:16:42 That wasn't gonna argue. I mean sometimes we'll over like, well, I can make the case. We've done deals. We've done backroom deals. I'll give you two weeks of art. If you give me this one, just give me this one, please. I like it. I like it. That was about it.
Starting point is 02:16:59 That was about it. And it's nice to see this in real art in there. It's not, it's not all AI. There's people doing stuff. We appreciate you. We appreciate all of our artists, especially those who are professional artists who are seeing that this can be a tool.
Starting point is 02:17:13 And I guess it's working for them. I mean, just like, I remember when- I think a lot of artists like to see if they can crank something out. Yeah, I'm sure. It's good to do production work once in a while. Because it's still the concept. The concept of the two popes was a great concept.
Starting point is 02:17:31 But yeah, the two fingers of the white pope, that was just no good. That was too much. And I don't think that was intentional. Go Fox did that. Anyway, thank you very much. We appreciate that. Now, we also like to thank all of our producers who sent us some treasure. $50 and above. We will thank you profusely for supporting the show. We got a lot of people who came in just under the wire for the Commodore promotion,
Starting point is 02:17:54 which ends on Wednesday. Wednesday. Yeah. So I guess that's your last chance. And we're going to thank the executive and associate executive producers right now. That's $200 or above for the episode. You become an associate executive producer. We read your note. That title is good for the rest of your life. You can use it anywhere. Hollywood credits are accepted.
Starting point is 02:18:17 You could go to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. By the way, Wednesday is the 100th day of the Trump administration also. Oh, martial law. That's perfect. Martial law. An executive producer credit for you if you're $300 or above and we will read your note. And we kick it off with Al Vocado, which sounds like a pseudonym to me from Rockaway Beach, New York. 580.08. That's five, that's boobs backwards. I just noticed. I request anonymity.
Starting point is 02:18:50 I choose to identify as Commodore Alvocado. I could use a double karma, so there's no note to be read during the show. Well, there's a whole note here. What's he talking about? He's got a whole note. What? I do request an American-made deducing, please.
Starting point is 02:19:08 Oh man, I'm sorry. I'm messing it up. You've been deduced. There you go. That is Made in America. No AI. I was introduced to Noah Jenner with Adam's appearance on the Motley Fool podcast with Chris Hill.
Starting point is 02:19:22 Wow. I do not remember ever being on that show. I don't think you were. He says I couldn't say when that was 2018. I don't think I have ever been on the Motley Fool podcast. 500 is for one of the last pre-tariff Commodore ships and 8008 to support the path laid by the distinguished producer from North Carolina the home state of my childhood. That would be our Viscount, I guess. Is he from North Carolina? Talking about the Duke of Luna? Yeah. No, he's not. No, he's the Duke of Luna. It's not North Carolina.
Starting point is 02:19:56 Yeah, that's our Duke of Luna. Oh, that is. Okay. And he goes on to say, Hippocrates. Lover of America and boobs. He's from, he conquered North Carolina. There you go. That's him. So it's in support of him. say, Hippocrates of the Week alone is worth reading the newsletter, people. John and Adam, thanks for the show's humor, dignity, positive feel, and breadth of topics while cutting through the obfuscations.
Starting point is 02:20:17 The other producers' contributions are also appreciated. It all makes for a truly great show and experience. That's right. Your no agenda show is an experience Many talk about making the world a better place. You are doing something about it Cheers from the beaches of New York City Rockaway Beach. Thank you. Oh Wait double up karma You've got Give us the newcing there in the middle? Yeah I gave him the deducing. Sorry. David Timmons in Oklahoma City. OKC. 500 bucks. I just donated a Commodore 500 dollar thing
Starting point is 02:21:00 but have a bit over 500 in other donations so So this is not only a Commodore donation, it also makes me a knight. Okay, well we're all good for that. You got it, yeah, you got it. Please knight me as Sir Demo Dave, and I guess Sir Commodore Demo Dave would be it. Commodore Sir Demo Dave, question mark. He says he's obsessed. I am not sure how that
Starting point is 02:21:26 works but that's yeah that works that way it's fine perfect either way I love all of you and God loves you even more amen hmm Diego Saints is in Plattsmouth Nebraska 500 Commodore part recon a Commodore part Rican. Commodore part Rican, I like that. So instead of Puerto Rican, part Rican. All he wants is a deduces. You've been deduced. So Sean, where's CR? That's not Puerto Rico.
Starting point is 02:22:03 More of San Jose CR Costa Rica Costa Rica, there you go. Costa gotta be gotta be Sean Sean Sean stereo go to karma for all the high-speed no agenda listeners It would not sure what that means from Sir Sean night of the cisgendered third world jungle. You've got. That's the high speed. The high speed is the luge, I guess. Julian Torado.
Starting point is 02:22:42 Deutschland. Torado, Torado. Karlsruheue, Deutschland 500. Dear John and Adam, first of all please deduce me. You've been deduced. Jingle requests, they're eating the dogs plus that's true and I would like to become Commodore J the plumber. No agenda is the reason why I was able to stay strong in the times of the COVID vaccinations when my employer would have liked to see me properly fill my properly filled out vaccination passport. Shame on our union, by the way. But I resisted the vaccine successfully. Instead, it was necessary for me and the other vaccine skeptics to visit one of the many
Starting point is 02:23:20 Corona Testationen around the city each working day, four months. The other vaccinated colleagues of mine were exempted by this rule and were free to just visit work, sometimes coughing and sniffing. To this day, no kidding. To this day, I'm very thankful for the both of you informing all of us back in the days about the reports of all kinds of horrible side effects
Starting point is 02:23:42 by this insane gene therapy. Four more years. And I have a bonus clip. I have a bonus clip. This is from the BBC. This is BBC, very famous for their snooker. Have you seen this clip of the snooker? Snooker? Snooker? Snooker? Snooker is the game? Snooker, yeah, the game that's like pool but with different- Yeah, it's like pool and the balls are smaller and the rules are different. So listen to the commentators from the BBC with this particular snooker play. Yeah, very controlled. I seem to remember reading an interview, I think, where Ben was talking about...
Starting point is 02:24:16 62. After what he feels was the COVID jab and then he immediately feeling... 63. Unusual, his hand was shaking a lot and I hadn't seen him play since then but no sign of that now that's good looks rock solid on the shot rock solid yes his hands do look steady he remember when we had the chat they they'd say to you, can you please stick around for five minutes or ten minutes, make sure you feel okay. And it was in that five or ten minutes he either fainted or collapsed, it was one of the two. Then he felt fine and
Starting point is 02:24:56 he went home and he collapsed again. So in the immediate aftermath of his jam, he collapsed twice. 75 aftermath of his jab, he collapsed twice. 75. And ever since then, it's been a very, very gradual up and down return to full health. And I know there are certain weeks where in the early days he couldn't practice more than an hour a day because it would be so exhausting. 80. I think he's learnt to manage that. Still has periods if he's feeling tired where it comes back a little bit.
Starting point is 02:25:28 But by and large, touch wood, he is healthy again. The normalization of this is amazing to me. Worst bonus clip ever. It works better with the video, I guess. They're eating the dogs. That's true. Oh man, I got the wrong That's True again. How can that be?
Starting point is 02:25:50 It's true. What is this? It's true. I know, but there's something wrong with my system. Hold on a second. It's not showing up. Stand by. That's true. That's by. That's true.
Starting point is 02:26:05 That's true. That's true. What's this? We welcome in ISIS. No, that's not it. I remember that. That's true. There it is.
Starting point is 02:26:15 That's true. There it is. Mark it. Yes, it's marked. I got it. That's true. You're writing classic. Call it Classic It's True.
Starting point is 02:26:23 That's true classic. I'm going to rename it right now. Okay. That's true. Robert Petruska. That was Julian Tirado, by the way. Classic. That was for him. Robert Petruska is up and he's in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. And he's also in for 500 bucks. We appreciate that. In the morning, donation slump? Yes. I bet the newsletter lately has been nothing but a piece, but a plea for a buck. It's always the same at the beginning.
Starting point is 02:26:52 I love this. This is a great note. Please consider adding actual content to the newsletter. So we've discussed this before. Sometimes, cause I always, usually I proofread the newsletter. I didn't get to proofread it yesterday. John will sometimes put actual content, like he'll write a little essay, an essaylet, and what do I always say? Dog, this will get nothing. We'll get no donations.
Starting point is 02:27:18 The minute you put real content in it, no donations. This is a fact. This is a fact of nature. The ones that get the best there was content in this last one the Carolyn Levin stuff was quite interesting I thought yeah well that's why no one donated hello and I thought there's probably too interesting you're right and then we talked I talked about the judges I did get some feedback on the judges the guys one of our producers call said that judges thing you're wrong anyway so that was
Starting point is 02:27:47 content and help yeah anyway so he wants more content thank you go to my sub stack column go read that the work at sub Dvorak dot sub stack comm thank you he says with that out of the way I appreciate what you do for the show keep it up. Calm. Calm. We go to Riverside, California. Gopher Coach checks in with 333.33 and says, thank you for your courage
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Starting point is 02:29:46 You got to know where to put the trap and you can get them. What do you do after you trap the gopher? You eat it. You take that sucker and you cook him up. The gopher gets killed. He gets killed by the trap. Oh, it's a fatal trap. It's a big mouse trap, yeah. Yeah, with spikes Yeah, yeah. With spikes. Poor suckers.
Starting point is 02:30:07 Well, I'm good at it. You got to know, because there's always near, you got to put it near the water. If there's water, you got to put it at the end of the tunnel. That's what you got to do. You trap them on their way out. But I'm not like goforstop.biz, my friends, because they give discounts to Tesla owners. We had a request there at the end.
Starting point is 02:30:27 Oh, I don't see any requests. Is there something that I just scrolled down? Oh, would you please? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see that. Uh, yeah, that's the, that's the problem. That's the problem with your long notes. People, uh, would you give me a, they're eating the dogs and what's the other one?
Starting point is 02:30:44 Look at that? Look at that Look at that juice and hot pockets that okay juice juice Can you it's can you see that juice and the hot pockets? Okay, but they of course want a hot pockets JCD I got you. They're eating the dogs Can you see that juice? Hot pockets. There you go. There you go. I wish they'd put that woman back on home shopping network.
Starting point is 02:31:10 She was great. William Alston's great. He's in El Paso, Texas. He came with 33333. And he says he hasn't donated in a while. And here you go. I have a co-worker with family and friends in Turkey. I hope recovery after the earthquake is going well. Please send Karma. Thanks. And have them send us a report. Yes, we'd love a report from Turkey.
Starting point is 02:31:34 You've got Karma. Yeah, don't talk about that anymore, do we? That was quite the... What is it? How many were dead? Like 60,000? I don't know. It was crazy. Not good no Jacob cram is in Kamas Kamas Washington Kamas Washington 333.33 ITM gents donating for Adams excellent papal prediction Cardinal Sarah is exactly who we need as bulwark against trans Maoism no jingles just prayers for pontifical perfection.
Starting point is 02:32:05 JP2, or as John would put it, the Polish guy. Pray for us. I will. Uh, Greg... Dysmore. Interesting name. 33333, long time boner, first time donor. Give him a deduction You've been deduced saw John's email about poor donations and decided it was this it was the time
Starting point is 02:32:33 I started returning some value for value. I received I Nice read John And I decided it was the time I started to return some value for the value I've received for over the years. And he's got his deductions. Then we have Baron O.G. Godcaster from Riverside, California, the one, the only Mr. Steve Webb. He's been in podcasting for over 20 years, 333. Hey guys, it's been a while since my last donation, but the lovely lady Leanne and I
Starting point is 02:33:02 have been in the midst of a post-hurricane Milton renovation done on a home we own in beautiful plant city florida it was flooded and we basically had to rebuild the entire interior so it was quite the project the good news is that it's now complete with tons of upgrades and it really turned out great to celebrate this is a switcheroo donation to the lovely lady lianne on her path to dhood. Let me just put Lady Leanne in there so that we get that, I don't wanna mess her up. Okay, boom, done. Also, we are offering the newly refurbished home in Plant City for sale.
Starting point is 02:33:36 No agenda producers can search for 6005 Ike Smith Road on Zillow.com to see photos. 6005 Ike Smith Road on Zillow.com to see photos. 6005 Ike Smith Road on Zillow.com. Contact our agent and mention Noagenda for a $5,000 discount. Well, there's your discount. God's richest blessings to you, Adam and John, and to the Noagenda Nation.
Starting point is 02:33:59 Jingle, Obama, you're in my house There you go, all right see thank you very much. The lovely lady Leanne has been switcherooed. Drop to associate executive producer Jack D'Angeles in Emmett, Idaho. 250 bucks? No, no, no, nothing. We'll give him a double up karma. You've got karma. Now I have the the biopros.com from Driftwood, Texas 211. They actually sent a note in I have. Oh I was gonna say the biopros. Yeah it's another it's a new ad. We got a new sponsor on the show everybody. Donation to 2211 which is three twos and two ones. Donation to 2211, which is three twos and two ones.
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Starting point is 02:35:55 I have an aerobic septic, oh thank you. I'm going to use, I'm going to try this. I have an aerobic septic system. It's anaerobic. Yeah, anaerobic. That's what I have. Well, there's a difference between, yeah, okay. Then they'll send you some. I'm sure they will.
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Starting point is 02:36:51 Yeah. Yeah. And plumbing goat karma. Congratulations, Crackpot and Buzzkill. You are now being sponsored by bioprose.com. All right. All right. They get dumps.
Starting point is 02:37:02 They call them dumps. Big massive dumps. You've got karma. So an anaerobic system is, you know, that was invented in the, in Louisiana by the, by the swamp people. It continuously pumps oxygen into the system. So, and then it sprays it out over the lawn as clear, fresh water. I have my own water generating plant here. So you don't have to, you know, you don't have to have the septic system emptied.
Starting point is 02:37:39 It's a genius system. Yeah, you should look it up. Yeah, it's an American invention. I don't care, I don't really care. Just cause you don't have one. You don't care because you want one. Matthew... I use the municipal system. Yeah, you poop in the city.
Starting point is 02:37:52 Matthew Babula, I think, Panama City Beach, Florida, 21522. Hey, my wife is an artist. She was in the gallery for a long time. The gallery itself was open for 20 plus years, but the building was recently sold and the new owners didn't renew the lease This has been a financial hit But more mentally tough on my wife Please give her some karma and let everyone know that for fine art acrylic on canvas and pencil drawings you can visit her website
Starting point is 02:38:18 Jamie babula calm J a mi e b a b u lA dot com. That's a very nice gift for your wife. You've got karma. Huh. It is nice. Onward to Alexander Grandin in South Bend, Indiana 2-12-12 and I have another note
Starting point is 02:38:40 on a card. Sounds like a real note to me. I didn't get any of these notes today. What happened? On a card. Sounds like a real note to me. I didn't get any of these notes today. What happened? Jay's sick. Aww. What does she have?
Starting point is 02:38:51 COVID? COVID. Yup. Uh, our sum. I don't know. Nobody knows what they got. Thank you for your courage. First time donor, please de-douche. You've been de've been D douche now here's an interesting take I
Starting point is 02:39:10 Love the donation segment. Ah the talent and range of producers is awesome You two are great. Ah Thanks, Alex G Scott Scott Simon jingle please. Oh, okay hold on a second. Yeah, I got him. Suffer and succotash! I'm Scott...
Starting point is 02:39:36 Simon! He also has a very pleasant PS that he doesn't necessarily want us to read, but he's a Mason. Oh, what degree? Well, he's a bricklayer. Oh, I mean a real Mason. A real Mason. Yeah, for all your brickwork, go to Alexander Grandin. Matthew Martel is in Brumall, Pennsylvania, $210.60, and he of course says don't forget
Starting point is 02:40:06 to sign up for the martellhardware.com email newsletter for your hardware tip of the day. What is this all about now? Another stolen valor. Use coupon code O'Reilly33 for an additional 10% off your order. Sales Karma for the self-employed and a JCD Hot Pockets. Hot Pockets. You've got Karma. Wilkinson Therio in New Orleans, 21060. Happy Jazz Fest, gents. It's time of year, the New Orleans for the live music and amazing food and money, money for you. I apologize, but it's been a while since my last donation show, 1500 to be exact.
Starting point is 02:40:55 Changes in jobs, caring for my elderly parents. I'm sorry, I get the hiccups now. You know stuff. May this be my return to regular sacrificial greenbacks. This is also my chance to claim my knighthood. 1500 marked my crossover, the $1,000 threshold, and it was my birthday gift to myself for 45. October 26 is a great day. Although I had included a note announcing my intended knighthood, my donation was read without being included, without the note being included at the roundtable. I know, bummer. Anyway, I would like to be known as Sir Wilkinson of the Crescent City.
Starting point is 02:41:38 Does that make me a black knight? Well, if we missed him... I don't know. May I have a... Black Knight? Well, if we missed him. I don't know. May I have a, he should have called us out earlier if he wants to be a Black Knight. You can be a Black, you can call yourself a Black Knight if you want. May I have a wee as a jingle? Weeeeee! It's been a while since that was requested.
Starting point is 02:42:00 Yeah, I've heard that one. Yeah. And there's Eli the Coffee Guy with $210. He's in Bensonville, Illinois and he says, This is a switcheroo. This donation is on behalf of the Chicago Meetup. Please credit it to Baron NBS who is making an escape from Chicago. Oh, they had a meetup. Okay. Very good. We had 17 people who came out, including one producer from the UK. We discussed matters from AI and tariffs to Afro pop and antique Persian rugs. I could not have spent Saturday evening with a better bunch of people.
Starting point is 02:42:30 Many were also happy that I brought coffee, but there's no need to feel left out of the fun. If you can't make it to a meetup, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use code ITM20 for 20% off your order. It's like a meetup in a cup. A meetup in a cup, stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy. I shall make that change right now for Baron MBS. Thank you, Eli. I have a super long note from Sir Isaac Knight of the Firearms Instructors. And he wants to de-douche-ing. You've been
Starting point is 02:43:05 De-duced calling himself the deadbeat night. It's been a long time since my last donation for the last 13 years I've run a firearms training company in Colorado that is based on the value for value model called guns for everyone Tyrants in the Colorado legislature have passed dozens of terrible gun laws since legislature have passed dozens of terrible gun laws since 2021 and while we can't fight them all ourselves guns for everyone is a debt is dedicating our efforts to fight a law that drastically changed the mandatory training requirements to apply for a concealed handgun permit. Yeah. Tyrants are making it exceedingly difficult for students and instructors to complete the new requirements and also understand how they are supported, are supposed to be implemented.
Starting point is 02:43:53 We are raising money for our current litigation against power tripping sheriffs as well as the state itself, uh, is the state itself to overturn part of all this shitty law. We're raffling off a rare mullet VEPR Vepr on a 7.62x54R. It's a big-ass Russian AK pattern rifle. Looks cool, yeah. Those interested in joining the cause for freedom and a chance to win this collector's item please visit gunsforeveryone.com slash legal-fund. Raffle ends on the 31st of May. Sir Semper Taranis, can I please have some goat karma to stick it to the man, Sir Isaac?
Starting point is 02:44:49 You've got karma. And we're almost there. Good group here for them. Guess the second newsletter helped. That's really good. Linda Lupackin is in Lakewood, Colorado, $200 and she says, jobs karma please. And for a competitive edge with a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com.
Starting point is 02:45:08 That's ImageMakers Inc. with a K for all of your executive resume and job search needs and work with Linda Liu, the Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yay! You got karma.
Starting point is 02:45:24 Erididarians next on The List, Let's vote for jobs! Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss It's ludicrous. It weighs like a hundred pounds. It weighs a ton and it's got so much work on it. It's ridiculous. I don't know. I mean, it's really more of a presentation board than some. I wouldn't even cut on it. I cut on mine and it didn't even hurt it at all. That seems pretty hard. That's for sure.
Starting point is 02:45:59 It's like cherry wood. I also, there's a guy, there's somebody without a last name named Hank and he's in I forgot what part is California is in one of the areas and he sent me a whole bunch of weird things Okay, with no note a bunch of candy bars and some some Kinder eggs the real ones Yeah, you should eat them all John nothing suspicious about that well, the Kinder egg is a hollow product that has a toy inside that I can't figure how to open. Well you bite in it.
Starting point is 02:46:32 You bite into the egg. But I- No you can't. No this is like a, this is no. As a policy- This is a hard, this is a, This is a hard piece of plastic. Oh Okay as a policy I guess paper thin it breaks open there's a thing inside Yeah, and there's a trick to opening it. I don't know what it is as a policy
Starting point is 02:46:58 I don't eat candy that people send me to the PO boxes And I unless it comes from a company like, you know, those little John's guys. The, uh, he also sent me two, uh, Japanese 2000 yen notes, which I believe if you, uh, do the math, it's a hundred to one. So it would be 40 bucks, 40 bucks. James Green is our last associate executive producer and he's in Elfland Elf land, North Carolina And he says this is in honor of a dear friend Nick Dawkins who passed away recently from cancer I bitched about work and life issues and watched a man in life's darkest days gracefully and by example Spread his infectious Jesus Freak passion.
Starting point is 02:47:47 Thanks as always." While we're on that, before we end this donation segment, I got a note from Dame Colorado Care Bear and she says, I would like emergency karma for Sir Vito who lost his wife last week, sending love and healing to our friend as he battles this trial. The Colorado Noah Genomita Group comes together in support and love for our friend. Thank you very much. So yes, emergency karma for him of course.
Starting point is 02:48:19 And that does conclude our executive and associate Executive Producer segment for episode 1759. We appreciate you so much. Thank you. And as always, these credits can be used anywhere that's Hollywood style credits are recognized and accepted, including the White House Correspondence Association, but you have to be wearing a brooch. And of course, we'll be thanking everybody $50 and above in our second segment coming up soon. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Starting point is 02:48:52 What up? What up? Shut up, Steve. Well, I have a report on the re-emergence of our old buddies. Our old buddies? The white helmets. Oh, you mean the guys from Syria? Those white helmets?
Starting point is 02:49:18 Yeah. Oh, the ones who faked all of those pictures? Yeah. Huh. Huh. Okay. Yeah, they're back in action. Now they're firemen, but they're still the same group.
Starting point is 02:49:31 And where are they now? They're still, they came down from the hills and they're still in Syria, but now they're downtown. This is the White Helmets Report from PBS. During Syria's long civil war, emergency responders wearing white helmets became famous. They were known for running into harm's way to rescue civilians from collapsed buildings in the aftermath of regime airstrikes.
Starting point is 02:49:54 The white helmets were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and featured in an Oscar-winning documentary. Well, now with Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad gone, the White Helmets have a new mission and a new challenge. NPR's Lauren Freire takes us to a Damascus firehouse to see them in action. Oh wow, this is all burned. So we're rushing into this building emergency here. Firefighters rush into a burning building in the Syrian capital.
Starting point is 02:50:28 Firefighter Tariq Taleb says they managed to extinguish the flames in time and no one was injured. Residents are gobsmacked. They got here so quickly and they didn't ask for any bribes, says Mohammed Bassem Sayed, a retiree who lived through serious civil war and says he never got help like this these new firefighters wear gold and Navy uniforms and iconic white helmets for most of the war the white helmets operated only in rebel held areas dictator Bashar al-Assad had decked
Starting point is 02:51:01 the capital with billboards vilifying them as traitors and terrorists. I never believed any of that though, Saeed says, thanking the firefighters profusely. When Assad fell in December, a white helmet's convoy rolled south from rebel territory and into Damascus. I felt joy, grief and shock altogether, says Amr Zarifeh, a white helmet who's from Damascus but hadn't been here since 2018 when he responded to a chemical weapons attack by Assad's forces. When you do a documentary about a group which is clearly hoaxing. Shouldn't your award be taken back?
Starting point is 02:51:52 I would think so. Because the White House- But that's never happens. The White House Correspondence Association, they, I think they handed out an award or they highlighted the documentary, or no, the news report about how Biden's mental health was covered up and they're giving out an award for that while they all participated in the cover-up. Isn't that amazing?
Starting point is 02:52:19 Nothing amazes me. Well, I think some explanation will reveal it. This is the clips of reveal. Oh! And I think you'll hear, you'll figure this out, why this has nothing to come of it and why the white helmets are still being extolled. Here we go. Now he lives in a Damascus firehouse where the white helmets have set up new headquarters.
Starting point is 02:52:43 Their founder Ra'id Saleh is now in Syria's cabinet. And the volunteer force he founded 12 years ago is extending its reach for the first time to the entire country. It's the journey of the Syrian people and the Syrian revolution. Deputy leader Farouk Habib says their workload has actually quadrupled, even though the war is over. Most of our country is destroyed. Half of our people lost their homes and they are displaced either internally or they became refugees. Okay, that wasn't the killer clip. We'll wrap it up
Starting point is 02:53:24 with this one. This is the killer clip. This'll wrap it up with this one. This is the killer clip. This is the one. Now our main mission is to deal with the legacy of the war, help to find the missing persons, we're dealing with the mass graves, cluster munitions. They're also repairing roads and water pipes. These are people who started as shopkeepers, teachers, gas station attendants and engineers. Habib was a banker. I was a regional manager at a private bank in Syria. When the revolution started, some
Starting point is 02:53:52 people carried guns, some people left, and some people volunteered. In the opposition-held Northwest, the White Helmet served about five million people. Habib says they're now stretching to eventually meet the needs of more than 20 million Syrians. Even as their budget is cut, USAID, the foreign aid agency dismantled by the Trump administration, it used to be the White Helmet's biggest funder. Oh, gee, wouldn't you know it. Oh, those horrible Trump people. Horrible.
Starting point is 02:54:30 So we're funding the white helmets. Yeah, of course. We were the American taxpayer. We were funding the white. It's picking up the tab. Yeah, we were funding. I have a couple Middle East clips that I'd like to play. We're running out of time for today, but I think that we are nearing a solution for Palestine
Starting point is 02:54:50 as there's been some political moves. During a convention in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas named the first ever vice president of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 64-year-old Hussein Al-Sheikh, who has long been considered one of Abbas's closest aides. Elsheikh was born in the West Bank and spent 11 years in an Israeli prison in his youth, then went on to become a veteran politician for the Fatah movement. In 2022, he was named Secretary-General of the PLO, which oversees the Palestinian Authority, and was made responsible for civilian affairs. At the time the appointment generated criticism that he was being groomed to replace Abbas,
Starting point is 02:55:29 but Al-Sheikh insisted he would push for a democratic process. Any future president of the Palestinian people can only be a president elected by the Palestinian people through the ballot box. The Palestinian president must be elected. The Palestinian president will not be appointed. He will not come to power by force or because of some regional or international interest or arrive on an Israeli tank. Abbas has not held elections since 2006 and is the president of both the PLO and the Palestinian Authority. His decision to promote Al-Sheikh
Starting point is 02:56:03 as vice president is widely considered a move to assure a successor and to appease Arab and Western powers that have pushed for the organization's reform and for them to have a central role in the post-war governance of the Gaza Strip. This guy, this Hussein Al-Sheikh, he's a ghost. I mean, he's been around, but there's nothing you can find on this guy. Yeah, and he looks like, he looks like, he's been around but there's nothing you can find on this guy Yeah, and he looks like he looks like He looks like he's been in the West, you know, he's just one of those guys So to me that says moves are getting made. They got to put someone in place. We can't have a boss He'll be yeah, they'll have a they'll have a vote. I'm sure and They'll bring him in so I find that encouraging And they'll bring him in. So I find that encouraging.
Starting point is 02:56:46 One of my friends is in Tehran right now. And he's been sending me pictures. Man, the media does such a horrible job of Psy-opping us about Iran. I mean, it almost looks like the Iran pictures from the 70s. You've got modern cars, modern buildings, lots of women without head coverings, makeup, they look just... No, this is a lie! They've got a hockey team, they've got all kinds of... I mean, it's really... it looks
Starting point is 02:57:19 good. If you take pictures out of Moscow, they're even better. Moscow, we know, but Tehran. Now, it's still a stinking city. It says there's a lot of pollution, but it looks really modern and beautiful. Whenever we see Iran on television, there's a bunch of towel heads walking around in dust. Thanks M5M. So, we're currently in negotiations with the Iranians and I found a report on Deutsche Welle about these negotiations. Staying with Iran, a third round of talks about a new nuclear deal between Tehran and Washington has reportedly begun in Oman.
Starting point is 02:58:02 Iranian state TV showed its delegation in Muscat and announced the negotiations started midday. Officials from both sides are expected to hold in-depth discussions over how to limit Iran's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some of the crushing economic sanctions the US has imposed on the Islamic Republic. Some more I'm joined by Niloufarakalami from DW's Persian Service. Good to see you. Where do the talks stand right now?
Starting point is 02:58:31 Yeah, seems to take longer this time. A post on X from Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson says talks continues in a serious atmosphere and there's no comment from the US team yet. Earlier today an Iranian official also told Reuters that the expert level negotiations are difficult, complicated and serious. According to both sides, the latest two rounds were positive and they seem to be talking about
Starting point is 02:58:59 the details on this stage and Iran's emphasizes particularly on lifting sanctions. But also there was some reports that Iran's missile program is an obstacle to progress. Iran has previously said they won't negotiate on defense capabilities but we have to wait and see. So the question is of course what do the Iranians want? Now Trump wants a deal. What does Iran want? Of course, they also want an agreement because they know that the other options are not very
Starting point is 02:59:33 pleasant. Let's not forget that the Islamic Republic is in a vulnerable position in these negotiations. The regime is facing various domestic and international crisis and challenges. Its proxies in the region have been severely weakened and the shadow of war hangs over Iran. In addition to that, any agreement that only preserve Iran's nuclear program is a relief as there is a possibility of a complete dismantling. And then most importantly, and the reason why I brought up my friend in Tehran is what
Starting point is 03:00:11 do the Iranian people want? What about Iranians? What do they actually want? For them, like it might be minor economic relief, for example, but the Iranian people have experienced 2015 deal. At the time, Iran's economic situation was not as bad as it is today. But according to experts, even that deal failed to improve the quality of life of Iranian people or even change the social situation and freedom in Iran.
Starting point is 03:00:40 Instead, the government used the additional resources to further strengthen its proxies in the region and suppress its citizens inside Iran. There are different views on that. Some are waiting for the final results, some are in favor of an agreement, and others are pessimistic. Like, for example, a large group of Iranians consider any agreement a failure and raise this question of why the Iranian people should pay the price for the Islamic Republic's policies.
Starting point is 03:01:09 Yeah, I think the Iranian people, well, they're more American than we realize, of course, just like the Russians. Yeah, well, they won't be if we bomb them. No, well, no, they won't be. Hey, I just got a new video in so that meeting between President Trump and president Volodymyr Zelensky initially, they had three chairs in the temple a Macron thought that he was gonna be sitting down with them and you can see Trump like, you know
Starting point is 03:01:40 Not shaking his extended hand then touching him on the arm and the macron leaves and they remove the third chair. That's interesting. Well, that's interesting. Yeah. That's not that has not been reported. Well, only on your no agenda show at almost the end of the show, I might add. We are running late.
Starting point is 03:02:01 But if you have something you want to sneak in there, something that you think is... Some shorties. I got some shorties. I got a couple of different shorties. Let's do the real ID, upcoming real ID fiasco, which is going to cause nothing but trouble at the airports. In just over two weeks, a major change is coming for air travelers across the U.S.
Starting point is 03:02:20 Starting next month, the TSA will require adults flying domestically to present a real ID, compliant driver's license, or other approved identification. And today's Christina Corona. We're standing outside of a packed DMV here in the city of Omani, where many people are lining up to get their Real ID before May 7th. You may begin the process online, however, you will have to finish it at the DMV. Soon, travelers will need a Real ID to board domestic flights. After the May 7, 2025 deadline, it will also be required to enter federal facilities like military bases and courthouses.
Starting point is 03:02:55 Without a compliant ID, travelers risk being turned away at airport security. This is part of the Real ID Act of 2005, born out of the 9-11 Commission's push for stronger ID standards. Real IDs are marked with a star or a design like California's bear outline. Other acceptable IDs include U.S. passports, military IDs, DHS-trusted traveler cards like global entry, and acceptable photo IDs issued by a federally recognized tribal nation, Indian Tribe, just to name a few. To get a real ID, you'll need documents proving your full legal name, social security
Starting point is 03:03:30 number, address, and legal presence. One Southern California resident shared his experience navigating the process. I've been here for maybe 20 minutes, so not too bad. Yeah, the line's moving pretty slow, but yeah, not too bad. A lot of stuff's moving pretty slow, but yeah, not too bad. A lot of stuff was online. Like they had us upload our document, like some documents, like a birth certificate or a water bill to prove you live here. And just like basic information, like address, things like that, just to prove you live here.
Starting point is 03:04:00 In California, the DMV is extending hours at select offices, including three in the Bay Area on Saturday, May 3rd to help meet the deadline. That's so American. You can show us your Social Security card or a water bill. Either one is just a water bill. Did I tell you about my global entry experience coming back into the country? Not that I can think of. So Tina and I, because you know, it's like, you're a big fan of this. I hate it. I hate the idea that I had to do it, but you know, we always have to transfer either in Atlanta or Dallas or Houston and you know, you have two hours typically
Starting point is 03:04:42 to get from your international flight to your domestic flight and you know we stood in line for an hour and a half when we came back from Italy and luckily our other flight was delayed but you know it's not fun and then you see all these jemokes oh I've got I've got global entry I'm like I want to be that la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la Boom, keep walking. And then as you're walking up towards the custom guys, it's curry, you're good to go. The whole system is all facial recognition. It's all implemented. We're all in the system.
Starting point is 03:05:34 Everyone's, this is our future life, is all facial recognition. It's quite disgusting. So this real ID is just a little step, because when you get your real ID guess what photo Facial recognition it's all gonna be facial and they don't tell you Don't tell you what they're gonna use it for That's really it's it's gonna use it to track you down. That's what they're gonna use it for
Starting point is 03:05:58 I'm gonna show my school by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun Yeah, so on Thursday hopefully I have a report about Ashland Speed I think she's racing today and the Mazda MX-5 action With the no agenda car. It's a little sticker on the back, but it's we call it the no agenda car But right now as we have tip of the day coming up, we have some Commodores We got some nights of course some birthdays celebrate and John's tip of the day and our end of show mixes We would like to thank the rest of our donors who supported us fifty dollars and over Yeah, starting with Nicholas Carabut in Sebring, Florida came came in the $196 top notch heating and,
Starting point is 03:06:46 and air conditioning and, uh, Manti Utah. Go check them out. 125 bucks. Uh, David Byrne in Staten Island, New York, 123 45 loves his truck. He loves what he does. Uh, Commodore Sir Mark in Warsaw, Poland. One, two, three, four, five. Now you're talking. All right. Agent 99, 105, 35. He wants some jingles, polywalk77.etsy.com. Okay.
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Starting point is 03:08:52 It is. James Fraderich in McFarland, Wisconsin, 65, 80. It was a Dave Smith donation. Dave Smith donation. Dave Smith donation. Which is never funny. Interesting. It's a Dave Smith donation. Dave Smith donation. Dave Smith donation. Which is never funny. Interesting. It's never funny.
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Starting point is 03:09:38 Middlesex UK always leave you five fifty five He's trying to escape the hell hole London has become and moving out to the countryside sir Paul. All right, brother Hope it works out. You need some house buying, we'll give him some house buying at the end. We will. We will. Eric Pulse in Katy, Texas, 5515. Binger in Yankton, South Dakota, 5512. Another happy birthday. Fireball tack from Binger. She turned 12. South Dakota 5512 another happy birthday the fireball Tack from binger she turned 12 was the fireball
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Starting point is 03:12:45 Oh, I just did. George, we now have the $50 donors, just the names, just the locations. There's 10 of them. George Wuschit in Lavernia, Texas. Jacqueline Connelly in Green Bagel, Wisconsin Christopher stable stable in forest all Missouri he's got a long note see if there's anything in there worthwhile yes well he he has more about the st. Louis nuclear waste and he says a lot of friends and family die of cancer very uplifting note he says HBO did a documentary on it called Atomic Homefront. So I'll watch that. I'll go take a look at that for sure. He says, please watch.
Starting point is 03:13:33 Maybe RFK Jr. is an op, but at least he came here to tour our town. And hear the stories. Oh, good. That's good. Richard Gardner, who I believe is in New York. Uh, Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon. Shalom Brody in Valley Stream, New York.
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Starting point is 03:14:43 You can go to noagenthedonations.com. You can give us any number you want. You've got Harman. You can go to NoAgendaDonations.com. You can give us any number you want. You can make it up. We love the numerology. You can tell when we read off those donations. Again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers and to those who came in under $50. We never mention those for reasons of anonymity, but you can always become a sustaining donor. We encourage that any amount any frequency. It's all up to you know, again donations comm Finger and Kyle say happy birthday to Farron fireball tacked turn 12 on April 22nd Day, Nikki ray happy birthday to her son Hayden turns 22 on the 29th Lauren Happy birthday to Eric Bradley. He turns 29 on April 29th as well to We say happy birthday to all these people from everybody here, the best podcast in the
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Starting point is 03:18:05 compassion and we just love hearing that. That is exactly what you get at a No Agenda Meetup. These are the people who will be your first responders in an emergency connection, gives you protection at the No Agenda Meetups. You can find them all at NoAgendaMeetups.com. We have one Meetup report. It's a little long, but man, this is a record for Leo Bravo. This is his 62nd Los Angeles meetup, the flight of the No agenda, and here is the report with 20 people. Hey everybody, this is Hermunch Nuts here, fishing my nuts here with everybody here in LA. Greetings to the gnomes of Zurich.
Starting point is 03:18:39 This is ceramic jar in the morning. Hi! In the morning, Patrick here, meant to write in a note after I got my instinct ring. It is in the mail. It's on its way out. In the morning, crackpot and buzzkill. This is Lady Chanaka of California. I'm your P Berry. Sticking it out in California with John C and the wonderful people here at the LA Meetup. Cheers to the best podcasters in the universe. In the morning, this is Commodore Kirk. Thanks Adam, John, for all the media assassinations over the years. No Agenda is a blessing. Thank you guys. Hi, this is
Starting point is 03:19:11 Julie. I'm having a great time at my first No Agenda meetup. In the morning. This is Dame Laura of the Golden Mean, dropping in from Washington State to the fine people in LA. In the morning, this is the other Scott Horton, the one nobody talks about. Having a great time at our meetup here with Leo Bravo and a few others that I came with. Great times. We're missing you here, Adam and John. In the morning, this is Brian, just living all of my childhood fantasies of being a pilot.
Starting point is 03:19:47 Plane's good, train's bad, but trains are probably fine too. Hi, this is Greta, and I'm here with my boys Tommy and Deb. I don't know where they are. They fucked off. But anyway, we love you guys. Thank you so much, Leo, for having these awesome meetups. Hi! In the morning, this is Devillin Angel. Have a nice day. In the morning everyone this is Tommy here. This is my umpteen time at a meetup. I want to thank you John and Adam for continuing your podcast. In the morning, John and Adam.
Starting point is 03:20:25 This is Donna. This is my first meet up. And I'm also a listener of Curry and the Keeper. Shout out to Tina and Adam. Thanks so much. We love the show. This is certainly a Kim Faux Pop. Happy Earth Day, guys.
Starting point is 03:20:38 And just remember Earth Day has the same day as Vladimir Lenin's birthday. Think about it. What's going on with all these planes? We want more trains. Quiet, you imbeciles. I'm listening to no agenda. In the morning! Well, there you go. Record numbers out there in Los Angeles.
Starting point is 03:20:55 That's fantastic. We have a couple of meetups taking place this week. On Thursday, the Northern Wake Publical Slave Gathering kicks off at six o'clock. And potluck, hoppyings in Raleigh, North Carolina and the South Austin Slaves on Slaughter Meetup at Little Woodrose in South Park Meadows. I don't know about this one. Nick Delly is doing that. It's 7 o'clock on Thursday, so of course I can't make it because it's after a show on
Starting point is 03:21:19 a show day and you do need to RSVP. Many more meetups can be found at the Noagenda meetups website, noagendameetups.com. Give it a shot, go check it out. You certainly want to, they're global, they have meetups all over the world. If you can't find one near you, start one yourselfiggered or held alame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. Now I'm looking at my quad screen here.
Starting point is 03:22:01 Would you believe? Oh man, the more things change change the more they stay the same. Do you know what's happening right now on Capitol Hill? Filibuster. Booker and Jeffries are holding a sit-in. Oh, not a sit-in. A sit-in. They're holding a sit-in. We're sitting and we're not gonna budge.
Starting point is 03:22:22 It's like me holding a sit-in in my living room. I'm gonna hold a sit-in until people change their ways. What are you doing? If it's not on MSNBC, it's not a sit-in, my friend. You've gotta get the cameras on you. All right, time to choose the ISO for the end of the show. I only have one, I don't think it's, I mean, it's okay, but I think you're gonna knock me out of the park here. I see you have one, two, three, you've got four.
Starting point is 03:22:48 So I'll just play mine and then we'll pick one of your winners. Okay? Sure. You know what Dvorak says? He says bull crap. There you go. That's a... That's no good.
Starting point is 03:22:58 I knew you wouldn't like it. Okay. So these are all the coded SS and you'll see the reason why when you start listening to them. Okay. And we'll, we'll start at the bottom. Uh, cause once, there's a dupe in here that was done twice. One of our, uh, one of our special producers and this is, we'll start with Bozo's. These two guys are not Bozo's. Oh, Scott Simon. Nice. These two guys are not Bozo's. That's pretty close for AI. These two guys are not bozos
Starting point is 03:23:27 Except the end. Okay. What else you got? Podcast that's what I call a great podcast We need to say I'm Scott Simon we need him to tag himself. All right, what else you got? Well, then it's be I think he was borderline illegal already. You think? I'm pretty sure. We'll get a note. So now we have a variation of the same one because our producer decided that he's going to, it's a guy who does Scott Simon.
Starting point is 03:23:58 He's got this, he's got a lot of voices. What, you're saying this is not AI? This is a guy? No, these are all AI. Oh, okay. But the producer who does Scott's, the Scott Simon of materials is from his AI voice. He's trained, trained, trained a voice. Trained the model. Yes.
Starting point is 03:24:13 And it is a good model. Uh, in fact, the one with the horn is his. Okay. Here we go. Something one. Wow. That was something, right? And two. Wow. That was something, right? And two. Wow, that was something, right? I still like- That's what I call a great podcast. I think that's the best one. Okay.
Starting point is 03:24:34 I like it a lot. I like it so much that I'm gonna start the tip of the day jingle because it is time for John C. Dvorak's tip of the day. Great advice for you and me,ak's tip of the day. Green vibes for you and me. Just a tip with J.C.D. A lot of people want me to do some generalized wine tips, so I'm going to do one.
Starting point is 03:24:52 A wine tip. Finally a wine tip. Yes, we all love the wine tips. This is a type of wine, I'm going to discuss a type of wine, it's a sweet wine that people should check out. And they're available, if you go to, if you're in a town where there's a liquor store that we have a wine guy knows anything that you're doing you'll probably find an example of this product it's a rhone wine is a sweet wine and I've discussed on the show sauternes
Starting point is 03:25:17 which is I think one of the great sweet wines and you have the wind that's that's what you get the ladies with you the ladies love this. They love this. And then there's also German sweet wines that are worth noting which include Baron Auslase and Trocken Baron Auslase. Oh, the Trocken Baron, yes. Trocken Barons are very expensive and Baron Auslase means it's a late harvest of specific berries and Trocken Baron Auslase is a wine that is dried berries basically raisins turned into wine And there's another type of German sweet wine called an ice wine, which doesn't really hold a candle
Starting point is 03:25:55 I don't think to these other two but the wine I'm gonna promote which is an inexpensive Obscure wine that you can find anyone who knows anything about wine will know about this bombs de Venise Can you spell that for the jury? B-A-U-M-E-S-D-E-V-E-N-I-S-E. Bums de Venise. And Bums de Venise, and it's used and sometimes referred to as Muscat Bums de Venise. But the appellation I believe is Bums de Venise. But it's a muscat wine that is incredibly sweet and it's not super sweet, it's sickening. It's not a sickening sweet wine. It's just an incredibly floral, like the best, it's a very specific muscat grape called the orange muscat. And it's only pretty much, I mean, muscats are very, a variety of muscats are grown all over
Starting point is 03:26:44 the place. A lot of them are table grapes. But this particular grape, which is a specialty of this area, makes a fabulous product. This Muscat Bombs de Venise is a killer, a killer wine. And if you see it, try it. How much can we expect to pay for the Bombs de Venise? 15 bucks maybe. They're cheap. That's the price. That's what makes it a great tip of the day. we expect to pay for the bombs? 15 bucks maybe.
Starting point is 03:27:05 That's the price. That's what makes it a great tip of the day. And they're not an expensive, not an expensive, rare, expensive wine. Like a half ball of Trockenbeeren Auesles that can cost you $150. And what do we do? We drink the bombs de Venise with dinner
Starting point is 03:27:22 or upright after dinner after dinner. And it's perfect with almost any dessert and Do you drink it in a big wine glass one of those little petite thingies you could drink it in anything you want Cup it doesn't matter this stuff is really good Well, you may have to wait for things, but you get such a fabulous tip of the day at the end, it just makes it all worth it, doesn't it? I like it. I'm going to go out and get me a bomb de Venise. Bomb, bomb, bomb de Venise and Iran. It's a beautiful thing Coming up next on the no agenda stream for all 2400 of you. I don't know how many are left. We've got random thoughts
Starting point is 03:28:18 Random thoughts on the stream. So make sure you check that out We have two brand new mixes we've got Hugh Allison he's been around for a long time as has Danny loose who also returns to the end of show mixes we love it when you guys do that we really do and of course we will return on Thursday with another media deconstruction extravaganza right here on the No Agenda show and as always you do it as a public service so please remember us at NoAgendaDonations.com until then coming to you from Fredericksburg Texas right here in the Texas Hill Country in the morning everybody
Starting point is 03:28:57 I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where we're hoping the sun comes out sometime soon it hasn't happened for a week I'm John C. DeVore. We return on Thursday. Again, remember us, noagendadonations.com and till then, adios, mofos, a hooey hooey, and such. Okay, boomer. How you doing out there? When I was a kid.
Starting point is 03:29:16 You ever seen that? One of those days where it just seems like everybody's getting on your case from your teacher all the way down to your best girlfriend? It's all dope. Well, you know, I used to have me just about all this time. I used to be a little girl. I used to be a little girl. I used to be a little girl. I used to be a little girl. I used to be a little girl. I used to be a little girl. You ever seen that? One of those days where it just seems like everybody's getting on your case from your teacher all the way down to your best girlfriend? It's all dope.
Starting point is 03:29:27 Well, you know, I used to have him just about all the time. In my day. But I found a way to get out of it. Yeah, but that was the end of it. Let me tell you about it. Okay, boomer. Sitting in the classroom thinking it was a lie I remember there was two things that were interesting to me.
Starting point is 03:29:44 Switch over. There was like, when I was a kid, I remember there was two things that was interesting to switch over. When I was a kid, it was a big deal that kids got caught smoking in the bathroom. When you were a kid, your parents kept you in the bathroom. You know, I'm still stunned. I'm a boomer. I'm only a boomer. I teach you don't you teach I'm only a boomer Everybody knows that smoking ain't allowed Everyone's bitching about it
Starting point is 03:30:10 It's like it should have never begun By the time I was out of college it was like, oh no, nobody smokes They smoke pot in the bathroom Now all of a sudden they can go from smoking cigarettes to pot in the bathroom Cervical cancer is back I made my sons get it immediately.
Starting point is 03:30:25 Because they don't know anything. They do not have knowledge. And who the hell does Musk think he is? The Nazi ruffo baby. Not conscious. I get it. No, no, no, no. Not just not conscious. In the courts, in Congress, in the streets. They don't know anything
Starting point is 03:30:45 really obvious why anyone would pay for chat gpt plus a toy i made my sons get it immediately pretending to be outraged they make mistakes oh you wanna use our money 20 million on a new sesami street show in iraq to combat disinformation in kazakhstan we will win
Starting point is 03:31:03 we will win that's the kind will, we will, we will. That's the kind of thing that you should get fired from a company if they should boot you out the door. Reduction in the gen with providers for use in Nabla. Nabla is the AI software company. We have to fight this in the Congress. We have to fight this in the streets. As Elon.
Starting point is 03:31:22 Nab, nam, nam, nam, bluh, duh. I made my sons get it immediately. No, not this nabler-nub. I should boot you out the door. You don't have thoughts. You don't even know how these things fully funk. And then ran it in your worst way back. I made my sons get it immediately.
Starting point is 03:31:39 More time in America, anymore! They do not have knowledge. Yes, I'm not seeing them now, baby! Cervical cancer is back. in America anymore! They do not have knowledge. Yes! The Nazi World, baby! Cervical cancer's back. Alright, we've got to take to the streets. Oh! The best podcast in the universe!
Starting point is 03:31:59 Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N.A. That's what I call a great podcast.

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