No Agenda - 1760 - "Mercenary Spyware"

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Yo, you have three holy crap! here in FEMA region number six. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm sick and tired of hearing, I hope this message finds you well. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Yeah, I'm convinced that that's just chat GPT. If you get one of those and someone said, write a nice letter to my friend. Yes. And that's what it kicks up. I hope this message finds you well. And then there's the alternate, which is I hope this email finds you well. What does this even mean? Has anyone ever said this in real life? I hope this message finds you well. What is it looking for me? Did it found me? And it found me well? No, seriously, what does it mean? What does this stupid phrase mean? And why is it at the beginning? And you're right.
Starting point is 00:01:08 It's obviously from chat, chat GPT because it's followed by a lengthy sales pitch that goes on and on and on and never gets to the point. What were they trying to sell you with this, uh, this time with that opening? It's usually some service or maybe we can get more podcast listeners. LinkedIn is filled with I hope this message finds you well. LinkedIn has become a spam network. Nobody likes LinkedIn anymore. They're all, you know, like I've got to curate my feed.
Starting point is 00:01:38 I've got to close everything down. I can't accept any more connections. It's a mess. They really hoard that once Microsoft bought it, they hoard that thing out. They made it bad. They really hoard that once Microsoft bought it. They hoard that thing out. They made it bad. They really made I think they probably let chat GPT loose on us. Everybody could grab all the emails and profiles and just spam away. That's all that AI is good for. Spam, deepfakes, humor. Humor, yes. And some Python coding. Okay, I'll give you that.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Use some PHP scripts. All right. Dynamite. Dynamite. Before we even get started, John, we have breaking news. It came in this morning over the transfer room. Breaking, breaking, breaking. Breaking.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Again with breaking news, sources are confirming to Fox News that national security advisor Mike Walsh is out. Out. As well as his deputy Alex Wong. Additional names are likely to come, we're told, and we expect to hear from the president on this soon. I'm Harris Faulkner, you are in the Faulkner Focus. I'm in the Faulkner Focus, oh no.
Starting point is 00:02:42 State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce is also with me. I love this. We have not had Tammy Bruce show up in any real capacity. This is exciting. Tammy's been on a lot. You just haven't seen her. Well, no, but she hasn't been on the show because now it's breaking news breaking, breaking. And Tammy Bruce is going to tell us exactly what happened or, or is she going to waffle a bit and be a propagandist which was exactly is exactly
Starting point is 00:03:08 the opposite of what she was when she wasn't working for government. I wonder which Tammy will get. First though let's get the news of what's coming together right now. Tammy Bruce with the State Department is with us right now. So first of all just kind of top line this for us. I mean Jennifer What if someone says to you John we're going to John at the State Department top line this what would we be expecting to hear from you? the probably the this most succinct explanation that
Starting point is 00:03:44 Explains everything right off the right off the bat the top line and this is why we this is why we have no career in broadcast. The opening, the headline. The lead. The headline. From the State Department perspective, Tammy. Well, here's what I can tell you when it comes to... Right off the bat. Here's what I can tell you.
Starting point is 00:04:00 Uh-oh. Right off the bat, here's what I can tell you, which is nothing. Well, here's what I can tell you when it comes to national security for the country, the nature of the president. Oh, a little laugh tail in there. I hadn't noticed that when I was clipping it. When it comes to national security for the country. Well, here's what I can tell you when it comes to national security for the country. What does that with a laugh tail, Jami Bruce?
Starting point is 00:04:22 Nature of the president, who's involved in making determinations about this nation's trajectory, of course, economically when it comes to security. And what we've seen and what we know from President Trump is he's been very clear that his commitment is to diplomacy around the world. He is clearly an active and engaged president that I think is an understatement. Blah, blah, blah. This is a man who comes from business where his vision... Blah, blah. This is so disappointing from Tammy Bruce.
Starting point is 00:04:51 And his understanding of what needs to occur is the guiding hand of everything that happens in this government. And, of course, he is hands-on, literally, when it comes to making things happen. Literally? When it comes to the implementation. He has hands-on walls? What was he doing to him? I don't know. He was touching him.
Starting point is 00:05:07 He's etc. At every department, every day, whether it's the State Department or the Department of Defense, or of course when it comes to who he chooses to advise him. She gives us nothing. What kind of top line is that, Tammy Bruce? The disappointment of the century. We loved you. We loved you on Fox. You were there to tell us, to tell it to us straight. We loved you. No. No.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Okay. So let's do some propaganda. That mission was done well. So now they're talking about the mission of which the top secret details were leaked on the signal and signal. Oh, the Houthi bombing. The Houthi. So we're going to move from let's not talk about what happened to that was a great mission, mission accomplished. That mission was done well. It was completed
Starting point is 00:05:50 well. And I think it's worth stating that, that through all of this, this is a leadership move now that's happening. But the actual mission that President Trump wanted worked out very well. Your last quick thought will move forward. Last quick thought you've given us nothing nothing nothing yeah I think that's it when we're looking at the choices that are made when it comes to whether it's the Houthis the nature of diplomacy with Iran which of course always continues bringing people to the table regarding Ukraine and Russia
Starting point is 00:06:18 the situation in Gaza the critical minerals deal which is actually a much broader deal with Ukraine, with money and resources that will be reinvested into Ukraine and its rebuilding after this horrible carnage that has unfolded over three years. So you've got major successes economically and otherwise as inflation goes down. It is a historic first 100 days. It has been aggressive. It is a historic first 100 days. It has been aggressive, exciting, and America wants to change by electing president Trump.
Starting point is 00:06:50 And we're seeing the benefits of his vision on every single framework. And it's, it's been a success. It'll continue to be a success. Complete and utter bull crap. Propaganda. That was terrible. She did, that was a bad performance. It was, it was disappointing. Disappointing, Tammy Bruce. I have a thing, that was the Laura Logan spot. I think she was supposed to get that spot. I don't know why she didn't. Laura Logan would have done a better job than that. Well, that's the problem, because this is clearly all it's just do some propaganda because it's 100 days now
Starting point is 00:07:26 Just before we move on I received but we have we have before we start I have some thoughts about this waltz thing Well, can I can I just give you a boots on the ground real quick? Because worse we have the best producers and I've got many producer boots on the ground Regarding signal gate then yes I want to hear your thoughts about walls as a military contractor writes our boots on the ground regarding Signalgate then yes I want to hear your thoughts about walls as a military contractor writes our boots on the ground producer with the army and as a Navy reservist we are required to use signal
Starting point is 00:07:54 in CONUS and OCONUS which I think is continental United States and what's OCONUS oh continental United States So the narrative that it said commercial app, which you guys debunked, is false. DoD uses it as the app of choice for OPSEC, operational security. I embed with the 160th, FORSCOM, which is an unknown acronym to me. All chats between us contractors and our army counterparts are on signal. WhatsApp is only used by rear detachment Air Force units. Get in the back you WhatsApp people. By the way, Michael Strickars is a douchebag. Just throw that in. He says he turned me on to you in 2019, he doesn't donate so he's a douchebag. So whenever they say commercial app, it is a requirement within the Department of Defense.
Starting point is 00:08:50 So this is all on its face bull crap. But clearly someone had to go. And I guess today we now know it is Waltz. Your thoughts? Well, Waltz and Wong. And well, Wong was the problem. That's what everyone thought. Well, we think he was the problem.
Starting point is 00:09:07 I'm wondering whether or not, because Waltz was set up with his signal system by the CIA directly, according to him. Yes, and Wong was the- I think they set him up. I think this could have been a setup to get rid of him. Yes, he's annoying. He was not a guy that anyone liked.
Starting point is 00:09:24 In fact, people that were Trumpers didn't like him either. But what's convenient here is that he could also have been a bargaining chip with trade talks with the Chinese. To get some Ting Wong back? Because of the Ting Wong. So, Wong was a Chinese national who was anti-China and Waltz was one of the biggest China hawks. So, let's get rid of those two guys and we'll start to talk. And I think they may have been sacrificed. Set up to begin with and then sacrifice it. The excuse will be, well, you know, that this signal
Starting point is 00:10:11 thing, somebody had to take a fall for it. Even though it is a required app, which makes me question the signal even more now. Yeah, CIA, it's got a backdoor, obviously. It has to have a backdoor, it must have a backdoor. Sure. Well, all this comes amidst the most important thing and I did the calculation this morning. We today, John, as of today, May 1st, 2025, are celebrating 6,397 days of broadcasting to Gitmo Nation. Congratulations, sir.
Starting point is 00:10:49 This is where you say congratulations. Congratulations? Yes, congratulations because it's a lot more than... The Scare. President Trump, the first 100 days continues. It continues. The first 100 days. What is this 100 days thing all about? I mean, I don't remember this, the war first 100 days. This is 100 days thing all about I mean they did
Starting point is 00:11:07 I don't remember this the first Trump go-around. I don't remember during Biden or don't last time I remember first hundred days was I think when Steve Jobs rolled out the Macintosh. No, I think 100 days has been around It has Well, they're milking it. Well, of course, they're milking it. Well of course they're milking it, including the BBC. Donald Trump has been marking 100 days since he was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. And in case you missed any of it, here's a reminder of the story so far. From this moment on, America's decline is over.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Over! Over! I'm about to sign some very important executive orders. Military personnel to assist Border Patrol. 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. We'll own it. Air Force One is currently flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America.
Starting point is 00:12:05 If all of the hostages aren't returned, let hell break out. The Department of Government Efficiency moves to revamp and shrink the... I love those old drum roll in the background. ...signs of the federal government. People voted for major government reform, and that's what people are going to get. A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast. Should I run again, you tell me? You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict.
Starting point is 00:12:31 You're not in a good position. You don't have the cards right now. Tariffs, you know, they're all set. They go into effect tomorrow. Hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia. There were nearly 200 who were sent to El Salvador. Department of Education were going to eliminate it. Details of the US attack plans were first shared two days earlier with Jeffrey Goldberg. I don't know anything about it. We have to have Greenland. This is Liberation Day. The United States will implement reciprocal tariffs. We've been meeting with China. We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia. You have to have Ukraine want to make a deal too. America is back.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Yeah! You know why they didn't do this for Biden? Because all they would have for the montage is... I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian.
Starting point is 00:13:16 I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian.
Starting point is 00:13:24 I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. I'm not Russian. 1984 when Ronald Reagan became president? He became president in 1980. He was re-elected in 1984. Yeah. Right. Do you remember the Morning in America campaign? Begley. It's morning again in America. Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history.
Starting point is 00:13:48 With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, more than at any time in the past four years. This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married. And with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future. It's morning again in America, and under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better. Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago? It's morning in America is one of the most famous ads of its time and we have a modern
Starting point is 00:14:36 day version. It's a new day. The sun is rising. The birds are singing, and things are returning to normal. It's norming in America. Today, we're actually arresting shoplifters, and fewer businesses are being burned down. All over America, pronouns are being dropped from bios. Men are not having babies. And fewer drag queens are flashing their genitals at children. Videos like this one aren't being shadow banned as much. People are saying, Master Bedroom.
Starting point is 00:15:18 And look at that. White people are reappearing in commercials. Oh, and guys. We can say guys again. America, the fever has broken. Now we can be sensible, nicer, and normal. Join us, and let's never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again. It's norming in America. That's right, baby! Have a great norming, you hear?
Starting point is 00:15:53 Same PR team, clearly. It's norming in America. That's very funny. I like that. I thought that was good. That brings me immediately to a nutball clip. Okay, are you on the mic, man? Are you spitting in that stuff? Yeah, I hope so. I'm going to to a nutball clip. Okay. Are you on the mic man? Are you talking? Are you spitting in that? Yeah, I hope so. I'm going to jack you up some more. Jack me up.
Starting point is 00:16:14 The opening show things right themselves. Okay. That brings you to a clip immediately. You said what kind of clip? This is the ranting lunatic chick. Wait a minute. You're going straight to TikTok? Can we do this this early in the show? Can we handle it? Maybe not, but this is definitely, it will set the tone. You know what? Okay, I know I'm insane and I know I'm the internet's favorite crash out.
Starting point is 00:16:39 What I'm going to say right now- Wait, clash out? Crash out. Crash out, I like that. Crash out, crash, crash. She said crash out? I thought she said clash out Clashout, I like that. Crashout, crash, crash. She said crashout? I thought it said clashout. I think she said crashout.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Crashout, crashout. You know what? Okay, I know I'm insane and I know I'm the internet's favorite crashout. What I'm going to say right now is I'm not paying my debt anymore. What we're doing from this point forward is a debt strike 2025. If I have to do it alone and be insane, I will. I literally will. The fact that we would continue paying our debt, we can't stop paying our rent because
Starting point is 00:17:08 that's too crazy. It'll put a lot of people in harm. I'm sick of protesting. It does nothing. I don't want to go to war because look how skinny my arms are. We have to do something. I'm not paying my debt. You can join me on this or you cannot.
Starting point is 00:17:22 I'm gonna take a picture and I'm going to keep records of the debt that I have right now. Cuz when the interest rates go up on that, I'm not paying those either, even when they start to meet our demands. And the demands are as such, abolish ICE, okay? I want those men home from El Salvador, I don't care. And- Man. We need to protect Medicaid, the Department of Education needs to be restored. I want critical race theory in the classroom, period. We need to literally be delusional.
Starting point is 00:17:51 I'm gonna be delusional right now. I will stand here right now, be delusional, make fun of me all you want. This is what we need to do. This is what we need to do. And if they don't meet our demands, then what we're gonna do is then we're gonna stop paying our rent.
Starting point is 00:18:04 But for right now, stop paying your bills. stop paying your debt. We're gonna start there It's like what the fuck do I have to owe my credit score for the house that I'll never buy I Already am NOT allowed to rent because I don't make enough money. I have to have a cosigner anyway So what does my credit score even fucking matter? What does it matter bro literally whoa?, I want Doe.office. We're done with him. We're done with him. And free healthcare for all people. I'm so dead serious. Guys, we're done with this. I love that she called herself delusional. That is, that is some, that's a bipolar episode. No, no, that's engagement farming on TikTok.
Starting point is 00:18:46 I don't think, I think you have to see her. She's pretty serious. No, this is, it's all an act. It's all an act. Well, she's pretty good actress then. She's pretty funny. She got on the No Agenda show. I'll give her that. Yeah, she did. But this is part of, there's also another movement going on besides not paying your bills. None of this is going to work, of course, because it's a very small minority. Yes, it's norming in America. There's a bunch of people calling for what's illegal, which is a general strike.
Starting point is 00:19:15 And they're calling for a general strike, and I think it was for May Day of next year, maybe. Oh, they're getting ahead of the game. They're front running the strike. But there's a, I'm noticing it's starting to show up more and more about, let's do a general strike. That's gonna do it. Well, today is of course a dual celebration. Today's May Day. And what is May Day?
Starting point is 00:19:41 May Day is workers, it's the workers day. This is the day of the working man. Commies. What? What? It's communist holiday. Yeah. Communist holiday. Yeah. Would you be surprised to hear that this falls on the exact same day as the national day of prayer? Well, I know it is the national day of prayer because Trump was on the air. Of course. And he just could not stop talking.
Starting point is 00:20:06 It's called counter programming, man. It's like, we're not gonna pay any attention to the commies. It's National Day of Prayer. That is good. It's counter programming is a good job. World's Workers' Day. Workers Unite. Pray, pray.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Anyway, it is 100 days. It's also a show day. It is a show day. But of course, it's a double, it's a show day. It is a show day. Of course, it's a double, it's a triple threat. It is workers day, it is national day of prayer and a show day. What more can you do? But we are celebrating 100 days and President Trump chose ABC to do his 100 day, his 100 day interview.
Starting point is 00:20:40 The 100 day excoriation of the media. Yes, and most of this was about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Let me ask you about one man in one court order. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He's the Salvadoran man who crossed into this country illegally, but who is under a protective order. I think to get into the White House Correspondents' Dinner,
Starting point is 00:20:59 you had to pronounce Kilmar Abrego Garcia properly, otherwise you weren't allowed in. That he not be sent back to El Salvador, your government sent him back to El Salvador and acknowledged in court that was a mistake. And now the Supreme Court has upheld an order that you must return him to facilitate his return to the United States.
Starting point is 00:21:18 What are you doing to comply? Well, the lawyer that said it was a mistake was here a long time, was not appointed by us, should not have said that, should not have said that. And just so you understand, the person that you're talking about, you know, you're making this person sound, this is a MS-13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified to even talk about him, okay? This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland.
Starting point is 00:21:47 I'm not saying he's a good guy. It's about the rule of law. The order from the Supreme Court stands, sir. The order of law! Into our country illegally. You could get him back. There's a phone on this desk. I could.
Starting point is 00:21:57 You could pick it up and with all the power of the presidency, you could call up the President of El Salvador and say, I sent him back. And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that. But the court has ordered you to facilitate that. I'm not the one making this decision. We have lawyers that don't want to do this. But the buck stops in the soft. No, no, no, no. I follow the law. You want me to follow the law? If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep him right where he is. The Supreme Court says what the law is.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Yeah, this was so good because the president really thought that he was going to get a pass somehow but this I chose you I chose you ABC I chose you Terry Moran. listen I was elected to take care of a problem that was it was a unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man, a man that turned out to be incompetent that you always said was wonderful, great genius, right? And now you find out all of the media now they're saying what a mistake they made. A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people flowed in. I campaigned on that
Starting point is 00:23:00 issue. I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but it was pretty close. I campaigned on that issue. I wouldn't say it was my number one issue but it was pretty close. I campaigned on that issue. I've done an amazing job. I have closed borders. He said you couldn't do it and you wouldn't be able to do it. It would never happen. Well, it happened. It happened very quickly. Wait a minute. When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get them out and we're doing it. And here comes the bone of contention. The tattoo. You'll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out, he said he wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked and on his knuckles he had MS-13.
Starting point is 00:23:34 There's a dispute over that. Wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles tattoo. He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But let's move on. Wait a minute. Terry. Terry. He did not have the letter m s1 it says m s1 3 that was photoshop Was photoshop?
Starting point is 00:23:53 Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know you're doing the interview I think you because frankly I never heard of you, but that's okay Terry okay, but you're not being very nice. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something. Terry agree to disagree. Do you want me to show you the best? By the way, by the way, that is the lowest of the low outs. I agree to disagree. I know I hear it on podcasts all the time. You and I, we just fight.
Starting point is 00:24:23 We never agreed to disagree. It's like, you're wrong. I don't think we've ever done, not that you mean, I never thought about this, but in 17 years, I don't think we've ever used that phrase on each other. We've never gone to bed angry at each other either. Well, well, who cares? Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something. I'm Terry Do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture Well, here we go, here we go Photoshop it go look at his hand He had a mr. He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them I want to turn to you crane. No, no
Starting point is 00:25:01 He had MS as clear as you can be, not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news. Well, I was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go home. They aren't there when he's in El Salvador. They weren't there, but they're there now, right? No, they're in your picture. Terry, he's got MS-13 on his knuckles.
Starting point is 00:25:24 All right. Okay? We'll take a look at that. It's such a disservice. We'll take a look at that, sir. He's got MS-13 on his knuckles. All right. Okay. We'll take a look. It's such a disservice. We'll take a look at that sir. Why don't you just say yes he does and you know go on to something else. It's contested. So this is a contentious issue because many people have emailed me this saying Trump he's not doing his homework. He should just take the L. It was photoshopped. Now there's two pictures. There's one of them's got some you call it Photoshop explaining what the symbols mean MS-13 that's what Photoshop part is. No no it is MS-13 on his knuckles but the second photo taken in Ukraine you don't see that in fact what you do see is his knuckles are all smudged.
Starting point is 00:26:06 That's the Photoshopped version. No, the MS-13M, there's no M on his knuckles. No, no, they showed a picture of MS-13 on his knuckles. They showed that picture. That's the Photoshopped version. I wonder if that's Photoshopped. Yeah, it is. It's obviously, if you look at it carefully, if that's photoshopped. Yeah, it is. It's obviously, if you look at it carefully, the letters are too clear. Cause the symbols mean MS-13. That was the idea. But I'm just saying the pictures they showed in this piece showed what you call
Starting point is 00:26:34 a Photoshop, but I would say the other picture, whereas Knuckles are completely smudged, that's a Photoshop. I think that's Photoshop too. They could both be Photoshopped, but yes, the symbols stand for MS-13. Yeah, that's all there is to it. And he beat up his wife since when are we calling that? Apparently there's another report that came out this morning where he also did something. He also beat his wife into...
Starting point is 00:26:59 There's some other beating that took place as part of this whole thing. More beatings. Yes, you are listening to the No Agenda Show. Still ahead. I'm asking the justification for going after people you don't like. We'll be back with more of Trump's 100 Days or Not. So that was big from the M5M this week. 100 Days.
Starting point is 00:27:20 What's happened? 100 Days. 100 Days. 100 days. Well, I don't have any 100 day stuff. I have what the Democrats did, which I thought was the best part of the week. Oh, this is with the hog, the hog kid. Oh no, the hog kid's not that interesting.
Starting point is 00:27:37 I thought the thing I thought that was interesting was the sit in. Yeah, that started on Sunday. We, we, we saw the sit in start live on the show. Yeah, that started on Sunday. We saw the sit-in start live on the show. Yeah, we saw it start, but here's the report, which holy mackerel, I didn't clip this correctly, I can tell by looking at it. Do you have the name of it? Yeah, Congress Sit-In.
Starting point is 00:27:57 Okay. Oh, it's okay. We'll roll with it. We'll figure out what's going on. Let's see what we have. Congress returns from its spring break today, but two lawmakers returned to the Capitol a day earlier in protest of the Republican budget plan. You're looking at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker, who held a sit-in that lasted more than 12 hours. This is one of those moments where we have to step up more as leaders in
Starting point is 00:28:26 Congress. We are in a moral moment and what we need now is not just for congresspeople and for senators but to get there we need more people that are willing to stand in this moral storm. In this moment, to this news congressional correspondent Nicole Killian joins us now from Capitol Hill with more on this. Good morning to you, Nicole. Senator Booker there kind of ended that speech and everyone's standing up. There was kind of like a, a rawrous applause around him. I didn't hear any rawrous applause on the clip.
Starting point is 00:28:57 There was some, there was some applause, but stand, the guys, he said they standed up. Well, he's British. This guy's British. He's British. You're bringing a British guy in so they can do proper English. Yes, they standed up. Well, he's British. This guy's British. You're bringing a British guy in so they can do proper English? Yes, they standed up. I've been standed up all the time. Why do this? Why conduct a sit-in protest on the weekend?
Starting point is 00:29:15 And from what you can tell, did it resonate? Well, I think a couple of things. Interestingly, I did ask Senator Booker after he had that record breaking speech on the Senate floor earlier this month if this was a sign of things to come from Democrats because of course some have been under fire for not doing enough to combat the Trump agenda And he did acknowledge the need on the part of Democrats to do more And so obviously this all happened on the House side of the steps which involved minority leader. Okay, you stop the clip It goes on this woman is one of those women. I don't know if you ever worked with any of them. They're in broadcasting. They can talk forever.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Oh, it's... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. They have to be interrupted. They leave very few openings because I, I try, when I tried to clip her, I tried to cut out something because she, she would use and, she stood and, there was no way of cutting, you know what I mean? An unclipable wench, I tell you. Unclipable wench, yes, she's no good. An unclipable wench who can't stop talking.
Starting point is 00:30:21 I want to play a little bit of this hog thing though, because I just thought it was interesting to show what disarray the Democrat party is in. DNC vice chair David Hogg was on the lead last week talking about his plan to raise $20 million to unseat Democrats in safe seats in primaries. By the way, the woman you're going to hear talking, her name is Megan, Her name is Megan, what is it? Do I have it here? Megan Hayes, she was an advisor to Biden and she has a most interesting speech impediment. Now the DNC chairman, Ken Martin weighed in
Starting point is 00:30:55 and here's what he had to say. No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger. While, you know, certainly, you know, I understand what he's trying to do, as I've said to him, if you want to challenge incumbents, you're more than free to do that, but just not as an officer of the DNC. From Minnesota, if you can't tell.
Starting point is 00:31:19 So, Hogg's argument is, just because he's not here to defend himself, there's a lot of dead weight in this party, and we're talking about safe democratic seats so whoever wins is going to end up winning anyway and we need to rise to meet the moment. That's what he would say. Great. You don't do that as a member of the DNC. You are an elected person on the DNC. Leave the party and go do that. The DNC is not an idea. That is a democratic party. The DNC is an institution with a job to do. People vote in primaries, not the DNC. Are you sympathetic to his arguments at all? No, then don't be part of the DNC.
Starting point is 00:31:51 Well, what about the idea that there should be? Absolutely, there should be primaries. People should be primaries. If that is that is how our democracy works. But if you want to help the primary challengers, then leave the DNC. That is not your role as the DNC. Oh, interesting. Now that I listen to her you can't hear it but when you see her her mouth goes all weird when she talks. That was disappointing.
Starting point is 00:32:12 No that's interesting. Kelly Evans on CNBC has a funny mouth thing. The worst case example of this was a preacher called Robert Tilton out of Texas. Not familiar. And he used to be a televangelist. He's on TV all the time. I haven't seen him for years, but he did a thing with his mouth that you'd watch him and it was like he would be kind of mesmerizing because his mouth wasn't going in the same direction as his words.
Starting point is 00:32:39 It was very odd to watch. Then they brought on this just short Roe Kahana. Roe Kahana, which is just fun to say. Roe Kahana. Joining us now to discuss Democratic Congressman Roe Kahana of California. Congressman always great to have you on the show. Thank you very much for being here. You are one who has actually publicly supported the effort from David Hogg.
Starting point is 00:33:01 You wrote on the platform X that you think that Hogg is doing incredible work, supporting frontline Democrats while giving new candidates a chance to run in safe seats and you say Democrats should embrace a new generation of leadership and competition. Why is this such a lonely place for you to be? Ooh, ooh, you rebel. Look, I think primaries are healthy, competition is healthy. I won my seat in a Democratic primary. Many of our members of Congress have won in primaries
Starting point is 00:33:33 and we need a new generation of leadership. Now, I'm trying to reach a compromise with the DNC and David Hogg. And what I've said to David is he can have his organization that is having primary challenges but he himself should not endorse in his personal capacity while he's while he's vice-chair and that seems to me something that can bring everyone together. This was such a mistake to bring this jemoke in I have no idea how that happened. He must have come with money. Who?
Starting point is 00:34:05 Hogg. No. This was just purely craziness from the Democrat Party? I don't know that it was a bad thing. He comes in, Carville is the one who is really jumping all over. There was a good back and forth of him and Carville. And Hogg, Carville accused him, he's saying, you know, the position you're in, you're not supposed to be supporting anybody. And he's
Starting point is 00:34:31 not. I haven't heard anything. He just wants, he just is theoretical. He says we should bring in new people and have them run in the primaries. He hasn't named names. So I don't know what Ro Khanna is talking about or Carville for that matter. Then Carville called him out for getting paid and it turns out that that vice chair that he is, is a voluntary job. He doesn't get paid anything. He says, I'm thinking this is why I think I have no, you know, without evidence that there's money behind him. This whole, this kid's was not his father. No, we know that.
Starting point is 00:35:07 So the other big story, and this was big because I know... Maybe Soros money is possible. That's such an old trope at this point. Yeah, I agree. And Soros wouldn't be trying to put new people in. The Soros gambit is over. It's got to be new people. It's got to be new money.
Starting point is 00:35:24 Soros is dead. You know, what's Alex be new people. It's got to be new money. Soros is dead. You know, Alex is gallivanting around with the... Alex is no good. He's not the powerhouse. The old man was. So the other big story, because I know people in the region, was the big blackout. And I have two boots on the ground which will help dispel all of the rumors innuendo and bull crap. The power is back on in Spain and Portugal after one of Europe's biggest ever blackouts. But there are still no answers as to what actually caused it or how they could prevent it from happening again. Our Iberian co bureau chief Ashlyn Lang is looking at this story. Ashlyn, what do we actually know?
Starting point is 00:36:06 It's extremely unclear still what caused the blackout and there is something of a political blame game initiating. We are also seeing an intense discussion about the merits of different power sources. Spain is and Portugal are big renewables producers. French ministers were saying yesterday, well, you know, if they used more nuclear power, perhaps that wouldn't have happened. The Spanish prime minister has firmly rejected that saying actually even nuclear power couldn't help us get this restarted. We were relying on a lot of hydro. The Spanish power grid operator has said that this is absolutely not a cyber attack from their point of view. They say there was a massive drop off in power supply. What caused
Starting point is 00:36:51 that is becoming a key area of investigation. It is unclear. The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is not ruling out a cyber attack. It's clear that it's very unclear and everyone's dancing around and we have some answers. But first boots on the ground from Marbellia, Spain, where our producer is located. Marbellia is the hoity-toity place of Spain to be if you're near the harbor. We've been told the blackout here is weather or net zero based after public radio telling us it was a cyber attack while it was going on. Interestingly, the communications blackout here
Starting point is 00:37:27 in Marbellia was much longer than the power outage. We did not have wifi or cell service for 18 hours while the power was only out for seven hours. And of course, EU rules around no gas stoves or barbecues on balconies meant we had to borrow a neighbor's barbecue to heat water and milk for the kids. Because of course you have to have electric stoves. This is one of our producers who can't wait to get out of the EU.
Starting point is 00:37:53 So we continue with this Reuters report. And in the absence of concrete answers, what are the authorities doing to make sure there isn't a repeat of this? Well, that is the big question is whether it can happen again. We've heard energy analysts saying is whether it can happen again. We've heard energy analysts saying that this could indeed happen again. This was one of the possibly the only big power cut in the era of green electricity, certainly the largest that anyone can remember. There has been an ongoing debate about the viability of European grids, whether they are having
Starting point is 00:38:25 sufficient amounts of investment in them, particularly now that we are seeing these new sources of power come online. Some analysts suggesting that you're trying to operate a Ferrari on a country road and that sometimes that will result in its own challenges to the system. Whether that was the case here, whether there was a third party's involvement, it still very much remains to be seen. So now they're peddling the line, well, you're trying to operate a Ferrari on a country road, meaning the grid is just not ready for our sophisticated renewables. So I contacted our dude named Ben, who is the protector of megawatawatts if you recall. This is his job.
Starting point is 00:39:09 He knows and particularly cyber security zero cyber attack. He said the problem is Spain the reason why you're not hearing the truth is that Spain has been bragging about running on 100% renewables. Yeah, there's some clips that are, I mean, there's a lot of visual news clips that like to point this out and they form memes. So the truth of it is, at the time of the outage, 77% of generation was inverter-based. I love this term. I understand it immediately. Inverter-based means solar or
Starting point is 00:39:47 wind because they generate direct current and the inverter changes it into alternating current. Yeah, so it can go down to wires. And because this these renewables do not provide stable power, they fluctuate due to, I don't know, wind changes and clouds. Martha, I can't watch the TV. They have a base load. Their base load is 15 gigawatts of generation from France. So according to the dude named Ben named Ben, protector of megawatts, a substation in France suddenly stopped transmitting electricity. Now they're not exactly sure why, but they believe that it was because of a fire at the
Starting point is 00:40:36 substation. So, the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and subsequently Portugal, suddenly lost 15 gigawatts, 15 megawatts, so 15 gigawatts, 15,000 megawatts of generation from the French that they were reliant on because they were way oversubscribed on these renewables. 15,000 megawatts is a lot of generation to lose all at once. For instance, in Texas, we don't get into an emergency situation until we go down to 3000 megawatts of spinning reserve. Even on our best day for generation, it would be very difficult for our grid to survive that.
Starting point is 00:41:15 Bottom line, emergency levels would be catastrophic in Texas at 3000. We have about 40 million people here. They lost 15,000. We have about 40 million people here. They lost 15,000. So the whole reason you're not hearing the truth is because of the bragging that they were 100% renewable and they're not. They were really reliant on this probably nuclear generated power from France. That dropped out. Everything went to crap. And this is the risk of this insane policy of relying on 100% renewables, getting to net zero.
Starting point is 00:41:54 It is insane and no one's going to want to admit this. So I mean, we've heard things such as, oh, it was atmospheric fluctuation, a rare atmospheric event. Oh, that story is so bogus. USA Today even had this. Preliminary reports out of Europe about the massive blackout. The cause may be something called induced atmospheric vibration. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:15 What a crock. A rare phenomenon where weather changes affect power lines. This is a lie. And this is just the beginning of this nonsense. The more they rely on renewables and in this case external interconnect from another country which is a huge security risk for your country take out we're relying upon France if France drops the base load for us, boom we're done. So this it doesn't work, it's not a good idea. Nuclear is not inverter based, it's AC, it's renewable, that's what they should be going to,
Starting point is 00:42:53 but no. Instead it's all of this solar and wind and they're going to keep lying and I'm sure they'll have a task force and nothing will ever come of it. It brings me to my two climate clips. Boom shakalaka. I don't know if I have anything on that particular situation which I thought I know I heard a lot of stuff and I'm very familiar with the phony baloney crazy comment about the weather causing the whole thing. The climate hysteria debate. Is there hysteria in the international climate debate?
Starting point is 00:43:31 Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair suggests there is, as he calls for a new approach. It comes after Spain and Portugal were recently hit by cascading blackouts, which some say were made worse by an over-reliance on solar power. And to these international correspondent Malcolm Hudson has more for us from London. In a new policy paper, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said hysteria should be taken out of the international climate debate, saying that voters feel they are being made to make financial sacrifices and changes to their lifestyle in what Blair refers to as doomed policy, despite the fact that in developed nations these changes will lead to a minimal impact to global carbon
Starting point is 00:44:11 emissions. Blair said that by 2030 almost two thirds of global emissions will come from China, India and South East Asia and said that means any strategy based on phasing out fossil fuels in the short term is doomed to fail. But while he appeared to hit out against net zero carbon emission policies, Blair went on to clarify that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's approach to net zero is the right one, supporting the government's plan for net zero by 2050. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Reyna responded.
Starting point is 00:44:42 Tony's clarified his comments and he welcomes our direction of travel and that's on renewables, investing in renewables and nuclear as part of the mix, but we can't rely on fossil fuels forever. The British government rejected Blair's claim of hysteria in the climate debate. Debate, yes. Okay. Yeah, this is interesting how these things are starting to fall apart. It's what is the inverse of operating a Ferrari on a country road?
Starting point is 00:45:15 Is it a Lada? No, no one knows what a Lada is. What is an Edsel? Operating an Edsel on the Autobahn. No, a pedal bike on a 16-way freeway. A pedal bike on the Autobahn. No, a pedal bike on a freeway. Pedal bike on the Autobahn. No, pedal bike on the Autobahn. Pedal bike on the Autobahn. There you go. That's what it is. Pedal bike. I like it. A pedal bike on the Autobahn. Nice. Okay,
Starting point is 00:45:36 it's part two. Now Republicans passed all of these changes out of committee yesterday and the goal is to make them part of that broader reconciliation bill, that big budget bill that we've heard so much about with the goal to pass all of this by the summer. What? What is she saying? What is this? Is this another misclip? I think you meant to start it here. Hold on a second. I see what's going on. But Ben Pyle, co-founder of Climate Debate UK, says there is a lot of hysteria driving climate policy. And this sort of tendency of a lot of people within the global green movement to sort of talk about deadlines,
Starting point is 00:46:13 you know, 10 years left to save the planet and so on and so forth. Many people have made the 10 years claim over the decades, including former US Vice President Al Gore in 2006. Blair said that most political leaders know that the debate has become irrational but are terrified of saying so for fear of being called climate deniers. A British government spokesperson said that they remain focused on their mission for the UK to be a clean energy superpower while treading lightly on people's lives. Pyle disputed this and said it will be expensive. Over the next five years, the Clean Power by 2030 agenda is going to lock Britain into
Starting point is 00:46:52 extremely expensive renewable energy subsidy schemes. Over-reliance on renewable energy has drawn criticism in recent days, following the huge blackouts throughout Spain and Portugal. Energy expert Catherine Porter said the initial fault in Spain's power grid was made worse by an over-reliance on solar power, which led to cascading blackouts that lasted for over eight hours in the Iberian Peninsula. So this is actually, this folds right into a classic clip I have So this is actually, this folds right into a classic clip I have when he was still the chief of the Bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom. The new prime minister of Canada listened to what he was saying then and what he probably
Starting point is 00:47:40 still thinks today. The world is coming to Glasgow. Let's reshape finance for a sustainable world. You demanded action and now it's time for the financial sector to deliver. To reach net zero, every country, every company, every bank, every investor, every pension fund around the world will need to make some big changes. In the run up to COP26 in Glasgow, we have an enormous opportunity to bring climate change
Starting point is 00:48:07 into the heart of every financial decision. And our plan will manage the risk from climate change while helping to seize the opportunities from a newer, greener economy. The UK has been at the forefront of innovation for centuries, brimming with ingenuity and a can-do spirit. It also houses the world's largest financial system. And by bringing them together, we can deliver the net zero world that you've
Starting point is 00:48:33 demanded and that our future generations deserve. You demanded it. You demanded it. You want the net zero. Nobody demanded it. No, you demanded it. You wanted the net zero world. That's what's going to happen to Canada. Canada, you demanded it. You wanted the net zero world. That's what's going to happen to Canada. Canada, you're next. How are your renewables doing? It's going to be great.
Starting point is 00:48:50 It's going to be great. Might as well get into this. After a long night and not much sleep, Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at his office this morning getting down to work after laying out his vision to supporters last night in Ottawa. As we come here after this consequential, most consequential election, let's put an end, let's put an end to the division and anger of the past. Carney says he'll work with all parties, and as the final votes are counted, it's clear he'll have to. The Liberals have come up just shy of a majority. They'll need to rely on the handful
Starting point is 00:49:25 of new Democrats who survived their party's implosion, the Bloc Québécois, or even the Conservatives to enact their agenda. The latest count shows Carney's liberals and Pierre Polyev's conservatives taking roughly 85 percent of all votes cast, with a less than 3 percent margin between them. The Conservatives say they're willing to work with the Liberals on the biggest issue facing the country, its relationship with the U.S., with Carney today making another move on that file. The Prime Minister's office says Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump, that Trump congratulated Carney on his win, and that the two leaders agreed on the importance of Canada
Starting point is 00:50:03 and the U.S. working together as independent sovereign nations and agreed to meet in person in the near future. And I think I think it was you who who said you know Trump wanted this to happen he wanted Carney. He implied that he did. Here's here's some proof. Highlighting his phone call yesterday with freshly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney and hinting that on trade issues Trump seems to see positive progress coming. Deal making now set to at least begin suggested Trump almost immediately. He's a very nice gentleman and we, he's going to come to the White House very shortly, within the next week or less. Trump even weighed in on the election itself when a reporter pointed out Carney won in no
Starting point is 00:50:54 small way by targeting Trump and his trade policies. Here's Trump on that and on opposition leader Pierre Poliev. They both hated Trump and it was the one that hated Trump, I think the least of that one. I actually think the conservative hated me much more than the so-called liberal, he's a pretty liberal guy. But no, I spoke to him yesterday, he couldn't have been nicer, and I congratulated him. Separately, Trump noted not long ago that he's... If President Trump is saying, you're a great guy, you you're a nice guy this is the time you start watching your back
Starting point is 00:51:28 something's coming for you and I can graduated it separately Trump noted not long ago that he's already made some 200 trade deals since he imposed his tariffs earlier this year though none has been officially announced or made public today while slamming another country, he's hit hard with tariffs, China. The leading candidate for the chief ripper offer. Trump also suggests that again, maybe something's in the works there as well.
Starting point is 00:51:59 I hope we're gonna make a deal with China. We're talking to China. Where any of it goes from here is as ever known only to Trump though for Canada A better sense of things may well come soon with as Trump now expects that sit down in the Oval Office with he and Mark Carney very shortly then according to NPR Trump really did get him elected mark Carney has been elected as Prime Minister of Canada according to the projections from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Starting point is 00:52:23 President Carney has been elected as Prime Minister of Canada, according to the projections from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This was seen as a referendum on which candidate could best handle the United States under President Trump, who placed tariffs on Canada and sparked a wave of Canadian nationalism. Carney defeated Conservative Party leader Pierre Poliev. Poliev's momentum began to slip when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned earlier this year, which gave the Liberals a lift, but the real boost came when President Trump began targeting Canada's economy and its sovereignty. Many Canadians were outraged by Trump's threat to make Canada the 51st state. It all becomes clear. Yeah, I
Starting point is 00:53:01 thought that he... I think Poliev was too much like Trump and he would have probably butted heads with him. He didn't like him. I have a very strange clip that explains Trump's behavior in general. And this is the woman, Corcoran, I think is her name. She is on the shark tank. She's the female girl there and she, female girl and she she's the one as opposed to the male girls You can't be too sure you got it you got to be very clear the female girl
Starting point is 00:53:32 Yes, the female girl she she had an observation that I think is something we should always keep in the back of our minds About Trump and after I heard this I also thought that oh, this is what would happen with Bill Maher too. Listen to this. Sorry. Donald Trump getting a heck of a compliment from one of the key stars of shark tank, Barbara Corcoran. So I did a lot of work with Donald and I can tell you he is the best salesman I've ever met. She's the blonde who does a lot of fast moving consumer. She does smaller deals, but successful deals. She's the QVC lady.
Starting point is 00:54:05 That's what she is, QVC girl. Yeah. I watched him walk into a situation. For example, selling the Plaza Hotel to the Chinese out of Hong Kong. It was in Taiwan. Group of Asians, wealthiest families in Hong Kong. And they were there
Starting point is 00:54:20 because they were interested in the Plaza Hotel. And I was a broker, all my brokers were all at the table. we were like really hungry to make this deal and I watched him totally not pitch the Plaza Hotel, bury it and talk about the land masses on the Hudson River and the buildings that would be there. They were not the least bit interested. They just wanted to buy the Plaza Hotel. Like a customer, I want to buy it and Donald was near bankruptcy, really needed the money
Starting point is 00:54:46 to bail out. And I watched him. I thought he was so off. He wasn't. They bought the land and built all those towers on the West River, as we know it today, you know, all those Trump Towers along the river. That was the deal. How did he do that?
Starting point is 00:55:00 I'll tell you what his masterful mind does. He is a genius at picking out the vulnerability of someone's personality. He can smell it, sense it, and trust it. So for example, if you were to walk into a business meeting with Donald and you're saying whatever you're saying, I've seen it time and time again, he could see what your weakness is and not physically reach over and put his finger on it, but he just could see what your weakness is and play into it. Not the nicest thing in the world, but it's a certain gift I've never seen anyone else. And it comes in handy in light of what we're doing right now with China. Yeah, no, she's the older lady, not the young one.
Starting point is 00:55:43 The young blonde is the QVC. Yeah, yeah, I saw this clip. I thought that makes total sense. And that's what he's been doing with everything. And I think this may have in some degree, you know, since we're talking about rare earths and about the processing, so I've been receiving nothing but tons of information about rare earth processing. Saskatchewan has had a rare earth processing facility since 2020. So they do a lot of this.
Starting point is 00:56:14 I mean, I have a ton of different places where this is happening, but this kind of folds into the new deal. The last time Ukraine was about to sign a minerals deal with the US, it was derailed by a row in the Oval Office. Two months on, relations are slightly warmer. And just before we recorded this podcast, they finally reached an agreement. The deal creates an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine in exchange for access to the country's minerals, oil and gas. It will still need to be
Starting point is 00:56:48 approved by Parliament in Ukraine but the Ukrainian MP Maria Metzentseva welcomed what she said were the improved terms of the agreement. It's quite a good investment opportunity and a fair deal in the end where no sort of debts on military aid are mentioned. Everything is done in a manner due to Ukrainian constitution and doesn't breach any oversight of our EU aspirations. So I thought CBS actually had a, that was BBC. CBS had a better report because this is exactly the kind of deal that President Trump was
Starting point is 00:57:25 talking about. Give us your minerals, we'll protect you, we'll protect our own assets, and maybe we'll put together a little hedge fund. We're going to turn now to news that has big implications for the war in Ukraine. The US and Ukraine have signed a long-awaited deal giving the US access to important rare earth minerals. Ukraine hopes in return to get greater protection from Russian aggression. Remy Inosentia has more on all this. Remy joins us now. Remy, good morning. Tony, yes, good morning there. In breakthrough here, while this deal does not explicitly say
Starting point is 00:57:59 that the U.S. will keep on helping Ukraine defend against Russia's invasion, like under the Biden administration. That is the hope. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who signed this pact with Ukraine's deputy prime minister in Washington, said that it signals to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process for what he says is a free Ukraine and over the long term. Details about this deal, though, are slim, but it centers on U.S. access to Ukraine's vast resources under its soil. That includes oil and gas, but along with critical raw materials, that's like graphite,
Starting point is 00:58:34 titanium and uranium for aerospace and technology. Funds from this deal would go towards paying the U.S. for future military aid and to establish a joint fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine. And you know, there has been a lot of drama around this deal. We all saw the two sides were closed back in February when Zelensky went to Washington to sign an earlier version. But then we saw that spectacular meltdown broadcast around the world. Then last week, Trump and Zelensky met at St. Peter's Basilica.
Starting point is 00:59:03 Look at that decidedly more peaceful there for the funeral of the pope. And now we have this breakthrough. But importantly, Russia has not commented yet. So let's talk about the Ukrainian rare earths. Well, let's play the NTD clip of this so we can get that out of the way. OK. Ukraine. Yep, gotcha. A Ukrainian official is in Washington today. The U.S. and Ukraine just signed a deal on rare earth minerals. Yep gotcha. A Ukrainian official is in Washington today.
Starting point is 00:59:25 The US and Ukraine just signed a deal on rare earth minerals. Here's more. Ukraine's first Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko is traveling to the United States on Wednesday to sign a minerals deal. The two sides were reportedly set to close the deal on Wednesday afternoon until Ukraine requested some last minute changes. President Trump wants to use Ukraine's minerals as a financial guarantee for the aid the U.S. has been sending to Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:59:53 I didn't want to make a complicated deal. I didn't want to make a deal that couldn't be made because Ukraine doesn't have very much money. They're going through a very bad period of time. It's been brutal. But Ukraine's prime minister says the agreement won't include the money the US has sent so far, only future aid. So I think this is still about weapon sales to the EU. They'll be buying it, I believe, because these rare earths in Ukraine, according to Reuters, they don't really have an operational
Starting point is 01:00:28 mine. They don't really have rare earths. Exactly. They have no mining roads, no rail, no energy grids, no processing capacity. That's your big thing. Of course, it's all a chaos and you know, the geological data is hardly available. It seems like a bit of a mirage that. But the rare earths business that Rubio was doing in Rwanda, boots on the ground.
Starting point is 01:00:57 Adam, I worked in the mining industry for eight years, lived in Africa for 15, mostly in DRC and Kenya. The answer to the question is Africa has to make peace between the DRC and its neighbors. Rwanda is already doing unofficial processing of rare earth minerals from the DRC. So there is processing and even crazier, they're gonna be processing right up in California at Mountain Pass. America led this industry for decades with this up in California at Mountain Pass.
Starting point is 01:01:25 America led this industry for decades with this site right here at Mountain Pass. But due to cost of capital subsidies overseas in China, as well as different environmental standards, we lost our leadership and this site fell into essentially disrepair and bankruptcy. MP Materials has humble beginnings. We acquired this site in 2017. It had eight employees. It was in care maintenance. Nobody believed that we could compete against China. But we focused on execution,
Starting point is 01:01:53 and we slowly, methodically, over time, rebuilt this. We have nearly 300 Americans proudly working on this site. When we acquired this site, we clearly realized that multi-billion dollar supply chains don't move overnight. We had to have a long-term plan to restore this site successfully and sustainably. Our first stage, which is largely complete, was to relaunch the operations here. We now produce a rare earth concentrate product that represents 15% of the global supply.
Starting point is 01:02:24 We are profitable doing so. Our next stage, which is underway, is to make separated rare earth products and optimize it to be a leader in global industry from a cost and sustainability perspective. Once stage two is done, we expect to generate a significant amount of free cash flow that will enable us
Starting point is 01:02:42 to not just making separated rare earth products, but also magnets so we can fulfill our mission of restoring the full rare supply chain to the United States of America. So that's in California, but what's the name of this operation? I've even heard of this mountain pass materials. And there's three more from USA rare earth who have processing plants now in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Chiarablanca, Texas, and Wheat Ridge, Colorado. We are getting into the rare earth business. It seems that most of them are focused on magnets, which would, I don't know if that's going to be the future of rare earths, but that's what most of them seem to be doing.
Starting point is 01:03:24 of rare earths, but that's what most of them seem to be doing. So between Canada, these four states in America, I think we're getting back into the business. Maybe we can chunk something out of Ukraine if it's really even there. Will that be actually after the oil? More than likely. I would take that over the rare earths any day. So things are moving. And if they get the peace deal, we can get the rare earths if we want them from Russia. Russia already offered them.
Starting point is 01:03:58 Yeah, yeah, no, we can get it easy. But we're going to be doing processing and we're going to make Canada. You do it, Canada. Yeah, you want to be net zero and we have and we're going to make Canada. You do it Canada. Yeah, you want to be net zero here. Take this nasty stuff. Do it, do it, do it, do it. While we're kind of on this and climate, etc. Oh, it's the neodymium rare earth that is the, that's the big attraction that's for those ridiculous magnets. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:32 Is that of any real use, the magnet? I mean, it's obviously motors. Yeah, that's a very, yeah, that's a, yeah, for all kinds of stuff. Yeah, okay. It's extremely powerful magnet. Well, we need some magnets. It's the kind of thing where you put two of them together, you can't get them apart. Your finger gets crushed. You're done.
Starting point is 01:04:48 Your finger gets crushed. So this is a story that's been brewing. It's been very hard to get... You're done. You're done. Your finger's done. Mom! It's been very hard to get a clip, and this is not the one I wanted, particularly because it comes from oh gee What Africa news? Let me see. Is it from yes, Africa news?
Starting point is 01:05:11 Yeah, here goes the show But it's about chemtrails or as we call it aerosol injection and There's a lot of people in the UK are very concerned about this because they're talking about it This was it's just a short clip about what it is. We all know what it is, but it's even interesting that one of the scientists in this clip describes exactly what has been happening to our climate. And I think it is due to aerosol injection or chemtrails.
Starting point is 01:05:40 The approach would work by planes releasing tiny particles into the atmosphere's dry stable upper layer called the stratosphere. This would help reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and helping to cool the planet. So our study examined a climate intervention technique called stratospheric aerosol injection, which is an idea to cool down the planet by adding a layer of small reflective particles, aerosols, into the high atmosphere. Those particles would reflect a small amount, perhaps 1% of the incoming sunlight, and there is good evidence that this could be used to cool down the planet and perhaps to reduce some climate impacts on vulnerable people around the world.
Starting point is 01:06:25 Researchers say that this could be done using aircraft already in service today, rather than developing new ones. Despite the lower altitude, it would still be possible to cool the planet by around 0.6 degrees Celsius. When you deploy... Listen to this guy. Listen to what he says. When you deploy stratospheric aerosol injection, you can change atmospheric circulation patterns. And so this can do things like disrupt precipitation patterns, cause droughts in some places, cause excessive flooding in other places. Sounds exactly what's been happening to me. But other experts have urged caution,
Starting point is 01:07:09 saying geoengineering projects like this one don't offer long-term solutions. So as kind of, you know, the Alex Jones and me would say, this is exactly what they do, do it for decades, and then say, oh, we have this great idea, and we've already been doing it because it's in the jet fuel. And Bobby the Op, RFK Jr. took a question about this yesterday on the Dr. Phil show. My name is Emily and my biggest concern is the stratospheric aerosol injections that
Starting point is 01:07:41 are continuously peppered on us every day. Bromium, aluminum, strontium, it's sprayed in our skies all day long. And I know you've talked to Dane Wiggington about this. He seems to be one of the experts in the field. Is there a question? You got a question? Yes. How do we stop it? That is not happening in my agency. We don't do that. It's done, we think, by DARPA.
Starting point is 01:08:11 And a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. Yes, sir. So, you know, those materials are put in jet fuel. We – I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it. We're bringing on somebody who's gonna think only about that. Find out who's doing it and holding them accountable. Oh Bobby, he's a kook. He's a kook. He believes in chemtrails. They're putting it in the jet fuel. I don't know why he's talking about jet fuel. Yes, this has been the theory for a long time. Yeah, that's a bad theory. Why? Well for one thing it would be corrosive, but I've tested jet fuel when I was a chemist
Starting point is 01:08:46 at Union Oil. That was not in the last 25 years. That was not in the last 25 years. No, no. Well, chemtrails have been talked about way longer than when I was a kid, they were talking about them. Well, the material she talked about, and I've seen this happen in Los Angeles where it floated down onto my house, Estrantium, Barium, and now there's something to this.
Starting point is 01:09:13 There is something and it's always been suspected that it's in the jet fuel because you see it coming and it's not like the guys with the jet fuel. They put all kinds of crap in jet fuel. You can pee in jet fuel and it'll still work. It's diesel basically. Kerosene. Kerosene. So no, I think this is happening. And ever since President Trump got elected, it's been pretty beautiful here in Texas.
Starting point is 01:09:38 Blue skies. Where we would have every other day, if not days in a row of chemtrails spreading out all across the sky making it gray. No, I think this is for real. Okay, well you can think what you want. We can agree to disagree. Chemtrails.
Starting point is 01:09:58 Oh, wait until you hear what I have to say coming up. You think that's bad. You're not going to agree with anything I say. It's okay. You got anything, you got any series, anything you want to want to launch into here? Well let's get rid of the TikTok clips. I was hoping you were going to do student loan. Oh, the student loans.
Starting point is 01:10:21 Yes. Everybody wants student loan. TikTok clips. Okay, let's go student loan revamp, part one. Capitol Hill House Republicans are working to revamp the federal student loan system as part of their big budget bill and efforts to cut government spending. NTD's Melina Weisskopf has the details. Republicans are working towards ending President Biden's attempts to forgive student loan debt.
Starting point is 01:10:42 After the courts rejected Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt, he enacted a workaround through the SAVE program that allowed so many borrowers to pay back $0 on their student loans and not accrue interest. Now Republican lawmakers are trying to overhaul that entire Biden era student loan payback program. In addition, Republican lawmakers aim to cap the amount that students can borrow in the first place. The limit is going to be the median price of a college, university, or program of study.
Starting point is 01:11:10 The Republican chairman of the Education Committee says the goal with these new limits is to encourage colleges to lower their costs. Our current broken system encourages students to accept more and more debt without ever addressing college costs. It's no secret that spending in Washington has been a disaster. Waste, fraud, and abuse has left the American taxpayer on the hook for government bloat.
Starting point is 01:11:35 Who was that at the end? You know, I don't know, but it sounds like Reagan. It sounds like Reagan, exactly. I was like, well, that's interesting. I know, same similar voice pattern. Probably a Mill U thing. So here's part now the part two is that this was it's a long story how this happened buddies get these clips kind of screwed up but the second part is a student loan redux to and Republicans are working to make
Starting point is 01:12:00 several changes to the Pell Grant so the goal is to try to limit the Pell Grant only to those who need it most and change the requirements from 12 credit hours per semester to 30 credit hours per year. Now Democrats said it's unfair for untraditional students with other obligations outside of school such as who have obligations to family or for jobs. Here's the ranking Democrat member on the committee speaking about it yesterday. Because they may need more financial support to cover the basic needs like housing, child care, and transportation at a time when families are struggling to make ends meet, I'm confused why we're
Starting point is 01:12:36 making it harder for working parents who are trying to further their education. Now the Republican chairman for his part noted that the Pell Grant is on track to their education. path that does not require a traditional college degree. If students choose to take those paths, they will qualify for a so-called workforce Pell Grant for the first time. Okay, so that's interesting and that's a good stimulus for welders. What happens with the student loans people now have to repay is the question. They have to repay them that's what they have to do. Are they going to have programs to refinance? Oh, they'll be like the reduction programs if you work for the police department things like that they're going to have the same exceptions that have always been in there. Okay. But they have to pay you take the loan out the real problem I think it was mentioned in the first clip is that these colleges, they saw the whole thing as a scam that owed free money.
Starting point is 01:13:48 This is Jack or tuition up and Oh, they get even more free money with the higher tuition. Well, let's Jack it up even more. The amount of two, the tuition fees in not just the private university, but the public universities are just as high as like Harvard. It's unbelievable what a scam this has become. I've been looking at some of these endowments like Harvard. Their endowments are huge.
Starting point is 01:14:14 I think they have a hundred billion dollars or something like that. So, which is arguably what we spent on Ukraine in three years. It was probably more, but let's just say that's the number. And that's tax free. The only tax they have is 4% they pay to the colleges. And the rest is just, you know, who's managing that money? What's happening with that? It's, I think BlackRock's got most of it.
Starting point is 01:14:38 That's the scam, if you ask me. The scam is those endowments and that's why Trump administration is being hard-nosed about it. They want control over that or they want to know what's going on with it. They see it as a possible source of taxation that so the public can pay less. In other words, the taxpayer can pay less and those guys can pay their fair share. For a start. Where's their fair share? For a start, yeah. I mean, especially Harvard. But all of them have huge endowments.
Starting point is 01:15:09 No, all of them do. All of them. That to me is a money scam. Those endowments is a tax avoidance system for mega elites. It has to be. Certainly if Black Rock's in there, then it can't be anything good. No, I mean, and then, and then, you know, the students who get cajoled into a gender studies diploma,
Starting point is 01:15:37 polypsi, you know, they come up, they owed a hundred thousand dollars and they got nothing nowhere to go. If they owe a hundred thousand dollars, that got nothing, nowhere to go. If they owe a hundred thousand dollars, that's low. It's cheap. Yeah. So, well, that's good. That's a, that's not getting enough attention. That, that endowment scam is, is a problem.
Starting point is 01:15:59 I got to, did you receive the Michelle Obama clip 20 times? Which one? The one where she's going on about... There's a bunch of them. Which one you talking about? Well, the one that's going around is oddly clips, which of course makes me always go for the original. Oh, it was a slip up. She's saying she's a man. She's saying she's a man. Oh, I love that clip. Here it is. You know, I always... You notice it's not on my list.
Starting point is 01:16:24 No. But I thought that clip. Here it is. You know, I always, you don't, you notice it's not on my list. No, but I thought that clip was terrific. It's obviously chopped off, but people are sending this to me. Like, this is clip of the day. This is the best. It's a very funny clip. Big Mike is a man. Um, you know, just so proud of how, uh, you are being a role model for dealing with a child
Starting point is 01:16:46 that's transgender. Absolutely. And that's, you know, that warms my heart particularly as a black man. So the video is the best. So the video cuts to her brother while she's talking. So the implication is as a black man, you had to deal with me, a black man, who's transgender. And I was like, oh, it's a slip up. She admitted it. Big Mike's a man. Yeah, well, you expected that. I'm not fighting that obvious truth. But here is the full clip in context where she's actually talking to one of the Wayans brothers about his transgender child. Well, speaking of parenting, I wanted to talk Marlon a bit about, you know,
Starting point is 01:17:33 See, they missed the little Marlon bit. Just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender. Absolutely. And that's, you know, that warms my heart, particularly as a black man. You know, would you care to share that journey of? I learned like, like, and their transition really taught me what real unconditional love was. By the way, notice how Marlon is so Psy-Op that he's calling his transgender child, they. When they went through the transition, I actually went through the transition. I went from denial to complete acceptance.
Starting point is 01:18:18 And it took me a week to get there. Oh, only a week. It's easy. It's easy, parents. Only a week. Unbelievable. So, anyway, I had to get that out of the way because that was all over, you know, the text groups in Fredericksburg are exploding. Big Mike, it's true. JFK Jr.'s coming back next.
Starting point is 01:18:36 Fauci's mom was Mother Teresa. She's a man. She's a terrorist. No, when I saw it, I knew immediately it was clipped for that purpose. And I figured you'd go grab the real deal and play it out. So I didn't have to even do it. Of course I did. Of course I did. Good for you. Yeah, it's what I do.
Starting point is 01:18:59 Defending the woman. Hey, we had a big, a very big bill pass in the house, the Texas House this week, I think two days ago. And it's not, it's not law yet because it has to go to the Senate. This is the undisclosed AI generated images and political messages bill. That's not the real title, but it's interesting and the debate is interesting around it as well. Former House Speaker David Phelan is the one that filed House Bill 366. He was the subject of political attacks and memes in his most recent
Starting point is 01:19:38 reelection campaign. Mount Flyers depicted him hugging Democrat Nancy Pelosi, something he never did. But he says that's not why he decided to file this bill. Under House Bill 366, it requires any political advertising that uses altered images, including genitive AI or deepfake videos, to contain a disclosure stating that the content did not occur. Failure to do so would be a class A misdemeanor. Current state law prohibits the use of AI-generated pictures within 30 days of an election. Dittvillen
Starting point is 01:20:10 says this is about making sure election law keeps up with the evolving AI industry because a deceptive ad could swing an election. It's a very common punishment when you're dealing with something as important as an election. Especially an election, I could say, is a stolen election, when in the last 72 hours of a campaign, a video could be released that entirely changes the nature of the electorate going into election day. Several lawmakers lined up to speak against the bill. Some said the bill is too vague and could face First Amendment legal challenges.
Starting point is 01:20:42 Some conservatives also said the criminal penalties are too steep and people should not be thrown in jail for political speech. This is insanity that we would propose such a harsh penalty for simply expressing our displeasure of an elected official. This is anti-American. This is anti-constitution. Phelan says he understands that, but the penalties need to be major to make sure that multi-million dollar campaigns play by the rules. anti-constitution. to save the lease that goes back to the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxson and several Senate bills that have died over in the House over the last couple of legislative sessions. So this is again one of the only interesting uses of artificial quote
Starting point is 01:21:36 intelligence. I feel you should be able to do that. It brings humor into the process. I'm delighted with it and Absolutely. Total agreement. Yeah, put a disclaimer on it just like the drug. You don't even... screw the disclaimer. I'm okay with a bill that says the disclaimer could just do it like the ad companies. May cause anal leakage, may die. And that's all you need to do. You know, just at the end. But the thing is, even with the disclaimer, it doesn't matter because some of these things will crop up as memes and they'll be coming in anonymously from out of state. It's great.
Starting point is 01:22:11 I love them. And it's going to show the guy kissing Pelosi on the lips or whatever. Who cares? It's great. But you think it's funny and you know, and you can't counter it. If you can't counter it, you're... This is a modern era. If you're being besmirched, smeared...
Starting point is 01:22:28 Bismurched, I tell you. You have to be able to count... as a politician, unless you're being liable, which is different. If you're being just smeared, just casually smeared, you have to have enough chops to get out of the smear using your own wiles. Your own AI. By using your own AI.
Starting point is 01:22:50 Use your own AI. Yeah, you can do the same thing to the other guy. What's that in your mouth? This is the only thing they're worried about, by the way, that's all they're worried about AI man, so I did some more vibe coding. I will say when it comes to getting me actual results with coding Grok funny enough someone suggests I've tried them all I've tried chat GPT Claude cursor curs. Cursor is not as way too complicated. It integrates with their IDE and I don't have any of that.
Starting point is 01:23:31 I just want a simple script, which I could have done in two hours with my buddy Dave and we would have been done with it. But now it's taking me collectively three weeks of at least several hours on several of those days to come up with a simple script in Python. I'm sorry. Grok actually did pretty well, but there's no, absolutely no evidence of intelligence. It's just looking at the words, the language, the structure, the syntax. It can do all that. And it's just using old stuff that it learned somewhere else.
Starting point is 01:24:11 And I know this because when it comes to one particular language, Liquid Soap, long story, it's doing everything wrong and they all do it wrong because they all have sucked up the same wrong information and that whole project is a mess with GitHub's and Git git labs and different documentation and so it has no intelligence but it's doing enough stuff that yeah okay it this is a 50 billion dollar industry not a trillion dollar industry it's still all parlor tricks have it write your your dvorak substack, you won't. You'll throw it out. I could probably have it do something and then I could edit it to an extreme. I'd probably spend more time editing it. Exactly. That's what...
Starting point is 01:24:54 Then it would take me to actually write from scratch, which is not an unusual situation. That's the point. That's exactly the point. But if you can't... But I can write from scratch and I can write pretty quickly. Yes. But if you can't write from scratch, You'll write some mediocre over word salad that's overinflated and it'll have a little nice little icons next to it.
Starting point is 01:25:17 It's no good. Emojis. Emojis. Emojis. And it'll start off with, I'm so happy to find you well. Yes, that's exactly what you're going to get. emojis and it'll start off with I'm so happy to find you well. Yes, that's exactly what you're going to get. Oh man. So, Eva Fleidingerbrug, do you remember her? Oh, your buddy.
Starting point is 01:25:37 She's not my buddy. I've never met her. She seems like she'd be your buddy. Well, she happens to be Dutch and she has the, I'm Adam, she's Ava. So you would think coincidentally also born on September 3rd, which is my birthday. Well, there you go. You two are meant for each other. We're twin flames, I tell you. Tina's rolling her eyes when she hears that. So she posted a very interesting video
Starting point is 01:26:10 about her iPhone and I need to share this because if this is true and I'll take her out of her word it has some interesting implications and of course she's using it for engagement farming but here we go. Hi everyone. So yesterday I got two messages from Apple stating that they detected a mercenary spyware attack against my iPhone. First I thought it was fake. I got two of these messages and I thought it's probably not real. But upon further research it turns out that these messages actually are real and so that this is actually happening. And in the message they say that this targeted mercenary spyware attack is probably happening because of who I am and what I do. And then they continue to say that mercenary spyware attacks such
Starting point is 01:26:59 as Pegasus, for example, are exceptionally rare and that they're extremely sophisticated. They use really strong words. They're saying that the extreme costs, sophistication and worldwide nature of mercenary spyware attacks makes some of the most advanced digital threats in existence today. And they're sending this to me because they've detected that it's going on against my iPhone. So this is real. Obviously, I don't know for sure if any of that spyware has been installed on my phone. I definitely don't know who did it.
Starting point is 01:27:30 So this could be anyone. This could be name of government that doesn't like me. This could be any organization that doesn't like me. Secret services, you name it. But what I do know for sure is that this is an attempt to intimidate me and attempt to silence me obviously and I can tell them because they're probably already watching on this phone right now that it's not going to work. So you can try and intimidate me all you want, but I'm not
Starting point is 01:27:59 going to stop. That's all I want you guys and I want the people spying on me through this phone to know. So I don't for a second think that they're using this to intimidate her. She didn't know it. They didn't say, hey, we've got your phone. We saw what you did. Send me a Bitcoin. None of that.
Starting point is 01:28:18 I think she is being used to infect other people. If this is true, and I'll take her at her word that she got these notices from Apple, which is very concerning. Well, there is a page Apple does. I'm looking at it now. Apple does have a page up about it. It is called it from Apple and it says about the Apple threat notifications, which is what she's talking about, and protecting against mercenary spyware.
Starting point is 01:28:44 And there's a long lecture here. So, it's not a phony deal. How do you get it? Do you get it by tapping on a link in a text message? I'm trying to find out because they're very wordy. This has obviously been written by AI. No, Apple intelligence probably, not AI, Apple intelligence. Which is worse. Yes, it is.
Starting point is 01:29:04 According to public reporting and research by civil society organizations, technology firms and journalists, individually targeted attacks of such exceptional cost and complexity have historically been associated with state actors, including private companies developing mercenary spyware on their behalf, such as Pegasus from the NSO group, though deployed against a very small number of individuals, often journalists, activists, politicians, and diplomats. It could be, could be actioned against me for example. And, uh, uh, it's in the drawer as we speak mercenary spyware attacks are ongoing and
Starting point is 01:29:42 global. And since 2021, we have sent Apple threat notifications multiple times a year as we have detected these. Oh, that's interesting that you can detect them. And to date, we have notified users in over 150 countries in total. It goes on and on. Here's what I think. However, I think she was used as a... well, first of all, your phone is an attack vector on your life. That's just a known fact, which is why I love my light phone three. It doesn't do with nothing.
Starting point is 01:30:14 However, coincidentally, yesterday, Tina comes in. Oh my God, you won't believe what happened to David. So what happened? He said someone took over his phone. He no longer receives his own text messages. That's part of how he noticed it. They stole his identity. They created a driver's license. With a driver's license, we're able to unfreeze all of his credit.
Starting point is 01:30:42 He has his credit frozen at the three big credit agencies. They unfroze the credit and then- How do you unfreeze all of his credit. He had his credit frozen at the three big credit agencies. They unfroze the credit and then- How do you unfreeze the credit? Well, you have to, you can go online and say, this is me. And they had a driver's license. They had a social security number. So is he the one who froze the credit? Yes, he froze it.
Starting point is 01:30:58 He had it frozen. Like most smart people, you have your credit frozen. So you had his credit frozen. They unfroze his credit. They took completely, they took over the functions at least the the text messages so they cloned or whatever they did that I mean and the whole text messaging system is that you know system was it system 7 whatever it's called that would you just go to some podunk country and say here's 50 grand let me on the text messaging system.
Starting point is 01:31:25 Okay, here you go. You know, by the way, those Trump messages you're getting, don't tap on the link, okay? It's probably gonna get Pegasus spyware or other mercenary spyware. And then they, so then they unfroze his credit and immediately went to buy a Mercedes and a Porsche. Oh, at least somebody's got taste.
Starting point is 01:31:47 Mercedes was okay with him. The Porsche people called him at home and said, hey, are you sure you want this Porsche? And that's how they found out about it. But the Mercedes deal was done. So your phone is a threat vector of epic proportion. Not my phone. Not yours, and should not be used.
Starting point is 01:32:08 And just to complete the whole spy grid, sounded like Catherine Austen Fitz right now, after Starlink, which I saw them fly over again last night and I wanted to take a picture. However, the camera on this phone is shit. So I could not get a picture but I saw the whole train of lights going right overhead. I think it has to be on a clear night when there's just a little bit of moon. We have a crescent waning moon I think.
Starting point is 01:32:41 Yeah, it has to catch it. It has to catch it. Yeah, yeah, so it caught it. Because they're over your anyway. All the time. All the time. It just caught it and it was just beautiful. I'm like, oh my god. I've seen videos of it, but I've never seen any around here. This is my second time seeing them while walking the dog. And now, well, there's more coming. Amazon has launched its first batch of internet broadcasting satellites, kicking off its long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network. Twenty-seven satellites are now in orbit at an altitude of nearly 630 kilometers above
Starting point is 01:33:15 the Earth's surface. Monday's launch from the Atlas V rocket, which took off from Florida, follows that of two experimental satellites launched two years ago as part of Project Kuiper, a $10 billion effort unveiled in 2019. Competing with rival Elon Musk's Starlink, Jeff Bezos' team claims that the satellites they're launching are now much more advanced than the first two. The company aims to put more than 3,200 of these satellites into orbit, and SpaceX has already launched more than 8,000 Starlinks since 2019. Meanwhile, a growing number of astronomers
Starting point is 01:33:52 are warning that the large number of satellites is hampering their work and could pose an accident risk. Yeah, whatever. So there's 600 kilometers, but starlings are lower I think. I think they're closer to three, fifty, four hundred kilometers. Well let's find out. Okay. Consult the Book of Knowledge! The Book of Knowledge is slow today.
Starting point is 01:34:22 Well, I have to type something in. I know, I know. And on that phone with those little keyboard is slow today. I have to type something in. I know, I know. And on that phone with those little keyboard is very hard. I know. I'm using the regular keyboard. I know, I know. There's no threat vector against you. You're clean, man.
Starting point is 01:34:37 You got no mercenary spyware. Satellite's at 342. Okay. So Amazon's going to be at twice that height, which will induce latency, more latency. Yeah, just go good. Doesn't seem like it's good. But did you hear that 8,000 satellites? Yeah, I heard that.
Starting point is 01:34:54 That's a lot, man. And everyone's also jacked. Oh, yeah, assume my T-Mobile phone will be able to use Starlink. Okay. Talk about a threat vector. All they have to do then is just target, zoom in, enhance, rotate, fire. Yeah, pretty much. You'll be done. Well, they're going to first be targeting the cartels in Mexico. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I think we bring back ham radio for the kids. It was much better. Yeah short short bursts Yep. Yeah, and you can do it. You can push a button You can send text messages to each other that looks cool. You walk around school kids would be like, yeah The thing on your belt making a rock making a racket
Starting point is 01:35:53 CQ, CQ. I don't know about CQ. I don't know about CQ. All right. Do you have any more sequences? Because I have something I want to try and roll out and it's going to be difficult and you're going to hate me for it. So I want you to get whatever you have that you want to get out of the way. Let's do it. Well, yeah. I want to play some data stuff from the USDS, the department of data, whatever, the US department of data service. That's the original name for Doge? No, this is a group of, well, no, but it's the United States digital service. That is the original name for Doge. But, but they're bitching and moaning because they're getting fired
Starting point is 01:36:25 and they, but they make some good points that this is on NPR, which is, you know, they're big supporters of, haters of Doge and the supporters of everything that's in government. But this woman makes a good point and it's the stuff we talk about and I don't know what they're going to do about it. Karen Muronsky-Chapman never saw her job as political. She just wanted to make the government work a little better. I joined USDS to help people, to help the American people to deliver better services. She's a data scientist.
Starting point is 01:36:53 And for the last couple of years, Karen's been quietly working deep inside the federal government at a little known agency called the United States Digital Service or USDS. This is her first media interview. A lot of what I was doing was trying to bridge the different data silos across government and really just help agencies be more efficient and effective by using data to inform decisions. You can think of the USDS as a kind of help desk, though that would be underselling it. It's more like help desk meets SEAL Team 6, a kind of special ops team for broken websites. When federal systems start to fall apart, it's the USDS that gets the call.
Starting point is 01:37:40 Like in the spring of 2024, when the Department of Education rolled out its new FAFSA application. That's the form college students use to apply for federal financial aid. And last spring it broke in a spectacular way. The Department of Education just found a calculation error on hundreds of thousands of student aid applications. Forms failed to upload, pages left nowhere, students born in the year 2000 walked out completely. It was chaos.
Starting point is 01:38:09 The FAFSA fiasco was pretty on par with like healthcare.gov. Like it was pretty close to being a healthcare.gov situation. Healthcare.gov, that was the catastrophic rollout of the Affordable Care Act, what we call Obamacare these days. The website to sign up crashed just two hours after launch. Just to confirm, United States Digital Services was renamed by President Trump to DOGE and they're using the same terms, connecting the data silos, acting as a help desk. So this is one of the unsuccessful data scientists who were there and really weren't able to achieve anything except a very expensive Obamacare website. Hold on, she's still there. This is the thing that's weird about this story. Oh wow. Okay. Let it go. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it became a national embarrassment.
Starting point is 01:39:08 So disastrous it prompted the government to create the USDS, to be a rescue team for things like this. So when FAFSA fell apart in 2024, it was Karen and her team who stepped in. They stabilized the site, unlocked access and got students the aid they needed. They've done this kind of work for the CDC, social security, education. It's high stakes, high pressure, but Karen loved it. It's really easy to get addicted to this work because it's so meaningful. There's very few roles that you can be positively impacting the lives of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people. And for a while it felt, well, safe, totally positively impacting the lives of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people.
Starting point is 01:39:45 And for a while it felt, well, safe, totally immune from the turn of politics. Yeah, like technology is not political. Like technology should be nonpartisan. It doesn't matter who's president. I'm here to serve the people, but I was wrong. Joe just proves that technology and its use can be highly partisan.
Starting point is 01:40:05 The Department of Government Efficiency is charged with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. But when it made its way to the U.S. Digital Services Department, it appeared to be taking an agency built to protect the government's digital systems and started doing just the opposite. A good analogy is it's like Jenga. And at some point, Do we're just pulling out pieces and something's gonna topple,
Starting point is 01:40:28 and we may not be able to put it back. Wasn't Kara Swisher's ex-wife in charge of it for a while, Megan? Didn't she go there? Not that I know of. Yeah, I think she did. I think she did. And was it Matt Cutts from Google?
Starting point is 01:40:44 He was there for a while while the guy who did Google search They had you know what they were doing is they were mine. They were the ones that were mining everything getting all the data for Obama That's what those guys were doing. I remember this we talked about it ad nauseam Ad nauseam ad nauseam I tell you So she doesn't she doesn't like Doge. Doge is weaponizing my department. Is that the story? I think she lost one of her friends or something, but to Doge.
Starting point is 01:41:16 You know, that got fired. I mean, I can't really tell, but she has a complaint coming up that is valuable I remember when I heard that they had right access to Treasury. I was like, oh my gosh, like you can break things They're not small things trillions of dollars worth of things like Social Security and tax refunds The majority of folks I see having been hired into doze are very junior These systems are not going to be anything like anything that they have seen before. Take the social security system. It was built in the 60s and 70s and it runs on COBOL, a
Starting point is 01:41:55 programming language that is two or even three times older than some of the Doge staffers. They clearly don't understand COBOL when they were like, oh, there's 150 year olds at Social Security. Elon Musk talked about that during an interview on Fox. The date gamut. Pressure examination of Social Security. And we've got people in there that are 150 years old. Now do you know anyone that's 150? I don't.
Starting point is 01:42:18 Okay. And Musk said it was proof of fraud, except Karen says it actually wasn't. And it's like, no, that's the default date for Goldball. Like if the field is missing, just the default date, that's why there's all these 150 year olds. These 150 year olds weren't getting checks. They just didn't have a birthdate in the system. And Karen said she would have told the Doge people as much if they'd only asked, but
Starting point is 01:42:44 they never did. They just assumed they knew better. Well, we had that from our dude's name, Ben, the day after this story broke about the 150-year-olds. Now NPR is showing up with a story? Six minutes worth of story? Yeah, this is pretty funny. But the point about COBt is a good point
Starting point is 01:43:05 But except for one thing that I don't know why it hasn't been discussed. It's not even mentioned I mean, why is there no birth date for these people? No about cobalt Cobalt is not hard to learn any one of these guys who are coding in machine language or assembler or Anything actually can learn cobalt. It's one of the easiest languages to learn why doesn't why doesn't they just say some junior guy said i'm gonna learn cobalt it's not a big deal that's why it's called the common business oriented language it was designed to be used by
Starting point is 01:43:36 schmucks cobalt schmobile just use grok baby i'm sure grok does a great job at cobalt I'm sure Grok does a great job at COBOL. You're right. It's common. What was it again? What was the acronym? Common Business Oriented Language. Yeah. It's a relatively simple, unsophisticated language. It's got a sophistication to it, but it's very... I learned it once. I don't know if I could code it now, but it's very, I learned it once. I don't know if I could code it now, but it's not a hard, it's not, it's, Fortran's harder.
Starting point is 01:44:10 I like, Cobol is for schmucks. That is a t-shirt or a bumper sticker right there. I mean, it's not for, you don't have to be a genius to code Cobol, that's the point. Yeah, but I'm still stuck on how come there are so many records in the system where they don't have a birthdate What kind of system are you running over there? Well, there's that
Starting point is 01:44:32 All right So since you broach the money topic with the Treasury there, I'm going to attempt and I may fail And I hope you give me some grace No And I may fail and I hope you give me some grace. No. I hope you give me some grace. This is this preliminary stuff you're doing right now is already setting up the wall. I think I can explain the stablecoin gambit. Oh, I don't know if you can. I mean, I don't this is going to bore people stiff.
Starting point is 01:45:11 Uh, well, I mean, would you rather play TikTok clips instead? I mean, I did my, I would actually, yes, but, but, but if you want to make the attempt, I don't know why you want to do this. Because it's a critical, you want to do it after the donation segment? No, why would we do it after the donation segment? Okay, I'll do it. All right, I'll do it after the donation. No, I'm just saying that because it's going to give us a low count. No, I'll do it after. All right, this is a attention, but then if I do it after the donation segment, you can't grouse and go, crap, until the very end. Oh, I'll save it. Yeah, I can save it.
Starting point is 01:45:48 Okay. Yeah. But how many clips are we talking about here? You make it sound like it's going to be a half hour presentation on stablecoin. No, I think it's probably about 17 minutes. Oh my God. Well, it affects world affairs. I'm just saying, it will affect world affairs. And we have to learn things about what is a Euro dollar.
Starting point is 01:46:13 Do you know what a Euro dollar is? No, I don't. We hear it all the time. I can look it up. It's easier to look it up, seems to me. I'll look it up. Okay. Well, you do that.
Starting point is 01:46:24 You look it up and then I'll play some m5m news to entertain everybody to keep them listening until we get To the donation segment. Oh chills this morning anticipation is building for new music from one of the greatest voices of all time Yes, eight on Grammy winner Barbara Streisand announced this morning. She is dropping a brand new album Dropping! She's dropping a brand new album. She's dropping it. And we just heard a sneak peek of the first single called First Time Ever, I Saw Your Face. The new record is called The Secret of Life, Partners, Volume 2. By the way, stop, stop the clip for a second. Says we're on pet peeves.
Starting point is 01:46:58 Why don't they use the term like you always use in the past? Release? Yes. Release. She's going to release a new album instead of she's gonna drop an album. Well, that's supposed to be hip or something. That's what the kids are talking about, man. You drop an album. And by the way, they're so hip they call the Hoosiers the Hoesiers, which is kind of cool. The Hoesers? It's a sequel to her 2014 platinum certified album and it's been more than a decade in the works She collaborated on the album with some of the best in the business including Bob Dylan Paul McCartney
Starting point is 01:47:32 First off two dead guys right at the top the best in the business business including Bob. He's alive barely Putting Bob Dylan. We all know we all know John Dylan's alive Dylan's barely alive. We all know John buried Paul stop putting Bob Dylan Paul We all know, we all know John. And Dylan's alive? Dylan's barely alive and we all know John buried Paul. Stop. Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Hoseier and others. The album comes out June 27th. Alright, Babs, looking forward to that.
Starting point is 01:47:58 I'm looking forward to that. Woo! A new duets album just dropped. No she's not. It's dropped. It's dropped. Pick it dropped. It's dropped. Pick it up. It's dropped.
Starting point is 01:48:09 Who saw this coming, everybody? On the Medical Watch for you this afternoon, a newly found impact of vaccines on women. Medical reporter Dena Baer is here to explain. Dena. Lotus and Ben, vaccines for the flu and COVID can alter the menstrual cycle. It's not a permanent impact, but for women who have a regular cycle,
Starting point is 01:48:27 getting a flu shot or a COVID vaccine changed the length of the cycle. Multiple studies confirm menstrual disturbances following vaccines. Now the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms concerns expressed by women. Experts say there's no need to worry, the cycle returns to normal.
Starting point is 01:48:44 And there shouldn't be a reason for vaccine hesitancy based on the menstrual cycle impact. We hammered this during COVID. Yeah. Yeah. And we got excoriated for it. This bull crap. I did. I did. I did specifically. We had a lot of people angry and they all came back and said, I'm sorry, you were right. It interrupted. it disrupted, it increased flow, it became irregular, like awesome, like crazy flow. Yeah, the nurses were reporting. But don't worry, there's nothing to worry about, nothing to
Starting point is 01:49:19 worry about at all. Don't worry about it. These people are ghouls. And who saw this coming? Researchers at the University of Virginia say a new study has proven safe and effective at dissent- Whoa! Safe and effective, you know that's going to be a doozy. This time I actually believe it. Safe and effective at desensitizing children to peanut allergies. Yeah, UVA Health children's researchers tested children by giving them increased doses of peanut protein. Now, by the end of the study, all 27 children were able to eat 500 milligrams of peanut protein daily.
Starting point is 01:49:54 Eight children are now freely eating peanuts. Researchers are calling for larger clinical trials to advance what could be a game-changing new treatment for peanut allergies in young children. Oh, go figure. For years we've been, oh, you can't have any peanuts near my child, my child was no good. Whereas if you just expose the kid to peanuts, it turns out they're okay. Hello! Well, they were never exposed young enough, that's always been the issue. Yes, it's like so obvious. That's always been the issue. Yes. It's like so obvious.
Starting point is 01:50:24 People. Where's Bobby the Op in all of this? Yeah, that's what I like. Where's the Epstein files? I got some super cuts that will round it out. Okay. Super cuts are always good. I'm glad you have them.
Starting point is 01:50:40 Oh, you have three. Holy crap. Yeah, because they're leading up to the current super cut that's floating around after chaos and threat to democracy. We have a couple of here. We have the moment. This one was a flop. The strength that we have. Sorry. Is the moment flop? The strength that we have is in this moment.
Starting point is 01:50:58 Listen to your constituents, center them in this moment. But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment. This is the moment. No, I think about what's happening in this moment. What's important is that we meet this moment. So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment? What do you want to see us doing right now in this moment?
Starting point is 01:51:24 And which Democrats are actually going to stand up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in this moment? The fight that you all are exhibiting is not just what the base wants, but it's what this moment requires. The strength that we have is in this moment. Well, by the way, I think we played this one already. In fact, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, this next one might be.
Starting point is 01:51:49 You're talking about this one or the next one? No, the in this moment. We played the in this moment. Yeah, the in this moment, but it was a flop. Just the idea is that I'm just repeating, this is a flop that never worked out. Yep, that's a flop. And then we had the stretch of democracy,
Starting point is 01:52:03 we had the chaos, which I don't have. I mean, those are also super cuts I don't have. But then we had the stretch of democracy, we had the chaos, which I don't have. I mean, those are also super cuts they don't have. But then we have the social media dangerous series, which we I think may have played, but this is another version of it because it's got the annoying overlays. But this is another example of something that was, they pushed this stuff out trying to, I don't know if they were looking for it to catch hold or everyone said, these are ineffective. Hi, I'm Fox and Antonio's Jessica Headley.
Starting point is 01:52:33 And I'm Ryan Wolf. Our greatest responsibility is to serve our treasure valley communities, the old Paso Las Cruces communities, Eastern Iowa communities, mid Michigan communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces. But we are concerned about the trouble that is responsible on one side of the story, plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake
Starting point is 01:53:03 stories without checking facts first. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these fake stories without checking facts first. Unfortunately, some members of the union and their class members can push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think. And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Starting point is 01:53:36 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Starting point is 01:53:54 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. Yeah, I'm going to use these.
Starting point is 01:54:10 I'm speaking to the high school class. Yeah, you definitely use that one. About propaganda. Yeah, I'm going to show this. And it's like it's an embarrassment. But they continue and this is the latest one I think this is pretty new. This one I have not seen. This is the escalation. This is the latest one. I think this is pretty new this one. I have not seen this is the
Starting point is 01:54:26 Escalation this is the latest they're trying to get this into the mainstream thinking that you know, it's Trump's escalation I don't know why is that a bad term or they're trying to equate it with the Soviet Union I'm not sure but but this is they're trying to use to get this word in there and it's battle with the judiciary. Tensions between local and federal authorities over President Trump's immigration crackdown escalated today. We begin this hour with a major escalation of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. We begin with what appears to be a major escalation in the Trump administration's deportation efforts.
Starting point is 01:55:21 And what is a major escalation in the battle here in DC over immigration and deportation This feels like a insane and reckless escalation from the Trump administration arresting a judge I will tell you you are not alone. Is it dramatic escalation more aggressive moves more escalation trumps? Escalation of his migrant birds this kind of escalatory action. This is a dramatic escalation. Escalation. Escalation. Escalation. Escalation. Escalation. Placing an immigration, an escalation, an escalation. Wow, that's a good one. I'm going to give you a borderline for that. That was dynamite. That was good. Esculation. I need the whole Sharpton thing.
Starting point is 01:56:08 This escalation of Trump. The escalation. I love him. Call it a migrant purge. Nice. Migrant purge. And with that escalation, I'd like to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the un-clippable winch, say hello like to say in the morning to you the man who
Starting point is 01:56:25 put the sea in the unclipable wench say hello to my friend on the other end the one the only Mr. John C. DeVora Hi, in the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry, in the morning I ship the sea to Buddhist on the ground feeding the air subs in the water of the dames and nights out there. In the morning to the trolls and the trolls and let me count you all, hold on a second. We can cut the trolls. Well, I don't know, man. I think your supercut chased everybody away. 1880.
Starting point is 01:56:52 Yeah, I think the threat of you. Oh, hold on. Oh, no. Oh, right away we lose the, right away. Hold on a second. That's crazy. The minute you start talking, it switched interfaces again. Right away. Hold on a second. That's crazy. Right away.
Starting point is 01:57:06 The minute you start talking, it switched interfaces again. Oh, can you hear me now? I can hear you now. I hear you. Can you hear me now? I hear you now. You sound great. I don't know what that is.
Starting point is 01:57:17 Something's triggering it. What? The question is, what's triggering it? Something. Anyway, 1880 is the count on the trolls in the troll room, trollroom.io and that is where you can go to listen to this show live. We've been doing it live for a long time. We are in our 18th year and the troll room is fun.
Starting point is 01:57:38 It's ephemeral because you can go in there and go, troll, whatever, and it just scrolls right off and it doesn't matter. Then you're just shouting into the void. It doesn't really make any difference. So get it out of your system in the troll room and listen to us live at trollroom.io or get a modern podcast app. I really do recommend it. By the way, I think we talked about Pocket Cast last time.
Starting point is 01:58:00 And so there's now definitive answer from Apple that they donate button in the app is okay. So everybody is now doing this. They're adding the don't the donut the donut the donate button into their apps. So Apple said it's okay. So it's okay. Yes. The way this works. Yes. If it's not okay, then the war you have to use Apple pay and we take 30%. Don't you understand that was that was. Oh, I see what you're talking. This has always been the problem. And the app developers have already been afraid like, oh, man, my app will get rejected if I put this in there.
Starting point is 01:58:35 No, no, you can put it in there. And it's great because then people are listening. Oh, I should support these guys. Let me just look at my app that I'm already using. Click boom. You can support us as my app that I'm already using. Click, boom. You can support us as part of our value for value method. By the way, troublemakers abound. We got an AI generated note
Starting point is 01:58:57 from Mel Cooley, executive producer. Did you see this? Yeah. An AI review of our show. Urgent content review and advertiser feedback. I think I did see this. I didn't look at it though. Gentlemen, this memo requires your immediate attention. Following the broadcast of episode 1759,
Starting point is 01:59:17 we have received deeply concerning feedback from our key advertisers. The response has been negative and frankly threatens our financial stability. Specifically, advertisers have cited the following issues as problematic and potentially brand damaging. The give on Asian media assassination tagline. Did we use that? I don't remember that. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know either. This was flagged immediately as insensitive and potentially offensive. The lengthy and seemingly unfocused segments. Did I get this email or not? No, I don't think so. So AI analyzed our show, 1759, as an
Starting point is 01:59:52 advertiser and they hate it. Several advertisers noted the extended period. That proves our complete point. Yes, I'll read a few more. Several advertisers noted the extended period dedicated to topics like the Pope's funeral and the minutiae of online hoaxes. They feel the show lacked a clear through line at times meandering, losing audience engagement, and by extension, the value of their placements. The tapping me along discussion. While intended as analysis, the extended speculation on Trump's ambiguous phrasing. Oh, by the way, that's interesting they brought that up. Yep. Because we know what it means. Well there's two versions. Well the version I believe to be the right
Starting point is 02:00:33 version is the golfing one. Yes I agree I think that's the right one. Because he's a golfer. Yes tapping along as a golf term tapping you know putt putt putt tapping the ball along slowly. There is a second one, however, from producer Andy. He says, in a pig slaughterhouse, there's a guy who uses a rattle attached to a broomstick to keep the pigs moving into their final destination by tapping it on the floor behind them. Yeah, I don't think that's it. I like it though. I like the visual. I like the visual. But I'm glad that the AI picked it up. And then...
Starting point is 02:01:08 Because they picked it up as boring. Yes, boring. Now, wait, let's back off for a second. Now, why was this sent in the first place? Was it... What is the end game here of this sending this note to us? Someone with... We don't have advertisers, so it's got nothing to do with any real advertisers. Is it some sort of a phony baloney scam? No, no. This is someone who thought they could find a good use of AI. Oh, and this is what they found?
Starting point is 02:01:36 This is it. The extended listener donation segment. Here we go. While listener support is vital, the length of the donation readouts, including personal anecdotes and tangents, was cited as excessive and disruptive to the show's flow. Advertisers are concerned that this extended segment reduces the time available for content and their messaging. And then finally, tone and language. Certain advertisers express discomfort with the overall tone, particularly the use
Starting point is 02:02:05 of dismissive language like bullcrap and jemokes and the sometimes cynical and negative framing of news events. They prefer a more measured and analytical approach." And it goes on and on and on and on. Wow. You got to send me that. Yeah, I will. There's even the AI then made a rap song out of it, which I will not bore you with. No, you don't need that. It's horrible.
Starting point is 02:02:31 It's just, it's crap. I'm sure it is. So anyway, Time Talent Treasure is how we operate this ship, which means we need your financial support, but we appreciate any kind of time and talent that you put into it, which includes the work that our artists do. They always provide us with a piece of artwork that we can use as the album art and to get
Starting point is 02:02:51 attention for engagement farming on the socials, to be quite honest about it. And it always seems to work. People love this one, although I did get the errands, hey man, if you hate Tim Poole so much, just don't talk about him. You're sending audience to him. Okay, all right, I'm sure. Because episode 1759 titled Eat the Babies. I don't care about sending audience to Tim Poole one way or the other. I know, but this is, I'm just giving you the feedback. I'm giving you true.
Starting point is 02:03:20 I mean if he gets audience to get some recognition on this show, maybe he'll log rolling, give us a plug. Log rolling. It's called pod rolling, pod rolling. You pod roll. You don't log roll. That's so 2005. It's pod rolling. The artwork came to us from a well-known artist, capitalist agenda, and it was indeed the Beanie Boys Beanie with the googly eyes in his googly eyes is what made it work in his seat as at the new media chair oh by the way I had a uh where do I have that there was a new guy in the new media chair let me see Where did I have that? And the new guy That's an embarrassment being in that chair. It seems to me. Well, the guy in it this time was Winston Marshall formerly
Starting point is 02:04:17 Guitarist and banjo player of Mumford and Sons He's British and he now sons. He's British and he now occupies this seat and I think this was also a a set up bull crap question, sorry advertisers, as he was referring to the sordid state of affairs in his home country of the United Kingdoms. In Britain we have had a quarter of a million people issued non-crime hate United Kingdoms. tweets, social media posts, and general free speech issues. Would the Trump administration consider political asylum for British citizens in such a situation? Well, to your latter question, it's a very good one. I have not heard that proposed to the president, nor have I spoken to him about that idea.
Starting point is 02:05:20 But I certainly can and talk to our national security team and see if it's something the administration would entertain. Yes, please. Asylum for the Brits, I tell you. That was a setup question. You think? So we know that that chair is specifically there for bull crap. It's the setup bull crap chair. Yes. And of course, everyone goes along with it. I wonder if they hand them a script, would you like, do you want to be in the chair this week?
Starting point is 02:05:48 Sure. Well, can you do this? And they give you a script, you look it over and you decide, yeah, I can do that. If they... Do I have to memorize it? Yeah, you have to memorize it. Okay, I can manage that.
Starting point is 02:06:00 Imagine that they said, okay, Curry, you're up, you're in the new media chair. I'd sit there and then I'd just, I'd have the script, but then I'd hold up a picture and say, hey, Carolyn, you're up. You're in the new media chair. I'd sit there and then I'd have the script, but then I'd hold up a picture and say, hey, Carolyn, what's this in your mouth? That's what I would do. That would make me- No, you wouldn't. No, you're right.
Starting point is 02:06:13 You wouldn't do that. You know it. He'd be slobbering over there. Hey, Carolyn. Hey, Carolyn. Anyway, thank you very much, Capitalist Agenda. You're a unanimous winner. Let's take a quick look at noagendaartgenerator.com.
Starting point is 02:06:31 Was there anything that had a lot of tapping stuff? Yeah, no, that was so head and shoulders above everything else. I didn't want to actually use it because I thought, we don't need to send audience to him. To send audience, it is not that so much. It's kind of an insulting thing. It's funny. But it's so funny, you have to say.
Starting point is 02:06:51 You said specifically it's the googly eyes that make it work. It is the googly eyes. It was definitely the googly eyes. It's fantastic. It was fantastic. Yeah, no, the capitalist agenda has skills. He's got mad skills. Mad skills.
Starting point is 02:07:04 Yeah, he's got the little tag with his new media on the earphones. Idiotic. Well, ever since Tim Pool, you know, the five million dollars came out and he thought that it was because he was that good, it just had to make fun of him. I mean, remember the Russian money? Oh yeah, who can forget? Yeah. Anyway, we want to thank everybody. We always thank everybody who supports us with $50 or above at this moment in the show,
Starting point is 02:07:30 which is now known as the pre-stablecoin segment. We will be thanking our executive and associate executive producers. Very simple system. You support us with $200 or more for a show. You get an official Hollywood credit that can be used anywhere these credits are recognized, including IMDb. You have to do it for yourself, but you will be able to open up with that credit. You get an associate executive producer credit and we read your note, $300 or above, an executive producer credit, coveted, good for a lifetime, anywhere that these credits are honored and recognized. And we will read your note as
Starting point is 02:08:03 well with your executive producer credit. And we kick it off with our anonymous black sheep from Maryville, Tennessee, $610. And anonymous black sheep who I know the anonymous black sheep sent me a note actually. And this is it. Thank you for the awesome content. I've emailed Adam off and on.
Starting point is 02:08:24 Adam, I'm a recent Christian and do a daily journal. The company is called Daily Kyros. K-A-I-R-O-S. Excellent product I recommend. I'm a military contractor that embeds with army and Marine Corps units. This is the Signal guy. Signals the app the DOD uses end-to-end encryption. I'd like to call out Michael Steersharch, Steersharch, which is who we call it earlier as a douchebag You've been double douchebag. I didn't even realize you've been double douchebag. That's bad. That's bad They didn't realize that he donated inside baseball We've had two units move out of Iraq and the third will be in June when the contract is up. We have other new sites in another Middle Eastern country.
Starting point is 02:09:11 Another two sites in AFRICOM. Another site added in the Pacific. Unlike allegedly Pete Hegseth, there is no operational security being divulged. FYI, I was on a green suit deployment with JSOC when our boys smoked the Wagner guys in Syria. This is the level of producer we got. We smoked the Wagner guys in Syria. This is what I'm talking about. This is why we are the best podcast in the universe. And he says, jingingles you might die and love you both Jesus loves us all you might die yeah if you if you come across the anonymous black sheep you might die all right left out that's true oh I'm sorry and I have the classic that's true that's true I actually loaded it There you go. Scott Horton's up.
Starting point is 02:10:05 He's in Malibu, California. No, who is this Scott Horton? Never heard of that guy. Never heard of Scott Horton. 55050. Hello, John Z. Adam and the whole Gitmo Nation. This is the other Scott Horton. Yeah, there it is.
Starting point is 02:10:20 I made it out to Leo Bravo's meetup this weekend. What a great turnout and what fun people. I'm donating $5.50, 50, to finish up my nighting. I needed 33 cents to complete the $1,000. Wow. And wanted to add Commodore too. I haven't thought of a good name yet, so that will be coming soon with my accounting.
Starting point is 02:10:45 I want to call out... I think he's on the list anyway for Commodore. He is on the list for Commodore ship, yep. And there's a couple stragglers by the way that are already... There's issues with their Commodore ship, but they'll get it next show. I wanted to call out the Pineapple Princess and Dano as douchebags. Dario. Oh.
Starting point is 02:11:08 Not even close to Dano. Well, you could be looking from where I'm sitting about a mile away from the monitor looks like Dano. Get closer, Pineapple Princess! Douchebag! And Dario, formerly known as Dano. Douchebag! And let Tyrone know that he still has the stench of douchebaggery wafting from him.
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Starting point is 02:23:59 Oh, I'm all ears. So there is a bill in Congress right now. It is the stablecoin bill. We'll talk about that in a minute. But throughout the past couple of weeks, I've been talking about things like the Mar-a-Lago Accords, understanding the strong dollar versus the weak dollar, what is President Trump trying to do. And the only thing I really had known or knew up until recently about stablecoin is the main stablecoin that is in
Starting point is 02:24:28 consideration for use by the US government specifically the Treasury and I presume by osmosis the Federal Reserve is tether and All you need to know about that is a stablecoin is pegged to a dollar one one stablecoin is $1 and it is backed by US treasuries. So this company, Tether, they only have 40 people working there. All they're doing is they're buying massive amounts of treasuries, short-term treasuries, so T-bills, American debts, And they're making hundreds of millions of dollars based upon the interest rate.
Starting point is 02:25:09 And for every single dollar they buy in treasury, they make a stablecoin. So it's really a way to make more U.S. dollars of the digital kind. And I've learned a lot about this. And we're gonna start with Planet Money. So it's kind of a mainstream show from NPRPR and it has a little bit of talk about stablecoin and the Mar-a-Lago Accords. Then there's what we've dubbed the weak dollar school.
Starting point is 02:25:34 Essentially because people around the world use the dollar so much, that pushes up the dollar's value and actually hurts American exporters. So the weak dollar school wants to see the American dollar devalued. This school of thought is led by the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, a guy named Stephen Myron. More than half the world's trade is done in dollars even when neither country trading is the US. Simon boils the weak dollar school down to this. The cost for America in doing this is that you have a dollar that has been distorted. In his view, basically this means overvalued and that has held back American exporters.
Starting point is 02:26:14 A strong dollar means that American consumers can afford to buy more stuff from overseas. And so American factories find it harder to compete with these cheap imports. And so there's different ways that other countries can begin to address this problem. They could basically agree to buy more American products. They could invest more in America. One solution that he expressed, which I think is a little bit tongue in cheek, is that they could just send checks directly to the US Treasury to basically pay them a fee for services or alternatively, America could impose tariffs.
Starting point is 02:26:51 The big idea in Stephen Myron's paper is that leaders of countries from around the world would descend on South Florida, make a grand deal with President Trump to help weaken the dollar, and this would be called the Mar-a-Lago Accord. You can see how it's something that appeals to President Trump. It kind of intellectualizes his instinctual view that America has been wronged. Okay, so the problem we have in America is because everybody wants our dollars, everybody uses our dollars, the dollar is very strong against other currencies and therefore our products when we want to export them are too expensive. We're not like the cheap Chinese crap. That's why I believe the temporary measure is
Starting point is 02:27:35 these tariffs. Now what I've learned is and I've heard this term so many times Euro dollar I never understood what it meant. The difference between the American dollar we have here in America and the Euro-dollar is exactly that. A Euro-dollar is every dollar that is in banks or in financial systems outside the US. It's a lot of money. This money really hurts us particularly in the hands of China because they control how strong our dollar is by how much they use it, where they send it, how much they buy etc. Here is analyst Matt Pines explaining a little bit about the dangers of other countries holding large quantities of dollars in this case euro dollars. Don't
Starting point is 02:28:26 be confused by the euro part. If it's outside of America, it's a euro dollar. There's flows of goods coming into the United States and flows of dollars going overseas. A lot of those dollars are pouring into China. Then China, as an entity, as a balance sheet, is then deciding how to deploy those dollars. And it's, you know, in some ways, it's deploying them into domestic investment. Some ways it's deploying them into overseas investment, like Belt Road Initiative. But in other ways, it's also redeploying them back into the US and other sort of advanced financial markets into financial assets, right into our NASDAQ, into our real estate, into our farmland. And so the US has sort
Starting point is 02:29:05 of watched over the past few years how much sort of those dollars are kind of round tripping right back into the US. And for certain elements of the US that's great, right? We get, you know, that's an extra marginal dollar that's going into, you know, Nvidia stock and it helps everyone's 401ks. There's such a thing in the DOD, the intelligence community, it's like a term of art, like adversarial capital. And tracking adversarial capital is like a very important mission inside the United States government. So they don't just see dollars going back and forth, international trade and financial investment as just a fundamentally neutral cycle of trade and investment. They see it as a security issue, especially if you see some of these flows come with invisible strings attached. Or often those capital flows have
Starting point is 02:29:52 implicitly or explicitly corrupt the political systems that they get deployed in. And they sort of shape over time the political systems in the West. We've seen stories in Canada and Australia, even in the US. New Zealand, even Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, a lot of these countries that are very much at the tipping point of where to shape strategic opinion among key decision makers. So, what I understand of this stable coin bill, which is now in Congress, is the idea is to make all the Euro dollars, everything that's not in America, make those stable coin, which will be backed by US treasuries.
Starting point is 02:30:33 So they are backed by something that is supposedly really secure and really good. And that those dollars, because they're digital, can be completely tracked. We know if someone's trying to buy off politicians, and you will not be allowed to use the US dollars in America dollars outside of the United States. If you want the dollar that way, you get the stablecoin, which basically is a little piece of a US treasury, which equals a dollar.
Starting point is 02:31:02 And so here's Caitlin Long to explain the stablecoin bill The stablecoin bill is going to create for the first time a endorsed differential between an offshore dollar and an onshore dollar The Fed and particularly because of the control of the European banks on the euro dollar market. What is a euro dollar? Let's go back it goes back to the 1950s when Russia didn't want to hold During the Cold War its dollars in a US bank because it was afraid they'd be confiscated. So it got the European banks to agree to take US dollar deposits. So there was this huge offshore market, which is actually as big, if not bigger than the
Starting point is 02:31:36 onshore US dollar market. And to your point, it hasn't been in control of the Fed. Well, the Fed is now wrested control over interest rates. The most important interest rate was until recently LIBOR. It's now SOFR. And it used to be unsecured, priced in London. It's now secured, priced in New York. Okay. Now here comes Tether. Tether is a company that, for all the allegations around it related to money laundering, etc. Now what's fascinating to me is that Congress is about to ensconce this by saying, okay, you can be an offshore issuer and you don't have to do all the same know your customer and anti-money
Starting point is 02:32:22 laundering rules, particularly that a bank has to do. Bank has to do what's something called CIP upfront. You have to, before you onboard a customer or to a bank, you have to do all the know your customer and enhanced customer information program upfront. FinTechs don't have to do that and Lord knows an offshore company does not. And that offshore company will be Cantor Fitzgerald Lutnick's company. They're the ones that are these the they hold all of the treasuries for
Starting point is 02:32:59 For this tether stable coin. This thing is Outrageously popular all across the world. I didn't even realize how big this this stablecoin is. It's being used by shop merchants, by regular people everywhere because their own currency is so unstable they prefer to use the Tether stablecoin and they can easily pay with it. They're already doing it. It's just on your phone. It's back and forth and here's a quick clip about how big stablecoin, particularly Tether, really is. Tether is pushing the US dollar out into emerging markets down to the communities that nobody has banked before because nobody could figure out how to bank them. And those communities bank them profitably.
Starting point is 02:33:39 And note those communities, Tether did, hats off to them for doing that. Those communities have access to the US dollar for the first time. And in most of those emerging markets, they would much rather have a US dollar than their own local currency. And Tether has built this distribution channel and there is nobody competing with them. And they are pushing the US dollar out into the distribution channel and they're recycling those tiny amounts of money from working class in emerging markets.
Starting point is 02:34:07 And I think they have 400 million users. It's a stunning number of users. They're the biggest financial company in the world right now and just keep getting bigger. And they are recycling all of those flows back into the US Treasury market. What is that doing? Because those are not going to be panic sellers. What is that doing that is increasing the resilience of the US Treasury market. What is that doing? Because those are not going to be panic sellers. What is that doing that is increasing the resilience of the US Treasury market? And that is exactly the point and making the dollar strong as a currency and usable outside
Starting point is 02:34:37 the US with the Euro dollar. And we can then control our own interest rate because LIBOR, the London Interbank offered rate which was the standard if you've ever looked at your car statement or your mortgage, on an adjustable rate, it'll say we offer you this money at LIBOR plus 1% or plus 2%. We remember there was a big scandal with Libor in 2008. Libor was already set to be replaced and killed off by something called SOFR, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. And so this is Bloomberg seven years ago, this is how long this is in the making, talking about this new way to set interest rates,
Starting point is 02:35:26 not by British banks and JP Morgan, they were part of that, who were just doing willy-nilly whatever they wanted, which kept us not in control of interest rates in America. They were already talking about this SOFR. Ed, let's start first with the SOFR situation, which I have to confess, I'm not an expert on this, but it's sort of oopsie. Nobody is, David.ie oopsie isn't that what you say oopsie so the Fed comes out with
Starting point is 02:35:48 this new alternative to LIBOR and this is going to be they're trying to compete with some other alternatives over in Europe to say this is the way you should peg your interest rates and then they discover oh we included some transactions we weren't supposed to be including. I call it SOFR I thought that I thought that's not. I've heard so far, I've heard so fur, I've heard so fur. So far so bad. So it's kind of a case of better the devil you know. Look, Libor, as we know, was not perfect. In fact, it was far from perfect. But this is, as you say, the alternative and it's already gone wrong.
Starting point is 02:36:18 Two weeks in and it's already gone wrong. So what's happened here is essentially the Fed have come out and they've said some forward settling overnight Treasury Repo transactions were included where they shouldn't have been included So all of the dates for that two-week period is botched now They said they're not going to republish it But they are going to publish alongside it sort of data theoretical data of what it would look like if you stripped out those transactions So it is a bit of a mess and I think the real challenge challenge is this. A lot of people obviously still use LIBOR as the benchmark.
Starting point is 02:36:46 That's going to end in 2021 because the FCA and the UK have said that at that point it will disappear. Yeah. How do you get people to migrate across to something if it shows, even at this sort of very early stage, that it's unreliable? This thing needs to be absolutely rock solid if it's going to convince people to migrate across. It needs the derivative projects, which supposedly those products are coming. So this thing has migrated.
Starting point is 02:37:09 As of March 31st, 2025, the last LIBOR contracts, the last derivatives were finally all settled, taken care of. And now SOFR is the new interest rate setting standard for interest rates, which is completely in control now of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. And this timing I find interesting because on April 2nd, he said he wanted to do on the 1st, but it came on the 2nd, President Trump talked about my fellow Americans, this is liberation day. And maybe it was under the guise of the terrorist, but I think it was really about this interest rate that is now being set by us. We're in control of it and we're leaving the stablecoin as the ghetto dollar over there
Starting point is 02:37:55 for the Euro dollar and they can do whatever they want. It's all backed by us. And this stablecoin has a lot of properties that make it very interesting, not just overseas, but internally as well. And by the way, Tether created the killer use case, which is for the US dollar. And a lot of people look at it and say, why do you need a blockchain for that? That's an inefficient database. Yes, of course, it's an inefficient database.
Starting point is 02:38:17 But what were they able to do? Create incredible network effects by having 400 million users globally. That's bigger than the United States. Incredible network effects. That's what we're tapping into. What are the green fields? The biggest one is putting that into the regulated banking industry. Everybody right now is forced into Fedwire, ACH, and a little bit of FedNow, but that
Starting point is 02:38:39 was such a controlled closed system that it hasn't really taken off. Fedwire and ACH, hell, stablecoins are faster, cheaper, more auditable, more programmable, safer from an IT security perspective, I would argue, for a whole host of reasons. This is a game changer to push that into the green field of the traditional banking system. So to wrap it up, I think the stable coin gambit is to keep the US dollar as the strongest, most secure backed by US treasuries, dollar everywhere in the world. But we through SOFR will control our own interest rates. It's a big, big, long game gamble.
Starting point is 02:39:25 And if Trump can pull it off, I don't know if it's going to be good or not, but it's definitely going to change the way finance works throughout the world. And that's all I know for now. How does this benefit bankers? I believe that bankers, part of the SBA rule 12, that bankers can now issue their own version of stable coin. And so they can do whatever they want. They like buying treasury.
Starting point is 02:39:59 So I'll buy a treasury, I can issue a stable coin and I can issue it domestically, I can issue it internationally. I think that's where they come into play. How would this differ from the olden days when the banks used to actually print their own money? Well, the difference is at that point they had to have gold to back their own money and now you have to have treasuries, which is probably just as wonky. That's why I'm not sure it's a great idea.
Starting point is 02:40:30 I'm not saying it's a great idea. I think it's what they're trying to do. It's complicated. I didn't even know what a euro dollar was until yesterday. We got a call from the government. Shut up, Curry. There you go. That's my stable coin presentation.
Starting point is 02:40:58 Okay. Wasn't as bad as I thought. Oh, well, thank you. That coming from you is a huge endorsement. I don't know about that. There's the government. Do you need to talk to them? I'm gonna go pick that up but why don't you play the clip about the impeachment, the partial impeachment announcement. Okay, partial impeachment, uh, partial impeach, impartial. This is Congressman Shri Thanedar, Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy,
Starting point is 02:41:27 but defying a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling? That has to be the final straw. It's time we impeach Donald J. Trump. The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia must be allowed to return and receive due process. Trump ignored it. He ignored the Constitution. He ignored the very checks and balances that keep our democracy intact. This isn t an isolated incident. It s part of a dangerous deliberate pattern. That's why today I introduced a resolution to impeach Donald J Trump
Starting point is 02:42:08 outlining seven articles of impeachment. Article 1 obstruction of justice and abuse of executive power from denying due process to unlawful deportations, Trump defied court orders. I've been waiting months for this. You and me both. Why would the arborists? And so John has a branch, John has a branch, which has been squeaking against his window for months. Sometimes I can hear it if it's windy on the show. But I almost always hear it after the show when I turn all the noise gates off and like, Oh man, that thing must be driving you nuts. Well, it's only when you have a Southern Lee breeze.
Starting point is 02:43:07 So anyway, so that's the guy, he's a screwball looking character. I don't even know what he's thinking. He's got a wig on and he's like, really, seriously, he should check this out. And he went on and on. He's got about eight points.
Starting point is 02:43:20 He is, of course, going to go nowhere, but it's making a big scene and he sounds like an like a moron. Yeah, I would say that's big news. Big news. Big news. Big news. Yeah. Articles of impeachment. Finally, someone did it. Yeah, I was waiting for Al Green, but he didn't do it yet. No. Okay. Tick tock. Yay. I was just doing two. They're both short. They're both under a minute. Okay. The dating app girl dating app girl. So I'm scrolling the dating apps earlier and for the first 20 swipes is conservative, moderate, conservative, moderate, apolitical, nothing conservative,
Starting point is 02:43:56 conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, moderate. And to me, conservative, moderate and apolitical and nothing is all the same thing. You all are MAGA. So immediately no no no no no no no no no no no no took me 20 swipes to finally find a liberal. I mean gee what the fuck is going on why is everybody MAGA? It's not that everybody's MAGA it's that you know the male loneliness epidemic it's because nobody wants to date them. They don't make good partners. That's why there's so many single ones out there.
Starting point is 02:44:32 All the liberals are taken, not all of them. Obviously there's some out there, but like I rather have no dates than ever date a MAGA ever fucking again. So I will scroll until my fingers fall off until I can find the perfect liberal. Why do they always have to cuss all the time? This cussing is unbelievable. It's getting annoying. It's very annoying and there's nothing you can do about it. They won't stop it. No, they won't. Here's another woman. This one here is complaining about her time blindness. No, time blindness. Which is my favorite topic.
Starting point is 02:45:08 Please, I'm time blind. That's why I'm late. We went through this several times in the past couple of years. Yep. So I just got yelled at for asking a very reasonable question. So I'm applying to go somewhere
Starting point is 02:45:19 and I just wanted to know, are there accommodations for people to struggle with time blindness and being on time, you know. And then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else. And then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist. And if you struggle with being on time, you'll never be able to get a job, you know, provided
Starting point is 02:45:40 you're trying your absolute best to be there. And then they're like, your stupid generation wants to destroy the workplace. And yeah, I think that a culture where workers are just cut off because they struggle with being on time when there's other solutions that we can look to, I think that just anybody who thinks it's okay to just treat people like that, yeah, that culture needs to be dismantled.
Starting point is 02:46:01 And then I asked that person, how can you feel good about yourself upholding this kind of system and then to think I'm entitled no if people think it's okay to treat others like this that's entitlement now brother I like the way she reversed it were reverse roles there you're entitled because you're on time stop Stop it. This is not healthy. I'm worried about you. You should not be watching too much of this. No, this is good stuff.
Starting point is 02:46:29 Everybody loves it. It's all engagement farming. I don't believe any of these people is being honest. Not a single one. You think they're real. I think they're all phony. I think most of them are real. There's a couple of phonies, but they're pretty obvious
Starting point is 02:46:42 when you see them. But let's play this. This is a... Since you played that thing about the stable coin, let's play this clip. This is TiMu versus France. Oh, TiMu! The trade war between the US and China
Starting point is 02:46:53 has also affected Europe. Several European countries report a surge in dumped Chinese products on their market. Last year, 1.5 billion parcels, mostly from China, entered France, averaging just around $10 each. Authorities are concerned with this trend, which poses a threat not only to local producers, but also to consumers.
Starting point is 02:47:14 On Tuesday, four French ministers unveiled a plan to tackle the flood of low-cost parcels from China. To protect consumers, the government will triple inspections this year, checking product safety, labeling and environmental claims. It also looking to the EU to end customs duty exemption for purse sales under $170 to protect local businesses. Yann Rivouillon is president of the French Women's Prêt à Portée Federation. Wait a minute, is France putting something equal to tariffs in place against China? Is that what I'm hearing? It's kind of what you're hearing, but the number I thought was interesting that in France are getting 1.5
Starting point is 02:47:52 billion packages of cheap Chinese crap. Nice. He says the influx of Chinese products has led to around 10,000 job losses over the past two years and the closure of several fashion brands. He also says French fashion brands are unable to compete. Every week brands send me copies of counterfeit products made in China. First our designs are being stolen.
Starting point is 02:48:20 Second, the employees of Shane or Temu are being exploited. They're paid a pittance and forced to work from 75 to over 100 hours a week, with barely one day off a month. This is clearly unacceptable. They also commit tax fraud by declaring under-reported sales figures. According to the government, over 90% of these products are unsafe for consumers. However, Rivouallon says the new measures fall far short and should be aligned with the stronger US actions against such platforms.
Starting point is 02:48:49 It's totally ridiculous compared to what the United States is doing with $100 on each of these packages. So, we're in a situation where we know that over 90% of products are dangerous for the French, dangerous for consumers, for our jobs and for the planet. And yet we're putting in place a small measure with barely 10% tax potential. It's really amazing. The junk, the cheap junk we have from China. This microphone I'm using right now, cheap junk from China.
Starting point is 02:49:20 This Yeti cup. American Yeti, Texas company, made in China. This bell. China. This whistle. China. My light phone 3. China. This all from China. And I look at this stuff and I go, do I really need all this stuff? You know, do I really need it? My guns are from, my guns are not from China. My guns are not from China. We probably need to just have this story out for a moment because it's not really a big topic. You know, there was a pretty bad
Starting point is 02:49:59 attack on tourists there, you know Pakistan and India heating up and here's the latest from Pakistan. We start with the dispute between India and Pakistan following a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir which left 26 people dead last week. The Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Modi has been holding high-level talks with his cabinet in response to the attack which it blames on Pakistan, a claim repeatedly denied by Islamabad. Pakistan's Information Minister says his country has credible intelligence that India is planning to attack. Pakistan open-heartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth.
Starting point is 02:50:43 Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the truth. Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the path of reason, India has apparently decided to tread the dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation which will have catastrophic consequences for the complete region and beyond. World leaders have expressed deep concern and urged restraint by the uneasy neighbors who have fought several wars and who both have nuclear weapons. Man, Led Zeppelin did songs about Kashmir. Can these guys not just settle it finally? What is so special?
Starting point is 02:51:17 Seems unlikely. What is so special about the Kashmir region? What is it? What do they care? Everybody thinks it's a fabulous place and both sides think it's theirs. They own it. Well what's so fabulous about it? Does it get... I don't know, I've never been there. Does it have a beach? No. Well it should just be fabulous. I don't know why they can't get it. Well we have Pakistanis and Indians in our... The explanation will be biased and both... We won't get, we won't find out anything. Well, I'll take bias over nothing. Over this report. Oh, but it's not going to,
Starting point is 02:51:50 they're going to strike us. Why? We don't know why. You're right. Yeah, we don't know why. They've been bitching, This has been going on forever. For decades. I have a Real News clip if you want to play Real News jingle.
Starting point is 02:52:10 Goodness gracious. I don't even know what you're doing. I know. We haven't done this for a year. A year. Where is it? Oh wait, it's under... I have the Real News clip somewhere.
Starting point is 02:52:18 And now, back to Real News. Okay. Time for real news. What do you have? So the sports ball people are talking, everyone's talking and ridiculing this guy, including Megan. Kelly? Yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:52:35 And this is Bill Belichick, who's a, like, I don't know, he's 60, 70, he's like 72, I think, and he's got a 24-year-old girlfriend. Go right on. Go, Bill. That's what a lot of people say. And so he was interviewed by CBS Morning, and then they had to clip some of her in there because she was being annoying at the interview. She was butting in a lot, and then he came back with this comment about it and then she
Starting point is 02:53:07 CBS came back with a comment and it went back and forth but here's the Megyn Kelly this Belichick this is the Megyn Kelly report on it and she's she's of course you know she's horrible she's Megan yes so this guy Bill Belichick has been in the news lately because his girlfriend, I think, is 50 years of 47 to 50 years. Oh no! Difference between Belichick and his- Now, is she mad about that? Is that the premise? She's mad about the age difference with the chick? No, she doesn't express this, but you know she is. Okay. Young gal pal. So she shows up at these black tie events with him wearing nothing. She's basically wearing like a bikini and he's wearing a normal
Starting point is 02:53:46 man's clothing. And it looks weird. It like, okay, whatever. I guess I'm not, who am I to judge? But I'm judging. I won't lie. It's weird. And I'm pretty sure she is with him because he's very famous and probably has a lot of money and gets her access to cool things. That's my guess. I'm just gonna say it. But anyway, he gives this interview and now it's starting to look much more like a Jill Biden situation. So I could think of you guys like she's like guys on the sidelines calling all the shots and like trying to decide what he can answer and what he can't in this interview. And what we learned today, I'll show you the clip,
Starting point is 02:54:25 but what we learned today was that it was far worse than CBS this morning, which is like a nice program. They try to do like nice stories, would even air. The reason reportedly that they chose to air this one interruption of hers is because it was far worse than this. She was trying to dominate behind the scenes and they felt it was okay
Starting point is 02:54:46 to include one of her interruptions just to give the audience, to be transparent that they had this monster on screen left who was completely trying to control him. And it was to the point where they didn't feel like it would have journalistic integrity if they didn't show at least some of it, watch this. The other change for Belichick is 24 year old Jordan Hudson. His creative muse as he writes in his book. Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan right over there. Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship.
Starting point is 02:55:22 They've got an opinion about your private life. It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it. How do you deal with that? Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right. How did you guys meet? Not talking about this. No?
Starting point is 02:55:39 No. It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on. What? And it went on like the portion I talked to you about like it went on and on to where it was very Cringy you were like oh god. Oh Megan how deep you have sunk Why is she doing this she's the woman who was like the big political journalist, lawyer, and all she can do is show business stuff. I'm sure it's great, well, we know the answer.
Starting point is 02:56:11 It's great for downloads, it's great for views, it's numbers. This is why value for value is a much better way to do it. You don't need numbers to survive. This is- And you don't need to deal with these people who send us AI analysis of the show being anti-advertiser.
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Starting point is 02:56:54 Hopefully by we got it. We got the big show coming up on Sunday. The Sanco de Mayo special. Everybody. Yeah, that's right. It is Marjorie Santelli starts us off. She's in Curt land, Ohio. One, two, three, four, everybody. Yeah, that's right. Marjorie Santelli starts us off. She's in Curt land, Ohio, one, two, three, four, five, uh, the Ashland, Texas in flower mound,
Starting point is 02:57:12 a one, two, one, two, one. And that's an Elda barge donation. Thank you. One person got my joke. Thank you. It's appreciated. Okay. Well, she's on the ball. Connie Wolse-Lusink and Heinen Noord, North Heinen, Netherlands, 120 120. And she got a long note there. She's a big fan of yours. Yes, I can see. And she got a long note there. She's a big fan of yours. Yes, I can see And you can she's just a note for you. You can read it to yourself. She says eggs are expensive over there Oh, she says our eggs are 36 euro cents per egg. Therefore. I give you two dozen eggs donation That's a 1212 one two one. I like.2. I like it. The eggs donation. Thank you.
Starting point is 02:58:05 Eggs donation. Why not? Yeah. Two dozen eggs. So Jay has eggs. Uh-huh. So she brought me some because I use a raw egg in my morning no agenda drink. Yes, we have discussed this. It was a tip. Tipoftheday.net. She's got a chicken there and it's almost a tip of the day, it's a buff orpington, which is a killer, beautiful chicken. We used to have them up North, a buff, and they used to be called buffy. It's a beautiful red chicken and huge.
Starting point is 02:58:36 And it produces the chicken. I've never seen a home chickens usually don't do this, produces jumbo eggs. Jumbo, how big are they? They're huge. It's a big giant egg. She says that the chicken makes a squawk every time she lays one. It's all best. No doubt. Poor chicken. Onward, sir. By his grace in Jacksonville Florida 111 22 and he's also mentioned southeastern turf grass supply for all this for your all your grass agronomic needs sir by the way I know sir by his
Starting point is 02:59:19 grace and he's so worried about the tariffs he keeps sending me articles like he's gonna screw it up he's gonna screw it up. He's gonna screw it up He's gonna screw up. He's gonna say everything I have to close my business gonna screw up Wait, is he getting his turf from China? No, I think his Pesticides herbicides all that stuff. Yeah, he definitely gets stuff from China Sir Casey nine why? JM 73 is 105 35 And he wants a jobs karma at the end if you don't mind.
Starting point is 02:59:52 Paul Summers in Bath, Pennsylvania, 100. Jennifer Rain in Snoqualum, Washington, 100. Sir F.A. and Beck in Shifwood Forest, somewhere in the United States, 100. Dame, Dame, uh, Mela, Melebation, Mela, Mela-bation, Mela-bation, Mela-bation, okay. Colorado Springs, 100. Kevin McLaughlin's up. Aadonka, North Carolina is the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs. 8008thaboob donation. Rick Labanca in Hope, Rhode Island, 7373s. That's a ham radio donation. And heaven forbid we got another one. Noble Anderson in Montgomery, Alabama, 7373 with a happy birthday to me. This is a while ago I guess is my 73rd birthday and a donation is also 73's
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Starting point is 03:03:49 Yeah, that's how you put that in the newsletter. That was the 5,5,1 and she put 25. That was the Mayday, don't you remember? You set this up. Yeah, 5125, that's the Mayday donation. In fact, we have a bunch of Mayday donations. I'm gonna read them one after the other, just naming locations, starting with Michael Chauvin, who has no location. Michael Raguse,
Starting point is 03:04:09 Raguse in Tustin, Dame Lacey, and she's in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Fair Vault Tea, Fair Vault Tea in London, England. Yeah. Send us some tea. Is it tea company? I don't know. Yeah, it's a. Yeah. Send us some tea. Is it a tea company? I don't know. Yeah, it's a tea company. Send us some tea. I'd go for some tea.
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Starting point is 03:05:05 I'll just go run through them, name and location, starting with William Hammer in Hagerstown, Maryland. Leif Thompson in Meridian, Idaho. Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Iowa. Comfort King in Valley Springs, South Dakota. Joshua Johnson in Omaha, Nebraska. Scott McCarty in Lodi. Jordan Tierney in Oral, South Dakota. Got the South Dakotans in today. Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado. C. Jones in Safety Harbor, Florida. And last on our list is Leslie Walker. She's in Roseburg, Oregon and she loves us. Okay, that'll be
Starting point is 03:05:49 it for today's show 1760. Yes, she says she loves us. May the Lord bless us. Thank you. All right, thank you very much. All of our donors $50 and above. We will not read anything under for reasons of anonymity, so we see you $49.99. We appreciate it and of course all those sustaining donors if you go to NoAgendaDonations.com you can make a donation of any amount we love the numerology as you can tell lots of different numbers and thank you for the explanation but the sustaining donations really do help any amount any frequency and we actually have a baron coming up who did just that thank you as always always. And once again, noagendaradonations.com.
Starting point is 03:06:31 Very short list along with Willie Nelson, of course, who celebrated yesterday and Wirt Fuller, April 29th. Jessica says, happy birthday to John Daly, turns 50 on May 2nd. And finally on the list, happy birthday to Rick LaBanca happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe and now we have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten people who took advantage of the final final moment of the Commodore ship this means that when you go to Noah Jenna Rings calm and you give us the actual name you would like on your certificate of being a Commodore, we will take care of that for you. We have Commodore Anonymous Black Sheep, Commodore Scott Horton, Commodore of the Human Resource
Starting point is 03:07:12 Producers, Commodore Mark of Crow Wing County, Commodore Sir Milkman of Ebington, Commodore Zack Zedock Brown III, Commodore SDG, Commodore Brock Reinhardt, and Commodore John Tucker. Commodores arriving. Woo good list, very good list. Here's that layaway Baron who will be knighted today, Sir Tom. He is from, well let me read his note. I was originally hit in the mouth by Fabian of the Linux outlaws and after 11 years I have finally achieved the title of Baron through monthly donations of 3333 and a care package of bratwurst and other meats back in 2021.
Starting point is 03:07:54 I don't remember the, I think John hoarded all the bratwurst and meats. Yes, everyone can do it. That's a step from Nemechek. I don't know. I don't remember. But he goes on to say, yes, everyone can do it. And then there's the stuff from Nemechek. I don't know. I don't remember. But he goes on to say, Yes, everyone can do it. You too. You can do it too. The peerage committee has approved carving out the area code of 920 with Sir 10T, Duke of Federal Reserve District 7's protectorate.
Starting point is 03:08:19 As such, I request a title change to Baron Tom, warden of the frozen tundra. Go pack go. Keep up the Frozen Tundra. Go pack go! Keep up the great work gents. 11 more years! Tom G from the bratwurst capital. And we're going to knight him right now. So get your blade out. We definitely need to have a nice blade for him because he's becoming a Baron.
Starting point is 03:08:37 Here's a good one. Ooh that is a good one. So alright then. Tom G step on up. Very proud to pronounce the Cate Thee not only as a knight of the no agenda roundtable But as Sir Tom Baron Tom warden of the frozen tundra for you my friend We have hookers and blow rent boys and chardonnay prostitutes and some nice wine We have harlots and how doll pepperoni rolls and pale ales red heads and rise beers and blunts cowgirls and coffin varnish ruminesce women and rosé geishas and sake vodka vanilla bonkets and bourbon sparkling
Starting point is 03:09:10 cider and escort gingerland gerbils breast milk and pablum and of course as always at the round table mutton and mead and congratulations tom head over to no agenda rings.com let us know where you want us to send your ring. There's a ring sizing guide on the website, so make sure you have the right size. It comes with two sticks of dynamite, oh no, two sticks of wax. With that you can seal your important correspondence and as always with a certificate of authenticity. And thank you for becoming not just a knight, but a layaway knight and baron of the NoAgenda Roundtable.
Starting point is 03:09:41 NoAgenda meetups! Let's knock your potties! of the NoAgenda Roundtable. NoAgenda Meetups! Well, the meetups are still huge, as you can imagine. They take place all over Gitmo Nation, around the globe, really. People love doing them. They are producer organized. You can go to noagendameetups.com, find some near you.
Starting point is 03:10:03 There's a calendar, there's a list. And we love it when you send in meetup reports but it's getting a little bit out of control so keep it short please there's only one today so i don't mind playing it this is the meetup report from chicago what's up y'all this is elie the coffee guy hanging out here reggie's having a blast with everybody. Peace out to Baron NBS. Getting out of shy town. I don't blame you, brother. But it's still a great city.
Starting point is 03:10:31 Look! Yo, it's Andrew here from the UK. MI6 has come out here to represent. And, yeah, no, it's a real fucking pleasure to be out here. And, yeah, NBS is looking kind of shocked to get past the mic after that. Not a serial killer Kate here. This is Sir. Darth Pangor Locktucky enjoying the in the morning crew here staring lovingly
Starting point is 03:10:57 into Eli the coffee guy's eyes because he's a handsome devil but all glory to Nick MBS for escaping Chicago and going to more beautiful pastures. There that's what's a total terry. All right. God bless. This is Sir Tidley Knott. We are here at Reggie's in Chicago. The only venue that has been good to us.
Starting point is 03:11:23 They've been good to us since the pandemic when we had our first meetup here and passing it on in the morning. In the morning, John and Adam, this is Baron NBS at the Escape from Chicago meetup. I'm wrapping my time up here in Chicago. It's been a wonderful time here in Chicago hanging out here with Eli, Alex, and some random, very fine people in the morning. Hey, this is Blake. John, we're in trouble. There's a lot of cheap guitars in Chicago.
Starting point is 03:11:55 All economic indicators aside, this is Sir Brian with a Y. We are fixing an imposed. We are fixing an imposed. Oh my God, Adam, I'm so sorry. But we're living up in Chicago again. If you live nearby, come to the next meetup. We have a bunch of them in the morning. What's up, Noah's agenda nation? This is KJ6QDT. Just happy to be here for my first meetup, hanging out with MBS. Wish them best of luck. And yeah, we'll see you all on NOAA 30.
Starting point is 03:12:27 Hi, this is Alex, ITM. This is Dame Courtney here saying farewell to NBS. We will truly miss you in Chicago. In the morning. Alcohol, I'm telling you. Keep it tight, people. And where's the server? I missed that. I'm gonna have. Keep it tight people. And where's the server? I missed that.
Starting point is 03:12:47 I'm going to have to scold you a little bit. Meetups happening today. The Northern Wake Publical Slave Gathering, 6 o'clock at Potluck Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina. The South Austin Slaves Meetup tonight at 7 in Little Woodrose and South Park Meadows in Austin. Hope you RSVP'd because you had to. Tomorrow the Tri-Cities
Starting point is 03:13:05 Washington 6-week cycle meetup at 7 o'clock at Ties Bar and Grill in West Richland, Washington. On Saturday the first NOA agenda splash up, that's the Spring edition, that'll be 1 o'clock Dutch North Sea time and that'll be in Schreeveningen, the Netherlands. Schreeveningen. You have to RSVP to find out where it is. Arno's organized that. The Sonoma-Wino country meetup on Saturday as well. Version 7.0 at Old Casbeer in Ronert Park, California. And on Sunday our next showday, Hot Meat and Freedom Flames Brussels Backyard Barbecue. Woo!
Starting point is 03:13:39 That's at 4 o'clock in Brussels in Izel. Make sure you go to that one. And I want meetup reports from everybody one minute or less. If you wanna find all the meetups available, they are all around the world. You can find them at noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy and always a party.
Starting point is 03:13:57 Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. You wanna be where you want me Triggered or held to blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party It's like a party It's just like a party
Starting point is 03:14:18 That was the time we select our end of show ISO A rare occasion today where we both have won It's a one-on-one matchup I don't think I'm gonna win well then play yours what you have 11 seconds how can yours be 11 seconds I don't think it is it says 11 seconds this is probably something wrong with the clip another having issues yeah appears to be let me I'm gonna play yours now but and then I'll see where we can find you. I think you might have two of them back to back or something.
Starting point is 03:14:49 Another fabulous show, what more can I say? What is it? Another fabulous show, what more can I say? Another fabulous show, what more can I say? Another fabulous show, what more can I say? Another fabulous show. Another fabulous show, what more can I say? Another fabulous show, what more can I say?
Starting point is 03:15:04 So that's you trying five different versions of AI. It's the first version. And of course I shouldn't have recorded the whole thing, but the second one is the one I wanted. Another fabulous show. What more can I say? Yeah. Boom. Yeah. Well, you've given away your ISO secrets here. I know. It was a huge blunder. Yes, you've given away your ISO secrets here. You've been... I know.
Starting point is 03:15:25 It was a huge blunder. Yes, it was. Here's mine. Yo, yo, yo. What up? No, you already did that one. No, it's a brand new one. It still stinks.
Starting point is 03:15:34 There we go, everybody. It is time for the tip of the day. At least John can't mess that one up. Here we go. Green advice for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes, Adam. Green advice for you and me.
Starting point is 03:15:42 Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes, Adam. Green advice for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes, Adam. Green advice for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Bernetti. All right, we're back to wine and food. One more tip. This is a website that I use a lot.
Starting point is 03:15:58 And it's a cheap trick. You're buying wine. Yes, we're buying wine. You wanna know if the wine's any good. What are you gonna do? What are we gonna do? You go to wine. Yes, we're buying wine. You want to know if the wine is any good. What are you going to do? You go to wine searcher. Can I just say something? I am getting complaints.
Starting point is 03:16:14 Sir Jean recently was at a dinner, texted a picture of the wine list to you. He says, John no longer responds. I missed it. I always respond. The phone was in the drawer. I should be sent to my email if I'm there, but I could be watching. I might be downstairs getting clips or I could be doing a lot of things.
Starting point is 03:16:34 I'm sorry, Gene. Okay. But generally speaking, I take care of this. Okay. Um, wine dash searcher.com. Ooh. Wine-searcher.com. Ooh. This is a huge monstrous database of wines and all the reviews and all the stores that sell the wine.
Starting point is 03:16:54 Wow. So you get a look at the wine, you put a wine at the top, you know, it says Chateau Montrose, 1990. Yeah. And then it gives you where it's available, all the different prices from cheapest to most expensive. And then you click on reviews, it shows you all the known reviews, and it gives you summaries of the reviews, and it gives you star ratings, and it even goes to SellerTracker, which is a site that a lot of people think is great. I have seller tracker the app. Yes seller tracker the
Starting point is 03:17:29 app which is a way of which is amateurs rating the wines. That's correct it's amateurs rating the wine taking pictures of the label the label goes oh it should cost you this much. Yeah but it's got the seller tracker number in there too. It's dynamite. This is a God send for anyone who buys wine. And do you recommend this 1990 bottle you just mentioned? Is that like $8,000? What does that? 1990 Montrose. What does that cost me?
Starting point is 03:17:59 Oh, it's not cheap, but it's the one that's the top of your mind. It makes me wonder. It just came up to the top of my mind. I had it once in my life. I'm thinking about Andres in a box and John's like, oh, the Montrose 1990. That's what I'll have. There you go, everybody. You can find John's tip of the day at tipoftheday.net or noagendaFun.com. There you go everybody once again we have completed our broadcast day and we are happy to have served you.
Starting point is 03:18:37 We do this as a public service. You are welcome to support us with some value if you got any value out of this program. Since clearly advertisers hate us and with good reason. We are bad for their image. So make sure you walk on by know agenda donations.com which soon will be available as a button in your modern podcast app I guarantee it. End of show mixes a nice trip house little Diddy from Nautilus K. I think he may be new. I don't think he's ever done a mix before. And David Kekte checks in our drummer. Our drummer who's always doing mixes. He's got a hot new
Starting point is 03:19:15 girlfriend I hear. He's been a little sparse on the mixes. And I guess I can conclude by telling you that I am still here in the picturesque little town of Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. Yeah, from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain without an arborist, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Sunday with another minimum three hours of media deconstruction for your pleasure, again as a public service. And please remember us at Noagendadonations.com
Starting point is 03:19:47 Until then adios mofos and a hooey hooey and such By the way, two Good Old Boys is next! R.F. Tim Jr. Red Dye R.F. Tim Jr. Red Dye Bobbity up R.F. Tim Jr. Red Dye Control me and make me a sweet oil R.F. Tim Jr. Red Dye Control me and make me a sweet oil R.F. Tim Jr. Red Dye
Starting point is 03:20:39 Control me and make me a sweet oil R.F. Tim Jr. Red Dye Control me and make me a oil. RFT Junior. Control me at base, food oil. Mouths to feed. My artificial. RFT. Mouths to feed. RFT. Mouths to feed. My artificial.
Starting point is 03:20:58 RFT. Mouths to feed. RFT. Mouths to feed. My artificial. R.F.T. Mouths to feed. R.F.T. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed.
Starting point is 03:21:11 Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed.
Starting point is 03:21:19 Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Mouths to feed. Bob is the up, R.S. Tim Jr. Red Dye. R.S. Tim Jr. Red Dye. Bob is the up, Red Dye. Watermelon juice. Red Dye.
Starting point is 03:21:40 Watermelon juice. Red Dye. Watermelon juice. Red Dye. Watermelon juice. Mouthful. Red dye. Try watermelon juice. Red dye. Try watermelon juice. Do not forget to pray for me. No gays, that's what he used to say. Well, the globe, they call him the people's pope. The people's pope.
Starting point is 03:22:06 The people's pope. The people's pope. The people's pope. The people's pope. The people's pope. The people's pope. The people's pope. The people's pope.
Starting point is 03:22:22 The people's pope. The people's pope. The people spoke. The people spoke. The people spoke. The people spoke. Don't touch me, you dirty, dirty pleb. Don't touch me, you dirty, dirty pleb. I remember, I remember these things. I remember, I remember these things. The people spoke.
Starting point is 03:22:38 That's all I got, just a little, a little that's all I got, just a little, a little there for you. There for you. there for you. The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash NA. Another fabulous show, what more can I say?

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