No Agenda - 1761 - "News Desert"

Starting point is 00:00:00 I want a watercolor mud dog! Adam Curry, John C. DeVora And Sunday, May 4th, 2025 This is your award-winning Give Our Nation Media assassination episode 1761 This is No Agenda Diggin' in the news deserts And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country Here in FEMA Region Number 6

Starting point is 00:00:21 In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry Yeah, from northern Silicon Valley where we're celebrating the Sanco de Mayo show special on John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning. You know it's Sanco de Cuatro. Yeah I know it's the fourth, may the fourth be with you. May the fourth be with you. May the 4th be with you, yes, indeed. And we just missed it in the Netherlands on May 4th at 8 p.m. I think we've talked about this before.

Starting point is 00:00:52 At 8 p.m. everybody stops, the bells toll for I think it's one or two minutes, and we have a moment of silence for the victims of World War II. Because tomorrow is Liberation Day in Europe. Yeah. We don't even celebrate any of that here. I'm so confused about, you know, we've got... We've given up. We got May 5th.

Starting point is 00:01:16 We got May 9th. We've given up taking credit for anything. Yes, we got May 9th. President Trump April 29th was it 1606 that they landed and founded Jamestown. We got all kinds of proclamations. I need to get that going again. I used to track all the proclamations. Obama was really, really good at it.

Starting point is 00:01:40 And then we got, I don't think Trump did many of that in the first term, but Biden did nothing except for trans awareness day, which was Easter. So I got to keep tracking that. President Trump is doing a lot of these things. Oh wait, was, oh, May 6th. Right. Thank you, odd Melkert. May 6th, Pim Fortuyn was murdered in the Netherlands. And that was now, crap, what is that? That'll be 25 years ago, I think. He was the guy that he won posthumously. He assassinated him two weeks before the election.

Starting point is 00:02:15 Yeah, it's like a knife in his heart. No, no, no, that was Theo van Hoog. No, they shot him in the head at the radio station. Oh, he was shot in the head at the radio station. That's what I just said, yeah, shot in the head. There's no security at the radio station. Oh, he was shot in the head at the radio station. That's what I just said. Yeah, shot him in the head. There's no security at the radio station apparently. Well, there was but it was outside in the parking lot.

Starting point is 00:02:34 He had just walked outside and then Fulcurt von der Graf. Oh, we had a famous Denver, this years ago, 30 plus years ago, the famous Denver shock jock that was shot in the parking lot. Yeah, who was that? I forget that story. Yeah, you remember that guy, yeah. Yeah, that guy, I can't remember that guy.

Starting point is 00:02:55 But this was a politician, and it was 23 years ago, right. And the guy who killed him is out free. The Dutchman is crazy. Why not? Why not? You know, he served his time. You know, Pym's never coming back, but let him walk around. It's all good.

Starting point is 00:03:13 You can't even say his name in the media. You have to, you have to say Folkert van der G. You can't say his last name because he has protection. You know, he has rights. He has rights. Yeah, you laugh, but it's pathetic. It is pathetic. It's really pathetic.

Starting point is 00:03:30 It's great. Hey, good news. The Press Freedom Index is out. The Press Freedom Index, everybody, which is a big deal in Pressland. Yeah, especially if you're a left winger. Yes. Well, let's have a listen here uh... as to who's the best

Starting point is 00:03:48 who's number one at press freedom the european press is suffocating while the continent remains the leading reason in the world press freedom index published on friday by reporters without borders the situation is deteriorating economic difficulties are getting editorial offices especially independent ones is deteriorating. Economic difficulties are threatening editorial offices, especially independent ones. The media are facing both the end of American aid and the strengthening

Starting point is 00:04:10 of Russian propaganda. Always stop. Stop. So it's American aid that makes press freedom a big deal. Oh yeah. Without American aid, oh yeah, yeah. They can't do anything because they're too stupid. They need American aid. Wait until you hear the list. Norway, Estonia, and the Netherlands dominate this ranking. This is the best. Number three in press freedom on the list is the Netherlands. Are you kidding me? One of the most suppressed countries news-wise in the world. Oh no! Number three. No. Already this list is suspect.

Starting point is 00:04:50 You think? Conversely, Greece, Serbia and Kosovo are the continent's lowest ranked countries. Within the European Union, Athens comes last. In Greece, press freedom is really suffocated by impunity of crimes committed against journalists. Here I'm talking about the assassination of journalist George Skaravas in 2021. There has been one trial so far and the accused have been acquitted. Hungary? What?

Starting point is 00:05:20 What? Something happened in 2021? Yeah. So that puts them at the bottom of the list in 2025? It's kind of like the Oscars, the way they do this. It's bull crap, but everyone's talking about it. The Press Freedom Index is out. It seems to be just because of how many journalists were murdered. Well that gives you a negative points, yes.

Starting point is 00:05:46 Well, they actually explain. Have been acquitted? Hungary, singled out for its attacks on the rule of law, ranks higher than Greece. But it owes this to the fact that no journalist has been killed, explains Reporters Without Borders. Well, get on the stick, Hungary! Shoot some of those people! He's not shooting them! You're not doing a good job!

Starting point is 00:06:04 The organization points out that the Hungarian Prime Minister uses other means to control information. Hungary? Shoot some of those people. Shoot them. You're not doing a good job. The organization points out that the Hungarian Prime Minister uses other means to control information. Some 80% of editorial offices are controlled by people close to Viktor Orban. While Europe remains the safest zone for the media, Reporters Without Borders stresses that the Union must remain vigilant. And the... It's so interesting. Well, I'll finish. Seven seconds, I'll finish. remain vigilant. And the reason is the adoption last year of the European

Starting point is 00:06:28 Media Freedom Act by the European Union which is historical isolation. So where do you think we are on the list? We're down two spots by the way from last year. I think we're on 20. 57. We're on 57. Yeah and you you know what? Heinz because because President Trump has such good relationships with the press This is this is insane At the bottom you can already guess hundred and let's see. Where's Russia Russia 171? Djibouti one isi. Egypt is higher than Russia. So yeah, the top five. Press freedom. Best places to be a journalist. Norway, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden. Sweden. All they do is lie about the immigrant situation. Finland,

Starting point is 00:07:21 Denmark, Ireland, Portugal. Well, we know Portugal. They lie about their outage. Switzerland, Germany. Germany, number 11. Yeah, the more you suppress your people, the more press freedom you have. Germany's 11? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:38 That's ridiculous. Yeah, right ahead of Liechtenstein. I think the only people who live there are journalists. How many people live in Liechtenstein? Liechtenstein shouldn't even be underlaced. I'm sorry, I'm sorry Liechtenstein. I'm just kidding. Well, when we get some Liechtensteiners to donate to the show, maybe we can be a little more genteel. So, of course, this comes at an opportune moment where we have all kinds of issues in America where we are suppressing the free press.

Starting point is 00:08:04 We're shutting down Voice of America and oh no, NPR, PBS. More on that. Let's bring in Clayton Wymos. He's the US. Stop the clip again. I'm going to be interrupted. You are interruptive today. That's okay. Remember as we listen to the NPR and PBS complaining, the total loss of income to these operations if the government stops giving him money, which they will and they have, I guess, I guess Trump did something, is 1%. 1%. Remember that.

Starting point is 00:08:36 It's $500 million is according to Ms. Meyer. But let's just continue. This is a report from France, Van Katra. For more on that, let's bring in Clayton Wymus. He's the US executive director of Reporters Without Borders. Such a pleasure to have you with us on the program today. As we just saw in that report, for the first time in history, the main index for press freedom is at its lowest ever score. Just starting with the United States, help us get a grasp of just how much press freedom has slipped under Donald Trump.

Starting point is 00:09:09 Slip, sure, thank you for having me. It is important. He's been there for 100 days, already press freedom slipping. All we see is press about him, negative. All of it, except for Fox. We're all positive. Both sides of the same coin. Bullcrap.

Starting point is 00:09:25 Yes, but 85% of them are negative. That number has been floating around. Yeah. Well, then how come it's slipping? Remember that the index is a snapshot in time of the previous year. All the data we collected is from 2024. And so the decline in the United States is really one that's been going on for the better part of a decade. Under Biden, I guess. You know, when we first started doing the index in 2002, the United States ranked 17th in the world. It's now down to 57th out of 180 countries. And that is reflected in the fact that all-

Starting point is 00:09:56 We're number 57. All five indicators that we measure have been taking hits year after year, especially the economic indicator due to massive layoffs in the media industry and the closure of newsrooms all across the country treating the news desert problem. But in recent years, it's really become a political and cultural problem with a massive decline in trust between the public and the media and outright attacks by politicians, in particular President Donald Trump.

Starting point is 00:10:23 I should add though that everything that's happened in President Trump's second administration for the past hundred or so days has not been counted in the index data. So the decline is continuing before our very eyes and things are only getting worse. It's only getting worse during Trump even though in 85%... There's no data, but it's getting worse somehow. Here's what's so interesting. They don't take the plethora of alternative media into account whatsoever.

Starting point is 00:10:55 There's been nothing but more, more press freedom. Go look at the Midas Touch folks, if you believe them. But I think maybe... Yeah, there's a lot of them. But maybe that's the point is that there's too much press freedom. And the people who consider it their job to be journalists who have data that they think It's slipping because all this fake news Newsrooms, you know

Starting point is 00:11:35 You know the Midas touch just don't newsroom. They got a newsroom It's a it's a little closet where the guy sits, but it's a newsroom. So Thanks to the Jones Brothers Syndicate. We have some of the Sunday morning shows are always the big, that's the big press freedom round people like to do. Yeah, they used to service me with some clips once in a while, but that those days are over because you've somehow queered the deal. I don't know what you did. Queered the deal? I did nothing. Maybe I'm just, maybe I just send them a note and say, thanks, I really appreciate you.

Starting point is 00:12:05 Maybe that's why, you know, I'm pretty good about that. So CBS, CBS Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan had Paula Kerger on. You're saying who is Paula Kerger? Who is Paula Kerger? She is the CEO of PBS, your favorite station, your Cape Hard and Brooks station. And she had at the same time- I thought Mara was, or was she PBR? No, she's NPR.

Starting point is 00:12:33 So she had them both on. Oh, so she's a different spook. Do you notice a pattern here? The CEOs of the two largest government, partially government funded news organizations with actual newsrooms are women. And they got some complaining, some complaining they're doing. The president tweeted or socialed or truth. Republicans must defund and totally disassociate themselves from NPR and PBS the radical left monsters that so badly hurt

Starting point is 00:13:07 Monsters! Monsters! I have to tell you. I heard monsters. What's this woman's name again? I'm going to look her up. This is Margaret. This is Margaret Brennan. But it will be her name. Oh, that was Margaret I didn't understand. Yes, yes. I think I was. Paula Kerger. K-E-R-G-E-R, Kerger. You look her up and I'll continue with it. I thought of Cookie Monster.

Starting point is 00:13:27 I thought of Sesame Street. And I thought of that children's programming. That is in many ways what people think of when they think of PBS. Absolutely. Is that in PBS? Absolutely. You're going to do that the whole show? You step on my clips too.

Starting point is 00:13:44 Pact it too? Absolutely. And out of this executive order, we whole show. You step on my clips too. Pacta 2? Absolutely, and out of this executive order, we believe it impacts our funding out of the Department of Education, which is a 30-year program that has supported the development, not only the creation of many of the children's programming that you see on public television, but also the research that we do to ensure that that programming is not just safe and enjoyable, but the children after watching come away with understanding of basic letters and numbers. Half the kids in this country are not enrolled in formal pre-K. That's why programming-

Starting point is 00:14:15 No. They're not enrolled in formal pre-K. We have to save the children. Think of the children as- Former pre-K. Formal. Former, I mean formal. Yes. So their job is now to educate our children.

Starting point is 00:14:29 She's saying it right here. That's what she's saying. You have done it with your child in pre-K. It used to just be K. What happened to just K? K-12. Now it's P-K-12. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:40 Now I have to, whoa, you're a bad parent if you haven't enrolled your child in pre-K. That's why programming for children on public television was created. That was the idea with Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and everything that's followed since is to make sure that children that do not have access to a full array of resources. Here's my question. What have you done for me lately? So that's your big claim to fame, PBS?

Starting point is 00:15:05 Mr. Rogers. He's been dead for a decade. And Sesame Street? What have you done lately? Have the opportunity to learn and to develop skills that they'll need the first time they enter preschool. That may be at age two or three or four and sometimes five, not until they start kindergarten. That's what's at risk. That's what's at risk. Oh, I thought it was press freedom. I'm mistaken. It's not press freedom, it's the children.

Starting point is 00:15:31 President Trump hates kids. They do, yeah. They hate kids. Let's go to Catherine Maher. By the way, there's nothing spooky about her. No, where does she come from? What's her background? Baltimore, she's just, everything's pretty.

Starting point is 00:15:43 She was a pre-med student. Oh, okay. There's nothing that looks like she's got background? Baltimore. She's just, everything's pretty, she was a pre-med student. Yeah. Okay. There's nothing that looks like she's got anything like that. All right. Well, unlike her, here's Catherine Maher, CEO of NPR. So Catherine, I want to ask you about the news. When we went and we read the executive order, the language in there says government funding of news media in this environment is outdated and unnecessary, corrosive to the appearance

Starting point is 00:16:05 of independence. And Americans have the right to expect if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting that it's fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan. How do you respond to the implication that your news coverage is not? Well, just listen to the No Agenda Show. They tell you every soul we do twice a week is not fair and and nonpartisan. I can't get over her. She is that is, you know, the the jingle. Where's my jingle? Yeah, this one.

Starting point is 00:16:39 Elitist voices of America. This is NPR or PBS. Totally an elitist voice this. It's not fair and nonpartisan. I mean I think it's important to note that I'm the CEO and we have an independent editor-in-chief who oversees the newsroom and so I don't make editorial decisions and that I think is just an always important point to make but I think our newsroom would really take issue with that. I have to stop the clip. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:09 So what? So what? It's an important distinction to make that she says, oh, you know, I'm the CEO, I don't make the editorial decisions. I think that's an important point. What, why is it important? Who cares?

Starting point is 00:17:20 Look, it's important to the elitist voices, I guess. I don't know. We have been on air for more than 50 years. We have been covering news as it occurs across the nation in local communities overseas. We have an extraordinary Washington desk. And our people report straight down the line. And I think that not only do they do that, they do so with a mission that very few other broadcast organizations have, which is a requirement to serve the entire public.

Starting point is 00:17:45 That is the point of public broadcasting, is we bring people together in those conversations. And so we had a whole host of conservative voices on air of late, we've been- What? When? When was this? I've missed the conservative voices.

Starting point is 00:18:00 Oh, that must be like Brooks. You know? A whole host though, a whole host. It's like Jennifer Rubin who always billed herself as a conservative blogger, the woman so left leaning it's ridiculous. Making requests of the Trump administration to have their officials on air. We would like to see more people accept those invitations. It's hard for us to be able to say we can speak for everyone when folks won't join us.

Starting point is 00:18:24 Oh, I see. It's their fault because they don't want to take the risk of being on your airwaves. Okay, so you're not participating and therefore we have to do what we have to do. That's my takeaway. So let's talk about the White House and the talking points and what they're saying because it's oh so mean. So that was the executive order. Then we went, we looked at the White House talking points and what they're saying because it's oh so mean. So that was the executive order. Then we went we looked at the White House

Starting point is 00:18:45 talking points and what they're putting on social media. They're a lot more about you than you and on NPR. So that is a propagandistic usage she said when she says the White House statement about the situation is not talking points. Talking points are specific. It is usually a list of points or something that's transmitted around. You're going to talk about this, you're going to talk about that. It's not published on Whitehouse.gov.

Starting point is 00:19:16 It's not a press release. A press release is not talking points. She's saying that for a very specific purpose, to get it ingrained into the listeners mind that it's propaganda from the White House. It's bull crap. That is a good point. And I'm going to talk to the kids about that this month. That's a good one. Thank you.

Starting point is 00:19:36 So that was the executive order. I am. This is important that the kids understand. Oh, that's right. I forgot you're giving a lecture. You might as well use the other one, which you'll come up in one of my clips, where somebody uses the word claimed instead of said. Oh, I'm totally, that was already on my list. Oh, okay. Let's get back to the news deserts.

Starting point is 00:19:56 And we went, we looked at the White House talking points and what they're putting on social media. They're a lot more about you than you. And on NPR, they were saying things like a July 2022 editor's note that said the Declaration of Independence had offensive language against Native Americans. We checked and the word savages is used. The White House faults your editors for avoiding the term biological sex when discussing transgender issues. They apparently want you to use the term pro-life and faulted your use of the term anti-abortion rights to refer to activists.

Starting point is 00:20:30 Well, they got some good talking points there. So when you see specific editorial criticisms like that, what do you interpret the intention of this being? That they hate us. What do you think? What's the intention? Leading the witness. Let's do some mind reading, people.

Starting point is 00:20:49 Mind reading. Yes. Well, I interpret the intention of this being trying to create a narrative around our editorial independence. And as I said in our… To control it? To control it. And I think that that's a… that is an affront to the First Amendment.

Starting point is 00:21:01 We have an independent newsroom and we will always have an independent newsroom Hold on a second Just because they're they are exercising their part of the First Amendment that is somehow an encroachment on NPR's use of the First Amendment. They want to control our newsroom Criticism and control. Thank you. Yes, thank you. It's good that we're doing this, because people just watch this

Starting point is 00:21:31 and they just sucked it all up. Well, that's the idea. It wafts over you. It's just bullcrap. It's bullcrap. It's bullcrap. That isn't a front to the First Amendment. We have an independent newsroom, and we will always

Starting point is 00:21:42 have an independent newsroom. From my perspective, part of the separation that the First Amendment offers is to keep government out. In fact, the statute that- Well, then why do you take government money if you want to

Starting point is 00:21:53 keep government out? Wow, great point. What's up with that? Was written when the Public Broadcasting Act was signed into law was very explicit about interference from any member of the government whether it is elected officials whether

Starting point is 00:22:09 members of independent agencies because Right after she says is Brennan does the same thing right she comes out and says well without after all what you said Then why do you want government money at all? That's what happens, right? Statute that was written when the Public Broadcasting Act was signed into law was very explicit about interference from any member of the government, whether it is elected officials, whether members of independent agencies, because it is so sacrosanct that division between the state and independent media. That was the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 set it up as a private corporation to give protection from influence and control. I would assume that's also from the White House.

Starting point is 00:22:57 So the end I've been listening to NPR I don't I didn't clip too much but they keep talking about that's why it was set up with two years in advance. So that this money was done in 2023 and it's our money and you can't just take that money away. This was to protect us from the government involved with us, but we're still taking government money. You understand, but we can't have involved from the government with the government money. President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the bill into law creating the Public Broadcasting Act and creating the system that we all operate within, he noted in his

Starting point is 00:23:29 remarks upon signing that speech, was that it does require a greater wisdom and that's why we have a two year advance appropriation. Is to insulate both of our work from political interference. I think that that is critical that Americans understand that public

Starting point is 00:23:44 broadcasting is meant to be independent so that we can serve the public interest, regardless of whatever administration is in office or whatever Congress's whims are. And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was set up as a private corporation with that same intent. So I think there was a lot of focus even at that moment when the act was signed. This is very interesting. They keep harping on this. It's a it's a it's a independent company. Well, yeah, then go get independent money. You know, it's like, and if this is all if it's only 1%, what's the big deal? We'll find out, of course, that protections

Starting point is 00:24:22 would need to be put in place because if we do our job it is it is possible that we will Produce content that some people may wish we have done it a different way and this way it gives us the independence this way The other thing that keeps us independent is that most of our funding comes from viewers like you. Viewers like you. It comes from viewers like you. But still, we're here going to waffle on for an hour about the money from the government. But it comes from viewers like you. We ask people to make contribution to public broadcasting for something they get for free. Because we are available free to every home in this country. And so both the combination of the fact that it was built as a public-private partnership,

Starting point is 00:25:05 there would be some public money that went into public broadcasting that would enable stations and small communities to exist, alongside the fact that most of our support comes from people and communities. That really does create something that is very independent and very responsive to the communities that we serve. And by the way, a lot of them are red communities, so you know, so you know Republicans shouldn't be doing that. I think we can wrap it up with this one, the declining trust in the news.

Starting point is 00:25:32 And if I may, just to give a sense of those numbers, for every single dollar that the federal government puts in, stations raise on average about seven dollars from private sources. And so you also have to recognize that this order interferes with that That was an interesting flub from public priming I wonder if that was truth coming out there Not sure seven dollars One of those this is also one of those dip see do things they like to well for every dollar spent we get you know It's like the Park Service, you know, for every dollar the government's

Starting point is 00:26:07 put us in the park, so we make eight bucks. Well, why don't you just make seven bucks? I mean, this is like throwing numbers around like... Every dollar results in ten dollars. Yes, it's magic. We are a magic money machine. Seven dollars from private sources. And so you also have to recognize that this order interferes with the First Amendment rights of our listeners and viewers. You've made a choice to contribute. How does it interfere? Stop. This is just not true.

Starting point is 00:26:38 That's just a basic lie. So the government not giving PBS money interferes with my First Amendment rights. Yours, yours, yours. Well, she said, right? But she said, well, that she has, she has a point because if they can't fund Brooks and Capehart and Scott Simon, it will hurt the show. So you know Scott Simon only works on the weekends weekends he makes over $400,000 a year. Now that's just painful to hear. That's very painful. The First Amendment. Somebody did a breakdown, one of the, that came out of Doge I think. The money that they they pay their anchors on PBS is, I mean it's not Fox, I mean where

Starting point is 00:27:23 you can get millions. Yeah. But for the amount of work they do and it's mostly radio, we were talking about the radio side. Yeah. Uh, uh, they get, uh, for radio, that's well paid. I mean, there's 400, especially for a weekend gig. Yeah. You're like, did not work in five days a week all day. No, I mean, most people in radio are making $35,000 a year. Seriously, except for

Starting point is 00:27:47 you know you got a couple, Sean Hannity I'm sure, Glenn Beck, I mean yeah they're making millions. Yeah those guys make millions but they have syndicated deals. Yes, yes. All right let's continue. The First Amendment rights of our listeners and viewers. You've made a choice to contribute and this is the news that they want to see and hear or the programming that they are committed to. It did just stand out to us as journalists ourselves because the research shows that there's declining trust in media, in news and the president was talking about that himself there, that he wants a free and fair press. We're gonna continue to cover this. And thank you

Starting point is 00:28:26 for your time today. Thank you for having us. Hold on. Now that's over. Thank you for having me. Why doesn't, Brandon's got the woman there. She just brought up a push. Out of the blue, Brandon says, well, you know, there's declining trust in the media. Goodbye. Why doesn't she say, I mean, it makes no sense. Why doesn't she say there's declining trust in the media? Why do you think that is? It's a simple question that's not,

Starting point is 00:28:56 maybe she can't answer, maybe she can't, but why wouldn't you ask that? You've got the CEO standing right there and you'd say there's declining trust in the media, goodbye? Well, she's taking that as a given fact. That's what she's doing there. Like everybody knows that. We just had the report about the press freedom

Starting point is 00:29:16 is on decline, it's slipping. Ever since President Trump came in office, slipping, it's going away. People don't trust, because he keeps saying fake news. I would like to know what her answer to that question, that simple question would have been, but Brennan, no. She didn't have it. No. Because of what you just said, she just made it as an assumption, as a statement of fact,

Starting point is 00:29:33 and didn't want to even discuss it any further. This is a terrible show. These people get paid a lot of money to do this stuff. It's a terrible show and Brennan is no good. Here's the last clip I got. President Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order on Thursday. It aims to cut money for NPR and PBS. The American people are sick of funding institutions who promote values that they find repugnant.

Starting point is 00:29:58 The public broadcasters are accused of left-leaning bias. I wanted to play both sides of the argument. The White House and Republicans say one glaring example was NPR's refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal shortly before the 2020 election. At the time, NPR released a statement that said, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. But it did turn out to be a real story. Our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake, as do I. Yeah, the whole country knows that was a mistake. Definitely impacted the election. Critics also point out how drag queens have been featured on PBS Children's programming. The executive order...

Starting point is 00:30:45 Oh, that's what they're doing. I see they didn't bring that up on the CBS Meet the Press, but here they talk about it because after Mr. Rogers and Big Bird, we got drag time story hour. We impacted the election. Critics also point out how drag queens have been featured on PBS Children's programming. The executive order directs the Corporation for public broadcasting to slash the more than half a billion dollars and federal funding for NPR and PBS. Local stations could be hit the hardest with some at risk of shutting down altogether.

Starting point is 00:31:18 In a statement, NPR said, we will challenge this executive order. If they get $7 for every dollar that they get from the government, how, how, why would they be shutting down? You know, why is because they have to buy the incredibly expensive programming from American public media commercial organizations. If you want fresh air, if you want any of these programs, you have to buy them at truly market value, syndicated programming market value. There's no deal here and you can't FTP it.

Starting point is 00:31:51 You have to get it off their satellite system, which is another couple million bucks a year. Where you could have for a buck fifty, you got Starlink. Come on, people. I'm at risk of shutting down altogether. In a statement NPR said, we will challenge this executive order using all means available. And PBS said, the president's blatantly unlawful executive order issued in the middle of the night threatens our ability to- In the middle of the night. In the middle of the night. He issued it in the middle of the night so that we wouldn't notice it. Oh, is that what you're trying to imply?

Starting point is 00:32:25 And PBS said, the president's blatantly unlawful executive order, issued in the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public. We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country. Oh yeah, this is another big one. Yeah, this is another big one.

Starting point is 00:32:41 Oh yeah, I heard this one yesterday. I heard this one too. If the power goes down, it's our broadcast that will save everybody like yeah We've done their little portable radios who be picking up PBS like in northern, West Carolina No, it was Elon Musk Starlink that save people not you guys. I'm sorry ability to and ham guy hams hams hams hams hams and Starlink. Ham's and Starlink. It sounds like a breakfast. Threatens our ability to serve the American public. We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country.

Starting point is 00:33:16 And you need 100% coverage to make that happen. We have news deserts. 20% of Americans live in deserts 20 percent of Americans live in a place where they have no local news coverage other than public radio. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting also released a statement saying the organization is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority. It's safe to say this executive order will be challenged in court. Yeah, all right. All right. Well, this will be fun because now they get to talk about themselves, which is all, oh, you should have heard on the media.

Starting point is 00:34:10 Oh, Brooke. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Starting point is 00:34:21 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah we're being suppressed. There's this little thing called podcasting people. You know what? You spent $100 million and had to shut it down because of your Neumann mics and your newsrooms. Joe Rogan does more for information than you do.

Starting point is 00:34:42 I'll put together all your stations. Everybody knows it. You know, that's interesting. That point you make though, about the, uh, using Starlink instead of these expensive satellites when I was doing a radio show for the real computing show on a PB, PB, it was the other network, public radio, and it was, uh, it cost a fortune. Yeah. You had to go up to the bird and then you had the transponder number and you, and everyone

Starting point is 00:35:11 had to download it from whatever. And it was like... Back in the day, MTV didn't have that kind of money when I started there. They didn't even have a lighting director, makeup or wardrobe. And so to get the shows on the air, we recorded on Eumatic High Band, which is basically a glorified Betamax. And then they put it in a community bigger cassette with a bigger cassette. They put it in a communicar, which was a low rent, basically a cab service you could

Starting point is 00:35:41 call and then they would drive it up to out to Long Island and then you'd have tape jockeys sitting there just you know hitting the hitting the vj segment then hitting the the video the music video we didn't have satellites couldn't afford it and now yes it's actually it's like a buck 10 it's not even 150 bucks it's a thing it started off 99 was the introductory price and i know i think i pay 110 or 120. And I honestly, it's a, it's an expense for the show because it's a backup. It's a backup to the backup, to the backup. Uh, but it's,

Starting point is 00:36:14 it's impressive. And you know, so to say that you need this, no, no, the guys on the guys up at a, they do Gramerica up in Canada. They use it on the air I know and I didn't notice it until they pointed it out I mean because it because I've been on that show and they there's no light latency it's quite nice yeah you should go back on I should they haven't invited me back they're probably the ratings went to the toilet when they got me on. I don't think so. People love it when you're on. They do.

Starting point is 00:36:47 They always tell me that. Dvorak, he's a ratings bonanza. Get that guy on. All right. Well, I can go all kinds of directions now, but I will leave the floor to you, sir. Well, what do I have? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:37:04 There's a lot of stuff I don't have. Because we don't listen to each other do I have? I don't know. There's a lot of stuff I don't have. Because we don't listen to each other's clips so I don't know. What did you not get and I'll tell you if I got it. What did I not get? I did okay yeah that's a good point that's a that's a new element of the show. New element of the show. I didn't get it I don't have a clip of the Israeli of the Ben Gurion airport getting bombed by the Houthis. Israel is on high alert after a missile impacted near Ben Gurion airport outside of Tel Aviv. The attack was claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels who have regularly launched attacks on Israel since the start of the war in Gaza. The attack resulted in a crater near the airport but didn't damage any

Starting point is 00:37:46 structures. Authorities say at least two people were lightly injured. Israel's defense minister has threatened to strike back quote sevenfold at the Yemeni militants. So this is a new version of Go Fish. So you say I didn't get this and then I really like this idea and then I play it and if I don't have it I have then I tell you to go fish and then you pick one of yours. Let's try for the second one. What do you got, what do you got, what do you got? Well, you caught me flat-footed. Come on, man.

Starting point is 00:38:16 I had the one, because that's the only one I was watching this morning. I said, oh, that'd be nice to have a clip of that. Oh, so that's all you can think of? Yeah, unfortunately. There must be something else that happened this morning. Well, I mean, I figured most of the morning stuff you pick up. Well, President Trump was on with the manhans lady.

Starting point is 00:38:37 A Welker? Yes. So he did ABC. We know how that turned out. I respectfully agree to disagree about the Photoshop. Here's an interview in a nutshell. You suck, ABC. You suck. Well do you want to hear? Yes, I would like to hear Welker.

Starting point is 00:38:56 Okay, this is pretty much all about tariffs, which covers two topics in one. But sir, you acknowledge when you announced your tariffs, for example, the stock market dropped, it's been volatile, it has since gone up. Do you take responsibility for that? Yeah. Do you take responsibility when it drops? Ultimately, I take responsibility for everything, but I've only just been here for a little more than three months.

Starting point is 00:39:20 But the stock market, look at what's happened in the last short period of time. Didn't it have nine or 10 days in a row or 11 days where it's gone up? So far, we're cordial. It's not going to last. And the tariffs have just started kicking in. And we're doing really well psychologically. I mean, the fake news was giving me such press on the tariffs. The tariffs are going to make us rich.. We're gonna be a very rich country.

Starting point is 00:39:47 So let's talk about the tariffs. And I want to ask you about something you said this week. Got a lot of attention. You were at your cabinet meeting. You said, quote, I'm gonna quote what you said, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. Yeah. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally. I love this because this is my theory too. It's like, stop buying junk from China. Wake up people. Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some… Again, Trump hates children. This is the new meme.

Starting point is 00:40:18 This is interesting the way she's twisted this too. It's like maybe the kids will have two instead of 30. And they're talking specifically about toys from China Which is junk from China, which is what they're talking discussing and there's like there's gonna be less of it Perhaps I doubt it by the way. Yeah, but So she and she twists it. Have you been ever I mean, I know we had we know some people with young kids here I am astounded by the junk that these kids have.

Starting point is 00:40:51 They have an entire room that is just their junk room. Have you ever seen this? Well, I have the problem with Theo is that they won't let him have a lot of toys over there. So the junk is over here. In your office? No, in my downstairs front room, which, which has there's bins. So he has to put the, put the toys back in the bins. Oh, good, good, good. It would look like I have a dozen kids if somebody comes and visits. What did you, how many kids do you have here living here? Yeah. Well,

Starting point is 00:41:20 exactly. It's a lot. And why, how come they won't store it? But what do the kids, what does the kid like to play with the most? One of the main things is a wooden little car, a wooden car with wooden wheels. I know, it's astounding. It looks like it was made in Slovenia. It's astounding. But meanwhile, there's all this plastic junk and furry junk, probably toxic. It's everywhere. All right. Meanwhile, is all this plastic junk and furry junk probably toxic? It's everywhere.

Starting point is 00:41:46 All right. Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up? No, I think the tariffs are going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich. But you said some dolls are going to cost more. Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up? I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs, that's 11 years old, needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable.

Starting point is 00:42:12 We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Well, he's already gone from two to four dolls, so he's slipping. He's slipping. He's like, okay, you can have four. Every child can have four dolls now. Thank you, Mr. President. We're very happy. By the way, you're running a baby daycare there? Is that what you're doing on the side? You got the dog kennel, and now you're running kids.

Starting point is 00:42:33 You got a dog kennel. You got everything. The front room. All right, so... I have some tariff clips since you brought it up. Oh, you don't want me to continue? You want to interrupt? Oh, that was the end of her. We have more of Kristen. Oh, yes. It's all about tariffs. And it's just about to get fun because this is... Okay, no, play it out and then I'll play that. I have a Buffett clip. Buffett came in and said something nasty. And then there's one more.

Starting point is 00:42:58 Well, it's about to become a dishonest interview, as you understand. When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are saying? Well now it's three he said two is it four is it two is it three what is it Kristen Walker I'm confused now. When you say they could have three dolls instead of 30 dolls are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves? No I'm no I'm not saying that. No more dolls for the kids, really. The whole memo went out somewhere. All right, let's go for the kids. Trump hates children. That's what it must have been, something like that.

Starting point is 00:43:34 All right, here's our new angle, everybody. This will kill them. Yeah, this angle is going to do it. This will get them to quit. Won't somebody please think of the children? When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves? No, I'm not saying that.

Starting point is 00:43:58 I'm just saying they don't need to have $30. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five. dollars they can have three they don't need to have 250 pencils they can have five this is this is NBC what a conversation like this is network news it's not over but you're basically saying there could be some supply short because of the waste money on a trade deficit with China for things we don't need, for junk that we don't need.

Starting point is 00:44:28 Well, prices are already going up on some popular items. Tires, strollers. Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is such a dishonest interview already. There it is. There it is. It's a dishonest interview and we're only one minute in. Prices are down on groceries.

Starting point is 00:44:41 Prices are down for oil. Prices are down on groceries. Prices are down for oil. Prices are down for oil energy. Prices are down at tremendous numbers for gasoline. And let me tell you, when you have the big thing, what he did, he spent like a stupid person, which he was, but he spent like a very stupid person. And that was bad for inflation. But what really killed us with inflation was the price of energy. It went up to $3.90, even $4.00, and in California, $5.00 and $6.00, right? Okay. I have it down to $1.98 in many states right now. Not in Texas. Where is it? $1.98? What's it?

Starting point is 00:45:19 I don't know. It's not, it's like- In my Mississippi, maybe? I have no idea. It's like $2.50 here now. It's still five bucks here. Yeah, well, it's like... It might be Mississippi maybe, I have no idea. It's like 250 here now. It's still five bucks here. Yeah, well, it's your taxes. You go that much lower on energy, which is ahead of my prediction, because I really thought I could get it down into the 250s.

Starting point is 00:45:38 We have it down at $1.98 in numerous places. Kristen, Kristen, first of all, put your hands under the desk, because you look like a man. Um, let's keep on the children thing. Let's keep harping on that, because we all know the number went out. President Trump hates children. Well, but let me give you some examples. These are, I mean, these are actual examples.

Starting point is 00:46:00 They're going, so you're saying the prices that are going down, some prices are going up, tires, strollers, some clothing in the wake of your tariffs. That's peanuts compared to energy. Energy is 60% of the cost. But sir, you campaigned on a promise to bring prices down on day one. Well, I don't know. When you say strollers are going up.

Starting point is 00:46:22 Strollers, keep on the strollers. This is great, Kirsten. What kind of a thing? I'm saying thaters are going up. Strollers, keep on the strollers. This is great, Kirsten. What kind of a thing? I'm saying that gasoline is going down. Gasoline is thousands of times more important than a stroller someplace. But what do you say to Americans who say they voted for you because they want and they need relief right now? They need strollers.

Starting point is 00:46:39 They're getting it. Right now? What about those different items I just mentioned? Even mortgage rates are going down. Who cares? Stay on the strollers. Despite the fact that we have a stubborn fed you said dolls even dolls maybe they might but you don't need to have as I said 35 dolls you can have 34 and save a lot of money we don't need to feed the beast don't feed the beast

Starting point is 00:47:02 it's unbelievable clip of the day. Go on. Oh, wow. Okay. Thank you very much. I'll stop here because they kind of stay on terrorists, but let's put your tariff clips in here. I think that's probably a wise idea. Jeez. It's great. It's fantastic. It's so pathetic. President Trump.

Starting point is 00:47:24 So they got to bring in Buffett because he's retiring and he's got to have his last shot in there. You know, he's a Democrat. And Bill. I guess he's not friends with Bill anymore. No, because of Epstein. We all know that. Yeah. Buffett knows what's up. He knows what's up. He wants no part of it. And I don't think he likes divorce. I think that's a problem for him. I think he might be right. He's from Wichita. Yeah. Here's Buffett, anti-terrorist short. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the United States should not use trade as a weapon. Buffett, who's the fifth richest person in the world, made the comments during today's annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, where he's CEO.

Starting point is 00:48:12 He also announced that he'll be retiring at the end of the year when he'll be 95. Yeah, don't use him. Don't use him. Why? Because he's invested in Chinese companies. That's why. Yeah, of course. This other clip is Trump tariffs empty

Starting point is 00:48:28 Meanwhile President Trump brushed aside recession fears in an interview for tomorrow's meet the press on NBC Mr. Trump said the pains of this transition period will lead to a flourishing economy It's a very much there are many people on Wall Street say this is going to be the greatest windfall ever happened That's my question long term. Yeah, is it okay in the short term to have our sessions? Everything's okay, but we are I said this is a transition period. I think we're going to do fantastically this week new government Fantastically is that a proper use of the word fantastically? I don't know. I don't think fantastically is a real word.

Starting point is 00:49:10 Fantastic. Fantastic. What we are, I said, this is a transition period. I think we're going to do fantastically. This week new government numbers show that the US economy shrank in the first three months of the year. That's the first drop in three years. Imports in the first quarter surged as companies tried to beat tariff deadlines. The tariffs on cars and car parts kicked in

Starting point is 00:49:30 today with significant changes intended to blunt the impact on US carmakers. because now it's about Abril Garcia. Oh, geez. Kilmore. I'm curious to know what it means. You declared a national emergency on the southern border. What does it mean? What does it mean? Because we had a national emergency on the border.

Starting point is 00:50:00 A national emergency on the southern border. The border is still in place. By the way, it means exactly what you said. It means we have the most secure border we've ever had. Well, and I guess the question becomes, when will you know that the emergency is over? Are you planning to lift it at some point? Is it necessary? Because obviously the military is involved. Will you lift that emergency? Well, the biggest emergency is the courts aren't allowing us to take really bad people out. We're going to talk about that, but talk to me first about this emergency.

Starting point is 00:50:27 Talk to me first about this emergency. The border now is not the emergency. The border is all part of the same thing, though. The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out, and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court. Some of them you appointed, sir, including three on the Supreme Court. I like that. I've been hearing that more and more, you know, so that, you know, when they really want to hammer a point home. Sir, some of them you appointed, sir.

Starting point is 00:50:55 Sir, shimmy your shoulders. And we have some judges that want everybody to go to court. Some of them you appointed, sir, including three on the Supreme Court. Hold on a second. What's an implication here is that the judges are political. They don't know that they're doing this, but they're actually impugning the court system by making the comment, well, some of them you appointed. In other words, so if you appointed them, they should go one way. If you didn't appoint them, they're going to go the other. As if the judges are all part of a political system

Starting point is 00:51:27 instead of being a judiciary that's independent. They're actually saying it out loud. She's admitting that these judges are political. And that, yes, I think you're right. That's a good catch. The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court.

Starting point is 00:51:49 Some of them you appointed, sir, including three on the Supreme Court. You know, they change. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable how that happens, but they do change. Just to button this up though, are you planning to lift that emergency order anytime soon now that the border's secure? We have an emergency. We have a massive emergency overall.

Starting point is 00:52:07 It's an overall emergency on immigration. And if the courts don't allow us to take people out, if we had to have a court case, every single, think of it, every single person, we have millions of people, we have millions of court cases, figure two weeks of court case, it would be 300 years. So meanwhile, the EPP, the Euro Parliament, they have the, what do they call them, the debates, they have this thing in the European Parliament where they do debates. And it's basically a reason to take a trip.

Starting point is 00:52:46 So they all went to Valencia, Valencia, Spain, got there right after the blackout, coincidentally. And Queen Ursula spoke, she spoke for about half an hour, I only got two short clips from her. But yeah, I mean, this is great. What's happening in America is great. It's great for us. Now the world of trade is turning towards us. And Frederich, you mentioned it.

Starting point is 00:53:14 Since last year, we've concluded a new wave of trade deals from Mercosur to Mexico, to Switzerland. We're working with India and Indonesia, with the Emirates and Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia and the Pacific. If I had clipped this, I'd have put what's his name yelling in, Boston and Frey, we're going to beat Minnesota and then we're going to go to Iowa. Well, that's why there's two of us. They all want to deal with us.

Starting point is 00:53:44 Us, us. Because we are fair. We are reliable. We are reliable. And we play by the rules. Our own rules, but it's rules. So my friends, let's stay the course. Yes, Ursula. Cool headed and united,

Starting point is 00:54:03 because that's who we are and that's the European way of trade. Let's stick to that. This woman is great. But the key to our prosperity is to put our own house in order and to make business easy right here in Europe. Okay. Business is anything but easy in Europe. So she referenced Friedrich. That's a, stop a second. That is a fabulous point that has to be made. Doing business in Europe is a pain in the ass for everybody. Tons of paperwork, blue envelopes.

Starting point is 00:54:42 That's why they can't get their act together with, with entrepreneurial stuff. They don't have anything like Silicon Valley. It's very hard to invest. There's all these roadblocks of this and that. Even when they let you do something, it's a, they, they'll, they'll put up roadblocks. I'm reminded this at one time I went, so I will go to France. This is a long time ago and I had an import license.

Starting point is 00:55:04 I worked with an importer so I can bring some wine back, because I was going to take a big wine tour. I was wondering what it was for. Yes, of course, of course. Yeah, I imported about 30, 40 cases. Oh, beautiful. But for about half the first cases that I got, because there was these two different kinds of paperwork

Starting point is 00:55:21 that were involved to get the wine imported and exported. Yeah. And it was one kind and there was another kind, one for doing something somewhere different kinds of paper works that were involved with getting the wine imported and exported. And it was one kind and there was another kind, one for doing something somewhere and one for getting it out of the country. And so I collected a bunch of wine from the Jurenson region and I went to see the guy who ran Hobayi and he was looking at my paperwork. He says, you got the wrong paperwork. Your papers are not in order Mr. Forack Well, he wasn't doing the exporting. He just looked at it. He says, this guy screwed you over by giving you the wrong paperwork. Now you're going to have to go through a rigmarole to get this stuff out of here. And I said, what? He gave me the right paperwork for his wines.

Starting point is 00:55:56 I got a bunch of wine out, but I, when I dropped the wine off, I, I dropped it off and you know, and there's all these raw, you can't do it. The French guys, the exporters that were there. And he said, ah, this is no good. You, you can't do it. The French guys, the exporters that were there and he said, ah, this is no good. You, you can't do this. I said, okay, here, here's the wine. Here's the paperwork. If you can take care of it, you take care of her or keep the wine. I'm out of here. I got to fly back. The wine all got shipped. It all got shipped. Oh really? Yeah. It all got shipped. It's all bull crap. They were waiting for a bribe.

Starting point is 00:56:25 That's what they were waiting for. I don't know, maybe? I don't know what it was. For sure. Your papers are not in order Mr. DeWaik. So she referenced Friedrich. Friedrich Merz, also known as Mr. Peepers. And Mr. Peepers made it so... I'm gonna get to the blackout in a minute, but Mr. Peepers made a big deal about climate change. Oh, climate change. We have to be very careful because we have this issue where we want to increase our industrial base, but we kind of have no energy. So he has a plan for it and it's very sneaky, so he slips this in. We have to find a better balance between fighting climate change, which is necessary more than ever, and protecting the environment on the one hand, and avoiding deindustrialization on the other hand in our countries. Bravo! So they're all like, yeah, that's right, we need more energy, we can't do anything.

Starting point is 00:57:30 Bravo! However, my dear friends, whenever someone says you my dear friends, you're about to get screwed. This is a very real and serious issue. We will not tackle the enormous challenges ahead with a shrinking economy. A shrinking economy? Sorry to make fun of your accent there, but it's what it is. The enormous challenges ahead with a shrinking economy. We should be ambitious in cutting regulation and relying on market-based instruments such as ETS implemented by the European Union. Allow, ETS! ETS!

Starting point is 00:58:26 Allow me to be very open on that. Let us fight over regulation on all levels. So he throws in ETS, which is the emissions trading system of the European

Starting point is 00:58:42 Union. So, oh, it'll be less regulation because you just got to buy some carbon credits, that's all. He's literally announcing a tax on all of the European Union member states and he's doing it under, we're gonna, we got to tackle regulation, we got to make it easier.

Starting point is 00:59:01 Yeah, we'll make it easier. Didn't say I was gonna make it less expensive. So then they bring out Paola Pino. Paola Pino, she is the spokes hole for the European Commission. The worst spokes hole ever when it comes to English. And then so she chose to do it in English. And I think if you're going to be a spokesperson, you shouldn't be at the whole time. And so she referenced the blackout that happened just the day before this Valencia meeting,

Starting point is 00:59:38 and of course she brought it right away to disinformation. We can really see how far manipulation of information can go and what a negative impact it can be. On the basis of that fake article, there were reactions thinking that there had been a deliberate attack behind, which is obviously very, very bad and can have very serious consequences. She's talking about the article that came out that said it was a cyber attack. And it can actually even divide our society in light of such a serious incident. And in the commission we have several tools at our disposal to fight against manipulation of information. It includes a task force on strategic communication and countering information manipulation, but also active collaboration with fact checkers with online platforms.

Starting point is 01:00:52 Fract checkers? We have many frac checkers. By the way, just a small interstitial. Several people emailed me after I gave the report from our dude named Ben named Ben, protector of megawatts whose actual job it is to understand, protect grid networks, understand how they're working, what is working, what isn't working. Then he told me straight up straight from the people he coordinates with, he talks with, it's he's in the business he said this

Starting point is 01:01:25 is what happened they lost 15 gigawatts from france and so they had no base load then everything started to fluctuate and then the system just starts to shut down that is what happened but oh no here is an example adam you are misinformed about what caused the outage. You must look at Kim Iverson's interview with Ben Davidson on YouTube, called Magnetic Pole Shift Europe's Just the Beginning. If you know his credentials, he's the real deal and he has it right. Respectfully, your fan. So, this whole nonsense that they launched into the atmosphere right away of, well, no,

Starting point is 01:02:10 it's a very rare event, atmospheric conditions, and then we've got the space weather guy saying, oh, it's the magnetic pole shift. That's what caused it. Come on. It's like a Psi-Op on top of a Psi-Op. No, it's much simpler than that. Although the European Commission doesn't know exactly what happened, we go back to Paula Pinho and she brings in at the very end here, she tosses over to the lady who's in charge of that. Thank you Christian for giving

Starting point is 01:02:40 me also the opportunity to precisely make this point and how important it is and how we really need to work together in light of information manipulation in order to counter it. And if I still may add on renewables and use this opportunity, I want to say that the Spanish and Portuguese operators, they are well experienced in handling high volumes of renewable generation in their electricity systems. So we also have clear rules on the EU level in this regard and we ensure that the balancing of the electricity system and its capacity is capable to absorb renewable

Starting point is 01:03:22 generation. So we still don't know what was the cause of the blackout, but this is on the renewables that there is enough experience to handle it. A follow-up touch, we will not yet elaborate on that before we really have a solid assessment by the experts. So we don't know exactly what happened, but just so you know, we can handle renewables. We've got expertise We don't know what happened, but we can handle renewables. We can do it. We don't know what happened We'll follow up when we know what happened Did you even hear my note that I read or were you offline at that point

Starting point is 01:03:59 Can you hear me? I can hear you now. Yeah, I saw what happened Well, I had to go back. I had to do that because I was yacking at you for the last five minutes about one thing or another and you didn't hear any of it. I'm sorry. Oh man. What were you yacking? Well, I've gone, it's old news now. Well, give me a shot. Give me, try me out. I don't remember.

Starting point is 01:04:22 It was just like some comment I had about something that one of these clips you were playing. This has been going on for like six, seven minutes. I'm so sorry. Well, I've got the thing. I'll put the monitor right in front of me now so I can see if it happens again. It's very annoying. I'm telling you it's a clean feed deal, man. That's what I think. I mean it makes no sense for it to be anything else.

Starting point is 01:04:45 It just switches interfaces. Like, oh, no, no. I expect it to happen once a show. Yeah. Whenever I'm talking about PsyOps, there it goes. Oh, let's, well, since we're doing that, let's talk about Entrails. This ever since Bobby the Ops came out and talked about this on the Dr. Phil

Starting point is 01:05:08 show everybody is has to get back into it we're all talking about the chem trails we even talked about on the last show I do I think we talked it out in the last show we don't need to talk about it anymore do we well we have to we have to play the mainstream media clips about it because it's funny. By the way, there is ample evidence, I'll send you the links, that there's aluminum, barium, all kinds of stuff in jet fuel in today's modern jet fuel. I know that you were an inspector back in the day, but it appears that there are particles now that should probably not be in jet fuel. But this is France 24 here to debunk the Chemtrails conspiracy. Stunned avatruth or fate, Vedika Bell is over by the big bull.

Starting point is 01:05:52 Good evening to you, Vedika. Today then, talking about a conspiracy theory that's now reached all levels of the White House. Chemtrails, Vedika, tell me what they are because I don't know. And tell us what's going on. I don't know. I've never's going on. I don't know. I've never heard of it. I'm a news anchor.

Starting point is 01:06:07 I've never heard. What is this chemtrails nonsense? I've never heard of this. Well, Mark, the US Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has pledged that the US will fight chemtrails. Now, this is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that's been around for decades, but it's been consistently debunked by scientists as completely baseless. Debunked. Not proven incorrect been consistently debunked by scientists as completely debunked

Starting point is 01:06:25 not proven incorrect but debunked so the chemtrails conspiracy theory is the belief that these long-lasting condensation trails that we've seen the skies left by aircraft that they are in fact toxic chemical trails that are seeding the skies for weather modification biological warfare in order to poison us or even to control people's minds in some of the extreme believers cases. Now, believers question the existence of these chemtrails and the inconsistencies of them. They ask why they're not always there,

Starting point is 01:06:58 why is it only some planes that produce them or why do they come and then disappear essentially? Now, in reality, let's talk the science behind them. Well, the scientific basis behind these, these are not chemtrails at all. They are in fact contrails, in other words, condensation trails. They are essentially just temporary plane-created clouds and they're made up of water vapour. They take place when the hot jet fuel exhaust,

Starting point is 01:07:24 which is mainly water vapor with some soot particles when that mixes with the colder air at high altitudes this creates ice crystals that then form these trail like clouds and these dissipate based on the weather conditions of the region that they're taking place in of the day there's there's many different regions now it's amazing so these these ice crystals they float all the way down to the Texas ground. Our weather conditions are perfect for ice. This isn't to say that weather modification is entirely false. As a concept, we know that cloud seeding exists to induce

Starting point is 01:07:59 rain in dry areas. But this is on a very, very small scale worldwide. But overall, Mark, according to a 2017 study, around 10% of Americans fully believe in this chemtrails conspiracy theory. Yes, and it's about 70% of the town of Fredericksburg. I'm like, that low? Well, I don't know the 30% of Democrats. Do they expect the chemtrails before the grid goes down? And so here she is with a very nifty way of turning it all around to say, well, you know, it's actually not a bad idea.

Starting point is 01:08:34 And that is scary, isn't it? It's so scary. It's so scary. What's scary? The chemtrails or the fact that people think they're chemtrails? And that is scary, isn't it? So how has this gone from conspiracy theory to actual US legislation? Well, just recently, RFK Jr. appeared in an interview on the US television show Dr. Phil,

Starting point is 01:08:54 and he said he'd do everything in his power to stop the emissions, and he appeared to blame chemtrails, the existence of them, on another government agency. When he was asked about chemicals being sprayed in the sky and what he'd do about it, he took the question seriously. Let's take a very quick listen to what he said. That is not happening in my agency. We don't do that. It's done, we think, by DARPA. And a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. Those materials are put in jet fuel. I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it. We're bringing on somebody who's going to think only about it. Now, when he says, we think it's done by DARPA, what he's referring to is the Defense Advanced

Starting point is 01:09:38 Research Projects Agency, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, this isn't the first time he's publicly endorsed this. He has previously replied to Chemtrails fanatics on X saying, we are going to stop this crime. But more recently, just a month ago, he replied to this person, this believer in the theory, who was pushing for bills in the US to ban atmospheric geoengineering. And what that is, it is a new field of science

Starting point is 01:10:01 where scientists are trying to find ways to fight the consequences of fossil fuel pollution that we as humans are creating. Dirty humans. Now, Kennedy essentially said that 24 states are moving to ban geoengineering and that the health and human services is going to do its part. Well, what we know about that is that Tennessee has already banned the release of airborne chemicals in geoengineering, the Chemtrails

Starting point is 01:10:25 bill. Florida is also moving along that bill forward. And this February, Alabama is also launched that discussion. They're having those talks at the moment. So we can see the escalation of this conspiracy theory throughout all levels of the US government. And as you said, there's zero scientific basis for this, Mark. So we will have to see how this- Give this girl the hook.

Starting point is 01:10:44 Give it a second. ...developers, but should US states move to ban geoengineering? It is in its infancy, but this could have problematic consequences for looking for ways to fight the climate change and the effects of pollution that we as humans are causing here on Earth. So us dirty humans were trying to ban chemtrails because we don't like it, but that could actually kill us all. That's literally what she just did with her yak yak yak. Was she going to kill us all as long winded observations?

Starting point is 01:11:15 The lady doth protest this too much, methinks. Well, I have serious doubts about things being put into jet fuel because those engines are very expensive and they're sensitive to all kinds of things. And then whatever the chemical is, it goes through the burning process, would be oxidized and screwed up massively. I don't know why if you're going to start dumping stuff into the sky, you just wouldn't use winglets. You have a little thing at the end of the wing and you just spew it out like when they

Starting point is 01:11:48 did bowed seating back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s in California. They weren't doing it through the engine fuel. They were just dumping it in the air. Yeah, but it's DARPA. They've got to come up with new things. This is what they do. Oh, I've got a new way to do it. You can be skeptical.

Starting point is 01:12:02 That's fine. Look, they're more in California than they're in Texas. So I'm fine with that. Although the 70% of chemtrail fanatics, as she said, in Fredericksburg are all very upset that our governor Abbott has not followed suit with and Florida and banned this practice, this Alabama. She had Obama on her mind, I think. Alabama. That's definitely, by the way, I do have a, I have this, not to change the topic.

Starting point is 01:12:33 Yeah, you can change the topic. I'm done. I don't mind changing it. I've done my chemtrails bit. Since you brought Abbott in, where's my Abbott clip? You have an Abbott clip, Texas Voucher. Yeah, this is not reported anywhere. The governor of Texas has signed a law enabling over five million US students

Starting point is 01:12:52 to be provided with state funds to pay for education in private schools. The scheme, costing a billion dollars in its first two years, is being regarded as a watershed moment in a conservative campaign to remake public education in America. David Bamford reports. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his education voucher scheme the culmination of a movement sweeping through the US. Eligible parents in Texas will be offered $10,000 per year to opt out of the state education system. The scheme, also being rolled out in other Republican states, has been strongly supported by President Trump, who accuses public schools of indoctrinating children with liberal

Starting point is 01:13:33 ideology. But Democrats and some rural Republicans argue it diverts resources away from already underfunded public schools. Yeah, this session that the Texas Congress is going through right now, there's a lot of really amazing bills. SB 13 is one of them. And that will completely ban outlaw books, certain books in schools, libraries, class, anywhere. And we know what books they are.

Starting point is 01:14:07 Yeah. And I think it's going to pass. Everyone's, you know, they'd already passed the house. This voucher thing is getting no press. This is from the BBC World Service. That's where I got the story. And it's a big deal. It's a huge deal because this is what the Republicans have been trying to do

Starting point is 01:14:25 since the sixties. Yeah. Yeah. Go figure. Oh my God. They're starting to accomplish it. Let's don't report on any of it and give anyone any ideas. And we say, well, okay, finally we got, we can homeschool, but you're killing

Starting point is 01:14:41 us with the chemtrails Abbott. Chemtrails. Where's the jingle? Where's the jingle? Chemtrails. I knew it. Of course. Here's the funny story of the week. I have some thematic stories but I want to play a couple of these standalones. This is the funniest story of the week. Trump, somebody asked Trump. Oh, oh, oh, is this about the picture? Yeah. Somebody asked Trump about being the Pope on the White House lawn. He says, yeah, I think, who do you think is going to be the Pope? Would you like to be the Pope? Yeah, I think I'll be the Pope.

Starting point is 01:15:18 He just casually said it as a joke. So somebody either Photoshopped, they like to say it's AI, but it looks more like Photoshopped to me, Photoshopped Trump in a Pope outfit, and then they posted it and then Trump, the White House reposted it. Oh, now it's a big scandal on NPR and PBS. And critics are speaking out about an artificial intelligence generated image that President Trump posted last night to his social media platform. It shows him seated dressed as

Starting point is 01:15:47 the Pope. Later, it was reposted on the official White House account on X. In a post of their own, the Catholic bishops of New York State said, there is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President.

Starting point is 01:16:00 We just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the Cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of Saint Peter. Do not mock us. Oh, that's a tough one. So I got a lot of emails about this because I am the resident religiosity scholar all of a sudden and I from Finland, our producer, Sir Wonderhelm, who was overboard and he came back and he sends me this. He says, what is this? This is not okay. Is this supposed to be funny? And I said, you know, we are strange in America, but yeah, this is American humor. And you

Starting point is 01:16:42 don't have to... It is funny. It's American humor. And you don't have to get it. It's American humor. But then I also got ones like this. Let's see, what is it here? This has to do with the Knights Templar and the Jesuits and Catholic infestation. The Black Pope runs. Oh brother.

Starting point is 01:17:03 Yes, it's just a joke. I mean, timing may be a little, a little bit. I don't even care about the timing. But people get so bent out of shape about it. You know, Mark Void Zero didn't say, oh, I'm outraged about this. If Void Zero said something, he would say, okay, well, maybe. He didn't say anything. And he's a Catholic's Catholic. He's the traditionalist. He's like the old,

Starting point is 01:17:30 he's like the guys at the FBI to be investigated. Who says they aren't? They are, but they never find his house. But the point is, is that, it's like, no, give me a break. This is classic. The Trump is, that does one thing. There's another thing. He had to actually come out and say he's not running in 2028 in one of the morning shows this morning. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:17:53 The people are so upset about him saying he's going to run for 2028. Yeah. He never said it, by the way. He has never said he's going to run. No, he just has a hat. He's got a hat. He has a hat. The hat is funny and it's Bannon who's been pushing it.

Starting point is 01:18:05 I should go back and get those clips of Bannon on Marr. We need one of those hats is what we need. Those are collectibles. Now that you mention it. Yeah, it's a collectible, baby. And I have usually, I'm usually on the lookout for such things. Yes. Well, I'm sure some of our producers out there, the thing is that one of our producers can send us each one of those hats if they can find them. But you know, I'm sure some of our producers out there, you know, the thing is that one of our producers

Starting point is 01:18:25 can send us each one of those hats if they can find them. But you know, I forgot to, I was very remiss because I hounded the Ohio State folks for all these sweatshirts, which I ended up with a bunch of them. But I never hounded the Florida people because they won the basketball championship, which I had predicted by the way, way in advance, that they would. Yeah, you should have done it on the show. Did you do it on the show?

Starting point is 01:18:48 I should have gotten, I did it on Horowitz's. And I should have gotten, like a zippered hoodie that says Florida. I don't have any Florida gear at all. Let's do it. And I think having a floor, especially in California, having a Florida hoodie or a sweatshirt, sweatshirt is nice too.

Starting point is 01:19:04 Yeah, it's good. I wanna stay with the Pope for a second, because first I got this note. Especially in California having a Florida hoodie or sweatshirt. Sweatshirt is nice too. That's good. I want to stay with the Pope for a second because first I got this note. I just had to get that in. I'm sorry. They're going to send it to you. Don't worry. You'll get it.

Starting point is 01:19:14 I'm hoping. So first it was Gateway Pundit. I'm like, okay. Headline. Francis Macron reportedly meddling in the choosing of the next Pope is terrified that conservative Robert Sarah may sit on St. Peter's throne. Really?

Starting point is 01:19:29 Yeah, and I'm like, okay, but then an article came through from Euronews. Is Francis Emmanuel Macron trying to influence who gets picked as the next Pope? And apparently he is. The Italian press is like, hey, what are you doing? He had a meeting at the French embassy in Rome, you know, he's talking to bishops. Are they in the conclave yet? I think they're doing the meetings now. I think he's just starting. Yeah, he's cardinals, not bishops. What did I say? Bishops? Yeah. Oh, cardinals. Preparations for next week's papal conclave are underway as cardinals gather for prayer and reflection at the Vatican. Nearly all 133 voting cardinals have arrived in Rome ahead of Wednesday's vote.

Starting point is 01:20:13 Ten of the cardinals are American. 108 were appointed by Pope Francis himself. And inside the chapel, they'll vote up to four times a day until a two-thirds majority is reached. The ceremonial chimney was installed yesterday where voting ballots will be burned. What the church needs most at this time is to continue the mission that it received from Christ in response to the challenges and the needs, the difficulties and the opportunities of our time, namely from now on. And some things to watch for when those voting ballots are burned. If you see black smoke, that signals no decision was made.

Starting point is 01:20:56 And if the smoke is white, that will announce the selection of a new pope. So yeah, the story on Euro news is similar saying he's afraid that we're going to get a pope who, you know, doesn't like,'t like I know trans stuff he doesn't like men wearing marrying men yeah he's got a problem with that that looks like women yeah he's got a problem with it not even a prerequisite actually well you're right in McCrone's case it's not a prerequisite because he's married to a dude looks He's married to a dude. He looks more like a guy. And in Italy they've got PsyOps all over the place, including a game for the kids. An online game by the name Fanta Papa has been created to predict who will be the next pop. The app has 11 cardinals.

Starting point is 01:21:40 It won't be the pop. 60,000 users of this game who will predict the next pop. Who will be the next pop? The app has 11 cardinals who are poised to become the next leader. And by the way, my guy, not one of the 11 in the game. Users have the ability to predict who will partake in the next pointy roll. The site, which was created in February when Francis was hospitalized, has more than 60,000 registered users. I believe this game is a really fun game to play with friends and have a laugh. Initially my dad sent it to me ironically, but now that it's going to be the Conclave I decided to have a go and try it.

Starting point is 01:22:18 And I noticed it has so many features and different things you can choose. So I decided to have my joy. What game is this? Well, it's like closer to the pin. No, no, no. It's like football teams. It is, and I decided to put Tagli as my captain, as my main candidate to become pope,

Starting point is 01:22:39 because he looks like a nice guy and a fun person. So I decided to go with him. The users have the ability to select a team just like soccer. They think have the best chance to become the next pop. The app has attracted thousands of youths. They choose the top contenders or captain. So far, players top choices have been France's Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Perolin,

Starting point is 01:23:03 closely followed by Matteo Mario Zuppi and Bishop of Bologna. Yeah, my guy's not in there. He's not in the game. He's not in the game. Your guy is the best idea, by the way. But I have to go back and just reflect on this Trump dress as the Pope and the left being outraged by it, especially PBS can all bent out of shape. The gay community dresses as nuns constantly, men dress as nuns, and they go around ridiculing the Catholic Church constantly, and nobody says crap about it. And that is a very good point. That is a very good point. John C. Dvorak's Pet Fever Day.

Starting point is 01:23:47 I think you're spot on. That's right. It's a story hour with the... Drag Cream story hour in nuns outfits. You're right. You're spot on as usual. I'm glad... As usual. I'm glad.

Starting point is 01:24:06 As usual. I'm glad you went back. I wasn't as spot on as I could have been with my timing. Another short clip just for educational purposes. I don't know what's going on with this one. Eric Adams is allowing the call to prayer in Manhattan. A historic step here in New York City in support of the Muslim community. Mayor Adams announced new guidelines clearing the way for the Muslim call to prayer to bring out freely.

Starting point is 01:24:35 For too long there has been confusion about which communities are allowed to amplify their calls to prayer. Implify to what? Amplify. Oh, amplify. ... about which communities are allowed to amplify their calls to prayer today. We are cutting red tape and saying clearly if you are mosque or a house of worship of any kind you do not have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer Yeah, I've seen videos of these guys walking down the street with a big boombox and a wireless mic

Starting point is 01:25:15 Hmm well, let me I have some thoughts on this. Okay. Yeah go one if you've been in the Middle East at all I've been a couple times The call for prayer thing is not on Fridays. It's six times a day all the time. And it's actually quite pleasant if you're, you know, a tourist, because it's like, if you're not, if you're not, if you don't live next to it, you're not living there because it's something romantic about it. It's just, and it's, and it's a very, it's a nice, especially when you have a, uh,

Starting point is 01:25:46 some of these Muslim, uh, uh, uh, preachers or whatever they, they can moolahs who can sing and they can sing in Arabic and it's very, it's just a great sound, but very few people can do it well. But it's all the time and they have amplifiers and it's very loud. And this is contradict something that I was given a lecture. I think I was in Dubai at the time by a British guy who said the Muslims, especially the Middle East Muslims.

Starting point is 01:26:14 We're not talking about the ones in Indonesia, which I never heard this going on there, but they have this big thing about, Oh, you can't do this. You can't do anything. That's pre Muhammad. If it's not in the, oh you can't do this, you can't do anything that's pre-Muhammad. If it's not in the Quran, you can't. So words for computer have to be manufactured. They can't be, they have to be made out of words. Everything has to be old-fashioned. But yet they can use amplifiers and they got these huge speakers and the giant 10,000 watt

Starting point is 01:26:42 amps. That's okay. How does that work? Some Muslim can explain that one to me. When I was in Iraq, or as some would say, Iraq, and I hope I have this, I'd have to dig deep into the archives. That was 2003. I acquired an alarm clock. And I think it came out of I think was made from in Pakistan plastic alarm clock and six times a day this clock would do the do the call to prayer gosh I hope I have that somewhere still but that's a great item yeah it was one of those one of those things you pick up on your travels donate to a no Donate to No Agenda, they give us shows week after week.

Starting point is 01:27:26 Donate to No Agenda, it's a show that's really unique. Donate to No Agenda, listen to John and Adam speak. Donate to No Agenda, science is turning into a clique. So, let's amplify that in New York. Yeah. For the Church of No Agenda. I'm all for it. Well the people in Amsterdam and Rotterdam are not happy because this has also allowed

Starting point is 01:27:57 this amplification of call to prayer and it's not the culture of the Netherlands or wasn't. I think it probably is becoming that and people are annoyed by it. And it's, you know, it's not the culture of the Netherlands or wasn't, I think it probably is becoming that. And people are annoyed by it. Just like they're annoyed by incessant church bells, I might point out. Yeah, there's a lot, there was a lot of complaining about church bells in some areas. Most of the time I've run it when there's churches around, it's only been on a Sunday and they'll ring the bells and

Starting point is 01:28:23 it's only been on a Sunday and they'll ring the bells. And, uh, university of California had a, has the Campanile and they used to play songs at noon, uh, various tunes. I think they stopped even doing that. I don't know if they do it anymore, but there was a, they had enough bells up there. They could play, you know, some various recognizable songs like what what recognizable well jingle bells would be during the wintertime they could play that easy did they yeah ding-ding-ding ding-ding-ding

Starting point is 01:28:59 yeah yeah I see you have a series I'm gonna lead you into it with two very short clips we start off with breaking news, a major scare. Everybody be afraid. Be afraid. It's very dangerous. Breaking news. Tonight from Chicago, health officials are warning travelers about possible measles exposure

Starting point is 01:29:14 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. They say an infected adult was in Terminal 1 from 10 AM until 8 PM on Tuesday, and then again on Wednesday of last week. That person who lives in Cook County testing positive for measles. This is crazy. This is crazy. Important medical information. One person.

Starting point is 01:29:34 He was in the airport on Sunday and then again Wednesday. Let's track him down and shoot him. Shoot him. Yeah, shoot him. Now to alarming health news. Alarming. The CDC reports that 216 children have died from the flu in the US this season. The highest number in 15 years.

Starting point is 01:29:51 Experts link the increase to falling vaccination rates on kids down from 64% five years ago to 49% this season. And with flu season still ongoing, that number could climb. 60,000 people a year die from flu. Yeah, that's what they say. The number is questionable. But so since you brought that up, I do have a series of clips from PBS about the flu vaccine and how important it is.

Starting point is 01:30:19 And I want you to guess who the guests are going to have, they're going to talk to on this, on PBS, you know, this fabulous product that the government helps pay for. Oh, okay. What's Stooge? Look, I hate to use the word. What's Stooge bullshit artists, the guys, the worst, worst of the worst, do you think they're going to bring on to talk about vaccinations? Well, I have a couple of candidates. Without a doubt, I would put HOTEP at the top of the list.

Starting point is 01:30:49 Boom! There were 12 seasonal flu-related deaths of children this week, according to the CDC. That brings the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216. That's the most in 15 years, and the flu season isn't even over yet. I'm detecting a pattern here that the big pharma complex has injected into our news into our independent newsrooms. Experts say one reason for this new record could be the plummeting flu vaccination rate for American children. It went from 64% five years ago to 49% this season and this week.

Starting point is 01:31:26 Wait a minute, was that the same amount they said on the other clip? That doesn't sound right. I remember having a specific one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to hear it.

Starting point is 01:31:36 Now to alarming health news. The CDC reports that 216 children have died from the flu in the US this season. The highest number in 15 years, experts link the increase to falling vaccination rates among kids down from 64 percent five years ago to 49 percent this season. Well seasonal flu related deaths of children this week according to the CDC that brings the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216.

Starting point is 01:32:05 Yeah, the memo went out, the same numbers. That's the most in 15 years. Exactly the same report. It's almost the same guy. It's almost the same numbers. It's almost the same years and the flu season isn't even over yet. Experts say one reason for this new record could be the plummeting flu vaccination rate for American children.

Starting point is 01:32:20 Who are the experts? It went from 64% five years ago to 49% this season. And this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans for new safety testing requirements for vaccines. Oh no. That could delay the availability of new vaccines, including the COVID booster for this fall.

Starting point is 01:32:41 Virologist Dr. Peter Hotez. There he is. There he is. Is at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hotez, there's a lot I want to talk to you about. This guy needs to be tar and feathered and run out of Texas. Let's start with that new record for pediatric flu deaths this season. What do you make of that? Well, I think it probably is related to the

Starting point is 01:33:01 decline in immunizations. Probably. Most pediatric influenza deaths occur among the unvaccinated, like most of the other viral infections that we've been seeing. But remember the context of this, this is on top of four-fold rise in measles outbreaks over the last year, even before what was going on with this current major epidemic,

Starting point is 01:33:23 a six-fold rise in protestors cases. Yeah, okay. So he goes, yeah, so he, everything is because of vaccination, of course. This guy who they mentioned, well, play the second, play it, play on. The big picture is we're going in the wrong direction in terms of children not getting the vaccines

Starting point is 01:33:44 that they should be getting. Is this a holdover from the vaccination hesitancy that emerged during the COVID pandemic? It very well might be. There's been some Gallup surveys and others that have shown that spillover effect that the same parts of the country where adults were refusing to get COVID vaccines are now spilling over to childhood immunizations. So for instance, in West Texas, which had some of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country, guess what? That's where we have our ginormous measles epidemic right now in West Texas and the panhandle.

Starting point is 01:34:20 Ginormous. And it's going up into the conservative rural areas of the Great Plains where COVID vaccinations were also low. So I think the big picture is there is that spillover effect from anti-vaccine activism that accelerated during COVID now into childhood immunizations. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Ginormous.

Starting point is 01:34:40 It's bigger than gigantic or enormous. It's ginormous. That's a very scientific term, I understand. Ginormous is what the left uses, and that was popularized, that term was mostly popularized by Rachel Maddow. Oh, you're right. She loved saying ginormous, you're right.

Starting point is 01:34:58 One word. Yeah, I know you've developed vaccines yourself. What do you make of what the Secretary of Canada said, that he wants to see new vaccines tested with placebos? What do you think of that? This has been his playbook the last few weeks. Every few days he comes out with a new statement that misrepresents vaccine safety or effectiveness.

Starting point is 01:35:22 For instance, he made it almost sound as if we don't routinely test vaccines against placebo control. In fact, just about all of the childhood immunizations, historically, have been tested against placebo controls, typically in randomized studies. So I don't really understand the basis of the new announcement, other than the fact that, you know, when we do a randomized placebo control trial for something like a COVID vaccine, we do it at the first time around.

Starting point is 01:35:51 But as we're updating, because you're making minor adjustments in the composition of the vaccine to reflect new variants, we don't typically repeat the entire placebo randomized control trial because they're incredibly expensive. And sometimes they're not doable. I'm given the, given the size of what they are in the time it would take.

Starting point is 01:36:12 So I hope he's not, um, suggesting that we have to do an entirely new randomized placebo controlled trial every time we update a vaccine. Wow. Wow. What a, what a scathing admission that is. vaccine. Wow. Wow. What a scathing admission that is.

Starting point is 01:36:25 No, you know, but we can't be, we're tweaking it. We're just tweaking it. What does that even mean? No, we're just doing a little dance. We're tweaking a little bit. You know, it's like just tightening the bolts on the... And some DNA. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:36:38 And some frags. Just adding some bits and bobs, baby. We don't have to test that. That's safe and effective. They have to get liability back into the picture. There's no liability. You could be shooting people with dog poop. It's no liability. You can't sue them.

Starting point is 01:37:02 What good is it? How is this protecting the consumer? Is that the last clip or things? No, you can't sue them. What good is it? How is this protecting the consumer? Is that the last clip or I think it's one more? No, you have one more. I'm delighted to say, more HOTEP all of the time. Is the effect of this to undermine confidence in vaccines, do you think? Oh yeah, leading the witness.

Starting point is 01:37:18 By the way, this is not scripted at all. Or leading the witness. Is the effect of this to undermine confidence in vaccines, do you think? Well, this is the bigger picture. Remember, you know, what RFK Jr. has been saying every few days. First, he said the MMR vaccine was leaky, whatever that means. And when he talks about suggesting people get the MMR vaccine, he always pairs it or often pairs it with a cocktail of useless interventions

Starting point is 01:37:45 for preventing measles or he says that the measles hospitalizations are due to quarantine and isolation, which is not true. These kids are really, really sick. Now is the time the Department of Health and Human Services needs to be doubling down. Hold on a second. He says something kind of odd here. Yeah, you noticed it too, didn't you? Yeah, so he, it's called like, it was like moving the Overton window, whatever it is. So Kennedy says, this is because people are quarantined

Starting point is 01:38:17 and they're not getting measles anymore. And then he says, no, these kids are sick. Like, I mean- He says it says non sequitur. Yes. Quarantine and isolation, which is not true. These kids are these kids are sick. Like, I mean, It says non sequitur. Yes. Quarantine and isolation, which is not true. These kids are really, really sick. Now is the time the Department of Health and Human Services needs to be doubling down

Starting point is 01:38:34 on telling the American people to vaccinate their kids and highlighting the, and emphasizing the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, not tearing it down. So I do think it's, it's starting to have a very damaging effect. Dr. Peter Hotez. Thanks as always. As always. You're on all the time. We're bringing you back every chance we can because we're paid money to do it. Yeah. On top of the government funding.

Starting point is 01:38:57 It's pretty pathetic. It's pretty pathetic. Yeah. Come on, Bobby. Where's the Rico case? Where's the stopping of advertising? Talk is cheap, Bobby. Come on. Come on now. I mean, I'll give them some time. I'll give them another hundred days.

Starting point is 01:39:15 I think the next hundred days of the Trump administration, they're going to ramp it up. They're going to ramp everything up so much. Well, they're going to have to because people are demanding it. I don't know what they're going to do about the Epstein thing because I believe now that that doesn't exist, it's been destroyed. The Diddy stuff, I don't know, is going to trial I think this week or coming this coming week. Tonight Sean Combs makes it official. Hold on, it was perfect timing. It was perfect timing. Oh, it was. Do it again. I'll edit it out. Diddy is going to trial any minute. Tonight Sean Combs makes it official. He's edit it out. Diddy is going to trial any minute.

Starting point is 01:39:45 Tonight, Sean Combs makes it official. He's rejecting the government's offer to plead guilty and spare himself the possibility of a prolonged term in prison. When asked if he turned down the offer, Combs answered, yes, I do, Your Honor, as he stood in a baggy beige jail uniform. Terms were not disclosed, but prosecutors did say a plea could result in a shorter sentence for Combs than if he's convicted the decision guarantees Combs will face trial beginning just four days from now that will test whether one of music's most prolific figures used his power

Starting point is 01:40:14 Wealth and fame to sexually exploit both women and men for decades Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering Conspiracy sex trafficking and transportation to engage in He did not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution charges that accused him of coercing alleged victims into prolonged drug-fueled sexual activity that he called freak-offs and threatening them in the silence. At trial, Combs will ditch the jail garb and wear ordinary clothes, as his lawyers argue the evidence shows consenting adults being intimate in their own way. In their own way.

Starting point is 01:40:44 Everybody's consenting in their own way. In their own way. Everybody's consenting in their own way. Passed out. I thought his way was being passed out. So that's what I did. So no Epstein, but we got Diddy, get the black man. Well, the black, that's also the thing he wants to go to trial because he, somebody, at least somebody in his camp knows that. You go to trial, that means discovery. And discovery means some names are going to come out that don't want to have their names come out and maybe they can do a deal or do something or kill him. Meanwhile, in related news over in the United Kingdoms.

Starting point is 01:41:26 Overseas tonight actor and comedian Russell Brand making his first court appearance since being charged with rape and sexual assault in London. Brand pushing his way through a mob of photographers outside the courthouse. Four women accusing him in separate alleged attacks between 1999 and 2005. The judge releasing him on conditional bail. Brand denies the allegations. They are railroading this guy. It sounds like a Snowden thing to me.

Starting point is 01:41:50 There's a little bit of that, but he's not doing himself any favors with his commentary. He lives in Florida now. He doesn't even live in the UK. Yeah, I know how they got him out there. He has to, or he'll be extradited. Was he extradited or was he in New England now? No, no, no. He's still in Florida?

Starting point is 01:42:11 No, he has to attend the, yeah, he takes British Airways. He has to attend the trials, but he can go back to Florida. Seems kind of odd. It is odd. Yeah. I have, what's the time I like most when it comes to EU, UK, Ukraine and NATO, Andrew Rissoulis. He's the former military dude from Scandinavia about the minerals deal that we signed with Ukraine, which we've heard

Starting point is 01:42:46 very little about. Have you heard much about that in the US media besides that something happened? Yeah. Well, do you know? We had a bunch of clips in the last show about it. Yeah, but it just says we have a deal. But do you know the terms of the deal? Do you know anything about it?

Starting point is 01:43:01 No, we didn't get any of that from our clips. Do you know anything about it? No, we didn't get any of that from our clips Do you know Well, I thought the terms of the deal that was we just had to spend a lot of money give them more money We're gonna speak with Andrew Rosulas yet again He is a defense and Eastern European Affairs expert with the Canadian global affairs Institute Andrew Thank you for joining us again. Appreciate your time. You're very welcome Okay, so this deal we know this has been touted as key to Ukraine's fortunes here. Zelensky is saying he's hopeful this guarantees continued support from the Americans. So this was absolutely essential, right? Well, it's an important building block, but it's a building block, but it's not a keystone.

Starting point is 01:43:38 That's the way I describe it to a peace settlement. And we have to remember that the agreement that it was signed now is a reasonably watered down agreement. Um, uh, now they, the key element of the first agreement that Ukraine proposed was that basically the United States in return for having access to these minerals and revenues and so on would provide solid military guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a peace settlement with Russia. The Americans countered that with saying, no way for a security thing.

Starting point is 01:44:08 And by the way, we want all this money back from Ukraine to repay loans or costs that we invented in your defense. So the Ukrainians said, no way. Now, the third option, which they did sign, is a watered down version. There is no guarantee to American security for Ukraine, but there is a paragraph that suggests it might be possible. It's an option for the United States to exercise.

Starting point is 01:44:30 So it's half and half. It's an option. And for the Ukrainians, there is no obligation to repay debt, so-called, for American assistance. Rather, the profits here, both American and Ukrainian will be primarily directed at the reconstruction of Ukraine. So that's the kind of it's a bit of a win-win, but it's not a huge thing that was supposed to be the security guarantee in the event of a peace settlement. That's not there.

Starting point is 01:44:57 Okay. So the way I see this is if we make any money off of those minerals, if you got them, then maybe we'll provide you some security if it's any good and any profits will go and build stuff in your country which we're going to profit off of. Sounds like a good deal for us. But the fact we can't get to the minerals, there's no real mining going on, it's possible there's no minerals at all and they're full of crap, those guys.

Starting point is 01:45:27 Ukrainians are criminals. So it's part of- No offense to the Ukrainian listeners that we have, but they have a lot of shysters there, let's put it that way. Is this, does this mean there's a possibility of a peace deal? Now, it comes at a time when we know,

Starting point is 01:45:40 and we heard from US Vice President J.D. Vance just yesterday, hey, look, peace isn't coming anytime soon. So it looks like the prospect of reaching a broader deal with Russia and Ukraine, the hopes just continue to diminish, don't they? Well, they continue. I'm not going to say diminish, because that's every day, it's a little different. I would say to you, objectively, that talks are continuing. And like, a lot of what's going on now we don't hear about

Starting point is 01:46:08 because it's behind the scenes as it should be. And so there's a lot of, I think, looking for the deals that are in corridors. The Americans are talking to basically everybody and trying to broker something, but they're also expressing frustration and saying they're not gonna run around the globe at high level, like Rubio's not gonna run around the globe.

Starting point is 01:46:28 But officials are meeting, they're talking. I mean, we don't know the mechanisms and it's behind closed doors. Will this succeed? We do not know. Is there an incentive for both sides to come to an agreement? Yes, depending on the terms.

Starting point is 01:46:44 Both sides at some point get exhausted by this, but it's always the question of the deal. You get exhausted, but for what benefit, what character is out there for you to actually make a compromise? That's where things are right now. You know, May 9th looms out there, that's Victory in Europe Day, the Russians would love to have a peace settlement then. Would the Ukrainians agree with what But there is some change. from Russia like I say Zelensky talking about this deal being reached I mean Russia's not involved in the deal but it affects it what have we heard from Russia lately about this whole situation? Well on the deal the Russians have not commented in any political way they've simply acknowledged that it exists. Yeah. It's kind of a so what it's kind of a so what. Yeah. But the Russians

Starting point is 01:47:40 keep reiterating they're wearing two things in the Russians one we hear the maximalist things we want everything we we said we want. But two, there's been an important nuance. Putin has said that he's prepared to meet with Zelensky even though he sees that Zelensky is not a legitimate elected ruler because the five-year mandate is expired. This is an important concession. And the same for the Ukrainians. Zelensky has said he's prepared to meet with the Russians and with Putin because even though there's a Ukrainian law that says you can't negotiate with the Russians, but he said that's an exception.

Starting point is 01:48:12 Okay? And Rubio is saying at some point the Russians and the Ukrainians are going to have to sit down and make a final deal. And that's the point. You see, so the fact that we've heard noises from Zelensky and Putin suggesting that the door is open to sit down at a table one day means that they acknowledge this fact. And I think the Americans are hedging them to this. When will that happen? I don't know, but eventually I believe it will. Okay. I like that. By the way, where's that

Starting point is 01:48:43 coming from? That is from Edmonton Radio. That's why it sounds so crappy. That was quite good. Thank you. I like Rasulis. I like this guy. Yeah. He's definitely in the know. He's one of those ex-military guys. No, you can tell the way people do a presentation whether they know what they're talking about or not. Yeah. So then we don't get that kind of information here, in my opinion. At least I'm not finding it.

Starting point is 01:49:06 In your opinion? It's a fact. I'm not finding it. Before we take a break, should we do it? You only have one, I see. That's a little disappointing, but... Well, actually, I have a pre-break clip, but I think it might be better for the second break, which is the Victor David Hansen clip on the Democrat dilemma.

Starting point is 01:49:24 Oh, well, kind of. But I think that's a good clip to lead into the second break, and is the Victor David Hansen clip on the Democrat Dilemma. Oh, well, kind of. But you, but I think that's a good clip to lead into the second break and you'll see why when you play the clip. Okay. But let's, for the clip you're promoting is- Hold on. Oh, TikTok, you know, stop that TikTok. Yeah, everybody, it's everybody's favorite moment. TikTok. John's Turk of the Day.

Starting point is 01:49:44 This was the worst. I could not find any good TikTok clips. There were a lot of good ones that were visually interesting from distressed weirdos, but they didn't have the audio I wanted. And so this is the best I could do. This is the only TikTok clip I have for today's show. Disappointing. Only one. Yeah. And it's short.

Starting point is 01:50:07 No, man. All right. Well, we'll take what we can get. How can anyone with a functioning brain cell still say that Donald Trump was the correct choice for president after these first 100 days? I just watched Kamala Harris's speech tonight and it is very, very evident that it just should have been her. She should be the president of the United States right now and not Donald Trump. Did you see that speech by Harris? She was drunk. The speech was the worst. She just babbled on about meaningless crap including the elephant stuff. I happened to have, what do I have? I have 30 seconds of it if you want. Yeah, play some of it.

Starting point is 01:50:49 In fact, please allow me friends to digress for a moment. Okay. Okay. Thank you. It's kind of dark in here, but I'm asking a show of hands. Who saw that video from a couple of weeks ago? The one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake?

Starting point is 01:51:07 Google it if you've not seen it. So that scene has been on my mind. Everybody's asking me what you've been thinking about these days. Well, brother. Yeah, she should be president. Jeez. So these TikTok people, you know, I keep telling you that they're just engagement farming and they just want to get clicks and likes and people are pushing back on me about that. Like, no, no, you have to understand. These people are real. These people are at my job.

Starting point is 01:51:44 These people are at my school. these people are at my school, these people are in my community. I'll take the side of the pushbackers. I agree with them. And well, I'm actually sad about that. I mean these people are like clouds without water. There are very few moments in our relationship and the relationship with you and the audience that you're an optimist. Very, very seldom does this happen. Yeah, well. You used to wear rose colored glasses

Starting point is 01:52:11 when I first met you, I remember that. That's correct. But the, correct. But generally speaking, you have kind of a dim attitude or a negative attitude. But in this case, you have an extremely positive attitude thinking that everyone's a phony and life's good. These people are legitimately nuts. They're insane individuals that are pathetic and

Starting point is 01:52:35 there's no other way of putting it. But that makes me feel sad. I know you don't like the idea. They are clouds without water. They are autumn trees. They're autumn trees without fruit In fact John they are wandering stars for whom the black darkness is there They are the fruit With that I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the chemtrail Fanatic say hello to my friends on the other end the one the only mr. John the only Mr. John C. DeVorent! Wow, here's a warning to you, Mr. Adam Craymore. A ship's sea boost on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water,

Starting point is 01:53:09 and the dames in the nights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the Troll Room, we count you. Stop moving! Stop moving! Here we go! Okay, it's getting better. 2,403 peak trollage. It's not bad. I'll take that. They are hanging out at trollroom. 2,403 peak trollage is not bad. I'll take that. They are hanging out at trollroom.io which is where you can go to join the the trolls who are very handy. I mean I have the troll room open and out of the corner of my eye, my

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Starting point is 01:55:38 Thank you very much, Dreb Scott. And it was a contentious pick. It wasn't easy the last show. There were a lot of different things. Nothing really stood out where we say, yeah, that's the one. But Darren O'Neill, it was still a laugh. It's very inside this piece of art because you are famous, of course, as an author of many bestseller books. And that was the piece that was missing. It did not have the star emblem. Little sticker.

Starting point is 01:56:14 Little sticker that says instant bestseller. This was the blackmail for fun and profit book, What's That In Your Mouth by John C. Devorak. I still laugh when I see it. And expertly done through the AI by Darren O'Neill. I think there were some other pieces because at a certain point you said, ah, you chose, I don't like any of it. I like the maple syrup on fire.

Starting point is 01:56:40 Yeah, but that was a Molotov cocktail. Which Darren also did. Well, what we really discussed were the cobalt t-shirts. So we, for a long time, we talked about the cobalt knucklehead. I personally liked the cobalt is for schmucks. But then- Yeah, but it was, you violated your main rule. It's too small. It was too small. You like the mastermind's unclipable wench, but I thought that was too very... You also like the boobs.

Starting point is 01:57:13 Of course, there was a boobage there from Scaramanga. The boob-a-bon with the girl riding the bike on the pedal bike on the Autobahn. You even said, oh, how about the Ferrari in a country road? I mean, none of that was right. You were just grasping at straws. And then we even discussed making Cobalt for Schmucks the title.

Starting point is 01:57:42 And then we went, you know, that's not a good idea. No, I got a lot of feedback on the Cobalt as expected. us making cobalt for schmucks the title and then we're like you know that's not a good idea. No. I got a lot of feedback on the cobalt as expected. Let me see where is my cobalt? Yes. So two things. One from John Daly says, yeah it seems obvious John's never seen COBOL. The features of COBOL are straightforward, yes. However, when you start talking about five million lines of production COBOL, it's a nightmare. The features of the language are limited, which also makes it more difficult to do common and important things, which creates a bloat. So real-world COBOL applications are not as cool as Java, for instance, who thinks Java is cool, which has

Starting point is 01:58:30 features to create a kind of language of structure that allows quick interpretation, learning and modification, bad variable naming, poor algorithms, kludges, hacks, bad managerial input all create bad unmaintainable code in any language. COBOL is not simple in any real-world application. So, huh, he showed you. Then... Yeah, he saw me. He's really accurate too. Since I when I had a company called California Software, I actually sold COBOL, a naval postgraduate school, COBOL. You didn't code in it. That's beside the idea. I never...

Starting point is 01:59:05 He says I didn't... The way he put it is I was oblivious to the whole thing. I used to sell the product. That's the way I see it. As far as I'm concerned, that gives me some credibility. And then he says Java and he uses Java as an example. That's where his argument... Not JavaScript, which is not even really a language.

Starting point is 01:59:25 That's where his argument fell apart. I agree. But then, interestingly, very good article in dev.to, which is a nerd website, about the dates, about May 20, 1875. I think, did I send you that? No, I sent it to you. Oh, you sent it to me, somebody sent it to you. She sent it to me.

Starting point is 01:59:47 And I said, okay. Yeah, that turns out that's a big hoax. Yeah. It's a hoax. And, and that excellent article, I think I posted it on Twitter. If anyone follows my Twitter account to real Dvorak, you'll find a link to it. Yeah. So I put it in the show notes. So that really truly was a hack perpetuated by NPR and that bogus Lady on the last show. Yep, cuz she acted like she knew exactly what she was talking about and this is a hoax There's a very detailed article about this hoax. So it's just not true

Starting point is 02:00:19 It's not true that there was an that was a fantastic article. It's a great article. Yes Anyway, thank you very much Darren O'Neill well deserved. I mean deserved. Let's put true that... That was a fantastic article. It's a great article. Yes. Anyway, thank you very much, Darren O'Neill. Well deserved. I mean, deserved, let's put it that way. It's AI. So, okay. Darren definitely has that down. He and Skeram Angers should start a company together.

Starting point is 02:00:37 AI art. I'm just saying, it'd be a great idea. So that's... We have a lot of good AI. We do. Yes, we do. Well, actually, those two are amongst the talk. There's no doubt about that. So that's the time and talent portion of the value we like to

Starting point is 02:00:53 receive back. We always thank everybody who supports us financially $50 NOVA on every single show. And at this point, we like to thank our executive and associate executive producers. If you support us with $200 or more, you get the title of associate executive producer that can be used anywhere that these Hollywood style credits are accepted, including imdb.com. And we'll read your note, $300 and above. We read your note and you get an executive producer credit for this show. And we kick it off right here in

Starting point is 02:01:21 Georgetown, Texas with Tom Anya. he sends us $500 and he says, what does he say here? He says, gentlemen, a de-douching and a little camel karma would be much appreciated. You've been de-douched. I think he means yak. And he says, if there are any fans of watercolor out there check out www.lanaya.art Thanks and regards says Tom. Here's your Yak Karma.

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Starting point is 02:02:24 Oh, I've seen these. She's actually offered to send us a print, which I think we said yes to because it's cool. And yes, and she does good work. That's beautiful. And classic watercolor looking stuff. Everyone should have at least two of her pieces. Everyone, and she does commissions.

Starting point is 02:02:44 She does commissions. Yeah, her commissions are mostly portraits and pictures of dogs. Babies and dogs. I want a watercolor of my dog! That's right. That's about right. Thank you very much, Tom. Alright, next on the list is

Starting point is 02:03:02 Daniel Sean Gerald Morse in Spirit Lake, Iowa. And he actually sent a note, and this is pre-Commodore off. Yeah, actually if Tom wants a Commodore ship, let us know. We'll put you on the list as a laggard. But this guy came in earlier, but it came in late, whatever. He sent a care package with a bunch of beef jerky. Any beef jerky for me? Yeah, the rats ate yours.

Starting point is 02:03:34 Okay, thanks. You want some, I think. I love beef jerky. He sent two packs, so maybe. Maybe. He'd be glad to send you some straight up. Anyway, he's in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and he sent a handwritten note which says, uh, please de-douche me. Yeah, we can do that. You've been de-douched.

Starting point is 02:03:55 And then he has an on-air note, just please de-douche me, and he's got his commoner name as Daniel Sean Gerald Morse. And then he has a bunch of off-air stuff which I won't read because it's off-air. It's off-air people. It involves beef jerky. It's so uh it's off-air. Thanks Daniel. Commodore semi-anonymous vegan. There we go. Mill Park Victoria Australia. Hello Australia. Mill Park, Victoria, Australia. Hello, Australia. This is a thousand dollar donation, but it comes in as 319. I'm just kidding.

Starting point is 02:04:30 ITM, Adam and John, I would like to make this Commodore donation a switcheroo for my new human resource to be known as Commodore Spooky. All right, let me do that. So this was 500 Australian dollary dues, I guess. Yeah, I guess so. So he's not on the list, but why don't you put him on there? No, I think he is on the list. I think there's only one on the list.

Starting point is 02:04:54 Well, let me check if that's him. Let me just see. Should be Morse on the list. Morse is on the list. Yeah. Well, I'm sure that this was... I'm going to put Commodore Spooky in there because I'm sure that this was I'm going to put combative spooky in there because I'm sure that this was $500 Australian. And we do want to honor Yes, just like 60 cents. Wait until that stable coin comes out. You guys have to pay up normal. A deducing please. You've been deduced. And a jingle from Elmer Fudd, who may or may not still be the Prime Minister of us here

Starting point is 02:05:31 in Oz come the 3rd of May. What does that mean? Well, the election, I have the bonus clip for the donation. Oh, I have a bonus clip too. But if you put an Elmer Fudd in there, we can certainly play yours. Oz News, Al Benisi has been re-elected. Days after Canada's general election resulted in a left-leaning leader making an unexpected comeback because of fears about President Trump's policies, the same appears to have

Starting point is 02:05:57 happened in Australia. Incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to power with his Labour Party expanding its majority despite opinion polls at the start of the year showing it trailing the centre-right Liberal National Party coalition. The opposition leader Peter Dutton, who had been compared to Donald Trump, lost the parliamentary seat he had held for more than two decades. A jubilant Mr Albanese addressed his cheering supporters. Be very, very quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.

Starting point is 02:06:27 Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Okay. I get to play my Albanese clip then. Australia's centre-left Labour Party has secured a second term in office in a landslide election victory. The country's incumbent Prime Minister, Anthony Alban Albanese is now set to be in office for his three-year term. In his victory speech, he thanked voters for choosing quote, optimism and determination.

Starting point is 02:06:52 Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values. For fairness, aspiration and opportunity for all. Leader of the opposition coalition. We both are so sick. We have sick minds, people. But at least we think alike. Eli the coffee guy's up on the list. No, yes he is. You're right. I'm sorry. Go for it. We're already there. So this is a very short list.

Starting point is 02:07:24 Very short, very short. Yeah, very short. You're right. I'm sorry. Go for it. We're already there. Yeah, that's crazy. Very short, very short. Yeah, very short and crappy list today. But okay, Eli's here and he came in from Bensonville, Illinois, 20504. Thanks for the last show's breakdown of the Eurodollar and Ditching Information. Eurodollar donation, yes. It tied in well with Tucker Carlson's interview with Catherine Fitz. So I watched that entire,

Starting point is 02:07:49 I'd listened to that entire interview and I've heard a lot of Catherine Fitz and it always ends with this. I don't know who Mr. Globalization is. It's always the same. She's been doing, and not that she's full of crap, but she's been doing this same thing for a decade. I can't watch her. The interview is worth a listen, but there is a lot to unpack. As she put it, they are building a prison around us using the control mechanisms like digitized currency. To what end is

Starting point is 02:08:26 to be determined? But she has some interesting theories. In my opinion, she's got nothing. At Gigawatt, we still taste good old-fashioned fiat USD or we still take dollars. So visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use code ITM20 for a quality bag of coffee at a good price. Stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy. All right. Thank you, Eli. Brett Carruthers. Carruthers. Carruthers. Oh, that makes sense. Carruthers. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Hello, Canada. Oh, Canada.

Starting point is 02:09:07 $200.37. This is a switcheroo donation from my smoking hot wife, Brittany. So let me make sure we put Brittany in there from Brett to Brittany. That's not a problem. Okay. Brett to Brittany. Consider it done. She celebrates her 37th birthday on Sunday, show day, and may the fourth be with you.

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Starting point is 02:13:20 Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. You. Were. Bored of. Shut up, slave. Shut up, slave. So, as we were talking earlier, it's obvious that the machine,

Starting point is 02:13:48 the machine, which is mainly media and all the money that comes in from pharmaceutical and big food and everybody, they're going to start really hitting hard at Trump. I think we're going to see a hundred days of craziness. And I think you're, yeah, they have to. Yes. We're starting to see the beginning of it with Hotez. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:14:10 Well, there's also, and I always thought this was a mistake on the president's part, but now they're going after World Liberty Financial. World Liberty Financial. Both ABC and CBS did big pieces on them because this is clear corruption. When Donald Trump was campaigning for reelection, he was also campaigning for cryptocurrency. Big news. The World Liberty Financial token sale is now live. Crypto is the future. World Liberty Financial is a digital currency platform that says it's inspired by President Trump.

Starting point is 02:14:50 But it's more than inspired. A company affiliated with the Trump family owns a 60% stake. We believe that his crypto assets are as much as 2.9 billion dollars Virginia Cantor has overseen ethics rules as a senior government lawyer in both Democratic and Republican administrations President Trump has sold stakes He sold gold sneakers Bibles, how is this any different? At least those had some intrinsic value This is like a perfect vehicle to funnel money to him and his family to enrich them. So, World Liberty Financial, and I haven't done a deep dive on them,

Starting point is 02:15:39 but what it appears, and there's two different things, there's the meme coin, and then there's World Liberty Financial. I don't even know if the two different things. There's the meme coin and then there's world liberty financial. I don't even know if the two are connected. The meme coin is just dumb. That was the mistake. You never should have done a millennia meme coin. I don't know if he was even involved in it, but that was annoying. But this world liberty financial, it will be a lending as I understand it.

Starting point is 02:16:03 You will be able to borrow money at very competitive rates, and you'll have different types of collateral, which could be Bitcoin, stablecoin, dogecoin, who knows what it is. I'll dive into that deeper, but this is the attack vector on the president. And honestly, I think it's rightly so. this was a huge dumb move. World Liberty says it's raised more than 550 million dollars and this week it announced it received a new two billion dollar investment from an Abu Dhabi company. How much the Trump family stands to benefit is unknown. Another investor is Justin Sun, the eccentric Chinese billionaire, perhaps best known for buying and then eating a $6.2 million banana duct taped to a wall.

Starting point is 02:17:00 Back in 2023, President Biden's SEC charged Sun with securities fraud. After Trump's reelection, Sun announced a $75 million investment in World Liberty Financial. And just five weeks later, federal prosecutors asked a judge to pause the Sun investigation, citing public interest. A CBS News analysis shows that the government has dropped a dozen cases against crypto firms since January. Sun is one of more than 85,000 investors in World Liberty so far. Most are unnamed and unknown. Unnamed, unknown, they're funneling money to the president for all kinds of favors,

Starting point is 02:17:42 although what they don't really mention here is that these were really dumb, bogus lawsuits. And the rules changed. So that's why the lawsuits were dropped. Here's the final clip from CBS. We've got the president of the United States is first born Donald Trump Jr. At a crypto industry conference in Washington in March, the founders of world Liberty financial promoted the company along with the president's son.

Starting point is 02:18:08 I'm just super excited about what this can mean. This guy is an attack vector. For the future of banking for the future of the financial systems. Back it up and start him again and start to think, who does he sound like? He sounds like Zuckerberg. Ooh. For the future of banking for the future. Wait, let me back him up a little more. Future of the finance. There we go. I'm just super excited about what this can mean.

Starting point is 02:18:38 Completely. He's hanging out in Silicon Valley too much. He's in the milieu. There's something going on with the milieu because that is a very distinctive sound. Completely agree. I'm just super excited about what this can mean for the future of banking, for the future of the financial systems. CBS News.

Starting point is 02:18:56 We tried to approach the World Liberty team, but they have declined our multiple requests for an interview. World Liberty did not respond to questions about the potential profits for the Trump family. In a statement, they said the Abu Dhabi company's investment sets a historic precedent. The SEC, Justin Sun, and the Trump organization did not respond to our

Starting point is 02:19:17 questions, and the White House said, report on something people actually care about. So ABC had pretty much the same report and I'll only play the clip that was relevant. By the way, Elizabeth Warren is heading up a lot of this. Elizabeth Warren, I think she probably represents old school banks, maybe city of London. I don't know. She's not just outraged because she's outraged. She has big financial backers. Liz is in all kinds of stuff. And we saw that with the over the counter hearing aids and all.

Starting point is 02:19:55 If anyone is quote unquote corrupt, I'd pin that on her. But here's the kicker from ABC. The White House telling ABC News in a statement in part, President Trump's assets are in a trust managed by his children and there are no conflicts of interest. President Trump campaigned on being a champion for the crypto community and he has taken significant steps to do that. World Liberty Financial has also announced plans to launch a stable coin, a cryptocurrency pegged to the US dollar.

Starting point is 02:20:21 The company has reportedly sold $2 billion worth, with a Trump family entity receiving a 75% cut of every sale. And at the same time, Trump's White House pushed for new policies that directly impact stable coins. I've also called on Congress to pass landmark legislation creating simple, common sense rules for stable coins. If Congress does what Trump wants, it could help further legitimize cryptocurrency and he says expand

Starting point is 02:20:47 the dominance of the US dollar. Just this week at a conference in Dubai attended by Eric Trump, World Liberty Financial announced a $2 billion investment from the United Arab Emirates to use the company stable coin. Binance and the foreign investment

Starting point is 02:21:02 firm are going to use Donald Trump's stablecoin to finance their transaction, essentially giving Trump a cut of that $2 billion deal. Boy, looks like corruption, smells like corruption. Stablecoin baby, it's the future. It's coming, it's the future. It's coming. It's coming. Then there's the exit strategy the President Trump set up for himself.

Starting point is 02:21:32 Stablecoin exit. Well, if it was all in a blind trust, he didn't set up anything. Well, no. Is Donald Jr. doing all the hard lifting? You mean Donald Zuckerberg Jr.? Donald Zuckerberg. And for Elizabeth Warren, the know, the jumpy, oh, looks and smells like corruption. Okay. Where'd all of her wealth come from out of the blue?

Starting point is 02:21:54 Yeah, magic. Magic. Lied question, the Trump makes 75%. Oh, no, that's not true. How does that even work? It wouldn't make any sense whatsoever. It's idiotic. Maybe, what would probably, there's probably some, I would guess that there would be a percentage of some transaction fee of 0.75 if somebody saw 0.75 as 75 percent. Yeah, no I'm with

Starting point is 02:22:20 you. That's bull crap. But, so that's just poor reporting. But it's a it's a beautiful system. You buy treasuries, you get your 4% and then you make stable coin and you get a transaction fee on top of it. It's a what are we doing this podcast for? We should be buying treasuries making stable coins. Weren't you involved in some Dutch

Starting point is 02:22:41 coin of some sort some years back? Oh, yeah, that was a shit coin. That that you know what I got lucky. I God protected me that was just one of those you know ICO scams. Was a scam? Well I mean it was an initial coin offering which people like Snoop Dogg and Kim Kardashian they've had to pay millions of dollars in fines. Yeah you could it could have happened to you.

Starting point is 02:23:06 Yes, yes. Why didn't it? Because those guys couldn't get their crap together and they didn't figure it out. Couldn't get the scam off the ground, you saved your bacon. Yes, big time. I'm thankful. Wow. Thank you Jesus, you saved me. Yes, it would have been a nightmare because I was the Kim Kardashian of this coin. There's an ISO for you.

Starting point is 02:23:31 I was the Kim Kardashian without the big butt. Or the money. Or the money, yeah. Let's go to TDS. They have a big thing, Trento del Rago. I think they got, I think they're onto something here. It's not a big deal, but it's a big enough deal that I think they can make some inroads and go after Trump with this. This is a PBS report on TDA, the guys they've locked up.

Starting point is 02:23:58 In March, in order to speedily deport 238 Venezuelan men under an 18th century law. President Trump declared- Under an 18th century law, unlike our 18th century constitution, which you always tout your first amendment. 338 Venezuelan men under an 18th century law. President Trump declared many of them to be alien enemies. He claimed there were members of a transnational criminal organization called Tren de Aragua, which he said was conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States. But a New York Times investigation couldn't find any evidence linking many of the men to that gang. Ali Rogan spoke with Julie Turkowitz, the Times'

Starting point is 02:24:43 Andes bureau chief based in Bogota, Colombia, and the lead reporter on that investigation. Thank you so much for joining us. In your investigation for how many of these 238 men did you find connections to Tren del Agua, and how did you go about making those determinations? We spent a couple of weeks doing record searches in the US, in Venezuela, in Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia. And what we found is that of the 238 individuals sent on March 15th to a prison in El Salvador, 32 of them appear to have some kind of serious criminal record.

Starting point is 02:25:27 An even smaller number, just a handful, appear to have some possible connection to this gang, Tren de Aragua. And this is reporting to the best of our abilities, barring any real information from the Trump administration. Interesting. First of all, if you're in the country legally, you're a criminal. I was hearing on NPR the other day that they're using Palantir to find these people, which is by itself is concerning because yeah, they probably screw it up because it's AI. Let's use Palantir.

Starting point is 02:26:12 Well, you have to assume there's a screw up somehow. And that's what they're trying to track down. And I think they got one, but it's like this dubious nature of this reporting, which is, well, we, these are undocumented coming in. They're undocumented. What is Venezuela have a laundry list and they could go right up to him. Hey, hey Maduro, can you give us the list of the Trenton and the Guagua guys so we can check their names against the names we have? This is bull crap. But okay,

Starting point is 02:26:42 but let's assume that they're, they spend a whole two weeks. I mean, take it two weeks to get down there to find the right person to talk to. But okay, let's go on. You also reported on how the administration has been making these determinations, what criteria they're using. Tell us about that. Some of the documents that have come out in court filings in recent weeks indicate that the Trump administration is using a rubric to essentially grade individuals who law enforcement believes might be trandera agua. When the person gets to eight whole points, they become a quote, validated member of tranderaagua and thus are. It's a meritocracy, baby. It's a merit-based system. Eight points, you're out.

Starting point is 02:27:31 Eligible to be deported under the Trump administration's qualifications as an alien enemy. And so four points, according to this rubric, are given for someone who has suspicious tattoos of the Trump administration that law enforcement officials believe are connected to Tren de Agua. Another four points are given out for style of dress that law enforcement officials believe are Tren de Agua. Experts we spoke to said, hey, these specifications don't match with what we know

Starting point is 02:28:06 about this group. The example being tattoos specifically, obviously, are worth sort of half of the points that make someone a, quote, validated member of Trended Agua. But experts in Venezuela tell my colleague in Venezuela that no, in fact, this group doesn't use tattoos as a marker of membership. This term rubric is interesting because you said it's a checklist, but that's not the definition of rubric.

Starting point is 02:28:36 No, but she's using it, the way I understand it, she's using it as meaning checklist. But read us the definition and I have a comment about that last clip. Well, the definition has nothing to do with checklists, but there's a company called Rubrik and they do data analysis, cloud data management. So I was just wondering if maybe they're using the system rubric because... No, why should you look up the word rubric? Rubric definition. Here we go. Do you want Merriam-Webster or the Collins? Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. An authoritative rule, a title of a statute, that would be it, or an explanatory or introductory commentary.

Starting point is 02:29:31 She just likes saying Chile in Venezuela. That's what she likes. And rubric. And rubric. She mentions that the whole kind of commentary at this point drifts off into these tattoos. Yeah. And at not one point in this entire, I think it was a four part clip, do they mention that MS-13 at all? MS-13 was part of this whole thing. It was,

Starting point is 02:30:01 it was TDS plus MS-13 that were getting shipped off. TDA. And MS-13 is solely regarded as this. You always have tattoos. It's part of the scheme. Right. But they won't even mention MS-13 in this entire report. And they'll just go on and on about the tattoos not being part of the T... Trento deaigre, what I can never pronounce it correctly. Tren de Aragua. They cannot bring themselves to bring in the other aspect of this deportation, which is the MS-13 half of it.

Starting point is 02:30:35 Are you telling me that this PBS report is slanted and perhaps untrue? I think it's slanted for sure and probably untrue in some sense. One of the deported men whose family you spoke to is Arturo Suarez Trejo. Can you tell me about him and his family? He had been living in Chile and was making, was making a living, working actually installing refrigerators, but his real passion was music. He meets his wife, another Venezuelan in Chile,

Starting point is 02:31:09 and she becomes pregnant. And he eventually decides, you know what, really want to make some more money for my family. So I'm going to go have the kid in America so I can get my papers. And he heads north. He gets into the United States. Actually, he left, she stayed.

Starting point is 02:31:23 Oh, oh. He heads north, oh. And she becomes pregnant. And stayed. Oh, oh, he's he heads north. Oh, and she becomes pregnant and he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family. And he heads north. Sounds like she's saying she she's saying he sounds like she as far as I can. Well, play it again. I thought it was, he heads North because he's the one that was in the country, not her. He meets his wife, another Venezuelan in Chile, and she becomes pregnant. And he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family. And he heads

Starting point is 02:31:56 North. He gets into the United States. He enters with this sort of Biden-era application that allows people to sort of appear at the border and ask for permission to enter. He enters the country, is working in North Carolina, and one day he's in North Carolina filming a music video when ICE shows up. He calls his wife in Chile and he says, you know, honey, I'm coming home. And that is when he suddenly disappeared and his wife stopped hearing from him until she types into Google, Venezuelans deported and she sees him in a video shaved, cuffed and bent over in this Salvadoran prison. Arturo Suarez is one of the individuals who does not appear to have a criminal record

Starting point is 02:32:49 or a connection to Tren de Aragua. Other than that he came in illegally, they make it sound like, oh, come on. Well, no, he came in illegally, but he used that stupid system that Biden set up. The app? The app. Yeah. So, he came in legally through the channels that they allowed him to come in legally,

Starting point is 02:33:11 and then he got railroaded and got shipped off supposedly. Although, I don't know how she recognized him bent over with his head shaved, but somehow she recognized him, which I think that's part of bogus reporting. And now it turns out he's in the jail, but there's no proof of this is that I can tell. No evidence. This story may be manufactured from scratch. You know,

Starting point is 02:33:31 this, the media has been flooded with stories like this, you know, poor guys separates from my favorite is a four year old with girl with cancer deported her, you know, more Trump children. Deporting children story is bogus as hell because those kids were brought by the mom was deported and she wanted to bring the kid. And what's the kids and they're, they're suggesting leaving the kid in the United States because it's an American

Starting point is 02:34:00 citizen. Okay. Well, the kid's always going to be an American citizen. She can come back or whenever she feels like it, when she's older maybe and can live on her own. But you see it's wrong because President Trump should have immediately opened up Walter Reed or Mayo and put the kid in the cancer ward. You know, that's what he should be doing because you know Trump hates children. He just wants children with cancer to die. You're right in your assertion 5-10 minutes ago about this is going to be amped up. I don't know about these stories being even remotely accurate, they're definitely slanted. And whether this guy even exists, this guy whose wife was pregnant in Chile,

Starting point is 02:34:44 why didn't she come with him and have the baby here, which would be the smart money, seems to me. Yep. Especially since he went through the trouble and they didn't want much of single males coming in. They liked the idea of a family. But you bring her, it makes more sense. The whole thing is very specific.

Starting point is 02:35:02 But his passion was music, John. It's so unfair. And then they throw the artsy angle and there's a refrigerator installer whose passion is music. It's like a Dire Straits video. Reference lost on you. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's Money for Nothing.

Starting point is 02:35:19 Yes. Oh, he's got it. He's got it. Yes. All right. You and your colleagues also reported on how Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has wanted more proof that these deported men are actually members of Tren de Agua. Where does that stand and might that impact this arrangement where he's going to house them in this prison for one year? He says that is

Starting point is 02:35:51 negotiable moving forward. As far as what's going to happen next for these men, it's really unclear. The, you know, Nayibukhede, the president of El Salvador, has said that this is at least a one-year term for these individuals. And he has called that sentence individuals. And he has called that sentence renewable. And we have also seen the US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christine Noem come out and say that she believes that these individuals should be in prison in El Salvador for the rest of their lives. That is being contested in court, but that case is still pending. That decision by Judge Boasberg in Washington, D.C. is still pending. Julie Turcowitz with the New York Times. Thank you so much.

Starting point is 02:36:30 Thank you. Yeah, they're going to attack them on everything. It's going to be nonstop, nonstop, nonstop. Anything they can do. You know, we had a dinner Friday night and I was sitting next to. Sitting next to a woman and I know her husband, he wasn't there. I said, where's your husband? He said he's in the Dominican Republic buying tobacco.

Starting point is 02:36:52 I said, what? And she goes through this whole thing about he's a cigar guy. Yeah, Dominican Republic makes decent cigar tobacco. Yeah, and it's one third fermented and he's got this Cuban roller and she's from Havana. That's and she's from Havana. She rolled it on her thighs. She's from Havana. And, and she said, you know, we were

Starting point is 02:37:17 talking because she was in Florida. I said, Oh, Elion Gonzalez, she says, Oh, I remember that. So you should listen to our show. Because that's how we roll. we don't roll on our thighs we roll with Elion Gonzalez references anyway yeah she said what was that all about said well it was the the first version of tender agua that's when who was president then Clinton wasn't Clinton was it oh was that? That must have been Clinton. He was definitely a scandal. And let's go to one of the most press-free countries in the world, the Republik of Deutschland,

Starting point is 02:37:56 and what they're doing with politics. It's quite an interesting little affair that's happening now. Germany's domestic intelligence agency designated the whole AFD party as a confirmed right wing extremist organization on Friday. The agency says the AFD threatens democracy due to its xenophobic views on ethnicity. It concluded that the party discriminates against non-ethnic Germans, denying them equal status, especially those from Muslim backgrounds, as Germany's minister of the interior, Nancy Faeser, explained.

Starting point is 02:38:26 The party reacted to today's decision, saying it is a serious blow to German democracy, pointing to the polls showing the AFD as a strongest force. The AFD stated that it will continue to defend itself legally against defamation. The decision follows a three-year review of AFT actions, statements and extremist links. The AFT came second in February's general elections ahead of the incoming junior coalition partner, the SP. Parts of the AFT, like its youth link, were already classified this way. Parliament could theoretically ask for the party to be dissolved, but this is considered

Starting point is 02:39:03 highly unlikely. We don't like that you're popular, so we're just going to have our security services call you a domestic terrorist. We won't dissolve you, but everyone's going to stay away. By the way, you're youth clearly a UGENT. I've been UGENT. You already classified you as a little terrorist. Our Secretary of State Rubio had some strong words for this.

Starting point is 02:39:30 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Germany a tyranny in disguise after its intelligence service labelled the far-right Alternative for Germany party as right-wing extremists. Rubio's comments made on the social media platform X drew strong backlash from Germany's foreign office. They replied by saying the decision was a result of a thorough and independent investigation, and that Germany has learned from its history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped. The label now applied to the AFD will allow authorities to monitor the organisation more closely. Meanwhile, critics including AFD leaders and their US supporters say the move is politically motivated. Do you think? It's unbelievable what's happening in Germany. Yeah, there's nothing like a right-wing organization run by a lesbian.

Starting point is 02:40:32 L2, a libertarian lesbian. A libertarian lesbian seems unlikely. No sooner have we spoken about the Harvard endowment, then President Trump says, you know, I think we're going to remove the tax exempt status from the endowment. Yeah, I discussed this in the newsletter a little bit. Yeah, I missed the newsletter, unfortunately. What did you say? I think a lot of this is a trap.

Starting point is 02:41:04 Okay. It was designed, it's a trap to get Harvard, because Harvard's designed to sue back and they're making a big fuss and it's bringing it to light. What it's doing is bringing to light the fact that the government is giving private institutions billions and billions of dollars when they have billions of dollars in their coffers already. And then it turns out they're like, they're treated like churches. So they have tax free everything they can buy. You have this huge amounts of land. They don't have to pay tax.

Starting point is 02:41:33 They don't have to pay property tax. They don't have to pay income tax. You have to pay nothing. And this is being brought to light. And the more that these colleges push back on it, the more it brings into the public eye, which is something I didn't really know how bad it was. It brings into the public guy like, wait a minute. Yeah. This is not, this isn't right. And when you don't these guys are screwing themselves. And when you donate to the endowment, it's a,

Starting point is 02:41:58 it's a tax deduction. It's like you get it on, you get it on all on the way in and on the way out. It's like you get it on the way in and on the way out. It's no good. No. These guys are charging students hundreds of thousands of dollars to go get an education and meanwhile they're tax free and they're getting free government money and they're living the life of Riley. No.

Starting point is 02:42:18 The life of Riley? I've never heard the life of Riley. I'm sorry I used that term. That dated me. Please do explain the life of Riley. This is a good one. The life of Riley was a phrase that was used, my dad used to use it too. And it really was based on a TV sitcom and I think it was a radio show before it was

Starting point is 02:42:36 a sitcom. So it probably goes back to the 30s or 40s. And it was a show called The Life of Riley. And you can look up The Life of Riley and you'll find some references to it. This should probably be a television watching tip. The Life of Riley. I've never heard of this and you've never, never used this. No, it's an old, it's one of those phrases that your parents used.

Starting point is 02:43:02 Like fiddlesticks? Because it's like you're living the life of Riley, meaning you're not, you're doing nothing. So was Riley living it up? No, it was just a lazy, it was like a lazy guy who was not, he was... Here we go. William Bendix in... Yes, William Bendix. The Life of Riley. John, it's from the 50s. Nice, nice. And complete episodes on YouTube.

Starting point is 02:43:32 I'm going to have to watch that now. The Life of Riley. I'm excited. The Life of Riley. I'm excited. Some of the people who are in that tax scam probably are as old as The Life of Riley. So I think this is a setup. I think Trump, and they fell right into the trap, instead of just shutting up, putting the clamps down on the Jewish thing,

Starting point is 02:43:55 saying we're gonna not let that happen anymore. But no, they had to be big shots. You had to be a big shot, didn't you? All right, Victor David Hansen, we got the five minute warning. Okay. Here's Victor David Hansen talking about- Victor Davis Hansen, actually. Davis, yeah, I always say David, I don't know why.

Starting point is 02:44:17 But I do. But Victor VDH- VDH, VDH, everybody. He has a commentary about the Democrats and I don't know why, but it leads right into our donations. If you look at the Democratic Party and the left in general, they have boxed themselves in. On the one hand, they have no institutional power, no ability to pass legislation, losing

Starting point is 02:44:40 the House and the Senate, no presidency, White House, no executive orders. Ultimately, all of the Cherry-Pook district and circuit judges will be overturned by a largely conservative Supreme Court. In lieu of actual power, then you look at what is the alternative. Maybe the alternative is a 1994 Newt Gingrich contract with America an alternate agenda. Yes, we can do better on the border than you can Yes, we have a better foreign policy with Iran. There's nothing there's no shadow government. There's not a young Bill Clinton ascendant There's no young brock. There's nobody there's no leaders. There's no agenda I couldn't make it any slicker than that. It's beautiful. And it is time now to thank our donors.

Starting point is 02:45:40 $50 and above. We do have John's tip of the day coming up. Some dynamite end to show mixes, a quick overview of the meetups and Some title changes under Commodore to Commodore or to John take it away Yeah, we got a few people to thank including Baron Lattekin who's back from Houston, Texas And he came with a hundred and John Robinez honored Commodore 128 Came in with 8502. Commodore 128 ship I hope. Commodore 128 ship was not 8502. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Starting point is 02:46:14 it's the Commodore, you had the Commodore, the Commodore VIC-20, the Commodore 64, and the Commodore 128. And I think it did have the 8502 chip. No, no, there's no such thing as an 8502 chip. Are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. No, I'm not pretty sure. I'm sure. 8502 chip.

Starting point is 02:46:33 Let's take a look. Wasn't that the ZX80? Yeah, the MOS Technology 8502. 8-bit microprocessor. Yes. There was an 8502 and I was unaware of it. It passed me by while I was writing about these things back in the day. And it wasn't a 6502.

Starting point is 02:46:51 You were writing about Windows telecommunication. So you're forgiven. I mean, it can happen. You were doing other important stuff, instant bestsellers. Well, I think 8502 is a great donation number then. I think so too. It's better than 6502. It sure is. Especially on a slow date.

Starting point is 02:47:07 Kevin McLaughlin's next. He's in the Concord, North Carolina. He came in with a better donation of 8008, which is a classic. Boobs. He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America, and lover of boobs. He is a lover, not a fighter. He also says, Laus Deo, which translates to praise be to God. Laus Deo.

Starting point is 02:47:26 I'm not sure why he put that in there. Well why not? Praise be to God. Well because he's been very consistent of not putting extra wordage. Well he has something to say. Sir Michael in Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania, 7344. Happy Swazzle Nuff. Hey!

Starting point is 02:47:44 69.69, dudes. Jaris Corporation, $69.69. Chris Engler, $66.88. Leo Buggo, B-U-G-O, $58.25. And he needs some jobs, Karma. We're gonna give you that at the end. Michael Formanick, I think I'll bet you, 5719. And he says, I hope this donation finds you well.

Starting point is 02:48:18 That's a proper use of the term, of the form. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Dame Rita, our buddy in Sparks, Nevada. 5525. Brian Furley, 5510. Patrick Cobel. Hey, there he is. He's in Fairview, Tennessee. He's the Duke. He's the Duke. He says, meet up, shout out, heading to Amsterdam, getting to hang out with Rob and other lowland producers. Be there, be square. Royal visit, ultra special amygdala checkup in light in the Netherlands Wednesday, May 14th at 733 p.m. It's gonna be a hootenanny when Patrick shows up. Yeah drinks for everybody

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Starting point is 02:50:24 I'll add it for him. We'll put it at the end Yep, also Spencer Jaffe and Pat retin show pal as the very days, California He also needs jobs karma at 5272 to Liddy Lidia Terry in Rochester, New Hampshire 51 25 a blank No name. No nothing 51 50 71 The I don't know how that ever happened. It's the invisible man. Kyle or woman, Kyle Morrison and Duncan BC Canada, 5001, that's another birthday donation to Logan.

Starting point is 02:50:56 He wants a biscuit for his birthday. We'll give you a. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. Right now. We'll give you one right there. And now we're already to the $50 donors. There's a little list here. We'll start with, we'll just do names and locations starting with Foster Birch in New York City, Matt Frazee in St. John's, Florida, Daniel LeBois in Bath, Michigan, James Sheremeta

Starting point is 02:51:17 in Napanok, New York, Rebecca Ho or Hogg, H-A-U-G-H in Memphis, Tennessee. Chris Connicker in Anchorage, Alaska. Aichi Kitagawa is over there in San Francisco. Walker Phillips is in San Rafael, and that concludes our list of well-wishers and people who helped us produce show 1761, I believe. Yeah, 1761 is correct. Didn't the TRS-80 also run on that 80 chip? No, no, the TRS-80 was an 8080. 8080, right. I learned on the Sinclair ZX-80. That's where I learned

Starting point is 02:51:53 it was my first computer. Actually, TRS-80 may have been a Z80. I think it was a Z80 actually. The Trash 80. I still have my TRS-. I had a TRS 80 with the dual drives. It was actually a very functional machine. It was, it was well, and I, and then I thought RadioShack was going to stay in the business. And then they just came out with a 16 bit machine. Then they just dropped the ball. Then they went with cell phones. Once the, uh, I have my old T, uh, the RadioShack cell phone. Didn't they do the Coco, the color computer?

Starting point is 02:52:26 Yes, I think that had a crap keyboard. I think that killed them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love my Sinclair Z. I love my truck and I love what I do. Thank you very much to these donors, $50 and above. And of course our executive and associate executive producers Thanks to all of you who supported us under 50 reasons of anonymity is why we never mentioned those

Starting point is 02:52:55 Here's the request of jobs karma jobs jobs jobs and jobs Remember you can always always send a recurring donation any amount, any frequency go to NoAgendaDonations.com It's your birthday birthday on Noah Channel We do have a nice list today. Brett Carothers

Starting point is 02:53:18 which is his smoking hot wife Brittany a happy birthday. She turned 37 on the well that's today actually Seiko de Quattro mom dad and brother Cole say happy birthday to Logan Morrison Celebrates today Nick Stark turned 27 today Danel Mackie. Hey Danel Celebrating today. Oh celebrating tomorrow the one the only the adorable Dvorak who loves his wooden car. Tynan Rebich wishes Sir Ross the Boss a very happy one for the sixth and also Molly a happy one for May 28th and we say happy birthday to all of these

Starting point is 02:53:56 people on behalf of the best and face the slaves. Title changes, don't want to be a douchebag. Title changes, turn and face the slaves. Title changes, turnen of the Frozen Tundra. Congratulations on that upgrade in your peerage here on the No Agenda peerage ladder and now it is time for our Commodores. We've got two of them today. We have Commodore Daniel Sean Gerald Morse and just at the last moment, Commodore spooky, both Commodores of No Agenda. And as we always say, Commodores arriving. Go to noagendarings.com and you'll find exactly the spot where you can give us all the information that you want on your official No Agenda Commodore

Starting point is 02:54:59 certificate. We are happy to send that off to to you and thank you very much for supporting the best podcast in the universe They are producer organized they are all over the world you heard the call out there Sir Patrick is going to be attending the one in Amsterdam We have one today the Quad Cities Iowa area meetup, seven o'clock at Lopez in Davenport, Iowa. Big Nasty is organizing that. And it's not on the calendar yet. We'll see why that didn't happen. But on May 17th at 1776, right outside of Fredericksburg,

Starting point is 02:55:40 Curry and the Keeper will be there. Many of the luminaries from the austin area will of course be attending that's may 17th and that is matt long who was organizing that uh on the calendar as well eagle idaho on the 10th leiden in the netherlands on the 14th charlotte north carolina the 15th the 16th uh whitefield new hampshire on the 17th bedford texas colorado springs fortwayne indiana new kent virginia springfield oregon the 18th King, New Hampshire, Kudlenburg, in Gelderland, the Netherlands on the 29th, the 31st is Pensalken Township, New Jersey, Long Beach, California, I'm sure there'll be Leo Bravo on the 31st, Indianapolis,

Starting point is 02:56:18 Indiana, part one on June 1st, they have a part two on June 29th, so two in the month of June, Central Jersey on the 21st, and Longview, Texas on the 29th, so two in the month of June. Central Jersey on the 21st and Longview, Texas on the 29th. Just a small sampling of the meetups that are available at NoAgendaMeetups.com. You want to go to one of these because these people that you meet will be your first responders in an emergency when you go, you get connection that gives you protection. NoAgendaMeetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy and always a party.

Starting point is 02:56:45 Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. You wanna be where you want me. You wanna be where everybody knows. Oh feels the same. Knows your name. Feels the same. It's like a party. Like a party. Like a party. Like a party. Like a party. I see you have three. One, two, three.

Starting point is 02:57:12 So you spent some more credits on your AI extravaganza journey to try and make some good ISOs for the end of show. I have one which is a Sang Gana Maio ISO, which I think has possibility. Here we go. Get ready, we're going for margaritas. There you go. It's kind of hollow. Well, it's a hollow.

Starting point is 02:57:37 Is that you yelling? No, no, no, no. I don't know where it came from. Is producer submitted? I have one. It's not even, it's not a, it's not a, a, a, a, a tough one. Tough one. Let's see. Oh, that's a tough one. No, that's a real ISO. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's not very, it's not very positive, but okay. Okay. Start with quality.

Starting point is 02:58:01 Hot quality stuff. Can't beat it. No, no, that's a bad AI voice. That's rejected out of hand. Okay, that's great. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that is too good to be a podcast. Okay.

Starting point is 02:58:13 Yes, you win once again. I can't believe it. Every single time the AI, the AI pictures are winning. The AI outsizes are winning. If only someone could make a hit song with AI, that seems to be impossible. And of course, it's coming. We cannot make a hit song with AI. That seems to be impossible. We cannot make a hit with a tip of the day. It's original from JCD. And sometimes created by Dana Bernetti.

Starting point is 02:58:41 Okay. This is actually a great tip. People have to pay attention to the whole lecture though. It's going to be a little bit longer than usual. Oh, oh boy. Okay. So, I've always liked bitters. Bitters. Which are after dinner drink you have at the end of the meal.

Starting point is 02:58:56 Ugh. Ugh. You have it, it helps you digest. It's got all kinds of herbs and stuff in it. They tend to have genetion, which is typically the main thing of most bitters. Don't they have, what's the other thing in the bitters? Anise? Some do, some don't. That's mostly the ones with anise tend to be more of like a pastiche. I like the anise ones. Well, there's lots of those around, but that's not what we're talking about. They don't have very little anise in these Amaro's, which is a sub-segment of bitters, the ones that are made in Italy.

Starting point is 02:59:30 Most of these were designed in the mid 1800s. They're using the exact same formula. So what happened was I started drinking these things with my son-in-law Brennan. They used to come over. He has what I would call, people who understand these things would say an inquisitive pallet. Definitely looking for something that in his, they memorize his taste. He's really good. He's just sucking up to his father-in-law. Well he's got, I do blind tasting with these kids just to make sure they're not

Starting point is 03:00:00 trying to buffalo me. So, um, so we got into these bitters and we got into these Amaro's in particular, and we started going through a lot of them over a two year period. We probably went through, and I have a bunch of them already, and we went through the ones we, the Swiss ones, the French ones, and we got started focusing on the best ones. And we finally determined the absolute best after dinner and he had a kind of some stomach issues but these bitters are fabulous for after the meal.

Starting point is 03:00:29 You have like a shot in a bigger glass of about an ounce of bitters as your thing at the end of the meal, the digestif as it might be called in France. Degestive. Braleo is the crème de la crème de la crème of the great Amaro's out of Italy. I tried them all, the Fernettes and all the rest of them. It's so hard to beat this particular product. It's not a cheap product. They sell in the liters for about 50 bucks. It's not a cheap product at all, but you can go to the website. It's available everywhere. You go to the web and it's a,

Starting point is 03:01:10 it's a special kind of sub segment of Amaro, which is the Alpine ones, which means it was done in, in the mountains from mountain herbs. And it's got a blend of mountain herbs that was determined to, and most of these things, by the way, we started off as medicines and they were developed by pharmacists in the 1800s. And this particular one is a stunner. Is it available at Costco? Not that I know of. It may be on and off, but I've never seen it there. I don't get it at Costco. But Amarobralio.com, Amarobralio, which is the name of the brand. That's their website.com. It's a beautiful product. It's aged. It's

Starting point is 03:01:59 the best of the best that we've tried, all of them. This is the go-to. This is a very valuable tip. What is it called again? Brawlio. Brawlio. Brawlio. Do you have indigestion after dinner? Then you need Brawlio. It is John C. Dvorak's tip of the day, tipoftheday.net. And sometimes at all. Created by Dana Bernetti. And many thanks to our producer who diligently updates tipoftheday.net and we also have noagendafund.com so you can always go back and look.

Starting point is 03:02:38 He's always tweeting them out or tweeting them or posting them or slashing that X. It's a good deal. Tips of the day. It is a free resource from your No Agenda show. Not to be confused with the tip of the day from Bill O'Reilly for which you have to be a concierge member. No bull crap like that here ladies and gentlemen at all. And this does conclude our media deconstruction day. We had a good time, good time doing it for you. We do it as a public service. Coming up next on the No Agenda stream, it's Gene Neftuliev,

Starting point is 03:03:11 our Russian translator, and Darren O'Neill, our AI artist. They have a show called Unrelenting, and we'll be rolling out their Blitzkrieg Tariffs edition of their podcast. It's beautiful. End of show mixes from D's Laughs and Nautilus K. Nautilus K is brand new. It's his second mix and he's loving it and he loves his truck too. And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in the picturesque village of Fredericksburg. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain

Starting point is 03:03:43 I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Thursday. Remember us at NoAgendaDonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, a hooey, hooey, and such! Huge Venn diagram overlap, because what we really care about is trying to make sense of the world and not being distracted by all the meaningless distractions that happen out there that the world is... Yeah, be the change you wanna be and the change you wanna see.

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No Agenda - 1761 - "News Desert"

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