No Agenda - 1764 - "Rage Quit"

Starting point is 00:00:00 Boom boom crop boom. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, May 15, 2025. This is your award winning give on Asian media, assassination episode 1764. This is No Agenda. It's been six weeks and we're still broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill country here in Fima

Starting point is 00:00:19 region number six in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where you've noticed that Trump finally looks tired. I'm John C. DeVorek He does look tired doesn't he? Well, he's wandering around the guy in Abu Dhabi Yeah, and he's just on his last legs. You could just doesn't have me, you know, it's like, ugh. I'm tired just watching the guy. It doesn't surprise me. I'm like, yeah.

Starting point is 00:00:49 Pooping every, yeah. Hey, but before we get anywhere, breaking, breaking, breaking, breaking! Ow! ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell. ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell. ISIS! I feel good!

Starting point is 00:01:09 Say goodbye to the old boss, say hello to the new boss, everything remains the same. Strike one for Cash Patel who was out on the social media this morning touting this. Oh yeah, we took care of them boy. We protect you Americans. Six weeks cycle still in full effect. And now it's time for a free. Oops, I'm sorry. I was so well timed. It was so well timed.

Starting point is 00:01:35 No wonder we're getting no donations. You're going to blame me now. Police and the FBI say they have stopped a planned terror attack at a Metro Detroit military base. The accused mastermind, a 19-year-old former member of the Michigan Army National Guard. Again, a lot developing here at this hour. Going to bring in Robin Murdoch with our Fox 2 Detroit team, joining us live with what we know and what is still left to figure out.

Starting point is 00:02:01 Good morning, Robin. Good morning, Josh. Yeah, what could have happened here is absolutely frightening. As you just mentioned, a 19-year-old Melvindale man is behind bars this morning for allegedly planning a terrorist attack at the Taycom military facility here in Warren, where we are right now. He apparently, according to court documents, had been planning this attack for about a year and he was arrested on the day that he was supposed to carry this out.

Starting point is 00:02:30 So he was arrested on Tuesday. What a coincidence. Nigel Omar Sayeed had allegedly been taking a couple or talking to a couple of different undercover officers who were posing as ISIS supporters. Now federal investigators say that he told them how to make Molotov cocktails, gave them ammunition and even flew a drone over the military base here to help plot that attack. Again, Said was arrested on the very same day he was supposed to carry out this mass shooting.

Starting point is 00:02:58 Now neighbors, as you can imagine, they were just shocked when they saw the FBI raiding his home in Melvindale. The allegations are alarming and simply frightening. Yeah okay same as it ever was they talked to this poor 18 year old kid for a year hyping him up they got pictures of him doing al-awak bar with the ISIS flag hey kid hey fly this drone around and the minute he gets to go we got you we're protecting you America cash impeach cash Patel That is lame It would be one thing. He's like, oh, you know, that was the previous

Starting point is 00:03:34 FBI but no, why would they change the formula that works? It doesn't work except for you and hi it's entrapment of Well, they're not the guy who ends up getting off. The guy always ends up getting off. Most of these guys end up getting off. This is a child who was just being jacked up and they should have said to him, hey, hey son, sit down. A year ago. Sit down, son. What is wrong with you?

Starting point is 00:03:55 Let's talk to you about this. Get your parents in there. Oh, that's 30 years ago. Yeah, but this is MAGA. This is America. This is New America. This is not Biden's America. What is this nonsense? Bush era did it.

Starting point is 00:04:10 Yeah, well, of course. Everybody did it. But this is MAGA time. The Cash Patel was going to be different. It's going to be different. I'm going to do everything different. No. When's the last time that happened?

Starting point is 00:04:20 Well, I'm just saying that I'm very disappointed. Very disappointed. What a loser system. Oh, come on kid. Here, I'll show you how to make a model type of cocktail. Make your own ammunition like you just can't go out and buy it? Make your own ammo, I'll show you how to make some ammo, we'll keep you busy. These guys have been working this for a year, wasting our money on this nonsense.

Starting point is 00:04:46 Well that, I agree with that part of it. Nonsense. No, it's just, it is, it is not cool. Very disappointing. He's up there now with AG Barbie. Strike one against, actually AG Barbie has two strikes for Epstein and for JFK. I'm sure she was, she was probably out there today too. Well, we saved everybody. If you're going to go with that, you go with the strikes. What about Diddy?

Starting point is 00:05:14 What about Diddy? Where's the tapes? Well, the tapes apparently were showed in court. The freak offoff tapes. Here. guilty to all charges against him. Ventura and Combs were dating at the time but split in 2018. Taking the stand for a second day she told jurors she wore a lot of makeup and sunglasses that night to cover bruising on her face. Ventura testifying those bruises were caused by Combs two days before the premiere during a drug-fueled sex party he called a freak-off. She told jurors Combs threw a vase of flowers at her when she tried to leave the hotel. The jury seeing this image showing Yeah! Freak off!

Starting point is 00:06:14 No, this is a take for the hallway beating. What? No, no, no, no, no, no, listen! Prosecutors showing the jury seven still images from those videos in court today. Ventura testified when she got home a friend noticed that injury in her swollen lip and called police. She said she didn't want to name Combs so police left. Jurors showed a text message from Ventura to Combs saying you are sick for thinking it's okay to do what you've done. A prosecutor asked how frequently did Sean put his hands on you during freak-offs? Ventura responded, too frequently.

Starting point is 00:06:47 A lot. The singer testified the freak-offs also became private pornography shoots with Combs setting up video equipment to record. Yeah. That she felt humiliated, testifying it was just not okay for me. And that she felt like an object without a choice in whether or not to participate. Ventura testifying Combs threatened to I'm sure that this clip said they showed the freak off videos. Hold on her career and family

Starting point is 00:07:10 prosecutors showing the jury and only the jury some of those videos in court today. Told you the defense is arguing Ventura. They tell us just now they saw some of the only the jurors some of the what videos which ones the freak off video She said it right there the freak off videos that were that were recorded by combs here saying she feared for her career and family Prosecutors showing the jury and only the jury some of those videos in court today. Yeah, the freak off videos They've shown them some of the freak off video. So you keep drawing the word freak off in there. They said it She said they showed the jury some of the videos. They didn't say freak off videos You can play it over and over again. You're hearing it wrong They're talking about the porn pornographic video shot during the freak. Listen, listen, go open your ears and listen

Starting point is 00:07:59 It's from Ventura to Combs saying you are sick for thinking it's okay to do what you've done A prosecutor asked how frequently did Sean put his hands on you during freak offs. Ventura responded too frequently. A lot. The singer testified the freak offs also became private pornography shoots with Combs setting up video equipment to record that she felt humiliated, testifying it was just not okay for me and that she felt like an object without a choice in whether or not to participate. Ventura testifying Combs threatened to release the videos when he was upset about something saying she

Starting point is 00:08:32 feared for her career and family. Prosecutors showing the jury and only the jury some of those videos in court today. That's so it's those videos. That's clear from the report. You agree? No. Okay. It's inferred. Yes. It's implied. They're saying the freak off videos that she was... Okay, fine.

Starting point is 00:08:54 But they don't use it. They don't present it that way. Okay. I'm going to parse it because that's what they do. That's what the media does. They say one thing and then they kind of lead you astray and then make you sound like something's going on when it's not. Unless they said they showed them freak off videos,

Starting point is 00:09:13 I'm not, they showed them videos. Okay, well they showed videos. Some of those videos, okay, whatever. You just hear it differently, that's fine. That's fine, it's fine. You know what, I spoke to those high school kids here yesterday morning and it was really... Oh, that's right. You were a big guy. You were the superstar speaker to the high school. Yes. And it was actually very good for me because I realized as I was sitting there talking about, you know, it was supposed to be a propaganda.

Starting point is 00:09:45 And if you look up the definition of propaganda, it is influencing people through communications, doesn't have to be mass communications, can even be through hairdos or hats or anything like that to work on their emotions. That's exactly what it is. And I referred to Edward Bernays who wrote the book. And that was all before Hitler and that was 1929 when he had the suffragettes and the torches of

Starting point is 00:10:14 freedom. And as I'm going through it, I'm like, you know, every single thing, even stuff you and I say is all propaganda. And when I said, who do you think is the biggest propagandist in America right now? One kid, Levi, stuck up his hand, he went, President Donald Trump. I said, yes, MAGA, he's got hats, he's got a slogan. It's just, he's not playing on fear necessarily. And then I just remembered- Well, you don't have to play on fear to make it propaganda. No, no, but fear is much easier to do.

Starting point is 00:10:44 But, you know, all most people have is, He's Hitler! He's taking free jets! Speaking of which, I see you have a three by three. I guess the Jones Brothers Syndicate has brought you back into their inner circle. Am I assuming this correctly? They chum the water once in a while. Now it's time for 3x3

Starting point is 00:11:08 Chum the water. Experiment by JCD Oh yeah baby! Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC The never ending 3x3 So before you get into it, I just want to say that is it possible that someone in the M5M news media will figure out the algorithm that is President Donald Trump? Do they not understand by now that this is, to use a term, chum in the water to look over

Starting point is 00:11:38 here while I'm doing something over there? Because if you even try to figure out where did this story come from about the jet where did it come from it came from the Trump administration themselves they planted this they launched it and everybody went for it it is baffling how is the's the master troller. Everybody knows this. He's a master propagandist. It was fantastic. He played right into them. No, they played right into him. Yes, they played right into him. And I'm just like, the BBC is doing a better job at reporting these days than anything we have. And oh man,

Starting point is 00:12:23 they even have it. What was the name they have now for it? What was, I saw the rising. What is the rising had something, the rising. The rising. You actually listen to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'll listen to this. Bribe force one controversy.

Starting point is 00:12:38 Bribe force one. Oh, we have a name for it. Oh yes, it's a controversy. He's taking favors from Qatar. He can't fly in a jet that might explode him in air because they've planted bombs on it or are eavesdropping. How feeble-minded are you people? Or are they just playing the game? Do you think they really know it all and they're like, okay we'll play

Starting point is 00:12:58 the game. Is that possible? No. Then you and I are working amongst people who are below our intelligence level. I don't know if we can do this anymore. It is so insulting that this just, you know, and it's just the news is filled with it. Here in the United States, we have no news. No news. It's all entertainment tonight. It reminds me, you know, I was watching CBS. I didn't get any clips from the show, but CBS with John Dickerson and this other character

Starting point is 00:13:31 whose name I can never remember is French. And they're trying to recreate the Chet Huntley-David Brinkley combo, two guys yacking with each other. And it's just not working. You can tell that both these guys, one guy's big, he's a big dark skinned guy with a French name, he's maybe black, he may be Spanish, I can't tell.

Starting point is 00:13:56 And John Dickerson, who's white as you can be, and Beta, he's very soft spoken and who's, you know, this and that. And these two guys are like, just like, like water and oil. I mean, they don't let, you can tell they don't like each other because Huntley and Brinkley people don't remember them. I I'm old enough to, uh, they were, they were cordial. They liked each other. They'd hang out.

Starting point is 00:14:23 You can just tell. And it was a good team. He watched these two guys is like watching a couple that just hates each other. Here's another, here's another thing I realized in preparation for my big speech for the high school. These kids, why would they listen to this show? The next generation is not interested in what we're doing.

Starting point is 00:14:46 They don't watch television at all. At all, at all, at all zero. They don't watch PBS. They don't listen to NPR. None of this. It's, it's, you know, we're, we're right. You brought this up and it reminds me, I have seen some notes from some of these, this group. There are some kids who do, but it's rare. A few, a few, sure. But I've seen notes to this effect, what you just said, uh, condemning the show because who cares about what CBS said?

Starting point is 00:15:21 I mean, it's not the fact that CBS still has millions and millions of viewers and it does affect the public and it definitely affects Washington more than anything because the people in Washington, our leaders all watch these networks, our leaders all read the New York Times, etc. And so there's some reason to do this, but not much. Basically, condemning us for being, what difference does it make? We need to be screaming and yelling about other podcasters.

Starting point is 00:15:57 These kids, here was my test. Anyone hear about the President Trump jet controversy? Three hands, three? Three hands. Three. Three hands. This has been blanketing our media for a week. Three hands. Three hands. How many kids were there?

Starting point is 00:16:13 A hundred? No, less than that. And I say, how many of you have heard about the TikTok ban? Boom! All hands up. What was it about? China's tracking us. Of course, I dispelled that for them, but that's the whole point.

Starting point is 00:16:29 I've been withholding you from the right direction from the show. We just need to do wall to wall TikTok clips, man. Wall to wall. I got some today. Yeah, we just need to do wall to wall TikTok clips, TikTok clips, TikTok talk, talk,tock clops, tick-tick-tock-tock clops. And we just got to be commenting on them and we got to be talking about Megan Kelly and we got to be talking about Dave Smith on Tucker Carlson and about all these people. That's, that's, that is the future of the show. Otherwise we're riding our audience into the pearly gates, into the pearly gates. There's something to be said for that and I think

Starting point is 00:17:05 others would agree. Now I do have a Dave Smith clip I want to play later which reiterate the reason I caught this. It's a real good one too. You'll get a kick out of it. I don't think most people caught it. But it reiterates something else that we've in the background have discussed. Well, do you want to do the three by three first or you want to go? I'm sorry, you already introduced the three by three. We've got three clips about the stupid jet. Three clips from stations you kids don't watch. The kids don't care about, but I'll tell you this, this is not an emolument situation as far as I can tell. You have to remember that we receive gifts from foreign countries all the time.

Starting point is 00:17:50 We do? The Statue of Liberty? Oh no, I thought you and me like to show. I'm like, what? Oh, I wish. Send me a jet. We get a box of candy once in a while. From out of state.

Starting point is 00:18:03 Yeah. I do get some sweatshirts and hoodies. get a box of candy once in a while. From out of state. Yeah. Yes, I do get some sweatshirts and hoodies. Yeah, but your point is well made. Of course, there's all kinds of gifts, but you know, the whole idea here is let's start some noise that makes it look like Trump is trying to benefit from his religious kids. You know, they're doing, they're doing hotels in Qatar. And this is all, this is always a grift. It's a grift, man. It's a bunch of grifters. That's the implication.

Starting point is 00:18:33 So let's start with, uh, let's start with the, with the, with the CIA, the CBS. Air Force one, an undeniable representation of American power, ferried President Trump to the Middle East today. But three months ago, the president toured an opulent Boeing 747, described as a flying palace with a master bedroom, elegant bathrooms, and staircase, offered to the US government free of charge by the royal family of Qatar.

Starting point is 00:19:01 Trump seems all in. I could be a stupid person and say, no, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane. But I thought it was a great gesture. Frank Kendall served as Air Force Secretary in the Biden administration and says this idea shouldn't fly. It's a symbol of the presidency. It's a symbol of the American people.

Starting point is 00:19:21 And it's just frankly wrong for the president to be flying an airplane, which when anyone sees it will be seen as a gift from gutter. The cuttary plane is built by Boeing in the U.S. But it would have to be scrubbed for spyware. And it lacks at least a billion dollars worth of presidential parts, a flying situation room, a medical clinic, and top secret technology. Air Force One is a flying White House.

Starting point is 00:19:42 It is equipped with everything the president needs that you can get into a 747 So he can do his job while he's traveling. This aircraft will not have those things. So how much is it going to cost to retrofit a palace into the White House? It would take years and it would be very expensive. But Kendall says the commander-in-chief has the power to fly on any aircraft he wants. He can say I don't care about any of those things. All I want is a luxurious airplane that I can fly around on. Ed, are other lawmakers in Washington okay with this gift?

Starting point is 00:20:14 No! Oh, there's bipartisan condemnation of this. Democrats are saying they're going to block Justice Department nominees because officials there have signed off on this agreement. The president himself, back in his first term, accused Cutter of being a funder of terrorism, but for now says he wants the plane. You know, the thing that I don't think anyone mentioned in my might be in your three by threes, not a single person, news person or not mentioned that the term Air Force One is any, if the president decides to get into a Cessna 172 and fly around, that is then Air Force One.

Starting point is 00:20:52 So, just a small point, but they didn't even make that. Whoa. No, they don't make any points and said, this is all bad. By the way, it's interesting, these not the guys on the networks, but all these people, these spokespeople, I'm starting to hear this more and more. People are pronouncing, you know, cutters been pronounced Qatar.

Starting point is 00:21:10 Yeah, now they're doing gutter, gutter. Gutter. You noticed it too. Oh yeah. Gutter. It's gutter. It's Qatar. You could say Qatar or Qatar.

Starting point is 00:21:18 I always, I like Qatar better. Qatar is, I like Qatar better too. Sounds like a guitar. Yeah. Yeah, guitar. I play my guitar in Qatar and my chicks for free. So yes, I've noticed this gutter thing myself. Well, I'm sure it's subliminal gutter.

Starting point is 00:21:34 It's just the gutter. There's the gutter over there. No, there's a reason to say gutter. Well, there's a reason to say Keev. So let's go with, let's move to, I'm going to say, let's go to NBC. The president is defending his decision to accept the super luxury jumbo jet from the Qatari government for the Pentagon to use as the new Air Force One amid ongoing delays for a replacement jet from Boeing.

Starting point is 00:21:59 A White House official confirms these are pictures of its interior. The president says the jet will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation when he leaves office. The White House says legal details are still being worked out on the proposed gift, while Qatar says no final agreement has been reached. I think that was a very nice gesture. Now I could be a stupid person to say, oh no, we don't want a free plane. We give free things out, we'll take one too. Aviation experts tell NBC News the jet would likely have to be dismantled, part by part, to look for listening devices, then upgraded with expensive systems

Starting point is 00:22:33 for mid-air refueling and missile defense. Democrats are blasting the proposed gift as a threat to national security. What people will now see is- Wait a minute, don't they want him dead? Wouldn't this be great? Yeah, get on that plane man, who knows what's going on? Now it's a threat to national security all of a sudden? Lasting the proposed gift as a threat to national security. What people will now see is the most powerful man on earth flying around in a plane

Starting point is 00:23:01 paid for by a foreign government. It's disgusting. It's wildly corrupt. It's corrupt. There you go. It's corrupt. They all took the chum. It's like a chew toy.

Starting point is 00:23:16 You're like, yeah. I'm in the corner. I'm in the corner with my chew toy. Another aspect of this is to give the needle to Boeing for not finishing the jet. They're supposed to be, this was taking 10 years and they can't get this, you know, the 747 presidential upgrade done. To me, that was the whole point of saying it. That's what I think.

Starting point is 00:23:38 I think it was one of the points for sure. Well, but then he subsequently went and did, you know, like a hundred billion plus dollar deal for Boeing. And he said, get those jets out there boys. Come on now. So, yeah. I can't believe we're discussing this. But that's exactly what your propagandistic news media all around the world has done.

Starting point is 00:24:00 And we only have one left. ABC. And this will take it to any. And the reason it's saving ABC to the end, I do want to mention that on today's, it was very interesting on today's The View. They had the regular team and then they brought Kelsey Grammer on to talk about his. What does he have? Does he have a new movie? Book.

Starting point is 00:24:22 A new book? What is it? Tell All Book because he's been distressed about the murder of his sister. 50 years ago. Wow. Kelsey Grammer is an interesting dude, man. He's got this book. So they brought him out. Sonny Hauston and Joy Behar were not on the set when Kelsey was on the set. Now I thought, well, maybe they filmed it some other time, Austin and Joy Behar were not on the set when Kelsey was on the set. Huh.

Starting point is 00:24:49 Now I thought, well, maybe they filmed it some other time, but once Kelsey left the set, those two came back on. I wonder why. They refu- well, because Kelsey works for Fox and he's a Republican. Kelsey Grammer works for Fox? Yeah. He's on the Fox and whatever that streaming service is doing history lessons. I missed that. Yeah. It's a gig.

Starting point is 00:25:10 Well, it is a gig. But the fact is that those two stiffs would not... ABC has got to get it together. They can't put up with this kind. You can't do that. You can't walk out on a guest because of politics when they're talking about a book about a dead sister. Like anyone, like anyone cares. Like anyone cares what they do on The View. Who cares? Well, I guess the ABCs execs sure don't care. No, no they don't. But so here we go, so I

Starting point is 00:25:40 save ABC for last because they're the worst. President Trump today defended the 400 million dollar gift he wants to accept from the government of Qatar, a massive 747-8 luxury jet that's been called a flying palace. The jet, which is bigger and more luxurious than Air Force One, would almost certainly be the most expensive gift ever from a foreign power. It has two fully furnished floors, plush carpet, leather couches and two bedrooms. Under the entirely unprecedented arrangement, the Cutterie Royal family would give the plane to the Pentagon to be used as Air Force One. But shortly before

Starting point is 00:26:16 Trump leaves office, ownership would transfer to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation. I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer. I mean, I could be a stupid person and say, no, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane. Democrats say accepting the cuttary jet would be clearly illegal, violating the Constitution's ban on gifts from foreign heads of state.

Starting point is 00:26:40 His shameless self-enrichment is without equal in American history. Hillary Clinton pointed to the president's comments that children might have to settle for just two dolls because of the impact of his tariffs. Clinton posting, so American children should make do with two dolls while Donald Trump gets a free sky palace from the cuttary government. Well done, ABC. Oh, well done.

Starting point is 00:27:02 Okay. And the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Jack Reid, flagged alarming national security concerns, warning using the cuttary jet as the new Air Force One would, quote, pose immense counterintelligence risks by granting a foreign nation potential access to sensitive systems and communications. Trump today angrily dismissed the criticism. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us, I want to pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much.

Starting point is 00:27:35 Attorney General Pam Bondi argues the arrangement with Cutter is legal, insisting the plane is not a bribe because the Cutterie royal family is getting nothing in return. So that was Jonathan Karl, right? Yep. So did you see Jonathan Karl getting interviewed about this huge story he's been talking about? No.

Starting point is 00:27:57 Oh, oh yes. In the meantime, we turn to the uproar over the $400 million gift from the government of Qatar tonight, a luxury 747 jumbo jet to be used as Air Force One until the end of Trump's term, when the White House says it would be decommissioned and donated to the Trump Library. Tonight, President Trump answering questions on this, and there are many critics asking is this ethical, is it legal, and how safe is it for an American president to be flying on a jet given to him by a foreign nation? President Trump saying he would be a stupid person to turn the offer down Jonathan Karl broke the story and John's back on this tonight. He broke the story not break the story He broke it baby

Starting point is 00:28:37 Jonathan Karl is the man he broke the story. He had inside sources that or they given Trump a He broke the story. He had inside sources that, oh, they're giving Trump a jet. Someone in the White House called Jonathan Karl and said, that's why, by the way, that's why Trump did this. Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?

Starting point is 00:28:59 Why not leave it behind? You're ABC fake news, right? Why not leave it behind? Only ABC, well, a few of you would. Let me tell you. So? You're ABC fake news, right? Why not leave it behind? Only ABC. Well, a few of you would. Let me tell you. So, he calls out ABC fake news because he gave the story to ABC to humiliate them. It's so obvious what's going on here. And they took the bait and the hook and the line and the sinker.

Starting point is 00:29:20 But Jonathan Karl, he's a hero. President Trump today defended the 400- That's similar to your clip. I want to get to the Jonathan Carl. He listens to this. Uh, okay. Trump today angrily dismissed the criticism. They're giving us a free jet.

Starting point is 00:29:35 We had all that. Maybe this. Okay, John, you broke the story. All right, John Carl, you broke the story. John, you laid out there many of the questions, but there's another one and it's a big one. You know, folks are asking how safe would this be for an American president to be flying around on a jet given by a foreign government? And wouldn't this jet have to be significantly taken apart to make sure it's secure from

Starting point is 00:29:53 surveillance, from spying? And how long would that take? David, it would require extensive modifications. The Air Force has strict requirements for any presidential aircraft in terms of the security and communications features. Air Force has strict requirements for any presidential aircraft in terms of the security and communications features. A presidential plane must be able to operate even in the event of a nuclear blast. Blast!

Starting point is 00:30:12 And of course, as you mentioned, it would have to go through a security sweep to search for listening devices and tracking devices. How long would it take? The White House, White House officials have suggested it could be done by the end of the year, but many experts say it could be done by the end of the year, but many experts say it could actually take years to accomplish all of that. John Carl, who broke the story on this week. John, thank you.

Starting point is 00:30:32 He broke the story. He was handed the story so they could be human. Trump is in his element here, and he got everything he wanted, including delusional Democrats. The Democrats are fighting it only because they want to fight. They have Trump derangement syndrome. he wanted including delusional Democrats. He's welcome. I don't know when they're going to give him the ceremony, whatever the ceremony may be. It's terrible what's happened to the Democrats. Yeah, so he got that extra. I thought France 24 did a great job because they pulled in some of his classic quotes while he was on the road. Touchdown of Air Force One in Doha for the second leg of Donald Trump's Middle East tour

Starting point is 00:31:22 and the red carpet is rolled out. Greeted on the tarmac by Qatar's Amir Tamin bin Hamad Al-Farini, the US president was treated to a traditional soul dance and a procession of camels before a formal welcome at Qatar's royal court, where Trump got down to business, signing an array of deals between Washington and Doha, including a record order of Boeing planes by Qatar Airways. Trump got down to business, signing an array of deals between Washington and Doha, including a record order of Boeing planes by Qatar Airways.

Starting point is 00:31:48 From Boeing, it's the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing. That's pretty good. It's over $200 billion. Didn't hear anyone on ABC, NBC or CBS talk about that. But 160 in terms of the jets, that's fantastic. A joint statement on defense cooperation and a drone deal were also signed. The lavish welcome also saw a sit-down in the luxurious Al-Aimari Palace where the US president was full of praise. Look at this, it's so beautiful. As a construction person I'm seeing perfect

Starting point is 00:32:20 marble. This is what they call perfecto. What a beautiful place and we appreciate those camels. I haven't seen camels like that in a long time. Best camels ever. I love your camels. You got beautiful camels. Trump also expressed his admiration for the Qatari Emir and Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who he met in Riyadh on Tuesday. You two guys get along so well and like each other. You sort of remind me a little bit of each other if you want to know the truth. They're both tall, handsome guys that happen ad on Tuesday. Gulf country, arguing that he would be stupid to turn down a free gift. So, as I said, the BBC, they actually were reporting on stuff about this major trade deal. It's reported between 600 billion and 1.2 trillion dollars. I don't know exactly where it comes from, but it's impressive numbers.

Starting point is 00:33:21 And at least they had some journalistic reporting. President Trump is continuing his tour of the Middle East. On Wednesday, he was in Qatar where he signed a series of deals, including a huge order for Boeing planes. It's the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing. That's pretty good. It's over $200 billion. Uh, but, uh, 160 in terms of the jets.

Starting point is 00:33:45 That's fantastic. So that's a record and congratulations. What? What? Was that error message in the middle of that clip? Was that from your clip? He said 160. No, no, I'm talking about the window sound.

Starting point is 00:34:00 No, I didn't hear a window sound. That's on your end. Mr. Boeing, get those planes out there. Our North America editor, Sarah Smith, is traveling with Mr. Trump. So what sort of welcome... What, was Jonathan Karl traveling with Mr. Trump? I doubt it.

Starting point is 00:34:17 ...has he had on his tour so far? It's been very lavish. These Arab states, these visitings seem to be competing with each other to show who can put on the more sumptuous welcome for Donald Trump. So as he came in from the airport this afternoon, he was met by a caravan of camels and dancing men with swords a lot length of the highway and now he's turning up for a state dinner at the Royal Palace and yet again

Starting point is 00:34:44 there is all kinds of ceremony to greet him there and he loves it. I mean you can see how much he is enjoying this tour of the Middle East where he's being fated by royalty and you know as he visits some of the wealthiest countries in the world and he's able to seal some very lucrative deals as he goes around clearly enjoying himself. Not just lucrative deals, but of course there's this huge arms deal with Saudi Arabia, which is a clear signal to the Iranians like, hey, we're not going to do anything, but these guys will.

Starting point is 00:35:17 They don't like you. So all I have to do is snap my fingers and you guys are in trouble. So let's make a deal. We begin in Saudi Arabia. President Trump has made a raft of significant announcements in the Gulf state on the first day of his tour of the Middle East. Speaking after a lavish lunch hosted by the kingdom's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, he said the two had signed commercial agreements worth more than $600 billion. The White House said these included the largest defense sales deal in history.

Starting point is 00:35:51 That was how the minor detail Jonathan Karl didn't bring up. Mr Trump spoke at an investment forum in the Saudi capital Riyadh, heaping praise on his hosts. I want to thank His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for that incredible introduction. He's an incredible man. Known him a long time now. There's nobody like him. I've never forgotten the exceptional hospitality show to us by King Solomon, who's just... We talk about a great man, that is a great man.

Starting point is 00:36:25 That is a great man, a great family. President Trump said Iran was the most destructive force in the Middle East and contrasted its actions with what he deemed as positive developments on the Arabian Peninsula. In his speech, Mr Trump urged Tehran to make what he called a deal with Washington or face devastating consequences. I'm here today not merely to condemn the past chaos of Iran's leaders, but to offer them a new path toward a far better and more hopeful future. I want to make a deal with Iran.

Starting point is 00:37:00 If I can make a deal with Iran, I'll be very happy if we're going to make your region and the world a safer place. But if Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure. Pressure? Drive Iranian oil exports to zero and take all action required to stop the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. This is so good. He goes, he's in Saudi Arabia and says, I'm here to make a deal with Iran. This is called the $600 billion deal of devastation.

Starting point is 00:37:40 We will unleash on you if you don't do a deal. It's baffling that no news media puts these two little bits together. Well, NTD did. Wow, NTD. NTD. I mean, Fox did. Yeah, not, where's your clip? Well, I don't have to play those clips. You already did.

Starting point is 00:38:02 But the point is, is that it has that it was discussed, but you're right. What you're saying is that the big three said nothing because they're in the bag for the Democrat Party and Chuck Schumer. Yes. Yeah, I agree. And then this was underplayed, I felt, in the United States, but the meeting with the new guy in Syria who's not a new guy, we've known about this guy, but it's okay. This is a guy and Trump will go meet him. It wasn't expected to be a long meeting. Donald Trump had merely said he would say hello to the Syrian president Ahmed Al-Sharif

Starting point is 00:38:38 Hello! I'll just say hello! visit to Saudi Arabia. But this was the first time in a quarter of a century that an American leader met their Syrian counterpart. And more than that, Mr. Al-Shurah leads a group still listed as a terrorist organization by many countries, an offshoot of al-Qaeda. But speaking afterwards, President Trump made clear that brief hello is intended to be just

Starting point is 00:39:04 the start of a new diplomatic era between the two countries. Brief hello. We are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria's new government, as you know, beginning with my meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharah and Secretary Rubia's meeting with the Syrian Foreign Minister in Turkey. I'm also ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria to give them a fresh start. And that of course represents a major concrete development in the new US-Syria diplomacy. A concrete step which is not merely of interest to business people and economists. Just listen to these ordinary Syrians welcoming the news on the streets of the capital Damascus. The feeling is indescribable, unbelievable happiness.

Starting point is 00:39:53 Hopefully God helps this country and it will be better for everyone. Congratulations to everyone. There is incredible happiness for all Syrians. It will be great for our country. Construction will return, the refugees will return, everyone will return, the prices will drop. There is good to come, God willing. It just needs a bit of patience. But good things are coming our way. So you and I would just be like, okay, well, that's interesting. A guy used to be a terrorist and now we're going to wipe the slate clean. It's probably a little jab towards Israel at the same time. But see, this is where

Starting point is 00:40:31 we're doing things wrong. We need to be like Scott Horton. We need to go on Judge Knapp's show and talk about what a horrible dictator and this is no good and Trump is no good. Before you go on to that clip, since you're going and going, I don't want you to get too far off the track. But I know what you're headed. Just as a subtext, I want to mention the fact that this show has determined early on during the ISIS era that ISIS was created by us. And the one thing that was very noticeable about ISIS is they never attacked Israel.

Starting point is 00:41:08 They never had anything negative to do with Israel. No, Israel is their handlers. I think that's pretty well established now. So, so when Trump meets with his ex-ISIS guy- He's an employee. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But you see, that's not the way to go. That's not what gets

Starting point is 00:41:28 people to listen to our show. I'm just I'm doing media deconstruction on ourselves. This can be the theme for the show. It is. Don't worry. I've got to I got TikTok clips. I know. I know. You're going to save the day with TikTok clops. I can't say it. TikTok, TikTok, clop, clip, clops. So yeah, so of course, Scott Horton, who wrote the book? He wrote the book on everything. He went on Judge Knapp to set the record straight. According to Max Blumenthal, they are slaughtering Alawites and Christians in Syria. By the thousands.

Starting point is 00:42:00 This is the guy that Trump embraced. This is the guy that Trump praised. And this is the guy, the head of the government, theoretically, from which Trump removed sanctions. This is a guy who until a month ago, Trump's own State Department had a $10 million bounty on his head. Yep. And look, the thing is, I wrote my book is called Enough Already, Time to End the War on war on terrorism and I don't argue in there that there's no enemies out there. There are bin Ladenites out there and I would never recommend in a million years that Trump lead another war against this new bin Ladenite state in Syria. Somebody else is going to have to work that out. But for God's sake, we shouldn't be backing them.

Starting point is 00:42:40 So lift the sanctions. Yes, but officially normalize relations with them? I don't know why. Why can't we lean on the Turks to put somebody who's not a former supposedly sworn blood oath member of Al Qaeda in charge of Damascus? And clearly it's up to the Turks to decide. They have 100,000 times the state power that this new Syrian regime has, they can go in there and change things. Why does this have to be the status quo? See, this is what we're doing wrong.

Starting point is 00:43:10 You need to go on Judge Nap's show and you really need to get out there, John, and you need to say, listen, I wrote the book on vinegar. And this is, I know that this is not the way to go with Syria. We can't, we can't do this. This is a murdering butcher. We can't have any of this happening. And, and, And Trump is corrupt. With respect to Muhammad bin Salman, Trump has to cozy up to him.

Starting point is 00:43:32 Trump's boys are building high rises in Saudi Arabia. What you gonna do, sir? Ah, yeah, Trump's boys. I'm not going to talk to you because you butchered, I forget the fellow's name, the reporter from the Washington Post while he was still alive. Khashoggi, you can't remember his name. Khashoggi's name.

Starting point is 00:43:50 Yeah, Khashoggi, Crown Prince Bonesaw, we used to call him there. No, the NBC called him that. There's still no actual evidence that took place, but it's okay. Scott Horton wrote the book. I think I might've got Kennedy in trouble on Fox Business Channel for calling him that. But the, yeah, he is a murderer and he's of course the butcher of the Yemenis

Starting point is 00:44:14 from 2015 through 22 as well. Mohammed bin Salman is a terrible guy. And I don't know the intricacies of Trump's sons of business relations over there. They ought to be able to keep that separate, even if they are doing that, and they should not be doing that while he is in power. But even if they are, they ought to be able to keep that separate. And he ought to be able to say, just like Joe

Starting point is 00:44:32 Biden ought to be able to say, I'm sorry, your business interests don't mean anything compared to the foreign policy interests of the United States of America. And if we have to play hardball with these countries, we're going to. But yeah, clearly, it's a major disincentive for doing that. Yeah, see, this is our problem. We're too glib, we're too cavalier. We're laughing, we're laughing about everything to make people happy and to make them not

Starting point is 00:44:53 so somber about the news. We have to be like, well, this is serious business, man, and they can't accept a jet. What is your opinion of this $400 million plane as a gift that the Qataris want to give to the Defense Department and then to Trump's library? I mean, do the Qataris give these things not expecting a quid pro quo? I can't imagine. It's really a shame. I mean, the whole idea is just crazy.

Starting point is 00:45:26 Trump ought to obviously just turn them down and say thank you, but no thank you. It's a massive conflict of interest just that there any foreign state, if it was the English or the French or anybody else. Statue of Liberty, anybody? Germans, we shouldn't be doing this kind of deal with any foreign country. And clearly when it's a monarchy, a royal monarchy in the Middle East, it's crazy. They were camel drivers, man. Not a monarchy, they just made them,

Starting point is 00:45:53 made up some titles for themselves. That we would have that kind of relationship with there. And then yes, of course, just like with every foreign expenditure in this country, there's a massive conflict of interest. With all of these states. Yeah, exactly. And it's, you got to take responsibility. Don't worry, I'll spare the rest, but it gets down to Israel eventually, believe me. We should not be paying for Israel to slaughter innocent people.

Starting point is 00:46:17 That's what it always comes down to with these guys. Well, there's also that there's another thing going on. I have a clip that kind of backs up that clip Well, there's also that there's another thing going on. I have a clip that kind of backs up that clip again on Judge Knapp. Hey, you're fishing in my pond. Well, this clip has been floating around and this is Scott Ritter. Another fine, another fine specimen. Another fine example. Yes. Another fine example. And I'll say this. This started once Trump... The backstory was written up in the newsletter

Starting point is 00:46:51 about how it's possible that Hexseth was set up. Yes, they wanted him out. They wanted him out because they want... because Mike Waltz and all that... There's still neocons around and people don't like using a term anymore because it's, I don't know why. But Mark Levin is part of this and he went after Tucker Carlson on his radio show.

Starting point is 00:47:16 Oh. And calling him Oswald the 30, mocking him for being a kind of a pretty boy. And I went back and listened to the Dave Smith thing where Tucker brought up Mark Levin and Dave Smith, the Dave Smith clip, which is the one I have has got nothing to do with this particular topic. But Tucker was very mild about complaining about Mark Levin. He said that Mark Levin is once war with Iran and he does. If you listen to Mark Levin's radio show, or his TV

Starting point is 00:47:49 stuff, he once war with Iran. He wants Iran to be bombed to oblivion and you know Israel's the greatest place in the world and bomb Iran. He's the old John McCain bullcrap. And Mike Waltz apparently was doing a thing with Netanyahu. And the whole setup to get Hexets was actually a setup. It was kind of a double crossed. And the idea was to get rid of Mike Waltz because he has been doing back deals with Netanyahu to bomb Iran. Yes.

Starting point is 00:48:27 And Trump is totally against it. And that's one of the reasons he went to the Middle East to tell everybody there that look, we'll do it, but we don't want to. No, we'll have the Saudis do it. We don't want to, but if we have to. We don't want anybody to. We just said he doesn't want to do anything like that. He's more anti-war than Dave Smith and Scott Horton combined.

Starting point is 00:48:49 So you got these guys coming out of the woodwork, and he would include Douglas Murray in that as I discussed in that article in the newsletter that people should be subscribed to. But here is Scott Ritter all of a sudden turning into a neocon and turning on the whole administration, Trump and everybody in between, in a way that is just like, what is wrong with this guy? Marco Rubio is a bigger traitor to Donald Trump and Donald Trump's policies than Mike Pompeo was. It is Marco Rubio that has sunk the Russia policy and he's sinking the Iran policy. He's preventing Trump from achieving the policies. When I say prevent Trump, it's because Trump is ultimately at the end of the day, a very weak and insecure man who doesn't have what it takes to stand up, look people in the eye

Starting point is 00:49:42 and say, you're fired. That's what he needs to do to Marco Rubio right now. Fire him, terminate his existence. But he took a hundred million dollars from a Edelman's widow. And, um, you know, gosh, he surrounded them with the wrong people, but Donald Trump, this is why he's failing right now because of Marco Rubio and Marco Rubio is behind Mike Waltz being kicked out. Does Donald Trump understand what's at stake in the special military operation in Ukraine?

Starting point is 00:50:09 No, I don't think Donald Trump can spell Russia, let alone understand the complexities of Russia. He certainly doesn't understand Ukraine because he's a schizophrenic when it comes to Zelensky. One minute he rightly calls him out as this irresponsible dictator. The next minute he speaks about him as if he's the legitimate leader of a viable nation state. He doesn't know how to deal with NATO or Europe. He's all over the place. And one of the reasons,

Starting point is 00:50:35 because of the conflicting guidance he's getting from his national security team, led by Marco Rubio, who continues to sell. Europe is a viable ally. Europe is not our ally. This is a very enlightening clip for me. The Fred freak out crew has been talking this way about Rubio for a couple of weeks, which means it's in the, it's in the, it's in the transom is being

Starting point is 00:51:01 transmitted and we know exactly where that comes from. Defense. the transom is being transmitted and we know exactly where that comes from. Defense, former defense intelligence people. And so Rubio not to be trusted, be careful. And, and our problem here, John, is that we are swimming against the tide. And the tide is you've got to be against our tax dollars paying for Israel to kill people. Forget our tax dollars anywhere else killing people in much larger numbers,

Starting point is 00:51:29 but that is exactly what we are up against. And that's why people like, uh, uh, and, and I hope you go to the Tucker clip next, because I listened to the Dave Smith ball spike show with Tucker and it I think was complete a complete mistake the way they analyze that conversation. I'll just reiterate it very shortly Douglas Murray went there and he can't because Tucker's correct. Douglas Murray's a like a boarding school kid and he debates in a certain way and he says things in a certain way. He's great. In that regard.

Starting point is 00:52:09 Yeah. But what he was saying was, we on the right, and speaking for him not for me, we on the right have to be careful what we're saying because the kind of stuff that we're talking about with Israel leads to Jew-hate. That's what he was trying to say and he just couldn't say it that way because he knew that me Oh Dave Supherson, I'm Jewish. You know everyone Scott Horton. I'm Jewish. That's not the point The point is that's what's going on. That is the narrative Regardless of what our tax dollars are doing in every other nook and cranny of the world, killing many more people. That's the narrative, which is based on the whole Whitney Webb conspiracy bull crap that Israel has the goods on everybody and that this is why we don't have the Epstein papers

Starting point is 00:53:00 because we'll find out that the entire Congress and Senate and everybody's being blackmailed for for kitty fiddling you know is there some of that no doubt but is that rampant no it's the other way around we control israel as is witnessed by president trump doing a deal with the houthis hey stop bombing our ships do whatever you want to Israel. It's the other way around and people are just, they can't stand us for it John. That's the problem. That is it. You're still obsessed. What else am I gonna do? What else am I gonna do? So, no, I'm not gonna play the Dave Smith, because the Dave Smith clips are not about what you just said. I think you summarized it beautifully. I do have some Trump in the Middle East analysis clips that bring in all kinds of interesting

Starting point is 00:53:51 information that nobody discussed and I think it's all good stuff. This is NTD I'm presuming? Yes, because I have to say this, NTD, they bring in these experts and they'll go back and forth with Tiffany. And they really bring out a lot of stuff that other analysts on other shows, Fox and all the rest of them, Fox is really shallow, which is what the Dave Smith clip's about, by the way. I'm sorry.

Starting point is 00:54:18 I have to interject one more thing and then I'll be quiet about it. No, if you're on a roll on this topic, so keep talking. Okay. So again, I can see you in the troll room. Okay, so we control Israel by having an Israeli handler for every one of our congressmen. It's AIPAC, man. Okay, I'll say it to you one more time. Follow the money. AIPAC gets its money from the American-Israeli Education Foundation. Yeah, there's some rich Jews and American Jews who donate to that. But the bulk of the money that goes to AIPAC is all from military contractors.

Starting point is 00:54:54 It's Raytheon, it's Boeing. AIPAC is a military industrial complex system. That's where the money is coming from, not from Israel, it's coming from our own companies who want to control. Are our congressmen and senators controlled by the military industrial complex? Hello Eisenhower! Yes, of course they are. And the few that go against it, I see you guy from Missouri whose wife died all of a sudden after he just told everybody exactly how it worked. It is not Israel that's controlling our Congress. It is the contractors, the big military industrial complex. Where does the term come from? From the warning President Eisenhower gave to us. That's the warning.

Starting point is 00:55:45 He didn't say, watch out for Israel, they're going to get us, they're going to control us. No, you're being fooled by AIPAC nonsense. All right, I'm done. I got to say, I just got to reiterate, because people are wrong. We've said it before, and we say it again,

Starting point is 00:56:03 and it doesn't seem that way. Massey from Kentucky. I'm sorry. Massey from Kentucky. I'm sorry. Yes. Massey. Poor Massey.

Starting point is 00:56:12 He's oblivious. He's a good guy and he went on Tucker and he said exactly how it works. Everyone took that to be, Israel's got the goods. No, they will primary you. How do they primary you with lots of money? Where does the money come from? Follow the money. American Israeli Education Foundation. Look at the 10, at the

Starting point is 00:56:30 Form 990s. Look at the money. It's Boeing. It's Raytheon. It's the huge military contractors. That's the problem. Okay. Yes. Let's do some analysis. Let's go to the analysis from NTD. ...Report on President Trump's first trip to the Middle East. Like much of his presidency, it involves a lot of deals and surprises, one of which was his meeting today with Syria's leader, a former member of Al-Qaeda, urging him to normalize relations with Israel.

Starting point is 00:57:04 That happened after Trump announced he would lift sanctions on Syria. His actions are even drawing some support from congressional Democrats. Joining me now to discuss all of this is David Wormser, Middle East affairs analyst at the Center for Security Policy and foreign policy specialist. Oh, it sounds like a spook. What kind of guy is this? How come we don't have one of these operations? The Center for Security Policy. Yeah. Okay. David, thank you so much for joining us now. A slew of developments coming out of Trump's Middle East trip, as mentioned above, Trump's lifting sanctions on Syria and met with the current leader who calls himself a reformed terrorist. How big of a change in diplomacy is this on Trump's part? What are his goals here? Well, I think he did it somewhat as a favor to the Saudis.

Starting point is 00:57:48 The Saudis really were pushing for this. And there wasn't an overarching reason that he saw to completely stiff the Saudis on it. So while there's grave reservations, and those are first of all his terrorist pasts, as Shara, the leader of Syria's terrorist past, number one. And number two, the fact that Syria is a divided country, it's not unified. So when Trump met Shara, he essentially said, listen, I'm willing to work with you. He said in very diplomatic ways, and it was very kind, but he said, listen, I'll work with you, but you've got to put your country together and you're on probation.

Starting point is 00:58:24 So he did lift the sanctions, but they can be reimposed if necessary. So I think this was more what he was giving the Saudis. And he walked into something he may have realized, he may not have realized, I'm not sure. But it was really a very aggressive power play by the Saudis against the Qataris, who are at strategic odds with each other. This was really in the backdrop to this. The backstory to this is the Saudis were trying to out dance the Qataris.

Starting point is 00:58:56 Wow. Yes. Well, President Trump is genius. Hey, I'm going to go get money from all these guys. Oh, no, this is what you, this is sales. Yeah, it's. They used to PC magazine sales guys. I used to work with, I mean, I never got to deals or anything, but I used to always take

Starting point is 00:59:13 sales training and try to see what they're up to because it was interesting. And one of them, one of the publishers, oh yeah, here's what I like to do. You go, you got these two computer companies and you say, you go into one of them and you say, look at how much of them and you say, look how much your competition is going to spend on advertising this next quarter. That's what you do. Yes. You're not going to let them outspend you, are you? I forgot to look. Was President Trump wearing his brown shoes?

Starting point is 00:59:38 I don't know, but he wore the purple tie, which is very rare in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Arabia thing, and then he goes to, but he wore the purple tie, which is very rare in Saudi Arabia. This is a tip. The Saudi Arabia thing, and then he goes to, when he goes to Qatar, Qatar, he goes and he compliments the two guys and he keeps bringing in Ben Salma's name. And the thing isn't anyone who knows, follows this closely. They hate each other. Hate each other. Yeah, of course.

Starting point is 01:00:01 And so Trump is playing it, you know, and he's just having, having, he must be amusing the hell out of himself. But I like this guy's analysis that it was Ben Solomon that got Trump to, hey, I want you to meet this, meet the guy from Syria, maybe you can fix, you know, patch things up. Fix that problem, yeah, patch that up. And that's what he did. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:20 Ben Solomon is a more powerful guy than in this whole picture and he didn't you mean Prince Bonesaw Bonesaw is pretty pretty talented. I love how they think that that guy like bin Salman himself Sawed Saad Khashoggi in little bits in the pieces. Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure of it that that you're following the mainstream narrative people You're following the mainstream narrative people. Yes, go on. I have five of these. Yeah, okay, we'll move on. I want to get to that, but first, how likely are we to see Syria sign on to the Abraham Accords?

Starting point is 01:00:55 I don't think it's going to be very time soon, very soon. First of all, Syria, the government only controls 40% of the country. Number one, number two, number one, number two, number one, number two, the minorities are gravitating toward... Stop the clip. I'm stopping. I am sick and tired. This started with Biden.

Starting point is 01:01:14 I'm sick and tired. You start to hear it all the time. Number one, number two. Yes. I'm hearing it on Fox. I'm hearing it from Emily Campagno. I'm hearing it from Gutfeld, everybody. Number one, number two, number one, number two, number one, number two. I'm sick of it.

Starting point is 01:01:34 I'm with you. Why don't you say first? Well, first, blah, blah, blah. Well, how about this? There's a million things you can say other than number one, number two. Well, it's because these people all got a briefing, a memo, and it had little numbers next to it. One, say this.

Starting point is 01:01:47 Two, say that. Well, there's always that possibility. Okay, that's number one, and what was number two? Oh yeah, I got number two. Number two was this. That's what's happening there. Number one, number two, number one, number two, number one, number two, the minorities are gravitating toward Israel.

Starting point is 01:02:01 So there's some tension between Syria and Israel over the minorities. The Israelis are protecting now the Christians to some extent, certainly the Druze and some of the others. So I think it's a long time coming before Syria is put together and Syria is in a comfortable state to deal with Israel. Then you have the strategic overlay where Syria is part of a larger strategic battle. And that may be more the key to what drives the Abraham Accords in the long run. But for the moment Syria is way too much of a political football to initiate and join those Accords. Where is someone talking about the son-in-law? Jared. Hasn't anyone brought up Jared yet?

Starting point is 01:02:46 Jared's been completely out of this. Jared has. Oh, Jared's taken a billion dollars from the Saudis. Jared, Jared, Jared, Jared. Another Jew. Jared the Jew. Somebody should ask the question, where's Jared? Okay. Hereby asked. But nobody does. No, of course not. Now with Trump's Middle East trip, how do you see this fitting in with his strategy for dealing with Iran? Because for instance, we heard in Trump's speech and with the Saudis that he doesn't believe in permanent enemies, signaling a softening on Tehran, but reiterating that

Starting point is 01:03:18 the US will not allow it to have a nuclear weapon. How are you reading that? Yeah, it's a great question. I think what happened here is that there's a number of reasons why he went to Qatar and Saudi Arabia. UAE is kind of with Saudi Arabia. So by bringing Qatar and Saudi Arabia into this happy family, and again I think in the long run it's not such a happy family. I think Qatar and Saudi Arabia have two very different agendas and are not very friendly to each other.

Starting point is 01:03:46 But nevertheless, the strategy here, I think, was if you get Qatar and Saudi Arabia, you pull them out of the Chinese orbit, which is protecting Iran. You pull them away from Iran, and you essentially isolate Iran in the region. And when you isolate Iran in the region and then if you impose sanctions, Iran really starts facing binary choices. You're alone, you're sanctioned, you're blockaded, the Chinese can't help you, the rest of the region's abandoned you, and the Israelis are about to come after you. So you have a choice. Give up your nuclear program and join this happy family or pursue that, but then you're going to face the consequences.

Starting point is 01:04:27 So I think that's really the Iran strategy behind some of this. Yes. Yeah, of course. Give it up, Iran. And it's not the Iranian people. This is another thing. I'm so tired. I was talking to some Fred Freak Out people and I'm like, you know, Trump's abandoning Israel. What do you mean? Well, he's no longer talking to Netanyahu. Netanyahu is not Israel.

Starting point is 01:04:59 It's Netanyahu. Now, Iran is not all the Iranian people. Iran is actually pretty cool looking these days. It's modern. People aren't wearing the hijabs anymore. Women are walking around in skirts, showing their ankles. Russia, Russia is not, it's Putin. You have a problem with Putin. This is all dumb. It's completely dumb. And the people just sit around and go, what are they feeding me? Let me eat it all up. The Jews, I got it.

Starting point is 01:05:34 They're running the world, man. This all started when we got rid of no agenda social. This is when it all started. This is when we started on of no agenda social. This is when it all started. This is when we would start on the downhill slope. When we got rid of them? You mean when it formed? No, no, no. When they pulled the plug, that's, I call that getting rid of them. When they pulled the plug, I didn't pull any plug. When they pulled the plug, that's when people know those guys, they're all in on Israel. They're getting checks. They know where their bread is buttered.

Starting point is 01:06:06 We are going against everything we've always gone against. And we've been right every single time. Oh no, we're always right. COVID, Ukraine, everything. When Ukraine started, we were like, no. People were like, you're horrible. Look at my Ukraine flag. We lost a lot of audience because of Ukraine.

Starting point is 01:06:22 Yeah. They're all in on this. But you know what? We're not, we don't have that quirky face like Whitney Webb. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you Palantir, Palantir and Elon Musk, is that all gonna control us? Okay. Your Honor, you did get your gigawatt coffee. I did. Yes, I did get the gigawatt coffee. And we also got some decaf for Tina, which I did not drink. That's obvious.

Starting point is 01:07:01 But this is important stuff because you and I have other things to do if people are not going to listen to us. I don't know what, but we'll find something. We'll find something to do. I would normally try to stop you from this never-ending lament. Yeah, but you're not. But you're not. Well, no, it's because I'm reminded call him an evangelist, TV guy, TV religious

Starting point is 01:07:29 guy, Gene Scott. Gene Scott used to come on and complain and complain about not getting enough donations. Exactly. He would stop the show. Yeah. I'm stopping this. I'm walking away. He stopped the show. I'm stop the show. Yeah. I'm stopping this. I'm walking away. He stopped the show.

Starting point is 01:07:47 I'm pulling the plug. And he'd lower his glasses. Sometimes you wear two or three pairs of glasses on top of each other. These glasses. I'm wearing them now. I'm wearing them now. Look, I'm lifting up. And he'd drop his glasses over his nose and he looked down over the glasses and he said,

Starting point is 01:08:02 are you, is this okay? Is this important to you? Does this matter? You're listening, you don't care? And he'd go on, the whole show would be that. I don't want the whole show to be that because I got more clips, let's go to clip four. And I want to dig into some of those deals with the happy family you just mentioned

Starting point is 01:08:18 because Trump did strike a deal with the Saudis, that's about $600 billion, and a $244 billion one with Qatar. You just mentioned they're very different, but how significant are these two deals and how do you see that changing the dynamic in that region, maybe pulling away from China, for instance? Oh, they're very big. I mean, they really make America the economic focal point of these massive economic powers, these oil powers. We haven't even seen yet what's going to be

Starting point is 01:08:45 unveiled in the UAE in the next two days, but that will probably add a considerable amount to the total of purchases, consumption, and investment in the West, and specifically in the United States, America first, by these countries. I think if you add it all up, at the end of the day, we're talking close to $2 trillion worth of deals and investments and arms sales that will come out of this trip. That's an awful lot of money to infuse in the American economy. And it really helps the president with his America first agenda, especially to get through the immediate period of offsetting the damage done by tariffs until the longer term gains of the tariffs would kick in

Starting point is 01:09:31 according to what he believes. No, we move quickly to tariffs. That's interesting. Now it's interesting to remember that something that we do because of Biden for four years, as we did this show, we forgot about the, because before Biden, we had other presidents that this show has been on forever. And we've noticed that one of the things all the presidents do is that they're ultimately salesmen for the military industrial complex.

Starting point is 01:10:00 All of them. They go overseas. If you remember. Yes. All of them would go overseas and do deals. By the way, that's all, just to remind everybody, that's all we really make. Have you seen an American car recently? What does it look like? They're all militaristic looking. That's all we know how to make. War stuff. We make war stuff. It's hype. It's high margin. Yes. Oh, war stuff is super high margin. Yeah. So you could, you know, it's a winner.

Starting point is 01:10:25 Yeah. Our presidents would always go over and do these deals. Biden never did, because he couldn't sell anything. This guy was lost. Couldn't sell his way out of a paper bag. So we go on and so, but Trump's just, I mean, Trump is old as he is. He's still a killer salesman. And that's what we have to remember.

Starting point is 01:10:47 And this is the benefits the country. It benefits the country beyond belief. So let's go on to no matter how much they hate him. So we're not a TikTok clips. By the way, the TikTok clips coming up will prove that. But let's go to the final clip. Zooming out a bit here during Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia, he criticized those he called neocons and

Starting point is 01:11:06 Interventionists saying they messed up Middle East policy. What are your thoughts on all of that? Yeah, he's really reacting to the Iraq war and especially not just knocking Saddam out which had its own strategic issues But there were ways to do it. What he's really reacting to is that we sat there after the war occupied Iraq, and we had a nation-building presence trying to rebuild Iraq, which became kind of an endless bogged down situation. The Iranians and Syrians were taking potshots at us there, and we lost 4,000 or 5,000 soldiers doing this, which is a horrific price.

Starting point is 01:11:46 I think that's what he's really reacting to. Even if you have to do something, do it like what you did just now in Yemen. You go in, you send a signal, you destroy the enemy, or you make it clear to them there's a huge price to pay being in conflict with the United States. But don't go in, take over the country, have a semi-colonial presence to rebuild it and take responsibility for the country. It's much more important to let them do that, let the Iranians do it, let the Iraqis do it,

Starting point is 01:12:14 let the Yemenis do it. It's just something America can't do in that region. We're not Middle Eastern and we don't play that game well. And we stop playing that game because we can't motivate a single, single smart young American person to go over there and die for this nonsense anymore. We're not gonna do it. This is why we have Israel. Let them do it. This is why we have Saudi Arabia. Let them do it and let them pay to do it by buying our stuff. They have ideological problems. That is the region that they live

Starting point is 01:12:46 in. That's the world they live in. Trump's long-winded speech in Saudi Arabia discussed all this. It was very interesting. It was kind of interesting. It was very good speech. You got no coverage by the mainstream media, but it was quite good. It was well-written. It was too long, long as usual because just the way he is, he had to put up with it. I'm reminded of, I was thinking about this because the speech was on forever. It was a long one. And I remember when he puts his arm down, he's leaning on his elbow, reading the

Starting point is 01:13:17 teleprompter, you know, like, oh, we're in for a long one. This is going to be a long speech, isn't it? And so I'm reminded the first time we went to China, we went to the mainland. I mean, I've been to Taiwan and I've been to Hong Kong, but I never was in China itself. And the first time I went there, the government came out and gave us, we were a bunch of touring journalists or managers. We couldn't put the word journalist on the passport because they didn't like that. So if you go to China always you're always a manager. So you we there's these guys that would come out and start lecturing us and it

Starting point is 01:13:55 was like a Chinese harangue it was go on forever I mean it was like you wanted to shoot yourself this yak yak yak yak and that's what, and for some reason, this is Trump's style. Oh, interesting. You can't take it after a while. It's like, just end it, man. But I'm with you. Where do I sign? Let me buy that.

Starting point is 01:14:16 Yeah, that's part of it. Where do I sign? You've worn me down salesman. You've worn me down. Well, actually, interestingly interestingly enough if we can move away from the Middle East for a second the sales continue in in the EU and our boy Mark Rutter Mark has paid off Germany has now come out and said yep we're gonna push we're gonna push it to 5% for NATO defense spending.

Starting point is 01:14:51 That was the ask continuously, 5%. And Germany just said, when does this come out, this announcement came out? I'm crediting Rutte. Well, of course Rutte did it. Here, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadersishpul said the country was backing US President Donald Trump's call to increase the defense spending target of NATO members to 5%. Before Trump, before Trump in 2016, they weren't even putting up to 2%. Well, now they got the go ahead from Queen Ursula that they can borrow the money. So like, okay, we can borrow the money.

Starting point is 01:15:28 We're good to go. Let's do it. And just to give him the props, here is the obligatory marketer clip. I really want to welcome you to Antalya for this important four-ministers meeting. And I want to thank our colleague from Turkey. Turkey?

Starting point is 01:15:44 Really, how come Turkey? Turkey? Really Hakan. Turkey. He can't say, so in Dutch it's Turkije, but he can't say Turkeye for some reason, so he says Turkey. Our colleague from Turkey, really Hakan thank you so much for making this possible. It's possible. And the hospitality, it is really amazing. Oh, it was amazing hospitality.

Starting point is 01:16:03 It was just great. I had cookies in my room. We will have a very important meeting today in the run-up to the summit in The Hague. Oh, The Hague. You know what's happening in The Hague. The Hague is my home country. This is where we're going to have our big, big meeting and you know what it's going to be. We need to discuss how to make sure that NATO will be stronger. That means more defense spending. That means more defense spending. That means more defense in the steel production.

Starting point is 01:16:30 But also how to make sure that NATO is fair, that we equally distribute the burden amongst allies. And that is only fair. But also a NATO which is more lethal. Lethal! Not by becoming offensive. We need to be killing machines but by being so strong nobody will ever attack us no because they know if they would this defensive alliance if we will

Starting point is 01:16:55 be attacked our reaction will be devastating that's going to it's going to cost a lot of money that's what we will discuss today how to make sure that you make a success out of the The Hague Summit it will be a splash of a NATO which is standing there at the world stage stronger than ever so again thank you for being here and out is my honor this is the best this guy is the most effeminate weak girly man ever and he's just walking around like a peacock like we're the rulers of the world NATO will have all we're gonna make a splash on you will splash you here will splash you there yeah don't mess with us just make sure you pay for it it's amazing it's amazing that this guy can actually that

Starting point is 01:17:44 he succeeded. He got Germany to the 5% and once Germany goes, how can France stay behind? Oh no, everybody has to go. Everybody's got to go and it's fantastic. It's great. You know, Ruta was there. I mean, Ruta Rubio was there. Rubio was with Mark hanging out together because they're all in Istanbul.

Starting point is 01:18:08 And you want to hear... Oh, that's right. Yes. Yeah. And so I have a little bit of Marco who, by the way, is not to be trusted. He's a snake. He's no good. Careful with this guy.

Starting point is 01:18:17 Thank you. And I think today's meeting sets up what I hope will be, I believe will be a very successful leaders level meeting coming up very shortly. NATO has the opportunity to grow even stronger in the alliance. The alliance is only as strong as its weakest link and we intend and endeavor to have no weak links in this alliance. That's interesting. The alliance is only as strong as its weakest link.

Starting point is 01:18:38 So if someone doesn't pay up the 5% who are weak for some reason, this is an interesting analogy. So it's setting up nicely and it it's good to see, you know, the president has just submitted a budget for a trillion dollars of defense spending, which is unheard of, it's unparalleled. And it's not just spending money,

Starting point is 01:18:52 it's spending money on the capabilities that are needed for the threats of the 21st century. It's not just spending money. It's spending money for important things. We need the Golden Dome. All kinds of different threats that look different from the threats in the past. And so I think today sets up that leaders meeting which will be very productive.

Starting point is 01:19:12 I also think obviously that the big issue on everyone's mind is what's happening with Russia and Ukraine. The President of the United States has been abundantly clear he wants the war to end. He's open to virtually any mechanism that gets us to a just, enduring, and lasting peace. And that's what he wants to see. He wants to see an end to wars. He wants to keep wars from happening. The purpose of NATO is to prevent wars through its strength. And that's why, you know, we want to see it grow stronger. The purpose, let me just hear that again. I just want, that should be on his tombstone. The purpose of NATO is to stop wars.

Starting point is 01:19:47 And that's what he wants to see. He wants to see an end to wars. He wants to keep wars from happening. The purpose of NATO is to prevent wars. Can we just write that down? The purpose of NATO is to prevent wars in places like, I know, Ukraine, all the states that we expanded eastward. Libya. Libya, it's prevent wars, prevent destruction, a preventative. With strength, and that's why we want to see

Starting point is 01:20:12 it grow stronger, spending levels among all partners that allow everyone to be stronger, it makes the alliance stronger. And also he wants to end wars, and that's the hope with Russia and Ukraine. We'll see what happens over the next couple of days in that regard, but we want to see progress made in that regard. Whatever mechanism is outlined, whatever the process is that needs to happen, we are open

Starting point is 01:20:34 to being constructive and helpful in any way we can to end the conflict. No, and end the conflicts by spending more money on our stuff. It's genius. It's just genius. There will be wars and rumors of wars. It all has to happen. It's never going to stop. That is just the world the way it is.

Starting point is 01:20:50 There is something much more important playing out this Saturday. Saturday is a big day when it comes to competing countries. Are you aware of this? This Saturday? This Saturday, this Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday is a big thing taking place in Switzerland of all places. This is a big meeting of the creative minds.

Starting point is 01:21:11 It's that time of year again. World Economic Forum? Close! To Switzerland, where the first of two Eurovision Song Contests semi-finals have taken place in the city of Basel. Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals have taken place in the city of Basel. 15 countries performed on Tuesday night including Sweden. I thought this just took place a couple of months ago. No, it's once a year. That's how fast the time is going. And for you it's even worse. See, I thought it was like maybe half a year ago. You're like, this was last week.

Starting point is 01:21:39 That's what happens when you get older. Time is accelerating. Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Norway and Croatia. Among the favourites were Sweden, with a catchy tribute to sauna culture. Sweden with a catchy tribute to sauna culture? And Dutch singer Claude with his emotional ballad, C'est la vie. The Dutch are in the running. In total, 37 countries will compete for a place in Saturday's grand final. I heard more about the first semi-final from our correspondent Charlotte Gallagher, who's

Starting point is 01:22:13 in Basel. She began by telling us how the Swedish band got on. Well, they did really well. They are a huge favourite here in Basel. They're also currently the bookies favorite as well, which is no surprise really because if there's one thing that Sweden does really well, it's writing a Eurovision banger. They have won it. A Eurovision banger. A Eurovision banger, John. Have you got a Eurovision banger?

Starting point is 01:22:38 How is this even news? It's lightheartedness because they of course will make it political. Really well. It's writing a Eurovision b of course will make it political. Really well. It's writing a Eurovision banger. They have won it so many times. We were in Malmo last year because they won it the year before. Switzerland obviously won it last year, so that's why we're in Basel. But it could well be going back to Sweden next year.

Starting point is 01:23:00 It's a hugely popular song. It's got this great staging. They're sat in a sauna, so it really catches the eye. It's really funny. I met a lady from Stockholm earlier, Karen. She was really excited. And I said, but what will it mean for the song, Eurovision to come to Sweden again?

Starting point is 01:23:14 She went, it'll probably mean higher taxes for us, but I'm still excited. This is a big deal. We do have a lot of people listening in Europe and all Europeans, believe me, the streets are quiet on Saturday night everybody is checking it out and I need your insight and your expertise as a musical what is the listener aficionado is what I was going to say that's a good word these are the

Starting point is 01:23:42 top three contenders I have about 30 seconds of each and I would like to say. That's a good word. These are the top three contenders. I have about 30 seconds of each. And I would like to get your opinion as we start off with what's our three entrants, Ukraine, of course, we still need to have the political angle. Ukraine could pull in the in the top prize because hey, Ukraine, right? We have Sweden because they're clearly the favorites with their sauna culture. And we have the Netherlands with Claude. So I give you Zifferblatt, Bird of Prey from Ukraine.

Starting point is 01:24:14 This person, I don't know if it's a dude, I don't know if it's a woman, the person looks just like Zelensky. And I call you fly, but I'm biting you, biting you. Please just leave, share my wish. Journey from the 70s. It's just Journey. Ha ha.

Starting point is 01:24:41 Yes. Nailed it. My little bird. Ah. Yes, Journey! Nailed it! All right, so you say that's Journey from the 70s? Not bad. I think the Netherlands has an interesting entrant, Claude with C'est la vie. The song is apparently in French, spoken so often in the Netherlands. And but C'est la vie is a good title because everyone knows the term C'est la vie! And you complain about our end of show mixers. All right. So that's a C'est La Vie. Touché on that one. What a dog.

Starting point is 01:25:37 But I think Sweden will win because they have... It's a banger. It's a banger, it's a banger, it is... believe me, Europe, particularly the Germanic side and the Viking side, they still want drinking songs. They still want to go, hoompapa, hoompapa, hoompapa, hoompapa, that's what they want. And I think... Yeah, so they can hold the beer stein up. Yes, and I think Sweden has it locked up. Oh, that's the hook.

Starting point is 01:26:26 Na na na na na. This is an anthem style. Yes, yes, exactly. Which should catch... Could win the award, you might be right. It goes holly holly. But it still sucks. It's bad. It's mediocre. Who let the dogs out?

Starting point is 01:26:42 Why don't you just do that? But here's the hook. It's, holly holly ho, sauna. Sauna. See, the whole world will be singing this song. Holly holly ho, sauna. Sauna. Sauna. Yes. Yes, they win. Okay. Just to wrap this up. Which is code for get naked. Yeah. Here's's and yes,

Starting point is 01:27:06 and here is the political angle. And what's the atmosphere been like there in Basel? Well, no one likes the Jews. It's very different I'd say from Malmo last year. It does seem a bit more relaxed. Malmo was quite tense at times because of the conflict in Gaza and Israel and you felt that as soon as you got into the city. We haven't seen that yet in Basel. There is a protest though tomorrow against Israel's inclusion in Eurovision and also when Israel perform in the second semi-final on Thursday. The contestant says she expects to be booed essentially and people will be allowed to bring Palestinian flags into the arena. They weren't necessarily allowed to do that in Sweden last year. People had those flags taken off them.

Starting point is 01:27:46 This year, they will be allowed to bring them in. So I think we'll probably see the mood towards Israel and the Israeli contestant here in Eurovision on Thursday. But at the moment in town, in the city center, people seem pretty happy that Eurovision is here. There's lots of turquoise flags. Yeah, blah, blah, blah. The only reason they should be against Israel is because they're not... Why are they part of Eurovision's here, there's lots of turquoise flags. Yeah, blah, blah, blah. The only reason they should be against Israel is because they're not...

Starting point is 01:28:07 Why are they part of Eurovision? There's nowhere near Euro. This is the problem I've had. Well, to have a Nigerian candidate. They could if you're a member of Eurovision. That's the only reason to pro... But oh no, oh, I've got to protest. Oh, well, well well Israel can't sing songs

Starting point is 01:28:26 No, it's a problem It's rampant and we're fighting, we're fighting upstream John, we're upstream to the TikTok, you don't stop. Talk, talk, TikTok. All right, time to get real. Hey young people, we're hip, we're with the in crowd, we can do TikTok, TikTok Clops. Well I got a bunch of them, I got actually five TikTok clips

Starting point is 01:28:58 that are all various, they're various styles. Oh, I started this one, here's a black woman complaining, or not complaining, she's trying to educate us about gingers. Gingers are no good, they have no soul. I just need to remind y'all again, everyone who is ginger, who has red hair, those are black people. All gingers are black people.

Starting point is 01:29:18 If they have red hair, they are black. You see a white man with red hair, that's a black man. You see a white woman with red hair, that's a black man. You see a white woman with red hair, that's a black woman. Gingers are black. All gingers. Wow. Wow. Okay. Well, that's, I can write that one down. That's a t-shirt, by the way. Gingers are black. All right. I'm loving this insight from TikTok. Well, this is a different, that was a different woman and the one that keeps going on about how all white people are cannibals.

Starting point is 01:29:52 Remember that one. It's true. It's true. It's true. Everyone knows it. It's on TikTok. Now we have, of course, we have the wimpy guy, like just really a wimpy guy threatening everybody because you're mega.

Starting point is 01:30:06 ...Mega, Peter Thiel, Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk fear us. We are the masses. You are the 1%. We are the 99%. Think about it. Think about a keyboard warrior. Think about it. Think about a keyboard warrior. You know, it's sad because he's clearly angry. You know, this is the, uh, he has no other means to show his anger other than speaking into the deep void on Tik Tok to people like you. So it's, I feel for these people.

Starting point is 01:30:42 I feel bad for this guy. I'm in the minority. I'm inside the majority. I'm in the minority. I'm inside the majority. You're in the minority on this. What do you mean? Oh no, I feel bad for all these people. I hope all these people, you know,

Starting point is 01:30:54 that they calm down and they, and they snap out of this. Eventually it will, one day it will. Let's go to the Department of Education nut. Good morning. It's Monday. I have a question for those that have voted for this administration. Did you vote for the Department of Education to be taken out?

Starting point is 01:31:13 Yeah, let me check. Yeah? Yeah, I did. Yes. Dismantled. Did you vote for that? Yep. I'm just curious.

Starting point is 01:31:22 I'm sure you wanted them to change things, but dismantling a department that helps your children. You mean the department that puts those books into my children's schools? No, I'm pretty sure that I voted against that. And helps a lot of people. Putting it with the states is not the answer, especially if the states don't have income taxes and if they're going to start taking those away too. Like- Hold on a second. We have a state that doesn't have income taxes. We have some of the most beautiful roads, some of the best infrastructure. We get taxed in other ways for sure. But I

Starting point is 01:31:57 think you're wrong on this TikTok gal. Our children will hurt for this. They want to take away abortion. They- This is a great phrase, they want to take away abortion. Take it away. Our children will hurt for this. They want to take away abortion. Well, if you don't take away

Starting point is 01:32:18 abortion, that's when the children will really hurt for this. They get aborted. If you have a baby, you got to take care of it, they don't help you there. Then you take away education support. I just, I'm curious, what's your mastermind thought plan? And I wonder if it's good as is, then whatever, have a great day. But this is just people who are grossly misinformed, that's all.

Starting point is 01:32:42 She doesn't even understand how a taxless, income taxless state like Texas works or Nevada or others just doesn't seem to understand it. And I don't know if she has children. If she had children- What do you think? Probably not, probably not. So she's just under-informed and a little over-socialized.

Starting point is 01:33:08 You can make excuses all you want for these people. I'm not making excuses. I have compassion for them because I feel bad. I know you don't. That's okay. You don't need to shut me down just because I have compassion for them. This is the toxic empathy is what you have. Oh, no. Oh, no, there's no empathy.

Starting point is 01:33:23 Empathy is something completely different. There's no empathy here. No, sir oh no, there's no empathy. Empathy is something completely different. There's no empathy here. No, sir. It is compassion, not empathy. Toxic compassion is what you have. Toxic compassion. Oh, here we go. The only one who's toxic is you.

Starting point is 01:33:37 Which one? Here we go, here we go. With the idiot leaving the United States. Okay, so since Trump won the election, we're hooked up. I'm gonna be leaving the United States. OK, so since Trump won the election, we're hooked up. I'm going to be leaving the U.S. and I'm going to be moving to Hawaii. So we'll see how it goes.

Starting point is 01:33:53 And I'll update you guys. Again, someone who has not been educated and completely over socialized, who does not understand the United States includes Hawaii. That is that is that's a kicker. You should have held that one for last, unless this is the best of the bunch. No, they're all good, but this one, this is not, that may have been the best,

Starting point is 01:34:14 but we'll try this one. I just saw this video. I mean, I've been seeing a lot of videos. You need to just set this up. I don't know what's happening. What's going on with this? Okay. Here's a woman crying and she's, she's letting it be known that this is the way everyone must be feeling,

Starting point is 01:34:29 because she is. You know, if you're feeling a certain way because of Trump, obviously everybody's feeling that way. And so she's eliciting kind of like a, she's hoping I guess, but yeah, yeah, yeah, we should overthrow the government. I am not sure what the goal of this overthrow the government. Okay. Yeah. I'm all for it. Let's do it.

Starting point is 01:34:50 Let's do it. I just saw this video. I mean, I've been seeing a lot of videos. Anyone else having a hard time, not just breaking down, crying several times a day because you're just watching the horror happen. The horror? Or so many people around you that either have no idea, don't care, or are pretending it's not and like you're crazy and you're just a conspiracy theorist and you're just insane

Starting point is 01:35:17 and you just are too dramatic and you just need to calm down and you just need to shut the fuck up. But you want to help and there's nothing you can do because you don't have money, you don't have billions of dollars, you don't have any dollars that I can spare, frankly, like truly. But that's the only thing that seems to kind of make a difference and you can't even do that. You can't even do that. You can only speak and now we can't even speak. So watch and cry. It is, I guess. But you know, the worse it gets, it's not like the quieter I want to get. It's the angrier I get, the louder I want to be.

Starting point is 01:35:54 I've just been screaming for so long that I'm not sure who I've even been talking to anymore. Who's left? It's still, what else do you need to see? Oh, no, there's lots of you left. There's there's a lot. So I think the reason I have compassion for these people, we have a family member who does this on TikTok.

Starting point is 01:36:15 Exactly this. And it is I can tell because I know this family member that it is it's an outlet and the feedback is important. Like yeah you're right on you're spot on yes I'm with you I'm also crying I'm also worried I'm also scared. These people are scared because these dark media forces have scared them to know its end about stuff. They can't she did in in a minute and 15, she didn't even say what she's scared of. It's just scared.

Starting point is 01:36:50 She's scared of people. She's scared. Scared. So this is just, it's just a, that's real. That's probably the realest clip that you played of the bunch. This really happens and people need this feedback because no one else in their right mind can have a conversation with them. That's for sure. Yeah, so the algos put those people together and they see more people saying this and they believe

Starting point is 01:37:15 that the whole world is like them. That is the the true genius of TikTok is that whatever you're into you're gonna get a lot of it all the time. It's not just going to switch all of a sudden midstream. And so in that regard, she needs to get off the Internet. She needs to get off her TikTok for sure. None of those kids really had phones, by the way, at the high school. Three. Three had a smartphone. Well, that was that's new information that needed to be discussed. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:37:46 In fact, the most common phrase heard from their parents… So they have phones, they have like flip phones and other phones, but nothing… They have computers at home and so they can go on YouTube. Okay. The most common phrase heard is you can have a smartphone as a wedding present. And that's the attitude of the parents here in Fredericksburg, which I think is a good thing. And they all wear uniforms. It was nice. Oh, you went to a school that where they wear uniforms.

Starting point is 01:38:19 Almost all the schools here have uniforms. I think even the public school may have a uniform, I think. I'm for that. I always liked that when we were in England and Christina went to school, uniform. It takes away a lot of issues. You don't have the cooler kicks on or whatever. Everyone's got the same duds.

Starting point is 01:38:41 I'm for that. You against that? You don't like uniforms at school? Well, well, I've never went to a, I've never gone to a school that had uniforms, ever. And I don't know anybody who did except you. So I can't say one way or the other. I think that theoretically, in some situations, it would be a good idea. But then again, it's kind of militaristic. No, it's not militaristic. Yeah, it's totally militaristic.

Starting point is 01:39:12 So no agenda millennial in the troll room says, kids don't have phones, but they have Adam Curry speak. What the F kind of school is that? Okay. This is what's happening, John. We're alienating everybody, even the no agenda millennials. I don't think we've alienated any no agenda millennials. Well, the no agenda millennial literally just said that.

Starting point is 01:39:35 Yeah, but that's, it still is, did he quit? I quit, I'm off, I'm quitting the chat room, you never hear from me again? No, it would never do that because that's where they get their feedback. That's they need that. They need the troll room. They need it as part of their DNA. So here's a TikTok crowd for the elites, a different venue to complain about America and Donald Trump. And guess where that is? Con, baby, in France. The 78th Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday, bringing together the world's most famous

Starting point is 01:40:08 cinema personalities to celebrate another year of storytelling. Day one featured a star-studded lineup from world-renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino to supermodel Bella Hadid. American actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, who've worked alongside each other on three occasions, stole the show on the opening day. DiCaprio who skipped the red carpet awarded veteran 81-year-old De Niro with an honorary palmedore. But every once in a while even the most private of giants deserves their moment.

Starting point is 01:40:40 A moment to be acknowledged not just for their work but for the quiet lasting influence they've had on so many lives. There, so we are so important everybody. We, we, we are important. We are important to you. On my life. So without trying to speak for the entire world of cinema here tonight, but probably doing it anyway, there is no one more deserving of this Palm Door lifetime achievement award. Who is no more deserving to, for this Palm Door con lifetime achievement award? Who is no more deserving?

Starting point is 01:41:17 None of them. Can you give me a name? De Niro got it, didn't he? Mr. Robert De Niro. De Niro, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, quickly shifted the moment to politics as he slammed the U.S. president for his administration's attacks on arts and culture. America's Philistine president has had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural

Starting point is 01:41:41 institutions. He has cut funding and support to the arts, humanities and education. And now he has announced a hundred percent tariff on films produced outside the U S. Let that sink in for a second. Couple of things. Philistine was funny. Couple of things to note. Why is the government supporting the arts? It's the government, you don't want the government involved, it seems to me,

Starting point is 01:42:12 because they're gonna try to influence one way or the other. I would say you are correct. The second thing is the reason about taxing for the foreign films was as which was not fully understood by me when I first heard about it is to keep the keep the business in the United States and help locals make money help the people in Los Angeles the Angelinos and the people in New York he's got a studio that he built in New York City with his buddy they built a giant sound stage, De Niro did. And the idea is to keep the business there and to keep the business in

Starting point is 01:42:49 Hollywood. So what's wrong with that exactly? What's wrong is what's wrong between the ears of Mr. De Niro, who I guess he gets accolades for doing this. I mean he has taken every opportunity at every award show for the past eight years, maybe longer to do this at award shows. Like I'm going to show them. Hold my beer. If you're the award show guys, I'd have to say I probably do it.

Starting point is 01:43:21 Uh, your words show guys said, well, you know, our awards aren't getting any attention, what are we going to do? probably do it. Your awards show guy said, well, you know, our awards aren't getting any attention. What are we going to do? No one ever pays attention to the con palm door. Well, no one's, it's never been televised. And I know of the palm door, especially the lifetime achievement award, which who knows who got it. You name one person who's gotten it before. I can't think of one. But your original point is spot on. You don't want, you don't actually want the government involved in the arts for the obvious reasons. But here they are complaining because

Starting point is 01:43:55 said the millionaire De Niro, well I'm not making enough money now, I guess. What else is he saying? Cause he's saying that they're cutting the money off. That's no good. Or is he saying, cause I hear a lot of this too like so here I am rich rich director producer Movie star I presume he's rich. I have no idea but no he's got plenty He's got plenty of money you would think he does what he's kind of saying is all those little unsuccessful people get no chance like me

Starting point is 01:44:24 That's what I mean. It's very an elitist position to take. It's like, well, all the things that are not sponsored, you know, it's almost like, uh, like the music business. You know, it's like, ha ha the little people, they have no chance. They can't get on the radio. They can't get on Spotify. It's a, it's an elitist position. He happens to be a very good actor and I think a decent director.

Starting point is 01:44:48 He's produced a lot of things, which means he put his money into it. I don't know if he's directed anything. I think he's directed some things. But even that series I watched on, I think Netflix was, you know, about him being present was good. And I watched it because I wanted to rid myself of bias. And I'm very able to separate the arts and his art from him the person. But remember, this is the guy who literally was saying what Robert Kennedy Jr. is saying now about the MMR vaccine and has a child with it and all this stuff.

Starting point is 01:45:21 It's just dark forces. Hollywood must be controlled by Satan. And support to the arts, humanities and education. And now he has announced a 100% tariff on films produced outside the US. Let that sink in for a minute. Okay, I'm letting it sink in. Because he's outside the US, he's trying to curry favor, sink in because he's outside the US he's trying to curry favor to term to create for a to coin a term with the foreign audience fully well knowing that if you want to be successful in the film business you need the American audience you can't put a price on creativity but apparently you can put it well why don't

Starting point is 01:46:01 you work for ten bucks or scale then it It's creativity, you can't put a price on it as long as it's 10 million dollars a film. You can't put a price on creativity, but apparently you can put a tariff on it. Of course, this is unacceptable. All these attacks are unacceptable. The opening ceremony concludes. Yeah, unacceptable. The opening ceremony concludes. Yeah. Unacceptable. Poor Robert.

Starting point is 01:46:31 He made a, he made a bad deal. Yes. What happened? He made a bad, bad deal and he can't get out of it. He has to stay, stay stuck in that. Um, so Jake Tapper is out with his book. He's shopping it around. Have you had a chance to read his book? No, I have not.

Starting point is 01:46:47 Have you? Of course not. But it's about, of course not. They did not send me an advanced copy, so how could I read it? They didn't ask me to do a blurb. So what can I say? Otherwise it would have been like best analysis of the Biden presidency ever. So here he is.

Starting point is 01:47:07 I don't have the clips. At least as a good, but I will say this that Fox in particular, a spike in the ball because they were on the Biden being seen a little fart forever. And so they have, so they've found every clip from Tapper's Pass that they can I have that Well, there's the one about with Laura Trump, but there's a ton More I have a ton more. Well, let's play him. Well, you want that you want to hear the

Starting point is 01:47:40 the promotion of the book first I Want to hear the bet here are the clips first then the promotion of the book How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that? It's very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable to watch somebody on stage- It's so amazing. It's so amazing to me that-

Starting point is 01:47:59 And try and figure out an answer- A cognitive decline. Biden embraces his stutter talking about it while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it, belittles it. He's sharp physically. I mean mentally. Yeah. I think the question is physically, right? Right. More so. Right. Right. And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three or four years younger than him. Exactly. I mean you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness, ability to lead, of those supporting Biden. You said, quote, shame on all of you you pretending everything is okay.

Starting point is 01:48:25 You're leading us and him into a disaster. Do you worry that you damaged him at all? I don't doubt that you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today and maybe even publicly some of them because they like you personally. But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from your Democratic colleagues. I mean, just like, what is he thinking? Exercise and narcissism. I mean, false claims to the Wall Street Journal about President

Starting point is 01:48:50 Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's 81. False claims. And his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great. It's not horrible, but I don't understand the outrage. Quote, behind closed doors, Biden's shows signs of slipping. Unquote. The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp, which is run by the Murdochs. Beyond the headline, there is some critical nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans with former speaker Kevin McCarthy, the only one going on the record. They do note in the article that most of the criticism comes from

Starting point is 01:49:19 Republicans. Have you heard any concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeming a little slower? No. The Russians are trying to do to make us and the public not trust our election integrity. Joe Biden has dimension, all this stuff. It's all crazy. It's all crazy. Jake Tapper on the defense for years.

Starting point is 01:49:40 And now years and years. He did this continually. Laura Trump is still demanding an apology. He's the one who promoted the stuttering idea. And as somebody pointed out, we've noticed this too. He never stuttered before. He never had a stutter maybe when he was three, but he never stuttered throughout his career as a senator or even the vice president. Now all of a sudden he's a stutterer.

Starting point is 01:50:10 You know, so Jake Tapper is a big phony. Well, what's amazing is how Jake Tapper can get up in the morning and shave and look at himself and think, yeah, I wrote a good book. A new book is outlining new claims about former president Biden's physical and mental health. The book, Original Sin, claims Biden's health had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair after the election. They started putting aides around him as he walked to Marine One, the helicopter that was to kind of hide from public view how bad his gait was, how bad his walking was. At a fundraiser last year with actor George Clooney, the authors claim Biden seemed severely diminished and did not recognize Clooney despite Biden knowing him for decades. According to the book, former President Obama, also at that fundraiser, had difficulty making sense of Biden's behavior and blamed Biden's busy schedule.

Starting point is 01:50:55 But the authors say Obama would come to realize that scheduling was not the fundamental problem. A Biden spokesperson refutes the book, saying, we continue to await anything that shows where Joe Biden had to make a presidential decision or where national security was threatened or where he was unable to do his job. In fact, the evidence points to the opposite. He was a very effective president. Last week, Biden and the former first lady pushed back against a slate of new books, claiming he was dealing with cognitive decline at the end of his presidency. You're wrong. There's nothing to sustain that.

Starting point is 01:51:27 The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us. And they didn't see how hard Joe worked every single day. A Biden spokesperson says the authors did not fact check the book with them. That's the best part. He didn't fact check it, man. None of it, man. None of it's true. This is, it's just amazing.

Starting point is 01:51:54 Did ABC Good Morning America call them out for like, Hey, everyone defended this sharp as attack over and over. And now, Oh, does ABC own a publishing company like CBS does? Is that possible? I think they do, but I don't think that's the group that brought the book out. It's I was, yeah. I think they do, but I don't think that's the group that brought the book out. Well, there's a couple of different things here. Continue and I'll bring it up. All I was going to say was they should stop all of this. It's just elder abuse.

Starting point is 01:52:15 The guy's over, he's done. It's like, let him just leave the guy be. Here's the problem I have. The 25th Amendment doesn't work. It doesn't do Jack. It's pretty obvious. It wasn't from the last month of this administration. We saw it when he's wandering around, going into the jungle, he loses his train of thought,

Starting point is 01:52:40 constantly losing his train of thought and then, dignity! And one thing or another. And obviously other people were running the White House and there was the auto pen signing the documents. The 25th amendment is a fraud. It doesn't work. No, it's never going to get executed. There has to be a coup. Do you, what do you recommend? I don't know. I think it has to go to Congress or somebody or some other form. I mean, the Congress could impeach, but that's no good because it's pretty

Starting point is 01:53:13 almost impossible in this day and age. We know that doesn't work. Well, it won't work because you can't get enough people in the Senate because you need like 60 or 70 people to say yes. And that's not going to happen. And, uh, I don't know. I have no idea. All I know is that the 25th Amendment is a fraud.

Starting point is 01:53:31 It was put in place because of Wilson, and this situation would have been the one where it should have been executed, but nobody's going to bring themselves to do it. Well, government is a fraud in that regard then. It's a governmental amendment. You know, the Senate and the cabinet, Nobody's going to bring themselves to do it. Well, government is a fraud in that regard then. It's a governmental amendment, you know, the Senate and the cabinet, and they can, they can do this, but they don't. Because they were running the show and they loved it. Anthony Blinken.

Starting point is 01:53:58 Where's Anthony by the way? What's he doing? Does he have his consulting business up and running yet? Oh, he's probably working for some think tank. He'll be back. So of all the big news that the president had, which is trillions, well, no, he had $600 billion in deals, deals everywhere, deals. Of course, we're going to spend a trillion, we heard, on defense, which is a good 100

Starting point is 01:54:24 to 200 billion more than the last. The last, the last, last big, completely waste of money for an operation that can't be audited. The last big, beautiful bill. Um, but I think the, the drug price executive order was, uh, was big news, uh, because outside, you hesitant to ever do anything against insurance companies. And of course, the unspoken of middlemen, the pharmacy benefit managers. And President Trump did just a beautiful job of explaining how massive the scam is of the overpayment we make in the United States with the insurance and the drug companies and the pharmacy benefit managers where your copay is basically what every other country in the world pays for something

Starting point is 01:55:19 but somehow you got screwed and you're still paying premiums for something that does nothing for you. Yeah, you have to pay the premiums and you have to pay the drug price too. The premiums just are going to somebody's pocket. It's just like stealing. It's completely stealing. Of course, insurance companies really are nothing more or less than banks. And that's why everyone's deathly afraid of them.

Starting point is 01:55:39 They don't do anything. But President Trump brought it to the people and he explained very well what was going on. I thought this was probably one of the best things he's ever done when it comes to explaining the problem. I brought it up with the drug companies represented by somebody who's very, very- I'm sorry, wrong one here.

Starting point is 01:55:55 I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a business man, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. Top guy, yep. A highly neurotic. Highly neurotic. Who, what fat neurotic guy do we know? That's very successful.

Starting point is 01:56:09 Who could this be? Plenty of them. Brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat shot. The fat shot. Go to him. Everybody loved this. The fat shot, he's taking the fat shot.

Starting point is 01:56:25 And he called me up and he said, President, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me President. So that's nice respect. But he's a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful. I wouldn't even know how we would know this. But because he's got comments, President, could I ask you a question? Well, I'm in London and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working. I love that Trump throws that in. It's not working, right? Is that the problem?

Starting point is 01:56:55 It's not working. No, man, it's too expensive. I'm a billionaire. It's too expensive. This fat shot. He said, he said, I just paid $88 and in New York, I pay $1,300. What the hell is going on? He said, so I checked and it's the same box made in the same plant by the same company.

Starting point is 01:57:19 It's the identical pill that I buy in New York. Hey, hold on a second. It was a shot, now it's a pill? Yeah, there's a bunch of people that jumped on that. That's interesting. Do you think that was just an oversight on his part? He just made a mistake? Yeah, he's winging it. He's doing shtick. He's doing shtick. He's doing shtick. This is not rehearsed. Most of his material that's funny is just off the cuff and he's working it. And it's the same box made in the same plant by the same company. It's the identical pill that I buy in New York.

Starting point is 01:57:58 And here I'm paying $88 in London. In New York, I'm paying $1,300. Now, this is a great businessman, but he's not familiar with this crazy situation that we have. But he was stunned. Stunned. He was stunned. And so then what does our president do? He goes and talks to the drug companies. Hey, hey, drug man, the fat shot. Why is it so cheap over there and so expensive over here? I brought it up with the drug companies represented by somebody who's very, very smart. Good person too.

Starting point is 01:58:30 And we argued about it for about half hour. And then finally he just said, because they can't justify it. He just said, look, look, you got me. You got me. You got me. You got me. You got me. You got me.

Starting point is 01:58:44 It's like a couple of gangsters around a table. Hey, man, how come that VIG is so high? Hey, Mario, you got me. Prez. You got me. You got me. You got me. It's like a couple of gangsters around a table. Hey, man, how come that big is so high? Hey, Mario, you got me. You got me. You got me. I can no longer just. They've been justifying this crap for years. They said, oh, it's research and development.

Starting point is 01:58:57 I said, well, research and development, other countries should pay research and development, too. It's for their benefit. It was just one of those things. And the other countries would set a price, and they'd meet the price, and they'd say, if you don't meet the price, you can't sell it in our country. I said, well, then you walk away, and they'll call you back,

Starting point is 01:59:16 and they'll sell it in the country. But now they'll have to do that. So for the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs, and we will bring fairness to America, drug prices will come down by much more really if you think, 59, if you think of a drug that is sometimes 10 times more expensive, it's much more than the 59 percent, you know, it depends on the way you want to analyze it, but in one way you could analyze it that way. But between 59 and 80,

Starting point is 01:59:45 and I guess even 90 percent. So when I worked so hard in the first term and if I got prices down, I remember I was the only one to ever get prices down for a full year, but I'd get them down like 2 percent and I thought it was like a big deal. Well, we're getting them down 60, 70, 80, 90%. So have you read the executive order about this? No, you have it right there though. Of course I do. There's a couple of things that are of note and this kind of flows into another freak out, not here in Fred, of course.

Starting point is 02:00:20 Another freak out is about Medicare. That, you know, the big beautiful bill, because they never really explained this part. The big beautiful bill will have, you know, Medicare steep, steep cuts. Here, actually, I'll play this. House Speaker Mike Johnson today working to solve Republican in-party fighting. I think we'll get everybody, yes. As their proposed cuts to Medicaid divide the party. Late Sunday, Johnson unveiling their plan to cut hundreds of billions of dollars to

Starting point is 02:00:47 Medicaid fueling concerns it would leave millions of low-income and disabled Americans without care you're gonna die I continue to maintain my position we should not be cutting Medicaid benefits Republican Senator Josh Hawley yesterday with an op-ed in the New York Times writing if Congress cuts funding for Medicaid benefits, Missouri workers and their children will lose their health care and hospitals will close. It's that simple.

Starting point is 02:01:10 And that pattern will replicate in states across the country. I love how hospitals will close. It has nothing to do with hospitals. But Hawley is jumping on the bandwagon. And he's wrong in this case, because the numbers add up if you look at what's happening here. We are struggling with rural health care coverage and you know Republicans, we need to be making that better not worse.

Starting point is 02:01:32 Protesters today blocking the doors to one of the hearings on Capitol Hill where members of Congress dissect the proposed cuts, a critical piece of the big beautiful bill President Trump has been asking for to fund his agenda. With the one big beautiful bill, we can ignite the second Trump economic boom and improve the lives of millions of our neighbors back home. If the cuts are approved, it would go against what Trump said back in February. Can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security will not be touched? Yeah, I mean, I have said it so many times, you shouldn't be asking me that question. Okay?

Starting point is 02:02:06 This will not be read-my-lips. It won't be read-my-lips anymore. We're not going to touch it. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says the cuts would slash Medicaid more than ever before. It's cruel. It's heartbreaking. Senate Democrats will continue to expose this devastating plan and fight for American families.

Starting point is 02:02:26 Blah, blah, blah. So the whole point of the executive order, which of course, it's an executive order, so if it doesn't turn into legislation at some point, it goes away. But the whole point is you can slash money from the Medicaid budget because Medicaid is overpaying for all of these drugs because of course Medicaid pays pretty much full price what the insurance companies have you know and the pharmacy benefit managers have jacked this all up to but President Trump's executive order is to make it a most favored nation pricing and there's a whole bunch of existing laws on the books like the Sherman Act

Starting point is 02:03:04 and all kinds of stuff where this can be done so that Medicaid will have to pay a lot less No one will actually lose anything. That's the theory at least no one will lose any medicines They will just be cheaper to the United States government and the United States people but the real the real gotcha in here is section 4 people but the real the real gotcha in here is section four enabling direct to consumer sales to American patients at the most favored nation price to the extent that is consistent with the law the Secretary of Health and Human Services Bobby Beop shall facilitate direct to consumer purchasing programs for pharmaceutical manufacturers that sell their products to American patients

Starting point is 02:03:44 at the most favored nation price. So you will finally be able to buy your medication at a normal price, which most of you are already doing, from India, from any other place. That's the big gotcha here. You know, if you look for ivermectin, you can get 2000 ivermectin pills for like 50 bucks from India. If you can buy it in America, it's going to be hundreds of dollars. So he's really put in a bypass here that also goes for hospitals and pharmacies, etc.

Starting point is 02:04:20 where you can get your stuff at most favored nation pricing and go around the system. I think it's long overdue. And everything else is just bull crap. Okay. I don't have anything to add to that. No there's nothing to add. Just staying with phmer for one minute. I told you it was coming that the Deutsche lady, she had her commission, the Pfizer commission.

Starting point is 02:04:51 They investigated what happened with Pfizer and Ursula and the text messages, and they figured it all out. And nothing will happen. This is a legal and political thunderclap. The general court of the European Union has condemned the European Commission's lack of transparency in the negotiations on vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The judges annulled the Commission's refusal to disclose the text messages exchanged between its president and the head of Pfizer. These text messages between Rusla von der Leyen and the pharmaceutical giant took place during negotiations

Starting point is 02:05:24 on the purchase of almost two billion doses. The commission maintains that it does not hold these text messages and that their content was insubstantial. Another convincing line of defense. For the moment it's still unclear why they thought that these messages did not include important information so this needs to be clarified. And also in a way we can see that in general there is still a lot of secrecy around this. We still don't know. It's still unclear if these messages were deleted. If, as the courts say, were deleted on purpose, automatically what happened there. So in our opinion, since the beginning, text messages should be included.

Starting point is 02:06:03 The court criticized the commission for failing to provide credible evidence to explain why it was unable to provide these text messages at the request of a journalist from the New York Times. In addition, the judges considered that the institution was unable to clearly specify whether or not these text messages had been deleted. The commission remains unclear on this issue. I didn't say that any messages were deleted. What I did say were that as in any access to documents request, what we first do is to check are there any registered documents that fall within the scope of the request. We did that, didn't find any.

Starting point is 02:06:39 The Commission considers that the judgment does not call into question the procedures for registering documents, but rather a lack of explanation. It interprets the court decision as an indication that it will have to justify itself better in the future. Oh, you know, they deleted themselves. It's, you know, it's just what happens. And Ursula just wafts away, no problem. She's gonna walk away, no problem.

Starting point is 02:07:07 She's going to walk away with no problem anyway. Yeah. There is of course somewhere there's a record of these text messages. Yeah. The NSA has it. I'm sure the NSA does have it. I'm sure somebody has it. So I'm glad the German lady did all that work for nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing comes out of these things that corrupt

Starting point is 02:07:28 corrupt RFK Yes, I got one clip from the hearing they were grilling him left and right RFK juniors in front of Congress in front of first in front of what was Congress in front of Congress, in front of, first he was in front of Congress, and then he was in front of the Senate. What was the whole thing, what was it all about? Was it just a... Oh, because he's a bad guy, and he's, they're trying to get rid of him.

Starting point is 02:07:51 And so they, they're trying to embarrass him, they can't do it, they're trying to contradict him. That clip that was, what was it, we talked about a couple shows ago, of the guy head of one of the committees that is supposed to be running Kennedy Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm in charge of him. I own him. He has to talk to me every month that guy. Yeah that guy So they he's got a couple of come patrons. They're all Democrats these Democrats I mean they loved Kennedy until he became a Republican. This is really simple But let's listen to him go.

Starting point is 02:08:26 This is a, it's went on with all of them, but especially the Democrats, the Republicans were fine, but the Democrats kept trying to, you know, they're pushing vaccines, all the measles thing, they had two dead kids. My God. And we had 20 shootings in Oakland. Doesn't matter, but these two dead kids. No, they're black. It doesn't matter Oakland, doesn't matter, but these two dead kids were somewhere in Texas. No, they're black.

Starting point is 02:08:46 It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So, here's one of the back and forths. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that reducing dependency on China for critical medicines is a priority for him and the Trump administration. NTD correspondent Jason Blair has more from Kennedy's testimony on Capitol Hill. They're directly and narrowly focused on creating dominance across the globe. During a House committee meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed when asked if

Starting point is 02:09:14 over relying on China for critical pharmaceuticals poses a threat. We saw the problem with supply chain control by the Chinese during COVID. And this is a priority for me and for this administration. R.F.K. Jr. says that they've been working hard to bring more medicine production into the U.S. and that he's been meeting with pharmaceutical CEOs. I've met repeatedly with Eli Lilly, which is now building nine facilities, nine factories in this country. Kennedy says that China also has a program called the Thousand Talents Program that is designed to steal US IP and technology.

Starting point is 02:09:51 And we have facilitated that at NIH. I funded Chinese scientists with contracts that don't require them even to report their science back to our country, but they give it directly to Chinese military scientists on bio weapons research that we gave them the technology for. After testifying in front of the house appropriations committee Kennedy was a witness in a second hearing in front of the senate. He was interrupted by protesters during his opening statement. The witness will suspend. The committee will come to order. Tina told me that the the the guy from Ben and Jerry's was protesting. I don't get to protest at all. What are they protesting against?

Starting point is 02:10:35 I don't get it. Seems like a plant to me. But then the best clips are these, which is Chris Murphy comes on and he starts asking Kennedy a bunch of pointed questions and Chris Murphy is a show boater from Connecticut. He shows up a lot. He's trying to become president. He sucks.

Starting point is 02:10:53 He's stupid. And here he goes into it. This is the Chris Murphy series. This is him talking to Kennedy. That is not what happened. You've done the opposite. You canceled $12 billion in grants to the states, including my state, that are used to administer and track vaccines. You promised Chairman

Starting point is 02:11:10 Cassidy... When did I do that? Madam Chair, would you allow me to finish my question? Keep going with your question. When did I do that? Let me finish my question. You're making accusations. Just tell me when I did it so I can understand what the question is.

Starting point is 02:11:25 You have canceled $12 billion in public health grants to states, whether you know this or not. That funding is used by the states in part to be able to administer and dispense information about vaccines? Hey, I'll take $1 billion and talk about it three hours long twice a week. It's unbelievable. It's just scam, obviously. For one state.

Starting point is 02:12:00 But could he answer the question about it? Did he even know why it had been canceled? Well, it continues pretty much in order. So here he comes. Let me give you the full panoply of the things you said before this committee that didn't turn out to be true. You also promised Chairman Cassidy that the FDA would not change vaccine standards from quote, historical norms. But what happened as soon as you were sworn in? You announced new standards for vaccine approvals that you proudly referred to in your own press release as a radical departure from current practice and experts say that that departure will delay

Starting point is 02:12:42 approvals. You also said specific to the measles vaccine that you support the measles vaccine, but you have consistently been undermining the measles vaccine. You told the public that the vaccine wanes very quickly. You went on the Dr. Phil show and said that the measles vaccine was never fully tested for safety. You said there's fetal debris in the measles vaccine. And this morning... All true. All true. This morning in front of the public... Do you want me to lie to the public?

Starting point is 02:13:08 That's not... None of that is true. Of course it's true. Of course it's true. Senator, that's true. You got your senator begging your property. You do not know what you're talking about. Wow.

Starting point is 02:13:16 Let's have a little bit of order so that you can get your question in. Madam Chair, I'm speaking. I didn't ask for a response yet. I understand that... I'd like to lay out the predicate of my question before I'm interrupted by the witness. Go this. I didn't ask for a response yet. I'd like to lay out the predicate of my question before I'm interrupted by the witness. You should have some respect for this committee. By the way, the Ben and Jerry's guy, Ben, Ben Cohen, he was kicked out of the hearing

Starting point is 02:13:39 with Robert Kennedy Jr. for protesting Congress's funding of the Israeli military. He went to the wrong hearing somehow. Oh, that's funny. It's like, no. It's like a Woody Allen movie. Exactly. So we wrap it with this one. Just this morning in front of the House of Representatives, you also said that you in

Starting point is 02:14:04 fact would not recommend that kids get vaccinated for measles. You said you would just lay out the pros and cons. Okay so this is the summation of everything that you have said to compromise people's faith in the measles vaccine in particular is contrary to what you said before this committee. You said you support the measles vaccine, but then you have laid out a set of facts that are contested and I will submit information for the record from experts who can test what you have said about the vaccine and the result is to undermine faith in the vaccine. It's kind of like saying, listen, I think you should swim in that lake, but you know, the lake is probably toxic and there's probably a ton of snakes and alligators in that lake. But I think you should swim in it. Nobody's going to swim

Starting point is 02:14:47 in that lake if that's what you say. And so I want you to acknowledge that when you say you support the measles vaccine and then go out and repeatedly undermine the vaccine with information that is contested by public health experts, that is not supporting the vaccine. And so I guess I have two simple questions for you. One is, can you clarify what you said in the House this morning? Are you or are you not recommending that families get their children vaccinated? Or are you just giving people the pros and cons?

Starting point is 02:15:19 And do you understand that when you say these things about the measles vaccine, what ends up happening is less people get the vaccine? That may be what you want, but do you understand that the result of constantly questioning the efficacy or safety of the vaccine results in less people getting the vaccine? So I don't necessarily want to spend the remaining 20 seconds in an argument over the science, but do you at least understand that that's the consequence of what you're saying. And are you actually still recommending people get the vaccine or are you not? Senator, if I advise you to swim in a lake that I knew there to be alligators in, wouldn't you want me to tell you there were alligators in it? So are you recommending

Starting point is 02:15:58 the measles vaccine or not? What I've said and what I said... It doesn't sound like you are if that's... Are you going to let me answer? Are you gonna keep it? Are you are you not? Are you gonna let me answer? What I pledge before this committee when I during my confirmation is that I would tell the truth that I would have radical transparency I'm going to tell the truth about everything we know and we don't know about vaccine Recommending the measles vaccine. I am not going to just tell people everything is safe and effective if I know there's issues. I need to respect people's intelligence.

Starting point is 02:16:30 I think you're answering the question. Wow. I don't think I saw that clip on mainstream news. I wonder why. I have a lot of really good clips about Big Pharma because outside of the military industrial complex, which runs a lot, that is probably number two. They certainly run the media.

Starting point is 02:16:50 But before we do that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the seas in the caravan of camels. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and the only Mr. John C. DeVorent. Yeah, well, good morning to you, Mr. Adam Currie, and Mr. Steve Woodson, Rafi, and the air subs DeWaurin, and David Snipes out there. And good morning to the trolls in the troll room. Hello there, trolls. How you doing?

Starting point is 02:17:14 Are you rocking? Are you rolling? Hello! Oh, we don't have a peak troll count for some reason. Why is that now? Always something. That's always something. We're around 1500 right now, What's that now? Always something. It's always something. We're around 1500 right now, but usually it's probably around 1800, 1900. Interesting.

Starting point is 02:17:33 It didn't show up. Anyway, the trolls are there. The trolls are very cynical, I've noticed. I've been paying attention to them today. They're like, it's all performative. No, I don't care. These people are no good. We're all going to die These people are no good. Nothing's good. We're all gonna die.

Starting point is 02:17:45 Blah, blah, blah. They have no joy. Where's your joy and chaos, trolls? It's all good. It's all good. It really is. Everything's gonna be fine. This is a show put on for your benefit. It's just a show. Bobby the Op is right. I'm not gonna tell you to swim in a lake if there's alligators in that. I'm not going to do that. No.

Starting point is 02:18:09 So the trolls are in the trollroom, trollroom.io. If you want to go in there and be beaten around like you're in a bouncy ball, fill one of those ball bins with kids, that's a good place to go. And of course you can listen to the live stream or use a modern podcast. Fountain, by the way, is coming out with a new version where you can boost with dollars right from the app. Did I tell you that already? Yeah, you did last show. Oh, okay. Yeah. You went on and on about it. Yeah, because that's what I've been, ever since Apple made the change where you can have an alternative payment method in your app, because that was the whole thing. Because you can't do it now. No, they lost that big epic court case and the judge excoriated them.

Starting point is 02:18:51 So they have to. They have to allow buttons and links in apps that do not use the Apple in-app payment system, i.e. Apple gets 30% of it. So that's good news. It's good news for freedom, John. For freedom. Freedom, i.e. Apple gets 30% of it. So that's good news. It's good news for freedom, John. For freedom. Freedom, baby. Screw your freedom. That's right. It's a good day for freedom. And of course, you also with those modern podcast apps

Starting point is 02:19:15 at podcastapps.com, you'll get the bat signal when we go live. Many of these shows go live and you'll know it because it's all on No no agenda stream. Everything is all there. You get the chapters, you get all kinds of groovy stuff. And of course, when we post the show, within 90 seconds, these modern apps know about it. Don't spend hours of your time wasting around waiting for Apple to update. It's just not worth it. Value for value is how we hope to continue with this podcast, which means if you get anything out of the program and you feel like, you know, I got a good stock tip, I learned something that I can impress my family with,

Starting point is 02:19:54 I felt better. I just felt better because I don't feel all spun up about all the nonsense is being thrown at me 24 seven online and on cable and over the air even. Well then just send something back to us, time, talent or treasure. You can do any version of that that you want. We have artists who love sending us their talent and their time by making artwork that we can choose right after the show. They do it live while we're on the air which is very impressive. They use a variety of tools the air, which is very impressive. They use a variety of tools. It's clear that the tool of choice, although expertly applied, was artificial intelligence generative AI for the episode 1763,

Starting point is 02:20:36 which was on Sunday. We titled that AI Factory. We were contemplating doing A1 Factory to stay on online with our fine secretary of education. But we decided against that because we thought people probably look at it and think that we were the dopes and not the second. No, we can't. It's a fine, very fine line. Very fine line. However, Francisco Scaramanga, I mean, we went way off base. We're very, we're traditionalists when it comes to holidays and, um, and observances, uh, for veterans or for, um, Christmas or Easter and Mother's Day has always been kind of sacred for us. And we, we veered off the path.

Starting point is 02:21:20 No. What do you mean no? We went over this and over this and over this and I came, I, you, you, yes you, I said I like this piece and you said it was gruesome, which is a rule. No, no, no, I said does it apply to the gruesome rule? Can we apply that to this piece of art? The gruesome rule I think was in play and so I looked at it, I think it's a hilarious piece, it's very funny. It's by the way, I I will say this there was a bunch of these AI art pieces that come out dingy Yeah

Starting point is 02:21:52 Dingy and this has got this somebody's got to fix this The art is dingy. We had this the last couple of pieces came out dingy. In other words, they're just no white they're the the the pieces came out dingy. In other words, there's no white. The dynamic range of the piece is minimal. So it's muddy looking. Because it's a photocopy of something else. Who knows what it is. But the piece I really liked was Happy Mother's Day by Darren O'Neil with the,

Starting point is 02:22:17 with the flying mom. You're not an NPC. I was pushing that at the end, but then you, because I had first chosen this, you had said, no, you're going to eat it and this is going to be your fault. And you insisted that we take this horrible piece by Scaramagna. You are turning history around. I'm telling you the story. The pregnant mom, the kid in a body suit with a package, as you put it, and the poor girl with the eye has got poked. I mean it's just a tremendously gross piece. From now on I'm taping our conversations about

Starting point is 02:22:54 art so I can play back the truth. You like you said I love this piece this is a great piece and I said I said no this is horrible and the way, the kid has a huge package. This is weird. This is not good. That's what I said. That's what you said. Yeah. But you were pushing for this.

Starting point is 02:23:11 You weren't pushing for anything else. He's like, this is the one, man. This is it. This is the one. And you said Francisco Scaramanga is great. I heard you say it. I heard you say it. He is great.

Starting point is 02:23:22 He's great. But so is Darren. Darren is very good. I actually use the mom with the flying mom as a bat signal piece of art. I like that as well. However, it was Francisco Scaramanga who scores once again with his Kegar for Mom art. That's what the title is. I'm just looking to see if there was anything.

Starting point is 02:23:41 I think I pushed maybe for one other Mother's Day. No, there really wasn't. It was weak. Yes, and a lot of the art is dingy. You're right. You're so right about that. That's an interesting observation. A lot of pope, a lot of pope stuff, a lot of raw dogging, a lot of raw dogging. I probably noticed this more with this, not this piece, but the one, the last piece would look good on the art generator, but then when it showed up on the, it was dingy. It didn't have any white. Yeah. Yeah, it's not white enough. The contrast was minimized.

Starting point is 02:24:17 And the scary manga piece is probably the worst example of this. There is no dynamic range. No, no, but don't worry. We'll fix it once we have more compute. Just get some more, try a different system. I had lunch with a new guy in town. He's a little bit younger than me, which is nice. Everyone's a little bit older than me.

Starting point is 02:24:36 Wait, wait, how did this come about? How, oh, they just walking down the street and just had lunch with some rando. No, he's, he actually does the mixing at church for the worship team, which is Christianese for band. And he's a musician. So he plays guitar, but he's doing all the mixing. And finally, it's starting to sound good.

Starting point is 02:24:58 It really sounds good. And he is a sales guy for the hyperscalers. And so he, so I won't mention his company, but they sell AI products and they sell products where you can select the model you want. And so I said, oh, this is great. So we sit, so I go out to lunch. We go out to lunch, have a little chat.

Starting point is 02:25:20 And I said, well, what do you think of this AI? He says, you know, people in the industry are saying, this is like jet travel, this changes everything. He says, this is bull crap. He says, it's all still machine learning and it's pretty good at it. But there's no, like me, he says, there's no intelligence in this artificial intelligence. It says, we're not even at 0.1% of anything intelligent.

Starting point is 02:25:42 Now, if you give it structured data, and you want to sift through it and find things and categorize, yeah, that's machine learning. It's machine learning. That's where we were before the AI hype took off. And it took off because people like Scaramanga can make this stuff and we're like, we're gobsmacked. Like, wow, this is great.

Starting point is 02:25:59 How did you do that? Or you can make a country song because all the AI generators only make country songs. You notice that? Oh, man, a country song because all the AI generators only make country songs. You notice that? Oh man, I made a great song with AI. It's always a country song. So that's just, he agrees with me. It's just a parlor trick. So that made me feel very good. I paid for lunch. Good to go. Wow. He got you. What else do you want me to say that I agree with? Hey, a big $49 check at Werner's Cafe.

Starting point is 02:26:29 $49 bucks for lunch is a lot. It's Fredericksburg, baby. It's better to eat at home here. For two people? Two sandwiches, two drinks and pie? $49 bucks is kind of... What do you pay for in California for that? $3.50.

Starting point is 02:26:47 Okay. All right. I'm moving to Cali. They'll tax you on the back end. Don't worry. They make it up on volume. So thank you very much, Francisco Scaramanga. Thank you to all of our artists who diligently participate in this wacky contest at noagendaartgenerator.com.

Starting point is 02:27:03 We really do appreciate what you do. Now to the donations. It'll be a quick list and of course I've been grousing about this because this is the lowest that's been in a long time. I want to point out that this is the only gig we have. So you know and this is a full-time job and it's not so much about you know executive producers, associate executive producers. It's really nice but it's really so much about, you know, executive producers, associate executive producers. It's really nice, but it's really where are the people who just appreciate us and just give us five bucks a show?

Starting point is 02:27:31 That's what I'm missing. Well, the over 50s today, in other words, everybody, including associate executive producers and people paid over 50, is a grand total of 28 people. Since the newsletter is 29,000 something, this is less than one person per thousand. That's the newsletter. And we have about 800,000 to a million listeners.

Starting point is 02:27:54 Well, I'm gonna take a look right now. I'm gonna take a look at that. And only 28 people. That's telling me something. That's telling me. It's telling us that they're, although they must be, they're listening. We still have this terabyte set of flowing from the servers. Well, here I have, here I have. In April, we had

Starting point is 02:28:16 oh, we're down. In April, we had 743,000 unique listeners. That's April. That's April. That's down. That is down. It's down from about 800. Well, 850, 860. We used to be up floating around in a bump.

Starting point is 02:28:33 We're on our way down, baby. We're on our way out. We're old. We're yesterday's news. These things happen. Not enough TikToks. Wrap us in fish. I mean, that's nothing.

Starting point is 02:28:42 We're just a bunch of old boomers. Got to play more TikToks. Old boomers, bunch of old boomers. Got to play boomers. Nobody cares. So maybe we play tick tock clips anyway. Um, uh, we do like doing this. By the way, I have to say the tick tock clips come in bunches. Like, you know, you can't don't see any, they know everyone. So someone will send me one. Say, look at this one. And I catch it and it just hooked to a bunch of other ones. Bang, bang, bang, bang. They're all, you know, they're nailing it.

Starting point is 02:29:07 It's called an Elgo. By the way, think. Yeah, but the Elgo doesn't trigger right all the time. Because if it's, for example, if I'm using Jay's phone, the Elgo always drives me to the same. Yeah, but it's a phone. It's an app. The app is doing all kinds of stuff under the hood that you don't see.

Starting point is 02:29:23 That's why it knows. I'll tell you what I get a lot of. If I'm left to my own, if the thing figures who I am and they want to give me stuff I like, lousy cooking videos. People who can't cook. Yeah, there's a lot of that. And it's like a joke to watch. You can't now, it's like watching a train wreck.

Starting point is 02:29:43 You just can't now watch. What is, who would eat this? And that's one. That's one. The other ones are the phony baloney, elaborate videos that show you that something you could do this, that, and the other thing. And then magically something happens, which is bogus. My favorite, the most recent one I had, there's a guy, okay, guy takes a, he takes a wine glass and he wraps the bottom in foil and puts some foil in the bottom of the stem,

Starting point is 02:30:09 so it's all foil up, then he lays it on a box, and he's got the wine glass pointed against the wall, and he's got all the foil around it, and then he takes his phone, turns on a video, puts the phone up against a foam block, so it's kind of up against the wine glass and suddenly magically The image on the phone is projected onto the wall. Oh, no Yeah, there's a lot it's like dead serious it's bull crap well

Starting point is 02:30:41 You know if you just gave up on this show and spent your time making TikTok videos of you cooking, you would do better. I guarantee you, you would do better. And a lot of the executive associate, executive producers, they figured out, oh, I can put an ad in here. So I'm a little down on it. The number says 29, but you gotta remember the first cell is 28. Okay, it's 28.

Starting point is 02:31:17 So the bottom line is it's value for value. And if we don't feel that we get the value back, whatever that means to us, whatever it means to you, if you don't give us anything, then we will find, I will find something else to do. And if I find something else to do, John, you're gonna have to find something else to do. You're not going to do the show on your own. It's not a threat. It's a promise.

Starting point is 02:31:40 Now I would watch that. I would watch the John TikTok show. I mean, Tina shows me the cooking videos all the time. This is one old bag and she, and I say that because she says about herself. And she's cooking, her son is always there. And you apologize for using the term old bag. Yeah, I don't want to be mean. And she's throwing like, everything is cheese. And I throw some cheese.

Starting point is 02:32:09 A lot of cheese. All these guys, they always top it with a bunch of cheap cheese. Cheese, melt the cheese on it. And she always tastes it. Oh, it's delicious. Yes. Yes, people love that. People love cooking stuff. It's putting everybody out of business. This TikTok is a scourge. Yes, people love that. People love cooking stuff. It's putting everybody out of business. This TikTok is a scourge. We should ban it. The Chinese are tracking you with it. It's no good. We do want to thank our Dutch producer who was the top executive producer today with 526.36.

Starting point is 02:32:37 And this is a longtime supporter Marcel van Dongen from Schravenhagen in the Netherlands. ITM Gents, he says, my first donation was a $1500 in double up episode 1501. I was announced but not knighted. Whoa. So I think that makes me a black insta Baron douchebag. Well, you're not a douchebag. That's for sure. I hope I'm not too late for the title of Commodore. I think we made an exception for him.

Starting point is 02:33:03 Did we not? Yeah, because of this complaint. Well, and he's spot on. Oh, hope I'm, he says, I hope I am too late. I think he means not too late for the title of Commodore. I'd rather have a ZX Spectrum title. My 60th birthday is coming up this Thursday, May 15th. So happy birthday.

Starting point is 02:33:23 Can I have a D-douche in? D-douche, douche, douche, douche,. Can I have a deduci- You've been deduced. And for the round table some drop shot and strobe waffles. Drop shot. Okay, you got it. And a title change from Knight of the Iver-Meh-Meh, meh-meh, that's he said, try with two bleats, to Knight or Baron of the Calangula Hideout, we are planning and building a resort on the Calangula Island in Lake Victoria and thinking how to do the V for V model there. Don't.

Starting point is 02:34:02 I advise against it now. It won't work. Douchebags show up and they'll just take advantage of you. Any tips? Yeah, don't. Thank you for your courage. Marcel van Dongen. Marcel, I don't know if we ordered, let me make sure we get that order.

Starting point is 02:34:15 52636 was his donation. Yes. And I am making sure that we have your drop shot and the strobe waffles at the round table. You bet sir. Thank you very much, Marcel. Kevin Cuneo, or Cuneo, one of the two in San Carlos is over here with our anonymous cop I guess. 350.93, ITM John and Adam, please de-douche me. You've been de-douched.

Starting point is 02:34:40 This donation of 333.33, which is what it amounts to before the fees, which by the way are only 15 cents if you use a check. That's right. May I please request Baby Making Karma and Trump Jobs Karma. Cheers, KC in San Mateo County. Jobs, jobs, jobs. You've got... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH hhhaaahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhahhhhhhah You've been deduced. You're reading the same note. Oh, I'm sorry. Well, he got a double deducing. Sir Brian with an I. That's the one I needed to do. Sir Brian with an I. Who does not know Sir Brian with an I? He's from Cedar Park, Texas.

Starting point is 02:35:34 333. And he says, I shall now be gallivanting at meetups as a baronet. But I request no title changes. My current name already carries too much clout. And I don't want to confuse my fans. And if fans want to meet Sir Brian with an eye, he will of course be at the meetup, the Fredericksburg meetup coming up this Saturday. It's actually in Lucanbach at the 1776 bar. We will all be there at 3.33 p.m. Thank you, Sir Brian with an eye.

Starting point is 02:35:59 And we look forward to you and your fans. The town is named Lucanbach? Lucanbach, yes. Very famous town. Very famous. Lucanbach. That whole area must just have been taken over by the Germans. Well, yes, it was founded by the Germans in, I want to say, 1840 something. And supposedly... Does anybody ever ask why? Who were these Germans that went to Texas in 1840? These were very brave people who were looking for a better life than jolly old Deutschland. And they settled here and they apparently, the Fredericksburgians, made a deal with the

Starting point is 02:36:39 Comanche Indians that was never broken. They treated them right. And there you go. That's the history of Fredericksburg. You might notice the name Fredericksburg. Name after? I know that. I didn't know that he had a bunch of ancillary towns with German names all over it. Oh man, we've got the Schlitterbahn over there an hour away. Everything is German here. over there, you're an hour away. Everything is German here. And- How'd this went over during World War II?

Starting point is 02:37:06 So a friend of mine, of ours, he does estate sales, which means you go into dead people's homes and you find all the gems and you buy them up and then you sell them. He says, here in Fredericksburg, there's a lot of paraphernalia and flags and stuff with swastikas on it at the estate sales. I don't know if he puts those up for sale right away. I find a lot of interesting stuff. Well, I bet he does. Dave Sorensen probably

Starting point is 02:37:40 finds interesting stuff. He's in Winthrop, Washington and came in with $233.99. probably finds interesting stuff. He's in Winthrop, Washington and came in with $233.99. Forgive me, fathers, for I have sinned. It has been 301 days since my last donation. This row of ducks, I guess it was 22222 plus the fees, it was hardly absolved me, but I do appreciate you both so much and still haven't missed an episode since the first one I listened to. Now, an announcement of possible interest for many of the Extended No Agenda community. My wife and I produce a family-friendly, primitive skills gathering annually up here in the wild mountains of Okanagan County. If you have never ever wanted to learn how to make buckskin process your own animals Flint nap arrowheads cool forge iron and steel tools weave a basket with willow

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Starting point is 02:45:05 Before we continue on our merry way, I do want to play this Dave Smith clip. Okay, get closer to the microphone though so we can all hear you. I'll try to. Okay. If it was any closer I'd be behind it. Yeah, well that might work. So, he was on Tucker talking bitching about Douglas Murray and they went on it. Murray.

Starting point is 02:45:27 They went on and on. But a couple of things came out of it that had nothing to do with that. One was the comment by Tucker that it's possible that they're going to, because the way Smith saw it, and I think Tucker to some extent, they saw the future as podcasting. No kidding. Wait, wait, did they say that Adam Curry had something to do with that? They didn't mention your name, of course. No.

Starting point is 02:45:56 Why would they? No. But the point is, is that they talked about how media has it when a new guy comes along and exploits the media, presidential candidate, for example, like Roosevelt exploited radio before anybody else did. Kennedy did television. Did the fireside chat. Kennedy did television.

Starting point is 02:46:14 Trump did social media and then he got on the podcasting thing, did the three hour podcast, they talked about that. That's right. And Tucker said, oh, I think they're going to crack down. And I said what I think, which, or said to myself, what I think is I still think that someday down the road, there'd be licensing or something like that because they can't let this thing go crazy. Well, we have the only official. But the most thing I thought mostly about you and podcasting 2.0,

Starting point is 02:46:42 which it means they can't crack down. Correct. So, so to give you kudos, uh, that's, you know, minor compared to the one, I thought when I got this clip where they brought up the fact that Smith was, you know, they would baby giving him a gig on Fox as a contributor. He did mention the amount of money they get paid. This rando contributors on Fox make 100k a year. Whoa It's not bad. No, and So they just show up and do a comment, you know, there's a slew of it's all the same as usual suspects But they brought this little ditty up which is something you've been asserting since day one about Fox and I let it play

Starting point is 02:47:23 Greg Gutfeld and Tom Shalhouw, who was hosting Red Eye at the time, they started using me on their Fox News shows. And so it was like the first time in my career I had started getting on TV. And I remember a few people at Fox had told me that they were like, hey, there's like some people in management are like interested in you. Like they're taking some interest in you. And then it was kind of explained to me, not like ever directly, but it was like, you're a little out there for Fox News.

Starting point is 02:47:52 And I remember at the time I was broke, I mean dead broke. Only on just to be, put a finer point in that, what do they mean? Not in your personal life, your personal life is more buttoned down than most people who are. Well at the time it wasn't, this is before I was married and had kids and stuff. But believe me, that's not what they care about. They don't care. I found out pretty quickly by just doing shows at Fox News and then going to the bar afterward with some of the people there. You're like, Oh, Conservatism Inc is not exactly what you thought. They're actually

Starting point is 02:48:18 pretty liberal when it comes down to the bar hang after the show. I would say. But vindicated once again. Vindicated. Yes, of course. There are a bunch of Democrats running Fox News. We know that. Yeah. Yeah. But Dave's...

Starting point is 02:48:35 And it's confirmed with that clip and of course Tucker said, yep, a bunch of you, it's what you get. Go to the bar and you find out what they're really thinking. Well, since you brought up podcasting. I have a question for you This is a industry wide question it is It is rampant throughout the PIC the podcast industrial complex, which is basically people who do advertising By the way, we could switch to advertising and do pretty well

Starting point is 02:49:01 I'm just telling you even with our you know, cause we have a million downloads a month, that's a thousand CPMs. That's not bad. We could do okay. I'm just saying. Yeah. We don't want to do that people. No, of course I don't want to do that. I'd rather give up.

Starting point is 02:49:18 I'd rather rage quit, which would be cool. Adam Curry rage quits. Anyway. Adam Curry rage quits. Anyway, Adam Curry rage quits. So because ageing co-partner in the lurch. And then we have a picture of you. You have a picture of you in a rocking chair. Like, he left me. He stranded me. I got nothing to do.

Starting point is 02:49:40 No one visits me. Nowhere to go. Anyway, this is a good question for you. Because of the nature of how podcast advertising works, which I will say right off the bat is a scam because it is based upon downloads and you can buy downloads. You can create bots that do downloads. Yeah. You know, most of the hosting companies, they all adhere to the IAB standards and they've been verified, which cost them $50,000 or some crazy amount. Because, you know, in order to be verified,

Starting point is 02:50:13 which means they came, we checked your logs, there's no fake downloads here, whatever. Of course, when Apple decided they weren't going to have past episodes download automatically, everything went down 20% and people had to pay millions of dollars and make goods. We'll just leave that by the side. Downloads not a scam people. Okay. But then the nature of the measurement is iffy at best.

Starting point is 02:50:37 So what happened is, and so podcasting is under attack, not podcasting 2.0, but podcasting itself is under attack because YouTube in particular came in and said, oh no, we're the number one podcasting platform in the universe. Have you heard this? Have you seen the numbers? Have you seen the press releases? They barrage the market. I'm about to find out. Well, they barrage the market with, we have the most podcast. Now, of course, they're not a podcast platform because yes, you can give them your RSS feed, but they just use it to slurp in your videos and that's it. Or even your podcast.

Starting point is 02:51:17 You can't change your feed or take something out. No, it's ingested, it's done. And you can mark your YouTube channel as a podcast. Now advertisers love this because, oh, I can advertise on podcasts and I can get real numbers. Of course, YouTube has very detailed statistics and they can say, well, you got, you got a million plays. What is a play? Well, it's 60 seconds. It's not even, it's like 20 seconds of someone watching.

Starting point is 02:51:47 But okay, that's fine. That's a view or that's a play. So the advertising industrial complex for podcasting started to call videos on YouTube podcasts. Do you see the problem here? Well, the problem is the whole thing is a scam Right, but so when you when you don't have to me you have an RSS feed That's a podcast you host it at a at a hosting company or we happen to have void zero. We host it ourselves We're in control

Starting point is 02:52:22 YouTube can't you know, you can even upload ourselves, we're in control, YouTube can't, you know, you can even upload audio with a picture on it or whatever. But that's not a podcast. A podcast is independent. It's decentralized, it's distributed. No government, no Silicon Valley company can take you down. Even if Apple decides, which they've done in the past, they don't want your podcast on the Apple podcast apps, they do it all the time.

Starting point is 02:52:46 Spotify deletes episodes all the time. That can't happen and that to me is a podcast. You have your RSS feed and it's an independent thing. Do you have an opinion on this? Can you tell me what is a podcast? If someone said, what's a podcast, How does John C. Dvorak define that? I would say a podcast is an independently produced audio product that might have a video component, but it's basically an audio product that's distributed through RSS through various

Starting point is 02:53:22 mechanisms. And it can be anything from A to Z in terms of you know, how it's structured or how it Exists or what it's about Thank you. I'm with you on that Let's listen to Bill O'Reilly's definition of what a podcast is. I Drive me crazy People go. Oh, I watch your pot on a podcast It drives me crazy. People go, oh, I watch your podcast. I'm on a podcast.

Starting point is 02:53:45 Look, if you guy has tattoos and dirty sneakers, it's a podcast. If he's dressed as dapper as I dress, it's a broadcast. There you go. If you have dirty sneakers and tattoos, then it's a podcast. If you're dressed like Bill O'Reilly, it's a broadcast.

Starting point is 02:54:08 He says this on his podcast. No, it's a, he refuses. I mean, he's moving to netcast next. I hear. Yeah, I'm surprised he doesn't do netcast. It was another. All right. Hey, the saga continues.

Starting point is 02:54:24 So that was a Shaggy dog story So that was a shaggy dog story. It was a shaggy dog story. It was indeed. But I'm glad that you have a better definition of what a podcast is than Bill O'Roddy. Well, anybody would. Anybody would. Yes. So the scam continues.

Starting point is 02:54:38 They continue to scam the American public and everyone's in on it. Oh man, it's falling apart. It's dangerous to fly. Don't go to New Jersey. Happening today, the FAA will continue discussions with six major airlines about the ongoing delays at Newark Liberty International Airport. The agency wants to reduce the number of flights

Starting point is 02:54:58 at the airport in North Jersey. Meanwhile, we're learning new information about the two radar outages in the last two and a half weeks at a Philadelphia facility that manages flights for Newark. During that time, air traffic control could not see or talk with planes. The FAA explained on Capitol Hill yesterday that the primary and backup lines both failed. The agency says it is now working to add a third line. Again, our air traffic controllers who are in this grand gitmo nation all say,

Starting point is 02:55:29 that happens all the time. And adding another one of these lines to communicate with the radios is not gonna help. You just need a whole different system, but they're really gonna go all, it's gonna be billions. And it will take forever to implement. And this is just like the drone story

Starting point is 02:55:44 or just like any other Story that hypes the media and scares everybody. Oh, they can't see us on the radar. We're all gonna die hasn't happened yet and as predicted The blame goes to the previous administration specifically Pete Buttigieg So I was all set before we had the rigged election to give out a brand new gorgeous system to one company that was going to do it all, one of the best companies in the world that you know very well. You know there are three or four of them that do it.

Starting point is 02:56:13 And when they took over, Buddha didge, who has no clue, you know, he drives to work on his bicycle with his, in all fairness, with his husband on the back, which is a nice, loving relationship. But he didn't have a clue. This guy didn't have a clue. Yes, predicted. Blame it on Buttigieg. Yeah, I'm glad you got that clip because I saw that clip.

Starting point is 02:56:35 It's old. It's great. It's great. But it's so funny, this run on his bicycle with his husband in the back. It's hilarious. It's hilarious. He never stops. He doesn't. Back to the kind of the medical industry, another huge controversy. This is

Starting point is 02:56:54 the controversy that we've been tracking with Casey Means. You know, we can't have her as Surgeon General, the meaningless post. But okay. Oh no, we can't have her because she's a shill for big pharma with her brother and it's no good and NPR investigated. President Trump has a new pick for US Surgeon General. He's tapped wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means. That's in place of his original. We need to be wellness influencers. Maybe that's a gig for us. What do you think? Well, I mean, you're living a long time. We just say, well, this is how we live. This is how we've stayed alive so long. Don't you think that's a good gig? Wellness influencer?

Starting point is 02:57:27 Yeah, and wine reviewer. Former Fox News contributor, Dr. Jeanette Neshwat. NPR's Will Stone is here with the details. Hi, Will. Hey there. Hey there. Why did Trump drop his first pick for Surgeon General? So no official statement from Trump or the White House on that.

Starting point is 02:57:35 It's not a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal.

Starting point is 02:57:43 It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's. Hey there. Hey there. Why did Trump drop his first pick for Surgeon General? So no official statement from Trump or the White House on that, but it seems there may have been a few issues at play here. So first, Neshwat had come under scrutiny recently for misrepresenting her medical credentials, including where she went to medical school. This was revealed by an independent reporter, Anthony Clark, and has been matched by other outlets, though NPR has not independently confirmed the reporting.

Starting point is 02:58:09 At the same time, Neswad was also facing some strong opposition from those on the right and in Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again or Maha movement. One reason was her support for COVID policies like masking and vaccines. Yes. So whatever the rationale, Trump took to social media this week and announced he tapped Dr. Casey Means instead saying she has quote, impeccable Maha credentials. Well, we're about to find out about those. By the way, the three stooges were far ahead of their time with Maha.

Starting point is 02:58:42 Maha. Maha. Yeah. We continue. Well, tell us more about Casey Means. The Stooges were far ahead of their time with Maha. Maha? Maha? Yeah. We continue. Well, tell us more about Casey Means. Who is she? Yeah, she's a wellness influencer, author, and entrepreneur.

Starting point is 02:58:54 She has a company that sells glucose monitoring devices to consumers. Her background is in medicine. She went to Stanford Medical School and went on to surgical residency, but she dropped out pretty far along in the program. Her book is kind of a self-help diet type of book. It really catapulted her into the online wellness space. She's been on big podcasts. She appeared at a highly publicized congressional roundtable on nutrition last year that featured

Starting point is 02:59:20 Secretary Kennedy and other big names in the maha world. But her resume is definitely a problem for many in medicine and public health. She did have a practice in Oregon but again never completed her residency and she doesn't have an active medical license right now. I called up Dr. Richard Carmona to get his take on this. Carmona was the Surgeon General under George W. Bush. Every previous Surgeon General when you look, they've got the license, they've got the residency, they have had at least some leadership ability that's scalable, and we don't see any of that here. I think that our nation deserves better.

Starting point is 02:59:57 I think this is so great. Can you name three former surgeon generals? I can name Coop. That's one. The bearded guy. Yep. I can name this last guy the weird Indian character. You can't name him. You can't name him. Navish Shree Navish Navidat.

Starting point is 03:00:17 No, you can't because they're not just not that important. Sorry to say. And Coop said don't smoke. It didn't stop me. How are her supporters responding to this? Well, Secretary Kennedy is doubling down on his support. He's claiming Dr. Means will be the greatest surgeon general in American history. It's also worth noting her brother, Kali Means is a- Wow, hold on. So Kennedy's picking up on Trump's style. He's totally got it, baby. It's also worth noting her brother, Cali Means, is a prominent advisor to Kennedy. A lot of her messaging aligns with the Secretary. She rails against the healthcare industry, big food and big pharma. Rails. Talks a lot about nutrition and lifestyle. Here's what Kennedy said on

Starting point is 03:01:09 Fox News just the other day. Casey Means we felt was the best person to really bring the vision of MAHA to the American public. She has a unique capacity to articulate it. Now Casey Means has made statements casting doubt on the safety of certain vaccines and the vaccine schedule. She's also endorsed things like raw milk, similar to Kennedy. All of this is concerning to experts in public health. But some in the Kennedy coalition are not happy with the pick. For example, Kennedy's former running mate, Nicole Shanahan has criticized the the choice heavily as have others. Some of the pushback has to do with her vaccine stance, that she has not come out strongly

Starting point is 03:01:50 enough against vaccines, especially the COVID shots. This choice is revealing, I'd say, some fractures in the Maha coalition. That plus concerns about her lack of experience could derail her nomination. We'll see. That's NPR's Will Stone. Thank you so much for talking with us. Thank you. Glad that NPR finally got the story. Yes. Yes. There's a lot of problem because she has not come out strongly enough against the COVID shot. And this is the criticism. And of course, I think Kelly, the last show we played, Kelly...

Starting point is 03:02:25 Megan Kelly. What's her name? Megan Kelly. Megan Kelly, that's right. Megan Kelly's clip where she, I think, you know, does a reasonable job of defending the woman and says that you can't come out as a big anti-COVID shot person and expect to get... No. Confirmed. Because half of Congress is bought and paid for by the pharma companies and they don't want to they over there could

Starting point is 03:02:47 Screw far as they're concerned fax is the way to go get vaccinated for everything get 86 when you're a little baby But this has been going on for a long time before she was even in play for surgeon general She and her brother have been accused of being shills coming out of nowhere. All of a sudden they're on all the big podcasts. I don't think you're anything until you've come on the no agenda show. Oh wait, we don't have any guests. Um, and, uh, and they would not denounce the COVID vaccine. And that is the problem. And Maha is, uh, is going to her.

Starting point is 03:03:23 So it'll be interesting to see how this confirmation goes. In the meantime, this was very peculiar this morning that I saw on Fox news when it comes to vaccinations and they brought out Tucker Carlson's old doctor pal. Remember that guy, the old dude, whenever, whenever Tucker was on Fox. Yeah. He had, he had this one doctor and he was the same guy over and over. We always made fun of him. Usual suspects. That's what they do in Fox.

Starting point is 03:03:49 Usual suspects. And here's the news. HHS Secretary, R.F.K. Jr. shifting $500 million from COVID-19 projects with the goal of a universal vaccine to protect against multiple strains of a virus at once. Fox News Senior Medical Analyst, Dr. Mark Siegel, is here to tell us all about this. Siegel, well, hang on. Dr. Siegel, this would be getting one shot for the flu that could maybe last 10 years.

Starting point is 03:04:10 How long have we heard this story? One shot, you're never, only one, one and done, it's good to go for the flu, never get another one for the rest of your life. I'm surprised we haven't got clips on this from 10 years ago. We probably do. I think it's gonna start with the flu, and if we get there with the flu this from 10 years ago. We probably do. I think it's going to start with the flu.

Starting point is 03:04:26 And if we get there with a flu, maybe we can broaden it to more shots. The whole idea is that you get a different flu shot every year. Right. Or we did that with COVID. So it's because we look at the virus that enters the cell. Only that protein, just that protein, it gets it into the cell. And it causes a lot of problems and a lot of changes. And you have to change the shot all the time and it doesn't always work with flu.

Starting point is 03:04:47 So now President Trump is an RFK are bringing into place Jeffrey Taubenberger, who's the number one flu researcher in the world in my opinion, very excited about this guy Taubenberger. He's now very excited. The National Institute of Allergy Infectious Diseases was, which is the job that Fauci had and you know who this guy is? He went into the tundra in Alaska and discovered the Spanish flu. That's how amazing he is. Amazing.

Starting point is 03:05:12 And he's been working on flu vaccines for a really long time. And you already nailed it, which is you try to get into the shot different proteins so you get one response that will work for all flu. That would be great. We got to get there. We got to get there. That would be great. Then you don't have to get a shot every year. Absolutely.

Starting point is 03:05:26 Great program. Great program. I'm not for this. I don't think this is a good idea. Well, the vaccine companies aren't for it either. Obviously, that's why it's never gonna happen. That's true. Why would you want that when you can give a shot

Starting point is 03:05:42 every year, every year? Where there could be dog crap in this shot. Who cares? You're not liable for anything. So you just manufacture, it could be distilled water, shot, shot, shot, shot, by the ton. Free here at the pharmacy. Do you think this is Robert Kennedy Jr.?

Starting point is 03:06:00 You think he's just like, eh, go over here, work on that for a while? Is that what this is? It could be. Yeah, possible. All right. Last thing I have is about fluoride because of course, and this is I think a very good thing.

Starting point is 03:06:14 Bobby has said, we got to stop this. States everywhere are stopping fluoridating their water. Should have happened decades ago. But the pharma industry is not taking this lightly because, oh, then that Benny, oh no, it's bad. It's really bad. And what? Fluoride tablets? No, it's bad. In today's health watch, the FDA is getting ready to take prescription fluoride drops and tablets for kids off the market. So this comes as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy fights to remove fluoride from our drinking water. Let's bring in CBS News medical contributor.

Starting point is 03:06:44 That's Dr. Sling Gounder. Yes. Atterlarge for public health at KFF health news to sort it out for us. Good to see you Dr. Slene. KFF health news by the way as far as I know a bought and paid for publication. It's like one of these oh it's we do health news okay. No KFF is the Kaiser family foundation. Yes exactly. Yeah they're just a Kaiser shill. Yes, exactly. They just sort it out for us. But they sorted it out for us.

Starting point is 03:07:10 Good to see you, Dr. Salin. So how big a deal is this move from the FDA? So FDA Commissioner Marty Macri announced yesterday that they are considering or planning to phase out fluoride supplements such as tablets and drops for kids. And what we know is that fluoride supplements really do still make a difference despite fluoride in the water. In some places you don't have fluoride in the water and many kids don't necessarily brush their teeth regularly with fluoridated toothpaste.

Starting point is 03:07:37 They don't all make it to the dentist on a regular basis. And so we know that fluoride in general can reduce the rate of cavities by about 25% despite having other layers of protection. So okay so what she's saying here is for kids who don't brush their teeth and don't get regular checkups, I can understand that, but they don't brush you don't brush your teeth fluoride can help No, you can't have gunk in your teeth all day. I know a lot about teeth. You cannot have gunk in your teeth

Starting point is 03:08:10 and think that a fluoride tablet is going to solve that, but she, Celine Gounder, is on the sales path. Is there any evidence of kids getting access to these drops and overusing them or any kind of negative effects? Oh, we need access to it. Well, it's interesting that you asked that, Tony. So the attorney general of Texas. Yeah, right, we need access to it. Well, it's interesting that you asked that, Tony. So the attorney general of Texas.

Starting point is 03:08:26 Yeah, right. It's not interesting you asked that because it was in your prompter. The script was there. It's interesting that you asked that, Tony. So the attorney general of Texas is suing Colgate and Procter & Gamble over flavored kid-friendly toothpaste. We do know that, for example, with tobacco or vapes,

Starting point is 03:08:46 flavoring can encourage more use. And the argument here is it could encourage overuse of toothpaste if they're flavored for kids. That'll be the day. Kids are eating the toothpaste. Give me a break. Hey, mommy, can I brush my teeth another 10 times today? Because the toothpaste is so tasty.

Starting point is 03:09:04 All right. So fluoride is banned from water and fluoride supplements. What are parents to do? Well, at least for now, you still have the toothpaste, the mouth washes, the dental applied, dentist applied varnishes. But as I mentioned in Texas, they're actually going after some of the toothpastes. So we know the big concern here is that you have 70 million Americans who do not have dental insurance. We know

Starting point is 03:09:28 that kids, low income kids have three times the risk of dental cavities that go untreated to other kids. And so we know that certain populations are really going to go on what she said to go untreated to other kids. She's making it sound like it's infectious somehow. I have dental insurance. We know that kids, low income kids, have three times the risk of dental cavities that go untreated to other kids.

Starting point is 03:09:53 And so we know that certain populations are really gonna see a surge in dental cavities. Surge! Okay, I always raise fluoride. Good, good, good. Now this stuff is so confusing to me. All about dust. Yes, okay, got it, got it. Thank you, thank you. All right, good, good, good. Good, good, good. Now this stuff is so confusing to me. All about that. Good, good, good.

Starting point is 03:10:05 Okay, got it, got it. Thank you, thank you very much. All right, good, good, good. Good, good, good. It is. Did they mention throughout these reports that the dentist can put a coating of fluoride on your teeth, which is the way it's supposed to be done?

Starting point is 03:10:15 Direct contact with the enamel. She said the fluoride tray. Yeah, she did mention that briefly. But the issue is, the true issue is we need to have better dental care. People need more education on dental care. It's very important. Take it from a person who has a small car in his mouth and it's set us back quite a bit. And it was so that I would be able to still speak and not have dentures. So, and that because I just it's not because I didn't brush with fluoride believe me. All right, well that went nowhere.

Starting point is 03:10:54 What do you mean it went nowhere? It's important information. Man, you're supposed to say man. Man, man. All right, take us out. You get one more shot. I got one shot. One shot. I got one shot. One shot. You got one shot. I got to screw up. Well, let's do the Trump and the judiciary because that's going on as we speak.

Starting point is 03:11:13 This is a big deal going on in the Supreme Court right now about all the crap that's being thrown at Trump by these just rando judges. So let's play these two clips. A legal fight over one of America's oldest national security laws is heating up. federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that President Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th century wartime statute to deport migrants suspected of gang ties. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haynes marks the first judicial support for Trump's use of the law, putting her at odds with three other federal judges in Texas, Colorado, and New York.

Starting point is 03:11:50 Trump invoked the law in March, targeting members of Tren de Aragua, or TDA, a Venezuelan clip. Well, I'm playing your clip. All right. Well, pull it. Pull it. All right. Pull that. Oh no, there goes building seven. I'll give you one up one more shot. Not on this. All right. This time we're going to go back to the public complaining about something. And this time it's got, this is a complaint of mine too, which has been about EULA's and licensing and all the whole background that started with word star where you never really bought their software product. This stems back in the days, early days of mainframes. You never bought the software product. You bought a license to use it.

Starting point is 03:12:35 Now Nintendo's making poor kids buying a game. Nintendo's making poor kids buying a game. Nah, you don't own the game anymore. You get the license to use it. We at Nintendo are updating our user agreement for the Switch 2. If you make any unauthorized modifications to your Switch 2, we will remotely deactivate your console so that you cannot play any more games. Whoa! I understand deactivating online play and the store with mods installed, but deactivating the console itself?

Starting point is 03:13:06 People will own the Nintendo Switch 2! They should have rights to do what they want with it! Actually, they will not own the Switch 2. They will own the license to play the Switch 2. And that license can be revoked at any moment. What? You sound like the big brother of gaming! In addition to this, physical games will no longer be installed on the game cartridge. The game cartridge will only contain a key to install the game

Starting point is 03:13:29 over the internet. Then what's the point of physical? And why are you charging another $10 for it? People will be paying $80 for a key? Yes, exactly. A key to access the license to the game. So we won't own anything. This is insane. You know what else is insane? Selling out Switch 2 pre-orders within an hour. Do you know my car? I have a console with like a screen. It popped up a EULA the other day. Oh no.

Starting point is 03:13:59 Oh yeah. One of these days, it's like the insurance company taking over everything. They took over the medicine business. They took over, you know, they're trying to take over car repair business. They're trying to take over home appliance business, the insurance, and create these middlemen. The other big scam going on, it's never going to end, is the idea of licensing the car. In other words, you're not going to buy a car, but you know, no, no, no, you don't really own the car. In other words, you're not going to buy a car, but you don't really own the car. You bought a license, you spent 20, 30, 40, $50,000 for a license to use the car. That's where it's headed. That's what's coming. And if you don't agree to the license, they turn your car off.

Starting point is 03:14:37 And you know who's going to do that first? Elon. I guarantee you, Tesla will be the first. They already do it. Basically. Yeah. This is you don't, you won't own anything and be happy. This is what it stems from. I'm going to show my school by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah, on No Agenda.

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Starting point is 03:19:58 very own Sir Brian with an I now becomes Baron at Sir Brian with an I and he will be touting that at the meetup, I guarantee you. We have a Commodore as promised. He came in late but he deserves it and we are very proud to welcome the brand new Commodore. He is Commodore Marcel van Doorn. Commodore arriving. We have a gifted Knight Note from Sir Mike of the Mountain on the previous episode. His son gifted him the knighthood that he had earned.

Starting point is 03:20:30 The knight name Sir Mike of the Mountain is perfectly fine. I would like to request though, Escargot at the round table. He got into you guys through me because I started listening to you guys around episode 100. Although I disagree with some of the assertions you guys have made over the years, which is fine. Although I disagree with some of the assertions you guys have made over the years, which is fine You are still a valuable source of news in a world of propaganda Thank you, and he ends with a Gandhi quote

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Starting point is 03:21:28 Meetups taking place today. Charlotte's Thursday, third Thursday monthly meetup that'll kick off at seven o'clock in Ed's Tavern there in Charlotte, North Carolina. On Friday, the North country, North country meetup. Number one, the first one in Mountain View Grand that's in Whitefield, New Hampshire, five o'clock Saturday, the no agenda DFW mid-cities meetup that'll be at 1130 in the morning but it will be at the Bourbon Street Bar and Grill so get your sauce on early sir Nerdworks will be hosting that for you also on Saturday the

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Starting point is 03:23:12 Many more meetups can be found at noagendameetups.com. These are producer organized. These are places where you will find the first responders when you have an emergency connection, brings protection when you go to a NoAgendaMeetup. NoAgendaMeetups.com. Always a party! Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where you want to be.

Starting point is 03:23:38 Triggered or hailed or lame. You want to be where everybody feels the same It's like a party of that but the tips of the day are very valuable and right now we'd like to look at the ISO clips that we'll be using to end the show with. John have you done more AI work? Is that what you've been been at up to? Some, this and that and the other I didn't get the sentient AI back yet but I'll give her a rest. Why don't you do yours? I have only one I think it may be a winner and specifically for this show. So I'd like to go last. Oh, this is just complaining.

Starting point is 03:24:30 Yes, of course. We'll start with the bear monkey. That was better than a bear fighting a monkey. Okay. All right. I'll take it. Do we have scared? Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe hehehe hehehehehe hehehehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he That's pretty good. Here's mine. It's no AI. Bye bye and donate. Nah. You gotta admit that's pretty good. I like it because it has the donate promotion.

Starting point is 03:25:13 Yes, I knew you would like it because it has the donate promotion. It's a little bit under modulated. Um, but you can probably boost it a bit. Yeah, let's use that. I'm gonna pass. I'm gonna keep my two though Cuz I like them so much. Yes. They are so dynamite. I'm gonna bump them You're gonna bump them. They've been bumped and now everybody we will never bump this. It is John's tip of the day Created by Dana Brunetti We have a complaint. We have a complaint.

Starting point is 03:25:49 I want to hear the complaint. We always get a complaint. The complaint comes from Dana Brunetti, creator of The Tip of the Day. And he says, Vid Angel? Question marks. Tip of the Day has turned into my Frankenstein First the tip about the Chinese crap app teamu and now the censorship app vid angel It's a horrible product and shouldn't be used much less paid ten dollars a month for I use it Use it on the no agenda podcast and it reduced it down to 30 seconds Please let the listeners know of my disgust

Starting point is 03:26:26 and disapproval of this censorship you are promoting John C. Dvorak. People who use this should be better parents and look at the ratings before watching something with their children. Don't expose them to censorship. Maybe VidAngel should pivot and work only to remove all the woke propaganda in film and TV. Actually, even that censorship I couldn't get behind. Thumbs down. I have to kind of agree with him. Yeah, I have to agree with him. I think Dana Brady is on to something. I disagree with you both. And the thing is, you see, you sound like him when you do that little read. I know, it's pretty good, right? You never sent me that note, of course.

Starting point is 03:27:01 I know, it's pretty good, right? He never sent me that note, of course. And I'm surprised that when you said his complaint by Dana Brunetti, I figured that the complaint was his name wasn't pushed toward the front of the credits. No, he cares for humans and he cares for art. Oh yeah, well him and De Niro should get together. De Niro, yeah, they should hang out together. I agree. They'd be a fine pair.

Starting point is 03:27:28 Okay, so this tip of the day is for, I thought I had it, I thought I'd given it, I think I mentioned it on the show, I never gave it as a tip of the day, and I went back and looked in the AgendaFun.com and searched the whole site, couldn't find it, so I figured, oh, you know, I should give this tip of the day as a fabulous product. It's a freeware product called Earth and View. You've heard of it.

Starting point is 03:27:48 Earth and View? What? I guess you haven't heard of it. No. It's IRFANVIEW. It is a image software package that's for quick viewing of images, also quick converting of images, for example. Oh. viewing of images, also quick converting of images, for example, the horrible image format, W-E-B-P. What's that iPhone format? Like they have iPhone sometimes send it. There's a bunch of these groups, horrible formats that nobody uses. But this will read them. If you get, you have to also put in the plugin package,

Starting point is 03:28:26 but this will read anything. It reads KDC files, which is like the early, early digital format from Kodak. HEIC, that's what Apple phones send, HEIC. It'll read it. It's horrible. But as soon as it loads it in and you want to save it, you go save as, it'll save it as a JPEG,

Starting point is 03:28:43 it'll save it as a ping, it'll do anything you want a ping and do anything you want. Can you convert sizes? Yeah you can do that too. Well I should use that because I'm always converting sizes for the Noah Genard. I will take your tip and I will let you know how I get on with it. That's a good idea. And it does it does minor editing it's really good for a for a fast crop. Boom, boom, crop, boom, you're there. It's a, it'll do a fast crop. It'll do a sharpen image. It'll do a couple of quick and dirty kind of contrast changes and some other very simple, fast, super fast. So when you hit the image, it loads it right away and also plays movies faster than the Microsoft

Starting point is 03:29:22 products. The Microsoft player slow, and the Microsoft photo stinks. Get rid of those things. But the problem I have to say, there's just an add-on here. You can't, it doesn't, you know, in the olden days when you loaded Earth FanView and say, would you like it to do all these things and say they have a list of GIF and AVI and all these different formats that'll read and you just click yes for all of them. No, now you have to go into the settings, which I think is illegal. You have to go into the settings and hand change all the defaults to IRFAN view, but once you do that, you're good to go.

Starting point is 03:29:58 I think this is a good tip. And this is now, again, this is a freeware, shareware, or is it open source? It's shareware freeware. It's not open source. So you can you can donate to the to the creator of this product? Yeah, this has a donate button. Okay, buy him a coffee Well, I'd like I like paying for my software excellent tip everybody John C. DeVore comes through once again And you cannot criticize it for this tip of the day. Well, you could, of course, criticize him, but we will reject your criticism, because that was a good tip of the day. Oh, there she is on time. It's Tina the Keeper enters the studio, meaning I got to get dressed for dinner.

Starting point is 03:30:48 So that means, yes, it does. That's it for our broadcast day. We would really like you to consider supporting the show. Go to NoAgendaDonations.com. Coming up next, we have another fine podcast product, a real one, and these guys don't have tats or dirty sneakers. It's Random Thoughts. And this is is episode 322 and they are vibe coding oh boy I know what that is it's painful vibe coding and the show makes it from Nautilus K James

Starting point is 03:31:15 Bosworth and David Kekta all bringing it home for you we will return on Sunday with another shorter show but we will bring you the media deconstruction you need to stay sane, unless you're one of those people on TikTok. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country where we have a meetup coming up tomorrow. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from the other Silicon Valley where I am out of here. Oh my head.

Starting point is 03:31:40 I'm John C. Dvorak. See you on Sunday everybody. Remember us at NoAgendaDonations.com. A1 teaching. A1 teaching. There's a school system that's going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades. And that's just a, that's a wonderful thing. A1 teaching. A1 teaching. A1 teaching. A1 teaching. A1 teaching. There's a school system that's going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades. And that's just a wonderful thing. Kids are sponges. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have internet in our school. We're gonna have are strangers. You think AI is A1? Kids are strangers.

Starting point is 03:33:25 Is she talking about AI? She's saying A1? Is that what I'm hearing? Yep. A1 teaching kids are strangers. You think AI is A1? Kids are strangers. We're going to have internet in our schools.

Starting point is 03:33:33 A1 teaching artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Are you talking about AI? We're going to have internet in our schools. A1 teaching artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence.

Starting point is 03:33:41 Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. We're gonna have internet in our schools, woo! And a couple of people got their tit in the ring over your newsletter. I felt bad about it. A rare apology. Well done though.

Starting point is 03:34:03 You're like saying, I was wrong, may I call, but the past month has been nothing but Honest John. Honest John has always been Honest John. Honest John. Wow, what, who are you? Honest John. What, who are you? Honest John. Who are you? Honest John. Wow, who are you? Who are you? Who are you?

Starting point is 03:34:28 Who are you? Honest John, it's always been Honest John. It's my old nickname, they used to call me that in high school. Wow, who are you? Honest John, it's always been Honest John. They used to call me that in high school? Honest John has always been honest John He used to call me that in high school Honest John

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