No Agenda - 1775 - "Boomer Benefits"

Episode Date: June 22, 2025

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Thank you for your attention to this matter. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. It's your award winning give-on-nation media assassination episode 1775. This is No Agenda. Stop the hammering! We're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern Silicon Valley where you've heard of bunker busters, we're the bunk busters. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill. In the morning. I see what you did there. I see.

Well, we learned a couple of new terms. These military guys are always funny with their acronyms. We've got the mop. That was a new one. I didn't, let me play this to get us started. One issue about a possible attack is the 30,000 pound bomb that is part of the US arsenal. It is known as the bunker buster. Although it has been tested, it's never been used in war.

ABC's Martha Raddatz explains. Come on Martha. This bomb, the massive ordinance penetrator or mop can only be- I think I saw one of those in a in a shop in Amsterdam actually These mops in these places 30,000 pound bomb can penetrate deep into rock and it's been tested successfully numerous times But has never been used before on the battlefield. The US has used the smaller Moab, the 22,000 pound bomb with success, blowing up caves in Afghanistan.

But if the president decides the US will hit the Fordo nuclear facility, it will be the first time it's used. So there are some concerns about how effective it would be in an actual strike, since much is not known about Fordo. But there would likely be several of these bombs launched because of the uncertainty and of course the US still wants to get all its assets into the region. Thanks to Martha Raditz for that. A key concern about the bomb is the potential release of radioactive material. The International Atomic Energy Agency says the hazard will be limited to the areas that are directly around the nuclear sites. Yes, so this has been the topic.

So they didn't take any chances on whether this thing worked. They used 14 of them. Yeah, just in case. Just in case, well, you know. Yeah, which as many people noticed sounded very familiar. Some preconditioning was done. Your target is an impact point less than three meters wide. The two-seat aircraft will paint the target with a laser bullseye. The first pair will breach the reactor

by dropping a laser-guided bomb on an exposed ventilation hatch. This will create an opening for the second pair. That's miracle number one. The second team will deliver the kill shot and destroy the target. That's miracle number two. Of course, that is from the latest Top Gun series. And it kind of made me think, you know, this mop thing may not who knows what they use. We weren't there. We didn't see it. There's no video.

Maybe this was all predictive programming to think, make us think that they have one of these. I don't even know. I don't know what it was. Maybe it was a mini nuke for all I know. You know, this sounded all kind of movie-esque the way this went down. I just thought- Well, it was pretty interesting.

I will say that. Yes. And I have to put, I saw a serious eclipse from last night. Can I just say something? Before you start, I just want people to know we are going to treat this like everything else, which will include some humor, because if we don't have a war, it's all great. If we do, we're not all gone. So that's also good.

Coincidentally, I'm not expecting that. No, neither am I. Coincidentally, this morning I got my own massive ordinance attack. Do you remember? Well, maybe we should stop my idea here and listen to this because it already sounds more interesting than any clip. I don't know about that.

Somebody unleashed a subscribe bot on me again. Oh, really? Now you remember this happened previously? Oh, yeah. This happened. This was a nightmare for you. A nightmare. Yeah.

So we went to church. I came back. there were over 500, thanks for subscribing emails. Thank you very much. Oh, this is great. Hey, reset your password. Hey, confirm your email. Now these things, they used to cost money. They may be easier to do now with some large language model systems that can access SMTP. That's interesting. Yes. Maybe easier to do. And luckily, we have Void Zero. And that's when I switched my email server to HisCare.

Because I'm like, bro, I can't handle this. This is blowing my system up. This is the problem with the guest. Yeah. I find this deplorable that you can't do your own email. You need a pro. Well, okay. Um, now luckily I had set up a, uh,

a couple of filters back in the day when this happened because, you know, essentially I can't subscribe to any more newsletters with my email address because still for years I'm still getting newsletters that I can't unsubscribe from because half of these things don't work and the unsubscribe doesn't work and they don't want to unsubscribe you. So I literally can't subscribe to a newsletter with my own email address so it did take a lot of those and shuttle them off and delete them. But as I was thinking about it, do you remember the timeframe when this last happened? No, I don't. When someone was so mad at me because I was so wrong.

I don't know. I know. COVID. But this could be any, oh, it was COVID? COVID. When we were saying COVID was- I thought it was before that. No, no, because I remember exactly where we were.

We were in the house in Austin, new house, and we had just moved there. So this was right around COVID time and it was cold. I remember the whole thing. So it was in 2019, 2020. Yeah, 2020. And so I thought you were in this place that you're in now longer than from 2020. No, no, I'm getting time compression problems. in now longer than from 2020. No, no. I'm getting time compression problems here.

Oh, I have too. Don't worry. When you get old, you can't remember why what? It's okay. Time compression is correct. So that means that people are getting pissed off at us, which is what we do. And there are people who are sad. There are people sad. Sad about what? Well, because we also have started to deconstruct podcasts.

Oh, that's so, hey, the podcasters should be considered a big game, that podcasting is the thing. I've gotten more notes. All the kids are doing it, yes. I have, everybody's doing it. I have, I've had notes telling us, why don't you guys go after the podcasters? You're always deconstructing shows and media

that nobody listens to. Exactly, so what happens is when we deconstruct, like Tucker Carlson or Scott Horton or any podcast. Dave Smith, your favorite. We don't have anyone or any podcast. Dave Smith, your favorite. We don't have anyone actually deconstructed Dave Smith, but we will. We'll get to it eventually. But the point is people become, oh yeah, I'm doing that today. People become, so they feel that, why are you shitting on other podcasters, man?

Aren't you guys all on the same team? It's not a club. Well, yes, because they feel an affinity. And I understand it. It's not a fraternity. They feel an affinity and they say, well, you guys all agreed on this and all agreed on that. I say, well, we don't agree on this. Actually, you and I don't agree on a lot of stuff.

I heard someone say this morning, when there's two people who agree all the time, one of them is unnecessary. Welcome to PBS NewsHour. Yeah, I love that. I'm like, wow, that's something, that's a good way of putting it. Of course we don't agree on everything, nor should we. For that very reason, if two people agree all the time, one of them is unnecessary.

So it's not that we hate these guys or whatever. We think we're better than them. No, we're deconstructing and we have a... We do think we're better than many of them. Well, of course we are. But we have a different opinion about certain things. And, you know, we've gone through the, you know, you're just shills like everybody else to the, you know, baby, why you gotta... You're just chills like everybody else.

So anyway, so we're going to continue that because that is this. You're right. Podcasting is a thing. So we, it's the thing. It's the thing. Yes. They all say it's the thing. It's the thing. So it's important for us to do that. Mainstream media is now saying it. Can I do one right now? Before you start? Are you going to do a podcast right away? Podcast deconstruction, yeah. Can you handle it?

Can you handle this one? This is a... Yeah, if you let me get back to my girl after this. No, of course. Of course. Of course. This is Rachel Blevins. Okay.

Already this is good. With the name Rachel Blevins. Okay. Already this is good. With the name Rachel Blevins. It gets better. It sounds like some creation of Woody Allen. Wow. That's a good one. So Rachel Blevins has on her podcast

Sarah Bills, B-I-L-S. Sarah Bills. And she is the co-founder of D.D DD Geopolitics. And DD Geopolitics, they were born out of necessity, you see, because no one was looking at geopolitics properly. And so these two girls, young women and attractive young women, and they're doing the podcast and they also have a video component, which is good because I think that people will want to look at them. I can see the benefit there,

unlike us. And so Sarah Bills will introduce the topic here. And it is about obviously about Iran and about the about the nuclear bombs, which I think you and I agree is horse crap. But then she goes, she says something like, wow, not only are you new in the podcasting, but you're also trying to replace somebody who's been around for quite a while. And this was earth moving. I actually want to go back one week ago when you had Israel launch this operation rising lion as they decided to name it, which included the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities and assassinations targeting Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists because you actually have a really interesting report out and I'll make sure that it's linked below in which you dive into how good old Palantir

and their mosaic AI platform have been used by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency over the last decade to map out data points in Iran and how it may have been used to signal this warning that Iran was closer than ever to creating a nuclear weapon. Can you start by kind of taking us through your findings and really what your reaction was to this information, especially given every- Oh, just stop. Let her talk. Oh, my God.

This is the classic podcasters dilemma. Just get to the question. You don't need to. Oh, yeah. What your reaction was to this information, especially given everything that we're watching right now. Well, everybody put your tinfoil hats on.

I am. That's what they're painting. Yes, right. The crazy person. I'm becoming the new Whitney Webb. Who got like painted up. She becoming the new Whitney Webb. Who got my painted as- She's the new Whitney Webb, John. Woo-hoo! Everybody's calling her that.

Everybody's calling her the new Whitney Webb. Get your tinfoil hats on because she is here. As to this information, especially given everything that we're watching right now. Well, everybody put your tinfoil hats on. I am, that's what they're painting me as, right? The crazy person I'm becoming the new Whitney Webb. Who got painted as the conspiracy theorist. I'm kind of obsessed

with Palantir. I find it really fascinating. And while I was doing the news on Iran and the bombings and paying close attention to who they were assassinating, they assassinated an AI scientist. One of the top AI scientists in Iran. He worked at the University of Tehran. So I couldn't find any military or nuclear attachments to him. So I was like, why, why the AI guy? And a friend of mine, she sent me a tip that said they've been using this software since 2018 called Mosaic and that is owned and operated by Palantir. So this had all the elements I needed.

It had the nuclear strike. It had Palantir, it had Whitney Webb, they killed an AI guy. And I was like, wow. So then I started really digging into it and I realized that it's Palantir, it's the mosaic software which is a cover for Palantir, which is actually exactly like you said, mapping out these data points, stating that there's leaks or issues at certain sites that have never been known to have nuclear issues or nuclear weapons or nuclear material at those sites. It's very interesting.

And now you see kind of the IAEA saying, well, we didn't say that they had nuclear weapons. We're just saying that they were in the process of developing them. It was Mosaic that actually came out and said the uranium is enriched beyond capacity. And they have enough enriched uranium to build nine bombs. The nine bomb theory is the new WMDs. So WMDs was Iraq, nine bomb theory is Iran. They had enough, quote unquote, enriched to to assemble nine dirty bombs, which there's nothing that proves that. Now we're realizing that this is all because Iran was

going to develop a nuclear weapon. And then sort of I'm wondering why we're using predictive software to start wars. It's over. For one thing, it's not they're not developing nine dirty bombs. They can do dirty bombs tomorrow. Dirty bombs are just a bunch of crap put in a regular bomb. In a bucket, and then shot off into space. In a bucket, to explode a bunch of race. So why is she saying to develop nine dirty bombs? This is wrong. I don't know.

So already we have analysis that is got at its base misinformation. Well, she says that we're using predictive software to start wars. And by the way, most people who were okay with President Trump are not okay with him right now. They do not like him. This is not what I voted for. I did not vote for war. Well, I disagree with that. I disagree with it too. No, I disagree with the comment that you made, which is most people.

Okay, most people in Fredericksburg, Texas. Which for me is most people. Yes. Oh, no, people don't like this. Oh, this is interesting. Yeah. You know, I find the most interesting part of the show in the last year or so is your analysis of the locals.

Because it's fascinating, because it is a cross-section of a certain type of American that does permeate the entire country. Oh, for sure. And it's always interesting to me because I'm in Berkeley. So, you know, I got a pretty standard fare around here. You don't get out of the house. You don't talk to any.

You don't talk to your neighbors. I get out of the house. I have to buy food occasionally. Water. I have to go out and get water. Doesn't Jay just slip? Jay slips it under the door? I dehydrate. Yeah.

So, uh, and I, you know, everyone's, what do you think? Well, you should listen to the show because we're going to figure out what we think on the show. But, um, I would say, well, let's get to your analysis clips and then we can dive. Let's, let's take a deep dive into this topic, John. There's a couple of things here. Now one of the things, this woman, I have to say, this is from last night, so it's always, it's wrong and there's some corrections I think I want to make up front. The attack on Iran and on the sites consisted of 30 Tomahawk missiles sent off from a submarine.

The missiles took one hour and 45 minutes to hit a couple of the sites, and they were launched in advance of the B-2 bombers, but the B-2 bomber strike was to take place before. This is of unbelievable complexity to this. The bomber would bomb the, use the bunker bombers, the bunker bombs. The mop, the mop. The mops and they were going to use 14 of them. So there were seven, there were seven B-2 bombers with, in an array of other fighters. And they dropped 14 bombs and those bombs are supposed to hit before the Tomahawk missiles

which were launched an hour and 45 minutes before that. So this is information that she doesn't have. And she's just guessing and she's so good at this. This woman is Jennifer Griffin. She's a version of Haridge, the pixie girl. She's a gray-haired version. Oh yeah, no, she's on Fox the whole time, isn't she? She's on Fox, she's the Fox version of the CIA plan. She's read in, yes.

She's read in. She's read in, yeah. But she's received, she hangs out at the Pentagon, so I think she's read in mostly by the military guys. And she wasn't read in on this and nobody seems to have been read in on this. This was an, and she talks about that. And I, I think that's the most phenomenal part about it. Uh, they did not mention it. The, the, the, the, the, the called the magic eight or the eight balls or some bull crap that the eight

Congress people that are supposed to be informed with something like this. Have they, it's the, it's the, the like this. It's the Furious Five, no, the... What are they called? The egg something, yes. They weren't told Jack. And why weren't they told Jack? Because you can't trust them. You can't trust them. They're working for both sides. Gang of Eight. The Gang of Eight. They'll talk. They'll blow it. I don't,

I think that Tulsi Gabbard was kept out of some of these meetings because I don't think that they is that they don't trust her. They don't trust the CIA and these intelligence agencies from they're making a phone call. Hey, there's a bomb that's coming in. Well, wouldn't you, wouldn't you think also an analyst, an analyst came to me through someone else and said, you know, this is also a big F you to the Brits and the CIA who have been destabilizing and mucking around in the region for decades? Which is absolutely. Yeah, I thought that was spot on when I heard that.

I'm like, yeah, exactly. So no, no one was read in. I got military people saying, oh, B2 is going to Guam. That means it's Iran. And then, but that was the, that was the diversion. Yeah, there were people, there were people even in the military who have ties who were looking at the diversion when the actual strike went the other way. They went around the globe in the other direction. That's what Jennifer talks about here. And she deconstructs this beautifully considering this is right after it happened.

So, she's assuming they're going to drop a couple of these mops when they drop 14. She doesn't have that information yet. But let's listen to this. This is Iran bombing and this is Jennifer Griffin. It's notable how much deception was involved in this operation. All eyes were looking west towards Guam and the B-2s that took off late last night towards Guam. It's possible that—but the distance there would suggest that the B-2s may have also

flown east from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Remember, the air refuelers, many of them were placed in Europe and across the Middle East, and that is what is known as an air refueling bridge. And all of those B-2s would require much air refueling in order to make it—they usually fly roundtrip from Whiteman. And so, what we can say—and the president said this in his Truth Social post—is that a full payload of bombs, those massive ordnance penetrators, the 30,000-pound bunker buster

bombs, were dropped at Fordow. And as we have reported, there are two entrances to Fordow, so at least two bombs at each two entrants, which suggests at least two B-2s were involved over Fordow. So at least two bombs at each two entrances, which suggests at least two B-2s were involved over Fordow. My suspicion is that there were more. And then you have the two other sites, Natanz, which also has an underground enrichment facility. The Israelis had not been able to reach or take out that facility despite the last 10 days of bombing.

And so, now, U.S. warplanes, likely another B-2 bomber, had dropped that mop, the 30,000-pound bunker buster, on Natanz. And then you also have Isfahan, a third site south of Tehran. And that is also a very significant enrichment facility. So, those B-2 bombers, it's possible that, as everybody was looking west for the B-2s flying towards Guam, that in fact there was another package of squadron of B-2s that were flying east from Whiteman. It's about a 15-hour trip from Whiteman in Missouri to the Middle East, to Iran, and

those bombers often fly round trip and it takes them about 30 hours to get home. So there was another new term which cropped up, which has been going for the past few days is the package. The package. Yeah. Package. This package included this package that that is, I had not, I don't think I've heard that before using the term the package. This is the package.

Yeah. I don't, I can't say that I've heard it either. There's news to me. So, so just as right after this happened, which was our time, around three o'clock, which I will mention, donations stopped dead at three o'clock yesterday. We didn't get, they dribble in usually all night. Interesting. But at three o'clock PayPal had had no donations after 315

Now either that PayPal was shut shuttered or the Iranians, you know Maybe maybe they cut him off because they're the world one of the world's greatest hacking operations But anyway, that's going with part two of her The other thing I can point out Brett is that is that this is an operation, in the last 18 years since I've been at the Pentagon, I've never seen such operational security. There was nobody speaking about this, any of the preparations. There was a complete lockdown, almost a blackout of information for the last few days. I'm sitting here in the Pentagon right now.

I can tell you the hallways are empty and all of the information is coming right now out of the White House. That is a significant achievement because there was, there were no leaks about the timing. Now sometimes, I think those who, a lot of the flight trackers, the open source intelligence flight trackers, that flight radar did indicate some of the, when the B2s took off from Whiteman. But again, nobody really expected that it would take place this evening. If you looked at the moon schedule, you might have had a clue because it was a waning crescent and almost a new moon on the 25th. So it would have been very, very dark over Iran tonight. And you need that in order to

very, very dark over Iran tonight, and you need that in order to bomb. That's the ideal condition for something like a B-2 that is, yes, it's self-stealth, but it still has to be escorted in, in case any Iran were to put up any planes or there were any opportunities to fire on those B-2s, which are such valuable and very, very special planes. Only the U.S. military has this kind of weaponry and this capability. No other country in the world could have carried off what occurred tonight. Oh, well, at least she gets the talking point in at the end. Good job. No one can do this.

We're the best. Number one, phone, finger number one. That was Trump talking. For people's information out there, we have 17 B2s in service. They cost about $4 billion to make one. They stopped making them years ago. They moved to the B21. And there were 19 built.

One of them crashed, caused a bunch of money. And I guess another one was a lemon. Monday morning, Monday morning B2 is no good. So, um, so there's, there were plenty of plays to go around, uh, since they sent seven of them. So here we go with the analysis at the end of her, by, by the, I was, knowing that this happened, her analysis came right after it started. I was extremely impressed.

I'm now always going to be impressed. And when she shows up, I'm gonna listen. That's how, it was just pretty astonishing to me that she did all this. Here we go. Yeah, Jen, you're exactly right on the operation security here and the fact that there were

obviously some red herrings. And in a world where decisions are made and the world digests the decision even before it's made because of social media and everyone's watching everywhere, this was a pretty amazing operation when you start thinking that the president said within two weeks we are two days from within two weeks and this happens with a post on Truth Social and no other word really getting out ahead of that is pretty stunning. The other extraordinary thing, Brett, is that I've spoken to past planners who have been involved in planning for this kind of mission for the past 20 years, and they all told me to a person

that it would normally take the U.S. military about 30 days to get all of their assets, their military assets, into position. This took about two weeks. If you count back to the meeting at Camp David on June 8th, where I think this was first discussed, it's been about two weeks since then. And by moving the USS Nimitz from the Pacific to the Middle East and putting all those destroyers in the Eastern Med, along with F-22 fighter squadrons, which left Langley Air Force Base earlier this week, all of those refuelers.

Those refuelers are really the heroes also of this mission, because it is— Ah, talking points. —again, the U.S. and Israel are really among the only countries in the world— Number one. —that can refuel mid-flight. And that is what allowed those B-2 bombers to fly all the way from the continental U.S., from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, all the way to the Middle East without ever having to land. Yeah, so the other part of the deception was the two weeks thing.

Here's a mini-cut. I'll let you know in about two weeks, within two weeks. I could answer that question better in two weeks. I'll do this at some point over the next two weeks. I'll announce it over the next two weeks. I'll let you know in about two weeks. I'll do this at some point over the next two weeks. I'll announce it over the next two weeks. You know in about two weeks it'll be out in about less than two weeks. And so with that in mind I went back to the clip we played on the last show and it actually sounds like President Trump had of course made up his mind he knew what the plan was it was good to go when he came out

with this two-week stuff, which is like, wow, everyone bought that. Oh, I'm like, oh, two weeks. Okay, we'll see what happens in two weeks. Not even thinking that that was a lie. Bullshit. A lie. But when you listen to him in hindsight, he really does sound sincerely sad that he has to do it. Listen to this clip. Striking Iranian nuclear facilities. Where's your mindset? I can't say that right you don't seriously think I'm going to answer that question Will you strike the Iranian nuclear? Component and what time exactly sir? Sir would you strike it would you please inform us so we can be there and watch I mean?

You don't know that I'm going to even do it. You don't know I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm gonna do. I can tell you this, that Iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you negotiate? I said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine. You would have had a country. It's very sad to watch this. I mean, I've never, I've never seen anything like it. It's so, you know, everyone thought it was going to be the reverse. I didn't, I didn't think so. And I was telling him, you gotta, you gotta do something. You gotta negotiate. And at the end, last minute, they said, no, we're not going to do that.

And they got hit. Remember 60 days and then came the 60 so he sounds sincerely like sad He said he had this all planned and had to do it. I Think he is I think you're sincere when he says you know peace guy now knowing knowing that this really since 1992 we've been hearing about the knowing that this really since 1992 we've been hearing about the days, weeks, they're almost there. Oh yeah, there was a great meme floating around which went something like this. In 1220, the Persian Empire collapsed under the such and such and they were just two weeks away from a nuclear bomb. So now what is not mentioned and of, there's no clips of it, but Pakistan was sending their Chinese J-35 fighters over to Iran.

I think that the Chinese moves, you know, they had some big cargo planes flying in. I think they were gearing up and that's what made the decision go quicker. Because I still believe with certainty that this is about sending a message to China and not about some fictitious or whatever, Fata Morgana of nuclear bombs. Because, I mean, this has been going on forever, this talk. And at the same time, if there's no more nuclear capability, well, then we're done, right? Then Iran doesn't have to, Israel doesn't have to do anything. We don't have to worry about it. Bibi doesn't have to hold up pictures of bombs at the UN because it's gone, it's done.

So that does kind of erase that whole thing. It's gone now. You can't use that anymore. Can I interrupt for one second and play a clip? Yeah. Uh, this was, I was, when this war started, coincidentally, I was watching live El Jezero. I felt like getting El Jezero clips.

Okay. And there's something that took place with Trump's post that I don't think anybody recognized as humor. His initial post I thought was done as a form of humor that it just was lost on all media. And so I have the El Jazeera clip. This is the Trump truth social post. And this is the El Jazeera guy reading the thing. He missed the joke.

Everybody seems to have missed the joke, except, I don't know, me. And not that I'm that great, but this was so obvious to me. But can you play this clip? So here's what the US president has said in the last few minutes. US President Donald Trump posted on his social media account saying, we have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran,

including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran airspace. A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American warriors. There is not another military in the world that could have done this. Now is the time for peace. Thank you for your attention to this matter. That's like a memo.

You got it too. A memo. Yeah. It's got the memo of meme. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Wow. And nobody has commented on this little phrase that he dropped in there to make it seem like a bureaucratic piece. Memo.

You know. Wow. Yeah, that's interesting. It's like a word to the wise. I mean, all these kinds of things you get if you ever worked in a company or an agency or anything, you have these memo writers that put shit like that in their memos and it's very insulting. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The men's washroom will be closed for the next five days. Thank you for your attention to this matter. This is like, I hope this message finds you well. Please do not flush anything down the toilets that does not belong there. Thank you for your attention to this matter. This is like, I hope this message finds you well. Please do not flush anything down the toilets that does not belong there. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Totally. So, since you played the Fox Lady, this is what Steve Bannon's big beef was.

Sorry, I'm speaking ditch now. I'm glad you got this because I didn't get to hear any of this stuff and did you get it this morning or? No, unfortunately because I you know because of our time zones. I didn't get any good stuff from I watched a lot of stuff this morning But I didn't get I have the slip. I know I have the clips from this morning Thanks to the Jones Brothers syndicate, so we will definitely play some of that But first this is Bannon and he blames this all on Fox News We can listen you can and people on Fox, oh, it's good versus evil. It's good.

Yo, dude, John Adams said, if you want to go, you know, don't go abroad from monsters society. There are monsters all over the world. We can do the good and evil everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. Is that what we're going to do? It's good versus evil. Let's go. I would think if you're going to do good versus evil. Let's go. I would think

if you're gonna do good versus evil and kind of weigh them up. By the way, the repetitiveness in this clip is not me editing. That's him. Maybe we should be marching on Beijing. Let's roll. Let's do it. I don't hear any voices there for that. It's interesting. Is Lao Bai Jing not worthy of that? It's because they're Chinese and not worthy of that? Is that what it is? So is he upset that it's not known that this was about China? No, I don't think so. Is that what it is? Is that what it is?

No, I think a major FARA investigation should take place at Fox News. I believe that thoroughly. I think we need to see if they represent a foreign government as an agent so I think he's saying that Israel is he thinks Fox should be registered as a foreign agent for Israel yes they think I check the cell phones see the data check the emails what was going back and forth what they were pushing on the American people what are they pushing on the American people where this information come from I think it's? I think it has to happen. You can't have somebody cheerleading you onto war. You have to sit there. We haven't been cheerleading against doing it. What we're saying, first

off, number one, we believe it should be done, right? We agree that the Mullahs should not get nuclear weapons. We believe there's many paths to do that. President Trump was pursuing other paths as he was from the first term. None of those paths were going on the path to kinetic warfare. None of them. Okay? None of them. But we got janded up because last Thursday night had to do it, had to do it, had to do it, had to do it, had to do it, had to do it. Then we did with a sense of urgency, the phony sense of urgency had upsell. Now we need regime change, regime change, regime change got to do it got to do it. You're not MAGA. You're not Trump You're not team Trump. You're not team Trump. Look, bro. We've been in these trenches with Trump a long time

We know who teammates are and who are eva stays So he's he's channeling George Bush somehow That's what is that's an interesting point to catch because he sounds a little like him. Gotta do it, gotta do it. Bush Senior. Gotta do it, gotta do it. He sounded like George HW. Yeah, no, George, no, George, yeah.

No, George HW is the one that said gotta do it. Gotta do it, gotta do it. And again, I mean, to me, it's like, wow, this is so obvious what this was about. You know, it's still like, go away China. You have no business here. And Trump had, you know, taco, taco, I was calling Trump taco. Trump always chickens out. And so he had to show it.

He had to show that, oh no, I'm not going to chicken out. I'm going to blow up these, these sand bunkers. Hmm. So. Well, let's stop for a second because Bannon, let's face it. Um, Bannon is on the outs. Oh yeah. He's been on the outs since Trump started, since 2020, actually even before that.

Once he got thrown out of the White House by one of the Bad one of the bad actors. I was Kelly or one of these guys They got rid of him as soon as they could and then he you know kind of is like a loose cannon. He's He's I think he's anti Israel. He's also I More than he is anti-war. And he has, he just has an abrasive personality of sorts. I mean, I think he's an entertaining podcaster, but it's everything's, oh, you know, it's going on. No, you know, it's all this kind of weird excitement that he's always got.

Like there's some conspiracy going on constantly and he's the only one that can identify it. I don't like the guy. What this taking our, I was going to say taking our theory into account. You don't like the guy, it's fine. Taking our, I was gonna say taking our theory into account. You don't like the guys, fine. Yeah, he's too annoying for me to watch long periods of. He's like, okay, I got it. But he's Team Trump, I guess.

He says, we've been Team Trump for a long time, bro. Well, he thinks he is Team Trump. Somebody sent me a note when I was bitching about one of his clips and they said, with the band saying, we got this guy, we got hexes and we got this guy and we got that guy in. And the note came and says what Bannon is saying is MAGA, not we means MAGA. And I'm thinking what,

as a counter to that is that what Bannon is MAGA, he represents MAGA. He has the, the poster poster boy for mega. I don't think so. Well, he thinks so. Or that's what he needs to justify. I credit the guy for having an entertaining show, a good podcast. So taking into account that this has really been about China for a long time, it kind of puts the pallets of billions of dollars of cash into perspective. I can totally see the Obama administration going to Iran and saying, you know, we'll give you money.

The Chinese got money, we got more money. We'll give it to you cash. We'll put it on pallets. We'll bring it in. Just don't do business with China. You know what I mean? There is a clip going around. I didn't get it's on Twitter floating around.

It's from some screwball show is some woman who's supposedly ex CIA. And that pallet of cash was some sort of blackmail. Um, they had nothing to do with China. Anyway, I don't think that we're giving people money to not do business with China. It doesn't make sense. And we're not going to give it to them. That's for sure. There's something else going on with that palladium money.

You're not going to give them credit for being smart. Definitely not. Okay. So this morning, the morning shows, of course, the Steve Jones and Neil Jones, Jones Brothers Syndicate are always on top. So You need to have this guy if we're talking about Iran because he was up all night in front of his monitor Whoa, it's Lindsey Graham everybody you praised the president's decision overnight And I know you just got off of the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu

What did he say to you about this moment? Well first about the the president's decision, I thought it was bold, quite frankly, brilliant militarily, necessary, and most importantly, effective. So well done, Mr. President, to your team and our militaries and fantastic cooperation that has substantially degraded, I think, Iran's nuclear program. So I talked to BB just just a few minutes ago so I was talking to BB just a few months ago and I said hey BB hey I'm Lindsey Graham I mean BB really really Graham I think Iran's nuclear program so I talked to BB just just a few minutes ago and I said what would you like me to say BB what would you like me to say, BB? If you want to know someone who's under the influence of Israel, it's this guy.

You can't even pronounce Israel. It's this guy. He is definitely... What would you like me to say? This guy is comic. He's comedic. Just a few minutes ago, and I said, what would you like me to say? Because I have no mind of my own, BB. What would you like me to say? I'm from South Carolina. I'm a military industrial complex state. What would you like me to say?

He said, tell the American people Israel is profoundly grateful for all we do for Israel and very grateful to President Trump for what he ordered last night. Two messages. He wanted me to urge the Iranian people to end this madness. Take this regime down and have a better life for yourselves and be part of the region in a new and different way. And second, he wanted me to tell the American people, Israel's not going to live this way anymore. They're not going to live under threat from Iran anymore. Last night they were attacked. The early morning hours

of today, after the attack by President Trump, Israel fired ballistic missiles into Israel, wounding Israeli citizens. 24 have been killed. This regime is not going to be tolerated by Israel, is what he told me. Israel. And then in this next clip, he literally parrots Bibi, his friend, his good friend Bibi Netanyahu with the same words. Okay, so let me follow up with you on that point, Senator, because Prime Minister Netanyahu has signaled that- This is a Christmas show. Say what? This is Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. Yes, yes, this is from Meet the Press, exactly. Israelis want to carry out regime change.

Would you support that if Israel were to carry out regime change? If I were Israel, I would have done it a long time ago. They've been held back in many ways. What would be the right response if America had a ballistic missile fired into our country and killed our citizens? We would wipe the offender off the map. So here's what I hope. After the hospital attack, and they were so lucky not to lose a lot of people. By the way, it was not a hospital attack. It was a building next to the hospital that

was an intelligence building. But okay, Lindsay. Israel's made a decision. Wait, stop there. And by the way, there is a little kind of duplicitousness here because the Israelis have bombed a bunch of hospitals in Gaza and nobody wants to bring that point up because the hospitals were used as cover, they used the civilian cover for civilian operations. How is that different than an intelligence operation next to a hospital? It's not, but it's Lindsey Graham. Israel's made a decision.

This regime is going to change in one of two ways. They're going to change their behavior, which I doubt the regime itself, or the people are going to replace the regime itself, or the people are going to replace the regime. They have less capability today than they did yesterday, but they're still religious Nazis. They want to purify Islam. That is literally Netanyahu talk. Religious Nazis. They're Nazis. They want to...

I have a... This is a very strange comparison to make. Yeah. I mean, the Nazis was very specific. Yeah. I mean, the Nazis were very specific. Yeah. It's the National Socialist Party of Germany in the 19th, late 20s, actually mid-30s. Now he says they're religious Nazis. Graham is...

The whole thing is ridiculous. He's... You know, I also want to reintroduce the idea that all this is theater and it's the Ayatollah who ditched himself into a bunker. He's the only one who put himself in a safe place where they're killing all the generals and AI guys and nuclear scientists. The possibility still exists in my mind that this is all a setup to get rid of all these threatening military guys that were threatening the regime. As we say in the old country, they're all playing under the same hat.

They're all playing under the same hat. And from Soleimani, when Trump killed him on, it's all been just getting rid of these guys one after the other. So it's possible that the Ayatollah is actually a good guy. And you'd like to get China out of there too. They don't want China. Sorry? Well, the Ayatollah was against nuclear weapons. He was again, he's been, he's publicly been against it the whole time until recent.

I mean, this whole thing could be a huge setup. Very possible. Designed to get rid of the nukes, get rid of the Chinese, get rid of the military guys that want to run the country anyway, get rid of all of them and really rearrange Iran for the benefit of the guys, the conspire-ers who have been working with Israel and the United States all along. People in the Middle East, we brought it up on our show numerous times. All the time they say this. No, no, America and Iran working together, all the time.

They say it all the time. Why, at least we should keep that in play, because I think it's still in play. Let's go to our Secretary of State Marco Rubio. I'm liking Rubio more and more by the way. This is the only guy that matters. He doesn't smile anymore, he's not funny. No, no humor. Humorless Marco, he is,

and he's probably the only voice that matters right now because he runs the State Department, he can talk. And he's the head of intelligence. He runs a lot. He runs a lot of stuff. Here he is on Face the Nation with Margaige. Mr. Secretary, I know it has been an intense few hours, but so far it does not appear that Iran has yet retaliated against the United States. What intelligence do you have at this point about their capabilities to respond, the intent

of their proxies? Is there any kind of command and control structure left to activate them? Yeah, well, we'll see what Iran decides to do. I think they should choose the route of peace. We have been—we've done everything—we have been over backwards, okay, to create a deal with these people. Steve Woodcoff has traveled the world extensively, met with them—well, not even met with them, met through the Omanis with them and discussed back and forth.

We even put an offer to them that they wanted elements of it in writing, and we offered it to them. Very generous offer, by the way. We've done it, and we're prepared— Best price. —right now. If they call right now and say very generous offer by the way. We've done it and we're prepared. Best price. Right now. If they call right now and say we want to meet, let's talk about this, we're prepared to do that. The president's made that clear from the very beginning. His preference is to deal with this issue diplomatically. But he also told them we had 60 days to make

progress or something else was going to happen. And I think they thought they were dealing with a different kind of leader, like the kinds of leaders they've been playing games with for the last 30 or 40 years, and they found out that's not the case. So this mission was a very precise mission. It had three objectives, three nuclear sites. It was not an attack on Iran, it was not an attack on the Iranian people, this wasn't a regime change move. This was designed to degrade and or destroy three nuclear sites related to their nuclear weaponization ambitions and that was delivered on yesterday. What happens next will now depend on what Iran chooses to do next. If they choose the path of diplomacy, we're ready, we can do a deal that's good for them, the Iranian people, and good for the world. If

they choose another route, then there'll be consequences for that. So right away, and I'm quite sure that there's still elements within the military industrial complex who were like well No, we don't want diplomacy. We can't have that So they've launched this and this it comes to me through the through the typical channels and these people don't even know they're doing It themselves like well, you know, they had trucks and stuff was getting out and it might not be you know Might not be over there may be some stuff still left, we didn't get it all, it didn't work. What is the US assessment of how much nuclear material at those sites was moved prior to

the attack? There has been talk for days about bombing of Fordow. Well, look, no one will know for sure for days, but I doubt they moved it because you really can't move anything right now, and they can't move anything right now inside of Iran. I mean, the minute a truck starts driving somewhere,'t move anything right now and they can't move anything right now inside of Iran. I mean, the minute a truck starts driving somewhere, the Israelis have seen it and they've targeted it and taken it out. So our assessment is we have to assume that that's a lot of 60% enriched uranium buried

deep under the ground there in Asfahan. And that really is the key. What they should do with that is they should bring it out of the ground and turn it over. Multiple countries around the world will take it and down blend it. That's what they should do with that. ground and turn it over, multiple countries around the world will take it and down blend it. That's what they should do with that. And what they should do is say, we're not going to have any enrichment capability in our country.

Instead, what we're going to have is a civil nuclear program like dozens of countries around the world have where we build reactors that create electricity and we import enriched material. And we've made very general, I'm not going to get all the details of the offers, but there are other avenues here that would be acceptable to them. Where do we import enriched materials from? Who does that? Is that us? I mean, who's the boss of the enriched material that he references? We build reactors that create electricity and we import enriched material. And we've

made very general, I'm not going to get all the details of the offers, but there are other avenues here that would be acceptable to them. If that's what they wanted, if what they want is a civil, peaceful nuclear program, the route has always been there. The problem is that everything they're demanding has nothing to do with a peaceful program. They are all the things you would want if you want to retain the option of one day weaponizing the program. Which has been their clear intent.

To me, that's indisputable. I followed this issue for 15 years, including the intelligence on it for 15 years. Okay, I followed it. And the intelligence, these are assessments and sometimes they've been wrong. I've seen them revised multiple times. These guys want a nuclear weapon one day. Okay, to that point. And it isn't going to happen.

One day. Not while Donald Trump is president. One day, he said. Oops, Marco, don't give it away. Let's address the regime change because that's another thing that just got launched into the ether as far as I know, not by the administration, not by the president, but I think by people who are very upset and compare this to the weapons of mass destruction, the aluminum tubes we're being lied to, we're all

going to die, there's going to be a war. Trump promised us no war, no never ending wars. And with that comes regime change. You've said this is not about regime change, but you are describing a regime that you have said for decades. I mean, for upwards of 40 years, has chanted death to America, has done all the things you just described. Isn't a diplomatic deal with them a lifeline? Aren't you offering to negotiate with the same people you're saying did all these things? So therefore,

are you actually looking for regime change? That misses the point. I don't like that they chant those things. But one thing is that they chant those things. Another thing is that they chant those things and they have an terror proxies are all over the world. And they have long range missiles that can reach the United States one day. And they have terror proxies all over the world and they have long-range missiles that can reach the United States one day and they have the potential to be one step away from a nuclear weapon. Well, one day could be tomorrow, could be a week from now, could be a month from now. All it takes is the flip of a switch.

By the way, they're not going to broadcast that to the world. By the time we figure out that they're doing it, you have all the pieces in place. It's like you have a loaded gun here and the ammunition. It only takes one second. We have other targets that we could hit, but we achieved our objective. The primary targets we were interested in are the ones that were struck tonight in devastating fashion. The ones that were struck, I guess, yeah, tonight over there, their time, in devastating fashion. And we've achieved that objective. There are no planned military operations right now against Iran unless, unless they mess around and they attack American or American interests, then they're going to have a problem. FAFO!

Then they're going to have a problem and I'm not going to broadcast what those problems are. But suffice it to say, know this, the United States flew halfway around the world, right into the heart of Iran, over their most sensitive locations. These things got rocked. And then we left. And we were out of their airspace. We were over the ocean before they figured out what had happened. And there are plenty of other targets. We don't want to do that. That's not our preference. We want peace deals with them and that's up to them to decide. They got rocked. We rocked them. They got rocked. So, and now we get down to the nitty-gritty because this is really what the issue is about.

If you look at the price of oil, who determines the price of oil, who is selling the oil, who is selling the oil, who is selling the oil mainly to China or any type of energy stuff, coal, oil, gas, et cetera, and the shipping routes, which is what we use when we sell our stuff and we control the oil. You said defend American interests. Would the United States military take action to keep for example, the transit point the Strait of Hormuz open if there are attacks on oil installations with the United States consider that a direct act by the state even if it was carried out by a militia.

Well I'm not going to take options away from the president. That's not something we're talking about right now in terms of being immediate. But if they do that, the first people that should be angry about it are the Chinese government because they take a lot of their oil comes through there. So they should be the first ones that are saying if they mine the Straits of Hormuz, the Chinese are going to pay a huge price and every other country in the world is going to pay a huge price. We will too.

It'll have some impact on us. It'll have a lot more impact on the rest of the world. A lot more impact on the rest of the world. There would be a suicidal move on their part, because I think the whole world would come against them if they did that. Will the Chinese and Russians stop trading with Iran? You have to ask the Chinese and the Russians. You haven't asked them?

Probably not. I mean, they're getting, well, the Russians are getting a bunch of these drones that they're using are coming from Iran. Exactly. They're coming from Iran. So I saw the foreign minister, instead of meeting with Steve Witkoff, is headed to Moscow to meet with Putin, which was a pre-scheduled meeting, which is fine. You know, they can go meet.

And you know, the Russians, at the end of the day, I mean, they buy drones from them. But look, this is very simple. We want to have an agreement with them, a diplomatic agreement, in which they have a civil nuclear program but are not enriching and don't have weapons grade material or weapons capabilities laying around. That's that simple. I thought it was so hilarious on DH Unplugged, which airs live every Tuesday and you can listen to it on the podcast on Wednesdays, that Horowitz had after 10 years had pulled all of his clients out of oil and then this happens. Oil spikes. Oh wait.

Crapola, you know? Okay. You're back. Sorry about that. Could you hear me? The, you didn't get, unfortunately I wish there was a clip of Rubio from this morning where he says this, makes this comment about meeting face to face and not passing notes back and forth and having all these middlemen like third graders. And it was just a very funny comment because I guess we haven't really had a meeting with the Ronis. No, no.

It's always, they have to pat, write down on a note and the Omanis take it to another suite in the hotel and then they take a note back. Yeah, that's bull crap. Yeah, it's bull crap. We can't do that. No. Well, so here's the final message from our secretary of state. When did the president make this decision?

Because he said he was giving two more weeks of diplomacy on Friday and on Friday these jets took off? Well the president retains the opportunity to pull out of this at any moment including 10 minutes before but the president ordered options the president look the decision in my view was made when he wrote a letter to the supreme leader and he said over the next 60 days we want to do a deal with you and solve this problem of nuclear weaponization. Yeah. We want to do it peacefully. After 60 days we don't see progress or it isn't solved, we have other alternatives.

He made that very clear. I think what some people are struggling with here is that we today have a president who does what he says he's going to do. And that's what happened here. And that was the point. That was the point. The way she tries to block him. Yeah.

Block him. He's hard to block. Yeah. He's hard to block. Yeah, he's good. I actually like, a lot of people thought he was a bad choice because he's like a, you know, for various reasons. I've enjoyed him as a secretary of state. He's entertaining. He could be funny if he wanted to be.

We know that from the past, but he's decided to go with this very serious style. You know who was a bad choice? Our ambassador to the United Nations. Who is that? Because Stefanik was going to be the ambassador, which I thought would have been a good choice. I think it is. No, no, she got kicked back. Ambassador UN.

Let me see who, who became it. Um, Madam Ambassador. What's her name? Oh, um, Dorothy Shay. Man, Dorothy, you need to update your picture on your Wikipedia. So what's wrong with her? I've never heard of her. Well, let's see.

I know they wanted Stefanik in there, but then they didn't have enough people in the House of Representatives. They didn't want to let, you know, Kathy Hochul appoint some Democrat. And so they had to keep her in the House of Representatives and they pulled her nomination and she was you know she wanted to do the job. Well let's see what did she do previously? I think it's just a stand-in. Yeah well she's no good listen to this gaffe.

Israel's government has also spread chaos, terror and suffering throughout the region. What? Iran's government has also spread chaos, terror, and suffering throughout the region. She doesn't do over like it's going to get edited out. Oh no, no, you said Israel, you meant Iran. Iran's government has also spread chaos, terror. Or is it just the truth coming out? Well, I have a clip similar to that in terms of somebody just the stupidest thing. I mean, that's like saying, you know, the vaccine gas we heard during COVID,

instead of saying this virus is killing people, this vaccine is killing people. The vaccine is killing people. It's a truth coming out thing, man. That's what it is. So they, so they were, just to change the topic for a second, we're going, I'm sure we get back to the Iran conflagration, but so they let this guy, the guy that was in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil. Yes, yes.

And what a political move with AOC walking out of the airport with him. Oh, it's horrible. AOC is just digging a hole for herself. Yeah, that's not a good look. So they had this good, they had a quote, this is from, again, from Al Jazeera. And you have to listen carefully to what he says. This is him yakking away. It's a very short clip. How long is this clip? Who am I looking for here? Listen carefully to what he says. This is him yakking away. It's a very short clip. How long is this clip? Who am I looking for here?

It says HKAH. Ah, yes. Okay. L, I'm sorry. 27 second clip. Listen carefully to his words. Khalil took part in protests at Columbia University, one of many across college campuses last year in support of Palestinian people. The US government is funding this genocide and Columbia University is investing in this genocide. This is why I was protesting. This is why I will continue to protest with every one of you.

Not only if they threaten me with detention, even if they would kill me, I would still speak up for Palestine. Yeah, I thought that was interesting too. Yeah, even if you kill me, I'm going to speak up. Keep speaking. How does that work? Now what is going to happen with this guy? Because it was because of a judge, another federal judge that they said, oh, you can't

do this. I love how the guardian positions it. Let me see if I still have that article. The guardian just is like continuous. Oh yeah, here it is. Got the guardian. Columbia graduate and legal US resident. Yeah, I like the way they always do that. Yeah. And they keep saying that, keep saying that, but even a green card, there are kind of restrictions on that. Yeah. And they keep saying that, keep saying that, but you know, even a green card, there are kind of restrictions on that. You can't do certain things. Including just getting arrested.

I still think the guy's some sort of plant. Well, we'll see. Well, he didn't have the kifiyeh before, but now he does. Yeah. He never used to wear that thing. And then as soon as he comes out of jail, they're walking him all over the place. He's like, where did it come from? He's wearing it all over like he had it in jail.

No, AOC gave it to him. Yeah, but AOC gave it to him? Yeah. Hello, Khalil. Yeah, she was wearing one. I'm like Roy, Roy, Roy Kent. Rrrr. Let me see. Talking about people like her, let's listen to this clip.

This is the, this is from Fox. This is a ran bombing naysayers. This is about the people that are gonna be bitching and moaning about it. What people say, we've already seen AOC come out and say, you know, this was terrible what is happening This is an escalation. You know when I was a surgery resident, I always learned from everybody I learned who to be like and I learned who not to be like and so I think this is gonna be a very similar moment Where the the masks are gonna come off and we're to be able to see in this moment of moral clarity

who is morally clear and who is confused. Yeah, and I'm wondering, Emily Austin, if Emily Austin is still with us, I'm wondering, Emily, the people you talked to, was there anybody who was disappointed, anybody who said, you know what, there's probably a better way to do this than the United States going in and knocking out their nuclear plants? My guess is probably of those that you came in contact with, no, but you tell me. No, that was a trick question, but the answer is no. I feel like the best proof that tonight's mission was ultimately a success is we can see who's upset about it.

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Rashida, Elon, Chuck Schumer. This is the litmus test. On a more serious note, a reoccurring theme that we're discussing tonight is what can we expect in retaliation. Now, I want to point out, needless to say, that Iran's military, militarily they've been weakened. However, I think it's important that we take note of what they are capable of doing in retaliation. I believe that what they can do is a cyber strike cyber attack something of that sort Because militarily they're gonna need a couple of weeks to recoup

Restrategize or very very weak right now, but like everyone else said I'll echo it They're not gonna let their ego be humiliated on such a public stage and meet at the negotiating table I think we know they'd rather die a martyr than take that route. Investigate that woman. Farah investigation. Right away. She's she's on the film all the time, this this gal. And she's a she was wearing a giant cross to David or David Star.

David, there you go. And she's well, she doesn't hide it. And she's. Yeah, but that's not the same as filling out your faro form. Gen Z, uh, journalist. And she likes to brag about that too. Well ultimately this is a, and maybe that's part of why he was, sounded so sad, but this is a big gamble for the president because of his promise of no forever wars, which has kind of morphed into no wars, ending the stupid wars. Either this ends it or it kicks off something more and that becomes very irritating and that could be irritating.

And that would be very, that would be very bad. But if we go with the thesis that we ourselves have developed, which is the China thesis and the rigged theater thesis, it should be fine. Well, yeah, but they've got to, it's a certain point. Why doesn't he just tell the American people, this is, you know, China is the issue here. We've, we've you, we can't use this. I don't think he wants to tell China.

Oh, like China's stupid. Like, huh, I wonder what that was about. Well, maybe you have something there, but maybe that I, it's just, I don't know. Or he wants China to think that he's stupid. I, I'm sure they know he's not stupid. Well, I don't know that they know that because the Democrats keep saying that he is. He's stupid and he's Hitler and he's a dictator and all the other stuff. It's got to be confusing.

Well, if he... I mean, not everybody's got some clarity like we might have and our producers all seem to have where they're not freaking out about everything except there are a group that do obviously and you have your people there in in in Pornhole, Texas Pornhole whatever I'm sorry Wow Wow Wow, it's just po dunk. It's a po dunk area. Lip-tard Berkeley. Give me a break Are you wearing are you wearing your kiffy? Yeah, when you go shopping so you don't get accosted? Birkenstocks.

Well, there's that. You're Birkenstocks. But I'm just saying, it's definitely a risk with the midterms on the way. And I think it does feel to me- But it also triggers a sense of patriotism with a lot of people. A lot of, I mean, when you saw this whole thing take place with the secretiveness and the craze and how well it was executed and it was in and out, uh, it, it,

I think it turns a lot of people into pay. Sorry? Exactly. And I think that is good for the midterms. I will also say that the timing of this maybe to drag a few people over the line for the Big Beautiful bill feels like that was definitely a consideration. Yeah, I've been listening to more chit chat about the big beautiful bill and a lot of it is over the salt issue. That seems to be the last thing, just how much you'll be able to deduct. So, if you recall back in the first Trump administration when there was a tax cut for the rich, but we had our... No, they screwed the rich. They screwed the rich, but because of salt, you could only deduct up to $10,000 in state

and local taxes, which includes mortgages and everything in between, and state tax, the whole thing. And $10,000 was the limit. And rich people, that deduction was hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases, if you really loaded. Yeah. But they dropped it to 10,000, which screwed all the rich people that counted on that deduction. So Mike Johnson wants to raise that to 40. Yeah.

But the Senate wants to keep it at 10. And there's some sunset provision that's all about, well, will it end in 2028. And, you know, there's all kinds of shenanigans going on, but it doesn't seem like it's about much else. There's not much else though. It seems to only be down to the salt. I don't think there was much else that they're still arguing. I think they're going to do a compromise that's going to come out at 20. And then they'll sign it off. Best price.

Best price. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Best price. Best price. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see. I mean, we'll see what happens in the next, between now and Thursday. What we need, we need, we need like the Epstein files to drop or a show business scandal.

We need something else. Show business scandal is not going to cut it. Epstein files could. Yeah. But there's always stories like this disgusting story which could get some attention. It's probably a good time for it to come out during the war so it doesn't get as much attention. The dead babies in Ireland story? They used this as a burial ground. A baby died almost every fortnight.

There are decades of secrets buried here. so many tales of pain and anguish. Today is the first glimmer of hope, finally, for hundreds of families throughout Ireland and further afield that Chewham here in County Galway will finally give up its dead. So what happened here? From 1925 to 1961, nuns ran a so-called mother and baby home at this site, somewhere unmarried mothers were sent in disgrace in deeply Catholic Ireland. The illegitimate children were treated shamefully. An inquiry later found around 9,000 infants died in 18 such homes, resulting in a state apology four years ago.

In Chewham, historian Catherine Corliss discovered almost 800 children had died, only two were properly buried. The rest remain under this grassy patch in what used to be a sewage tank. We are standing on the chambers. There are about 20 of them. They stretch right across here. The chambers were built inside the tank. There are little openings in concrete and they go down nine foot.

So the babies had to be placed one on top of the other. There's no way for an adult to actually get down into those chambers. So that's just a horrific thought when you think about it. The dumping of the children's remains in this way sparked outrage in Ireland. A decade since the story first broke, it's hoped the excavation work starting today can finally afford a dignified reburial to hundreds of innocent children whose only crime was being born out of wedlock. No, no, that doesn't cut it.

That doesn't get anybody outraged. They're Irish. It's like, meh. I don't see't cut it. That doesn't get anybody outraged. They're Irish. It's like, meh. I don't see people get it. Of course it's horrible, but I don't think... It's going to be the grossest story of the week. No, so when you... I look at my email to see how bad it was. I don't know what you can come up with that's going to top the war.

Something with Beyonce. The MC files might. That's about it. I mean the ditty stuff is all, it's no good. It's completely no good. There's nothing in there. No, it stinks. I love this email from the truth addict. Instead of ridiculing people for coming across info you are unaware of, maybe, maybe try a simple web search.

Propaganda, I'm sure, but it's being spoken of contrary to what y'all just lead listeners to believe. They're like what? Dirty bomb attack, Iran's next move against Israel. Dirty bomb attack. She said nine dirty bombs, dude. You understand? It's like, but why, why do you email me like that? Why are you even listening?

What's the point of that? Simple web search. You're wrong. There's dirty bombs. Dirty bombs are real. Yeah, of course. We've been hearing about dirty bombs since we started doing the show and before. Yeah, we have. And before. It's always been dirty bomb, dirty bomb, dirty bomb. Oh, it's going to be a dirty bomb. Okay. Dirty bomb in New York, dirty bomb in California, dirty bomb everywhere.

Yeah, of course. We've heard all this. This is the benefit. This is the boomer benefit. We've heard it all. The boomer benefit. There's a show, show title. Boomer benefit. I mean, it is. And maybe we're just blase. Or what is the term?

Jaded is the word you're looking for. Boomer benefit. But we've heard it all. It's like, oh, how many, how many, you know what? How about this? How about we find out there's no gold at the Federal Reserve? Remember that? Remember that?

When does that take place? That's still in play. Where's the live stream of that? By the way, I saw that the largest, let me see, what was it? It's official. Geologists have discovered the largest gold deposit ever recorded, a value of over $80 billion in China. Now what does that do to the price of gold?

Shouldn't gold go down? Technically it should. And speaking of gold, John, I buy my gold at the gold boys over here. Gold, Gold Co. Gold Co. Gold Co. I want to make sure that all you seniors get really worried about the economy and buy my limited gold coins for 25% above spot price. I get 5% of your order.

Gold, it's good. So I have two clips just to annoy you. And this is a lecture on Planet Money about stablecoins, which has a kicker at the end, which just cracked, the kicker cracked me up. You'll catch it, but let's be, but I want, but this is information, these are people that don't know anything. And they're, cause it's the goof, Planet Money is a goofball show where they laugh and chuckle at everything they say. They can barely speak. Is it still that Kyle guy who hosts it?

I don't know who these two, there's two or three people. Actually, if you take a look at their webpage, they have like 30 people working there, probably all making good money. But it's just a goofball show and they go on about trying to, and they're never, it's like always kind of off, you know, that's not quite right, you know, but I figured this is perfect for you. First it says that companies that run stable coins need to hold the equivalent amount of actual US dollars or close equivalents like US treasury

bonds. Okay, makes sense. Then it clarifies who's in charge of regulating stablecoins in the US. This is stablecoin lecture. This is stablecoin, oh, stablecoin two, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My indicator is $27.6 trillion. That's a measure of how much people are using stablecoins globally.

Last year, there was $27.6 trillion worth of trading, payments, and transfers on stablecoins like Teva. And I bring this up because the Senate has just passed a bill that might bring special regulation for these cryptocurrencies for the first time. Makes sense that there's so much money zipping through the blockchain that maybe some lawmakers want to put some guardrails on. Yes. And so a reminder of what stablecoins are, they are cryptocurrencies whose value is pegged to something else, often the US dollar. So unlike Bitcoin or Ether, whose

values fluctuate wildly, you are promised that when you buy one of these cryptocurrencies, it'll stay basically the same. And because of this apparent certainty, stablecoins are increasingly popular. We'll link to our full explainer on stablecoins in the show notes. These cryptocurrencies are often used for people sending money across borders who would otherwise face high bank fees and delays, or they're used in countries where inflation is high, also for scams and drug deals and rancids. Yeah, all right. So wide range there.

What then is in this bill? Is it addressing some of those things? A lot of use cases. Many use cases, as Waylon said. Typically, other things I just mentioned are illegal anyway. They don't need special regulation. But the coins themselves seem to. So the bill does a few things oh my

goodness what is this monkey house completely KY seed stable coin which somehow is a cryptocurrency you can use that to do drug deals okay yeah that makes a lot of sense. Okay, now the other clip. Is this where I'm going to get even more annoyed by these people? No, you're going to get really annoyed by this one. First, it says that companies that run stablecoins need to hold the equivalent amount of actual US dollars or close equivalents like US Treasury bonds.

Okay, makes sense. Then it clarifies who's in charge of regulating stablecoins in the US. The bill says for large stablecoins, it's the office of the controller of the currency. For the smaller stablecoins, it's actually up to the state where the stablecoin company is based. Is that actually like, is one like a giant coin? Is that the large one and the small one is like a dime size stable coin? I'm very confused Planet Money.

Huh. Okay. So you would hope that then those state regulators are on top of this. They're having the baton handed to them. Yeah. And you've hit on a major criticism of the bill. Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen wrote an op-ed in the New York Times this week. He pointed out that regulators couldn't move fast enough to act when Silicon Valley banks' assets were vaporizing a few years ago. And so he's skeptical that regulators will be able to scrutinize the hundreds or even thousands of stablecoins that could be issued all over the country. Supporters of the bill, though, say that this at least gives

some rules of the road as opposed to none. And speaking of rules, I read that the Trump family can still promote their stable coins under this bill. Yeah, members of Congress can't show the stable coin game, but presidents and their families, they are notably excluded. Wow, it's a meme coin. It's like Trump's stakes, it's sneakers. Oh, you idiots. You're right. I'm very annoyed by that. I knew that would get you the meme, the Trump stable coin that cracked me up. I mean, I don't even know that much about it

and caught that a mile away. It is true though that, so first of all, what they don't get right is the House and the Senate bill differ on those on who is going to regulate it. That's going to be the big thing. So who's going to regulate stable coin? And it's certainly true that we're

going to see idiotic things like the Walmart stable coin and the Amazon stable coin, which you may not be able to use in other places. It's going to it's going to basically be like a loyalty card. It's going to be very stupid. A lot of this. But the market-

Well, it wouldn't be that much different than having the Macy's credit card. Right. No, I agree. Well, I don't know. I don't know if you're going to be able to use the Walmart stable coin over at Amazon. That's what I don't know. No, you definitely if you're going to be able to use the Walmart stable coin over at Amazon. That's what I don't know. Well, no, you definitely won't be able to. Are you kidding me? I can tell you right now the answer to that question.

Then that's not the same as the Macy's credit card. A credit card is a credit card. No, Macy's can... No, no, no. Macy's had their own in-store credit card that you can only use that Macy's. Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right.

I forgot about that. You're right. Okay. So that, first of all it's just factually wrong, whatever they're talking about. It really is going to come down to which agency is going to regulate it. But I think the numbers about Tether are correct. There's 400 million people using stablecoin, Tether stablecoin,

as a US dollar equivalent all over the world, not really in the US. So we'll see. I think the better reporting if they had, if the show is worth a crap, this shows it's not, it's not, the better reporting would be to tell people how to implement stable coins in their own life with details. Yes. Well, people can know I get some sense of it. This is just pie in the sky We don't know what that I don't even know, you know, if you didn't know it first thing about it You would say well, this is crazy. I'd wait wait 27 trillion or whatever

It was some very high number of people on seven two point seven trillion. I Thought was 27. I thought it was two points Oh play the beginning of is right at the beginning of the clip, first clip. My indicator is $27.6 trillion. Oh, you're right. But that doesn't sound right. Doesn't sound right. Well, that's what his number is.

His indicator, his indicator. Okay. So Fifi Lagarde comes out. You know, Fifi is the- Our buddy. Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank. Now she's taking questions, a Q&A, and she's sitting behind the dais and she's wearing some glittery type sweater with

glittery speckles and she has a sash, a green sash over her shoulder like she's at Starfleet Command. This woman is nuts. You know what I mean? Where's she? I've seen her wear this before. It's almost like a beauty queen's thing. Yes.

Yes. Like, I have my sash, I show authority. Because, you know, if there was a uniform for the European Central Bank, she'd wear it. She might even get uniforms for everybody. And so she's talking about the digital euro. Listen to this. Many people are a little worried about what will happen to them with the digital euro. Can you encourage them? Why is the digital euro good for people like you and me? A digital currency, where it has been piloted, and there is only one which is clearly now

launched in a very small country, but it is piloted on a fairly large scale in China, is of use and of service to all citizens. So it is not something that is good for the elite or is good for the young or is good for some versus others. If it is well done and if it is well implemented, it would be of service to all citizens. So many people. What I hear her saying is, oh, you know, China has done it. It's piloted on a fairly large scale. And you know, what the Chinese do, it's of use and of service to all citizens Yeah

Connected to your social credit score That's what they're planning She's planning it and by the way stable coin could be used in the same manner But man, she just just said I know China's doing this great. It's good for everybody. And you know, I told you, they're cracking down. You can't have more than 3,000 euros in cash in your possession. It's now illegal. It's becoming illegal in all the member states in Europe.

Cannot have more than 3,000 euros in cash in your possession. Why? Because you must be a criminal. Literally, you must be, by the way, I think we have a note from one of our producers. I think she actually donated, it's probably a long note. She was coming across the border and had just under $10,000 in cash

and got pulled aside for the same reason. Why, there must be drugs. You sure she's coming in here? Yeah, I think she's donating. Well, yeah, it's on the card. It says you can't be moving more than $10,000 in cash. I know, but I think we'll get to it when we read her donation note. But I think that what the border patrol said was, she's got to be drugs. We're going to find the drugs.

None of this is good. That's when you respond. I already sold the drugs. That's where I got the money from. I'm high on them, man. What are you talking about? You can't get them anymore. OK.

Can I do a three NPR clips because, I'm a big fan of all your poaching my territory. I see. Not really because this is on the media. On the media has always been my dream. Yeah, you've been hogging that one. I've been on the media on on the media with Brooke. I don't remember if it was who was there was a older- It was Brooke Gladstone and her dude buddy. Well, no, but that's the young guy. That's Micah. But before that, there was an older guy.

I think he got kicked off for some reason. There was some older guy. So- It's ageism. No, I think he pinched somebody's butt or something. There was something, something, he had to go. And, you know, I like On The Media. It's a, it's an NPR podcast is how I listen to

it about the media. It's also on the air. I know, but it's about the media. And so when podcasting was coming up, you know, NPR was all jacked about, whoa, Adam Curry, like that. And Adam Curry, blah, blah, blah. That's exactly what this is what is what I remember of the conversation, Adam Curry, blah, blah, blah. That's exactly what this is. What is what I remember of the conversation, Adam Curry, blah, blah, blah. But it was about podcasting.

And so, but it was media. It's always been about the media. Now, of course, with, with Congress, not president Trump directly, but Congress threatening to cut their 1% of funding, which just seems like it's so horrible. Man, they've gone full Trump hate. This is the beginning of On The Media for this week. Last Saturday, Trump looked a bit glum at his, I mean, the Army's birthday parade. Right there at his, I mean, the Army's birthday parade.

Is that reporting? No. No. Army's birthday parade. That is, is that reporting? No. No. It's a bias of observations. Well, it just keeps, so the minute I heard that I'm like, this is not about media, this is about how much you hate Trump. Last Saturday, Trump looked a bit glum at his, I mean, the Army's birthday parade. The soldiers weren't in tight formation.

They smiled and waved. But with sparse crowds and very high humidity, military.com noted that the mood was shaped by a strange quiet. The organizers were expecting around 200,000 people. That's definitely not the case. Newsmax, Newsmax is reporting 10,000 people showed up for this thing.

Michael Wolff, author of the 2018 bestseller Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House, told the Daily Beast that he'd heard the president later reamed out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the parade's mildly festive tone. Wolff suggested that the problem was maybe it wasn't quite North Korean enough. It didn't send the message that he apparently wanted, which is that he was the commander-in-chief of this. So she says it wasn't North Korea. That was not in the article. This is all very strange editorializing. I think they're hurting the show because I didn't like it. Menacing enterprise. Anyway, the president clearly wasn't happy.

I think the simple word here is hurt. That's CNN data analyst Harry Enton, the day before the parade, talking not about Trump's feelings, but his poll numbers. You can see it right here. We have two new polls, Quinnipiac University, AP Newark, minus 12 to minus 16. How about AP Newark?

Minus 16 to minus 21. Awful, awful, awful. The worst for Donald Trump in this term so far. He is very much way, way, way underwater, at least in these two polls. Still not about media so far. Now we're talking about Trump's poll numbers, which I just can't make the connection to the On the Media podcast. And on immigration specifically, a drop of six points in the last two weeks.

The only thing that's happened over the last two weeks is obviously Donald Trump's ramped up immigration hawkish agenda. And at least at this particular point, the people are saying no we do not like that and they have turned against the president on his core strength issue of immigration he is now underwater on the issue that has been strongest for him. And the estimated five million that filled the streets of two thousand towns and cities in opposition a historic number rallying under the banner no Kings. I love how she just her tone changes. It's so amazing. It was historic. It's so great. No Kings.

Still not about media. What a gut punch for a guy who cares so much about the numbers. A gut punch. But hey, now we got a war on maybe. And better still, it's far away. We won't see that play out in our streets. So the way is clear for the president to seize the narrative and make it his own once he figures out what that is. And still not about media. And then after this last minute, I'm like, okay, this is not going to be about media anymore.

But listen to this. Trouble is we have so much of our own violence right here, right in our faces, which is a little less susceptible to spin. Do you have the violence in your faces, John? Have you seen the violence in your face? I've had seen no violence in my face for a decade. But the stalwarts will go down trying. If you're to believe MAGA, the left is fundamentally more violent than the right. When Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered last weekend and two others were shot. Now we're going to talk about media. Here's what Don

Jr. had to say about the shooter. Everyone talks about Minnesota, but they don't talk about the guy seems to be a leftist. You walk into some place, you see a bowl of fruit, and from 20 feet away, you go, that's fake. That's Alex Jones, notorious for labeling the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a hoax. When it comes to murder, he prefers to doubt what he sees. It looks real, but your mind knows, because it knows the look.

This thing smells of some type of sophisticated operation. The accused shooter turned out to be a Trump supporter and a fan of Alex Jones show Infowars. What? He was a fan of Infowars? This is, now we're talking media. I'd not heard this. Studies have found that although political violence is on the rise overall. But this is just a lie. It's great. The left goes in for property damage. Murders are more the province of the right.

The left destroys property, the right kills people. Is the message clear yet? As Elon Musk learned by way of his own AI chat bot, Grok. A user on X asked whether right-wing political violence or left-wing political violence is more prevalent in this country. Grok unapologetically said right-wing political violence is way more prevalent. Elon says major fail, as this is objectively false. Grok is parroting legacy media working on it. But when challenged, Grok only quoted more studies and stuck to its guns. I mean, no wonder people who listen to NPR that are customers of My Hair Girl are spun

up and spun out. This is bad. Yeah, it's just pure propaganda. Totally. He was just pure propaganda and totally He was a Trump supporter and an Alex Jones listener. Did he have boner pills in his back pocket? How did they know that? I found that he came out and says waltz hired him as a hit man. Hmm Yeah, kill Amy Klobuchar. That's what he said. Yeah.

That's a good bit. He says that Waltz hired him to kill Amy Klobuchar because when Waltz is out as governor, he wants to run as senator and he wants that spot. And then my thesis, which I wrote, outlined in the newsletter, was that he killed this woman who was the head of the Senate or state Senate or assembly, I think it was the Senate that was very popular in Minnesota. And she would have been the shoe in for Amy Klobuchar if she had been assassinated. So they had to make way for, for walls by doing some clean up. By killing both. Yeah, by killing both.

Well, if that wasn't crazy enough, our very own, Well, if that wasn't crazy enough, our very own Democrat representative, Hank Johnson, took to his guitar this week. I just have to play this. Oh, I saw part of this. I wish I had clipped this. Oh, this is fantastic. This is the guy who thinks that islands can flip over. Well, I was going to play that as my punchline,

but I'll play it now then. Yeah, my fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize. That was representative Hank Johnson about Guam. Yeah, he's notorious for being one of the dumbest people in the world. He thinks islands are floating. Listen to this. Just recently picked it up, thought I would try it out.

I hate to hurt your ears and everything, but I'm just learning to play guitar. And so I'm compelled with a new guitar and with some thoughts about that old song, Hey Joe, you know, to give some commentary on where we are now. And if y'all don't mind, I'm going to just strum a little bit. Hey, Trump. Where you going with that gun in your hand Where you going with that gun in your hand and you complaining about our end of show mixes This is great. You're gonna shoot down democracy.

Oh my goodness. Why would you do that? I mean, that's basically how I play guitar. And you've never heard me play guitar on the show, not on the pre-show, nothing. I'll play the theremin, but I will not play my guitar. That was just, that was a head scratcher why he did that. Was there people going, that's a great idea, man. That's a great idea. That's exactly what happened.

When you got a guy like that who's that dumb, he's actually, I think, between him and the Hiromo woman, that woman from Hawaii, when they're that dumb, you can talk them into stuff. I think people are just laughing up their sleeves. His friends, hey Hank. His friends, so-called friends. It's a great idea, Hank.

That'll show Trump. Yeah, that'll put him in his place. It was probably Collins, like Collins like, hey man, you're great on that guitar. You should play. I do it all the time. I do Puff the Magic Dragon. You should do something from a black guy. I know, Hendrix. And then just in bad stuff that circles around on the stupid internet. I don't know if you caught this meme that went viral. So there's videos going viral of the US military being served steak and lobster all over social media. If you're familiar with the military, you know about the steak and lobster.

Are we about to be in the middle of a conflict? Take a look at this. Lobster and steak. Look. I wasn't in the military, but I'm going by what people in the military, in my family, have told me. Let's take a look at what it means. Take a look right here from Google. You are correct. He's reading from Google AI. In that serving lobster and often steak, creating surf and turf to US troops, especially during deployments,

is a known morale booster. So the whole idea is they're going to send the troops into the Middle East because they're giving them the deployment meal. This is it. They said it's surf and turf, except this is like from February. It's a very old video and it just these things keep coming back. Viewed nine million times. The internet is so broken and the amount of people who just don't search anymore, they just ask the AI. Yeah. And that's all ask the AI. Yeah.

And that's all across the spectrum. The amount of people who ask Grok, hey Grok, tell me this is true. Yeah. It's over. It's exactly what's happening. It's very, very distressing to me. But the search engines themselves

have been failing anyway. True, true. I mean, I still can't find the weed whacker. That remains the elusive. I found you the weed whacker. You just didn't like the results. Yeah, you found me the weed whacker. You just didn't like the results.

That's all that it was. You don't like it. And then the other thing this week was, I don't have the clip. I couldn't bring myself to clip it. Whoopi Goldberg telling the Persian lady that black people have it worse than the black women have it worse than Iranian women in Iran. Did you see that?

I was just like everybody showed that so much. I have the Bill Maher response to it with. Oh, I didn't hear that. Yeah. With Wesley Hunt. He's a Texas representative, a black guy, and here's how that went down. What do you think of Whoopi Goldberg saying it's worse to be a black person in America today than a woman in Iran? I see we were talking about the trans issue before and the New York Times really has come over on that to the sort of the sensible liberal, not crazy woke position. I think this is a great first step toward getting the Democrats back to sanity. And a second good step would be we've got to do something about the view. I mean, it's huge in a random.

What I'm mentioning a view in Iran. You can't even tell which one is which. My district in the great state of Texas is actually a white majority district that President Trump would have won by 25 points. As I said, I'm a direct descendant of a slave. My great-great-grandfather was born on a rose-down plantation. I am literally being judged not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character. That's the progress because like a lot of white people had to vote for me. A lot. So wait, so I don't even ever want to hear whoopi Goldberg's conversation about how it's worse to be black in America right now.

Some sanity. People want to get rid of the view now, which will never happen. It'll never happen. No, because now it's become bulletproof. Unless the ratings all of a sudden take a huge dive. Yeah, I don't see that people love them. Though I think there's a dedicated group of people that love the show. And then there's all the people that follow it just so they can ridicule it. There's no excuse for that type of activity. You know, just going back to Chad GPT for a second, just cause I saw this article, I stuck in the show notes.

So MIT did a, I don't have the actual documents, so I can only give you the summaries that I have. They did brain scans, so that would be MRIs, I guess. What's the- Probably. What's the one that the brain professor used to do? It had to be MRIs. The CAT scan's the other one. That's the one that the brain professor used to do? It had to be MRI. Yeah, but it's... The CAT scan's the other one you use. Yeah, yeah.

That's dangerous. Yeah. An MRI of people using CHAT GPT. And so they studied people for four months. Our findings offer an interesting glimpse in how LLM-assisted versus unassisted writing engaged the brain differently. In summary, writing an essay without assistance, brain-only group, led to stronger neural connectivity across all frequency bands measured, with particularly large increases in the theta and high alpha bands.

This indicates participants in the brain-only group had to heavily engage on their own cognitive resources. So if you see the people who used AI to write essays, they couldn't even remember what was in the essay four minutes later. And what's happening? Yeah, of course. Because you write something, you're engaging your brain. You're creating it out of nothing for starters.

So by creating something out of nothing, which is what writing is, as opposed to cut and paste, which is what AI mounts to. Yes. Yeah, you would have a change, it would change the pattern a bit. It changes people's critical thinking. It changes all kinds, it dumbs your brain. It makes you stupid. Artificial intelligence makes you stupid. There's a bumper sticker. Maybe that's the idea. Trying to dumb down the public so they'll go along with some of these programs.

Well, it's working. So we can steal their money, say the Democrats. It's already working. And then this one now, I'm surprised that this, this isn't getting the play that I think they wanted it to get because it is a 100% marketing move. This is the 16 billion passwords leaked from Apple, Facebook, Google, and others.

Did you hear about this? No. Oh yeah, he's- Oh, you know, actually I saw, it's one of those, I saw some reference to it and I never followed up. Um, so Forbes, this is Forbes, cause of course they'll Davey Winder will publish anything. Senior contributor. He's a veteran cyber security writer, hacker, and analyst.

Oh, 16 billion Apple, Facebook, Google and other passwords leaked. And it's like, oh, this is horrible. This is a problem. This is a big deal. And so everywhere you turn it all boils down to one thing. And this analyst who, I forget where he's from. Maybe they mentioned the intro. He gives it away twice. Researchers say billions of login details have been leaked, giving criminals access to accounts from. Maybe they mentioned the intro. He gives it away twice. which means many people affected are likely to have had their login details for more than one account leaked. The report suggests that the data was stolen through multiple events over time and not just from a single hack. Experts are advising people to change passwords and use multi-factor authorization.

Please help us out. 16 billion compromised credentials. How bad is this leak? Well, the good news is, is that this isn't really a new data breach. As you mentioned before, this is a compilation of data that's been compiled over a very long period of time. The bad news, of course, is that 16 billion credentials is quite a lot. And what it really indicates is the success of a new form of malware that has been rising

to prominence called the Info Stealer, which is capable of stealing hundreds of credentials all at once. That's why the number has gotten quite so high. I think over the span of time that this breach covers, it is very likely that you have changed your password, added two-factor authentication, ideally in the form of an authenticator code or even better, what's called a passkey. Now, they are taking steps to make sure that this is less relevant in the future. For example, if you sign up for a Microsoft account right now, you won't actually create it a created with a password. You'll create it with something called a passkey. Apple and Google and

the other internet giants have also done a good job of trying to kill the password. This is what it's about. Microsoft has been pushing this passkey for quite a while now. Google does the same thing. You log in like, oh, you know, what why don't just get rid of your password use a passkey. Do you know anything about these passkeys? No, it sounds like a version of a password. Yeah, it's... They're annoying is what they're... it's like if you lose your pass key, then just, I need someone to help me out with this, but they're pushing this very hard.

And to me, it sounds like if you use a pass key, the only person really in charge of your credentials is the person who issued the passkey, i.e. Microsoft and Google. And then you have to go to them and say, oh, you know, I lost my passkey. Can you help me? How's a passkey different than a password? Well, the password ultimately, you, if, so you can forget your password or you can lose your password, but that, let's, let's, let's drop that. Those two premises. I'm not going to lose or forget my password.

How is it different than a password? So a passkey, as I understand it, is issued by someone else. Well, how is that different than what MCI Mail did in the early days before the internet when they gave you a password that they generated and you used it? Yeah, but they... So you don't know the password. That's the thing. Oh, you don't know the passkey. No, you don't. They, they store it. And how do you, how do you log in then?

I think it's, it's like a certificate type deal. So you have this passkey thing. It's in a cookie or on the file somewhere. Where's he changed machines? Well, there's a good question. All I hear from the, my geek friends is, Pascy, I hate them. They suck. So they must suck.

I'll have to look into it now. Yeah. You need to write something on the Oasis. I can write something up. Don't use Chapty to GPT because you become stupid. And we need you smart. We need you sharp for the show. That was the eye-opener for me. You became... But that people are getting dumb? Artificial intelligence. I'm shocked that the public is getting stupider by the minute and AI is making it worse. Oh no. They finally found a trick. How can we make people even

stupider? Even dumber. We've tried the drugs, the drugs, yeah, they become a little more susceptible. We've already killed the school so nobody can leave learn anything except gender. Ideology, that's dumbed them down enough that they're cutting their dick off. How can we make them dumber than that? How can you make somebody dumber than that? I know, I know. Let's give them artificial intelligence and that will make them human stupid. It's fantastic.

They finally got to something. This is the ultimate goal. I think we finally figured it out. That's it. So that people will believe stuff like carbon budget. Stark warning. A new report from over 60 climate scientists showing the world may be running out of time

for limiting global warming to 1.3 degrees. I think it shows a pretty harsh reality, right? You know, things aren't just getting worse, they're getting worse faster. We're actively moving in the wrong direction in a critical period of time that we would need to meet our most ambitious climate goals. Some reports, there's a silver lining. I don't think there really is one in this one. Scientists say we're on track to burn through the planet's remaining carbon budget faster than expected.

That budget represents the total amount of greenhouse gases we can emit and still have a 50-50 chance of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. See, this is what we identified on the last show. They've pivoted to this carbon budget and it's 500 metric mega-tr trillion tons, whatever it is, and we're running out. The budget is running. So they've basically equated climate change with money. And that's the point.

Back in 2021, the UN estimated that we can afford to release around 500 billion tons of carbon dioxide and still be on track. But today that figure has dropped to 130 billion tons. By 2028, the world would have pumped out enough CO2 that even a 50% chance of staying within the Paris goal would be off the table. Meanwhile, the impacts of climate change are already being seen across the planet.

We are seeing the impacts of climate change on extreme heat. We're seeing it on extreme rainfall. We're seeing it on sea level rise and storm surges in coastal areas. We're seeing it in wildfires. And it is now no longer possible to just say, oh, you know, this is just something that the scientists worry about. It doesn't affect normal people. It's affecting normal people and it's affecting them all over the world.

It's affecting normal people who write essays with Chad GPT. You know, I'm looking at the quad screen and they're showing videos of the B2 rolling out of the hangar. That thing looks dopey. It looks dopey when it's coming out of the hangar. It looks like an amphibious vehicle. No, it doesn't look, no, it's not. It only looks good when it's flying. Yeah. It looks dynamite when it's flying. It looks wobbly.

Looks like a Cessna rolling out of the hangar. A flying wing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It looks a little dopey. A big, big cabin on top. All right. I'll give you another minute here before we take a break. It's a little dopey, big cabin on top. All right, I'll give you another minute here before we take a break if you wanna. You have to take a break, what? Yeah, we should, we should. I'm gonna keep us on track. You're getting donations after three o'clock.

We got donations, I saw it. We got long, long notes. There's a couple of things. Roy McGovern was on, I thought it was funny. Who's the? Roy McGovern was on Al Jazeera just before the bombing. Who's this? I'm sorry, Ray.

Ray McGovern. Who's Ray McGovern? The CIA guy. He's the ex-CIA guy. He used to be on Democracy Now all the time. And he's been following around. And he's in an hour. I'm sorry, ex- with air quotes?

No, no, just... Ex-CIA. He's ex analog, his analog. I'm sorry, X with air quotes? No, no, just no. XCIA. He's XCIA, real XCIA. Oh, sure. But he's like, he has a minute, I don't think he's working for him. I just don't think he's connected.

And he gave a two-part analysis that was wrong as could be. But I'm waiting, I'm thinking there's a guy, these different clips I should go to. Since we only have a little time, I want to play my TikTok clips then. I'll play the Ray McGovern clips later. Well, you kind of surprised me with that. I wasn't. Yeah, I know. I changed in the Ray McGovern clips later. Well, you kind of surprised me with that. I wasn't. Yeah, I know. I changed it in the midstream.

All right. The highlight of the show, everybody. Well, to me, I mean, if AI is not going to get you, TikTok clips will. Yep. So there's this woman named Kylie who does just, she's just constant. She's a teacher or something. She's on to all the, she does it every, every day she has some,

something to tell us and they're all just junk and it's pathetic. And she goes on and on. She's so self absorbed and self assured. Now she's going to give us a lecture on conservatives. Hi, my name is Kylie and here are four categories of conservative people. I grew up around a lot of conservative people so I've noticed there are four major patterns or types of people that fall into this category. Number one, narcissists. These are people that expect the world to revolve around them and when it doesn't they

become angry and start to scapegoat one of the many minorities that they do this to. An example of someone notable would be Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. Number two, social misfits. These are people that are honestly incredibly intelligent but they were were consistently bullied as children or just never really found community. They've always been the weird one that no one likes. Because of that, they begin to take it out on other people and promoting hateful ideas. So think maybe like Ben Shapiro for this category. Number three, ignorant people. These are generally people who are apolitical and don't see color and they just don't care enough or don't know enough. So they end up adopting the beliefs of their friends, family family and community. And number four, last but not least, stupid people. These are people who

take good college and just don't care about learning. Generally speaking, they coasted through school and they probably read about like a fifth grade reading. Love. You just don't have a very sophisticated knowledge of settler colonialism or racism or systemic issues that underlie our society. So they become susceptible to propaganda. Peace and love. Peace and love. Peace and love. Judge not being judged. So this is the kind of person that's teaching your kids. I don't know if they, are the kids watching this?

It seems like you are watching. No, no, I'm talking about, she's a good professor. She's a teacher. Oh, she's a teacher. I believe. Oh, Kylie the, well, she's a teacher on TikTok. Well, which brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum, a lady trucker who, and I think that, I guess Oklahoma just passed a law

that said if you try to stop somebody's car, they can run you over. And I think Florida has a similar law. What do you mean if you stop them? If you're in a situation, there's a bunch of protests and you're trying to get through someone and they surround your car and they're just stopping, they're pounding on your car, you can run them over. Wow.

But that's only in like Florida and Oklahoma. Texas needs to get on board. What? Texas needs to get on board. Yes, they do. And this woman who's a trucker with a Peterbilt, she has a big, some monster truck. Big rig. She's a tough chick and she is, I think, expressing a view that a lot of people feel. So I hear talk that there's a lot of people feel. we're just trying to make a living. We're just trying to pay our bills, support our families, and go home. And I can tell you this, if you guys start standing out in the middle of the interstate,

us truck drivers, we're not going to stop. You see, a truck driver by the name of Reginald Denny stopped once for a protest. Rather, it was more of a riot. He got pulled out of his truck, and he got beaten to death. A man that had a family to go home to who was just trying to do his job. So if you decide to stand in front of one of these on the interstate for your little protest, I don't think Reginald Denny died. It was not good, but I don't think he died I don't know if he died or not. I didn't look it up now No, no, but using the Reginald Denny as the excuse for running people over is I think it's gonna be a commonplace hmm Hey, there's something to running people over who are standing in the middle of the interstate

trying to stop you from moving. This is not good. None of this is good. No, none of this is good. You have to murder people. You have to run the plow through them. Like they did this one video going around where the person in the Toyota ran over some poor woman.

She was in the front yelling and screaming. It's like that other maniac that you talked about a couple of shows ago. But the woman ran her over. I mean, ended up knocking her to the side and ran over her legs, which was an unpleasant experience. You see the car bumping up and down. I actually have an educational TikTok clip

that I wanted to share with you. Okay. Hey, Poacher. Hey, Poacher. I think you'll find this fascinating and informative. I don't like the way straight women talk. And I don't mean that in a bad way at all. I've just noticed there is a huge difference

between the way queer women and straight women talk. For straight women, there's very much an expectation that you're dainty and small, and so a lot of straight women will talk like this and raise their voice and talk really high. Think of Sabrina Carpenter or Ariana Grande. They have a tendency to raise the pitch of their voice to be seen as more feminine.

It's almost like a sorority voice or a customer service voice. But queer women, because we date other women, we do not feel the need to do that. The way queer women talk is more natural. It's a little bit more raspy, usually more of a vocal fry. That's one of the ways that I was able to tell

that I was queer, because speaking in that high-pitched tone felt very unnatural and very forced. And to this day, that's how I'm able to pinpoint women that are queer, even if they haven't come out yet. I see a lot of people talking about gay voice for men and how it's higher-pitched, And to this day, that's how I'm able to pinpoint women that are queer, even if they haven't come out yet. I see a lot of people talking about gay voice for men and how it's higher pitched, but not a lot of people talk about the inverse of that, which is for queer women, which is like

a lesbian voice that's deeper and raspier. And that's why queer women are honestly seen as less friendly. I could go on and on about this, but let me know what you all think in the comments. How about that? The more you know. I think it's bull crap. Well, of course it's bull crap. I found out I was queer because of my voice.

There's a couple of- That's what she said. She literally said- Might have been a couple of other cues. She found out she was queer. Yeah, which is code now for lesbian. That's another- Which is code for something.

Which I think the lesbian should get mad now. Seriously. Because of my voice. No, but I mean the queer is stealing their lesbian. Yes, I think so. That's oh man. Kara Swisher, where are you? Way in on this. No, she'd be on she'd be on board with it. Yeah. Does she think she considers herself queer now? Yeah, I'll bet you she does. I'll have to tune in I have two episodes backed up Well, I think that's a way to top it off to go into into the fabulous donations Well, I'm with that I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the waning crescent.

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Well, not really. It's epic. It's epic. Hello trolls. For the last, for this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

Trolls are in the troll room at trollroom.io. You know what the high is, right? Yeah. 4,000 or something. Yep. Over 4,000. When was that? What was the episode? I wrote it down.

Whatever it was, we need that to happen again. But the thing is, it doesn't result in donations. 4,038 was the number. You don't know the episode or what the occasion was? You'd think you'd want to correlate. It must've been a Trump thing. You know, I just wrote down a little stick it thing and I didn't put the date.

It was about two years ago. Anyway, the trolls can also use modern technology. I didn't expect to be grilled about the details. I don't know how many people are in Iran. I'm not the no agenda troll expert. Ted Cruz. Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted. Good lawyer, dope otherwise. Don't want to judge, but poor.

So the trolls are making use, many of them of modern technology created by independent software developers who make these modern podcast apps, which have many, many benefits. You know, Spotify is now using Chapters, which is a Podcasting 2.0 enhancement to podcast. No, great. I'm sure they put you... I'm sorry, not Chapters. They give a big thank you to the Podcasting 2.0 community. I'm sorry, transcripts.

Transcripts. Transcripts. Not chapters, transcripts. Oh. And no, of course they didn't. And of course they do it a little bit differently. So, you know, they, they bought Anchor, a big free hosting company for, I don't know, way too much money. And so they now create, so if you use Anchor and, and 2 million of the, of the,

I think it was 1.8 million Anchor podcasts, most of them have one episode that go like this, test poop, test poop, and that's the whole podcast. I know because we've got to get rid of all those. We have systems to check if that's all that it is. Test poop, test poop. Okay. Very good. Um, so they actually create the transcript.

By the way, it was just, it was just, what's your complaining about stuff? What is these podcasts? I've said, I think I maybe I bitched about this before. What is this podcast? Podcast begins in five minutes. Four 59, four 58, four 450. Well, who cares? What? Just cut that out. What is the 10, nine, eight? What would just start the damn thing?

We're live. We're live, everybody. We're live. We're live. Okay. Are we live? Let me check. I'll wait a few minutes for you people to get in here.

Let's make sure you get into the live. That's another one. Are you on the live? Yeah. I'll wait for you all to get into the live. You sit there and you diddle around. Here comes in some more people. I don't know. I don't know what that's about. With the Modern Podcast app, you just get an alert, and then we're live. You tap on it and we're live and you're good to go.

In fact, I do it a little bit early. I do it during the Fat Lady so that people can gear up, you know, sing along with the fat lady and then you're good to go. You know that we're live. We don't need a countdown clock like we're waiting for liftoff. And it's always around the same time anyway. So yeah, that's a very good question. I don't know.

It's overproduced nonsense. It's people trying to be trying to create tension and excitement and expectation to see two dudes with cans. Hi, we're live. Are we live? Yeah, we're live. Okay, let me see. Are we also live on the Insta? Let's check the Insta. Okay, we're live. No, thank you. No, because of course, you can also get de lives from those platforms. Don't do it.

Don't do it people. Just get into modern podcasting, go to podcastapps.com for iOS users. Castamatic, which is made by Franco. Franco is a doctor in Italy. He works four days a week as a doctor, saving lives. And then one day a week he programs and saves souls with podcasting.

And he creates the Cast-O-Matic. He just put out a new version. That's an admirable character. He's a great guy. We had him on the Podcasting 2.0 podcast on Friday. He's a great guy. He's so nice. And I said, Hey, when you're debugging software, is it the same way you debug humans?

And he said, if only humans had a log file, that would be much easier. So he created Castamatic a while ago and he just added all the live stuff with the notifications. It is, I think, one of the best Apple iPhone podcast apps there is. I don't have an iPhone, but I've seen it work and it's very impressive. It has a very iPhone feel to it. So Cast-O-Matic, you can get it from the app store or go to podcastapps.com and see many more. It's a very good product. And when we go live, you'll get an alert right on time.

And then when we publish the show, unlike legacy app within 90 seconds you'll know that the show is available. Don't be like your granddad with it, oh granddad using Spotify. Oh I didn't even get to the Spotify part. So they will create a podcasting 2.0 transcript. So if you publish with Spotify hosting for podcaststers, whatever they call it, and you use a modern podcast app, the transcript will show up. However, our show, which isn't on Spotify, but if our show was on Spotify, they don't accept the exact same technology from other hosting companies. You have to go to Spotify and use their transcripts.

companies. You have to go to Spotify and use their transcripts. Well, that stinks. It's stupid. They think somehow that that's going to work for them. They're losing users every day. Well, with shenanigans like this, it's baffling. It's baffling what big technology companies will do sometimes. I don't understand it.

Anyway, so Franco puts his heart, his soul, his time, his talent into his app. And we're very appreciative that he does that. And we have many producers who like to return value to this very podcast, which is a value for value podcast. Go look it up, valueforvalue.info, value number for value.info, if you want the full backstory on it, pioneered on this very podcast.

It's not a thing, people just call everything value. Oh, Patreon, value for value. No, not. We give you the full on experience for free. Patreon's not value for value, value has to have a variable. Yes. Donations.

Yes. Yes. Style, which we stumbled upon early on because people, if you remember, when we first started and started taking donations and reading all the people that donate, they always had these code numbers. Yeah. Numerology. And they like to say, oh yeah, I'm donating 666.

I'm a devil. 69, 69 dudes. 69, 69 dudes. 69, 69. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. So. Gotcha, gotcha.

You guys, you said it. You said 69. You said 69, man. Yeah, there's a lot of Beavis and Butthead type stuff going on. Yeah, but besides that, we haven't gotten an Angigi donation in a while. We have the upside down eggs or eggs over easy.

People like it. They come up with stuff. It sticks. It becomes the lore of the show. But also, Double Nichols on the Dime was for a couple of years one of the most popular donations. Sergeant Fred started that, Double Nichols on the D's also so you can determine the value yourself. We're not roping you into something.

It's like, I think that this was a $12 show. Okay. I think this was $120 show. Good. And that all depends on you. Not on us. We can't determine what the value is to you. But we do ask you to send some back.

That's all. And you can do that with time, talent or treasure. We love it when people give us... determine what the value is to you. But we do ask you to send some back. That's all. And you can do that with time, talent or treasure. We love it when people give us... Even if you hate the show, you're getting something out of it. Yeah, hate, hate. It's a valid emotion. It's valuable to some people.

We have artists who are now prompt jockeys. Most of them with still some real artists around, but most of them have just fallen by the wayside. AI has definitely killed art on this show. There's no doubt about it. And I'm sad about it. But on the other hand, I'm happy because in a weird roundabout way, we have discovered the whole idea of the AI Music Awards, which...

Yes. Yeah. It was pre-show. Yeah. Hold on a second. Let me register that right away. AIMusicAwards.com. Tell me that isn't taken.

You think that's going to be taken? Think someone already got that one? Did you go away for some reason? No, I'm here. I'm waiting for you to find out. Someone already has it. Was it when they do it? Was it today?

I can't tell. No, I don't think it was today. No. Oh man. We'll come up with an alternate that works. Yeah, because we need a name like the Oscars. It has to be, you know, like the dummies. Maybe call it the dummies.

I want to call it the dummies. No, of course not. Hey, guess what? Newsflash. It's never going to happen. Because you know, it's going to happen. This is going to be never going to happen. I can feel it.

If you don't get it going now, it's never going to happen. AI music. Nothing will happen. And you ain't I music. And nothing will happen. Nothing. Host. Yeah, your host. This isn't that this isn't this is perfect actually, because you've been

expunged from the annals of MTV. Yes. For some reasons, unknown to any everybody said you and cause you, you're smart enough to have signed up for MTV.com or something like that or you got irked about something, whatever it was. They didn't like that and then they sued me and I counter sued them and then we settled and then, and then you were expunged. And I'm expunged. I'm done.

You're out. I'm out. Get out. I'm emeritus. VJ emeritus. And you could be going to a bunch of free musical shows where they had a lot of Satanism going on. I'm Emeritus. VJ Emeritus. And you can go to a bunch of free musical shows where they had a lot of Satanism going on. That was dynamite, good times.

So you're missing out on that. Good times, yeah. We should have a Satan award too. And a Jesus award. Oh, the most satanic AI song. Gosh. Most of them. So our artists are always there trying to give us something that looks cool, funky,

funny, interesting, grabs attention, or as my lovely wife Tina would say, oh, oh, one of those again? Like what? Oh, because of the one we just did? Yeah. That you picked? I did pick it. I said it was the best one.

I thought it was good. You picked it. I always get was the best one. I thought it was good. You picked it. I always get blamed for picking the cheesecake, but no, no, this time I wasn't even for this one. I don't know if I admitted it was me. You weren't for it. Yes, you were. You said, okay.

I did say okay after a while because all the other stuff was like you had an argument against everything except this piece. Oh, okay. So Darren O'Neill did the cheesecake. But what I liked was the USG wants you because that was relevant to the show. Right. And she looked like an American government issue.

Yeah, looks a bit like my wife actually. You didn't bring that up. She looks a bit like Tina actually. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, you said it looked like Tina. So you wanted to put Tina on the cover. And that's right. Thank you for remembering. That's a good, that's a good excuse that you just dreamed up to keep Tina off your back. It's a good one. It's a good bit. But now that I'm

looking at it, I'm like, oh, it does look a bit like Tina. So that was Darren O'Neill's entry. There were other entries which we discussed and we're going to look at them right now. I would say a tip of the hat for the climate protection from capitalist agenda. Um, but it was all way too small, but he did a lot of really, I mean, so it was a condom wrapper and it had climate protection, no agenda, extra large, of course, Curry DeVore. Actually, that was your first pick. Yes. Cause I had warming sensations.

What was my comment? Too small. Too small. Couldn't read anything on there. I know, but when you when you embiggen it, there's good, there's funny stuff in there. It was humor. And then you wanted to also continue to scold Scaramanga. You wanted Bill's kink room. What? Yeah. The one with the cat and the young girl and then the torture bed with a drill and all kinds of stuff. That's what you were looking at. I'm like, what's wrong with you?

Bill's kink. Yeah. I don't know you're making that up. No I'm not. You said what? I like Nick the Rat's duty button. Yeah. You like.

But you thought I was too busy. Yeah it was very, I think I actually used that for- And I also liked the peanut gallery from Darren O'Neill, but you didn't like that at all. It was too AI. Yeah. I actually used- We ended up having to pick this one because it was- Relevant. You know, you were jacked up about it and I didn't see anything really wrong with it.

I actually used the duty button for the bat signals. And yeah, you liked to get hopped up by Nestworks, which we were both like, eh, I don't know. And then you- There was a lot to choose from, I suppose, that way. There was. But all this stuff, luminance has gone down by 20%. Oh, unbelievable.

You pay now by digital 211 man, which is the joke that we use on the show. It's just all just mud. It's mud, man. I mean, there's another one that I saw. Yeah, there's one down for Jip. It was misspelled J I P from again, digital 211. He should, he should reset his system. mud just mud is all brown i'm telling you it's no good no at least darren has got his reset because it's even though the usg1 shoe piece the white background is not white no it's not it's kind of a pinkish. So thank you to all of our artists for diligently prompting away.

And sorry, I'm not going to let it destroy the end of show mixes, but it will be an exit strategy for us with the AI Music Awards hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak. Now here's your host, Nick the Rat. So, we want to thank our producers. This is the treasure portion of the Time Talent and Treasure. And the idea is we thank everybody $50 and above, but if you support us, which is just so appreciated with $200 or more, we will give you a title and a real Hollywood title because we can do that. And they are recognized and legit because you can go to imdb.com and use them.

And you can put it anywhere you want. Call yourself an associate executive producer The No Agenda Show and we'll read your note. Now, the notes are way too long. So we're going to have to cut these down on the fly. $300 or above, you become an executive producer for the episode and we will read your note as well. And so we have our old friend back at the top with 2606 and that is the correct number. We know it's code for something. Something's getting blowed up somewhere. Seronymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia and he sent a note from Serus of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia, and he sent a note from Seronomus of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia, John's favorite type of donation letter, horizontal line, horizontal line,

no jingles, no karma, enclosing Muslim funds to offset the Jewish shortfall. I have to say this. Muslim money. Muslim money. He sent one bill, but a bunch of one dinar, two dinar bills from Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Oh, that's cool. He sent actual Muslim money, Kuwait, Dubai, he has like a pile of about seven bills from all the Arab states. Did he have one from Oman? I'm pretty sure there's an Omani bill in there, yeah.

He might be a negotiator. He might be. All I know is that you don't get these bills unless you go there. And so, and they're used, it's not like a bunch of new money. I mean, it would have been nicer if they were better quality bills like his hundos. Most of them are brand new, right from the US government, obviously. Right from the Fed?

Right from the pallet, right off the pallet. Right off the, that's where the the palette money went. I got it. The palette money. Either that or Saddam Hussein's piles that were found by the army. I love that. So we don't know where this is coming from. But I got a kick out of all these bills and I never seen a lot of these because I've been to the Middle East, but I haven't been to every country in the Middle East. I've never actually been in Saudi Arabia. So I thought that was cute. It was real Muslim money. Nice touch. Thank you very much, Sir Animas of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia, one of our

biggest, longest standing patrons, and we appreciate you very much for that. Definitely. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I hate to tell you. No. I'm not. I'm not. Why do you need to fix your stuff? I don't need to fix anything. I love doing this.

I love my truck and I love what I do. I can make it work. It's from Clearoke. I just have to click on these boxes in Bakersfield and he came in a base field, California, and he came in with an even thousand bucks. Okay. He writes my company has been working on the California HSR high speed rail in the central Valley since, since around 20, uh, how long does it take? And it was already going since 2009, wasn't it? This is a scam of scams.

Yeah. When we did a meetup years ago, almost 10 years ago in Sacramento, there was a high-speed rail guy there and he says the whole thing is just based on who can buy the property ahead of where they're going to put the tracks and then they scam the state and then they ... Sure. Sure. The then they hold things in jail. Eminent domain, all of that. I don't think the project is feasible in general, he writes. And the way they're managing the construction is preposterous.

I vote against the project every time I get the chance. When the project comes up in a conversation, the other person usually says, wow, are they still working on that? Which I just did. And they ask how I could be part of it. To which I respond, if my company doesn't work on it, a company from LA or San Francisco will come in, steal my employees and work on it anyway.

So I just take the money and keep it local. Wow. However, it looks like the Grady train may have been derailed, puns intended with the audit by the US DOT. The notice from US DOT, Department of Transportation, the California High Speed Rail Authority, CHSRA for you, out there following the acronyms,

stated, dated to 2025, recent, that CHSRA must proceed at its own risk because of a violation of the Dot Chisra agreement is found during the audit, cost reimbursement will be retroactive. In other words, you're going to have to return the money even if you spent it. The project is routinely four to six months behind on their payments to us, to a subcontractor. So I'm going to be making some calls to our prime and probably our local state representative to see if my company may be left holding the bag for six months of payroll if the plug is pulled. Oh no.

This could come up as a piece of leverage in the brewing Trump Newsome rivalry. Well that's the more you know right there. And then he has a couple of newspaper articles that they link to, which I didn't read. And then the last line you're gonna have, it says link to the audit and correspondence, see page 305, blah, blah, blah.

And there may be something after that, but I, that I can't get to. Oh, no, he says, no, I can get to it. I can get to it. Uh, that's it. He just has another link. And he says, uh, if you'd like more on this, I'm happy to provide trains, good planes, bad clear. Okay. And by the way, I was talking to a guy this morning who was an electrical contractor, you know, and I say, hey, how's business? He says, he's dead, Jim.

He says, nothing is being built in Fredericksburg, which is kind of crazy. He says all the big electrical contractors, they're laying people off left and right. And Boot Ranch, now Boot Ranch is about 15 minutes away. That's where the mega homes are. There's 18 homes for sale between 5 and 12 million dollars. So no one's building out there either. Something is up. I said, what's going on? He says I don't know. He says the banks

won't lend a commercial, no more commercial loans. He said that's part of it. I don't know what that means. It doesn't sound good. Huh. Yeah a little bit of tip. You give that to Horowitz. So you can buy some calls. We go to Eric Tolbert. Or Putz. Putz maybe. He's in Topeka, Kansas. $1,000. Hello gentlemen, please find and close my donation of $1,000 to cover my PhD in media deconstruction, my instant night and my executive producer credit for so 1775 on Sunday, June 22nd. Please also include me on the birthday list.

My birthday is June 21st, 1963. My PhD will be in the name of Eric James Tolbert. My birthday is June 21st. Please bestow the name sir not appearing in this film for my knighthood for jingles. Oh, I'm sorry. I missed that. appearing in this film for my knighthood. For Jingles, I would like an Al Sharpton. My favorite is Resist We Much. Please acknowledge my better half, Dame Bessie the T is silent if possible.

Her name is often mistaken for Betsy, hence the joke. We realize at her daming that in print it wasn't as funny, although you take the T out of the front and back of our name was hilarious. Uh, okay. Uh, did we do that? Probably. Thank you for all you do, he says. Eric and he also wants an F Karma, so we will do that for you and we'll see you later on at the Knight and Dame roundtable. But resist, we must, we must and we will much about that be committed. Stop it, stop it, stop it. You've got karma. Huh.

Archduchess Kim, keeper of the Nutty Fluffers, parts unknown, came with 500 bucks. And she wrote a note that is a little piece of paper. You can hear? I can hear. ITM Adam and John, jingle, screw your freedom, little girl yay, and F-22 Karma. Switcheroo, it says, Sitcheroo, but I think she means switcheroo. Yes. It says, Sitcheroo, but I think she means switcheroo. For my dad, Knight John, protector of the pocket protectors and keeper of his 15 grandchildren. Wow. Happy birthday and Father's Day, Dad.

You are amazing. What do you get a dad that has everything? You get him a producer credit on the best podcast in the universe. Now you're talking. Thank you for all that you have done for us. Love you, Dad. Your good daughter. Your good...

Not the bad one. Your good daughter as opposed to closer sisters. It's the good one. It's the good one. Archduchess Kim, keeper of the Nutty Fluffers. Through your freedom. Yay!

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Thank you for your courage. I hope John received my premium banquet board. Yes. Yes, I got it. It's dynamite. A premium banquet board. How big is the banquet board? It's not really that big.

It's not like, unless I'm mistaken, it's about two and a half feet by two and a half feet, something like that. Well, it's a good size. You can put some cheese on there. The correct website is gauchowoodandcraft.com. It was a corrective donation. Yes, and thank you very much. I said gauchowoodworking, I think. Yes, you did. And thank you very much, Gaucho Woodworking.

Oh, here's the note I was talking about. You need to read this. You want to read it? Nope. That's from Dame Kicking and Screaming, Parts Unknown. I don't know where she's from. The very top of this note seems to... Oh, there it is.

Okay. Popped it open. God. Dear, oh, this is so long. Well, you can, you can get through. Dear Adam and John, here's a donation made from my dirty drug dollars in order to cleanse the possible curse on the money. Oh, oh, nice. That's good.

Yeah. On a road trip as a mule from South Mexico to Waco, Texas last week, I was inspected by U.S. Customs while waiting for them to go through the cargo, mainly personal stuff and some used chiropractic heavy devices. I saw the sniffer dog coming out. I was sure he was going to be done in two minutes, not finding anything. To my surprise, he sat down, which is what they do, and before I knew it was happening I heard the dreaded,

ma'am can you turn around and put your hands on your back? Followed by the distinct click click of handcuffs. I was detained and strip searched in a cell soon after. In shock, I was wondering who was going to feed my cat for the next 20 years. By the way, the dogs lie. A customs guy came in with a wad of money and asked, what is this? Not to be smart, but generally answering honestly, uh, money? That was not received well. A supervisor had joined and triumphantly smirked, we found the money, now it's a matter of time before we find the drugs. Unquote. I died right there and then the Mooney was the Mooney. The money was counted and as I assessed before,

it was less than $10,000. He wanted to give it to me, but I refused for fear of accepting responsibility for other things they would find. According to the supervisor, it was already too late. Everything found in the car was my responsibility. The car is owned by an 80 year old American chiropractor living in Mexico who's bought the Ford transit second hand.

A few years later, I was uncuffed. Few hours, a few years, a few hours later, I was uncuffed and led through a hallway when one officer turned around, handed me my shoelaces back and mumbled, you're released. My knees buckled from relief. I was still clear enough to ask what would happen with the money. They couldn't confiscate it. They said, so I asked for it. They handed me the money and I was now brought back to my car that had

exploded by the looks of it. They dug it. They just basically tore it apart. Yeah. Everything was unpacked outside and strewn around only for me to put back. Every panel was open and it was a mess. No explanation was given. You know what, just to stop there. No, for a second. The dog lied. Well, the dog, this is a car in Mexico, it was a used car. somebody for transit. Hello. Somebody had been used the car for drug transit and just some random dust was left, which the dog spotted and did his job. Yeah. That's makes nothing but sense.

No explanation was given about the whole situation. No report, no rapport, no human interaction. In order to clean the karma mat, might be on the dirty drugs dollars, I decided to donate a big portion of it to various people. No agenda was on the top of my list. I had to keep it short. Keep it short. But so many things happened. Sorry John. Sad smiley face. Thank you for your courage and four more years, Dame kicking and screaming. Thank you for keeping it short. Well, that's a good story.

That's a good story. Yes. And it ended well. And thank you for sharing that dirty drug money with us. Tom Onimus is in Emmaus in Pennsylvania and he donated, probably just let us know it's pronounced Emmaus. We said E-m Emmaus, Emmaus. Emmaus, Emmaus.

Emmaus, Emmaus. Emmaus, yes. 31533, big thanks to all the Noagent producers. Even bigger thanks to Adam and John for making the best podcast in the universe stronger than ever. Dvorak is right. But first a douchebag call out for Greg the welder. Douchebag.

He knows who he is, but Dvorak is right. Rotten Tomatoes has been corrupted and has been a no good movie raider for years now. They pay critics to juice scores. You have to wait two months to see where a movie really lands, which makes it useless. And they've destroyed decent, honest movie reviews like we had back in the day.

It's a Psy-Op. Fortunately, there's a value for value option out there. So if you'd like considerate, thoughtful movie reviews, check out the Daily Ratings podcast. It's a podcast. Or stop by the dailyratings.com to see the 2,000 movie reviews and counting. You may not always agree with us,

but we're pretty consistent since all the scores come from one guy Vincent Daly Hence the name Daly ratings. We have even have a couple of great scores for Dana Creator of the tip of the day Brunetti love and light and best price says Tom on a miss. Thank you, Tom hmm It's definitely a tip sir Christopher and El Elrod, Alabama, 233.99. Switcheroo! I dedicate this row of ducks plus fees.

So 233.99, okay. The row of ducks, really. To Kim, another Kim with no last name. Was this from the last show? No, it seems the same, but I don't think it is because... No, no, you're right because it says wife, it says wife. The other Kim was just some rando Kim. Yeah, yeah, rando Kim. Yeah, this is for Kim his wife so it's Kim Christopher, I am assuming. Christopher could be the first, never mind. I'm just using Kim, I'm just using Kim.

I don't want to get in trouble. June 23rd, a nice nice medley of Sharpton if you don't mind. Thank you, sir Christopher Knight of the Sipsey Valley night is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin a national drive to push back or whether we have More to go to build a movement of resistance, but resist. Oh, here we go. I didn't even know that was. We must and we will much about that be committed.

Beautiful Al. Joining me now. Uh, there you go for Kim noted anonymous. Anonymous is in Seust in Deutschland apparently. A row of ducks from Anonymous. 222.22. Thank you very much, Associate Executive Producership for Anonymous. Yeah, nice.

Well, you also have 222.22 from Sir PBR. Street Gang. Street Gang. ITM, John and Adam, please find the enclosed check for 222.22. Thank you for your courage. are Street Gang. ITM John and Adam, please find the enclosed check for 222.22, thank you for your courage. My wife Dame Trinity reminded me that we sponsor a local Christian radio station for her birthday and it's listener supported and they run no advertisements

and neither does no agenda. So please add Dame Trinity to the birthday list. I'm not, you know. I'll double check. Double check. To the birthday list for June 28th. We both pray for John's return to the Catholic Church and for Adam's continued walk with Jesus. Amen. Jingles boogity boogityity which is a jingle I don't like. That's true. Signed Sir PBR. Paps blue ribbon by the way that's what it stands for. Which is odd.

That's true. Anyway Sir Paps PBR street gang which I don't get either. I didn't know you didn't like the boogity jingle. You've never mentioned that before. No, at the very beginning when we started playing it, we banned it. We did? Oh brother. That's true.

Boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity. Once a driver's been used for tonight. Lord I want to thank you for my smoking hot wine. I have no problem with it. I have no problem. I find it to be muddy. Yeah. And silly. Okay.

Ryan George in Yorkville, Illinois, two ten and sixty cents. Sir, pew pew ding ding. It's been a while since donating but I could use some help with bringing a child into the country. My in-laws have lived in Thailand for 30 years, adopted a boy and are getting the runaround. Ah, email me and I will send you the details of my most excellent immigration lawyer who is extremely good at this. So I'd be happy to help you out. Can I get a Scott Simon?

Love y'all. Suffer and suck a tash. I'm Scott. Simon. I love that one. Mitchell, the tint guy in Dallas, Texas. Hmm, a new one. The tint guy. The tint guy.

The footage out of California feels like a rerun from 2020. Peaceful protests up front, but behind the sheep with the signs and megaphones, it's looters and backpacks and bricks and the common demonstrator, the common denominator in every clip, which is the looters enter through the gate, glass glasses, the weak link at cool view of McKinney, Texas. We install retrofit security systems that hold glass together under assault, giving your home or business a fighting chance.

Check us out at, which reminds me of a story I'll mention. Check us out at coolview.com McKinney. Mention no agenda and get 20% off professionally installed window film or security film. I.T.M. Mitchell the tint guy. So interesting. So I was.

C O O L V U. Cool view dot com. C O O L V U. Yes. So I'm, I was up in Seattle once and I was at an architect's office for getting a barbecue set designed or something. Some guy was a fan of mine. And he just so happened to be working on the Bill Gates house at the time, which was on

the water on Lake Washington. And he said they had to, it's like a big front, a bunch of glass windows and huge windows. And he said they had to replace them with, he said they had to replace all the windows of the Gates mansion with bulletproof glass because fishermen and other jokers would be just cruising down the river and they'd say, hey, that's Bill Gates' house. They'd take pot shots at it. No. Really? Yeah. The whole, the house is riveted with bullets.

Wow. And they'd brush the glass and they'd zoom off on their boat. Oh man. Yeah? That's wild. Untold story. Um, I actually, bonus clip, bonus clip, since we had Mitchell the Tint Guy from Dallas, Texas, talking about the protest.

I thought what JD Vance did in Los Angeles was hilarious. Did you follow that at all when he, when he spoke about Padilla? About Jose? Yeah. And the reason I'm here is I just wanted to hear from the law enforcement officials themselves the state officials the local officials But also the federal officials what's actually going on here on the ground? I think there's some good news and the good news is the rioting has gotten a lot better But the bad news is as I heard from everybody

Unfortunately, the soldiers and Marines are still a very much a necessary part of what's going on here Because they're worried that it's gonna flare back up Well, I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question. But unfortunately, guess he decided not to show up because there wasn't the theater. So that was, I mean, he said there wasn't a theater that was going to be his big punchline. So I can only presume that he really did think the guy's name is Jose Padilla. What is his real first name? Alex. And so this was the retort from LA mayor, Karen Bass.

Mr. Vice President, how dare you How very dare you. Our Senator. You don't know his name, but yet you served with him before you were vice president and you continue to serve with him today because the last time I checked, the vice president of the United States is the president of the

U.S. Senate. You serve with him today and how dare you disrespect him and call him Jose. But I guess he just looked like anybody to you. Well, he's not just anybody to us. He is our senator. An arrogant woman. That's hilarious. He's not just anybody to us. He is our Senator. An arrogant woman. That's hilarious.

You just look like a Jose. Did you see the AI version of Vance going off? No, I didn't. I should have clipped it. It was, in fact, I would have, but I didn't. He says, I don't know if you call him Jose or Rodrigo. And he goes hunting on with a bunch of these diminutive names. It's still full of crap, you know, he goes on. Oh, man.

Linda Lupatkin winds us out as our final associate executive producer. She is in Lakewood, Colorado, and she wants jobs karma and adds to that. Do you need a resume that tells your story, highlights your wins, and shows why you're unique? Visit ImageMakersInc.com for a resume that gets results. That's ImageMakersInc.com with a K and work with Linda Lu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

Yeah! New thoughts, karma. jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Well, there you go. Our executive and associate executive producers. It gets real short after that, which is interesting. Well, that's because it all got cut off at 3.15. Maybe we got bounced, man. Maybe PayPal jacked us. Have you tried donating?

Well, a number of people that normally come in late didn't come in at all. You know, the system could have been down, there could have been a million reasons for this. Well, I hope that's it. You never know. Yeah. Mm, mm. You've gotten donations since, so.

Oh, okay, well then good, so at least. I think. Yeah. That would really suck, John. That would really suck. That would suck some big time. Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers. We got PhDs to celebrate later. We have one night one day. We're very very appreciative of the value you have returned, particularly these bigger donors. We love everybody who supports us,

no matter what it is, no matter what amount, you can make that up yourself by going to noagendadonations.com. You can even set up a recurring donation where you can do any amount and any frequency you want. Please do that, support your No Agenda Show, and again, thank you to these executive and associate executive producers.

Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

What up? What up? What up? Shut up, slave! Shut up, slave! Shut up, slave! Shut up, slave! You know that, I'm looking, yeah,

the donations are back on track but the That may account for this weird. I got a call from Jay this morning this which is this weird note came in from Tom Blowers in Brownsville and About his you know his donations for my key I'll read the note because it was you're gonna have to read it in the next segment I'll read it now. Okay, this donations for my keeper, I'll read the note because you're going to have to read it in the next segment. I'll read it now. Okay.

This donation is from my keeper, Shelly Switcheroo. Also, I'd like to commemorate to our son Colby, who is the one who hit us in the mouth, has mentioned the show back in early 2023. Not sure about the episode, Colby on 6-19-23 succumbed to his demons and unfortunately not with us anymore. Oh, I'm sorry. And he's so missed. So, my message here is if someone out there needs help, please contact the Suicide Hotline. You're not alone, you're loved and are important to everybody. We however continue to be great fans of the best podcast in the universe, Help Us Maintain Our Sanity While Traveling the Great Country. With this donation, Shelly becomes the Dame. Now, this is gonna get bumped to Thursday. Okay. Because the donation, I think I got caught up in this.

No, no, no, no. I think I have that one. I have, yeah, I have Shelly. Yes. Oh, she's on the list? Yep, she's on the list. Okay, Jay put her on the list then. Yeah.

But she, we have to be careful, but this donation, I'm pretty sure, and I would say gigawatt coffee too, because he always, he's the last donation donation got bumped through that whatever happened I don't know what it was they come through eventually it was a glitch yes exactly it was a glitch glitch obviously a glitch hey I have some under reported news which I thought to be quite interesting and here it is the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda are set to sign a peace agreement. The deal was brokered by the United States and is set to be signed on the 27th of June. The provisional agreement announced by the US State Department covers issues including disarmament, the integration of non-state armed groups, and the return of refugees and internally

displaced people in eastern DRC. Eastern DRC has been gripped by violent conflict spanning back decades. Several armed groups are competing for access to precious natural resources including gold, copper, cobalt, and lithium. Congo has accused its neighbor Rwanda of backing one of the largest groups in the conflict, known as the M23. The UN estimates that 4,000 of the group's fighters are troops from Rwanda, though Kigali has strongly rejected those allegations. M23 is one of approximately 100 armed groups involved in the conflict vying for control in the region.

Congo and Rwanda are not formally at war and in the past have held peace talks aimed at resolving disputes in eastern DRC. Angola stepped down in March as mediator between the two countries after several attempts at brokering peace. Other nations like Qatar also attempted to mediate the conflict in the past with no success. Well how about that? We did a good one. That was a great clip.

We did a good one. We did a good one. That's from Euronews. There's stuff that is going on that we aren't paying attention to Because we're not being told by anybody I'm gonna give you a borderline clip of the day for coming up with that one Oh, well, thank you. And I actually have an extension to that borderline clip of the day Because the way I saw it is like okay

So we kicked China out because clearly China was in there for the cobalt and the gold and the minerals and all that stuff. And then this comes across the transom. A regulatory agency announced Saturday that the Democratic Republic of Congo has extended its ban on cobalt exports for three more months, a measure aimed at curbing oversupply of the key material for electric vehicle batteries. The world's largest supplier of cobalt, the country, had imposed a four-month export ban in February after price hit a nine-year law of just $10 per pound. The ban was originally set to end this Sunday. The regulatory body plans to announce a further decision to modify,

extend or lift the suspension before the end of this new three-month period, which will conclude in September. Reuters reported on Friday that Congolese authorities were considering extending the ban as they reviewed the allocation of cobalt export quotas among mining companies. Several industry players, including Glencoe, the world's second largest cobalt producer, support a proposal to introduce these quarters. So here's how I'm thinking the deal went.

Alright, listen guys, we're going to broker a peace deal here. We'll make sure that no more fighting breaks out. But you know what? We're going to make you guys a little richer. So why don't you extend that ban on exports to China? I think this is a China play. Don't give them any cold water. I do too, but it's funny that every analysis you've had for the last couple months is China. China, China, China.

Yeah, China. China, China, China. China. Okay. This I picked up on, what is it? It's on NTD actually. British Thought Leaders. You have American.

Great show. Yeah, it's a very good show. You have American. One of the best, it's a very good show. You have American. One of the best interviews, I try to clip it once in a while, but it's a long story. It's hard to clip for some reason.

Well, the problem is it's not, I clip my NTD stuff from the computer and from the internet feeds, because I can't get it on TV. I mean, I get it on TV, but it's on over the air. They don't have it on the Google, and so I can't get it on TV. I mean I get it on TV but it's on over-the-air they don't have it on the Google and so I can't record anything so I have to scrounge around to get stuff. So they had on British journalist Louis Brackpool and the reason I clip this is because of EastEnders. EastEnders is a daily soap that has been running

in the UK for, I think, 50 years. Been running forever. And when I lived there, we lived there for five years, I got into it. You know, and it's just, you know, it was British culture. I got into a general hospital or days of, I think days of our lives or sometime in the 70s, when I was working, a swing shift or something like you watch daytime TV.

I watched it a couple of times. And then the next thing you know, for months on end, I was watching the stupid show. And you were rooting for Susan Lucci to finally win the Emmy. Susan Lucci, which show was she on? I can't remember. Was she on Another World maybe? I don't know.

There's about five of these things. And they were actually pretty well structured. So here's what he did. He came across, I guess someone mentioned it to him, and well he did some journalistic work. Here's the setup. I put in a request to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to ask whether the government from 2020 to now to present was involved in any collaborations with the government and TV companies, producers, scriptwriters that may embed government messaging through fictional television programs. And this was off a back of a conversation again

with a friend and he, I don't know why, he watches EastEnders. It's not my cup of tea, but you know, a lot of people do watch it. Millions watch it across the country, so I'm not judging. He was watching it. And during one of the storylines, one of the characters mentioned climate intervention

and specifically geoengineering, which was bizarre for an EastEnders storyline. It was very, you know, sore thumb. And we were talking about it and I said, oh, do you know that there's a lot of evidence to show that the government are involved in script writing for fictional television programmes because it's broadcast to millions of people across the UK. And he said, well, that wouldn't surprise me. I went to check articles to back up what I was saying and I couldn't find any. So I thought, okay, this is a perfect time to put in the request. And here's the response he got back from the government.

And their response, they've delayed my request for another 20 working days because they've back from the government. affect their messaging, number one. It could affect media backlash if they come out and say, actually, yes, we do actually hold this particular information, but certain things we have to basically exempt from the public to see in case the public are riled up and are upset about what is being pushed by messaging. So they have confirmed that they hold the data. There's no question about that. It's a case of what and what particular narratives are they pushing. You know, we of course know that this happens in the United States or the Norman Lear Hollywood Foundation.

Constantly. And I think it's a good idea people should be putting in freedom of information requests to all of their European governments. You should get into this. Because I bet it's rampant everywhere. It's probably the problem with doing that here is that we, we use cutouts so well, like the Lear Foundation. I mean, if they're the ones that are helping these script writers put crap into the scripts

that propagandize the public, you can send a Freedom of Information Act to anybody you want. You're not going to get anywhere because they're all nowhere. What we've heard of them and the USAID sends them some money on the side, but we don't know what they use it for. No, it's not going to work. Hmm. Okay. good point.

But I mean, we do know. It's not like it's a big secret. Because the Lear Foundation themselves come out and say it. They do. They used to. I mean, now Norman Lear's dead. It's hard to say what. Well, let's talk about the AutoPen.

There was a funny guy that came out and gave testimony before Congress, and it was recorded. This guy's name is, I think I have it on this clip name, Theodore Wald. When they put a group together to investigate the use of the auto pen in the Biden administration, I thought these two clips were worthwhile. Traditionally, the president takes positive actions and authenticates those actions through his signature. His signature is required for the most significant actions he may undertake,

to sign an executive order, to take any action invested in him by the constitution, as in granting a pardon, and to take the most important action of all, to sign a bill into law. In all these cases, the president's signature is itself the protection of democratic principle. In all these cases, the president's signature is itself the protection of democratic principle. When the president signs, he communicates his assent and endorsement

of the action he takes. The auto pen is a device that signs the president's signature to a document. The oversight project of which I am a board member has discovered that the Biden White House deployed an auto pen to affix President Biden's signature to pardons, prison commutations, executive orders and presidential proclamations. The Oversight Project's research has found that the Biden White House first deployed the auto pen to affix President Biden's signature to a proclamation on day five of his administration and that there were at least three different auto pen signatures in use throughout President Biden's tenure in the White House.

In June 2022, the Biden White House began deploying the auto pen to sign clemency warrants and executive orders. Auto pen use skyrocketed from there. We found that of the 51 clemency warrants issued during the Biden presidency over half, 32 in total were signed with an auto pen. And these include some of the most controversial acts of clemency of the Biden presidency, including death row commutations and the preemptive pardons of members of the Biden family, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and more that were issued in the final days of the Biden presidency. Finally, we found multiple days where President Biden wet signed a bill into law, but used

an auto pen to issue an executive order or for other important executive actions. The Biden White House's widespread use of an auto pen to affix President Biden's signatures to documents that exercise executive powers belonging solely to the president, poses significant constitutional, legal, and practical considerations. Disguised with the Claremont Institute? Yeah, I think so. What do they do? Sounds like they're doing something for the president, some work for the president. They're definitely doing, this is all body punches.

The soften everybody up for the fact they're going to pull the plug on a lot of stuff Biden did because they can prove that Biden had nothing to do with it. And they've got a lot of, they're getting documentation to show that maybe Biden didn't do any of this, little or not. We did the something, but he didn't do everything. He drooled, sadly. He drooled a lot. So here's the finish of this little testimony. Once the president's signature is copied and loaded into the autopen, the machine can sign

documents as the president himself would. To be blunt, by using the autopen, anyone can sign documents as the president himself. Now to be clear, I'm not here today to suggest that the autopen is bad. It's just technology. I'm here today because of questions concerning President Biden's capacity and whether the auto pin was used to usurp presidential power or to conceal the president's decline. As the sitting president's mental acuity declined, potentially to the point of incapacitation, his administration's expansion of the powers of the presidency raises more questions than answers.

Any investigation into this matter should focus not only on whether President Biden directed or authorized subordinate staff to take action in certain instances, but whether he had the capacity to do so at all. The 25th Amendment lays out clear procedures for what to do when the president isn't capacitated. It was carefully drafted and informed by our nation's history. The Biden administration ignored it all to aggrandize executive power and push the country further in their preferred ideological direction. It is our obligation at this point to get to the bottom of these issues and ask the

important question as to whether or not the auto pen and other devices were used to cover and obscure President Biden's mental decline, undermining our national security and also the Constitution. Thank you for the opportunity to testify this morning. Hmm. Yeah, yeah. So can you, I guess the question is, can you hold someone accountable?

Is that the word I'm looking for? For not adhering to the 25th amendment or is that something you just invoke? I don't think they, I don't think they have a prayer of doing anything like that. But what they, I mean, that's an interesting case, but I think what they're going to try, I think the best they're going to do from all this is pull the plug on a bunch of these pardons. I think that's as far as they're going to be able to get. Cause they, like he said, there's no evidence that,

cause they look in the record and there's no evidence that Biden wanted to pardon half of these people. He never mentions it anywhere. They mentioned specifically Fauci and Milley and that's the shot across the bow right there. Yeah, definitely. Hey, did you? Did I see you had something? Oh, by the way, nothing's going to come of it. No, of course not. Put it in the Epstein file bin. It's like, what's his name? What's it? Comer. It's like James Comer's

various investigations. He talks a big game. Oh, goodness, that guy. Yeah. Never come of any of it. Did you have an article, did you say something not too long ago about China smuggling in fungus? Was that a clip we had? We talked about the fungus in the... I think it was a couple shows ago. Yeah, someone bringing in, do we have a clip of that? Someone was bringing in a fungus? Someone got arrested? Yeah, they're bringing in some horrible fungus that can kill wheat. So wheat is really targeted, it also makes people sick if you get an infection with it. Well, listen to this. if you get an infection with it. But it's-

Well, listen to this. A lethal, here, a lethal fungus that can rot human tissue from within- Oh yeah, this one. Is spreading- I think that's the same fungus, to be honest about it. Is spreading rapidly across the US. An expert, this is from the Daily Mail,

so take that with a grain of salt. An expert's warned the problem could worsen as temperatures rise. It's got a climate change component. It can cause serious lung infection called aspergillosis, which in vulnerable individuals can lead to organ failure and death. Those with weakened immune systems, they're susceptible, of course, major cities like New York, Houston, Los Angeles face added risk from dense populations and aging infrastructure. And so I'm thinking, I'm listening to that, I'm thinking, is this connected somehow?

The latest COVID variant is causing a distinctive symptom, a sore throat so severe it's nicknamed razor blade throat. Some patients report a sharp stabbing pain when they swallow often at the back of the throat. Because of that the new variant is informally being called Nimbus, a name that refers to a jagged type of storm cloud. Doctors in the UK are also seeing more intestinal symptoms than with other variants. The virus is spreading quickly in the US. also seeing more intestinal symptoms than with other variants. The virus is spreading quickly in the US. Nimbus went from single digits to 37% of all new cases of COVID in less than three weeks.

No, it's not. I'm reading down this article further and there it is. Climate change is making it easier for the fungus to survive inside the human body as global temperatures rise. The human body doesn't change temperatures because of climate change. Of course not. Of course not. Your body temperature stays the same. Or it should. Man. Yeah, and it's actually gone lower. So this is just another climate psy-op then. Okay, I should have known better. I'm sorry. All right, five minute warning, John should have known better. I'm sorry. All right, five-minute warning, John. Five-minute warning. Five-minute warning. Oh, we got a few things here. We're talking ever since we're talking disease and disease and death. Death disease and something else. Tick advice for the summer.

Bad year for tick bites. Data from the CDC show people are seeking emergency care at the highest rates since 2019. So if you're planning a hike or a trip to the park and want to avoid these blood sucking bugs, and here's Peng Huang has some tips to help you fend them off. There are about a dozen different ticks in the US that can cause problems for human health. In the Northeast, mid Atlantic and upper Midwest, the biggest problem is Lyme disease. Thomas Hart is an infectious disease microbiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. He says Lyme disease is transmitted by infected deer ticks. Thomas Hart, Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D.,

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disease, anaplasmosis, and a few other things. If all of this is making you itchy, Allison Hinckley, an epidemiologist with CDC, says there are precautions you can take. You can wear insect repellent treated clothing. We call that a permethrin treated clothing. That's a really easy thing to do. Cover up as much skin as possible and check yourself daily. Showering, when you come in from outside, really has shown to be a good way to prevent

tick-borne diseases. That's because the longer a tick feeds on you, the higher the risk of infection. So if you find a tick, take it off right away. The best way is to use tweezers, grab it as close to the skin as you can, and find out what type of tick it is and how long it's been feeding on you. If it's a deer tick and you're in an area where Lyme disease is common, Hinckley says see a doctor. The only time you would get an antibiotic after a tick bite and

before any symptoms it would be to prevent Lyme disease and in that case we recommend just a single dose. Otherwise watch for symptoms like fever, aches and rash. If those show up Hinkley says seek medical care. Hey whatever happened to Alpha Gal? Who? Alpha Gal. I don't know Alpha Gal. Oh yeah, Alpha Gal. Yes you do. You dated her. Alpha Gal was the meat allergy that people would develop after getting bitten by the Texas Lone Star Tick.

Oh, they mentioned it in there. I know, but whatever happened to that? That was like a big thing and people were like, oh, I can't eat red meat and Alpha Gal and Texas, the Lone Star Tick. Yeah, the Lone Star Tick. That was the name of it. Yeah, what happened to that? It was a big thing and people like, oh, I can't eat red meat and Alpha Gal and Texas the Lone Star Tick Yeah, the Lone Star Tick. That was the name of it. Yeah, what happened to that? Just no one has that anymore. Does that go away? I don't think it has

Well, we're going to New York next month I'll be doing the show from New York, Tina's. Oh, New York City. A New York City show. We need a report of how the homeless encampments are doing and how's things at the Roosevelt Hotel? You got a lot of work to do if you're going to go to New York. I'll be very, very busy. We're going there for Tina's birthday. We'll be celebrating with her youngest daughter who lives in New York.

And well, I know, just imagine I'm thinking we're going there. We're going to stay at the Roosevelt Hotel. I'm not too sure about that. Terminix released its annual ranking of the worst cities for bed bugs. Uh-oh. Philadelphia holds the top spot for the second year in a row. Congratulations. The city is followed by New York, Cleveland, and Los Angeles.

Analysts say infestations are likely tied to, Aliana can't even look at this. I don't want to see it They're likely tied to climate People just bring them around pest control experts suggest checking all furniture at your hotel or rental unit to avoid Bringing any bugs back home with you. I can't wait for Tina to hear the show bugs back home with you. I can't wait for Tina to hear the show. She'll be checking the furniture. She'll be checking the cabinets, the closets, everything. We don't want bed bugs.

That's gross. It's gross. I tell you. It was a couple of years during this show era that it is an era at this point. Uh, the no agenda era. I prefer to call it a season. Well, it's more than a season, believe me. So during the no agenda era, there was, if you remember, there's about a year's worth

of bed bug stories because that was the fear of the day. There were bed bugs in the theaters. That's where it started. Yes, we had, let me see, 2020. Bedbugs in the theaters. Yeah, well that happened in France. The bedbugs were in the theaters. And let me see, was this 2020?

Coming up, it's a feeding frenzy on the move. Bedbugs are giving people nightmares. Over the last 10 years, their population has been exploding. Tonight we know why the insects are crawling out of beds and into movie theaters, classrooms, and more. 2020. Yeah. Yeah, that was all during the Noagenda era. Do you see now why we have boomer benefit? Do you understand? Yeah, but besides our knowledge base, the two of us combined is a hundred years plus.

Easy. It's the show archives itself are unbelievable, right there within 20 seconds, you found a bed bug clip exactly explaining what the problem was, was just bed bugs in theaters. And it came, what we forgot of course, is it came from France. Yes. Well, I forgot that you remembered. Yes.

So, your point being? People should think about what we just did and say, you know, we should give these guys at least five bucks or subscribers something. And we still have plenty of show to come. I have some actual real world ISOs that may be worth selecting for our end of show ISO. We have some dynamite, Iran, Iran end of show mixes on the way, John's tip of the day. And of course we have a night, we have two dames, I think we have some PhDs.

And the birthdays, but first John is going to thank our very short list of donors that we still want to thank $50 and above. Yeah, and I noticed that our dame in the Sparks, Nevada is missing because I think she, that was again the problem with PayPal. Because she's been giving us money every show. And we'll hear from her shortly. So we start with a Vienna donation from the of all places Vienna Austria

from Belaza Checo, I think che che chesco Chesco something. Yes. I don't know. I'll never get that name. It's not Austrian I don't think 10641 nice. Thank you Michael Edmund in Brookings, South Dakota, 100. He's in FEMA region eight. Ian Field, parts, oh, I'm sorry, Michael needs a deducing. You've been deduced. Ian Field, our buddy, $100. Jason Maurer in Vancouver, Washington, $100.

He's starting to use Stripe now. Waxomized in Bergen's Hook. Bergen's Hook. Holland. Bergen's Hook. Berch... Hook. $84.38.

Kevin McLaughlin got through the filter. Baaahhhhhh, hook 8438. Kevin McLaughlin got through the filter. He's there with 8008. He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America, lover of boobs. Probably because he's on an auto- No, he's not automatic because he adds- No, he's not. Could you squeeze-

Because he's writing different notes all the time time so you can't do that with automatic. And he's asked could you squeeze the melon mix by sound guy Steve into the end of the show mix please. Melon mix, oh. Okay yeah because he asked for it and he is the Archduke. Yes I will take that. Yeah no he gets what he wants. He totally gets what he wants. That dude's awesome. Philip Colburn in Waramu, North New South Wales, Australia. Uh, 73, 73. He says see email. We did not receive email. Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio, 72, 72.

Dame Becky in Arlington, Washington, 69, 96. Oh, wait a minute. There's Dame Rita right there in Sparks, Nevada, 72, 72, Dame Becky in Arlington, Washington, 69, 96. Oh, wait a minute. There's Dame Rita right there in sparks, Nevada, 67. She looked in her wallet and said, wait a minute. These guys, no, no, no. 67. We'll do this. We'll do this.

As long as I get mentioned, um, Robin Tolbert in Topeka, Kansas, 64, 94, upbeat music podcast, Kansas, 6494. Upbeat Music Podcast. The Upbeat Music Podcast. Oh, that's Salty Craon. Copperous Cave. That's Salty Craon, man. That's a great show. Value for Value Upbeat Music Podcast.

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I want to thank all these people for making the show 1775. We got 1776, the founding of the United States of America show number on the next show. Big one, big show, big, big show, really big show. And how about that being in our 250th year, kind of? Close, kind of close. Yeah, well, kind of. Close enough.

Well, we got a lot of 250s this year. A lot of different things happened 250 years ago. And we're just getting started everybody. Thank you so much to these producers, $50 and above. We never mentioned anyone under 50 for reasons of anonymity, but we appreciate those who do so. And of course our sustaining donors, any amount, any frequency, any donation that you want actually, because it's value for value.

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note that you read earlier from my keeper Shelly. And with this, they commemorate their son Colby, who was the one who hit them in the mouth as mentioned on the show back in early 2023, who succumbed to his demons, unfortunately is no longer with them anymore. So again, his message, their message is anyone out there needs help, please call the suicide hotline. You are not alone. You are loved and you are important to everybody. With this donation, Shelly becomes a dame. Please name her Dame Shelly, holder of the CDL and Dog Momma. She wants squeaky toys and tennis balls at the round table already ordered. Therefore, you keep up the fantastic work. And Colby's favorite was noodle boy. Yeah, we'll do a let me get the the noodle boy.

We have we don't have we don't have a jingle for noodle boy. Do we have the the noodle gun is what we have. No, we have the noodle boy is not a jingle. It's the whole thing. Right, right. But I'll do a noodle gun because that is about the the noodle boy and karma for all. We'll do that right now actually You've got karma And with that let's draw our blades mr.. Devorak bring out the blade one right here very nice, okay?

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This is Jared from Cool Hacks. Shelly from Fort Wayne, thank you for your courage. Hey, Joe Biden, what's that in your diaper? We'll fix that in post. And a report coming in from San Francisco from the Dogpatch Saloon. Here we are on No King's Day at Dogpatch patch saloon weathering away the craziest in San Francisco This is a dude named Ben named Ben Duke of SF having a great time at the meetups for Montauk here Enjoying a nice day out with other producers. I'll see does he hear sir Julian here found dog patch

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We have a meetup taking place today at the Elm City Brewing Company in Keene, New Hampshire. It is their 13th TooManyEggs.com meetup. Go join them for that. On Thursday, our next showday, no agenda, New York City at Plug Ugly's 430. At Plug Ugly's, it's in Gramercy, New York, New York. Please do send us a meter of reports. It's a big group there in New York. And also on Thursday, the North Georgia Monthly at six o'clock at Cherry Street brewing in

Alpharetta, Georgia. We have a couple of Global meetups coming up one on the 12th in Deutschland. I'm not sure where also on the 12th. This is July Zurich Switzerland and Tilburg the Netherlands well that's September. Oh my god. So go to know agenda meetups comm This is where you can find all the meetups they're listed by region they're listed on a calendar it's very easy to find one if you can't find one near you there's an easy solution start one yourself go to know agenda meetups calm I'm gonna be where you want me to drink it all. You want to be where everybody feels the same. My ISOs won't.

What is that unsupported file format? That sucks. I kind of like that ISO. Hold on a second. Do you have any ISOs for the There should be one in there, is there? Yes, I do see one in here. This is John's one.

Here's John's one ISO. That was one bunker buster of a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. Let me see. I got a couple here. What's this one? Let me check this one out.

There is no exit strategy. Got that one. I have a. Bye bye. No. Okay. Keep it 100, bro. And we're sorry, citizen.

You violated the terms of our agreement here in the office. I didn't even know where that comes. Sounds like me. And this one, I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. We're sorry, citizen, you violated the terms of our agreement here in the office. I don't even know where that comes from. Sounds like me. And this one I think is maybe useful. Well, I'm sick and tired of smart guys. Hmm? It was Biden.

Yeah. When it was, well, it's... I think we've tried to, I think you tried to slip that one in once before. Well, I'm sick and tired of smart guys. Well, I kind of like it. I mean, it's got... I like the Bunker Buster because it wraps the show around because it started with Bunker Buster. That was one Bunker Buster of the show. Yeah, well, it is AI, but then again, so was everything.

I'm not even sure I'm talking to John anymore. It could just be... You are talking to John. Now, just be... You are talking to John. You are talking to John. You are not talking to AI. Tip of the day time! Create advice for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes, add home.

Created by Dana Bernetti. Alright, I have a website to plug. A website plug. Yeah, we do website plugs. We do website plugs. We do rotations. We do website plugs. Now if anyone ever is going to buy a digital camera, a used one in particular or a new one, there's a website that, you know, I don't go to the computer magazines or online stuff.

There's one website that all they do is review digital photography stuff. They review every camera that's ever come out. You can go look at their old reviews if you want to buy a used, a lot of people buying a used digital camera is not a bad idea in today's world because they really got to a very high peak, you know, five years ago and they're still very useful these cameras. But which one would you get? And then there's lenses and other things that these guys review. What? Lenses?

Lenses? There's different lenses? I have five on my iPhone. I don't need different lenses. So this is for people who realize that a camera's still better than a phone for taking a photo. But I mean, the phone does a great job. Is that true though?

Is a camera better than a phone these days? Yeah. Just look at the little dinky lens and the whole come on it's all and talk about AI the thing is processing the picture it's probably changing the colors. Oh it's changing everything. The whole thing is ridiculous. That's why they're better. People like the pictures because they're like oh oh, I look good in this. Yeah. That's the whole point. DPreview.com.

DPreview.com. Highly recommended website. If you like anything. Be careful. There's other DP websites out there you want to be kind of careful about. DPreview.com. I'm just saying. And there it is.

Go to 2potheday.net. for I want to help people, you know, I want to warn them for the perils, the perils that could be out there. The perils. Stoya. Yes. All right, by request for the end of show mix, we've added the melon mix from Sound Guy Steve for our Archduke of Luna and the love of America and boobs. Along with that comes James Trees. That's the song you like, The War in Iraq and a classic, because they're all classic

because you can use them every five years, medley from our very own Jesse Coy Nelson that is coming up on our end of show mixes. Do stay tuned for that. They're to tapers I tell you real toppers. Up next on the no agenda stream trollroom.io and if you just keep listening to your modern podcast app, you will hear podcasting 2.0 where we talk about well about Spotify Getting on board kind of and other things about the future of podcasting We'll be back on Thursday to bring you more media deconstruction until then coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill country We're not everybody's happy with President Trump Fredericksburg, Texas, in the morning everybody,

I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody's going to noagendadonations.com today. I'm John C. Dvorak. We will talk to you again on Thursday. Until then, adios, lo-fos. Hooey, hooey. And such.

I love melons. Did you know there are over 40 different types of melons out there? Kevin McLaughlin in Conker, North Carolina says honeydew melons. He just wrote that in there for some reason. He likes melons. Golden Delicious melons, the Galea melon, Horned melons, the many melons that are there in the world. There are over 40 different types of melons. Summertime is the perfect time to show off your melons, ladies.

Honey globe melons. Honey globe melons. Camouflage melons. Nice. Choppers and aisle three. Camouflage melons. Jade Dew melon donation. Jade Dew is another little melon.

And I've had those. They're pretty good. I think the Tosca melon is my favorite. Ah, you just love melons. The Picasso melon. Calibri melon. I love melons. I love melons. I love melons. I love pretty good. I think the Tuscan melon's my favorite.

Ah, you just love melons. The Picasso melon. Calabash melons. That's Calabash melons. The Kiss melon. It's got a big tongue that comes out of it. The Papaya melon. The Balan melon.

The Yubari King melon. Autumn sweets. Autumn sweets, the melon of choice for connoisseurs. He's gonna run out of melons by the way. I don't have any melon varieties. I don't know. I think there's... he's got... But he hasn't even said watermelon yet. Exactly. Watermelon!

Cantola Melon. Another one I've never heard of. But, you know. How long will he be able to come up with melon names? Watermelon! Korean Melons. I love his melon assortment. Gak melons. The ananas melon. And there I had one, the Sprite melon. Charintay melons, which is literally a melon. Kevin McLaughlin's back, this time promoting the Snap melon for you to keep your score. I love melon! There's gonna be a war with that. Ah! And I'm doing all I can. Ah!

To get ready for World War III. It's so exciting to look and see. There's gonna be mushroom clouds everywhere. And nobody will even have to care. We're gonna be waving bye-bye to everyone, you and me I'm gonna get a tan from the rain as it be Of nuclear fusion decay It's gonna be raining all over the world

I'm gonna look so great It's gonna be a war with Iran And I'm doing all I can To get ready for World War III There's gonna be a war with Iran Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah And bye bye to everyone, you and me I'm gonna get a tip from the rays of me Of nuclear fusion decay It's gonna be raining all over the world I'm gonna look so great

There's gonna be a war with our end Ah, and I'm doing all I can Ah, to get ready for World War III There's gonna be a war with our end And I'm doing all I cano-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o You and me, I'm gonna get a tan from the raisin' D Of nuclear fusion decay It's gonna be raining all over the world I'm gonna look so great

There's gonna be a war with Iran And I'm doing all I can Generals gathered in their masses This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years Just like witches at black masses When I first came to office, one of the first meetings I had was at the Pentagon with generals Evil minds that plot destruction. Bolton has always said let's go to war, but he's not the one who's going to go on the

forefront. He's a coward. Sorcerer of death's construction. The leaders of Iran are racketeers. Behind every problem is Iran. War! I don't want your war! Behind every problem is Iran. They heard what you said in 2016 and liked it when you said, no more stupid wars.

You got a rogue president in the White House surrounded by these uber hawks that thirst for another war with Iran. The International Atomic Energy Agency has never found Iran in contravention of stipulations in the deal. If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again. I'm not somebody that wants to go into war. Is the United States heading towards another Middle East showdown, this time with Iran. That was one bunker buster of the show.