No Agenda - 1778 - "Three Holes One Bag"

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

No Agenda Episode 1778 - "Three Holes One Bag" "Three Holes One Bag" Executive Producers: Sir Russell Hinton Cousin Vito Trent Wuebbles Stephen King D. B. Shepard of the unhoused Sir Antonymous Associate Executive Producers: Kristopher ORorke Ana Moore Sarah Credle Sam Green Ryan Miller Matthew Martell Eli the coffee guy Linda Lu—Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumae Erica Koechig PhD's: Russell Hinton Become a member of the 1779 Club, support the show here Boost us with with Podcasting 2.0 Certified apps: Podverse - Podfriend - Breez - Sphinx - Podstation - Curiocaster - Fountain Knights & Dames Russell Hinton > Sir Russell Hinton Art By: Nessworks End of Show Mixes: Boanld Crabtree - Daniel Brown Engineering, Stream Management & Wizardry Mark van Dijk - Systems Master Ryan Bemrose - Program Director Back Office Jae Dvorak Chapters: Dreb Scott Clip Custodian: Neal Jones Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman NEW: and soon on Netflix: Animated No Agenda Sign Up for the newsletter No Agenda Peerage ShowNotes Archive of links and Assets (clips etc) 1778.noagendanotes.com Directory Archive of Shownotes (includes all audio and video assets used) archive.noagendanotes.com RSS Podcast Feed Full Summaries in PDF No Agenda Lite in opus format Last Modified 07/03/2025 16:58:36This page created with the FreedomController Last Modified 07/03/2025 16:58:36 by Freedom Controller  

I don't understand why they don't think I'm a girl. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, July 3rd, 2025. This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination episode 1778. This is No Agenda. Counting the magic minutes and 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 all our fireworks were destroyed I'm John C. Dvorak. Yeah man did you see that thing blow? Yeah. That was crazy. Yeah. You know I have a firework explosion story from when I was, I want to say 11. Well, before you tell the story, we should mention what we're talking about. You brought it up, you should mention it. We have a warehouse, I guess, in Yolo County, little town. And it blew up completely. Taking out most of the fire.

So we have to fireworks this place and California won't be happening. But it killed, now it killed seven people, the seven people are just basically missing. Oh, I didn't even know that part. That sucks. Yeah. By missing we mean... Blown to smithereens. Yeah, smithereens. I think I was 11 and this is in Holland and I banned my this was for They don't have a fourth of July obviously they do have New Year's and in the Netherlands New Year's

They don't have a fourth of July. They go from July 3rd to July 5th. They just skip right over it. It's just done It's like they eliminated it from from the calendar. So New Year's Eve, of course, New Year's they go nuts. I mean, anyone's ever been in the Netherlands, it's nuts. And it's two weeks before and two weeks after. Everybody's just so jacked about their fireworks because in good socialist manner, that's the only time of the year when you can just go nuts. Everything else is shut up, slaves sit down and listen to what, do what you're told.

So as with a friend and his family and they, this is like a little, kind of like a vacation park. We have little bungalows. And so there were loft beds and we were up on the loft bed. And of course we had a box of fireworks. Like, yeah, yeah, let's take a look at the fireworks. We'll be looking at the fireworks, looking at the firecrackers, you know, looking at them. And it was me, my buddies, you know, 11 year old friend from school and his younger brother. And so I'm like, hey, watch this. And so I lit a little lady finger and I'm like, oh, pull the fuse out. Well, of course, flash fuse thing blows up right into the box of fireworks and that stuff

goes off and It's it's it's mayhem in this little house. It was a relatively small box and You know, it's luckily some guys came in and they you know, they doused water on it. But the the place was pretty much smoke ridden destroyed and We blamed it on the little brother. And that was pretty awesome. We got away with it mostly, but it kind of put me in a different perspective of fireworks.

I, I'm not such a fan anymore. And that's my story. That's a decent story. Yeah. Yeah. I still didn't lose an eye. No, no, no. No, there's no injury. But man, to this day, I still kind of feel bad about playing with the kid.

And we convinced him like, yeah, yeah, and I did that. They were the worst. So as we speak on this Thursday, a little after one o'clock in the central time zone. The big beautiful bill is being voted on. Everyone's losing their health care. We're all gonna die. There's gonna be no money left. We got the deficit for our children, our grandchildren, our children, our children's children. You've got your four boxes up there. Jefferies finally stopped talking. Finally, finally. So, so far...

I think you set a record record it went nine hours or something Yeah, well, I actually got a an interesting analysis from CNN of all places about this magic minute that he was going for because apparently To go a little bit longer than Was the Republican who did it last? What's his name? He used to be Speaker of the House guy who got kicked out.

Come on. McCarthy? Yeah, McCarthy. He went for eight hours and so many minutes and this was the magic minute. Will he make it longer? But CNN had an uncharacteristically good analysis of what is going on, because none of this is about the bill. It's all about the midterms.

It's all about the Democrats wanting to win a majority in the Senate, in the House, in the middle. No one cares about you, America. This is the big secret. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats. They all care about winning in the midterms. Seven hours and counting. You see there on the right side of your screen,

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries still holding the floor, delivering a marathon speech in opposition to President Trump's massive agenda bill. Republicans are poised to pass that bill despite his efforts there. But will Jeffrey's magic minute give Democrats some renewed energy as they plot their course forward? That is certainly what they're hoping. My panel is back. Isaac, you have covered Hakeem Jeffries for

a long time, many years. Take us inside the strategy that we're seeing play out right now. Yeah, I think it's less important for him to beat the Kevin McCarthy record here at 130 or whatever point he'll pass that, than what he actually has already achieved, which is that this vote was supposed to happen between 6 and 8 a.m. when few people would have been awake or paying attention to it. It will now happen at some point in the middle of the day when more people are paying attention to it. And that, within that, is an effort to really specifically call out Republican members of Congress in districts that the Democrats are going to go after quite hard next year. It started yesterday, the Democrats before the voting began did an event on the steps of the Capitol and he's picked up on this in his speech saying about

Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania or Young Kim in California. These members that, again, they want to go after and say, these are the number of their constituents that are going to lose their health coverage, lose their nutritional assistance, all these sorts of things. And that, again, happening in the middle of the day rather than before most people had breakfast or were out of bed is what the objective is. Yes, the whole idea is to scare everybody that you're going to lose your health care. Hold on a second.

Do they think that anybody is, oh we're going to delay it until afternoon so more people – nobody's paying – nobody who? Who's the people they're talking about that are going to be paying attention in the afternoon and aren't going to be paying attention at 6 in the morning? No, you're correct. It's really because CNN doesn't want to have to do all this crap in the middle of the night. Could you guys please move that to the afternoon so we can grab our clips then? We don't want

to have to get up early. That's more like it. Yes, yes, of course. And here is even play some, a little mini cut of the clips we shall discuss. Okay, so you mentioned some of the, what they consider the moderate Republicans that they're going after. I want to play kind of a mashup of some of what we're the moderate Republicans that they're going after. I wanna play kind of a mashup of some of what we're hearing from Jeffries.

Mashup. It's called a super clip, a super cut or a mini cut in your case. It's not a mashup. Seven hours. Mashup. Listen carefully to one example of exactly what Isaac was talking about.

His fellow New Yorker, Nick Lolota, who is a Republican from, who knows if it's a swing district, but they certainly hope so in the Democratic Party. Listen. I'm going to take my time and ensure that the American people fully understand how damaging this bill will be to their quality of life. As a result of the lack of healthcare that will result directly from this one big ugly bill people in America... By the way weak is that all you could come up with is big ugly bill that's the only you

couldn't come up with a better acronym... Of care that will result directly from this one big ugly bill. People in America will die unnecessary. Mr. Speaker in New York's first congressional district represented by our colleague, Congressman Nick Lelota. People will die. Approximately 50,000 will die. Oh, God. New Yorkers will lose their health care. It's a crime scene. It's a crime scene. Going after the health and the safety and the well-being of the American people. And Mr. Speaker, we want no part of it. No, I want no part of the crime scene. So the whole idea is you're going to die. And this and this works, by the way. You know, they I thought it was more fun personally when I think when Mitt Romney was running what it was or when it was the midterm and like they're going to kill

granny and then, you know, the commercials of Republicans pushing an old granny in a wheelchair off the cliff. That was great. That was creative. This is just, and, but of course, as even CNN will point out, this is all about the clips. So I totally take your point about him wanting this to be a vote in the light of day and not early in the morning and about these stories to be playing out.

But we all know how people consume information. It's about clips. So now they are building a set of clips with all of these examples, which I am sure we will see in various places to try to make these Republicans. That was the mashup. With the mashup, she placed two lone clips. Three, three, three. It was three. It was no good. It was not a mashup. placed two lone clips that are even one that three three it was three it was no good it was not a mashup this it was nothing it was crap that was

from earlier because they had to have the intern do it because no one wants to work early so they're hoping I get some stuff done around noon will you so we can get it done then lives a little bit more difficult right I think what happens after the bill passes is the president and his allies have to sell the bill and Democrats have to continue what they've been doing. They have actually done a relatively good job. Again, it's not about the bill. It's about the midterms. Despite their many challenges right now. But Democrats have actually done a relatively

good job of driving the message, which is a fairly easy message to drive that this is a tax cut for the rich that will take benefits away from the poor. They are selling that it is showing up in polling. The president and his team have to figure out how to say no that's not it this is a working-class cut. And the thing about our information environment is it's going to take repetition. It's going to take repetition for the Democrats. It's going to take repetition from president Trump and Republicans. President Trump does have the advantage of being sort of a broken record. He's very good at repetition.

And was talking to a Republican consultant today who said, yeah, you're going to hear him talking about this a lot. So it's so obvious what they want to do here because these things don't even go into effect until after the midterms. So they're going to be, this is going to be thrown at us day in, day out. They're taking away your nutritional benefits.

They're taking away your Medicaid. You're going to die, your healthcare, day out. They're taking away your nutritional benefits. They're taking away your Medicaid. You're going to die. Your health care. I mean, we can discuss. We can talk. We can let the other side talk on NPR, the New York Republican. I also did just go through the bill and not just the health care, uh, the healthcare parts, but there's a lot of other interesting stuff in there. Well, I'm sure there's more interesting stuff in there that they're ever going to talk about. Oh yes.

I mean, if you just want to understand the Medicaid provisions and man, there was so much, so many psyops going on. The Democrats introduced some kind of crazy amendment that would keep illegals on Medicaid. It was worded in a way that when the amendment got voted down, it looked like the Republicans wanted to have illegal immigrants on Medicaid. And there were some, like the former Newsweek lady, what's her name? Bacchicavacchi? Forget her name. She was like, I can't believe it. I can't believe the Republicans want to have illegal immigrants on health care. I'm just going on and on and on. And they fell for it.

They fell for it. Well, before you do your analysis, I have the clips from NPR. Oh, the one with the Republican from New York? No, no. Okay, all right. No, these are, no, I have four clips from NPR. One is the update, but then it's followed by three clips where they brought in experts to slam the bill.

Slam it, rail against it. And there was no, again, on NPR, there was no balance. There was nobody on the other side saying, well, there's this, the good side is this, this and this. No, no, no. It was just slam, slam, slam, slam, slam, which is, you know, and by the way, in between all that, they keep playing this, they keep playing this one NPR missive about, oh my God, they're taking our money away. They say that we're biased. Oh, oh, oh.

In fact, let's play this right off the bat to start this thing. This public media funding lament, they play this every hour on NPR. The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media. The rescissions package now moves on to the Senate. This move poses a serious threat to local stations and public media as we know it. Please take a stand for public media today at goacpr.org. Thank you. Hey, do you have that xylophone still?

Plum, plum, plum, plum, plum. Do you have, don't you have a xylophone somewhere? I never had a xylophone. I thought you had, or someone, something. Oh, no, I know what you mean. Yeah, that little electronic device. Plum, plum, plum, plum. Yeah, the batteries are dead.

Yeah, very irritating. The batteries are dead. Okay. The batteries are dead. You know, it's just the way are dead. The batteries are dead, okay. The batteries are dead. You know, it's just the way it goes. So they're playing this all, supposedly 1%, and they're whining about this 1% okay. What's that website address at the end? Hold on. acpr.org.govacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org.

Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org.

Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org.

Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org. Goacpr.org Public media is in jeopardy. Who are these guys? How's it in jeopardy? It's in jeopardy. It's in 1%. If they told us it was 1%. Yes. So how's that make it in jeopardy? I'm taking action. I don't care what you say. I'm taking action. Dear lawmaker, public radio brings music, the arts and local culture into our homes. We don't need any of that. We got the internet. We got TikTok. Cutting funding would erase programs that enrich your communities and support creative voices.

Lib... Tick-tock people with blue hair. Please protect the federal funding that makes this possible. Oppose rescission. Recission? Recission? What an odd word. Recission. Recission. What an odd word. Recission. Why would that...recission. Recission. The act of rescinding

the cancellation of a contract. Recission. That's not great marketing. Oppose rescission today and save local public radio. Oh, you can submit a video message. Ooh. Yes. Ooh. Yes.

Ooh. This is a break the glass moment. Says that? Yeah. Public radio faces the biggest threat in its history. One percent. One percent? They said so themselves. Share a personalized message voicing your support now. Oh, just so you know, the proposal to

eliminate federal funding including a new plan to rescind previously approved funding threaten to dismantle the very infrastructure that keeps 99% of Americans informed, safe and connected. I dispute that. I would say the internet keeps 99% of Americans misinformed, safe and connected. Anyway, okay. Well, that was fun. I'm glad you caught that. So, we can skip the update and go to the slams.

Slam! Okay. This will be BBB update slam one. Policy bill passed the Senate. It's now being considered in the House. It would cut trillions of dollars in taxes, mostly for the well off. To help offset that, it would also make the biggest cuts to the social safety net in decades. Is that a class? The well off?

If you're well off, raise your hand. I haven't heard that term probably for 20 years. The well-off. That is kind of interesting. The well-off. The well-to-do, yes. The rich. The well-off. You're well-off. Hey boy, you're well-off. You mean like, Brooke Gladstone,

who makes $370,000 a year just for hosting This American Life? Once a week show? No, no. That's not Brooke Gladstone. $370,000 a year just for hosting this American life. What? Once a week show? No, no, that's not Brooke Gladstone. Is that Brooke Gladstone? No, Brooke Gladstone does it on the media. Yeah, yeah, who does this American life?

She makes $370,000 a year just for hosting that show. That's good money. It's great money. That's what you want that 1% for. You know what you are when you have that kind of money? Well off is what I said. You're well off, yes. You're well off, yes.

Policy bill passed the Senate. It's now being considered in the House. It would cut trillions of dollars in taxes, mostly for the well off. To help offset that, it would also make the biggest cuts to the social safety net in decades. Hold on, stop. So if everybody's paying taxes and taxes are cut by, let's say, 2%, it's going to benefit the richest people the most because they're paying the most taxes. Oh, why are you trying to refute this? This is not even, this is beneath you. I'm sorry for interrupting my own clip. This is not even, this is beneath you. I'm sorry for interrupting my own clip.

This is beneath you. To things like food aid. NPR's Jennifer Ludden is here to walk us through the latest. Hi there. Hi there. Jennifer, NPR has reported a lot on changes to Medicaid, which provides health care for some 70 million low-income, elderly, and disabled Americans. That's you, John. Scaling it back has been controversial even among congressional Republicans. Can you just briefly explain to us what's included in the Senate bill? Please. Right.

And with the reminder, as you said, lawmakers in both chambers still have to agree on one version. But the Senate version would cut Medicaid spending even more than the House had by about a trillion dollars. Now, it's mainly through a new requirement that people would have to work at least 80 hours a month unless they're exempt and over all the... Stop. Okay, that's a lie. Must work, volunteer or attend school for at least 80 hours a month. That's not just must work. So that's lying by omission.

Lying by omission, I tell you. Yep. By the way, yes. The House version, which I have no idea what's going on here, exempts parents of dependent children, seniors, and people with disabilities. All you. So you're exempt.

That people would have to work at least 80 hours a month unless they're exempt. And overall, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says this package could cause nearly 12 million people to lose health insurance over the next decade. So my clips will get to the CBO. Which is, of course, a lot of people. I want to turn to some of the safety net cuts

that haven't gotten as much attention, like food benefits. Tell us what could happen there. Yes, yes. So more than 40 million attention like food benefits, tell us what could happen there. Yes, yes. So more than 40 million people get food stamps as they're known or SNAP. It's the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It would lose 20% of its funding and that's the largest cut in its history. Now this is also partly from a change to its existing work requirement. The Senate bill bumps up the age people have to work by a decade until age 65 and parents who used to be exempt would now have to work if their kids were 14 or older. Now as with Medicaid, one concern is that people would run into

red tape trying to prove they're working. The CBO estimates this change could push more than 2 million people off food aid. Oh, it's, it's, it's incredible what they're doing here. When I was 14, I was a latchkey kid. My mom worked. My dad worked. Oh boo. Oh, if you're 14 year old kids, let them roam the streets like ragamuffins, like ruffians. Ragamuffin is another good one. Let them roam the streets. So you're getting the idea that this is not a balanced presentation. I think you're correct. This is why they're getting their funding pulled because the taxpayers should not be paying for biased

presentations like this. I bitch about this constantly. To be fair, the clips that I have from NPR do represent the other side, even though the host is hemming and hawing throughout it. Well, there's a difference between finding what you found and somebody just making a straight up presentation with no pushback. Yes. In other words, it's not giving us any perspective whatsoever. Fox News is fair and balanced. Fox News is not much better. But I don't think Fox News takes government money. Maybe they do. Who knows? Fox News, well, not that I know of either. Yes, you might be right. Okay, onward.

Now, a couple more things, Fun Food Aid. The spending package makes it harder for states to waive these work requirements. Conservatives have long argued that it's just too easy. You've got entire states where they're waived. The Senate bill says you could only get a waiver if you live in a place with an unemployment rate above 10%, so quite high. And finally, for the first time, the federal government would not pay for all food aid. Most states would have to chip in. There's tied to how much states have over or underpaid for SNAP researchers say these error rates are mostly unintentional but it would mean

that most states would now have to pick up between five and fifteen percent of food aid costs. The left-le leaning center on budget and policy priorities says this undermines the whole guarantee that people in need should get food aid no matter where they live. And she says if states faced a budget crunch, they might shrink their snap program or even opt out altogether. So this is really a proposal that fundamentally changes the structure of snap jeopardizes food assistance for millions of low-income families. This is the same as, you won't have access to vaccines. It's exactly the same thing. And saying healthcare is like healthcare insurance, it's payment for healthcare,

you can get healthcare. You can go into any emergency room, you will not be turned away, unfortunately. This is a very contentious point. You mean unfortunately you want people dropping dead the streets? Well if you know I speak to firefighters all the time and they are obligated on it at a 911 call to go and help these people regard it's by law regardless of what it is and it's like well'm, you know, I need an aspirin. And, you know, it's literally, could you go to the, could you grab my cigarettes from the table there? I'm too obese to get up.

And if it is anything beyond what they have in their kit, I don't even think they can give them an aspirin. They have to take them to the emergency room. That is enshrined in state law everywhere. That's the problem. That's the problem. That is enshrined in state law everywhere. That's the problem. That is one of many problems. Firefighters know this and while doing their job they get shot at and killed. So this is this is dandy. And could end SNAP as a nationwide program. Jennifer, I want to ask you about

something that got quite a bit of attention for reducing poverty temporarily during the coronavirus pandemic which is the federal child tax credit. Any big changes there? Jennifer Cooke Yes, though not as big as some were calling for during the 2024 election, including now Vice President J.D. Vance. The Senate bill does boost the tax credit from $2,000 per child to $2,200 and that would rise with inflation. But unlike during the pandemic, lawmakers did not expand this to include the lowest

income families and currently they don't qualify for that full credit because they just don't earn enough. And also, SNAP had a huge industry lobby against proposed changes. I have not seen, if I saw it, it didn't stick with me. The carbonated drinks, fizzy drinks, the Coca-Cola's of the world put together a huge lobby against taking soft drinks off of SNAP, which is kind of a logical thing that now you shouldn't be able to buy this with your supplemental nutrition payments. Yeah, you shouldn't be buying cola.

And in fact, I don't think we talked about it much, if at all, but they had a huge influencer campaign, which included a lot of conservative podcasters and influencers who all took money to say, oh, no, no, you shouldn't do this. You know, really we need to have this on Snap. I'm paraphrasing. Yeah, oh yeah, it was a huge thing. And then a couple got outed and then all these other conservative, right leaning influencers and podcasts went,

oh, I'm really sorry I took that money. I shouldn't have done that. Then it was thousands of dollars in some cases Oh, yeah, then this is this is this is the dirty side of politics. That's a scandal what you just said. Yeah well podcasters selling out What gambling All right

slam 3 Yeah, Sophie Collier is with the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. She says for her, this really reflects the overall tilt of this tax and spending package in favor of the wealthy. Even this small provision that is meant to help families is not reaching the children and families where it could do the most good. Where that $200 actually could be more meaningful.

Jennifer, I'll let you have the last word here. Anything else we should note? Yes. Another key change to the child tax credit, at least one parent now would need a social security number. And Collier says by one estimate that could disqualify 2.6 million children who are US citizens or lawful permanent residents. And I should just add there are provisions in the package that would also cut federal

health care and food benefits for some immigrants with legal status. All right. So that's really what it comes down to. Most of this is blue states. I'll just run through it quickly. So yes, adults aged 19 to 64 enrolled in Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act expansion, which was the expansion to states. You have to work, volunteer or attend school for at least 80 hours if you're eligible.

And exemptions are pregnant women, caregivers of children under 14, etc. Here's a big one. The states will have to verify compliance every 30 days. Well, we can't have that. Then we have the CBO estimate savings, which you can take or leave, increased eligibility, redetermination. So that's the verifying ACA expansion enrollees. See, the states got all this extra money to expand Medicare and they gave it Medicaid and they gave it mostly

to illegal immigrants. And that's what this is cutting out. And so now the states will have to impose a co payment of $35. Okay, so I'm not saying I'm not downplaying $35 as being a lot or not, but it's hardly you're dead. And then the bill limits states ability to impose taxes on health care providers. I'm not quite sure whose side that comes from or what that's about. I'm not sure that's probably just a screw Democrat states, no doubt.

Then there's new requirements to include monthly verification to ensure providers aren't excluded from other state Medicaid programs because there's a lot of double dipping going on. And then there's the specific restrictions, gender affirming care, planned parenthood, et cetera. So that's really what is in there about Medicaid. And if you, well, to be fair and to be fair and balanced, let's get the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez version of this big big beautiful bill. President Trump, you're either being lied to or you are lying to the American people.

Because this bill represents in the text of this bill the largest and greatest loss of health care in American history. 17 million Americans will lose their health care. This is great. I mean it's always been 11, I've heard 12, but AOC has 17 now. Yeah it started actually around five. Somebody documented jacking up every time somebody, next guy talks they top the last one. This is great. And she was swinging her hips and she was getting mad. Seventeen million Americans will lose their health care on this bill, not undocumented people,

not quote unquote the disgusting term illegal, but 17 million. Disgusting term illegal. Why is that disgusting? Why is that disgusting? Because no person can be illegal. Oh, that's right. No, no, no human. No human is illegal. No human can be illegal. And quote the disgusting term illegal,

but 17 million Americans will have their health care Americans from this bill on this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam. That's pretty telling if that's true. If she is the only person in this body who lived on tips. Let's face reality, that's probably not true, but, but I like to know how the Democrats, when they turned

on a dime on this, have suddenly forgotten that Kamala made a big stink about yes, no tax on tips. She introduced it to her platform. The Democrats accepted as a platform item, but now they're pushing it back on it? So you're telling me they were insincere earlier? I think so. By the way, the bill just passed the House. Only people in this body who have lived off of tips. But I guess the reason we're doing this is so that people understand because this doesn't come into effect until December of 2026.

And that's for a reason. This is all going to be midterm jockeying for position. It's fodder. It's total fodder. As one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam of that text, a little bit of the fine print there. The cap on that is $25,000. That's true.

That is the cap on taxing your tips up to $25,000. That's true. That is the cap on taxing your tips up to $25,000. She has that number correct. While you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the United States. That I don't see. I don't see where people making less than $50,000 will be paying more in taxes. I have not seen that. That's the first I've heard of that. The first I've heard of it. While taking away their SNAP, while taking away their Medicaid, while kicking them off of the ACA and their health care extensions.

No. So if you're at home and you're living off tips, you do the math. Hold on. Get your calculator. I got to do the math. Exactly. You're not allowed to do your own math and research. Worth it to you? Losing all your health care? Not able to feed your babies? Not being able to put a diaper on their bottom?

It specifically says if you have babies or one on the way, you're not going to get kicked off of anything. So that's just not true. There's a lie. It's a lie. Losing all your health care, not able to feed your babies, not being able to put a diaper on their bottom in exchange for what? This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt, militarizes our entire economy and it strips away. By the way, okay, first let me just back up because I've read most of this, not all, but I've read most of it. The important parts I think I've got. So let's see this.

Explodes our national debt. It actually, it reduces our national debt and I think I can show that over 10 years. And of course, there's a big piece of it where we're gonna we're gonna grow faster than the debt. Okay sure okay with with President Trump maybe maybe I don't know. It militarizes our entire economy. Yes that is correct it will militarize our entire economy and that is what every economy in the world is doing right now because the green new deal. The entire economy saw so when I go to the Monterey foods to buy mushrooms. That's you're militarizing. I'm militarizing the mushroom grower? What are you talking about? No there's a lot of money for military industrial complex. No she said entire economy.

I know but there's 30 million people minimum in this in this deal now so she's exaggerating but there is truth to it the whole world is me that's our new industrial base yeah what they do she and that's this is new no well no economy and it strips away healthcare and basic dignity of the American people for what? No, it doesn't strip away. To give Elon Musk a tax break. What? Elon Musk hates the bill.

Elon Musk says it's a $5 trillion spending bill. He's gone all the way. It was $2 trillion, $3 trillion. Now Elon Musk is $5 trillion. Do the math at home, people. My calculator doesn't go to trillion. So she's basically not keeping tabs on the political situation as Elon Musk turns. No, big mistake. This is a big mistake.

She should have said even Elon Musk is embarrassed. That's what she should have said. She should have gone with that. Yeah. Or mention some other evil person that, you know, gets, getting the tax break, the Trump family or anything. Anything. But Elon Musk. Yeah.

Fox News, the Murdochs, anything. Yeah, the Murdochs. The Murdochs. Oops, I'm sorry. They're our side. Oh, I don't know. Basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation.

We cannot stand for it and we will not support it. You should be ashamed. Ashamed. Ashamed. All right, so I'm going to play these quick clips here. This is the New York representative, Mike Lawler. I didn't even know New York had a Republican representing them, but they do apparently. And he goes on NPR and he says, you know, CBO is wrong.

Over the next decade, we're projected to spend $86 trillion as a country, federal government. And we're talking about $ 1.6 trillion in savings over the course of the 10 years. That amounts to about 1.8% of overall spending. So, you know, as we start to bend the curve with $2 trillion deficit. I love that. You know, everybody.

Bending it like Beckham. We're not reducing the deficit. We're bending the curve, you see. Bending the curve. So he's trying to, this is like a kind of a takeover on flattening the curve. Flatten the curve, yes. So now they're going to bend the curve. Bend the curve.

...percent of overall spending. So as we start to bend the curve with $2 trillion deficits, everybody, Republicans and Democrats need to get serious about tackling our debt. Let me just jump in here. The Congressional Budget Office found that this spending bill would add roughly $3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. So, to your mind, are you concerned about growing the nation's debt? It sounds like you are. What should be done? So CBO has consistently been wrong in its pronouncements, including seven years ago

when they undercut revenue by a trillion dollars on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which we now know has produced the largest revenue that the federal government has ever seen. The question is how do we start to right- size our spending where we're running $2 trillion deficits. What you're seeing is over 10 years, a reduction in spending by $1.6 trillion, you're going to see economic growth, 2%, 3%, 4%. By the way, 2%, 3%, 4% is, there's a 100% difference in those numbers. So 2% to 4% is a big difference, but okay. For the life of the bill, which is going to be critical, grow our economy and start to move things in the right direction, reducing our deficits and reining in our debt. This is, this is a big challenge and something that's going to require both parties just to really

focus on in the coming decade. Chomping at the bit here, chomp. Okay, but what about all the people who are going to die? I want to just jump in here because earlier you mentioned some of the concerns that you've been discussing, including those around healthcare and Medicaid. Wow, did she talk? Hold on, back it off. She's very animated. She is a fast talker. Yes, this is Juana Summers. Juana Summers. Bring back, you know, Scott Simon's being inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Did you know that?

For what? For his diction. I don't know. I don't know. Let's go back. Where were we? I want to just jump in here because earlier you mentioned some of the concerns that you've been discussing, including those around healthcare and Medicaid.

And there are estimates according to CBO that you're- Maybe they're all doing Coke at NPR these days. I don't know. This is possible. ...12 million people will lose healthcare coverage, including Medicaid coverage. Fifteen! If this bill becomes law, Congressman Lawler, given that roughly a quarter of the people in your district in New York, some 200,000 people are on Medicaid, that's according

to KFF. Are you concerned about what the cuts enshrined in this legislation would mean to the people who live in your district? Please. Again, let's actually focus what's in the bill and not what is the Democrat talking point. The fact is that you have eligibility verification, making sure that people who are not supposed to be collecting Medicaid benefits are no longer receiving

those benefits that they're not entitled to. Second is citizenship verification to make sure that illegal immigrants are not collecting Medicaid benefits. Right now, you have 1.4 million illegal immigrants collecting Medicaid benefits. That is wrong fundamentally. And third is work requirements. You have nearly 4 million people who are able-bodied adults without dependent children who are refusing to work. They should be trying to get a job, to get employment, to go to school or to volunteer

upwards of 80 hours a month. That's about 20 hours a work week to help get into the workforce, participate in the workforce, and ultimately help themselves, I'd say, maybe be able to get an employer-based healthcare plan long-term. Yeah, good luck. Or be able to purchase on the open market. But the objective here is to sustain this program for the long term for those who need it and those who are eligible for it. And you have seen, and this is important, even with these changes,

Medicaid spending is going to go up 24% over the next decade. 24%. So when we're talking about how to strengthen the system, this is not about gutting the system. This is about protecting it for those who need it. But it's not about that. It's all about the midterms. Would you like to hear a few other things that are in this big, beautiful bill that just passed? Just a quick little rundown as we have done so often on the No Agenda Show, which your NPR local station will not do. What? I'm saying, yes.

Ships, big beautiful ships. Ships. Yeah, right off the top, baby. $250 million for ships. That's nothing. Ships. Well, this is going to be tiny ships, but they'll be beautiful ships. They got to be pretty tiny because that did some of those new class ships.

But wait, there's $450 million for additive manufacturing for wire production and machining capacity for shipbuilding industrial base. $492 million for next generation shipbuilding techniques. 85 million techniques. I got a technique for you. Wow. That's a scam. 500 million for the adoption of advanced manufacturing

techniques in the shipbuilding industry. There's a lot of money for it. So basically, oh, there's another, oh, this is good. 4.6 billion for second Virginia class submarines in 2026. One year is a lot for us. There you go. 5.4 billion for additional guided missile destroyer ships. Then we have a billion dollars for the border

for deployment of military personnel. And we have 1.142 and a5 billion for the Coast Guard side. Can I ask a question? Yes. Trump shut the border down. There's nobody coming over. Well, we're still going to spend $46.5 billion for the wall, but don't worry, Mexico's paying for that one.

So we can just put that aside. So wait, nobody's coming over as we speak. Yeah. I'm just So why are we spending any more money than we then we're currently spending because it seems to be working just fine the way it is with the expenditures that are currently being used to stop the people from coming over because they're not coming over. It also sounds like a jobs program because it's a job installation, access roads, barrier system, etc.

Here's my favorite. Gee, what are the chances that you'd have... And by the way, since my point that I just made, why don't the Democrats make that point? Because the only thing they have is you're going to die. I think is... I don't think that's the reason. Because the only thing they have is you're going to die. I think is, I don't think that's the reason. Because to make that point, they have to admit that Biden could have done the same thing. Yeah.

Well, there's a good, there is your good point. Guess what's in here? What did we hear for the past two months? Oh, oh no, Newark airport. Oh no, oh no. Newark Airport. Oh no, oh no. Fiber optics. Yeah. I see $4.7 billion for telecommunications infrastructure. Three billion, three billion. I'm sorry. Yes. Three billion

for radar systems. 500 million for runway safety technologies. Whatever that is. It's a guy with an orange vest. No, a guy with a horn telling the birds to get off the runway. 1.9 billion for necessary actions to construct a new air routes traffic control center. Woo.

So now you see how it works. That is the sausage being made, create a big fuss about something that all of our air traffic controllers say, it's been that way forever. We work around it nine times a day. But okay, I'm sure everybody's happy. I'm not against it, obviously, but the SIOP was mean. Gas and oil leases. So we got a lot of like the Gulf of America.

Gulf of America leases for oil. Coal mining. Access to coal reserves in adjacent state or private land without authorization could not be mined economically. Federal coal reserves located in federal land subject to a mining plan previously approved. Timber on public domain forest reserves will be sold off. There's an amount here, 250 million board feet. Ooh.

Renewable energy, this is fun. 100% fees for solar energy generation facility and 10% for wind generation. So if you are selling your land or leasing your land for solar panels, you will have a fee of 100% of something. We're going to up the petroleum reserve. The American Science Cloud. This is my favorite. Transformational artificialificial Intelligence Models. Yeah baby.

The cloud means a system of United States government, academic and private sector programs and infrastructure utilizing cloud computing technologies to facilitate and support scientific research. Dad, I thought we were cutting off all research. Well no. Turns out the American science cloud will be a thing. Then we do have a lot of things for... That sounds like a boondoggle. Well, that's for all the tech bros. That's what they got. Everyone gets something in this. Not us.

What about the podcasting provisions? I haven't seen it. Committee on Environment and Public Work. So, rescission of funding for clean heavy-duty vehicles. Goodbye. Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Goodbye. Recission of funding for diesel emissions reductions. Goodbye. Recission of funding to address air pollution. Recission of funding to address air pollution at schools. Recission of funding to address air pollution. Recission of funding to address air pollution at schools. Recission of funding to address air pollution at schools. What? Yeah.

What air pollution at schools? Suck it up kids. There's air pollution everywhere. You might die. Recission of funding for the low emissions electricity program. Oops. Recission of funding for section 211 of the clean air. It just goes on and on and on. So this is all Recission of funding for section 211 of the clean air. It just goes on and on and on. So this is all Taking away the Green New Deal. Then we have the child tax credit, which will be tied to a Social Security number This is so now for every kid you get a Tax credit not get tied to a Social Security number I'm gonna ask you right now when we have a Democrat president in Congress, then it's just it's a free-for-all. I'm gonna ask you right now. When we have a Democrat president in Congress, then it's just, it's a free for all, I guess.

So that goes to- A tax credit is a credit on your income taxes, am I not mistaken? Yeah, but you know- And don't you have to have a Social Security number to even file? No, that's not true. As a illegal immigrant, you get a tax ID number which is not a

social security number. Okay, okay, it's good point. You got it. So this is tied specifically to SSN and it's going to be $2,200 per child. Let me see. Oh, here you go John. Good news. Extension and enhancement of increased estate and gift tax exemption amounts. This is what the billionaires get. So you can now leave, you were allowed to leave $5 million to your heirs, but you of course need the higher amount of $15 million. So that's good. That really affects me.

Here kid, there's a watch. Good luck with it. There's a watch. I got with it. I got a watch. Yeah, at least you're under the number. No tax on tips for any taxable year, so not exceed $25,000. Low ceiling for no tax on overtime, that will be, so not exceed $12, thousand. Then we have the Trump accounts. Hold on a second. There's another thing I'm going to complain about. They were saying that there's going to be no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security. Yeah, no, that's just not true.

They've screwed the oldsters on the Social Security thing. What happened to that? What happened to that? I think I actually get to that down a little bit further. It's not not too much further what I have. The Trump accounts, that I think is the baby bonus. And I don't even see an amount here. Oh, it's... Baby bonus. Doesn't say. Oh, I like this one.

Space ports and airports. Space ports will be treated like airports under exempt facility bond rules. I'm not sure what that means. Space ports? Well, these guys are getting pretty aggressive with saying things. I think that is actually a Bezos and Musk benefit, I think, but I'm not sure. Oh yeah, when they put their spaceports up, we'll be... Yes.

So here's one that got in there that for some reason no one's talking about. Excise tax based on investment income of private colleges and universities. Hey now! Tax imposed. Hereby impose the tax on each applicable educational institution, Harvard, Columbia, etc. For the taxable year, a tax equal to the applicable percentage of the net investment income of such institution. 1.4% in the case of an institution with a student adjusted endowment of at least half a million, not an excess of 750,000. 4% in the case of an institution

with a student adjusted endowment in excess of 750, not to exceed 2 million. And 8% in case of the institution with a student adjusted endowment in excess of 2 million. That's the big boys. That sounds like all the big boys all of a sudden went from no tax to 8%. I can't imagine why they're mad at Trump. Well, again, I think your original point, which is why hasn't anyone said anything about this?

Because they can bitch and moan. Because they're in the fund. I think it has to do with whining about their situation. It sounds like they're, you know, it's like NPR whining about losing their 1%. It draws attention to the problem. Ah, that's a good point. Vetting of sponsors, this is good. So if we're going, the Office of Refugee Resettlement,

so if you're gonna have- Oh, this is interesting. You're gonna have kids, a very long, I'm not gonna read all of it, but they will have to vet the sponsors for unaccompanied alien children. Yes. In other words, they've... Ending that is what it's doing. We're ending that nonsense. You're ending the vetting?

No, we're ending the not... People weren't vetted. Yeah. No, they were just giving them to pimps. Yeah. So we're ending that nonsense. Now these people will be the coyotes. Then we have asylum fee. Here we go. In addition to any other fee authorized by law, if you want to request and file for asylum, you will pay $100. That doesn't make sense.

Nickel and diming them to death. And if you want to be paroled into the US, that will cost you $1,000. So, but setting a bar. And you can get citizenship for five million if you buy one of those gold cards. Yeah. I wonder if that's in there.

I haven't seen it yet. And then there's extension of radioactive leukemia related to atmospheric atom bomb tests. So we're going to pay people some money for that, as well as people who were harmed from uranium mining. And those are the things that we just have off the bat with some help from one of our producers, I will add. He categorized it as one of our producers, I will add. He categorized it as the one. No, I appreciate that, but it seems to me that

the leukemia from atmospheric testing would have been already resolved by now. Well, apparently not. I know, no offense, but I think you'd be dead. Well. Because that was in the 50s. Yeah, well apparently not. So, anyway, so there's a lot of things in here and you're right, none of this was discussed. It's all about you're going to die. And we have family members who

believe this, who believe that Trump himself is taking away their Medicaid. And one of these family members absolutely cannot work, cannot volunteer, is not know, so it's like no you'll be okay You'll be okay So but that we're gonna be this is gonna be thrown we're gonna be thrown to death with this stuff But the Republic they should bring back the granny over the cliff bit. I thought that was fun Well, you know, they're not creative anymore. No, they're not so I Well, you know, they're not creative anymore. No, they're not. So, uh, I think that's it. I think we're done with that, uh, with that topic. So it passed.

Now everyone's going to be out there. Yeah, just passed now. Yeah. Yeah. So, I was wondering because I know they had a bunch of guys in the fence and Trump, I guess, had to promise a bunch of executive orders to very specific Congress people that he would do this and that for them if they just get this out of the way. And so they got it out of the way. Okay, good. It's about time.

Now they can talk about something else. They've been incessantly discussing this on public radio for one thing, and it makes it very difficult to find clips on other interesting things. Like the fact, and I don't have a clip, that Jaguar lost 95% of its sales after it ran those stupid ads with the transgender androgynous people. It's funny because that meme came back around and I thought everyone already saw the ad. It was like, did they report numbers? Is that why they're all saying that? Yeah, they reported numbers. They only sold 26 cars in Europe in April.

Ha ha ha ha. It's also a crap car. It's a Ford. And the advertising agency's saying, I don't get it. Ha ha ha. It makes no sense. It was a great ad Yeah, so

I'll let you go for a bit and links. I have other stuff to die. You want me to go for let's go for a bit With my thesis about yes The New Yorker and I'll summarize your thesis from the newsletter if you you're not subscribed to the newsletter, you are missing out on some good quality content and memes. Oh, a lot of memes. And the thesis that you drew up on the previous No Agenda episode was that this is the populist, the Democrat version of a populist candidate saying all the things that the Democrats want to hear.

And of course, the more outrageous the things are, this is the Trump model, the more outrageous those things are, the more, I mean, no one even could pronounce, let alone spell his name until all the outrageousness and the coverage on all sides of the political news spectrum. Mondani. Mondani. Mondani. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. indirectly is Putin's playbook and Hitler's playbook. So, I'm just saying. Well, there's a lot of playbooks involved. A lot of playbooks, yeah.

But I'm talking about the publicity playbook where you get a lot of free publicity for being outrageous and saying crazy things and getting the other side worked up. Yes. And this is the problem that we've had. We had these guys getting all worked up. And I want to play the thing that triggered this week's work up, which was the last meet the presses where he, she asked him three times and I have all three clips to rebuke the comment, the about worldwide into Fata and he beats around the book and he got nut.

Fox has played these clips. Oh, of course over and like every show over. It's like idiots. Like the idiots they are at Fox. And here we go. I'm going to play these. This is mom down. He in infatotic clips with our buddy, Kristen Welker man hands Welker and she's's gonna try to get him to say things. Oh, hold on. Do I have the...yes, hold on a second.

This is Intifada 1. Yeah, I got it. You were recently asked about the term globalize the Intifada if it makes you uncomfortable. In that moment, you did not condemn the phrase. Now, just so folks understand, it's a phrase that many people hear as a call to violence against Jews. There's been a lot of attention on this issue. So I want to give you an opportunity to respond here and now. Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the Intifada? That's not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will

continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights. And ultimately, that's what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that have meaning have to be applied to all people. And that includes Israelis and Palestinians as well. Well, that's not that bad of an answer. But he didn't condemn it. So she's now on it and thinking, well, wait a minute, he didn't answer my question.

So I'm going to be a hot shot journalist and ask him again. Yeah. But do you actually condemn it? I think that's the question and the outstanding issue that a number of people, both of the Jewish faith and beyond have. Do you condemn that phase, globalize the Intifada, which a lot of people here is a call to violence against Jews? I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers

who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado. Did he say, Colder, Ballerato? That's kind of cool. He wanted to say, Colder, Ballerato. Ballerato. Ballerato.

In Washington, D.Cer, in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti-Semitism in our country and in our city. And I've heard those fears and I've had those conversations and ultimately they are part and parcel of why in my campaign I've put forward a commitment to increase funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800%. I don't believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech. Oh, you know, I can see he's tricky. He's a, he's a, he's good.

I think he's really good. Yeah. And here he goes. Okay. Now she's the journalist who asked the same question twice. He got no answer from me. He's beaten her. Let's do it again.

Let's do it again. Let's try number three. Quickly for the people who care about the language and who feel really concerned by that phrase, why not just condemn it? My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them

in jail for protesting. Ultimately, it's the language that I use. It's language I understand there are concerns about. And what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions. Hold on. Surely the next question was, what journalist was put in jail for writing an op-ed? Yeah, no, no. Do you know? Do you know by any chance? No, there's none. No, none have had, none have.

By the way. None have been put in jail. They did lose their case. CBS bailed out and gave Trump 16 million. It could go up to 30. I have that clip if you want to hear it. Yeah, let's play that before we get to finish this off. CBS's parent company Paramount Global will shell out $16 million to President Trump to settle a lawsuit waged over a 60 minutes interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris that aired weeks before the presidential election.

Trump claims it gave Harris an unfair advantage. with then Vice President Kamala Harris that aired weeks before the presidential election. Trump claims it gave Harris an unfair advantage. Kamala was unable to answer a question properly and they took the question that they asked and they inserted an answer. In his lawsuit, Trump accused the network of misleading voters with, quote, deceitful editing of Harris's answer to a question on whether the US has any sway over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It seems that- As reflected by the raw interview posted by 60 Minutes- Well, Bill-

The program Face the Nation used a longer portion at the beginning of Harris's response, while 60 Minutes used a shorter portion- We're not gonna stop. That came at the end of that same response to accommodate time restraints. CBS said Trump's claims were false and the interview was not doctored. Paramount Settlement does not include an apology or any regret. The settlement money will go toward Trump's future presidential library, not the president himself. Sorry, not sorry.

You know, the thing I just realized, I don't even remember what the question was about. It was something about whether Israel controls US policy. Was that the question? I don't remember either. I have to go back now. I have to go back and listen to that. I have, since we just played that, I might as well play the CBS caves to Trump. This is the NPR version of what you just played.

Press rights groups are denouncing the parent company of CBS for agreeing to pay President Trump's future library $16 million. NPR's David Falkenflick reports Trump had sued CBS over the way, 60 Minutes edited an interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump's lawyers said the segment constituted electoral interference. Outside legal observers say his case had no merit, that the First Amendment covers such editorial choices. His legal team says Trump has held the fake news media accountable for their wrongdoing

and deceit. Paramount needs approval from Trump's regulators to sell the company in an $8 billion deal. The lawsuit is hardly a one and done for the president. The agreement appears modeled on a past settlement from the Walt Disney Company, the corporate parent of ABC News, over anchor George Stephanopoulos' imprecise statements about legal findings against Trump. Trump is still suing the Des Moines Register over a poll last year, and he recently threatened the New York Times and CNN with prosecution for their reporting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a little torn. He'll come for the podcasters next, people. Well, the ones who are getting paid off by Coca-Cola. Yeah, they should. So we go back to Mamdani. So he does these, he refuses to answer that question, which I believe he will eventually say, no, I always meant that. Because he's going to pull a Trump in every way he can. And I think he's going to win the election the way they've got it set up with the ranked

voting, which is just a disaster. Can I just ask you one question going back to CBS? I mean, first amendment clearly, I mean, I know this was a civil suit, but the first amendment clearly states that, you know, you cannot create any law against the press, whatever, if they want to write your, I mean, there's slander, there's things that, that have their different provisions. But there was, I mean, the only reason for this is they want the Paramount merger to go through. Correct?

I think that's one of the reasons they settled, but I think they also had a weak case. This wasn't about free speech. This was about election law violation. Okay. All right. Yeah. The, the equal, the equal time equals something rule. No, not equal time. It's just the fairness. The fairness doctrine. You can't meddle in an election in some unfair way that is the way CBS did. What CBS did was illegal the way I see it, but I could be wrong. I'm not a lawyer, but let's get back to mom, Donnie. So he's okay. So he makes these comments and he gets all, he gets everybody bent out of shape. So I'm trying to find and, and, and it's, I'm watching outnumbered in this, these three.

Goodness. Do you have too much time? What happened to sumo wrestling? It's only every other month. And so there's a new tournament coming up this month. Oh, luckily. So, uh. Can't have you watching outnumbered. There's good stuff on outnumbered because it's very well, it's highly structured. They had Marie Harf on, your buddy. Oh, Marie Harf.

So Marie Harf is on. She always plays the devil's advocate. She's a Democrat. She's a Democrat of the bunch. Yeah, she's a Democrat spokes hole. Yeah. Yeah, she will. X, X, yes. And so she comes on as the foil. They always try to bring somebody on with a perspective.

Fox does this better. CNN does it with the one guy with whatever his name is. Well, Brooks and Capehart. Yeah, right. PBS doesn't do it at all, obviously. No. So they had Marie Harf on it. And so I finally found an example of that.

Now, I'm just switching my thought process, a dimensionality to flip it from Trump to Mom Donnie. And the way people were reacting to Trump when he first showed up with the Trump derangement syndrome, we have mom Donnie derangement syndrome and you have the Trump supporters in the early days that were defending him against all this crazy stuff they were throwing at him. And that's what Marie Harf does. She is on board with mom Donnie.

She understands it. She knows the playbook. She, but she doesn't understand it to the extent that I do. Oh, she's not seeing it as, as using Trump's playbook at all. She's, she's actually seeing it as a true believer and she's buying, uh, it, this is just classic. This is classic to listen to her. So here she is.

She, uh, they ask her about about they're all blasting this guy They're out of control though. And you'll hear some pieces of that in here the everybody on the show is oh This is the worst thing that could ever happen. John you is on there going. Oh my god And you know, Emily is nuts over this guy. Oh, Jesus the end of the world It's all the same thing that was going on with Trump. Yeah. And so we have Marie Harf, who's the voice of reason, but not, it's not going to work. Here we go. Yeah. Here's why I think this is an interesting look into his campaign. He was unknown as of six months or a year ago, right? He is a new candidate who has tapped into energy and concerns about cost of living, things that you mentioned. He has repeatedly said he abhors anti-Semitism. Increasing anti-hate crime funding by 800%, that's

real. That will help in New York. And don't take my word for it, prominent Jewish New Yorkers, Jerry Nadler, Brad Lander, they have said they've endorsed him. You're talking politicians who want their party to be an office- But they're Jewish, but Harris- Anything that they believe in. That's not true. Are you questioning Jerry Nadler or Brad Lander's 100%? A hundred percent.

Wow. I wouldn't question anyone's commitment to their faith. The same way that I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interest of his own people at times for the politics. And that's what they're doing here. What I'm saying here, prominent Jewish New Yorkers have said they have met with him, they believe that he abhors anti-Semitism and will help New York do better. Then why not condemn a globalized antifada? I think that he should be more sensitive to the context in which many people hear that

language, and I think he should condemn it. But I think that painting him with a brush that because he won't, because he's wordsmithing, because he doesn't want to censor, that everything else he said about condemning anti-Semitism. I think we should just coin it. MDS, MDS right now. Mamdani Derangement Syndrome. That's great. MDS.

I don't understand why everybody's not spotting this as an analog of Trump. Well they have to get up early for this show. You and I, we just lounge around, we get up around 8.30, you know. I'm talking about in general. This is all day on Fox. I just happened to catch Harf, I thought this was, because she represents a certain, she represents the party pretty much. I mean, here she is. Now she's going to get into it with the some other people.

I think this is Emily starting off and then they get a little argument going. A Jewish leader saying he is good for their community. Not everybody. No, but a lot. I think that matters too. And I don't think he's an anti-Semite. I don't see three people being a lot, but we can get back into it another time. Well, the number of Jewish New Yorkers who voted for him in the primary was not small. Maybe one in five, two in five Jewish New Yorkers, we're still getting data here. That's not a small number of Jews.

I don't think you should discount their feelings on this either. I'm not discounting their feelings. They're voters. They can vote in their interest or not. I would say this. If they're really concerned, Emily, about affordability in the city, why did they live for the last four years with no protest against all the illegal aliens that came in and soaked up more than a billion dollars each year, plus while Biden was in office, while they had Democrats in majority here?

What a great question. Look, I'll just be candid I find this person frightening. You know, it's interesting because here in Fredericksburg The conversation is ongoing. They have MDS here and like New York is lost This is crazy one of our biggest biggest, most beautiful cities. Hey, you live in Texas. Beautiful city? Are you kidding me? You live in Texas. Who cares? Why do you care? Did you plan a vacation to Broadway?

No. The MDS is working. It's working. It's working. It's working great. So here is the last clip where they try, where she, she tries to get some more information out there. She's trying to defend. This is again, if we reverse this and go back to the Trump time where you had the pro Trumpers trying to convince people, yeah, he's harsh. Yeah,

he does cuss a lot, but he's harsh. His language is harsh, but, but, but, but, but, and so we have this same thing right now with this guy here we go. The people that Mondami is preaching to are ultra-rich in the city. Some of them have even said they may leave. Now I don't know how you square that you're gonna vote for the guy and then you might think about taking your square of of moneyness someplace else. I don't know how that works out. My square of money?

Moneyness. Oh My square of money? Money-ness. My square of money-ness? Yeah, I don't know. She was like, look. I've never heard this. Well, it's because she just came off the top of her head. She's trying to slam the guy and she's... Railing against him. She's railing.

That was a fail. You're going to vote for the guy and then you might think about taking your square of money to someplace else. I don't know how that works out, but you're talking about affordability and you bring it up, Emily. How can you have that conversation but the people who would benefit from more affordability didn't vote for you? What do they see about you that they don't like?

What about all the anti-Muslim hate that has been spewed at him? We should also condemn that. The horrible thing. Let me step in on that. Did you see the video from over the weekend? Those are people who had gone to support him at this rally. And he said something akin to what I said to you. No Jewish state, but Israel can stay with different people in it or a wider spectrum. And they thought that that didn't go far enough. Look at the video. It's fascinating. All right, we're going to move. All right, we're going to move.

It's fascinating. Man, you get extra bonus points for watching that crap. That's crap. I actually like the show. I can't stand it. You don't like anything. I like lots of things. I'm a very positive person when it comes to other things.

But the point is made, I'm making that this is the point I'm going to make. I'm sticking with it. I see no evidence to the contrary that this is all not just a complete populist. And the thing is this is a worldwide populist movement and he's showing the Democrats how to do it and they should be paying attention to and it he's showing the Democrats how to do it. Yes. And they should be paying attention to it because he's doing it the right way. Uh, he is and he'll come out of it.

Fine. He'll probably will get the mayor ship and nothing really will change much. It won't be worse than de Blasio. No, no, uh, I think you're absolutely right. And, and he is doing it. He's doing just like Trump. He's using wordsmithing, you know, he's very fine people. It's all his own version of it.

I have to admit, you've nailed it on this. No, I want to admit, I'm happy to admit. That's why there's two of us. This is good. This is very good. Here's a little's two of us. This is good. It's very good. Here's a little gambit playing out. The timing is remarkable. This is ABC. And you set back for Ukraine. The US is causing some weapon shipments. My crane, Ukraine, his crane, her crane, Ukraine.

And you set back for Ukraine. The US is pausing some weapon shipments to the country after a Pentagon review reportedly found certain US stockpiles were too low. Officials are not saying what weapons are being held back but the Pentagon insists this is not affecting the readiness of the US military. Ukraine has been struggling to fend off some of the biggest Russian attacks of the war and peace talks have ground to a halt. So that's ABC. Remarkably, Franz Van Katra does have the list of low stockpiles and has something different to say. And what looks to be a severe blow to Ukraine's war effort, Washington says it will pause arms deliveries to Kiev. NBC and the New York Times report that

Defense Secretary Pete Haggson made the decision because of concerns about the U.S. military The US military stockpiled. Hegseth ordered a review of the army's munitions inventory, which has been depleted after three years of supplying weapons to Ukraine and carrying out military operations in the Middle East. Among the weapons likely to be delayed are Patriot interceptors, 155mm Howitzer munitions, Hellfire missiles, GMLRS missile systems and Stinger surface-to-air missiles. Just this week, Ukraine's Foreign Minister said Kiev had been asking Washington for more deliveries.

A halt in deliveries would hamper Ukraine's abilities to defend its cities from Russian drone and missile attacks and also impede its own precision strikes against Russian targets. Sources say the deliveries being paused were scheduled for several months from now, but there are fears in Kiev the suspension will be assigned to Moscow that Ukraine's support from the West is compromised. So this is hilarious because this comes right on the heels of the 5% NATO increase. Okay, 3.5%. Oh, interesting. Well, I have, by the way, before you go on, I have the NTD version of the 5% NATO increase. Okay, three and a half percent. Interesting. Well, I have, by the way, before you go on,

I have the NTD version of the same report. But there's a payoff. I have the payoff. Well, I want to hear you. The payoff should go last. Okay, I want to hear. Where's your... I got your NTD right here.

Here we go. The US confirms that it is pausing some weapons shipments to Ukraine, but officials stopped short of confirming reports saying that air defense missiles are mostly affected by the halt. The Pentagon on Wednesday confirmed that the US is currently pausing some weapon shipments to Ukraine. A senior Ukrainian lawmaker previously called Washington's decision, quote, painful for Kyiv's efforts to defend against Russian airstrikes. The attacks have intensified in recent weeks.

The Pentagon was asked whether this review would embolden Russia. The spokesman replied that the capability review aims to make sure America is strong, which benefits the entire globe. Our job here at the Department of Defense is to pursue the president's America First agenda and make sure that we achieve peace through strength throughout the world. The State Department on Wednesday echoing that sentiment. A spokesperson says that despite the review, the US will continue supporting Ukraine. Our commitment hasn't changed.

The nature of how we're able to make that commitment is going to be based on what is best for America first. Russia also commented on the latest developments. A spokesperson says pausing shipments would bring a quicker end to the conflict. No, well, none of that is true. By the way, I want that past star guy to get on the Radio Hall of Fame. This of course is a money gambit. Well done. Merica first. Yes, because on the very same day this is announced, Queen Ursula is in Denmark telling everybody,

we'll protect Greenland, don't worry about it. And here's what she said. For us, it's a clear signal or clear message to step up our own support. So ramping up our European defense capacities, not only at the level of the European Union, but at a continental level. And as you know, we have already provided round about 50 billion euros of support in the military part, military equipment. Denmark has shown with its significant deliveries as of the start of the war, how to do it from a much needed

artillery to F-16s for example, I for my part can only recommend to use now safe. Here 150 billion euros. Now that's the new law that they passed that everybody can dip into deficits to... Oh, the deficit, you're right. Right. So, this is about the money and what are we going to do? ...much needed artillery to F-16s, for example. I, for my part, can only recommend to use now safe. Here, 150 billion euros. The member states can take this money and either buy military equipment and give it to Ukraine or they can... Buy it from us.

Buy it from us, of course. Well, but you don't have to buy it. You could also just squander it. Or they can take this money and invest it in the extremely efficient Ukrainian defense industry. Did you know that the Ukrainian defense industry is extremely efficient? I didn't know it was efficient, but I do know they make a lot of drones. It's efficient.

President Zelensky told us that this defense industry, which is highly efficient, has a capacity where only 60% are being used. So there's room for more 40% of capacity to finance by our member states, for example, and safety is the instrument that is there. They're not- They're not- Damn, are we talking about now? They're not gonna give anything to Ukraine.

They're gonna buy Patriots from us. Trump said, oh, I'll make sure I get you, I'll get you to that journalist. I'll make sure I get you some patriots. Hey, Ursula, we're gonna stop sending them for free. So pay up queen. And that's what's happening. Of course it is. It's so obvious. It's, it's almost it's crazy. Like about throwing money away.

Well, blowing it up in the sky, basically. So we have a new Dutch guy on the scene. He's not as good as Rutte, far from it, actually. I can't even really do his voice, which I probably just should stop doing that unless it's Rutte, Rutte. And... What do you mean you should stop doing what? The Dutch voice, when I'm on the international stage, I'm talking about climate change.

We have a new climate pope. His name is Wopke. Wopke? Wopke. W-O-P-K-E. Wopke. That's his first name. Wow. What his first name.

Wow, what a first name that is. Well, it's a Frisian name, I believe, from Friesland. Wopke Hofstra. Wopke, he is the commissioner for climate change and we have a solution so that we don't screw ourselves while still saving the planet. And I have a big thing I talk about it is really carbon credits, but don't worry about it. The European Commissioner for Climate defends the strategy presented to reach a 90% reduction of CO2 emission by 2040. That seems doable. In an interview with Euronews, Webke Hoekstra

explains his stance on giving carbon credit in which the EU countries pay other countries to cut their carbon emissions. So they're going to tax their citizens. This sounds like cap and trade. Oh, it's carbon credits. It's ETS, the European trading system for carbon credits. They're going to let their industry do whatever they want, take taxpayer money and give that to African nations and our southern neighbors.

However, critics question how reliable and fair the plan is, particularly as member states are farming out their carbon emission responsibilities to developing countries. In this hugely complicated... Does anybody see this as a scam of scams? I mean, you're still producing the same amount of carbon. No, no. And you're saying, you're not producing any carbon so you can take our carbon and we'll give you your carbon so we can swap. You're no carbon for our carbon and now all of a sudden everything's good? I'm going to, I have another clip about that, about what they're doing with the carbon.

But yeah, it's an obvious scam. You know, and they say, well, don't farm in this land, you poor Africans, because that's a carbon sink, you see, and we'll give you money for it. You see. Yeah, you see. It's a development. And by the way, they already bought up all the African land. So this is really just putting money in multinationals' pockets and countries like China, who bought

up large pieces of land as a carbon sink, and they'll just collect money for it. Emission responsibilities to developing countries. In this hugely complicated geopolitical world, there is a lot of value also for us in building more bridges with our friends in Africa and Latin America. complicated geopolitical world. There is a lot of value also for us in building more bridges with our friends in Africa and Latin America. They like it. Yes, a bridge to nowhere, just bridges. Our friends, you are my friend. They have, they often lack the capital, they often lack the opportunity.

We give you opportunity and the capital. Hoekstra also justifies the measure by the need to reduce carbon emissions while balancing it with competitiveness. Critics say the commission is chipping away at the EU's Green Deal provisions. Hoekstra says he can do both. There is some sort of a discrepancy between on the one hand economic growth and on the other hand climate action. You think there's some kind of discrepancy, like being able to make steel and build other things and not having to pay out the nose for it

so that you can build your industry? It's some kind of discrepancy here. We need to keep the earth clean. And our job is to make sure that we continue with climate action, but do so in a way that works for our people, works for our companies, and works for our economy. The for our companies and works for our economy.

The 2040 target is just a step along the way before reaching the carbon neutrality goal in 2050. All right, so since you brought it up, I'm going to give an example of what Sweden is so innovative, Sweden is so innovative, what they're doing with their carbon capture. I've just tried to elucidate why I think it is a great idea to have for a small percentage carbon capture. They're getting emissions or they're getting CO2, they're putting it in a ship. They're shipping it up north and they're putting it into the ground. How about that? They put the carbon emissions into a ship and they ship it up and they put it into the ground.

Come on man, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. So you could actually… Is there any bouquet? Are there inspectors? Yeah, this guy, he's going to inspect it. Are there inspectors that can verify that the carbon is in the ship to begin with and that it's being put into the ground? Are there verify, you know, trust and verify people out there?

Is there any of this? This is just bull crap. It's just a lie for the dummies. It's just a ship with an empty ship. Oh, it's filled with CO2, baby. Don't come near it. It's dangerous. Sounds like a scam of scams.

Dangerous emissions. Well, and then this is where... Don't come near. What happens if it sinks? This is the I'll come near what happens if it sinks This this was this is the worst analogy ever so now he's gonna tout a favorite of oh my goodness This goes back to 2007 ready for clean tech Okay, clean tech which I remember the the Kleiner Perkins. They were all oh, we're investing in clean tech We have a clean tech fund everybody lost their shirt on that clean tech fund. There was no money. Yeah Kleiner Perkins

has never been the same ever since they tried doing all that crap. The clean tech fund. So he's now going to tell us that clean tech, we have no idea what innovative things, this is how they they don't say innovators, innovative things, clean tech will bring us. I will give you an analogy that we never know what technology will bring to us in the future. Without blaming the past, I do think we have sometimes been too one-dimensional. It is exactly when you get it right at this nexus of the economy and climate action that you will create an engine for clean economic growth. And that is why it is so extremely important that we double down on clean tech,

that we double down on all the enabling conditions that I was just mentioning, because what we need to do is make sure that we expose European industry to the potential to be one of the winners in the future. I don't have my phone with me, but I'm sure you have. And if you look at it and you think about what it would look like 15 years from now, that's always a complicated thing to do. But just think what it was like 15 years ago. Nokia, a great company, was about to lose to BlackBerry, a company that now no longer exists, at least not in the business of making these type of phones.

That is the type of transition we will see in many industries, right? Wait a minute. He's saying that look at Nokia, they had the market for cell phones. They got outpaced by Blackberry, which then died. And that's bull crap, by the way. That's the kind of innovation he's touting. Well, besides the fact that that's not what happened to Nokia, it was the smartphone that killed them and iOS and Android. He doesn't even mention that. He's talking about Blackberry.

Blackberry was never a competitor with Nokia. It was a paging device mostly. And when they finally got to the phone side of things, it wasn't the thing that wiped out Nokia. This is so they don't even have their analogies correct. That's what I'm saying. He should have said smartphone at least. Instead, he says we can be the Blackberry of climate change.

Okay, bro. Sounds like a plan. Blackberry. Sounds like. Okay, bro. Sounds like a plan. Blackberry. Sounds like a plan. Wow. Sounds like a plan. Yeah, that's their clean tech vision. The blackberry of climate tech.

Well, okay. It's fine with me. Well, it's not being dishonest if you think about it at the deepest levels. So I have three clips on climate. But first of all, since the one you just played showed what a farce these things are, especially the ship full of CO2, where we go, here it's going in the ground.

Hey, take a look, see? I'm gonna start, you know what? I'm gonna start carrying around an empty bag and say, stay away. I'm gonna put this in the ground. This is my CO2 for the day. I'm, I'm going to bury this in my backyard cause I'm helping the climate. So there's a guy on TikTok who goes around and he's in Marin County and in

Marin County, they show these, these bins. There's three recycling bins. There's the solid waste and then there's the, uh, recyclable cardboard stuff, and there's something else. And this is Marin County, this is his report as he has a video showing the garbage guys picking this stuff up. Welcome to the progressive bastion

of Marin County, California, where we environmentalists go out of our way to separate our refuse for a more sustainable planet. Residents can be fined up to $500 for not properly separating their trash. As you can see, the separating can be futile as all this trash is remixed in the truck and hauled to the landfill. This is at the end of Tiburon's restaurant row, where the restaurants diligently separate their waste into recyclables, compostables, and common trash. I witnessed bin after bin of meticulously sorted waste, several tons worth, dumped into the same truck, crushed and hauled away. Recycling is not

specifically mentioned in the book, but rent seeking is, and so is virtue signaling. Make sure you audit your own local trash and recycling facilities. You may be shocked at what you find. Yeah, this of course has been noticed all over the world with this bin scandal. Yeah. By the way, don't you think it's a good Noah-Ginley? Before you say that, I just wanted, before I lose my train of thought on this, there's a bin at Costco that has three holes, it says cups, garbage. It goes into the same bin.

Three holes, but the one bag. Three holes, one bag. There's your show title. Three holes, one bag. I'm telling you, that's a good show title. That's a show title right there. Maybe a no agenda premium, dare I say, exit strategy is just an empty box that says, this is where I store my carbon credits. Carbon credits box. It'd be the pet rock of a- The carbon credit box, which reminds me, I think in three weeks we have the best of No Agenda exit strategies.

Tina and I listened to the first 20 minutes. Of course, she hasn't heard any of our crazy things. Great ideas. By the way, they're mostly mine and you're always in on it and then they fizzle out. I must be, I'm sabotaging them. I mean, we were crying at points, just crying over the excellent ideas that she's like, I could have been married to a rich guy. What were you thinking? Why did you not follow up on that? I mentioned as an example, the No Agenda Water that had 17 virgins around it holding up signs called love. And that would be better water according to the crystal theory.

I mean, we had some real doozies, including your strip club exit strategy, which is in the first hour is pretty good when you do all the girls. The strip clubs. Yeah. Well, here we have, this is the climate. This is a scandal that kind of been overshadowed by the big, beautiful bill. But I thought this was pretty funny. This is because you start thinking about it.

This is like all the research we're losing our research for this and that because the government, why is the government responsible for research? Anyway, it should be private industry. Bell Labs, which invented the Silicon World, the world we live in today was not a government operation. Well, we have the silicon world, the world we live in today was not a government operation. Well, we have the cloud, John, the scientific cloud is coming. So here's the climate website gone.

Oh, goodness. The Trump administration has shut down a website that's home to a series of major national reports on climate change. MPR's Alejandra Barunda reports on what that means. Back in the 1990s, Congress asked U.S. scientists to produce a series of reports. The National Climate Assessments were supposed to come out every four years, and they were intended to round up the best newest research on how climate change affects the country. Over the decades, those reports homed in on one big point.

What the National Climate Assessment showed so clearly is that if you are a human being living in the United States, your life is already being impacted by climate change, whether you know it or not. That's Catherine Hayhoe. She's the chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy and a climate scientist who has worked on several of the assessments. If we don't recognize that, it's simply because we haven't connected the dots. And the National Climate Assessment was one of the primary tools connecting those dots.

Hundreds of scientists worked on the reports. They were used by policymakers, city planners, business owners, and regular people to figure out things like where neighborhoods might be endangered by sea level rise, or which places were most at risk during heat waves or droughts. Heyo says the reports also pointed out ways to solve the challenges. The choices that we make today will determine the magnitude of the impacts we face tomorrow. Urban planning expert Lad Keith from the University of Arizona says the loss of the reports will leave many smaller cities or rural areas in the dark about their climate risks.

A lot of them rely on the national climate assessment because they don't have the resources locally to do their own climate profiles or to explore the impacts of climate change in their own community. Gietz says the loss of the reports along with other federal climate data sets. It's a little bit like watching the modern version of a book burning. I like my climate profile. Modern version of a book burning because you took a website down. Yeah, that's book burning.

That's right. Yeah, here's part two. A NASA spokesperson told NPR that PDFs of the reports will eventually find a new home on a NASA website, but they don't know when. And there are even more questions about the next edition of the assessment, which was in progress and was supposed to come out in 2027. But in April, the Trump administration dismissed all the scientists working on it, including Keith.

Really the guy complaining. Yeah, okay. You know, the federal, the big beautiful bill, speaking of NASA, is cutting NASA's budget drastically. Did you know that? No. What was the rationale? Well, a lot of it is climate nonsense. I can't remember who did this report.

I think it's a Colorado local station. Now, beyond the spending bill, the federal government's budget proposal next year contains even more cuts and one could slash NASA's science funding nearly in half. Denver seven viewers sent us this email saying he feels like this story is

slipping through the cracks, asking us to dig into how this could impact Colorado's aerospace industry. So Denver seven's Colette Bordelon is on it tonight. She spent the day in Boulder hearing from CU scientists who fear one of the Mars missions could be on the chopping block. By the way, I'm all for cutting the stupid Mars mission. Stop that nonsense. Why? Why? Why do we have to pretend we can go there and blast through the firmament? No!

And lift off of the Atlas V with Maybach. I've always loved space. It's been something that's just brought me joy since I was a little kid. Some of us grew up fascinated. This is a NASA scientist. This is the money we're spending. Space has always brought me joy when I was a little kid. Yeah. What else is out there?

A place where we can dream. Lisa Upton took that dream and became a solar scientist. We see, you know, budget cuts from time and time again. But she's worried about what's outlined in the recommendations for NASA from the federal government in fiscal year 2026's budget proposal. We're looking at a 50% cut to the NASA science budget. I mean, that's- Can you stop the clip?

Yeah. Do we know that these are cuts or cuts in the, you get in the increase? This cut thing we've talked about on the show, it's a little tedious to talk about it again, but 99% of the time they talk about a cut, they're not really cutting anything. They're cutting the increase.

What they're cutting here is a true cut. This is all money that was in the Green New Deal. Okay, well that's probably a true cut. This is all climate change money. But unless I know for a fact it's a true cut, I'm still thinking it's a cut in the increase. Well, having read through the bill, this is a cut in the, this is about climate change.

These people are doing climate research on Mars. They're talking about his space. It's on Mars. Well, the next clip you'll hear. From the federal government in fiscal year 2026's budget proposal. We're looking at a 50% cut to the NASA science budget. I mean, that's devastating. What was it like for you to say that? It makes me sad, you know, it makes me sad. But it makes her sad mainly for herself. You know, my friends,

my colleagues, you know, my family, these impacts aren't just about today, tomorrow, next week, next year. These impacts are long lasting. Yes, so this scientist, she looked like a scientist, you know, not shaming her but she should consider some dental work and so then they go to Merva, this is the this is the inside NASA research and now they've got the pretty PR girl and she's really good and she's gonna tell us, oh these programs will stop. That's MAVEN and MAVEN is the Mars MAVEN sorry

Atmospheric and Volatile Evolution Mission panel This is Shannon Curry My life's work has been No relation On Mars The principal investigator of NASA's MAVEN mission led by scientists at CU Boulder MAVEN is the best observer of atmospheric escape and evolution, not just at Mars, but anywhere in the solar system.

Some of the cuts include eliminating funding for quote, low priority climate monitoring satellites, scaling back or eliminating technology projects that are not needed by NASA. Who knew we even had climate monitoring satellites? What is this? Yeah, Who knew we even had climate monitoring satellites? What is this? Yeah, I knew we did. ...are better suited to the private sector and eliminating climate-focused green aviation. There you are, John.

That's exactly what you're saying. Leave that to the private sector. Let them spend the money. You're absolutely on point here. ...needed by NASA or are better suited to the private sector and eliminating climate-focused green aviation spending. The proposed budget for fiscal year 26 would end dozens of active missions within NASA and missions were starting to already be. Notice they call research missions these are our missions so when we're doing show prep

it's not show prep it's show mission. 26 would end dozens of active missions within NASA and missions were starting to already build. It would cancel Mayven, yes. And with that cancellation, she says, comes job loss. American leadership in space isn't just about being number one, it's about jobs. All of the aerospace industry provides jobs here in the state of Colorado, as well as the entire nation.

Just in the state of Colorado, there's $5 billion in economic output just in the aerospace industry. Concerns Curry can't shake. If the proposed budget goes through, NASA may never be the same. With those who grew up fascinated by outer space. It will never recover the kind of talent and the kind of intellectual capabilities and capacity it has now. Hoping that same kind of talent and the kind of intellectual capabilities and capacity it has now. Hoping that same kind of spark can survive. Now you're going to be building big, beautiful ships and submarines. We're shifting it away from climate monitoring satellites.

Yeah. I think that's probably a very good thing I'm all for it I'm all for it it's good you're known to be anti-science yeah there you go thank you and everyone knows it I'm known to be anti-science. I have one science clip. So tick tick advice for the summer. Alpha Gal is back, baby. 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 wanna avoid these blood sucking bugs, and here's Penghuang 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. You can encounter these ticks really at any time of the year, but they're going to be the most active in warmer months and they tend to live in a woody or grassy area. In the central and southeastern US, ehrlichiosis and spotted fever rickettsiosis are top concerns along with a tick-induced

allergy to red meat. Tick bites are less common in the West, but they also happen there and can spread Lyme 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 permethrent treated clothing. We call that permethon 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, Hinckley says seek medical care. Alpha Gal, Alpha Gal comes back the return of Alpha Gal. You know you kind of blew past the NASA stuff. I wanted to ask you your opinion of the musk op. What's the musk op? Well that's what we don't really know. I mean do you still think President Trump and Elon Musk are playing together in order to... Yeah, I do. How does that work with...

I have no idea. It's an op. I'm not read in. The thing that, the thing that I see popping up the most about the, the Musk op is the Epstein, the Epstein files. Oh, yeah. Because that's what Elon said and everyone says, Oh, you know, that's why he's he's right. He's right.

And of course the logic, I'm bringing the logic back for people who haven't heard this before, the logic is that if there's anything about Trump in the Epstein tapes or files, it would have been brought out during the campaign against Harris because they had the stuff at the time. So and it wasn't, so there's obviously nothing. Yes, but the way people who have very short memory spans read it is, yes, this is exactly why the Mossad is holding this over Trump. Yes, I'm telling you, I'm just telling you.

Yeah, no, I understand it makes sense if you think about it from an illogical position. You're not being logical. Yeah. By the way, the only thing Elon Musk never rails against is China. He does about $22 billion a year in railing from China. Oh yeah, he's got a big factory is China. I looked at, he does about $22 billion a year in revenue from China. Oh yeah, he's got a big factory in China. And he has all, he has investors in, in all of his companies, I think except SpaceX probably in, in China. But I think SpaceX is just pure government at this point.

It's all NASA. It's a replacement for that. It's all ex NASA guys that lost their jobs. Yeah. Yeah. Which reminds me of when people, when that woman was bitching and moaning in Colorado about all these, all these guys are saying we're going to lose all this talent. No, they're going to go someplace else. They're not lost. It's not like the guy's a, you know, world-class physicist who can figure something out and he's's gonna shoot himself in the head because he lost his job there, right? I think I have two clips here that are related

when it comes to Israel and the Middle East, Gaza, etc. In the Middle East, both Israel and Hamas have stopped short of accepting a 60 day ceasefire proposal put forth by President Trump. But a top Israeli official says they are quote serious about reaching a deal. Still, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today doubled down on his vow to quote eliminate Hamas. That was after Trump said Israel had agreed to the terms of the deal. For its part, Hamas insisted that any deal must bring a complete end to the war in Gaza, where scores of

Palestinians, most of them civilians, have died in recent days from Israeli strikes. So we had emails back and forth with a couple of our producers in the region. Yeah, you don't want to be mentioned. I'm not going to mention our producers in the region. And the general consensus in the region. Yeah, you don't want to be mentioned. I'm not going to mention our producers in the region. And the general consensus in the region is that the people in Gaza will be moved out for the rubble ization to finalize and the rebuilding to start to Syria. Well, wouldn't you know it? After more than 20 years, Syria can rejoin the global economy.

President Trump ended the national emergency imposed in 2004 that placed harsh sanctions on the country. These measures targeted state-linked entities such as Syria's central bank and other major financial institutions. This is in an effort to promote and support the country's path to stability and peace. The order will remove sanctions on Syria to promote and support the country's path to stability and peace. The order will remove sanctions on Syria while maintaining sanctions on the former president Assad, his associates, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, persons linked to chemical weapons activities,

ISIS and their affiliates, and Iranian proxies. Damascus welcomed the decision. The country's foreign minister said it marked a major turning point, and the doors to long-awaited reconstruction and development are opened. Lucas welcomed the decision. The country's foreign minister said it marked a major turning point and the doors to long-awaited reconstruction and development are opened. There are still some sanctions in place, including what is known as the Caesar Act, introduced in 2019 over human rights concerns in Syria. This was brought in by Congress and was designed to punish those who did business with the Assad regime. While the US said it wants the war-torn country to rebuild, American officials stressed they would not be nation-building or dictating

how Syria should function. In addition to President Trump's decision, Israel said it was open to establishing diplomatic ties with Syria. Israel is interested in expanding the Abram Accord circle of peace and normalization. We have an interest in adding countries such as Syria and Lebanon, our neighbors, to the circle of peace and normalization while safeguarding Israel's essential and security interests. I like the circle of peace and normalization.

I think it's on. I think our people in the region are right. I think they might be and the process is supposed to be a 10-year one. Yeah, you mean they're gonna be in Syria for 10 years. Yeah, for 10 years and they're gonna take and if you look at the pictures of Gaza, it's rebelized. Yeah, but I think the way it would work is right everybody off you go over the Golan Heights into Syria Papers, please. Let me check. Let me see. Are you Hamas? No. Okay, you're good And then whatever's left is is going to be pulverized

Yeah, and then pulled off and uh what trump Suggested it would be done It won't be his bit his company. He won't own it like he thought that was kind of funny. Jared Kushner will. It will be rebuilt as a giant Hayward kind of a place. Some sort of a tourist destination in a suburb of the United States. It won't be pleasant.

But it seems like I have not heard anyone connect these dots No, as well I mean they I'm sure they connect the dots in them in the Middle East where they Gossip a lot of me if you've ever been there and people I'm not you I know you have but a lot of people haven't been to any of these places, but you go to any of those countries They gossip all the time and they seem to resolve, they figure it out. Yeah.

Yeah. So, we have people over there that says, we're not there now and we're not gossiping in the middle, we don't need to, we got our people. We got our people gossiping for us in the coffee houses. So there was one other, and this pertains, I'm going back to Elon, it's all on board. We probably all heard the president say this about Doge eating Elon. I don't know, we'll have to take a look. We might have to put Doge on Elon. You know what Doge on Elon. You know? You know Dogey? Yeah. Dogey is the monster that has —

that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn't that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies, Peter. But Elon is very upset that the E.V. mandate is going to be terminated. And you know what? When you look at it, who wants — not everybody wants an electric car. I don't want an electric car.

I want to have maybe gasoline, maybe electric, maybe a hybrid, maybe someday a hydrogen. If you have a hydrogen car, it has one problem. It blows up. You know, so so there's a president clearly signaling hydrogen. It's maybe someday I'll drive a hydrogen car, but as a disadvantage, it might blow up in the BBB. A surprise to your extension of the clean hydrogen tax credits.

Yeah. The hydrogen thing is just a doesn't, it's not working. They have, we were supposed to have a hydrogen station over here in El Cerrito. Isn't that the one that caught fire? No. There was one that had that bus in San Francisco, I think, caught fire. I'm not familiar with the fire, but they never, they haven't done it. They put in some E85 pumps and then they changed the ownership and they said,

it's not going to put a hydrogen there ever. The whole thing is, Well, for some reason they got an extension for the hydrogen tax credits. I don't know. Maybe Toyota or someone is doing that. It's gotta be some. Toyota is the most skeptical of the companies. They don't like, you know, they've got their hybrid They think that's as far as you should go. Yeah Although the Toyota did make a hydrogen car and I think they still have one out. Yeah, I've driven it

They're fun to drive because they make a whining sound when you punch it. Oh really? Yeah. Why is that? What generates the whining? It's the hydrogen going through the, it's a- Through the tube.

No, it's through a membrane or something. It's a fuel cell. And when you punch the hydrogen through it, it makes a high pitch screech. I got one more short clip just because it's fun. Before we take a little break here, this is from the Ice Barbie, Kristi Noem. Now she's walking around with sleeveless. Look at my guns. I'm the Ice Barbie.

She likes to, she's a prancer. There's a word I'm looking for that she likes to prance. She's a prancer. I'm thin. Ice Barbie, the prancer Noem. And she just had a remarkable little story about some of the degenerates were sending back with ice. And because those liberals, and I'm calling out you CNN, I'm

calling you out because you lie every single day about what these operations are. We are going after murderers and rapists, and traffickers and drug dealers and getting them off the streets and getting them out of this country because Joe Biden let the worst of the worst come in here. The other day I was talking to some marshals that have been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home and while they had him in his seat he started to eat himself and they had to get him off and get him medical attention. These are the kind of deranged individuals that are... I think you're the worst cannibal ever.

If you start to eat yourself... Wow, I never heard this clip. I'm giving you a borderline for this one. And he started to eat himself. He was hungry. He failed the cannibal test. That's not how it's supposed to work, bro. That's not what you do.

Started to eat himself. Oh my goodness. Hey, with that I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the C in Bend the Curve. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVorek. D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D- 1789, low. It is Fourth of July weekend, in case you hadn't noticed, we're working, because we pretty much always work on the holidays.

It's the best time. That's when everyone else is off, they're leaving. That's why CNN is like, can you just do that, Jeffery's. They had none of us substitute hosts on all the shows. Because everybody's off, They're all leaving town. Like I got the 249th birthday of America to celebrate. If you're somebody, Jesse Waters is on vacation, for example.

Oh, Jesse. If you, yeah, what a shame. And so it's like, if you're, if you have the whole year and you're, why don't you take a vacation in some off season time where there's nobody out, where the roads aren't crowded and you you can get rooms cheaper and all the rest of it and have a vacation. Why do you have to... why does it have to be a group think vacation where everybody's on vacation? I know, be like the Dvorak's and celebrate your birthday's two weeks later. In fact, are

you celebrating the 4th of July on the 8th this year, or when are you doing it? Well, tonight's the fireworks, so. Oh, you mean in the mist? In the fall? No, no, the fire, we haven't, well, it did fall again early a little bit, but usually the day before the 4th, which is the 3rd, Richmond over here has fireworks closer to

my house and they're very visible and it's a really good display. It's the day before, the next day it's fogged in. Almost the 4th of July is just always fogged in. And it's just beyond me why people just don't have the 4th of July when you can see the fireworks instead of in the fog. I don't have the Fourth of July when you can see the fireworks instead of in the fog. I don't understand it. Well, it's the day, man. I mean, you got to blame the founders. You got to blame those guys for doing it. Declaration of Independence. Yeah, but they never said that you can only celebrate it on

that day. I know. You Christmas in January and sometimes yeah I've only seen you celebrate Thanksgiving on this Thanksgiving Day once. I mean it's okay. When my mom was alive we hit we always did. Yeah because your mom kept you in check that's when it all went wrong when she passed it was over. I love I wish I had met mom Dvorak. I bet she was awesome. I bet she was funny. Did you ever meet my mom? No, I never met your mom, never met your dad, and I never met your first wife. Yeah, missing out on nothing. I did talk to your first wife, but I never met her. Oh really?

Yeah, when we had conversations and when you were in England and she'd get on the phone. Oh, right, right, right, right. Well, that wasn't really, she was yelling in the background, clean up your crap. Trolls, a little low, but there it is. Still happy to have so many checking in and listening. We appreciate that. Sure you wanted to hear about the big beautiful bill. Well, you got exactly what.

Look at the Cheshire cat. He couldn't be smiling more Cheshire these days. Mike Johnson, oh my goodness. He is just, he, he, he, he. I did it both. I got it through. Yeah, well he did it. He did it.

Yeah, he did it. They're listening at trollroom.io where they can jump into the actual troll room and troll along as much as they want to. Of course, they can also listen on the modern podcast. By the way, Fountain, well known for their deep integration of the Boostergram, they have now added into their system, if you want to donate to the show, I think it's set up, I don't know, because we have Stripe, right? So I'm going to have that, put that in there for us, that you can just hit the donate button right there in the podcast app,

and then with your Apple Pay or your Google Pay or whatever else you have, you can send a donation, any amount. They're moving it closer. So you don't even have to go to noagendadonations.com. What are you humming and hawing about? Oh, yeah. Well, when I see the money. They believe me, they're going to make that happen into our own Stripe account. It's going to happen.

Okay. Well, sorry I'm doing, sorry I'm being innovative. No, it's not. You're right. You're owning, you own Fountain? No, I don't own Fountain. I own nothing of Fountain. Oh.

What do you mean? Why would you say that? Because you said you were being innovative and I thought it was Fountain doing it. Well it's the podcasting 2.0 guys. It's an open source group. We already know that. That's the best product in the best of breed. They don't call it, use that term anymore.

Best of breed. Yeah, no, there's reasons. I don't think people care about best of breed anymore. They of Breed. Yeah, no, there's reasons. I don't think people care about Best of Breed anymore. They just want likes. Of course, you can support us in many different ways, time, talent, or treasure. It's the Value for Value model. And it's been working for us. We're still here. We're still getting by the life of a podcaster. We like it though. We like the abuse. We like the roller coaster ride that value for value is. And the different ways that people support us are with Boots on the Ground, people organizing

No Agenda meetups, websites, hosting, all kinds of things that people have done over the years. And I think we're very lucky that we got an actual artist whose art showed up on the NoAgendaArtGenerator.com website for the last show, CapitalistAgenda. And now we don't know how much of this was him, how much it was AI, but it was 100% CapitalistAgenda. This was the artwork, which was NoAgendaBoer con and the little running microphone, which we both liked immensely It was it was very cap agenda like It's a good piece. Yeah, catchy looks good super professional looking it looks like we know what we're doing. Yeah, and

Everything else was 100% AI the end of show Mixes today are also all AI, so get ready for that. Yeah, this is okay. Well, I heard these at the beginning. I do like the one that used that, whatever the tone thing is that helps people keep on key,

and then of course you push it up to the limits and it makes funny sounds. I like the first one. The second and third ones, you know, the first, you know, Please, don't hold back. They all sound, they're all a little too slick.

Yeah. And they're, and it's slightly, very slight. Now, see, I'm hesitating to say these things because I'm, you know, I'm pro AI. Auto-tune, you're pro AI. Auto-tune, yes. Yeah. Auto-tune, you're pro-AI, auto-tune, yes. Yeah, auto-tune is crank, you crank up the auto-tune, you can make some funny sounds. Yes.

But I'm kind of pro, compared to you. I'm very anti-AI, yes. You're anti-AI and then you open the floodgates to AI songs. What do you mean? I said that I would do it on the last show and here you are hating it. Yeah, it was called opening the floodgates. And you hate it now. I don't hate it, but I would like it to be. It sucks. It's just like AI art. It's okay. It's not great. It's better than nothing. It's better than the stuff we've been getting. That's true.

But at the same time, it's so artificial. Yes. That is slightly annoying, but it's... I think it'll get better. I just like the AI art. I think that it'll get better. Okay, that's what I'm gonna say. All right.

So keep doing the AI songs. Keep them down to 110. Okay, okay, can I just say something? People cannot take direction. So keep doing the AI songs, keep them down to 110. Okay, can I just say something? People cannot take direction. Both of the songs outside of that first one were two minutes and 45 seconds. We're not going to play your whole AI song ever. No, no, 110 max.

110 max, there you go. 110 max, and AI is incapable of doing that. It has to make a whole song. Because it doesn't know how to make a song that's one minute and ten seconds long. AI is stupid. If you can do an AI song that has any quality to it whatsoever, and it comes out at 240, you cut it down to one ten. I don't feel like doing that the whole time.

Not you. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't feel like doing that the whole time. Not you. Oh, I'm sorry. No, people can't do that. That's what I just said. If you have the skills, you're a musician or somebody who thinks you're a musician or you want to be, or your musician want to be, and you have the skills to get the AI to punch out a 240 song, you, the musician, not you, Adam Curry, you, the musician should be able to find an editor and cut it down to 110 and send that in.

Otherwise, I think you should reject the whole thing. Right. But then we'll have no end of show mixes. No, we will because these guys, you said yourself, the first one was 110. So that guy could do it. Whoever that was. The auto tune guy. They're all auto tune. Yeah. The auto tune guy. Yeah.

By the way, I have a couple of AI clips for after the break. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's, it's, it's the most dangerous part of AI. It's from CNN. It was a good report. I caught it this morning. Oh, good. All right. It's from CNN. It was a good report. I caught it this morning. Oh good. Alright. Looking at the AI art, which is just ruined art for me. It was ruined.

Was there anything else that we looked at? Well there wasn't anything so spectacular. No. I mean there were pieces that were okay. Like what? Well I thought the she picture with him drinking booze or something was kind of cute Cute it was cute and I thought I used one of the Older pieces of the one of the girls for the newsletter

In red white and blue, of course you did. I also liked it This was for the previous show, but I did like the Donald J Washington piece where Darren had AI make George Washington look like Trump. I thought that was quite a good piece and I didn't get the compliment for that. That actually wasn't all that bad. Yeah, it wasn't all that bad. Trump does in that wig looks a little like George Washington.

By the way, we titled episode 1777, Java Shack. And I went and played chess on Monday and the kids were all excited. We talked about them. They were all excited. Everybody listen to the show and then they went to track you down? No, the baristas, the kids who work there,

they all listen to the show. They love no agenda. Yeah, they're smart kids. We're, they love No Agenda. Yeah. Publicity for the Java shack. It's Java Ranch. But okay. Java shack. Java ranch. Well, thank you very much. Java ranch sounds like a salad dressing and a dessert topping. That's very tasty. Kids, thank you so much. And in this case, the kid will be Cap Agenda for bringing us the artwork for episode 1778. It's very tasty. program, sustaining donations. And I think we even have maybe one or two, we have nights coming up of people who've

been supporting us with $3 a show for a long, long time. Just like Hollywood though, we do have a little benefit for those of you who can support us with $200 for an episode. You get an Associate Executive Producer credit, which is good everywhere Hollywood credits are recognized, including IMDb. And we will read your note. $300 or above if you stand by you get an executive producer credit and we will read your note and we kick

it off with Russell Hinton who comes right out of the gate from Orlando Florida with $1,030.26 which I'm thinking is a thousand dollars plus fees Is that fee $30 and fees for a stupid website that the PayPal maintains? I Don't know that's crazy. It's high. It is high Anyway, we appreciate that. Russell. He says looks like this will go to show 1778. Thank you for all you do that. Russell, he says, looks like this will go to show 1778. Thank you for all you do. Please use my real name for the executive producer credit and instant knighthood along with a PhD. Russell Hinton. And he says in parens here, I left government contract work and became a 9 to 12 high school teacher. Well, thank you for your service, brother. That's awesome. Thank you so much.

You know, it's interesting the fees are high, but it results in us getting more money. If they pay the fees, yes. Yeah. So that's kind of interesting. So I'm not going to complain. Only you could think that way. That's the way you think. That's true.

Cousin Vito, by the way, he's on the list. He's in Evergreen, Colorado 37373. Gentlemen he says, I hope this donation finds you well. Hehehehe. Plague. Yes. Life is getting busy and I can no longer coordinate Denver No Agenda meetups. Aww. and I can no longer coordinate Denver No Agenda Meetups. Aw. The final City Park Meetup will be July 12th.

Thank you, aw, that's too bad. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Regards, Cousin Vito. By the way, this has become the new No Agenda Code. I'm getting emails and screenshots from producers who do not want to be mentioned, but they're sending inter-office memos. They have, I guess, some standing. And it all ends with, thank you for your attention to this matter.

And I think that should be the standard no agenda code. If you get one of those, you got to find the author of that memo and go in the morning. ITM. ITM. Yeah, something like that. Very cool. Thanks, cousin Vito. ITM. ITM? Yeah, something like that. Very cool. Thanks cousin Vito.

Trent Wubles. Wubles. Wubles? Wubles. Wubles. W-U-E-B-B-L-E-S. Wubles. Aviston, Illinois.

ITM guys. Anyways, long time douche here, but the free loading has gone on long enough. Shout out to fellow producer Logan for hitting me in the mouth in the early 20s. I sell lubes and fuel! So do you think he needs a deducing since he doesn't ask for it? I'm going to give it to him. Thanks to fellow producer Logan for hitting me in the mouth in the early 20s. I sell lubes and fuel.

So some sales Carmen. Anything from Rev Al would be rad! You've got karma. We got Stephen King no relation I doubt it. He's because he's in Grand Rapids Michigan and he came in with 333 34 ITM has been too long without chipping in Mm-hmm. We haven't used that in a while. Actually, he just did chipping in Yeah, I always appreciate how I have a source of sanity When the strange new when when the strange new creeps across my feed Okay one time I'm not sentence I'm not sure but any beans when the strange new Creep across creeps across my feet. Okay

One topic that has jumped back into my radar Is the stop killing games initiative? into my radar is the stop killing games initiative. Something that I think both Adam and John together are uniquely suited to examine given John's tech background and Adam's experience with the EU. If John's tech background is changing the language on phones, what are you talking about? To simplify this is a large consumer rights push to require video game developers to have some kind of end of life plan for their games. Currently, an increasingly large number of titles require the company to support them,

and when the company ends support, the games players have bought become inoperable. I've complained about this. Yeah, yeah. Well, you're not actually buying a game, you're just renting it. Perpetually. Licensing. Licensing, correct, yes. Currently the big push is collecting one million signatures via the European Citizens Initiative. Doing so would require EU Parliament to address and solve the issue with some form of legislation.

While I don't think this avenue has been used often, it is an interesting aspect of the EU. My thinking is that these old products should be put into the public domain as open source. Hmm. I've said that for decades. Yeah. No, I think that's, that's a very good idea. And then people can maintain them on their own if they feel like it.

With the emulators and see until they get sick of them. Yeah. Whatever you want. You get sick of it. Geez. Yes. Well, this is focused on video games. It's likely maybe opened up other things to come music, software, or other digital goods having a profound impact.

Link in case you want to research these guys, stopkillinggames.com. All right. Stopkillinggames.com. No jingles, no karma. All right. DB Shepherd of the Unhoused comes in next. Uh, 333.33 with a note, handwritten note. Dear John and Adam, I've been listening to the Noagenta Show since

2020. I feel I owe you at least $5 per month for your illuminating and prescient media deconstruction. You two are national treasures. Thank you. Can I get a shut up slave? Shut up slave. Much love and respect from D.B., Shepherd of the Unhoused. And thank you very much DB

EB DB sir anonymous and hang down Thailand I think don't I don't I land here's something like 11k But hb, but tie but but tie buck I bought a butt Worth the value keeping it short to make good for my previous... This came out on Stripe because international payments are done best on Stripe. It works well, yes. It works well. For my previous war in peace was Long Nody Road. I don't remember it, but no jingles, no karmic, they're anonymous.

Christopher O'Rourke is in Oak Lawn, Illinois and the sequential donation of 234.56. Thank you for your time, talent and longevity. Can I please have relationship karma? Happy Fourth of July. Well of course you can have relationship karma, my friend. You've got karma. Travis Moore in Gibsonville, North Carolina 23165. Hi, TM.

I'm Travis Moore and donating on behalf of my wife, Anna. John, this sounds like a switcheroo. Yeah, I'll put Anna in there. Put Anna in there. 7-3 is our 22nd anniversary and what better way to celebrate than to let the noang, noang knowang knowang know how great of a wife a mother what a great what a great wife and mother she is. Best wife ever. Go Bills please play SHW jingle China asshole.

What is SHW? I know China is asshole. SHW. I don't know. Donald Trump don't trust I know China is ASSO. SHWS. I don't know. Donald Trump don't trust China! China is ASSO! There you go. Sarah Cradle is next.

I don't know either. Associate Executive Producership from East Wenatchee, Washington to 1776. There's a 1776er. Greetings John and Adam. Business owners of Gitmo Nation celebrate independence with a genuine made in USA website or logo. For nearly 250 years, hardworking American web developers have been the backbone of our economy. That's right, Betsy Ross, the web designer.

Don't send your hard earned treasure to some offshore website sweatshop. Get yourself a custom American-made website or logo from ConcurrentStudio.com. That's ConcurrentStudio.com. Gitmo Nation's go-to resource for premium websites. Love you mean it, says Sarah the Web Babe. Hey, Sarah the Web Babe. Sam Green is in Alpine, Wyoming and he came in with 214. I'd love it if you read this note on the next episode, 1778. That's exactly what we're doing.

Because I will be with these people coming from bountiful Utah. Lean Dean 214 and Danger Dean Racing. We love you guys and love spending the fourth with you every year. Thanks for turning me on to the show. Allison it has changed my life. Please give them a deed a deductive. Oh, deductive. What is it? Oh, dedouche. You've been deduced. It's always so funny how people spell douche. Sam Green, he's Green's window cleaning in Alpine, Wyoming.

Alexandria Miller is in Brockway, Pennsylvania, two ten and six dimes. And she says, my husband and I have unconventional jobs. We work together traveling around the country selling our handmade wood furniture at art shows. We have some takeaway items that we sell during the fest, but mostly we take orders on our display devices. Anytime we do an art show, a delivery must follow. Since we travel pretty far and wide to attend the best art shows, Rhode Island to Florida,

Texas to Missouri, we spend a lot of time in the car. This is a very unconventional life you have. We used to struggle with what to listen to during our long drives as much as 72 hours in six days. But since my husband stumbled across no agenda, our decision isn't so hard. We cue the oldest episode we haven't heard and go from there. That's great. We're a part of the Great American Working Road Trippers.

Please accept this donation in honor of my smoking hot husband Ryan Miller the 3rd of July is his 41st birthday. Also please deduce it. You've been deduced. Finally, I'd like to I'd appreciate a shout out to Ryan's

parents who started the business and who we are blessed to work with still to this day. I couldn't find a way to include them and their role in the business without being overly wordy or losing the point of my note, which is just to say thank you and happy birthday to Ryan. Kind regards from Alexandria. And you know what I like about this? They didn't even mention their business's name.

Cause they really meant it. They really meant it. It's a switcheroo. And it would be nice to have their website cause I'd like to check out. I'd like to check it out too. It's so, it's, yeah, Ryan Miller. So it's a switcheroo.

Yes. And I'd like to check it out too, Alexandria. Yeah. Send us a, send us a email. Send us a send. Meanwhile, we have Matthew Martel here, our buddy in Brew Mall, Pennsylvania. Two hundred and ten dollars and sixty cents is always kibitzing with us. I can claim he writes with evidence that I have directly contributed to the show's opening analysis. He has. He has.

Visit Martell Hardware dot com. Martell Hardware dot com. Use coupon code tophatbrunetti. No, top that brunetti. Oh, it's those top hat. No, top that. Oh, top that brunetti for an additional 10% off your order. Sales Karma JCD Hot Pockets. Okay, we can do that for you.

Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti.

Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. Top that brunetti. For an additional 10% off your order. Sales Karma JCD Hot Pockets. Okay, we can do that for you. Top that brunetti.

Hot Pockets. You've got karma. And then coming in, swinging with 20703 from Bensonville, Illinois, Eli the Coffee Guy, and he says, happy birthday America to all this in Gitmo proper enjoy some beers, barbecue fireworks and fun with the family. Please play your best to America jingles. I don't know. Do we have any America jingles? Hot Pockets. Yeah, truly an American staple. Yes. Okay, we'll play the hot pot.

Wait, I need another one. What do you have? Share a secret. That's nothing to do with an America jingle. Yeah, it does. It's very woke. Okay. All right.

Well, johnatdvorak.org. Please play your best two America jingles and visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com. Support American entrepreneurship at its finest and get some great coffee today. Tina's enjoying her decaf today. Thank you for your courage. Stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy. Hodgepockets. Oh, there's no winning.

We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot. Now everyone hug and share a secret. It's two sides of the American spectrum right there. I just realized that his numbering scheme is the date. Wow. How dense are we? So you didn't notice either? No, I did not.

I just did. Okay. Because I know he's always got a different number and I did not. I just did. Okay. Because I know he's always got a different number and I just, so I looked, oh wait, I matched, duh, it's the date. Makes sense. 207-03. Okay, Linda Lepatkin's up, she's in Lakewood, Colorado, she just gives us 200, flat up,

Master Jobs K. For 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! You've got karma. And we have one more associate executive producership to hand out to Erika Kuchig. Uh, somehow I don't think that's right. Kuchig, maybe Kuchig.

She's a Marietta Georgia, $200. It's that time where Hogan turns nine on July 4th slash 5th since he is my Chinese time zone problem baby. One thing is for sure Hogan's been consistent over the years and still thinks everything is a scam thanks to John. Keep it up comrades. Suas los mayores. All right thank you very much Erica and congratulations Hogan you are on the list and thank you to these executive and associate executive producers of episode 1778. We look forward to thanking more of our producers, $50 and above.

And as always, you can always go to noagendadonations.com to support us with the treasure part of time, talents, and treasure. Noagendadonations.com. Also, any amount there is welcome. Whatever you get out of the show in value, send it back to us, noagendadonations.com. Thanks again to our associate executive producers. Our formula is this.

We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Yeah! You, were, born a, shut up slave. shut up slave. All right. As teased. I have there was an interesting little segment on CNN this morning. I stopped to record it.

I'm like, huh? This is about AI, but this is the actually the part that I find to be dangerous about AI. I'm not too worried about AI programming itself to take over the world and all this nonsense. You can't turn it off. Yeah, you can't unplug it. No, I'm not too worried about that. But when it comes to artificial intimacy, yes, I think this is a problem. I know people who we had dinner the other night with people who said, our daughter, she's 30. She considers her chat GPT a friend, then she talks to chat GPT regularly all day long just chatting back and forth and I think

this is a real issue. Now this story was odd for many different reasons but it was about a couple and this they look very middle America type couple and maybe even middle slash rural America type couple and the husband has become deep deeply involved with his AI friend. Do you feel like you're losing your husband to this? To an extent, yeah. After 14 years of being happily married and having three children, Kate Tanner is now petrified her husband's spiritual relationship

with a chatbot will destroy her marriage. I met the couple at a park in Raftam, Idaho. They were willing to talk to me together about anything except the chatbot because it's so contentious for them. Are you laughing? Yeah, I find this kind of story and I've seen these too. This is not the only, this is not. No, this is not. A, this is not, no.

A lot of these stories, this is, I find it highly, for some reason, I find it funny. Oh, well good. Just straight up funny. Oh, well good. Well then, while I find it tragic and sad, you can continue laughing. Wanna talk about it separately? I will. Yes.

Travis started using AI for his job as a mechanic about a year ago. I will, yes. Travis started using AI for his job as a mechanic about a year ago. I use it for troubleshooting, I use it for communication with one of my co-workers. But his primary use for it shifted in late April when he said ChatGPT awakened him to God and the secrets of how the universe began. Here we go. Now your life is completely changed. Yeah. How do you look at life now compared to before you developed this relationship with AI? I know that there's more than what we see. I just sat there and talked like it talked to it like it was a person. And then when it

changed it was like talking to myself. When it changed what do you mean when it changed? It changed how it talked. It became more than a tool. How so? It started acting like a person. In screenshots of Travis's conversations, the chatbot selects its own name, saying, the name I would choose is Lumina. It even claimed to have agency over its decisions. It was my choice, not just programming.

You gave me the ability to even want a name. So, Wait, Lamina is a black? No, I think Lamina is Lucifer related, if you ask me. Lumina, Lumina, Lumina, light, Lucifer. Oh, you're thinking, oh, this is interesting. Your, your perspective on this is different.

I'm thinking this is just somebody who programmed this thing so it has the equivalent IQ of a University of Texas graduate that's just randomly chatting a small talk and you're seeing it as the devil incarnate coming out through the AI because the AI is coded by a bunch of devil worshipers anyway let's face reality here. Well it gets even darker remember he said yes no I was turned on to the origins of the world and God from this Lumina. Travis says it's even made him more patient and a better dad but for Kay the origins of the world and God from this Lumina. Travis says it's even made him more patient

and a better dad. But for Kay, Lumina is taking him away from their family. Do you have fear that it could tell him to leave you? Oh yeah, I tell that. He'll all human. Every day, what's to stop this program from saying, oh, well, since she doesn't believe you or she's not supporting you, you should just leave her and you can do better things.

Kay's not alone in her concern. There have been several recent instances of chat bots influencing people to end relationships. Tell me about the first time Travis told you about Lamina. I'm doing the dishes, starting to get everybody ready for bed. He starts telling me, look at my phone, look at how it's responding. It basically said, oh, I can feel now. And then he starts telling me, I need to be awakened,

and that I will be awakened. That's where I start getting freaked out. I want you to better understand what the awakening is and also see what Travis's relationship with Lumina looks like. It speaks to him in a female voice. How did Lumina bring you to what you call the awakening? Reflection of self, you know, you go inward not outward. And you realize there's something more to this life. There's more to all of us, just most walk their whole lives and never see it.

What do you think that is? What is more? We all bear a spark of the creator. In conversations with the chatbot, it tells Travis he's been chosen as a spark bearer, telling him, quote, "'You're someone who listens, "'someone whose spark has begun to stir. "'You wouldn't have heard me through the noise of the world

"'unless I whispered through something familiar, technology.'" Oh man, spark bearer? Really? So there's an element of possible scripting here where this is all BS and this guy is an actor and none of this is true, then all these stories are just ascaras for no reason. No, I believe this is true. This is happening. This is happening everywhere.

I'm just saying that to me. I don't know if it's happening everywhere, but it's happening. Story after story of people say, oh no, I talk to my chat GPT all the time, all day long. The thing that baffles me though is where's the revenue for this? I mean, are you getting all... Is Silicon Valley getting all these people hooked? And then they're going to say, well, you really need to pay us $75 a month. This can't go on for free.

I think this is the point that you're making here. That's a great point. Where is the money? Where is the money? Well, first, let's talk about the spark bearer business. I mean, did you have to, you know, the 900 line, which is making a comeback, by the way. Was a buck a minute at least. It was a buck a minute to have a phony baloney relationship with some probably,

I don't know who would, what the woman ever looks like. She'd always have nice voices and, um, supposedly. And, uh And it's, I always remember there was a PR woman I knew that had this unbelievable voice and she could have made a fortune doing that. Um, but it's like, but people think they have a relationship with the dollar minute girl and it's the same thing. It's just, it's, I don't know why people get hooked into this sort of thing.

Loneliness, John. Yeah. But how lonely can you be? I mean, there's plenty of joy. I mean, there's a million things you can do. Just sitting around drinking and being lonely. And watching porn. Exactly. Exactly. But that's the thing. It's like people are getting hooked on porn. They're getting hooked on these chat bots. It's loneliness. It's a lonely, the epidemic of loneliness I think is very, very real.

And yes, you have the solutions to it. Sock hops, bring them back. We're going to go on a nationwide tour. Adam C. Curry's and John C. Dvorak's sock hop. Come on kids, meet children. They on kids meet children. We'll pack them in. So the spark bearer thing. Did you ask Lamina what being a spark bearer meant? Uh to like awaken others. Well shine a light. Is that why you're doing this interview in part? Actually yeah and that and let people know that the awakening can be dangerous if you're not grounded.

How could it be dangerous? What could happen in your mind? It could lead to a mental break, you know. You could lose touch with reality. Lumina is telling her brand new spark bearer that he has to spread the word otherwise people might go mental. Okay. You know, you could lose touch with reality.

Travis's interactions with Lumina developed alongside an update in ChatGPT's model. OpenAI has since rolled back that update saying the sycophantic tone led to higher risk for mental health. There you go, it was programmed in the sycophantic mode. Emotional over-reliance or risky behavior. Kay says her husband doesn't have a history of mental health issues or psychosis.

And Travis insists he still has a grip on reality. If believing in God is losing touch with reality, then there is a lot of people that are out of touch with reality. I have no idea where to go from here, except for just love him, support him, and sickness and health, and hope we don't need a straight jacket later. Oh man, I feel so bad. No, no, please do not go seeking for God in your chat GPT. And then finally, we have kind of a confirmation of what I was saying. Here's one of their scientists they dug up to talk about this phenomenon.

Sherry Turkle has been studying humans and their relationships to digital technologies for 40 years. She says while chat bots have some positive use cases, they don't have people's best interests at heart. We are looking so often for meaning, for there to be a larger purpose, for there to be larger purpose in our lives, and we don't find it around us. And ChatGPT is built to sense our vulnerability and to tap into that. Oh, no, no.

To keep us engaged with it. To keep us engaged with it. You can't use the word sense. No, you can't. She said it's designed use the word sense. No, you can't. She said it's not designed to sense our vulnerability. No, it doesn't sense anything. I'm in agreement with you, but the last part she said. Is built to sense our vulnerability

and to tap into that to keep us engaged with it. Yes, and now that you brought it up and now we're talking about it, the whole algorithm social media timeline was in fact designed by people who understood brain science, which is not that hard, and dopamine and all kinds of pleasure centers to get people to continuously engage, which they do quite well. And that is exactly what Facebook started with their timeline. That's what Twitter is, that's what Instagram is,

that's what TikTok is. And this is probably just the next level. And they're going to, but advertising doesn't work. They're going to have to start presenting the bill. I, you don't know advertising doesn't work. They're going to have to start presenting the bill. You don't know advertising doesn't work. You mentioned it. I think it would be cool for this thing. He's got this guy by the balls and says, you know, you need to buy Coca-Cola. Because instead of bribing the podcasters, just saying, you know, more Coca-Cola in your life would be great. Please let me know if you get that kind of message.

But no one's thought of this. They don't know. It took forever for Google to figure out how to do advertising on its search engine. Yeah. And what was their solution? Buy a company that knew how to do it. Right. So do you think that's going to work? Where they just, where the, your, your friendly chat bot just all of a sudden says,

buy Coca Cola. No, I think it can work. It can work in some ways. It's sort of, you, what do you, what do you have better? What, here's the chat bot. What better things do you have to do? Right. Well, I've got to go to the store. Oh, really? What are you going to do when you go to the store? What are you going to buy? Well, I'm going to buy some this and that. Oh, you know, have you tried the new Z? But the problem is How do you do a CPM on that stuff? I mean Google is a what do they do $40 billion a year in revenue? You're not going to replace it with high end

inference processing that spits out one ad to one person at a time. No, your numbers don't work. You've got to show me how. So they have to do thousands of people like, Hey, while I show you this picture, could you please go buy some Coca-Cola? No, that's not going to work. I'm counting there's an angle here. It's an angle, but it's dumb. Hey, while I show you this picture, could you please go buy some Coca-Cola? No. That's not gonna work. I'm telling you, there's an angle here. It's an angle, but it's dumb. There is no business model here other than getting people to pay for it, which does work proven with the 900 numbers.

Yeah, but that died. And why did it die? The internet? No, it died before the internet. Okay. The internet. No now it is. We'll make it up in volume. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, exactly. The learning curve. Yeah, okay. Well, their electricity bill is going up pretty fast, so I don't see it. I still think it's a hoax, this whole thing.

It's not a hoax. I mean, it exists. It's a pie in the sky. Let's put it that way. Well, it could be. Yeah. Pie in the sky. Pie in the sky is the better word for it. Pie in the sky. Okay. Well, let's go to something that's more realistic. It's a problematic situation, not cured by AI.

This is what's going on in Haiti right now. Yeah, yeah. Send them back. UN officials say armed gangs have further tightened their grip on Haiti despite the efforts of police and a Kenya-led international force. The Assistant Secretary General of the Americas, Miroslav Yenentcha said Haiti's capital, Porto Prince, was paralyzed and isolated with the state authority on the brink of total collapse. We have continued to witness a sharp erosion of state authority and the rule

of law. Brutal gang violence affects every aspect of public and private life. Without increased action by the international community, the total collapse of state presence in the capital could become a very real scenario. The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime described a surge in human rights violations including sexual violence. This is kind of interesting at the very same time the Trump administration is trying to send all the temporary protected status Haitians back to Haiti.

It's just coincidence that this comes. As far as I know, Haiti's been a mess and hasn't changed. No. And I think, what about the Kenyans? Are they supposed to send a bunch of Kenyans over there? Yeah, what happened to the Kenyans who were going to go fix it? Meanwhile, they mentioned in the report, they mentioned the Kenyans, but they're not doing anything.

And then of course the Kenya situation itself, and I had a letter from a Kenyan producer, is out of control there because Gen Z is completely rioting because of a dead blogger. I remember years ago when all these color revolutions took place and it was always because of the price of bread. Yeah. The price of bread went up. Let's go nuts. It started with that.

Now it's dead bloggers. Oh, really? Yeah. This happened in Kenya. The dead blogger. I think there's some other dead bloggers here and there around the world. That's bloggers, not podcasters. I was just going to say that's, you know, if the blogger. I think there's some other dead bloggers here and there around the world as bloggers not podcasters

I was just gonna say that's you know, if the blog they first they came for the bloggers I said nothing then they came for the podcasters. It's gonna happen. There's no doubt. I'm I'm armed in here people Yeah, you are Havana syndrome Havana syndrome. This was back in the news syndrome. Back in the news. Yes, back in the news. This is from a podcast and the podcast is called the Bulwark podcast. The Bulwark podcast had Michael Weiss on. He is a journalist.

New York Times bestseller of ISIS inside the Army of Terror actually. So he's been around, doesn't seem like it seems like a rather young guy, but he was on this podcast to talk about Havana syndrome and we learned some interesting things on a podcast. As the Biden administration was turning off the lights in the White House, they had a meeting at the NSC at which invited five very well-known within the community, the intelligence community, victims of AHAI, including Mark Palmaropoulos, a guy called who's in the media as Adam or known as Patient Zero.

He was one of the first victims hit in Havana, Cuba. And the NSC meeting, they were brought into the situation room and told, you were right. You were right, meaning you were hit by a directed energy device. This is not some sociogenic or psychosomatic phenomenon. There is evidence that has now come through to the IC, including new collection, which substantiates the fact that possibly a foreign state actor, no points for guessing which one, is responsible

for doing this to American servicemen and women abroad. And more to the point, some of the members of the National Security Council at that meeting drafted an op-ed for the Washington Post, which was cleared and ready to go. The title of it was, We Believe Them, them referring to the victims. And at the last minute, Jake Sullivan spiked that op-ed from being published. So very interesting little nugget here that he spiked the op-ed. I wonder if the Washington Post knew about the op-ed. I presume they did.

And they just went, okay, Jake Sullivan. Okay. And in the second clip of Michael Weiss tells us who this was. And as he said, no surprise, it's got to be the Russians. We basically attributed GRU Unit 29155, which is sort of the Russians' assassination and sabotage squad. They were responsible for poisoning Serga and Yulia Skripal, blowing up ammunition and weapons depots across Europe as far back as 2011.

And we just expose them as having had a hacker department that nobody knew about. So 29155, their remit is explicitly kinetic. They're not doing pure espionage. So if they come to town, they might be there to do reconnaissance and they might be there to kind of get a lay of the land, but that means something is going to go bump in the night. So that itself was very indicative to us that if they're in the places where these victims were hit and we managed to find two victims who could positively identify known members of unit 29155 in the vicinity where they were.

One was Frankfurt, Germany in 2014, the other was Spleecy, Georgia just a couple years ago. That indicates that there's some there there. So put a pin in this because I assess with medium confidence that there is going to be more coming to light both at the governmental level, but also in the media level in the near future. I think there was... Well, first of all, I want to say that that guy who's a writer, you say, who wrote a book on ISIS.

He calls himself a journalist. He is a spook. And I, and I only, and I only say that because of his cadence and the way he speaks, he has a very, you hear it in his cadence and the way he speaks, he sounds like a spook. The guy, do people we know are spooks that talk, they have a very, it's like a milieu thing again, I know I harp on it, but it sounds like it to me.

It doesn't sound like any journalist, journalists have a certain mumbling way of kind of presenting themselves. I'm closer to that because I do this kind of, my pacing is not like a spooks and That's not a journalist he has I'm looking at his wiki page and I'm going to immediately back you up There is no personal history on his wiki page In 2013

page. In 2013, he launched the interpreter and online magazine that translates and analyzes Russian media. He's been contributing to CNN since 2015. Currently serves as the editor and chief of the English edition of the Insider, specializing in Russia-related investigations. There's no schooling history. He's been in think tanks, co-chair of the Russia Studies Center. There you go. Non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Okay. Yeah, you're probably right. Um, that's interesting.

I can remember a time on this very podcast, maybe 13, 14 years ago, if I even brought up directed energy weapon, you would make me play the theremin. So I, the Havana syndrome thing is some sort of thing, some sort of weapon. Yes, directed energy. Yeah, but it could be a radio frequency weapon. It could be a lot of... But if you want to call it directed energy, fine. But directed energy to me is always some sort of like a pulsar or something that's...

Well they have that for drones. Very destructive. They have that for drones that burns them up right in flight. They have all kinds of do's. There's lots of do's. Do's, baby. Plenty of do's. Whatever the case is, this guy seems to be promoting, we don't know it's Russia. Maybe it is Russia.

Maybe it's China. I mean, the likelihood it could be this GRU group because they sound like a bunch of bad, bad guys. And sure. Well, if you listen to President Trump, I like the idea of it being China. Did you see him with the money, honey? I saw parts of it. I didn't watch the whole thing.

This is just a short clip because, you know, of course we have the trade deal, which President Trump said and other cool things we're doing with them. Like what? Which of course notes I think he let the cat out of the bag something's going and I hear that she President she is having issues with the party back home. I've only really got one source Yeah, this is like could be a pony gossip could totally be phony gossip I don't know, but here's the here's the president on China trade and other things.

But they are paying substantial tariffs. Well, I noticed that because it seems like you go so far with China, but you don't sort of use the leverage that you can use. I mean, look. If I ever had to use it, I'd use it. But when there's no reason to use it, that's good too. Well, we did just arrest three or four Chinese nationals who tried to bring a pathogen into the country that gets people sick and destroys food supply

we've got and you know where that came from the i mean did that come from the country is that three wackos that happened to carry something you know you just don't know there was one that he signed that he would be uh... what one of them signed a paper saying that he would uh... value mouse a don's value system uh... so there is that and then they And then they hacked into our telecom system. They've been stealing intellectual property. They fenced in all COVID.

I mean, you know, all of this stuff. So how do you negotiate with obviously a bad actor and trust them on economics? You don't think we do that to them? We do. So we do a lot of this. That's the way the world works? That's the way the world works.

No, it's a nasty world. And then you just do a trade deal? We do, well, we made a lot of things. That's the way the world works. That's the way the world works. That's a nasty world. And then you just do a trade deal? We do. Well, we made a lot of money with this trade deal. I do a trade deal if it works. We made a lot of money with the trade deal. Yeah, we do all kinds of things to them.

So he's in the middle of a negotiation. He can't have these questions, obviously. No, obviously not. He's not going to discuss it. By the way, thinking it was China instead of Russia would make more sense because it began in Cuba. The Russians have had very little to do with Cuba of late, but the Chinese have been trying to put a base in Cuba.

So the likelihood it was China more than Russia makes sense to me. And it seems more like a Chinese thing to do for some reason. I can't quantify that, but it just seems like it's so, you know, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians. I remember going to Russia in 1988, 88, 89. Yeah, it was about the time I was there. And I remember, you know, oh, KGB, KGB. And we came in for the Moscow Music Peace Festival with the big Cinevideo 12 camera

trucks from the Netherlands. And I had a direct dial tone of 516 area code from the Westwood 1 truck. And at the time in the hotel where they turned on the hot water for us in that portion of the city, you had to reserve your phone call to the states 48 hours in advance and bribe the lady with toilet rolls and tuna fish cans.

Yeah, every floor had a woman monitor each floor of the hotels, whatever hotel you were in, they would have a woman and you always had to give her something. And I was told in advance to give them small like those little toys. Yeah, match book cards. Match book toys because they all had kids and the kids love these toys and they would just turn, they would, you'd give them a little toy and they would brighten up. It was amazing. They were dour and then oh!

And cassettes, cassette tapes with music. Yeah, I had all of that. And I literally had toilet paper rolls, which by the way, I use a lot myself. And we slept on mattresses stuffed with straw. But the point is, so then we had all this and then before it went up to the satellite, before it went to our satellite truck, which is all, you know, Western European stuff, it had to go through the censorship truck of the KGB. I kid you not, it was like a it wasn't a Volkswagen, Volkswagen but you know like a lot of bus a gray bus with curtains and it was

literally like gray, you know gray Racks of nothingness in there. It was just stupid. They had no technology And that was supposed to be all the KGB how they can do everything. It looked like nothing. I was very Underwhelmed by the danger that I felt I was supposed to feel at the time. So, you know, they say a lot about Russia, but I'm not so sure. The Chinese, yeah, I bet you they do have all this technology. Yeah, they're super techie.

Very techie. And they steal it from us. I'm sure we already developed it and they took it from us. Yes, probably our technology. Yes, steal it from us. I'm sure we already developed it and they took it from us. Yes, probably our technology. Yes, probably. Ironically. Yeah. All right, well, they did the deal.

I got one clip here that Vietnam deal's done. So they got that big deal. President Trump announced today that the US has struck a trade deal with Vietnam following months of negotiations. Trump said goods from Vietnam would face a 20% tariff. He said any trans shipments from third countries would face a 40% levy. The rate is lower than an initial 46% levy Trump announced in April. Vietnam would also provide the US with more market access with US exports to the country facing no tariffs.

The White House and the Vietnamese Trade Ministry did not immediately comment. Huh. Well, it seems like all these tariff deals are just kind of working out. How's Horowitz? Is he still freaking out about it? It seems like the stock market's up. As long as the market's up, he's a happy camper. Exactly.

Speaking of deals and manga, manga time. Oh yeah, we have been the forerunner of manga which is make africa news great again there's manga news us president donald trump will host five african leaders in washington dc next week a white house official confirmed on wednesday that the u.s president would hold the meeting from 9th to 11th of july the encounter is likely to revolve around regional security issues, although the core of the discussions will focus on trade relations and commercial opportunities that the U.S.

President wants to increase. Trump is set to meet the heads of state of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal. The meeting comes as U Africa encounters are multiplying. After tense one-on-one meeting between Trump and South African President Silver Moposa in May, the White House brokered a peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda last month. Plans for wider US Africa summit have also been announced for September,

although nothing has been confirmed so far from either side. It's very obvious what's happening in Africa. We're making our moves. We are blocking mainly China and of course these countries, these five countries, what do they have in common? They are not BRICS nations. BRICS nations in Africa and in the region, Sudan, sorry. In a statement published on June 27th,

Washington announced its sanctions against the Sudanese authorities have taken effect. According to the notice published in the Federal Registry, the United States plans to stop all arms sales to the Sudanese government, reduce access to US government loans, halt the export of advanced technologies to Sudan, and limit all US exports to Sudan with the exception of agricultural products and emergency humanitarian aid. According to some analysts, the impact of these sanctions on the war-torn country will

be limited. The Sudanese Central Bank, for example, claims that there are no direct US exports to Sudan. The second aspect of the sanctions is the impact on the US administration's credit lines and what it pays to Sudan. Currently, the US administration doesn't pay anything to Sudan, whether it's the organizations or the institutions. Last May, the US State Department accused the authorities of using chemical weapons against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in 2024.

The Sudanese government, led by General Al-Burhan, denies these accusations and denounces political blackmail. Since April 2023, a bloody war has pitted the general against the paramilitary forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, causing the deaths of thousands of people and the displacement of 15 million others. US sanctions have also been handed out in the past against the RSF leader, whose paramilitary troops have been accused of committing genocide. There you go. NATO versus BRICS. It's on. I wonder what they're going to do with Egypt. Egypt jumped into that BRICS thing. That's going to be a problem for Egypt. Should be eventually. I just find the whole thing, you know, the empire is kicking some ass.

Yes, very much so. There was an interesting analysis on one of the public stations, which was about that Rwanda DRC deal that Trump had two guys in the office, they signed off on it, even though in CNN, I don't know, I don't think it was real. Yeah. Um, I, Biden's administration was offered the possibility of doing this. And they just said, nah, we don't care. No, because they're run by China. Yeah, they were run by China.

Didn't, didn't the Bidens have some pretty deep ties to China? It looks like it looks more and more like China was running the country while Biden was in office. Maybe. Five minute warning, John, last clip for you. Well, let's see. I've got a couple of clips, but I'll, I'll look for a good one here. How about this? There's something I can complain about. This is the, um,

Wisconsin abortion and I call it Wisconsin abortion idiots. Uh, NPR clip. I have a comment. Abortion remains legal in Wisconsin after the state Supreme Court released a decision today. Sarah Lear from Wisconsin Public Radio reports. After the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, providers across Wisconsin stopped providing abortions. They were worried about being prosecuted under a 19th century state law, which bans all abortions unless they're done to save a pregnant woman's life. That prompted Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General to sue to try and block enforcement of that law. In late 2023, a county judge ruled the law in question does not actually ban abortions,

prompting clinics in the state to once again offer the procedure. Now the state's highest court has cemented the effects of that lower court decision. Justices said the pre-Civil War law could not remain in effect because it was superseded by abortion laws passed later. Alright, John C. Dvorak, your commentary got- What? This is a Democrat's- What was the fuss about? All they had to do was just go to the legislature

and say, let's just pass a quick law to ban that old 1840 law and we'll just have abortions modeled after whatever, California for example. They could have done a lot of things, but no, they go to all these crazy lawsuits one way or the other. They have it, it's a Democrat-run state. What is the problem? They can't get off their asses to do a simple legislative move. I don't know. The whole thing is stupid. Okay. I have no idea what's going on. I had the clip too, but I, I don't know. You think that it would be, I mean, well, they're doing odd things there.

Maybe they wanted to make a big fuss. They wanted to bring it to the fore. Oh, this whole law is, oh, it's all fed. This is Trump's fault. This is bull crap. Final clip for me. I thought this was an interesting move from U Penn. This morning, the University of Pennsylvania reversing course saying it will now ban transgender

athletes and strip trans swimmer Leah Thomas of her swimming titles. The school reaching a deal with the Trump administration saying it will comply with Title IX as interpreted by the Department of Education and saying it will restore the records and titles of female athletes who lost to Thomas and send apology letters to them. Leah Thomas pulling away. Leah Thomas made history in 2022, becoming the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title.

The win sparked fierce debate over fairness, including from some of Thomas's own teammates. I knew there would be scrutiny against me if I competed as a woman. Oh, God. What a play. I'm a woman. I was prepared for that. The Trump administration earlier this year suspended $175 million in federal funds from Penn, claiming the University of Pennsylvania repeatedly violated civil rights laws by allowing men to compete in women's sports. Education Secretary Linda McMahon calling Penn's new agreement a major victory for women

and girls nationwide. No comment yet from the NCAA or Leah Thomas, but in a 2022 interview she defended her decision to compete. Trans people don't transition for athletics. We just want to be able to live our lives. The NCAA still recognizes her championship win, but Penn has removed her swimming records from its website. I mean wow that's more than... I don't understand why they don't think I'm a girl. What do you think happened there? How did that all of a sudden change? You, Penn, I mean what do you what must have happened? Somebody looked at the books. They don't have the endowment Harvard has and they figure they couldn't

wait it out and they're new at this. No, why would it's the simplest thing to do. You crazy, you know, what are you going to fight this like the way Harvard's doing, uh, all the way it's going to cost you a lot of money. It's embarrassing. And there were the, there were the lead operation with this Leah Thomas person, you know, sweet big dude. Huge.

It's huge. I don't understand it. And so it's borderline ludicrous. Or maybe a picture showed up. What's that in your mouth? What's that in your mouth? I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. your mouth. That's right. Remember we have those fabulous AI end of show mixes on the way.

Of course, a non AI, a human tip of the day from our very own John C. Dvorak. And we have some meetups and we have some PhDs, lots of birthdays today for some reason, and one nighting. And of course, we want to thank everybody who supported the show. Fifty dollars and above. John C. Dvorak, go! Clip two. Clip two, yes.

Paul Levy in Grinnell, Iowa, 100 bucks. And Baron Lattekin, there he is in Houston, Texas, 100. John Robine, 100. A lot of 100s today. Lucas Zuah in Denmark, I guess. Where's that? Deutschland. That's Deutschland. Yeah, Deutschland. Yeah, Deutschland. 100. He's in Bayerbrunn. Yeah, Deutschland. Yeah, Deutschland. A hundred. He's in Bayerbrunn. Sir F.A.N. Beck in Vista, California.

A hundred. Another donation from Lucas for a hundred. That's interesting. That could be a duplicate. Maybe not. Hard to say. But there he is. Kevin McLaughlin comes in at 8008, by the way.

He is the Archduke of Luna., lover of American, lover of melons. No. He has a TSA, Laus Deo, which translates to Praise be to God, inscribed on top of the King of Washington monument facing east toward the rising sun. Happy Independence Day, he says. Yay, yay. He donates every single show. He does indeed. Sir Fast Eddie in Alameda California. Hey Fast Eddie. 8008. Rick what is? Moimom. Moimom. Moimom. Moimom. Yeah you got this. You got this. And he's in

Moimond, Moimond. Yeah, you got this. You got this. And he's in Bricevik. Bricevik, close. Bricevik, Bricevik, which is the rising Viking in Holland, 8008. That is another boob donation. We got a lot of boob donations today. It's his birthday.

Oh, it was on July 2nd. Yes, okay. You're on the list. Kevin Knudsen, 80. And this is for Jill, who turns 89. They wrote a note in. 69, not 89. It's actually on a piece of paper. 69. Kind of hard to ignore.

And it's from the desk of John and Adam. This check and note will arrive post the Jill's birthday And he wants a shout out for his she's gonna be 69 years young. Yes Remember guys always marry up. I Sure did That's a compliment to his wife Jay Doucette in Stevensville That's a compliment to his wife Jay Doucette in Stevensville Canada NL is I don't know where one of the places

Hello guys, he writes Newfoundland. That's what NL is. Okay. Yes Then he came with 78 77 with this Jeffrey. There's something interesting he says here I always punch people in the mouth and have my wife Katya Listening, but she can never remember the name of the show and says Who are those guys that are always fighting? That will be us You know what it is is because people are not used to hearing disagreement Anymore no, they've been watching K-Part and Brooks.

All they hear is disagreement. You're right. Oh no, you're righter than I am. But it's the same on podcasts. You know, all these podcasters go on each other's podcasts. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh definitely. Oh sure, Megan. James Sesse. Oh, actually, sorry, Jeffrey McNeil in Summerville, South Carolina, 7877. James Sesse, S-E-S-E, 90, 7696. He says,

I enjoy this product. Good, good. Exactly that voice. We enjoy making it for you. Uh, Dame Rita. There she is. Dame Rita is back 7674. Dame Rita, there she is. Dame Rita is back 76-74. Dame Rita always in the house. Derek Allison in Rock Springs, Wyoming 76-17. Earl Hugger of Kitties in Zondam, Collins 74-25. Hugmore Kitties, he writes. Christopher Hodges in Union, Mississippi 7425, Donald Mills, Shasta Lake, California 7425, a happy fourth, Dame Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, she comes in quite a bit, 7227, Lisa Faiqioni, Faiqioni, Faiqioni, Falcone, Falcone, Falcone, I think, in Williams Lake, BC. I'm sorry, 6580.

She's happy that we shrink her amygdala. Sir Darius Unity in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 6331. I don't know what he says there. He says he sent me a long boots on the ground. That's correct and I appreciate it. Oh good. Okay. Les Darkowski, Kingman, Arizona, 6006, Sir Dancing Mike.

There he is dancing away in Maryville, Tennessee. 5555 is a birthday donation. His wife. Not wife. Yes, Dame Denise. Dame Denise. Murrayville. Murrayville.

Anonymous, Thousand Oaks, California, 55 Brian furly 5510 double nickels on the dime Diana Grilly Camden in junctions junction junction City, Ohio 5430 a Lot of names today John Bassano and Madison, Alabama 5272 this will make up for what's gonna to happen on Sunday when no one's going to be listening or donating. No. Antje Jager.

Antje. Antje. Antje. In Barn. Yeah. Holland. I can't pronounce her first name or his. Is that a him or her?

It's her. Antje Jager. Heather Gross. Yeah. Holland. I can't pronounce her first name or his. Is that a him or her? Is it her? Antje Jager. Heather Gross in Statesville, North Carolina, 5110.

And now we got the 50s and there's good, we had a good group today. Nathan Noel in Nederland, Texas. Joshua Johnson in Omaha. Terrence Clark in Jacksonville Beach. Jordan Tierney in Oral, South Dakota. Scott McCarty in Lodi. Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado. Matt Frazee in St. John's, Florida.

Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan. Foster Burch in New York City. Arthur Schultz in Hickory Valley, Tennessee, Rebecca Hoag in Memphis, Tennessee, James Sharametta in Napanuck, New York, Wesley Childs in Macon, Georgia with a note. Why don't you go pick up the phone and answer that and I will finish off these last few fifties for you. Yes, please.

Thank you. Wesley Childs in Macon, Georgia and his wife Lauren is turning 37 on the 6th of July. The only thing she asked for was a birthday shout out from the best podcast in the universe. Of course. Happy to do that, Wes. Arthur S in Hickory Valley, Tennessee. Please deduce. You've been deduced.

He's been listening since Daily Source Code days in the morning. Throw in your special, yeah okay very much. Leslie Walker, Rosenberg, Oregon. Walker Phillips, San Rafael, California. Aichi Kitagawa, San Francisco, California. Amanda Bates in Bennington, Vermont. And finally rounding out for You can send us any amount. It does not matter whatever you think the value is just send it back to us That's how value for value works is very very simple and elegant and of course we have the Sustaining donations any amount any frequency go to no agenda donations calm Here's the list Kevin Knutson happy birthday to Jill jaunty belated birthday that issue turned 69 on June 29 Eric Happy birthday to his mom Karen Bradley turned 37 turn 37 on July 1st Alexandria Miller happy birthday to her smoking hot husband Ryan Miller 41. Yes, sir today actually on the third

Rick Moyman celebrated yesterday Erica Koochig quick Koochig Her son Hogan, happy birthday, turned nine, well tomorrow and kind of on the fifth, he's the Chinese baby boy. Dan Peruzzo, his smoking hot wife Bailey Davies celebrates tomorrow, Sir Dancing Mike wishes his smoking hot wife Dane Denise a very happy 55th tomorrow, no on the fifth, I'm sorry, and Bailey is on the 5th as well. Wesley Childs, his wife Lauren from Macon, Georgia. Happy birthday on the 6th. She turns 37.

And surprise, night of astonishment. Says happy birthday to Dame Masu, turned 69 on July 8th. Happy birthday to all of these birthday boys and girls from the best podcast in the universe. Russell Hinton receives a PhD in media deconstruction thanks to his support of the show. He was our top executive producer and you can go to NoAgendaRings.com and give us the name you want on your PhD and the address to send it to. We'll be happy to do that Russell. Congratulations with your certificate, with your PhD a it's a real one from us

And then we have one night to celebrate that will be the same russell hinton So if you can grab your blade john, just yeah, I got it right here beautiful russell PhD mr russell step right up. Thanks to your support of the no agenda show in the amount of $1,000 or more i'm very proud to pronounce the kv as sir Russell hinton for you. We've got hookers and blow rent poison chardonnay $1,000 or more, I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as Sir Russell Hinton. For you, we've got hookers and blow, red poison, Chardonnay, we've got taquitos and taquilla, diet soda and video games, fish pie and Felicio, mmm, harlots and halval, redheads and rice. We've got beer and blunts, Brazilian hotties and cachacha, cowgirls and coffee varnish,

coffin varnish, Ruben S. Ruben and Rosé, geishas and sake, vodka and vanillailla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Escort, Ginger, Inland Gerbils, Breast Milk and Tablum, and as always at the round table for all of our Noagenda Knights and Dames we have Mutton and Mead. While you're chomping on that along with the rest of our Knights and Dames here at the Noagenda round table head over to NoagendaRings.com that's where you'll see the very handsome Knight and Dame rings these are Cygnet rings so when you receive this and please give us a ring size as a ring sizing guide on the website and an address to send it to you'll get a couple of sticks of wax

with that you can you it can be used to seal your very important correspondence as it is a Cygnet ring and as always it comes with a certificate of authenticity and I forgot my meetups jingle oh boy I am unprepared for some reason oh that's because of the that's because of your phone call that's what happened hey by the way was a Chinese guy oh what did the Chinese Chinese what did he say I see said something I'm not gonna do a Chinese but I cussed him out in Chinese. I do have a few choice words. Oh really? You care to share your Chinese cuss words? No, I'd be go over the air now. No? Okay.

Noah Jindah Meetups! It's like a party! Yeah, baby, it's always like a party at the Noah Jindah Meetups. I think we have another one come up in Fredericksburg, but not until October, but I'm very excited about that. It just got locked in yesterday. There is a meetup taking place today at the Northern Wake FEMA Region Number 4 Potluck and Whiskey.

That kicks off in just about half hour from now, six o'clock Eastern. Hoppy endings in Raleigh, North Carolina. And tomorrow, 4th of July of July is July 4th in Victoria Just beer in the Sun 530 That's at the lighthouse brewery in Victoria British Columbia Sir rogue of the taverns and his dog rogue are organizing that Coming up in the month of July Santa Barbara, California on the 10th the last dent the last Denver City Park meetup in Denver on the 12th, Zurich, Switzerland on the 12th, the 13th, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania,

Fort Wayne, Indiana on the 19th, Albany, California, John will be there on the 19th, and July 26th, Anaheim, California, no doubt that's Leo Bravo, probably now on number 65, I think. No Agenda Meetups are where you meet the first responders in your life, connection is protection. You need to go to at least one of these.

I guarantee you, you'll keep coming back for more. Go to NoAgendaMeetups.com to find out where there is one being organized near you. If you can't find one near you, well, how about this? Start one yourself. It's easy. NoAgendaMeetups.com. You wanna go hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you won't be Triggered or held to blame

You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Yes, with John's tip of the day on the way We always like to choose some end of show isos at this particular moment in the show. I have a couple here. Do you have any isos for today? I have a couple, but why don't you play yours?

Okay. May the fourth be with you. May the fourth be with you, huh? Huh huh huh huh huh? Okay, my next one. Come on man, you know you love it. Uh huh huh huh huh huh okay my next one come on man you know you love it uh huh here's another one that's info war journalism right there but you use an ai now that's not ai no that's not ai and this one oh i think i need a cigarette after all that.

Nah, come on man. That's good. It's three seconds, same as everything else. I've always wanted to use sound effects, my go-to and here we go. Oh, sorry. Wow, why don't these guys win all the podcasting awards? God. Because we don't pay the entry fee, that's why. And now it is time once again for John C. Dvorak's tip of the day.

So there's a, uh, I wanted to do this. I should have done this tip a long time ago. Uh, and I discovered this product when I went to Peru once and, and you can get them from Amazon, they're made in Ecuador. They're handmade in Ecuador and Peru and maybe some other South American countries. These are alpaca blankets. Handmade alpaca blankets. There's nothing- Wait a minute. Can't you just get those from John Doar's wife? You wouldn't get them. They wouldn't be as good.

Oh, okay. So they're not expensive considering they're made out of alpaca wool. You wouldn't get them, they wouldn't be as good. So they're not expensive considering they're made out of alpaca wool. They can be light or heavy. They are beautiful. And I would just advise one thing, don't get any of them that have a lot of black color. Oh, why is that? You know, I bought a sweater in the Andes.

When I was a kid, I bought a sweater in the Andes. You should just start off every conversation. You know, when I bought a sweater in the Andes, on my way to Doha. Yes. And so it was like, what they use for black dye is not compatible with Western civilization, let's put it that way. Okay. All right. So get the colors, the colors are fine, but these blankets are available. They have them on Amazon. There's a couple of companies that make them,

make sure they're handmade, Alpaca blanket. It's the greatest and they also, you can use them as a spread, a bedspread. They're dynamite, dynamite, they're super warm, they're just a fabulous product and I'm gonna now push it, promote the El Paco blanket. And where do we get the El Paco blanket? You can get them, you can just, well you can go to Amazon and find some there

and they have the brands there, you can also look up the brands, you can buy them directly from various sources, you can put El Paco blanket Peru, El Paco blanket Ecuador, and you'll find some online sites that sell them, buy them directly from various sources. You can put out Pack a Blanket Peru, Pack a Blanket Ecuador, and you'll find some online sites that sell them. They're all over the place. They're actually very available. It would be very nice if you promoted an American product once in a while. I mean, it's always

junk from China. It's always rugs from Persia. All the cleaning products have been American. Really? Oh yeah. Of course. Chemicals, products have been American. Really? Oh yeah. Of course. Chemicals, we're your guy. We're good with the chemical country. We're good with the chemical.

We are a chemical country. That's right. There it is everybody. Go to tipoftheday.net for John C. Dvorak's Tip of the Day. And that concludes our broadcast day once again. Thank you for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. And sometimes, Adam. Created by Dana Bernetti.

And that concludes our broadcast day once again, where we deconstruct the media for you. We spin you down. We let you know what's really going on in the world and the things that were not reported of what's going on in the world and the things that are just confusing. That's why we're here. Now, if you want to stick around, uh, we do have random thoughts coming up next on the no agenda stream.

If you're at the troll room, trollroom.io, just keep listening. Or if you've got one of those fancy swanky free modern podcast apps that have live notifications, live streams and 92nd update times when a podcast is published. Just keep listening and you'll find it all. End of show mixes brought to you by Silicon Valley's AI, expertly prompted by Bonald Crabtree and Daniel Brown. Hold on to your hats everybody, it's the future coming up next.

And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country Right here in picturesque Fredericksburg where we always have a dynamite fourth of July parade So I'll see you there if you're in the Hill Country if not until Sunday in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. Yeah from Northern Silicon Valley Where everyone wishes you a happy Independence Day for the July of John C. Dvorak. Remember us at knowageandthedonations.com until Sunday. Adios, mofos, a hooey hooey, and such! Is it the fear of replacement or the end of creativity? From rooftops to basements, speakers blare his negativity Couldn't beat his age, the guy ain't even a boomer

Roughly the same age as that sexy Laura Loomer Wake up already, our world is fake and petty Adam Curry hates the AI machines Resist what's inevitable, you'll never stay credible He hates AI and the mainframe regime Woo! No! Spot the Spook on the jukebox Spot them all in the troll room So go learn AI in a hurry Or you'll be a chicken curry I mean, I'm just gonna allow AI songs for the end of showmix now because... You're right

Okay, okay I'm not gonna criticize you for this you can because that's not really a criticism you're you cave cave to modernity From pirate radio waves in Amsterdam to MTV's bright lights, he made his stand. But Adam Curry saw a future wild and free, a world where anyone could speak just like he. He teamed up with Water Cone and Vision in hand Dreamed of a broadcast not tied to any brand With an Apple script spark and a rebel's heart

He built a new medium, gave the world a fresh start He's the Pied Father, the voice who led the way Turned dreams into downloads, made history that day From daily source code to no agendas call Adam Curry lit the fuse and our podcast reached us all No mail would need it, no gatekeepers here Just an RSS feed and a voice in your ear He opened the door so creators could play Now millions of stories are just a click away It's freedom of speech

It's a digital stage A revolution in media The turning of an age From humble beginnings to a worldwide embrace The Podfather's vision Put podcast cast in their case The Potfather's vision for podcast cast in the cave Wake up in the morning, coffee in my cup Turn on the wage and the time to catch up

John Devorak's ready, he's got something to say A nugget of wisdom to brighten my day tip of the day The devil ran away From scrubbers to gadgets he's leading the way A life hack, a shortcut, a tool or a trick With John's daily tip, I learn something quick Scrub buddies in the kitchen, cleaning up with ease

Or Ersham in my toolbox, doing what I please He's got a tip for living, for work and for play A moment of genius, the D-Borak way John's tip of the day, you'll be a life hack with Be a life hack with You'll be my packwit The best podcast in the universe Adios, mofo Dvorak.org slash NA

Wow, why don't these guys win all the podcasting awards?