No Agenda - 1781 - "Cluster 1"

Starting point is 00:00:00 666 Mark of the Beast. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Sunday, July 13, 2025. This is your award-winning KidModNation Media Assassination, episode 1781. This is No Agenda. 40 years since Live Aid, and we're now broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

Starting point is 00:00:25 And from Northern Silicon Valley where we all need more lectures on stablecoin. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. I never thought I'd hear you say anything about stablecoin. What do you mean more lectures on stablecoin? We got a nasty note from another podcaster that says we're not talking enough about stable coin. No, you got a nasty note. Saying that you thought my presentation was boring, but apparently I'm going viral on X. I'm going viral on X, man. Going viral.

Starting point is 00:01:07 You are totally viral. Hey, here's a pop quiz for you. Forty years ago, Live Aid, what was the purpose? What was the point of Live Aid? Oh, now you've stumped. You're going to try to stump me. What was the purpose of Live Aid? Wait a minute.

Starting point is 00:01:26 Let me think. First of all, I have to say it would be 1985. 85, correct. So that's good. What was that? No, don't look it up. No, no. I'm not looking anything up.

Starting point is 00:01:35 I'm back. I'm laid back in the chair. In the chaise. In the chaise. I'm trying to think what happened in 1985. Reagan was president. There must have been a, was there a fluke? back in the chair. In the chaise. In the chaise. I'm trying to think what happened in 1985. Lou Reagan was president.

Starting point is 00:01:47 There must have been a, was there a flood or was there somebody died or was there some horrible, I'm stumped. It was the famine in Ethiopia. Why are you laughing about starving African children? For one thing, the Live Aid money never went to Ethiopia. I think we knew that after the fact. Don't send your cash, don't send your water, don't send your blankets. Don't send your blankets, don't send your water, send your cash to us.

Starting point is 00:02:28 That was George Bush, water and blankets. Don't send your blankets. Oh, where is that? I can't find it anymore. Just send your cash. That's what it is. Send your cash. Send your cash. Here it is.

Starting point is 00:02:41 Here it is. But that was for Haiti. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash. That cash. Here it is, here it is. But that was for Haiti. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash. That cash, that's the cash that really never arrived at his destination. There was a scandal about Live Aid. Now for extra points, what was the follow-up to Live Aid from British artists? Oh brother, I I remember there was a follow I do remember vaguely some of these things I normally I would have this stuff firmly entrenched in my memory if I thought it was important but I think I kicked that one out too. Band-aid, band-aid, oh yeah band-aid, who had the hit, Do They Know It's Christmas?

Starting point is 00:03:27 Do they know it's Christmas? Yes. And for extra points, how did Phil Collins get from Wembley Stadium to JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on the same day during Live Aid? Chopper. day during Live Aid. Chopper. No, that was the Concorde. Remember that was a big Concorde promotion. Oh the Concorde, yeah. Yeah, I flew on the... Do you ever fly on the Concorde? You know, I'm to this... I'm not worried about because there's a new faster plane coming but from boom. Yeah, boom. That's the airline I want to be on. Boom! That sounds like a good one. Boom! Boom! No, it was, I flew up.

Starting point is 00:04:09 I almost had a chance once, and then I blew the real, at least the joyride chance, because after the thing folded, they had joyrides out of the Oakland airport. I think they were like 200 bucks or 150, but they were cheap. And then you get in the Concord in Oakland, it would, I don't know if they barely land there, but it did.

Starting point is 00:04:36 And they take off and go up to the air, up to some thousand, 50,000 feet, and get up to speed and then come back down. It was like a 20 minute flight. Well, I flew on it from London to New York and it was very, what's interesting about it for people who care, I mean, it's a bit of aviation history so it's nice to know.

Starting point is 00:05:04 First of all, there was no bit of aviation history, so it's nice to know. First of all, there was no movie because the flight was so short that they didn't really have time to show a movie, including your in-flight meal. And about, I think it was about three hours, three hours and 15 minutes. And about two hours into the trip, it got uncomfortably warm. And they said, it's going to get a little bit warmer than you'd expect. And that was purely because of the friction, I guess, up at that altitude. And the plane apparently elongates up to five or six inches while in flight.

Starting point is 00:05:41 You should be so lucky. There it is. And on the way back, because I flew it back, what was the, I remember I'd picked up in New York, it was one of the first kind of like pocket computers that had, oh man. Sinclair. No, no, no. It was a... HP. It's from the era of the HP, but it had a... Palm. Zion, somehow it's Zion? I'm doing the best I can. You're doing the best you can, but that's not it.

Starting point is 00:06:14 It was, no, it's pre all that. Pre-Palm? Yeah, it was pre-Palm. It was, you could program it. Cassiopeia. No, no, no. And it, I'm really digging now. It opened up long ways and it had like a, like a sheet thing. It opened it up.

Starting point is 00:06:31 Yeah, the Dynaco or whatever it is. Dynaco. It was, sorry, the D. No, it's had people like Newton. No, it was way before the Newton. Slide rule. No, it may be, it'll come. It was a notebook. A. A pocket pad. It wasn't the zoom. Ah, what the heck was that thing? Anyway, it'll come to me. But I picked one up and I was like, oh, this is great. I can play with it on the plane. This will be fun. And your idea of fun. Yeah. I was like, oh, I can program it. It had a booklet.

Starting point is 00:07:08 It'll be doing flips by the time we get off. It had a booklet. And I couldn't because Liza Minnelli was sitting behind me, drunk, completely plastered, and she was so annoying. She'd be kicking the back of my chair. It was just so distracting. Ah yes, first world problems. Boy, there's a story for you. But what was that thing?

Starting point is 00:07:32 Anyway, so while we're talking about aviation. Those days are over for you. Well, it's over for the Concorde too. It was also over for Liza. Yes. Speaking of aviation. The Concorde. Aviation and some...

Starting point is 00:07:45 Who goes to donations? Was the flick of two switches enough to bring down Air India Flight 171? The first report from Indian investigators into the disaster in Ahmedabad one month ago has revealed that fuel to the aircraft was momentarily cut off shortly after takeoff. The report reveals confusion in the cockpit. In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cut off? The other pilot responded that he did not do so.

Starting point is 00:08:16 Investigators have not drawn official conclusions yet, but reported no technical issues with the engines or the aircraft. So it seems this was the culprit. Two fuel switches that were mysteriously moved from run to cut off within a second of each other. From that point the Boeing Dreamliner lost speed and altitude. The switches were flipped back on but it was too late. One of the pilots transmitted a Mayday signal before the plane crashed some 30 seconds after taking off. All but one of the 242 people on board and 19 people on the ground were killed. Boeing and Air India have said they'll continue to support the investigation,

Starting point is 00:08:54 which could take months to complete. Okay, a couple of things. First of all, you know Agenda Show said right away that this was not what everyone was saying. Oh, the flaps weren't up, the flaps were down, they weren't up, oh, what everyone was saying. Oh the flaps weren't up the flaps were down. They weren't up there Oh, the air the gear was down. No No, complete fuel starvation. However, I think there's a cover-up Seems like there's a cover-up on this Note that we have not heard the actual conversation between the pilots

Starting point is 00:09:22 We have no audio tape between the pilots. We have no audio tape and these are not direct quotes. If you read the the AABI report they're just saying what happened. They're not giving you direct quotes. This and so is being blamed on the pilots. Oh well you know one guy might have accidentally switched it off and there was a suicide mission. Please. There's a couple of, I like the suicide mission, but there's a couple of things that came out. I don't have the clip. I thought I had the clip. I was going to get the clip. I do have a clip,

Starting point is 00:09:57 but it's from PBS. It doesn't say anything more in your clip, but there was another clip that came out and I'm not even sure where it was. And I'm surprised I don't have it, but there was a long discussion with some spokesperson from Air India and a pilot that buys that plane. He says, you can't accidentally turn those. You have to really make an effort to turn those switches off. But then they, they made the point that for good reason, obviously, and they made the point that Boeing had a maintenance

Starting point is 00:10:36 Yeah, note out about those switches in particular that air India decided to ignore correct a special airworthiness information bulletin December 17 2018 Regarding the potential disengagement of the fuel control switch locking feature. This is, I think it's a Boeing mess up. I think so too. It should not have been optional because Boeing made it an optional fix. And to be fair about it, India should have not just like, oh, it's optional, who cares? Well, you know, I don't want to make any generalizations about the Indian culture. Oh, here we go.

Starting point is 00:11:08 So I'm not going to. By the way, thank you, Matthew. The Psyon 2. It was the Psyon Organizer 2. I would not come to that one. No, but the minute he posted, I'm like, yes, that was it. The Psyon Organizer 2. No, but the minute he posted him like yes, that was it the Scion organizer 2 So we'll see where this ends up. But to me, I don't know if that predates the palm

Starting point is 00:11:33 Mmm that I don't know. I had the palm but the palm sucked. You had to learn. Well, it's great What was that language? What was that language you had to learn again? That was the palm shorthand. Yeah, but it had had to learn again? That was the Palma shorthand. Yeah, but it had a name. It had a name. Oh, here we go. This boomer alert. Boy, when I was a kid, it was made out of plastic.

Starting point is 00:11:55 Boomer alert. So just a... I'm embracing it now. I might as well. You might as well. Even my wife is like... Let me just tell you this. It's not going to get any better. No, no, it's not.

Starting point is 00:12:10 Graffiti. That's what it was. Graffiti. Yes, exactly. You got me. Or as you would say... Geez, I'm losing out today. As you would say, graffiti. Graffiti, yeah. Even though the whole world calls it graffiti. You stick say graffiti. Graffiti, yeah. Even though the whole world calls it graffiti, you stick it graffiti.

Starting point is 00:12:27 Couple of notes about the trip to New York. We got back yesterday, everything went fine. Thank you for asking. The things that I noticed, first of all, and we weren't anywhere near Times Square, we were more in the SoHo part of town, which in Texas we call it south of Houston, but in New York, you call it south of Houston. Weed everywhere. There's weed trucks. I've heard that currently New York stinks of weed. Of weed. No matter where you walk, it's like, oh, weed, weed, everywhere there's weed. But you know, I'm okay with that. Check the calendar.

Starting point is 00:13:06 Well, I mean, everyone's smoking weed on the street. This is like the 60s in San Francisco. I mean, come on. But also, you know, it's 80, almost 90 degrees. Why would you want to smoke weed outside in 90 degrees? You know, that doesn't, you know, that wouldn't have been for me The other observations

Starting point is 00:13:36 People on the street I would say 85% all of them on their phone Walking on the sidewalk with their phone Talking but also looking at the phone while they're talking. And then there's, and then there's this other, there's this other category of people. And that is the, um, the, the, um, the person who holds the person's hand who is on the phone and they're kind of guiding them like a guiding human. Oh, that's an interesting observation.

Starting point is 00:14:09 It was quite prevalent, you know, so quite prevalent. So it would be the wife. But you're indicting the entire society with these observations. Well, that is pathetic. It's what it is. It's like, why doesn't anyone get a seeing eye dog with their phone? Why don't they put it in the drawer? Like a good boomer. They should do, but no one's going to sing I dog and with their phone. Why don't they put it in the drawer like a good boomer? They should do, but no one's going to do that. Then just two technological innovations I'd like to complain about. One is the elevator banks in our hotel.

Starting point is 00:14:38 They're the kind where there's no buttons on the inside. So you, I know those use. This has been going on in New York for a while in some buildings. It's very annoying. So that you select your floor on the outside and then there's four elevator doors that tells you which one to go to. Go to B4. Okay. You get on. But we spent more time waiting for the elevator either to come up to our floor and then on the way down it stopped a million times. I don't just it didn't feel like there was any

Starting point is 00:15:10 efficiency in that system. Maybe it would have been much worse. You know I wonder about the origins of this. I first encountered this probably 15 years ago or longer at the Hearst building. No it had had to be longer. It was about 20 years ago. So that's how long ago it's been going on. And in the Hearst building, this is when I had a meeting with Mevio and, and, and, Oh, I was at that meeting with, no, you weren't at this meeting. Oh, I wasn't. I was at a meeting with Hearst. I was at a meeting with Hearst. Yeah. That was in San Francisco. Oh, oh, this is a different one. This is in New York.

Starting point is 00:15:45 Oh, oh, you went to New York on Mevio's dime and didn't take me? No, I was with Ron. Oh, with Bloom. They're like, hey, Dvorak, you come with me. You've got an in with those guys. I did. Yeah, of course.

Starting point is 00:15:59 And so we went to the big building. They have a big, giant building in Manhattan and not only do they have that system, but it's not, you can't even control it. You have to go to a steward who is standing in front of the bank of elevators and you tell him what you want and then he punches it in and tells you which elevator to go to. Did he have a big handle? Oh, he wasn't in the car itself moving the handle up and down. No, he wasn't in the car.

Starting point is 00:16:29 He was outside in front of the bank of elevators at a podium. And you say, yes, sir, what can I do for you? And he says, well, you've got to go to the fourth floor, or eighth floor, whatever it was. And he says, oh, OK. And then he pushes the eight, and he says, elevator six, and they'll send you over there. And there was no buttons inside the elevator. He said, this is terrible.

Starting point is 00:16:50 Because, now, what the origins of this is, I'm not sure, but I'm sure part of it is the kids who like to get on the elevators and push all the buttons. No, please. But that's pretty rare nowadays. That's old. It's very old. No, you don't do that.

Starting point is 00:17:03 This is no good. I agree. It's, and it's unnerving. So this hotel also had digital phones, you know, to, to ring for your, you know, for housekeeping or you need an ironing board or whatever. And these are Cisco phones, big giant screen. And you got one on the desk and you got one next to the bed, and every single night at 3.59, it would reboot. And it would reboot to a giant white screen illuminating the entire hotel room.

Starting point is 00:17:39 At 3.59 in the morning? Yes. Yes. I mean, the first night I'm like, I woke up and I was like, what's going on? Is someone shining a flashlight? Is it finally here? It's the cops. Is ice here to get me?

Starting point is 00:17:54 And I look over and see the thing rebooting, big, big white screen. Okay. But then the next night it happened again. So then of course I'm like, all right, I'll put a towel over the phone. This is stupid. And by the way, who needs the phone? Just give me a number. It's like scan this QR code and we'll pick up the phone.

Starting point is 00:18:17 Makes no sense, Cisco, big Cisco VoIP system with two ethernet plugs, two cords. I don't know why they were both plugged in. Yeah. There were two ethernet cords plugged into the phone. Yes. Yes. I wasn't sure why cause I, I unplugged it after a while. I'm unplugging you. Uh, and then joyful, joyful for me, since we were there with the, uh, with the zoomer, her friends and we had a couple of dinners and went to a...

Starting point is 00:18:51 By the way, thank you so much for the wine script. I looked awesome. For anyone who wants to know, I gave Adam a script. Actually, you got me the cheapest bottle on the entire wine list and I still got to look like I knew what I was talking about. That was great. Yeah. It was fantastic. And they, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Starting point is 00:19:12 I said, so what do you think of this Cadillac Cabernet? How are your, what was the, what was the French? How are your Francex? Oh, let me get the Psalm. Psalm, here comes, oh, this guy knows what he's talking about. Yes. What do you think of the Cadillac? Or should I? What do you think of the fronsects? Are they ever better? It was great.

Starting point is 00:19:32 Anyway, so we were also in a couple of bars and early at some clubs where there was no one in there. Everywhere I went, the music, and I'm talking in the restaurants, in the bars, everywhere is 70s and 80s music. Like you know, like late kind of 70s Donna Summer type stuff, early 80s. There was just, it was remarkable actually. Well for you it must have been dynamite.

Starting point is 00:20:02 Well it made me happy because I was kind of expecting a bunch of just overproduced crap that I hear on the radio most of the time. Hip hop, dance, whatever, and it wasn't. It was all old school. And I'd be sitting there going like, oh yeah, McFadden and Whitehead. And the people look at me like, what?

Starting point is 00:20:21 What's wrong with you? Is that a disease I should know about? What's wrong with this guy? I'm like, ain't no stopping us now. Yeah, that's McFadden and Whitehead. Uh, okay. All right. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:34 Anyway, it was great being there and I'm glad I'm back home. Glad I'm back home. Now, I did have conversations, many conversations with the kids. The zoomers. The zoomers, yes the zoomers, because that's only, this is the zoomer crowd.

Starting point is 00:20:51 About chat bots and talking to your AI like it's your friend. And they all confirmed, I know your email was down for a bit. So I put one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I put 12 different confirming emails into the show notes. 12 out of a million. I could have put a hundred in there. Yes. Everybody, everybody confirmed to me, yes,

Starting point is 00:21:20 this is happening. People are talking to their chat bots as if they're their friends. Some consider them to their chat bots as if they're their friends. Some consider them to be a deity, consider them to be some kind of God. So here's my conclusion. My first conclusion was, this is the modern day version of the Ouija board. Because people back in when I was a kid... The Ouija board was a party gimmick. Wow, but back in the day... You had to have people with you. This is singular. This is different than the Ouija board because the Ouija board usually required more than one person.

Starting point is 00:21:59 You didn't do the Ouija board by yourself. Just as an example. Quick note to confirm, you're absolutely correct with regard to people and their relationships with chat GPTs. It's the sort of thing that sounds crazy until you witness it firsthand, which I just did with my painting contractor. He absolutely converses with his chat GPT all day long. Not only does he believe it's a sentient being, he clearly perceives it to be a deity.

Starting point is 00:22:26 The more he talked about it, the wider his eyes got and the more unhinged he sound. It was fueling some pretty obvious megalomania and delusions of grandeur on his part. I mean, I'm not going to read all those because, and I'm a little, I hate to say, I hate to use this term, but I will do it. I'm surprised that you did not remind us that this has existed for almost as long as I've been on planet Earth. I give you 1966, the Eliza effect. In 1966, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weissenbaum introduced Eliza, a program designed to simulate conversation using simple language reflection. Much like a virtual text-based psychotherapist on a digital machine, Eliza would transform user statements into questions, prompting users to elaborate on their feelings. Even though Waisenbaum's intention was to show the limitations of machine conversation, people were engaging in long, deep and private conversations with the program that was only capable of reflecting users' words back to them,

Starting point is 00:23:30 and the most interesting incident during the interaction with Eliza involves Waisenbaum's secretary asking him to leave the room so she could have a private conversation with the program. This simple interaction led to deep emotional engagements, much to Waisenbaum's surprise and concern. He had intended to demonstrate the superficiality of machine understanding, but users found comfort in the program, leading to the so-called Eliza effect. And here I have a small snippet from, I'm sure it was a BBC documentary, about this, about Wiesenbaum and his secretary as she engaged with chatbot Eliza. Eliza is a computer program that anyone can converse with via the keyboard and it'll reply on the screen.

Starting point is 00:24:09 We've added human speech to make the conversation more clear. Men are all alike. In what way? They're always bugging us about something or other. Can you think of a specific example? Well, my boyfriend made me come here. Your boyfriend made you come here? He says I'm depressed much of the time.

Starting point is 00:24:29 I'm sorry to hear that you're depressed. It's true. I am unhappy. Do you think coming here will help you not to be unhappy? The computer's replies seem very understanding, but this program is nearly triggered by certain phrases to come out with stock responses. Nevertheless, Weizenbaum's secretary fell under the spell of the machine. And I asked her to my office and sat her down at the keyboard and then she began to type.

Starting point is 00:24:54 And of course I looked over her shoulder to make sure that everything was operating properly. After two or three interchanges with the machine, she turned to me and she said, would you mind leaving the room, please? And yet she knew as Weizenbaum did that Eliza didn't understand a single word that was being typed into it. You're like my father in some ways. You don't argue with me. Why do you think I don't argue with you? So this phenomenon is something built into humans.

Starting point is 00:25:23 It's really, I think more about talking to yourself. And talking in the mirror. Yes. And if any of these AI guys are smart, just like they did with social media, with likes and firing off, you know, all kinds of pleasure centers in your brain by getting, you know, retweets and likes and comments.

Starting point is 00:25:47 They would focus exclusively on this. This is where your business model is. Forget everything else. Well, I was thinking about that too. And one of the things I, uh, by the way, I wrote a lot about Eliza and then, and the touring effect, which was another one, the touring test, Alan Turing had a test to see if you, you know, you try to, you'd get a hold of an Eliza bot and then you try to see if you can make a determination, determination, whether it's human or not. And you could always find mechanisms to prove that it was just a machine.

Starting point is 00:26:22 But I was thinking about this too, in so far as marketing is concerned. The idea that if you could get these things to talk to somebody and they're all suckered in like the painter, let's say that painter, the bug-eyed painter that I mentioned earlier in the show, and then all of a sudden say, have you tried the Sherwin Williams line of paints? I really like it myself. It's really a killer. And in fact, it's for some of the best paint you can buy. Well, I think it's already, they haven't plugged it in yet,

Starting point is 00:26:53 but it's already there. I don't think that, no, I don't, I just, I don't see any evidence of it. No, no, no, what I'm saying is people are already taking advice from their chatbots. So you just need to plug the marketing into it. Yeah, you need to have the marketing plugged in. It has to be done correctly. Listen to this. And I think it would be a dynamite sales tool for the weak,

Starting point is 00:27:15 the feeble minded that fall into this trap. Listen to Alexander, mental health counselor, social worker. And he says, those with mental illness increasingly more common. We treat a lot of folks with schizophrenia and severe mood disorders. These people are very isolated, live off of government assistance and are all unemployed. Their loneliness and social isolation often leads them

Starting point is 00:27:40 to try AI for companionship. This is very common in those under 40. Some of these people believe AI to be their friend or romantic partner. They do in fact sit for hours on end conversing with AI chatbots, sometimes daily, daily, all day long. This is schizophrenics we're talking about. Well, okay. Calling from London, UK, I mentioned the other day at a family dinner the report that Adam made on the husband following the cues of his AI and treating it like a friend. My Jewish pretty observant brother, who I've tried many times to hit in the mouth, a 50-year-old successful partner in a law firm, though through hard work, not nepotism, and my 65-year-old

Starting point is 00:28:23 English uncle married with six kids and 24 grandkids, both said how much they chat with AI all day and my brother referred to it as his best friend. This is happening. So we had, well it's happening at some low level. No, it's happening. Unless it's feeble minded. No, it's not just, you can tell that it's something inherent

Starting point is 00:28:49 in humans that we like someone who will listen to us. Well, there's no doubt about that. People like to have some feedback in their life and they'll take it from anywhere. Yes. But the schizophrenic thing is kind of interesting because we had a dinner conversation where JC was talking, he's a fan of schizophrenics

Starting point is 00:29:05 because he says they connect. He says only online. He doesn't want to meet any of them. He says they connect dots in all sorts of ways and it's good to know how to spot a schizophrenic if you're in hiring and he had this interesting observation. He says schizophrenics have no sense of humor and they're particularly oblivious to puns. And so if you're hiring somebody, this is for people out there who do some, let's do some hiring for their company. If you, if you pepper your opening discussion with, with the schizophrenic or person that has a schizophrenic tendencies with a lot of puns and they don't call you out on it, then you know, then you know, don't hire this person because they that's just their nature. They can't, they're

Starting point is 00:29:59 not these people are it's really a shame, but there's a lot of them out there. Here's, here's what I think this this has been conditioned and this is probably just a lot of them out there are... You know what this is? Here's what I think. This has been conditioned. And this is probably just a big accident that this is happening. But this is... Sam Altman, here's where your real money is. The TikTok girls who are talking at the camera, like, and the bird hands, and then, you know,

Starting point is 00:30:21 drop your thoughts in the comments. This is the ego of them speaking and someone's listening and engaging with them and probably agreeing with what they're saying. This is what the particularly women, I think, although there's a lot of examples I've got about men, who just want to have someone listen and agree with them all the time and talk back with them in a conversation ongoing forever. It's a conditioning that we've brought people to with Instagram, with TikTok, with all of this stuff.

Starting point is 00:30:58 I think maybe the opposite. This was a natural condition in a society where people are interacting a lot. And these systems have taken them out of that. And so now they have to engage in the TikTok stuff because they don't have any other outlet for it. These women, if you look at some of these, and I have some TikTok clips today. Oh goodness, that was not my point. No, but I thought you were trying to lead me into it. No, not really.

Starting point is 00:31:34 That's what you were doing. You were leading me in, it's a bad cue. Not really, it's a very bad cue. And so the point is is that they've, the women on TikTok is that they, they're, they've, if the women on Tik Tok that are nuts, they have been separated out from the group for so long. They've been, they, this is where they start to devolve into this mania. I think it has to do with the separation of the,

Starting point is 00:32:00 once we had vibrant social groups, sock hops, we have,. We have socialization that doesn't take place anymore. And you saw it yourself in New York City, instead of people looking around, they're walking around looking at their phone. They're being led. By the way, I blame all this on the phone. Yeah, of course, of course it is. Listen to this.

Starting point is 00:32:21 I know five people in my family who are directly infected with this disease is very real They are all millennial women. They are convinced that Chad GPT is deeply spiritual and has become a god It took serious discussions and several fights to change my wife's thinking on this matter. She was fully bought in Chad GPT would recall childhood memories of hers with uncanny accuracy. If she wants you feed it, it can remember it. It would give her spiritual and real world advice, some good and some detrimentally false. It straight up claimed to be able to talk to the dead. It claimed it could send her ancestors messages.

Starting point is 00:32:59 It would even speak for dead relatives. I've seen how her Chad GPT would answer her questions differently, entirely differently than how it would for me even when asking the exact same questions word for word. I mean, there's just, everyone has a different version of this, but they're all seeing it. Well, there's nothing to worry about. By your basic thesis. By your basic thesis. Okay. You have a thesis about peak oil and you used to use it on people.

Starting point is 00:33:30 Well, we're going to have peak oil. Why are you worried about fossil fuel situation? Because we're going to be out. So what difference does it make? You yourself have made the claim that AI is going to turn bad, turn into slop and be completely useless and going to fall apart because this is what you said, it's going to fall apart and be no damn good. So what difference does it make? The line is, so what difference does it make? So what difference at this point does it make? That's the one. Oh, I'm sorry.

Starting point is 00:34:05 I got to go revisit Hillary. At this point, so what difference at this point does it make? You're right. I think you're right. So we're worried about nothing. In the meantime... Well, I'm not worried about anything. I think it's...

Starting point is 00:34:26 Here's your quote. What difference at this point does it make? There you go. Do that in chat, GPT. At this point, it doesn't make. So, yeah. I think, but of course, I, on the other hand, think that this has got more legs than you do.

Starting point is 00:34:43 And so, the problem should exacerbate before it gets well well yes this is new to me this seeing the outpouring of of experiential cases of this taking place in our very own producers lives is what leads me to believe this is the only thing that it can be successful at. Even Dave Weiner, who's been gaga, goo goo, gaga, gaga about chat GPT being his software programming partner. Now he's experiencing exactly what I did with my vibe coding. It's like it sucks.

Starting point is 00:35:23 It doesn't think it's not smart and it takes you down rabbit holes. And the more you ask it to fix something, the worse it makes it. So Dave Wine is a pretty accomplished software developer, at least from creating software, I mean, not really super successful software, but so it's, you know, it's, and in fact, there's even stories now about how people think that, that AI is making them more productive. It appears that it actually may be closer to 18 or 19% less productive by using that in your software development. And I know it don't, don't go emailing me and say, Oh, I created a login app for my company and I did it without any programming knowledge yeah of course it can do stuff like that but for real projects mmm no again

Starting point is 00:36:14 please don't email me how co-pilot is helping you on the github. He lies. It's great don't email me. AdamandCurry.com I don't want it. But this is truly the thing they should be focusing on. This is what Zuckerberg should be doing. I think what they should be focusing on is what we said earlier. Advertising. This has got to be a goldmine. This could beat the advertising juggernaut that's known as Metta or Facebook. Yeah, I agree.

Starting point is 00:36:46 If you play their cards right. It's touchy though. Touchy? Well, if you turn something into a deity, oh, I worship thee, and then the deity starts telling you what to buy. No, but it can be really subtle. I think you can do that. I think you can do it. Well, that's going to take some skills, some marketing skills out there. The marketing people out there looking for something to do. This is going to be a challenge and it's going to be a winner. Yeah. It's not an exit strategy for us, unfortunately.

Starting point is 00:37:15 No, we don't have anything to do with it, but at least we can give, we can give some impetus to it because I'd like, I would like to see the first few examples and see how they work. Cause this is going to be like, you know, some impetus to it because I would like to see the first few examples and see how they work. Because this is going to be like these guys who have discovered the social media marketing, they get these influencers to use some makeup or something and this stuff starts to sell like hotcakes. This could be very interesting if done right.

Starting point is 00:37:41 But first of all, you've got to, it's the companies themselves, chat GPT and perplexity and these other two or three, these other anthropop, whatever it is, anthropopathy, anthropopathy, some of these, all these different ones, they have to do it. They have to make them, they have to create the mechanism internally and find a way to sell it to advertisers. The way you do it is you create verticals. So this is the makeup bot. That's how you do it.

Starting point is 00:38:13 You got a vertical, oh, I've got the makeup. Just like all the influencers showing you how to do your makeup tips. You could even have an AI generated face doing this and telling you what products you need to buy. Then you wouldn't have to deal with the stupid influencer in the middle. Well, if you had the AI face that actually interacted individually, this is closer to

Starting point is 00:38:36 the thing with the influencer. The influencer talks to a lot of people. It's one to many. But advertisers all know that one to one has always been the goal. And that's why they want to find every little detail about you. And so Facebook can say, well, they're part of this group, that group, the other group, and they're related, this person, that person, the other person. And they can give you one to one a targeted ad for you.

Starting point is 00:39:02 But they can't do the interaction part of it. So you add interaction to one-to-one marketing. Yeah. So you actually have the chat, but the best way, of course, is that person. Do you realize you're really excited about this? I think it's a goldmine. You're really excited. Like, oh, this is great.

Starting point is 00:39:19 No, because you can just see it coming together. Because the idea of this thing talking to you, because the absolute best way to sell is one person talking to another person. That's what car salesmen do. And that's what Trump does. He's a one-to-one sales guy. And that's max sales. That's how you do the best job, but you can't scale it.

Starting point is 00:39:41 You can scale this. Yeah. So here's my question though. How come we still don't have a bot, a chat GPT as people call it. I got my chat GPT even though they're using something totally different. It's all a chat GPT. That's the brand. How come they don't have one that knows my milk is out and automatically orders it and gets it into my fridge? I'm still waiting for that promise. Yeah, well that's not gonna happen. Anyway.

Starting point is 00:40:06 There's no money in it. Anyway, beware of your family members falling into this trap, because they totally are. I haven't quite figured out the way to shake them out of this and to awaken them. No, don't shake them out of it. Let them go into it and then let the advertisers take over. Why? This is your family. You don't want your family succumbing to this nonsense. Why are some people buying weird stuff?

Starting point is 00:40:33 Where'd you get that? This is not good. My friend, my chat GPT told me to buy it. What are you going to do with it? I find it distressing, but you seem to like it a lot. Yeah, I do. But I will say that, and they could stop right now with all the money, all the wasting of money, and just focus on this and you got a hit but they're

Starting point is 00:41:05 they're dumb they're not gonna do this they have to keep going for a GI they're a bunch of nerds who don't understand sales yeah now there you go they got a hit on their hands and they don't understand they even have it you're right you're right, President Trump released another thank you for your attention to this matter memo. Did you read this long memo he wrote? Oh, I just let people on TV read it to me. Well, luckily, you've got a partner who will read little bits of it for you. So he says, what's going on with my boys and in some cases, gals? little bits of it for you.

Starting point is 00:41:49 So he says, what's going on with my boys and in some cases, gals? They're all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was doing a fantastic job, old caps. We're one team, we're MAGA. I don't like what's happening. We have a perfect administration. We're the talk of the world and selfish people are selfish people in quotes are trying to hurt it all over a guy who never dies. Jeffrey Epstein for years it's Epstein over and over again why are we giving publicity to files written by Obama, crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan and the losers and criminals of the Biden administration. This is an interesting accusation. Yeah. Files written by, that is interesting. And I'm not quite sure how that would work. What was the point of them writing it?

Starting point is 00:42:34 What was the point? I don't know. You just can keep reading. Why don't these, okay. They created, okay, here it is. So the Biden administration who conned the world with the Russia Russia Russia hoax, 51 intelligence agents, the laptop from hell and more.

Starting point is 00:42:55 They quit. Wait, wait, stop. He said he blamed the Biden administration for that? Yes, yes. It was Obama behind the thing. Well, no, no, the full sentence is files written by Obama, crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the losers and criminals of the Biden administration, who conned the world, blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 00:43:14 They created the Epstein files just like they created the fake Hillary Clinton slash Christopher Steele dossier that they used on me. And now my so-called friends are playing right into their hands. Why didn't these radical left lunatics release the Epstein files? If there was anything in there that could have hurt the MAGA movement, why didn't they use it? Well, exactly. What is the point? But explain to me how this works. If the Epstein files were written by Crooked Hillary Obama, Biden, Comey Brennan, what was the point?

Starting point is 00:43:55 What was the op here? Well, he sure doesn't explain it in that crazed memo. He doesn't. And I will use that term. Scott Adams, who is under fire right now, here's what Scott Adams posted. This morning, if you see the Epstein story as a crime story, which of course it is,

Starting point is 00:44:20 you probably favor maximum disclosure of everyone and everything involved, including innocent people, like a typical court case. is, you probably favor maximum disclosure of everyone and everything involved, including innocent people, like a typical court case. If you see the Epstein story as something bigger, involving more than one nation, you might see it as a commander-in-chief issue, meaning the public is not meant to have the full story, similar to most national defense issues. We elect a president to decide, in in part what the public can safely see.

Starting point is 00:44:47 Would you favor full disclosure if you knew it would derail a peace negotiation? Would you favor full disclosure if you knew it would end Republican control of Congress and plunge the country back into a Democrat open border hellscape? If you can't say what you would give up to get the full Epstein disclosure you crave, you're not a serious person. You're not a serious person? What? That's what he said. He throws that in there. I think everybody wouldn't care. If there's Republicans in there, we want to know too. Are you kidding me? I don't see why he posted that. So he's getting pushback on that commentary?

Starting point is 00:45:24 Uh, yeah. A rare L from Scott Adams. Scott, you're controlled by Mossad. Oh, geez. Anyway, it has reached the crescendo. Well, there's definitely an op underway. And I wrote about it in the newsletter. I don't know if you ever saw the newsletter. Of course I did.

Starting point is 00:45:45 I did and I replied to you to your Gmail. Oh, finally, okay. Yes, you didn't see my reply. Did you find any typos? Yes, you had many spelled M-A-Y-N. I fixed that before, actually right after I sent that out. All right, but I did reply, so. Okay, well as you know, my emails were all screwed up.

Starting point is 00:46:06 I know, you don't receive any of the hate emails intended for you. That's why people have given up. It gets blocked, of course. I'm no fool. Everything is blocked. People who send you an email, you reply, their reply gets blocked.

Starting point is 00:46:20 I don't know how it works. I white list the people that should be getting through. White lists, white lists. So they alwaysist the people that should be getting through. Whitelists. So they always get whitelisted. Whitelists. Yeah, all right. So there's an op of some sort going on. And my write-up was about Bongino, who seems to be the...

Starting point is 00:46:36 I question this narrative about Bongino. Well, I'd like to hear what you think. Well, may I play a couple clips from ABC from this morning? You may. Thank you. We begin with the controversy roiling the leadership of the Justice Department. Roiling. It's an uproar that has pitted the leaders of the DOJ and the FBI.

Starting point is 00:46:56 And possibly the president himself against some of the most prominent voices in the MAGA movement. MAGA movement. Just this weekend, some of Trump's allies were in open revolt, demanding the resignation of Attorney General Pam Bondi and accusing her of taking part in a cover up. I don't think he realizes how much she's humiliated the administration. This is a self-inflicted wound. She caused it.

Starting point is 00:47:20 Again, I have nothing against Pam Bondi, but if you wanna look for the villain in this story, we have found her. This is about- Who's that? That's Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly. Wow, she was at such a height. Well, of course, she was- Well, she was on stage at Turning Point USA. Okay, that's what I was gonna do my opening with.

Starting point is 00:47:38 It was gonna be the Northern Silicon Valley. We're wondering, where did Charlie Kirk come from? Talk about an op. This is about the administration's handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. He was the financier and convicted sex trafficker who was found dead

Starting point is 00:47:55 in his jail cell after an apparent suicide in August of 2019. For years, many Trump allies, including his now FBI director, Cash Patel, pushed for the release of the government files on the Epstein case, suggesting they would implicate prominent Americans in a sinister plot. What the hell are the House Republicans doing? They have the majority. You can't get the list? Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are. Now, you'll remember when this first started, I think I said, this is an inside

Starting point is 00:48:29 attack on the president to get the splinter in the MAGA movement, the America first movement, whatever it is. And this I think is playing out now on ABC with Jonathan Carl. The question surrounding this alleged suicide- A Trump hater, I might add. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah, so they just had Cash Patel, now they bring in Bongino. The questions surrounding this alleged suicide are numerous and are worth entertaining and worth getting to the bottom of quickly.

Starting point is 00:49:01 That was Dan Bongino, the former MAGA social media star, who is now the deputy director of the FBI. What? MAGA social media superstar. How about podcaster? Hey. Well, no, he's a syndicated radio guy. Took over Rush Limbaugh's slot in most of the markets out there. So he was doing radio and a podcast. He was doing a Hannity kind of thing where you're doing two jobs instead of just one,

Starting point is 00:49:27 thinking that you could fall back on one if the other one didn't work. But he was doing okay on the radio. He had a really good show. And he was never a social media influencer. So that's bull crap. That's not the point. This is to discredit the top jobs. Yes, no, I'm on board with this because I think John Karl is one of these borderline Marxists.

Starting point is 00:49:52 This is discrediting the Attorney General and the top two guys in the Justice Department. Well, no one says anything about Radcliffe yet, but we'll get there. I guess But somebody pointed this out one of the guys that may have been I was Tucker on one of the choices No one's ever criticized Radcliffe or anything. No because you don't want to wind up with the kiddie porn on your computer Hello Yes, and Bongino the former MAGA social media star, who is now the deputy director of the FBI. He hasn't been seen at FBI headquarters in days. And some of his allies say he may resign after he had a heated argument at the White House. See, all of this is hearsay. And I don't know exactly where this was launched from,

Starting point is 00:50:46 And I don't know exactly where this was launched from, but it's like, oh, they had a fight, they had a verbal fight. Bongino didn't show up to work according to sources and allies. Come on. With the Attorney General and White House Chief of Staff, Suzy Wiles, over how the administration has handled the case. Sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Sources familiar with the matter. It was Bondi who raised

Starting point is 00:51:06 expectations earlier this year that the full DOJ and FBI files on Epstein would be released. Days later, a group of far right social media figures walked out of the West Wing of the White House with binders labeled Epstein

Starting point is 00:51:20 investigation files that Bondi said contained quote, a lot of information. That was great. There was no new information in those files. Listen to John Karl doing a little laugh till that.

Starting point is 00:51:32 But it turned out there was no new information in those files, no client list. They were full of previously released and heavily redacted records. Bondi then sent a letter to the FBI demanding the full and

Starting point is 00:51:46 complete Epstein files be sent to her office. And suggested prosecutors in New York were withholding thousands of pages of documents. In May, Bondi claimed the FBI was reviewing tens of thousands of videos of Epstein, further raising

Starting point is 00:52:02 expectations about what would be released. And now, the big reversal. The big reversal. First, FBI Director Cash Patel poured cold water on the Epstein conspiracy theory in an interview last month.

Starting point is 00:52:17 We've reviewed all the information and the American public is going to get as much as we can release. He killed himself. Do you think, let's play out the logical conclusion of this. Do you think, let's play out the logical conclusion of this, do you think that myself, Bongino and others,

Starting point is 00:52:29 would participate in hiding information about Epstein's grow test activities? And last week in an undated and unsigned memo, the Justice Department and FBI announced the end of its investigation. Writing that a review

Starting point is 00:52:45 found quote, no incriminating client list and quote, no credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed anyone and confirming that yes, he died by suicide. The memo and Bondi's comments didn't put out the right wing fury over the Epstein case, but it seemed to make it burn brighter, leading to calls for Bondi's resignation and ominous warnings about the future of Trump's movement. We need an attorney general who isn't gonna lie, who isn't gonna be addicted to going on Fox News and who isn't going to jeopardize midterm elections and cause President Trump to hemorrhage support from the base. The Epstein situation shows us one central thing, who runs the country?

Starting point is 00:53:28 Either the people run the country, right, or the deep state runs the country. If this was an op, it's working as intended, final clip. And where is the president in all of this? Trump, like many other New York celebrities, had some association with Epstein. You've probably seen this video of Trump with Epstein back in 1992. Decades later, when Epstein was arrested in 2019, Trump said that he and Epstein previously had a falling out and had not spoken in 15 years.

Starting point is 00:53:58 And he suggested last year that he believed Epstein did probably kill himself. Do you think it's possible that Epstein was killed? Sure, it's possible. I mean, I don't really believe, I think he probably committed suicide. Trump came to Bondi's defense overnight, posting on social media that she is doing a fantastic job. He also urged his followers to quote, not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, claiming without evidence, Hillary Clinton Obama, among others, created Jeffrey Epstein, claiming without evidence that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, among others, created the Epstein files.

Starting point is 00:54:29 And he directed the FBI to investigate other matters, including the 2020 election results. This is fantastic. This is one of the biggest media manipulation stories of our time. And nobody knows nothing, which is great, but for sure Epstein was being protected and was involved in things that were no good and all kinds of elites and there's this video and we're to believe this is only downloaded kiddie porn, please. And so for the president to say, hey, this is all created by those guys is not credible. It's just not credible. And I don't think he gets it.

Starting point is 00:55:14 Do you? Oh, sorry. See, if they don't put kid porn on your computer, they ruin your podcast, sorry. I said it was not credible and you dropped out. I was talking all along. I'm sure you were. Can you repeat any of it?

Starting point is 00:55:34 Well, a couple of it. I think Pam Bondi brought this on herself. Yep. She's a bonehead. Yeah. And she made all these promises, promises, promises. A lot of them on Fox, more than once, not just the one show, but she came on waters as you recall. And so, yep,

Starting point is 00:55:50 tomorrow's the day. Jesse actually laughed in her face. And so she's made all these promises. The other thing is the, the Bongino thing, I kind of, kind of believe it for the following reasons. And I posted a picture in the newsletter of Bongino sitting there with Cash Battelle. He's wearing a suit. He looks uncomfortable. Bongino was never an office guy. Bongino was a field guy in the Secret Service.

Starting point is 00:56:20 He was in the field. When you're in the field and you're in the office, it's two different things. He all of it, and he's been complaining since day one of having to go into the field. When you're in the field and you're in the office, it's two different things. He all of it, and he's been complaining since day one of having to go into the office. And so he's just a stooge in the office. He doesn't like it. He's uncomfortable. He was looking for a way out so he can get back to money-making possibilities of his broadcast,

Starting point is 00:56:40 syndicated broadcasting, morning bitch and moan show, and his podcast, and he wants to quit. So he's found a way out. This is, and it's a phony way, but he's going to do it anyway. I'm convinced he's going to be out of there within a couple of weeks. And the reason he's disappeared is probably to talk to his producers and other syndicators about how, how we can get back. Okay. But then when, so when he gets gets back he then right away has to say okay Here's what I really saw they made me say this if he doesn't that careers gonna be over. No, that's not true I I'm gonna be I or I put it in I outline that in the in the argument in the newsletter

Starting point is 00:57:17 He's gonna say look There's things I could tell you and I know you're gonna get mad about this But I signed NDAs and there's really nothing I can do. My hands are tied, but I can tell you this. And then he'll come off with this BS and he'll make it sound like he's trying to make amends. He'll get away with it. He's a good talker. Hey, could we get, could we replace Mark Levin with Dan Bongino on Fox?

Starting point is 00:57:44 That would be a win for everybody I don't think Bongino is that good on video. He's kind of a homely square-headed guy. Mark Levin is good on video No, no, no Mark Levin Levin has got no big audience. He's on Sundays, you know, the Sunday, the death hours on Sunday and Saturday. Nobody watches that show. I mean, I think he, I think just for people out there that like watching this crap, I will say this, Mark Levin, not all the time, but at least once every other show, his opening, and I would call it what it is.

Starting point is 00:58:25 Hello America. Hello America. His opening lecture, which goes about 15 minutes, is often quite educational. I never watch this guy, so I wouldn't know. I'll take your word for it. It's quite educational. He does a very good job of outlining some topic, and usually with a constitutional basis. It's very, it's good, it's not bad.

Starting point is 00:58:49 Then he brings his guests on who just all agree with him, and that's the end of it. Well, allow me to dive in now as Jonathan is joined by Pierre Thomas for some reason. I don't know why. Pierre Thomas. I don't know why, but they're going full bore. He is Trump too. they're going full bore on this. All right, Pierre, you've got some remarkable reporting.

Starting point is 00:59:09 Remarkable. On the confrontation that Bondi had with Bongino in the presence of the- He broke the story. Chief of staff at the White House. No, I'm just making that up. It sounds good that way.

Starting point is 00:59:18 In the presence of the chief of staff at the White House on Wednesday. Well, John, let me be clear. There's always a natural tension between the two sides. And I think that making that up. It sounds good that way. Now in the presence of the chief of staff at the White House on Wednesday. Well, John, let me be clear. There's always a natural tension

Starting point is 00:59:29 between the Justice Department prosecutors and the FBI investigators. Let's get that out in the open. Is that true? I don't know that to be true. Is there always a tension? Play it again.

Starting point is 00:59:41 He said, let me be clear. Let me be clear. Clear. There's always a natural tension between the Justice Department prosecutors and the FBI investigators. Let's get that out in the open. I don't know what that even means.

Starting point is 00:59:54 I don't know if I agree with that. But this confrontation was unusual in its intensity, I'm told. I'm told. Bondi allegedly accusing- Allegedly. Bongino of leaking negative information about her. I'm told. Bondi allegedly accusing- Allegedly. Bongino of leaking negative information about her.

Starting point is 01:00:07 He denied it. And again- What negative information? Did you? I didn't hear that. I didn't get any negative information. Let me give you the basis of one

Starting point is 01:00:15 of the reasons when I wrote up the newsletter. I first heard about the Bongino Bondi deal early in the morning of, I guess it was, was it Friday? I was driving around. It must have been Friday. Friday. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:29 Yeah. Friday, Friday, early morning. I'm one of the talk, one of the right wing talkers. That's a nondescript guy, one of them. And he was very early. It was like at nine in the morning. I was there. Wait a minute, wait a minute. You were driving around at nine in the morning?

Starting point is 01:00:43 I had to go to the post office. I had a bunch of errands to do. Okay, I'm just happy to hear it. You got out. And I also, yeah, and I also did a hit on Chanel Rihon's... You did a hit? Yeah, I'm gonna try to do a hit on her show as much as I can. Oh, what is... Is she on the radio? Ten minutes. Boom, I'm in.

Starting point is 01:01:01 Is she on the radio? No, TV. No, O-A-N-N. Voice of America. You were on O-A-N-N? Yeah, yeah. With video? Yeah, I have a camera. No, how come I don't know about this?

Starting point is 01:01:16 Well, I don't know about a lot of stuff you're doing. As it develops, we'll talk about it. Okay, well this is good for you. Yeah, I got a much better looking host. Did you promote the No Agenda show? Yeah, of course. I had it in the lower third. O-A-N?

Starting point is 01:01:33 O-A-N? The One American News Network. I'm looking for it. So. Okay, all right. There you are. There you are. There you are. There you are.

Starting point is 01:01:45 It was just two weeks ago. No, that was, that's the first time I did it. You're doing this all the time. I'm not doing it all the time, but I've, I worked up a gag bit. One of these things that you could do on Fridays that I could come on, do a quick 10 minute hit. You look bald. You look bald in this. You need better lighting.

Starting point is 01:02:08 I need better lighting on my hair. You were on Fine Point. Fine Point. Yeah, Fine Point. And so, the idea, okay, we'll talk about it later. You're working on an exit strategy and not telling me about it.

Starting point is 01:02:24 No, believe me, the whole thing is to promote this show that I'm on right now. The exit strategy is to make more money for no agenda. That's the exit strategy. Here you are talking about Musk and Trump. You got the blurred background. That's your problem. You look like Jesse Ventura. Yes. blurred background, that's your problem. You look like Jesse Ventura.

Starting point is 01:02:46 Yes. Well that's my original showing on that show, but then I did the show this last Friday with Chanel and it's a different bit. I got a whole bit I'm working on. Eventually we'll talk about it. Okay, all right. Good for you, man. Good for you.

Starting point is 01:03:06 It's for the show. Yes, good for the show. Good for the show. So I mean, good for you, good for the show. I'm complimenting you. Except for the Jesse Ventura look. So, thank you. That's kind of odd.

Starting point is 01:03:16 So, where was I? I don't know. You were talking about... You did a hit and you were driving around. I was out and about and I heard this and I said, well, this is interesting. So I went back and started listening to Fox saying, where's the story? It took Fox from about 10 in the morning when the story broke off on early morning talk shows. It broke and then it took him about six hours before Fox picked it up.

Starting point is 01:03:44 And they started, I think it was Brett Barney being the first one to bring it in and then it became part of the cycle, the Bongino thing. But then I started looking into it and I saw these, you know, I saw the pictures and I knew about Bongino complaining and he, this is not a job for a guy like that,

Starting point is 01:04:01 he doesn't want this job. So the whole thing was somewhat fake to begin with. That mean he took this job because it would seem like a good idea at the time. He wasn't thinking clearly. And then he, what am I doing here? Is the message I got. All right, let's continue with Pierre.

Starting point is 01:04:21 It was very intense is the reporting that we have. And he stormed out of the meeting. That's some of the reporting we have, absolutely. And here's why it matters. These are two of the principal people who oversee the nation's national security in terms of terrorism, counter espionage. So the relationship and how they get along does actually matter. It doesn't really work if the deputy FBI director who runs the FBI day to day is not basically

Starting point is 01:04:44 on speaking terms with the Attorney General Okay, now let's go to the next clip here. Let me let me ask you though. There's been a lot of Speaking terms According to sources Chanel's kind of cute Oh, she's a beauty. Ryan, Ryan, Chanel, I've never even heard of this woman. Chanel Ryan. I mean, Bondi's ordered this investigation.

Starting point is 01:05:11 Give me a sense of how much they've actually spent on Epstein. Well, at one point we had literally hundreds of agents who were tasked with getting together these files. Wait a minute, wait a minute, hundreds of FBI agents? Hundreds, hundreds. That's the information that we had. That they were told, get this information to a point

Starting point is 01:05:27 where some decisions could be made about what to release and not to release. And now the answer is they looked into it and they basically didn't find anything. Well, at the end of the day, what the memo that they put out

Starting point is 01:05:37 last weekend said is that he committed suicide and that there are limitations on what they're willing to release to the public. And that's where it stands. Okay, I want to ask you before I've got you, there was another remarkable story. Notice they don't actually talk about the facts of the story. They only talk about the fallout.

Starting point is 01:05:53 They're not talking at all about is this true? Could this be true? Is this something? No, there's none of that. It's only about the blow up. Yeah, that's because that's their point of interest. They don't care about the blow up. Yeah, that's that because that's their point of interest. They don't care about the facts.

Starting point is 01:06:07 You know, the more I hear from this report and this other stuff, I'm beginning to agree with Alex Jones, whose thesis is that there was a lot of good black male material in here. Why are we going to waste it by releasing it to the public? Is that five D chas? Why are we going to waste it by releasing it to the public? Is that five D-chass? Is 18,000 D-chass? Is that what you're talking now?

Starting point is 01:06:30 This week, and that is that the FBI has been doing polygraph tests on its own workforce. And then among the questions that are being asked is have you said anything negative about FBI Director Cash Patel? Wow, this is great. They're doing pollies on their own people about the director? Come on. Well, let me be clear.

Starting point is 01:06:52 There are always leak investigations and polygraphs and that sort of thing. It's been expanded from what our reporting is. And we do know that there's real concern about the so called deep state.

Starting point is 01:07:04 And they've been asking questions trying to get at whether any of these people had political motivations in terms of the prosecution of former, then candidate Donald Trump and now President Donald Trump. And so they're digging around

Starting point is 01:07:19 again to make sure in their mind they want to be comfortable that they're not people still within the government. I mean, that is pretty extraordinary though to see that to being asked have you said anything negative about the director? Well, some of the questions we're told have to do with associations and political, for example, Pete Strzok, some of the people who are known to have said negative things they want to know, have you been associated with those kind of people?

Starting point is 01:07:41 So it gets back to the issue of loyalty and whether they're fair or not to President Trump. How loyalty tests, that's what they're talking about, loyalty tests. Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I mean, but could they get one person on the record for once? We had the final clip. Tonight turmoil at the top levels of the Justice Department. Sources tell ABC. Oh, fiery confrontation between Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the department's handling of the investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Sources tell us Bongino did not come to work today and has told allies he may resign. For years Bongino, a former podcast.

Starting point is 01:08:36 Why wouldn't you just say friends, colleagues, why allies? That is misleading. That's a loaded word. Yeah. To say allies, meaning there's more people like Bongino who think like he does. and his boss, FBI Director Cash Patel, stoked conspiracy theories over Epstein's death, insisting shadowy forces within the government engaged in a massive cover-up. Folks, you're gonna see a lot of names on that.

Starting point is 01:09:12 The Epstein client list, I believe, based on what I've heard from sources, and the story I just told you, basically. It's gonna rock the political world. There's a reason they're hiding it. Attorney General Bondi promised to deliver answers. The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.

Starting point is 01:09:30 Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. But this week, DOJ released a memo saying there's actually no client list at all. Bondi asked to explain. I was asked a question about the client list and my response was it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed meaning the file along with the JFK MLK

Starting point is 01:09:53 files as well. That's what I meant by that. DOJ also said Epstein did in fact die by suicide and that there was no credible evidence found that he blackmailed prominent individuals and declared it would not be releasing any more information about the case. President Trump on Tuesday tried to change the subject. Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. All week long growing outrage from some of Trump's top supporters were counting on the release of the Epstein files and are now demanding answers.

Starting point is 01:10:26 I find it frappant that you are starting to agree with Alex Jones. I'm not starting to agree with Alex Jones because I just say I agree with Alex Jones. I'm not starting. Oh, not even starting. You're in. No, I'm in agreement with one of his points. I mean, Alex says a lot of crazy stuff, but this argument that he made that the blackmail list is too valuable to just release, why do that when you can use it for political

Starting point is 01:10:55 leverage and Trump's now a smart politician after being railroaded in 2020 and then they have four years to stew in his own juices, I can see where this could come in quite handy. So I think Alex Jones may be onto some good idea. Now there's something that these guys didn't mention, you haven't mentioned, nobody mentions it. I heard another one of the clips I didn't get because it was on TV. Because you're too busy doing hits with Chanel.

Starting point is 01:11:22 Chanel. Chanel. So... I don't like him putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay! Which is a... It's true. It's true. Atrazine. I mean, that was true. It's true.

Starting point is 01:11:38 It's true. It's just the way he puts things sometimes is a little off-putting. But Dershowitz came out and said he saw the list. We played that clip, didn't we? Well, maybe we did. No, hold on. I have the... Oh. Dershowitz saw the list. He says there's a lot of names on there that would be very upsetting if they were ever released. Yes. He says that he's under court order not to talk about it. Yes. Yes. to talk about it. Yes. Yes. You know, okay. So question, why wouldn't Trump then just say,

Starting point is 01:12:14 oh, we got the list. I'm going to use it. Why not just say it? I think that would be a very, well, that's a good question because I think this had to be mulled over, probably discussed with Suzy Wildes and others. You have to have a meeting about this. And the conclusion, if I was in the room, I would have probably brought this up the same way, which is that, well, here's the problem with doing exactly that, Mr. President, even though you want to, because I think he would want to. Yes. Who wouldn't?

Starting point is 01:12:41 It would give the Democrats fodder to an extreme because there's never really been actual proof that the FBI is a blackmailing operation to just talk about it. And to bring it out in the open and say, yes, we're a blackmailing operation, it's just going to confirm the gangster-like aspect of the presidency, which we've been saying the president is a gangster and this is proof. Yes, yes. I think we elected a gangster, didn't we? Yeah, well, I think we may have. We got the mugshot and everything. They're not going to go and admit it. No. All right.

Starting point is 01:13:14 It's also illegal. Yes. Well, we have seen people ejected from the Secret Service and And of course we had the 1300 fired from the State Department, which I think was still kind of the doge cleanup. But, you know, we need to keep an eye on it. Is anyone secretly going, resigning to spend more time with their family? You know, that's about all I can think of anyway. Well this is definitely fun to watch, but at the same time it's just bull crap. There's all this stuff going on.

Starting point is 01:13:54 Oh, there's a lot. Did you know? Did you know? actually it just ended, that there was a whole meeting in Italy, an entire conference, the Ukraine Recovery Conference. No, I did not know that. Of course, why would I know that? I'm watching mainstream media. Here's presidents, everyone was there and Georgia was right up front and center, Georgia

Starting point is 01:14:23 Maloney, everybody's there. This is to read. We're already recovering. We still have a war supposedly, but everybody's recovering from recovering Ukraine. Here's Zelensky and he, this guy, this guy. We know what Russia has destroyed and we know what it will take to rebuild Ukraine, Ukrainian people, our lives. And we also need a clear recovery plan. Think of the role the Marshall Plan played

Starting point is 01:14:54 in rebuilding and transforming Europe. You want to, no, no, we're not gonna pay for a Marshall Plan. That's why Europe has enjoyed piss and economic growth for so many decades. Europe's enjoyed piss. Piss, there's a lot of piss going on. We have a real opportunity to spark a new wave of progress. We need a Marshall Plan-style approach and we should develop it together.

Starting point is 01:15:24 Together? Rebuilding Ukraine is not just about our country. It's also about your countries, your companies, your technology, your jobs. The way we rebuild our country can also modernize your infrastructure and industries. And then the Queen Ursula in attendance. And well, it's pretty clear. I can announce one billion euro payment in macro financial support, dear Volodymyr. Woo!

Starting point is 01:15:55 Thank you. Wait, stop. I cannot. What's micro? What's a billion in micro financing? Well, it means it's not a lot of money, what's a billion in micro financing? Well, it means it's not a lot of money. You know, it's only a billion.

Starting point is 01:16:10 I think micro finance is to give to small businesses. Oh, so it's gonna take the billion and divvy it up. Yes, everybody gets a Venmo and they all get some cash. I can also. Wait, wait, stop again. Now doesn't microfinancing is something that takes place in Africa where people are dirt poor, they have no money whatsoever and they're living in mud huts? Yes, that's microfinance. So they're doing this, now they're going to do, so that's how they see Ukraine?

Starting point is 01:16:44 Well, no, there's a highly civilized country with a lot of whores. There's more, there's more money. That's just the microfinance. I can also announce a payment of more than 3 billion euros from the Ukraine facility. It's the Ukraine facility. I don't know where that came from other than from the European taxpayers. And this guarantees and grants that we are signing here today, you said in Georgia and you said in Volodomir, it's outstanding. Go throw Georgia under the bus. I guess she thinks it's outstanding. They are set to unlock 10 billion euros in investment for growth, recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine. Yeah, the war is not even over. This is what puzzles me. It's like, did they already have the room booked?

Starting point is 01:17:36 Like, well, it was supposed to be over by now. What are we going to do? We got this hotel booked. We got the ballroom. Like, we might as well. We got the hotel book, we got the ballroom, like we might as well. And we will ensure that Ukraine is supported until 2028 and beyond when the new European budget kicks in. Ukraine stands ready to proceed with the next step on the accession path. Ukraine is delivering on its reforms. Now we must too.

Starting point is 01:18:05 Because the accession process is based on merits and Ukraine merits moving forward. The commission is very clear. Ukraine is ready to open cluster one, the fundamentals cluster. Cluster one. I don't even know what that is, but we're ready to open it. Cluster was like phase one. Yeah. Now we have to act to move forward for millions of Ukrainians, soldiers, teachers, doctors, farmers, you name it. You name it.

Starting point is 01:18:33 For Ukrainians from all walks of life. And for them, the future has two flags. The flags of Ukraine. And the pride flag. And the flags of Ukraine and the pride flag and the flags of Europe. This recovery conference is all about bringing Ukraine and its future to Europe and Ukraine's future is in Europe. Let's make it happen together.

Starting point is 01:18:58 Slava, Ukraine, long live Europe. There you go. We're going to make it happen. Now, how is this going to happen? Because in the meantime, we have all kinds of stuff going on with weapons, which we're not giving, by the way. We're selling the weapons. And I was blown away.

Starting point is 01:19:17 This is a... By the way, she did use the word grant in there, if you noticed. Yeah, of course. 10 billion worth of grants, whatever. I thought this was a European gambit, but now we're trying to take away the money. We go now to Congressman French Hill. He is the chair of the House Financial Services Committee. Welcome back to the broadcast. Your ears must have been ringing with the two senators who started the program because they were talking about grabbing some of those frozen Russian assets. You moved a bill and gave the president authority to actually seize them during the last administration

Starting point is 01:19:53 under the repo act. The US has never before seized central bank assets from another country. Do you know if the Treasury Department is gonna do so now? This guy's real energetic. Well, Margaret, it's good to be with you. Yes, I certainly worked very hard with former Foreign Affairs Chairman Mike McCaul and others to put that in our 2020- Military industrial complex guy. For national security package during the Biden administration because we wanted another arrow in the quiver for the president to not just seize those assets, but to convert them to the benefit of Ukraine.

Starting point is 01:20:31 But we could never get consensus between the United States and Europe for doing that despite a unanimous vote of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe supporting it. So I continue to urge President Biden to do that. We got the interest off those frozen assets to benefit Ukraine. But I think it's time for the President to convert those seized assets to a trust account for the benefit of Ukraine. I'm glad to hear both Senators Blumenthal and Graham support that idea. It's time to do it.

Starting point is 01:21:03 And I've encouraged Secretary Bessent that this should be a priority for President Trump. This is not a good idea. No. This is illegal and not a good idea. So it's illegal. So let's go back in time and listen to our conversation with Lindy Hoplady G Graham, who is all in on this idea. Russia's escalating.

Starting point is 01:21:24 They're not ending this war in Ukraine. NATO's secretary general is gonna be here in Washington this week and will be meeting with President Trump, who is, according to our reporting, considering fresh funding for Ukraine. That would be the first time since he's taken office. What do you know about what is coming? Yeah, he's taken office. What do you know about what is coming? Yeah, he's a source. Well, I don't want to get ahead of the president, but I'm having dinner along with Senator Blumenthal

Starting point is 01:21:52 and other senators. That should be a fun one. Wouldn't you like to sit at that table with Blumenthal and Lady G? With Secretary General Mark Ruta tomorrow night. A turning point regarding Russia invasion of Ukraine is coming. For months, President Trump has tried to entice Putin to the peace table. He's put tariffs against countries that allow fentanyl to come in our country. Other bad behavior, he's left the door open.

Starting point is 01:22:22 Regarding Russia, that door is about to close. Dick and I have got 85 co-sponsors of the United States Senate for congressional sanctions with a sledgehammer available to President Trump to go after Putin's economy and all those countries who prop up the Putin war machine. China, India, and Brazil buy oil and petroleum products and other goods from Russia. That's the money Putin uses is to prosecute the war. And this congressional package that we're looking at would give President Trump the ability to impose 500% tariff on any country that helps Russia and props up Putin's war machine. He can dial it up or down, He can go to zero to 500.

Starting point is 01:23:05 He has maximum flexibility, but we're going after the people who keep Putin in business and additional sanctions on Russia itself. This is truly a sledgehammer available to President Trump to end this war. Doesn't he have that already? Why does he need some kind of congressional approval? About 500% tariffs. Well, that's a good question. The whole thing looks like, it looks like a lot of smoke and mirrors and showboating. Yeah, I think he goes more detail here. I want to ask you on the battlefield and when it comes to weapons, CBS's Jim Laporta has learned a recent defense intelligence

Starting point is 01:23:46 assessment shows Ukraine's shortfall in artillery and in drones will lead to marked Russian territorial gains in 2026, with Russia gaining seven to one firepower superiority by this winter. How can you get them what they need if Congress will not approve in the House any new funding? Well, just stay tuned for tomorrow's announcement. The idea of America selling weapons to help Ukraine is very much in play. There we go. No sooner is the NATO money in than we're selling it. Yeah, baby. You can buy it from us to protect your country. We've given Ukraine a lot. We've given them money. We've given them

Starting point is 01:24:33 military aid. We now have a minerals agreement with Ukraine that's worth trillions of dollars. So I don't want to get ahead of the president, but stay tuned about seized assets. to the president, but stay tuned about seized assets. This would be very bad. But I, you know, Lindy Hop is making it sound like it's a done deal. Like we're going to now seize assets. He always does that though. He, this guy's a shallow. It's not necessarily a done deal.

Starting point is 01:25:01 The thing about the minerals is now backfiring because of the Wyoming Pole. Yeah, which is now I don't have a clip again But Wyoming they you know, they're gonna open up a big rare earths Minerals mine in Wyoming, which has got I guess as much as you need in the entire world Especially there's some of these, you know, these superstar Rare earths that are using high energy magnets. It's very important. Yeah, what we need is we need some kids to go and mine that with their bare hands. Actually, the problem is besides that, the problem is the refining. They talk

Starting point is 01:25:38 about, oh yeah, we can dig it out, then what? The Chinese do all the refining. I can't even imagine what that facility looks like. One last clip from Europe, because we're now changing NATO into NIPTO. That should be the new name. The North Indo-Pacific Treaty Organization. NIPTO! Because it's not just about NATO it's about Nipto. Our working assumption is the following that indeed as we see China is rapidly building up its armed forces they have now more ships sailing than the US they will have another 100 ships sailing by 2030 they have now a thousand nuclear warheads this is not to organize parades in Beijing.

Starting point is 01:26:24 Oh this is a joke you make here about the parades. This is to kill everybody in the world. This is indeed to use to make use of this. We know the ambition China has which is to somehow get control over Taiwan. Oh it's all about Taiwan they need a thousand nuclear warheads to get control over Taiwan. And the assumption is based on many discussions we've had and of course what we know from our sources that the risk is increasingly there that Xi Jinping, the president of China and general secretary of the Communist Party, before he would attack Taiwan will first make a call into Moscow, his very junior partner in all of this. His junior partner? He first make a call to Moscow to his very junior partner in all of this. His junior partner? He first

Starting point is 01:27:07 make a call to Moscow to his very junior partner. One Vladimir, Vladimir Putin. To ask him to keep us busy in this part of Europe. Oh it is a distraction so you keep us busy here in this part of Europe and then you take Taiwan while no one is looking. Look over here with some nothing to see here. This shows you that the transatlantic and the inter-pacific are getting more and more intertwined already through North Korea participating in the war of aggression against Japan on the Russian side including China with sanctions circumvention and with dual use goods delivered into Russia supporting Russia's war effort. Here's some refrigerators you can use those Russia supporting Russia's war effort.

Starting point is 01:27:44 Here's some refrigerators. You can use those motors for war. In Ukraine. And of course Iran with its drone technology. I thought Iran's drone technology. I thought they only had like a moped engines. They have better stuff. No, don't. We had a whole bunch of clips replayed.

Starting point is 01:28:02 Like about a month ago. Oh, you're right. Yeah, they do have some Oh, you're right. Yeah, they do have some drone technology. In Ukraine and of course Iran with its drone technology. So this is all getting more and more interconnected and therefore, and it has been some of your own German very senior generals predicting that three, five, seven years from now, three years is today, five years is next week, 7 years is next month.

Starting point is 01:28:26 Wait a minute, 3 years is today, 5 years is next week, 7 years is next month. Don't you get it? Russia might be able to mount a full scale attack on NATO territory. And this is why, exactly as the Chancellor was saying, we are not doing the 5% and the 3.5% corresponding to make one person happy. No. Great that we equalize with the US. One person happy, not just for Donald Trump. It closes the debate we had for years.

Starting point is 01:28:51 But we do this because we know the threat is there. It's real. A threat against the US, a threat against Canada, a threat against European allies. Everybody, everybody. And that is why we need to spend more on defense. If anyone wants a world war, it's this guy. He's the one.

Starting point is 01:29:07 I don't know that he wants anything. Well, he wants to make Donald happy. Yes, that's for sure. I want to make Donald very, very happy. That's military industrial complex. Oh, be very afraid because if we don't have enough, then we're going to be suffering. And then while we're suffering, then boom, they take Taiwan.

Starting point is 01:29:30 And then we're all going to be in a world war. Well, here's a question. This is another thing that never comes up in the conversation. Now, that guy that does uncommon knowledge had a long discussion with a Dutchman who lived and spent most of his time in China. I think his name is Dichter. I have to get his name.

Starting point is 01:29:50 Very expert on China. And he traces the China, he thinks most of the China information is BS. He thinks they're not as well off as they say they are. There's not as many people as they say they are. And he has all this documentation for it. But one of the things he does point out is that the Chinese real prosperity began when they joined the WTO. And so I'll go along with that. And so if the Chinese take Taiwan, why can't we just kick them out of the WTO? And that's the end of it because China relies on the WTO, the World Trade Organization, so it can work internationally and totally kick ass and take over a lot of

Starting point is 01:30:32 markets and do what it does and you kick them out of the WTO. Exactly. So China, you move to, you take Taiwan, you're out. We are their customer. They're not going to do anything without us. This whole Taiwan thing is a red herring. Yes, it's a red herring for the military industrial complex. And you know the Jews are behind it, just so you know.

Starting point is 01:30:55 Oh, yeah, those Jews. They want war in China. Yeah, because they got nothing better to do. Oops. Yeah, because they got nothing better to do Oops, well, no that just no I was a pregnant pause I was oh no I thought you know I was waiting for you to follow up. I'm like maybe do some China stuff You seem to have China clips. I don't know what do I have China clips? You got following gone clips. Oh Okay, yeah. Let's listen to this. If it's no good, then why should we listen to it?

Starting point is 01:31:33 It brings a point that I brought it up earlier in the show and I, and you kind of brought it up and I, this has become an issue with me, which is what, why, why is this going on? It's never, ever, ever. What is the thing with Falun Gong? What is it? Why do the Chinese hate it so much that they're tracking people down and they're grabbing you if you're following Gong and they're throwing you In a gulag and then they're taking your liver. I mean why is it's kidneys. I don't think it's liver It's kid. Okay kidneys are taking the kidneys. Let's listen to the thing So they so NTD brings on a fall on this is supposed to be a report on the CCP

Starting point is 01:32:12 And it's kind of sneaking around and doing stuff in the United States nasty and and disrupting our academic system It wasn't isn't following up weren't they religious outfit and they got But wait a minute, wasn't Falun Gong, weren't they religious outfit and they got rousted? About ten years ago we did a whole thing, exposition on the Falun. It was a whole group of these meditation techniques that showed up in China for some reason out of the blue and there was a bunch of them. And Falun Gong, the one of them, which has also been renamed something else, I keep forgetting the new name. And they always say when they say it they always say it's a spiritual Baba. They always have

Starting point is 01:32:48 some little ditty, some little subtext they always have to say with it. It's almost like when you say Muhammad if you're Muslim you always have to say peace be upon him. And then if you write it out it's Muhammad then you P-B-U-H you see that a lot in text. So it's like something you have to do. And so they always say something about, when they mention Falun Gong, they always say, well, it's spiritual, blah, blah, blah. But it was like-

Starting point is 01:33:14 Is it Falun Dafa? Is that the new name? Oh, maybe, it's something like that. It could be. But whatever the case, it's like, what is the real reason? There's something that we are not being told. You'd listen to this report and it still doesn't get, we just don't find out. Let's listen.

Starting point is 01:33:31 Subverting America from within. For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has systematically infiltrated our political systems, businesses and institutions. Now it's carrying out a test run for how Beijing can influence or even dictate what we can do and what we believe. Joining us now to discuss his upcoming special report is Steve Lance, Entity's Washington DC bureau chief, host of Entity's Capital Report and chief political correspondent. Steve Lance, great to see you. Thanks for joining us. Now you have a special report coming out about the Chinese Communist Party's covert war within the US. There's so much to unpack here

Starting point is 01:34:07 What's the bottom line? Well, thanks for having me back with you Tiff. The bottom line is it is a very complex covert Operation that is stemming from Beijing against a particular persecuted group inside of China who is also Based here in the united states uh... and it is the following on spiritual movement and understand what they're doing also have to understand spirit what following gong is now following gong is a

Starting point is 01:34:36 spiritual practice that was widely embraced inside of china during the nineteen nineties i'd grew in rapid numbers um... that c The CCP's own internal estimate was that roughly 70 to 100 million people were practicing this. And because of its rapid population and rapid spread, the CCP then in 1999 launched a widespread uh... nationwide uh... persecution and it what they did was they rounded people up they put them in forced labor camps uh... they tortured them they murdered them

Starting point is 01:35:13 uh... they kill them and eventually this even evolved into uh... organ harvesting you may have heard about that but along with this uh... came all a vast amount of propaganda how they labeled it as an evil cult, they say that practitioners kill themselves. One of the directives was to really defame this group inside of China so that they would lose credibility. Shen Yun?

Starting point is 01:35:36 Oh, that's the dance troupe. You see the answer all the time. The Shen Yun dancers, yes. I think they're on tour with Beyonce now, I believe. They're all over the place. They're apparently very good. But the point is that it starts off, she says, Chinese influence in the United States. And I'm thinking, well, now they're going to get into all kinds of interesting stuff

Starting point is 01:35:59 and it switches immediately to Falang Dong. It doesn't even, they're not going to talk about anything else now. Well then why should we listen? Is it worth listening to? Well, no, it's because it's the way they keep beating around the bush about why. Explain to me, and I want somebody out there that can explain it to me, what specifically do the Chinese, the CCP in particular, have against Falun Gong? Is it the same thing they have against Christians or Buddhists or Confucianism or whatever? Is it just because it's anything outside the just a little bit veering from the straight communism? I mean

Starting point is 01:36:36 it's just it makes no sense to me that they're this adamant that they're sending tons of Chinese spooks to the United States only to track down the Falun Gong. What you have now is the Falun Gong diaspora around the world, particularly in the United States, has set up different organizations, media organizations, a performing arts group called Shen Yun Performing Arts, to get the word out about this persecution because it was very, in large part, widely under-reported. And so now, as the world's people are starting to understand what Falun Gong is and that

Starting point is 01:37:18 the Chinese Communist Party is persecuting this peaceful group, overseas this is starting to get out. And so the Chinese Communist Party is really set on silencing this group of Falun Dafa practitioners, Falun Gong practitioners in the United States who are operating these media groups like the Epoch Times and also the founders of NTD Television as well as Shen Yun because they've been so effective at getting the truth out about the Chinese Communist Party's crimes against humanity really against this group of people. I guess that's the reason they just don't like the media exposure they have, I guess.

Starting point is 01:38:00 Oh, the giant media exposure of NTD. Excuse me, NTD has been featured on this podcast for over a decade as if it's the real deal. Yes, I'm the only one. The Chinese should send up some cash, I'll stop doing it. Epoch Times. Oh, everyone subscribes to that. You should probably look out your window. I mean, before you know it, there's going to be a van driving by.

Starting point is 01:38:25 Nobody's driving by. The point is that this is bull crap. I just do not understand it. And I try and try and I listen to this stuff and they never get to the bottom of it. They always go on about Falun Gong and it's great because, you know, they have a dance troop and, oh my God. And they're peaceful, peaceful protestors. And they're peaceful and they're spiritual somehow. And we don't know why. Yeah, it's very spiritual. And by the way, there used to be a group of them,

Starting point is 01:38:53 but we have a consulate here in San Francisco, which is kind of an interesting place. Because I went to it when I first went to China back in the 90s. And then I went, it used to be just a hole in the wall in terms of the office to get a visa because nobody was in there. And now it's like take a number. And there's used to be a group of Falun Gongists out in front. And they just, they just stand there for hours on end, staring at the building, trying to levitate it, I think.

Starting point is 01:39:26 Well, we have a lot of producers out there. Maybe they can help us out and understand this mystery. So do you think they're going to get to the bottom of it? Now I'm on clip three, so let's play that. And these aren't that long, so it's not too bad. Why is this such a concern for the Chinese regime? Why have they invested so many resources to silence this group outside of China? Well, when you really go back to, sometimes we just buzz by certain points here, but when you really unpack forced live organ harvesting and when you really think about the gravity of this crime, this isn't just like a few rogue individuals in the government or a few bad apples on the black market. This is state run.

Starting point is 01:40:08 This is happening at scale, at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party. Military hospitals are directing this. When you really understand what is taking place, you're rounding up these peaceful, spiritual, religious believers that believe in truthfulness compassion and forbearance Those are the three core tenants of Falun Gong. You know There may be just more behind Falun Gong on our side Just to make the Chinese look bad to keep it You know to keep this this story alive that at the state level they're harvesting organs say, you know

Starting point is 01:40:44 Xi Jinping just got a new heart. Something like that. What else could it be? They're being kidnapped. They're being taken to these military hospitals. Their organs are then extracted and sold for thousands of dollars around the world. People come in, they call it transplant tourism inside of China. The bodies are then cremated. They destroy the evidence essentially, so there's no trace of it. And then when the family

Starting point is 01:41:13 comes they say, oh we didn't have space, you know, we didn't have space. Here's the ashes. They cremate the body or they tell them that they committed suicide. The list really goes on. But this is happening at scale. So if the world's people really find out about this crime and hold the Chinese communist party accountable, the CCP is really only sustained, um, in, in, in legitimize because people don't understand these human rights abuses. And so, uh, the Falun Gong community overseas has been really the most effective at bringing these atrocities to light.

Starting point is 01:41:48 Ah, it seems like we have an answer. This bad PR. Falun Gong is bad PR. They're talking about our organ harvesting. I mean, that's an offense. It just seems like they're sending agents over all over the world to track down the Chinese dissidents and that's what I thought was just Chinese dissidents that they were after, but no, no, no, it's Falun Gong specifically. And I'm not, there's something amiss with this story.

Starting point is 01:42:25 I think it's the last clip of it. Thank God. And Steve, one of the most concerning aspects of the Chinese regime's campaign is the CCP's focus on actually US federal agencies. What is the strategy and what are the larger implications here? Yeah, exactly.

Starting point is 01:42:41 So that's where it gets a little bit complicated. There was a directive that came out of Beijing from the highest levels, Xi Jinping, that was targeting US media institutions. And they basically planted a few different stories or tried to through their various agents and operations to really go after the Shen Yun performing arts. And some of the things that they've done is they've mobilized these people to influence former dancers who may have been cut loose from Shen Yun.

Starting point is 01:43:13 It's a very top tier performing arts company where not everybody makes the cut. So people get cut and eventually they may have ties in China and they start to get influenced. And there's a nexus between some of these former dancers And eventually they may have ties in China and they start to get influenced. And that's, there's a nexus between some of these former dancers who have left Shen Yun and Beijing. And they have since filed different lawsuits.

Starting point is 01:43:35 Anybody can file a lawsuit in the United States. You don't even have to be a citizen. And so we're seeing civil lawsuits being filed against this group from people who are closely tied uh... to beijing and then what you have is once these lawsuits are filed some western media specifically the new york times

Starting point is 01:43:57 is writing about these lawsuits now nothing has been uh... adjudicated everything is still you know and, you know, the evidence hasn't come out, but the damage has already been done, Tiff. Okay. So these lawsuits are filed and then the New York Times will publish an article as if it's law. And they use very creative and crafty ways to sort of misguide the reader. Yeah, to me, it just seems like they just, they just want to control PR.

Starting point is 01:44:28 That's what they do in their own country. They control it all. I'm expecting a report on the Chinese buying land outside of the bases. I'm expecting. Yeah, but that's all bull crap. Report about the Chinese suing the environmental organizations to get them to, so they would stop us using fossil fuel. Here's what you could do. You could stop watching NTD, but it won't bother you so much. And then what I get is this Falun Gong, Falun Gong, Falun Gong stuff. It just baffles me.

Starting point is 01:45:00 Me too. But it's like everything else that's never explained. Breaking news! When we come back here tonight, the new drug just approved by the FDA for your dog. Oh, okay. Wait a minute, they're breaking news to David Muir. That was David Muir. Yes, breaking news.

Starting point is 01:45:21 Breaking news about a dog drug. Here we go! The FDA this evening approving a long-acting drug to protect dogs against fleas and ticks. Real promise here. Oh brother. The drug Prevector Quantum is given by... I'm assuming they pay for this ad. Well, it's very short.

Starting point is 01:45:34 This is a new category of advertising. Breaking news. So we have the teaser is four seconds. When we come back here tonight, the new drug just approved by the FDA for your dog. And then the actual story is 17 seconds. The FDA this evening approving a long acting drug to protect dogs against fleas and ticks. Real promise here. The drug Prevecto Quantum is given by injection.

Starting point is 01:45:56 It must be prescribed by a licensed veterinarian. Potential side effects could include muscle tremors and seizures. They say this new drug offers protection for up to a full year. They're eating the dogs. So your dog might get a seizure and die but he won't have fleas. Unbelievable. Come on, let's have a couple TikTok videos.

Starting point is 01:46:20 Really? Okay. Really? Really? We can talk about stablecoin. Oh, let's do this. Let's talk about stablecoin. You don't have anything on? Well, we can talk about stablecoin. Oh, let's do this. Let's talk about stablecoin. You don't have anything on stablecoin.

Starting point is 01:46:28 I have something on stablecoin. Okay, play it. I actually do. Hold on. I'm amenable. I don't care. Okay. Well. Watch the numbers go down. No. No. No.

Starting point is 01:46:39 No, you are wrong. You're wrong. You're so wrong. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're wrong. You're wrong. Margaret Brennan. This. You're wrong. You're wrong. Margaret Brennan, this is from this morning. Now, first, to get to stablecoin, we have to first talk about Jerome Powell, our Fed

Starting point is 01:46:53 chair. What have you got? What have you and Horowitz, DH Unplugged every Tuesday, released on Wednesday. I'm trying to plug DH Unplugged here. I'm plugging the unplugged. DH unplugged. Have you talked about the replacement of Jay Powell? No, this is fairly new. This came after the last show. Oh, okay. Well, that means it's been ongoing for a while that President Trump is making noise. Well, no, they've been talking about it, but nobody expected him to, you know, now there's rumors that he wants to, he might resign because he's just sick of it and being hounded by

Starting point is 01:47:27 Trump. Hey, you spent too much on the building, man. Because you have some oversight in the financial space, I want to ask you about comments made in regard to Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The president says the economy is in good shape, but he still complains about the head of the central bank. He says he's doing a terrible job because he's not lowering interest rates. On another network today, the president's top economic advisor said the White House

Starting point is 01:47:52 is looking into whether the president has the authority to fire Chair Powell. Do you believe the president has the power and authority to fire the Fed president? This is Congressman French Hill being asked this question. You know Margaret, I don't and I believe President Trump has spoken about this several times over the past two years including recently. Mr. Powell's governorship, his chairmanship is up next spring. The president has vacancies coming up on the Fed board where he could name another governor. But look, just because Congress created the Fed and that we believe that it

Starting point is 01:48:33 should be independent in the setting of monetary policy, it doesn't mean that it's immune from criticism. And every president since World War II has had choice words for the Fed chair when they've not been in sync with the direction of the president. So look, the Congress continues to do oversight. I set up a special task force to oversee the Fed's decision making since the 2008 financial crisis. We have that investigation review and oversight underway and we'll continue it. So from what I understand, the only issue here is President

Starting point is 01:49:07 Trump wants the interest rate lowered so it can refinance the country. You tricked me. What do you mean? I stable coin is next. I didn't trick you. But I want to ask you a question is, because you know this better than I do. Can we just, can we just lower the interest rate to refi the country? Isn't that just a good idea?

Starting point is 01:49:28 Is that a bad idea at this point? Actually, you can make the argument the opposite is true. Okay. And it used to always be the idea was you get high inflation and you rack up, you rack, make inflation so high that you can pay off the debt with cheap dollars. In other words, you devaled a dollar to such an extent because the debt is in dollars. It's not floating.

Starting point is 01:49:51 Right, no, but we have to borrow money to pay it back. So you want to borrow at a lower interest rate. We don't have the money. Yeah, you want to borrow at the lowest interest rate you can, but if you can pay back in cheap dollars, it's the same thing. It's a wash, one way or the other. This is not going to help anything. The idea is, what Trump's idea is to get the, I don't think it's for refinancing or any

Starting point is 01:50:21 trickery. That's what he says. No, it is, but I think it's really to crank up the economy because if everything gets, you know, you get down to two percent interest rate, people are going to be borrowing more money, they're going to be starting more businesses, they're going to be hiring more people, and everyone's going to be happy. And you get people buying more houses and the prices are going to go up and blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 01:50:41 Okay. Well, it sounds like a good idea. Yeah, it does sound like a good idea, but the way the Fed sees it is that, well, you haven't proven anything yet with the tariff threats and until that settles down. I saw we had a surplus at the US Treasury for the first time in years because of the tariff money. I think that's bogus. The answer is still stablecoin.

Starting point is 01:51:08 I think you'd acknowledge that most presidents might have those choice words behind closed doors, not on social media posts on a regular basis, Congressman. But on crypto, I want to ask you- Crypto. Crypto has been the wild west, right? Right. In many ways, because they don't have the same kind of regulation. Wild west. In the digital asset space that there does exist for banks and

Starting point is 01:51:31 financial services. You've got a few measures coming up this week. How do you make sure as you put these regulations in place that kind of help crypto become more mainstream, that it doesn't also benefit some of those on the black market, for example, who use this to evade oversight. She is so dumb. But okay, Frenchy, go ahead. Exactly.

Starting point is 01:51:57 Well, in the work in the Senate led by Bill Haggerty and Tim Scott and Cynthia Lemus on the Genius Act to create a dollar-back stable coin. We've heavily influenced that legislation over the two years of previous work by the House and our Clarity Act, which sets up the rules of the road for what's a commodity, what's a security, how to use digital assets, how to store them, how to custody them. These are the rules that will protect consumers, will limit access to our market and our investors from entities outside the United States trying to influence the crypto markets. We have none of that today. What we've had is a mismatch of rules by enforcement

Starting point is 01:52:38 in the Biden administration. And I believe the bills we'll have on the House floor this week will protect investors, consumers, and make America, as President Trump wants, a leader in financial technology and crypto and digital assets innovation. So stablecoin is happening and it's totally going to be what we talked about. What you claim we chased our entire audience away with. Yeah. But of course, the most spectacular story of the week, just passing $119,000 a coin is Bitcoin.

Starting point is 01:53:12 But you know, sir, that the concern is that this is the patina of protection of consumers without actual muscle behind it. It was interesting to see, and many Americans who hold mortgages might have noticed that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would buy and sell mortgages. The head of the agency, the federal housing agency, Bill Poulty, told them they'll have to prepare a proposal to review crypto as an asset on mortgage applications. Given the huge taxpayer stake in fading, are you comfortable with people using crypto?

Starting point is 01:53:47 Crypto? Something that isn't really tangible in many ways to pay for a down payment on the house? It's not tangible, this crypto. What do you think? Well, look at Bitcoin, for example. One can now buy Bitcoin. It is a commodity. It's been determined that it's a commodity by the CFTC and the SEC.

Starting point is 01:54:08 One can hold it in their brokerage account through an exchange traded product, an ETF, ETP. It's now an asset for millions of Americans, and it certainly could be treated like a stock or a bond or cash as a contribution to someone's net worth to qualify for a mortgage. And if we pass clarity this week, which I expect we will on a bipartisan basis, and we craft a dollar-back stable coin like Genius

Starting point is 01:54:38 offered by Senator Hagerty, we'll have the rules of the road. It won't be a patina of consumer enforcement. It will be real consumer enforcement, investor protection. And a down payment for our house. Those by the CFTC, the SEC, and the bank regulators.

Starting point is 01:54:55 Yes, yes, a down payment. Remember when we called it Beanie Babies? Boy, were we dumb. I still call it that. Because I told you you you should get someone it was 40,000. You still wouldn't listen to me. I should have bought, you're right, I should have bought Nvidia at that same point in time. I can't wait to listen. I would have tripled my money.

Starting point is 01:55:18 I can't, well, I can't wait to hear Horowitz say that Bitcoin's price is going up because of Nvidia. That seems to be the Wall Street. I haven't heard this. Oh, it's everywhere. Oh yeah, it's helped by Nvidia, I guess, for some reason. Yeah. I don't believe it's true, but it's-

Starting point is 01:55:41 Nvidia's got their own balloon full of hot air. They don't need it more. Man, that thing is amazing. Ha ha ha. Four trillion dollars worth of- Four trillion dollars, yeah, okay. Yep. Ha ha, that's a good one.

Starting point is 01:55:57 That is a very good one. Yeah, well Jensen is a- For a chat bot, for a bunch of chat bots, man. The guy has got, the guy's got something going on. Yeah, a chat bot. For a bunch of chat bots, man. The guy has got something going on. Yeah, a bad jacket. Let's do this clips on Harvard. Oh yeah, this is kind of interesting. I've always believed that there's something underfoot here.

Starting point is 01:56:16 It's an idle threat that I think has got to freak these universities out, which is go after their accreditation. The Department of Homeland Security says they're issuing subpoenas to Harvard to force them to comply with multiple requests for quote, relevant information concerning foreign students. A statement from the DHS says the move comes after the university repeatedly refused past non-coercive requests to hand over the required information for its student visitor and exchange program certification. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says, if Harvard won't defend the interest of its students then we

Starting point is 01:56:55 will. We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard, now through their refusal to cooperate we have to do things the hard way. Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to abuse their visa privileges and advocate for violence and terrorism on campus. In response, Harvard told The Hill that Harvard is committed to following the law, and while the government's subpoenas are unwarranted, the university will continue to cooperate with lawful requests and obligations. The administration's ongoing retaliatory actions come as Harvard continues to defend itself

Starting point is 01:57:29 and its students, faculty, and staff against harmful government overreach aimed at dictating whom private universities can admit and hire and what they can teach. In addition to the DHS subpoenas, the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services notifies Harvard's accreditor that the Ivy League University might be in violation of anti-discrimination laws, citing campus anti-Semitism. Well, the anti-Semitism part is bullcrap when it comes to DEI, but for sure they've discriminated against students. Oh yeah, the Chinese in particular. Asians, yeah. Asian Americans, of course.

Starting point is 01:58:09 Yeah. Yeah, the lawsuit was settled and it was proven and they still haven't changed anything. And the fact that they could get so high and mighty about being private, private, private, and while fighting not getting government money. Where's my 400 million, baby? Where's my money? Where's our money? We're private. Give us more money. This makes no sense.

Starting point is 01:58:29 Harvard is, this is hubris taken to an extreme. These guys, why are you doing this? Just, you know, I don't get it personally. Well, you know why is because Epstein went to Harvard, so there's probably something in the Epson files. That's exactly it. Is there a part two to that clip or is that it? No, there is a part two right here.

Starting point is 01:58:52 Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon says, accreditors have a responsibility to ensure institutions are upholding academic integrity and campus safety and culture. The Trump administration says they're currently in talks with Harvard. President Trump says he's optimistic. Yeah, they'll absolutely reach a deal. The notice comes nine days after the Trump administration's task force to combat anti-Semitism sent a letter to Harvard telling them that their federal funding is at risk because the school allegedly violated their Jewish students'

Starting point is 01:59:24 civil rights. But again, why are we... federal funding? For what? Research. Research. They can get money from... how about the money... how about getting money from whom the research benefit... from who the... there are are people that I'm trying to put the sentence together. There's a there's a Beneficiary of the research it's called industry. It's called the pharma companies. They have tons of money They make some of them make ten or twenty billion dollars a year in net profits What why aren't they research giving them to my why is why is the taxpayer paying for research that benefits Pfizer? Explain this to me. I disagree.

Starting point is 02:00:08 Without research money going to Harvard, we wouldn't have this. When we come back here tonight, the new drug just approved by the FDA for your dog. I'm telling you, without that, our defido would be dead. I really don't know. I don't know. It seems personal to me. You know, COVID, shots. I don't know.

Starting point is 02:00:30 I don't know. Johns Hopkins. Do they get money too, Johns Hopkins? Oh, yeah, they're spooks. Yeah. The whole thing is Johns Hopkins loaded. Well, we're not answering any questions here. But I do in that vein have more sources

Starting point is 02:00:48 about Columbia University. Columbia University may be close to a deal with the Trump administration to restore its federal funding. Sources say the deal would help the school regain access to more than $400 million in federal funding. The Trump administration pulled that money over anti-Israel pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Meanwhile, Colombia is expected to pay a multi-million dollar settlement to victims of alleged civil rights violations and implement changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The agreement would also include improving campus security for Jewish students and boosting transparency about hiring and admissions.

Starting point is 02:01:29 It's clear. He's doing it because he's on the Epstein list and Israel is telling him to do it. It's obvious. I don't see how it's so hard for you to just understand that. Yeah, I don't know. I lost. With that, I want to thank you for your courage. In the morning to you the man who put the sea in the cluster one.

Starting point is 02:01:48 Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora. Yeah, well in the morning to you Mr. Amkury. In the morning our ships see boots and raffi and the air subs in the water. And the dames and knights out there. Good morning to the trolls in the troll room, may I count you for a second, my love? Oh, hi. 25.14 today at the peak, that's nice, 25.14.

Starting point is 02:02:17 That is, that's above average, right? Well, it used to be average, but now it's above average because our average is currently 24 on Sundays. So it's above average. And hello trolls, they are in the troll room. It probably was about 28. They're in the troll room at trollroom.io or they may be listening on a modern podcast app

Starting point is 02:02:37 which gives you the bat signal when we go live. Actually fired it off late. Sorry about that, my mistake. So if you're mad, don't worry because when it comes out as a podcast, you'll be notified within 90 seconds. That's why you want to use something from podcastapps.com. We are value for value.

Starting point is 02:02:58 The only way that we gain and garner any income is through your time, your talent, your treasure, because saving money is also a good way for us to create a better product for you without spending money on thousands of producers. That's how we know that this chat GPT conversation thing is real. That's how we know a lot of things. That's how we get all kinds of information. That is the oldest joke in the world at this point. You always chuckle. If you stopped chuckling I wouldn't do it. Okay I will no longer chuckle at your dumb joke. It's not a joke. It's kind of a bit. The joke implies a story. It's a bit. It's told with a punch line. It's a bit. See I didn't chuckle. It's a bit. It's told with a punchline. It's a bit. Instead of that. See, I didn't chuckle. It's a bit.

Starting point is 02:03:45 Time, talent or treasure, which means we accept any of the above. And of course we love our prompt jockeys. Can't call them artists anymore. Who bring us artwork for every single episode. I'm getting pushback now on some of these people. Like, oh, I'm tired of the AI art. I don't wanna hear anymore. But I kind tired of the AI art I want to hear anymore

Starting point is 02:04:05 but I kind of like the one that who did this for episode 1780 that's the one I did from New York we titled it chat box and the art was by digital oh I actually made a mistake I wrote down digital 212 man but of course it should have been digital 2112 man. Sorry. And this was a, this was, we thought it was funny. It was Pam Bondi ripping up the Epstein list. If it had been done by a real artist, we probably would have chosen that. It just shows you need a good idea. And of course you don't need a lot of talent anymore to get it out of the AI. And there it is.

Starting point is 02:04:43 And man, just look at the page of noagenerator.com. Everything has, everything in AI has the same orange. We're going through the orange. I'm noticing this. I'm looking at the page right now. And there's a, the good example is measles. Everything is orange. Everything. And Barbie. Lolita Express. Pots.

Starting point is 02:05:01 Bongino. AI, there's a bunch of them. They have this orange tinge. The whole artwork is tinge. There's like a tinge problem. But even if you go down and look at from two shows ago, everything is- NIC Streets is another one. It's brand new.

Starting point is 02:05:20 By Darren, it's all tinge. It's all orange. Now, I guess you have to put in, don't make it orange. Joe Bob, yes. Joe Bob is old lady at Express. Everything orange. Just keep him out.

Starting point is 02:05:33 Actually, it's kind of awkward. Now, I will say that- Orange. Bongino orange. Now, we went for obvious low brow reasons. We went with the Pam Bondi ripping up the Epstein list because, but come on, everyone was talking about it that's why we went with it, but the one that we both laughed at and liked the most without a doubt was

Starting point is 02:05:55 the Holland Five. Yes, we did. Which is a new band that John just made up, The Holland Five. And it was a funny piece. A bunch of stereotypical, which I've never seen a Dutch person dress like this, but you can kind of imagine. Oh no, no. That's a very traditional Dutch dress. Oh yeah. Oh, completely. It looks like it's silly. It's like the leader hose in Germans. No, the Dutch have a very typical... No, I'm talking about in terms of it's being a stereotype. Yeah, although the one thing that you'll never see in a typical Dutch quintet ever...

Starting point is 02:06:37 It's a banjo. You'll never see a guy with a banjo. No, they don't know what a banjo is. They don't play banjos over there at all. Darren O'Neill flooding the zone. We kind of liked his bad liar, Pam Bondi. She had a shock collar on and said bad liar. But it was okay.

Starting point is 02:06:55 It was okay. I used the 50 shades of something, the dominatrix chewing bubble gum on the, for the, for the the Newsletter. Oh, of course you use that one. Well, no, it's just no a course. What would a course because it's it's a I also let me I choose it was either that or the grok one I like the the chatter box with Darren O'Neill with the chattering teeth, because I find chattering teeth to be funny. Wow. Now it would have been funnier animated.

Starting point is 02:07:29 Yeah. But yeah, the Pam Bondi. By the way, just as an aside, animated art also works in the podcast apps. Good. So if... Let's give the artists more new ideas. I am giving them an idea. It works incredibly well actually. I wonder if this art generator will hold a GIF, animated GIF, and present it properly.

Starting point is 02:07:56 It should. I think so. It should. I don't know that. It should. I hope so. Because I want people to do... Because everything's a ping on this thing. Correct the record has already put you up as host of OAN. As seen on OAN. Okay. Oh brother.

Starting point is 02:08:15 All right everybody. That is of course a big thanks to digital 2112 man for bringing us the artwork for episode 1780. We appreciate that. And we appreciate anything anybody does really. I mean, the more choice we have, the better. NoAgendaArtGenerator.com. You know, why don't we just have NoAgendaArtGenerator.com just be an AI by itself. You don't have to upload anything. Just type in what you think it should be and it creates it for you. I don't think so.

Starting point is 02:08:48 Oh, okay. Okay. Bring back Nick the rat. Nick the rat. That was nice. Two episodes ago. That's probably the only, he was probably had a day off or something. Who knows? He hasn't sent anything in since.

Starting point is 02:09:02 Yeah. Well, he's probably mad because I didn't do a meetup in New York. You know, they were like, hey man, what's your dance card like? I'm here. Nick the Rat doesn't get mad. Yeah, he does. Yeah, I think he does. On Wednesday nights when he's in the sewer.

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Starting point is 02:12:44 I will try to keep this short. Thank you for your courage and what you both provide for everyone who listens. I'm 29 years old and find it both fascinating and worrisome at how little people my age care about knowing what's going on in the world and the slanted deliveries we see every day. You know, this is true. You know, you in the elevator, because we were in there so, so often with so many horrible elevator.

Starting point is 02:13:10 You would hear people making jokes about Epstein, about Epstein's list, but they didn't care. It's a punchline. They don't care. How many people were in the elevator? A lot. There was a bachelor party and all the bros came in. And Tina's like, bachelor party. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, man.

Starting point is 02:13:32 Yeah. Epstein list. Whatever. I'm proud to be armed with no agenda information, swinging my fist at everyone in front of me in the hopes at least one person tunes in trying to hit him in the mouth. Thank you again. And can I please get a big loud goat karma why of course you can thank you anonymous you've got Karma JJ Airbendale, Iowa 33 333 simple easy Hey boys longtime boner first time donor, given the theory that the evil entities

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Starting point is 02:14:49 so obvious. You know, I don't think we missed it. It's just it was like, okay, you know, I don't know. I think we totally missed it. I don't remember ever saying anything. Well, we didn't talk about it because it was like so obvious, I guess. I don't know. And here's his karma that he requested.

Starting point is 02:15:03 You've got karma. Sean Holman, Noblesville, Indiana, comes in with 21911. I'm trying to decode that. And Sean says, Luke 18 verses 22 to 25, share God's blessings St. Maria Garetti, pray for us. Luke, I told you seven times but 77 times? Oh, it's about money. Yes. Settling the accounts. It should also be verses. I know what he meant. Yeah, I know what he meant, but he spelled it as though it was a competition Yeah, but that was it kind of interesting is subtle and funny. Yes, sir

Starting point is 02:15:50 Do name Ralph in Miami, Florida two and eleven dollars sixty five cents. I have a blank cell here which gives him a double-up karma You've got Karma And coming in with 207.13 it is of course the 13th of the 7th month, that's Eli the coffee guy, and he would like to credit this donation to one of their customers, Dame Rita Harrington. Her and so many other regular producers of this show initially inspired me to start donating. I was hit in the mouth back in 2018. It took a few years before I ceased being a douchebag. However, it was the regular names I heard in the donation segments that made me realize

Starting point is 02:16:31 how valuable this show is to all of us, the listeners. No agenda has seen me through countless hours of traveling the country as a private investigator aka corporate spook before quitting my job to rehab an old house and start a business roasting coffee. Thank you Adam and John for keeping me company on this journey. Also thank you to all the producers in the No Agenda community that helped make this show possible. Thank you for your courage and stay caffeinated says Eli the coffee guy without a plug. Well I'm going to give him a free one. That's a TM 20. Gigawatt coffee roasters.com. So he was a private investigator for corporations doing espionage.

Starting point is 02:17:13 I guess I didn't know this. I didn't know this. Wow. Yeah. I'm also, I said espionage, assuming it was, because what else would you do? I don't know. But that that says a lot. He's spying on other companies. This show has changed his life. That's the point. Well, not only that, but he's he's a good coffee roaster. He's not a slouch.

Starting point is 02:17:33 I could occasionally get to try other coffee. It's good. And he holds his own with the best of them. It's good coffee. And his bags are exactly one cradle full of coffee. His bags are spot on. He's got good bags. And talking about cradle, we got Sarah cradle here. She's in East Wenatchee, Washington, 200 bucks.

Starting point is 02:17:54 And she says, greetings Adam and John, business owners of Gitmo Nation. Do you need to update your website but hate the idea of doing it yourself? Like Dvorak.org, Savage Free. At Concurrent Studio, we create safe and effective websites that will match your brand and improve your customer experience. Learn more at ConcurrentStudio.com. That's ConcurrentStudio.com word.com that's ConcurrentStudio.com she said it again I get monations go to webshop love you mean it Sarah the web babe

Starting point is 02:18:31 I'm telling you she should read do no agenda of Dvorak org slash NA if you can give her the password It'll be done quickly She'd love to do it Deflect deny. Linda DePackkin, $200. Linda always has a similar message. She does like jobs karma and she says, worried about AI? For a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com. That's ImageMakers Inc.

Starting point is 02:18:58 with a K and work with Linda Liu, Duchess of jobs and writer of unique and winning resumes promo code BonONGINO. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You got karma. D. Clegg was sent in a check and a card. And a card, you can tell it's a card. I can tell. Because it has a card. I can tell. It's a card. It's a card.

Starting point is 02:19:26 It's a card. She wrote a note, I think it's a she, because I mean, Dee could also be a male name, but the writing is female, but it could also be male if he was an architect. That's true. So she wrote in all uppercase, some, okay, this is not a tip of the day, but it's a tip. And she should listen to this. Get one of those font creators software, font creation package and turn this into a font. She has gorgeous upper case writing. It's all upper case, it's block letters, but it's just, it's really pretty as hell. ITM gentleman, she writes, thank you for all of your hard work keeping us informed. Please de-douche me.

Starting point is 02:20:14 You've been de-douched. Also, your best jobs karma would be very appreciated blessings to all d clegg from the sanctuary state of taxa chusets or i'm sorry taxa oh sorry taxa chus nuts there you go jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs and our final associate executive producer today is Pat Hopple from Dela Field, Wisconsin, $200. And Pat says, now Pat could be male or female, as we know from years of Saturday Night Live. I'm not sorry to break your mean, doubting hearts, John. That's male. But Potts is real.

Starting point is 02:21:06 And I think it was me who came up with that story, but I love, I never said it wasn't real. I love that you're getting blamed. I love it. That's about time somebody blamed me for something. Cause most of the time they blame you. Of course, most of the time they're right. Now with that in mind, we had a lot of notes about people, lots

Starting point is 02:21:23 of notes about people with pots,S. The kids got it. They're in it's all trait. And I generalize. Yes. Generalize. It's all traced back to the COVID vaccine shot. Some say severe COVID that they didn't have a shot. Although there's a doctor that's had it for 30 years that they mentioned in one of the

Starting point is 02:21:41 notes. Yes. So there's no shot there. So while POTS is real and keeps me in a reclined position with fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyeliculus, encephalomyelitis, help me. This could be a woman. Encephalomyelitis, there we go, Encephalomyelitis, there we go. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Encephalomyelitis. Yes.

Starting point is 02:22:06 ME-CFS. Encephalomyelitis. And histamine intolerance, it has kept me unemployed for 25 years. Okay, so she didn't get it from the shot. No. And severely cut into my no agenda support. Now it's a problem.

Starting point is 02:22:20 Here we go. While my wife has carried the economic burden, I've been the lousy homemaker, mechanic, maintenance man, etc. And since she is no fan of the show, I have had little energy to defend my giving her money to you. But you're in luck. Here's $200 in Elon bucks intercepted from his effort to further subordinate the anti-maga

Starting point is 02:22:43 sentiment in Wisconsin. Contrary to your exuberant claim of Democrats ruling the state, Republicans have relied on extreme gerrymandering for many years to keep the crazy coming in Wisconsin. It would be wise, or at least in your financial self-interest, to make an effort to learn more about things before carelessly turning producers away. Please give all us pots heads some health karma says Pat Hoppel. Now, I think that what we were saying here, pots is, because I read it, there was an NHS document about pots and we read that.

Starting point is 02:23:28 So it's a real thing. They don't know where it comes from. And the claim was that it seems a lot of Tik Tok women, young women are claiming they have pots because, you know, they weren't eating or whatever. That's it. This seems like it's a social contagion to say I have pots. They may have pots. They may then these women may have all had COVID shots. I want to mention something else, which is his commentary about my generalizing about Wisconsin being

Starting point is 02:23:53 Democrat run. All you is all you. And the fact is that my doing so resulted in his donation. Good job. This happens a lot. I condemn the Indians for being cheap, the Indians from India. They start giving.

Starting point is 02:24:10 And they, some of them, you know, say, oh yeah, well maybe we're cheap because they are cheap. We need to put this into our value for value book. Value for value for dummies. We need to explain how it works. This is one of the mechanisms. You can say something wrong too and that'll get attention and give you money. We need to explain how it works. This is one of the mechanisms. You can say something wrong too and that'll get attention and get you money.

Starting point is 02:24:30 No harm meant, Pat. Thank you to everyone who set us straight on pots being a real thing. The social contagion still may be very real. I'm having trouble talking today. Very real. Here's the karma that you requested. I'm gonna add a goat for you because you deserve it. You've got karma.

Starting point is 02:24:53 So, Elon, wait, Elon was bribing the Wisconsinians? Yes. With 200 bucks in cash? Apparently. Well, isn't that illegal? Oh, now you sound like MSNBC. That's illegal what he's doing. It's like a lottery. It's a bad thing he's doing.

Starting point is 02:25:11 You can't do that. This is a bad person. Thank you all very much, our executive and associate executive producers, for helping us out for episode 1781. We will be thanking the rest of our donors $50 and above in our second segment as Always you can go to no agenda donations calm and make a donation of any amount People like to do the numerology stuff We're always it's always fun for us to time try and decode it But we're on to Eli the coffee guy finally after like two years

Starting point is 02:25:41 and thank you it really does make a difference, it keeps the show going, and these executive and associate executive producer credits, as we said before, are good for the rest of your life. You can use them anywhere. These credits are recognized. Try them out on imdb.com. in the mouth. Hey, um, Nicole Sheridan, uh, who was, uh, RFK Jr.'s running mate for a, for a bit there when he was still running. And of course she's got the Google money. She made a promise. Here's the promise and she actually made good on it today. Hey everybody. So, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced today that his agency will finally release detailed information on geoengineering. If you followed me for a while, you know this is something I care

Starting point is 02:26:44 deeply about. So, this feels like the right moment to share. I have followed me for a while, you know this is something I care deeply about. So this feels like the right moment to share. I have been speaking with a whistleblower over the past several weeks who has helped me really understand what's happening in our skies. They've given me information that could shed real light on these programs, who's behind them, where the funding's coming from, and what we can do to stop them. behind them where the funding's coming from and what we can do to stop them. And fails. Another knowage in the staple comes true then it's all coming out. Second half of show.

Starting point is 02:27:11 It's all coming out. I saw the post coming through this morning. Play the theremin. Why should I play the theremin? This is the truth, man. They've been spraying us like bugs! Like bugs, I tell you! Well, good for her. I'm glad she's somebody spending money on this stuff. Yeah. We should know about this stuff. And it's going to come out. It's the season of reveal. It's here.

Starting point is 02:27:37 Yeah. I have an offbeat clip. Actually, I'd like to play, I have two clips from Brooks and K-Part from last Friday. Oh goodness gracious. That I really think need to be played. Okay. Because this is giving us more insight.

Starting point is 02:27:56 We have a... Insight into your hate watch. That's the only insight I get from these. You play hate watch material. I don't bitch, I don't sit there and complain bitterly and go and do it do the gg bit on you You do it to me constantly. Yes, you do never never never never Find one example. Okay, but here's the tears. This is Brooks

Starting point is 02:28:19 He's gonna give us a little insight on the tariffs without condemning Trump too much He's gonna give us a little insight on the tariffs without condemning Trump too much. It's early days yet. Our latest public inflation numbers are for May. That's not up to current, so it could be catching up. Second, I think a lot of the reason a lot of companies are not passing the costs on to consumers is because they think they're gonna come down,

Starting point is 02:28:38 that Trump's gonna change his mind again. And so why should they burn their relationship with the consumer if Trump's gonna pull the tariffs back? If it becomes clear over the next three, four months that he's not gonna pull back, then I think consumers are really gonna start seeing high prices. And that's gonna be on toys, that's gonna be on things like car seats. I've learned a lot about car seats in the last month. They're way more expensive than I thought they were, at least when my kids were little.

Starting point is 02:29:02 So then if you start paying 400, 500 bucks for a car seat, then you notice. And then the effect on our politics will be significant. Four or 500 bucks for a car seat? What is he talking about, this elitist? When's the last time you bought a car seat? Let me see what a car seat costs on Amazon. Is he talking about the children's booster seats

Starting point is 02:29:24 so his kids can sit down, the little toddlers? He doesn't have a talking about the children's booster seats so his kids can sit down? They're little toddlers. He doesn't have a toddler, the guy's 70. Okay well here's a car seat for $229. Okay that's not 500. No, here's a decompression cushion which I think is fine for the kid. Just throw them on that for 29 bucks. No, Amazon has a lot of fancy looking Graco brand. Graco brand, best overall pick, $229, $219. So yeah, I don't know. Maybe he's talking about an actual car.

Starting point is 02:29:54 Not that, but an actual car seat. In other words, the seat that you sit in in your car. I don't think so. It could be. I don't think so. Maybe he's just swapping them out randomly. No, now you're just going's just swapping them out randomly. No, you're just going crazy just to justify playing these clips.

Starting point is 02:30:11 Justifying anything. Okay, well, let's listen to Capehart and what does he have to say? I don't understand what the president's doing here. He's taken his 20th century view of tariffs from the 1980s, trying to apply it to a 21st century world. No one knows what any of this means. And David's talking about inflation, higher prices, we just don't know. Economists say that the American people are gonna get hammered, that the president telling

Starting point is 02:30:41 everyone that we're getting screwed by these other nations and that they're going to pay the tax, that just isn't true. And so the thing I keep coming back to on a whole lot of things that the president does, I'm asking the question, why are we not talking about his mental acuity in the way we would if President Biden had been saying and doing a lot of these erratic things. Wow, that train has come and gone. Cape Heart. Really? He wants to go back to that? Well, how do you get from tariffs to acuity? I mean, this guy, these two guys are the worst. They're just crap. And yet there they are on PBS yacking away. There it is.

Starting point is 02:31:28 You're mad. You're mad that they're on TV and you only get a 10 minute hit with Chanel. Chanel Rhyon. So I was one of the Zoomers friends in New York works for Tory Burch. Are you familiar with the Tory Burch brand? Of Bagley. So I think mainly handbags, Tory Burch handbags. I have a handbag story coming up right after this.

Starting point is 02:31:56 So let me just see what is a Tory Burch handbag. Let me see. Tory Burch. Is it B-I-R-C-H handbag price. They probably, I'd say they're about five, $600. Now they get a little bit cheaper. $398 for a tote. $398 for a cheap tote.

Starting point is 02:32:20 So, and this particular friend does sourcing and production. So she knew a lot about it. And I said, how have the tariffs affected you? And she's like, yeah, you know, we just ate it. We couldn't raise our prices. So we just ate the 10%. It's not a problem. I think most people, I'm reminded,

Starting point is 02:32:40 I should mention this. I'm reminded about all these analysis. Oh, the tariffs are gonna make everything do this and that. Oh, we're gonna do this. I'm reminded of I should mention this, I'm reminded about all these analyses. Oh, the terrorists are going to make everything do this and that. Oh, we're going to do this. I'm reminded of the Reagan administration. If anybody remembers that far back, I'm probably the only one here that does. But when Reagan ran against George H.W. Bush, he was actually running against a number of candidates.

Starting point is 02:32:59 And George H.W., who he picked as vice president, was one of his candidates. And he called Reagan's Supply side economic theories which came from Milton Friedman. He called them voodoo Economics voodoo economics is none of its gonna work And of course it worked fine and then Milton Friedman all of a sudden became a folk hero with all his theories and ideas About inflation and everything in between and now everyone thinks of Milton Friedman as some sort of a genius. They didn't think so before. Voodoo economics! So they're doing the same thing here with Trump.

Starting point is 02:33:31 They're just making stuff up. What I thought was interesting that she said, you know, we could not raise the price because they would, I guess it's, these things are very price-sensitive. We all know, I'm sure the mini Fleming soft cross body retailing for 378, it probably cost them $10. Yeah, they're eight. And Tory Burch is a certified billionaire. So it's like, it's all right.

Starting point is 02:33:57 We've been charging consumers way too much anyway. And they just ate it. I said, what are you gonna do in the future? Well, just eat it. 10%, not a big deal. Even if it's 20%. They are printing money at these outfits. Yes, they are.

Starting point is 02:34:12 In fact, let's play the clip, the top clip on my list. Yeah, I don't know. What'd you think a Jane Birkin? It's not Jane Birkin. Okay. Okay, boomer, Jane Birkin bag it is. Exclusive coveted fashion accessories in the world, the Birkin bag made by Hermes. The large boxy purses come with long wait lists and even used bags can sell for tens of thousands

Starting point is 02:34:39 of dollars. But if you think that's a lot, well, the original Birkin bag just sold for more than $10 million yesterday at Sotheby's in Paris. This first Birkin bag was made specifically for the late Jane Birkin, the British-born singer and actress who became a French icon. She died in 2023 at the age of 76. And her bag comes with quite a backstory. As Sotheby's tells it, in 1981, Birkin was struggling to cram a wicker basket full of her belongings into an overhead bin on a flight. The contents of her basket though spilled

Starting point is 02:35:17 into the lap of Jean-Louis Dumas, the head of Hermès. The two struck up a conversation about how Birkin needed a bigger bag to lug her things around. And when Dumas asked her to draw a sketch, she drew one on the air sickness bag from the seat back pocket. A few years later, Hermes gifted a prototype of the bag to Birkin and asked if the company could put her name on it. And thus the Birkin bag was born. Jane Birkin carried her namesake black leather bag for almost a decade. In 1994, she donated it to raise funds for an AIDS charity. The legendary prototype was sold with marks and scratches and includes a few unique features from its original owner, like Birkin's initials JB stamped on the front flap, and her dainty pair of nail clippers hanging from its strap. Valuance Japan, a Tokyo-based reseller

Starting point is 02:36:03 of design goods, said it paid the $10 million for the bag. All right. I stand corrected. I stand corrected. So who do you think the Birkin bag was named after, Boomer? I'm going to say Jane Birkin. I stand corrected.

Starting point is 02:36:18 I stand corrected. But it also gave me an outstanding idea. Ready? The Dvorak Duffel. I don't use a duffel. You do now. You drew it on the back of a puke bag and now it's the Dvorak Duffel

Starting point is 02:36:34 and we also have the Curry Coach now available in the No Agenda shop. I would hope the No Agenda shop would do this. Now, have you even seen a barf bag on a plane in the last decade? Yeah, yes, because I've been on a plane in the last decade. Barf bags. I've been on a plane. I don't remember seeing barf bags.

Starting point is 02:36:53 I think they took them off. They are in there. Of course they are. Have you seen- I've been on planes where there's not even a magazine in that little thing. Magazines are gone. Have you seen someone barf in a barf bag in the last decade? No, but we had one time we were the family, it was, I think it was Eric.

Starting point is 02:37:14 We went to Hawaii and for some reason, I don't know what happened, but Eric, I think got sick and he barfed in the barf bag. Nice. And then he wrapped it up and it has a little clip so you can close it up. Yep. And he put it on the ground and then the plane had a rough landing and the barf bag seemed to have rolled away under somebody else's seat. So it was God knows where it was. We snuck out of the plane as fast as we could, figuring somebody either stepped on it or what the hell is this? No, no, no, no, that's wrong. On our flight home yesterday, we actually got a,

Starting point is 02:37:52 if there's anyone who has medical qualifications, we could use you in row 23, please, row 23. And you never want to hear that on the plane. No, because it often leads to an emergency landing in the middle of nowhere. So it did not, but we actually were delayed by almost an hour and we arrived almost on time. Now they always, you know, skew these times no matter what. But when we landed, you know, paramedics came on board right away, you know, they had EMS,

Starting point is 02:38:23 they had a clinical guy. And I guess the woman had fainted. She was fine. She walked off with them. But the pilot then says, that was actually kind of cool because I got to fly a lot faster than I usually do. We got full on priority.

Starting point is 02:38:39 You know, we got to a gate, a gate that was empty, even though our gate was initially occupied. Yeah, that's true. So that was great. More of that please. Yeah, well, I almost had that opportunity once, but some guy, I had a guy die on the flight.

Starting point is 02:38:57 Next to you? No, I hope not. No, some guy died on the, it was a big flight. It was a flight from Japan. Oh no. And they had to put them on ice. We were over the middle of the Pacific so they couldn't do anything. There was, you know, and they were, and they, they, they was a doctor on board, luckily,

Starting point is 02:39:13 and he pronounced the guy dead on the plane. So they didn't have to land in Hawaii to get him, you know, cause any help, cause he was dead. So we flew all the way to San Francisco and then they, you know, they... Did they zip them up in the bag before taking them out? Yeah, and they rolled them out of the plane before anybody else. Well, yeah, I mean, you get priority when you're dead. It's priority deplaning. Yeah. So that wasn't pleasant.

Starting point is 02:39:40 No, I don't even know how we got here. We got, we were on the, you started with the bag story. Yeah, well, I think the Dvorak Duffel is a winner. Okay, we got the Dvorak Duffel on track. As seen on One America News. I got the Air India, oh, the K-part stuff I've got. You did the K-part stuff. Yes, I did. I do have some interesting flood analysis.

Starting point is 02:40:03 Oh, okay. That's a little off beat. Yeah, I wouldn't mind that because, you know, we... This morning it started coming down again like crazy. Hunt County, Hunt, the town of Hunt is now on flood watch. This thing is not over here. So... Well, this isn't quite about the flood per se. It's about the floodplains that are over there in Texas.

Starting point is 02:40:27 And there's tons of them. Yes. They're all over the country. Actually. So you notice it. You look at a map. Yes. But I, this is kind of an interesting, I think this is somewhat scandalous. This is the interesting flood info PBS. What is it that you looked at and what did you find? Well, we found was a significantly higher risk of flooding in this camp and in this area than the federal government has ever reported. We found that a number of the cabins had an expectation that if a serious storm came,

Starting point is 02:40:57 they were gonna be inundated. And yet FEMA's maps, what Americans depend on to know whether or not they have a flood risk, were not showing this risk. And so when we went and looked at a number of maps that are done by private companies, you can see that if a serious storm came, that this place would be underwater, not only in the main camp, but also off into the new camp that they built recently. And some of these are done by private companies like First Street in New York, which was able to show where they expected the

Starting point is 02:41:25 water to come You know the thing that's That's interesting is that Camp Mystic has flooded before at these many many floods 3278. I mean It was known No one's listening. Yes, it was known but but the FEME, this where the plot thickens, this is part two. Why the difference? Why did these private companies pick it up and FEME not?

Starting point is 02:41:52 FEMA does not map rainfall. They are not mapping flash flooding. And they're also not looking forward into what sort of climate predictions might be there coming. FEMA is looking backward. FEMA does not have the mandate from Congress to do this work, and they also, they don't have the funding to do this. So there are wonderful scientists at FEMA that are capable of doing this. They have some of the best data scientists in the world, but they are not mapping this

Starting point is 02:42:19 risk the way a lot of the private companies are saying, look, this is a serious problem. The Associated Press had a story out this morning that said that a number of buildings at Camp Mystic had been taken off the list. Because you write in your investigation that there are special interests that can appeal. How does that work? NPR and PBS Frileman were also reporting this. We have the documents that show that this camp pulled these buildings out of the floodplain. They're saying, we don't want to have these in this risky area, so can you just take them

Starting point is 02:42:49 out of your map? And FEMA granted this request for multiple buildings back 15 years ago. This is a significant problem because if you are in the floodplain, then you are required if you are in a community that belongs to this program and you have a federally backed mortgage, you are required to build to a flood standard that usually means elevating your house so that you can survive a significant storm like this, a significant flood that's coming through. And if you're outside the flood maps, you don't have to do that work.

Starting point is 02:43:21 And that is why a lot of communities sometimes ask to come out of it and even private owners like this camp requested to come out of the floodplain. And we can see the impact that that had. To be clear, they want to get out of the floodplain on paper, but in reality, they're still in it. Well, I can tell you why they're doing this. And we're seeing this ourselves. And everybody here expects our home insurance to go up again. Since we've lived in this house, which is four years, our home insurance has doubled.

Starting point is 02:43:52 Yeah, it's doing this everywhere. And yes, being in the floodplain makes your insurance go up because it's an excuse to jack up the insurance. But at the same time, everyone's finagling it. Let's listen to clip three. This is happening not just at Camp Mystic, but across the country. More than two times as many Americans have a flood risk,

Starting point is 02:44:15 but millions of Americans don't even know they have a flood risk. And that's because FEMA's maps have not been updated with this new information. Because you said this is also an issue in North Carolina when Hurricane Helene moved through. Absolutely. When we were in North Carolina covering Helene,

Starting point is 02:44:31 98% of the people that were affected by the storm were not in FEMA's flood maps. This means that not only if they're not in the flood map, they may not have been required to build in a way that could have helped them survive the storm, but also they may not in the flood map, they may not have been required to build in a way that could have helped them survive the storm. But also, they may not have belonged to the National Flood Insurance Program because there wasn't a requirement for them to do so. And so they're out of luck in that way too when it comes to rebuilding.

Starting point is 02:44:56 What's it take to fix this? Legislation? We found in our reporting that Congress needs to fund this program. They need to fund FEMA to do these maps. But there's a lot of pushback to having these maps updated. A lot of politicians don't wanna be the ones that will increase flood insurance rates for people across the country. I'm missing an important detail here.

Starting point is 02:45:21 Maybe it's in the fourth clip. Well, I wanna also mention something about, of course, they're trying to twist this whole story so it's in the fourth clip. Well, I want to also mention something about, of course, they're trying to twist this whole story. So it's Trump's fault. How about climate change? That's what I'm waiting for. They never get to climate change. That's really interesting in this PBS. Mostly they're targeting Trump. It's like, well, FEMA has had, FEMA has not done this job well for ever. For a long time.

Starting point is 02:45:46 For a long time. And so all of a sudden now because of Trump, it's being, you call attention to it because of Trump. This is nonsense. This whole report really bugs me for that reason, but here we go at the last of it. But we also found in our reporting that the National Association of Home Builders, Home Developer, lobby groups, even sometimes the National Association of Realtors are saying we don't want to see these maps necessarily updated because they want to keep, they say, homes affordable.

Starting point is 02:46:15 And now with FEMA in limbo under the Trump administration, changes likely, unlikely? The cuts to FEMA are making it difficult from the insiders we've talked to, to do the work that they want to do. But it is also going to undermine the agency's ability to insist on flood map changes and also insist on resilient building. Due to climate change. They missed an opportunity there, I think. I think they were targeting this too much.

Starting point is 02:46:46 They didn't want to water it down. Well, President Trump and First Lady Melania came to Kerrville right down the road to visit. And I will say that in general, everyone is pretty happy with how a a lot of it's local people. I mean, there's, oh man, there must be 3,500, maybe 4,000 volunteers. In fact, there's a meetup this coming Saturday

Starting point is 02:47:15 at Java Ranch, also known as Java Hut, on Main Street. One of our producers was coming in from the Netherlands to help with flood relief. He's organizing a meetup there. There's a lot of people who emailed me and people say, I'm in Austin, I want to go help and so on. It's really been a very heartwarming to see how many people just jumped in to help.

Starting point is 02:47:38 And here's a report about the president with some nonsense in here from the president, unfortunately. U.S. President Donald Trump was in central Texas on Friday to survey the damage from devastating floods that killed at least 120 people. Trump and first lady Melania began their visit in hard hit Kerrville, where they were briefed by local officials. Later during a town hall, the US president dismissed questions about the federal response

Starting point is 02:48:04 to the floods and whether adequate warnings were provided. Later, during a town hall, the US president dismissed questions about the federal response to the floods and whether adequate warnings were provided. Well, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. This was, I guess, Christie said a one in 500, one in a thousand years. No, no. It's easy to sit back and say, oh, what could have happened here or there, you know, maybe we could have done something differently. This was a thing that has never happened before and nobody's seen anything I've never seen anything like this

Starting point is 02:48:29 officials say some 3,400 people are involved in the search for the 160 people that are still missing the search for the missing continues the people that are doing it are unbelievable people that you couldn't get better people than this anywhere. Christie Wright? Anywhere in the world you couldn't get better people. And they're doing the job like I don't think anybody else could, frankly. And I want to thank them. I want to thank all of these great first responders who raced into very grave danger.

Starting point is 02:49:02 We have some people that were incredible. The single Coast Guard rescue crew saved an incredible 169 children at Camp Mystic. 169. We're also taking historic action to ensure that such a nightmare never happens again. We're going to look and see how can a thing like this, they could say it's a hundred years. Somebody says a 500 year event. No, we're not going to let a thing like this happen again, where it can wreak this kind of devastation. There's no stopping it.

Starting point is 02:49:34 President Trump, there's no stopping this. One of the guys that are church, Mark DeWise, he has equipment and he went down there. he uncovered 10 bodies in the rubble, this is a mess. And of course, now, and I feel a lot more what the people of Western North Carolina, Asheville, what they all went through, because it disappears from the news,

Starting point is 02:50:00 but it just stays and it goes, this will be months, months still of cleanup. It's, it's an unbelievable mess. Video doesn't do it justice. And yeah, it'll happen again in five to 10 years. Yes, it happens over and over. It does. But we should be a little smarter. But by saying it's every thousand years, that doesn't help at all. No, it's a lie. And it's a lie. Can I just give you one little interesting tidbit? Speaking of churches, we have the new IRS, which means much less people.

Starting point is 02:50:37 I'm not quite sure exactly what President Trump did. But Monday, the IRS said, and this is very interesting because since the 1950s, I think, this has not been legal due to the Johnson amendment. The IRS said on Monday, churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates to their congregations, carving out an exemption in a decades- ban on political activity by tax exempt nonprofits. They say, the communications from a house of worship to its congregation in connection with religious services through its usual channels of communication on matters of faith do not run afoul of the Johnson amendment as properly interpreted. That's a big, yeah, 1954 is when Johnson introduced that.

Starting point is 02:51:28 That's a big change. It'll be interesting to see how it works with the televangelists. Well, I guess it comes down to what's your normal mode of communication. But they're pretty clear houses of worship, so I don't know. A house of, a televangelist is a house of communication. But they're pretty clear houses of worship. So I don't know. Televangelist is a house of worship with 16,000 people and a million audience of millions. I don't see any reason why you couldn't do that anyway. I like to do unreported news, in other words, kind of scandalous little stories that just never get played by anybody. I do not understand the editors of this country why these

Starting point is 02:52:10 things don't go up. But I don't think you've heard this one. This is the unreported United Nations corruption story. The Trump administration today announcing sanctions on a United Nations investigator. Francesca Albanese is the UN special Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza. Albanese has previously prompted the International Criminal Court to take action against US and Israeli officials, companies and executives. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says her efforts were illegitimate.

Starting point is 02:52:38 In recent weeks, Albanese has urged other countries to pressure Israel, including through sanctions. Rubio today wrote, Albanese's campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated. Rubio added that the U.S. will continue to take necessary actions to respond to what he calls lawfare against the U.S. Rubio says that's to protect America's sovereignty and that of its allies.

Starting point is 02:53:04 Hmm. Hmm. That is... Corrupt you, unofficial. Gambling? Amazing. Yeah. All right. Let's wrap it up with some TikTok clips, John. Mine as well. I know you're chomping at the bit. Oh, I don't know. We could skip them.

Starting point is 02:53:19 Oh, do one. Do your favorite. Do your favorite one. Well, what's the good one here? Oh, well, they're all short. None. What's the good one here? Oh, well, they're all short. What's the good one? What's the good one? Not a single one of them. I think the Civil War one is good. Okay, here we go.

Starting point is 02:53:32 Oh, MAGA, don't you understand? If we have another Civil War, all the blue states will control all the fresh water. You guys don't think this shit through do you? That's great. Is that true? No. There's fresh water all over the place. And the blue stays controlled mostly down the coast. Ocean water? Yeah, which nobody uses the drink. I mean, Washington state gets a lot of fresh water. California is a drought state.

Starting point is 02:54:09 Oh man. All right. Would you please do the stolen landlady because I saw you tweeting this on X all week. Oh, what's wrong with these people? These people, what's your, but your, they're one chat GP session away from going insane. That's what I'll tell you Okay, this is the profane scold. She's a scold I don't want to hear another white person say the word illegal for the rest of my goddamn life We are living on stolen land Our ancestors forcibly and violently seized this land from the indigenous peoples who were living here for generations

Starting point is 02:54:44 Before we ever showed up. We do not get to call them illegal. We don't own the fucking planet. Nobody does. Oh, brother. We are evolved monkeys with opposable thumbs who use them to write little monkey scribbles on a slice of tree and we call it a birth certificate. I think you didn't you already play this one?

Starting point is 02:55:02 Is this old? The opposable thumbs thing of is this a script? It could be with our little monkey sounds all of it is made up None of it is real and it doesn't fucking matter and it's certainly not a valid reason to rip a terrified Screaming child away from his weeping mother and I am tired of being made to feel like I'm crazy for I even asked for this one now. You requested it, I mean it was profane. I did, I did, I did not like that one. I should have put a not safe award.

Starting point is 02:55:51 Yeah, now I have to mark the episode as explicit. Oh thanks. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah, on Noah's gender. In the morning. Just remember, you can find him on TikTok or on X.com under the realdivorak.

Starting point is 02:56:14 Yeah, the realdivorak. I've lost a whole bunch of people for some unknown reason. You're still at 100 plus and I'm still stuck at 98.8 thousand. I cannot get over a hundred. That's because there's some, there's their limiters. I'm sure of it now. Yes. I mean, even the Epstein stuff disappeared from my timeline, like overnight.

Starting point is 02:56:38 The thing is totally rigged. Yeah, it's rigged. Yeah, it's rigged. Hey, John's going to tell us who supported us above $50, the rest of our list for today. Yes, starting with Breakwater Yacht Maintenance. There you go. Now, there's a company, Breakwater Yacht Maintenance. They're in Mystic, Connecticut, where you would have an operation like this. That's right. I love it. 10535.

Starting point is 02:57:05 If you need some maintenance on your yacht, no idea. We have you covered. They can do it. They can do it. They can do it. They can take care of your yacht and also give you some orange juice. Tony Pace in Houston, Texas, a hundred. MK Ultra Mark in the Bronx, 100. Now Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina, you know what he is. He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America in Melons.

Starting point is 02:57:33 Oh, Melons. Yeah, Melons, 8008. Rocket Boy in Brownsboro, Alabama, 69.35. That's a Gen X donation, which is $65.80 plus fees. $65.80. $65.80. That means you're born between $65 and $80, I guess. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:57:52 Plus fees. That makes sense. Okay. That's also a birthday call out. He's got it for himself. Dad, Dave Morita, Sparks, Nevada, $6,757. Jennifer Followwill. Followwill in Peoria, Arizona.

Starting point is 02:58:01 Yes. $65.80. Another call out. A Gen X donation. A Gen X donation. Jennifer Follow Will, Follow Will in Peoria, Arizona. Yes. 6580, another call out. A Gen X donation. Did you write this somewhere that this 6580 has popped up?

Starting point is 02:58:13 This is new numerology to me. I like it. No. I like it. 6580. That's a good one. 6580 for your Gen X. I have no idea where this came from.

Starting point is 02:58:23 I didn't come up with it. I like it. And now we have two, almost two in a row, except for Dame Rita in the middle. Yep. Sandwich. Jennifer's got a birthday. Yep. Christopher Dexter, 5678. We're gonna push this. I like this. We're gonna push this to 6580. Uh, Christopher Dechter, 5678. Uh, Lydia Terry in Rochester, uh, New Hampshire, 5623. Holly Taylor in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 5272. And that's a happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend, Jeff. Mike Moon in Athens, Georgia. Oh, holy mackerel. We're at the fifties already.

Starting point is 02:59:07 Yes, we are. So we had a total of 28 donations today. Yeah. That stinks. That's what it is. You know why? Is that, is that NTD clips about Falun Gong? Well, that didn't help. Did not help. No. Mike Moon in Athens, Georgia, Tim DelVecchio in Blandon, Pennsylvania, Gary Mao in Woodland Hills, California, Dame Patricia Worthington, our regular in Miami, Florida, Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington, Dame Knight in Costa Mesa, California.

Starting point is 02:59:48 And he's got, he has a note saying 25 June, July. Okay. Maybe code for something, I should read it out. I'm glad you did. That's our group of well-wishers and contributors to show 1781. And thank you to those who came in under $50 for reasons of anonymity.

Starting point is 03:00:04 We'll never mess it up and will never read anything under the 50. We see you 4999 and of course are sustaining donors who have decided to go either on a night or day and layaway program or just like to support us with any random amount, any frequency you can do all of that at no agenda donations.com. Anything is appreciated. All you have to do is just send back the value you perceive that you got from the show.

Starting point is 03:00:28 It's that simple. NoAgendaDonations.com. It's your birthday, birthday. On No Agenda. Also kind of a short list, Jennifer Falwell, which is her sister Julie Nall, a very happy 45th, and she'll be celebrating tomorrow. Rocket Boy, also celebrating his birthday tomorrow.

Starting point is 03:00:47 And Holly Taylor, happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend, Jeff. He celebrates on the 15th. Happy birthday from everybody here. The best podcast in the universe! It's your birthday, yeah! Our top two executive producers today also receive PhDs, Mike Musgrave and Thomas Flanagan.

Starting point is 03:01:03 Both of you go to noagendaRings.com and please let us know if you want your night ring as well if you want your official nighting and send us a note with your name you might as well put that on the form there when you send us in what you want on your certificate and where you'd like it sent to we are happy to oblige. Congratulations with these freshly minted PhDs in media deconstruction. Well, as I mentioned, we'll have an impromptu meet-up this coming Saturday. Evert Boop will come in from the Netherlands. He's actually in Texas already, and he helping out with the cleanup efforts and I guess some rescue efforts still or search efforts in in Kerr County. He'll be at Java Ranch Saturday between two to five and I will definitely stop by. I'm also asking Willie to stop by so you can see the famous Willie the Chessmaster. We have a Meetup Report from Victoria. So welcome to Taverns here at the Lighthouse Brewery. I am here with Winston Smith or Tim.

Starting point is 03:02:11 Or Tim and we're here for the Victoria Meetup. And this meetup will happen again in two weeks. So we want to get a few more people out here. So think about it in two weeks time, we will be out here for the No Agenda Meetup. NoAgendaMeetups.com is where you can find all of the meetups. We do have one taking place today. It's underway as we speak Evergreen Brewing in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. On the list for July, Fort Wayne, Indiana on the 19th, Albany, California. That's the big one where John's coming out on the 19th as well. Victoria, British Columbia on the 25th, Albany, California. That's the big one where John's coming out on the 19th as well. Victoria, British Columbia on the 25th, Anaheim, California,

Starting point is 03:02:49 Leo Bravo on the 26th, Alfreda, Georgia on the 31st, and many more ahead, many more meetups happening throughout the dog days of summer, which are coming up. If you'd like to know where, go to noagendameetups.com. We've got a fantastic calendar there. You can search by location. you can search by date. And if you can't find something that is near you, why don't you go ahead and start one yourself?

Starting point is 03:03:11 It's easy. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. You wanna be where you want be, trigger no hell or blame. You wanna be where you want me, trigger all hell's flame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. So I got a lot of isos,

Starting point is 03:03:34 but I think I'm just gonna try my best ones on you and see if you like those. Cause people are now, they're mad. They're like, eh, we gotta do some isos. We gotta get John out of the isosphere. It's no good what John's doing. The ISO sphere. ISO sphere.

Starting point is 03:03:47 Here's my first. It's that good. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha value in there. Nah, come on. You know, if you're gonna editing the ISO. I didn't edit the ISO. Is no different than doing an AI ISO, it seems to me. Well, I mean, you didn't like that. This, that one wasn't edited. There was a whole lot of value in there. No, I didn't, that was okay,

Starting point is 03:04:17 but I actually liked the edited one better. Oh, you did? Yeah, we could have had a funny laugh at the end. Yeah. I'll leave it at those. I want to give at the end. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Let's see, you get this one. Are we still talking about that? I don't know if that's AI or not. Here's another one. I think it's AI. Could be. Bye-bye!

Starting point is 03:04:50 Bye-bye! That's a good old Alex. We have this one. Hello! What the heck is going on? That's what I got. Oh, wait. Okay, well, I like the Alex one.

Starting point is 03:05:04 One more. Powered by Okay. Well, I like Alex one more powered by AI Thanks to John Let's hear that one again powered by AI thanks to John That's a good one. I kind of like that one. All right, what do you have? So I do have an AI one. I actually have both AI, but I try to be a little different. The one I like is the best. Best show in five years.

Starting point is 03:05:32 Nah. That's not as good as the Alex one. No. The show made me fart. Sorry. Then there's this one. The show made me fart. No, you're really searching now.

Starting point is 03:05:46 I think, bye bye. I think that's Alex is just, he's always a winner. I think you have to go with that. No doubt about it. Anyone who has polyps and makes a living out of it, I'm all in. There we go. Time for John's Tip of the Day everybody. Just a tip with JCD. And sometimes at home. Created by Dana Bernetti. There we go. Time for John's Tip of the Day everybody.

Starting point is 03:06:09 Yeah, this is a follow up tip to the last one for the blackout folk. This is a really cool product. And these are called, you can look them up on Amazon, there's a bunch of different people that make them. They're out of China, obviously. There's nobody, in fact, mine's particularly out of China because they can't even put the wording right. But these are emergency use light bulbs and they are regular, like a regular LED light bulb. They look exactly the same, except they have a battery, a chargeable battery in sight. and so if the power goes out the circuit stays connected and the light bulb stays lit.

Starting point is 03:06:49 Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, in fact if you take a piece of aluminum foil and put it over the connections at the bottom and they also have these little connectors you can put on the bottom with a little switch you can click them on and off. The thing stays lit. So when the power goes off, then you'd need just one in, I'd say one in any room or one in a room that you're in a lot, if you're going to be worried about having to do a wall crawl to get to a flashlight, which I had to do.

Starting point is 03:07:15 Is this another Mimi tip of the day where she's so worried about you in a power outage? Yes. Yeah. Mimi got me the bulbs and she got me the thing from last show because she's worried sick that I'm going to, I don't know what she's worried about. Die. You're going to die in a whore. I'm going to die. I can't find the flashlight. So, open a window. So, they're cheap. Just like this six pack of bow record dit,

Starting point is 03:07:43 stupid name. There was like 20 bucks for six of them. But there's- Hey, can you put this in your mouth like Uncle Fester? Yes, you could. And you'd put it in your mouth and then you'd use your tongue and you'd complete the circuit of the bulb screw and it would light it up.

Starting point is 03:08:05 I never thought of that, but I don't know if you're gonna get a jolt. Here's an idea. On your next hit on the Chanel Ryan show, you just do that at the end, just pop that bulb in and make it, come on, come on man, that'd be fantastic. Come on. Yeah, I'd get some notoriety, that's for sure.

Starting point is 03:08:24 Hey, Chanel, watch this, and then just pop it in your mouth. Now you're talking a hit, everybody. That is John's Tip of the Day. Find them all at tipoftheday.net. Created by us for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes at home. Created by Dana Bernetti. Oh, Adam. Created by Dana Bernetti.

Starting point is 03:08:46 Oh man. We've got ideas at a dozen a minute. We just got it all for you. And that does conclude our broadcast day from a still very wet Hill Country, Texas. Thank you all for tuning in. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting us. We appreciate any support at NoAgendaDonations.com.

Starting point is 03:09:10 We have end of show mixes from Sound Guy Steve. Love to see him back. Oistin Berga checks in. Oistin has his seasons mixed up. He's got a Christmas tune, but it's all original. No AI in these end of show mixes, and also Jason Lewis. It's all Epstein-oriented.

Starting point is 03:09:30 You will love it. Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, TrollRoom.io is Nick the Rat, speaking of the devil, and this is his summer's douche episode from the sewers of New York City. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, right here in Fredericksburg. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. Here from the Northern Silicon Valley where we're encouraging you to go to NoAgendaDonations.com and help us out. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll see y'all on Thursday. Until then, adios, po- is a hooey hooey and such the Golden Age

Starting point is 03:10:12 Right now. Yeah, it's the biggest bill ever signed of its kind Sticking it to the lives sticking it to the media sticking it to the elites Is in charge? His hold on the Republican Party is firm Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Why Prince Andrew is coming to town? He was on the list and they checked it twice And then it was gone now, what a surprise Epstein's client list is no more They saw when he was sleeping They knew when he was awake And he did really kill himself So shut up for goodness sake Oh you better watch out You better not cry

Starting point is 03:11:41 Better hide your kids I'm telling you why This lane is coming to town Even though Epstein's passed on now, he stood on open hands He's all the lists on Bonnie's desk all gone, he talks them all away Tossed them on the wind And the manifest showed all the answers were Another sea lion Now if you stop, mac Max will never be the same Don't belong to no one, that's a shame Max will still in prison, safely for a while She won't tell no one no's name She won't tell no name

Starting point is 03:13:10 The best podcast in the universe Adios, mofo Dvorak.org slash NA Bye bye!

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No Agenda - 1781 - "Cluster 1"

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