No Agenda - 1851 - "Mork & Mimi"

Episode Date: March 15, 2026

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Adam hit it. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Sunday, March 15, 2026. It's your award-winning Cuban Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1851. This is no agenda. Sniff in the sleeper cells. And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

And coming to you from the Pacific Northwest where only tourists use umbrellas. I'm Mimi Smith DeVorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning. So I wonder how much longer John's going to be out. We might have to actually change the jingle. I mean, people are complaining. Like, you still got John's name in the credits, although I'm pretty sure I put your name in.

But, okay. John's probably going to get out of the hospital this week. So he's well on his way to recovering it at Jane Renan's house. So we're hoping that he's, he's back sooner than later. Well, I received a phone call on Friday. From John, from the hospital. I was like, what?

From a, and here's the thing. From Sutter Health. So, no, it's a 415 number. I'm like, oh, that's some Google scammer. Because, of course, I don't have John's actual cell phone number. No, why would I have that after 18 years? So he goes to voicemail. You're like, hey, yeah, let's checking in.

Checking in. I call him back. I said, dude, what's up? He's like, it was the sweetest thing. He says, yeah, you know, I just really wanted to apologize that I'm not there doing the show. I'm like, what are you talking about? You have the best excuse ever.

This is fabulous. He sounded really good, Mimi. I got to tell you, he sounded upbeat. I saw the picture in the newsletter. Do they not let him shave in? in the hospital? No. No, that's his form of protest. He's not shaving until he's out. Oh, okay. So when you say he'll come out this week, do you know, I mean, is that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday? What's the prognosis? I don't know. We have to extract him somehow. This week sometime.

You know, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday. Or Thursday. Oh, so he can do the show on Thursday. Easy. We'll see. He sure. I tell you, he was in like, you know, I could do a show from the hospital. I'm like, this is probably not a good idea. Yeah. He really wants to get back to the show. He sure does.

Yeah. Which is fine with me. You know, Mimi, you've been doing a great job. There are many people who love you, many people who think you're great. And no one actually hates you. No one. No, not a single one. It's like, yeah, well, you know.

I need John, but Mimi's okay. We got a couple of those. But you've been, the reception is phenomenal. People are already saying you and Tina should do a show together, which, hey, I'm good with. We'll see. There's lots of things to do. Yep. Okay.

So, but yeah, so that's the full update. This week, he'll be released and it'll be, gosh, it'll be a full two weeks. Is it more than two weeks now? How long is it good? Actually, it's been a week and on Monday it'll be two weeks, I think. No, Friday it'll be two weeks. Oh, okay. Since surgery.

Yeah, but he went in on a Tuesday. Tuesday. Yeah. Right. So Tuesday, it'll be two weeks. For those of you just tuning in and wondering, where's John? John has had some ricketic. We call that ricketic surgery in the lowlands?

So he had his rick-a-chicker, so he's going to come back, he's going to be better than ever. Again, I have to say, I've never heard him sound so upbeat. He's usually more demure. And now, there's something different. Do you notice it? Yeah, his heart is working. Oh, well, it's pumping blood. The jury is still out whether his heart is actually working as intended.

We'll see. All right. So Mimi's here. Man, you got a lot of clips. She's brought in the media deconstruction. I will start us off with a supercut. Usually it's lame left-wing media and lame Democrats. For once in a blue moon, it's the opposite side.

This is a short-term disruption for the long-term gain. Short-term pain for the long-term gain. Short-term pain be for long-term gain. We're going to have some short-term pain with long-term gain. Short-term pay for a long-term gain. Some short-term pain, yes, but we've got some long-term gain. Short-term spike for a long-term gain. Some short-term pain for American consumers.

We may have to deal with that in the short-term. Short-term and temporary. Temporary short-term pain. It's going to suck in the short-term pain. Some short-term pain. Short-term pain. We have to focus on the short-term. Short-term. Short-term. Short-term. Short-term and long-term.

Short-term lip. Hopefully, this is a short-term pain. Short term is highly outweighed of the long term benefits. Some short term pain for the long term gain. Short term sacrifice for a long term gain. Yeah, baby. Short term. Short term pain, long term gain. It's all in the cards, everybody.

Do we have, do we have Kalshi bets yet on when this thing is going to end? And what is actually ending? What is the end? What do you call the end? You know, I have no idea. Yeah, I kind of got a little burned out listening to the news, so I went a different direction today. Oh, well, then sit back and enjoy the ride. I've got the morning, the Sunday morning shows for you. Everybody came out. Everybody had something to say. And maybe you'll start with this little update from ABC.

A U.S. refueling jet crashed in Western Iraq, killing all six American crew members on board. Officials say two KC-135 planes were flying at combat mission over friendly airspace when one went down for reasons still unknown. The second plane landing safely in Israel, images obtained by Con Eleven showing damage to its tail section. An urgent investigation is underway. The Pentagon saying the crash was not caused by hostile or friendly fire. War is hell. War is chaos. And as we saw yesterday with the tragic crash of our KC-135 tanker, bad things can happen.

The U.S. is deploying 5,000 Marines and sailors aboard three Navy amphibious ships to the Middle East. Officials stressing this does not mean ground troops will enter Iran. And with Iran attacking oil tankers, the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world oil flows, is tightly blocked. The U.S. vowing to get the dangerous shipping. lanes reopened. They are exercising sheer desperation in the straits of Harmuz. Something we're dealing with. We have been dealing with it. Don't need to worry about it. More than a dozen ships have been hit near Iran. Oil prices climbing and gas prices rising in the U.S. by nearly 70 cents

a gallon since the war began. In an effort to stabilize the markets, the U.S. now easing sanctions on Russian oil sales. Officials acknowledging those sales will allow Russia to make money in the short term. The move coming just days after sources told ABC News, Russia was providing intelligence to the Iranians to help them target American troops and ships in the region. President Trump pressed on whether Russia may be helping Iran. Do you think Putin is helping him? I think he might be helping him a little bit, yeah, I guess. And he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?

That's actually from ABC. That's actually from ABC. That's a pretty good overview of how everyone's talking about this. And the president pops up in the most, in the strangest places. He's like, he's like, I'm going to call, I'm going to call that guy. Yeah, hold on me, come me call that guy. And this was, what's this guy's name, Brian Kilmead? Yeah, Brian Kilmead. Yep.

Who used to have me on his show, but I don't know. Oh, well. It ended for some reason. I probably said something weird about him. So he went back and looked at, so I had never heard of Karg Island. Now, you having lived in Iran, had you ever heard of it? I've heard of it. I've never been there.

Well, no, there's nothing to see, even less to see now. But according to Brian Kilme, the president was talking about Karg Island as early as on record, 1988. So the year was 1988. this future president, Donald Trump, was selling a book called The Art of the Deal. He gave an interview to a British newspaper. At which time, you talked about Iran. You said, we have to win back respect for America on the world stage. And you had stern words for the Islamic Republic.

You said they've been beating us up psychologically, making us look like a bunch of fools. One bullet shot of one of our mentorships, I do a number on Karg Island. I go in and I take it. Now here in 2026, you are. president are you thinking about taking Karg Island where 90% of the Iranian oil goes through and what do you think about do you remember that interview and that that school of thought yeah but Brian I can't answer a question like that you should and you should ask you should be even asking it it's one of so many different

things it's not high on the list but it's one of so many different things and I can change my mind in seconds of course you know if he had asked a question who would answer a question like that. I mean, you're asking me a question, Carg Island, okay, everything. Who would ask a question like that? And what fool would answer it? Let's say I was going to do it, or let's say I wasn't going to do it. What would I say? Oh, yes, Brian. I'm thinking about doing it. Let me let me let you know what time and when it'll take place. It's not, you know, it's sort of a foolish question. A little surprising for you because you're a smart man. I am, but you was just pretty amazing that you thought about in 1988.

Well, I did, but I thought about a lot of other things. You know what else I thought about? A long time before it happened, one year before it happened, almost exactly, is Osama bin Laden. I said, you have to go out and kill Osama bin Laden. He's big trouble. Kill him. Nobody did anything. A year later, he knocked down the world trade.

Let's talk about China. It turns out. You know that it was in a book. Did you know that I wrote it in a book? I wrote it. I did one of my many bestsellers. Yeah. Go get Osama bin Laden.

He said, because I saw him interviewed, and I said, wow, that guy's trouble. And I said, you better go get him. And one year before he knocked down the World Trade Center, and you know that Clinton had a chance to get him? Yep. And didn't do it. And he thought it would be, he would be accused of doing a wag the dog thing. Nostradamus, President Trump. Yeah.

Is that one of those Trump phones he's calling in on? Because that's pretty low quality. He needs to up his game a little bit on that. Yeah. He's on the satellite phone. You know, I'm sick of the media is just totally pissed me off this week. So there's that. Yes.

Well, doesn't mean we don't have to make you even sicker by talking about it. Oh, no, no, it's fine. So actually, I have a clip called The Media Lies, which is a good example of why I'm irked. Okay. Let's take a... Let's talk a little bit about the... the pharma stuff and the affordability tour that he's doing because oh i'm sorry jesse is it's over your head

it is right talk about the potsy tosy club hoti talk like that's like that's like the strip joint and where i come from okay anyway um so talk about that i know that's right so what does the haci tautzy club have to do with pharma well a lot of girls on drugs that's why jessie was for first i said about that that was hot see taxy where was that in seattle? where was that in seattle It's an El Cerrito. El Cerrito, California? 94530.

Oh, wow. Man, I used to drive down El Camino and El Cerrito. What was I listening to? What was that? You were listening to the Fox on the Five, and that was Emily Campanio, who's the one who brought up Hotsie Totsie Club during a break, and then they kept bringing it back up. Hotsie Totsie Club. The Hossi Totsie Club is a bar in Albany.

It's not an El Cerito. Oh, oh, I see. We're fact-checking. Oh, wait a minute. gambling, the media is wrong? Oh, no. It's the oldest bar in the East Bay. It opened in 1939. It's not a strip club. The place is so tiny that the stripper would have to go outside and strip and then run into the bar. El Camino Real is in the west side of the bay. It's on San Pablo Avenue. And it's in Albany, 9-4706. So it was like, can't you guys like, don't you guys have phones to like maybe Google it?

No, no. I'm sorry. You're clearly thinking about something else than our mainstream media, especially the Fox and Friends. My goodness, I can't believe you watch that. Well, then there's the entire thing that the whole, the lobster fiat, lobster gate. Wait a minute. you're going away. I want to stay on Iran. You're going to lobsters? What is this? The lobsters are relevant to Iran. Okay. All right. Let's start with the first, which one, the national desk?

I don't know what. I have CNN. What is the national? Oh, I see it. I got you. I'm Christine Frizzow in Washington with tonight's Waste Watch report. Any day now, we expect the Trump administration to ask Congress for a lot more money. additional funds to assist paying for the war with Iran, which reportedly is costing about $890 million a day. Well, it turns out some of the money they're asking for will go to fill a hole created by the Defense Department at the end of the last fiscal year, with spending on items many people would see as wasteful. Among the Pentagon's most shocking purchases in a single month, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $2 million on King, crab and 15.1 million on ribby steak. No, is this now some kind of scandal that you've uncovered here? Let's go to Schiff Post video, and it's actually has Colbert in it.

Last year on fruit basket stands, well, the Pentagon spent 12,000. That's a lot of fruit basket stands. But that's not all. They wasted a whole lot more money than that. Take a look. So far, this war has cost over $6 billion, but burning through cash is nothing new for Secretary of War Pete Hegzeth. Because a government watchdog discovered that he blew billions on things like $5.3 million for new iPads, $60,000 for Herman Miller recliners and $12,000 for fruit basket stands. Wait, you're ordering what? That's what I think. What?

So anyway, $12,000 for fruit, okay? Wait, you're ordering fruit. This is my emotional state, right? Okay. You're ordering fruit baskets so fancy. They come with a stand. Come on, Pete. If you need fruit at work, do the normal thing.

Put a Clementine in your tote and find it three weeks later when it's a furry great golf ball. Heggzeth also went all out on the buffet. Reportedly, the Pentagon spent $2 million on crab legs, $6.9 million on lobster tail, and over $15 million on ribby steaks.

No, no. No. No, no boo. They're just hearkening back to our founders. As Paul Revere declared on his famous ride, one if by surf, two of by turf. Is that really the material they're doing? So they can't even come up with something better?

They have to harp about the Department of War budget, which, of course, we know has always been inflated and out of control. Well, let's go to CNN. Welcome, everyone. I'm Cole from Cole's ants. And today we're going to be trying to... Wrong, wrong. Wrong?

No, CNN. I'm sorry. CNN losing. There you go. He has spent $15 million in one month for ribby steak, $6.9 million for lobster tail, $225 million for furniture. He spent more in the month of September than most countries on earth spend in their defense. Do you believe it?

All for himself? Lobster tails? Do you believe our troops are eating MREs? No, no, no. Lobster tails? Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating? all the lobster. Wait, he can't eat

the troops. Oh, really, the troops are getting lobster. Frequently in theater. Troops who are going to work in great meal. You know that. You know that. You know that. You are going to get killed over this. You're going to get killed over this. Internet. Do something. Oh, brother. One more. That would be the Times

of India picked this up. Oh, goodness. The cost of living crisis in the United States may be ballooning, making life for most average Americans rather difficult. There's clearly no problem for the country's Defense Department. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hexit approved spending at the Pentagon worth more than $93 billion

in the month of September alone, including on luxury food items and iPads. A new analysis published by government washdog opened the books, found that from September till the end of 2025, Pete Hexit reportedly burned. through cash, including spending a staggering $9 million on just crab and lobster dinners. All this in the run-up to the Iran War. According to Military.com, an increase in military officials eating pricey meals has traditionally been viewed as a sign that something may be brewing, such as President Donald Trump's war in Iran, though it appears Hexeth has been dining well at the Pentagon since at least last spring.

These people are nuts. Yep. So all over the web, there were so many pushbacks to this. Well, yeah. And it explains it. And the one I have is Will Kane about steak and lobster. All right. In 2010 in Afghanistan, I was working with two other Marineo D-Tex, Brian Smith and Chendo Mesa.

We had been out all day long working some IEDs. It was a difficult day. We had a few really close calls that day. When we got back, we sat down and I've got this picture of us, just sitting on a leg. It's a patrol-based karma, and there's a stack of MREs behind us. And I remember Mesa looking at me and saying, man, I just hope I don't get that chicken tetrazini or something like that. Like, we've been out all days. It's a tough day.

It's like, man, I should have we get a decent MRI. And then somebody comes down the corner like, hey, guys, it's steak and lobster night. It's surfing turf. A log train had come in, which was insane because the route was littered with IEDs. And now I've got another picture of the three of us eating steak in the room that we lived in later that night. What's funny is the look on our faces from the one picture to the other is about the same because we're in war. But after that day for weeks, we talked about steak and lobster nights. The only one I've ever gotten overseas.

It was in the middle of a really tough summer. Brian got blown up a few weeks later. He's not with us anymore. He died of stomach cancer last year. Then I got blown up a couple of months later. You see these tweets about, you know, Pete Hegseth has spent $15 million on steak and lobster. Are you serious? that is the only thing

about home. That's the only thing that makes you feel special for the entire time you're there watching your buddies die and you're mad about that. The fact that people aren't smart enough to even look up what that's for before they criticize it, and I guarantee none of them said a word when Biden surrendered Afghanistan

killed 13 of us, or when the whole DOD spent tens of millions of dollars on going woke. Come on. It's really something when CNN and Colbert, when they're not talking about the actual war, but they're talking about the lobster budget, what kind of call must have gone out? Someone sent out a message somewhere. Like, don't do it.

It's got to be. I never thought I would say ABC was a little more serious, but the morning news shows, the Sunday morning news shows, at least they got down to some actual topics about what's happening. This is Martha Raditz, and this is about the thing that affects people probably more than the lobster budget, is the price of oil and that prices at the gas pump. Let's bring in our experts on the economic fallout, the strategy inside Iran and the lessons learned so far. Let's start with Diane Swunk, the chief economist and managing director at KPMG, one of the largest accounting firms in the world. And good morning, Diane, I want to ask you right away. We've already seen rising oil prices, gas prices. What's your read on what's happening?

Well, the longer this lasts, the longer the tail of it are in terms of higher prices at the pump. But more importantly, disruptions to global supply chains. We know that from the pandemic and from our sources in the Middle East, when you shut production down and idle production, it's easier to turn the lights out, then ramp it back up again. It could take weeks to months to get much of the- This lady is hyperventilating. Yeah, fly that's currently been idled. in the Middle East, back online again. And that means it's compounding the disruptions to supply chains the world over.

We're now looking at a scenario where we expect oil prices to hover above $100 a barrel and maybe even spike in the weeks to come. That will show up as much as soon as four to six weeks from the initial shock in things like food prices at the grocery store because of transportation costs. It starts rippling through the economy fairly quickly and we're already three weeks in. So we're very concerned that this is much more of a stagflationary shock than what we saw in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. That's because we don't have the backdrop of creating hundreds of thousands of jobs each month. And remember, with the inflation that we saw back then, we also saw most Americans feeling that the U.S. economy was in a recession,

even though we were generating hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. So the strategy for keeping oil prices within reach has been to have 30 countries released strategic petroleum reserves. And then the one that is most irksome to people like your friend Adam Schiff is the easing of Russian sanctions. Let me ask you about these Russian sanctions. You obviously supported Russian sanctions. The administration has scaled some back, arguing we're moving them on Russian oil experts. will ultimately help lower prices for consumers. My question for you, Senator, with Americans feeling pain at the pump, as you know,

is easing pressure on Russia, which is temporary, worth it? I think this is a terrible decision, but it is one of things that comes about as a result of the unpredictability of war. We are now giving Russia essentially $140 million a day by releasing these, from these sanctions. $140 million a day when Iran is providing intelligence to better, when Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to better

attack and kill American troops. And you're darn right when you ask the Secretary about this, it is rewarding Russia and it is punishing Ukraine and for the president when he's criticized about lifting the sanctions on Russia to

somehow turn around to blame Zelensky blame Ukraine. No, Russia is the problem here, and we are enriching our adversary Russia at Ukraine's expense because the administration didn't properly foresee how much this war with Iran was going to raise oil prices and gas prices for Americans. So terrible and tragic decision. Tragic! Which only empowers Russia to make war more fully against Ukraine. I'm still trying to get confirmation, but everyone's talking about how many dollars worth, how many dollars worth.

Oh, Russia's selling this. And from what I understand, the stable coin, which is backed by U.S. treasuries, is a digital U.S. dollar not used in the United States. There may or might not ever be used except for Shopify, I think, uses it or allows you to use it, probably for international customers. The volume has gone to $33 trillion. And I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking that part of the deal, although not, explicitly mentioned anywhere. It's, yeah, okay, but as long as everyone's buying it with our stable coin, that's okay. And I think that's happening, which is part of the, I think, a much bigger strategy,

which a numb nut like Adam Schiff doesn't see. He's just pissed about Putin and Russiagate. Here's our energy secretary, Chris Wright, with Mannhans Welker, about these temporary purchases. Mr. Secretary, let's talk about Russia, the Treasury Department. temporarily lifting sanctions on Russian oil this week amid reports that Russia is giving Iran intelligence to target U.S. assets in the region. Why is the United States rewarding Russia? So this is not rewarding Russia. I understand that it can be seen that way.

How else can it be seen? But Mr. Secretary, how else can it be seen if the U.S. is lifting sanctions on Russia? It can only one, it can only be rewarding. can't be anything else but a reward for him. Because the oil we're lifting sanction on is already on the water waiting to unload in a Chinese port. But it'll wait there for six or eight weeks. So instead of letting that oil sit there idly, we told the Indians and then the broader nations of Asia, go ahead and buy that oil, bring it into your port now and keep your refineries running.

That oil was already exported, already going to be sold. We're just changing the destination of where it'll be. sold and by doing that we're keeping a little bit of a lid on oil prices and helping our allies across Asia. I don't think anybody really sees what's going on. It seems so obvious to me. Okay. What do you see? The city of London has had a lock on oil shipping, insurance, etc. Lloyds of London. The entire Persian oil system was set up by the Brits. It was the British Persian oil company.

British Petroleum, right. It became BP. And as far as I'm concerned, the Brits, after they kind of lost their colonies, they turned to a financial colonization. And they funded all kinds of nonsense in the Middle East, keep everybody busy and everybody fighting, including the creation of the state of Israel. They funded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt when the Suez Canal was in danger. All of this happened after Churchill switched the British Navy from coal to oil.

And they've been in control of this. And Trump is now, as far as I can see, he's going in and saying, look, look, we're going to ensure that this is working. and we're going to be escorting ships, which is not the first time we've done it. It's happened many times. It did a lot when the Houthis were acting up. And we're going to offer insurance, and we're going to protect the global oil trade,

and we're going to take the benefits from that unless you guys jump in and help out. And that's what this continuous call is. It's like, oh, other countries need to come in. And he's doing this on purpose because he knows they're not going to. So it'll be like, all right, we'll take the. risk, and we're going to take all the financial benefits and screw you. In that planning, we see right now the president is seeking help in opening up that straight

from other nations. He says that many countries will be sending warships. Can you tell me who those countries are? And the president said, hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea will send them as well. Was this not done before? Why is it happening now? And who are those And who are those countries? The broader dialogues about energy security have been going on since the Trump administration arrived. For example, my engagement with the International Energy Agency. But dialogue about this specific military operation did not happen broadly right in front of it. The element of surprise was essential so that we can as quickly as possible destroy their military capabilities and their ability to project power.

But yes, all nations of the world depend on products that come from the Straits of Hormuz. China top on that list, Japan, Korea, all the Asian nations is where the energy that comes out of the Straits of Hormuz flows to. So those are the nations that most immediately impacted by this. So, of course, it's quite logical to have a broad coalition of the nations of the world work to reopen the straits. but first and foremost right now is to finish to destroy Iran's ability to project military force in the region and around the world. Chris Wright was getting around this morning. He had the same story with everybody, ABC, NBC. President Trump told me on Saturday he's reaching out to other countries to enlist their help to secure the Strait of Formuz. And then in a post later in the day he named some of the countries, China, Japan, UK, France,

and South Korea. He told me some countries have committed to aiding the United States. Could you be specific with me, Mr. Secretary? Which countries specifically are going to help secure the Strait of Hormuz? So I won't get in front of the president or announcements on that, but I have been in dialogue with some of those nations, so I know that to be true. But, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to leak any news in front of the president. But the whole, the world depends on the flows through Hormuz. And most importantly, the Asian. nations, Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, India, a meaningful part of their total energy supplies come from the Straits of Hormuz. So, of course, the whole world will be united on the need to open Hormuz,

and clearly we will have the support of other nations to achieve that objective. But in this short term, we have to end Iran's ability to kill American soldiers, terrorize their neighbors, and continue to put global energy supplies at risk, as they've done for four. 47 years. 47 years. My favorite 47 years. I know. But, yeah.

You know, the whole thing here is I love the way that it's this constant pounding on the same questions. And, you know, what, if you listen to the European news, I don't hear that anybody's really all that engaged. Like, certainly not England if you listen to a Starmer. No, they're a starmer. They don't want to be a part of it. of it because they wanted to be the way it is. But it benefits them. That's why Lloyds of London is saying,

can we get in on that insurance deal, you know, that you're providing, Mr. President? Because we really don't want to lose all that revenue. This is, this strategy, if it is what I think it is, and if it works, we'll take away probably $5 to $15 per barrel of oil in just risk that has always been the premium for Wall Street on oils.

And mainly the city of London. They're the guys that have been running this. Yep. And if we then somehow are able to keep the petro dollar scam going with stable coin, we could have at least 10 more years of prosperity until everything falls apart. And then here's the best. China. China was one of the names mentioned, which got a lot of attention notable,

because they're a strategic partner of Iran. Is the U.S. prepared to share intelligence with China for it helping to secure the waterway? The United States is always in dialogue with the Chinese. They're the second largest economy in the world, and they're a very important nation in the world. Opening the Straits of Hormuz is even more important for China than it is for the United States. But we care about the global economy. We care first about Americans. but Americans live in a globalized world, so we care about all the nations.

So there are, of course, our tensions with China as well, but we will continue a productive dialogue, and I do expect China will be a constructive partner in reopening the Straits of Hormuz. That would be interesting. What I find kind of fun to watch, and I see it in the troll room, because, you know, Mimi, you and I were old, John, we're all old. And we've been around, and all people see it. the war aspect. They don't understand how bad it's really been in the Middle East and that all of this has always been about oil. And you can't have an actor like Iran working in cahoots with other foreign entities controlling all of that. And so people focus on, ah, we're always war,

America's war. Yeah, that's what it's always been. Always. The country was founded on war, But people somehow don't want to see that. Like, I don't like it. I just want to be, you know, let everyone take our money. We used to be the muscle for the Brits and for the Europeans. They would take all the profits and we fight the wars. And Trump is turning it out around. There's that.

And there's also the entire thing that people seem to want to forget besides the oil is the IRGC was pushing a lot of money into terrorist organizations. everywhere everywhere so they've they've done so much disruption in the world not just united states it's everywhere and um you know it had to be stopped at some point because it was really destabilizing um the world and also changing that you know do we want to all start speaking chinese i mean there's always that well i'm not too worried about that but it but it's if you really objectively look at it And, you know, it's very difficult for people because they see this. Everything is through the lens of Epstein and APEC. And, well, Israel's doing this.

Israel's taking the incoming missiles. Yeah. And Israel was created by, well, it all started off with the, what is it, Pikes, Sykes-Pico agreement. That's when Britain and France, after World War I, took out the map and went, okay, you guys take this part, we'll take this part, name the countries. What do you want to be? I call that Jordan, call that Syria, whatever.

And then they created the state of Israel literally so they could have control over the waterways. You know, Suez Canal, be close to Egypt. They funded Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow, was it, who was that at the time? Habas? No, that's not his name. You know, the guy who was, all of a sudden, he just said, oh, no, the Suez canal is art. They've always been the troublemaker. Always.

Yeah. And, but the other thing is that the entire Middle East is not like if you say, oh, you know, you know, Turkey. It's not, it's a bunch of different tribes. Yeah, well, it was the Ottoman Empire. It was one huge thing.

But it was a million different tribes that had been conquered. You know, everywhere there. Thank you, Minot. Nasser. There you go. Nasser. Yeah. But, but, so, you know, we're dealing with tribal elements, we're dealing with different religions, we're dealing with all this. When one group stands out as being the real troublemakers, you've got to put, I mean, historically we've always crushed them. Everybody's crushed them. That's what we do.

You know, we're humans that don't like to, we don't like one group to get to, to cause too much trouble for everyone else. So in the Middle East, you know, the IRGC definitely started causing trouble for everyone. And, you know, oil is just, I don't know, I mean, I lived through the oil crisis when the Arab nations decided they were going to raise our oil prices. And they did a really good job. So, but here's the difference. And I, and, you know, John and I agree that this plan was in motion, maybe even during Trump one. Abraham Accords, he got Saudi Arabia, He said, look, you Saudi guys, this is not going to fly for that much longer. You're going to become the technology hub.

Qatar, you'll be the banking hub of the Middle East. And we're all going to play together. And they are. That's what people are missing. They are. Everything's going to be redone. And our part of the deal is, all right, we got to stop this. And notice that Trump is not blowing up the oil facility on the island.

No. No, that would be stupid. That's the prize. And when you look at the fact that in Tehran, there have been like, I don't know, in all of Iran, I think there have been like 1,500 civilians, although it's not sure if it's actually civilians or IRGC have been killed. Well, how many bombs have we dropped? I mean, with the amount of bombs that you'd think it would be flattened like Dresden in World War II, but these are so. It's very surgical. And, you know, it is doing exactly, like, it's actually the cleanest war I've ever seen in my life. It's clean. Look, no blood on my hands. It's clean.

Well, I mean, I, so as a kid, we went to, as we were coming back for the Middle East, we stopped in Lebanon. It was a beautiful, beautiful city. It was completely intact. It was gorgeous. It looked like San Francisco. What year was this? This was before the Civil War? It was in 1966 during the international airstrike.

So we could only do little hops on local airlines. And we stayed about a week and a half in Lebanon. It was beautiful. And then the PLO came in and ruined everything. Absolutely flattened everything. I mean, just horrible. So, you know, from my perspective, I'm looking at what's going on in Iran. And I'm going, God, they're leaving a lot of buildings.

up. You know, they're just, they're just taking out one apartment on one floor of an apartment building. That's kind of cool. All right. Mimi, warmonger. Laughing about coolness of buildings. Okay. So, well, no, but I think you're right.

And I also lived through the, the oil crisis. We had car-free Sundays in Holland. And it wasn't like car-free. It was car for Bowden. So you could not drive on Sunday. Well, we had the every other day, depending on your license plate, if your license plate ended in an even number, you could only go to a gas station on an even day. And if it was an odd day, you could only go on an odd day. And lines around the block and gas prices that went tripled in the course of just a few weeks.

So, I mean, you know, this happened. You know, to me, oil's always been unstable. And the way, yes, the way I see it, this president. And people like, yeah, you just, all you do is lick the Trump's boots. Now, I see it for what it is. He doesn't, he knows what's coming with the midterms. He's trying to get the Save Act passed and it probably won't happen. So the House will be lost to the Democrats through that Washington State,

mailing voting, California State, mailing voting, all the scams. And he may even lose the Senate. So he's just going balls to the wall. He's like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this now. It's short-term pain for long-term gain. But I think that's probably true. Oh, I think so.

And it will change everything. And everyone's investing in American production. The plan is clear. Whether he's going to pull it off, I don't know. But at least I see the plan. And I think that the mainstream media, they, you know, they're focusing, oh, lobster dinners. Oh, this is. they're lost.

Or they see it and they know and they're told to shut up about it. I don't see why it's so difficult. I see, all I see that the mainstream media is doing is pushing talking points that they are over and over and over again. I mean, the lobster thing is part of it. No one remembers. Nobody looks into it far enough to say, oh, well, gee, you know, this is something we've done for you. years and years and it's increased morale in the military. We have, you know, all the numbers that keep flying at people about, oh, oil, barrel, this much. Who can grasp exactly what they're saying?

You know, it's really like they're either talking down to people or talking over their heads. That's all I see in the media. It seems like it's a nonstop barrage of just nonsense. You know, It's like saying, you know, the media lies. The media doesn't tell us the full story. They... What? Yeah. And so I started kind of looking at like the, like, I guess, the other thing that's been going on is the president has gone after Antifa,

Antifa, whatever you want to call it. And, and, you know, I guess. Well, he's classified them as a terrorist group. Which is insane because they aren't a cohesive group. But what? Okay. Well, how about the black flag or whatever? I mean, it comes from Europe.

The what? Yes. And actually, I have this last week, one of the things that went on was Newsmax went on and on the right squad, which I thought was supposed to be pro-Trump. I have a series of parts where they were going after, you know, they're talking about Antifa. And then I actually have this lovely history of the history of Antifa, which kind of, for me, puts things in better perspective.

Antifa is short for antifascistish or anti-fascist and has his roots in Weimar, Germany, during the 1920s, born as a militant response to rising fascist movements, particularly the Nazi party. In 1932, the German Communist Party, or KPD, launched the anti-fascistice action, a paramilitary street movement to fight the SA, or Sturmab-Taylong, the stormtroopers, and other right-wing paramilitary groups. Soon the movement spread all over Europe. This early Antifa was Marxist-Stalinist in its ideology and controlled by the Soviet-aligned KPD, and its goal was to eliminate political rivals on both the far right and democratic left, including

social democrats. It was a true communist movement. After Hitler came to power, he imprisoned or killed political rivals, especially the communists. In fact, despite modern myth, Dachau concentration camp was not built for Jews. He was specifically built in 1933 to hold political and social criminals, with a focus on the Antifa communists. After World War II and the defeat, he was of the Axis Powers, Europe's Antifa groups disbanded or simply rebranded. Anti-fascism was absorbed into mainstream democratic institutions coming to the United States as a pro-Marxist movement. Yeah.

Well, yeah, they don't have a headquarters. But I think the minute you say, I'm Antifa, you're a terrorist. Well, let's go to the next two clips, the rest of this history. So there's two more. They're both short. Antifa arrived in the U.S. in the 1980s growing from the punk and anarchist subcultures like anti-racist action or ARA, which started in Minnesota in 1987. Oh, how about that? Through the 1990s and 2000s, chapters spread to major cities, often aligned with other anarchist and anti-capitalist groups.

After 2016, Antifa exploded into public consciousness following the election of Donald Trump. What is it about Minnesota? Why is this such a hotbed for organizations like this? I wondered about that myself. Like, what? So then part three kind of wraps it all up. Trump repeatedly condemned Antifa, labeling it a domestic terror group, although Barack Obama holdovers in the FBI and Department of Justice never formally did.

The political left, including the mainstream media outlets, refused to label Antifa as a criminal or domestic terror organization. This was despite the billions of dollars in property damage, physical harm, and loss of life, while they continued to claim that far-right groups were committing the major crimes. And here's where myth and reality diverge. Antifa was never a centralized organization, as it had no national leadership, no bank accounts, no headquarters, and no official membership cards. It operates as a loose, decentralized network of activists,

often organizing through affinity groups, social media, or in-courable. encrypted messaging apps, there are no known formal leaders, and that's by design. In fact, Antifa prides itself on being leaderless and horizontal in structure. There are key figures, many anonymous. Wasn't this exactly why Scott Besson said, we're following the money, we're going to find out who is funding them, which we all know eventually comes back to Open Society Institute. It has to. Well, if you, so there was a, so if we go to the Newsmax Right Squad, they talk about Antifa funding and enabling. And I find it really interesting the way you hear.

Just listen. It's really kind of, there's, there's, it is four parts. The third one I really can't stand, but it's okay. So let's go through the Newsmax Wright Squad, which is talking about Antifa. But President Trump's latest move in his crackdown on crime is designating Antifa as a major terrorist organization, writing, I am pleased to inform our many USA Patriots that I am designating Antifa, a sick, dangerous, radical left disaster as a major terrorist organization. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding Antifa be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. So Mercedes, I'm really interested to see what comes out of the investigation as to who is funding Antifa and actually enabling this group.

It's about time. I'll tell you right now, Matt's at CPAC Australia. And I would say about two or three years ago, Antifa showed up to the CPAC event, threatened violence, threatened to kill them, tried to get into the room. It was a major security issue. Antifa is a worldwide. organization that spends time with intimidation and violent tactics that it's been unchecked for far too long. So we need to get down to the bottom of who is funding Antifa. They have caused so much destruction in this country. But let me tell you, they're in other countries as well as we've seen in the case of Australia. Jason. Interesting comment from the troll room that Minnesota borders on Canada. Yeah. That may make it easy for elements to come in for stuff. Yep, there's that. But I'm on the border too. Well, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. It's a horrible state with a horrible governor.

Yeah, exactly. Yes. So if you go to the next. Are you on the train tracks? What do I hear out there? Oh, that's my grandfather clock. Okay. Sounds like a train going by. It's like 1800s grandfather clock. The thing is lovely, but it is noisy. So the next, in the series of this Newsmax, we get a guy who I think totally whims out,

and this is what I hear in most media is this guy. Good thing that we're designating this hate group as a major terrorist organization. Well, I'd like to see who the leaders are. Who are they? Yeah. I don't know. Bring them out. Let's look at it.

Again, there are some questions about. what Antifa is, who they are. So, you know, if we're going to designate them a terror organization, we should know who they are before we even get to who's funding it and all of that. And as far as attaching it to the political violence that we've seen recently, there's no connection. Tyler Robinson isn't connected to Antifa. He's not connected to anybody. Well, I don't think that has anything to do with the terrorism. Fair enough. But if you're using that as a jumping off point, which it seems like, then it's clearly because you're worried about political violence.

violence, the political violence we've seen recently has not been from anybody connected to any global organizations, at least as far as law enforcement has told us. Just seems like something that's lost. Who is this guy? Oh, I forgot to get his name. I don't think they ever identified him. He's this black guy who just is completely an apologist and coming up. He's supposed to be the voice of the other side. And he's, you know, we know that it doesn't have a leader.

So we know that it doesn't have clear things. you know, why is he making this big excuse? I have the last one, which is final, which just annoyed me even more. You missed number three. Number three is the one you hated. We just heard number three. No, that was number two. Oh, was it?

Okay, well, number three is also another wimp. So, okay. Well, it is definitely long overdue. Look, Antifo was founded in Germany in the 1930s, and they're a left-wing terror group, and they have been from the very beginning. they've been terrorizing Germany for years, a home invasions and kidnappings and a great deal of violence by them.

And I say, you know how the Democrats are all upset that federal agents might wear a mask when they're on a raid, like a surgeon, to conceal their identity from the gangs that are here from Venezuela and Mexico and El Salvador because of the Democrats? Honestly, these Antifa people were looting and burning Portland and Seattle

with their black uniforms, their black ski masks, their black masks, their black masks to conceal their identity. And you notice that, the Democrats never said a word about them wearing masks and covering up their identities when they're burning cities to the ground. I just got a note from the constitutional lawyer, Rob, he says, conspiracies don't need to have a leader to be illegal.

Thank you, Rob. Good point. Yeah. Conspiracies. Conspiracies. So you can be a terrorist conspiracy. Well, these guys are all, it's also blah, blah, blah, chat, chat. We can play part four. It's final. I think it's short. And then I will get to my point. The Antifa for the past, I mean, specifically 10 years in the United States, has been showing up to every protest, whether it's creating their own protest from the left wing or showing up to right wing protests, including even a libertarian free speech event in Massachusetts a few years back and assaulting people, causing terror, taking over state buildings, federal buildings, tossing rocks at police officers.

if you ask people who have covered these riots over the years, they tell you that no matter where they are in the country, seemingly these same Antifa people with the same hats and the same t-shirt show up at every single event. So someone is paying for them to fly around the country. All right. Agreed. Somebody's, somebody's paying for it. So meanwhile, there's these great guys on YouTube. You know, Nick Shirley is the one who's become the most, you know, well-known. But there's other guys, you know, like Tyler Olavera, although he does more long form. But the best of all of them that I found is called Nate Friedman. And Nate Friedman mostly goes to, I mean, he just goes to these different events. And he's actually laid out everything on who these people are. He's identified

people. He's taken pictures. He's got this. He has a rundown of the protest money. It's kind of a long clip, it's two minutes, but it's just like, how come our news sources can't do this? Let's not ask the hard questions. If he has answers, I'm interested. They hosted a vigil for Ayatollah Kameen in Washington Square Park in New York City.

I plan on interviewing the people who set it up. What ended up transpiring was something else entirely. To follow the money, we see that this vigil was endorsed by the World's Worker Party. The World's Worker Party was founded in 1959 is a Marxist organization that wants to dismantle

capitalism. WWP leaders helped launch one of the most visible protest coalitions in the country, the answer coalition, the group you see printed on almost all the protest signs you see across the country. They get a lot of their money from Soros through their fiscal sponsor, the Progress Unity Fund, which

gets their money from the Tides Foundation. And George Sorots gave $25.8 million to the Tides Foundation in just one year. According to reporter David Korn, by 2002, the Answer Coalition was widely described as operating as a front for the Communist Workers' World Party. Korn noted that several leading figures within Answer, including spokesperson Brian Becker, were members of WWP. He also reported that many answer chapters operated out of Workers' World Party offices, and that speakers at Answer

press conferences were frequently WWP activists. Brian Becker has a long resume within the far-left activist network. Not only is he the national director of Answer Coalition alongside Sarah Flounders, another figure we'll expose in just a second, he previously worked for the International Action Center and was a member of the Workers' World Party, before later splitting off to help co-found the Party for Socialism and Liberation, another name that you see printed on so many signs. Today, Becker hosts political education classes at the People's Forum in New York City, while calling the shots at mass protests across the country through Answer Coalition and PSL. You remember the People's Forum, the one that we just exposed, where they were putting signs into two vans?

Well, his lectures at the People's Forum include Lenin and the Path to Revolution and History of the Communist Manifesto. We know those educators at the People's Forum can be paid close to $80,000 to protest. Sarah Flanders, who we were just speaking about, has spent decades cheerleading America's enemies. Here she is in a group photo proudly standing in front of a PFLP flag and protesting with Sammy Dune alongside another protester that you know quite well. is just a little bit about what's behind this vigil more to come as my investigation is ongoing. All right. So we're back to the same old, same old people. Exactly. It's nothing's changed, but if it's common knowledge, how come everybody's like, oh, we don't know who they are and what are we going to do and how do we follow the money? I mean, hello. I mean, and so if I've got a gut field

that's basically where he makes a comment about Wals and Nick Shirley. And I think this sums a lot of this up for me. I got to talk about Wals first because he said we're only hearing about it because of the prosecution. No, you tried to silence the whistleblowers. Yeah. You smeared people who want to investigate because you call any look into the Somali fraud, you were considered racist. There are two reasons why we're hearing about this,

because Kamala picked him as VP because she felt he was. less gay than Mayor Pete when in fact he makes Mayor Pete look like Chuck Norris. And also, we know, we really know about this stuff because some 23-year-old Mormon named Nick decided to do what journalists used to do and hit the pavement. He actually went to the story, which myself included, nobody does. You know, it's like, it's like we sit, we surf, fire, find out. Ooh, now Nick Shirley's doing the work for me. Hey, hey, hey, click, click, click.

And he did the work. He did the work for everybody. I mean, and I think that's why you're hearing about the hospice stories in California. It's a fitting story for California because California is in hospice. Just make the state comfortable. Yeah. But at the same time, in Washington anyway, we are having our independent journalists under attack. And I have a clip Washington State Journalism.

And this is Brandy Cruz, which is a really nice podcast for Washington State. There's clearly something also going on in Washington State. with some of these Somalis who are supposed to be running daycare organizations. And so they're out there doing the work that the legacy media won't do. And look, sometimes journalism is uncomfortable. Sometimes journalism means going and knocking on doors. That's what you do. And it used to be a widely accepted practice. And I know that because I was in TV and I hated it. So knocking on doors and surprising people or chasing them down to ask for comment, that's something journalists do or they did. And so if your complaint is that Jonathan or Cam Higby or Nick Schrope or.

are put in a camera in people's faces. Journalists have been putting cameras in people's faces for as long as journalists have had cameras. Oh, you're an idealist. Now I get it, Mimi. You really have this feeling that people can be independent journalists on YouTube, which is probably the stupidest thing ever. Ask Andy No. Where's Andy No?

He basically got de-platformed and annihilated after he got his ass kicked. What she's talking about is our state has actually, They're pushing two different bills to make it illegal to record anybody in either a public office or harass people with a camera. We can't have that. No, we can't have that. No, no, no, no. No, the system is a lot bigger and a lot tighter than people realize. Well, there's also someone who's come up locally who has a substat column and he's actually exposing some of the judges and judicial things. And his articles are good. You know, they're fairly well researched. I mean, you know, it's a fun read.

But now one of the judges is suing him, demanding that he take down all of his articles or face $2,000 a day in fines. And it's like our judges are elected as a public figure. He should be able to write anything that wants about him. But there is this move to like, oh, God, we have to crack down because we have the major media handled They'll say whatever we want, but now what we have to do is muscle all these other idiots. Mimi the freedom fighter. Yeah, no. The only thing that works is podcasting.

Nothing else works. You'll be eliminated from all other platforms. I see it every single day, including substack. Substack is on deck. It's going to happen. The minute you bring money into the equation with advertising or subscriptions, you're a target. It doesn't work. It doesn't work.

So with the mainstream media not willing to, because of course, they're also compromised when it comes to the funding of groups like Antifa, whatever else, you know, the whole world workers party. We have an incredible, the socialists slash Marxist slash communists have had quite a stronghold in America since before I was born. we had the red scare. Turns out that wasn't all that crazy. Now we have these groups working kind of hand in hand. They call it the green red alliance. So it's socialist, Marxist, and Muslim Brotherhood. It's all part of the same thing.

And what will happen, certainly if the Muslim Brotherhood, and people are so worried about Islam and Muslims, not your problem. The Muslim Brotherhood is the problem. They are also deemed a terrorist organization in America. And they need to be taken care of because those guys, and this happened throughout history. They will kill the Marxists in the end. The Marxists will be the ones who get killed. So that'll kind of fix that, but we don't want that to happen. And so what the mainstream media does, the only thing they can do is, well, now let's be afraid of each other. Nation on edge this week after multiple attacks on U.S. soil and heightened security threat since the start of the war in Iran.

On Thursday, a pair of incidents on a college campus and a synagogue, hours apart. In West Bloomfield, Michigan, 41-year-old Iman Muhammad Ghazali, originally from Lebanon, rammed a truck full of explosives through the doors of Temple Israel, driving down the hall, exchanging fire with security guards. Yesterday's attack was anti-Semitism. It was hate. plain and simple. Authorities say Gazali, who became a U.S. citizen in 2016, recently posted that an Israeli strike on Lebanon killed his two brothers, a niece and a nephew. And an old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, professor and lieutenant colonel Brandon Shaw killed by a man with ties to ISIS

in what the FBI suspects was an act of terror. The suspect, 36-year-old Mohamed Jalo, who opened fire in a classroom, was convicted in 2016 of attempting to provide material support to ISIS, trying to acquire weapons for an attack in the United States. He was released from prison in 2024 after serving eight years of an 11-year sentence. Thursday's attacks came during a tense two weeks since the beginning of the war in Iran with authorities repeatedly warning of higher risk for the U.S. homeland. You made such an excellent point on the last show that ISIS and Iran are,

they are polar opposites, they hate each other, but here just... Mortal enemies. Kind of gets folded into each other. We have been in a heightened state of alert in New York City since the start of hostilities in Iran. Last weekend, two teens were charged with bringing homemade bombs to a protest outside New York City mayors or on Mamdani's

house and what authorities deemed an attempted ISIS-inspired attack. And at the onset of the war, a deadly mass shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas, where a gunman wearing a t-shirt with an Iranian flag went on a murderous rampage just hours after the U.S. and Israel. Oh, that's interesting. He was not wearing it. He was

wearing a sweatshirt that said property of Allah. Not a t-shirt with an Iranian flag. But doesn't matter, you get the point. Be afraid. Said of the war, a deadly mass shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas, where a gunman wearing a t-shirt with an Iranian flag went on a murderous rampage just hours after the U.S. and Israel first struck Iran. That attack, killing three and injuring more than it does in others. Law enforcement officials are clear, Martha. The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran are causing

a surge in threats, particularly anti-Semitic threats aimed at the Jewish community. and the recent pattern of violence, they say, combined with Iran's retaliatory rhetoric, warrants heightened vigilance. So in the 18 years, John and I have been doing this show, there's always an old friend, an old friend that always crops up every couple of years, and our old friend is back. I'm joined now by Congressman Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. Good morning to you. Congressman, you heard that report from Aaron Kuterski about these attacks. U.S. soil. It's something we've talked about for years, these lone wolves, but has this war sparked these, do you believe? Well, it's exacerbated the problem without question. I think it would be

wrong to say it sparked it. We've seen these attacks before this war. I mean, we have a long-running problem with very terrorist organizations associated with ISIS trying to strike us here on our own soil. We need to be prepared for those. We need to look at what the Justice Department of the FBI are doing to protect us from that. So this isn't a new phenomenon. But without question, this has been ramped up because of the war in the Middle East that has brought in, gosh, some 14 countries have been attacked in one way or another. This war and this conflict is without question spreading right now.

It's the lone wolf that is back. You're not safe anywhere. Be afraid, everybody. You can't keep people safe everywhere. No, no. But do you believe the federal government should be doing something to have? help here to help protect people? What can you possibly do? Yeah, well, I mean, absolutely. We have an ongoing counterterrorism effort that's coordinated

with the Justice Department with various intelligence services. We need to make sure that we're doing that. I mean, I worry a little bit that over the course of the last year and a half, starting with the Doge process, we have driven out a lot of our talent within the bureaucracy, within the Justice Department, within our intelligence services. We know a lot of Iranian experts left the Justice Department right before this started as part of the ongoing purge. So I think it's worth Congress in particular doing oversight. Do we have people in those places who are doing the best possible job to protect us? It's more important and a tougher job right now than it ever has been.

So. Yes. So, okay, there's one. Okay, you finish what you're going to say because then I have something I want to insert. What I was going to say is I'm dusting off. another one of our favorite jingles. Oh, oh, no.

It's common, people. It's common. And you can still license this U.S. government. We have been trying to license this jingle to you for years. And it's here for you when you're ready.

So if we go to, I have a clip about Phantom Fireworks. And Phantom Fireworks was where the Philadelphia kids bought their fuses. And that's where

the West Bloomfield Synagogue came up with they're explosives. So I'd like you to play that clip. Recently released footage shows the suspect in the Michigan synagogue attack, Amen Muhammad Ghazali, purchasing thousands of dollars worth of fireworks on March 10th. This was just days before Gazali drove a vehicle laden with explosives into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Gazali told a store manager, he was shopping for fireworks for his family and an upcoming

Eid celebration marking the end of Ramadan. He purchased a variety of fireworks, including aerial fireworks and firecrackers, making two trips with the final sale amounting to $2,250, according to the store. William Weimer, Vice President and General Counsel for Phantom Fireworks, said in a store where purchases of $5,000 and $10,000 are not unusual, because Ali did not raise any suspicions since he explained what event he wanted the fireworks for. Yeah. So where'd they get the, where'd they get the explosives? They got them in a band-in-fireworks that has key showrooms in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana, Vermont, Alabama, and New Mexico. It's our right as Americans to buy fireworks. It's our right. But meanwhile, they're totally banned in Massachusetts. They're restricted in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, you know, as we go on.

mention all the places I don't want to live. I need my fireworks, baby. Fireworks. But hey, but whatever you, whatever you think about not being safe. Yes. Yeah, right. Who, who I want to know who spends $10,000 at a time on fireworks. Oh, oh, girl. I got friends who spend that kind of money on fireworks. They're crazy. We have. Do they do it for the fourth and New Year's Eve or do they do it for the end of ease? No, hello's Eve. No, they do it for the fourth and for New Year's Eve. And we have, you know, $2.90 between here and Austin.

There must be 50 of those fireworks cabins at the side of the road. It's an American thing. We like to blow stuff up. So what we do. Good at it. Oh, see, on the West Coast, the insurers have pushed to completely ban them. No. Because of the fire danger.

And because people, you know, the hospitals get tired of. of dealing with blown off hands. But it's like when the news says, oh, well, he had explosives. Oh, yeah. They don't mention the fireworks part. No, they're legal. They're legal class C fireworks. Okay, guys.

And now we've got drones at the Oscars, right? Well, wait, wait, wait, before. I'll let you go there in a minute, but first we have to be afraid about the internet. On the homeland. In the homeland. In this high, That's hinterland.

On the homeland. We had all these horrific incidents, including that 41-year-old man who drove a car with explosives into Michigan's largest synagogue. He was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Brothers were members of Hezbollah, who had recently been killed in Lebanon along with their children. We don't know yet if the attacker was involved with Hezbollah. But what do you understand about the threat picture at home? Margaret, the diversity and volume of terrorist threats. to this country has never been higher.

We have a broad range of threat actors in play. Individuals inspired and directed by countries like Iran, by foreign terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and ISIS, and individuals motivated by domestic political grievances and racial animus and more. At the same time, the Internet has been a force multiplier for terrorism. Individuals have such easy access to content online that can radicalize them. And importantly, such easy access to information on tactics, techniques, and targets which means that they can plot their attacks more quickly and make their attacks more effective.

What that really means is we need a whole new model for counterterrorism in this country. That includes law enforcement, but also includes members of the public. Oh, I think digital ID needs to happen really quick. Come on. Come on. Come on. Bring it in, people. I mean, it's still making people really nervous. I mean, even just in New York, you had the two Pennsylvania men, two U.S. citizens who were arrested. they were going to protest the anti-Muslim protest in New York, but they claim that they had ties to ISIS. It's not clearly directed by a state. It's not clearly directed by anyone.

Inspired. How do you protect yourself? Well, what we have to think about today is not just how to enhance physical security protections at targets. Certainly the government has a role to play in helping synagogues, churches, mosques, schools, and others in putting up security barriers, training security officers, and those physical security enhancements. We also really have to double down on information and intelligence sharing. That's a government function, but it also has to include the public.

And what I mean by that is the threat landscape is so dispersed. There's so many tentacles of this. That when individuals and communities see an individual that may be exhibiting signs of violence, they have to ask for help from law enforcement, from a social worker, from mental health worker because the pathway and the path to radicalization and mobilization is just so rapid. And I do think, Johnny, that the Iranian regime has demonstrated an incredible capacity to be flexible and adaptive. They played a long game here. They have invested in propaganda and tools in this country, as well as just hiring people to do their dirty work for them to such an extent that I am concerned

that they had the intent and the capability to, if not direct attacks here in the homeland to inspire them. Yeah, that's your CBS news. Attacks in the homeland. They're inspiring them. They're buying people. Head on a swivel. And the stability of that regime. It's funny.

The regime and the command and control over the asymmetric capabilities that Iran has to include, for example, proxies that may seek to do Americans harm, sleeper cells in the United States and more. So as we do think about the new Supreme Leader, I'm thinking about from a homeland perspective, whether that individual has a command and control over the tools that could, in fact, harm Americans, Margaret. And we'll, these are open questions. We're going to try to get answers to. Thank you. We're going to get answers. President Trump has an answer. Here's his answer to the sleeper cells. The war in the Middle East threatening to spill well beyond the region as Iran is reportedly trying to activate sleeper cells abroad. Steve Harrogate is live at the border between Iran and Armenia as Iranians look to flee the chaos. Hi, Steve.

Morning. The U.S. reporting encrypted messages coming out of Iran in the wake of the death of the Supreme Leader. on February 28th, these encrypted messages, perhaps radio messages. That's your shortwave ham radio messages. That's the numbers, yeah. The English news is reporting that an alert has gone out to law enforcement warning about the possibility of sleeper cell attacks in the U.S. President Trump addressed the risk of a sleeper cell attack. They've been trying for a long time.

We've been very much on top of it. We're watching every single one of them. Yeah, we know a lot about them. the biggest problem we have is the Democrat shutdown. We know a lot about them. But the shutdown doesn't allow us to do what we have to do. It's the Democrats. They have shut down Department of Homeland,

hinterland security. And yeah. And meanwhile, a lot of things like the two kids from Philadelphia, you know, I mean, that's mental illness. We don't have any facilities for mentally ill kids.

don't lock people up because they're crazy. And his attorney keeps talking about how, oh, well, he has a lot of compound problems. That's why he couldn't go to school for his senior year. That's why, you know, he withdrew from the world. Well, okay. Is this really a terrorist ideological thing? Or is it the kid is suffering and he's mentally ill and it's psychotic? I mean, that's, you know, a lot of these things that keep happening are people who we would have locked up.

Half of our population is mentally ill, if not from overmedication of SSRIs, from nonstop scrolling on the social media. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I cannot believe the amount of nonsense I keep finding that's just like, these people scare me. Good. We even have Mimi scared now. All right. Well done, boys. We got Mimi scared. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, well, there's that. All right. Which of your Oscars clip do you want to play here? I think Oscars, Oscars, Oscars is a good place to start. Security for the event is the tightest it has ever been and for good reason.

So here's what we know. The Oscars are the first major event in the U.S. since the war in Iran broke out. There could be sleeper cells from Iran and other terrorist entities in the U.S. Could be. And yes, there has been talk of drone threats on the West Coast prompting the LAPD and several other law enforcement entities that take extra precautions to keep everyone safe. So you will see the area around Hollywood and Highland closed and gated off with a strong police presence. And yes, all of that sounds scary. Here's what is important.

The officials say that there is no intelligence to suggest L.A. or the Oscars are a target. We are just being extra cautious. Keep that in mind as we enjoy the Oscars on Sunday. Yes, on Sunday, ABC, 8 p.m. Make sure you tune in to see if they blow anybody up. That's right. Well, then we have extra TV. I thought that the Oscars, Oscars, Oscars,

which I guess the president of the Academy, I thought they were sound like they were talking down to two-year-olds. You know, they're... Yes. Yes. There we go. So the Extra TV has a, they're trying to go with the more officious take on it. What am I looking for here? Extra TV. Yeah, I found it. Every year we monitor what's going on in the world.

Oscar's executive producer Raj Pippoor just spoke out about the reports. We have the support of the FBI and the LAPD. So did California Governor Gavin Nusa. Drone issues have been always top of mind. Events like the Oscars are some of the most heavily secure venues in the country. We spoke with counterterrorism expert. The guy can't even stop his city from burning. Oh, drones are top of mind.

The internet is the largest pre-attack intelligence environment in the world. The threat monitoring online, which is happening nationwide right now, coordination between federal and local agencies. The goal is to detect threats early enough and prevent them long before they ever reach the venue. Today, the FBI tells Extra it routinely works with local law enforcement to share intelligence and provide resources where needed. Man, someone should just fly a drone over that thing. Well, then we have the ABC 7, which talks about the preparations in Los Angeles. Well, of course. They should be hyping that up because it's their network.

We also spoke with the LAPD's Incident Commander for the Academy Awards. He tells us they've been preparing for the Oscars for months. It's an event with some 3,500 guests in addition to... all of those working in and around the venues. Some of the visible resources include barriers like hay rails and fencing along Hollywood Boulevard where stars will arrive and walk the red carpet. Commander Randy Goddard tells us they're coordinating with federal agencies like the FBI as well as intelligence partners and the local fire department.

He also stressed there are specialized resources behind the scenes, adding that while there is no intelligence to suggest Los Angeles or the Oscars are a target when it comes to possible drone threats from Iran. it doesn't mean they don't prepare. We've planned for other things that we maybe haven't seen in prior years, but we have resources that will be on scene to address those unique circumstances that may occur so that they can be addressed quickly and prevent anything from growing out of control. And the closures here around the area along Hollywood Boulevard are pretty significant.

So it's difficult to get really up close to see the action on Oscar's summer. Sunday, the commander that we spoke with also recommends, if you can avoid the area, there is going to be a lot of traffic, so it's best to do that. Reporting live in Hollywood, Annabelle Munoz, ABC 7I, with this news. Lovely, lovely. Are you going to watch tonight? You're going to watch the Oscars? Are you going to check it out and make sure you see the action? I understand that you're like the Oscars expert. Is this true? No, no. I'm more the Grammy guy to look for the Satan segment. That's my job is I need to look for the Illuminati. and Satanism, which is usually easy to find. But you know all the crazy things that have happened at last Oscars events, like what happened in 2017? I bet this is the clip you want me to play.

No, no, not yet. Nope, not yet. No, no, this is just a question. This is more of an Ask Adam. I was not prepared for this, but... Ask Adam. as got a meal. Um,

2017. I can't remember last week 2017. Who was hosting? That might help me. Do you remember who was hosting? No, actually, I don't care about that. I just thought it was funny.

That was the year that La La Land was wrongly announced as the winter instead of moonlight. It was in the trades for months after that. Oh my God. they mix up. I vaguely remember this. I don't think I've seen either of those movies. And then in 1969, the Oscars had a tie for best actress.

Barbara Streisand for Funny Girl and Catherine Hepburned for the Lion and Winner, both won in the same category. How did that happen? Well, the Academy couldn't. They couldn't make a decision? Well, they couldn't not give it to Catherine Hepburn, but then Barbara Streisand's movie was the one that was the most popular vote. And then the Sturr in 2000. Do you remember the Sturr in 2000?

I don't remember. Was that the Dixie Chicks? That's when the Angela Jolie kissed James Haven, her brother on the lips for a long, long time. Wow. Yeah. That was good. But the absolute best to me is the three years ago, and that you can play the clip. You know who's got the hardest job tonight?

Javier Baudem and his wife are both nominated. Now, if she loses, he can't win. He is praying that Will Smith wins. Like, please, Lord. Jada, I love you. G.I. Jane 2, can't wait to see it. All right? Oh, yeah.

That was a. a nice one. Okay. I'm out here. Oh, Richard. Oh, wow. Wow. Will Smith just smack the shit out of me. I've forgotten about that. Yeah. Moments, moments in Oscar history. Yes. So do you know how the Oscars are picked? I mean, are you aware of how they pick up? the Academy send in a sealed vote? Well, actually, screeners go out to the 10,000 members of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts and Sciences.

Right, including John C. DeVorak, he gets them too. No, he doesn't. Yes, he does. He always says, he says, I got a screener. He's always saying he has a, is he lying about the screeners? No, no, no, no. The screeners, when 10,000 members get them, they all send them, you know, they watch the movie, and they're not supposed to, they're supposed to destroy them, but they said,

them out. I know this because years ago I dated Jack Cooper whose father was Jackie Cooper and Wait a minute. Do I know Jackie Cooper? This is a reference that I think is beyond me. The champ the newspaper

man in suit, the newspaper guy in Superman. Jackie Cooper one of the longest living actors won like a billion T.J. Max. Jackie Cooper was a very, very famous he was in the little hour gang.

He was one of the kids in our gang. He basically, his entire career was in movies. Was he Uncle Fester? No, he was. Okay. No, no, no. Thanks, trolls. Well, maybe he, I never watched that show.

I had never watched that show. But the thing was is that, you know, Jackie always got the screener. So after Jackie died, I went out. to help Jack sort out his father's things. And he just takes out this like suitcase full of stuff. He goes, here's all the screeners from this year. Why don't you take them? Nice.

And I went, well, how does it work? And he said, well, they vote in two rounds. So first you do nominations. And members can only vote for that branch, their branch of the industry. So, you know, if you're. So, and then all members vote for the best picture. So when it came to something like 1969, the popular vote was Barbara Streisand, but the head of the academy said, well, we can't, you know, this is the only

time Catherine Hepburn's ever going to get a chance to get an Academy Award. So they, it was a, it was a pity award. I'm pretty sure these days they vote by skin color and gender. That would be my guess. That's pretty much how it's determined. I really, I only like the dead segment. That's kind of my favorite, the in-memorium. Oh, yeah. I like that. I don't watch, you know, I haven't been to a movie in a theater for a long. I can't even remember the last movie I saw in a theater. Although I hear Hoppers is a very good movie to go see. It's a Pixar long cartoon, but it's supposed to be quite interesting. Now, I think the big one this year is sinners, which I have not seen. I haven't seen it either. I'm not going to see it. No. I'm not going to see it until it hits Netflix, you know, let's face it.

Yeah, we just watched the Melania movie. The movie is a big. word, documentary. Oh, okay. It was, it was nice. You know, it's completely lost on this American public of today. Yeah. She's trying to, she's really trying to make something out of the White House, and I think it's underappreciated.

But she seems like a very nice, very nice lady, actually. The press doesn't cover her at all. Well, no, she's married to the evil orange man. You can't have that. Yeah. They've been married for 20 years. I didn't realize it was that long. You know, this entire, you know, I don't, I really don't understand.

Again, my world is country over party, so. Oh, how old school you are, Mimi. I know, I am so old school. I'm showing my age, aren't I? Sorry, I had to rattle a paper. Yes. Yes. There was an ant on it.

There's an ant on my, and I'm not used to having ants. Okay. I'm done. I don't have anything else exciting. Then why don't we thank a few people for supporting the best podcast in the universe? Currently, we have, oh, 1,542 trolls who are, no, actually 1632. Okay, that's all right. I didn't scare them all away.

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When is this happening? Don't you have St. Patrick's take from us? It's the 17th, but I think everybody started drinking yesterday. Oh, yeah. No, it's definitely a holiday weekend. But people are in the troll room and they're reasonably nice. There's only one guy who really doesn't like you. Oh, really?

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There's an increase of automation, for example, D-A-D-S-P-D-C. So that's weather. Also, one of our producers. actually is he's worked on the new Notam system. Let me see. So we got the, that was Sir Wags, Knight of the Martin State Class Delta Airspace. We have the anonymous controller.

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Very strict, very strict rules on that. They can't just do whatever they want. And let me see. Yeah, and another one from your servant of the skies. I can assure you there's no scenario in which AI will be implemented anytime soon. ATC needs the human in the loop, gut instinct that AI simply can't. replicate and I agree. Well, I wish police departments would be more, because right now there's a lot of AI

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Let's see. I still have a couple of things that we can talk about. I have, let me see, we did the Oscars. Yeah, I had, yes. And you can ask me anything you want about John and I sense, if he's listening, he'll get, it'll get his heart rate up. Oh, okay. What other celebrities have you dated except for Jackie Cooper's son?

Well, some of them I can't talk about. Well, you can mention their names, can't you? No. And in some cases, no. What do you? Are they in the witness protection program? What is this? We want, we're not, okay.

Wait a minute. What happened to you? You can ask me anything you want. That was fake news. Well, okay, I hung out with comedians. Yeah. JFK Jr. Did you date him?

JFK Jr.? No, no, no candidate, no, no candidates, no, no candidates, no, no. No, no. All right. But, well, I was, I was friends with Robin Williams. I mean, I met him because I didn't watch TV and I was walking through the Holy City Zoo. And he was on stage and I just completely dissed him. I had no clue who he was.

Was this the Morque and Mindy days? It was the morgue and Mindy days right after he'd done Popeye. And I went walking through and he said something to me. I was just heading back to the bathroom. And I told him, you know, hey, I'll talk to you when I get back. And after the show, he comes up and he goes, do you know who I am? And I hate that question. It really annoys me.

And I went, who do you think you are? You know, why don't you tell me? And love, it was love at first sight. Well, we became friends. We were good friends. Friends, everybody. Air quotes, friends. Well, what we do is after he'd show up and we'd go out and play on the playground, you know, at 2 a.m.

after bar time. What? Was this when he was doing a lot of Coke or what was happening? Well, yeah, there was that. But no, we would go out. It's just, it's one of those things that, you know, you have to decompress. We went out to, you know, the coffee shops that were open 24 hours and hang out. But that was always uncomfortable because people would always come up to him and want to talk to him

and think that they knew him because he was on more commende. And he sometimes just needed to decompress. So I'd be like, let's go to the playground. And the first time he went, well, I can't. swing on the swings. I'm under contract and if I get hurt. I'm like, what kind of, what kind of whimper you? I mean, how many times should you get hurt as a kid on the swings? Anyone will never? I go, well, so swing. So we swing. We, you know, we'd run around. We, you know, at one point, we had like five or six people with us and we'd do invisible baseball games and just act goofy.

So I have a couple questions here, obviously. Question number one, was he as funny when he was not on stage or in front of the camera as he was off? Was he the same hyper guy? Would he jump into voices and do crazy stuff? No, nope. He was, you would be lucky in an evening if you got five words out of him. He was very quiet, introvert. Very introverted. Matter of fact, when he would come, I was a day bartender at a comedy club and he'd come by when he was doing like Moscow on the Hudson. Love that movie. That was a good movie. I love Moscow on the Hudson. Well, he was getting Russian lessons at that point. But that was right after his son was born, the first son, Zachary. And he'd sit at the bar and I would have to, and I knew something was bothering him. And I'd go,

it'd be 20 questions, you know, you look sad. Yeah. This is anything that I can do. Was he depressed? Did you feel he was like a depressed kind of guy? He was moody. I think he was kind of moody, but he was just an introvert. I'm moody too. You know, it's fine. So here's your choice. choice of title for today's show. You can either choose Mark and Mimi or swinging with Mimi. It's up to you. It's one of the two. You should wait until my less set of clips. We have a better thing there. But the thing, so, you know, we just saw each other here and there. We knew each other. We talked. We had lots of mutual friends. You know, Robin was a very sweet character, and he was very thoughtful.

And I always thought that, you know, he had a lot of depth to him. But it was only when you'd get four or five people in the room that he'd turn into that guy. You know, the I'm on, let's perform. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. I saw him about, I don't know, it was about three weeks before he did himself in. And, you know, here we'd known each other for years. I mean, and he is after a performance that he did at the Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley, and I've got, you know, I'm there.

We go out to dinner along with all the other hangar on, everybody who was there. There were a whole table of comedians, and I sat next to him. And he leans over to me, and really quietly, he says, I can't remember you. What? Yeah, really quietly. And I went, I didn't know how to take it. So I went, well, that's okay, Rob. And I'll remember for both of us.

Wow. That was when he had Louis body disease. What is it called? Yeah. Yeah, Louis body dementia. He didn't know he did. He thought he had Parkinson's. And but that night, the one thing that, you know, I've talked to other people with is he,

that night performing, he actually stopped at one point like he had lost his words. And that would have been the worst thing that could have ever happened to him. To anyone, to any comedian, for sure. But he was so, you know, I mean, he, he was. was so dynamic in so many ways. And, you know, that night when I saw him, he had been doing improv, like with Rick Overton. And it's just brilliant to watch these things. And Steve Pearl was there. A lot of people were there. And it was like when I saw that hesitation, and I, you know, I know all these people fairly well, it was like, I saw everybody kind of give each other looks. Like, oh, they all,

they were like, what? What's happening to Robin? And it was something, but then he recovered. really quickly and it's like I you know I I don't see he had any choice to you know there's no way he could have lived with a future of having no words so you're great guy okay other people you might have dated Gilbert Godfrey perhaps that seems like a guy you might have dated no we we hated Gilbert Godfrey he somehow at MTV they always decided oh we're going to bring Gilbert on for some segments. I'm like, oh, no, because, you know, we had time. The segments had to be, you know, like within two minutes, kind of.

And he was going, and then he would say, you know, all kinds of profanity. And then the control room had to, okay, Gilbert, we're burning that segment. The guy was a nightmare to work with, a nightmare, I tell you. Oh, that's great. But not as bad as Paul Provenza. he was the most stuck up, arrogant guy. I'm like, oh, Paul Provenza. Yeah, no, he was.

They were both LA comics. I mostly hung out with San Francisco comics, and there is a difference. So, you know, there was, I mean, comedy was really big. You know, I had a comedy production company in Stockton, California, so I hired a lot of people. So I knew everybody. How about George Carlin? Do you ever hang out with him? I never hung out with him, but I did see him multiple.

Every time he was even close to the Bay Area or the Reno, I would go see him. So I saw him multiple times. I was a fan. Yeah. Oh, a huge fan. He was, I think he was important part of my development as a human being for a lot of people who listened to the show. Yeah. I saw Johnny Carson performing as a kid.

comedian both in the theater and the round and San Carlos. Wow. And I guess it was called the Circle Star. And then in Reno a few times, because that's the other thing. I was raised in Reno and they always had really great shows. Let's get back to the dating part. Who I dated. Who do you date?

Which one of these wackos? How about did you have hang out with Sam Kinnison and were you in the squad with Sam and the roles? Sam Kinnissel I met a couple of times. He was very, very nice. unless he was in front of a lot of people. No, then he was an eight hole. But he could go, but he was a child preacher. So he could just go.

He could, and his brother, I think, is still a preacher. I think so too. He could go into that bit and it was just like amazing. I mean, the control of his voice was unbelievable. And it was, he was something to see. And he was, you know, I mean, I was a girl. So he was on his best girl behavior. with me.

I say that sarcastically. Yes, I'm sure. Yeah, I mean, Dana Carvey was around all the time. He was cute. Who I love to watch was Jerry Seinfeld. He had the best command of an audience I ever saw. Yeah. Because audiences really are hard to, you know, audiences have an entire world of

their own. They come in. They're either in a good mood. They're in a bad mood. There's no predicting what an audience is going to do. But the one time that I was, because I would always watch the audience because I thought that was interesting. So the first night that Bobcat Goldthwaite came to San Francisco from Boston. Bobcat. Bobcat. Another fan favorite. So we're in Cobbs, the old Cobbs Pub. It's this dank long building. And he comes in, no one knows who he is. And he insisted on nobody introducing him. So nobody has seen him. So the place is packed because rumor was out that Robin was there that night.

And that would always pack. I don't know where these people came from. There was some Robin network that went out there and all these people would show up whenever he was rumored to be in town. So the place is packed. Probably double what the fire marshal wanted it to be. And I'm standing against the wall so I can see the audience and see the same. stage. And Kinsen, or can I get me on Kinnison? Goldthwaite, you know, Bobcat just jumps on stage. And he grabs the mic and he's completely disheveled. He looks like a homeless bum. And he starts going

ah, like he does. Pretty much his whole bit right there. Yes. And then he starts rambling, saying all kinds of things. And the audience was sat stiff upright. And you can see they're not moving their heads, but they're trying to glance to the people next to them to see if everybody's like, are you freaking out? Because I'm freaking out. And the audience was absolutely silent for about the first four minutes. And four minutes is a long time. And then finally he went into this bit where he did like a Yaley accent where he was doing some, oh, the guy on the bus. And then he flips into this Yaley accent, you know, this total upper crust Boston accent.

and the entire audience exhaled at once. You can see them just go. He's not an insane person. He can actually speak normally. And then they were just, they just loved him. He was, and I'm, afterwards we went to Paula Poundstone's house. Also, Data Carvey's house because they were roommates. And I got to talk to him.

And he was the sweetest person I've ever, I mean, he's just sweet and he was young. And he was, and he was like, kind of shrigging it off. And I had to describe to him what the audience did. And he said, yeah, I get that. I get that sometimes. No kidding. Nice guy.

Well, hold some for the next show. I will. Okay. But think of some good stories. You know, we need a little bit of dating mixed in there to keep everyone engaged. Okay. Yeah.

Actors are also fair game. That's all fine. Yeah. And maybe watch the Academy Awards. So, you know, yeah, I bagged him, that guy. just so you can let us. Well, that was the horrible thing when I first started dating John because he, every good story.

The horrible thing when I first started dating John. Well, he liked, he goes, oh, I'm really into comedy. So we went out to a comedy club. And of course, I never pay. We just walk in and sit down. And he looks at the acts to come, you know, what's coming for the next, you know, few weeks. And he goes, are you slept with any of these guys?

And I went, well, I didn't sleep with this. one. All right. So on Thursday's show, I presume John will be back by Thursday. On Thursday's show, we want to hear the story of how you met and how John swept you off your feet. Okay. Okay.

And now, back to real news, everybody. Big news in AI from Google. Well, Google Maps has announced its biggest update in 10 years with a major AI makeover right here. It's going to allow you to ask complex. questions that a map maybe couldn't answer before, like find out a public tennis court with lights for playing at night. Google says it will source that information from millions of reviews and websites, and answers will include photos and also ratings. The company says that

the power of Maps plus AI is different from anything else out there. So based on your activity in Maps, the prior searches you may have done, maps is what you use when you want to go out in the physical world, so you can turn those flamps into actions, in the future. instantly. So Google also says that you can expect direction to sound a bit more natural and then flow with on-map highlights faster. It will also be easier to find alternative routes just in case there's traffic issues. This is great. One point three trillion dollars invested and we have a better voice on Google Maps. It's fantastic. Well, you know, this leads me into my clips actually. Okay. So what happens when you get so dependent on the maps to tell you how to get.

get home that you forget how to get home. Isn't that kind of like an aunt losing its queen? Are we all going to be wandering around if Maps goes out going, oh, my God, I know I live here somewhere. Oh, I think we're already there. I think we're already there. Definitely. Let's go into my, I have, it says Palki Sharma.

Oh, from, from, what is it? She's no longer with Wyan. She's with the new, was it Formula One? The India TV or something. Yeah, something like that. Oh, Paki, hello, Pachishwama. Our next story tonight is about smuggling. No, not gold or drug smuggling.

We will tell you about ant smuggling. Yes, people are trafficking ants now, mainly in East Africa. Kenya has nabbed four ant gang smugglers. They captured thousands of ants. They were planning to sell these insects in Europe and Asia and hoping to make thousands of dollars. You heard that right, thousands of dollars for ants. So what's behind this strange trafficking trend?

And why are people buying smuggled ants? Well, inquiring minds need to know. And then I have clip two. He had ants. He had ants. All right. Kenyan authorities arrested and charged a Chinese national with attempting to smuggle 2200 live ants in his luggage.

Court filing seen by Reuters say 27-year-old Zhang Kekun was arrested at Nairobi's main airport on Tuesday while he was trying to leave the country. Ant-officinados pay large sums to maintain colonies. The arrest comes amid a rise in cases of smuggling. the insects. Last year, prosecutors accused suspects of being part of an ant gang who tried to move the live insects inside plastic syringes packed with cotton balls. Four men were charged $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants. Experts said the case signaled a shift in biopiracy from trophies, like elephant ivory, to lesser-known species. Investigators said

a search of Zhang's luggage recovered 2,238 ants, including 1,948 packs of in test tubes and the rest in three rolls of soft tissue papers. Kenya's Wildlife Service said a similar consignment of ants had been seized in Bangkok on Tuesday that originated from Kenya, indicating the existence of a widespread and organized ant smuggling network. So there's money in these ants? Yeah, yeah, I mean, okay. That's amazing. What they're smuggling out of there are the giant African harvester ants where the queens are more than an inch long. So I started looking into this.

It turns out that this is keeping ants and growing ant colonies was a thing in Asia first, but it spread all around the world. There are people who have ant farms that are like built into the wall, you know, like old aquariums used to be. And they have massive ants. So I started looking into it even more. So we have Coles ants. I have a, these are people who probably never get dates. Except with comedians. Welcome, everyone. I'm Cole from Cole's ants. And today we're going to be trying something a little different.

Antkeepers and ant enthusiasts are kind of a growing hobby. Still very niche, but growing. And it's a nice community, a colony, if you will. And that colony must grow. Because the hobby of antkeeping is just really fascinating. And I love telling stories and bringing them to life, entertaining the people that just like watching ants and educating the people that want to keep ants. So today, we're going to be talking about the hobby of antkeeping. And to talk about this topic with me is my friend Nami, who turned his hobby actually into a business. He co-founded a site called Atlantis, where he actually sells ants. So, hey, Nami. Hi, everyone. Yeah, no, in the last year, so I decided with the help of my business partner, Michael, that I wanted to build a platform,

allowing people to not only just get healthy ant colonies, but continue growing their ant colonies that they purchase from us. So that's the vision that I see Atlantis being. How many ant colonies do you have? Around 3,000 ant colonies currently arranged. What? All right, I got to play it. I got to play the whole thing.

Yep. Haven't played in a while. I don't know if we had ants. We had ant invasion. I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to a powder like a fine, fine grind black pepper. were having dinner and

yeah I got an aunt somehow in the meal and I ate it. These things are peppery. I got ants. I got ants. These ants, they don't need a lot and then you see if you find all the ones that are roaming around you. I backed them

off by doing the burning trick. He's torture. The only end of the occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back. I got ants. I got ants. I got ants.

I got ants. Ants. Ants. Yes. So first, I know. never knew John was so trending. Not that bad. I have to credit that to

Sir Saturday night, Strokey Bill Walsh, who passed away last year. He was the one who created that song. Yeah. I love that song. But John lives on a giant hill in all that. On an ant hill. On an anthill.

And it's all Argentinian ants that have a giant mega colony that spreads from San Diego to San Francisco. Yeah. It is a mega colony. So these people are bringing in giant Amazonian ants, which are an inch and a half long. They're bringing in the harvester ants. They're bringing in carpenter ants that have a thousand different species. Don't like this.

And there's so many different YouTube guys out there talking about their ants. And some of them raised two different colonies and then put them together and have ant wars. It's like robot wars only with ants? I'm horror. I mean, I don't know the difference between that. I don't see how that's legal where cockfighting isn't, but whatever. It's just got, it's, it creeps me out so much. Oh, my God. Interesting. I had no idea. I had no idea that was such a thing. So I think, you know, we could certainly, you know, insect, an aunt gang. What? An ant gang for the show title. A sophisticated ant smuggling network.

Yeah, no, I'll choose the titles, Mimi. I still think more can Mimi or swinging with Mimi is better. I'm sorry. But I haven't told you about swinging, but okay. Next show, everybody. Or not. Hurry, John. Hurry, come back.

Yes. Wow, I don't know. It's hard to transition to anything from where you just. just took us. I just have one more clip because this is, I've been, I've been keeping my eye on the pivot from AI to the next level. And it appears that this IONQ outfit, I think they had the big data center in, in Chicago, it's like the south side or something. So Fox Business News has the CEO on and listen to this blather. Joining me now, IONQ CEO, Niccolo DeMassi. Niccolo, how closely have You've been watching all of the developments in the Middle East.

And the fact that some of these missiles and drones have managed to hit their targets. Well, we consider ourselves a close partner of this administration. The Department of War, of course, is front and center in the last week. And indeed, in really driving the quantum programs, not only up in space and up in the air, but of course on the ground and even under the ocean. We are the only quantum company in history to reach our. our size and we operate in all war-finding domains from submarines up into the heavens. We've obviously been closely watching the last few weeks and we consider ourselves in pole

position here to not only help expand our defensive posture, but also our offensive posture. This is a race against our adversaries. It's not just a race against smaller, smaller advertisers like Iran that honestly don't have a quantum posture. But there's bigger ones like China that obviously recognize that after AI, quantum is the next big technological wave. And so the U.S. succeeding in that is all about, we believe, INQ, supporting the industry, INQ capitalizing quantum foundries, the merchant supplier business, and of course making sure that we lead in computing, networking, sensing, and quantum cybersecurity. Yes.

There you go. The pivot is on. The pivot is on. Was he speaking English? Yeah. Well, this is the nonsense. that quantum computing is here and it's the next step. And it's going to be the next thing that everyone invests in after AI turns out to be

nothing more than Google Maps that has a smoother voice and can find a tennis court with lights for you. Yeah. Isn't that sad? Kind of. Kind of. Well, although I have to say I do Google to see if the laundromat, what the busy hours are. So there is that.

AI could help you, baby. $20 a month. It's good to go. Have you heard about this gold heist in Hungary? No. Gold bars and cash worth more than 80 million U.S. dollars are at the center of the latest spat between Hungary and Ukraine. Hungarian authorities seized the contents

of a Ukrainian state bank convoy that was making its way home from Austria. The assets are still being held. Hungary says it's investigating what it calls money laundering Our correspondent Ferens Ghal has been covering this story and joins us now from Brussels. Ferenz, Ukraine's state bank says that the movement of the cash and gold across Hungary was just a regular bank transport. Hungarian authorities are saying it could be money laundering overseen by a former Ukrainian intelligence official.

What exactly is going on here? The Hungarian authorities have claimed there have been suspicions of money laundering. It is not clear what exactly this could be. Now, what we know now is that the detained Ukrainian nationals have been released and expelled from Hungary. Hungary has even returned the vans to the Ukrainian bank, but it has kept the assets within those vans. So, you know, millions of dollars, millions of euros, some kilograms of gold. And from the beginning, there has been a lot of doubt what the actual legal basis is for Hungary keeping these assets. Nine kilograms of gold.

Oh, that's just normal. It's just, that's completely normal. We put that in a van every week. I go into Zelensky's house. Come on. This is so obvious. Wow. Don't hear anything.

Don't hear anything about Ukraine except for, um, there was, uh, my boy, Rutter had something to say about how great Ukraine is. Yeah, I mean, it is a vital role. Yes. Indeed. Because of this totally unprovoked war of aggression of Russia. Oh, yes. is a full-scale invasion. Against your country,

you had to defend yourself, and you are defending yourself, and I commend you for that, my respect. But you also had to innovate. Yes. And you are now one of the countries with the most knowledge and experience when it comes to drone technology,

anti-dron technology, but also so much more. Every day I get reports of what you guys are doing in terms of innovation. And what is now happening in the Middle East, the fact that President Zelensky said, I will send Ukrainian teams to the Middle East, to Gulf countries to help them.

Wait a minute. He's got people left over from fighting Russia to go help in the Middle East. Come on. But it comes to drone technology. An anti-dron technology, I think, is testimony of that. And what we're also seeing is that European countries are investing in the defense industrial base in Ukraine. There is still an untapped potential of 10 to 15 billion.

So a lot of being done. But still, there is room for more. And of course, what you were doing, fighting the Russians. and keeping your country safe means indeed that you are on the forefront of innovation so thank you for doing everything you're doing and we have to make sure you stay strong in the fight

that means when it comes to interceptors for Russian missiles when it comes to other key and crucial defense industry gear we have to support you and the US plays a big role here paid for by Canadians and Europeans and we have also to keep that going

I just wanted to say thank you for your courage Ukraine. It's very Good. Very good with your drone technology. You're in effect. You're very inoffative. It's very good. Is he sniffing in that thing? Is that, am I hearing him going sniffing with his nose? Because it sounds like he's, the only time I've, the only person I've ever heard people talk like that is after a lot of cocaine.

You know, John has said that about him too. And I'm very bad at detecting cokeheads. The guy is such a nerd. I mean, he goes to work on his bike. He used to work in HR at Unilever, you know, with all the HR ladies. He's an HR lady and somehow became the prime minister of the Netherlands. And then all the way up to the Secretary General of NATO. It's a baffling career.

But he's Trump's sales guy. So Trump seems like him. You know, that used to be the model for salesmen. They always did too much Coke and couldn't shut up. Final clip after we're done in the Middle East, we have Cuba. Johannes Delabat was born in Cuba. People that never lived through this to be in exile will never know what this is like. That's why I understand the Iranian people.

I understand the Venezuelan people. She has mixed feelings about the headline that came out of the press conference with Cuban president Miguel Diaz Kanep that Cuba is officially in talks with the U.S. government. Sometimes you can't really negotiate with terrorists or dictators, but... Who knows, you know, stranger things have happened in history. So we shall see how this development truly expands or see what happens and how the Cuban community would react to. I think we're just happy that something is finally being done. I think that we are finally in history at the right time, at the right place with the right president.

Surprised is not a word anyone ever-sized used to describe the confirmation. CBS News had already reported that talks between the two countries were underway. I think that they're finally stating the truth. I can't hide it any further. I think it's been going on for a while, which we've been hearing that has been going on. Michael Rubio has been engaged in conversations with them. But like always, they always lie to us.

They've been lying to us for 65 years. As far as, and I'll go a little further, I'll tell you that what I would like to see come out of this is that Cadill gets out and Castro gets out. That's the only thing that's acceptable to the community. You ever been to Cuba? No. Nope. I know there's, but Cuba's got a lot going on right now. Well, they've got nothing going on. Nothing works. They have no gas. They got no oil. They got nothing.

Well, if I'm on the next show, I will, I have a bunch of Cuba stuff. I just didn't grab it all because I didn't finish last night. You're holding back. You've got stuff in the ban. All right. Yeah. Cuba on 1852. I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah, oh, no agenda in the morning. Yeah, that's right. We still have a number of people to thank who supported us, $50 and above.

We always thank everybody. No knights or dames, as we've already announced, we're waiting until John returns to do all of those nightings and damings. So let's thank everybody. We start off with, let's see, Chris Moore from Indianapolis, Indiana, with 188, his own special Give John a Reason to Live donation. Amy Pousson, Pousson in Jefferson, Wisconsin, I guess this is a freedom donation, 1776, we'll take it. Grumpy Old Dames from Smithville, Texas, 150, Page Holland, 125, and she sent in a note. Let's see what Paige says here.

Quick recovery for John. Mimi and Adam, competitive new pair-up. Who knew Mimi had such a killer, good podcast presence? Yes, with the fake, sexy voice, as John calls it. It's lovely to get to hear John's much better half. Prayers and love, Paige Holland from San Antonio here in Texas. Thank you very much, Paige. Forrest Scott Brinkley, North Canton, Ohio, 10544.

He says, get well, John. Get well soon, John. Steve Brown, 10535, a. one-time get-well donation for John. Rulov-Boor is in Fincafane in the Netherlands, $101. He says, this is my first donation. You've been deduced. Oh, actually, someone sent something along for this.

I remember this. He says, I was already thinking about it for a while, about donating. But I was so pleasantly surprised by Mimi's performance, all my hesitation shattered, Mimi. You're a donation bonanza. So I guess you can call this. a Mimi donation. Mimi donation.

We got that as a bonus. He sent it to us. The bark is a well-meaning jab aimed at Mimi. Couldn't figure out how to make the bark less loud. Fun fact, I got hooked the second time I listened to the show because a producer revealed he donates with names, specifically designed to give John a hard time pronouncing them. Like we didn't know this.

Okay. There's the rock and roll detective from Madison, Wisconsin. check out the books. Rock and Roll Detective, $100. Albert Ray Peake from Piperton, Tennessee, 100. David West from Marysville, Washington, $100. And also has a note. Do we have another note?

Didn't we? Yeah. Hold on a second. Where is my? Where's my, oh, here, my notes. No, I only have three notes. Oh, wait a minute. No, four.

I got it. Okay. Okay. I wanted to say here. John, now do you believe in God? So glad you are alive and we'll be back. You're a national treasure. Adam and Mimi, good for you for keeping the show going while John recovers.

Sergio McGillicuddy, aka David West. Yeah, everyone's hoping John met God. That's what everyone is saying. Any insight on that? Nope. Nope. Okay. Well, I'll ask him when he comes back.

Yes. Oh, then we have a lot of 88, 88. 88. Still coming in. Jennifer Taylor, Cato Mills, Texas. Daniel Posselt in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Laura Masters in London. Hello, London. Manuel Obando in Miami Lakes, Florida. Wayne Thum in Preston, Maryland. And Jason Babcock comes in with 8888, and that pushes him to Nighthood.

Please, Knight me, Sir Jay of the Interstate and serve me Thai pineapple-fried rice and Thai iced tea at the table. Get well soon, John. We miss you. Jason. and Jason again will be doing all of these when John returned. Sir Johnny be good, Colorado Springs, Colorado. And let's see, he says, along with my 88 88 donation the following note, John, we are certainly grateful for a successful procedure. Glad they caught this in time. We continue to pray and send this very special donation for your recovery.

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I love you guys. And we love you, Lane. Be careful. $55. $1. Luke Manel, Los Angeles, California, 5272. Brian Holt in Carmel, New York, 5017. And we're at the 50s, Kevin Dills from Huntersville, North Carolina, Philip Balloo in Louisville, Kentucky, Chris Lewinsky, Sir Chris Lewinsky, and Sherwood Park, Alberta, easy landscapes, North Stonington, Connecticut, Greg Bodak in Belvedere, Illinois, Baron of Belmont in the Catawabaw. How do you pronounce it? Catawaba? No, I'm missing an A there. It says,

Katta, well, maybe it is Katawaba. Maybe just mistyped. Katawaba River Basin, Charlotte meetup this Thursday. That's right. It will be the fifth anniversary. Every producer in the Charlotte area is welcome. Get well, John. We miss you.

Pamela Bradley, Takumse, Oklahoma. George Oberhofer in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Ox other eggs in Buffalo, New York. $50. Prayers for John's Speedy Recovery. And he says, Adam, thank you for ending the $50 donations with Ox Otherick Buffalo in New York during the past episode.

A couple of times I donated. It's a special thrill for me. Well, you are the last one again. I don't know why this is, but for some reason, you seem to be the last one. That's amazing. I have to ask Jay. She's probably doing it. They must have something going.

Who knows what Jay is really doing? No one really knows what Jay is doing other than everything works out just fine. She's my daughter. We never know what she's doing. She takes after me. Let me see. Then there was another note that I missed from Sherry Wormiger. Wormiger.

And I missed it on the last one. She says, Get Well, Fast John, we miss you. I did leave a note of 200 characters of my PayPal donation for the show on March 12th. Adam didn't read it. He just read my name. So here it is. Thank you both for all you do to keep our amygdala small.

I was hitting the mouth of my husband and son back in 2008. A big thank you to both of them, Eric and Cody. Cody is a night and we have to work. on Eric, a dame needs her a night. It took me until 2020 to realize this is the best podcast in the universe. I haven't missed the show since I started a monthly layaway program immediately, along with a few larger donations, including one executive and one associate and one associate donations. I am well over the limit to claim my dame status. Please dame me, Dame more, more. Let's keep up these donations, even after John returns to work. I'll be doing everything I can.

Thank you both, plus the back office for all you do. She's in Arlington Heights, Illinois, your dame more more and yes you will be a dame upon john's return we have exactly zero birthdays i don't know how that happens that's happened maybe once before in the history of the show interesting it's so you know i i don't get to say you know i don't get to say anything it's just no no birthday so thank you for the support of the show go to no agenda donations dot com any amount anytime you feel like it that's how it works it's real simple if you get value of the show It's value for value, send some value back. No Agenda Donations.com.

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we just heard from Baron of Belmont, and here's his promo this Thursday meetup, Ed's Tavern and Charlotte. It will be the fifth anniversary of the Thursday third Thursday meetup. If you would please make a point to mention this and encourage more producers in the area to show up, it would be greatly appreciated. We'd drink beer, smoke cigars,

and solve the world's problems, or at least try. I even had a buddy make a cigar ashtray for me, picture attached. Beautiful picture. Thank you for your courage. We're all praying and sending Carmen to John for a speedy recovery. Mimi is rocking it, by the way. She's a trooper for stepping in, says Sean Smith, the Baron of Belmont, and the Catawba River Basin. Let's see, we have a meetup taking place today.

Of course, that is the Blind Owl Brewery. That means it's Indianapolis, Indiana. The No Agenda, I do believe it's time for a meetup March edition. That is underway as we speak on Wednesday. It's not often that we get a Wednesday meetup, but it is the deconstruction of the leprechaun. 530 at the barn restaurant in Rockaway, New Jersey. on Thursday, our next show, the NISB Get John

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here's the great thing about it. You can start one yourself. Noagendametups.com. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. So I'm kind of worried because I see not one, not two, not two. I see that you have six isos when they're not labeled, so that means something is up. I have two, so I will give you my... Well, mine are all organic. They aren't John. They are ones that I actually clip.

Oh, okay. Well, I'll do mine my two first. It's crazy. Okay. And this one? Thanks for the laughs. All right. So, Mimi, you have six ISOs.

You've been busy. All right. Yep. Okay. We'll start with number one. What the hell's going on? Number two. And that's the way it is.

Number three. Folks, is this insane? It's insane. Who is this person? It's the same one as this other. I don't know. Some. Yeah.

some lunatic I found just showed up on my feet. That was pretty good. I miss that one out. Yeah, not really legible. All right, number five. Bye. That's Wolfman Jack.

Yeah, number six. She was afraid of the dog. She saw me naked. Now she's afraid of the light. Is that Rodney Dangerfield? It is. Yeah. I think I kind of like this one.

What the hell's going on? I kind of like that one. I think that sums it up. Okay. We'll keep it at that one. Hey, everybody, it's time to listen to another tip of the day. Brought to you by Mimi DeVorek. Create advice for you and me.

Just the tip with J-C-D. And sometimes Adam. All right. All right. This will probably get banned in Minnesota because it's called Barra Ice. Barra Ice? T-H-E-R-A. Oh, I see.

Or I-C-E. It's a migraine relief cap. It's about $30 on Amazon. It's basically a bandana with eye shades. It blocks out the light. The cap has these gel inserts. And it's got a Ziploc bag. So you put the cap into the Ziploc bag.

You put it in your freezer for at least two hours. And then you put it on. And it is, it's not stiff. It's actually kind of gelish. So it's always cold. It lasts for a while. It gives a little bit of gentle compression. And the cap is just,

just it fits all head sizes. It's a little bit of compression. You put it over your head? Over your head. It covers your eyes. So it looks like a cap. Huh. Is this for hangovers or what do you use this? Oh, yeah. Oh, no. It was for migraines, hangovers. It's if you've got a fever, it actually is excellent for a fever.

These are really good products. Thera eyes also, it's good for about two hours. unlike a big ice bag, it doesn't leak on you. And it's also a pretty even temperature the whole time. I think it's fantastic. It is important to put it into the sealed bag. Can you walk outside and walk around the neighborhood with this or will they scare the children? You'd walk into trees.

It covers your eyes. Okay. Okay. And what is the name of this product again? It's Thera Ice. T-H-E-R-A-C-E. They also have. devices for your shoulder and your ankle and knee wraps.

So as you get old and you start having aches and pains, they're fantastic. But the migraine relief cap is really, you know, I've had, I'm a migrainer. I've had migraines all my life. Oh, I'm sorry. It explains my quirky personality. Ah, there it is, everybody. Find them all at noagenda fun.com. Tip of the day.

For you and me Just the tip with JCD And sometimes, Adam Created by Dana Burnetti Yeah, I had to... Sorry about that. I had to put the created by Dana Brunetti in there. He was complaining.

Like, just because John isn't dead, man. Doesn't mean I don't... I need my credit because I created all that stuff, I just so, you know, I created all that. Exactly. And we're at the end of another no-agenda extravaganza. A special thanks to you, Mimi,

for being here once again and bringing not just fun clips, but also fun tales from Mimi's past. Wait till I write my memoirs. Swinging with Mimi, everybody. That's right. And of course you can go to Too Many Eggs.com

if you want to know more about Mimi and her eggs. Lots of time. Oh, wait. Wait. Classic end of show mixes in honor of the war in Iran from Jesse Coy Nelson, Tom Stark, and James Trees. Up next on the No Agenda Stream,

if you're still listening, that Larry show, ah, yes, the deepest voice in podcasting. Larry will be here with the Larry show. Oh, yeah. He's got an amazing set of pipes. And that'll do it.

Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in Fredericksburg, Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. This is where you see. Oh, and by the way, and this is Mimi Smith-Divorek, coming from you from the Pacific. Northwest where it is not raining at the moment.

We will see you on Thursday till then. Adiosmo foes, a hurry, hooey, hooy, and such. Generals gathered in their masses. This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years. Just like witches at black masses. When I first came to office, one of the first meetings I had was at the Pentagon with General Evil minds that plot destruction Bolden has always said Let's go to war

But he's not the one he's going to go on the forefront He's a coward Sorcerer of Death's Construction The leaders of Iran Are racketeers Behind every problem is Iran War I don't want to war

They heard what you said in 2016 I liked it when you said no more stupid wars You got a rogue president in the White House surrounded by these Uberhawks that thirst for another war with Iran. The International Atomic Energy Agency has never found Iran in contravention of stipulations in the deal. If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran, never threaten the United States again. I'm not somebody that wants to go into war. in the United States heading towards another Middle East showdown this time with Iran. And I think they were a few weeks away from having one.

Well, I don't want to get involved either, but I've been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I've been saying it for a long time. My support is don't want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon. It was such a shame. They were so close. You know, Iran was very close to signing what would have been a very good agreement. for them. And maybe

that could still happen, I guess. They do want to come and see us. They want to see me in the White House. That's a big statement. I mean, they asked if they could cut them. We'll see if that happens. It's not that easy for them to come. They can't get out. You know, they're in Iran. And in one case, I want to come so badly,

but he can't get out because his bombs dropping all over the plane. Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Too much devastation. And they'd use it. You know, I believe they'd use it. Mofo Devorak.org slash

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