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Episode Date: May 21, 2026

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Flying Sussers. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Thursday, May 21st, 2026. This is your award-winning, Gimorn Nation Media Assassination, episode 1870. This is no agenda. Sniffing out the new strain. And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country

right here in FEMA region number six. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Refinery Row, where there's noobola. I'm John C. DeVorex. in the morning. Yeah, that's what you think. But it's coming. Ebola's coming everywhere.

It's coming. I wanted to do something we haven't done in a while. If that's okay. Flying saucers? No, not flying saucers. No. We used to do this. In fact, I think you used to do it.

But I figured I'd do it now. Let's listen to the headlines as brought to us by David Muir to tease the wonderful world we live in and then wonder why people don't feel good about themselves. Tonight, several breaking stories, the two teenagers and body armor allegedly charging into that Islamic center. And in New York City tonight, the woman who plunged into a searing manhole, a witness, and she was screaming, I'm dying.

First tonight, the breaking developments, late today, police revealing it was two heavily armed teenagers and body armor, carrying shotguns, rifles, and handguns into that Islamic center. Children not far away. security guard who took them on in New York City. Stop it. What? He had to start it over. Why?

Didn't he start off with the Muslim thing and then he jumped to the woman falling in a manhole and goes back to the other headline? Hey man, he's going to make you feel like crap. That is his job. But I've never heard this before where they've gone from topic to new topic to old topic. Well, now that you mentioned it. Unless I misheard something. Well, let's listen again.

Tonight several breaking stories, the two teenagers in body armor allegedly charging into that Islamic center. And in New York City tonight, the woman who plunged into a searing manhole, a witness saying she was screaming, I'm dying. First tonight, the breaking developments. Okay, so it's like he's teasing the top two stories, which is teenagers killing Muslims, then the woman falling into a searing manhole, not just a manhole, a searing manhole, unless that's something I'm not aware of. And then he goes into the rundown. But the rundown includes a lot more. I think we're spending too much time on it. Well, first of all, I think that's bad form.

But okay. Just let it play. I'm not going to interrupt anymore. I'm not saying I disagree. I agree it's bad form. Tonight's several breaking stories, the two teenagers in body armor, allegedly charging into that Islamic center. And in New York City tonight,

the woman who plunged into a searing manhole, a witness saying she was screaming, I'm dying. First tonight, the breaking developments late today, police revealing it was two heavily armed teenagers and body armor, carrying shotguns, rifles and handguns, into that Islamic center. Children not far away, the security guard who took them on. In New York City, the horrific and deadly scene in Midtown Manhattan, a woman opening her car door and disappearing down an open manhole, falling into the intense heat below the street service.

How this happened. Tonight the tornadoes touching down. damaging winds and severe storms set to hit again this evening. And records broken in Philadelphia, intense heat in New York City and Boston. Ginger Zee is here. Alarming news tonight about the deadly Ebola outbreak. An American doctor infected now race to another country for emergency help. The case is now spiking.

Tonight, the extraordinary order from the Justice Department, barring the IRS from investigating President Trump, his sons and their companies, and their taxes. Tonight, the murder case in the Northeast, a man convicted of killing a brother and his brother's wife and children setting their home on fire, then setting his own home on fire, his family inside, to make it look like the whole family had been targeted, what the judge has now decided. Tonight's major primaries being watched in this country, President Trump taking aim at one of his top political targets, Republican Congressman Thomas Massey.

We're all going to die! I'm telling you, they had to dig deep to get the guy who burned the family. I mean, hey, we need more horrible things for the T's. David wants more horrible things. Give him more horrible things to talk about. Well, you know, if you're going to play, the technique here should be to play, now you should play Tom Yamis' version of the same thing. And I think that NBC, because I was thinking about this earlier too,

these openers, and I think NBC does the best job. I think NBC is the leader in the news business. I think Tom Yamas does a terrific job. And I think their opening teas is superior to ABCs. I will make sure I have one on Sunday. I'll make sure that we have the superior tease. In fact, from now on it will be known as the superior tease from Tom Yamis. You're probably right.

But this was, you know, this was good. Because for one thing, he repeats himself here on two stories. I know. He brings in the Muslims. He brings in the woman falling in the hole. Then he brings back the Muslims and brings back the woman falling in the hole. hole. And then he goes to tornadoes. Just throws it a tornado. Do you think the woman was on her phone?

Yeah, probably. Just have a thought, you know, like that I didn't know there were that many manholes that close to the curb. Well, I remember living in New York, you'd have these manholes covers that were just steaming and, you know, smoke or steam, steam arising. Steam would be coming up. From time to time, we had the exploding manholes. I'm sure we had a couple of stories. Yeah, we had a...

Coboom. Exploding manhole. I thought personally that it was interesting, the choice of them saying, President Trump, remarkable IRS may never audit President Trump or his children, which is not really the headline of the story. Because the story is the slush fund for Trump allies. That's the story.

Yeah, we've got these clips of that. You know, but to me, I just want to get... get a start on this. I thought the biggest story to me, which no one played as a story, was this. We've been listening to Vice President J.D. Vans holding a White House press briefing, filling in for press secretary Caroline Levitt. Vance started with Iran saying the administration has the ability to restart a military campaign, but adding that's not what President Trump or Iran want and that both sides are attempting to negotiate in good faith. So not the story about Iran, but the fact that Vance was filling in for Carolyn Leavitt. And he was fantastic.

I mean, that should be his job. He should be talking to the press every single day. Did you see any of that? Yeah, I did. So the whole thing. I thought it was good. And it's kind of surprising because normally when the press secretary's not there to talk, the associate or assistant to wherever it is as a secondary person. They get the gig. They get the gig. I've never seen the vice president take it over. And it was great. He's like, you know, hey, I got one or two of these things. Let me see.

I just got two clips of him, expertly, I would say, managing the press corps. Okay, Garrett, you have your hand up. Garrett, you had your hand up. It's the vice president of the United States. Hey, who has had their hand up? Do you need to go to the rest? You need to go potty? Okay, all right, here we go.

Okay, Garrett, you have your hand up. Garrett, hey, that's right? Thank you, Mr. President. In terms are all underway. You've got voters go to the polls in six states today. You and the president ran on a platform that included no new wars, cutting gas prices, cutting inflation. What do you say to the people who are going to the polls today and who feel like those promises are unkept? Well, I'd say a few things. First of all, we've delivered great wins for the American people. We ran on delivering tax cuts to the American people, which we did, the largest tax cuts in American history. We ran on cutting taxes, particularly on people who were working on overtime. working on tips, we cut taxes for those Americans. We ran on the promise of bring investment back into the United States of America that rather than factory closures, we were going to have factories opening. And we've seen both construction jobs in manufacturing, but also manufacturing jobs,

have great rebounds under the Trump administration and under our leadership. We are very aware that because of what's going on in the Middle East, gas prices have gone up, and a lot of Americans are struggling because of that. Our view is that it is a temporary increase. We're taking a number of steps to try to push back against it and try to ensure that Americans are paying as little at the pump as possible. But I feel quite confident after we've taken care of business in the Middle East, those prices are going to come down. And there have been a lot of prices, as you know, a lot of prices from rent to housing, where we've still got a lot of work to do, but we do see some real progress made across the economy on pricing, but also on people's jobs.

I mean, expert, expertly done. I mean, it doesn't matter what he says. He's just, he's just, blah, blah, it's so, it's so much better than having the press secretary. I like Carolyn Levitt,

but who cares? She's an in-between person. Vance is the, well, this could be, what not you brought this in as your top story. Well,

I will say that it's possible that this may be a trend. Why not? It makes so much sense. But you have to have a vice president that can talk well, as, couldn't do this.

He was stiff. He was a prick. Kamala Harris couldn't do it either. She couldn't do it in a million years. No. But now it'll be a requirement for vice president. I think the vice president... Well, this is the thing. This is where you're jumping the gun here, I think. But I'm thinking it's possible that it could be a requirement for vice president. It's possible that this could be a trend.

One more clear. Because it works. Yes. Let's hear one more from him. I'm going to call on John. I'm just going to start. calling John Rosh. John, John, John, I'm going to be calling my favorites. Who's the teacher's pet? John, John, John Ross.

Not you, not that John, John Ross. Yeah, yeah. I'm just going to start calling John Rosh. John Rosh. John Lodge of Day now? Yes. Yes, yes, you're good. You too, thank you.

So Trump initially said that the war would last six weeks. We are now, it's been going on for 11 weeks in three days. Also, what Carolyn Leavitt always does is she always says, the fake news media has about, blah, well, you know, as you have, many of you have reported. reported in this room. She's so adversarial. And here, yeah, she's kind of like Trump picks these

women. Sarah Huckabee was the same way. Yes. Yes. She was really mean to everybody. Yeah. And this is, like, everyone's kind of like, hey, it's JD. Substitute teacher. J.D., yeah, that's good. We can ask him anything. He doesn't care. He's not going to slam us for that. It's your message to the American people. as why it's gone on so long and it hasn't ended yet.

Well, first of all, the president said it's going to be a short-term operation, and I think that has proven out to be true. The active period of conflict lasts about five, five and a half weeks. Active conflict. Hello, people. Get it right. We've been in the ceasefire where we're trying to get a negotiated settlement that gets the American people the things that we need for our national security. So I've said before that we're going to go one or two options here. We're going to have a good settlement that actually gets the American people what they need,

or we're going to go back to a kinetic operation. Obviously, the president prefers to get that settlement. I think the Iranians prefer to get that settlement. But regardless of what direction the president ultimately goes down, whatever he ultimately decides, I think it's important for the American people to know two things. Number one, it will be for their security and their prosperity. That's why we're doing this. And number two, it will not, this is not going to be the sort of thing that lasts forever.

I think a lot of Americans, especially in my generation, who are worried about forever, endless conflicts. we have to remember, I think you said 11 weeks, a big chunk of that has been a ceasefire. This is not a forever war. We're going to take care of business and come home. That's what the president's promised. And that's exactly what he's going to deliver. I mean, outstanding. I mean, remember we had Karene, Abdul-Jabbar.

She's the worst. Jean-Pierre. We had her. We had, who else? She's just a liar. We had Psocki. Circle back. Circle back.

Yeah. Yeah. This is so much more entertaining. He is making the press briefing exciting again. And I only caught it because all four screens on the quad were running it. That never happens. They were probably running it because they thought they'd screw up. Maybe.

I think everyone was just surprised by it. And I just thought, yeah, I'll step in. Yeah. She just had a baby. He should do it for a couple weeks. Give that girl some time off. I'm all for it. It's much better.

Very exciting. I'm very excited. Well, my top story is the one I wrote up in the newsletter. Yeah. And that is, and I have one clip, which is Massey, the top story, Massey losing. Yeah, Massey's good, yes. And no matter what anybody, I don't care, why, I'm asking you, why there was a scandal. It could be, we have a letter from one of our boots on the story.

the ground guys who knows Lauren Bobbert and he wrote a very nice note in you probably have it there. I actually don't think I have it handy. I had to close my email. It's familiar. Okay. Yeah. I can't. I can't. Excuse me. Don't die on me. Tell me the scandal first. I'm getting there. I have, I'll get it. I'll bring it up. But play this clip because this is the story. It seems to me that the fact that they, refused all the media, including Fox, refuses to discuss, which I talked about in the newsletter in detail, the scandal about Massey, which dropped him in May 8th, he was 71% chance, according to the betting polls, 71% chance of winning the election. Within a week, he dropped

like 34, 31 or something really low, or 41. That didn't happen because of Trump. No. Trump has been against this guy for a long time. I don't think, by the way, I don't think I got that email that you're referring to. I don't see it anywhere. Interesting. Oh, yeah, it was, you were on it, but I'll get it. But meanwhile, yes, I'm sorry to interrupt. So tell us what the scandal is.

The scandal is, is that Massey, well, let's play this clip and I'll tell you what the scandal is. Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey is the latest Republican lawmaker to lose his seat for crossing President Trump. The race was another display of the president's hold on Republican voters. This morning, when asked about not endorsing incumbents, Trump said he'd spoken to Senate leadership on the Republican side. Some of them don't know how to win.

I know how to win. I think I've proven that, haven't I? Massey lost his primary to Trump-backed candidate Ed Gowryne by nearly 10 percentage points last night. That was just one race among six states that held elections Tuesday, the busiest primary day of the midterms. Democrats in Georgia and other states continue to see large voter turnout, which could be a good sign for them in November's midterm elections. NPR, Stephen Fowler, stayed up late last night to watch these results and joins us here early this morning. Good

morning, Stephen. Did Massey lose because he went against some of Trump's policies? Yes and no. I mean, Thomas Massey clashed with Trump over the X-Een files. He actually led to the release of the files. He clashed with Trump over the Iran. war and foreign conflicts. He opposed Trump's one big beautiful bill. So Trump did back a challenger, former Navy SEAL officer Ed Galrine. And what's the latest example of Trump taking out anyone who isn't 100% loyal in the last year or so? The last time an incumbent loss was Saturday with Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, but Massey kept it close. I will also note that yesterday Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to oust incumbent Senator John Cornyn ahead of next Tuesday's runoff.

You're already hearing some Republicans there fret if Paxton wins because polls indicate his victory would make the general election race more competitive, especially in what's shaping up to be a wave year for Democrats. Okay. Okay. So what happened was, and it was all over the – and I'm getting the impression. It was all over X. It was all over X. Everyone was talking about it. It was all over – I think it was on TikTok. But I think it was Elgo driven. And so I'm beginning to think that the people who do run NPR, they are getting feeds that are different than feeds that you get,

I get, and people that would be involved with the Massey, people in Kentucky that voted against Massey. And it was a smear campaign that indicated that once Massey's wife died, he had an affair with at least two women. One of them turned on him and said that he was turned into a, a complete horn dog and he was screwing Lauren Bobert immediately thinking she's the hottest thing in Congress.

Can I, can I, can I just give you a little different perspective on that? So his wife was, was she, wasn't she ill? Did she die suddenly? Died suddenly. Yeah, she died suddenly. Hmm. Well, give me this perspective. Well, no, I was going to say that, you know, a guy who it's possible that a lot is

possible. But when you're released from something that you might not have been happy in, that's what you do. Yeah, but that's fine. And Danny, that's not what you do when you're a congressman. What do you mean? And you don't let this kind of dirt come out because it makes you look like a douchebag dog. He's just a man. He's just a man. And these are just voters. And anyways, supposedly had a phone, a special burner phone that he called a boner phone. Oh, show title. A boner phone.

And there was, and so this, because he was calling all these girls. Yeah. And then he got married immediately. She was married within a year. Yeah, that was very pretty girl. That was pretty quick. I agree. That was fast.

And that was not good. Hold on. Hold on. You're steamrolling me. What is the, what is the appropriate time between the death, just asking for a friend? If you're a political. it's at least two years. It's 24 months. Okay.

All right. I think it's reasonable. For some jerk on the street who doesn't care one way or the other, you can get married the next month. Nobody gives a crap about it. But if you're a politician, especially if you're running against Trump trying to get you out, you don't do any of this stuff. You just stay by, you know, you lead a clean life. It's not that hard to lead a clean life. Of course, I'm old so I can say that. but it's it's not that hard and if you're a politician that's what you want to do so this came out and it all again it was and there were some AI videos showing the boner phone and him talking to it

and bobered on there flirting with him uh that kind of thing showed up in certain feeds and not other feeds but it showed up in my feed and i think it showed up in the feed of the voters and this was never discussed by anybody fox did and discuss it. ABC, NBC, CBS, nobody discussed the scandal. And I just played a clip from NPR and they're boneheaded about Trump didn't like him

so that's why he got out. Again, May 8th, he was 71% chance of winning. May 8th, that's not that long ago. And so the rugs pulled out from under him within a one or two week period, that's how it happened. And nobody's discussing it.

I find it ridiculous that the media is so oblivious to this. Well, do you think they're oblivious? Do you think they're oblivious? Or do you think that it's more important for them to say Trump did it? Which he did. This is the question I could ask you. Were they oblivious because they weren't in the algo?

Which I think is possible because they're not very aggressive about some of these people. won't even watch Fox News. Well, yeah, Massey was on, he was going on MS now and CNN. He was, for all intents and purposes, on quote, unquote, their side of the Epstein argument. And I think the Epstein released the Epstein files, all files that, except for the ones that were under investigation. That was his, his law. I think it's the only bill he's ever gotten past. I think it's the only one.

And, you know, his, his courtship with Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Green. I mean, he put himself in the enemy camp. And the way I see it, Trump went, we have to prove, we have to send a message. We have to send a message to. May 8th, 71%, that's what I'm saying. I think he could have beaten it because Rand Paul does it all the time. Rand Paul's in Kentucky, same state. They're contrary in there.

They don't care. I don't think Trump's influence had as much to do with it as the smear. Hmm. Well, that's what I'm thinking. Because of the nature of Kentucky. Everybody was out. And this guy's been reelected over and over. Let me read from Mark's note.

He thinks the whole thing was created. I think it may have been a creation too. The story was easy to manufacture and it killed two birds with one stone. Lauren came out and supporting Mousie. so they decided to take them both down with one shot. It was almost too easy. I know, Lauren. And there are positive and negative things about her.

The one positive thing about her is that she's a fighter and the truth, for truth and common sense. Lauren likes to let her hair down and have fun too, as we saw by the video of her in the theater. In the theater, yes. The guy's grabbing her breasts. but she did not have sexual relations with that man. Yeah, it sounds like a smear to me too, honestly.

No, I think it was, and I think it was well executed. But, you know, it didn't show up in my algo, and that was surprising. No one tagged me in any of the stories, but it did. Here's where it's important. It did come, because Tina told me, did you hear about Lauren Bobart? You know, Tina doesn't watch anything anymore, but she hears it from the ladies of Fredericksburg. So one of the big MAGA ladies heard about it. So it was definitely in the MAGA, in the MAGA, in the MAGA, in the MAGA, in the MAGA, in the MAGA, yeah.

Yeah, I believe there's an ALGO issue here. Anyway, he continues. There's a faction of the Colorado GOP that is following Trump's orders and scrambling to find a candidate to primary her, Lauren. I call them the Davidians, and after Dave Williams, the former Colorado GOP chairman, that screwed up the party beyond where it was already screwed up. This can lose them and the one seat they could hold on to, which is Lauren's seat. If they lose it, you can thank Trump for that. I honestly believe Trump wants Congress to flip for the midterms to show up Johnson and Thune. He could care less about the Republican Party.

He thinks it's his own party in force. Well, that's an interesting twist. I like the theory. Yeah, that's not a bad theory at all. Colorado is going, this is actually pretty interesting now. Colorado is going to complete the Californication of the state, this midterm election. The Democrats Socialists of America have taken over the Democrat Party here and put in their own candidates, including a mental patient that wears a dress for state treasurer.

Colorado, wow. Colorado's office is gone. Way to go. All major state offices will have DSA members and Congress will be a seven to one Democrat with almost all, all with DSA allegiance, which is sickening. The one Republican will be Bobart unless the Colorado GOP does the bidding of the DSA in primaries her. Colorado is a real shit show all across the board. The Democrats have destroyed the state and the idiot voters are doubling down on stupid.

Legalized marijuana did the opposite of how it was supposed to work. They deserve their fate. I'm moving to Tampa Bay. If I can sell my house and going to live in Annapolina Luna's district. She's a smart. She's smart, a fighter and a former stripper, which is everything I want in my Congresswoman. This is a true citizen of no agenda in the nation. Perfect.

Perfect. And it goes on with some other details about stuff going on in Colorado. But I always thought Luna was just a bathing supermodel. I don't know she was a stripper. So there is one other theory from your boy. Here we go. The most expensive race in terms of ad spend in history, they say. Most expensive primary.

It's $32 million in total just in ads. I think 20 million purely from the Israel lobby for Galrine. And we all know why that is. It's because Thomas Massey is the most vocal critic of the Israel lobby in Congress, and specifically in the Republican conference, in the Republican Party in the House. He voted against foreign aid, voted for release of the Epstein files, voted in favor of the war powers resolution against the Iran war, and he called out APEC and their handlers on Tucker Carlson's show.

What's interesting, though, and I said this on my show, is that they're now all trying to make this about Trump. Even if you watch Pete Hegg says speech, he says, well, why is Thomas Massey a problem? He is not with the team. He's not supporting Trump in a time of war. He's not voting with our movement. That's right.

They're deflecting to Trump. And does he have the power to run the party? When in really, it's all about Israel. Exactly. They're hiding behind him. And the press is letting them do that. Because that line is coming from the White House and the Israel lobby.

Oh, yeah. There you go. And this is what you have to understand. It's all about the Israel lobby. All about that. It's not about anything else, but the Israel lobby. And President Trump doubled down on it. I'm right now at 99% in Israel.

I could run for prime minister. So maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel, run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning. I'm 99%. So that's good. But, no, he's a wartime prime minister. I just don't think they treat him well. Mr. President, how are you to?

I think you have a president over there that treats him very poorly. There you go. President Trump, he will be the next prime minister of Israel. It's the shoe in. It's the Jews, man. Get it together. It has nothing to do with Bobert. This is how people think. I don't think they think that way. What? I think they think in terms of sex and scandals.

No. No, I'm talking about our own people. Oh, our people, yeah. Well, that's for sure. Trolls right now are like, Jew money. It was all due money. Here's Hegsef on the case. Primary elections are being held in six states today, including Kentucky, where Republican Congressman Thomas Massey is in a tough fight with Trump-backed challenger Ed Galrine. Massey has been critical of the president's policies and has worked to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

In an extraordinary break with the military's tradition of political neutrality, Defense Secretary P. Hegsteth appeared at a campaign event for Galrein in Kentucky yesterday and attacked Massey. We call the appearance desperate. Need reinforcement from Republicans. And that fight requires a Congress full of warriors, including Ed. This one, ladies and gentlemen, is a no-brainer. It's kind of crazy that you would send the Secretary of War. President Trump would not be doing this if they were confident that they were winning,

and they're worried that I'm going to win. The Pentagon says Heggseth appeared as a private citizen, and not as the Secretary of War. no taxpayer dollars were used to pay for the visit. Yeah. Oh, boy. I doubt it. Yeah, here's MS now.

Yeah, I mean, it's extraordinary, unusual, inappropriate for a defense secretary to be on the campaign trail to begin with. Let's just start there to be out campaigning for a candidate. Is it inappropriate for a defense secretary to do that? Says who? Well, Willie, from MS now. I don't know. Why is it inappropriate? I don't know.

That's why I'm asking you. Well, why doesn't he explain it? No, that's a hatch act. Because nobody's done it before or because somebody had... I doubt that nobody's done it before. It's the hatch act, man. To be out campaigning for a candidate, there are hatch act considerations potentially here. But then to do it in the middle of a war where just hours ago the president was on the brink, he said,

of a new round of strikes against Iran before pulling back again. We'll get into that in just a moment. moment. You have the Secretary of Defense on the campaign trail. And as you say, why are they fighting against Thomas Massey? Because he wants all the information out. He wants the truth out about the Epstein files. And this is how hard they're working to suppress that truth. The president dispatching his Secretary of Defense to campaign against the guy who's trying to get to the bottom of that. Also, Joe, I know this is something you've talked about for years now, which is that Thomas Massey, the argument goes from his opponents

and yesterday from the head of defense, is not conservative, that he's anti-Trump, he's not conservative. Look at the voting record of Thomas Massey. Talk to anybody who's ever spent 10 minutes on Capitol Hill. He is incredibly conservative in all the ways that conservatism used to actually hold up. Now we're talking about Trumpism, which is something very different from conservatism.

but the MAGFOLF, Secretary of Defense, trying to conflate those two things, if you're against Donald Trump, even on the Epstein files, now you're not conservative. No. So I guess we should still believe

that there's Epstein files we haven't seen. The real ones. I guess. The Pito files. It probably is. I'm sure there's something we haven't seen. But even, even Massey's own bill

called for all files, except active investigations. He wasn't really asking for all files. I mean, I want to see frazzled drip as much as anybody else. I don't think the Epstein thing was the key issue here. He's voted against the big, beautiful bill. He voted again. He just would not get on board with a lot of the,

from the Trump perspective, ignoring the real reason that he lost, which was the scandal, as far as I'm concerned. You'd expect it. Yeah. I mean, so they're not, they must. First of, we have to remind ourselves that the, the news media is not here to report on the news.

It is to get us to vote Democrat. That's, that's what they do. Even Fox is questionable. Yes. So, they, they want to make Trump look bad, you know, Hegg Seth, anyone else who is Trump adjacent. That's what they do. That is, so it wasn't. It wasn't in their best interest to launch this scandal or to report on the scandal.

Report it. Yeah, it wasn't in their best interest. No, because then it would detract from their points they're trying to make. So now let's go to our next president, President Tucker, who did an interview with Israel's Channel 13. Did you happen to see this? No, I did not. I didn't even know this happened.

This is fantastic. So just note that Tucker was there. Whenever something happened, Tucker was there. So this was a very adversarial interview, but I found it fascinating. Thank you for having me. You were one of Donald Trump's most consistent and vocal supporters. You called on people to vote for him. What happened?

Yes. What happened was the war with Iran, which I don't believe serves the interests of the United States, I think it's destructive to the United States and to the world, but mostly to the United States. I'm an American. That's what I care about. And that's something he promised he wouldn't do for 10 years. He argued against a war like this. And then for a variety of reasons, not all of which I understand, he embarked on it. And so I can't support that. My views did not change. His did. Do you generally believe Israel would try to harm you because of your opinion? I believe Israel would try to harm me.

Yes. I mean, of course, I don't know. I hope not. I don't want to be harmed. Yeah. But my main interest is not Israel. I'm not just asking you. You were implied to that when you spoke about your coming to Israel.

Let's see that for a second. And I said to them, okay, I want to send you the flight information. And I want you to pass that on to the Israeli military just so, you know, they don't mistake us for an Iranian drone or something. I mean, not to be paranoid. But again, this is probably the most violent country in the world, Israel. So Israel is the most violent state in the world, even more than Iran? Are you serious? No country, and I say this with sadness,

but no country has boasted more about killing its political opponents than Israel, of course, about its assassination programs. The Prime Minister of Israel gave a golden pager to the president of the United States. I was there. I was there. And that golden page represented the pagers that Hezbollah leaders

were killed by. Sure. I mean, so yes, Israel brags about assassinating people. And of course, it does assassinate people. Many countries assassinate people, but Israel makes a public relations campaign out of boasting

about killing its opponents. Dude, have you ever heard someone say Alaw Akbar? I don't talk He doesn't know what he said in the past. Yes, this is the most concerning part.

He doesn't remember anything he said in the past. And he's adamant about it. Oh, I never said that. But he also says, you know, President Trump went to war in Iran, which he promised he wouldn't do, totally true, for reasons I don't understand why, but it's not America first. Well, maybe you should ask him, why. Now, the answer primarily will be because Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.

Okay, I'm pretty skeptical about that. We've been hearing that for 10 years or maybe even longer. I think there were definitely a lot of financial reasons. And I mean, look at this. These guys, they control an area that apparently can put the whole world in peril just by them supposedly cutting it off or doing whatever. So it seems like that is a problem that just no one ever wanted to address. But let's go on because Trump obviously did not do this for America.

He did it for Israel. We all know this. You know, you accuse Netanyahu of dragging Trump into an unnecessary war with Iran. So let's think about what it actually mean. Do you really think that a foreign leader can pull the president of the United States into a war he didn't want and what does it tell us about Trump? Is he really that weak? Well, I don't think that that can happen.

I saw it happen. I was there. I was there. He was there. He was there. He was there. But he seems to be like in Israel or somebody else's podcast.

He's doing it. But somehow he's always there. He was there when Bibi Netanyahu forced Donald Trump to go to war with Iran. He was there. The United States into a war, want and what does it tell us about Trump? Is he really that week? Well, I don't think that that could happen. I saw it happen. I was there. And so that happened.

So the question is why. He says this a lot I've noticed. I was there. I was there. I think he means he saw something on TV or he read the New York Times article without pictures or they said that something happened in the war room. But he was there. And I just want to be clear. I don't primarily blame the Israeli Prime Minister who I think is wrong I think he's gravely hurt Israel I think he's leading Israel toward destruction I think he's a very bad leader and a very unwise

leader however I also believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu is acting in what he thinks is his nation's best interest so I give him credit for that and always have I don't blame him primarily I blame Donald Trump for folding under the pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu

and his many allies in the United States donors to Donald Trump, people in the media class here, were effectively working on behalf of the Israeli government, and Donald Trump, whose decision it was, caved under that pressure. But on February 28, the United States followed

Israel into this war. And the Secretary of State of the United States said, we had no choice. They chose the time. He didn't say we had no choice. Israeli Prime Minister decided when this started. Well, that's the definition of control. He had control of this war. And so,

Hold on a second. What is the definition of control? Let me just hear that again. Half of the Israeli government and Donald Trump, whose decision it was, caved under that pressure. But on February 28th, the United States followed Israel into this war. And the Secretary of State of the United States said, we had no choice. They chose the time. The Israeli Prime Minister decided when this started. Well, that's the definition of control.

He had control of this war. That's an interesting way of looking at it. Even if you took Lubio's... statement at face value, it wasn't control. He said, because I know, because we played the clip ad nauseum and pulled it apart, he said, Israel was going to strike, and that would mean that we would have strikes, so we had to go. But I don't think that's the definition of control. Is it? Of course not. Okay. And so my question- This is Tucker's simplification of things. Well, that's what he does. Well, that's the definition of control. He had control of this war.

And so my question is, why did Donald Trump allow a nation of 9 million people to pull the United States, a nation of 350 million people? Wait, the logical inconsistency. First, he defines control to mean something he wants it to mean so he can then make the assertion that how does a nation of 9 million people control. I mean, it's a trick. He uses trickery to make his point. Yes, literary trickery. Yeah, it's a trick. And it's like, okay, well, if you didn't push back on the earlier assertion,

now he's got you. This is like how a pathological liar works, where they get you to agree to one thing that they know that now you're cooked because you've already agreed to the other thing. So everything that logically stems from. that must be true. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Tucker's very good at that.

But now he adds another 50 million people to our country, which I thought was interesting. When this started, well, that's the definition of control. He had control of this war. And so my question is, why did Donald Trump allow a nation of 9 million people to pull the United States, a nation of 350 million people into a war that will change it? Are we at 350 now? Yeah, we've always been. at 350 for a while. No, we were at 250 for a while. And then we were 300. No, no, you're listening to an

old show. It's future. And that is bad for the United States. And I can't answer that question. You can't answer. I don't have an answer. Uh-huh. You want to hear more? You got a couple more. I don't have an answer. That's good. You want to hear some more? Yeah, sure. Okay. To imply that Donald Trump is so weak that a foreign leader can drag him into a war he doesn't want. Well, I'm not, first of all, I never. But you hesitated that maybe. Now he's going to kind of walk it back. Well, I never said that. He just said it.

You're implying that Donald Trump is so weak that a foreign leader can drag him into a war he doesn't want. Well, I'm not. First of all, I never. But you hesitated that may be afraid to say clearly that Donald Trump is weak. Let me say two things. For one, of course, I'm not afraid or I wouldn't be doing this interview or talking about this at all. But maybe you're wrong by not seeing what is. very blunt truth, that if the United States would cave in to Iran terror regime that controls

now also the Hormoz pathway, and the terror ring that it created in the Middle East, maybe it would be even worse for any citizens in the world, not only in Israel, but also in the United States. And this is exactly what Donald Trump said. He said that the United States, would have been in danger. So you don't believe Donald Trump? I don't believe Donald Trump. And I also think as an Israeli, you should pause before using the phrase terror regime

since you live in a country that just murdered thousands of children in Gaza. We should all pull back a little bit on the rhetoric. Yes. Well, that's the rhetoric. We should all pull back on the rhetoric after I just threw out some rhetoric. Two more clips. But the behavior of the Israeli government in Gaza is disgusting.

in a moral. And of course, Israel's not a democracy in any sense. There are millions of people who live under Israeli control who cannot vote, right? And so if the West Bank, Judea and Samaria and Gaza, whatever we're calling these places, Judea and Sumeria, what? Which Israel has controlled since 1967, have people living in them who have no control over the government that controls their lives, which is true. It's not a democracy. So let's just drop the talking points. I agree with you on self-defense. I don't think killing children is self-defense. It never will be. And no amount of recounting

the legitimate atrocities of October 7th will ever get me to accept this behavior from the Israeli government, from the U.S. government, from the Iranian government, or any government. It's always wrong. And Israel doesn't like to acknowledge existence of universal principles that apply to everyone equally.

That's why their principles, not preferences. And Israel, again, which I've always liked as a country, is a lot of civilized, decent people living there to this day. has to acknowledge that principles are universal. They apply to everyone, even you, even me. My government, your government, every government. But you won't acknowledge that.

It's always like, oh, Iran's bad. Yeah, Iran's bad. But your behavior is bad too. Okay, I can't counter that. I mean, lots of behavior is bad. I mean, there's stuff going on in Nigeria. There's stuff going on everywhere. But, you know, Israel seems to be the focus.

And then we get the final question, which you've all been waiting for. I don't think the United States should give Israel anything. I think we should stop all aid to Israel, all special deals for Israel. Tomorrow. Mr. Carson, are you running for office? Do you consider running for office? I am not running for office.

I have no plans to run for office. I am starting to believe that the Republican Party does not serve the United States, and I certainly believe the Democratic Party does not serve the United States. And so I hope we have an option. I would like a democracy in the United States. It's like I'd like one in Israel. So I'm moving to Qatar. democracy, the United States apparently is not a democracy either.

Our government keeps doing things that people don't want. So that's not democracy. It's the opposite of democracy. And I want democracy very, very much. I want democracy. Democracy? It's a republic, you dumb shit. He knows that.

But he wants democracy as you yelled in the background in Qatar. In Qatar. Yes, that's where you want to buy a house because you feel safe there. In the democracy of Qatar. With a king. With a king. with the king. It's just interesting.

It's interesting. He's doing this. I think he is running. I think he does have a plan. I really do. What do you mean? I think he really has thoughts. And people are talking to him.

We know people are talking to him. Your boy, Kiriaku is talking to him. Boy, I call him. Yeah, Tucker, you got to run. You can win this thing. You can win this thing. I am sure he's thinking about it. Why else you do these interviews?

Do your podcast. Do your podcast. Who cares? Channel 13 in Israel. It was a fluke that I got it. Yeah, it's a fluke. Yeah. So, anyway, I just thought that was fun.

Let's get the main story that was pushed on the ABC News out of the way because they have a three-by-three about the mosque. And now it's time for three-by-three. Experiment by J-C-D. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and Ambiby. see. That's right, the top stories from the three big ones.

John's got them lined up. Let's see if they are exactly the same, or if something is a little different in one of them. Here we go. ABC. Tonight authorities have revealed the two shooters were wearing body armor and camouflage, armed with shotguns, rifles, and handguns.

When they stormed the Islamic Center of San Diego, shooting and killing three people, including a hero security guard. And they live streamed the attack, what appear to be helmet cameras. The shooters made it inside the front entrance of a building just feet away from school children. Police said the suspects went room by room and found no one.

They headed back outside to the parking lot. Police believe the suspects heard the sound of rapidly approaching sirens and fled the scene. This new video from blocks away shows the suspects then opening fire at a landscaper who wasn't injured. Bull shooters then later found dead of self-influenced. conflicted gunshot wounds. Tonight, sources say the suspects are 17-year-old Kane Clark, a high school wrestler, and 18-year-old Caleb Vasquez. The FBI says they met

and were radicalized online and shared a broad hatred of different races and religions. The live stream appears to show them wearing neo-Nazi symbols. I can't confirm. There has been a manifesto that's been recovered. They didn't discriminate on who they hated. Police say the 17-year-old suspect's mother had called police two hours before the shooting, fearing he was suicidal. saying her weapons and vehicle were missing, setting off a manhunt before the attack. And David, we have just learned from sources that a person previously reported the 18-year-old suspect in this case, and police made contact with him. They were reported that he was interested in extremism and mass casualty attacks.

David, so many grateful to that hero security guard tonight. Trevor, thank you. You know, you wake up and you're interested in mass casualty events. Okay. They met online and got radicalized. How? Oh, very easy. By the constant videos everywhere telling you that Islam is taking over America, throw in some SSRIs, which you'll never hear about,

and you've got yourself a powder cake. This doesn't surprise me at all. And this, they didn't care about who they hated. Bullshit. Just go online. Look at this, look at this, Look at this, look at this guy. Oh, look at this. Oh, they're taking over 200 mosques in Texas. They're going to get a Sharia law.

Yeah. NBC. NBC. You can hew the gunshots, a person scrambling to push a stroller to safety as a suspect opens fire in a San Diego neighborhood. And here, glass breaking as more shots come from that very vehicle. Police say just minutes before that shooting, two gunmen unleashed a deadly rampage at a mosque, sending school kids running for their lives. Two senior law enforcement officials telling NBC News the gunmen have been identified as 18-year-old Caleb Vasquez and 17-year-old Kane Clark.

And three senior law enforcement officials tell NBC News they're trying to authenticate a document purportedly written by the suspects full of anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic views, also describing themselves as anti-Trump. Outside the car where police say they killed themselves, a bottle with a Nazi SS symbol. They didn't discriminate on who they hated. And at 9.40 a.m. Monday, two hours before the killing spree,

police say Clark's mother called police to report her suicidal son had run away, taking his parents' weapons and car. Police started a search, including at a mall and school, when two hours later, the first reports of gunfire at the mosque. And then that second shooting scene. Just blocks away branches still on the ground after police say the gunman opened fire on a landscaper. One bullet, grazing off his helmet, another embedded right here in this very home. As this investigation is still ongoing, Morgan, I know you have some new reporting in on these suspects.

Yeah, Tom, we do. And in addition to recovering those 30 firearms and crossbows, authorities say that they believe these two teenagers met online where they were later radicalized. And upon realizing that both lived here in San Diego, that's when they started meeting in person. And right now, they're doing a deep dive into their electronic devices. dive. I wonder if there was discord involved. And yeah, well, none of this should be surprising. They hate Trump, okay? They probably, did they watch Tucker? Do they watch Fuentes? The Jews are killing America. The Muslims are killing America.

This is what online narrative is. It's in our own troll room. I'm not surprised by this. They were probably radicalized by some trolls here. It doesn't surprise me at all. It's extremely sad. I think, well, I'll wait until we play CBS. Did they do something different? CBS or CIA outlet, I don't,

the only thing that I find interesting was that both reports said they didn't discriminate against who they hated. Yeah. Let's see if CBS does that. There's a reason for this. I don't know what it is yet, but we're going to find out. We've seized over 30 guns. guns and a crossbow.

San Diego police say the two teens who carried out the mosque shooting and apparently live-streamed their rampage were likely motivated by hate. We also identified writings and various ideologies outlining religious and racial beliefs of how the world they envisioned should look. The two teenagers, 17-year-old Kane Clark and Caleb Vasquez 18, met online and connected over their hate-filled beliefs. They approached the mosque just before noon on Monday and started shooting. The gunmen came within 15 feet of one.

140 children inside. Two mosque members, Nadira Wad and Mansour Kazia, engaged the shooters moving them outside. Earlier, Amin Abdullah, a security guard and father of eight, enacted lockdown protocols and took on the gunmen. I felt a bit scared. My legs were shaking in my hands. And my head was like hurting me a lot.

A landscaper working nearby was shot at. A bullet deflected off of his helmet, likely saving his life. Amam Taha Hussain says their community is shaken, but... I know that my community is resilient. We're just trying our best to show the best of who we are, to stand in solidarity with one another, especially with the families of the three victims. Police believe the shooters died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds,

and tonight there is growing concern over hate directed at religious groups, and faith institutions are asking for additional police presence. Yeah. Well, Christians are on deck next. That'll be next. This has already happened a couple of times. Are you kidding me? Yeah. No, I know. I know. These school shootings with the trans shooters. This guy, these guys weren't trans that we know of. And I'd like to know, ask a question. What brings somebody to kill? They're ideologues. They're going on and they bitching a moan about one thing or another and they're going to kill a bunch of Muslims. They want to do this. They want to do that. Then they shoot themselves. Wouldn't they rather be like living martyr? so they could go into the prisons and get people on their side of things or try to proselytize or do something other than shoot themselves. This whole thing stinks. Well, that's the SSRIs talking in combo with some discord.

There's got to be. Clearly. But, you know, I'm looking for this video. Let me see. It was, I'll look for it in a moment. This is an example of why people get all spun up and angry. But first, CBS was the only one who had a little bit of the audio of the kid, the nine-year-old. CNN, they, oh, they went to the mat.

Let's get this nine-year-old kid on camera. Let's do it. This would be great. It's great television. I felt a bit scared. My legs were shaking in my hands. And my head was, like, hurting me a lot. I felt like a rock.

The teachers and the kids. kids were like shaking, sad and stuff. And when the guy kicked the door, all of them were crying. I heard, like, a bunch of bad stuff, like gunshots. And plus, I went inside the closet with my whole class. We heard, like, 12 or, like, 16 gunshots. And then the Swat's team said, FPA open up, and they opened the door.

And they went inside, they told us to put our hands up and form a big line. we were like walking inside the mosalla all of us we we saw the like the chicks apartment inside the mosque and like it was broken down we went down and then we saw a bunch of bad stuff people laying down and yeah bad stuff oh man child abuse yeah i agree i was going to say the same thing that's child abuse so this is a poor kid this is a guy at a uh city hall meeting in friscoe texas and he's got for some reason he has body armor on like military you know plate in the front plate in the back and this is the kind of stuff that gets people really spun up and i can see that this this gets kids you know into this radicalized state

friscoistan what are you guys doing here inviting the enemy to eat at the table with you and they steal all your food your children will grow up without a place to be be in because every single one of their jobs, and you saw the children that were brought up on this stage. Not one of them is a heritage American. Not one of them was a Texan. Your replacement is here Americans, and it is coming faster and faster. The Hindus and the Muslims are teaming up to take over Texas. This is not Muslims versus Hindus here. They are here to eradicate the Christians. They are here to drive us out of our homelands. You have to understand. These people do not want to assimilate. people have not come here to become Americans. They have come here to drag their third world culture

over to our country. If Jainism, if Hinduism is so great, why are their country's shitholes? They are bringing this ideology here to turn the third world is not a place. It is a people. It is an ideology. It is a way of life. It is a culture. And when they bring their people, their way of life, their ideology and their culture over to America, do you think it's going to remain American? Have you ever looked across the plains of Texas and said hmm, I need five million Jets here right now to shit in the street?

No one never has ever looked across and said the football fields, the games, all of the amazing cowboy. I have the First Amendment right and I can curse if I want to. I can talk if I want to. No one has ever looked across the plains of Texas in the football games and all the amazing cowboy culture and the raw American spirit here

and said let's replace this with Muslim Let's replace this with Hindus. Texas should remain for Texas. This guy has spun up. But this is the feeling, John, that is being created online. I think the reality in some places, yeah. You've got enclave. Just like, is this anything different than Chinatown, then Little Italy,

than Jew town, Hasidic Jew? Is it any different? Has it ever been any different? You're muted. Gettos. Gettos. But has it ever been any different? There's always been ghettos.

Yeah. I think if they're talking about people crapping in the street, it's not the Hindus. It's the homeless in San Francisco. They're not Hindus. Don't look at those. Those are Americans, damn it. So, but this is what people watch. And like, yeah, yeah.

There's no heritage Americans. That's what that means. White. That's a new term. Oh, that's cute. So, you know, and I push back here all the time. I say, you're out of your mind. There are 25,000 churches in Texas.

And 253 mosques over the last 20 years, not the last two years, like you see online, I'm like, okay, all right, well, change the Constitution, change the Bill of Rights. only Christians. But this is the, it's flowing over from what happened in Europe, which is a very different situation. And it's not Muslims.

It's Islamists. It's a big difference. He's right about that. It's a political ideology. And if you see some dudes talking about, we're going to take over America, they should get a knock on the door. Hey, what's your problem, son?

Let's make sure you don't have anything strange going on here. Yeah, they should get a knock on there. We don't do that enough. I agree. But, you know, we wait to somebody does something, then we arrest them. When you should just, you know, preventative, crime prevention is very easily done by just a, you know, hey, stop doing that. Stop it. Yeah, stop that for a moment, will you?

Stop it. Exactly. Well, I don't have enough of that. We've already, we agree on that. So, you know, so then you get this. Well, that doesn't surprise me. I have the MSNBC report, just to wrap this up. You know, Rob, I want to piggyback off of Amon's idea about the piece of this community,

being this mosque, its longevity in this community. I want you to listen real quick to the Imam, Taha Hassan, and what he had to say about this moment. It is extremely outrageous to target a place of worship. Our Islamic Center is a place of worship. People come to the Islamic Center to pray, to celebrate, to learn. Not only Muslims, but we have people from all walks of life just this morning earlier. A group of people, non-Muslims coming just to learn.

about our faith and our cultures. So this is something that we have never expected. Amen noted that, you know, they've been there since the late 1980s. So the depth and the roots of this community in this center of faith and learning clearly is not enough. You know, those roots are no longer enough in this. Michael Steele. In this new space where...

God, I didn't realize he stammered so much. Well, he's trying to, you know, he's in his sincere mode. This guy's a stooge. Yes, he is a stooge. He is. He is. Anyway. Well, let's go to another story that I think is...

To me, it's weird. I don't understand it completely. I don't know how we can do it, but we've done it. which is Castro indictment. Yeah, this is good. Which one do you want to play first? Well, I start with the NPR, which I think is the overview. You mean the NTD?

Did I? Yeah, NTD. Okay. Tonight, the Justice Department's indictment of former Cuban dictator Raul Castro today marks a significant move in the Trump administration's escalating pressure against Cuba. And Diz Arlene Richards has the story. Federal authorities in Miami on Wednesday announcing charges against Raul Kastro, tied to the 1996 shootdown of civilian planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue,

an incident that killed four people. Castro served for decades as one of the most powerful figures in Cuba's communist regime. He was Cuba's defense minister at the time of the attack and later became the country's president, succeeding his brother, Fidel Castro. Today, we are announcing an indictment charging Raul Castro and several others with conspiracy to kill U.S. Mr. Castro and the others are charged with additional crimes as well, including destruction of aircraft and four individual counts of murder. Castro faces a maximum term of life imprisonment on the conspiracy and murder charges and up to five years on each of the destruction of aircraft charges. Prosecutors accused Castro of involvement in the order to shoot those planes down.

Raul Castro ordered those fighter jets to shoot down unarmed civilian aircraft. It was not an accident. It was intentional, premeditated, state-sanctioned murder. And their criminal conspiracy violated Florida's sovereignty. The announcement comes alongside a commemoration service for those who lost their lives. Federal authorities say that the charges are a step toward accountability. For nearly 70 years, the communist Cuban regime has acted with impunity in its systematic repression of its people. And for the last 30 years, this regime's senior leadership has gone unchallenged for its murder of four Americans.

While it remains unclear whether there are plans to bring Castro into U.S. custody, the indictment represents one of the strongest legal actions yet taken against Cuba's former leadership. To me, it seemed very obvious what this was. Solidify Florida for the midterms. We've got to have Florida. Got to make sure we nail that down. But I don't think Florida is in play. Well, it isn't now, that's for sure.

Well, the other thing, I have mixed feelings about this. One, they claim that the Cuban sent some fighters to shoot down these planes in Florida airspace. If that was true, why weren't those fighters brought down by missiles? No, I don't think the story is important, I think. It's all... Well, I'm just saying. I'm asking these questions. I don't know.

And Cuba says, no, no, no. We did this over our land. And we, this is a... You know, these planes were in our airspace and we shot them down. The other thing is this went on for 30 years. Yeah. It's 30 years ago this happened. Yeah.

This is just posturing. They're just getting ready. Getting ready to take over the place. Well, let's listen to the analysis because I have a... I have a theory about this. Okay. Let's go to analysis one. Next, officials in Florida today reacting to the federal indictment of former Cuba dictator Raul Castro,

saying it will be life-changing for people living in Cuba as well as the U.S. And he's David Lamb has more on that. Officials in Florida sharing their thoughts on the latest developments regarding Cuba after the federal indictment of Raul Castro, the former head of Cuba's communist regime. Alexander Dioz Rodriguez is, I think, 45 years old. Look how old he looks in this. You know why? He was starved.

He was tortured. He has cancer that didn't give him treatment. That's the face of the Cuban regime. The indictment describes how Fidel Castro, his brother Raul Castro, and others established a ruthless communist dictatorship in Cuba after seizing power in 1959. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing the Cuban people directly. States United we're ready

to to bring a new chapter in the relationship between our

people and our and our countries and actually the

only that's interpon the way to the future are

who are their country Congressman Carlos Jimenez a Cuban

American says he looks forward to a free Cuba very

happy for today I am I was born in Cuba

returned to Guantamo about a year ago, and I made a promise that I would never return to Cuba again unless it was free. I believe I'm going to be able to keep that promise, and I'm going to see a free Cuba in the not too distant future. Castro's indictment stems from his alleged involvement in Cuba's shooting down of two planes belonging to a humanitarian group in 1996, in which three American citizens and a U.S. residents were

killed. And people were swimming across the Florida Strait, and the brothers to the rescue were going out on their own to help people get to our shores to escape tyranny. And they gave the order, Raul Castro, to shoot them down, to shoot them out of the sky. Well, today there will be justice. What's the difference between now and then is that we have President Trump in the White House. That is the big difference. Ah, here's the thought.

Two things happen this week. Can you be vice president for a different president twice? So could J.D. Vance could be Lubeo? vice president? There's absolutely no reason you can't do that. Oh, perfect. This is it. Lubio for president. And he'll have a huge, huge base behind him. And J.D. Vance, you know, we just saw he's great at the press conferences. So he'll be vice president slash press secretary. Forever. Forever. Forever. Yeah. This is positioning. Look at the difference.

Lou B.O gets to say what he just did. And Vance gets to run the press. It's a winning team, man. Let's go. Now we have a CIA guy they brought in, which brings me to my thoughts, which I'll, after this second clip of the analysis. And joining us to discuss the implications of these charges against former dictator and defense minister, Raul Castro, is Michael Waller. He's a former CIA operative and senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy. Michael, today, for you must be surreal.

You've spent your career in defense, national security, and foreign policy development, with a specialty on Latin America, what is the significance of this May 20th Cuban Independence Day with accountability on the horizon for a Castro? It's a great day. Oh, Castro killed a lot of my friends. He had him gun down across Central America and elsewhere. So this is a really exciting time to see this man finally brought in for justice in shackles.

Your response gives me chills. Would you expect Castro to turn himself in, or perhaps a Maduro-style operation? or is he just too old to even be able to make that trip back to the U.S. in his mid-90s at this point? Well, I think he'd rather die than surrender. That's part of his nature. So he'll have to just make a choice or we'll make it for him. Just noted today, the U.S. Southern Command announced that the aircraft carrier Nimitz Strike Group has just entered the Caribbean. And if you look at the video that they posted on X, there's a map of Cuba in the very last half second. Okay. Yes. Well, this is not unexpected.

So I think this is Trump finally getting around to completing the Bay of Pigs operation that Kennedy chickened out on. Yeah. It's like, okay, the CIA wanted to take this guy out right away. They couldn't. While the getting was good. And then Kennedy didn't have the wherewithal. He didn't have the, he just didn't like it. And he was also part of it. No, man. No, man. Israel told him not to. Yeah, it was part of that era where people were kind of soft on communism.

And this, you know, Castro presented himself kind of not as a full-blown communist. And so Kennedy couldn't pull the trigger. And so they let the, you know, the thing fail, the Bay of Pigs event fail, which it did. And it's got to be a, it's been a craw, a thorn in the CIA's paw ever since. Trump is fixing it. And he's the only thing that could be going on that. CIA guy was all jacked up. He talking about it.

And he also mentions he thinks Raul Castro is still running the country. Despite the fact that he's retired and there's some other tidbits, I could have gotten three or four more clips. It was going to get too boring, but I didn't do it. But the, I think that's what's going on. And Trump's going to end up, you know, besides being in the quagmire, it looks like in Iran, he's going to fix the, Cuba situation for good.

Well, if this is true, and I like the thesis, what other blunders could Trump go and fix from the past? Can we finally get the Viet Cong? Viet Cong. Wow. There's got to be something, something else he can do. It's one of these blunders. We've done a lot of blunders. Well,

he did Panama. We got Panama fixed. I guess. I don't hear anything else about Panama. he's fixing the Hormus Straits. No problem. And I think he will fix it. And I think he will fix it before July 4th. One way or the other.

He's got the Cuba thing. He's come in. He's the mechanic that fixes all the screw-ups. Here's some CBC analysis. Trump declined to say whether the U.S. military would conduct an operation to seize Castro similar to what American forces did in Venezuela. When President Nicholas Maduro was captured and flown to New York to face drug-related charges, the move facilitated a leadership change in Caracas viewed as more favorable to Washington and U.S. oil interests.

Castro will appear in court one way or another, says Todd Blanche. This isn't a show indictment. We expect that he will show up here by his own will or by another way. Cuba's president Miguel Diaz-Canel is condemning the indictment. In a post on social media, he says the case against Castro has been fabricated to justify military aggression against Cuba. The Cuban leadership is certainly not going to just turn him over. Peter Cornblugh is a senior Cuba analyst with a research group in Washington,

and he predicts tensions are about to rise. I think we're living in a very grim moment in which the dark cloud of, possible U.S. acts of war against Cuba are coming. Donald Trump has said many times he built up the military in his first term and now he's going to use it in his second term. If the U.S. does decide to take action, it won't likely happen quickly since so many resources are already deployed to the Middle East for the U.S. war in Iran. That's not even true. Didn't the Abraham Lincoln just come back into port? No, it was the Nimitz. No, no. That was the Ford. The Ford, yeah, Ford came by. It was also big.

Ford's not small. Yeah, well, that was deployed forever. That's the one I think they had the bad toilets or something. For 11 months. They had the park in Greece to have them fixed because nobody in Europe would take the ship. We're not going to fix that. We're really pissed everybody. Italy would. No, no, no. Get that thing out of here.

So here is... Especially with the bad toilets. We don't need that aggravation. Here's the right... We already have enough toilet issues in Venice. Here is the ramp up opportunity. As President Trump publicly weighs taking military action in Cuba, the country President Miguel Diaz Canal is warning that doing so would create a, quote, bloodbath.

In an exclusive, Axios reports that Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and is discussing using them to potentially attack the Guantanamo Bay, U.S. detention center, and possibly even parts of the U.S. mainland. White House correspondent for Axios, Mark Caputo joins me now to discuss his new reporting and walk us through what you've learned, Mark. sort of set it up pretty well is after the toppling of Maduro in Venezuela, Venezuela and intelligence began telling the United States that around mid-20203, Cuba had begun acquiring drones and had as many as 300, which surprised the United States. And recently, according to the intelligence officials we spoke to, there were intercepts of chatter, of discussions in Cuban

military circles, of not only buying more drones from Russia, but also discussing possibly attacking these targets. Now, we are told that there's no imminent threat from Cuba, that Cuba was talking about launching these attacks in case hostilities erupted, military hostilities. Yeah, Shahid drones is what I'm thinking. So that's the next thing. Oh, they got drones.

They got the drones. And they can hit Guantanamo. They can hit Miami Beach. Well, that's only 90 miles. That's what I'm saying. It's a ramp up. This is a ramp up. Yeah.

Well, that's just maybe they're being set up so they can send a drone or it could be a false flag, a fake drone. Now we've got the notion that they got the drones. Some drone hits Miami Beach. It could be one of our drones that's a complete false flag. And then we attack Cuba and grab Castro and change the government. And then, well, maybe could Marco, could he be the president of Cuba? Could we give him a gimmie? I like that idea.

I bet he would like it too. Think of the vacation destination. I'm so bored of all the islands. The CIA guy said that he claims, I can't verify this. I've discussed it with some people, though, to be honest about it, that Rubio can speak fluent, perfect Spanish,

but he spoke in that speech, he spoke with his Cuban accent. So he has a Cuban Spanish, which according to at least one friend of mine who speaks fluent Colombian Spanish, Cuban Spanish is like gutter Spanish is like, nice. You know, you know,

you have a funny action in the United States and talk funny. Are you making fun of Texas? No, Texas talks like this. That's different. Speaking of Texas, something interesting happened in Houston, which I believe is at the very same hospital,

our Vax guy is. What's his name again? The more of the glasses. No, yeah, HOTEP. HOTEP, exactly. It's his hospital and this is what's happened. A controversial settlement over transgender care for minors reached today between Texas Children's Hospital. Hey, man, you are really banging your mic a lot. I'm moving things around. And I'm hitting the mic by exit.

Do you hear the, I can explain the setup. There's this wire. that I keep bumping into it and it makes it makes a noise when it when I hit it get some gaffer tape man lock that down this is a professional podcast I need gaffirs tape I don't have any here here we go I'll start over a controversial settlement over transgender care for minors reached today between Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and attorney general Ken Paxton after years of back and forth and the involvement of the U.S. Department of Justice Texas Children's is agreeing to pay $10 million to the state

revoked the privileges of several doctors and create what Paxton calls the nation's first detransition clinic. This all stems from a 2023 state investigation into allegations that the hospital improperly billed Texas Medicaid for some of the care. In a statement, Paxton says in part, quote, this settlement will ensure that the deranged child mutilators who hurt our kids are fired and held accountable, adding that the detransition clinic will help provide free care

to those who have been victimized by twisted, bankrupt transgender ideology. We may have a lot of Muslims, but we're stopping this nonsense. Can I ask you a question? Yep. Okay, so Trump is ousting Cornyn, who is always voted with Trump on all issues, including the big, beautiful bill and everything else, and Cornyn's been a staunch Republican.

And they're running Ken Paxton, who I understand is somewhat controversial within this boundaries of Texas itself, for some reason. I think that goes back. We talked about this guy before. What's going on? Why is Ken Paxton being run against Cornyn? I think because he won't put in anti-AI laws. But he's very much, I think he may even be in the Trump.

faith office. What? I think he's in the office of faith. He's one of the people there. Office of what? The faith office. There's a faith office. Oh, a faith office.

Yes, faith office. So why is he ousting? Yeah, Cornyn is a shoe and why would you do this? Is this because of the faith office? I don't think so. No, but he is in the white. My point is he's in the White House all the time. He's saying, look, make me attorney general.

I will make sure there's- Attorney General, they're making him senator. Oh, he already is the attorney general. Sorry. Yeah, hello. Hello. I'm asking the wrong guy, apparently. Come on.

You have to have the answer to this question. You're the Texan. All I know is that everybody I know voted for Cornyn. They did not vote for Paxton. So that's my Texas beat. Why Trump is doing that is as much a mystery to me as it is to you. I'm trying to come up with some theories and you're just berating me and you need to stop. Well, I'm not berating you.

Yeah, I am. You are. But I'll stop berating you once you come up with a theory that's understandable because I sure don't get it. And nobody else says, here's what the litany is. The litany is that Trump is that Paxon, is the result of the mega base demanding that Paxton be put in and Cornyn be kicked out. It's got nothing to do with Trump at all. It's the mega base. But why? I don't know. You have a theory as good as any. Is the mega base that's stupid?

No, the Maga base, which lives in Fredericksburg, is voted for Cornyn. Well, there you go. So now that even that theory doesn't make any sense then. No. So I don't know why. I'm trying to tell you that he's in the president's face all day long because he's in the face office and he's running around there doing all kinds of stuff. So, okay, so let me think of possibly this being it. Because I've worked in organizations where you are like as a writer, for example, you're not in the office, but there's some connivor in the office trying to get your job. there you go. That's as good as anything I can come up with. And they end up getting your job because you're not in the office to defend yourself. Yeah. But again... Oh, that's terrible.

But yeah. And I am not a... That's bad management on Trump's part. I'm not a Paxton fan. Someone's in his ear about Paxton. Nobody likes Paxton. That's the reason I think I'm asking this. He seems to be disliked by the Texans. Yes. Yeah. Man, there's a, there's a, there's a, I can't tell this story on the air.

But there's a, he, Pax, Paxton came to our church a couple weeks ago. Mm-hmm. And I can't tell you, but I just can't tell you on the air. Okay. But, but I will tell you off the air, but there's, I have reasons. We have secrets people. I do. I have reasons to not like this guy because he swore me.

and and I think you don't even need to meet him to know that. He swarmy. Swarmie or smarmy? Yeah, both. Shmarmie, shwarmie, I think is some sort of soup. Icky.

Yeah, creepy. Creepy. There you go. creepy. Creepy. But he has a lot of political power. So,

and I don't know why, but, um, Sorry, I've been sworn to secrecy on this one. Okay, there's no problem. That happens. Let me switch topics for a second because this is an interesting story. It comes across as a problem, and I think it is.

This is the Trump blind trust, so-called blind trust. Yeah, this is great. Here's MS now. Okay, I think you're going to want to take a deep breath before this one because we got President Trump's financial transactions. What? I'm taking a deep breath. It's MS now.

This is how they talk. From the beginning of- They're doing podcasts on television. This year, and it is stunning. His filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show that he has done more than 3,700 stock trades. Many of those trades with companies that this administration is doing business with. And if you're wondering, I don't know, I don't trade.

stocks. Is that a lot? It's a lot. Steve Ratner, who you know from Morning Joe, he's a professional investor, said in his decades and decades of investing, he doesn't think he's done that many trades in total. And some of the major ones were trades in the tech sector. I'm talking Microsoft, Amazon, meta, invidia, just to name of few. Why is that so notable? Because I know you know this. The president has been spending an enormous amount of time with these companies, with these CEOs last week alone when he went to China. Who was there? Tim Apple CEO, Jensen Wang, NVIDIA's CEO, and the timing

of these trades is raising some major red flags. Oh, yeah. So here's Rachel Maddow's version of it, and then I will give you my best deconstruction. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia

to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer. Then in March, he buys up a whole bunch of stock in a company called Thermo Fisher, repeated purchases of Thermo Fisher. Judd Leggham at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up

Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit. And on this presidential visit to Thermo Fisher, he praises the company repeatedly as an incredible company. He says, as president, that he wants other pharmaceutical companies to start

working with Thermo Fisher. He buys their stock, and then he goes out and boosts the company as president. Judd Legum also notes that that same day. March 11th, same day as the Thermo Fisher visit, that same day Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim Cook for praise. Apple, a great company. Then after that, Trump buys between $50 and $100,000 of micron stock. Okay? Between $50 and $100,000

in micron stock. The very next day, he calls in to the Fox News channel and tells them, Micron, it's one of the hottest companies. Then it's Palantir, CNBC reporting. Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on true social and praises Palantir, Palantir technologies, great capabilities and equipment. He literally even posted the stock ticker abbreviation for Palantir right after he bought

hundreds of thousands of dollars of their. their stock and got online to boost it, giving people the stock ticker abbreviation to make it easier for them to go buy some Palantir to boost the value of the stock he just bought before he said this online. Okay. So Rachel, of course, gives us no analysis. By the way, he's buying the stock high. Well, here's here's my, here's my observations. First of all, I think it was Eric Trump who said, it's in a blind. trust and it's not. It's a revocable trust and the two Trump brothers are completely in charge of it. So they can buy and sell. It's not blind. They can do whatever they want. Now, you'd have to think

they'll be really, really, really, really stupid to be taking insider information. And I agree, if you look at the trades, it's not like he's buying them at the bottom and then hyping them up. But the key is 3,700 trades. That's HFT. That's HFT. They've got an algo running. It's high frequency trading. They're not, they're not in charge of anything. They're running an algo for this stuff. 3,700 trade. Ask Horowitz. I'm sure he'll tell you that has to be high frequency trading. So they're just letting some algo run based upon, I don't know, Twitter. That's what you do when you have that kind of money. Yes, exactly. So they're trying to make it look like there's all kinds of insider trading and everything's all, oh, it's all wishy-washy.

But I don't think so. I think they just let an algal run because that's what family offices do. I just run the algo. And that thing buys and sells a hundred times a day, up and down, up and down, taking a couple of pennies in each direction of the trade. And that's how it works. That's the buried lead here. That's not that's not. buried lead.

I love saying that. Jargon. Woo, yeah. But then this... Married lead. This story, I think, is a problem. We turn now to the dark world of online betting markets that allow bets on virtually any news event. For a small group of traders, the war with Iran has been a windfall.

On the night of February 27th, 16 bets on the trading platform known as Polymarket made $100,000 each for accurately predicting when the U.S. would strike. Iran. Soon after, one trader made over half a million dollars betting that Ayatollah Ali-Khamenei would be toppled, moments before he was assassinated by Israeli forces. The same surge was seen in oil futures trading as well. Right before President Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran on March 7, traders bet $950 million that oil prices would drop, which they did. On the same day, 50 polymarket accounts placed bets that the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire before Trump announced it on social media. Overall, traders have placed over a billion dollars in perfectly timed wagers relating to the Iran war. A recent analysis by the BBC of online bets placed

throughout President Trump's second term found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours or sometimes minutes before a social media post or media statement from President Trump was made public. The timing of these bets and the huge windfalls they've created are raising concerns of possible insider trading. Prediction markets and platforms like Polymarket and its biggest competitor, Kalshi, are governed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, or the CFTC. This means they can avoid state-level restrictions in place for traditional gambling and sports betting today. A growing number of states are trying to stop this, but the Trump administration has pushed back. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., has advisory roles in both polymarket and Kalshi.

Yeah, he should get off those boards. That's a really bad look. I agree. That's a very bad look. Yeah, there's some guy, some soldier was busted. Yeah. And there's been a lot of, uh, hanky, panky, but this whole thing is ripe for it. We've talked about this before as a prop bets. Yes. Yeah. But if you're the president's son and I do not think he is intellectually the same as the president, you know, he's he's swarmy. There it is again. In fact, this is how swarmy they are. Hold on. Where is it? Swarmie. Swarmie. There's no such word. What is the word? What is the word? Smarmy. Smarmy? Yeah. It doesn't sound right. Smarmy? Yeah. Smart me? So finally, this is, I love our, I love our MAGA women here, the women of Fredericksburg. I know several women who had pre-ordered this months and months and months ago. They were so excited about getting it.

And finally it's here. Gold casing, a flag stamped on the back. This long-awaited T-1 phone from Trump Mobile is finally here. It was in June last year that the president's sons announced a bold new venture. Today we're here to introduce Trump Mobile. The phone marketed as a patriotic alternative to big tech and promised as an American-made phone. Trump Mobile said the phone would be released in August. NBC News put down the $100 deposit that same month. But nine months passed with 12 phone calls and countless emails to the company. But one day after this report last week, here we are in May of 2026 and there appears to be no sign of it.

Someone on behalf of Trump Mobile contacted me and said devices were going to be. going out to the media. And, okay, here it is. Here is the long-awaited Trump mobile phone. The phone is taller than an iPhone 17 and comes with 512 gigabytes of storage at a relatively cheap $499, which the company says is promotional pricing. Truth Social, pre-installed on the phone. Like any other phone, it can make calls, send texts.

There's some wide angles. And takes pretty good photos, too. The phone looks different from how it was originally asked. advertised. The original language on the website said the phone would be made in the USA, language that has since been scrubbed from the website, now saying American proud design, with an American flag that has only 11 stripes. Experts say the phone resembles a phone made in Taiwan. Representatives for Trump Mobile did not respond to questions about whether the phone is made in the U.S. And the White House did not confirm if President Trump himself is using the phone bearing his name. It's a piece of crap. I love the 11 stripes on the flag. That's my thing. favorite. That is, that you know some dude in China went, oh, let's do this. That'll be hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. There's too many, there's no room for all these strikes. You can't fit all these stripes. And it is reminiscent of another president's phone.

Everybody in me got Obama phone. Keep Obama in president, you know? He gave us a phone. Oh, man. What a, what a canard this phone is. It's a piece of crap Android. It's no good. Yeah, but it's gold. I'm looking at a picture of it now. It's gold, man. It's gold. It looks like every other phone. So we miss this.

General Patton on the down low, Scott Besant, was at the G7 Paris meeting. And he laid down the law, man. He's going after terror financing. And I had completely missed this. But here is a report about it. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson called on allies to more forcefully disrupt Iran's financing networks and said the Treasury would scrub its sanctions list of outdated designations

to make it easier for financial institutions to root out the most sophisticated terrorist financing schemes. In remarks prepared for delivery at an anti-terrorism financing conference after G7 finance leaders met in Paris, Bessons said that participants needed to stand with us in full measure against Iran. Bessent said that we'll require their European partners to join the United States in taking action against Iran by designating its financiers, unmasking its shell and front companies, shuttering its bank branches and dismantling its proxies. As the Trump administration tries to pressure Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,

to unlock vital oil flows disrupted by the U.S. Israeli attacks on Iran, the U.S. Treasury has stepped up its sanctions efforts through a program dubbed Economic Fury. It aims to disrupt Iran's shadow banking networks and has frozen nearly half a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency linked to Iran's regime. Most U.S. Treasury sanctions are imposed on individuals, companies and other entities that are added to its specially designated Nationals list,

which contains tens of thousands of designes that are cut off from the dollar-based financial system and see assets frozen. Anyone that transacts with designated entities risks being sanctioned themselves. He said the most effective sanctions are aggressive and targeted, and those left in place too long could create unintended consequences. He said the Treasury's approach would maintain agility

to maximize effectiveness and cited examples of easing sanctions on Syria and Venezuela after regime changes as examples of how the Trump administration intends to adjust sanctions. So what Besson didn't say, but what is in the anti-terrorism document from the White House, I believe, is that all of this nonsense, all terrorism,

is ultimately funded through the Muslim Brotherhood. And we know... Which is a creation of... British MI6. Exactly. So if you look at the OFAC list, this is the Office of Foreign Assets Control, I think it is. What is it? OFAC. I think that's what it is. Listen to the companies that are on the list and are sanctioned and blocked. We have London, the tanker up, London domiciled tanker operators. Science obedient international company. Limited. These are all UK companies. Double in. Global Fortune shipping limited. Luna Luster.

All British companies. Sparkling Courage Limited. UK company. Gala Rose. Chemical oil tankers, UK company. All UK companies. I think this is more significant than people realize. They're cutting off these networks and it all goes back to the Brits. All of it. Now, I have a question. Mm-hmm. In the report, he says, is going, they froze crypto. How do you freeze crypto?

I thought crypto was impossible to freeze. Well, that's because they're using a general term. Iran, funny enough, had USD, they had Tether, Tether stable coin, which is completely controllable. And that's what he sees. Just click, just lock it up. That's not going to encourage its use. Oh, no, but this is not for, if you want to do something illegal, you go to the Magdadi. You go to Bitcoin.

You don't go to Tether. Well, why didn't they go to Bitcoin? Who says they didn't. It's very hard to prove. If you ask the Bitcoin community, oh, yeah, it's all Bitcoin. Okay, I'm sure. No, but part of that toll system was Stablecoin. You remember we had the clip when they were, they were say, oh, you got to come by us and go through the toll and they were charging stable coin, which is really easy to get.

You know, then you don't have to go through a lot of know-your-c-c-stombed. But I guess the Iranians, the guard didn't think about the fact that the general patent on the download could just grab that, which is exactly what you can do with stable coin. But stable coin is not for us. Stable coin is for the rest of the world. Stable coin is for Venezuela, for South America, it's going to be for Cuba. It'll be for Iran eventually. Anyone who wants to have an American dollar in a digital dollar will be able to get stable coin. And then you play along, otherwise we take your stable coin.

I'm under no illusion. That's what they're doing here. But it's not, I mean, to say it's crypto is just dumb reporting. Huh. Yeah. dumb reporting Go figure Whoever thought that would happen

Dumb reporting Exactly But so if you So people are saying You know this war Is You know is not good for America I disagree

I think we need It's good to shut down all of this financing Look all the shipping is run out of the UK Screw that We should be running that I don't know if we're good at it But we're going to find out I heard from a guy yesterday that I met that I thought Lloyds of London was just like one building

and a whole bunch of people writing up insurance policies. That's not true. It's a trading floor. Did you know this? I always thought it was. Yeah, it's a trading floor. It's always been that way. There's a movie about it.

Oh, what is the movie? I'd love to see that. I think it's called Lloyd's of London. It was like done in the 30s, I think. And they have all these different reinsurers, all with little. booths on this trading floor and they're all bidding. It's like a stock market. Yeah, yeah.

I didn't realize that. I thought it was just one big company that writes insurance policies or reinsurance. That's why people are like, you know, ever so often you'd have Rod Stewart, you know, or some famous person, all being the underwriter for some insurance policy because they were in the, they did the trade to get it. Oh. Oh, well, that's interesting. I didn't, I didn't know that. I like it. All right.

What else you got? I mean. The market crashes. Well, Putin went to China. I guess I got those clips. Well, of course he went to China because this is the arc. America, Russia, China.

We're gearing up to kill the old world order. The dying world order, man. I do want to play, we need to play that, but I also want to play the China listening devices clip. Okay, here we go. Before a single American boarded Air Force One to leave Beijing, staff lined up at the door with trash bins. And everything China.

had given the U.S. delegation went straight into them. Credentials, burner phones, delegation pins, lanyards, anything and everything handed out by Chinese officials during the summit. A pool reporter on the scene watched it happen in real time and reported nothing from China was allowed on the plane, not a phone, not a pin, not a piece of paper. Let that image sink in for a moment. The most powerful delegation in the world just spent days in Beijing negotiating hundreds of billions of dollars in deals, smiling for cameras, shaking hands, sitting across the table from Xi Jinping, and the moment it was over, every single item China had touched went into a trash bin on the tarmac. This is not an accident. This is not over caution. This is the United States government

operating on a doctrine that has been earned through decades of documented Chinese espionage. We already reported how the entire delegation arrived with burner devices. No personal phones, no personal laptops. We reported how U.S. federal guidelines prohibited plugging into any Chinese USB port or charging station. We reported how every Wi-Fi network in China was treated as compromised. Now we know the protocols held all the way to the last second on Chinese soil, because here is what China does. They embed tracking technology in delegation pins. They install malware on phones through standard charging cables. They use hotel room key cards with embedded chips to map movement patterns. They slip listening devices into gift bags and commemorative items. They have turned ordinary objects into intelligence

collection tools so effectively that American counterintelligence agencies now treat every Chinese origin item as a potential threat by default. Yeah. Could I do? Yeah. This is why Megan Kelly hates China so much. Were they spite on her? No, but she and, what's his face, Glenn Greenwald, were going on and on and on and on about, here I have the clip. As far as the students, it's 500,000 students they come, good students. I could tell them, I don't want any students.

It's a very insulting thing to say to a country. they would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China. I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture and many of them want to stay here. Oh, Glenn. Who wants that? Literally, what American wants? It was 300,000 Chinese students like two months ago. Now it's 500,000.

And he goes on to say, and many of them will stay here. We don't want that either. We don't want them taking up our university slots at our most prestigious universities, and we definitely don't want them staying, nor do we want them buying up American farmland. Well, there are some Americans who actually do want that, particularly Wall Street and the corporate community. They love the right. They're in bed with the Chinese and always have been. They were going on and on and on. What? I said, please. Yeah, on and on and on about the Chinese.

When I was a kid and I went to Cal Berkeley, the place was filled with. Chinese back then. That was before the Chinese took over the place. Yeah. And bully for them. Because the jobs are not going to be in university, you're not going to need a piece of paper to get a really good job anymore. How are you going to get a good job? Well, I will give you, here's from CNBC. Kyson's job doesn't require a four-year degree. And as AI drives demand for data centers and the fiber networks that connect them, AT&T CEO John Stanky, told my colleague Steve Leasman in an exclusive interview that the company needs more workers like Kyson. You need something to transport all that traffic that has to get in and out of those data

centers, and that's fiber infrastructure. And we're building fiber right now faster than anybody else in this country that's going to be essential to the AI generation. You brought in probably 10,000 technicians over the last three years that are the front side of this trying to make sure Everybody's connected and has access to our fiber and wireless networks. We'll do a 3,000 this year. We find that we've got to go out and find them, train them, and send them to come in. It's not like we're growing them on trees in the United States. It sounds like you're saying there's sort of a misalignment between what the structure is to provide and train employees and what business, especially AT&T, needs.

Yeah, I probably have a point of view personally that as a society and within the United States, we've put a huge premium in value. socially on a college degree, and yet we're short HVAC repair people. We're short electricians, technicians that can go in and work on fiber like we talk about. We maybe have missed the mark in some places. Now listen to your Uncle Adam and Uncle John. Don't go to college. Whatever you do, don't go to college is another clip to him. So when you got to college, what made you realize that it wasn't working out?

Oh, there's some kid who dropped out. Smart. Out for you. Oh, it was miserable. Kyson graduated high school with a 3.89 GPA. Graduated from high school. Way to go. Oh, you're getting good grades. Go to school. He immediately enrolled at Wright State University and planned to study either math or engineering.

I wanted to work with my hands, but it was hard because I did get good grades, so it was expected to go to school. Once I started college, I was like, this is not for me. After about three semesters, he dropped out. I was in the same four walls every day. Did not want to be there. I wanted more for myself. I was hungry to start life and I felt like I was extremely stagnant. I was in accounting. I loved my professor. I really do. I mean, looking back, I feel bad, but there was a guy that was sitting behind me. And we had just finished up midterm in the other class and we both were like miserable. I was like, you ready for accounting? He said, nope, I'm going to get lunch. And I had never, ever, ever skipped class. And I said, you know what? I'm getting lunch with you. And I knew I was like, my priority. is not school. After Kyson left college, he worked a mix of

odd jobs. Retail, coaching wrestling, laying solar panels, and he even rode bulls for a little while. I woke up one morning and said, I'm spending so many hours working and I'm not making enough and I wanted a career. I wanted to be somewhere where

I could move up in the company. AT&T was familiar to Kyson because his dad and grandfather worked there, but when he applied, he didn't tell his father. It's pride. pride. I didn't want any strings pulled. I wanted my voice to speak for itself. I didn't want to be Jason's son or cook's boy. I wanted to be Kyson. I think it was a jobs program for AT&T. They bought time on CNBC. But there's hundreds of thousands of jobs that are going to go unfilled and let all the Chinese go to the universities. It's fine. And the universities don't seem too high on AI these days either. You've heard the

commencement speeches? No, I have not heard the commencement speeches. I usually don't listen to that. Here's Gloria. Well, there's a lot of them. And I'm still waiting to do a commencement speech so I can become an honorary professor. I mean... They don't give you that. They don't make an honorary professors. They give you a PhD.

But you can get that from the show. If you wait long enough. You can get it from no agenda. Who needs to go to college? Gloria Caulfield is a real estate person. in Florida. She spoke at UCF. The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution. Boo.

What is happening? Okay. We've got a bipolar topic here, I see. Yes. She got booed. There was somebody else that got booed off the stage recently. Eric Schmidt. Yeah, it was Eric Schmidt.

Did he pull the same stand? Here it is. Last December, Time magazine selected its person of the year for 2025. And this time, it was the architects of artificial intelligence. Interesting. Get out of here. You smuck. So today we stand on this edge of another technological transformation, one that will be larger, faster, and more consequential than what came before.

It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person, and every relationship you have. I know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you. There is a fear. People were walking out on him, which he's not used to. That dude, he's not used to that. Eric Schmidt's done okay for himself. Oh, he's done very well for himself.

It's fantastic. I mean, I knew him when he was at Novell, and he was just a, you know, he's really, his personality's changed quite a bit. His looks changed. I think he did some work done. Didn't you get a really young girlfriend slash wife? He has a girlfriend, and he's still married. He's one of those guys who can pull that off. I don't know how you did that.

Magic. Magic. So he's obviously a sales guy underneath it all. Baby, this is good for you. Trust me. This is good for you. So then we had

Google I.O. The big presentation, Google I.O. And Google has seen the light. Google is going to create their own version of Claudebot. But it doesn't run on your computer. No, no, no.

It runs on Google Cloud. I got a couple of clips. This is too funny. particularly excited for what we are bringing right into the Gemini. Hey, if we're going to get rid of Indians, start with this guy. Particularly excited for what we are bringing right into the Geminiar. Introducing Gemini Spark. Spark.

It's your... Woo! Come on, man. You used to be a tech reporter. This should be exciting to you. It's Gemini Spark. I was always the tech reporter who was skeptical. Well, I'm with you on this.

It's your personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life. Oh, please. What do you think it does when it helps you navigate your digital life? Oh, it probably sets your calendar, it wakes you up in the morning, and it looks at your to-do list, and it makes another list for you that you won't get done. And then it tells you that you have an appointment at 2 o'clock. On your behalf and under your direction. It runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google.

cloud and it's 24-7 and yes you can close your laptop. Thanks Sundar it's great to see everyone and let me show you how Spark works with all get ready John email your chats and grabs the most important information that you need for by step look at all these steps all the time it saves you going through and again work across the various skills you can see creates right in Google slides perfectly integrated and you can see it even pulls in things like our giant bouncing house that's going to be in the cul-de-sac. Now, all of this is happening- The bounce house?

Yeah, this is, you caught it. So the AI, Google Spark, is so smart, it's going to do something very important with your bounce house that you have planned for your backyard. In the cul-de-sac. In the cul-de-sac. Pulls in things like our giant bounce house that's going to be in the cul-de-sac. Now, all of this is happening in the background and under my control. And what's amazing is Jim and I can even go a step further and pull out things like your neighborhood homeowners association won't let you set this up before Friday afternoon at June 5th.

That's pulling from a file in my Google Drive. So it's incredibly helpful about how it pulls it together. This is perhaps the lamest example you could ever come up with because we all live on the cul-de-sac and we all have a giant bounce house. And we all have a homeowner's. that won't let you set up a bounce house until 5 o'clock. You need to move out of that homeowners association neighborhood. But here's a more practical example. And Spark is amazing at just brain dumping things on your mind.

If you're super busy, it's almost you can just throw tasks over your shoulder. It's super busy, man. You can throw stuff over your shoulder, I'm telling you. Listen to this. If you're super busy, it's almost you can just throw tasks over your shoulder. Spark will catch them and then run with them. Okay. So watch this. Watch.

Start a few threads for me. The first one, find all the upcoming meetings with Sundar, and turn them all hot pink, so I don't miss them. The second one, last night I met our new neighbor, John, write a note to him and his family, invite them to our block party because they weren't on our list originally. The third one, create a document with the top things my wife and I need to do for the kids before the end of the school year. Categorize it, by deadline and priority, make it easy to digest. I don't want to miss anything. All right, so we'll send that in, and you can see at the speed of my voice, it's taking that one task, and it will capture all of that context as fast as I can talk.

It starts out as a single thread here, and in the background, it's actually going to go through and break those down into individual tasks. Now, I can just put my phone away and get on with my day, and Spark works in the background for me. We'll check in later. See how it's doing. How do you check in? I don't know, but it's going to have later. Yes, wonderful, wonderful.

You can see, this is one of the first times we've been able to put a phone down and let it keep working on the IOS stage. It's great. Because we're prioritizing safety, we're rolling. No, it's not, no, it's in the cloud. So you put your phone down, you didn't put your phone down, you hit the phone with a hammer, it doesn't make any difference. That's right.

It's working in the cloud. It's in the cloud. We're they kidding. Oh, you got to put your phone down. Now listen to what this is going to cost. In the future, you'll be able to create new docs and edit them directly all with your voice. Docs Live is rolling out for pro and ultra subscribers this summer, and the same powerful voice capabilities will come to Gmail and Google Keep Dent too.

Incredible to see the pace of innovation rolling out across our products. Supporting all of this at scale for our users, while also serving enterprises and developers around the world. requires massive investments in infrastructure. And we have been investing for today and for the future. In 2022, we were spending $31 billion annually in CAPEX. This year, we expect that number to be about six times that, approximately $180 to $190 billion.

Whoa. Whoa. $190 billion on turning your emails pink in the cloud. This doesn't seem right. That doesn't seem right. This is not the future of computing. I can tell you that right now. That's not how it's going to go down.

Not with that kind of money. That is insane. Anyway, it's all going to be on your... Well, you know, I'm going to give you a borderline clip of the day for having that insanity on here. Well, thank you. You want to do something before we thank some people? Well, let me see if I got one last clip here.

The Putin clips, but there's nothing really important there. The slush fund clips, that's always good for a laugh. Elon Musk lost the lawsuit. I'm just wrapping things up here for people. The slush fund clip, I like that because, first of all, everyone's categorizing it as a slush fund for Trump's allies. it's a very interesting deal that the president made with himself by saying, okay, I'll drop my $10 billion lawsuit for the IRS spying on me,

which arguably is a big deal that they spied or they released his documents. Yeah, it was. I mean, that's a huge deal. That's, I mean, I wish it had happened to me. I don't know if I get $10 billion, but you get something. something out of it if you have suits and boots on the case. And then he turns around and says, well, I'll do a deal and let's get some money together for people who were...

You got screwed over. Got screwed over. And old grandmas that weren't even at the event, they got thrown in jail. This is a horrible situation that nobody wants to discuss. So two points. One, the actual amount of the fund is $1.776 billion. none of the news media really said that. 1.8. No, they did.

They did. Oh, they did? Well, most of them were 1.8, 1.8, 1.8? No, I heard 1776 not the predominant number. And the second thing, I know two people personally whose lives were destroyed. The J6 or Jenny,

she's hanging on by a thread. You know, she, her whole life was destroyed. She got run out of town. She had a I think a salon and she was called a terrorist and her entire life was destroyed

and so that's when she... Well, hopefully she will see if she gets money. Well, she should and also Luke coffee. Luke is the guy who had the crutch over his head telling everybody to pray and was arrested for apparently beating cops over the head with his crutch of which there's no evidence.

His life was completely destroyed. He's now producing Laura Logan's podcast. Just give you an example of what happened to him. Wow. So we want Luke to get some money too. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, but that's not the way it's being played.

Yeah, but that's not why. Yeah, well. Unless we play, okay, I got three clips and we can play. Okay. Let's get him out of the way. This is the first one. Let's start with the grilling of Senator Todd Blanche. Senators get Todd Blanche over slash fund.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. face bipartisan backlash over the creation of the nearly $2 billion fund. The president has set up a slush fund and he literally will get to choose through his hand-picked appointees who gets paid that fund. That is absurd. The president did not set up this fund. It's not a slush fund. Asked repeatedly whether those who assaulted police officers on January 6 could be paid. Blanche didn't rule it out. Do you feel they should get compensation after being convicted of violent acts?

My feelings don't matter, Senator, in my mind. My mind is not limiting to say, yes, I will commit to this or that. At the White House, the vice president was pressed on the same issue. We're not trying to give money to anybody who attacked a police officer. We're trying to compensate people where the book was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal system. The fund was established after President Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. As part of the settlement, the DOJ said today the IRS

is forever barred from prosecuting past or existing audits into the president, his family, and the Trump organization. Do you believe those terms are fair? I think that there are, and will be, continue to be, a lot of questions around that. Tonight, some of the police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th tell me if this new anti-weaponization fund is used to pay those who committed the attack. It's, quote, insane and could jeopardize their safety. Tony? Yep.

Well, then let's take it to these clips, which discuss a little bit about the DOJ IRS situation. This DOJ IRS forever banned from auditing Trump. Tonight, in an extraordinary move, the Justice Department declared the IRS, is, quote, forever barred and precluded from auditing President Trump, his family,

his oldest sons and their companies or pursuing any claims for past actions. It's part of the unprecedented settlement after President Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The deal was orchestrated by the head of the DOJ, acting attorney general Todd Blanche, who is Trump's former personal attorney. Blanche faced tough questions on Capitol Hill today. You're the president's consigliory. Your perspective is completely wrong.

Well, I think the facts. for me right. The president's settlement also creates a nearly $1.8 billion fund taxpayer money to pay for Trump allies or anyone else who claims they were mistreated by the Biden Justice Department. I love all the little gotches in it. Tax taxpayer money, slush fund, allies. It's a group that includes the roughly 600 people charged with obstructing or assaulting police on January 6th. Well, they're insulting police bull crap. No, they just bring all that back. They bring it all back.

Police on January 6th. Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible for this fund? Well, as it makes plain, just let me know if they're eligible for the fund. Anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they were a victim of weapons. I think this show is a victim of this weapon. because we had to speak against, we had to speak truth to power.

And we were telling everybody that no, that's not true. And people left in a huff. And I think it hurt our income. And I think we should put in a claim. Talk to Rob. At the White House, I followed up with Vice President and J.D. Vance. I assume you're not going to apply.

You don't think you should get money out of this. Of course. So isn't it just as easy to say that people that attacked police officers should not get taxpayer money from this? Well look, John, we're not trying to give money to anybody who attacked a police officer. We're trying to give money. Not give money. We're trying to compensate people. Where the book was thrown at them. He screwed up there. We're trying to give money. I mean, not give money. Compensates.

Trying to give money to anybody who attacked a police officer. We're trying to give money, not give money. We're trying to compensate people where the book was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal system. We do have people who were accused of attacking law enforcement officers. officers. That doesn't mean that we're going to completely ignore some of the claims that they're going to make. It's a very complex building. It comes as Republicans are trying to set aside another $1 billion in taxpayer money for President Trump's new ballroom. They say it's for security. Back to that $1.8 billion fund, some of which could go to people who attacked the Capitol building on January 6th. It's not just Democrats who don't like it.

Senate Republican leader John Thune said today, quote, I am not a big fan. Yes. Here's the president himself explaining the fund. But this is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized. They've been in some cases imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that they didn't have.

They've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been destroyed. And they turn out to be right. I mean, it was a terrible period of time in the history of our country, and they worked on it. I know the Justice Department, it's really been working on it very hard. There's been numerous other occasions over the years where things like this have been done, but these were people that were weaponized and really treated brutally by a system that was so corrupt, with corrupt people running it, and they're getting reimbursed for their legal fees and the other things that they had to suffer.

Yeah, please. Yeah. I got to tell you. I mean, I've seen the damage that that did, and I'd like to see J6 or Jenny and Luke get some money out of it. Well, let's hope they do it. I hope they put a claim in. Oh, well, I know Luke has a claim.

I got to talk to Jenny about it. I'm sure she does it. Yeah. Maybe Rob. Rob should help them. No, that was part two. That was your part two. Oh, okay.

I have a part three, which is Comey. Former FBI director, James Comey, faces trial later this summer on charges he threatened President Trump's life. The case stems from this Instagram post a year ago, a photo of Shell spelling out 86-47. Prosecutors say the slang term 86 meant intent to do harm to Mr. Trump, the 47th president. It is the second indictment against the former FBI director in one of several investigations and lawsuits involving people President Trump sees as his political enemies. Comey also has a new crime novel out. Red Verdict. It's a legal thriller centered on Russian espionage. I spoke with him earlier today.

Former FBI director James Comey, welcome to the NewsHour. It's great to be with you. I want to start with your reaction to this DOJ announcement today. The department says it's creating a nearly $1.8 billion fund taxpayer money to compensate Trump allies who say they were unfairly targeted by the previous administration. What kind of precedent does this say? I've never heard of it. And I first thought it was an onion piece when I I heard about it. I don't know how it will work and how it will be administered. Kiddingly want to know, do I get to apply?

Do all victims of weaponization get to ask for attorney's fees? We'll have to see. Would you submit a claim? I might. Maybe just to be humorous about the whole thing. But if it's for people who've been targeted for reasons other than the normal standards of the Department of Justice, I'm ready to get in line. Now you can have to look this clip up. This clip is called Comey on Trump January 2021.

Comey on Trump. Let me set it up. No, I don't see it, John. Comey on. Is it Comey on Trump? Yeah, K-C-O-M-E-Y on Trump is the name of it. I'm not seeing it. It's from three weeks ago.

I believe you, but I am I don't have any Comey on Trump. Comey on MSNBC about Trump? No, it says, Comey. Well, that actually might be the same clip. What are the principal points of danger within the Justice Department if there's another Trump presidency, given his nature, given what you know about him?

He is a threat to the rule of law in America. To me, that's what this election is about, not about policy differences, is about what kind of country are we going to be. If he has the ability, smarter than he was last time, to use the power of the Department of Justice and the FBI to target his enemies especially, the rule of law in America will change in a way we haven't seen in our lifetime. When you say target his enemies, how would he do that?

Well, I think the first thing he would do is he would express it in his first term as a wish. I want people to go after so-and-so. I want people to go after Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI. In his second term, he would go a step further. I'm highly confident and say I want him criminally investigated and he would have he was close to the bottom of the bar. That's not it. No, it's too much you can't find it because it is in the pile. Let me see.

Make sure. Yeah, it says Comey. See what M-E-Y. Oh, well. I'm sorry. Anyway, in 2021, he was the worst. Oh, I got it. I found it.

I found it. Okay. Let me tell you what this clip is this is an example of pre. This is an example of, uh, of using the Justice Department as a weapon. Convict him, bar him from future service, have the prosecutors, the local prosecutors in New York, pursue him for the fraudster that he was

before he ever became president, lock him up for the garden variety florence he did there. But don't give him that center stage, that dominant role in our national life just down the street where Joe Biden is trying to heal this nation. Yeah. Lock him up. Lock him up.

Yeah. Yeah, that's reasonable. It's also fake and gay. The guy's a creep. I mean, I think that they're, this thing about the 86, 47 is a bit much, but, you know, they're sending a message. And with that, as it is a value for value program where we, I haven't heard an ad in the past two hours. Have you heard an ad? You haven't heard any ads?

No. That's because we have chosen a different path. And I would like to thank you, John C. Dvorag, for your courage. You are the man who put the sea in the Castro indictment. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend, the other, and the one, the only Mr. John C. Dvorah! Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam C. And in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground feeding the air,

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And, of course, we have VBS, which I just learned today is a thing, VBS. What, VBS? VBS, yes, vacation Bible school. I had no idea. People are in VBS, vacation Bible school. So. That's what, why don't you just go to, okay. Once just go to what?

Bible school. No, it's vacation Bible school. What's the difference? to it on vacation. Why don't you just go to it? Well, maybe they do, but then they do it during their vacation too. I don't know. I'm just telling you that people are out because of VBS as what I'm here.

I can't make it, man, VBS. I don't know. So, as I said before, we are value for value operated, which means we only ask you to send us some value when you feel you have received value from the program. I see the people are already trying. It's typically in the summer, man. I'm telling you, people have not been able to do meetings with me because their kids are in VBS. I don't know.

Or they're teaching VBS. So value for value, we started this over 18 years ago. We think that it's the best way to run an honest podcast, particularly when it is regarding news and current events and culture and politics. So you get the true honesty from us. and it shows because a lot of people get mad and go away and we just keep doing the same thing. And so if donations are down, that's just because you didn't feel that you got any value from it. But it turns out a lot of people continue to find value in our analysis. And you can support us with your time, your talent, or your treasure.

We thank everybody who supports us financially with $50 or above. And that is a wonderful way to show value, to return the value that you got. from the program. Or you can do things like, I don't know, prompt away, make some artwork. And this is valuable for a couple of reasons. Not only is a good piece of art valuable for us to use to promote the show as the album art, but also it tells us what's hitting a nerve when, you know, or when we did something that you liked that you found very valuable. And it was fun to watch, fun to see. Well, first, we should probably thank the person. whose art we actually used.

And that was for our episode 1869. We titled That Trollery. This was controversial on the inside of the program. I wasn't too sure about it. Blue Acorn created a Currie and Dvorak choke me chili cookoff with the OG Catholic in Action, the Pope, with his little CIA hat and his CIA insignia and two babes making the chili.

John wanted it. I succumb to it. But it was fun to see people really picking up on dead mice, mice being mutilated in glue traps. The blueberry got a lot of traction. A lot of blueberry art for some reason was interesting. And what else did we see, John? Uh, just nothing good.

We had, uh, no, you know what? it's like there's these new models that people are using. And again, they're over-complicating things. It's too much. It's just, it's too busy. It's too much going on. I'm not even sure if we see anything fantastic yet. So now it's all babes.

See, this is what happens. I should have mentioned this to you. When you choose a piece of art with babes, then everyone thinks, oh, yeah, that's how I'll get my art chosen. Need to do more babes. Yeah. We don't do babes that much. I'm looking at the last few pieces.

How many have babes? What? The first one, two, skip, three. No, the numb nuts has no babes. Oh, no, no, no. No, but I'm saying since we chose babes on the past one. Oh, no, yeah, I'm talking about pieces that are actually picked with babes. Yeah, but we have numb nuts and we have a mouse.

I know, but then we have a chew with mice all over in black and white cartoony thing. and then a bunch of pills that show insanity. Yes. I'd say once a month. I know, but the psyche of our, of Gitmo Nation, our producers, is, oh, babes. I just need to do babes. I think this is the way it is with everything. It's like it's followed the leader.

Ooh, well, that worked then. Let's do it again. Probably right. So, yeah. So that's probably not going to work this time. But thank you very much. No bays. No two in a row babes.

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I still have to do these balancing exercises. I should take Tai Chi. I'm told by my physical therapist. Is it like a sobriety test? We have to stand on one leg and touch your fingers. If I have to do that, yeah, I wouldn't. I'd probably have some issues with some of the crazy stuff that cops make you do. Have you driven your car?

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Thank you very much, Eli. We appreciate that. And our last associate executive producer, she's always there with $200 and we appreciate that very much. Linn to Loupacken from Castle Rock, Colorado. She wants jobs karma and she says your resume has about 10 seconds to make an impression and most don't. For a resume that gets results, go to ImagemakersInc.com. Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience into a clear story of leadership, results, and impact. That's ImageMakers Inc. with a K.

And Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and Writer of Winning Resumies. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and Jobs. Let's vote for jobs. And we continue now with the rest of our time talent treasure supporters with value coming back to the show. And at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is Nathan Cochran from Franklin, Tennessee. Nathan, of course, bass player from Mercy Me, not a small band. And I will be seeing him this weekend. Tina and I are going to Nashville for the big K-Love music festival.

That's the K-Love music festival. It's a festival with music. and it's in Tennessee, in Nashville. What's Caleb? Caleb is a radio station that organizes. They're very big. They have like 400 stations around the country. And Mercy Me is performing.

So we'll be hanging out. You need a backstage pass? Oh, no, I don't even need a pass. They have their roadie come out and get us. That's the coolest. Hey, go get Adam and Tina. We're in, we're in, man. We're in like Flynn.

Nathan, check your levels, man. You've got to be at least a barren. internet by now, if not more. Jason Holson. Yeah, I'd say. Jason Holzing and Chen Hassan, Minnesota, one, two, three, four, five. And I will point out, he says, this is seed money for John to set up as only fans account. Well, that's very nice. Do you need money to set up at only fans? It's not free. I think so. I think he just needs to sign up. Spencer Richter in Craig, Arkansas. $100. Thank you. Ian Field, 100. Kevin McLaughlin, there he is, Concord, North Carolina with the boo donation, $80.08. He is the Archduke of Luna, a lover of America and boobs.

And he says, God bless America and boobs. Ladies, it's melon season. Time to show them off. A melon song for end of the show? Oh, sorry, man, I don't have any for you. Nicholas Leary, 72, 72 from Columbus, Ohio. Dame Becky from Arlington, Washington, 696. We see what he did there.

And the same is for Sir Paul, who is back with a donation from Twikkingham. And he says, as much I love John, when is Mimi coming back to do another episode? 69, 69, he says. Dame Rita, Sparks, Nevada, $68.33. Thank you, Dame Rita. Baron Henry of Outpost West, Ranchos Palis Verdes, California, 59, 92. Samuel Nagle, Athens, Georgia, double nickels on the dime, Reese Longhurst, Bath. And Bath, that's in the UK.

Once at D-Doochey-Dooched. You've been deduced. Thank you, Reese, and welcome. There you go. I've been to Bath. I've been to Bath, too. Funny enough. Yeah, they got Roman baths there.

That's what it's called baths. Funny enough, they got baths, indeed. Kent O'Rourke, Frostburg, Maryland, 5272. Forrest Martin, 50 and 5 cents. I've seen that one often. 50.05. Same for Andrew Benz, 50.05. Here are our $50 supporters.

Andrew Grusek in Green, Gusek in Greenboro, North Carolina. Terence Boyer in Tuscola, Illinois. Grant Clift in Cherryville, North Carolina. Ryan Acido in Argyle, Texas. Amy Galinas in Burry in Washington. Lindsay Christensen. $50. He says,

congrats, Massey. They didn't deserve you anyway. Chris Campici, Round Rock, Texas. Thank you for your courage. Got a bonus at work. Wanted to pass along some value. Thank you very much, Chris.

Patrick Bomer. Bomer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. $50 and says, Gave on for the best podcast of the universe. All the best for John. And grutees for you, Adam. we are a multilingual podcast. Sir Yogi, Night of the Carnival Midway and Washington, $50.

A lot of Washington, 50. A lot of Washingtonians. And John Marr also from Washington, $50. And that wraps up all of our value-for-value treasure supporters, $50 and above. And we want to always thank our executive and associate executive producers profusely because you help us out a lot.

And remember, those credits are real. Our formula is this. We hit people. people in the mouth. Shut up. So very interesting. Today we have no knights, no dames, no birthdays, which how often does that happen? Rarely.

Not very often at all. We do have a make-good from Nick Delacrochi, your favorite. It's a make-good note, but it's not really. What does that mean? As you read it, you can read it and you'll see what I'm talking about. Should I not read it? No, you should read it. Okay, I'm going to read it.

I'm reading it. Oh, you want me to read it out loud? Oh, okay. Nick Delacroche. No, I just read it. We're good. Yeah. Nick Delacroche, my recurring monthly donations have officially brought me to

associate executive producer. I found the show after Adam's Joe Rogan appearance during COVID, and I've been a religious listener ever since I was graduating college when I started tuning in. And honestly, you two change the trajectory of my life. Wow. I'm very grateful I stumbled onto no agenda at that point in my life. Adam, my girlfriend and I had the pleasure of meeting you at a meet up in Fredericksburg.

I know exactly who this is. A few months ago. After chatting together, you looked at us and said, you two need to get married. You are a really good thing going on there or something like that. My girlfriend's exact words, exact words afterward. Wow. He's so tall and so handsome for his age. See, this girl is a keeper. John, you're the goat.

My girlfriend also finds you absolutely hilarious. Laugh a little too hard at your jokes. Hmm, if I'm being honest. you both keep me sane and thinking clearly. Thank you for everything you do. Show after show. Please call up my father, Vince Delacrochi as a douchebag. In the morning from Nick Delacrochi,

your favorite Jen Zetter in Austin, Texas. P.S., my smoking hot girlfriend is a private chef, classically trained, lived in Spain, and Italy studying food. If you're ever looking for someone for a dinner party or special event, reach out. She's the real deal. Done.

Done, I say, done. We just celebrated our anniversary. That would have been very cool. Well, didn't. All right, so let's straighten something out here for our Zetters that don't seem to have missed the boat. You don't accumulate for associate executive producer. You don't accumulate for executive producer. You don't accumulate for a red knight.

You don't accumulate for PhDs. You don't accumulate for anything except nights and all the things that come after night, like barons and dukes and the rest. That's it. Very good. Now, you also don't, as you. you said, you don't accumulate for a red knight that comes only with a one-time donation. And we have two today. Behold, pure of purpose, right from the start in the morning, brave and smart. Very much

appreciate our Red Knight's Order of the Heart two today, which is a nice score. And I think we only have 50 of them, so if you want these, you better get in on this good deal now. Sir Ronald Lafferty and Sir Sannahouser, both of you are hereby, official Red Knights, the Order of the Heart. Congratulations. Behold the cure of purpose, right from the stars in the morning, brave and smart. No, I don't have any good meetup reports, people. You're falling down on the job, but there's a lot of meetups taking place.

Today, in fact, Charlotte's Thursday, Thursday, monthly meetup. That'll be at 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern and Charlotte, North Carolina. and tomorrow the first March, Marciac, Marci, oh, this is our Baroness Isabel Pearson, the first Marciac, no agenda mixer, 730 in Pure Garderas, in Mont-Lazune, Gairs, France. I hope somebody shows up. If not, it doesn't matter, Baroness, Isabel,

please send us a meter report, even if it's just you. But I have a feeling we may have some people who drop by. They're all there for the Tour de France, you see. On Saturday, the trifle. Effectives and Trolls, local extraction meetup, 1230 in Delaware Park, Stanton, Delaware. Saturday on number 75 for Flight of the No Agendas, Leo Bravo, now organizing that in the Proud Bird in Los Angeles, California. Goonies in the Boonies on Saturday at 5 o'clock, New York, Pizza Department, Hickson, Tennessee. Oh, man, there's two meetups Saturday night in, I'm going to be in Nashville.

See if I can visit one of these. because we also have the Franklin getting fired up for summer meetup, six o'clock at Salvos Pizza in Franklin. So we have Hickson, Tennessee and Franklin, Tennessee. Then on Sunday, our next show day, and I'll be doing that from Nashville. We drink and we know things. I need a drink edition, 2 o'clock at 3BR Distillery in Keyport, New Jersey. Also on Sunday, the no ID pop-up 430 at the alibi room in Vancouver, British Columbia.

So Monday, Monday, a meetup on Monday. that's kind of rare. Monday Madness in Squim. Ah, yes, it's the 30th. That is Bar Hop brewing in Squim. That'll be in the 30th. And of course, is that the 30th? Is that the 30th? That's not the 30th. Is it? That doesn't make any sense. Well, I think, no, that's the 25th. Is that the one Mimi's going to in Squim? Well, the one in Squim. Well, then that's the one on Monday. Well, we do have coming up on the 30th. Well, we do have coming up on the 30th. is Anchorage, Alaska. So please, people go. Oh, and then we have, I just have to mention this one, June 6th, Bila Cherkva in Kiev, Oblast, Ukraine. Man, we get around with these meetups. We have people everywhere in the world, even in war zones.

So go to knowagentametups.com and find out where you can join the party. Make some connection, because these connections give you protection. Everybody you meet in a know agenda meetup will be a first responder in any emergency you have. Check them out. Go find one near you. If you can't find one near you, here's an easy solution. Start one. It's free.

It's easy and guaranteed always a party. Noagenda meetups.com. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where everybody feels the same. Now, this is weird. I had, that's very odd. I had, uh, hmm. But my meetups are missing.

My ISOs are missing. How does that happen? You didn't do any. I did. I certainly did do meetups. I had four of them. You said meetups, not ISO.

I mean, ISO. I'm confused. I'm confused. Yeah, apparently. Yes. My ISOs are missing. How do they go missing? All right.

Well, I guess you win. This is a cheap ass way to get out of it. Well, I can't help it. I mean, I've lost them. I could spend an hour. we're looking for them. I mean, if you really want to wait, but I'm... No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, well, you get two chances here. Here we go. Which one do we play first? Let's start with nailed it. These two geniuses nailed it again.

Hey, a little, she got a little British there at the end. That's interesting. No, a little British accent, yes. Let me listen to that. These two geniuses nailed it again. She starts in American and ends up in English. These two geniuses nailed it again. Nailed this again. Okay, we nailed this again. What's the other one? podcast. Is there a better podcast than this? I think not. All right. Well, we know what the answer is. Of course there's none better than that. Hey, time for the tip of the day. Create it back for you and me. Just the tip with JCD.

And sometimes at all. All right. So this is kind of a, it has a double effect because it also plugs a veterans operation, veteran owned. Mm, very nice. Half Blind Rabbits, the name of the company. and they make something called screw lube 2. I'm sorry, screw lube, and it's a two-ounce wood screw container of this of screw, a lube for screws.

That's better than beeswax. It's better than soap. It's good for, if you got like a three or four-inch screw that you got to put into some wood, you want. Screw lube, wood screw lubricant from half blind rabbit. And you can find it on Amazon. It's about nine bucks. and a superior product is something everyone should have for their,

the pros use it. I have screwed a lot. I cannot ever recall using screw lube. Is that something you're supposed to use for screwing? If you're going into wood, yeah. And if you're going, say you've got more than an inch or two inches. Say you've got to go in two inches. You have to back it off and push it back in and back it off.

No, you just use this stuff, go straight through. and it doesn't stain and it doesn't cause the issues, it doesn't cause problems. Yeah. You're supposed to use screw lobe. I can hear about five end of show mixes coming from this very conversation. Give me the name of the product again, John, so people can go find that.

Screw lub. Screw lub, everybody. There you go. Another fine tip from John C. Dvorak. Find them all at no agenda fun.com. Create advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCD. And sometimes Adam.

There you go, everybody. I am off to the races after this production ends. We're on our way to Austin and on our way to Nashville. Look out, Nashville. We're coming your way. And even though I'm out there having a good time at the festival, I will be ripping myself away from my wife and friends to do this podcast for you on Sunday. And I look forward to it because I love doing this show.

Do you love doing the show, John? Yes, and that's why, according to Elon Musk, the show is so good. Elon Musk said that? He got to, I'll clip it. He's going on about how some of his cars are good because they're made with love, and love comes across to the eventual customer, and they think it's great because of that. If you hate doing the show, it would come across his hate.

Oh, no. Well, it comes, it's all about the love, baby. Yeah, there you go. Up next on the No Agenda Street. and in your modern podcast app, the millennial media offensive. This will be episode 219. And end of show mixes.

We got a few for you. Danny Luce, Just Baker, MVP, and Nico Sime back and doing his best. Until Sunday, remember us at no agenda donations.com. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. Yeah, and from Refinery Row.

I'm John C. DeVorak. Until then. Adiosmo, foes. A hooey, hooey. And such. In fact, it was. It wasn't real, but it's spread cruising boat. They were spreading blood.

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