Starting point is 00:00:00 Okay, picture tents here. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, April 28, 2024. This year award-winning Kimmel Nation Media Assassination episode 1655. This is no agenda. Foraging for fragments of bird flu
Starting point is 00:00:15 and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern silicon valley where the correspondence dinner looks like it's on its last legs i'm john c devorek it's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning i didn't even i didn't even know it was on until of course not 10 30
Starting point is 00:00:39 last night why would you it was pathetic they used to i. I clipped some stuff from it. Oh, I got one. My clip is, if you notice what it says. No, I thought you didn't even get any clips. I didn't see anything. No, the clip is called Core Dinner Comic 2. Oh, wait. Is this the guy who did the Trump stuff?
Starting point is 00:01:13 Well, no. No, this is this the guy who did the trump stuff well no no this is just the keynote the main guy good because i didn't clip anything from jost yeah well he uh you notice it says comic two because i was first i started from the back i clipped a bit then i couldn't find you threw out comic one comic Comic One got thrown out. Is that what happened? Yeah, Comic One got thrown out. As well as Byte. By the way, you... I have the whole Biden bit. Well, you're not going to play the whole Biden bit in six minutes. No.
Starting point is 00:01:36 But you can't go out and do a roast. Biden did a kind of a crappy roast on Trump, but Trump wasn't there. That's why I clipped the comedian. It's a violation of all comedy rules. The whole thing was this. So this is what they call the nerd ball. And this is where the mainstream media gets together with their Hollywood buddies and they all go together and they all laugh about Trump and Fox News. And that's basically the whole thing and then kamala harris sat next to some guy who came right out of star trek deep space nine
Starting point is 00:02:12 who turned out to be a politico guy you see that the the black guy with the with the afro and he had like a keep going you're nailing it it's like what is you are basically nailing it. It's like, what is happening? You are basically nailing it. What is happening here? You're right. I think this was last legs for this thing. It was the mainstream media last... Gasp. Gasp, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:39 I mean, it'll be around forever, but people are tuning out. They're just not listening anymore. Well, it was bombing from the get-go. Yeah, it was pretty bad. Kelly O'Donnell, who's the new chief muckety-muck, the president of the club. Who was very excited. He was running around. I'm watching her.
Starting point is 00:03:06 Playing spot the spook. She comes up high on the list only because of her wiki page. There's a girl who's been a correspondent for NBC for 20, 30 years. She's the head of the Correspondents Association, which is not as minor operation. And her wiki page is so weird. It's missing everything. It's like,
Starting point is 00:03:23 why aren't they telling us this why aren't they telling us that yeah uh and she's she has all the earmarks of one of these people well that's all that's left i mean the the guests are all spooks i mean literally former cia former fbi general this colonel that and i mean why not might as well have them talking to each other. That's what it's all about. It's all about military industrial, I'm sorry, the defense industrial base and oil and gas control. That's all
Starting point is 00:03:54 that's going on right now. So, why not? We might as well do that and cover it up and make it look like news. So, nothing was funny. This guy, Jost, Jost, or however you pronounce his name jost jost he was bombing also came on there was well there was a lot of oh we're just stupid men our wives are better yeah that's a good point he's married to scarlett johansson everyone's like well clearly you know the the true star is here.
Starting point is 00:04:26 And he was even playing him like, what is that word I'm looking for? Where you, it's like feminization almost. And then Doug. I think the word you're looking for is pathetic. And then Doug, Doug, second fiddle. You're just, oh, becoming as the, got the, wearing the pants. Jill's wearing the pants. Everyone, all women are better than men in DC.
Starting point is 00:04:52 That's what it was. Yes. Pathetic. All right, let's play Jost. Fox News. Okay, this is, and this is, I believe, and it got nothing, not much of a response. Nothing did. This whole audience was dead as a doornail.
Starting point is 00:05:06 And when they shot pictures of the audience, and you heard a little, they had it mic'd a little bit so you can hear some laugh, but you saw nobody laughing. No, because most of it wasn't, except the co*ke joke, that was kind of funny. It was kind of funny, but it didn't go over well, which
Starting point is 00:05:22 it bombed too. And it had either a lot to do with the fact that the Democrats don't have any writers that can write comedy or stand-up style comedy in this era. But this is probably the funniest of the bits, I thought, because it brought in something you always like to bitch about. And I thought it was at least moderately okay but this was the tone of the whole event fox news is here tonight it's the end of an era rupert murdoch stepped down at fox news which is strange i didn't think there was a step down from fox news trump media is here trump media
Starting point is 00:05:59 not at a table just screaming loudly in the corner to no one. Wordle is here tonight. Sorry, sorry, I meant the New York Times. I forgot they do stuff in addition to puzzles. I have to say, it's not a great sign when the only thing keeping a print media company alive are games people play on their phones. Too chilling for you guys? Yeah, that was the only smart that even it was just embarrassing for everybody it's gotten so bad john the people don't even want to listen to our show anymore because we play mainstream media clips yeah i'm telling you i'm telling you no it's like a cancer
Starting point is 00:06:40 yeah i wonder what we're doing here i saw the donations come in i'm like okay short show short show everybody short show today short sheet short show yeah that's right short show and then i went as i want to also throw out my condolences to uh oh yes kester her husband or not has her brother, Brian, Brian Hoganson. He was the guy who had spinal cord cancer, some sort of weird cancer. Unfortunately, that passed away just before he received his knighting ring. It was a sad day for the show. Brian was a great guy. He's in Brownwood, Texas. You may have met him.
Starting point is 00:07:32 I think I probably did. Yeah. Yeah. So there's that. That's right. That didn't brighten my spirits. No. He's not donating anymore.
Starting point is 00:07:40 That's for sure. Come on. Nobody else is either. So what? Come on, everybody. Come on. Come on. It's supposed to lighten the mood a little bit but also i don't know about your email but we must be right over some kind of target because i'm getting it i'm getting flack from both sides um on one side no anti-semitism they're they're they're beating jews up they're doing this to the Jews.
Starting point is 00:08:05 They're horrible. I mean, this one lady was so mad at me. And then on the other side, clearly, clearly they are threatening you and your family. That's why you're lying. You're purposely doing all this. You're purposely saying that America controls Israel and settled the other way around.
Starting point is 00:08:24 We all know the Zionists control the world and so i'm like okay i got a i got a couple of those yeah you got they weren't the one you're the one that brought up the the concept that these uh the jewish the intimidation of jewish students on campus is overblown by mostly the right-wing media. And so you would get that flack because I didn't dive into that. Well, I've got more coming. I'm glutton for punishment. Let me just start with something
Starting point is 00:09:01 that was amazing to me this morning. I have a long memory for certain things. You skip over a period and you have a way longer memory. But this one goes back to the days when we... I mean, people are still using BlackBerrys, okay? The smartphones have been out for a couple of years. I mean, people are still using BlackBerrys, okay? The smartphones have been out for a couple of years.
Starting point is 00:09:27 This is still from the BlackBerry age, which means that there was social media, and Twitter was kind of there. We had YouTube, but it was very, very early days. And now it's like history repeating itself. The flotilla is back. The Ogdenists will lead the flotilla of three ships from Istanbul, carrying more than 5,000 metric tons of aid to Gaza, including medical supplies and food.
Starting point is 00:09:59 The flotilla is organized by a coalition of international and Turkish humanitarian groups. They say it's not just about delivering aid, but challenging what they describe as Israel's blockade on Gaza. They want Israel to allow aid to enter from Egypt. We hope to break the illegal naval blockade of Gaza that Israel has had on it for decades. We hope to certainly bring food, medicines that are needed by the people of Gaza. It's a small drop in the bucket. We're calling for the border of Rafah to be open where there's tons of food that's waiting. It's been 14 years since flotilla organizers last tried to break the blockade. The last time, Israeli commandos intercepted the Mavi Marmara, the vessel leading the flotilla.
Starting point is 00:10:45 The raid led to the deaths of 10 people. Activists say they are aware of the dangers they face, but say the risk is worth taking, considering the scale of the humanitarian crisis. So right there, 14 years ago, this exact same thing happened. They had the Freedom Flotilla. Now, of course, we didn't have social media the way we have it now today. It was like, oh, it's shocking because the IDF, they dropped people onto the main ship and there was some gunfire and people got killed. Let's go back to episode 205 of the no agenda show and listen to what we discussed then
Starting point is 00:11:27 yeah nice so i got a couple more clips of you unless you have some funny well no i well i i don't want to get to the end of the show and not having at least discussed the flotilla incident oh right yeah we have to talk about that so let's do right now. Yes. Let's get it out of the way. Okay. So here's what I'm seeing. I'm seeing that Turkey is getting a little bit too cozy with Iran mainly. And so this seems to be like a preemptive type of strike. I was listening to the BBC, the Turkish ship from people on board that I heard on the BBC admit that they set sail to break the blockade to be provocative. So, you know, it's like they set out to be provocative and they got, I guess, I guess they got what they were hoping to get.
Starting point is 00:12:25 Exactly. Provocative. So we're witnessing the same thing all over again. If you listen to episode 205, it was all about pipelines, all about oil, all about gas offshore. It's the same thing. But no, no, no, no. It's anti-Semitism. We've got to stop the anti-semitism everywhere it's horrible and by the way when someone says uh i hate zionists or i hate jews fine call it
Starting point is 00:12:55 anti-semitism it's also free speech and that's ending they've played both sides on this played them because now we got the legislation coming. First, here's Robert Cohen, professor of history at NYU. You have the donors threatening them, Congress threatening them, so there's a lot of pressure. They could lose their job. If the president of Harvard loses their job because of what's seen as inadequately repressive policing of these demonstrations, then anybody could lose their job. And what's dangerous about that is that who's going to protect free speech and academic freedom if the college and university presidents are under this pressure and are afraid? Given Congress's hostility to
Starting point is 00:13:36 these demonstrations, which are equated with terrorism and Hamas sympathizers and anti-Semitism that they want these demonstrations to be suppressed. I didn't see any anti-Semitic incidents. And I'm Jewish. I was there for a while and it was kind of welcome. So I only have two more clips. I just want to get this out of my system. So now they're coming up with anti-Semitism legislation,
Starting point is 00:14:03 which is an inherent restriction on free speech. And while everyone's fighting, they're going to start passing stuff that's not. Hello, Australia. Hello, EU. Hello, UK. America is close behind. Just next week on the House calendars just added that the House is going to be taking up the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. This is a bill that was actually written in a bipartisan way all the way back in October, after the October 7th attacks in Israel. But since then, it has been sort of dormant. It could get new life now.
Starting point is 00:14:39 And what this bill would do, if it became law, is redefine what it means to be incorporated into anti-Semitic acts of harassment. The definition would change to include denying Jewish self-determination to their ancestral homeland of Israel and also holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the government of Israel. So in real terms, what that means is certain protest chants that we're hearing across university campuses around the country and at other pro-Palestinian rallies could all of a sudden now become punishable under federal anti-discrimination laws. So potentially this could have an impact right away. Over in the Senate, there's also a similar version to this. We're not sure exactly what the Senate's going to do with that if it will move along with this House bill. But this all comes
Starting point is 00:15:31 in the wake of Speaker Mike Johnson going to Columbia University in that dramatic fashion, addressing some of the protesters directly and on camera also giving that address. And he said also that universities may end up losing federal funding if they can't control some of the protests that we've been seeing. So here it comes, just as I said. Stop, stop, stop. So I think maybe one of the reasons donations is down because I don't give, or you and I both don't do this enough,
Starting point is 00:16:02 which is that's Clip of the Day. Oh, wow. Well, thank is that's clip of the day. Oh, wow. Well, thank you. Oh, wow. Donations shot up. Oh, wow. Groovy. Now, MSNBC went into a little bit of detail.
Starting point is 00:16:17 Keywords coming up. Well, this bill would do a lot, and it really is a monumental piece of legislation from a bipartisan group in the House and the Senate led by Jackie Rosen. She is one of the first Jewish women to serve in the Senate. So certainly this has symbolic meaning for her. But this bill would create a point person, essentially a strategic advisor to the president of any administration. This doesn't just tap out with President Biden. It's supposed to be a role in which this person advises interagencies, has
Starting point is 00:16:44 coordination not only with the federal government, but also the Department of Education, for example, when it comes to anti-Semitism in higher education. Also coming out with a strategy and implementing that plan online as well. Chris, nine in ten Jewish Americans feel like anti-Semitism is the highest it's ever been. That's according to a new few research poll from last week this is something that of course has bubbled over after the oktober 7th tamas attack on israel and israel's invasion of gaza since that has claimed many lives okay so there it is on spun up by the way the so you get spun up by the mainstream media now it's the worst thing it is worse than ever yeah yeah well here's the point online as well uh i don't know if people have been watching what's happening in the uk
Starting point is 00:17:32 but if you go on uh facebook or instagram or x and you say oh you're dumb tranny did you say x x you say hey you dumb tranny. You get arrested. You get arrested. This is true. This is coming here. In England and Canada is going to be this way. This is coming. If it isn't already in Australia, for sure. So while everybody's all upset about who's to blame and meanwhile, Mike Johnson, he's been captured.
Starting point is 00:18:06 And we're all fighting and they're dividing and they're going to actually shut down your speech. And no one is standing up and going, hold on a second. No, I have the right to say whatever I want about an Arab, a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian, whatever. That's the right that we have inherent in this country, in our country. And we're letting it just, oh, we're all arguing about other Zionists. Oh, no, it's horrible. And the Palestinians, it's all bad. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:18:42 Go ahead. Hey, listen. Look. Look. bad go ahead go ahead i'm hey listen look tina look tina can take her social security in in two months i'm only two years away i'm good i'm good i'm gonna sit back and do something else but it's it's all gonna shut down if we don't pay attention. There you go. That was good. Yeah, thanks. Let me see. It's pathetic.
Starting point is 00:19:11 No, it's super pathetic. And meanwhile, this is being used everywhere. And, you know, this is also when you saw that correspondence dinner, which I think you rightly pointed out has been taken over by spooks. Totally. So it's not funny because of all the things, I mean, we have no qualms with the intelligence agencies. We try to figure
Starting point is 00:19:33 out what they're up to. But they're largely humorless. They're not good at humor. That's true. They're not funny guys. So you see this correspondent's dinner and there's nothing funny going on. And the terror that's written for Biden was, I would call it the only way to put it, chicken sh*t. It was it was weak. It was like it was. But it was also chicken sh*t.
Starting point is 00:19:59 He's he's might as well be doing the fart farting in court jokes. He might as well be doing the farting in court jokes. And I was thinking about that. I was going through some stuff, and I realized one of the things that's disappeared, and it kind of disappeared in the, I guess, during the Clinton administration, when political correctness really started taking hold, which was in the late 70s, in fact, college humor magazines have all disappeared. I used to be the joke editor for the California Pelican. And the California Pelican went
Starting point is 00:20:36 out of business in 1980-something. And all the college humor magazines went out of business. And one of the things you did as the joke editor is you looked at all the other college magazines and stole their jokes and put it in yours and it was just basically stealing material i could still remember a number of the jokes i stole and uh but there was none left i mean the harvard lampoon i think was last one, and it became kind of semi... No, now we have the Babylon Bee. That's all that's left. Yeah, even the onion, it can't perform. Nope.
Starting point is 00:21:14 But listen to this. 2010, we had this exact same argument, even though it was really about defense industrial base, resources, who controls energy in the world. That was 2010. What happened in 2011? I just looked it up. Bullying laws. Remember the bullying laws? This is what started it all off.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Bullying. Oh, we had to have a task force. Because Minnesota has one of the weakest bullying laws in the nation, Governor Dayton announced a task force to recommend changes. You know, witness that children in Minnesota are being subjected to a form of harassment, a form of emotional torture. Emotional torture. And people in authority are not responding and not preventing that, not acting upon it. It's just something that's so un-Minnesotan that it's hard to fathom. The governor's executive order forms a task force of no more than 15 people, including the commissioners of education and public safety. It's to make its recommendations to the governor no later than next August 1st.
Starting point is 00:22:19 But one of the challenges is engaging kids themselves. At the bullying hotline and website at the Pacer Center in Bloomington, counselors say one of the number one reasons kids don't report bullying is because they're afraid they'll be next. If you look at our clip list, there's 50, that was from 2011. This is how they do it.
Starting point is 00:22:43 It's a repeat of history, repeat and as churchill said those who do not learn from history are doomed and bound to repeat it and here we go here we go so but now it's going to be a little more interesting particularly since the president can determine any app that is you know as foreign interest can be shut down um illegal or non-legal traffic can be shut down by your isp thanks to the fcc vote everything is going to be monitored yes i do in fact i think i do i have a clip on the uh passage of this do you think you have that we talked about it on the last show i don't know they were voting on it they were voting on it last on thursday neutrality is back clipped oh yeah here we go the fcc is promising sat a safe fast and reliable internet for all after it voted to restore its regulatory power
Starting point is 00:23:37 over internet service providers and peers emma has more this week the fcc passed a measure to reclassify broadband as a public utility like like water or electricity, deeming it an essential service. This effectively restores the Obama-era net neutrality rules that were rolled back under President Trump. Net neutrality means broadband companies like Comcast and AT&T can't deliberately slow down Internet speeds for customers. can't deliberately slow down internet speeds for customers. There's no pay-to-play for faster speeds and no favoritism for certain content, which could stifle competition from services such as Netflix or Spotify.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Telecom companies are expected to sue the FCC. They argue the rules are government overreach and try to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Oh, yeah, don't worry. They're going to solve problems. They're going to block Tor exit nodes. It's all coming. It's all coming. It's all coming.
Starting point is 00:24:27 I wanted to, I like to, I like the use of the word safe. I mean, you would get the safe and fast, but not safe and effective, but safe and fast. We don't want safe.
Starting point is 00:24:36 This is safe. What does that mean? Safe means no pesky podcasts. Well, actually that's, that will be the last to go. Cause you know, we,
Starting point is 00:24:44 we've decentralized that enough but you know rumble youtube everything will be safe like aol aol was safe safe it was it was safe and effective trt turkish radio television keyword had a reasonable overview of what are effectively Black Lives Matter protests part two, which are now worldwide, of course, being used for different means. And they don't have to go after free speech in the UK anymore. They've already they already tamped that down with the Digital Services Act. So, you know, you're already screwed if you want to say speak your mind in the UK. Here's an overview. The push for Palestinian freedom.
Starting point is 00:25:34 Student solidarity has grown at George Washington University, despite police penning protesters in. Student Selina Al-Shahabi, camped out since Tuesday, has been part of negotiations with the university. GW's response, administration's responses. I love these kids who've been chanting so much that their voices are shot. They're all over the place. Part of negotiations with the university. GW's response, administration's responses.
Starting point is 00:26:03 They kind of just want us out. It's clear by their deployment response is they kind of just want us out. It's clear by their deployment of police trying to barricade us in. They've already suspended seven students. It's clear they don't want to listen to students. They just want to kick us out, shut us down. And that is disgusting. Professors like Barbara Wien have been joining
Starting point is 00:26:19 students every day to show their support. The students are the teachers. Oh yeah, oh yeah. This is, here it is. Get your pronouns ready, lady, because the students are the teachers. The students are the teachers
Starting point is 00:26:35 and they are the conscience of the country. They're the moral compass. They're the moral barometer. They're idiots. Student-led protests have spread quickly in the last week with encampments springing up at dozens of universities. Their demands follow a common theme for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for institutions like this one to cut ties with firms supporting Israel. The protesters say are complicit in the bloodshed. However, hundreds of arrests have turned some colleges into battlegrounds between police and protesters.
Starting point is 00:27:09 This is insane. I just saw police use unnecessary violence for peaceful protesters. I saw police knock students to the ground. For me personally, I'm planning to stay here until our demands are met or they're going to have to drag me out of here. That guy who just heard there, he's 30 years old. These people are not all college students. This is completely fabricated. Again, you've got all the green tents. You've even got lawyers walking around with green baseball caps.
Starting point is 00:27:37 The green stuff. Oh, so green. It was a discussion. I thought about clipping it, but I didn't. It was on PBS, and it was a couple of professors going back and forth about how people are handling this. And it was noted that the old pros, like University of California at Berkeley, okay, pitch your tents here. Just don't get in the way.
Starting point is 00:28:01 You can stay here as long as you want. And they didn't bring any cops in or anything. So there's just a bunch of idiots sleeping in tents. Privileged idiots. Privileged idiots. Privileged idiots sleeping in tents. Very privileged. I slept in a tent.
Starting point is 00:28:16 And so, meanwhile, in Columbia and other places where they bring in the police, it goes bad. It goes sour because but you know at berkeley they've understood this for because they have experience it goes back on this you don't do that and when they have when it goes south like it does at columbia all these outsiders come in because that's where the action is and it just makes it worse uh but these are the inexperienced and they attributed it to middle management and upper management at schools that have no experience with student protests whatsoever. And they just they will they're bound to screw it up and make a mess. So that's what's going on.
Starting point is 00:28:56 So here's the so it's Black Lives Matter, the same people. And this is the BDS crowd. So boycott, divest and sanction. They all want the, oh, you know, like universities, of course. I mean, they're not actually educating anybody. They're investing in companies, apparently. So, boy, you've got to divest from all your investments. If it wasn't in oil companies, now it can't be in, I guess, defense companies.
Starting point is 00:29:23 I don't know what other industry does Israel have. And then, oh, you know what? Let's bring out Angela Davis. Renowned civil rights activist, professor and author Angela Davis, surprising those staking out on Tivoli Kwan. They say you shouldn't meet your heroes,
Starting point is 00:29:36 but like she lived up to it. Davis emphasizing what this means for history. You will be the historical actors who made it possible for a breakthrough in the struggle against Zionism. Despite the wet weather, protesters continue to occupy the lawn and plan to sleep here overnight. I'm not a politician. I don't have all the answers, but I do have the passion and the will to try and get our politicians to do their job.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Demanding full transparency from CU about this fight. Oh, stop. Where was this? Where did Angela Davis show up? She's from the Bay Area, as far as I know. Denver. Denver's. Oh, she went to Denver.
Starting point is 00:30:16 Oh, okay. And let's remember, Angela Davis is a out-and-out Marxist slash communist. Yes, of course. But this is what it is. Letist and Marxist communist. Yes, of course. But this is what it is. Let's see what she says. And it's in, you know, and then the cops are brought in and oh, well, you know, there's all cops. All cops are bastards.
Starting point is 00:30:34 They're horrible. It's it's where the bricks, pigs, where the bricks bring out the bricks. We can throw some bricks. Demanding full transparency from CU about the school's financial investments. Joining hundreds of other campus protests across the country demanding change protest is the peaceful defiance of unjust rules and if we being real this ain't in my script i love this lady and we're being real and then she puts her phone down this isn't in my script because she's an actress and if we're being real this ain't in
Starting point is 00:31:05 my script they lucky you ain't burning down they're lucky oh yeah they're lucky oh they're lucky when i burned out now in london little different the organizers there are all members of the labor party and they want to have elections i have not seen anything like this is absolutely incredible on several fronts. We've been coming out for seven months and we haven't seen the numbers dwindle. And this has been spreading outside London. Today marks the 13th national demonstration for Palestine, where tens of thousands are back on the streets of the capital from all over the country.
Starting point is 00:31:41 By the way, all these people, that guy you heard in the beginning and the next speaker, capital from all over the country. By the way, all these people, that guy you heard in the beginning and the next speaker, all Labour Party members. And they've got professional signs, World Workers Party, Socialist Party. This is a political move they're making here. But the political pressure is mounting from all sides. This movement is facing increasing propaganda against it. The British Zionist lobby say marches like this one are anti-Semitic. However, the British Jewish community leaders and individuals on these very marches say this isn't about religion, it's about humanity. We're openly Jewish, we're on the march, we're calling for ceasefire now. Jews are not under threat. People who defend genocide will be criticised.
Starting point is 00:32:25 What's going on in Gaza is a stain on humanity and we all must raise our voices to see it ended as soon as possible. As the death toll soars to more than 34,000 in Gaza, it's business as usual for arms sales from the UK to Israel. The UK government is now facing a legal challenge, as many point to possible breaches of international law. There you go, arms sales, of course. And then, more political strife, more protests.
Starting point is 00:32:54 I don't know, it's still in the Red Book. I'm on the fence again. A sea of white and blue flags on the streets of Tel Aviv. Thousands of Israelis demanding that the government bring their compatriots home. But after almost seven months of war and with no hostage deal in sight, many are turning their fury on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government. Families of the hostages, we are gathered to call upon the cabinet members, get out of government if you can't secure a hostage deal now.
Starting point is 00:33:28 This is job number one of the government of Israel. Job number one. And they failed dramatically. They should go, all the release of all hostages is their top priority. But many are losing faith that Israeli leaders are really doing all that they can. I want for elections to be held, not in a year or two, but right now, as soon as possible. I want all the hostages back because I can see the government does not want them back. They want to make this war go as long as possible. We've been terrorized by our government, by our leadership. For more than six months, they haven't been doing whatever they needed to do. As Hamas considers Israel's latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, negotiators have hinted that a hostage deal might be close.
Starting point is 00:34:36 So that's Deutsche Welle, so our intelligence services. So you're like, oh, let's put Bibi under a little bit of pressure there. Oh, Bibi. Oh, Bibi. You better get something going on there. Move along, I guess. What's that? I said, well, I's put BB under a little bit of pressure there. Oh, BB. Oh, BB. You better get something going on there. I'm going to move along, I guess. What's that? I'm going to move along. By the way, I should mention this.
Starting point is 00:34:51 You brought in the UK, one of the friends of the show. Do we have friends left? Yes. friends left we guess he wants to make me let it be known that the labor is going to totally kick ass in the next elections oh i believe it take over the country and the next prime minister for people who want to kind of keep or placing bets for you betters out there's this keyer starmer creep which is basically what it is it will be the next prime minister what's his name keir key k-e-i-r starmer s-t-a-r-m-e-r so they're going full-on uh and he's a socialist communist basically yeah excellent and they won't be able to say anything
Starting point is 00:35:44 you know because you can't now so now you and i are staunchly anti-war anti-death we don't like any of that and it's like we don't like this horrible 34 000 people dead it's so unbelievable to me that we don't talk about the hundreds of thousands that are dead in ukraine our closest ally who we just sent no i'm sorry even bring up africa no no no then people will run away and then and this is the latest barely gets any news but i love the terms it's very short clip and i love what's happening as russia steps up its attacks ukraine says it will suspend consular services for military-aged men abroad. Authorities now want to ensure that men aged between 18 and 60 living abroad return home.
Starting point is 00:36:31 But many Ukrainians say they are being unfairly targeted. Military-aged men now is between 18 and 60. 60. Can you imagine me getting a call? Can that put you in the crosshairs? Right there. It's like, hey, we can use you as cannon fodder for a couple of months. And these guys are all...
Starting point is 00:36:52 Because you can last probably for a while. No, no, no, no. No. It's... Who cares? They're Ukrainians. It's not the same thing. They're not brown.
Starting point is 00:37:04 So before we leave the middle east i do have this i had this wow clip which is my rebelized clip this is just one of these things that i i picked i pulled down from pbs news hour that to me it was just like a head shaker you go okay uh you know for one thing they make a big thing about the Israelis going to Rafah. No, no, don't do that. They already did it. And here's the clip. Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel tonight, hoping to revive talks for a hostage deal and ceasefire with Hamas.
Starting point is 00:37:40 But Cairo also warned against an Israeli assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah along the border with Egypt. Much of Gaza has already been reduced to a wasteland, with UN officials estimating 37 million tons of debris to be removed. They said today that the cleanup operation will be a mammoth job. With 100 trucks, we're talking about 14 years of work with 100 trucks. So that's based on that figure, 14 years to remove with approximately 750,000 work days, person work days to remove the debris. Wow.
Starting point is 00:38:19 Wow. Wow. That is rubbleized. That's rubbleized right there. And then they're saying, don't go in there for what you just stub your toe i mean there's no nothing there i don't believe but you know you're heartless you're heartless 14 years of cleanup you're heartless dvorak anyway right on cue right on cue we pass we pass the bill the money's in and as you mentioned ukraine is also
Starting point is 00:38:46 asking for these patriot um batteries and europe it's european allies seem to have those batteries but securing them won't be as easy as it seems yes ukraine says that their allies in europe have 100 of these patriot systems which are which are extremely effective. And they're saying, if we can get seven systems that you have out of 100 that you have, dear allies, well, this would be enough to block the bulk of Russian attacks. That's what the Ukrainians are saying. But it's not easy because European countries, if they give away their defense systems, well, they're losing some deterrence. Countries like Greece and Spain, they've been asked to give away some of their missiles, not the missiles, the defense systems, some interceptors. And, well, they've been saying, well, you know, we don't really want to give them
Starting point is 00:39:41 away, even though we're allies with Ukraine. And the U.S. is saying that they're going to send fast. They're going to rush in some patriots, but not the systems themselves, only the missiles that intercept, you know, the missiles coming in from Russia. This woman was so out of breath by the end of this report. She was just beside herself. What was this? France 24. France 24. They have a couple of these breathless reporters and that's just the way they are all the time she's always like this
Starting point is 00:40:12 she's just like she just ran up a flight of steps and she's trying to catch her breath so i have a terrible reporter i have a boots on the ground report and then uh i want to show you how this works in practice uh because you know we we passed 96 billion dollars worth and you know ukraine aid israel aid and we all know that we well we read the bill it's a procurement yes no more reading bills it doesn't help the donations oh you're gonna blame you're gonna blame that on the donation i do i have to blame that on the donations? I do. I have to blame somebody. Wow. How about your newsletter was no good? Oh, there he is. He can't take it.
Starting point is 00:40:50 People are always saying, you don't read legislation anymore. I do it and they run away. You're right. That's the end of it. So, boots on the ground. I work in the belly of the beast. Wait, hold on a second. You stopped me in my tracks.
Starting point is 00:41:03 People have said to you continue more legislation oh yeah oh yeah what kind of nutty listeners do we have here out there that aren't donating anyway if they should have coughed up some big bucks for that yeah no no not not even not even another they should have done double because you marked it up and posted it. Not even an attaboy. Nothing. Crickets. I'm never doing it again.
Starting point is 00:41:31 So, it was 270 pages. All right. Now, listen to this. I work in the belly of the beast at an Air Force base where a couple of F-35 squadrons are based and was in a fairly high-level meeting this week where a couple interesting details were mentioned. The first is that now Finland is a member of NATO. They will be purchasing F-35 ASAP. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:41:55 Good. Good for our GDP. Each of these is in the neighborhood of 90 million dollars just to manufacture. And that goes without mentioning whatever cost increase will happen for a foreign military sale. This doesn't even begin to get into what it will cost Finland to maintain these jets. You see, Lockheed Martin is a real pain to work with on this because the government let them keep all of the data rights, so they, Lockheed Martin, gets to decide how, where, and who performs the maintenance work. Of course, since they own the data rights, they will take a cut everywhere they can
Starting point is 00:42:26 because they have to be involved in everything. If you ask me, Lockheed Martin is probably the one that convinced Finland to join NATO. See where this is going, people? It's all about money. I like it. Second, the Air Force is being told that money for large projects will be scarce
Starting point is 00:42:41 within the Department of Defense because the Navy needs it all to move naval bases due to the rise of sea level. My best guess is that the leaders in the Navy know they aren't about to get flooded, but they see an opportunity to take advantage of a bunch of idiots and get a bunch of cash coming their way. It's the Navy.
Starting point is 00:43:05 Who cares whether they're flooded? They got boats. Our boots on the ground suggests maybe they should build a base on John's mudflats since they seem to be immune from the sea level rise. Yeah, I'm looking out there right now, by the way. Yep. Nothing's changed. As an aside, this conversation came up because we are perpetually out of money for large projects. It's wild to see $1 trillion worth of funding go to the Department of Defense,
Starting point is 00:43:33 but basically none of it makes it down the chain due to so much fraud. And third, he says, you are absolutely correct about ramping up for China. We are sent briefings about the threat from China regularly, and they are getting more frequent. The latest one was all about how projecting out to 2025, China will have more planes, more ships and missiles than all of the US, Australia, Japan and South Korea put together. The message was pretty clear. We have to build more stuff and we can't let them steal our designs. I'll also mention that I have never seen a briefing about the threat from Russia,
Starting point is 00:44:10 ISIS, North Korea, or anyone else. It's all China all the time. And so now we get to, oh, you know what? We got another $100 billion. Well, all right then. Remember we had that 7.8 billion earmarked for uh for ukraine for actual money going to ukraine which is now partially being released this was not a big news item and it's being released so they can buy our stuff let's bring in our louis martinez um covers the pentagon for us also mcmulroy uh our security and defense analyst. Let's start with you, Louie, and just talk about this aid package. Clearly, this is a part of that massive foreign aid package that we announced or President Biden announced just days ago. Now getting into the nitty gritty of exactly what this means for Ukraine and Israel.
Starting point is 00:45:05 No, you're right, Kara. It's been a really busy week with regards to Ukraine and the funding levels, the $95 billion of which $60 billion of it was intended for Ukraine. And immediately after that, we saw the billion dollars in immediate aid. These are weapons in the U.S. inventory that are being provided immediately. So this $1 billion went immediately for Ukraine to spend on buying stuff from our contractors. Okay, that's $1 billion went immediately for Ukraine to spend on buying stuff from our contractors. Okay, that's $1 million. To Ukraine. But there's another portion of that money which goes towards future weapons buys.
Starting point is 00:45:33 Buys. That's where the $6 billion is. The Pentagon just announced an additional $6 billion, $7 billion total, so about $800 million left. The Secretary of State announced just came in. This is $6 billion that the United States will provide so that Ukraine can purchase additional new weapons. From whom? The focus here is on air defense. You heard him talking specifically about more artillery ammunition.
Starting point is 00:45:58 You heard him specifically talking about more missiles for those Patriot systems. You also heard Defense Secretary Austin talking about how the United States and other countries are going to, it seems like, try to provide more Patriot systems, those launchers that Ukraine is so desperately asking for, as Russia keeps launching more attacks on Ukraine's cities. The question is, when will they arrive, given that they're in such dire need? So, three days ago attack them attack them attack them attack them which the president of the united states does not have to give we read that in the legislation again i i repent i'm sorry i did that
Starting point is 00:46:34 um so and now it's oh patriots we need missiles patriots patriots patriots all right here's six billion dollars up. Buy it from those guys. It's all a buy bill. It's insane. Okay. We're being ripped off. What? We're being ripped off.
Starting point is 00:46:57 Those gambling? Yeah, ripped off. Unbelievable. What a jip. It's a jip. What a jip. Yeah.ip yeah all right anyway that's that's my presentation that's your rant that's my present that's my presentation you're fed up well i'm not i'm i'm fed up i'm sad no i'm sad that uh that people are falling into the same trap of arguing on social media spurred on often by
Starting point is 00:47:29 the the king i should say the queen of social media elon musk which everyone think oh he's he's without him we wouldn't have free speech you wait what's coming with x you wait you wait what's coming with X. You wait. You wait. Or you'll have your free speech when he has your payment details so we can find you. You just wait. It's all coming down. But in the meantime, I'm going to send this podcaster
Starting point is 00:47:57 a piece of my mind. I think you'd get more. You've probably got more. I got some targeted notes, but you'd'd get more. You probably got more. I got some targeted notes, but you probably got the brunt of it. But when people say, why did you purposely lie? What are you talking about? To what benefit? To what?
Starting point is 00:48:20 I'm convinced you're either. What was the lie? I didn't get that. to what i'm convinced what was the lie i i didn't get that oh the lie is that i said based upon i think good evidence that good historical comparisons which partially came from that hudson professor is that the united states is running the energy all around the world we've been doing it for a long time, the Project for New American Century, which required the world trade,
Starting point is 00:48:50 required to get us into war, which when, you know, instead of going to Afghanistan, we went to Iraq. What? Okay. Aluminum tubes. Then we killed a million Iraqis. We stole all the oil. Yellow cake.
Starting point is 00:49:03 We're still in Syria, but somehow the Jews are running us. Stop it. It's ridiculous on its face. People are stuck in that. And then when you say, hey, it ain't all that bad, then you get the pro-Palestinian people.
Starting point is 00:49:20 So we are right over the target because it's coming in from both sides. This is like COVID. It's flack. It's flack. It's just like being in a B-29. It's like COVID in the beginning. Remember Ukraine and Russia?
Starting point is 00:49:32 You guys are on the wrong side of history. Yeah. We lost. We lost. But then Tucker does an interview with Putin. Oh, well, you know, hey, it's pretty good now. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:43 He went to a grocery store even. But people, people, we can't save them. That's unsavable. I'm glad I'm old. I'm glad I can retire. Well, I don't think I'm going to make four more years. I'm going to do something else. Podcast pastor. There you go.
Starting point is 00:50:00 I'll do something else. Podcast pastor. Podcast past guest. Anything. I have three clips about the protests. I want to get them out of the way. Okay. Good to go.
Starting point is 00:50:10 These are student protests. Let's start a student protest rap and PR. Here we go. Student protests in solidarity with Gaza have spread to campuses across the U.S., demanding that universities disclose financial ties to Israel and divest. And here's Jasmine Garst has more. The protests have moved into schools not historically associated with activism, like the University of Southern California. Several schools have come under fire for allowing police to come onto campus.
Starting point is 00:50:41 Over 100 protesters were arrested at Columbia University last week. The University of Texas in Austin and the University of Southern California also saw student activists arrested. At Emory in Georgia, the student newspaper reported that the Atlanta police deployed tear gas into the crowd of protesters. With graduation nearing, many universities are changing plans. The University of Southern California has canceled its main ceremony. Columbia says it's negotiating with student protesters to have the campus cleared by May 15th for graduation. Graduation. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:19 All right. So there's that's the catch up. And then we have I have this WTF clip, which is a clip I always put aside. Short, this is short. This is at seven seconds of something. Let's see what it is. To continue negotiating with the students and getting that encampment cleared in time for graduation on May 14th.
Starting point is 00:51:38 Okay. Oh, yes. I'm glad we played that. So what was weird about that clip, you think? Let me listen to it again. To continue negotiating with the students and getting that encampment cleared in time for graduation on May 14th. Graduation on May 14th? Is that a... I don't know. I didn't go to college, so I don't know anything about that.
Starting point is 00:51:59 Well, you went to high school. In Holland. Well, wherever you went, May 14th? I i mean it seems to me you'd be graduating in june it's been a long time you know at least mid to mid june not may april may this is long so we got what at may 14th as school ends on may 14th and what the teachers professors whatever they are call it what you want what What, they get five months off? I mean, what is that? Because they know they don't get back until October.
Starting point is 00:52:30 When did they tighten the year? So why you might as well graduate them now because they're not going to learn anything more. You act like these degrees are of any value, that they mean anything. Well, you can make that point. You can make that point. The third clip is the jews in protests at columbia okay there have been charges of anti-semitism uh at some of these protests what did you find on campus so yesterday at a press conference hosted by columbia barnard hillel several pro-Israel students expressed fear and anger. Here's Noah Fay. No one is above the law. Arrest the students on Butler Long and discipline those
Starting point is 00:53:13 that continue to call for the death of my friends and family. Look at me, the Jew facing this. I am not afraid anymore. So why should the administration be? She pointed out that one of the leaders of the Colombia encampment in a social media video called for the death of Zionists. He's since apologized and been barred from campus. Now, a few days ago, I also had a chance to sit down with Sarah Boris. She's one of the students who were arrested last week at Colombia. She's been suspended. She can't go back on campus. She herself is Jewish. And she says the only thing making her feel unsafe right now is the heightened police presence. In my capacity as a Jewish student, I feel safe, but not with all of the militarization of our
Starting point is 00:53:59 campus. I don't think anyone feels safe on our campus because of the way that Manoush Shafiq and the administration have escalated the situation. And what she told me is she feels protesting Israel's mass killings makes her a better Jew. OK. I just did that. I'm sorry. That's funny. No, that's funny. That's funny.
Starting point is 00:54:22 Yes, very funny. All right. Let me ask you some questions here. That's funny. No, that's funny. That's funny. Yes, very funny. All right, let me ask you some questions here.
Starting point is 00:54:32 So the comparisons are made between the protests and Kent State and the shot some students. But this, and of course, I wasn't really consciously aware of those things because it was a little before my time. But weren't the protests at the time, because the comparisons are being made. Yeah. Oh, look at these military aged men coming in with the police. Wasn't that about the draft and Vietnam? It was about Vietnam, period. We should give these kids something
Starting point is 00:54:58 to really protest about. Well. Draft them. I find this to be rather, you know, for example, and we talk about on this show even though people don't appreciate it uh the number of dead ukrainians is up through the roof and it's like that's the genocide it's almost a complete elimination of the
Starting point is 00:55:18 of the ukrainian from the ukraine's from the gene pool uh they're africa we which we rarely talk about because that really kills us yep there's hundreds of thousands of dead because of all these little skirmishes that are going on around here and there all throughout africa we did we uh we were militarized chad and we just left it we don't we haven't talked about that at all on the show because nobody cares. And so if you're going to be that concerned about, you know, these sorts of conflagrations as a student, why aren't you concerned about these other ones? You don't give a crap about anybody. But Palestinians? They don't know. Have you been to Palestine?
Starting point is 00:56:00 Have any of these students, if you've been to Israel, let alone Palestine? I don't think so. No, neither. Can they point to it on a map? Probably not. No. This is Black Lives Matter activation. That's what it is.
Starting point is 00:56:10 It gives everybody a chance to go out and do speeches, write books, do TV appearances. You can meet chicks, man. You can meet chicks. You can meet chicks. That's right. Meanwhile, there's... They got facial tattoos. It's kind of a drawback.
Starting point is 00:56:22 There's some interesting similarities between the EU and what's happening here in the United States. This seems to be a trend that is growing. It's a measure that's gaining traction. Nighttime curfews for minors as a means to allegedly curb youth violence. The first of this most recent spate of curfews began when Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on a visit to the French territory of Guadeloupe that a point-à-pique curfew for those under 18 would begin April 22nd. The measure, the government says, is an attempt to curb rising violence. For police officers, the week began with ID checks and phone calls home to parents.
Starting point is 00:57:02 OK, so we have a curfew because i guess it's dangerous that kids are on the street kids kids and but this is now happening in new jersey in newark specifically they say they want to focus on making children making sure that children are safe and they want to make sure that the families have the help they need to do so. So this new summer initiative, they are calling the Summer of Hope. So unless they're involved in a city, church, or organization-involved activity, children 17 and under cannot be out by themselves within 100 yards from their home. This expanded plan now has social workers who will make contact with those kids who are caught violating the curfew. They will first focus on trying to get the child back to an adult family member,
Starting point is 00:57:50 or the city has a re-engagement center that those kids will be taken to, or even the hospital until a relative is found. And any family that seems to be in crisis, where some intervention might lead to a happier, safer home, that too will now be available. Kind of flows into your observation that parents are going to be blamed for everything. Yeah. So what is this? That's coming.
Starting point is 00:58:14 Since when do we have curfew for people under 18? What is this? This is troubling. I recall it from this, I think, when I was a little kid. What? They used to have curfews all over the country, yeah. Okay. What were the socioeconomic circ*mstances at the time?
Starting point is 00:58:37 It was something, I think it fell back. I think it stemmed from the leftover ideas from the 30s or 40s. No, but what... When there were curfews during the war. Yeah, there were curfews. I remember distinctly as a little kid... I don't. ...that there were curfews and people were talking.
Starting point is 00:58:56 It was like a 10 o'clock curfew for every teenager. Yeah. I think that lasted until the... I don't know when it stopped, to't know the stop until until the roaring 20s this is a biden joke so uh no it's not unusual i think the history of curfews in this country is uh maybe just forgotten history um anyway but you know just looking at at france it doesn't really matter because president macron has made very clear where they're headed europe could die what europe could die europe could die that was one of emmanuel macron's key warnings on thursday
Starting point is 00:59:38 in a landmark speech at the sorbonne university in par. The French president's rallying cry involved a range of topics, including Europe's cyber security, relations with post-Brexit Britain, Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine, and Europe's challenges faced with major competitors who play by different rules. Europe could die. Send your checks. Europe could die. What was the point of that what is he trying to uh what what is he what is he trying to either elicit he's trying to scare people he's trying to scare people but but scare him anyway how does that scare him okay into what does it
Starting point is 01:00:19 mean what does it mean they're gonna i mean the kids they are. Farmland's not going to go away. So when they put all the earth, when people are taxed for climate change and military purchases, that they'll feel good about it because, you know, we could die. You might die. I mean, come on. You might die. By the way, Craig Weinberg says they've got a curfew for youth in their town. He says, how many curfews do we have in America?
Starting point is 01:00:45 This is interesting. I'd love to know. Yeah, I think there's more than you think. Clearly. I mean, if we need a curfew, is it going to be for the cicadas? Oh, brother. Have you heard any...
Starting point is 01:00:57 It's starting now. It's finally starting. No, it can't be starting yet. Oh, yeah. This is the time. This is two of the biggest broods is like the they like to call them i think it's number 13 and 8 or something i can't know the numbers so we have a lot of them in the united states is crawling with circadian with cicadas or cicada cicadas tomato tomato
Starting point is 01:01:19 they uh this these two groups combined is going to be a nightmare. You want to hear this report from NBC? Yeah, I'd love that. Somebody suggested that we use it as a foundational story for donations. I don't know how. Well... If a cicada lands on your... And it will if you're in the area.
Starting point is 01:01:43 One of them is going to land on you. They're going to land right on your shoulder, and it'll scare you, and that means you should donate $500. Well, I love in this report how this is of biblical proportions. It's set to be the biggest invasion in hundreds of years. Not millions, not billions, but likely trillions of these pesky, incredibly loud cicadas. And right here in Georgia, the invasion has begun. It is shocking to see this many. And they're already coming out in South Carolina, where they're taking over Sarah Weinberg's
Starting point is 01:02:21 backyard. Did you think he was going to be this bad? No. No. I really wasn't prepared because I've never seen this before. Yeah. This is my first invasion. Okay. They moved in and they have stayed. Stayed mostly under her gazebo, clinging onto every corner and crevice.
Starting point is 01:02:41 They think this is a safe spot. It's already getting so loud in Newberry County, people are calling the sheriff to complain. We had a leap year. We had eclipse. Now we've got cicadas everywhere. Why so many this year? One set of cicadas comes out every 17 years, another every 13 years. This year, there's an emergence of both broods. That hasn't happened since 1803. They're coming out from Alabama to Missouri, and where they may overlap the most, Illinois. They're talking, you know, epic numbers, biblical kind of numbers of them in that area. So something historic potentially is brewing in the Midwest. It definitely is historic for sure. Augusta, Georgia, agriculture agent Campbell Vaughn says cicadas are harmless, but very loud. The males are making the noise, and it's a little bitty buzz.
Starting point is 01:03:35 I wonder if they can hear that. So we have the sound level meter here. So let's pause and just see how loud they really are. Probably getting about 60 decibels right here. But at their peak, that could skyrocket to 100 decibels, about the same as a lawnmower. Enjoy the noise. It's a really unique thing, so don't get too creeped out by them. Well, I was in Georgia 17 years ago.
Starting point is 01:04:06 Oh, during the previous brood. Yeah, the previous outbreak. And it is noisy. Yeah, I remember New Jersey. Everywhere you go, and you walk down this, you know, if you're like, I remember being in Buckhead. And if you're anywhere near a tree, there's just, they're all in the tree and they're just making nothing but this noise. And they're doing it combined.
Starting point is 01:04:31 It's just, it's horrifyingly loud. And I can see it. I don't know if it gets to a hundred decibels, but which is pretty loud, but it's possible. And they do land on your shoulder. You walk around and boom,
Starting point is 01:04:44 one land. Oh yeah. Yeah. And, and we, your shoulder. You walk around and boom, one land. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I have received several recipes for cicada. Oh, yum. Yeah. What else are you going to do with your time? We've got to fill air time, people.
Starting point is 01:04:55 Let's do a cicada recipe. Yeah. Yeah. Well, as you said, we had an eclipse. It's a leap year. It's a proof of climate change, according to Sonny Hoskins on The View. Oh, do you have a clip? No, it's from a while ago.
Starting point is 01:05:13 We talked about it already. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. Okay, I got some... I have an interesting two clips from... I think it's from uh ntd because they have these discussions once in a while and this is something i think we should both listen to and i think the audience in general and the producers in general would find it insightful it's about the uh government deciding that a non-compete is illegal. Oh, right. Yes. And is this aimed mainly at the technology industry?
Starting point is 01:05:51 I don't know who it's aimed at, but that's who it affects the most. And so they discussed it a little bit, and it's worth listening to. Federal Trade Commission is getting sued by the Chamber of Commerce and several business groups over banning non-compete agreements. Those prevent a person from working in the same industry or starting a competing business for some time after
Starting point is 01:06:10 leaving a job. The FTC calls these agreements unfair, but some say the contracts protect trade secrets and encourage competition. NITD's David Lam spoke with Vance Ginn, president of Ginn Economic Consulting. He's also a former chief economist for the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vance, great to see you again and thank you for joining us. Now tell us, with the FTC banning non-compete agreements, what's the impact on the job market? Well, it's a pleasure to be with you and I think that this will have a big impact on the job market. There's a lot of businesses out there where they negotiate these agreements, these work agreements with the worker to not share information or not have the same customers or clients after they leave. That's kind of this non-compete agreements that they sign. And there are many of these across many sectors of the economy, including a lot of those that are new innovations, technology firms, manufacturing firms, those types. And it's
Starting point is 01:07:06 really across many sectors of the economy. And so this will have a big influence on the workforce and the future of work. And I really think at the end of the day that this should be overturned. Now, so you did mention technology, but if you have a non-compete and the company wants to hold you to a non-compete, is it not typical in a non-compete agreement that you leave certain tech companies you sign you sign off on for money yeah a non-disparagement clause well non-disparagement is different than not non-competes i'm just saying you sign off on that and and it and in certain hot tech companies where there's actually technology involved where you learn something or if you're in sales, you have developed a Rolodex, you sign off on a non-compete, that means you can't use your own Rolodex for X number of years. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Yeah, that's not going to work.
Starting point is 01:08:18 But it will work if you, for example, and this happens in the chip industry, because I was involved in a couple of lawsuits as an expert witness, where you, and you get to see kind of how the sausage is made when you're an expert witness. example we're suing each other constantly over one thing or another and what they would do is they would find a circuit design of some sort that was used in a competing chip and then they would track down an employee who happened to be working in engineering that would know that design and then they would sue uh because it's obviously the guy took the design from one company and took it to the other company. And so they have this. So the design of today's chips has been done ever since the late 80s. I'm pretty sure even before then, the so-called clean room designs where to prevent this sort of lawsuit, to prevent this sort of lawsuit, the companies would make sure that nobody working on the design of this new chip worked for anybody else, except, you know, pretty much fresh out of school or they came from Russia or who knows where.
Starting point is 01:09:41 That's where a lot of the design work for Intel, for example, is done in Haifa, Israel. In fact, we have a lot of chip designers that are scattered around the world. A lot of the chip designs for microprocessors is done by Indians. Because the Indians, for some unknown reason, have this natural ability to, they have a knack for designing processors. So it becomes very complicated because these things are so valuable. And because when you design something new, a new circuit, and you can sell it for half the price of somebody else's thing, you just get rich overnight. Why do you think this is in play now? And why is the Federal Trade Commission all of a sudden jumping into this? There must be something brewing and someone's paid off some people. I and and it's fishy about this to me like this would be an ai chip design deal that someone maybe it's
Starting point is 01:10:33 china china's maybe involved here sam altman with you know he maybe he got that seven trillion dollars he needs to make it work finally let's play clip play ClipTune and we'll figure it out. Now, Vance, under these non-compete agreements, how long did employees typically have to wait after they quit their job before moving to a new company in the same industry? Well, it depends on the agreement that they sign. Sometimes it could be six months.
Starting point is 01:10:58 Sometimes it could be a year. Other times, these non-compete agreements could be more than a year. And so that can put some strain on individuals whenever they go and try to find another job. However, they usually get paid more when they have a non-compete agreement because as they go into these negotiations, you can either get a job that doesn't have a non-compete agreement or you take a job that has one. You're going to want a higher pay or more benefits. Now, moving forward, if businesses aren't allowed to have these specialized contracts, how would they ensure that their trade secrets
Starting point is 01:11:29 won't be revealed to other companies from their former employees? Well, I think that's a great question. And I think it's one that a lot of these employers are going to look at and say, do we really want to hire as many workers if we're going to have to be concerned about trade secrets, other things being released or clients and things of that nature being released, because that will reduce their profitability over time. What we want really is a more competitive labor market, not one that is going to be based on what's the next rule put in place by the FTC, by the Biden administration, or even by states.
Starting point is 01:12:03 We should be unleashing people to allow for them to negotiate whatever the agreements are going to be. And so I think this is going to hurt not only employment, but wages and fringe benefits for the future. This should really be something that's done with voluntary transactions. Well, I think that'll be unveiled soon enough. We'll find out why this is taking this is there's something up with this and it's out of the blue having a couple weeks ago i guess out of the blue uh generally speaking a lot of companies will do uh will take care of these some of these these fears by by keeping secret their employee roster i noticed this you see this on tv shows occasionally the Greg Gutfeld show for example
Starting point is 01:12:46 never runs a credit roll ever so you don't know who the writers are for the writers yeah it's to protect the writers they do Bill Morrow runs a credit roll with it you find out there's 12 writers there and you can get their names and if you wanted to poach them you could but some of these shows I don't know why they do that. I don't know if they're paying extra so they don't get credit. I'm not sure. But this thing is a big deal. I think non-compete is a fair idea in tech because some of these trade secrets are just little gimmicks and you don't want them out.
Starting point is 01:13:26 Well, how about this? I need to review our agreement because if I accept the offer to go do my own show on The Blaze, I mean, can you stop me from doing that with our non-compete? No. Excellent. It had to have been agreed to 10 years ago. Excellent. So you go work for The Blaze and you end up like hello who's ruben they make a new video over there hey i'm adam curry blink blink blink blink
Starting point is 01:13:58 yeah the blaze rocks Woo! That's right. No, John, I would never forsake you. All for one. Where we go one, where we go all. I was like, Glenn Beck's calling. That's how good it does this. Glenn Beck's calling. I get it. Glenn Beck's on the line.
Starting point is 01:14:20 It would be better if Glenn Beck actually listened to the show. No, he doesn't. That would be a start. It would be a start. It would be better if Glenn Beck actually listened to the show. No, he doesn't. That would be a start. It would be a start. It would be surprising. It's like whatever happened to the big black guy. What's his name? The big black guy?
Starting point is 01:14:37 Yeah. It used to be on Tucker all the time. He went to the Blaze. And it's like it's a career ender. Yeah, the athlete, the guy who used and it's like, it's a career. Yeah. The athlete, the guy used to report on sports. Yeah. That guy.
Starting point is 01:14:49 Oh, this is how it goes. Yeah. Don't even remember who he is. We can't even remember his name because he went over to the blaze and disappeared. Troll room is trying to help Shaquille O'Neal. No,
Starting point is 01:15:00 that wasn't him. No, no, no, no. So, uh, Whit,
Starting point is 01:15:04 Whitmore, Whitman, Whitlock. Whitlock, Jason Whitlock. There we go, Jason Whitlock. Yeah, Jason Whitlock, great material, always good for a clip, and now it's like, what? Hey, you know, with all the protection of the Jews I'm doing, how come Ben Shapiro hasn't called for me to fill in for Candace Owens? Yeah, you could fit right in.
Starting point is 01:15:27 I could fit right in over there. I don't think you talk fast enough. It could speed up. You're old school. You talk normal speeds. I could speed it up. No problem. I can do it. Well, good news. After the mRNA jab has reportedly um well good news uh after the mrna jab uh has uh reportedly been possibly responsible for
Starting point is 01:15:52 turbo cancers right when we expect it it's back on the list everybody we're gonna use the mrna technology skin cancer patients in the uk have begun taking part in a trial aimed at developing the first personalised vaccine for melanoma. Personalised! The experimental treatment uses the same technology as some COVID-19 jabs. Results from an earlier stage of the
Starting point is 01:16:17 trial suggest that using it in combination with another drug reduces the risk of recurrence or death by 49% after three years. Our health correspondent, Sophie Hutchinson, has the report. I love the fact they keep saying with another cancer drug, which they never mention in the report, and I have yet to find out what it is.
Starting point is 01:16:38 Steve Young, one of the first NHS patients to take part in the trial for what's hoped will be a game-changing treatment. It's for melanoma, the deadliest of all the skin cancers, and it aims to help those at the highest risk of a recurrence. Steve was given the experimental treatment at University College Hospital in London. He had a melanoma removed from his scalp last summer he told us the trial is his best chance of keeping cancer free i feel um okay someone told me i've got survivor syndrome because i actually feel guilty i feel guilty that i'm i'm um completely fine and yet i'm getting all this attention and i'm you know um i get to have a scan and an mri every three months when I know that people are waiting such a long time.
Starting point is 01:17:27 And I genuinely feel kind of awful about that. But I just really hope that what's happening with the trial and the results they get are going to be good news. And it's going to go on to do amazing things. I mean, this is exactly what we knew would happen. And particularly with, certainly in the US, with President Biden's cancer moonshot, here they come, mRNA, it's the solution to all your problems.
Starting point is 01:17:57 Everything's going to be fixed with mRNA. The personalized treatment works by identifying proteins unique to each person's cancer and then uses the same technology which created some COVID- Stop, stop, stop, stop. Back it up. So this vaccine, quote, is only used on people who have melanoma? Please go away with your logic.
Starting point is 01:18:28 Okay? Stop being logical. Yes, it's a vaccine for people who already have cancer. Or had melanoma. But don't you understand that this is just a trial in conjunction with some other magical.
Starting point is 01:18:47 Yeah, I understand that except for the little tidbit in there, which is that the vaccine is based on your personal protein profile from the melanoma you had. So trial or no trial, what good would this do anyone who's never had melanoma? None. That's not the point. Vaccine is now, the definition has been changed. We saw this happen. Well, I know that. It's just screwy, seems to me.
Starting point is 01:19:20 Personalized treatment works by identifying proteins unique to each person's cancer and then uses the same technology which created some COVID vaccines called mRNA to prime the immune system to attack the cells. It's being used in combination with another cancer. Stop. So this is going to be like the spike protein. So this is going to be like the spike protein. In other words, you have some proteins that are related to your cancer. So we're going to give you more of them. So let's create more of them. Yes, that's what I'm hearing.
Starting point is 01:19:55 In your own system so you can be covered with melanoma? I'm not understanding, again, how this is supposed to work. It's being used. Are your immune systems supposed to kick it up a notch? Yeah, and then attack your immune system, which is essence what cancer already is i'm not sure combination with another cancer drug and previous results suggest together it almost halved the risk of recurrence or death after three years it's a very specific treatment highly personalized to each individual's tumor and it's a really exciting way of hopefully turning the patient's own immune system against their cancer.
Starting point is 01:20:30 And it looks like it could be a really effective therapeutic approach. This trial will really prove that's the case or not. Safe and effective. Well, it's really interesting how medical science took a huge corner turn with COVID. And we knew this was going to happen. And we're not actually surprised that this great mRNA technology, which, you know, you should get a booster because they last 60 days, that this was all going to happen. Can't go wrong. Safe and effective.
Starting point is 01:21:03 And so as a part of this, we talked about, I have a couple of clips here. I need to play through these because, you know, I'm going to go back to what Texas Slim said, like they're coming for your cows, they're coming for your beef. It's going to be the summer of Chinese pork. And we're going to be just look at all the fake food
Starting point is 01:21:27 products that are being created with taste and texture chemicals so that it'll taste good, it doesn't matter what it is you're eating, it'll taste like beef you'll think it's beef but you're eating you know, cells that were grown in a lab
Starting point is 01:21:42 and so what is happening here now is we have an attack cells that were grown in a lab. Cells. There's some cells. So what is happening here now is we have an attack on the ranching industry, on the beef industry. They're just starting it slowly, and they've done a really good job. What are you doing? There's a spider running around the papers. Sorry, I had to kill it.
Starting point is 01:22:06 Did you get it? Did you get him? I don't know. It was really one of those fast little ones. Oh yeah. No, you got to nail those right away because they, they creep into your ear at night and lay eggs. So,
Starting point is 01:22:17 so we already know that they've been doing this testing in the milk because they can't get onto ranches to go and, you know, the rancher's like, no, you're not going to test my cows. I know exactly what you're going to do. You say, my cow's got bird flu. You're going to make me kill them all. So they're testing the milk with PCR, which we know is you can detect anything.
Starting point is 01:22:40 You want HIV in your milk? Just crank it up to 40 cycles and look for HIV and you'll have HIV in your milk. Everything in the universe. And I want to mention a complaint that Mimi had about the show. Well, at least she listens. Yeah, she's been listening for the last couple of years. It's weird.
Starting point is 01:22:59 To make sure you don't botch the meetups, I guess. I don't know. Don't botch the meetups, I guess. I don't know. But she said that we should note that the bad milk, the PCR, where these fragments come from, they've been feeding cows ground up chickens that many often may be part of a cull of bird flu chickens. So they grind up the chickens and feed the chicken sh*t and the chickens to some of these large herds. Texas Slim would know about this. And bingo, you get a little couple of fragments of bird flu in the milk.
Starting point is 01:23:34 Gosh, what a surprise. Because our industrial food complex really doesn't care about anything except you know getting as much profit as they can correct so but i think that this is a larger scheme that's at foot here and they they parlay it all into well you know you don't want that to be transferring over to humans and just all the complete nonsense um but they're ramping it up and i think they're ramping it up to get rid of cows they'll start with milk cows and then well just listen to the reports because it's ramped up a little bit we've seen this happen over the past couple of weeks now we know from last week's clips so they're using pcr to test the milk well you can find anything in
Starting point is 01:24:22 milk the fda says one out of every five samples of milk it recently tested contains traces of the bird flu. Experts say that suggests more cows may be infected than originally thought. Officials say pasteurized milk remains safe to drink. So far, bird flu has been detected in 33 herds across eight states. Now, the concern is that the virus could mutate and potentially pose a larger risk for people. 33. So there's your magic number. 33.
Starting point is 01:24:49 There's your code number. There's your code. There's your code. I got more. It could mutate. Everything can mutate. So what? Well, okay.
Starting point is 01:24:57 Now we go to C. And by the way, I also want to accuse the vegans of having something to do with this. Oh, for sure. We're just going to blame the vegans on having something to do with this oh for sure we're just going to blame the vegans on everything of course um so that was uh abc now we go to cbs america's dairy cows will be tested for bird flu more closely to stop the virus from spreading some new rules were put in place yesterday after the fda reported finding fragments of the bird flu virus in pasteurized grocery store milk.
Starting point is 01:25:26 Regulators, though, say there is little risk to humans. Dr. Sling Gounder is a CBS News medical contributor and editor at large for public health at KFF Health News. Good morning, Dr. Gounder. I love that. Bring in a doctor, not a veterinarian. Bring in a doctor. First, I want to just ask you about that headline. When I first read this yesterday, of course, you know, alarm bells go off when you hear that it's found on grocery store shelves and pasteurized milk.
Starting point is 01:25:51 You know, you're right. I have not found evidence of this yet, but I'm pretty sure the nut sap industry has a hand in this as well. Almond milk. Yeah. The nut sap industry. The fact that they could use the word milk on their products is criminal. And by the way, this is also the never-ending attack on delicious raw milk done by providers who are super clean because you have to run a really tight operation to sell raw milk in the first place. But nobody likes it.
Starting point is 01:26:26 operation to sell raw milk in the first place but nobody likes it we'd rather have the milk boiled you know because it's these guys boil the milk boil it what do we what concerns should we have should we have concerns i think we should be very clear that the tests that came back positive are for the genetic material of the virus this could could just be virus fragments, what's left over after pasteurization. And so this by itself is not a reason for alarm. There are additional tests being done to see, is this live infectious virus or is this just the dead virus we would expect to see? So drinking it, would you get sick drinking that milk? Well, presumably if this is simply the leftovers after pasteurization pasteurization process you should not get sick from this now notice all the terms they're using dead virus
Starting point is 01:27:10 you know it's all very covid-y covid related this is this is a psychological operation that is taking place and remember texas slim's words summer Chinese pork. Let's see what's going on. We know that H5N1, the bird flu virus, it's out there. It's in the animal population. But when it comes to human risk, there has been only one confirmed case. One? A farm worker in Texas who has a confirmed case. So what can we gather from that when it comes to human risk of transmission?
Starting point is 01:27:46 Well, there are some tests still ongoing. So to see if there's any live infectious virus in the milk supply. So what we do there is we try to grow up any virus, what we call culture. It's the kind of test we do. Those tests are still ongoing. We anticipate those will come back negative. Pasteurization works for all the viruses that we've tried to test this on so far. There's no reason to think it wouldn't, but we want to confirm that that's the case. The other thing we're looking out for is, do we see
Starting point is 01:28:14 pigs infected? Pigs have traditionally been the mixing vessel for human and bird flu, and that's how you get these Frankenstein scary flus. That's what we have a bit of a blind spot on right now, and so we need to be digging more into that. This is how you get these frankenstein scary flus that's what we have a bit of a blind spot on right now and so we need to be digging more into that this is how you get the frankenstein scary flu it's a scary flu i like the scientific terminology yes frankenstein scary flu all right now we go into
Starting point is 01:28:38 the final clip here of this doctor um and she lays out the real problem. And is the government doing enough, and the FDA, and farmers? Government. What are we hearing about how these cases are being reported, or how they're taking care of this? In the big picture, I think there could be more transparency and cooperation, whether it's USDA or farmers allowing the USDA and public health people onto farms to do the testing. Some of the workers are not trustful of the government government and so don't want to come forward for testing. So everybody needs to be working better together. So these are just the dumb TV doctors.
Starting point is 01:29:14 But for me, it got a little more serious when Scott Gottlieb, former FDA, is it commissioner? Yeah, he was a former commissioner and he's now a board member of Pfizer. And he's got one of the best agents that money can buy. Well, he's SAG-AFTRA. And I think he has, I think it's United Artists who is his agent.
Starting point is 01:29:38 But he's tied into not just Pfizer, he's on the board there. What's the other company that does... to not just uh pfizer he's on the board there what's the what's the other the other um company that does is also testing i forget the name i don't know it doesn't matter but i i don't i i detest the fact that he gets so much air time well he but here he really lays it out because this is cnbc so this is meant to be for financial people. And he has some additional details, which I thought were at least interesting with a funny little kicker from that host.
Starting point is 01:30:11 What's his name? The guy who doesn't care, who's been there so long. There's two or three of them. Yeah, well, you'll know what I'm talking about. Charlie, I think, whatever. The reason why FDA and CDC did this testing of milk is that that usda and aphids and state regulators wouldn't allow them on the farms to do more widespread testing because they didn't really want to turn over those cases and so this is a back illumina illumina thank you illumina yeah they they do the assays and all that
Starting point is 01:30:40 for the for the testing they were also part of the whole covid scam okay here we go because they didn't really want to turn over those cases. And so this is a backdoor way to do on-farm testing. Instead of testing the cows, you test the milk. And what we're finding is this virus is much more pervasive on dairy farms right now than what we originally perceived. And so that's unfortunate. Is that a scary thing that it could jump? It's unfortunate because the more that we allow this to spread in mammals, the more we're tempting fate that this could evolve in ways that it could threaten humans. And they're not letting people on because they don't want to call the herds? This is a historical problem. The answer is yes. Yes. And if they want
Starting point is 01:31:13 to go to K&C Cattle, I will stand there. I'll go and block the feds. We do not want these people testing your cows, even though he doesn't have dairy cows it'll come oh no beef cows oh it's everywhere oh oh it's the horrible bird flu oh we got to call the cows this is a historical problem so when i had outbreaks of e coli in romaine lettuce i was my inspectors weren't allowed onto the farms initially so i sent the inspector what he said when i had outbreaks yeah when he was fda. Yeah, but what? But OK, it's just the way he said it. I know.
Starting point is 01:31:48 This is a historical problem. So when I had outbreaks of E. coli in romaine lettuce, I was my inspectors weren't allowed onto the farms initially. So I sent the inspectors to test the adjacent farms, the water running off from the farms that I thought the E. coli was coming from. the farms that I thought the E. coli was coming from. There's always been a tension between human health people who would want to swab everything and animal health people who are worried about some of the economic implications and don't want federal inspectors on their farms. And you're seeing that play out here as well. This is a very clever move by CDC and FDA to test the milk as a way to identify which farms have outbreaks.
Starting point is 01:32:20 Hopefully it forces the hands of agricultural officials to allow more broad testing. So for him, oh, this is very clever of CDC to use PCR to find whatever they want. This is a hoax. This is a complete hoax. They're coming for your beef. Can I get any immunity from the milk? Yeah, now here's the
Starting point is 01:32:39 guy. He makes it funny here. Can I get any immunity from the milk from the fragments of the H1? How do you know? He says, can i get any immunity from the milk from the fragments of the h1 how do you know he says can i get immunity from drinking the milk you're not going to get immunity from fragments of what the spike protein what if i got a spike protein from an h1n1 because it would have to be transcribed it would have to be transcribed the protein the protein itself would probably be inactivated i mean actually what he said hold on I mean, maybe. Actually, what he's saying, hold on a second. There is some logic to what he's
Starting point is 01:33:08 saying, and Gottlieb's in denial. You know, Gottlieb's like, homina, homina, homina. No, the guy's absolutely right. Yeah, let me drink more milk, I'll never get bird flu. And then he says, well, you know, I mean, it's just fragments. I mean, because it's just PCR. Yeah, well, it's actually an attenuated flu
Starting point is 01:33:24 vaccine is fragments. Yeah, no, because this is a PCR. Yeah, well, it's actually an attenuated flu vaccine is fragments. Yeah, no, because this is a lie. This is a big lie for nefarious reasons. Agricultural officials allow more broad testing. Can I get any immunity from the milk, from the fragments of the H1N1? How do you know? You're not going to get immunity from fragments of... Why?
Starting point is 01:33:42 What if it's a spike protein? What if I got a spike protein from an H1N1? Because it would have to be transcribed into the protein. The protein itself would probably be inactivated. Maybe. I don't know. I'm going to keep eating
Starting point is 01:33:57 Frosted Flakes. There's a vaccine. There's also antiviral drugs for this particular strain. There's a vaccine. Don't worry. There's a vaccine. They got a vaccine ready. They got a vaccine. There's also antiviral drugs for this particular. Oh, there's a vaccine. Don't worry. There's a vaccine. They got a vaccine ready. They got a vaccine ready.
Starting point is 01:34:11 This is all about the vaccine. It's not about calling the cattle or Texas Slim's fears or your fears about getting rid of all our animals. And because the vegans are trying to take over. This is about selling a vaccine that's going to be coming down the pike. I'm with you. I'm with you. Spin people up about, oh, bird flu. My wife, by the way, Mimi, is one of these people that is fearful of bird flu show.
Starting point is 01:34:34 It has been for 20 years. And okay, well, let's go get it. And it's going to be mRNA. Yeah, for the cows. And people who take it are idiots. No, it's going to be for the cows. It's for the cows. Okay, well, they can... It's for the cows. Okay, well, they can...
Starting point is 01:34:45 mRNA for the cattle. That's not good. No, of course not. We don't want mRNA in the cattle. No. But when he says there's a vaccine, I'm thinking it's a vaccine for the cattle. By the way, we're not done there. This will get Mimi spun up.
Starting point is 01:35:02 The USDA is imposing a new rule on certain chicken products to prevent food poisoning. Makers of frozen, breaded, and stuffed raw chicken products will have to reduce salmonella levels starting next year. Hold on. Hold on. Reduce salmonella levels? How about zero salmonella? Is there salmonella in everything? How about zero salmonella?
Starting point is 01:35:24 Is there salmonella in everything? I thought I have it. When you're done with that, play my salmonella clip. Then we can discuss it. Makers of frozen, breaded, and stuffed raw chicken products will have to reduce salmonella levels starting next year. That's when the bacteria will officially be declared an adulterant in raw poultry. Bacteria will officially be declared an adulterant in raw poultry in the same way certain E. coli bacteria are regarded as contaminants that must be kept out of raw ground beef. The new rules will affect products like frozen chicken, cordon bleu, as well as chicken Kiev. What?
Starting point is 01:35:57 What? She said chicken Kiev. Don't you know it's chicken Kiev? Hello? Cordon bleu as well as chicken Kiev. That appears to be fully cooked, but isn't. They've been linked to more than 200 illnesses since 1998. All right.
Starting point is 01:36:12 Well, hold on a second. 200 illnesses, not deaths. Well, I don't know if she, yeah. 200 says 1998. Yeah. So what is that? Eight a year? Nine?
Starting point is 01:36:26 Doing pretty good. I'm going to play your salmonella clip now. U.S. poultry producers will have to cut salmonella bacteria in some chicken product. It's the same lady. No, I don't think it is. Wow. It sounds to me like the same lady. Mill you, mill you.
Starting point is 01:36:42 Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. This is tripping me out. Hold on a second. I'm freaking out, this is tripping me out hold on a second let me i'm freaking out man freaking out man let me play the last bit of my clip and then i'll go into yours that appears to be fully cooked but isn't they've been linked to more than 200 illnesses since 1998 u.s poultry producers will have to cut salmonella bacteria in some chicken products to very low levels to prevent food poisoning. A final Agriculture Department regulation issued today applies to frozen, breaded, and stuffed raw chicken.
Starting point is 01:37:16 It takes effect next year. Salmonella poisoning causes roughly 420 deaths and 1.3 million infections annually in the U.S. Oh, there's a little different report there. Yep. That's interesting. So what does this all mean? It means that whoever's got stock in Clorox, you should probably invest more. This is a, what are you going to do?
Starting point is 01:37:40 How do you get the salmonella off? You dip the chicken. You got your chicken going down the line. There's hundreds of these chickens, thousands, tens of thousands. Bleach, bleach. You got your chicken going down the line. There's hundreds of these chickens. Thousands. Tens of thousands. Bleach. Bleach. Bleach. And you drop it into a vat of bleach. Yeah. And you pull it out of the bleach. You rinse it off. It's gonna stink. It's also
Starting point is 01:37:55 gonna create that... I don't know if you people... Some people will notice this. When some vacuum-packed stuff you would get at some places, you cut the bag open and a stench of sulfurs comes out. This is largely due to the treatment that took place and affected the surface of the product. Yeah, they're going to dip the chicken in bleach.
Starting point is 01:38:19 That's what it is. There's probably some company that makes a special dipping device. How about this? How about we just get some... You know what? How about you get the book Too Many Eggs from TooManyEggs.com? TooManyEggs.com. It's got all the recipes you'd ever wanted.
Starting point is 01:38:34 Perfect place to advertise Mimi's book. TooManyEggs.com. With many handy tips on how to not get salmonella from your eggs. And you can get a free PDF. Just go to TooManyEggs.com and use the PDF. Free, free, free. Free. It's all free.
Starting point is 01:38:46 Free. It's free, free, free. And while you're there, go to NoAgendaABC.com. Not free, but there's a cool coloring book for the kids. Exit strategy in play. Yeah, hardly. Although I will say the coloring book is dynamite. Yeah, well, I think I like the book that's the $33 book.
Starting point is 01:39:10 That's much better. Did you get one? You get yours yet? No. Yeah, well, it was shipped. I got a notification. It was shipped. I got a notification.
Starting point is 01:39:18 Yes. Is it a hardcover? Is that hardcover? Yeah, it's a hardcover. It's a children's book. It's a classic. It's a hard, you It's a children's book. It's a classic. It's a hard, shiny cover. Yes, and we suggest that you read this with your children
Starting point is 01:39:30 when they have awkward questions like, what does shut up slave mean? I mean, these could be awkward questions. It doesn't really explain it. No, that's why the kid will have awkward questions. Shut up, slave. The kid will have awkward questions. Shut up, slave. The kid will have awkward questions. So this is for kids from all ages, from three to 33.
Starting point is 01:39:55 Exactly. So we got that out of the way. How about... I'm just saying, I think they are coming for your cattle, and you're like, you wait. You wait. You wait. They are coming for your beef. Well, I think they've been trying to come for the beef for as long as we've been alive.
Starting point is 01:40:16 Yeah, but this is it. They've got a lot going on now. They've got a lot of power. Good luck. Here's my carryover clips. Texas border. Oh, is that still going on from that phony Greg Abbott? A grand jury now indicting more than 100 illegal immigrants for allegedly storming the Texas border.
Starting point is 01:40:37 Meanwhile, a government watchdog finds that the Biden administration used border wall funds for environmental planning instead. What? A Texas grand jury on Tuesday indicted more than 140 illegal immigrants on misdemeanor rioting charges. That's for an alleged mass attempt to breach the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this month. This comes just a day after a county judge threw the case out, saying there was no probable cause for the arrests. Speaking on NTD News Today, retired ICE and Homeland Security Officer Victor Avila says he doesn't understand why the county judge dismissed the case, arguing officers always present at least some probable cause. It never happened to me in my career when I arrested someone on probable cause
Starting point is 01:41:28 and then presented them before a judge, and then the judge decided that there wasn't any. It goes to the bigger picture here that there's politics involved. For some reason, if you're illegal in this country, you seem to get additional protections. Yeah, exactly. The Americans know this. Now, wait, wait. This this is a hold on a second this is in texas yeah you have a judge that's thrown out despite the evidence we all saw them charging the border this this group of people and now there's no probable cause let him go what is going on in your state because you're always condemning california what about this guy no our state is run by a globalist shill who gets a pass because he's in a wheelchair
Starting point is 01:42:15 that's my that's my stand that's what's happening he is on the wrong side of all of this and he's a showboater and he goes down that border to eagle pass where it's a little bit of fence and there's a complete open border two miles on either side and he pretends like he's doing something great he's no part two part two district attorney bill hicks explained how he managed to secure the indictments. He told the El Paso Times that we presented the case as a whole. We presented videotape evidence of what happened. The grand jurors believed there was, in fact, probable cause.
Starting point is 01:42:56 And in other immigration-related news, the Government Accountability Office issued a new report. It found that the Biden administration spent funds allocated to the border wall, partly to conduct standard environmental planning instead. This is despite Congress approving the funds for Homeland Security to build a border barrier between 2018 and 2021. 2021 republicans on the house budget committee commented on the new report saying dhs continues to play political games that stall contractors and prevent barriers from being built effectively finding a way to dodge the law okay so i thank you for bringing this up because we'll also bring in florida oh so so tough on immigration.
Starting point is 01:43:50 We need to remind everybody that this is the mission. This is the mission that comes from the true overlords of the world, which is the money people. And we need to have immigration coming in. We're not making children enough here, despite the Ozempic babies, which is a plus. For everyone who's on Ozempic, your birth control doesn't work. So, you know, we're going to have a little bit of a jump in newborns. But we need to have replacements for people who are not working, don't want to work, or just too old to work. And that's the only way we win is to keep and to keep
Starting point is 01:44:26 wages low because the financial system has a real hard time with those 12 rate cuts we're supposed to get this year so we need to suppress wages to everyone who's doing gig work it's now done by venezuelans or others who are quickly getting work permits. We're being robbed. It's a jip. We're being robbed. Now let's go to Florida because, oh, yeah, the border is so important. Thank you to our producer for catching this. A press release from March 12th, so just a month ago.
Starting point is 01:44:59 Boca Raton, it's a company, a GEO Group. We're on the New York Stock Exchange, ticker GEO. The GEO Group announces five-year contract, five, five-year contract to provide air operation support services for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. What do you think that's for? It's to fly them in. It's to fly them in. Why make them do all that work of actually walking in yes 25 million dollars and then you have to once they get in you fly them around and
Starting point is 01:45:33 from that point now it's too much work just fly them straight to sioux city right and that's a florida company so there's your your great governor in flor. Isn't the Geo Group the private prison operation? Let me see what else they do. Oh, that's a good question. I don't know if that's what they do. Geo Group. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
Starting point is 01:46:03 Well, you say, okay. Environment. We'll worry say, okay. Environment later. Yeah. But it, it, it's, it's all, it's all a joke.
Starting point is 01:46:11 It is. It's a joke. And people don't appreciate that. We develop these theses and they bring it forward. Nobody else is doing this. No, no. And then we're condemned.
Starting point is 01:46:27 No. We're condemned because, oh, you don't like Jews. Oh, you like Jews. Oh, you don't like Jews. You like Jews. What do we, we don't like or dislike Jews and we like people. All right. So here's another thesis we had, which I believe is coming true.
Starting point is 01:46:42 The Taylor Swift op. Now we called the Taylor Swift op. Oh, Taylor Swift, the Satanist op. Well, no, but we we called the taylor swift the satanist op well no but we called it the the it was the ai all of the we were flooded with ai we were we were given the message that you know oh we can make ai can do anything look at taylor swift is doing p*rn it's all ai and what was the thesis we developed That this will be used probably when someone does something wrong, they'll just say, I was AI. Yeah, of course. That's what you do. That's what I would do. Let's go to Baltimore. Urban audio clips circulating in Pikesville has many parents concerned.
Starting point is 01:47:20 Yeah, so the recording contains racist and anti-Semitic comments allegedly made by the principal of Pikesville High School. But there are a lot of concerns about the validity of the audio and if it could be fake. WMAR 2 News' Kara Burnett joins us live from Pikesville this morning. So, Kara, a lot of unanswered questions with the story. What do we know so far? Yeah, absolutely. A lot of unanswered questions for sure. Now, we do know that a lot of parents are outraged, but the questions remain, is it real?
Starting point is 01:47:48 Well, we have yet to authenticate the clip, so we will not be airing the audio, but there is speculation that the clip may be AI-generated to sound exactly like Principal Eric Eiswert. Now, we also spoke with a UMBC cybersecurity professor who says AI-generated clips are on the rise. What you have to do is take a deep breath and stop and think and do some due diligence. Let the experts look at this recording
Starting point is 01:48:14 and see, is this a real recording? Was this generated by some type of technical tool? Okay, so they won't play the audio because it hasn't been authenticated, but we are the NO Agenda podcast, so I'm going't play the audio because it hasn't been authenticated but we are the no agenda podcast so i'm going to play the audio of this uh pikesville high school principal in baltimore and i want the troll room to pay attention i want to take a little tally what do we think is this real or is this ai generated here we. You know, I seriously don't understand why I have to constantly put up with these dumbasses here every day. Between these ungrateful black kids who can't test their way out of a paper bag or these teachers who don't get it.
Starting point is 01:48:58 How hard is it to get these students to meet their grade level expectations? Lawrence and Ravenel should have never been hired. And don't let me get started on DJ. I'm going to drag his black ass out of here one way or another. I'm going to get something to stick. I'm just so sick of the inadequacies of these people. And if I have to get one more complaint from one more Jew in this community, I'm going to join the other side.
Starting point is 01:49:24 All right. So he's very polarizing. And if I have to get one more complaint from one more Jew in this community, I'm going to join the other side. All right. So he's very polarizing. He calls out the blacks and he calls out the Jews for complaining. What do you think, John? Real or AI? Well, I didn't notice the since I never heard the guy's voice, his real voice, just if I was presented that out of the blue, I would say it was real.
Starting point is 01:49:50 It was just some guy in the back room grousing. Unless I was shown otherwise by some sort of a sonogram. Well, not a sonogram, but that's sonar, but a voice gram. Somebody could show me that how is ai so i'd vote yes it was real i think it's real as well now there were these annoying drops but that was an edit uh of this uh i guess um we can assume that the that it was cut down that the pauses were taken out we can assume that it was cut down, that the pauses were taken out. We can assume that because we do that.
Starting point is 01:50:27 And I'm informed that Pikesville is on the Jewish side of town, predominantly Jewish side of town. So that kind of adds to it. I can see you complaining about your local complainers. Yeah, about your blacks and then saying the Jews are complaining. They're complaining. And guess what? Oh, don't go there. Don't say it.
Starting point is 01:50:46 Don't say it. Yeah, I think it's real. And I think this is our first in the wild use of AI to cover up a boo-boo. A gaffe. A gaffe. To cover up a boo-boo and say, no, man. Yeah, it's a hot mic. And it sounds like someone under their coat recording it on their smartphone or something.
Starting point is 01:51:13 Yeah, I would buy it unless I was shown otherwise by an expert. And there are experts out there. And those guys, by the way, if you you have kids you want to go through life and you don't want to have to really work your ass off get into discovering you know the technology of finding problems with ai i mean just as a countermeasure that is a lifetime that at least from this point the way i see it was a lifetime job finding fake photos, finding AI art. I actually found an article. I have an AI clip, by the way.
Starting point is 01:51:49 Well, I'm going to lead you into it. It was an article from a science. Oh, yeah, you'll like this. Al Pace. El Pace. Excessive use of words like commendable and meticulous suggests chat GPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies. Oh, I can believe this. A London librarian has analyzed millions of articles in search of uncommon terms used by artificial intelligence programs.
Starting point is 01:52:26 And so the librarian, Andrew Gray, made a very surprising discovery. He analyzed 5 million scientific studies published last year and detected a sudden rise in the use of certain words, such as meticulously, up 137%, intricate,
Starting point is 01:52:42 commendable, and meticulous. I think he's onto something here. I agree. He's totally onto something. Isn't that interesting? Yeah, I think this is the kind of, then this is the future.
Starting point is 01:52:59 Kids, get into, there you go. Now there's a librarian we can respect. Doing some good work. Most librarians actually are very respectful. Yeah, but you should talk to the women here about the librarian in Fredericksburg school. Not so happy. Except for her. Or him. I don't even know if it's her or him. Don't even know. Okay, here we go. This is what Jennifer did. This is the AI scandal from a couple of weeks ago. What Jennifer did. Here we go.
Starting point is 01:53:29 The new Netflix true crime documentary, What Jennifer Did, tells the story of a young Canadian woman involved in a 2010 murder-for-hire scheme, targeting her parents. It was a situation that I could never have imagined. There's been some criticism, not because the movie is overly grisly or anything, but because people suspect the filmmakers used generative AI in the doc. That's just one of a handful of stories about AI in movie making that popped up this week. Here with us to break them all down is NPR's Chloe Veltman. Hey, Chloe.
Starting point is 01:53:59 Hi there, Andrew. Hi. All right, so how did this documentary, What Jennifer Did, allegedly use AI, and why are people so mad about it? Well, social media has gone bonkers about what looks like the use of AI-generated or manipulated photographs of a young woman at the center of the film, Jennifer Pan. She's currently serving a life sentence for a kill-for-hire attack that killed her mother and severely injured her father. attack that killed her mother and severely injured her father. So the images appear around the half hour mark in the movie when a high school friend, Nam-Yin, describes Pan's personality. Jennifer, you know, was bubbly, happy, confident and very genuine. His words are accompanied by a series of images showing a young and a bullion Pan. But if you look
Starting point is 01:54:40 closely, there are these weird glitches. For instance, hand fingers, they're all mangled. And human hands can be a sign that an image has been manipulated because they're really tricky to generate and edit. So people calling the alleged image manipulation disgraceful on social media. To quote one Reddit user, it devalues and betrays the whole idea of true crime, not to mention mocking the victims by distorting the facts. What have we heard from Netflix and the filmmakers? Well, NPR reached
Starting point is 01:55:08 out to Netflix for comment, and they didn't want to talk about it. But the film's executive producer, Jeremy Grimaldi, denied the use of AI in an interview he gave with the Toronto Star, published on Friday. Hmm. Okay. Yeah, they claimed it was Photoshop
Starting point is 01:55:24 and it was just writing, know beef up in him no you can tell any you can tell i can tell almost i'd say 99 of the people that produce this show can tell an ai image not not all of them but you can tell the ones that are typically screwed up and you have somebody's hand she's doing a a peace sign and she's got like you know just a mangled hand it looks like a something that went through a meat grinder uh it's just it was obviously ai and it's nothing in photoshop creak photoshop doesn't create mangling or cross-eyed or big giant boobs like you know typical on some of these ai generated uh pictures uh yeah it was ai and so they just didn't want to admit it because it was and they slopped it
Starting point is 01:56:14 together the way i see it because anyone with a with a keen eye would spot these images as such an outrage mom my true crime is fake it's's an outrage, but it's getting into everything. No, everybody's heads are twisted. You know, the title, What Jennifer Did, makes me think of, we were talking about it on the last show, about Jennifer Aniston, people calling her Jennifer Maniston, like every celebrity actress is now a dude online. And I was at church this morning
Starting point is 01:56:49 and someone came up to me and said, oh, you need to tell John about Victoria's Secret. It's called Victoria's Secret for a reason. Because they're all dudes, just so you know. They're all dudes. Hey, some very sad news for the no agenda hams we still have a lot of them we get a lot of 73s we've got a lot of 73s john and i are hams i'm kilo 5 alpha charlie charlie john what's your call sign kj6 uh liquid natural gas and i am on the var ac so you can find me there i'm beaconing
Starting point is 01:57:29 every 15 minutes i will continue to do that now here's the sad news mfj is ceasing production you familiar with mfj enterprises no this is the guy who came up with, it must be a thousand designs for antennas and Morse code keys, MFJ. I mean, they, and he would get college students to put them together. After 52 years, they're closing shop. Oh. uh their closing shop oh yeah yeah it's it's because you know which includes high gain kush craft antennas mirage vectronic high gain ameritron and these these are marquee names that's all gone when the apocalypse comes we're the guys who are going to save the world, right? Right. It's an institution.
Starting point is 01:58:29 It's like Bob Heil dying. It's an institution. So they're closing that up. Everyone's into the new stuff. What is that? It's the mesh. What's that stuff called? Meshtastic.
Starting point is 01:58:41 Have you heard of this? Yeah, I have. There's some couple of things like that there's a screwy uh ideas floating around well a lot of people seem illegal i don't know well hey you don't need a ham license uh mesh tastic a lot of people are really into mesh tastic and uh so it's basically small little radios and then you can create a mesh network amongst your buddies while you're all greasing up your AR-15s. So you can send text messages. I think I'm fine with my 20-meter rig hooked up to a wire.
Starting point is 01:59:20 Seems to be doing just fine. I reach all over the country with that 12 watts i'm fine with that so i ran into a deal a deal uh time and it was just a fluke and i don't think you can find this page if you wanted to but i'm going to put it in the newsletter because people are bailing out from the newsletter because there's nothing valuable in there i don't know there should be i'll put it i'm not going to tell you the link or where it even comes from uh but i'm going to put it in the newsletter so i ran and i got one of these things i found what'd you find a refurbished knUC 5 from Intel, which is twice as fast as the B-Links that I have. And I use a NUC to do the podcast,
Starting point is 02:00:13 and it happens to be a NUC 5. It's the older ones. I think they're eight years. This one's... What's the guts? What's the power? What's the frequency? It's got a, I think
Starting point is 02:00:26 it's an I5 of some sort. Oh. What's my B-Link? Is the B-Link a Celeron? I guarantee it's a Celeron. I run the entire production on a B-Link here. This amazing product for
Starting point is 02:00:42 $168 or $200, you get that B-Link. It does everything. This NUC5 is twice as fast. It's refurbished. But it's twice as fast. It's got more features and $68. And does that include Windows?
Starting point is 02:01:00 And it includes Windows. Wow. So you have a fresh version of Windows, 68 bucks. It's twice as fast as your B-Link. It's a dynamite product, and I stumbled on it by accident, and so I said,
Starting point is 02:01:17 well, this is ridiculous. I bought one, got it. It's a little truck. I mean, if this- How much onboard RAM? It's a little light. I mean, if this... How much onboard RAM? It's a little light in the loafers. It's got four gigs.
Starting point is 02:01:31 Four gigs of RAM and 120... Four gigs of RAM. You need at least eight to run anything. You can go buy a little eight for nothing. This is old. Yeah, but then... So that's not... It's still... okay, old.
Starting point is 02:01:46 Maybe it's going to cost you 80 bucks total. Yeah, but no wonder your spreadsheet freezes. And so, no, I'm not using it now. Oh. My little NUC is loaded to the gills with memory. Oh, tell me. What's your little NUC got? I'm just, it's got 16 gigs plus a 256 SSD, which is fine for podcasting.
Starting point is 02:02:11 But I'm just saying, 68 bucks. Wow, everybody, aren't you glad you're listening to the best podcast in the universe? I'm just saying, you know, people want to subscribe to the newsletter, then get the link there. I'm not going to talk about it anymore. That's probably the worst idea since me reading the legislation. People love this information. They want to know about this. This is what we do.
Starting point is 02:02:37 We go out and check things out. I got a lot of feedback on the eSafety Commissioner in the UK. Oh, the spook? Yeah. Here's one, anonymous. Adam and John, I prefer to say. No, you got it. I thought I'd send a note regarding John's clips from show 1654 on the Australian
Starting point is 02:02:58 eSafety Commissioner. The eSafety Commissioner has been ticking along quietly in the background for a number of years. By the way, this is coming to America. It's going to be e-safety because you know to protect the jews don't worry it's all coming uh the e-safety commission has been ticking along quite in the background for a number of years it is a component of a government department whose primary role has been dealing with email and phone scams as well as managing legitimate telemarketing company practices and advertising legislation it's quite
Starting point is 02:03:25 the organization there something not mentioned in your discussion is that our e-safety commissioner is also a former twitter employee moving straight from twitter to government in 2016 say we thought that she was she came from microsoft but apparently she was also at twitter in the old twitter The primary focus of the current discussion in the country is whether certain clips can be shared online. In this case, specifically, footage of the knife attack on an Assyrian Orthodox priest in Sydney while he was holding a service, which I think happened with the knife sheathed, and so there's no blood drawn. The community became very agitated after
Starting point is 02:04:06 the attack and small-scale public disturbances occurred which the police and government blamed on the distribution of this clip on x oh uh-huh it's unclear exactly how far the government's power extends in this case though we're although they're attempting to push it by ordering the content removed. In a strange twist, they've even directed people in other countries to remove the clip from their X page, for instance, Canada. This has led to the conversation in the clips you played regarding clarifying the legislation. Historically, the government has had limited success with multiple nationals abiding by these directives. As result most legislation targets isps to do the heavy lifting example of this including the banning of zero hedge and eight chan in the after in the aftermath of the christ church shooting
Starting point is 02:04:58 which of course was in new zealand elon musk has been the public target as he has been in vocal opposition though this sort of thing isn't a new story here last note um john you've been mispronouncing the prime minister anthony uh albanese's name it's albin easy albanese albanese yeah albin what have i been saying albanese yeah it's albin easy al. Yes, keep up the good fight. Thank you for your courage. I'm sorry, but I should pronounce his real name, Elmer Fudd. Just take a look at his picture and tell me I'm wrong. Elmer Fudd.
Starting point is 02:05:34 There's been a lot of information coming out about our new NPR CEO, Catherine Meyer. Another one. Catherine Meyer. Another one. Yes. She was apparently quite involved in a number of color revolutions around the time of the Middle East and North African color revolutions. Go figure. Isn't that interesting?
Starting point is 02:06:03 Much of 2011, Meyer worked for the National Democratic Institute, a government-funded NGO with deep connections to U.S. intelligence. This is from the City Journal. I think they're pretty good actually the city journal and the democratic party's foreign policy machine the organization was set up to do independently what cia had done covertly worldwide says national security analyst j michael waller so she is definitely this agent of change. She was part of a revolutionary vanguard movement at NDI. And my buddy Dave Jones over at Podcasting 2.0, he found an interview that she did, which I think is, this was done in January. This was probably part of her audition process because it's with Reed Hoffman on Reed Hoffman's podcast.
Starting point is 02:06:50 You know what I mean? It's like, hey, you got to go on Reed Hoffman's podcast. And if you make it, if you pass the muster there, we can bring you in. So you want to hear these clips? Absolutely. Here she is. I think the internet has been catastrophic for trust, but perhaps not for all of the reasons we might think. When I say catastrophic, I think that what has happened is not that the internet has destroyed trust. It is that the internet has surfaced fissures within systems and allowed them to grow and grow publicly at an exponential rate
Starting point is 02:07:29 and so when for example we think about trust in institutions which is something that i'm very interested in and it comes to sort of institutional governance institutions fit for purpose and i mean institutions in the abstract and in the literal sense. So the institution of universal suffrage is an institution, although it doesn't have a brand name. The issues that we've seen there is that many of these institutions were built around a sort of hom*ogenous population that they were serving. They were not terribly responsive, both in terms of accountability to that population. And then when we started to see increasingly heterogeneous populations due to immigration, diversification, civil rights movement, et cetera, et cetera, we started to see how those institutions were not actually sort of fit for
Starting point is 02:08:23 purpose. those institutions were not actually sort of fit for purpose. What the internet has done is it has exposed those fissures in ways that are related to both. We now interface with all sorts of technologies, platforms, and services that are hyper responsive to our needs and have created an anticipation of a much more frictionless much more productive uh set of processes services outcomes sla function like human slas human slas john this is a this is some the newest gobbledygook sla is service level agreement so it's now human service level agreements. She's nuts. I would agree that she's nuts 100%. 100% you heard me say it.
Starting point is 02:09:15 Unbelievable. What she's really saying is podcasts ruined our business. That's what I hear her saying. Yeah, I can see you hearing that. And maybe she's saying it because she's tried and tried and tried i mean the npr or not she but npr has tried to do podcasting and it's just like basically npr uh on a pot you know repurpose is crappy here's what happened you know they went in for all the you know let's do uh black queer host doing a hip hop show.
Starting point is 02:09:50 What they miss over there is that the network is like, you can't monetize the network. It's like your podcast app is now your podcast network. You subscribe to the shows you want to hear and you play them when you want to hear them. You don't need this, this, you know, this shill for whatever intelligence or anybody for that matter you don't need an npr to try and create a lineup that's going to be perfect for you nobody cares anymore it's like just like disney nobody cares you're dead exactly lineups are dead oh that's a good that's a good way of putting it lineups are dead. That's a good way of putting it. Lineups are dead. People subscribe to Netflix to binge the new series, and then they quit their subscription. know what i do uh i will subscribe to netflix and then then binge watch everything i want to watch and then i'll cancel the subscription and i'll subscribe to hulu and then i'll watch what you
Starting point is 02:10:50 know is there and i'll binge watch and then i'll unsubscribe and so you're only paying 19 a month ever that's right that's why the only way forward the only way forward is value for value, where you pay for the program that you want to hear at the value you ascribe to it. It would be a much better argument if our donations weren't crap today. It would be a much better argument that way. But that's really where it's going. There's no other way. the people have the power and and exactly right so they you know they people have 20 bucks a month for their media on the streaming because it's really not worth much more than that and they just hop around like okay i'll get hulu 20 bucks canceled next month is
Starting point is 02:11:42 something else next month is something else. Next month is something else. Yeah, and you can catch up with everything if you have the wherewithal. I mean, Paramount is about to go out of business. I mean, they're trying to get rid of it. Larry Ellison's kid is going to buy up some scrap metal, which will be formerly known as Paramount. I wouldn't even think that what he's buying is any good. Have you been following that, the Paramount saga? i've been following it in the trades a bit but uh i mean that thing
Starting point is 02:12:12 basically just collapsed after uh sumner red redstone's daughter took over and i'm not saying oh yeah well she hates the i think she hated the old man and if I met him once, and I can see how that can be. He seems to be that kind of guy that would instill hate. And she wants to destroy everything that he built up. He was very proud of his accomplishments. You want to hear the second clip from Catherine Marr, or is it too much to handle? I can do without it, unless there's something in there as a gem.
Starting point is 02:12:52 I really don't remember. I'm not going to risk it. I'm not going to risk it. It does bring me to the sense that we were talking about lack of trust. It brings me to, and I don't know why this is, but it brings me to a three by three. Oh, hold on. And now it's time for three-by-three.
Starting point is 02:13:07 It's time, everybody. Is this guy fast on the butt or what? I'm fast on the butt. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC. The never-ending three-by-three. Thank you for recognizing my speed. That's right. We've got the top three networks, the top three news shows.
Starting point is 02:13:23 Thank you. And here is, we compared this. It's the timing yes so the point is is that we've talked about this probably in 100 years ago 100 years yeah 100 years ago and this was actually the three by three for the last show which i didn't run and then they kept how they kept harping on it on the on these networks and this is the like the revelation that the guy who runs Pecker or whatever his name is. National Enquirer. Wait a minute. Can I just say, it's very possible that the three by three is driving people away.
Starting point is 02:13:57 I'm just saying. It's possible. I'd never liked the three-by-three. All right. But the fact that the networks keep harping on this as though the public really wants to know this, and the thinking is, look, there's this guy who bought off all these stories. And then, by the way, I had this happen to me. If anyone who wants to talk about, you know, a... What happened? You paid off a hooker? A p*rn star? No, I wrote a story once. Oh. And I think the magazine was called Focus,
Starting point is 02:14:41 and it was KQED. It was a local publication publication they hired me to write an article on the top 10 this and the top 10 that in the top 10 this and the top 10 that in silicon valley some years ago and so i was paid they gave me the money they never published the story and i'll tell you why they didn't publish the story i had all these different it wasn't like it was elaborately right written or anything that you know this this guy can't write. And we're going to know that I got paid for the story. And then they killed it because I hit the following. I had all these different, the top three restaurants. I think it was mostly top threes. Top three restaurants, Silicon Valley and top three car washes.
Starting point is 02:15:18 The top three, the top three, this top three. And so I had all these top threes. What was the number one car wash in Silicon Valley? I don't remember. This was like 10 years ago or longer. But here's the kicker. I had the top three charities of Silicon Valley. One, blank.
Starting point is 02:15:37 Two, blank. Three, blank. And that was the end of that story. So this is not an unusual thing to kill stories yeah so so explain briefly catch and kill catch and kill or whatever it's called let's start with the abc today as donald trump listened intently the former publisher of the national inquirer for the first time laying out the extraordinary relationship between candidate Trump and the sordid supermarket tabloid. David Pecker grinning widely as he pointed out Trump in the courtroom, the former president smirking back. The two men had been friends for years. Pecker told the jury he was convinced women would come forward with
Starting point is 02:16:19 salacious stories to sell because Trump was the most eligible bachelor and dated the most beautiful women. Trump perking up at that description and then visibly perturbed, pursing his lips and crossing his arms as Pecker started to detail one example, the story of former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claims to have had a year-long affair with Trump, which he denies. Finally, Pecker testified he and Trump got on the phone. He said he told Trump to buy the rights to McDougal's story. Trump's response, I don't buy stories. Anytime you do anything like this, it always gets out. Ultimately, Pecker's company paid Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her story, but never published it. All to protect Trump. Before today's testimony, prosecutors accused
Starting point is 02:17:01 Trump of repeatedly violating the judge's gag order, attacking witnesses, even potential jurors. Defense attorneys insisted Trump is complying, but the judge interjected, you're losing credibility. There was no immediate ruling from the judge, but David, prosecutors said it's almost as if Trump is trying to force the judge to throw him in jail. And tonight, sources told ABC News, the Secret Service is actually preparing for that possibility.
Starting point is 02:17:28 It's really unbelievable how our national press is obsessed with p*rn, farts. I mean, it's just amazing. These people are sick. I'm not going to argue that. Here we go with NBC. Tonight, Mr. Trump's longtime friend, David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, offering the jury a rare glimpse into the underworld of tabloid tactics. The day began with the judge taking the defense team to task over Mr. Trump's posts on social media, targeting Cohen and Stormy Daniels.
Starting point is 02:18:06 The state seeking to hold Mr. Trump in criminal contempt for violating the judge's gag order that bars him from attacking trial witnesses. So they can talk about me, they can say whatever they want, they can lie, but I'm not allowed to say anything. I'd love to say anything that's on my mind. In court, the defense arguing Mr. Trump should be permitted to respond to political attacks and the gag order should not cover reposts of someone else. The judge didn't rule today but seemed exasperated, telling lead defense attorney Todd Blanche,
Starting point is 02:18:37 you are losing all credibility with the court. Minutes later during a break, Mr. Trump back on Truth Social, falsely writing the judge had taken away his right to free speech. This is a kangaroo court. Falsely writing. Falsely writing. No, he wrote it. He didn't falsely write. Maybe I'm seeing this the wrong way.
Starting point is 02:18:59 Maybe this is really just a part of trying to get middle America to vote for Trump. They really want him in. Like, wow, this guy is just as broken as we are over here. You know, he just has bigger brokenness. I'm telling you, they want him in so bad. Everyone knows that all these things will go to appeal. He's not going to be thrown in jail before the elections. Everyone knows this.
Starting point is 02:19:22 This is just more get him in so we can collapse everything on his watch uh well i'm not going to argue with i mean this is kind of the point we've been making i think for some time yeah so so they they spend all this time on these stories. Oh, boy. All right, so let's go to the final solution, CBS. Former President Trump aired his frustration with being in court today. It's a very unfair situation. After listening to former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, a man he's known for over three decades.
Starting point is 02:20:05 I mean, even the fact that the guy's name is Pecker everybody knows the joke everybody's in on it hey martha pecker explain the strategy he testified they agreed upon ahead of the 2016 election the paper would bury any negative news about trump while promoting fake stories about his political opponents, including Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Packer testified the plan was concocted at Trump Tower in 2015. Trump and former fixer Michael Cohen allegedly asked him how he could help the campaign. He told them, I would be your eyes and ears explaining the practice of catch and kill. The Inquirer would buy the rights to any damaging story about Trump and never publish it.
Starting point is 02:20:48 Prosecutors say that plan was the origin of Cohen's $130,000 payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet. Did he say film store? I think he said film store instead of star. Say that plan was the origin of Cohen's $130,000 payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet. That's what he said. Film star. About an alleged sexual encounter with Trump who denies it all.
Starting point is 02:21:13 One example of catch and kill discussed in court today involved the Trump building doorman who was selling what turned out to be a fake story about Trump fathering a son. out to be a fake story about Trump fathering a son. Pecker told the jury today he bought the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and Mr. Trump. In the gag order hearing, the prosecution argued that Trump should be held in contempt for all of his scathing commentary about this case. Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, said his client's being careful with his words. To that, the judge said, that's just not credible i i have an answer here to uh your question one of our producers sent this from the bbc how they know about trump's facial expressions in the courtroom ah yes i was i was a quizzical regarding rachel Maddow somehow seeing his face when she's got his back to her. Yes, so Kayla, your descriptions of everybody's body language and facial expressions and things
Starting point is 02:22:12 that you can see from inside the courthouse are absolutely gripping. It's interesting because when I'm in the courtroom, I see him from the back and from the side. And at one point I was sitting literally right behind him. I could really detect his body language, but I can't see his his face when I'm in the overflow room. I can see all the expressions he's making because there's a camera pointed right at him that they're feeding into. So I've had both the views of his reading his body and sort of his mood at the defense table and also just being able to see the expressions on his face. So they got a camera on his face in the overflow room that's how they do it well how does that jive with rachel being so happy to be in the courtroom herself oh maybe she's lying could
Starting point is 02:22:53 it be possible you think no you think rachel maddow would be lying our um constitutional lawyer Constitutional lawyer Rob made 14 clips for me of the discussion in the Supreme Court about immunity. I'm going to move those to Thursday because no way can we play all of them. But some of them we've already handled. I just like the fact that we have a lawyer that does stuff like that. I just like the fact that we have a lawyer that does stuff like that. But I could, if you want to hear, play the two clips about a presidential, a president pardoning himself. Which was also. Oh, yeah, I would be interested in that.
Starting point is 02:23:39 I thought you would. I can tolerate two. Those clips. Two clips. Yes. We've heard the Supreme Court. They're very slow talking. Here's Alito talking to Draben, I think is the guy's name.
Starting point is 02:23:53 And this is the first one about presidential pardoning himself. On the question of whether a president has the authority to pardon himself, which came up earlier in the argument, what's the answer to that question? I don't believe the Department of Justice has taken a position. The only authority that I'm aware of is a member of the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote on a memorandum that there is no self-pardon authority. As far as I know, the department has not addressed it further. And of course, this court had not addressed it either. Well, when you addressed that question before us, are you speaking in your capacity solely as a member of the special counsel's team, or are you speaking on behalf of the Justice Department, which has special institutional responsibilities? I am speaking on behalf of the Justice Department. We're representing the United States. representing the United States. Don't you think we need to know the answer, at least to the Justice Department's position on that issue in order to decide this case? Because if a president has the authority to pardon himself before leaving office, and the D.C. Circuit is right that there
Starting point is 02:25:01 is no immunity from prosecution, won't the predictable result be that presidents on the last couple of days of office are going to pardon themselves from anything that they might have been conceivably charged with committing? I really doubt that, Justice Alito. It sort of presupposes a regime that we have never had except for President Nixon and as alleged in the indictment here. Presidents who are conscious of having engaged in wrongdoing and seeking to shield themselves. I think the political consequences of a president who asserted a right of self-pardon that has never been recognized, that seems to contradict a bedrock principle of our law that no person shall be the judge in their own case. Those are adequate deterrents, I think, so that this kind of dystopian regime
Starting point is 02:25:47 is not going to evolve. Okay. Any comments before I go to Gorsuch on the same issue? None. What would happen if presidents were under fear that their successors would criminally prosecute them for their acts in office, whether it's whether they're engaged in drone strikes, all the hypotheticals. It seems to me like one of the incentives that might be created is for presidents to try to pardon themselves. Do you have any thoughts about that? That is, I didn't think of that until this i forgot to mention this is sour who has the voice uh i don't know what this is this has got to be a medical issue it's very it's only 40
Starting point is 02:26:34 seconds it's hard to listen to this person that is uh didn't think of that until your honor asked it that is certainly a one incentive that might be creative what we think is most important we've never answered whether a president can do that. Happily, it's never been presented to us. And if the doctrine of immunity remains in place, that's likely to remain the case for those very issues. As Fitzgerald, I think, very powerfully emphasized, the real concern here is, is there going to be bold and fearless action? Is the president going to have to make a controversial decision where his political opponents are going to come after him the minute he leaves office? Is that going to unduly deter? Is that going to dampen the ardor of that
Starting point is 02:27:13 president to do what our constitutional structure demands of him or her, which is bold and fearless action in the face of controversy? And perhaps if he feels he has to he'll pardon himself every every four years from now on ai or not ai that's a crazy voice well that's interesting stuff yeah not i mean yes i think it's interesting but you know to a point you know it's it's not about uh it's not about Gaza, so who knows? We're not hair on fire. I guess Blinken just is the last going to the end. Yeah, he went to China. Yeah, here's what PBS had to say about it. Let me see.
Starting point is 02:27:55 What did you title this? Blinken. Blinken. That makes sense. Meanwhile, another member of the Biden cabinet, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, warned Chinese President Xi Jinping today against supporting Russia's war in Ukraine. The two men met in Beijing. Blinken said he told Xi that China must stop supplying Russia with critical war materiel or the U.S. will act.
Starting point is 02:28:19 He did not elaborate, but he did acknowledge progress in other areas. We are committed to maintaining and strengthening the lines of communication between us so that we avoid any miscommunications, any misperceptions, any miscalculations. And we are committed to responsibly managing the relationship. For his part, Xi said China and the U u.s must seek common ground rather than engage in what he called quote vicious competition i saw a video of g waiting for blinken to come in and he was talking to his aides his aides uh and they hot mic hot mic and i'm gonna give you the exact translation um let me see where is it here it was something like is he here yet and it was like no he has to leave in 45 minutes and g says good get him out of here ai it's all ai it's all ai it's all ai except we're not ai and with that
Starting point is 02:29:22 i'd like to say in the morning to you the the man who put the sea in Cull the Cow. Say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. DeMora. In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, and subs in the water, the dames of the nights out there.
Starting point is 02:29:39 Hello, trolls. Stop, don't move. Let me count you. Morning. Interesting. We had the last Sunday show, we had 1,847 trolls. We're up by eight trolls, 1,855. And by the way, these trolls have nice purple hair.
Starting point is 02:29:59 I like seeing your trolls. Very good. You can become a troll. Join them at trollroom.io, which is really fun to do if you have time on Thursdays and Sundays. Because unlike most of those podcasts that are edited and all the uhs and the ums are taken out and, oh, no, they left a long pause of silence. Got to edit that out. Got to make it exactly two hours. We, on the other hand,
Starting point is 02:30:26 are doing, we're doing a performance for you. Neither one of us knows what we're coming to the table with. John sends me clips. I don't look at, actually, I look at the titles and say, okay, I clearly don't have to clip anything about Blinkin' in China because John's got it. But otherwise, we put it together with the help of you, the producers who produce this show, Time, Talent, and Treasure. We love it when you're in a deep state in the defense industrial base and you tell us that it's all about China.
Starting point is 02:30:55 We love it when people, we have our constitutional lawyer making clips. He sat there and he listened to the most boring stuff in the universe and he was able to make clips. I mean, this he listened to the most boring stuff in the universe. And he was able to make clips. I mean, this is a beautiful, beautiful thing. That's how you can return value to the show because quite honestly, we're not like NPR. We don't have 25 people to work on radio labs. We don't have true crime where we do AI falsifications. No, it's just two dudes, two microphones, a B-link and a nook. That's what you got. And that's why we're here.
Starting point is 02:31:33 We love our artists who always help with some fantastic value by making artwork that we can use. Again, something that you could not afford if you wanted to contract artists to make artwork for every single episode, which has been going on for 15 years, this episodic art. So they do it out of returning value to the show. And for that very reason, I want to thank Matt Boivere. I think I got the pronunciation right. This was by far, this was for episode 16 1654 titled e-safety uh which made sense of course we're talking about the e-safety commissioner this was the tiktok logo draped in the american flag it was it was just an obvious draped it was turned into yeah but it looks like
Starting point is 02:32:19 it's draped it looks like it was wrapped around the tiktok logo don't you think so okay you can do that yeah i think i think it looked like it was wrapped around the tiktok logo don't you think so okay you can do that yeah i think i think it looked like it was wrapped around the logo it's just a dynamite piece it was a great piece um lots of people tried other things like a negative second um what else we have here lots of phoebe art appreciate the phoebe art you actually were were kind of pushing for a weird piece which was trump's lawyer with a gas mask with a green cloud of i guess fart gas and phoebe in the background oh yeah he thought no i like that piece the scaramongus piece i got with phoebe in the background that was the funny part, as the judge.
Starting point is 02:33:06 Multiple Phoebe pieces of art. Comic strip blogger, you used his piece for the newsletter. Yes, I did. Yes, and he was very upset that you didn't credit him with that. So I'm doing it now. But what I credit him, he didn't give people... I never credited him with the art, ever. I think that art tanked donations.
Starting point is 02:33:28 I think that's what did it. Could be. I know we got a lot of complaints about Phoebe. Well, I got pluses and minuses. It could be Phoebe that killed the show. There you go. Some people said, oh no, it sounded great. She's awesome.
Starting point is 02:33:44 Plus two for phoebe and others were like your concentration was off you should listen to yourself it's a different person from the from the anti-semitism it's all different same guy no no it's all different people it's all different no you gotta get a little more variety thank you matt boivar we, we appreciate your work. And of course, all the work that all of the artists do diligently. And it's good to see non AI art.
Starting point is 02:34:12 Now it doesn't mean that we're going to choose it. It doesn't always hit it on the mark, but in this case, I mean, this was great. Great. Matt really, really nailed it.
Starting point is 02:34:22 And thank you to a Drebott for using many of these pieces of art in the modern podcast apps in the chapters if you don't have one you're really missing out on some fun stuff uh go to podcastapps.com get yourself a modern podcast app you're going to need it because uh with the coming clampdown you're going to see apple and spotify and uh youtube music podcasts whatever that is you're going to see them deplatforming you're going to see your podcast taken off it's a it's a foregone conclusion yep because you know you can't say from the river to the sea that that is one of the chance that will be that would be one of the chance yeah federal illegal chance yeah no that's a good
Starting point is 02:35:04 name for the show illegal Illegal Chants. Oh, I like that. I'm going to write that down. Illegal Chants. Yeah, that is pretty good. Which is pathetic. Yeah, it's illegal speech, which, as we noted, all this started in 2011 with the bullying laws and hate speech,
Starting point is 02:35:21 and that's kind of where we lost our way. I would take it back to the late 70s and early 80s when the concept of political politically correct speech came into play that began the self-censorship uh i'll give you that yeah i'll give you that i'll give you and then after that it slowly evolved into uh well let's see how far we can push this and see how stupid the american public is to put up with us. And I mean, it's amazing what's happened all over the world so far. And we're like the last holdout. And now we're just like, yes, because as we've played clips, lots of clips
Starting point is 02:35:57 that to this effect, well, you know, unlike the United States, we haven't got the First Amendment to protect us. And so these laws come into place and we really don't have any way to push back on them. Yeah, the only thing you got left in the UK is Speaker's Corner. Have you ever been to that? Yeah.
Starting point is 02:36:18 I reported on it. There's nobody there. I reported on it last time we were there. And you're right, there was nobody there. Although I have seen some videos recently of people, because that's the only place you can still say stuff. You can still say stuff on Speaker's Corner. Is that the corner of Hyde Park, I'm going to say? Yeah, it's in Hyde Park.
Starting point is 02:36:35 It's over in Mayfair. Yeah. Yeah. So there's still people on their soapbox, but don't call anybody a cruel lesbian online, because the cops will come and arrest you. Go look it up. It's crazy. Anyway, that's our time and talent portion. We appreciate the work that all of you do. Boots on the ground, clips, insights, information, propagating the message, hitting people in the mouth. all this is very welcomed
Starting point is 02:37:05 and very good and now we go to the treasure portion doesn't happen often but once again no executive producers only a few associate executive producers the list is short as we've alluded to and we kick it off with james from australia western australia yeah so wait wait our top donor who will be bumped up to executive producer. He will become an executive producer, that's correct. Is a guy in Australia? Yep. Wow.
Starting point is 02:37:30 You know why? Because he values free speech. He knows it's leaving his country. Oh, yeah, he's done. He's from Gidgenganup? Is that how you, Gidgenganup? I've never heard of it. Gidgenganup.
Starting point is 02:37:42 Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid.
Starting point is 02:37:44 Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gid. Gidgenganup. Giga. Gid.
Starting point is 02:37:46 Giga. Gidgenganup. Gidgenganup. Gidgenganup. $217.38. He says, James from Western Australia in Texas. There you go. En route to visit my girlfriend's family in Mexico.
Starting point is 02:38:01 Wow. Aussies seem happy to become WEF serfs. So if you could sort me a green card, that would be swell. Oh, here's an idea. When you're in Mexico, walk across the border and get a phone, $10,000, and some paperwork. Yeah. You're good to go. Then you fly back to Australia when you feel like it. In fact, no flying.
Starting point is 02:38:23 But you have 10 grand American. Yeah, what's your problem? Just $20,000. Fly back to Australia when you feel like it. In fact, you have 10 grand American. Yeah. What's your problem? Just $20,000. He says, sorry, my 333 donation is in dollar reduce. Well, okay. So he even donated 300. He's already an executive.
Starting point is 02:38:37 Anyway, yes, it's all I can afford. No, we appreciate it, brother. We appreciate you coming in. D-douche, poor Vavor, he says. You've been D-Douched. All right. Craig Bayless in Birmingham, Alabama, comes in with 21212, and he says this is a switcher, a switcher wolf.
Starting point is 02:38:59 Switcher wolf. Okay. This is a donation for Phoebe for her damehood. I told you. I loved her performance on the last show, but maybe Adam should consider doggy daycare on show days. Oh, please.
Starting point is 02:39:14 I send my dog to one and she loves it. Yeah, he sent me. Phoebe does not do well in the doggy daycare. She has to be in her own cage because she does not like other dogs. Yeah, there's some dogs like that. We're very familiar with that since we own it, Carol.
Starting point is 02:39:29 Yeah, what do you do with those dogs? You lock them up in the ISO cell. Am I right? Well, John, consider using this in place of sad puppy. Thanks for the best, but the sad puppy did nothing, by the way. You had a sad puppy in there? I didn't even know you had a sad puppy in there. I had a sad puppy in the best, but the sad puppy did nothing, by the way. You had a sad puppy in there? I didn't even know you had a sad puppy in there.
Starting point is 02:39:48 I had a sad puppy in the newsletter, yeah. Oh, well, the sad puppy is overplayed, bro. Just give it up. No, you're going to be stuck with it forever. Thanks for the best podcast in the universe. He continues, I've been listening since John was running the Boeing Jets promotion, 7-6-7-7, seven, seven, et cetera. And I've not donated until now. Thanks Phoebe.
Starting point is 02:40:11 Thanks so much again. Jingles, goat scream, John, he, he, and Asian dog. FYI, this is to replace the offensive donation with this amount for dogs, ducks, and bones. Adam, he is risen. Craig Bayless. Thank you, Craig. Well, let's do a little bonus clip here before we do your jingles as we have yet another update in the ongoing Boeing versus Airbus saga.
Starting point is 02:40:38 In New York, a Delta Airlines plane was forced to return to JFK Airport today after losing its emergency slide. Delta says the crew on the flight to Los Angeles declared an emergency when they heard a sound near the right wing.
Starting point is 02:40:51 After the plane landed safely, they saw the slide was gone. Its whereabouts are unclear. Well done, Boeing. Yeah. You know, I think the idea is to have everyone stop flying altogether.
Starting point is 02:41:06 It's just stop flying, stay home. We're good on it, that's for sure. So I don't know the John hee-hee. I'm not... Hee-hee. I can do that. No, but I pulled a different John clip for this occasion. I thought you would like this.
Starting point is 02:41:21 Hey, baby. Hey, baby. You've got karma. We go to... That was cool, right? You like that one? Yeah, it was great. A great voice.
Starting point is 02:41:38 Katrina Gershner, Eugene, Oregon, 210 and 60 cents. Gershner. Gershner. Sorry. Hey, John and Adam. This is a long overdue donation since I've been listening to you for almost two years, and I just gave you my first donation via PayPal. Well, I think we need to de-do.
Starting point is 02:41:55 You've been de-douched. By the way, I want to thank our, let me see. Let me see it's uh let me see he is our sir montauk he sent me a d douche button did he send you anything yes i have a d douche button it's at the dinner table oh really because so it's one of those green plastic you know like yeah hit it hit it in case of emergency to stop the assembly line and yeah yes it's kind of emergency to stop the assembly line. It's kind of fun. You have it at the dinner table.
Starting point is 02:42:30 I like it. So just whoever needs a de-douching, they get to hit the button during dinner? Yeah, I guess. Yeah. That's what it's for. And I got my belt. It turns out that Theodore seems to like hitting the button. Oh, you said button. Oh, you said button.
Starting point is 02:42:45 Button. You said button. And I got my belt shelves as well. You got your what? My belt. Oh, the belt, the giant belt? The belt shelves, yeah. And it's two of them. So one for myself.
Starting point is 02:42:57 I only got one. He said he sent me two, but I only got one. Well, he sent me two and he says one for me. Yeah, he said the same thing to me. He said give one to a local UPS guy, but only had one delivery person well you got gypped there you go no not necessarily maybe the delivery person took the belt after reading the note all right back to the uh this note from katrina i had to write to say how pleasantly surprised i was to hear adam's coverage of the campus protests over the israeli
Starting point is 02:43:25 gaza war no anti-semitism was seen yep i appreciate your report and not falling for the hype there you go the lone person the one gal i wanted to add i was listening to the gray zone and max blumenthal's take was that the masks were worn by protesters to avoid cameras from identifying them. Yeah, because they all want to work at Goldman Sachs later. I really enjoy your analysis, especially regarding COVID and Ukraine. I also appreciate your coverage of the EU. Not many outlets cover the EU. Love the show, even though I don't always agree with you two.
Starting point is 02:44:03 Example, environmental stuff at times. Oh, there we go. Keep up the good work. By the way, Government Abbott totally gets away with stuff because he's in a wheelchair. I should know. I have moderate CP. What's CP? CP, cerebral palsy.
Starting point is 02:44:22 Oh, cerebral palsy. Yeah. CP, cerebral palsy. Yeah. If you ever, and send the note back, Katrina, what kind of goodies do you get when you have CP? Let us know. No, she says yes.
Starting point is 02:44:37 She totally gets away with stuff because she's in a wheelchair. I should know. I have moderate, so she gets away with stuff. Can't get out of parking tickets and stuff. This is interesting. You know what? Because everyone's so politically correct because it's ableism. No one wants to talk about it. No one wants to talk about it.
Starting point is 02:44:49 We're interested. We love talking about all kinds of stuff. If you ever have a meetup in Central Oregon, please let me know. I think that there are meetups. I don't know about Central Oregon, but check noagendameetups.com. Katrina, thank you very much. I'm going to give you a gratuitous karma. I love that note
Starting point is 02:45:05 you've got karma meanwhile jennifer nederfield or nederfield in montville new jersey comes in with 210 60 dear john and adam please accept this donation as my thank you for continuing to keep me informed and entertained with the best podcast in the universe. Adam. Yes. I recently had a day full of 33s. But then when I heard you are now in need of a new travel agent, I realized that was my sign to donate. I also book my clients, not just family and friends, for free.
Starting point is 02:45:41 friends for free. So if you're looking to explore our perfectly imperfect world by ocean or river cruise, please consider reaching out to me at seasidedestinationstravel.com. That's seasidedestinationstravel.com. I'd love to help. Thank you, Jennifer. Oh,
Starting point is 02:45:59 Jennifer, email me adamatcurry.com. Let's talk. River cruise, a river cruise. Not a river cruise. The ones in the Rhone River are supposed to be dynamite. How about the Nile?
Starting point is 02:46:10 The Nile might be fun. Thank you. Yeah, the Nile might be fun, except for the piranha. From Bensonville, Illinois. Oh, and there's also a little worm that swims around it. Well, I won't go into it. Yeah, please. I know what happens with that little worm eli the coffee guy comes in from bensonville illinois 402 104 and 30 cents i'm
Starting point is 02:46:30 sure he added some paypal fees farmers market season is upon us i would like to urge all producers to visit your local farmers market this summer that's a good idea with the ongoing war on our food supply they're coming for your cows there's no better way to meet local farmers and artisans who supply real quality food in your community, small batch. Plus, you will be supporting small local businesses that work hard to feed their families and yours. Yes, I agree. And when they start closing down the stuff at the store, you can go to these farms and say, hey, remember me from the farmer's market? And they will feed you.
Starting point is 02:47:09 Everyone else, they'll shoot. Can I get a jobs karma for the farmers and crafters out there? And I'm going to add ranchers. And if for those that can't get to a farmer's market but still want fresh roasted coffee, ah, here we go. He ties it in. Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com
Starting point is 02:47:27 and use code ITM20 for 20% off your first order. Stay caffeinated, Eli the coffee guy. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. I'm, uh, I was drinking it. Smart money. I was drinking it this morning, Gigawatt.
Starting point is 02:47:45 I ran out of my black rifle, so I've been drinking the Gigawatt, which is good. I like it. Well, they have a variety of roasts of different coffees. All kinds, yeah. I like as dark as possible, and then they have these cool flavors. You don't like the dark roast, do you? I used to have a Pavoni made of espresso espresso and i got that thing back when i was in college and i made it used forever and i was a dark roast nut and then i discovered some light
Starting point is 02:48:14 roasts and and with this the the machine i used the australian machine uh which i don't know i mean it makes a great cup of coffee and it is like for some reason it just takes light roast and says here try this and it's like beyond it's beyond compare it's just so much better than you know the harsh dark right so i know i don't even like dark roast can i ask you a culinary question how do you make your coffee i and i'll say up front i am a french press guy oh no i use a machine i use the uh what's the breslin bresler breville breville breville i use a breville i have a breville i got it for uh christmas about five years ago everyone pitched in and bought me a oh this is a Breville that's got the grinder and everything. It's basically automated.
Starting point is 02:49:09 That's an expensive machine. It's a very expensive machine, and it took like eight people to pay for it. And ever since then, I've been using it, and that's when I gravitated to light roasts. And I realized that with the light roasts which are hard you know they just produce a different product especially but that machine really makes a light roast killer is that that's the coffee i was in indonesia one year for to for some meetup oh is the obama family reunion no no i, I think it was pre-Obama. And I was having coffee at this, in the hotel that was so good.
Starting point is 02:49:50 It was like Sumatran or something, but it was a light roast coffee that was, you could not stop drinking it. And then I realized with the, I'm sorry, I'm just taking too long. No, it's okay. I'm digging it. The Breville and a light roast espresso made with light roast is just that coffee is what I've been looking for, and it is a stunner. So now if I have anything medium light, I can tolerate. Light is better, but I'm done with the dark roast, and I haven't used a french press probably for three years well i um since we don't have advertisem*nts or creepy corporate money i i will vouch for the breville product line uh we just got rid of after more than 10 years of constant everyday use our breville hot water heater it finally started and which was not only a water
Starting point is 02:50:45 heater, Tina also used it to kill crickets. It's a kettle? It's a kettle, yeah. I didn't know they even made one of those. Yes. Smart kettle. They don't, okay, since we're on the topic. So I've gone through kettles for, I've had kettles probably
Starting point is 02:51:02 since the first time we went to England in the 70s. Since tea was invented. And so these kettles for i've had kettles probably since the first time we went to england in the 70s tea was invented and so these kettles are all made in china they last about two years two and a half years before they crap out and so i've probably gone through 10 kettles they just crap out they don't stop boiling. Costco has them. They've been having them for a number of years now, Costco, and you get them for like $10, $12.
Starting point is 02:51:31 I'm sure the Breville's like $30. But yeah, Breville would make a product that lasts. Dream on. No, the Breville's expensive. No. Remember, it's a smart kettle. But it's basically the same thing I bought 10 years ago. It's just now a little different design.
Starting point is 02:51:51 It's beyond compared. Well, your last 10 years is five times longer than a Chinese Costco kettle will last. So there's that. I'm going to go take a look and see where it's manufactured. I wonder. It's probably made in China, but you have quality control-ish things, you know yeah yeah now it's we have one last one last donation yes go and another smart money donation from linda lupatkin obviously from lakewood colorado who promotes herself with 200 donations and she wants some jobs karma and and says the following for a resume that gets results go to image makersakersInc.com
Starting point is 02:52:25 for all your executive resume and job search needs. That's ImageMakersInc with a K. Or just find her, Linda Lupatkin, duch*ess of Jobs and Writer of Resumes on the producer's list. And thank you, Linda, for keeping it going. She is our guy she's our north star as long as she's donating i feel good jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for god that's right karma who was it someone someone told me that they used her services and were extremely happy
Starting point is 02:53:09 with it yeah we had i got the same note yeah they were they were pleased as punch yeah it's really executive for executive resumes i mean it's it's not just you know if you want a job at amazon taco bell hey nothing wrong with taco bell if you're from venez Amazon. Yeah, get a Taco Bell. Hey, nothing wrong with Taco Bell if you're from Venezuela. That's who's getting all the jobs. That's who's getting all the jobs, man. We know what's going on. All the gigs are gone.
Starting point is 02:53:33 Thank you very much to our one executive and our associate executive producers. You have dragged us through yet another episode. We're happy. We are, on the other hand, disappointed at the number of people who listened to the show and who supported it. You know, you can always donate and air your grievances.
Starting point is 02:53:52 You can do that, too. There's nothing wrong with it. I mean, you know, you email us. You're taking time. Yeah, whatever happened to those notes? Yeah, why don't you just send us a donation and tell us how much you hate us. I mean, that's valid.
Starting point is 02:54:04 We're okay with that. Look forward to those notes. Yeah, definitely, definitely, definitely. It a donation and tell us how much you hate us. I mean, that's valid. We're okay with that. Look forward to those notes. Yeah, definitely, definitely, definitely. It used to be much more of a thing. And, of course, we always love everyone who comes in under $50 for reasons of anonymity and our sustaining donors who are always there for us because these are donations they set up, and it goes every week or every month or sometimes every show day, and you can make one up yourself no agenda donations.com for the old schoolers devore act.org slash na
Starting point is 02:54:30 and we've got some meetups coming up some birthdays a layaway night which is always exciting after john takes us through the 50 all the way down to the 50 donations yeah it won't take long starting with greta acklin in Rice's Landing, Pennsylvania, which is actually a combination, $158.07, but it's a combination of two donations, $52.73 and $105.35. And she does have a switcheroo, so I'll read it. I would like this to be credited to my exceedingly handsome and handy husband, Darren Acklin. Happy anniversary and birthday, my love.
Starting point is 02:55:09 I don't think he's on the birthday list. I'll double check. Dan Acklin. Okay. We don't know exactly how old he is, but I will put him. He's old. Okay. Dame Lee in Arnold, Maryland, 10535. Love you guys so much.
Starting point is 02:55:25 God bless you both. Well, thank you. John G, $100 from Deerfield Beach, Florida. Trevor Elise in The Gap, Queensland, Australia. Another Aussie. I told you when I did the thing about Elmer Fudd that the Aussies would kind of chime in again. And here they are.
Starting point is 02:55:42 Here they are, man. And you know what? The Aussies get it. They appreciate it. And here they are. Here they are, man. And you know what? The Aussies get it. They appreciate it. They appreciate it. I'm so happy. Somebody's got to tell them what's going on. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:55:51 99.99. He says donating while he still can before the E-Security Commissioner strikes. No, get a modern podcast app. You'll be safe for a while. Timothy Corcoran in Calgary, Alberta, 8888. Sean McDowell in Payton, Colorado, 8195. Kevin McLaughlin, there he is, 8008, the only boob donation for today. He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of American boobs. Smalls in Turnersville,
Starting point is 02:56:24 New Jersey. Dou boobs. Smalls in Turnersville, New Jersey. Douchebag. Smalls from Philly, aka Gotham City, $69. Sir Becoming Heroic in Shererville, Indiana. $68.86, which is
Starting point is 02:56:40 jiggly boobs. That's cool. Mark Parent, Ladysmith, BC, Canada. $6, Ladysmith, BC, Canada. 6, 7, 8, 9, and it's a happy birthday to a smoking hot wife, Fluffcomet. Yes, Fluffcomet. She's been around. Sir Evil Larry
Starting point is 02:56:55 in Thompson Station, Tennessee. 6, 3, 2, 5. Miles in Charlottesville, Virginia. 57, 14. Very fine people. He's one of them. Top Notch Heating and Air Conditioning in Mantee, Utah, 5555. Go to Top Notch Heating.
Starting point is 02:57:16 Peter Chong, 515510. Surprise, Night of Astonishment, Yukon, Oklahoma, 5444. Night of Astonishment, Yukon, Oklahoma, 5444. Virginia Urzua in Oakland, Oaktown, 5333. And that's a happy birthday to Sonia C.
Starting point is 02:57:33 Turning 33. Nice. Another 33. Sir Matty in Bend, Oregon, 5272. George, is it Cat? Calab. Calab. 5272, George... Is it Cat? Cat?
Starting point is 02:57:45 Calab. Cal. Calab. Calab. Calab. In Saline, Michigan, 5271. I bet you that's pronounced some screwball way. Calab.
Starting point is 02:57:57 It says Saline. No, not his name. Saline. Saline. It's probably Saline. Saline. Yeah, probably Saline, even though it says Saline. Scott Nelson, our buddy in Council Bluffs, Iowa. $50.01.
Starting point is 02:58:09 Now, the following people are all $50 donors. Name and location, another short list, making a total of 36 donors for the whole show. Jack Schofield in Yankee Town, Florida. Brian Emmenheiser in Lancaster, California. Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon. Richard Gardner, it says parts unknown, but I think he's in New York. Michael Elmore in Gastonia, North Carolina. John Taylor in Florissant, Colorado. Zev Green in Teaneck, New Jersey. Zev Green in Teaneck, New Jersey
Starting point is 02:58:44 Jay Alvarez in Meridian, or Meriden I'm sorry, Meriden, Connecticut Steven Crummy our buddy in El Cajon, California last on the list Alex Salasauer Salasauer
Starting point is 02:59:00 Salasauer, yeah he's in Shakers's Height, Ohio. I want to thank these people for letting us do show 1655. And we also, again, want to thank our executive and associate executive producers. You made it happen for show number episode 1655. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Order.
Starting point is 02:59:31 Order. Shut up, flame. Shut up. Noagendadonations.com. Become a producer today. It's your birthday, birthday. On No Agenda. And no shortage of birthdays. We got Mark Parent wishing his smoking hot wife Fluff Comet a happy one.
Starting point is 02:59:51 It was her birthday yesterday. Virginia Urzua says happy birthday to Sonia C, turning 33 tomorrow. Katie Chopper wishes her son Ezekiel Chopper a happy birthday. He'll be 32 on the 30th. Sertos celebrates on May 8th. And Darren Ackland gets a big happy birthday from his loving wife. Happy birthday from everybody. You're the best podcast in the universe.
Starting point is 03:00:15 And we've got a layaway night. Yes, indeed. You can just keep your own accounting and you can take as long as you want. Keep your own accounting, and you can take as long as you want. In fact, John Walter says, After 20 months of a fearless battle against the PayPal evil domain, I finally obtained my knighthood. From henceforth, I would like to be known as Sir Troutmilt,
Starting point is 03:00:37 Guardian of the Squillchuck. Do you think I got that right? Squillchuck? I would like to request smoked rattlesnake for the feast and a bridge lip sucker fish. Bridge lip sucker fish? That sounds good. No idea. Well, normally you know these culinary treats. All right.
Starting point is 03:00:59 Well, I ordered it for you, so they're dead. So it's good. Thank you for your continued media deconstruction and true common sense entertainment a big thank you to my nash no agenda stay hard brothers gunyar for hitting me in the mouth and leo or leo j for challenging me to complete 33 333 push-ups what 33,333 push-ups during this year of our lord 2024 john am thanks for all you do i would like to request a dedouching as i never received one with my first 50 donation back in september of 2022 and an r2d2 karma do you have any sound bites of macho man randy savage no no we don't
Starting point is 03:01:39 you've been dedouched don't have that you've got karma all right well with that uh very happy to bring you up onto the podium here's the blade for our layaway night you gotta you gotta there you go i got one beautiful all right joe walter to fall. All right, Joe Walter, stepping up, young man. Thanks to your 20 months of fearless battle and finally making it. It does work. Everybody can become a knight or a dame with a no agenda show. I am very proud to pronounce the
Starting point is 03:02:15 Sir Trout Milk Guardian of the Squillchuck. And by your request, we have, besides a hook or some blow and the red poison chardonnay, smoked rattlesnake for the feast with a brinched lip suckerfish. Along with that, in case you're interested, we've got some Rubinus, Wimmin, and Rosé. We have some bong hits and bourbon, some ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, sparkling cider and escorts, or, of course, the mutton and mead right here for you.
Starting point is 03:02:44 Thank you so much much it's great to see the layaway knights step up go to noagendarings.com anybody can go there and take a look at that handsome knight ring uh also for dames of course in the size of your choice which means you have to size it there's a little handy ring sizing guide there give us an address we'll send it to you it's a signet ring so you can use it to with the supplied wax to seal your important correspondence and in addition to that we get a certificate of authenticity because it's real this you are a real knight of the no agenda round table thank you all so much for supporting us here at episode 1655. No agenda meetups. Another way you can help out the show is by organizing meetups.
Starting point is 03:03:33 People love going to meetups. They love getting together. It really is a supplemental program that comes in addition with the media deconstruction. So you can talk about it, the pros, the cons. As far as I know, there's never even been an Israel Hamas fight at any of these meetups, which is amazing because only amazing people go to them.
Starting point is 03:03:53 Like these in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Adam and John, this is Shannon in Fort Wayne. We had nine in attendance, three had to bug out early. John, you would love the house wine. It's got electrolytes. Shelly from Fort Wayne, having a great time in the morning. Thank you. Jared from Fort Wayne, having a great time in the morning. Thank you. Jared from Fort Wayne, having a fun time with Shelly, too, in the morning.
Starting point is 03:04:11 Hello, this is Dan. It was a good time at lunch today. Thanks. Mike in Fort Wayne, in the morning. See you next month. All right. All right. Energetic bunch over there in Fort Wayne.
Starting point is 03:04:21 Kernersville, North Carolina. Here's their report. Hey, John and Adam. This is Sir William of West Pennsylvania at the Kernersville, North Carolina. Here's their report. Hey, John and Adam, this is Sir William of West Pennsylvania at the Kernersville, North Carolina meetup. Train's good, plastic plane's bad. This is Maureen in the morning. This is Sir James about the cheesecake.
Starting point is 03:04:36 John and Adam, this is Producer X from the Kernersville meetup, thanking you both for your courage. In the morning, gentlemen, this is Sir Richie Rich. Keep up the great work. This is Ashley from your courage in the morning gentlemen this is sir richie rich keep up the great work this is ashley from gibsonville in the morning making our own milieu this is christine from raleigh in the morning in the morning ah great sign off thank you very much there's a couple more meetups taking place actually today. The I Must Be High number 15, which is already underway, I think, in Granite Brewery in Toronto, Canada. And on Thursday, that'll be the 2nd of May, the Northern Wake amygdala shaving meetup, 6 o'clock at Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina. On the way in the next month or so, Torrance, California,
Starting point is 03:05:24 Arlington, Virginia, Blaine, Washington, Leiden month or so, Torrance, California, Arlington, Virginia, Blaine, Washington, Leiden, the Netherlands, Indianapolis, Indiana, Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Austin, Texas on the 18th, Hingham, Connecticut, Athens, Greece. I need a meetup report from you guys on the 22nd. Tulsa, Oklahoma, then in June, Fargo, North Dakota,
Starting point is 03:05:42 Scottsdale, Arizona, Mosley, Virginia, the 15th, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I will be there. And Trinidad and Tobago on July 28th. Dude, send us meetup reports. I'll even edit it together. If you got gaps, don't worry about it. If you have someone there who can produce it, that's even better. Noagendameetups.com.
Starting point is 03:06:01 If you have never been to one, find one at that website. If you can't find one, start one yourself. It's easy. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where you want to be. Drink it all, hell's a lame. You want to be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. Yeah, baby. It's like one big party.
Starting point is 03:06:31 And as we always like to do as we get near to the end of the show, we like to bring you into the way the sausage is made with some of the production work as we determine what our end of show ISO will be. Do you have any for us today? Yes, I do. I have two. Oh, have any for us today? Yes, I do. I have two. Oh, okay. Let's see.
Starting point is 03:06:48 Yes, I see them. All right, here we go. What you got? Let's start with insult. Do not insult the intelligence of the American people. It's a long borderline, borderline on the length. Nothing burger. Nothing burger. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah that sucked that if you don't like the long one you're gonna have to well let me see if i can do any better the whole thing
Starting point is 03:07:15 is icky to me i like it all right i. Yeah, you're wrong. No. No. How about this one? Surely we can find better things to do than this. And then I think this is a possible winner. See you later. I like that one a lot. Your turn. Wow.
Starting point is 03:07:40 You actually have three good ones. Well, which one would you like? You want to hear them again? Yeah, except for the second one's no good. The whole thing is icky to me. See you later. Surely we can find better things to do than this. I think they might as well go with it.
Starting point is 03:07:58 That was Zuckerberg, it sounds like. No, that's Jeff Jarvis. It's interesting they have the same intonations. Same milieu. Must be. You want to do that one? You want to do the Jarvis. It's interesting. They have the same intonations. Same milieu. Must be. You want to do that one? You want to do the Jarvis? Let's go with see you later.
Starting point is 03:08:16 See you later. Okay. See you later it is. Good news. Good, good news. Good news. Good, good news. Good news.
Starting point is 03:08:25 I actually got an email, or I think it was a post. I don't know if it was on Twitter or on Mastodon. Someone was like, good news sucks. And then all of a sudden heard the most recent good news clip. It was like, good news is great. So you're garnering fans. So this, of course, is the clip that we like to play for you so that you don't go out all depressed about all the horrible things that are taking place. Because sometimes there's just good news.
Starting point is 03:08:47 What do we have today? This is about the saving of a Newfoundland dog, the giant Newfie, that was in a fire. And it's a terrible story, but they saved the dog and now he's in good spirits. And just as a dog story. Let's go. Fox 5 has the dramatic photos of Peachtree City firefighters rescuing a family's dog from their burning home. Rescuers say it was touch and go and wait until you hear how big this dog is. Fox 5's Doug Evans talked with the family and first responders.
Starting point is 03:09:16 This is Napoleon, a 10-year-old Newfoundland. He's had a hard week. Firefighters found his lifeless body on the bedroom floor of his family's Peachtree City condo Tuesday. They say smoke was sealing to floor from the fire. The only way out for Napoleon and his rescue team was through this window. The big fella weighs 140 pounds. After squeezing through that window, again the firefighters and the dog together, they set to work on life-saving measures. I think at least five people carrying the backboard, so it was like carrying a human. Firefighters then rushed him to an emergency vet for further life-saving intervention. It worked. Napoleon was released three days later and in good health, and was at the destroyed condo for a reunion with his rescuers and family.
Starting point is 03:10:04 It's awesome to be able to, like I said, give back and everything and say that we had a positive outcome. They are amazing. This was a devastating loss for us, and they kept it from being just a complete tragedy. But they say for now, Napoleon is enough, and they are grateful. Everything that we lost is replaceable, except for... Napoleon.
Starting point is 03:10:28 In Petrie City. Doug Evans, Fox 5 News. Did they edit with the pause button over there? At that station? I thought you were going to do the Christy Gnome dog story, but no. Alright. You heard about that. Didn't she put the dog down?
Starting point is 03:10:43 Yeah, she just... The puppy. Was that a good story? That's my point. A good news story from JCD. Happy vibes for you and me. And we all feel better now he's done his bit. So back to reality, that's turning to sh*t. Nope, not here. No reality here.
Starting point is 03:11:07 We are ending our broadcast day, and we thank you all, particularly trolls who stuck it out. We like having you here, of course. We really do. It's beautiful to have you here. Stick around on noagendastream.com, or if you're in the troll room or using a modern podcast app, which will alert you within 90 seconds of us publishing a new episode.
Starting point is 03:11:27 We have episode 699 of Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged coming up. That's one before the big 700, which is coming up on Tuesday. I suggest you all listen to that on Tuesday. Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. Live. Comes out Wednesday on the podcast. End of show. You all listen to that on Tuesday. Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, live.
Starting point is 03:11:45 Comes out Wednesday on the podcast. End of show mixes. I'm apprehensive because John said it's the worst, but there you go. We got Fletcher. We got some Professor Jay Jones. We got Bill checking in. All of that and more coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6.
Starting point is 03:12:08 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we all know that Phoebe is not a white lab, I am John C. Dvorak. That's true. It was made long before we figured out what she really was. Remember us at noagendadonations.com
Starting point is 03:12:24 until Thursday, everybody, and adios, mofo, a-hooey, hooey, and such. We begin with a battle over paternity leave. Paternity leave. I deserve it. Hey, man, I should have this day off. I have privilege. I have this beautiful, beautiful white Labrador. Labs are great dogs, good beginner dog. I gotta tell you, man, this dog was looking at me like, choose me. I think we're going to adopt this dog. Trap dog, trap dog. This is what it was. This, this, this, this, this is what it was. Trap dog, trap dog. This is what it was. A trap dog, obviously. Whoa. Trap dog, trap dog. This is what it was.
Starting point is 03:13:05 This, this, this, this, this is what it was. Trap dog, trap dog. Would you like a free dog? She's now stuck there. When I'm frustrated with John, I need something to kick, so maybe this white lab will do. It just seems like the right thing to do. You can't do that. By the way, you have an adult dog and they're either the
Starting point is 03:13:25 calmest, greatest, really good dog or they're nuts, no matter what. Well, I gotta tell you Trap dog, trap dog, this is what it was. This, this, this, this, this is what it was. Trap dog, trap dog, this is what it was. John, this dog, it was so sweet. It was just trap dog,
Starting point is 03:13:42 trap dog, this is what it was. The dog, the dog barked. This is what it was. The dog. The dog barked. This is what it was. Trap dog, trap dog. You hear her? You have no idea about this dog, really, other than trap dog, trap dog. This is what it was. When you call her, she comes.
Starting point is 03:13:54 This is what it was. Trap dog, trap dog. No, it's a big dog. It's unbelievable. This is what it was. If you don't listen to it, you have no idea how much content is in there, okay? Okay? Before we went any further, it's this particular clip because it does bring out an issue that
Starting point is 03:14:09 i think is floating around uh kind of as a subtext all right this guy floating around just like being in a different domain it is like being in a different dimension you just float around and don't cause trouble. You're floating all over the place. Apparently, people are floating around. Floating around. And when you're in them, floating around them, whether you're in them for a little short term or a long term, you're still floating around. And so they're floating around and they're stringing because we have telephone poles around.
Starting point is 03:14:51 Why is he floating around here? That's what I thought this story was about. I got you. Still floating around. This is a decade ago. This is before we started doing our show. This stuff was floating around. Yes.
Starting point is 03:15:04 Floating all over the place. I can tell you right now, people doing a Trump with farts, you're not going to be chosen. Letting it rip. And it's not just farting, Josh. It's putrid. He's ripping ass, dog. See, babe. Trump's lawyers repulsed by the scent and the smell. Oh, yay.
Starting point is 03:15:18 More of that. He's actually passing gas. It's just too beautiful to believe. See, babe. Snopes looked into this. Very interesting. A what? A diaper Snopes looked into this. Very interesting. What? Diaper Don. Hello, we're a podcast. Breaking! Breaking!
Starting point is 03:15:30 T-Bag! But I went down that rabbit hole. We give you some real information. Are the lawyers keeling over? Are they putting on gas masks? T-Bag! Farts in court. Sources. Reliable sources. Because he can't read
Starting point is 03:15:45 He's ripping ass, dog Breaking, breaking He's worn diapers since probably the 90s He's nicknamed with wet wipes Witnessed him soiling himself in a rage Sitting there What has this got to do with anything? He did it in the Oval Office
Starting point is 03:15:59 With the Turkish president and Dianne Feinstein And I did nothing wrong Absolutely nothing wrong. And these people get paid. And he just freaked out and then very loudly evacuated his house. And you could smell it. Prior bad acts. Homie may have let off a shark, bro.
Starting point is 03:16:18 While the U.S. press is sniffing his farts. He may have sharted himself. And I did nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. See, babe? Yeah, that's what happened. But that's better. You know, could it be a jury intimidation
Starting point is 03:16:31 if Trump is farting? Is he intimidating the jury? And that it's very stinky around him. It's a putrid odor. It's actually impacting the people around him, so... What are you thinking? Don't you know us by now? What are you thinking? Don't you know us by now?
Starting point is 03:16:50 The best podcast in the universe. Mopo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. See you later.
