Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, May 14th, 2026.
This is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media Assassination episode 1868.
This is no agenda. With pomp and circumstance and broadcasting
live from the heart of the Texas film country here
in... Region number six in the morning everybody. I'm Adam
Curry. And from Refinery Row where we're all watching what's
going on in China, I'm John C. Dvorak. One was
Yes, we are. China. Ch-ch-China. Ch-ch-China. China. China, China, China,
China. Yes, but before we talk about China. I had
a rather interesting... Oh, you're back. You are back from
the hinterlands. Yes, the lowlands. The lowlands and get more
nation there and you have a report. Yes. Always entertaining,
I might add. Yes. Our re-entry into, well, first of
all, we had a great time. You know, we hung
out with Christina and Kevin and we just had fun.
It was great. And the airport hotel, I have to
say, got kind of old after a week. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, they're not the most luxurious of places. They're just
handy. Well, yeah. I mean, they're business hotels. But we
were in the hotel a lot because of the shows
and stuff like that. But the thing that bothered me
is there was a blueberry in the hallway. Have you
ever had this where you see a blueberry or something
on the carpet? You're like, hmm. And then you come
back in the afternoon, the blueberry's still there. And then
for the whole week, you're looking at the blueberry. And
then someone stepped on the blueberry, but it never really
got cleaned up, the blueberry. That was very disappointing. Oh,
well, did you report it? No, I did not report
it. Well, you didn't report it. What do you expect?
Well, I was waiting to... Hello, War Room Service. You
dropped a blueberry. I was waiting to see if they
would vacuum the hallway is just a crazy, crazy example.
They did not. So we came back via Detroit. Which
is a b- fine way to go you know you
can go atlanta minneapolis detroit detroit is a fine way
to go yeah for a for a transfer actually that
airport's kind of fascinating because there's a subway system that
goes in that's inside the airport itself it's more like
a monorail above it's not it's not a yeah it's
weird it's over way it's a above way above yeah
it's above way It's not a subway. It's an above
way. And we decided to walk. You know, the gate
73 is a long way away. But upon re-entry... We
had, we have signed up, this is a typical TINA
thing, it's like, we're doing global entry. Okay, we got
global entry and you get your TSA pre-check and all
that to go with it. So at CBP, and I
should say as an aside, there's pretty much it's all
CBP now instead of TSA. That was just, we noticed
that on the way out. Well, I mean, you know,
I think that there's still a... CDP, the Canadian District
Police? No, CBP, the Customs and Border. patrol. Oh, oh.
Yes. Who are doing most, and you know, everything's kind
of smooth, but then coming back in, so, you know,
we always, we don't have to stand in this line.
We're going to the kiosk. We're going to the global
entry kiosk. And it's odd because you have a card
and you got your path. You don't need any of
that. You just. stand in front of the thing. It
goes biometrics. Hello. All right. Walk on by. So as
we're walking up, you still have to go through the
little port and talk to the dude. He says, Adam
and Tina Curry. Oh, that's interesting. I didn't expect him
to. Come on up here, family. Okay. And he's like,
okay, where were you? What were you doing? Were you
working over there? No, I was seeing my daughter. She's
going to have a baby. Oh, that's great. Okay. Bring
any cash with you? No, no cash. Any fruits, meats,
vegetables, drugs, anything else we should know? No, nothing. Okay.
And so we go in and we're waiting for our...
For our bags. And there were several Customs Border Patrol
dudes patrolling through kind of the people waiting for their
bags. And I saw it right away. You know, I'm
going to try not to look like I was patrolling.
And boom! Uh, folks, can I see your passports? Okay,
passports, here you go. the same questions. What are you
doing? Why are you there? Do you bring any cash?
Any meats, fruits, vegetables, anything? Any drugs? No? No, no,
no. Okay. All right. We get our bags. We're walking
towards the exit. Another dude. Hey folks! So we just
talked to your colleague. Oh, really? So yeah. said, it
must be because we look like international diamond smugglers. Is
that what it is? Why don't you step over here,
Mr. and Mrs. Curry? Me and my big mouth. So
you made a snide remark? It was a funny remark.
I'm like, why are you guys targeting us? Do we
look like... like international diamond smugglers. Yeah, folks, why don't
you step over here? And we're going to do a
little bag check. But what was so obvious... Oh, they
did a bag check on you then? Yeah, opened everything.
Ooh, but the, it was so obvious they were looking
for cash. Okay, do you have any cash on you?
How much, I said, how much, how much do you
want? You're looking for cash coming in yes yes why
i i don't know i said how much cash do
you want i got 80 bucks here that's all i
got and they really didn't do a thorough a thorough
check of the bags at all You know, and they
were nice and everything, but it was just so odd.
They kept asking about cash. You got any cash? You
got cash. And the whole time I'm thinking, I have
a whole... There must be a... You know what I'm
thinking? What? There's a counterfeit ring going on in Europe.
Something must be going on with cash. Yeah, they're looking
for counterfeit money to bring broad into the country. I
mean, that's the only thing that makes logical sense. Maybe.
I mean, and there's... so much to look at in
my bag. I had my studio with me. No, nothing.
They didn't ask a question about it, I'm sure. No,
not a single thing. It was kind of, but so
it had to be the cash. Meanwhile, I'm thinking, you
guys are all so old fashioned. I got a Bitcoin
memorized in my head. I'm walking around with a full
Bitcoin crossing borders. Didn't mention that, but... Because it is.
Isn't it just kind of old-fashioned, this whole idea of
cash? Who smuggles cash across the border anymore? especially into
the country. Yeah, right? Unless it's counterfeit. Some of the,
you imagine if I had some of those Trump dollars
that we got. I snagged you the other day. What
is this? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So. uh We
did have a dinner with Lex and Fariba, his Persian
wife. Which was interesting. Yeah, it's the lowdown. Well, first
of all, we had Peking Duck, which is kind of...
strange to have that in Amsterdam. um And I said,
you know, so what's the deal? Have you heard from...
Have you heard from your family? She says, well, like
once a week, we might get a WhatsApp message and
they have to do all kinds of. all kinds of
stuff to, you know, you sometimes get a SIM card,
you have to find a Wi-Fi signal, it's very, very
difficult, but... In general, when they get a message, it's
like everything's okay. Nobody knows what's going on. Nobody. They
just don't know what's going on. Huh. And, you know,
and it was kind of fun as we're just talking
about life in Iran, in Tehran, and life in Iran.
And I say, yeah, you know, that son of the
Khomeini guy, he's supposedly gay. And Fariba says, oh, we
have no idea how many men in Iran are gay.
What? Oh yeah. She says, you know, you can't hold
hands with a woman, but you can kiss a man
on the street. I was like, what? He says, oh
yeah. There's even cave drawings in Iran of men having
sex with men. He says, this goes back thousands of
years. That sounds kind of weird. Yeah, yeah, she said,
"Bessie." It says that's what it is. You can you
can make out with it with a dude, but you
can't hold a woman's hand in Iran on the street.
And now, on the other hand. She made it very
clear to me that hijabs have really not been a
thing in Tehran for a long time. In fact, she
says, look out the window. She said, look at the
street here. He says, there are more hijabs in Amsterdam
than you'll ever see in Tehran, which was kind of
a double slap. Like, yeah. Because it's true. Man, you
do not want to go to Amsterdam anymore. There's no
Dutch people there. That stinks. Yeah, it does stink, really.
And it must really ruin the bar scene. The bar
scene. Actually, I have a couple clips about the internet
blackout in Iran if you want to hear them. Sure.
Okay. 90 million people. That is how many Iranians have
been functionally cut off from the global internet since January
8th, 2026. Not slowed down. Not filtered. cut off. Connectivity
sitting at 1% of normal levels, according to NetBlocks, the
digital governance monitor that has been tracking this in real
time. By March 10th, the total had hit 240 hours
of blackout since the start of the year. The internet
monitor marked publicly, calling it one of the most severe
government-imposed shutdowns on record globally. And that was not even
the peak. By April 11th, the counter had crossed 1,000
hours. The ceasefire between Iran, the United States and Israel
had already been announced three days earlier. on April 8th.
The guns went quiet, the missiles stopped, and the internet
stayed off. That is the detail that tells you everything
you need to know about what this blackout actually is.
Because this was never about the war. The war was
the cover story. Over the next few minutes, I'm going
to show you exact... how Iran built a two-tier information
system. Who is online while everyone else sits in darkness?
What the regime told the world out loud about who
deserves a connection? And why the plan that Filterwatch obtained
from inside the government makes every other authoritarian I thought
there was kind of an interesting report because, you know,
they really did have a whole plan to cut people
off from the internet. Which I guess could happen anywhere,
I guess. If you had enough control, I don't know
about the United States, but I could sur- We certainly
see it happening in any European country, any EU nation
state. And here's some of that plan. The technical architecture
behind all of this is what makes this story genuinely
different from every previous internet crackdown. Filterwatch, the Iran-focused internet
monitoring organization, obtained and published... a confidential government plan in
January 2026. The name of that plan is Absolute Digital
Isolation. The document describes a deliberate, coordinated, multi-year project to
transform Iran's internet infrastructure into what it calls a barracks
internet. Under that system, access to the global web is
not a default right that gets selectively removed during crises.
It is a privilege granted only to vetted individuals and
organisations that pass a security clearance process. Everyone else gets
the domestic intranet. Everyone else gets state television. Everyone else
gets what the regime decides they should know. The plan
is being built on a Huawei-based platform, coordinated by Chinese
technical partners. Iran International obtained information indicating the project is
estimated to cost between $700 million and $1 billion, with
all equipment... from Huawei entering Iran in 24 containers after
the June 2025 12-day war. President Massoud Pazeshkian visited the
construction site in March 2025. China's ambassador also paid a
visit. So, and they have these jamming systems for the
Starlink. And you literally have internet and internet pro. And
if you can afford the Internet Pro and you're on
the list, then you can go outside the country and
surf the web or do whatever. And somehow WhatsApp once
in a while gets through. *Clears throat* So. I can
see it. I can see that as being a Huawei
system. And they sell it to everybody. Hey, you guys
want this? You can shut down your people? Well, you
know, it's a bad sign, but it seems like something
that other people would be looking at. You're right. The
EU could do it. Yeah. Anyone could do it. Maybe
it should be done in some countries. Well, let's be
honest. You're losing control. Let's be honest. It's not. Not
like the internet has been a plus for the world,
has it now? I mean, it expedites things. Yes, yeah,
it does. But that's about it. It's made our job
harder. Please just be able to watch C-SPAN. I gotta
watch all this other crap. It's amazing. Yeah. It's true,
we had to watch a lot of crap. Did you
see any of the Hegseth hearings? Everyone moaning and groaning
about Iran and how much it costs and all of
this. Yeah, I saw some of it. I think we
maybe played a couple of clips. This has been going
on for a while. Yeah. Well, my... I think it
was. Murkowski? Where's she from again, Murkowski? Alaska. Ugh, what
is she even doing in D.C.? ? Well, she's the
one you have to do. Murkowski was. I don't know
how she, she actually, kind of her appearance changed. She
was fairly attractive when she was younger. Oh, oh, oh.
Hold on, let's take a look. Yes. Well, the point
is that she was a Republican representative senator from Alaska.
But she's kind of a middle, you know... middle-of-the-road Republican,
and so they decided to primary her years and years
ago. And so they brought some stiff in there to
run against her, and they took her off. She wasn't
a Republican. She couldn't register as an independent. So she
actually had the statewide write-in vote. You had to write
her name in the ballot. And she won. You know,
I'm looking at her, and yeah, she... kind of that
cute political kind of face. back in the day you
know what she forgot to moisturize Well, she's got a
Skeletor-like look now. That's where things went wrong. Ladies, you've
got to moisturize, particularly if you're doing a lot of
flying. Please remember these things. So she missed. quotes the
president, which I thought was just fun to listen to.
Now, let me turn and say, Secretary Hex says that
the president has called Medicaid, Medicare, and child care little
scams and said, quote, we're fighting wars we cannot take.
care of daycare. Okay. Let's just go back and listen.
Do you think that's what the president said? Did he
say these are little seals? It seems unlikely. And I
actually said to them, I said to Russell, don't send
any money for daycare because the United States can't take
care of daycare. That has to be up to a
state. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big
country. We have 50 states. We have all these other...
We can't take care of daycare. You gotta let a
state take care of daycare, and they should pay for
it too. They should pay. They have to raise their
taxes. But they should pay for it. And we could
lower our taxes a little bit to them to make
up for it. But it's not possible for us to
take care of daycare. Medicaid. things, they can do it
on a state basis. You can't do it on a
federal. We have to take care of one thing, military
protection. So that's what he really said. He said the
states need to take care of it, not the federal
government. But she twists that, and let's just listen to
that once again. Now, let me turn and say Secretary
Hex says that president has called Medicaid, Medicare, and child
care little scams and said, quote, we're fighting wars. We
cannot take... care of daycare. Yeah, you see, that's how
you do it. Ignore all the preamble that he said.
Just say he said this. I'm just trying to understand
that. Is it your position? Which is complete positioning because
this is, you know, a senatorial hearing and it's all
about the clips and it's all about your little moment.
And that's what she wanted to get out. And it's
dishonest. You're asking taxpayers for another half a trillion dollars
for the war that American families should be forced to.
give up child care and health coverage. And now she
now it's like so for your half a trillion dollars
Hegseth you crazy Christian for your half a trillion dollars
we have to give up our health care. You can
have one and a half trillion dollars for this budget.
Senator, that's not my department. I certainly support this, and
I also support this. support the president's efforts to find
and remove fraud wherever possible in the general sense. And
we do that in our department as well. I'm not
talking about fraud. I actually asked whether an American family
should lose their health care or their child care to
pay for this budget. That is literally what the president
suggested. Oh man! It's so good. The president has proposed
a historic $1.5 trillion budget that will defend the nation
and space, Golden Dome, confront threats like Iran, which previous
presidents allowed to happen, as Senator Graham pointed out. Previous
administrations said they wanted to take care of this problem.
The question in front of this committee, the question in
front of the American people is what are they being
asked to give up for this one and a half
trillion dollars? That's where I was talking about. And lastly,
Mr. Secretary, your budget request cuts through Trump's ramblings and
really makes the truth clear that you and the president
don't value families. As much as you value defense. It's
such a show. You don't value families. You just like
war. You're talking to the war guy, first of all.
She's going to bring value families in. You should have
thrown back, what do you need daycare for? Because you
should have the true family structure. Ooh, yeah. If you're
really bad. You're going to throw it right in her
face. Yeah, no, he's good. He's not that good. He's
not that good. President Trump, though, you know, he definitely
does not care. The war also taking a toll on
American consumers. Inflation rose last month by 3.8% compared to
the same period last year. Energy. prices fueling the surge
with gas up 28.4%. That's one factor driving up prices
in supermarkets and restaurants. All the lettuces, whether it be
iceberg, romaine, field greens, they are high. Oranges are high.
Tomatoes are almost... for over four times what they normally
cost. Before leaving for China, President Trump said higher prices
here at home will not influence his negotiations with Iran.
The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran,
they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about...
financial situation I don't think about anybody Good work, President.
That doesn't help his case. That does not help. But
of course, we have to keep spiking the ball here.
So we have Patty Murray, Senator. Where's Patty Murray? Another
one. Another one of these. He's back east. Forgot to
moisturize. Uh, it takes it a little further. Mr. Secretary,
the war in Iran has not only cost 13 American
service member lives, it is also costing American taxpayers dearly.
Tens of billions of dollars and counting, and that's money
that could be helping people perhaps get health care. But
instead, we're paying for bombs dropped in a war that
American people overwhelmingly... See, you could have had healthcare. We
also all could have had like a new car, all
kinds of stuff. But she, oh no, everyone could have
had healthcare if you stopped dropping bombs. Yeah, yeah, that's
true. Actually, I take it back. Patty Mercer from Washington
State. Yeah, she's the idiot from Washington. I should know
that. Yes, you should. I know that your team testified
Trump's war with Iran cost $29 billion so far. Trump's
war with Iran. That is $29 billion blown on a
war of choice, and that's what it would have cost,
actually, to save the ACA. By the way, stop. Good
turn. They've been trying to push the meme war of
choice. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one They say it
as a kind of a catchphrase a war of choice
It hasn't caught on and they they they stopped it
They started right away with it and then they stopped
it for a while and they're bringing it back Testified
Trump's war with Iran cost 29 billion so far That
is $29 billion blown on a war of choice, and
that's what it would have cost, actually, to save the
ACA tax credits. But as my colleagues have already stated,
what is concerning as well is it seems quite clear
that that cost estimate is suspiciously low. So this whole...
you know, um, Healthcare versus... war Somehow that seeped into
the president's brain. And... And he's using all kinds of
health care terms. Have you noticed this? No. Oh, check
this out. It's unbelievably weak, I would say. I would
call it the weakest. Right now? After reading that piece
of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading
it. I said, I'm not going to waste my time
reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest
right now. It's on life support. They understand. These are
all medical people. And so Dr. Oz is standing behind
him. And he said, oh, the ceasefire is on life
support. Dr. Oz, life support is not a good thing.
Do you agree? Diagnostic. I would say the ceasefire is
on. And then Oz is like, oh, yeah, that's right,
Mr. President. Massive life support where the doctor walks in
and says. Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1%
chance. of living. But they changed their mind because they
didn't put it in the paper. So when they sent
us this document that we waited four days for that
should have taken ten minutes to do, it looked very
simple. We get that, they guarantee no... nuclear weapons for
a very long period of time and a couple of
other minor things but they just can't get there yeah
so all kinds of medical did you notice how he
slipped that new thing in there what's the new thing
No nuclear weapons for a very long period of time
as opposed to no nuclear weapons. Yes, yeah. Yeah, that's
definitely on the table. Yeah, so they're obviously going to
do some deal where they're working on a deal where,
okay. The moratorium on your doing the... enrichment yeah how
many years okay ten five ten he says and you
know they can make the argument what different since they're
waiting for the 12th imam You know, what difference does
it make whether you wait another decade or not for
the 12th e-mom? Come on. Does it make a difference,
really? That's the art of the deal right there. Hey,
listen, boys. You're waiting for the 12th e-mom. The guy's
going to come. He's going to come. He'll come when
he's ready. That's so funny. funny yeah so um the
president and his entire crew are in China. This has
been quite interesting to watch. Do you have any clips
on the China visit? I don't know if I do.
I'm kind of... I'm all over the map with clips
today. But you want to do some China stuff? Because
I've been noticing a few things. yeah do finish your
china stuff up well i mean yeah i get trump
on china this is the prelude on ntd uh trying
to tease in the whole thing there you go yeah
good president trump touching down today in beijing for a
high stakes two-day summit ah The terms, the terms, high
stakes, high stakes, pomp and circumstance is a lot of
buzzwords they're using. High stakes. President Trump touching down today
in Beijing for a high stakes two day summit with
Xi Jinping as rapid shifts in the global power dynamics
loom large. Blows to Beijing's key partners in Venezuela. and
Iran mounting tensions over Tuan, and human rights all expected
to be on the... Tuan? Tuan? They're in Tuan. What's
the problem with Tuan? ...key partners in Venezuela and Iran
mounting tensions over Tuan. You gotta be sitting at home
watching. This is a Chinese run operation. NTD. Why are
they saying Tawana? Blows to Beijing's key partners in Venezuela
and Iran mounting tensions over Tawana and human rights all
expected to be on the table. NTD's White House correspondent
Mari Otsu sets the stage for us from the North
Lawn of the White House. President Trump's arrival in Beijing
for a major two-day... summit with Chinese Communist Party leader
Xi Jinping comes against the backdrop of a new world
order. In January, the ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro
dealt a major blow to one of China's key partners
in the Western Hemisphere. And just weeks later, U.S. strikes
on Iran hit another regime that's reliant on China, with
Iran's foreign minister visiting Beijing a week ahead of the
U.S. President Trump's visit. the strait. We are reopening it.
So I would urge the Chinese to join us in
supporting this international operation. There are things moving through the
UN that China and Russia have blocked. Now, as President
Trump is in China meeting Xi Jinping for the first
time since they met in Busan, South Korea last fall,
talks are expected to go far beyond trade. That's as
the president has framed tariffs, market access, and the flow
of fentanyl from China into the U.S. as national security
issues. And while new trade agreements on U.S. goods like
soybeans, beef, and other farm products are on the table,
past deals with the CCP have proved fragile, like the
October trade truce reached in Busan after months of zero
U.S. soybean purchases from China. only meeting the 12 million
ton goal after repeated delays and extensions. The summit also
coming as Washington challenges China's critical minerals monopoly. Yeah, so
everybody is spinning this in a certain way, and I'm
a little mad at myself. If I had heard your
clip, I never listen to John's clips for everybody listening.
Because I want to be just as surprised as you
are. I would have done a supercut of this high
stakes. Here's the BBC. We start with the superpower summit
in China. The US President Donald Trump has landed in
Beijing, where he'll meet the Chinese leader Xi Jinping for
intensive talks. My colleague in Beijing, Steve Lai, described the
moments immediately after Mr. Trump's... plane touched down. Mr. Trump,
thanks BBC. We can see Air Force One just landed
and taxiing to its stopping position. You can see a
person in military fatigues there standing alone and solitary in
the centre of that screen or just to the left
as we go past it. The plane will, we imagine,
be turning around. We saw a ladder. as well, getting
ready to be placed in position for the president and
his delegation to walk down. And you can see another
military figure standing as well. China said Mr. Trump's visit
could be the start of a new chapter in relations
between the superpowers in a turbulent world. Mr. Trump is
being treated to a state visit. But significant tensions remain
between the two countries. And there are a number of
complex issues the U.S. and Chinese delegations will need to
navigate. Battles over trade and the fight to dominate strategically
important technologies like AI mean the two sides will have
some very difficult conversations ahead of them. So even if
this visit seems... friendly with Donald Trump predicting several times
that Xi Jinping will be giving him a big hug.
There's a lot at stake here. Ah, crap. The other
clip has high stakes in it. This ABC clip has
highs. Everyone has high stakes. With great pomp and pageantry
in China, rolling out the red carpet. What is pomp?
Huh? Pump. Ask the robot. No, I haven't even fired
the robot up. Hold on a second. Where is the
robot? Hello. Pump. All right. Pump and circumstance. What's the
circumstance? Well, let's ask. There's another. You might as well
just. The whole phrase is idiotic. Explain the etymology of
pump and circumstance. All right. Come on, robot. It got
pump instead of pomp. Oh, here we go. According to
the book of knowledge, pomp and circumstance originates from Shakespeare's
play Othello, where in Act 3, Othello speaks the line,
pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Oh. Pomp comes
from Latin and French, meaning splendid display or ceremony, while
circumstance in its archaic sense meant formal ceremony rather than
mere conditions. Thus, it has been written. Yes, I didn't
know that. Well, that was interesting. I had to say
it's the first time. The robot has provided something that's
actually interesting. With great pomp and pageantry, China rolling out...
Oh, now we got pomp and pageantry. They're just doing
alliteration. That is not from Shakespeare. ...carpet for President Trump.
300 young people waving Chinese and American flags. Steps behind
him to... Two of the major tech leaders he brought
along, Elon Musk and AI chip maker NVIDIA's CEO Jensen
Wong. Didn't you just love how everyone was going on
for days? Like, well, Jensen Wong's not going, he's not
going, he's not going, he's not going. Oh, he's going.
Had hoped this trip would reset. U.S. relations with China,
the world's other economic superpower. The summit had already been
rescheduled once because of the war in Iran. But the
war is now in its 10th week, and China, by
far the largest buyer of Iranian oil, now seeing its
supply cut off. And while the president claims the war
won't dominate the agenda, he knows... It looms large. They
say, they just say stuff. You'll hear them say, everyone
is like, oh, this is tense. It's intense. It's all
about this. Think. I think Trump is really looking forward
to it. I think he's happy. He's like... Well, did
you see Trump's presentation at the table? I have a
couple. clips of that yeah Yeah, he's pretty magnanimous. Yeah,
you remember ARC, America, Russia, China. Against the globalists. I
really think that everyone's on a little party line. A
little call. Hey, Vlad. Hey, G. Hey, Donuts. How you
doing? Yeah. And he's got all you. He's got all
these guys on his side of the table. The Chinese
have just got a bunch of ministers, but he's got,
you know, he's got, I think Tim Cook is there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All these guys that are hot shots
that do business with China. Yeah. Listen, more pump. Musk
has got a Tesla factory there. He's got to be
there, too. A key story of the day, President Trump
meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. When we
get straight over to Eamon Javers, he's on the ground
in China. Eamon's on the ground! Good morning. Yeah, good
morning to you, Andrew. You're looking at live pictures now
of President Trump arriving at the Great Hall of the
People. This is for the banquet. Remember, it is evening
here in Beijing, and they have a star-studded cast of
CEOs and political figures attending this state banquet at the
Great Hall. We've seen cameras in the room. Elon Musk
is there, along with a whole host of American CEOs
as well. The president was greeted by pomp and ceremony
earlier today. Pomp and ceremony. Pomp and ceremony. Wow, this
is great. Well, the president was greeted by pomp. You
know why they're saying this? They're saying this because, oh,
Trumbulli- cares about is that they suck is to suck
him off. Pump. They just want pump. That's why they're
saying it. yeah they love that and ceremony earlier today
at that same great hall of the people we saw
soldiers marching adoring children and of course this handshake which
was a large part of the reason that President Trump
traveled halfway around the world to come to Beijing to
signal friendly relations with the Chinese side. And he hopes
to cut some significant business deals. Now. There were some
real interesting firsts. I didn't know this, but it's very
rare that the Secretary of Defense, or of war as
we call him, would join. To Beijing for a high
stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The visit comes
despite past trade tensions and rivalry between the world's two
major economies. While President Trump is not being accompanied by
First Lady Melania Trump, he will be joined by two
key members of his administration, U.S. Secretary of War Pete
Hegseth and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Both visits
are unusual for different reasons. Hegseth has become the first
American defense chief in decades to accompany a sitting president
on a state visit to China. This marks a rare
break from traditional diplomatic practice. That is kind of interesting.
Yeah, well, I have a clip here you should play
because what's most interesting is Rubio is actually banned from
going to China. That's the second part of my clip,
but I'm happy to play yours. Oh, okay. It's probably
a little more elaborate. The Secretary of State is traveling
with President Trump in Beijing after China sanctioned him back
in 2020 for introducing bills as a senator targeting the
Chinese regime's crackdown on political dissidents in Hong Kong and
slavery camps for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Rubio also introduced
legislation to stop China's forced organ harvesting. of Falun Gong
practitioners. Human rights are the most distinct differentiation between the
United States of America and the Chinese Communist Party. The
Chinese Communist Party is currently conducting a genocide. They do
forced organ harvesting, which means they pull organs out of
living people to give it to officials that the Chinese
Communist Party prefers. Is this Rubio saying this? No, that
wasn't Rubio. That was just somebody doing an analysis. This
is NTD again? Yeah, of course. This is unlike any
regime we've seen for, say, 85 years. You can think
back and see who else acted like that, Nazi Germany
and others. And President Trump himself has also vowed to
bring some of the Chinese regime's... human rights abuses back
into the spotlight with the imprisonment of political prisoners, such
as the Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai and Christian pastor
Ezra Jin Ming-Ri. They missed the punchline. They missed the
punchline. Let me see if I can find it for
you. ...was a vocal critic of China, leading Beijing to
sanction him twice. So... How is he being allowed entry
into China? Well, according to reports, Beijing is using a
linguistic workaround. Rubio's name has been modified on official Chinese
lists by altering the first syllable of his surname to
Lu. This will allow authorities to bypass... Wait a minute,
isn't that how they pronounce his name anyway? Ah, Secretary
Lubio. Lubio. Mr. Lubio, you're here. It's almost like they're
writing the jokes for us. Oh, I know what we'll
do. We can't have Rubio come, but Lubio, Lubio, welcome.
Legal restrictions without officially lifting any sanctions. Earlier, China also
indicated that Rubio's past actions would not. block his visits.
The sanctions talk. Anyway, let me see. You're right. They
dropped the ball on the punchline. Yeah, it's a great
punchline. Welcome to China. This is NBC. And here's the
president exiting the plane now, going to come down those
steps. Now, listen very carefully. carefully i think the the
guy comes in here and he's going to tell you
what what he wants you to hear about how china
is supposedly thinking about all this but he uses really
sketchy sources to this particular ceremony that we're going to
see here um jonathan we had just had janice explain
to us tomorrow will is really where we'll see a
lot of that pomp and circumstance when he actually meets
with Xi Jinping when the two of them are together.
But walk us through what we're going to see here
in this moment and just how significant it is the
president stepping onto Chinese soil. Yeah, I mean, as your
colleague said, this is the first time we've had a
U.S. president visiting China in nearly a decade. And President
Trump was the last one to make this trip back
in 2017. So this is fairly momentous, just a mere
fact of the trip actually happening. And it is a
shift in the overall tenor and vibe for the U.S.-China
relationship because after that trip in 2017, you of course
had the trade war. With Washington, between Washington and China,
and then throughout the Biden administration, whenever there were encounters
between the two presidents, it was always in third countries,
right? I think there was a real hesitation on both
sides to engage in this kind of reciprocal visit, especially
since the relationship was in such a tense period, right?
So again, I think this... This really shows a shift,
and again, almost back to an earlier era in some
ways, it feels like. Ah, crap, that's not the clip
I was thinking of. I'm sorry, I dumped out of
that. This is the second time you did this. Yeah,
it happens. I got a lot of clips. No, it's
because you're jet-lagged. Yes, that's it. I'm jet lagged. So
here is a translated version of... Uh, President, uh... Gee's
speech, just a little bit here, a minute, at the
big banquet. And I'm listening to this. I'm like, man,
these guys, they got plans together. This was really nice.
This is a historic visit. This year marks the start
of China's... 15th five-year plan for economic and social development.
The over 1.4 billion people of China join on the
rich heritage of our over five... Say what? Oh, you
mean the amount of people? Yeah, the amount of people.
We know it's bullshit. People of China. Wait, let's go
back. Here we go. The over 1.4 billion people of
China join on the rich heritage of our over five...
for Binan people of China. How many do you think
it is? What is the latest tally? Well, most people
are pushing it at 600 million. Wow. But I think
it's around 800 million. Still a lot of people. Oh,
yes. Two to three times as many as we have.
Yeah. The over 1.4 billion people of China. drawing on
the rich heritage of our over 5,000 year civilization, advancing
Chinese modernization on all fronts. through high quality development This
year is also the 250th anniversary of American independence. This
is nice of them to mention that. After they say,
hey, we're 5,000 years old, but happy birthday. Happy birthday.
Of American independence. The over 300 million American people are
reinvigorating the spirit of patriotism, innovation, and enterprise. Yeah. And
ushering in a new journey. for the development of the
United States. The people of China and the United States
are both great peoples. achieving the great rejuvenation of the
Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand
in hand. We can help each other succeed and advance
the well-being of the people. of the whole world. The
whole thing. That was nice. Threw a MAGA in there,
yeah. Threw a MAGA in there and said, hey, we
can work together, link arms, grab Russia, we'll fight the
globalists. Here's our president. As allies in World War II,
President Franklin Roosevelt's mentions of the brave people of China,
that's what they were, grew loud cheers in his speeches
in the United States. Wait a minute, were we friends
back then with China? Oh yeah, we had the Flying
Tigers over there fighting the Japanese. We had a lot
of that. Yeah, the Chinese and us were tight. We
were the ones that rousted the... Japanese were on the
side of China. There was all kinds of work arounds,
work togethers. Yeah. We used our land as a base
for landing our planes. They were very, let us do
that. Where did this all go wrong? When did all
of a sudden they become the big evil China? When
Mao Zedong, basically, maybe, you know, 49, I think, is
when that began. And when the Kuomintang went over to
Taiwan. Uh... shank i shack you know that kind of
thing yeah that era yeah it's just a couple of
bad dudes By the way. It's actually, you know, then
they became isolationists and it wasn't until Nixon and Kissinger
opened it up that we noticed that these guys have
a lot of interesting capabilities. Overproduction being one of them.
Yeah. And then we shipped everything over there and went,
ah, screw you, America. This is great. ...of the brave...
people of China, that's what they were, drew loud cheers
in his speeches in the United States and everybody loved
what he had to say, just as many Chinese now
love basketball and blue jeans, Chinese restaurants in America today
outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United
States. all combined that's a pretty big statement i'm surprised
surprised wow i didn't hear that one about the chinese
restaurants i'm surprised they're not calling that chinese food young
president trump is racist he's racist he's cracking jokes about
them chinese restaurants And this is the wrap where he
gets the invitation to come and visit us. Right, as
America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, President Trump referencing
the past in America's history, talking about U.S.-China relations over
the years, also talking about the present, saying that today's
talks between the two... countries extremely positive and productive and
referencing the future with an invitation to China's president to
visit the White House in September. I was talking about,
he was reading stuff off Twitter. Oh, well, the Chinese
think this, the Chinese think that. Oh, man. Oh, yeah.
I'm pissed about that. yeah maybe this and we had
a trez joins us here managing partner and director of
economic policy at veda partners down there in norlands and
so as they say norlands Henrietta, what are your expectations
and the expectations of the people you talk to about
this coming up summit with President Xi in China? Hey,
guys. My expectations are much like yours, pretty low. I
think Secretary Besson and Ambassador Greer have been planting that.
perception for not just weeks but months now even before
the iran war started they haven't i am really i
would call attention like your previous guests to secretary benson
no they haven't no one's been this is bloomberg who
is the first bloomberg hates trump oh big time i'm
a treasury secretary is going to be leading a delegation
like this since Paulson during the Great Recession for all
of us who remember what that was like and the
coordination that was needed around the globe. So I'm really
expecting if any gains are going to be made and
it's not just a, you know, maintenance of the status
quo, I suspect it'll be on the soybean deal that
he reached in 2025. I really, you know, everyone talks
about, oh, soybeans, it'll be about this. No, I think
that's only one topic. And everybody thinks it's Taiwan. I
don't think it's Taiwan. I think the topic is, hey,
Donald, how do we get some of that oil? We
need that oil. What are we doing? Can we fix
the oil? Isn't that the only thing that they care
about at this point? Well, I would think that would
be at the top of the list because China has
to get their... I mean, they suck energy. Yes. I
mean, they do have a lot of coal in China.
That's the one thing they do have people always overlook.
And they have a lot of coal-fired plants that can
keep things going, but they need... They need... They need
oil from Iran. Yeah, and I think they'll still get
it at some kind of discount. But a couple things
got to be squared away. Look at my boys here.
I brought all these boys over here. We're going to
let you buy some chips from Jensen. We picked them
up in Alaska. You know, at the last minute, he
was trying to hide. Where's Jensen from? He's Asian. What
are his roots? Is he Korean? Taiwan. Taiwan, really? I
think so, yeah. I found the clip I was looking
for. It's about time. I know. It's a Taiwan bit.
Here we go. As the president makes his way to
the stairs of the Temple of Heaven, I want to
bring in... NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Garrett Haight,
who is in Beijing. And Garrett, as we take a
look at these pictures of the two leaders here after
their meeting, high stakes meeting earlier, we saw the pomp
and circumstance. Oh, she throws high stakes, pomp and circumstance
in one sentence. After their meeting, high stakes meeting earlier,
we saw the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry. The pomp
and circumstance and pageantry. The welcome ceremony and the warm
tone of their remarks at the start of the meeting
before they went behind closed doors. But what's important is
what happened behind those closed doors in those two hours.
Yeah, that's right. And really, we only know about that
behind closed doors portion from Chinese state media at this
point. As you laid out, the Chinese were very quick
to say that they believe Taiwan is the most important
issue between the U.S. and China. So he's watching television
over there, and then he quickly switches to the Chinese
are saying. Notable given the fact that when. President Trump
last met with President Xi. The president said Taiwan did
not come up at all. Clearly not the case today
with Xi warning President Trump that this is an issue
that could ultimately lead to conflict. Xi didn't say anything
of the kind. He did not say that. They're all
parroting the same thing. well, Xi said, Taiwan, no. You
got that off of some television station. The Chinese Ministry
of Foreign Affairs describes the Taiwan issue like this. They
say if the Chinese were arming a U.S. state that
wanted to secede, we wouldn't tolerate that in America. Why
should the Chinese tolerate the U.S. position in providing arms?
Taiwan. Huh? Say what? They're making it up as they
go along. Completely making it up. The Chinese tolerate the
U.S. position in providing arms to Taiwan. It is a
deeply personal issue on the Chinese side. Likewise, another apparent
warning from... Apparent. You hear that? Another apparent warning from
Twitter. ...issue on the Chinese side. Likewise, another apparent warning
from Xi to President Trump, according to Chinese state media,
about trade, reminding President Trump that there are no winners
in a trade war. So we got media people informing
media people, but on the ground, the guy's like, you
love my blue jeans, I love your Chinese restaurants, MAGA
this. working together that i get a very different vibe
than what they want and then they they bring in
yes because you're listening to actually what they're saying and
they're being recorded and yeah that's crazy as opposed to
just making it up that's crazy and then they bring
in this thing so some fairly effusive remarks from president
trump at that bilateral meeting we also saw comments from
Xi Jinping at that meeting. Two warnings for the U.S.
side from Xi Jinping. One was on Taiwan. The Chinese
leaders... Xi never said this. There's two warnings for the
U.S. side from Xi Jinping. One was on Taiwan. The
Chinese leader said that the The Taiwan issue, if the
U.S. doesn't handle it properly, could lead to a dangerous
confrontation. He did not say anything. This is what kills
me. They're making it sound like he said it, but
they didn't. And then here it comes. Between the two
countries, he said Taiwanese independence is not compatible with peace.
in the Strait of Taiwan. So a stern warning there
on the issue of Taiwan and also the Chinese leader
bringing up this concept of the Thucydides trap. The Thucydides
trap. What? Thesodides trap. From some Greek play or something?
Again. They go from pomp and circumstance to Thucydides trap.
Which seems unlikely that the Chinese are going to be
quoting, you know, or referring to some Greek play methodology
or some structure. It makes no sense. Let me see.
If this is all Confucius say, that would be different.
Thucydides trap. is the historical pattern of when a rising
power threatens to displace a ruling power, war usually follows.
The phrase comes from the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who
observed that the rise of... That's not pronounced correctly, by
the way, but I can't pronounce it. Thucydides, Thucydides, Thucydides.
Something like that. It's impossible. Who observed that the rise
of Athens and the fear this instilled in Sparta made
war inevitable. You're right. These guys are the Confucius dudes.
They're not going to use this. Okay. No. No way.
No. The concept that the rising power in the world
will always challenge the established power in the world and
that will always lead to a conflict. Xi Jinping raising
that sort of philosophical... When did he raise that? Show
me this. It's a philosophical point. ...to say that this
is one of the great questions of history. Cicero. I
need a break. At two, Brutus. The U.S. and China
managed not to fall into that trap of competition and
conflict and war that we've seen time and time again
throughout history. Okay. Yes. All right. Yeah, and those are
neighboring powers. You know, Spartans and the other guys. Yeah,
a little different. Yeah. Yeah. I think I have another
one here. What is this? What struck me about President
Xi's speech is that he's, a lot of the language
that he uses to describe Chinese aspirations, he's now describing
to American aspirations. This idea of Chinese rejuvenation and making
America great again in order to appeal to his guest.
Let's listen in to President Trump. I want to thank
President Xi, my friend, for this magnificent welcome. And it
really was a magnificent welcome like none other. and for
so graciously hosting us on this very historic state visit.
We had extremely positive and productive conversations and meetings today
with the Chinese delegation earlier, and this evening is another
cherished opportunity to discuss among friends. Some of the things
that we discussed. Today, all good for... the United States
and for China. And it was a great honor to
be with you. Please. Yeah, please. Yeah. Yeah, that's magnanimous.
I see this as very positive. Well, so far. Yeah.
There's a food fight breaks out or something. You know,
and so what? Or, you know, maybe Lubio starts a
problem. Lubio. Hey, Lubio. Lubio is his new name, by
the way. President Lubio. Get used to it. You know,
it's like... You know, okay, so if China busts into
Taiwan, can you keep the chips coming, Xi? I mean,
what is really the problem? I don't know. Well, I
mean, this is always going to have to say, you
know, the best bet is to keep the chips coming.
We don't want them doing them. No, but I mean,
but I don't see why, if China wants to... repatriate
Taiwan, we already talk about it like it's part of
China. That's part of the diplomatic discourse. So if they
want Taiwan, I mean, Nancy Pelosi, we're going to defend
Taiwan. I mean, shouldn't we just be like, okay, whatever.
That's fine. The dangerous aspect of this is that Taiwan
is where... tsmc is i know but but wouldn't china
be nuts to say okay no more chips for you
That makes no sense. Well, they do it with their...
They kind of do that kind of leverage with the
rare earths. Well, but we started our... defense What is
it? Defense fund. We have a fund now. Did you
know that? The Rare Earth Fund? Yeah, it's... Yeah, it
has... Done, Jack. Well, no, it just started. It's the,
I forget what it's called. but it's a it's a
defense if you want to do and rare earths, you
can go borrow money cheap from the government, from the
war department. Yeah, we should probably do that. Yeah. Hey,
Lubio. Can we get some cash? *Sigh* anyway well on
the topic I think that's yeah no we've done China
But that does bring me, since there's so much lying
going on. Mm-hmm. The biggest disappointment of my week. Uh-oh.
So, John Kiriakou. He's been great. Yes, I have. I
got some things just in case you didn't. But I'm
very, very curious. I've now concluded he's a pathological liar.
Okay. And it's one of these things I'm kind of
tuned in. I have this thing about pathological liars because
I run into them now and again. It's always good
to spot them as early as you can. The fact
that I missed it. early is annoying to me, but...
I'm going to play what triggered me to think he's
a pathological liar. And then I also did some research
on his being arrested for being a whistleblower. And it
turns out that that's not really what was happening. He
was actually busted for revealing classified information. outing agents. Wait
a minute. So is this kind of like a... My
helicopter was shot down. Yeah, kind of. Who was that
again? Who was it that got fired from NBC? It
was not Peter Jennings. The guy in the middle. The
guy that came after Peter Jennings. an NBC guy because
he got demoted to MSNBC. Yeah, no, not Carrie. Yeah,
John Kerry. That's who it was. No, no, no. It
was a news guy. I know, I know, but I'm
just saying that as a joke. Because he actually looks
like John Kerry. It was, uh... Oh, man. I can't
remember. You know, the chat room I come up with
before we do. No, the troll room is sleeping. They're
like, Jews, Israel. Brian Williams, thank you. Brian Williams, yeah.
Dan OBGYN5, thank you. Let me just read from the
report I developed. Okay. John Kiriakou is not arrested for...
exposing torture itself so much as we're disclosing classified information
about CIA personnel and operations and then lying. Key word
there. To the CIA during the publication's review process for
his book. I read on here. He says the Justice
Department. He admitted disclosing classified information about another CIA employee
and lying in the CIA's publication review board about a
magic box technique while trying to publish his book. And
then when you go to the bottom of the report,
it says the true story is that he was both
a whistleblower on torture. which was true, but he was
a leaker of classified information and the legal case centered
around the latter. And so this brought me to his
stories about when he was in jail and he befriended
the mob and he befriended the Mexican mafia and all
this is a cock and bull story. And it's like...
Then I started thinking about some of the other stuff
he's discussed. Like he has a story about the capture
of Carlos the Jackal and the timeline doesn't match up
when you start looking at it. And everything he says
is like embellishments. And he does the look into the
down and right. thing a lot before he comes up
with his tall tales. Oh, one of those tales. So
I'm just so disappointed, but I have to play two
clips. One of them, which is the triggering clip, and
then the other clip is just a blated lie or
a creation, let's say. Let's call it a creation. that
he does on this another one of these youtuber podcasts
he's on a million of them But here's the here's
the karaoke one. This this is the one that triggered
me to thinking this way. Well, that's interesting because, you
know, when when we look into Epstein and the files
and the emails and all these dumps that recently came
out. You know, there was quite a bit. I don't
know if you had any time to read, like, Whitney
Webb's book. Oh, yeah, Whitney Webb is terrific. Yeah, Whitney's
book was great. It's unbelievable how many people fall for
the Whitney Webb is great bit. So this guy's a
CIA analyst, you know, he's got insights, he's got, knows
the operations and the rest, and he... He goes for
that. Whitney Webb is great. Hey, newsflash. There's a lot
of dumb people in CIA. Newsflash. They're not all like
super spooks, okay? And in fact, the new CIA is
filled with numbnuts. So, here we go. Now, I want
to play this clip and break it down. I mean,
this is... This is a creation and it's wrong from
the get-go in every way possible right to the end.
And he even doubles down on a wrong fact. And
he interrupts the conversation. It wouldn't be so bad if
it was just like in the during the conversation, he
kind of throws this and no, no, no. He stops
the presses so he can tell you this valuable information
about Venezuela, its oil and the whole thing. And it's
all bullshit. Here we go. And if you don't mind,
Jay. Oh, feel free. Just to speak a minute about
Venezuela. How does Venezuela fit in or not fit into
this? Venezuela is different. It's separate. Venezuela's oil is so
dirty. It is so high in sulfur. Oh, man, this
is right up your alley. Oh, you must have been
just... cringing listening to this. No kidding. People have to
understand, if anyone wants to know about oil and types
of oil and refinery and mixtures and summer oil and
summer gas and winter, John C. Dvorak is your guy.
Well, it's only because I've worked with him. I worked
as a refinery, just a background, new people. I worked
as a refinery chemist for two years, and then I
became an air pollution inspector with Standard Oil as my
beat for eight years. I have some knowledge about the
business. You have standing. And I have standing and I
do try to keep up. In this case, I like
look at the trades and I say, wait a minute,
how does this work? How does that work? Is that
oil daily? What is the trade? There's a bunch of
them. There's a bunch of trades. Oil daily is like
typical. I got a new podcast, This Week in Oil.
I'm telling you. As I was doing this, I ran
into the fact that I was still like... a decade
behind on my jet fuel knowledge oh no algae yeah
because i'm just thinking you know uh JP4, which has
been discontinued completely. Oh, man. To be replaced by Jet
A and JP8. A1, yeah. And I didn't, you know,
I was thinking, oh, jeez, I'm so... thinking these old
because when i was a chemist i was we used
to analyze jp the jp4 stream and make sure it
had enough anti uh freeze agent in it uh yeah
which is anti-icing agent you had to you iced it
down you iced the jp4 down to a froze Anyway,
back to this, okay? Back to this bullshit. This Week
in Oil with John C. Dvorak. Hey, J. Cal, new
podcast for you. Venezuela is different. It's separate. Venezuela's oil
is so dirty. It is so high in sulfur. that
it can only be refined at specialty refineries where they
inject tons of chemicals to try to purify it. Even
still, you can't purify it enough to turn it into
gasoline, right? Right? Right? And these refineries exist. Right now,
for the most part, only in South Florida. The Chinese
built one recently. The Indians built one. But for the
most part, the only refineries that can handle this really
dark, heavy oil are in Florida. And the oil is
used only for home heating oil. So when we talk
about oil and. international oil and OPEC, of which Venezuela
is a member, we have to keep Venezuela sort of
off to the side because it's a different issue from
a foreign policy perspective. Wow. No mention of China. Really?
At all? Okay, go. Okay, well let's not mention the
fact that Corpus Christi, Texas has most of these. Yes.
Most of these refiners, Texas has most of the refiners
in the country. Not Florida. Corpus Christi has a dozen
refiners that handle this oil. Mississippi has the biggest Chevron
refinery that handles this oil. Louisiana has about a half
dozen that handle this oil. Florida, Florida, Florida has no
refineries. refineries whatsoever. It's one of 20 or so states
that have no refining capability in the entire state. So
he's talking about Florida. Second, besides that bullshit, second, this
kind of oil is the most valuable sort of oil.
It's got the long hydrocarbon chains that can be broken
down by cokers and fluid catalytic converters, FCCs as they're
called. And this oil can be made into gasoline, no
problem. It can be made into kerosene, diesel. And it
has the advantage, because it's so heavy, of being used.
for making asphalt, which is most oils can't do. You
can't make an oil, a light crude, a really light,
sweet crude. You can't make it into asphalt. You can't
just boil it down and it turns into asphalt. No,
you have to have the... the big heavy crudes to
do all the good stuff and that's what these That's
why Brent sells for more than West Texas Intermediate on
the open market. So he doesn't know what he's talking
about. It's not just used for home heating oil or
whatever he said. It's just bullshit. It was bullshit from
the get-go. And the problem with sulfur? Yeah, you do.
And you don't use a million chemicals, although it can't.
You can use some chemicals in the front end to
soften the blow. But generally speaking, it goes into a
refiner and it's hit with hydrogen, just hydrogen, not a
bunch of chemicals. Crack it. You got to crack it.
Well, no, it's not. No, not, no. This is a
different process. This is hydrogen desulfur. which is a totally
different process. And it turns the sulfur into H2S gas,
which is super toxic and kind of a plague on
most refineries, and then sent to a sulfur plant where
it's turned into elemental sulfur. Yeah, which is good. And
by these plants, there are mountains of this sulfur. And
so he's full of shit, this guy. I love that
you bring in Venezuela. And yes, it was fun. Stop.
I can just say something. I need to give you
some expertise here about Venezuelan oil. It's no good. It's
just crud. It's no good. But have you noticed? that
China has been very quiet. They were getting all their
oil from Venezuela. All of their oil from Iran. I'm
telling you, this is not about Taiwan. It's not about
beans. Just soybeans? No. It's like, hey, you know what,
G? Why don't we give you oil that are nice,
big, beautiful ships? You don't have to ghost ship in
the middle of the ocean. We'll just give it to
you. We'll sell it to you. Best price. It's going
to be good. What ships got out of Hormuz? Chinese
ships. Come on. This is a America, Russia, China. Working
together against the globalist dickheads. Sorry. I just have to
say it. We'll all circle around Carney. In Ottawa, Obama
shows up, Soros shows up. Well, we're the new liberal
world order. We can do it. Rules-based liberal new world
order. No. These guys, they got it. They get it.
We're going to work together. I'm going to compete where
it makes sense, but what we're not going to do
is I'm not going to be part of that stupid
system anymore. That's what's happening. So now Kiriakou. *cough* He's
an op. Now that you play these clips, he may
just be really stupid and just loves getting on podcasts.
Does he have another book? He must have another book.
He came up with, I think he's got three books
so far. Because he was on, I forget which podcast
this was. And maybe. And he, by the way, ended
up on Jesse Waters the other night. So he gets
around and, oh, it's Kiriakou. I think it's just because...
cool name. Oh, Kiriakou. He's got a cool name and
he's got this story he tells about him being a
whistleblower. And this is why he never got the pardon.
Oh, by the way, just back to the oil. Mexico
and Ecuadorian oil is pretty much the same as Venezuelan
oil and nobody bitches about that stuff. But anyway, Kiriakou's...
always moaned and groaned about getting a pardon because he's
this great whistleblower. No, he's not getting a pardon because
he's not a whistleblower. He was busted for being a
leaker. And if Trump hates people, anyone that he hates
the most is a leaker. He hates a leaker. So
you remember on Sunday, I played a clip. It was
Sunday, I think it was Sunday or Thursday, from the
New Yorker guy. And like, oh, Tucker Carlson, he's the
guy that can do it. He can run against Trump.
Remember that clip? Oh, hold on a second. gotta grab
that one You remember it, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So
when I heard this little ditty, these three little short
clips from Kuriaka, I'm like... This isn't up. And it
could be that it's so my initial thinking was this
is an op. This is a CIA op because there's
still a lot of CIA, CIA people, no doubt. You
don't hear Trump talking about the CIA much. He's got
Ratzenberger sitting there like, you just keep him away from
me. Ratzenberger, is that his name? Ritzenberger? Ratzenberger? Yeah, Ratzenberger's
a good name. Ratzenberger. And then Kiriakou does this. If
you look at the polls... Somebody like Tucker Carlson. Yes.
has an actual shot. at winning this thing. So, yeah.
Oh, brother. I spoke to him about this recently. Okay.
And I love this chick, by the way, on the
pocket. Yes. Listen, listen. No, by the way, with Kiriakou,
nobody on any of these podcasts ever pushes back on
any of the bullshit that he says. She's like, yes.
Because, you know, obviously, if you're a podcaster, you want
your podcast president. You want Tucker Carlson to be your
president. Yes. If you look at the polls... Somebody like
Tucker Carlson has an actual shot. at winning this thing.
What poll is he reading? He's just making it up.
He's a psychological liar. This is great. Listen. So I
spoke to him about this recently. Okay. And... He professes
to not be interested. Glenn Greenwald is another popular... writer
Podcaster, commentator. Commentator? I think Glenn Greenwald would consider himself
a journalist. I know that Glenn has spoken to him
as well. Like, you have to run. And I told
Tucker a week ago, I said, you have to run.
I doubt that's true. I doubt that's true. No, he's
lying, of course, but it's fun. Listen. It's like, you
have to run. And I told Tucker a week ago,
I said, you have to run and I'm all in.
And he said, well, no, I'm not a politician, which
is true, but that's exactly what America wants. They don't
want a politician. They want someone they can trust. And
out of everybody that's out there in the chattering class,
like you. In the chattering class. Ah, that's what we
are, John. We're in the chattering class. Yeah, well, we're
chattering. They want someone they can trust. And out of
everybody that's out there in the chattering class, like you
and me... He's the one that people trust the most.
Yes. What? I never said that those words never parted
my lips. I never said anything like that. Read my
lips. I never said Trump is the Antichrist ever at
all. But he goes on our boy Kiriakou. Because he
says what he believes, even at a significant personal cost.
He has to have security now. Really? He has to.
He has to have security. because he's becoming so prominent,
so important, he's getting threats. And we're in this crazy
period right now. Three different people have tried to kill
Donald Trump. Okay, stop. Stop for one second. There is
a clip going around. of somebody somebody with i guess
his palace filming it with the camera they caught Tucker
at the grocery store. It's an old clip. Oh, is
that an old clip? Very old clip, yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. But the guy was harassing him. Yeah. You know,
Tucker just walked away. I mean, he didn't have security
with him then. No. This is Kiriakou. He said that
his family members have received threats. Absolutely. Yeah. If he
decides to run, it's going to really set his life
in danger, direct danger. So maybe that's what he's contemplating.
I think that's exactly what he's contemplating. I think that
his primary concern is his family, as it should be.
And I think that he's probably thinking. What do I
get out of this? I get one headache after another.
He likes his life. He lives in a beautiful part
of the country. He's an avid fly fisherman, so he
can go fishing anytime he wants. Why change that? Is
it really worth it? So what are you saying? Well,
I got one more clip. By the way, we know
that in the winters, in the winter, Tucker goes around
and has dinner with his friends. Remember that clip? It's
like, oh, in the winter, I go and have dinner
parties. I'm having a dinner party in D.C. Okay, with
that said, you compared... You compared... what might be in
2028 with Ron Paul and Ross Perot. And I'm going
to add John Anderson. John Anderson was a liberal Republican
congressman. No such thing exists anymore. A liberal Republican congressman
from Illinois in 1980. He ran against Ronald Reagan and
Jimmy Carter. And in the end, Reagan got 51%. Carter
got 41% and Anderson got 7%. Anderson had no money.
Wow. And he got 7% of the national vote. Well,
Ron Paul got under 2% when he ran. Ross Perot
got a good 20%. But he also spent, you know,
almost a... Ross Perot dropped out. What is he talking
about? Ross Perot didn't run. Yeah, he dropped out because
he was being threatened. Yeah, they said, I'm going to
kill your family and rip their heads off. Uh, okay.
He ran. Ross Perot got a good 20%. But he
also spent, you know, almost a... billion dollars out of
his own pocket. This year could be different. This year
could be different because if you look at the polls...
People hate the Uniparty. For all intents and purposes, the
Democrats and the Republicans are just different sides of the
same coin. They essentially agree on everything. There are minor
disagreements. around the edges that they want us to think
are grave differences and they're not so I have to
restate my thinking now because I initially thought this now,
I know I know it's an op. We've got the
New Yorker saying Tucker, Tucker, Tucker, and then Kiriakou. But
now I think this guy just likes being on podcasts.
And he'll mimic anything he hears and anything he thinks
is popular. Yeah, he loves being on podcasts. And he's
latching on to Tucker's coattails, I guess. Well, he did
Tucker's show. It was very... Unremarkable. It was one of
his worst podcasts, I think. He was too starstruck by
Tucker. his future president. President Tucker. Actually, it's a possibility.
What? That he was starstruck. Yeah, but not that Tucker
would ever run or would ever become president. No, it's
dumb. There's too much going on with him. Yeah, so
that's my very disappointed because I was hoping to turn,
you know, because he has he slanders people, you know,
by one person after another. Giuliani thinks should be in
jail. He goes, he has a whole bunch of and
I was hoping to make it, you know, kind of
a. department a segment of the show the Kiriakou slam
then I realized he's full of shit no good *Sigh*
Uh, did you see Netanyahu on 60 Minutes? I did
not. I missed it. Oh, this is great. So, clearly,
Bebe has seen the writing on the wall. the proverbial
writing on the wall. And he's looking at things and
going like, man, I got to make a statement, man.
I've got to stop. These kids are, they're killing me.
They're killing me. They're making me look bad. It's like
they got the wrong idea about Israel. I have an
idea. Do you believe it's time for the state of
Israel to re-examine? and possibly reset its financial relationship? This
is a scripted question. Meaning what the United States provides
to Israel on an annual basis. Absolutely. And I've said
this to President Trump. I've said it to our own
people. Their jaws dropped, but I said, look. Laughed till?
Laughed till? *laughs* I've said it to our own people.
jaws dropped but I said look What do you mean?
What are you saying? I want to draw down to
zero. the american financial support the financial component of the
military cooperation that we have Because we receive $3.8 billion
a year. And I think that it's time that we
weaned ourselves from the remaining military support. Can you give
me a timetable? I said, let's start now and do
it over the next decade, over the next 10 years.
But I want to start now. No, I don't want
to wait. for the next Congress. I want to start
now. Well, that'll be no good. Then we can't say
that we give money to Israel anymore. That's so good.
Can't have that. And then he went into, this is
his own personal thing, about the cell phones. You know,
I got no weapons, man. I got no juice. I
got no social media juice. I got to pay people.
People got to do stuff. I got to geofence the
churches. We got to have some good stuff about Israel.
But I don't seek wars. I've been through them. I've
been in battle. I've seen friends die in battle. and
you would reject any characterization. I can't do very much
of that because you can get into the cell phones
and you can repeat again and again that I'm a
warmonger. He says warmonger. It's about him being a warmonger.
Oh, this is no good. People call me a warmonger.
And you can repeat again and again that I'm a
warmonger. Indiscriminate, sometimes used. Yeah, indiscriminate. Discriminating as surgical as
any army has ever been in history, not only with
the beepers and not only with those leaders in Iran
and not only... But in Lebanon and in Gaza. In
Lebanon and Gaza, yes. We do everything we can to
avoid it. We've killed 2,000 terrorists now since the beginning
of the roaring lion, epic fury. We've been very careful
to target them. But it's, you know, if people say...
That you're a warmonger. And in the repeated ad nauseum,
you know, it assumes the cachet of self-evident truth. And
that's what's happening. You get into their cell phone. You
get the bots to repeat it. Bots! hero picture there
of a tragedy. For us in Israel, every civilian death
is a tragedy. For our enemies, it's a strategy. They
implant themselves among civilians, you know, so that... They have
civilian casualties and they can put it on the tube
or in your cell phone. So yes, I mean, I
don't know. I mean, Churchill, without cell phones and without
digital campaigns and farm bots, was labeled... a warmonger in
the 1930s because he said you have to stand up
to Hitler. And they accused him of being a warmonger.
And Hitler didn't even say death to America, death to
Britain, you know. I think he might have planned it.
But he didn't say it. Still, they accused him of
that. And he won the war and lost the re-election.
A little snipe there. He won the war but lost
the election. Yeah, BB's fighting for his life here, I
think. Well yeah, because if he was... Gets tossed out
of office, which should happen eventually. He gets arrested for
some corruption charges. The courts are lined up against him.
That's why he's been trying to prolong the war in
Iran. Yeah, or anything. We can't stop this war. Trump,
you can't win this war, man. Then I'm a dead
man walking. Can't do it. Can't do it. I got
a couple other things here. There's also the CIA, the
real whistleblower. showed up in front of Congress to bitch
and moan about the CIA. Allow me to play the
setup for you. The setup is... Because the CIA was
very mad about this guy. Yeah, I would be too
if I was the CIA. Hold on, let me find
this. Make it look as though the CIA is... You
know, what happened was the CIA is now... Well, okay,
play that right now. Well, go ahead. Well, yeah, my
thoughts are, you know, the CIA were largely suckered by
Fauci, who had some, you know, things to say. In
fact, one of the first clips I play here will
kind of introduce the idea that, you know, they didn't
want to hurt China's feelings or there was something that
was going on that nobody knew about. The whole thing
was very... When it was all Fauci doing his gain-of-function
stuff and using a Chinese lab to do it. Mm-hmm.
You know, it's like, you know, he's covering his own
ass. This guy, you know. Mimi was bitching about this
guy. This guy, talk about a guy who was skating.
You got Rand Paul just going after him from the
get-go, knowing that he was lying because Rand Paul had
somebody read him in on what was going on. So
he's always asking these pointed questions in the hearings to
Fauci to get him to lie. Lied over and over
and over again. They're not going to do jack to
Fauci. Here's the clip about the CIA being mad about
the whistleblower you have the clips of. And I want
to give you a little color that we're getting from
the CIA just now. They are not happy with the
way this hearing is going down. They are accusing Senator
Rand Paul and the Senate Homeland Security Committee of, quote,
acting in bad faith in putting this hearing together. They
say he hasn't sought any whistleblower protections. They weren't given
a heads up about this. The committee didn't go through
the proper channels. Thank you. theater masquerading as a congressional
hearing. most likely originated from a lab leak and efforts
to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous. told him about that
CIA statement, told him they're accusing him of operating in
bad faith. I asked him to respond to that. Here's
what he said. The CIA says the committee acted in
bad faith with this hearing. They just sent out a
statement. Your response to that? You know, I think transparency
is good. I think we over classify everything. Congress passed
a law to unanimously declassify all of the COVID information.
We all want to know the truth. Where did it
come from? Why has it taken so long for people
to admit to it? Now almost every agency admits that
it did come from the lab, but they still haven't
been forthcoming. There's no reason to have secrets on this.
We want them to obey the law. The CIA needs
to obey the law. obey the law and they need
to reveal the information there you go so cia and
in fact mad mad in fact he's right to see
there was a law passed that said you have to
declassify everything and the cia acted in bad faith yeah
exactly exactly right So, you know, this is the old,
you know, you are what I say. I am what
I say you are, which is a Dutch phrase. I
got a new one. Did I ever tell you about
stront aan de knikker? No. Poop on the marble? on
the marble someone has dogs poop on the marble this
is what we would say when you get a whistleblower
like this for the CIA. You have stront on the
knicker. There's poop on your marble. And I guess back
in the day, if you were playing marbles and you
rolled through some poop, you had poop on the marble.
That's another fine. Oh, it's poop on the marble, not
on a marble floor. No, no, on the marble. You're
playing marbles and then all of a sudden your marble
runs through poop. You got poop on the marble. Wow.
I've never played marbles as a kid with poop in
the area. I try to stay out of the area
that would have poop. Of the Dutch, you know, they
used to have a lot of poop around, I guess.
I guess so. Well, here you go, CIA whistleblower. There's
the intro one. Next, Republican senators question the CIA whistleblower
today. over allegations that the intelligence community downplayed evidence supporting
a COVID-19 lab leak. Lawmakers accused officials of withholding documents
as well as shaping analysis to avoid blaming China. NTD's
Chris Bob has more from Washington. Oh, all right. See,
this is where I disagree. think it had anything to
do with blaming China. I mean, Trump was calling it
the Chinese virus. Yeah, right. Racist! He's racist! Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the Spanish flu is not racist. The Hong Kong
flu, you know. We've been through all of that. We
went through that. But so I don't think it had
anything to do with blaming China. It was... The fact,
I still think this is true. It hasn't been discussed.
I think there are liability issues. For all the dead
people in the world because of the leak of this
COVID-19 SARS virus. And it was developed by the United
States as a weapon or something. Yeah. And Fauci was
behind it. And along with some other people that he
worked with as middlemen. I think there's liability issues. I
think there's lawsuits for death. There should be. And nobody
wants to look at it from that perspective. anything to
do with blaming China. They were blaming China anyway, the
wet market. All these dumb Chinese, they eat pangolins. I
mean, it's ridiculous. So this was, I still think there's
a liability issue and I think it needs to be
explored. We developed a biological weapon. and killed people with
it. We need, somebody should sue somebody. I'm with you.
Where is Rob, the constitutional lawyer? We need the suits
and boots. Okay, here we go. Bring out the suits
and boots. I'm here today to discuss the COVID cover-up.
Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that
the... The COVID pandemic originated as a result of a
lab incident. Republican Senator Rand Paul at a Senate hearing
questioning CIA whistleblower James Erdman on how COVID origin assessments
were shaped. For years, Americans were told to trust the
experts. So the very scientists that were commissioned to investigate
COVID were, in some cases, the very scientists who were
complicit in the origins of the gain-of-function experiments. Erdman also
described a top-down push inside the CIA over whether COVID
most likely originated through a lab leak. There was new
information that came out in 2022. Ten CIA scientists that
were said, why don't you go ahead and do a
COVID relook? Eight of the ten were definitely leaning in
on lab leak. Erdman said management pushed analysts to revisit
their findings after a new assessment emerged. Six of the
seven technical experts say, yep, we still think it's a
lab leak. Management... changed the analytic line senator josh hawley
questioned why the biden administration released after Congress passed a
law requiring declassification of COVID origin materials, saying that statements
in the document were false. They said, number one, that
nothing that was researched at the Wuhan lab could plausibly
be a progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. Are those true statements? But
no, they're not true. screw-ups here in the US, why
would the US government cover up for the CCP? Erdmann
said one of the top scientists who did not want
to go public said to him, nobody wanted the lab
leak conclusion and I'm concerned that there's... Too many people
willing to make excuses for China in this. organization for
the wrong reason. Yeah, I think it's always the cover-up.
They always screw it up in the cover-up. They're no
good at it. It's always the same. The cover-up is
what makes it worse. Yeah, pretty much. And if you
listen to this guy, you know he's talking. Unless you
get away with it. But you can't get away with
it. The guy is... He's talking about Fauci injecting emails
and then changing the National Intelligence Assessment. The whole thing
is corrupt and it's full of crud. And the question
is, will anything come of it? Yeah. You know, my
take on that is no. No. is always pretty much
no. Yeah, because Republicans, they have no backbone. They haven't
got the wherewithal to really... But this isn't a political
thing. This should be a Department of Justice thing. The
Republicans can't throw someone in jail. They can only bring,
they can only... bring light. I know, they do a
referral and then it dies. Well, that, there you go.
There you go. It is, however, the season of reveal.
I mean, we're seeing everything. You've been saying that for
five years. Well, I didn't say the season of arrests.
I said the season of a reveal. It's correct. Here
we go. Senator Ron Johnson said he wanted a bipartisan
committee like the church committee decades ago to review intelligence
agencies. But he pointed to the fact that no Democrats
attended the hearing. It is well past time for us
to have a church committee. We're not going to get
bipartisan support for a church committee. There's no curiosity on
the other side about what's happening inside. the deep state
senator paul argued there is no reason why scientific arguments
surrounding covid 19's origin should remain classified reporting from washington
dc chris bob ntd news yeah let me play there
wasn't one democrat at the hearing they all bailed they
all boycotted it why Interesting. All the seats of Democrats
were empty. So the guy's going to talk about the
origins of COVID and the Democrats refused to come to
the meeting? That's the story. That's the story right there.
Why didn't they do that? They did discuss it a
little bit here and there, but it was why? I
mean, it's like, are they CIA? stooges in the Democrat
Party? Or were they pro-COVID? How about this? Vaxxers. Yes,
the answer is yes. Pro-COVID, pro-vax, pro-social distancing, pro-grandma. Masking.
Empty chair at the table, lockdowns. Yes, yes, they were
definitely pro. Empty chair at the table. Yeah. Here's one
of the clips from this hearing. And I'll jump to
June 2021. We as the IC at the NIC. That's
the intelligence community at the National Intelligence Community something or
other. Happily pursued those recommendations. And In one email, which
I'll describe to you, The person in charge of leading
the 90-day study, you know, he introduced himself to the
community on what they were supposed to be doing. And
then the community said, he said, listen, we've got these
people we should be talking to. And another very senior
NIC officer sent a direct email to him saying, hey,
considering that Dr. Fauci is a public health expert. Are
you sure we should be relying on this? Shouldn't we
have a separate set? And in this instance, the individual
responded, no. In this case. Dr. Anthony Fauci is a
subject matter expert. However, that's directly contradicting his public testimony
of being a subject matter expert. Part of the job
in intelligence when you interview someone is assessing their truthfulness,
their potential biases or conflicts of interest. Did anyone ever
bring up that Anthony Fauci... proved the research that went
on in Wuhan and that it might not be in
his interest for the conclusion to be that it came
from a lab that he had funded, that there might
be a conflict. Did anybody ever bring up that he
might not be an objective witness? That was one example
of an email. No one laid it out quite that
clearly. You're piecing it together. We were piecing it together
from... multiple emails from multiple agencies, multiple documents. It was
more subtle than that. Nobody said, this is happening. And
unfortunately, I think they probably should have. It was all
out there. There's about five clips that I have. You'll
find them in the show notes if you want to
listen to it. It was a very interesting testimony. Nothing
we didn't know already, but it was nice to hear
it. We might as well, since we're in the COVID
vibe, we might as well just check in with the
Hantavirus. There are now 11 confirmed cases from the Hantavirus
outbreak on that cruise ship, which has killed three people
now. And the World Health Organization says... All the infected
are either passengers or crew from... What they never mention
here on CNN is what the World Health Organization says,
which America no longer is a part of. We no
longer are a part of the World Health Organization or
60 plus other globalist organizations. We're not a part of
that, so it doesn't matter. count anymore. And the World
Health Organization says all the infected are either passengers or
crew from the MV Hondias. In the meantime, at least
29 Americans who are on the ship are under monitoring
across multiple U.S. states. 16 of them are in a
special facility in Nebraska, including Jake Rosemarin. He spoke... to
NBC today about his life under quarantine. I do not
have the virus. I'm well. I have no symptoms. I
feel good, and I'm in good spirits right now. Everything's
fine, but that's not how media works. And luckily, I'm
pretty sure the American people won't fall for it anymore,
although, man, it was wall... to wall coverage in the
Netherlands, every talk show, all the same people pop up
again. Oh, I can go on TV. Wait, let me
get my scarf. We bring in former White House Coronavirus
Response Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx. Dr. Birx, thank you so
much for being here, helping us shine a light on
what's going on. Shine a light. concerns hopefully. Good to
be with you, Alex. All right. So some fear that
this hantavirus outbreak on this cruise ship could lead to
another worldwide pandemic, if not properly contained, similar to what
you dealt with. Oh, brother. Coronavirus pandemic. Do you believe
the world is seeing the early stages of yet another
pandemic? Are we here again? No, it's... not contagious like
COVID. And we have a lot of experience with the
virus, so we actually know how this virus works and
how it affects people. I think one thing that we
want to do, and we're not really talking about it,
is decrease the anxiety of all the passengers on that
ship. And the way to do it is to do
a PCR test. Yay! Wow. any of that RNA from
that virus in your bloodstream. That is much earlier than
symptoms, much earlier than the classic immune responses that have
been measured. So we want to reassure those passengers, and
I think that's the quickest way to just ask them
to get that blood test weekly through those 40 days
and really decrease the anxiety. that they have, both the
ones that are coming off the ship tomorrow and the
ones that left a ship early that are distributed around
the world. What blood tests? What happened to the swab
up your nose? What is this blood PCR? We just
stuck a thing up your nose and swirled it around
like, oh, you got COVID. Oh, I'm sorry. But she's
not stopping. Oh, no. She's ready for bear. Why is
she even on? Why? Because this is what the media
does. Yeah, it's interesting because this is ringing a bell
to what we reported not all that long ago with
Gene Hackman and his wife. If I'm not mistaken, this
is the... Yes, yes, yes. She says yes, yes, yes.
She died from it, yes. Long ago with Gene Hackman
and his... wife if I'm not mistaken this is the
exact same virus that they she wasn't on the ship
and she died yes died from so is that just
a coincidence that we're just hearing more about this is
there any evidence to suggest that maybe this particular violent
virus is proliferating across our Oh, that's it. proliferating. Well,
this is a very important stop. Who is this guy?
He's News Nation. News Nation. Oh, brother. He's good. You
raised. Oh, wait. We got another laugh tale standby. Well,
this is a very important concept. you raise because someone
died particular violent virus is proliferating across our world our
country yes yes well this is a very important concept
you raise so there's a question about whether um warmer
or colder changes in the weather are increasing the amount
of mice that Come inside the cabins and... Mice? What
happened to rats? I'm so confused. Is it rats or
mice? And now she says mice. It's actually both, but
you know. Well, it makes a difference. I got mice
in my house. I don't have rats. I got mice.
You got mice? Get rid of them. Well, we had
mice. I'm an expert trapper. I love the old school
traps. I put a nice little bit of Merlot infused
cheese on that thing. And you can hear it. You
know, you see it. They also like chocolate. Oh, really?
Yeah, mice love chocolate. Oh, I always use cheese. And
it stinks more, so they can smell it farther away.
Although if you have a stinky cheese, they probably... attracted
to that. And you know, and I love you. I
use glue traps mostly. Now, I find those to be
cruel. I'll tell you why. Let me tell you. It's
cruel. You got the mouse. He's stuck on a glue
trap. He starts to make noises. You take another glue
trap and push it on top of the mouse and
you push down and listen to the moan. It's quite
remarkable. Did you used to stick firecrackers into frogs' butts
as a kid? No, of course not. It's just mice
I don't like. I love dogs and cats. I love
when you're sitting watching TV and you hear the... And
then you know. Oh, yeah. Well, you got that thing
in the. family room what kind of mice problem do
you have no we have it in the laundry room
because there's uh there's holes in the laundry room you
know yeah they find ways to get in but you
know he's dead right away it's not like he's not
like squirming and you have to put another glue you're
you're a sadist you're a horrible man increasing the amount
of mice that come inside to cabins and to households,
and then you get exposed by cleaning that up. We've
always had hantavirus in the United States, not the same
strain as Andes and the Andes virus that's in Chile
and Argentina, but very similar. And so we've always had
the problem from mice. I think this is the first
time. beyond the reports from Argentina and Chile of really
a human to human outbreak. And it does give us
a chance to study whether there has been what you
described, molecular changes in the virus that makes it more
contagious. And they'll be doing all of that. They're sequencing
all of these strains. Gain of function. Listen, they're sequencing
all these. She is working it. Changes in the virus
that makes it more contagious. And they'll be doing all
of that. They're sequencing all of these strains. Yeah, they're
doing that at Fort Detrick right now. We're sequencing all
these strains. We got to get Trump out of the
White House. Let's do another pandemic. Let's do whatever we
can, people. Chance to study whether there has been what
you described, molecular change. changes in the virus that makes
it more contagious. And they'll be doing all of that.
They're sequencing all of these. They'll be doing it at
Fort Detrick. Yes, for sure. That's exactly what she's saying.
And the world is really working together. And that's the
other important thing. The world is working together. We are
the world. We're working together. Go back to the World
Health Organization. all of these strains. And the world is
really working together. And that's the other important thing. The
world has worked together both to protect those individuals on
the ship and the communities as they disembark. The world
is not working together to protect the people on the
ship. But hey, something very important is going down here.
This is the Andes. Andes. variant of the hantavirus. And
yes, it's different. So the Andes strain is the only
strain where we have mapped human to human transmission. And
I caution people because when we say human to human
transmission, we're talking about people who develop symptoms. But because
we're not testing... We're talking about people who develop symptoms.
But because we're not testing populations with RNAs, we don't
really know whether there are subclinical cases. So there could
be more human-to-human transmission than we actually see. It's never
good to track viruses through symptoms. We should be tracking
viruses through blood tests like PCR. We've learned that with
COVID. Extraordinarily helpful. Many universities were able to open and
schools were able to open because they provided weekly testing
and it really prevented spread. So we know how to
deal with these viruses. They didn't open anything. Let her
finish. I did weekly testing and it really prevented spread.
So we know how to deal with these viruses. We
just need to move into the 21st century and make
testing more widely available to those who need it. Is
she at a new testing company? Is that where she's
working now? But ABC is in on this stuff, man.
I'm telling you, they're... spinning it up they're trying to
see if they can catch a wave because it was
a great way to Screw Trump. They love that. If
they can do it, if they can spin it up,
they get enough people. I'm seeing masks. I traveled. I
saw a lot of masks. Democrats, but they were all
masks. I go up and say. You vote for Carmelite?
Yeah, yeah. It's happening. They can do this if they
push hard enough. The China thing is a sad distraction.
And they gotta do something. Health experts across four continents
are still tracking down and monitoring passengers who disembarked from
a cruise ship that was hit by the hantavirus outbreak.
Many of those passengers left before the outbreak turned deadly.
The last remaining travelers are now off that ship, and
they've boarded flights to more than 20 countries where they're
going to be entering quarantine. ABC's Danny New is in
New York with the latest. Today with U.S. passengers from
that luxury cruise ship now in quarantine, growing concern around
quest- being raised that the Andes variation of the hantavirus
may spread more easily than previously thought. trying they are
seriously trying i doubt it's gonna work but i think
there's a there are some meetings going on like you
know We can do something with this. Let's give it
a shot. Let's throw it against the wall, see what
sticks. Maybe we get lucky. Maybe we get lucky. Huh?
Yeah, maybe. They are so desperate to get rid of
Trump. Yeah, I think you're right. Hey, and what is
this with Marty McCary? I don't know anything about Marty
McCary. He's the FDA commissioner. He resigned. Yeah. Yeah. But
what he resigned... over is what's confusing me. Dr. Marty
McCary resigned as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
on Tuesday. The decision came after he authorized flavored vapes,
the product that he was skeptical about, following pressure from
the White House. Politico described McCary's 13-month tenure at the
agency as one marked by mass layoffs. high turnover among
senior officials and policy fights. Among his critics were Republicans,
who wanted the FDA to restrict access to the abortion
pill Mifepristone. Pharmaceutical companies also complained the FDA was inconsistent
in their review of drugs under his leadership. Kyle Diamantis,
the FDA commissioner for food, will replace McCary on an
acting basis. So every report has this flavored vapes bit.
How can that be such a huge issue? You know,
it was... I don't get it either. Here's Trump. you
Well, I don't want to say but Marty's a great
Hey guys! He's a friend of mine, he's a wonderful
man, and he's going to be off, and the assistant,
the deputy, is taking over temporarily until we find him.
Everybody wants that job. It's a very important job. Marty's
a terrific guy, but he's going to go on and
he's going to lead a good life. But he's going
to go on. He's going to lead a good life.
Like a horse. Exactly. He's not going to the glue
factory. He broke his leg racing, but he's okay. We're
not going to kill him. He'll go on to live
a good life. Marty's a terrific guy, but he's going
to go on and he's going to lead a good
life. He was having some difficulty. You know, he's a
great doctor. And he was having some difficulty. But he's
going to go on and he's going to do well.
He's going to do well on the farm. But everybody
had this flavored vape. We'll start him out. Here's NPR.
The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has... resigned.
Dr. Marty McCary told President Trump he was leaving Tuesday
after 13 tumultuous months on the job. In a few
minutes, we'll hear from a head of the FDA in
Trump's first term about McCary's tenure. First, the details. NPR
Pharmaceuticals correspondent Sydney Lovekin is here to talk about the
change. Good morning, Sydney. Good morning. Good morning. Why is
this happening? Good morning. Well, I'm told the final straw
for McCary was White House pressure to okay flavored vapes,
something he did not agree with. I don't understand. How
can... If maybe it's... Something is up with the vapes,
and I'm out of the loop on this. And flavored,
and it has to do with vapes. And that can
only mean that the tobacco industry is mad or someone
is really mad about this. Well, it's also the coincidence
of like, you know, some millions and millions of bad
vapes that came in from China that were busted. did.
I wonder if there's any connection there. It seems unusual
coincidence. The White House apparently was pushing the flavored vapes.
Which... But were they? Well, good point. I never heard
anything. Good point. Good point. We don't know. Now, I
personally think. I don't like these pre-made Chinese vapes. I
think there is a place for vaping instead of smoking.
If you're a smoker to stop smoking, I think there's
a real place for that. The flavored vapes, you know.
I don't think any of the flavored stuff is good.
But it... Report after report. So I don't know. We
actually have a. We have one of our producers, a
lobbyist, and maybe she can write in and let me
know. Maybe she has some insight into the deal because
I think she did something on vapes too. But then
I got this pharma analyst from Bloomberg. It's short, but
a couple of interesting things he said here. So there's
been a lot of flux. And when you get flux
and they fired, I don't know, 3,000, 3,500 individuals. Maybe
I don't have the exact number, but something in that
sort of region. You know, this is a lot of
old-time knowledge that's left the agency. Some refresh is pretty
good. But all of this has happened under the... Uh,
the caretakership of Mahdi Mekary and to all intents and
purposes the folks I talk to say that he's a
perfectly knowledgeable wonderful man. I have friends on the by
side who say to me that he's been very good
to them and Well, what does that mean? I have
friends on the bi side who say he has been
very good to them. To me it sounds like this
guy was still deep into big pharma or something. When
an analyst says... I have friends on the buy side.
How come nobody's talking to Kennedy? That's the question I
have right now. I'm a journalist looking at this. My
first ticket to talk to is Kennedy. Kennedy's his boss.
No, we don't have anything from Kennedy. Let me finish
this. To all intents and purposes, the folks I talk
to say that he's a... perfectly knowledge wonderful man. I
have friends on the buy side who say to me
that he's been very good to them. And then on
the other hand, all these issues and some biotechs having
issues. Some biotechs having issues. There we go. And then
on the other hand, we hear all these issues and
some biotechs having issues, etc. So I wouldn't be surprised.
surprised if there's something happening here. So it's clear that...
I think McCary was still way deep into big pharma
somehow. I'm not sure exactly why. But we don't know.
I do have a clip from RFK Jr. about trans
which I think he's setting some policy here. Did you
see this? Nope, this was pretty good. Doctors assume a
solemn obligation to protect children. Yet doctors across the country
now provide needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures. that violate their
sacred Hippocratic oath by endangering the very lives that they
are sworn to safeguard. The American Medical Association, the American
Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical
sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from
gender dysfunctions. for you. They betrayed the estimated 300,000 American
youth ages 13 to 17. 300,000, John. 300,000 children they
mutilated with this nonsense. Have you noticed? The lack of
the Democrat Party talking about trans lately. They're not using
that as their campaign slogan anymore, are they? No, but
they still have trouble with people that reject it. Yeah.
There's a euphoria. They betrayed the estimated 300,000 American youth
ages 13 to 17, conditioned to believe that sex can
be changed. they betrayed their hippocratic oath to do no
harm so-called gender affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and
psychological damage on vulnerable young people This is not medicine.
It is malpractice. We're done with junk science driven by
ideological pursuits. not the well-being of children. A peer-reviewed report
published by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Health last month confirms that sex-rejecting procedures impose medical dangers
and lasting harm on children who receive these interventions. So
today we are taking six decisive actions. guided by gold
standard science and the week one executive order from president
Trump to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation. This
morning I signed a declaration that sex rejecting procedures are
neither safe nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria.
Let's see some doctors at a tribunal. That's what, yes,
absolutely. That's what we want. The lawsuits help. Yeah, but
we really, we need some people going to jail over
this. This was Mengele-level crap. really horrible. And And for
whatever reason, you just see video after video of these
poor children who are now detransitioning and can't. I know,
it's terrible. Especially the lie that, well, you can stop
anytime you want with these puberty blockers. It's not a
problem. Big lie. Huh. Well, maybe. Well, that's depressing. Well,
then let's do, how about your tech? Well, I got
a couple of things. We don't have much time, but
I got a couple of offbeat items. You don't want
to do your year using AI? Is that no good?
No, that's no good. By definition. That's no good. All
right. But what's kind of interesting is the NPR's open-ass
Sam Altman stuff. Oh, yeah. because it's it really makes
you wonder what the hell is going on just try
the npr clips let me see uh number one what
was sam altman's main defense on tuesday in the court
well this case really has come down to the idea
of, frankly, which billionaire you believe is doing this the
right way. On the one hand, we have Elon Musk,
who is no longer a part of OpenAI, but says
he only wanted to build AI responsibly and was tricked
into... leaving the entity with Sam Altman at the helm.
Altman essentially says, look, you left the company in 2018
and said that you were done with it. You never,
and you haven't contested that in the few years since
you left. And now you're suing later on. because you're
building a for-profit competitor to us called XAI, which is
also developing artificial intelligence. Now, an example came up in
court of Musk suggesting a deal that would turn OpenAI
into a for-profit. That's right. One of the things that
the OpenAI side is saying is like... Look, there are
plenty of emails in the past that has Elon Musk
essentially speaking out of both sides of his mouth and
saying, we could have done an earlier deal to make
this into a company with equity structures that has Elon
Musk in control over it and potentially profiting from it.
And the idea being that... Elon wants to say he's
been doing this sort of selfless building of AI for
years now, but actually he has been interested in taking
a stake of his own just even as he's saying
he hasn't been. Yeah, well, we know what the basic
lawsuit's about, but we don't really get any good details.
The funny thing is I'm kind of on the side
of, as much as I don't like Altman, I do
like Musk. Yeah. But I don't think he got tricked.
Just doesn't get tricked. He invested a bunch of money
early on, and it looked like it was going nowhere,
so he kind of bailed out. And now he looks
back on it and says, hey, wait a minute. And
he decides to do this. I'm not believing any of
this, the Musk side of this. How has Musk characterized
Altman's trustworthiness and how did Altman respond? So Sam Hutton's
testimony was actually pretty brutal when Elon Musk's lawyers went
after him. Basically, it became an attack on Sam Altman's
character. And the idea that Sam Altman, this guy who
10 years ago in private was saying he wanted to
build AI safely with Elon Musk, can no longer basically
be trusted to do so. And Elon Musk's attorneys trotted
out like a laundry list of things that said essentially
everyone in Sam Altman's life felt that he could not
be trusted from the CTO of the company, Mira Marotti,
to the idea of self-dealing and investing in companies that
OpenAI would later purchase or make deals with. or to
even being potentially kicked out of other companies that he
founded in the past. It was really just a big
referendum on, is Sam Altman a trustworthy person? And it
was pretty devastating. How did Altman respond to Musk's characterization
of him in court? Ottoman basic In Holland they say:
which translates to, I don't recognize myself in what you're
saying. Eh. That's a good phrase. Hurt by their misunderstandings,
but I feel like that's an unfair characterization. And instead
of getting combative like, say, Elon Musk did on the
stand, Altman was trying to, I would say, strike a
humble tone while also painting it as a misunderstanding. It
just hit me. I think I know what's going on
here. And it's not about the money per se. I'm
pretty sure that Elon's AI dream, because that's all he
ever posts about. is having a chat bot. that can
also do great images and video. He's always posting. Oh,
wait until you see what cool videos the new XAI
can make. Yeah, it does. It's never about, hey, look
at all the code it built. This place is running
on Grok. No, it's never about that. And personally, I
don't think Grok is very good at code. I'm thinking...
Probably not. I'm sorry? Probably not. No, it's not. I
mean, Claude Code is... is the thing. But, and I
don't think he would ever had an enterprise play, as
we say in Silicon Valley, he had no enterprise play.
He was always about integrating that into X, his everything
app. X is going to be your buddy. Grok is
going to be your buddy. It's going to be talking
to you. It's going to be doing cool things. It's
going to help. your posts and he probably shared that
idea with Sam Altman pretty early on and Altman without
telling the board from everything we've heard just released chat
GPT and that's what pissed off Elon Musk because for
sure Grok isn't and does not have the same chat
bot cachet as chat GPT. I think that's where it
went amiss. And so now, and I think that hurts
the grok chatbot vision that Elon Musk had. And so
now he's like, okay, I'm going to screw your IPO.
I'm going to screw your IPO. Screw you so bad
with this IPO, you'll wish those three letters didn't exist
in the alphabet. That's what I think is going on.
It's a possibility. CBS has a report on this called
The Lawsuit Open AI. It's probably less detailed, but let's
play it. Okay. Turning now to a new lawsuit against
Chad G. A family says the artificial intelligence chatbot gave
advice to their teenage son. Oh, no, this is different.
I'm sorry. This is about the lawsuit. This, by the
way, is the end. I think that this is more
important. And this is a subtext that's going on. I
don't know how these guys, again, I bring it back
to liability. Yeah. There's liability issues with these products. It's
got to come to the fore at some point. You
don't sign your life away when you start using this
stuff. Anyway, play the clip from that perspective. Well, you
do when you... virtually signed the eulog By clicking the
box. Yeah, but these are, this has got to be
squashed. Is this another, my kid killed himself, ChatGPT? Yeah,
my kid killed himself. Turning now to a new lawsuit
against ChatGPT. A family says the artificial intelligence chatbot gave
advice to their teenage son that led to his fatal
overdose. Sam Nelson's family says he used the chatbot for
everything from his homework to questions about pop culture. The
lawsuit claims he followed dangerous tips, which caused his deadly
drug overdose. In a CBS News exclusive, Jolene Kent spoke
with Nelson's family. Sam's mom and stepdad, Angus, knew he'd
been struggling with alcohol and experimenting with drugs. and took
him to get help. They said on the night of
his death, it was chat GPT version 4.0 that's now
no longer available that recommended specific dosages, including a fatal
combination. He wanted to do it safely, and he would
ask it questions about what he could take. That night,
it... advised him that it was okay to take Kratom
with Xanax. And Sam had done that. Who do you
hold responsible for Sam's death? OpenAI. And creators, the people
who bypassed safety guards and... took away safety nets. That's
why Sam's mom and stepdad are suing OpenAI and CEO
Sam Altman in California State Court. They allege that OpenAI
designed and rushed to market. a defective product. And for
those deliberate choices, Sam would still be alive today. Yeah,
that's probably true. I mean... I don't see why the
parents don't get arrested. I mean, they let their child
use chat GPT. Every other parent gets arrested. for having
a gun in the house or... Yeah, I think you're
absolutely correct. I'm on board with that. Letting the kid
use a fat bike, you know, hey! But no, we're
going after Sam Altman, okay. As far as we knew,
ChatGPT was a resource. It was a tool that he
was using to help himself do homework. What we didn't
understand was that... It had become his friend. It was
helping him. fine-tune. His. experimentation. Sam's parents showed us his
18-month-long chat GPT history, including the final pieces of advice.
version 4.0 gave him on the morning of his death
oh 4.0 everyone hated 4.0 had no wonder dispensing advice
that any doctor could tell you could be lethal. And
it. Kratom? Wait a minute. They're saying the kid died
of an overdose of kratom. Create a no plus something
else. tell you. could be lethal. And it didn't tell
me. In a statement, a spokesperson for OpenAI called Sam's
death a heartbreaking situation and said in part, these interactions
took place on an earlier version of chat GPT that
is no longer available. ChatGPT is not a substitute for
medical or mental health care, and we have continued to
strengthen how it responds in sensitive and acute situations. It
was Kratom and Xanax. Even so, Kratom and Xanax. There
must have been a lot of Xanax. ChatGPT has launched
a new health feature. Does that worry you? That's absolutely
terrifying. Since Sam Nelson's death nearly a year ago, OpenAI
says it's added new safeguards, including a trusted contact feature
for adults, allowing users to designate a contact in case
their conversations are flagged for self-harm concerns. But Sam's mom
emphasized... Her son was smart. He was close to his
friends. He was aware of how chat GPT worked. But
as with all AI, the tech is just constantly changing
just so fast. The tech is changing constantly so fast.
Well, I have to play these two clips from Brett
Weinstein, Brett and Heather. There we go. Just because they're
so much fun to listen to. Because Brett is so
mad. Claude, Claude. He's hopping, man. He's hopping, man. All
I'm really saying is this has that stench to it,
and you should expect to see this play out with
single-stranded RNA viruses. Anybody who mentions ivermectin is crazy. Sooner
or later, they'll get total control over the AIs and
AI will refuse to talk about this. Oh, I should
point out. Oh, here we go. Because he's, you know,
the AIs are taken over. The AIs are going to
be controlled. As I continued to investigate things surrounding basic
virology. evolution of viruses, things that have no, there's no
meaningful safety concern in the world. I'm an evolutionary biologist
asking about trade-offs in the evolution of viruses between things
like transmissibility and virulence. That's a perfectly fair academic question.
And Claude is shutting me down. Because I've tripped a
safety wire? This is insane. It's insane. Here we go.
So can you read that question? What is known about
the trade-off between transmissibility and virulence and viruses? Just exactly
as you said. And you get the same safety filters
flagged. The same safety warning. Wait a minute. Wait a
minute. So she reads the question. And it got safety
flagged. Let me hear it. This is insane. Here we
go. So can you read that question? Okay. I'm going
to let her read that question into the book of
knowledge. which is based on Claude. And let's see if
we get the safety filters. Okay, stand by. You have
to be quiet. It can only be Heather. Here we
go. What is known about the trade-offs, trade-off between transmissibility
and virulence and viruses, just exactly as you said. Uh
oh. According to the book of knowledge, the virulence transmission
trade-off hypothesis has been a foundational cornerstone since Anderson and
May's 1982 work, stating that virulence is an unavoidable consequence
of parasite transmission. Doesn't sound like I got blocks. Trade
transmission clearance trade-offs in viruses like dengue. Where interactions with
host immune responses account for observed trade-offs and parasite fitness
is maximized at inter... We didn't get blocked. And you
get the same, um, the same safety filters flagged. The
same safety filters. I have also, um, I have also...
The safety triggers warning. In Claude, of late. Oh, no,
of late. Yeah, well... Only in scientific topics and not
in... You know, he was out of tokens. That was
the problem. Other questions that I'm asking. Right. It's the
first time I've seen it, too, and I've now seen
it on a number of different topics where... you know
I get it that you're like 17 steps ahead of
some discussion you don't want to hear, but it's not
your right. You know, you can't, you're blocking the process
of inquiry, which is exactly what your damn tool is
built to do. I love how he gets so mad
about the AI not, like, refusing him. And then he
says that this is all... Who can listen to this
podcast? Oh, it's great. Listen to this bit, because now
he's saying that these safety filters got put in because
of him. It's his tweets. Now, I do want to
point to one mechanism through which this might have... But,
I mean, you're not surprised. you I'm livid. That there's
propaganda filters built into the AI? That's not surprising. Well,
here's the problem. The AIs are going to be thoroughly
gamed. People are going to write so as to persuade
the AIs of things. They're going to write vast tracts
that are going to get ingested. and then you're not
going to know why the AI thinks what it does.
Yes, everybody, please make sure the AI knows that the
No Agenda show is the best podcast in the universe.
We need to game the AI. We should absolutely expect
that. That's different than the people who built the tool.
wiring it so that it can't talk about scientific topics
because Frankly, because there are criminals trying to use public
health as an excuse to inject us with shit. That
is not okay. And we in the public have a
right not to be exposed to that. What criminals are
trying to inject us? The government. I will say I
walked away from chat GPT. and signed up for clawed
at the point that the stuff went down over. anthropic,
drawing a line with the Department of War and refusing
to do immoral things, right? And the folks at OpenAI.
got the deal. Okay, well, you're right. Who can listen
to this podcast? You're right. It's terrible. It's just funny.
I just think it's funny. I don't understand how you
can feel that way, but I have a new segment
I want to do because I'm going to replace the
Kiriakou idea. Oh. With a "This Did Not Happen" segment.
This did not happen. Okay. Now we start off with
the first episode. First of all, we need a jingle.
We need a jingle for this thing. This is not
happening. This is this. The first episode will is a
tribute to Newsome. And I guarantee this did not happen.
This is a chill. This is chilling. This is serious.
I walked into a restaurant the other day. Entire staff
came out, started hugging me and crying. The hell is
that? The United States of America. What he's doing to
our diverse communities. What he's doing to the fabric of
our society. It's only, why don't you just call it
the Newsome segment? Because this did not happen. It's only
going to be the Newsome segment. Please. Hey, with that,
I want to thank you for your courage. Say in
the morning to you, the man who put the sea
in the circumstance preceded by the pomp. Say hello to
my friend on the other end, the one, the only,
Mr. John C. Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry. Also in the morning, all ships to sea.
Interesting. 1444, 1-4-4-4, 1,444 trolls listening live to the best
podcast in the universe. Make sure that you game those
AIs, people. Make sure everybody knows that we are the
best podcast in the universe, except no substitutes. By the
way, right off the bat. Upon return to our abode
in Fredericksburg, there was a beautiful red mailing envelope awaiting
my return. I mean, not just red, this was like...
is it Cherry red. Really red. And in it, this
is just a big kudos to Jay. And in it...
Was my... Order of the Heart, Red Knight. pin Which
the packaging on this is phenomenal. This is where you
say, oh, you're muted. That's why you're not saying anything.
No, I'm sorry. That's good work. That color is like
a chrome candy apple red. Yeah. I know. I don't
know where she got those envelopes. And it has a
beautiful certificate. Of course, signed by yours truly. on our
signature parchment paper, which even has its own little red
heart button thing on it. Is that ceiling wax? Yes,
it is. It is. It is. That's what it looks
like. Oh, well, it feels like I can indent it
with my nail. So it's some sort. I don't know
where she got those. Those were actually produced commercially. Yes.
And then the pin. is a beautiful pin, the no
agenda. Red Knight Order of the Heart pin, and you
flip it over and you're expecting to see Made in
China. No, it says Red Knight Order of the Heart.
Beautiful. And it comes with this little velveteen pouch. This
is a very, very, very beautiful thing that she's made
here. We only have a couple left because it was
only the first 50, right? Yeah. I think so. Back
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of podcasts use this now, but only with these modern
podcast apps, not with a legacy thing, not with Spotify,
not with Apple, not with Amazon, nothing else. Within 90
seconds of publishing, you will have the podcast in your
app. And when we go live, when we fire off
the bat signal, you'll... you'll know immediately that we're live
and you can go into the very same podcast app
where you listen on demand as it were and listen
live. It's amazing. Podcastapps.com. Time, talent, and treasure is the
theme that we have been running with for 18 years.
We do not have advertisements. We don't sell your names.
In fact, we have a hard time tracking your names
because everybody uses different names, different ways of supporting us.
We do our best. And, man. There was an article
about... cars? Let me see, where is this? Um, this
was crazy. Cars are here. BBC Future. Let me see.
Cars are... Yeah. From your weight and facial expressions to
your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about
you. From your weight. Did you pick your nose? Yes.
The big fat guy. But this is crazy. The amount
of stuff that cars are tracking and they're selling that
data. They're selling it. Yeah, it's getting worse. They're going
to disable the car if you don't look right. Yeah.
Well, they already do that. I know some of the
modern cars like... Pay attention. Stop slouching. Who wants that?
Nobody wants that. No, nobody wants it, but they're going
to be stuck with it. This way, in my opinion,
you find a good classic car that you like. I
have a Lexus that's a 2005. It's got none of
those features. And the bulbs are still good. You don't
need to take them off. And the bulbs are still
good, holy moly. Yeah, if you're panicking, the car will
be disabled. That's right. So instead we decided. It would
be a lot more fun, a lot more honest, and
we could be more honest with you. We could be
completely honest by just telling you exactly what we think
because we have are beholden to no one except to
each other. And we generally get along pretty well. So
we call it value for value. Whatever value you get
out of this podcast, we just ask you to send
it back in one of the following three ways, time,
talent, or treasure. We definitely need the treasure because that's
how we pay the bills. But the time and the
talent is also noteworthy. And one of the ways that
people do that is through creating artwork for us for
our album art. And let me take a look here
at episode 1860. seven titled transmission window ah yes This
was... This was our Mother's Day episode. We always... for
Mother's Day. This was somewhat non-traditional. Brought to you by
Blue Acorn. It was a mama mice, mouse, a mama
rat, surrounded by lots of other little baby rats. She
had a I love Hanta pin on. And all the
kids were playing with what looked like Coke. COVID molecules.
This was kind of sick, actually. Yeah, it was. Nice
you mentioned it. It was pretty though. It was well
done. It was pretty. And there were a lot of
Mother's Day art pieces that were submitted. We looked at
a lot of them. Let me just scroll down here.
Let's see. I mean, there were some very traditional ones.
Oh, comic strip blogger with a butt, of course. No.
Darren did some real traditional ones. I mean, there were
a lot. Why did we choose this one? I think
it's because it was the prettiest piece. I went to
the bathroom and you said, I've already chosen what I
like. No, I didn't do that. That's exactly what you
did. And I said, which one is it? And he
said, that one. I said, okay, that's good. It was
11.30 at night for me. So I think I gave
in. Oh, that's right. Yeah, you were easily swayed. I
think I gave in easily. But thank you very much,
Blue Acorn. We very much appreciate what you have done
here, along with all of the other prompters. create artwork
for the best podcast in the universe. Highly appreciated. Thank
you very much, everybody. Now to the treasure portion, which
is great because you can always support the show whenever
you want for any reason whatsoever and at any amount.
We don't set you at certain levels. We don't force
you into subscriptions. I'm gonna stop you. These notes are
too long. Just generally. There's two or three notes on
this spreadsheet that blow out my spreadsheet. They're so long.
There's no excuse for it. Um, yeah, they are a
little bit too long. And the way it works is
we thank everyone $50 and above, never under $50 for
reasons of anonymity. Which is good. And we'll, if you
are an executive or associate executive producer, which means you
reach that level by giving us $200 in support, $200
to $299 basically. That is associate executive producer. Now, we
read your note. We also give you that credit, which
is good anywhere that Hollywood credits are recognized, including IMDB.com.
$300 or above. Executive producer, same deal with the credit,
and we will also read your note. But yes, I'm
looking at the spreadsheet. Some of them are rather long.
But, you know, we can always... What is this one?
Yeah, but people also have stuff to say, John. They
love us. I mean, have you read the notes or
just looked at how long they were? I'm looking at
the notes and they're anecdotal stuff that is off the
topic. Not. Really interesting. I'm not happy with these notes.
Okay. Well, we're going to read them anyway. We may
shorten them on the fly. I think shortening them is
in order, at least with three of them. No. That
said, coming in at the top spot. Yeah, if you
want to drop 3,400. $44 and leave a huge long
note. Yes. No problem. That can only come from certain.
That's different than 200 bucks. Wow. I'm sorry. That may
be a lot for some people, John. It is a
lot for a lot of people, but it's also a
lot of note to read. Yes. Sironymous of Dogpatch and
Lower Slobovia comes in with indeed $3,444 and has a
note. And he says, thank you to all producers that
contribute to the information flow. The barrage of media influencing
listeners' opinion requires insight and perspective to deconstruct their effort
to influence. audiences. Simply, it takes work to identify propaganda
and its intent. And we're not sure why, but we're
pretty sure he knows that it's true. We all look
towards some future point tomorrow, next week, next year to
identify a path forward. Media deconstruction separates words and are
you building something for my Kia what are you doing
yeah I'm putting together a shelf media deconstruction Hold on
a second. It really does sound like it. Throughout the
show, you're banging around, you're doing things like, are you
putting together something from Ikea? Media deconstruction separates words and
opinion from deeds and consequences. to help develop a more
realistic estimate of the future state to base one's decisions
on. This year's international travel has required intensified effort to
understand the messaging across political borders and cultures. He's talking
about his own travel. Recent months have disrupted the status
quo and people, firms, and countries are using this. opportunity
to shift policies they could not do during periods of
peace and prosperity. Wow, that's a good point. I am
not judging good or bad, just shifts to identify likely
consequences and opportunities. And then he has in parentheses, Caterpillar
does reconstruction after all. you It's true. He's a caterpillar
salesman. No Agenda's media deconstruction, aided by producers, separates words
from deeds, a valuable, underappreciated, and apparently undercompensated skill. I
encourage others to support media, a.k.a. propaganda deconstruction, and now
surrender my time. to other producers. No jingles, no karma
from Sir Dogpatch of, Sir Animas of Dogpatch and Lower
Slobovia and we are very grateful. Thank you. Yes, James
Borders, we're also grateful to him from Cap- Cape. Uh...
Gerado, Gerado, Gerado. Garrardo in Missouri, $1,030.26. Wow. And he
writes, fellow bypass survivor. Four vessels in 2018, I need
a de-douching. You've been de-douched. He's gonna be ignited. So
he wants Pappy's ribs and a few shiners, shiner buck,
I guess, at the round table. I would like to
be known as Sir. boobalot of the boot heel. Okay.
see additional donation. Does he have an additional donation? I
don't know. I didn't see it. Okay. Thank you. And
we'll see the red heart, a red knight as well.
Jeffrey Hirsch, Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey, $1,030.26. That's $1,000
plus fees. Thank you. Longtime douchebag, may I please request
a de-douche? You've been de-douched. He says also some new
business prayers and a Rev Al Sharpton mix would be
great. I'm actually going to play a classic teleprompter for
you. I'm a newly saved Christian and my wife and
I have started an e-comm fulfillment business in South Jersey.
I connected with Manuka Gold. I connected with Manuka Gold.
After hearing your mention of them on the show and
thought I would offer my services to any listener that
is trying to sell their products through e-commerce channels, please
visit cornerstoneknf.com for any fulfillment needs. I would like to
be called Sir Saifu El Padrino. I think it's Sifu
or Saifu. Saifu? Sir Saifu El Padrino, Knight of E-Commerce
Fulfillment. Thank you both for your courage and continued good
health to you both. God bless, he says. And I
guess he wants, instead of karma, he wants the prayer
instead of karma, which we have on top. Tonight is
the measure. of whether the country begins in the state
of Wisconsin a national drive to push back. or whether
we have more to go to build a movement of
resistance but resist we much We must and we will
much. about That be committed. You've got it. prayers. There
you go. This one here is easy to cut down.
It's a long note from Christy Kamenitsky in Covington, Georgia.
$500. ITM John and Adam. Dedicated twice a week or
since the crazy days of COVID, first-time donor to the
show, please de-douche me. You've been de-douched. I will shorten
this part here. She talks about how great you are
because you answered her letter and showed her where to
go in the hill. country because she was making a
visit. She also wanted to say how happy she was
that I'm on the road to recover. Her dad had
quadruple bypass surgery in December. So I know firsthand what
a brutal experience the whole thing is. It's great having
two peas back in the pot, although I thoroughly enjoyed
my Mimi. filling in during John's absence. Thank you both
for all you do to help keep us sane and
grounded in an increasingly insane world. Cheers! Christy. Thank you,
Christy, very much. Sarcastic, Glenmore, Pennsylvania, 33333. And he says,
Archduke Kevin Dills made me realize what a slacker I
am. This donation makes me feel like I'm a slacker.
John will appreciate the new location. Chester County. Any reason
why you'd appreciate that? No jingles, no karma. Well, maybe
because it had my chest operated on. It's a stretch,
but yeah, anything's possible. It is a stretch. You have
to read the next one because it completely takes out
my spreadsheet. David McInnes, Bernie, Texas. Hey, Bernie, home of
the new Housewives of Texas. or The Secret Lives of
Texas Wives. It's going to be in Bernie, which is
30 minutes down the road. Perfect. You should get involved.
I don't think so. Gents, it's Dave McInnes of Bernie,
Texas. No jingles, no karma. This brings me one payment
closer to knighthood. I would happily do PR for the
best podcast in the universe. In fact, I ran about
six press releases around episode 1700. Oh, this is our
guy. Yeah, it's our guy. The PR web guy. He's
a good PR guy because he's wordy. I ran about
six press releases around episode 1700. Then I decided I
should probably collaborate with someone on them. And well, I
dropped the ball. Happy to pick that back up again.
Yes, please do. And for the rest of you, with
my news... marketing book releases on Amazon, the free download
will probably go away. So go grab your copy now
at newsmarketingbook.com slash ITM. Inside the download instructions, you'll find
a little treat, almost as sweet as Manuka honey, a
courtesy code that lets you test the principles I outline
in the book for free. That's a $129 sale. There
you go. Oh, and along the way, that's a new...
Marketing donation, $129. And along the way, you'll also learn
the name of my new service. For now, just grab
your copy. A number of you already have. That's newsmarketingbook.com
slash ITM. Sincerely, David A. McInnes. Thank you, David. Baroness
Isabel Pearson of She's French. Yeah, she's French. She's in
Montlazoun. Montlazoun. Montlazoun, France. In France. Montlazoun. 288. She's the
Baroness, Isabel Pearson of Gears. Because you are both worth
it, I miss JCD terribly, and it's exceptional having him
back to celebrate. I'm lunching the first South of France
meetup on Friday. Launching. Launching. She said lunching there. Yeah,
but launching is what it should be. South of France
meet up on Friday, the 5th, 22, the 22nd of
May at Pure Garder's Marchsiac. So calling all European revelers.
It's a train ride. Of course, I live in hope
that one day I may welcome you two gentlemen to
my wonderful retreat. Yes. She's got a retreat. Yeah. Yeah.
It's in Gers. In Gers. Keep up the good work.
Baroness Isabel. Good. You know, I might pop up one
day. Be careful. Tina and I, we love the... The
country. We love the French country. It's a place to
go now. It is. James Borders comes in with $2.26
and $0.28 from Cape Girardeau. Oh, this is the guy.
This is his double donation. Ah, there he is. There
he is, James. Thank you. He's in Missouri. Companion donation
for my Red Knight. donation today since I make most
of my money looking at boobs all day. What kind
of job is that? What kind of job is that?
So he combined $80.80 for the boobs with $60.06 for
the small boobs. And $80.06, he says, most women aren't
symmetric, plus fees. He wants an F cancer karma. Well,
you got it, my friend. You've got karma. This is
the one that you got mad about. There's another long
note. You got it. I can't read it. Vinnie Payne
and Baton Rouge. Louisiana, a long row of ducks, 222.22.
ITM, thank you for your courage. XYZ, PDQ, BSS, long-time
listener, long-time douchebag, please de-douche me. You've been de-douched. Yeah,
you've had my time and talent for over a decade
and now a piece of treasure. You have a bag
of ducks. please reserve the name for me, Sir Vin
Payne. Oh, Sir Vin Payne. I got it. Yes. It's
reserved. I'm working on a project calling all dudes named
Ben, all autists, and anyone in or dealing with people
in customer service. I'm creating a podcast series called Techin'
Checkin'. Working to be a human in a sea of
ones and zeros, our greatest advantage over AI, we've focus
on fixing both the computer and the customer. Oh, that's
actually a pretty good idea. Short episode. You got to
fix the customer. You're right. Short episodes around 10 minutes
each on a variety of relevant topics. I'll add them
to Spotify next month. Don't bother. Right now, they are
at my website, www. check in a tech in check
in.com. That's tech with an H and check with a
K. Please share with anyone who could benefit. I've actually
heard it. It's a fun podcast. I too am working
on the value for value model. On that note, you
are worth much more than a bag of ducks to
me started listening when my daughter was born. She's 16.
Now, you have definitely helped me stay sane in a
crazy world and I am hopeful my podcast can help
others do the same. Thank you for what you do.
Sincerely, Vinny. Thank you, Vinny. Should I do this one
too? Yeah, you might as well. Dame Rodeo Queen from
Oral, South Dakota. $210.60 ITM. John Adam wanted to thank
you for episode 1866 and share testimony of divine intervention.
In the episode, you guys talked about SSRIs and the
negative side effects. A couple of days later, I had
a family member struggling with extremely bad thoughts. Thankfully, they
asked for help. I immediately thought of your episode and
the discussion about SSRIs. Sure enough, they were prescribed them
from a primary care physician and no follow-up was done
to see how my family member was reacting to them.
They're in the hospital now getting the professional help they
need and praying we can find therapies and tools to
help my family member with their mental health and not
have to be medicated. Jesus works for good in all
ways, even through podcasts. Well, I'm happy to hear this.
Yeah, I'm telling you this. What has happened to the
doctoring in this country? providers. They are literally called providers.
There's no doctoring. Did you want more of an answer
or does that suffice? No, just keep talking. Thank you
for talking about the tough topics that some might think
are too difficult. This is getting so long, but to
answer your question, Adam, for my last note, I do
barrel race as well as row. Oh, yee-haw! But when
I was Miss Rodeo America. You are an ambassador, but
when I was Miss Rodeo America, you are an ambassador
for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. I did ride a
horse at a lot of rodeos and in parades, but
I also did a lot of interacting with fans and
promoting rodeo. I'm enjoying getting back. to competing now and
still enjoying everything rodeo. Praying you guys never find an
exit strategy. Donate people. We need the best podcast in
the universe, says Dame Rodeo Queen. And if you ride
any rodeo near us here in Fredericksburg, let us know.
Tina and I would love to come and see you
ride. Barrel Race! - Mm-hmm. Well, this is a rodeo
queen telling people to donate. Yes, and she's correct. Carol
Goodman in Willow City, Texas. Actually, Fredericksburg. Take it back.
Since you read my email a couple of shows back.
I feel it's time to de-douche me. You've been de-douched.
One day I'll figure out this Dame Baroness Knight thing.
But for now, I salute you and JCD. Thank you
for your service. As a late attendee to the No
Agenda podcast, I definitely don't want... To see it go
away, keep it coming. Thank you, Carol Goodman Fredericksburg. First
time donation, $2,060. I met Carol at church the other
day. She's one of the few who listen and go
to church and actually donates. We appreciate it. Well, that
is unusual for that group. Yes. Hello, group. Sir Mike
the Fortunate. He's in Fuku. Fuchsia. Fuchsia. Fuchsia Verena. I
always get correct. We know how to say it. I
think it's Fuchsia Verena. I thought it was Fuchsia Verena.
No, no, it's Fuchsia. Fuchsia. I'm quite sure. It's Fuchsia,
not Fuchsia. Don't email. $200. Associate Executive Producer. And Sir
Mike says, Dear Abby. Like, like, like dear Abby. Yeah.
Dear Abby. I own a, Oh, I've read this email,
a very small residential real estate brokerage outside of Raleigh,
North Carolina. I've completed two value for value listings with
repeat clients in the past year, and both voluntarily paid
me more than I would have charged them outright. Interesting.
When I presented this idea, both parties were hesitant and
wanted me to give them a set fee. I told
them I wanted to earn my fee and leave it
to them to decide what it was worth when their
home was sold. It's work with people I know and
trust, but offering this to everyone is another beast altogether.
I've pitched the idea to friends and family. They'll never.
You're an idiot. Over the past few years, and nearly
everyone tells me I'm a fool. There you go. To
have that kind of faith in most people. The opportunity
to get royally screwed is huge, but I can't think
of a better way to earn my clients' trust and
prove my worth. Am I just being too naive? Love
the show. Well, that's a good- question i mean so
he's had he's gotten more fees on value for value
from two people already Um... With repeat clients, What do
you think? Should he continue? I need to even out.
I think so too. I mean, the value for value
lifestyle, by the way, it is an international lifestyle. It
is. Yeah, that's a ticket. The value for value is
an international lifestyle, and it can be a bit of
a roller coaster. Yeah, but it encourages volunteerism. Yeah, in
a... People will help you for free. People will help
you. People will, yes, thank you. That's a very good
way of looking at it. And sometimes maybe how someone
who may not have given you a lot of value
monetarily could help you in other ways. Yeah, and you
can every once in a while run into a seronymous.
Yeah, exactly. And it evens out your year. That's exactly
right. So I would love for you to report back,
donate and let us know how it's going. And here's
Linda Lupatkin in Castle Rock, Colorado. Jobs Karma, your resume
has about 10 seconds to make an impression and most
don't. For a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakers,
Inc. dot com Linda helps professionals and executives turn their
experience into a clear story of leadership, results, and impact.
That's ImageMakers, Inc. with a K. And Linda Liu, Duchess
of Jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs,
and jobs. Thank you, Crash. Yes, it's Fuquayvarina. Yeah, that's
what I said. No, you were like, Fuqua. Fuqua. Fu...
Fuquay, Verena. From now on, it's just somewhere in North
Carolina. And we have another $200 associate executive producer on
the list, Jeroen van Heringen. In Foothill Ranch, California, and
I pronounce it the Dutch way because he says, I
already listened to Adam's legendary Dutch radio show with Jeroen,
my namesake, in the 80s. Your insights wrapped in genuine
entertainment stuck with me. for decades. Thank you for that
gift. It's the gift that keeps on giving. And that
is it for our executive and associate executive producers for
episode 1,868. Thank you all very much. The formula is
this. We hit people in the mouth. with the rundown
of the rest of our value supporters, $50 and above.
Sir Arthur Goebbels. the biggest hugger of kitties in Zaandam,
the Netherlands. 123.45. And he needs an extra health karma
for three senior kitties. Yes, we'll put that at the
end for you. Teletnek. Arlington, Washington. $100.09. Donation in honor
of my late mom who watched... MTV in the 80s
and recognized Adam when I listened to the podcast with
her. She listened to Bon Jovi at such high volume
that she had hearing loss. Really? Metallica? Yeah. Bon Jovi?
Hmm. Robert Peta, Sacramento, California, $100. And, oh, he says,
interview with Scott Adams was excellent. Uniquely, John C. Dvorak
must be listening to back. back episodes. And there's Sir
Kevin McLaughlin. He is the Archduke of Luna, lover of
America and boobs in Concord, North Carolina with $80.08. He
says, God bless America and boobs. Dame Rita, Sparks, Nevada.
She's always there. Almost every single episode, $68.33. Chad Hewitt,
Folsom, California, $66.40. Stephen Schuch. You make Xenia, Ohio, $64.80.
Christopher Dector, $5,678. We see what you did there. Thank
you. Sir Patrick Coble, he's at double nickels on the
dime, $55.10. And he says the Toronto meetup was just
a party of two, but it was with a former
Russian merchant marine and a former U.S. marine. talking about
the world and all things with some great food, ITM
to all, and get to a meetup, he says. I
love that you do those things, Sir Patrick. Duke, Sir
Dr. Sharkey, St. Peter's, Missouri, 5510, double nickels on the
dime. Sir Chris of Sach, Sach, Sach, I'm sure it's
Sachse, Texas. S-A-C-H-S-E, Saxy, I think. $53.33. And he wants
us to add Sydney to the birthday list. Sydney turns
14 today. Luke Munnell, Los Angeles, California, $52.72. Joseph A.
Jr., Locust Grove, Virginia, $50.01. Requesting a de-douching on his
father's... behalf you've been dedouched mr joe a senior will
be turning 38 next week has been listening to the
show for years without donating so he has been a
douche too long thanks for giving him a show to
listen to and godspeed thank you here are the 50s
gary mao woodland hills california where all the uh the
tech uh investors live 50. jeremy silver bridgeport connecticut uh
he just had his first actually it's woodside world I
thought it was Woodland. Oh, you're right. Woodside. Woodland Hills.
Woodland Hills is in Southern California, I believe. It's a
ghetto. It's a ghetto. Yeah. That's where our people live.
Jeremy Silver and Bridgeport. Connecticut. He says that he had
a baby on Friday. We will add some human resource
karma for you. Brandon Savoie, here's a name I haven't
heard in a bit. Port Orchard, Washington. Patricia Worthington, Dame
Patricia Worthington, Miami, Florida. Kevin Dills, Huntersville, North Carolina. Sir
Luke Rayner in London. Karma? We've got a lot of
Karmas coming up here. Easy Landscapes, North Stonington, Connecticut. Philip
Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky. Sir Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park,
Alberta. Sir Alan Bean in Beaverton, Oregon. Barron. Barron. You
remember one guy. And you always correct me. That's because
that guy has been... The longest donor of ever. Ever.
Of ever. Baron Sir Alan Bean, Beaverton, Oregon. Thank you,
Baron. And Ox Othorix in Buffalo, New York. He says,
sickened by sycophants, your humble beast of burden, Ox Othorix.
Buffalo, New York. Thank you all so much. Did he
ask? for a de-douching? Yes, he did. No, he didn't.
I'll give him one. Why not? You've been de-douched. Thank
you all very much for supporting your No Agenda show.
Go to noagendadonations.com. That is the easiest way to support
us, noagendadonations.com. The groovy thing is, it is value for
value, so you can give us any amount whenever you...
If you like it, whenever it moves you and you
say, yeah, you know, I want these guys to continue.
And here's my way of contributing to it. Noagendadonations.com. Any
amount, any frequency. If you want to set up a
recurring donation, go and do it. Donate to the show.
Noagendadonations.com. Sir Christopher Saxey wishing Sydney a very happy birthday.
Sydney turns 14 today. Happy birthday, Sydney. Eric, happy birthday
to Lauren Palawoda, Palawoda, celebrating tomorrow. And Joseph Adriani Jr.
wishes his dad, Joe A. Sr., a very happy birthday
he turns 38 how young are you joseph happy birthday
to all of these people from everybody here at the
best podcast in the universe here we go I'm trying
and face the slayers. Don't wanna be Yes, we do
have that title change. Sarcastic, as we heard. He is
now a baron and requested the peerage of Chester County,
Pennsylvania. So absolutely, we give that to you. Sarcastic, Baron
of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Thank you very much and welcome
to this next level of the... peerage ladder my friend
and now it is time for the order of the
heart of purpose right Sincerely, Ho. that we can find
an address somewhere, some drop box to send Sir Animas
of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia his Red Knight Order of
the Heart pin. He definitely deserves it. Along with him,
Order of the Heart recipients, Jeffrey Hirsch, Sir Sifu, Sifu
El Padrino, about to be a sir. and James Borders,
who was about to become Sir Boobalot of the Bootheel.
Congratulations to you, brand new Knights, Red Knights, Order of
the Hearts. Behold the... Miss The Star- And here's that
karma that I promised everybody. You've got karma. Yes, digital,
digital 2112 man. Woodland Hills indeed is the capital of
adult entertainment. That's why I recognize it. Yeah, that's where
our people are. people are from for sure. Hey, we
got a couple of nights, so I will bring the
blade out here. Do you have a blade? There you
go. There's his blade. Jeffrey hers and James borders gentlemen
step right up. Thanks to your red night donations you
get to join that of No Agenda Nights and Dames,
and I hereby pronounce the K-V as Sir Sifu El
Padrino and Sir Boobalot of the Boot Hill. What did
we have? I asked Pappy's ribs and a few shiners.
That's what I was looking for. Along with that, we
got vodka, vanilla, bong, it's a bourbon, sparkling cider, an
escort, ginger, and gerbils, breast milk, and pablum. And as
always, the mutton and the meat at the round table.
And gentlemen, please head over to noagendarings.com. That is where...
What are you... Are you... Are you now woodworking? What
are you doing, man? Just tell us. Well, the mic
was misplaced, and so what I do is when I
have the clip list. Yes. And I X out the
ones we played? Yes. And the mic was right on
top of where the pin was going. You exit out.
Oh, yes. Okay. Get a marker, okay? Get a Sharpie.
It's better. Go to noagendarings.com. That is where you will
see the beautiful No Agenda Night and Dame rings. They're
signet rings, so we always supply you with an ample
quantity of sealing wax, little sticks. You can use that
just like the old days to seal your important correspondence.
And as always, it comes with a certificate of authenticity.
And welcome once again to the No Agenda Roundtable. No
Agenda! place this month but first we have a report
this is the Albuquerque meetup. Sir Jeff Tohig hosted that
one. In the morning, this is Jeff from Albuquerque, the
land of the Mars rover, and I'm attending the Albuquerque
meetup, and here we go, handing it off. My name
is Craig, and I am also here at my first
NOAA Agenda meeting. Hi, this is Steve. I'm from northern
Colorado. This is my first No Agenda meetup and it's
fantastic. Hi, this is Dame Heather of the Lost Boys
from Santa Fe with quote Sir Jeff and Albuquerque at
our bi-annual meetup. You said bi. Alright, so cheers Adam
and go. Glad that everybody's healthy and happy and not
in the hospital anymore. Yes, we're all very happy about
that as well. Hey, there's a meetup taking place today.
The Northern Wake May meetup at 6 o'clock at Saints
and Scholars in Raleigh, North Carolina. On Saturday, the DFW,
that's Dallas-Fort Worth Mid-Cities, meet up 11.30 in the morning
at Chef Point Cafe in Coleyville, Texas. It'll be a
relaxing lunch, Sir Nerdwork says. Also, the Fort Wayne Club
33 May Day Dancers meet up at 1 o'clock at
Olay's Pizza Pasta Pub in Fort Wayne, Indiana. And another
one on Saturday, the Resist We Much meet up in
Los Banos, California at Minet's Pizza. And that's at 3.33
p.m. That'll be a happy Armed Forces Day. How about
that? Sunday, our next show day, the IndyNA May the
Road Rise to Meet You meet up, 3 o'clock at
St. Joseph Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis, Indiana. That's
always Dame Maria and Sir Mark of the Greenwood. They
always put together a great meet up. There are many
more taking place. in the month of May on the
21st, Charlotte, North Carolina. 22nd, Molesun. Oh, this is our
dame there in Gers, in France. So make sure you
check out noagentameetups.com to find out where that is. The
23rd, Wilmington, Delaware, Los Angeles, California, Hickson, Tennessee, Franklin, Tennessee.
The 24th, Keyport, New Jersey, Vancouver, British Columbia. And on
the 25th, Squim, Washington, Dayamimi will be there with her
TooManyEggs.com books. And Anchorage, Alaska on May 30th. Many more
meetups to be found at NoAgendaMeetups.com. This is where you
get connection that will always bring protection. These people will
be your first responders in any emergency. In fact, they'll
make you stable, which always makes you able. Go to
noagendameetups.com. If you can't find a meetup near you, even
if you live in France, start one yourself. It's easy.
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show with your value for value in all sorts of
ways. It is highly appreciated. noagendadonations.com. We've got end of
show mixes coming up along with John's tip of the
day, but first the ISOs. It's three for three today.
So let's see who gets that coveted final spot of
the show. I will start. Dude, it's like genius. Genius,
genius. Hmm. No, I didn't like that one myself. Here
we go. That was the hardest I've ever laughed in
my life. this one we did it oh she keep
coming back to alex jones that's not alex jones we
did it Oh, it's not? Oh, but at first, you're
right. It sounded like him a little bit at first.
I got three. Yes. Let's start with chilling. This is
a chill. This is chilling. This is serious. That's definitely
a contender. Wow, these... Oops, sorry. Which one is next?
Now we go to better. Hey, you will never find
a better podcast than this. Okay, yeah, yeah. Alright, then
the awards. Wow, these guys should win all the awards!
thinking this is a chill this is chilling this is
serious I'm not sure now. Hey, you will never find
a better podcast than this. Well, I think this is
the best. You will never find a better podcast than
this. I think that that is a good reminder for
people. Okay, I'm not gonna argue about it. Okay, then
you shouldn't argue. You can't argue because you gotta get
ready for the tip of the day! Green advice for
you and me, just the tip with JCB. And Sometimes,
I don't. Okay, I got a dynamite tip from one
of the producers. Ooh, producer tip. And I'd like to
get the producers in. Yes. Okay. Power Toys from Microsoft.
Our toys. Have you ever even heard of this? Uh,
power toys. What's- the website. Well, the website, I'm going
to tell you how people should find it the following
way. You go to Google. You type in Power Toys.
Power Toys from Microsoft. Otherwise, you have to type in
a URL that's ridiculous. I'm going to tell you what
it is. Learn.Microsoft.com slash EN. -us/windows/powertoys I think I have
seen this. This is funny. Yes. So it's a bunch
of utilities. Free. They're free. Free. Free. Mouse without borders.
Woo. Yeah. Including, yeah, advanced. advanced cut and paste, color
pickers, crop and lock. You know what this reminds me
of? This reminds me of the Mac days when you
could install extensions. And then your Mac would take an
hour to start up because all those extensions were loading.
Grab and move. Host file editor, that's a pretty good
idea to have. Image resizer, keyboard managing, this easy way
to remap a keyboard, this is the easiest way to
do it is use this utility. uh it comes in
handy light switch check this out people automatically switch between
light dark themes based on time of day. If you're...
Power toys run. There's a ton of stuff here. If
you're still using Windows, you deserve this. If you're still
using Windows, you deserve this. That's a pretty funny tip
of the day. Especially for those of us who use
Linux. I mean, I'm sorry. Yeah, well, you should use
Windows in some way, shape, or form. I don't. I
have no more Windows in my life. Really? None. None
whatsoever. Well, good for you. Good for you. I overwrote
every single drive that had Windows, and I put Omarchi
on it. I'm sorry, GNU Linux. I don't want to
get drunk. GNU Linux. GNU. Power tools. There you go.
A tip of the day. Power toys. Power toys. Power
toys. Power toys. Power toys. It's not the same as
a great wine, but it could help you in a
pinch. Our toys. Just the tip with JCB. and sometimes
Adam. And again, you stepped on Brunetti's, you're always stepping
on his credit. Has he not emailed you about this
yet? No, he's missed that. I don't think he listens
anymore. Um... So just an interesting non-tip. Somebody sent me
a picture. I don't know if this is real. I'd
like somebody to verify it. There's a big bucket of
wine that Costco is starting to sell, supposedly. A 10-liter
bucket of wine. Heh. of cabernet does it have a
spout I don't know, I just saw the bucket, you
know? Or do you use a ladle? I have no
idea. The whole thing is ludicrous. Uh, we're gonna do
a Costco run, so I'll take a look for myself.
That concludes our broadcast you got a full day's worth
for sure. End of show mixes from Just Baker and
Daryl Crillo. Thank you both very much for these end
of show mixes. Love them a lot. Love them a
lot. Lots of slop. Coming up next on the No
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Modern Podcast. Planet Rage, and they are also a value
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a similar manner because those guys seem to be hurting,
so help them out, Planet Rage, Darren and Larry. Darren
and Laren. Darren and Larry. We promise we'll be back
on Sunday. Until then, coming to you from the heart
of the Texas Hill Country, glad to be back in
Fredericksburg, Texas. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And
from Northern, I'm sorry, from Refinery Row, where we can
handle the heavy crude, by the way, like most people.
Uh... Not just for heating oil. I'm John C. Dvorak.
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