1792 - "Meloni in the Middle"

I don't need the aggravation of ear mold.

Adam Curry, John C.

Dvorak.

It's Thursday, August 21st, 2025.

This is your award-winning Get On Nation Media Assassination Episode 1792.

This is no agenda.

We have a dry lot,

and we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number six.

In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we applaud President Trump going on patrol.

I'm John C.

DeVorack.

It's Crackbot and Buzzkill in the morning.

What did I miss?

He went on patrol?

No, he's going on patrol tonight.

Oh,

is he doing a ride-along?

Yeah, in D.C.

What's great is that people in other cities are going, hey, hey, hey, President Trump, come do that in our city.

It's going to catch on.

You watch.

It's going to catch on.

He He can only catch on so far because he actually has the authority to do it in D.C.

He doesn't have the authority to do it in San Francisco to this extreme.

No, but he has.

This is about the crime bill.

It's going to be the Trump.

The Trump crime bill, Batman.

That's what it's going to be.

And you only got to hope that it turns out right because other crime bills in the past, like that of 1992, it's not such a good deal.

Although now they're kind of, the Democrats are kind of bragging about those old crime bills by Clinton and Biden.

Yeah.

They say, well, you just trips not doing anything new.

The crime was really reduced because of Clinton.

What?

The 92 crime bill, of course, incarcerated over a million black men for smoking weed.

For weed.

So the minute you see a kid on the front of Time magazine or

Time website,

holding

an Uzi smoking a spliff then you know that

then you know they're serious about the crime bill because that's what it was Lil what was the kid's name

from the 90 the oh man Mo Mo Mo where are you when I need you Lil

Lil

Lil Abby

was not Lil Abner Lil Billy no Lil Duncan no someone in the troll room should know by now I don't even know Yeah, it was the Lil Yummy.

Thank you.

Lil Yummy.

It was like a

nine-year-old gang member, Lil Yankee.

Lil Yummy was

on the cover of Time magazine.

And that was the whole impetus.

No, that was when Hillary Clinton was out there saying, you know,

these,

did she say, degenerates?

No, it was something like that.

Hey, how good are we?

Two forgetful boomers.

So that was

the

Biden crime bill.

I'm sorry, not 92, 94.

94 Biden crime bill.

What was Clinton's phrase?

She used it.

It was exploitative.

The term was a synonym for exploitative.

It was

Clinton.

I'd have to guess.

Well, there's only one way to go.

Yeah, you got your buddy there.

Why don't you ask her?

Okay.

The 1994

Biden crime bill, what did Hillary Clinton call the perpetrators like Lil Yummy?

Oh, she called them super predators.

Super predators.

Thank you.

We don't need to remember anything.

We've got error.

We've got error here.

Super predators.

Error.

Her name's Error.

That's her name now, Error.

Does she make mistakes?

You think?

Error.

Error, error.

Yeah.

Everyone's publishing articles now.

It seems to be the new, new thing to publish articles about the AI hype being over.

Yeah.

Oh, that means it's not over.

I'm in agreement with you.

When they say it's, because, you know, it's Altman.

Altman is coming out and he's saying, oh, you know, the L.A.

Times headline, say farewell to the AI bubble.

Get ready for the crash.

Well, he never said say farewell to the bubble.

He just said there is a bubble.

Well, no, this is the headline from the Los Angeles Times.

It's not quotation.

Well, they're making it up.

It's not in quotation marks.

He's just saying it.

He's just saying.

Well, he's not saying that.

He's saying it's a bubble.

He's not saying the bubble's over or the burst.

Correct, correct.

They're the ones saying that.

The thing, though.

And if I was a newspaper, I'd say stuff like that, too.

I'm a little conflicted because I got a report from CBS, which plays right into, I would hope, the Gen Zs that you and I have raised in these past 18 years.

Because we have raised a nation, John.

We have raised a generation of smart thinking kids.

This is where you say, yes, indeed, Adam.

They're fabulous.

And I hope that they have heeded our advice throughout the years through our complaints about lack of shop and home ech.

and other trades and apprenticeships.

And maybe a few, maybe a few have thought about it it because those who have listened to the boomer show

are about to get rich.

Brandon Fry feels squeezed by two businesses trending in opposite directions.

Data centers such as this one he manages outside Chicago hum along with soaring demand.

Everything in here needs servicing.

Everything in here needs service.

Tech support.

Tech support, HVAC support, electricians.

But the supply of technical support he needs available 24-7 keeps keeps shrinking.

What your customers don't want to hear is we can't find somebody for them.

That's the last thing they want to hear and that will be the last conversation we likely have with them as a customers.

Data centers now compete with factories and manufacturing plants for electricians and plumbers.

As older blue-collar workers retire, younger people look at college and white-collar jobs.

It's a growing labor crisis.

Roughly 400,000 skilled trade jobs are unfilled in in America.

By 2033, it's estimated that number could hit close to 2 million.

Now, listen to the numbers.

What kind of money you can make as a plumber with your butt crack?

It's awesome.

You got to be able to do more with less.

Matt Roslin, an executive for a software company called IFS.

I'm sorry, first you got to get some tech guy and shove it in here for no reason in the story.

Says new technology is one solution.

And you can see this is changing dynamically.

His company sells this program that helps companies route and reroute their fleet of technicians.

You can take things like weather,

traffic, different priorities, and add that on top.

When you think about the labor shortages that are out there and you want to create more efficiencies and do more with less, this is how that's going to happen.

Back at the data center, Dan Brown knows there's a labor crisis.

We're always looking for good people to hire, but doesn't understand it.

He told us in Chicago, experienced HVAC technicians make more than $150,000 without student debt.

The trades kind of got neglected, so now there's a void that needs to be filled.

And you're busier than ever.

Oh, absolutely.

Across the floor, electrician Kevin Fishback sees hope.

His local union's aggressively recruiting young workers for its apprenticeship program.

They come into trades and they got insurance, they got health care, they got a pension.

That's an update with power

for Brandon Fry.

That this career path is out there and it is a valuable career path to take.

But for now, the date is in and it's unmistakable.

Help wanted.

For I in America, I'm Mark Strassman in Chicago.

And of course, we want to thank President Obama for telling everybody to learn how to code.

Good job.

Good job.

Which was the worst advice ever, it looks like.

Good job, President Obama.

No.

And I think you can still just jump in on an apprenticeship.

I'm sure that there's plumbers and HVAC companies out there that would love to have.

There's probably a few.

There's not as many as there should be.

That's the real problem.

The idea of apprenticeships has gone out of favor.

The apprenticeship has sailed?

No, it's gone out of favor.

Hmm.

Well,

when they see the demand for people, I'm pretty sure that they're going to.

Oh, no, it has to come back.

It's always been there.

It's how it works.

You really can't graduate from high school as a plumber.

You can't graduate from college as a plumber.

No.

You have to be shown how to be one by someone who knows how to do it right and professionally.

I'll tell you: if this gig comes to an end, I'm going into plumbing.

Good to go.

Good to go.

Good to go.

Plumbing 2.0.

Well,

yes.

Meanwhile, we know that

the bubble has to be kept afloat and inflating at all costs.

The bubble's going to get bigger than a lot of people like to imagine.

Well, it has to, because according to Bloomberg surveillance, we need it.

How do you think about GDP?

Well, you know, everybody has, I guess, redefined what reasonable is or what Jay Powell describes as solid when we're barely running the economy so far this year, barely over a 1% annual rate.

I mean, when I started in the business in the mid-80s, you got down to a one-handle on real GDP growth, and people were talking about reasonable, people were talking about stall speed, and then asking when's the recession going to start?

The economy, I think, is sputtering.

It's uneven.

You know, without the proliferation of AI data centers and all the technology spending related to generative AI, the economy would actually be in recession right now.

Yeah, I believe it.

I believe it.

We need all these data centers and everything.

Of course, it's unfortunate that people are paying for it and paying for your stupid chat GPT by your electric bill and utilities doubling.

I wonder when that riot is going to start.

It has to.

It has to.

People aren't going to take it anymore.

Yeah, it was easy for you to say.

Yeah, it's easy for me to say because it's true.

I think it was like in Indiana alone, 80,000 people got switched off because they couldn't pay their bill, which had doubled.

Yeah, at a certain point, people get pretty antsy about that stuff.

Yeah.

Well, who are they going to take it out on?

Their city council, their mayor, their city manager.

The mayor and city council don't

except in some cities.

But generally speaking, they don't determine the rates of the

PG ⁇ E, for example, in California, which is who's the head of PGE working some woman.

Yeah, well,

hey, Luigi.

Luigi.

Luigi.

This is where we're at in our culture right now.

No, they've suppressed that.

Wow.

You are just so positive about everything going great, aren't you?

People are telling you these things that are harder to do than you think.

In California.

People like, what do people do with their high gas and electric bill?

They stop using their power.

And then they just say, well, okay, well, let's freeze to death.

Buy more sweaters.

All right.

Buy more sweaters.

Put it in the red book.

Riot's coming.

Riot's coming, I'm telling you.

It has to be that way.

We're Americans ultimately.

And then after the riots, what are they going to do about it?

PGE can document that fact that because of their

because of their old power lines in the woods and the fact that

they caught a bunch of places on fire, burnt numerous millions of acres to the ground.

And is it their fault that the lines sparked because of a tree?

Or is it the fault of the California people that don't do forest management anymore?

They stopped doing it.

Or is it the fault of people like Gavin Newsom, who drained this ⁇ he didn't drain the swamp, he drained the reservoirs.

He actually tore down two or three dams.

Whose fault is that?

Is that PG ⁇ E's fault?

Is that the reason that

the rates have gone up?

No, it's Gavin Newsom's fault.

And who's who's writing against him?

The Democrats are supporting him.

Well, you're talking about California the whole time.

California is not America.

That's a whole different problem.

California, that's the problem.

California is America.

If California was Texas, we'd be better off.

Although we're trying to be Texas, oh, let's do whatever Texas is doing.

Let's copy that.

Oh, Texas

is going to gerrymander like we always have done.

So let's do our gerrymandering worse.

Let's make us look like Massachusetts where we have no Republicans in any office whatsoever, you know, by cheating.

Well, let me.

And then pointing the finger at Texas.

This is bull crap.

Well, let me give you.

That's what I got to say.

Let me.

All right.

Well, we'll get off the topic of California.

Allow me to play a few clips here from what is happening in the United Kingdom, which has not come to violence yet, but it's brewing.

And

I've been around long enough.

I remember those thin British coming down from the north to London with their pitchforks and their torches.

It was not a pretty sight.

And it's beginning now with Operation Raise the Colors.

Have you heard of this?

Okay, you got me on this one.

Here we go.

This is Marshall, Winston Marshall.

He's a YouTuber, but he's a professional YouTuber.

Over the weekend, a quiet revolution swept Britain.

And if you only watch the mainstream media, you might never have known.

It is the Raising the Colours movement.

Up and down the country, flags are being hoisted and our streets are being adorned with the cross of St.

George, the Union flag.

Even roundabouts are being painted.

The good people of the United Kingdom, in their calm, collected way, standing up.

And of course, those of the establishment and the regressive left who are not completely ignoring this movement are doing what they can to undermine it.

You get something called Operation Raise the Colours.

That sounds very military.

It sounds very aggressive.

People aren't putting up this flag to celebrate Britain.

They're putting on this flag to remind us that Britain is white and we shouldn't be here.

When the BBC reported on the roundabout, they ran the headline, Roundabouts vandalised to look like St.

George's flags.

Contrast that with Rainbow Zebra Crossings Appear in Resort.

This morning, footage of Birmingham Council frantically trying to paint over the St.

George's roundabout emerged.

At least two councils are working fast to take down the flags because they are deemed, quote-unquote, dangerous and to be putting the lives of motorists and pedestrians at risk.

So

the government and the mainstream, everyone's trying to cover it up.

Shhh, don't show those flags, hate those flags.

By the way, you try that in America?

If the city started to take down American flags,

that wouldn't go over.

So listen to where this is happening and, of course, how it started is kind of well known.

There's a lot more going on here than meets the eye.

The British are a people with a tradition of being subtle with their patriotism.

That seems to be changing for good reason, which I'll explain.

But let's have a look at how this movement came about.

This does not come out of nowhere.

Through July and August, anti-immigration protests have taken place outside of government-funded migrant hotels up and down the nation.

London, Warwickshire, Solihull, Walteringham, Bournemouth, Aldershot, Ashfield, Southampton, Portsmouth, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Norwich.

Criminal incidents by those claiming asylum in local migrant hotels inspired the local communities to take the streets.

Perhaps most famous of all was at the Bell Hotel in Epping, where protests were sparked by the arrest and charging of an asylum seeker, Hadush Kabatu, a 41-year-old from Ethiopia who was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

The alleged incident occurred shortly after Kabatu arrived in the UK via a small boat, and he was residing at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, which was being used to house asylum seekers.

The protests began following his court appearance in July.

This, of course, comes after years of pent-up anguish and frustration felt by British people because of sexual abuse by legal and illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, and communities of immigrant heritage.

Most notably, of course, the rape gang scandal.

The 2023 Knowsley riots, which began because the police failed to deal with advances on a loca girl by a man from a migrant hotel, were a violent early example of such protests.

So this is just the UK starting this.

This is, you know, this is starting to bubble under in every single European Union member state.

And, okay, so that's just flags.

But

when the grannies come out, this is when you got to be careful.

The pink ladies are in effect.

As with the grooming gang scandal, it wasn't just the illegal behavior and sexual misconduct of the immigrants which inspired the protests, but also the authorities' mishandling of affairs.

Now, amongst all of these latest protests were the pink ladies.

British mums uniting to defend their daughters and children.

And this really might be the turning point for Britain.

When the mums get involved, it's serious.

One of the organisers, Lorraine Kavanagh, explains.

We are mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters who wanted to protect our family.

We don't hate these men.

We don't hate these men at all.

What we hate is what the government has done.

You know, we witness

pensioners

going up to the local supermarket, getting a basket and looking for the red stickers for reduced labels to get a bit of meat.

And then we witness

these guys, 20s, 30s, getting three meals a day in an unlimited time four-stow hotel in Egyptian sheets, you know, mobile phones.

And now I'm understood they get a £500 voucher to get clothing.

And it's unfair.

And that's why we were standing up because it's unfair.

Not because of the men.

No doubt, half of them would go nowhere near our children.

But not one of them women are going to play roulette with their child's life.

You're going to watch out when the British grannies come out.

What are you going to do?

You're going to mow them down?

Yeah, shoot them down.

Shoot them.

Spray them with the bottom of the water.

The water always remains is that the similarity between, besides even a drag queen story hour, which appears in the EU, appears in the great in Great Britain, or the fact that you have immigrants that are given cell phones and cash vouchers or credit cards in the EU, in Great Britain, and here,

what is the connection?

There has to be some sort of international connection because you don't have these phenomenon in these discrepant areas, specifically in Western areas, the United States, the UK,

EU, the exact same phenomenon where migrants are invited in one way or another, given free cash, given free cell phones, given free accommodations here and there and everywhere.

Who's coordinating this?

Well, that's

coordinated by the globalists.

Yes.

But who specifically?

This is ridiculous that nobody, I mean, I'm surprised that people have put up with this for as long as they have.

Well,

it started a long time ago with political correctness, where people were told to shut up, don't say anything mean or nasty, and it just got worse and worse.

And then we threw in some BLM and everything with color became an issue.

And cheap labor.

Ultimately, it's cheap labor.

And when I say cheap labor, not just in...

some factory of which there's not that much left anymore in the in Europe, but cheap labor in the kitchen, cheap labor to do your lawn, cheap labor to wash your car, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap labor.

Keep all of your kids on an.

It's about money.

Keep all of your kids on

in debt

for education.

You know, jack everything up.

It's about money.

It's now.

So who is that?

Obviously, the Jewish bankers.

I mean, what answer do you want from me?

We all know the answer.

First of all, I don't think it's about the roster.

I don't think it's about money.

Oh.

Because there's guys, half of these guys are on welfare.

The amount of, it's, about breaking the backs of Western civilization.

Right.

It's not about money.

I mean,

these people aren't.

I mean, half these migrants aren't doing the law on anybody's lawn.

That's nonsense.

I mean, people can do their own damn lawn.

People can do their own laundry.

All the things that they say, oh, who's going to clean your toilets?

Clean your own damn pads by license.

Hello, have you been to the UK recently?

No, I haven't been since 2017.

Okay.

But that's fairly recently, and it was pretty bad then.

It's accelerated.

It's accelerated.

Yeah, well, it's accelerated.

It accelerated under Biden in this country when they let in 20 million immigrants.

Yes.

That didn't do anything but take

apartment complexes.

All right, stop.

So then it's about political power.

If you want to equate it to what happened here, we have a first Roche seat.

It was about redistricting, getting more, in this case, Democrat seats, and

illegal voters.

So isn't it ultimately about power?

And isn't power about money?

Or is it just about power?

Power is about power.

So they can sit there and stroke their white pussy and go,

I control you all, you plebs.

Possibly.

I think it's closer to that.

But then

who is behind it?

Well, it's definitely socialist, Marxists, and Democrats.

That's it.

And I think that is, I was thinking about this the other day: that

the whole world, even humanity itself,

naturally migrates towards socialism and Marxism Marxism until it's too late and they figure out, oops, that wasn't a great idea.

Because the alternative, which is a republic and freedom like the United States originally was,

is not comfortable.

It's a little scary.

You know, you might have to get your hands dirty to

keep things the way you want it to be.

So I think that's, it's almost human nature, like, well, you know, but I just want someone to take care of me.

And the more that is allowed to happen, the more people feel comfortable with it until, you know, you realize you've built a prison up around you and you can't really get out of it.

So, yes, it's it is Marxist.

Marxist is probably the best description because it's cultural Marxism.

We went through that, man.

We were talking about that in 2009,

even when Obama came in.

It's oh, cultural Marxism.

And, and, you know, that is now completely a thing.

And ultimately, the, the, the systems.

And just look at our own political,

our own representatives, like California.

I think California is like, hey, man, just take care of me so I can hang out, bro.

Isn't that just human nature?

And that was one of the great things about America is: we said, no, we're going to govern ourselves.

And you can have a republic if you can keep it because it's hard.

And then when you have the Marxist

socialist government and

system, well,

that's great because the people who are chosen as so-called leaders and representatives, they love it because it's never a problem for them.

They make sure that they get their salary and they've got their health care and they've got their cars and they're taking care of it.

Well, this is well and good, but let's go back to the original question, which is this is coordinated.

You don't have drag queen story hour in Sweden and the UK and the United States States out of the blue.

You don't have the same exact formula for the immigrants to come in.

They get a credit card, they get a cell phone, and they get this, they get that, they get free housing.

Like in New York, it was a classic example at the Roosevelt.

Somebody, there is a group that's identifiable.

Yes.

I can't identify them.

I'm just saying they have to be identifiable that is behind the whole thing somehow.

All right.

You know.

He's managed to pull this off.

And I think it's obligatory for us to figure out who these people are and name them.

Okay, well, I hate to say it because you're not going to like my answer, but this, the true enemy of the people in this world is Satan.

And we have a lot of Satanists running the show, running around, doing all kinds of satanic things.

Well, I'll get,

I'll, I'll let that slide as a distinct possibility, but there's still actual people

that need to be called out, named, pointed out, and strung up, literally.

Okay.

Have you gotten that far?

Well, just

name one.

Let's start with the low-hanging fruit.

Macron, Starmer,

Queen Ursula,

Peepers.

Go with those people.

In fact, I have a clip here, which

kind of brings this all together because it's AI, but

it was so funny and so true at the same time.

This is

President Trump

doing this is a good one.

Yeah, this was

turned out of the car.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

So President Trump is doing a kind of like an e-entertainment channel red carpet voiceover.

Not President Trump.

Not President Trump, but President Trump, AI version, is doing a red carpet voiceover of the arrival of the European Union leaders to the White House for the summit.

Okay, let's see who arrives now.

This guy, they say he's the president of Finland, looking like the captain of a cruise ship.

We need to get him a captain's hat later on.

Okay, who the fuck is this guy?

These Europeans all look like accountants.

Yes, sir.

I come to do your taxes.

Okay, thank you, sir.

Ah, the British Prime Minister, they say this guy is gay.

I don't know if that's true or not.

I just think he's a dork.

Hey, this guy is definitely gay.

And his wife is a man, and she beats him.

MM well.

Poor guy.

Ah, Georgia Maloney.

I love her.

I told her and Ilan that if they ever have a kid, they better name him Ilone Maloney.

Ursala.

I like that she calls me daddy.

They all should when you think about it.

Gouda.

I come to see my American daddy.

Yes.

Thank you very much.

There's always truth in humor.

You know, it's true.

Accountants, cruise ship

captains, losers, weirdos.

You know,

how did they get there?

That can only

be

through

corruption and voting.

I think that the fix has been in so long on that.

Everywhere.

They figured that out a long time ago.

And you know what?

The people deserve it.

We deserve what we got too.

And now we have President Trump, and now it's even hard for him to hold on to anyone supporting him.

Because, you know, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.

Yeah.

So that is a question I fear, unfortunately, will never have to remain unanswered.

Satan.

Yes, that's my answer.

That is the enemy of the world.

Well, that's a nice answer.

It doesn't help.

That's a

I'll tell you this.

It does if we all

start.

It's not a helpful answer, no.

Not for a lapsed Catholic, no.

But it's okay.

I pray for you too.

You can pray all you want.

It's not a good answer.

It doesn't solve anything.

Oh, okay.

Well, say, what are you going to do?

It doesn't solve anything.

That's the problem I have with it.

The United States of America has a chance of getting out of some of this nonsense unscathed.

We really do.

Particularly ours.

Well, tell that to the Roosevelt Hotel.

I'm telling it to the Roots.

Tell that to all the 20 million that.

All it took was one guy.

Biden comes in.

It doesn't know what he's doing.

It only takes one generation.

It takes one guy.

Yes, that's right.

One guy four years.

Well, you got to add Obama to it.

Obama was a big part of it.

He was a big part of it.

It took a generation.

The millennials weren't paying attention.

Can't blame them.

They were psyoped into believing.

No,

they're total stooges they were psyoped they were psyoped into believing that you need a college education and gender studies and then you'll come out and you'll make a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year learn to code and meanwhile butt crack plumbers can do a buck fifty come on it wasn't to code it was a psyop still my favorite it was a psyop yeah we fired your whole all the entire uh the entire pipeline operations shuttered you guys should just learn you pipeline workers should just learn to code do we have any uh oh here's uh here's joe biden i come from a family where in an area where it's coal mining is grand

anybody can go down 300 to 3 000 feet in the mine sure and help can learn how to program as well

hey man you can learn how to program you can learn how to program and you can go down a mine you can learn how to program Guy can't even program his phone.

Well, let's get into this summit meeting for a moment because there are a couple of things.

I'll just set it up with unbelievably, unbelievably, and I'm sure you have clips of this, right?

You've got an analysis.

Yes, you do.

Bolton, fart-sniffing Bolton.

By the way, my analysis is so off the wall that you

blow out everything you can before we play it.

Oh, okay.

So Bolton, fart-sniffing Bolton.

I'm not saying that flippantly.

Wasn't he in a club where where they sniffed each other's farts in New York, or was that just

this is

what?

Yes, yes,

I'm sure of it.

Yes, I mean, I'd like that.

That's funny.

We talked about it on the show.

No.

Yeah.

Home on the show.

Okay, go ahead.

Do your look up and see if you can find it.

Okay.

Well, I have.

Here it is.

National Security.

National Security.

There we go.

Longest serving national security advisor.

The question is: who was that?

Yeah.

Who's she going to bring on the show?

Is the point.

Who is she?

Brennan.

Backing up all these claims of hers and the fact that Tulsi's a horrible person.

Who's she going to bring on?

The fart sniffer.

What's his name?

The mustache man.

Boom.

What's his name?

Fart sniffer.

Banges that he is called himself.

Listen, listen.

So we understand.

There was a story that we've discussed that he would go to some club in New New York where they would sniff each other's farts.

Am I?

No.

Yes.

Yes.

I like the idea.

It's funny, but

the fact that you're defending it, you imagine that it's true.

It's kind of disconcerting.

Ah, it was.

I like that.

There's the opening of the show.

Yes, there was a weird, perverted club in New York.

Ah, there you go.

I'll save that one.

Ah, I've got it, Watson.

Tennessee Williams

was a part of this club.

No.

Okay, no.

Tennessee Williams was part of a necrophiliac club.

Well, that's even worse than fart sniffing, I'd say.

Anyway, we don't have to belabor the point of what Bolton does in his spare time.

But he did do something interesting.

Well, he looks like a guy who'd precisely.

It's so.

that's the reason that the joke is funny, but it's so to believe it to be true is like obviously all over the top.

You know what?

I'm just making it true.

Should we ask Err?

I mean, we can do that.

Yeah, okay.

There you go.

Ask our buddy Error.

Okay.

Hey, Error, is it true that John Bolton belonged to a club where people sniffed each other's farts?

Two, three.

Rumor that seems to have popped up from nowhere.

There's no evidence or credible reports of John Bolton being involved in anything like that.

Nah, you suck.

See, AI is wrong again.

She actually

did some digging.

No, no, no, no, no.

I had the channel closed.

I didn't have her open.

Her mic was not open.

Anyway.

So here's Bolton, and he does something interesting for the first time that I can recall in an interview, and this is NPR.

Putin's pretext for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was the possibility of Ukraine's NATO NATO membership.

NATO membership is a security guarantee.

So given that, what indication is there that any security guarantee, is there any security guarantee that President Putin would accept?

Well, there's a lot of loose talk in the West about security guarantees, and many observers have pointed out we gave Ukraine security guarantees with the Budapest Memorandum in 1994.

That didn't deter Russia then.

People throw around this talk of an Article V-like provision.

You know, Article Article 5

in the Treaty of Washington that created NATO is famous for the line that an attack on one will be deemed an attack on all.

And nobody forgets the line, nobody remembers the line a little bit further down in Article 5 that says that each party will, and I'm quoting now, take such action as it deems necessary.

I looked it up.

That's true.

We all have taken Article 5 at face value for the first line, not for the rest, rest, which is,

yeah, you know,

well, we got your back if we feel like it.

Did you know this?

Yeah?

I didn't know this.

I didn't know that it was still optional.

I thought it was, oh, yeah.

Well, otherwise, every time a missile accidentally, in fact, the latest thing, I don't know if I have a clip of it, of the...

The rocket that hit, or I guess it was a drone that landed in Poland in a cornfield.

Yeah, but that was...

And everyone's all

running with their hair on fire over that.

Yeah, I think that could have triggered the whole thing, you know, if it was.

It could have, but it didn't.

But it's not going to happen.

No, that's not.

We're not going to have nuclear war.

We're not going to have any of that.

But as Queen Ursula let out on the last episode when she was doing her little love fest with the Zelensky in Brussels, it's going to be the Europeans.

Now, the question is,

what exactly does that mean?

And I think

what they all want is they want hundreds of thousands of European Union troops to be in Ukraine, not on the border.

We'll have a demilitarized zone.

And the reason for that is they want to keep their war economy going.

And we're going to be perfectly fine with that because we're going to be selling them all the dumb stuff they're going to be using for nothing.

That makes nothing but sense.

And then, with a promise of EU ascension, and we'll have to rouse up some

corruption, which,

okay,

we'll see.

Anyway, let's

since you've got an off-the-wall analysis, I'll give the analysis.

I'll have

our buddy Andrew Rasoulis

with his.

Oh, there he is.

That's the yeah.

This is the guy.

This is your buddy.

This is the guy.

Yeah, this is your go-to guy.

People don't notice.

You're going to be hearing a lot from this guy for the next six months.

That's because we like him.

We think that he's a former War Department guy in Canada, and he knows what he's talking about.

And he has a pretty clear view of things, and it seems straight up.

Good to see you on these key days.

And this is one certainly.

Some of the true social posts I was just mentioning, I wouldn't mind beginning there because they're the latest we've heard from U.S.

President Trump.

Let's look at this.

The one line he's written: President Zelensky can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to.

He seems to be putting the onus entirely on Zelensky here, Andrew.

What is he seeking to accomplish with this messaging?

Well, I think the messaging is that basically the overall parameters of a deal are coming together.

Now, that is from Trump's perspective, but he's basically saying there's a deal to be made here.

There's going to be concessions on territory, in fact, reflections of reality since Ukrainians were not going to militarily retake their lost territories.

And the key thing, your quote from Vitkov, about the Russians making for the first time a concession on security guarantees, legal security guarantees for Ukraine.

That's a new one.

So I think from Trump's point of view, saying, there's the deal.

You've got it.

Yeah, there is the deal.

And the deal includes Crimea.

And whatever security guarantees you want, it will not be NATO.

Okay, well, hold on for a second.

We'll come back to security guarantees because this Truth Social post continues that there will be no.

I just love how

anything on the internet, Truth Social, X, what it, because of Zelensky's not posting.

That would be funny if Zelensky posted on Truth Social.

That would be cool.

But instead, he does it on X.

You know, so this is now how the news operates.

And President Trump's pretty smart with this.

I'll give you my statement.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The official Post continues that there will be no getting back Crimea, and in all caps, no going into NATO by Ukraine.

And again, for Ukraine, deciding its future is so.

All caps,

it's obvious.

No NATO.

You know, it's so essential to all of its demands.

So again, what do you make of that part of Trump's latest social media posting?

I think it's a reality check here for the Ukrainians because the war started.

The Russians attacked Ukraine over the issue of NATO enlargement.

Up until right now, the Russian position has been that the war will only end when Ukraine becomes a neutral country that is completely not militarily connected to the West, whether politically or militarily.

Now, the concession, apparently, that Vitkov is saying of a legal guarantee bilateral, not NATO, but NATO-style, legal guarantee, that is a Russian change.

They're actually saying Ukraine, what's left of it, can actually have a legal security guarantee with the West, including the United States.

That's a fundamental shift, actually.

That is big.

And that is it.

That's a huge concession.

And I think that's why President Trump is like, well, we got a deal here.

We just, it can't be NATO.

And by the way,

just to recall, was it not Vice President Kamala Harris who went to the Munich Security Conference and started all this by talking about, yeah, NATO, we should put some nukes in Ukraine?

Wasn't that her?

I don't remember her saying putting nukes in Ukraine.

No, but

I think Zelensky came right out of the, if I recall, I think Zelensky came right out of the Munich conference and said, well, yeah, we should have nukes here.

But she was saying NATO.

Well, he's always talking about nukes.

But, of course,

that's what he does.

All right.

Question here.

What do you thought of the EU leaders?

I think Maloney is actually really interesting to watch here because we've already seen a quote from her saying that in terms of the security guarantees, she's disagreeing with the French president, Macron,

who's constantly talking about bringing French forces, at least, or coalition of the willing forces into Ukraine after a ceasefire.

Maloney's saying, no, the Italians are really not opposed to that because they're saying, you know, there's X amount of Italians and there's Y amount of Russians.

There's a whole bunch more Russians.

So she doesn't want to get involved in a potential war with Russia.

over Ukraine.

So security guarantees one thing, but boots on the ground in Ukraine is another thing.

So that's, so Maloney is very interesting that way.

I think from Starmer and Macron and Mertz, we're going to get the typical, yep, we're going to boots on the ground.

You know, Russia can't make a step forward, the hard line.

But Maloney is actually the different one here.

Let's listen just for a second so we can see if we can recall it from this clip from MSNBC about Kamala at the Munich Security Conference.

Lindsay, this speech was real.

This was the single most significant speech by an American leader in the global forum calling out Russian aggression and calling out Russia for disinformation since 1962, since the Cuban Missile Crisis by Adlai Stevenson.

What we're watching right now with Vice President Harris is an American leader essentially telling the world we are almost on the brink of war and we have to use that clip.

What is he talking about, 1962 Adlai Stevenson?

I don't know.

It's Kennedy.

Okay.

Adlai Stevenson had had nothing to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

He was a twice-failed presidential candidate in 52, 52.

I'm sorry, 62 is when the missile crisis took place.

52 is when he ran.

He ran again four years later in 1956.

Lost both times, one of the last times the same guy ran twice.

He had nothing to do with anything after that.

He was an Illinois governor.

I mean, it was like,

what are they talking about, Adelaide Stevenson?

What kind of a report is this?

Well, it's for MSNBC.

The more you know, in the morning.

I mean, come on.

Thank you for correcting MSNBC.

Surprising that they had something wrong.

I'm just trying to see if he mentions what Harris said.

1962, since the Cuban Missile Crisis by Adelaide Stevenson.

What we're watching right now with Vice President Harris is an American leader.

essentially telling the world we are almost on the brink of war and we have to resist it because it will destabilize our entire way of life.

And that is a powerful message.

This is not a normal speech.

This is a serious moment for the United States and for Europe.

So, Joel, who's that message for?

Who is Vice President Harris talking to?

Is she talking to world leaders, the American people, Putin himself?

Putin.

First and foremost, she's speaking directly at that conference to the Allies who are looking to her and to the United States for leadership at this moment.

And she's saying, we have delivered.

We are with you.

We are unified.

And that is not always the message.

And she hinted at this, that the United States has been giving, certainly during President Trump.

She's also making it clear to Vladimir Putin.

And look at this, the juxtaposition, really, of the entire world, the United States.

But I don't know.

I'll look it up for Sunday show.

Well, you're not going to find it.

Okay.

Are you doubting Thomas Hughes?

No,

you're not going to find it because she never did.

We can't do that.

We can't even suggest such a thing.

And if she did, she's an well,

okay.

I'm going to go on on a limb here.

If she did, she's an idiot.

Let's play the Poland stuff for a second, just as a break.

Okay.

The Texas war hot Poland.

Okay.

Texas.

I'm sorry.

I said Texas because I got a Texas clip I want, but I'm saying Russia war.

Texas.

What is Texas?

Yeah,

you can put me in the same category as Kamala.

Russia war,

hot Poland.

At least 14 people are reported injured in an overnight Russian attack on Ukraine's Sumy region.

This includes a family with three children, aged five months, four years, and six years old.

That's according to Ukrainian officials, who say Russia launched 15 drones in the attack on the Sumi region in the early hours of Wednesday.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine's Odessa region, firefighters were were dealing with the aftermath of another reported Russian drone strike.

Ukrainian officials called it a massive drone strike, saying it injured one person and caused a large fire.

Over 50 emergency workers battled the flames.

And in neighboring Poland on Wednesday, a military drone fell and exploded in a cornfield in the NATO member country.

Polish officials say it may have been a Russian version of an Iranian drone.

Once again,

we are dealing with a provocation by the Russian Federation with a Russian drone.

We are dealing with it in a crucial moment

when discussions about peace are underway.

Residents in the area where the drone made impact recount the moment of the explosion.

You're sitting there doing something on your computer.

Your wife's practically asleep, and then boom, the entire house shakes.

An attack on Poland would mean an attack on NATO, which could have serious consequences.

Poland also directly borders Germany, which has the highest GDP and is one of the most influential countries in Europe.

Poland's defense minister says Russia's goal is to provoke Western allies.

Okay.

Yeah, that some drone went off

kilter and landed in a cornfield big deal.

It's also

somewhat dubious because they determined that it was Russian from some fragments, and it's also exactly the kind of materiel that has been used in Ukraine.

Yeah, I'm sure it's completely dubious.

By the way, he did mention Germany and in there.

And did you notice Maloney sitting between Trump and Mr.

Peepers?

Oh, yeah.

Rolling her eyes and just going, you know, she did everything short of sticking her finger in her mouth.

Listen to this.

And making a puke sound.

According to the Polish Army, no airspace violations were detected from Ukraine or Belarus.

Police discovered charred metal and plastic fragments scattered across the cornfield.

According to newspaper Rezpospolita, the wreckage may be from a Russian Shahed 13136 Kamikaze drone, the type commonly used in Ukraine.

So,

you know, not necessarily enough evidence to get NATO to invoke Article 5.

They're not going to invoke Article 5.

No, we're not going to

attack.

Cornfield.

They're hurting our cornfields now.

Here's a part two.

At a time when President Trump is doing everything to bring about this peace,

and Ukraine is open to concluding this peace, the provocative strategy and hybrid war continue.

So far, Russia hasn't commented on whether Poland was the intended target.

Really?

Like they're going to comment, hey, you were targeting that cornfield.

Come on, be honest.

So while the first clip was playing, I read through the

transcript of what Vice President Harris said, and she did not say specifically NATO is going to defend Ukraine, but it was so implied.

But it was enough.

It was enough at the time.

Putin said that, you know, hey, it's because of your stance that we did this, because you were starting to rattle the shit.

She's just as responsible as anyone.

Yes,

this is what I wanted to point out.

Well, you got that part right.

It's her fault.

It's all her fault.

Well,

she didn't do anything to stand it off, stand it down, that's for sure.

Yeah.

Let's listen to.

Well,

I have NPR's Morning Edition report of the Coalition of the World.

Oh, God, the Morning Edition is getting worse.

Well, that's what we have.

From Brussels, Terry Schultz joins us now to talk about the challenges Europe faces with so many factors still dependent on Washington.

So, Terry, how have European leaders been digesting the events from D.C.?

Well, quickly is the best way I can describe it.

It was less than 20

hours after those meetings at the White House that the EU leaders who'd been present there were back here in virtual sessions debriefing their counterparts.

And that urgency just goes to show how high stakes the situation is.

Stopped clip.

They're the leaders, right?

They are the leaders, yes.

Who are their counterparts, then?

Who would be a counterpart?

No, that's the thing.

If you're the president,

do you have a counterpart,

another guy above you or even equal to you?

I mean, there's 27 member states, so maybe the other people are...

People like the Poles and

the Hungarians and

the slides.

And that urgency just goes to show how high stakes the situation is for Europe.

They had both a meeting of this coalition of the willing, that's some 30 countries, which have expressed their readiness to physically help support a ceasefire in Ukraine, and they had one with just the 27 EU member countries.

President Trump has made it pretty clear that he wants Europe to take the lead on Ukrainian security.

That's our understanding, right?

That's right.

And they more or less already decided that themselves before Trump became more supportive of Ukraine.

But now the president has confirmed it many times over.

And the good news for the Europeans is that Trump is now pledging for the first time to help with these security guarantees for Ukraine.

Chairing the meeting of EU leaders, European Council President Antonio Costa said Europe is actually now working hand in hand with the U.S.

Their commitment to participate in the security guarantees with the Europeans and

other like-minded countries is a very important step, a very welcome step.

Now, Costa says there's still a difficult road ahead, but Europeans are feeling reassured by the new U.S.

support.

Yeah, of course, we don't really know what it means.

Is it boots in the air?

Is it,

yeah, we'll do some flybys, you know, maybe we'll drop some supplies.

It's very, it's not clear what we'll, what we're going to do.

I predict we'll be doing very little other than dropping off the orders.

What did you order?

You ordered some tanks.

Here they are.

We're doing.

What do you got?

Do you want fries with that?

We're flying them in.

How might this look, though, practically?

I mean, this coalition has been meeting for months without the participation of the U.S.

Well, and also without even a basic outline of what a final peace deal might look like between Russia and Ukraine.

So what would be the rules and protections and obligations of such a mission on the ground?

In addition, it's been hamstrung since it was created by the U.S.

lack of support earlier, which is really critical both in terms of capabilities such as intelligence sharing and surveillance, where the U.S.

is dominant, but also the deterrent factor, sort of the stick that you have with an agreement backed by the U.S., especially in the eyes of the Kremlin.

So, now discussions will take a new, more optimistic shape.

Now, President Trump says no U.S.

troops would join this mission.

So, how willing are Europeans to send their people into Ukraine?

Well, that's a huge unanswered question because it's not clear whether this mission would be to sort of monitor a ceasefire or reinforce it or defend certain lines.

And those verbs all mean very different things, carrying different levels of danger for those deployed.

In general, European countries are going to have to send forces, and it seems about 10 have committed to doing that so far.

But some options are much less palatable than others.

And if this is a small force that's just there to deter Russia re-attacking Ukraine, this is sometimes described as a tripwire force.

What happens if it is attacked?

We don't have any answers yet.

Or are we going to need to see hundreds of thousands of European military personnel armed to fight back?

Yes.

I think that's pretty unlikely.

No, I think it's very likely.

And they have to.

There is a very high unemployment level in the European Union.

People have no work.

There's only one thing left to do.

Constrict.

What's the constriction?

No, constriction.

Constriction.

Conscription.

I I like constriction is the same thing.

Conscription.

Thank you.

Yeah.

It has to be a military draft.

They're already talking about it in Germany and nobody wants it.

But, okay.

Oh, the German, the German youth do not want to fight for Germany or anybody else for that matter.

It's something they did a survey.

It's like only 20, 20, maybe 30% at the most

would take up arms for Germany.

So 30%.

That's how much they hate their own country.

30% will go into the military, and 20%

will be, well, no, actually, more than that.

It'll be 50% women who probably won't have to go.

And the 20% of men who don't want to go, they're going to be doing podcasts.

I mean, there's nothing else for them to do.

Podcasts.

There's nothing else.

And that's what you need.

It's like, hey, do you want to have a good pay?

Go into the Luftwaffe

and get in there.

And it's going to be every single country.

And it'll be a pretty good gig

because nothing's nothing's going to happen other than some fear-mongering.

I think Russia likes it.

We're probably going to do some great business with Russia.

That's what I think is happening here.

President Trump, President Putin, like, okay, or whoever that is.

Because, man,

that guy, have you, the pictures of Putin, it just doesn't look like Putin anymore.

And by the way, somebody pointed out something because we have a fake.

First of all,

a little backstory.

Mimi's working with a guy in Los Angeles to produce a book, a memoirs of that this guy's doing.

I'm not going to say who.

Oh, another book.

Is this

we got a bunch of

Gateway Publishing?

Gate View.

Gate View.

Gate View, I'm sorry.

Marketing, marketing, marketing.

Gate View.

I'll never forget now.

One of his best friends was Kennedy's double.

Wow.

And

he was so, apparently, was incredibly depressed when Kennedy was assassinated.

Yeah, he lost his gig.

He lost his gig.

So one of our producers pointed out in an email this morning saying that

the fake Trump is up and around because the fake Trump has a tell.

Yeah, I'm a little dubious about this, but it's not.

I'm dubious about it too, but I just like it.

I'm just going to say it.

People can figure it out for themselves.

I'm dubious about all the fakes, by the way, except for that Hillary, that one with the purse on the wrong side, and she's a short squat woman.

Daddy Longlegs Biden.

Come on.

Oh, and the double Biden, yeah.

But there's at least three Biden.

So that's two out of four now.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, half of them

might as well just go all the way.

They're all fakes.

Yeah, all buddies.

So

this Trump says

when he's talking in third person, he says the Trump administration.

He refers to the Trump administration when the real Trump always says my administration.

Hmm.

Yeah,

but that's speech written.

Well, maybe not.

It's something to look out for.

I just say it was an interesting tell, if true, it's possible.

Now, President.

Because, you know, Dick Gregory had this back in 2015, 2016, before he died.

Oh, yeah.

He talked about that.

He had the thesis that there were two Trumps, and one of them, he says, the real one always wore the red tie, and the fake one wore a blue tie.

Yes.

And that's when Trump only appeared with those two ties.

Now he wears pink, he wears yellow, he wears all kinds of ties.

Allow me to play that clip.

The few weeks ago.

First, there's two Trumps.

Okay.

The one in the red tie is the real one.

The one in the blue tie is not.

The one you saw last night after the victory was the blue tie.

Now, if you would punch up

Dr.

Carson, Ben Carson,

when Trump called him a pedophile,

and the next day he joined Trump,

and the guy asked him, see, every now and then you slip and say so.

He said, why'd you do that?

He says, it's two Trumps.

I was with the good one.

You see it there.

Just punch up.

When somebody interviewed him, he said, there's two Donald Trumps.

That's easy to pull up.

You know, there's a...

I forgot about the Ben Carson anecdote.

Yes.

There's a different theory, which I quite like.

And the only reason I bring it up is because this clip kind of...

By the way, we're the only podcast and the best in the universe

that talks about body doubles when it's a known fact that they're used to an extreme.

The theory goes that the elites have long since perfected the art of cloning ever since that stupid sheep

dolly the sheep, just a stretch.

Ever since I met that dog,

I thought it was a sheep.

Oh, no, I met the first cloned dog.

Yeah, and what did did he say?

Hi.

He said hi.

Okay.

But I'm just saying, because the theory keeps coming back.

And people email me this very seriously.

So I take these things seriously because they clearly believe that it's, if not possible, that it's true.

And that many celebrities

already have their clones.

And of course, they need to shut up.

Otherwise, you know, they'll have to do all the work themselves.

That would would suck.

Heaven forbid.

And, you know, and that the real Putin,

this is the story.

The real Putin, the O.G.

Putin, is dead.

He died because, remember, he had cancer, he had leukemia.

They kept trying to kill him in train wrecks.

Yeah, they kept trying to blow him up.

So he was dead.

But luckily, luckily, they had the clone.

And President Trump himself in 2022 kind of alluded to this.

Do you respect Putin?

Well, he's a different person.

I'll tell you something.

I got along with him.

And look, I got along with him loving this country.

And he loves his country, okay?

But he's a different person than he was.

He seems to be different.

Is he sitting?

He looks different.

Is he different?

Is he

a different person?

Mentally?

It just doesn't seem to be the same person I was dealing with.

There you go.

There you go.

He's a clone.

Well, that's an interesting clip.

The problem I have with it is why haven't they, if they can make a clone, why haven't they perfected it?

I mean, I've heard the reasoning behind it, that it kind of actually looks like the person.

It's not a clone.

If he doesn't look like him, if he doesn't think like him, if he doesn't act like him, it's not a clone.

It's detectable.

Well, if you're going to,

I can see the rat, I can see somebody coming up with reasons.

I mean, for one thing, the developmental aspects of a person,

you can develop worry lines or using aging, just the normal process of getting older and older.

You might

get a bad habit that creates a line in your face, or you ate too much and you're getting a chubby face.

I mean, there's all these variables that you can't control.

in terms of making a copy.

So you might have what somebody should ideally look like.

Genetically, they'd look like this if they hadn't, you know, chubbed out when they were in their 30s and they lost a lot of weight.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

You have nailed the theory of clone difference to the T.

It's exactly right.

Because even though you can make the clone and you can't control what the clone eats and the different environment they live in

versus their original DNA donor.

That is exactly the theory.

That's how it goes.

And who knows knows if that phone call was the real Trump?

We don't know anything.

Breaking news.

Nobody knows anything.

I don't even know if you're.

Well, that's the basic thesis of the show.

I don't even know if you're John C.

Dvorak anymore.

I haven't seen you in a couple of years.

I don't know.

They may have replaced you.

I could be a clone myself.

Well, that's why I'm talking like this.

Well, they nailed it on the attitude.

So good job, science.

That's all it takes.

It's just genetic.

Nothing you can do about it.

Anyway, Reuters went to the much more important things of the summit meeting.

Obviously, Reuters, they would take the high road.

Another talking point from Monday's White House meeting, that suit.

President Zelensky, you look fabulous in that suit.

Fabulously.

Zelensky's black shirt and blazer combo certainly made diplomatic waves, as well as keeping Donald Trump and journalist Brian Glenn happy.

He was the one who called out Zelensky for his attire in February.

Behind the new look, Ukrainian designer Viktor Anizimov.

He told us he didn't tailor the look for Trump or anyone else.

He says a leader should look dignified, and that's it.

And it was all very last minute.

Anizimov saying that he was working on alterations until just before Zelensky flew out to Washington.

I love that Reuters actually went through the trouble of trying to find the designer of the suits.

Well, that's interesting because they tried tried to, at least Fox tried to promote it as that you bought the suit that day at one of the clothing stores in New York.

Oh, that was

like H ⁇ M off the rack.

That's mean.

That's just Fox.

That's just Fox being Fox.

Yeah.

But yeah,

it can't make sense.

It doesn't take that long.

You know, if you're in Asia, for people out there who, if you ever travel, if anyone out there goes to Korea, I'd say even Taiwan to a lesser extent, but Korea is the main place.

They have suit makers in Itewan district.

There's a bunch of these clothing places.

I know, John, you used to have your shirts made.

Tell them about the pocket.

And I would have...

Well, I wasn't going to talk about the shirts.

You are now, though.

You are now.

Okay, I used to have custom shirts made, and I always had a Perry Ellis pleat put in the shoulders, which was no one else will do it anyplace else.

Well, they do in Hong Kong, too.

What kind of pleat?

It's a pleat that's on the shoulders that I noticed.

And Perry Ellis shirts used to have.

I noticed it on a bartender once, and I asked him because it has a certain look to it.

It's a beautiful look.

Imperiella is the name of the Perry Ellis.

Oh, Perry Ellis.

Perry Ellis.

Perry Ellis.

The Perry Ellis Cleat.

Okay.

Pleat.

Pleat.

Pleat.

Okay.

Perry.

I'm just trying to get it.

Anyway, so you can have this done.

So I have these shirts made with that pleat, which is technically illegal.

Yeah.

But the

because it's copyrighted or something.

But anyway, so I always had my shirt pockets were the exact same size as a CD.

So when you go to a party and you want to steal somebody's C Ds, you could easily slip them in the shirt pocket.

They go right to the bottom.

Boom.

No one would ever know you had them.

How many CDs did you wind up stealing?

I never stole one.

I just, just in case.

Just in case you need to,

if I had to, I would

have to

means.

Cop a disc.

Yeah, so there's big pockets.

Yeah, these pockets look a little large.

Now, the question is, was it a five-inch floppy?

No, it was a CD.

Oh, crazy.

With the

jewel case.

It had to be.

It was the size of a jewel case CD.

Hey, man, that guy's got some awesome tunes.

I'm going to steal his CD.

Oh, you're a treasure.

Oh, yeah.

And by the way, I would be all for clones of us taking over the show.

I'm good.

Put me in a tiny home.

Perfect.

Let's go.

With growing doubts about America's willingness to defend its allies, especially under President Trump, some lawmakers are now discussing hosting, sharing, or even developing nuclear weapons.

They just threw that in.

Wow.

They just threw that in.

Oh, they're just asking for trouble.

Okay, well, we're ready for my three clips.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, hold on.

Can you get any more?

Because you get them out of the way, because

it'll be done after this.

I know.

Last one from Reuters about the whole security deal.

President Trump is weighing whether to offer U.S.

air support.

Potentially including fighter jets.

What is up with this?

This is Reuters.

They're a news agency.

They're kind of dramatizing everything.

President Trump is weighing whether to offer U.S.

air support,

potentially including fighter jets, to guarantee Ukraine's security in any future peace deal with Russia.

Military planners in Washington and Europe are exploring options for post-conflict security following Trump's meeting with Ukraine's president and EU leaders, which ended with plans for direct talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Steve Holland has more on the U.S.

calculations.

One of the things they're not considering is putting U.S.

troops on the ground.

That idea bubbled up in the last few days, and President Trump has basically shot that thing down.

But other ideas that are possible are the United States providing air support for whatever peacekeeping buffer is there along the border.

There's also the possibility of supplying air defense systems to Ukraine to protect them from these drone attacks, missile attacks from Russia.

Theoretically, if there's a halt to the fighting, these people would be there on a peacekeeping basis.

Another option, according to two sources Reuters spoke with, is sending European forces to Ukraine, but putting the U.S.

in charge of them.

Whatever is worked out, President Trump will need to allay fears domestically.

The American public is largely supportive of Ukraine, but they're also leery of more foreign entanglements.

Trump was elected on one of the notions that he would not involve the United States in overseas conflicts.

conflicts.

He has stuck to that.

And by ruling out troops, he's trying to stick to that as well.

But his MAGA base of supporters, they are really against this sort of thing.

So Trump would have to provide them some sort of reassurances that the United States is not going to get into a hot war against Russia.

Yeah, because otherwise Dave Smith will get angry and Scott Horton will freak out.

How's that Middle East war going against Iran that we were going to be in?

Yeah, well, those guys are nuts.

Now, by the way, you took me off the track with that shirt story.

I meant to talk about getting a suit, tailor-made suit in Korea.

I'm sorry.

Which is what people can do.

And I was saying, if you go to Korea, make sure to go to this district.

There's a number of stores that do this.

Shop around because there's about

the price differs a bit, but you can get a tailor-made suit for about $200 to $250

and a tailor-made sport coat for $150.

They'll fit you and then do the adjustments on the same day.

You'll have a complete suit the next day.

It doesn't take forever

if they have the infrastructure.

So

the idea that Zelensky had to go for a million, you know,

this is jacket.

But this is haute couture.

You know, sure.

Ukrainian fashion design.

I'm sure.

You know what?

I am going to tell you right now that in the next Paris fashion shows, I don't know when they're coming up, fall, maybe the fall fashion show.

Very black on black.

Yeah, there will be Zelensky-inspired fashion.

It'll be from some previously unknown Ukrainian fashion designer, and people will love it.

Oh, this is fabulous.

Very much, very Zelensky of you.

Very Zelensky looking.

Very Zelensky of you.

All right.

By the way, let me me just say, trolls,

dunk, go this, oh yeah, dunk on the pro-peace people.

We're anti-war and pro-peace, too.

Doesn't mean that some things are.

Well, I think the pro-peace people, in many instances, as proven by these next three clips, may be just stooges.

And I would say this chat room probably has more than a few.

Stooges for China.

There you go, because that's what the bombing of Iran was about, in my opinion.

Now,

this is an analyst who's in the intelligence side of things, so he's a little different in his approach to thinking about China.

But

when they're talking about the situation going on in Ukraine and you're talking about trilateral,

what comes to mind?

When I think about the situation in Ukraine and I think about trilateral.

Now,

this is a riddle I don't know if I can solve.

Well,

it shouldn't be hard for you to say.

It means that the Russians, the Ukrainians, and Trump are going to get together in a trilateral, three-way meeting.

Yes, a threesome.

That's what everybody thinks trilateral is all about, right?

That would be

right.

Right?

Right?

Right, right.

You can't end the sentence with right, right?

Right.

Right?

You can't.

You're right.

Right.

So

not according to this analyst.

This guy has a different look at things, and he thinks that this war is designed to drag on, and he's got his own reasons.

This is quite an interesting

analysis, which nobody has even discussed or come close to.

This is the new Russian tri-lat one.

And joining us now to discuss these latest developments is National Security Advisor and China analyst Casey Fleming.

He's the CEO of Black Ops Partners.

Casey, as always, thank you so much for joining us now.

All eyes are on how the Russia-Ukraine conflict is going to end.

Russia has just indicated it wants a trilateral with India and China.

What could this mean in terms of Putin ending or continuing the war in Ukraine?

I think what we're looking at, and my team thinks that what we're looking at is an extended

peace negotiation.

We've got two sides.

We've got the United States and Ukraine who want an immediate end to the war.

And you've got the other side, which is China, Russia, and

other allies of China and Russia, who want to keep it extended, and they play the long game.

So we want to play the short game to a quick ceasefire and a quick peace agreement.

But the other negotiators, the adversaries, want to keep it much longer.

The CCP is the wildcard in this thing.

The CCP plays the long game.

They want to keep Russia engaged in Ukraine, therefore the U.S.

engaged in Ukraine to keep us distracted, along with the Middle East and potentially another war that pops up, either Taiwan or North Korea.

So the game for the CCP is to keep the United States very distracted so they can continue their extreme aggression throughout the rest of the world.

Oh, this doesn't surprise me that

the NTD China haters would see this as the angle.

That's not so surprising.

Well, I agree 100% with the NTD China haters because

we're totally on board with NTD.

China is running away from everywhere.

I just read that Angola.

But you may have been duped.

What, that 300,000 Chinese are fleeing Angola because the Angolans are sick and tired of their Belt and Road lies?

You may be, maybe that's not.

Maybe they've been duped.

I mean, I agree that this is NTD's.

China hats.

Well, that's the reason I have these clips.

This is the worst case analysis.

It's not like best case analysis.

Okay, okay.

Well, it's good.

Because worst case analysis is looking at China as the bad guy in everything you do.

Everything you see, everything you eat, everything you buy is China.

Best person.

And so it's okay.

So we'll continue with that thesis in mind.

Now, on that note, both China and India have been buying Russian oil, which the U.S.

says has been helping to fund the conflict, although India has been buying less since President Trump slashed additional tariffs on Indian exports to the U.S.

over its Russian oil oil and gas imports.

But reports note that China is involved with more than just economic support.

Some note the no-limits partnership that was struck right before the invasion.

What has been China's role here?

China's role has been very supportive of Russia.

You remember that they

created a very strong alliance and agreement until friends until the end,

before Russia ever went into Ukraine.

So there's a strategic partnership there,

at least for now, where they are aligned against the United States and to

remove the United States as a global superpower and for the CCP's eventual rule of the

rest of the world.

So it's a partnership that we cannot ignore.

The CCP is the wild card in this situation.

They are the grand puppet master with Russia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea underneath that, and to a little bit of an extent, India as well.

So China is the wild card.

They want to keep this war going as long as they possibly can.

And if there is a temporary ceasefire or a, quote, temporary peace agreement, it will be temporary.

Okay.

And does he explain just how China is going to keep this war going as long as possible?

I mean, are they going to do that through their

misinformation?

But what are they going to, what tools do they have for this?

Tucker Carlson?

What do you mean, Tucker Carlson?

Is he a pro-China guy all of a sudden?

I think there's a lot of unwitting dupes.

You named a couple of them, the so-called peacenicks, the people in the chat room that condemn us when, in fact, we're the peacenicks.

But why?

Okay, hold on.

I'm with you.

I'm just trying to understand where to look for this.

They're clearly not getting a phone call saying, hey, best price, say,

I think a good example is Mr.

Peepers

at the sit-down with Maloney in the middle, rolling your eyes, and he's going on and on about how we should demand a ceasefire instead of the peace

agreement.

And the ceasefire is a...

All right.

I'm with you on the European Union, Stooges, for sure.

Because we know just by what we know, which is the ceasefire is a non-starter

for Putin because he knows that all that means is just going to be a pause so Ukraine can regroup and reattack.

And so they can't have that.

And they're not going to do a ceasefire under the circumstances.

But yet, why is Mr.

Pieper is pushing it out of the blue, knowing full well what happened with Trump and Putin?

But he's yak, yak, yakking it right there with Maloney in the middle.

So I say the Chinese have got their, and like this guy says, is he's their puppet masters.

They got these puppets, and the puppets are everywhere, according to him.

And I think there's some evidence of that.

Okay.

First of all, Maloney in the middle just sounds like a cool game.

I mean, it's like spin the bottle on steroids.

Maloney in the middle.

Well, I'll ask you the question after you set up the last clip of this, and I have a question about this.

Okay.

And speaking of alliances, Casey, what about the North Korean troops fighting alongside the Russians?

How should we read that?

The Strong strong alliance, like I mentioned, China is the grand puppeteer, the grand master puppeteer, with Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea underneath that piece of it.

And just to add a little bit of confusion and a little bit more complexity, underneath Iran, you have the terrorist organizations.

So this is all a master plan by the Chinese Communist Party.

I think we as a government, we as a country in the free world underestimate China.

We all have a long history of underestimating the Chinese Communist Party, and it's high time that we understand just how critical their role is in the future developments of the world.

Expand on this for us a little bit.

What is China's goal in terms of the Russia-Ukraine war here?

Is it in the Chinese regime's interest for it to continue?

Absolutely.

They are supplying Russia with finance,

buying Russian oil and military armaments, including drones.

So they're fully engaged.

Again,

they want this war to continue indefinitely.

Hold on a second.

That's very interesting, and I'll tell you why.

Let me hear that first bit.

Pin on that for us a little bit.

What is China's goal in terms of the Russia-Ukraine war here?

Is it in the Chinese regime's interest for it to continue?

Absolutely.

They are supplying Russia with finance,

buying Russian oil and military armaments, including drones.

Drones.

The reason I pick up on that is because that is a main,

was a main talking point by Queen Ursula in her Zelensky Love Fest, where she said, well, you know, it looks like there's going to be mainly drones that we're going to be building in Ukraine.

So

it's a twist.

It's a twist around to think of it, but maybe she's also in on this.

And like, well, you know, there's just going to be lots of drones because China's going to do drones and we might as well do drones.

And we'll just keep this a drone thing because it's a big money maker for my overlords in China.

That makes any sense?

Yeah, I guess it could be.

Okay.

So they're fully engaged.

Again,

they want this war to continue indefinitely.

So it keeps us distracted, keeps us spread very thin from supporting, you know, two, three wars around the world.

So CCP has ultimate designs.

I think when you have to look at it, they want to rule the world completely in their 100-year plan, which which ends in the year 2049.

As Xi Jinping and the CCP have been overachievers, you might want to forecast that being year 2035, which is 10 short years away.

And

here's a quote from me: the world will be won or lost within the next 10 years.

That's from our analysis of what's been going on.

And we've been in this game quite a long time.

Hmm.

Well, here's my question: If we have Stooges,

and I'm not going to go for podcasters or trolls in the troll room, but let's say Peepers, maybe Ursula.

Ursula's corrupt.

We know that because of just look at the text gate with Pfizer.

She's clear, and she's not elected.

She just showed up all of a sudden from Peepers Land.

So

what is the incentive for them?

That has to be money.

You're not telling me that they're in it just for the power.

Well, that's a good question, and I don't know the answer to it.

There is an incentive of some sort.

Money.

I mean, don't they just want to have lots and lots and lots of money and just be, you know, well, I think they would have that type of attitude, I'm sure.

Because, you know, everyone's always jealous of somebody, the billionaires of the United States and China, which has just almost as many

and their luxury life, life of luxury in their villas

here and there.

Although our people don't do that so much.

No, no, but they like having their hair done in Paris and flying around.

Flying around.

Flying around.

Flying around, basically.

By the way, a lot of people.

And being extolled.

Extolled?

Extolled.

Oh, look at Huawei.

Hi.

You know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Worshipped.

Worshipped, yes.

Well, there's a plan afoot.

If it's money, if it's money, then there's something, there's a plan here.

Do you mind if I do a little series here?

I relinquished the floor because I gave you my screwball analysis that nobody else has even touched.

This good?

This is good.

And now you can do, if you've got something else to do.

And I'll also add to that that.

If it gets boring, I'll let you know.

Yeah, I don't care.

Well, of course.

Well, you'll let me know, but it won't stop me.

Yeah, no, it never does make a difference.

You just get irked.

I'm not even going to get irked because I think you'll like it.

But

we do know that

Mark Grutte,

Secretary General of it's not my series.

It's not my series.

It's not my series.

Don't get too excited.

Oh, nuts.

It's not Mark Rutte.

But he kept saying, well, you know, NATO, when we say, yes, we must, the United States must pivot to Asia, to the Pacific.

We must pivot to Pacific.

So this not only is just Russia now, but it must be the Pacific.

So that is definitely on deck.

And again, I think our general agreement is that

the bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities was to send a message to China, and it seems to have worked.

It ended.

And President Trump even sent the Israeli jets back, you know, because I don't know who's in charge there.

You got to wonder.

Anyway,

so this starts off with Besant, our Secretary of the Treasury, who said, No way, I don't want to be the Fed.

I don't want President Trump.

He said, Oh, he loves what he's doing.

He wants to be the, he wants, he wants to be right where he is.

No, he does not want to be a part of the Fed.

And I think it's pretty clear that President Trump has his

sight set clearly on the Fed and the power that they have.

And everybody should be happy that that's being looked at because it sucks.

It sucks that the Fed has so much power over our lives.

So we start first with

this.

Is him with Kudlow.

And

this is kind of not really discussed that very much, but this foreign investment that we keep hearing about, oh, you know, $500 billion from these guys, $700 billion from these guys.

Everyone's going to be...

That's not just a direct check that they write off to American companies.

This is highly orchestrated.

We have these agreements in place where the Japanese, the Koreans, and to some extent the Europeans will invest in companies and industries.

We direct them largely at the President's discretion.

And how does that work?

I mean, it's almost like an offshore appropriation.

I'm not sure we've ever had anything like that in the States before.

Have you consulted with the, I don't know, the Senate Finance Committee or the House Waste and Means Committee or what?

Well, Larry, I think a good framing of that is other countries, in essence, are providing us with a sovereign wealth fund.

So they're going to buy our goods.

Well, that's essentially what's going on.

Or wait, let me step back.

They're going to build our factories.

They're going to help us to build new factories, which Mr.

Trump loves.

Exactly.

So the way to think about it is these huge surpluses accumulated offshore.

Let's take Japan.

We're going to have $550 billion, and they will be reinvesting that back into the U.S.

economy, and we will be able to direct them

as we reshore these critical industries.

We are trying to de-risk the U.S.

economy from what we saw during COVID.

The president loves new factories.

He'll take rehabbed old factories, but he loves new factories.

So I thought that was rather interesting

basically, I guess, the

treasury is saying, okay, here's where you're going to put the money.

This is what you're going to do.

If true, but it's, and I'm sure that that's where tariffs and all kinds of other stuff comes into play that we're not told about.

It's like, well, you don't want to put your money into these companies?

Tariff.

We're just going to mess with you with tariffs.

So then

it comes this, and thanks to Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting.

He did a great series on these, and

I was taken by it.

And it's from Arthur Hayes.

He's a former Wall Street guy, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup,

market maker in ETFs,

trader, Citibank in Hong Kong.

He's been around.

But he also co-founded BitMex, which is a cryptocurrency exchange.

And he's widely regarded as someone who's smart.

And

he explains the stablecoin gambit under besant

and the control it will have over the entire world and how it will neuter the fed there's two pools of money which i think beset via monetary policy and aggressive use of terrorizing sanctions can make people on board in the stable coins the first is the euro dollar market right so you know 1950s and 60s euro dollar market was created because of all and and just we've been through this before, but the Euro-dollar market is nothing more than dollars that are not in America, but mainly traded in foreign exchange in Europe.

And there's a lot of them.

And once they're in a non-American bank,

there's really not much control we have over it.

So that's the Euro-dollar, as they call it.

1950s and 60s, Euro dollar market was created because of all the regulations and prohibitions around interest payments and trade flows that the U.S.

monetary authorities are putting on commercial banks.

And so you have these foreign branches of U.S.

banks and foreign banks saying, hey, I'll take your dollars outside of U.S.

control.

So we have this $10 to $13 trillion market, which nobody has any control over,

oftentimes influences Fed and Treasury policy in terms of when dollars become expensive and cheap in the Euro dollar market.

And you can probably trace almost every financial crisis outside of the United States to Euro-dollar market flows.

And

these flows are not doing what Bessett wants them to do.

He can't control them.

He doesn't know where they are.

And he can't make them buy what he wants, which is Treasury bills.

So my idea, and maybe he'll do this or maybe he won't.

I don't know, is right now, why do you feel comfortable in a Euro dollar?

Because every time your banking institution has gotten into trouble, the Fed or the Treasury bails you out, even if technically they shouldn't be doing it.

So, because you're not a member of the discount window, don't follow U.S.

regulations.

But we can point to many, many,

even 2008, the Fed secretly bailed out all all these foreign branches of banks for all their bad trading policies to make sure the Euro dollar depositor was sweet.

So the idea here is to have stablecoin flood the world, but not just floating out there as dollar equivalents, but to have complete control over the users of it.

Already 400 million people are using stablecoin throughout the rest of the world.

And this is how Besant never wants to go to leave for the Fed because he can actually neuter the Fed and control interest rates through the stable coins backed by short-term U.S.

treasuries.

So the first thing Pesant should do is say, hey, guess what?

If you don't have your money in a U.S.

branch of a bank or a U.S.

bank inside of America, you do not have the guarantee any longer.

We will not come and save you anymore.

So all of a sudden, these dollars are like, oh, okay, well, there isn't this blanket government guarantee from the Fed and the Treasury for these trillions of dollars that I have deposited on these banks.

But I could could put my money into a stable coin.

And the stablecoin means that the dollars are either a deposit at a U.S.

branch of a bank in America or they're holding treasury bills.

So if you don't feel safe in your Deutsche Bank account in Switzerland or wherever, just talk to your authorized participant and move these deposits over to a stablecoin.

And now you have access to your dollars.

You have the blanket guarantee of the U.S.

government.

And guess what?

You might earn a bit of a yield on your money money because you probably don't get much of a yield in a Euro dollar deposit outside of America because the banks don't actually need your money and they have to pay capital charges because they basil three and blah, blah, blah, right?

All the bad things about why banks don't like large deposits.

And so now you have a 10 to 13 trillion dollar TAM of money that could flow into stable coins from abroad.

And once they're in a stable coin, Besson has full control.

He knows where you are, you know, which bank.

He knows where you're clearing your treasuries.

And the best part is, he can offer you a yield that's lower than Fed funds.

So if Fed funds is four and a half, he can say, oh, guess what?

I'll give you two on a six-month T-bill.

And you say, well, I can't really do anything about that because I'm not going to go into a U.S.

bank deposit.

The banks don't even pay you anywhere close to Fed funds.

So fuck it.

I'll just buy the 2% that Besson offers.

So Besson can one fill a stroke completely new to the Fed.

And no longer does the Fed have any control over Fed funds because Besson can offer the Treasury bill at whatever price he wants, unconstrained by what Powell or whoever his successor does.

So that's the control mechanism.

Now, how are we going to spread these stable coins around the world and the United States so everybody starts using them?

We harken back to Elon's everything app, X Money, and not just him.

What was that dumb

Facebook coin

that they almost got?

I can't remember the name of that thing.

It was.

I know who would know.

Error?

Error?

Error?

Error would know.

Error would know.

What was the name of the Facebook money that they tried to push through?

So, about the last bit, the Facebook settlement money, payment from the $700 million.

No, see, she's stupid.

Oh, she's dumb.

She's a dummy.

Yeah.

Facebook had a coin they tried to push into the market.

Oh, you mean

like the launch coin on the belief platform?

It's been okay.

No, it has no answer for me, stupid.

Well, that's she should.

The corpus would have that information.

Yeah.

All right.

Stableface, whatever it was called.

Someone will eventually.

Maybe you dreamed it did.

The fart coin.

Zuckerbucks.

No, none of that.

Zuckerbucks.

That's it.

The Libra.

There it is.

Thank you.

Thank you, Weirdo.

The Libra.

And everyone is all.

weirdo.

The guy's name is Weirdo.

W-W-I-I-R-D-O Weirdo.

So what could you do now to spread your stable coin throughout the world?

The U.S.

has ways.

You have a lot of retail around the world in developed and developing countries.

I live in Asia and basically the entire investment game out here in Asia is how do we get local currency into dollars so that they can buy higher yielding assets and equities.

That's literally all of finance in Asia.

And then every so often the regulators come after people and they basically put the young guy in jail and the boss

stays sweet as they do.

And that is the game.

So Besset could say, okay, guess what?

We're going to deputize Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and give them protection to go and offer a stablecoin bank account.

And we don't care if a foreign regulator, whether banking or internet regulator says, we don't like this.

We don't like that you're basically giving a dollar bank account to our entire

underclass or anyone who's not a wealthy individual.

And

they don't care because they're sitting in Hawaii and Austin, Texas, and Trump is protecting them.

And if you go and you try to remove access to Facebook or X, guess what?

Sanctions, just like what Trump threatened with Europe when they had their Digital Information Act or whatever it is.

So that's how they'd spread it around.

I'm totally, that's, of all the things he's saying, I'm like, that makes a lot of sense.

And looking at the Genius Act, that would be possible if

they adhere to certain, but basically, you have to have $10 billion in cash.

Well, that's possible.

But now to bring it back around to the corrupt CCP-influenced politicians, this is another perfect gambit for it.

And then, furthermore, Besson finally has a sanctions weapon, right?

So if you're in Asia, or a lot of developers.

Stop.

And I will say that I i could call this a boring presentation but it's interesting at the same time which is a no that's that's

not why i'm stopping at conundrum who's this guy again

uh arthur hayes

and what's his background uh wall street banker

and the founder of bitfinex a big cryptocurrency exchange but he's a

long-term

uh main i think mainly in hong kong deutsche city yeah he says he's in asia yeah

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

This is the last clip.

So thank you for hanging in there.

And then furthermore, Besson finally has a sanctions weapon, right?

So if you're in Asia or a lot of developing world, all the elites essentially steal from their people and put their money in U.S.

banks in some way, shape, or form.

And so guess what, president or prime minister or parliamentarian?

If you don't allow Western social media companies to bank all of your people with dollars, I'm going to sanction you and you're going to lose access to the billions of of dollars that you stole from your people.

And so guess what's going to happen?

Nothing.

And so I think that is how you're going to get

sort of like $20, $25 trillion TAM of money that could flow into dollar stable coins.

And I think they're hinting at this already in terms of, you know, you have the major social media companies saying, oh, we're investigating stable coins and this, that, and the other thing.

And, you know, Besson's very pro on them.

And then basically, what does the stable coin do?

They're going to buy treasury bills and they'll buy whatever yield Besson offers.

He can completely destroy the Fed.

He can put, short-term rates wherever he wants it.

And now he's got a sink of tens of trillions of dollars that he can essentially fund the U.S.

government with until they do some sort of yield curve control to bring down the long end.

Exactly.

Until it no longer works, which is probably 10 years or so, but then it will no longer work.

I think this is a decent thesis.

Well, it's a fascinating one, that's for sure.

And it also could be the

it could end the Fed,

but it could also collapse on itself at some point for some reason, unknown.

Oh, easy.

And bring the entire world's economy to a halt,

at least for a while, because you can't do it forever.

But it could become the

linchpin of the economy, which would be interesting to see.

But I think the angle that you caught.

which was the interesting thing that caught my attention that made me want to listen to the whole thing, which is that, yes, Elon Musk has been talking about making X a all-in, does everything for you kind of

monetary market of some sort

to compete with,

well, well, stablecoin wants to compete with the Fed and with Swift.

Yep.

Elon Musk wants to enter Russia.

Russia comes back into the fold,

which is what we want.

We want Russia back in the fold.

And then you have

Elon wanting to compete with paypal uh since he never he always felt wronged in some funny way because they didn't didn't well they shouldn't they kicked him out they kicked him out of paypal that's why he felt wrong that's whenever people connect peter teal to elon musk like those there's no love lost between those two

And that's why he spent millions of dollars

getting X.com back because he always wanted PayPal to be called X.

And they kicked him out probably because he was no good.

or at least for nothing.

Or probably because he's annoying.

I think he is good.

He's just annoying.

But he's got to be annoying.

I mean, even Trump figured that out.

Yeah.

And he's been very quiet.

You know,

where's his new political party?

I think he's been reading.

Hey, shh,

we're going to get you.

We're going to make you the stable coin queen.

He's been very quiet.

Yeah, more or less.

And he does, and he lets all the pro-Trump activism go right through X.

No problem.

Never, you know, doesn't get bumped off or anything.

A lot of screwball stuff on X, I have to say.

It's fun.

I know.

I see you.

Someone's like, you're always complaining that you can't get past 100,000

followers, but you're not growing your account like Dvorak.

You're not growing your account.

My account shrunk again.

Just the whole concept of you've got to grow your account, man, by posting a lot.

That's how you grow your account.

And when do I reap the harvest from this growth?

When do I get harvested?

Yeah, well, there's no harvest to be reaped except it's just prestige.

I would say that I'm going to subscribe.

I got a check mark because of my numbers, but I am going to subscribe to X.

Oh.

And I'll bet you my numbers go up.

Oh, now there's an interesting.

Oh, that's very interesting.

Yeah, that's what my thesis is.

I've been waiting on it because when it stabilizes, I'm going to subscribe.

And then I want to see if my numbers, because my numbers should technically go up.

And this will grow your brand.

It'll grow the brand,

the fabulous and valuable Dvorak brand.

Yeah, man, grow your account and your brand.

This is beautiful.

Well, if you can do it and if it works, I'm all in.

Yeah, well, we'll see.

It's a test coming up.

Coming up.

Coming up.

We're going to

report back.

Just to make sure we don't fall asleep.

Breaking exclusive.

Breaking exclusive.

Breaking exclusive.

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey being brought in for the future replacement of FBI Director Cash Patel.

I just love Alex.

Breaking exclusive.

Okay.

What?

Oh, yeah.

Well, first of all, he's deputy director, not director.

Yeah, they're bringing in two new guys

to be co-deputy directors because, as you well pointed out, that was the breaking exclusive on this show.

You know, oh, no, actually, Cash Patel is the director.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, he is the director.

I know what you're talking about.

Think of Bongino.

Bongino.

Yeah, Cash Patel.

I think, like Bongino, he wants to pop out.

He's tired of it.

He didn't like it.

No, he has got nothing better to do.

Cash Patel?

Yeah.

He can do podcasts.

He's got nothing better to do.

He can do podcasts.

No.

No.

Yes.

He's no good.

People love podcasts.

Well, they love podcasts, but he's, you know, you've got to have some chops.

By the way, I need to tell you my story.

I went to the podcast movement in Dallas.

Ah, here we go.

Yeah, I went to the podcast movement in Dallas.

Was it it a bowel movement?

No, no.

So this is the big podcast industrial complex

conference.

Were you around when,

yeah, I don't know if you were around when...

I'm not sure I was around.

Well, you were around, but you were alive on this earth.

The first, so we had the New Media Expo, which always took place in

California.

What's that place that sounds like a Canadian place?

Ontario.

Ontario, California.

And the new media expo.

Then those guys were very smart.

And they said, well, you know, this podcasting thing is taken off.

Let's call it the podcast conference.

And they did their first one in Vegas.

And

we had a pod show at the time.

And so I don't know if you were there yet.

And they said to me, hey, Adam,

would you come and do.

Yeah, you've complained about this for a while?

Well,

this upcoming complaint that you're going to discuss.

Yes, just to reiterate.

Come and do the

do the keynote.

I'm like, I don't really like doing keynotes.

You invented it.

Okay.

Fine.

And they said, okay, I'll do the keynote.

Okay, can we put you down for a gold sponsorship?

I'm like, what?

Well, yeah.

If you want the keynote, you have to be a gold sponsor, which I think was $10,000 or $15,000.

I'm like, no.

In fact, I won't charge you for a speaking fee for showing up.

They got in a huff.

Like, man,

you're not supporting the industry.

It's, you got all that VC money.

Now we did.

That's true.

You got all that VC money.

Yeah, yeah, you got VC money, but not to squander it.

When you give a keynote, you should be paid to do the keynote, not pay them.

Thank you.

So, bad man.

Like, no.

And that got pretty heated.

And I said, we're not going to, I'll do your keynote.

We're not going to do a sponsorship.

Well, then you can't do the keynote.

Well, fine.

And what we then did is we took our $10,000 and we started an unconference in the hotel right next door at the pool with chicks and bikinis and drinks.

I'm sure you would have remembered if you were there.

I would have remembered that, so I came later.

And it was the podcast unconference, and everybody was hanging out.

We had the mixed drinks and beer.

And it did not endear me to the podcast industrial complex.

But we were rebels.

Rebels, I tell you.

So, of course, I never got invited to do anything with any podcast industrial complex conference until, gosh, is it now three years ago?

So you were blackballed for being a dick.

Correct.

Or not playing the game.

But I agree with you.

I think your thesis, I think you stood on proper grounds.

You were doing it.

You were professional.

You don't pay somebody so you can give a speech.

Well, I know you haven't done any conference speeches for a while, but that is now pretty much the entire game.

Yeah, well, that's why one of the reasons I probably haven't done any conference speeches in the last five plus years, at least.

At least.

Because if that's the game, I'm not playing the game.

I don't have time for that crap.

I have a podcast to attend to.

And yes, you do.

You need to grow your brand.

You're busy.

And I need to grow my brand on Twitter.

You're busy doing things that are very important, growing your brand.

So

three years ago, because of the out-of-the-gate success of the podcast index and there's a lot of noise around podcasting 2.0 and new apps were coming up, they said, well, You know, if you want to do a session, you know, we'll make something available to you.

And I said, well, you know, because at this point, I wanted to just meet a lot of these people who've been working on this project.

And so we all decided to meet in Dallas.

And they literally put us during lunch in a room way in the back on the third floor.

And so with the expected results, it was like 20 people there.

And, you know, no signage, no promotion.

So it was quite insulting.

That's a good one.

Yeah, but it didn't cost money.

And we got to meet everybody and hang out for a couple of days.

So, of course,

I vowed I would never do anything.

But then, one of the participants in Podcasting 2.0, Soundstack,

who actually do a lot of hosting and a lot of ad stuff for other podcast hosting companies, and they're most known for Live365, live streaming, which is a big part of Podcasting 2.0.

Witness people listening to this on a modern podcast app.

Rocky Thomas, she said, Hey, Adam,

we'll pay for a booth if you'll come and do

just a fireside chat.

I was like, That sounds like fun.

And I just, and I talked to my buddy Mitch, the Periodontist.

He said, Yeah, you can use my plane.

And so I flew up in the morning and flew back in the afternoon.

So I didn't have to stay overnight or drive five hours each way or spend seven hours getting there by commercial.

So not too much skin off my bones.

And

the main thing I was, it was, it was great.

It was fun.

Talked about, no, agenda, how awesome we are, value for value,

live stream, all this stuff.

But what was new, and this is something new for conferences, which I was convinced would suck.

The way they do it now is they don't have a hundred, you know, all these little rooms where

you can shove 30, 40 people in there and it always smells.

You know what I mean?

You get like those session rooms and just it's smelly and sweaty.

Am I right?

I don't know.

I never noticed the stench because I never played a small room.

Well, remember, these are podcasters.

So these are people who typically sit in their basement doing a podcast.

Okay, it makes sense.

And you know, then if it's full, you know, people can't, you stand the back and you can barely move.

And so it's no good.

So they have this giant expo hall at the Gaylord in Dallas.

And first of all, it's carpeted.

And I got to tell you, when it comes to trade shows, carpeting is very important, particularly for people who are walking around all day.

It's good.

Very thick, nice carpeting.

And they had all of these stages completely open with chairs in front and plenty of room for people to stand around.

And you'd think this would be a nightmare with all these different interviews and speeches and keynotes going on.

But no.

They have, and I guess this is a new thing with conferences.

You walk into the expo hall, everybody gets a pair of headphones, wireless headphones.

And there's three controls on the headphones: on-off, volume button, and then a channel selector.

And the headphones on the outside turn color white, blue, red, green, or purple, indicating what channel you're listening to.

So we're sitting on stage.

We have headphones on.

We have hand mics.

And we are on the white channel, which I did say was kind of racist.

And the whole audience packed all had headphones on with it.

You could see if someone wasn't listening, like someone's on the red channel, you could rouse them, you could call them out, but no one was doing that.

And they all have their headphones on.

I thought this was going to be the stupidest thing in the world.

Like, how lame is this?

I got to tell you, it was fantastic.

It's like doing a podcast where everybody's on the podcast, only they don't have mics.

And they're all listening because you're in their head between their ears.

And no one was on their phone.

No one was looking down.

No one's looking away.

It was really revolutionary for the conference business.

I will hand that to them.

Sounds terrible.

That's what I thought, but it's not.

So they had all the stages like it's like an outdoor concert with multiple stages in the same room.

Yes.

And these guys talking.

Oh, but that's.

And you know, and like I walked past a big stage, and there was James Cruddlen was interviewing the guy from Coat Hanger or Goal Hanger or whatever it's called.

I like Coat Hanger better.

And

they're just talking.

You never would have been able to hear them from way in the back, but I just put the headphones on, clicked on the.

Well, that makes sense.

It was great.

Instead of, you know, you can't really hear, people are poorly mic.

It's not loud enough.

You got feedback.

Now, we all could have just stayed at home and be on Zoom, to be honest about it.

Well, if you have a good audio engineer who knows how to stage speakers,

so there's a delay between the front speaker and the back speaker in such a way that the sound sounds like what you sound like the voice of God when you're speaking up there.

But nobody has those guys anymore.

I don't know why.

I guess they learned the code.

I don't know where they went.

They learned how to vibe code, ma'am.

Anyway,

it was very enjoyable.

And then just a bunch of people I knew.

So everybody's going to have ear infections, is what you're telling me.

That was kind of the disgusting part.

They did not hand out little sanitization kits, you know, where you can just wipe down the, you know, they get sweaty.

You wouldn't have liked it because, you know, you get ear mold.

You get sweaty ears.

You get ear mold.

I don't need the aggravation of ear mold.

So that was the.

So welcome all those new people who are listening.

Welcome, all of the new listeners.

In fact, since we talked about it, why don't we say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in copper disc?

Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr.

John C.

Damore.

Yeah, in the morning to you, Mr.

Curry DeMaris.

You've seen boost the graph feed in the air, subs in the water, and the dames and nights out there.

In the morning to controls.

the The control room.

Let me count you for a second.

Hold on.

Well,

that is what I call an.

We got 1655.

It seems we went down.

Yeah, we should have 18.

We should have 18 at least.

Yes.

Okay, well, there you go.

Okay.

That was probably the stablecoin discussion.

No, really, I don't think it wasn't.

I think people don't like to talk about things that are that complicated.

No, because one hour and nine minutes ago was the peak at 1655.

So

that was well.

Then we still have a

problem with it because people stop coming because they had a problem a couple of weeks ago and they still haven't.

figured out that it's been fixed.

Yep.

But

people have emailed me and said, hey, it's working again.

So we'll have to build that back.

One at a time.

You know what?

When you grow your brand on X, you should let people know.

I'm going to start bitching about this when I grow my brand.

But only when you grow your brand, not before.

So, yes, many of them are listening at trollroom.io, or they may be on one of those modern podcast apps, which I highlighted at the podcast movement.

I would have expected all of you were using them by now, but there were a lot of, ooh, and ah, oh.

When I told them that, you know, when you go live with your podcast, your podcast app will alert your audience so you can grow your brand.

Oh, ooh, grow your show.

Oh, oh, that's great.

And of course, through the magic of Pod Ping technology, when we release the show, since you didn't have time or couldn't listen live, within 90 seconds, you'll be notified of that.

And you can get those at podcastapps.com.

We are also value for value, another topic much discussed,

which is kind of a simple concept, really.

It's like we don't want to be interrupted by ads.

We don't want to kow-tow to the podcast industrial complex.

By the way, the CPMs for those ads, what do you think the CPM is for an ad that's inserted in

not quite that bad, about 350.

350.

I mean, and it can only go down.

It's not going to go up.

No, no.

No, now now there's a higher CPM, which is cost per thousand for those who are interested.

If you read an ad, a host-red ad.

Host-red ad.

Where I would say, what does that give you five bucks?

Where I would say, no, that can be it.

They say, they say, up to about 20, but after commissions from everybody, probably you're looking at 13 to the show.

And it would go like, you know, John, Phoebe's looking so great.

Really?

Why, you think?

Well, I started feeding her this new food.

Tell me more.

It's called Farmer's Dog.

Yeah.

And people would immediately rush and say, wow, Adam's dog is looking good.

I got to get me some of that.

And that's how it works.

But instead of being total shills, we just ask you to support the show equal to.

Directly.

Directly.

So all we have is processing fees.

No middlemen here besides the obvious processing fees.

Yeah, the thing is, even when you have the middleman,

you still have the processing fees.

But if you send a check, which we gladly accept, there's a very 15 cents per check.

Or if you send cash, like Sir Animus of Dog Patch, there's zero processing fees.

There's zero.

Actually, there is a cash fee now.

No.

What?

They charge you to deposit money into the bank?

Yeah.

After a certain amount.

Same thing with checks.

There's a certain amount of checks.

I think it's like 100 or a couple of hundred checks you can do for free, which is really cheap.

It's free.

But then after a certain amount, then it goes to the 15 cents.

Oh, free.

And

with

that?

No, it's 15 cents per whatever.

No, it's a flat fee per check.

So if you send in $1,000 in a check, it's 15 cents.

If you send in $5 in a check, it's 15 cents.

If you send $1 in a check, it's 15 cents.

Unlike, you know, the systems out there from everything from Visa and Master, everything is a percentage of the total, which is not quite as good a deal,

be honest about it.

But yes, at some point, I don't know what the cutoff is.

I've never asked, but I do know there's a cash acceptance fee.

I think

after it gets to a few thousand bucks, they start charging you to.

Hey, you know what's going to revolutionize this?

Stable cost.

That's right.

Probably not.

There's still going to be a fee.

You think the banks are going to let anything like that slide without fees?

Dream World.

It'll have to be pretty low.

But there will be no middle.

And how low can it go?

15 cents?

It'll be even lower.

No.

No, they're probably hurting themselves at 15 cents.

Maybe.

I'm surprised it's that cheap.

I think Stripe, Stripe that we have on the website, already accepts stablecoin.

I'd love to see the first person donate to the show with USDC because that's what they accept on Stripe.

What's USDC?

U.S.

digital currency?

No, that's the Circle stable coin.

You have USDT, which is Tether.

And of course, you'll have USDX, which will be X, and USDF, which will be Facebook.

Yeah, USDC is already accepted.

Looking at

the news,

I was going to say trades, but it wasn't in the trades.

It was in the news, financial news, that the Zell thing has fallen apart.

Oh, yeah.

The banks hate it for a couple of reasons.

Well,

the bank that we deal with, the two of us, refuse to take it, even though it has gone through.

Yeah, because it's basically a wire transfer through an intermediary.

But the banks don't like it because there's no takesies backsies.

They can't take it back.

And if so, what happens, if someone gets a hold of your Zelle.

and they just empty out your bank account, then you have a very unhappy, broke customer, and there's no way to get the money back.

And it's also cutting into their business.

Well, that's the main reason.

I'm sure they

care less about your poor problem.

Yeah.

Well, there's a lot of things.

All of these

like Venmo.

So Venmo uses Plaid, middleware.

And what Plaid does is it, in essence, you give it your password.

I mean, you don't actually give it your password, but you give it permission to be in your account to

credit and debit money and look at your stuff.

And so, what

the banks have found is that Plaid logs into accounts, not just when they're paying or receiving money, but like 10 times a day.

Let me see what he's doing now.

What is he spending money on here?

Oh, look at that.

Well, maybe we can sell this to an advertiser.

It's sick.

It's gross, really.

It's gross.

And they do that with them.

Well, we don't use those those systems.

We use the basic old-fashioned system, the bank itself, cash,

PayPal, and Stripe, and now Strike.

And that's it.

We don't have Square.

We don't do a lot of different ones.

No.

But they're all out there.

But, you know, people say, why don't you do this?

Why don't you do that?

How much more can we do?

Yeah.

Don't send blankets or water.

Just send your cash.

Anyway.

Or a check.

Or a check.

Yeah, it's great.

So you can send time,

talent, treasure.

You can't actually send time and talent.

And by the way, the check goes to Box339, El Cerrito, California, 94530.

There you go.

And it should be addressed to the No Agenda Show or me.

There you go.

Or both.

Yes.

So

we love it when people do things for the show, boots on the ground, organizing meetups, helping out with servers, other types of things.

That's all very valuable to the show because it saves us direct money of having to pay for those services.

And even though we at this point could probably do our own art,

I don't think we want to because, you know, we'll just, everyone else is doing prompting on the AIs to create artwork for us.

Now, obviously, you need to have a good idea.

It needs to be fun.

We like it to be funny if possible.

And that's not something artificial intelligence can do.

So your creativeness is still highly appreciated.

Blue Acorn did the artwork for episode 1791.

We titled the Bolt Muncher,

which is a slur these days for robots and AI systems.

And it was all right.

I mean, if you had listened to the show,

then you got it and you liked it.

Had a boomer.

counting out resistors on a on a counter, which I guess is me, since I told the story.

And then

there's a robot next to it

whose name is Clanker.

And

it was the best one we had.

I mean, there were some others.

Well, you like Screw Worm.

I like Screw Worm.

You thought it hit the gross factor and therefore was vetoed by you.

Yes, indeed.

I have a gross factor thing.

We both liked Body Double, but that was screwed up by Comic Strip Blogger who didn't put the effort in.

Yeah, if Comic Strip Blogger had used AI correctly, AI would have said, oh, your grammar is incorrect.

Because we wanted that art.

We thought it was great.

He could have X'd that out in a Photoshop and put in the right grammar.

But you're right.

He was lazy.

It says, you're a body double.

But it should have said, you're a body double.

And he didn't do that and was also not aligned properly.

So he was lazy.

Yeah, it could have been shifted a little to the left.

He would have had, he would have had.

He would have won.

He would have had a winner.

That was our first choice.

It was funny.

Yeah, yeah, because, yeah, it was very no-agenda, very funny.

And

it was lazy.

What can you say?

By the way, on the screw worm thing,

I got a note from

a rancher,

rancher Austin is his name.

And he said this whole screw worm thing is a psyop.

The psyop to raise the price of beef.

And I think he's probably right about that.

Could be.

Yeah, the narrative that the Mexican herd is.

Well, didn't you get the whole story, not from me and my conspiracy guys, but your buddy,

the famous Texas Slim, who is he being psy-opt?

Is that what you're making the claim?

No, I'm saying that as we were eating beef and drinking wine, I may have misunderstood where he said, oh, that whole

New World new screw worm is that's real.

And I might have misunderstood his

irony

that

the narrative.

That's not the way you presented it.

Possibly ironic.

No, no, that is not the way I presented it.

But now that this rancher says, hey,

this is a psyop.

I'm like, ah, maybe I misunderstood what Slim was saying.

So I'm going to call him about that and then get the full.

Didn't Texas Slim also say that the herd count was down and they were having issues that's that is true that is true well that was gonna that would increase the price of price of uh beef for sure yes well that's mainly because we don't we just have commodity cowboys and people don't care anymore about ranching and all of the young people are selling their parents ranch because they don't want to uh pay the inheritance tax and it's a pain in the butt and ranching's hard and they'd rather learn to code code code that's the bottom line so other pieces of art yes the i like the screw worm.

That was a no.

Was there anything else?

I don't think there was anything else that we really you kind of like your new AI girlfriend, but it was messy by Nessworks.

There was a lot of messiness.

Yeah, it was messy.

It was messy.

And then you also like Putin Red Carpet, but I'm like, this is another thing.

I did like Putin Red Carpet because

I thought the cartooning of Putin,

the

caricaturish nature of the Putin character walking the red carpet was really pretty good.

It was, but

no, you've you vetoed that.

I did.

Anyway, that's pretty much the discussion we have every single show day after we're done, after you do the credits, after we, yeah, we do

the credits and then we select the art and then we do the title.

That's how it goes.

And you just heard the whole conversation in condensed form because we really argue and throw stuff at each other.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So now we'd like to thank the financial,

the treasure part of

Time Talents and Treasure, people who have supported us financially.

And we had a new promotion which you launched without even talking to me about it.

I know I've done this a couple of times now.

We had discussed it.

We have to do that.

Why don't you

explain exactly what it is?

Well, we did talk about it, by the way.

It wasn't like you were completely in the dark because we had discussed on the show the idea of naming, giving a agenda secretary generalship yes out to um

as a as a kind of a token uh title and you can be secretary what we and we talked about after the show once too about how to do it and if it should be state by state and i decided that's probably not a good idea because it limits people that are in the populist states uh and so i let just said it should be open-ended you can make yourself secretary general of anything including the united nations uh under the no agenda

banner.

Yeah.

And so

the offering is you can become Secretary General and an executive producer for $500.

And

you get to pick work Secretary General of what?

And I suggested in the newsletter, Botswana.

You can be Secretary General of the United States.

You can be Secretary General of Cincinnati.

It doesn't matter.

How about the Hill Country?

Secretary General of the Hill Country.

You could be Secretary General of the Hill Country, and it's just

puts that title where it belongs.

And now, does this come with a certificate of authenticity?

Oh, the certificate, yes.

Jay is trying to outdo herself.

So the certificates will probably go out at the end of the month because she now wants to...

The thing, the design is going to be slightly different than our other stuff.

Everyone's been somewhat different.

But this is going to have a big, a giant wax seal at the bottom

that has the ITM signet ring thing, but bigger.

She's ordered a giant version.

Did she order a giant ring to make it?

No, it's just a stamp.

Cool.

It's a giant

stamp.

I had to get the art from Paul Couture

to her so she could get this thing produced.

She found a game.

First of all, I got into an argument.

No, I don't think it's not a good idea.

For one one thing, who's going to make these things?

And every time I have a discussion with her where I tell her it can't be done,

within five minutes, she has the vendor.

I appreciate Joe.

She's on her phone.

She's okay, it can't be done.

Let me say, I found a guy who'll do it for you.

Now, does she preface it or does she end it with Boomer?

Oh, I can do that.

No, but I don't do that.

No, she knows better.

So, yes, I'm looking at the troll room

Secretary General of Boobs.

Yes, definitely a possibility.

Secretary General of Boobs.

That would be a gem.

Yeah.

Secretary General of Uranus.

Yes.

All of these are completely.

All possibilities.

All valid.

All valid.

So Steve Miller came in from Alito, Texas.

Steve loves us.

And he supported us with $2,500,

not stable coins.

actual digital money.

And here's what he said.

We love your fantastic insights and commentary.

Is it possible there's still uncertainty whether your 3x3 intro was or wasn't on the dating game?

If so, season of reveal, Herb Albert Spanish, flee on the dating game.

Yes, we did deconstruct that.

You must have missed that.

Over the last couple of weeks, on my drive home from work, I found each of you making me laugh out loud.

With the pathetic donation levels recently, I felt like I might be running out of time to make things right in our relationship.

Please dedouch me.

You've been deduced.

And also, please dedouch my son, Andrew, who hit me in the mouth during COVID.

You've been deduced.

And please split my donation to make us both overdue and loyal Instantites.

Names, TBD, ITM, Steve Miller from Alito, Texas.

Oh, so he didn't, is he not on the list because he's got a TBD there?

We had to wait.

Well, he didn't mention Secretary General.

Let me just double-check.

Hold on.

It says he came in at the right time.

He can go pick one up later.

He's not on the list, so he can definitely pick one up.

Okay, so he's got the name.

Okay, we'll knight him when he feels like it.

Yes.

Peter Fentino's up next, and he's in

Eustis, Florida.

Eustis, huh?

Sounds right.

Came in with a thousand.

Whoa.

In the morning, boys.

First time donation.

I've been listening since the election and thought it was time to pony up.

My name will be Sir Peter Jockey of the Mountains.

Dinner is Beef Wellington.

He's just knighting himself.

Yes.

He wants Beef Wellington and a shaken, dirty martini.

Ooh.

Do you want all of those?

So I got chewed out by one of our famous, more famous executive producers.

Oh, executive or associate executive.

Yeah, that guy.

Yeah,

one of our most famous.

And so he says that he was aghast,

and so is his wife, as a matter of fact.

Oh, that I had never heard of an espresso martini.

And that was rather odd.

I don't understand why anyone...

Why would I have heard of such a horrible drink?

Well, if you get a drink, out of the San Francisco Bay Area where you have

the drink drink you have, I can't even remember the name of it, which is this coffee

booze drink that we have in San Francisco.

It's called the coffee booze drink.

The coffee booze drink.

Also known as an Irish coffee, maybe?

An Irish coffee.

This is invented at a place in San Francisco.

You can go there and get them.

And so that's, to me, was, you know, and then there's this espresso martini.

It's been around for a long time.

Ask the animal.

Ask Era.

Hold on a second.

Ask her when it came up, when it was invented, and

where it was popular.

The espresso martini.

Oh, the espresso martini.

It's such a fun drink.

Vodka, coffee liqueur, fresh espresso, and a touch of simple syrup.

Shaken until frothy and served with those iconic coffee beans on top.

Here it comes.

It's like.

Ah.

I interrupted her.

Fun fact, it was invented in the 1980s in London London by a bartender for a model who wanted something to wake her up and mess her up.

Fun fact.

Fun fact.

You haven't been out of the house since the 80s.

It makes total sense.

Onward.

Onward.

Skylar Firestone.

Ah.

That sounds like a DJ name.

Skylar Firestone in the morning with everybody.

Z100.

That's in Texas, Liberty Hill.

51538.

I see no note from Schuyler.

No, I see nothing.

So, Skylar will get a double-up karma.

You've got

karma.

You can do the next one because I have a note for the one after that.

Yes, Sir Ahab from Mandeville, Mandeville, Louisiana, 500, and he's in on the program.

Hey guys, it's Sir Ahab, Knight of the Seven Seas.

It's been a spell.

I'd like to be Secretary General of the Pacific Fleet.

Thanks for all you do.

That's a good one.

All right.

We're going to have to figure out some way to announce these things properly.

We do have the people mentioned, but we probably don't have their titles.

That's going to, I'm not sure how to do that.

But we have, now we have Justine Palmer in Bozeman, Montana, who came with 333.43.

And this is interesting because I

first put her name down.

I have the note, and I sent the note over to Jay.

I first thought it was Justin, and then I went back and looked, and

I said, Wait a minute, this is not a signature or handwriting of any known male.

And I look, oh, Justine, that makes sense.

Wow, you're such a sleuth.

Well, the thing is, it brought me to this idea that women

are more into precision

than men.

Okay.

I just I'm trying to develop this into some sort of thinking because during World War II, when the men were all f uh fighting, the the factories of the United States were all people by women, a lot of them.

And a lot of them became precision engineers and

precision mechanics and all this sort of thing.

And it just fascinates me now that I start to think about it because nobody, because

the women are not credited with

this capability.

I don't know.

I found it interesting.

And the note triggered this.

But here's her note.

Donation note.

Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.

And then she's got a birthday shout out for Chris Illuminauti

Jensen.

A separate explanation.

No need to read, but I'm going to read it anyway because it's about football.

Previously, you had mentioned you did not receive any clothing.

commemorating the most recent college football championship winners from the FBS or FCS D2, etc.

She knows what all that means.

Although you have now received Ohio State representation, people promised Florida I never got anything.

I even closed some Montana State University Bobcats apparel,

which is a nice piece, by the way.

After a 15-0 season, unfortunately, the Bobcats fell short of the 2024 FCS National Championship game, but I couldn't pass on the opportunity to send some D1

AAA FCS love your direction.

There you go.

Nice.

By the way, I concur on precision.

I know many female pilots, helicopter pilots especially, who are extremely good, and that's precision work.

In fact, all females.

Yeah, I just think it's there.

I think

it just dawned on me looking at her handwriting that it was.

It's an underrated characteristic of women in general.

Underrated.

That's right.

Is Mimi still there?

Can you compliment her on her precision?

No, she crashed a car into a tree.

No.

I'm kidding.

Are you, though?

She's an LA.

She's a good driver.

She's an excellent driver.

Maybe that's the reason that we mock female drivers because they're so good.

Because they're so good.

Because they're

precise for a male taste.

Cut in here.

Cut in here.

No,

not cutting in there.

Come on, cut in.

There's

a ton of raw.

You blew it.

Justin Prul, Prul.

P-R-O-L-X, P-R-U-L-X, Prul, Prul.

That thing is Prulix or something.

It might be Prulix.

Funny way of pronouncing that.

I don't have it.

Well, he's right up the road about an hour.

Canyon Lake, Texas, 3333.

ITM, gents, thanks for keeping us grounded with amazing M5M analysis every week.

It was time to donate when I received my new Delta Reserve Amex made with 33% metal from a retired Boeing 747.

Well, that sounds like a cool product.

Yeah, I'd say.

Let me take a look at this.

Unless it's blue, that's kind of lame.

Let me see.

Delta Reserve Amex.

Let me see what it looks like.

He wants some.

Well, you're doing that.

Why don't you give him some health karma for the wife?

Yeah, she has a broken backup.

She has a broken backup.

Here we go.

You've got

Karma.

It's purple.

It's purple.

Purple?

Yeah, it's purple.

Hmm.

Okay.

Up next is Baz, B-A-Z-Z, with a capital Z, the first one anyway.

333.

Baz from sunny Singapore.

Woo, look at that.

Nice.

Yeah.

All right, Baz.

We need more Singaporeans listening to the show.

They can all speak English.

That's actually on Tina's bucket list, Singapore.

She really wants to visit Singapore.

Oh, I've been there.

Yes.

And I would recommend it as a great place for a vacation.

It's extremely safe, super clean.

It's a fascist state.

You have to know that.

You can't spit gum out.

You can't chew gum.

I mean, you can, but you really can't.

You have to better swallow it.

But it's got great food, terrific food.

It's pretty and

great markets.

I would recommend, highly recommend Singapore as a vacation retreat.

Is there any

can we get any garments there?

Custom-made garments?

You know, I never bought any clothes there.

I don't think it's the same on the same league as Korea or Taiwan.

Zadok Brown III in Pukulani.

Pukulani, Hawaii, 31585.

And he says, in the morning, gents.

And we say, in the morning to you, Zadok Brown III.

Thank you.

Anonymous in

Deckerville, Michigan.

He becomes associate executive producer

26767.

Anonymous, ITM, Trump-only jobs, Karma, please.

Needed for promotion.

God to bless.

Jobs, jobs, jobs.

You've got karma.

And we're on to our next associate executive producer, Kurt Kiefer from Austin, Texas.

The Texans are really supporting the show lately.

263 22.

And he says,

Kurt Kiefer of Austin, Texas, Commodore of Smooth Texas Highways.

Gents, my smoking hot, brilliant, free-thinking wife, Beth, and I love you guys.

We listen to the show live while we're cooking dinner together.

It's a fun activity, highly recommended, even for those cheap-ass couples who don't donate to the show.

Get a clue, donate.

Anyway, this donation makes me a knight.

I'm making it on the day before Beth and I embark on a safari to Tanzania.

Beth suggested that I get my night donation in before leaving, as she thinks the title would look cool on my

urn.

Should I

should I be

it will look cool on my urn should I be trampled by an elephant or mauled by other big game on our trip.

Yes, I concur.

How about dubbing me Night Kurt of the Nungorongo?

Nongarongoro, no, Nongorongoro.

Yes.

Night Kurt of the Nongarongaro Crater.

If that doesn't roll off the tongue, perhaps Night Kurt of the Serengeti.

You guys pick.

I like the Nongarongoro because it'd be fun for me to try.

Let's keep it simple for the roundtable.

Zebra Schnitzel, Hippo Hotlinks, a Pilsner or two, and just one, just one Camel Filter cigarette.

Love you guys, the producers and boobs, says Kurt.

Great note, Kurt.

Thank you.

Camel made

filtered?

Yeah, they're kind of, they taste icky, what I remember.

Tastes a bit like a palm all.

James Green, he's in

Efflund.

Efflund, North Carolina.

Fland.

F land.

F-U-F-Land.

North Carolina.

$233.99.

Admin John C.

I'm a plumber with 25 Mass Communications with 25 mass communication degree.

Go figure.

Dirty work for a living, and I love it.

Thanks for supporting.

Thanks for reporting on the reporters.

Oh, thanks for reporting on the reporters.

Does anyone hear

Dr.

Huckabee in NPR's Alicia Roscoe?

Dr.

Huckabee.

Yeah, the moment.

Hux to be Hux to be.

Oh, Huxabee.

Huxtaby.

Oh, she's.

Oh, yes.

Huxtaby, the Bill Cosby character.

His wife.

In the way Alicia talks.

Dr.

Huxtables.

Yes.

No, Dr.

Huxtable, what?

Huxtable Huxtable.

Wasn't that the wife?

No, no.

Dr.

Huxtable.

That was Cosby, wasn't it?

Yeah.

I thought his wife was the doctor.

Oh, okay.

Well, I don't know.

I can't remember what she was.

What a show.

Well, somebody there does know.

But yeah, there's a sound.

Alicia Roscoe has.

Think she just doesn't sound like a professional broadcaster.

Aisha is Aisha.

Aisha.

Aisha.

Aisha.

Yeah, Aisha.

Okay, Aisha.

Anyway, Sufferin Sucatash, go Florida ounces.

Suffering Succotash.

I'm Scott.

Simon.

Sam Trudell is in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 218.92.

ITM, he says, I just realized my 33rd birthday is on a show day.

Time to donate.

Thanks to Adam W in Milwaukee for hitting me in the mouth.

Please deduce.

You've been deduced.

And I didn't realize he asked this.

He says, I request a Sharpton hubris.

And that's from Sam Trudell.

I don't, you know, it's part of one of these medleys.

So I hope I got it.

Let me see.

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.

No, that's Resist We Much.

I don't remember what

Hubris is.

Hubris.

Let me see.

I like the guy who did this, so let me just try.

Let me try this.

Maybe this one.

Thanks.

Good evening.

Ed.

Is this Crown Hog Day Two?

We are watching.

That was Attorney General Eric Holder ABD's about some Republicans at home

already beating the drums of war.

Today, the Pentagon refuted that claim.

And he said the American people do not want him to, quote, dwindling,

they do not want him dwiddling his thumbs.

You can get a gig as a caught contortionist, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with

gelatin.

Okay,

I don't know which one it is.

I'll have to look that one up.

Sorry.

But thank you very much.

Eli the Coffee Guy 20821.

There he is.

Mamada Coffee, by the way.

It's interesting how recent diplomatic efforts by America to broker peace have gone unnoticed by the M5M.

It's not that interesting.

It's what you expect.

Whether Azerbaijan and Armenia to Cambodia and Thailand, did you see, but the one thing that wasn't reported, did you see the 5,000

Cambodian Buddhist monks?

Have you seen this?

No.

Yeah.

A bunch of

like 5,000 of them or more came out in a giant group.

They took a picture of it and say,

we

nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Really?

Cambodian Buddhist monks?

Yeah.

5,000 of them.

Wow.

And nobody covered it.

I'm going to look that up while you're reading this note.

Fox, I think, covered it.

Well, the.

Yeah, look up monks.

Cambodian monks

promote Trump for Nobel.

And you'll probably find it.

Or maybe your buddy there in the office calls.

I'm tired of her.

She'll know.

Anyway,

Cambodia,

Thailand, or India-Pakistan, this cynic in me questions: were these brief flare-ups of conflict manufactured with the purpose of allowing for a U.S.

brokered resolution?

Seems unlikely.

We don't have that much power.

Or is Trump trying to make peace profitable again?

That seems likely.

That would be nice.

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Well, you were wrong.

Wrong again.

It was not 5,000 monks,

It was 70,000 monks.

70,000 monks just broke their vows of silence to nominate Trump for the Nobel.

Dear Mr.

President Trump, we are standing here today with hearts full of appreciation.

Today, 70,000 Cambodian Buddhist monks are wholeheartedly supportive of our Cambodian Prime Minister, Hunma Night, to nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Please accept, Mr.

President.

70,000 monks can't be wrong.

So you got 70,000 monks.

Well,

there weren't 70,000 there, but that gets

a lot there.

It was a lot of monks.

A lot of monks.

They're all dressed in red, and this got no coverage.

Orange.

What?

Orange.

Oh, it was orange?

I remember this.

They might have been Hare Krishna.

I don't know, man.

Whatever the case, they're all bald.

Yeah, they were bald for sure.

And

it was weird enough as news and just a visual was screwballing.

Good visual, definitely.

You'd think somebody in the mainstream media, the New York, anybody would have taken a picture and run it in their paper.

No, nobody except Jesse Waters even mentioned it.

Yeah.

That's pathetic.

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A little bit of

climate change news.

Since this is up from Washington State,

two months ago, I don't know if you caught this news or maybe Mimi heard about it and told you.

The first hybrid electric ferry is about to rejoin the fleet.

After nearly two years out of the water, the ferry Wenatchee is undergoing sea trials.

Vigor Marine says the historic conversion is complete.

They swapped two diesel generators out for batteries and installed a new propulsion system.

The Wenatchee will rejoin the Seattle-Bainbridge run and welcome back passengers once sea trials are complete.

All right, so we've got a battery-powered ferry.

What could possibly go wrong?

Two months later, Washington State Ferries has pulled its newly renovated hybrid electric ferry from service less than one month since the big renovation.

We're told the Wenatchee had a mechanical issue yesterday while docking at Coleman Dock.

It's not clear exactly what that issue was or how long it'll be out of service.

The Wenatchee was added to the Seattle-Bainbridge route in July after its conversion to hybrid electric power.

Yeah, of course.

What could possibly go wrong?

Battery-powered ferries.

That's just not a good idea, people.

You put up, especially those explosive batteries that are in the water.

In water environment, that's a smart move.

Yeah,

that's such a bad idea.

You know, there was a Peter Thiel, we talked about him earlier,

co-founder.

He's from the PayPal Mafia, and of course,

funder of

killing machines like Palantir, which

although we have a lot of testimony to the contrary, people believe that Palantir runs the world world and is tracking your every move.

They certainly have been successful at some government contracts and very unsuccessful at targeting terrorists in Palestine because they killed a lot of the wrong people.

But that doesn't matter.

Because Peter Thiel is a force to be reckoned with.

And the New York Times interviewed him

about a month ago, and I paid no attention to it.

I saw it come by my feed, but the guy is so annoying to listen to because he's like Sam Altman.

Yeah, it seems that the entire PayPal Mafia talks like Musk is the same way.

But Altman wasn't part of the PayPal Mafia, was he?

No, I know, but this seems like the PayPal Mafia all talks that way.

I think it's a Silicon Valley thing,

just to sound interesting.

I'm deep in thought about

and he is a transhumanist, as you will hear in a moment.

He's trans?

Well, he's gay.

And you remember his boyfriend fell off the balcony and died in Miami a year ago?

Yeah, it was kind of a bad, bad vibe.

You know, fell off the balcony.

But he's, the New York Times guy sits down with him and he starts asking him about transhumanism,

approaches it from a very

innocuous way, really, about, you know, do you think the human race should survive or do you think that your machine should run everything?

And it took an unexpected turn.

You would prefer the human race to endure, right?

You're hesitant.

And I should mention, I cut out a lot of the five-second pauses.

You would prefer the human race.

The two of us both like to brag about our editing skills.

It doesn't take a lot of skill because you look at the way it's...

It doesn't take a lot of of skill to see what it is.

Look at all this white space.

Just cut it out.

You would prefer the human race to endure, right?

You're hesitant.

Well,

I don't know.

I would

say there's so many.

It's so long hesitation.

There's so many questions in place.

Should the human race survive?

Yes.

Okay.

But

I also would like us to radically solve these problems.

And so, you know, it's always, I don't know,

you know, yeah, transhumanism is this, you know, the ideal is this radical transformation where your human natural body gets transformed into an immortal body.

And there's a critique of, let's say, the trans people in a sexual context, or I don't know, a transvestite is someone who changes their clothes and cross-dresses and a transsexual is someone where you change your I don't know penis into a vagina and we can then debate how well those surgeries work but we want more transformation yeah you should have debated that how well do those surgeries work Peter where you change your I don't know penis into a vagina and we can then debate how well those surgeries work but we want more transformation than that it's the critique is not that it's weird and unnatural it's man it's so pathetically little and okay, we want more than cross-dressing or changing your sex organs.

We want you to be able to change your heart and change your mind and change

your whole body.

And then Orthodox Christianity, by the way, the critique Orthodox Christianity has of this is these things don't go far enough.

Like that transhumanism is just changing your body, but you also need to transform your soul and you need to transform your whole self.

What?

I must alert Pastor Jimmy.

He's not going far enough.

We need to

transform our bodies.

It's Christianity.

You can imagine this got my attention.

And let's dive in, shall we?

I generally

agree with your

what I think is your belief.

He agrees?

With his beliefs, yes.

Oh, yeah.

This is the New York Times.

That religion should be a friend to science and ideas of scientific progress.

I think any idea of divine providence has to encompass the fact that we have progressed and achieved and done things that would have been unimaginable.

Stop right there.

This is great.

First of all, interviewers should not be.

Agreeing.

Well,

not agreeing or disagreeing.

But this guy's gone beyond agreeing and disagreeing.

He is now expressing himself.

Yes, he's from the...

He's yak, yak, yak.

And we, I, I, we came to listen to Peter Thiel and what he thinks, not with some, what some reporter from the New York Times who's, you know, made a mess of his life or he wouldn't be there for at his age.

Yeah.

Um,

we don't care what you think.

Well, this guy, I think, is a member of the Sparkle clergy because you're like, oh, yeah, no, I agree.

Yeah.

Anything that

we do is God's I plan.

And providence has to encompass the fact that we have progressed and achieved

and done things that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors.

But it still also seems like,

yeah, the promise of Christianity in the end is

you get the perfected body and the perfected soul.

Shut up.

He's laying out his Bible smack, man.

Let him go.

What you hear Teal say is better.

This guy's just there.

The promise of Christianity in the end is

you get the perfected body and the perfected soul through God's grace.

And the person who tries to do it on their own with a bunch of machines is likely to end up as a dystopian character.

In hell.

Well,

it's

let's let's articulate this.

And you can have a heretical form of Christianity

that says something else.

I don't know.

I think the word nature does not occur once in the Old Testament.

Okay.

The word nature does not appear once in the Old Testament.

Okay, I guess you could call creation, heavens and earth, the world.

If you don't want to call it nature, okay,

that's a point of discussion.

But I think there's a New Testament where it appears quite a bit, especially the term against nature.

I think the word nature does not occur once in the Old Testament.

And so,

you know, if you, if you, you know,

and there is, you know, there is a word in which, a sense which

the way I understand

the Judeo-Christian inspiration is

it is about transcending nature.

He's almost done.

The way I understand

the Judeo-Christian inspiration is

it is about transcending nature.

It is about overcoming things.

And

the closest thing you can say to nature is that people are fallen and that that's the natural thing in a Christian sense is that

you're messed up.

And that's true.

But,

you know, there's some ways that,

you know, with God's help, you are supposed to transcend that and overcome that.

Well, I now link arms with the Peter Thiel haters of the world.

This guy is a ghoul.

He's a complete, all of his government contracts should be ripped up.

What an idiot.

And the New York Times guy is not much better.

No, the New York Times guy is worse.

Yeah.

It's just unbelievable.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Sure.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, nice interpretation, Peter Thiel.

Well, that was a trip down nowhere.

Well, I thought it was quite interesting, personally.

Let's go to what Telsi Gabbard's up to.

Yeah, she's doing a couple of things, isn't she now?

I think

she has to be the intelligence community's, at least the the bad actors in the intelligence community.

They got to be worried.

Worst nightmare.

Yes.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announces today that she's cutting her department by more than 40% to, quote, root out deep state actors.

She says the move will make the department more efficient and save taxpayers north of $700 million per year.

The news comes just after she wrote security clearances for 37 intelligence officials, accusing them of politically weaponizing intelligence.

NTD's Washington correspondent, Jack Bradley, has more.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard strips security clearances from 37 current and former intelligence officials.

She also terminated any government employment or contracts for them.

Gabbard said that she's doing this at the direction of President Trump, and she didn't disclose any specific acts that led to the losses of clearance for each person, but said that more generally, they were part of a political weaponization of the intelligence community, leaking classified information and bypassing normal procedures, particularly in creating a false intelligence report that accused Trump of colluding with Russia in the 2016 election.

They were not happy with the outcome of that election.

And so they created this politicized, weaponized piece of fake intelligence that they aided and abetted in this action, this seditious conspiracy that undermined our democracy, undermined our republic.

These are bad actors that have to be rooted out.

Yeah, I think this is pretty good what she's doing here.

And I think that's why she was hired was to do this stuff.

I think so.

She has a

bad attitude.

She's not going to put up with anything.

Well, bad attitudes.

She's not like a bureaucrat that's in it just for the, you know, so she can

pick up a retirement

income.

No, no, she's not.

Yeah.

Well, I'm kind of liking this Tulsi business.

And it's

They're still not being picked up by the mainstream.

You know, they still keep bringing out people like Susan Rice, and they bring out these other people, people I know around here, the Democrats around here that I know that, oh, yeah, well, it's a known fact that Russia colluded with Trump.

I don't care what they say.

Yeah, yeah, that's California.

In announcing the move on X, she said that a security clearance is a privilege, not a right.

Those who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests before the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold.

Those who lost their security clearances can no longer access classified facilities and information.

Back in July, Gabbard said that the intelligence community did assess that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, Russia was trying to interfere in the U.S.

presidential election by sowing discord and chaos, but repeatedly stating that Russia didn't appear to have a preference for either candidate and viewed both equally bad for Russia's interest.

She then said that in December 2016, then President Obama called for another intelligence assessment to contradict it and claim that Russia did interfere in Trump's favor.

There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.

But Gabbard said that they used substandard intelligence, bypassing normal procedures, and used the steel dossier as a source for the newer assessment.

The steel dossier is now widely considered to have been discredited.

Weren't they supposed to start the depositions on the 19th?

I mean, do we even know if that started at all?

You know, nothing's going to come of any of this, except the people that lost their security clearances are probably going to have to go find work someplace else, and you know, who knows where.

And that's going to be all that's going to happen.

The Republicans are not vindictive enough to actually take action.

No, they're not.

And by the way, the CIA, and you know what, an old report has resurfaced, and I put it in the show notes.

1957, a 200-page report proposing that American special forces should secretly infiltrate Ukraine, spark uprising, and destabilize the Soviet Union from within.

This has been a plan by the CIA and Western.

It was actually, they did it

with the Brits.

And there was an update to this plan in 2014.

I mean, come on.

It was so obvious.

The outrage should be that we started all this nonsense in Ukraine.

We don't.

That's another thing that mainstream

media will not do, which is

give us the straight scoop on this stuff.

They just can't.

They're not working for the people.

And unlike us,

we work for you.

We work for the people.

We do.

We work for the people.

NPR did have a I think I have a

56 seconds.

NPR had this story.

President Trump's chief spy, Tulsi Gabbard, says she'll cut her agency's budget by over 40% by the end of

Is she the chief spy?

Is that really?

Technically.

Technically, NPR's Jenna McLaughlin spy.

You know, that's the thing.

She's not a spy in the sense of what a spy is.

But it sounds like she is a bureaucrat

that heads up

all the spies and analysts.

Chief spy.

NPR's Jenna McLaughlin reports.

Career intelligence officials say their mission is to speak truth to power.

However, the former Democratic lawmaker turned head of the office of the director of national intelligence.

Wait a minute.

Since when is that their job?

Let's listen to that again.

2025.

NPR's Jenna McLaughlin reports.

Career intelligence officials say their mission is to speak truth to power.

That's bull crap.

That's not their mission to speak truth to power.

It's to subvert other powers and other nations and other leaders.

It's not their mission.

However, the former Democratic lawmaker turned head of the Office of the the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, has expressed her commitment to aligning the agency with President Trump's policy goals.

The ODNI was created after the September 11th terrorist attacks to foster intelligence sharing between U.S.

government agencies.

Gabbard says she'll slash the agency's costs by over 40 percent by the end of September, though she didn't identify specific cuts.

In a statement, the Democratic vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, says he would welcome the chance to review Gabbard's plans, but expresses concern, arguing Gabbard has a track record of politicizing intelligence.

And you're listening to NPR.

What?

What?

What track record?

Let's listen again.

Welcome the chance to review Gabbard's plans, but expresses concern, arguing Gabbard has a track record of politicizing intelligence.

And you're listening to NPR.

A track record, I tell you.

What track record?

She just got this job recently.

She's been in office six months.

A track record assumes you've been doing something for years and years.

Track record.

When you use it in a political sense, when you say track record.

Track record.

I'm telling you.

Track record.

Well, NPR, just since you mentioned this bullcrap about truth department, play this little clip.

This is an off-the-wall clip.

This is the science clip I have here.

Where is it?

Define.

It says define.

This is NPR.

Now,

I don't know if you can define science.

You can ask the robot robot there that your buddy.

I'm not going to.

No.

To define science, but listen to the definition of science from NPR.

Science, mind you.

Science.

Science.

Science.

Science.

Shortwave things of science as an invisible force showing up in your everyday life.

Wait, start it over.

Okay, here we go.

Shortwave things of science as an invisible force showing up in your everyday life.

Powering the food you eat, the medicine you use, the tech in your pocket.

Science is approachable because it's already part of your life.

Come explore these connections on the Shortwave podcast from NPR.

So what exactly did they just say?

They said science is a force.

A force?

Some sort of force that...

Some sort of force.

I'm going to read a definition of science.

It's like the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.

That's it.

That's what science is.

It's not a force.

A force is a force to be reckoned with.

Shut up already.

It's science.

It's science.

Yes.

Well, let's.

It's called the NPR, promoting the idea of science.

This way, you believe the science.

Believe the force, Luke.

Believe the force.

Well, let's talk about some science for a moment with Dr.

Celine Gounder.

Turning to your health, there's news tonight that the maker of Ozempic is cutting the price nearly in half for some patients.

A company had already cut the price of Wagovi, a similar medication approved for weight loss.

Dr.

Selene Gounder is here with more on the emerging price competition over these drugs.

So what is driving this price war, Doctor?

John, the race is on.

Novonordisc has dominated early on with their drugs Ozempic and Wagovi, but now Eli Lilly, with their drugs Manjaro and Zeppbound, are catching up fast thanks to lower prices and strong supply.

So it's really about Novo Nordisk trying to regain take back market share.

Specifically, Novo has said this is targeted at patients with type 2 diabetes who do not have insurance.

Now, I don't know how many patients don't have insurance who can afford $500 a month, but that is the target audience.

Yeah, well, we know that it's not about that.

We know that you're being paid to shill for weight loss drugs.

So, and are they competing just on price or is there any other thing they compete on?

Well, they also compete on effectiveness.

So, there was a head-to-head study published in the New England Journal of Medicine looking at these two companies' drugs head-to-head.

Over 72 weeks, people on the Lilly drug lost about 20% of their body weight compared to 14%

body weight lost with those on the Novonordisk drug.

So, there is a difference there, and the degree of improvement in blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol was commensurate with proportional to the amount of weight loss.

And we have a new side effect of these drugs.

Oh, I saw this.

A new side effect known as ozempic vulva.

Oh, I don't know about that.

I thought, you know, I was thinking of the positive things going on.

Well, I'll tell you about this.

The ozempic vulva is sagging caused by loose labia,

loose skin in the vaginal area, wrinkles, or some combination of all three, if you're lucky.

Dude.

Oh, God.

Dude.

You had positive news from them?

You had positive news.

Yeah, apparently it's a cure for baldness.

Oh, well, well,

good news, ladies, you won't go bald.

Bad news,

bad news, you'll be dragging on the ground.

We have an update.

Of course, we need to discredit our health and human services secretary and everybody that he's hired.

Back to school season often means making sure your child is up to date on vaccinations.

That's what it means.

Just remember, back to school means get your shots.

Back to school.

Back to school means, yeah.

It used to mean.

Back to school suddenly means get vaxed.

It used to mean, you know, like get your books.

You got to put covers on your books.

You got to get your erasers.

No, no.

No, not anymore.

New backpacks.

Back to school means getting back to get vaxxed.

And why are we going back to school so soon?

But that's another topic.

Back to school season often means making sure your child is up to date on vaccinations, a step most schools require before students can attend.

In the past, parents could rely on a single authoritative schedule for those

this year.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released its own vaccine schedule, and it's different from the government's.

CBS News medical contributor Dr.

Celine Gounder is here to explain.

Dr.

Gounder, explain.

What is this?

What's this?

What is this?

Did you hear the laughter?

CBS News medical contributor Dr.

Celine Gounder is here to explain.

Dr.

Gounder.

Oh, yeah, here it is.

Dr.

Gownder.

There it is.

Oh, he's laugh telling because, you know, he's like, this stupid RFK Jr.

I mean, we can't trust them anymore.

So what are we going to do?

Dr.

Gounter, explain.

What is this?

What's

this discrepancy here?

Yeah, so for the first time in decades, pediatricians are putting out their own schedule because they no longer trust.

Stop the clip.

Stopping the clip.

Because I'm going to predict the direction of this clip.

Surely you just, Mr.

Dvorak.

She's going to go on with her assertion, and then Dickerson, who is an old pro, knows what he's doing as a top journalist, is going to say, well, isn't it true that the pediatricians have a conflict of interest because they're paid direct money, direct cash money to make sure all their patients have all these vaccinations.

And it's a big, huge bonus and part of their income.

It's very important to them.

So they're conflicted.

Don't you agree with that, Dr.

Gounder?

Let's see if you're right.

Yeah, so for the first time in decades, pediatricians are putting out their own schedule because they no longer trust the government's process.

So the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, folks may remember, was recently overhauled.

All members were dismissed.

And almost everyone who replaced those experts experts is somebody who has spread disinformation about vaccines or has expressed vaccine skepticism.

This has never happened under a previous Democratic or Republican administration that the process would be politicized in this way.

And so the American Academy of Pediatrics is saying, look, we want to stick to the science.

We don't want to politicize the process.

So now all of a sudden we have to stick to that science.

But from the very same people who have given your kids Ritalin, who have told your kids that, oh, you know, they've told you, well, it's better to have a daughter who's alive or son who's alive than a daughter who's dead.

The very same people.

The Academy.

Oh, I want to thank the Academy.

Oh, but what's a parent to do, Doctor?

So if I'm a parent and I want to know what to do.

Wait, stop.

He didn't ask the question that I surmised?

No.

Funny.

He didn't ask a probing question, a valid question that would actually make some sense and educate the public that they're trying to serve?

Or are you this this is not serving the public?

This is serving the advertiser.

So if I'm a parent and I want to know what to do, fine, you guys squabble.

What is a parent to do?

Don't do your own research.

Yeah, so the main area where the American Academy of Pediatrics diverges so far with the CDC, the CDC is no longer recommending routine COVID vaccinations for healthy children.

Pediatricians, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, strongly disagree with that.

And they are saying that all infants between the ages of six months and two years should be receiving a COVID vaccine.

The bottom line is that the risk in infants is quite high.

And the first encounter with COVID should be with the vaccine and not the virus.

Duh.

What are you kidding me?

Listen to that ending again.

That's very interesting what she says here.

Homa.

Bottom line is that the risk in infants is quite high, and their first encounter with COVID should be with the vaccine and not the virus.

Their first encounter with COVID should be with the vaccine.

What, does the vaccine give you COVID?

Yeah, well, duh.

But more importantly, why doesn't he ask her to clarify when she says,

which we know not to be true, that the risk for infants and kids is high for catching catching COVID.

Why doesn't he say, John Dickerson say,

what exactly is the risk?

How many times are you going to pose this question pretending that you don't know this is a bought and paid for advertisement?

We know this.

This is obvious.

He's not a journalist.

He is a pitch man.

And they did this same segment.

That was the evening news.

They did it on the morning show.

In this morning's health watch, as kids are going back to school, there's new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics recommending that children from six months to two years old get a COVID shot.

Now, this contradicts the Centers for Disease Control under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr., which does not recommend COVID shots for any healthy children.

CBS News medical contributor Dr.

Celine Gounder is editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, and she joins me now.

Good morning.

Good morning.

All right, so why has the American Academy of Pediatrics made this recommendation?

I think it's important to note that even before the American Academy of Pediatrics made this recommendation, there was a group brought together called the Vaccine Integrity Project, which includes some of the nation's top experts in vaccine science, as well as representatives from the professional medical societies.

They comb through all of the evidence since the last CDC review of vaccines to bring their recommendations up to date.

And that review is what informs the American Academy of Pediatrics' newest recommendations.

And that affirms that the vaccines are safe and effective.

Children or infants, really, between the age of 10.

You're talking about the fee schedule?

Yes, it's safe and effective and profitable.

Six months and two years are those at highest risk for complications from COVID, whether that's hospitalization, ICU, because they have smaller airways, their immune systems are not fully developed.

And by the way, under two, we may not even know if they have immunocompromising or other underlying medical conditions that put them at risk.

That's right.

Jab, if they're under two, jab them up.

And the same script comes out again.

All right.

So parents are stuck in the middle because this guidance conflicts with the CDC's event.

What are you to do as a parent?

What am I going to do?

I stopped vaccinating.

I'm so confused.

You've confused me, CBS people.

Young children against COVID, so who should parents listen to?

Oh,

the science.

I mean, look, the American Academy of Pediatrics represents over 67,000 pediatricians across the country.

These are the people who actually see these children every day.

And cash the checks.

Unfortunately, the federal guidance has now been shaped by politics and ideology.

Some people will try to continue to.

Wow.

Wow, lady.

Wow.

Politics and ideology.

What's the ideology here?

What's the ideology?

This is.

These people are not serving the public.

You pointed it out.

And they will say that high-quality studies are flawed.

They will call for gold standard science, which is in reality garbage science.

And they will say that this is about putting commercial interests ahead of public health.

When in fact this is.

Wow.

what you say, Ben Yoself?

This is putting commercial interests ahead of public health.

Yes, exactly what you're doing.

And they will say that this is about putting commercial interests ahead of public health.

When in fact, this is the first thing.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

What specifically,

I'm sure this guy will ask.

But what specifically,

what specifically

are the commercial interests that she's talking about that they're putting ahead of public health?

Who is profiting from that?

What commercial interests is profiting from not giving a kid a COVID shot?

Well,

if you listen to this,

she's saying that they are saying, i.e., RFK Jr., the way I understood it, RFK Jr.

is saying

you're putting commercial interests ahead of health.

And that would be twofold.

One, the doctors who are getting a lot of money.

You know, I thought she said that they're

the RFK position.

Let's listen to that.

They will call for gold standard science, which is in reality garbage science.

And they will say that this is about putting commercial interests ahead of public health.

They will say that this is about putting commercial interests ahead of public health.

The commercial interests are the commercial health.

The shot guys, yeah.

The shot and Celine Gaunder with her advertisement for Big Pharma right here on CBS.

When in fact, this is the first administration, Republican or Democratic, to have politicized vaccine recommendations in this way ever.

Politicized.

Politicized.

I don't get the politics part.

Well, she's politicizing it.

This is all what you see by yourselves.

And there was a third bit here to this morning segment that I could not resist clipping for us.

The vaccine advisory committee recently limited use of a preservative called thermosol.

Yeah, it's thimerosol, you dork.

Thermosol.

Thermer therm thermostat, thermosol.

The vaccine advisory committee recently limited use of a preservative called thermosol

and is now looking at other chemicals and vaccines.

Why are these part of the vaccine?

What's their use?

So thimerosol is a form of mercury.

Now, people hear mercury and they think, oh, that's dangerous.

We're talking about a specific form of mercury, ethylmercury, which is not the dangerous form.

The dangerous form is methylmercury with an M, so MM.

And routine childhood vaccines have actually been thimerosol-free for years now.

So it's not really even an issue.

Now, what do you think she'll say next?

What do you think she'll say next?

By the way, the methylmercury,

I have some quibbles about the.

Any mercury salt is bad.

Please, quibble away.

I want to hear ethyl mercury versus meter.

Methylmercury

is a bad actor, but any mercury salt, elemental mercury is not bad necessarily unless it can be metabolized in some way, but it generally can't.

But any salts, salts are the things that the body can absorb and cause poisoning.

And what is the thimerosol used for?

It's used for preservatives.

Preservatives.

Yes.

Yeah.

Preservatives.

But now wait for it.

So big picture, if you're going to worry about methylmercury, worry about broken thermometers and those skin lightening creams, not about the vaccines.

Now, aluminum is another one Kennedy has also been concerned about.

Aluminum nudges the immune system so that you get a longer-lasting, more robust immune response with fewer doses.

So that's a bonus, and there's no evidence that it's harmful.

No evidence.

Aluminum, do you think that's a good thing to have in your vaccines?

No.

I don't, and they use it.

What she didn't say is it's an adjuvant.

Yeah, she didn't use the term.

It kind of tickles your immune system, you know, to get you going.

Yeah, because it's toxic.

Yes, that's exactly why.

These people.

Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man.

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We do have a couple of those coming up.

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Mongosaurus Rex wishes his smoking hot wife Bunny a very happy birthday for tomorrow.

Corey Cotton, tomorrow a celebration.

Chris Illuminaughty Jensen celebrates on the 23rd.

Dame Rita, happy birthday to her husband, Greg Harrington, on the 23rd.

Jacob von Doisen Doisen, his son Colby, will be turning two on the 31st.

Happy birthday to him.

And not just from Douglas Murray, but from myself and John as well.

Very happy birthday to Cotton Jin.

And of course, happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.

Now, I would like the back office to take note.

We have four Secretary Generals.

We do not have their names yet, so

I will put together a special Secretary General award ceremony, music and effects, etc.

And we will come back to Steve Miller, Peter Fantino, Skylar Firestone, and Sir Ahab.

They might not have even known that they were eligible for a Secretary General because it is $500.

They came in with $500 or more.

So we will let you know, and

you let us know, and we will Secretary Generalize them

post the actual event.

Does that sound right?

I guess so.

It's going to be fun.

I think we'll have some really funny John Dickerson couldn't do better.

I think we'll have some very funny names to be congratulating.

Two knights ready to go.

If you got your blade, we'll bring him up on the podium.

Yeah, right here.

Oh, you hit your head.

All right, up on the podium, Kurt Kiefer, Peter Fantino, both of you have supported the No Agenda Show in

enough funds.

That is $1,000 or more can be in aggregate over any amount of time.

That makes you both Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.

I'm very happy and proud to pronounce the KV as Knight Kirk of the Nungarungaro Crater, Sir Peter, Jockey of the Mountains.

For you gentlemen, we have Hookers and Blue, Red Boys and Chardonnay, Beef Wellington and a shaken dirty martini, zebra schnitzel, hippo hotlinks, a pilster or two, and one just one camel filter cigarette, along with that ginger ale and gerbils, bong hits and bourbon, breast milk and pavlim, and of course mutton and mead.

And you can head on over to noagenderrings.com, take a look at those rings.

They are very handsome, they are very beautiful.

And if you give us your ring size and address to send them to, we'll send it to you with some sticks of wax with which you can use to,

you know,

seal your important correspondence.

They are, after all, signet rings, and it always comes accompanied with a certificate of authenticity.

Congratulations to both of you, and welcome to the No Agenda Roundtable.

No one should

be loves

Yeah, the No Agenda Meetups.

This is where you find the connection that always gives you protection.

And of course, it's where you will find the first responders in an emergency in your community.

No reports today, no promos, but I can tell you that there's a meetup in Charlotte, North Carolina tonight, 7 o'clock at Charlotte's Thursday, 3rd Thursday.

That is at Ed's Tavern.

The Maastricht meetup happens tomorrow.

That's in the Netherlands, 7 o'clock.

Actually, it's at the Avert Bopp's house.

So you want an RSVP for that.

He is the guy from Disaster Tech Labs who was here helping out with the flood relief in Texas.

On Saturday, we have the McKinney Media Mockery, 12:30.

That's in McKinney, Texas, at the pub in McKinney.

So that's an early one to get hammered.

And the Sorry It's Been So Long meetup in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday at 6:30 in 56 Kitchen, Mayfield Heights.

And finally, we have the Outback Steakhouse Beef Tallow Meetup.

That's in Indianapolis, or in Indiana, I'm sorry, Carmel, Indiana, at the Outback Steakhouse.

That'll be at 3.30.

I think they had only one or two people the last time.

So if you're around Carmel, Indiana, go to the Outback Steakhouse on our next show day.

That is Sunday, 3.30 in Indianapolis.

Just a few of the No Agenda meetups coming up in this month and the next month.

There's many more to be found, including the October 11th Fredericksburg Hill Country Meetup at J6 or Jenny's bar, the half moon,

not the half moon, the full moon bed and breakfast at her bar.

There, I will be there.

I think we'll get the keeper out there and many more luminaries from the Texas area.

Go to noagendametups.com to find every single thing that is listed.

And if you can't find one near you, start one yourself at noagendametups.com.

Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.

Bum, bum, bum.

You wanna be where you won't be.

Triggered on hell lame.

You wanna be where everybody knows you're game.

It's like a party.

Now, before we get to John's tip of the day, we always like to show you how the sausage is made in Media Land.

And we're gonna

do a little production meeting here, and we're going to select the end of show ISO.

I actually have a lot of ISOs for today.

So I'm gonna roll through all of them.

And then we'll.

Do you have an ISO at all?

I have two that are probably.

If you have a lot, you probably have a killer.

Okay, let's see what we have.

I'm about to lose my mind.

Okay.

All right.

No, okay, no.

Eject.

This is not a children's program.

Wow, we love that voice.

Yeah.

This is not my little pony.

I kind of like that one.

I do too.

Authenticity and truth.

A little hollow, but okay.

These guys are completely natural.

And here we go.

This.

You know, we get into it deep.

And then the final one.

Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

And that's what I got.

So I think we both, I'll keep it up here.

I think we know.

We're just bumping mine for the next show.

We like these.

This is not my little pony.

I kind of like that one.

You're bumping that show.

We have have to go with that okay well you've got a lozenge and we're putting your isos in abeyance which means i'm in lozenge mode

time everybody for john's tip of the day

green master you and me just the chimney with j

and sometimes at on

all right

for everybody out there it should be a gardener if they're not they should have potted plants somewhere in the

you should be a gardener or just learn how to code.

So the tip of the day are terracotta watering spikes.

You can just Google it.

Terracotta watering spikes.

They have them all over the place.

They sell them.

They look like a giant carrot.

And you fill them with water and they water the plant.

You put a bottle of water in the

top hole.

And it'll water plants without you having to attend to them.

In case you're on vacation, you take a week off.

You go someplace for the weekend.

You have a plant that needs watering.

This takes care of it.

It's a very good tip.

How does it function?

Well, it turns out that it leaks.

There's all these different mechanisms for watering plants.

So what you don't, because most people will get on Amazon, they'll buy some

Internet of Things connected watering host thing.

You don't want that?

Why do we not want that?

Because what happens if the neck goes down?

What happens if you have your rottery boots?

It's nonsense.

Just have some simple device, a terracotta T-E-R-R-A-C-O-T-T-A watering spike.

It's old.

There's a bunch of people that make them, and the ones you want to look like a carrot, and you can stick up,

you soak them first, then stick them in the ground, and then stick a water bottle in the top,

fill with water, and it'll drain as the soil gets dry.

It'll leak out the water very slowly and keep the plant from dropping dead.

Huh.

That is a very good tip.

I like that.

That is cool.

That's an old school analog.

How long will it last?

I mean, how much water do you?

How long will the water last from the bottle that you put into it?

I don't know.

I've never run out of water.

Oh, you know?

You've never been out of the house for more than three hours.

I don't go out of the house.

I stay here.

All right, everybody.

You can find them all at tip of the day.net John's tip of the day.

Great masks for you and me, just the tip with JCD

and sometimes at home.

Created by Dana Bernetti.

There you go, everybody.

That does it for another

road.

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We are working for you as a public service, not for big pharma, not for some

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End of show ISOs, I mean, end of show mixes.

Sir Michael Anthony, Neil Jones,

times two

with a classic and a brand new one.

And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in little old Fredericksburg, Texas.

In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C.

Dvorak.

We return on Sunday.

Won't you join us?

Same time, same bat channel, and always remember us at noagendadonations.com.

Until then, adios mofos, a hooey-hooey, and such.

Copper, copper blood, clanker, science project, clanker, tennis since

the clock.

This was straight out of Putin's playbook.

Well, we know this is definitely part of the Russian playbook.

And

the Russian philosophy, the Russian playbook will not change.

So I think that is the Russian playbook.

It is part of the Russian playbook.

The tactics look familiar, like a page from Russia's playbook.

Because of what he called Russia's playbook on murdering people.

Clearly Russia benefits the most from this, and it does fit the Russian playbook.

The Russian playbook, Russian playbook,

Russian playbook.

Russia's playbook.

But what Putin is doing in Ukraine is actually straight out of the Russian military planner's playbook.

Putin's playbook is playbook.

When the Republican Party adopts Russia's authoritarian playbook.

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No, Michelle is a transgender.

We all know.

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That's a conspiracy theory.

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