1763 - "AI Factory"

I got burned with the quantum dots, man.

I got burned.

Adam Curry, John C.

Dvorak.

It's Sunday, May 11th, 2025.

This is your award-winning Gidmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1763.

This is no agenda.

Celebrating moms all around Gidmo Nation and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six.

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

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we do say Happy Mother's Day, I'm John C.

Dvorak.

It's Craig Bottom Buzzkill in the morning.

Yeah, we do say Happy Mother's Day.

You do, do you say?

You do say Happy Mother's Day.

We do.

We do, we do, we do.

How did,

you know, when we were going through COVID,

people love their moms.

Everybody was crazy about moms because moms became mama bears and they had the moms that was showing up to the show, moms everywhere.

How do you think it is?

What is the state of motherly love today?

Not so good.

Why is this?

This is beyond me.

It's just the way it is.

It was this way before COVID,

and it's this way after COVID.

It makes no sense.

We need moms now more than ever.

More than, I mean, I want my mom.

Do you ever miss?

I miss my mom.

Do you ever miss your mom?

I know it's been a while since she passed, but do you miss your mom?

I see her in dreams.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

Comes up, shows up every once in a while, makes a big what if does he make a fuss about the chinese

does he make a fuss about the chinese taking over everything

she says where's the toilet paper get this chinese are buying it all up

well that's nice my mom doesn't show up in my dreams i actually i read an interesting uh etymology of the word mother

today which kind of yeah

why you laugh why you're laughing why you're laughing anyone even looked that up okay no i didn't look it up i came across it In Hebrew, mother

consists of two words, eleth and mem.

And eleth is an ox head, and mem is a water.

And so this is in ancient Hebrew, this would be strong water.

And here it comes.

The ancient Hebrews used to boil animal skins, ox skins, to get this gooey substance.

They used this glue.

Hence, Eleth Mem, mother, is glue, the glue that keeps the family together.

How about that?

Sounds like a cock and bull story, if ever there was.

You know, somehow.

Oh, oops.

Oh, boy, what happened there.

Somehow, I knew you would not be buying it.

But you didn't say it.

You didn't say, I'm not buying it.

You say, cock it.

No, I tried to avoid that phrase.

Well,

then let me get you on a different track.

As we know, I'm very disappointed about picking the wrong pope.

I mean, I'm not laying awake at night, but I feel like, oh, man.

And the more I look at this

Leo XIV

Prevost, the more I'm thinking, if he was even on the radar,

I might have seen that he could be the guy.

So you're reverse engineering your mistake.

Yeah, I think so.

To prove that you probably could have picked it if it was even if the guy had somehow cropped up, if it passed your threshold of knowledge, you would have

followed him and said, You know, that's the guy.

That's that's the guy, but it doesn't matter because

I want to hear the rest of the rationale.

Well, no, no, the rationale, no, that's not as important as what I need to say next.

You're not going to believe it.

This came over the transom this morning.

You're related to the guy from PubMed:

the effects of anti-diabetic drugs on erectile dysfunction

in conclusion GLP1s demonstrate an advantage over metaform in improving erectile dysfunction in patients baby I nailed it

Wagovi and Ozempic are now good

There's two sales now I knew by the way when you said it to begin with that it was an obvious end point

for the sales pitch bull crap that they're pulling.

But the fact that they would

that it's come so soon is kind of surprising.

Two studies.

Two studies.

Two studies.

Not two studies.

Not one.

Two studies.

They're going over.

Where do these studies come from?

Okay, the first one is PubMed, which I think is

pretty rare.

Yeah, but PubMed doesn't do studies.

They publish them.

Yes.

Okay.

So they, all right.

They published it.

Do they publish bogus studies?

Yes.

Yes.

The Kennedys has mentioned that.

But that's not the point.

The point is they want this stuff into everybody's system as soon as possible.

The second

study is a very good thing.

I guess the COVID vaccines.

It's actually, so it's both.

It's NIH,

the National Library of Medicine, PMC.

It's both PubMed.

Two of them in PubMed.

So this is a bonanza, baby.

And it's too bad we don't have the morning shows.

Maybe tomorrow they'll be all over this.

I'm sure.

Oh, they'll be tomorrow's show.

Yeah.

I'm sure they got the script.

I'm sure they got the script by.

We have clips for Thursday.

The script is in.

Oh, everybody.

It's amazing.

It's like, it's time to retire.

When it becomes that easy to see where the things are going, it's like,

might as well just quit.

So that what you did there was to show that

you obfuscated your bad pick for for Pope

by bringing in a

kind of the long shot, which seemed like a long shot, but not to me necessarily.

Long shot pick for a marketing scheme,

which you predicted accurately.

And then you just kind of glossed it over as though there somehow makes you better.

I don't know what you're trying to do.

It makes me feel better.

That's all that counts, as long as I feel better.

I still like to know,

you didn't say, because you don't have it in front of you, where these

research papers actually stemmed.

Where from did they come?

Okay, I do have it in front of me.

Okay.

This is

a lot of Italians here in the first one.

Guiseppe Lisco.

Let me see.

Let me see what the.

Hey, Giuseppe.

Hey, Giuseppe.

What about my ED?

Giuseppe?

Okay, let's see.

Doesn't.

By the way, with these drugs in play for at least a decade, you'd think they would have figured this out earlier.

So, this was a systematic review and meta-analysis

is what it is.

This is a systematic review.

This is not research, then.

This is a review and a meta-analysis.

That's not the same as a research paper.

Right.

So, but they cite all the other papers, including exploring the potential impact of GLP-1 receptor agonists.

That's not the one I'm looking for.

Yeah, this looks like it's smoke and mirrors to me.

Good work, though.

I don't think it's here.

Look, look, look over here.

Here it is.

GLP1 therapy boosts erectile function in diabetic obese men.

Now, a lot of people.

That's not a pretty sight.

No,

a lot of people sent in other ideas that if your wife uses Wagovi, you automatically lose your erectile disease.

Yeah, I got that joke, too.

So that joking came a couple of times.

Yeah.

Let me see what this is.

This one is.

Okay.

Let me see who did this.

This is actual research.

That's very long.

Oh, man.

You'll have to forgive me if I didn't read through all the formulaic reasoning that they believe.

My goodness.

This thing is eight-football yards long.

If we're going to be able to do that.

Well, we'll work on it and you will give

that's okay.

The morning shows when you have Dr.

Jen and Dr.

Bill and Dr.

Fred and all these other phony balonies come on the networks.

They will tell us.

They will tell us new research.

That's what they're going to tell us.

It doesn't matter if it's true or not.

It just matters that they have something to point to to once again, you know, throw in a little ad for the big boys.

For the big boys.

Yeah, well, they can.

Well, what do you mean while they can?

Oh, well, they're going to pull the plug on this eventually.

Oh, please.

RFK Jr., what have you done for me lately?

Well, it looks like Bill Cassidy, according to our buddy Glenn Greenwald.

You're buying that?

You watch that and you buy that?

Yes.

Oh, boy.

Do you have a clip?

No, I just got it this morning.

I didn't do any bonus clips this morning, so I'm going to.

I'm looking at it.

I still haven't fully bought it, but I have counting it because it makes sense.

But this guy, this Cassidy guy, is a bad actor in a lot of different ways.

He's been a Trump hater.

He's one of the few Republicans that voted for his impeachment in the Senate.

Well, we had Bill Cassidy clips when

Kennedy was going through confirmation somewhere.

I'm pretty sure we have one.

And he was saying, you know, well, you're going to have to talk to me.

You're going to have to have conversations with me.

You got to meet with me every month.

Yeah, and then we had Shanahan's clip.

You had it recently.

No, it was a post.

It wasn't a clip.

It was just a clip.

Okay, it was a post that she said that she thinks

he's not working for the president, but he's working for some alien force.

She.

Oh, you mean

Kennedy?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because all because

the president appointed Casey Means as Surgeon General.

That's the whole reason why everyone's all, as you would say, has their tit in the ringer over this.

That's what I'd say.

And a couple of people got their tit in the ringer over your newsletter.

rare

apology.

A rare apology.

Well done, though.

It was, I mean, rare because you don't usually have to make apologies.

I felt bad about it.

Yeah, I could.

Wow.

Who are you?

You're like saying, I was wrong, Maya Culpa.

The past month has been nothing but Honest John.

Honest John.

It's always been Honest John.

Yeah.

It's my old nickname.

They used to call me that in high school.

Sure.

I'm sure.

So what happened?

What happens?

For the dumbbos who don't subscribe to the newsletter and could be a part of this wonderful double news newsletter day?

Well, I had to I was going over the records of all the people that were surgeon generals and they were all in the navy, it looked like, because they're all admirals, but no, they got that assignment later.

And then it became even sent there's a secondary controversy over whether the fact that they're given the admiralship when they become a surgeon general because they work for public health services, but whether that's officially, whether that's a Navy position or not.

And, you know, the argument is: no, and the Navy guys are all bent out of shape about even considering, because of Ray, I think because of Rachel Levine, they have enough trouble in the Navy without that guy.

Right?

And so, what happened to that dude anyway?

I don't know.

Probably on a board of some Kleiner Perkins company.

So

when it began, when the Surgeon General began in 1871, it was a my understanding, it was a Navy position, and then it kind of devolved into one thing or another, but they kept this idea of keeping the title of Admiral.

It's kind of hard to follow, to be honest about it.

And there's a few people that never took the title of Admiral.

It started off as Commodore, by the way, just for all you Commodores out there.

Oh, wow, that's interesting.

Yeah, it was Commodore, Commodore, Carmen.

You can go look up the list of

Surgeon Generals in Wikipedia, and it's all Commodores, and then all of a sudden became admirals because the Commodore thing was dropped by the Navy.

So, gee, a coincidence, the Navy drops Commodore, and

so do these guys.

They wear a Navy uniform, and

my challenge to the Navy guys out there to say that it's not part of the Navy, or they have nothing to do with the Navy, let's say.

I'll give them that.

If you're a Navy lieutenant and you run into one of these admirals, Do you salute them?

Oh, interesting question.

I would say yes.

I would say yes, too.

But they're not part of the Navy.

You don't have to salute them, do you?

But they're an admiral.

What would you do?

What would you do?

I would salute and say, how you doing, buddy?

Good morning.

Good morning to you.

So the whole thing is sketchy.

But

beside the point, it was a botch on my part.

And so I had to send an apology note out.

It's okay.

So no sooner had we.

and I got a lot of notes.

And here's what the big complaint is: you know what the big complaint was?

Amongst the complaints, everybody complained about that.

You know what their actual real complaint was when it came down to it?

John, what was the actual real complaint when it came down to it?

Thanks for asking, Adam.

I said surgeon generals instead of

surgeons general.

No, oh, what a faux pas.

It was a botch of the highest order.

Epic proportional botch.

And everybody brought that up, whether they thought about the admiralship or not.

Brings this up.

See, what if we got a bunch of grammarians out there worried about this sort of thing?

Correctly.

Clearly.

Well, we also called out other people on the news for saying that.

So it's kind of a taste of our own.

Yeah, well, that's the irony, of course.

Yes.

We have done that.

So no sooner had we ended the show where I started getting

threads, X threads to look at.

Laura Loomer calling out Callie Means as a shill, a big pharma shill, and Callie Means saying, You are the shill, you're getting paid.

No, you're a shill.

No, you're a shill.

All about this appointment.

And it's,

I mean, which brings us to the Megan Kelly clip, which I have, which discusses this in some

degree.

We might bring it up to somebody else.

Yeah, no, I'd like to do that.

Started thinking about the things that would ultimately wind up in the book, Good Energy would be at the center of the Maha movement.

Her brother Callie was going through his own evolution and realizations, having worked for Coca-Cola and came out hard as almost like a whistleblower against what companies like that are doing to us with the sugar and the food supply and the SNAP program and so on.

And they've become very important and essential Americans, especially when it comes to Maha.

Great.

So, why is she getting mercilessly attacked right now by some within the Maha movement and by Laura Loomer, who I don't know if she's in, if she considers herself Maha.

And I really don't dismiss Laura Loomer because people call her a conspiracy theorist.

She's been right about a lot.

She's really taking aim at Casey.

And I have to say, on this one, I really disagree.

I'm just going to tell you some of the allegations, okay?

She said that Casey means her dad wrote a pro-trans children's book back in 2020.

Well, he did write a book that was about like a weird, an odd duckling or goose

and

how it wound up, it basically wound up being gay.

Wait a minute.

You're telling me Callie Means is a trans guy?

Is a dude and a, is a woman in pants?

No.

And in the opening to the book, he does say that this is, it's about Felix, a unique bird.

And he says it's a story for children and adults alike and says

it's for, I'm trying to find the exact quote, but it's about, oh, coming of age is challenging for most children, but it can be especially tough for those grappling with their gender and sexual identities.

Gender.

So he mentions it.

But I've looked at the book, at least what I can find of it.

I have like four pages.

And it's really about a gay goose.

Oh, my goodness.

All of these people, Megan Kelly.

Laura Loomer, all these.

By the way,

I am never going to clip her again.

That clip that you played there is actually about a half an hour.

Oh, I know.

She repeats herself.

She's like a radio person.

You know,

these old radio people and TV people, they talk and then they wrap it around.

They talk.

I had to cut out so much where she just reiterated and came back and did this and that and put asides in there.

It's like, you know, when I have to clip Jesse Waters, it's the same thing.

He's got his sides, a little one-liners, and things that aren't

little mockery.

Jeez, it's a mess.

It's all of these people.

And

so, first of all, the whole controversy really stems from the fact that Casey, not even, not Callie, not even Casey.

And of course, she's so controversial because

is she really a doctor?

Did she quit her residency?

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

They came out of nowhere.

They had this book.

It's a best-selling book.

And they will not, and this is really what it's about.

The core of this is the trauma that I would say maha have, as in Maga, Maha,

about president, about

President Trump not saying,

hey, that vaccine sucked.

This is what it's about because neither of those two, the brother-sister combo, will actually say, yeah, that thing was not a good idea.

They keep hedging around it like, well, you know, look at a little bit.

Oh, hey, actually, Kelly addresses this exact point in the next clip.

Oh, excellent.

As a gay goose.

Okay, whatever.

By the way, it's her father.

It's not her.

Like, I don't.

Right.

Okay, so, like, if she had written this, maybe it would lead to a follow-up question at the hearings:

what do you think about children grappling with their gender identities?

That's really the question, isn't it?

What does Casey means think?

She is where I am

on this.

She is not pro the transing of children at all.

Her brother Callie right now is out there calling it demonic.

They're very close.

That's number one.

Then she points out, Loomer does, that she never completed her residency.

That is true.

I just gave you the context.

She points out she does not even have an active medical license in Oregon.

That's true because she decided to stop practicing medicine a couple of years into her private practice.

And to do, she has this company now that offers like

all-day glucose monitoring and explains to people how to read their blood levels when they get their lab test back and so on.

It sort of helps more millions as opposed to like individuals.

And I can speak to this as a lawyer.

I passed the bar in New York, in Illinois, and in Massachusetts.

Okay, so I was admitted in all those states.

I practiced at length in New York State, in Chicago, in Washington, D.C., for that matter.

And I wound up going dormant on all of my law licenses many years into joining you know journalism full-time because a it it costs money and b it's a lot of continuing legal education okay but she didn't talk about the vaccine there only well you know it got left on the cutting room floor because i i

got sick of it okay i'll tell you what she said she said that if callie

or is it casey i could never remember

both of these girls names i know casey casey we're talking about

callie is the one who's been on all these podcasts people have been firing at him for hours and hours and he will not denounce the COVID vaccine specific okay she says the following I did because I you're right I was supposed to be in that clip I turned it out because I couldn't take it anymore cutting cutting cutting cutting so she said that if she if she Casey

says she was anti-vec she would never get approved in a million years and so she they can't say it they can't so in other words she's implying that they believe it but they can't say it because then she would never get approved.

Okay, the bottom line is.

Well, actually, before I get to my bottom line.

Is there a bottom line to this?

Yeah, I think there is.

This is RFK Jr.

on the Casey Means appointment.

This was him on the Friendly Fox and Friends.

I'm very, very happy that I'm grateful to President Trump for nominating Casey as the Surgeon General.

The industries that are threatened by her nomination are mobilizing and they're actually paying a lot of bloggers.

We've learned now

to attack her.

They're attacking her on the

critique that she really, where's our dough?

Where's our check?

Where's our money?

Just at least offer it.

Practicing medicine.

Yeah, at least.

Come on.

I feel really left out.

We got a million people.

We've been left out of every

deal.

Every good deal.

Gold, gold, no gold.

We We got no gold.

She was at the top of her Stanford class.

She was president of her Stanford class.

As a resident, she won every award that you could get for the kind of surgery that she was doing.

But she realized very early on that she was not healing patients.

They were coming back again and again because the surgeries were treating the symptoms and not the underlying causes.

And she decided to devote her life to figuring out what those underlying causes were and to ending those exposures.

She wrote a best-selling book that really galvanized the Maha movement.

And

Rachel, I'm very glad to you, I'm very, very grateful to you for the leadership that you've shown in

telling this story to the American public.

Casey is an incredible storyteller.

She is a pregnant mom right now, so

she has a touchstone with every mother in this country.

Okay, so what RFK Jr.

is doing here is he is debunking and

clapping back at Laura Loomer because Laura Loomer

posted that there's no evidence she's pregnant.

Why are we hiring pregnant women?

They have to go on pregnancy leave.

And

these people are being paid.

And as I said, Callie was like, no, you're being paid.

So RFK Jr.

is basically saying you are being paid.

That's the funny part of it, by the way.

I wish he had some clips of that.

Well, there's no bagging for for it.

There's no clips.

It's just

two of them bickering on Twitter.

All of these people, and then we can move on.

All of these people,

let me just get my thought out.

All of these people, Megan Kelly, Laura Loomer, all the influences who keep coming back to this thing, which really doesn't matter that much.

I mean, the Surgeon General, did we stop smoking because the Surgeon General's, because Coop said it's going to kill you?

No.

The Surgeon General is the Surgeon General.

And in your original newsletter, you pointed out no one even knows who the last surgeon general was.

These influencers, and I'll put Laura Loomer and Megan Kelly in there, they're like dogs returning to their own vomit.

They just keep coming back.

Oh, wow.

Thank you.

I like it.

Thank you.

Oh, you all worked on that one.

I worked on that one.

But that's what it is.

Who cares?

Yeah, it's another thing.

Like, oh,

God.

The Fredericksburg, the Fredericksburg um

oh rumor network is in high gear oh oh

they're building a sharia

no your point is well taken why who cares as the surgeon general no it's not like you know the secretary of state because of the trump that that particular part is because of the trauma of COVID.

And they're all secretly very mad that Trump has never said,

yeah, I don't think that vaccine was so good.

He says the opposite, although he's dialed that back even.

It's a trauma.

It is a trauma amongst people who voted for Trump.

It's trauma.

If he would, it would all end if he just said that.

And I think his ego's in the way on that one.

Or maybe he knows something we don't.

Anyway, the next thing.

And we talked about this months ago.

Oh,

oh, they're building an entire Sharia law city in Texas.

Oh, yeah.

Well, before we go into that, I do want to get the one.

I do have a couple, one more Casey means.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't.

I knew it was.

We weren't doing that.

Okay.

I got you.

You were making moves and I wasn't paying attention.

I'm sorry.

You weren't.

You were taking the cue.

I was trying to get my one-liner out.

That's why.

I was focused on that.

Yes, you develop these things about once a month.

Oh, once a month that you catch it.

Yeah, okay.

Well, that's probably true.

I use probably twice a month, and I only catch one.

Yeah.

And

then you add Lib at least, you add Lib twice as many as you actually develop.

So I give you credit for that.

Thank you.

Casey Means was on the Bill Maher show.

Oh, this past Friday?

No, no.

It was like a month ago or a long ago.

Oh, okay.

All right.

After a book came out, and she was the special guest.

And, you know, this is when they used to have when Mar had the two guests on his right, and then he'd have one special guest on his left.

Yes.

Which he's kind of backed off of.

Yeah, we had, well,

the special guest is the guest in the beginning who then comes out later for the panel discussion.

During overtime.

Sometimes or sometimes not.

It's all

the variation.

He changes his model a little bit.

It's a strange format.

I don't particularly like it.

So she is on, but these clips have nothing to do with her except for the fact that they triggered something that I had to make some commentary on before we talk about Sharia law in Texas, which I think is also a Fredericksburg freak out.

No,

it's bigger than that, but we can get to that.

Well, it could be.

It could be.

But let me get this out of the way.

But

you brought it back up.

It does involve a rant,

which you enjoy.

Okay.

Meaning.

So

here's Bill Maher,

and the topic changes out of the blue as he has Chris Cuomo and some other guy and Casey Means on, and then it slowly twists.

Where are these clips?

What are they called?

Means.

Means on Marr.

Means on Marr one, yeah.

There's a lot of stuff in our food that probably shouldn't be there.

And every time they look, the more they look, the more they find that can kill you.

Gambling.

Everybody's head is going like this.

Yeah, I think the food's a problem.

My question to you is: if everybody's head is nodding like this, what is keeping anything from ever happening that moves us in the direction that you're doing?

The food is delicious.

That's the problem.

I would say, I would say.

That's the reason.

Honestly, who comes back from Italy saying, I can't wait to get some ragu?

That's right.

I mean, Italy, the food is all, it's more delicious than the food.

We don't live in Italy.

You live near McDonald's.

Not yet.

That was Casey jumping in there?

Yes, she's trying to get a word in Edgewood, but but Mar is out of control.

And then he says the following things, which got, I didn't record any of her.

I didn't care.

It's mostly this is the issue.

This is not rocket science.

But I don't get our food safe.

I'm not talking about like.

The food is delicious.

It is.

In America.

If I had six months to live,

I'd eat McDonald's every night.

And if I ate McDonald's every night, I'd have six months to live.

Yes.

So look, I was on his.

McDonald's isn't delicious.

Who are we fucking kidding?

I absolutely

liked it.

It's delicious.

See, it's so, I mean, you should talk.

I never have it, but it's delicious.

And how do you know?

I've had it.

They changed the formula.

I don't think so.

And here comes the rest.

That's what got my attention.

The formula change, yes.

So I have stories.

Because I used to work as an air pollution inspector, and I got to inspect all these places.

A number of them were McDonald's jobbers.

They changed the formula all the time.

And if he doesn't think they changed the formula, somebody should tell him about the difference between the tallow fries that they used to make, which are famous, and oh, delicious McDonald's fries, to the crap they make now, which are soggy

seed oil fries.

There's a formula change, isn't there?

But the original McDonald's formula for the sauce on the Big Mac

was largely developed by Morehouse Mustards, which used to be headquartered in Ameryville.

And I used to inspect that plant a lot, and I got to know this guy, George Latter.

Wait a minute, that's their secret sauce.

Isn't it secret the sauce?

It's a secret, yeah.

Yeah, okay.

Isn't it Thousand Islands dressing?

Doesn't everybody already know?

No, no, no.

The kicker was, he said, Latter told me when they blended it, the original blend was with fresh horseradish, and that's what made the original Big Mac so tasty because of the horseradish that was in there.

And he says, as soon as they went into full production and within a year, they changed the horseradish to a powdered horseradish, which was bland.

Ugh.

Formula change, by the way, for poor Bill Maher, who thinks these burgers still taste like they used to.

I've also tasted the burgers in the McDonald's burgers in Paris because they have a McDonald's on, or they used to have one on the Champs-Élysées.

And you taste it, it doesn't taste anything like these burgers.

They're totally different.

The bread's different.

Everything's different about them.

Also, the bread used to be made.

Another inspection I made was the Kirkpatrick's or Kilpatrick's

bread factory in Oakland, which the company went out of business during the era of balloon bread, where you had,

if I remember, Kilpatrick's, Wonder Bread,

Langendorf, Sunbeam, Blue Seal.

There's all these different bread companies.

They all made this

same kind of fluffy white bread.

And they made the McDonald's burger buns.

And the guy, the thing I noticed about it, he says, yeah, he said they had to have a special, they had a template.

So the bun would be, as the bun was just after it was, before it was being tempered,

they smashed the bun with this like temp, like these little blades.

They weren't blades, they were just pushers.

And they put a cross-hatch pattern on the bread.

And the guy

manager says to me, he says, that's to make it look as though the bread was folded

it's just fake whatever happened to wonder bread by the way i love my wonderbread wonderbread's still around but the other balloon breads are all gone if you want to if there's a fun movie to watch michael keaton in the founder it came out in 2016 yes about roy croc yes and because it what triggered because we watched this maybe two weeks ago what triggered me is that they went to the powdered horseradish.

That was one of the ways he got the company going is by using powdered milk for the milkshakes in the early days.

And I'm sure that, and they change that, of course, later as well.

So yeah,

Bill Martin

is going on about they don't change the formula.

So just to top it off, as you know, I have been tasting McDonald's Big Macs at least once a show.

Once a month.

Once a month.

And I stopped a year ago.

Because you were getting sick?

No, I couldn't eat.

I couldn't finish one.

They were so, the latest version is so unedible.

And

for Maury to say it's delicious, he's way, he obviously doesn't eat there.

No.

It's not even close to delicious.

It's not edible.

No.

If I have a stomachache, I'll go to McDonald's so I can poop it out.

That stuff never, that stuff goes.

I mean, you're just the middleman at McDonald's.

You just like eat it and it's raised right before I'm not even home.

I'm like, I got to go.

Okay.

Enough about.

I just had to get that off my chest.

Yes.

Well, hopefully the new Surgeon General will unveil all things unhealthy.

And I will take RFK Jr.

at his word that there's all kinds of money floating.

Look, Big Pharma is big.

They know the media is changing.

They know that their phony baloney CBS morning show segments, that that's not really, you know,

it's really not going to last much longer.

Five years, ten years, I don't know, maybe five months.

People are moving.

If you ban, if you ban advertising, there you go.

You have to ban the native ads.

You have to ban the native ads.

There's no native ads for smoking.

They won't even let you smoke in a movie half the time until it gets bent out of shape.

Yeah.

So if they're going to ban advertising on television for

prescription drugs, they have to ban

the native ads well my point is they know change is coming one way or the other and they're fighting it and they're fighting it in the in the correct ways what i would do we'd have the meeting hey let's get let's cut some checks is rogan doable no okay what's next lumer okay we'll start with her

yeah megan kelly hmm

you know well like you know i can run it by her

bob

I can run it by her, Bob.

I can run it by her, Bob.

You can see we get it.

Did you try to say anything?

If you run it by her, uh, no, I know her.

She's not going to say anything.

She's not going to do it.

She'll assure me.

She's not going to say anything.

So I can run it by her.

If she doesn't do it, she doesn't do it.

If she does it, she does.

I don't know.

We'll find out.

So you know, that's exactly what goes on.

Of course, of course.

And part of the meeting is always, how about those no agenda guys?

Nah, they're no good.

Those guys.

Those guys.

They'll fuck it up anyway.

Exactly.

They'll deconstruct themselves.

And before you know it.

Everybody's on to us.

We can't do that, Bob.

Can't do that.

Yeah.

No, I was just saying it was kind of related to the influencers that the Fred freak off.

I'm calling it that now.

The Fredericksburg freak off.

Everyone's all bent out of shape because influencers are out there again.

Like,

they're building an entire Sharia law city right outside of Plano.

And,

you know,

we know that they've not built anything.

There's a mosque.

Well, they got some nice drawings.

Yeah, you can drive I-10.

You'll see 100 mosques if you drive it long enough.

There's mosques everywhere, but it's not like this city has been built and

it's being projected now as it's here.

It's Sharia law.

They want to take over.

And so it got so.

That's probably true.

Well, that may be true, but

so

Abbott had to come out and say, hey,

they're not going to, they can't even start construction.

They have no permits.

They don't have the authorization.

So they're playing it legally.

Because obviously in America,

if you want to have

a big campus for your Scientology, you can do it.

If you want to have a big campus

for your Islam, you can do it.

Now, you can't all of a sudden have different rule of law.

And that's really what he's focusing on here.

But it's just amazing how

there's so much going on in the world.

And somehow these things just get spun up.

Just spun up.

And like, calm down.

I'm tired of being the guy who says, come, people are starting to not like me.

You're no fun, Curry.

I thought you were a conspiracy guy.

And you're just debunking it.

Yeah, what happened to you?

You're like debunk bot.

What happened is I got burned.

I got burned one too many times.

That's what happened.

I got burned with the quantum dots, man.

I got burned.

The quantum dots.

Yeah, actually, that did change you.

Oh, yeah.

It burned me.

Well, how do you think Pachenek feels?

He went on Alex Jones' show and brought this out, yaked about it, and Alex was laughing in his face.

Yeah.

But Pachenek never contacts me anymore.

No, not even a, hey, how you doing?

Oh, it's too bad.

I know he should have been able to snap out of it.

I think he was really burnt bad, but it was he's just kind of like

if you feel a snap back from that.

I don't even know if he does anything anymore.

I think he just kind of retired, like slunk back into the shadows.

He needs to snap out of it.

Anyway,

yes, I still love Steve.

He's got good stories.

He's a funny guy.

Well, he's a great character.

He's got good stories.

So lots of action in Europe because now that President President Trump is trying to get things to calm down between Russia and Ukraine,

the mod squad had to get together.

That's Mertz.

And yes, thank you, everybody.

We know that Friedrich Mertz indeed has the same initials as Fred Mertz of I Love Lucy.

That was a big email I got.

I can't believe you missed it.

I can't believe you missed it.

How'd you miss that one?

How'd you miss that one?

Mertz, Macron, Starmer, and Tusk Tusk

Tusk of Poland.

Yeah, Tusk in Poland.

Yeah.

They all went to

Kyiv to a little meeting.

Four European allies of Ukraine on Saturday vowed to impose more sanctions on Russia and increase military aid to Kyiv if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not accept an unconditional thirty-day ceasefire.

The leaders, under the umbrella of the Coalition of the Willing, said that their proposal for a ceasefire starting on Monday was supported by US President Donald Trump.

So we are clear.

All five leaders here, all the leaders of the meeting we just had with the Coalition of the Willing.

I'm sorry, I should have said the leaders of the Coalition of the Willing.

Anybody else in Europe, just listen up because these are your new leaders.

An unconditional ceasefire, rejecting Putin's conditions,

and clear that if he turns his back one piece, we will respond.

The move appeared to have ramped up pressure on Russia, as President Putin, hours later, called for direct talks with Ukraine without preconditions.

Now, I'm pretty sure you have some stuff on that, too, but I just want to get through what happened in this 24-hour period.

Then Fred Mertz

He came out and

kind of wishy-washy talked about, well, you know, you can put it, we'll get you into the EU, and then after that, maybe NATO, I think, if, you know, something like that.

I chair the assessment of the Secretary General when it comes to membership for Ukraine.

I would like to add that Ukraine has an accession perspective for the European Union.

I think, in terms of timeframes, this will be before accession to NATO, if it happens one day.

And it needs to be clear that Ukraine decides in a sovereign way on the path it wants to take.

It has decided to file for membership of the European Union.

You know the criteria for such an accession.

And if Ukraine fulfills these criteria, it is a welcome member within the European Union.

Ukraine is and has to remain a sovereign actor deciding on its own political and military alliances.

In other words, no.

This is just a big fat no.

No, you're not going to get in.

You're not going to get into NATO.

You can file, you can file, but you have to be sovereign.

No, that's a big no.

He's standing next to

while he's doing this speech, of course, if you've got the coalition of the willing, our boy Mark Ruth is right there.

Well, the whole of NATO agreed on the irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO, but we never agreed that as part of a peace deal.

Ho-ho, ho-ho,

Volodymyr, Zelensky, we've never agreed you can get into NATOs.

There would be a guaranteed NATO membership for Ukraine.

No, no.

It's never agreed.

There was never said dudes, never, never.

But in the long term, the NATO alliance has said yes, there will be this perspective of NATO, NATO membership.

Perspective?

Yes, maybe.

If you're a good boy.

For the longer term, not for

the peace negotiations ongoing at the moment.

No.

As I said before, I'm happy that the American President and glad that he

wrote the deadlock that progress is being made, and I completely agree with the German Chancellor

on the thirty-day ceasefire and that the bull is now clearly in Russia's court.

Oh no!

Oh no!

It is the half-court, not the full court.

What are you talking about, Mark?

That will piss off John C.

On the Zeiter Russia's

exactly true.

And

at the moment, there is a close cooperation between

NATO and Ukraine.

We have the command in Wiesbana, which is organizing the military aid into Ukraine.

We organize

together and jointly the training for the Ukrainian armed forces.

We are catching all the lessons

which we are gathering in Ukraine together with Ukrainians in our centre in Poland.

So there is a lot happening

at the moment.

So no to NATO, you're not going to get in, but we gave you some NATO goodies for man, so shit up a little bit.

And of course,

of course, Rutte could not leave the meeting without a little sales pitch.

You know, there are many rumors floating around.

It's true that we are having internal discussions now within NATO what will be the best way to make sure that we can fulfill all our tasks as NATO going forward in the future.

And including, of course,

given the fact that we acknowledge the long-term threat Russia is posing.

So it will mean

an absolute increase in defense spending.

So we're not going to confirm the figures.

So don't worry about the truce or a ceasefire.

they're a long-term threat, you need to spend your money.

Obviously, when you increase defense spending, you have to think about all the enabling.

Oh, yes,

it's not just bullets, it's a lot of stuff, man.

Yes, I've always said this:

if we stick at the 2%, we cannot defend ourselves.

We have to really increase defense spending.

Increase!

But that is not enough.

We also have to build the defense industrial base.

They go hand in hand because there are strong deterrence in defense.

We can defend ourselves now.

But to be able in five years' time

to defend ourselves and to keep the deterrence and defense at the level we need,

we need only to spend much more, but also to build that defense industrial base across the Atlantic, across the whole Euro-Atlantic area, including the United States and Canada and all the European countries in NATO.

It's crucial.

We need to do both.

I said it before.

The Russians are producing in three months in ammunition what the whole of NATO, which is 25 times bigger, 25 times bigger than Russia in terms of the overall economy.

We produce in one year in ammunition, what they produce in three months.

So that's not sustainable.

So this is both spending and more production.

The message is clear.

That guy get in working on commission.

No, he's not smart enough for that.

It's all up for him.

I don't know.

He seems pretty smart to me the more I hear it.

Well, according to our president, he's a great guy.

He was a great prime minister of the Netherlands.

He's just awesome.

He's just

Mark.

Mark, you were the best.

You just did a great job, man.

Just great.

That's a typical show business thing, typical of Trump.

I'm a fan of your fan of your work, man.

Big fan of your work.

I've worked with a lot of different people.

You're absolutely the best.

It's unbelievable.

I really feel privileged to be here in your presence.

The line is: big fan of your work, man.

Big fan of your work.

Big fan of your work.

Big fan of your work.

Big fan of your work.

Big fan.

Big, big fan of your work.

Whenever you hear that,

that's a Hollywood bull crap slide.

Yeah, pull up your

browsers.

Step in it.

So, of course,

is what everyone's looking at right now.

You have a Putin clip here?

You got something?

I got a couple of Putin clips.

I got two clips.

One's a shorty from BBC World News,

World Service.

Sorry.

Let's start with that.

In the past few minutes, President Putin has appeared live on television saying Russia seeks serious talks with Ukraine to remove the root causes of the conflict.

He said he was offering immediate direct talks with Ukraine to take place in the Turkish city of Istanbul next Thursday, the 15th of May.

He said he had never rejected dialogue with Kiev.

Details are still coming in.

By the way, while the BBC is waiting for details, whenever you're ready, I have a bullet point translation of Putin's speech, his press conference.

I only have one more clip and you can go right after that.

I just thought that that particular BBC clip, which was kind of to the point,

just contradicted everything.

But okay,

let's go to NPR and this is the Russia-Ukraine little ditty.

European leaders in Ukraine today pressed Russian President Putin to accept a 30-day unconditional ceasefire or face more sanctions.

If you're a Joanna Kakisis reports, the leaders say President Trump also supports this proposal.

The leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Poland traveled to Kiev in their first joint appearance.

They joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a meeting of Western nations supporting Ukraine.

Other leaders participated online via video link.

Zelensky and the four European leaders in Kyiv also called President Trump.

Zelensky told reporters Trump supports the ceasefire proposal.

It's quite possible to monitor this ceasefire in coordination with the United States, Zelensky said.

The ceasefire could start as early as Monday if Russia agrees to it.

However, the Kremlin says it will oppose a ceasefire unless Western countries stop providing military aid to Ukraine.

So very poor

from NPR and BBC.

I mean, we have the best producers who speak Russian and translate stuff for us.

So here's a multi-billion bully bullet bullet point, bullet point

of

Russian President Putin's press conference.

in order of appearance.

The Kiev regime has repeatedly violated the 30-day moratorium on attacks on energy facilities.

The Easter truce was violated more than 5,000 times.

Moscow has

repeatedly put forward ceasefire initiatives.

Kiev has sabotaged them.

Russia has considered a further ceasefire based on Kiev's behavior during previous ceasefires.

Since May 6th, the Kiev authorities have launched large-scale attacks on Russia, 524 drones.

During the days of the declared ceasefire, Ukraine has repeatedly attempted to attack the state border of the Russian Federation.

All attacks have been repelled.

The attacks were carried out solely for political reasons.

The enemy suffered heavy losses.

The Kiev authorities not only rejected the ceasefire proposals, but also tried to intimidate the foreign leaders gathered in Moscow.

That was on the 8th.

Who were they trying to intimidate?

The leaders who came to us were not leaders by position, but by character, and they were threatened by those who elevate former SS men to the rank of heroes.

Russia is grateful to all foreign leaders for their efforts to end the Ukrainian conflict.

The Kiev regime has repeatedly violated the 30-day moratorium on attacks.

Hold on, I got that part.

The Ukrainian armed forces should not rearm and dig in during the ceasefire.

The decision is up to the leadership of Ukraine and their curators.

who want to continue the war with the hands of the Ukrainian nationalists.

President Putin proposes Ukraine resume direct negotiations without any preconditions.

We propose to begin Thursday, May 15th in Istanbul, the very place where they are interrupted in 2022.

Our offer is on the table.

Now it is up to the Ukrainian authorities and their handlers.

This brings me to, this is interesting.

But the interesting part is the 524 drones, which brings me to a clip that I had produced about a month ago.

And maybe you can try looking it up,

which we never played on the show, which was about drones, drones being produced in Ukraine

by a factory there.

And they've got,

they're making drones, and you know, they're not using Iranian drones or anybody else's drones.

They're actually making drones

by the tons.

And this is like their new business that they do.

And it's never been talked about since.

I have

a,

this is from last month.

Yeah, two clips.

Kubi.

Now, during recent talks in Saudi Arabia, both Kyiv and Moscow confirmed their commitments to stop attacking each other's infrastructure, energy infrastructure.

But Ukrainian President Zelensky has already accused Russia of violating that agreement.

And Ukraine

says Ukraine drone maker.

Oh, well, maybe it is.

I think it played out.

I just don't remember.

It's so long.

I can remember how the clip's structured.

Question: Is it willing to ground its long-range drones used to strike oil facilities?

The BBC's Abdujalil Abdurasulov has visited a secret Ukrainian facility where they make them.

At a secret location, Ukrainian engineers work on the development of new long-range drones.

They drill, glue, and assemble parts of a model called Raybird.

This drone can cover a distance of more than thousand kilometers and stay in the air for up to 28 hours.

Wow.

So it can easily reach cities like Moscow.

Raybird is effectively a spy aircraft.

Roman Knizhenko, the head of Skython, the company that develops these drones.

The idea was to create the system that can control and monitor

big areas or extended areas like borders of the country and so on.

And it's one of the most advanced systems in the world right now in terms of reconnaissance.

It's not too many

aircraft able to work so deep on the enemy territory.

Raybird identifies targets and directs fire.

Among the targets are Russia's oil refineries and fuel depots.

Okay.

Yeah, that brings us to the point that was just made when Putin, according to the list of talking points, said that they're still attacking the infra in energy infrastructure.

These drones are the ones that are responsible, and that also connects to the 524 drones that were launched against Russia,

whether they're ballistic or not.

I just found that's why that information triggered my thoughts on this old clip that we never addressed.

But let's play the second part.

Well, so he refers to the 2022 talks in Istanbul.

Isn't that where Boris Johnson thwarted everything, or was that before Boris?

I thought Johnson went straight to Kiev to do that.

I'm not sure.

But I don't really remember.

I can't, honestly, I don't remember them doing the talks in Istanbul at all.

I have one more clip here.

This is former Ukrainian negotiator Volker.

A meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is clearly on the rudder, the Kremlin

said.

But as Moscow seems to be sending the signals about its willingness to meet the U.S.

President, what is the response from Washington?

Difficult.

Former U.S.

Special Representative for Ukraine negotiations told Eurynews Donald Donald Trump would want to meet Putin as well, but under certain conditions.

I do think he would like to meet Putin, but after there's a ceasefire.

He wants to end the war, and then he would like to rebuild a relationship with Russia.

He thinks that you could reintegrate Russia into a global economy.

You could do business deals with Russia.

But Putin has to stop the war first.

And as Putin is not doing that,

the prospects for a Trump-Putin meeting are looking farther and farther away.

It doesn't seem to me that the EU and their aspiring entrant, Ukraine, really want peace.

It just doesn't seem to be a peace.

Well, I think we've determined that already on this show.

Yeah.

That the EU is a bunch of warmongers and they don't want peace.

They want peace.

And they're going to do anything to stop it.

They want to spend more money on military stuffs.

It's sad.

well you know they get their their titaneringer for doing stuff like this

you know we were talking about the uh

about

a big fan of your work just staying in europe but really this is more about tariffs with uh with queen ursula this is our president

uh complimenting the queen are you planning to meet ursula von der Leyen uh the president or the European Council anytime soon oh she's so fantastic

She's so fantastic.

I hope we're going to meet.

Yeah, the answer is yes.

I saw her, actually, I saw her a few days ago.

And I think that we'll definitely meet.

The European Union is a big thing.

They want to make a deal very badly.

You know, everybody wants to make a deal.

Look, everybody wants to make a deal with the United States.

And we're doing that.

And

we're going to make fair deals.

I'm just honored that this was the first one.

I just love her, man.

I'm a big fan of her work.

Ursula, Queen Ursula, she's the best.

Well, as you remember from the Cochrane clip, where

he looks, Trump is a natural at finding weak spots.

It's obvious by her hairdo and the way she handles herself that

she would love to be flattered.

Oh, well, it's funny you say that because they asked Queen Ursula about this.

If after Trump, President Trump yesterday said that yourself you are a fantastic leader, do you think that now you are closer to visiting the White House and when that could that be?

So thank

I like compliments in general.

So

negotiations, as always,

nothing is negotiated till everything is negotiated.

So it's against the simple rules of negotiations if you

give in between details which are not totally agreed now with the whole package.

Therefore, unfortunately,

I will of course not go into any kind of details,

but this is

all the negotiations in the very end have to be concluded.

We were always transparent from the very beginning.

We always said we prefer a negotiated solution, but we also develop countermeasures, and this is now the process where we have to develop these countermeasures to put this instrument on the table.

We have other instruments on the table.

We will not take anything off the table until we have a satisfactory result.

Blah blah blah.

But for me, it's important that if I go to the White House, I want to have a package.

I've got instruments on the table and I want a package.

You're going to get a package.

Who wants a package bad?

You're going to get the package.

I'm pretty sure you get the package.

So you're right.

She must be an easy seller because she's the one, even though, I mean, she's good at covering it up, but that deal that she made for the vaccines.

Oh, that's going to come out.

No, the what's the

I don't know if that's ever going to come out.

Well, the crazy, not crazy, but the German woman in the EU parliament with the black hair, the short black hair.

What's her name?

You know what I'm talking about?

She's like,

this is no good.

She's finally got her commission together.

What's her name again?

I don't know.

Yeah,

she's a bulldog.

Hold on a second.

EU

Commission

Vaccines COVID.

Come on, what is her name?

You know her name.

I can't.

Come on, troll room.

Anyway,

she finally

has her commission or committee commission, whatever it is.

And

she's out on the social saying it's all going to come out.

We're going to get to SMS gate.

Yeah.

I'm predicting nothing's going to come of it.

Well, you're so skeptical.

The Epstein docs are going to drop any day.

I'm waiting for that one.

And the millions of tapes.

And if you notice, Bill Gates starting to show up all over the place talking about his $200 million.

It's interesting you say that.

First of all, just a background.

First of all, he shows up on NPR's news hour, or sorry, PBS News Hour.

And he's interviewed by the woman there, and he's going on and on.

He's sitting there with some douche that is the head of the

new guy, never seen him before, the head of the Gates Foundation.

And they're going on about, he's going to drop, I'm going to drop 200 billion, I'm going to drop it.

Yeah.

And then he shows up on Colbert

all of a sudden.

And all this came all coincidentally, all came up after Pam Bondi shows up with her, all right, we got 10,000 videotapes of all these guys screwing girls.

What are we going to do with it?

We're going through them one by one.

It'll take a while.

So he's going to close the foundation.

Yeah.

He's going to give away all his money.

That's

Twilighted or something, Moonlighted, or I forget the term he uses.

I don't think I'm looking at the.

Oh, well, let's see what his social media post was.

I'm looking at Bloomberg talking about it.

Bill Gates plans to give away virtually all his $113 billion.

Here's the impacts.

But it

doesn't say it.

But I don't understand.

This guy's given away all his money 100 times with Buffett and then Buffett again.

he's really made this a

profit center somehow.

Big time.

Yeah,

I agree with you.

I thought that was really interesting.

Like the minute

it kind of heats up in Epstein land, he's like, I'm going to give away there's no money.

No money.

Look at me.

Look at me.

I'm great.

Nobody's going to hate a guy who can give away this kind of money to help the poor.

Well, how about that?

And I'm closing it down so I can take some and get on my yacht and sail away.

That's what you want to do.

Get on your yacht.

You have to keep people investigating non-extradition countries as we speak.

Yeah, what's a good one to go to for him?

Argentina.

Hey, speaking of the South, this kind of slipped by us, but did you

even follow this story from Rubio and the Venezuelan hostages?

No.

No, yeah.

Hey, listen to this.

Right now, we're following breaking news.

Rubio posted on X saying that following an operation, all the members are on U.S.

soil tonight.

The opposition group had been taking shelter at the Argentine embassy in Caracas for more than a year to avoid arrest by the Maduro regime.

It's still not clear how the opposition members exited the embassy.

This is language.

This is setting up for something.

When you say, he rescued them, the operation, what was this?

Was this like with helicopters and black ops?

What happened here?

I've gotten nothing since this report.

It has to be some sort of black op where you have the guys in skies.

What is it, though?

Or is it just, you know, setting up Venezuela?

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Venezuela is being set up for something.

Possibly.

Possibly.

Well, they do have to find these mechanisms to sneak people out of the embassies around the world in both all countries.

You got somebody somebody in there trying to get out of there.

That's another thing.

I just love the Fred Freakoff networks.

So the latest.

You know, USAID never went away.

By the way, the

Freak Out network in the nearby communities there is a gold mine.

It's the best.

It's the best.

And I tell them flat out, I'm talking about this on the show.

They're like, yeah, you should because it's important.

You should.

No, that's exactly what you would say if you're that type of person.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but get the word out.

These are my friends.

I love them.

But

I laugh at them right.

I'm like, oh, come on, man.

No, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

So the latest is

USAID never went away.

It just all got folded into the State Department and Rubio is not to be trusted.

To which I actually had to say, well,

that's some reasonable thought.

It's not out of control.

They actually did close down USAID and people like Samantha Powers are no longer in control of it.

But yes, of course, USAID was a CIA

slush fund, and the State Department is the CIA home.

Well, the State Department has their own agency, they're not the CIA's home necessary.

They work together, but all the embassies is where the spooks go in.

I mean, let's just be honest about it.

They work very closely together.

And, you know, Rubio, yeah, okay.

Yeah.

Who knows?

We'll find out about Rubio.

So that was one.

What was the other one?

Oh,

Susie, Susie Wiles.

Yeah.

Snake.

She's a snake.

Snake?

She's a snake.

She's not to be trusted.

She's the chief of staff, Susie Wiles?

There used to be a football announcer named Summerhall.

Summer Hill, Summer Hall.

What the hell is his last name?

Very famous.

He used to work with John Madden on the NFL broadcasts.

That's her dad.

Oh, yeah, I think we knew that somehow.

Yeah.

So, yes.

So she had broadcasting chops.

I guess my

overall

observation is that there's a lot of,

you know, now everyone's looking, who can we trust?

Who can we trust?

Who can we not trust?

There's snakes everywhere.

There's stuff going on.

There's lots of things.

Now, of course, you know, so then they'll ask me like, what do you think about the chemtrails?

Like, well, that's real, obviously.

So, you know, I'm on their side too.

But

the Fred Freak Out or Freak Off network is amazing.

I love it.

I love them.

I love it.

And they always come to me if they need to be calmed down.

Except Chemtrail's like, no, that's not real, man.

They're calming down about that.

They're spraying us like bugs.

That's the worst thing you think.

Now, this, I made a call.

I made a big call out and I called out our producers.

I'm like,

where are you, people?

Where are you, people?

And it happened.

I hope you,

I know what you're going to go into, and I would hope that we have some information.

I think this whole thing is a fraud.

Delays mounted again at one of the nation's most important international hubs today.

If only they could blame it all on the weather.

Our scopes just went black again.

If you care about this, contact your airline and try to get some pressure for them to fix this stuff.

Sorry to hear about that.

Federal 1989 fortune.

Good luck, Adam.

For the third time in two weeks, radars failed at a facility in Philadelphia where controllers managed the airspace in and around Newark Airport.

They were unable to see where planes were in relation to one another, and it lasted for 90 seconds.

The so-called Philadelphia Tracon has been the center of controversy since the FAA forced controllers who handle Newark to move from a similar center on Long Island.

It's their new digs, loaded with technology that was state-of-the-art in the 1970s, that have failed repeatedly, leaving controllers traumatized and taking leave, thus reducing the number of flights allowed to fly to Newark, a necessary safety restriction that's led to hours-long delays.

Governor, it's been almost two weeks since the Newark airport incident went.

Today, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy ignored questions about the situation at his state's most important airport.

Yesterday, U.S.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy used Newark as Exhibit A in his multi-billion dollar push to overhaul the entire nation's system.

You will see Newarks, not just in Newark, you'll see Newarks in other parts of the country because it's an aging system.

And so we have to actually upgrade it.

But that coast-to-coast project will take years to complete.

The White House stressing temporary fixes are already underway to strengthen the resiliency of the Philadelphia facility that's caused all this chaos.

The FAA are working to address this technical issue tonight to prevent further outages, as well as install new fiber from Newark airport to Philadelphia.

And the goal is to have the totality of this work done by the end of the summer.

Okay, so that report actually buried the lead of

our girl in the White House, Levitt.

I need to play her entire one-minute segment on this

crisis.

Yes, I'm glad you asked about the FAA.

There was a glitch in the system this morning.

$19.99 glitches.

It's just a glitch.

And put a ghostie on there, will you?

So I do not accept from as much as we like you, Miss Levitt, saying it's a glitch is a cop-out.

It's bull crap.

And of course, not a single one of the journalists in the briefing room, including whoever was in the new media seat, said what exactly is a glitch.

Okay.

Yes, I'm glad you asked about the FAA.

There was a glitch in the system this morning, especially at Newark Airport, as you all know.

I spoke to the Department of Transportation.

That glitch was caused by the same telecoms and software issues that were raised last week.

Everything went back online after the brief outage, and there was no operational impact.

DOT and the FAA are working to address this technical issue tonight to prevent further outages, as well as install new fiber from Newark airport to Philadelphia.

And the goal is to have the totality of this work done by the end of the summer.

There's a four-part infrastructure plan that was released by the Secretary of Transportation yesterday to improve communication, surveillance, automation, and their facilities.

They want to replace the antiquated telecom systems with new fiber, wireless, and satellite technologies, replace more than 600 radars, which have gone way past their life cycle, and address runway safety.

They want to build six new air traffic control centers for the first time since the 1960s and replace towers as well.

They want to implement

new modern hardware and software for all traffic facilities to create a common platform system throughout the towers.

Okay.

Well, John, you already guessed it.

Of course, they just happen to have this six-year plan for all these new radar systems and

everything.

I just released this today.

It's coincidental.

This is a total setup, total bullcrap.

And I cite from our boots on the ground from not one, but two air traffic controllers.

They happen to live together, the anonymous controller and his anonymous controller wife.

Because we had the best producers in the universe.

And they said, hey, okay, we heard you.

We thought it was such a non-event.

We didn't even bother to talk to you.

But yes, of course.

It sounds like a couple of things, possibly.

A scheduled outage, a work of sabotage to grab headlines for money.

The controllers taking leave is nothing.

Sick leave is abused by controllers regularly.

Rarely are there any questions asked.

So, right there, we already know that part of the

spokesman is scamming.

On the scheduled outage side, if there was a headline for every time an aircraft went Nordo, and what is Nordo?

No operations radio, something or other.

And frequencies went out momentarily, it would be as often as the weather segment on your local news station.

An example of this, when the Nashville RV bomber happened a few years back, that explosion affected our main frequencies, standbys, and backups in four sectors, I believe affecting Memphis center frequencies as well, which is very busy.

Mass chaos ensued after.

However, regardless of what the Trump administration is trying to sell in the clips provided, the United States is the best ATC system in the world, and we are the best controllers in the world.

Foam finger number one.

No one knows what this magic is.

Can I stop for a second?

Yes.

This is the reason nobody wrote in right away.

They thought it was, like, this is.

He's expressing what it was.

What?

Why?

Should we send something in?

No, no, this is

all the time.

Why are we writing a note to Adam about this?

So you had to bitch and moan and bitch and moan and bitch and moan.

You finally got somebody to say, okay, here's the reason.

Yes.

That makes sense.

Referring to Secretary Duffy, and I have the clip here.

What is this magical system Duffy is talking about?

No one knows.

Reality is, even if it's passed tomorrow, it won't be implemented for 10 years, and by then it's out of date.

That's how government works.

Again, you want to help ATC system?

It's no keyboards or fancy screens.

It's weather, ground, radar, updates, and comms.

That's how you improve the system.

Side note, we're huge Trump supporters still don't understand what all this means or what it even looks like.

And they listen to you, John.

The antiquated radio systems.

That's part of the problem.

The Trump administration is detailing plans for what it calls the biggest overhaul of air traffic control in the country's history.

NBC's Tom Costello is in Washington.

Tom, it's a pretty tall task ahead.

Whoa, Tom!

Yeah, it it really is.

And Secretary Sean Duffy says it will take three to four years and cost many billions of dollars.

But the country must upgrade from its 50-year-old ATC systems that really suffer serious glitches every single week.

The plan calls for a brand new radio system, fiber optic data feeds, and new radars.

Radios and radars recently went down in Newark, leaving controllers in the dark.

The DOT also wants to build new towers, new traycons, new runway safety systems.

The nation's airlines, controller, and pilot unions all support the plan, saying air travel needs an urgent upgrade and a safety fix.

Keyword unions all support the system.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, it'll happen.

They'll get them something.

But

the other shoe that will drop, I'm just waiting for it, is this is because Pete Budigs did nothing.

He was actually, that's the main thing.

That's coming.

Did you get the clip of Trump talking about him and his husband on the bike?

No, no, I didn't.

I didn't.

Oh, damn it.

I should try to go back and find that clip.

Because Pete was too obsessed with EV charging stations.

That's

the only one.

Well, Colorado was joining 16 other states suing the Trump administration to free up funds to build electric car chargers.

Now, the money was approved by Congress, but then President Trump froze it with an executive order.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Wiser argues that's illegal for the administration to block the distribution of already approved funds.

The state already had plans to spend tens of millions of dollars, and he says without the money, it's going to be difficult to build out electric vehicle infrastructure.

And I can just remind everybody why the billions of dollars was not spent on EV charging stations is because it was all earmarked for minority-owned businesses.

It was a DEI bill in disguise, and they couldn't find any businesses that qualified to do the work.

That's why the money money was never spent.

That's a good point.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Makes sense.

But still, it's more fun to blame Pete Buddhaj.

Now is the time not to do these things, by the way, especially if, you know, of course, I'm still skeptical of the Toyota solid state battery.

But there's a battery, supposedly, solid state.

They call it solid state.

It's just

a different engineered style of battery that supposedly goes supposedly.

And it's not a super cap no one's gonna make those a super capacitor unless you want to see somebody blow up

can you imagine you looking out the freeway and this is the car just blows up for those of you who have never blown up uh uh a capacitor

it's a lot of fun

a super capacitor could create could create quite the explosion i'm sure a regular little capacitor has i've had it happen to me once in a computer oh yeah like one of those little blue ones or the yellow ones?

It was a little, I don't know which one it was, and I don't know what the capacity was because what was left of it, you couldn't tell.

Yeah, it's like paper wound and it stinks.

It's like a cherry bomb going off inside the computer.

Yeah.

And it's frightening.

Yeah.

Because they pop.

They really pop.

Caps pop.

And so

this new battery and Toyota is supposedly leading the pack.

And even though BYD and these other guys want to try to keep up, BYD is probably to do it.

But it's supposed to have 10-minute charging.

Oh, yeah,

as long as you're connected to a power station.

Yeah, well, there's always that.

But yes, the whole thing is...

You need a megawatt to charge it, but otherwise, it's fine.

You got one of those.

Just plug it into your outlet.

It'll work.

It's going to melt the wires.

Hey, what's your propaganda clips?

I've been looking at those all morning.

I'm like, it says cool propaganda.

This is a series of clips of NPR.

If you're ready for it, I don't know how much time we have before.

No, no, we got plenty of time.

We got oodles.

Oodles.

This is my NPR trying to ⁇ NPR and PBS is trying to do anything they can to kind of make it clear that Trump's no good and that they're trying to take our money and they're trying to ruin broadcasting as we know it.

But before we play that, I do want to play, for example,

you do want to play people.

You do want to play.

I do.

Now, this clip is a mess because it's

titled Untitled.

So that's always a giveaway.

And this was, I'm just, this is a very short, these are all short clips, by the way, so this will go pretty quick.

This is an example of NPR at its finest.

This is a woman comes on and she's going to discuss horror films and their effect on children.

And they're going to bring these experts on and talk about horror films and what can they do to children.

And then I had to cut it for obvious reasons.

What's a healthy little scare for kids?

And what is potentially scarring?

Well, we wanted to talk to two people who have had broadly different experiences when it comes to thinking about horror movies for kids.

All things considered, producer and film buff Megan Lim.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

And NPR music and pop culture critic and father of two young adults now, Stephen Thompson.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's great to be here.

Great to have you both.

Okay, so I don't have kids.

Okay, she hasn't got kids.

So who cares?

So then we go to listen to NPR, and this is another example of this kind of thing.

This is another seven-second clip.

This is NPR house ad.

This is a house ad for the kind of programming that we're going to get that we need government money for.

Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR, a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid.

Wait, let me hear that again.

Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR, a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid.

Yeah.

Well, you cut it off, so I'm a little suspicious.

You know, stupid.

It wasn't anything.

No, believe me, I didn't cut it off like

a Michelle Obama-type clip.

Okay.

So we'll go to NPR leveraging Fed cut.

Now, here's where they start to bitch.

Oh, you've got a huge NPR thing today.

This is good.

I like it.

Well,

I'm just trying to show people that

they send money to the No Agenda show is well spent.

Yes.

As opposed to this.

You may have heard that President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR.

This is is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

Whatever changes this action brings, NPR's commitment to reporting the news without fear or favor will never change.

Your support means that we'll be here for you tomorrow and the next day and the day after that.

It's time to join the movement to defend public media.

Yeah, get the plus, get the bundle, get the bundle,

become, become a concierge member.

So after complaining about them,

so they go after Trump by, you know,

how else can we go after it?

Radio Free Europe.

So this starts with before we get to the propaganda clips.

This is RFE, RFE.

This is a promo.

This is a teaser for their RFE

fighting RFE clips.

I think a lot of mainstream press might see us almost like primary source material.

RFA's reporters have a history of uncovering genocide, war crimes, and disinformation campaigns.

They don't just follow the news cycle, they often lead it.

And now, they're fighting to survive.

Oh, that's...

But hold on.

Your No Agenda Show has actual people who work in the places where the bullcrap is taking place, like air traffic controllers.

Support your No Agenda Show today.

Yes.

So now...

This is another promotion.

This is RFE promotion, Radio Free Europe Promotion Number Two.

Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place.

No, that's not true.

It's owned by

Disney,

Soros, or at least he has ownership in it.

There's a lot of billionaires that own media, but not, I mean, the New York Times is owned by a Mexican billionaire and some other billionaire.

The LA Times is an Asian billionaire.

Asian billionaire, a doctor.

They're not tech billionaires.

What tech billionaire owns major media, a major media company?

Well, it's the only.

Elon Musk owns Twitter.

That's it.

Well, the

Washington Post, yeah, Washington Post Post Post Post Program

Post.

Yeah, Washington Post.

Those are, no, that's not

every single one.

Are you calling this fake?

Go back to that clip.

Start it over.

Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.

On the new new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle for the public airwaves is playing out right now.

Listen to On the Media wherever you get your podcasts.

Wow.

Okay, first of all.

This has been queued up in my podcast player for like four days, and I didn't know what it was about because I saw the divided dial.

They're really doing an in-depth dive on what's on shortwave radio.

As if

anyone was a joke of it.

As if everybody in Europe has got a shortwave radio and they're holed up in some attic and they're tuning in to the illegal broadcast coming in.

The Dutch Wiraltumrup, the Dutch World Service, they shut down

all of their broadcast

transmitters and towers in Bonaire because no one was listening to it.

Everyone's on the internet.

Nobody listens to shortwave radio.

It's 2025.

Nobody is tuning in looking for the broadcast

to give us the truth.

This is bullshit.

I'm sure there's a couple of pastors there doing the thing.

Yeah, they're probably out there.

So here we go.

So now we have.

This is shortwave coming to you from Texas.

The Muslims are coming take over.

So they moan and groan about radio-free Europe and voice of America being shut down.

They're going to have to go broke.

But then they go on to this propaganda series, which is the eclipse that you saw.

Yes.

About radio-free Asia.

I never heard of radio-free Asia, but they make it sound as though this is the big deal.

Is it on short wave?

Is it on shortwave?

Yeah, it's a shortwave.

All these Asians are all over Asia and Vietnam.

Radio-free Asia.

And they're in China, in the outskirts of the rural China, and they've got that antenna that's out there.

They hope they don't get caught, and they're tuning the dial on the short wave so they can get the truth.

This is nonsense.

Wait a minute.

So they're doing what they're saying here, just so I get it straight.

They are trying to protect their own bacon by saying they're not just killing our funding, they're killing this critical information source for the rest of the world in these incredibly dictator-led suppressed countries like, I don't know, South Korea, Japan,

who now can't get the truth on shortwave.

Exactly.

You nailed it.

That's exactly

what they're trying to do here.

And so they're bringing up, but it's like a vision of the 1940s or 30s, where the guy, again, is in the attic trying to tune in the radio the truth that's coming across so let's listen to this propaganda which is which came across npr and radio free asia part one

from recorded future news this is click here you may not remember but covet began as a mystery illness oh it's growing stop the clip stop the clip am i doing it wrong no no you're doing it right i just had to i forgot i had to set this one up they start off this is what's a great this is a great clip they start off this is going to be a covet x I'm listening.

Oh, this is going to be interesting.

It's going to be a retrospective on how they screwed up the COVID coverage.

And all of a sudden, they switch gears.

And just like you did earlier in the show, when you switched over from the fact you didn't pick the right pope to, you know, your prediction about the erectile dysfunction, beautifully, they do the same thing.

And it's not about COVID.

It's about radio-free Asia.

I don't know how they got that.

From Record of Future News, this is Click Here.

You may not remember, but COVID began as a mystery illness.

Growing concern about a new and rare pneumonia-like virus that has caused at least two deaths and has spread from China to other countries in Asia.

We suddenly noticed that there was a surge of, you know, pings, people trying to reach us from inside Wuhan.

And this was because they were getting no.

Oh, man, hold on, pings.

You mean someone was sending them an email or a WhatsApp message?

What kind of pings?

A ping, it was a paper.

Was it it like

a radar, like a sonar or something?

People trying to reach us from inside Wuhan.

And this was because they were getting no information from their own government about what was happening around them.

And they knew that something was happening.

The Chinese government was trying to cover something up.

Turns out, it was COVID deaths.

Wow.

They reported a few thousand at the time.

And our reporters called the crematories in the wuhan area and um and got the numbers of you know the numbers of urns that they were putting out talked to people on the ground and basically found that the number was a hundred times that and uh and they they put that out and it was you know not until a couple weeks later that uh u.s intelligence reports actually confirmed that and and it was reported by cnn

Hold on, John.

I'm getting some pings.

I'm getting a surge of pings.

They're trying to contact you from Wuhan.

So you think that this is a guy, oh, this is going to be interesting.

It's going to be an

expose or something or other.

Yeah.

But no, here we go.

Here's what it really is about.

And it was reported by CNN.

Bay says that Radio Free Asia has had that kind of impact, not just on policy and world events, but in fighting against China's diss and misinformation.

How do you make that switch?

Let me hear that again.

That was pretty quick.

That was, I mean, it took me at least a minute and a half.

They did it in like 30, it was like 15 seconds.

And it was reported by CNN.

Bay says that Radio Free Asia has had that kind of impact, not just on policy and world events, but in fighting against China's diss and misinformation campaigns.

Which, by the way, everybody was all in on.

It was xenophobia to even suggest it came from China, but okay.

So when the news came that the Trump administration was trying to pull the plug, they were surprised.

It was on a Saturday.

So

I...

What was that laugh tell about?

Trying to pull the plug.

They was surprised.

It was on a Saturday.

So

I was just at home and

got this email from Carrie Lake

saying

that our grants had been terminated because we no longer effectuate the priorities of the administration.

And so, what was the first thing that went through your head?

The first thing that went through my head was: how is it that we don't effectuate the priorities of the administration anymore?

And,

you know, when everything I've heard, especially in the national security space and the administration, is that we are very impactful and important.

This grant, $60 million, is our annual budget that we're given.

And it's peanuts compared with the billions of dollars that China puts in every year into its global media influence campaign.

After the news about ending RFA's funding was announced, the state-owned media in China sent off a flurry of posts.

Flurry.

With

social media posts celebrating this decision.

Basically, they are

happy because one of the strongest voices that challenges their narrative is gone.

Wow, this is really interesting.

I'm sure they won't talk about it, but just to bring in the Obama-era overturning of the Smith-Munt Act, it was specifically for these types of operations, for voice of voice-free, free, radio-free Europe, radio-free Asia, voice of America.

It was specifically

modernized, i.e., didn't count anymore, because the US government is not allowed to propagandize its own people.

And they realized that with all the stuff they were doing on the internet, that they would probably be

propagandizing the American people.

And they needed to do it because they really need to do it.

And it was actually a bonanza for them.

And so we all know that this is bull crap,

and now they're all high and mighty, like, well, you know, this is important stuff that we're this is like Tokyo Rose America style.

Who are they totally kidding?

Who are they kidding?

Who are they kidding?

Yeah, yeah, and they think the Chinese are dumb, I guess.

And by the way, what influence does the Chinese propaganda arm have?

I mean, it's not NTD.

What do they have here?

Well, they have CGTV, which used to be CCTV,

and they have a new show, and it's, you know,

it's kind of like the BBC, only it doesn't have a lot of stuff on it.

BBC is actually they don't even have any podcasters on their, on their payroll, like Russia.

Russia had some podcasters.

Oh, they might, but we just don't, they're doing a better job than they do.

Again, no offers.

where's our money where's our offer

yeah all right if radio

sorry i'm sorry i just it's just it's uh it's it's laughable this whole thing if radio free asia stops broadcasting lots of important news will go uncovered not just a mystery virus in wuhan or detentions in xinjiang but more immediate events like what's going on in the streets of burma right now these are

all things that

the authoritarian rulers of these countries would like to hide because they you know the Chinese Communist Party is most afraid of is its own people and for their people to lose the knowledge of what their government is doing um what's happening around them

it's it's hugely beneficial to to uh the Chinese Communist Party and to all of these authoritarian rulers around Asia do they provide any proof of how incredibly beneficial it is to these people who have better internet technologies than we do?

They provide no proof, and there's a contradiction in what she said, which is that

the Chinese government is afraid of its own people.

Well, if that, yeah, maybe.

I mean, every government should be afraid of their own people.

But what have these guys done to stir up the masses?

I don't see any evidence of it.

No, they, they, well.

The Uyghurs are still imprisoned if they're there.

We don't know any details.

The Wuhan virus is a scam.

Yeah.

And since when are we?

Yeah, it was always a wet market.

Where did that information come from?

And what did the Radio Free Asia have to do with it?

The pangolins.

Now, now we go to clip four, which has got a

what I call a WTF moment.

And the situation for Radio Free Asia has gone from dire to devastating.

On On May 2nd, RFA told its staff that it was eliminating 280 positions in the United States.

That's about 90% of its domestic workforce.

And it's also cutting 20 more jobs overseas.

Okay, let's look at what is a

numbers here.

KCBS, which does news 24-7 in the San Francisco Bay Area, just news, news, news.

They got 18 people.

No, they got about 100.

Yeah.

But they don't have, for example, this is Radio Free Asia, and they're bragging about all their coverage.

Do they have reporters over there?

Because they said they laid out 280, which is 90% of their workforce, that were all in the United States.

What are they doing?

They're receiving surges.

Making phone calls?

Receiving

surges of pings.

I mean, the daily newspaper has maybe a major, major giant paper that produces tons of material like the Los Angeles Times.

No, they got about a thousand.

Go or

a thousand at the Los Angeles Times?

Yes,

actually, I think the Los Angeles Times is probably closer to 1,500 to 2,000.

But

that includes printing press people,

sales people,

you know, editors.

And on top of editors, the number of reporters is probably

200 max.

People who organize meetings,

meetings guys,

AV people for the meetings copy editors type settings caterings yes people to pop up microphones more than a new you know i i compared to a radio station like kcbs is i think more apt yeah and that's maybe 150 maybe yeah 200

and that includes sales guys and they and these guys don't need sales people that's a lot of people well question

do they have any video products or is it just all all audio no it's just all short wave web well web

shortwave Well, they do websites too.

I'm sure they do.

Yes, they do websites.

You're right.

They all have to have gone to websites.

So there's websites here and there.

And I guess it takes a webmaster.

Remember that term?

Yes.

Who's your webmaster?

Oh,

we don't use that term here.

We have a webmistress.

Remember that?

I only remember that vaguely because there was some...

Some people were uppity about using the term master.

Yeah, I'm looking to see if they have any video products.

Do they have any any video?

Let me see, video.

Yeah, video.

Let's take a look at their video products.

Dalai Lama in New York.

Yeah, that's going to free the people of China.

Yeah, they got.

We're talking about the Dalai Lama.

They're doing, they got some guy in a webcam here.

Okay, so not a lot of video products.

So, yeah, so it's mainly audio and web stuff.

Man, think about what we could do with that kind of stuff.

And

what was their budget 16?

In some other clip which I don't have on this series, they said, we're going to go bankrupt.

All right, so let's play the, this is the, this is the last clip which has a kicker.

Bayfung called it an unconscionable situation.

And it's unclear what will happen next.

But a May 6th announcement might provide a clue.

Senior presidential advisor Carrie Lake, the person who told RFA in an email back in March that their grants had been canceled, said Voice of America, another federally funded broadcaster, would be taking in a new news feed.

She said One American News Network, a reliably pro-Trump television channel, would be providing news feeds for Voice of America's foreign audiences at no taxpayer cost.

Wow.

It's unclear whether outlets like Radio for Europe and RFA will be swept in that move, too.

Wow.

Unreported tells you a lot a bit about that outfit, doesn't it?

You heard it here first.

Wow.

Yeah.

One american news a schlockmeiser the girl with too much makeup and the other guy was always angry

and then chanel rion and some of these other people that do interviews

no that and by the way they have an oan feed here in the bay area that comes over the air it's always a week old

wow everything that comes over is a week old it's like It's very strange.

I don't know why they do a week old news.

But so OAN, which is a, a,

you know, it's sometimes fun to watch, but it's fourth rate.

Well, let's, let's see what OAN has today.

They've got top news.

They've got multiple Dem lawmaker arrests on the table after storming ICE facility.

Let's see, report.

Online users praise photo of Carolyn Levitt feeding baby while working.

Uh-huh.

Okay.

Yeah, look at her.

Supermom.

She's a supermom.

Gold rush 2.0, record prices, jewelry meltdowns, and a Bitcoin boom.

Yeah.

U.S.

Postal Service 3.3.

This is good news.

It's good stuff.

Well, it's news.

Well, if it's free and you're going to give it the voice of America, you don't have to pay all these, all these characters all kinds of extra money.

Well,

they have my favorite story, front and center.

Apple's plan to offer AI search options on Safari, a blow to Google dominance.

Who could have seen that coming?

Alphabet shares drop 7% after Apple says, Q, Eddie Q is now the spokeshole for this stuff.

You remember Eddie Q?

Oh, yeah.

Eddie Q is to be in charge of podcasting.

He was the iTunes guy.

He's now the senior vice president of internet software and services.

And he said, yeah, I'm pretty sure we're going to have artificial intelligence services instead of Google search.

They pay Google, or Google pays them $7 billion a quarter, I think.

Some astronomical amount.

How come Apple shares didn't sink?

Yeah, saving Google money.

Yeah, but Google shares go down.

Well, it's because those advertisements have ads.

I mean, I'm sorry, those searches.

Results have ads which Google monetized.

And so Google probably makes three times the $7 billion that they.

wonder, you've really got to wonder about Apple.

I've always thought that these guys,

for some reason, they really want to be in the advertising game.

They've always kind of dipped their toe in, taken it out.

I think they really want it.

Somehow it must irk them that Google has all that advertising money.

Oh, that could be.

You know, they definitely, you know, once you start putting all this AI on your phone, I don't think it's a good idea.

Because, you know, it's not about displaying.

These guys are making money off of our backs.

Yes, because it's not about.

They are, literally, because all of the apps, the apps are the things that are tracking.

They're tracking how you hold the phone, where you're walking or driving, or all of this stuff.

So they're like, well, we can sell that data.

But don't worry, we'll keep it on our exclusive little secure chip on your phone.

It'll never leave your phone.

I got to wonder.

Got to wonder.

I mean, to give up $20 billion a year, give or take,

to integrate someone else's AI products into your phone and not take the money from Google, there's got to be something else to it.

Even Eddie, Eddie Q's not stupid.

Give him a call.

Hey, Eddie.

I bet you wouldn't take my call.

I bet she would.

Yeah.

I don't think i have his number but i'm sure it's e dot q

at apple.com well that brings me to a couple technology note uh items of note first of all

uh we laughed and uh we i i certainly hadn't i was unaware of the new definition of raw dogging

we've talked about this uh came up was it in one of your clips that this came up the raw dogging yeah raw dogging and i still think that this has been it this was this is a

plant

to get that the bonehead who's done it before on NBC, that guy who's

or CBS, that character that was on there, he was busted before for saying stuff that was

he's just naive.

He doesn't know when he says he's the one who introduced it.

Yeah, okay, now all of a sudden this has been the definition.

I saw that.

Well, the thing is, Of all the people who should know about this new definition of the term raw dogging, it should be you because it is a TikTok trend.

This is where it comes from.

It's called raw dogging.

I'm reading this from Travel Week.

A new trend that's blowing up on social media, particularly among males, requiring people to sit through a long-haul flight with zero distractions or forms of entertainment.

This means no phones, movies, music, books, or even sleep, food, or water.

If people can just sit there for hours without any stimuli, they get instant bragging rights,

i.e.,

raw dogging.

What bragging rights are there?

Who are you bragging to?

You know, I was on the plane and I was like putty in that Seinfeld movie, a Seinfeld show where he sat there next to Elaine and he didn't move and didn't say anything.

Doesn't make any sense.

So here's a TikTok clip that I see.

It's like, what do we see?

Just raw dog to seven-hour flight.

No headphones, no movie, no water, nothing incredible.

The power of my mind knows no bounds.

Yeah, it's like a fast.

It's like a fast of water and technology.

Well, in general, a good idea.

Not to not drink water for hours on end.

Well, no.

But to not use technology, I think

that's a good trend.

I'm all for it.

I like this trend.

It's good.

It's a good trend.

Stinks.

Like, you care.

Like, when's the last time you were on an actual aircraft?

I mean,

flying around.

It's too dangerous.

The air traffic control is down.

It needs to be modernized.

Yours had propellers.

When I was a kid, you had to go out and start the engine with a shotgun.

That's the line I was looking for.

Shotgun shell.

Start that DC-3 engine.

Anyway, in the technology sphere, never let a good United Nations Development Report go to waste.

The new UND report is out 2025, and Queen Ursula is all over it.

It's a real pleasure to speak to you today and to welcome this vital report on artificial intelligence.

The UNDP helps millions of people every year, but a lot has changed in the 60 years since the UNDP was created.

Now, where do you think she's going with this?

What do you think is in this new United Nations Development Plan report for 2025?

Climate change.

No!

Well, it's partially.

It's part of the kicker.

But no, no, no, no.

The world is facing many new challenges, and artificial intelligence is one of the biggest.

This is it, baby.

AI coming to Europe.

EU is going to be the AI continent.

This new record.

What?

Can I interrupt a clip completely?

I know you hate this idea,

but I want to interrupt that clip with an AI clip.

Okay.

You go right back to the clip and be fine.

Sure.

Because you didn't really get that clip going.

No, no, because

you kept jumping in front of it.

Yes, you can.

Of course, you can.

This is Linda McMahon.

Oh, she's the Secretary of

the Now Defunct Education.

Yes, Education.

This is unbelievable.

She's talking about AI in schools, but she doesn't really.

Well, maybe she's talking about, I don't know what, what is she doing?

Letter or report that I heard this morning.

I wish I could remember the source, but that there is a school system that's going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades.

And that's just

a wonderful thing.

Kids are sponges.

They just absorb everything.

And so it wasn't all that long ago that we're going to have internet in our schools.

Now, okay, let's see A1 and

how can that be helpful?

How can it be helpful in one-on-one instruction?

How can it be helpful in...

Wait a minute.

Is she talking about AI?

She's saying A1?

Is that what I'm hearing?

Yep.

A1 steak sauce in schools?

Dude, they just absorb everything.

And so it wasn't all that long ago that we're going to have internet in our schools.

Now, okay, let's see A1 and

how can that be helpful?

How can it be helpful in one-on-one instruction?

How can it be helpful in absorbing more information for those fast learners?

It can be more one-on-one directed.

And those are the kinds of things and innovations that I want to see continue to develop.

All right, all right.

You deserve this one.

Clip of the day.

Thank you very much.

A1 in school.

So she's reading off a piece of paper.

She has apparently never listened to anything in the media.

At all.

At all, ever.

This is the series of tubes clip of our day.

Remember the internet?

It's a series of tubes.

Yeah, the tubes.

Oh, man.

Do we still have...

Who was that guy?

It was the senator that got killed up in Alaska, wasn't it?

Because of the series of tubes?

No, because he was in a plane wreck.

I think they tried to kill him for some reason.

He's the one who built the bridge to nowhere.

Ted Stevens.

You're right.

Ted Stevens.

Stevens.

Yes.

Ted Stevens.

Yeah.

Can you believe that?

A1, that's what we're calling it from now on.

Hold on, let's listen.

Is allowing all of these entities that support this

to provide streaming stuff

going

on the internet?

Now, the internet, you know, let's go back.

The internet started with a concept of local to local connections across the country.

And

you could go for Air Alaska, but you had to go through local connections to get there.

The industry wisely provided for streaming,

in effect, a new kind of long distance, and that's what we've got.

We've got a service that's immune to distance.

And it's there for the consumer.

But when we take

and

sign up, and you get a movie delivered to your house,

You change your order.

It's delivered to you, and this delivery charge is free, right?

Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things that are going on the internet commercially.

And here we have this one situation where enormous entities want to use the internet for their purpose to save money for doing what they're doing now.

They use FedEx.

They use the delivery system.

The internet is not something that you just jump something on.

It's not a big truck.

It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled.

And if they're filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line.

It's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material.

Wow.

He was not wrong, though.

He was talking about streaming TV,

but it was the series of tubes that we all focused on.

Not a truck.

No, it's a series of tubes.

Yes, from now on, AI is A1.

And new people to the show will think we are crazy.

What are these guys?

You guys don't know what they're talking about.

They think AI is A1.

Well, okay, so before I get to my Ursula AI clip, A1 clip, I have to play this.

This is the latest TikTok craze.

Yes, I'm not playing a TikTok clip.

I'm playing.

No, no, I noticed you're stealing my material.

No, no,

this is a clip about TikTok.

And what kids, those crazy, wacky kids, are doing in school.

This TikTok shows a new and concerning trend among students.

It's more than just a trend.

You know,

it causes a lot of disruption.

Last Thursday, a student at Newington High School did just that.

It became clear that the damage was done intentionally, that it wasn't a malfunctioning Chromebook, but rather a student had intentionally done things to it that caused it to smoke and eventually melt.

The school was evacuated as smoke filled the classroom.

The batteries that are essentially catching on fire,

once they burn, they're producing this toxic smoke.

And the same thing happened in both Derby and Cromwell high schools on Monday.

The hallway's filling with smoke.

We went in and ended up finding a laptop in a classroom that was

pretty much out but on fire at one point.

The back cover where the battery cover was was melted away and the battery was smoking.

Investigations are underway across the districts and while no one was injured, firefighters say these incidents could have been much worse.

The small ones like cell phones and laptops, they can cause an explosion.

They could have potentially burned somebody.

Shrapnel could have hit other people if it exploded.

Newington Superintendent Dr.

Maureen Brummett says she plans to hold those responsible accountable.

So the kids now on TikTok, they're learning how to jam some metal into the charging USB port of their school-issued Chromebooks.

And of course, they start to smoke, burn, and often consume.

And they short them out.

Yes.

This is the new TikTok trend.

It's part of the raw dogging trend.

I don't know how it's got to do with raw dogging.

Well, you got to get

rid of your technology, babe.

I'm going to bloat it up.

This is a Luddite thing.

I'm digging it.

The new Luddite.

I'm digging it.

I'm digging it.

Neo-Luddites.

Yes, I'm digging it.

Well, none of this will happen in the European Union because Queen Ursula is all in on A1.

It's a real pleasure to speak to you today.

It's a pleasure.

And to welcome this vital report on artificial intelligence.

The UNDP helps millions of people every year, but a lot has changed in the 60 years since the UNDP was created.

The world is facing many new challenges, and artificial intelligence is one of the biggest.

As this new report says, the world is pulsing with a powerful new technology.

Pulsing with a powerful new technology.

AI has moved from fantasy to fact.

From fantasy to fact.

She likes the alliteration.

Two-thirds of people around the world expect to use AI within a year.

Areas like health, education, and work are being transformed.

And the revolution has only just begun.

So how should we deal with this crucial issue?

How can we make sure that countries and people benefit from the AI revolution?

Oh, I think it's going to cost the taxpayers money.

Now, let's look at what Europe is doing at home and in partnerships around the world.

Here in Europe we want to be leading as an AI continent to improve lives, promote our values and help humanity.

We're investing.

We're building 13 AI factories and five giga factories.

Whoa!

Five giga AI factories.

I don't know exactly what they're going to do, but it's not just a factory, it's a giga factory.

To unlock 200 billion euros in overall investment.

200 billion euros of your tax money, Europeans.

But with artificial intelligence there are risks as well as rewards.

So we have brought in a new set of rules for a European approach to safeguard our citizens and maximize benefits.

Because AI needs to be safe to have the confidence of Europeans.

We will control your AI and we are going to deploy it everywhere.

And it's going to be good for you.

Just listen.

But our focus must also be broader than Europe because there is a danger that AI will grow the digital divide

between wealthy nations and the global south.

And that's why Europe is also working with partners so that everyone can take part in this AI revolution.

Yeah, slaves and data centers.

Let me give you five examples.

Firstly, our Global Gateway Strategy is investing in infrastructure and capacity in partner countries.

For example, a satellite AI factory in Morocco?

What?

That is thus helpful.

What is an AI factory?

But I have to ask you, do you have any an inkling of idea what an AI factory is?

I think it would be a server farm, is what I think it is, but

her concept is so 18th century that she thinks everything's a factory.

Get to work, you poor

hamburger factory.

A satellite AI factory in Morocco that is thus helping tech startups across Africa.

Second,

my money is going to go to Africa?

Okay.

To support these efforts, the European Union is joining the executive steering board of the AI Hub for Sustainable Development.

The AI Hub for Sustainable Development.

Wow.

This is a vital initiative led by Italy, the G7, and the UNDP with a strong focus on Africa.

Thirdly,

we have formed a powerful digital alliance with Latin America and Caribbean partners.

Fourthly, we're working with Asian partners on global cybersecurity.

And finally, we're developing super accurate AI weather forecasts to warn about dangerous tropical storms, for example.

Wait a minute.

Super accurate AI weather forecasts.

I cannot wait for that.

What a crock.

And of course to help rescue efforts around the world.

Yeah, go find that Malaysian Airlines flight.

So you see, AI can be a gift to humanity.

It's a gift.

It's a gift to you.

Hey, slaves.

Hey, you in the factory.

It's a gift.

This important report shows that the future is in our hands.

The choices we make now will determine our tomorrow.

With the right choices, we can open new pathways, helping everyone to thrive in a world with artificial intelligence.

Boondoggle.

Boondogggle.

Money.

There's money in Europe, everybody.

There's money if you're a scientist and you want to run away from the evil America.

There's money if you want to work in an AI giga factory.

I just shudder to think what that really is.

These people are nuts.

This woman is delusional.

She doesn't know what she's talking about, and she just rambles.

She must really think she's something special.

Well, President Trump likes me.

He thinks I'm awesome.

Trump is already on his way.

He's just working her already.

And she's falling for it.

Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage.

Say in the morning to you, you, the man who put the C in the Chromebooks that explode.

Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr.

John C.

DeMoray.

Yeah, wait in the morning to you, Mr.

Adam Carrie.

The mortar ships to see.

Yeah, footing on the ground, feeding the air, subs in in the water, and all the dames and nights out there.

Hey in the morning to the trolls in the control room.

Hold on, trolls,

man.

I was hanging out with mom.

2041 trolls peak trollage for us today.

It's Mother's Day.

Wow.

Wow, what?

Wow.

That's wow, low.

It's a wow low, man.

It's wow.

But people love their moms.

But they don't.

Well, the ones that love their moms don't donate to the show.

No, there's that.

There's that.

But they love

a few mom call-outs.

Call outs.

Oh, luckily.

Luckily.

This is good.

All the moms.

You are the glue of the family.

Fact.

So the trolls are in the troll room at trollroom.io, which is our 24-7 live stream and chat room.

You can call it a chat room, but I think everyone calls it a troll room because people troll.

They're just there to troll all the time.

Only 130 real trolls.

These are trolls that are listening.

We have quite a large listening audience.

Not everyone is trolling, but

you can hit that trollroom.io or use the modern podcast app.

I can't say it often enough.

One of these days, you're going to be like, I'm disappointed in my podcast app.

If only I'd have listened to Adam, what was that thing called again?

By the way, it is not podcastapp.com.

That'll take you to a piece of junk.

It is podcastappsplural.com, where you can see all of the modern podcasts.

One P or two.

It's two Ps.

And it says.

It says Podcast APPS.

Yes.

Podcast

apps.com.

Yes.

Or you can go to podcastindex.org and click on the apps tab.

It's all the same place.

And so these give you all kinds of benefits besides not spying on you,

not giving you ads.

I'm sure some apps out there do that or try to give you ads.

And you can always upgrade to the concierge package for extra features.

They give you chapters with chapter images.

They give you alerts when we go live.

They have live streams.

You can't get that from Spotify or from Apple podcast apps.

So grab one of those.

It's compatible with

all of your podcasts.

You can even import your current subscriptions.

The trolls are there contributing to the show.

We have a value for value model.

Clearly,

we have taken a route that we can never get out of.

We're not getting any checks

from big pharma, not getting any checks from China.

We get no checks.

We get checks from people who want to support us because they value what we do.

We get checks from coffee, guys.

Yeah, we got checks.

Where is my new coffee?

I need some new coffee.

We get checks from coffee, guys.

That's pretty much it.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

But we appreciate everyone who supports us.

Value for value means time, talent, or treasure.

And we do have

a plethora of artists and

A1 prompt jockeys who like to, I'm going to keep, I'm going to try to keep it in there.

A1.

She should be called out for that, by the way.

Well, she was with that clip, but

she should be called out by the, somebody should bring it up at the press conference.

Yeah.

What do you know, lady?

What do you know?

Go back to wrestling.

One of the ways people contribute is through providing us art.

We love to select a piece of art right after the show.

These are people who are listening on the fly, just listening live and on the fly are making art.

Yes, it's a tool if you use AI,

but you still have to have a concept.

And it has to be a no-agenda concept.

It has to have the humor of Gitmo Nation.

Otherwise, AI is just not going to take you anywhere.

And so we have a combination of traditional artists using Photoshop and clip art and yes,

some AI stuff.

But we want to thank the artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1762 titled Stick Fight.

By the way, I think there was an errant, or it was a mistake about the stick fight that we discussed.

It is, in fact, not India and Pakistan who fight with sticks at the border.

It is India and Chinese, who, of course, pretty much own that region of Pakistan, if I understand it correctly.

Well, I know they fight on the border, too.

I don't know if

it's two or or or and.

I couldn't find any evidence of Indians.

Okay, well, maybe it's just the Indians and the Chinese.

But in London, there's a lot of videos in London with Pakistanis and Indians yelling at each other.

And they don't really get into fisticuffs, but they just yell at each other and F you, F you, get out of here, man, you Paki, you Indian.

In London, they're fighting each other there.

The whole thing, it's spreading.

It's contagion.

Well, they were invited there to fight, obviously.

Why else would they be there?

That's right.

So we want to thank Sir Shug, aka Fau Diddley, for the artwork for 1762.

A nice U.S.-born Pope with a foam finger number one.

A lot of people like this art.

I got good stuff.

Yeah, nobody sent us any, nay, that's sacrilegious or any complaints.

No, I got it.

For our Catholic listeners.

No, I got no.

No, the Catholics, they like it.

All the Catholics I know, they're like, jury's still out, man.

Jury's still out.

But I think there's also a lot of propaganda against this Pope,

just right off the bat.

Like, oh,

he's LGBT friendly,

he's woke, he's this, he's that.

And there's a lot of anti-propaganda, you know, it's propaganda on both sides.

We don't know.

We don't know what this Pope is going to do.

We don't know yet.

But we'll see.

I hear a lot of, well, he's a registered Republican.

He's got to be good.

Okay.

How can he be?

He was living in chile he doesn't even in the elections that he voted in when he was in the united states

he voted uh republican god i mean this is all just it's out there you know

i'm just telling what people are talking about question this

as i said it's propaganda what i love the most i heard this one the other day um

that a lot of the M5M

talked about this particular pope, Leo XIV, as as the dark horse candidates.

Did you hear this anywhere?

No.

Okay.

So he was the dark horse.

Well, of course, I did because I'm looking everywhere.

Like, how did I miss this guy?

Oh, yeah.

He was the dark horse candidate.

And then, of course, that picks up as: aha,

white horse, President Trump, Red Horse, China, Black Horse, Pope.

We're just waiting for the pale horse, and then

the Armageddon came.

No, no, this is classic.

Classic.

That has to be a Fredericksburg thing.

You got it, baby.

Of course it is.

I'm telling you, this is the best move I've ever made in my life.

I'm never leaving.

I am never leaving Fredericksburg.

It's a gold mine of

crazy people.

But the best part is that we talk about this and we laugh about it and we have a good time.

And I tell them I'm going to talk about it on the show.

Like, yeah, you should do that.

That's good.

Like you said, there's got to get this information out there.

You've got to get that information out.

Yeah, talk talk about it.

You can ridicule us if you want.

We don't care as long as it gets out.

No, hey, listen, we're good hosts.

We have people over, we cook, we have a good time with them.

They're all our friends.

We love them.

We love our friends.

So, looking at the artwork that we had that you were talking about.

You loved your friends in Austin, too, until you rousted a couple of them.

Well, but they were really not good, let's be honest.

I mean, they just got all spun up.

They got really spun up, but over the wrong things.

I mean, like, Trump is Hitler.

We don't have that here.

We got Biden is Hitler.

Obama was the Antichrist.

That kind of stuff.

Doesn't fit with the show.

Anyway, we're looking at the art at NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.

Another fine piece of value for value from Sir Paul, who put that together for us, been up and running for over a decade in multiple versions.

Because it was VE Day, we did stay on Darren O'Neill's VE Day

piece of art.

We discussed it for a long time.

It's a little bit long because

you nixed it faster than a

well, I don't have a long artist.

No, you don't have a lot.

I like the idea of supporting VE Day, but I didn't think this was a great art.

It's an old dude looking at it in the clouds.

Yeah,

I wasn't pushing back too hard.

I liked the piece because it was for the day, but then again, it was okay.

It was okay.

The piece was a little bit funky.

The piece that you said right off the bat was, I love this one.

No agenda.

Please send free stuff.

Adam Curry and John C.

Dvorak.

That was the one you liked.

I mentioned it was funny.

I didn't

pick it.

We had a couple of

the one I liked a lot, just for its composition, and I just liked it.

That was the prettiest piece was, again, Darren, who gets a hair up his ass every so often and just produces a lot of good stuff.

A lot of it, yeah.

New and improved no agenda from Alcatraz Prison.

I think that piece was great.

glass.

That was a very nice piece.

Why didn't we choose it?

You didn't like it.

I think the Pope with the foam finger was just too good.

It was too good.

Oh, no, I know what you said.

We're not going to pick another Darren O'Neal and

guesswork or whoever's.

Yeah, that's what I said.

Exactly.

Those guys, they got to stop.

They got to stop.

This is classic.

This is what you do, by the way, when you're judging

for the Pulitzer and everything.

No, no, no.

You can't have another award.

No.

That guy's already got too much.

He's already got too much.

Forget it.

Too much.

No, we're not going to do it.

Exactly.

And that's what happens in the back room, and it happens constantly.

People can't take these awards too seriously.

And that goes for the Oscars, too.

And that goes for the no-agenda art picking process.

It's exactly the same.

It's just that the way it's human nature.

It's just what it is.

Thank you, Sir Shogh, aka Fo Diddley.

We appreciate it.

We appreciate the work of all the artists who support us with their time and their talent.

And we always love the people who support us with treasure.

And we will thank every single person who supports us with $50 or above for every single episode.

At this moment, we'd like to thank what we...

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You can put it in any resume,

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He is the Duke of North Carolina, and we thank you for your contribution, Duke.

You've got karma.

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what is that, Dixian?

Dixian Craig is what I have.

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Dixian.

Dixian.

Craig, he's in Alberta, Canada.

He sent a check in for the gray, 500 bucks, but we don't have a note or anything from him.

And I don't know what this is.

Oh, this is five.

And by the way, this is 500 Canadian.

Well, it's 500 Canadian.

Hey, we still honor the Canadian dollar redues.

And so he gets his executive producership, but he didn't say anything about it.

And so we're going to give him a double up karma.

We roll it up for all.

You've got.

double up karma

karma moving on to victoria protovsky in newark new jersey actually she says from west orange hello west orange i used to live near west orange montclair uh 333.33 one of our favorite numbers ITM Adam and John says Victoria, this is Victory Day donation, May 9th.

God bless you both.

And four more years.

Please call out my husband, James, as a douchebag.

Douchebag.

I hit him in the mouth on our second date, and a few episodes later, he scolded me.

Scolded me for skipping donation segments.

I knew he was a keeper right then and there.

Baby making karma, please.

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Centennial, Colorado, 333.33.

And he says, thanks, John Nana, for all you do.

Happy Mother's Day, Jess, my smoking hot wife.

If any listeners need a real estate agent who is not a douchebag,

email me at austinmichaelbradshaw at gmail.com.

You know, you could have made a shorter email address in Austin Michael Bradshaw, but okay.

Yeah, it's pretty long.

Home Smart Realty, Colorado.

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I will help you buy and sell real estate here in Colorado.

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Philip Worth, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 333.33, and says, dedicated to my fiercely intelligent and kind mother, Joy Worth.

Now, is that a switcheroo?

No, it's just dedicated.

Just dedication.

Okay.

Call it to the mom.

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Wow.

23375, Associate Executive Producer.

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James Evan.

What is that?

Pilato donation?

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I have no idea who James Evan Pilato is.

Yes, I listened to the donation segments.

Check out,

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Old school radio style broadcast with a great community.

Trans Resistance.

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That's the James Evan Pilato is

on that Media Monarchy thing.

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Got it.

John, you're a lovable curmudgeon.

Might be lovable, but I don't like being a curmudgeon.

Love and kisses.

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Hello, Austin.

Row of Ducks, 222.22.

This donation represents the third Mother's Day installment towards my mother's daming.

Only one more to go.

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Mom, you've always been there for me through life's up and downs.

You truly are the best mother in the universe.

Happy Mother's Day from your devoted son, Doug.

Two times karma, please.

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Baron Sir Casey

9

YJM, and he's in Elgin, Illinois, 21272, and he wants jobs karma.

Baron Sir K C9 Y J M Green Knight of Hams.

Yes, and I will tell you it's Elgin.

I'm pretty sure it's Elgin.

I thought it was Elgin.

No, I think it's Elgin.

But who knows?

What do we know?

We're podcasters.

Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

Let's go for jobs.

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He says, Mother's Day, Switcheroo for my smoking hot wife, Amy Lynn.

She's not a stripper.

Happy Mother's Day.

Amy Lynn is kind of totally a porn name.

Happy Mother's Day.

We love you, and we love that you still buy eggs for us.

Double up, Karma, please.

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Karma.

Sir Farmery Todd

in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, 21060.

And he says, John, I'm going to send you the Penn State Wrestling National Championship memorabilia.

Woo!

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The biggest dynasty in sports in recent history.

It was also the University of California rugby team.

We had 10 All-Americans in 2025, second time in history, and was the 12th NCAA team title in 15 years.

So they just beat everybody.

Wow.

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Good.

That's what happens when you get the right coach and you get the right recruiting.

Sir Farmerie Todd.

And there he is, 205.11, Eli the Coffee Guy from Bensonville, Illinois.

And he says, I would like to dedicate this donation to my wife, Jen.

She is a rock star of a mother.

Our family is lucky to have such a great mom.

A happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.

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Send some coffee right to her door.

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jobs, and jobs.

Let's vote for jobs.

You've got karma.

If you keep screwing up those

reads, we're going to lose the client, man.

Give her a make-good.

She gets make-goods from other listeners.

Yeah, she does.

She does.

It's beautiful.

Finally on the list, $200.

I guess that's a check that came in.

No note.

E.

Maynard Throne from Tracy, California, $200.

I have nothing.

I don't think we have anything.

So a double-up karma for you, E.

Maynard.

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Karma.

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Our formula is this:

we go out, we hit hit people in the mouth.

Okay.

Sounds like an alarm went off.

I have a couple of clips from more complaining from NPR.

Oh, you're really on the NPR tip today, aren't you?

Yeah, today's NPR day.

It is NPR Day.

I guess AmeriCorps,

they're going to cut the funds for AmeriCorps.

What is AmeriCorps?

Well, I didn't even think about AmeriCorps.

You know, they still have the Peace Corps, I guess, but AmeriCorps is

kind of like the Peace Corps, but it's not.

It was a lot of money.

And, you know,

I've concluded some time back that I don't know how this is going to turn out for Trump, but all these programs, all these things, except for the USAID and the stuff that's going overseas, but most of the stuff that's not going overseas, in fact, a lot of it that's going overseas is not going overseas either, is just jobs programs.

We may have been in a depression since 1970, and everybody's working on the dole in some way, shape, or form.

And people who actually do something that pay taxes,

they're picking up the slack for everybody else.

I'm not sure.

But it's just.

AmeriCorps, I'm looking at it right now.

They focus on six key areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veteran and military families.

Yeah, if this doesn't sound like a crock of crap, just from what you read, nothing does.

Kind of.

Yeah, crocker crap.

Okay, well, let's go with clip one.

In its push to shrink government, the Trump administration has gutted AmeriCorps.

That is the federal agency created three decades ago as a way for young Americans and seniors to serve their country.

Now most of the agency staff has been fired and more than 30,000 people

have been ordered to stop their service work immediately.

Wow.

Are they, where are they?

Are they overseas?

30,000 people.

And by the way, three decades ago, that means this was founded.

This thing began in 1995 within recent memory of most of our listeners.

Wow.

It's not like something that's been around forever.

It's just bull crap.

And 30,000 people?

That's a lot.

30,000.

But again, I'm thinking this is a jobs program for them, not to benefit anybody else.

Onward.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Until last month, 25-year-old Theo Fauché was an AmeriCorps team leader.

He and 10 others got a small stipend for building affordable homes in Virginia, removing hurricane debris in Florida, and repairing national park trails in West Virginia.

That's where they were when Fauché got shocking news.

Pull your team off the work site, pack up your camp, hit the road tonight if possible.

The Trump administration had ended nearly $400 million in grants, yanking funding from more than a thousand organizations, saying it no longer fit the agency's priorities.

People were upset, Fauché says.

He calls AmeriCorps a patriotic program that's good for the country and good for the young adults he led.

18, 19-year-olds who never left home, who weren't really sure what they wanted to do with their lives or what was the right call for them, just traveled the country with people they'd never met before.

The personal growth and agency and confidence I saw in these members was massive.

All of a sudden, to have that opportunity ripped away from them is just unconscionable, really.

Kyra Esgate heads America's Service Commissions, a nonprofit that supports national service programming.

She admits there have been issues.

AmeriCorps failed eight consecutive audits.

A White House spokeswoman cited the same thing and pointed to $45 million in improper payments last year.

Eskade says the agency found that in its own review and AmeriCorps is upgrading a clunky IT system to better track money.

Yeah, okay, so they can't be the eight failed audits for an agency.

Give me a break.

We can't track the money.

And then they always go, computers don't work.

You know, if you put if the computers from 1995, which is when this thing began, would work to do tracking the money.

I mean, it's not like

we had Excel back then.

We had Lotus 123.

We had,

you could do it on an Apple II from the, from the late 70s.

I mean,

bull crap.

I had Lotus Jazz.

Do you remember that product?

Yeah, I know Lotus Jazz.

Lotus Jazz.

Never really worked.

Would never, they had all the software keys and stuff.

Never really worked.

Lotus Jazz.

Yeah.

Well, that's a scam.

I mean, it's not a scam.

It's just something that's grown into a money sink, a money hole.

It's a jobs program.

Yes, you're correct.

It's a jobs program.

Yeah.

It's just giving money away.

You might as well have like the

Works Project Administration.

Let's set that back up again and we can just paint murals.

It would probably be more beneficial to the American program.

Yeah,

it would at least be prettier.

I have manga news since we're in the second half here.

Manga, manga, manga news, make Africa news, manga, manga, and make Africa news great again.

This is interesting because it's white people in manga.

The first group of white Afrikaan-speaking South Africans is reportedly due to arrive in the United States early next week.

They claim to be persecuted in their home country and have been granted refugee status by President Donald Trump.

The U.S.

leader in February signed an executive order halting all aid to South Africa, accusing the government of doing terrible things to Afrikaners.

He described them as the victims of unjust racial discrimination, saying their land was being taken away from them.

Trump's views appear to stem from a recent law that allows land expropriation without compensation in extremely rare cases.

South African officials say the policy is part of efforts to address land ownership disparities that are one of the starkest legacies of apartheid, and that to date, no land has been seized.

many prominent afrikaners and other south africans have shouted down trump statements saying they patently false this will be interesting who shows up and what their story is there's been so much mis and disinformation about this

with the afrikaners

what's the misinformation well all we're the only news we're getting is it's not true it's not true it's not true it's just not there's no white people being killed here that's not true

and these people they're showing up with signs.

They're like, thank you.

We love you, President Trump.

Thank you for saving us.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're killing white people there.

That's what they're doing.

Yeah, well,

there's a lot of people there in South Africa who disagree with that statement.

Well, they're not white.

No, no.

Oh, I'm sorry, I missed these.

I have two Pope Leo XIV clips.

I have one Pope Leo XIV clip.

Why don't you go first with your Pope Leo clip?

Okay, you can see it on there.

Yes, he makes a comment.

Pope Leo has made an unannounced visit to the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where his predecessor is buried.

Walking slowly to shouts of long live the Pope, Leo laid a white flower on Francis' tomb and knelt in prayer for a few moments.

Earlier, he confirmed to cardinals that he'd chosen his pontifical name in homage to Leo XIII, a 19th-century pope who defended workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution.

He said there was a place for the modern church to meet similar challenges.

In our own day, the church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.

Hey, that's the second time I hear a Windows alert sound in one of your clips.

Where's that coming from?

I had something running in the background.

I was making a racket.

Okay.

Well, I got the Pope Leo XIV Chicago welcome.

With Leo's ascent to the papacy, the city of Chicago is celebrating one of its own.

Chicago, famously a sports-crazed town, so the new Pope is getting the full Wendy City treatment online.

One of the the most popular videos circulating is the Pope coming out to the Chicago Bulls' entrance music.

Meantime, a host of Chicago-themed t-shirts about Pope Leo have flooded Etsy shops in the last 24 hours.

But about the big question asked by every Chicago native, Cubs or White Sox, the Pope's brother John, Prevost, confirmed to local media that Leo XIV, cheers for the Southsiders.

He is a White Sox fan.

There you go.

Oh, as long as he's a White Sox fan.

Oh, that's good.

However,

you want to be a Cubs fan.

Of course, it's not good.

But there's more that Pope Leo said.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost saying he chose his papal name in part to honor Pope Leo XIII, a proponent of fighting for social issues and workers' rights.

He also says he plans to follow Pope Francis's lead on his church reforms and commitment to social justice.

In the meeting, Pope Leo asked other senior church leaders to uphold their commitment to the Second Vatican Council, responsible for sweeping church reforms in the 1960s.

He also identifies artificial intelligence as a top challenge for working people, human dignity, and justice.

Sister Natalie Beckhard, a pioneering French nun and the Pope's neighbor, reacting Saturday.

I think you can't just look at him as an American.

It's true, he was born in Chicago, and I remember once we talked about Chicago because he studied in the same place I spent one semester.

Despite the Pope's strong ties to Chicago, Beckhar says his rich background makes him a universal Pope.

He's also making the papacy his own, appearing in his first outing since the election, traveling to a sanctuary in Rome, significant to his namesake.

You could feel that, yes, his roots are from Chicago, but then he has spent so many time as a missionary in Peru, and he has the Peruvian citizenship and as Superior General 12 years here in Rome.

A mass will get underway here shortly, just about 5:15 at Holy Name Cathedral.

Now, as you all know, because of the Pope's strong Chicago ties and his upbringing in Dalton, Illinois, it's caused a lot of excitement for people here in Chicagoland over the last few days, especially Sox fans, after they learned from the Pope's brother that he was indeed a Sox fan growing up and has been a lifelong Sox fan.

Yeah, Chicago.

Chicago.

She doesn't know what she's talking about.

Oh, no, she's talking about.

You don't call them the Sox.

No.

They're the white socks because there's the red socks.

You don't say socks fan.

But you say Bo Sox.

You could say Bo Sox.

That would make more sense than saying Socks.

So I don't know that anybody, I lived in Chicago when I was a kid.

I don't know anybody that would call the white socks the socks necessarily, especially in a report like this.

Well, let me see where she is from.

I think it's just a mistake.

I could be wrong.

Somebody could correct me.

Some Chicagoan.

Well, she's some Chicagoan that's working there now.

That was it.

They can send me a note and I will pay attention to it.

Chicago.

That was a WGN report, so it was a Chicago local report.

Huh.

Well, I could be wrong.

Okay, I probably made another mistake.

Some space junk came down.

Everyone's all the time.

Oh, yeah, the space junk.

I had a clip from the last show.

Well, I have a clip from this show.

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus.

Russia's space agency believes the Cosmos 482 lander made an uncontrolled re-entry over the Indian Ocean, but European and US agencies say they're still unsure of its exact location.

The shuttle, weighing half a ton, malfunctioned during its failed launch to Venus in 1972.

It never made it out of Earth's orbit, instead circling the planet in an irregular pattern for decades.

Yeah, I was watching the live stream and they don't even know where it crashed down.

God knows it's a piece piece of junk up there floating around.

It's got no radio.

It's got no, it's not signaling anything.

It looks like a big curling thing.

Nobody knows what to do with it.

It was a lander or something.

It's just floating around since 1972.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're still just doing that kind of stuff.

Go to the moon again already.

Put some people down.

I'm ready for it.

I'm ready to become a believer.

I'm ready.

Well, I'm ready to play some clips from the Pakistani Pakistan-India situation.

Yeah, can I kick you off with a little overview, an overnight overview?

It's very short.

It'll bring us up to speed.

Oh, it's actually not that she.

It's not short, but it'll bring us up to speed.

Mere hours after a ceasefire was announced between India and Pakistan, its fragility was revealed.

Explosions lit up the sky above Indian-administered Kashmir in what authorities claimed was a violation by Pakistan of their bilateral agreement.

The armed forces are giving an adequate and appropriate response to these violations, and we take very, very serious notice of these violations.

We call upon Pakistan to take appropriate steps to address these violations and deal with the situation with seriousness and responsibility.

Pakistan said it remained committed to the truce.

We have acted as a responsible state

for the world and regional peace

and stability stability,

and for the lives of millions of people in the region who gave a positive response to the ceasefire suggestion.

The violations tempered the enthusiasm of those on both sides of the border who earlier had taken to the streets to celebrate the news.

In Mumbai, students had even painted artwork of Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside the US President.

After Donald Trump first announced Saturday that a complete and immediate ceasefire would come into effect following a a night of US-led negotiations.

Pakistan's foreign minister had confirmed the deal, saying three dozen countries were involved in the mediations, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

He celebrated on social media, adding that Pakistan has always strived for peace and security in the region without compromising on its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Minutes later, India confirmed that both militaries had agreed to halt fighting.

If sustained, the ceasefire would bring an end to the biggest military conflict between the two nuclear-armed states in decades.

There you go.

That's the update we have on the overnight.

Seems like things are doing pretty poorly there.

I guess.

What do you have?

I got a bunch of clips, but the only two that will work after that are the

India-Pakistan bogus ceasefire clip.

After

India and Pakistan appeared locked into widening conflict, President Trump announced that the two countries had agreed to a ceasefire.

And with that, it appeared that the worst conflict in more than 50 years between these nuclear powers had come to a halt.

Has it, though?

Late Saturday, both sides have been accusing each other of violations of the agreement.

And Pierre's Dia Hadid has been covering this conflict with all of its whiplash.

She covers South Asia and joins us from Mumbai.

Hi, Scott.

So there's a ceasefire for now between Pakistan and India?

Well, just hours after it was announced by President Trump, it seems a ceasefire is being violated in Kashmir.

That's the Himalayan territory that's divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both.

Residents tell NPR there that they've been hearing the sounds of blasts over two major cities, Jamal and Srinagar.

NPR producer Bilal Kochet is in Srinagar, and he told us at first that people thought these were fireworks to celebrate the ceasefire.

But pretty quickly, people began rushing home to shelter in place.

He sent us videos of the city entirely blacked out.

Plumes of smoke were streaming down, and people could hear sounds like these.

And then the chief minister of Indian Health, Kashmir, who's in Srinagar, posted on X, what the hell just happened to the ceasefire?

Well, so nothing's changed.

So let's

only worry about the second half.

Sorry.

Back up and talk about what the American role was in in brokering this agreement.

Yeah, for days, analysts were saying that the Americans were not being serious.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is just making phone calls.

He hasn't come.

But experts tell me as the situation escalated, America did intervene directly, as well as through Arab allies, to convince both parties.

But again, let's get back to where we started this conversation.

It seems like this ceasefire is looking incredibly rocky right now.

Yeah, yeah.

And it's not clear whether this is a small violation or a great unraveling.

Catch us up to speed on how these two countries got to this dangerous moment right now.

Yeah, these renewed tensions, they really flayed in late April when gunmen opened fire on tourists in Indian-help Kashmir and killed 26 people.

India said the group that claimed responsibility was a proxy for Pakistan's army, something Pakistan denies.

Overnight Wednesday, India began military strikes, and the two countries have been exchanging fire every night since.

On Saturday this morning, India had actually struck some Pakistani air bases, including one near the capital, Islamabad.

And that prompted Pakistan to announce an intensified military operation.

The fighting was ongoing until about 3 p.m.

India time.

Then the ceasefire was announced a little bit later.

And, Scott, just to give you a sense of this, more than 70 people have been killed on both sides, most of them in Kashmir.

I got to say, once, okay, twice, I get it, but four Windows alerts in Eclipse is

a bit much.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

I feel so sorry about it.

Well,

maybe you should just upgrade to Windows 11 already.

It's clearly telling you to do that.

That is Windows 11.

That's the problem.

What is it telling you to do?

What is the problem?

There was something disconnecting constantly.

Well, just so you know, when you're recording clips, it picks it up.

Well, I know.

I would normally not, I would go back and re-record, but generally speaking, when I record a long series of clips, like a show, like a complete NPR show, I just set it up, let it record, I come back later, and then do the

listen to the show.

Otherwise, I'd have to listen to it twice.

No, no one deserves that punishment.

By the way, have you heard anything about

the president going to Saudi Arabia this week?

He's going to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

And

I guess he's kind of given a cold shoulder to Netanyahu.

He's done some kind of deal with the Houthis.

I haven't been able to pick up anything on this.

I've kind of heard the same thing

without any detail.

I haven't seen any real reports, just nothing of any substance.

Why would you expect reporting?

Oh, yeah, I guess you're right.

No, instead, we get riveting news like this.

She threatened legal action against Google back in February over its labeling of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps for U.S.

users.

President Claudia Scheinbaum has now announced that Mexico is following through on that warning.

Google is already being sued.

There has already been a first resolution and it is being awaited.

Scheinbaum insists that Donald Trump's executive order in January to rename the Gulf applies only to the U.S.

section of the continental shelf.

What we are saying is that Google should put the Gulf of America where it is the Gulf of America,

which is the part that corresponds to the territory of the United States,

and then puts the Gulf of Mexico to the territorial part that corresponds to Mexico and Cuba.

Google has previously argued that it made the change in line with a practice of following name changes when altered by official government sources.

Schain Baum's announcement comes after the Republican-led House of Representatives voted earlier this week to formalize the name change for federal agencies.

On this vote, the yays are 211, the nays are 206.

The bill is passed without objection.

The measure measure is unlikely to be given the green light by the Senate.

Trump has contended that his order was justified as the U.S.

Why is it unlikely to be given the green light by the Senate?

Is the Senate against this?

They hate America.

The measure is unlikely to be given the green light by the Senate.

Trump has contended that his order was justified as the U.S.

quotes do most of the work there and it's ours.

Critics argue the move is in line with his expansionist aims, which include threatening to seize control of Greenland.

The water has been referred to as the Gulf of Mexico for more than four centuries and is internationally recognized as such.

I love that she's so mad at Trump, she's going to sue Google.

It's pretty funny.

I'm mad at Trump.

I'm going to sue Google over it.

I wonder what that'll be an interesting lawsuit.

And what court is that?

Is that the International Criminal Court?

The International Court of Mapping.

Iran enters a fourth round of nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration, saying its right to enrich uranium is non-negotiable.

Uh-oh.

It rules out a zero enrichment demand made by some U.S.

officials.

Now Steve is putting his talents to work.

U.S.

President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, said just that on Friday.

Speaking to Breitbart News, he said that an enrichment program can never exist in the state of Iran ever again.

That's our red line, no enrichment.

The Tehran Times headlines that Witkoff's comment dims the prospects for a nuclear agreement.

The article cites a source saying Iran has been lured into talk so Washington could subsequently provide a justification for escalating pressure and potential aggression.

The US President withdrew Washington from a twenty fifteen deal between Tehran and world powers

meant to curb its nuclear activity

and threaten to bomb Iran if no new deal is reached.

Iran insists its nuclear ambitions are purely for civilian purposes.

And we want it to be a great country.

Let's go.

Talks in Oman take place ahead of Trump's visit to the region next week.

AP is reporting that his trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of nuclear cooperation with the kingdom.

That's what I don't understand.

That's the only details I had.

His trip to Saudi Arabia signals a nuclear

AP is reporting that his trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of nuclear cooperation with the kingdom wait with with Saudi Arabia

a nuclear yeah I guess they're gonna give Saudi Arabia the bomb in case Iran gets it oh not nuclear power but nuclear nuke oh well the president did say I don't know I mean I'm just guessing well he did say

and I'm sure it wasn't the so-called UK trade deal which as far as I'm concerned, is there even a trade deal?

Have we seen anything?

It's a top secret.

But he said, oh, it's a big thing coming.

This is the biggest news ever.

This is the biggest.

I thought the UK thing was the biggest news ever.

I don't think that's what it was.

Was that big news?

We were all falling over each other.

Oh, wow.

What a big deal.

There's got to be something bigger than that.

I think there's something big, big, big.

Well, then it will be tomorrow.

Yes.

Because it said it was going to be Friday.

Now, the UK deal is on Thursday, but the big deal is supposed to be Friday or Monday.

Okay.

And everyone assumed that the big deal was the UK deal on Thursday, that he jumped the gun on Friday and Monday because he had other things to do.

I'm skeptical.

That's what I'm just

surmising from the reportage.

I'm skeptical.

Well, we'll have to see.

Anything else you want to play before we go into the most important part of the show, which is your tip of the day and other interesting tidbits?

Well, we got to the

yeah, just play this as get out of the way, the Bangladesh mess.

Boy, I hadn't even followed that.

The interim government in Bangladesh has temporarily banned the country's oldest political party, the Awami League of the exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The party is in court over its alleged role in the deaths of almost a thousand people in an anti-government uprising last year.

Sanjay Dasgupta reports.

The interim government's advisor on law and justice, Asif Nazrul, told reporters that all activities of the Awami League, including its online presence, were being declared illegal.

The suspension will hold till its trial is completed.

The country's oldest political party has been charged over its alleged role in countering mass rallies last year against its leader and the former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina.

The nationwide protests led to her ouster, but not before a large number of demonstrators were killed in a crackdown she ordered.

The Army League has rejected the government's move, calling it illegitimate.

Well, I don't know, man.

I got distracted by that Windows bong.

I can't, I don't even know what the clip was about.

You're messing me up.

You're messing me up with that stuff.

I couldn't understand a word the guy said.

All right.

I'll take us out with the most important news of the week.

New at four, the Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review library books addressing diversity, anti-racism, or gender issues.

The deadline is May 21st, according to a memo issued today.

It's the most detailed directive so far on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's campaign to rid the military of diversity and equity programs and materials.

They have a library at the Defense Department?

That's the thing that I didn't know.

I'm sure it's dynamite.

The idea that there's anti-racism books.

No, they're talking about critical race theory books, but they have to change the way they describe it so they make it sound like, ah, ah, he's a racist.

I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.

Imagine all the people who could do this.

Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.

Well, it was a mainstream news.

So, yeah, you're probably right.

He was a racist.

Time now as we prepare for John's tip of the day.

Everyone wants to stick around for that.

Of course, we have meetup reports and we have some end of show mixes.

We got lots of stuff still to come for you.

But first, as promised, we will thank the rest of our supporters for episode 1763, which includes a knighthood, $50 and above.

Go ahead, John.

Yes, and no racists here.

We start off with Christopher Ebert, Spartanburg, South Carolina, $105.35.

Sir Stewart in Stafford, Staffordshire, UK, $105.35.

And he's got a call to his mom, who is 91, recently passed away.

She was mom and granny to all of us.

Jason,

with a spelled funny.

Jason Dunn in Flagstaff, Arizona, 105.35,

which I'm guessing these are $100 donations that have been jacked up.

Yes, $100 donation.

Puts him over the top.

He's got a birthday.

For his dad, look for the,

while I read these, why don't you look for the mom call-outs in case I miss any?

Well, just just remember, we have to read this one because this brings him over the threshold for knighthood.

Yeah, go ahead, read this.

This $100 donation brings me over the threshold for knighthood.

However, I want to give this knighthood to my dad for his birthday on May 22nd.

He doesn't know that after my first donation in 2022, I started a small recurring donation, and this $100 will allow him to become a knight.

I will let him write in to ask for his knight name, but you know, for now, you can dub him Sir Mike of the Mountain.

I would also like to request a dedouching for myself.

You've been dedouched.

And then he asked for a clippity clop, which is actually, I have a clippity clop for him here.

And can you see that juice?

Okay, I think we determined that one.

And

a karma.

Yeah, you got it.

It's clippity clop.

The message is clear.

Oh my gosh.

Can you see that juice?

You've got karma.

None.

MFDX of Anjou,

8698.

He says donation note boobs on my knees.

86.

Okay, I get it.

Birthday wish to

MFMX of London, his 18th.

Okay.

Go call it the mom there.

Commodore Dame Early Turtle in Topeka, Kansas, 84.30.

Kevin McLaughlin, 8008.

He's the Archduke Luna of Boobs, Lover of America, and Boobs.

Archduke of Boobs.

Archduke of Luna.

He's not the way he's.

He might as well be.

He might as well be.

Yeah.

Brandon Handy, Handy in Glencoe, Alabama, 73.44.

Jason Shepherd in Trinidad, Colorado, 6006.

Michael

Henry in Snellville, Georgia, 59.45.

And it's a happy VE Day donation.

Scott Mengela.

Mengela.

Mengel.

Mengele.

Mengela.

Not Mengela.

He's got no scalpel.

Mengela.

Scott Mangle

in Exton, Pennsylvania, 5555.

In memory of my mom.

Leslie Rosenball.

What is he?

Rosenbaum, yeah.

In West Bloomfield, Michigan, 5272.

Love your show.

No.

I'm expecting more mothers' call-outs here, but I'm not getting them.

They're not on the spreadsheet anyway.

No.

Jim

Geating in Dallas, 5125.

twenty-five.

Uh, bad idea oh, Bad Idea Supply is back uh fifty oh five.

Uh you can look them up on the internet.

They make anything you want to burn stuff, get a hold of bad idea supply.

Roderick

Brown in no, these are all fifty dollar donors.

We're already there, we're almost done.

Uh these are names and locations of fifty dollar donors.

Is there a mom call out?

I don't see one yet.

Roderick Brown in Mermaid, Florida.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mermaid

Where is P E

oh, it's Canada?

What's P E Canada?

I don't know.

Is there a province?

P E

province.

I don't know.

Maybe it's a northern province.

I have no idea.

But he's in Canada.

And in town of Mermaid.

William Spain in Spring Dale, Arkansas.

Renee

Kaniga.

Keniga.

Netherlands.

Stephen Schumach

in Zenia, Ohio.

Mike Moon in Athens, Georgia.

Andrew

Grasso.

Oh, Andrew Grasso.

We haven't heard from him for a while.

He's in Mineola in New York.

Tom Del Vecchio in Blandin, Pennsylvania.

John Ford in McKinney, Texas.

And last on our list is our favorite Dame Rita, over there in Sparks, Nevada.

And she says, thank you for your courage.

Want to thank these people for making show 1763 a good show.

Good show.

Prince Edward?

Prince Edward Island, maybe?

Prince Edward Island.

That's got to be it.

Yes.

Thank you to these donors.

$50 and above.

We appreciate every single person who supports the best podcast in the universe.

We don't mention anything under 50 for reasons of anonymity, but we always look at the list.

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It's your birthday, birthday

on No Agenda.

Pretty short list.

I only see three today.

Sir Kevin Dills turns 39 on the 12th.

Jason

Dunn,

happy birthday to his dad, Mike, celebrating on the 22nd.

And MFDX of Anjou says, Happy, wishes MFMX of London a happy birthday.

MFMX of London is turning 18 years old.

Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.

And we have one knight.

That would be the dad who is going to enter the roundtable of the Knights and Dames.

So grab your dad blade there for a second.

I already hear the dad blade.

That's beautiful.

All right, Mike Dunn.

Step on up.

Your son likes you, Mike Dunn.

Thanks to your son's very sneaky support of $100 over many, many moons and months.

You are hereby pronounced as a Knight of the Knowage in the Roundtable.

You are to be called Sir Mike of the Mountain until you tell us differently.

For you, sir, oh boy, what a treat.

Hookers and Blow, Red Boys, and Chardonnay.

We got diet, soda, and video games, fish pie, and fellatio.

We have redheads and rise.

We got beer and blunts.

We have Ruben S, Lumen and Rose, Gates and Sake, Vaca Manila, Bonghead, Suburban, Spike, Cider, and Escorts.

Ginger Ale and Gerbils.

We got breast milk and Pablo.

Or, I'm sure you'll like this, Mike.

Sir, Mike.

Mutton and mead right here at the roundtable of the No Agenda Knights and Dames.

And you, sir, can head over to NoagendaRings.com.

You'll see the ring that you will soon be sporting on your ring finger.

Whatever finger you give us a measurement for, there's a handy ring size guide on the website.

And let us know where to send it, your official No Agenda Night Ring.

And thank you very much to your son and welcome to the No Agenda Roundtable.

No Agenda meetups, they happen all around Gitmo Nation.

They are a global phenomenon.

This is where you hang out with people who, once you meet them, you'll go back to these meetups.

I guarantee it.

This is

your first responders in any emergency will come from the people you meet at the No Agenda Meetup.

They are a connection that gives you the ultimate protection.

And we have a, well, nothing today.

On Wednesday, the Royal Visit,

the ultra-special amygdala checkup meetup in Leiden at 7:33 in Dutch time at Lokale Zesteinfeifter in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Baron Rob is organizing that.

And on Thursday, our next show day, Charlotte's Thursday, 3rd Thursday monthly meetup, 7 o'clock Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sir Kevin Dills will be sponsoring that for you.

On the way, we have, let's see, the 16th, we have Whitfield, Whitefield, New Hampshire.

Then the 17th, Bedford, Texas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Fort Wayne, Indiana, New Kent, Virginia, Springfield, Oregon, but maybe most importantly, the Fredericksburg Meetup.

Matt Long

is hosting that with his lovely wife.

And let me see, it's going to kick off at 333 until the cows come home.

And that'll be at 1776 in Lucumbach, right outside of Fredericksburg.

Go to Noagendameetups.com for more information.

And we have a promo for the Kansas City meetup.

Attention, Kansas City producers.

You're invited to another KC meetup, based baseball and barbecue edition.

Meet us at Maple Hill Park in Overland Park, Kansas on Saturday, May 31st at 3:33 p.m.

Bring a bat and glove for some fun on the diamond and enjoy some hometown barbecue.

If you're gonna go, let us know at noagendametups.com.

Well, there you go.

The Kansas City meetup.

It's gonna be a hootanany.

That is just one of the many No Agenda meetups taking place all around the world.

Go to noagendametups.com to find one near you.

If you can't find one near you, don't worry.

You have an obligation to start one yourself.

It's easy and it'll be guaranteed a party.

Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.

You wanna be where you won't be triggered on hell lame.

You wanna be where everybody feels the same.

It's like a party.

Always a party, guaranteed a party.

Yeah, this is the moment in the show where we do not let up.

No, instead of letting up, we just continue with more fun and shenanigans of finding the perfect isolated clip for the end of the show.

I am loaded for bear today.

I've got what do I got here?

I got like five of them.

Oh, so let me have them.

Okay, do not mock us.

There's one, dude.

Okay, second one.

It's done.

We're all done.

Okay.

In the morning ends with good night.

No, no.

Yo, yo, yo, that's the show.

I kind of like that one myself.

Ah, man, these guys are uncomparable.

Huh?

I like the yo-yo-yo, the best of that group.

It's so good.

Okay.

Oh, yo, yo, yo.

So you like the yo-yo-yo?

This one?

Yo, yo, yo, that's the show.

Okay.

All right.

Well, we have a contender at least.

What do you have?

I like that.

Well, I've got a couple of ones.

One of them's not under ISO.

It's under, I typed it wrong.

USI loved it.

USI loved it.

But I loved it.

But I loved it.

A little short.

Yeah.

It was short.

Yeah.

Then I have

ISO donate.

Please use the button below now to donate.

A lot of music, and I didn't like the music.

Sorry, I've got a cough now.

ISO swoon.

That show made me swoon.

It was so good.

No woman talks like that.

Well, then I can't play the last one, which is not safe for work and people are going to have to put their kids aside if you want to play it.

Because I actually programmed as

I can say, I don't know if it got sentient, but I had it design its own

AI, design its own.

What was the prompt?

What was the prompt you put on?

I'm not going to give it away and get people to get into it.

Oh, because people might want to do this for themselves at home.

Yeah.

Okay.

So wait, wait.

I think that I got it to become self-aware and give us, This is not safe for work.

And I'm embarrassed that it even showed up this way, but this is the way the clip came out after I cut loose the AI.

I really, really want to fuck these two guys.

Oh, John.

I mean, this isn't that terrible.

I'm sorry.

Yo, yo, yo.

That's the show.

That's where we're going to go with.

Man, that is just horrible.

I can't believe you did that.

I can't believe it.

I can't.

I didn't.

That's the point.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Ah, here's something he did do.

It is his very own tip of the day.

Create a mask for you and me.

Just a tip with JCD.

And sometimes add her.

Creative Kinburnetti.

I didn't mean to do that.

The AI did it for me.

Yeah.

Likely story.

I know.

It doesn't sound real, but it does not

sound

bogus.

No.

So I had,

I was gonna do another booze some more boozy stuff but I just I got this note from Crystal Boggs one of our producers and she gave me a tip that was just like

and I looked over the thing I can't I haven't used the product I looked over all the features I down I've got it set up to use it but it's nothing I would use

but I can see it being something that would be very valuable to a lot of people especially especially after listening to that horrible ai clip that created itself for people that want to keep movies and other productions clean.

This is a censorship product that I'm going to read the note from her, and this is going to be the product.

The product is vidangel, v-i-d-a-n-g-e-l.com.

ITM John and Adam.

On the last show, you mentioned that some TV shows are absolutely unwatchable now because of the stuff thrown in.

to them these days.

I think we're specifically referring to the horrible show black, whatever it was.

It's got the gay sex scene.

We've been using the $9.99 per month service VidAngel for several years, several years, and love it.

It filters out whatever you want.

You can customize show or movie using preset filters.

You can watch most titles by linking your streaming services.

We originally got it so our kids could watch shows they otherwise couldn't with us with us.

But my husband and I have used it just as much for our own shows.

we don't have to be surprised by anything unsavory like you both experienced and if a kid comes downstairs for water they're not going to catch a glance of anything we have to talk about later we have to talk about

we recently used it to watch jack ryan the agency the diplomat and more

i can also enjoy the office with my teen with all the hilarious social awkwardness but none of the adult jokes it's got like 300 filters and it i don't know how it even works but that's interesting it's a very interesting product for people out there that really want to

leery of what's what's it called again?

Okay, it's under www.vidangel, vid like video, vidangel.com.

And I will say this:

I have mixed feelings about censorship products like this, although

I can see their value for sure.

That's why I'm recommending it.

But

I remember one time I was on a flight,

and movies on airplanes are censored.

Back when they started the engines with a shotgun shell.

This is way after that.

Yeah, okay.

So they have the in-flight movie and I watched Get Shorty,

which I thought was a hilarious film, but

it's just for some reason I was unsatisfied at the end of it because I don't know what it was, but the movie made no sense.

But it was funny.

So then I saw it on TV like years later, and in the movie, which is a key element within the movie, there's an airplane crash.

And they left that in?

No, they took it out.

Airplane movies will never have an airplane crash in the movie.

It's a policy of all the airlines.

Yeah, I understand that.

Yeah, for good reason.

But if you don't know about the airplane crash, the movie doesn't make a lot of sense.

The irony of this coming from the guy who just played a not safe for work ISO is not lost on on me.

That this is your tip of the day.

I thought it would make up for the clip.

Not at all.

Interesting.

Is this just vidangel?

Vidangel?

Vidangel.com.

Sounds like vid Buzzkill is what it sounds like to me.

All right.

Well, it could be if you put enough filters on.

You can go check it out.

And if a reminder of all of John's tip of the days, tipoftheday.net.

Green advice for you and me.

a tip with jcd

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