1761 - "News Desert"

I want a watercolor of my dog.

Adam Curry, John C.

Dvorak.

It's Sunday, May 4th, 2025.

This is your award-winning Guinea Media Assassination episode 1761.

This is no agenda.

Digging in the news deserts 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're celebrating the Sanco de Mayo Show Special.

I'm John C.

Devorak.

It's Craig Bottom Boskill in the morning.

You know, it's Sanco de Quatro.

Yeah, I know.

It's the fourth.

May the fourth be with you.

May the fourth be with you.

Yes, indeed.

And we just missed it in the Netherlands on May 4th at 8 p.m.

I think we've talked about this before.

At 8 p.m., everybody stops.

The bells toll for, I think it's one or two minutes, and we have a moment of silence for the victims of World War II.

Because tomorrow is Liberation Day in Europe.

Yeah.

Which is.

We don't even celebrate any of that here.

I'm so confused about, you know, we've got.

We've given up.

We've got May 5th.

We got May 9th.

We've given up taking credit for anything.

We got May 9th.

Yes.

We got May 9th.

President Trump.

April 29th was,

was it 1606 that they landed and founded Jamestown?

We got all kinds of proclamations.

I need to get that going again.

I used to track all the proclamations.

Obama was really, really good at it.

And then we got, I don't think Trump did many of that in the first term, but Biden did nothing except for

Trans Awareness Day.

Trans Awareness Day.

Which was Eastern Eastern.

So I got to keep tracking that.

President Trump is doing a lot of these things.

Oh, wait.

Was oh, May 6th?

That's right.

Thank you, melkard may 6 uh pim for tan was murdered in the netherlands and that was now crap what is that that's that'll be 25 years ago i think

he was he was the guy that uh he won posthumously they assassinated him two weeks before the election yeah and like a knife in his heart no no no that was theo for hoch no they shot him in the head at the radio station Oh, he was shot in the head at the radio station.

That's what I just said yesterday.

There's no security at the radio station, apparently.

Well, there was, but

it was outside in the parking lot.

He had just walked outside and then Folkert from the Graf.

We had a famous Denver, this years ago, 30-plus years ago, as a famous Denver shock jock

that was shot in the parking lot.

Yeah, who was that?

I forget that story.

Yeah, you remember that guy, yeah.

Yeah, that guy.

You remember that guy?

But this was a politician.

And it was 23 years ago, right?

And the guy who killed him is out free.

The Dutch man, it's crazy.

Why not?

Hey, why not?

You know,

he served his time.

Yeah, Pim's never coming back, but let him walk around.

It's all good.

You can't even say his name in the media.

You have to say Folkert Vander G.

You can't say his last name because he has protection.

He has rights.

He has rights.

Yeah, you laugh, but it's pathetic.

It is pathetic.

It's really really pathetic.

It's great.

Hey, good news.

The Press Freedom Index is out.

The Press Freedom Index, everybody.

Which is a big deal in press land.

Yeah, especially if you're a left-winger.

Yes.

Well, let's have a listen here as to who's the best, who's number one at press freedom.

The European press is suffocating.

While the continent remains the leading region in the World Press Freedom Index, published on Friday by Reporters Without Borders, the situation is deteriorating.

Economic difficulties are threatening editorial offices, especially independent ones.

The media are facing both the end of American aid and the strengthening of Russian propaganda.

Oh, Norway.

So it's American aid that makes press freedom a big deal.

Oh, yeah.

Without American aid,

they can't do anything because they're too stupid.

They need American aid.

Wait until you hear the list.

Norway, Estonia, and the Netherlands dominate this ranking.

This is the best.

Number three in press freedom on the list is the Netherlands.

Are you kidding me?

One of the most suppressed countries news-wise in the world.

Oh, no.

Number three.

Well, already this list is suspect.

You think?

Conversely, Greece, Serbia, and Kosovo are the continent's lowest-ranked countries.

Within the European Union, Athens comes last.

In Greece, press freedom is really suffocated by the impunity of crimes committed against journalists.

Here, I'm talking about the assassination of journalist Georgios Caravas in 2021.

There has been one trial so far, and the accused have been acquitted.

Hungary.

Why?

Why?

Something happened in 2021.

Yeah.

So that puts them at the bottom of the list in 2025.

It's kind of like the Oscars, the way they do this.

It's bullcrap, but everyone's talking about it.

Oh,

the press freedom index is out.

It seems to be just because of how many journalists were murdered.

Well, that gives you negative points, yes.

They actually explain.

Have been acquitted?

Hungary, singled out for its attacks on the rule of law, ranks higher than Greece.

But it owes this to the fact that no journalist has been killed, explains Reporters Without Borders.

Well, get on the stick, Hungary.

Shoot some of those people.

Shoot them.

You're not doing a good job.

The organization points out that the Hungarian Prime Minister uses other means to control information.

Some 80% of editorial offices are controlled by people close to Viktor Orban.

While Europe remains the safest zone for the media, Reporters Without Borders stresses that the Union must remain vigilant.

And the precise.

It's so interesting.

Well, I'll finish.

Seven seconds, I'll finish.

The precise reason is the adoption last year of the European Media Freedom Act by the European Union, which is historic legislation.

So, where do you think we are on the list?

We're down two spots, by the way, from last year.

This is

around 20.

57.

We're on 57.

Yeah, and you know what?

Because

President Trump has such good relationships with the press.

This is insane.

At the bottom, you can already guess.

100 and let's see, where's Russia?

Russia, 171.

Djibouti,

Egypt is higher than Russia.

So yeah, the top five.

Press freedom, best places to be a journalist.

Norway, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden,

Sweden, where all they do is lie about the immigrant situation.

Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal.

Well, we know Portugal.

They lie about their outage.

Switzerland.

Germany.

Germany, number 11.

Yeah, the more you suppress your people, the more press freedom you have.

Germany's 11?

Yeah.

That's ridiculous.

Yeah, right ahead of Liechtenstein, who I think the only people who live there are journalists.

How many people live in Liechtenstein?

Lichtenstein.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Liechtenstein.

I know.

I'm just kidding.

Well, when we get some Liechtensteiners to donate to the show, maybe we can be a little more genteel.

So, of course, this comes at an opportune moment where we have all kinds of issues in America where we are suppressing the free press.

We're shutting down Voice of America.

And oh, no, NPR, PBS.

More on that.

Let's bring in Clayton Wymos.

He's the U.S.

Oh, wait, stop, stop the clip again.

I'm going to be interruptive.

You are interruptive today.

It's okay.

Remember, as we listen to the NPR and PBS complaining, the total loss of income to these operations, if the government stops giving him money, which they will, and they have, I guess, guess, I guess Trump did something,

is 1%.

1%.

Remember that.

It's $500 million,

according to Ms.

Meyer.

Mehr.

Meyer.

But let's just continue.

This is a report from France, Van Catra.

To more on that, let's bring in Clayton Wymers.

He's the U.S.

Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders.

Such a pleasure to

have you with us on the program today.

As we just saw in that report, for the first time in history, the Bain Index for press freedom is at its lowest ever score.

Working with the United States, help us get a grasp of just how much press freedom has slipped under Donald Trump.

Thank you for having me.

It is important.

He's been there for 100 days.

Already, press freedom slipping.

All we see is press about him.

Negative.

All of it, except for Fox, who are all positive.

Both sides of the same coin.

Bullfight.

But it's 85% of them are negative.

That number's been floating around.

Yeah, well, then how come it's slipping?

Remember that the index is a snapshot in time of the previous year.

All the data we collected is from 2024.

And so the decline in the United States is really one that's been going on for the better part of a decade.

Under Biden, I guess.

You know, when we first started doing the index in 2002, the United States ranked 17th in the world.

It's now down to 57th out of 180 countries.

And that is reflected in the fact that we're at number 57.

All five indicators that we measure have been taking hits year after year, especially the economic indicator due to massive layoffs in the media industry and the closure of newsrooms all across the country, triggering the East Desert problem.

But in recent years, it's really become a political and cultural problem with the massive decline in trust between the public and the media and outright attacks by politicians,

in particular, President Donald Trump.

I should add, though, that everything that's happened in President Trump's second administration for the past hundred or so days has not been counted in the index data.

So the decline is continuing before our very eyes.

Things are only getting worse.

It's only getting worse during Trump, even though in 84 years.

No daughter.

There's no data, but

it's getting worse somehow.

Here's what's so interesting.

They don't take the

plethora of alternative media into account whatsoever.

There's been nothing but more, more press freedom.

Go look at the Midas Touch folks,

if you believe them.

But I think maybe

there's a lot of them.

But maybe that's the point is that

there's too much press freedom.

And the people who consider it their job to be journalists, who have data,

that they think, oh,

we can't, it's slipping because all this fake news is

newsrooms, newsrooms, you know, a newsroom.

You know, the might has touched.

There's no newsroom.

They got a newsroom.

It's a little closet where the guy sits, but it's a newsroom.

So thanks to the Jones Brothers Syndicate, we have some of the morning, the Sunday morning shows are always the big, that's the big press freedom round people like to do in Washington.

You service me with some clips once in a while, but those days are over because you've somehow queered the deal.

I don't know what you did.

Queered the deal?

Yeah.

I did nothing.

Maybe I just send him a note and say, thanks.

I really appreciate you.

Maybe that's why.

I'm pretty good about that.

So

CBS, CBS, Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan had

Paula Kerger on.

You're saying, who is Paula Kerger?

Who is Paula Kerger?

She is the CEO of PBS, your favorite station, your K-Part and Brooks station.

And she had, had, and at the same time.

Mara was, or she's PBS.

No, she's NPR.

So she had them both on.

So she's a different spook.

Do you notice a pattern here?

The CEOs of the two largest government, partially government-funded

news organizations with actual newsrooms are women.

And they got some claiming, some complaining they're doing.

The president tweeted or socialed or truthed.

Republicans must defund and totally disassociate themselves from NPR and PBS the radical left monsters that so badly hurt monsters they're monsters I have to tell you I heard monsters

this is Margaret this is Margaret Brennan but it will be her name that was Margaret I didn't understand yes yes I think it was weird Paula Kerger K-E-R-G-E-R Kerger Kerger you look her up and I'll continue with the question

I thought of cookie monster I thought of Sesame Street And I thought of that children's programming.

That is in many ways what people think of when they think of PBS.

Absolutely.

Is that impactful?

Absolutely.

Are you going to do that the whole show?

You step on my clips too.

Impacted too?

Absolutely.

And out of this executive order, we believe it impacts our funding out of the Department of Education, which is a 30-year program that has supported not only the creation of many of the children's programming that you see on public television, but also the research that we do to ensure that that programming is not just safe and enjoyable, but that children, after watching, come away with understanding of basic letters and numbers.

Half the kids in this country are not enrolled in formal pre-K.

That's why programming

is not enrolled in formal pre-K.

We have to save the children.

Think of the children.

Former pre-K.

Formal.

Former.

I mean,

formal.

Formal.

So their job is now to educate our children.

She's saying it right right here.

You don't have your child in pre-K.

It used to just be K.

What happened to just K?

K-12.

That's P-K-1.

K-12.

Yeah.

Now I have to.

Whoa, you're a bad parent if you haven't enrolled your child in pre-K.

That's why programming for children on public television was created.

That was the idea with Sesame Street and Mr.

Rogers and everything that's followed since is to make sure that children that do not have access to a full array of resources.

Here's my my question.

What have you done for me lately?

So that's your big claim to fame, PBS.

Mr.

Rogers.

Mr.

Rogers has been dead for a decade.

Sesame Street.

What have you done lately?

Have the opportunity to learn and to develop skills that they'll need the first time they enter preschool.

That may be at age two or three or four and sometimes five, not until they start kindergarten.

That's what's at risk.

That's what's at risk.

Oh, I thought it was press freedom.

I'm mistaken.

It's not press freedom.

It's the children.

President Trump hates kids.

They do, yeah.

Let's go to Catherine Marr.

By the way, there's nothing spooky about her.

No.

Where does she come from?

What's her background?

Baltimore.

She's just, everything's pretty.

She was a pre-med student.

Oh, okay.

There's nothing that looks like she's got anything like that.

All right.

Well, unlike her, here's Catherine Marr, CEO of NPR.

So, Catherine, I want to ask you about the news.

When we went and we read the executive order, the language in there says government funding of news media in this environment is outdated and unnecessary, corrosive to the appearance of independence.

And Americans have the right to expect if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting that it's fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan.

How do you respond to the implication that your news coverage is not?

Well, just listen to the No Agenda Show.

They tell you every soul we do twice a week.

It's not fair and nonpartisan.

I think biased.

I can't get over her.

She is.

That is...

You know, the jingle.

Where's my jingle?

Yeah, this one.

Elitest voices of America.

This is NPR

or PBS.

Totally an elitist voice, this.

Is not fair and non-partisan.

Nothing biased.

Yeah, I mean, well, first of all, I think it's important to know that I'm the CEO, and we have an independent editor-in-chief

who oversees the newsroom.

And so I don't make editorial decisions, and that I I think is just always an important point to make.

But I think our newsroom would really take issue with that.

By the way, stop.

I have to stop the clip.

Yeah.

So what?

So what?

What's an important distinction to make that she says, oh, you know, I'm the CEO.

I don't make the editorial decisions.

I think that's an important point.

Why is it important?

Who cares?

Well, it's important to the elitist voices, I guess.

I don't know.

We have been on air for more than 50 years.

We have been covering news as it occurs across the nation in local communities overseas.

We have an extraordinary Washington desk.

And I want people to report straight down the line.

And I think that not only do they do that, they do so with a mission that very few other broadcast organizations have, which is a requirement to serve the entire public.

That is the point of public broadcasting: we bring people together in those conversations.

And so we have had a whole host of conservative voices on air of late.

We've been

when was this?

I've missed the conservative voices.

Well, that must be like Brooks.

A whole host, though.

A whole host.

It's like Jennifer Rubin, who always builds herself as a conservative blogger.

The woman's so left-leaning, it's ridiculous.

Making requests of the Trump administration to have their officials on air.

We would like to see more people accept those invitations.

It's hard for us to be able to say we can speak for everyone when folks won't join us.

Oh, I see.

It's their fault because they don't want to

take the risk of being on your airwaves.

Okay, so

you're not participating, and therefore we have to do what we have to do.

That's my takeaway.

So let's talk about the White House and the talking points and what they're saying because it's oh, so mean.

So that was the executive order.

Then we went and we looked at the White House talking points and what they're putting on social media.

They're a lot more about you than you.

And on NPR,

well, that is a propagandistic usage when she says

the White House statement about the situation is not talking points.

Talking points are specific.

It is usually a list of points or something that's transmitted around.

You're going to talk about this.

You're going to talk about that.

It's not published

on whitehouse.gov.

It's not a press release.

A press release is not talking points.

She's saying that for a very specific purpose, to get it ingrained into

the listener's mind that it's propaganda from the White House.

It's bullcrap.

That is a good point.

That is a good point, and I'm going to talk to the kids about that this month.

That's a good one.

Thank you.

So that was the executive order.

I am.

This is important that the kids understand.

Well, that's right.

I forgot you're giving a lecture.

Yeah.

Well, you might as well use the other one, which will come up in one of my clips.

where somebody uses the word claimed instead of

saying

that was already on my list.

Let's get back to the news deserts.

And we went and we looked at the White House talking points and what they're putting on social media.

They're a lot more about you than you.

And on NPR, they were saying things like a July 2022 editor's note that said the Declaration of Independence had offensive language against Native Americans.

We checked, and the word savages is used.

The White House faults your editors for avoiding the term biological sex when discussing transgender issues.

They apparently want you to use the term pro-life and faulted your use of the term anti-abortion rights to refer refer to activists.

Well, they got some good talking points there.

So when you see specific editorial criticisms like that, what do you interpret the intention of this being?

That they hate us.

What is your intention?

Bleeding the witness.

Mind-reading people, mind-reading.

Yes.

Well, I interpret the intention of this being trying to create a narrative around our editorial independence.

And as I said in our

control,

and I think that that is an affront to the First Amendment.

We have an independent newsroom, and we will always have an independent newsroom.

Hold on a second.

Just because they are exercising their part of the First Amendment, that is somehow an encroachment on NPR's use of the First Amendment.

They want to control our newsroom.

This is not true.

This is a microphone between criticism and control.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

Yeah.

It's good that we're doing this because people just watch this and they just sucked it all up.

The idea wafts over you is just bull crap.

It's bull crap.

It is bull crap.

That is an affront to the First Amendment.

We have an independent newsroom and we will always have an independent newsroom.

From my perspective, part of the separation

that the First Amendment offers is to keep government out.

In fact, the statute that...

Well, then why do you take government money if you want to keep government out?

Wow!

Great point!

What's up with that?

Was written when the Public Broadcasting Act was signed into law, was very explicit about interference from any member of the government, whether it is elected officials, whether members of independent agencies, because

right after she says this, Brennan does the same thing, right?

She comes out and says, well, after all what you said, then why do you want government money at all?

That's what happens, right?

Statute that was written when the Public Broadcasting Act was signed into law was very explicit about interference from any member of the government, whether it is elected officials, whether members of independent agencies, because it is so

sacrosanct, that division between the state and independent media.

That was the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, set it up as a private corporation to give protection from influence and control.

I would assume that's also from the White House.

So,

and I've been listening to NPR.

I didn't clip too much of it, but they keep talking about that's why it was set up with two years in advance.

So, this money was done in 2023 and it's our money, and you can't just take that money away.

This was to protect us from the government involved with us, but we're still taking government money.

You know, you understand, but we can't have involved from the government with government money.

President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the bill into law creating the Public Broadcasting Act and creating the system that we all operate within, was very noted.

He noted in his remarks upon signing that speech was that it does require a greater wisdom, and that's why we have a two-year advance appropriation:

is to insulate both of our work from political interference.

I think that that is critical that Americans understand that public broadcasting is meant to be independent so that we can serve the public interest regardless of whatever administration is in office or whatever Congress's whims are.

And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was set up as a private corporation with that same intent.

So I think there was a lot of focus, even at that moment,

when the act was signed.

1%.

This is very interesting.

They keep harping on this.

It's an independent company.

Well, yeah, then go get independent money.

You know, it's like, and if this is all, if it's only 1%,

what's the big deal?

We'll find out, of course.

That protections would need to be put in place.

Because if we do our job,

it is possible that we will produce content that some people may wish we have done a different way.

And this way it gives us the independence.

The other thing that keeps us independent is that most of our funding comes from viewers like you.

Viewers like you.

It comes from viewers like you, but still we're here going to waffle on for an hour about the money from the government, but it comes from viewers like you.

We ask people to make contribution to public broadcasting for something they get for free because we are available free to every home in this country.

And so both the combination of the fact that it was built as a public-private partnership, there would be some public money that went into public broadcasting that would enable stations and small communities to exist, alongside the fact that most of our support comes from people in communities, that really does create something that is very independent and very responsive to the communities that we serve.

And by the way, a lot of them are red communities, so you know, so you know, Republicans shouldn't be doing that.

I think we can wrap it up with this one.

The declining trust in the news.

And if I may, just to give a sense of those numbers, for every single dollar that the federal government puts in, stations raise on average about $7

from

private sources.

And so you also have to recognize that this order interferes with...

That was an interesting flub from public private.

I mean,

I wonder if that was truth coming out there.

I'm not sure.

$7

from public sources.

This is also one of those dipsy-doo things.

They like to.

Well, for every dollar spent, we get, you know, it's like the park service.

You know, for every dollar the government's put us in the park service, we make $8.

Well, why don't you just make $7?

I mean,

this is like throwing numbers around.

Every dollar results in $10.

Yes, it's magic.

We are a magic money machine.

$7

from

private sources.

And so you also have to recognize that this order interferes with the First Amendment rights of our listeners and viewers who've made a choice to contribute.

Well, how does it interstop?

This is just not true.

It doesn't

just a basic lie.

So the government not giving PBS money interferes with my First Amendment rights.

Yours, yours, yours.

That's what she said.

Well, right?

That's what she said.

Well,

she has a point because if they can't fund

Brooks and K-part and Scott Scheiman, it will hurt hurt the show.

So you know, Scott Simon only works on the weekends and he makes over $400,000 a year.

No, that's just painful to hear.

That's very painful.

The First Amendment Franklin.

Somebody did a breakdown.

It came out of Doge, I think.

The money that they pay their anchors on PBS is, I mean, it's not Fox, I mean, where you can get millions.

Yeah.

But

for the amount of work they do, and it's mostly radio.

We were talking about the radio side.

Yeah.

They get.

For radio, that's well paid.

I mean, there's very 400,000, especially for a weekend gig.

Yeah, you're like...

It's not working five days a week all day.

No, I mean, most people in radio are making $35,000 a year.

Seriously, except for your, you know, you got a couple.

Sean Hannity, I'm sure, Glenn Beck.

I mean, yeah, they're making millions.

Oh, yeah, those guys make millions, but they have syndicated deals.

Yes.

Yes.

All right, let's continue.

The First Amendment rights of our listeners and viewers who've made a choice to contribute, and this is the news that they want to see and hear, or the programming that they are committed to.

It did just stand out to us as journalists ourselves because the research shows that, you know, there's declining trust in media, in news, and the president was talking about that himself there, that he wants a free and fair press.

We're going to continue to cover this.

And thank you for your time today.

Thank you for having us.

Hold on.

Now that's over.

Thank you for having me.

Why doesn't Brennan's got the woman there?

She just brought up a push.

Out of the blue, Brennan says, well, you know, there's declining trust in the media.

Goodbye.

Why doesn't she say?

I mean, it makes no sense.

Why doesn't she say there's declining trust in the media?

Why do you think that is?

It's a simple question that's not, you know, maybe she can't answer, maybe she can't, but why wouldn't you ask that?

You've got the CEO standing right there and you'd say, does declining trust in the media goodbye?

Well, she's taking that as a given fact.

That's what she's doing there.

Like, everybody knows that.

We just had the report about the press freedom is on decline.

It's slipping.

Ever since President Trump came in office, slipping.

It's going away.

People don't trust.

I would like to know what her answer to that question, that simple question, would have been.

But Brennan, no.

She didn't have it.

No.

Because Because of what you just said, she just made it as an assumption, as a statement of fact, and didn't want to even discuss it any further.

This is a terrible show.

These people get paid a lot of money to do this stuff.

It's a terrible show, and Brennan is no good.

Here's the last clip I got.

President Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order on Thursday.

It aims to cut money for NPR and PBS.

The American people are sick of funding institutions who promote values that they find repugnant.

The public broadcasters are accused of left-leaning bias.

I wanted to play both sides of the argument.

The White House.

It's true.

The White House and Republicans say one glaring example was NPR's refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal shortly before the 2020 election.

At the time, NPR released a statement that said, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.

but it did turn out to be a real story our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake as do i yeah the whole country knows that was a mistake definitely impacted the election critics also point out how draquens have been featured on pbs children's programming the executive order oh that's what they're doing see they didn't bring that up on the on the cbs uh meet the press but here they talk about it because after mr rogers and big bird we got drag time story hourly impacted the election Critics also point out how drag queens have been featured on PBS Children's Programming.

The executive order directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to slash the more than half a billion dollars and federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Local stations could be hit the hardest, with some at risk of shutting down altogether.

In a statement, NPR said, we will challenge this executive order.

If they get $7

for every dollar that they get from the government,

why would they be shutting down?

You know, why is because they have to buy the incredibly expensive programming from the American public media, commercial organizations.

If you want fresh air, if you want any of these programs, you have to buy them at truly market value, syndicated programming, market value.

There's no deal here, and you can't FTP it.

You have to get it off their satellite system, which is another couple million bucks a year.

Where you could have for a buck fifty, you got Starlink.

Come on, people.

I'm

In the middle of the night.

In the middle of the night.

He issued it in the middle of the night so that we wouldn't notice it.

Oh, is that what you're trying to imply?

And PBS said, the president's blatantly unlawful executive order issued in the middle of the night threatens our ability to serve the American public.

We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country.

Oh, yeah, this is another big one.

Yeah, this is.

I mean, you know, if

the power goes down, you know, it's our broadcast that will save everybody.

Yeah, within their little portable radios, we'd be picking up PBS.

Like in northern West Carolina.

No, it was Elon Musk's Starlink that saved people, not you guys.

I'm sorry.

And ham guy.

Hams.

Hams.

Hams.

Hams.

Hams.

Hams.

It sounds like a breakfast.

Threatens our ability to serve the American public.

We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country.

And you need 100% coverage to make that happen.

We have news deserts.

20% of Americans live in Washington.

100%.

You need not 99.999.

100, 100, 100, 100, 100%.

And here comes the news desert again.

In the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public.

We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country.

And you need 100% coverage to make that happen.

We have news deserts.

20% of Americans live in a place where they have no local news coverage other than public radio.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting also released a statement saying the organization is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority.

It's safe to say this executive order will be challenged in court.

Yeah, all right.

All right.

Well, this, this will be fun because now they get to talk about themselves, which is all, oh, you should have heard on the media.

Brooke.

I couldn't even clip it.

It was all about all about us.

You know,

we're being suppressed.

There's this little thing called podcasting people.

And you know what?

You spent $100 million and had to shut it down because of your Neumann mics and your newsrooms.

Joe Rogan does more for information than you do.

All put together, all your stations.

Everybody knows it.

You know, that's interesting, that point you make, though, about the

using Starlink instead of these expensive satellites.

When I was doing a radio show for the real computing show on

PB

the other network, public radio.

And it was, it cost a fortune.

Yeah.

You had to go up to the bird, and then you had the transponder number, and

everyone had to download it from whatever.

And it was like back in the day, MTV didn't have that kind of money when I started there.

They didn't even have a lighting director, makeup, or wardrobe.

And so to get the shows on the air, we recorded on U-Matic High Band,

which is basically a glorified Betamax.

And then they'd put it in a commuter cargo cassette.

With a bigger cassette.

They'd put it in a commuter car, which was a low-rent, basically a cab service you could call.

And then they would drive it up out to Long Island.

And then you'd have tape jockeys sitting there, just

hitting the VJ segment, then hitting the video, the music video.

We didn't have satellites.

Couldn't afford it.

And now, yes, it's actually, it's like a buck 10.

It's not even 150 bucks.

I think it started off 99 was the introductory price.

And now I think I pay 110 or 120.

And honestly, it's an expense for the show because it's a backup.

It's a backup to the backup to the backup.

But it's impressive.

And, you know, so to say that you need this, no.

The guys up at the Do Gramerica up in Canada,

they use it on the air, I know.

And I didn't notice it until they pointed it out.

I mean,

because I've been on that show and there's no latency.

It's quite nice.

Yeah, you should go back on.

I should.

They haven't invited me back.

They're probably.

The ratings went through the toilet when they got me on.

I don't think so.

People love it when you're on.

They do.

They always tell me that.

Dvorak, he's a ratings bonanza.

Get that guy on.

All right.

Well, I can go all kinds of directions now, but I will leave the floor to you, sir.

Well, what do I have?

I don't know.

There's a lot of stuff I don't know.

We don't listen to each other's clips, so I don't know.

What did you not get?

And I'll tell you if I got it.

What did I not get?

I did.

Okay, yeah, it's a good point.

That's

a new element of the show.

New element of the show.

I didn't get it.

I don't have a clip of

the Ben-Gurion airport getting bombed by the Houthis.

Israel is on high alert after a missile impacted near Ben-Gurion airport outside of Tel Aviv.

The attack was claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels who have regularly launched attacks on Israel since the start of the war in Gaza.

The attack resulted in a crater near the airport, but didn't damage any structures.

Authorities say at least two people were lightly injured.

Israel's defense minister has threatened to strike back, quote, sevenfold at the Yemeni militants.

So, this is a new version of GoFish.

So, you say, I didn't get this.

I really like this idea.

And then I play it.

And

if I don't have it, then I tell you to go fish.

And then you pick one of yours.

Let's try it for the second one.

What do you got?

What do you got?

What do you got?

Oh, well, that wouldn't caught me.

You caught me flat-footed because now if I

had the one because that's the only one I was watching this morning, I said, oh, that'd be nice to have a clip of that.

Oh, so that's all you can think of?

Yeah, unfortunately.

There must be something else that happened this morning.

Well, I mean, I figured most of the morning stuff you pick up.

Well, President Trump was on with

the Manhands lady.

A welker?

Yes.

So he did ABC.

We know how that turned out.

I respectfully agree to disagree about the Photoshop.

Here's an interview in a nutshell.

You suck, ABC.

You suck.

Well, do you want to hear the yes, I would like to hear Welker.

Okay, this is pretty much all about tariffs, which covers two topics in one but sir you acknowledge when you announced your tariffs for example the stock market dropped it's been volatile it has since gone up do you take responsibility

for that yeah do you take responsibility when it's dropped ultimately i take responsibility for everything but i've only just been here for a little more than three months uh but the stock market look at what's happened in the last short period of time.

Didn't it have nine or ten days in a row or 11 days where it's gone up?

So so far, we're cordial.

It's not going to last.

And the tariffs have just started kicking in and we're

doing really well psychologically.

I mean, the fake news was giving me such press on the tariffs.

The tariffs are going to make us rich.

We're going to be a very rich country.

So let's talk about the tariffs.

And I want to ask you about something you said this week.

Got a lot of attention.

You were at your cabinet meeting.

You said, quote, I'm going to quote what you said.

Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dollars.

And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.

I love this because this is my theory, too.

It's like, stop buying junk from China.

Wake up, people.

Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some again?

Trump hates children.

This is the new meme.

This is interesting the way she's twisted this, too.

Yeah.

It's like maybe the kids will have two instead of 30.

And they're talking specifically about toys from China, which is junk from China, which is what they're discussing.

And there's going to be less of it, perhaps.

I doubt it, by the way.

But

so she, and she twists it.

Have you been ever?

I mean,

we know some people with young kids here.

I am astounded by the junk

that these kids have.

They have an entire room that is just their junk room.

Have you ever seen this?

Well, I have the problem with Theo

is that they won't let him have a lot of toys over there, so the junk is over here

in your office.

No, in my in the downstairs front room, which has there's bins, so he has to put the put the toys back in the bins.

Oh, good, but good, good.

It would look like I have a dozen kids.

If somebody comes and visits, what is you?

How many kids do you have here living here?

Yeah, well, exactly.

It's a lot.

And why, how come they won't stop?

But what do the kids what does the kid like to play with the most?

One of the main things is a wooden

little car, a wooden car with wooden wheels.

I know

it was made in Slovenia.

It's astounding.

But meanwhile, there's all this plastic junk and furry junk, probably toxic.

It's everywhere.

All right.

Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up?

No, I think your tariffs are going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich.

But you said some dolls are going to cost more.

Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up?

I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs, that's 11 years old, needs to have 30 dolls.

I think they can have three dolls or four dolls

because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable.

We had a trade deficit

hundreds of billions of dollars with China.

Well, he's already gone from two to four dolls, so he's slipping.

He's slipping.

He's like, okay, you can have four.

Every child can have four dolls now.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

We're very happy.

By the way, are you running a baby daycare there?

Is that what you're doing on on the side?

You got the dog kennel, and now you're running kids.

We got a dog kennel.

We got everything.

All right.

So

I have some tariff clips since you brought it up.

Oh, you don't want me to continue?

You want to interrupt?

Oh, that was the end of her.

We have more of Kristen.

Oh, yes.

It's all about tariffs.

And it's just about to get fun because...

Okay, no, play it out, and then I'll play that.

I have a Buffett clip.

Buffett came in and said something nasty.

Yes.

And then

there's one more.

Well, it's about to become a dishonest interview, as you understand.

When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying?

Well, now it's three.

He said two.

Is it four?

Is it two?

Is it three?

What is it, Kristen Welker?

I'm confused now.

When you say they could have three dollars instead of $30,

are you saying you

Americans could see empty store shelves?

No, no, I'm not saying that.

No more dolls for the kids, really.

The whole a memo went out somewhere.

All right, let's go for the kids.

Trump hates children.

That's what it must have been something like that.

All right, here's our new angle, everybody.

This will kill him.

Yeah, this angle is going to do it.

Yeah.

This will get him to quit.

Oh, won't somebody please think of the children?

When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying

Americans could see empty store shelves?

No, no, I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying they don't need to have $30.

They can have three.

They don't need to have 250 pencils.

They can have five.

This is NBC.

What a conversation.

This is network news.

It's not over.

But you're basically saying there could be some supply shortages because of the fact that we need to waste money on a trade deficit with China for things we don't need, for junk that we don't need.

Well, prices are already going up on on some popular items.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, tires,

strollers.

This is such a dishonest interview.

There it is.

There it is.

It's a dishonest interview, and we're only one minute in.

Prices are down on groceries.

Prices are down for oil.

Prices are down for all energy.

Prices are down at tremendous numbers for gasoline.

And let me tell you, when you have the big thing, what he did, he spent like a stupid person, which he was, but he spent like a very stupid person.

And that was bad for inflation.

But what really killed us with inflation was the price of energy.

It went up to $3.90, even $4, and in California, $5 and $6, right?

Okay.

I have it down to $1.98 in many states right now.

Not in Texas.

Where is it?

$1.98.

What's it?

I don't know.

It's not.

It's

Mississippi, maybe.

I have no idea.

It's like $2.50 here now.

It's still five bucks here.

Yeah, well, it's your taxes.

You go that much lower on energy, which is ahead of my prediction because I really thought I could get it down into the 250s.

We have it down at $1.98 in numerous places.

President Trump hates children.

Let me give you some examples.

These are, I mean, these are actual examples.

So you're saying the prices that are going down, some prices are going up.

Tires, strollers,

some clothing in the wake of your tariffs.

That's peanuts compared to energy.

Energy is 60% of the cost.

But sir, you campaigned.

You campaigned on a promise to bring prices down on day basis.

Well, I don't know when you say strollers are going up.

Strollers, keep on the strollers.

This is great, Kirsten.

What kind of a thing?

I'm saying that gasoline is going down.

Gasoline is thousands of times more important than a stroller or something.

But what do you say to Americans who say they voted for you because they want and they need relief

right now?

They're getting it.

Right now, what about those?

Even mortgage rates, different items I just don't know.

Who cares?

Stay on the stroller.

Despite the fact that we have a stubborn Fed.

But you said dolls, even dolls.

Yeah, good.

Bring the dolls back.

Maybe they might, but you don't need to have, as I said, 35 dollars.

You can have

34 and save a lot of money.

We don't need to feed the beasts.

Don't feed the the beast.

It's unbelievable.

Clip of the day.

Go on.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Clip of the day.

I'll stop here because

they kind of stay on terrace, but let's put your tariff clips in here.

I think that's probably a wise idea.

Jeez.

It's great.

It's fantastic.

It's so pathetic.

So they got to bring in Buffett because he's retiring and he's got to have his last shot in there.

You know, he's a Democrat.

And

even Bill.

I guess he's not friends with Bill anymore.

No, because of Epstein.

We all know that.

Buffett knows what's up.

He knows what's up.

He wants no part of it.

And, you know, I don't think he likes divorce.

I think that's a problem for him.

I think you might be right.

He's from, you know, he's from Wichita.

Yeah.

Here's Buffett anti-tariff short.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the United States should not use trade as a weapon.

Buffett, who's the fifth richest person in the world, made the comments during today's annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, where he's CEO.

He also announced that he'll be retiring at the end of the year when he'll be 95.

Yeah, don't use him.

Don't use him.

Why?

Because he's invested in Chinese companies, that's why.

Yeah, of course.

There's the other clip is Trump Tariffs MT.

Meanwhile, President Trump brushed aside recession fears in an interview for tomorrow's Meet the Press on NBC.

Mr.

Trump said the pains of this transition period will lead to a flourishing economy.

It's

that there are many people on Wall Street say this is going to be the greatest windfall ever happened.

And that's my question over the long term.

Is it okay in the short term to have recessions?

Look,

look, look.

Yeah, yeah, yes.

Everything's okay.

But we are, I said, this is a transition period.

I think we're going to do fantastically.

This week, new government numbers.

Fantastically.

Is that a proper use of the word fantastic?

I don't think fantastically is a real word.

It's fantastic.

But we are, I said, this is a transition period.

I think we're going to do fantastically.

This week, new government numbers showed that the U.S.

economy shrank in the first three months of the year.

That's the first drop in three years.

Imports in the first quarter surged as companies tried to beat tariff deadlines.

The tariffs on cars and car parts kicked in today with significant changes intended to blunt the impact on U.S.

car makers.

Okay, let's go back to Chris and Welker because now it's about

Abrior Galaga

Garcia.

Oh, geez.

I'm curious to know what it means.

You declared a national emergency on the southern border.

What does it mean?

What does it mean?

Because we had a national emergency on the border.

We've got declared a national emergency on the southern border.

The order is still in place.

By the way, even though you're saying the border,

it means we have the most secure border we've ever had.

Well, and I guess the question becomes: when will you know that the emergency is over?

Are you planning to lift it at some point?

Is it necessary?

Because obviously the military is involved.

Will you lift that emergency over?

Well, the biggest emergency is the courts aren't allowing us to take really action.

We're going to talk about that, but talk to me first about this.

Talk to me first about this.

The border is not the emergency.

The border is

all part of the same thing, though.

The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out, and we have some judges that want everybody to go to.

Some of them you appointed, sir, including three on the Supreme Court.

I like that.

I've been hearing that more and more, you know, so that

when they really want to hammer a point home, sir.

Some of them you appointed, sir.

Sir.

Yeah.

Ashimi, your shoulders.

And we have some judges that want everybody to go to.

Some of them you appointed, sir.

Hold on a second.

What's an implication here is that the judges are political.

They don't know that they're doing this, but they're actually

impugning the court system by making the comment, well, some of them you appointed.

In other words,

so if you appointed them, they should go one way.

If you didn't appoint them, they're going to go the other.

as if the judges are all part of a political system instead of being a judiciary that's independent.

Well, I think they're actually saying it out loud.

She's admitting that these judges are political.

And that,

yes, I think you're right.

That's a good catch.

The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out, and we have some judges that want everybody to go to.

Some of them you appointed, sir, including three on the Supreme Court.

They change.

I mean, it's unbelievable.

It's unbelievable how that happens, but they do change.

Just to button this up, though, are you planning to lift that emergency order anytime soon?

Now that the border security is an emergency, we have a massive emergency overall.

It's an overall emergency on immigration.

And

if the courts don't allow us to take people out,

if we had to have a court case, every single person,

every single person, we have millions of people.

We have millions of court cases.

Figure two weeks a court case, it would be 300 years.

So, meanwhile um the epp

the euro parliament uh they have the what do they call them the debates

they have they have this thing uh in the european parliament where they do debates and it's basically a reason to take a trip so they all went to valencia valencia spain got there right after the blackout coincidentally And then Queen Ursula spoke.

She spoke for about half an hour.

I only got two short clips from her.

But yeah, I mean,

this is great.

What's happening in America is great.

It's great for us.

Now the world of trade is turning towards us.

And Frederick, you mentioned it.

Since last year, we've concluded a new wave of trade deals from Mercosur to Mexico to Switzerland.

We're working with India and Indonesia, with the Emirates and Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia and the Pacific.

If I clip this, I didn't put what's his name yelling in Boston and for a we're gonna meet we're gonna be in Minnesota and then we're gonna go to Iowa

well that's why there's two of us they all want to deal with us

because we are fair

we are reliable

and we play by the rules our own rules but it's rules so my friends

let's stay the course

cool-headed and united, because that's who we are, and that's the European way of trade.

Let's stick to that.

This woman, she's great.

But the key

to our prosperity

is to put our own house in order and to make business easy right here in Europe.

Okay.

Business is anything but easy in Europe.

So she referenced Friedrich.

Friedrich?

Stop a second.

That is a fabulous point that has to be made.

Doing business in Europe is a pain in the ass for everybody.

Tons of paperwork.

That's why they can't get their act together with entrepreneurial stuff.

They don't have anything like Silicon Valley.

It's very hard to invest.

There's all these roadblocks to this and that.

Even when they let you do something,

they'll put up roadblocks.

I'm reminded this, at one time I went, so I would go to France.

This is a long time ago, and I had an import license.

I worked with an importer so I can bring some wine back because I was going to take a big wine.

I was wondering what it was for.

Yes, of course, of course.

Yeah, I imported about, I don't know, 30, 40 cases.

Oh, beautiful.

But I, for about

half the first cases that I got, because there were these two different kinds of paperworks that were involved with getting the wine imported and exported.

And it was one kind and there was another, one for doing something somewhere and one for getting getting it out of the country.

And so I had collected a bunch of wine from the Juranson region and I went to see

the guy who ran Hobai and he was looking at my paperwork.

He says, you got the wrong paper.

Your papers, your papers are not, and all that message.

Well, he wasn't doing the exporting.

He just looked at it.

He says, these guys screwed you over by giving you the wrong paperwork.

Now you're going to have to go through a rigmarole to get this stuff out of here.

And I said, what?

He gave me the right paperwork for his wines.

I got a bunch of wine out.

But when I dropped the wine off, I dropped it off.

And, you know, there's all these, oh, you can't do it.

The French guys, the exporters that were there.

And he said, oh, this is no good.

You can't do this.

I said, okay,

here, here's the wine.

Here's the paperwork.

If you can take care of it, you take care of it.

Or keep the wine.

I'm out of here.

I got to fly back.

Here's 100.

The wine all got shipped.

It all got shipped.

Oh, really?

Yeah, it all got shipped.

It's all bullcrap.

They were waiting for a bribe.

That's what they were waiting for.

I don't know.

Maybe.

I don't know what it was.

For sure.

Your papers are not in order, Mr.

DeVek.

So

she referenced Friedrich,

Friedrich Mertz, also known as Mr.

Peepers.

And Mr.

Peepers made it.

So, I'm going to get to the blackout in a minute, but Mr.

Peepers made a big deal about climate change.

Oh, climate change.

We have to be very careful because, you know, we have this issue where, you know, we want to increase our industrial base, but we kind of have no energy.

So

he has a plan for it, and it's very sneaky.

So he slips this in.

We have to find a better balance between fighting climate change, which is necessary more than ever.

More than ever.

And protecting the environment on the one hand and avoiding deindustrialization on the other hand in our countries.

And so they're all like, yeah, but yeah, that's right.

We need more energy.

We can't do anything.

Bravo!

Hi, friends.

My dear friends,

whenever someone says to you, my dear friends, you're about to get screwed.

This is a very real

and serious issue.

We will not tackle the enormous challenges ahead with a shrinking economy.

A thrinking economy?

Thrinking.

Sorry to make fun of

your accent there, but it's what it is.

The enormous challenges ahead with a shrinking economy,

we should be ambitious in cutting regulation and relying on market based instruments such as ETS,

implemented by the European Union.

Allow me to be very open on that.

Let us fight over regulation on all levels.

So he throws in ETS,

which is the emissions trading system of the European Union.

So, oh, it'll be less regulation because you just got to buy some carbon credits.

That's all.

He's literally announcing a tax on all of the European Union member states.

And he's doing it under,

we got to tackle regulation.

We got to make it easier.

Yeah, we'll make it easier.

Didn't say I was going to make it less expensive.

So then they bring out Paola Pinot.

Paola Pinot.

She is the spokeshole for the European Commission, the worst spokeshole ever when it comes to English.

And so she chose to do it in English.

And I think if you're going to be a spokesperson,

you shouldn't be

the whole time.

And so she referenced the blackout that happened just the day, coincidentally, just the day before this Valencia meeting.

And of course, she brought it right away to disinformation.

We can really see how far manipulation of information can go and what a negative impact it can be.

On the basis of that fake article,

there were reactions, thinking that there had been a deliberate attack behind, which is obviously

very

bad and can have very serious consequences.

So this again is an example of how information manipulation undermines the trust in credible sources and organisations.

She's talking about the article that came out that said it was a cyber attack and it can actually even divide our society in light of such a serious

incident.

And in the Commission, we have several tools at our disposal to fight against manipulation of information.

It includes a task force on strategic communication and countering information manipulation, but also active collaboration with fact checkers, with online platforms.

Fract checkers.

We have many fact checkers.

By the way, just a small interstitial.

Several people emailed me after I gave the report from our dude named Ben, named Ben, protector of megawatts, whose actual job it is to understand, protect

grid networks, understand how they're working, what is working, what isn't working.

And he told me straight up, straight from the people he coordinates with, he talks with.

He's in the business.

He said, this is what happened.

They lost 15 gigawatts from France, and so they had no baseload.

Then everything started to fluctuate, and then the system just starts to shut down.

That is what happened.

But no, no.

Here is an example.

Adam, you are misinformed about what caused the outage.

You must look at Kim Iverson's interview with Ben Davidson on YouTube called Magnetic Pole Shift, Europe's Just the Beginning.

If you know his credentials, he's the real deal, and he has it right.

Respectfully, your fan.

So, this whole nonsense that they launched into the atmosphere right away of, well, no, it's a very rare event, atmospheric conditions.

And then we've got the space weather guy saying, oh, it's the magnetic pole shift.

That's what caused it.

Come on.

It's like a psyop on top of a psyop.

No, it's much simpler than that.

Although the European Commission doesn't know exactly what happened, we go back to Paula Pinho, and she brings in at the very end here

she tosses over to the lady who's in charge of that.

Thank you, Christiane, for giving me also the opportunity to precisely make this point and how important it is and how we really need to work together in light of information manipulation in order to counter it.

And if I still may add, on renewables and use this opportunity, I want to say that the Spanish and Portuguese operators are are well experienced in handling high volumes of renewable generation in their electricity systems.

So

we also have clear rules on the EU level in this regard and we ensure that the balancing of the electricity system and its capacity

is capable of absorbing renewable generation.

So we still don't know what was the cause of the blackout, but this is on the renewables that there is enough experience to handle it.

A follow-up touch, we will not

yet elaborate on that before we really have a solid assessment by the experts.

So we don't know exactly what happened, but just so you know, we can handle renewables, we've got expertise, we don't know what happened, but we can handle renewables.

We can do it.

We don't know what happened.

We'll follow up when we know what happened.

Did you even hear my note that I read, or were you offline at that point?

Can Can you hear me?

I can hear you now.

Yeah, I saw what happened.

Well, I had to go back.

I had to do that because I was yakking at you for the last five minutes about one thing or another and you didn't hear any of it.

I'm sorry.

Oh, man.

What were you yakking?

Well, I had gone, it's old news now.

Well, give me a shot.

Give me the try me out.

I don't remember.

It was just like some comment I had about something that one of these clips you were playing.

This has been going on for like six, seven minutes.

I'm so sorry.

Well, I've got the thing.

I'll put the monitor right in front of me now so I can see if it happens again.

It's very annoying.

I'm telling you, it's a clean feed deal, man.

That's what I think.

I mean, it makes no sense for it to be anything else.

It just switches interfaces.

Like, oh, no.

No.

I expected it happened once a show.

Yeah.

Whenever I'm talking about PSYOPs,

there goes.

Oh, let's.

Well, since we're doing that, let's talk about chemtrails.

This, ever since Bobby the Op came out and talked about this on the Dr.

Phil show, everybody has to get back into it.

We're all talking about the chemtrails.

We even talked about it on the last show.

I do.

I think we talked it out in the last show.

We don't need to talk about it anymore, do we?

Well,

we have to play the mainstream media clips about it because it's funny.

By the way,

there is ample evidence.

I'll send you the links that there's aluminum, barium, all kinds of stuff in jet fuel, in today's modern jet fuel.

I know that you were an inspector back in the day, but it appears that there are particles now that should probably not be in jet fuel.

But this is France 24 here to debunk the chemtrails conspiracy.

Sam Lava Truth or Fate Vedica Beld is over by the big bull.

Good evening to you, Vedica.

Today, then, talking about a conspiracy theory that's now reached all levels of the White House, chemtrails.

Vedico.

Tell me what they are, because I don't know and tell us what's going on.

I don't know.

I've never heard of it.

I'm a news anchor.

I've never heard.

What is this chemtrails nonsense?

I've never heard of this.

Well, Mark, the U.S.

Health Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

has pledged that the U.S.

will fight chemtrails.

Now, this is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that's been around for decades, but it's been consistently debunked by scientists as completely

baseless.

Debunked.

Not proven incorrect, but debunked.

So, the chemtrails conspiracy theory is the belief that these long-lasting condensation trails that we see in the skies left by aircraft, that they are in fact toxic chemical trails that are seeding the skies for weather modification, biological warfare in order to poison us or even to control people's minds in some of the

extreme believers' cases.

Now,

believers question the existence of these chemtrails and the inconsistencies of them.

They ask why they're not always there, why is it only some planes that produce them, or why do they come and then disappear essentially.

Now, in reality, let's talk the science behind them.

Well, the scientific basis behind these, these are not chemtrails at all.

They are in fact contrails.

In other words, condensation trails.

They are essentially just temporary plane created clouds and they're made up of water vapor and they take place when the hot jet fuel exhausts, which is mainly water vapor with some soot particles, when that mixes with the colder air at high altitudes, this creates ice crystals that then form these trail-like clouds.

And these dissipate based on the weather conditions of the region that they're taking place in, of the day.

There's many different regions.

It's amazing.

So these ice crystals, they float all the way down to the Texas ground.

Our weather conditions are perfect for ice.

This isn't to say that weather models modification is entirely false.

As a context, we know that cloud seeding exists to induce rain in dry areas, but this is on a very, very small scale worldwide.

But overall, Mark, according to a 2017 study, around 10% of Americans fully believe in this chemtrails conspiracy theory.

Yes, and it's about 70% of the town of Fredericksburg.

And so

that low?

Well,

I don't know that 30% of Democrats.

Do they expect the chemtrails before the grid goes down?

And so here she is with a very nifty way of turning it all around to say, well, you know, it's actually not a bad idea.

And that is scary, isn't it?

It's so scary.

It's so scary.

What's scary?

The chemtrails or the fact that people think they're chemtrails?

And that is scary, isn't it?

So how has this gone from conspiracy theory to actual U.S.

legislation?

Well, just recently, RFK Jr.

appeared in an interview on the U.S.

television show Dr.

Phil, and he said he'd do everything in his power to stop the emissions.

And he appeared to blame chemtrails, the existence of them, on another government agency.

When he was asked about chemicals being sprayed in the sky and what he'd do about it, he took the question seriously.

Let's take a very quick listen to what he said.

That is not happening in my agency.

We don't do that.

It's done,

we think, by DARPA.

And a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel.

So, you know, those materials are put in jet fuel.

I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it.

We're bringing on somebody who's going to think of it.

Now, when he says

we think it's done by DARPA, what he's referring to is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is a part of the U.S.

Department of Defense.

Now, this isn't the first time he's publicly endorsed this.

He has previously replied to Chemtrell's fanatics on X, saying we are going to stop this crime.

But more recently, just a month ago, he replied to this person, this believer in the theory, who was pushing for bills in the U.S.

to ban atmospheric geoengineering.

And what that is, it is a new field of science where scientists are trying to find ways to fight the consequences of fossil fuel pollution that we as humans are creating.

Now, Kennedy essentially said that 24 states are moving to ban geoengineering and that the health and human services is going to do its part.

Well, what we know about that is that Tennessee has already banned this

release of airborne chemicals in geoengineering, the Chemtrails bill.

Florida is also moving along that bill forward.

And this February, February, Alabama

also launched that discussion.

They're having those talks at the moment.

So we can see the escalation of this conspiracy theory throughout all levels of the US government.

And as we said, there's zero scientific basis for this, Mark.

So we will have to see how

it works develops.

But should US states move to ban

geoengineering?

It is in its infancy, but this could have

problematic consequences for

looking for ways to fight the climate change and the effects of pollution that we as humans are causing here on Earth.

earth so us dirty humans we're trying to ban chemtrails because we don't like it but that could actually kill us all that's literally what she just did with her yak yak yak well she's going to kill us all as her long-winded observations the lady doth protest us too much methinks

well i have serious doubts about things being uh put into jet fuel because those engines are very expensive and they're sensitive to all kinds of things And then whatever the chemical is, it goes through

the burning process would be oxidized and screwed up massively.

I don't know why if you're going to start dumping stuff into the sky, you just wouldn't use winglets.

You have

a little thing at the end of the wing and you

just spew it out like when they did cloud seeding back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s in California.

They weren't doing it through the engine fuel.

They were just dumping it in the air.

Yeah, but it's DARPA.

They've got to come up with new things.

This is what they do.

Oh, I've got a new way to do it.

You can be skeptical.

That's fine.

There's more in, look, there are more in California than there are in Texas, so I'm fine with that.

Although

the 70% of chemtrail fanatics, as she said, in Fredericksburg are all very upset that our Governor Abbott has not followed suit with Alabama.

and Florida and banned this practice, this Alabama.

She had Obama on her mind, I think.

Alabama.

By the way, I do have a.

I have

not to change the topic.

You can change the topic.

I'm done.

I don't mind changing the topic.

I've done my chemtrails bit.

Since you brought Abbott in,

where's my Abbott clip?

You have an Abbott clip.

Texas voucher.

Yeah, this is not reported anywhere.

Governor of Texas has signed a law enabling over 5 million U.S.

students to be provided with state funds to pay for education in private schools.

The scheme, costing a billion dollars in its first two years, is being regarded as a watershed moment in a conservative campaign to remake public education in America.

David Bamford reports.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his education voucher scheme the culmination of a movement sweeping through the U.S.

Eligible parents in Texas will be offered $10,000 per year to opt out of the state education system.

The scheme, also being rolled out in other Republican states, has been strongly supported by President Trump, who accuses public schools of indoctrinating children with liberal ideology.

But Democrats and some rural Republicans argue it diverts resources away from already underfunded public schools.

Yeah, this session that the

Texas Congress is going through right now has a lot of really amazing bills.

SB 13 is one of them, and that will ban, completely ban outlaw books, certain books in schools, libraries, class, anywhere.

And we know what books they are.

Yeah.

And I think it's going to pass.

Everyone's, you know, they'd already passed the house.

This voucher thing is getting no press.

This was from BBC World Service.

That's where I got the story.

And it's a big deal.

It's a huge deal because this is what the Republicans have been trying to do since the 60s.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Go figure.

Oh, my God.

They're starting to accomplish it.

Let's don't report on any of it, give anyone any ideas.

And we say, well, okay, finally, we got we can homeschool, but you're killing us with the chemtrails, Abbott.

Chemtrails.

Where's the jingle?

Where's the jingle?

Chemtrails.

Already, I knew it.

Of course.

Here's the funny story of the week.

I have some thematic stories, but I want to play a couple of these standalones.

This is the funniest story of the week.

Trump,

somebody asked Trump.

Oh, is this about the picture?

Yeah.

Somebody asked Trump about being the Pope on the White House lawn.

He says, Yeah, I say,

who do you think is going to be the Pope?

Would you like to be the Pope?

Yeah, I think I'll be the Pope.

He just casually said it as a joke.

So somebody either Photoshop, they like to say it's AI, but it looks more like Photoshop to me.

Photoshop Trump in a Pope outfit, and then they posted it, and then Trump White House reposted it.

Oh, now it's a big scandal on NPR and PBS.

And critics are speaking out about an artificial intelligence-generated image that President Trump posted last night to his social media platform.

It shows him seated, dressed as the Pope.

Later, it was reposted on the official White House account on X.

In a post of their own, the Catholic bishops of New York State said, there is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr.

President.

We just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St.

Peter.

Do not mock us.

Oh, that's a tough one.

So I got a lot of emails about this because I am the resident religiosity scholar all of a sudden.

And from Finland,

our producer,

Sir Wunderhelm, who was overboard and he came back and he sends me this.

He says, what is this?

This is not okay.

Is this supposed to be funny?

And I said, You know, we are strange in America, but yeah, this is American humor.

And

you don't have to get it.

It is funny.

You don't have to get it.

It's American humor.

But then I also got ones like this: like,

let's see, what is it here?

You know, this has to do with the Knights Templar and the Jesuits and Catholic infestation.

The Black Pope runs.

Oh, brother.

Yes, it's just a joke.

I mean, timing may be a little, a little bit.

I don't even care about the timing.

But people got so bent out of shape about it.

You know, Mark Void Zero didn't say, oh, I'm outraged about this.

If Void Zero said something, we'd say, okay, well, maybe.

He didn't say anything.

And he's a Catholics Catholic.

He's the traditionalist.

old he's like the guys that the fbi to be investigating

who says they aren't

well maybe they are but they can never find his house but the point is is that

it's like no

give me a break this is classic the trump has done does one thing there's another thing he had to actually come out and say he's not running in 2028 in one of the morning shows this morning oh he is

people are so upset about him saying he's going to run for 2028 yeah he never said it by the way he has never said it just has a hat.

He's got a hat.

He does a hat, and the hat is funny.

And it's Bannon who's been pushing it more than anything.

I should go still go back and get those clips of Bannon on.

We need one of those.

Those hats is what we need.

I mean, those are collectibles.

Now that you mention it.

Yeah, it's a collectible, baby.

And I have usually

on the lookout for such things.

Yes.

Well, I'm sure

some of our producers out there, you know, the thing is that one of our producers can send us each one of those hats if they can find them.

But you know, I forgot to, I was very remiss because I hounded the Ohio State folks for all these sweatshirts, which I ended up with a bunch of them.

But I never hounded the Florida people because they won the basketball championship, which I had predicted, by the way, way in advance that they would.

Yeah, you should have done it on the show.

And I should have gotten,

I did it on Horowitz's.

And I should have gotten

a zippered hoodie that says Florida.

I don't have any Florida gear at all.

And I think having a a Florida, especially in California, having a Florida hoodie or a sweatshirt, sweatshirt is nice, too.

Good.

I want to stay with the Pope for a second because first I got this note.

I just had to get that in.

I'm sorry, but they're going to send it to you.

Don't worry.

You'll get it.

I'm hoping.

So, first, it was Gateway Pundit.

I'm like, eh, okay.

Headline, Francis Macron, reportedly meddling in the choosing of the next Pope, is terrified that conservative Robert Sarah may sit on St.

Peter's throne.

Really?

Yeah, and I'm like, eh, okay.

But then an article came through from Euronews.

Is Francis Emmanuel Macron trying to influence who gets picked as the next pope?

And apparently he is.

The Italian press is like, hey, what are you doing?

He had a meeting at the French embassy in Rome.

You know, he's talking to bishops.

Are they in the conclave yet?

I think they're doing the meetings now.

I think it's just starting.

Yeah, here.

It's cardinals, not bishops.

What did I say, bishops?

Yeah.

Oh, cardinals.

Preparations for next week's papal conclave are underway as cardinals gather for prayer and reflection at the Vatican.

Nearly all 133 voting cardinals have arrived in Rome ahead of Wednesday's vote.

Ten of the cardinals are American.

108 were appointed by Pope Francis himself.

And inside the chapel, they'll vote up to four times a day until a two-thirds majority is reached.

The ceremonial chimney was installed yesterday, where voting ballots will be burnt.

What the church needs most at this time is to continue the mission that it received from Christ in response to the challenges and the needs, the difficulties and the opportunities of our time, namely from now on.

And some things to watch for when those voting ballots are burned.

If you see black smoke, that signals no decision was made.

And if the smoke is white, that will announce the selection of a new pope.

So yeah, the story on Euronews is similar, saying he's afraid that we're going to get a pope who, you know, doesn't like, I don't know, trans stuff.

He doesn't like men wearing marrying men.

Yeah, he's got a problem with that.

That looked like women.

Yeah, he's got a problem with it.

Not even a prerequisite, actually.

Well, you're right.

In Macron's case, it's not a prerequisite because his wife doesn't look like a woman.

He's married to a dude.

He looks more like a guy.

And in Italy, they've got psyops all over the place, including a game for the kids.

An online game by the name Fanta Papa has

to predict who will be the next pop.

The app has 11 cardinals.

We won't be inside the pop.

60,000 users of this game who will predict the next pop.

Who will be the next pop?

The app has 11 cardinals who are poised to become the next leader.

And by the way, my guy, not one of the 11 in the game.

Users have the ability to predict who will partake in the next point for all.

The site, which was created in February when Francis was hospitalized, has more than 60,000 registered users.

I believe this game is a really fun game to play with friends and have a laugh.

Initially, my dad sent it to me ironically, but now that

it's going to be the conclave, I decided to have a go and try it.

And I noticed it has so many features and different things you can choose.

So

I decided to have my channel.

What game is this?

Well, it's like closer to the pin.

No, no, no.

It's like football teams.

This is, and I decided to put Tagli as my captain, as my main candidate to become Pope, because he looks like a nice guy and a fun person.

So I'm going to do him.

The users have the ability to select a team just like soccer.

They think have the best chance to become the next Pope.

The app has attracted thousands of youths to choose the top contenders or captains.

So far, players' top choices have been Francis Secretary Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Perolin, closely followed by Matteo Maria Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna.

Yeah, my guy's not in there.

He's not in the guy.

He's not in the middle.

Your guys

is the best idea, by the way.

But I had to go back and just reflect on this.

Trump dressed as the Pope and the left being outraged by it, and especially PBS getting all bent out of shape.

The gay community dresses as nuns constantly men dress as nuns and they go around ridiculing the catholic church constantly and nobody says crap about it

yeah that is a very good point john c the borax petty budget

i think you're spot on

that's right

is it's uh a story hour with uh

drag queen story hour in nuns outfits you're right

yeah You are spot on, as usual.

I'm glad.

I'm well.

As usual.

As usual.

I'm glad you are using it.

I wasn't

as spot on as I could have been with my timing.

Another short clip,

just for educational purposes.

I don't know what's going on with this one.

Eric Adams is allowing the call to prayer in New York, in Manhattan.

Historic step here in New York City in support of the Muslim community.

Mayor Adams announced new guidelines clearing the way for the Muslim call to prayer to bring out freely.

For too long, there has been confusion about which communities are allowed to imply their calls to prayer today.

Impliply to what?

Amplify.

Oh, amplify.

Confusion about which communities are allowed to imply their calls to

prayer today.

We are cutting red tape and saying clearly: if you are a mosque or a house of worship of any kind, you do not have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer.

Yeah, I've seen videos of these guys walking down the street with a big boom box and a wireless mic.

Hmm.

Well, let me, I have some thoughts on this.

Okay, yeah, go.

One, if you've been to the Middle East at all, I've been a couple times.

The call for prayer thing is not on Fridays.

It's six times a day, all the time.

Yes.

And it's actually quite pleasant if you're, you know, a tourist because

if you don't live next to it, you're not living there because it's something romantic about it.

It's just, and it's, and it's a very, it's a nice, especially when you have a, uh, some of these Muslim

preachers, what are they, Kamulahs, who can sing and they can sing in Arabic, and it's very, it's just a great sound, but very few people can do it well.

But it's all the time and they have amplifiers and it's very loud.

And this contradicts something that I was giving a lecture.

I think I was in Dubai at the time by a British guy who said the Muslims, especially the Middle East Muslims, we're not talking about the ones in Indonesia, which I never heard this going on there.

They have this big thing about, oh, you can't do this.

You can't do anything.

It's pre-Muham Muhammad.

If it's not in the Quran, you can't.

So words for computer have to be manufactured.

They can't be, they have to be made out of words.

Everything has to be old-fashioned.

But yet, they can use amplifiers and they got these huge speakers and the giant 10,000-watt amps.

That's okay.

How does that work?

Some Muslim can explain that one to me.

When I was in Iraq, or as some would say, Iraq,

and I hope I have this.

I'd have to dig deep into the archives.

That was 2003.

I acquired an alarm clock, and I think it came out of, I think it was made from in Pakistan, plastic alarm clock.

And six times a day, this clock would do the do the call to prayer.

Gosh, I hope I have that somewhere still.

Well, that's a great item.

Yeah, it was one of those, one of those things you pick up on your travels.

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So let's amplify that in New York.

Yeah.

For the know it, the Church of No Agenda.

I'm all for it.

Well, the people in Amsterdam and Rotterdam are not happy because this is also allowed this amplification of call to prayer.

And

it's not the culture of the Netherlands, or wasn't.

I think it probably is becoming that.

And people are annoyed by it.

Just like they're annoyed by incessant church bells, I might point out.

Yeah, there was a lot of complaining about church bells in some areas.

Most of the time I've run it when there's churches around, it's only been on a Sunday, and they'll ring the bells.

And

the University of California

has the campanile, and they used to play songs at noon,

various tunes.

I think they stopped even doing that.

I don't know if they do it anymore.

But they had enough bells up there.

They could play

some various recognizable songs.

Like what?

What recognizable songs?

Well, jingle bells would be during the wintertime.

They could play that easy.

Did they?

Yeah.

Ding-ling-ding, ding-ling-ding.

Yeah.

I see you have a series.

I'm going to lead you into it with two very short clips.

We start off with breaking news: a major scare.

Everybody, be afraid, be afraid.

It's very dangerous.

Breaking news.

Tonight from Chicago, health officials are warning travelers about possible measles exposure at Chicago's O'Hare airport.

They say an infected adult was in Terminal One

from 10 a.m.

until 8 p.m.

on Tuesday, and then again on Wednesday of last week.

That person who lives in Cook County testing positive for measles.

No, no, this is crazy.

This is crazy.

Oh, important medical information.

He was in the airport on Sunday and then again went to

shoot him.

Yes, shoot him.

Now to alarming health news.

The ADC reports that 216 children have died from the flu in the U.S.

this season, the highest number in 15 years.

Experts linked the increase to falling vaccination rates among kids, down from 64% five years ago to 49% this season.

And with flu season still ongoing, that number could climb.

60,000 people a year die from flu.

Yeah, that's what they say.

This number is questionable.

But so since you brought that up, I do have a series of clips from PBS about the flu vaccine and how important it is.

And I want you to guess

who the guests are going to have.

They're going to talk to on this, on PBS,

this fabulous product that the government helps pay for okay what stooge look let me just I hate to use the word what stooge bullshit artist the guy is the worst worst of the worst do you think they're going to bring on to talk about vaccinations well I have a couple of a couple of uh candidates uh without a doubt I would put HOTEP at the top of the list

there were twelve seasonal flu related deaths of children this week according to the CDC that brings the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216.

That's the most in 15 years, and the flu season isn't even over yet.

I'm detecting a pattern here that the

big pharma complex has injected into our news, into our independent newsrooms.

Experts say one reason for this new record could be the plummeting flu vaccination rate for American children.

It went from 64% five years ago to 49% this season

and this week.

Wait a minute, was that the same amount they said on the other clip?

That doesn't sound like I remember having a

specific number.

Hold on, I want to hear it.

Now, to alarming

news, the CDC reports that 216 children have died from the flu in the U.S.

this season, the highest number in 15 years.

Experts linked the increase to falling vaccination rates among kids, down from 64% five years ago to 49% this season.

Same number.

Seasonal flu-related deaths of children this week, according to the CDC.

That brings the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216.

Yeah, the memo went out.

The same numbers.

That's the most intense.

It's exactly the same report.

It's almost the same guy.

And the flu season isn't even over yet.

Experts say one reason for this new record could be the plummeting flu vaccination rate for American children.

Who are the experts?

It went from 64% five years ago to 49% this season.

And this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

announced plans for new safety testing requirements for vaccines.

That could delay the availability of new vaccines, including a COVID booster for this fall.

Virologist Dr.

Peter Hotez

is at the Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr.

Hotez, there's a lot I want to talk to you about.

This guy needs to be tar and feathered and run out of Texas.

But let's start with that

new record for pediatric flu deaths this season.

What do you make of that?

Well, I think it probably is related to the decline in immunization since most pediatric influenza deaths occur among the unvaccinated, like most of the other viral infections that we've been seeing.

But remember, the context of this, this is on top of four-fold rise in measles outbreaks over the last year, even before what was going on with this current major epidemic, a six-fold rise in pertussis cases.

Okay.

Yeah, so he goes.

goes yeah, so he, everything is because of vaccination, of course.

This guy who they mentioned, well, play the second, play it, play on.

The big picture is we're going in the wrong direction in terms of children not getting the vaccines that they should be getting.

Is this a holdover from the vaccination hesitancy that emerged during the COVID pandemic?

It very well might be.

There's been some Gallup surveys and others that have shown that spillover effect, that the same parts of the country where

adults were refusing to get COVID vaccines are now spilling over to childhood immunizations.

So, for instance, in West Texas, which had some of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country, guess what?

That's where we have our ginormous, ginormous, ginormous measles epidemic right now in West Texas in the panhandle.

And it's going up into the conservative rural areas of the Great Plains where COVID vaccinations were also low.

So, I think the big picture is there is that spillover effect from anti-vaccine activism that accelerated during COVID now into childhood immunizations.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

Ginormous.

It's bigger than gigantic or enormous.

It's ginormous.

That's a very scientific term, I understand.

Ginormous is what the left uses, and that was popularized.

The term was mostly popularized by Rachel Maddow.

Oh, you're right.

She loved saying ginormous.

You're right.

You know, I know you've developed vaccines yourself.

What do you make of what Secretary Kennedy said, that he wants to see new vaccines tested with placebos?

What do you think of that?

This has been his playbook the last few weeks.

Every few days, he comes out with a new statement that misrepresents vaccine safety or effectiveness.

For instance, you know, he made it almost sound as if we don't routinely test vaccines against placebo control.

In fact, just about all of the childhood immunizations historically have been tested against placebo controls, typically in randomized studies.

So I don't really understand the basics of the new announcement, other than the fact that when we do a randomized placebo-control trial for something like a COVID vaccine, we do it at the first time around.

But as we're updating, because you're making minor adjustments

in the composition of the vaccine to reflect new variants, we don't typically repeat the entire placebo randomized control trial because they're incredibly expensive.

And sometimes they're not doable

given the size of what they are and the time it would take.

So I hope he's not suggesting that we have to do an entirely new randomized placebo control trial every time we update a vaccine.

Wow.

Wow, what a scathing admission that is.

You know, but we can't, we're tweaking it.

We're just tweaking it.

What does that even mean?

Yeah, we're just doing a little dance.

We're tweaking a little bit.

You know, it's like just tightening the bolts on the system.

Some DNA.

Yeah, yeah, you know, just adding it.

Add some frags.

Just adding some bits and bobs, baby.

We don't have to test that.

That's safe and effective.

They have to get liability back into the picture.

There's no, there's no lie.

You could be shooting people with dog poop.

It's no liability.

You can't sue them.

What good is it?

How is this protecting the consumer?

Is that the last clip or the thing is one of the things?

No, you have one more.

I'm delighted to say.

More Hotep?

All of the time.

Is the effect of this to undermine confidence in vaccines, do you think?

Oh, yeah.

Leading the witness.

By the way, this is not scripted at all.

Or leading the witness.

Is the effect of this to undermine confidence in vaccines, do you think?

Well, this is the bigger picture.

Remember, you know, what RFK Jr.

has been saying every few days.

First, he said the MMR vaccine was leaky, whatever that means.

And when he talks about suggesting people get the MMR vaccine, he always pairs it or often pairs it with a cocktail of useless interventions for preventing measles.

Or he says that the measles hospitalizations are due to quarantine and isolation, which is not true.

These kids are really, really sick.

Now is the time.

The Department of Health and Human Services needs to be doubling down.

Hold on a second.

He says something kind of odd here.

Yeah, you noticed it too, didn't you?

Yeah, so he, he, he, it's called like, it's like moving the Overton window, whatever it is.

So

Kennedy says this is because people are quarantined and they're not getting measles anymore.

And then he says, no, these kids are sick.

Like, I mean,

it says non-sequitur.

Yes.

Quarantine and isolation, which is not true.

These kids are really, really sick.

Now is the time.

The Department of Health and Human Services needs to be doubling down on telling the American people to vaccinate their kids and highlighting the and emphasizing the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, not tearing it down.

So I do think it's starting to have a very damaging effect.

Dr.

Peter Hotez, thanks as always.

As always, you're on all the time.

We're bringing you back every chance we can because we're paid money to do it.

Yeah,

on top of the government funding.

It's pretty pathetic.

It's pretty pathetic.

Yeah, come on, Bobby.

Where's the Rico case?

Where's the stopping of advertising?

Talk is cheap, Bobby.

Come on.

Come on now.

I mean, I'll give them some time.

I'll give them another 100 days.

I think the next 100 days of the Trump administration, they're going to ramp it up.

They're going to ramp everything up so much.

Well, they're going to have to because people are demanding it.

I don't know what they're going to do about the Epstein thing because I believe now that that doesn't exist.

It's been destroyed.

The Diddy stuff, I don't know, is going to trial, I think, this week or coming this coming week.

Tonight, Sean Combs makes it official.

It was perfect timing.

It was perfect.

It was.

He said, do it again.

I'll edit it out.

Diddy is going to trial any minute.

Tonight, Sean Combs makes it official.

He's rejecting the government's offer to plead guilty and spare himself the possibility of a prolonged term in prison.

When asked if he turned down the offer, Combs answered, yes, I do, Your Honor, as he stood in a baggy beige jail uniform.

Terms were not disclosed, but prosecutors did say a plea could result in a shorter sentence for Combs than if he's convicted.

The decision guarantees Combs will face trial beginning just four days from now that will test whether one of music's most prolific figures used his power, wealth, and fame to sexually exploit both women and men for decades.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution charges that accused him of coercing alleged victims into prolonged drug-fueled sexual activity that he called freak-offs and threatening them into silence.

At trial, Combs will ditch the jail garb and wear ordinary clothes.

As his lawyers argue, the evidence shows consenting adults being intimate in their own way.

In their own way.

Everybody's consenting.

In their own way.

Yeah,

I'm not.

Passed out.

You're consenting.

I thought his way was being passed out.

out, so that's why I did it.

So no Epstein, but we got Diddy, get the black man.

Well, the black, that's also, you know, the thing he wants to go to trial because somebody, at least somebody in his king camp, knows that you go to trial,

that means discovery.

And discovery means some names are going to come out that don't want to have their names come out.

And maybe they can do a deal or do something or kill him.

Meanwhile, in related news over in the United Kingdoms.

Overseas tonight, actor and comedian Russell Brand making his first court appearance since being charged with rape and sexual assault in London.

Brand pushing his way through a mob of photographers outside the courthouse.

Four women accusing him in separate alleged attacks between 1999 and 2005.

The judge releasing him on conditional bail.

Brand denies the allegations.

They are railroading this guy.

It sounds like a Snowden thing to me.

There's a little bit of that, but it's also he's not doing himself any favors with his commentary.

Well,

he lives in Florida now, but he doesn't even live in the UK.

Yeah,

I know how they got him out there.

He has to.

He has to, or he'll be extradited.

Was he extradited or was he

just still in Florida?

Now he has to attend the

yeah, he takes British Airways.

He has to attend the

trials, but he can go back to Florida.

Seems kind of odd.

Yeah.

I have,

what's the time?

Yeah, we can do this.

I have three clips from the guy I like most when it comes to EU, UK, Ukraine, and NATO, Andrew Rasoulis.

He's the former military dude from Candinavia, about the minerals deal that we signed with Ukraine, which we've heard very little about.

Have you heard much about that in the US media besides that something happened?

Yeah.

Do you know?

We had a bunch of clips in the last show about it.

Yeah, but it just says we have a deal, but do you know the terms of the deal?

Do you know anything about it?

No, we didn't get any of that from our clips.

Do you know?

Well, I thought the terms of the deal was we just had to spend a lot of money, give them more money.

We're going to speak with Andrew Rasoulis yet again.

He is a Defense and Eastern European Affairs expert with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Andrew, thank you for joining us again.

Appreciate your time.

You're very welcome, Shay.

Okay, so this deal, we know this has been touted as key to Ukraine's fortunes here.

Zelensky is saying he's hopeful this guarantees continued support support from the Americans.

So this was absolutely essential, right?

Well, it's an important building block, but it's a building block, but it's not a keystone, is the way I describe it to a peace settlement.

And we have to remember that the agreement that was signed now is a reasonably watered-down agreement.

Now,

the key element of the first agreement that Ukraine proposed was that basically the United States, in return for having access to these minerals and revenues and so on, would provide solid military guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a peace settlement with Russia.

The Americans countered that with saying, no way for a security thing.

And by the way, we want all this money back from Ukraine to repay loans or costs that we invented in your defense.

So the Ukrainians said, no way.

Now, the third option, which they did sign, is a watered-down version.

There is no guarantee in American security for Ukraine, but there is a paragraph that suggests it might be possible.

It's an option for the United States to exercise.

So it's half and a half.

It's an option.

And for the Ukrainians,

there is no obligation to repay debt, so-called, for American assistance.

Rather, the profits here, both American and Ukrainian, will be primarily directed at the reconstruction of Ukraine.

So that's the kind of...

So

it's a bit of a win-win, but it's not that huge thing that was supposed to be the security guarantee in the event of a peace settlement.

That's not there.

Okay, so the way I see this is

if we make any money off of those minerals, if you got them,

then

maybe we'll provide you some security if it's any good.

And any profits

will go and build stuff in your country, which we're going to profit off of.

Sounds like a good deal for us.

Except for the fact we can't get to the minerals, there's no real mining going on, and it's possible there's no minerals at all, and they're full of crap, those guys.

Ukrainians are criminals.

So it's no offense to to the Ukrainian listeners that we have.

No, not at all.

They have a lot of shysters there, let's put it that way.

Does this mean there's a possibility of a peace deal?

Now, it comes at a time when we know, and we heard from U.S.

Vice President J.D.

Vence just yesterday: hey, look, peace isn't coming anytime soon.

So it looks like

the prospect of reaching a broader deal with Russia and Ukraine,

the hopes just continue to diminish, don't they?

Well, they continue.

I'm not going to say diminish, because that's every day it's a little different.

I would say to you objectively that talks are continuing.

And like

a lot of what's going on now, we don't hear about because it's behind the scenes, as it should be.

And so there's a lot of, I think, looking for the deals that are

in corridors.

The Americans are talking to basically everybody and trying to broker something, but they're also expressing frustration and saying they're not going to run around the globe at high level, like Rubio's not going to run around the globe, right?

But officials are meeting.

They're talking.

I mean, we don't know the mechanisms, and it's behind closed doors.

Will this succeed?

We do not know.

Is there an incentive for both sides to come to an agreement?

Yes, depending on the terms.

Both sides at some point get exhausted by this, but it's always the question of the deal.

You get exhausted, but for what benefit, what carrot is out there for you to actually make a compromise?

And that's where things are right now.

You know, May 9th looms out there.

That's Victory in Europe Day.

The Russians would love to have a peace settlement then.

Would the Ukrainians agree with what the Russians want?

Would the Russians agree?

I don't know, Shay, but that's the next target date.

We'll see what happens.

But there is some change.

This is the final clip.

What is Russia thinking about all this?

What have we heard from Russia?

Like I say, Zelensky talking about this deal being reached.

I mean, Russia's not involved in the deal, but it affects it.

What have we heard from Russia lately about this whole situation?

Well, on the deal, deal, the Russians have not commented in any political way.

They've simply acknowledged that it exists.

It's kind of a so what.

It's kind of a so what.

But the Russians keep reiterating.

We're hearing two things from the Russians.

One, we hear the maximal things we want, everything we said we want.

But two, there's been an important nuance.

Putin has said that he's prepared to meet with Zelensky, even though he sees that Zelensky is not a legitimate elected ruler because the five-year mandate has expired.

This is an important concession, and the same from the Ukrainians.

Zelensky has said he's prepared to meet with the Russians and with Putin, because even though there's a Ukrainian law that says you can't negotiate with the Russians, but he said that's an exception, okay?

And Rubio is saying at some point, the Russians and the Ukrainians are going to have to sit down and make a final deal.

And that's the point.

You see, so the fact that we've heard noises from Zelensky and Putin suggesting that the doors open to sit down at a table one day means that they acknowledge this fact.

And I think the Americans are hedging them to this.

When will that happen?

I don't know.

But eventually, I believe it will.

Okay.

I like that.

By the way, where did that come from?

That is from Edmonton Radio.

That's why it sounds so crap.

That was quite good.

Thank you.

I like Rasoulis.

I like this guy.

Yeah.

He's definitely in the know.

He's one of those ex-militaries.

Yeah, no, you can tell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He knows.

The way people do a presentation, whether they know what what they're talking about or not.

Yeah, so then we don't get that kind of information here, in my opinion.

At least I'm not finding it.

Your opinion?

It's a fact.

I'm not finding it.

Before we take a break, shall we do it?

You only have one, I see.

That's a little disappointing, but.

Well, actually, I have a pre-break clip, but I think it might be better for the second break, which is the Victor David Hansen clip on the Democrat dilemma.

Oh,

but you, but I think that's a good clip to lead into the second break, and you'll see why when you play the clip.

Okay.

But let's for the clip you're promoting is.

Yeah, everybody.

It's everybody's favorite moment.

TikTok.

John's jerk of the day.

This was the worst.

I could not find any good TikTok clips.

There were a lot of good ones that were visually interesting

from distressed weirdos, but

they didn't have the audio I wanted.

And so this is the best I could do.

This is the only TikTok clip I have for today's show.

Oh, disappointing.

Only one.

Yeah.

And it's short.

Oh, man.

All right.

Well, we'll take what we can get.

How can anyone with a functioning brain cell still say that Donald Trump was the correct choice for president after these first 100 days?

I just watched Kamala Harris's speech tonight, and it is very, very evident that it just should have been her.

She should be the president of the United States right now and not Donald Trump.

Did you see that speech by Harris?

She was just.

This speech was the worst.

She just babbled on about meaningless crap, including the elephant stuff.

She was, I happen to have, what do I have?

I have 30 seconds of it, if you want to.

Yeah, play some of it.

In fact, please allow me, friends, to digress for a moment.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

It's kind of dark in here, but I'm asked for a show of hands.

Who saw that video from a couple of weeks ago?

The one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake?

Google it if you've not seen it.

So that scene has been on my mind.

Everybody's asking me, what you've been thinking about these days.

Well,

brother.

Yeah, she should be president.

She's so these TikTok people, you know, I keep telling you that they're just engagement farming and they just want to get clicks and likes.

And people are pushing back on me about that.

They're like, no, no, you have to understand

these people are real.

These people are at my job.

These people are at my school.

These people are in my community.

I'll take the side of the pushbackers.

I agree with them.

And, well,

I'm actually sad about that.

I mean, these people are like clouds without water.

There are very few moments in our relationship and the relationship with you and the audience and everything that you're an optimist very very seldom does this happen yeah well you do you used to wear rose colored glasses when i first met you i remember that that's correct but the uh correct

but generally speaking you have kind of a dim attitude or a negative attitude but but in this case you have an extremely positive attitude thinking that this that everyone's a phony and and life's good these people are legit legitimately nuts they're insane individuals that are pathetic and uh there's no other way of putting it but that makes me feel sad i know i know you don't like the idea they are clouds without water they are autumn trees they're autumn trees without fruit in fact john they are wandering stars for whom the black darkness has been reduced

they are the fruit

with that i want to thank you for your courage say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the chemtrail fanatic say hello to my friend on the other end the one, the only, Mr.

John C.

DeVore.

Wow, in the morning to you, Mr.

Adam.

I'm training more, ship sea boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water to the dames and the knights out there.

In the morning to the trolls in the troll room, I encounter Stop Robinson.

Jump Robin, here we go.

Okay, that's getting better.

2,403 peak trollage.

That's not bad.

I'll take that.

They are hanging out at trollroom.io, which is where you can go to join the trolls,

who are very handy.

I mean, I have the troll room open out of the corner of my eye, my peripheral vision.

I see what you're saying.

I get one-liners.

I get jokes.

I get ideas, all kinds of criticisms, trolling, trolls, lots of trolls.

But I like it.

We, in fact, have a studio audience where we do flash the applause sign, but you don't hear them.

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Is that right?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, they do it all the time.

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It's going to be Saturday.

I think six o'clock is when it's.

I'm usually doing clips on Saturday.

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Thank you very much, Dreb Scott.

And it was a contentious pick.

It wasn't easy, the last show.

There were a lot of different things.

Nothing really stood out where we say, yeah, that's the one.

But Darren O'Neal, just, it was still a laugh.

It's very inside this piece of art because you are famous, of course, as

an author of many bestseller books.

And that was the piece that was missing.

It did not have the star emblem.

Sticker.

Little sticker.

Little sticker that says instant bestseller.

This was the blackmail for fun and profit book, What's That in Your Mouth?

by John C.

Dvorak.

I still laugh when I see it.

And expertly done through the AI by Darren O'Neill.

I think there were some other pieces

because at a certain point, you just said,

You choose.

I don't like it.

I don't like any of it.

I like the maple syrup on fire.

Yeah, but that was a monologue.

Darren also did.

Well, what we really discussed were the COBOL t-shirts.

So we, for a long time,

we talked about the COBOL knucklehead.

I personally liked the COBOL is for schmucks, but then

you violated your main rule.

It's too small.

It was too small.

You like the mastermind's unclippable wench, but I thought that was too

very.

You also liked the boobs.

Of course, there was a boobage there from Scaramanga.

The boob, boobaban

with the girl riding the bike on the pedal bike on the autobahn.

You even said, oh, how about the Ferrari in a country road?

I mean, none of that was right.

You were just grasping at straws.

It makes it sound like I was a maniac.

A little bit.

And then we even discussed making COBOL for schmucks the title.

And then we went, you know, that's not a good idea.

No.

I got a lot of feedback on the COBOL, as expected.

Let me see, where is my

COBOL?

Yes.

So two things.

One from John Daly says,

yeah, it seems obvious John's never seen COBOL.

The features of COBOL are straightforward, yes.

However, when you start talking about five million lines of production COBOL, it's a nightmare.

The features of the language are limited, which also makes it more difficult to do common and important things, which creates a bloat.

So

real-world COBOL applications are not as cool as Java, for instance.

Who thinks Java is cool?

Which has features to create a kind of language of structure that allows quick interpretation, learning, and modification.

Bad variable naming, poor algorithms, kludges, hacks, bad managerial input all create bad, unman maintainable code in any language.

COBOL is not simple in any real-world application.

So, huh?

He showed you.

Then.

Yeah, he showed me.

He's really accurate, too, since when I had a company called California Software, I actually sold COBOL.

Enable post-graduate school COBOL you sell a couple of copies and stuff.

You didn't code in it.

He says I didn't, the way he put it,

I was oblivious to the whole thing.

I used to sell the product.

That's the way I see it.

As far as I'm concerned, that gives me some credibility.

Okay.

And then he says Java, and he uses Java as the example.

That's where his Java script, which is not even really a language.

That's where his argument fell apart.

I agree.

But then,

interestingly, very good article in dev.tube, which is a nerd website, about the dates about May 20, 1875.

I think, did I send you that?

No,

I sent it to you.

Oh, you sent it me.

Somebody sent it to you.

You sent it to me, and I sent it to you.

Okay.

Yeah.

It turns out that's a big hoax.

Yeah, it's a hoax.

That's an excellent article.

I think I posted it on Twitter.

If anyone follows my Twitter account, The Real Dvorak, you'll find a link to it.

Yeah, so I put it in the show notes.

So that really, truly was a hack perpetuated by NPR and that bogus lady on the last show.

Yep.

Because she acted like she knew exactly what she was talking about.

And this is a hoax.

There's a very detailed article about this hoax.

So it's just not true.

It's not true that

that was a fantastic article.

That's a great article.

Yes.

Anyway, thank you very much, Darren O'Neill.

Will deserved, I mean, deserved, let's put it that way.

It's AI.

So, okay.

I mean, Darren definitely has that down.

He and Scaramanga should start a company

together.

AI art.

I'm just saying, it'd be a great idea.

We have a lot of good AI.

We do.

Yeah, we do.

Well, actually, those two are amongst the talk.

There's no doubt about that.

So that's the time and talent portion of the value we like to receive back.

We always thank everybody who supports us financially, $50 and over on every single show.

And at this point, we like to thank our executive and associate executive producers.

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And we kick it off right here in Georgetown, Texas, with Tom Ania.

And he sends us $500.

And he says, what does he say here?

He says, gentlemen, a dedouching and a little camel karma would be much appreciated.

You've been dedouched.

I think he means yak.

And he says, if there are any fans of watercolor out there, check out www.lanaya.art, l-a-n-a-y-a.art.

Thanks and regards, says Tom.

Here's your yak karma.

You've got

karma.

Now, I went and checked out the art.

And how is it?

This is his wife, I think, or his sister probably is.

I think it is his wife, yeah.

Excellent art.

Good, a lot of originals for about $350, which is about what you want to pay for a watercolor.

That's about,

you know, $30 for prints, which if they're done well, might as well be a watercolor.

I've seen these.

She's actually offered to send us a print,

which I think we said yes to because it's cool.

And

yes, and she does good work.

That's beautiful.

And classic watercolor.

She does commissions.

Everyone should have at least two of her pieces.

Everyone

does decorations.

She does commissions.

Yeah, her commissions are mostly portraits and pictures of dogs.

Babies and dogs.

Babies and dogs.

I want a watercolor of my dog.

That's right.

That's about right.

That's right.

Thank you very much, Tom.

All right.

Next on the list is Daniel Sean Gerald Morse in Spirit Lake, Iowa.

And he actually sent a note, and this is pre-Commodore off.

Yeah, actually, if Tom wants a Commodoreship, let us know.

We'll put you on the list as a laggard.

But this guy came in earlier, but it came in late, whatever.

He sent a care package with a bunch of beef jerky.

Oh, oh,

any beef jerky for me?

Yeah, you're

the rats ate yours.

Okay.

Thanks.

You want some?

I think so.

I love beef jerky.

He sent two packs, so maybe.

Maybe.

He'd be glad to send you some straight up.

Anyway, he's in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and he sent a handwritten note which says, please dedouch me.

Yeah, we can do that.

You've been dedouched.

And then he has an on-air note, just please dedouch me.

And he's got his Commodore name as as Daniel Sean Gerald Morse.

And then he has a bunch of off-air stuff, which I won't read because it's off-air.

It's off-air, people.

It involved beef jerky.

It's off-air.

Thanks.

It's off-air.

Thanks, Daniel.

Commodore,

semi-anonymous vegan.

There we go.

Mill Park, Victoria, Australia.

Hello, Australia.

This is a $1,000 donation, but it comes in as $319.

I'm just kidding.

ITM, Adam, and John.

I would like to make this Commodore donation a switcheroo for my new human resource to be known as Commodore Spooky.

All right, let me do that.

So, this was 500 Australian dollar redues, I guess.

Yeah, I guess so.

So, he's not on the list, but why don't you put him on there?

No, I think he is on the list.

I think there's only one on the list.

Well, let me check if that's him.

Let me just see.

Should be Morse on the list.

Morse is on the list yeah well

i'm sure that this was uh i'm gonna put combat or spooky in there because i'm sure that this was 500 australian

and we we do want to 100

yes it's like 60 cents wait until that stable coin comes out you guys have to pay up normal uh a dedouching please

you've been deduced

and a jingle from elmer fudd who may or may not still be the prime minister of us here in Oz come the 3rd of May.

What does that mean?

Well, the election, I have the bonus clip for the

I have a bonus clip too, but if you put an Elmer Fudd in there, we can certainly play yours.

Oz News, Albanese has been re-elected.

Days after Canada's general election resulted in a left-leaning leader making an unexpected comeback because of fears about President Trump's policies, the same appears to have happened in Australia.

Incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to power with his Labour Party expanding its majority, despite opinion polls at the start of the year showing it trailing the centre-right Liberal National Party coalition.

The opposition leader Peter Darton, who'd been compared to Donald Trump, lost the parliamentary seat he had held for more than two decades.

A jubilant Mr.

Albanese addressed his cheering supporters.

Be very, very quiet.

I'm hunting weapons.

Okay,

I get to play my Albanese clip then.

Australia's centre-left Labour Party has secured a second term in office in a landslide election victory.

The country's incumbent Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is now set to be in office for his three-year term.

In his victory speech, he thanked voters for choosing, quote, optimism and determination.

Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values,

For fairness, aspiration, and opportunity for all.

Leader of the opposition call.

We both are so sick.

We have sick minds, people,

but at least we think alike.

Eli, the coffee guy's up on the list.

No, yes, he is.

You're right.

I'm sorry.

Go for it.

We're already there.

So this is a very short list of

crappy list today.

But okay, Eli's here, and he came in from Bensonville, Illinois, 20504.

Thanks for the last show's breakdown of the Euro dollar euro dollar donation.

Euro dollar donation.

Yes.

It tied in well with Tucker Carlson's interview with Catherine Fitz.

So I watched that entire, I listened to that entire interview, and I've heard a lot of Catherine Fitz.

And it always ends with this.

I don't know who Mr.

Globalization Globalization is.

It's always the same.

She's been doing, and not that she's full of crap, but she's been doing this same thing for a decade.

I can't watch her.

The interview is worth a listen, but there is a lot to unpack.

As she put it, they are building a prison around us using the control mechanisms like digitized currency.

To what end is to be determined, but she has some interesting theories.

In my opinion, she's got nothing.

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My formula is this:

we go out, we hit people in the mouth.

So

as we were talking earlier, it's obvious that

the machine, the machine, which is mainly media and all the money that comes in from pharmaceutical and big food and everybody, they're going to start really hitting hard at Trump.

I think we're going to see 100 days of craziness.

And I think you're, yeah, they have to.

Yes.

We're starting to see the beginning of it with Hotez.

Yeah.

Well, there's also, and I always thought this was a mistake on the president's part, but now they're going after World Liberty Financial.

World Liberty Financial.

Both ABC and CBS did big pieces on them because this is clear corruption.

When Donald Trump was campaigning for re-election, he was also campaigning for cryptocurrency.

Big news: the World Liberty Financial token sale is now live.

Crypto is the future.

World Liberty Financial is a digital currency platform that says it's inspired by President Trump.

But it's more than inspired.

A company affiliated with the Trump family owns a 60% stake.

We believe that

his crypto assets are as much as $2.9 billion.

Virginia Cantor has overseen ethics rules as a senior government lawyer in both Democratic and Republican administrations.

President Trump has sold stakes.

He sold gold sneakers, Bibles.

How is this any different?

At least those had some intrinsic value.

This is like a perfect vehicle to funnel money to him and his family to enrich them.

So, World Liberty Financial, and I haven't done a deep dive on them,

but what it appears, and there's two different things.

There's the meme coin,

and then there's World Liberty Financial.

I don't even know if the two are connected.

The meme coin is just dumb.

That was the mistake.

He never should have done a Melania meme coin.

I don't know if he was even involved in it, but that was annoying.

But this World Liberty Financial, it will be a lending, as I understand it.

You will be able to borrow money at very competitive rates, and you'll have different types of collateral, which could be Bitcoin, stablecoin, who knows what, Dogecoin, who knows what it is.

I'll dive into that deeper, but this is the attack vector on the president.

And honestly, I think it's rightly so.

This was a huge, dumb move.

World Liberty says it's raised more than $550 million.

And this week, it announced it received a new $2 billion investment from an Abu Dhabi company.

How much the Trump family stands to benefit is unknown.

Another investor is Justin Sun, the eccentric Chinese billionaire, perhaps best known for buying.

It's yours.

Congratulations.

Thank you very much indeed.

And then eating a $6.2 million banana duct taped to a wall.

Back in 2023, President Biden's SEC charged Sun with securities fraud.

After Trump's re-election, Sun announced a $75 million investment in World Liberty Financial.

And just five weeks later, federal prosecutors asked the judge to pause the Sun investigation, citing public interest.

A CBS News analysis shows that the government has dropped a dozen cases against crypto firms since January.

Sun is one of more than 85,000 investors in World Liberty so far.

Most are unnamed and unknown.

Unnamed, unknown.

They're funneling money to the president for all kinds of favors.

Although what they don't really mention here is that these were really dumb, bogus lawsuits.

And the rules changed, so that's why the lawsuits were dropped.

Here's the final clip

from CBS.

We've got the president of the United States's firstborn, Donald Trump Jr.

At a crypto industry conference in Washington in March, the founders of World Liberty Financial promoted the company, along with the president's side.

I'm just super excited about what this can mean.

This guy is an attack vector for the future of banking, for the future of the financial systems.

Hold on.

Back it up and start him again and start to think:

who does he sound like?

He sounds like Zuckerberg.

Ooh.

For the future of banking, for the future.

Wait, let me me back him up a little more.

Future of the financial.

There we go.

I'm just super excited about what this can mean

completely.

He's hanging out in Silicon Valley too much.

He's in the milieu.

There's something going on with the milieu because that is a very distinctive sound.

Completely agree.

I'm just super excited about what this can mean for the future of banking, for the future of the financial systems.

CBS News tried to approach the World Liberty team, but they have declined our multiple requests for an interview.

World Liberty did not respond to questions about the potential profits for the Trump family.

In a statement, they said the Abu Dhabi company's investment sets a historic precedent.

The SEC, Justin Sun, and the Trump organization did not respond to our questions.

And the White House said, report on something people actually care about.

So ABC had pretty much the same report, and I'll only play the clip that was relevant.

By the way, Elizabeth Warren is heading up a lot of this.

You know, Elizabeth Warren, she,

I think she

probably represents old school banks, you know, maybe City of London.

I don't know.

She's, she is, she's not just outraged because she's outraged.

She has big financial backers.

Liz is in all kinds of stuff.

And we saw that with the over the over the

over-the-counter hearing aids and all she's just, if anyone is quote-unquote corrupt, I'd pin that on her.

But here's the kicker from ABC.

The White House telling ABC News in a statement in part, President Trump's assets are in a trust managed by his children, and there are no conflicts of interest.

President Trump campaigned on being a champion for the crypto community, and he has taken significant steps to do that.

World Liberty Financial has also announced plans to launch a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S.

dollar.

The company has reportedly sold $2 billion worth, with a Trump family entity receiving a 75% cut of every sale.

And at the same time, Trump's White House pushed for new policies that directly impact stablecoins.

I've also called on Congress to pass landmark legislation creating simple, common sense rules for stablecoins.

If Congress does what Trump wants, it could help further legitimize cryptocurrency and, he says, expand the dominance of the U.S.

dollar.

Just this week, at a conference in Dubai attended by Eric Trump, World Liberty Financial announced a $2 billion investment from the United Arab Emirates to use the company's stablecoin.

Binance Binance and the foreign investment firm are going to use Donald Trump's stablecoin to finance their transaction, essentially giving Trump a cut of that $2 billion deal.

Boy, looks like corruption, smells like corruption.

Stablecoin, baby, it's the future.

It's coming.

It's coming.

Then there's the exit strategy that President Trump set up for himself.

Stable growth.

If it was all in a blind trust, he didn't set up anything.

It's Donald Jr.

doing all the hard lifting.

Do you mean Donald Zuckerberg Jr.?

Donald Zuckerberg.

And for Elizabeth Warren to jump in, oh, looks and smells like corruption.

Okay.

Where did all of her wealth come from out of the blue?

Yeah, magic?

Magic?

Well, I question the Trump makes makes 75%.

Oh, no, that's not.

How does that even work?

It wouldn't make any sense whatsoever.

It's idiotic.

But maybe what's probably, there's probably some, I would guess that there would be a percentage of some transaction fee of 0.75.

If somebody saw 0.75 is 75%.

Yeah.

I'm with you.

That's bullcrap.

So that's just poor reporting.

But it's a beautiful system.

You buy treasuries, you get your 4%,

and then you make stablecoin, stablecoin, and you get a transaction fee on top of it.

What are we doing this podcast for?

We should be buying treasuries, making stablecoins.

Weren't you involved in some Dutch coin of some sort some years back?

Oh, yeah, that was a shitcoin.

You know what?

I got lucky.

God protected me.

That was just one of those ICO scams.

It was a scam?

Well, I mean, it was an initial coin offering, which people like Snoop Dogg and Kim Kardashian, they've had to pay millions of dollars in fines.

Yeah, it could have happened to you.

Yes, yes.

Why didn't it?

Because

those guys couldn't get their crap together and they didn't figure it out in time.

You couldn't get the scam off the ground.

You

saved your baby.

Yes, big time.

I'm thankful.

Thankful.

Thank you, Jesus.

You saved me.

Yes.

It would have been a nightmare because I was the Kim Kardashian of this coin.

Oh, there's an ISO for you.

I was a Kim Kardashian without the big butt.

Or the money.

Or the money, yeah.

Yeah.

We're just let's go to TDS.

Big thing at Trenta de Oragua.

I think they got,

I think they're on to something here.

Okay.

It's not a big deal, but it's a big enough deal that I think they can make some inroads and go after Trump with this.

This is a PBS report on TDA, the guys they've locked up.

In March, in order to speedily deport 238 Venezuelan men under an 18th century law, President Trump declared

under an 18th century law, unlike our 18th century constitution, which you always tout your First Amendment.

238 Venezuelan men under an 18th century law, President Trump declared many of them to be alien enemies.

He claimed they were members of a transnational criminal organization called Trendearagua, which, he said, was conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.

But a New York Times investigation couldn't find any evidence linking many of the men to that gang.

Allie Rogan spoke with Julie Turkowitz, the Times Andes bureau chief based in Bogota, Colombia, and the lead reporter on that investigation.

Thank you so much for joining us.

In your investigation, for how many of these 238 men did you find connections to Trende Aragua, and how did you go about making those determinations?

We

spent a couple of weeks doing record searches in the US, in Venezuela,

Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia,

and what we found is that of the 238 individuals sent on March 15th to a prison in El Salvador, 32 of them appear to have some kind of serious criminal record.

An even smaller number, just a handful, appear to have some possible

connection to this gang, Trender Aragua.

And this is reporting to the best of our abilities, barring any real information from the Trump administration.

Interesting.

First of all, if you're in the country illegally, you're a criminal.

I was hearing on

NPR the other day that

they're using using Palantir to find these people.

Which

by itself is concerning because, yeah, they probably screw it up because it's AI.

Let's use Palantir.

Well, you have to assume there's a screw-up

somehow, and that's what they're trying to track down.

And I think they got one.

But it's like this dubious nature of this reporting, which is, well,

these are undocumented coming in.

They're undocumented.

Does Venezuela have a laundry list and they can go right up to him?

Hey, hey, Maduro, can you give us the list of the Trentier Guagra guys so we can check their names against the names we have?

This is bull crap.

But okay, but let's assume that

they spent a whole two weeks.

I mean, it'll take you two weeks to get down there to find the right person to talk to.

But okay, let's go on.

You also reported on how the administration has been making these determinations, what criteria they're using.

Tell us about that.

Some of the documents that have come out in court filings in recent weeks indicate that the trump administration is using a rubric to uh essentially grade individuals who law enforcement believes might be trenderagua when the person gets to eight whole points they become a quote uh validated member of trenderagua and thus are um it's a meritocracy baby it's a merit-based system Eight points, you're out.

Eligible to be deported under the Trump administration's qualifications as an alien enemy.

And so, four points, according to this rubric, are given for someone who has suspicious tattoos, tattoos of the Trump administration, and that law enforcement officials believe are connected to Trendieragua.

Another four points are given out for style of dress that law enforcement officials believe are Trendieragua.

And experts we spoke to said, hey, like these specifications don't match with what we know about this group.

The example being tattoos specifically, obviously,

are worth sort of half of the points that make someone a quote validated member of Trinidad.

But experts in Venezuela tell

my colleague in Venezuela that, no, in fact, this group doesn't use tattoos as a marker of membership.

This term rubric is interesting because you said it's a checklist, but that's not the definition of rubric.

No, but she's using it, the way I understand it, she's using it as meaning checklist.

But read us the definition, then I have a comment about that last clip.

Well, the definition has nothing to do with

checklists, but there's a company called Rubrik,

and they do data analysis,

cloud data management so i was just wondering if maybe they're using the system rubric because no rubric should look up their word rubric okay rubric definition here we go do you want merriam-webster or the collins

merriam-webster

an authoritative rule

um

a title of a statute, that would be it,

or an explan explanatory or introductory commentary.

She's really meets a checklist.

She just likes saying Chile and Venezuela.

That's what she likes.

And rubric.

And rubric.

Now, she mentions that

the whole

kind of commentary at this point drifts off into these tattoos.

Yeah.

And at not one point in this entire, I think it's a four-part clip,

do they mention that MS-13 at all?

MS-13 was part of this whole thing.

It was TDS plus MS-13 that were getting shipped off.

And MS-13 is solely regarded as you always have tattoos.

It's part of the scheme.

Right.

But they won't even mention MS-13 in this entire report.

And they'll just go on and on about the tattoos not being part of the Trenta de Aragre, what I can never pronounce it correctly.

Trent de Aragua.

They cannot bring themselves to bring in the other aspect of

this deportation, which is the MS-13 half of it.

Are you telling me that this PBS report is slanted and perhaps

untrue?

I think it's slanted for sure, and probably untrue in some sense.

One of the deported men whose family you spoke to is Arturo Suarez Trejo.

Can you tell me about him and his family?

He had been living in Chile and

was making a living working, actually installing refrigerators, but his real passion was music.

He meets his wife, another Venezuelan, in Chile, and she becomes pregnant.

And he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family.

So I'm going to go have the kid in America so I can get my papers.

And he heads north.

He gets into the United States.

Hey, actually, he left.

She stayed.

Oh.

Oh.

But he heads north.

Oh.

And she becomes pregnant.

And he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family, and he heads north.

Sounds like she's saying she.

She's saying he?

It sounds like she.

As far as I can,

well, play it again.

I thought it was he heads north because he

was in the country, not her.

Meets his wife, another Venezuelan in Chile, and she becomes pregnant.

And he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family.

And he heads north.

He gets into the United States.

He enters with this sort of Biden-era application that allows people to sort of appear at the border and ask for permission to enter.

He enters the country, is working in North Carolina, and

one day he's in North Carolina filming a music video when Ice shows up.

He calls his wife in Chile and he says, you know, honey, I'm coming home.

And that is when he suddenly disappeared.

And his wife stopped hearing from him until she

types into Google, Venezuelans deported, and she sees him in a video, shaved, cuffed, and bent over in this Salvadoran prison.

Arturo Suarez is one of the individuals who does not appear to have a criminal record or a connection to Trandaragua.

Other than that he came in illegally.

They make it sound like, oh, come on.

No,

no, he came in illegally, illegally, but he used that stupid system that Biden had set up.

The app?

The app.

So he came in legally through the channels that they allowed him to come in legally, and then he got railroaded and got shipped off, supposedly.

Although I don't know how she recognized him, bent over with his head shaved, but somehow she recognized him, which I think that's part of bogus reporting.

And now it turns out he's in the jail, but there's no proof of this that I can tell

the story may be manufactured from scratch.

You know,

the media has been flooded with stories like this.

You know, poor guy separates from my favorite is

a four-year-old with girl with cancer

deported her.

You know, more Trump

deporting children story is bogus as hell because those kids were brought by their mom was deported and she wanted to bring the kid.

And they're suggesting leaving the kid in the United States because it's it's an American citizen

you know okay well the kid's always going to be an American citizen she can come back or whenever she feels like it when she's older maybe and can live on her own WC

is wrong because President Trump should have immediately opened up Walter Reed or Mayo and put the kid in the cancer ward you know that's what he should be doing

because you know Trump hates children he just wants children with cancer to die that's you're right in your assertion uh five ten minutes ago about they're gonna this is going to be amped up.

I don't know about these stories being even remotely accurate.

They're definitely slanted.

And whether this guy even exists, this guy

whose wife was pregnant in Chile, why didn't she come with him and have the baby here, which would be the smart money, seems to me.

Yep.

Especially since he went through the trouble and they didn't want to, you know, they didn't want a bunch of single males coming in.

They like the idea of a family.

So you bring her, it makes more sense.

The whole thing is

his passion was music, John.

It's so artsy.

And then they throw the artsy angle in.

There's a refrigerator installer whose passion is music.

It's like a Dire Straits video.

Reference lost on you.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, it's

money for nothing.

Oh, he's got it.

He's got it.

Yes.

All right.

He's got it.

You and your colleagues also reported on how Salvadoran President Naeb Bukele

has wanted more proof that these deported men are actually members of Teren de Aragua.

Where does that stand and might that impact this arrangement where he's going to house them in this prison for one year?

He says that is negotiable moving forward.

As far as what's going to happen next for these men, it's really unclear.

Nayibukele, the president of El Salvador, has said that this is at least a one-year term for these individuals.

And

he has called that sentence renewable.

And we have also seen the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Christine Noam, come out and say that she believes that these individuals should be in prison in El Salvador for the rest of their lives.

That is being contested in court, but that case is still pending.

That decision by Judge Boesberg in Washington, D.C.

is still pending.

Julie Turkish.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're going to attack him on everything.

It's going to be non-stop, non-stop, non-stop.

Anything they can do.

You know, we had a dinner Friday night, and I was

sitting next to a woman, and I know her husband, he wasn't there.

I said, what is your husband?

She said, he's in the Dominican Republic buying tobacco.

I said, what?

And she goes through this whole thing about

he, you know, he's a cigar guy and he has.

Yeah, Dominican Republican makes decent cigar tobacco.

Yeah, and you know, it's one-third fermented, and he's got this Cuban roller, and she's from Havana.

I said, and she's from Havana,

Havana, she's from Havana, and um, and she said, you know,

uh, we were talking, she was in Florida, I said, Oh, Elian Gonzalez, she says, Oh, I remember that.

So you should listen to our show because that's how we roll.

We don't roll on our thighs, we roll with Elian Gonzalez references.

Anyway,

yeah she said what was that all about said well it was the the first version of trender agua that's when uh who was president then clinton wasn't it clinton

was it was that ilian

must have been clinton yeah

it was definitely a scandal and let's go to uh one of the most press-free countries in the world uh the republic of deutschland and uh what they're doing in with politics it's quite an interesting little affair that's happening now.

The party reacted to today's decision, saying it is a serious blow to German democracy, pointing to the polls showing the AFT as the strongest force.

The AFD stated that it will continue to defend itself legally against defamation.

The decision follows a three-year review of AFT actions, statements, and extremist links.

The AFT came second in February's general elections ahead of the incoming junior coalition partner, the SP.

Parts of the AFT, like its youth ring, were already classified this work.

Parliament could theoretically ask for the party to be dissolved, but this is considered highly unlikely.

So we don't like that you're popular, so we're just gonna have our security services call you domestic terrorists.

And we won't dissolve you, but everyone's gonna stay away.

And you, by the way, your youth, clearly Jugend.

Ave de Jugend, well, you already classified you as little terrorists.

And

our Secretary of State Rubio had some strong words for this.

U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Germany a tyranny in disguise after its intelligence service labeled the far-right alternative for Germany party as right-wing extremist.

Rubio's comments made on the social media platform X drew strong backlash from Germany's Foreign Office.

They replied by saying the decision was a result of a thorough and independent investigation, and that Germany has learned from its history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.

The label now applied to the AFD will allow authorities to monitor the organization more closely.

Meanwhile, critics, including AFD leaders and their U.S.

supporters, say the move is politically motivated.

Do you think?

It's unbelievable what's happening in Germany.

Yeah, there's nothing like a right-wing organization run by a lesbian.

L2, a libertarian lesbian.

A libertarian lesbian seems unlikely.

Hey, you know, no sooner have we spoken about the Harvard

endowment

than President Trump says, you know,

I think we're going to remove the tax-exempt status from

the endowment.

Yeah, I discussed this in the newsletter a little bit.

Yeah, I missed the newsletter, unfortunately.

What did you say?

I think a lot of this is a trap.

Okay.

And

it's a trap to get Harvard, because Harvard's designed to sue back and they're making a big fuss and it's bringing it to light.

What it's doing is bringing to light.

The government is giving private institutions billions and billions of dollars when they have billions of dollars in their coffers already.

And then it turns out they're treated like churches.

Yep.

So they have tax-free everything.

They can have this huge amount of land.

They don't have to pay tax.

They don't have to pay property tax.

They don't have to pay income tax.

They have to pay nothing.

And this is being brought to light.

And the more that these colleges push back on it, the more it brings into the public eye, which is something I didn't really know how bad it was.

It brings into the public eye, like, wait a minute.

Yeah.

This is not, this isn't right.

And when you

guys are screwing themselves.

And when you donate to the endowment,

it's a tax deduction.

It's like you get it on the way in and on the way out.

It's no good.

No.

These guys are charging students hundreds of thousands of dollars to go get an education.

And meanwhile, they're tax-free and they're getting free government money and they're living the life of Riley.

No.

The life of Riley?

I've never heard that.

I'm sorry I used that term.

That gated me.

Please do explain the life of Riley.

This is a good one.

The life of Riley was a phrase that was used.

My dad used to use it too.

And it really was based on a TV sitcom.

And I think it was a radio show before there was a sitcom.

So it probably goes back to the 30s or 40s.

And it was a show called The Life of Riley.

Huh.

And you can look up The Life of Riley and you'll find somewhere else.

This should probably be a television watching tip.

The Life of Riley.

I've never heard of this and you've never, never used this.

No, it's an old, one of those phrases that your parents used.

Oh, like, like fiddlesticks?

Because it's like you're living the life of Riley.

Meaning you're doing nothing.

So was Riley living it up?

No, it was just a lazy guy.

It was like a lazy guy who was not.

He was a gay.

Here we go.

William Bendix in.

Yes, William Bendix.

The life of Riley.

It's, John, it's from the 50s.

Nice, nice.

And it complete episodes on YouTube.

Well, I'm going to have to watch that now.

The life of Riley.

I'm excited.

The life of Riley.

Yeah.

I'm excited.

Some of the people who are in that tax scam probably are as old as the life of Riley.

So I think this is a setup.

I think Trump and they fell right into the trap instead of just shutting up.

Beautiful.

Putting the clamps down on the Jewish thing.

Saying we're going to not let that happen anymore.

But but no they had to be big shots you had to be a big shot didn't you all right victor david hansen we got the five minute warning

okay

uh here's victor david hansen is it talking about victor davis hansen actually davis yeah i always say david i don't know why yeah but i do uh but victor v d v

he has a good commentary about the democrats and i don't know why but it leads right into our uh donations if you look at the Democratic Party and the left in general, they have boxed themselves in.

On the one hand, they have no institutional power, no ability to pass legislation, losing the House and the Senate, no presidency, White House, no executive orders.

Ultimately, all of the Cherry Pook district and circuit judges will be overturned by a largely conservative Supreme Court.

In lieu of actual power, then you look at what is the alternative.

Maybe the alternative is a 1994 Newt Ginrich contract with America, an alternate agenda.

Yes, we can do better on the border than you can.

Yes, we have a better foreign policy with Iran.

There's nothing.

There's no shadow government.

There's not a young Bill Clinton ascendant.

There's no young Barack.

There's nobody.

There's no leaders.

There's no agenda.

I'm going to show my school by donate to no agenda.

Imagine all the people who can do nothing.

Oh, yeah, that'd be fine.

Yeah,

on no agenda

in the morning.

I couldn't make it any slicker than that.

That's beautiful.

And it is time now to thank our donors $50 and above.

We do have John's tip of the day coming up, some dynamite end of show mixes, a quick overview of the meetups, and some title changes on a Commodore to a Commodore or two.

John, take it away.

Yeah, we got a few people to thank, including Baron Ladikin, who's back from Houston, Texas.

And he came in with 100, and John Robinet is 100.

Commodore 128

came in with 8502.

Commodore 128 chip, I hope, didn't it?

Is Commodore 128?

8502.

No, it's the Commodore.

You had

the Commodore VIC-20, the Commodore 64, and the Commodore 128.

And I think it did have the 8502 chip.

No, no, there's no such thing as an 8502 chip.

Are you sure?

Yeah, pretty sure no i'm not pretty sure i'm sure 8502 chip let's take a look wasn't that the zx80 yeah the moss technology 8502 8-bit microprocessor yes there was an 8502 and i was unaware of it and it passed me by while i was writing about these things back in the day and it wasn't a 6502 you were writing you were writing about windows telecommunication so you're forgiven i mean it can happen you were doing other important stuff instant bestsellers Well, I think 8502 is a great donation number then.

I think so, too.

It's better than 6502.

It sure is.

Especially on a slowed age.

Kevin McLaughlin's next.

He's in the Concord, North Carolina.

He came in with a better donation of 8008, which is a classic.

Boobs.

He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America, and lover of boobs.

He is a lover, not a fighter.

He also says Laos Deo, which translates to praise be to God.

Laos Deo.

Not sure why he put that in there.

Well, why not?

Praise God.

Because he's been very consistent of not putting extra wordage.

Well, he has some.

Sir Michael and Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania, 73.44.

Happy Swazzelnuff.

Yay, 69.69, dudes.

Jaris Corporation, 69.69.

Chris Engler, 66.88.

Leo

Bugo.

Bugo, Bugo, B-U-G-O, 5825.

And he needs some jobs, Carmen.

We're going to give you that at the end.

Michael

Formanic.

Formanik.

Formanik, I think, I bet you.

57.19.

And he says, I hope this donation finds you well.

That's a proper use of the term.

Of the form.

Yes.

Yes, thank you.

Dame Rita, our buddy in Sparks, Nevada, 55.25.

Brian Furley, 55.10.

Patrick Cobel.

Hey, there he is.

He's in Fairview, Tennessee.

He's 55.10.

He's the Duke, he says.

Meetup shout-out heading to Amsterdam.

Getting to hang out with Rob and other lowland producers.

Be there at B-Square.

Royal visit.

Ultra special amygdala checkup in Leiden, the Netherlands, Wednesday, May 14th at 7:33 p.m.

It's going to be a hootinany.

When Patrick shows up,

drinks for everybody.

Troy Funderbuck in

Burke in Missoula, Montana, 55.

Nick Stark in Grants Pass, Oregon, 5427.

He's got a birthday call out for himself.

Yes.

Kyle Maxwell in Fort Lauderdale, 54.25.

Paolo Moore in Fort Washington, Maryland, 54.25.

This is a the fabulous 5425 donation.

We got two people

that came with May the 4th Be With You.

So, this is the kind of promotions that really

make my day.

Yeah, good job.

Allison

Olzovsky.

It should be Oslovsky, probably.

It's probably a mist typo.

Well, that came right off the spreadsheet.

That's the way she did it.

In Powellsbo, Washington.

Everyone should visit there if they're ever in the neighborhood.

5328.

Newsletter Guilt Trip Donation.

Good.

David Kaye, say somebody.

David Keys in Riverside, California, 5328.

John Bossano in Madison, Alabama, 52.72.

Eric Scholes in Dallas, Texas, also 52.72.

He needs jobs karma.

I'll add it for him.

We'll put that at the end.

Also, Spencer Jaffe in Rattancho Palazzo Verde's California.

He also needs jobs, Carmen, 5272.

Lydia Terry in Rochester, New Hampshire, 5125, a blank.

No name, no nothing.

5071.

I don't know how that ever happened.

It's the invisible man.

Kyle or woman.

Kyle Morrison in Duncan, BC, Canada, 5001.

That's another birthday donation to Logan.

He wants a biscuit for his birthday.

We'll give you.

They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.

Right now.

We'll give you one right there.

And now we're already to the $50 donors.

There's a little list here.

We'll start with, and we just do names and locations, starting with Foster Birch in New York City.

Matt Praisey in St.

John's, Florida.

Daniel LeBois in Bath, Michigan.

James Sharimeta in Napanak, New York.

Rebecca Ho, or Hogg, H-A-U-G-H, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Chris Connacher in Anchorage, Alaska.

Aichi Kitagawi.

He's over there in San Francisco.

Walker Phillips is in San Rafael, and that concludes our list of well-wishers and people who helped us produce show a 1761, I believe.

Yeah, 1761 is correct.

Didn't the TRS-80 also run on that 80 chip?

No, no, the TRS-80 was an 80-80.

8080, right.

That's what I learned on the Sinclair ZX80.

That's where I was my first computer.

Actually, the TRS-80 may have been a Z80.

I think it was a Z80, actually.

Yeah.

The trash 80.

I still have my TRS-100.

We had

TRS-80 with the dual drives.

It was actually a very functional machine.

It was, it was well.

And I, and then I thought RadioSheck was going to stay in the business, and then they just

came out with a 16-bit machine, and then they just dropped them all.

Then they went with the cell phones.

Once the, I have my old Radio Shack.

Did they do this Coco, the color computer?

Yes.

I think that was, that had a crap keyboard.

I think that killed them.

Yeah,

yeah.

Yeah, I love my Sinclair's.

I love my truck and I love what I do.

Thank you very much to these donors, $50 and above.

And, of course, our executive and associate executive producers.

Thanks to all of you who supported us under 50.

Reasons of anonymity is why we never mention those.

I love my truck and I love what I do.

Here's the requested jobs, karma.

Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

Let's vote for jobs.

You thought.

And remember, you can always set up a recurring donation.

Any amount, any frequency.

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It's your first day and birthday.

Oh, no agenda.

How would you have a nice list today?

Brett Carruthers wishes his smoking hot wife Brittany a happy birthday.

She turned 37 on the, well, that's today, actually.

Cico de Cuatro.

Mom, dad, and brother Cole.

Say happy birthday to Logan Morrison, celebrates today.

Nick Stark turns 27 today.

Danelle Mackey, hey, Danelle,

celebrating today.

Uh-oh, celebrating tomorrow.

The one, the only, the adorable Dvorak, who loves his wooden car.

Tynan Rebich, which is Sir Ross the Boss, a very happy one for the sixth.

And also, Molly, a happy one for May 28th.

And we say happy birthday to all of these people on behalf of the best podcast in the universe.

Yeah, we have a title change for Sir 920 of 920.

He has supported the best podcast in the universe and another additional amount of $1,000.

We're very grateful for that.

And he now becomes a Baron, Baron Tom, Warden of the Frozen Tundra.

Congratulations on that upgrade in your peerage here on the No Agenda peerage ladder.

And now it is time for our Commodores.

We've got two of them today.

We have Commodore Danielle Sean Gerald Morse and

just at the last moment, Commodore Spooky, both Commodores of No Agenda.

And as we always say, Commodores arriving.

Go to noagendarings.com and you'll find exactly the spot where you can give us all the information that you want on your official No Agenda Commodore certificate.

We are happy to send that off to you.

And thank you very much for supporting the best podcast in the universe.

Yes, sir.

They are producer organized.

They are all over the world.

You heard the call out there.

Sir Patrick is going to be attending the one in Amsterdam.

We have one today, the Quad Cities Iowa Area Meetup, 7 o'clock at Lopiz, Lopiz, in Davenport, Iowa.

Big Nasty is organizing that.

And it's not on the calendar yet.

We'll see why that didn't happen.

But on May 17th at 1776, right outside of Fredericksburg, Curry and the Keeper will be there.

Many of the luminaries from the Austin area will, of course, be attending.

That's May 17th.

And that is Matt Long who is organizing that.

On the calendar as well, Eagle, Idaho on the 10th, Leiden in the Netherlands on the 14th.

Charlotte, North Carolina, the 15th.

The 16th.

Whitefield, New Hampshire on the 17th, Bedford, Texas, Colorado Springs, Fort Wayne, Indiana, New Kent, Virginia, Springfield, Oregon, the 18th, Keene, New Hampshire, Kudlenborg, Ichelderland, the Netherlands on the 29th.

The 31st is Pensauken Township, New Jersey, Long Beach, California.

I'm sure there'll be Leo Bravo on the 31st.

Indianapolis, Indiana, part one on June 1st.

They have a part two on June 29th, so two in the month of June.

Central Jersey, Jersey on the 21st and Longview, Texas on the 29th.

Just a small sampling of the meetups that are available at noagendameetups.com.

You want to go to one of these because these people that you meet will be your first responders in an emergency.

When you go, you get a connection that gives you protection.

Noagendameetups.com.

If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.

It's easy and always a party.

Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.

You to be where you want me.

Trebbed on the flame.

You want to be where everybody knows.

Oh, it just feels the same.

Knows your name, feels the same.

It's like a party.

Like a party.

Like a party.

Like a party.

Like a party.

I see you have three.

One, two, three.

So you spent some more credits on your AI extravaganza journey to try and make some good ISOs for the end of the show.

I have one, which is a Sanko de Mayo ISO, which I think has possibility.

Here we go.

Get ready.

We're going for margaritas.

There you go.

Huh.

It's kind of hollow.

Well, it's a hollow.

Is that you, yelling?

No, no, no, no.

I don't know where it came from.

It's producer submitted.

I have one.

It's not even, it's not

a AI.

It's a tough one.

Tough one.

Let's see.

Oh, that's a tough one.

No, that's a real ISO.

I appreciate that.

Yeah, it's not very, it's not very positive, but okay.

Okay, let's let's start with quality.

High quality stuff.

Can't beat it.

No, no, that's a bad AI voice.

That's rejected out of hand.

Okay, let's cry with no, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

Note that it's too good to be a podcast.

Okay.

Yes, you win once again.

I can't believe it.

Every single time,

the AI pictures are winning.

The AI ISOs are winning.

If only someone could make a hit song with AI, that seems to be impossible.

And of course,

we cannot make a hit with a tip of the day.

It's original from JCD.

Great master you and me.

Just the tip with JCD.

And sometimes Adam.

Created by Dana Bernetti.

Look, it's actually a great tip.

People have to pay attention to the whole lecture, though.

It's going to be a little bit longer than usual.

Oh, oh, boy.

Okay.

So

I've always liked bitters.

Bitters.

After-dinner drink you have at the end of the meal.

Ugh.

You have it, it helps your digest.

It's got all kinds of herbs and stuff in it.

They tend to have genescin, which is typically the main thing of most people.

Don't they have what's the other thing in the bitters?

Anise?

Anise?

Anise?

Some do, some don't.

That's mostly the ones with anise tend to be more of like pastiche.

I like the anise.

I like the anise ones.

Well, there's lots of those around, but that's what we're talking about.

They don't have very little anise in these.

Amaros, which is

a sub-segment of bitters, the ones that are made in Italy.

Most of these were designed in the mid-1800s.

They're using the exact same formula.

And so, what happened was I started drinking these things with my son-in-law, Brennan.

They used to come over.

He has what I would call, people who understand these things would say, an inquisitive palate.

Definitely looking for something that

memorizes taste.

He's really good.

He's just stuck up to his father-in-law.

Well, he's got, I do blind tasting with these kids just to make sure they're not trying to buffalo me.

So

we got into these bitters and we got into these Amaros in particular, and we started going through a lot of them over a two-year period.

We probably went through a, and I have a bunch of them already, and we went through the ones we owe the Swiss ones, the French ones, and we started focusing on the best ones.

And we finally determined the absolute best after dinner.

And he had kind of some stomach issues, but these bitters are fabulous for the after-the-meal.

You have like a shot in a bigger glass of about an ounce of bitters as

the thing at the end of the meal, the digestif

as it might be called in France.

Digestif.

Brawlio is the creme de la creme de la creme of the great Amaros out of Italy.

I

tried them all, the Fournettes and all the rest of them.

It's so hard to beat this particular product.

It's not a cheap product.

They sell in the leaders for about 50 bucks.

It's not a cheap product at all.

But you can go to the website.

It's available everywhere.

You go to the web, and it's a special kind of sub-segment of Amaro, which is the Alpine ones, which means it was done in the mountains from mountain herbs.

And it's got a blend of mountain herbs that was determined.

And most of these things, by the way, we started off as medicines, and they were developed by pharmacists in the 1800s.

And this particular one is a stunner.

Is it available at Costco?

Not that I know of.

It may be on and off, but I've never seen it there.

I don't get it at Costco.

But Amaro Braulio, B-R-A-U-L-I-O.com, Amaro, M-A-A-M-A-R-O-B-R-A-U-L-I-O, which is the name of the brand.

That's their website.com.

It's a beautiful product.

It's aged.

It's just,

it's the best of the best.

We've tried all of them.

This is the go-to.

This is a very valuable tip.

What is it called again?

Braulio.

R-A-U-L-I-O.

Brawlio.

Do you have indigestion after dinner?

Then you need Brawlio.

It is John C.

Dvorak's Tip of the Day, tipoftheday.net.

Great fast for you and me.

Just a tip with JCD.

And sometimes at all.

Created by Dana Bernetti.

And many thanks to our producer who diligently updates tipoftheday.net.

And we also have noagendafund.com.

So you can always go back and look.

He's always tweeting them out or tooting them or posting them or slashing that X.

It's a good deal.

Tips of the Day.

It is a free resource from your No Agenda show.

Not to be confused with the Tip of the Day from Bill O'Reilly, for which you have to be a concierge member.

No bull crap like that here, ladies and gentlemen, at all.

And this does conclude our media deconstruction day.

We had a good time, good time doing it for you.

We do it as a public service.

Coming up next on the No Agenda stream, it's Gene Neftuliev, our Russian translator, and Darren O'Neal, our AI artist.

They have a show called Unrelenting, and we'll be rolling out the Blitzkrieg Tariffs edition of their podcast.

It's beautiful.

End of show mixes from

Dee's Laughs and Nautilus K.

Nautilus K is brand new.

It's his second mix and he's loving it.

And he loves his truck, too.

And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in the picturesque village of Fredericksburg.

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

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C.

Dvorak.

We return on Thursday.

Remember us at NoAgendadonations.com.

Until then, adios movos, a hooey hooey, and such.

Huge Venn diagram overlap because what we really care about is trying to make sense of the world and not being distracted by all the meaningless distractions that happen out there that the world is

talking about.

The stuff that's gonna affect you the most is the stuff that happens in your town or your views.

Beacon Yonas and the whole Pony Express, the OGC.

Tom Woods is so good.

Fearless podcast and the cast of soldiers are laying the wood.

Just look at these clear thinkers at the blaze.

Delano Squires and Norrin McIntyre cutting through the haze.

Really admire these two thoughtful intellectuals.

Good thing, good sire.

Then there's Coach JB always looking up for debate or fight.

I mean, correcting Coach Mandy when he isn't right.

Joey and Len from the CBP.

Bitcoin relating relating to Canadians, giving better coverage in the CBC.

Most generous pension system, we can't afford any of it.

Getting better coverage in the CBC, Shaw from SGT, shining the light, converting the news.

The mockingbird seems fit to omit and they're never right.

Marionette on strength.

The mocking bird media is never right.

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It's that so flooded, grows it,

chemtrails, grousy, it is that so flooded, grousy,

chemtrails, grousy.

Sounds exactly what's been happening to me.

Stratospheric aerosol injections.

How do we stop it?

Chemtrails.

Stratospheric aerosol injections.

Quantif intervention technique.

injections.

Chemtrails.

When I was a kid, they were talking about.

How do we stop it?

Chemtrails.

Chemtrails.

When I was a kid, they were talking about them.

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Stratospheric aerosol injection.

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Adios, Mofo, Dvorak.org slash na.

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Note that is too good to be a podcast.